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T he Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the Patna Police FIR to probe the alleged abetment to suicide of film star Sushant Singh Rajput and subsequent transfer of the case to the CBI. The verdict came in response to actress Rhea Chakraborty’s plea seek- ing transfer of the Patna Police FIR to Mumbai. The SC said the obstruc- tions for the Bihar Police team in Mumbai while investigating the Patna FIR registered by Rajput’s father should have been avoided as it gave rise to suspicion on the bonafide of the Mumbai Police’s enquiry. “The records of the case produced before this court does not prima facie suggest any wrongdoing by the Mumbai Police. However, their obstruction to the Bihar Police team at Mumbai could have been avoided since it gave rise to suspicion on the bonafide of their enquiry,” the court said. The SC ruling ordering the CBI probe came when a single judge bench exercised the special powers under Article 142 of the Constitution. Justice Hrishikesh Roy cited the Justice LS Panta judg- ment, “Under Article 142 of the Constitution, this court in the exercise of its jurisdiction may pass such decree or make such order as is necessary for doing complete justice in any cause” or “matter” pending before it. The expression “cause” or “mat- ter” would include any pro- ceeding pending in court and it would cover almost every kind of proceeding in court, including civil or criminal.” “This court’s (SC) power under Article 142(1) to do complete justice is entirely of different level and of a differ- ent quality. What would be the need of ‘complete justice’ in a cause or matter would depend upon the facts and circum- stances of each case and while exercising that power the court would take into consideration the express provisions of a substantive statute,” said Justice Roy citing the Panta judg- ment. Justice Roy further said, “The above ratio makes it amply clear that the Supreme Court in a deserving case, can invoke Article 142 powers to render justice. The peculiar cir- cumstances, in this case, require that complete justice is done in this matter. How this is to be achieved must now be decided.” Justice Roy underlined that the Bihar and Maharashtra Governments are making acrimonious allegations of political interference against each other, and the legitimacy of the investigation has come under a cloud. “These devel- opments, unfortunately, have the propensity to delay and misdirect the investigation. In such a situation, there is a rea- sonable apprehension of truth being a casualty and justice becoming a victim,” observed Justice Roy. He asserted that to ensure public confidence in the inves- tigation and to do complete jus- tice in the matter, the court considers it appropriate to invoke the powers conferred by Article 142 of the Constitution. Justice Roy turned down the Maharashtra Government’s arguments that ordinarily, the local police should conduct an investigation into any reported crime and entrustment of the investigation to the CBI must be an exception to meet extra- ordinary exigencies, and the consent given by Bihar Government, was for political exigencies. Continued on Page 11 W hen Rahul Gandhi stepped down as the Congress president last year, his sister and party general secre- tary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra agreed with his views that a non-Gandhi should lead the party. As per the excerpts of a book, India Tomorrow: Conversations with the Next generation of Political Leaders authored by US academicians Pradeep Chibber and Harsh Shah, Priyanka Gandhi has said that the Congress should have its own path. The Congress dismissed the issue saying it was “the sud- den media interest egged on by BJP” in a “year-old remark” and asserted the Nehru-Gandhi family was never drawn by the trappings of power. Priyanka’s interview refers to her brother’s resignation letter, in which he stressed that the party must search for a new president. The indication was that it should be someone outside the family, which has led the Congress for most of its 134-year-old history. Continued on Page 11 I n a landmark decision to benefit millions of Government job aspirants, the Centre on Wednesday set up a National Recruitment Agency with the mandate to conduct Common Eligibility Test (CET) for selection to non-gazetted non-technical posts in the Central Government and pub- lic sector banks. The NRA CET will be conducted twice a year in about 12 languages the scores of which will be valid for three years within which period the candidate can apply for a job in the department or sector seek- ing recruitment based on a cer- tain score of NRA CET. However, in some of the sectors requiring higher skills like Bank Probationary officers or Railways or technical posts in any PSU, the candidate with NRA CET score will have to apply for another final exams and interview process. The NRA now be respon- sible to conduct “one exam” for bankings services, railways and Government Secretariat ser- vices which was till now con- ducted by three different agen- cies — banking personnel selection agency IBPS, railway recruitment board RRB, and the Staff Selection Commission (SSC). There are more than 20 recruitment agencies in the Central Government and in due course all will come under the ambit of NRA. Prime Minister Narendra Modi said NRA will prove to be a boon for crores of youngsters it will eliminate multiple tests and save precious time as well as resources. “This will also be a big boost to transparency, “ Modi said in a tweet soon after the Union Cabinet approved the NRA. The National Recruitment Agency (NRA) was first pro- posed by the Government in the Union Budget 2020. “The NRA will prove to be a boon for crores of youngsters. Through the Common Eligibility Test, it will eliminate multiple tests and save precious time as well as resources. This will also be a big boost to trans- parency,” Modi tweeted. “The score will be valid for three years during which can- didate can apply for jobs in dif- ferent sectors depending upon his/her aptitude and prefer- ences. There will be single entrance examination for all non-gazetted posts - Group B and C posts. Candidates who qualify this Common Entrance Test (CET) can apply to any recruitment agencies for high- er level of examination,” said C Chandramouli, Secretary, Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT). “At present, candidates seeking Government jobs have to appear for separate exami- nations conducted by multiple recruiting agencies for various posts, for which similar eligi- bility conditions have been prescribed. Candidates have to pay fee to multiple recruit- ing agencies and also have to travel long distances for appearing in various exams,” said Union Minister Prakash Javadekar at the Cabinet brief- ing of the subject. “These mul- tiple recruitment examinations are a burden on the candidates, Continued on Page 11 I ndia and China will hold another round of talks on Thursday in an effort to end the more than a three-month-long stalemate. This will be the fifth diplomatic-level talk since the stand-offs started in early May. Even after five military level parleys, China has refused to withdraw its troops from the “friction points.” The talks will be held under the aegis of Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination (WMCC) on India and China border. Joint secretary rank officers of the two countries will discuss ways to break the logjam and pave for another episode of military- level talks at a senior level in the coming days, sources said here on Wednesday. After the previous round of Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination talks last month, both sides had agreed to withdraw and com- pletely disengage from all the all four friction points includ- ing Galwan valley, Hot Springs, Gogra and Pangong Tso(lake). However, China was yet to pull back its troops from the Pangong Tso and Depsang val- ley thereby leading to height- ened tension in the region. Major General rank offi- cers of the two Armies also met on August 2 to sort out differ- ences over the Depsang valley. However, no positive outcome came out with China station- ing more than 5,000 troops close to the LAC on its side. It forced India also to move its troops forward and deploy heavy armour and guns, offi- cials said. T he BJP and its allies in the National Democratic Alliance on Wednesday wel- comed the Supreme Court order upholding the Bihar Government’s recommenda- tion for a CBI probe in actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death saying people know that “cover-up” will now not be possible in the case even as Congress pointed out that SC ruling did not cast any asper- sions on the Mumbai Police. The politicians in the poll- bound Bihar had turned the heat on the Mumbai Police and backed the demand for a CBI investigation into the circum- stances leading to the death of 34-year-old Rajput. The Shiv Sena refused to make a “political comment” on the apex court’s ruling but described “State’s justice system one of the best in the country”. But Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh said the State Government wel- comes the judgment. “We wel- come the judgment of the Supreme Court and we will provide whatever cooperation is needed by the CBI. It is a matter of pride for Mumbai Police that Supreme Court observed there is no fault found in their investigation,” he said. On whether the Mumbai Police will continue a parallel probe in the matter, Deshmukh added, “State Government will think as per paragraph 34 of the Supreme Court order.” Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, who had also paid a visit to Sushant’s ances- tral house in Patna, said, “The soul of late actor Sushant Singh Rajput will surely now rest in peace with the assurance of a fair investigation by CBI.” Continued on Page 11 ❝ ❝ ❝ I n a first of its kind of ‘hijacking’ drama in Uttar Pradesh, a private bus plying from Gurgaon in Haryana to Panna in Madhya Pradesh was stopped by four men who identified themselves as recov- ery agents of a finance com- pany in Agra and drove away the bus with all its 34 passen- gers after forcing the driver and conductors out of the vehicle. The bus was later found in Jhansi, 250 km from Agra, and all the passengers were also found safe. According to a report, the incident took place in the Malpura police station area when the bus was en route to Panna in Madhya Pradesh from Gurgaon. Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Awanish Awasthi said the bus driver, staff and passengers were safe. However, the accused were yet to be nabbed. Reports said that several teams had been formed to zero in on them. “Regarding the bus inci- dent in Agra, the finance company had illegally seized the bus. The driver, staff and passengers are safe. The bus owner died yesterday (Tuesday) and his son is per- forming the last rites,” he said in a statement. However, the statement did not mention the where- abouts of the bus. Senior Superintendent of Police in Agra, Babloo Kumar, said three people, the bus driver and two conductors, who got off the bus, informed the police that representa- tives of the finance company had boarded the vehicle. He said preliminary investiga- tion revealed that the bus had been taken away by the peo- ple from a finance company which had financed the vehi- cle. He said it was a finance- related incident and the action of the men was “audacious”. The registration number of the sleeper bus is UP75M 3516 (Etawah in UP) but it is owned by a private operator in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh. A total of 34 passengers were on board the bus, according to the police. SSP Kumar said the episode started around 10:30 pm on Tuesday when the bus was near Raibha toll plaza at Dakshin bypass and eight- nine young men in two SUVs intercepted it. These men claimed they were from the finance company and asked the bus driver to get down but he ignored them and contin- ued the drive, he said. “The men in SUVs then chased the bus and overtook it at Malpura area. They got into the bus and forcibly brought down the driver and the conductor. They also told the passengers to not scream and assured them that no harm will be done to them,” he added. Later, four of these men boarded the bus and sped away on the Delhi-Kanpur highway, Kumar said, adding that the driver and the con- ductors of the bus were taken in one of the SUVs and dropped off in Kuberpur area on the highway around 4 am after which they approached the local police for help. Police personnel, includ- ing the district police chief, then reached the spot and a search operation was launched to track the bus, he said. In the wake of the inci- dent, opposition parties tar- geted Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath-led government over the law and order situa- tion in the state. “The so-called finance company hijacking the bus in a filmy manner suggests law- lessness in UP. The incident has laid bare the hollow claims of law and order in the state. Dear government, is this the Yogi model of law and order?” Congress state unit chief Ajay Kumar Lallu said in a tweet in Hindi. The Samajwadi Party asked the government to ensure safe return of all pas- sengers. “The hijacking of a bus with 34 passengers in Agra is a very sad and frightening incident,” it said. “The law and order situ- ation in UP is so severe that even the biggest of crimes are being carried out anywhere. Prayers for the safety of all travellers,” the SP said in a tweet. L ucknow reported 767 fresh cases of coronavirus infec- tion taking the city’s tally to 18,975 while the death toll mounted to 235 as 10 more persons succumbed to the deadly virus. Among those who tested positive on Wednesday includ- ed Minister of State for MSME, Khadi and Village Industry, Chaudhary Udaybhan Singh, two MLAs and one MLC. A total of 11,799 coron- avirus infected people have recovered in the state capital, including 993 discharged from hospitals on in the last 24 hours and 6,941 active cases are undergoing treatment. Across the state, 5,156 more people tested positive, taking the tally to 1,67,510. Besides Lucknow, Kanpur Nagar (414), Gorakhpur (353), Prayagraj (234), Bareilly (147), Varanasi (140), Moradabad (123) and Noida (104) report- ed maximum of the cases. With 53 fresh COVID-19 deaths, the toll mounted to 2,638. A total of 1,15,227 coro- navirus infected people have recovered in the state, includ- ing 5,620 who were discharged from hospitals in the last 24 hours. At present 49,645 active cases are undergoing treat- ment in the state, LUCKNOW: The brief mon- soon session of the Uttar Pradesh legislature com- mencing here from Thursday is expected to be a stormy one as the opposition will try to corner the government on the issues of law and order and the management of the coro- navirus pandemic. See P2 T he second round of the serological survey, con- ducted in the first week of August across Delhi, has sug- gested that 28.35 per cent of the tested people have developed antibodies against Covid-19. It means that they have been exposed to the virus but were asymptomatic and did not fell ill, said sources in the State Government. Delhi’s population is around two crore. It means more than 50 lakh people and every fourth person in Delhi have been infected with the virus one time or another dur- ing the last six months. The highest prevalence has been reported from the central district, said the sources. The first round carried on a sample size of 21,387 had shown that 22.86 per cent of the people surveyed had been exposed to the virus. A sero- logical survey involves collect- ing blood samples and testing it to determine whether a per- son has developed antibodies against the virus. During the second round of survey, more than 15,000 samples were lifted across 11 districts in Delhi to assess the spread of the virus. Of the total samples collected this time, half were from people between the ages of 18 and 49. The samples were processed in 18 authorised labs, said the sources. The data collated by researchers at Maulana Azad Medical College has been submitted to Principal Health Secretary Vikram Dev Dutt. Despite several efforts, Dutt could not be contacted. “The labs have submitted their reports and, after com- piling the data, we have found a prevalence of 28.35 per cent of the disease among people who were tested in the second round. The highest prevalence has been reported from the central district,” said a senior official from the State Health Department. “We have already started the work on the next survey and a meeting is scheduled for August 20 to discuss the sam- ple size,” added the official. In July, Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain had announced that district health officials will carry out a sero- survey across the national Capital from the 1st till the 5th of every month. He had said the exercise will help the Government to identify the spread of the disease and to for- mulate policies for containment and management of the dis- ease. The national Capital has recorded 1,398 fresh Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, tak- ing the total number of coro- navirus cases to 1,56,139, according to the health bulletin of the Delhi Government.

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Page 1: ˘ˇ ˇ˘ ˆ...Article 142 of the Constitution. Justice Hrishikesh Roy cited the Justice LS Panta judg-ment, “Under Article 142 of the Constitution, this court in the exercise of

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The Supreme Court onWednesday upheld the

Patna Police FIR to probe thealleged abetment to suicide offilm star Sushant Singh Rajputand subsequent transfer of thecase to the CBI. The verdictcame in response to actressRhea Chakraborty’s plea seek-ing transfer of the Patna PoliceFIR to Mumbai.

The SC said the obstruc-tions for the Bihar Police teamin Mumbai while investigatingthe Patna FIR registered byRajput’s father should havebeen avoided as it gave rise tosuspicion on the bonafide ofthe Mumbai Police’s enquiry.

“The records of the caseproduced before this courtdoes not prima facie suggestany wrongdoing by theMumbai Police. However, theirobstruction to the Bihar Policeteam at Mumbai could havebeen avoided since it gave riseto suspicion on the bonafide oftheir enquiry,” the court said.

The SC ruling orderingthe CBI probe came when asingle judge bench exercisedthe special powers underArticle 142 of the Constitution.

Justice Hrishikesh Roy

cited the Justice LS Panta judg-ment, “Under Article 142 of theConstitution, this court in theexercise of its jurisdiction maypass such decree or make suchorder as is necessary for doingcomplete justice in any cause”or “matter” pending before it.The expression “cause” or “mat-ter” would include any pro-ceeding pending in court andit would cover almost everykind of proceeding in court,including civil or criminal.”

“This court’s (SC) powerunder Article 142(1) to docomplete justice is entirely ofdifferent level and of a differ-ent quality. What would be theneed of ‘complete justice’ in acause or matter would depend

upon the facts and circum-stances of each case and whileexercising that power the courtwould take into considerationthe express provisions of asubstantive statute,” said JusticeRoy citing the Panta judg-ment.

Justice Roy further said,“The above ratio makes itamply clear that the SupremeCourt in a deserving case, caninvoke Article 142 powers to

render justice. The peculiar cir-cumstances, in this case,require that complete justice isdone in this matter. How thisis to be achieved must now bedecided.”

Justice Roy underlined thatthe Bihar and MaharashtraGovernments are makingacrimonious allegations ofpolitical interference againsteach other, and the legitimacyof the investigation has come

under a cloud. “These devel-opments, unfortunately, havethe propensity to delay andmisdirect the investigation. Insuch a situation, there is a rea-sonable apprehension of truthbeing a casualty and justicebecoming a victim,” observedJustice Roy.

He asserted that to ensurepublic confidence in the inves-tigation and to do complete jus-tice in the matter, the courtconsiders it appropriate toinvoke the powers conferred byArticle 142 of the Constitution.

Justice Roy turned downthe Maharashtra Government’sarguments that ordinarily, thelocal police should conduct aninvestigation into any reportedcrime and entrustment of theinvestigation to the CBI mustbe an exception to meet extra-ordinary exigencies, and theconsent given by BiharGovernment, was for politicalexigencies.

Continued on Page 11

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When Rahul Gandhistepped down as the

Congress president last year, hissister and party general secre-tary Priyanka Gandhi Vadraagreed with his views that anon-Gandhi should lead theparty.

As per the excerpts of abook, India Tomorrow:Conversations with the Nextgeneration of Political Leadersauthored by US academiciansPradeep Chibber and HarshShah, Priyanka Gandhi hassaid that the Congress should

have its own path.The Congress dismissed

the issue saying it was “the sud-den media interest egged on byBJP” in a “year-old remark” andasserted the Nehru-Gandhifamily was never drawn by thetrappings of power.

Priyanka’s interview refersto her brother’s resignationletter, in which he stressedthat the party must search fora new president. The indicationwas that it should be someoneoutside the family, which hasled the Congress for most of its134-year-old history.

Continued on Page 11

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In a landmark decision tobenefit millions of

Government job aspirants, theCentre on Wednesday set up aNational Recruitment Agencywith the mandate to conductCommon Eligibility Test (CET)for selection to non-gazettednon-technical posts in theCentral Government and pub-lic sector banks.

The NRA CET will beconducted twice a year in about12 languages the scores ofwhich will be valid for threeyears within which period thecandidate can apply for a job inthe department or sector seek-ing recruitment based on a cer-tain score of NRA CET.

However, in some of thesectors requiring higher skillslike Bank Probationary officersor Railways or technical postsin any PSU, the candidate withNRA CET score will have toapply for another final examsand interview process.

The NRA now be respon-sible to conduct “one exam” forbankings services, railways andGovernment Secretariat ser-

vices which was till now con-ducted by three different agen-cies — banking personnelselection agency IBPS, railwayrecruitment board RRB, andthe Staff Selection Commission(SSC). There are more than 20recruitment agencies in theCentral Government and indue course all will come underthe ambit of NRA.

Prime Minister NarendraModi said NRA will prove to bea boon for crores of youngstersit will eliminate multiple testsand save precious time as wellas resources.

“This will also be a bigboost to transparency, “ Modisaid in a tweet soon after theUnion Cabinet approved theNRA.

The National RecruitmentAgency (NRA) was first pro-posed by the Government inthe Union Budget 2020.

“The NRA will prove to bea boon for crores of youngsters.

Through the CommonEligibility Test, it will eliminatemultiple tests and save precioustime as well as resources. Thiswill also be a big boost to trans-parency,” Modi tweeted.

“The score will be valid forthree years during which can-didate can apply for jobs in dif-ferent sectors depending uponhis/her aptitude and prefer-ences. There will be singleentrance examination for allnon-gazetted posts - Group Band C posts. Candidates whoqualify this Common EntranceTest (CET) can apply to anyrecruitment agencies for high-er level of examination,” said CChandramouli, Secretary,Department of Personnel andTraining (DoPT).

“At present, candidatesseeking Government jobs haveto appear for separate exami-nations conducted by multiplerecruiting agencies for variousposts, for which similar eligi-bility conditions have beenprescribed. Candidates haveto pay fee to multiple recruit-ing agencies and also have totravel long distances forappearing in various exams,”said Union Minister PrakashJavadekar at the Cabinet brief-ing of the subject. “These mul-tiple recruitment examinationsare a burden on the candidates,

Continued on Page 11

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India and China will holdanother round of talks on

Thursday in an effort to end themore than a three-month-longstalemate. This will be the fifthdiplomatic-level talk since thestand-offs started in early May.Even after five military levelparleys, China has refused towithdraw its troops from the“friction points.”

The talks will be heldunder the aegis of WorkingMechanism for Consultationand Coordination (WMCC) onIndia and China border. Jointsecretary rank officers of thetwo countries will discuss waysto break the logjam and pavefor another episode of military-level talks at a senior level in thecoming days, sources said hereon Wednesday.

After the previous round ofWorking Mechanism forConsultation and Coordinationtalks last month, both sides hadagreed to withdraw and com-pletely disengage from all theall four friction points includ-ing Galwan valley, Hot Springs,Gogra and Pangong Tso(lake).However, China was yet to pullback its troops from thePangong Tso and Depsang val-ley thereby leading to height-ened tension in the region.

Major General rank offi-cers of the two Armies also meton August 2 to sort out differ-ences over the Depsang valley.However, no positive outcomecame out with China station-ing more than 5,000 troopsclose to the LAC on its side. Itforced India also to move itstroops forward and deployheavy armour and guns, offi-cials said.

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The BJP and its allies in theNational Democratic

Alliance on Wednesday wel-comed the Supreme Courtorder upholding the BiharGovernment’s recommenda-tion for a CBI probe in actorSushant Singh Rajput’s deathsaying people know that“cover-up” will now not bepossible in the case even asCongress pointed out that SCruling did not cast any asper-sions on the Mumbai Police.

The politicians in the poll-bound Bihar had turned theheat on the Mumbai Police andbacked the demand for a CBIinvestigation into the circum-stances leading to the death of34-year-old Rajput.

The Shiv Sena refused to

make a “political comment” onthe apex court’s ruling butdescribed “State’s justice systemone of the best in the country”.But Maharashtra HomeMinister Anil Deshmukh saidthe State Government wel-

comes the judgment. “We wel-come the judgment of theSupreme Court and we willprovide whatever cooperationis needed by the CBI. It is amatter of pride for MumbaiPolice that Supreme Courtobserved there is no fault foundin their investigation,” he said.

On whether the MumbaiPolice will continue a parallelprobe in the matter, Deshmukhadded, “State Government willthink as per paragraph 34 of theSupreme Court order.”

Union Minister RaviShankar Prasad, who had alsopaid a visit to Sushant’s ances-tral house in Patna, said, “Thesoul of late actor Sushant SinghRajput will surely now rest inpeace with the assurance of afair investigation by CBI.”

Continued on Page 11

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In a first of its kind of‘hijacking’ drama in Uttar

Pradesh, a private bus plyingfrom Gurgaon in Haryana toPanna in Madhya Pradeshwas stopped by four men whoidentified themselves as recov-ery agents of a finance com-pany in Agra and drove awaythe bus with all its 34 passen-gers after forcing the driverand conductors out of thevehicle.

The bus was later found inJhansi, 250 km from Agra, andall the passengers were alsofound safe.

According to a report, theincident took place in theMalpura police station areawhen the bus was en route toPanna in Madhya Pradeshfrom Gurgaon.

Additional ChiefSecretary (Home) AwanishAwasthi said the bus driver,

staff and passengers were safe. However, the accused

were yet to be nabbed. Reportssaid that several teams hadbeen formed to zero in onthem.

“Regarding the bus inci-dent in Agra, the financecompany had illegally seizedthe bus. The driver, staff andpassengers are safe. The busowner died yesterday(Tuesday) and his son is per-forming the last rites,” he saidin a statement.

However, the statementdid not mention the where-abouts of the bus.

Senior Superintendent ofPolice in Agra, Babloo Kumar,said three people, the busdriver and two conductors,who got off the bus, informedthe police that representa-tives of the finance companyhad boarded the vehicle. Hesaid preliminary investiga-tion revealed that the bus had

been taken away by the peo-ple from a finance companywhich had financed the vehi-cle. He said it was a finance-related incident and the actionof the men was “audacious”.

The registration numberof the sleeper bus is UP75M3516 (Etawah in UP) but it isowned by a private operator inGwalior, Madhya Pradesh.

A total of 34 passengerswere on board the bus,according to the police.

SSP Kumar said theepisode started around 10:30pm on Tuesday when the buswas near Raibha toll plaza atDakshin bypass and eight-nine young men in two SUVsintercepted it. These menclaimed they were from thefinance company and askedthe bus driver to get down buthe ignored them and contin-ued the drive, he said.

“The men in SUVs thenchased the bus and overtook

it at Malpura area. They gotinto the bus and forciblybrought down the driver andthe conductor. They also toldthe passengers to not screamand assured them that noharm will be done to them,” headded.

Later, four of these menboarded the bus and spedaway on the Delhi-Kanpurhighway, Kumar said, addingthat the driver and the con-ductors of the bus were takenin one of the SUVs anddropped off in Kuberpur areaon the highway around 4 amafter which they approachedthe local police for help.

Police personnel, includ-ing the district police chief,then reached the spot and asearch operation was launchedto track the bus, he said.

In the wake of the inci-dent, opposition parties tar-geted Chief Minister YogiAdityanath-led government

over the law and order situa-tion in the state.

“The so-called financecompany hijacking the bus ina filmy manner suggests law-lessness in UP. The incidenthas laid bare the hollow claimsof law and order in the state.Dear government, is this theYogi model of law and order?”Congress state unit chief AjayKumar Lallu said in a tweet inHindi.

The Samajwadi Partyasked the government toensure safe return of all pas-sengers.

“The hijacking of a buswith 34 passengers in Agra isa very sad and frighteningincident,” it said.

“The law and order situ-ation in UP is so severe thateven the biggest of crimes arebeing carried out anywhere.Prayers for the safety of alltravellers,” the SP said in atweet.

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Lucknow reported 767 freshcases of coronavirus infec-

tion taking the city’s tally to18,975 while the death tollmounted to 235 as 10 morepersons succumbed to thedeadly virus.

Among those who testedpositive on Wednesday includ-ed Minister of State for MSME,

Khadi and Village Industry,Chaudhary Udaybhan Singh,two MLAs and one MLC.

A total of 11,799 coron-avirus infected people haverecovered in the state capital,including 993 discharged fromhospitals on in the last 24hours and 6,941 active cases areundergoing treatment.

Across the state, 5,156more people tested positive,taking the tally to 1,67,510.

Besides Lucknow, KanpurNagar (414), Gorakhpur (353),Prayagraj (234), Bareilly (147),Varanasi (140), Moradabad(123) and Noida (104) report-ed maximum of the cases.

With 53 fresh COVID-19deaths, the toll mounted to2,638. A total of 1,15,227 coro-navirus infected people haverecovered in the state, includ-ing 5,620 who were dischargedfrom hospitals in the last 24hours. At present 49,645 activecases are undergoing treat-ment in the state,

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The second round of theserological survey, con-

ducted in the first week ofAugust across Delhi, has sug-gested that 28.35 per cent of thetested people have developedantibodies against Covid-19. Itmeans that they have beenexposed to the virus but wereasymptomatic and did not fellill, said sources in the StateGovernment.

Delhi’s population isaround two crore. It meansmore than 50 lakh people andevery fourth person in Delhihave been infected with thevirus one time or another dur-ing the last six months.

The highest prevalence has

been reported from the centraldistrict, said the sources.

The first round carried ona sample size of 21,387 hadshown that 22.86 per cent ofthe people surveyed had beenexposed to the virus. A sero-logical survey involves collect-ing blood samples and testingit to determine whether a per-son has developed antibodiesagainst the virus.

During the second roundof survey, more than 15,000samples were lifted across 11districts in Delhi to assess thespread of the virus. Of the totalsamples collected this time,half were from people betweenthe ages of 18 and 49.

The samples wereprocessed in 18 authorised

labs, said the sources. The datacollated by researchers atMaulana Azad MedicalCollege has been submitted toPrincipal Health SecretaryVikram Dev Dutt. Despiteseveral efforts, Dutt could notbe contacted.

“The labs have submittedtheir reports and, after com-piling the data, we have founda prevalence of 28.35 per centof the disease among peoplewho were tested in the secondround. The highest prevalencehas been reported from thecentral district,” said a seniorofficial from the State HealthDepartment.

“We have already startedthe work on the next surveyand a meeting is scheduled for

August 20 to discuss the sam-ple size,” added the official.

In July, Delhi HealthMinister Satyendar Jain hadannounced that district healthofficials will carry out a sero-survey across the nationalCapital from the 1st till the 5thof every month. He had saidthe exercise will help theGovernment to identify thespread of the disease and to for-mulate policies for containmentand management of the dis-ease.

The national Capital hasrecorded 1,398 fresh Covid-19cases in the last 24 hours, tak-ing the total number of coro-navirus cases to 1,56,139,according to the health bulletinof the Delhi Government.

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Reiterating the state govern-ment’s commitment to pro-

vide better treatment to thepatients, Chief Minister YogiAdityanath asked officials toensure that arrangements in theCovid hospitals were always upto the mark.

“To ensure better facilities,an additional provision of Rs 3crore to Rs 5 crore has beenmade in the districts and thedistrict magistrates are requiredto utilise this money to improvehealth services,” Yogi said whilepresiding over a high-levelunlock review meeting at hisofficial residence here onWednesday.

He said that all the medicalcolleges should utilise theirbudget for purchasing COVID-19 medicines and other med-ical stuff and the entire moneyshould be used to better healthservices. “If some laxity isfound in it, the principal of thesaid medical college will beheld responsible,” he said andadded that no patient shouldsuffer due to lack of medicines.

Expressing satisfaction atUP being on the top in thecountry with more than 40.75lakh Covid tests, the CM urgedofficials to make efforts carryout 80,000 Covid tests per daythrough rapid antigen and45,000 tests by RT-PCRmethod. He laid emphasis oncontact tracing as it wasextremely useful in containingthe COVID-19 spread.

Asking officials to increasebed capacity in the Covid hos-pitals, the chief minister saidthat there should be surplusbeds. He also directed the offi-cials that half of the ambulances

under ALS and ‘108’ should beused to carry Covid patients

and others for non-Covid oper-ations.

The chief minister alsostressed on smooth supply of

fertiliser and other agricultur-al goods to farmers. He said the

government had taken somemeasures in this regard andwould deal with a heavy handwith those who ignored thewelfare of farmers and indulgedin black-marketing of fertilis-ers. The chief minister warnedof invoking NSA against per-sons who acted against theinterests of farmers.

He further directed offi-cials to ensure effective actionto extend benefit to street ven-dors through PM’s SpecialEconomic Package. He stressedthe need to prepare an actionplan for this.

Those present in the meet-ing included Health MinisterJai Pratap Singh, ChiefSecretary RK Tiwari,Infrastructure and IndustrialDevelopment CommissionerAlok Tandon, AgricultureProduction CommissionerAlok Sinha, Additional ChiefSecretary (Finance) SanjeevMittal, Additional ChiefSecretary (Home andInformation) Awanish KumarAwasthi, Additional ChiefSecretary (Revenue) Smt.Renuka Kumar, DGP HCAwasthi, Additional ChiefSecretary to CM SP Goyal,Additional Chief Secretary(Health) Amit Mohan Prasad,Additional Chief Secretary(Medical Education) RajneeshDube, Additional ChiefSecretary (Rural Developmentand Panchayati Raj) ManojKumar Singh, Additional ChiefSecretary (MSME) NavneetSehgal, Principal Secretary toChief Minister Sanjay Prasad,Principal Secretary (AnimalHusbandry) Bhuvnesh Kumar,Secretary to CM Alok Kumar,Director Information Shishirand other senior officials.

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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister YogiAdityanath has directed the district

officials to keep close vigil on the floodcontrol embankments and ensure round-the-clock patrolling on the river banks tokeep watch on land erosion due to floods.

The chief minister said flood controland relief and rescue of the flood victimswere the top priority of the state govern-ment.

Briefing media persons after a tour ofthe flood-affected districts, BackwardClasses Welfare Minister Anil Rajbhar saidhere on Wednesday that the governmenthad directed the district officials to makearrangements for keeping the peoplewith symptoms of cough, headache andfever in isolation in flood relief camps.

He said in view of the COVID-19pandemic, the government had alsoissued directive for testing and treatmentof COVID-19 suspects,

The minister said that flood protectionembankments across the state were safe

and there was no threat to their safety. Hesaid in the flood-affected districts, 22 teamsof NDRF, SDRF and PAC had beendeployed. He said 373 flood relief campsand 784 flood protection outposts had beenset up in the flood-affected districts

Rajbhar said detailed guidelines andinstructions had been issued to the districtmagistrates of flood-affected districts forflood relief work.

He said flood relief kit containing 17items had been distributed to the affectedpeople.

He said 362 camps had been set up forcattle and so far over 6.68 lakh cattle hadbeen vaccinated. The minister said 777 vil-lages in 16 districts were affected byfloods. He said Sharda river at Palia Kalanin Lakhimpur district, and Saryu andGhaghra rivers were flowing above thedanger level in several districts.

The minister said for controlling thenatural calamity, a control room had beenset up here in Lucknow.

The flood affected districts areAmbedkarnagar, Ayodhya, Azamgarh,

Bahraich, Ballia, Barabanki, Basti, Budaun,Gonda, Gorakhpur, Kushinagar,Lakhimpur Kheri, Shahjahanpur, Deoria,Sant Kabir Nagar and Sitapur.

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Congress general secretaryPriyanka Gandhi Vadra

has expressed concerns overthe alleged shortage and black-marketing of urea fertiliseracross Uttar Pradesh and hasasked the government to lookinto it.

“Farmers are upset due toshortage of urea in many placesof UP. There are long queues asurea has been exhausted inmost cooperative societies. Thefarmer is troubled by black-marketing. The UP govern-ment should immediatelyintervene and solve the prob-lem of urea shortage,” Congressleader tweeted on Wednesdaymorning. Priyanka also shareda video on twitter in whichfarmers were heard narratingthe difficulties they were facingdue to shortage of urea fertilis-er in the state.

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Additional Superintendentof Police in Etah, Rahul Kumar,said that a maize-laden truck,coming from Mainpuri over-turned near Kuravali inMalawan area on NationalHighway 91 in Etah. He saidfour people were killed after get-ting trapped under the truck.The deceased included twowomen, a teenage girl and aminor.

The ASP said a crane wasimmediately summoned and itlifted the truck but all the fourwere already dead. Their bod-ies were sent for post-mortemand efforts were on to ascertaintheir identities. Upon receivinginformation, Etah’s DistrictMagistrate Sukhlal Bharti andSenior Superintendent of Police(SSP) Sunil Kumar Singh alsoreached the spot.

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The brief monsoon sessionof the Uttar Pradesh legis-

lature commencing here fromThursday is expected to be astormy one as the oppositionwill try to corner the govern-ment on the issues of law andorder and the management ofthe coronavirus pandemic.

The session could witnessnoisy scenes due to dissidenceby a section of the BharatiyaJanata Party MLAs over thealleged atrocities on theBrahmin community, sugar-cane dues, proposed hike inpower tariff and other issuesconcerning the common man.

The session of both theHouses of UP Legislature —the Legislative Assembly andthe Legislative Council —would witness two days of leg-islative work even as severalmembers are slated to skip it orjoin virtually in the wake of thespike in coronavirus infectioncases. With more than 24employees of the Assemblysecretariat testing positive forcoronavirus infection, theauthorities are not taking anychances during the sessionthough there is a coronavirusscare in the minds of the mem-bers. MLAs above the age of 60years and others who havehealth issues will be exemptedfrom attending the House andtheir attendance will be record-ed. The opening day wouldhave no legislative work as itwill be adjourned after payingcondolences on the death of thesitting members while onFriday the supplementary bud-get and the bills would betabled.

After Saturday-Sundayrecess, the House will sit onAugust 24, the last day, when itwill approve the supplementarybudget and the bill’s.

Leader of opposition inthe Assembly and SamajwadiParty member Ram GovindChoudhury, who recentlyrecovered from COVID-19,would not attend the sessionwhile several other senior leg-islators too have expressed

their displeasure over holdingthe session during this pan-demic and announced to skipit. A couple of state ministerstoo are in home isolation aftertesting positive.

The number of MLAsattending the session is likely tobe reduced. All the MLAs haveto undergo mandatory Covidtest for attending the session.The Assembly secretariat hasmade the seating arrangementsfor the MLAs as per the socialdistancing norms.

The session would alsoapprove the first supplementarybudget for the current fiscalbesides giving its nod foraround 15 bills which willreplace ordinances promulgat-ed by the government when theAssembly was not in sessionduring the past six months.

Assembly Speaker HridayNarayan Dikshit said onWednesday that all the mem-bers of the House would beallowed entry only after theCovid test. He said the processof carrying out Covid test ofeach MLA was on and likely tobe completed before August 20.

The Speaker onWednesday presided over anall-party meeting on the eve ofthe session. The meeting wasattended by Narendra SinghVerma of Samajwadi Party,Aradhana Mishra of Congress,Lalji Verma of Bahujan SamajParty.

Chief Minister YogiAdityanath said the entireworld was reeling under theimpact of the coronavirus pan-demic and the UP govern-ment had taken all possiblemeasures to control the spreadof the virus. He said scientistsand health experts around theworld were of the opinion thatuntil a vaccine was developed,there was no cure of the virusexcept preventive measures.

Yogi Adityanath said ameaningful debate on COVID-19 would help in sending a pos-itive message to the world.

Parliamentary AffairsMinister Suresh KumarKhanna said the governmentwas prepared for the session.

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The Indo Islamic Cultural Foundation, the trust set up bythe UP Sunni Central Waqf Board for construction of

mosque in Ayodhya district, has commenced the construc-tion of the mosque.

The IICF has got the possession of the land allotted toit by the UP government as per the Supreme Court orderin November, 2019 and has started demarcation of the landand construction of the boundary wall.

The Indo Islamic Cultural Foundation trust, which willalso construct various community facilities besides themosque, has decided to name the mosque to be built on thefive-acre land in Ayodhya as Dhannipur Mosque after thevillage. It has also sought donations from people across faithfor construction of the mosque, library, hospital, etc on theland.

“The land has been handed over to the trust and itsdemarcation is being done by the local administration. Theconstruction work of the mosque will start at leastthree months from now. People of all faiths who wish todonate for construction of the mosque and other things tobe built on the five-acre land are welcome only on onecondition that the money donated should be clean,”spokesperson of Indo Islamic Cultural Foundation, AtharHussain, said here on Wednesday.

The UP Sunni Central Waqf Board has also urged peo-ple to cooperate and help with the construction of themosque, a hospital and an Indo-Islamic cultural centre atthe land given to the trust. As per information, two bankaccounts will be opened in a few days for donations by theIndo-Islamic Cultural Foundation.

One of these accounts will be for raising funds only forthe construction of the mosque, while the other will be usedfor the building of hospital and research centre.

Earlier, the UP Sunni Waqf Board had announced theformation of a trust for the construction of a mosque.

Sunni Waqf Board chairperson Zufar Farooqui had saidthat the trust would have 15 members, of which nine nameswere declared and the remaining six would be co-opted bythese nine members.

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On the eve of the monsoonsession of Uttar Pradesh

Legislature starting fromThursday, senior Congress leaderJitin Prasada has written anopen letter to all legislators,asking them to effectively raisethe issue of Brahmins’ securityduring the session.

Jitin Prasada, who hasformed the Brahmin ChetnaParishad, issued the open letterafter Bharatiya Janata Partyleader Umesh Dwivedi onMonday claimed that his partywould provide medical insuranceto poor Brahmins in the state.

In his open letter, Prasadasaid on Wednesday, “I appeal toall MLAs to rise above party linesand raise the issue of Brahmins’security and the exploitation ofthe community and crimeagainst Brahmins of your area.”

Prasada, through hisBrahmin Chetna Parishad, hasbeen trying to make Brahmins’security a major issue.

After he raised theBrahmins’ issue, almost all par-ties have jumped on the band-wagon.

Brahmin leaders in theCongress have passed a resolu-tion to send a proposal to theparty high command to projecta Brahmin as the chief ministe-

rial candidate of the party for the2022 UP Assembly elections.

The Brahmin communityconstitutes about 12 per cent ofthe state’s population but itsinfluence is greater compared toits population and this could bea key to the party’s revival, aCongress leader said.

Meanwhile, UP Congresschief Ajay Kumar Lallu onWednesday said his party wouldraise issues like law and order inthe state, women’s security,unemployment, farmers’ sui-cide, attack on freedom ofexpression, atrocities on journal-ists, flood and the inability of thegovernment to deal withCOVID-19 crisis.

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On the direction of the Union government,Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi

Adityanath has set up a 17-member taskforce for implementation of the newNational Education Policy (NEP) 2020 in thestate.

The committee will look into differentaspects of implementation, keeping in view thesocio-economic nature of the state.

Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma,who holds the Education portfolio, will be thechairman of the task force while Minister ofState for Primary Education (Independentcharge) Satish Dwivedi will be the deputy chair-man.

The Narendra Modi government broughta new education policy in the country recent-ly.

Official sources said here on Wednesdaythat the other members of the task force wouldbe UP State Higher Education CouncilChairman Dr HC Tripathi, Additional ChiefSecretary (Primary Education) Renuka Kumar,ACS (Technical Education) S Radha Chauhan,ACS (Higher Education) Monika S Garg, ACS(Secondary Education) Aradhana Shukla, for-

mer bureaucrat and former secretary at theCentre, Anil Swarup and ex-chairman ofCBSE, Ashok Ganguly.

The sources said that AKTU Vice-Chancellor Dr Vinay Pathak, UP SanskritSansthan Chairman Vachaspati Mishra, ex-director of Secondary Education VPKhandelwal, ex-director of SecondaryEducation Krishna Mohan Tripathi alongwith Lucknow University professorsArvind Mohan, Nishi Pandey and AbbasNair would be the other members of the taskforce.

Director General of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan,Vijay Kiran Anand, will be the member-secre-tary of the task force.

Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharmasaid the new education policy would prove tobe a game changer as it would strengthenthe education system after a gap of about 35years.

“It will encourage students towards voca-tional education and children to learn the moth-er tongue,” he said.

Ashok Ganguly said that a massive teachertraining would be required because UP hadimmense potential to take a lead in the imple-mentation of the NEP.

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Lucknow(PNS): Hailing the deci-sion of Prime Minister Narendra Modito set up a National RecruitmentAgency to conduct common eligibili-ty test, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanathsaid the UP government was going totake a similar decision very soon as thiswould help in nurturing the future ofthe young generation of the country,

“This decision will streamline therecruitment process of the non-gazettedposts in the Central government andpublic sector banks as the newly-formed National Recruitment Agencywill conduct a common eligibility testfor all the competitive examinations,”Yogi said in a statement issued here onWednesday. He said instead of separateexaminations, the youth would have toappear in one paper and this would helpthe poor candidates as well as those whocome from far-flung areas.

“This will form the base of ‘ease ofliving’ because it will encompass ‘easeof recruitment’, ‘ease of selection’ and‘ease of placement’. This decision hasbeen taken by the prime minister keep-ing the youth in mind and this will helpthe youth of Uttar Pradesh the most,”he said and added that the UPGovernment would take a similar deci-sion regarding the exams conducted forstate services.

National Recruitment Agency willconduct a common eligibility test forStaff Selection Commission (SSC),Railway Recruitment Boards (RRBs)and the Institute of Banking PersonnelService (IBPS).

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Mystery has shrouded thedeath of a 35-year-old

man, whose body was recov-ered in PGI police stationarea on Tuesday night. Thedeceased was identified asSanjay of Rae Bareli whoworked in Lucknow and hadleft his house for some workon Tuesday evening.

As per reports, some com-muters spotted the body atsector 5 crossing near Shanitemple in the area on Tuesdaynight and informed police.The police succeeded in ascer-taining the identity of thedeceased. His father-in-lawBabu Lal of Gopal Kheda inMohanlalganj, who hadlodged a case in this connec-tion on Wednesday, saidSanjay was staying inLucknow.

The police said Sanjaywas an alcoholic and used tosleep behind the Shani templein Telibagh. The police point-ed out that prima facie, noinjuries were detected on thebody. “We have sent the bodyfor autopsy to ascertain thecause of death,” the police said.

Meanwhile, 11 passengerssuffered minor injuries afterthe bus they were travelling inoverturned when its drivertried to overtake another busin Itaunja on Wednesdaymorning. Bus driver SonuKumar, who was ferrying pas-sengers from Kaushambi toLucknow, said he overtookanother bus upon reaching thetoll tax plaza on Lucknow-Sitapur highway in Itaunjaaround 6 am. He said he sud-denly spotted the barricadesput up on the road andapplied brakes. In the process,the bus skidded and over-turned.

Itaunja SHO Nand Kishorsaid the road was wet follow-ing rain the previous nightand it caused the bus to skidand overturn. ConductorRudraksh Pandey, assistantdriver Rahul Kumar and pas-sengers were rescued by ateam of police and villagers.“All of them were taken toCHC from where they weredischarged after first-aid,” theSHO said. However,spokesman of UPSRTC saidonly six passengers sufferedminor injuries.

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Human nature is that we need tomove ahead and do more.

The current pandemic is an oppor-tunity in disguise for local manu-facturing in India, IndustryMinister Satish Mahana said whilespeaking at the CII conference on‘Emerging technologies for busi-nesses’ on Wednesday. The pro-gramme was held online.

Mahana said the state govern-ment signed several MoUs with thedefence forces last week to promotedefence manufacturing in UPDefence Corridor.

Chairman of CII UP State

Council Ankit Gupta said: “Weneed to understand how technolo-gy can be invaluable during thesetimes to connect with the cus-tomers, supply chain stakeholdersand employees.”

Gupta said that as an agri inputcompany, they would have neverimagined connecting with thefarmers over a digital platform butthey were extensively doing so.

Chairman of CII Western UPZonal Council Rajesh Sikka saidthat technology has the power tochange a country’s or an industry’strajectory in terms of financialgains, productivity benefits and

market standing. He mentionedsome of the latest advances such as5G communications, Wi-Fi 6, arti-ficial intelligence and IOT amongother things which have expandedthe potential of industries.

Chairman and managing direc-tor of National ResearchDevelopment Corporation(NRDC) HanumanthuPurushottam pointed out that the‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’ call by PrimeMinister Narendra Modi has givenIndian businessmen an opportuni-ty to come forward and lead theeconomy. He said NRDC extendssupport to the industry by filingIPR registration free of cost.

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Vice-Chancellor of KingGeorge’s Medical University

Lt Gen Dr Bipin Puri said onWednesday that it was a matterof pride that the TelemedicineUnit was providing the highestnumber of online OPD consul-tations through the e-Sanjeevaniproject in the entire state.

KGMU is running differentmodels of telemedicine ser-vices like e-Sanjeevani, NationalTeleconsultation Service fromthe Ministry of Health andFamily Welfare (MoHFW),Health RADAR System andthrough telephonic communi-cation in the larger interest ofpatients and to provide qualitycare amidst the coronaviruspandemic. Nodal incharge,Telemedicine Unit of KGMU,Dr Sheetal Verma said thatmore than 50,000 consultationshave been provided till datesince the outbreak of pandem-ic. “The consultations providedare highest in the state of Uttar

Pradesh. Tele-consultancy topatients is being provided onregular basis by faculty, residentsand five MBBS doctors, espe-cially appointed for the purpose.On an average, more than 1,000consultations are being pro-vided daily,” she said.

Dr Sandeep Bhattacharyaensures that the process runssmoothly through telephoniccommunication. According toDr Sheetal Verma, KGMUranks first among different gov-ernment medical institutesacross UP which use e-Sanjeevani in Ayushman BharatHealth and Wellness Centres(HWCs) under National HealthMission (NHM) Ministry ofHealth and Family welfare(MoHFW).

“In this scheme, patientsreceive advice through video-conferencing. Five medical offi-cers are currently employed forthis service. The medical officersproviding the services areAbhimanyu Ojha, DheerajSharma, Saniya Rauf, Priya

Singh and Ahlam Kazim. Thepatients also get specialist andsuper-specialist consultations,”she said. She further pointed outthat KGMU was also providingtelemedicine services to DistrictJail and seven Japaneseencephalitis high-risk endemicdistricts around Gorakhpur byHealthRADAR system sup-ported by EVOLKO & POCT.The services will be soon start-ed in Bareilly and Kanpur jails.

“The services have beenextremely beneficial amidst thecomplete lockdown. This typeof tele-consultation servicesensures zero physical contactand patients are able to get time-ly advice, right diagnosis andtreatment from doctors withoutvisiting the hospitals, whichalso saves them the cost of trans-port. It is extremely useful forchildren and elderly who are athigh risk of coronavirus infec-tion. Around 7,000 individualshave used these platforms, espe-cially for psychiatric consulta-tions,” she added.

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The initiative has beentaken by LDA Vice-ChairmanSK Dwivedi to protect staffmembers as well as com-plainants from the deadly virus.

The idea was conceived bythe Vice-Chairman after thelockdown was lifted and alarge of people turned up withtheir grievances, in gross vio-lation of social distancingnorms. LDA secretary MPSingh said the guard room atgate number one had beenconverted into a guest roomwhile officers would sit in theconference hall on the thirdfloor of old building.

The teleconference will befunctional from 9:30 am to 6pm. The staff members will bestrictly adhering to the safetyguidelines.

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Chairman of National Bankfor Agriculture and Rural

Development (NABARD) GRChintala told mediapersons onWednesday that the dream of‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’ would befulfilled with realisation of threecomponents – self-reliant agri-culture, self-reliant farmers andself-reliant women.

“NABARD is fully gearedup to fulfil its mandate inte-grating these covenants ofAtmanirbhar Bharat package.Agriculture is the only sectorthat is resilient during Covidtimes and the economic revivalwill be driven by the agriculturesector,” he said.

On his meeting with ChiefMinister Yogi Adityanath, hesaid UP would emerge as aleader in ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’initiative owing to its sheer sizeand proactive governance.

He pointed out thatNABARD has disbursed Rs25,000 crore to banks and MFIsduring lockdown under thespecial liquidity facility pro-vided by RBI. In Uttar Pradesh,a special liquidity assistance ofRs 1,730 crore was extended toUP Cooperative Bank, threeRRBs and two micro-finance

institutions. He said PMNarendra Modi’s announce-ment about earmarking of Rsone lakh crore underAgriculture Infrastructure Fund(AIF) would create large agri-infrastructure to take care ofpost-harvest management ofagri produce like scientific stor-age, processing, and also facil-itate agri exports. NABARDhas also introduced a specialrefinance window to PrimaryAgriculture Credit Societies fortransforming them into multi-service centres and by integrat-ing them with AIF. In UP,NABARD has provided in-principal approval of loan to thetune of Rs 42 crore for devel-opment of infrastructure at 244PACs. He pointed out that toenhance the income of the ben-eficiaries covered underNABARD’s promoted specialprojects like watershed, tribaldevelopment projects it hasbeen decided to extend con-cessional long-term refinancesupport to all eligible banks, Flsat 3% to enable them to deep-en institutional credit to bene-ficiaries in these project areas.

Chintala pointed out thatNABARD has extended Rs21,687-crore support to ruralinfrastructure projects.

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Thieves struck at three shopslocated close to a police picket

in Mohanlalganj on Tuesday nightand decamped with cash and valu-ables. The shop-owners came toknow of the theft after they got acal l from neighbours onWednesday morning.

The shops belong to MukeshDwivedi of Gaura (readymade gar-ment shop), Abhishek Rajput ofRae Bareli (medical store) andMohammed Danish of

Mohanlalganj (cosmetic shop). Thethieves made off with Rs 9,000 incash and garments worth Rs 40,000from Mukesh’s shop; Rs 8,000 andmedicines worth Rs 10,000 fromAbhishek’s shop; and cosmeticsfrom Danish’s shop. All these shopsare located in Gaura village ofMohanlalganj and are close to apolice picket. The police were yetto register a case in this connectionas they said they were verifying theveracity of claims made by theshop-owners.

Meanwhile, thieves made off

with Rs 35,000 in cash and valu-ables, including the DVR of CCTVcamera, from the office of a prop-erty dealer in J-block of South Cityunder PGI police station sometime on Tuesday night.

As per reports, the propertydealer, Pushpendra Yadav ofPiprauli village, said his employeereached the office to open it andfound the shutter jacked-up. “Heinformed me and I reached thescene. The thieves had made off with cash and valuables,”he said.

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The arrest of 31 persons foralleged involvement in ille-

gal LPG refilling and over-charging kicked up a row as kinof the accused Vibhuti Khandpolice of high-handedness anddetaining them at the policestation without completing theformalities. They said the policehad kept the issue under wrapsfor a couple of days but somemediapersons got a whiff of thesame. They also pointed outthat there were no officials ofthe Civil Supply departmentand LGP companies.

However, JointCommissioner of Police (Lawand Order) Naveen Arora clar-ified that the police teams wereworking on the case on theinstructions of government.He said the accused were

arrested after their involve-ment in the crime was estab-lished by surveillance and localpolice teams that worked onthe case.

Arora said the team col-lected information regardingthe accused involved in illegalrefilling in Vibhuti Khand,Chinhat, Madiaon,Rajajipuram, Chinhat,Gudamba and other stationareas. “The police also collect-ed information about man-agers and hawkers working atdifferent gas agencies beforecracking the whip,” he said.

The JCP said 31 personswere arrested and three caseswere registered at VibhutiKhand (against six accused),Madiaon (against 12 accused)and Mohanlalganj (against 13accused) under sections285/286 of IPC.

It surfaced that the accusedused to sell LPG cylinders inblack by charging Rs 50 extrafrom customers and wouldrefill small cylinders to sell eachfor Rs 200-250. The accusedwould also take out LPG fromcylinders which were supposedto be delivered to customers.

Meanwhile, president ofAll-India LPG CylinderDistribution Federation (UPCircle) DP Singh said the policewere harassing cylinder dis-tributors in the name of curb-ing illegal refilling. He saidsmall LPG cylinders were avail-able with gas agencies and dis-tributors for those who couldnot afford large cylinders. Hesaid some other persons werepushing small cylinders in themarket but the gas distributorsand hawkers were being bul-lied.

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Divisional CommissionerMukesh Meshram said on

Wednesday that their primefocus was the monitoring ofCovid-19 patients in home iso-lation to ensure their move-ment restrictions and adher-ence to the guidelines.

He said it was importantfor patients in home isolationto adhere to protocols and notcome out of their houses as itwould become very difficult tocontain the spread of coron-avirus. Meshram pointed outthat in urban areas, peoplelive in crowded places andvisit crowded places like mar-kets & offices and it is also dif-ficult to maintain social dis-tancing while moving aroundin public transport, henceproper monitoring was theneed of the hour.

He said that with so muchof awareness, it was the respon-sibility of people and society tofollow the guidelines.“Enforcement is going onsimultaneously and a sum ofmore than Rs one crore hasalready been realised as fine,but it is not the only solution.There is no need for people tocome out of their housesunnecessarily,” he added.

On the slight dip in thenumber of coronavirus positivecases in the district, he said itwas very early to say anything.

“Lucknow is getting a lot ofcases from neighbouring dis-tricts such as those from east-ern UP. People who have settleddown here call their relativesand other people for medicaltreatment,” he pointed out.

The DivisionalCommissioner and District

Magistrate Abhishek Prakashhad a meeting with the repre-sentatives of Residents’ WelfareAssociations at Indira GandhiPratishthan, wherein a detaileddiscussion took place on thecontainment of virus, sanitisa-tion and contact tracing. Therepresentatives were told aboutthe need of awareness andpublic participation.

Chief Medical Officer DrRajendra Prasad Singh thecoronavirus graph had showna slight decline after some sta-bility and they were hoping thecases to come down to 400 inthe next one week. “The impactof Ivermectin can be seen in aweek’s time,” he said.

He also said that home iso-lation continued to be theirfocus since people with mild orno symptoms form a largepercentage of Covid-19patients. He pointed out thatalong with a large number ofpeople testing positive for coro-

navirus, the number of patientsrecovering was also high.

“We have increased thenumber of beds and are alsoroping in Sardar Patel MedicalCollege for the purpose,” headded.

Meanwhile, testing of thegeneral public and UP MLAscontinued on Wednesday. Asmany as 20 teams are testingthe general public and 10 teamsare testing MLAs and membersof Vidhan Parishad.

In a meeting held betweenthe district administration andprivate hospitals, the DistrictMagistrate said if the privatehospitals wanted to increasetheir capacity, the districtadministration was ready toextend help. “We can also helpprovide space for active quar-antine near the hospitals in caseof lack of space,” he said.

“If there are Covid-19patients from outside ofLucknow, their addresses

should be updated on the por-tal,” he said. The DM told theprivate hospitals that they couldprocure TrueNat machines fortesting and they needed to getthe permission from the CMOoffice. He also told them thatif they did not have a testingfacility, they should get it aftersigning an MoU with privatelabs. He issued instructionsfor death audits at private hos-pitals. The DM said that fromAugust 20 onwards, the privatehospitals must have ALS ambu-lance facility.

Meanwhile, director of LokBandhu Hospital Dr MadhuSaxena said she would bebeginning respiratory exercis-es for Covid-19 patients fromThursday. “I have got balloonsand spirometers and will askthe patients to blow and deflatethe balloons repeatedly. Thepatients will also be asked to do‘pranayam’ which helps easerespiratory problems,” she said.

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The Ghazipur policeclaimed to have arrested a

20-year-old drug peddler andrecovered 1 kg morphine pow-der from his possession.Interestingly, father of theaccused was arrested 20 daysback with 2 kg morphinepowder by Haryana police.The police were yet to get thesubstance tested by Narcoticsdepartment.

According to police, theywere tipped off about theaccused, identified asMohammed Shakil of Sitapur,who was to smuggle the goodsat Jugauli crossing on Tuesdaynight. “We have been workingon drug smugglers under adrive in the state capital. Wewere tipped off about Shakiland we nabbed him,” thepolice said. The police, how-ever, failed to explain the

modus operandi of the gang,if any, and others involved.The police also failed toexplain from where theaccused got the morphinepowder worth around Rs onecrore in the international mar-ket. Though Ghazipur SHOBrijesh Singh could not becontacted for his comment,sources said the accused mightbe a member of some big gangthat provided him drug pack-ets. Shakil told the police dur-ing interrogation that hisfather Mohammed Shafiq wasarrested 20 days back by Jindpolice of Haryana for smug-gling of morphine.

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Uttar Pradesh has becomethe first state of the coun-

try to test over 40 lakh peoplefor coronavirus infection, beat-ing Tamil Nadu even as officialssay the testing will be rampedup further.

Additional Chief Secretary(Information) AwanishAwasthi, in a tweet onWednesday, said that UP wasnow number 1 state, with amaximum number of 40 lakhCovid tests. “Yesterday, thestate went for 1,07,768 Covidtests and now the cumulativenumber of coronavirus testshas gone up to 40,75,174,”Awasthi said in his tweet.

Officials say that UP willfurther increase testing as ChiefMinister Yogi Adityanath hasissued directive that 1.25 lakhtests should be carried outdaily. At present around onelakh Covid tests are done on anaverage every day .

Additional Chief Secretary(Health) Amit Mohan Prasadsaid that it was a big leap for thestate as in March only 100Covid tests were done daily andwithin four months’ time, UPhad become the highest testingstate. For the first time on July27, the state labs tested 1,06,962samples and the same was fol-lowed on August 2 and 8 whenthe number of tests was aboveone lakh. The highest test wasdone on August 2 when1,14,822 samples were tested.

In these tests, around 50per cent were rapid antigentests.

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District Magistrate (DM)Kaushal Raj Sharma has

given more emphasis on theongoing special surveillancecampaign to prevent the spreadof coronavirus pandemic dur-ing the second phase. He saidthat the teams deployed on thetasks are constantly identifyingthose with corona-like symp-toms during their door-to-door visit. ‘This campaign isalso very important to identi-fy those who have been suffer-ing from a serious illness in thepast as the people with chron-ic diseases are more prone tocorona infection so theyrequire COVID-19 tests assoon as possible,’ he said.

According to him, thenumber of teams has beenincreased and maximum num-ber of corona patients are beingdetected from urban areas,especially under Manduadih,Lanka, Bhelupur, Sigra and

Luxa police station. Besides, asa large number of patients arebeing found among the busi-ness community so the tradersshould remain alert and getthem tested for COVID-19 ifthey feel corona-like symp-toms. During the campaign,2,909 symptomatic people havebeen found in rural areas whileconducting surveys on 34.06lakh residents living in 6.70lakh houses, while 2,312 inurban areas among 12.37 lakhpopulation staying in 2.61 lakhbuildings. In all, 5,221 sympto-matic persons were detected inthe district by 982 surveillanceteams including 782 engaged inrural and 200 in urban areas.

Meanwhile, the DM direct-ed the Health and other depart-ments to make door-to-doorcontact with home isolatedcorona positive patients andadvised to take ivermectintablets as per the medicaladvice. He said that the medi-cine doses should be given tothe patients on time. About

4.63 lakh ivermectin tabletshave been distributed to a totalof 60,441 needy persons andthe work of distribution isgoing on. So far, 40,253 needypersons have been given iver-mectin tablets through ruraland urban primary health cen-tres by the Health department,which included 20,237 tabletsin rural areas and 20,016 inurban areas.

Under the community andprimary health centres(CHCs/PHCs) of rural areas,tablets were distributed to2128 in Arajline, 2047 inBaragaon, 2946 in Chiragaon,3370 in Cholapur, 1206 inHarahua, 2559 in KashiVidyapeeth, 2386 in Pindraand 3545 in Sevapuri while1220 from urban primaryhealth centre (UPHC) inAdampur, 599 in Anandamai,324 in Ashfaq Nagar, 211 inBadi Bazar, 1953 in Bajardiha,691 in Benia, 691 in Bhelupur,2707 in Bhelupur, 629 inCantonment, 2026 in

Chowkankhat, 578 in ChowkSevsadan, 988 in Durgakund,319 in Jaitpura, 250 in Konia,1106 in Lallapura, 356 inMadanpura, 534 in Madhopur,1195 in Manduadiha, 172 inArdali Bazar, 148 in Pandeypur,282 in Rajghat, 232 in SadarBazar, 2328 in Shivpur, 459 inSikraul, 274 Townhall and 435in Ramnagar.

Apart from this, under thedirection of ADM (Supply)Nalnikant, ivermectin tabletshave been distributed to 2050needy persons, 10,815 by CivilDefense and 7,323 by otherdepartments.

Chief Medical Officer(CMO) Dr. VB Singh informedthat ivermectin tablets arebeing distributed door-to-doorto the needy persons andadvised the people not to givethe medicine to children belowtwo years and pregnantwomen. If a person is serious-ly ill, he should take this med-icine only according to medicaladvice, he added.

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Asserting that most of thepeople are unaware about

the depth of their mind science,the Meditation PractitionerAshvajit Dharmchari fromUnited Kingdom (UK) says,how the mindfulness couldhelp us in being mentally fitespecially in the present situa-tion of COVID-19 pandemic.He was putting his views in awebinar on ‘Freedom fromsocial stigma of mental ill-nesses’ organised by Bab KiPathashala, an organisationactive in helping the people inalleviating mental stigma.

We remain unaware untiland unless we begin to medi-ate and sometimes one’s ownmind is poisoned by greed,hatred and delusion, he said

adding, so long as one doesnot recognise the mental poi-sons, these negative socialstigma continue to be pro-duced and to cause personaland interpersonal sufferings.

Behaviour change special-ist David Klaseen from the

UK told us about a little brainscience that how the brain actswhen we are in a situation ofcognitive discrepancies andhow amygdale & dopamineplay a role in mental thoughtprocess. He also talked aboutwhy mental well-being is nec-essary for us.

Clinical psychologist atNIMHANS Ishant Rana dis-cussed the identity crisisamong youths and threwlights on how not to engulf inpeer pressure while balancingthe external and internal pres-sure beforehand. He also pro-vided his valuable insights onhow to bridge the generationgap with due respect to theirelders and said, the failure isa part of life and it is toacknowledge the failure andcome back again with more

learning. Assistant Professor in

Banaras Hindu University(BHU) Tushar Singh talksabout, what is mental stigma,where does it stem from andhow home and self awarenessis the first place to alleviate thestereotypes associated withmental stigma. CampusCounselor in BHU LaxmanYadav talks about how to han-dle relationship issues, angerand pressure while the musictherapist Arthur Fernandesthrew light on how musictherapy plays a role in comingout of difficult emotions.Narayani Srivastava, SurakshaVegad and Shiva Singhjointly conducted the pro-ceedings, while Ajay andAditya provided technicalassistance.

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Two senior professors ofBanaras Hindu University

(BHU) have been awardedprestigious JC Bose Fellowshipby Science and EngineeringResearch Board, Department ofScience and Technology,Government of India. They areProf AK Tripathi, Director ofInstitute of Science and ProfMaya Sankar Singh of theChemistry department. TheJC Bose fellowships are award-ed to active scientists with arecord of outstanding perfor-mance in the field of science atnational and international lev-els. The JC Bose Fellow willreceive a personnel fellowshipof � 25,000 per month and aresearch grant of � 15 lakh perannum. � 1 lakh is provided asoverheads for the host institute.

Prof. Singh is the only facultymember in the Department ofChemistry since its inception toget all the three academies fel-lowships of Indian Sciences andJC Bose Fellowship.

DE M ON ST R AT ION :Giving a boost to the move-ment against ‘No School No

Fees’, the advocates onWednesday staged a demon-stration against the privateschools and submitted a mem-orandum at the office ofDistrict Magistrate demandingfor waiving the fees. The manysocial organisations havelaunched a movement against

the management of privateand convent schools for forcingthe parents and guardians topay school fees of their wards.The political parties extendedtheir support to the move-ment and in this order, theadvocates in scores gathered atthe office of the DM to give aboost to the movement. Theydemonstrated and submitted amemorandum at the DM’soffice.

Each and every person is infinancial crisis in the presentcrisis of COVID-19 and inthis adverse situation the pri-vate and convent schools aremaking highhandedness, theysaid blaming that the manage-ment of these schools areforcing the parents andguardians to pay school fees oftheir wards which is not justi-fiable.

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The Allahabad High Courton Wednesday adjourned

the hearing of the case tillAugust 24, 2020, challengingthe detention of Dr KafeelKhan under NSA. The benchconsisting of Chief JusticeGovind Mathur and JusticeSamit Gopal, adjourned thehearing of the case on therequest of the counsel for thepetitioner, who sought time tofile reply to the affidavit filedby the state government.Granting time to the petition-er's counsel, the court saidthat it would dispose of thepetition on August, 24.

The court on the last date,had directed the central aswell as state governments to filea reply in a case seeking releaseof Dr Kafeel Khan who isdetained under NSA for allegedprovocative speech during AntiCAA protest.

The Bench passed theorder on a petition filed byNuzhat Parween, mother of DrKafeel Khan seeking his release.

According to the petition-er, Dr Kafeel was granted bailby a competent court and hewas supposed to be released on

bail. However, he was notreleased for four days and later,the NSA was imposed on him.Hence, his detention was ille-gal.

The plea challenged thedetention of Dr Kafeel for fourdays before imposing NSA onhim even after he secured bailin all the cases registeredagainst him.

Khan has been behind thebars since January 29 last aftera speech he had allegedly deliv-ered at Aligarh MuslimUniversity on December 10,during the Anti CitizenshipAmendment Act (CAA)protests. The speech wasdeemed “provocative” by theUP government, which bookedhim under the NationalSecurity Act (NSA).

Dr Kafeel came to limelightafter the 2017 oxygen tragedyat BRD Medical College inwhich several kids had died forlack of oxygen cylinders. Whileinitially he was hailed as sav-iour of children for arrangingemergency oxygen cylinders,he later faced action, along withnine other doctors and staff, allof whom were released on baillater.

AU RANKED 38TH

AMONG 40 CENTRAL UNI-VERSITIES IN COUNTRY:Allahabad Central Universityhas been ranked 38th among40 central universities of thecountry. What more, AU hasstood last among the four cen-tral universities of the state. Theranking was released bythe Ministry of Educationthrough its annual report of 40central universities across thecountry.

Jamia Millia Islamia hasbagged the first spot among allcentral universities. In thegrading/scoring of perfor-mance of central universities bythe ministry, Jamia has a scoreof 90 per cent, compared to 83per cent of Rajiv GandhiUniversity of ArunachalPradesh, 82 per cent of JNUand 78 per cent of AligarhMuslim University.

In terms of the four centraluniversities of the state, BabaSaheb Bhimrao AmbedkarUniversity, Lucknow, is on thefirst position, Aligarh MuslimUniversity (AMU) on the sec-ond, Banaras Hindu University(BHU) on the third and AU onthe fourth.

AU has scored 94.5 out of283.5. In various parameters,

AU has got just 33 per centmarks though it is compulso-ry to get minimum 59.975 percent marks. AU did not find aplace in the AIRF rankings andNAAC grading B has beenadded.

AU holds a B ++ gradefrom NAAC. Due to only a Bbeing recorded in the assess-ment, AU has got very fewmarks. A letter has been sent tothe ministry for the revisedreport. Efforts are being madeto improve the performance ofAU, said AU registrar Prof NKShukla.

The evaluation is basedon parameters which includedannual student intake in UG,PG, PhD and MPhil and stu-dent diversity, which includedpercentage of female students,students from other states andforeign students.

Other parameters were fac-ulty quality and strength whichincluded student-teacher ratio,teacher vacancy and visitingfaculty. Central universitieswere also assessed on the num-ber of students placed throughcampus interviews and thosewho qualified in NET andGATE. Based on this, grants areissued to universities.

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Two more patients admittedto Swaroop Rani Nehru

Hospital lost their lives due tocoronavirus while 220 newcorona positive cases have beenreported within 24 hours in thePrayagraj city here on Tuesdaynight..

The death toll from coro-na has now reached close to100. The total positive case is5,835. Similarly, 56 patients ofcorona admitted in differentCovid hospitals have beendischarged after they defeat-ed the deadly virus. Reports of985 samples were negative,while samples from 1,796patients have also been takenon the same day.

In view of the increasingcase of corona, now thedepartment has decided toprovide the facility of treat-ment to patients of corona inprivate hospitals too. Now inMohiuddinpur Baratha, a pri-vate hospital was allowed forthis purpose.

Shri Sai Nath VatsalyaAMA Hospital has alsoreceived permission for it.

But here, patients will have tocough up money for theirtreatment. It is the second pri-vate sector hospital. CMO Dr.GS Bajpai said that the treat-ment of corona patients in pri-vate hospitals will end the fearprevailing among the people.

Only 30 beds have beenarranged in this hospital.Nodal Officer Sujit KumarVerma of Swaroop RaniNehru for COVID-19Hospital said that two patientsdied in the hospital. The ageof one deceased was 73 yearsold, who lived inKalindipuram, the otherdeceased was 61 years old, hewas a resident of Shivkuti.They were also suffering fromchronic diseases.

Currently, 1,445 coronapatients are placed in homeisolation. All these are asymp-tomatic corona patients. Thatis, despite being positive, theyare healthy. These patientsare taking care of themselvesat home under the supervisionof the Rapid Response Team.

RISE IN SALES OFBLOOD SUGAR, BLOODPRESSURE TESTING

MACHINES: Sales of bloodsugar, blood pressure testingmachines, blood sugar strips,pulse oximeters, general anddigital thermometers haveincreased almost twice sincethe state government releasedthe home isolation guideline.The demand for nebuliserand bespoiser machines hasalso registered an increase ofalmost three times. Peopleare buying these machinesand equipment despite beingexpensive, because every per-son is trying to keep his tem-perature, blood pressure etc.normal. The corona periodhas seen many changes inpeople's lifestyles. Earlier, thesmall health related tests forwhich people used to take thehelp of doctors, are now beingcarried out at home throughmachines. People are checkingblood pressure, blood sugar,temperature etc. on their own.Therefore, sales of machinesassociated with these diseaseshave increased two to threetimes.

Machines and EquipmentPrice (�) are as follows --Blood sugar � 750 to 1200,

Blood pressure 900 to 1800,Non contact thermometer1900 to 2200, Digital ther-mometer 150 to 200, Pulseoximeter 800 to 1500,Nebuliser 750 to 2200,bespoiser 250 to 300.

Demand for nebuliser andbespoiser machines has alsoincreased. It is believed thatdue to unavailability of doc-tors, people are buying thesemachines and equipment andkeeping them in the house.Neeraj Purwar, the proprietorof Krishna Rezikal andMedical Agency, told that eversince the guideline for homeisolation has been released thedemand for these machinesand equipment has increasedby two to three times.

Pulse oximeters were ear-lier available with some doc-tors. Now it has become anecessity for every house-hold. The digital thermome-ter used to sell only in the firstmonth or two, but about oneto two thousand sales weresold in a month, said AnilDubey, President AllahabadChemist and DruggistAssociation.

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North Central Railway haslaunched "Fit India

Freedom Run" campaign onthe initiative of Indian Railwayswhich has decided to imple-ment the ‘Fit India FreedomRun’ initiative launched by theMinistry of Youth Affairs andSports, Government of India,across the Indian Railways.

To mark the 74thIndependence Day, this cam-paign is being carried outfrom August 15, 2020 toOctober 2, 2020 to mark the151st birth anniversary ofMahatma Gandhi. NorthCentral Railway is alsoencouraging its 60,000 Railwaymen and women and theirfamily members to join thiscampaign

The Fit India FreedomRun is being organised toencourage better health and toovercome health problems likeobesity, lethargy, stress, andanxiety for a disease free soci-ety. The unique conceptbehind this Fit India FreedomRun campaign is that "it can bedone by anyone from any-

where and anytime!".Under this campaign, any

person can choose the locationand time according to his orher choice, convenience, phys-ical ability and condition ofhealth. He or she can break therace at any point of time, canrun race at his/her own paceand can track progress manu-ally or through any trackingapp or GPS-enabled watch.

Under the Fit India cam-paign, the organisers and theindividuals involved in it havebeen advised to organise theirevents following the rules ofsocial distancing and encour-age the 'virtual run' which isbeing used by runners / walk-

ers across the globe. ‘Virtualrun’ works in the same way asany other type of running, butunder ‘virtual running’ therace is recorded by the runners/ walkers at any place, at anyspeed, on the treadmill in thehouse or anywhere else. Onlything that is to be ensured thatyou have to participate in arace as per your convenienceand to make sure that it iscompleted. Participants of thiscampaign can use Fit Indiawebsite or the platform beingprovided by different organis-ers. Particulars of run can beuploaded by the individuals onthe website and certificate ofparticipation can be down-loaded. In order to make thisinitiative a success, RailwayBoard has asked all zonal rail-ways and production units tospread awareness among therailway men and women andtheir family members so thatthey can participate in this runwith all COVID-19 relatedprecautions and can remain fitand healthy. In order toencourage officers, employeesand their family members inNorth Central Railway, system

generated messages are beingsent and the information isbeing communicated throughposters and letters in alloffices, Railway residentialcomplexes etc. Prominentplayers of North CentralRailway including ArjunaAwardee Gymnast AshishKumar, Cricketer PoonamYadav, cricketer Ekta Bisht,Boxer Gaurav Vidhuri,Hockey player Gurjit etc. willalso participate in Fit IndiaRun to inspire Railway frater-nity on NCR and public atlarge and will act as brandambassador in this campaign.

North Central Railway hasalways been a leading promot-er of sports events and sportssportspersons. North Centralrailway has provision forsports quota recruitment ofabout 26 leading sportspersonsannually in different fields ofsports. It is worth mentioningthat Gymnasts of NorthCentral Railway have kept thezones flag high by winning theoverall championship in theAll India Railway GymnasticsChampionship held in Agrathis year.

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The district has crossed 6K-mark as 129 new COVID-

19 patients have been detectedhere on Wednesday. With this,the total number of cases hasreached 6,044. Besides, thedistrict also saw four moredeaths, increasing the toll to114. During the day, the follow-up negative reports included 70patients recovered from homeisolation and the total numberof patients cured at home hasincreased to 2,675, while 40recovered from the hospitals.With this, the total number ofpatients discharged from thehospitals has reached 1,928while the total number of curedpatients is 4,603 leaving 1,327active patients. With this, therecovery rate in the district hasjumped up to 76.15 per cent,while mortality rate hasincreased to 1.88 per cent.

According to the ChiefMedical Officer (CMO) DrVB Singh, in the first reportreceived by 11 am during theday, as many as 79 new coro-na patients were found out of1,159 reports received fromMicrobiology department ofBanaras Hindu University

(BHU). Till then, the total testreports received were 76,066and the results of 6,467 exclud-ing 904 RTPCR samples col-lected a day ago are awaited.Out of these, 70,072 were neg-ative reports, while 5,994 pos-itive. The total number of sam-ples collected was 83,437.Earlier, three persons died dur-ing treatment. Two of themincluding male aged 45 fromSenpura (Chetganj) and maleaged 70 from Nagwa (Lanka)died at SSH BHU, while onefemale aged 45 from Jansa

succumbed to corona at DDUHospital. With the addition ofnine red zones, the total num-ber of hotspots has increased to1,242 including 293 red zones.Besides, there are 949 greenzones including 57 new ones.

Earlier, this region ofPurvanchal (eastern UP) com-prising 10 districts of threedivisions saw a spike in num-ber of corona patients when546 cases were detected onTuesday. The maximum num-ber of cases 128 was found inVaranasi (5,915) followed by 90

in Azamgarh (2,324), 75 inBallia (3,169), 66 in Jaunpur(3,160), 58 in Ghazipur (2,267), 33 in Mirzapur (1,384),32 in Chandauli (1,396), 28 inSonbhadra (1,154), 27 in Mau(952) and nine in Bhadohi(907). Out of total 22,637 coro-na positive cases, 16,426 havebeen cured either at home iso-lation or discharged from hos-pitals and the recovery rate hasincreased sharply to 72.56 percent. The mortality rate hasincreased to 1.32 per cent withdeath toll of 300.

According to SeniorSuperintendent of Police (SSP)Amit Pathak, the police of var-ious police stations arrested asmany as 56 persons underSection 51 of CrPC, whilechallaned under Section 188and took action under Section51 of Disaster Management Actagainst 624 persons onTuesday. Besides, during check-ing at 14 border and 49 policechecking points, as many as1,669 vehicles were challanedand seven seized. Apart fromthis, � 2,40,900 were realisedfrom 310 vehicles, while �2,72,900 from 3,881 persons formoving on the roads withoutwearing masks.

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��������#�����"���"� !�=��%�'�9������ALLAHABAD (PNS): Assome parts of Uttrakhand,Himachal Pradesh, MadhyaPradesh and Rajasthan contin-ue receiving heavy rainfall lastweek, the Ganga and Yamunarivers have started to swell atvarious places in the Prayagrajdistrict. With the rise in waterlevel, those living near thebanks of these rivers have start-ed shifting to safer places.

As flood water has startedinundating low-lying areas ofPhaphamau, Salori, Daraganj,Jhunsi, etc., worries for the peo-ple living in these areas haveincreased, though the rate ofincrease in water is not alarm-ing. The water level of Gangaat Phaphamau and of Yamuna

at Naini, rose by 2 cm in thepast 24 hours. The water levelof Ganga increased from 78.69metres on Tuesday to 78.71metres on Wednesday. Thedanger mark of the river is at84.73 metres. Similarly, thewater level of the Yamuna atNaini) was 76.27 metres onTuesday, it increased to 76.29metres on Wednesday.

The rate of increase in thewater level of both the rivers isslightly slower than the rate ofincrease as recorded as com-pared to the first week of thismonth when the water wasincreasing by around 25 cm.

Likewise, the level of waterin the Ganga at Chatnaag —around 3 kilometres down-

stream of Sangam — too isincreasing and was recorded as75.74 metres on Wednesday asagainst 75.70 metres onTuesday. Because of the rise inwater level in both the rivers,around 60 per cent of the bankof the Sangam area has beensubmerged in flood water.Engineers of the Irrigationdepartment said the dischargeof water in the Ganga isincreasing from the Kanpurbarrage. Around 1.30 cusecs ofwater has been dischargedfrom the barrage which isexpected to further increase thewater level. Compared to lastyear, the level of water in boththe rivers is around 2 metresless, but because of the heavy

rainfall in Uttarakhand andseveral parts of MadhyaPradesh, the water level couldincrease rapidly. We are alsokeeping a close vigil on rainfallin Rajasthan, which can alsohave an impact on volume ofwater in Yamuna and Ganga,said executive engineer ofFlood Control department,Brijesh Kumar Verma. Withapprehension that flood situa-tion in the district includingmany localities of the urbanlimits could become grim inthe coming days, the team ofNational Disaster ResponseForce (NDRF) has been visit-ing several localities near thebanks of the Ganga andYamuna.

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The officers and employeesof North Eastern Railway

(NER) and their families arecommitted to making thenationwide ‘Fit India FreedomRun’ successful and ensuringtheir health good.

It is noteworthy that a newcampaign ‘Fit India FreedomRun’ has been started by theMinistry of Youth Affairs andSports, Government of India,from August 15 to October 2.This campaign has been start-ed in view of the indispensibleneed for good health and fit-ness. There is no need to take

part in any group race to jointhis campaign. Under this onecan run/walk alone. The mainobjective of this programme isto make people aware of theirhealth. Keeping Covid-19 inmind one should follow prop-er social distancing and otherinstructions while running/walking with someone. TheFreedom Run campaign hasbeen made very flexible. Underit any person can practice run-ning or walking fast at any timeas per his or her convenienceon the path of his or her choiceand up to any distance.Basically, this Freedom Run isa race as per the convenience

of the individual, in which heor she can run/walk fast at hisor her own pace according tohis or her ability and can alsotake a break during this time.Efforts are being made on alarge scale to create awarenessamong railway employeesabout this unique health relat-ed initiative so that a largenumber of people join thiscampaign and make it suc-cessful, said Chief PublicRelations Officer (CPRO)Pankaj Kumar Singh. The NERSports Association is making adedicated effort to make thiscampaign a success at the head-quarters and at divisional level.

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The body of a 45-year-oldman was found in

Kaanidari village underMadihan police station onWednesday. After beinginformed in the morning thatthe body of Ram Naresh, son oflate Ramsewak, a resident ofKaanidari village, was found 300metres away from his house,Madihan police reached thereand found about three-inch-deep injury on his throat andsome minor injuries on it. Thepolice took it into custody forcompleting legal formalities.The police authorities visited thespot and gave the essentialdirections to the area police forworking out the case.

Meanwhile a married womandied under mysterious circum-stances in Kathinayi villageunder Padari police station.Kanta Pandey, a resident ofRampur 33 village underMadihan police station lodgeda case against five persons atPadari police station in which hestated that his daughter Divya(25) was being tortured by herinlaws for dowry since her mar-riage in the year 2015 and wasmurdered. Her inlaws said thatshe woman suffering from somedisease and had two children.SHO Vyankatesh Tiwari saidthat a case had been registeredagainst five persons, includingAnil Pandey, husband of thedeceased. Her body had beensent for the post-mortem

examination. Two persons hadbeen had been arrested in thisconnection.

THREE DROWN: Threegirls of a family drowned in awell in Harra village underHalia police station. The threedaughters of Mahendra Yadavhad gone to wash clothes at awell with his niece some metresaway from the locality. Theywere drawing water with abucket easily when one of themfell into the well and othersjumped into it to save one anoth-er. As Jadawati (14), Kanchan(8)and Pinki (7) did not knowswimming they drowned whilePoonam (12) managed to saveherself. On Poonam’s informa-tion villagers rushed there res-cue but no avail.

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New SSP Joginder Kumarassumed charge late on

Tuesday evening. He said sucha system would be ensured so

that public couldget justice at thepolice station.Every police sta-tion would have aregister in which

names of complainants comingthere, their mobile phone num-bers, details of their case andaction taken would be recorded.Not only this everyone would

also be given receipts at thepolice stations so that when thecomplainant went to the offi-cer it cannot be said by the offi-cials at the police station thatthe matter was not in theirknowledge. SSP Joginder Kumarreached the circuit house around7:30 pm and met other policeofficers. He then took chargefrom SP (City) Dr Kaustubh.Talking to mediapersons the SSPsaid that there was no directintervention of the police in landmatters. But in cases wherethere will be a dispute, thepolice will coordinate with the

revenue team and provide jus-tice to people. He said that sucharrangements would be made toensure daily monitoring of reg-isters made at police stations inthe SP office. He said that policeaction on top-10 miscreantswould continue. The property ofthe accused under GangsterAct would be confiscated andattached. Criminals will be injail, said SSP. Crime wouldbe controlled by dealingstrictly with criminals andaction would be taken againstthem by launching a continousdrive, he added.

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During the lockdown enforceddue to Corona infection, sever-

al effective steps have been taken toreduce human interaction in officesand promote digitization on NorthEastern Railway (NER). The most prominent ofthem is the implementation of e-office. Duringthe past four months (April-July) the work donethrough the e-office system on NER hasincreased about 15 times, Chief Public RelationsOfficer (CPRO) Pankaj Kumar Singh said. Thenumber of e-files created by the NER prior tolockdown was 1,988 which increased to 30,709by July 31 this year. During this period the num-

ber of e-receipts created by the e-office users of the NER has alsoincreased by 21 times. This showsthat during this period the NERhas started working on e-officecompletely.

The implementation of e-office system helped in doing works of minimalhuman interaction during lockdown. In orderto facilitate the work a total of 3,519 new userswere added on the North Eastern Railway dur-ing the past four months. With the rapid use ofdigital filing the NER is moving fast to adopt apaperless work culture. This will reduce costsand carbon foot print. e-office is an importantstep towards digitization.

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The Carpet ExportPromotion Council

(CEPC) is all set for 40th IndiaCarpet Expo from August 21 to25. This virtual edition is thefirst initiative to bridge the gapbetween Indian products anddemand of handmade carpetsand floor coverings across theglobe in post-pandemic era.The event will be held live fromAugust 21 to 25 for buyers forthe handmade carpets andother floor coverings.

Meanwhile the CEPCorganised a webinar on newtechniques of packaging forcarpet industry in associationwith Indian Institute ofPackaging, Mumbai, recently.Umesh Kumar Gupta, seniorCOA member chaired the ses-sion. Praveen Kumar, Director,Department of Commerce,Government of India, was thechief guest on the occasion.Rajender Prashad Mishra,Onkar Nath Mishra, HusainJafar Husaini, Satish Wattal,

members COA, CEPC, werealso present in the webinar. Inthe changing scenario of worldbusiness packaging of productis an important segment forquality business. Buyers arevery particular about packag-ing, therefore, it is very impor-tant that the exporting com-munity should be aware aboutthe new techniques of packag-ing of their products proposedfor export. Keeping this fact inmind the CEPC has planned todemonstrate world-class pack-aging techniques through anorganisation of Governmentof India which is of worldrepute. The Indian Institute ofPackaging, Mumbai, is provid-ing a wonderful opportunity todemonstrate various kinds ofpackaging technique. DrTanweer Alam, Director (I/c)Indian Institute of Packaging,Mumbai, made a presentationon ‘New techniques of packag-ing for carpet industry.’Nowadays packaging is a com-bination of science and art andtechnology and can increase the

brand value of the product andis considered as the silent sales-man of any product. Most of themembers are using conven-tional packing of wrapping inplastic and rolling carpets etc.but some countries alreadybanned the use of plastic andthere is a need to find out asolution which is not only costeffective but added value to theproducts too. Praveen Kumarsaid that shortly IndianInstitute of Packaging wasgoing to open its branch inVaranasi. Umesh Kumar Guptaand other committee memberspresent in the meeting werehopeful that it would definite-ly be helpful for the carpetindustry in the hour of crisesand conveyed their thanks toED-cum-secretary, CEPC,Sanjay Kumar and CEPC offi-cials for organising such aninformative webinar.

Sanjay Kumar said that thecouncil would organise morewebinar/workshop on pack-aging to cater to the require-ment of the industry.

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SP Ajay Singh said that inview of Covid-19 compli-

ance of its guidelines was histop priority alongwith maintaininglaw and order.These views wereexpressed by himwhile interactingwith media aftertaking charge in the district. Hesaid that because he had dis-charged his duties as ASP in thedistrict a few years ago he waswell conversant with it which

would help him in performingthem more effectively. He saidthat along with modern tech-niques he would apply funda-mental way of policing too. Hesaid that misbehaviour withcommon people had no placein policing and it could betreated as misconduct.Responding to media he saidthat he would try to improvethe traffic system. The SP heldthe introductory meeting of thepolice personnel at Police Linesand directed the SOs to workfor controlling the crime,remain updated with the activ-

ities in their areas and ensurerule of law there.

THEFT CASE: Thievesstole property worth lakhsfrom a house in LohandiKhurd village under DehatKotwali police station. ArchanaMishra, a resident of the village,informed the police on Tuesdaythat she had gone to meet herhusband in Varanasi who wasposted as a JE there duringvacations. She said that when shereturned on Monday she foundthe valuables missing from there.The police registered a case andwas investigating it.

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KDA Vice Chairman RakeshKumar Singh reviewed the

activities and work assign-ments of staff members onWednesday.

Officers and employees ofdifferent departments, includ-ing sale, World Bank, slums,bulk sale, building, landbank/procurement, engineer-ing, computer, law, public rela-tions and personnel were pre-sent in the meeting.

Addressing the officialsand employees, Singh askedthem to discharge their dutieswith alertness without leavingany room for laxity and slack-ness.

He directed them to ensure

proper upkeep of records andproperly study the correspon-dence before making theircomments and putting up thefile before the appropriateauthority.

He said apart from pagingof all correspondence in thefile, the employee concernedshould use the stamp withhis/her name and post.

He also stressed on fol-

lowing social distancingnorms.

KDA Secretary SP Singh,Additional Secretary GudakeshSharma, officers and employ-ees were present.

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Kanpur Nagar DistrictMagistrate BR Tiwari dis-

closed that in view of theincreased pressure on hospitalsin the city, the government hadgiven the nod for modificationand uplift of four prominentgovernment hospitals underthe Kayakalp Yojana.

He said with LLR Hospital,UISE Maternity Hospital andKanshiram Hospital takingcare of COVID-19 patients, ithad been decided to upgradefour prominent governmenthospitals — Alice HorsmanDufferin Hospital, UrsulaHorsman Memorial Hospital,Kanshiram Combined Hospitaland KPM Hospital — for non-Covid patients under the

Kayakalp Yojana.He added that a sum of Rs

3 lakh each would be provid-ed to each of these hospitals forimprovement and uplift of thefacilities.

Discussing the KayakalpYojana, Tiwari said the schemewas intended to encourage andincentivise public health facil-ities (PHFs) in the country todemonstrate their commit-ment for cleanliness, hygieneand infection control prac-tices.

He said cleanliness andhygiene in hospitals, besidesbeing critical for preventinginfections, also provided thepatients and visitors with a pos-itive experience and encour-aged moulding behaviour relat-ed to cleanliness and sanitation

at their homes and workplace. He said awards will also be

given to the best hospital.Tiwari said Kayakalp

Yojana would encourage pub-lic health facility in the nationto work towards standards ofexcellence to ensure that facil-ities stay clean and hygienicwhile following bio-waste dis-posal protocols. He said thiswould instil confidence in peo-ple and also provide quality ser-vice and encourage team work.

The DM said NGOs as wellas voluntary organisationswould be able to participate inthe endeavour and shareresponsibilities for initiatingclean health facilities.

He further said that thescheme would also provideopportunities and incentives to

bolster inter-sectoral coordi-nation for the improvement ofhealth systems at state level andthe award scheme would pro-mote cleanliness, hygiene andinfection control practices inpublic healthcare facilities,

Tiwari added that fiveawards would be given underthe scheme namely, Best dis-trict hospital in each state,Best community health cen-tres/sub-district hospital andBest primary health centre inevery district and the winnerswould be given cash awardsand citation.

He said the awards wouldbe based on sanitation andhygiene, infection control, hos-pital upkeep, waste manage-ment and community partici-pation assessment.

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Amulti-pronged strategy hasbeen worked out to check

the galloping coronavirus infec-tion in the city by setting up asuper-specialists team com-prising specialists from medi-cine, tuberculosis, respiratorymedicine and anaesthesiadepartments.

With the government mak-ing all out efforts to increasebeds and improve infrastruc-ture in hospitals, there is alsoneed for more specialists tojointly prevent the spread andcoronavirus infection and saveprecious lives.

The UP government hasbrought more specialists on aplatform to prevent COVID-19deaths and they have beenassociated with the GSVMMedical College andAssociated Hospitals.

GSVM Medical CollegePrincipal Prof RB Kamal saidspecialists in respiratory dis-eases from Agra, Meerut,Jhansi and Azamgarh had beenassociated to the medical col-lege with immediate effect totide over the crisis.

He said the prominent spe-cialists who had stepped inwere Prof Manish Bansal, DrGajendra Vikram Singh, Dr

Ajesh Chandra Gupta, Dr RKVerma, Dr Roopesh Kumar, DrYogesh Kumar Manik and afew more. He added that moveswere afoot to rope in more spe-cialists at the earliest so as toprevent the spread of coron-avirus infection and checkdeaths.

Prof Kamal said the depart-ments which had been com-bined were mainly related torespiratory diseases as coron-avirus affected the lungs. Hesaid lung diseases killed mil-lions and caused suffering tomillions more and threats tolung health was everywhere.

The GSVMMC principalsaid the four department couldunitedly manage the criticalpatients and prevent deaths.

He said the symptoms whichpropped up in the presenttimes were related to respira-tory diseases like cough, short-ness of breath, chest pain andhemoptysis (blood in the spu-tum) which were the predom-inant symptoms. He said sim-ilarly tuberculosis was alsolung related disease.

Prof Kamal said whenpatients with such symptomsapproached the hospital, thesefour areas were to be taken intocareful observation.

He said it would be pru-dent to say that if any patientwas having these symptomshe/she should visit a pulmo-nologist.

He said doctors from themedicine department, espe-

cially the general practitioners,got a lot of cases of respirato-ry diseases in their day to daypractice.

He said when a patient wassuffering from COPD withfrequent exacerbation, severeasthma, pneumonia etc., he/sheneeded the help of specialists inrespiratory medicine and thusthe government had decided toadopt a multi-prongedapproach and with the changedpattern of treatment, effortswould be made to lower theCOVID-19 death rate.

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Chief Medical Officer DrAK Mishra said from the timehome isolation had beenallowed, there had been a sub-stantial improvement inCOVID-19 recovery rate,which now stood at 61.41 percent.

He said 3,163 asympto-matic coronavirus positive peo-ple had completed 10 days’home quarantine and testednegative.

The CMO said that till date11,263 coronavirus positivecases were confirmed in thecity out of which 6,890 werecured.

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In view of the existing acutecrisis of urea and reports of

its black-marketing, the gov-ernment has decided to bringthe hoarders under the scannerand for this a special team hasbeen set up to find big farmerswho are hoarding urea and cre-ating a false crisis.

The team has identifiedtwo dozen farmers who arealleged to be indirectly hoard-ing urea. A special inquiry hasbeen ordered against thesefarmers and if the charges arefound true, they will face legalaction.

This was disclosed byDistrict Agriculture OfficerManish Kumar Singh whileaddressing a meeting at VikasBhawan on Wednesday.

He said some vested inter-ests were intentionally trying tocreate a urea crisis, addingthat some affluent farmerswere trying to hoard urea forblack-marketing.

Singh said the governmenthad become vigilant and thusteams had been set up to iden-tify more farmers who wereindulging in hoarding of urea.

The district agriculture

officer said urea was widelyused in the agriculture sectorboth as a fertiliser and animalfeed additive.

He said the main functionof urea fertiliser was to providethe plants with nitrogen topromote green leafy growthand make the plants look lush.He said urea also aided in the

photosynthesis process ofplants.

Singh said while over 90per cent of urea produced wasused as a fertiliser, it had otheruses, which included the man-ufacture of melamine used inmelamine-methanal resins. Hesaid urea itself also formedimportant resins and added

that increasingly important useof urea was in reducing air pol-lution from diesel engines incars, buses and trucks.

It may be mentioned herethat hoarded urea is divertedfor industrial use as it fetchesmore profits as a result ofwhich farmers hoard and sell itin black-market.

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The new MSME Policy, 2020passed by the state cabinet

is likely to speed up the settingup of new industrial units inthe state. Former national pres-ident of Indian IndustriesAssociation (IIA), SunilVaishya, said people should notfeel much excited about thenew MSME Policy till it wasenforced and delivered suc-cessful results. He said thesetypes of announcements hadbecome a routine now.

“If the new policy isenforced in the state in letterand spirit, it will prove to be thebest MSME policy so farframed in the state and is like-ly to deliver a lot of benefits toentrepreneurs,” he added.

State president ofProvincial IndustriesAssociation, Maonj Banka, saidthe new MSME policy wouldprovide much relief to buddingentrepreneurs if it was enforcedsoon.

Industrialists in KanpurNagar have hailed the decisionof the state government toframe a new MSME policy.They said that hitherto theirentire energy was wasted insecuring capital certificate andlicence as the Nivesh Mitra por-tal had failed to solve most oftheir problems.

They said over 80 casesrelating to Pollution ControlBoard were still pending on theportal and they still had to runfrom pillar to post to get theirwork done.

They were, however, notmuch excited about the newMSME policy as the time forrelease of the GovernmentOrder was uncertain. Theypointed out that the GO for theMSME Policy of 2012 had notbeen released.

They said industrialistswere unable to start productionafter many years of setting uptheir industry and completingall formalities in the absence ofLicence and No ObjectionCertificate (NOC) unneces-sarily held by the officials.

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Chief Medical Officer Dr Anil K Mishra said 395 more peo-ple had tested positive for coronavirus infection betweenTuesday evening and Wednesday evening, taking the tally of con-firmed cases in the city to 11,614.

He said with 109 COVID-19 patients being discharged fromhospitals, 7579 infected people had been cured in the city to dateand 3,695 active cases were undergoing treatment.

The CMO said with six more COVID-19 deaths in the city,the death toll stood at 340 on Wednesday. He said a total of 2,410samples were taken for testing.

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The virtual award ceremonyof HCL HACK IITK 2020,

the Cyber Security Hackathonwas organised by the IndianInstitute of Technology,Kanpur.

IIT-Kanpur DeputyDirector Prof S Ganesh, was thechief guest at the functionwhich was presided over by DrSaurbah Srivastava,Entrepreneur, Angel Investor,VC and chairman of the jury.

Prof Ganesh congratulat-ed the organising committeefor the success of the hackathonwhich, he said, was not possi-ble without the active partici-pation from industry spon-sors, mentors, knowledge part-ners, jury members and theparticipants. He said that thishackathon would help in gen-erating warriors against cyberattacks. Prof Sandeep Shuklasaid in his opening remark thatthe hackathon gave a clarioncall for ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’where potentially there wasan opportunity not only tomove from the fintech start-upwhich had done so well in Indiabut also have the first few star-tups in cyber security whichwas an emerging field.

The hackathon wasdesigned by the professors atthe IIT-Kanpur C3i Hub. Theparticipating teams had theopportunity to identify assess,build and test robust cyberdefence solutions to a givenpractical problem. In theprocess they got the opportu-nity to get mentored by emi-nent faculty of IIT-Kanpur C3iHub.

Dr Saurbah Srivastava,while congratulating the win-ners, said choosing winners insuch a competition was alwaysdifficult. A panel of eminentjuries deliberated over twodays to finalise the results.

The 1st prize went to teamByteMe from IIT-Delhi, the2nd to DU-Apophis fromUniversity of Dhaka, the 3toSaRaNi from IIT-Delhi.

The Most PromisingStartup was Landscapers fromManipal Institute ofTechnology.

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The charm of Onam festival season in Keralais all set to be washed away by the coronavirus

as 2,333 new persons were tested positive forCovid-19 on Wednesday. This is the highest num-ber of persons diagnosed on a single day withCovid-19 and the total number of patients in theState reached 50, 231.

The day also saw seven deaths taking the totalfatalities till date in Kerala to 182, said a releaseby the Department of Health.

That the State has become unsafe for travel-ers and tourists has been proved by the numberof persons getting contracted with Covid-19through community transmission.

Out of the 2,333 patients tested positive onWednesday, 2,151 were victims of communitytransmission. 53 patients failed to furnish detailslike how and from where they contracted the pan-demic.

Seven personnel belonging to the SouthernNaval Command head quarters at Kochi and 17health workers too were afflicted with the pan-demic on Wednesday. The release further statedthat 1,780 persons were hospitalized in the Statewhile 1,217 were cured of the pandemic.

Thiruvananthapuram continued to lead thetable of Covid-19 patients as 540 persons test-ed positive in the district. Out of this , 519 devel-oped the pandemic through community trans-mission. In all the districts, the number of per-sons getting afflicted with Covid-19 through com-munity transmission were high.

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An 'illustrious' journey of ayoung Wushu player from

Jammu & Kashmir, whichstarted from the North Easternstate of Mizoram in 1995,Tuesday hit another milestoneafter Kuldeep Handoo's namefigured in the list of 13 coach-es recommended for thisyear's Dronacharya award bythe Sports Ministry's selectioncommittee.

Handoo, currently servingas the National Chief Coach,himself struck gold for the firsttime at the 6th NationalWushu Championship atMizoram in 1995. Since thenhe never looked back.

Before donning the cap ofa national coach, the lanky ladfrom Rainawari went on tocreate history and won 11gold medals in the Nationalchampionships and 6International medals in hiseventful career.

Even after winning sever-al championships and groom-ing hundreds of young playershe is not ready to hang hisboots. Speaking to The PioneerKuldeep Handoo said, “ myeyes are now set on winning agold medal in the 2022 AsianGames. I am working hard tofulfill my dream and groom-ing youngsters for the same”.

Before participating in theAsian Games, “we are going toparticipate in the WorldChampionships scheduled tobe held in 2021 in the USAand Australia”.

Due to nationwide lock-down in the wake of Covid-19pandemic, Handoo could notattend outstation training ses-sions but he is regularly coach-ing his players using socialmedia tools.

Reliving his long journey,Kuldeep Handoo said, “I havecome a long way from mynative place-Rainawari inSrinagar”.

He said despite suffering

pangs of migration my parentsalways supported me andmotivated me to dream big.

Handoo said, “when i wasa kid i loved playing cricket inmy neighborhood inRainawari, a kashmiri panditlocality”.

He said, “at the peak ofmilitancy as the situationworsened my family was alsoforced to migrate from theKashmir valley. I still remem-ber before stepping out of thehouse, for the last time, Icould not lay my hand on mycricket bat”. In Jammu, “Istopped playing. I almostlost touch with my favoritegame. I was disenchanted andremained silent.To channelisemy energies a family friendmotivated me to take up anyother sports activity”.

A die hard fan of BruceLee movies Kuldeep said, “Istarted playing Taekwondo.After attending some practicesessions he said, I startedenjoying the sport and gavevent to my anger by ruthless-ly knocking down my oppo-nents”. In 1995, my mentorand coach Vishal Sharma con-vinced me to try my hand atWushu as well. Rest is history,he added.

In recognition of his vasttalent and contribution to thepromotion of martial arts inJammu and Kashmir TheWushu Association of Indiaabsorbed him as Nationalcoach for the TEAM INDIA.Under his leadership, TeamIndia had won two goldmedals in worldChampionships and one inworld cup, 28 silver medalsand 57 Bronze medals in dif-ferent championships.

In recognition of his ser-vices, the Jammu and Kashmirgovernment appointed himas Inspector in the policedepartment and conferred onhim the prestigious stateaward, Sher-i-Kashmir award,Parshuram award etc.

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In the erstwhile State of Jammu &Kashmir, a 262 metre long bridge

over river Jhelum at Jetty area ofKhawajabagh in North Kashmir'sBaramulla district could not becompleted by five Chief Ministers,two Governors and one Lt-Governorbetween 2002- till July 2020.

Reason- adequate funds werenot made available at different inter-vals to the project executing agencyleading to cost escalation andunwarranted delay in its completion.

On Wednesday, Lt-GovernorManoj Sinha during his visit to theBaramulla district headquartersapproved funds to the tune of �21crore under Jammu & KashmirInfrastructure DevelopmentCorporation for completing theconstruction work of the Jetty bridgewithin a span of 2 years

LG also e-inaugurated variousdevelopmental projects atBaramulla. According to officialsources, Jetty bridge was envisaged

in 1998 but actual work on groundzero was started in the year 2002.

Jammu and Kashmir ProjectsConstruction Corporation (JKPCC)was allotted the construction workof the bridge.

Between 2002 and June 2018,five Chief Ministers namely MuftiMohd Sayeed, Ghulam Nabi Azad,Omar Abdullah, Mufti Mohd Sayeed(second term) and Mehbooba Muftiremained in office but none ofthem could ensure its completion.

Local residents in the area oftenblamed lack of funds for frequentsuspension of work on the project.

The 262-meter bridge was sup-posed to connect Khawajabagh andJanbazpora areas, and Rafiabadareas with Srinagar-Baramulla roadhighway to ease load on the trafficpassing through Baramulla town.

A local resident in the areaclaimed, “work on the project wasstarted when i was studying in thedegree college. After completingme studies i got married and nowmy children are going to school but

the bridge is hanging in balance overriver Jhelum”.

According to official sources,work on the bridge was moving atsnails pace from the very beginning.It was suspended in 2014 and laterit was resumed in 2017.

According to the press statementissued by the Department ofInformation and Public Relations inJanuary 2017, Minister for R&B andParliamentary Affairs AbdulRehman Veeri while responding toa question by Ghulam Nabi Mongain the Upper House had stated thatconstruction work of Jetty Bridge inBaramulla on river Jhelum wasawarded to JKPCC in the year2001-02.

According to him, theGovernment had released �6.18Crore to JKPCC for construction ofthe bridge.

The construction work of JettyBridge was prioritized under CentralRoad Fund (CRF) but the workcould not be completed within astipulated time period.

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Ahmedabad: The Election Commission ofIndia (ECI) told the Gujarat High Court onWednesday that it will assess the coronavirus sit-uation and decide whether bypolls to eightAssembly seats in the State should be deferred.

The poll panel was responding to a PublicInterest Litigation seeking indefinite postpone-ment of the byelections.

The ECI will also frame broad guidelineswithin three days on holding of general andbyelections during the COVID-19 pandemicbased on guidelines issued by the UnionMinistry of Home Affairs and Ministry ofHealth, it had said in a press release issued onTuesday.

The release was submitted to the high courtalong with an affidavit-in-reply.

Petitioner Farsu Goklani sought indefinitepostponement of byelections to eight Assemblyseats -- which fell vacant after Congress MLAsresigned -- in view of the coronavirus outbreak.

“....The ECI is assessing the situation includ-ing the pandemic and so far not announceddates for the by-elections in the state of Gujaratas well as those in other states,” the poll bodysaid.

“The Election Commission will take appro-priate decision as to whether to announce elec-tions at an appropriate time or if required todefer holding of elections after following dueprocedure as prescribed in law,” said Joint ChiefElectoral Officer, Gujarat, Ajay Bhatt.

On the basis of the guidelines it is going toform, Chief Electoral Officers of states whereelections are due shall prepare a comprehensiveplan of COVID-19 related measures during theconduct of elections, the ECI's Tuesday releasesaid.

Bhatt also cited two Supreme Court judg-ments where it was held that the ultimate deci-sion on “whether it is possible and expedient tohold the elections” must rest with the ECI.PTI

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In what the BJP leaders calleda politics of vendetta resort-

ed to by the Mamata BanerjeeGovernment, the officials of

Bengal Police on Wednesdayraided the house of saffronstrongman and MP fromBarrackpore Arjun Singh.

The search was in con-nection of an old said Singhquoted the officials as sayingbut sources in the policesaid they were looking fordocuments related to trans-actions from a local cooper-ative bank of which Singhwas the chairman before hebecame an MP.

“There are reports offinancial irregularities worth�12 crore,” sources said onconditions of anonymityadding names of two closerelatives of the BJP MP werealso involved.

Singh, a former four-time Trinamool CongressMLA considered close to theChief Minister left the partyin 2019 after his demand fora parliamentary ticket fromBarrackpore was turned by

the leadership. In subsequentelections he defeated thethen sitting Trinamool MPDinesh Trivedi.

The parliamentary pollssaw massive violence follow-ing which the BJP candidatemanaged to scrape throughby little more than 10,000votes.

Crying “vendetta poli-tics”— an allegation Banerjeehas always leveled against theBJP Government every timeher party functionaries werearrested by the CBI in con-nection of chit fund scams —Singh said the Chief Minister“has singled me out becauseI have been giving her atough polit ical f ight inBarrackpore … I snatchedthe MP seat, then the BJPwrested the Bhatpara MLAseat too from the TMC …

this is why she is angry onme and is sending policeforces after leveling falsecharges against me.” Singh’sson and brother-in-law arealso sitting legislators of theBJP.

Singh also said that “theTMC government hasframed 93 cases against meso as to harass me afterMamata Banerjee and hernephew (Abhishek Banerjee)failed to counter me politi-cally … Her nephew hadsaid that he will leave politicsif he would not win his seatby 2 lakh votes. But that wasnot to be. Though he won bywafer thin margin he hasnotkept his words.”

Barrackpore has oftenbeen in the news of late withrepeated political-gang warsand public shootouts taking

place mostly involving goonsfrom both sides.

Earlier the police hadraided the MP’s house andhis office but failedto securean entry as there was no war-rant but “this time theycamewith a court order. I amnot surprised because it iswell known thatTMC and theChief Minister is targetingme.”

Meanwhile condemningthe police action State BJPvice president RiteshTiwarisaid “it is clear to everyonewhy Arjun Singh ji is beingsingled out. “He is a veteranpolitician, his father too wasan MLA but the police isbehaving in a manner asthough he is a terrorist.”

The same “police officerswill have to face the musicfor theirillegal action whenBengal sees a change in2021,” another BJP leadersaid.

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Aperusal of the 815 page verdictdelivered by the Madras High

Court on Tuesday dismissing thepetitions filed by Vedanta Groupseeking an order for reopening theSterlite Copper Smeltering plant atThoothukudi show that both theDKM and the AIADMK do not haveanything to rejoice about the court’sdecision.

Industrialists and entrepreneursmay not get enamored by invitationsmade by the AIADMK and theDMK to set up factories in theState, say industrialists and researchscientists.

“Copper smelter plants polluteand they pollute heavily. One is at aloss to understand why the thenGovernment gave permission to theVedanta Group to set up a heavilypolluting plant in Thoothukudi,”said K N Chandrasekharan, formertop scientist in the Department ofAtomic Energy who is a metallurgi-cal engineer.

According to the series of eventschronicled by the Madras HighCourt in its verdict, Sterlite Industriesgot the permission to set up the plantin 1997 while the DMK was inpower. It was the AIADMK govern-ment that had given 102.5 hectaresof land in Thoothukudi to the group

in 1994.The environmental Clearance

was accorded by the Centre in 1995while P V Narasimha Rao was thePrime Minister and the AIADMKwas an alliance partner of theCongress.

This was followed by the TamilNadu Government’s clearance tothe plant for producing 234 tons/daycopper and 638 tons per day sul-phuric acid.

The DMK which won the 1996election to the State assembly gavegreen signal to the plant for hikingthe capacity to 391 tons copper perday and 1060 tons sulphuric acid perday.

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Maharashtra witnessed the highest-ever infection tally of 13,165 on

Wednesday, even the total Covid 19 toll–with fresh 346 deaths – breached21,000 mark to touch 21,033.

Eleven days after the daily infec-tions touched a new high 12,822 (onAugust 8), the Coronavirus reared itsugly head, as 13,165 tested positive forthe pandemic in various parts of thestate. With fresh infections, the totalinfected cases in the state jumped to astaggering 6,28,642.

Pune with 1,37,601 fresh cases con-tinued to race ahead of Mumbai with1,31,542 in terms of the total infections.

Of the 346 deaths reported onWednesday, Pune accounted for ahighest of 86 deaths, followed by 46deaths in Mumbai, 42 in Thane and 26in Nagpur.

Similarly, there were 18 deaths inSangli, 15 each in Solapur andKolhapur, 14 deaths in Palghar, 13 inAhmednagar and 10 in Yavatmal.

On the lower side, there were 9deaths each in Jalgaon and Satara, 7 inRaigad, 6 each in Nashik andOsmanabad, 4 in Bhandara, 3 each inDhule, Parbhani and Latur, 2 each inSindhudurg, Beed and Akola, 1 each inAurangabad, Hingoli, Wardha andGondiya. In addition, one person fromanother state died in Maharashtra.

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BJP leader Nishit Sharma has objected to theAMU invite to Professor Hilal Sahin of

Turkish University of Giresun in a webinar atAMU. The matter is now heating up. He hasasked the Human Resource DevelopmentMinister to investigate the matter and punishthe organizers of the webinar and question theVice Chancellor. Other BJP leaders have alsotaken a dig in this matter.

Dr. Nishit Sharma says that the webinar wasorganized by AMU on August 13, in which aTurkish professor was invited. The theme of thewebinar was 'Turkey, India and MahatmaGandhi: In the light of the Khilafat Movement'.In this, AMU VC Prof. Tariq Mansoor was alsopresent. Dr. Nishit Sharma says that Turkeysupported the Islamic terrorist organizationISIS. Opposed the removal of Article 370 andsupported Pakistan.

The BJP leader says that the Khilafat move-ment that was discussed is known for genocidein the history of India and the world. Riotserupted in Kolabar and Armenia etc. of Kerala

and massacre of non-Muslims. According tohim, a turkish professor should not be invitedin the webinar. He has demanded the HumanResource Development Minister to investigatethis and punish the organizers of the webinar.

A case of treason should be filed against theorganizers: Dr. Manvendra.

Dr. Manvendra Pratap Singh, VicePresident of BJP Braj Region and Member ofNational Minority Education MonitoringCommittee, said that it is a matter of great regretto provide the Turkish Professor an opportu-nity to speak in a webinar. Everyone knows thatthe President of Turkey is running an anti-Indiacampaign. Attempting to rekindle the Khilafatis a crime like treason. It is a matter of shamethat the AMU's VC was presiding over thatwebinar. A case under treason should be filedon organizers . The district administrationshould immediately file an FIR against suchpeople. Questioning Turkish university pro-fessor is baseless: AMU Aligarh MuslimUniversity has said that the objection of someBJP leaders for inviting Turkish Professor HHilal Sain in the webinar is baseless.

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The EnforcementDirectorate (ED) on

Wednesday conducted search-es in multiple cities in connec-tion with a money launderingcase against Tablighi Jamaatleader Maulana SaadKandhalvi, trusts linked to theJamaat and others.

Premises in Mumbai,Hyderabad and Delhi inlcud-ing the Markaz of the outfit atNizamuddin here besides afew other locations weresearched to gather evidence,officials said.

The operation was con-ducted under the Prevention ofMoney Laundering Act(PMLA), the ED said.

The agency had filed amoney laundering case inApril against Maulana Saadand others after it took cog-nisance of a Delhi Police FIRagainst these entities.

The Crime Branch of theDelhi Police had on March 31lodged an FIR against sevenpeople, including the cleric,on a complaint by the stationhouse off icer (SHO) ofNizamuddin police station forholding a congregation ofTablighi Jamaat followers inalleged violation of the ordersagainst large gatherings tocontain the spread of coron-avirus.

Saad was alleged to haveorganised the religious gath-ering in March at NizamuddinMarkaz in violation of socialdistancing protocol imposedby the Centre to curb thespread of Covid-19.

Before the congregation atNizamuddin, the TablighiJamaat had organised anIjtema in Malaysia whereinthe members had widelypropagated against followingthe protocol to check thespread of the coronavirus.

As part of the probe, theED is looking into the per-sonal finances and charges ofalleged money launderingagainst Maulana Saad andsome other office bearers andassociates of the TablighiJamaat.

Donations received by theIslamic organisation from for-eign and domestic sourceswithout due authorisationsare also being probed by theagency.

The police FIR registeredagainst the Tablighi Jamaatevent said Delhi Police con-tacted authorit ies ofNizamuddin Markaz here onMarch 21 and reminded themof the government order pro-hibiting any political or reli-gious gathering of more than50 people.

Despite repeated efforts,the event organisers failed to

inform the health departmentor any other Governmentagency about the huge gath-ering inside the Markaz anddeliberately disobeyedGovernment orders, says theFIR.

More than 25,500 Tablighimembers and their contactshave been quarantined in thecountry after the Centre andthe state governments con-ducted a “mega operation” toidentify them, the govern-ment had said.

At least 9,000 people par-ticipated in the ijtema (reli-gious congregation) atNizamuddin. Later, many ofthe Tanlighis travelled to var-ious parts of the countryostensibly to spread the virus.

Some of the accused for-eign nationals of the Jamaatwho participated in the con-gregation have been recentlyallowed to walk free andreturn to their countries bylocal courts on payment ofvarying fines, after theyaccepted mild charges underthe plea bargain process.

However, a number ofthem could not fly back totheir countries due to thependency of some other policeFIRs lodged against them forthe same offence or otherswho sought trial in the pend-ing cases and did not resort tothe plea bargain.

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The face-off between theBJP and the Congress over

controversy related toFacebook allegedly showingfavours to the ruling party hasspilled over in the standingcommittee for Information andTechnology where both theparties have moved privilegemotion against each other.

The Department RelatedStanding Committee forInformation and Technology ischaired by Congress MP ShashiTharoor.

While Tharoor has moveda privilege motion noticeagainst BJP Lok Sabha MPNishikant Dubey, the latter hasalso moved a privilege motionnotice against Tharoor as wellas former Congress presidentRahul Gandhi.

According to sources,Tharoor on Tuesday filed aprivilege motion notice againstthe BJP MP from Jharkhandand soon after this, Dubeytook to Twitter to announce abreach of privilege motionnotice against both Tharoorand Rahul for casting asper-sions on the BJP as a party.

The row started whenTrinamool Congress MPMahua Moitra attacked onher Twitter handle a BJP law-maker citing political agendafrom the ruling party by

being critical of Tharoor forsummoning Facebook beforethe committee.

Tharoor added to Moitra’stweet, saying the BJP was con-stantly undermining the pow-ers of the committee and alsotalking about the rules androle of the chairman of thebody.

Dubey lashed out at both,reminding them of the com-mittee rules and how Tharoorhad passed off his party’spolitical agenda as committeepriority.

Dubey in his letter hasunderstood to have said thatTharoor had “never consulted”the agenda of summoningFacebook and/or WhatsApp inany of the meetings of theParliamentary Committee onInformation Technology.

It is, therefore, accordingto BJP MP is “a clear case, ofbreach of privilege by ShashiTharoor in the capacity ofHonourable Chairperson ofthe Departmentally RelatedStanding Committee onInformation Technology.”

Dubey’s notice also refersto a “breach of privilege” byMP Rahul who had tweetedthat the “BJP and RSS controlFacebook and WhatsApp inIndia, they spread fake newsand hatred thorough it and useit to inf luence the electorate”.

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The Navy top brass onWednesday commenced a

three-day meet to review itsoperational readiness in thebackdrop of stand-offs at theLine of Actual Control(LAC)even as Defence MinisterRajnath Singh lauded the ser-vice for deploying its warshipsin a “proactive” manner and itsreadiness to face any chal-lenge. Singh, however,refrained from naming China.

These remarks fromRajnath at the inauguration ofthe Navy Commanders’ confer-ence came at a time when theNavy has deployed most of itsfrontline warships in the strate-gically important Indian Oceanregion. These mission-baseddeployments were undertakento deny China any advantage inthat region. Moreover, theIndian warships and maritimereconnaissance aircraft weremaintaining round the clockvigil and keeping an eye on themovement of the Chinese ships.

Addressing the comman-ders, Rajnath also compliment-ed the men and women of theIndian Navy for their role in pro-tecting the maritime interests ofthe nation and expressed confi-dence in the Indian Navy’s pre-paredness to meet any challengethrough a proactive response indeploying its ships and aircraft.

Speaking on the unprece-dented challenge posed byCovid-19 pandemic, he con-gratulated the Navy, on the con-duct of the biggest ever repatri-ation operation “Operation

Samudra Setu”, which has con-tributed extensively to thenational interest.

Despite the difficult seaconditions and the challenges ofdealing with an unseen enemyin the form of the Corona virus,the Navy was instrumental inbringing home almost 4,000people from neighbouringcountries in the Indian OceanRegion (IOR). Also, under‘Mission Sagar’, medical aid wasprovided to the countries ofSouth West Indian OceanRegion (Maldives, Mauritius,Comoros, Seychelles andMadagascar). He also lauded theefforts of all Naval Commandsin setting up of the quarantinefacilities to aid the civil admin-istration in managing Covid-19.

Referring to the dynamicchanges taking place in thearmed forces, the minister rihighlighted the creation of thepost of Chief of DefenceStaff(CDS) and Department ofMilitary Affairs as major mile-stones in bringing more syner-gy amongst the three services,especially in training, procure-ment and staffing and bringingjointness in operations.

Rajnath said accepting thechallenges arising out of theCovid 19 situation in the currentfinancial year, the Navy hascontinued to progress the operational, administrative andmodernisation efforts.Notwithstanding these fiscalchallenges, the Government hasinvoked the Emergency Powersto meet the emergent requirements of the services, headded.

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The India MeteorologicalDepartment (IMD) on

Wednesday predicted intenserainfall over central parts of thecountry during the next fivedays. Due to favourable con-ditions, widespread rain, withisolated heavy to very heavyspells, is very likely overGujarat, Maharashtra, Goa,Madhya Pradesh (MP),Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand,Odisha, and Vidarbha duringthe next four-five days.Extremely heavy rain is alsolikely over south-west Odishaon Wednesday; Vidarbha andChhattisgarh on Thursday andGujarat on Saturday.

According to the IMD, themonsoon trough is active andlies south of its normal position(from Ganganagar to the Bay ofBengal). It is very likely to beactive and near-normal/southof its normal position duringthe next five days.

The convergence of strongmoist southwesterly windsfrom the Arabian Sea overplains of Northwest India andCentral India at lower levelsvery likely to continue duringnext two days.

“The monsoon trough isactive and lies close to its nor-mal position. It is very likely toshift southwards during thenext 24 hours and remainactive during the next fivedays. There is a convergence ofstrong moist southwesterlywinds from the Arabian Seaover plains of north-west Indiaand Central India at lower lev-els and likely to continue dur-ing the next three-four days,”IMD said.

Fairly widespread andheavy rain is likely over north-west India, including theWestern Himalayan region,until Thursday. Very heavyrain is likely over Jammu &Kashmir, Ladakh onWednesday and Uttarakhandand Punjab on Thursday; west-ern Uttar Pradesh onWednesday; eastern Rajasthanfrom Thursday until Saturday;and very heavy rain is likelyalso over northeastern states,except for Arunachal Pradesh,during the next three-fourdays, the IMD said.

Monsoon rain over thecountry since June 1 is 4.4%excess; 25.6% excess over thesouthern peninsula; 6.9%excess over central India; 5.8%excess over eastern and north-eastern India and 17.9% defi-ciency over north-west India.

New Delhi: A group of 772lawyers have written to ChiefJustice of India SA Bobde,raising concerns about anemerging trend to “browbeatand intimidate the judiciary”.

“India has witnessed aseries of attacks by institu-tional disruptors against judgeswho are unwilling to agreewith them and toe the linedrawn by them. It is unfortu-nate that when political ends oflawyers are not served by adecision of the court, they vil-ify the court by making scan-dalising remarks. The SupremeCourt of India, as well as thejudges, are subject to bothscurrilous language, maliciousattacks and scandalisingremarks,” the lawyers said inthe letter which comes againstthe backdrop of the PrashantBhushan case.

On August 14, theSupreme Court held senior

advocate Prashant Bhushanguilty of contempt of court andfixed the date of hearing for hissentencing on August 20.

A statement was issued by

“Campaign for JudicialAccountability and Reforms”(CJAR) on August 15, con-demning the judgment andfurther calling upon theSupreme Court, and everyjudge, to reconsider their deci-

sion. CJAR includes a retiredjudge, Justice P.B. Sawant, for-mer Union Law Minister andsenior advocate ShantiBhushan, among others as theirpatrons. IANS

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Joseph Wednesday came outin support of lawyer PrashantBhushan and said contemptcases against him raised sub-stantial questions of lawwhich should be heard by aconstitution bench. JusticeJoseph also said that a personconvicted by the top court ina suo-motu case should getan opportunity for an intra-

court appeal. “Under Article145 (3) of the Constitution ofIndia, there shall be a quo-rum of minimum five Judgesfor deciding any case involv-ing substantial questions oflaw as to the interpretation ofthe Constitution,” Joseph saidin a statement. The formerjudge said a three-judgebench of the Supreme Courthas decided to hear a fewserious questions on thescope and extent of the con-tempt of Court.

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Aday before the scheduledhearing on quantum of

sentence, activist-lawyerPrashant Bhushan who hasbeen held guilty of criminalcontempt for his two deroga-tory tweets, moved theSupreme Court seeking defer-ment of the proceedings till areview petition is filed andconsidered. A contemnor can

be punished with simpleimprisonment of up to sixmonths or with a fine of up to�2,000 or with both.

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The Supreme CourtWednesday refused to

entertain a plea challengingthe Jharkhand government’’sdecision to appoint M V Raoas the acting Director Generalof Police (DGP) saying a PILcannot be accepted in a servicematter.

A bench of Chief Justice SA Bobde and Justices A SBopanna and VRamasubramanian, dismissedthe plea filed by a Jharkhandresident.

During the hearing, senioradvocates Fali S Nariman andNeeraj Kishan Kaul, appearing

for the JharkhandGovernment, said that it isproxy litigation and the courtcannot interfere in the servicematter under Article 32 juris-diction.

Senior advocate RVenkataramani, appearing forthe petitioner Prahlad NarayanSingh, said that he is a residentof the state and wants to knowas to how was the incumbentDGP (Rao) appointed as act-ing DGP despite the verdict oftop court in the Prakash Singhcase (2006) on police reforms.

The bench toldVenkataramani that it is notgoing to entertain this petition.

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Keeping in view the inter-est of sugarcane farmers,

the Union Cabinet onWednesday approved raisingthe fair and remunerative(FRP) price of sugarcane by�10 to peg it at �285 a quin-tal. This price has been fixedfor the new marketing seasonof sugarcane starting October2020-21 (October toSeptember). The cabinet alsoapproved providing a premi-um of �2.85 per quintal forrecovery at 11 percent.

The decision to increase theFair and Remunerative Price(FRP) of sugarcane for the2020-21 marketing year wastaken in the meeting of theCabinet Committee onEconomic Affairs (CCEA). Thegovernment had fixed sugar-cane FRP at �275 per quintal forthe current 2019-20 marketingyear.

According to the cabinetdecision, the FRP of �285 perquintal has been fixed for a basicrecovery rate of 10 per cent.However, a premium of �2.85per quintal will be paid bysugar mills for every 0.1 per centincrease above 10 per cent in therecovery, it said. Also, the gov-ernment has made a provisionfor reduction in FRP by Rs 2.85per quintal for every 0.1 per-centage point decrease in recov-ery, in respect of those millswhose recovery is below 10 percent but above 9.5 per cent.However, for mills having recov-ery of 9.5 per cent or below, theFRP is fixed at � 270.75 perquintal in place of �261.25 perquintal in the current season.“The determination of FRPwill be in the interest of sugar-cane growers keeping in viewtheir entitlement to a fair andremunerative price for theirproduce,” the statement said.

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Covid-19 patients may losetheir sense of smell and

cannot detect bitter or sweettastes but they can breathefreely and do not tend to havea runny or blocked nose as inthe case of a bad cold, as per astudy.

Published in the journalRhinology, the study is a firstof its kind to compare how peo-ple with Covid-19 smell andtaste disorders differ fromthose with other causes ofupper respiratory tract infec-tions.

According to theresearchers, including thosefrom the University of EastAnglia (UEA) in the UK, theirwork could help develop smelland taste tests for fast Covid-19 screening - in primary careand emergency departments.

The findings lend weight to

the theory that Covid-19infects the brain and centralnervous system.

“The loss of smell andtaste is a prominent symptomof Covid-19, however it is alsoa common symptom of havinga bad cold,” said lead researcherCarl Philpott, a professor atUEA’s Norwich MedicalSchool.

“We wanted to find outexactly what differentiatesCOVID -19 smell loss with thekind of smell loss you mighthave with a cold and blocked-up nose,” Philpott said.

The research team carriedout smell and taste tests on 10COVID-19 patients, 10 peoplewith bad colds and a controlgroup of 10 healthy people --all matched for age and sex.

“We wanted to see if theirsmell and taste test scorescould help discriminatebetween COVID-19 patients

and those with a heavy cold,”Philpott said.

The researchers noted thatCOVID-19 behaves different-ly to other respiratory viruses,for example by causing thebody’s immune system toover-react, known as acytokine storm, and by affect-ing the nervous system.

They found that smell losswas much more profound inthe COVID-19 patents, andthey were less able to identifysmells, and were not able toidentify bitter or sweet tastes.

The researchers said itwas this loss of true tastewhich seemed to be present in

the COVID-19 patients com-pared to those with a cold.

“This is very excitingbecause it means that smelland taste tests could be used todiscriminate between Covid-19 patients and people with aregular cold or flu,” Philpottsaid.

“Although such tests couldnot replace formal diagnostictools such as throat swabs,they could provide an alter-native when conventional testsare not available or whenrapid screening is needed --particularly at the level of pri-mary care, in emergencydepartments or at airports,” headded.

The study also shows thatthere are altogether differentthings going on when it comesto smell and taste loss forCovid-19 patients, comparedto those with a bad cold, theresearchers said.

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As countries adopt-ed prevention and

control measures tocontain Covid-19,many vital violenceprevention andresponse services weresuspended or inter-rupted, leaving manychildren at the receiv-ing end as they sufferedviolence and exploita-tion at homes.

Sample this :Nearly 10,000 out of 4.6lakh calls that theUnicef received in 21days from March 20 toApril 10, 2020 duringthe Covid-19 pandem-ic, needed interventionfrom the childline staff

of the global agency toprotect the childrenvictims of abuse andexploitation.

Of these, 30 percent were related toCovid-19 and with aneed for protectionfrom abuse andexploitation.

“The Covid-19pandemic has causeddisruptions to childprotection services inmore than 100 coun-tries, leaving a largenumber of children atincreased risk of vio-lence, exploitation andabuse,” according to aglobal survey byUnicef, details of whichwere released onWednesday.

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The Union HealthM i n i s t r y ’ s

‘eSanjeevani’ digital plat-form has provided twolakh tele-consultationsto the patients seekingmedical guidance amidthe Covid-19 pandemic.

“In a short span oftime since November2019, tele-consultation by‘eSanjeevani’ has beenimplemented by 23 states(which covers 75 per centof the population) andother states are in theprocess of rolling it out.

“In what can be seenas a big push for the‘Digital India’ initiativeof the prime minister, theeSanjeevani platform has

proved its usefulness andeasy access for the care-givers and the medicalcommunity, and thoseseeking healthcare ser-vices in the time ofCOVID-19,” the ministrysaid in a statement here.

The eSanjeevani plat-form has enabled twotypes of telemedicine ser-vices — doctor-to-doctor(eSanjeevani) andp a t i e n t - t o - d o c t o r(eSanjeevani OPD) tele-consultations. The formeris being implementedunder the AyushmanBharat Health andWellness Centre (AB-HWC). It aims to imple-ment tele-consultation inall the 1.5 lakh Healthand Wellness Centres in

conjunction with identi-fied medical college hos-pitals in a ‘Hub andSpoke’ model, as per thestatement.

“States have identi-fied and set up dedicated‘Hubs’ in medical collegesand district hospitals toprovide tele-consultationservices to ‘Spokes’, i.esub-health centres(SHCs), primary healthcentres (PHCs) andHealth and WellnessCentres,” it said.

The Ministry rolledout the second tele-con-sultation service‘e S a n j e e v a n i O P D ’enabling patient-to-doc-tor telemedicine owing tothe COVID-19 pandem-ic in April this year.

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The Congress has urged LokSabha Speaker Om Birla

and Rajya Sabha Chairman MVenkaiah Naidu to allow MPsto participate in the upcomingMonsoon session of Parliamenteither physically or virtually asis being done by the courts.

While Congress leaderAdhir Ranjan Chowdhury haswritten a letter to Birla, PChidambaram has written toNaidu to allow MPs, unable toparticipate physically, attend

the proceedings through anapp or a link.

In his letter, Chowdhurysaid the monsoon sessionwould be held shortly as therules say that the interveningperiod between two sessions ofParliament cannot exceed sixmonths.

“Under these circum-stances, I thought it prudentto suggest to you that anAPP and link should be pro-vided to members (like in theSupreme Court and HighCourts).

“Members who are phys-ically present may speak inthe House. Members whocannot be physically presentshould be allowed to speak viaan APP. When the member’sname is called, his mike willbe unmuted, and he can speakfor the al lotted time,”Chowdhury said.

He said this facility is“absolutely necessary” in viewof the fact that the number ofnew COVID19 cases are ris-ing and by September it maytouch 70,000 per day.

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Mount Abu, the sole hillstation of the desert

State of Rajasthan, is wit-nessing a steady rise in thenumber of domestic touristsfollowing relaxations in theCovid-19 lockdown, an offi-cial said on Wednesday.

Famous for its scenic nat-ural beauty, the hill station sit-uated in Sirohi district hasreceived more than 10,000tourists after a long gap, theoff icia l f rom the state’stourism department said.

The destination remainsf looded with tourists during the summer seasonbut this year, due to the coro-navirus lockdown, there wereno tourists.

However, people haveagain started visiting MountAbu and the footfalls aregradual ly r is ing even

during the ongoing monsoonseason.

“The figure of tourists inMount Abu is rising... Similartrends have been noticed inUdaipur where tourists areexploring short and safe vaca-tions while following safetyguidelines,” the official said.

The safety of tourists andlocals is the top priority of thestate government and guide-l ines on preventive measures to contain thespread of COVID-19 arebeing strictly adhered to at allmonuments, resorts etc., AlokGupta, Principal secretary of the tourismdepartment, said.

“After missing the entiresummer season, people areeager for a getaway. Localtourists are returning in bignumbers. While unlockingtourism, the safety of peopleis our concern,” he said.

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The Supreme CourtWednesday dismissed a

plea questioning the setting upof a three-member judicialcommission, headed by formerapex court judge Justice B SChauhan, to inquire into theencounter killing of gangsterVikas Dubey. A bench headedby Chief Justice S A Bobde saidthat there were enough safe-guards to ensure fair inquiry bythe judicial panel into theencounter which took place inKanpur.

The verdict came on a pleafield by advocate GhanshyamUpadhaya seeking re-constitu-tion of the inquiry commissionand substituting its members —Justice (retd) B S Chauhan, for-mer Supreme Court judge,Justice (retd) Shashi KantAgarwal and retired UttarPradesh DGP K L Gupta —with other former judges of theapex court and retired DGPs.

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In a world of rapid revolution in theknowledge landscape, dramaticadvances in science and researchtechnology, evolution in entrepre-neurial aspirations, changing

employment paradigm, growing digiti-sation of learning process and risingneeds of innovation to address spirallingglobal challenges, the NationalEducation Policy (NEP), 2020, is a pio-neering initiative. It will help transformIndia’s educational system into a holis-tic, multi-disciplinary, flexible, synergis-tic, equitable, pluralistic, responsible andinnovative learning ecosystem.

NEP 2020 is like a déjà vu of theparadigm ingrained in the ancientIndian educational system, one thatentrenched the highest standards ofmulti-disciplinary teaching and researchin world-class universities such asTakshashila, Nalanda, Vikramshila andVallabhi. These universities nurturedthousands of students from India andabroad, focussing on multi-discipli-nary research and innovation to buildwell-rounded and innovative individu-als, who had the capability to lead andemancipate society through their knowl-edge and wisdom. Famous intellectualsof India such as Chanakya, Panini,Charaka, Vishnu Sharma and Jivaka,who were the students of the TakshashilaUniversity, left an indelible mark inworld history for possessing deeperknowledge in their respective fields ofstudy.

Now, the time is opportune to ini-tiate a complete overhaul of the Indianeducational system by infusing the pastglory and at the same time, keeping inmind the contemporary context as thekey driver of the mission. The 21st cen-tury world demands a holistic and multi-disciplinary educational system that candeliver integrated skills and capacities tothe students, making them not onlygreat professionals but also transform-ing them as global leaders who can leadthe Government, enterprise, politics,economy, society and human progresswith greater efficacy.

The key differentiator of NEP 2020is the synergy in curriculum across alllevels of education — from early child-hood care to primary education toschool education and higher education.This will help the students learn andgrow in an ecosystem where learning isnot just limited to examinations and cer-tificates, but goes beyond that, helpingthem develop critical thinking, ethicalvalues, the spirit of service and inculcatelife skills such as communication, coop-eration, teamwork and resilience. Thecornerstone of NEP 2020 is the inclu-sion of students from all social strataacross the educational system throughvarious supportive policies. This will

help the students — irrespectiveof their gender, caste, religion,language, socio-economic con-ditions and region — avail high-quality education for their over-all growth and contributetowards nation-building.

Pivoted on multi-discipli-nary learning in higher educa-tion, NEP 2020 will empowerstudents to adapt the demands ofthe 21st century in a more effec-tive way. For example, a studentlearning AI as a major with eco-nomics as a minor can build abetter AI system for economicdevelopment than a studentwhose focus is only on AI. As theworld is changing, it’s imperativefor a country like India to adaptto the multi-disciplinary form oflearning so as to address theglobal challenges in energy,healthcare, water, food and san-itation among others. Forinstance, the challenges thrownby the COVID-19 pandemiccan only be addressed througha multi-disciplinary approach.

NEP 2020 has articulated aparadigm shift from NEP 1986by urging higher educationalinstitutes to have a greater focuson research and innovation byestablishing centres for start-upincubation, technological devel-opment, in frontier areas ofresearch, greater industry-acad-emia collaboration and inter-dis-ciplinary research, includinghumanities, social sciences, sci-ence and technological research.This approach will strengthentranslatory research, innovation,

IP creation and entrepreneurshipin the country. The studentspassing through such education-al system will be tomorrow’s jobcreators, innovators, leaders andinstitution builders. Globally, it’san established fact that a multi-disciplinary approach to educa-tion is good for the economicprogress of a country.

Global higher educationalinstitutes such as MIT, Stanford,Harvard, Caltech, Oxford,Cambridge and Princeton havesignificantly contributed toresearch, innovation, IP cre-ation and economic progress.Countries like the US and theUK have leveraged such multi-disciplinary educational systemsto become industrially and tech-nologically developed nations.

One of the most laudablefeatures of NEP 2020 is theextensive use of technology inthe teaching and learningprocess. Technology can reducethe barriers, enhance access,increase affordability and ensureinclusion. As India is a globalleader in IT and emerging tech-nology domains, NEP 2020 canleverage the robust digital infra-structure established by theGovernment and the industry.

Online and digital educationwill also help divyang studentsaccess the learning ecosystem ina seamless manner. The forma-tion of the National EducationalTechnology Forum (NETF), asproposed by the new NEP, is apioneering idea to promote thefree exchange of ideas across

higher learning institutes to fos-ter innovation across the board.

India is now at the cusp ofdigital transformation and itsimpact is benefitting the societyat large. Further, a strong foun-dation of the IT industry haspaved the way for tech start-upsto leverage emerging technolo-gies such as AI, machine learn-ing, IoT, big data, blockchain androbotics. Such dynamism in theecosystem has also resulted inbuilding a start-up culture in thecountry. To further strengthenthis start-up culture and enableit to become an enormous massmovement across industry ver-ticals, NEP, 2020, will play acolossal role by supplying profes-sionals, who are inherently dri-ven by the spirit of innovationand entrepreneurship.

The new education policyalso envisions a comprehensiveapproach to transform the qual-ity and quantity of research inIndia in an integrated manner. Asignificant shift in school educa-tion system to encourage a moreplay and discovery-based style oflearning, with an emphasis onscientific method and criticalthinking, will further foster inno-vation early in the life of students.In extension, the establishmentof a National ResearchFoundation (NRF), as envi-sioned by NEP, 2020, will pro-mote a culture of research andinnovation of higher order acrossall disciplines.

NRF will also play a catalyt-ic role in propelling the growth

of IPRs and patents in variousdomains. Research and innova-tion will further promote start-up culture in the country todevelop path-breaking productsand solutions to address localand global challenges.

NEP 2020 also proposes asignificant rise in the allocationof funding for education fromthe current 4.43 per cent of theGDP to six per cent. As fundingis critical for any national mis-sion, public-private-partnershipwill play a transformative role indeveloping a modern, advancededucational ecosystem to achievea high-quality and equitableeducation system, one that cansteer India’s future economic,social, cultural, intellectual andtechnological progress andgrowth.

NEP 2020 is a pioneeringstep towards building thebedrock for a self-reliant India.The principles, objectives,visions, missions and directiveswill enable us to have a knowl-edge-driven economy. A knowl-edge-based educational ecosys-tem will promote innovation-ledentrepreneurship, encourageyouth of the nation to becomejob creators, bolster industrialproductivity and rev up inclusivedevelopment. This will eventu-ally accelerate the growth of theeconomy, increase per capitaincome and transform Indiainto a global technology leaderin the times to come.

(The writer is DirectorGeneral, STPI, Govt of India)

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Sir — There can be no doubt thatwith the Supreme Court’s deci-sion to hold advocate PrashantBhushan guilty of criminal con-tempt for his two “false and mali-cious” tweets, the space forbonafide criticism of the judicia-ry has become more restricted.This is also apparent from theBench’s assertion that Bhushan’scase needs to be tackled with an“iron hand” lest quips like these “affect the national honour andprestige in the comity of nations.”

Many liberal democracieshave decriminalised the “scan-dalising” of the courts based onthe ideal that criticism is neces-sary to make the judicial systemstronger and foolproof. As such,it is disappointing that the topcourt of India has taken a differ-ent stand.

Further, it should not be for-gotten that only in 2018, fourSupreme Court judges had comeout in the open to speak againstthe then Chief Justice of India ina Press meet. Was any con-tempt case filed or action initi-ated against them?

It was expected that theapex court’s verdict will be advi-

sory in nature. The decision ofthe Bench to come down heav-ily on Bhushan in view of his dis-sent could shake the trust of thecommon man in the institutionwhich he considers to be his lastresort and rescuer.

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Sir — This refers to the article,“The Indian connection” (August19) by Kalyani Shankar. Indiansare rightly on cloud nine after theelection of Kamala Harris as JoeBiden’s running mate in the

upcoming US presidential elec-tions. In Harris, India will havea strong supporter who can argueits cause. Intriguingly, Biden,too, has an Indian connection.One of his forefathers, GeorgeBiden, had settled in India dur-ing the East India Companyregime and had married an

Indian woman. Harris has grownup with a tinge of Indian culturebut has simultaneously lived aproudly African-American life.Biden has expressed his intentionto stand by India regarding bor-der issues. On the other hand,Prime Minister Narendra Modiand US President Donald Trumpenjoy an excellent rapport. Bidenor Trump, India will not be loserin either case.

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Sir — This refers to the editor-ial, “Thanks for the memories”(August 18). Dhoni’s decision toretire from international crick-et has come at the right time. Asthe captain of the men’s cricketteam, he has shown the way toremain cool in tense situationsand win the game. This is whyhe is respected by all quarters.Though we will miss Dhoni, welook forward to his “helicoptershot” in the IPL.

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The Coronavirus pandemic has caused eco-nomic disruptions and shutdowns in manycountries across the world. Imposition of

nationwide lockdowns, layoffs in the workforce andrestrictions on non-essential travel have minimisedmarket output and affected foreign trade signifi-cantly. The lurking threat to all vital elements ofhuman life has also become prominent in the formof job losses, disruption in water supply and access,dwindling food production and distribution, andthreats to health and well-being. The COVID-19outbreak is not just an economic but a humanitar-ian and environmental crisis. This has impededIndia’s contribution towards the 17 SustainableDevelopment Goals (SDGs) that were put forth in2015 with an objective to eradicate poverty, safe-guard the planet and ensure peace and prosperi-ty for all by 2030. Moreover, the response to cli-mate change has also lost traction globally with thepostponement of the Conference of Parties(COP26) to 2021.

While India continues to grapple with thesechallenges, the contagion has offered two key learn-ings that can be leveraged for addressing climatechange domestically in coherence with our SDGcommitments. First, the COVID-19 responsemechanisms provide an exemplary account of therole of cooperative and collective action betweennational and sub-national governments for contain-ing the spread of the epidemic. Second, it show-cases how proactive structural changes —includ-ing the creation of health infrastructure, enforce-ment of guidelines and regulatory actions — canenhance the resilience of a system to effectivelyrespond to a crisis situation.

Third, the pandemic shows that society canadjust fast in the face of a crisis. Thus far, climatechange is not seen as a crisis. While the COVID-19 curve is likely to flatten eventually, the impactsof climate change will continue to rattle differentparts of the country through severe hydro-mete-orological events, ranging from the deadly cycloneAmphan to the wrecking floods in Assam and Biharbeing witnessed this year. The aforementionedlearnings likewise reinforce the need to adopt a bot-tom-up approach, involving sub-national entities,including State and local governments to step upstringent action for mitigating the impacts of cli-mate change in harmony with the CentralGovernment’s commitments at the domestic andglobal milieu. As the key lever of climate action inthe States, the State Action Plan on Climate Change(SAPCC), nears completion of the first phase of itsimplementation, this year invigorates hope forStates to ratchet up their SAPCC ambition underthe direction of the Ministry of Environment, Forestand Climate Change. Taking cognisance of the con-vergent nature of issues and the associated socialimpacts unveiled by the contagion, countriesaround the world are rallying towards “green recov-ery” — a road not taken earlier.

The ongoing revision of SAPCC offers a uniqueopportunity to States to experience “green recov-ery” that addresses multiple threats synergistical-ly through the integration of strategies (to absorbshocks from the pandemic), by enhancing climateresilience (impacts of climate change) and safe-guarding sustainable development (threat to peo-ple and inclusive action). This is critical to ensurethat incremental actions towards greening the post-COVID recovery as well as the economy are notjust reactive to the immediate crisis but are sus-tained well beyond the revival of the State’s econ-

omy. The SAPCCs inherently cater to amyriad SDGs, most noteworthy of whichwould be SDG 13 on Climate Action. TheSDGs have passed the baton of enforc-ing sustainable and inclusive develop-mental trajectories to all countries andunder this ambit there is enormouspotential for States to incorporate theSDGs within their SAPCC narratives andvice-versa. Through their sectoral inter-ventions that navigate across agriculture,energy, industries, health, employmentand resource conservation strategiescatering to water, forestry, biodiversityand so on, the SAPCCs can be potential-ly linked to several SDGs.

The recent TERI study, based oncontent analysis and rapid assessmenttechnique, mapped out the linkages thatexisted between all the 33 SAPCCs andthe 17 SDGs. As anticipated, the promi-nent linkages witnessed between SAPCCstrategies and the SDGs corresponded tosustainable agriculture (zero hunger,SDG two), renewable and efficient ener-gy (affordable and clean energy, SDGseven), sustainable urban landscapes(austainable cities and communities,SDG 11) and capacity-building (partner-ship for the goals, SDG 17) followed bycomplementarities with other SDGs.These include good health and well-being, clean water and sanitation, indus-try innovation and infrastructure,responsible consumption and productionand life on land.

Interestingly, linkages with targetsresonating with other crucial SDGs suchas quality education, gender equality,decent work and economic growth, jus-tice and strong institutions, were infre-quent and exceptional for a limitednumber of SAPCCs. Specific congruen-cies with SDG 4, which included integrat-ing the climate change module in theeducation curriculum, were witnessed inthe States of Chhattisgarh, Puducherry

and Tamil Nadu (TN), while States suchas Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Rajasthanand the Union Territory of Lakshadweepunderlined SDG 4 as necessary forbuilding adaptation capacities, resilienceand public awareness.

With respect to gender equality, theSAPCC of Himachal Pradesh identifiedthe gender component of climate actionstrategies and missions, such as in theGreen India Mission. Kerala was anoth-er State, which in its SAPCC, took cog-nisance of the indispensable role ofwomenfolk in forest and resource man-agement. Tripura’s SAPCC demarcatedthe role which women play in promot-ing social capital and resilience-buildingof communities through their Self-HelpGroups. SDG 8 (decent work and eco-nomic growth) has immense potential tocontribute towards a greener economythrough green jobs under climate actionstrategies within the SAPCCs.

Gujarat’s SAPCC has advanced onthis goal for creating green jobs throughactivities pertaining to afforestation,renewable energy-installation, waste tobio-fuel programmes, to name a few.Other SAPCCs, such as those of UttarPradesh, Andaman & Nicobar Island andMadhya Pradesh, have iterated the needto bolster employment under the sectorsof fisheries, industries and forestry to fos-ter sustainable growth and develop-ment. SDG 14 (Life below water) andSDG 16 (Peace, justice and strong insti-tutions) have seen limited linkages as onlycoastal SAPCCs would correspond to theformer and the need to build institution-al effectiveness and accountability wasunderscored only in Andhra Pradesh andTamil Nadu.

Further, the SDG India Index 2019rankings have classified States based ontheir performance. The NationalIndicator Framework (NIF), prepared bythe Ministry of Statistics and Programme

Implementation (MoSPI), is the back-bone of SDG rankings and elucidates howthe climate action agenda can beupscaled. The NIF spans over enhancingadaptive capacity of States, morbidity dueto climate extremes, reduction in emis-sions, meeting the Nationally DeterminedContributions (NDC) targets and inte-grating climate change module in theeducation curricula. Therefore, persist-ing congruencies between the two agen-da and the NIF overlap the aspiration ofa green economy, where an integratedframework of mutually co-benefittinggovernance for planning and imple-mentation is a requisite.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, inhis recent address at the India GlobalWeek 2020, reiterated the need for reviv-ing an India which is sustainable. He alsomentioned his vision of an AtmanirbharBharat that is self-sustaining and self-gen-erating and which reinforces the need forgreening the recovery as well as the econ-omy. Following suit, UP has already start-ed a “One District, One Product” initia-tive to harness local traditions, art andenterprise; reiterating the need to go local.This, if successful, will have a positiveeffect and encourage SDG commitments.States must endorse a holistic approachto include strategies in the SAPCCwherein green recovery measures areplanned in consonance with their abili-ty to mitigate climate change and achieveSDGs.

Strategies need to be devised acrosssectors that will make India’s economicrecovery sustainable and climate-proof.However, devising such effective greenstrategies as the economy recovers wouldalso demand one to assess how “green-ness” is defined and measured, as that remains woefully unaddressed at pre-sent.

(Pruthi and Raj are ResearchAssociates and Pahuja is, Fellow, TERI)

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came the query, “Why aren’t youdebating on television these days?” Ireplied that since I am out of sync withthe style of the debate, which is invogue now, I opt out of the few offersthat come my way, especially whenthey need a dozen people peeping outof the tiny windows on the televisionscreen. However, the other person wasnot convinced by my explanation. Hesaid that it was just “a case of sourgrapes” as I was “outdated.” Thatremark stung me a bit but it also gotme thinking. Have I become outdat-ed? I had been mulling over this con-

versation for some time. Hence, I wasshaken when the news of Congressspokesperson Rajiv Tyagi collapsingafter a “toxic” television debate camein.

In hindsight, I thought, it had beena wise decision for a hypertensive andpre-diabetic person like me to opt outof these cantankerous shows of abu-sive persons baying for each other’sblood, spurred by an unscrupulouscheerleader christened as anchor.With no political fortune to seek andthe channels increasingly tighteningtheir purse strings when it comes topaying the panelists, I think it has beena wise decision to not put one’s life atrisk.

Many years ago, when I had justmoved from being a relative junior inthe profession to a middle leadershipposition in The Pioneer, a tempting joboffer had come my way from a televi-sion channel. In those days, televisionchannels were popping up a dime adozen as a Supreme Court order hadended Doordarshan’s monopoly onairtime. There were many whothought, and rightly so in many cases

(especially those with poor writing andediting skills) that television was theplatform to be in. When I entered ThePioneer Editor Dr Chandan Mitra’soffice with the offer letter in my handand asked for his permission to resign,he asked me to sit down and ordereda cup of coffee. He then told me thatsomeone with good writing skillsshould never seek to make a career asa television reporter. I thought this tobe a stratagem to retain me in theorganisation because in those days DrMitra himself would frequent televi-sion studios and was a celebrity in hisown right.

My doubts got cleared when hesaid, while sipping his piping hot cupof coffee, that television was a greatplace to be, if one was invited as a pan-elist for inputs beyond the bare news.That is what television debates oughtto be and to be fair it remained thatway for a very long time. It is justunfortunate that this has now beenturned on its head.

I must share that I was introducedas a television panelist on the recom-mendation of Dr Mitra on a news item

which I had penned and which hadcreated quite a stir. However, myappearances on television remainedinfrequent as I neither enjoyed thepolitical and social station of DrMitra, nor did I have the liberty of anEditor to leave office early for a tele-vision talk show. I, however, had along-run as a television panelistbetween 2008 and 2017 when the erst-while STAR News and later ABP Newsunder the stewardship of Shazi Zamanplanned pre-recorded talk show-basedcontent. The guest would be present-ed before a group of people fromacross the social spectrum and a fewjournalists, who would grill the per-sonality. But the lines of civility werenever crossed in those days.

The shows were planned in sucha manner that for the panelists, quickwit and intelligence became the mostimportant tools for creating an impactand surviving the scrutiny of theaudience. It was very clear that shout-ing, running down and abusing co-panelists were not part of the shows’grammar or the channels’ culture.

Appearances at these shows also

gave me the opportunity to rub shoul-ders and meaningfully interact withmany a veteran of the profession, spe-cially from language papers. Theybrought with them sagacious knowl-edge not earned by way of appendinga foreign degree but by years spent inthe field witnessing the evolution ofIndian society and politics and remain-ing its consistent student.

The recording sessions, whichwould expand over three to fourhours, always included space for infor-mal interaction with the guest of theday. These sessions were actually greatsittings in scholarship. Today I see onscreen such “scholars”, by the way ofholding a professorial position, gestic-ulating, pointing fingers and spewingvenom, which would make even themost wayward student cower with fear.

A media platform’s essential occu-pation should be dissemination ofwell-argued information rather thandebates which could pass off as a goator cock fight in a village marketplace.The late Rajiv Tyagi had the reputationof being a “forceful” spokesperson forthe Congress Party. Congress scion

Rahul Gandhi in his condolence mes-sage called him a “babbar sher (lion).”

However, one should not forget,that at the end of the day Tyagi, too,was another gladiator, in the ring fora bloody bout set up by channels everyevening. The world of professionalboxing and wrestling is full of tales offighters getting fatally injured anddying early. Are we now seeing a sim-ilar trend emerging in televisiondebates, which today are a euphemismfor sessions of shouting, aggressivebehaviour and abusing with physicalassault thankfully being avoided dueto the Corona protocols being inplace?

Given the untimely demise ofTyagi and the humiliation which isheaped on many in the name of tele-vision debates, personally for me sourgrapes are preferable over being linedin a row to be caned by a hectoringanchor.

(The writer is a senior journalistand Professor-ChairpersonVivekananda School of Journalism andMass Communication, VIPS, GGSIPU,Delhi)

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Script Open High Low LTPRELIANCE 2089.70 2132.90 2082.95 2118.75HDFCBANK 1028.10 1061.00 1021.45 1056.45ICICIBANK 361.10 369.95 361.10 369.40INDIGO 1126.10 1218.00 1126.10 1196.60SBICARD 803.00 825.00 803.00 820.90ZEEL 170.25 178.85 165.30 173.95BAJFINANCE 3396.25 3436.00 3369.45 3419.45INDUSINDBK 512.50 524.45 506.65 521.30SBIN 193.30 195.75 191.80 195.10TATAMOTORS 124.00 127.50 123.60 125.60BANDHANBNK 293.20 294.40 285.50 288.05ULTRACEMCO 4050.00 4180.10 4035.40 4170.05DLF 145.30 160.25 145.30 157.05GRASIM 624.10 678.60 622.00 667.60MARUTI 6720.00 6918.55 6720.00 6892.50IDEA 8.95 8.98 8.72 8.85TATASTEEL 422.10 436.50 419.90 434.75ASHOKLEY 62.75 68.95 62.75 68.45BHARTIARTL 527.00 528.95 520.10 526.80AUROPHARMA 863.30 882.45 855.10 872.35MUTHOOTFIN 1235.00 1254.10 1226.45 1239.60IBULHSGFIN 205.00 211.30 202.50 207.60NTPC 96.35 97.80 94.10 95.10BPCL 411.50 411.50 401.00 402.20RBLBANK 186.00 186.80 178.30 182.40TITAN 1126.00 1151.00 1126.00 1145.80KOTAKBANK 1325.00 1374.25 1320.00 1368.80CADILAHC 398.95 400.75 395.45 397.20LUPIN 1000.90 1022.55 978.75 981.25PIDILITIND 1392.45 1432.10 1383.15 1412.15SRTRANSFIN 679.25 693.45 673.15 691.05AXISBANK 437.00 447.00 435.50 445.70BATAINDIA 1240.00 1260.00 1239.45 1255.85VEDL 128.40 129.80 120.20 126.55BSOFT 151.90 177.80 150.20 171.25HEROMOTOCO 2936.50 2963.00 2907.00 2923.50IDFCFIRSTB 29.80 31.55 29.35 31.30EICHERMOT 21125.00 21660.00 21110.00 21411.60GLENMARK 481.10 482.20 471.20 475.00BEL 111.50 113.15 109.70 111.65DMART 2188.05 2265.00 2175.90 2260.35ASIANPAINT 1836.00 1883.00 1832.15 1873.60LT 1001.25 1008.00 995.20 1004.10HDFC 1805.95 1825.00 1795.00 1820.15TCS 2264.80 2288.50 2250.00 2269.40IOC 87.35 87.80 86.60 87.05CHOLAFIN 230.00 232.85 212.10 231.75PVR 1236.00 1272.00 1216.95 1261.00CIPLA 776.70 779.80 763.10 764.65HINDUNILVR 2199.10 2216.00 2189.55 2213.80WIPRO 284.20 287.25 281.85 282.55JINDALSTEL 223.65 226.00 221.50 224.85ADANIENT 199.25 216.75 199.25 213.70COALINDIA 136.70 138.50 135.75 136.75DRREDDY 4525.00 4560.00 4438.20 4504.25ESCORTS 1165.00 1171.65 1146.40 1155.85PEL 1425.05 1451.30 1413.10 1435.70TATAPOWER 56.25 56.45 54.95 55.60BRITANNIA 3890.00 3940.00 3879.65 3912.35UPL 493.00 508.95 492.25 500.00M&M 627.00 632.30 618.80 622.00L&TFH 65.90 67.50 64.85 67.20HAL 1254.70 1312.00 1243.15 1273.40DIVISLAB 3129.45 3161.00 3097.30 3153.50BERGEPAINT 541.00 567.85 541.00 562.70INFY 961.80 969.00 958.75 967.15HINDALCO 193.00 197.15 192.25 196.15PETRONET 265.00 267.70 256.95 257.95JUBLFOOD 1880.00 1948.00 1879.00 1916.35LAURUSLABS 1050.00 1070.25 1037.75 1054.90JSWSTEEL 271.00 278.95 267.35 277.05TATAMTRDVR 44.00 45.10 43.60 44.15MCX 1595.00 1647.00 1588.65 1639.40SRF 4130.05 4331.75 4128.60 4285.50TECHM 724.10 727.85 710.10 713.15WHIRLPOOL 1991.05 2061.70 1991.00 2024.05STRTECH* 149.80 154.60 144.05 147.35CANBK 100.10 102.65 99.90 102.00HAVELLS 622.00 637.00 620.90 626.35TATACONSUM 547.85 553.35 543.80 545.45BOSCHLTD 13960.00 14129.00 13735.90 13804.65HDFCAMC 2377.60 2419.40 2377.60 2413.25BAJAJ-AUTO 3125.00 3146.75 3094.00 3105.05GAIL 97.65 98.00 96.70 97.00M&MFIN 134.00 137.00 132.85 136.15ONGC 79.35 81.85 79.15 80.60ITC 198.80 199.55 197.30 198.60UBL 974.60 1008.60 961.70 1004.25NESTLEIND 16430.00 16617.70 16320.20 16549.45BHEL 37.15 37.70 37.10 37.45STAR 559.75 583.20 556.85 568.85HINDPETRO 212.05 212.90 209.25 209.80VRLLOG 153.00 153.00 149.75 150.85SUNTV 429.00 437.00 419.75 434.75IBREALEST 70.00 74.80 70.00 73.55BAJAJFINSV 6270.00 6370.30 6244.00 6340.00MOTHERSUMI 128.45 128.45 125.00 126.50MRF 60201.00 61100.00 60040.00 60185.85HDFCLIFE 592.45 600.60 588.95 597.65HCLTECH 718.70 721.50 712.65 714.45MGL 956.55 973.70 956.55 970.45TORNTPHARM 2773.10 2832.00 2773.10 2805.40TATAELXSI 1030.80 1076.50 1030.80 1069.75SUNPHARMA* 529.50 533.75 524.45 526.15SAIL 39.05 41.00 38.85 40.75TATACHEM 294.00 297.30 293.70 296.00BEML 719.70 719.70 705.80 711.35ACC 1399.00 1437.60 1391.75 1432.70

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IIFL 71.00 82.50 71.00 79.90INDHOTEL 94.00 97.80 93.45 97.00CEATLTD 875.00 878.00 870.00 872.25CGCL 217.00 221.00 204.90 206.55NATIONALUM 35.70 36.80 35.60 36.20CAPPL 540.00 563.90 539.50 543.15TIMETECHNO 38.70 43.20 38.70 41.95NCC 33.30 33.55 32.60 33.35AMARAJABAT 755.10 768.90 755.10 766.55BRIGADE 152.50 158.95 149.45 151.15JINDALSAW 63.70 65.70 63.70 64.75SUZLON 4.16 4.16 3.96 3.98POLYCAB 907.50 915.10 890.70 894.20CUMMINSIND 456.25 464.15 448.10 449.85WOCKPHARMA 320.30 321.90 313.60 315.30PTC 56.60 56.90 56.10 56.45DEEPAKFERT 160.00 160.00 155.55 156.25BLUESTARCO 565.30 575.00 556.00 557.95BDL 445.80 451.55 441.10 443.55BALMLAWRIE 114.95 121.00 114.55 118.80OBEROIRLTY 347.20 370.20 347.20 364.65EIDPARRY 272.85 292.00 272.85 286.70JYOTHYLAB 143.00 148.05 143.00 146.40KNRCON 228.40 243.55 223.10 240.15GODFRYPHLP 943.00 958.00 938.90 951.80ICICIGI 1291.00 1345.00 1282.00 1337.05NOCIL 120.90 122.60 117.75 118.85COROMANDEL 747.95 747.95 724.10 729.90JKTYRE 62.35 62.80 61.00 62.00MOTILALOFS* 678.00 718.15 678.00 713.30NAM-INDIA 266.60 272.45 263.50 271.00FSL 52.95 56.00 52.95 55.40VARROC 223.95 231.75 222.55 226.75HIMATSEIDE 76.05 85.75 76.05 83.50SWANENERGY 133.05 138.30 132.00 132.95BBTC 1466.00 1505.00 1466.00 1473.85MARICO 369.00 374.95 369.00 373.15BAJAJELEC 486.00 488.30 475.25 483.90DELTACORP* 115.15 117.75 114.90 115.95GUJGAS 308.70 309.45 303.85 305.70TRIDENT 6.89 6.96 6.79 6.83GALAXYSURF 1890.00 1916.00 1861.15 1880.15DBL 373.25 389.00 367.90 380.20MOIL 148.75 159.70 148.75 156.90GODREJCP 684.25 695.30 684.00 690.85IRB 119.60 122.00 118.45 118.85DCAL 184.05 191.00 183.55 186.45SHRIRAMCIT 838.90 924.50 814.10 890.35ABBOTINDIA 16781.75 16829.60 16250.00 16515.60DIXON 7935.00 7949.00 7764.00 7854.85TORNTPOWER 356.00 356.00 344.00 344.60IDBI 38.60 40.15 38.50 39.65OIL 96.05 98.50 96.00 96.30JSL 48.50 51.80 47.25 51.10JSWENERGY 57.60 58.10 55.25 55.80JMFINANCIL 83.00 85.45 80.90 82.60VGUARD 163.00 165.00 162.90 163.85SHK 77.55 80.30 76.95 78.85AKZOINDIA 2027.00 2069.55 1964.75 2055.05AEGISLOG 187.10 197.25 187.10 191.65CASTROLIND 122.80 123.25 121.45 122.80GHCL 157.60 160.05 154.65 157.85KALPATPOWR* 249.00 252.45 247.40 251.70TATAMETALI 558.45 582.60 555.00 561.95ALKEM 2898.00 2928.90 2883.60 2890.85HFCL 16.45 16.61 15.48 16.05ASTRAZEN 3332.20 3369.00 3318.30 3326.15PIIND 1937.45 1984.00 1937.45 1961.45GRSE 216.00 216.00 207.60 208.55IRCON 95.10 96.65 95.10 95.95DHANUKA 782.30 819.00 781.05 806.00CUB 124.05 125.30 122.70 123.60TATACOFFEE 105.15 108.65 105.10 107.55LALPATHLAB 1925.00 1929.55 1877.20 1882.50BIRLACORPN 595.60 609.20 593.50 594.90HINDCOPPER 37.55 40.20 37.55 39.05ECLERX 710.00 723.40 689.85 694.40AARTIIND 1015.15 1029.95 1010.00 1018.00HONAUT 30794.00 30794.00 30235.00 30693.95QUESS 377.10 384.00 372.65 374.65LEMONTREE 28.25 30.25 27.75 29.65LTTS 1545.20 1593.80 1545.20 1587.50LTI 2479.95 2479.95 2410.05 2422.85ASTRAL 1056.00 1119.10 1052.50 1111.75SPARC 182.00 182.00 176.80 177.75GILLETTE 5115.75 5153.95 5017.05 5067.40MRPL 33.15 33.50 32.90 32.95CCL 253.15 264.75 252.30 260.30THERMAX 805.00 817.90 785.50 790.75GSPL 210.70 211.80 203.35 211.15FDC 329.40 332.15 328.25 329.40

WABAG 141.00 148.50 140.50 145.50INDIAMART 2930.00 2970.00 2902.05 2954.70PGHH 10042.85 10097.90 9800.00 10029.35RELAXO 632.20 650.95 632.20 646.25BASF 1284.25 1337.50 1280.45 1310.15DCMSHRIRAM 361.60 386.95 356.90 374.30GARFIBRES 1974.05 1995.90 1920.05 1929.65GODREJIND 374.00 405.10 374.00 398.75WELCORP 109.00 114.60 109.00 114.60SUDARSCHEM 409.25 426.00 409.25 420.40GREAVESCOT 85.00 85.50 81.70 81.95SYNGENE 489.60 489.60 478.60 485.45ABCAPITAL 59.35 60.55 59.30 59.90MAHLIFE 252.50 273.15 252.50 262.50HERITGFOOD 320.15 359.40 320.15 355.60DCBBANK 79.45 80.95 79.45 80.55BAJAJCON 184.70 185.75 176.75 183.35MPHASIS 1225.00 1225.00 1190.00 1199.05ZENSARTECH 173.50 185.70 173.50 182.75ENDURANCE 996.80 1036.05 996.80 1021.50OFSS 3075.00 3108.15 3055.00 3063.70GMRINFRA 20.85 21.40 20.85 21.20EDELWEISS 75.10 75.55 71.80 72.55HUDCO 35.40 36.60 35.40 36.30WESTLIFE 363.00 380.70 363.00 374.60JAGRAN 40.15 42.45 39.95 41.90NESCO 535.05 535.50 522.55 523.95PHOENIXLTD 638.75 665.00 634.30 646.25NLCINDIA 51.70 53.60 51.50 53.35KAJARIACER 411.00 426.75 406.65 421.10ADANITRANS 235.00 244.45 235.00 237.50KTKBANK 43.15 43.60 42.70 43.15PERSISTENT 997.00 1004.90 985.85 999.55SUNDRMFAST 465.00 488.00 452.50 474.30JKLAKSHMI 270.00 275.00 267.00 269.20IFCI 7.10 7.20 7.05 7.14NATCOPHARM 824.00 824.00 810.95 814.10ARVINDFASN 133.50 138.50 132.25 136.65UFLEX 338.20 341.70 332.10 337.55BLUEDART 1873.00 1918.50 1873.00 1889.50UJJIVANSFB 34.60 34.90 34.10 34.60UNIONBANK 29.30 29.55 29.00 29.25PRESTIGE 235.30 242.80 233.65 237.50MIDHANI 207.60 213.35 207.60 210.25SCI 61.85 61.85 60.50 60.75INDIANB 63.95 63.95 62.60 63.15SUMICHEM 270.80 278.50 270.80 274.70TEAMLEASE 2143.60 2188.65 2100.00 2170.00WABCOINDIA 7010.10 7020.00 7006.25 7016.75CHAMBLFERT 152.85 154.85 152.70 153.60J&KBANK 16.90 17.25 16.85 17.20RCF 48.90 49.65 48.80 49.05SONATSOFTW 310.80 315.00 310.05 312.70RALLIS 295.00 298.35 292.55 295.95TASTYBIT 12244.05 12800.00 12001.00 12638.75CREDITACC 575.05 606.90 575.00 605.45LUXIND 1426.80 1427.00 1377.90 1381.75CHENNPETRO 79.70 81.85 78.25 79.15PNCINFRA 144.00 150.45 142.50 147.05SANOFI 8396.35 8442.00 8323.45 8425.75MMTC 19.25 20.70 19.15 20.50KANSAINER 478.00 500.10 473.50 497.95RAJESHEXPO 464.00 545.00 464.00 464.90ATUL 5276.80 5335.15 5262.25 5279.00BAYERCROP 6139.95 6139.95 6003.00 6013.15GODREJAGRO 484.00 485.00 476.50 477.953MINDIA 20993.65 21096.00 20721.65 20803.00HEIDELBERG 193.00 197.15 192.35 193.05AFFLE 2071.00 2120.75 2070.00 2101.40PFIZER 4566.10 4580.90 4550.00 4576.10ESSELPRO 273.70 281.50 268.50 278.60HAWKINCOOK 4760.25 4795.00 4749.90 4751.60SUPRAJIT 168.00 185.00 167.55 180.75RADICO 384.00 396.00 384.00 391.70VINATIORGA 1010.00 1012.95 991.00 996.10KEC 318.55 320.00 311.00 312.55MINDAIND 285.55 292.45 284.50 286.60FLUOROCHEM 499.70 499.70 475.00 476.55JSLHISAR 90.85 94.60 89.40 93.75ADANIPOWER 37.00 37.35 36.70 36.85FINOLEXIND 448.00 455.55 448.00 449.70KRBL 291.75 295.40 290.85 291.55SHANKARA 355.50 363.95 351.50 354.90VAIBHAVGBL 1798.00 1810.00 1750.00 1764.20ABB 931.00 939.30 931.00 933.65POWERINDIA 921.25 939.80 921.25 933.65KPITTECH 79.50 79.50 78.10 78.85GLAXO 1525.00 1525.00 1499.45 1503.80ISEC 470.00 477.20 470.00 472.90CSBBANK 192.80 201.80 192.25 199.10DALBHARAT* 768.90 790.00 768.70 788.85GESHIP 266.30 267.25 259.00 262.45STARCEMENT 89.60 93.85 88.75 92.90MAHSEAMLES 214.10 223.10 213.35 221.30NHPC 20.95 20.95 20.75 20.80DISHTV 8.25 8.50 8.16 8.40TATAINVEST 804.05 822.00 804.05 809.65SIS 376.35 391.80 376.25 386.40UCOBANK 13.69 14.00 13.39 13.69LAXMIMACH 3036.95 3193.95 3036.95 3142.35TIMKEN 984.50 1010.00 984.50 997.75ORIENTREF 186.00 189.00 179.00 185.80PGHL 4708.85 4750.00 4693.05 4712.50FORCEMOT 960.70 980.00 954.55 958.05ZYDUSWELL 1654.80 1654.80 1618.85 1628.45SWSOLAR 249.90 253.00 246.30 250.30HATHWAY 38.40 38.55 36.50 38.20WELSPUNIND 47.80 49.65 47.30 49.65ASTERDM 130.30 132.30 129.40 130.45

JTEKTINDIA 77.05 77.50 75.10 76.05SJVN 23.20 23.30 23.00 23.20BAJAJHLDNG 2660.00 2660.00 2588.60 2628.40SHOPERSTOP 167.80 167.80 164.25 164.95COCHINSHIP 339.80 340.90 336.15 339.60LINDEINDIA 740.00 753.80 736.55 742.45ALLCARGO 102.75 107.50 102.50 104.95SKFINDIA 1524.00 1560.00 1521.60 1532.55ERIS 535.95 536.20 522.55 524.95VBL 781.45 785.00 773.70 780.55TVTODAY 231.70 231.70 223.70 227.35GICRE 142.40 142.50 140.65 140.80PRSMJOHNSN 49.00 50.90 48.20 50.00CENTURYPLY 134.05 135.40 133.85 134.50TNPL 121.95 124.10 120.00 123.75TAKE 47.10 48.50 46.65 46.90JCHAC 2056.15 2119.95 2054.00 2069.70JKCEMENT 1495.65 1512.25 1486.45 1505.60AIAENG 1673.00 1685.00 1658.90 1674.10TCIEXP 774.50 801.60 774.50 789.05NIACL 119.50 119.50 117.60 117.80PCJEWELLER 16.14 16.50 15.50 16.05AAVAS 1410.05 1410.05 1345.00 1375.85VSTIND 3397.55 3421.40 3385.60 3390.60IEX 185.80 187.10 184.50 185.05SPANDANA 587.75 601.90 576.00 577.55REPCOHOME 132.50 134.10 131.90 132.80CARBORUNIV 256.00 260.45 252.80 253.15GSFC 61.75 62.40 61.70 61.80METROPOLIS 1701.05 1708.25 1673.75 1701.55CESC 592.00 592.15 587.25 588.35APLAPOLLO 2300.00 2320.00 2281.85 2303.65IOB 10.51 10.64 10.48 10.58GPPL 80.95 81.45 79.95 80.10INDOCO 256.05 258.55 253.00 254.60INFIBEAM 72.55 73.50 70.50 71.00FINCABLES 289.90 289.90 283.50 285.00

IFBIND 437.50 437.50 411.20 418.65VTL 694.00 723.20 693.60 717.50SUPREMEIND 1218.95 1254.00 1218.80 1247.10MAHSCOOTER 3094.00 3094.00 2951.10 2998.35SCHNEIDER 80.95 80.95 77.90 78.85ORIENTELEC 177.50 181.75 175.60 176.25NBVENTURES 54.40 54.90 53.70 53.90NH 347.15 347.90 337.45 344.15ORIENTCEM 67.50 69.85 67.40 69.60IIFLWAM 1075.45 1167.85 1075.45 1144.15TIINDIA 594.00 599.45 589.05 596.00INTELLECT 191.95 192.95 189.20 191.05MAHLOG 294.15 308.00 294.15 300.10KPRMILL 545.00 545.00 521.65 529.80MAHABANK 12.01 12.20 11.96 12.08CARERATING 402.25 408.70 402.00 403.65GULFOILLUB 658.00 662.00 645.00 658.35MASFIN 671.30 675.50 648.60 652.45LAOPALA 194.85 202.00 194.85 198.05SFL 1370.60 1381.40 1364.50 1373.95FINEORG 2211.00 2284.25 2211.00 2242.65TVSSRICHAK 1460.00 1496.70 1460.00 1465.15SOLARINDS 1025.00 1025.00 1010.00 1017.95CENTRALBK 17.80 17.90 17.60 17.75GDL 83.45 86.25 83.45 85.40VMART 1790.60 1800.00 1765.00 1781.75NAVNETEDUL 78.50 79.65 78.00 79.00MHRIL 168.00 175.00 168.00 170.85SYMPHONY 844.70 844.70 837.65 840.85CHOLAHLDNG 375.50 386.75 372.00 379.20MAHINDCIE 123.00 129.40 122.50 123.95RATNAMANI 1121.25 1135.00 1119.20 1126.05GET&D 104.10 107.30 101.35 107.30KSB 524.25 533.70 510.00 519.50ESABINDIA 1325.00 1397.05 1325.00 1358.85INDOSTAR 244.00 256.10 243.35 254.80NILKAMAL 1254.20 1268.20 1246.00 1253.65DBCORP 79.65 79.65 78.50 78.90OMAXE 75.50 77.15 75.00 76.65SOMANYCERA 134.25 136.20 134.00 134.85ITDC 228.15 232.60 226.10 229.25GEPIL 499.00 499.00 488.15 495.10SCHAEFFLER 3516.30 3529.35 3496.00 3504.55TCNSBRANDS 355.60 355.60 345.00 349.50GRINDWELL 521.65 530.90 518.65 528.10TTKPRESTIG 5403.95 5403.95 5355.30 5377.90CERA 2352.25 2418.00 2352.25 2388.45

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SCRIP OPEN HIgh LOW LTP CHANGENIFTY NEXT 50 27817.90 27975.55 27672.65 27709.70 42.05PNB 34.25 34.60 33.70 34.30 1.45PFC 93.60 98.05 93.60 97.70 4.10ADANITRANS 239.90 248.40 237.70 246.00 8.65GICRE 141.80 147.90 141.00 145.55 4.75PIDILITIND 1425.00 1473.25 1411.10 1453.00 41.70NMDC 95.40 98.65 95.30 97.60 2.65BANKBARODA 46.70 47.75 46.60 47.65 1.15ABBOTINDIA 16800.00 17060.00 16600.00 16901.20 310.40INDIGO 1210.00 1231.90 1190.90 1213.00 16.40UBL 1013.85 1034.70 1005.60 1016.00 11.85HDFCAMC 2424.95 2442.00 2396.00 2437.00 22.75IGL 393.30 399.00 391.50 396.45 3.15HINDPETRO 210.50 213.70 209.95 211.45 1.60BANDHANBNK 290.00 293.50 288.50 290.15 2.15MUTHOOTFIN 1255.00 1292.95 1243.10 1247.40 9.10DIVISLAB 3166.65 3190.00 3140.45 3169.85 19.00NAUKRI 3309.80 3350.55 3282.05 3294.00 17.35NHPC 20.85 20.95 20.80 20.90 0.10BIOCON 397.40 402.20 394.50 396.70 1.85MCDOWELL-N 593.40 597.90 588.10 591.50 2.60SBICARD 826.70 836.70 820.00 825.00 3.60HAVELLS 629.95 631.80 623.00 629.15 2.60SBILIFE 860.65 875.60 860.45 864.00 3.55PEL 1440.00 1513.00 1430.00 1439.80 5.30LUPIN 985.00 1008.80 975.20 984.50 2.80DLF 157.10 159.90 155.60 157.55 0.40ICICIPRULI 455.05 461.85 453.20 454.90 1.05MARICO 375.00 376.70 369.30 374.10 0.85CONCOR 393.00 397.95 392.20 393.45 0.85BAJAJHLDNG 2640.00 2653.95 2626.10 2632.00 2.95ACC 1440.00 1444.00 1425.00 1432.75 0.80CADILAHC 398.90 406.00 394.60 397.00 0.00GODREJCP 693.00 697.85 685.35 690.70 -0.05SRTRANSFIN 698.00 707.90 685.90 690.00 -1.30TORNTPHARM 2834.00 2837.90 2785.05 2800.00 -5.25AMBUJACEM 230.20 231.85 225.70 227.30 -0.90OFSS 3087.95 3087.95 3036.85 3049.80 -14.60DABUR 497.00 504.90 493.00 494.50 -2.50COLPAL 1438.55 1443.95 1418.75 1424.00 -7.60PAGEIND 19223.70 19288.45 18781.00 18994.00 -107.40DMART 2279.00 2309.25 2240.00 2245.00 -14.45PGHH 10039.35 10110.95 9927.50 9966.00 -73.35MOTHERSUMI 126.80 129.50 123.90 125.35 -1.00HINDZINC 234.95 235.60 231.00 232.00 -1.95AUROPHARMA 875.70 889.60 862.10 864.00 -8.10BERGEPAINT 563.00 570.90 554.50 557.20 -5.55PETRONET 260.00 262.35 254.50 255.00 -3.10BOSCHLTD 13948.90 13990.00 13581.00 13640.00 -174.90ICICIGI 1340.00 1359.70 1303.20 1314.00 -22.10SIEMENS 1246.55 1253.60 1220.00 1223.00 -20.60

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The GST Council is likely tomeet on August 27 to dis-

cuss the compensation payoutto states and the opinion of theAttorney General on the legal-ity of market borrowing tomeet revenue shortfall.

Sources said the 41stmeeting of the Goods andServices Tax (GST) Councilwould be a single agenda meet-ing on states’ compensation tobe held via video conferencing.

Besides, a full-fledged

meeting of the Council wouldbe held on September 19, agen-da for which is to be decided indue course, they added.

The Attorney General-who is the chief legal officer ofthe government - has opinedthat the Centre has no statuto-ry obligation to make up forany shortfall in GST revenuesof states from its coffers ,sources had said.

They had earlier indicatedthat following the AG’s opinion,states may now have to look atmarket borrowings to meet

the revenue shortfall and theGST Council will take a finalcall. The Centre had in Marchsought views from AttorneyGeneral KK Venugopal on thelegality of market borrowing bythe GST Council to make upfor any shortfall in compensa-tion fund - a corpus createdfrom levy of additional tax onluxury and sin goods to com-pensate states for revenueshortfall arising from theirtaxes being subsumed intoGST. The AG had also opinedthat the Council has to decide

on meeting the shortfall in theGST compensation fund byproviding the sufficient amountto be credited to the fund.

Sources said the optionsbefore the Council for meetingthe shortfall could be to ratio-nalize GST rates, cover moreitems under the compensa-tion cess or increase the com-pensation cess, or recommendhigher borrowing by states tobe repaid by the future collec-tion into the compensationfund.

Since raising tax or cess

rates might not be feasible inthe current pandemic situation,the option that remains is eachstate borrowing from marketagainst the consolidated fundof the state. Under theGST law, states were guaran-teed to be compensated bi-monthly for any loss of revenuein the first five years of the GSTimplementation from July 1,2017. The shortfall is calculat-ed assuming a 14 per centannual growth in GST collec-tions by states over the baseyear of 2015-16.

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Market benchmarks tickedhigher for the third straight

session on Wednesday, proppedup by Reliance Industries,HDFC Bank and ICICI Bankamid a bullish trend in globalequities.

The BSE Sensex touched ahigh of 38,788.51 during the daybut succumbed to profit-book-ing at the fag-end of the session.It finally closed at 38,614.79, up86.47 points or 0.22 per cent.

On similar lines, the NSENifty rose 23.05 points or 0.20per cent to 11,408.40.

Market behemoth RelianceIndustries climbed 0.68 per cent

after announcing acquisition of60 per cent stake in e-pharma-cy Netmeds for �620 crore.Tech Mahindra was the topgainer in the Sensex pack, rising1.91 per cent, followed by BhartiAirtel, Maruti, ICICI Bank,HDFC Bank, SBI, RIL and ,Asian Paints.

On the other hand, BajajAuto, ONGC, Nestle India, HULand Kotak Bank were among thelaggards, slipping up to 1.42 percent.

According to traders,domestic bourses followed pos-itive cues from

global markets after USequities hit record highs inovernight session.

“Ever present fears regard-ing the Covid-19 impact on eco-nomic recovery brought aboutvolatility in the global markets,despite US markets surging torecord highs. Indian indicesalso exhibited this volatilitybefore closing the day with apositive bias. Banking indexagain led the gains.

“The gains in the Indianmarket, as in the global markets,have been driven by ample liq-uidity and the expectation ofnormalisation of business sup-ported by government mea-sures, in a post Covid-19 sce-nario.

However, investors mustcontinue to remain stock specific

and use the accumulation strat-egy for the time being,” saidVinod Nair, Head of Research atGeojit Financial Services.

BSE telecom, realty, indus-trials, basic materials, utilitiesand finance indices jumped upto 1.49 per cent, while IT,FMCG, healthcare and teckindices ended in the red.

Broader BSE mid-cap andsmall-cap indices rallied asmuch as 1.16 per cent.Persistent foreign fund inflowstoo buoyed investor sentiment,traders said. Foreign institu-tional investors bought equitiesworth a net Rs 1,134.57 crore onTuesday, provisional exchangedata showed.

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India’s general Governmentdebt-to-GDP ratio is set to

surge, with a World Bankreport projecting the ratio atrising to its peak of 89 per centin the financial year 2022-23,before gradually declining.

The report titled ‘IndiaDevelopment Update’ for July2020, noted that with the rev-enue outlook seriously dented,and new expenditure impera-tives, the fiscal deficit and debtof the central and state gov-ernments are likely to increasesharply over the next two years.

“India’s debt-to-GDP ratiois projected to increase signif-icantly in the short term,reflecting the expected con-traction in GDP growth andincrease in the primary deficit.While there is a significant levelof uncertainty around the pro-jections, the general govern-ment debt-to-GDP ratio is pro-jected to peak at around 89 percent in FY22/23 before gradu-ally declining thereafter,” itsaid.

General government debtrefers to the overall liabilities ofboth the Union Governmentand states.It, however, noted

that the country’s public debt isexpected to remain sustainablebecause it is mostly denomi-nated in domestic currency, oflong or medium-term maturi-ty, and is predominantly heldby residents.In a baseline sce-nario, which takes into accountrevised growth projections,lower-than-expected divest-ment proceeds, and newexpenditure commitments, thefiscal deficit of the central gov-ernment is projected toincrease to 6.6 per cent ofGDP in FY 2020-21 andremain at a high of 5.5 per centin the following year.

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Markets regulator Sebi onWednesday proposed

relaxation in norms pertainingto 25 per cent minimum pub-lic shareholding for companieswhich undergo corporate insol-vency resolution and seekrelisting following the process.

Besides, it proposedenhanced disclosure for suchcompanies. Sebi said it is pos-sible that pursuant to imple-mentation of the resolutionplan, the public shareholding insuch companies may drop to

abysmally low levels. In fact, in one recent case

it was observed that post cor-porate insolvency resolutionprocess (CIRP), the publicholding decreased to 0.97 percent, and it showed 8,764 percent jump in share price in spiteof additional preventive sur-veillance actions, includingreduction in price band andmoving the scrip into trade fortrade segment. According toSebi, such low public share-holding raises multiple con-cerns like failure of fair dis-covery of price of the scrip and

need for increased surveillancemeasures and may therefore bea red flag for future cases.Low float also prohibits healthyparticipation in trading of suchcompanies majorly due toissues related to demand andsupply gap of shares, the regu-lator added. Accordingly, theregulator has proposed recali-bration of threshold for mini-mum public shareholding(MPS) norms in companieswhich undergo CIRP and seekrelisting of shares pursuant toimplementation of theapproved resolution plan. It

has sought views of public andmarket intermediaries tillSeptember 18 in this regard. Ithas been suggested that post-CIRP companies may be man-dated to achieve at least 10 percent public shareholding with-in six months and 25 per centwithin three years from thedate of breach of MPS norm.Currently, the norms mandatethat in case public holding ofsuch company falls below 10per cent, then the same will beincreased to at least 10 per centwithin 18 months and 25 percent within three years.

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Facebook Chief OperatingOfficer Sheryl Sandberg has

said that posts uploaded by USPresident Donald would betaken down if they violate thesocial media company’s policieson hate speech and false infor-mation. Ahead of theNovember 3 presidential pollsin the US, Facebook has takena series of steps to check thespread of misinformationthrough its platform.

Kabul: Bomb attacks in Kabuland in northern Afghanistan,as well as an ambush in thecountry’s south killed at leastfive people on Wednesday andwounded 15, officials said.

Two sticky bombs target-ed government employees inthe Afghan capital, killingtwo people, including a policeofficer, and wounding twoothers, police said.

Meanwhile in PuliKhumri, the capital of north-ern Baghlan province, a bombtargeted a vehicle belonging to

the provincial intelligencedepartment, killing two ser-vice members and wounding11 people, including both mil-itary and civilians, said NazirNajem, the provincial gover-nor’s spokesman.

In southern Urozganprovince, gunmen ambushedthe vehicle of the intelligencechief in the city of Tarin Kowt,killing him and woundingtwo other service members,said Zelgay Ebadi, thespokesman for the provincialgovernor. AP

Washington: Democrats have officiallynamed Joe Biden as their presidential candi-date after several elder statesmen lauded theformer US vice president’s leadership skills tochallenge incumbent Republican PresidentDonald Trump in November.

Two Democratic former presidents, BillClinton and Jimmy Carter, and former sec-retary of state John Kerry endorsed Biden onTuesday, the second day of the DemocraticNational Convention (DNC). Former secre-tary of state Colin Powell, a Republican, also

backed Biden’s candidacy.Biden, 77, became the Democratic Party’s

nominee for the November 3 presidentialelection on Tuesday night in a pre-record-ed roll call vote from delegates in all 50states.

He said the nomination “means theworld to me and my family, and I’ll see youon Thursday,” referring to his speech accept-ing the nomination on the final night of thefour-day convention which is largely virtual,amid the coronavirus pandemic. PTI

Gaza City (Gaza Strip):Hundreds of Palestinians in theGaza Strip on Wednesday ral-lied against the US-brokereddeal to normalise ties betweenIsrael and the United ArabEmirates. Protesters burnedIsraeli and American flags,trampled on posters of IsraeliPrime Minister BenjaminNetanyahu and PresidentDonald Trump, and chanted“normalisation is betrayal toJerusalem and Palestine.”

Unlike Palestinian protest-

ers last Friday near the AlAqsa Mosque compound inJerusalem’s Old City who alsoburned posters of the Emiraticrown prince, the Gaza demon-strators stopped short of burn-ing symbols of the UAE —apparently not to antagonisethe Gulf Arab country, wheretens of thousands ofPalestinians work and live.

The demonstrators in GazaCity also voiced support forPalestinian President MahmoudAbbas for his rejection of

President Donald Trump’sMideast plan, which thePalestinians say unfairly favoursIsrael. The protest was organisedby the militant Hamas group,which rules the Gaza Strip, andother factions. Khalil al-Hayya, asenior Hamas official, denouncedthe Israeli-Emirati deal.“Normalisation with the occu-pation harms us and doesn’tserve us,” he said. “Instead, itserves and promotes the occu-pation in its projects that targetPalestine and the region.” AP

Bamako (Mali): The Maliansoldiers who forced PresidentIbrahim Boubacar Keita toresign in a coup promisedearly Wednesday to organisenew elections after theirtakeover was swiftly con-demned by the internationalcommunity. In a statementcarried overnight on statebroadcaster ORTM, the muti-nous soldiers who stagedTuesday’s military coup iden-tif ied themselves as the

National Committee for theSalvation of the People led byCol. Maj. Ismael Wagué.

“With you, standing asone, we can restore this coun-try to its former greatness,”Wagué said, announcing thatborders were closed and thata curfew was going into effectfrom 9 p.M. To 5 a.M.

The news of Keita’s depar-ture was met with jubilationby anti-government demon-strators in the capital.

Brussels: European Unionleaders on Wednesday saidthey stand beside the peopleprotesting for democraticrights in Belarus, underliningthat the EU rejects the electionresults that kept the country’sleader of 26 years in powerand is preparing a list ofBelarusians who face sanc-tions over vote fraud and abrutal crackdown on protest-ers.

The message of supportcame as the leading opposi-tion candidate urged the

Europeans to support “theawakening of Belarus,” and asauthorities in the countrybegan again detaining pro-testers, who took to the streetsof Minsk for an 11th day todemand that PresidentAlexander Lukashenko resign.

“The European Unionstands in solidarity with thepeople of Belarus, and wedon’t accept impunity,”European Council PresidentCharles Michel told reportersafter chairing an emergencyteleconference.

“We don’t recognize theresults presented by theBelarus authorities” Michelsaid the EU will impose sanc-tions on “a substantial num-ber” of people linked to elec-tion fraud and violence.

He declined to name anyof those who might be listed.He also said that the 27-nation bloc fully supportsmediating efforts between theBelarusian government andopposition overseen by theOrganisation for Security andCooperation in Europe. AP

Cairo: Sudan on Wednesdayfired the spokesman for theforeign ministry, a day after heremarked that the Africancountry was looking forwardto making a peace deal withIsrael.

The development comesafter last week’s bombshellannouncement of a dealbetween the United ArabEmirates and Israel to normal-ize relations, which will makethe UAE only the third Arabnation, after Egypt and Jordan,to have full ties with Israel.

Sudan’s acting ForeignMinister Omar Qamar al-Dinsaid he dismissed AmbassadorHaidar Badawi from his postafter Badawi said Tuesday thatSudan was “looking forward toconcluding a peace agreementwith Israel.” AP

Berlin: Saudi Arabia’s foreignminister on Wednesday cau-tiously welcomed an agreementbetween its close ally the UnitedArab Emirates and Israel toestablish full ties and exchangeembassies.

Prince Faisal bin Farhansaid the deal, which also haltedunilateral annexation by Israelof West Bank territory sought bythe Palestinians, “could beviewed as positive.”

But he refrained from out-right backing the move andstressed Saudi Arabia is open toestablishing similar relationson condition that a peace agree-ment is reached between Israeland the Palestinians.

His remarks during a newsconference with GermanForeign Minister Heiko Maaswere the first public commentby Saudi Arabia on Thursday’ssurprise announcement by USPresident Donald Trump thathis administration helped bro-ker the UAE-Israel agreement.

Bahrain, Oman and Egyptissued official statements wel-coming the agreement. The

kingdom did not issue similarstatements and did no-t respond to requests for com-ment until Wednesday’s newsconference in Berlin.The UAEframed its agreement as a suc-cessful measure that haltedIsraeli plans to annex WestBank territory. Israeli PrimeMinister Benjamin Netanyahu,however, has said the suspen-sion is only temporary.

The Palestinians haveissued scathing statements say-ing the UAE undermined Arabconsensus and describing themove as a “betrayal ofJerusalem, Al-Aqsa Mosqueand the Palestinian cause.” SaudiArabia, like other Arab Gulfstates, has built quiet ties withIsrael over the years, in partbecause of shared concernsover Iran and its policies in theregion. Prince Faisal reiteratedduring the press conference thekingdom’s long-stated publicstance of support for the ArabPeace Initiative which promis-es Israel full ties with Arab statesif a peace settlement is reachedwith the Palestinians. AP

Taipei: Chinese hackers infil-trated at least 10 Taiwan gov-ernment agencies and gainedaccess to around 6,000 emailaccounts in an attempt to stealdata, officials said Wednesday.

The damage done was “notsmall”, according to a topTaiwan cyber official, who saidthe full impact was still beingassessed.

Taipei has accused Beijingof stepping up a cyber cam-paign since 2016 when Taiwanelected President Tsai Ing-wen,who refuses to acknowledgeBeijing’s insistence that theself-ruled democratic island ispart of “one China”.

Tsai, who views Taiwan asde facto independent, won re-

election by a landslide inJanuary in what was seen as astrong rebuke to Beijing’s cam-paign to influence the island.

According to the TaiwanInvestigation Bureau’s CyberSecurity Investigation Office,two well-known Chinese hack-ing groups — Blacktech andTaidoor — have been targetinggovernment departments andinformation service providerssince 2018.

“We know for sure thatthese 6,000 emails have beencompromised. We are stillassessing the extent of thedamage,” the office’s deputydirector, Liu Chia-zung, toldAFP.

“As far as we know, the

damage done by this infiltra-tion is not small,” Liu added.

“We are making this pub-lic because we want to alerteveryone of the threat andstop further damage.”

The announcement comesa week after US health secretaryAlex Azar wrapped up a his-toric trip to the self-ruledisland as China warnedWashington not to “play withfire”.

Beijing has ramped updiplomatic and economic pres-sure on Taiwan as well asincreasing military drills nearthe island, including its jetsbreaching Taiwan’s air defencezone with unprecedented fre-quency in recent weeks.

Washington: No new high-level trade talks have beenscheduled between the UnitedStates and China but the twosides remain in touch aboutimplementing a Phase 1 deal,White House Chief of StaffMark Meadows told reportersaboard Air Force One onTuesday.

US President DonaldTrump earlier told reportersduring a visit to Yuma,Arizona, that he had post-poned an August 15 review ofthe trade agreement signedwith China in January given hisfrustration over Beijing’s han-dling of the coronavirus pan-demic.

“I postponed talks withChina. You know why? I don’twant to deal with them now,”Trump said during a briefingon construction of a borderwall with Mexico. “What Chinadid to the world was not eventhinkable. They could havestopped (the virus).”

Meadows said the review,mandated as part of the tradeagreement with China, hadnot been rescheduled, but USrade Representative RobertLighthizer remained in regularcontact with his counterparts in

China about fulfilling its com-mitments.

“There are no rescheduledtalks ... at this point,” Meadowstold reporters.

“Ambassador Lighthizercontinues to have discussionswith his Chinese counterpartsinvolving purchases and ful-filling their agreements.”

Trump struck a non-com-mittal tone when asked if hewould pull out of the trade dealwith China, saying, “We’ll seewhat happens.”

During visits to Arizonaand Iowa on Tuesday, Trumpexpressed frustration aboutChina’s handling of the healthcrisis and its failure to containthe disease, but he also laudedrecord purchases by Beijing ofUS farm products.

China’s imports of US farmand manufactured goods, ener-gy and services are well behindthe pace needed to meet a first-year target increase of $77 bil-lion over 2017 purchases. Butits purchases have increased asChina’s economy recovers froma coronavirus lockdown earli-er this year. AGENCY

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“As a court exercising lawful jurisdiction for theassigned roster, no impediment is seen for exercise of ple-nary power in the present matter,” said Justice Roy invok-ing Article 142 to transfer the Sushant Singh Rajput deathcase to the CBI.

The top court further noted that the Mumbai Police wereconducting only a limited inquiry into the cause of unnat-ural death, under Section 174 CrPC and therefore, it can-not be said with certainty at this stage that they will not under-take an investigation on the other aspects of the unnaturaldeath, by registering an FIR.

The Mumbai Police in an affidavit in the Supreme Courthad denied that the quarantine of IPS officer Vinay Tiwarywas aimed at obstructing the investigation by the Bihar Policein the case registered by Sushant’s father in Patna. Clarifyingthe quarantine of the Bihar Police officer, the Mumbai Policesaid, “In fact, such a step was taken by the MunicipalCorporation for Greater Mumbai and not by police author-ities.”

The SC underlined that uncertainty about the future con-tingency in Mumbai, the father of the deceased has filed thecomplaint at Patna, levelling serious allegations against RheaChakraborty following which, the FIR was registered and theBihar Police started their investigation.

“The case is now taken over by the CBI at the requestof the Bihar Government. The petitioner has no objectionfor investigation by the CBI but is sceptical about thebonafides of the steps taken by the Bihar Government andthe Patna Police,” observed Justice Roy.

However, Justice Roy noted that the incidents referredto in the complaint do indicate that the Mumbai Police alsopossess the jurisdiction to undertake investigation.“Therefore, in the event of a case being registered also atMumbai, the consent for the investigation by the CBI underSection 6 of the DSPE Act can be competently given byMaharashtra Government”, noted the top court.

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Lok Janshakti Party president Chirag Paswan said theSC’s verdict has “respected” sentiments of crores of people.In a tweet, he expressed confidence that the CBI will not onlybring out the truth but also “expose” those who tried to mis-lead the probe in the case of the alleged suicide

Reacting to the SC ordering CBI probe, the Congress saidthe agency should carry out a proper probe into the actor’sdeath, and asserted justice will not be delivered by the BJP-JD(U) making statements for “political gains”. The Oppositionparty also highlighted that the apex court, in its ruling, hasstated that records of the case produced before it, do not“prima facie suggest any wrongdoing by the Mumbai Police”.

Congress spokesperson Shaktisinh Gohil accused theNitish Kumar-led Bihar Government of trying to take polit-ical advantage of the issue in view of the upcomingAssembly polls.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said that he has faiththat the CBI will ensure a speedy probe in actor Sushant SinghRajput’s death case. “We have faith that CBI will conduct aquick probe and justice will happen,” Kumar told a televi-sion channel.

RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav also welcomed the SupremeCourt verdict into the SSR case and said, “this is a victory

for justice”.Shiv Sena leader and spokesman Sanjay Raut said the

“Supreme Court has given its verdict, it is not right to makepolitical comments. Our State’s justice system has always beenone of the best in the country, no one is above law here &to provide justice to all has been the norm.”

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“Perhaps not in the (resignation) letter but elsewhere hehas said that none of us should be the president of the partyand I am in full agreement with him,” the book quotesPriyanka Gandhi as having said in her interview to theauthors. The authors had met Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in July2019 for the interview and they had also spoken to RahulGandhi around the same time.

The meeting was held after Rahul Gandhi had offeredhis resignation from the president’s post at a CongressWorking Committee (CWC) meeting on May 25 last year,taking responsibility for the party’s crushing defeat in the2019 Lok Sabha elections.

The Congress tried to find a non-Gandhi as its chief butfailed to do so and thus the party decided to bring back SoniaGandhi as the interim president. She had given up the postin December 2017 when Rahul Gandhi assumed the reinsof the party.

“We appreciate the sudden media interest in a year-oldremark (Dated 1st July, 2019) of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. Thecontext today is to take on the vicious attack on India’s poli-ty by Modi-Shah dispensation and fight it fearlessly on frontfoot,” tweeted Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala.

He also said: “Nehru-Gandhi family has held togetherand served the Congress unmindful of the trappings of power.In 2004, Sonia set an example by sacrificing power to servethe party. In 2019, Rahul showed the courage of convictionand stepped down as INC president.”

AICC spokesperson Shanktisinh Gohil said former PrimeMinister Manmohan Singh had desired to relinquish his postand pave way for Rahul but latter declined giving a messagethat Gandhis are not power post hungry.

Congress further said millions of Congress workers andleaders have seen that Rahul Gandhi has led the fight tire-lessly, undaunted by the setbacks and vile attacks by ModiGovernment on a daily basis.

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as also on the respective recruitment agencies, involv-ing avoidable/repetitive expenditure, law and order/securi-ty related issues and venue related problems. A common eli-gibility Test would enable these candidates to appear onceand apply to any or all of these recruitment agencies for thehigher level of examination. This would indeed be a boonto all the candidates,” he said.

On an average, 2.5 crore to 3 crore candidates appear ineach of these examinations. Moreover, no limit on the num-bers of attempts will be imposed on the candidates takingthe CET. The score will be valid for a period of three yearsfrom the date of declaration of the result.

The Government will also work towards enhancingexamination infrastructure across the country with specialfocus on 117 aspirational districts.

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Heavy rain in Delhi-NCR onWednesday resulted in

waterlogging, tree uprooting,partial house collapses and traf-fic jams at various places.

According to civic bodies ofDelhi, seven trees were uproot-ed and waterlogging was report-ed in several areas.

A portion of a dilapidatedbuilding collapsed due to inces-sant rainfall in Chirag Delhi anda boundary wall of a publicschool collapsed in Saket accord-ing to South Corporation’s offi-cial.

Besides, a building situated atMoti Nagar and Jahangirpurialso collapsed, a senior northCorporation official said.

Many areas of the neigh-bouring Gurugram were sub-merged in an average of three feetof water, according to localadministration. The worst hitareas being Delhi-Gurugramexpressway, service lane nearJharsa Chowk, IffCO Chowk,Sohna Road, Narsinghpur, BasaiChowk, Sohna Chowk, Sector 4-7, Hanuman Chowk, BilaspurChowk, Fazilpur Chowk, VatikaChowk, Subhash Chowk,Baghtawar Chowk, Atul KatariaChowk, Mahavir Chowk,Dundahera and Jawala Mill.

Following the heavy rainfall,the Delhi Traffic Police issued anadvisory for the people inform-ing them about the routes withheavy jams.

The rain flooded manystreets across the city, turning

them into small rivers, as trafficcame to a virtual standstill at keystretches. Many parts of the citywere completely inundated afterjust a few hours of rain. Picturesand videos of vehicles stuck onwaterlogged roads and peoplewading through waist-deep waterwere widely shared on socialmedia.

According to the DelhiTraffic Police, waterlogging hasbeen reported at BRT nearCentral School, Badarpur toAshram, Badarpur flyover under-pass, Sarita Vihar underpass,Dhaula Kuan towards AIIMScarriageway, Moti Bagh flyoverunderpass, MB Road near BatraHospital, Palam Flyover andChhata Rail.

“Mayur Vihar Phase-2, SaraiKale Khan to DND, Sashi Gardento Kotla, Seemapuri to DilshadGarden underpass, MB Road at

Maidan Garhi, MB Road atAnuvrat Marg, Apsara Borderwere also reported to have water-logging,” said police.

According to the datareleased by the Gurugramadministration, the Gurugramcity -- recorded a rainfall of 95mm, Manesar 75 mm, Wazirabad50 mm, and Pataudi 21 from 8.30am to 11.00 am.

Apart from these areasWazirabad road, CRPF Chowk,Sheetla Mata Road, Palam ViharRoad, Kartepuri Chowk andHero Honda Chowk were alsobadly affected by the waterlog-ging. Besides, vehicles also crawlat connecting roads to thesepoints.

The rain water not only sub-merged the city’s main stretchesand connecting roads but alsoaccumulated at the offices ofMunicipal Corporation

Gurugram (MCG), HaryanaShahari Vikas Pradhikaran(HSVP) and the Gurugram MLAoffice located near civil hospital.

Waterlogging was alsoreported from areas like the OldDelhi road in front of MarutiGate-1, Unitech Cyber Park,Sector 4 and 5 roundabouts,Jawala Mill Road and GolfCourse Road in Gurugram.

“Heavy rain disrupted traf-fic movements in Gurugram,MCG on their task to flush outrain water in the drainage withthe help of pumps, fire tendersand other machinery. I havegiven instructions to the civicbody officials that they shoulddeploy sufficient machineryand manpower at the water-logged places so that the water-logging does not happen inthese areas,” Mayor MadhuAzad, said.

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India has seen two success-ful launches and listing of theReal Estate Investment Trust sofar with fund raising of morethan �9,000 crore, but both werefor rent-yielding commercialassets mainly office parks.The

consultant launched a researchreport titled - ‘Rental housing inIndia: A study of the upcomingwave’ at an event organised byFICCI.

“Rental housing is anothermarket that is yet to be tapped,especially in the urban areaswhich have seen prices of homesgo beyond the cusp of most of thecity dwellers.

“The recently released oper-ational guidelines on ARHC area long-awaited giant leap in theright direction,” said Anurag

Mathur, Chief Executive Officer,Savills India.The property con-sultant said that rental housing inIndia could possibly see a boomin the next two years backed bythe recent reforms announced bythe government.

Rapid urbanization, migra-tion to cities and the rising costof home ownership are the threekey demand drivers for afford-able rental housing in India.

As per the 2011 census,urban households on rent stoodat over 21 million, which is

around 20 per cent of the totalnumber of houses in urban India.Almost 80 per cent of the rentalhousing market in the country isconcentrated in urban centres,the report said.

While India’s urban popula-tion share has grown more thanthreefold in over a century ataround 10 per cent in the 1900sto current levels of more than 34per cent, annual inter-statemigration is estimated to begrowing at around 9-10 millionannually.

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The Delhi Disaster ManagementAuthority (DDMA) allowedhotels and weekly markets to

open on a trial basis in the national cap-ital, complying with the COVID-19 pro-tocols. However, fitness centres andgyms have not been given permissionto open. The meeting, chaired by LGAnil Baijal, happened on August 18 andresulted in favour of the hoteliers, whowelcomed the decision of the govern-ment.

The Hotel Association of India(HAI), which represents 300 hotelsacross categories, also supported themove. A spokesperson of HAI said,“The Hotel Association of India wel-comes the move by the StateGovernment to allow the hotel and hos-pitality sector to start operations again

in New Delhi. Indian HospitalityIndustry holds immense potential to bea global leader and we believe this movewill slowly help this capital-intensive,people-centric sector to gradually inchtowards revival. While the opening ofhotels in Delhi will help in aiding theresurgence of the sector, there is a lotmore support required to keep the ‘sur-vival and revival’ of the industry inmind.”

“We have been aggressively pursu-ing the government — both State andCentral — to allow an extension on loanmoratorium, relief towards PropertyTax, Excise Duty, Fixed Electricity andPower Costs. Our vision is to provideall the necessary elements that will pro-pel the sector towards heightenedgrowth in the years to come. Extending

support to the government, we have alsoproposed to bring in an inter-state taskforce to share the load in reviving thesector,” the spokesperson added.

Dr Jyotsna Suri, ExecutiveCommittee Member, Hotel Associationof India and Chairperson and MD,Bharat Hotels Limited, said, “We wel-come the move of the Government forreopening of hotels in Delhi. We arethankful to LG Anil Baijal, Chief Ministerof Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal, and Ministerof State for Tourism and Culture, PrahladSingh Patel, for this initiative. This deci-sion will enable the revival of the indus-try and help sustain the livelihood ofmany employees affected by the lock-down. We look forward to resumingoperations as per new norms and withstrict hygiene and sanitisation protocols.”

The Wallace Collection in Londonhosts Forgotten Masters: IndianPaintings for the East India

Company, curated by award-winninghistorian, William Dalrymple. Theexhibition, which roughly spans theyears between 1770 and 1840, is dedi-cated to the Indian artists who werecommissioned by British patrons asso-ciated with the East India Company(EIC). These artists (whose many workswere destined for export to Europe)have been generally grouped, by art his-torians and curators under the umbrel-la term ‘Company Painting’ ratherthan credited to individuals.

The exhibition aims to point outthat these individuals deserve a placein the history of Indian art more thanthey merit a place in the history of colo-nialism. Dalrymple, who calls himselfMehrauli goat herd, steps out of hisorbit and does India a huge favour incalling a spade a spade and giving iden-tities to these unknown artists.

‘Kampani Qalam’, the Urdu namefor the rich, hybrid art style associat-ed with commissions for the EIC, hasbeen split into six rooms of absolutenostalgia and brilliance in composition-al character.

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Calcutta feature in this epic sojournsince the city was the headquarters ofthe EIC. Story goes that Elijah Impey,chief justice of Calcutta’s SupremeCourt, and his wife, Mary, had amenagerie of pets — animals andbirds. Mary commissioned the giftedMuslim painter Shaikh Zain-ud-din ofPatna to create an album documentingtheir exotica between 1777 and 1783.Zain-ud-din was then supported by apair of Hindu painters from Patna. Thethree did the lion’s share of the workwhile Zain-ud-din executed or oversawmore than 300 stunning sheets. Allthree natives of Patna spoke Bengali.

Critics have called this show of 100works, fascinating and delightful. TheBengali-speaking trio was master in the

Mughal miniature style of painting butunder their new aegis would createworks that were a new hybrid artform. Birds, animals and botanicalsformed the beauty of composition andnatural history.

The master, Shaikh Zain-ud-din,and his assistants, Ram Das andBhawani Das, were the core team forImpey. The latter’s, specialised in botan-ical drawings, Spray of Green Mangoes(1775) is a delightful showcase of all fer-tile greens in the spectrum and thefruit’s luscious deep tones contrastingwith the lime bending branches.Bhawani Das excelled at drawing ani-mals too, perhaps as shown in his MaleFruit Bat (1772-82). Painting throughwatercolours on paper in the Europeantradition, Das captured the form of thefruit bat using the Mughal practice of

prataj — a meticulous shading fromlight to dark to define shape.

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Combing a wide variety of Indiantraditions, curator Dalrymple alsoshifts the limelight from EIC commis-sioners towards the brilliance of theIndian artists. He belatedly honoursthese historically-overlooked artistsincluding Shaikh Zain-ud-din, BhawaniDas, Shaikh Mohammad Amir ofKarriah, Sita Ram and Ghulam AliKhan. He brings out a forgottenmoment in the Anglo-Indian history.These dazzling, surprising artworksoffer a rare glimpse of the culturalfusion between British and Indian artstyles as they reflect the beauty of thenatural world as well as the social real-

ity of those times.

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lights the conversation between tradi-tional Indian, Islamic and Westernschools and features works fromMughal, Marathi, Punjabi, Pahari,Tamil and Telugu artists. They werecommissioned by a diverse cross-sec-tion of EIC officials, ranging frombotanists and surgeons to the membersof the East India Company civil service,diplomats, governors and judges, theirwives, as well as some more itinerantBritish artists and intellectuals passingthrough India for pleasure and instruc-tion. What they all had in common wasa scholarly interest in, and enthusiasmfor, India’s rich culture, history and eco-logical biodiversity.

The exhibition highlights the maincentres of ‘Company School’ painting— Calcutta and Lucknow, whereprovincial Mughal painters fromMurshidabad, Patna and Faizabad wereemployed; Madras and Tanjore, whereartists from the South Indian traditionsreceived patronage; and Delhi, whereImperial Mughal artists created someof the finest works of this period. Theirpaintings represent one of the great andforgotten moments of Indian art dur-ing a period of cultural exchangebetween the artists and their EICpatrons.

Xavier Bray, director, WallaceCollection, hopes that the show will“highlight the long history of culturalco-operation between the UK andIndia and help foster partnershipsbetween Indian donors and UK insti-tutions. To this end, the exhibition issponsored by DAG, a commercialgallery with locations in India and NewYork.”

Dalrymple puts the spotlight onForgotten Masters, gives them an identitylong overdue and proves that the KampaniQalam was not a relic of the EIC but anunbroken tradition of Indian art before theadvent of conspicuous colonialism andimperial photography.

(The exhibition runs till September 13.)

After the departure of TikTok, Instagram Reels has

become the most popular appfor young Indians as seven in 10(18 to 29 age group) said theywould like to use Reels as a plat-form for video sharing, a newreport said.

In the absence of theChinese short-video-makingapp Tik Tok, nearly two-thirdsof urban Indians (65 per cent)said they are likely to turn toalternatives or start using videoapps that are either Indian ornon-Chinese in origin, accord-ing to data provided by YouGov,an Internet-based marketresearch and data analytics firm.

Millennials (69 per cent)were most likely to show theirreadiness to switch to Tik-Tok’salternatives, as compared toGenZ (54 per cent). Likewise,men were more likely thanwomen to hold a similar view(70 per cent vs 59 per cent).

“The government’s decisionto ban Tik Tok along with otherChinese apps has presented an

opportunity for homegrownplayers who are gearing up totake advantage of this situation,”said Deepa Bhatia, GeneralManager, YouGov India. “It is,therefore, imperative to gaugethe needs of the audience andunderstand their preferences inthis space,” she added.

Nearly 68 per cent TikTokcontent creators said they arelikely to switch to Indian ornon-Chinese versions of videosharing apps. On being present-

ed with a list of alternatives,Instagram Reels topped the listof apps most likely to be used bypeople in the future.

The platform, which isFacebook’s answer to TikTok, iswelcomed by more than six in10 (62 per cent ) urban Indianswho claim to have tried it andare likely to continue using it.

“Nearly as many have asimilar view about Singapore-based app Cheez (59 per cent),which has a higher appealamong tier-2 users as com-pared to tier-1 city residents,”said the survey.

Apart from these foreignapps, more than half claimed tohave tried the homegrown appRoposo and are likely to use itin the future (54 per cent).

Other regional social mediaapps such as Moj (47 per cent),Gana Hotshot (44 per cent),Josh (42 per cent), Taka Tak (42per cent), Mitron (40 per cent)and Chingari (36 per cent) alsoappear to have gained ground,the survey revealed.

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thing and do it well. You can always do filmslater in life. It’s not something that you have

to do when you’re young. Non-film musicis more about youth and pop culture.

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sticking to it.�What does music mean

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focus is on music.�What is there in the

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I was asked to study since I was just18. But I said I would study and work.�What is Khuda Hafiz about?

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It has been shot in Uzbekistanand Lucknow. Uzbekistan in the

film represents a Middle-easterncountry on which the film hasbeen modeled. A lot of othercountries were wary of allowingshooting due to the edgy con-tent. Finally, Uzbekistan turnedout to be in our favour. Thecountry has an old civilisation

with an old culture vibe to it. Itlended itself to some interesting

architecture too.�Why choose Uzbekistan?

It was important for me to capture

the background that the country has tooffer. It makes the telling unique. My char-acter had reached one of the Middle-eastcountries in search of his wife. The back-drop became important because one of thebarriers that he encountered was languageand his inability to communicate —nobody spoke English, it was all Arabic. Itwas important to capture that sense ofhelplessness.�How did you zero in on VidyutJammwal and Aahana Kumra?

Apart from working with a goodactor, one needs to work with a goodhuman being. The first connection that Ihad with Vidyut was that we were able torelate with each other as people. The jour-ney of an actor and a director in an inti-mate one, at least it is for me, especiallywhen it comes to Vidyut’s character, Samir.The entire charge of the film is throughthis character. I needed to make sure thatwhoever I am collaborating with, theycompletely surrender to play this role inhonesty. Nowhere in the movie will yousee Vidyut doing any action and nowhereare his six-pack abs showing. We didn’twant to dilute the content due to commer-cial compulsions.�What are some of the challenges thatcome when you are a director and awriter?

The challenging part is to not suc-cumb to makings and trying to make afilm. For me, what is imperative is that tillI have fully fleshed out the screenplay andI am absolutely satisfied, I don’t step out toconnect with anyone. This takes seven tonine months. Patience is a virtue and as awriter I have developed this. Once youhave written your material, directing is notso challenging, it is a bonus because thenas a storyteller you have your teeth moresunk into the narrative. �Is that why there is a gap between yourfilms, because you are a perfectionist?

It is just the opposite. I don’t makefilms to survive. I make a lot of ad films. Imake web series. At present, I am produc-ing web series that are on four differentplatforms. Last year, I made 377 AbNormal that was released on ZEE5. I wantto make films organically; I don’t want tostruggle to make them. I want to have funwhen I make them.�What made you direct a horror webseries?

In all humility, I made the first horrorweb series, Shockers for Hotstar as an orig-inal even before Netflix and AmazonPrime came in the country. Horror is abad word in the industry since we associ-ate it with Ramsay Brothers. But it wasgood then. Now, there is a different lan-

guage for telling stories. I didn’t treat theseries as horror but as unusual supernat-ural stories. Hence, they are subtle andunderstated.�You have directed music videos as well.Is it different as opposed to directingfilms?

Absolutely. Irrespective of what peoplesay, there is a huge difference betweenworking on a shorter format as opposed toa longer one. My professional journeyhappened gradually —from documen-taries to music videos to ad films to filmsto web series and then back to ad films. Ifeel fortunate that I have directed in everyformat.�Is the actor in you ever in conflict withthe director in Allah Ke Banday?

There is a reason how I ended up act-ing in the movie. The person who was toplay Yakub backed out last minute.Everything was a go so my producerpushed me into acting. The only conflictwas I didn’t know myself as an actor.When I saw myself on the monitor for thefirst time, I didn’t recognise my voice.While directing, I used to mentally tick offthat the others had spoken their dialoguescorrectly and now it was my turn. But inthe process, I realised that I was not doingjustice to Yakub. Overall, it was a learningcurve.

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down got over, many of us havealready started calling ourselves proudVloggers. But some people don'tbelieve in going the traditional way.They want to do something different.Meet Ripu Daman Bevli, a 31-year-oldathlete, fitness enthusiast and mostimportantly the Plogging Ambassadorof India.

He is the man behind makingplogging (picking up trash while jog-ging) as common as vlogging in India,if not more. Bevli took up the causeback in 2017 after recovering from ahamstring injury.

“I have been a sportsman and a fit-ness enthusiast all my life. But both ofthem took a back seat in 2013 when Isuffered a hamstring injury and wasbed-ridden. That was the toughestphase of my life as I had to give up onmy goals. It took me four years torecover. By the time I was better, I hadput on so much weight. Then to get mylife back on track, I started jogging.One day, while I was busy jogging, Irealised the amount of trash that wegenerate. At every nook and corner, Ican see wrappers, cans and plastic bot-tles lying. However, everyone wasbusy running and jogging without pay-ing any attention to all the trash. Thisgot me thinking. That’s when I decid-ed why not encourage people to pick-up trash while they are out for theirusual jogging routine,” he tells you.

Bevli's idea was not to preach any-thing to anyone. Because this, he says,wouldn’t have solved the purpose. “Myidea was to make picking up garbagea cool thing. Because for a lot of peo-ple cleaning other’s garbage is a mat-ter of disgust. The ones who cleaneverything are called kachra walas. Iwant to ask people how they are evenkachra walas when they are the onesresponsible for cleaning our trash? Infact, we are the real kachra walas. Iwanted to change this mindset. Andinstead of going the conventional wayand teaching people, I wanted tomake it cool and trendy so that morepeople are attracted towards it,” he says.

Bevli worked towards the cause, allalone. Later, his friends joined in too.“I started by cleaning about 4km

stretch daily after my run in Delhi-NCR. After cleaning theareas, I took to socialmedia to post the beforeand after pictures of thearea. This is how peoplegot to know aboutplogging. Soonafter some of myfriends showedinterest in joiningme,” he explains.

Not every-thing wentsmooth inBevli's journey.He had to facehis fair shareof challenges.“The firstchallenge wasto brave allthe weirdstares from people.Whenever I startedcleaning an area, oneperson or the otherwould walk up to meto ask why am Idoing it and if every-thing is fine with me.This bothered me alot. Hence, I toldthem that whensomeone litters an

area none of us have the courage toshame them or even tell them not to,but when someone is cleaning up anarea we go and ask them what'swrong. Some people got my pointwhile others just walked away. Thesecond challenge that I faced was I was

chased by monkeys and dogs manytimes and then I had to run for mylife. Third, cleaning trash all thetime was exhaustive not only

physically, but mentally too.There were times when I

used to wake up puking. Ifelt nauseous most of thetime. All the harmful

fumes and gases weretaking a toll on myhealth. I felt sick and

sometimes disgustedtoo,” he recalls.

What gives the 31-year-old motivationto keep going is peo-ple’s active partici-pation and encour-agement from theG ov e r n m e nt .“When I startedLitter FreeIndia, I want-ed people totake charge

of it, that’s why I calledit a movement. Then when I came up

with Run To Make India Litter Freelast year, on day one I started all alonein Kochi. But by the end of the cam-paign, in Delhi, we saw a participationof more than 50 lakh people. Witheach city, the number kept growingand it was encouraging. It felt goodthat without having to insist and invitepeople, they were there. Then afterthis, to my surprise, I was appointedas the Plogging Ambassador of Indiaby Kiren Rijeju in December, 2019.That was a proud moment for me. So,all this love keeps me going,” Bevlisays.

To work towards the cause fulltime, he even left his corporate job. “Ittook me a year to figure out my loveand passion for the environment andI realised if I continue my work thenI won’t be able to dedicate my timetowards the cause. Hence, I decidedto call it quit. It was definitely a bolddecision since I had no financialsupport. But my mother supported meand I decided to go with the flow.Today, when I see people actively par-ticipating in the cleanliness drives, Ifeel proud of my decision,” he says.

He recalls an incident when hewas with a group of people agedbetween 60 and 80, who were tooworking towards the same cause:“After our cleaning drive, we all sat forlunch. Once everyone was done with

it, most of them pulled a tissue fromthe tissue box kept on every table. Iwas offered one too, but I refused.They asked that I am against plasticthen what’s wrong with a tissue paper.Then I told them that I am not onlyagainst using plastic but every one-time use thing and tissue papers areone of them. They understood mypoint and all of them took a pledge tonever use a tissue paper again. Thistouched my heart and I realised thatpeople are now actually understand-ing the cause.”

Bevli adds and points out howduring and after the lockdown, thedemand of single-time use items, beit the plastic PPE kits or masks hasincreased manifold.

“A pandemic can’t be an excuse toexploit nature. In fact, we should learnfrom it and start respecting MotherNature more than ever. I have seenhow the demand of one-time usemasks, gloves and PPE kits hasincreased. This is biohazard waste andwill take years to decompose. This willdo more harm than good. Hence,people should be encouraged tomake cotton masks at home. Thereare hundreds of thousands of videoson social media that can teach youhow. If not, then buy reusable cottonmasks only,” he insists.

A lesson that Bevli has learnt inhis life is to respect the environment.“Since I was 8, I used to travel a lotwith my mother, who worked in theArchaeological Department.Therefore, I have spent most of thetime visiting historical monumentsand what I saw there was carbon foot-prints of people. I was always told topreserve the history for our futuregenerations. Therefore, our focusshould be on leaving footprints andnot carbon footprints,” Bevli, who wasbrought up by a single mother, says.

Bevli’s efforts was lauded by thePrime Minister Narendra Modi andhe was also featured in Mann Ki Baat.Now with PM Modi’s announce-ment of Garbage free week, a week-long cleanliness drive has culminat-ed on August 15, it would be sounfair to not give Bevli a special mention on the

occasion.

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I won’t use all those fancy words, it’s just becauseof hard work and practice over the years.�You began rapping at 14. What got you inter-ested?

I heard Nas’ album Illmatic and I was blown away.That’s when I thought I should do the same and tellpeople the problems that we face in our society inour own language. That’s how it happened. �What do you think the future holds for the indus-try?

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his side’s commitment andbelief in the second Test againstEngland following a heart-breaking defeat in the seriesopener.

“It was always going to bedifficult to fight back afterwhat happened in Manchesterbut the players’ commitmentand belief was outstanding.

“We have the belief that wecan come back in the final Testand it’s so important to us thatPakistan supporters back homeand around the world sharethat belief with us,” Misbahwrote in his column for thePakistan Cricket Board website.

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The wait is finally over forParis Saint-Germain.After 110 Champions

League matches, the Frenchpowerhouse has made it to thefinal of Europe’s top club com-petition.

And there was no need forlate drama for PSG this time asÁngel Di María scored a goaland set up two others in a com-fortable 3-0 win over Leipzig inthe semifinals on Tuesday.

PSG became the firstFrench league club to reach theChampions League final sinceMonaco in 2004, and it canbecome the second Frenchteam to win the title afterMarseille in 1993.

PSG will face either five-time champion Bayern Munichor fellow French club Lyon.They meet on Wednesday inthe other semifinal.

Marquinhos and JuanBernat also scored as theQatari-owned French club

moved a win away from final-ly capturing an elusiveEuropean crown.

Neymar, who set upone of the goals with aneat backheel flick insidethe area, is also a stepcloser to fulfilling hisgoal of winning theChampions League awayfrom former club Barcelona.

The result ended a surpris-ing run for the Red Bull-backedLeipzig, the young Germanclub that was making only its

second Champions Leagueappearance.

PSG looked in control fromthe start at Benfica’sStadium of Light, withMarquinhos and Di Maríascoring in the first halfand Bernat adding to thelead in the second.

PSG has been domi-nant in France but the maingoal for its Qatari owner hasbeen to win the ChampionsLeague title and earn its placeamong Europe’s elite. The club

was eliminated in the tourna-ment’s round of 16 in the lastthree seasons, and in the quar-terfinals four straight timesbefore that.

PSG was back at fullstrength in attack with KylianMbappé and Di María return-ing to the starting lineup.Mbappé didn’t play from thestart in the quarterfinals as herecovered from injury, while DiMaría was suspended on accu-mulation of yellow cards.

Di María delivered a per-fect free kick into the area forMarquinhos to open the scor-ing in the 13th minute with aheader into the far corner. TheBrazilian midfielder also scoredthe crucial 90th-minute equal-izer against Atalanta.

Di María added the second

from inside the area in the 42ndafter a nice flick by Neymar ina buildup that began withLeipzig goalkeeper PéterGulácsi making a bad pass. DiMaría’s second assist set up JuanBernat close-range goal in the56th.

PSG was denied by thewoodwork three times in thefirst half alone, with Neymar,Mbappé and Di María comingclose to scoring. It also had agoal disallowed for a handball.

PSG has scored in its last 34Champions League games,matching the record set byReal Madrid from 2011-2014.

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Kolkata Knight Riders headcoach Brendon McCullum

wants to delegate some “leader-ship responsibility” to youngShubman Gill during theupcoming IPL in the UAE.

During last season,Shubman batted way lowerdown the order which got thefranchise lot of flak.

“What a talent, and what agood guy as well. He is going tobe a part of our leadershipgroup this year as well, at leastin some capacity,” the formerKiwi skipper said of Gill in aninterview in KKR website.

“Even though he is young,I am a big believer that it’s notnecessarily true that you havingplayed for a long time makes you

a good leader,”the formerBlack Capsskipper said.

A p a r tfrom the star

Windies all-r o u n d e r

A n d r eRussell, the2 0 - y e a r-old Gillp l a y e ds o m eresponsibleknocks in

2019 edition but his battinglower down the order hurt theteam’s cause.

“It’s about you exhibiting thebehaviours of a leader. It’s alwaysgood to have a cross-section ofleadership within your group. Tous, Shubman is one of those guyswe would look to lean on forsome leadership throughoutthis season,” McCullum said.

Dinesh Karthik took overthe captaincy from their mostsuccessful skipper GautamGambhir in 2018 when theymade the play-off for the lasttime.

Backing Karthik as the oneof the best wicketkeepers ofIndia, McCullum said: “You’vegot to break DK down a little bitinto different parts to under-stand this. I think first andforemost, wicketkeeping. He’s upthere with the very best wicket-keepers in India.”

On Karthik’s batting, theNew Zealand great said: “He’s as

good and asadaptable inany role. He

doesn’t come withperhaps, the star-

dom that some guysdo and that’s just DK’s

personality.“But he’s a big star

within the KKR franchise,he’s now been at the helm

for a couple of years and he’shad some success.”

McCullum believes thatKarthik has now matured as

a leader.“The team hasn’t quite got

over the line, but I think DK isin that stage in his leadershipwhere he’s almost ready to real-ly mature and to really take own-ership of the Knight Riders setup and back his judgement.”

With the addition of PatCummins and Eoin Morgan totheir leadership group,McCullum felt that Karthikwould also get some support tobring out his best.

��������� Seven monthsafter dominating Australia’sTest summer , MarnusLabuschagne is hoping tocement his place in thenation’s limited overs sideson the white-ball tour ofEngland.

Labuschagne, whomade his ODI debut inIndia in January, averagesover 50 from seven match-es in the format but is yet towin selection in AaronFinch’s T20 side.

“It doesn’t matter whatthe format is, I want to getbetter,” Labuschagne toldreporters in Brisbane onWednesday.

“Definitely some areasin one-day cricket I’m con-

tinuing to develop are mybowling, making sure I geta bit more consistent andbecome a better option forthe skipper with the ball inthose middle overs. “I alsowant to keep working onmy batting at the death.”

Covid-19 scuppered hisplans to play for Englishcounty side Glamorgan butLabuschagne kept himselfbusy at Cricket Australia’straining centre in Brisbane.

“It’s been good to havefive months to work on(short format) skills —whereas if I was playingcounty cricket then youmight not have the oppor-tunity to work on those spe-cific skills,” added the 26-

year-old righthander.Boasting an average of

63.43 from his 14 Tests,Labuschagne has alreadybeen touted as a futureleader of the Australianteam by former captainRicky Ponting.

However, Labuschagnesaid he is not thinkingabout leadership roles andis happy for his bat to do thetalking.

“I love being a leaderbut I don’t think that meansyou need a title,” he said.

“It’s just about ... enjoy-ing my cricket and makingsure that I keep stayingconsistent scoring runs forAustralia — because that’smy job.” Agencies

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Delhi Capitals head coachRicky Ponting says he will

not allow senior India off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwinto employ the controversial‘Mankading’ dismissal duringthe upcoming IPL as “it’s notwithin the spirit of the game”.

Last IPL, Rajasthan Royalsbatsman Jos Buttler was runout on 69 while backing up atthe non-striker’s end, withAshwin, then captaining KingsXI Punjab, whipping off thebails after the batsman steppedout of the crease before the ballwas bowled. Ashwin will playfor Delhi Capitals this year.

“I’ll be having a chat with

him about (Mankading), that’sthe first thing I’ll do. That isgoing to be a hard conversationI will have with him. I think,even him, looking back now,

probably he’d say it was with-in the rules and he’s right to doit,” Ponting said while speakingon The Grade CricketerPodcast.

“...Watching that last sea-son, as soon as it happened, Iactually sat our boys down andsaid ‘Look, I know he’s done it,there’ll be others around thetournament who’ll think aboutdoing this well but that’s notgoing to be the way that we playour cricket. We won’t be doingthat’.”

The senior Indian bowlerhad defended his act at thattime, saying it was within therules of the game.

But Ponting feels the con-troversial mode of dismissal isagainst the spirit of the game.

“But this is not within thespirit of the game, not in theway I want, at least with theDelhi Capitals anyway,” he said.

������� Barcelona will tryto end one of the worst crisesin club history with RonaldKoeman as its coach.

Barcelona officiallyannounced a deal withKoeman on Wednesday, a dayafter club president JosepBartomeu had said theDutchman accepted the coach-ing offer.

The official announcementcomes five days after theteam’s humiliating 8-2loss to BayernMunich in theChampions Leaguequarterfinals.

Barcelona saidthe former defender’sdeal runs throughJune 2022.

K o e m a nreplaces the firedQuique Setién,who stayed

only 25 matches on the jobafter taking over from ErnestoValverde in January.

“The Dutchman bringsmore than 20 years of experi-ence as manager and eighttrophies on his CV,” the clubsaid.

Koeman had been coach-ing the Dutch national teamsince 2018, and previouslycoached in the Premier League,

the Spanish league, theDutch league and thePortuguese league.

As a player, Koemanhelped Barcelona clinchits first European title byscoring an extra-time

winner in a finalagainst Sampdoria

at WembleyS t a d i u mnearly twod e c a d e sago. AP

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Former Pakistan all-rounderAzhar Mahmood is set to

play a crucial role in scripting hisnative country’s downfall in thethree-match T20 series againstEngland after the hosts includedhim in the coaching staff for theupcoming contest, startingAugust 28.

The England and WalesCricket Board (ECB) on Tuesdaysaid that Mahmood, 45, willsupport England bowling coachJon Lewis during the series to beplayed in a bio-secure environ-ment at Old Trafford.

Mahmood, who is now aBritish citizen, was a member ofPakistan’s coaching staff underMickey Arthur till last year.

England assistant coachGraham Thorpe will assume thehead coach’s role for the three-match series in place of ChrisSilverwood. He will be support-ed by assistant coach PaulCollingwood.

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Neymar has struck a richvein of form in 2020, guidingPSG to a domestic treble andto within one victory of theirfirst UEFA Champions Leaguetriumph.

“It’s very enjoyable to playwith a guy like Neymar. He isone of the best in the world,”Mbappe told reporters.

“If we win the ChampionsLeague, he will certainly be ina position to win the award. Heis destined to win this type oftrophy.”

Despite not being on thescoresheet in PSG’s past twomatches, Neymar has shone ina playmaker role that hasshowcased his fine passingskills. His back flick to set upAngel Di Maria’s first-half goalon Tuesday put in him in thetop 10 for all-time ChampionsLeague assists.

PSG captain and fellowBrazilian Thiago Silva alsosaid Neymar deserved to berecognised as the world’s pre-eminent player.

“Whether we win the finalor not, I believe he can win it,”Silva said. “We know it’s hisgoal. He is an excellent playerand this year he has doneincredible things. He has beenmotivated since we came backfrom the pandemic. I think histime will come. He just has tokeep working hard like he’sdoing.” AP

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everybody took on the challenge. Overall I’mreally happy with the way the team batted.Everybody just tried to hang in and score runs.

“The partnerships involving Abid Ali,

Azhar Ali and Babar Azamat the top of the order werereally pleasing and encour-aging, in testing conditions,”wrote Pakistan’s most suc-cessful Test captain.

Misbah opined thebowlers’ performance inEngland’s short first inningswould give his side therequire momentum going inthe third Test, which willcommence at Ageas Bowl inSouthampton on Friday.

“We expected the pitchto deteriorate towards theend of the match and it did.Even with just a couple ofhours of sun at the end of thematch, Yasir Shah was able tochallenge the England bats-men,” he said.

“The seamers alsobowled really well and I wasreally happy with the way wefinished the match. That lastsession, even as the gamedrifted towards a draw, givesus a lot of confidence goinginto the last Test.”

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The coronavirus-forcedbreak has helped Australia’s

limited overs skipper AaronFinch to re-assess his career ashe aims to extend his career tillthe 2023 ODI World Cup inIndia.

Finch said he is target-ting to end his career ona high with a WorldCup final appearancein 2023.

“My end date atthis stage is theWorld Cup final ofthe 2023 WorldCup in India.That’s my goal andI’m sticking to it,”Finch was quoted as say-

ing by SEN radio network.“That’s what I had my

mind set on a fair while (ago),but I think this period has justconfirmed it. That’ll see me

through to 36 (years old),obviously with form andeverything permitting,and injuries.”

The 33-year-old right-handed batsman saidthe five month-longforced break hasrejuvenated himand he now desiresto lead Australia in

next three major ICCevents — the T20 World

Cups in 2021 and 2022followed by the ODIWorld Cup in 2023.

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as difficult as it’s been for somany people, for athletes andespecially ones that are travel-ling nonstop and playing for 10or 11 months of the year, it’sbeen that mental freshen upthat people probably neededbut haven’t had the opportuni-ty to do.

“If I thought I was going tobe pushing it to get to that date,this break has confirmed thatI’ll be ready to go right throughto that period,” he said.

Finch and Australia willresume competitive cricketafter six months when theytour England next month forthree T20Is and as many ODIs,starting September 4 atSouthampton.

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