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S audi Arabia has partially lifted its suspen- sion order for travel to India. Now flights would be allowed from Saudi Arabia to India but not from India to Saudi Arabia. Late on Wednesday night, Air India Express informed passengers of a partial relax- ation in the Saudi Arabian order. The airline’s official Twitter handle said, “Air India Express Vande Bharat flights would continue to carry passengers on it’s flights from Saudi Arabia to India. The Airline would not carry passengers from India to Saudi Arabia.” In a circular issued on Tuesday, Saudi Arabia’s General Authority of Civil Aviation said it was “suspending travel to and from the following countries: (India, Brazil and Argentina) including any person who has been in any of the mentioned countries above in the last 14 days prior to their arrival to the Kingdom”. New Delhi: American cult bike manufacturer Harley Davidson on Thursday said it is discontinuing sales and manufacturing operations in India, a decade after it start- ed selling its premium bikes in the country. Industry sources said the company is looking to tie up with a partner to run its busi- ness in the country. The India action will include an associ- ated workforce reduction of approximately 70 employees, Harley-Davidson Inc said in an SEC filing. In a separate statement, Harley-Davidson said it plans to close its manufacturing facil- ity in Bawal (Haryana) and sig- nificantly reduce the size of its sales office in Gurgaon. C ontinuing its investigations in the Sushant Singh Rajput death-related drug case and the expanded Bollywood- drug nexus case, the Narcotic Control Bureau (NCB) grilled Sushant’s ex-manager Shruti Modi and fashioner designer Simone Khambatta and sched- uled the questioning of actress Rakul Preet Singh and Deepika Padkone’s manager Karishma Prakash for Friday and actress Deepika on Saturday. Deepika arrived in Mumbai from Goa on Thursday night. As a section of the elec- tronic media carried on with their trial of the Bollywood per- sonalities on issues relating to the Bollywood-drug nexus, the NCB grilled Shruti Modi for eight hours, while it ques- tioned Simone for five hours. “Today Simone Khambatta and Shruti Modi joined the investigation and statements in this regard have been record- ed at NCB. Tomorrow Rakul and Karishma will be joining the investigation,” NCBs Deputy Director (Operations) KPS Malhotra said. Sources said that the NCB had also called director and executive producer Kshitij Ravi Prasad of Karan Johar's Dharma Production for ques- tioning on Friday. However, there was no formal confirma- tion from the NCB that it had indeed issued summons issued to Kshitij. During Thursday’s ques- tioning, Shruti Modi and Simone were grilled on the issues that had come to the fore during the grilling of Rhea Chakraborty and her brother Showik. Continued on Page 11 F armers’ union in Punjab began their three-day “Rail Roko” protest on Thursday against the three farm Bills, while others have given a call for a nationwide “bandh” on September 25, and indefinite “Rail Roko” protest from October 1. According to farm- ers’ leaders, roads, highways and rail tracks will be blocked. Farmers from Western Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra have decided to join the farm- ers’ protests. The farmers have also received support from 18 political parties, including the Congress which has Governments in four States, TMC in West Bengal, Left in Kerala, AAP in Delhi, TRS in Telangana, Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh, Shiv Sena and NCP in Maharashtra. As many as 10 Central trade unions, including All India Trade Union Congress, National Trades Union Congress, Centre of Indian Trade Unions, Hind Mazdoor Sabha, All India United Trade Union Centre and Trade Union Coordination Centre have come out in support of “Bharat Bandh”. The Ola Cab Drivers’ Association and lorry drivers’ association too have decided to support the farmers and are unlikely to operate on Friday. Meanwhile, several social media users were quick to point out that NCB has sum- moned Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone on September 25 itself in a drug case, on the day of nationwide protests by farmers. Social media is abuzz with speculation that this may act as a diver- sionary tactic. In view of the mass protests, Railway authorities said 26 pairs of special trains and nine parcel trains will remain suspended from September 24 to September 26, while 20 trains have been par- tially canceled, five terminated before destination. Among the trains that will remain suspended are the Golden Temple Mail (Amritsar-Mumbai Central), Jan Shatabdi Express (Haridwar-Amritsar), New Delhi-Jammu Tawi, Karambhoomi (Amritsar-New Jalpaiguri), Sachkhand Express (Nanded-Amritsar) and Shaheed Express (Amritsar- Jaynagar), officials said. Many freight and parcel trains have also been rescheduled. Farmers under the banners of Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee and the Bharatiya Kisan Union (Ekta Ugrahan) squatted on rail tracks in Barnala, Sangrur, Ferozepur and Amritsar on Thursday morning. They have set up tents on railway tracks in the State. Farmers in Fazilka and Abohar districts took out trac- tor rallies in their districts. They vowed to gherao BJP leaders and socially boycott those who voted in favour of the farm Bills. According to farmers leaders, over 100 farm- ers and arhatiya (commission agents) will participate in the nationwide shutdown. A representative of organ- isations said roads and railway tracks will be blocked at 125 places across Punjab. Continued on Page 11 S ix months after India first imposed lockdown, the country has emerged as the worst global hotspot — so much so that India’s daily tally is more than double of Asia and one and a half times more than that of entire Europe. Put together, these two continents have more than 100 nations. India’s daily spike is also 10 times more than the total num- ber of cases recorded by 57 African nations. When India declared the first of a series of lockdowns on March 25, the country had less than 500 Covid-19 cases and was placed at the bottom of the world tally. In six months, the cases have shot up to nearly 6 million, and India now occupies the second spot in the world. During the same period, barring India all other Asian countries have staged remark- able fightbacks against coron- avirus. On Thursday, while India recorded nearly 87,000 cases, 48 Asian countries put together reported just 40,000 cases. India’s close neighbours like Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Nepal recorded just 1,666, 533, 11 and 1,172 cases respectively. While India is nearing 6 million caseloads, the next in the Asian list is Iran with just 4.32 lakh cases. Bangladesh, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey occupy third, fourth, fifth, and sixth spots with 3 lakh plus cases. Pakistan has 3,07,418 cases. The latest trend shows that while Asian countries have come to terms with the virus — at least 10 of them recorded no fresh case on Thursday and 15 of them recorded new cases in double-digit only — Europe is seeing a resurgence in the number of cases and talks of fresh lockdowns have begun to do the rounds. India’s situation is worri- some because the country con- tinues to see bigger spikes week after weeks. The number of cases is impacted by low test- ing on weekends or reduction in the number of testing due to any other reason. The huge margin of error in antigen testing has clouded the overall scenario. In many States, ever since the antigen testing has been introduced, the positivity rate has drastically come down. It clearly shows that the real pic- ture of coronavirus spread is far worse than reflected by the out- come of the tests. The situation in Africa is far better than Asia. As many as 57 nations of the continent registered just 8,000 new cases on Thursday with an average of fewer than 150 cases. Of them, around 16 countries didn’t reg- ister a single case while nearly two dozens logged cases in double-digit numbers. The European situation is becoming alarming again with the United Kingdom, France and Spain registering around 10,000 new cases every day, but the USA has stabilised and numbers are also declining in some of the worst-affected nations of South America. However, India is showing no sign of plateauing out. While some States like Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu are reversing the trend and registering a reduced number of cases dur- ing the last one week, new States are replacing them with far bigger numbers. For example, Kerala reported 6,324 new cases and 21 persons died in the State during the last 24 hours due to Covid-19. This is the biggest single-day spike for the State which boasted of taking the best possible measures to con- tain the pandemic. The State has so far not ever crossed 50,000 new cases in a day. With winter now knocking at the door, India will have to hope and pray that the situation is salvaged through some divine intervention. The human factor has paid little results so far. P rime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday inter- acted with fitness influencers, sports persons and citizens during a nationwide online Fit India Dialogue organised to celebrate the first anniversary of the Fit India Movement. The online interaction saw participants, including cricketer Virat Kohli, actor-model and fitness-freak Milind Soman and nutrition expert Rujuta Diwekar, sharing anecdotes and tips of their own fitness journey while drawing out guidance from the Prime Minister on his thoughts about fitness and good health. Brainchild of the Prime Minister as a people’s move- ment, the Fit India Dialogue is an attempt to involve citizens of the country to draw out a plan to make India a fit nation. The Prime Minister said fitness is not something which is very difficult to achieve but requires about thirty minutes “dose” of exercise daily. Continued on Page 11 F ormer Australia batsman Dean Jones, one of the finest exponents of ODI cricket, died of a sudden cardiac arrest in Mumbai on Thursday. Jones, 59, was in Mumbai with the Star Sports’ commentary team for the Indian Premier League. He was in a bio-bubble in a city hotel. He is sur- vived by his wife and two daughters. Jones played 52 Tests and 164 ODIs for Australia and was part of the 1987 World Cup winning team. “It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing away of Dean Mervyn Jones AM. He died of a sudden cardiac arrest,” Star Sports said a press release. According to an IPL source, it happened in matter of seconds. Detailed report on P14 T he farm Bills are loaded in favour of small farmers vis-à-vis investors and these would completely transform their lives, said Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Thursday. Tomar said the Bills passed by Parliament will bring revolutionary changes in the lives of farmers as they can sell their produce to any buyer, get a guarantee of price of their crops, go for crop diversifica- tion, use new technology and reduce their input costs. Addressing a Press con- ference here at the BJP head- quarters, the Minister said in Punjab farmers are taxed by 8.5 per cent in the “mandis” and they are forced to sell their produce at a low price. They also bear the transportation cost of moving their produce to the mandis. “We have given them free- dom to sell their produce out- side mandis where there is no tax either by the Central or State Government,” the Minister said. “Farmers do farming and take their produce to mandis. There are 25-30 people with licences in these mandis. They do auction of produce. Whatever price is decided in the auction, farmers are bound to sell their produce at that price whether they are happy or not because if they decide to take their products and go home and come back again, they will have to pay additional logistics cost,” Singh said. He said 86 per cent of farmers in the country are small and marginal who would now get the guaranteed price of their produce from investor or processor without any risk. He said terms and conditions of the contract farming are loaded in favour of farmers. If prices of the produce go high after the contract is signed, investor is bound to give farmer a fixed percentage of high return than the original- ly agreed upon. Continued on Page 11 Kolkata: Veteran atomic sci- entist and former chairman of Atomic Energy Commission Dr Sekhar Basu succumbed to Covid-19 on Thursday at a pri- vate hospital here, a health department official said. He breathed his last just three days after turning 68. “Dr Basu was suffering from Covid and other kidney ailments. He died at 4.50 am,” official said. E xpressing displeasure over the increasing incidents of crime against women in the state, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday direct- ed officials to take strict action against those involved in sex- ual harassment cases. The chief minister also ordered officials that posters those harassing females be put up at public places to “name and shame” them. Earlier, posters were put up by the administration to “name and shame” the accused who allegedly caused damage to public property during the protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens (NRC) in the state capital. According to an official communiqué, women police personnel have been tasked with the responsibility of implementing ‘Mission Durachari’. They will identify offenders, whose posters will then be put up at public places across the state. The release said that the operation would be imple- mented as to the anti-Romeo squads operated in the state. The police teams in every dis- trict would be crack the whip on criminals committing crimes against women. The chief minister further said that people should know who were the people who were vitiating the atmosphere in society and indulging in crime against women. He said that in case any incident related to crime against women took place, the beat in-charge, chowki in- charge, station officer and the circle officer would be held responsible. Meanwhile, ‘Operation Shakti’ was also launched in Lucknow to tackle crimes against women in the state. On the instructions of IG Lucknow Range, Laxmi Singh, this operation was conducted in Unnao, Hardoi, Sitapur, Lakhimpur, Rae Bareli and Lucknow rural area. So far, action has been initi- ated against 2,200 accused in a month. FIRs have been registered against 822 people while 770 accused have been served notice. The action also includes litiga- tion, restriction and imposition of challans for hampering the peace. This action was taken after reports of molestation surfaced from the area.

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Saudi Arabia has partially lifted its suspen-sion order for travel to India. Now flights

would be allowed from Saudi Arabia to Indiabut not from India to Saudi Arabia.

Late on Wednesday night, Air IndiaExpress informed passengers of a partial relax-ation in the Saudi Arabian order.

The airline’s official Twitter handle said,“Air India Express Vande Bharat flightswould continue to carry passengers on it’sflights from Saudi Arabia to India. TheAirline would not carry passengers fromIndia to Saudi Arabia.”

In a circular issued on Tuesday, SaudiArabia’s General Authority of Civil Aviationsaid it was “suspending travel to and from thefollowing countries: (India, Brazil andArgentina) including any person who has beenin any of the mentioned countries above in the last 14 days prior to their arrival to the Kingdom”.

New Delhi: American cultbike manufacturer HarleyDavidson on Thursday said itis discontinuing sales andmanufacturing operations inIndia, a decade after it start-ed selling its premium bikes inthe country.

Industry sources said thecompany is looking to tie upwith a partner to run its busi-ness in the country. The Indiaaction will include an associ-ated workforce reduction ofapproximately 70 employees,Harley-Davidson Inc said in anSEC filing.

In a separate statement,Harley-Davidson said it plansto close its manufacturing facil-ity in Bawal (Haryana) and sig-nificantly reduce the size of itssales office in Gurgaon.

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Continuing its investigationsin the Sushant Singh

Rajput death-related drug caseand the expanded Bollywood-drug nexus case, the NarcoticControl Bureau (NCB) grilledSushant’s ex-manager ShrutiModi and fashioner designerSimone Khambatta and sched-uled the questioning of actressRakul Preet Singh and DeepikaPadkone’s manager KarishmaPrakash for Friday and actressDeepika on Saturday.

Deepika arrived inMumbai from Goa onThursday night.

As a section of the elec-tronic media carried on withtheir trial of the Bollywood per-sonalities on issues relating tothe Bollywood-drug nexus, theNCB grilled Shruti Modi foreight hours, while it ques-tioned Simone for five hours.

“Today Simone Khambattaand Shruti Modi joined theinvestigation and statements inthis regard have been record-ed at NCB. Tomorrow Rakuland Karishma will be joiningthe investigation,” NCBsDeputy Director (Operations)KPS Malhotra said.

Sources said that the NCBhad also called director andexecutive producer Kshitij RaviPrasad of Karan Johar'sDharma Production for ques-tioning on Friday. However,there was no formal confirma-tion from the NCB that it hadindeed issued summons issuedto Kshitij.

During Thursday’s ques-tioning, Shruti Modi andSimone were grilled on theissues that had come to the fore during the grilling ofRhea Chakraborty and herbrother Showik.

Continued on Page 11

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Farmers’ union in Punjabbegan their three-day “Rail

Roko” protest on Thursdayagainst the three farm Bills,while others have given a callfor a nationwide “bandh” onSeptember 25, and indefinite“Rail Roko” protest fromOctober 1. According to farm-ers’ leaders, roads, highwaysand rail tracks will be blocked.

Farmers from WesternUttar Pradesh, MadhyaPradesh, Chhattisgarh, WestBengal, Kerala, Karnataka,Tamil Nadu and Maharashtrahave decided to join the farm-ers’ protests. The farmers havealso received support from 18political parties, including theCongress which hasGovernments in four States,TMC in West Bengal, Left inKerala, AAP in Delhi, TRS inTelangana, Samajwadi Partyin Uttar Pradesh, Shiv Sena andNCP in Maharashtra.

As many as 10 Centraltrade unions, including AllIndia Trade Union Congress,National Trades UnionCongress, Centre of IndianTrade Unions, Hind MazdoorSabha, All India United Trade

Union Centre and Trade UnionCoordination Centre havecome out in support of “BharatBandh”. The Ola Cab Drivers’Association and lorry drivers’association too have decided tosupport the farmers and areunlikely to operate on Friday.

Meanwhile, several socialmedia users were quick topoint out that NCB has sum-moned Bollywood actressDeepika Padukone onSeptember 25 itself in a drugcase, on the day of nationwideprotests by farmers. Socialmedia is abuzz with speculationthat this may act as a diver-sionary tactic.

In view of the massprotests, Railway authoritiessaid 26 pairs of special trainsand nine parcel trains willremain suspended fromSeptember 24 to September 26,while 20 trains have been par-tially canceled, five terminatedbefore destination.

Among the trains that willremain suspended are theGolden Temple Mail(Amritsar-Mumbai Central),Jan Shatabdi Express(Haridwar-Amritsar), NewDelhi-Jammu Tawi,Karambhoomi (Amritsar-New

Jalpaiguri), Sachkhand Express(Nanded-Amritsar) andShaheed Express (Amritsar-Jaynagar), officials said. Manyfreight and parcel trains havealso been rescheduled.

Farmers under the bannersof Kisan Mazdoor SangharshCommittee and the BharatiyaKisan Union (Ekta Ugrahan)squatted on rail tracks inBarnala, Sangrur, Ferozepurand Amritsar on Thursdaymorning. They have set uptents on railway tracks in theState. Farmers in Fazilka andAbohar districts took out trac-tor rallies in their districts.They vowed to gherao BJPleaders and socially boycottthose who voted in favour of

the farm Bills. According tofarmers leaders, over 100 farm-ers and arhatiya (commissionagents) will participate in thenationwide shutdown.

A representative of organ-isations said roads and railwaytracks will be blocked at 125places across Punjab.

Continued on Page 11

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Six months after India firstimposed lockdown, the

country has emerged as theworst global hotspot — somuch so that India’s daily tallyis more than double of Asia andone and a half times more thanthat of entire Europe. Puttogether, these two continentshave more than 100 nations.

India’s daily spike is also 10times more than the total num-ber of cases recorded by 57African nations.

When India declared thefirst of a series of lockdowns onMarch 25, the country had lessthan 500 Covid-19 cases andwas placed at the bottom of theworld tally. In six months, thecases have shot up to nearly 6million, and India now occupiesthe second spot in the world.

During the same period,barring India all other Asiancountries have staged remark-able fightbacks against coron-avirus. On Thursday, whileIndia recorded nearly 87,000cases, 48 Asian countries puttogether reported just 40,000cases. India’s close neighbours

like Bangladesh, Pakistan, SriLanka, and Nepal recordedjust 1,666, 533, 11 and 1,172cases respectively.

While India is nearing 6million caseloads, the next inthe Asian list is Iran with just4.32 lakh cases. Bangladesh,Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey occupy third, fourth,fifth, and sixth spots with 3lakh plus cases. Pakistan has3,07,418 cases.

The latest trend shows thatwhile Asian countries havecome to terms with the virus —at least 10 of them recorded nofresh case on Thursday and 15of them recorded new cases indouble-digit only — Europe isseeing a resurgence in thenumber of cases and talks offresh lockdowns have begun todo the rounds.

India’s situation is worri-some because the country con-tinues to see bigger spikesweek after weeks. The numberof cases is impacted by low test-ing on weekends or reductionin the number of testing due toany other reason.

The huge margin of errorin antigen testing has clouded

the overall scenario.

In many States, ever sincethe antigen testing has beenintroduced, the positivity ratehas drastically come down. Itclearly shows that the real pic-ture of coronavirus spread is farworse than reflected by the out-come of the tests.

The situation in Africa isfar better than Asia. As manyas 57 nations of the continentregistered just 8,000 new caseson Thursday with an average offewer than 150 cases. Of them,around 16 countries didn’t reg-ister a single case while nearlytwo dozens logged cases indouble-digit numbers.

The European situation isbecoming alarming again withthe United Kingdom, Franceand Spain registering around10,000 new cases every day, butthe USA has stabilised andnumbers are also declining insome of the worst-affectednations of South America.

However, India is showingno sign of plateauing out.While some States likeMaharashtra, Andhra Pradeshand Tamil Nadu are reversingthe trend and registering areduced number of cases dur-ing the last one week, newStates are replacing them withfar bigger numbers.

For example, Keralareported 6,324 new cases and21 persons died in the Stateduring the last 24 hours due toCovid-19. This is the biggestsingle-day spike for the Statewhich boasted of taking thebest possible measures to con-tain the pandemic. The Statehas so far not ever crossed50,000 new cases in a day.

With winter now knockingat the door, India will have tohope and pray that the situationis salvaged through somedivine intervention. Thehuman factor has paid littleresults so far.

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Prime Minister NarendraModi on Thursday inter-

acted with fitness influencers,sports persons and citizensduring a nationwide online FitIndia Dialogue organised tocelebrate the first anniversaryof the Fit India Movement.

The online interaction sawparticipants, including cricketerVirat Kohli, actor-model andfitness-freak Milind Somanand nutrition expert Rujuta

Diwekar, sharing anecdotesand tips of their own fitnessjourney while drawing outguidance from the PrimeMinister on his thoughts aboutfitness and good health.

Brainchild of the PrimeMinister as a people’s move-ment, the Fit India Dialogue is

an attempt to involve citizensof the country to draw out aplan to make India a fit nation.

The Prime Minister saidfitness is not something whichis very difficult to achieve butrequires about thirty minutes“dose” of exercise daily.

Continued on Page 11

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Former Australia batsman Dean Jones, one ofthe finest exponents of ODI cricket, died of a

sudden cardiac arrest in Mumbai on Thursday.Jones, 59, was inMumbai with the StarSports’ commentaryteam for the IndianPremier League. Hewas in a bio-bubble ina city hotel. He is sur-vived by his wife andtwo daughters.

Jones played 52Tests and 164 ODIs for Australia and was part ofthe 1987 World Cup winning team.

“It is with great sadness that we share the newsof the passing away of Dean Mervyn Jones AM.He died of a sudden cardiac arrest,” Star Sportssaid a press release. According to an IPL source,it happened in matter of seconds.

Detailed report on P14

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The farm Bills are loaded infavour of small farmers

vis-à-vis investors and thesewould completely transformtheir lives, said UnionAgriculture Minister NarendraSingh Tomar on Thursday.

Tomar said the Billspassed by Parliament willbring revolutionary changes inthe lives of farmers as they cansell their produce to any buyer,get a guarantee of price of theircrops, go for crop diversifica-tion, use new technology andreduce their input costs.

Addressing a Press con-ference here at the BJP head-quarters, the Minister said inPunjab farmers are taxed by8.5 per cent in the “mandis”and they are forced to sell theirproduce at a low price. Theyalso bear the transportationcost of moving their produceto the mandis.

“We have given them free-dom to sell their produce out-side mandis where there is notax either by the Central orState Government,” theMinister said.

“Farmers do farming and

take their produce to mandis.There are 25-30 people withlicences in these mandis. Theydo auction of produce.Whatever price is decided inthe auction, farmers are boundto sell their produce at thatprice whether they are happyor not because if they decideto take their products and gohome and come back again,they will have to pay additionallogistics cost,” Singh said.

He said 86 per cent offarmers in the country aresmall and marginal who wouldnow get the guaranteed priceof their produce from investoror processor without any risk.He said terms and conditionsof the contract farming areloaded in favour of farmers. Ifprices of the produce go highafter the contract is signed,investor is bound to givefarmer a fixed percentage ofhigh return than the original-ly agreed upon.

Continued on Page 11

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Expressing displeasure overthe increasing incidents of

crime against women in thestate, Chief Minister YogiAdityanath on Thursday direct-ed officials to take strict actionagainst those involved in sex-ual harassment cases. The chiefminister also ordered officialsthat posters those harassingfemales be put up at publicplaces to “name and shame”them.

Earlier, posters were put upby the administration to “nameand shame” the accused whoallegedly caused damage topublic property during theprotests against the CitizenshipAmendment Act (CAA) andNational Register of Citizens(NRC) in the state capital.

According to an official

communiqué, women policepersonnel have been taskedwith the responsibility ofimplementing ‘MissionDurachari’. They will identifyoffenders, whose posters willthen be put up at public placesacross the state.

The release said that theoperation would be imple-mented as to the anti-Romeosquads operated in the state.The police teams in every dis-trict would be crack the whipon criminals committingcrimes against women.

The chief minister furthersaid that people should knowwho were the people who werevitiating the atmosphere insociety and indulging in crimeagainst women.

He said that in case anyincident related to crimeagainst women took place, the

beat in-charge, chowki in-charge, station officer and thecircle officer would be heldresponsible.

Meanwhile, ‘OperationShakti’ was also launched inLucknow to tackle crimesagainst women in the state.

On the instructions of IGLucknow Range, Laxmi Singh,this operation was conductedin Unnao, Hardoi, Sitapur,Lakhimpur, Rae Bareli andLucknow rural area.

So far, action has been initi-ated against 2,200 accused in amonth. FIRs have been registeredagainst 822 people while 770accused have been served notice.The action also includes litiga-tion, restriction and impositionof challans for hampering thepeace. This action was taken afterreports of molestation surfacedfrom the area.

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Lucknow (PNS): Hitting out atthe Yogi Adityanath govern-ment over its decision to put upposters of people accused ofeve-teasing, the SamajwadiParty on Thursday asked thegovernment to put up postersof those supporting rapeaccused Kuldeep Singh Sengarand Swami Chinmayanand.

The advice from aSamajwadi Party leader cameafter the BJP governmentdecided to put up posters ofeve-teasers and those accusedof other crimes against women,at prominent road crossings inthe state.

SP leader Sunil Singh Sajansaid here on Thursday that theadministration had failed tocurb crimes against womenand its ‘anti-Romeo Squads’constituted for women’s safetyhad failed.

“Today, the UP govern-ment issued a new diktat ofputting up posters of eve-teasers. It should first say howmany laws it has come up within this regard so far. The gov-ernment also said that thosetaking sides of the culprits willbe punished. So will posters ofthose taking sides of accusedlike Kuldeep Singh Sengar and

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Singh said on Thursday that the party would contest on all the seatsin the panchayat elections. Singh said the party had set up districtlevel committees in 287 Assembly constituencies and committeesfor other constituencies would be formed soon. He said the partywas carrying out a ‘Jan Jan Oximetre’ campaign in all districts ofUttar Pradesh. Singh said Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwalhad done historic work by implementing the Kejriwal model ofdevelopment, under which people were being provided with freeelectricity, water supply and good education and health facilitiesin New Delhi. Addressing a press conference, AAP nationalspokesman Dilip Pandey said the people would break the myth ofcasteism in Uttar Pradesh panchayat and other elections. Pandeysaid the party would welcome those convinced with the Kejriwalform of governance in New Delhi. “If they think, Kejriwal has donepublic welfare work, served the people who voted the party to power,provided electricity and water supply free of cost, improved schoolsand hospitals and the quality of education and has bravely foughtthe coronavirus pandemic, they are welcome in the party,” he said.

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In a bizarre incident ofexploitation through black-

mailing in Meerut, as many as52 teachers of a private schoolhave collectively lodged a com-plaint with the local police,alleging that the school man-agement was covertly filmingthem in the school’s wash-rooms and then using thevideos and photographs toblackmail them into workingwithout salary for severalmonths.

Sources said that the teach-ers, in their complaint, statedthat the secretary of the school’smanagement committee threat-

ened them with their objection-able photographs and videoswhenever they asked for the pay-ment of their pending salaries.

Based on the complaint,the police on Wednesday, reg-istered an FIR against the sec-retary and his son under sec-tions 504 (intentional insult),354 (a) (sexual harassment)and 354 (c) (voyeurism) of theIndian Penal Code.

Meanwhile, the secretarydismissed the allegations ofsexual harassment levelledagainst him.

“There is no CCTV insidethe women’s toilet. But theyhave been installed in the gents’toilets. This was done against

the backdrop of recent cases ofmurder inside some schools,”the secretary told some mediapersons.

The secretary, however,admitted that for the past fewmonths, the school hadfailed to pay salaries to theteachers. He attributed thisfailure to the ongoing pandem-ic situation.

A case has been registeredand investigation is underway,Station House Officer (SHO) ofthe Sadar Bazaar police station,Vijay Gupta said, adding that ateam of officials from the foren-sic department has been ropedin to provide assistance to thepolice in the investigation.

He said that the entireClose Circuit Television footagewould be examined and thestatements of the staff andeven students would be record-ed before initiating anyaction.

The financial record of theschool will be also scrutinised toconfirm whether the salarieswere not paid due to moneyshortage or not. It may be men-tioned that in 2017, the sameschool had ordered its studentsto get their hair cut like chiefminister Yogi Adityanath’s. Thestudents were also asked to notkeep beards “as the school wasnot a madarasa where peopleoffer namaz”.

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A19-year-old Dalit girl wasallegedly gang-raped by

four persons who also tried tostrangle her to death to concealthe crime in Hathras.

The girl has been admittedto an intensive care unit (ICU)in Aligarh medical college hos-pital. She managed to give herstatement to the police daysafter the incident and statedthat she was raped by fourupper caste men on September14 when she had gone to col-lect fodder for animals.

Earlier, based on her broth-er’s complaint, the police hadbooked a man identified asSandeep for attempt to murderand under the provisions of theSC/ST Act.

The accused was arrestedand remanded to judicial cus-tody after the family allegedthat he had tried to kill the girlover some old enmity.However, after the victimregained her conscious andgave statement to the police,rape charges were added to theFIR and three more peoplewere booked.

“One more accused hasbeen held and others, too, willbe arrested soon,” Hathras SPVikrant Vir said on Thursday.

ASP Prakash Kumar saidthe girl’s statement underSection 161 of CrPC was notrecorded earlier by the investi-gating officer as she had beenin the ICU after she wasreferred to Jawaharlal NehruMedical College in Aligarhfrom Hathras district hospital.He said the chargesheet wouldbe filed soon.

Congress MLC DeepakSingh also met the survivor andalleged that the family wasbeing threatened by theaccused as well as the police.He said that he would give adetailed report on the matter toparty general secretaryPriyanka Gandhi Vadra.

Congress leader SheorajJivan Valmiki, who alsoreached Hathras on Wednesdayto meet the survivor’s familymembers, has demandedaction against the police offi-cers for delay in recording thestatement, adding that injusticeto the members of the Dalitcommunity would not be tol-erated. In another incident, apolice head constable reported-ly ended his life in Moradabad.According to reports, MazharHussain, head constable post-ed in reserve police lines inMoradabad, committed sui-cide by shooting himself with

the carbine inside his barrackearly Thursday morning.

IG Moradabad Range,Ramit Sharma and SSPMoradabad, PrabhakarChowdhary, rushed to the spot.They claimed that Hussain,hailing from Pilibhit, went on10 days’ leave but joined afterremaining missing for 10 moredays just on Wednesdayevening. His family memberswere informed of the incidentand the police were probing thereason for the suicide,Chowdhary claimed.

Meanwhile in Bahraich, agangster, convicted for killingnine people, allegedly stole abuffalo while on parole and wasarrested, police said onThursday. Bulta, aliasMuneshwar, was arrested onWednesday in connection withthe theft case. Bulta and hisgang killed nine people in theKatarniaghat police station areaof the district in 1992. He wasconvicted and sentenced tolife imprisonment in 2001. Hewas granted parole by the HighCourt, AdditionalSuperintendent of Police(Rural) Ashok Kumar said.

The district police havedecided to appeal for getting hisparole cancelled by the HighCourt, he added.

Lucknow (PNS): After consistentlytouching the over 5,000-mark for the lastmore than a month, Friday brought goodnews for Uttar Pradesh as the number ofCOVID-19 cases declined, bringing reliefamong the officials as the recovery rateclimbed to 82 per cent.

Additional Chief Secretary (Health)Amit Mohan Prasad said 4,674 freshcoronavirus positive cases were reportedon Thursday while 4,922 people were dis-charged, taking the recovery rate to 82.19per cent. Now the tally of confirmed coro-navirus cases in the state has gone up to3,84,277.

“There are 61,300 active cases in the

state while 3,17,611 COVID-19 patientshave recovered, including 4,922 people dis-charged from hospitals on Thursday,”Prasad said.

On Wednesday, 1,53,458 Covid sam-ple were tested in the state. “There are31,751 asymptomatic patients in home iso-lation and 3,644 patients in private hospi-tals and 185 in the semi-paid hotels whilethe rest are in government-run Covid hos-pitals,? he said.

The additional chief secretary said thatover 3.78 surveillance teams covered1,18,865 areas in the state and visited 2.48crore houses and checked the health ofover 12.32 crore people.

Meanwhile, Chief Minister YogiAdityanath has directed officials to payattention in 16 Covid-prone districtswhere the daily increase of the patients isover 100.

He has asked officials to deploy a spe-cial team to monitor the arrangements andto strengthen contact tracing in districtslike Lucknow, Kanpur Nagar, Gorakhpur,Prayagraj, Noida, Meerut, Ghaziabad,Moradabad, Jhansi Saharanpur andVaranasi. He also asked the hospitals tolink with virtual ICUs so that the criticalpatients could get more benefit. He said thehigh risk people should be tested imme-diately.

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Uttar Pradesh ChiefMinister Yogi Adityanath

has asked officials to start theprocess to link medical insti-tutes with virtual ICUs byusing technology in such a waythat the serious patients mayget treatment from experi-enced doctors.

He also asked the officialsto keep ventilators/high flownasal cannula (HFNC) func-tional in all districts.

Presiding over a high-levelUnlock review meeting at theLok Bhawan here on Thursday,Yogi also directed officials toadopt an effective strategy tocontrol spread of novel coron-avirus in districts where 100 ormore positive cases are beingfound every day for the last oneweek.

The chief minister direct-ed the chief secretary, addition-al chief secretaries of home(health and medical educa-tion) along with medicalexperts to hold a detailed dis-cussion to finalise the actionplan in this regard.

He reiterated that nodalofficers be nominated in thesedistricts with deployment ofspecial secretary-rank officerswith each of nodal officer.

The chief minister askedofficials to maximise contacttracing for effective control oncoronavirus infection. He alsoasked them to target high riskgroups and put them to tests.

He said one-third of thetotal Covid tests per day should

be conducted through RT-PCRand the rest by rapid antigenmethod. He further directedofficials to increase the numberof beds in Covid Level-2 andLevel-3 hospitals.

The chief minister stressedon taking up enforcement exer-cise to check observance ofsocial distancing and use ofmasks by people.

“Create micro-contain-ment zones as and whererequired. Public address sys-tems should be functional allthe time to spread awarenessabout protection from coron-avirus and the prevailing traf-fic rules,” he said.

The chief minister direct-ed officials to maintain theavailability of all protectivegears, including masks, PPEkits and sanitiser and medi-cines, testing kits used in thetreatment.

“The Health departmentshould also review theserequirements from time totime,” he added, stressing onsanitation and cleanliness.

The chief minister saidthat the people should be sen-sitised about protection fromCOVID-19 in view of comingfestivals. He said the festivalshad to be celebrated at homeand no public functions shouldbe organised and all the normsof social distancing and use ofmasks should be followedstrictly.

The chief minister direct-ed officials to review progressof Smart City projects andAMRUT Yojana on a regularbasis. He asked them to pro-ceed in an organised manner toget maximum benefits of thespecial economic packageannounced by Prime MinisterNarendra Modi. He said thatmore and more labourers andstreet vendors should be facil-itated to get loans and theloaning for MSME unitsthrough packages should befacilitated accordingly.

He asked the officials tokeep cow shelters inBundelkhand region properlyfunctional.

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Stressing the need of imparting uniform edu-cation to all the students of the state, Uttar

Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath onThursday said that uniformity in educationwould bring equality in society.

“In view of the future requirements, the edu-cation should be unified and all levels of edu-cation should be coordinated so that studentshave alternatives to choose their areas of skill,’’the chief minister said while dedicating to thepeople of the state the Unified Re-imaginedInnovation for Student Empowerment (U-Rise) portal at a function in Lok Bhawan hereon Thursday.

It is a joint initiative of the TechnicalEducation department, Training andEmployment department and Skill DevelopmentMission that has been developed by Dr APJAbdul Kalam Technical University.

Underlining the importance of this portal,the chief minister said the convergence of edu-cationists, employers and researchers throughthis portal would benefit lakhs of students.

“It will empower them by providing themevery possible information from online examsto digital contents, digital assessment, to digi-tal examination papers, webinar to internship,e-library, recorded video content and lastlyemployment,” he pointed out.

The chief minister said that about 20 lakhstudents, who were getting vocational andtechnical education, would be benefited fromthis portal which would guide them from learn-ing to career counselling to employment. Thee-content, e-library and online courses availableon this portal would reach even the most inte-rior parts of the state, he said.

The chief minister said the NationalEducation Policy-2020 also espouses the causeof uniform education.

“There is ample scope and need of the timefor a multi-discipline education system weav-ing various streams like science, arts, social sci-ence, humanities, engineering and sports intoa unified syllabus,” he said.

The chief minister said digital technologybrought by Prime Minister Narendra Modi inthe country in 2014 had proved to be very use-ful.

“We managed to bust several conspiraciesof fake teachers through digital technology,” hesaid.

Through this, all students, teachers, train-ers, institutions providing employment relatedto technical education, ITI and skill developmentmay converge on one place with all the relevantinformation about the life-cycle of a studentbeing available here.

It will not only empower the students butalso provide them a useful platform to getexposed and open up to the entire world. Theaim of the portal is to ensure uniform qualityeducation to all the students who can improvetheir learning curve while using this portal.

It, in fact, is a place with a unique networkof trainers, faculty and industry. The studentsonce registered will continue to receive its ben-efits life-long and their track records will alsobe digitally stored which will help them in thefuture for employment purposes etc.

On the occasion, the chief minister releasedRs 100 crore in the second phase of DeendayalUpadhyay Quality Improvement programme. Itwill be spent on the development of digital andphysical infrastructure of various technicalinstitutions in the state.

Chinmayanand also be putup?,” the SP MLC said.

“We too believe that strin-gent action must be takenagainst the culprits, but let thecourts do their work,” Sajansaid.

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Even though only 9.9 per centof the total number of patients

detected in Lucknow so far havebeen senior citizens, they haveaccounted for 53 per cent of theCovid deaths across the district.A senior official at the Healthdepartment said people musttake these stats seriously andprotect the elderly from exposureto the deadly virus and adopteffective preventive measures.

The official pointed out thattill now, 4,949 persons aged above

60 years out of a total of 49,598have contracted coronavirusinfection, which is approxi-mately 9.9 per cent. He said thatout of 647 deceased, 347 havebeen senior citizens, which is53.1 per cent.

Dr Tanmay Ghatak fromSGPGI, while talking aboutmortality rate in senior citizens,said co-morbidity is one of themost important factor fordeaths. “If the senior citizenshave diabetes, the chances ofmortality increase by 8-10 percent while in case of hyperten-sion, the chances of mortalityincrease by 6-7 per cent. If theysuffer from COPD, the chancesof mortality increase by 7 percent. However, age factor alsomakes a difference. While inthose up to 50 years of age, themortality rate is just one percent, but it starts increasing after60,” he said. He added that theyhave the best of facilities and thetreatment is given dependingupon the condition of patients,as per respective co-morbidi-ties. Dr Tanmay said peopleshould avoid the habit of hav-ing meals together for the timebeing because asymptomatic ormildly symptomatic adults maypass the infection to senior cit-izens. He further pointed outthat patients aged above 60years should be hospitalisedearly. “Senior citizens arebrought to the hospital whenthey start getting pulmonaryproblems. They should imme-diately report if they have flu-like symptoms or fever becausetheir immunity is already low

and it increases the chances ofmortality,” he said. He addedthat people should go for dailywalks with masks on andensure social distancing.

CMO Dr Rajendra PrasadSingh said proper care is beingmeted out to senior citizenswho are suffering from Covid-19. He said patients having co-morbidities need to be takencare of.

Meanwhile, DistrictMagistrate Abhishek Prakashand Divisional CommissionerRanjan Kumar inspection theCovid hospital of KGMU atLimb Centre. The officialsfound no arrangements for thestay of attendants.

They also inspected thecontrol room on the fourthfloor of the new block and wereinformed that there are 110beds and 82 of them are occu-pied. Except for 26 beds, cam-eras were fixated on all others.It was also found that a controlroom was established only forthe new ward and not for theold ward, and directions wereissued to set up separate con-trol rooms for new and oldwards. The DM inspected TSMishra Hospital where he wasinformed that there are 100 iso-lation beds. There are 18 HDUbeds on the first floor and 28critical care beds on the sixthfloor. The DM issued directionsfor deputing a senior residenton duty at the hospital. It wasdiscovered that only 28 patientswere being monitored. TheDM issued directions for mon-itoring of all the patients.

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Lucknow (PNS): As many as659 persons tested positive forcoronavirus in the city onThursday while 852 recov-ered, taking the number ofrecoveries to 39,580. Theactive cases in the district are9,391.

A senior official at theCMO office said those whotested positive in the cityincluded 59 in Gomtinagar, 49in Indiranagar, 38 in Chowk,32 from Rae Bareli road, 27 inChinhat, 26 each in Alambagh& Vikasnagar, 25 inHazratganj, 24 in Talkatora 23in Ashiyana, 21 in Aliganj, 19each in Thakurganj & Cantt,17 in Mahanagar, 15 each inBazaarkhala & VrindavanYojana, 12 each inGomtinagar Extension,Telibagh, Sushant Golf City &Naka, 13 each in Hasanganj &

Madiaon, 11 in Para, and 10each in Jankipuram & Kakori.

Besides, 10 Covid patientssuccumbed across the cityand the deceased included sixfrom Lucknow and four fromother districts. Three Covidpatients died at KGMU,including a 65-year-old manfrom Hardoi, a 50-year-oldman from Hazratganj, and a52-year-old man fromAmausi.

In the state, 4,674 personstested positive, including 250in Kanpur, 275 in Prayagraj,138 in Gorakhpur and 214 inGhaziabad, taking the toll to3,74,277. There were 68deaths across the state.Besides, 4,922 patients recov-ered, taking the total numberof recoveries in the state to3,07,611. There are 61,300active cases in the state.

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Aman slashed the throat ofhis wife during a verbal

spat and then did the same tohimself at their house inBanarasi Tola locality of Aliganjon Thursday morning.

The man is a resident of aslum area in Gudamba andworks as a sweeper at a cinemacomplex. He is currently livingwith his wife in Banarasi Tolalocality. On Thursday, the cou-ple picked up a fight oversome issue during which theman attacked his wife with aknife. He then slashed his ownthroat and both startedwrithing in pain. Neighboursreached the house and alertedpolice. The couple were rushedto hospital and later discharged.A police spokesman said thecouple pleaded anonymity andthe woman did not give anycomplaint.

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organisation nabbed a juniorclerk of Resham Directorate fordemanding bribe from a retireddriver of the department torelease his GPF and insuranceon Thursday. The accused,Alok Shukla, demanded Rs10,000 from retired driverKanhaiya Singh to clear hispapers for GPF and insurance.The victim sought help of anti-corruption organisation andthe accused was nabbed outsidethe office in Vishwas Khand.

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Lucknow (PNS): Having failed to trackdown an accused who had shot hisfriend, Ashutosh Trivedi (36) of Khadra,at his shop on September 19, policeannounced a cash reward of Rs 20,000on his arrest on Thursday. The movecame after the deceased’s kin protesteddelay in the arrest of the accused. Theprotesters received support from leadersof different political parties as well.

On the fateful day, Ashutosh was inthe shop of his friend Jai Singh and theduo locked horns over some issue. JaiSingh whipped out a pistol tucked in his

waist and shot Ashutosh. Victim’s fatherhad lodged a case against Jai Singh.

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mining while using fake e-documents toget the trucks past check posts, werenabbed by a team of cyber police onThursday. They were identified asShivanshu Rastogi of Ayodhya andJeewan Lal Singh aka Bablu Patel ofPrayagraj. The team recovered a smart-phone and a bank passbook from theirpossession.

Lucknow (PNS): LMC starteda drive to identify spaces forthe vendors in Aminabad dur-ing the weekly market closureon Thursday. Officials startedthe drive at 6:30 am in thepresence of police personnel.

Mayor Sanyukta Bhatiasaid spaces for 438 vendorshad been identified in thefirst phase while over a 100others would be settled in thesecond phase. LMC officials

said that eight vendors weresettled on Solomon Marg, 50on Prakash Kulfi divider, 15 onManyawar road, 46 nearGarha Bhandar, 25 onNazirabad road and 15 onGwynne road. The exercisewitnessed the presence ofsenior officials along withLMC’s enforcement team. Themayor said these vendors canset shops from Fridayonwards.

“The vendors were settledand the process was complet-ed by evening. A verificationwill be made after the vendorssettl in their marked spaces,”a senior official said. Askedabout the remaining vendors,the official said they had mademarkings as per the list avail-able to them. The exercise wascarried out following a tusslebetween roadside vendors andshopkeepers in Aminabad.

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Kanpur will soon have a mag-nificent riverfront. The

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Rains lashed the cityovernight and throughout

the day on Thursday, makingthe weather pleasant. The cityhad received 34.4 mm rainfalltill 8:30 am on Thursday whilethat recorded till 5 pm was 8mm. Met director JP Gupta saidthe rains occurred because of alow pressure area which devel-oped over eastern UP. He saidthe south-west monsoon wasstill not receding but Lucknowwas unlikely to receive anymore rains.

As per Met department,Lucknow had a rain deficit of 29per cent and it had to receive868.8 mm rainfall but there wasonly 488.1 mm rainfall. Thestate has a rain deficit of 18 per

cent with eastern UP receivingbetter rainfall than western UP.For Lucknowites, it was a respitefrom the hot and sultry weath-er as they enjoyed a cool breeze.

The forecast for Lucknow ispartly cloudy sky. The maxi-mum and minimum tempera-

ture is expected to be around 33degree Celsius and 25 degreeCelsius, respectively. Rain andthundershowers are likely at iso-lated places over east UP whilethe weather is expected to bedry over west UP. There is awarning of light to moderate

thunderstorm accompanied bylightening at isolated placesover eastern UP.

Meanwhile, it was a goodturnout of visitors at the AsafiImambara, popularly knownas Bada Imambara, which re-opened after lockdown on

Thursday. Pleasant weather alsomade it a nice outing for peo-ple. City magistrate SP Singhsaid as many as 458 people vis-ited the monument till it closed,and the income through the saleof tickets of was Rs 22,500.

“It was a good turnoutconsidering that it was a rainyday. We followed all Covid pro-tocols. People are willing tocome to the monument whichhas been re-opened after a longtime,” he said. He said thatmonitoring for the Covid pro-tocols would be carried out tillvisitors got accustomed to thesame. He said that after clo-sure, sanitisation of the entiremonument would be carriedout in the evening on a dailybasis.

“We cannot carry out sani-tisation in the presence of vis-itors” he said. He added thatthey had made arrangementsfor both manual ticketing ande-ticketing.

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development projects of Kanpurdivision on Thursday. Recallingthe last visit of Prime MInisterNarendra Modi to Kanpur, Yogisaid, “Modiji was all praise forthe clean water of Ganga, so wegive him the gift of a riverfrontin consonance with his feelingstowards the holy river.”

The CM said that Gangatouches many districts of thisdivision, hence the projectsunder ‘Namami Gange’ shouldbe implemented in an effectivemanner. He directed officialsconcerned to prepare an actionplan for construct of a grandriverfront besides expeditiousimplementation of ‘NamamiGange’.

The CM reviewed thedevelopment projects of Kanpurdivision comprising KanpurNagar, Kanpur Dehat, Kannauj,Farrukhabad, Auraiya andEtawah through video-confer-encing. There are 30 mega-pro-jects worth over Rs 50 crore ineach division. AgricultureMinister Surya Pratap Shahiand Panchayati Raj MinisterBhupendra Chaudhary, alongwith all the public representa-tives of the division, were pre-sent in the meeting which was

presided over by the CM.Yogi had an interaction withthem and received direct feed-back about the developmentworks in their respective con-stituencies.

He said that the purposeof his divisional meetings wasto have interaction with thepublic representatives andensure timely and qualitativecompletion of developmentprojects. He said public rep-resentatives should be con-sulted about developmentprojects and if the same wereignored, it would entail action.

The CM also asked theofficials to speed up SmartCity and metro project inKanpur. He pointed out thatthe under-constructionBundelkhand Expresswaywould pass through Etawahand Auraiya districts of thedivision and it would give afillip to economic growth ofthe state.

He directed the officials tostart construction work ofKanpur Dehat MedicalCollege. “The delay is notgood,” he remarked. He alsoasked for reduction in Coviddeath rate in Farrukhabaddistrict. He expressed surprisethat there was no CovidLevel-2 hospital inFarrukhabad. He said everybed in the hospitals shouldhave an oxygen supply.

The CM said Kanpurcontinues to be Covid hotspotand the next six monthswould be crucial. “One-thirdof the total Covid tests per dayshould be conducted throughRT-PCR,” he said. The CMalso asked the officials totake up enforcement exerciseand ensure social distancingand use of masks.

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To check illegal mining andsupply of material by unau-

thorised vehicles, the Miningdepartment has decided to setup checkgates at major entrypoints into the state byOctober. Besides, the depart-ment has also started a portalnamed Mine Mitra to facilitatebuilding material at reasonablerates to the common man.

Secretary-cum-Director ofMining department, DrRoshan Jacob, told news per-sons that the department hadintroduced mining tags tocheck illegal mining and trans-portation by unauthorisedvehicles. “Besides, it has beendecided to set up and operatefour checkgates’ by nextmonth,” he added.

The official said that so far35,000 trucks had been regis-tered and received mining tags.He said the work was delayeddue to the ongoing pandemicbut now camps were beingorganised to expedite theprocess and ensure that allvehicles had mining tags.

Jacob said that checkgateswould have RFID Reader,Automatic Number PlateRecognition (ANPR) camerasand Varifocal cameras andwould be made operational in

Baghpat (UP-Haryana border),Jalaun (MP-UP border),Fatehpur (MP-UP border) andEtawah (MP-UP border) inthe first phase.

He further said that an e-commerce platform was start-ed by the department to facil-itate sale of minerals to com-mon man at the cheapest rateavailable.

“Anyone can visit the site,chose minerals available atcheapest rate in different min-ing sites of the state and bookit for delivery. Consumers havealso been given the option ofown transportation and col-lection of the material from thesite. Jacob said that effortswere also made to provideonline contacts of transportersso that consumers could iden-tify transporters ready to sup-ply material and minerals at thecheapest rates. To do awaywith delays in disposing ofcomplaints or requests made bycontractors, consumers etc, acharter for every work hasbeen set. If complaints are notdisposed of within the stipu-lated period, then action will betaken against erring officials,”he said. Jacob said that miningof soil carried no royalty so farbut for doing so, one wouldhave to take permission fromthe department.

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After Bharatiya Janata PartyMLA in Aligarh created

trouble for the party by threat-ening the local district policechief not to harass the partyleaders in the beginning of thisweek, now a former office-bearer of BJP District MinorityCell in Aligarh alleged sexualharassment and attempt onlife by a senior leader of herown party.

She too accused the localpolice of working under theinfluence of the BJP leader andclaimed that instead of lodgingan FIR, she made a complaintto senior party leaders, includ-ing the chief minister, request-ing them to punish the guiltyleader.

Farheen Mohisin, hailingfrom Usmanphada area ofDelhigate in Aligarh, levelledsexual harassment chargesagainst Imran Aleem Saifi, dis-

trict president of the party’sminority cell in Aligarh.

She claimed that after sheopposed his sexual advancesand issued a warning, theleader sent his goons to herhouse and they attacked herand her husband last Monday.The entire incident was record-ed on close circuit television.

Mohisin said that findingno other way and seeing thatImran was adamant to “outrageher modesty”, she had quit theparty post. She was secretary inthe district minority cell.

She denied lodging an FIRand said that she knew thatsome leaders were trying tobring a bad name to the partyin Aligarh so she appraised theparty top leadership of theissue and hoped that she wouldget justice.

Sources said that Imrandenied all charges and claimedthat efforts were made tomalign his image.

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UP Minister of State(Independent Charge)

Ravindra Jaiswal has taken theofficers of PWD to the task,seeing a big pit at MeerapurBasahi during his on-spotinspection here on Thursday.He expressed his surprise thateven after spending �80 lakhduring Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas(PBD) when such huge struc-tures have been built, in whichlow quality materials were usedin the construction. Heinstructed the ADM (City) toprepare a report and sent it tothe government. ‘Such negli-gence would not be toleratednow and action would be takenagainst the guilty officers,’ headded.

Jaiswal, checking the real-ities of all the claims of officersregarding making the roadspits-free, himself walked tomany areas to see the quality ofconstruction work. Recently, he

held a meeting with theDivisional Commissioner,District Magistrate and othersenior officers in which hehad given them instructions tocheck the condition of theroads by making physical ver-ifications apart from giving

them time to the concerneddepartments to ensure makingthe roads pits-free. Later, theDM had constituted four teamsunder the leadership of theSDM and magistrates to see thecondition of roads in CityNorth Assembly constituency.

Jaiswal represents the con-stituency.

To make physical verifica-tion, Jaiswal, along with theofficials including ADM (City),ACM and officials of PWD andNagar Nigam reached CentralJail road and then inspectedSikraul, Bhim Nagar, KunjVihar, Shivpur Bazar,Atulanand Bypass, BhojubirSindhora Road, Sabzi MandiBhojubir, Sarsauli andMeerapur Basahi. During hisinspection, he said that due tolack of coordination betweenPWD and Nagar Nigam, con-tractors are being given theopportunity to delay the workso that the estimated costs canbe increased. The road was notlevelled by Nagar Nigam dur-ing the last eight months evenafter the completion of IPDSwork near Sabzi Mandi onBhojubir-Sindhora Road andasked the executive engineer ofNagar Nigam to ensure repairof the road within 24 hours.

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Divisional Commissioner(DC) Deepak Agrawal and

District Magistrate (DM)Kaushal Raj Sharma inspectedthe ESIC Hospital here onThursday and reviewed thearrangements and facilitiesavailable at this COVID-19level-1 hospital. When the DCinquired about the availabilityof oxygen cylinders, he wasinformed that there are 28 Dand three B cylinders which aresufficient for the patients. TheChief Medical Superintendent(CMS) said that currently 24patients of L1 symptoms areadmitted. DC also inquiredabout the refilling system ofoxygen supply.

Agrawal asked the medicalsuperintendent about the seat-ing area of the patients comingto the hospital, sanitisationand availability of medicines atthe counters. He also asked

about any problem in availabil-ity of resources in view to pro-vide adequate treatment to thepatients and assured the hospi-tal management that if there isany problem, the same wouldbe diagnosed immediatelywhen it would be brought tothe information of the districtadministration.

DM, while inspecting thereception/ registration countersof the hospital, asked about the

token vending machine thereand asked how one takes thetoken, if one does not knowabout the machine. He wasinformed that the guards onduty help the people in thisdirection. Sharma was alsoinformed that at four registra-tion counters, tokens are beinggiven from such vendingmachines so that the physicaldistance can be maintainedduring COVID-19 pandemic

period. Besides, the visitingofficers also inspected theCCTV camera control roominstalled in the CMS’ room.They also asked how the doc-tors are kept on duty in thewards and monitor the treat-ment of patients.

During the inspection, theDC wanted to talk to a patientand with the help of the con-trol room, he asked about thetreatment from a patientadmitted there. He also askedthe patient about the supplyand quality of food, changingof bed sheets, cleanliness andavailability of inhalers. Thepatient expressed satisfactionwith the treatment and saidthat his treatment is beingdone well. The DC directed theCMS to give correct informa-tion about the patients’ condi-tion to their attendants, sothat they would be satisfied andthere was no confusion aboutthe treatment.

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As many as 341 patientsoutnumbered coronavirus

for the second consecutive dayon Covid infection, with morethan 248 new corona infectedlate on Wednesday night..These included 28 patientsadmitted to various Covid hos-pitals and 313 infected com-pleting home isolation.

According to CMO Dr GSBajpai, 173 patients were foundpositive in the antigen test onWednesday, 58 in the RTPCRtest (including two private labreports) and 17 in the True-nottest. About 3,500 people weretested for Covid. A total of 28patients were discharged fromvarious Covid Care Centresand Covid Hospitals.Maximum 154 infected arehospitalised at L3 SRNHospital. In the same sequence,13 infected patients are admit-ted in Kalindipuram CovidCare Centre, 20 in UnaniMedical College, 46 in RailwayHospital, 67 in Beli, 37 inUnited Medicity and 30 inSainath MMA Hospital.

According to CMO DrBajpai, the number of activecorona patients in the districtis 3,290. At the same time,9,895 patients have becomeinfection free by completinghome isolation. Home isolationof 313 patients was completedon Wednesday.

Meanwhile, three coronainfected died on Wednesday inthe district. One of themremained infected, whoreached SRN Hospital in crit-ical condition but died beforebeing admitted.

According to SRN's

Corona Deputy Incharge, DrSujit, a 73-year-old elderly res-ident of Georgetown wasadmitted to Covid treatment ina critical condition on Tuesdaynight. He was also a patient ofBP and sugar with chronicasthma disease. He died duringtreatment at 7 o'clock thismorning.

The 54-year-old Kanhaipur

resident was suffering froman infected kidney infection.He also had other diseases. Hewas also dialyzed twice onSeptember 18 after admission.He died during treatment at 6o'clock on Wednesday evening.

Meanwhile, the ivermectindrug is proving effective intreating patients suffering fromcorona. Now the Health

department is trying to makethis medicine available to moreand more people. Whether thetest report of corona is positiveor negative, this medicine willbe made available to all thepatients for free. For this, pri-vate hospitals have also beendirected to provide ivermectinmedicine to patients undergo-ing corona examination intheir hospital. People can alsotake this medicine to preventcorona infection. Ivermectinmedicine is very old which iseffective in killing insects.Experts from several otherinstitutes, including KGMULucknow, have suggested thismedicine to kill the virus aswell. On this, the governmenthad directed all the Covid hos-pitals to take this medicine tothe corona patients. This drughas been given to coronapatients in Prayagraj since lastmonth.

This is also proving effec-tive. Nodal Officer for COVID-19, Dr Rishi Sahai said that itis listed in the list of essentialmedicines of WHO. This drugcan be given to all individuals(except pregnant women, chil-dren under two years of age,and nursing mothers). He saidthat it is our effort that moreand more people should takethis medicine.

CMO Dr GS Bajpai saidthat a research has confirmedthat the effect of ivermectindrug is very effective in fight-ing against the virus in viraldiseases. This prevents theprocess of the virus's proteinsgetting inside and out of thecells' DNA. 24 hours after tak-ing this drug, the viral loaddecreases from 93 per cent to98 per cent, added Dr Bajpai.

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Now the Samajwadi Partyhas come forward to seek

justice for mafia don AtiqueAhmed who is facing the wrathof the Yogi Government atpresent particularly in andaround Prayagraj.

Samajwadi Party leaderRicha Singh met the DivisionalCommissioner and the DistrictMagistrate, and handed themover a memorandum seekingjustice for the family membersof Atique whose palatial housewas also demolished inChakiya area, denying shelterfor the family members.

Atique and his youngerbrother Ashraf are in jail whilehis son is absconding. Atique'swife Shaista Parveen has shift-ed to the residence of her par-ents.

The house of Atique was inthe name of his mother inrecords, but according to theofficials of the PrayagrajDevelopment Authority thewhole construction was unau-thorised and was raised with-out an approved blue print.

The SP leader Richa Singhis of the view that the pre-scribed legal procedure was notfollowed while demolishingthe house of Atique's mother.

She quoted that Right toshelter is fundamental rightunder Article 19 (1) (e) readwith Article 21 of Constitutionof India, says the AllahabadHigh Court in Rajesh vs Stateof UP 2019 SCC online Alle2555. Atique should have beenprovided with an opportunityto regularise the irregular con-structions, said Richa Singh.

It may be mentioned herethat about a dozen propertiesof Atique Ahmed and his gangmen have been demolished inand around Prayagraj, andabout 10 haven put under seal.Most of the above propertieswere raised on Nazul land byusing muscle power.

Atique is one of the topgangsters of UP, and he wasalso involved in Guest Housecase of Lucknow whereMayawati was allegedly molest-ed.

Richa Singh, former pres-ident of Allahabad UniversityStudents Union, got an acci-dental entry into the SamajwadiParty just before the abovestudents union election, andthen became a candidate fir theAssembly election. Richa Singhhad filed her nomination forthe union election as an inde-pendent candidate. At theeleventh hour the nomination

papers of the official Samajwadicandidate were rejected. Thencame the opportunity for Richawho was supported by the SP,and she made it.

Atique, though contestedand won most of the Assemblyelections as an independentcandidate, supported by the SP.Later he joined Apna Dal, butwon the Parliamentary electionfrom Phulour on SP ticket.

RESULTS DECLARED:Uttar Pradesh Public ServiceCommission (UPPSC) onWednesday declared the resultsof research officer, lecturerpsychology and lecturer autoengineering. CommissionSecretary Jagdish, DeputySecretary Pushkar Srivastavaand Deputy Secretary LakhanLal Shivhare jointly informedthat the research officer catego-ry under Uttar PradeshHorticulture and FoodProcessing Department wasselected on one of the twounreserved categories forwhich the interview processwas conducted on September18. In which Sachin KumarSingh has been declared suc-cessful. Similarly, in September,the Commission conducted aninterview for selection by directrecruitment on 31 posts ofpsychology lecturer of state

colleges under HigherEducation department UttarPradesh. The result of whichhas also been announced. Inwhich 31 candidates weredeclared successful. Amongthose who succeeded wereSoumya Sharma, Vipul Kumar,Anjali Sharma, AnupamKumar Yadav, Kirti Madnani,Vatsal Priyadarshi Pandey,Anubhuti Jain, Jyoti Srivastava,Garima Yadav, SurabhiSrivastava, Jaya Kumari, SwatiMishra, Shailendra Sharma,Priyanka Shukla, Astha Sakshi,Ruchi Pandey, Akanchha Devi,Akanchha Chaurasia, AmitKumar Vishwakarma, SwatiGupta, Vishal Kumar Gupta,Krishna Kumari, RuchiSatyendra Mani Vikram, SudhaJaiswal, Yogesh Chandra,Yogendra Pratap Singh,Ghanshyam Saroj, AmitKumar.

According to DeputySecretary of the Commission,Lakhan Lal Shivhare, NishaSharma, Durgesh SinghBhadauria, Ankur Verma andSatish Namdev have beendeclared successful in the inter-view conducted on September18 by the Commission for reg-ular selection by direct recruit-ment under the Department ofTechnical Education.

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District Magistrate (DM)Kaushal Raj Sharma said

that as many as 55 houseshave been provided to theaffected residents during theongoing construction ofPhulwaria four-lane and allthe procedures will be complet-ed within 24 hours to handoverthe houses allotted to thesebeneficiaries under Aasrascheme of District UrbanDevelopment Authority(DUDA). Not only this, he saidthat the vehicles like TataMagic, Vikam, tractors, trolleysand labourers have also provid-ed to help the affected residentscarry their belongings to theirnew houses allotted to themunder Aasra.

‘Though the residentswere settled illegally on theland of Defence department,yet the district administrationhad showed generosity andallotted them houses underthe Aasra scheme to protectthem from being homeless,’said that DM, adding that oneof the priorities of the govern-ment was to change the align-ment prepared by the UttarPradesh State Bridge

Corporation for the construc-tion of Phulwaria four-lanewith the cost of �307.77 crore.Discussions were held sever-al times at the levels ofDivisional Commissioner andDistrict Magistrate, but it wasfound that it was not possibleto change the alignment tech-nically, he said, adding thatafter this, he also made phys-ical inspection of the areaalong with the officials ofBridge Corporation andPublic Works Department(PWD) and afterwards, thealignment was changed insuch a technical way so thatonly the minimum number ofhouses would be affected onthe spot.

DM said that many affect-ed residents had already start-ed shifting their all thebelongings to Aasra housesfrom Wednesday. In the past,the affected 12 families hadshifted to their allotted hous-es of Aasra scheme. The camphas been set up by the PWDto compensate the construc-tion work done on the land onthe site, in which the Aadharcard, bank account numbersare being collected. In thepast, compensation to nine

families has been paid.Besides, on the spot, work onone out of five pillars wasstarted earlier by BridgeCorporation but now thesame has also been started onthe remaining four pillars aswell.

PROTEST: Stronglyprotesting the opening of aliquor shop at Karsara villagein Rohania, the villagers onThursday submitted a memo-randum demanding theDistrict Magistrate todirect the concerned author-ity to shift it elsewhere fromhere.

A licensed liquor shopwas opened in the villagewhich is located near thelocality and an educationalinstitution as well which leadsto inconveniences to them, thevillagers including womensaid after submitting a mem-orandum at the office of theDM.

The persons having drinksat the liquor shop passedfilthy remarks on women andchildren of locality when theypassed through there to go toAaganwadi Kendra and schoolof village, the agitated villagersblamed adding, the dunkards

also misbehaved with thewomen of locality.

When they reached theliquor shop and asked itslicense holder to close it, hemisbehaved with them.

Later on, the liquor shopowner along with his menreached the locality andthreatened the women in theabsence of male members offamily for opposing the open-ing of shop further, the vil-lagers charged adding, thelocal police is also favoring theshop owner instead of payingattention to their problem.Moreover, the police havemade challan of someunknown villagers in thisdirection, they charged fur-ther.

The annoyed villagerssubmitted a memorandumurging the District Magistrateto cancel the challan and alsoask the concerned authority toshift the shop elsewhere fromhere in the larger interest ofwomen and children of thevillage.

Vinod Kumar, Tara Devi,Prabhavati, Heera Mani andmany others were present atthe time of submiting thememorandum.

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Mahant Narendra Giri,president of Akhil

Bharatiya Akhara Parishad(ABAP), the largest organisa-tion of saints, has supportedKannauj MP Subrata Pathak'sstatement that Bollywood ispromoting Islamisation. It ispart of a conspiracy to dividethe society.

Speaking to media per-sons here on Thursday, MahantNarendra Giri said that thesequence of spoiling the imageof Gods and Goddesses in themovies has been going on foryears. The situation was differ-ent when films started in India.Movies started with 'OmNamah Shivaay'. The saintsand seers were respected. Thesituation changed in the laterperiod, he added.

Now the Akhara Parishadwill oppose the attempt to tar-nish the image of Gods andGoddesses. If needed, legalaction will be taken against theconcerned artist, producer anddirector. He demanded theCentral and MaharashtraGovernment to take toughsteps to end Islamisation fromBollywood and said that no oneshould dominate there.

Welcoming the decisionof Chief Minister YogiAdityanath to create a film cityin Noida, the Akhara Parishadpresident said that this will alsoincrease employment opportu-nities. It is hoped that thefilms made in UP will reflectthe Indian culture and civilisa-tion, Giri added.

SHUATS NSS VOLUN-TEER BAGS AWARD: SamHigginbottom University ofAgriculture, Technology andSciences (SHUATS), an insti-tute dedicated to agricultureeducation, research and exten-sion for the last 110 years andthe National Service Scheme(NSS) of the University has setanother achievement as one ofthe NSS volunteer has been vir-tually awarded by the Presidentof India on Thursday at a pro-gramme organised in NewDelhi.

NSS Coordinator Dr RohitLal informed that a programmewas organised on Thursday bythe Ministry of Youth andSports, Government of India atVigyan Bhawan, New Delhi inwhich President Ram NathKovind was virtually connect-ed from Rashtrapati Bhavan.He presented the NationalService Scheme Award 2018-19

to SHUATS NSS volunteerChris John. On the occasionSports Minister Kiran Rijujuwas also present. An amount of� 1 lakh was also awarded tothe SHUATS volunteer ChrisJohn.

Dr Rohit Lal said thatunder the guidance of ProV i c e - C h a n c e l l o r(Administration) Prof (Dr) SBLal and Registrar Prof (Dr)Robin L Prasad, the NSS has setanother record. Dr Rohit alsothanked to NSS RegionalDirector, Dr Ashok KumarShroti and State Liaison OfficerDr Anshumali Sharma for theirspecial support to SHUATSNSS.

Programme OfficerSatyam Kumar Kesari said thatstudents are also participatingactively in the Prime Minister'sFit India programme, whichwill conclude on October 2,Gandhi Jayanti. With thisachievement, there is an atmos-phere of happiness among theSHUATS volunteers, students,teachers and staff.

ICICI BANK HOLDSPLACEMENT DRIVE:Placement drive was organisedonline by ICICI Bank at MotilalNehru Institute of Research andBusiness Administration

(Monirba), Institute ofManagement, AllahabadUniversity. Company officialsclosely assessed the students'ability, brain skills, confidence,and other aspects of personal-ity in various stages of theprocess.

During this, many ques-tions were also asked aboutcorona from the students. Onthe other hand, in the coronaera, where companies are beingsorted, at the same time, stu-dents have made a place inICICI Bank due to their talentand ability in which 11 studentsof the institute have been select-ed for the post of DeputyManager. The average annualpackage has been fixed at �6.54lakh. Aditya VishwakarmaAishwarya Kesari, Anjali Rajan,Harshit Jaiswal, ManishaKanaujia, Parigyan Singh,Rohit Juyal, Shivam Tiwari,Shrestha among the studentsselected in the placement driveorganised under the guidanceof Dr Ekta Verma, PlacementOfficer of Monirba. Dr. EktaVerma informed that theselected students will be trans-ferred to different parts of thecountry. More placements willbe organised in the comingsemester.

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As many as 146 newCOVID-19 patients have

been detected in the districthere on Thursday, increasingthe total number of cases to12,345. Besides, the districtalso saw three more deaths,increasing the toll to 200.During the day, the follow-upnegative reports included 199patients and out of them, 198recovered from home isolation,increasing the number to 7,942and just one patient has beendischarged from the hospitaland the number of curedpatients from the hospitalsreached 2,615. The total num-ber of cured patients is now10,557, leaving 1,588 activepatients. The recovery rate hasimproved slightly to 85.51 percent but mortality rateremained at 1.62 per cent.

Chief Medical Officer(CMO) Dr VB Singh hasinformed that in the first reportof the day by 11 am, 85 posi-tive patients were detected out

of 1,462 reports received. Tillthen, the total test reportsreceived were 1,79,391 and theresults of 6,943 are awaited. Outof them, 1,67,107 were nega-tive, while 12,284 positive. Thetotal number of samples col-lected was 1,96,598. Earlier, twomales aged 62 and 59 fromMaldahia and Kakarmatarespectively succumbed to

COVID-19 at SSH BHU whileone male aged 87 died at ApexHospital. Besides, with theaddition of 17 new red zones,the total number of hotspotshas increased to 1,950 includ-ing 347 red zones. Two greenzones have been convertedinto red zones again. There are1,603 green zones with 67 newones.

Earlier, on the instructionsof District Magistrate (DM)Kaushal Raj Sharma, the ongo-ing mass/ group antigen testscontinued and a day ago 604persons were tested at Shri ShivPrasad Gupta (SSPG) Hospitaland out of them, five werefound positive, while one wasdetected positive out of 498tests at Government Women’sHospital, five out of 173 at LBSHospital at Ramnagar, one outof 10 at Swami VivekanandHospital, Bhelupur and eightout of 453 at BHU. However,none out of 100 tests wasfound positive at Shivpur CHC.CMO has informed that theHealth department has dis-tributed 8,168 ivermectintablets to 1,021 persons. So far,9.21 lakh tablets were distrib-uted to 1.15 lakh persons andout of them, 7.31 lakh tabletsto 91,417 persons were distrib-uted only by the Health depart-ment while rest of tablets byother departments includingSupply and Education depart-ments and Civil Defence so far.

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Executive Director, NTPCRihand, Balaji Iyengar, laid the

foundation of 20 MW capacitysolar power plant recently by dig-ging the ground with shovel andperforming traditional rituals. Theplant will be set up on ash dyke atTola Adhaura near Sirsoti village andis targeted to be completed byMarch next year. The function wasorganised following Covid-19 guidelines and was

also attended by GM (O&M) ACSahu, GM (FM) M Ramesh, GM(Maintenance) S Srikrishna, GM(ADM) N Reddy, GMs (TS) ENand Kishore and AK Papaneja,CMO of Dhanwantari Hospital DrRenu Saxena, AGM (HR) KS Murthy,AGM (FQA) Umesh Kumar Srivastava,AGMs PB Pranjpe, Ravi Shankar andSK Srivastava, DGM (Project) SCSrivastava, DGM (TAC) D Mandaland project manager (Safety Control

and Devices) Abhishek Chopra.

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At a seminar organised byAgriculture department in

Zila Panchayat on WednesdayDM SK Patel said that burningof residue of crop would be takenas crime and accused might faceaction. He quipped that whenthere were other ways of dis-posing of the crop residue thenwhy were farmers opting fordetrimental ways like burning it.He said that farmers were wellaware about its harms but wereadopting it as a shortcut. Heappealed to them to mix residuein soil and make their fieldsmore fertile. Highlighting gov-ernment schemes introduced infarmers’ interest he appealed tothem to avail themselves ofthem. He further appealed tothem that agriculture equip-ment were available at half pricefor which the applications werebeing submitted so they shouldapply for it timely and get themfor increasing their yield.Emphasising over the use of

organic fertilisers the DMappealed to farmers to learn theways from experts for preparingit apart from traditional ways.The seminar was alsoaddressed by agricultural sci-entists from different institu-tions, including South Campus

Barkachha BHU. An earlierreport said that DM at a meet-ing held at Collectorate directed thedepartments concerned toachieve the target under themega drive to control commu-nicable diseases timely. He saidthat the health department hadbeen made the nodal depart-ment for it so other depart-ments had to coordinate withit. He said that Octobermonth was the transitionperiod of the year and it was

the time to be more alert. Hesaid arrangements related totreatment, vaccinat ion,ambulance service etc wasthe responsibility of theHealth department. However,the other departments shouldcomplete their preparations,he said. The Panchayat Rajdepartment had to build moretoilets, install more hand-pumps, repair old ones andensure sanitation in rural area,the Secondary Educationdepartment had to make stu-dents aware online about theprecautions to be taken tocheck diseases and nagarpa-likas had to ensure cleaning ofdrainage system, total sanita-tion, including fogging. Forthe Health department theDM made it clear that each andevery field staff had to remainin their area with updatedinformation of patients even ofthose with fever or cough. He saidthat the drive would run fromOctober 1 to 31 and no laxitywould be tolerated.

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Due to pre-interlocking andnon-interlocking works in

view of doubling of Aunrihar-Taraon rail section of Varanasidivision the following trainswill be diverted/short termi-nated/short originated, saidCPRO PK Singh. FromSeptember 24 to October 10,09089 Ahmedabad-Gorakhpurspecial running fromAhmedabad will be run on thediverted route i.e. Varanasi Jn-Jaunpur-Shahganj-Mau. FromSeptember 25 to October 11 the09090 Gorakhpur-Ahmedabadspecial running from Gorakhpurwill be run on the diverted routei.e. Mau-Shahganj-Jaunpur-Varanasi Jn. Meanwhile fromSeptember 24 to October 11 the05008 Lucknow Jn-Varanasi CitySpecial train running fromLucknow Jn will short terminateat Mau Jn. Likewise fromSeptember 25 to October 12 the05007 Varanasi City-LucknowJunction special running fromVaranasi City will be run fromMau Jn. On October 8, 10 and 11the Anand Vihar Terminus-Ghazipur City special runningfrom Anand Vihar will be shortterminated at Jaunpur Jn. OnOctober 09, 11 and 12 the 02219Ghazipur City-Anand ViharTerminus special running fromGhazipur City will be run fromJaunpur Jn. On October 9 the02234 Anand Vihar Terminus-Ghazipur City Special Trainrunning from Anand ViharTerminus will be short termi-

nated to Jaunpur Junction. Onthe other hand, on October 10the 02233 Ghazipur City-Anand Vihar Terminus -Special Train will be run fromJaunpur Junction.

CLEANLINESS FORT-NIGHT: Under the SwachhtaPakhwada being observed onthe entire Indian Railways fromSeptember 16 to 30 onIzzatnagar, Lucknow andVaranasi divisions various pro-grammes for cleanliness wererun at various places, stations,railway premises and railwaycolonies etc under the super-vision of the designated offi-cers. Cleanliness programmeswere organised under ‘Cleanpremises, clean circulating area’ inLucknow Division, ‘Cleanpremises/clean residential premis-es’ in Varanasi division and inIzzatnagar division onWednesday. In Izzatnagar,Bareilly City, Pilibhit, Kathgodam,Lalkuan, Tanakpur, Kashipur,Rudrapur City, Ramnagar,Kasganj, Farrukhabad, MathuraCantt, Haldwani, Badaun,Hathras City and Kannauj sta-tions of Izzatnagar division clean-ing in their circulating area andpremises was ensured by thedesignated officials. In LucknowJunction, Gonda, Gorakhpur,Badshahnagar, Khalilabad, Bastiand Mankapur stations ofLucknow division the designatedofficers and station managersgot the circulating area cleaned.The designated officials gotthe railway colonies and resi-dential areas cleaned under

‘Clean premises/clean residen-tial premises day’ beingobserved on Varanasi division.Such cleanliness programmeswill be run continuously tillSeptember 30, CPRO PK Singhsaid.

RPF’S BID TOPROTECT PASSENGERS:The Railway Protection Force(RPF), North Eastern Railway(NER) is making constantefforts to protect passengersand provide them better trav-el facilities, CPRO PK Singhsaid. The RPF team onSeptember 22 found a 10-year-old boy in an unclaimed con-dition in train no 01055 nearSalempur station. On beingquestioned the boy said toldthat he had boarded the trainby mistake. Thereafter the RPFpost, Bhatni, handed over tothe child to the Childline there.On September 22 the RPF teamreceived the vehicle no. OnSeptember 22 RPF team founda 10-year-old boy crying intrain No 02555. On interroga-tion, the boy said that he got sep-arated from his father while goingto Bandra and by mistake board-ed this train. The boy RPF postGonda handed him over toChildline, Gonda. On September21 three persons were caught withthree bundles of signal cables fromOld Malgodam, Gonda, byinspector and staff of RPF postthere. Action was taken againstthem under relevant sections ofRailway Property UnlawfulPossession Act and a case wasregistered against them.

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BSA Premchand Yadav inspected thegovernment schools of Basic Shiksha

department recently. He inspected the schoolsat Bamhori Kala and Bardar.At Bardar he issued anotice to an assistantteacher for not attendingthe school for long withoutpermission. He inspectedprimary school, Rirua, andthe composite upper pri-

mary school at Laikapur, where he instruct-ed the authorities for proper implementationof Kayakalp Yojana. He inspected primaryschool, girls’ primary school, and girls’ upperprimary school, Karmer. All the schools areunder Dakor block. He instructed all prin-cipals and teachers to get toilets repaired andschools painted with the budget underKayakalp Yojana. He found that the distribu-tion of uniforms had been done in all schools.

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DRM, Varanasi Division ofNER, VK Panjiar made a

window trailing inspection onManduadih- Prayagraj Rambagrail section on Wednesday tosee the progress and quality ofongoing works and review thesafety norms under doublingthe tracks project betweenGyanpur Road and Jhusi rail-way stations. DRM firstreached Jhusi through newline in his special vehicle.He checked tracks, fittings,crossover lines, ballast spread,overhead traction, colour lightsignals, information/warningboards, station and block sec-tions, major and minor bridges,

culverts, points and crossings,electric poles, road underpass-es and other safety and distance

standards. He also made athorough inspection ofGyanpur Road and Jhusi rail-way stations, seeing the yardplans in connection with dou-bling of infrastructure devel-opment works. Looking at themaps, he gave directions to theofficers concerned. Panjiar also

gave directions to officers inconnection with height of rail-way tracks, over head cable, 800KV high tension crossing andtraction line of Madhosingh-Jhusi rail section. He empha-sised on completing the ongo-ing doubling-cum-electrifica-tion works in the section main-taining quality and time limit sothat after the inspection of CRS,the train operations on the routecould be started. He was accom-panied by SDOM Rohit Gupta, SDE(Coordination) Rajiv Agarwal,SDE-III Atul Tripathi, SDEE(Electrical Traction) PankajKesharwani, SDS&TE AshutoshPandey and chief project man-ager of Rail Vikas NigamLimited Vikas Chandra.

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AGM of NER Amit Kumar Agarwal conducted awindow trailing inspection between Deoria Sadar

and Kusumhi railway stations in view of speedy move-ment of goods trains and pro-viding improved freight trans-port facilities to the industryand traders. He also checkedsafety, security and speed ofgoods trains on the route.During his inspection hereviewed modernisation work ofgoods sheds and development of

commercial facilities at Deoria Sadar, Chauri Chaura,Sardarnagar and Kusumhi stations. Agarwal first vis-ited Deoria Sadar and inspected its goods shed seeingthe progress made in development works of increas-ing trading facilities there. Subsequently he inspectedgoods sheds of Chauri Chaura, Sardaranagar and Kusumhistations. During his visit he talked to traders and sought theirsuggestions to attract them for transporting goodsthrough rail. AGM was accompanied by SDCM (VaranasiDivision) Sanjeev Sharma, SDE-I JK Singh and others.

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The Cantonment Board hasdecided to carry out devel-

opment works worth �.1.59crore.

In the Cantonment Boardmeeting held on Tuesday, themembers also approved theconstruction of zonal pumpingstation involving an expendi-ture of �12.12 crore.

They also approved a � 50lakh tender for repairing ofpipeline leakage and laying ofnew pipelines

. Many other estimateswere passed by theCantonment Board that includ-ed road construction up toCantonment Board store(�18.85 lakh); from TagoreRoad to Circuit House (�26.06lakh); from Koela Ghat to Golf Course Gate (�27.30 lakh); from Golf Course to Welcome gate (�26.53 lakh); from Circuit

House to RN Lane (�31 lakh);footpath construction nearCantonment Board (�6.71lakh); from Status Club to StMary’s School (�15.21 lakh),repairing of sewer line nearPakaria Chauraha (� 3.08 lakh).

In the last Board meeting,it was decided to constructsmall zonal pumping station.But now it has decided toconstruct big zonal pumpingstation at a cost of �12.12crore.

Cantonment BoardChairman Brig Dinar Didhe,Vice Chairman Lakhan LalOmar, Pushpendra Kumar, ColAnurag Dwivedi, Col UKVaishya, Lt. Col. MZ Khan,Prastavna Tewari, MohdFarog Alam, Anita Yadav,Shikha Trivedi and Raju werepresent.

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District Magistrate AlokTiwari has directed the

chief medical officer to lodgean FIR against Gyan Pathologywhich has been found guilty ofgiving wrong Covid testreports.

He said all the 30 samplessent from Gyan Pathology forcross-check were found neg-ative.

The district magistratesaid the Gyan Pathologywould remain sealed.

He said the pathology wasnot only giving wrong reportsbut was also charging morethan the rates fixed by thegovernment and it He said thispathology was raided aftermany complaints werereceived against it.

Meanwhile, during crack-down against illegally runprivate nursing homes onThursday, the district magis-trate found blatant violation ofnorms and directed that FIRbe lodged against MahavirNursing Home which wasrunning without a licence andhad admitted around 40patients, including those suf-fering from COVID-19 anddengue.

Tiwari said what wasmore shocking was that therewas not a single doctor in thenursing home except a fewparamedics. He said the sam-

ples of COVID-19 and denguepatients admitted there werecollected and the officialswere directed to shift them toanother private nursing homeas per their choice.

In another similar raid, itwas found that another privatenursing home, MedantaKanpur Hospital, was alsorunning without any registra-tion. The district magistratedirected officials to take legalaction against it.

He said this nursing homehad been running withoutlegal sanction and had admit-ted many patients in violationof Covid protocol.

The district magistrate

warned private nursing homesof Kanpur Nagar that theyshould possess a valid legalsanction to run the nursinghomes and have the basicinfrastructure and equipment,especially if they were treatingCOVID-19 patients.

He directed the districtofficials to ensure that all thepatients admitted in this nurs-ing home were shifted to alicensed private nursing homewith Level-2 facility.

Tiwari said six static mag-istrates had been posted atLLR Hospital and they wouldwork in eight-hour shifts. Hesaid Veterinary Officer DrRamapati Mishra and District

Social Welfare Off icerAmnarjeet Singh had beenmade static magistrates ofneuroscience ward andDistrict Development OfficerGP Gautam also placed in theneuroscience ward andDistrict Probation OfficerAbhay Kumar in the materni-ty ward.

He said besides them, ZilaUdyan Adhikari CP Awasthihad also been stationed at thematernity ward. He said thesestatic magistrates wouldremain there and monitor theworking of the senior doctorsand the paramedics, keep avigil on the CCTV camerasand take feedback of the

patients who were critical andsubmit their daily reports tothe chief medical officer.

Tiwari said in view ofdoctors’ crisis in LLR Hospital,it had been decided to trans-fer five doctors from threecities — Jhansi, Meerut, Agra— there.

He said the five doctors tojoin LLR Hospital were of pro-fessor rank and were expertsfrom anaesthesia, respiratorymedicine and medicinedepartments.

He said with the arrival ofthese doctors the pressure onLLR Hospital would reduceand its working would bemuch more smoother.

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Dr Pravin Katiyar whileaddressing presspersons onThursday said the dream of theIMA-Kanpur to set up a full-fledged blood bank would befulfilled with the blood bankbecoming functional fromFriday.

He said this blood bankhad been given sanction forplasmapheresis — a medicalprocedure designed to removesome plasma from the blood.

Dr Katiyar said recently,convalescent plasma containingprotective antibodies, donatedfrom cured COVID-19patients, had been shown as apromising and safe treatmentof the coronavirus infection. Hesaid during a plasma exchange,unhealthy plasma was swappedfor healthy plasma or a plasmasubstitute, before the bloodwas returned to the body. He

said Severe Acute RespiratorySyndrome coronavirus hadspread throughout the world,most notably causing deathowing to pneumonia andcytokine storm syndrome. Headded that the treatment washighly supportive with no

definitive anti viral therapyand aimed to prevent furthercomplications during viralclearance.

Dr Katiyar said the thera-peutic plasma exchange was theseparation of plasma fromother blood components and

had a potential to clearcytokines which caused the‘storm’. He said the double-fil-tration plasmapheresis waseffective in removing particlesbigger than 55-60 nm and themethod stood the rationale ofpossibly coronavirus fromblood.

Addressing the gathering,Dr VC Rastogi said any per-son between the age of 18-60who had undergone treatmentand possessed two negativeCovid test reports was eligiblefor blood donation. He said theperson must have a haemo-globin level of 12.5 gm.

He said with this bloodbank becoming functional andhaving the most modern tech-nologies and facilities, it wouldbe successfully able to treatpatients not only of COVID-19but dengue as well.

Dr R Mittal, Dr Rajesh Jain,Dr Gaurav Dubey and severalothers were present on theoccasion.

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isolation monitoring commit-tee to take feedback from theCOVID-19 patients in homeisolation.

He said the family mem-bers of such patients shouldstrictly monitor the patientsand immediately inform thecontrol room if the conditiondeteriorates.

He said the control roomhad to apprise the kin of the

COVID-19 patients about theircondition.

He said COVID-19patients opting for home iso-lation would have to give anundertaking that they havehome isolation facilities at theirhouses. He said in case of sur-prise visit, if the home isolationpatient was found not in pos-session of health check-up kit,which included a thermometer,a pulse oximeter, Vitamin Cand zinc tablets, masks the per-son would be admitted to hos-pital.

The district magistrateadded that senior citizens whowere asymptomatic COVID-19patients and submitted medicalfitness certificate could also beallowed home isolation.

He said pregnant womenwho were not at high risk andwere expected to give birthwithin three weeks could beallowed home isolation afterobtaining the opinion of agynaecologist.

He also suggested that if aperson was suffering fromfever, cough, sore throat and

problem in breathing, he/sheshould immediately get oneselfchecked in a pathology.

He said they could alsoapproach the LLR Hospital’sFlu OPD. Besides, he added,those who come in contactwith an affected person andhave no symptom should getthemselves checked and ifneeded they should also gettheir chest X-rayed.

Tiwari said the mostencouraging part was that allthe people in home isolationwere getting cured.

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KANPUR (PNS): Activists ofJoint Forum of Central TradeUnions, on the call of theirnational leadership, stageddemonstration at the statue ofMartyr Chandra Shekhar Azadon Thursday in protest againstthe anti-labourers and anti-farmers bills passed inParliament. Leaders of INTUC,AITUC, HMS, CITU, AICC-TU,s AIUTUC, TUCC andindependent trade unions affil-iated to the Joint Forum tookpart in the demonstration.

They handed over a 29-point memorandum, addressedto the Governor and Presidentof India, to Additional LabourCommissioner SP Shukla.

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Kanpur Nagar reported 274fresh cases of coronavirus

infection till Thursday evening.Chief Medical Officer Dr

AK Mishra said 274 morepeople had tested positive forcoronavirus infection betweenWednesday evening andThursday evening, taking thecount of confirmed cases to23,937. He said a total of 73cases were discharged and6212 COVID-19 patients hadbeen cured in the city so far,and at present 4331active coronavirus cases wereundergoing treatment.

The CMO said 8COVID-19 deaths werereported in the city til lThursday evening taking thetoll to 628.

He said a total of 5861samples were sent for testingin the district.

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Listing cross-border terror-ism as one of the main chal-

lenges, External AffairsMinister S Jaishankar onThursday said the South AsianAssociation for RegionalCooperation (SAARC) has toovercome it to ensure everlast-ing peace in the region. Theother hurdles are blocking con-nectivity and obstructing trade,he said.

The Minister made theseobservations in an obvious ref-erence to Pakistan whileaddressing an informal virtu-al meeting of foreign ministersof the eight-member grouping.It was not functioning for sometime now because of differ-ences between India andPakistan.

The meeting of the foreignministers is an annual eventheld on the margins of the UNGeneral Assembly (UNGA) inNew York. These meetingshave often seen sharpexchanges between the twonations in recent years.

“Cross-border terrorism,blocking connectivity andobstructing trade are three keychallenges that SAARC mustovercome,” Jaishankar said in astring of tweets highlighting thecontents of his speech. “Onlythen will we see enduring

peace, prosperity and securityin our South Asia region,” headded.

The Minister said, “Overthe last 35 years, Saarc hasmade significant progress. Butour efforts towards collectivecollaboration and prosperityhave been hampered by acts ofterrorism and threats to nation-al security.

“Such an environmentimpedes our shared objective ofrealising the full potential ofour collective endeavour. It is,therefore, crucial that we col-lectively resolve to defeat thescourge of terrorism, includingthe forces that nurture, supportand encourage it. This willgenerate the much needed trustand confidence to collectivelybuild a stronger and prosper-ous Saarc.”

India holds Pakistanresponsible for cross-borderterror in Jammu & Kashmir(J&K).

Jaishankar said he had alsoreaffirmed India’s commit-ment to its “neighbourhoodfirst” policy and towards build-ing a connected, integrated,secure and prosperous SouthAsia. He also highlightedIndia’s Covid-19-related coop-eration efforts, including acommitment of $10 million tothe emergency fund for theregion, the supply of essential

drugs, medical consumables,and protection and test kits tothe region, and a video con-ference of health professionalsfrom the region to share infor-mation and best practices onthe pandemic.

India had also launched aCovid-19 InformationExchange Platform (COINEX)to facilitate exchange of spe-cialised information, helpedthe development of an innov-ative website by the SaarcDisaster Management Centreto provide reliable informationand updates on the evolvingsituation, and activated theSaarc Food Bank mechanismto mitigate the impact of thepandemic, he said.

In his address, Pakistanforeign minister ShahMahmood Qureshi spoke ofhis country’s “willingness tohost the 19th SAARC Summitand for obstacles created in itsway to be removed for SAARCto function as an effectiveinstrument of regional coop-eration”.

The summit was scheduledto be held in Islamabad inNovember 2016 but was calledoff after an attack on an IndianArmy camp at Uri in Kashmirthat was blamed on Pakistan-based terrorists. Since then,SAARC has largely been dor-mant.

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A v i a t i o n(MoCA) hasamended provi-sions regardingbaggage limit ondomestic flights,giving airlinecarriers the free-dom to decideon it as per theirinternal policy.Ahead of this,passengers fly-ing domesticroutes were onlyallowed to takeone hand bag-gage and onecheck-in lug-gage.

Issuing anew memoran-dum, the MoCAsaid, “Baggagel i m i t a t i o nwould be as perthe airlines’policies.” “Thematter with regard to check-in baggagehas been reviewed based on the feed-back/inputs received from the con-cerned stakeholders,” the ministrynoted. Following the notice, airlines willbe able to reset the domestic check-inbaggage limit back to 15 kg as it willhelp them slightly increase their rev-enues.

When the domestic passengerflights resumed on May 25 after a gapof two months due to the coronaviruspandemic, the ministry had statedthat only one check-in baggage and one

hand baggage per passenger must beallowed. Passengers were also allowedto carry check-in baggage up to 20 kgwithout any additional charge.

Currently, airlines are permitted tooperate not more than 60 per cent oftheir pre-COVID domestic flights.

Recently, in a significant state-ment Union Civil Aviation MinisterHardeep Singh Puri on Tuesday told theRajya Sabha that by the time its Diwaliand towards the end of the year, Indiawould have pre-Covid aviation figuresof 3,00,000 passengers a day.

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Saudi Arabia has partiallyrelaxed its suspension order

for travel to and from India. Ithas decided that flights wouldbe allowed from Saudi Arabiato India but not from India toSaudi Arabia.

Air India Express, whichoperates maximum flightsbetween India and theKingdom of Saudi Arabia,informed passengers of thepartial relaxation.

The airline’s official Twitterhandle said, “Air India ExpressVande Bharat flights wouldcontinue to carry passengerson it’s flights from Saudi Arabiato India. The Airline would notcarry passengers from India toSaudi Arabia.”

The General Authority ofCivil Aviation in Saudi Arabia,in its order two days ago said,“Suspending travel to and fromthe following countries (India,Brazil and Argentina) includ-ing any person who has beenin any of the mentioned coun-tries above in the last (14) daysprior to their arrival in theKingdom.” Saudi Arabia saidthis was in view of the grow-ing number of Covid-19 casesin these countries. They how-ever, excluded passengers whohave official Government invi-tations from this order. Kuwaithave a blanket ban on travel toand from India, jurisdictionslike Hong Kong have an ongo-ing suspension on Air India’sflights to its airport till October3.

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Uttarakhand’s ambitious tigersafari, proposed in the buffer

zone of Corbett Tiger Reserve,inched towards reality with theForest Advisory Committee (FAC)under the Union EnvironmentMinistry giving its nod to the pro-ject that aims at boosting thetourism revenue as well as pro-viding home to the injured and oldwild animals in the big cat habitat.

“We have been informed thatthe proposal has been cleared bythe FAC in a recent meeting. Butwe are yet to get the minutes of the

meeting,” Rahul, Field Director ofthe CTR, said adding that the safariwill come up in the area sprawlingover 106.16 hectares in the bufferarea of the CTR.

He said that the � 25-crore pro-ject envisages construction of fiveenclosures with each having 35hectares area for two males andthree female big cats. The safari willease tourism pressure on the CTRwhich is visited by over 3 lakhtourists every year.

“Since tiger sighting at thesafari will be 100 percent, it willmostly cater to the tourists who justwant to see tigers and are not inter-

ested in enjoying other wildlife.Diverting such tourists to safariswill lessen the burden on the CTRand hence the wildlife,” explainedRahul. CTR has over 231 big catsas per the latest census.

Besides ex-situ conservation,the safari will also have an off-exhibit rehabilitation centre for therescued animals or those injured ininfighting and in human-animalconflicts in the CTR, said the FieldDirector. The purpose is to diverttourism from the famous Dhikalazone and other adjoining areas ofBijrani, Jhirna and Sona Nadi to theDhela range in the State.

The Central Zoo Authority(CZA) and the National TigerConservation Authority (NTCA)have already given in- principleapproval to the project.

When contacted, NTCA ChiefSP Yadav said that the authority willfund the safari which will have tofollow the design approved by theCZA. The NTCA guidelines issuedin 2016 allows setting up of tigersafaris in buffer and fringe areas oftiger reserves, aiming to reducetourist pressure on the key areas ofthese reserves.

As per the guidelines 70 percent of earnings from safaris will be

ploughed back into tiger reserveswhile 30 per cent will go into themanagement of such safaris.

Such safaris are allowed foronly those reserves that haveachieved full carrying capacity ofthe tourists in core and criticalareas. The guidelines also clearlystates that for such safaris, “no tigershall be obtained from a zoo” andonly animals such as injured andorphaned tiger cubs (which areunfit for re-wilding) would beselected and that too from thesame landscapes as that of the areawhere the tiger safari is beingestablished.

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The Union Health Ministry on Thursday saidthat new recoveries in India have continued to

exceed the new cases for the last six days, pushingthe national recovery rate to 81.55 per cent.

This even as India’s Covid-19 caseloadbreached the 57-lakh mark and the death toll wentpast 91,000,

In all, 87,374 recoveries have been registeredin the last 24 hours in the country, while the num-ber of new confirmed cases stands at 86,508. Withthis, the total number of recoveries are 46.7 lakh(46,74,987). The death toll climbed to 91,149 with1,129 people succumbing to the disease in a spanof 24 hours.

The Covid-19 case fatality rate due to the coro-navirus infection was recorded at 1.59 per cent.

There are 9,66,382 active cases of coronavirusinfection in the country which comprises 16.86 percent of the total caseload, the Ministry said.

India’s COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakhmark on August 7, 30 lakh on August 23, 40 lakhon September 5 and and it went past 50 lakh onSeptember 16.

According to the ICMR, a cumulative total of6,74,36,031 samples have been tested up toSeptember 23 with 11,56,569 samples being test-ed on Wednesday.

Nearly 74 per cent of the new recovered casesare found in 10 States/UTs. Maharashtra has main-tained this lead with 19,476 cases (22.3 per cent)for the sixth consecutive day, said the Ministry.

There has been sustained focus of theUnion and State/UT governments onimproved and effective clinical treatment inhospitals, supervised home isolation, use ofnon-invasive oxygen support, use of steroids,anticoagulants, and improved services of theambulances for ferrying patients for promptand timely treatment.

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long nationwide agitationagainst the Centre for passingthe farm bills during theMonsoon Session ofParliament. The Congress saidthey will be also supporting theprotests announced by variousfarmers groups across thecountry.

Widespread protests, espe-cially in states like Punjab andHaryana, where farmers andfarmer organisations havetaken to the streets whileopposing the move, are goingon.

A farmers’ body will holda ‘rail roko’ agitation tillSeptember 26 to lodge theirprotest against the three agri-culture ordinances passed bythe Union Cabinet. “We havedecided to hold a rail roko agi-tation from September 24 to 26against the three agricultureordinances,” said KisanMazdoor SangharshCommittee General SecretarySarwan Singh Pandher.

Different farmers’ organi-sations in Punjab have alreadygiven a call for a ‘bandh’ onSeptember 25 in protest againstthe Bills.

Senior Congress leaderand party spokespersonAbhishek Manu Singhvi saidthat the decision to call for asilent protest and lend support

to protesting farmers weretaken at a meeting of the StateUnit Chiefs and GeneralSecretaries early this week.The protest across the countrywill be led by party chief SoniaGandhi and former chiefRahul Gandhi who havereturned from the abroad afterthe former’s treatment.

Party chief spokesmanRandeep Surjewala informedthat in due course the protestmay be joined by otherOpposition parties and like-minded parties.

Several opposition partieshave protested the passage ofthe farm bills in Parliamentand have boycotted the pro-ceedings of both Houses.Opposition parties had alsotaken out march insideParliament during thisMonsoon Session.

“The Government hasdestroyed the democratic sys-tem. The agricultural bills areneither in the interest of thestate government nor the farm-ers. We raised our voice againstthis in Parliament and will nowtake to the streets,” seniorCongress leader Ahmad Patelsaid.

Opposition parties alsomade a representation toPresident Ram Nath Kovindand requested him not to givehis assent to the contentiousfarm bills. They conveyed tothe President that the passageof the bills in Rajya Sabha was“unconstitutional.

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The CBI on Thursday arrest-ed a Military Engineer

Services (MES) JuniorEngineer for accepting a bribeof �30,000. In a separate case,the agency arrested three GSTofficials in a graft case of �5lakh.

The MES Junior EngineerRajiv Ranjan Reddy was post-ed at Paradeep (Odisha) andwas nabbed while demandingand accepting the bribe from thecomplainant, officials said.

The agency has registered acase under various Sections ofthe Prevention of CorruptionAct on a complaint alleging thatthe accused official demandeda bribe of �30,000 from com-plainant’s relative for forward-

ing bio-data of six persons of thecomplainant’s firm to the Officeof GE (I), MES, Bhubaneswarfor formal approval relating tothe Work Order in favour of vic-tim firm. The CBI laid a trapand caught the accused red-handed while demanding andaccepting the bribe amountfrom the complainant.

Searches at the office andresidence of the accused officialswere conducted leading torecovery of incriminating doc-uments, the agency said.

In the GST graft case, theagency arrested twoSuperintendents and oneInspector, all working in theoffice of Commissioner, CentralGoods & Service Tax, CentralExcise, Belgaum (Karnataka) inan alleged bribery case

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Asenior officer of the Central Reservepolice Force (CRPF) attained mar-

tyrdom in a terror attack in the centralKashmir district of Budgam while a jointteam of the security forces eliminated ahardcore terrorist of Al Badr terror outiftin a separate encounter in Machama areaof South Kashmir's Awantipora onThursday. Meanwhile, another operationwas launched by the security forces inSirhama area of Anantnag late Thursdayevening after receiving inputs about the presence of terrorists in the area.

Late last evening a BlockDevelopment Council Chairman ofKhag Budgam, Bhupinder Singh, wasshot dead by the 'unidentified' terroristsin the Budgam district. His mortalremains were shifted to Jammu onThursday to perform his last rites.According to the official sources, ter-rorists targeted a CRPF officer in a bidto loot his service weapon at Kaisermullain Budgam district. The officer was iden-tified as Assistant Sub Inspector NCBadoley of 117 Bn,hailing from Nagpurarea of Maharashtra.

According to the local police author-ities, after seriously injuring a CRPF offi-cer the terrorists ran away with his ser-vice weapon. Later ASI Badoley suc-cumbed to injuries at the Army's 92 basehospital at Badami Bagh. In a secondoperation of the day,the joint teams of thesecurity forces eliminated an Al-Badr ter-rorist in Machama area of Awantipora.According to a police spokesman, the

operation was launched by theAwantipora Police, 42 RR and 180 BNCRPF in the said area.

“During the search operation, as thepresence of terrorists got ascertained theywere given an opportunity to surrender,however instead the terrorists firedindiscriminately upon the joint searchparty, which was retaliated leading to anencounter.

In the ensuing encounter, one ter-rorist was killed and his body wasretrieved from the site of encounter. Thekilled terrorist has been identified asIrfan-ul-Haq Dar of village GadikhalCharsoo Awantipora associated with pro-scribed terror outfit Al-Badr”.

As per the police records, the killedterrorist had a long history of criminalinvolvement. In April 2019 he wasinvolved in grenade lobbing on PoliceStation Awantipora for which case videFIR No. 54/2019 under relevant sectionsof law stands registered at Police StationAwantipora and the subject was arrest-ed and subsequently sent to Kot BalwalJail Jammu. Earlier in 2016 he wasinvolved in a stone pelting/arson case ofPolice Station Awantipora FIR No.126/2016 under relevant sections of lawstands chargesheeted in the Court of law.

The police spokesman said, “after hisrelease in April 2020, Irfan-ul-Haq wassecretly involved in terror activitieswhich include Al-Badr related recruit-ment in Awantipora & Tral areas. He wasan important motivator and influencedyoung minds for joining terror ranks inAwantipora/Tral areas”.

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In yet another sign that the situationarising out of Covid-19 has gone out

of control in Kerala, the State onThursday diagnosed 6,324 personswith the pandemic (the highest num-ber to test positive on a single day tilldate). Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayansaid that 21 persons died in the Stateduring the last 24 hours due to Covid-19.

Briefing the media on Thursdayevening, Vijayan said that there were45,919 Covid-19 patients across theState as on date. Kerala may overtakeTamil Nadu if this is the trend, accord-ing to medical professionals in the State.Tamil Nadu succeeded in containingthe number of new patients onThursday to 5,692 while there were 46,405 patients across the State.

For the first time, Kozhikodetopped the table of districts with thehighest number of patients-883. Out ofthis, 820 contracted the pandemicthrough social contacts, said Vijayan.

Thiruvananthapuram district had

875 Covid-19 patients as on Thursdayevening. The chief minister disclosedthat out of the 6,324 persons tested pos-itive on Thursday, 5,321 persons con-tracted the disease through social con-tacts.

Abhijit, President of KeralaStudents Union, who impersonatedwhile undergoing Covid-19 detectiontest would face criminal charges underIPC and and Kerala Epidemic Acts, saidthe Chief Minister. A person has beentaken into custody at the capital city forvideo filming the nude scenes of awoman who was under observation ina Covid monitoring centre.

Chief Minister Vijayan also dis-closed that the State had never experi-enced such a grievous situation as it wasfacing right now. “But it is only becauseof the irresponsible attitude of the oppo-sition parties and the leader of theOpposition. Kerala was the role modelfor the country as well as other nationsin how to check the spread of the pan-demic. The demonstrations and agita-tions staged by the opposition partiescaused havoc in the State,” said Vijayan.

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Jammu: Less than 24 hoursafter a Chairman of the BlockDevelopment Council in thecentral Kashmir district ofBudgam was shot dead by'unidentified' terrorists from aclose range, a famous Advocatewho appeared on TV newschannels and participated in'volatile' debates on Kashmirissue was gunned down inHawal area of Srinagar onThursday evening.

The deceased Advocatehas been identified as BabarQadri. According to the

local police authorit ies ,Advocate Babar Qadri wasshot at from a close range andwas rushed to the SKIMSwhere doctors declared himdead on arrival.

Qadri had recently lockedhorns with his opponents onthe social media who oftenlabeled him an agent of 'agen-cies' in Kashmir valley.

In one such case, Qadrihad even posted a tweet urgingthe police authorities to regis-ter FIR against one socialmedia user.

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Aday after registering two cases inconnection with the large-scale

violence in Bengaluru in August, theNational Investigation Agency (NIA) onThursday conducted searches at 30locations and arrested an alleged keyconspirator related to the incident.

The arrested conspirator SayedSaddiq Ali, 44, resident of Bengaluru, isalleged to have been involved in theattack on KG Halli Police Station inBengaluru that took place late in theevening on August 11 resulting in“huge” damage and destruction of pub-lic and government property, includingdamage to the police station buildingand vehicles parked in its premises andnearby areas.

Ali works as a recovery agent witha bank and has been absconding sinceAugust 11, immediately after the riots.

In addition to Ali’s arrest, searcheswere also conducted at 30 locations inBengaluru city to unearth the conspir-acy behind the attacks on DJ Halli andKG Halli police stations.

“During the searches, airgun, pellets,sharp weapons, iron rods, digital devices,DVRs and many SDPI & PFI-relatedincriminating documents and materialshave been seized,” the NIA said in a state-

ment. On Wednesday, pursuant toUnion Home Ministry’s directions, theNIA took up the investigation of twoBengaluru violence cases registered bythe State police at DJ Halli and KG Hallipolice stations on August 12.

The cases have been registeredunder various Sections of the IndianPenal Code (IPC), provisions of thePrevention of Damage to Public prop-erty Act, Karnataka Prevention ofDestruction and Loss of Property Actand relevant Sections of the UnlawfulActivities (Prevention) Act.

These cases pertain to a massivemob violence post a derogatory socialmedia remark by one Naveen, nephewof Srinivas Akhanda Murthy, a sittingCongress MLA, (Pulakeshi Nagar,Bengaluru) allegedly insulting the reli-gious sentiments of Muslims, the agencysaid.

“The State Secretary, SocialDemocratic Party of India (SDPI),Muzamil Pasha and other members ofSDPI /Popular Front of India (PFI) gath-ered a mob at the houses of Naveen,Akhanda Srinivas Murthy and at thepremises of DJ Halli and KG Halli policestations, who vandalised the premisesand resorted to arson, creating fear andpanic among the masses,” the agencysaid, adding further investigation in thecase is continuing.

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Chennai: Tamil Nadu is in a state of anx-iety as the health condition of legendarysinger S P Balasubramanyam(SPB tofriends and fans) deteriorated byThursday evening, according to thecorporate hospital where he had beenadmitted since August 5 for Covidtreatment.

“His condition in the last 24 hourshas deteriorated further warrantingmaximal life support and his conditionis extremely critical. The team of expertsat MGM Healthcare are closely moni-toring his health condition,” the healthbulletin issued by Dr AnuradhaBaskaran, Assistant Director-MedicalServices, MGM Healthcare hospital

said. SPB was in a serious condition ear-

lier this month which necessitated toput him on a ventilator and ECMO.There were prayer meetings all overTamil Nadu which were attended bymega stars like Rajnikanth, Sarat Kumar, Kamal Haassan and others. Theprayer meeting was led by music mae-stro Ilayaraja.

The hospital authorities had saidlater that SPB tested negative for Covid-19. According to his son, Charan, thegreat master was getting ready to watchthe live matches of the IPL which areunderway at UAE when his health suf-fered a setback. PNS

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Bengal Chief Minister MamataBanerjee on Thursday

announced liberal largesse to theclubs organising Durga Puja prompt-ing the Opposition BJP and Left tolink her actions with next year’sAssembly elections.

The Chief Minister’s latestannouncement include a grant of�50,000 to the clubs organisingDurga Puja. This apart, Banerjee alsoannounced a 50 percent rebate in

electricity charges for the Puja com-mittees and requested the private-owned Calcutta Electricity SupplyCorporation to follow suit. Last yearthe State Government had allowedonly 10 percent rebate in powercharges for the Durga Puja com-mittees. There are aobut 28,000Durga Puja committees in Bengaland the dole could cost theGovernment about 200 crore,sources said. Besides, she said that notax would be charged by the munic-ipal authorities including Kolkata,

Howrah, Asansol and SiliguriMunicipal corporations and pan-chayats were. The Fire BrigadeDepartment too would not chargeany fees from the Puja organisers,Banerjee said. She also said that thisyear round the much bandied DurgaPuja carnival would not be organisedso as to maintain the corona proto-cols. Banerjee who also announceda number of “dos” and “dont's” for thePuja organisers --- like making openpandals for better air circulation ---said she could not impose restriction

on Pujas fearing politics.“People are doing politics regard-

ing this. If I don’t allow puja, they willsay look they didn’t allow puja to becelebrated,” she said, adding “We willvirtually show Durga puja and alsoannounces prize on the virtual plat-form.” With sponsorships coming intrickles in post-corona period theclubs have been under great stress toorganise the Pujas. “This has comeas a great relief to us. The ChiefMinister has given us Rs 50,000 apartfrom granting rebate in taxes. This

will help the Puja committees to agreat extent. We thank the ChiefMinister for her gesture,” said anorganiser from South Kolkata.

The Chief Minister’s declarationcomes within a fortnight of announc-ing special allowances for the Hindupriests which the BJP dismissed as apre-electoral bribe to the Hindu com-munity to balance out her pro-Muslim bias which she had exhibit-ed soon after coming to powerwhen she announced allowances forImams and Muezzins.

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Like most people, I enjoylistening to music in myfree time. Other thanbeing an expression of art,songs are often a great

medium to get a message across.Some are subtle where you have tofind understated and intelligent ref-erences to the message that is hid-den. However, at the same time youhave songs with lyrics like “Sushantsuperstar, you were Bihar’s trea-sure... The DGP came, he facedattacks but he took the case to theCBI. (The DGP) is the pride of thenation...” It is safe to say that thismusic video, which was released onthe same day as the voluntaryretirement of the DGP, can be a lotof things but “subtle” is certainlynot one of them.

The release of the music videoand the reports of GupteshwarPandey (the DGP in question)making a foray into politics, do,however, give us an opportunity toexamine the situation in the coun-try and the question of ethical con-duct by certain individuals fromthe Indian civil services and thejudiciary, two pillars on which themodern Indian state stands. Thetitle of this week’s piece may seema tad ironic, especially consideringthat the writer himself was onetime a “babu” and is now in activepolitics. However, having joinedpolitics close to a decade after leav-ing the civil services, I believe thatI can offer a unique perspective onthe topic.

To be clear, this is far from thefirst time questions regarding theethics of appointment or nomina-tion of individuals who comefrom the civil services or the judi-ciary have been raised. Even in ameeting of the ConstituentAssembly, this issue was discussed.Professor KT Shah moved anamendment, which contemplatedrestricting judges who had servedfor more than five years in theSupreme Court or on any of theHigh Courts, from being appoint-ed to any executive office orMinisters in a Government. Theintent, as explained by a support-er of the amendment, was imper-ative because “if the temptation ofbeing appointed to other highpositions after retirement is notremoved, it will also be liable to beabused by the Executive or by anyparty in power and they may holdout such temptations which mightaffect the independence of the judi-ciary.” The amendment was ulti-

mately rejected by Dr BRAmbedkar because at the timehe believed that this was only atheoretical protection as the“opportunity for the executive toinfluence the judiciary is verysmall”. While there is no suchrestriction, the Constitution ofIndia does lay down administra-tive details like retirement ofjudges and remuneration inthe Constitution. Similarly, civilservants are granted privilegeslike pension after retirement.Furthermore, removing a civilservant from service is anextremely difficult proposition.The intent of such protectionsis to ensure that both civil ser-vants and judges carry out theirduty as contemplated underthe Constitution without fear orincentive to act otherwise.

Dr Ambedkar, in all probabil-ity, believed that the individuals,who would form part of the judi-ciary or the civil services, wouldexercise their personal ethicalframework and to this extent theissue of independence of theseinstitutions would not be tar-nished. However, it is becomingincreasingly obvious that thereis a need for us to legislate ethicsand punish its abdication.

Most recently from the judi-cial sphere, you have the case ofthe former Chief Justice ofIndia, Ranjan Gogoi, gettingnominated to the Rajya Sabha.This move drew sharp criticismfrom judges and lawyers alike,pointing to the fact that hisappointment came barelymonths after his tenure as ChiefJustice ended. Such is the criti-cism around the appointmentthat a news personality notedthat the DGP’s move to take vol-untary retirement and possibly

join politics would be akin to“doing a Gogoi.” Another movethat attracted criticism was of aCentral VigilanceCommissioner joining a largecorporate house immediatelyafter retirement. But like I said,this is not about one particularinstance. According to a studydone by Vidhi, a legal thinktank, close to 70 out of over ahundred retired judges havetaken up assignments after theirretirement. Unfortunately, thisis inevitable considering thenumber of statutory authoritiesthat require a retired judge tohold office under their parentstatute.

Therefore, what is the wayahead? It is obvious that relyingon the integrity of individuals totake the right call every time isnot a tactic that has worked.While there are a number ofindividuals who have displayedand continue to display courage,integrity and a strong con-science, the damage by a few tothe institutions that they haveserved can be so scarring that itsimpact would be felt on the corefoundations of a democraticrepublic such as ours. Therefore,there is a need to legislate toaccount for situations wherethe independence of the judicia-ry and of the civil services maybe threatened. One solution is todo away with post-retirementposts and to appoint only seniorpersonnel who are currentlyserving as judges or civil ser-vants. Another option is to leg-islate like the US has done,where in case of former seniorcivil servants (in certain depart-ments) there is a permanent banon appearing beforeGovernment authorities on mat-

ters where they may have par-ticipated personally or substan-tially. An alternative restraintcould be establishing a separateauthority like the Union PublicService Commission (UPSC), asformer civil servant Anil Swaruptalks about in his book EthicalDilemmas of a Civil Servant.Swarup suggests that the UPSCcan be tasked with shortlistingcandidates for post-retirementassignments instead of leavingsuch decisions to the whims andfancies of any Government inpower. I would add that the cri-teria for such appointmentsshould be made public and bethrough a points system. Thereare many possible solutions butin order to implement any solu-tion, we need to first accept thatthere is a problem and that thereis a dire need for a structuralsolution.

As said by Dr Martin LutherKing, “The arc of the moral uni-verse is long but bends towardsjustice.” Therefore, I am hope-ful that in the long run our insti-tutions will survive, not leastbecause of the many righteousindividuals who serve theseinstitutions. I am hopeful thatthe examples that exist today willonly serve as examples to futuregenerations to keep their guardup, similar as to how examplesfrom the Emergency serve asexamples for today. However,with the benefit of hindsight, ifDr Ambedkar had a chance todiscuss Professor KT Shah’samendment in the ConstituentAssembly today, I have a feelingthat the outcome would be quitedifferent.

(The writer is a former IPSofficer, a former MP and current-ly a member of AAP)

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���������� �������Sir — The Constitution allowsmigration across the country foremployment needs. However,there has been no comprehensivelegal framework to protect theworkers from exploitation. Morethan one crore migrant labour-ers returned home on foot dur-ing the lockdown and around29,415 lost their lives in theprocess. This is the harsh reali-ty of how safe the workers areunder the present labour laws.Adding to the problem are therecently passed three key labourreform Bills that further diluteworkers’ rights than protectthem. A more pragmaticapproach with a full under-standing of the problem must beput in place to alleviate labour-ers’ underlying distress due to theGovernment’s apathy.

SK NagMumbai

����������������� �Sir — The Monsoon Session ofParliament came to an end amidprotest by the Opposition partiesand suspension of eight mem-bers. The Rajya Sabha passed 25bills, including 15 on the last twodays, when the Opposition

members had boycotted the pro-ceedings as they united againstthe Government for overridingparliamentary procedures to passthe two controversial farm Bills.The ruling dispensation failed touphold the constitutional valuesand its dictatorial attitude madea mockery of the Parliament.Indeed a wrong precedent.

N NagarajanSecunderabad

������ �����������Sir — It is a matter of deep con-cern that some media houses areusing their platforms to createcommunal disharmony andspread hatred. Sudarshan News’Bindass Bol programme, thatwas aired on August 28, target-ed the Muslim community andquestioned the credibility of theUPSC. The Central Government

allowed the channel to air theshow again on September 10 inthe name of freedom of speech.It was only later on that SupremeCourt barred the channel fromgoing ahead with the telecast ofthe remaining episodes.

Hate speech should not beallowed to be disguised as free-dom of speech. And media beingthe fourth pillar of democracyshould act responsibly and not

further the communal agenda ofthe Government.

M N Musaeed Mumbai

����������������Sir — COVID-19 cases in Indiacrossed the 57 lakh mark with86,508 new cases and 1,129deaths reported in the last 24hours. There are 9,66,382 activecases and 91,149 people havedied. Meanwhile, Prime MinisterNarendra Modi has emphasisedthe need to increase focus on“effective testing, tracing, treat-ment and surveillance” to bringthe coronavirus outbreak undercontrol. In his virtual reviewmeeting with Chief Ministers ofseven states with the highestnumber of coronavirus cases inthe country, he spoke of the needfor clear messaging to dispelrumours about testing. However,the initiatives taken by theGovernment don’t seem to helpcurb the crisis. It is, therefore,important that the people takethe utmost precautions and fol-low WHO’s guidelines.

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The pandemic has brought the art world toits knees. The silence is ominous and thewebinars and online propaganda are some-

what stifling when you think of how suddenlyit is only about talking and voices and voices andtalking. Amid the many cancellations of fairs,exhibitions, films, plays, performances anddances globally, we must ask ourselves questionsabout the value of art and culture at a time whenhumanity is under great stress. When it is fight-ing for its very survival as the virus throws up akind of socio-economic disparity and devasta-tion we have not witnessed in recent times.

At a time when people tell us that there aremuch more important things to worry about inthis world than art, one would beg to differ. Arttalks to us like nothing else does. It re-awakensour senses and reminds us of the power of imag-ination in the face of the death and destructionbrought upon us by the pandemic.

The New York Times states that though fairshave been cancelled and galleries have closed, thewealthy are still buying. In India it’s difficult toget true stories of buying and selling from art gal-leries/dealers/consultants/artists. The physical-ity of looking at a work and buying is somethingthat needs to be worked upon. An image doesnot do justice to a work of art. Perhaps privateappointments by clients are the way to go in thenew pandemic scenario. But there are hecticannouncements of online shows and galleriescoming together to host prized possessions onthe internet and social media. Some galleries arestating that they have a few sales but it’s not asmuch as they would like in a stagnant market.

In the West, a report of 795 galleries repre-senting 60 different national markets, called TheImpact of COVID-19 on the Gallery Sector, writ-ten by the cultural economist Clare McAndrew,is the first major survey of how the contagion hashit art dealers globally. Until sales statistics areshared by galleries all over India, it’s difficult toadd a percentage of propensity to the real figures.But one scene that has remained buoyant is thatof online auctions.

Pundoles looking West: Pundoles Mumbairuled the roost the past month with its LookingWest auction split into two parts, featuring a partof the collection of fish baron Masanari Fukuoka,who decided he wanted Pundoles to handle thesale rather than international houses likeChristies, Sotheby’s or even Saffronart. With bluechip names on its avant-garde list, the auctionthrew up some magnificent numbers. VSGaitonde, the abstract master, was top draw. Hisuntitled 1967 work set a new record at �32 croreas the selling hammer price. Two sculptures alsoset their own highs. The first was a “Bull’s Head”(1998) by Tyeb Mehta, who created this sculp-ture as his tribute to the trussed bull (he used tohear their heart-wrenching cries when he livednext to a slaughterhouse in Mumbai). It sold ata new record of �3.2 crore.

The second sculpture was printmaker andsculptor Somnath Hore’s “Goat” (1988) that soldat �65 lakh, a new high for this venerated mas-ter. India’s greatest figurative master JogenChowdhury’s “The Couple” (1999) sold for �1.7crore, setting a new record for the 80-year-oldKolkata artist.

Saffronart’s success: The next auc-tion high was Saffronart’s Evening Sale.The highly-anticipated online live auc-tion — the first since the pandemic —closed at 88 per cent lots sold, achiev-ing a total sale of �66.4 crore amidenthusiastic bidding. The 300th auctionin Saffronart’s 20 years, this sale was aunique hybrid experience that allowedbidders from across the globe to par-ticipate virtually.

The sale was led by VS Gaitonde’smasterpiece painting of 1974 from thecollection of Sabira Merchant, whichsold for �35.5 crore, making it the sec-ond-highest price achieved for theartist, as well as for a work of Indian artto be sold in an auction worldwide.Among the best works Gaitonde everproduced, this ethereal, luminescentwork embodies his preoccupation withZen Buddhism as well as his associa-tions with the sea.

Among the top highlights of thesale were two exquisite works by mod-ernist NS Bendre, including a figura-tive work from 1971 which sold for�1.56 crore, more than tripling its pre-sale estimate, and an untitled work(possibly a view of Mandu), 1982,which sold for �1.14 crore. JehangirSabavala’s “The Cactus Wave”, 2006,sold for �2.63 crore.

Artists in studios/homes: Acrossthe land in homes, in studios thatbelong to them as well as others,artists are still pouring out their imag-ination. Those who have computers andlaptops are busy with Zoom webinarsand the like but my heart goes out toartists who have no technology. Theycontinue to be inspired in their ownsmall rooms with minimal media and

materials. Questions arise as to howthey are eking out their living.

The buyer’s market is not so welllaid out. Galleries have their own list ofcollectors and buyers but it is onlyestablished artists who can share in thatbouquet of well-being. One of the great-est contributions to an artist’s life canbe through corporate houses, hotels,Government and private offices andcomplexes that can use art works andhelp artists to thrive in a market thathas fallen to the Covid climate.

Take for instance Tom Vattakuzhy,a brilliant artist in Kerala who lost outon a historic series of illustrations in theMalayala Manorama because of a mis-understanding with the Church. Hisworks echo his solitude. They makeeveryone empathise with him and stirtheir inner recesses. Vattakuzhy, aMasters from Shantiniketan and thenVadodara, is a prime example of a bril-liant artist waiting to be shown by acurator, gallery or promoter who willnot throw him to the sharks. Let’s faceit, the art world thrives on profit mar-gins and cut-throat competition. Indianeeds more institutions and philan-thropic agencies to help artists all overthe country.

Institutions like the Lalit KalaAkademi have a great role to play inopening their spaces to as many soloshows as possible to lift the darkness inthe world of the lonely artist waiting inthe wings. The India InternationalCentre and AIFACS do yeoman’s ser-vice for the arts. Big artists, too, needto get out of their cocoons and help oth-ers in need.

Black Lives Matter: The mostbeautiful example of an artist helping

others has been that of the great artistBansky. The British street artistfinanced a boat to rescue refugeesattempting to reach Europe from northAfrica. The vessel, named Louise Michelafter a French feminist anarchist, set offin secrecy on August 18 from theSpanish port of Burriana, near Valencia,and was in the central MediterraneanSea, where on August 30 it rescued 89people, including 14 women and fourchildren.

It was looking for a safe port to dis-embark the passengers or to transferthem to a European coast guard vessel.Since setting off from Burriana, theboat, registered in Germany andmanned by a crew of activists fromacross Europe led by Pia Klemp, res-cued more than 150 people off the coastof Libya. The majority of the passen-gers were transferred to a larger rescuevessel a few days ago, after Europeanauthorities appeared to ignore Maydaycalls from the Louise Michel, which hadbecome too overloaded to steer. Thesurvivors finally arrived in the port ofPalermo, Sicily.

Underscoring the hypocrisy ofgovernments shouting out for racialequality while simultaneously taking ahardline anti-immigration stance,Banksy’s video of the rescue mission,posted on Instagram, concluded withthe words: “All Black Lives Matter.”Perhaps in a blanket equation of every-one in the world, we could tweak it tosay “All Lives Matter.” Maybe the vir-tual world is here to stay until the virusis tackled with a vaccine that says: “Getthee behind me.”

(The writer is a senior art critic andindependent curator)

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her husband with a sharp-edgedweapon. Her family alleged that he slither stomach to find out the gender ofthe unborn baby. They told the policethat the father of five daughters wasso desperate for a son that he resort-ed to this brutal way to check if thefoetus was that of a boy or a girl.Although a First Information Report(FIR) has been registered and the hus-band arrested, this gruesome crimeunderlines once again the deeply-entrenched preference for sons in ourculture. Despite the best efforts of theUnion Government, States and non-governmental organisations over theyears, there seems to be very littlechange in attitudes towards the girlchild in the country. This is not justdeeply worrying but also frightening.

It is not, however, surprising that

girls are less valued than boys in UP,a State that has recorded the mostcrimes against women in the country.The latest 2018 National CrimeRecords Bureau (NCRB) data rankedthe State as the worst for women’ssecurity with 59, 443 crimes againstthem. Incidentally, in 2018, the crimerate was the highest for cruelty by hus-bands and relatives. Although theNCRB data for 2019 has not beenreleased as yet, media reports ofcrimes against women in UP duringthe last two years do not inspire con-fidence in the possibility of any turn-around.

But do the rising crimes againstwomen have any bearing on thepreference for a son? Yes, says a newstudy conducted in UP and Haryana.Its objective was to examine discrim-ination against the girl child and itslinkages with the declining child sexratio and violence against women. Thereport states that the responsibility ofsecurity and maintaining the chasti-ty of daughters in the context of ris-ing sexual violence in the country hasadded to the larger concern of want-ing a son. In other words, the increas-ing crime against women has emergedas yet another factor for augmentingthe traditional preference for a son.

Supported by the Indian Council

of Social Science Research (ICSSR),the study was conducted byBijaylaxmi Nanda, Nupur Ray andRitwika Mukherjee. The preliminaryfindings indicate that perceptionsabout crime play a pivotal role in theincreasing preference for a malechild. Thus, as long as women contin-ue to remain insecure in the nation,chances that girls will be unwanted byfamilies will be high.

Further, with three out of every10 women, who had more daughtersthan sons, reporting that the hus-band/family members express dissat-isfaction at the birth of a girl child, thestudy also reinforces the fact that gen-der inequality remains at the heart ofviolence against women in UP. Themale offspring is preferred because heis culturally perceived as a protectorand provider during the old age of theparents. An earlier study to under-stand the intrinsic relationshipbetween masculinity, son preferenceand intimate partner violence came tosimilar conclusions.

The 2014 study by theInternational Centre for Research onWomen (ICRW) and United NationsPopulation Fund (UNFPA), foundthat in UP, the two most importantreasons for having a son were to carryon the family name and to provide

support to parents in their old age. Sixyears later, as the ICSSR study shows,little seems to have changed on theground.

The ICRW-UNFPA report foundthat of the seven States studied, UPhad the largest proportion of menreporting high control over theirintimate partners and the lowest pro-portion of men displaying genderequitable attitudes.

Education is a big tool to engen-der transformation in beliefs, attitudesand practice. It is an equally impor-tant predictor of son-preference atti-tudes. In UP, the ICRW-UNFPAstudy found that 55 per cent of menwith no education had a high prefer-ence for sons compared to 39 per centof men with graduation or higherdegrees.

Studies have shown that spousesof men with no or little education areunlikely to have ready access to sex-ual and reproductive health services.In the Badaun case, the fact that thewoman had five children and waspregnant with her sixth child indicatesshe may have faced barriers in access-ing family planning services. Thefourth National Family Health Survey(NFHS 2015-16) states that the unmetneed in UP was 18 per cent for cur-rently married women aged between

15 and 49 years. This means an esti-mated 8.2 million women have beendenied access to family planning. InBadaun, which has a more than 70 percent rural population, the total unser-viced need is almost 14 per cent. Thisis higher than the national average of12.9 per cent.

The preference for sons putswomen under so much pressure toproduce a male heir that many timesthey are forced into numerous preg-nancies and a series of abortions untilthey do so. The preference for a sonhas led to around 4,60,000 girls goingmissing due to sex selection at birtheach year between 2013 and 2017,according to the UNFPA’s 2020 Stateof the Population Report.

Last month, noted researcherFengqing Chao of King AbdullahUniversity of Science and Technology(KAUST), Saudi Arabia, and his col-leagues projected an even darkerfuture for girls in India. According totheir research published in the jour-nal PLOS ONE, the average annualnumber of missing female birthsbetween 2017 and 2025 was likely tobe 4,69,000 per year and wouldincrease to 5,19,000 per year for thetime period between 2026 to 2030.This research singles out UP as theIndian State most likely to have the

maximum missing female births dueto the preference for a boy andaccounting for almost a third of thetotal number projected.

But girls don’t just go missing atbirth. India also has the highest rateof excess girl child deaths at 13.5 per1,000 births. This critical data suggestpost-birth sex selection. An estimat-ed one in nine deaths of girls belowthe age of five may be attributed topost-birth sex selection, says theUNFPA report. So, while gender-biased sex selection accounts forabout two-thirds of the total missinggirls, post-birth girl child mortalityaccounts for about one-third.

UP lags behind on many indica-tors of gender equality, including earlymarriage and crimes against women.

If Yogi Adityanath really wantsdevelopment, the Chief Minister mustmake greater investments in improv-ing gender indicators. Prejudiceagainst girls can be countered by pro-grammes that focus on engagingboys and instilling values of genderequality in them at an early age.Comprehensive sex education inschools could help redefine notions ofmasculinity and foster respect forwomen.

(The writer is a senior journalist)

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Script Open High Low LTPADANIPORTS 323.90 323.90 312.00 313.85IDEA 8.90 9.44 8.55 9.12RELIANCE 2210.00 2226.00 2175.65 2181.15HEROMOTOCO 2910.00 2947.30 2901.40 2920.00BHARTIARTL 426.60 433.45 414.95 418.85DRREDDY 5075.00 5206.20 5000.00 5024.45BAJFINANCE 3205.00 3205.00 3008.85 3027.90ITC 171.60 171.60 166.15 166.60TCS 2450.00 2450.00 2302.50 2331.50LT 857.80 859.50 842.50 850.35SFL 1362.00 1400.00 1312.35 1333.55ASHOKLEY 72.10 72.15 66.85 67.30LAURUSLABS 1332.00 1347.30 1246.45 1291.40AXISBANK 410.05 414.00 400.00 402.40HDFC 1644.00 1655.00 1623.00 1637.80TATAMOTORS 127.80 128.80 122.15 122.80HDFCBANK 1036.50 1045.05 1025.15 1029.95SBIN 181.15 181.45 175.55 176.45APOLLOHOSP 1798.00 1974.00 1794.35 1948.00HCLTECH 806.90 811.00 783.35 788.05INFY 1008.00 1008.00 970.15 975.35INDUSINDBK 518.70 519.95 485.00 490.20BANDHANBNK 262.75 264.75 252.75 256.10MARUTI 6410.00 6482.45 6273.70 6295.85HINDUNILVR 2040.00 2079.55 2034.65 2060.30WIPRO 314.25 314.25 302.15 304.60INFRATEL 161.30 175.50 161.30 168.60GODREJIND 403.00 411.00 384.00 403.25ICICIBANK 345.55 347.20 334.00 335.80SRTRANSFIN 590.00 605.15 555.90 565.75CIPLA 765.80 766.25 729.65 732.80JINDALSTEL 172.00 174.35 162.30 164.15ZEEL 184.00 195.70 183.00 192.85ADANIGREEN 558.95 617.75 558.95 617.00AUROPHARMA 772.00 777.45 737.90 743.35IBULHSGFIN 147.80 150.65 137.60 138.95DIVISLAB 3128.00 3150.35 2986.70 3021.25M&M 605.00 606.00 566.00 573.75ADANITRANS 240.00 243.75 233.15 235.00KOTAKBANK 1265.00 1284.75 1236.05 1245.90VEDL 129.00 133.95 128.10 132.00BAJAJFINSV 5590.00 5590.05 5401.00 5427.20TATASTEEL 359.00 359.00 343.00 343.85SBICARD 815.00 820.80 804.95 816.05COALINDIA 121.00 121.00 115.10 115.70TECHM 786.25 786.30 747.35 748.00FEDERALBNK 46.80 47.90 45.50 45.75SAIL 34.35 34.35 32.65 32.80ESCORTS 1161.00 1205.00 1150.00 1154.00IOC 75.00 75.50 71.35 71.95PVR 1015.00 1116.95 1015.00 1062.65APLAPOLLO 2300.00 2599.60 2300.00 2577.45EICHERMOT 2040.20 2078.10 2024.00 2030.00GRANULES 350.00 368.00 350.00 361.00INDIGO 1253.00 1262.65 1182.60 1194.80BHEL 30.90 30.90 29.55 29.85TATACONSUM 490.00 492.75 477.55 488.75JSWSTEEL 264.00 264.80 257.70 258.75RBLBANK 161.55 164.75 156.00 157.70SUNPHARMA* 498.15 501.10 483.00 485.40RATNAMANI 1185.95 1187.60 1161.20 1164.00TATAPOWER 52.80 52.95 50.00 50.35IDFCFIRSTB 27.85 28.15 26.85 27.00SYNGENE 552.00 596.85 552.00 564.75STAR 643.00 661.00 630.20 646.60M&MFIN 116.10 117.95 112.85 113.50ONGC 66.00 67.30 65.45 66.40TITAN 1116.50 1116.50 1076.00 1094.00HINDPETRO 173.00 177.00 171.00 172.40HDFCAMC 2130.00 2139.20 2101.05 2104.15HINDALCO 157.90 162.25 155.00 159.05TATACHEM 298.65 301.00 277.00 278.65TATAELXSI 1200.00 1200.00 1160.80 1184.90ASIANPAINT 1946.40 1946.40 1908.95 1919.20ENGINERSIN 65.20 65.20 63.45 63.65BOSCHLTD 12580.00 12680.00 12122.10 12360.00NTPC 84.10 85.65 82.10 82.65GAIL 83.05 85.40 82.30 82.85L&TFH 58.50 58.85 56.05 56.25MUTHOOTFIN 1018.30 1040.00 1010.00 1017.90BANKBARODA 41.00 41.00 39.65 39.80SIEMENS 1230.00 1230.00 1193.50 1215.00DLF 147.00 148.25 144.40 146.65ULTRACEMCO 3871.20 3871.20 3755.00 3785.00CANBK 86.30 86.60 82.55 83.25ORIENTREF 191.10 191.10 183.45 185.90DEEPAKNI 836.00 836.00 786.00 799.40LUPIN 1010.80 1018.85 972.60 981.25LTI 2464.80 2516.40 2310.15 2437.85SBILIFE 810.05 832.00 782.75 797.45GLENMARK 465.00 466.35 447.20 458.55LICHSGFIN 270.50 274.80 260.15 261.20UPL 523.00 525.40 502.10 505.20CHOLAFIN 225.50 239.25 222.05 230.15MOTHERSUMI 108.70 108.70 102.35 103.70GREAVESCOT 72.00 72.00 70.55 70.95PNB 28.70 29.10 27.95 28.05GMRINFRA 21.30 22.00 20.70 21.20SWSOLAR 226.95 257.90 221.85 233.65MINDTREE 1304.95 1304.95 1237.00 1248.60PEL 1203.55 1237.50 1178.85 1192.50MGL 844.00 844.00 816.00 818.45REPCOHOME 161.00 162.00 156.65 157.00BIOCON 421.00 423.35 406.50 408.45CADILAHC 380.00 383.80 373.95 376.05HAL 759.90 812.00 746.55 778.15NMDC 79.00 79.10 75.60 75.85BALKRISIND 1400.00 1400.00 1299.40 1306.90

DABUR 484.80 490.80 479.20 487.30JUBLFOOD 2321.00 2321.00 2236.60 2264.85COLPAL 1351.05 1394.05 1339.30 1372.75ADANIENT 279.50 281.30 269.50 270.30MFSL 580.00 588.10 568.00 578.50ADVENZYMES 224.00 272.80 219.05 272.80BPCL 379.65 385.85 375.55 377.25BERGEPAINT 572.00 579.95 560.35 575.30BATAINDIA 1330.00 1338.65 1282.10 1297.90CUMMINSIND 453.30 453.30 437.85 441.00SUNTV 459.00 459.00 439.40 442.05GODREJCP 669.00 701.80 669.00 691.25GRASIM 703.00 714.05 676.00 680.40NESTLEIND 15362.95 15454.65 15180.85 15235.90POWERGRID 160.00 164.95 158.55 159.55HAVELLS 673.00 678.15 657.65 669.20MCX 1630.00 1642.90 1561.00 1630.65ASTRAZEN 4201.00 4349.25 4200.00 4213.35INDIAMART 4745.00 4889.00 4683.90 4820.00NAUKRI 3404.70 3449.00 3330.30 3376.65MRF 56814.55 56900.00 55360.35 55850.00BHARATFORG 435.10 443.05 427.95 435.95BRITANNIA 3614.70 3652.30 3560.05 3613.00JBCHEPHARM 918.70 956.20 872.10 919.80BAJAJ-AUTO 2987.00 3001.40 2912.00 2912.05DMART 2053.40 2083.95 2037.80 2046.60TATAMTRDVR 59.90 61.70 57.00 57.25DIXON 8695.00 8695.00 8342.15 8513.95AARTIIND 1012.00 1021.10 988.75 991.95IEX 187.05 195.00 185.00 190.80IRCTC 1359.80 1365.05 1332.00 1337.85PFC 85.60 85.80 82.15 82.55APLLTD 899.00 948.20 883.00 934.35ZENSARTECH 203.00 211.90 201.50 205.90FORTIS 132.60 141.30 132.60 136.15NATIONALUM 31.60 31.60 30.00 30.10COROMANDEL 757.60 809.55 755.65 803.70MANAPPURAM 145.00 145.00 139.90 141.70ICICIPRULI 411.95 415.20 404.95 413.95FRETAIL 83.95 85.10 82.35 82.35IGL 403.50 403.60 388.35 397.50COFORGE 2208.00 2208.00 2101.00 2130.00ALKEM 2742.70 2987.50 2682.95 2831.10APOLLOTYRE 119.95 119.95 114.50 115.80BSOFT 189.90 192.75 182.20 183.20KPITTECH 113.00 115.00 106.95 111.30TEAMLEASE 2128.70 2210.00 2102.10 2171.95ALKYLAMINE 2905.00 3025.70 2902.60 2965.00FSL 74.75 74.75 70.00 70.80JUSTDIAL 360.60 360.60 339.85 343.90

BLISSGVS 152.00 152.50 145.65 147.35SHREECEM 18650.00 18813.25 18214.40 18357.00PFIZER 4670.00 4959.05 4670.00 4873.60PAGEIND 19398.70 19498.90 18643.35 18717.15SRF 4121.50 4121.50 3996.20 4042.00HEG 705.00 762.85 697.80 739.10ADANIGAS 182.00 183.55 174.50 175.20ACC 1334.95 1350.00 1295.25 1298.00IPCALAB 2105.00 2113.20 2046.80 2065.90HDFCLIFE 574.10 580.65 573.00 577.70RECLTD 98.35 99.20 95.05 95.60PIDILITIND 1419.90 1426.50 1397.00 1399.90AMBUJACEM 205.55 208.05 197.50 197.90ZYDUSWELL 1706.00 1853.00 1701.00 1804.00TORNTPHARM 2648.00 2676.65 2558.60 2653.00MPHASIS 1376.55 1376.55 1246.65 1290.00DELTACORP* 100.15 104.10 100.00 103.00BEL 92.90 92.90 89.65 90.50VINATIORGA 1170.00 1215.85 1150.20 1160.00AMARAJABAT 725.50 727.10 706.95 710.35IDFC 30.45 31.00 29.10 29.65EXIDEIND 154.65 157.30 153.90 154.70NCC 30.05 30.40 29.55 29.90ABFRL 125.50 131.00 125.50 130.00ICICIGI 1242.00 1260.00 1225.00 1252.35SUDARSCHEM 451.85 455.00 437.25 443.25ASTRAL 1087.90 1124.95 1071.15 1089.55CESC 621.00 670.00 616.00 634.50NATCOPHARM 838.50 872.05 823.40 860.20QUESS 372.60 387.80 368.50 372.15NBCC 23.80 23.80 22.70 22.90FCONSUMER 8.25 8.25 7.91 7.91RAYMOND 258.95 260.60 252.25 253.10

NAM-INDIA 255.25 261.95 250.00 251.55SUMICHEM 303.50 305.05 287.00 289.75BIRLACORPN 620.00 630.20 605.35 607.20CENTURYTEX 329.90 329.90 315.30 317.65GRAPHITE 165.00 177.80 163.05 169.55WELSPUNIND 58.85 60.50 57.30 59.90ISEC 451.45 474.20 440.85 470.00IRCON 83.10 83.75 77.45 78.00GNFC 205.00 211.50 203.05 206.00MARICO 339.00 345.10 333.30 342.80UJJIVAN 200.00 206.35 200.00 202.25BANKINDIA 40.40 40.40 39.00 39.30HEXAWARE 467.00 468.50 465.60 465.60BAYERCROP 5881.00 6014.95 5793.65 5900.00RAIN 98.00 102.30 97.20 99.10UBL 967.00 967.00 915.45 917.50TVSMOTOR 442.40 442.40 426.20 433.75CAPPL 537.00 551.80 533.10 540.20JUBILANT 722.80 736.45 694.20 698.85CONCOR 375.00 377.55 366.65 372.00ABB 870.00 880.90 856.20 860.70HINDZINC 210.20 210.65 204.50 204.70CGCL 227.65 227.65 218.00 224.00LALPATHLAB 1800.95 1828.05 1775.00 1791.00RADICO 408.00 409.90 393.00 402.00AUBANK 641.00 647.00 616.30 634.45SPICEJET 48.00 48.00 46.20 46.35SOUTHBANK 6.60 6.60 6.37 6.47SUZLON 2.90 3.05 2.85 3.01ABBOTINDIA 15801.00 16143.90 15731.95 15954.05HAWKINCOOK 5163.00 5165.00 4950.00 5010.00DCBBANK 80.05 82.40 77.75 78.65ABCAPITAL 61.70 62.90 60.60 61.20NAVINFLUOR 1981.70 2046.00 1952.70 2015.20RAJESHEXPO 467.00 471.00 442.50 446.05ATUL 5950.00 6064.80 5836.20 6020.00DEEPAKFERT 141.55 148.00 141.55 143.95CASTROLIND 111.45 111.60 107.00 108.10HONAUT 31974.05 32925.00 31556.00 32054.70BDL 293.85 304.25 283.20 293.90LEMONTREE 25.35 27.80 25.30 27.05INFIBEAM 73.80 73.80 70.65 72.25BEML 600.00 609.95 590.10 606.40PIIND 1850.05 1916.10 1850.05 1894.95MEGH 77.25 77.90 75.75 76.05SWANENERGY 118.00 118.00 113.20 114.90INDIACEM 115.55 117.25 113.50 117.25PNBHOUSING 322.90 323.35 312.75 319.25RVNL 19.00 19.25 18.75 18.85CANFINHOME 414.00 414.00 391.50 402.75ECLERX 688.75 718.30 660.00 692.00NOCIL 132.00 132.50 125.70 126.95STRTECH 142.50 144.70 140.00 140.50PETRONET 215.40 215.40 209.75 210.75UNIONBANK 25.05 25.05 24.60 24.85ADANIPOWER 36.10 36.65 36.00 36.30GSFC 54.70 58.80 54.00 55.45OFSS 2850.00 3051.10 2850.00 2960.90VOLTAS 667.00 667.00 646.70 649.00MIDHANI 191.10 193.80 188.30 188.85OIL 87.20 87.40 83.50 84.70AJANTPHARM 1559.55 1585.55 1532.85 1559.65PCJEWELLER 13.55 14.10 13.10 13.50TAKE 41.00 46.60 40.50 44.10WABAG 182.00 182.90 172.20 173.35BBTC 1298.00 1320.00 1249.95 1256.80TORNTPOWER 315.10 320.70 305.35 306.20TASTYBIT 10000.00 10480.25 9949.95 10032.00PERSISTENT 1215.00 1220.00 1162.20 1176.30VIPIND 285.30 305.30 281.00 292.55AFFLE 2858.00 2905.00 2805.35 2815.50IBREALEST 51.85 51.85 48.05 48.30EQUITAS 49.35 49.65 48.30 48.65LAXMIMACH 3505.00 3575.00 3500.00 3500.00CUB 134.50 136.05 132.00 133.80BAJAJHLDNG 2402.00 2458.25 2402.00 2432.60BLUEDART 2715.05 2811.00 2703.00 2754.00KAJARIACER 517.00 517.00 497.45 498.65FINEORG 2590.00 2590.00 2481.00 2491.45FDC 337.00 339.00 324.05 325.60GODFRYPHLP 903.00 924.00 898.85 915.15AMBER 1930.00 1985.00 1873.60 1898.00PHILIPCARB 119.50 119.60 116.30 116.65ESSELPRO 237.00 245.00 230.10 241.65VENKYS 1292.00 1317.15 1285.55 1291.00WELCORP 97.80 102.10 97.60 98.50CEATLTD 903.00 912.00 878.00 912.00INTELLECT 201.00 205.50 195.30 201.55EIHOTEL 77.50 77.65 74.50 75.25BAJAJCON 179.90 179.90 175.00 175.60TRENT 614.55 633.10 606.50 626.30INDIANB 55.50 56.15 54.50 54.70VARROC 294.90 294.90 270.40 277.80JINDALSAW 62.35 64.35 62.35 62.85SUNTECK 257.05 257.05 244.05 248.70SPARC 165.55 169.10 165.25 166.35ITI 119.90 120.25 117.10 117.55EDELWEISS 57.10 57.95 56.05 56.05INDHOTEL 91.40 91.85 88.60 91.00GODREJPROP 860.80 860.80 840.00 850.50CYIENT 383.00 383.00 367.35 372.70FORCEMOT 1038.55 1047.85 1000.00 1034.00TV18BRDCST 28.35 29.05 28.15 28.35BOMDYEING 61.05 62.15 60.40 60.80GLAXO 1555.00 1608.75 1530.05 1545.10LINDEINDIA 735.65 740.00 713.00 725.00JAMNAAUTO 46.65 47.00 44.50 44.50TATACOFFEE 99.75 101.45 98.15 99.95WHIRLPOOL 2038.70 2054.90 1989.70 2047.00

LTTS 1605.95 1616.35 1574.90 1598.90WABCOINDIA 5797.40 6143.75 5719.55 5945.95BALMLAWRIE 100.40 100.40 95.00 97.20JKPAPER* 90.00 90.00 88.20 89.35TATACOMM 775.00 799.75 775.00 779.90TIINDIA 540.00 608.50 522.75 579.25DCAL 144.10 150.35 144.10 145.45WOCKPHARMA 270.30 275.50 266.00 268.05RELAXO 649.90 649.90 625.00 634.00GALAXYSURF 1666.00 1831.40 1666.00 1770.00RAMCOCEM 707.00 712.45 690.20 691.50DBL 335.35 341.55 331.00 333.85AEGISLOG 222.15 231.25 220.00 227.30BASF 1414.00 1445.35 1383.60 1387.35SOBHA 225.20 230.00 224.15 228.75RALLIS 280.00 284.95 265.00 284.00OBEROIRLTY 401.00 414.60 394.60 398.003MINDIA 18195.15 18500.00 18090.00 18435.00GUJGAS 300.00 303.00 294.90 298.00DHANUKA 774.90 784.05 746.05 767.30JAICORPLTD 79.20 81.00 78.20 78.75ASHOKA 64.20 66.95 62.50 64.00MRPL 27.05 27.15 25.95 26.70JKTYRE 55.15 57.95 55.15 55.90IIFL 79.00 79.00 75.55 77.00HFCL 14.35 14.75 14.25 14.45GMM 4033.05 4033.05 4033.05 4033.05ENDURANCE 1060.60 1097.80 1031.05 1032.15SANOFI 8422.00 8422.00 8301.40 8392.95KRBL 249.45 258.20 244.00 256.30IFBIND 543.60 565.40 543.00 552.00EMAMILTD 380.00 380.00 351.20 352.75KEC 303.00 317.70 299.10 307.65FINCABLES 268.00 275.50 257.25 275.05BALRAMCHIN 145.00 145.00 140.10 141.00RITES 240.00 243.60 240.00 241.70INDOCO 250.60 265.00 245.00 254.95DISHTV 12.10 12.10 12.01 12.01ORIENTELEC 185.00 187.20 179.00 185.20MINDAIND 316.00 327.85 309.95 316.20KTKBANK 40.20 40.50 39.50 39.80HEIDELBERG 178.00 179.00 174.50 175.00SCHNEIDER 79.00 79.70 76.50 76.95JKLAKSHMI 244.00 252.35 244.00 249.15IRB 109.00 109.00 101.45 102.05IOB 9.24 9.24 8.81 8.86INOXLEISUR 260.40 262.35 248.75 251.20CENTURYPLY 161.70 165.75 158.60 161.00KPRMILL 585.35 602.20 573.60 581.80GICRE 120.05 123.70 118.20 121.95COCHINSHIP 314.00 317.50 304.95 313.30NESCO 543.25 558.05 536.05 551.95BAJAJELEC 460.00 460.95 447.90 453.40VAIBHAVGBL 1800.05 1843.00 1800.00 1820.00PARAGMILK 92.95 95.35 92.95 93.65MOTILALOFS* 617.45 631.45 606.85 622.60SCI 53.50 53.50 51.85 52.30NHPC 20.00 20.20 19.85 20.00JSWENERGY 56.60 56.75 55.55 56.20VRLLOG 158.45 159.55 153.30 157.00ARVINDFASN 122.00 131.00 120.00 123.40JMFINANCIL 75.00 77.70 72.90 76.60PNCINFRA 151.25 158.00 151.00 154.75GILLETTE 5335.15 5441.00 5330.00 5433.00SJVN 22.20 22.20 21.70 21.80ALLCARGO 118.60 122.60 118.25 121.45TRIDENT 6.40 6.44 6.20 6.26CROMPTON 269.90 274.00 259.90 262.65HSCL 50.35 50.35 48.10 48.40AVANTI 481.50 487.00 476.45 481.35NIACL 102.25 103.75 101.00 101.60POLYCAB 808.00 819.15 803.55 819.15KEI 348.50 351.30 335.30 343.05SONATSOFTW 319.70 333.75 315.30 322.15PRESTIGE 237.60 241.85 231.00 232.25SPANDANA 520.00 531.75 505.00 517.00HUDCO 31.00 31.60 30.50 30.60IDBI 33.90 34.50 32.75 32.90TIMKEN 1065.10 1081.50 1045.00 1050.00GSPL 195.25 197.20 193.75 195.60PHOENIXLTD 565.00 565.00 542.65 548.70THYROCARE 777.45 805.00 765.00 765.00UFLEX 305.00 306.65 299.70 300.70THERMAX 725.00 733.00 716.40 725.00CARBORUNIV 252.00 252.00 241.55 250.00ITDC 234.00 234.00 220.00 223.50NILKAMAL 1300.00 1300.00 1244.25 1249.40TATAMETALI 488.05 494.00 480.00 482.95MAHINDCIE 138.00 138.00 127.25 130.90J&KBANK 15.30 15.30 14.80 14.85AIAENG 1760.00 1764.95 1676.35 1708.75MINDACORP 69.00 70.45 68.00 68.80METROPOLIS 1712.50 1792.70 1699.15 1784.50REDINGTON 110.20 114.30 109.70 112.40JSL 39.00 41.05 39.00 40.60SUPRAJIT 163.50 167.90 163.50 165.60HINDCOPPER 32.80 33.50 32.50 32.60MASFIN 799.45 812.00 766.55 812.00GPPL 84.60 85.00 80.00 80.60ORIENTCEM 57.50 59.95 56.35 59.20PGHL 4892.80 4916.60 4803.50 4833.25PGHH 9780.00 9913.05 9780.00 9840.00PTC 47.90 47.90 46.65 47.35RCF 43.10 43.20 41.80 42.10SHK 79.80 80.45 78.00 78.50CRISIL 1740.20 1752.50 1698.15 1710.20HIMATSEIDE 79.30 81.70 76.50 77.95CARERATING 374.00 374.00 357.00 365.00CHAMBLFERT 148.35 148.35 145.45 146.30

CENTRALBK 16.40 16.95 15.75 16.60SUPREMEIND 1368.60 1399.90 1368.60 1375.95HERITGFOOD 315.00 329.70 310.15 315.35GUJALKALI 330.00 330.05 323.00 324.50KANSAINER 470.00 485.00 461.85 479.40KSB 481.50 481.50 455.55 460.45HATHWAY 29.30 29.30 28.55 28.55TTKPRESTIG 6146.00 6146.00 5891.00 5990.00VBL 662.00 694.65 662.00 680.70FINOLEXIND 506.75 507.80 488.00 491.50NH 302.25 328.75 302.25 311.00GMDCLTD 41.60 41.60 41.00 41.10NLCINDIA 50.50 50.50 48.60 49.30VGUARD 165.00 166.80 162.60 164.10TVTODAY 196.05 200.20 189.00 194.95TATAINVEST 839.35 839.35 808.00 814.20VSTIND 3465.00 3469.20 3390.00 3469.20WESTLIFE 361.50 388.00 356.00 361.10AAVAS 1347.55 1371.65 1309.70 1309.70CREDITACC 698.95 698.95 684.85 690.70IFCI 5.90 5.99 5.64 5.91CCL 246.75 252.10 244.15 251.95SYMPHONY 850.20 859.20 836.00 846.50VMART 2047.95 2103.95 2005.00 2011.80BLUESTARCO 621.30 640.30 612.40 626.55EIDPARRY 287.25 287.25 275.05 277.00JAGRAN 36.20 37.40 35.50 36.30UCOBANK 12.04 12.18 11.75 11.92SOMANYCERA 182.00 182.00 168.05 170.50KALPATPOWR* 235.00 239.15 232.10 237.20LAOPALA 206.50 209.95 198.00 200.50MAHABANK 11.15 11.15 10.55 10.81KNRCON 248.00 253.10 242.90 244.75POWERINDIA 941.25 943.65 919.10 921.75CHENNPETRO 68.15 68.25 66.65 67.00TNPL 101.50 101.50 98.45 99.45SKFINDIA 1473.00 1473.00 1443.00 1445.65CSBBANK 217.85 219.60 210.50 215.30SIS 367.00 373.55 364.30 368.00GARFIBRES 1868.00 1872.90 1808.10 1841.10PRSMJOHNSN 56.25 56.25 54.40 55.10STARCEMENT 83.00 84.35 80.25 81.95DALBHARAT* 735.35 740.70 723.00 740.70JSLHISAR 79.55 79.75 75.00 77.40JYOTHYLAB 140.00 141.45 137.80 139.70GODREJAGRO 491.60 495.70 485.30 487.00GHCL 157.90 160.60 154.00 156.00MAHSCOOTER 2800.00 2802.70 2752.75 2779.00MOIL 138.50 138.95 136.45 138.30SHRIRAMCIT 873.60 896.95 871.55 896.95OMAXE 66.50 67.50 64.90 65.75DCMSHRIRAM 361.45 361.45 352.15 352.20MAHLOG 319.00 319.00 310.60 313.00TCIEXP 763.10 794.25 750.20 778.00SCHAEFFLER 3577.30 3608.05 3541.90 3550.00GESHIP 248.00 248.00 238.50 239.40ESABINDIA 1327.65 1340.85 1290.00 1314.10BRIGADE 157.15 165.00 157.15 161.00CERA 2369.95 2369.95 2232.00 2251.60JKCEMENT 1577.95 1577.95 1471.05 1481.00FLUOROCHEM 498.15 507.00 490.55 497.00SUNDRMFAST 397.00 403.00 393.00 399.75SHANKARA 331.50 331.75 322.70 326.30MMTC 16.80 16.80 16.10 16.20GDL 87.70 88.50 85.15 87.40GEPIL 422.00 432.00 416.75 419.10DBCORP 73.75 76.00 73.60 74.15GRSE 170.75 172.40 168.35 171.00UJJIVANSFB 32.05 32.05 31.05 31.25LUXIND 1351.10 1375.70 1316.05 1358.15GET&D 86.00 86.00 81.55 81.55ERIS 525.00 527.55 504.95 521.95GRINDWELL 525.60 534.00 520.05 520.95MAHSEAMLES 219.90 219.90 213.05 214.75JCHAC 2150.05 2210.00 2131.05 2132.05TCNSBRANDS 380.25 384.40 370.00 374.85NBVENTURES 55.25 55.25 53.50 54.55SOLARINDS 1018.40 1037.85 1012.95 1022.10TIMETECHNO 37.05 37.05 35.25 36.40NAVNETEDUL 78.00 78.70 75.30 75.65MAHLIFE 229.00 229.00 218.10 224.00ASTERDM 135.90 135.90 132.15 134.05AKZOINDIA 2055.00 2060.00 2021.20 2027.00IIFLWAM 975.00 1011.95 955.00 964.25INDOSTAR 273.85 276.05 260.10 264.15VTL 740.00 754.85 722.30 725.00MHRIL 162.30 163.65 161.25 162.40TVSSRICHAK 1350.00 1355.00 1324.80 1340.00SHOPERSTOP 163.00 165.60 162.00 165.60JTEKTINDIA 73.95 74.45 72.55 73.35CHOLAHLDNG 384.30 390.00 379.85 386.75GULFOILLUB 630.00 634.10 621.00 623.05

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SCRIP OPEN HIgh LOW LTP CHANGENIFTY 50 11011.00 11015.30 10790.20 10805.55 -326.30INFRATEL 165.00 175.65 162.20 171.70 4.75ZEEL 185.00 195.80 182.85 193.50 1.70HINDUNILVR 2044.00 2081.00 2035.05 2057.60 5.05BRITANNIA 3590.00 3655.00 3560.20 3611.00 -13.90HDFCLIFE 574.80 580.80 572.70 577.35 -2.90DRREDDY 5060.00 5202.90 5002.50 5058.00 -49.75NESTLEIND 15348.00 15438.30 15175.00 15210.60 -155.45LT 856.00 859.90 843.00 851.50 -9.10HEROMOTOCO 2911.35 2949.00 2900.00 2914.70 -42.05HDFCBANK 1038.00 1047.00 1025.00 1030.50 -16.75RELIANCE 2207.90 2226.00 2176.05 2195.00 -35.80ASIANPAINT 1941.55 1945.00 1907.75 1915.00 -31.55HDFC 1646.80 1654.15 1623.00 1636.25 -30.85TITAN 1113.00 1113.90 1076.00 1093.35 -23.85POWERGRID 162.25 165.05 158.50 160.40 -3.50BAJAJ-AUTO 2964.90 3001.90 2912.80 2922.00 -64.20EICHERMOT 2052.45 2079.00 2023.00 2032.00 -44.80ULTRACEMCO 3869.00 3869.15 3753.90 3780.00 -89.15ONGC 66.05 67.35 65.50 65.95 -1.70BPCL 378.20 386.15 375.35 377.55 -10.10KOTAKBANK 1267.00 1284.90 1236.00 1240.05 -35.35NTPC 84.10 85.65 82.15 82.70 -2.40SUNPHARMA 497.50 501.25 483.00 488.30 -14.60ITC 171.70 171.75 166.15 167.40 -5.10MARUTI 6435.00 6486.80 6270.15 6301.55 -199.75BHARTIARTL 425.25 433.50 416.15 419.95 -13.85HCLTECH 811.00 811.45 784.00 788.00 -26.10SHREECEM 18800.00 18846.90 18183.55 18340.00 -611.85ADANIPORTS 321.55 322.95 312.10 314.00 -10.60JSWSTEEL 263.05 264.95 257.55 259.30 -8.90GAIL 84.25 85.45 81.95 82.75 -2.95WIPRO 313.40 313.40 302.45 304.00 -10.85HINDALCO 158.00 162.30 154.40 159.50 -5.95AXISBANK 414.00 414.30 401.15 403.75 -16.00CIPLA 764.45 766.65 730.00 738.00 -29.40COALINDIA 121.05 121.10 115.20 116.30 -4.75SBIN 181.10 181.80 175.50 176.45 -7.35BAJAJFINSV 5580.00 5600.00 5400.00 5415.00 -231.65ICICIBANK 344.95 346.95 333.75 337.35 -14.50INFY 1003.00 1009.00 970.00 977.75 -42.00IOC 75.00 75.20 71.65 72.35 -3.60TATASTEEL 356.80 357.25 342.75 344.00 -17.30M&M 605.00 606.40 567.50 582.00 -30.60TECHM 787.95 787.95 747.55 753.00 -40.05UPL 525.45 525.45 502.20 505.50 -26.90TCS 2450.00 2450.00 2302.60 2332.90 -134.55GRASIM 708.00 715.00 675.50 677.60 -40.80BAJFINANCE 3191.00 3194.75 3006.90 3030.65 -213.20TATAMOTORS 127.90 128.80 122.15 122.75 -8.65INDUSINDBK 517.15 519.00 485.00 488.70 -39.35

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SCRIP OPEN HIgh LOW LTP CHANGENIFTY NEXT 50 26056.25 26089.95 25636.70 25696.60 -593.40GODREJCP 673.30 701.95 670.00 690.85 11.95COLPAL 1357.00 1395.35 1340.00 1373.00 19.00MARICO 337.75 345.95 333.00 342.35 2.05ICICIPRULI 407.00 415.35 403.30 410.00 1.30DABUR 484.00 490.75 478.80 487.00 1.25BERGEPAINT 570.80 580.00 562.05 572.10 1.30ABBOTINDIA 15899.00 16194.95 15720.10 15994.90 6.55GICRE 120.00 123.75 119.00 121.65 -0.20ICICIGI 1240.05 1258.00 1225.10 1256.00 -2.15DMART 2047.90 2084.00 2037.60 2049.95 -5.35TORNTPHARM 2646.00 2678.35 2455.00 2652.00 -8.95NHPC 20.05 20.20 19.80 20.00 -0.10NAUKRI 3376.00 3450.00 3330.00 3370.15 -18.55SIEMENS 1221.10 1224.80 1193.60 1217.35 -13.20PGHH 9959.05 9959.05 9812.80 9850.00 -109.05SBICARD 811.30 820.80 805.00 810.00 -11.05PIDILITIND 1408.00 1427.00 1395.00 1401.00 -19.85HAVELLS 669.90 678.60 657.00 663.00 -11.75CONCOR 373.45 378.50 366.00 370.50 -6.60PETRONET 213.45 215.20 209.60 211.65 -3.90HDFCAMC 2138.00 2138.45 2100.10 2104.00 -39.10CADILAHC 381.75 383.80 374.15 375.25 -8.65MUTHOOTFIN 1038.00 1039.00 1010.55 1020.50 -24.75DLF 148.00 148.35 144.40 146.85 -3.60BAJAJHLDNG 2425.05 2460.00 2405.05 2429.00 -65.75IGL 405.00 405.00 388.30 396.80 -10.85MCDOWELL-N 509.00 509.00 494.00 494.95 -14.20HINDPETRO 175.25 176.90 170.85 172.05 -5.30OFSS 3069.45 3069.45 2950.10 2956.00 -91.40BOSCHLTD 12511.05 12680.00 12111.15 12367.55 -381.90ADANITRANS 237.20 244.15 233.55 233.85 -7.90PAGEIND 19298.50 19499.00 18620.00 18700.00 -675.05HINDZINC 211.00 211.50 204.05 204.70 -7.85LUPIN 1009.00 1019.00 971.25 979.00 -37.55PEL 1220.00 1238.60 1178.55 1191.50 -46.00BIOCON 421.60 423.40 406.10 408.00 -15.90DIVISLAB 3090.00 3151.80 2985.00 3022.00 -125.55ACC 1338.50 1350.00 1293.65 1300.00 -54.70AUROPHARMA 775.00 777.50 738.05 747.35 -32.85PFC 85.00 85.95 82.05 82.55 -3.65BANKBARODA 40.75 41.20 39.65 39.75 -1.80PNB 28.95 29.10 27.95 28.05 -1.30BANDHANBNK 262.80 264.85 252.70 255.85 -12.10UBL 960.00 960.00 915.10 917.95 -45.45SBILIFE 830.60 832.15 782.35 792.70 -40.30MOTHERSUMI 108.00 108.00 102.30 103.60 -5.65AMBUJACEM 206.15 208.20 197.45 197.75 -11.50NMDC 78.70 79.10 75.60 75.70 -4.50SRTRANSFIN 600.00 600.00 555.55 571.00 -42.10INDIGO 1259.95 1264.20 1180.85 1192.00 -90.70

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Dangers to an overall inter-national economic recov-

ery such as rising Covid-19cases, along with possible reim-position of lockdown mea-sures in some European coun-tries, pushed the global and theIndian stock markets deep intothe red on Thursday, with theBSE Sensex losing 1,100 points,its worst performance in sixmonths.

Besides, no new stimulusmeasures for the US, com-bined with a slower growthforecast for the world’s largesteconomy, also impacted glob-al sentiments.

Not just equities, but crudeoil and precious metal pricesfell, leading to a chaos acrossasset classes.However, the USdollar made the most of thebloodbath.The domino effectof such massive downsideresulted in the Indian stockmarkets witnessing a gap-downopening on Thursday.The BSESensex lost 1,100 points and theNSE Nifty50 fell well below the

psychological 11,000 mark.Post Thursday’s selloff,

Sensex lost 2,292 points in thelast four sessions. This was thesixth consecutive session of lossfor the Indian indices, as wellas the biggest single day fall forthe BSE Sensex in four monthsand the biggest losing streak (6sessions) in seven months.

The Nifty50 on theNational Stock Exchange (NSE)fell well below the psycholog-ical 11,000 mark.

The recent bear run hasbeen due to resurgence incoronavirus cases across theworld, largely in Europe, andanticipation of fresh lockdownrestrictions across severalcountries of the continent,including the UK and France.

The BSE Sensex closed at36,553.60, lower by 1,114.82points, or 2.96 per cent, fromthe previous close of 37,668.42.

It opened at 37,282.18 andtouched an intra-day high of37,304.26 or a low of 36,495.98points.

The Nifty50 closed at10,805.55, lower by 326.30

points or 2.93 per cent from itsprevious close.

Manish Hathiramani, tech-nical analyst, Deen DayalInvestments, said: “The supportlevel of 10,900-10,950 has beendisrespected during today’strading session. We have alsopierced 10,882 which was madeon August 3, 2020. This opensa new target of 10,750. Anybounce can be utilised to shortthe Nifty for this target.”

Among the sectors, auto,banking, metal and IT indiceslost the most.

“European stocks andAsian stocks dropped followinga rout in tech shares in the USon Wednesday and as investorshave largely given up on theidea that the US Congress willprovide a new stimulus, whileworrying about a recent rise inCovid-19 cases,” said DeepakJasani, Head of Retail Researchat HDFC Securities.

“Economists at GoldmanSachs cut their US growthforecast for the fourth quarterin half, to 3 from 6 per cent.Investors are bombarded by a

perfect storm of problemsincluding rising virus infec-tions, new lockdowns, a slow-ing economic recovery, stalledUS stimulus talks and electionuncertainty. Investors also fret-ted that a second wave of coro-navirus cases during the north-ern hemisphere’s coming win-ter will derail the economicrecovery.”

According to Vinod Nair,Head of Research at GeojitFinancial Services: “Indianbenchmark indices had a gapdown opening and kept losingground as the day wore on, tofinally end the day around 2.8per cent down. Markets trackedweak global cues as the uncer-tainty witnessed in the lastfew days gave way to negativ-ity, with broader markets alsounderperforming.””The uncer-tainty regarding an economicrecovery, the unabated rise invirus infections, and todaybeing derivatives expiry day, allcontributed to the negativity.With volatility expected to behigh, traders are advised toremain cautious.”

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Inflow of foreign portfolioinvestments (FPI) surged last

month with around $6 billion,or around �47,000 crore, of netinvestments by overseasinvestors with a majority meantfor primary issuances of shares.

Around 63 per cent of netFPI flows last month were intoprimary issuances, according toa report by ICICI Securities.

Interestingly, last month,India outperformed otheremerging markets in terms ofinflows.

The report also said thatdomestic institutional invest-ments (DII) too had positiveflows towards primaryissuances, although the sec-ondary flows continued to benegative with an outflow of $1.5billion.

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Cruiser bikes giant Harley-Davidson on Thursday

said that it plans to close itsmanufacturing facility inHaryana’s Bawal and signifi-cantly reduce the size of its salesoffice in Gurugram.

The development comes aspart of ‘The Rewire’ initiativewhich intends to overhaul thecompany’s operating modeland market structure.

The company said that it ischanging the business model inIndia and evaluating options tocontinue to serve its customers.

“Harley-Davidson plans toclose its manufacturing facili-ty in Bawal and significantlyreduce the size of its salesoffice in Gurgaon(Gurugram),” the companysaid in a statement.

“The company is commu-nicating with its customers inIndia and will keep them

updated on future support.The Harley-Davidson dealernetwork will continue to servecustomers through the contractterm.”

According to the company,these actions are aligned with‘The Rewire’ which is plannedto continue through the end of2020, leading to ‘The Hardwire’,a new strategic plan for 2021-2025 aimed at building desir-ability for the Harley-Davidsonbrand and products.

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Google India Digital ServicesPvt. Ltd., which operates

the GPay app, has told the DelhiHigh Court that it is allowed toshare customers transaction datawith third parties with the priorpermission of NPCI and pay-

ment service provider (PSP)banks.

The submission has beenmade by Google in its affidavitfiled before a Bench of ChiefJustice DN Patel and JusticePrateek Jalan in response to a PILseeking action against ‘GooglePay’ (GPay) for allegedly violat-

ing the RBI’s guidelines related todata localisation, storage andsharing. The High Court onSeptember 24 listed the matter forhearing on November 10 as theCentre and Reserve Bank ofIndia (RBI) have not filed theirresponses yet.

Google, in its affidavit, has

contended that under the UnifiedPayment Interface (UPI) proce-dural guidelines, issued by theNational Payments Corporationof India (NPCI), apps like GPayare permitted to share customerstransaction data with third par-ties and group companies withprior permission of NPCI and

PSP banks.It has also said that GPay

only stores ordinary customerdata — like name, address, emailID and transaction related details— in accordance with the NPCIguidelines and not payment sen-sitive data like debit card num-ber or UPI PIN. A customer’s

payment sensitive data is storedonly on the servers of the PSPbank, it has claimed.

The affidavit was filed inresponse to the petition by advo-cate Abhishek Sharma who hassought a direction to Google notto share any data from UPIswitch with any other party.

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month low of 73.89 againstthe US dollar on Thursday,following massive sell-offs inequities and concerns overcontinuous surge inCOVID-19 cases.

Besides, stronger dol-lar against key rivals cur-rencies and robust outflowsof foreign funds fromdomestic markets weighedon forex market sentiment.

At the interbank forexmarket, the Indian currencyopened on a weak note at73.82 and traded in a rangeof 73.75 and 73.96 a dollarduring the session.

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insolvency proceedings underthe insolvency law for anotherthree months, a senior officialsaid on Thursday. In the wake

of the coronavirus pandemic, thecorporate affairs ministry decid-ed to suspend initiation of freshproceedings under theInsolvency and BankruptcyCode (IBC) for six monthsstarting from March 25.

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US President Donald Trumphas refused to commit to

a peaceful transfer of power ifhe loses the November 3, 2020,election to his Democratic rivalJoe Biden.

Trump, a Republican, alsosaid he believed the electionresult could end up in the USSupreme Court, as he again castdoubt on postal voting. ManyAmerican states are encourag-ing mail-in voting, citing theneed to keep Americans safefrom the coronavirus pan-demic that has killed over twolakh people in the country.

“Well, we’re going to haveto see what happens,” Trump

said when asked whether hewould commit to a peacefultransition, one of the corner-stones of American democracy.

“I have been complainingvery strongly about the ballots,and the ballots are a disaster…,”Trump told reporters at aWhite House news conferenceon Wednesday when askedabout a peaceful transition ofpower after the presidentialpolls in November irrespectiveof the outcome.

“President, real quickly,wins, lose or draw in this elec-tion, will you commit heretoday for a peaceful transferralof power after the election?And there has been rioting inLouisville, there has been riot-

ing in many cities across thiscountry — red and so-calledred and blue states — will youcommit to making sure thatthere is a peaceful transferral ofpower after the election?” hewas asked.

Not satisfied with Trump’sanswer, the reporter againasked. “Do you commit tomaking sure that there is apeaceful transferal of power?”

Trump exuded confidencethat there will be a continuationof power. “We want to get ridof the ballots and we will havea very peaceful — there will notbe a transfer. Frankly, there willbe a continuation. The ballotsare out of control, you know it,and you know who knows it

better than anybody else? TheDemocrats know it better thananybody else,” the presidentsaid as he refused to entertainany other question from thesame journalist.

“Go ahead. Please goahead. Yes, go ahead. You askeda question. Go ahead please,” hesaid. Trump’s reluctance tocommit to a peaceful transitionwas rooted in what he said wereconcerns about ballots, extend-ing his assertion that wide-spread mail-in voting is rifewith fraud.

In 2016, Trump alsorefused to commit to acceptingthe election results in his con-test against the Democraticcandidate, Hillary Clinton,

which she characterised as anattack on democracy.

Trump was eventuallydeclared the winner, althoughhe lost the popular vote bythree million, an outcome hestill questioned. Meanwhile,Senator Mitt Romney, a UtahRepublican who has stood atodds with the President in thepast, slammed Trump’sremarks.

“Fundamental to democ-racy is the peaceful transitionof power; without that, there isBelarus,” Romney tweeted.

“Any suggestion that aPresident might not respect thisConstitutional guarantee isboth unthinkable and unac-ceptable,” he said.

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Taiwan on Thursday con-demned recent Chinese

military activity after Beijingsent two military surveillanceplanes toward the island forthree straight days, calling it a“deliberate provocation.”

Tensions have risen in theTaiwan Strait as the U.S. hasstepped up its official engage-ment with the self-ruled islandthat China considers part of itsnational territory.

On Monday, Tuesday andWednesday, China sent twoplanes into Taiwan’s air defenseidentification zone, accordingto Taiwan’s Ministry ofNational Defense. In response,the Taiwanese side dispatchedair patrols, the ministry said.

“We oppose China usingmilitary force against Taiwan,deliberately violating Taiwan’snaval and airspace safety anddamaging the status quo,”added Chiu Chui-Cheng,deputy minister at Taiwan’s

Mainland Affairs Council.“Our government will contin-ue to cooperate with countrieswith similar values.”

Last week, China sent atotal of 37 warplanes, includingbombers and fighter jets, acrossthe Taiwan Strait in a warningas a high-level U.S. StateDepartment official visited theisland. The Taiwanese defenseministry said the planes crossedthe midline of the Taiwan Strait.

The midline has acted asan unofficial buffer zonebetween China and Taiwanfor decades, in what Taiwan’sMainland Affairs Council onThursday called “a tacit agree-ment that has kept the peace.”

Chinese foreign ministryspokesman Wang Wenbin onMonday denied the existence ofany midline, saying that Taiwanis part of China. He alsowarned that China would retal-iate for the U.S. visit. “We willtake countermeasures, includ-ing against relevant individu-als,” he said.

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Iran’s President HassanRouhani declared “victory”

over the United States after theUN Security Council rejectedthe Trump administration’s bidto reimpose UN sanctions onthe Islamic republic.

“The Iranian nation hasachieved great political, legaland diplomatic success at theUnited Nations,” Rouhani tolda televised weekly meeting ofhis cabinet.

“The reason for this victo-ry lies solely in the support andresistance of the people,” he said.

“America’s greatness hascollapsed (just like) the globalhegemony they thought they had.”

In May 2018, US PresidentDonald Trump withdrew froma landmark deal that gave Iranrelief from sanctions in returnfor UN-verified guarantees thatit is not seeking nuclearweapons.

Washington: Underlining thatthe scope of India and theUnited States partnership con-tinues to expand, US StateDepartment on Wednesday(local time) said thatWashington’s growing securityand diplomatic cooperationwith New Delhi is vital to a free,open, and inclusive Indian-Pacific region.

“The pace and scope of the#USIndia partnership contin-ues to expand! Whether it’s at@UN or with Quad partners,our growing security anddiplomatic cooperation withIndia is vital to a free, open, andinclusive #IndoPacific,” tweet-ed State Department for theBureau of South and CentralAsian Affairs (SCA).

Indian-Pacific region islargely viewed as an area com-prising the Indian Ocean andthe western and central PacificOcean, including the SouthChina Sea.

China’s territorial claims inthe South China Sea and itsefforts to advance into theIndian Ocean are seen to havechallenged the establishedrules-based system.

Amid China’s growingassertiveness in the Indian-Pacific region, foreign ministersof Quad — India, Japan, the USand Australia — are planningto hold a meeting in Tokyo nextmonth. The officials are likelyto affirm their countries’ coop-eration to realise the “Free and Open Indo-Pacific”vision upheld by Japan and theUS. Agencies

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South Korea said onThursday that North Korean

troops fatally shot a SouthKorean Government officialwho may have attempted todefect and set his body on fireafter finding him on a floatingobject near the countries’ dis-puted sea boundary.

South Korean officials con-demned what they called NorthKorea’s “atrocious act” andurged it to apologize and pun-ish those responsible. NorthKorea is unlikely to accept theSouth Korean demand, and ties

between the rivals — alreadystrained amid a deadlock inbroader nuclear diplomacy —will probably suffer a furthersetback, observers say.

According to Seoul, theman disappeared from a gov-ernment ship that was check-ing on possible unauthorisedfishing in an area south of theboundary on Monday, a daybefore he was found in NorthKorean waters.

North Korea sent officialswearing gas masks aboard aboat near the man to learn whyhe was there on Tuesday after-noon. Later in the day,

a North Korean navy boatcame and opened fire at him, South Korea’s DefenseMinistry said.

Sailors from the boat cladin gas masks and protectivesuits poured gasoline on hisbody and set it aflame, theDefense Ministry said, citing intelligence gathered bysurveillance equipment andother assets.

It’s unclear how he endedup in North Korea. But adefense official said the man might have tried to defectto the North, citing acquiredinformation.

Hong Kong (AP): Hong Kongpro-democracy activist JoshuaWong said he was arrested againThursday for allegedly partici-pating in an unauthorised assem-bly last October. Wong tweetedthat he was arrested when hereported to the semi-autonomous Chinese territory’sCentral Police Station as part of

a bail requirement. He said hewas also accused of violating apre-coronavirus law banning thewearing of masks in public placeson the pretext they obscure iden-tity. Wong told reporters afterleaving the police station that itis the third case against him. Hevowed to continue to resist.

Wong rose to prominence as

a student leader during the 2014Umbrella Movement protests foruniversal suffrage, and is amonga growing number of activistsbeing charged for various rela-tively minor offenses sinceBeijing imposed a sweepingnational security law on the ter-ritory that has severely restrict-ed political speech.

Washington: US PresidentDonald Trump and hisDemocratic rival Joe Bidenhave clashed on the coron-avirus pandemic, both puttingforward their plans to bringAmerica out of the worst healthcrisis if voted to power.

The US is the worst-affect-ed country from the pandem-ic with over 200,000 Americanslosing their lives to the disease.The virus has also battered thecountry’s economy with mil-lions of people losing their jobs.

Trump, a Republican, andBiden are pitted against eachother for the November 3 pres-idential election.

“Our plan will crush the

virus. And actually, Biden’splan will crush America, if youthink about it. You can’t lockdown. Again, we’re growing atlevels that nobody has ever seenbefore. Our plan is unleashinga rapid recovery. Our oppo-nent’s plan would hurt Americavery badly. It would send us intoa depression,” Trump toldreporters at the White House onWednesday, asserting that hisDemocratic challenger wouldnot have been able to handle thepandemic.

“Our approach is pro-sci-ence. Biden’s approach is anti-science. I don’t think they knowwhat their approach is,although a lot of it’s copied from

what we’ve done,” Trump said.Talking about Johnson &

Johnson announcing that theirvaccine candidate has reachedthe final stage of clinical trials,Trump said, “this is recordtime. This is the fourth vaccinecandidate in the United Statesto reach the final stage of trial.So, we have four candidatesalready at a very late date.‘Late’ being a very positiveword, in this case,” he said.

Trump also announcedthat his administration isawarding $200 million ofCARES Act funding to all 50states to prepare to distributethe vaccine to high-risk resi-dents. PTI

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administration appointee whobucked the President’s conserv-ative base by blocking aTennessee law that restricts mail-in voting, had an announcementto make before wrapping up hisdecision: it had nothing to dowith politics. The declarationdropped as lower-court judges,like Richardson, face greaterscrutiny over their perceivedideological purity. Richardsoneven took the step of addressingpotential critics in his opinion.

Richardson ruled in favor ofexpanding the ability of first-time voters in this reliablyRepublican-leaning state to castmail-in ballots this election.But first, the lifetime-appoint-ed judge said, he had to “addresshead-on the proverbial elephantin the room,” declaring his ownimpartiality in the case.

In his September 9 ruling,Richardson wrote that he was“not concerned about how hisdecisions could aid one side orthe other on the political front.”The judge from Tennessee’sMiddle District also said hispersonal opinions on electionlaws have “simply no bearing”on the constitutional claimsbrought before his bench. Formonths, President DonaldTrump claimed without proofthat there could be widespreadvoter fraud in November, evenas officials in states that haverelied on mail-in ballots citedlittle evidence of such.

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CEO Mark Zuckerbergsaid two years ago that he wassetting up the quasi-indepen-dent board, following intensecriticism that the companywasn’t moving fast enough toremove misinformation, hatespeech and malign influencecampaigns.

The board is intended torule on thorny content issues,such as when Facebook or

Instagram posts constitute hatespeech.

We are currently testing thenewly deployed technical sys-tems that will allow users toappeal and the Board to reviewcases,” it said in a statementThursday.

If those tests go to plan, theboard said it would startaccepting and reviewingappeals from users in mid tolate October.

The board was initiallyexpected to start operating inearly 2020 but the launch wasdelayed.

“Building a process that is

thorough, principled and glob-ally effective takes time and ourmembers have been workingaggressively to launch as soonas possible, the board said.

The board’s 20 membersare a multinational group thatincludes legal scholars, humanrights experts and journalists.

It will start by hearingappeals from users whosecontent has been taken downby Facebook before expandingto appeals from users whowant the company to removecontent. Facebook can alsorefer cases to the board on itsown.

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“Farmer can at any stage go back on his word and withdrawfrom the contract but the same cannot be done by investor whowould be liable for a heavy penalty,” Tomar said. The Ministersaid any dispute between investor and farmer would be settledby sub-divisional magistrate within 15 or 30 days.

“If a farmer wants to come out of the agreement, he can doso. But a trader cannot pull out of the agreement. The trader canonly leave the agreement after paying the farmer the price he hadpromised. There is full protection for farmers in these Bills. Therecannot be any action concerning farmers’ land. If there is anydispute, recovery can only be done of the money, which the farmerhas taken for growing the crop,” he said.

Tomar said the Modi-led Government has provided the free-dom to farmers through the Bills. He said the Bills will free farm-ers from chains of the Agricultural Produce Market Committee(APMC).

“Small farmers can now get a guarantee of their produce dur-ing the sowing of the crop. They can now go for expensive crops,use new technology, new seeds, good pesticides and reduce theinput cost. These Bills are crucial and will bring revolutionarychanges in the lives of farmers. I want to tell farmers that whenprovisions of these Bills will be implemented, there will be changein their lives,” he said.

The Minister rejected Opposition criticism over the Bills andasserted that the Minimum Support Price (MSP) and APMC willcontinue as in the past.

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“As per information from across the State, the call for bandhhas received a positive response from various unions of truck-ers, buses, tempos, employees, youngsters, students, labourersand others,” said Benod Pandey, a representative of all farmunions. He added that as per their initial estimates, rail tracksand roads would be blocked at around 125 locations across var-ious districts of Punjab. In Haryana, INLD and Congress heldprotests at several districts. Farmer leaders said that several farmerorganisations like Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU), All IndiaFarmers Union (AIFU), All India Kisan Sangharsh CoordinationCommittee (AIKSCC), All India Kisan Mahasangh (AIKM) havecome on a common platform for the nationwide shutdown.Farmer leaders in Haryana are considering blocking the rail androad traffic in various districts of the State on the day, said lead-ers familiar with the developments.

Farmer union leaders, including the BKU (Charuni) and BKU(Tikait) were holding meetings with leaders of different organ-isations like Ahritia’s (commission agents) Association, trans-porters and shopkeepers to support the Bharat Bandh by keep-ing their shops shut from 10 am to 4 pm. They claimed that allthe mandis in the State had decided to remain shut and therewill be no business on Friday.

Farmers in West Bengal will block roads and highways whilefarmers in Uttar Pradesh will jam their respective villages, townsand highways.

The Railways on Thursday said the ‘rail roko’ agitation inPunjab over farm Bills will severely impact the loading of food-

grains and other essential goods as well as the movement of pas-sengers travelling on special trains, mostly on an urgent basis.Officials here said that Punjab loaded 990 rakes of FCI foodgrainsin August this year and 816 rakes till September 23. Thus, FCIis loading more than 35 rakes of foodgrains daily from Punjab.They said Punjab also loads 9-10 rakes daily of fertiliser, cement,auto, mixed goods in containers. The State also receives around20 rakes daily of coal, food grain, farm products, machinery petro-leum products, imported fertiliser etc.

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The NCB will continue the same line of questioning whenits investigators grill actress Rakul and Deepika’s ManagerKarishma. "Deepika has acknowledged the summons and hadsubmitted for joining investigation on Saturday," Malhotra said.

At Saturday's questioning, the NCB will record Deepika'sstatement under Section 67 in the Narcotic Drugs andPsychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985. The section 67 ofthe NDPS Act vests powers with the investigating agency "to callfor information from any person for the purpose of satisfyinghimself whether there has been any contravention of the provi-sions of this Act, to require any person to produce or deliver anydocument or thing useful or relevant to the enquiry and to exam-ine any person acquainted with the facts and circumstances ofthe case". Deepika will be questioned in the context of the infor-mation that surfaced during the questioning of actress-accusedRhea Chakraborty in the drug case.

Karishma works with Jaya Saha, with whom RheaChakraborty had chatted about CBD oil, as a manager in Kwantalent management agency. During the questioning, the NCB hadreportedly quizzed Jaya if she had any knowledge aboutKarishma procuring drugs for Deepika Padukone.

The NCB had retrieved Deepika's WhatsApp chats withKarishma in which the two were seen discussing drugs. Earlier,Jaya's chats with Rhea Chakraborty about CBD oil were alsoretrieved by NCB. The NCB investigations have thrown up awhatsApp chat of 2017 between D (Deepika Padukone) and K(Karishma). In the chat, Deepika reportedly asks Karishna: "youhave Maal?, Karishma responds saying: "Yes, but at home. I amat Bandra. Later Krishma tells Deepika that one Amit is bring-ing it to a high-end restaurant "koko" at Lower Parel. Deepikaseeks to confirm if it is hash not weed.

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The first anniversary of Fit India Movement saw Modiaddressing Soman as ‘Made in India Milind’ after the 90’s songthat shot the actor to fame. Modi acknowledged how the 54-year-old star had contributed to the fitness movement in his own vocalway by even penning a book titled after the famous track.

On a lighter note, the Prime Minister pointed out about hownetizens keep discussing his age and asked, “Whatever you sayyour age is - are you really that old or is it something else?”

A laughing Milind answered, “A lot of people ask me the samequestion about my age. They also ask me how am I able to runsuch long distances (like from Delhi to Mumbai in 2012) in thisage. I tell them - my mother at 81 - is capable of doing all this.

She is a huge source of inspiration for me and for many others.”He further said, “If you go the villages, women travel kilo-

metres to fill water and for other activities. The problem in citieswith the widespread of technology is that we sit a lot at a placefor work and other things. This makes them lazy.”

He detailed on his women-only fitness programme,Pinkathon, where women aged even 60 above, begin with a reg-ular run of 3 kms before moving on to regular exercises and end-ing up running 100 kms.

Interacting with Indian captain Kohli, the Prime Ministerquipped “your name is Virat and kam bhi aisa hi hai” and thenasked him as how he keeps himself fit.

Kohli while interacting with the Prime Minister talked aboutthe importance of fitness in daily lives. The cricketer, who is cur-rently in the United Arab Emirates with the Royal ChallengersBangalore, gave insights on his own experience with the transi-tion to importance of fitness over the years in cricket.

In the digital interaction Kohli said he experienced the needfor fitness levels to be better in his initial playing days.

“I experienced a transition. In the era when I started play-ing cricket, the demands of the game were changing very quick-ly. Our fitness routines weren’t fit for the demands of the gameand we needed to change. We were short from fitness point ofview, the skills were not an issue,” Kohli told the Prime Minister.

“I experienced a self-realisation on fitness, that it should bea priority. I realised that I needed to improve on my fitness. Now,the priority on fitness is such that I won’t mind losing trainingsessions but I feel bad when I lose fitness session,” he said.

Modi pointed out that Virat, who hails from Delhi, must bemissing the delicious foods of the city, naming “chhole bhatoore”in particular, to which Virat chuckled and said that he had tosacrifice the food to maintain his fitness levels.

“I miss the chhole bhatoore in Delhi so much! But I neverexperienced health issues with our native diet. My grandmoth-er is so healthy and she always used to eat homemade food. I,on the other hand, had city food because we travel everywhere.We used to eat out and some food items were unhealthy. So thatmade me realise that fitness is important,” said Kohli.

“If we don’t improve our fitness, we would be far behind interms of our game too. Our brain and body fitness works togeth-er,” he said. The Indian cricket captain further pointed out thatin daily lives, it is important to keep fitness priority, instead ofweight loss.

“Important to give time in between food intake. We eat heavyfood in our daily lives, and in between, we continue to have otherfood intakes. We don’t allow our system to process the food. Thereis no activity in between food intake. These small things areimportant, you need to give time for body to process food,” saidKohli. “It is important to keep priority - if you’re doing it forweight loss or fitness,” he said.

Kohli said despite the significant improvement in fitness lev-els among the Indian team members, the side still lags behindthe other international sides on the same. He pointed it out inreply to Modi’s question on the need of Yo Yo Tests in Indiancricket setup. “It (Yo Yo Test) was very important. Our level infitness in comparison to other teams is still low. Yo Yo Tests werea basic requirement,” said Kohli.

“The T20Is and ODIs last only one day but the Test matchis of five days, so the fitness standard from that point of view isimportant. Even I won’t be available for selection if I fail the test.It is important to set the fitness culture. It improves overall cul-ture of the side,” he said.

3����� ����������"�����!�� ������ ������� ���������������Kathmandu (PTI): A key trad-ing route between Nepal andTibet in China has beenreopened for movement ofgoods, over eight months afterit was closed following theoutbreak of the coronaviruspandemic.

The Rasuwagadhi-Kerungtransit point was opened onWednesday after the Chineseauthorities agreed to condi-tionally reopen the borderpoint for movement of goods.

The Chinese authoritieshave allowed the movement ofa limited number of cargovehicles abiding specific rules,according to the Ministry ofIndustry, Commerce andSupplies.

Some cargo trucks carryingChinese products enteredNepal on Wednesday andThursday. Both Nepal-Chinaborder points of Rasuwagadhi-

Kerung and Tatopani-Khasaremained closed since lateJanuary to prevent the spreadof the coronavirus which wasfirst detected in China’s Wuhancity in Hubei Province in late2019. Over the period, thesetrade points were opened onlyfor a few days allowing themovement of a limited numberof cargo trucks carrying med-ical kits in particular.

The representatives of boththe governments will hold avirtual dialogue on Friday toease vehicular movementsthrough the land route betweenthe two countries, the ministrysources said.

During the talks, the mat-ter relating to resumption ofvehicular movement throughthe Tatopani-Khasa borderpoint, situated 120 km east ofKathmandu, is also expected tofeature.

UK preparing HRcurbs against BelarusLondon (AP): Britain is prepar-ing sanctions on individualsallegedly involved in humanrights violations in Belarus, work-ing with the United States andCanada to hold PresidentAlexander Lukashenko and hisgovernment to account.

Foreign Secretary DominicRaab told the House ofCommons in London onThursday that in light of theEuropean Union’s delay inpreparing its own sanctions, theUK would join other allies toadopt targeted sanctions againstthose responsible for humanrights abuses. We will apply all thetools at our disposal to holdLukashenko and his regime toaccount, he said.

Thousands of Belarus citi-

zens have taken part in nearlyseven weeks of rallies against theauthoritarian leader’s reelection,which the opposition says wasrigged. We are willing to join theEU in adopting targeted sanc-tions against those responsible forthe violence, the repression andthe vote-rigging, although the EUprocess has now been delayed inBrussels, Raab said. Given thatdelay ... we're co-ordinating withthe United States and Canada toprepare appropriate listings as amatter of urgency. The EU saidthat the swearing in ofLukashenko on Wednesday to asixth term lacks democraticlegitimacy, defies the will of theBelarusian people and will onlydeepen the country’s politicalcrisis.

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First things first, thisnew 1330cc tur-

bocharged petrol engine onthe Nissan Kicks and onthe Renault Duster is ablast. It is by far and awaythe most powerful smallengine available in Indiaright now. Its 156PS ofpower is 10 per cent greaterthan the 1.4 GDi turbo onthe Creta and Seltos. Whenyou press the throttlepedal, you realise that it isnot just a number, theKicks can move. With thiscar, you genuinely need tobe constantly wary of thehundreds of speed camerasthat the Delhi Traffic Policehave been installing acrossthe city since once you getthe hang of the powerband, you just ride theturbo. It is addictive — thepower on this car. TheContinuously VariableTransmission (CVT) is notbad either. It does ensurethat you stay within a prop-er engine range for fun ifthat is what you want andis conservative at lowerurban speeds as well.

However, then youshow this car a corner. Oflate, I have become quiteaccustomed to even mass-produced small hatchbackshaving good handling athigher speeds. Some smallcars have even surprisedme with handling that youwould have thought is farabove their price band, theHyundai Grand i10 comesto mind here. The Kicks,on the other hand, feel old.That is because it is old,based on the first-genera-

tion Duster platform. Infact, the Duster and Kickshave been upgraded withthis engine and transmis-sion at the same time.Initially, I thought this cardid not have traction con-trol as there was no ‘off ’switch for that feature. Butlater, I discovered that itdid have a permanentlyenabled TCS. Maybe theTCS needs a bit of fine tun-ing but it is a good thingthat owners cannot switchit off at the push of a but-ton. It’s because the Kickswill teach you understeer ifyou hit a corner a bitaggressively. But at speedsthat the Korean twins andeven the S-Cross can man-

age fairly nonchalantly.However, in a straight line,the Kicks Turbo is fabu-lously fun.

The other issue I havewith this car, in addition tothe silly card-like keys thatNissan and Renault keepusing, are the quality of theinteriors and the plastics.The seats with their quilt-ed leather are very com-fortable but the instru-ment cluster keels ratherlike a low-end display,given the display on com-petition cars. The Kicks’remarkably tiny pedal areastill feels small even withone pedal removed.

The plastics also feel abit low-end and you feel

that on the bare plasticsteering wheel in particu-lar and with the blankedout area for steering con-trols. You can get betterinteriors for the price, eventhough the mid-specKorean twins that theKicks goes up against (inprice) are not as fancy astheir top-spec versions.On the XV CVT that I wasdriving, Apple CarPlay andAndroid Auto came asstandard through thetouchscreen but I did findthe factory-fitted speakersa bit off the mark. Rear-seat comfort while cruisingis no better nor worsethan the competition butthe sharply raked rearmeans that storage spacemight feel a bit compro-mised.

That said, if you likedriving and most impor-tantly, you understandsome nuances of corneringand dealing with power,the Kicks is amazing albeitit might prove to be unfor-giving and can easily catchyou out. But 150+ horse-power at 13 lakh on-road,if you buy the manual, isstunning value for power!

I first drove the BMW X4around the Blue Ridge

mountains on the borderbetween North and SouthCarolina in the summer of2018. This is because most ofthe BMW manufactures’ ‘X’range of Sports Util ityVehicles is at a factory inSpartanburg, South Carolina.In fact, if Donald Trump hadimposed taxes on Europeanimports into the United Statesand Europe had responded,BMW would have been theworst affected carmakerbecause it would have sufferedfrom both ends.

Opposite the factory, thereis a BMW track where theytest their SUVs. There was onesweeping left-hander, which inthe US is on the other side ofthe steering wheel, and had anegative camber. That is theinside of the turn was higherthan the outside, quite unliketurns on most racetrackswhich are angled into theturn, described as positivecamber. In a positive camberturn, the most extreme exam-ples of which are oval race-tracks in the US, the bankingof the corner helps turn thecar into the corner with lesssteering input, thanks to cen-trifugal force. In a negativecamber corner, you are fight-ing that force that wants topull you down and those arechallenging for both the car aswell as the driver. But in atwo-ton SUV, it is even morechallenging because of thesheer weight of the car. Thefact that SUVs aren’t reallysporty.

Then you drive the X4through that turn and getshocked at just how well ithandles it, even after a coupleof laps having switched someof the driver aids off. It is a tes-tament to just how superlativehandling has become on someSUVs, that a corner like thatwhich might have led to arollover at higher speeds adecade ago, can be handled sodarn easily. One reason forthat is the couple like shape of

the X4, giving it a lower stancethan the X3 on which it isbased. On the twisty hill roadsin the Carolina’s, the X4 wasreally fun to drive. Well, theX4 30d, the top-end variantthat BMW India sells, is justhow I remember it around thecorners. Fast and steady.

But then you realise thatout here in India, it is quitedifficult to make a case for acar like this. The BMW X3might not have this amazingengine and definitely cannottake the corners as well, but itmakes much more practicalsense here. Firstly, the X4 is afar more driver-oriented carthan the X3, and unless you

are driving yourself all thetime, one can question theextra �5,00,000 you spend ona comparable 30i petrol-engine variant. I agree that the265hp 30d variant with thethree-litre turbocharged dieselis not available on the X3 butthat just highlights my pointthat the X4 is a driver’s car. Ifyou really want drivability, thefive-series sedan with thepetrol engine is �10,00,000less, although the M Sport530i with all the toys costs 61lakh, the sedan is better.

Yes, the X4 will stand outand the 30d has a lot of powerto get out of almost any situ-ation. But the X4 is targeted ata single person or a youngcouple because the X3 is a lotmore practical with its shapeable to hold a lot more luggageinside. I feel that the X4 30dis better value in terms of itsoverall package than theJaguar F-Pace or even thePorsche Macan, the latterbeing a bit pricier. TheMercedes-Benz GLC Coupe300d is its biggest rival. While,even in the case of the Merc,I’d buy the standard GLCbody shape, I think theBimmer wins on the han-dling front. The X4 is anexcellent vehicle but maybethis is because I’m gettingolder now, I just cannot seethe logic of it when the X3 isaround.

The illegal tiger trade is threateningthe survival of one of nature’s mostbeautiful beasts. Exposing the

shocking secrets of illegal tiger farms andthe power players who profit, formerRoyal Marine Commando Aldo Kaneuncovers key trafficking routes connect-ing Malaysia, China, Thailand, Laos andVietnam, covertly filming the traffickers,and meeting those trying to conservetigers. He calls the series, Tigers: Huntingthe Traffickers, a gripping, fearless and anaction-packed investigation into the sick-ening network of ruthless, organisedwildlife crime. It’s also a crusading film,with enough clout to ignite a campaignfor real change, before a majestic speciesis wiped out completely. Excerpts:

�What is the film about? We look at how the growth in illegal

tiger farms throughout Southeast Asia andChina is stimulating a demand for tigerproducts like tiger bone, wine and glue.Tiger trafficking is now big business andthis rise in demand is having a devastat-ing effect on the world’s wild tiger pop-ulation as a premium is now paid for itswild provenance. This film investigates themurky underworld of the illegal tigerfarms feeding this demand. It is about thecomplex issues that surround the tradeand tries to raise awareness of the imme-diate threat to these endangered animals.I, alongside a team of investigators, try toexpose and piece together the shockingsecrets of the illegal tiger farms and thosewho profit. Numbers of wild tigers inmuch of Southeast Asia are declining andwild tigers risk getting extinct if this ille-gal trade continues and is left unchecked.

�What attracted you to this project?Since I first joined the Royal Marines

at the age of 16, I have spent many yearstravelling the globe and a huge amountof time in the jungles of Southeast Asia.I still remember the exhilarating feelingof sharing the dense forests with the wildtiger — for me, the most majestic Apexpredator. Since then, I have been fascinat-ed by these beautiful creatures and acute-ly aware of their plight as an endangeredspecies.

A few years ago, I was talking withdirector Orlando Von Einsiedel fromGrain Media about such risky storieswhich needed to be told. And this onetopped the list. Telling a story of aspecies closer to extinction partly due toman’s desire to turn it into “luxury” prod-ucts would require intricate storytelling,investigative journalism and a healthydose of risk-taking. It felt like the perfectproject to me.

�You have spent the last few years work-ing with anti-poaching patrols. Whatmotivated you to expose tiger traffick-ing?

I have been working over the yearswith a charity that offers former service

personnel the opportunity to play a crit-ical role in conservation and the preven-tion of wildlife crime around the world.As highly military trained individuals, ourwork on the ground is very much focussedon training and mentoring anti-poachingunits to deal with illegal poaching. Thepoachers, who are risking their lives forvery little in return, are very often the oneswith the least options. The real issue is theorganised trafficking networks acrossSoutheast Asia and the increasing demandfor illegal products. Poaching happensbecause there is a demand for an illegalanimal product.

It soon became very clear to me thatall anti-poaching operations were beingcontinually undermined by this growingdemand, high-tech trafficking syndicatesand endemic governmental corruption.Where there is a demand, there will alwaysbe someone willing to risk their life to sup-ply. That is why I wanted to try and findout more about the networks, the organ-ised crime and the government complic-ity in this illegal and lucrative trade.

�What were the on-ground challenges?Carrying out this investigation was

fraught with challenges. The trade spans

nearly all across Southeast Asia — fromMalaysia right up through Thailand,Laos, Vietnam and further into China.Due to the nature of the trade in thesecountries, trafficking can also be linkedto other illegal activities such as drugsmuggling, illegal logging and human traf-ficking. So the level of risk and danger isquite high. But the biggest challenge andrisk was to the investigators we workedalongside because in some of these coun-tries they could risk their lives for expos-ing these illegal trade operations. For me,the biggest challenge was feeling quitehelpless at the industrial scale of the trade.

�You have put yourself in someextremely risky situations to make thisfilm. How has your former life as a RoyalMarines Commando Sniper equippedyou to deal with them?

My background turned out to be valu-able throughout the filming. I was able touse many of the skills I was taught in theMarines like collecting useful informationfor the investigation. Often, it was justmyself and my director Laura out on theground, gathering information. We hadto plan operations as if they were a mil-itary tasking, taking into account vehiclemoves, communications, actions andworst-case scenario planning. Flexibilityis the biggest asset to any live investiga-tion. Sometimes, we would be out on theground for 18 hours and then all of a sud-den, we had to follow a different lead intoa different country, the whole time beingaware that what we were doing wasincredibly risky and dangerous.

�Any memorable or shockingmoment...

One of the most memorable partsabout the filming was spending time with

the Counter Tiger Poaching units in theTaman Negara National Park, Malaysia.We spent weeks in the jungle trackingdown tiger poachers. They have dedicat-ed their lives to the protection of the fewwild tigers left in Malaysia. It’s frustrat-ing that their efforts are being complete-ly undermined by the industrial scalepoaching taking place in their own back-yard. The wild tigers are being traffickedNorth into Vietnam and China where apremium is fetched as the dead orbutchered ones are worth more than thosealive and wild. It was truly great to spendtime with these dedicated and loyalteams, learning how they operate andwhat their biggest challenges were. Thisgave me the background knowledge anddrive to find out more about the illegaltrade.

For me, the most shocking scenesrevealed how large some tiger facilitieswere. I also visited some places wherehundreds of tigers were locked up in cages.The tiger trade is hidden from sight,unlike the ivory or rhino trade where thebrutality is on show for the world to see.The world is largely unaware of the bru-tal way in which they are farmed and ulti-mately slaughtered for their bones.Breaking into these facilities to expose thecruelty these tigers are exposed to is a vitalpart of bringing the truth to the widerworld.

�Why should people watch the film andwhat do you hope they’ll take away fromit?

Anyone with an interest in conserva-tion should watch this film. It is an inves-tigation into the destruction and extinc-tion of an apex predator, an insight intohow the commodification of a farmedproduct can affect an entire wildlifespecies. It is an action-packed, thrillingshocker of an investigation that will takethe viewer to some unexpected places. Ihope that this film will make a small dif-ference and add to the weight of work thatinternational and local NGOs are doingin the field of tiger protection and con-servation.

(The series premieres on October 3 at9 pm on Sony BBC Earth.)

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It’s a well-known fact that rice has alwaysbeen a staple food in Asia but we usu-ally think or talk about white rice.

However, did you know about black rice, thesurprising health benefits that it consists?Well, it has properties such as anti-inflam-matory, anti-cancer, anti-diabetes andantioxidants. This superfood is also a richsource of nutrients and minerals like pro-tein, fiber, iron and copper. Unprecedentedtimes like these calls for boosting ourimmune system. The rich source of antiox-idants in black rice helps to build up theimmunity and improves the body’s abilityto fight diseases.

Black rice, also known as as forbiddenrice or purple rice, used to be a valuablecommodity in ancient China and this is whyevery grain of it was seized and consumedby the royalty only. Hence, the term forbid-den was coined. It mainly grows in theNortheast (called as Chak Hao) and theSouthern parts (called as Kavuni in Tamil)of India. In order to select the best variety,closely look at the colour of the rice — thedarker the shade, the more nutrition it has.Here are a few benefits and uses of it:

RICH IN ANTIOXIDANTSBlack rice is a grain, which is loaded

with antioxidants. The deep black colour isa mark of its antioxidant properties. Theanthocyanin content found in it is way morethan most of the grains and this is whatmakes it stand out in comparison to othersuperfoods such as quinoa and red rice.Despite being less popular than other rice

varieties, research shows that black rice hasthe highest overall antioxidant capacity andactivity. Antioxidants protect cells againstoxidative stress caused by free radicals.Adding black rice to your meal helps in moredisease protecting antioxidants. Studieshave shown that the anthocyanin antioxi-dants in grains helps the body to protect

against heart diseases, cancer and manymore. It is good for eye, immune health andskin as well.

LOADED WITH FIBERBlack rice is loaded with fiber and min-

erals. A typical bowl of 100 gm of black riceserving has over 4.9 grams of fiber. This is

double the amount available in brown rice.If you are looking for a fiber rich diet thenit is better to start consuming black rice.

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY PROPERTIESBlack rice is a natural healing food.

Research has shown that it helps in reduc-ing inflammatory compounds in your bodyand increase the anti-inflammatory com-pounds. This increase in the anti-inflamma-tory compounds further help in reducinginflammation in various diseases such ascancer, arthritis and allergies.

A NATURAL DETOXIFYING AGENT It is a rich and natural detoxifying agent.

Studies have shown that the phytonutrientsin black rice help detoxify your body andremove harmful toxins from your liver. Ithelps the liver to flush out waste materialwith its antioxidant property. So next timeyou throw a party, have a detox week by con-suming it.

A GLUTEN-FREE GRAINGluten is a group of seed storage pro-

teins found in cereal grains. Eating foodswith gluten causes an immune reaction thatdamages the lining of their small intestines.Since most nutrients are absorbed through

the small intestine, this can lead to nutrition-al deficiencies. And black rice is naturallygluten-free. If you are allergic to gluten andhave the Celiac (an autoimmune disorderthat’s triggered when you eat gluten) disease,then you should consider having black ricein your daily diet plan. The potential to causeintestinal damage is a major disadvantageof gluten. Gluten can also cause abdominaland bloating pain. Not everyone can digestit easily. Black rice provides all healthy nutri-ents including protein and fiber.

FIGHTS DIABETESThe black rice bran contains fiber, which

in turn helps glucose to be absorbed by yourbody over a longer period of time. Researchhas proven that eating whole grains likeblack rice helps your body lower the risk ofType 2 Diabetes and also keeps your weightin check in addition to boosting your ener-gy levels. It maintains consistent sugar level.So if you are a diabetic person, you mustsubstitute your regular rice with black oneas it’s way better and helps fight diabetes.

YOUR WEIGHT LOSS PARTNERSince it’s a whole grain and super-rich

in fiber, this combination helps your bodyreduce signals of hunger, thus, helping in

preventing overeating. In addition,researchers have found out that it helps pre-vent insulin resistance in your body, whichleads to and is related to the risk of becom-ing overweight or obese. So if you are some-one who is looking to reduce weight, startwith including black rice in your weight lossregime.

PROMOTES HEALTHY HEARTA healing food like black rice has been

shown to reduce the atherosclerotic plaqueformation in the arteries, which is the mainreason for a heart attack and stroke. In addi-tion to this, it also helps to reduce the twocommon factors in heart disease, namelyLDL, triacylglycerol and total cholesterol.Consider including forbidden rice to pro-mote a healthy heart and keep heart-relat-ed ailments at bay.

SUPPORTS EYE HEALTHIt includes zeaxanthin and lutein that

protect retina from damaging free radicals.Hence, black rice is an ideal food for achiev-ing a healthy body. They are a package ofnutrients with several health benefits.Switch to black rice to stay fit!

(The author is the co-founder of NaturallyYours.)

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Frank Lampard said KaiHavertz is just getting start-

ed after opening his Chelseaaccount with a hat-trick in a 6-0 thrashing of Barnsley, whileArsenal also booked their placein the League Cup fourth roundwith a 2-0 win at Leicester.

Havertz had struggled tomake an impact in hisfirst two Premier Leaguegames since sealing areported $94 millionmove from BayerLeverkusen as the mostexpensive signing ofChelsea’s £200 millionspending spree in the transfermarket.

But the 21-year-oldGerman was one of just threeplayers to retain his place fromSunday’s 2-0 defeat to Liverpooland Lampard’s decision reapedits reward as he scored his firstsenior hat-trick.

“I am delighted with Kai,it was everything I wantedfrom him,” said Lampard.

“He had no pre-seasonso I wanted to give himmore time on the pitch withhis teammates, learning howwe play and press. It was a greatnight for Kai and it is the first of

many for him.”Thiago Silva and Ben

Chilwell also made their Chelseadebuts, while Tammy Abrahamand Ross Barkley made themost of rare starts to get theirnames on the scoresheet.

Abraham pounced on loosepass deep in the Barnsley half toslam home the opener beforeHavertz’s calm finish opened his

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account.A brilliant unselfish flick

from Abraham teed Havertzup perfectly to convert his sec-ond after Barkley drove home onhis weaker left foot.

Havertz was due to bereplaced by Chilwell 25 minutesfrom time but just completed hishat-trick in time by roundingBrad Collins before tapping intoan empty net before OlivierGiroud completed the scoring.

“I am very happy to scorethree goals, but this is just mybeginning at the club and I wantto score more and more goals,”said Havertz.

Arsenal won the only all-Premier League tie of the nightas Christian Fuchs’s own goalbroke the deadlock at the King

Power.Eddie Nketiah added a

late second for the Gunners,who could face Liverpoolat Anfield twice in threedays next week shouldthe Premier Leaguechampions progress pastLincoln.

Everton continuedtheir fine start to the sea-son with a 5-2 win at

League One Fleetwooddespite two howlers fromEngland number one goal-

keeper Jordan Pickford. Also,Newcastle thrashed League TwoMorecombe 7-0.

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Former Australia batsmanDean Jones, one of the finest

exponents of ODI cricket, diedof a sudden cardiac arrest inMumbai on Thursday.

Jones, 59, was in Mumbaiwith the Star Sports’ commen-tary team for the Indian PremierLeague. He was in a bio-bubblein a city hotel. He is survived byhis wife and two daughters.

Jones played 52 Tests and164 ODIs for Australia and waspart of the 1987 World Cup win-ning team.

“It is with great sadnessthat we share the news of thepassing away of Mr DeanMervyn Jones AM. He died of asudden cardiac arrest,” StarSports said a press release.

“We express our deep con-dolences to his family and standready to support them in thisdifficult time. We are in touch

with the Australian HighCommission to make the neces-sary arrangements,” the releaseadded.

According to an IPL source,it happened in matter of sec-onds.

“Deano was standing in thehotel lobby and he suddenly col-lapsed. Brett Lee was standingby his side. Brett tried to revivehim by applying CPR (CardioPulmonary Resuscitation) buthe didn’t respond,” said thesource.

“He was then taken toHarkisan Das Hospital inGirgaon where he wasannounced dead on arrival.”

Jones’ family is inMelbourne and the AustralianHigh Commission is in touchwith them.

A player well ahead of histime, Jones scored over 6068ODI runs at an average of 44.61with seven hundred and 46fifties.

For Indian fans, he will for-

ever remain in their memory forthe historic tied Test in Chepauk,where he laid the foundation ofa big Australian score with anunbeaten double hundred inchallenging conditions.

There was an iconic pictureof Jones throwing up while bat-ting and so severely dehydratedhe was that he had to be admit-ted to a hospital during thecourse of the Test match.

In ODI cricket and thosenumerous World Series Cupmatches on Australia’s Channel9, Jones, clad in yellow jerseyand the lips lined with zinccream is still etched in memo-ries of the late 80s and early 90sgeneration.

In ODI cricket, he wouldoften charge down the trackagainst fast bowlers and hittingthem over in-field. He played amatch winning knock againstIndia in the 1992 World Cup inBrisbane, a thriller that India lostby one run.

In his post retirement life he

performed the role of a cricketanalyst for various channels,primarily in South Asia — Indiaand Pakistan, where he wasimmensely popular.

One of the Indian newschannel named him ProfessorDeano, a moniker that stuck withhim and was also his Twitterhandle.

He could polarise opinionand would often get trolled. Healso once courted controversyfor calling Hashim Amla “terror-ist” on air, a light-hearted com-ment but the racist undertoneforced the particular broadcast-er to take him off air.

His online banter with fellowcommentator and Trans Tasmanall-rounder Scott Styris wasenjoyed and lapped up by newgeneration of cricket followers.

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Skipper Mahendra SinghDhoni’s much-awaited pro-

motion in the batting order willbe an area of interest whenChennai Super Kings strive topick up pieces against a confidentDelhi Capitals in their third IPLencounter on Friday.

The shock defeatagainst Rajasthan Royalson a batting belter atSharjah could be primar-ily attributed to a poorshow by their spinnersalong with a disastrous 20thover but the batsmen can’tabsolve themselves completely,especially Murali Vijay, KedarJadhav and the skipper himself.

Dhoni had come in to bat atnumber seven, promoting thelikes of Sam Curran, Jadhav andRuturaj Gaikwad ahead of him-self but the ploy backfired badlyleaving Faf du Plessis with toomuch work in too little time.

While his fans still swear byhis six-hitting ability, a closer lookwould show that Dhoni is unableto change the gears againstexpress pace and it was onlywhen Tom Curran came with hismedium fast, Dhoni launched anattack. That too when the matchas a contest was over.

However on a big Dubaiground with bigger-sized bound-aries, the skipper can rotate thestrike better unlike Sharjah andalso take those extra deliveries tosettle down.

For Delhi Capitals, winninga cliffhanger right at the onsetwould have given them a lot ofconfidence even thoughRavichandran Ashwin’s probableabsence after a shoulder injurycould force them to reshuffletheir bowling line-up.

Senior spinner AmitMishra could be an optionto partner Axar Patel incase Ashwin is unable to

make it.The cushion of bigger

boundaries can always help awrist spinner attack more by toss-ing the ball up.

Another aspect will be pacerMohit Sharma’s performance.While Mohit got KL Rahul at thebeginning but his loose deliver-

ies at the back-endmade things diffi-cult for the Capitalseven as KagisoRabada bowledtightly at one end.

Against a sidelike CSK which revels in attack-ing the last 10 overs, the Capitalsmight like to try Harshal Patel,who is also a handy batsman atany number having opened indomestic cricket.

This is if Ishant Sharma,who is still nursing an ankleinjury is available.

Anrich Nortje in his first IPLgame wasn’t bad but left-armerDaniel Sams could create thoseawkward angles that batsmen dis-like.

Shimron Hetmyer is likely toget one more chance unlessRicky Ponting wants to bring in

some stability in theform of Alex Carey.

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London: Chelsea on Thursdayannounced the signing of goal-keeper Edouard Mendy fromRennes on a five-year deal fora reported fee of 22 millionpounds.

The Senegalese interna-tional will compete with KepaArrizabalaga and WillyCaballero for a starting spot atStamford Bridge.

“I am so excited to bejoining Chelsea,” said Mendy.“It’s a dream for me to be a partof this exciting squad and towork with Frank Lampard andall of his coaching staff.

“I look forward to meetingmy team-mates and can’t waitto get started.” AFP

Barcelona: Atletico Madridannounced the signing ofBarcelona forward Luis Suarezon Wednesday, confirming theUruguayan striker is set to con-tinue playing in La Liga ratherthan joining Juventus in Italy.

Barcelona said that Atleticohad agreed to pay six millioneuros for Suarez, who left his lasttraining session in tears onWednesday having been toldover the summer that he was nolonger required by new coachRonald Koeman.

Since joining Barca from

Liverpool in 2014, Suarez haswon a host of trophies, includ-ing the 2015 Champions Leagueand four Liga titles.

He leaves as the club’s thirdhighest scorer with 198 goalsbehind Cesar Rodriguez (232)and Lionel Messi (634).

The move to Barcelona’s LaLiga rivals follows a failedattempt to join Juventus.

Juve coach Andrea Pirlodisclosed last week a deal wasunlikely because of delays in theUruguayan’s bid to get an Italianpassport. AFP

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Skipper Virat Kohli explainedhow the Yo-Yo test helped

Indian cricketers aim for high-level fitness when PrimeMinister Narendra Modi askedhim about the mandatory run-ning aerobic fitness routine.

Prime Minister Modi wasinteracting with fitness expertsand influencers from acrossthe country to mark the one-year anniversary of the Fit IndiaMovement.

Modi was keen to knowwhat is Yo-Yo test and asked ifthe captain also has to pass it orhe gets spared?

“I heard these days there isa Yo-Yo test for the team, whatis this test,” asked Modi duringthe virtual interaction.

Kohli, smiling, replied,“This Test was very importantfrom fitness point of view. If wetalk about global fitness level,

our fitness level is still lowcompared to other teams andwe want to take it up, which isa basic requirement.”

The gruelling routine hastwo sets of cones that are 20metres apart. Once the beep issounded, the athlete has toreach the marker on the otherside by the time the next beepsounds, turn and get back towhere he started before thethird beep.

The frequency of the beepsgradually increases for the sub-sequent runs.

Kohli, who is currently inthe UAE for the IPL, said evenhe has to clear the test to getselected for the India team.

“I’m the one who goes torun first and this is the condi-tion that if I fail that I am alsonot available for selection. It isimportant to set that culture andit will lead to improvement inoverall fitness levels.”

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Skipper KL Rahul’s sublime hun-dred was the highlight of an all-

round performance as Kings XIPunjab defeated Royal ChallengersBangalore by a whopping 97-runmargin here on Thursday.

Opening the innings, Rahulpunished the RCB bowlers intosubmission to help KXIP to adaunting 206 for three before thebowling attack put up a disciplinedeffort to bundle Virat Kohli’s sidefor 109 with three overs to spare.

The KXIP skipper, who wasdropped twice by Kohli late in theinnings, scored an unbeaten 132off 69 balls that was laced with 14boundaries and seven sixes.

With his spectacular knock,

Rahul surpassed Rishabh Pant(128 in 2018) to post the highestindividual score by an Indian anda captain in IPL history.

It was a rather ordinary per-formance from RCB after the winagainst Sunrisers Hyderabad intheir tournament opener. ForKXIP, the win came after a superover loss against Delhi Capitals.

RCB were in all sorts fortrouble from the beginning of therun chase with Devdutt Padikkal(1) and Josh Philippe (0) return-ing back to the dug out in the firsttwo overs. After dropping twocatches, Kohli, undoubtedly one ofthe best when it comes to run-chasing, failed with the bat man-aging just a run off five balls beforehe was caught off a Sheldon

Cottrell delivery. Opener AaronFinch (20) was then joined in themiddle by AB de Villiers (28). Theduo looked dangerous, milkingdeliveries wherever possible. Thetwo added 49-runs before theyoung Ravi Bishnoi broke thestand by getting rid of theAustralian limited overs captain.

Bishnoi (3/32) and MuruganAshwin (3/21) dismissed Finchand de Villiers in quick successionwith RCB reeling at 57 for five.Washington Sundar was the topscorer for RCB, hitting 30 off 27deliveries.

Ashwin was the pick of thebowlers for KXIP, he picked threewickets giving away 21 runs.Bishnoi too claimed three wicketsand was impressive once again.Cottrell (2/17), Mohammad Shami(1/14) and Glenn Maxwell (1/10)too bowled economical spells.

Earlier, Rahul also became thefastest Indian to reach 2000 IPLruns, reaching the milestone in his60th innings. The stylish batsmanclipped away a full length deliveryto fine leg for four to break SachinTendulkar’s record, who reachedthe milestone in 63 matches.

Opening the batting withRahul, Mayank Agarwal (26)looked dangerous and shared a 57-run stand with his captain.However, with the introduction ofspin into the attack in the seventhover, Yuzvendra Chahal (1/25)struck with the last ball, cleaningup Agarwal (26) with a delightfulgoogly. The pace troika of UmeshYadav (0/35), Dale Steyn (0/57)and Navdeep Saini (0/37) had atorrid time as the KXIP skipperwas on fire in his second game ascaptain.

All players wore black arm-bands to honour Australian crick-eter turned commentator DeanJones, who died in Mumbai due toa cardiac arrest on Thursday.

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