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H onouring the pact to defuse tension, India and China have carried out pull back of their troops from the stand-off sites at the Pangong Tso (lake) in Eastern Ladakh. The military commanders of the two Armies will meet on Saturday to focus on the other friction points, including Hot Springs, Gogra and the Depsang valley. The upcoming meeting of the Corps Commanders is part of the agreement that stipulates that the two officials will meet 48 hours after the complete withdrawal of troops from the southern and northern banks of the Pangong lake. This will be the tenth round of such meeting since the face-offs between the two Armies at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) started over ten months ago. The upcoming round will start at 10 am at the Moldo bor- der meeting point on the Chinese side in the Chushul sector, sources said here on Friday. Confirming that the two sides abided by the agreement to completely withdraw their troops and tanks from the Pangong lake, officials said the process, which began on February 10, was over on Thursday. It is the first step in the long process to restore peace at the LAC in Ladakh, they said, adding local com- manders of the two armies ver- ified the withdrawal. Also, the Chinese pullback was constantly monitored via drones and satellite imagery by India round-the-clock, official said. The disengagement will also be reviewed by the Corps Commanders on Saturday. As regards the agenda for the upcoming talks, officials said India is likely to press for faster disengagement of troops from both the sides at the remaining stand-off sites. At present, more than one lakh troops besides tanks and heavy guns are deployed in forward areas at the LAC in Ladakh since the stand-offs began in May last year. On February 11, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh told Parliament about an agree- ment between India and China on disengagement in the north and south banks of Pangong lake. The agreement mandated both sides to “cease” forward deployment of troops in a “phased, coordinated and ver- ifiable” manner. Under the agreement, he said, China will pull back its troops to east of “Finger 8” areas in the northern bank of Pangong lake while the Indian troops will be based at their permanent base at Dhan Singh Thapa Post near “Finger 3” in the region. Similar action would take place on the south bank of the lake, he said. Sources on Friday confirmed that troops from both the sides had gone back to their respective positions agreed upon by India and China. The Indian delegation at Saturday’s talks will be led by Lt Gen PGK Menon, the Commander of the Leh-based 14 Corps while the Chinese side is expected to be headed by Maj Gen Liu Lin, the com- mander of the South Xinjiang military district of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). In his statement in Parliament, the Defence Minister also said it was agreed to convene the next meeting of senior commanders of both sides within 48 hours of com- pletion of the disengagement in the Pangong lake areas so as to resolve all other remaining issues. He also said talks were on at the diplomatic and military levels to bring down tempera- ture. Rajnath, however, reiter- ated that India did not concede anything during the talks and subsequent agreement. The Chinese military built several bunkers and other structures in the areas between Finger 4 and 8 and had blocked all Indian patrols beyond Finger 4, triggering strong reaction from the Indian Army. In the nine rounds of mil- itary talks, India had specifi- cally insisted on withdrawal of Chinese troops from Finger 4 to Finger 8 on the north bank of Pangong Lake. The moun- tain spurs in the area are referred to as Fingers. The Chinese insisted dur- ing the talks that the Indian troops should pull back from some strategic hilltops on the southern ban of the lake. In August last year, Indian troops occupied a number of strategic heights in the Mukhpari, Rechin La and Magar hill areas around the southern bank after the Chinese PLA attempted to intimidate them in the area. F or the first time, China has officially admitted that its soldiers were killed in the bloody brawl with the Indian troops on June 15 last year in the Galwan valley in Ladakh. The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) put the number of its casualties to four. The fierce hand-to-hand fight, in which the Chinese used iron rods and sticks stud- ded with nails, claimed lives of 20 Indian Army personnel, including the commanding officer. Acknowledging the casu- alties on its side, China on Friday said four officers and soldiers stationed in the Karakoram Mountains have been recognised by the Central Military Commission of China (CMC) for their sacrifice in the border confrontation with India. This admission was published in the PLA Daily, the official newspaper of the Chinese military. Incidentally, the Chinese admission comes at a time when Armies of the two coun- tries are disengaging from the friction points in Ladakh. As regards the casualties, the CMC, the overall high command of the PLA headed by President Xi Jinping, has awarded Qi Fabao, the regi- mental commander from the PLA Xinjiang Military Command, the title of “Hero regimental commander for defending the border,” Chen Hongjun with “Hero to defend the border,” and awarded first- class merit to Chen Xiangrong, Xiao Siyuan and Wang Zhuoran, state-run Global Times quoted the PLA Daily report as saying. According to the report, three PLA soldiers were killed in the combat while another soldier died while crossing the river when he went to sup- port the others. Qi Fabao, the regimental commander of the Chinese military, sustained a serious head injury, it said. The PLA Daily report claimed the Indian soldiers attacked the Chinese military personnel with steel tubes and cudgels and threw stones. This is the first time China has acknowledged casualties and details of these officers and soldiers’ sacrifice, four of whom died when dealing with the Indian military’s “illegal trespassing” of the Galwan Valley Line of Actual Control (LAC), the report said. While India has announced the casualties immediately after the inci- dent, China did not officially acknowledge the casualties until Friday. The Russian official news agency TASS reported on February 10 that 45 Chinese servicemen were killed in the Galwan Valley clash. According to an American intelligence report last year, the number of casualties on the Chinese side was 35. “It is noticeable that the PLA Daily report used ‘foreign military’ to refer to the Indian military, a move that showed China’s kindness of not incit- ing sentiments of the people against the background of the current disengagement of troops from China and India along the border areas,” the Global Times report said. T he fortified central Kashmir districts of Budgam and Srinagar on Friday witnessed two back to back terror strikes in which three Jammu & Kashmir policemen attained martyrdom while another received injuries. Three local terrorists belonging to Al-Badr terrorist outfit were also gunned down by the joint team of the secu- rity forces soon after they res- cued the family members from inside the house in which these three terrorists were hiding in Badigam area of South Kashmir’s Shopian district. These three incidents of terrorist violence came close on the heels of the visit of foreign diplomats from 24 countries to the Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir. The most daring strike of the day was reported from Baghat Barzulla area at the out- skirts of Srinagar where a pher- an-clad terrorist fired indis- criminately upon policemen with an automatic weapon concealed inside his Pheran. The attack took place steps away from the local police sta- tion in the busy market area. The gory images of the terror attack, recorded in the CCTV footage, went viral immediate- ly. The unarmed policemen were targeted from behind while they were seen standing in front of a local shop. In this terror incident, two policemen namely SgCT Mohammad Yousuf of Zurhama Kupwara and Ct Suhail Ahmad of Logripora Aishmuqam received critical gunshot injuries. They were shifted to hospital for treatment where they succumbed to their injuries and attained martyr- dom. Suhail Ahmad, residence of Logripora Aishmuqam, was an orphan. He left behind his widow mother, wife and two small kids. A Special Police office (SPO) martyred in the Beerwah area of Budgam has been identified as Mohammad Altaf while SgCt Manzoor Ahmad received injuries and is undergoing treatment in a local hospital. Lt-Governor Manoj Sinha paid tributes to the J&K policemen who attained mar- tyrdom in the terrorist attack. He said such cowardly attacks are being carried out to vitiate the peaceful atmosphere & assured that the perpetrators will be brought to justice. Briefing media persons after attending the wreath lay- ing ceremony at DPL, Srinagar for the second time during the day, Inspector General of Police (IGP) Kashmir range Vijay Kumar said that two Lashkar- e-Toiba terrorists, including a local resident, carried out the attack in which two policemen were killed in Baghat area of Barzulla in Srinagar on Friday and that both attackers have been identified. The IGP said that two Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT) ter- rorists including a foreign ter- rorist and a local who has been identified as Saqib, carried out the Baghat attack. The two policemen were on routine duty and were at a shop to buy something. They were fired from the back. Continued on Page 11 I ndia captain Virat Kohli has revealed that he battled depression during a harrowing tour of England in 2014 where he felt like the “loneliest guy in the world” after a string of fail- ures with the bat. In a conversation with for- mer England player Mark Nicholas on his “Not Just Cricket” podcast, Kohli con- ceded that went through a tough phase during the partic- ularly difficult tour. “Yes, I did,” was his response when asked whether he had suffered from depres- sion at the time. “...It’s not a great feeling to wake up knowing that you won’t be able to score runs and I think all batsmen have felt that at some stage that you are not in control of anything at all,” he recalled. Kohli had a disastrous tour of England in 2014, registering scores of 1, 8, 25, 0, 39, 28, 0,7, 6 and 20 in five Tests, averag- ing 13.50 in his 10 innings. He roared back to form in the tour of Australia after that, accu- mulating 692 runs in the Test series. “You just don’t understand how to get over it. That was a phase when I literally couldn’t do anything to overturn things...I felt like I was the loneliest guy in the world,” he said of the England tour. Kohli remembered feeling alone despite the fact that there were supportive people in his life. He said professional help was what he needed. “Personally, for me that was a revelation that you could feel that lonely even though you a part of a big group. I won’t say I didn’t have people who I could speak to but not having a professional to speak to who could understand what I am going through completely, I think is a huge factor. “I think I would like to see it change.” The India captain, consid- ered one of the best batsmen in modern cricket, believes men- tal health issues cannot be overlooked as they can destroy a person’s career. “Someone whom you can go to at any stage, have a con- versation around and say ‘Listen this is what I am feeling, I am finding it hard to even go to sleep, I feel like I don’t want to wake up in the morning. I have no confidence in myself, what do I do?’ “Lot of people suffer with that feeling for longer periods of time, it carries on for months, it carries on for a whole cricket season, people are not able to get out of it,” Kohli said. “I strongly feel the need for professional help there to be very honest,” he added. Kohli is currently in Ahemdabad for ongoing home Test series against England. The two teams have won a game each and will compete in the third Test from February 24. Fondly remembering his growing up days, Kohli said the Indian team of ‘90s had really inspired him to take up the sport. “The Indian team of the ‘90s really opened up my imag- ination about what could be done with the sport because it is so different from anything else I had seen before. It just instilled a lot of faith and belief in me that magical things can be done if an individual believes or decides,” he said. “That’s where the spark started...The dream of wanting to play for the country really started.” Continued on Page 11 T he Madras High court on Friday issued a notice to the Centre and five other respon- dents, including India’s drug regulatory body, ICMR, Serum institute of India, AstraZeneca and Sri Ramachandra Higher education and Research, Chennai, asking their response on a writ petition it accepted, filed by a Covishield’s trial volunteer, who claimed to suf- fer from severe adverse reaction after receiving the vaccine. The court has listed it for next hearing on March 26. The 41-year-old petition- er, Asif Riaz, has demanded an interim injunction on the administration of Covishield to the public and a compensation of 5 crore for the damages he incurred after undergoing the vaccine trial. The grievances Riaz mentioned in the petition stated that he suffered from acute neuro encephalopathy days after taking the vaccine shot and his health deteriorat- ed, but the manufacturer dismissed it as a side-effect of the vaccine. Continued on Page 11 U ttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday said in the state assembly that the opposition parties were using the farmers’ agitation for their narrow polit- ical ends and maligning the image of India at the global level. The chief minister said the opposition was not concerned about the interests of the farm- ers but of the ‘dalals’ (middle- man) in agriculture markets who faced the threat of extinc- tion after the new agriculture marketing law gave freedom to the farmers to sell their agri- culture produce anywhere and to anybody. “The new agriculture law gives freedom to the farmers to sell their produce other than mandi and this is hurting the middlemen and their political masters. It is not the farmers but the middlemen who are fuelling the agitation as they are rattled that the money will be directly credited in the savings account of the farmers,” the chief minister said. “On Republic Day, our Constitution, national flag and Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar were insulted. Who are those people in the cover of farmers agita- tion who are out to malign India at global arena while India has earned a new stature in the world by developing two coronavirus vaccines and is supplying millions of doses of the vaccine free to many coun- tries,” said Yogi Adityanath in the UP assembly. The chief minister reject- ed the charge of the opposition that farmers in UP were being penalised by the police for taking part in protest on the Delhi border. He was respond- ing to the adjournment notice given by the opposition for raising the issue of farmers’ agi- tation. The chief minister defend- ed the three farm laws. “There is no restriction on anybody in exercising their democratic rights. The gov- ernment is willing to talk on the basis of facts and argu- ments but the government will not tolerate attempts to fiddle with law and order and create anarchy. The government is accountable for the 24 crore people of Uttar Pradesh and their safety and security,” the chief minister said. Without naming any polit- ical party, Yogi Adityanath said, “It is no longer a secret as to who is behind the attempts to malign the image of India. This is happening at a time when the country is seen as a most sought after investment destination.” He added, “Shedding croc- odile tears would not serve the interests of the farmers.” “The opposition has noth- ing to do with the interests of the farmers. They should do some homework before raising the issue in the House. The three laws are part of the series of measures taken by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the overall welfare and dou- bling of the income of the farmers,” he said. The chief minister said the Central government had shown its sincere commitment in addressing the concerns of the farmers over the three Continued on Page 11 Unnao (PTI): The Uttar Pradesh Police on Friday held two people in connection with the deaths of two teenage girls at an Unnao village, accusing them of murder over a one- sided love affair. The third victim in the case is battling for life at a hospital. One of the accused held in the case is a teenager, accord- ing to police. “Vinay Kumar, alias Lambu, and a teenager have been held in connection with the case. The matter is a fallout of a one-side love affair. The accused gave some pesticide with water to the three girls,” Lucknow Range IG Laxmi Singh told reporters here. Both accused are residents of Pathakpur village in the Ashoha area and were held on a tip-off, the IG said. During interrogation, Vinay told police that he was involved in agriculture and owned a piece of land at Baburaha village, near the spot where girls were found on Wednesday night. According to police, Vinay told them that the girls used to go to the fields for fodder and they became friends during the coronavirus lockdown. He had a one-sided love affair with one of the girls. We used to play and eat together in the field. I had a one-sided love affair with her. When I proposed her, she rejected. When I asked her this month to give me her phone number, she did not give due to which I was angry and decided to kill her,” Vinay told police. “On Wednesday, I mixed pesticide in a water bottle and asked my friend to bring snacks. The three had it and when they asked for water, I gave them the water bottle in which pesticide was mixed and they drank it. I had left their bodies in the field,” the IG said quoting Vinay’s confession. Apart from Section 302 (murder) of the IPC, police have slapped Section 201 against the accused for causing disappearance of evidence. Earlier in the day, the last rites of the two teenage girls were performed amid tight security arrangements, offi- cials said. Komal (15) and Kajal (14) were buried in their Continued on Page 11

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Honouring the pact todefuse tension, India and

China have carried out pullback of their troops from thestand-off sites at the PangongTso (lake) in Eastern Ladakh.The military commanders ofthe two Armies will meet onSaturday to focus on the otherfriction points, including HotSprings, Gogra and theDepsang valley.

The upcoming meeting ofthe Corps Commanders is partof the agreement that stipulatesthat the two officials will meet48 hours after the completewithdrawal of troops from thesouthern and northern banksof the Pangong lake. This willbe the tenth round of suchmeeting since the face-offsbetween the two Armies at theLine of Actual Control (LAC)started over ten months ago.

The upcoming round willstart at 10 am at the Moldo bor-der meeting point on theChinese side in the Chushulsector, sources said here onFriday.

Confirming that the twosides abided by the agreementto completely withdraw theirtroops and tanks from thePangong lake, officials said theprocess, which began onFebruary 10, was over onThursday. It is the first step inthe long process to restorepeace at the LAC in Ladakh,

they said, adding local com-manders of the two armies ver-ified the withdrawal.

Also, the Chinese pullbackwas constantly monitored viadrones and satellite imagery byIndia round-the-clock, officialsaid. The disengagement willalso be reviewed by the CorpsCommanders on Saturday.

As regards the agenda forthe upcoming talks, officialssaid India is likely to press forfaster disengagement of troopsfrom both the sides at theremaining stand-off sites. Atpresent, more than one lakhtroops besides tanks and heavyguns are deployed in forwardareas at the LAC in Ladakhsince the stand-offs began in

May last year.On February 11, Defence

Minister Rajnath Singh toldParliament about an agree-ment between India and Chinaon disengagement in the northand south banks of Pangonglake.

The agreement mandatedboth sides to “cease” forwarddeployment of troops in a“phased, coordinated and ver-ifiable” manner.

Under the agreement, hesaid, China will pull back itstroops to east of “Finger 8”areas in the northern bank ofPangong lake while the Indiantroops will be based at theirpermanent base at Dhan SinghThapa Post near “Finger 3” in

the region. Similar action would take

place on the south bank of thelake, he said. Sources on Fridayconfirmed that troops fromboth the sides had gone back totheir respective positionsagreed upon by India andChina.

The Indian delegation atSaturday’s talks will be led byLt Gen PGK Menon, theCommander of the Leh-based14 Corps while the Chineseside is expected to be headed byMaj Gen Liu Lin, the com-mander of the South Xinjiangmilitary district of the People’sLiberation Army (PLA).

In his statement inParliament, the Defence

Minister also said it was agreedto convene the next meeting ofsenior commanders of bothsides within 48 hours of com-pletion of the disengagement inthe Pangong lake areas so as toresolve all other remainingissues.

He also said talks were onat the diplomatic and militarylevels to bring down tempera-ture. Rajnath, however, reiter-ated that India did not concedeanything during the talks andsubsequent agreement.

The Chinese military builtseveral bunkers and otherstructures in the areas betweenFinger 4 and 8 and had blockedall Indian patrols beyondFinger 4, triggering strongreaction from the Indian Army.

In the nine rounds of mil-itary talks, India had specifi-cally insisted on withdrawal ofChinese troops from Finger 4to Finger 8 on the north bankof Pangong Lake. The moun-tain spurs in the area arereferred to as Fingers.

The Chinese insisted dur-ing the talks that the Indiantroops should pull back fromsome strategic hilltops on thesouthern ban of the lake.

In August last year, Indiantroops occupied a number ofstrategic heights in theMukhpari, Rechin La andMagar hill areas around thesouthern bank after theChinese PLA attempted tointimidate them in the area.

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For the first time, China hasofficially admitted that its

soldiers were killed in thebloody brawl with the Indiantroops on June 15 last year inthe Galwan valley in Ladakh.The People’s Liberation Army(PLA) put the number of itscasualties to four.

The fierce hand-to-handfight, in which the Chineseused iron rods and sticks stud-ded with nails, claimed lives of20 Indian Army personnel,including the commandingofficer.

Acknowledging the casu-alties on its side, China onFriday said four officers andsoldiers stationed in theKarakoram Mountains havebeen recognised by the CentralMilitary Commission of China(CMC) for their sacrifice in theborder confrontation withIndia. This admission waspublished in the PLA Daily, theofficial newspaper of theChinese military.

Incidentally, the Chineseadmission comes at a timewhen Armies of the two coun-

tries are disengaging from thefriction points in Ladakh.

As regards the casualties,the CMC, the overall highcommand of the PLA headedby President Xi Jinping, hasawarded Qi Fabao, the regi-mental commander from thePLA Xinjiang MilitaryCommand, the title of “Heroregimental commander fordefending the border,” ChenHongjun with “Hero to defendthe border,” and awarded first-class merit to Chen Xiangrong,Xiao Siyuan and WangZhuoran, state-run GlobalTimes quoted the PLA Dailyreport as saying.

According to the report,three PLA soldiers were killedin the combat while anothersoldier died while crossingthe river when he went to sup-port the others. Qi Fabao, theregimental commander of theChinese military, sustained aserious head injury, it said.

The PLA Daily reportclaimed the Indian soldiersattacked the Chinese militarypersonnel with steel tubes andcudgels and threw stones.

This is the first time China

has acknowledged casualtiesand details of these officers andsoldiers’ sacrifice, four ofwhom died when dealing withthe Indian military’s “illegaltrespassing” of the GalwanValley Line of Actual Control(LAC), the report said.

While India hasannounced the casualtiesimmediately after the inci-dent, China did not officiallyacknowledge the casualtiesuntil Friday.

The Russian official newsagency TASS reported onFebruary 10 that 45 Chineseservicemen were killed in theGalwan Valley clash.According to an Americanintelligence report last year, thenumber of casualties on theChinese side was 35.

“It is noticeable that thePLA Daily report used ‘foreignmilitary’ to refer to the Indianmilitary, a move that showedChina’s kindness of not incit-ing sentiments of the peopleagainst the background of thecurrent disengagement oftroops from China and Indiaalong the border areas,” theGlobal Times report said.

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The fortified central Kashmirdistricts of Budgam and

Srinagar on Friday witnessedtwo back to back terror strikesin which three Jammu &Kashmir policemen attainedmartyrdom while anotherreceived injuries.

Three local terroristsbelonging to Al-Badr terroristoutfit were also gunned downby the joint team of the secu-rity forces soon after they res-cued the family members frominside the house in which thesethree terrorists were hiding inBadigam area of SouthKashmir’s Shopian district.

These three incidents ofterrorist violence came close onthe heels of the visit of foreigndiplomats from 24 countries tothe Union Territory of Jammu& Kashmir.

The most daring strike ofthe day was reported fromBaghat Barzulla area at the out-skirts of Srinagar where a pher-an-clad terrorist fired indis-

criminately upon policemenwith an automatic weaponconcealed inside his Pheran.

The attack took place stepsaway from the local police sta-tion in the busy market area.The gory images of the terrorattack, recorded in the CCTVfootage, went viral immediate-ly. The unarmed policemenwere targeted from behindwhile they were seen standingin front of a local shop.

In this terror incident, twopolicemen namely SgCTMohammad Yousuf of

Zurhama Kupwara and CtSuhail Ahmad of LogriporaAishmuqam received criticalgunshot injuries. They wereshifted to hospital for treatmentwhere they succumbed to theirinjuries and attained martyr-dom.

Suhail Ahmad, residence ofLogripora Aishmuqam, wasan orphan. He left behind hiswidow mother, wife and twosmall kids. A Special Policeoffice (SPO) martyred in theBeerwah area of Budgam hasbeen identified as Mohammad

Altaf while SgCt ManzoorAhmad received injuries and isundergoing treatment in a localhospital.

Lt-Governor Manoj Sinhapaid tributes to the J&Kpolicemen who attained mar-tyrdom in the terrorist attack.He said such cowardly attacksare being carried out to vitiatethe peaceful atmosphere &assured that the perpetratorswill be brought to justice.

Briefing media personsafter attending the wreath lay-ing ceremony at DPL, Srinagarfor the second time during theday, Inspector General of Police(IGP) Kashmir range VijayKumar said that two Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists, including alocal resident, carried out theattack in which two policemenwere killed in Baghat area ofBarzulla in Srinagar on Fridayand that both attackers havebeen identified.

The IGP said that twoLashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT) ter-rorists including a foreign ter-rorist and a local who hasbeen identified as Saqib, carriedout the Baghat attack. The twopolicemen were on routineduty and were at a shop to buysomething. They were firedfrom the back.

Continued on Page 11

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India captain Virat Kohli hasrevealed that he battled

depression during a harrowingtour of England in 2014 wherehe felt like the “loneliest guy inthe world” after a string of fail-ures with the bat.

In a conversation with for-mer England player MarkNicholas on his “Not JustCricket” podcast, Kohli con-ceded that went through atough phase during the partic-ularly difficult tour.

“Yes, I did,” was hisresponse when asked whetherhe had suffered from depres-sion at the time.

“...It’s not a great feeling towake up knowing that youwon’t be able to score runs andI think all batsmen have felt

that at some stage that you arenot in control of anything atall,” he recalled.

Kohli had a disastrous tourof England in 2014, registeringscores of 1, 8, 25, 0, 39, 28, 0,7,6 and 20 in five Tests, averag-ing 13.50 in his 10 innings. Heroared back to form in the tourof Australia after that, accu-mulating 692 runs in the Testseries.

“You just don’t understandhow to get over it. That was a

phase when I literally couldn’tdo anything to overturnthings...I felt like I was theloneliest guy in the world,” hesaid of the England tour.

Kohli remembered feelingalone despite the fact that therewere supportive people in hislife. He said professional helpwas what he needed.

“Personally, for me thatwas a revelation that you couldfeel that lonely even though youa part of a big group. I won’t say

I didn’t have people who Icould speak to but not havinga professional to speak to whocould understand what I amgoing through completely, Ithink is a huge factor.

“I think I would like to seeit change.”

The India captain, consid-ered one of the best batsmen inmodern cricket, believes men-tal health issues cannot beoverlooked as they can destroya person’s career.

“Someone whom you cango to at any stage, have a con-versation around and say‘Listen this is what I am feeling,I am finding it hard to even goto sleep, I feel like I don’t wantto wake up in the morning. Ihave no confidence in myself,what do I do?’

“Lot of people suffer withthat feeling for longer periodsof time, it carries on formonths, it carries on for awhole cricket season, peopleare not able to get out of it,”Kohli said.

“I strongly feel the need forprofessional help there to bevery honest,” he added.

Kohli is currently inAhemdabad for ongoing homeTest series against England.The two teams have won agame each and will compete inthe third Test from February24.

Fondly remembering hisgrowing up days, Kohli said theIndian team of ‘90s had reallyinspired him to take up thesport.

“The Indian team of the‘90s really opened up my imag-ination about what could bedone with the sport because itis so different from anythingelse I had seen before. It justinstilled a lot of faith and beliefin me that magical things canbe done if an individualbelieves or decides,” he said.

“That’s where the sparkstarted...The dream of wantingto play for the country reallystarted.”

Continued on Page 11

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The Madras High court onFriday issued a notice to the

Centre and five other respon-dents, including India’s drugregulatory body, ICMR, Seruminstitute of India, AstraZenecaand Sri Ramachandra Highereducation and Research,Chennai, asking their responseon a writ petition it accepted,filed by a Covishield’s trialvolunteer, who claimed to suf-fer from severe adverse reactionafter receiving the vaccine.

The court has listed it fornext hearing on March 26.

The 41-year-old petition-er, Asif Riaz, has demanded aninterim injunction on theadministration of Covishield tothe public and a compensationof �5 crore for the damages heincurred after undergoing the

vaccine trial.The grievances Riaz

mentioned in the petition stated that he suffered fromacute neuro encephalopathydays after taking the vaccineshot and his health deteriorat-ed, but the manufacturer dismissed it as a side-effect ofthe vaccine.

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Uttar Pradesh ChiefMinister Yogi Adityanath

on Friday said in the stateassembly that the oppositionparties were using the farmers’agitation for their narrow polit-ical ends and maligning theimage of India at the globallevel.

The chief minister said theopposition was not concernedabout the interests of the farm-ers but of the ‘dalals’ (middle-man) in agriculture marketswho faced the threat of extinc-tion after the new agriculturemarketing law gave freedom tothe farmers to sell their agri-culture produce anywhere andto anybody.

“The new agriculture lawgives freedom to the farmers tosell their produce other thanmandi and this is hurting themiddlemen and their politicalmasters. It is not the farmersbut the middlemen who arefuelling the agitation as they arerattled that the money will bedirectly credited in the savingsaccount of the farmers,” thechief minister said.

“On Republic Day, ourConstitution, national flag andDr Bhimrao Ambedkar wereinsulted. Who are those peoplein the cover of farmers agita-tion who are out to malignIndia at global arena whileIndia has earned a new staturein the world by developing twocoronavirus vaccines and issupplying millions of doses ofthe vaccine free to many coun-tries,” said Yogi Adityanath inthe UP assembly.

The chief minister reject-ed the charge of the oppositionthat farmers in UP were beingpenalised by the police fortaking part in protest on theDelhi border. He was respond-ing to the adjournment noticegiven by the opposition forraising the issue of farmers’ agi-tation.

The chief minister defend-ed the three farm laws.

“There is no restrictionon anybody in exercising theirdemocratic rights. The gov-ernment is willing to talk onthe basis of facts and argu-ments but the government willnot tolerate attempts to fiddlewith law and order and create

anarchy. The government isaccountable for the 24 crorepeople of Uttar Pradesh andtheir safety and security,” thechief minister said.

Without naming any polit-ical party, Yogi Adityanathsaid, “It is no longer a secret asto who is behind the attemptsto malign the image of India.This is happening at a timewhen the country is seen as amost sought after investmentdestination.”

He added, “Shedding croc-odile tears would not serve theinterests of the farmers.”

“The opposition has noth-ing to do with the interests ofthe farmers. They should dosome homework before raisingthe issue in the House. Thethree laws are part of the seriesof measures taken by PrimeMinister Narendra Modi forthe overall welfare and dou-bling of the income of thefarmers,” he said.

The chief minister said theCentral government hadshown its sincere commitmentin addressing the concerns ofthe farmers over the three

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�� ����� �*��� ��������������������Unnao (PTI): The UttarPradesh Police on Friday heldtwo people in connection withthe deaths of two teenage girlsat an Unnao village, accusingthem of murder over a one-sided love affair.

The third victim in the caseis battling for life at a hospital.

One of the accused held inthe case is a teenager, accord-ing to police.

“Vinay Kumar, aliasLambu, and a teenager havebeen held in connection withthe case. The matter is a falloutof a one-side love affair. Theaccused gave some pesticidewith water to the three girls,”Lucknow Range IG LaxmiSingh told reporters here.

Both accused are residentsof Pathakpur village in theAshoha area and were held ona tip-off, the IG said.

During interrogation,Vinay told police that he wasinvolved in agriculture andowned a piece of land atBaburaha village, near the spotwhere girls were found onWednesday night.

According to police, Vinaytold them that the girls used togo to the fields for fodder andthey became friends during thecoronavirus lockdown.

He had a one-sided loveaffair with one of the girls.

We used to play and eattogether in the field. I had aone-sided love affair with her.When I proposed her, sherejected. When I asked her thismonth to give me her phonenumber, she did not give dueto which I was angry anddecided to kill her,” Vinay toldpolice.

“On Wednesday, I mixedpesticide in a water bottle andasked my friend to bringsnacks. The three had it andwhen they asked for water, Igave them the water bottle inwhich pesticide was mixedand they drank it. I had lefttheir bodies in the field,” the IGsaid quoting Vinay’s confession.

Apart from Section 302(murder) of the IPC, policehave slapped Section 201against the accused for causingdisappearance of evidence.

Earlier in the day, the lastrites of the two teenage girlswere performed amid tightsecurity arrangements, offi-cials said. Komal (15) andKajal (14) were buried in their

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Lucknow (PN S): Jhansiwas rocked by a sensationalincident in which a student ofBundelkhand Degree Collegeopened fire on his male col-league in the classroom andlater went to the house of a girlstudent and opened fire onher.

The assailant was nabbedby the public and both the vic-tims were rushed to the hospi-tal where the girl was pro-nounced dead while the youthwas said to be in a critical state.

The local police officialsand the district police chief ofJhansi reached the scene ofcrime and claimed to haverecovered a .32 bore revolverused in the crime.

The cops investigating thecase suspect that a love-trian-gle could have led to the shoot-ing. Expressing concern overthe firing on the college cam-pus, Chief Minister YogiAdityanath directed the policeofficials to take stern actionagainst the accused and takemeasures to check such inci-dents in the future.

Reports said thatHukumendra Singh Gujjar,hailing from Kosi Kalan inMathura, is a student of MApsychology. On Friday after-noon, Gujjar was attending hisclass when fellow studentManthan entered the class-room and suddenly opened fireon him, injuring him critical-ly. Manthan then swiftlyslipped out of the classroomand reached the MissionCompound where he openedfire on a girl student, Tripika,in front of her house.

Some youths present atthe spot managed to nabManthan when he was tryingto escape after attacking thegirl. The agitated students latertied the assailant and brutallyassaulted him before he wasrescued from their clutchesand taken in custody by thelocal police. Both the victimswere rushed to the Jhansi med-ical college hospital but Tripikasuccumbed to her injuries onthe way. A case was registeredin this regard and the body wassent for autopsy. Meanwhile,two women and a 12-year-oldgirl died after a mound ofmud caved in in Chitrakootdistrict on Friday noon. Threeothers were also injured in theincident. Chief Minister YogiAdityanath took cognisance ofthe incident and announced acompensation of Rs 2 lakheach to the families of thedeceased. He also directed thedistrict administration to pro-vide all possible help to thoseinjured in the incident.

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Capital punishment to con-victed Shabnam, who com-

mitted the heinous crime ofkilling seven members of herown family in Amroha, couldbe delayed as she has onceagain pleaded for mercy.

Two lawyers of Shabnamreached the Rampur district jailon Thursday and submitted afresh mercy petition addressedto Uttar Pradesh GovernorAnandiben Patel to the jailsuperintendent.

According to informationreceived here on Friday, the jailsuperintendent will now sendthe mercy petition to the stategovernor. The President ofIndia has already rejectedShabnam's first mercy peti-tion. Shabnam's death sen-tence was upheld by theSupreme Court.

On the other hand, prepa-rations are underway to hangShabnam in Mathura jail,where she is presently lodged.

Pawan Jallad (hangman)has inspected the female hang-ing house of Mathura jail twice.The Mathura jail administra-tion is now waiting forShabnam's death warrant.

Earlier, Shabnam's son Tajpleaded mercy for his mother.He has pleaded to the Presidentof India to forgive his mother.

It may be recalled that onthe night of April 14, 2008when Shabnam along with herlover Salim killed seven mem-bers of her family, she was two-month pregnant. Shabnam

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Uttar Pradesh Chief MinisterYogi Adityanath has issued

directives to accelerate the recruit-ment process to fill over 50,000vacant government posts underUPSSSC and has approved con-ducting of preliminary qualifica-tion examination (PET) under thetwo-stage examination systemadopted by the Uttar PradeshSubordinate Services SelectionCommission.

The chief minister has alsogiven his approval to the proposedsyllabus and examination scheduleproposed by the UPSSSC.

Along with this, the UPSSSCwill also release the final results of13 exams pending before 2020 inthe next two months. Based onthese results, more than 5,000people will be given governmentjobs.

The officials of the UPSSSChave strictly abided by the chiefminister's instructions to carryout the recruitment process for fill-ing the vacant posts in various gov-ernment departments withextreme transparency and absolutefairness.

"The UPSSSC has alreadyswung into action to execute theexercise of conducting the prelim-inary qualification examination(PET) under the two-stage exam-ination system to intensify therecruitment process," a govern-ment spokesman said.

As per the informationreceived from the UPSSSC, the

candidates successful in thisexamination will be short-listedand will have to appear for themains. Once a candidate succeedsin clearing the mains, he/shewill be given an appointment let-ter.

According to the UPSSSC, therecruitment will be initiated onvarious posts, including 9,212posts of women health workers inthe Health and Family WelfareDepartment, 7,882 posts of revenueaccountants in the Board ofRevenue, 1,817 posts of Group Ctechnical assistants in theDirectorate of AgriculturalMarketing, 1,137 posts of juniorassistants in the Board ofRevenue, 1,068 posts of assistantaccountants in the InternalAccounts and Auditor'sDepartment, 874 posts ofsugarcane supervisors inSugarcane and Sugar Department,700 posts of laboratory techniciansin the Department of MedicalHealth and Services, 694 posts offorest guards in UP ForestCorporation, 622 posts ofinstructors in Training andEmployment Department as wellas 456 posts of X-ray techniciansin the Medical Health and WelfareDepartment.

Apart from these, the UPSSSCwill also fill the vacant posts ofmany other departments.

According to the officials, thecandidates will have to first qual-ify the preliminary qualifyingexamination (PET) of the two-stage examination system to get the

job.The preliminary qualifying

examination will be of two hoursin which a total of 100 questionswill be asked.

There will be negative markingin case of wrong answers withdeduction of 1/4 marks. The resultsof the preliminary qualifyingexamination will be released on thebasis of percentile and the candi-dates who succeed in it will qual-ify the mains.

The posts for the candidateswill be decided on the basis of theirqualification as well and it isplanned to invite applications cat-egory-wise in case of graduates andcandidates with professionaldegrees.

The officials also informedthat soon the UPSSSC will declarethe final results of the preliminaryexaminations conducted in twoyears for lower subordinate ser-vices.

The results of the typingand stenography tests forrecruitment in the MandiParishad will also be announced inMarch.

Along with this, the finalresults of the examination for theposts of junior assistant, villagedevelopment officer, homeopath-ic pharmacist and youth welfareofficer will be announced by theend of next month.

After the restructuring of theUPSSSC, 17,243 candidates weregiven appointment letters by thegovernment for jobs at the com-mission level.

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The Uttar Pradesh Assemblyon Friday condoled the

deaths of former PresidentPranab Mukherjee and for-mer UP Governor and seniorCongress leader Motilal Vora.The House also paid rich trib-utes to the corona warriors -doctors, paramedical staff andsanitation workers who suc-cumbed to the novel coron-avirus during the pandemic.

Chief Minister YogiAdityanath, paying tributes tothe departed leaders, offered hiscondolences to the bereavedfamilies. He said the death ofBharat Ratna PranabMukherjee caused irreparableloss to the country. He saidPranab Mukherjee was a leaderwith vast experience and madea rich contribution to nation-al politics.

He said during long yearsin public life Pranab Mukherjeeheld many important offices,including Union minister anddeputy chairman of the

Planning Commission.Condoling the death of

Motilal Vora, two term chiefminister of Madhya Pradeshand former Governor of UttarPradesh, the chief ministersaid Vora entered politics aftersocial service and journalismand earned a specific identityfor himself.

The chief minister alsocondoled the deaths of coronawarriors during the peak of thecoronavirus pandemic. He saidthe medical personnel put theirlives at stake for fighting thepandemic and serving theinfected people. The chief min-ister offered his condolences tothe bereaved families.

The chief minister alsocondoled the death of the vic-tims of the glacier burst at RishiGanga Hydro Power Project atChamoli district inUttarakhand. He said the stategovernment would give assis-tance to the families of the vic-tims who were native of UttarPradesh.

Leader of Opposition andSamajwadi Party leader RamGovind Chaudhary, leader ofthe Congress, Bahujan SamajParty, Apna Dal and SuheldevBhartiya Samaj Party also con-doled the deaths of the formerpresident, former UP governorand the victims of Uttarakhanddisaster.

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The Samajwadi Party MLCsstaged a protest and later

walked out of the LegislativeCouncil after their notice for ano-confidence motion againstPro Tem Chairman KunwarManvendra Singh was turneddown on Friday.

The notice, served underRule 143, was signed by SPMLCs Naresh Uttam andRajpal Kashyap.

Giving his decision over SPnotice in the Council on Friday,Deputy Chairman SureshKumar Tripathi said that sinceRule 143 of UP LegislativeCouncil Procedure andWorking, 1956 coveredremoval of chairman or deputychairman of the council andnot a pro tem chairmanappointed by the governor forperforming necessary func-tions of the House, the noticewas not admissible.

Similarly, he turned downthe appeal of SP leaders RajeshYadav and Shashank Yadav,saying that it was the preroga-tive of the governor toannounce the date for electionof full time chairman of thecouncil so the governor wouldannounce the dates for thesaid purpose.

Unsatisfied with the deputychairman's ruling, Leader ofOpposition Ahmed Hassansaid they were not against theruling of the chair of the House

but they were not satisfied asthey were not getting theirright despite having a majori-ty in the Upper House.

Later, the SP leaders raisedslogans against the govern-ment and staged a walkoutfrom the House. Earlier, talk-ing to reporters, RajpalKashyap said that the govern-ment had appointed a pro temchairman in violation of rulesto circumvent election for thepost. He said the SamajwadiParty had 51 members in theUttar Pradesh LegislativeCouncil while the rulingBharatiya Janata Party had 32members and SP would havegot its candidate easily electedin event of an election.

The Congress, which hastwo members, has said that itwould support the SP in thiselection.

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In another landmark development towards foreigninvestment and employment generation, Uttar

Pradesh on Friday signed a memorandum of under-standing with Swedish company IKEA, sealing aninvestment deal of Rs 5,500 crore in the state in nextfive years.

IKEA will shell out Rs 850 crore for the pur-chase of land in Noida which will give Rs 56 crorerevenue in the form of stamp duty.

The MoU was signed virtually at the chief min-ister's official residence in Lucknow in the presenceof Yogi Adityanath.

"I congratulate both NOIDA authority andIKEA for this historical MoU. I am happy that IKEAis going to invest in one of the most important placesof the country. Noida, Greater Noida and YamunaExpressway Authority area are the best areas forinvestment purposes in the whole country. Someof the best proposals are coming to us for invest-ment in the state," Yogi Adityanath said.

The opening of IKEA stores in the state isexpected to help farmers, artisans and artists withopportunities. The UP government has allotted47,833 square metre land in Noida for the IKEA out-let.

Starting with Noida, IKEA plans to open at leastthree major outlets in Purvanchal and central UP.The company will start all its outlets by 2025,according to the plan set with the UP government.

IKEA started its first centre in Hyderabad at acost of Rs 700 crore in 2016. It plans to open a totalof 25 centres in India by 2025 by investing Rs 10,500crore. About half of them are in UP alone.

IKEA has opened more than 433 centres in 52countries of the world.

The plans for other outlets in UP will befinalised with the opening of the Noida centre.

In December 2018, the company had signed anagreement with the Uttar Pradesh government toinvest Rs 5,000 crore in Noida and other cities ofthe state.

gave birth to a baby boy inprison. Shabnam's friend UsmanSaifi adopted her son, Taj, whois now 12-year-old.

When Taj heard that hismother was to be hanged, heappealed to the President formercy. Growing up under thepatronage of Usman Saifi, wholives in Sushil Vihar inBulandshahr, Taj realises the sinof his mother. On the otherhand, Shabnam's relatives haveexpressed their happiness overher death sentence and said thatthey would not even claim herbody post-hanging.

Shabnam's aunt told mediapersons that they were happywith Shabnam being hanged asthis was what she deserved.

"At the time of the incident,had we also been in the house,we too would have been killed.We reached there at midnightafter the incident. We are happythat her mercy petition has beenrejected. Shabnam should behanged and she deserves this,"she said. For the first time in thehistory of Independent India, afemale prisoner is to be hanged.If there are no last minute hin-drances, Shabnam will behanged in Uttar Pradesh's onlywoman hanging house in theMathura jail.

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Lucknow (PNS): The Central Institutefor Subtropical Horticulture (CISH) isempowering transgenders through theICAR poultry-based technology.

“Mohini, a transgender fromMalihabad, adopted the poultry-basedtechnology as a livelihood option withthe help of SHG Sahabhagita, a commu-nity-based organisation developed byCISH. The institute demonstratedmango orchard based-poultry farmingin three villages of Malihabad and farm-

ers accepted it as one of the ways for sus-tainable income. The technology wasadopted by small and marginal mangogrowers not only in Malihabad but inother parts of Uttar Pradesh as well. Itwas possible because ICAR poultrybreeds such as CARI-Nirbhek, CARI-Devendra, CARI-Asheel and Kadaknath.The reason for the popularity of thistechnology is the high price of thesebreeds in the market,” directorShailendra Rajan said.

Lucknow (PNS): Post-Covid will be achallenging phase for the entertainmentindustry, though it is good that the indus-try has somewhat picked up, said actorGautam Vig, who was in the city for thepromotion of his show titled ‘Agni Vayu’.He was accompanied by co-star ShivaniTomar.

The actor said that the main challengeis the budgeting of the shows and actors.“Budgeting is the main issue in general.Also the number of staff members has

reduced on the sets. Jobs are difficult tofind in the industry and this is a cause ofconcern,” he said. He added that people areforced to take up anything and everything.“I have met a few people who were in thedirection department but switched toproduction. Creativity is getting hampereddue to the same reason. We are hoping forthings to get better in the coming months,”he said, adding that the audience is alsolooking for relatable stories.

About the show in which he is play-

ing the main lead, the actor said he cantotally identify with the character of Vayu.

“There have been many love stories inthe past but this one is very different. BothAgni and Vayu try to stay apart but des-tiny plays its role in bringing them togeth-er. Agni is fierce, loving and loyal but whentheir principles are questioned, they areforced to choose between love and beliefs.I am extremely excited to be showcasingthis story and I hope it is received well,”Shivani said.

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Lucknow (PNS): Building anentrepreneurial base requiresnot only money but knowledge,competencies and risk taking.There is a need to join ruraland urban India into one forsustainable development andachieving entrepreneurialgoals, Minister for PrimaryEducation Satish ChandraDwivedi said while addressingthe valedictory session of thetwo-day national seminar on‘Entrenpreneurship develop-ment: Roadmap to employ-ment generation and growth’,organised by the department ofCommerce (centre of excel-

lence), in collaboration with theInstitute of EntrepreneurshipDevelopment, at Malviya Hallof Lucknow University onFriday. Justice Dr DK Arorapresided over the programmeas the chairperson whilefounder and CEO of Edu-Gorilla Rohit Manglik was thekeynote speaker.

Speaking on the occasion,Dwivedi said entrepreneurshipis more practical than theoret-ical. He also talked about PMNarendra Modi’s‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’ missionduring the pandemic tostrengthen the indigenous

entrepreneurial base for tack-ling the Covid-19 crisis.

Sharing his learnings of thepast four years, Manglik saidfailure is important for successand growth. “We should neverleave our passion. We can workfor some time for financial sta-bility, but then we should alsotry to pursue our passion.Focus, passion and quotient areimportant factors for balancedgrowth and success. Constantevolution is necessary for anystart-up to be successful,” hesaid. In his presidential address,Justice Arora said entrepre-neurship is closely linked to

social and economic growthand entrepreneurs can be con-sidered as the engine of thesociety, therefore, creating sup-ply of entrepreneurs is veryimportant. “The work of thedepartment of Commerce hasan important role to play in thedevelopment of entrepreneur-ship in the city as well as in thestate,” he added.

In the two-day seminar,various reputed faculties,research scholars and studentsfrom different prestigious uni-versities participated and pre-sented their research on vari-ous topics.

�� *� ���� ������� �� ��������������Lucknow (PNS): The Gender ChampionsCommittee of BBAU organised competitionsto select gender champions for the currentsession. BBAU spokesperson Dr RachnaGangwar said that gender champions arebeing selected on the basis of guidelinesissued by the UGC, Ministry of Educationand Ministry of Women and ChildDevelopment under the guidance of Vice-Chancellor Sanjay Singh.

“A three-stage process was adopted forselection. Extempore competition in the firstphase, essay writing competition in the sec-ond phase and interview in the third phasewas conducted in offline as well as onlinemodes. Through the three-stage phase, thestudents’ oral communication skills, writingand leadership abilities were tested,” she said.She added that students from various depart-ments of the university participated in theselection process.

Chairperson of the committee ProfShilpi Verma said that the gender champi-on does the work of creating a gender-sen-sitive environment on the university campus.

“One male student and one female stu-dent will be selected and results of the com-petitions will be declared soon,” she said.

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Vivekananda PolyclinicInstitute of Medical

Sciences (VPIMS) organisedits 34th annual continued med-ical education (CME), whichwas attended by more than 100distinguished doctors and PGstudents. There were academ-ic sessions covering differentaspects of medical education.There were six sessions cover-ing different aspects of the

topics. Prof Saroj Kanta Mishra,head of the department ofEndocrine and Breast Surgeryand founder & incharge of theSchool of Telemedicine andBiomedical Informatics,SGPGIMS, discussed the workdone by Swami Vivekananda inthe uplift of the downtroddenin the society. It was followedby a series of scientific presen-tations speared over six sessionschaired by 12 senior specialistsof VPIMS while the lectures

were delivered by eminent con-sultants of SGPGIMS,RMLIMS and VPIMS.

Swami Muktinathanandasaid that the institute maysoon turn into a universityoffering courses in medical,nursing and paramedical sci-ences in tune with the ideas andideals based on the life andteachings of Ramakrishna andSwami Vivekananda.

He stressed on the need forconstantly upgrading knowl-

edge and being abreast with lat-est advances in the field. Hesaid that lifelong learning isrequired for academic and pro-fessional excellence.

Dr T Prabhakar presentedthe annual report and compli-mented the consultants, DNBstudents, nursing and para-medical staff for putting in hardwork to achieve commend-able performance.

Meanwhile, the lamp light-ing ceremony of the 16th batch

of BSc (Nursing) and 30thbatch of GNM (Nursing) stu-dents of Vivekananda Collegeand School of Nursing was alsoheld at the institute.

Director-general ofMedical Education Dr KKGupta said nurses are the back-bone of the hospital in givingpatient care with compassionand comfort. Principal matron,Central Command Hospital,Brig Sunita Sharma was theguest of honour.

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A42-year-old property deal-er, identified as Sanjay

Singh of New Model House inQaiserbagh, was found hang-ing in his room. No suicidenote was recovered the placeeven as police said he took theextreme step due to strainedties with his wife Deepti.Reports said the couple used topick up fights off and on. Thepolice said that the couplehad a heated exchange oversome issue on Wednesdayafternoon and elders in thefamily had to intervene in theissue. The police said thatSanjay’s wife left for her moth-er’s house in Hazratganj.

Deepti refused to talk toSanjay over phone and meether father-in-law when hewent there to convince her tocome back. Sanjay was laterfound hanging by his father. Heraised an alarm which drewattention of family membersand neighbours. He wasrushed to a hospital where hewas pronounced brought dead.A case was registered in thisconnection.

Meanwhile, a youth, iden-tified as Kaushal (23) of Gauriavillage under Mall police sta-tion, hanging himself from atree in a field. Police saiddeceased was a liquor addictand his brother Sonu used toconfront him for that. Thepolice said that the brother duohad a fight on Thursday morn-ing and Kaushal left the housewithout informing anyone.

On Friday morning, Sonuwent to police station to lodgea complaint regarding the mys-terious disappearance of hisbrother. Kaushal was laterfound hanging.

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Out of a total of 9,020 front-line and health workers,

7486 were vaccinated onFriday, according to districtimmunisation officer MKSingh. Over 83 per cent of thebeneficiaries were vaccinatedand it shows that the vaccina-tion drive is picking up pace, hesaid. “88 per cent of the bene-ficiaries (4,261 out of 4,833)were administered the seconddose of vaccine while 77 percent (3,225 out of 4,187) gottheir first dose,” he added.

Most of the beneficiarieswere health workers while therewere also some frontline work-ers who had missed out ontheir first schedule. The front-line workers constituted about5-10 per cent of people whowere vaccinated on Friday.

Singh said that the healthworkers who could not get vac-cinated in previous sessionscould get the vaccine jabs onFebruary 22. The district immu-nisation officer, who receivedthe second dose at UrbanCommunity Health Centre RedCross in Qaiserbagh, said: “Thesecond dose boosts the antibod-ies within ten days and protectsone from coronavirus infection.”

Nodal officer for Covidimmunisation at Lok BandhuHospital Dr Arun Tewari saidpolice personnel turned up inlarge numbers for the vaccina-tion. The police departmentmade a difference in the vacci-nation drive picking up pace,”he said. Dr Brijesh Kumar, apaediatrician who received thesecond dose, said: “When I wasadministered the vaccine forthe first time, I had some sort

of dizziness but nothing ofthat sort was felt this time andI was back on duty soon after.”

Dr Kanchan Mishra, agynaecologist who get her sec-ond dose, said she had noproblems. She said she nevertested positive for Covid eventhough her daughter andmother-in-law contracted theinfection.

Nagar swasthya adhikariDr Sunil Rawat, who was vac-cinated on Friday, said he hadreceived the message and hewas administered the vaccinejab the Qaiserbagh CHC.

At SGPGI, 429 out of 750beneficiaries were vaccinatedon Friday and 30 per cent ofthem were frontline workerswhile 70 per cent were healthworkers who got the boosterdose. Director of RMLIMS DrAK Singh said that 431 out of625 people were vaccinated atthe hospital. At KGMU, 750 outof a total of 875 were adminis-tered the vaccine shots. Asmany as 430 out of 460 weregiven the second dose.

Meanwhile, eight peopletested positive for coronavirusin Lucknow on Friday while tenpatients recovered. There are358 active cases in the district.The fresh cases included twoeach from Aliganj, Rae Bareliroad and Chowk. In the state,104 people tested Covid posi-tive, pushing the UP case tallyto 6,02,592. There were threedeaths reported from the state— one each from Bareilly,Hardoi and Sitapur — takingthe toll to 8,712. Besides, 181patients recovered, taking therecovery figures to 5,91,194while there are 2,587 activecases in the state.

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A32-year-old man, identifiedas Haleem alias Pappu,

was done to death allegedly byhis step-brother over a proper-ty dispute in Purani Basmandinear Sheeshe Wali Masjidunder Hasanganj police stationon Friday morning. An ironrod, with which Haleem wasclubbed to death, was recov-ered by police. Three personswere detained for interrogationeven as police spokesman JK

Singh said no arrest has beenmade in this connection so far.

Haleem’s wife RehnumaBano lodged a police complaintalleging that his father Nasiralias Kallu, step-motherShaheda, her daughterKhushnuma and son Farzanreached to the house armedwith sticks and iron rodsaround 9 am. They draggedHaleem out the house andstarted thrashing him when shewas in the kitchen.

She told the police that she

saw Farzan hitting her husbandwith an iron rod. She said hesustained grievous injuries afterbeing hit on the head and diedon the spot. She alleged thatHaleem’s father was trying toconvince him not to claim hisshare in the the house.

She said her father-in-lawand (step)mother-in-law wereplanning to sell the house. Sheadded that she and her hus-band were being forced to giveup their share but Haleemwanted his share.

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Lucknow (PNS): The CentralDrug Research Institute hasestablished ‘Common Researchand Technology Hub’, jointlyfunded by the Central govern-ment. CDRI spokespersonSanjeev Yadav said this facilitywill be available for pharmaceu-tical industries, MSMEs, acad-emia and for advanced research.

He said they have dedicat-ed one lab as a part of the facil-ity which can be used forresearch and technology devel-opment. The objectives of thetechnology hub, he said, are toset up and operate a pharma-ceutical formulation develop-ment and national clinical trialbatch production facility, toestablish and operate a unit forGLP-compliant pre-clinical andclinical bio-analysis and drug

testing. “The technology hubwill be able to undertake testingactivities like specifying expirydates, verifying label claims onbatches of commercial drugproducts, issuing valid certifi-cates of analysis, developingdrug monographs and batchrelease specifications for com-mercial drug products,” he said.

Yadav said the intent is toprovide services to MSME. Headded that these activities willbe performed with tiered-tariffbusiness model.

“Thus, the drug testing labin the technology hub will workas a self-sustaining-but-not-for-profit entity, passing offcosts to large firms while work-ing in a ‘break even’ mode forMSME, academia and in-houseprojects,” he added.

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The Health department onFriday removed five

employees after they were seendancing at the HealthDirectorate control room in a video.

DG, Medical Health, DSNegi said a supervisor wasamong the five employeesremoved. “They were employ-ees of an agency hired foradditional manpower by theHealth department. The videois of February 12, and we havealso warned the contractualagency in this regard,” he said.The employees were dancingduring the working hours andthey were removed. The super-visor was also removedbecause he was responsible forthat. The four employees,including three girls, were seendancing to a popularBollywood number in the afternoon.

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The modifications ofAadhaar cards of prisoners

are being updated by the Postaldepartment on the instruc-tions of the Postmaster General(PMG) of Varanasi RegionKrishna Kumar Yadav. In thisdirection, the postmen of CanttHead Post Office launched aspecial Aadhaar updating drivefor the prisoners by conductingcamp at Shivpur Central Jail onthe request of Jail administra-tion. Superintendent (PostOffice), Varanasi WesternDivision, Ram Milan informedthat during this period thedata entries of 237 prisonerswere updated for the conve-niences of both the prisonersand jail administration. 132 outof total 136 Aadhaar kits areactive in Varanasi Regionwhich is second in the entireUttar Pradesh Circle with 97

per cent. Assistant DirectorShambhu Rai said that theenrollment and modificationwork of the Aadhaar cards ofmore than 71,000 people hasbeen done from January toFebruary 13 this year by con-ducting a special campaign in

the post offices of VaranasiRegion. Out of them, 27,000people got new Aadhaar cardswhile over 44,000 peopleupdated their data. He said thatthe new Aadhaar card is beingmade completely free at thepost offices. The fee is charged

only for amendment of oldones. It has to pay Rs 50 fordemographic modification(name, date of birth, gender,address, mobile and email)and Rs 100 for biometric mod-ification (fingerprint, iris andphoto).

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Adopting a unique way toprotest the gradually rising

price of petro products, theactivists of Samajwadi Party(SP) on Friday thanked thepeople for strengthening theeconomy of the ModiGovernment by weakeningtheir financial condition.

Holding placards andposters against the graduallyincreasing the price of petrol,diesel and domestic cylin-ders, the SP workers said, theprice of petrol has made cen-tury in some districts of thecountry and it will touch thefigure of � 100 in other dis-tricts of the country at the ear-liest and added, at the sametime, the price of diesel alsoseems to be eager to reach to

�100 per litre very soon, theyadded.

By giving flowers to thosewho reached petrol pump to

get petrol for their vehicles,they extended their thanks tothem for strengthening theeconomy of Central

Government and at same timeto empty their pockets andsaid, the people should maketheir soul and pocket as wellstrong as the government willsoon make the price of diesel�100 per litre and this willresult in hiking the essentialcommodities causing addi-tional financial burden onthe common people.

They demanded the gov-ernment at Centre to take ini-tiative to control the increasein the price of petro productsto give a relief to commonmen who are still facing finan-cial crisis due to COVID-19pandemic.

Vivek Yadav, DilipKashyap, Sunil Yadav,Mohammed Firoz, SandeepYadav and others were presenton the occasion.

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One hundred and ten yearsback in February 1911,

the first airmail service in theworld was started in Prayagraj,informed the PostmasterGeneral of Varanasi regionKrishna Kumar Yadav.

Postal services have comea long way all over the world.Uttar Pradesh occupies aprominent position in thedevelopment of Postal services.The city of Prayagraj, UttarPradesh has the privilege thatthe world’s first air mail servicestarted from here. This historicevent took place 110 years agoon February 18, 1911 inPrayagraj. Incidentally, KumbhMela was also held that year.On that day, French pilotMonsieur Henri Pequet creat-ed a new history. He took 6500letters from Prayagraj to Nainiwith him in his plane. The air-craft was Heavy Land Aircraftand launched a new round ofthe world’s first official postalcarriage.

According to KrishnaKumar Yadav, about one lakhpeople gathered at Prayagraj tosee the Postal flight that daywhen a special aircraft took offfrom the banks of river Yamunaat 5.30 pm, crossed the riverafter travelling for 15 kilome-tres and landed near NainiJunction which was near theCentral Jail on the outskirts ofPrayagraj. The venue of theevent was an agricultural andtrade fair which was on thebanks of the river and wasnamed ‘UP Exhibition’. Two fly-ing machines were on displayat this exhibition. The aircraftwas imported by some Britishofficers. It’s parts wereunassembled which wereassembled at the exhibitionsite in the presence of commonpeople. The air journey fromPrayagraj to Naini Junctionwas completed 110 years ago injust 13 minutes.

Although this flight wasjust six miles, there was a his-toric festive atmosphere inPrayagraj. In January 1911, theBritish and Colonial Aeroplane

Company sent one of its air-craft to India, which inciden-tally came to Prayagraj whenthe Kumbh Mela was alsogoing on. It was such a timewhen people hardly heardabout aeroplane. In such situ-ation, it was natural to beovercrowded on this historicoccasion. In this journey,Henry created history and forthe first time, he also saw theworld’s largest Prayag Kumbhfrom the sky.

Colonel Y Wyndhamapproached the postal author-ities for sending some mail bagsby air, to which the then Postalhead gave his approval. Themail bag had ‘First Air Mail’and ‘Uttar Pradesh Exhibition,Allahabad’ written on it. A pic-ture of an aircraft was also pub-lished on it. Magenta ink wasused instead of traditionalblack ink. The organisers werevery concerned about itsweight, which could be easilycarried in the aircraft.Restrictions were also placedon the weight of each letter andonly 6,500 papers were allowed

to be carried after careful cal-culations. It took the aircraft13 minutes to reach its destina-tion.

KK Yadav, who has writtenseveral articles and a book‘India Post: 150 Glorious Years’on postal services in India, saidthat the special duty of this firstair mail service was kept at sixana and the income from thiswas donated to Oxford andCambridge hostels, Allahabad.A special arrangement wasmade for this service inadvance. Letters were bookedfor this till noon on February18. The Oxford Cambridgehostel was so crowded forbooking of letters that its con-dition had become like miniGPO. The Postal departmentalso deployed three-fouremployees here. 3000 letters forair service reached the hostelwithin a few days. Among theletters, a letter was havingpostage stamp of � 25. Therewere many famous celebritiesof Prayagraj, Raja Maharaja andRajkumar among those whosent letters.

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Basant Panchami to MaghPurnima is considered to be

the most important period forthe seers at Magh Mela as theyperform a challenging sad-hana (meditation) called‘Dhuni Tapâ.

Performed on the sandybanks of Ganga, the sadhak(seers who undertake thispractice) fast for the entireday, meditate and pray in afixed posture of yogasan. Thesadhana goes on under thescorching sun and themeditating seers are sur-rounded by burning cow dung

cakes emanating fire and thicksmoke.

Also known as ˜PanchAgnitap’, this harsh form ofself-denial and austerity ispracticed by many saints foryears together.

This is among the oldestforms of penance which findsmention in ancient Hinduscriptures like the PadmaPurana and Shiv Purana,wherein a Naga sadhu issurrounded with burningfire, and he sits for hoursin sadhana, sharedMahatyagi ManoharcharanDasji.

Initially, a seer is sur-

rounded with fours fires madeby cow dung, and the middaysun acts like the fifth sourceof fire. But as the penance pro-gresses, the number of fireskeeps increasing during the 18years of tap (austerity), and inthe last leg of sadhana, thesadhak carries a fire pot on hishead, explained a saint. Thefinal stage of the fire austeri-ty is called Kapal dhuni, whichmeans fire pot (dhuni) on theskull (kapal), he added.

An integral part of theexercise is the ritual of puttingfood into the holy fire madeups of smoldering heaps ofcow dung, while reciting

mantras. Having made offer-ings to the fire, the saintblows the conch shell toinvoke the deity. This marksthe end of preliminary rituals,and now the saint is ready tosit in meditation.

At Magh Mela ground,this practice is undertaken byseers between the sandy banksof the two bridges, whichconnect the city to Junshi, onthe Ganga. While the seersperform Dhuni Tap, it isensured that ordinary pil-grims do not venture into thearea or indulge in any practicethat would disturb their sad-hana.

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District Magistrate (DM)/District Election Officer

(DEO) Kaushal Raj Sharma hasdivided the entire district into35 zones and 115 sectors anddeployed zonal and sector mag-istrates there for conducting theforthcoming three-tierPanchayat general election-21in a free, fair, peaceful andorderly manner. He has askedthe SDMs and zonal and sec-tor magistrates to visit their

respective areas to see the con-dition of buildings at pollingplaces and approach roads,arrangement of electrical sup-ply, furniture, toilets etc. Forthis, a meeting of zonal andsector magistrates will be heldon Monday in which they willbe given necessary informationand then they will be sent to thevillages for on-site verifica-tion.

Sharma was holding ameeting with the officers hereon Friday. He emphasised that

there should be no publicitywall paintings at public places,government buildings etc ofgram sabhas and if there areany kind of posters, pam-phlets etc they should not beremoved immediately.Government buildings, reli-gious places etc should not beused for publicity during cam-paigning, he said, directing theofficers to identify the troublemakers so that action can betaken against such people. Incase of any laxity during the

inspection, strict action will betaken by deciding the respon-sibility of the village secretary.He also instructed to deployROs and AROs on duty imme-diately.

The DM has also instruct-ed the officers concerned toprovide him the details with-in a week about the nomina-tion, polling party dispatch,receiving and counting, block-wise pandals, chairs, barricad-ing etc. In connection withmaking arrangements atpolling booths, the training ofvillage secretaries should beorganised within three days attehsil or block level. He hassought all the details from theofficers concerned til lFebruary 28.

He stressed that all pollingcentres in the district shouldbe ideal ones. He also direct-ed that the election-relatedinformation should not bewritten on the walls but paperbe used for signage display sothe beauty of schools and gov-ernment buildings can bemaintained without damagingthe same. Chief DevelopmentOfficer (CDO) MadhusudanHulgi, Deputy DistrictElection Officer, all SDMs.BDOs and other off icerincharges were present in themeeting.

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Children also need life-sav-ing equipment (ventilator)

when they are critically ill andthis facility is available only inChildren's Hospital. Here 10ventilators are somehow savingthe lives of children. Thebiggest problem for the finan-cially weak and needy family isthat if in any case the Children'sHospital refuses to see theserious condition of their child,then where they should gowith their wards. Swaroop RaniNehru Hospital, Colvin, Beliand Dufferin Hospital havethe facility for immediate treat-ment of the children but theydo not have ventilators forchildren. When the load ishigh, the reality in theChildren's Hospital is that thereis oxygen added to two childrenfrom the same machine bysometimes adding extensionpipes to the oxygen pipe of theventilator. The helplessness of

doctors is different. It is saidthat sometimes the patient hasto be refused to be admitted,because all the health facilitiesare limited and cannot be treat-ed. In such a situation, peopleof poor families cannot go toprivate hospitals even if thetreatment is very expensive.

Dr Mukeshvir Singh, headof the department of Children'sHospital, said that children aretreated as much as possible.Inability to parent is expressedin an odd situation. Althoughother hospitals also have bettertreatment facilities, most ofthe patients are sent to the chil-dren’s Hospital. Sometimeseven patients are taken fromprivate hospitals to theChildren's Hospital, he added.

18 SHUATS STUDENTSSELECTED: Eighteen studentsof Sam HigginbottomUniversity of Agriculture,Technology and Sciences(SHUATS) have been pickedup by different companies dur-ing a campus recruitment

drive. Three nationalised com-panies visited SHUATS tointerview students. Accordingto Dr Devraj Badugu, Director,Career Planning andCounselling, eight students ofMBA and three of MCom dis-ciplines have been selected byVictory Terminal FinanceServices (SEBI). Similarly,Tractors and Farm EquipmentLtd (TAFE) selected six stu-dents of BTech. Agriculture.One student of B.TechComputer Science, Khyati Patelwas selected as technical editorin reputed company uCertify.Selected students gave credit oftheir success to the academicenvironment of the universityalong with quality educationprovided by the faculty mem-bers.

THEATRE FESTIVAL: Awell known theatre groupVinod Rastogi Smriti Sansthanis all set to organise a five-daytheatre festival is associationwith Ministry of Culture, NewDelhi from February 20 to 24

at North Central Zone CulturalCentre, Prayagraj from 6.30 pmonwards. This festival is dedi-cated to the memories of seniortheatre personalities AshwiniAgrawal, Kalyan Ghosh, DrAnupam Anand, ShailtanayaSrivastava, and Puja Thakur.The programme will begin onFebruary 20 with a comedyplay Promotion, directed byAbhilash Narain, on February21 a serious play Purna Purushwill be staged under the direc-tion of Ajay Mukherjee.Nautanki Aalaa Afsar is to bepresented on February 22under Atamjeet Singh’s direc-tion. On February 23 playCourt Marshal will be stagedunder the direction of SudeshSharma of Chandigarh, whilethe five-day theatre festivalwill conclude on February 24with Prem Chand ke Paatra-Prem Chand ke Saath underthe direction of ManavendraTripathi from Gorakhpur,informed the secretary AlokRastogi.

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Thousands of health workersturned out at 29 centres in

the district to get Covishieldvaccine doses in 76 sessionshere on Friday. During the day,many health workers alsoreceived their second doses ofvaccine completing their vac-cination course. For creatingawareness among the healthworkers including the doctors,the senior Health departmentofficers are holding pro-grammes continuously but stillthe campaign could not gainexpected momentum though itwas the 11th day of vaccination.

Just a day ago, the vaccina-tion for the frontline workerswas held and despite turningout of several top administra-tive, police, Nagar Nigam andother department officers, theresponse was not very encour-aging as just 4,111 were vacci-nated at 14 centres in 38 ses-

sions which was just 57 percent of the total number offrontline workers called for thevaccination during the day.Though both the Mayor andMunicipal Commissioner gotvaccine doses but overall theresponse of Nagar Nigamemployees was shocking as itwas just 19.12 per cent as just

496 were vaccinated out of2,593. However, enthusiasmwas seen at PAC Bhullanpurwhere the percentage of vac-cination was 98.83 per cent as593 got vaccine doses out of600. In comparison to othercentres, the response of thefrontline workers at LBSHospital Ramnagar was also

good as it was 83 per centthough it was the only centrewhere Covaxine vaccines weregiven on Thursday wheras atall other centres the frontlineworkers had receivedCovishield shots.

NINE TEST POSITIVE:Nine persons have tested pos-itive for coronavirus infec-tion in the district, taking thetally of confirmed cases to21,978 on Friday evening.With no COVID-19 deathbeing reported in the last 24hours, the death toll remainsat 377. Five more COVID-19patients have been cured, andfour in home isolation and onein hospital. So far, 21,560COVID-19 patients haverecovered in the district—18,585 in home isolation and2,975 in Covid hospitals. Aspresent 41 active cases areunder treatment in the district.The recovery rate in the dis-trict is 98.09 per cent and themortality rate 1.71 per cent.

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Divisional Railway Manager(DRM) of NER (Varanasi

Division) Vijay Kumar Panjiaralong with divisional officers inorder to attract more and moretraditional and non-conven-tional loading of goods onVaranasi division and ensuringsafe traffic inspected theVaranasi-Deoria Sadar rail section and DeoriaSadar station. For management of goods trainsand to attract maximum traditional and non-conventional loading of goods DRM did inten-sive inspection of Deoria Sadar station’s siding,goods shed, approach road of goods shed andgoods siding and gave directions to the officials

concerned. On the occa-sion he inspected the busi-ness facilities at goods shedof Deoria Sadar station andheld detailed discussionswith the members of theBusiness Development Unit(BDU), Varanasi, on workplans to increase business.At the goods shed of Sadarstation he issued instruc-

tions for ensuring cleanliness, widening ofapproach road, adequate electric lighting andarrangements for workers and to increase busi-ness. On the occasion Senior DivisionalOperations Manager (SDOM) Rohit Gupta,Senior Divisional Engineer (SDE)-I JK Singhand senior supervisors were present.

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The railway administration for the conve-nience of passengers will extend the run of

04185 Gwalior-Barauni daily special train fromMarch 1 to April 30 and 04186 Barauni-Gwaliordaily special train from March 2 to May 1. Allcoaches will be of reserved category and pas-sengers will have to follow the Covid-19 guide-lines, CPRO PK Singh said.

GWALIOR-BARAUNI SPL: The 04185Gwalior-Barauni daily special train will departfrom Gwalior at 12.00 hrs, from Dabra at 12.38hrs, Datia at 13.06 hrs., Jhansi at 14.00 hrs, Oraiat 15.40 hrs, Kalpi at 16.12 hrs, Pokhrayan at16.32 hrs, Kanpur Central at 18.50 hrs, Unnaoat 19.30 hrs, Lucknow at 20.45 hrs, Barabankiat 21.30 hrs, Burhwal at 21.56 hrs, Colonelganjat 22.26 hrs, Gonda at 23.10 hrs, Mankapur at23.34 hrs, Maskanwa at 23.50 hrs, second dayBasti at 00.37 hrs, Khalilabad at 01.01 hrs,Gorakhpur at 02.10 hrs, Deoria Sadar at 03.15hrs, Bhatni at 03.45 hrs, Bankata at 04.05 hrs,Mairwa at 04.33 hrs, Siwan at 04.55 hrs,Duraundha at 05.03 hrs, Chhapra at 06.40 hrs,Dighwara at 07.08 hrs, Sonpur at 08.05 hrs,Hajipur at 08.20 hrs, Bhagwanpur at 08.41 hrs,Muzaffarpur at 09.25 hrs, Dholi at 09.48 hrs,Khudiram Bose Pusa at 10.10 hrs, Samastipurat 10.55 hrs, Dalsingh Sarai at 11.19 hrs and reachBarauni at 12:50 hrs. During the return jour-ney, the 04186 Barauni-Gwalior daily special willleave Barauni at 18.45 hrs, Dalsingh Sarai at 19.14hrs, Samastipur at 19.45 hrs, Khudiram BosePusa at 20.00 hrs, Dholi at 20.14 hrs, Muzaffarpurat 21.35 hrs, Bhagwanpur at 22.06 hrs, Hajipurat 22.40 hrs, Sonpur at 22.52 hrs, Dighwara at23.13 hrs, Chhapra on second day at 00.40 hrs,Siwan at 01.45 hrs, Mairwa at 02.03 hrs, Bhatniat 02.49 hrs, Deoria Sadar at 03.15 hrs,Gorakhpur at 04.45 hrs, Sahajanwa at 05.19 hrs,Khalilabad at 05.40 hrs, Basti at 06.10 hrs,Babhnan at 06.37 hrs, Maskanwa at 06.55 hrs,Mankapur at 07.10 hrs, Gonda at 08.07 hrs,Colonelganj at 08.33 hrs, Burhwal at 09.04 hrs,Barabanki at 09.45 hrs, Lucknow at 10.55 hrs,Unnao at 12.03 hrs, Kanpur Central at 12.50 hrs,Pokhrayan at 14.02 hrs, Kalpi at 14.40 hrs, Oraiat 15.30 hrs, Jhansi at 18.15 hrs, Datia at 18.39hrs, Dabra at 19.13 hrs and reach Gwalior at20.35 hrs. A total of 21 coaches, including twoof SLR, five of general second class, 10 of sleep-er, three of AC third class and one of AC sec-ond class will be attached in the train.

KISAN RAIL: The railway administrationkeeping the convenience of farmers in mind willfor transportation of agricultural products run00977/00978 Mahua-Bapudham Motihari-Mahua Kisan Rail Seva through Gorakhpur onthe following dates, CPRO PK Singh said. The00977 Mahua-Bapudham Motihari Kisan Rail willbe run from Mahua on February 20, 23, 25 and27 and March 2, 4, 6 and 9, 2021. Similarly, the00978 Bapudham Motihari-Mahua Kisan Rail willbe run from Bapudham Motihari on February 21,23, 26 and 28 and March 2, 5, 7, 9 and 12.

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Chunar police arrested three accused andrecovered 9.6 kg ganja and two stolen

motorcycles in two separate cases on Thursday.As per the reports, the police was doing routinechecking of vehicles on road near Jalalpur vil-lage when a motorcyclist when asked to showdocuments of the vehicle but he could not doso. After seizing the vehicle the police interro-gated him, nabbed his accomplice and recov-ered 6.2 kg ganja. After registering the case thepolice sent the accused identified as RameshSahni and Kamalesh Yadav, residents of JalalpurMafi village under Chunar police station to jail.In another case during checking near Sultanpurvillage on Varanasi-Chunar Ghat road thepolice stopped a motorcyclist who failed to showdocuments of vehicle. After a search the policerecovered 3.4 kg ganja from him. After regis-tering the case the police seized the motorcy-cle and sent the accused, identified as Ajay Yadavalias Guddu of Rudaula village under Chunarpolice station, to jail.

MEETING: DM Praveen Kumar Laxkarchaired the meeting of Food Safey and DrugAdministration in the meeting hall ofCollectorate on Thursday. The DM expressed hisanger when told that drug inspector wasabsent. On being apprised that he did not attend

meetings DMdirected theofficial con-cerned towrite a letter

to higher authorities against him. Heexpressed his discontent over less checkingduring the previous festivals. He said milk andmilk products should be checked during thedrive and samples of spices should be taken .The officials were directed to check theMDM too. The meeting was attended byADM(F&R) UP Singh, CO Sadar, DSO UmeshChand, PO ICDS PK Singh and others.

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The railway administrationfor the convenience of pas-

sengers will run the followingspecial trains with changednumbers, composition andtimings. All coaches in themwill be of reserved category andpassengers will have to followthe Covid-19 guidelines, CPROPK Singh said. At present the02542 Lokmanya TilakTerminus (LTT)-Gorakhpurspecial train will from April 11be run with a changed numberas 02103 LTT-Gorakhpursuperfast daily special trainnumber and 02541 Gorakhpur-LTT special from April 12 withchanged number as 02104Gorakhpur-LTT daily specialtrain. The 02541 Gorakhpur-LTT special train will not runfrom Gorakhpur on April 9, 10and 11.

LTT-GKP SF DAILY: Asper the changed number andtiming the 02103 LokmanyaTilak Terminus-Gorakhpursuperfast daily train will fromApril 11 leave LTT daily at05.23 hrs, Bhusaval at 12.10 hrs,Khandwa at 14.20 hrs, Itarsi at16.40 hrs, Bhopal at 18.25 hrs,Jhansi at 22.18 hrs, Orai at23.42 hrs, Pokhrayan at 00.37hrs on second day, KanpurCentral at 03.40 hrs, Aishbaghat 06.10 hrs, Badshahnagar at06.50 hrs, Gonda at 09.05 hrs,Bhabhanan at 09.48 hrs, Bastiat 10.23 hrs, Khalilabad at10.47 hrs and will reachGorakhpur at 11.45 hrs.Whereas 02104 Gorakhpur-LTT superfast special will fromApril 12 leave Gorakhpur dailyat 22.30 hrs, Khalilabad at23.10 hrs, Basti at 23.39 hrs,Babhanan at 00.04 hrs, Gondaat 01.00 hrs, Badshahnagar at03.17 hrs, Aishbagh at 04.10hrs, Kanpur Central at 06.30

hrs, Pokhrayan at 07.33 hrs,Orai at 08.12 hrs, Jhansi at11.03 hrs, Bhopal at 14.50 hrs,Itarsi at 16.30 hrs, Khandwa at19.10 hrs, Bhusawal at 21.10 hrsand reach LTT at 04.35 hrs onthe third day. According to therevised rake composition, 21coaches, including 10 of sleep-er class, four of general secondclass, four of AC third class, oneof AC second class and 02coaches of generator cum lug-gage vehicle will be installed.

At present 01016Gorakhpur-LTT daily specialtrain from April 11 will runwith changed number as 02537Gorakhpur-LTT superfast dailyspecial train and 01015Lokmanya Tilak Terminus-Gorakhpur daily special trainfrom April 11 with changednumber as 02538 LTT-Gorakhpur Superfast daily spe-cial train number. The 01015Gorakhpur-LTT special trainwill not be run fromGorakhpur on April 9 and 10.As per changed number andtimings, the 02537 Gorakhpur-LTT superfast special will dailyfrom April 11 will depart fromGorakhpur at 17.45 hrs,Khalilabad at 18.26 hrs, Basti18.55 at hrs, Babhanan 19.20hrs, Mankapur at 19.46 hrs,Gonda at 20.30 hrs, Barabankiat 22.05 hrs, Badshahnagar at22.43 hrs, Aishbagh at 23.35hrs, Unnao at 00.55 hrs on thesecond day, Kanpur Central at01.35 hrs, Kalpi at 02.47 hrs,Orai at 03.16 hrs, Jhansi at05.38 hrs, Lalitpur at 06.45 hrs,Bina at 07.45 hrs, Ganj Basodaat 08.20 hrs, Vidisha at 08.48hrs, Bhopal at 10.05 hrs,Habibganj at 10.20 hrs, MandiDip at 10.35 hrs, Hoshangabadat 11.30 hrs, Itarsi at 12.00 hrs,Timarni at 12.45 hrs, Harda at13.02 hrs, Khirkiya at 13.30 hrs,Khandwa at 14.40 hrs,

Burhanpur at 15.35 hrs, Raverat 15.55 hrs, Bhusaval at 17.00hrs, Jalgaon at 17.30 hrs,Pachora at 18.05 hrs,Chalisgaon at 18.45 hrs,Manmad at 19.40 hrs, NashikRoad at 20.40, Kalyan at 23.10hrs, Thane at 23.35 hrs andreach Lokmanya TilakTerminus at 00.10 hrs on thethird day. The 02538 LokmanyaTilak Terminus-GorakhpurSuperfast special train willfrom April 11 depart fromLokmanya Tilak daily at 00.35hrs, Thane at 01.00 hrs, Kalyanat 01.20 hrs, Kalyan at 01.20hrs, Nashik Road at 04.05 hrs,Manmad at 05.05 hrs,Chalisgaon at 06.10 hrs,Pachora at 06.35 hrs, Jalgaon at07.25 hrs, Bhusaval at 08.00 hrs,Raver at 08.35 hrs, Burhanpurat 08.50 hrs, Khandwa at 10.15hrs, Khirkiya at 11.12 hrs,Harda at 11.40 hrs, Timarni at11.55 hrs, Itarsi at 13.00 hrs,Hoshangabad at 13.20 hrs,Mandi Dip at 14.15 hrs,Habibganj at 14.40 hrs, Bhopalat 15.00 hrs, Vidisha at 15.37hrs, Ganj Basoda at 16.15 hrs,Bina at 17.20 hrs, Lalitpur at18.01 hrs, Jhansi at 19.15 hrs,Orai at 20.42 hrs, Kalpi at 21.12hrs, Kanpur Central on secondday at 00.15 hrs, Unnao at 00.44hrs, Aishbagh at 01.52 hrs,Badshahnagar at 02.14 hrs,Barabanki at 02.47 hrs, Gondaat 04.02 hrs, Mankapur at 04.26hrs, Babhnan at 04.52 hrs,Basti at 05.22 hrs, Khalilabad at05.46 hrs and will reachGorakhpur at 07.05 hrs.According to the revised rakecomposition, 22 coaches,including two coaches of gen-erator-cum-luggage van, sevenof sleeper class, two of AC sec-ond class, six of air-condi-tioned third class, four of gen-eral second class and one ofpantrycar will be attached in it.

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One person was killed in a road accidentwhich took place in an area under Adalhaat

police station on Thursday. As per the reports,Brajesh Kushwaha (20), a resident of Bhadauravillage under Bhaanwarkol police station inGhazipur district, was on his way when hewas hit by a tanker. On getting informationabout the matter the police reached the spotand found Brajesh dead. Pillion rider SatyamSingh was injured in the accident. The policetook the body for completing the legal for-malities and sent the injured to the hospital.

TRANSFERRED: As per the transfer orderissued by the SP lateon Thursday night, SwamiNath has been made the SHO Katra Kotwali andAjeet Kumar Srivastava the SO Ahraura. Besidesa dozen S-Is too were transferred.

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Kanpur DivisionalCommissioner Raj

Shekhar carried out a surpriseinspection of the office of thejoint commissioner of indus-tries in Kanpur on Friday. Hesaid at the particular time outof the five employees all werepresent.

The joint commissionerinformed the divisional com-missioner that as the office washoused on the second floor andwas not conducive for indus-trialists, it had been decided toshift it to the HBTU campus.

He also informed the divi-sional commissioner that cur-rently renovation work in theoffice was being done by theUPSIC and it was likely to befinished in the next fourmonths.

He said the new officewould have the best amenitieslike auditorium and other facil-ities for the industrialists. Hesaid now as per the MSME Act,2020, the facilitation councilhad been constituted under thechairmanship of the division-al commissioner and present-ly the notification of the divi-sional rules was under processat government level and cre-

ation of division user ID wasunder process at the govern-ment level as well. He said themeeting would facilitate thepending matters at the councillevel.

The divisional commis-sioner then inspected the facil-itation council cell where thestaff concerned was present. Hethen inspected the handloomshowroom situated at KabirBhawan.

He interacted with the staffand came to know that theywere working getting salary asper the Fourth PayCommission recommendationsince January 1, 1986.

Shekhar found that thegarments available at the salesoutlet were of export qualityand of latest designs.

He was also informed thatthe expenses and the staffsalary was met from consign-ment and orders from othergovernment departments andthere was an outstanding lia-bility of Rs 4 crore towardspayment to be made to theretired and deceased staff.

The divisional commis-sioner assured that theproducts would bepushed through schools, gov-ernment departments and hos-pitals.

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Noted chartered accountantand tax expert Himanshu

Singh, while addressing a sem-inar on ‘Amendments in GST’organised by the KanpurIncome Tax Bar Association onFriday, said several amend-ments had been made in thecurrent budget that appearedstringent, like the proposal toincrease the penalty from 100per cent to 200 per cent forrelease of detained or seizedgoods and conveyances.

He said the provisionalrelease in cases of detention orseizure would only be permit-ted on payment in cash.

He said these changeswould help small and mediumbusinesses to tide over pan-demic-induced disruptions.

e said proposals alsoincluded relaxation in themandatory audit requirementfor registered businesses anddetermination of interestpayable against outstandingtax liability.

He said for the first timethe mandatory audit require-ment had been relaxed.

He said as per the demandsof the industries bodies for eas-ing requirements, the govern-ment had gradually tightenedthe GST law.

Singh said that the budgetwidened the scope of word

‘person’ under Section 7 of theAct and said clause (aa) wasadded in the sub-section.

He said it added that theperson and its members orconstituents shall be deemed tobe two separate persons and thesupply of activities or transac-tions between person andmember and vice-versa shall bedeemed to take place fromone such person to another.

He said now the member’sclub and members would betreated as distinct persons andwith such change in the law, thedoctrine of principle of mutu-ality which treated memberand member club as the sameperson would no more beapplicable.

He said to avoid illegalclaim of ITC and discrepanciesin the data entered by the sup-plier and recipient to claimITC, it had now becomemandatory for the supplier tofill in the details of the invoiceor debit note in its statement ofoutward supply, like GSTR-1,and then only the recipient ofsupply would be eligible underSection 16 of the Act to stakeclaim on ITC.

He said such clause wasalready recognised under lawin Section 37(1) of the Act,however, the same was nowinserted as clause (aa) undersub-section (2) of Section 16.

Singh further said that

Section 35(5) of the Act whichrequired the account to beaudited by a certified profes-sional and submission of suchaudited account statement andreconciliation statement asrequired under Section 44(2) ofthe Act was now omitted.

He said additionally,Section 44 of the Act was alsosubstituted and removed themandatory requirement of sub-mitting a reconciliation state-ment which was audited by aspecified professional.

He said now the taxpayerhad to submit a self-certifiedreconciliation statementwith the audited annualfinancial statement. Hesaid GSTR-9C could be filedwithout any certification oncesuch amendments becomeeffective.

Discussing interest on netcash liability under Section 50of the Act, he said the provisoinserted by the Finance Act,2019 which read ‘interest wouldbe charged on the net cash lia-bility only’, was substituted ret-rospectively from July 1, 2017,and in view of this interest onlate payment of GST shall bepayable only on the net cashcomponent with effect fromJuly 1, 2017.

He said there shall be sep-arate proceedings for supplierand transporter under Section74 of the Act and added that

confiscation and seizure ofgoods and that of conveyanceused in transit of such goodswould now have a separate pro-ceeding for the recovery of tax.

He explained that if thesupplier of such goods wishedto conclude the proceeding bypaying the equivalent tax andpenalty levied through suchconfiscation and seizure, theproceeding against the trans-port would still continue till theissue was resolved.

Singh said self-assessedwould now include tax payablein outward supply, and theamount declared in GSTR-1but not in GSTR-3B would nowbe considered under self-assessed tax and a recoveryproceeding could be initiatedfor such difference in the lia-bility without a proper adjudi-cation proceeding.

He said provisional attach-ment of property would now bevalid throughout the proceed-ing, starting from initiation ofassessment proceeding underChapter XII or Chapter XIV ordemand and recovery underChapter XV till one year of theexpiry of order.

He said under Section107(6), provision was addedwhich made it mandatory forthe appellant filing an appealagainst the order of detentionor seizure to deposit 25 per centof the penalty.

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ACycling Expedition flaggedoff by Air Commodore

VK Sashindran, Air OfficerCommanding, 7 Air ForceHospital, Cantonment, onFebruary 12, 2021 returnedon February 14 .

Addressing the team, AirCommodore VK Sashindransaid as a whole, physical fitnesswas important to the defenceforces because it maintainedgood health, helped keep mem-bers in shape and enabledAirmen to be productive on thejob.

He said to be able to be inthe Air Force, one musthave stamina and the will to

do anything and theexpedition was one step in thedirection.

The expedition was under-taken by the personnel of 7 AirForce Hospital with an aim topromote the spirit of adventure,sportsmanship and fitnessamong Air Warriors.

The team comprised fourofficers, two nursing officersand six airmen.

The participants success-fully covered a distance of 293km and back from Agra toKanpur Nagar.

The theme of the cyclingexpedition was to promoteawareness on fitness and its slo-gan was ‘Importance of fitnessto be healthier’.

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Chief cardiothoracic sur-geon at Regency Super

Speciality Hospital in Kanpur,Dr Saeed Akhtar, observedthat despite suffering fromheart diseases, heart patientswere often afraid and hesitantof undergoing surgery. He saidtoday’s bypass surgery was verysafe and effective. He pointedout that most of the research inmedical science was on bypasssurgery so there was no needfor the patients to be afraid ofthis surgery.

Addressing media persons,Dr Akhtar said that a wax-likesubstance called plaque oftenformed inside the arteries,resulting in the narrowing orblockage in the arteries thatlater led to a heart attack.

He said, “Bypass surgeryhas many benefits, especiallyfor patients with severe heartdisease. If you one has a heartattack or one is at risk of a heartattack, surgery can save one’slife. If one has angina andshortness of breath due to a dis-eased heart, coronary bypasssurgery is highly effective toreduce the discomfort.”

Dr Akhtar said nowadays,complications from coronarybypass surgery occurred invery few cases and the doctormade every effort to reducethose complications.

“Bypass surgery actuallyrestores the blood flow to theheart muscle. Doctors use it asan angina treatment or as anemergency heart attack treat-ment,” he added.

Dr Akhtar said it was veryimportant to weigh the risksand benefits before a surgeryand talk to the doctor on allaspects. “You can return toyour normal life in a few weeksafter surgery. It will be easier foryou to get active and exerciseafter surgery. It usually takes 6-8 weeks.” he pointed out.

8������� � �� ���������������������KANPUR (PNS): Former vicechancellor of CSA University ofTechnology and Agriculture,Dr Sushil Solomon, whileaddressing a seminar on‘improving sugarcane farmingthrough six-fold methods’ atthe National Sugar Institute onFriday said with the imple-mentation of the new technol-ogy the yield of sugarcanewould go up. He also made anappeal to the sugar factories toprepare ethanol along withsugar and work out strategiesfor this at the earliest.

He said Chief MinisterYogi Adityanath had taken ini-tiative to ensure that the farm-ers’ profits were improved andthis was possible if they adopt-ed newer technologies.

He said a cash subsidywould be given to those farm-ers who wanted to embarkupon this venture, to encour-age them to grow demonstra-tion nurseries of sugarcaneusing the six-fold technology.

He said the state govern-ment would provide financialassistance of Rs 9,000 perhectare to farmers for devel-oping demonstration nurseriesof the new sugarcane technol-ogy. He said this plan wasaimed at addressing issues offarmers closely concerned withthe use of advanced scientificsowing methods to enhanceproductivity and make bestpossible use of land resources.

Dr Solomon said in orderto achieve the target, the six-fold technology was beinggiven prime importance onthe ground. He said theseincluded the adoption of thetrench and ring-pit methods ofsowing sugarcane that had pro-duced ‘’outstanding’’ results,the integrated pest controlmanagement, integrated nutri-ent management to apply a bal-anced quantity of inputs thatensured healthy crops.

He stressed on intercrop-ping of pulses with sugarcaneas it improved fertility of landand ration management thatassisted in getting a good yieldin the second year. He saidinstructions had also beenissued to set up more andmore single bud chip sugarcanenurseries as one of the crucialmeasures to enhance produc-tivity under the high qualitysugarcane foundation seed andprimary seed production anddistribution programme. DrAshok Kumar, KunwendraSrivastava and several othersspoke at the seminar.

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Even as the battle for Bengal’smasnad heated up, a Kolkata

court on Friday issued summonsto Union Home Minister AmitShah in a defamation case lodgedby Abhishek Banerjee,Trinamool Congress MP andnephew of Chief MinisterMamata Banerjee.

Shah has been asked toappear before the court meant ofMLAs and MPs at MayukhBhawan in Salt Lake personallyor through a representative onFebruary 22, lawyers of Banerjeesaid.

The case relates to somealleged “defamatory” speechesgiven by the Home Minister inAugust 2018 when he used theterm “Bhaipo” (nephew inBengali) to attack Banerjee.

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Mumbai: Sending alarm bells ringing, sever-al Maharashtra leaders across political partieshave been infected by Covid-19, including twowho have tested positive for the second time,officials said here on Friday.

The infected dignitaries include NationalistCongress Party State President and WaterResources Minister Jayant Patil, Health MinisterRajesh Tope, Food & Drugs AdministrationMinister Dr. Rajendra Shingne, Minister of Statefor Labour and Prahar Janshakti leader BachchuKadu. Maharashtra Congress President NanaF. Patole has gone into isolation after two of hisstaffers tested positive and his test reports areawaited, said a party source.

Besides, Home Minister Anil Deshmukh isalso in isolation at his Nagpur residence aftertesting positive earlier this week, and seniorNCP leader Eknath Khadse is also infected.

Both Kadu and Khadse have tested posi-tive for the second time, while the latter'sdaughter-in-law and BJP MP from RaverRaksha Khadse has also been infected.

Khadse had been infected in November lastyear which had led to a delay in attending tothe Enforcement Directorate summons, dis-played Covid-19 symptoms again in Decemberand first week of Feb, and has not tested positive.

The concerns are further compounded bythe upcoming Maharashtra Legislature's BudgetSession starting here on March 1 with theBudget likely to be presented on March 8. TheMaharashtra Legislative Council ChairmanRamraje Naik-Nimbalkar has urged the Centreand State governments to ensure priority vac-cination drive for all legislators and Legislaturestaffers. IANS

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The sinister plot hatched bythe Pakistan based

Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT) terroroutfit to disturb peace and thetourist related activities in theKashmir valley has beenexposed by the Jammu &Kashmir Police with the arrestof three terrorists involvedbehind the attack on KrishnaDhaba on February 17. AkashMehra, son of an eatery owner,had received gunshot injurieson his chest during indiscrim-inate firing.

According to Jammu andKashmir police the attack wasaimed at terrorising the nonlocals living in the valley andto disrupt the tourist activitywhich has seen an upsurgefrom past two months as thefood outlet was very famousand popular among the touristsvisiting the valley.

Briefing media personsabout the daring terror strike

which coincided with the visitof the foreign diplomats from24 countries IGP, KashmirVijay Kumar on Friday saidsoon after the terror attack dif-ferent police teams were set upto investigate the attack.

He said crucial leads weredeveloped after screeningCCTV footage and other cru-cial data based on human intel-ligence. The police teams fromSrinagar, Pulwama andAnantnag were roped in andseveral raids were conductedwhich led to the arrest ofVilayat Aziz Mir son of AbdulAziz Mir resident of HaniporaWampora Pulwama.

Similarly, Suhail AhmadMir son of Fateh Mohd Mirand Owais Manzoor Sofi son ofManzoor Ahmad Sofi, bothresidents of Dangerpora werearrested during the raids by thepolice teams, IGP told reportersduring the press conference.

IGP Kashmir also claimed,during the course of investiga-tion, it was learnt that Vilayat

was in contact with one Ghazi,an active terrorist who hadtrained him locally a monthbefore. He performed the recceof Dalgate Durganag area alongwith other terrorist associatesten days prior to attack.

“On 17/2/2021 the trio onthe bike of Suhail Ahmed Mirson of Fateh Mohd Mir residentof Dangerpora, at around 7:15reached Krishna Dhaba andfired indiscriminately on thestaff, injuring critically AakashMehra S/O Ramesh KumarMehra”.

According to the policerecords, “Owais Manzoor waspreviously involved in caseFIR No 46/2018 under section148, 149, 336, 152 RPC of PSNowgam. The case was chal-laned on 4/12/2018 at district& sessions judge Budgam.

According to a policespokesman,”The Pak based ter-rorist organisation have adopt-ed new strategies by recruitinglocal youths who are in theirteens and allowing them to mix

up with the family friends andlive normally and trainingthem for a day or so. They aregiven tasks by their masters andin case they get caught a pub-lic opinion is generated thatthey were not active militantsand joined only on the day ofthe incident”.

Police has also recoveredweapon of crime (pistol) andgrenade along with otherincriminating material includ-ing bike used by terrorists'

According to IGP Kashmir,the trio during interrogationhave confessed their involve-ment in the crime. A case hasalready been registered in thisregard under relevant sectionsof law and further investigationis on.

IGP Kashmir Vijay Kumaralso complimented theSrinagar, Pulwama andAnantnag Police who speedilycarried out the investigationjointly under the close super-vision of DIG Central Kashmirrange Amit Kumar.

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Shiv Sena MP PriyankaChaturvedi on Friday won-

dered that since many coun-tries had benefited from the“Vaccine Maitri” initiative bythe Ministry of External Affairs(MEA), was it not high timefor the Centre to make vaccineeasily available for all theIndians, especially at a timewhen the Covid-19 vaccinesupplies are under-utilised inthe country.

In a letter shot off to UnionHealth Minister HarshVardhan, Priyanka said, “Indiais once again seeing an increasein Covid-19 cases and the var-ious strains of the virus havealso been detected. As per theHealth Ministry data, Covid-19 vaccine supplies are under-utilised.…. If this is the case

then shouldn’t we reconsiderour policy of regulating theavailability of vaccines?”.

Substantiating the under-utilisation of Covid-19 vaccinesupplies, the Sena MP said: “…the data of vaccine suppliesshows that only 31.45 per centof Covishield and 11.75 percent Covaxin have beenadministered to frontlineworkers”.

Alluding to the shortfallsin the implementation of thefirst phase of vaccinationacross the country, Priyankasaid: “The CoWin App hasbeen facing glitches with data.Also, there are loopholes thatexist for those who have accessto networks and money to getvaccine shots on priority, whilethose who are from the weak-er section of society suffer theconsequences of such govern-

ment regulation”.“Many countries have ben-

efitted from the Vaccine Maitriinitiative by the Ministry ofExternal Affairs, isn’t it hightime that Indians get the samebenefits of having a vaccineeasily available for them?,” sheasked.

Making a strong case for arapid voluntary vaccinationfor senior citizens, citizenswith co-morbidities and amass-scale administration torest of the population,Priyanka said: “All states areadministering it to our front-line warriors and many havestarted the second round ofdosage too; however our pop-ulation is large and the fear ofanother wave that can havetremendous impact on oureconomy hence it becomesour responsibility to ensure

rapid voluntary vaccinationfor senior citizens, citizenswith co-morbidities and therest on a mass scale so that liferesumes to safety sooner thanlater”. The Sena MP urged theUnion Health Minister to ropein private hospitals in theimmunisation drive, consideropening up more mobile vac-cination centres and plug theissues faced on CoWin App.

“I would request you tokindly consider de-regularisingthe sale of vaccines and cap-ping the cost of the same toensure that there is no heavycost for the citizens to bear orthe fear of hoarding. It wouldbe unfair to the country thatwe do not use our ownstrength and leverage all ouravailable resources to help thesociety rid itself of the virus,”she stated.

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The CBI on Friday arrested aSub-Divisional Officer-I

working in Defence EstatesOffice, AhmedabadCantonment (Gujarat),Hasmukh Parmar and two offi-cials including a Manager ofFCI, Ludhiana, Punjab in twoseparate cases of bribery.

The first case was registeredagainst Parmar on the allega-tions of demanding a bribe ofRs 50,000 from the complainanttowards releasing his threevehicles which were confiscat-ed by the accused. The CBI laida trap and caught the accusedred handed while demandingand accepting a bribe of Rs50,000 from the complainant.

Searches were conducted atthe premises of the accusedwhich led to recovery of someincriminating documents,

including property documentsand details of bank accounts.

In another case, the agencyhas arrested Manager (QualityControl), Prem Kumar and aTA, Raj Karan, both of FCI ina bribery case of Rs 50,000. Acase was registered on a com-plaint alleging therein that theManager (Quality Control) wasdemanding a bribe of Rs 50,000for checking and stacking ofcomplainant’s rice consignmentat PSWC Godown, Kailpur,Ludhiana.

The CBI laid a trap andcaught the Manager KaranKumar while demanding andaccepting a bribe of Rs 50,000.

During investigation, it wasrevealed that the bribe amountwas to be shared with TA, FCI,leading to his arrest. Searcheswere conducted at the resi-dences of both the accused atLudhiana.

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Panaji: Maratha emperor Shivajiand his son Sambhaji helped pre-serve Hindu culture in Goa at thetime of religious conversion, ChiefMinister Pramod Sawant said at aShiv Jayanti function held here onFriday.

Sawant also said that like PrimeMinister Narendra Modi's call for'Make in India' and 'Skill India', theMaratha king had also believed ina similar philosophy, especiallywhen it came to locally manufactur-ing arms used to fight the brutaloppressive regimes.

“Not just in Maharashtra,Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj tookefforts to preserve Hindu dharmaand the concept of Swadharma inGoa too. The biggest contributionto preserving Hindu religion andSwadharma (in Goa) was made byShivaji Maharaj and Sambhajimaharaj. He (Shivaji) played amajor role in preserving Hindu cul-ture at a time of conversion,” Sawantsaid.

Born in the 17th century,Shivaji's regime coincided with thecolonial Portuguese rule in Goa,

early part of which witnessed large-scale conversion of the native pop-ulation. “Prime Minister NarendraModi advocates 'Make in India','Skill India' , concepts whichChhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj hadidentified then. If you go back inhistory, during Shivaji's fight againstinjustices and brutal regimes of thetime, the weapons used by hisarmy were locally made. If theMake in India concept is in vogue now, its foundations werelaid by Shivaji Maharaj,” Sawantsaid. IANS

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Shah had allegedly saidthat Bhaipo was linked toNarada, Sharada and RoseValley scams. He has alsoalleged that most central fundsmeant for public welfare werebeing siphoned off by Bhaipo’smen who acted through syn-dicates.

Banerjee had subsequent-ly slapped a libel suit againstShah and the case came up forhearing on Friday when thedesignated special court judgedirected the defendant toappear before him “in per-son/by pleader” at 10 am on February 22.

Meanwhile, Shah onFriday attended the“Shauryanjali” programme atthe iconic National Librarywhere he once again invokedNetaji Subhas Chandra Bosesaying “his bravery and valourwould be remembered by thecountry for ages.”

He said that the people ofthe country should once againstart looking up to Netaji forinspiration saying “the com-mittee formed by PrimeMinister Narendra Modi willensure that the people will paytheir homage to the greatleader generation after gener-ation.”

Shah who flagged off acycle rally in three routes thatwill reach the homes of thecrores of Indian freedomstruggle said that the youth ofthe country should start read-ing about Bose a lot as “it willteach you a lot.”

Elsewhere Bengal wouldsoon start receiving centralforces for the coming elections.The first 125 companies of thetotal 1000 companies wouldreach the state soon. Fivecompanies were likely to reachthe State and start patrollingduty from as early as February25, sources said.

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The Delhi PoliceCommissioner, SN

Shrivastava, on Friday saidthat the violence that broke outon Republic day was not due tointelligence failure and allegedthat the farmers protesting thethree agri laws had betrayedtheir trust by not following pre-decided routes during the trac-tor parade.

The CP said that therewere apprehensions which iswhy barricades were placedand the farmers were stopped.“Police have arrested 152 peo-ple so far in connection withthe violence that took place inthe national capital on Republicday,” he said.

Responding to a questionduring the annual press confer-ence of the Delhi Police aboutthe possibility of an intelligencefailure on January 26,Shrivastava said “there was nointelligence failure.”

“Police had been holdingtalks with them (farmers). We

had permitted them to take outthe tractor rally. As per theagreement, certain terms andconditions were laid down andthey were given designatedroutes to take out their tractorparade. But they betrayed thetrust of Delhi Police and resort-ed to violence. The police dis-charged its duties very well,”said the police chief.

He further added that thefarmer leaders have alsoresponded to the notices servedon them by the Delhi Police.

Thousands of farmersprotesting the Centre’s newagriculture laws had clashedwith the police during theirtractor parade on January 26.Many of the protesters, drivingtractors, reached the Red Fortand entered the monument.Some protesters even hoistedreligious flags on its domes anda flagstaff at the ramparts,where the national flag isunfurled on IndependenceDay. Over 500 police person-nel were injured and one pro-testor died on that day.

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The EnforcementDirectorate (ED) has

attached properties worth�281.42 crore of variousaccused and their associates inconnection with Gurgaon landscam.

The attached assets include54 per cent portion of projectin the name of DoveInfrastructure Pvt. Ltd. per-taining to Atul Bansal/ Groupcompanies at Faridabadamounting to �108.86 crore, 50per cent of the portion of“Business Bay Project” in thename of company SeriatimLand & Housing Pvt. Ltd per-taining to Atul Bansal/ Groupcompanies amounting to �78.09 crore and flats and FDRpertaining to AngliqueInternational Ltd. amounting to�3.39 crore.

Other attached assets are� 25.53 crores refund fromHSIIDC sanctioned to GuruNanak InfrastructuresDevelopers Pvt. Ltd., 13.77

acres and 5.65 acres of land val-ued at �29.48 crore pertainingto Frontier Home DevelopersPvt. Ltd., 20 flats valued at �22.72 crore pertaining toFrontier Home DevelopersPvt. Ltd. and 95.09 bighas ofagricultural land at Behrorand Neemrana (Both inRajasthan) valued at �� 13.31crore pertaining to Lalit Modi.

The ED had initiatedinvestigation by recordingECIR on the basis of an FIRNo. RCCHG2015A0019 datedSeptember 15, 2015registeredby the CBI, ACB, Chandigarhunder section IPC Sectionrelating to criminal conspira-cy, cheating and forgery amongothers besides provisions of thePrevention of Corruption Actagainst unknown public ser-vants of GovernmentofHaryana and unknown privatepersons.

It was alleged in the FIRthat the Government ofHaryana had issued notifica-tion under section 4 of theLand Acquisition Act, 1894 on

August 27, 2004 and hadissued notification under sec-tion 6 of the said Act onAugust 25, 2005 for acquisitionof land measuring about 912acres for setting up anIndustrial Model Township invillages Manesar, Naurangpurand Lakhnoula of district,Gurugram.

A large number of landowners, in distress, had to sellabout 400 acres of their land atthrowaway prices to privatebuilders and caused a wrong-ful loss to the land owners ofthese villages.

“PMLA investigationrevealed that the land waslater freed from compulsoryacquisition by the StateGovernment as a result ofconspiracy by politicians,bureaucrats and privatebuilders causing huge loss tothe land owners andGovernment exchequer.

Further, investigationrevealed that mostof the landwas purchased by ABWILGroup controlled by AtulBansal and after obtaininglicences, ABWIL had sold thelicensed/ unlicensed land andlicensesto the other private per-sons/ developers, thus makingprofit worth crores of rupees.

The ED investigationrevealed that the above prop-erties worth �281.42 crores areProceeds of Crime underPMLA, 2002.

Two ProvisionalAttachment orders amountingto �08.76 have already beenissued and stand confirmed bythe Adjudicating Authority.

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On a day its vaccinationnumbers crossed the

one-crore mark making Indiathe second-fastest country inthe world after the US toreach the milestone, UnionHealth Minister HarshVardhan on Friday appealedto the healthcare and frontlineworkers to get vaccinatedagainst Covid-19.

Vardhan further said thatno severe adverse event post-immunisat ion has beenrecorded in the country andthose reported are also 0.0004per cent. “No death has beenrecorded due to COVID-19vaccination. All state gov-ernments have been asked tovaccinate every healthcareand frontline worker,” he said.

The cumulative numberof Covid 19 vaccine dosesadministered to healthcareand frontline workers reached1,04,49,942 through2,20,877sessions, as per theprovisional report till 6 pm on

Friday.These include 62,95,903

healthcare workers who havetaken the 1st dose and7,56,942 healthcare workerswho have taken the 2nd dose,along with 33,97,097 frontlineworkers with 1st dose.

While the countrywidevaccination drive was rolledout on January 16, 2021, vac-cination of the frontline work-ers was started from February2, 2021.

A total of 6,58,674 vacci-nations were administeredon 18th February 2021. Thisconstitutes the highest singleday vaccinations during theon-going COVID-19 vacci-nation drive.

Dr Harsh Vardhan saidthat the vaccines were safe

and fill all the criteria ofimmunogenicity. “I want toappeal to all healthcare andfrontline workers to get inoc-ulated with COVID-19 vac-cine doses as per schedule.The vaccines are safe. Don’tbelieve any rumour and mis-information,” he said.

Every state/union territo-ry has been asked to scheduleall healthcare workers forvaccination at least oncebefore Februar y 20 andimmediately thereafter organ-ise mop-up rounds for them.

The Minister a lsoapplauded the country forcrossing the one crore markin Covid vaccination saying:Congratulations India oncrossing a major milestone!

According to the Unionhealth ministry, India’s vacci-nation coverage ranks third inthe world, after the US with55.2 million doses and the UKwith 16.12 million doses.Both, the US and the UK havecompleted over 60 days ofvaccination.

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Laboratories on Fridaysaid that it has initiat-ed the process with theDrugs ControllerGeneral of India(DCGI) for emergency useauthorisation (EUA) of humanadenoviral vector-based plat-form vaccine candidateSputnik V.

As part of the reviewprocess, Dr Reddy’s will pre-sent the safety profile of phasetwo study and interim data ofphase three study which isexpected to complete byFebruary 21.

“The efficacy of Sputnik Vwas reported to be 91.6 percent by the Lancet, which is animpressive development inthe fight against Covid-19,”said Cochairman andManaging Director G VPrasad.

“The initiation of theemergency use authorisationprocess will be a critical stepforward for us in ensuringspeedy access to the SputnikV vaccine in India,” he said ina statement.

In September 2020, DrReddy’s partnered with theRussian Direct InvestmentFund (RDIF) to conduct clin-ical trials of Sputnik V and forits distribution rights in India.

Sputnik V has demon-strated an efficacy rate of 91.6

per cent in interim analysis ofphase three clinical trial whichincluded data on 19,866 vol-unteers in Russia, whoreceived both the first and sec-ond doses of the vaccine.

Sputnik V maintained aconsistent efficacy at 91.8 percent even among the group of2, 144 volunteers over 60years old. The vaccine devel-oped by the GamaleyaNational Research Instituteof Epidemiology andMicrobiology was registeredby the Ministry of Health ofRussia on August 11 last yearand became the world’s firstregistered vaccine againstCovid-19 based on the humanadenoviral vector platform.

More than 250 clinicalstudies over two decades haveproven the safety, efficacy andlack of negative long-termeffects of adenoviral vaccines.

Sputnik V is one of onlythree vaccines in the worldwith an efficacy of 91.6 percent and has most authorisa-tions granted with 26 coun-tries globally. The vaccine hasalready been administered tomore than 20 lakh peopleworldwide.

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Amid farmers’ protests, theModi Government on

Friday reiterated that it has nointention to eliminate arthiyas(middlemen) in Punjab andHaryana and no directionshave been issued to eliminatearthiyas from the mandi sys-tem and adding that boththese States will compulsori-ly have to use electronicmodes to pay crop price(MSP) to farmers. The min-istry of consumer affairs andfood said that � 1,16,653.96crore reflected in Public

Financial ManagementSystem (PFMS) towardsPunjab and � 24841.56 crorein respect of Haryana. TheGovernment further said thatit will release nearly �3 lakhcrore more food subsidy inthe remaining two months ofthe current fiscal as it looks toclear all previous backlogs.

The Government saidthat electronic mode of pay-ment ensures that all partic-ipants including farmers,Arthiyas and mandis receivetheir payments directly onlinein order to ensure trans-parency and trail of pay-

ments.“This is not a replacement

of the current APMC system.It only strengthens trans-parency and elimination ofleakages,” it added.

Stating that e-mode ofMSP payment is already inforce across India, the min-istry said the Centre has beentrying to ensure the same inPunjab and Haryana at leastsince 2015-16.

“ The CentralGovernment is regularly pur-suing with Punjab andHaryana Governments forensuring direct online pay-

ment into farmer’s accountssince 2015-16. However, boththe state Governments havebeen routinely approachingthe Centre for grantingexemption/seeking time forimplementation of directonline payment initiative.

“The Government ofIndia has therefore, directedState Government of Punjab and Har yana toensure online payment tofarmers through e-mode fromupcoming season and thatno further relaxation on thisaccount will be accorded,”the ministry said.

The ministry informedthat e-mode of payment hasalready been adopted par-t ia l ly by Haryana and Punjab.

A part of payment for thispaddy procurement was donethrough the e-mode only.

“Direct online payment tofarmers predates the threefarm laws. In Punjab, pay-ment of MSP was paid to thefarmers through Arthiyas and in Haryana, FCImade payment of MSP direct-ly to farmer’s bank accountsthrough online mode, where-as State agencies made pay-

ment of MSP to the farmerspartly through Arthiya andpartly directly to farmer’saccount through online modeas per option given by thefarmers in e-Kharid portal,”the statement said.

The three new farm Actswere enacted in Septemberlast year. Thousands of farm-ers, mainly from Punjab,Haryana and Western UttarPradesh, have been protesting at Delhi bordersfrom over two months now,seeking repeal of three farmlaws and a legal guarantee ofthe MSP.

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The Agriculture Ministryhas been permitted to use

drones for remote sensing datacollection under PradhanMantri Fasal Bima Yojana(PMFBY). This will allow theagriculture ministry to usedrones for remote sensing datacollection in agricultural areasof 100 districts of the countryfor gram panchayat level yieldestimation, under PMFBY.

“The Ministry of CivilAviation and DirectorateGeneral of Civil Aviation havegranted conditional exemp-tion for Remotely PilotedAircraft System (RPAS) usageto the Ministry of Agricultureand Farmers Welfare(MoAFW),” an official state-ment said on Friday.

Union AgricultureMinister Narendra SinghTomar has earlier tweeted

that use of UAV data in thescheme will add new dimen-sion to ensure timely settle-ment of claims in the schemeas well as for crop area esti-mation, losses due tolocalised calamities and toresolve yield dispute betweendifferent stakeholders underthe scheme. “The use of highspatial resolution UAV datamay also be explored in otheragriculture-related schemesin India”, stated the Minister.

The conditional exemp-tion will be valid for one yearfrom the date of issue of thepermission letter or until theoperationalisation of theDigita l Sky Plat form,whichever is earlier, thestatement by the civil aviationministry said. This exemp-tion shall be valid only if allconditions and limitationsare strictly adhered to, itsaid.

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Amid the rising fuel prices,Congress on Friday called

upon the Centre to reduce theexcise duty on petrol and dieselto provide relief to 130 crorecitizens. Lamenting how canthe Modi Government passthe buck of rising fuel price toCongress Governments whichwas six years ago, theOpposition termed the BJPled government as nothing lessthan Indhan Tax Jivi Sarkar(Fuel Tax Goverment and is aBhayankar Janloot Sarkar.

AICC chief spokesmanRandeep Surjewala pointedthat the Centre had increasedthe price of petrol and diesel perlitre by �15.21 and �15.33respectively after assumingpower in May 2019. Accusingthe government of looting thepeople, he mentioned that theprices of petrol and diesel hadclimbed to �100 and �90 perlitre respectively in some partsof the country.

Dubbing BJP as ‘BhayankarJanloot Party’, he claimed thatthe NDA government hadearned �21.50 lakh crore byrepeatedly increasing fuel pricesince 2014.

“BJP’s new name shouldbe-’BhayankarJanloot Party’.Congress demands that theModi Government should stopoil loot and give relief to thepeople of the country by cuttingpetrol and diesel prices,”Surjewala said while addressinga press briefing.

Moreover, he lamented thatthe Centre was passing thebuck to the Congress afterfleecing the people by imposinghefty tax on petrol and diesel.Contending that diesel’s pricehas gone up by 40% since NDAformed the Government,Surjewala alleged that the highexcise duty had impacted boththe poor and the middle-class.

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ACalicut-bound Air IndiaExpress flight with 104 pas-

sengers on board made a pre-cautionary landing at theTrivandrum InternationalAirport at noon on Friday dueto a technical snag in thehydraulic system of the aircraft.

According to officials, AirIndia IX 1346 that departedSharjah airport at 7.07am onFriday morning was expected toland at Kozhikode airport ataround 12.40pm.”However,while air bound, the pilotsnoticed a minor technical snagin the aircraft and thereforedecided not to land atKozhikode airport as a precau-tionary measure, since the air-port has a tabletop runway,which has a shorter airstripcompared to a regular runway,”officials said. The airline alsodenied reports that it made anemergency landing, adding thatit was a precautionary landing.

The officials said it was notan emergency landing, but aplanned diversion that was takencollectively by both the pilotsafter discussing the matter withthe airport authorities.

All the passengers are safeand were deplaned from the air-craft. The airline has also madeall necessary arrangements toaccommodate passengers inanother flight.

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The CPI(Marxist) receivedover �19.69 crore from 239

donors as donations exceeding�20,000 in 2019-20. Agitatingfarmer union leader HannanMollah, DMK and CPI(M)leaders are among the contrib-utors. The Desiya MurpokkuDravida Kazhagam (DMDK)party has shown ‘nil’ donationsabove �20,000 in the year 2019-20.

According to the ElectionCommission’s website, theCPI(M) received a total of Rs19,69,36,150 as donations fromentities, individuals and theDMK. Mollah donated �4 lakhin eight installments of �40,000each.

The DMK had contributed�10 crore to the Left party dur-ing the 2019 Lok Sabha elec-tions. The party’s contributionwas reflected in its poll expen-diture report submitted to theEC after the elections.However, this was not reflect-ed in the last contributionreport of the CPI(M). The Leftparty has now shown the con-tribution in its report for 2019-20. The contribution by theDMK was made in April 2019in multiple installments. SeniorCPI(M) leader and party gen-eral secretary Sitaram Yechurycontributed �2.28 lakh,Mohammad Salim Rs 1 lakh,Brinda Karat �1.38 lakh,Elaram Karim �13.2 lakh andSuhasini Ali �1.44 lakh.

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Amaravati: Senior YuvajanaSramika Rythu Congress Party(YSRCP) leader and RajyaSabha MP V Vijayasai Reddy onFriday lambasted Telugu DesamParty (TDP) National PresidentN Chandrababu Naidu allegingthat he orchestrated the sale of54 government companies.

“Who sold Nizam SugarsLimited, dozen cooperativesugar factories, Allwyn watch-es, spinning mills and papermills, all together 54 compa-nies,” Reddy alleged.

He doubled down on theTDP Supremo following his censure of the state governmentand Chief Minister YS JaganMohan Reddy for failing to stopthe Central government's deci-sion of privatisingVisakhapatnam Steel Plant(VSP). “Further, who emptied100 more companies and sentlakhs of employees home withvoluntary retirement service(VRS)? Don't people know yourcrocodile tears Babu,” Reddyclaimed attacking Naidu.

According to the RajyaSabha MP, the ruling YSRCPparty leaders would undertakea 25-km 'padayatra' (walkathon)on Saturday in Visakhapatnam,starting from the MahatmaGandhi statue at the city civicbody office and terminating atthe steel plant arch. He ridiculedthat a leader like N.Chandrababu Naidu, whoallegedly sold away 54 govern-ment companies, is now claim-ing to fight for the steel plant.

“He (Naidu) spewed venomthe moment it was announcedthat Visakhapatnam would bemade the executive capital.Using media houses favouringhim, he propagated that Vizagis prone to tsunamis and earth-quakes,” Reddy alleged.

The 'padayatra' will tra-

verse through AsilmettaJunction, Sangam Sarath, KaliTemple, Thatichetlapalem,Kancharapalem, UrvasiJunction, 104 area, Marripalem,NAD Junction, airport, SheelaNagar, BHPV, Old Gajuwakaand Srinagar. Commentingupon the panchayat poll results,the YSRCP leader claimed thatthe ruling party aligned candi-dates won more than 85 per cent'sarpanch' posts in the thirdphase of the polls.

He alleged that peoplewould remove oxygen supportfor TDP which is already onventilator and claimed that theopposition leader filed peti-tions in the courts to stall'Amma Vodi' and public hous-ing schemes for the poor.

Meanwhile, Naidu allegedthat the panchayat polls were'lawless' and it was democracywhich got defeated. “TDP andits allies have posted goodresults and got 41.41 per centseats in the third phase of pan-chayat polls. They have wonmore than 1,093 panchayats asthe final results are emerging.The TDP has already won 38.74per cent seats in the first phaseand 39.52 percent seats in thesecond phase,” Naidu claimed. IANS

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The CBI on Friday laid a trapand caught an officer of

Standard Chartered Bank redhanded while accepting a bribeof Rs 3 lakh from the complainant.

The agency also conduct-ed searches in Chennai at thepremises of the accused officerof the private bank, Rajendran,Authorized Officer, StandardChartered Bank, Group SpecialAssets Management, RajajiSalai, Chennai and recoveredRs 18 lakh in cash, propertydocuments and locker keys ina case related to bribery of Rsthree lakh.

A case was registeredagainst the accused officer onthe allegations of demandingundue advantage of Rs 3,00,000from the complainant (repre-sentative of borrower firm) to

help and support for favourablesettlement of the case pendingin Debts Recovery Tribunal(DRT) in the matter of immov-a b l eproperties offered as collater-

al securities inthe loan availed from StandardChartered Bank, the CBI said.

“It was further alleged thatthe complainant’s firm hadavailed OD/Term Loan facili-ties from Standard CharteredBank, D B Branch, Coimbatorefor a total amount of Rs27,70,00,000 during the periodfrom 2005 to 2016 with suffi-cient collateral.

The bank accountsbecame NPA with the out-standing of Rs 26,37,12,444 ason 30.04.2017. It was alsoalleged that the StandardChartered Bank initiated actionUnder SARFAESI Act, 2002,and the accused was the

Authorized Officer to disposeof the immovable properties ofthe borrowers which weremortgaged as collateral,” it said.

The properties wereallegedly sold by auction for atotal amount of Rs 22,11,00,000 in January 2021 againstmarket value of Rs 61.5 croreas claimed by the borrower.Aggrieved by the sale, the bor-rower filed a case before theDebts Recovery Tribunal court,Coimbatore during February,2021 and got a stay orderagainst the sale. Since the mat-ter was pending before theDRT, the accused demandedundue advantage of Rs 3,00,000from the complainant to helpand support the borrower.

The accused was producedbefore the court of PrincipalSpecial Judge for CBI Cases,Chennai and was remanded tojudicial custody till March 3.

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nessed on February 17 hun-dreds of thousands of peopleattend the largest single rallysince the beginning of theprotest movement. The move-ment has united nearly 7,50,000doctors, lawyers, civil servants,railway workers, electricityproviders and others, includingGovernment employees work-ing in tax offices and the gen-eral administration. Both trainservices and power supplyhave been disrupted. Businessinterests of the Tatmadaw andthe Government functionsessential to military rule havebeen targeted.

Meanwhile, Hannah Beechpoints out in a report in TheNew York Times of February 17that the atmosphere in the dailyprotest rallies in Myanmar’smajor cities is that of a cultur-al carnival. “Graffiti artists,” sheadds, “have spray-painted mes-sages mocking Senior GeneralMin Aung Hlaing, the Armychief who staged the coup.Poets have declaimed in angryverse. A cartoonists’ unionmarched holding hand-drawnfigures. Street dancers twirledwith abandon.”

The Tatmadaw, however,refuses to concede the civil dis-obedience movement’sdemand to undo the coup,release Aung San Suu Kyi andothers arrested and allow her

party, the National League forDemocracy, which swept theNovember 2019 parliamentaryelection, to form aGovernment. On the otherhand, it seems set on pursuinga course of keeping her underdetention by levelling utterlyspurious charges of illegallyimporting and possessing sixwalkie talkie radios and violat-ing the country’s natural dis-aster laws. Also, it continuestrying to crush the civil disobe-dience movement with repres-sion, though it has not yetresorted to the kind of savageviolence it used to crush pro-democracy protesters in 1988and Buddhist monks, pro-democracy activist and otherswho, in August and Septemberof 2007, peacefully demon-strated against the Junta’s near-ly two decades of dictatorialrule and economic bungling.

Three questions arise here.Why has the Tatmadaw notunleashed that kind of murder-ous violence this time? Is it like-ly to do so? How can the restof the world prevent such aneventuality? As to the first, itclearly did not anticipate thekind of nationwide upsurgetheir coup has provoked.Second, it is worried about theeconomic consequences ofsuch a bid. The Generals haveextensive involvement in eco-

nomic ventures which will beaffected if the economy faltersas a result of domestic disorderand sabotage, and sanctionsspecifically targeting them.

The Tatmadaw may resortto a savage crackdown if it feelsthat it could afford the costs.Hence the democracies mustdisabuse it of any such idea,and make it clear that theGenerals and their families willpay a very heavy price for anysuch misadventure. The UShas slapped sanctions on 10current and former Generalswho led the coup and threeeconomic ventures. It has alsotaken steps to prevent theGenerals from improperlyaccessing more than one bil-lion dollars in BurmeseGovernment funds held in theUS, and immediate action tolimit exports of sensitive goodsto the Burmese military andother entities associated withthe recent coup. This is agood beginning. While con-demning the coup andproposing resolutions criticalof it, and supportive of democ-racy and Suu Kyi, theEuropean countries have nottaken comparable measures.They must put their moneywhere their mouth is.

(The author is ConsultingEditor, The Pioneer. The viewsexpressed are personal.)

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rogue military, official-ly called Tatmadaw, hasclearly triggered a grow-

ing confrontation between itand almost the entire people ofthe country. Except large-scalekilling of civilians, in which it hasa record not many uniformedforces can match, it has resort-ed to almost every repressivemeasure in the book for stamp-ing out mass upsurges. It hasproclaimed a state of emergencywhich is to last for a year andamended the penal code pre-scribing 20 years’ imprisonmentfor inciting hatred for theGovernment or the Army orhindering efforts of the securi-ty forces to ensure State stabili-ty. Seven years in prison is thepunishment for preventing thesecurity forces from performingtheir duties, and three years forspreading fear, “fake news” oragitating against Governmentemployees. All this was besidesthe power given to the Tatmadawto detain people indefinitelyand/or search private property,besides revalidating a law requir-ing people to report overnightvisitors to their homes.

The steps on the groundinclude the deployment of troopsand armoured vehicles on theroads of Yangon, Myitkyina (cap-ital of Karen State) and Sittwe (thecapital of Raknine State), firing ofrubber bullets, the use of watercannons against demonstrators,arrests during night curfew hoursand detention of a wide range ofpeople including political leaders,Government officials, activists,journalists, student leaders andmedical personnel. According tothe Myanmar’s AssistanceAssociation for Political Prisoners,the number of people arrestedsince the coup reached 495 onFebruary 17 and was growing.Further, the Tatmadaw hasannounced that it had issued war-rants for the arrest of six celebri-ties, including a film director,actors and a singer, under an anti-incitement law for instigatingcivil servants to join the protests.Gatherings of five or more per-sons have been banned.

All this notwithstanding, thecivil disobedience movementcontinues to swell. Yangon wit-

������������������ ������������� �������Sir—This refers to the editorial ‘Ignominiousrecord’ (February 19). We must understandthat a crime is a crime, whether commit-ted by a man or woman. Both men andwomen deserve the same quantum of pun-ishment for committing similar crimes.

Such judgments strengthen our faithin the judiciary and constitutional institu-tions. Shabnam was convicted along withher lover Salim of axing seven of her fam-ily members to death in 2008. The Amrohadistrict court had sentenced them both todeath. The convicts appealed their sentencefirst at the Allahabad High Court and thentook their plea to the Supreme Court, butboth courts refused to reduce their sentence.They then sent a mercy petition to thePresident but it too was rejected.

A woman cannot be pardoned for suchheinous crime just because of her gender,nor the quantum of punishment should bemade lesser for her. It is only under extra-ordinary circumstances, like when she ispregnant or have a deadly disease that thequestion of pardoning arises. The hangingwill be justice for those who have been slainby the psycho duo. We must also keep inmind that being educated doesn’t mean thata person will likely not commit a brutalcrime. Shabnam holds Masters degrees intwo subjects and taught at the village pri-mary school. She initially pretended that herhouse was attacked by unidentifiedassailants. However, she later confessed thatshe had abetted Salim in the crime andmade her family members drink milk lacedwith sedatives and thereafter throttled herlittle nephew. What a shame!

Azhar A Khan | Rampur

������������������ �������������Sir —Facebook has blocked many sourcesof news for its users in Australia, leavingthem in a tizzy. Many people get all of theirnews from Facebook and are now feelinguninformed by this step. The AustralianGovernment is enacting a legislation thatwould require digital companies, includ-ing Facebook and Google, to pay for newscontent. Although most of these news sto-

ries can be obtained from their home sites,the blocking of any media and newsreporting by anyone is worrying. It couldbe that this is Facebook’s way of saying thatif you want us to pay for your journalism,we are not going to play the game at all.

It is a matter of concern that Facebookpages that have been blocked include StatePolice, health sites and even the Bureau ofMeteorology. The spread seems overlybroad at this stage, with commercial andcharity pages blocked from new postings,perhaps any area they says “News.”Facebook should have thought twicebefore taking the action. It is not that onlyAustralia will suffer but it adds no feath-ers to the Facebook’s reputation either.

Dennis Fitzgerald | Australia

����������������� ������������Sir —Maharashtra Congress chief NanaPatole has rightly admonished Bollywoodactors Amitabh Bachchan and AkshayKumar for not speaking out against theCentre even when the price of petrol has

touched �100 in the country. He haswarned that he would stop the shootingof their films.

Actors like Bachchan and Kumar arejust flatterers who toe the line of the BJP,which rules the Centre, for their selfishgains. They are not concerned with theMumbaikars at all and are only worriedabout their films.

They live in luxury bungalows andcommute in high-end cars and the spikein fuel prices is hardly a cause of concernfor them. They have more than dozen carsand some of them are imported. AmitabhBachchan must have received a huge sumfor the advertisement in which he can beseen teaching others to wear a mask andsanitise their hand, or he must have doneit for popularity. But the common mancontinues to reel under the rising petroland diesel prices.

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The recent Supreme Court directive orderingvirtual recording of testimonies of child traf-ficking survivors and prosecution witness-

es, who are required to depose in courts which arefar from their place of residence, will be a giantleap forward in ensuring that survivors obtain jus-tice. Despite being illegal in India, the malaise offorced and bonded labour is widespread and com-mercial sexual exploitation of children and childtrafficking persist, often with impunity for the per-petrators of the crime and limited legal recoursefor the survivors. Children, both girls and boysfrom marginalised families in the country, are traf-ficked to engage in various exploitative situations.While minor boys are subject to child labour,forced labour, bonded labour, most of the girls endup serving as domestic help and sex slaves, wherethey are commercially exploited for sex. Sadly, childtrafficking is a demand-driven problem. There isa demand for children in the labour and commer-cial sex market, so there is a supply. In fact, thereare industries which primarily run on the nim-ble fingers of children such as bangle-making, zari-making, firecracker production and also cottonfarming. Children are engaged in cotton farmsbecause of their short height that enables fasterplucking of cotton.

Shockingly, the crime of human traffickingthrough Section 370 of the Indian Penal Code(IPC) was codified post the 2012 Nirbhaya gan-grape-cum-murder incident, although it hasbeen termed unconstitutional in the country fromthe time the Constitution of India became effec-tive. According to the National Crime RecordsBureau (NCRB) figures released in 2018, therewere 1,830 reported cases of human trafficking inthe nation. However, activists say that the actualfigure could be much higher as many victims donot register cases with the police, largely becausethey do not know the law or fear the traffickers.

In the same year, the Government complet-ed prosecution in 545 cases, convicted 322 traf-fickers in 95 cases and acquitted 1,124 suspects in450 cases. The acquittal rate in trafficking casestouched 83 per cent in 2018. Poverty, involvementof huge money and an extremely low rate of con-viction contribute to child trafficking becominga huge problem in the country.

After victims are rescued and a criminal caseis lodged, often the subsequent police investiga-tion and prosecution does not result in a convic-tion as a majority of cases are inter-State and thereis a weak mechanism for coordination among theStates to deal with such crimes. Survivors or wit-nesses are either taken to the court by the traffick-ers to speak in their favour or the victims fail toappear in the court because they do not have time,money and the energy to pursue the case.Consequently, the traffickers often get away withthe crime with impunity. On the other hand, sur-vivors are often harassed, intimidated and becomevulnerable to social stigma, on top of poor inves-tigations and slow trials resulting in the victim feel-ing further victimised.

Cases of intimidation of the witnesses and theirfamilies are very high. A perfect example of thisis the Raushan case (not his real name). Raushanalong with four other children, all natives of Gaya,Bihar, was rescued from one of the bangle-mak-ing factories of Jaipur, Rajasthan, in 2016.

Afterwards they appeared in theJaipur court and recorded their tes-timonies against the alleged traffick-er. They had to face severe threatsand intimidation upon arrival intheir home State. After threemonths, Raushan, his mother andthe mother of another child labour-er who had also testified against thetrafficker, were kidnapped. Theywere being taken to Jaipur by a trainto turn hostile in the court caseagainst the traffickers when theywere rescued just 110 kms awayfrom Gaya. This was done throughthe swift intervention of the ADG-CID who was approached for helpby social workers. Consequently, asecond FIR of kidnapping of threepersons was lodged against thesame trafficker and his accom-plices in Gaya. In the absence of astrong protection mechanism, re-trafficking is another major chal-lenge in the fight against child traf-ficking. This is because traffickedchildren become skilled over aperiod of time and become assets forestablishments that require their ser-vices. That’s why they become sub-ject to re-trafficking upon being res-cued or soon after reintegration withtheir families.

For instance, during the lock-down necessitated by theCoronavirus pandemic, a 12-year-old boy Shailendra (not his realname) was rescued from a bangle-making factory in Jaipur alongwith other children. However, his13-year-old elder brother Narendra(not his real name), was hidden bythe traffickers during the rescue

operation. After Shailendra wasre-united with his family in Gaya,he revealed the shocking nature ofthe torture that he along with otherchildren had been going through atthe hands of the factory owners.

“If we did not do the work prop-erly, or accidentally broke a bangle,we were thrashed mercilessly. Afterlong working hours when we dozedoff late in the night chilli powderwas sprinkled into our eyes aspunishment for sleeping. They hada music system in the room andwhenever they would beat us theywould play the music at full volumeto drown out our cries, so that noone could know what was happen-ing in the factory,” Shailendra toldhis parents.

However, within a week of therescue, the trafficker arrived attheir home asking for Shailendra tobe taken back to the factory inJaipur. This was vehementlyopposed by the parents and theyinsisted that their older son,Narendra be sent home, too. But thetrafficker kept mounting pressureon them to allow the child to goback to Jaipur with him. He told theparents that if they did not complywith his wishes their elder childwould be killed. The mother spokewith Vijay Kewat, a social workerassociated with a non-governmen-tal organisation fighting againstchild trafficking, who took her to anearby police station to lodge an FIRagainst the trafficker. The FIR wasregistered and Narendra was final-ly brought back home by Gayapolice in December 2020. A witness

protection application with thesupport of an NGO has been movedto the competent authority in thedistrict in this regard.

Given the grim scenario sur-rounding child trafficking, record-ing of testimonies through video-conferencing will have a hugeimpact on the thriving racket in thecountry. There are around 12 to 15child traffickers in a few cities ofBihar who have been active for along time and are still involved inaiding and abetting of trafficking ofchildren. Over the last three years,922 children, all natives of Bihar,have been rescued from Jaipur.

After the apex court’s order, twocases have been identified on a pilotbasis for the recording of the testi-monies virtually. One is to be donebetween the Protection of Childrenfrom Sexual Offences (POCSO)Court-2, Jaipur, and the POCSOCourt, Gaya in Bihar and the otherwhich has already been put inmotion, is between the AdditionalSessions Court, Karkardooma,Delhi, and the POCSO Court,Sitamarhi in Bihar.

The traffickers often belong tothe neighbouring or same village asthe survivors, and are well-off andpolitically well-connected. The traf-fickers are always in a position toinfluence survivors or their familieswho usually hail from margin-alised communities. Hence, they areresourceless and powerless and ifthey are not provided proper careunder the witness protectionscheme, the whole exercise willprove futile.

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of the future. Solar power’sabundant availability in Indianot only ensures scalability butalso bolsters our energy secu-rity. India can generate 748 GWof solar energy provided threeper cent of the waste land is cov-ered with solar photovoltaic(PV) modules. Pursuing thisgoal is the Government’sNational Solar Mission (NSM)which is mandated to developIndia as a global solar energyleader. The NSM’s purpose is toinstall 100 GW grid-connectedsolar power plants by 2022and assist India to realise theIntended NationallyDetermined Contributions(INDCs) target of achieving 40per cent cumulative electricpower installed capacity fromnon-fossil fuel-based energyresources and to reduce theemission intensity of its GDP by

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do not match the develop-ments on the ground and theslowdown in capacity additionin recent years is a proof of thesame. The cause of this slug-gishness is the presence of avariety of unaddressed hurdlesthat have been allowed to growby a lethargic Government pol-icy regime. This is further evi-dent by the state of PV cell pro-duction which is yet to becometruly competitive. Adding tothese challenges are the trans-mission losses at approximate-ly 40 per cent, which make solarpower generation highly unfea-sible. These conditions are fur-ther made worse by the scarci-ty of per capita land availabili-ty in India, especially near sub-stations for exclusive installationof solar cells.

On the other hand projectcosts are increasing, debt ismounting while nearly a third

of the 23,600 MW renewablepower projects, won by variousplayers after quoting the lowestrates in reverse auctions con-ducted by the Solar EnergyCorporation of India (SECI) forthe Inter-State TransmissionSystem (ISTS), are staring at anuncertain future as the agencyhas not yet found buyers forpower from these solar/windenergy generation units.

There are systemic issues aswell. For instance, on the sup-ply side the main grouse forsolar power suppliers are therock bottom tariffs which areamong the world’s lowest. Ontop of this, State governmentsinsist that companies sell powerto discoms at cheap priceswhich hurts these firms’ profitmargins and negatively affectsfocus on quality and innova-tion. Low tariffs combined withchronic delay in paymentsmean that even the banksbecome reluctant to lend to

these firms, because they areunsure of profit sustainability.The lack of Government inter-vention in these conditions isdisturbing enough but whatmakes it even more concerningis when State Governmentsrenege on the terms of PowerPurchase Agreements (PPA)and demand tariff renegotiationat the time of payment. Theseunhealthy practices must becurtailed by the Centre if thesolar power sector is to flour-ish. The recently-announcedBudget was a fantastic oppor-

tunity to address these concernsand put the sector firmly backon track, but somehow that didnot happen.

The Budget left the renew-able energy sector feeling letdown as not only have itsrequirements not been met butsome of the existing benefitshave been taken away, too. Anunwelcome change in thisregard relates to the customduty for machinery, instru-ments, appliances, componentsor auxiliary equipment, includ-ing those required for testingand quality control of solarpower generation projects,which was capped at five percent previously. This exemptionhas been taken away.Developers would now be bur-dened by the increased costs ofimport and this would also leadto litigation under the PPAs forchange in law claims.

Instead of a lacklustreattempt to support the solar

power industry, theGovernment would have donewell to address the challenges.The complexity of the subsidystructure and involvement oftoo many agencies, electricityboards and the electricity reg-ulatory commission makes thedevelopment of solar PV pro-jects difficult. The Budgetshould have demolished allthese complex structures andfocused on critical issues suchas financing, which is a majorissue for PV manufacturers.

The Government shouldhave installed a robust financ-ing infrastructure, models andarrangements to spur the PVindustry and consumption ofPV products, besides trainingand development of humanresources to drive industrygrowth and PV adoption.

This would have had apositive cascading effect andimproved intra-industry coop-eration for expanding the PV

supply chain as well, whichwould have contributed in low-ering costs.

Additionally, the Centrecould have focused on the needto build consumer awarenessabout the technology, econom-ics and right usage of PV prod-ucts and modules. At the man-ufacturer end, the awarenesscould have been driven bysharing technical informationthrough conferences and work-shops, in collaborating with bal-ance of systems manufacturersand in gathering and publish-ing accurate market data, trendsand projections. Finally, theGovernment should havelinked the solar energy targetswith ‘Make in India’, the ‘SmartCity Mission’ and ‘Digital India’.This would have given thispromising sector a fresh per-spective and ensured the devel-opment and transformation ofthe entire renewable powersystem in the country.

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BAJAJELEC 1003.2 1015 974.9 1002MINDTREE 1706.25 1716 1662.45 1687.6BOSCHLTD 15651.1 16000 15516.1 15575.5FSL 94.9 99.3 94.2 97.15VBL 952.35 975 943.4 972.35BAJAJCON 255 259.6 245 251.35RCF 55 56.65 54.1 54.8BEML 1015 1031.95 964 975.5INDIAMART 9057 9116.9 8751.5 8841.9RAIN 141.9 148.45 139.1 142.2SOUTHBANK 9.04 9.19 8.52 8.74GMRINFRA 26.15 26.35 24.85 25.15SPICEJET 88.25 88.5 85.3 86.3MFSL 874 874 829.8 838.4OIL 124.9 126.8 120.75 123.3SIEMENS 1855 1881 1831.15 1839.65ALKYLAMINE 5205 5275 5076.8 5110.4J&KBANK 30.35 31.55 29.5 30.1TORNTPHARM 2528 2530.9 2460.45 2497.25NHPC 25.8 26.2 25.2 25.8ENGINERSIN 75.3 77.2 73.35 73.65TATACOMM 1047.05 1048.2 1000 1003.45GREAVESCOT 109.45 112.8 103.55 106.55SBILIFE 901.8 901.8 875 881.3RAMCOCEM 969.2 971.4 943.1 960.35KRBL 195 221 195 211UBL 1264 1264 1212.25 1216.65NAVINFLUOR 2535 2555 2455 2481.35SHREECEM 27741.2 27839.9 26795 27540.3DBL 562.05 590 553 583.9COFORGE 2623 2642.4 2546.4 2566.75NOCIL 178.5 183.4 172.25 178.3DCBBANK 116.5 118.25 113.5 115LAURUSLABS 370 373.45 362.85 365.25TVSMOTOR 614 618 599 606.3ISEC 414 416 400.2 403.3ADVENZYMES 395.95 416.5 386.6 394.85ABFRL 162 169.8 161.95 165.9MCX 1500 1518.45 1494.25 1501.4BERGEPAINT 685 763 685 741.3MOIL 143.85 151 141.95 144.2NAM-INDIA 343.3 347.8 331 333.95PTC 72.9 74.95 70.85 72.7HUDCO 47.4 47.8 43.5 44.8CEATLTD 1625 1625 1565 1586.7RVNL 30.6 31.65 30.3 30.6MAHINDCIE 195.2 202.15 184 190.2CHAMBLFERT 234 237.95 229.3 234.9INDHOTEL 127.2 127.2 123.4 123.9JKCEMENT 2708 2716.8 2572.7 2604.65ASTRAL 2052 2078.2 2012 2026.85CASTROLIND 128 133.05 127.95 128.9JMFINANCIL 89.5 94.85 89.25 91.85CARBORUNIV 543.5 571.45 542 546MMTC 30 32.2 30 30.3BALRAMCHIN 174.5 175.05 165.65 168.5INFIBEAM 88.95 90.75 88.2 88.55CANFINHOME 512 522.2 507 516.2MINDACORP 96 104 95.45 99.2BLUEDART 4645 4786.6 4645 4696.75PFIZER 4521 4559.95 4492 4514.55JKTYRE 124.95 124.95 120.1 122.8WOCKPHARMA 480 500.5 479.3 489.3PNCINFRA 267.25 274.8 261.2 262.6COLPAL 1551.5 1579 1548.3 1555.9THYROCARE 948 958.9 924 931.3JBCHEPHARM 1153.95 1153.95 1103.4 1112.85AMBER 3229 3254.95 3145.3 3159.55REDINGTON 171.9 187.95 169.85 179.2VENKYS 1620 1677.05 1605.9 1625.8ALKEM 2852.05 2893.75 2846.15 2875.25GODREJIND 439.6 453 438.75 448.25JKPAPER 147 148.25 141.4 142.8JUBLPHARMA 786 797.7 741 771.4GSPL 261.4 261.8 246.85 248.75ATUL* 6697 6697 6520 6581.35LTI 3899 3927.45 3809 3827.65ARVINDFASN 176 177.85 170.1 173.45ITDC 313.9 330 310.5 314.8GSFC 76.8 79.3 76.3 77ASTRAZEN 3650 3675 3614.6 3625VIPIND 375.2 394.5 371.85 376.35BALMLAWRIE 117.75 121.4 116 116.65KALPATPOWR 379.8 385.5 373.85 379.75JKLAKSHMI 383.95 390 362.5 376.2SYNGENE 590 592 575.25 579.1ZENSARTECH 243.85 259 239 252.45SJVN 28.5 28.65 27.7 27.9BBTC 1186 1220 1185 1191.3POLYCAB 1352.05 1359.5 1300.8 1328.7POWERINDIA 1387 1489 1387 1438.4EMAMILTD 462 480 457.35 472.65INDIACEM 166.75 169.2 164.2 165.4GODREJAGRO 485 493.2 480.25 484.85TV18BRDCST 30.15 31.25 29.7 30LEMONTREE 43 43.25 41.45 41.9WABAG 244 248.85 235.5 245.05VGUARD 233.7 236.75 226.3 233.8CUB 166.05 167.15 163.5 164.55IRCON 96.2 97.9 95.05 95.55VINATIORGA 1452 1463.3 1403.3 1418.75RALLIS 260.25 263.8 257.05 258.8DISHTV 12.16 12.22 11.8 11.85SUMICHEM 299.95 305 297 299.05

HONAUT 43790 43876.05 43001 43621.55SUNDRMFAST 699.8 755 676.3 711.25CAPPL 475.5 501.45 473 486.95HSCL 45.6 46.9 45.2 45.45HERITGFOOD 294.45 324.15 294.45 312.5CYIENT 615 618.4 590.35 595.95LALPATHLAB 2499.1 2499.1 2399 2433ORIENTELEC 271.3 276.9 264.9 269.4TAKE 56.75 60 56.3 58.4BSOFT 240.5 244.2 236 238.2GRSE 203 208.8 196.4 197.9BASF 2120 2149 2000 2031.35JAMNAAUTO 69.8 70.4 65.8 66.55KANSAINER 582.45 585.05 552.65 562AJANTPHARM 1780 1780 1726.65 1739.75MPHASIS 1717 1717 1664.3 1686METROPOLIS 2008.5 2035.95 1960 1971.95ENDURANCE 1400 1437 1382 1395.85FORTIS 159.95 161.05 158.1 158.7SWANENERGY 145 145.55 142.4 144.2BAJAJHLDNG 3506 3640 3505.65 3615.55SWSOLAR 229.4 232 227 227.9FINOLEXIND 666 666 647.85 650.2GODFRYPHLP 924.3 926.8 910.4 914.55HINDZINC 305.4 307.5 298.25 300.7AARTIIND 1228.8 1239.45 1177 1188.6SUNTECK 360.6 363.5 344.4 348.6EPL 220 222.95 217.1 221.2ITI 128.7 130.9 126 127.1WELCORP 126.9 128.75 124.8 125.3FINCABLES 395.2 397 373.3 375.75SIS 430.45 437 428.4 430.15IPCALAB 1865.7 1865.7 1841 1849.1KAJARIACER 968.5 994.7 959.9 968.85ORIENTCEM 92.5 94.65 89.7 92.1TATACOFFEE 107.5 107.65 104.8 105.35NLCINDIA 53.65 53.65 51.7 52.25EDELWEISS 64.9 64.9 62.9 63.25JINDALSAW 73.1 76.6 73.1 74.5COROMANDEL 776.95 788.5 763.4 768.6SANOFI 7801.05 7975 7750 7895.45PERSISTENT 1690 1698 1661.75 1671.15INTELLECT 446 455 429.35 433.85WELSPUNIND 70.4 71.9 68.75 69.15DHANUKA 735.55 736.7 723.5 728.45ABBOTINDIA 14918 14963.9 14673 14738.25SHANKARA 454 484.9 436.85 448.8TASTYBIT 15093 15462.25 14500 14657.1SUPREMEIND 1915 1980 1915 1971.05BIRLACORPN 889.9 901.35 858.65 868.8CESC 621.9 627.6 608.65 611.6PIIND 2266 2288 2245 2268.3LTTS 2654.95 2675.25 2579 2636.15LINDEINDIA 1403 1424 1325 1367.9TTKPRESTIG 7118.45 7326 7060 7300.5IIFL 226.9 227.35 211 215.15SPARC 176.4 179.2 172.55 175.5SCHAEFFLER 5240 5240 5125 5207.35EQUITAS 88.65 89.4 85.4 87.25DALBHARAT 1480.75 1496.6 1467.6 1474.95JAGRAN 47 49.65 45.9 48.85PRESTIGE 311.5 311.5 293 298.2MRPL 39.2 39.2 36.7 37.6INOXLEISUR 327.9 327.9 321 323.7JSWENERGY 75 75.7 72.25 73.7CHENNPETRO 99.75 100.55 95.75 96.65KNRCON 217.35 218.95 212.25 213.65APLAPOLLO 979.85 989.9 965 969.65DCAL 121.2 127.6 121.2 122.95IFCI 9.47 9.47 8.92 9AIAENG 1926.85 1926.85 1862.3 1867.2GET&D 132.9 138.55 128.9 130.5GDL 170.2 177 166 174.35TCNSBRANDS 479.3 511.35 479.3 505.65LAXMIMACH 6070 6120 5900 5943.2SONATSOFTW 393 405 393 399.15EIHOTEL 98.1 99.4 96.6 97.15CREDITACC 704 705 675.4 688JAICORPLTD 91.55 94.5 89.6 90.3GARFIBRES 2500 2569 2425 2460CROMPTON 400 402 393.85 395.65VRLLOG* 241.55 243.85 237.9 242.15PGHL 7075 7168.15 7000.05 7142.65NBVENTURES 59.4 61.85 59.35 60FINEORG 2392.2 2428 2353.6 2376.6CENTURYPLY 316.9 320 310.4 317WHIRLPOOL 2412 2431.55 2395.7 2425.65GMDCLTD 58.85 58.85 56.05 56.75LAOPALA 220.8 225.5 217.8 220.6KPITTECH 132.45 134.7 131.4 133.5AAVAS 2220 2300 2188.55 2276.9ESABINDIA 1834.95 2050.45 1816.6 1956.05ASTERDM 151.95 153.6 149.1 149.9MIDHANI 191.8 193.25 188 188.75LUXIND 1833 1840.4 1762 1775.85AVANTI 492.4 505.25 488.3 489.95TIMETECHNO 55.95 56.95 54.7 55.9NILKAMAL 1831.25 1880 1802.5 1816.2HIMATSEIDE 169.3 174.2 160 162.55SUDARSCHEM 501 504.05 496 499.9ICICIGI 1496 1519.45 1488.1 1494.9PRSMJOHNSN 114 114.7 107.1 108.55SHRIRAMCIT 1548 1548 1494 1516.1RELAXO 866.05 879.15 866 872.8

ASHOKA 116.7 116.7 108.3 110.8FCONSUMER 8.3 8.3 8.04 8.13CCL 237 240.15 231 231.7RITES 248.5 248.6 244 244.7BDL 349.95 349.95 337.1 339.2AKZOINDIA 2140 2184 2136.7 2149.2JSLHISAR 116.2 123.95 114.7 121.7EIDPARRY 321.45 327 317.25 318.5JSL 69.95 71 69.2 69.65PGHH 13263.05 13280 12890.05 12912.6BLUESTARCO 840.5 869.5 810.5 812.95HAWKINCOOK 5649.95 5649.95 5550 5574.75INDOCO 310 310 292.9 300.5SOBHA 470 470 448 452.45TVSSRICHAK 2010.7 2010.7 1939.9 1953.15DBCORP 94 95 89.5 91.6MEGH 78.6 78.85 77.25 77.55GILLETTE 5575.15 5629.9 5560.95 5584.3KEC 430 439.7 421 431.4GUJALKALI 309.1 315.85 309.1 311.1GPPL 95.6 96.7 95 95.95UJJIVANSFB 36 36 35 35.1COCHINSHIP 369.9 373.1 359.25 362.9VAIBHAVGBL 2892.45 3047.95 2892.45 2970.7AEGISLOG 289.95 289.95 280 283.7SKFINDIA 2356 2372.45 2327.45 2355.05CERA 3996.15 3996.15 3810 3845.85GEPIL 276.35 286.55 275 279.65RATNAMANI 1701.4 1750 1691.5 1706.35FLUOROCHEM 546 549.25 532 535.3ERIS 578.2 581.05 552.85 564.35TIINDIA 1005 1051 990.05 1034.05GALAXYSURF 2179 2205.7 2157.85 2190.9SFL 2067 2100 2012.15 2060.75BAYERCROP 5200 5251 5124.6 5194.55JYOTHYLAB 154.75 154.75 148.75 149.6DEEPAKFERT 160 160.9 155 156.5SUPRAJIT 267 284.2 267 276.05THERMAX 1180 1187.05 1156 1162.65NESCO 610 611.05 596 600.1FORCEMOT 1350 1363.5 1331 1338.65IRB 108.8 110.4 106.5 107.05CSBBANK 230 233.15 220.4 224.1ALLCARGO 128.05 131.8 128.05 129.65VMART 2770.9 2819.2 2650 2679.25MOTILALOFS 610 629.5 609.6 616.4SOMANYCERA 416.4 427 414.85 423.3KPRMILL 949.95 949.95 914.85 921.35TNPL 127.55 133.75 127.45 129.2PCJEWELLER 30.2 30.2 29.2 29.45NH 465 469 456.65 458.65GLAXO 1443.7 1453.05 1434 1450.5JTEKTINDIA 87.75 91.05 87.65 89.3GHCL 216.35 220.5 215.6 219.3SHK 121 121.05 118.4 119.25CARERATING 495 497.65 484.05 488.35GESHIP 280 280 264.5 267.05KEI 503.1 504.6 482.1 491.7VTL 1124 1149.95 1103.05 1115.8PHOENIXLTD 843 843 795.05 804.6SHOPERSTOP 213 215.55 208.5 208.95GULFOILLUB 745.8 745.8 709.9 719.8TIMKEN 1316 1350 1301 1312.25MINDAIND 590 590 556.6 559.9NAVNETEDUL 88.2 89.1 86 86.65OFSS 3070.9 3081.75 3045 3050.65GRINDWELL 824.05 866.65 812.6 820.2CRISIL 1919.6 1970 1919.6 1957.9ECLERX 968 975.55 959.8 971MHRIL 233.05 237.35 226.1 227.85ORIENTREF 243 246.15 240.45 243.25TATAINVEST 1067.75 1073 1053 1055.9UFLEX 373 373.75 363.55 369PARAGMILK 109.6 110.15 107 107.85FDC 293.8 299.55 293.8 295.55STARCEMENT 96.9 98.5 96.3 97.15SPANDANA 680.4 689.45 657 659.65BRIGADE 280.75 286.05 274.2 281.6MAHLIFE 490 495 475.3 484.953MINDIA 21899.9 21899.9 21500 21690.75MASFIN 857.25 860.7 832 845.9MAHSEAMLES 299 299 279.95 282.3ZYDUSWELL 1900 1900 1851 1886.45IFBIND 1273 1347.95 1253.1 1262.5TEAMLEASE 3098 3155 3016 3046.85DCMSHRIRAM 464 474 459.1 463.45TCIEXP 994 995 950.45 954.45KSB 687.25 687.25 668.25 677.9SYMPHONY 1058 1064.4 1041 1044.4MAHSCOOTER 3820 3836.7 3775 3793.2HATHWAY 30.15 30.5 29.8 30.05VARROC 410.6 410.6 399.2 407.4WABCOINDIA 5976.7 6071.1 5920 5944.25HEIDELBERG 231 234.75 228 228.7SOLARINDS 1273.05 1304.1 1268.15 1278.3INDOSTAR 322.25 329.7 322.25 323.7TVTODAY 268 270.1 262.3 263.05VSTIND 3699 3699 3614.55 3636.5JCHAC 2457.95 2492.65 2451.45 2467.45IIFLWAM 1192.25 1204.5 1192 1197.45WESTLIFE 450.95 454.5 440.4 444.8MAHLOG 497.55 504 485 486.55OMAXE 71.1 72.9 71.1 71.35

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The new public sector enter-prises policy envisages that

the strategic sectors have lim-ited number of players restrict-ing it to maximum four publicsector enterprises of the hold-ing nature, a top official said onFriday.

Department of PublicEnterprises (DPE) SecretarySailesh said the remainingenterprises will be rationalisedin terms of mergers, amalga-mations and privatisation if fea-sible.

As part of the‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan’package, Finance MinisterNirmala Sitharaman had inMay announced that there willbe a maximum of four publicsector companies in strategicsectors, and state-owned firmsin other segments will eventu-

ally be privatised.The DPE secretary was

addressing a webinar organisedby PHDCCI.

Sailesh said, “We need tobuild our capabilities andemphasise our domestic pro-duction for global and domes-tic outreach at a globally com-petitive cost.”

The new paradigm frame-work in which the govern-

ment is working on will makePSU a pivotal part and there isa strength towards asset mon-etisation in the brownfield pro-ject, he added. “We need toensure that the desired resultsare achieved in the collabora-tive effect of the private sectorto enhance wealth, improveR&D, and growth of the econ-omy.

“The secretary also saidthat with the announcementsof the new PSU policy, the govtwishes to have a strong andimpactful public sector in astrategic sector. “MSMEs(micro, small and mediumenterprises) have the potentialin the sectors such as defence,infrastructure, manufacturing,power, petroleum, coal, min-ing, ports, airports, and manymore, which will help to createbetter running of governmentassets,” he said.

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Holding that banks cannotwash off their hands

towards their customers for theoperation of lockers, theSupreme Court Friday direct-ed the Reserve Bank of India(RBI) to lay down regulationswithin six months mandatingthe steps to be taken by bankswith respect to locker facilitymanagement.

A bench comprisingJustices M M Shantanagoudarand Vineet Saran said with theadvent of globalization, bank-ing institutions have acquireda very significant role in the lifeof the common man as bothdomestic and internationaleconomic transactions withinthe country have increasedmultiple folds.

The top court said peopleare hesitant to keep their liquidassets at home as “we aresteadily moving towards a cash-less economy.”

“Thus, as is evident fromthe rising demand for such ser-vices, lockers have become anessential service provided byevery banking institution. Suchservices may be availed of bycitizens as well as by foreignnationals,” the bench said.

Moreover, due to rapidgains in technology, “we arenow transitioning from dualkey­operated lockers to elec-tronically operated lockers,”the top court said.In the elec-tronically operated lockers,though the customer may havepartial access to the lockerthrough passwords or ATMpin, etc., they are unlikely topossess the technologicalknow­how to control the oper-ation of such lockers, the benchsaid.”On the other hand, thereis the possibility that miscreantsmay manipulate the technolo-gies used in these systems togain access to the lockers with-out the customers’ knowledgeor consent,” it said.

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The Sensex tumbled 435points while the Nifty

slumped below the 15,000-mark on Friday as marketsbuckled under selling pressurefor the fourth session on thetrot amid a lacklustre trend inglobal markets.

The 30-share BSE Sensexended 434.93 points or 0.85 percent lower at 50,889.76, pres-sured by robust selling in bank-ing and auto counters.Similarly, the broader NSENifty gave up the 15,000 level,dropping 137.20 points or 0.91per cent to 14,981.75. A dayafter topping the Sensex gain-er’s chart, ONGC emerged asthe biggest laggard in Friday’ssession, tumbling 5.06 per cent.It was followed by SBI, AxisBank, ICICI Bank, Bajaj Auto,Maruti and M&M, which shedup to 3.77 per cent. On theother hand, IndusInd Bank,

HUL, Dr Reddy’s, NTPC,Reliance Industries and BajajFinserv were among the gain-ers, climbing up to 1.97%.

During the week, theSensex declined 654.54 pointsor 1.26 per cent, and Nifty fell181.55 points or 1.19 per cent.

“The Nifty-50 and BSESensex declined by 1.2 percent this week as market moodbecame cautious on risingglobal and local bond yields.

The broader markets thatis NSE Mid Cap 100 Index andBSE Small Cap Index are bothin the green this week. The US10 Year Bond yields have risenfrom below 1 per cent to 1.29per cent, building in econom-ic impact of the USD 1.9 tril-lion stimulus package.

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Petrol price on Fridaycrossed the �90-per-litre

mark in the national capital,and diesel soared to �80.60after rates were increased forthe 11th consecutive day in arow.

Petrol price on Friday washiked by 31 paise per litre anddiesel by 33 paise, according toa price notification of state-owned fuel retailers.

This pushed the petrolprice to �90.19 a litre in Delhiand to �96.62 in Mumbai.

Diesel now comes for Rs

80.60 a litre in the national cap-ital and for �87.62 in Mumbai.

The increase follows aspurt in prices of oil in theinternational market, on whichIndia is 85 per cent dependentto meet its needs. Brent oilcrossed USD 65 a barrel onThursday as a worsening US

energy crisis took out almost 40per cent of the nation’s crudeproduction.

In 11 days, retail petrolprices have risen by Rs 3.24 alitre, a record since the pricingwas deregulated in 2010, anddiesel rates have gone up by Rs3.47.

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The Centre has given reg-ulator y approval for

drone deployment for remotesensing data collection inagricultural areas of 100 dis-tricts of the country.

The move will be benefi-cial for Gram Panchayat levelyield estimation, under thePradhan Mantri Fasal BimaYojana.

The Ministry of CivilAviation and the DirectorateGeneral of Civil Aviation hasgranted conditional exemp-tion for Remotely PilotedAircraft System usage to theMinistry of Agriculture andFarmers Welfare.

“The exemption shall bevalid from the one year fromthe date of issue of the per-mission letter or until theoperationalisation of the‘Digita l Sky Plat form’,whichever is earlier,” the min-istry said in a statement.

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Union Finance MinisterNirmala Sitharaman on

Friday held an informal meet-ing with top industrialists ofTamil Nadu to elicit their viewson the budget she presented onFebruary 1.

TVS Motor ChairmanVenu Srinivasan, MRF LtdChairman M Mammen, IndiaCements Ltd Vice Chairman NSrinivasan, former AshokLeyland Chairman RSeshasayee and ApolloHospitals MD Sunita Reddywere among those who took

part in the meeting, sourcessaid.

This is the first time sheis meeting industry captains inTamil Nadu after presenting thebudget. However, the meetingwas out of bounds for themedia and the points discussedwere not known. Industry

sources said the FM listened tothe views put forth by theindustrialists during the inter-action. The India Cements LtdManaging Director NSrinivasan said he thanked theFM for presenting an ‘out-standing’ budget that wouldspur growth.

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Washington: The UnitedStates is back in the Paris cli-mate accord, just 107 daysafter it left.

While Friday’s return isheavily symbolic, world lead-ers say they expect Americato prove its seriousness afterfour years of being prettymuch absent.

They are especially antic-ipating an announcementfrom the US in comingmonths on its goal for cuttingemissions of heat-trappinggases by 2030.

The US return to theParis agreement became offi-cial Friday, almost a monthafter President Joe Biden toldthe United Nations that

America wants back in. “A cry for survival comes

from the planet itself,” Bidensaid in his inaugural address.“A cry that can’t be any moredesperate or any more clearnow.”

Biden signed an executiveorder on his f irst day in of f ice reversing the pullout ordered by his pre-decessor, President DonaldTrump.

The Trump administra-tion had announced its with-drawal from the Paris accordin 2019 but it didn’t becomeeffective until Nov. 4, 2020,the day after the election,because of provisions in theagreement. AP

San Diego: After waitingmonths and sometimes years inMexico, people seeking asylumin the United States are beingallowed into the country start-ing Friday as they wait forcourts to decide on their cases,unwinding one of the Trumpadministration’s signature immi-gration policies that PresidentJoe Biden vowed to end.

The number of asylum-seekers coming in initially willbe very limited, beginningFriday at a border crossing inSan Diego and expanding toBrownsville, Texas, on Mondayand El Paso, Texas, next Friday.

US officials are warningpeople not to come to the US-Mexico border, saying an esti-mated 25,000 people with activecases in the “Remain in Mexico”program and several hundredwho are appealing decisionsshould register on a website thatthe UN High Commissioner forRefugees is launching early nextweek. The InternationalOrganisation for Migration, theUN migration agency, plans totest asylum-seekers for COVID-19 and will quarantine anyonewho tests positive for 10 days

before they enter the UnitedStates.

Friday marks a key mile-stone in unraveling one of for-mer President Donald Trump’scornerstone policies to deterpeople from seeking protectionfrom persecution and returnsthe US asylum system to the wayit worked for decades.

But there are unansweredquestions, including howCentral Americans whoreturned home will get back tothe US-Mexico border.

It’s also unclear how long itwill take to work through morethan 25,000 active Remain inMexico cases, with the oldestgoing first. US officials say twoof the border crossings can eachhandle up to 300 people a dayand a smaller crossing can takefewer, but they will start wellbelow those numbers. The offi-cials didn’t specify the crossings.

Biden is quickly makinggood on a campaign promise toend the policy known officiallyas “Migrant ProtectionProtocols,” which Trump saidwas critical to reversing a surgeof asylum-seekers that peaked in2019. AP

Washington: The Bidenadministration has said it iswilling to sit down for talkswith Iran and world powers todiscuss a diplomatic way for-ward on Tehran’s atomic pro-gramme, in the first majorstep aimed at reviving the 2015nuclear deal that was close tofalling apart after the previousTrump regime withdrew fromit.

Former president DonaldTrump pulled the US out of thedeal in 2018.

Under the deal, Iran hadagreed to greatly limit itsnuclear programme through2025. However, Trump arguedthat this gave the Iranians apathway to nuclear weapons.

President Joe Biden and hisadvisors have said that they willrejoin the deal if Iran returns tocompliance with the agree-ment.

“The United States wouldaccept an invitation from theEuropean Union HighRepresentative to attend a meet-ing of the P5+1 and Iran to dis-cuss a diplomatic way forwardon Iran’s nuclear programme,”State Department SpokespersonNed Price said on Thursday.

P5+1 include the five per-

manent members of theSecurity Council — namelyChina, France, Russia, theUnited Kingdom, and theUnited States — plus Germany,who during the Obama admin-istration had entered into anagreement with Iran.

The announcement onIran came after Secretary ofState Antony Blinken met vir-tually with his counterpartsfrom the three European co-signers (E3) of the deal.

A senior administrationofficial told reporters thatPresident Biden is committedto resuming an American mul-tilateral diplomatic role in try-ing to resolve the issues thatthey have with Iran.

The US wants “to seewhether we could get to a sit-uation where Iran is back incompliance with the JCPOAand the US is back in compli-ance with the JCPOA, and usethat as a platform to then nego-tiate a longer, stronger deal, andalso to deal with some of theregional security concerns thatthe US and its partners in theregion have,” the official said.

The Joint ComprehensivePlan of Action (JCPOA),known commonly as the Iran

nuclear deal or Iran deal, is anagreement on the Iraniannuclear programme reachedin Vienna on July 14, 2015,between Iran and the P5+1together with the EuropeanUnion.

In a joint statement, the USand E3 expressed their sharedfundamental security interestin upholding the nuclear non-proliferation regime and ensur-ing that Iran can never devel-op a nuclear weapon.

In this context, the con-clusion of the JCPOA was a keyachievement of multilateraldiplomacy.

“The E3 welcomed theUnited States’ stated intentionto return to diplomacy withIran as well as the resumptionof a confident and in-depthdialogue between the E3 andthe United States,” the jointstatement said.

The ministers affirmedstrong interest in continuingtheir consultations and coor-dination, including with Chinaand Russia, on this key securi-ty issue, recognising the role ofthe High Representative of theEuropean Union asCoordinator of the JointCommission, it said. PTI

Washington: A bicameral USCitizenship Act of 2021 propos-ing a pathway to citizenship to11 million undocumentedworkers, elimination of percountry quota for employment-based green cards and workauthorisation for dependents ofH-1B foreign workers, wasintroduced in the Congress.

The bill, if passed by boththe chambers of the Congress– House of Representatives andthe Senate – and signed into lawby President Joe Biden wouldbring citizenship to millions offoreign nationals, includingundocumented and those whocame to the country legally.

The legislation would alsobenefit hundreds and thou-sands of Indian IT profession-als and their families.

Authors of the bill –Senator Bob Menendez andCongresswoman Linda Sánchez– told reporters that the USCitizenship Act of 2021 estab-lishes a moral and economicimperative and a vision ofimmigration reform that isexpansive and inclusive.

It grows the economy bymaking changes to the employ-ment-based immigration sys-tem, eliminating per-country

caps, making it easier for STEMadvanced degree holders fromUS universities to stay, improv-ing access to green cards forworkers in lower-wage indus-tries, giving dependents of H-1B holders work authorization,and preventing children of H-1B holders from aging out ofthe system.

“I am the daughter ofimmigrant parents fromMexico. I have dedicated mycareer to building an immigra-tion system that lets people livewithout fear, and a system thatgives immigrants – like my par-ents – who sought a better lifeand contribute to our nation afair opportunity to thrive,”Sanchez said.

“Immigrants contributegreatly to our country andsociety. They own businesses,pay taxes and teach our chil-dren. They are our coworkers,neighbors and friends,” saidMenendez.

“We have a historic oppor-tunity to finally enact boldimmigration reform that leavesno one behind, addresses rootcauses of migration, and safe-guards our country’s nationalsecurity. We have a moral andeconomic imperative to get

this done once and for all,” hesaid.

The ruling Democrats havea majority in both the Houseand Senate. However, in theupper chamber, they need sup-port of 10 Republicans to getthe legislation through theCongress before it can be signedinto law.

The Democratic leader-ship and the White House hopethat they will get the necessarysupport in the interest of mil-lions of non-citizens living inthe country.

Supported by the WhiteHouse, the bill creates an earnedroadmap to citizenship for all11 million undocumentedimmigrants, with an expeditedthree-year path to citizenship,and giving all other undocu-mented immigrants who passbackground checks and paytaxes with an eight-year path tocitizenship without fear ofdeportation.

It reforms family-basedimmigration system to keepfamilies together by recapturingvisas from previous years toclear backlogs, including spous-es and children of green cardholders as immediate familymembers. PTI

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Beijing: As the spectre of age-ing population coupled withdeclining birth rates continueto loom large despite relaxationof the one-child policy in 2016,a concerned China hasapproved three provinces tocarry out full assessments andresearch into possible effects offurther easing of birth policy.

After implementingdecades old one-child policy,China is facing demographiccrisis with rapidly ageing pop-ulation over 60 years, whichaccording to official figureshas increased to 420 million in2019.

The two-child policy failed

to make impact on the lowbirth rates as the number ofbirths dropped by two millionin 2018.

China as a whole saw580,000 fewer births in 2019than in 2018, marking thethird consecutive year ofdecline since the implementa-tion of the universal two-childpolicy in the mainland, accord-ing to official data.

According to China’s sta-tistics bureau, the country hada population of 1.34 billion in2010 with an annual growthrate of 0.57 per cent, downfrom 1.07 per cent a decadeearlier. PTI

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Islamabad: Pakistan has decid-ed to register Himalayan pinksalt as Geographical Indications(GI) to prevent its unauthoriseduse by other countries.

A GI tag is a sign used onproducts that have a specificgeographical origin and possessorigin-based qualities and rep-utation in the region.

The precious salt is extract-ed from the Salt Range inPunjab which extends along thesouth of the Potohar Plateau andthe north of the Jhelum River.

The decision was taken ina meeting with the IntellectualProperty Organisation (IPO)Pakistan chaired by CommerceAdviser Razak Dawood. PTI

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Kohli lost his biggest supporter, his fatherPremchand, at the age of 18 and he considersit as the “most impactful” incident of his life.

“...That incident really put things in prop-er perspective for me. My father did work veryhard in initial days to make sure that I get thebest cricket gear or I continue with my cricketpractice.

“From there on it made my belief evenstronger that come what may, I am definitelygoing to realise my dream to play at the high-est level and represent my country,” he said.

Kohli is seen as a tough, competitive andenigmatic character on the field and he revealedthat in real life too he is no different.

“...The disconnect for many years now ispeople don’t seem to understand, don’t seem toprocess, a lot of the times is that I have neverworked towards creating a perception formyself which is perfect from a worldly point ofview.

“For me what matters is what I can do anindividual and how much I can provide on thecricket field as an individual,” he said.

“I cannot fabricate things to look good infront of certain set of people. That’s just not whoI am,” he asserted. Another thing he hardly caresabout is the expectations from him when he ison the field.

“Expectation is honestly a burden when youstart thinking about it too much.”

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On how the terrorist managed to targetpolicemen in front of a police station and alsoran away from the spot, IGP said, “We will gofor a security review and plug the loopholes. Hadthe policemen with weapons, perhaps theywould have retaliated?”

Sharing details of the Shopian encounter IGPKashmir, Vijay Kumar said, “late Thursday nightat about 11.35 p.m based on specific inputregarding presence of terrorists in villageBadigam area of Shopian, a joint cordon andsearch operation was launched by Police, 44RRand 178Bn CRPF in the said area.”

“During the search operation as the pres-ence of terrorists got ascertained, repeatedannouncements were made to the hiding ter-rorists to lay down their illegal weapons and sur-render, instead the hiding terrorists fired indis-criminately and also managed to keep some ofthe inmates as hostage,” he said.

He went on to add that due to darkness theoperation was suspended, however, the cordonremained intact throughout night.

“On Friday morning with the first light, thejoint party was able to evacuate the hostage.Repeated announcements were again made toterrorists to surrender, but the terrorists firedindiscriminately on security forces which wasretaliated resulting in elimination of all the threehiding terrorists,” he said.

According to a police spokesman, “The ter-rorists killed in the operation have been iden-tified as Suhail Sheikh @Azeem son of AbdulGhani Sheikh resident of Turkwangam, ShahidAhmad Dar @Furkan son of Bashir Ahmad Darresident of Samboora Awantipora and MuddasirAhmad Wagay son of Fayaz Ahmad Wagay res-ident of Chak Sangren, affiliated with proscribedterror outfit Al-Badr”.

“The bodies of all the three killed terroristswere retrieved from the site of encounter.Arms & ammunition including 2 AK rifles, 5 AKmagazines, 96 AK rounds, 1 pistol, 1 pistol mag-azine, 5 pistol rounds and other incriminatingmaterials were recovered from the site ofencounter,” he said.

In another incident, Budgam police, 53RRand 79Bn CRPF launched a joint cordon andsearch operation in village Zanigam Beerwah ofBudgam.

During the search operation, the hiding ter-rorists fired indiscriminately upon the jointsearch party in which two J&K police person-nel namely Mohammad Altaf 1444/SPO andSgCt Manzoor Ahmad 761/AP 13th Bn receivedgunshot injuries. However, one of the injured,Mohammad Altaf, succumbed to his injuries andattained martyrdom. Another injured policemanhas been shifted to hospital.

“Taking advantage of the darkness, the ter-rorists managed to escape in an injured condi-tion from the spot. Efforts were on to track theterrorists”, the police spokesman said.

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The man, a marketing consultant, said thathe was diagnosed after multiple tests with theacute neuro encephalopathy, which alters brainfunction and causes personality change, mem-ory loss, and declining ability to reason or con-centrate.

As per his submission in the petition, Riazwas given a vaccine dose on October 1 after con-ducting an antigen and antibody test for Covid-19, whose reports came negative. However, onOctober 11, he woke up with a severe headachein the morning which later progressed to a dis-oriented mental state where he was not able tocomprehend his surroundings or respond, cou-pled with extreme weakness. Later in the day,he was admitted to the emergency ward of SriRamachandra Medical college Hospital wherehe had received the vaccine. He was shifted toICU the next day where he received treatmenttill October 20. He was then shifted to a nor-mal ward the next day where he remained tillOctober 26 before the discharge from the hos-pital.

“In the 16 days that I was in the hospital,almost all possible medical tests and investiga-tions were done on me to connect my neuro-logical setback to any of my earlier health con-dition, that is, to connect it to some factor otherthan the test vaccine that was administered onme on October 1st but they were unable to con-clude or prove anything. The final discharge

summary given to me on 26th October cate-gorically shows that all the tests done on me werenegative, confirming that the setback in myhealth was due to the test vaccine I was admin-istered on 1st October 2020, and not because ofany prior health condition,” he claimed in thepetition.

Later, Riaz sent a legal notice to the Serumasking a compensation of Rs 5 crore against thesevere adverse reaction he suffered after takingthe vaccine shot. However, in return, SII threat-ened him with a Rs 100 crore defamation suit.

The petitioner also mentioned that evenafter three months of experiencing the severeside effect, his health is still not stable, as he oftenexperiences trembling of hands, fear, anxiety,trepidation, panic, mood swings, severe dent inself-confidence, and extreme problems in focus-ing on work. He claimed that he had no histo-ry of neurological or rheumatology issues till heunderwent the vaccine trial.

Counting the economic repercussions, Riazclaimed that he lost all the projects he was work-ing on post volunteering for the trial, whichentails an annual earning of over USD 30,000.

Meanwhile, when the case came in publicscrutiny, the Drug Controller General of Indiaformed an independent committee to investi-gate the causal link of the petitioner’s health. Thecommittee report found no connection betweenthe adverse reaction Riaz suffered and the vac-cine.

However, Riaz said that he was not given theopportunity to present his case before the com-mittee.

The petitioner also cited news reportsabout the coverage of deaths which have fol-lowed after taking the Covishield vaccine whichwas rolled out in the immunisation drive onJanuary 16. He asserted that the vaccine is notsafe and could produce severe adverse reactionsamong its beneficiaries.

However, the Centre has clarified so far thatnone of the deaths and severe adverse reactionsfollowing immunisation have been attributed tothe vaccines as yet. IANS

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“But what happened in Delhi on RepublicDay lowered the dignity of the Tricolour and thecountry before the world,” he said, tearing intothe opposition for triggering the protest just forthe sake of it.

Citing Prime Minister Narendra Modi’sstatement that the MSP (minimum supportprice) would continue, Yogi said that his gov-ernment was procuring paddy on MSP. He saidthat the state government had procured 66 lakhmetric tons of paddy on MSP, which was muchmore than done in any previous government.

“The contract farming, too, has to be infavour of the farmers. For this, the Centre hasproposed 10,000 Farmer Produce Organisations(FPOs). In UP, the state government has alreadyinitiated steps that aim to increase the income

of farmers,” he maintained. Yogi said that the opposition in UP would

not discuss the payment of Rs 1.22 lakh croreto the cane farmers and other reforms broughtin the cane sector. “All this is hurting the oppo-sition which has never been a supporter of farm-ers and has largely been engaged in corrupt prac-tices,” he charged.

Yogi Adityanath categorically took on theSamajwadi Party, saying that he felt “surprised”with the SP leaders’ concern for farmers, youthand women.

Yogi said that during the campaign againstthe land mafia, the state government managedto free 66,000 hectares of land, most of whichwas grabbed by people associated with the partywhich was previously in power in UP.

“We are using the same land for various pur-poses, including construction of cow shelters anddefence industrial corridor projects,” he said.

Reiterating that his government was com-mitted to take steps which were beneficial forthe farmers, Yogi pointed out that the state gov-ernment ensured operation of sugar millsdespite the pandemic. He stressed that his gov-ernment managed to pay cane dues more thanwhat was paid between 2004 and 2017.

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The district officials had made elaboratearrangements with heavy deployment of secu-rity personnel and barricades installed.

The security personnel covered about onekilometre on the four paths reaching the villagewith a magistrate-level official posted at everybarricade to check people.

Personnel from six police stations weredeployed.

The bodies were brought to their village aftera post-mortem was done on Thursday but thelast rites could not be performed on the day,police said.

Unnao District Magistrate Ravindra Kumarsaid talks were held on Thursday with the deadgirls’ family, who were not willing to take it upimmediately as they were waiting for their sonto arrive from another city and had cited thatthe funeral cannot be done as it was already sun-set.

The DM refuted reports of any pressurebeing exerted on the family and said the last riteswere performed as per their wishes.

When asked if the family has made anydemand, the DM said officials, including theADM, were present on the spot but they did notgive any “demand letter”.

The DM claimed despite the presence ofsome outsiders, there was peace in the village.

The district unit president of BJP, RajKishore Rawat, and local MLA Anil Singh werepresent during the funeral.

On Friday, BSP legislators walked out fromthe Uttar Pradesh Assembly over the incident,alleging that police did not take prompt actionin the case.

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In a big relief to the peopleacross the State, the

Maharashtra Health depart-ment clarified on Friday that nonew foreign stain had beenfound in any of the diagnosedsamples of Covid-19 casesreported from the districts ofAmravati, Yavatmal and Satara.

Dismissing apprehensionin certain about the detectionof new foreign strains in thediagnosed samples in someparts of the State, the Statehealth department said: “Wehad sent four samples eachfrom Amravati, Yavatmal andSatara to the Pune-based BJMedical College for an analy-sis. As per the test report, nonew strain similar to the strainsdetected in the UnitedKingdom, South Africa andBrazil has been found in thesethree districts”.

The State health depart-ment officials are currentlyexamining if there is anychange in the genomicsequencing in the Covid-19virus that has triggered a pan-demic across the State.

“We had sent 12 samplesfrom Pune for a chemicalanalysis at the BJ MedicalCollege. But, we have not foundany change in the genomicsequencing in any of the test-ed samples.

In a related development,the State health department hassent more samples from Akola,Amravati and Yavatmal to theNational Institute of Virology(NIV), National InfluenzaCentres (NICs) for the exami-nation of genomic sequencingin the Covid-19 virus. “Weexpect the test reports sometime next week,” a State healthdepartment official said.

Meanwhile, amid theincrease in the number ofCovid-19 fatalities and freshcases, the number of Covid-19deaths in Maharashtra rose to

44, while the infections went upto 6,112 on Friday. A day afterCovid-19 claimed 38 lives andinfected 5,427 others, the dailydeath tally climbed to 44, whilethe infections dropped to 6,112.

With fresh deaths, the totalpandemic deaths climbed from51,669 to 51713 on Friday.Similarly, with 6112 new infect-ed cases, total infections in theState climbed from 20,81,520 to20,87,632.

As 2,159 patients were dis-charged from the hospitalsacross the State after full recov-ery, the total number of peopledischarged from the hospitalssince the second week of Marchlast year went up to 19,89,963The recovery rate in the statedropperd marginally from95.50 per cent to 95.32 per cent.With five fresh deaths, theCovid-19 toll in Mumbai rosefrom 11,432 to 11,437, whilethe infected cases went up by823 to trigger a jump in theinfections from 3,16,487 to3,17,310.

Meanwhile, the number of“active cases” total cases in thestate dropped from 40,858 to44,765. The fatality rate in thestate stood at 2.48 per cent.

Pune district, which con-tinued to be the worst-affectedcity-district in Maharashtra,saw the total number of casesincrease from 3,97,402 to398407, while the total numberof deaths in Pune went up from8010 to 8020.

Thane district remainedin the third spot — after Puneand Mumbai — after the totalnumber of infections rose from2,74,264 to 2,74,762 while thetotal deaths climbed from 5,772to 5.774. Of the 1,55,21,198samples sent to laboratories,20,81,520 have tested positive(13.41 per cent) for Covid-19until Wednesday.

Currently, 2,16,908 peo-ple are in home quarantinewhile 1,743 people are in insti-tutional quarantine.

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Filmmaker Anubhav Sinha has roped ininternational action director Stefan Richter

for the forthcoming Ayushmann Khurrana-star-rer Anek.

Richter is known for his larger-than-life yetrealistic action choreography, evident in actionsequences he designed for Ryan Reynolds andSamuel L Jackson in the 2017 Hollywoodthriller The Hitman’s Bodyguard, and for ShahRukh Khan in the 2011 Bollywood release Don2.

“Anek is the biggest film of my career interms of scale, and Anubhav Sinha is leaving nostone unturned to give the audience a huge big-screen experience with his vision. It is true thatStefan Richter has been roped in for our film.He comes in with a wealth of knowledge and hasbeen an architect for big scale action moviesaround the world,” said Ayushmann, disclosingthe news of the collaboration along with an on-set image of Richter that he posted.

He added that he would be doing somethingnew in the film courtesy Ritcher.

“With his craft, the action sequences of Anekwill match global standards and give the audi-ence a thrilling visual experience. Anubhav sirand Stefan are making me do something that isextremely new for me. As an artiste, I relishdoing different things and constantly exploremyself. Anek is taking me on a new journey thatI’m really enjoying,” the actor added.

Actor Ranveer Singh feels younghip-hop and rap artiste Spitfire is

a big reason why everybody tuned intohis 2019 film Gully Boy.

Spitfire, whose real name is NitinMishra, was dubbed as a prodigy forthe incredible lyrics of the song, AsliHip Hop.

“Nitin AKA Spitfire is a lyricalprodigy. He is a large part of the rea-son everybody tuned into Gully Boyduring its first promo when he wroteAsli Hip Hop. He is the one who wroteMurad’s part in all of the rap battles,”said Ranveer, referring to his charac-ter of Murad in the film, a youngsterfrom the slums who goes on to becomea hip-hop star.

Ranveer added, “When his match-less raw talent and pure passionrevealed itself to me, it became a largepart of the reason I even wanted to par-ticipate in the business in the firstplace.”

He also spoke about his favourite

track in Spitfire’s new EP titled Partein,which released on Friday.

“This new EP features one of myfavourite tracks so far, Zalzala (a track

from the EP). When I am in the gymit gets me hyped and pumped up.When I hear Sangeet and Afterparty(other tracks from the EP) they trans-

port me into an elevated spiritualspace and put me in a deep, thought-ful, reflective frame of mind,” said theactor.

The EP speaks of the rapper’s ver-satility, fearlessness and his beautifulspirit, said Ranveer. “Partein is ademonstration of skill and maturity.Tune in and hear your heart out. I can’twait for his next evolution,” he added.

Ranveer has founded the indepen-dent record label IncInk with NavzarEranee. Spitfire is managed by the label.

IncInk is his passion project thataims to give a platform to raw talentswith no connection in the musicindustry from across the country toexpress their skills and present their tal-ent to the global audience.

Actor Shraddha Kapoor describes the lock-down phase of last year as one of her cru-

cial phases for self-realisation. It was a periodwhen she could learn to unlearn and redefinethe value of zero, the spiritual meaning of shun-ya, she says.

“I think every time we start a film, westart from zero, from shunya. Lockdown wasa time for me to understand the value ofseveral things, including self-love, thefamily and my emotional and spiritu-al health. I also think that it made memore independent, and things likethe power of yoga to develop afocussed mind so that I can chooseto be a part of any project — film orentrepreneurial venture — more fear-lessly,” Shraddha said.

“As an actor, being a part of showbusiness, we have to look in a cer-tain way and that changes also withevery film that we do, every char-acter I play. Recently I invested ina beverage project in which I real-ly do not have to count my calo-ries while having my favouritedrinks. In a way, during lock-down, I have understood andredefined the value of shunya,and now I know the brand ofproduct or even brand of cin-ema I would like to associate

myself with. It is a learning that has happenedthrough last year,” she added.

Shraddha has been around in Bollywood foraround a decade, and she has faced success,

failure, praise and criticism. Her debut filmTeen Patti fared below expectation, herthird film Aashiqui 2 was a musical super-hit, followed by Ek Villain. She has tried

dance and action in various films includ-ing ABCD 2, Baaghi, Street Dancer 3D,and Saaho.

What has her decade in Bollywoodtaught her? “Firstly, whenever I get anew film, I receive it with a lot of grat-itude because a producer is investingmoney to make the film and makingme part of that journey. As an actor,I always put my 100 per cent, butresult is certainly not in our hand. Itis in the hands of the audience.Interestingly, the result plays a parton my next opportunity, becauseit is the nature of the business ofcinema. I have learnt to look at

things from a broader perspec-tive,” she summed up.

Shraddha finished a portionof the shoot for director LuvRanjan’s untitled film co-star-ring Ranbir Kapoor in Delhilast month and is gearing up

for her next schedule.

�What fascinated you to say yes to theseries 1962 The War In The Hills?

There are two major reasons — one,it was a war story, based and inspired bya real incident which I had read and wasabsolutely aware of. Any kind of storythat is related to Indian Army or defence,I get really excited. And the second rea-son was the director Mahesh Majrekar.I had worked with him earlier and Iwanted to do so again.

�How was your experience of playingan Army Officer?

I always love to work on films basedon the Army or any defence service forthat matter. I love wearing uniforms. I amvery fortunate that very early in my lifeI have played a cop, an officer and a spe-cial commando in a series called Testcase.I find myself very lucky to play all thesecharacters.

�What research went into it? Was itmore mental than physical?

See, when you play any char-acter, there are always two kindsof research involved — physicaland mental. The physical one isusually related to the professionof the character. So, since I amplaying an Army officer, Imade sure that I look like one.I wore the uniform properlyand made sure that I appear fitenough and be able to do allthose physical activities, whichare required to be done to playmy part. And I think mentalresearch is always importantfor an actor. As far as that isconcerned, it has to be thecharacter’s emotions, whichcan be of any kind. Forinstance, in this particularstory, I am in a healthy compe-tition with Abhay Deol’s char-acter, where I feel that I am moretalented than him but he got thechance to lead the battle while I amon a standby. So I think these arethe emotional points where youhave to work as a character. In thisseries, the important aspect was thatI should look apart and my body lan-guage should reflect my character. Sothat preparation was quite important.

�Any insight into the storyline...It’s a very emotional story because

this war happened when we were a newlyindependent as a country. We were notequipped to handle a war. Somewheredown the line, I personally feel that it’smore of an emotional inspiration. Whenyou have less resources and facilities, but

even then you have to fight for yournation. So during that time your will andpassion matter more. That is the reasonthat even when we had 3,000 opponentsfighting 126 soldiers, we won. Just byimagining the numbers one gets goose-bumps. I must say it was a battle of daunt-less courage.

�Why do you think it’simportant to make showson such subjects?

As a creative personwhen you are makingsomething, you tend to get

inspired by stories. Youmight even get inspired by a

crime, so that it reaches a larg-er audience and people get

aware that, ‘oh! It was a heinouscrime and we should be careful

to not get into a situation like this.We should be alert in life.’ In a very

similar manner, there are so manystories out there which are inspira-tional. Also, I was reading some-where that in today’s time, IndianArmed Forces — Indian Army,Indian Navy and Indian Air Force— deliberately promotes a lot sothat the youngsters feel motivat-ed to join the services. So I thinkthese kind of stories becomevery important. I feel it encour-ages people to understand theimportance of these professions,especially the youngsters. Showslike these will help them realise

how important soldiers are for a coun-try. I am sure a lot of youngsters will getencouraged.

�You’ve worked with MaheshManjrekar earlier in Hathyar. Andrecently, in an interview you also men-tioned that, “we’re quite familiar witheach other’s style of working.” Do youthink that made your ride smooth here?

I know how Maheshji works. Initially,I was a little apprehensive about my rolebecause I thought there’s no conflict inmy character. But then deep down I knewthat even if there’s no conflict, I can trustthe director with the effectiveness of myrole. The visual journey is through thecamera. If it captures you well, only thenan actor’s emotion reaches the audienceperfectly. That’s why I trusted him withmy role, emotions and presentation.When you’ll see the series, you’ll realisethat my character has that vulnerabilityand softness.

�Can you share a few anecdotes...I can recall a very interesting and

highly emotional scene from the series.It is when I come to inform Shagun Singh

(Mahie Gill), who’s playing Major SurajSingh’s (Abhay Deol) wife, about whathappened in the battle. After hearing thenews, his daughter gets hysterical. It wasabout how I control her emotions andcalm her down. There were no dialoguesin this particular scene. Maheshji had aconversation with the three of us —Mahi, the girl who’s playing Suraj’sdaughter and me. He explained to us thecrux of the scene and said, “This is whatI want out of it. This is the emotion I wantthe audience to feel when you performit.” He then told us, “I am placing thecamera in this direction and now every-thing is up to you guys... how you do itto create the perfect shot.” So he gave usa lot of details of what we are supposedto deliver as actors. That scene took quitesome time because it was a bit difficultas well as emotional since there was nota single dialogue. We just had to conveythrough our feelings and emotions. Asthey say, “Silence speaks louder thanwords.” So we had to make the audiencefeel the moment by playing with ouremotions.

(The series releases on February 26 onHotstar.)

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Arunachal Pradesh is known for itslush green hills, diverse tribes, and

rich vibrant culture. Now NationalGeographic, along with actor RadhikaMadan, will take the viewers throughthis spectacle and help people discov-er some unique experiences. The two-part documentary series tit ledPostcards from Arunachal, documentsthe spiritual and wondrous journey ofRadhika while exploring the varieddestinations spread across the state.

With showcasing picture-perfectmountains and tranquil lakes; Radhikashares her experiences of feeling thepeace and calmness at the monaster-ies, exploring the diverse handicrafttradition and understanding the richculture of the harmonious tribes livingin the state. From highlighting theexotic flora and fauna exclusive to the

state to bustling markets amidst theserene hills, extreme sports to adven-turous camping in Ziro Valley; view-ers will get a taste of the simplicity ofthe exquisite beauty of this statethrough this series.

“We harness the power of story-telling, technology and visuals toexplore and provide a deeper under-standing of a place. With this docu-mentary series, we have showcased thebeauty, serenity and vibrancy thatArunachal Pradesh has to offer to giveour viewers an opportunity to under-stand and appreciate the wonders ofthe state,” said a National Geographicspokesperson.

“The state is a veritable treasurehouse of nature, culture and has a lotto offer to tourists from all over theworld. From serene monasteries to

beautiful mountains; deep-rooted tra-ditions and tribes, the series is trulyrepresentative of the beauty of the stateand we are happy to premiere it on aspecial day,” said Pema Khandu, ChiefMinister of AP.

Talking about her experiences andassociation, Radhika said, “The jour-ney means so much more to me thanjust travel. This is my first ever solo tripand that made this shoot even morespecial. The hills, the beautiful har-monic culture, the thriving and diversewildlife made me fall in love with thisplace. I have always loved travelling butthis time, I explored it through a dif-ferent lens.”

(The docu-series will premiere onArunachal Statehood Day — February20 at 8 pm on National GeographicChannel India and Fox Life India.)

While growing up, we oftenheard tales of supernatural

entities lurking around where welived, just waiting to nab us at theright time. Though many say they’rejust urban legends, some say ‘She’won’t let you go!’ Are you ready tobe haunted by your dreams? Well,get ready to watch debutant writer-director Sarmad Khan’s urban hor-ror film, The Wife.

The horror stars GurmeetChoudhary and debutante SayaniDatta as a married couple who soonafter moving into their new apart-ment find their idyllic life unravel-ing in the most horrific ways due tothe presence of a malevolent spir-it. When their relationship crum-bles, they realise that they must sticktogether to not only save their mar-riage but also their lives. The filmis produced by Zee Studios. It’sposter features the lead cast andlooks intriguing as it unveils both,romances as well as an ominousundertone running through it.

Shariq Patel of Zee Studios says,“The urban setting and matter-of-fact approach in presenting super-natural events as never seen before

on screen makes the film unique.Horror as a genre is fairlyuntapped and I am sure this filmwill deliver the thrills it promis-es”

Gurmeet says, “This is my firstsolo lead and you’ll get to see mein a whole new and differentavatar. The script is fresh andyou’ll find the film to be a perfectamalgamation of spine-chillinghorror, action, romance, dramaand so much more.”

Director Sarmad says, “I thinkthe audience will the unconven-tionality of this film. Most horrorstories tragically are quite pre-dictable, especially for those wholove this genre and can end upmostly guessing what’s going tohappen next. Yet, with this film,you can’t know anything for suretill you’ve arrived at the end of it.”

Sayani says, “I am a huge fanof this genre and to be able tomake my debut in one is the mostexciting feeling ever. The entireexperience of being a part of sucha film has been a very fulfilling oneindeed.”

(The film is streaming on Zee5.)

Anatomist Alice Robertsembarks on an auda-cious scientific stunt —

to rebuild her own body, edit-ing out errors left behind byevolution. With the help of oneof the world’s best virtual sculp-tors, Scott Eaton, and top SFXmodel maker SangeetPrabhaker, Alice creates a life-size model of the perfect humanbody. She meets leading expertsto find out what the body’sbiggest problems are, and howadaptations in the rest of theanimal world could inspire hernew, improved design.Ambitious, audacious andpacked with cutting-edge sci-ence, Can Science Make MePerfect? challenges everythingyou thought you knew aboutthe perfect body. ProducerGareth Cornick talks about theshow. Excerpts:

�Tell us about the show andhow is it different?

Well, it’s the first time in myknowledge that anyone hastried to redesign a human bodyto make it better. And it camefrom the idea of the perfectbody. One day, I was thinkingin the office that ‘what do wecall the perfect body?’ Is it, BradPitt or Angelina Jolie? Andthat’s kind of beauty. Then Ithought, that we can actuallydesign a perfect body. Andwhat are the pieces of your bodythat are just not fit for purposeanymore? For a 21st centuryhuman? So that’s how CanScience Make Me Perfect wasconceptualised.

�What draws you to be a partof science shows?

I always had a keen interestin science. I actually trained asa physics teacher to begin with,and just got the feeling that Iwanted to make televisionshows because I’d get a wideraudience. For many people‘Science’ is an off-putting word.But the fact is science is every-where in everything. So, I liketo know things, I am alwayscurious. And so, through theprogrammes I make, I try tobreak down that barrier, andshow the audience that scienceis something that everyoneshould be interested in. Youdon’t need to be a genius tounderstand it, you just need to

have a thirst for understandingthings. So, I like to go far out onideas, get people excited and getthem to teach science — this iswhat really drives me crazy.

�Which are the most strikingdiscoveries revealed in theshow?

Well, I think as a part of theskeleton, one thing we reallywent for were the hips andknees. And in our research, werealised that virtually everyone,by the time they’re 70, or 80’swill have a problem with theirhips, knees and back. So, wedecided to create alternatedesigns of a human body,through the process of anatomy.We also looked at the animalkingdom because in terms ofevolution, there is a lot of inspi-ration to be taken from otheranimals. An ostrich’s legs arefantastic, they don’t break downat all. A chimpanzee never hasa backache, and so the lowerspine of our skeleton wasinspired from a chimpanzee.Did you know we have a blindspot in our retina? And if youwere to redesign an eyeball, youwouldn’t want to design it likethe eye we have. In that sense,an octopuses eye is a betterdesign and that’s what we haveused on the skeleton. That’s fas-cinating to see how many timesevolution has tried to over-come the same problems which

humans face in different envi-ronments.

�Can science make one per-fect?

The aim of the show is —can you make a person perfectto live in the 21st century? Andthat depends on what your ideaof perfection is. If it is Brad Pitt’sbody or Angelina Jolie’s body,then we haven’t achieved that.And that’s totally subjective. Wehave designed a body that won’tlet you down in 21st centuryhuman life, you won’t get anyage, you won’t get back ache,your hips won’t need to bereplaced, your ears will lastyou’ll be able to hear till the ageof 80, a body that’s fit for pur-pose, right into old days to 80 or90 years old. And we’ve debasedthat by looking at animals in theanimal kingdom, how they ageand their systems work. It maylook freaky, but we think wecracked it.

�What are the key takeaways forthe audience from this show?

The takeaway is to look atyour own body, lifestyle and themodern world arena. It willinform and help inspire people tolook after their health better orunderstand what’s happening totheir body they get older.

(The show will air on NationalScience Day i.e February 28 at 11am on Sony BBC Earth.)

Are you planning to arrangea socially-distanced

screening of a film? Do you feellike reliving the theatre expe-rience? Catching your favouritedirector’s film? Or simply tak-ing a weekend film break?Well, director Taranveer Singhhas curated a list of must-watchfilms this year. Have a look:

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Mehta’s directorial debutKamyaab starring SanjayMishra. And I really excited tosee what he has made next.

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Ayushmann Khurana isknown for picking interestingscripts and his pairing withVaani Kapoor seems quiteintriguing. Add to thatAbhishek Kapoor at the help ofthings. It looks like a quirkylove story to look forward to.

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stories, how can I notmention the film I’ve made?(Wink). Quiteunderstandably Tuesdays &Fridays is one of the films Iam most excited about in2021, for obvious reasons.

Actor Vaani Kapoor will see three filmsreleasing on the big screen this year.

With Shamshera, in which she has beenpaired opposite Ranbir Kapoor, Bell-Bottomopposite Akshay Kumar, and ChandigarhKare Aashiqui with Ayushmann Khurrana,Vaani has an enviable line-up of films readyto release in 2021. The actor is keen to con-stantly explore and present herself in newavatars each time her film hits the theatres.

Vaani says, “As an actor, I want to try myhands at everything. I’m lucky that I havemass entertainers as well as high-conceptcontent films this year that will enable meto present myself distinctly to audience andthe industry. I’m someone who wants toexplore every genre possible in my careerand want to undertake as many risks as pos-sible.”

She adds, “I don’t want to be bracketedas an actress who can do just a particularthing or look a certain way on screen. In fact,I want to take as many plunges as possibleand explore myself to constantly discoverand rediscover. I have always wanted to pickfilms that allow me to do something inter-esting and leave a mark onscreen.”

Vaani dubs 2021 a huge moment in hercinematic career. She says, “I’m really excit-ed about how 2021 is looking like. It’s awatershed moment for me and I want tocontinue on this path of choosing interest-ing roles that enable me to express.”

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Naomi Osaka says nobodyremembers a loser — and

she doesn’t plan to be onewhen she tries towin a fourthGrand Slam crownagainst JenniferBrady in theAustralian Open final onSaturday.

A second trophy atMelbourne Park would meanthe 23-year-old from Japanhas won half of the Majors she’scontested since her first at theUS Open final in 2018 — aninfamous match foreverremembered for SerenaWilliams’s implosion.

Osaka’s defeat of Williamsin the semi-final on Thursdayended the 39-year-old’s latestattempt to win an elusiverecord-equalling 24th Slamtitle and reinforced the beliefthat a new generation is takingover from the American.

Osaka is at the forefront ofthe young wave and credits anew-found mental maturityfor being able to battle throughmatches under the highestpressure. And she had a warn-ing for the 22nd-seededAmerican Brady ahead of thefinal.

“I have this mentality thatpeople don’t remember therunners-up,” she said. “I thinkI fight the hardest in the finals.I think that’s where you sort of

set yourselfapart.”

Osakais hotfavourite

against Brady, who is makingher Grand Slam final debutafter being forced into a hard14-day quarantine ahead of theAustralian Open, where shewas confined to her hotelroom and unable to train.

The pair first clashed asjuniors in Florida seven yearsago when Brady won. Osakahas won both their matchessince with their rivalry hittingnew heights in the second ofthose, last year’s epic US Opensemi-final.

Eventual champion Osakaprevailed 7-6 (7/1), 3-6, 6-3 ina nerve-jangling encounter,dubbed by some as the bestmatch of the truncated 2020season.

Osaka, who has never losta Slam match after gettingpast the fourth round, is aim-ing to become the firstwoman’s player since MonicaSeles to win her first fourGrand Slam finals.

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Russia’s Daniil Medvedev over-powered Stefanos Tsitsipas tomake his first Australian Open

final on Friday, where he will bid to stopworld number one Novak Djokovicfrom clinching an unprecedented ninthtitle.

The fourth seed proved far toostrong for Greece’s Tsitsipas, crushinghim 6-4, 6-2, 7-5 in front of more than7,000 noisy fans at Rod Laver Arena toextend his win streak to 20.

The 25-year-old, ultra-confident onthe back of his unbeaten run, whichincludes three titles, has been knock-ing on the door of Grand Slam successfor some time, but has yet to win a title.To finally get over the line he must onSunday beat top seed Djokovic, who haswon all eight finals he has played atMelbourne Park.

But nobody on tour has moremomentum than Medvedev,whose tricky game has stymiedall opponents since November,and he has won three of his lastfour against the 17-time GrandSlam-winning Serb.

“It definitely wasn’t easy,” saidMedvedev, only the third Russianafter Yevgeny Kafelnikov and MaratSafin to reach the Australian Openfinal.

“I got a little bit scared and tight(in the third set) because it’s a semi-final of a Slam... but happy I was ableto turn my game on, especially in sometight moments on my serve.”

Medvedev came into the show-down boasting a 5-1 edge in their head-to-heads and a frosty relationshipstemming from Shanghai in 2019,when the popular Greek blasted hisslugfest playing style as “boring”.

FLAG-WAVING FANSFifth seed Tsitsipas was backing up

from a stunning five-set upset of 20-time Grand Slam champion RafaelNadal, but it was an energy-sappingfour-hour epic and he appeared to feelthe effects.

In front of vocal, flag-waving Greekfans, the servers controlled the pointsas they moved to 2-2 in the opening setbefore the Russian, anchored to thebaseline, drew first blood.

Until then, Tsitsipas had only facedeight break points in the entire tourna-ment, but Medvedev earned two andconverted on the second when theGreek sent a return long.

Medvedev, who also reached the

2019 US Open final, stayed focused andworked two set points at 5-4. ButTsitsipas defended both successfullywith deep, aggressive returns as thecrowd lifted their volume.

He sent down his first double-faultof the match on his third before blast-ing an ace and a winner to take a one-set lead.

Medvedev dominated the longrallies, with Tsitsipas needing to fight

hard for every point, and he was bro-ken again after a seven-minutemarathon game when the Russianblasted a sizzling forehand down theline for 2-1 second-set advantage.

Frustrated, Tsitsipas slammed hiswater bottle to the ground at thechangeover, with the ballkids forced tomop up the mess after it burst andsprayed everywhere.

Medvedev was commanding onserve and a glum Tsitsipas unravelled,

broken again, to love, on his next gameas the Russian raced through the set in36 minutes.

He was broken again early in thethird set and appeared spent, butroared on by the crowd he found newreserves to break back for 3-3.

For the first time in the match,Medvedev was under pressure butheld his nerve with a glorious passingshot giving him another break for 6-5before he calmly served out to win.

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India’s Ankita Raina onFriday claimed her maiden

WTA title by lifting the PhillipIsland Trophy along withRussian partner KamillaRakhimova, a feat which willcatapult her into the top-100 inthe doubles for the first time inher career.

Ankita and Kamilla eraseda one-set deficit to beat theRussian combination of AnnaBlinkova and AnastasiaPotapova 2-6, 6-4, 10-7 in thesummit clash here.

The 28-year-old Indianshared the $8000 prize moneywith her partner and earned280 ranking points, whichwill take her to 94 from the

current 115 when the WTAdoubles chart is updated nextweek.

Ankita will become onlythe second player to crack thedoubles top-100 since Sania

Mirza, who is a six-timeGrand Slam champion.

The past two weeks havebeen extremely memorablefor the gritty Indian, whomade her Grand Slam debut at

the Australian Open in thedoubles, and also won a roundin the main draw of a WTAsingles tournament.

Elated at her performanceand the result, Ankita says thesingles top-100 is also justaround the corner.

“It’s been a great week.Kamilla and I played togetherfor the first time. We signed upjust 20 minutes before thedraw because there was a lot ofconfusion with the entry list.

“Kamilla plays very aggres-sive, has good strokes and I justhad to ask her to be aggressiveat the net, which she did,”Ankita said.

“It was not that draw waseasy, we beat some good play-ers who were tough not only indoubles but in singles, too.Kamilla has great fighting spir-it. It’s great... First WTA titlesand doubles top-100, too. I amlooking forward to crack sin-gles top-100,” she added.

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4-0 victory over Real Sociedad intheir Europa League last-32 first legon Thursday, while Gareth Baleimpressed for Tottenham Hotspur ina 4-1 thrashing of Austrian sideWolfsberg.

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s Unitedare all but into the last 16, with fouraway goals to take into the returngame in a week’s time, after the firstleg was played in Turin due to coro-navirus travel restrictions.

The Premier League outfitgrabbed the lead in the 27th minutewhen Fernandes pounced on adefensive mix-up to slot in fromMarcus Rashford’s clipped pass.

Solskjaer’s men doubled theiradvantage 12 minutes into the sec-ond period as Fernandes strokedhome his 21st goal of the season.

United continued to play at apace Sociedad could not deal withand Rashford finally got his goal inthe 65th minute following a blister-ing counter-attack started by goal-keeper Dean Henderson.

The tie was surely put to bed inthe final minute of normal time asDaniel James raced clear and firedinto the bottom corner.

BALE STRIKESWales winger Bale notched his

first Tottenham assist since April2013 to tee up Son Heung-min forthe opening goal in Budapest againstWolfsberg, before drilling in the sec-ond before the half-hour mark.

A wonderful individual strikefrom Lucas Moura extended Spurs’first-half lead, and although MichaelLiendl pulled one back for theAustrians with a second-half penal-ty, the English club have one foot inthe next round after Carlos Vinicius’88th-minute goal.

MILAN, ARSENAL HELDAC Milan, who have not

reached the quarter-finals of anyEuropean competition since the2011-12 Champions League, had tosettle for a 2-2 draw at Red StarBelgrade.

Arsenal youngster Bukayo Sakacontinued his excellent season as hissixth goal of the campaign cancelledout Pizzi’s penalty in a 1-1 drawagainst Benfica at the StadioOlimpico in Rome.

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Second seeded Elise Mertens andAryna Sabalenka swept past

Barbora Krejcikova and KaterinaSiniakova to clinch their firstAustralian Open and second GrandSlam doubles title on Friday.

The Belgian-Belarusian combina-tion proved too strong for the third-seeded Czech pair, winning 6-2, 6-3on Rod Laver Arena after sealing thematch on their fourth championship

point.It was their second Grand Slam

success as a team after the 2019 USOpen and sixth title overall as theyboth bounced back from fourth-round defeats in singles at MelbournePark.

They pair made their debuttogether at the 2019 Australian Openand have since established themselvesas one the tour’s top teams, along withtwo-time Grand Slam winnersKrejcikova and Siniakova.

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Fast bowler Mark Wood feelsEngland, boasting one of the game’s

finest seamers in James Anderson, canfancy their chances in the upcomingday/night Test against India if the pinkball moves around.

The four-match Test series is levelat 1-1 heading into the day-night Testat the new 110,000-capacity Sardar PatelStadium here.

“As soon as the ball moves, weknow how good our seam bowlers canbe. We’ve got good depth there,good skills and two of the best-ever(James Anderson and StuartBroad).

“Hopefully, ifthe ball doesmove and it isseamer-friendlywe can be very confi-dent going into the game,” Woodsaid during a virtual interaction onFriday.

Along with Jonny Bairstow, Woodjoined the England squad ahead of thethird Test.

While the spinners have taken thebulk of wickets in the first two Tests ofthe ongoing series, Indian pacers tookall 20 wickets to win their only previ-ous day-night match on home soil,against Bangladesh in Kolkata.

“We’ve been bowling with them inthe nets - they have swung quite a bit

and they’ve lasted longer which wasinteresting to see,” said Wood.

“With the ball, as soon as itmoves, every one of the bowlersfrom the past couple of months

is dying to get it in theirhand. I’m not the onlyone who’s trying to gethold of it. “The wickets inthe nets have been a bit

green and had good paceand carry too. I don’t knowif that’s anything to go byor whether it’s a bit of atrick.”

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Some established names suchas Shikhar Dhawan and

Shreyas Iyer will be aiming tomake an impression before thewhite-ball series against Englandwhen the Vijay Hazare 50-overcompetition gets underway inbio-secure bubbles across sixvenues on Saturday.

Shreyas Iyer, who missedthe Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy ashe was recovering from shoul-der injury, along with others likeBhuvaneshwar Kumar andDhawan will be keenly watchedduring the tournament.

While Tamil Nadu, winnerof the recent Syed Mushtaq AliTrophy, has a strong team andothers like Karnataka, Mumbaiand Delhi will also fancy theirchances.

The tournament will givethe players a chance to impressthe national selectors, before theODI and T20 series againstEngland, which will begin inMarch. India is slated to play fiveT20s in Ahmedabad and threeODIs against England in Pune.

This is the second domestictournament to be conducted bythe BCCI in this curtailed sea-son after the Syed Mushtaq AliT20 Trophy.

The focus will be firmly onShreyas, who is back to leadMumbai, the domestic giants,who also have a new coach informer India off-spinnerRamesh Powar.

He will be eager to make animpact and so will the prolificSuryakumar Yadav, who is closeto making the Indian team.

Even Prithvi Shaw, who hasbeen named Shreyas’ deputy andhas been short of runs, will wantto bounce back stronger.

Mumbai had an eminentlyforgettable outing in theMushtaq Ali Trophy, failing tomake it past the group stage andgoing down to minnowsPuducherry.

Pacer BhuvaneshwarKumar, who will lead UttarPradesh, will be raring to go aswell and so will another white-ball specialist Shikhar Dhawan,who last played in the seriesagainst Australia.

He will be playing underPradeep Sangwan for Delhi.

Baroda, after their impres-sive runners-up show in theMushtaq Ali Trophy, will be bol-stered by the return of skipperand all-rounder Krunal Pandya,who had to leave the nationalT20 championship, mid-wayfollowing his father’s demise.

Tamil Nadu, led by DineshKarthik, will be aiming to makeit two out of two this season.They have the team to aim fora double.

The squad, however, will bemissing the services of yorkerspecialist T Natarajan after hewas released following a requestfrom BCCI, which wanted himto be fresh for the white ballseries against England.

It won’t be easy for TamilNadu, as they will face stiff com-petition from teams like Punjaband Karnataka, always a force toreckon with in national compe-titions.

Bengal will miss the servicesof experienced campaignerManoj Tiwary and it will be achallenge for stand-in-skipperAnustup Majumdar after theteam made a group exit inMushtaq Ali.

Explosive left-handed open-

er Vivek Singh is in sublimeform and will look to prove him-self again after the IPL snub.

Abhimanyu Easwaran hasbeen released from the Indiasquad and is available and he willform the back-bone of their bat-ting. The teams have been divid-ed into six groups — five EliteGroups, one Plate Group.

The group stage will be fol-lowed by quarterfinals with thesummit clash scheduled forMarch 14.


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