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N itish Kumar will remain the Chief Minister of Bihar if the NDA return to power in the State irrespective of the number of seats the BJP and the Janata Dal(U) clinch in the polls. The BJP made this dec- laration on Tuesday as the two parties announced their seat sharing pact. The JD(U) will contest 122 seats and the BJP 121. The differences of one seat means BJP’s symbolic acceptance of Nitish Kumar as the “elder brother” in Bihar politics. The BJP also rebuffed LJP chief Chirag Paswan who has decided to go solo in the polls and put up candidates against the JD(U) nominees. Without directly naming Chirag or his party, the BJP said no one out- side the NDA alliance in Bihar was allowed to use Prime Minister’s name in poll cam- paigning. Incidentally, Chirag has been repeatedly saying his can- didates will strengthen the hand of the Prime Minister after the polls. Bihar Deputy Chief Minister and senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi said that the NDA in this election will mean only four parties — the BJP, the JD(U), Jitan Ram Manjhi’s HAM and the Vikassheel Insaan Party. “Only four NDA parties can use PM’s photo during campaign. If needed, we will write to the Election Commission that PM Modi’s photo must not be mis- used,” he added. Sources said before the two sides held a joint Press con- ference to announce their seat sharing deal, the JD(U) lead- ership told the BJP that it must distance itself from Chirag Paswan. Following this, BJP State president Sanjay Jaisawal issued a brief statement which said, “Only those who accept Nitish Kumar’s leadership in Bihar will remain in the NDA. The leader of the NDA in Bihar is Nitish Kumar. The BJP accepts his leadership in Bihar and everyone in the NDA should accept his leadership.” Jaisawal later said “the LJP was an ally at the Centre and we pray for early recovery of its founder and Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan. But there should be no confusion with regard to the fact that in Bihar the NDA’s leader is Nitish Kumar. Our alliance with his party is atoot (unbreakable).” Declaring the seat-sharing arrangement, Nitish Kumar said, “The JD(U) has got 122 seats out of which we have set aside seven for the Hindustani Awam Morcha (headed by for- mer CM Jitan Ram Manjhi). The BJP has got the remaining 121 wherein new entrant Vikassheel Insaan Party of Mukesh Sahni will be accom- modated.” Responding to a query about post-poll scenario Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi asserted, “We have said unequivocally that Nitish Kumar will be our Chief Minister. It does not matter which party gets how many seats in the elections”. Nitish did not mention Chirag by name but remarked sarcastically, “I believe in doing my job. If some people derive pleasure out of saying some- thing inconsequential, they are most welcome to do so. It does not bother me”. However, he sought to repudiate Chirag’s allegation that the JD(U) has not treated its alliance partners in the State well and asked “did Ram Vilas Paswan get elected to the Rajya Sabha without the JD(U)s sup- port?” In the outgoing Assembly, the RJD is the single largest party with 73 MLAs, followed by the JD(U) with 69, BJP (54), Congress (23), CPI-ML (3), LJP (2), HAM and AIMIM of Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi one each, and Independent (5). Several senior leaders of both the BJP and JD(U), including BJP Bihar in-charge Bhupendra Yadav, BJP’s Bihar poll in-charge Devendra Fadnavis and JD(U) State chief Vashisht Narayan Singh too were present at the joint press meet. A mid its strained relations with China, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday said New Delhi is committed to peaceful resolu- tion of disputes and rule-based world order even as he called for a free and open India- Pacific region. Making these opening remarks at the meeting of Foreign Ministers of Quad countries including India, Japan, Australia and the US in Tokyo, he also said the four democratic countries favour a free and open India-Pacific region. The Quad meeting comes at a time when China is aggressively asserting itself in this region leading to tension. Jaishankar, however, refrained from naming China. This is the second Minister-level meeting of the Quad countries in the last two years. The ongoing two-day conclave is the first against the backdrop of ongoing tension between India and China at the LAC in Ladakh and coron- avirus pandemic. Jaishankar had held a two-hour long bilat- eral meeting with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on September 10 in Moscow to end the logjam at the border. The Quad meeting dis- cussed the issue of ensuring a free and open Indo-Pacific in the face of China’s increasing- ly aggressive behaviour across the region. The other three Ministers include Marise Payne (Australia), Toshimitsu Motegi (Japan)and Mike Pompeo (US). Jaishankar said the events of this year have demonstrated how “imperative it is for like- minded countries to coordinate responses to the various chal- lenges that the pandemic has brought to the fore”. On the situation in the strategically important India- Pacific region, he said “as vibrant and pluralistic democ- racies with shared values, our nations have collectively affirmed the importance of maintaining a free, open and inclusive Indo-Pacific.” “It is a matter of satisfaction that the Indo-Pacific concept has gained increasingly wider acceptance,” he said. Continued on Page 2 T he Information and Broadcasting Ministry on Tuesday issued strict Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) to re-open cinema theaters from October 15. The SOP includes filling up only for 50 per cent capacity, keeping one seat vacant between the viewers, and main- taining temperature condi- tions. The SOP bars serving cooked food of any kind and says only packaged food and beverages will be allowed for sale at refreshment points. The viewers will not be allowed to carry any food inside the cin- ema hall. Releasing the SOP, Minister Prakash Javadekar said local authorities must ensure the guidelines are adhered to along with strict physical distancing norms. In multi-halls, to prevent the crowding, the SOP has suggested staggered timing also. Mask wearing will be compulsory for viewers and staffers and theater mangers must ensure medical facilities if anybody is feeling uneasy. “The highlights of the guiding principles include the general principles which have been given by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, including thermal screening of all visitors/staff, adequate physical distancing, use of face covers/masks, frequent hand washing, provision of hand sanitisers, etc and respiratory etiquettes specifically with regard to the exhibition of films,” the I&B Ministry said. The Ministry said it has formulated the general SOPs taking into consideration inter- national practices notified in the sector, including physical distancing, entry and exit with designated queue markers, sanitisation, safety of staff, con- tact minimisation. The SOP said there should be one seat vacant between the viewers and the vacant seat should be marked. The SOP also asked the local PWD authorities to ensure the tem- perature and air-conditioning norms. “Temperature setting of all air conditioning devices should be in the range of 24-30°C. Relative humidity should be in the range of 40-70 per cent. Re- circulation of air is to be avoid- ed to the extent possible. Intake of fresh air should be as much as possible. Cross ventilation should be adequate,” said the guidelines. A s if the Covid-19 pandem- ic wasn’t enough, residents in north India, including Delhi- NCR, could well be heading for winters far more polluted than in the last three years. Satellites have detected an almost five- fold increase in the number of crop residue burning instances in Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh in the first week of October in 2020 than during the corresponding period since 2017 to 2019. According to the Agriculture Ministry, satellites detected 208 incidents of farm fires on just a single day, October 5. Of them, 163 were detected in Punjab, 30 in Haryana and 15 in UP. Between October 1 and 5, 894 paddy crop residue burn- ing events have already been detected as compared to 184 in 2019, 263 in 2018 and 652 in 2017. Punjab is leading in farm fires with 700 events, followed by 146 in Haryana and 48 in UP. The number of burning events was highest on October 5 in Punjab in the last 4 years. According to the Ministry, in Punjab, burning/fire events were concentrated in Amritsar, Tarn Taran, Patiala, Gurdaspur, Ferozepur, Ludhiana, Sangrur and Fatehgarh Sahib districts. Last year, only 79 events of farm fires were detected between October 1 and 5 in Punjab. The number of farm fires was 117 in 2018. On October 5, total 163 farm fires were reported while 16 in 2019, 56 in 2018, 106 in 2017 and 95 in 2016. This is despite the fact that the Punjab Government had spent more funds than Haryana and UP in the past two years on trying to get farmers implement farm waste management practices. But farmers say they do not have any option but to burn. In Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, the burning events were scattered. As many as 86 farm fires events were detect- ed in Haryana this year during the same period while 87 farm fires events were reported in 2019; 208 in 2018 and 100 in 20117. Most farm fires events were detected from Ambala, Kurukshetra, Kaithal, Jind and Fatehabad districts. Continued on Page 2 T he Uttar Pradesh Police has arrested a journalist and three other people in Mathura while they were on their way to Hathras, home to a Dalit woman who died after being allegedly gangraped. The police had on Monday said it has arrested four people having links with the Popular Front of India and its affiliate in Mathura. The PFI had been accused of funding protests against the CAA earlier this year and the UP Police had sought a ban on the outfit. Continued on Page 2 T he Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Uttar Pradesh Government to inform it by October 8 about the steps taken to protect witnesses in the Hathras horror case in which a Dalit girl was brutally raped following which she suc- cumbed to injuries. Describing the crime as “horrible”, the court also asked the State Government about legal aid to the victim’s family. Hearing a PIL, a bench comprising Chief Justice SA Bobde and Justices AS Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian asked all parties appearing before it to give suggestions on the scope of proceedings before the Allahabad HC and how the SC can make it more relevant. The State Government said it favoured a court-monitored CBI probe because fake narra- tives were being spread. “Narratives after narratives being spread in Hathras case, this needs to be stopped,” said Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the UP Government. Continued on Page 2 New Delhi : Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday said the national Capital is past the peak of the second wave of coronavirus and the situation has been controlled to a large extent. Kejriwal said the Delhi Government increased the test- ing exponentially to detect the infection. “Delhi hit the peak of the second wave of COVID-19 on September 17 when 4,500 cases were reported,” he said. Chandigarh: Haryana Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala on Tuesday said he has tested positive for coron- avirus, adding that he was asymptomatic and feeling alright. Chautala, a JJP leader, urged people who had met him during the past week to get themselves tested. “My Covid-19 test report has returned positive. There are no symptoms of Covid-19 like fever etc, but as the report is positive, I am self-isolating,” Dushyant said in a message on Twitter. Aligarh: Even before the outrage over the gangrape-murder case of a Dalit woman in Hathras settled, a six-year-old girl from the district, who was allegedly raped by her relative, died dur- ing treatment at a hospital in Delhi, police said on Tuesday. The minor was held captive at a relative’s house in Iglas area of Aligarh district and was rescued on September 17, Senior Superintendent of Police Muniraj G said. New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday said the Delhi Government will start spraying “Pusa bio-decomposer” solu- tion from October 11 to pre- vent stubble burning in non- basmati rice fields in the national Capital. Scientists at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, PUSA, have found a low-cost, simple and effective way to deal with the problem of stubble burning, he said. Detailed report on P3

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Nitish Kumar will remainthe Chief Minister of Bihar

if the NDA return to power inthe State irrespective of thenumber of seats the BJP andthe Janata Dal(U) clinch in thepolls. The BJP made this dec-laration on Tuesday as the twoparties announced their seatsharing pact.

The JD(U) will contest122 seats and the BJP 121. Thedifferences of one seat meansBJP’s symbolic acceptance ofNitish Kumar as the “elderbrother” in Bihar politics.

The BJP also rebuffed LJPchief Chirag Paswan who hasdecided to go solo in the pollsand put up candidates againstthe JD(U) nominees. Withoutdirectly naming Chirag or hisparty, the BJP said no one out-side the NDA alliance in Biharwas allowed to use PrimeMinister’s name in poll cam-paigning.

Incidentally, Chirag hasbeen repeatedly saying his can-didates will strengthen thehand of the Prime Ministerafter the polls.

Bihar Deputy ChiefMinister and senior BJP leaderSushil Kumar Modi said thatthe NDA in this election willmean only four parties — theBJP, the JD(U), Jitan RamManjhi’s HAM and theVikassheel Insaan Party. “Onlyfour NDA parties can use PM’sphoto during campaign. Ifneeded, we will write to theElection Commission that PMModi’s photo must not be mis-

used,” he added.Sources said before the

two sides held a joint Press con-ference to announce their seatsharing deal, the JD(U) lead-ership told the BJP that it mustdistance itself from ChiragPaswan. Following this, BJPState president Sanjay Jaisawalissued a brief statement whichsaid, “Only those who acceptNitish Kumar’s leadership in

Bihar will remain in the NDA.The leader of the NDA inBihar is Nitish Kumar. The BJPaccepts his leadership in Biharand everyone in the NDAshould accept his leadership.”

Jaisawal later said “the LJPwas an ally at the Centre andwe pray for early recovery of itsfounder and Union MinisterRam Vilas Paswan. But thereshould be no confusion with

regard to the fact that in Biharthe NDA’s leader is NitishKumar. Our alliance with hisparty is atoot (unbreakable).”

Declaring the seat-sharingarrangement, Nitish Kumarsaid, “The JD(U) has got 122seats out of which we have setaside seven for the HindustaniAwam Morcha (headed by for-mer CM Jitan Ram Manjhi).The BJP has got the remaining

121 wherein new entrantVikassheel Insaan Party ofMukesh Sahni will be accom-modated.”

Responding to a queryabout post-poll scenarioDeputy Chief Minister SushilKumar Modi asserted, “Wehave said unequivocally thatNitish Kumar will be our ChiefMinister. It does not matterwhich party gets how manyseats in the elections”.

Nitish did not mentionChirag by name but remarkedsarcastically, “I believe in doingmy job. If some people derivepleasure out of saying some-thing inconsequential, they aremost welcome to do so. It doesnot bother me”.

However, he sought torepudiate Chirag’s allegationthat the JD(U) has not treatedits alliance partners in the Statewell and asked “did Ram VilasPaswan get elected to the RajyaSabha without the JD(U)s sup-port?”

In the outgoing Assembly,the RJD is the single largestparty with 73 MLAs, followedby the JD(U) with 69, BJP (54),Congress (23), CPI-ML (3), LJP(2), HAM and AIMIM ofHyderabad MP AsaduddinOwaisi one each, andIndependent (5).

Several senior leaders ofboth the BJP and JD(U),including BJP Bihar in-chargeBhupendra Yadav, BJP’s Biharpoll in-charge DevendraFadnavis and JD(U) State chiefVashisht Narayan Singh toowere present at the joint pressmeet.

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Amid its strained relationswith China, External

Affairs Minister S Jaishankaron Tuesday said New Delhi iscommitted to peaceful resolu-tion of disputes and rule-basedworld order even as he calledfor a free and open India-Pacific region.

Making these openingremarks at the meeting ofForeign Ministers of Quadcountries including India,Japan, Australia and the US inTokyo, he also said the fourdemocratic countries favour afree and open India-Pacificregion. The Quad meetingcomes at a time when China isaggressively asserting itself inthis region leading to tension.Jaishankar, however, refrainedfrom naming China.

This is the secondMinister-level meeting of theQuad countries in the last twoyears. The ongoing two-dayconclave is the first against thebackdrop of ongoing tensionbetween India and China at theLAC in Ladakh and coron-avirus pandemic. Jaishankarhad held a two-hour long bilat-eral meeting with his Chinesecounterpart Wang Yi onSeptember 10 in Moscow toend the logjam at the border.

The Quad meeting dis-cussed the issue of ensuring afree and open Indo-Pacific inthe face of China’s increasing-ly aggressive behaviour acrossthe region. The other threeMinisters include Marise Payne(Australia), Toshimitsu Motegi

(Japan)and Mike Pompeo (US).Jaishankar said the events

of this year have demonstratedhow “imperative it is for like-minded countries to coordinateresponses to the various chal-lenges that the pandemic hasbrought to the fore”.

On the situation in thestrategically important India-Pacific region, he said “asvibrant and pluralistic democ-racies with shared values, ournations have collectivelyaffirmed the importance ofmaintaining a free, open andinclusive Indo-Pacific.”

“It is a matter of satisfactionthat the Indo-Pacific concepthas gained increasingly wideracceptance,” he said.

Continued on Page 2

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The Information andBroadcasting Ministry on

Tuesday issued strict StandardOperating Procedures (SOP) tore-open cinema theaters fromOctober 15.

The SOP includes filling uponly for 50 per cent capacity,keeping one seat vacantbetween the viewers, and main-taining temperature condi-tions.

The SOP bars servingcooked food of any kind andsays only packaged food andbeverages will be allowed forsale at refreshment points. Theviewers will not be allowed tocarry any food inside the cin-ema hall.

Releasing the SOP,Minister Prakash Javadekarsaid local authorities mustensure the guidelines areadhered to along with strictphysical distancing norms.

In multi-halls, to preventthe crowding, the SOP hassuggested staggered timingalso. Mask wearing will becompulsory for viewers andstaffers and theater mangersmust ensure medical facilitiesif anybody is feeling uneasy.

“The highlights of theguiding principles include thegeneral principles which havebeen given by the Ministry of

Health & Family Welfare,including thermal screeningof all visitors/staff, adequatephysical distancing, use of facecovers/masks, frequent handwashing, provision of handsanitisers, etc and respiratoryetiquettes specifically withregard to the exhibition offilms,” the I&B Ministry said.

The Ministry said it hasformulated the general SOPstaking into consideration inter-national practices notified inthe sector, including physicaldistancing, entry and exit withdesignated queue markers,sanitisation, safety of staff, con-tact minimisation.

The SOP said there shouldbe one seat vacant between theviewers and the vacant seatshould be marked. The SOPalso asked the local PWDauthorities to ensure the tem-perature and air-conditioningnorms.

“Temperature setting of allair conditioning devices shouldbe in the range of 24-30°C.Relative humidity should be inthe range of 40-70 per cent. Re-circulation of air is to be avoid-ed to the extent possible. Intakeof fresh air should be as muchas possible. Cross ventilationshould be adequate,” said theguidelines.

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As if the Covid-19 pandem-ic wasn’t enough, residents

in north India, including Delhi-NCR, could well be heading forwinters far more polluted thanin the last three years. Satelliteshave detected an almost five-fold increase in the number ofcrop residue burning instancesin Punjab, Haryana and UttarPradesh in the first week ofOctober in 2020 than duringthe corresponding period since2017 to 2019.

According to theAgriculture Ministry, satellitesdetected 208 incidents of farmfires on just a single day,October 5. Of them, 163 weredetected in Punjab, 30 inHaryana and 15 in UP.

Between October 1 and 5,894 paddy crop residue burn-

ing events have already beendetected as compared to 184 in2019, 263 in 2018 and 652 in2017. Punjab is leading in farmfires with 700 events, followedby 146 in Haryana and 48 inUP. The number of burningevents was highest on October5 in Punjab in the last 4 years.

According to the Ministry,in Punjab, burning/fire eventswere concentrated in Amritsar,Tarn Taran, Patiala, Gurdaspur,Ferozepur, Ludhiana, Sangrurand Fatehgarh Sahib districts.Last year, only 79 events offarm fires were detectedbetween October 1 and 5 inPunjab. The number of farmfires was 117 in 2018. OnOctober 5, total 163 farm fireswere reported while 16 in 2019,56 in 2018, 106 in 2017 and 95in 2016. This is despite the factthat the Punjab Government

had spent more funds thanHaryana and UP in the pasttwo years on trying to getfarmers implement farm wastemanagement practices. Butfarmers say they do not haveany option but to burn.

In Haryana and UttarPradesh, the burning eventswere scattered. As many as 86

farm fires events were detect-ed in Haryana this year duringthe same period while 87 farmfires events were reported in2019; 208 in 2018 and 100 in20117. Most farm fires eventswere detected from Ambala,Kurukshetra, Kaithal, Jind andFatehabad districts.

Continued on Page 2

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The Uttar Pradesh Policehas arrested a journalist

and three other people inMathura while they were ontheir way to Hathras, home toa Dalit woman who died afterbeing allegedly gangraped.

The police had on Mondaysaid it has arrested four peoplehaving links with the PopularFront of India and its affiliatein Mathura. The PFI had beenaccused of funding protestsagainst the CAA earlier thisyear and the UP Police hadsought a ban on the outfit.

Continued on Page 2

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The Supreme Court onTuesday directed the Uttar

Pradesh Government to informit by October 8 about the stepstaken to protect witnesses inthe Hathras horror case inwhich a Dalit girl was brutallyraped following which she suc-cumbed to injuries.

Describing the crime as“horrible”, the court also askedthe State Government aboutlegal aid to the victim’s family.

Hearing a PIL, a benchcomprising Chief Justice SABobde and Justices ASBopanna and VRamasubramanian asked all

parties appearing before it togive suggestions on the scopeof proceedings before theAllahabad HC and how theSC can make it more relevant.

The State Government said

it favoured a court-monitoredCBI probe because fake narra-tives were being spread.

“Narratives after narrativesbeing spread in Hathras case,this needs to be stopped,” saidSolicitor General TusharMehta, appearing for the UPGovernment.

Continued on Page 2

New Delhi : Delhi ChiefMinister Arvind Kejriwal onTuesday said the nationalCapital is past the peak of thesecond wave of coronavirusand the situation has beencontrolled to a large extent.Kejriwal said the DelhiGovernment increased the test-ing exponentially to detect theinfection. “Delhi hit the peak ofthe second wave of COVID-19on September 17 when 4,500cases were reported,” he said.

Chandigarh: Haryana DeputyChief Minister DushyantChautala on Tuesday said hehas tested positive for coron-avirus, adding that he wasasymptomatic and feelingalright. Chautala, a JJP leader,urged people who had met himduring the past week to getthemselves tested.

“My Covid-19 test reporthas returned positive. There areno symptoms of Covid-19 likefever etc, but as the report ispositive, I am self-isolating,”Dushyant said in a message onTwitter.

Aligarh: Even before the outrage over the gangrape-murder caseof a Dalit woman in Hathras settled, a six-year-old girl fromthe district, who was allegedly raped by her relative, died dur-ing treatment at a hospital in Delhi, police said on Tuesday. Theminor was held captive at a relative’s house in Iglas area of Aligarhdistrict and was rescued on September 17, Senior Superintendentof Police Muniraj G said.

New Delhi: Delhi ChiefMinister Arvind Kejriwal onTuesday said the DelhiGovernment will start spraying “Pusa bio-decomposer” solu-tion from October 11 to pre-vent stubble burning in non-basmati rice fields in the

national Capital. Scientists atthe Indian AgriculturalResearch Institute, PUSA, havefound a low-cost, simple andeffective way to deal with the problem of stubble burning, he said.

Detailed report on P3

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New Delhi: A special court convicted for-mer Union Minister Dilip Ray onTuesday here in a coal scam case per-taining to irregularities in the allocationof a Jharkhand coal block in 1999.SpecialJudge Bharat Parashar convicted Ray,former minister of state (coal) in the AtalBihari Vajpayee government, for crimi-nal conspiracy and other offences.

The court also convicted two seniorofficials of the Ministry of Coal at thattime, Pradip Kumar Banerjee and NityaNand Gautam, Castron Technologies Ltd(CTL), its director Mahendra KumarAgarwalla and Castron Mining Ltd(CML).

The court will hear arguments on thequantum of sentence on October 14. Thecase pertains to allocation of Brahmadihacoal block in Giridih in Jharkhand to CTLin 1999. PNS

Hyderabad: Andhra PradeshChief Minister YS Jaganmohanhas clearly scored over hisTelangana counterpart KChandrasekhar Rao at theApex Council meeting con-vened by the Centre via videoconference on Tuesday toresolve river water sharing dis-putes between both the States.

Jagan could secure most ofhis major demands from thiscrucial meeting while the Centresimply ignored the demands putforth by KCR. The Apex Councildevelopments proved how Jaganremains favoured CM for BJP-led government at the Centreover KCR. It may be mentionedthat Jagan rushed to Delhi a dayahead of ApexCouncil meetingand met Prime MinisterNarendra Modi just an hourbefore the council meeting. PNS

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ASpecial court here onTuesday extended the judi-

cial custody of actress RheaChakraborty in the SushantSingh Rajput-related drug casetill October 20, even as Rhea’sfamily’s family lawyer SatishManeshinde charged that theactor’s family and their lawyerswere “interfering and tamper-ing” with the investigations.

The special court alsoextended the remand of Rhea’sbrother, Showik Chakraborty,and others till October 20.

In a related development,the Bombay High Court–which had on September 29reserved its verdict on the bailpleas of Rhea, Showik andothers in the same case – isexpected to deliver its order onWednesday.

Meanwhile, Rhea’s familylawyer Satish Maneshindecharged that Sushant’s familyand their lawyers were “inter-

fering and tampering” withthe investigations, by raisingdoubts about the probe carriedout by the CBI and the foren-sic report submitted to it by theAll India Institute of MedicalScience (AIIMS) which hasruled out murder in theSushant death and said it wasa clear case of “suicide”.

Maneshinde’s statementcame on the day when theSpecial court extendedChakrabortys’ judicial custodyby another fortnight i.e., tillOctober 20.

“ The CBI is independent-ly and impartially investigatingboth the cases and the agencyis supposed to be insulated andfree from any interference,”Maneshinde said.

“It is disturbing to learnthat the family of SSR and itslawyers are interfering andtampering with the investiga-tions by bringing pressure onthe AIIMS team of doctors byspeaking to them during inves-

tigations and releasing pur-ported audio recorded conver-sations and information to themedia in order to bring pres-sure and tamper with potentialwitnesses,” Maneshinde said.

“The SSR family lawyer(Vikas Singh) is supposed tohave said that he is going tomeet the CBI Director to getthe family’s pre-determinedpath of investigations in SSRdeath. It is very disturbing toread such information in themedia as attempts are beingmade to get a pre-determinedresult in the case,” Maneshindesaid.

“Any further attempts tointerfere and tamper with theinvestigations would bebrought to the notice of theappropriate courts,Maneshinde added.

It may be recalled thatRhea was arrested onSeptember 8, after 19-longhours of grilling carried outduring a span of three days.

Patiala/Kurukshetra: Capping three days of protests againstthe new farm laws, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi onTuesday said his party will not allow the Centre to imper-il India's food security as he attacked Prime MinisterNarendra Modi on a host of issues, including the Hathrascase.

Claiming that several institutions, including the media,that protect the voice of the people have been "captured"by the BJP-led Centre, he said, "Give me free press and insti-tutions which are free, this government will not last for long."A combative Gandhi also targeted the prime minister onthe Ladakh standoff, demonetisation and GST, besides thefarm laws, and asked why he was "scared" of answeringqueries from mediapersons.

The prime minister does not understand these farmlaws, the Congress leader alleged on the final day of his trac-tor rally in Punjab and dared Prime Minister Modi to cometo the state and stand with farmers if these new legislationswere in the interest of the farming community. PTI

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Shiv Sena MP Vinayak Rauton Tuesday claimed

Congress Minister inMaharashtra Amit Deshmukhis trying to divert a Central pro-ject meant for Konkan to hishome district Latur, an asser-tion disputed by the latter.

Raut, whose party is aCongress ally, said the AyushMinistry has finalised settingup the National Institute ofMedicinal Plants at Sindhudurgin Konkan, but Deshmukh "onhis own" wrote to the Centreseeking to locate the project atLatur in the Marathwadaregion.

The Sena leader is the Lok

Sabha MP from Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg, which is part ofthe coastal Konkan region.

Reacting to Raut's claim,Amit Deshmukh, the state'sMedical Education Minister,said there was no discussion atthe level of his department atany point of time about locat-ing the institute in Sindhudurg.

He, however, stressed thatthere are no differencesbetween the

Shiv Sena and the Congresson the issue.

The Congress leader, son offormer chief minister VilasraoDeshmukh, is an MLA fromLatur and is also the guardianminister of the centralMaharashtra district.

Jaipur: A special court in Rajasthan's Alwar district on Tuesdayconvicted four men and awarded them rigorous life imprison-ment until natural death for the gangrape of a woman in 2019.Thecourt also awarded five years imprisonment to the fifth culpritunder the IT Act for circulating a video clip of the incident.

Referring to the Ramayana and Mahabharata, the courtobserved that the act of the accused was more serious than 'SitaHaran' by Ravana and 'Cheer Haran' of Draupadi in Krishna Kal.

The crime committed by the culprits was "cowardly", "dis-gusting" and had "shamed humanity", the court observed, addingthat rape is not a problem of any caste, creed or religion but ofentire humanity. Talking to a news channel later in the day, thesurvivor of the gangrape said, "The law has its course but it wouldhave been better if the accused were given death penalty." Herfather-in-law, however, said, "We are satisfied with the court'sdecision.

The court has given life imprisonment until natural deaths.It is the right judgement." The rigorous life imprisonment wasawarded to Hansraj Gurjar, Ashok Gujar, Chhotelal Gurjar andIndraj Gurjar for gangrape by the special court that deals withcases under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. PTI

New Delhi: India's develop-mental needs are paramount butwildlife and biodiversity areequally imperative, PrimeMinister Narendra Modi said onTuesday.

In his message to the nationto mark the celebration of theongoing Wildlife Week, theprime minister said India's com-mitment to wildlife protectionand conservation is strong."Wildlife conservation isingrained in our ethos and hasalways been an integral part ofour tradition and culture. Ourholy Constitution also enshrinesthis philosophy by includingconservation of forest andwildlife as one of the funda-mental duties of every Indian.

"India harbours 17 percent of world population with-in 2.4 per cent land area of theworld. Developmental needs ofthe country are paramount.However, we believe wildlifeand biodiversity conservation

are equally imperative," Modisaid in a written message.He said that with a robust andwide network of protected areas,the country's commitment towords wildlife protection is asstrong as ever.

"Eco-sensitive zones pro-vide a peripheral support and actas a buffer around nationalparks and sanctuaries. Takinggreat strides in this direction,several such zones have beennotified to enhance the spaceavailability for thriving wildlife,"Modi said. He said Indiaremains a natural home to avariety of migratory species andfor this reason, Gandhinagardeclaration, which was adoptedduring the 13th Conference ofParties to Convention onMigratory Species in Februarythis year, prioritised the inte-gration of the concept of eco-logical connectivity into the'Post 2020 Global BiodiversityFramework'. PTI

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Bihar assembly after a failedtalk between chief ministerand JMM working presidentHemant Soren and RJD leaderTejashwai Prasad Yadav overseat sharing in Bihar.

Highly placed sources saidthat while Soren wanted theJMM should be given a dozenseats under the UPA seat shar-ing formula Yadav was notready to give more than twoseats.

An exasperated JMMlaunched an attack on the RJDleadership saying that the newleadership of the RJD has for-gotten political decency andsacrifices made by theJMM.

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From Page 1In UP, most farm fires

events were detected fromSitapur, Meerut, Aligarh,Bareilly, Ghazipur, Sambhal,Shamli and Saharanpur dis-tricts.

“A sharp increase in stub-ble burning was observedaround Punjab, Haryana, andneighbouring border regions.Boundary layer wind direc-tion is favorable for transport(of pollutants). It will startimpacting Delhi in the comingdays,” the System of Air Qualityand Weather Forecasting andResearch (SAFAR) said.

Officials said that winddirections have changed to

north-westerly and this willcause pollution to Delhi-NCR.Stubble burning causes a smog-like situation in Delhi-NCRevery year post autumn, creat-ing a health hazard for its res-idents. Interestingly, theSupreme Court on Tuesdayagreed to examine a suggestionthat full Minimum SupportPrice (MSP) should be releasedto farmers only after a verifi-cation that they didn’t burnstubble. The court posted thematter for further hearing toOctober 16 after SG TusharMehta said the Centre wouldfile a reply on the issue.”

Taking note of air pollution,the Prime Minister Office has

held a high-level meeting withnorthern States to chalk out apolicy and measures in advanceto control stubble burning.

Despite a ban on stubbleburning in Punjab andHaryana, farmers continue todo so because of lack of finan-cial incentives to switch over toenvironment-friendly farmwaste management practices.Last year, Punjab producedaround 20 million tonnes ofpaddy residue of which farm-ers burnt 9.8 million tonnes ofit while the figures in Haryanastood at 7 million tonnes and1.23 million tonnes respective-ly.

State Governments werenow providing 50 to 80 per centsubsidy to farmers and coop-erative societies to buy modernfarm equipment for in-situmanagement of paddy straw.

From Page 1The CBI probe in Hathras

case will ensure no vestedinterests will be able to createfake, false narrative withoblique motives, Mehta toldthe court.

Mehta said the StateGovernment is not opposingthe plea for a fair probe by theCBI or a Special InvestigationTeam and said “a young inno-cent girl has lost her life, butnobody should sensationaliseit. Investigation should be fair,appear fair”. Senior AdvocateIndira Jaising, appearing for afew intervenors, asked the topcourt to provide protection tothe victim’s family. Jaising saidthe family has expressed thatthey are not satisfied with theCBI taking up the case andsaid an SIT, monitored by theapex court, should probe thecase.

At this point, the benchasked Jaising what her locusstandi was in the case.

“You don’’t have any locusin this matter. But we arehearing you because the caseis such and of huge impor-tance. We are hearing youbecause this a shocking inci-dent, but we are still ponder-ing over your locus in thiscase,” said the bench.

Advocate Kirti Singh,appearing for a few womenlawyers, said the probe shouldbe under the supervision of thecourt. The apex court said thisis a horrible incident but itdoes not want repetitive argu-ments in court.

“It is horrible incident butthe question is how manysimilar arguments should wehear? Please understand thatthere is no need to duplicateconcerns in the court of law,”the bench said.

“Court of law need nothear the same argument byevery party. This is not a com-ment on the incident butplease understand our point of

view,” it added.The Uttar Pradesh

Government earlier in the daysought a CBI probe into thealleged gang-rape and murderof the Dalit woman saying itwill ensure that no vestedinterest is able to create a fakeand false narrative with“oblique motives”.

In an affidavit filed inresponse to a PIL, which hasbeen listed for hearing beforea bench headed by ChiefJustice S A Bobde, the UPGovernment said it is impor-tant that the investigation iscarried out by an independentCentral agency.

It said the State has alreadyrequested the Centre that theCBI takes over the investiga-tion as it would obviate hin-drance being created by cer-tain vested interests in the fairand impartial investigation.

Quoting FSL reports, ithas however denied the chargethat rape was committed.

From Page 1The police had identified

the arrested persons asSiddique from Malappuram,Atiq-ur Rehman fromMuzaffarnagar, MasoodAhmed from Bahraich andAlam from Rampur.

Hours after the arrest, aprominent journalist body ofKerala identifiedMalappuram native Siddiqueby his full name as SiddiqueKappan, saying he is “asenior Delhi-basedjournalist”.

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From Page 1“We remain committed to

upholding the rules-basedinternational order, under-pinned by the rule of law,transparency, freedom of nav-igation in the internationalseas, respect for territorialintegrity and sovereignty andpeaceful resolution of dis-putes,” he added.

Spelling out India’s stand,he said it was for advancing thesecurity and economic inter-ests of all countries havinglegitimate and vital interests inthe region.

Incidentally, Australia iskeen to join the yearly Malabarseries of maritime exercisebetween India, US and Japanin November-end. However,a decision is yet to be taken.Moreover, China is resistingsuch a proposal of all the fourcountries of Quad holding a

military exercise.Among other key points,

Jaishankar also underlined theneed for “seeking collectivesolutions to global challenges,including global recovery fromthe pandemic and reform ofmultilateral institutions”.

Highlighting the growingimportance of this coalition, healso said the fact that the fourForeign Ministers were meet-ing in person, despite theglobal pandemic, is “testimo-ny to the importance thatthese consultations havegained, particularly in recenttimes”. He added, “Our worldis significantly different todaythan what it was when we lastmet in New York in September2019.”

As regards other issues, thefour Foreign Ministers werelikely to discuss plans for man-ufacturing and distribution of

a Covid-19 vaccine, connec-tivity, development of 5G tech-nology, maritime cooperation,counter-terrorism, cyber secu-rity, and development of crit-

ical infrastructure and supplychains. The Quad ForeignMinisters also called on Japan’snew Prime Minister YoshihideSuga.

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Chief Minister ArvindKejriwal on Tuesday said

the Delhi Government willstart spraying “Pusa bio-decomposer” solution fromOctober 11 to prevent stubbleburning in non-basmati ricefields in the national Capital.

The statement came fol-lowing his visit to KharkhariNahar village to review the bio-decomposer process underwhich the capsules producedby Pusa Agricultural Instituteare mixed along with readilyavailable inputs to create a fer-mented liquid solution to besprayed on the farm fields tosoften the stubble to curb stub-ble burning.

The Chief Minister said theentire cost of the process of cre-ating the liquid solution forspraying it on 700 hectares offarm fields in Delhi is just Rs20 lakh, which proves that it isa cheap alternative for thefarmers and can be adopted byneighbouring States.

Kejriwal also met the

farmers and scientists to dis-cuss the working and the effi-cacy of the process.

Addressing the media,Kejriwal said, “The harvestingof paddy leaves behind hardstubble on the farm fields andfarmers’ have to get rid of thisowing to the less time betweenthe harvesting and sowing sea-son of the crops. They thenused to resort to stubble burn-ing, due to which the healthybacteria on the farm fieldsused to get damaged. Thesmoke came as a health hazardfor the farmers and their fam-ilies and people living in thosevillages and the entire NorthIndian region.”

“Scientists at the IndianAgricultural Research Institute,PUSA, have found a low-cost,simple and effective way to dealwith the problem of stubbleburning. Today onwards, theDelhi government has startedthe process of preparing thissolution under the guidance ofthe institute, and will be start-ing the process of spraying it onthe fields across Delhi from

October 11,” he said.Delhi Environment

Minister Gopal Rai said, “InDelhi, the stubble burning is sig-nificantly lesser than the neigh-

bourhood States. The stubbleburning in Punjab, Haryana,Rajasthan and other States con-tribute nearly 45 per cent of airpollution in Delhi. Keeping thisin mind, the Delhi Governmentand the Pusa institute has come

up with this new idea of biodecomposers,” he said.

“We want to make Delhi arole model, so that the otherStates can make no excuses foravoiding stubble burning.States all over India can adopt

the bio-decomposer techniqueof converting stubble intomanure, so that the people ofDelhi can get relief from thepollution due to stubble burn-ing,” he said.

Rai said the Government

has also approached all theState Governments to follow thetechnique. “We will again reachout to the State Governmentsand urge them to adopt this pol-icy after getting positive results.The work has started and near-

ly 1,200 farmers who want toadopt this technique have reg-istered. We will start spraying ofsolution on their farm landssoon,” Rai added.

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Chief Minister ArvindKejriwal on Tuesday said

the national Capital is past thepeak of the second wave ofcoronavirus and the situationhas been controlled to a largeextent. Kejriwal said the DelhiGovernment increased the test-ing exponentially to detect theinfection.

“Delhi hit the peak of thesecond wave of Covid-19 onSeptember 17 when 4,500 cases

were reported across the city.The situation has been con-trolled to a large extent,” he said.

“I hope the second wave willslowly pass,” Kejriwal said.Testing in Delhi hit the 60,000a day mark in September com-pared to 20,000 tests per day inAugust. The Chief Minister alsosaid that 10,000 beds are nowunoccupied in hospitals. At onepoint, 7,200 beds were occupied.

Forty-eight deaths werereported on September 29, thehighest in a day since July 16,

when the city reported 58deaths. The average death ratefor the last 10 days stands at1.41 per cent.

Meanwhile on Tuesday, thenational Capital recorded 39Covid-19 fatalities pushing thetoll to 5,581, while 2,676 freshcases took the tally to over2,95,000, authorities said.

These fresh cases came outof the 53,591 tests conductedthe previous day. Thirty-ninenew fatalities have been record-ed, taking the death toll to5,581, according to the latestbulletin issued by the Delhihealth department.

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Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) onTuesday launched an

attack against the BharatiyaJanata Party (BJP) after ink wasthrown at party leader andRajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singhat Hathras on Monday when hewas speaking to media aftermeeting the family members ofthe 19-year-old gangrape vic-tim who died of her injuries inDelhi on September 29.

AAP senior leader andMLA Rakhi Birla said “Y” cat-

egory security for the family ofthe Hathras girl must be givenby the State Government. “It isvery shameful that the UP Policehave claimed that no rape tookplace when the Aligarh hospitalreport has clearly mentionedthat gang rape took place.

“Yesterday the AAP delega-tion met the family members ofthe Hathras victim. It was unfor-tunate that in the presence ofUttar Pradesh police one personattacked us. When the attacktook place the police were com-pletely silent,” she said.

“While the Yogi AdityanathGovernment is busy filing casesagainst opposition leaders, theyare not at all serious about thejustice for the Hathras girl.Despite the fact that CBI hastaken over the case the investi-gation has not yet started in real-ity. Officially the CBI has not yettaken over the case,” she said.

The Dalit community ofUttar Pradesh and India are verymuch outraged after the inci-dent. In Uttar Pradesh underYogi Government, everydayatrocities against the Dalits are

increasing and the Governmentin no way giving any kind of jus-tice to the people from theDalit community,” Birla said.

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Transport Minister of DelhiKailash Gahlot on Tuesday

convened a high-level meetingwith all the stakeholders toaddress the public grievances inrelation to the affixing of High Security RegistrationPlate (HSRP) and colour coded stickers.

During the meeting, theMinister discussed severalissues faced by vehicle ownersin getting their HSRP fitted ontheir vehicle. The ministerinstructed ‘Original EquipmentManufacturers’ (OEM) manu-facturers to put a system inplace for addressing the griev-ances of the vehicle owners. Healso instructed them not tobook any new appointment forHSRP fitment until a propersystem is in place and alsoinstructed the transportdepartment to delay enforce-ment till further orders.

Colour-coded stickers aremeant for identifying vehiclesbased on their fuel type, with

light blue ones for petrol andCNG, and orange ones fordiesel vehicles. They bear detailssuch as the registration number,the registering authority, a laser-branded PIN, and engine andchassis numbers of the vehicle,according to officials.

Following the meeting, theMinister said, “Our objective isto provide relief to the public.We have asked dealers andHSRP manufacturers not totake any further appointmentsuntil a proper system is inplace. We are also clear on ourpart that we will give sufficienttime to vehicle owners to getthe HSRP and colour codedstickers installed before enforc-ing the HSRP rules.”

The meeting was attendedby senior officers from trans-port department, NationalInformatics Centre (NIC) andother stakeholders such asOEM, Society of IndianAutomobile Manufacturers(SIAM) and High SecurityRegistration Plate (HSRP)manufacturers.

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Indian Railways has decidedto restore the earlier system

of preparation of second reser-vation charts from October10. As per established pre-covid period instructions, thefirst reservation chart was pre-pared at least four hours beforethe scheduled departure of thetrain. Thereafter, the availableaccommodation could bebooked across PassengerReservation System (PRS)counters as well as through theinternet on first-come-first-serve basis till preparation ofsecond reservation charts, theministry said in a statement.

The Ministry added thesecond reservation charts wereprepared between 30 minutesto five minutes before thescheduled time of departure oftrains. Cancellation of alreadybooked tickets was also per-mitted during this period as perprovisions of refund rules.

Due to coronavirus pan-demic, instructions were issuedto shift the time of preparationof second reservation chart totwo hours before scheduledtime of departure of trains, itsaid, adding that as per requestof Zonal Railways for ensuringconvenience of rail passen-gers, the matter has been exam-ined and it has been decidedthat the second reservationchart shall be prepared at least30 minutes before scheduledtime of departure of train.

Accordingly, ticket bookingfacilities online and on PRSticket counters shall be avail-able before preparation of thesecond chart, it added.

It further informed thatCRIS has been issued necessarymodifications in the softwareaccordingly.

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The Economic OffencesWing (EOW) of the Delhi

Police has apprehended fatherand son, duo for allegedlycheating doctors to the tune ofRs 4.25 crore on inducement ofproviding loan of Rs 75 crore.

The accused has been iden-tified as Sanjay Saxena while hisson has been identified asAshish Saxena, who is also themain conspirator.

According to Dr OPMishra, the JointCommissioner of Police, EOW,a complaint was received inwhich the complainant statedthat in July 2018 he metaccused Sanjay Saxena througha common partner stating to bea big financer who providesbusiness loans and finance tocompanies.

“Saxena represented thecomplainant that he canarrange finances amountingto Rs 75 crores at 8 per cent perannum to his company. Aftera series of meetings, it wasdecided that accused wouldprovide funds from their com-pany LD Group to theComplainant company. AnMoU was signed between theduo but the accused cooked upa story that his companiesaccounts have been freezed byincome tax department andfurther took money from com-plainant on the pretext of set-tlement if income tax issue,”said the Joint CP. “The accusedSanjay obtained Rs 4.25 crore

through blank signed stamppapers, letterheads of the vic-tims company Focus Imagingand blank signed sheets ofcomplainant which he hadgiven for the loan of Rs 75crore,” said the Joint CP.

“A case under relevant sec-tions of Indian Penal Code(IPC) was registered and theaccused Sanjay Saxena wasarrested on July 16 while themain conspirator, his sonAshish Saxena was nabbed onOctober 5,” said the Joint CP.

“During interrogation, theduo confessed to their crimeand told police that Sanjayused to represent himself as awell-established business manin the business of gold and dia-mond jewelry and having goodcontacts with politicians andbureaucrats. He can arrangebusiness loan on low interest,”said the Joint CP.

“In lieu of arranging loanhe induced the prospectiveborrower to give a hugeamount on the pretext of facil-itation and stamp fee etc. Healso fraudulently obtained sig-natures of the prospective bor-rower on the blank stamppapers, papers and blankcheques.

“Later on when the victimcame to know about the cheat-ing then he used these blankstamp papers and cheques tocook up a different story, show-ing himself as a victim to pres-surise the complainant to with-draw his complaint,” said theJoint CP.

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The Delhi Police has arrest-ed six men allegedly found

running a betting module onthe ongoing Indian PremierLeague (IPL) matches in theUnited Arab Emirates (UAE)following a raid at a place insouth Delhi’s Rajpur Khurd vil-lage area.

The arrested accused havebeen identified as GauravSejwal (30), Sonu Rathi (37),Sahil Luthra (28), Mohit Dagar(27), Hemant Dalal (30) andSanjay Rathi (38).

Police said a laptop, nine

mobile phones and a stakeamount of Rs 1,19,700 used forbetting on the ongoing IPL2020 cricket match betweenDelhi Capitals and RoyalChallengers Bangalore wasrecovered during the raid.

According to Atul KumarThakur, the DeputyCommissioner of Police(DCP), South district, a raidwas conducted at around 9.40pm on Monday after specificinformation was received thatsome people were running abetteing module on ongoingIPL cricket match betweenDelhi Capitals Vs Royal

Challengers Bangalore in anenclosed premises in the areaof Rajpur Khurd village.

“On reaching the spot, sixpersons were found sittingwith a laptop and makingentries of betting being done,while in a mobile phone, livecricket match was being telecastand on other phone, rates ofbetting were beingannounced,” said the DCP.

“A case under relevant sec-tions of gambling act was reg-istered against them at MaidanGarhi police station,” the DCPsaid, adding further investiga-tion is underway.

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Delhi DevelopmentAuthority (DDA) held a

meeting with all stakeholdersand civil society groups to seekinputs from the people of Delhithat will help drive the agendafor the Master Plan-2041.

The civic body in associa-tion with the National Instituteof Urban Affairs (NIUA) ispreparing the next Master Planof Delhi- 2041 (MPD-2041). Aspart of the process a series ofdiscussions and consultationshave been carried out with var-ious stakeholders and civilsociety groups to seek inputsfrom the people to prepare theMaster Plan.

One of the important stake-holders are its youth, who forma significant portion of Delhi’spopulation. To get insights fromthis section of Delhi, a series ofYouth Sabhas are being organ-

ised. The objective of thesemeetings is to understand issuesfaced by the youth (agedbetween 15-30 years) in the cityand discuss possible planningsolutions.

After the success of the firsttwo ‘Youth Sabhas’ that wereheld on 24th September and 1st

October 2020, a third of theseries is planned on the themeof “Work-Live-Travel’ in Delhion 8th October 2020 for whichmany registrations have beenreceived from youth.

It aims to draw attention tothe existing gaps and changingneeds of young people in theworkforce and their aspira-tions, facilitating work oppor-tunities (demand based skillcentres, common facility cen-tres in industrial areas forstart-ups etc.), need of theinflux population coming fromother parts of the country, pre-ferred housing and other chal-lenges they face in the city, itsaid in a statement.

“DDA and NIUA look for-ward to active participationfrom the youth of Delhi to usethis opportunity to provideconstructive feedback and dis-cuss critical issues of the city,”it said.

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Aman was arrested forallegedly duping a reputed

private bank to the tune of Rs97 lakh by obtaining multiple

loans using a fakesalary slip. Policesaid by procuring

multiple loans,the accusedmanaged to

dupe thebank to the

tune of Rs 97 lakh.The accused identified as

Rajesh Sharma, used a fakename (Pradeep) and fake salaryslip to obtain multiple loans -including personal, credit cardand vehicle loans on high val-ued cars.

According to Sanjay Bhatia,the Deputy Commissioner ofPolice (DCP), Central district,based on a complaint receivedfrom the bank last month, acase was registered againstSharma under relevant sec-tions of Indian Penal Code atPaharganj police station.

“Later, police managed to

trace the hideout of the suspectand nabbed Sharma from hisflat in G.B. Nagar, NoidaExtension. Three vehicles werealso seized from his posses-sion,” the DCP said.

“During investigation, itwas found that the accused hadset up two companies — one inthe name of UAI Services by hisfake name Pradeep Sharmaand another — Mindtree by hisreal name Rajesh Sharma. Theemployees of both companiesobtained multiple loans fromthe bank including personalloan, auto loan and credit cardloan. But all the loans availed

by them were also transferredto accounts of both UAIServices and Mindtree,” theDCP added.

“But the bank found itsuspicious when they checkedthe account and documents ofboth the companies and foundout that the photo of Aadharand PAN card which wereused in loan application formof both Pradeep and Rajeshwere the same,” said the DCP.

“Police have recoveredboth the Aadhar as well as PANcards of the accused and aretracing the co-associates in thecase,” he added.

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New Delhi: Over 480 Covid-19patients have been adminis-tered convalescent plasma ther-apy at the Delhi Government-run Lok Nayak Jai PrakashNarayan (LNJP) Hospital andRajiv Gandhi Super Speciality(RGSSH) Hospital over thelast few months, officials saidon Tuesday. LNJP Hospitaland RGSSH are dedicated coro-navirus facilities.

Plasma therapy was start-ed at the LNJP Hospital, thelargest under the DelhiGovernment, in June. Later,Delhi’s second plasma bankwas set up at the hospital inJuly. The national Capital’s firstplasma bank was inauguratedat the state-run Institute ofLiver and Biliary Science onJuly 2 by Chief Minister ArvindKejriwal. PTI

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New Delhi: Strict surveillanceof home isolation cases, aggres-sive contact tracing, creation ofcontainment zones at microlevel and efforts for humanbehaviourial changes throughextensive campaign will bepart of Delhi’s revised Covid-19 management strategy dis-cussed by the DDMA onTuesday, sources said.

Cinema halls, theatres and

swimming pools will remainclosed as no decision could betaken in a meeting of the DelhiDisaster ManagementAuthority, chaired by LtGovernor Anil Baijal.Authorities are also yet to takea decision on Ramlila.

In the meeting, it was alsodecided that considering thegravity of the pandemic,focused attention should be on

containing transmission,strengthening medical infra-structure, improving recoveryof patients and reducing Covid-19 fatalities.

Last month, Baijal hadasked a six-member expertpanel to come up with sugges-tions to deal with the currentCovid-19 situation and rampup health facilities in thenational capital. PTI

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About 48 per cent of thetotal Covid-19 deaths in

the country is concentrated ineight States of 25 districts, ofwhich 15 districts are inMaharashtra alone, theGovernment said on Tuesday.The target is to bring thefatality rate below 1 per cent,it maintained.

Giving figures on Coviddeaths in the country at apress briefing here, UnionHealth Secretar y RajeshBhushan said, “Out of 25 dis-tricts in eight States, 15 dis-tricts are in one state alone,that is Maharashtra. Two dis-tricts each are in Karnataka,West Bengal and Gujarat andone each in Tamil Nadu,Punjab, UP and AndhraPradesh.”

The Ministry is in talkswith these states to control thedeaths due to the pathogen,Bhushan told the reporters.He was of the view that thedeaths in these identified dis-tricts were not due to poor

health infrastructure butbecause of delay in treatment.

The States have beenasked to enhance tests andthus detection so that thoseneeding the treatment aregiven adequate medical facil-ities. “Delay in treatment canprogress the disease and hencedeaths,” Bhushan said even ashe added that the States werehaving enough supply of oxy-gen and other infrastructureto manage the disease. Morethan 8 crore COVID testshave been conducted so far, ofwhich 80 lakh tests were donein the last week

While talking about thespread of Covid-19 in thecountry, he said that ten Statesaccount for 77 per cent of totalactive cases of which threeStates viz. Maharashtra,Karnataka and Kerala accountfor 50 per cent of country’stotal active cases.

Analysing the trend ofCOVID cases reported in dif-ferent states, he remarked thatit is too early to take a call onMaharashtra and that there is

a need to observe the state fora longer period of time. “As weapproach festival and winterseason which is conducive for spread of dis-eases such as influenza, we

need to be extra cautious. Wehave told all states to ensureeffective implementation ofpublic health strategies in thefight against COVID-19”, headded.

He also said that a digitalplatform is being built totrack COVID-19 vaccineadministration and move-ment, from procurement tostorage to distribution to indi-

vidual beneficiaries and thatonline training modules arebeing developed for vaccina-tors.

Bhushan further said that

the average daily Covid-19positivity rate has declinedfrom 9.21 per cent recordedbetween September 16-22 to6.82 per cent registered from

September 30 to October 6.The total Covid cases in

India have crossed 66.85 lakhwith total deaths at 1,03,569,including 884 in 24 hours.

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Ahead of the festivals likeNavratri, Durga Puja,

Diwali, Chhath Puja,the UnionHealth Ministry on Tuesdayissued advisories on preventivemeasures such as staggeredtimings, thermal screening,physical distancing, sanitisa-tion and monitoring throughCCTVs at the events to containthe spread of Covid-19 whichare on increase across thecountry.

While festive events inthe containment zones willnot be allowed, the StandardOperating Procedures (SOPs)enlists necessary preventivesteps that need to be followedfor religious worship, fairs, ral-lies, exhibitions, cultural func-tions during the festivitiesthat are expected to witnessgatherings of a large numberof people.

The document says thatorganisers/staff/visitors fromthe containment zones shallnot be permitted in areas

where festive events are organ-ised. People residing in thecontainment zones may beencouraged to observe all fes-tivals inside their homes andnot move out.

Persons above 65 years,those with co-morbidities,pregnant women and chil-dren below 10 years havebeen advised to stay at homeand avoid large gathering forfestivals to be held in October,November and December.

As per the SoPs preparedby the Union Health Ministry,the committees will have toensure the adequate area forevents with a detailed sitemap and proper markings tomaintain social distancing.Touching of idols and holybooks has been prohibited toprevent the spread of infec-tion.

People wishing to attendthe events, including the staffshould be allowed entry onlyif they are using a face mask.The SOPs clearly state that thevisitors will have to maintain

physical distancing of a min-imum of six feet.

In case of rallies andimmersion processions thenumber of people should notexceed the prescribed limitand proper physical distanc-ing and wearing of masksmust be ensured. In any case,the number of such rallies andthe distance covered by themmay be kept within manage-able limits, as per the adviso-ry.

“Adequate manpowershall be deployed/ arranged bythe organisers to ensure obser-vance to physical distancingnorms and other preventivemeasures at all times, appro-priate arrangements for per-sonal protection gears likeface covers/masks, and otherlogistic like hand sanitizers,soap, sodium hypochloritesolution for sanitising fre-quently touched surfaces etc.shall be made available byevent organizers/businessowners for their staff as perrequirements,” it said.

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To bring in uniformity andconsistency in the Ayush-

based Covid-19 treatmentacross the country, the UnionHealth and Ayush Ministrieson Tuesday jointly launched aprotocol for the clinical man-agement of Covid-19 based onIndian traditional medicinesystem for prevention of coro-navirus infection and treat-ment of mild and asympto-matic cases.

According to the ‘NationalClinical ManagementProtocol, based on Ayurvedaand Yoga for Management ofCOVID-19’, which wasreleased by Union HealthMinister Dr Harsh Vardhan onTuesday in the virtual presenceof Shripad Naik, Minister ofState for AYUSH, one shouldfollow dietary measures, yogaand consume Ayurvedic herbsand formulations such asAshwagandha and AYUSH-64among few other herbal for-mulations.

“This protocol dealing

with preventive and prophy-lactic measures is a significantstep not only in managementof COVID-19 but also in mak-ing traditional knowledge rel-evant to solving problems ofthe modern time,” Vardhansaid.

“Unfortunately, Ayurvedadid not receive much attentionafter independence untilPrime Minister NarendraModi took up this cause withthe importance it deserves,” hesaid while stressing thatAyurveda “had a significantimpact in the foundations ofmodern medicine”.

The protocol documentpoints out that the currentunderstanding indicates agood immune system is vitalfor prevention of coronavirusinfection and to safeguardfrom disease progression.

It suggests use of medi-cines such as Ashwagandha,Guduchi Ghana Vati orChyawanaprasha as prophy-lactic care for high risk popu-lation and primary contacts ofpatients while recommend-

ing consumption of GuduchiGhana Vati, Guduchi andPippali or AYUSH 64 forasymptomatic COVID-19positive patients for preven-tion of disease progression tosymptomatic and severe formsand to improve recovery rate.

Guduchi and Pippali, andAYUSH 64 tablets can begiven to mild coronavirusinfected patients, it said.

Union Secretary RajeshKotecha said, “We call this firstversion of the protocol, whichwill be modified as more evi-dence is generated throughfurther studies in future.”

The document also listedA s h w a g a n d h a ,Chyawanprasha or RasayanaChurna for post-COVID-19management to prevent lungcomplications like fibrosis,fatigue and mental health.

Further, to improve respi-ratory and cardiac efficiency,to reduce stress and anxietyand enhance immunity, theministry has listed YogaProtocol for PrimaryPrevention of COVID- 19.

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The EnforcementDirectorate (ED) has filed

a prosecution complaint(chargesheet in police par-lance) under Prevention ofMoney Laundering Act against10 individuals and one entity inthe infamous railway briberycase.

The PMLA case was anoutcome of a CBI case in whichthen railways minister PawanKumar Bansal’s nephew VijaySingla was caught red handedwhile accepting a bribe of�89,68,000 for favourableappointment and posting ofMahesh Kumar, a 1975 batchofficer of Indian RailwayService of Signal Engineers(IRSSE) as Member(Electrical), Railway Board.

Those named in the pros-ecution complaint are MaheshKumar (former officer ofIndian Railway Service ofSignal Engineers), NManjunath, Sandeep Goyal,Vijay Singla, Ajay Garg, RahulYadav, Sameer Sandhir, SushilDaga, CV Venugopal and MVMurali Krishna besides privatefirm Venkateshwara RailNirman Pvt. Ltd.. The prose-cution complaint was filedbefore the Special Court(PMLA) at Chandigarh in theRailway Bribery case.

“The ProsecutionComplaint has been filed witha prayer to punish the accusedin accordance with the law andto confiscate the asset attachedunder PMLA,” the ED said in

a statement. The ED had initiated inves-

tigation under the provisions ofPMLA on the basis of CBI’s FIRand chargesheet filed beforeSpecial judge (SPE/ CBI cases)Patiala House Court, NewDelhi against Mahesh Kumar(Member (Staff ), RailwayBoard),Vijay Singla, SandeepGoyal and seven other accusedpersons under Section 120-B(criminal conspiracy) of theIndian Penal Code and relevantprovisions of the Prevention ofCorruption Act.

“During the course ofinvestigations under PMLA, itwas revealed that N Manjunath,on behalf of Mahesh Kumar,had persuaded various Railwayvendors/S&T manufactures/contractors for making arrange-ment of bribe amount for pro-motion of Mahesh Kumar asMember (Electrical) by alluringthem that all the contributorswill be taken care of/benefitedfrom the desired posting ofMahesh Kumar,” the ED said.

Investigation furtherrevealed that the first instal-ment of bribe amount of�89,68,000 was contributed byN Manjunath, MV MurliKrishna, Sushil Daga andVenketeshwara Rail NirmanPvt. Ltd. Of this, Rs 50 Lakhwere contributed by Manjunathhimself, �25 Lakh by MVMurali Krishan, �5 lakh bySushil Daga and Rs 10 Lakhfrom the account ofVenkteshwara Rail Nirman Pvt.Ltd. by Rahul Yadav and Sushil Daga.

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The ‘70@70’ programme,launched on Gandhi

Jayanti as part of celebrationsof 70th birthday of PrimeMinister Narendra Modi,would in the first phase focuson providing accessible andaffordable smart education,smart health, smart agricul-ture and clean energy in the 70villages that would be adopt-ed.

Launching the pro-gramme, Agriculture andRural Minister NarendraSingh Tomar had extended theCentre’s full support to theproject as, he said, it would

help people in the villages takeadvantage of technology andprocesses.

Tomar said the programwould also inspire neighbor-ing villages to move towardsbecoming self-reliant.

The initiative of adoptionof villages has been under-taken by various organisa-tions like eKisaan founda-tion, GIBV, and organisationsincluding Jaipur Foot USA,Computer Society of India,Edufront, Friends of MP, IndiaGlobal, True TeslaTechnologies and ATREE.

The core team for this‘70@70’ programme includesPramit Maakoday, Kanchan

Bannerjee, Jyoti Bhowraskar,Sanjeev Tripathi, SrikantaBhaskara and Manoj Sisodia.

Maakoday said the objec-tive of this program is to edu-cate, engage, and empowerour farmers, along with imple-menting programs in PPPmode. While eKisaan foun-dation is a registered organi-zation based in India, theGlobal Indians for BharatVikas (GIBV) is a not-for-profit organization based inBoston, United States and itsmission includes establishinga network of volunteers fromaround the world in organicdevelopment of villages andrural ecosystem in India.

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Eleven political partiestogether collected �2,777.97

crore comprising donationsabove �20,000 between 2014-15 and 2018-19 with the rulingBJP accounting for 80.12% ofthe total donations by collect-ing �2225.66 crore, followed byits rival Congress at 13.64%with �379.02 crore.

According to theAssociation for DemocraticRights (ADR), only three of the11 mainstream parties analysedhad submitted their reports ofdonations to the ElectionCommission (EC) within thestipulated time frame.

The income for all political

parties for the 11-year period was esti-mated at �11,367.34crore, includingnational and region-al outfits at�9,278.30 crore and�2,089.04 crore,respectively. TheADR report showedthat �1,405.19 crorewas declared by six nationalparties through known sourcesof donation worth above�20,000.

There were donationsworth �325.23 crore that weredeposited without anyPermanent Account Number(PAN), which is issued by theIncome Tax (I-T) Department.

The BJP accounted for thelion’s share of unaccountedsource of donations at �237.22crore, or 72.94%, followed bythe Congress (�81.87 crore)and the Communist Party ofIndia (CPI) (�5.04-crore).Besides, �15.75 crore wasdonated to the parties viaincorrect PAN numbers.

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The Union Health Ministryon Tuesday said that insur-

ance claim of �50 lakh each waspaid to the kin of 95 frontlinehealthcare workers who suc-cumbed to the coronavirusdisease, while 176 claims werestill under process.

“In 95 cases of death ofhealthcare workers across thecountry, insurance money of Rs50 lakh each has been paid.There are 176 claims which arebeing processed by the nodalinsurance company. Out ofthese, 79 claims are yet to bereceived from various states,”said Union Health SecretaryRajesh Bhushan at a pressbriefing here.

In the wake of Covid-19pandemic, the Centre has madea provision for insurance coverunder the Pradhan MantriGarib Kalyan Package forhealthcare providers and com-munity health workers, whomay have to be in direct con-tact and take care of Covid-19patients and thus at risk.

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The Central Drugs StandardControl Organisation

(CDSCO) has asked DrReddy’s Laboratories to submita revised protocol for con-ducting both phase 2 andphase 3 human clinical trialsfor the Russian vaccine againstCovid-19, Sputnik V, in India,the Government said onTuesday.

The Hyderabad-basedpharmaceutical company hadapplied to the DrugsController General of India(DCGI) late last week, seekingpermission to conduct phase-3 human clinical trials of theRussian vaccine.

The Subject ExpertCommittee (SEC) on Covid at

the CDSCO, which held itsmeeting on Monday, deliber-ated on the application andasked the firm to submit arevised protocol stating it willhave to conduct combinedphase 2 and 3 clinical trials,

The firm has been asked toprovide some other informa-tion as well.

In reply to a media queryhere at a press briefing, UnionHealth Secretary RajeshBhushan said that the Russianvaccine has an agreement withan Indian commercial entity(Dr Reddy’s Lab) which hasapproached the Indian regula-tor (DCGI) for clinical trialsand that the regulator hasgiven some suggestions whichneed to be incorporated by theentity.

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In a move aimed to benefit thedeaf and those with hearing

disabilities, the NationalCouncil of EducationalResearch and Training(NCERT) inked a pact with theIndian Sign Language ResearchAnd Training Centre (ISLRTC)on Tuesday to come up withresources to standardisethe Indian Sign Language toprepare inclusive academicmaterial for persons with dis-abilities.

The agreement was signedon the occasion of the 60thfoundation day of NCERT.

Union Education Minister

Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’said : “This new initiative by theNCERT and ISLRTC for thespecially abled children, especially for those who cannothear or speak, will help to guidethem along with the rest of thestudents in terms of education.”

Officials said that the pri-ority will be to convert text-books into the Indian SignLanguage for Classes 1 to 5 andlater for Classes 6 to 12.ISLRTC will provide the edu-cators, interpreters andresources for this task.

As per the census 2011,there are 50, 71,007 deaf peo-ple and 19, 98,535 with speechdisability in India.

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The Supreme Court Tuesdaysought response from the

Centre, CBI and 12 States on aPIL seeking directions to set upa mechanism to bring backIndian workers who have losttheir passports in Gulf countriesand implement policies framedfor their welfare.

A three-judge bench com-

prising Justices N V Ramana,Surya Kant and AniruddhaBose issued notices to theMinistry of Home Affairs, theCBI as also Telangana, AndhraPradesh, West Bengal, Odisha,Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and otherStates.

Advocate Sravan Kumar,appearing for the petitioner,

told the court that IndianEmbassies in many cases arenot working proactively and notadopting any effective mea-sure to bring back the workersas it is being done by othercountries.

The apex court was hearinga plea filed by Basanth ReddyPatkuri, president of GulfTelangana Welfare and CulturalAssociation, who has alsosought guidelines to help Indiancitizens visiting other countriesfor employment who are cheat-ed by agents and employer.

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ignated 11 IndianAdministrative Service offi-cers and five Indian PoliceService officers.

Aparna Arora has beenappointed Principal Secretaryof School Education andLibrary Department, where-as Roli Singh is the newPrincipal

Resident Commissioner,New Delhi, an order issued bythe Department of Personnelsaid.

Hemant Kumar Gera,who was earlier the Secretaryof Food and Civil SuppliesDepartment, has beenappointed to the Departmentof Personnel.

P Ramesh has replacedVikas Sitaram Bhale as theUdaipur DivisionalCommissioner. Bhale willnow be the Commissioner ofTourism Department andRTDC Chairman.

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Bengal BJP spokesperson andformer MLA Samik

Bhattacharya was on Tuesday phys-ically assaulted and his car literallysmashed by alleged TrinamoolCongress supporters while he wasgoing to join a party meeting atDiamond Harbour some 50 kmsouth of Kolkata.

The attack came close on theheels of the murder of BJPCouncil lor Manish Shuklademise at Titagarh in North 24Parganas. Two persons werearrested in the case.

“I was going to DiamondHarbour to attend a party meeting.Suddenly my vehicle was stopped bya crowd of 100-150 people shout-ing anti-BJP slogans. They smashedthe windshields of my car, pulled meout, threw me on the ground,kicked me, rained blows on me,”Bhattacharya whose clothes were

tattered in the scuffle said.State BJP president Dilip Ghosh

too was black-flagged even as South24 Parganas district TMC leaderShaukat Molla said the saffronleaders would face more attacks ifthey continued with dirty politics.

Molla a party strongman said “ifthe BJP leaders do not stop the dirtypolitics they are playing then thepeople will now resort to more suchattacks and they will break theirlegs… That party is playing the pol-itics of hatred throughout India …like what they did in Hathras andother places. They are setting onecastes and communities againsteach the other. People will seethrough this dirty game.”

Incidentally the attack came aday after Dilip Ghosh made a con-troversial statement saying Bengalwas fast turning into a “mafia raj likeBihar and UP” providing the desiredammo to the Trinamool Congresswhich quickly got back wonderingwhether Ghosh genuinely meantthat the BJP ruled states were in thegrip of mafia raj.

Kolkata: Veteran Bengali actorand Dadasaheb Phalke awardeeSaumitra Chatterjee has con-tacted corona and has beenhospitalized with mild fever, hisfamily sources said adding hehad to be taken to a hospitalconsidering his age and comor-bid conditions. Chatterjee is 85.

Poulami Chatterjee thedaughter of Padma Bhushanaward winning actor said, “heis stable. He had a fever in thelast few days. We wanted toadmit him as a precautionarymeasure since he has multiplecomorbidities,” adding a three-member medical team wasmonitoring the legendary actorwho is a patient of chronicobstructive pulmonary disease.

Chatterjee is known for hislife-long association with Oscarwinning director Satyajit Rayplaying the leading role inmost of his classicsapart fromplaying private detective Feluda(also a Ray creation) inhismovies. PNS

Hathras (UP): The YogiAdityanath Government hasdeployed round-the-clock securi-ty outside the house of the Hathrasvictim.

The family had sought securi-ty from the government.

Hathras Superintendent ofPolice Vineet Jaiswal said that twowomen sub-inspectors and sixwomen constables have been sta-tioned at the victim's house.

“Two security personnel havebeen deployed for the security ofthe victim's brother. ProvincialArmed Constabulary personnelare also camping outside thehouse,” he said.

Apart from this, 15 police per-sonnel, three station house officers

and one deputy superintendent ofpolice have been deployed in thevillage to prevent any untowardincident, he added.

The victim's family had repeat-edly said that they feared for theirsafety. They had even said that theywanted to leave the village and set-tle elsewhere.

“We are afraid of threats (fromthe supporters of the four accusedarrested in the case). The comingdays will be more challenging forus,” the victim's brother said.

Meanwhile, in a video that hasgone viral on social media, someupper caste men can be heardthreatening the victim's family anddefending the four men arrested forthe crime. IANS

Balrampur (UP): Two strik-ingly similar incidents tookplace at a distance of about 540kilometres and within a matterof 24 hours last week.

A Dalit girl died after beingassaulted in Hathras and anoth-er Dalit woman was raped andkilled in Balrampur district.

In both the cases, theaccused were promptly arrest-ed and the police forced thefamilies to cremate theirdaughters in the dead of thenight. Hathras has gone on tobecome a story of nationalshame while Balrampurremains largely uncovered bythe media.

Political parties in theopposition have also chosen toignore the Balrampur incidentwhere the 22-year-old B.Comstudent was raped,drugged/poisoned and senthome in a rickshaw with herback and legs broken. IANS

KOCHI: Kerala may soon lose its lone representative in the unioncouncil of Ministers as the demand to sack V Muraleedharan,Minister of state for external affairs, has reached a crescendo fromdissenters in the BJP.

This is a follow up to the favouritism shown byMuraleedharan, who has been elected to Rajya Sabha fromMaharashtra, towards Smitha Menon, a Public RelationsExecutive from Kochi. Menon attended the Indian Ocean RimAssociation of Council of Ministers held at Abu Dhabi inNovember 2019 and shared the dais, which according to a socialactivist in Kerala was a violation of diplomatic protocol.

Salim Madavoor, a RTI and civil rights activist had receiveda reply from Indian embassy in UAE stating that Menon was nota member of the official delegate which proves that she was notentitled or eligible to sit in the dais. PNS

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KOCHI: The gold smuggling scamand Quran import case which rockedKerala politics took a new turn onTuesday as the Forensic Departmentwhich probed the August 25 firemishap at Government Secretariat inits report stated that the fire was notcaused by short circuit as claimed bythe Police.

The Protocol Room, where allsensitive files of the government’sdealings with foreign countries werestored, was gutted in the fire. Whilethe entire files got destroyed in themishap all other items in the roomremained intact. “Even the sanitizerbottles stored in the room remainedsafe,” said one of the Forensic ScienceDepartment officials.

The National InvestigationAgency (NIA) probing the goldsmuggling case was to inspect theProtocol Room for seizing the fileswhen the fire destroyed the entire lot.Files dealing with the official tours ofChief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan andother ministers too were stored in theProtocol Room. PNS

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KOCHI: Thrissur residentsbreathed a sigh of relief byTuesday as the police arrestedthe prime accused in theSunday night murder ofCPI(M) activist Sanoop.

Nandan, a former CPI(M)leader was arrested by thepolice in connection with themurder on Tuesday afternoon.The cops seized the passportand other relevant documentsfrom the 48-year-old accusedwho murdered Sanoop withthe help of two accused.

Police are on the trail of theother two who are absconding.The CPI(M) State leaders con-tinued to allege that the mur-der of Sanoop was the handi-work of Sangh Parivar ele-ments.

Kerala Minister forCooperation A C Moideen ,who had alleged on Mondaythat they CPI(M) knew whowere the murderers and evennamed Sangh Parivar activistschanged tack by Tuesdaymorning and said the killingof Sanoop had wider perspec-tive. Gopalakrishnan, the BJPspokesman told reporters thatNandan who has been arrest-ed was a CPI(M) member andthe Sangh Parivar has no rolein this incident. PNS

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Aligarh: Joint team of kwarsipolice and SOG raided andcaught the bookie center of IPLbetting running in a privateschool in Swarna Jayanti Nagarcolony. Three people includingthe center leader were arrestedalong with online money trans-actions and cricket bets. Afterlate-night interrogation, theywere charged under theGambling and IT Act.

According to ASP VikasKumar, the police got informa-tion about the IPL bookie cen-ter inside a school in SwarnaJayanti Nagar running by ChiragSingh who also owns a show-room named Chirag Tiles near-by. On information, the team ofInspector Kwarsi Chhotalal andSOG in-charge Sanjeev Kumarraided and arrested Chirag,Ishaan Yagnik resident ofSurendra Nagar and NeerajKumar resident of Jaiganj whiledoing on-line transactions andclaims in this bookie center.

Aligarh: There was a conspiracyincite caste-based riots in the Stateunder the cover of Hathras case. Onthe disclosure of PFI funding,unknown media persons and associ-ated social media people have beenbooked in Chandpa police station in20 serious sections. This lawsuit alsomentions the audiotape in which theconversation of tricking the daughters'brother was made public.

They are booked under section109, 120B, 124A, 153A, 153A1,153A1A, 153A1B, 153A1C, 153B,195, 195A, 465, 468, 469, 501, 505/1,501 / 1B, 505 / 1C, 505/2 and 67 ITAct in Chandpa police station. It hasbeen mentioned in the case thatsome anarchic elements are trying totake advantage by hatching a crimi-nal conspiracy and spoiling the imageof the government and distorting thepeace in the state.

In the same case, it was men-tioned that they are threatening,tricking, and provoking the victim'sfamily to change their statements andoffered Rs 50 lakh for this misrepre-sentation. PNS

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Near the Sasani gate police station inter-section, an inspector has filed a case in

police station against Bheem Army chiefChandrashekhar Azad and his 400-500 sup-porters for protesting and jamming the high-way. All these have been accused in the law-suit of violating the instructions of the Coronaguidelines. At the same time, police have alsofiled a case against former BJP MLA RajveerSingh and other people doing Panchayat.

Former BJP MLA Rajveer Singh said thathe has received information that a case hasbeen filed against him and his supporters atHathras Gate police station. This case has beenfiled for holding Panchayat. He further toldthat there was no Panchayat there and they allgathered to welcome the Chief Minister’s deci-sion of CBI inquiry, yet the police filed a casein this. He added that he will give arrest in thiscase and are preparing the same strategy withtheir supporters as to when they will give arrest.

A case has been registered againstunknown 400 Samajwadi Party and RLDworkers for creating a ruckus on the road lead-ing to the Chandpa village of the victim girl.

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Total number of Covid-19patients in Kerala reached

87,738 by Tuesday evening,according to Pinarayi Vijayan,Chief Minister. Briefing themedia Vijayan said 7,871 newpatients were diagnosed acrossthe State till Tuesday eveningwhile the last 24 hours saw 25fatalities.

Situation has stabilised inneighbouring Tamil Nadu. TheState diagnosed 5,017 newCovid-19 patients on Tuesdayevening.

The total number ofCovid-19 patients in the Statestood at 45, 279.

The medical bulletin issuedby the Tamil NaduGovernment said 71 personssuccumbed to the pandemicwhile 5,548 patients who recov-ered from Covid-19 were dis-charged from hospitals acrossTamil Nadu.

Though Kerala had a highconcentration of Covid-19patients, CM Vijayan told thepeople that there was no needto panic.

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Even before themortal remains

of Subedar SukhdevSingh,martyred in aceasefire violationby Pakistan on theline of control inNowshera sector ofRajouri lateMonday night,arrived in his native villagePeoni falling under Majaltatehsil of Udhampur district onTuesday, his daughter TanviRajput took a pledge to serve theIndian Army by becoming anace shooter, as desired by herfather.

“My father was a brave sol-dier and an 'ace shooter'. Whenhe was off duty and staying athome he used to train me andmotivate me to become a shoot-er. After completing my studiesI would like to serve the Indianarmy and become an ace shoot-er like my father” Tanvi Rajputtold reporters while payingglowing tributes to him at hervillage home in Peoni on

Tuesday.Holding the hands of her

younger brother in her lap,Tanvi kept repeating the lastwords uttered by her father.“Beta when you will completeyour class 10th i will start yourtraining, i want to becomeshooter like my father”

Subedar Sukhdev Singh,labeled as 'sher' (Lion) in hisnative village, had also partici-pated in the Kargil war.

Remembering Singh's val-our one of his ageing uncles said,“Sukhdev was very courageous.He never showed his back to hisenemies. He led from the front,was not afraid of meeting deathon the front line.

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The impact of the Hathras rape case is being felt even inBihar Assembly elections with Congress postponing

announcement of its list of candidates for the upcoming pollsin the state with few party leaders asserting tickets shouldnot be given to tainted leaders.

AICC sources said the Congress Election Committeewas to finalize and release its list of candidates by Mondayevening but it was unable to do it and the matter has beenplaced before the party high command to take a view.

“The party wants to keep away from the controversyof proposing the names of tainted candidates, particularlythose related to cases on women issues. Our top leadershiphave been fighting on this front and most recently over theHathras,” said the party sources. With Congress leaders RahulGandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra leading the campaignagainst Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, seniorparty leaders are of the view that giving tickets to the rapeand crime against women related cases will boomerang anderode the moral of the grand old party which taken on theHathras incident by attacking the government tooth and nail.

Further explaining the reasons for the delay is the nameof shortlisted candidates like Brajesh Pande (for Govindganjconstituency) tainted with rape and other crimes againstwomen, attracting protests from several leaders most notablebeing senior Congress leader and former Union ministerGirija Vyas.

Jammu: An 'unidentified' ter-rorist was killed in retaliatoryfiring by the personnel securi-ty officer of a local BJP leaderin Nunar area of centralKashmir's Ganderbal districtlate Tuesday night.

The BJP leader has beenidentified as GhulamQadir bythe local police authorities.According to police, he escapedunhurt while one of his PSOreceived injuries in the attack.

Confirming the groundreports, the twitter handle ofKashmir Zone police said, “ter-rorists fired upon one BJPworker at Nunar in Ganderbal.He is safe, howerever, his onePSO was injured in this inci-dent. One unidentified terror-ist got killed in PSOs retalia-tion”. Meanwhile, an encounterbetween the security forcesand a group of terrorists hid-ing inside a home was going onin the Sugan area of Shopian. PNS

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In a new dimension to theSushant Singh Rajput death

case which has reached a deadend after the All India Instituteof Medical Sciences (AIIMS)ruled out murder and said it wasa case of “suicide”, the cybercrime sleuths of the Mumbaihave launched thorough inves-tigations into 80,000 allegedfake accounts created by “vest-ed interests” on various socialmedia platforms to “discredit”the Mumbai police force, itsCommissioner Param Bir Singhand “derail “ the investigationsinto the actor's death.

After having been at thereceiving end of vicious criticismover what was described as the“shoddy” manner in which thecity police officials investigatedthe Sushant Singh Rajput deathcase, Mumbai PoliceCommissioner Param Bir Singh

has ordered an investigationsinto thousands of alleged fakeaccounts on various social mediaplatforms including Twitter,Facebook and Instagram acrosscountries and continents.

Confirming the develop-ment, Mumbai’s DeputyCommissioner of Police (CyberCrime) Rashmi Karandikar saidon Tuesday: “Several socialmedia account holders aretrolling the Mumbai Police com-missioner on different platformslike Twitter, Instagram andFacebook and are using abusivelanguage against him and theforce” Karandikar said that whileone FIR had been registeredagainst the fake account holdersunder section 67 of InformationTechnology Act, another FIRhad been launched against a per-son who had allegedly usedmorphed image Mumbai PoliceCommissioner’s office twitteraccount.

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The only photograph Ihave of Jaswant Singhand me together was theone he gave me a yearbefore he was admitted to

the hospital in August 2014, neverto regain consciousness. It wastaken on December 10, 1957, whenwe were on stage enacting a play,Choice of Arms, at the IndianMilitary Academy, Dehradun, dur-ing the silver jubilee of the academyand our passing out parade celebra-tions. Portraying the hallmark cav-alry officer, Jaswant reflected its mir-ror image: suave, stylish and snob-bish. I played the rough and readyinfanteer, his poorer cousin, crew cutet al. As Jaswant Major Saab badefarewell to arms in 1966, complain-ing about excessive employment of“Yes Sir,” his sputnik political rise sawhim become Defence, Finance andForeign Minister. In those headydays, he would tell Jeeves, PepSingh: “General Sahab ko man-pasand whisky pilao”. During theseconvivial encounters, he wouldrecount in fits of laughter, incidentsin the academy — of lost patrols,enemy ambush and one derelictionthat nearly delayed graduation. Hispassion for Western classical music,literature and history never desert-ed him. Bach, Beethoven andMozart played softly even at 35,000feet on Air India or in his offices inSouth Block and 16 Teen MurtiLane.

A conspiracy hatched by ArmyChief, General SF Rodrigues,marked my parting from the Army.I sought Jaswant’s help which cameunflinchingly. As a member of theLok Sabha and a rising star in BJP,one evening over sundowners, heinvited two of the country’s best legalminds — Ram Jethmalani andArun Jaitley — both from his partybut with their mutual dislike nevercamouflaged. Only Jaswant couldhave brought them together andalong with Jaitley’s junior, ArvindNigam, they managed, 20 years later,to defeat the Government for thefirst time in India’s independent his-tory over its imposition of Army ActSection 18 and the PleasureDoctrine. All three legal eaglesbecame good friends.

Jaswant also introduced me to histailor in Khan Market, MukhtarAhmad, who patterned his blackmazri bush shirts in the Army’sWalking Out style. The trademarkepaulette bush shirt — Jaswant’scopyright — is now worn by all andsundry.

Jaswant’s mastery of theEnglish language and his gor-geous handwriting were leg-endary. He wrote a dozen semi-nal books, three focussed ondefence and national security: ACall to Honour, Defending Indiaand his last before he was hospi-talised, India at Risk. In 2013, heinvited me to Mumbai on a whis-tle-stop tour to promote hisbook and quiz him on the risksfacing India. I recall vividly anearlier evening at his home thatwas rudely interrupted byDefence Minister Sharad Pawar’scall announcing that he was onhis way. I was urged to knockback my drink and leave. ThenArmy Chief Rodrigues, in aninterview to this newspaper, hadindiscreetly called neighbour-ing countries as bandicoots andcounselled for good governance.This created a furore inParliament which forced Pawarinto administering a warning toRodrigues. It was the draft of thisadmonition that Pawar wantedJaswant to edit and embellish thatled to my retreat. With hisSheaffer pen, Jaswant correctedthe parliamentary reprimandwhich Pawar read out the nextday in Parliament, pacifying theOpposition ranks of which hewas one.

Perhaps Jaswant’s most anx-ious moments were during theKandahar hijack of IC 814. Hetold me that relatives of passen-gers made good copy for televi-sion and that IB was reportingthat the incident could triggercommunal disturbances. Duringthe Cabinet Committee onSecurity (CCS) meeting, he vol-unteered, since no one else did,to accompany the three Jaish ter-rorists to Kandahar for release of

Indian hostages. The stigma ofthis enduring ignominy he par-ried bravely.

During the Kargil skirmish, onthe day Tololing heights werecaptured (June 11, 1999), Iaccompanied Jaswant to Beijingas part of the press delegation inmy post-Army avatar. India hadcarried out nuclear tests the pre-vious year and attributed them tothe threat from China. His mis-sion to China was to restore bilat-eral relations gone in deep freezesince the tests. The frosty meet-ing with Foreign Minister TangJiaxuan began with Tang insist-ing that China was never a threatto India, adding that we “have asaying in Chinese that thosewho tie the knot must untie itfirst” to which Jaswant recalled aRajasthani aphorism from his vil-lage Jasol: “you need two handsto untie a knot.” The strategic dif-ference was not allowed tobecome a dispute.

Jaswant was full of witty repar-tees. After the nuclear tests,which stunned and annoyed theAmericans, he met Secretary ofState Madeleine Albright whoremarked with dripping sarcasmthat “India had dug itself into ahole”. “Madam Secretary of State,India is a civilisational state, itdoes not dig holes,” he repliedwith exceptional grace. The twodeveloped healthy respect andaffection for each other. Throughthe ‘Next Steps in StrategicPartnership’ Jaswant discussedwith Deputy Secretary of State,Strobe Talbott, and over 16 meet-ings in different parts of the globe,they sketched the path towardsthe landmark India-US nucleardeal.

In the last of his nine stints asa parliamentarian, Jaswant rep-

resented the Gorkhas fromDarjeeling. Since I was from thefifth Gorkha regiment, had wide-ly trekked in Nepal, was fluent inGorkhali and familiar with theproblems of India-domiciledGorkhas and their demand forGorkhaland, I became his occa-sional advisor in his constituen-cy. I once accompanied him toDarjeeling, meeting GorkhaJanmukti Morcha leaders BimalGurung, Roshan Giri andRamesh Ale, who was from myregiment. Jaswant would parkhimself in a quaint 19th centuryEnglish hotel — below Kalimatitemple — which was then underAmerican ownership but wouldannually fly in English actors tostage plays like that year OscarWilde’s Importance of BeingEarnest.

As convenor of India-PakistanTrack Two dialogue, which ranfor nearly 15 years till the rulingdispensation forced it to stop, Itried to invite Jaswant to partic-ipate when he was not inGovernment. I suggested “youcould meet your Kargil counter-part Sartaj Aziz, with whomyou refused to shake hands” buthe steadfastly refused.

Jaswant was a prolific rider andplayed horse polo and cycle polofor the academy. He continuedriding for several years andowned ponies till a back problemforced him to stop. While I havelost a true friend from whom Ilearnt a lot, India and the BJPhave lost a great scholar, states-man and soldier.

(The writer, a retired MajorGeneral, was Commander IPKFSouth, Sri Lanka and foundermember of the Defence PlanningStaff, currently the IntegratedDefence Staff.)

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in the number of Janata Dal(United) seats to accommodateLJP. Nitish will try to contest atleast 120 seats so that he can beclose to the majority mark on hisown in case NDA wins the polls.At the same time, if the LJP getsmore seats, the BJP will have morespace to counter Nitish if the lat-ter decides to switch sides.

Subhash Chandra AgarwalChandni Chowk

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late actor’s alleged murder turnedinto an issue of nepotism anddrugs in the film industry withcertain names being targetted.Ranaut should come forwardand apologise for politicisingRajput’ death. It is time that weaccept the fact that Rajput wasindeed depressed and committedsuicide. The resources spent onpoliticising his death should beused to get justice in the rape-murder case of the 19-year-oldDalit woman in Hathras. And ifRanaut is really the person tobreak glass ceilings, then it is caseslike this that she needs to focuson.

Bhagwan ThadaniMumbai

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As popular opinion for the KrishnaJanmabhoomi dispute in Mathura is beingslowly galvanised after the court dismissed

a civil suit on September 30, it looks like histo-ry is repeating itself. It wasn’t a usual day at theoffice for Civil Judge, senior division, ChhayaSharma of the Mathura Civil Court, although,what happened wasn’t unexpected. The court hadjust received a civil suit by a Hindu deity — LordKrishna Virajman. Since the Lord is a “minor”,he was represented in the suit through his “nextfriend.” The suit had been filed against encroach-ing and illegally building a Shahi Idgah mosqueon the minor’s property. The allegation wasagainst the Uttar Pradesh Waqf Board and themosque trust for illegally allowing the entry of“some Muslims” for the said purpose.

It had been claimed in the suit that “everyinch of land in Katra Keshav Dev (the disputedsite) is sacred for the devotees of Lord Krishna”as he was born on that site. It had been demand-ed on behalf of the deity that, “Darshan, pooja,rituals according to Vedic Sanatana Dharma,faith, belief, usages, traditions and customs”,which are protected under Article 25 of theConstitution, be allowed to be performed at theactual birthplace which lies beneath the ShahiIdgah mosque. The suit was dismissed by thecourt on September 30 at the admission stageitself. The court cited that the Places of WorshipAct, 1991, which provides for the maintenanceof the religious character of any place of worshipas it existed on August 15, 1947, barred it fromaccepting the suit at this stage.

Don’t be surprised if you are getting a feel-ing of déjà vu, because the country has beenthrough this before. The filing of a civil suit beforethe Mathura court was only symbolic. What iteffectively did, irrespective of the dismissalorder, is that, it has set the tone for an all newbattle that Right-wing Hindus are ready to fightin their attempt to regain their cultural heritageand lost religious integrity.

The Krishna Janmabhoomi in Mathura hasfor decades been one among the three sites (oth-ers being the Ayodhya Ram Janmabhoomi andthe Kashi Vishwanath Temple in Varanasi) thatHindu Right-wing political organisations havebeen fighting for. The battle is to reclaim the reli-gious and cultural heritage of India which waslost when Aurangzeb had issued orders for thedemolition of a large number of temples (closeto 40,000) in 1669-1670 and had built mosquesover them. This, of course, is a matter of fact andhistory. But, how will this lost heritage beregained today? The answer is: “By the demoli-tion of these mosques built by barbaric Muslimrulers over temples.”

One can’t help but be reminded of theAyodhya Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri masjid dis-pute. It was one of the longest and the most fierce-ly fought legal as well as political battles in ourcountry which changed the way politics was doneand elections were fought. Although appeasementpolitics was used as a tool during elections evenbefore the 1990s, such glorification of a partic-ular belief system juxtaposed to the vilificationof another was unprecedented. Populism anddivisive politics were played like never before.Politics of identity based on new definitions ofHinduism had emerged — one that was based

on the faith of exclusion and anti-com-munitarian. The battle even definedwhat is meant by community, society,and citizens and who deserved to stayin it. It set new standards for everything.No one knew what was the “commongood” anymore. This led to socialatomisation, cultural fragmentationand moral and religious decadence.

For 25 long years, Lord Ram waspoliticised. He was made an emotion-al issue to garner votes. Rabble-rousersand demagogues were allowed to riseto positions of political power using hisname. A new politico-cultural spacewas created in this country which said,“Let me glorify my own religion.”

This led to bloodshed that costthousands of lives. The most viral slo-gan on the streets, for the longest timeever was, “Tareekh nahi batayenge parmandir wahi banayenge (we will notgive you a date, but we will make thetemple there only).”

Suddenly, everybody was a staunchsupporter of this new version ofHindutva. Everybody wanted a templeto be built in Ayodhya on the disput-ed Babri mosque site — legally or ille-gally, peacefully or violently. All this washappening simultaneously with anequally fierce legal battle being foughtbefore the courts.

When the apex court gave a finaldecision in the case, allowing for a tem-ple to be built on the disputed site, itwas clear that this was an apt exampleof decisions based on faith. The major-ity of the parties to the suit were happy.However, senior advocate RajeevDhawan had warned the court duringthe hearings by stating that the courtmust consider how future generationswould view this verdict.

The demand for declaring the dis-puted site in Mathura as KrishnaJanmabhoomi is gaining momentum. A

‘Krishna Janmabhoomi Nirman Nyas’has already been set up by a group ofreligious men. Mass support for the suitis on the rise on social media wherepolitical groups are even demanding forthe scrapping of the 1991 Act.

“Hindu unity” like never before isbeing called for. Statements by top polit-ical leaders and members of Right-wingorganisations have already startedpouring in. And last but not the least,prime-time drama on TV news chan-nels have got new fuel for their dailyduels. Popular opinion is being slowlygalvanised, and this all looks like his-tory repeating itself. This was theinevitable consequence of the Ayodhyaissue and the verdict.

One has to understand that polit-ical parties, whose rise to power hastranspired due to a combination of cer-tain formulae and tools of politicaloppression, will always be reluctant tolet those formulae go away so soon. Itwas the Ayodhya dispute, the reasser-tion of the “persecution complex” onthe part of Muslims, and the subsequentwave of “Hindu nationalism” thattransformed the BJP from a cadre-based party to one with mass support.The BJP has leap-frogged into powerand consecrated its image of a “Hindunationalist.” A denouement of the sameis, therefore, impossible especiallywhen it is faced with a crippling econ-omy and the worst rates of unemploy-ment this country has seen in decades.

Religion, historically, has proven tobe the best political weapon, to inter-nalise oppression among the masses. Asedative that helps cool down dissent-ing voices, where people can agree tonot disagree.

Mathura will be the new metaphorfor Hindutva politics. The KrishnaJanmabhoomi movement will serve asa consistent emotional issue required to

connect to the masses. This time, LordKrishna will be used. Fringe groups willagain devise a putsch to assert majori-tarianism. New definitions of State andcitizens will be written down in thename of “religious freedom.” Safespaces for minorities will again becrushed. The judiciary will again befaced with an all-new battle where it willagain choose necessity over rationali-ty. But, what after Mathura? Howmany more Ayodhyas and Mathuraswill we be spectators to? Isn’t our her-itage more about inclusivity, acceptance,tolerance, trust and harmony? Whycan’t a mosque in Mathura’s KatraKeshav Dev stand together with LordKrishna’s temple? Why can’t the com-promise arrived at between the twocommunities, based on mutual respectfor each other’s faith, way back in 1968,be allowed to survive? Isn’t that the idea of India we are duty-bound to pro-tect?

I am reminded of two kalyug pre-dictions that Ved Vyasa made. First, hesaid that cities will be dominated bythieves, the Vedas will be contaminat-ed by speculative interpretations, polit-ical leaders will virtually consume thecitizens and the so-called priests andintellectuals will be devotees of theirgreed. (Srimad Bhagavatam Verse12.3.32) Second, he said, “Unculturedmen will show their austerity to theLord by wearing a mendicant’s dressand those who know nothing aboutreligion will mount a high seat and pre-sume to speak on religious principles(Srimad Bhagavatam Verse 12.3.38).”The dismissal of the suit by the Mathuracourt doesn’t matter because the poli-tics around Krishna Janmabhoomi hasjust started. India is fully set to vindi-cate Ved Vyasa. Jai shri Krishna!

(Anurag is from the National LawUniversity, Visakhapatnam)

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The Indian economy’s downhilljourney was all over the media,but the news about 88.17 per

cent women workers surviving with areduced number of meals in the 26 dis-tricts of Madhya Pradesh (MP) and the52.46 per cent dip in women’s partic-ipation, the lowest in eight years in theNational Rural Employment GuaranteeAct, received very little media attention.

When the pandemic struck theworld, Maria Holtsberg, United Nation(UN) Women, Humanitarian andDisaster Risk Advisor, Asia and Pacific,rued that a “crisis always exacerbatesgender inequality.” In 2016, a high-levelUN panel called for incorporating gen-der dimensions in any public healthemergency response. Unfortunately,Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and EconomicSecurity Act’s appraisal of 73 policy

statements, guidance documents andresponse strategies, laid bare a shock-ing revelation that nearly half or 46 percent ignored the gendered effects of thepandemic and hunger crises and onlyseven per cent proposed any concreteaction.

“The pandemic-containment pub-lic policies and health strategies so farhaven’t looked through the genderlens… and now the pre-existing gen-der inequalities, in every sphere, fromhealth to the economy…are likely to befurther amplified,” lamented PoonamMuttreja, Executive Director,Population Foundation of India (PFI).

In the light of the past adversehealth consequences of epidemics,the World Health Organisation’s(WHO’s) early advisory urged priori-tising sexual and reproductive healthservices as “essential services.”Nevertheless, a survey in 103 countriesfound large-scale disruptions in 67 percent. A Guttmacher Institute’s projec-tion, on the basis of data from 1.6 bil-lion women of reproductive age from132 low and middle income countries,envisaged that a “10 per cent declinein use of reversible contraceptivemethods, would hit 49 million more

women, cause 15 million additionalunintended pregnancies and 3.3 mil-lion unsafe abortions over the courseof a year.” Going by official figures, thehealth deficit (April-June) in Indiaamounts to a drop in immunisation by27 per cent, institutional deliveries by28 per cent and major surgeries by 60per cent in comparison to last year.

Despite abortions being enlisted as“emergency services,” very few in real-ity could reach the clinics due to inad-equate transport and lack of informa-tion. Ipas Development Foundation(IDF), India, collating data from eightStates, evaluated that “from March 25to June 24, about 1.85 million Indianwomen could not terminate unwant-ed pregnancies. About 80 per cent forabsence of medical abortion drugs atpharmacy stores, another 20 per cent,due to reduced access to health facil-ities.”

However, women play a lead rolein care-giving within families or ashealthcare workers. “Women’s socialconditioning makes them take chargeof a sick family member. And as pro-fessional care-givers, nursing contin-ues to be seen as a women’s domain.But the risks of being with patients for

longer hours than the doctors are oftenundermined. We tend to fall into gen-dered hierarchies in recognising theservices of a nurse contracting the dis-ease and succumbing, as against thedoctors falling prey to the disease,” saysPadmini Ghosh, country co-ordinator,Women’s Regional Network.

The recent agitation of the ASHAworkers against underpayment andincreased workload, without the min-imum protective gear, further exposedthe inadequacies of the public healthsystem. PFI’s Muttreja was categoricalthat “we must invest in our 3.3 millionstrong female frontline workforce forcombating COVID-19 by valuing andresourcing their needs.”

A PFI study in Uttar Pradesh (UP),Bihar and Rajasthan, disclosed that anincreasing care-giving role within thehousehold has led to high degrees ofpsychological distress amonggirls/women. Ghosh says that women’smental health problems are oftenignored as “figments of imagination”and receive no medical interventions.In this regard, the launch of a toll-freehelpline “Kiran” to address the risingnumber of pandemic-induced mentalhealth problems is a welcome step.

Furthermore, the economic slumphas also created ripple effects on foodsecurity in India, which experts appre-hend, would reinforce inequalities infood distribution within the household,making structural inequities morevisible in food systems.

Dr Shweta Khandelwal, Head,Nutrition Research, Public HealthFoundation of India, asserted that“women tend to remain vulnerable tomultiple forms of malnutrition due tovarious socio-economic, demograph-ic and cultural factors. Undernutritionenhances their susceptibility to infec-tion, including respiratory infectionsand immuno-deficiency, making themmore vulnerable to COVID-19.”

Plus, with less than a quarter beingpresent in the labour force in the pre-pandemic era, Indian women are nowlikely to be further pushed out of gain-ful employment. The Centre forMonitoring Indian Economy’sConsumer Pyramids HouseholdSurvey data confirmed that, at least,four out of ten women in India losttheir jobs. In rural India, the hugeinflux of migrants workers to home-towns and villages generated a down-swing of about 2.24 per cent in the rate

of women’s work participation. WilliamJoe, Professor, Population ResearchCentre, Indian Institute of EconomicGrowth, alerted that, “Women beinghardly present in the core sectorlabour force are less likely to benefitfrom macro-support programmes.There is a need for direct wage supportprogrammes like MNREGA, ruraland urban. These should beredesigned to fit into gender needs andwork preferences as unskilled labourwork may not find many takers inurban areas.”

Many experts also fear that “about23.5 percentage points less women thanmen employed in the pre-Coronaphase are likely to be re-employed later.”

Besides, the lockdowns haveturned homes into a place for physi-cal, sexual and psychological abuse formany women. During the first fourphases of the lockdown, Indian womenfiled more domestic violence com-plaints than in the last ten years dur-ing the same period.

Now, while assessing women’sCOVID-19 disease burden and healthoutcomes from the biological perspec-tive, many researchers affirmed that“women tend to mount a stronger

immune response,” while some con-tended that “sex patterns are not uni-versal among all viruses.” How sex andgender are influencing clinical care can-not be fully explained for lack of com-prehensive sex-disaggregated data, asthe WHO in its 2007 guidelinesemphasised. Nevertheless, in the pasttoo, WHO guidelines have been over-looked which seriously affectedwomen’s health needs.

“The pandemic’s imagery in pub-lic consciousness and reportage hasbeen dominated by a male doctor, apoliceman, a male migrant labourer.While a nurse, the policewoman whohas to go back home to an infant, a job-less migrant domestic help or a traf-ficked sex-worker with no income,rarely feature in public imagination,”laments Ghosh. Sadly, this rings true.

The UN Secretary-General’s callfor focussing on women’s interests inthe pandemic remains largely unheed-ed. The world is far away from build-ing more equal and resilient societiesand creating equitable policies andinterventions.

(The writer is a retired IndianInformation Service Officer and amedia educator.)

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Washington: President DonaldTrump staged a dramaticreturn to the White Houseafter leaving the military hos-pital where he was receiving anunprecedented level of carefor COVID-19. He immedi-ately ignited a new controver-sy by declaring that despite hisillness the nation should notfear the virus that has killedmore than 210,000 Americans— and then he entered theWhite House without a pro-tective mask.

Trump’s message alarmedinfectious disease experts andsuggested the president’s ownillness had not caused him torethink his often-cavalier atti-tude toward the disease, whichhas also infected the first ladyand several White House aides,including new cases revealedMonday.

Landing Monday night atthe White House on MarineOne, Trump gingerly climbed

the South Portico steps,removed his mask anddeclared, “I feel good.” He gavea double thumbs-up to thedeparting helicopter from theportico terrace, where aideshad arranged American flagsfor the sunset occasion. Heentered the White House,where aides were visible millingabout the Blue Room, withoutwearing a face covering.

The president left WalterReed National Military MedicalCenter, where his doctor, NavyCmdr. Sean Conley, said earli-er Monday that the presidentremains contagious and wouldnot be fully “out of the woods”for another week but thatTrump had met or exceededstandards for discharge fromthe hospital. Trump is expect-ed to continue his recovery atthe White House, where thereach of the outbreak that hasinfected the highest levels of theU.S. government is still being

uncovered.Still, just a month before

the election and anxious to pro-ject strength, Trump tweetedbefore leaving the hospital,“Will be back on the CampaignTrail soon!!!” And in case any-one missed his don’t-worrymessage earlier, he rushed outa new video from the WhiteHouse.

“Don’t be afraid of it,”Trump said of the virus. “You’regoing to beat it. We have thebest medical equipment, wehave the best medicines.” Hisremarks were strong, but hewas taking deeper breaths thanusual as he delivered them.

On Tuesday, Trump went astep further, repeating his pre-vious comparisons betweenCOVID-19 and the seasonalflu.

“Many people every year,sometimes over 100,000, anddespite the Vaccine, die fromthe Flu,” he tweeted. “Are wegoing to close down ourCountry? No, we have learnedto live with it, just like we arelearning to live with Covid, inmost populations far lesslethal!!!” AP

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Washington: His press secre-tary once described PresidentDonald Trump as the “mosttested man in America” whenit came to COVID-19.

And variations on thatmessage were the WhiteHouse ready response anytime critics questioned thepresident’s lax approach tofollowing guidelines for avoid-ing the novel coronavirus.

But that vaunted testingoperation proved woefullyinsufficient in protecting thepresident and those who workfor him at the White House, asevidenced by a string of pos-itive tests over the past weekfor Trump, his wife and othersin their orbit.

Trump demonstrated indramatic fashion that relyingon testing alone isn’t enoughto create a safe bubble. Maskwearing and social distancingare other key ingredients forpreventing the spread ofCOVID-19, and both haveoften been in short supply atthe White House.

From the earliest days ofthe virus, Trump has providedconflicting advice on wearing amask, noting that federal healthexperts were recommendingthem, but adding that “I don’tthink I’m going to be doing it.”At another point, he said that“maybe they’re great, andmaybe they’re just good. Maybethey’re not so good.” AP

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Brussels: A top EuropeanUnion official dealing with theUnited Kingdom said Tuesdaythat a cliff-edge rupture betweenthe two without even a basictrade deal by the end of the yearis becoming more likely by theday.

European Vice PresidentMaros Sefcovic told theEuropean Parliament that “timeis short” to reach a deal beforea Brexit divorce transition peri-od ends by year’s end, effectivelygiving negotiators less than fourweeks to broker a deal whichmust subsequently go througha lengthy approval process.

And he pointed his finger atBritish Prime Minister BorisJohnson for making things evenmore difficult when he decidedlast month to introduce a billthat breaches the legally bind-ing Withdrawal Agreement itstruck with the bloc to makesure it could leave on January31.

Sefcovic said it made Britainless trustworthy and called theplans “a heavy blow to theBritish signature and reliability.Respecting agreements is first amatter of law, but also of trustand in good faith.” He said theplans left the EU with no choice

but to launch legal action againstBritain.

If passed into law, theInternal Market Bill wouldundermine the EU’s previous-ly agreed oversight of trade toand from Northern Ireland,which is part of the U.K andshares a border with EU mem-ber Ireland.

The bloc is furious thatBritain plans to breach portionsof the withdrawal treaty thatwere put in place to maintain anopen Irish border, which hasunderpinned peace sinceNorthern Ireland’s 1998 GoodFriday accord.

Sefcovic said the EU wouldnever change anything to theBrexit divorce deal.

“The full and timely imple-mentation of the withdrawalagreement is simply not debat-able,” he told the EuropeanParliament.

Under such adversarial con-ditions, negotiators from bothsides continue to look for com-mon ground to broker a rudi-mentary trade deal to avoid abarrage of uncertainty, tariffsand red tape that would hurteconomies on both sides whenthe transition window ends onJanuary 1. AP

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won this year’s Nobel Prize inphysics Tuesday for advancingour understanding of blackholes.

The Royal SwedishAcademy of Sciences said thatBriton Roger Penrose willreceive half of this year’s prize“for the discovery that blackhole formation is a robust pre-diction of the general theory ofrelativity”.

Goran K Hansson, theacademy’s secretary-general,said German Reinhard Genzeland American Andrea Ghezwill receive the second half ofthe prize “for the discovery ofa supermassive compact objectat the center of our galaxy.”

The prizes celebrate “one ofthe most exotic objects in the

universe,” black holes, whichhave become a staple of sciencefiction and science fact andwhere time even seems tostand still, Nobel committeescientists said.

Penrose proved with math-ematics that the formation ofblack holes was possible, basedheavily on Albert Einstein’sgeneral theory of relativity.

Genzel and Ghez looked atthe dust-covered centre of ourMilky Way galaxy where some-thing strange was going on,several stars moving aroundsomething they couldn’t see.

It was a black hole. Not justan ordinary black hole, but asupermassive black hole, 4 mil-lion times the mass of our sun.

Now scientists know thatall galaxies have supermassive

black holes.It is common for several

scientists who worked in relat-ed fields to share the prize. Lastyear’s prize went to Canadian-born cosmologist JamesPeebles for theoretical workabout the early moments afterthe Big Bang, and Swissastronomers Michel Mayorand Didier Queloz for discov-ering a planet outside oursolar system.

The prestigious awardcomes with a gold medal andprize money of 10 millionSwedish kronor (more than$1.1 million), courtesy of abequest left 124 years ago bythe prize’s creator, Swedishinventor Alfred Nobel. Theamount was increased recent-ly to adjust for inflation. AP

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Washington: Vice PresidentMike Pence and hisDemocratic challenger SenatorKamala Harris are all set for adebate in the Sal Lake City ofUtah on Wednesday.

This will be for the firsttime in the American historythat an Indian origin personwill be taking up the podiumfor a vice presidential debate.

Political analysts believethat an aggressive Harris, 55,will easily prevail over Pence,61, during the only vice-pres-idential debate and help herrunning mate Joe Biden, 77, towiden his lead over Trump, 74.

Biden, in the last few days,has widened his lead overTrump by double digit.However, the Trump

Campaign believes that Pencecould come out with a stellarperformance during the debate.

The debate gains addedsignificance, given the COVID-19 infecting Trump, triggeringspeculations that Pence may betaking over the reigns of thecountry temporarily.

Also, many believe thatHarris will be the real force ina Biden administration.

Both Pence and Harris hassaid that they are well preparedfor the debate, which would bemoderated by journalist SusanPage, Washington BureauChief, USA Today.

According to mediareports, plexiglass will beinstalled between Pence andHarris on the debate stage.

“The debates are a crucialpart of making our democra-cy work and I am honored toparticipate,” Page said in astatement.

The debate will be dividedinto nine segments of approx-imately 10 minutes each, saidthe Commission onPresidential Debate. The mod-erator will ask an openingquestion after which each can-didate will have two minutes torespond.

The moderator will usethe balance of the time in thesegment for a deeper discus-sion of the topic, it said. PTI

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Breil-Sur-Roya (France): Thegrim job of searching for floodvictims in Alpine villages andon the nearby French andItalian coasts has grown evenmore gruesome: Along withstorm casualties, authoritiessay corpses from cemeterieshave also been found aroundthe Mediterranean shore,apparently swept down themountain by violent rains.

A total of 12 deaths havebeen reported since the stormpounded France’s Alpes-

Maritimes region and Italy’snorthwestern regions ofLiguria and Piedmont startingFriday – four on the Frenchside, eight on the Italian side.

More than 600 rescuersand others were searchingTuesday for some 20 peoplestill missing, according to aspokeswoman for the Alpes-Maritimes regional adminis-tration.

Corpses unearthed fromcemeteries have washed up onthe Italian side, she told The

Associated Press. She could notsay how many or where theycame from, and it was unclearwhether the bodies wereamong the eight reported deadin Italy from the storm. Italianlocal authorities could notimmediately be reached forcomment.

The cemetery corpses werein such an advanced state ofdecomposition that they wereclearly distinguishable fromrecent storm victims, the Frenchspokeswoman said. AP

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tenced to 20 years in prisonafter he pleaded guilty tomoney laundering and embez-zlement under orders from theformer president.

The Criminal Court onMonday night also finedAhmed Adeeb $129,800. Theprison sentence, which will beshortened by one year becausehe served time after a previousconviction on the same

charges, also covered charges ofcorruption and possession ofan unlicensed firearm.

Adeeb was a protege to for-mer President Yameen AbdulGayoom during the early yearsof his presidency between 2013and 2018. He had been sen-tenced to 33 years in prison in2016 for several counts includ-ing masterminding a blast in apresidential speedboat inwhich Yameen’s wife waswounded. He was freed fromall charges after Yameen lostreelection in 2018.

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New Delhi:Union Minister forMinority Affairs Shri MukhtarAbbas Naqvi today said herethat Union Ministry ofEducation is constructing 99Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayasin backward, weaker andMinority concentrated areasacross the country for the firsttime in the history, and sever-al of these Jawahar NavodayaVidyalayas are being con-structed jointly by UnionMinistry of Education andUnion Ministry of MinorityAffairs. Naqvi along with UnionMinister for Education Shri Dr.

Ramesh Pokhriyal “Nishank”today laid foundation stone fora new Jawahar NavodayaVidyalaya at Pakur in Jharkhandthrough video conferencing.This school is being construct-ed by the Ministry of MinorityAffairs under the “PradhanMantri Jan Vikas Karykram”.Naqvi said that the UnionMinistry of Education and theUnion Ministry of MinorityAffairs are also jointly con-structing 4 Jawahar NavodayaVidyalayas at Uttar Dinajpurand Howrah in West Bengal;West Kamang in ArunachalPradesh; Mamit in Manipur.

New Delhi:Arvind Singh,Chairman, Airports Authorityof India (AAI) unveiled thecomprehensive document on‘Review of Traffic at IndianAirports 2019-20’ in the pres-ence of Board Members ofAAI today

The document includesthe traffic analysis of last twoyears (2019-20v/s 2018-19) interms of growth rate, airportwise traffic share, month-wisetraffic at top 45 airports andmarket share of airlines in2019-20. It also covers the his-toric year- wise traffic data forall Indian airports since AAI’sinception i.e. 1995-96 w.r.t.aircraft movements, passen-gers, cargo and mail.

The document would be ofimmense use to aviation plan-ners, researchers, regulators,concessionaires and policymakers in Civil Aviation to

meet the challenges ahead anddevelop new strategies.

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Equity benchmarks defiedgravity for the fourth suc-

cessive session on Tuesday asinvestors piled into financeand banking counters amidfirm global cues following USPresident Donald Trump’s dis-charge from hospital.

Encouraging macroeco-nomic data and anticipation ofhealthy Q2 results furtherbuoyed sentiment, traders said.

The BSE Sensex zoomed600.87 points or 1.54 per centto close at 39,574.57.

Similarly, the broader NSENifty climbed 159.05 points or1.38 per cent to end at11,662.40.

HDFC was the top per-former in the Sensex pack,surging 8.35 per cent, after themortgage lender said its indi-vidual loan disbursements in

the second quarter of 2020-21reached 95 per cent of the year-ago level and September sawthe strongest recovery since theCOVID-19 outbreak.

Other prominent gainerswere IndusInd Bank, Mahindraand Mahindra, Asian Paints,Bajaj Finance, HDFC Bankand Ultratech Cement.

HDFC and HDFC Bankaccounted for over half of theSensex’s gains. On the otherhand, Tata Steel, Nestle India,Larsen & Toubro, Sun Pharma,NTPC and Reliance Industriesslipped up to 1.26 per cent.

Asian shares followed WallStreet higher after US PresidentDonald Trump was dischargedfrom hospital followingCOVID-19 treatment. Investorsentiment was also boosted byhopes of a fresh US stimuluspackage.

European markets were

mixed in opening trade. On the macroeconomic

front, India’s service sectoroutput broadly stabilised inSeptember but remained inthe contraction zone as incom-ing new business fell moder-ately due to the damagingimpact of the pandemic ondemand, leading to more joblosses.The seasonally adjustedIndia Services Business ActivityIndex rose for the fifth straightmonth in September to 49.8from 41.8 in August.

Meanwhile, the MonetaryPolicy Committee (MPC) ofthe RBI will begin its three-daydeliberations on Wednesdayafter the government appoint-ed three external members tothe rate-setting panel.

“Market is booming to anew level in anticipation of bet-ter Q2FY21 results, clearimprovement in domestic eco-nomic data and uptick in theglobal market.

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The Indian IT services sec-tor is expected to return to

high single-digit revenuegrowth in 2021-2022 gal-vanised by higher demand fordigital transformation after aflattish 2020, according to FitchRatings.

In a new report titled`Spotlight: Indian IT ServicesSector’, Fitch said the impact ofthe coronavirus pandemic isseen to be only moderate andshort term, as customers focuson transforming their busi-nesses digitally, moving ser-vices and work platformsonline, and minimise spending

on legacy services.Pandemic will accelerate

digital IT spends, it said. Mostcompanies have reportedrobust deal wins that shouldsupport growth in 2021-2022,despite the revenue decline inthe second quarter of 2020, saidthe “The Indian IT servicessector is likely to resume highsingle-digit revenue growth in2021-2022 on higher demandfor digital transformation,” itsaid.

Fitch added that it expect-ed the Indian industry to con-tinue to take advantage of itslow-cost operations and main-tain its strong foothold in theglobal IT landscape.

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India is expected to overtakeChina as the world’s largest

cooking gas LPG residentialsector market by 2030, WoodMackenzie said on Tuesday.

“Liquefied petroleum gas(LPG) demand in the residen-tial sector will continue to seesustainable growth at a cumu-lative annual growth rate(CAGR) of 3.3 per cent, reach-ing 34 million tonnes (MT) in2030 as households’ depen-dence on solid biomass dimin-ishes in the long run support-ed by rising average householdincomes and urban popula-tion,” it said in a report.

Driven by environmentaland health concerns, the gov-ernment has also been imple-menting schemes to helplower-income families copewith the cost of switching fromdirtier biomass to LPG.

The Direct Benefit

Transfer of LPG (DBTL) givesout subsidies to the vulnerablepopulation, while the PradhanMantri Ujjwala Yojana(PMUY) provides families liv-ing below the poverty lineaccess to free LPG stoves.

Wood Mackenzie researchanalyst Qiaoling Chen said:“Although nationwide LPGcoverage has reached 98 percent, up 42 per cent from 2014,usage is still low.

Average annual cylinderrefills have not kept up with thepace of new connections, withaverage consumption remain-ing below the benchmark of 12cylinders.”

Even with subsidy and theinitial cost of set-up covered bythe government, LPG is moreexpensive than biomass. Still,the Indian government is com-mitted to roll out plans to fur-ther address affordability andinfrastructure challenges inthe LPG sector.

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The Government hasexempted power trading

transactions from the purviewof tax deducted at source (TDS)and tax collected at source(TCS) to prevent practical dif-ficulties in implementing thelevy from affecting functioningof the exchanges.

The Finance Act, 2020inserted new section 194-0 inthe Income Tax Act 1961 whichmandated that from October 1,an e-commerce operator shalldeduct income tax at the rateof one per cent of the grossamount of sale of goods or pro-vision of service or both, facil-

itated through its platform.Also, a sub-section (1H) in sec-tion 206C of the Act was insert-ed that mandated deduction ofa sum of 0.1 per cent on all e-commerce transactions aboveRs 50 lakh.

The Central Board ofDirect Taxes has now exempt-ed transactions in securitiesand commodities, tradedthrough recognised stockexchanges or cleared and set-tled by the recognised clearingcorporation, including recog-nised stock exchanges or recog-nised clearing corporationlocated in InternationalFinancial Service from thislevy.

New Delhi: The newly-consti-tuted Monetary PolicyCommittee (MPC) of theReserve Bank will begin itsthree-day deliberations onWednesday amid expectationsthat the central bank this timearound may refrain fromchanging the benchmark lend-ing rates. On September 28, theRBI had postponed the meet-ing of the Monetary PolicyCommittee (MPC), whichmust have a quorum of four, asthe appointment of indepen-dent members was delayed.The meeting was scheduled totake place from September 29.

Within a day of the gov-ernment appointing three inde-pendent members of the MPC,the Reserve Bank announcedthat the rate-setting panel willmeet from October 7 to 9 forthe bi-monthly review of themonetary policy.

“... The next meeting of theMonetary Policy Committee(MPC) is scheduled during

October 7 to October 9, 2020,”the Reserve Bank said in astatement. The decision of therate-setting panel will beannounced on October 9.Thegovernment has appointedthree eminent economistsAshima Goyal, Jayanth RVarma and Shashanka Bhide asmembers of the MPC. The newmembers replace ChetanGhate, Pami Dua, andRavindra Dholakia. They wereappointed on the panel forfour years on September 29,2016. As per the RBI Act, theexternal members can holdoffice for a period of four yearsand are not eligible for re-appointment. Bhide is senioradvisor at the National Councilfor Applied EconomicResearch, while Goyal is a pro-fessor at the Indira GandhiInstitute of DevelopmentResearch. Varma is professor atthe Indian Institute

of Management,Ahmedabad.

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HDFC Bank ManagingDirector and Chief

Executive Officer Aditya Purihas assured employees of thecountry’s largest private sectorlender that their jobs andbonuses are secure.

Even as the COVID-19pandemic rages on, Puri, whoretires later this month, said thebank is doing well, has suffi-cient capital and does not haveany strain in the loans that ithas made.

He also hinted that thebank may post a strong set ofquarterly numbers in therecently ended July-September

period and quarters ahead aswell.

The COVID-19 pandem-ic has resulted in job losses,especially in the organised sec-tors, as businesses suffered dueto economic activity coming toa halt in lockdowns. HDFCBank and its private sectorcompetitors have met hikesand bonuses commitmentssince the start of the pandem-ic.

“Not only are your jobssecure, your increment is alsosecure. Your bonus and yourpromotion are secure,” Puritold over 1.15 lakh employeesof the bank, in a video messagelast week.

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Tata Motors on Tuesday saidits group global wholesales,

including Jaguar Land Rover,declined by 16 per cent to2,02,873 units in the secondquarter of the current financialyear over the year-ago period.

The drop in sales of itscommercial vehicles andDaewoo range was higher at 29per cent (56,614 vehicles) dur-ing the second quarter ofFY2021 as compared to pas-senger vehicles sales, whichdeclined 9 per cent (1,46,259units) over the second quarterof the previous fiscal, accord-ing to a release.

Global wholesales forJaguar Land Rover were 91,367vehicles in the July-Septemberquarter of FY21. Jaguar whole-sales for the quarter were18,189 vehicles, while LandRover wholesales for the quar-ter were 73,178 vehicles, TataMotors said.

New Delhi:Larsen and Toubro(L&T) on Tuesday said it haslaunched the seventh and finaloffshore vessel for the IndianCoast Guard at its defenceshipyard at Kattupalli.

The vessel is the last in theseries of seven offshore patrolvessels (OPVs) contracted toL&T by the defence ministry inMarch 2015. OPVs are long-range surface ships, capable ofoperation in maritime zones ofIndia, including island territo-ries with helicopter operationcapabilities. PTI

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New Delhi:Gold prices roseby Rs 454 to �51,879 per 10gram in the national capitalon Tuesday amid rupeedepreciation, according toHDFC Securities.

The precious metal hadclosed at �51,425 per 10gram in the previous trade.

Silver prices also jumped�751 to �63,127 per kilogramfrom �62,376 per kilogramin the previous trade.

“Spot gold prices for 24carat in Delhi were up R�454 amid rupee deprecia-tion,” HDFC SecuritiesSenior Analyst(Commodities) Tapan Patelsaid. The rupee pared initialgains and settled for the day17 paise lower at 73.46 (pro-visional) against the US dol-lar on Tuesday. PTI

Mumbai:The rupee paredinitial gains and settled forthe day 17 paise lower at73.46 (provisional) againstthe US dollar on Tuesday.At the interbank forex mar-ket, the domestic unitopened at 73.17 trackingpositive domestic equitiesand weak greenback, butsoon pared the gains andfinally closed at 73.46, down17 paise over its previousclose of 73.29. During thesession, the local unit wit-nessed an intra-day high of73.15 and a low of 73.51against the American cur-rency.Meanwhile, the dollarindex, which gauges thegreenback’s strength againsta basket of six currencies,was trading 0.02 per centlower at 93.49.

New Delhi: With a view to pro-mote dairying and rural liveli-hoods in the Union Territory ofLadakh, the National DairyDevelopment Board (NDDB)and UT Administration ofLadakh has signed an MoU forconducting a benchmark sur-vey in the newly formed UT.

NDDB’s dairy potentialsurvey will help prepare a roadmap to boost dairying in theUT and will help in enhancingincome of the rural populationin the mountainous borderareas. NDDB Chairman DilipRath said that NDDB is happyto support the efforts of the UTAdministration who have takeninitiative for dairy develop-ment in the interest of milkproducers in particular and thecooperative movement in gen-eral in Ladakh region. He fur-ther said that the Dairy Boardhas also offered managerialand technical support to pro-mote producer-owned insti-tutions that remain true tocooperative values. PNS

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The Noida InternationalAirport Limited, the

Yamuna Expressway industri-al development authority, air-port concessionaire, ZurichAirport International AG, andspecial purpose vehicle, theYamuna International AirportPrivate Limited, would sign theconcessionaire agreement forthe �29,560 crore Jewar airporton Wednesday.

The agreement was supposedto be signed by July 2, accord-

ing to the earlier schedule.Later on June 10, the UP gov-ernment postponed the agree-ment signing date to August 17in view of the Covid-19 pan-demic.

According to officials,

restriction on flight servicesdue to COVID-19 outbreakand subsequent lockdown hastwice led to the extension of thedate for signing of the conces-sionaire agreement betweenselected developer and the stategovernment agencies for theproject.

Officials said that theagreement for the interna-tional airport is scheduled tobe signed at 1 pm onWednesday.

Zurich International andYamuna International Airportprivate limited had on January30 applied for security clear-ance to the ministry of homeaffairs.

Zurich AG cannot startwork at the Jewar airport sitebefore the agreement is signed.

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The COVID-19 pandemic hasled to an unprecedented eco-nomic crisis. Every industry

around the world has been affected bythis pandemic, with the IMF callingit the worst recession since the GreatDepression. Companies are missingtheir earnings estimates, people arelosing their jobs, experiencing salarycuts and many traditional investmentshave taken a hit across the board. Aspeople strive to find a more reward-ing haven for their investments, cryp-tocurrencies such as bitcoin have nowbecome the talk of the town. What arethe reasons that are propelling thisphenomenon? Let’s analyse.

First and foremost the equitymarket is losing its attractiveness postthe coronavirus crisis because ofdecreased demand for many compa-nies' products, resulting in long-term declines in corporate profits.Investors are looking for morerewarding options to invest other thanstocks. Since Cryptocurrencies suchas Bitcoin possess many propertiesthat are similar to that of preciousmetals such as Gold, they are indeed

emerging as an important and high-ly rewarding asset class.

Secondly, cryptocurrencies suchas Bitcoin are proving to be an attrac-tive option because there is very lit-tle correlation between them and tra-ditional investments. So even if tra-ditional investments are growing ordeclining, the appreciation in cryp-tocurrencies is fairly immune tothem. As a result, for Investors, thereis more room to incorporate assets intheir portfolio that have little corre-lation with the uncertainty in theeconomy.

Thirdly, even before the out-break of COVID-19 pandemic andsubsequent economic fallout, finan-cial experts around the world werealready recommending some expo-sure to cryptocurrencies withininvestment portfolios. Post COVID-19 pandemic, the crypto marketremains on the growth path, andcryptocurrency trading participationby institutional investors has becomemuch more significant. One such rea-son behind this is because cryp-tocurrencies are protected against

inflation. So, events like the crash ofthe stock market, the spread ofCOVID-19 and others has littleimpact on the value of these digitalcurrencies.

The fourth and most importantreason is that cryptocurrency is oneof the biggest applications of verypopular and very trust-worthy Block-chain technology that eliminates theneeds of middlemen, allowing trans-actions to perform directly and swift-ly between two entities. This phe-nomenon of performing transac-tions swiftly while saving on broker-ages and middlemen feeshas partic-ularly piqued the interest of severallarge scale investors, particularly thelarge global banks.

Blockchain has leaped onto theworld stage and presented itself as thenext-generation solution for many ofthe tech & finance sectors' mostpressing problems. It has nowreceived influential endorsementsfrom government leaders, industrytitans and ambitious entrepreneurs inan unprecedented acknowledgmentof the technology’s prowess. The

future of cryptocurrency seems verybright not just for investing but as acareer path also.

What the blockchain industryneeds are people who are aware of thisecosystem and are interested in con-tinually enhancing their skills, andstaying up to date with the industry’sadvancement. There are stepsblockchain enthusiasts can take tostart developing their careers in thespace.

Popular career options in cryp-tocurrency

Want to apply your passion andknowledge of cryptocurrency to aprofession? Here are three burgeon-ing career options you can pursue:

Blockchain Engineer :Blockchain engineer is an attractivecareer option that helps buildingapplications using blockchain tech-nology. While typical blockchainengineers used to track digital cur-rency transactions, many companiesare now creating customised tech-nologies as per their own require-ments.

Financial Analyst: As the world

is moving more-and-more towardsdigitalisation, the need for financialanalysts who are fluent in crypto asan asset class has increased more thanever. As a financial analyst, your roleis to help clients make smarterinvestments in digital currency.

Cryptographer: The work profileof a cryptographer is to developalgorithms and security systems toencrypt sensitive information, such asprotecting data in finances. If dataprotection interests you, you canprobably lookout for this as a pro-fession. Additionally, cryptographersare engaged in designing and devel-oping several customised applicationsthat help in maintaining nationalsecurity.

Alternatively, there are manycareer options that exist in the Sales& Marketing functions and otherfunctions such as Business Analysis,Technology Analysis, Advertisement& PR, Investor Relations, Legal,Regulations, CorporationCommunications and others.

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The COVID-19 pandemic hasaffected every industry. It has

brought the world to a standstill andhas impacted our lives deeply. Oneof the largest affected sectors isLogistics Industry. According to theIndustry body Indian Chambers ofCommerce (ICC) due to coron-avirus lockdown, the logistics sec-tor lost at about �50,000 crore.

Recently, a report by GlobalConsultants states that around 122million people lost their jobs due tothe Covid-19 pandemic in India,and 40% of those are from blue-col-lar jobs. To solve this problem andto help revive the economy, Gxpress,

one of the fastest growing logisticscompanies in India took this as anopportunity to create job opportu-nities. Gxpress conducted a megaWalk-in drive.

In this drive jobs were offeredto skilled workers who were eitherjobless or left without a job becauseof the economic slowdown. Themain jobs were given in courierdelivery, warehouse associate,machine operator, warehouse exec-utive, data analyst, technology offi-cer and packers. Gxpress also didnot go for lay-offs or salary-cutsduring the COVID-19 period,unlike they are conducting jobwalk-in drive to hire more manpower on a large scale.

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Afirst-ever virtual24 hour

Hackathon competi-tion has beenannounced by leadinge-learning platform-Fliplearn to helpshowcase technologyprowess of students &engineers and creativ-ity with an aim todevelop innovativesolutions in the edu-cation domain.

The virtual eventwill take place onOctober 17 to October

18, 2020 from 10 amonwards. On October17th, 2020, all admit-ted teams will have 24hours to build cre-ative solutions to theproblems throughcoding, programming,design, data etc. Thegoal of the event is tobuild the future ofeducation using tech-nology.

The competitionis open for the stu-dents of Class IX toClass XII, engineeringstudents and engi-neering professionals.

As far as their career is concerned,Class XII remains a threshold for

students with a lot of unanswered ques-tions pondering inside their head, leav-ing them confused. The most commonnotion that students have while decid-ing to choose the right career revolvesaround how to choose the right career,which course to opt for and what theyare good at, among many others.

Such thoughts oscillating betweenquestions about the future can bedaunting, confusing, and lead to anunclear frame of mind. In such a dilem-ma the one thing that becomes an inte-gral part and adds on to the confusionis “Should I take a drop if things don’tturn out the way I have planned them?”

While this question remains a toughnut to crack, requiring countless self-introspection to reach a point where youcan swiftly answer this, especially wheneverything seems to be at stake. Theimpression of dropping a year hasalways been accredited with wasting theyear and the student has been leftbehind their batchmates in terms of theacademic session. But now the scenariohas completely reversed and if one isdetermined to go to their dream college,with parental support, if a student doesnot score well as per the desired resultsin the entrance exam, they have beenopting to drop a year.

Dropping a year — waste or invest?There is no absolute answer to this

question if one should drop a year ornot, with a very thin line differencebetween waste and investment. It is allabout the mindset of the individual, andaccording to experts one will definite-

ly be investing. Aspirants aiming fortheir dream career, with disciplinedapproach, dedication in their prepara-tion are contributing to a positiveinvestment towards their future.

But it is not that black and white tomake up your mind so quickly on thisquestion. One reaches to this questionafter contemplating about variouspoints:

Missed the college by whisker: Awise student should evaluate the dif-ference between the targeted and actu-al score. If the difference between thetwo is small and seems realistic that with

a little more effort and reworking thepreparation strategy, they can easilyreach the required score. However, if thedifference is a major one then thechances with some extra efforts are neg-ligible. The fact is to look for an alter-native career path. And in other caseswhere a student gets into a good collegebut it is not his dream college, in suchcase he should join the college and con-tinue alongside rather than dropping ayear.

Poor scores in both Boards andentrance: This is a tough situation butas they say, every situation has a solu-

tion. A child should be very sure of thecareer path he/she intends to takethereon. While many attributes it as adead-end situation, but it is not the endof the road and there exists multipleoptions: �New age careers/skill-based careers�Admissions in Tier-II colleges�Universities

If none of the above-mentionedpoints works, and if one considersdropping a year to get into a good col-lege then joining some certificate cours-es that will enhance your performance.

Need time to prepare and to planagain: The preparation for entranceexams requires hard work and perse-verance irrespective of the entranceexam. In this scenario, one shouldevaluate what were the reasons for theprevious performance. Self-questioningabout the failure to prepare well, alsoopens up clarity, and seeking guidancefrom a career counsellor before takingthe plunge also helps in revamping thepreparation strategy.

In all these scenarios, one has tothink articulately before reaching adecision of taking a college this year ordropping a year. It is not an end of theroad if you are dropping a year, it’s onlythat you are taking one year extra toshape your career the way you want itto be. Also, don’t listen to anyone whotells you that it is a crime to drop a year.In the end, what matters is that you con-sider all your options well and do well.A happy mind is always capable to dowonders.

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It is an interesting reflection. When I was grow-ing up, and perhaps till a decade back, manyof the career aspirations were decided by one

set of parents proudly proclaiming, “My son willbecome an engineer or a doctor”. The other setwould tell you, “We are not Tata or Birla. Studyhard to get into a job from where you can retire”.Indians were traditionally risk-averse when it cameto career choices.

However, the situation today has turned onits head, and we sure have come a long way. Thefact that India needs job creators and not job seek-ers isn’t lost on anyone, including the youth. Weare now witnessing a paradigm shift with entre-preneurship fast becoming the first-choice careerfor our best and brightest, and startup successesinspiring a new generation of Indians. This hasmainly been due to a significant shift in the wayEntrepreneurship Education is now being impart-ed at campuses. The new trends inEntrepreneurship Education are experiential andfocused on ‘learning by doing’.

Mainstreaming entrepreneurship coursewith credits: Educational Institutions which areserious about creating a culture of entrepreneur-ship at their campus are mainstreaming the coursewith credits and bringing in an evangelist facul-ty for the same. This has gone a long way in gen-erating more interest in entrepreneurship amongststudents.

Project-based learning: The course is nowless theoretical and focused on out-of-the-class andout-of-the-book approach — validating the start-up idea, how to create business models, under-stand the nuances of Minimum Viable Product(MVP), do’s and don’ts before starting up etc. arereal-time scenarios ensuring that startups oftomorrow begin on the right footing.

Exposure to industry experts, mentors andentrepreneurs: It is widely acknowledged that thebest teachers of entrepreneurship are entrepre-neurs themselves who have dirtied their hands,

faced myriad challenges and done it all. Whileindustry experts give an outlook of the variousfacets of the business, the entrepreneurs give a first-hand feel of what’s to come in the entrepreneur-ial journey.

Practice ventures: Practice ventures by stu-dents lay a clear roadmap for venture creation andbuild entrepreneurial muscle. A number of star-tups have arisen from campus ventures as theyprovide real-word learning into business planning,customers, markets, revenue, competition andfunding.

Design thinking: Innovation andEntrepreneurship are two sides of the same coin.Fostering innovative thinking through creative andcollaborative workflows helps to facilitate proto-typing and discovery of new solutions.

The new entrepreneurship education trendsat the campus are fostering innovation andexperimentation through hands-on experientiallearning and providing an opportunity to buddingstartups for building and executing the businessidea, learning to challenge the status quo, anddeveloping a risk-taking mindset. More impor-tantly, this will go a long way in grooming a newgeneration of educated and robust startups whoare more aware of the pitfalls that lead to failureand hence, will maximise their success rate.

We are looking at a future where our entre-preneurs will be heroes much like the Bollywoodstars and cricketers.

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The ILAMED announces thelaunch of its one-year

Fellowship in Aesthetic & Anti-Aging Medicine (FAAM)Programme. This FlagshipProgram is in Collaboration withUniversity Medicine Greifswald,Germany. The eligibility criteriais the participants should have arecognised Medical Degree fromany university/traineeship or spe-cialised degree in Dermatology.

This one-year Fellowshipprogramme is also approved andendorsed by The Indian Societyof Aesthetic Medicine and ThePlastic Surgery Center of Western

New York.This programme will be

delivered in a blended format ofself-learning, live sessions, casestudies & hands-on trainingwhich will be off One Monthduration. One to one teachingformat of this programme iswhat makes it unique from oth-ers in the world as this consistsof concise and clinically relevantpractical lectures on various top-ics. Live demonstrations withdetailed explanations by theexpert faculties of ILAMED fromaround the world. At the end ofthe programme all the successfulparticipants will be awarded -The Fellowship in Aesthetic &

Anti -Aging Medicine which is anInternational Certificate and thiswill help them to excel in theircareers.

This fellowship programmewill give a chance to all the bud-ding doctors & physicians tomaster themselves by hands-ontraining on live patients underInternational Faculty supervi-sion and learn latest andadvanced techniques. Also, all theparticipants will get AlumniStatus of Indian Society ofAesthetic Medicine (ISAM) . Alife membership certificate free ofcost.

During this programme, stu-dents will implement and test the

acquired knowledge under clin-ical and practical conditions, aswell, record experiences andindividually prepare suitabletreatment procedures. On theother hand, a scientific focuswill give the students an exten-sive interdisciplinary overview ofavailable methods and possibili-ties and acquire the ability to sci-entifically handle methods andtheir principles in Aesthetic &Anti-Ageing Medicine.

After finishing this fellowshipprogramme, students will haveinterdisciplinary in-depth knowl-edge and skills across the area ofAesthetic & Anti-AgeingMedicine.

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located at sector Omega 1,yet again featured in theLeadership Ranking and hasretained its second spot in theLeadership category of theTimes school annual ranking2020 which is the most soughtafter Annual ranking of theregion. The key factors of eval-uation based on infrastruc-ture and facilities, student -teacher ratio, network,exchange programs, awards,alumni, extracurricular activ-ities and others.

“We are very proud of thisachievements and wish to con-vey to all parents that the fac-ulty and staff of our school hasbeen putting their best and wehope to reach at the top alsosoon,” says Roshan Agarwal,Chairman of the JP interna-

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The IP University has start-ed a new academic pro-

gramme — PG Diploma inHealthcare Management —from this academic session.

This one-year weekendprogramme will be run underthe University School ofManagement Studies (USMS)with collaboration and sup-port of Association of HealthProviders ( AHPI).

The total seats for thisprogramme is 45. Any health-care professional withGraduate or Post Graduatedegree from a recognised uni-versity with minimum of 50per cent marks and havingminimum experience of oneyear in healthcare sector canapply for the programme.Admission will be given onmerit list prepared on thebasis of marks obtained inGraduation/Post - Graduation

(70 per cent weightage) plusmarks obtained in Interview(30 per cent weightage). Thereis no age limit for this pro-gramme. Classes will be heldon weekends days (Saturdaysand Sundays) in the campus.The fee for this programme is�81,000. The last date of sub-mission of online form for thisprogramme is October 15,2020.

Admission brochure,online apply option and otherdetails of the programme areavailable on the universitywebsite www.ipu.ac.in.

According to Dean —USMS Prof A K Saini thisprogramme has been espe-cially designed for practicinghealthcare professionals/hos-pital administrators toupgrade their knowledge andskill in healthcare manage-ment to serve the society inmore efficient and effectivemanner.

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The National Education Policy2020 is a critical and timelyintervention that is destined

to make Indian education land-scape globally competitive. Thepolicy is comprehensive andencompasses significant reformin every area of our education sys-tem. The focus towards making thehigher education ecosystem inclu-sive, affordable, equitable coupledwith adequate emphasis on tech-nical and vocational skill devel-opment are welcome steps towardsemployment generation, econom-ic productivity and economicgrowth.

Making higher educationalinstitutions multidisciplinary withadequate flexibility in course selec-tion, multiple entry and exit crite-ria in conjunction with a drivetowards research and innovationare significant proactive overhauls.This makes new education systemmore realistic.

To accelerate the innovativeapproach, the move towards mak-ing engineering institutions, suchas IITs, to include holistic and mul-tidisciplinary education curricu-lum with the inclusion of arts andhumanities is in sync with the needof the hour towards holistic edu-cation.

One of the hallmarks of NEP2020 is the rightful emphasis onvocational and skill developmentintending to make far reaching

implications in enhancing acade-mia-industry collaboration andfacilitating outreach-practice-research endeavors with an intentof establishing Centres ofExcellence in higher educationinstitutions.

Such an intent embedded inthe NEP 2020 is aimed at makingfresh graduates ready for future intandem with the objective to pro-mote self-employment opportu-nities, making it a catalytic forcetowards promoting business andeconomic development in globalparadigm.

All these aspects are destinedto make a synergy between high-er education and industry in amanner that provides comple-mentarity between our educationsystem and industrial manage-ment and productivity enhance-ment. The emphasis on importantvocational skills is to boost smalland medium sectors.

The critical significance pro-vided to Open Distance Learning(ODL) and online programmes,provided they are specificallyaccredited to do so, aims toimproving access and increasedopportunities for lifelong learning(SDG4) and development of man-agement attributes.

As a corollary, the NEP 2020envisages that all academic pro-grams, courses, curricula, peda-gogy, across subjects, including

those in class, online and ODLmodes, achieve global standards.

One significant dimension ofNEP 2020 is its emphasis on inter-nationalisation for increasedexchange of expertise and har-nessing manpower resourcesoptimally. Research and develop-ment collaboration and studentand faculty exchanges between theIndian higher educational institu-tions and global institutions areintegral components the policy. Inan era of global economic andbusiness interdependence, suchprovision is going to metamor-phosize the entire landscape ofbusiness and management com-petency among students graduat-ing from universities and institu-tions of higher education in India.

One critical aspect of NEP2020 is the realisation that voca-tional and professional educationamong students, in the form ofintegrating vocational educationprograms into mainstream educa-tion system, is of utmost signifi-cance.

Additionally, the policy initia-tives further allow for incubationcentres to be set up in universitiesand higher education institutes inpartnership with industries.Simultaneously, deliberations onagricultural education, legal edu-cation and healthcare education areimportant to serve the societyeffectively.

Research and development,innovation, incubation centresand entrepreneurship skill devel-opment are predominant elementsof NEP 2020.

Towards this, technical edu-cation encompassing engineering,technology, management, archi-tecture, town planning, pharmacy,hotel management and cateringtechnology are going to be criticalin employment enhancement andhigher trajectory of productivity.

At the same time the policyfurther envisions that India musttake the lead in preparing profes-sionals in cutting-edge areas thatare fast gaining prominence, likeArtificial Intelligence (AI), 3-Dmachining, big data analysis andmachine learning among others. Intechnical education, genomic stud-ies, biotechnology, nanotechnolo-gy, neuroscience and other scien-tific pursuits would pave the wayto facilitate linkage of universitieswith industry.

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The global pandemic Coronavirushas led multifarious changes in theworking of every sector. The pan-

demic led to closure of education intu-itions to prevent the spread of virustherefore a new gateway for impartingeducation emerged. Virtual classrooms,a new and innovative concept in India.Global experimentation with remoteteaching is the most efficient optionavailable to bridge the education gap.Almost every education institutiontoday has opted for the online mode.Adapting to this new mode was quitedifficult initially but it is turning out tobe an effective mode for students andteachers both and the best alternativeoption under the circumstances.

Here are the top five features ofexperimental mode of learning makingit the future of new education.

Flexibility: Online education isenabling teachers and the students to settheir personal learning pace, addingmore flexibility to set class schedules, andadding innovative methods to checkstudent’s learning. Now the student cantake his lecture from anywhere. It is alsohelping students to improvise timemanagement skills and consequentlybecome more disciplined which appar-ently helps in maintaining good work-study balance. Unlike traditional meansof learning the student can give hisassessments online as also availablecourse material online. There is directcontact between teacher and studentswhich enables both parties to under-stand and respond in the required way.

Affordability: It is a more afford-able option as compared to offlinemode of education as it eliminates a widerange of payment options as the studentcan pay for the webinars that are rele-vant to him. Besides, for the academicclasses it eliminates commuting costs,course material costs and many moremiscellaneous fees. Therefore, there isless monetary investment and the edu-cation is more advanced.

Easily accessible: It enables study-ing or teaching from anywhere in theworld. That is there is no need of com-muting from one place to another or fol-low any rigid schedule which not onlyhelps to save time, but also helps in sav-ing money. Virtual classrooms are avail-

able anywhere where an Internet con-nection is available.

Career relevant: Learning with thenew method of education is more flex-ible and multi-tasking as students canmeet career relevant skills while sittingat home apart from learning fromonline classes there is more time for stu-dents to attain online training, pursueskill based online courses, etc. Thesesources boost up a student's résumémaking him future ready. E-learning isnot only beneficial for students but alsofor the teachers as it is making teachersmore updated to e-teaching techniques.

Enhance new age technology:Unlike traditional education, learningonline is more advanced, as now stu-dents and teachers both are becomingmore innovative, self-introduaderswhich are helping to discover the undis-covered and setting of new trends.Both are navigating the course lectures,downloading course materials, inter-acting online, communicating well dig-itally and making new networks. E-learning allows a wide scope of practi-cal and innovative learning. Online edu-cation ensures learning more than whatis just written in books. The student canavail study material in the form of video,document, and voice notes. Virtualeducation has widened the scope oflearning.

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Twin Win, has launcheda scholarship pro-gramme for students

from Government Schoolsand poor households .Students with best results arebeing interviewed and finan-cial assistance is being givento the best ones. The schol-arship will be awarded to stu-dents of Government schoolsand children of poor back-ground.

Written tests, talent huntsare being conducted online.Twin Win has a reach ofaround one lakh individualsannually. It aims this schol-arship to reach students ofaround 10 states byNovember end.

It has also started socialmedia campaigns to give freeCareer advice to studentswho cannot afford costlycareer counsellors. It also hasan e-magazine — Yuvaan —to improve the habit of read-ing among masses. Also theorganisation wishes to helpyoung entrepreneurs withfinancial assistance.

The University ofOxford is offering SkollScholarships for MBA stu-dents. The scholarship pro-vides full funding plus a liv-ing stipend to complete aMasters of BusinessAdministration (MBA) at the

University of Oxford’s SaïdBusiness School.

Award: It covers partialliving expenses of at least anadditional £14,777.

Eligibility: Students ofany nationality can apply.Have started a new socialventure or an initiative with-in an existing organisation, orpursued positive change as animpact career professional(i.e. someone who has usedentrepreneurial approachesto address the samesocial/environmental issuewith a clear core thread thatunites his work) for prefer-ably 3 years or longer by thetime you apply for the MBA.

Have demonstrated evi-dence of personal qualitiesstrongly resonating withentrepreneurial leadership.

Have demonstrated howa business education will helpfurther your career goals;Have demonstrated need forfinancial support.

English languagerequirements: Candidateswhose first language is notEnglish or who have notstudied at an English-speak-ing university are required totake either the TOEFL orIELTS tests.

How to apply: To applyfor the Skoll Scholarship youfirst need to apply and beaccepted onto the SaïdBusiness School’s MBA pro-gramme

Application deadline:The last date is January 8,2021.

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Kings XI Punjab batting coachWasim Jaffer said overseas

stars Chris Gayle and MujeebZadran could feature in the play-ing eleven soon in the ongoingseason of IPL.

KXIP have struggled so far,losing four of their five games,with death bowling proving to betheir biggest concern.

Jaffer said the campaign hasbeen disappointing so far but “itonly takes a game or two” to turnthings around. For that to happen,the more match winners in theteam the better, said Jaffer addingGayle in that list.

Both Gayle and spinnerMujeeb are yet to play in the IPL.

“It should happen soon. As Isaid, it needs to happen soonerthan later. We don’t want tobring them when every game isa must win game. Hopefully, wewill have those guys featuringsoon,” Jaffer told PTI.

Jaffer said the 41-year-oldWest Indian great is in top shapeand hungry to do the job for theteam.

“Chris looks very much readyand is keen to get onto the park, he hasbeen trainingreally well

and has looked really good in thenets.

“He is such an impact play-er, we all know what he can do. Ihope he turns up and turns it onstraightaway and changes thetide for all of us. He looks hun-gry and that is a very good signfor the franchise.

“I am hoping he plays quick-ly. We need match-winners, asmany as as possible. Not just forthe next game, also for the rest ofthe tournament as he can easilywin you four-five games on hisown,” said the former India open-er. Jaffer said his team is in a sit-uation where it needs to winseven out of the remaining nineleagues games to finish in the top-four, a tough task but possible.

For that, it will have to reworkits composition and decide whowill make way for Gayle andMujeeb. Nicholas Pooran andGlenn Maxwell, who is yet to fire,are certain to retain their place inthe eleven. Sheldon Cottrell andChris Jordan are the other over-seas players who featured in thelast game which KXIP lost to CSKby 10 wickets.

Besides death bowling, Jafferfeels even the finishing with

the bat alsoneeds improve-ment.

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Under-fire Kolkata KnightRiders captain Dinesh

Karthik will have to figure outurgent fixes for his star-studdedteam’s faltering performanceswhen it takes on a resurgentChennai Super Kings in theIPL here on Wednesday.

KKR acquiredEngland’s World Cup-winning skipper EoinMorgan but the man-agement reposed confi-dence in Karthik andasked him to lead theside. However, a few ofhis baffling decisionsapart from his own poorrun with the bat — 37runs from four matches— has put the Indianwicketkeeper-batsmanin the line of fire.

Promoting himselfahead of the star duo ofMorgan and Andre

Russell and preferring SunilNarine in the opening slot overBig Bash sensation Tom Banton— who has been comparedwith Kevin Pietersen — has put35-year-old Karthik in the dock.

Narine has looked woeful-ly out of sorts, managing only27 runs from four matches at87.09 strike rate and it’s hightime that the team brings inthe big-hitting English

youngster.KKR have plenty of

resources in bowling butKarthik, it seems, has notbeen able to manage themwell and their match againstDelhi Capitals could be acase in point.

Pat Cummins’ not-so-impressive performance has

added to the team’s woes.The pitch in Sharjah is a

batsmen’s paradise and bothteams cantered past the 200-mark but it’s the bowlers whomade the difference in a closechase.

The pair of Morgan andRahul Tripathi looked to seal itbut Delhi’s bowlers strangulat-ed KKR’s batting at the death.

Karthik will need to back hisbowlers, especially Indian leadspinner Kuldeep Yadav whoseems to have been under-

utilised and bowled just nineovers after being dropped fromthe Delhi game.

Chennai, on the other hand,rediscovered some of the formthat made them three-timechampions. After three losses onthe trot, the Mahendra SinghDhoni-led side would look tomake its ascent to top-four frombeing at the bottom.

Not known to tweak his sidemuch, Dhoni persisted withShane Watson and the Aussieveteran finally came to formwith an unbeaten 83.

Chasing 179 against KingsXI Punjab, Watson and Faf duPlessis made light work of theirbowlers in a record 181-rununbeaten stand to seal the chase.

The coming to form of amis-firing top order is what CSKneeded to come out of a miser-able start and having done that,they would certainly lookfavourites against a strugglingKKR.

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In-form opener Prithvi Shaw feelsDelhi Capitals are doing every-

thing “perfect” in all departments ofthe game after they climbed to thetop of the points table with four winsout of five games in the ongoingIPL.

Shaw provided DC yetanother blazing start againstRCB on Monday, smashing aquickfire 42 off 23 balls.The Delhi outfit went onto win the matchcomfortably by 59runs.

“It is a verygood start to thistournament and wehave to carry thismomentum. Whateverwe do in practice ses-sions, we just have to exe-

cute ourselves in the match andrightly, we are doing perfectly,” the20-year-old said.

“Everything is going perfect, youknow, the batting, bowling — skills-wise we are going in the right direc-tion, so really happy for the team.”

Shaw on Monday missed outwhat could have been his thirdfifty of the season. He is the sec-ond highest scorer for DC so farwith 179 runs, behind his cap-

tain Shreyas Iyer (181).“I would have car-

ried on after the pow-erplay, but unfortu-nately I lofted it.However, it’s just agame and I think

this has become his-tory now, so I’ll leave

this over here itselfand concentrate on the

next game,” said Shaw.

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Star Indian badminton coupleSaina Nehwal and Parupalli

Kashyap on Tuesday pulledout of the Denmark OpenSuper 750 tournament, whichwill restart the international cal-endar at Odense from October13.

“I withdrew from DenmarkOpen. I decided that I will startthe season from January onlywith the Asian tour,” Saina, theLondon Olympics Bronze-medallist, told PTI.

The husband-wife duo hadearlier sent their entries for the$750,000 tournament and alsosubmitted their consent letter tothe Badminton Association ofIndia (BAI) last month for thesame.

The Badminton WorldFederation (BWF) postponedthe Thomas and Uber CupFinals (Oct 3-11), three eventsin Asia (in November) to 2021and also cancelled the DenmarkMasters (Oct 20-25).

The Denmark Open is thusthe only World Tour eventscheduled to be held in theremainder of the season.

Asked if she has any fitnessconcerns, Saina, a two-timeCommonwealth Games Goldmedallist, said: “There is noinjury issue but if three tourna-ments were there it would havemade sense... I thought direct-ly from January, I can go for theAsian tour.”

The withdrawal of formerworld No 1 Saina, one of theOlympic hopefuls for next year’sTokyo Games, means there willbe no Indian participation inthe women’s singles event atOdense as world champion P VSindhu has already pulled out.

Kashyap, currently rankedworld No 24, also decided toskip the event for similar rea-sons.

“I too feel it is not worth therisk to go all the way for onetournament. It is better to startthe season afresh participatingin the Asia leg from January,”the London Games quarterfi-nalist said.

Former world No 1Kidambi Srikanth, youngLakshya Sen, Ajay Jayaram andSubhankar Dey are the onlyIndians who will compete in theDenmark Open.

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Manchester United swoopedfor Edinson Cavani among

four signings on Monday, butArsenal completed the biggestdeal of transfer deadline daywith the arrival of midfielderThomas Partey from AtleticoMadrid.

United were under the spot-light to respond to a humiliat-ing 6-1 home defeat toTottenham in the PremierLeague on Sunday. Dutch inter-national midfielder Donny vande Beek had been the onlyaddition to Ole GunnarSolskjaer’s squad prior toMonday’s arrival of Cavani, AlexTelles, Amad Diallo andFacundo Pellistri.

Cavani, 33, has been a freeagent since leaving Paris Saint-Germain in June and signed aone-year deal with the option fora second season.

The Uruguayan scored 200goals in seven seasons in theFrench capital to become theclub’s all-time top goalscorer.

The arrival of left-backTelles from Porto for £13.5 mil-lion ($19 million) is arguablyeven more important to aid aUnited defence that has conced-ed 11 goals in three Premier

League games to start the season.After a forlorn chase of

Borussia Dortmund’s JadonSancho, United also securedtwo promising 18-year-oldwingers in Uruguayan Pellistrifrom Penarol and Atalanta’sDiallo, who will join in Januaryin a deal that could reportedlyreach up to 41 million euros.

LONG-TERM TARGETPartey has

been a long-termtarget for theGunners, whohave matchedhis 50 millioneuro (£45 mil-lion, $59 mil-lion) buyoutclause to bolstertheir threadbarem i d f i e l doptions.

T h eGhanaian hasmade 188appearances forthe Spanish giantsand was part of theAtletico sides thatreached the 2016C h a m p i o n sLeague final andbeat Arsenal onthe way to

winning the Europa League in2018.

“We have been watchingThomas for a while, so we’renow delighted to add such ahigh-quality player to oursquad,” said Arsenal boss MikelArteta. “He is a dynamic mid-fielder with great energy.”

Uruguayan internationalLucas Torreira has gone the

other way from Arsenal toAtletico on a season-long

loan deal, while anotherfrozen out mid-fielder at theEmirates, MatteoGuendouzi, joinedHertha Berlin on

loan.P r e m i e r

League table-t o p p e r sE v e r t o nsigned cen-tre-back BenGodfrey fora reportedinitial feeof £25 mil-lion andSwe d ishinterna-t i o n a lgoalkeeper

Robin Olsenon loan from

Roma.Meanwhile, Fulham

secured the loan signing ofChelsea midfielder RubenLoftus-Cheek on loan whileSouthampton welcomed backTheo Walcott who joined fromEverton.

Elsewhere, Juventussecured one of the hottest prop-erties in Italian football asFederico Chiesa joined fromFiorentina on a two-year loandeal worth 10 million euroswith an obligation to buy if cer-tain conditions are met for afurther 40 million.

English defender ChrisSmalling returned to Roma ona permanent deal fromManchester United for 15 mil-lion euros after impressing dur-ing a loan spell last season.

French midfielder TiemoueBakayoko has also returned toSerie A, joining Napoli on loanfrom Chelsea.

Bayern Munich added atrio of new players as DouglasCosta returned to the AllianzArena for a second spell on loanfrom Juventus.

The European championsalso signed former PSG strik-er Eric Maxim Choupo-Motingon a one-year deal and BounaSarr from Marseille.

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Argentina’s Nadia Podoroskabecame the first qualifier in

the Open era on Tuesday toreach the women’s semi-finalsat Roland Garros afterstunning third seedElina Svitolina 6-2, 6-4.

World number131 Podoroska hadnever won a GrandSlam main draw matchbefore the tournament and is theonly the third female qualifier tomake the last four of a major.

Podoroska, 23, will playPolish teenager Iga Swiatek orItaly’s Martina Trevisan as sheattempts to become the first

women’s qualifier in history toadvance to the final of any of thefour Majors.

Alexandra Stevensonreached the semi-finals atWimbledon in 1999 whileChristine Dorey achieved a sim-ilar run at the 1978 Aus Open.

“It’s a little bit difficult for meto speak now after the match,”said Podoroska, whose onlyother Grand Slam appearancecame at the 2016 US Open.

“We did a very good jobwith my coaches during the(coronavirus) quarantine. I’vebeen training a lot with all of myteam I think that’s why I’m here

today.”Podoroska is also the

first Argentine womanto reach the last four ofa Slam since PaolaSuarez in Paris in 2004.

Gabriela Sabatini, the1990 US Open winner, is the

country’s only women’s GrandSlam singles champion.

For Svitolina, it marked athird quarter-final defeat in asmany attempts at RolandGarros, having also lost at thisstage in 2015 and 2017.

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Suryakumar Yadav smashed his high-est score in the tournament asMumbai Indians put up a clinical

performance against a pedestrianRajasthan Royals outfit for their third suc-cessive win in the Indian Premier Leaguehere on Tuesday.

Yadav hammered an unbeaten 79 off47 balls to fire Mumbai Indians to animposing 193 for four after Rohit Sharmaopted to bat at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium.

In response, Royals were down andout at 12 for three before Jos Buttler gavethem a glimmer of hope with a 44-ball70.

However, he did not get supportfrom the other batsmen and Royalsended up well short at 136 in 18.1overs for a 57-run loss,their third in a row.The threechanges thatthey made also

did not work forthem.

Mumbai’s pace trio was exception-al once again with Jasprit Bumrah beingthe pick of them, returning with figuresof four for 20, the best of the tournamentso far. Trent Boult struck twice in thepowerplay while James Pattinsonremoved Buttler in the 14th over.

With another resounding win,Mumbai look the team to beat alongsideDelhi Capitals. It is still early days in thetournament but it seems they havealready figured out their best eleven onthe park.

Earlier, Mumbai suffered a mini mid-dle-order collapse after a good startbefore late-hitting from Yadav andHardik Pandya (30 not out off 19)enabled the defending champions toamass 51 runs in the last three overs.

It was remarkable how quickly Yadavovercame a blow on the helmet fromJofra Archer en route to his career-best

score in the IPL.He and Hardik shared 76

runs for the unbroken fifthwicket stand.

Opting to bat, openersRohit Sharma (35 off 23) andQuinton De Kock (23 off 15balls) forged a quickfire 49-runstand.

Mumbai amassed 15 runsin the third over off AnkitRajpoot, the highlight of itbeing Rohit launching one intothe orbit over the bowler’shead.

Debutant pacer Kartik

Tyagi (1/36) removed De Kockin his very first over to providethe much needed break-through.

Yadav at the other endsmashed Tyagi for three bound-aries in ninth over. His inningscomprised 11 fours and twosixes.

However, leggie ShreyasGopal (2/28) struck twice in asmany balls removing Rohitand Ishan Kishan (0) to leaveMumbai at 88 for three in the10th over.

While Rohit gave a sitter to

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Yadav kept playing his shotsand scored successive boundariesoff Gopal in the 12th over. Itbecame 117 for four after KrunalPandya fell cheaply.

Yadav, however, kept launch-ing into the RR attack with greatgusto and was particularly brutalon Tom Curran (0/33) in the 18thover that went for 19 runs. He wasably supported by Hardik, whoproduced a timely cameo.

Praising Suryakumar after winMI skipper Rohit Sharma said, “ It(a big knock) was coming, I spoketo him (Surya) before the game aswell. He was batting really well allthese games. He got off to a goodstart and it was just about makingsure, you know, that the shotmaking sometimes can be veryvery important and today hisshot-making was perfect.”

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