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A s many as 3,726 stranded Indian nationals landed from Ukraine on Thursday even as the Ministry of External Affairs rejected charge that Indian citizens were held hostage in the conflict zone, including Kharkiv city, and said Ukraine was urged to ensure safety of Indians. The Ministry of Civil Aviation said more than 7,400 people are expected to be brought back to India in spe- cial flights in the next two days. Around 6,998 persons have been brought back from Ukraine so far. Indian carriers — Air India Express, Air India, SpiceJet, IndiGo, Vistara and Go First — are expected to operate a total of 18 flights on Friday. To speed up the evacuation drive, the Government has deployed 80 flights under “Operation Ganga” and over dozen Union Ministers are monitoring evacuation mis- sions without any hiccups. According to Ministry of External Affairs Spokesperson Arindam Bagchi, 15 flights landed in India during last 24 hours, bringing back more than 3,000 Indians. Bagchi also said 18 flights have been sched- uled for next 24 hours to bring back Indian nationals from Ukraine. Rejecting reports about hostage taking, Bagchi said, “We have not received any report of any hostage situation regarding any student. We have requested the support of Ukrainian authorities in arranging special trains for taking out students from Kharkiv and neighbouring areas to the western part of the country.” The Indian response came after a statement from Russian President Vladimir Putin’s office claimed that some Indian students were “actually taken hostage” by Ukrainian securi- ty forces, who use them as a “human shield” and in every possible way prevent them from leaving for Russian terri- tory. The Russian claim was mentioned in a readout issued by Kremlin following a tele- phonic conversation between President Putin and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday evening. The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry “urgently called on the Governments of India, Pakistan, China and other counties whose students have become hostages of the Russian armed aggression in Kharkiv and Sumy, to demand from Moscow that it allows the open- ing of a humanitarian corridor to other Ukrainian cities”. These two cities are locat- ed in Eastern Ukraine and have seen massive Russian mil- itary assault in the last few days. Some Indian students were stuck in Kharkiv and several other conflict zones and India has asked both Russia and Continued on Page 11 T he Opposition on Thursday backed the Government’s stand on the Ukraine crisis and India’s abstention from voting in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) and the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) emergency session on Wednesday. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar briefed the Parliamentary consultative committee attached to his Ministry about the situation in the war zone and India’s efforts to bring out its citizens from there. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was among the nine MPs from six parties who attended the meeting. There was a general con- sensus on India’s decision to abstain from the various votes on Russia at the UNSC and the UNGA in view of the geostrate- gic position of the country, sources said later. At the end of the meeting, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, who attended the briefing, tweeted: “Frank discussions took place in an amicable atmosphere, a reminder that when it comes to national interests we are all Indians first and foremost. “Just completed an MEA consultative committee meet- ing on developments in Ukraine. A good discussion on the strategic and humanitarian aspects of the issue. The strong and unanimous message of support for efforts to bring back all Indians from Ukraine,” Jaishankar tweeted. Thanking leaders for their participation, he said “a national consensus on the importance of dialogue and diplomacy.” The Opposition stands united with the Government, several leaders later said. The meeting of the 21-member committee, chaired by Jaishankar was attended by nine MPs from six parties and came in for fulsome praise from some leaders. “We all are united,” Tharoor told reporters after the meeting. Continued on Page 11 U S President Joe Biden will decide whether to apply or waive sanctions on India, one of America’s key partners, under the CAATSA law for its purchase of the S-400 missile defence system from Russia, a senior adminis- tration official has told lawmak- ers. The US administration is required under a domestic law, Countering America’s Adversaries through Sanctions Act (CAATSA) to impose sanc- tions on any country that has sig- nificant transactions with Iran, North Korea or Russia. CAATSA is a tough US law which authorises... Continued on Page 11 P rime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday took part in a virtual summit of Quad leaders, along with the US President Joe Biden, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Japanese PM Fumio Kishida. The meeting reviewed the progress on Quad initiatives since the September 2021 Quad Summit. The leaders agreed on accelerating cooperation, with an objective to achieve concrete outcomes by the summit in Japan later this year, a release issued by the PMO said. The Prime Minister under- lined that the Quad must remain focused on its core objective of promoting peace, stability and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific region. He called for concrete and practical forms of cooperation within the Quad, in areas like Humanitarian and Disaster Relief, debt sustainability, sup- ply chains, clean energy, con- nectivity, and capacity-build- ing, the PMO said. Developments in Ukraine were discussed in the meeting, including its humanitarian implications. The Prime Minister emphasised the need to return to a path of dialogue and diplomacy. The leaders also discussed other topical issues, including developments in ASEAN, the Indian Ocean region and the Pacific Islands. Modi reiterat- ed the importance of adhering to the UN Charter, interna- tional law and respect for sov- ereignty and territorial integri- ty. The leaders agreed to stay in touch and to work towards an ambitious agenda for the forthcoming Leaders’ Summit in Japan. A report by Oxford Economics has revealed that YouTube’s creator ecosys- tem contributed 6,800 crore to the Indian Gross Domestic Products (GDP) in 2020. It also supported 6,83,900 full-time equivalent jobs in the country in the same year. Oxford Economics is an independent consulting firm. “YouTube’s growing cre- ator ecosystem generated con- siderable economic value, con- tributing 6,800 crore to the Indian GDP and supporting 6,83,900 full-time equivalent jobs in India in 2020,” YouTube said releasing the findings at a virtual briefing. The study by Oxford Economics combines YouTube- driven advertising revenues, with other related revenues, such as non-advertising rev- enues (such as subscriptions and alternative monetisation), and off-platform revenues (fan- meetups and sponsorships). It estimates YouTube’s eco- nomic impact based on direct impact (profits and wages earned by creators and their teams), indirect impact (gen- erated by the spending it stim- ulates in the broader Indian supply chain), and induced impact (generated by the wage costs of those employed by the creator ecosystem). YouTube said in addition to the revenue generated on the platform, a creator’s presence can help them get a global fan- base, and explore multiple rev- enue streams via brand part- nerships, live performance and other avenues. These revenue sources not only support jobs and income for creative entrepreneurs but also spur wider activity in sup- ply chains, YouTube said. As per estimates shared by the Government last year, the country has 44.8 crore YouTube users, 53 crore WhatsApp users, 41 crore Facebook users, 21 crore use Instagram and 1.75 crore are on Twitter. D istricts of eastern Uttar Pradesh where voting for the sixth phase was carried out on Thursday, once again recorded a low turnout with an overall voting percentage of 55.79. In the 2017 assembly poll, the voting percentage was 56.52 while in 2012 state elec- tions, the figure was 55.19%. The Election Commission said that till 5 pm on Thursday, 53.31 percent voting was recorded during polling across 57 Assembly seats which was underway. It also said that 53.31 percent of the voter turnout figure was an approx- imate trend as the data from some polling stations would take time to reach. Meanwhile, contesting his maiden Assembly poll, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath cast his vote in Gorakhpur. After the 2017 UP elections and him being anointed as Chief Minister, Yogi became a mem- ber of Legislative Council. The EC data showed the highest voter turnout of 58.66 percent in Ambedkar Nagar district, followed by 57.38 percent in Maharajganj and 55 per cent in Kushinagar. The Chief Minister's home district Gorakhpur recorded a voter turnout of 53.89. The lowest turnout was recorded at 48.53 percent in Balrampur and 49.77 percent in Siddharthnagar. Additional Chief Electoral Officer of UP, BD Ram Tiwari said in Lucknow on Thursday evening, "Voting is underway peaceful- ly across all 10 districts in the state. Complaints related to faulty or non-functional EVMs are being immediately addressed.” Meanwhile, in Akhar vil- lage of Ballia, activists of Samajwadi Party (SP) alleged- ly damaged the windowpanes of a vehicle in which BJP can- didate from Ballia Sadar, Daya Shankar Singh was travelling on Wednesday night. Singh later alleged that some SP activists, travelling in a Fortuner SUV bearing regis- tration number UP32 EK 7273 were involved in the attack. Claiming that he had a nar- row escape, the BJP candidate further alleged that the attack- ers had planned to kill him. The Ballia police later seized the SUV and a youth was arrested. Voting for the sixth phase began on Thursday morning, with the electoral fate of several prominent leaders including Continued on Page 11 P rime Minister Narendra Modi said that the BJP’s alliance was with the people as the government handed out benefits of welfare schemes directly to the people whereas the nexus of dynasts (parivar- vadi) were with the mafia. Modi was addressing BJP can- didates in poll rallies at Jasnupur and Chandauli dis- tricts on Thursday. Speaking at a public meet- ing at Navin Mandi premises in Chandauli, the Prime Minister said, “We feel the pain of the poor, Dalits and backwards and that is why we did not leave any of them sleep hungry dur- ing the last two years which was witness to the century's worst coronavirus pandemic across the globe. The BJP government also ensured that everyone was administered free corona vac- cine.” Highlighting welfare schemes run by the Yogi gov- ernment, Modi said, “Only in Chandauli district, 14,000 poor families were provided pucca houses during the Yogi regime while the previous SP govern- ment never cared to look after such people. When these hous- es were built, it also supported the middle class who provided bricks, cement and other arti- cles apart from employing locals.” “Not only this, the BJP gov- ernment also provided Ayushman cards to the poor so Continued on Page 11

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As many as 3,726 strandedIndian nationals landed

from Ukraine on Thursdayeven as the Ministry of ExternalAffairs rejected charge thatIndian citizens were heldhostage in the conflict zone,including Kharkiv city, andsaid Ukraine was urged toensure safety of Indians.

The Ministry of CivilAviation said more than 7,400people are expected to bebrought back to India in spe-cial flights in the next two days.Around 6,998 persons havebeen brought back fromUkraine so far. Indian carriers— Air India Express, Air India,SpiceJet, IndiGo, Vistara andGo First — are expected tooperate a total of 18 flights onFriday.

To speed up the evacuationdrive, the Government hasdeployed 80 flights under“Operation Ganga” and overdozen Union Ministers aremonitoring evacuation mis-sions without any hiccups.

According to Ministry ofExternal Affairs SpokespersonArindam Bagchi, 15 flightslanded in India during last 24hours, bringing back morethan 3,000 Indians. Bagchi also

said 18 flights have been sched-uled for next 24 hours to bringback Indian nationals fromUkraine.

Rejecting reports abouthostage taking, Bagchi said,“We have not received anyreport of any hostage situationregarding any student. We haverequested the support ofUkrainian authorities inarranging special trains fortaking out students fromKharkiv and neighbouringareas to the western part of thecountry.”

The Indian response cameafter a statement from Russian

President Vladimir Putin’soffice claimed that some Indianstudents were “actually takenhostage” by Ukrainian securi-ty forces, who use them as a“human shield” and in everypossible way prevent themfrom leaving for Russian terri-tory.

The Russian claim wasmentioned in a readout issuedby Kremlin following a tele-phonic conversation betweenPresident Putin and PrimeMinister Narendra Modi onWednesday evening.

The Ukrainian ForeignMinistry “urgently called on the

Governments of India,Pakistan, China and othercounties whose students havebecome hostages of the Russianarmed aggression in Kharkivand Sumy, to demand fromMoscow that it allows the open-ing of a humanitarian corridorto other Ukrainian cities”.

These two cities are locat-ed in Eastern Ukraine andhave seen massive Russian mil-itary assault in the last few days.Some Indian students werestuck in Kharkiv and severalother conflict zones and Indiahas asked both Russia and

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stand on the Ukraine crisis andIndia’s abstention from votingin the United Nations SecurityCouncil (UNSC) and theUnited Nations GeneralAssembly (UNGA) emergencysession on Wednesday.

External Affairs Minister SJaishankar briefed theParliamentary consultativecommittee attached to hisMinistry about the situation inthe war zone and India’s effortsto bring out its citizens fromthere. Congress leader RahulGandhi was among the nineMPs from six parties whoattended the meeting.

There was a general con-sensus on India’s decision toabstain from the various voteson Russia at the UNSC and theUNGA in view of the geostrate-gic position of the country,sources said later.

At the end of the meeting,Congress MP Shashi Tharoor,who attended the briefing,

tweeted: “Frank discussionstook place in an amicableatmosphere, a reminder thatwhen it comes to nationalinterests we are all Indiansfirst and foremost.

“Just completed an MEAconsultative committee meet-ing on developments inUkraine. A good discussion onthe strategic and humanitarianaspects of the issue. The strongand unanimous message ofsupport for efforts to bringback all Indians from Ukraine,”Jaishankar tweeted. Thankingleaders for their participation,he said “a national consensuson the importance of dialogueand diplomacy.”

The Opposition standsunited with the Government,several leaders later said. Themeeting of the 21-membercommittee, chaired byJaishankar was attended bynine MPs from six parties andcame in for fulsome praisefrom some leaders. “We all areunited,” Tharoor told reportersafter the meeting.

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The meeting reviewed theprogress on Quad initiativessince the September 2021 QuadSummit. The leaders agreed onaccelerating cooperation, withan objective to achieve concreteoutcomes by the summit inJapan later this year, a releaseissued by the PMO said.

The Prime Minister under-lined that the Quad mustremain focused on its coreobjective of promoting peace,stability and prosperity in theIndo-Pacific region. He calledfor concrete and practicalforms of cooperation withinthe Quad, in areas likeHumanitarian and DisasterRelief, debt sustainability, sup-ply chains, clean energy, con-nectivity, and capacity-build-ing, the PMO said.

Developments in Ukrainewere discussed in the meeting,including its humanitarianimplications. The PrimeMinister emphasised the needto return to a path of dialogue

and diplomacy. The leaders also discussed

other topical issues, includingdevelopments in ASEAN, theIndian Ocean region and thePacific Islands. Modi reiterat-ed the importance of adheringto the UN Charter, interna-tional law and respect for sov-ereignty and territorial integri-ty.

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It estimates YouTube’s eco-nomic impact based on directimpact (profits and wagesearned by creators and theirteams), indirect impact (gen-erated by the spending it stim-ulates in the broader Indian

supply chain), and inducedimpact (generated by the wagecosts of those employed by thecreator ecosystem).

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These revenue sources notonly support jobs and incomefor creative entrepreneurs butalso spur wider activity in sup-ply chains, YouTube said. Asper estimates shared by theGovernment last year, thecountry has 44.8 crore YouTubeusers, 53 crore WhatsAppusers, 41 crore Facebook users,21 crore use Instagram and 1.75crore are on Twitter.

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Districts of eastern UttarPradesh where voting for

the sixth phase was carried outon Thursday, once againrecorded a low turnout with anoverall voting percentage of55.79. In the 2017 assemblypoll, the voting percentage was56.52 while in 2012 state elec-tions, the figure was 55.19%.

The Election Commissionsaid that till 5 pm on Thursday,53.31 percent voting wasrecorded during polling across57 Assembly seats which wasunderway. It also said that53.31 percent of the voterturnout figure was an approx-imate trend as the data fromsome polling stations wouldtake time to reach.

Meanwhile, contesting hismaiden Assembly poll, ChiefMinister Yogi Adityanath casthis vote in Gorakhpur. Afterthe 2017 UP elections and himbeing anointed as ChiefMinister, Yogi became a mem-ber of Legislative Council. TheEC data showed the highestvoter turnout of 58.66 percentin Ambedkar Nagar district,followed by 57.38 percent inMaharajganj and 55 per cent inKushinagar.

The Chief Minister's homedistrict Gorakhpur recorded avoter turnout of 53.89. Thelowest turnout was recorded at48.53 percent in Balrampur and49.77 percent inSiddharthnagar. AdditionalChief Electoral Officer of UP,BD Ram Tiwari said in

Lucknow on Thursday evening,"Voting is underway peaceful-ly across all 10 districts in thestate. Complaints related tofaulty or non-functional EVMsare being immediatelyaddressed.”

Meanwhile, in Akhar vil-lage of Ballia, activists ofSamajwadi Party (SP) alleged-ly damaged the windowpanesof a vehicle in which BJP can-didate from Ballia Sadar, DayaShankar Singh was travellingon Wednesday night. Singhlater alleged that some SPactivists, travelling in aFortuner SUV bearing regis-tration number UP32 EK 7273were involved in the attack.

Claiming that he had a nar-row escape, the BJP candidatefurther alleged that the attack-

ers had planned to kill him.The Ballia police later seizedthe SUV and a youth wasarrested.

Voting for the sixth phasebegan on Thursday morning,with the electoral fate of severalprominent leaders including

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Speaking at a public meet-ing at Navin Mandi premises inChandauli, the Prime Ministersaid, “We feel the pain of thepoor, Dalits and backwardsand that is why we did not leave

any of them sleep hungry dur-ing the last two years which waswitness to the century's worst

coronavirus pandemic acrossthe globe. The BJP governmentalso ensured that everyone was

administered free corona vac-cine.”

Highlighting welfareschemes run by the Yogi gov-ernment, Modi said, “Only inChandauli district, 14,000 poorfamilies were provided puccahouses during the Yogi regimewhile the previous SP govern-ment never cared to look aftersuch people. When these hous-es were built, it also supportedthe middle class who providedbricks, cement and other arti-cles apart from employinglocals.”

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Lucknow (PNS): An aver-age of 28 per cent of the can-didates contesting in the sev-enth phase of ongoingAssembly polls have criminalcases against themselves.Similarly, 36 per cent of thecandidates are crorepatis.

After analysing the affi-

davits of 607 of the 613 candi-dates in the fray from 54Assembly segments in the sev-enth and last phase where vot-ing is scheduled on March7, UPElection Watch and Associationfor Democratic Reform (ADR)said that there were criminalcases against 170 or 28 percent

candidates and heinous crimecases against 131 or 22 percent.

Party-wise, 26 of the 45Samajwadi Party candidates or58 percent, 26 of the 47 BJPcandidates or 44 percent, 20 ofthe 52 of BSP candidates or 38percent, 20 of the 54 Congressnominees or 37 percent and 8

of the 47 AAP candidates or 17percent have declared criminalcases against themselves.

The maximum number ofcases (24) are registered againstPragatisheel Manav SamajParty candidate Vijay Mishracontesting from GyanpurAssembly seat of Bhadohi in

this phase. He is tailed by BSP'sRaj Kumar Gautam trying hisluck from Ghazipur Assemblyseat with 11 cases. Also,Congress candidate Ajay Raicontesting from PindarAssembly seat of Varanasi has17 cases.

The ADR report further

said that of the 607 candidatesin the seventh phase, 217 or 36percent were crorepatis. A totalof 40 of the 47 BJP candidatesor 85 percent, 37 of the 45 SPcandidates or 82 percent, 41 ofthe 52 BSP candidates or 79percent, 22 of the 54 Congresscandidates or 41 percent and 15

of the 47 AAP candidates or 32percent have declared assetsmore than Rs.1 crore.

AIMIM candidate GudduJamali from MubarakpurAssembly seat of Azamgarhleads the table with declaredassets of Rs 195 crores, and isfollowed by BSP candidate

Babulal from Pindar seat ofVaranasi with Rs 44 crores andBSP's Piyush Kumar Singhfrom Nizamabad Assembly seatof Azamgarh has assets worthRs 34 crores. The average assetsof candidates in the seventhphase of state elections is Rs2.55 crore.

Lucknow (PNS): Six police-men, including a Station HouseOfficer (SHO), were suspendedin connection with the death ofa youth, who had jumped into adrain and drowned after a policeraid in Sirsa Kalar police stationarea of Jalaun on Tuesdayevening.

As per sources, the SirsaKalar police conducted a raid ata suspected gambling den nearPajuna village. On being chasedby the cops, Arjun Gupta alongwith four others jumped into adrain to evade arrest. While theothers managed to swim to safe-ty, Arjun drowned. The news ofhis death irked the locals andthey swarmed the scene in hun-dreds and staged a massive

demonstration on Tuesdaynight. After Arjun's body wasfished out, further protests wereheld. The family membersrefused to hand over the body forautopsy and demanded immedi-ate action against the policemen.

Later senior officials rushedto the agitation scene anddefused the situation by promis-ing stern and prompt actionagainst the errants after whichthe body could be sent for autop-sy. On Wednesday, the familymembers performed the lastrites after which SP of Jalaun,Ravi Kumar suspended sixpolicemen, including SHO ofSirsa Kalar police station, AjayKumar Singh. The other copshanded out punishment are

Umesh Yadav, Asad Khan, VijayPal Singh, Gopendra Singh andInsaaf Khan. Meanwhile inAligarh, a 16-year-old girlYasmeen died after beingallegedly thrown off the terraceof a three-storied rented residen-tial house by her mother's para-mour in Mallah ka Nagla local-ity on Wednesday evening.

As per reports, MohammadArif (28) had illicit relationswith the victim's mother Shaziaand he had come to meet the lat-ter at her residence at MallahNagla locality on Wednesday. Onbeing told by Yasmeen that hermother was not home while shewas there, Arif flew into a rageand tried to assault her. AsYasmeen ran and tried to hide

herself on the third floor, hesomehow located her andpushed her off the third-floorterrace causing her death.

The victim's father Babuhad died a few years ago and thevictim's kin Shahrukh Mehrajsaid that Yasmeen did not likeArif visiting her house and hadregular fights with her motherover the issue. Arif had eventhrashed her several times in thepast.

Later, the police arrestedboth accused, Arif and Shazia,who were sent to jail by a localcourt. The duo hyas beencharged for murder at Kawarsipolice station. The body of thevictim was handed over to herrelatives after an autopsy.

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Even as polling for the sixthphase of Assembly was

underway on Thursday,Bahujan Samaj Party chiefMayawati tweeted asking vot-ers to show the 'power of vot-ing' and get rid of 'dictatorial','caste orientated' and 'narrow-minded' BJP regime in UttarPradesh.

In her first tweet, Mayawatisaid, “Polling is underway forthe 57 Assembly seats in 10 dis-tricts of UP today. Hence,exercise your voting rightsfor overall development insociety.”

In another tweet, the BSPchief posted, “After the comple-tion of the fifth phase of UPelections, the opponents haveentered into a hopelesssituation. Hence, they areresorting to violence anduncivilised behaviour. Withyour voting power, you can givea befitting reply to these polit-ical parties. Be on a mission toinstall a strong government inUP.”

In the last one, Maywatistated, "The prime responsibil-ity of the good government isextending honour to women,providing security to people aswell as taking care of theirself-respect, besidesgeneration of employmentoptions so that they can ekeout their livelihood. The BSPhas the best track record.Don't get stuck in thewhirl of ‘jumlebazi’ (rhetoric),again.”

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Without naming mafia donMukhtar Ansari, Chief

Minister Yogi Adityanath said thatthe mafia who once challenged thegovernment by waving a gun, isnow in jail and moves around in awheelchair.

Addressing an election meetingat Gahmar Inter College in Zamaniaassembly constituency in Mau dis-trict, Yogi said the sympathy of theSP-BSP governments was nottowards the poor, farmers andyouth, but towards professionalcriminals and mafia.

“The goons and mafia dominat-ed the erstwhile governmentmachinery during their raj. A mafiadon used to contest elections fromhere. He used to jump from SP toBSP to get political patronage whilehis cohorts set the houses of Yadavs,Harijans and Kushwahas on fireeven as he enjoyed sitting in anopen jeep. That mafia don is nowin jail,” Yogi said without namingMukhtar Ansari.

“Our bulldozer has razed themansions of this don. The samebulldozer is used to level the road.Today the bulldozer is a symbol ofdevelopment,” he said, adding thatthe BJP government stands fordevelopment and protecting the

poor from mafia dons.In the Zahoorabad assembly

constituency too, the Chief Ministersaid that people want develop-ment.

In the public meeting, the ChiefMinister spoke about MaharajaSuheldev. He said that PrimeMinister Narendra Modi issued apostage stamp in the name ofMaharaja Suheldev and also start-ed a special train in his name.

“The state government is alsobuilding a medical college in thename of Maharaja Suheldev inBahraich,” he added.

Claiming that the previous SP

and BSP governments had neverhonoured Maharaja Suheldev, Yogisaid the followers of Suheldev cannever support those who love MohdGhazni and Mohammad Ghori. “Ifthe government is repeated, the BJPwill do more welfare work for thepoor. All the beneficiaries of Ujjwalascheme will get gas cylinders free ofcost during Holi and Diwali. Wewill give Rs 25,000 on the birth ofa daughter. All the women and sis-ters who are above 60 years of agewill get a free travel pass in UPSRTCbuses. Job or employment will beprovided to every single familymember in the state,” he said.

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Aam Aadmi Party MLA from Chandni ChowkModel Town constituency in New Delhi and party’s

campaigner in Gorakhpur, Akhileshpati Tripathi sufferedinjuries in a mishap in Behta Mujawar police station areain Agra on Thursday. He was returning to Delhi with fivesupporters by a car. They also suffered injuries.

The injured MLA has been admitted to MedantaHospital, said AAP state spokesman Mahendra Singh.

AAP state president Sabhajeet Singh visited the hos-pital where he met the injured MLA. Singh said Tripathiwas out of danger, as per the doctors. The mishapoccurred when Tripathi and his supporters were return-ing home after the election campaign was over.

Singh said Tripathi is a resident of Sant Kabirnagar,UP. A wheel of the car keeled off and it overturned onAgra Expressway under Behta Mujawar police stationarea.

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On the occasion of WorldWildlife Day, Society for

Conservation of Wildlifeorganised a programme atKukrail Wildlife Reserve inLucknow on Thursday in col-laboration with the School ofEarth and EnvironmentalSciences, Babasaheb BhimraoAmbedkar University, andForest department.

President of the Societyand dean, School of Earth andEnvironmental Sciences,BBAU, Naveen Kumar Arorathrew light on the work doneby them. “SCW is a group ofpassionate people with theobjective of conservation ofwildlife flora and fauna andrestoring biodiversity to fulfillthe targets of sustainable devel-

opment goals. Plastic should bebanned around 7 km of areaaround national parks to stoppollution and save wildlife,” hesaid. He said that with the col-laboration of the Forest depart-ment working for sustainabledevelopment, key species canbe recovered and biodiversityprotected. He also spoke aboutthe degraded lands and how toimprove them by green andsustainable methods.

Prof Venkatesh Dutta fromBBAU shared his views onriver restoration, conservationand importance of rivers, andgave presentations on how torestore water ecosystems, sup-port economic resilience andtheir role in the environment.He said that to conserve andprotect rivers, forests should beconserved and a holistic effort

is required involving all thestakeholders.

The chief guest was DFO,Ravi Kumar Singh, whoaddressed the students, schol-ars and NGOs with descriptionon history and significance ofWorld Wildlife Day, and alsospoke about the importance ofwildlife reserves and their roleand huge contribution to theecological systems, economic,and human well-being.

He interacted with everyparticipant and heard every-one’s suggestion to conserve theecosystem.

Founder member ofKaravan Heritage And NatureSociety Deepti Verma gave herviews and shared a video on thesignificance of vultures show-ing their importance in theecosystem.

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Lucknow (PNS): TheLucknow division of NorthEastern Railway conducted amonth-long intensive driveagainst passengers travelingwithout wearing masks, litter-ing the platforms/stations andwithout tickets. The drive madethe Lucknow division of NERricher by Rs 6.07 crore.

The drive was carried outon the instructions of DRMMonica Agnihotri.

Spokesman Mahesh Guptasaid different teams realisedover Rs 1.40 lakh as fine from925 passengers/visitors withoutmasks. A sum of Rs 1.46 lakhas fine was realised from 980passengers carrying unbookedluggage. As many as 88,069passengers travelling withouttickets were fined and a sum ofover Rs 6.04 crore was realisedduring the checking drive car-ried out last month,” he said.

A railway official said thedrive was being conducted toensure Covid protocol and putan effective check on passen-gers travelling without tickets.

Meanwhile, a catering teamof the commercial wing ofNR, Lucknow, and RailwayProtection Force (RPF) con-ducted a surprise checkingagainst illegal vendors onThursday.

During the checking, theteam nabbed three vendorsfrom the Doon Express.

Senior DCM, NR,Lucknow, Rekha Sharma saidthe vendors were found sellingtea/coffee and uncertified waterbottles without being able toshow any authority letter,” shesaid.

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Amity University , ‘Amiphoria-2022’, was inau-gurated on Thursday. Over 6,000 studentswere eagerly waiting for this programme as itwas organised after two years due to the Covidpandemic. The two-day event was inauguratedby former ACS Anita Bhatnagar Jain. Addressingthe students, she said: “I am experiencing eupho-ria in the Amphoria. I love going amongst youngstudents and interacting with them as their ener-gy recharges me.” She also witnessed various pro-grammes and competitions and encouraged theparticipants. Evens like ‘Corporate Nama’, ‘ReelDeal’, ‘Hariyali Lagao, Virus Bhagao’, ‘Amity Idol’etc were organised on Thursday. An annualpainting exhibition, ‘Expressions’, was alsoorganised by Amity School of Fine Arts at theArt Gallery.

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Montessori School, Cambridge section,Gomtinagar Extension, set the record for beingthe youngest to scale Kedarkantha peak. TheKedarkantha peak of the Himalayas is located

in the Uttarkashi district of Uttarakhand and is12,500-feet high. CMS founder Jagdish Gandhilauded the courage and determination ofAdhoxaj and wished him success in futureendeavours.

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a US$ 1,20,000 scholarship to Samarth, a stu-dent of City Montessori School, GomtinagarCampus I, for pursuing higher education. He willreceive this scholarship for a four-year under-graduate course. Apart from this, Samarth hasalso received admission offers from three otheruniversities of the USA — University of Utah,University of Minnesota and Arizona StateUniversity.

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Amity University, which was pending for the lasttwo years due to Covid, is now being organisedon March 3 and 4. The programme will be inau-gurated by Anita Bhatnagar Jain. Students of alldepartments are engaged in the preparationswith zeal.

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Lucknow University is theonly state university to have

been recognised by the QSWorld University Rankings. Ithas found itself on the presti-gious and distinguished list ofAsian University Ranings 2022.LU is among the 12 Indian uni-versities ranked for the firsttime.

DSW Poonam Tandon saidthat QS QuacquarelliSymonds is the world’s leadingagency to rank universitiesand educational institutions inthe global higher educationsector and the world’s mostpopular source of comparativedata about university perfor-mance.

“The QS rankings providemethodical evaluations ofkey areas of higher educationinstitution which influencesthe way students and institu-tions engage in higher educa-tion. It is quite an achievementfor LU as there are about 131Indian universities (IITs andpublic, private, centraluniversities) that appeared inthe ranking list of AsianUniversity Rankings 2022,” she

said.Vice-Chancellor AK Rai

expressed commitment toenhance the quality of educa-tion and take it to a higher levelin the coming time.

He acknowledged theefforts of all the stakeholders,including students, teachers,and staff for positioning theuniversity among top-rankedglobal higher education insti-tutions and increasing its visi-bility.

It further opens the doorfor implementation of theNEP-2020 action plans of theuniversity related to interna-tionalisation, collaboration,and developing digital univer-sity.

LU has also been recog-nised by multiple internation-al and national ranking agen-cies, including Times HigherEducations Ranking 2021,UNI Rank 2021, EducationWorld Rankings 2021,Webometrics Ranking 2021,and NIRF 2021.

Further, this acknowledge-ment from QS WorldUniversity Rankings adds tothe accomplishments of theuniversity.

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Lucknow (PNS): Chief Minister YogiAdityanath attacked the opposition parties sayingthat the sympathies of the SP-BSP-Congress werenot with the poor and the needy of Uttar Pradeshand were instead with anti-nationals, terrorists,organised mafia and criminals and their hearts beatonly for the corrupt who impeded developmentacross the state.

Addressing a poll meeting in Jaunpur onThursday, Yogi said, “Jaunpur is famous for its per-fume and ‘imarti’ and its sweetness is now reach-ing the country and the world under 'One DistrictOne Product (ODOP). We all know that many areasof Uttar Pradesh were neglected for decades afterindependence. But after the formation of the Modigovernment at the Centre in 2014, the Union gov-ernment started holistic development of those areas.Under the BJP regime, several medical colleges havebeen set up and work has started to connectJaunpur with three national highways recently. Howcan Jaunpur, being a district adjacent to the world-famous cultural city of all of us, be deprived ofdevelopment."

The Chief Minister said that 15 crore peopleof Uttar Pradesh were getting the facility of rationtwice a month under the double engine BJP gov-ernment and round the clock power supply wasavailable across the state. Highlighting the effica-cy of the vaccine, Yogi claimed that the third waveof corona came and vanished because of the vac-cine and it was hardly noticed.

“Had the SP-BSP government been there, theywould have worked to blackmarket even life-sav-ing vaccines,” he said.

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Thirty-five more flights are sched-uled to bring back UP students

from Ukraine till March 7, ReliefCommissioner and nodal officer forUP Ranvir Prasad said on Thursday.As many as 26 flights will land inDelhi while the rest in Mumbai.

He said that some students ofUttar Pradesh in Ukraine are alsoreaching Mumbai and that they aremaking arrangements for them(students) in Mumbai.

“Over 60 flights are operationaland 13 of them have alreadybrought back the students fromUkraine, 12 flights are in the processof bringing the students to Delhiand in the coming days, 35 flightswill bring the students back to Delhiand Mumbai,” Prasad said.

The administrative officials ineach UP district are meeting parentsof the students who have arrivedfrom Ukraine and also those whoare yet to come back, basically toapprise them of the arrangementsmade by the UP government.

He said the number of UP stu-

dents evacuated from Ukraine hasincreased to 400, and 347 of themwere helped in reach their homeswhile the rest took their own con-veyance.

The administrative officials,including SDMs, tehsildars & naibtehsildars, visited the homes ofstudents who returned to Agra,Auraiya, Lakhimpur Kheri,Fatehpur, Ayodhya, Hamirpur,Hapur, Siddharth Nagar, Balrampur,Mathura, Shamli, Gonda, Etawah,Bulandshahr, Ballia, Jalaun,Varanasi, Sitapur, Prayagraj,Kaushambhi, Sant Ravidas Nagarand Rae Bareli.

Some of the parents whosewards have returned from Ukraineappealed to the government toaccomodoate them in local medicalcolleges so that they do not have togo back to the war-torn countryagain.

Sunita Agarwal from Mathura,whose daughter Kanak Agarwal(first year) and son Om Agarwal(fifth year) are MBBS students ofIvano Frankivsk National MedicalUniversity, said she was terrified

when the war broke out and fellunconscious twice or thrice even asher children were battling their wayback home.

She requested the Central gov-ernment to help the students byadjusting them in the medical col-leges in India.

“Prime Minister NarendraModi can do something in thisregard, or these students have nofuture. I cannot send my childrenback to Ukraine and whatevermoney is required, I am ready topay here. How can anyone be men-tally prepared to go back to the war-

ravaged country. These studentshave lost everything — from cashin their bank accounts back inUkraine and their entire set-upwhich was like a proper home.However, we cannot put their atstake,” she said.

“My son is helping the studentsstill trapped there by calling taxisfrom near Ivano in Ukraine,” shefurther added.

Recounting the sequence ofevents which she faced, Kanak saidthey moved from the universitytowards the Romanian border afterfacing a lot of hardships.

“Soon after a massive blast, itwas difficult to buy foodstuff fromthe supermarket while shopkeepersrefused to accept debit cards andasked for cash, which was difficultto get,” she pointed out.

About her ordeal at theRomanian border, she said the uni-versity bus which was to take themthere got delayed by two days andthey had to take a taxi.

“Fortunately, we did not findtoo much rush at the border whenwe reached there, but we had tostand in queues in immigration foraround nine hours,” she said. She

added that the cold was unbearable.Ajay Churasia, who is also a

student from the same universityand belongs to Deoria, said he feltthat Ukraine stopped them for solong in the anticipation that Russiawould not target any internationalstudent.

“We were aware that the situa-tion would worsen and had told theuniversity officials, but they keptinsisting that it was safe to be there.At the borders, the Ukrainian sol-diers told us that we would not beallowed to pass till someone fromthe embassy was there,” he recalled.

He said that his family was call-ing the helpline but no help wascoming their way.

“On so many occasions, we feltthat it was our last day, and weunderstood that there was pre-cious little which we could do,” hesaid. He added that most of the stu-dents in his group have returned,and online classes could well beginfrom March 12.

However, Chaurasia said hewould like to return to Ukrainebecause he has already deposited

the fee and if he did not go back, Rs8.5 lakh would go to waste.

Son of a farmer, he said he tookadmission to the Ukraine universi-ty because it was cheaper as com-pared to India. “Not everyone canafford the medical education inIndia,” he said.

Mohammed Sharib Ansarifrom Bijnore, who has also returnedfrom Ukraine and is fifth-year stu-dent of MBBS from the same uni-versity, said he faced problems at theborder where it was as cold as -10degree Celsius.

“I was part of a group of 91 stu-dents, and it was so cold that wecould barely feel our hands and feet.Some of the students took refuge atthe café at the border. They wereallowing Ukrainians to cross overas against only 15-20 Indian stu-dents. The situation at the Romaniaborder was okay but for the studentswho reached the Hungary border,it was not very good and it is stilltaking them time to pass,” he said.He added that if the situationimproved in the next 6-12 months,he would return.

Lucknow (PNS): A retired armyman wasduped of Rs 35 lakh by two Rajasthan natives,who are into the business of egg supply, inSaadatganj. He lodged a case alleging criminalbreach of trust in business, forgery and threat-ening. The victim, Mohammed Raquib Khanof Golden City, started the business by invest-ing Rs 3.5 lakh with Salim Khan and FaisalKhan (both of Rajasthan). He later invested Rs1.69 crore more in the business which was start-ed last year.

In due course of time, both Faisal and Salimsupplied eggs worth Rs 1.35 crore but laterstopped the supply.

Raquib, who had little apprehension that hewould be cheated, kept reminding them torestart the supply against the money they owed,but did not get any reply.

“Now they are threatening and abusing me.They committed forgery by taking money fromme but not supplying the goods. I am passingthrough a trying phase due to this,” he said.Police registered a case under sections406/420/504/506 of IPC.

In another case, a woman, identified asSwati Dubey of Indiranagar, was duped of Rs35,000 on the pretext of help by an unidenti-fied person at an ATM booth in Ghazipur policestation area on Wednesday.

Reports said Swati had gone there todeposit Rs 40,000 in her bank account. Shesought help from the man as she failed todeposit the cash. “The man quietly took out Rs35,000 and deposited the remaining sumbefore disappearing from the scene. I later cameto know about the fraud,” she told police.

Meanwhile, a woman was deprived of hergold chain in Indiranagar under Ghazipurpolice station area on Thursday afternoon.Meena Srivastava of Sector 21 was going to pur-chase some items on foot. Around 2:10 pmwhen she was nearing the shop, the man walkedup to her and snatched her gold chain. Policesaid the chain-snatcher has been spotted in aCCTV footage.

Lucknow (PNS): A woman accused herhusband and in-laws of domestic vio-lence and torture for dowry inIndiranagar on Thursday.

Ayushi Mishra of Indiranagar is thewife of Ankit Mishra of Gomtinagar.Ankit, who is a private companyemployee, is currently on a long leave.Ayushi alleged that Ankit, his brotherand their parents would torture her fordowry even though her parents hadalready given them cash and ornamentsat the time of marriage.

“Ankit has been demanding Rs 50lakh for the last few days to launch hisown company. He was pressuring me toseek money from my parents,” shealleged. Ayushi said she was thrashedand abused by Ankit and other mem-

bers in his family. “They would abuseeven my parents. Recently, Ankit talkedto my parents and demanded themoney from them,” she alleged. “Ankitdemanded the money from my parentsand said they have no son to look aftertheir property,” she alleged.

She further said that Ankit and hisfamily kept him hungry and did notallow him to take her medicine or talkto her parents. “They used to snatch theplate from my hands whenever they sawme eat anything. On February 25,Ankit and his family members thrashedme and choked my throat. I later callermy father, who informed the police andalso reached home. The police rescuedme and I am living with my parentssince then,” she said.

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District Magistrate andDistrict Election Officer

Abhishek Prakash held a meet-ing at the Collectorate onThursday to review prepara-tions for the counting of votesfor nine constituencies ofLucknow.

The counting will be car-ried out as per the directionsof the Election Commission ofIndia, he said. He issued direc-tions in terms of the arrange-ments which need to be madein this regard and training ofthe officials.

The counting of votes willstart at 8 am simultaneouslywith the counting of postalballots at 8 am. “The matchingof VVPAT slips will be doneafter the counting is over,” hesaid.

No polling staff will be

allowed bring mobile or anyelectronic device but thereturning officers can bringcalculators. The candidatescan fill Form 18 for theirworkers who will take a tablewhich is allotted to them andno movement will be allowedin the counting room, theDM said.

At each table, there will bea counting supervisor, amicro-observer, a countingassistant, a class IV employeeand a person appointed by thecandidate concerned.

Five VVPATs will beselected randomly and thenslips will be matched after thecounting is over.

“If any control unit is notcleared after the mock poll, theVVPATs will be counted andnot the control units. No carswill be parked within a dis-tance of 200 metres from the

counting venue. Parkingarrangements will be made atMaurya Inter College close toRamabai Sthal,” the DM said.

Smoking will be totallyprohibited at the countingvenue as will gutka and anyinflammable substance. Nosharp objects will be allowedin the counting area.

There will be a tea breakfrom 9:30 am to 10:30 am andlunch break from 12:30 pm to1 pm. The DM said the con-trol units which are sealed willbe placed behind the AEROs’tables and then kept at a sep-arate place.

He said those who aresuffering from hypertensionshould not be amongst thecounting staff. No MLA, MLC,mayor, zila panchayat presi-dent or any other official whohas been given security can beamongst the counting staff.

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According to NagarSwasthya Adhikari SK Rawat,the Swachhata survey teamwill visit after March 10 andthey are making preparationsto ensure top ranking.

It is a campaign among res-idents to maintain garbagesegregation.

“We have already startedusing 600 vehicles for garbagecollection while lanes andbylanes are being regularlycleaned. We expect top rankingthis time,” he said.

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The first phase (6.5 kms) connectingthe IIM crossing to Pucca Pul has beencompleted. The unfinished phase con-necting Shaheed Path to Kisan Path willbe completed in the second phase.

Presently, the consulting firm, alongwith the LDA administration, is said tobe working on the third phase which willconnect trans-Gomti to cis-Gomti area.It will be a four-lane road. LDA secretaryPawan Gangwar said the idea is tomake traffic flow smoother. The stategovernment has calculated the amountwhich will be spent on the secondphase. The money will be released afterMarch 15 so that the project does not faceany hurdle.

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A30-year-old man, who hadlost his job during the

Covid pandemic, ended hislife at his house in Aliganj onThursday. He left behind asuicide note addressed to hismother. The deceased wasidentified as Ratnesh ofMehndi Tola locality in Aliganj.

As per reports, Ratneshdid not wake up till late morn-ing on Thursday and it madehis parents apprehensive. Hisfather Shyamlal went to theroom to wake him up butfound the doors bolted frominside. The doors were brokenand Ratnesh was found hang-ing from the ceiling with adupatta tied around his neck.

A police team reached thescene on being informed andsent the body for autopsy.The police recovered a suicidenote in which Ratneshaddressed his mother. Hesought forgiveness from hismother and asked her to takecare of his daughter.

He further wrote that hewould complete the unfin-ished work in the next birthand wished to take birth in thesame family again. Ratneshwas a gym trainer at a privatecompany and had lost his jobdue to Covid and subsequentcurbs. His wife is currently liv-ing with her parents.

Meanwhile, two groups ofeunuchs clashed over realisingcharity money in Ghosiyana

under Cantonment police sta-tion on Thursday. Later, boththe groups leveled allegationson each other.

One of the groups led bySoni said she, along with herfriends, was passing by thearea when the rival group ledby Pappu attacked her car.

“Pappu and his aide, whowere riding a bike, sprinkledpetrol on the car and attempt-ed to set it ablaze,” Sonialleged. The police said Pappuand Soni were at the logger-heads over realising charitymoney from the area.

Both the groups allegedthat the Cantonment policeopted for dilly-dallying tacticswhen they reported the mat-ter to them.

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Trainer Rashika and Nisha Singh,on behalf of CSR Box, informed thestudents about road safety rules.Describing the importance of roadsafety, Rashika said every year about1.35 million people lose their lives inroad accidents and 11% of the mishapsoccur in India alone.

“Considering its seriousness, thegovernment has also resolved toreduce road accidents by 50% by theyear 2025,” she said. She informed thestudents about many important issueslike saying no to ‘drink and drive’,

wearing helmet & seat belt, having adriving licence and following speed toprevent road accidents. She also toldthe students about the good samari-tan law which is designed to facilitatethose who help the injured in roadaccidents.

Meanwhile, online classes havestarted in the Residential CoachingAcademy of BBAU. BBAU spokesper-son Rachna Gangwar said studentshave been selected on the basis ofentrance exam merit. “The coaching isrunning smoothly under the guidanceof Vice-Chancellor Sanjay Singh, direc-tor Surendra Kumar and deputy direc-tor Sarvesh Singh with the help ofmentor Yuvana Satyapriya, technicalassistant Rohit Dhanuk and teachersMukesh Kumar Shukla, Sanjay Kumar,and Vinay Kumar,” Gangwar said.

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Claiming that the BJP isnow in desperation seeing

its defeat, the West BengalChief Minister MamataBanerjee on Thursday said,"Now the time of khela is inUP" and appealed to the peo-ple of this eastern part of UP tovote for the Samajwadi Party(SP) and it's alliance to uprootthe ruling party from the state.The BJP always tells a lie andhad left the people with theirmiseries while the bodies wereseen floating in Ganga duringthe pandemic, the SP ChiefAkhilesh Yadav blamed andappealed to the people toensure the complete defeat ofthe saffron brigade in the elec-tion of the next phase.

Addressing an impressiveelection rally in favour of the SPand it's alliance in Aidhe villageof the district, MamataBanerjee said that when shewas going to have a glance ofGanga Aarti from the airport inthe evening on Wednesdaylast, a group of BJP workersshowed black flags to her andraised slogan of going back butshe was fighter and not afraidof such act. But this shows thatthe BJP is in desperation see-ing it's defeat in the electionheld so far, she said appealingto the people of this belt of thestate to vote in favour of thecandidates of the SP and it'salliance and oust the saffronbrigade from the power. Sheblamed the BJP for being busyin electioneering in UP andleaving the children of thecountry alone with their mis-eries in Ukraine in the present

crisis. defeat of the ruling partyis sure, she claimed and said,"Ab UP me khela hobe."

Addressing the gatheringof the workers of the SP, SBSP,Trinamool Congress and otheralliance partners, the SP ChiefAkhilesh Yadav blamed that theBJP is stunned by the arrival ofMamata Banerjee and accusedthe BJP of telling a lie to dou-ble the income of farmers andgiving railways, airports andother public undertakings intoprivate hands.

The BJP had left the peo-ple with their miseries duringthe pandemic and the deadbodies of corona patients wereseen floating in the river Gangabecause of the gross negli-

gence shown by the BJP-ledGovernment, he blamedadding that the YogiGovernment did nothing forthe development of this part ofthe state whereas it had claimedof developing this holy city asKyoto. To oust the BJP frompower and ensure the victoryof party candidates in theelection of next phase, heappealed.

The chief of PragatisheelSamaj Party Shivpal Yadav saidthat he was now with AkhileshYadav and appealed to thepeople to vote for the candi-dates of alliance. The SP MPRamgopal Yadav said that theSP fulfills its promises made inits manifesto and the BJP will

face defeat not only in this elec-tion but also in the 2024 par-liamentary election.

The SBSP ChiefOmprakash Rajbhar said that ifthe alliance comes to power itwill make a solution to theproblem of teacher's recruit-ment and police recruitmentand added that the ousting ofthe BJP is the need of the hour.The RLD Chief JayantChaudhary said that thealliance is fighting to save thenation and appealed to the peo-ple to vote in favour of the can-didates of alliance.

The candidates of allianceof the district and senior lead-ers were also present on theoccasion.

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Congress General SecretaryPriyanka Gandhi, who is

camping here in connectionwith party poll campaigning inthis region which will go to theassembly poll in the seventhand last phase on March 7, hada hectic first day on Thursdaywhen she addressed two pub-lic meetings in Sakaldiha(Chandauli) and Ramnagar(Varanasi) areas, apart fromvisiting various places, interact-ing with senior artistes and oth-ers. She was staying at KabirMath. She also took out aroadshow from Akhari toChitaipur in the evening.

Addressing an electionmeeting in Sakaldiha area inChandauli, she launchedscathing attacks on rival partiesfor misleading the people in thenames of religion and caste. Heflayed the Yogi government fordoing nothing to fulfill 12 lakhposts falling vacant in the state.“Whenever the youth raised theissues of unemployment, thegovernment tried to misleadthem in the name of religion,’she said, adding that contraryto the claims of Modi-Yogi gov-ernment to make several lakh-patis, she said that she was justseeing a large number of unem-ployed youths even in hermeeting. According to her dur-ing the Congress regime,industries were set up to pro-vide jobs to the youths but nowthese enterprises are being soldto the industries close to thegovernment. She said thatCongress has solutions to prob-lems unlike the Yogi govern-ment as during the present gov-ernment, the farmers lost hugeamounts by the stray cattlewhereas Congress-led govern-

ment in Chhattisgarh hadsolved the same by purchasingcow dung at Rs 2 per kilogram.

Earlier, while staying atMoolgadi Math at Kabirchaura,she paid tributes to the samad-hi of Neeru-Nima, the parentsof Kabir and saw old materialsrelated to Kabir's childhood. Asthe adjoining areas are knownfor the residence of some greatlegends of music, Priyanka vis-ited the places of some greatartists of classical singing,Kathak dance and tabla. Shewent to the house of PadamVibhushan late Pandit KishanMaharaj and met his son PanditPuran Maharaj, who is also atabla player. Then, Congresswent to the house of KathakQueen Sitara Devi and met hergrandson, the famous Kathakdancer Vishal Krishna and hisfamily. She also visited thehouse of Pandit Bundi Maharajand during the period she alsoresponded the greeting of thelocal residents.

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TRES MADE IN VARANASI:A total of 1,248 polling centresand 3,371 polling booths havebeen made in Varanasi toensure smooth polling onMarch 7. The voting will beheld from 7 am to 6 pm. InVaranasi, the election is sched-uled to be conducted in theseventh and last phase of theassembly election on March 7.The polling will be held from7 am to 6 pm, the DistrictMagistrate and DistrictElection Officer (DM/DEO)Kaushal Raj Sharma adding, toensure the smooth voting, atotal of 1,248 polling centresand 3,371 polling booths havebeen made in the district whichcomprises eight assembly con-stituencies. It is learnt that atotal of 30,80,840 electorateswill exercise their voting rightsincluding 16,80,361 male vot-ers, 14,00,290 female voters and289 third gender voters. Thereare eight assembly constituen-cies- Pindra, Ajagara, Shivpur,Rohaniya, Varanasi North,

Varanasi South, VaranasiCantonment and Sewapuri. Atotal of 70 candidates are in theelection fray in all eight con-stituencies. Out of total 3,371polling booths, there are max-imum 461 polling booths inRohaniya constituency and theminimum 343 polling boothsare in Varanasi South con-stituency while 400, 411, 432,434, 439 and 451 in Sewapuri,Shivpur, Pindra, Ajagara,Varanasi North and VaranasiCantonment constituencyrespectively. There will berestriction on the electioneer-ing, public meetings and elec-tion procession after 6 pm onMarch 5, the DEO informedadding, the political leaderswho are not voters of any con-stituency of the district will notremain in the district after theend of electioneering i.e. 48hours before the voting but itwill not be applicable on thecandidates and their agents asif they are not electorates of thedistrict.

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Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)President Mayawati made

scathing attacks on bothBharatiya Janata Party (BJP)and Samajwadi Party (SP) say-ing that during their regimesthe people of the state wereunhappy due to their failures.She was addressing an electionmeeting near Sandaha inChaubeypur area here onThursday in favour of theparty's candidates. ‘BSP is fight-ing this election on all the seatson its own,’ she said, express-ing her confidence about form-ing her government with anabsolute majority. She also crit-icised the Congress for ignor-ing the poor, backwards anddalits during its regime.

Former Chief Minister saidthat during the governments ofthese parties, the backwards

and dalits were not onlyignored but also oppressed.‘Their narrow mindset hascaused damage to every sec-tion,’ she said, and added thatif BSP returns to power,Bhadohi's name will again

be changed to Sant RavidasNagar.

Making an attack on ChiefMinister Yogi Adityanath, shesaid. ‘Yogi only sees goons,mafia among Muslims,Brahmins and Dalits and

destroy their homes and prop-erty whereas her governmentalways gave protection to everysection of the society.Bulldozers will run on thehouses of those special classmafia if the BSP returns topower.’

He appealed to the peopleto start preparations for send-ing Yogi from UP to his Mathagain as his government onlydid the politics out of hatred. ‘Ifthe BSP returns to power,development works will becompleted on the lines ofSarvajan Hitay Sarvajan Sukhayand the development works ofBSP which remained eitherincomplete or stopped by theSP and BJP government will berestarted,” she said, asking thepeople not to trust the surveysand reports of the media as weare going to return to power,once again.

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Prime Minister NarendraModi is arriving in his par-

liamentary constituency hereon Friday on his two-day stayand during the period he willpart in various programmesapart from taking out a bigroadshow which will be culmi-nated at Kashi VishwanathCorridor (KVC) and address-ing some election meeting inthis region of Purvanchal (east-ern UP) which would go to thepolls I the seventh and lastphase on March 7.

Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) and district administra-

tion have also made prepara-tions to ensure completion ofthe road show as the past his-tory shows it is expected that itwould attract a huge rush. Forthe BJP, the road show isimportant to woo the people inthe party’s favour. The PMwill stay at the guest house ofBanaras Locomotive Works(BLW). Congress GeneralSecretary Priyanka Gandhialready arrived in the city andshe is staying here till March 5at Kabirchaura Math.

Meanwhile, in view toboost the electioneering, vari-ous parties have put their allenergy and in this direction,

Samajwadi Party (SP) chiefAkhilesh Yadav, along withWest Bengal Chief Minister(CM) Mamata Banerjee andpresident of all other alliancepartners held a meeting.Besides, Bahujan Samaj Party(BSP) supremo Mayawati alsoaddressed a public meetingand Priyanka took out a roadshow apart from addressing apublic meeting at Ramnagar.

Besides, state BJP chiefSwatantrata Dev Singh visitedHabibpura areas and madecontact with the residents insupport of party candidateswhile Union Minister AnuragSingh visited Annapurna and

other colonies near KashiVidyapeeth. He also addresseda function of intellectuals at theDepartment of PhysicalEducation in Banaras HinduUniversity. Union MinisterSmriti Irani also visited variousplaces and addressed somemeetings. BJP MP andBhojpuri star Manoj Tiwarialso addressed a meeting inSewapuri areas apart from tak-ing part in many other pro-grammes.

Earlier, BJP president JPNadda held meetings with thetraders and intellectuals to wintheir support in the party'sfavour.

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Allahabad University cam-pus witnessed unruly

scenes on Thursday as studentsintensified their agitation anddisrupted classes. Police lashedlathis to bring the situationunder control. A good numberof students sustained injuries inpolice action. About a dozenstudents were taken into cus-tody by the police after usingmild force.

Students have been oppos-ing the decision of the univer-sity of holding off-line exami-nation. They are pleading thatwhen classes were run on-line,examination should also beheld on-line.

The students staged dhar-na and observed hunger strikefor quite some time, but seeingno positive response from theuniversity side, they placedlocks on the main entrance on

Wednesday. Fortunately the vice-chan-

cellor was not in the office onWednesday when locks wereplaced on the university gate,but other officers were thereand they had to seek help of thepolice for going home in theevening.

On Thursday agitated stu-dents moved on the campus inshape of a procession raisingslogans in support of theirdemand of on-line examina-tion, and disrupted classes.Some unruly students damagedproperties in this process. Theyalso gathered at the office of theDean Students Welfare andraised full throat slogans there.

Police used mild force toshoo away the students.

About a dozen studentshave been taken into custodyand were taken to unknownplace in Vajra Vahan.

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DENTS: After the tremen-dous uproar and stone peltingby the students on Thursdayafternoon in protest against theoffline examination inAllahabad University, the AUadministration has takenaction.

The Chief Proctor has sus-pended four students. The sus-pended students includedAbhinav Dwivedi of MA sec-ond semester, Hari OmTripathi of MSc second semes-ter, Adarsh Singh Bhadauria ofBA second year and Ajay SinghLLM second semester.

Behind the suspension arethe obstruction of classes byclosing the entrance, sabotage,indecency with teachers, abus-ing, attempt to take hostage,attempt to obstruct the work ofselection committee of teach-ers running in Chatham Lineguesthouse of AU and peltingstones on police administrationbesides, they were accused of

obstructing government work. These students will have to

come to the Chief Proctor'soffice from March 8 to 10,along with their parents, to givean explanation as to why theirenrollment should not be can-celed from the university astheir act comes under the cat-egory of serious offence.

Chief Proctor ProfessorHarsh Kumar said that afterthis ruckus, a complaint hasbeen lodged against fivenamed students and hundredsof unknowns. The case forthis incident was filed lateevening.

On the other hand,Colonelganj CO said that theuniversity administration hadsought applications from thestudents for the online exami-nation on Wednesday itself,despite this, the students havedone illegal work. In this case,legal action will definitely betaken.

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In connection to a fake videoallegedly uploaded by a

Samajwadi Party (SP) support-er wherein a man was involvedin booth capturing at Ballapolling booth in Kunda assem-bly seat of Pratapgarh districton polling day (February 27)and doing the rounds on socialmedia, the Pratapgarh copsregistered an FIR against theperpetrators who have alleged-ly uploaded the fake videowith the ill intent to promoteenmity.

Station House Officer(Kotwali), Raviendra Nath Rai

told the newspersons that anFIR under section 66 C ofInformation Technology (IT)act and section 505of IPC (Whoever circulates any reportcontaining rumour or alarmingnews with intent to create orpromote feelings of enmityand hatred) was registeredagainst the social media han-dler regarding uploading thefake video.

SHO claimed that thepolice through its social mediacell made it clear that the videowas fake and it was connectedto the 2019 parliamentary polls.The video was also linked toFaridabad, in Haryana during

the 2019 parliamentary polls.Pratapgarh police claimed

“the video shows that a man,the polling agent, was trying toeffect many voters”. However,the Samajwadi party support-er through his twitter handleuploaded the video on hissocial media account claimingthe video to be from Ballapolling booth in Kunda assem-bly seat. It took no time whenvideo went viral on varioussocial media platforms.

Once the video went viralon social media, the leaders ofSamajwadi Party too demand-ed election commission to can-cel the election in Kunda

through its social media plat-form. The SP leader alsodemanded action against theman. Reacting over the SPleader’s tweet, the Kunda MLAand chief of Jansatta DalLoktantrick Raghuraj Pratapalias Raja Bhaiya also targetedSP chief Akhilesh Yadav andtweeted “Respected AkhileshYadav ji, being a national pres-ident of a political party as wellas a senior leader, the video wasof 2019 parliamentary polls inHarayana ,which you have con-nected it to Kunda assemblyand demanding cancellation ofassembly poll. Its sounds bad inthe politics.”

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The process of returning thestudents of Prayagraj

trapped in the midst of theRussia-Ukraine war has inten-sified. They are being broughtto Delhi and Mumbai airportsby Air India flight. Then fromthere they are being sent toPrayagraj via another flight orthrough road.

Calling three studentsfrom Prayagraj and two stu-dents from Pratapgarh toVaranasi, Prime MinisterNarendra Modi met at the air-port on Thursday evening. Ina conversation with them,PM Modi said that their futurewill be taken care of. The fivestudents were hopeful for thefuture after meeting the PM.The students told that they

could not take a photo withPM Modi due to the mobilebeing deposited.

Vishal Kumar Umarvaish,a resident of Janghai Bazar inPrayagraj, Ruchi Pandey ofRaman Ka Pura Sulem Saraiand Hrithik Diwakar of SaketNagar Dhumanganj wereinformed by the districtadministration on Thursdaymorning that they had to goto Varanasi to meet the PrimeMinister.

In no time all the threewere gathered at the DMoffice. DM Sanjay Khatri meteveryone and gave them allthe information related tomeeting the Prime Minister,all three students were sentfrom Prayagraj with ADMCity. Similarly, on the eveningof Sachin and Lalganj of Patti

region who returned fromUkraine to Varanasi, PMModi talked for about 20minutes. Hrithik Diwakar toldon the phone that when hewas informed that the PrimeMinister was going to meethim, he could not believe it atfirst. Looked back at the num-ber twice and asked again ifPrime Minister NarendraModi would meet me. Aftergetting the answer in yes,Hrithik made his prepara-tions and now he has reachedBanaras with ADM City tomeet the PM. At the sametime, Ruchi and Vishal arealso very eager to meet thePrime Minister. He said thatdue to security reasons, hecannot talk right now. Aftermeeting the PM, he will giveinformation about the meet-

ing and conversation withhim. PM Modi spoke toHrithik, Vishal and RuchiPandey at Babatpur Airport inVaranasi at around 4.30 pm.After a brief conversation,the PM left for Delhi. All threeVishal, Ruchi and Hrithikhave gone to Ukraine formedical studies. When thewar started there, they weretrying to reach the border byhiding in the bunker. Aftercrossing the Romania border,they were provided with helpfrom the embassy and allwere brought back to India byAir India flight. There is anatmosphere of happiness intheir houses at this time.When the information aboutmeeting the PM came, thehappiness has increased fur-ther.

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Dismissing a petition seek-ing quashing of criminal

proceedings against aWhatsApp group admin inwhose group someone sent amorphed photo of PrimeMinister Narendra Modi, theAllahabad high court hasobserved that “he was a groupadmin and also a co-extensivemember of the group”.

Dismissing a petition filedby Mohd Imran Malik ofMuzaffarnagar, who was man-aging a WhatsApp group inwhich one of the members,Najam Alam, sent a morphedphoto of the PM, Justice MohdAslam said, “From the perusalof the record it appears thatthe applicant was a ‘groupadmin’ and he is also a co-extensive member of thegroup. In view of the above, I

do not find any cogent reasonto interfere.” The petitioner’scontention was that the saidmessage was not sent by himand it was sent by one NajamAlam. He was only the group‘admin’. Hence, no case againsthim was made out and theproceeding was liable to bequashed.

However, the state govern-ment counsel opposed thepetition, saying that liability of

the sender of the messageand that of the ‘group admin’is co-extensive and it cannotbe said no offence underSection 66 (computer relatedoffences) of the InformationTechnology Act was madeout against petitioner. Havingheard the arguments advancedfrom both sides, the courtin its decision dated February23 declined to interfere inmatter.

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Singrauli based subsidiary ofCoal India Limited (CIL),

Northern Coalfields Limited(NCL) reached a new high ofsingle day production – thecompany produced 5.67 lakh

tonnes of coal on Tuesdaywhich is the highest ever pro-duction since its inception.Producing coal out of its 10fully mechanised open castmines in Singrauli and

Sonbhadra districts, NCL hasbeen entrusted with 119 mil-lion tonnes (MT) of coal pro-duction and 126.5 MTdespatch in the current fiscal.Sustaining the steep energydemand of the nation, thecompany has supplied 114.74

MT of coal to customers acrossthe nation with 16.37 per centy-o-y growth. In spite of Covidhardship and other triggeredhindrances, the company hasproduced 110.5 MT of coal

with 6 per cent y-o-y growth inFY 2021-22. NCL Chairman-cum-Managing Director(CMD) Bhola Singh called it agreat day and congratulated allthe fellow miners of the com-pany. He said that the compa-ny has tremendous potential toestablish new records andapplauded the integratedapproach system of Team NCL.Contributing to the company'sstellar performance, three pro-jects namely Jayant, Jhingurda,and Kakri have achieved theirannual coal production targetfor FY 2021-22. NCL is a pio-neering coal company supply-ing uninterrupted coal to pit-head powerhouses andupcountry coal consumers,including NTPC Vindhyachal,one of the biggest TPPs of thenation. The company is alsopaving its path to become net-zero company with the estab-lishment of a 50 MW solarplant in its Nigahi area and slewof other solar-based projectsduring upcoming years.

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General Manager, NorthEastern Railway (NER),

Anupam Sharma inspected theThawe-Chhapra rail section ofVaranasi division onWednesday. In the beginning ofthe inspection at Thawe stationGM did an extensive inspectionof station building, circulatingarea, foot overbridge, safetyequipment, railway colony,crew running, passenger reser-vation centre, platform, foodstalls and other passenger facil-ities. At Gopalganj station hedid a thorough inspection ofChotti railway colony, stationpanel, relay room, integratedpower supply system, passen-ger reservation centre, otherpassenger facilities and safetyequipment. He directed to dis-pose of the derelict houses inGopalganj Colony. GMinspected level crossing No.56C situated on km No 97/4-5 and tested the safety knowl-edge of gateman. On km No.92/7-8 he inspected curve No40 which was found to be asper standard. Sharma thor-oughly inspected minor bridgeNo 79 situated on km No 78/7-8 and tested the safety of thebridge. After this he inspectedgang No 10 CT on km No74/5-6 and took informationabout all safety equipment ofthe gang, track maintenance

and safety measures in emer-gency situations and expressedsatisfaction over their safetyknowledge. He inspected thecleanliness and passenger facil-ities at Sidhwalia station thor-oughly and expressed happinessover the cleanliness there. GMon km No 42/1-2 on Ghoghaririver inspected Major Bridge No40. He reached Chhapra whileconducting speed trial. On theoccasion Principal ChiefEngineer (PCE) SK Pandey,Principal Chief OperatingManager (PCOM) SanjayTripathi, Principal Chief Signal& TelecommunicationEngineer (PCSTE) AK Mishra,Chief Administrative Officer(CAO)/Construction RajivKumar, Principal ChiefElectrical Engineer (PCEE)AK Shukla, Principal ChiefPersonnel Officer (PCPO)Bipin Kumar Singh, Chief

Financial Adviser (CFA) PreetiJha, Principal Chief MechanicalEngineer (PCME) AK Pandey,Principal Chief MaterialsManager (PCMM) DKSrivastava, Principal ChiefSafety Commissioner (PCSC)Atul Kumar Shrivastava,Principal Chief Safety Officer(PCSO) Chandan Adhikari,Chief Commercial Manager(CCM) Radheshyam, PrincipalChief Medical Director (PCMD)Dr Laxmi Gunjiyal, Secretary/General Manager DK Khare,Chief Public Relations Officer(CPRO) Pankaj Kumar Singh,Divisional Railway Manager(DRM)/Varanasi RamashrayPandey, Additional DivisionalRailway Manager (ADRM)/Administration/ Varanasi, RahulSrivastava, Chief MedicalSuperintendent (CMS) Dr MSNambial along with branch offi-cers of the division were present.

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In NTPC VindhyachalProject, a total of four

employees retired on February28 after rendering their longservice. They are – GangadharSingh, Assistant Manager(Electrical Maintenance),Bhaiyalal Kushwaha, AssistantManager (MechanicalErection), Rajkumar Sharma,Assistant Manager(Operations) and BrijeshKumar Dubey, Officer SLPS(Human Resource). All theretiring employees were hon-oured by the NTPCVindhyachal management inthe CV Raman auditorium ofthe administrative building ofthe project. General Manager(Operation & Maintenance), ESatya Phani Kumar welcomedall the retiring employees. Therepresentatives of theUnion/Association of the pro-ject also welcomed the guestemployees by presenting thembouquets. After it head of thedepartment (HR) PrabirKumar Biswas welcomed theretiring employees and alsogave a brief introduction oftheir services rendered in

NTPC. GM (O&M) E SatyaPhani Kumar, while appreciat-ing all the retiring employeessaid that their contribution intaking NTPC Vindhyachal topresent heights will always beremembered. NTPCVindhyachal will always begrateful to them for their ser-vice, he said and wished every-one good health. GeneralManager (FGD) S Bose,General Manager (EMD) SKWaryani, Deputy GeneralManager (Operations) AshokKumar Joshi and DeputyGeneral Manager (HR)Mangala Harindran alsoextended their best wishes tothem for the fresh start oftheir new innings of life. GM

(O &M) honoured all the retir-ing employees with ‘shri phal,’shawl and memento. Besides,long service certificates etcwere also given to all the retir-ing employees for the longservices rendered by them inNTPC. The retiring employeesshared their memories relatedto NTPC. During the felicita-tion ceremony, heads ofdepartments, representativesof union and association as wellas employees and their familieswere also present. The felicita-tion ceremony was conductedby Deputy Manager (HR) LMPandey while the vote of thankswas proposed by DeputyGeneral Manager (HR)Mangala Harindran.

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Aman was found dead in adrain under Halia police

station on Tuesday night.According to a report receivedhere, the police was informedabout the recovery of a body atthe down side of Adva damnear Ahugi Khurd village.Thereafter police reached thespot and brought the bodyalong with a moped out fromthe drain.

The victim was later iden-tified as Chhoteylal (45), aresident of Ahugi Kala. Thefamily members said thedeceased was a labourer andhad gone to a relative’s place ona moped. The police took thebody of the deceased into cus-

tody and sent it for the post-mortem examination.

POLL: City Magistrate/incharge transport VinayKumar Singh has told the own-ers to send the vehiclesacquired for election to thePolytechnic ground timely.Chairing the meeting ofTransport Committee hedirected the members AssistantRegional Transport Officer(ARTO/Enforcement) VijayPrakash Singh and DistrictSupply Officer (DSO) UmeshChand to ensure availability ofsmall vehicles as per therequirement and take stringentaction against those who didnot comply with the order.

ARRESTED: R ai lwayProtection Force (RPF) arrest-

ed one person accused of mak-ing forged railway tickets.Reports said RPF was tippedoff by an informer that a resi-dent of Bathua locality underKatra Kotwali police stationwas making railway ticketsthrough his personal user ID.On the information, the RPFpersonnel raided the residenceof the accused, recovered thetickets made for future traveland seized the computer alongwith the system. InchargeMirzapur unit, RPF, RajeshRai said the said forgery cameto light under the ID verifica-tion process and further inves-tigation into the matter was on.The accused was identified asNeelesh Kumar Gupta, a resi-dent of Bathua.

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addressing a seminar on ‘CyberSecurity in this Digital Era’organised by the MerchantsChamber of Uttar Pradesh,Women EntrepreneurCommittee at MerchantsChamber auditorium onThursday said Cyber Securitywas imperative to the digitaleconomy, and it was high timeIndians be proactive to CyberSecurity. He said the major rea-son for sudden rise in cybersecurity was mainly due negli-gence to Cyber Security. He saidthere was a spate of cybercrime during COVID-19 main-ly because of work from home.

He said when women wereworking online there was anequal need for strong cybersecurity and for this one needto have clear concepts on oper-ating system, networking, webapplications, programming, andabove all needed to fully under-stand vulnerabilities and secur-ing the loopholes He said therewas a eed to ensure DLP DataLeakage Prevention. He said astrong cyber security policieswere required and added thatfirstly one had to understandthe various categories of datathey captured. He said datasecurity and prevention shouldbe the first priority of every techorganisation in the currenttimes.

Tandon said there was needto educate people about thehackers and the organisationsneed to collaborate with NGO’s,State Police, Corporates,Associations, EducationsBoards etc. He said cyber secu-rity was important now becausepeople spend more time onlineand often creating and sharingpersonal data and if this data fellinto the wrong hands, privateand financial information could

be at risk. He sid thus for busi-nesses and individuals alike,protecting sensitive data wascritical.

He said if a data breachaffected ones personal data,private information was nolonger private and hackersmight be able to get their handson data like Social Securitynumber or banking informa-tion and one of the most com-mon outcomes from data breacwas identity theft. He advisedthat one need to protect dataand better cyber security prac-tices can start with small, indi-vidual efforts. He said thatlinks in emails were a commontool used by hackers to trickindividuals into giving up theirsecure information and thiswas often in the form of bank-ing statements, flight reserva-tions, password recoveryemails, and more.

He added that if a userclicked on one of these links,they were taken to a fake sitethat looked similar to its realcounterpart and the site will askthem to login or input privateinformation and once a hack-

er had their hands on thisinformation they have access tothe user’s account. He saidalthough it was easier toremember a single password forall different accounts, it was notthe most secure. The best prac-tice was to vary your passwordfor every different site andaccount used. He said in thisway if a company got breached,those stolen credentials willwork on other sites.

Tandon explaning pass-word manager said it was a soft-ware that kept all passwords inone place. He said one had one‘master key’ password to unlockaccess to these passwords. Hesaid with a password manager,one wont have to worry aboutremembering each of pass-words. He mooted multi-fac-tor authentication (MFA) setup, a user can access theiraccount with only a usernameand password but MFA addedanother layer of protection as itrequired more than onemethod of authentication toverify a user’s identity for login.

He advised that one need toavoid using depit card online

instead use options that gave anextra layer of protectionbetween hackers and your bankaccounts and this could be acredit card with insurance or atype of online payment method.He also suggested to refrainfrom saving your credit cardinformation to make futurebuying faster. He said avoidunknown sites. He also advisedthem to instal anti virus asinstalling anti-virus software onyour device will help combatthese attacks. He also advisedthem to avoid downloads.

Chairperson, Mansi Lohiaand Sakshi Bharatiya intro-duced the speaker RakshitTandon who is a cyber securi-ty expert. He is Cyber SecurityConsultant to Internet andMobile Association of India.He is also ResourcePerson/Visiting Faculty forCyber Crime Investigations atBPRD Bureau of PoliceResearch And Developmentfor Training Law EnforcementOfficers across the country. Heis also the Chairman of IndiaAgainst Child Abuse. He hasbeen awarded HonoraryDoctorate in Cyber Securityand had won the Cyber Soldier2021 Award, Cyber MentorExcellence Award -2021 ,Golden Achievers Award 2021,Karamveer Jyoti Puruskar 2019,Gurugram Achievers Award2019, SKOTCH GOLDGovernance Gold Award toGurugram Police for our CyberInternship Initiative and alsoAwarded with KaramveerChakra by Rex Conclive 2015and 2016 with Gold KaramveerChakra.

He is also a trainingConsultant to UNODC UnitedNations office of Drugs andCrime – on Cyber EnabledTrafficking to officers of SriLanka , Bhutan, Maldives,India, Nepal & Bangladesh.

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In a joint venture, the IndianInstitute of Technology Kanpur

(IITK) and Ordnance FactoryMedak (OFMK), a unit ofArmoured Vehicles NigamLimited (AVNL) have devel-oped India’s first Soft RecoverySystem (SRS) for supersonic pro-jectile. This SRS had the poten-tial to arrest the motion of a 30mm supersonic projectile mov-ing at a speed of roughly Mach3 which was three times thespeed of sound, within a distanceof about 50 metres. This pio-neering SRS technology hadbeen developed under the col-laborative efforts and leadershipof Prof Nachiketa Tiwari of IITKanpur and Alok Prasad,General Manager of OrdnanceFactory Medak (OFMK).

The Soft Recovery Systemwas used for the recovery of aprojectile after initial impactwith minimum damage and thiswas to ensure the development ofsmart and intelligent warheadswith maximum effectiveness andminimum collateral damage.Acquisition of SRS technology isa pre-requisite for the develop-ment of smart and guided muni-tions, as it can provide a test bedto prove out smart munitiondesigns.

Prof Abhay Karandikar,Director, IIT Kanpur, said IITKanpur advocated for multi-stakeholder collaboration forholistic development in researchand innovation sector. He saidthis was another prime step inthis regard and IIT Kanpur hadcontributed for a key develop-ment in India’s defense field bydeveloping the first Soft RecoverySystem. He said it would not onlyassist in the effective recovery ofsupersonic projectiles, but alsowould contribute towards thelarger goal of attaining India’s self-reliance in developing advanceddefense systems.

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The Kanpur DivisionalCommissioner, Dr Raj

Shekhar carried out an inspec-tion of Anandeshwar Templeat Parmat on Thursday whichwas most important and his-toric temple of Kanpur Nagar.He said it was brought to thenotice of the administration bythe temple management, pub-lic representatives and devoteesthat the temple premises, entryand exit points needed lot ofimprovement and other otherpublic facilities.

He said in view of therequest an inspection alongwith Kanpur MunicipalCommissioner, SDM Sadar,Apar Nagar Ayukt, GM Jal Kal,Nodal officer Smart City andother officials visited the tem-ple site. He said it was observedthat the area needed a goodparking facility as of now therewas no proper parking for fourwheelers and two wheelers. Hesaid thus it had been decided inprinciple that the BIC areaadjoining the temple was suit-

able and can be developed asgood parking lot in coordina-tion with the BIC (Ministry ofTextile GOI). He said it can thefacilitate parking of 200 fourwheelers.

He said in addition to thisthe drainage along side of the

road approaching temple canalso be developed as parkingarea after covering up thedrainage with the slabs. He saidthus around 400 two wheelerscan be parked there. He said ithad been decided that the 500metre road approaching the

temple will be well lit with solarstreet lights. He said in additionto this a proper and good toi-let for men and women wasalso very much required. Hesaid a proper site was to beidentified for this and directedthe KMC to identify proper

place for a Large Toilet block . The DC said one small

drain of waste water was alsofalling into the Ganga river andwas flowing from adjoiningtemporary structures con-structed by people and manyof them were illegal. He direct-ed KMC to get it checked by theteam of Nagar Nigam, JalNigam & the Smart city officialsto study how it can be con-nected to the nearby sewageline.

He said the report was to besubmitted in next one week. Healso stated that the ShivNarayan park of Nagar Nigamalso needs improvement &development.

Commissioner asked KMCto get it examined and put upthe development proposal innext one week and if found fea-sible , then these works wouldbe proposed under the SmartCity Project. He asked SDMSadar and KMC to get the areasurveyed and also get the mapschecked for any illegal con-struction in the area on the gov-ernment lands of KNN.

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Noted tax consultant,Santosh Kumar Gupta

while addressing a session onThursday said all the exportersand traders can run their busi-ness without worrying aboutpaying taxes on their exportsjust by submitting the LUT. Hesaid they need to obtain thisLUT latest by March 31, 2022.He said this LUT not onlyhelped the traders but also thegovernment as well. He said allthose traders who wanted toexpand their business byextending the trades, not justcountrywide but also globallyneed to apply for LUT imme-diately.

He said this LUT helped

these traders grow their exportsand enhance the functionalityof their business, and for thisthe government had made sev-eral provisions one of the majorones was the GST, a unified taxacross the country and addingto this, an arrangement ofLetter of Undertaking had alsobeen made allowing theexporters to export goods with-out paying IGST (IntegratedGoods and Services Tax).

Explaining LUT he said itmeant that under GST, everyexporter was provided with twooptions to supply their goodsand choose the format ofexemption from taxes. Hesaid these included paying theIntegrated Goods and ServicesTax (IGST) and then claiming

for the refund amount. Hesaid by filling the Letter ofUndertaking (LUT) or bonds,one can be exempted frompaying taxes (IGST) forexports. He said LUT was fur-nished under the Form GSTRFD 11, rule 96A of GST. Hesaid under this rule, theexporter made the statement ofproviding the exports withoutpaying the IGST and ultimate-ly fulfilling all the require-ments under GST rules andguidelines.

He said all the people whohad registered themselvesunder the GST Act can submitthe LUT and said the onlyexception stood for those whohad been summoned for taxevasion.

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According to the surveyreport of the factories in

Uttar Pradesh 117 workerswere killed and 142 killedbetween January and June 2021and the highest number ofaccidents took place in chem-ical sector. Umpteen surveyscarried out in UP clearly stat-ed that safety violations wereblatantly being overlookedwhich was the main cause forthe increase the risk of acci-dents. This engendered theneed for creating awarenessamong the employers for theirworker safety and thus March4 was commemorated asNational Safety Day with thegoal of raising awareness andcommitment to working safe-ly.

This was stated bySuperintendent, IndustrialBoilers Safety Board, IshratSiddiqui while addressing aseminar on National SafetyDay on Thursday. He said spe-cial campaigns need to be heldand to reaffirm employees’ andthe general public’s commit-ment to working safelythroughout the year. He said italso aimed to highlight theimportance of safety regula-tions and measures in order to

avoid workplace mishaps. Hesaid the present manufacturingunits were required to producebig batches of high-qualityproducts while meeting tightdeadlines to keep up with theever-increasing marketdemands. He said but it alsorequired that manufacturingfacilities struck a perfect bal-ance between operational effi-ciency and employee safety. Hesaid despite the current effortsaccidents and fatalities contin-ue to occur. He said the fact wasthat it was the personnel whochose to ignore safety measuresand decided to take risks. Hesaid it was important thatemployees who worked onspecific equipment weretrained to identify abnormali-ties which indicated the needfor an immediate shutdown.

Siddiqui expressing hisviews said important reason forthis change had to do withworkers equipped with safetyand security equipment work-ing more productively andremaining longer with employ-ers that provided such solu-tions.

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After the Abrogation ofArticle 370 and 35-A in

August 2019 two mainstreamregional political parties--National Conference andPeoples Democratic Party arestill struggling to consolidatetheir voter base across Jammuregion.

On the other hand theCongress party which shared

power between 2002 to 2014 inalliance with PDP and NationalConference is battling infight-ing within its own ranks.Instead of giving tough compe-tition to the BJP the localCongress leaders have lockedhorns with each other to estab-lish their supremacy in theparty hierarchy. Some newplayers have also emerged withthe formation of new politicaloutfits such as Jammu and

Kashmir APNI party headed byformer PDP minister SyedAltaf Bukhari and Ekk JuttJammu headed by AnkurSharma. However, both theseparties are yet to test their polit-ical waters especially in theJammu region.

Now as the talk of holdingassembly elections is gainingcurrency the top brass of theNational Conference and PDPmay have to adopt a new elec-

tion strategy to register theirfootprints and prevent theBharatiya Janta Party fromwinning the majority seatsfrom Jammu region. In therecent months JKNC PresidentDr Farooq Abdullah and PDPChief Mehbooba Mufti madeseveral trips to Jammu regionto keep their flock together asseveral senior leaders havealready switched loyalties andjoined new political forma-tions to resurrect their ownpolitical careers.

NC suffered the biggest joltafter its Provincial presidentDevender Singh Rana, whoalso worked as a close aide offormer Chief Minister OmarAbdullah switched loyaltiesand joined the ranks of BJP. Hewas joined by another seniorNC minister Surjeet SinghSlathia. A former minister SyedMushtaq Ahmed Bukhari hasalso tendered his resignationfrom the basic membership ofthe party, citing his “untenablerelationship” with the leader-ship over differences vis-a-vis“Pahari cause.”Considered to beone of the tallest Pahari lead-ers from Pir Panchal sub regionof Jammu region, Bukahri saidthat he had to sever his associ-ation with the party that last-ed over forty years due toparty president’s “insistenceupon” him to refrain fromraking up the Pahari cause.

Two time PDP legislatorand a prominent Gujjar leaderZulfikar Choudhary, formerSikh leader Manjeet Singh leftPDP ahead of joining Jammuand Kashmir Apni party.Several other PDP leaders whostood rock solid behind MuftiMohd Sayeed had also left theparty accusing the top brass ofthe party of ignoring interestsof Jammu region at the cost ofretaining their core constituen-cy in Kashmir valley. Congressleaders enjoying patronage ofGhulam Nabi Azad used to winat least four assembly seats outof six in the erstwhile Dodaregion. The party leaders suf-fered crushing defeat in allthree districts of Jammu,Samba and Kathua allowingBJP to form an alliance govern-ment with the PDP in 2015. In2014 BJP had won a maximum

number of 25 Assembly seatsout of a total 37 seats in theregion. Three seats each werewon by the PDP and NationalConference while Congresshad won five assembly con-stituencies. One Independentcandidate aligned towards BJPhad won the UdhampurAssembly seat.

A Jammu based regionalparty , Jammu and KashmirNational Panthers Party is alsostruggling to revive its fortunes.It had won three seats in 2002but later its leaders failed towin.

Since both these regionalpolitical parties are also con-stituents of the Peoples Alliancefor Gupkar Declaration(PAGD) efforts are already onto field a joint PAGD candidateagainst the BJP to avoid split-ting of votes.

PDP Chief MehboobaMufti has recently made apublic statement in support ofa joint PAGD candidate whileseeking mandate to defeat BJPin the Assembly polls in Jammuand Kashmir.On the otherhand NC President Dr FarooqAbdullah dropped clear hintsand even said sorry while ask-ing estranged leaders, who haddumped the party, to comeback and give a strong fight totheir political opponents.

But it is easier said thandone. Both these parties areactually running short of cred-ible faces who can actuallytake on the BJP challenge onground zero. Both these partieshave not groomed second rungleaders in Jammu region whocould match up to the expec-tations of the voters and pos-sess the political acumen tobeat heavyweight candidates inthe fray.

After the completion of thedelimitation exercise BJP isexpected to emerge stronger asit is not only aiming to repeatits past performance in theJammu region but also eyeingmaximum seats reserved forST/SC's in the region. By giv-ing reservation to the Paharicommunity the BJP is aimingto defeat both these regionalplayers and take advantage ofthe infighting within theCongress party.

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The budget session of theMaharashtra Legislature

began on a stormy note onThursday, as the ruling MahaVikas Aghadi (MVA) membersshouted vociferous slogans andheckled Governor BhagatSingh Koshyari over his recent“objectionable” statementagainst Chhatrapati Shivaji,forcing him to cut short hiscustomary address to the jointhouse and literally stage a“walk out” from the place.

As was expected, the rulingMVA members – who hadmade no bones about his dis-pleasure over Koshyari’s recentstatement describing describingSwami Samarth Ramdas as the‘Guru’ of Chhatrapati ShivajiMaharaj – had come preparedto de-rail the Governor’s cus-tomary address delivered at thebeginning of the budget sessionof the State Legislature. Assoon as the Governor arrivedat the State Legislature to deliv-er his address to a joint sittingof both the Houses, the MVAmembers greeted him angrily.The moment he began hisspeech, the treasury benchmembers shouted vociferousslogans against him and heck-led him continuously.

Not to be outdone, theOpposition BJP membersraised counter-slogansdemanding the resignation ofMinority Affairs MinisterNawab Malik who was arrest-ed by Enforcement Directorate(ED) on February 23 in con-nection with his allegedinvolvement in a money laun-dering case and his “links”with the underworld.

The Governor’s speech wasdrowned in pandemoniumcaused by slogan shouting andheckling of Governor andcounter-slogan shouting by theOpposition BJP legislators.Having realised that he wouldnot be able to complete hisspeech in the din, the Governorplaced his speech copy onpodium and quietly walkedaway without completing hisaddress or waiting for NationalAnthem. The incident--whichsaw the Governor cut short hisspeech and stage a “walk-out”from joint sitting hall of theState Legislature –led to aslanging match between rulingand Opposition members, whotraded barbs and chargesagainst each other.

The ruling MVA legislatorsdubbed Governor’s act of stag-ing a walk-out from the jointsitting venue as “an insult” toLegislature, the NationalAnthem, Chhatrapati ShivajiMaharaj, Mahatma Jyotiraoand Savitri Phule. Some legis-lators demanded theGovernor’s immediate resigna-tion.

In their retaliation,

Devendra Fadnavis and Pravin Darekar of the BJP, who are thethe leaders of the Opposition in the State Assembly and Council,charged that the MVA government was trying to protect ‘a mafia-tainted minister’ and they would not rest till Malik quit his post.

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An exhilarating and inspiring missioncommenced along Kochi coast on

Thursday by two prestigious researchorganisations specialising in ocean stud-ies.

Hyderabad based Indian NationalCentre for Ocean Information Services(under the Ministry of Earth Sciences)and National Institute of Oceanographyat Kochi (Ministry of Science andTechnology) have come together to ele-vate the 7516.6 km long Indian coastlineto global standards.

This means that the country’s beach-es would be as beautiful (if not more!) andsafe as that of best seashores in rest of theworld. The Kochi shoreline has been pol-luted and degraded over the years mak-ing it a blot on the face of Queen ofArabian Sea, as it was previously known.

The serene beach of Kochi could beseen only in old films and pictures asentire area has become polluted andunhygienic thanks to scant regard peo-ple have for environment and ecology.“Our objective is to make Kochi and otherbeaches in country categorized as BlueFlag certified beaches, benchmark forcleanliness, safety, availability of purewater and accessibility for all,” Dr T MBalakrishnan Nair, Group Director,Ocean Services and Applied Research,INCOIS, who leads project told ThePioneer while installing a giant buoy insea along International ContainerTranshipment Terminal at Kochi.

For the next one month, Dr Nair andhis team of scientists and engineerswould monitor signals received frombuoy, the earth observation satellite ofIndian National Satellite series and themathematics model. The triad of thebuoys, satellites and mathematics modelwould give team real time data of vari-ous water quality parameters to assesshealth of coastal ecosystem, explained DrNair. “The data is not just for upgrad-ing quality and standards of beach but itwould offer a lot of information likewater quality parameters, temperature,salinity, dissolved oxygen, water current,dissolved organic matter and methane,”said Dr Nair.

This is first time in history of Indiawater quality forecasting system usinghigh resolution models has been put intouse. “We will get all data needed toupgrade the beaches to global stan-dards. But there is more than this.

The data could be put to use to fore-cast potential fishing zones to our fish-ermen, availability of commerciallyimportant fishes and alert us aboutharmful algal blooms,” he said.

Next week, another buoy would beinstalled off the Vishakhapatnam coastand over the next few months the entire7516 km long Indian coastline would bebrought under the eyes of the buoys.

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India on Thursday rejectedthe charge that its citizens

were held hostage in the warzone including Kharkiv cityand said Ukraine was urged toensure the safety of Indians.This rebuttal came a day afterRussia and Ukraine both madeclaims and counter claims thatIndians were being used as‘human shields’.

The Indian response cameafter a statement from RussianPresident Vladimir Putin’soffice claimed that some Indianstudents were "actually takenhostage" by Ukrainian securi-ty forces, who use them as a"human shield" and in everypossible way prevent themfrom leaving for Russian terri-tory.

The Russian claim wasmentioned in a readout issuedby Kremlin following a tele-phonic conversation between

President Putin and PrimeMinister Narendra Modi onWednesday evening.

The Ukrainian foreignministry "urgently called on thegovernments of India, Pakistan,China and other countieswhose students have becomehostages of the Russian armedaggression in Kharkiv andSumy, to demand fromMoscow that it allows theopening of a humanitariancorridor to other Ukrainiancities."

These two cities are locat-ed in Eastern Ukraine andhave seen massive Russian mil-itary assault in the last few days.Some Indian students werestuck in Kharkiv and severalother conflict zones and Indiahas asked both Russia andUkraine to facilitate their safepassage to the border transitpoints for their exit to neigh-bouring countries.

"We have not received anyreport of any hostage situationregarding any student. We haverequested the support ofUkrainian authorities inarranging special trains fortaking out students fromKharkiv and neighbouring

areas to the western part of thecountry," External AffairsMinistry SpokespersonArindam Bagchi said.

He said the Indian embassyin Ukraine is in continuoustouch with Indian nationals inUkraine. "We note that withthe cooperation of Ukrainianauthorities, many students haveleft Kharkiv yesterday," Bagchisaid. Prime Minister Modi onWednesday spoke to Putin anddiscussed the safe evacuation ofIndian nationals from the con-flict areas in Ukraine includingKharkiv.

"The leaders reviewed thesituation in Ukraine, especial-ly in the city of Kharkiv wheremany Indian students are stuck.They discussed the safe evac-uation of Indian nationals fromconflict areas," the Indian state-ment said.

Bagchi said India is coor-dinating effectively with coun-tries in the region includingRussia, Romania, Poland,Hungary, Slovakia andMoldova for evacuation of theIndians from Ukraine. "A largenumber of Indian nationalshave been evacuated fromUkraine in the last few days,"

he said adding "We appreciatethe help extended by Ukrainianauthorities to make this possi-ble.”

He said most of the Indianstudents and citizens had leftKharkiv on Wednesday afterthe Indian embassy advisorywhich urged them to leaveimmediately by any meansincluding ‘on foot.’ However, afew hundred Indians were stillin the city, he said.

Bagchi said the prioritywas to take students out safelyin whatever mode of transportpossible. Moreover, India wasin touch with Ukraine andRussia at various levels andPrime Minister Narendra Moditalked to President VladimirPutin on Wednesday. ‘Ouronly intention is to take outIndian citizens as soon as pos-sible,’ the spokesperson said.

He also said India was intouch with the Ukrainianembassy to bring back thebody of Naveen Shankarappa,a 21-year-old medical student,who was killed in shelling twodays back in Kharkiv. He wasthe first Indian casualty in theongoing conflict. He hailedfrom Karnataka.

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The Supreme Court onThursday asked Attorney

General KK Venugopal to usehis “good office” in helpingevacuate some Indian medicalstudents stranded in war-rav-aged Ukraine near theRomania border. The benchheaded by Chief Justice NVRamana said earlier in the day,when the plea was mentionedfor urgent hearing, it sympa-thised with the stranded stu-dents and asked can the courtdirect the head of the state tostop the war.

“Please tell us what can thecourt do? Can we direct the

President of Russia to stop thewar,” said the bench, also com-prising Justices AS Bopannaand Hima Kohli, and asked thecounsel for petitioner FathimaAhana who is stranded inUkraine to wait inside thecourtroom till the timeVenugopal appears in court.The bench took note of thesubmissions of Ahana's lawyerthat several students are stucknear the Romanian border infreezing cold and theGovernment is not runningflights from Romania.

"There are 1,000 studentslike this. But some have comehere. We cannot say ‘no'. Pleaseuse your good offices and dosomething,” the bench told

Venugopal, who, in turn,apprised that the PrimeMinister has sent one ministerto Romania. Venugopal saidthe Prime Minister has alsotalked to the Presidents ofRussia and Ukraine and dis-cussed this aspect.

"We have all sympathieswith them. But what can thecourt do," the bench said.“Some media house and somevideos are saying that what theChief Justice of India is doingwhy he is not giving directionto President Putin to stop thewar... I agree and sympathisewith students. We all are feel-ing very bad. People aredying...But we are not on thatissue,” the bench observed.

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The Supreme Court onThursday dismissed a plea

of Loop Telecom seekingrefund of Rs 1,454 crore paidfor 2G licence and damages forloss of reputation after its can-cellation, saying the acquittal ofpromoters in the criminal casedid not “obliterate” its findingsthat the process of grantinglicence was “arbitrary and con-stitutionally infirm”.

Dismissing the plea, abench comprising Justices D YChandrachud and VikramNath said the acquittal of thepromoters of the company inthe criminal case did not “effaceor obliterate the findings” of theapex court in its 2012 judg-ment, cancelling the grant of2G spectrum licences, on thePILs filed by SubramanianSwamy and Prashant Bhushan.

“The acquittal of the pro-moters of the appellant on thecriminal charges does notefface or obliterate the findingswhich were contained in thefinal judgment of this court inCPIL and hence as a benefi-ciary of the fraud the appellantcannot take the assistance ofthis court for obtaining therefund of the entry fee,” saidJustice Chandrachud, readingthe operative portion of theverdict.

The judgment said thatthe Loop Telecom tried to

obviate the findings of theapex court by relying on itsacquittal by the trial courtjudge. “It is important to notethat the criminal trial before thespecial judge CBI was limitedto the extent whether the pro-moters of the appellant hadcheated the DoT by providingfalse representation of compli-ance of clause 8 of the UASLguidelines since it was alleged-ly controlled by Essar group.

“The special judge CBIacquitted the promoters of theappellant because the prosecu-tion was unable to prove thatthe officer of the DoT consid-ered the representation of theappellant to be false..,” it said,adding that the acquittal in acriminal case did not “efface orobliterate the findings” of theapex court. Loop TelecomLimited, in its plea, had sought

a direction to the Departmentof Telecom (DoT) to refund Rs1,454.94 crores paid by it aslicence fee for the grant ofUnified Access Licences (UAS)in 21 service areas. Its 21licences were among the 122licences quashed by theSupreme Court in 2012.

Special CBI Judge O PSaini, on December 21, 2017,had acquitted all accused,including former telecom min-ister A Raja and DMK MPKanimozhi, in the 2G spectrumallocation scam cases. Sainihad also acquitted LoopTelecom Promoters IP Khaitanand Kiran Khaitan and Essarpromoters Ravi Ruia andAnshuman Ruiain the case.The appeals of the CBI and theED against the verdicts arepending adjudication in theDelhi High Court.

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The Supreme Court onThursday rejected the

Maharashtra State BackwardClasses Commission’s interimreport recommending therestoration of 27 per cent reser-vation for Other BackwardClasses (OBC) in local bodypolls. The top court also askedthe Maharashtra Governmentand the State ElectionCommission to not act uponthe commission’s recommen-dation. The court noted thatthe commission prepared theinterim report without empir-ical study and research.

The apex court had stayedthe 27 per cent quota in localbodies polls by theMaharashtra Government inDecember last year. The courthad also directed the stateelection commission to holdpolls without reservation forthe OBC quota. A bench com-prising Justice AM Khanwilkarand Justice CT Ravikumartoday rejected the plea by theMaharashtra Government andcriticised the interim report.

“The report itself men-tions that the same is being pre-pared in absence of empirical

study and research by theCommission. Having failed todo so, the Commission shouldnot have filed the interimreport….We, however, directall concerned not to act uponthe interim report as submit-ted,” said the Bench

The Bench also directedthe state election commissionto notify the poll schedulewithout delay for around 800gram panchayats, 5 municipalcorporations and 100 munici-pal councils, elections to whichhave been delayed. The apexcourt asked the SEC to holdpolls without the OBC quota.

“We direct the SEC tocomply with the direction givenby this court in order dated15.12.2021 and restated on19.01.2022, namely that noreservation for OBC be pro-vided for such local bodies andbe notified as general seats,”said the court.

The MaharashtraGovernment had filed an appli-cation before the apex courtseeking permission to imple-ment the OBC quota in theremaining local body electionsas per the recommendation ofthe Backward ClassesCommission.

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The EnforcementDirectorate (ED) has

attached about Rs 7 crore incash, besides other assetsworth over Rs 6 crore, in twoseparate cases of money laun-dering.

In the first case, the EDhas seized assets worth Rs4.79 crore including cashamount of Rs 2.04 crore andimmovable properties worthRs 2.75 crore belonging toSumit Agarwal and SachinAgarwal under the ForeignExchange Management Act.

This case relates to remit-tance of foreign exchange toHong Kong-based companiesin the guise of Import Advanceremittances by dummy entitieslocated in India. Earlier,searches were conducted at thepremises of beneficial ownersof Hong Kong-based entitiesin November last year, the EDsaid in a statement.

In the second instance,the ED has provisionallyattached assets worth Rs 7.47crore including Rs 4.02 crorein cash and 6.636 kg of finegold valued at Rs 3.45 croreapproximately belonging toRakesh Kumar Garg, SanjeevKhanna and Sanjeev KumarAggarwal in a CBI case againstRakesh Kumar Garg, the thenChief Engineer (Naval Works),Military Engineer Services(MES), Kathari Bagh NavalBase, Kochi, it said.

The ED had initiatedmoney laundering investiga-tion on the basis of FIR underIndian Penal Code Sectionrelating to criminal conspira-cy and various provisions ofthe Prevention of CorruptionAct. The case was registered byCBI, New Delhi againstRakesh Kumar Garg, SanjeevKhanna and other unknownpublic servants and privatepersons.

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The EnforcementDirectorate (ED) has pro-

visionally attached immovableproperties in the form of resi-dential property worth Rs 7.25crore belonging to AhsanAhmad Mirza and others inconnection with a money laun-dering probe in the Jammu andKashmir Cricket Association(JKCA).

The ED had initiatedmoney laundering investiga-tion against office bearers ofJKCA) on the basis of FIRunder Sections of the RanbirPenal Code including criminalconspiracy and criminal breachof trust among others regis-tered by the Police Station

Rammunshi Bagh, Srinagar.The case was later on trans-

ferred to CBI on the directionsof Jammu and Kashmir HighCourt at Srinagar. The CBI hasfiled a chargesheet in this caseagainst office bearers of JKCAfor misappropriation of fundsto the tune of Rs 43.69 crore.

The ED probe has revealedthat Ahsan Ahmad Mirza inconnivance with other officebearers of JKCA, had misap-propriated JKCA funds to thetune of Rs 51.90 crore and uti-lized proceeds of crime for set-tling his personal and businessliabilities, the ED said in a state-ment.

“In this case, propertiesworth Rs 14.32 crore have

already been attached previ-ously vide two ProvisionalAttachment Orders for Rs 2.46crore attaching movable andimmovable assets of Mirza andMir Manzoor Ghazanfar andfor Rs 11.86 crore attachingimmovable assets of NationalConference leader Dr FarooqAbdullah. The AdjudicatingAuthority has already con-firmed the said ProvisionalAttachment Orders,” it said.

A Prosecution Complaint(chargesheet) was earlier filedby ED earlier on November 11,2019, against Mirza in thecourt of Principal District andSession Judge, Srinagar (SpecialPMLA Court) after Mirza’sarrest and the trial is inprogress, it added.

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Telangana Chief Ministerand TRS supremo K

Chandrasekhar Rao onThursday met BJP MPSubramanian Swamy andfarmers' leader Rakesh Tikaitin the national capital. Rao, thepresident of Telangana RashtraSamithi, has been travellingacross the country to meetopposition leaders, advocatinga united alliance against theBJP.

These meetings came daysafter his visit to Mumbai tomeet Maharashtra ChiefMinister Uddhav Thackerayand NCP chief Sharad Pawar.

Rao's daughter and senior

party leader K Kavita tweeteda video of Swamy being greet-ed by Rao and said, "RajyaSabha member and notedEconomist SubramanianSwamy met with TelanganaCM KCR Garu in New Delhitoday." She also tweeted avideo of Tikait being wel-comed by her before the meet-ing.

Swamy said they discussedeconomic situation and secu-rity scenario, particularly fol-lowing the Russian attack onUkraine. The Rajya Sabha MP,who has been critical of theModi government over variousissues, played down politicalangle of the meeting, saying hehad friends across party

divide. Swamy had also metWest Bengal Chief MinisterMamata Banerjee during hervisit to the national capitalrecently.

The Telangana ChiefMinister is also likely to meetAAP supremo and his Delhicounterpart Arvind Kejriwal.Rao is in the national capitalfor the past two days and isaccompanied by Kavita,Telangana Minister V SrinivasGoud and MP J SantoshKumar.

Rao and Mamata areattempting to gather non-Congress parties against theBJP. He has also reached out toSamajwadi Party chiefAkhilesh Yadav. While Rao

and Mamata are looking for afront without Congress, NCPand Shiv Sena have made itclear that such a formulationwould not work without themain Opposition party.

The Left parties are alsonot enthusiastic about Raoand Mamata taking the leadrole, omitting Congress in thefight against the BJP by callinga meeting of Opposition ChiefMinisters.

The CPI (M) is of the viewthat Stalin should take the leadrole in these efforts. In hisefforts to galvanise a non-Congress and non-BJP front,the TRS had discussions withStalin over the telephone cou-

ple of months ago.

In his part Stalin sent asubtle message by inviting for-mer Congress chief RahulGandhi to release the firstvolume of his autobiography ata function in Chennai that sawthe attendance of several lead-ers including Kerala ChiefMinister Pinarayi Vijayan, for-mer Jammu and KashmirChief Minister OmarAbdullah and RJD chief andBihar Opposition leaderTejashwi Yadav. Both Mamataand Rao did not attend thefunction but separately wishedStalin on his birthday, a dayafter the release of the book onFebruary 28.

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With situation turning grimin Ukraine, India is like-

ly to send two of its IL-76 trans-port aircraft to Russia on lateThursday night or early Fridayto evacuate more than 4,000Indian students trapped inKharkiv. It is located in east-ern part of the country and hasborne the brunt of Russian mil-itary offensive.

The corridor to Russiafrom Ukraine came about afterPrime Minister Narendra Moditalked to President VladimirPutin on Wednesday nightasking him to ensure safe pas-sage to Indian students.

Meanwhile, the DefenceMinistry on Thursday eveningissued a detailed advisory forIndians now in the war zoneespecially Kharkiv. It saidpotentially dangerous or diffi-cult situations is to be expect-ed like aerial raids, attacks byAircraft/Drones, Missileattacks, Artillery Shelling,Small Arms/Gunfire, BuildingCollapse, Falling Debris,Internet Jamming and Lack ofElectricity/Food/Water besidesExposure to freezing tempera-ture.

The advisory urged themto compile and ShareInformation with fellowIndians, Remain mentallystrong and your presence andwhereabouts must always be

known to your buddy /smallgroup coordinator.

Keep ready a small kit ofessential items on persons or athand round the clock.Emergency Kit should containPassport, ID Card, essentialmedication, life-saving drugs,torch, matchbox, lighter, can-dles, cash, energy bars, powerbanks, water, first-aid kit, head-gear, muffler, gloves, warmjacket, warm socks and a com-fortable pair of shoes, as avail-able.

Conserve and share foodand water: avoid full meals, eatsmaller portions to extend therations. Stay hydrated. If youfind yourself in an openarea/field, melt snow to makewater.

Delete all unnecessary appsin mobile, limit conversationsto low volume/audio mode toconserve battery. Stay indoors,preferably in designated safezones, basements, bunkers.

If you find yourself in the

streets, then walk on the sidesof the roads, close to cover ofbuildings, crouch low to avoidbeing targeted, do not crossstreets, avoid city centres,downtown areas. Turn aroundstreet corners in urban areaswith great caution.

Pack minimum personalbelongings (other than theemergency kit) preferably insmall backpack suitable forlong trek/walking.

Be ready to move underinstructions at short notice/donot carry large bags to avoidslowing down, fatigue andcrowding

If stopped by militarycheck-post or by police/armedpersonnel/militia –Cooperate/Obey/Raise yourhands with open palms facingforward above your shoul-ders/Remain polite/Providenecessary information/Contactthe Control Room/Helplinewhen possible without con-frontation.

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The Shiv Sena's incomedipped to Rs 13.84 crore in

2020-21 as compared to Rs111.40 crore in 2019-20, whichwas an election year whileJanata Dal (Secular) has spentRs 3.21 crore while its incomewas only Rs 1.40 crore in 2020-21. According to the AnnualAudit Report for 2020-21, sub-mitted by the party to theElection Commission, totalincome of the Shiv Sena hadshrunk to Rs 13.84 crore ascompared to Rs 111.40 crore in2019-20. The party also spenttwice as much funds on theMaharashtra assembly elec-tions in 2019 as compared tothe Lok Sabha polls the sameyear.

As per the audit report, ithad spent Rs 24.30 crore on theLok Sabha elections in 2019 as

against Rs 53.27 crore expen-diture it incurred for theassembly elections. The ShivSena had contested both theelections as a coalition partnerof the BJP, but had walked outof the alliance after the assem-bly elections, accusing thenational party of not keeping itspromises on sharing the chiefminister's post.

The party also spent Rs11.23 lakh on the Bihar assem-bly elections in 2020 where 22of its candidates were in thefray. The party polled 0.05 percent of the total votes cast,which was even lower than thevotes cast for NOTA (1.68 percent).

According to the incomeand expenditure account sub-mitted by the party for the yearended March 31, 2021, theShiv Sena had collected Rs85.36 lakh by means of fees and

subscription, as against Rs25.39 lakh collected under thesame head as on March 31,2020.

It had received Rs 72.53lakh as grants, donations orcontributions in the year end-ing March 31, 2021, whichwas far less than the Rs 105.64crore received by the partyunder the same head as onMarch 31, 2020.

Of the Rs 105.64 croreraised by the party as on March31, 2020, electoral bondsaccounted for Rs 40.98 crore,individual donors contributedRs 16.83 crore, companies andorganisations contributed Rs36.12 crore, while institutionsand welfare bodies gave Rs11.70 crore to the party. Thecontribution of Rs 72.53 lakhreceived by the party as onMarch 31, 2021 was throughindividual donors.

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Thursday saidunvaccinatedi n d i v i d u a l saccount for 92percent ofC O V I D - 1 9deaths in Indiaso far this yearbut asserted thatthe country isin a "vaccine-enabled low coro-navirus phase" now and it is"rational" to open schools, col-leges, economic activities andnormal affairs of society whiletaking necessary precautions.

Meanwhile, Union HealthMinister Mansukh Mandaviyatweeted that more than 97% ofthe adult population receivedthe first dose of the vaccine.“Rapidly marching towardsachieving 100% first dosemark,” he tweeted.

Addressing a press confer-ence here, senior HealthMinistry officials said 74 percent of adolescents between 15-18 years of age have beenadministered their first doses of

COVID-19 vaccine and 39 percent given both doses.

They said India witnessedconsiderably lower number ofCovid deaths due to vaccinedevelopment, its rapid deploy-ment, acceptance and widecoverage.

They said the first dose ofCOVID-19 vaccine is 98.9 percent effective in preventingmortality, while both dosesare 99.3 per cent effective.They said that the efforts ofhealthcare, frontline workerscoupled with vaccination cov-erage helped in effective con-tainment of the recent Covidsurge.

V K Paul, NITI Aayog

Member (Health), said, "We arein a vaccine-enabled low coro-navirus phase. It is rational toopen schools, colleges, resorts,economic activities and normalaffairs of society. But we shouldbe watchful and vigilant.”

Presently, 29 districtsacross the country have over 10per cent COVID-19 positivityrate, while 34 districts have apositivity rate between 5-10 percent, the officials said.

They said that with thewhole of government andwhole of society approach Indiahas been able to avert the cri-sis of potentially devastatingmagnitude of Covid seen inother countries.

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Slovenia, Serbia, Bosnia &Herzegovina, Montenegro,Macedonia all were con-stituents of the YugoslavianFederation. Under Tito’s reign,this was a peaceful country butwith his death, ethnic ten-sions flared up again.

Between 1988 and 1995,Serbian politicians took con-trol of the ex-YugoslavianArmy and resources, anarmed insurgency began inCroatia, Bosnia andHerzegovina started by hostileSerbs when these federalrepublics demanded indepen-dence. Secret plans to crave upBosnian lands were hatchedbetween Croats and Serbs.The goal was creation of‘Greater Serbia’ and ‘GreaterCroatia’. But Serbian ambitionstrumped all alliances and boy-cotted the independence vote.

Soon after, armed insur-gency began in Croatia andBosnia. Bloodshed, violenceand the brutal rape of Bosniafollowed. The genocide ofSrebrenica, where countlessMuslims were killed by Serbianforces under the command ofGen Ratko Mladic, backed byRadovan Karadžic, Serbianpolitician and former Presidentof Republika Srpska andSlobodan Milosevic, Presidentof Serbia. Two internationalcourt verdicts give detailed evi-dence against these crimes.After years of fighting, the US

stepped in and with theDayton Agreement 1995, aconsensus was reached whichdivided the country on ethniclines. It also birthed a tripar-tite political system wherenational presidency ratedbetween a Serb, Croat andBosniak, successively. A newSerbian-dominated sub-nation(Republika Srpska, withinBosnia-Herzegovina) was alsoborn. Demographically,Bosniak (Muslims) are 50.1per cent, Serbs 30.8 per centand Croats 15.4 per cent.

But why do we need to seeBosnia in light of the Ukrainecrisis? One, the UNSC vote inNovember on the annualextension of 600 EU peace-keeping forces in Bosnia.Security experts are alreadyworried about vetoes trans-forming into bargaining chips,especially as Bosnia is in lineto join Nato and, eventually,the EU. Bosnia could onceagain be a confrontation pointin the great power politics.

The second major threatafter the Ukraine crisis comesfrom Serbian revivalists andultra-nationalists, who havebeen aggressively challengingthe integrity of the BosnianState. In January 2022,Bosnian Serb leader MiloradDodik, who aims to take theSerb Republic out of Bosnia’sarmed forces, was sanctionedby the US Government. He

was found guilty on twocounts: Destabilising territo-rial integrity of Bosnia andHerzegovina, and graft. Over100,000 people died and twomillion rendered homeless inthe Bosnian conflict, and yetDodik wanted to separate themilitary and judiciary for theRepublic Srpska. ChristianSchmidt, Bosnia’s interna-tional peace envoy (positionenvisioned by Dayton PeaceAgreement, 1995), even calledit “unacceptable to undoachievements of the past 26years”. Any unilateral undoingof State institutions would bea “very serious setback” forBosnia, Schmidt stated. TheUN also warns conflict coulderupt again, if consensus is notreached. With the Ukrainecrisis evolving, chances tostrengthen stability in Bosniaand Herzegovina are veryslim as Dodik has constantsupport from Russia and fromHungary.

Given the lethargy of UNand Nato in solving theUkraine crisis, many expertsbelieve that recalcitrant ele-ments within Republic Srpskamay try to secede and openthe Pandora’s box once again.

(The author writes onagriculture and environment,and is a former Director —Policy & Outreach, NationalSeed Association of India. Theviews expressed are personal.)

����������������� ���Sir — The news of the death of a studentfrom Karnataka in Ukraine is reallyheartrending and distressing. However, itwas not unexpected looking at the man-ner in which poor Indian students wereleft to their own fate to find ways to crossthe Ukrainian border, even on foot, andreach other countries like Romania,Poland or Hungary for safety. The IndianGovernment and our embassy in Ukrainehardly did anything worthwhile. Thestranded Indian students also lamentedthat they are being attacked by theUkrainian Army for India’s decision toabstain from voting in the UN resolution.

It is a tragedy that when the nation ismourning the tragic death of the poor stu-dent who died in a blast and another whodied of stroke, we find Prime MinisterModi busy canvassing votes for his partyin UP and Manipur. A real leader leads histeam. Shouldn’t the PM have led the min-isterial delegation to the war zone to com-fort Indians and find ways and means tobring them back safely? At least now theGovernment should act fast and intelli-gently to see that the stranded Indians areevacuated without further delay lest weface more tragedies.

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����������� ����������� ���Sir — Recently Prime Minister NarendraModi called for more involvement of theprivate sector in medical establishmentsand medical colleges in view of studentsgoing to smaller countries for education.Merely having private establishments tostart medical schools without long-termtraining, post-graduate education and lackof infrastructure will go the way of engi-neering colleges which mushroomed withcommercial interests without even basicstandards. The Prime Minister should godeeper into the issue as to why our med-ical students are leaving India for small-er countries to study medical education/courses. The cost of higher education isanyway prohibitive in India.

In private medical colleges, poor stu-dents cannot even dream of securing aseat. In most of the private medical col-

leges, shortage of teaching staff is seen asthese establishments are keen on savingmoney. Even in Government medical col-leges, there is a faculty shortage. TheNational Medical Commission is just aspectator of the plight of medical educa-tion in the country. Though theGovernment has proposed more medicalcolleges in districts, unless faculty withproper qualifications is available, there isno use of opening new colleges. Qualityis more important than quantity of newcolleges.

Jayaprakash Reddy | Telangana

�������������������������������Sir — The establishment’s subduedresponse to the duping of banks by India’slargest private shipbuilding company,ABG Shipyard Limited, is a reflection ofthe dichotomy between the way the agen-cies investigate and what the batteredbanking system demands. This massive�23,000 crore fraud on a consortium of28 banks between 2012-2017 by theGujarat-based company is the biggest

fraud in independent India’s history. TheState Bank of India registered the com-plaint only in November 2019, and theCBI filed a formal complaint even later,in February 2022. Further, the possibil-ity of exposing more such instances offrauds of humongous proportions onIndian banks in the future is pro-nounced.

A probe agency said 38 peoplenamed in bank fraud cases fled India inthe last four years. The level of the rot isdisheartening. The RBI said banks wroteoff �10.7 lakh crore worth of bad loansin the last seven years. Experts say thereis no transparency in the process, andloans of big defaulters are normallywritten off, while small-time borrowersdon’t receive any mercy from the banks.In a nutshell, the Indian banking systemfinds itself in a whirlpool of serious prob-lems with no saving rope in sight.

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There are allegations of humanrights violations which are alien-ating the force from a populacewhose support it would need wereinimical forces to adopt hot-warpostures. The best course of action,in the backdrop of the JeevanReddy Commission recommenda-tions, would be to phase out thearmy from its internal securityduties from areas which are regain-ing stability, as is the case in partsof Assam.

Indeed, it is what the armyseeks, even as it prepares for thethreat of a two-front war. TheAFSPA, which has been the sub-ject of much debate, would fall flatin the face of such a course ofaction. In the absence of the armyfor internal security management,there would be no need for the Act.Needless involvement in internalsecurity has been rendering anoble force defenceless and vulner-able. However, much cautionwould need to be exercised whenit comes to pressures from quar-ters which are not sensitive to thesecurity environment of the region.

An important aspect thatshould govern national security in2022 is the manner in which theregion is experiencing demograph-ic inversion. The Assam Tribune ofDecember 23, 2021 front-paged anews-item that 1,42,206 illegalforeigners had been detected inAssam till October 31, 2021. Suchan assertion should have alsobrought aggression that stemsfrom non-traditional sources suchas illegal migrations to the fore. But

it must be said that any racial pro-filing exercise whereby communaltensions are stoked would only beto the detriment of the country,especially as the minority commu-nity must be wholly incorporatedinto India’s nation building enter-prise. Indeed, aspects such as the“Hijab” controversy must not beallowed the land of Ajan Fakir andSrimanta Sankardeva.

Both the eastern as well as thewestern borders are, therefore, ina state of turmoil. Separatism isrearing its head taking advantageof myriad political uncertainties.Secessionist elements are lookingfor sustenance from across the bor-ders. The changes in the demo-graphic pattern along the bordershave made these areas amenable tosubterfuge. There are innumerablefaultlines which need to be imme-diately addressed in order to for-tify national security.

Some of the important mea-sures which need to be taken on apriority basis are:

(1) A comprehensive NationalSecurity Doctrine for India mustbe defined so that there is no ambi-guity even with change in govern-ment

(2) A dedicated North EastSecurity Council should be consti-tuted

(3) Army’s deployment ininternal security duties should befor a limited period

(4) Police forces must berevamped to strengthen theirinternal security managementcapabilities

(5) The open-ended expansionof paramilitary forces must stopand structures which haveacquired too much flab should bepruned

(6) The infrastructure andweaponry of the border guardingforces needs to be upgraded

(7) Genuine grievances andaspirations of the border popula-tions should not be kept inabeyance

(8) Illegal migration should becurbed and the demographic bal-ance must be maintained

(9) A separate time zone mustbe seriously considered for India.After all there is a time differenceof two hours between ArunachalPradesh and Gujarat.

(10) The possibility of havingan integrated All India Servicescadre for the north-eastern statesshould be examined

(11) Lateral entry must beactively considered to incorporatedomain specialists in senior poli-cy making positions of the coun-try. The country has suffered as aresult of over-dependence on AllIndia Services personnel man-ning national security at the high-est levels.

(12) Effective measures mustbe taken to root out corruptionand proper utilisation of fundsallotted for development ensured

(13) Political processes shouldbe revived wherever dormant andpeace talks initiated or expedited,as the case may be, with insurgentgroups without compromisingnational unity and integrity.

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Even as a cheerless 2021 came to anend with hopes that the New Yearwould not be as dismal, theimportant factors which should

govern national security of India deservea fresh look. While the coastlines areexpected to be secure-hopefully therewould be no repeat of 26/11-the borderstates on both the eastern and westernflanks are once again exhibiting signs ofturbulence, especially in Jammu andKashmir and Punjab. The Talibantakeover of Afghanistan could be one ofthe reasons, but the fact remains that thesecurity architecture of the nation needsstrategic reorientation.

In J&K, the police were quite success-ful in their anti-terror operations during2021. A total of 182 terrorists including44 of their commanders and 20 guest mil-itants were eliminated. However, there isno room for complacency and, as the chiefof the army staff stated, the possibility ofAfghan-origin foreign terrorists attempt-ing to infiltrate into J&K cannot be ruledout once the situation in Afghanistan sta-bilises. Besides, there is genuine grievanceamong the people over the loss of state-hood. The proposed delimitation of con-stituencies in J&K has also led to a polit-ical storm. The mainstream politicalparties represented by the People’sAlliance for Gupkar Declaration have cat-egorically rejected the proposal.

In Punjab, there is a concerted effortto revive militancy. Political instability inthe state is providing an ideal opportu-nity to the pro-Khalistan elements. Thelapses in the Prime Minister’s securityduring his visit to the Punjab showed thehorrifying price that the country mayhave to pay for the sort of murky politics that are being played out in thefrontier state.

The north-eastern scenario is notencouraging either. The manner in whichthe Chin refugee issue is creating a vir-tual rift between Aizawl and New Delhibrings into question the centre-staterelationship in a quasi-federal set-up. InTripura, where rallies were taken out byreligious organisations leading to clash-es with the police and vandalism of hous-es, shops and shrines belonging to theminority community as a backlash to theattacks on Hindu temples in Bangladeshis worrisome.

The situation in Nagaland, despiteNew Delhi’s firmness that there would beno balkanisation of states in the north-east,has become unstable with the Mon inci-dent of December 4, 2021 being exploit-ed by various groups to tarnish the imageof the army and criticise the Governmentof India. New Delhi must make it clear thatthe demand for Greater Nagaland will notbe entertained and it must take stern mea-sures against elements violating the cessation of violence agreements.

Long-drawn-out deployment of thearmy in Manipur has virtually taken thesails out of the army’s winds in the state.

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General of the BorderSecurity Forceand formerDirector General of Police,Assam and Uttar Pradesh.Jaideep Saikia is a conflictanalyst Asia’s sole Fellow,

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USA. The views expressed are personal.)

The Russian invasion ofUkraine and the negationof the Security Council

resolution have given world-watchers an opportunity toassess the role of UnitedNationsand its relevance todayin maintaining order in the civilized world.

The UN Charter “mandatesthe UN and its member states tomaintain international peaceand security, uphold internation-al law, achieve higher standardsof living” for their citizens,address economic, social, health,and related problems”, and pro-mote “universal respect for, andobservance of, human rights andfundamental freedoms for allwithout distinction as to race,sex, language or religion”.

However, the world is notrun by peace-making philoso-phers and philanthropies but the

political and military leaders.The United States PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt coined theword United States and sincethen US and its western allieshave been virtually dictatingterms forthe functioning of UNand behaving as self-styledpolicemen of the world. Theresult was intense cold warbetween the US led NATO andSoviet Union and consequent ratrace among opponent countriesfor missile and weapons anddeployment of atomic weapons.The cold war ended with thebreak-up of Soviet Union.

If we analyse the currentRussian invasion of the Ukraine,it becomes clear how this smallcountry with good resourceswas used as a pawn by theAmerica and its western allies.Ever since Ukraine becameindependent and showed a

leaning towards the US and itsEuropean allies, RussianPresident Vladimir Putin, aformer KGB officer, vowed tobring back the past glory of theSoviet era for the Russians.After he came to power, his pop-ularity soared from two percentto 45 percent following his rolein annexing Chechnya-- whichis now known as Chechen, aconstituent republic of Russia.In 2014 Russia invaded the

Crimean peninsula andannexed it and on March 18,2014 it became a constituentrepublic of Russia whenPresident Vladimir Putin signedthe accession. In retaliation theUS and their European partnerssigned several agreements withUkraine and goaded it to jointhe NATO. The US tried toencircle Russia and bringnuclear and weapon arsenals toRussian doors.

Russian President Putinwarned the west and Ukrainenot to join NATO and cited itas the violation of Minsk treatyof 2015 between Russia andUkraine brokered by the FrenchPresident.

Now let us examine the sce-nario. America and its partnershave a history of bombing theworld all over like they did inIraq, Vietnam and Afghanistanciting threat to internationalpeace but withdrawing withouttaking the affected countries andpeople into confidence. Americahas bombed so far more than 30countries and is responsible forblood baths and ruination oflives of millions of people. Theway they withdrew and leftbehind their weapons inAfghanistan makes a mockery ofthe UN Charter. So far, the UShas exercised the veto power

more than 80 times. The IndianGovernment’s response to theAmerican-backed resolution inthe UN Security Council onFebruary 26, 2022 had wideacceptance among the Indianpeople as Russia has been atime-tested friend and exer-cised veto power in the UN fourtimes in favour of India duringthe crucial times and especiallyin 1948 and 1971.

Putin may be a dictator inthe eyes of West by violating theUN Charter and he has beenthreatening the use of nuclearpower if US and NATO cometo the rescue of Ukraine. But inthis war, he is paying back theAmericans in the same style inwhich they have been bombingother countries piggybackingthe UN system. It is a total fail-ure of the UN system which hasbeen held to ransom by the US

led western countries. We seethe West has two value systems,one for them and the other forother countries. There is anentire ecosystem in the US andEurope which is rabidly pro-moting anti-national elementsin India with the aim to balka-nise it like Soviet Union.

Take the case of farmers’agitation last year the NewYork time was full of vitupera-tive abusive writings in leaguewith anti-India forces. Similarly,Prime Minister of CanadaJustin Trudeau was vociferouscritic of India’s handling of thisagitation and now the wholeworld is noticing how severelythe Canada is dealing with thefarmers’ agitation and the NewYork Times is silent. It isbecause of this that China isnow emerging as another bullyat the international level.

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ANGELONE 1359.00 1379.85 1281.00 1302.05DBL 268.50 274.40 263.35 266.00SRF 2385.00 2391.65 2326.15 2343.45AUROPHARMA 625.00 628.00 614.00 619.95MPHASIS 3169.00 3244.00 3117.55 3139.40DEEPAKFERT 623.00 623.90 575.25 580.45INDUSTOWER 208.10 213.15 207.75 211.90LEMONTREE 50.60 53.30 49.70 52.70IRB 227.70 237.50 227.70 229.00TVSMOTOR 607.55 609.20 583.50 585.40FORTIS 249.60 272.20 248.50 267.15ESCORTS 1885.00 1885.00 1810.45 1823.05DELTACORP 265.00 269.25 262.65 264.80BHARATFORG 664.50 669.25 641.10 644.50KEI 1062.05 1139.00 1043.00 1043.20INDIAMART 4817.30 4829.95 4503.70 4558.15PAGEIND 42300.00 42300.00 41565.85 41800.05LALPATHLAB 2525.00 2525.00 2437.00 2445.90FSL 128.40 131.70 127.70 129.35INDIACEM 205.95 207.10 193.00 194.50AFFLE 1210.00 1222.00 1190.00 1194.25L&TFH 63.80 65.00 62.85 63.35MANAPPURAM 117.00 119.95 117.00 118.40HAPPSTMNDS 1009.00 1021.00 985.00 987.70NLCINDIA 65.00 67.50 65.00 65.80FEDERALBNK 97.90 97.90 95.30 95.70ASTRAL 1916.00 1942.70 1855.00 1870.55SBILIFE 1127.00 1127.00 1075.15 1083.00LUPIN 734.75 738.40 717.00 720.10KAJARIACER 1050.50 1050.50 952.70 961.40SRTRANSFIN 1113.95 1136.60 1095.00 1099.10GRASIM 1550.00 1575.80 1496.55 1502.75BALKRISIND 1850.00 1850.00 1772.80 1797.70AARTIIND 920.50 920.50 873.50 881.45CHALET 262.15 288.05 248.00 253.80RAIN 188.10 188.45 182.75 183.60UBL 1520.55 1520.55 1382.85 1398.15SHREECEM 24050.00 24212.55 22748.80 22849.95CYIENT 836.00 888.00 820.15 878.50ASAHIINDIA 469.70 470.15 441.25 441.25RAJESHEXPO 700.00 721.45 690.00 708.20ROUTE 1535.00 1566.65 1523.75 1530.45MCX 1384.00 1393.30 1348.25 1358.85INOXLEISUR 417.95 428.75 412.50 417.15PRAJIND 364.90 378.75 357.00 371.40HEG 1150.00 1167.40 1090.00 1106.65ICICIPRULI 495.00 495.00 462.20 465.15RECLTD 123.00 124.60 122.30 122.80EMAMILTD* 494.70 496.20 489.00 489.95CHAMBLFERT 390.00 396.30 387.25 389.65COLPAL 1475.50 1475.50 1432.00 1440.60TATAMTRDVR 219.70 219.70 208.05 211.35SUPPETRO 680.00 746.30 672.65 730.80SBICARD 775.05 780.00 750.20 753.65CHOLAFIN 686.60 691.95 673.45 673.45HDFCAMC 2126.50 2140.00 2082.00 2087.45MMTC 46.20 47.85 46.20 46.85ABCAPITAL 105.70 106.80 101.75 102.65CUB 122.40 122.55 118.75 119.75TRIDENT 51.70 52.50 50.50 51.60HAL 1400.00 1423.00 1374.05 1380.20IDBI 43.95 43.95 42.95 43.30GRAPHITE 478.45 492.95 470.10 483.90MGL 733.80 736.40 723.00 726.90SPICEJET 61.00 61.00 58.00 58.50PGHH 15590.05 15642.55 15151.00 15151.00RADICO 881.00 881.00 822.20 848.60UNIONBANK 41.90 42.00 41.05 41.20VIPIND 643.55 675.55 625.15 627.85BERGEPAINT 689.80 689.80 658.20 663.00PFC 110.90 111.85 109.70 110.00SUNTECK 480.15 501.90 478.30 495.00AMARAJABAT 564.00 569.05 559.00 560.80ALOKTEXT 24.80 25.15 24.25 24.45

STLTECH 185.95 189.80 184.60 185.65ABFRL 275.00 277.20 259.30 268.05VARROC 345.00 351.60 325.00 326.70NESTLEIND 17926.60 17926.60 17402.95 17456.95ENGINERSIN 62.05 66.95 61.40 64.90MAXHEALTH 375.00 381.10 365.65 369.05MARICO 517.85 518.15 509.20 512.30APOLLOTYRE 185.00 185.00 178.05 178.80VOLTAS 1229.00 1250.00 1184.95 1200.35CARBORUNIV 806.00 806.00 753.25 765.00BALAMINES 2938.00 2988.95 2812.50 2822.45REDINGTON 156.95 156.95 152.85 153.85M&MFIN 145.00 146.20 141.75 142.10POONAWALLA 242.90 244.85 237.50 238.85BANKINDIA 48.75 48.75 46.90 47.00JKCEMENT 2790.00 2800.05 2645.00 2705.70RAMCOCEM 783.05 789.20 727.75 734.00BATAINDIA 1859.30 1859.30 1773.05 1782.75ATGL 1711.00 1750.00 1699.00 1750.00BOSCHLTD 15655.90 15701.60 15100.00 15107.65DABUR 565.05 570.90 560.30 561.00LAURUSLABS 541.75 546.50 534.00 540.70RCF 73.00 75.30 72.55 74.60RELAXO 1227.00 1227.00 1180.50 1205.00MRF 66608.90 66999.90 65800.00 66116.45POLYCAB 2374.95 2380.00 2295.30 2315.50GRANULES 290.50 299.25 288.60 289.05ZENSARTECH 352.85 365.10 352.10 354.65ICICIGI 1277.95 1277.95 1238.40 1241.75OBEROIRLTY 909.00 910.65 863.05 872.00PRESTIGE 447.95 451.05 435.25 439.10VTL 2652.80 2732.00 2643.95 2674.40IRFC 21.80 21.85 21.70 21.75JUBLINGREA 503.50 506.00 487.75 489.60UTIAMC 869.05 902.00 857.55 870.00SCHAEFFLER 1865.00 1895.00 1851.20 1855.50TANLA 1560.00 1590.85 1545.00 1560.00MASTEK 2840.00 2865.35 2730.00 2733.70BBTC 962.25 976.30 952.90 952.90DALBHARAT 1543.00 1543.00 1422.00 1430.35RHIM 531.00 538.20 519.00 533.70ELGIEQUIP 358.00 363.95 339.55 343.15WOCKPHARMA 344.30 345.55 337.00 341.00NATCOPHARM 872.90 899.10 872.90 887.00INFIBEAM 39.15 39.85 38.65 39.05SAREGAMA 4200.00 4330.40 4200.00 4330.00INDIANB 143.50 145.35 143.15 144.25TRENT 1113.85 1135.00 1105.90 1129.85ABBOTINDIA 17250.00 17494.95 17094.20 17471.25KIMS 1250.00 1303.00 1242.15 1303.00GUJALKALI 640.00 673.00 640.00 655.70FINOLEXIND 152.45 155.20 151.30 153.90CONCOR 605.70 611.05 592.70 597.10AMBER 3502.90 3650.00 3433.10 3615.75VBL 987.00 1010.80 973.10 973.10ABB 2218.75 2237.55 2146.55 2158.40NCC 62.80 63.30 60.55 60.75KNRCON 313.00 323.95 312.00 312.00NBCC 39.80 40.15 38.15 38.50CADILAHC 359.00 360.00 350.75 351.45JSL 198.90 200.00 192.30 193.05SUPREMEIND 2038.60 2045.00 2013.00 2013.00GLENMARK 448.00 452.35 438.75 441.05BRIGADE 500.00 515.90 474.65 482.30MINDAIND 937.00 962.55 937.00 951.95IGL 348.80 348.80 339.40 340.50INDOSTAR 213.15 223.65 210.50 215.75TATACOFFEE 194.50 196.60 192.30 193.05EXIDEIND 152.50 152.50 147.85 148.35APLAPOLLO 850.05 873.60 841.10 870.00SUNTV 459.90 461.95 446.10 449.40PHOENIXLTD 963.10 975.00 940.20 953.15BCG 107.45 107.45 107.45 107.45PTC 85.80 86.35 84.80 85.10SOBHA 774.40 780.05 759.00 767.25BEML 1574.45 1611.75 1565.90 1575.70PRINCEPIPE 655.00 655.00 626.00 627.95GLAND 3255.75 3273.00 3210.00 3242.40LODHA 1124.00 1127.25 1063.60 1078.85PCBL 198.05 208.00 196.85 198.65RBA 107.30 110.75 106.00 106.80LINDEINDIA 2650.00 2680.00 2623.00 2644.00SHILPAMED 411.40 434.75 405.95 424.55SIEMENS 2380.00 2437.60 2360.00 2365.45SWSOLAR 322.50 328.80 318.85 321.50ADVENZYMES 322.00 331.95 313.55 319.30GREAVESCOT 171.75 173.75 166.50 167.45JINDALSAW 92.95 92.95 89.80 90.30STAR 321.15 325.20 306.30 308.75OFSS 3433.00 3436.80 3362.10 3381.00ERIS 677.45 711.50 677.45 711.50JUSTDIAL 762.05 769.65 745.85 753.10SHYAMMETL 327.85 330.00 320.05 321.50LXCHEM 421.00 424.35 408.95 410.85SUMICHEM 371.45 373.65 368.10 372.30GODREJAGRO 499.80 503.95 487.15 503.95VENKYS 2080.00 2080.00 2000.00 2006.90ALKYLAMINE 3050.00 3050.00 2872.80 2898.75NHPC 29.40 29.65 28.35 29.30VAKRANGEE 32.70 32.70 31.95 32.25ATUL 9188.45 9219.10 8661.20 8885.65IDFC 57.80 58.40 56.10 56.45SFL 3460.00 3469.95 3360.00 3375.00SEQUENT 133.65 134.45 129.35 129.75IOLCP 360.55 362.70 349.05 351.10TIINDIA 1529.90 1538.00 1501.00 1508.00RALLIS 242.50 252.35 240.50 243.75KANSAINER 441.60 455.90 433.30 447.85CCL 436.00 436.00 415.00 416.60

EIDPARRY 412.65 417.95 395.00 400.85CANFINHOME 578.00 580.75 555.10 561.70EDELWEISS 56.10 56.40 54.85 55.10EIHOTEL 130.80 134.00 130.50 133.75LUXIND 2429.15 2465.40 2327.00 2330.85IIFL 300.00 300.80 290.80 294.00JSWENERGY 344.50 348.00 328.50 336.85FINEORG 4299.70 4316.70 4170.00 4170.00MFSL 861.35 861.35 811.85 815.10PFIZER 4411.45 4479.65 4292.55 4312.20VAIBHAVGBL 405.00 409.55 392.00 399.90CUMMINSIND 970.00 975.10 948.15 953.00CASTROLIND 109.90 111.05 109.15 110.40WHIRLPOOL 1670.85 1677.50 1628.00 1650.75MINDACORP 190.70 193.35 185.05 185.70SUVENPHAR 520.00 522.80 505.50 507.80SPANDANA 363.70 366.30 355.45 357.90LAXMIMACH 10549.00 10609.90 10165.10 10223.05GSPL 284.00 286.45 274.00 276.10LAOPALA 340.95 346.40 332.20 335.20BLUEDART 5943.10 5997.60 5851.00 5878.10GODFRYPHLP 1031.50 1042.25 1009.85 1023.30ECLERX 2192.50 2197.20 2138.00 2194.00ROSSARI 990.00 990.00 962.05 975.00JKTYRE 106.00 106.85 104.00 105.50HUDCO 34.40 34.60 34.05 34.15BDL 469.95 474.95 460.45 462.25HATHWAY 18.65 19.15 18.25 18.55TORNTPOWER 483.65 486.30 478.05 479.50GSFC 124.95 125.10 121.50 122.20CESC 79.55 79.75 78.35 79.35APLLTD 735.65 749.50 730.10 731.85QUESS 642.35 642.60 591.45 608.75SJVN 29.10 29.35 28.90 29.00GESHIP* 318.95 320.15 310.40 315.00CENTRALBK 18.50 18.65 18.35 18.45MOTILALOFS 871.55 883.00 861.70 876.70PETRONET 217.00 218.45 214.25 214.95CRISIL 2790.00 2830.00 2753.45 2800.00UCOBANK 11.95 12.14 11.84 11.91JKPAPER 226.05 232.75 226.05 230.80KIOCL 239.00 261.10 236.45 242.15METROPOLIS 1976.30 1992.90 1950.00 1955.00BAJAJCON 163.90 165.80 163.35 164.70SYNGENE 544.00 553.10 535.30 539.65SKFINDIA 3429.00 3498.25 3363.15 3387.05KALYANKJIL 59.00 61.40 59.00 59.60NAVINFLUOR 3858.00 3915.10 3789.50 3795.00HIKAL 370.00 375.40 367.50 373.50ORIENTELEC 339.95 339.95 325.00 329.00IRCON 40.40 40.90 40.40 40.50GRINDWELL 1605.05 1647.10 1605.05 1606.10ALLCARGO 331.20 333.35 320.10 324.05CENTURYPLY 606.25 630.25 591.10 591.10VGUARD 201.00 208.20 200.20 208.00SANOFI 7285.00 7320.00 7200.00 7249.20PIIND 2510.05 2539.00 2458.10 2500.00GPPL 84.25 86.25 82.15 82.45ASTERDM 169.50 173.00 165.60 167.10BAJAJHLDNG 5198.00 5198.00 5058.30 5084.45AARTIDRUGS 460.00 464.95 450.00 450.70ENDURANCE 1299.00 1299.00 1204.00 1209.90SPARC 266.35 270.60 264.00 266.60IPCALAB 989.55 996.85 964.30 967.25BAJAJELEC 1164.90 1165.40 1102.00 1116.60BASF 2776.95 2828.35 2736.85 2783.30MRPL 41.70 42.40 41.35 41.75PNCINFRA 266.90 266.90 251.95 254.40WELCORP 149.80 151.75 146.00 146.45BIRLACORPN 1113.40 1136.00 1092.05 1092.05COCHINSHIP 289.75 295.35 289.75 292.50ISEC 684.70 684.70 632.00 633.00DCMSHRIRAM 1045.60 1067.15 1038.90 1049.05CGCL 601.75 604.00 595.90 599.35JAMNAAUTO 103.85 103.85 98.85 99.90AAVAS 2795.00 2884.15 2794.80 2853.00GHCL 431.55 438.15 425.40 432.60AJANTPHARM 1788.00 1830.45 1715.60 1733.60STARCEMENT 89.70 90.55 89.30 90.15CREDITACC 720.00 730.30 693.70 703.20CERA 4450.00 4451.90 4213.30 4423.30GICRE 118.00 118.20 115.30 115.95SONATSOFTW 741.45 762.00 738.40 760.00MAHABANK 18.20 18.40 17.85 17.95RVNL 31.60 31.65 31.00 31.10NAM-INDIA 311.00 312.30 306.35 308.40PNBHOUSING 410.80 414.50 407.00 409.10INDIGOPNTS 1726.05 1773.90 1700.00 1745.00MAZDOCK 248.90 251.70 246.75 247.00THYROCARE 841.65 870.75 828.75 843.45UFLEX 527.00 528.00 511.10 514.85KSCL 482.80 495.25 482.00 488.15MAHLIFE 293.75 309.40 292.25 296.00CENTURYTEX 769.00 769.00 742.80 745.80COROMANDEL 791.10 791.55 773.00 780.70WELSPUNIND 106.85 107.35 105.00 105.25JKLAKSHMI 436.00 439.10 414.00 420.15GMM 4389.35 4423.30 4303.90 4303.90HONAUT 40750.00 40965.70 40460.10 40465.95NETWORK18 77.80 78.75 76.25 76.70SUDARSCHEM 544.70 558.65 540.30 541.40KPRMILL 627.00 637.75 622.20 626.55DCAL 169.75 174.95 164.80 165.85FINCABLES 418.95 418.95 406.15 409.30TORNTPHARM 2769.85 2820.85 2769.80 2802.00EQUITAS 106.35 106.35 103.00 105.25GULFOILLUB 454.45 475.60 454.45 475.00TEAMLEASE 4250.00 4260.90 4146.20 4169.85ZYDUSWELL 1572.55 1595.00 1540.15 1577.20

MHRIL 212.75 214.30 207.20 208.10INTELLECT 666.00 669.60 651.65 656.00TTKPRESTIG 799.45 808.60 788.25 805.15EQUITASBNK 51.70 52.40 50.45 50.80KRBL 191.90 197.40 191.50 194.05PRSMJOHNSN 119.40 120.15 117.50 117.85IOB 18.15 18.20 17.80 17.90TCIEXP 1745.60 1797.05 1745.60 1760.60TIMKEN 2058.40 2095.75 2009.05 2028.00CEATLTD 995.25 996.30 979.50 981.30DCBBANK 74.50 74.55 72.90 73.90IIFLWAM 1502.40 1508.60 1452.05 1452.95GARFIBRES 2895.05 2900.35 2830.00 2900.00RESPONIND 164.90 165.30 159.00 160.75MAHINDCIE 190.00 190.00 186.75 187.75GALAXYSURF 2775.00 2843.25 2727.00 2747.00MAHLOG 420.40 429.65 417.20 420.80WESTLIFE 461.00 462.90 448.05 453.45CSBBANK 222.65 222.65 217.00 217.60THERMAX 1833.20 1879.95 1833.20 1870.00NH 698.00 698.00 668.15 670.05HAWKINCOOK 5275.00 5360.00 5200.00 5340.00JSLHISAR 371.65 378.80 360.65 361.25MOIL 175.60 177.70 172.80 173.20RITES 243.40 249.50 241.85 246.50JUBLPHARMA 418.70 422.45 410.00 414.15JBCHEPHARM 1629.95 1629.95 1588.75 1608.00JCHAC 1852.40 1883.95 1803.60 1803.60SIS 452.00 462.55 451.80 459.15KSB 1118.00 1125.85 1052.20 1055.053MINDIA 20932.00 21190.45 20754.50 21065.00BLUESTARCO 1060.00 1067.90 1035.55 1055.90JMFINANCIL 66.40 67.15 65.05 65.45AVANTI 481.45 486.75 468.35 470.60PGHL 4576.95 4600.00 4510.85 4513.00ITI 94.10 95.70 94.10 95.30GILLETTE 5135.50 5169.85 5092.05 5141.60TRITURBINE 181.35 183.20 178.20 179.25SHRIRAMCIT 1552.15 1581.40 1527.45 1550.15ALKEM 3275.00 3287.35 3210.00 3249.45UJJIVANSFB 17.05 17.30 16.90 17.00FLUOROCHEM 2720.00 2745.00 2625.00 2657.95VINATIORGA 1860.00 1860.00 1815.00 1833.00RUCHISOYA 848.00 849.90 829.95 834.90MAHSCOOTER 3452.00 3508.55 3452.00 3492.90CAPPL 701.00 728.65 700.60 723.25ANURAS 840.00 845.00 832.55 836.50SOLARINDS 2312.90 2321.05 2294.00 2319.95KEC 477.50 477.50 459.35 467.00

HATSUN 1118.55 1124.05 1075.75 1081.30MIDHANI 179.45 181.20 176.75 177.55GODREJIND 517.00 519.30 510.00 516.80GLAXO 1560.00 1560.00 1515.10 1515.10MASFIN 567.85 570.65 555.45 556.50AIAENG 1609.65 1615.35 1573.10 1602.00TASTYBIT 11807.00 11807.00 11200.00 11220.00INDOCO 391.85 391.95 376.95 384.50RATNAMANI 2311.90 2311.90 2218.50 2223.95NIACL 120.90 120.90 117.35 118.25TCNSBRANDS 655.70 684.00 654.70 682.65EPL 161.60 161.60 157.80 158.70TATAINVEST 1343.00 1350.05 1335.15 1337.00KALPATPOWR 390.45 391.70 381.15 384.10AKZOINDIA 1857.50 1866.60 1841.45 1857.40SUNCLAYLTD 3916.70 3916.70 3675.00 3786.45NESCO 553.50 569.70 551.60 562.60SYMPHONY 990.65 992.50 975.05 981.00FDC 269.50 278.25 269.10 274.70ITDC 351.35 357.65 345.25 350.50HEIDELBERG 194.40 196.25 188.40 188.55SUNDRMFAST 830.45 848.00 823.20 833.65SOLARA 699.00 702.50 690.35 692.05BAYERCROP 4409.05 4443.40 4384.25 4423.70JYOTHYLAB 136.70 137.95 135.90 137.95ESABINDIA 2788.75 2828.80 2788.75 2820.65DHANUKA 743.90 743.90 727.30 739.05WABCOINDIA 7508.80 7594.60 7446.80 7499.00IFBIND 899.85 899.90 860.00 864.15NILKAMAL 2049.00 2061.00 1990.00 2024.35POLYMED 802.40 815.00 799.45 815.00CHOLAHLDNG 649.90 659.15 645.05 647.90VSTIND 2985.85 2990.35 2961.65 2971.00SWANENERGY 158.30 165.60 158.30 162.05PSB 15.50 15.65 15.35 15.45

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SCRIP OPEN HIgh LOW LTP CHANGENIFTY 50 16723.20 16768.95 16442.95 16498.05 -107.90ONGC 168.30 171.80 162.90 170.45 7.50UPL 707.90 724.60 688.95 720.35 30.80POWERGRID 210.70 219.35 210.70 216.90 6.00WIPRO 563.00 575.95 560.35 570.45 15.25TECHM 1409.80 1443.60 1405.15 1429.60 35.25IOC 115.00 116.50 113.00 114.90 2.65COALINDIA 189.60 197.75 186.85 188.85 4.05HCLTECH 1125.00 1152.00 1120.50 1137.15 21.60ITC 216.05 220.20 216.00 219.35 4.05JSWSTEEL 650.50 662.50 649.30 654.60 10.00NTPC 132.10 133.45 130.25 132.95 2.00BPCL 347.40 354.00 343.35 346.60 4.50CIPLA 925.00 945.00 919.55 934.30 11.20INFY 1720.20 1733.90 1705.55 1721.75 18.95TATASTEEL 1306.00 1328.65 1293.65 1303.00 13.65HINDALCO 613.90 613.90 596.90 606.05 5.95INDUSINDBK 918.00 926.00 906.50 910.00 3.65HEROMOTOCO 2441.00 2468.00 2405.00 2430.20 3.90DIVISLAB 4200.00 4226.80 4143.30 4158.75 -2.15TCS 3562.85 3578.60 3530.10 3544.00 -2.15HDFCBANK 1381.00 1392.00 1362.90 1373.35 -0.90HDFC 2280.00 2306.55 2262.25 2276.15 -1.95SUNPHARMA 832.80 832.80 817.00 819.50 -1.40BHARTIARTL 675.00 679.80 668.60 672.20 -2.05ADANIPORTS 718.80 724.60 703.00 708.00 -2.30RELIANCE 2400.00 2414.85 2370.05 2382.00 -16.55BRITANNIA 3405.00 3439.55 3350.00 3366.00 -25.75KOTAKBANK 1812.95 1819.60 1772.60 1792.00 -14.00TITAN 2620.00 2639.80 2560.00 2571.70 -20.95BAJFINANCE 6920.00 6944.30 6725.00 6740.00 -91.55LT 1810.00 1813.55 1745.55 1757.50 -27.00SBIN 480.00 483.40 464.60 466.65 -7.60AXISBANK 756.00 759.45 732.40 736.05 -14.20M&M 792.00 793.15 760.05 762.50 -15.85BAJAJ-AUTO 3399.00 3404.80 3279.00 3302.00 -70.30ICICIBANK 717.60 721.95 693.45 699.65 -15.20TATAMOTORS 458.50 458.50 435.00 437.90 -9.70NESTLEIND 17880.00 17880.00 17389.55 17446.00 -398.60BAJAJFINSV 16300.00 16347.95 15646.80 15680.00 -373.00MARUTI 7924.00 7939.95 7558.50 7608.00 -206.20HINDUNILVR 2157.90 2167.95 2086.60 2090.00 -59.10GRASIM 1558.00 1577.60 1496.20 1504.00 -44.50DRREDDY 3879.00 3894.25 3700.00 3734.65 -118.50TATACONSUM 712.15 718.75 684.55 688.75 -22.25SBILIFE 1120.10 1126.75 1075.15 1084.00 -37.15EICHERMOT 2539.00 2539.00 2401.35 2419.35 -88.75SHREECEM 24026.00 24226.00 22748.45 22860.00 -1072.65HDFCLIFE 560.75 563.50 530.25 532.60 -28.20ASIANPAINT 3029.00 3051.00 2862.00 2871.75 -157.20ULTRACEMCO 6416.00 6437.15 5964.85 5970.00 -429.35

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Mumbai: Equity indices relin-quished early gains to close inthe red for the second straightsession on Thursday as surgingoil prices amid the ongoingconflict between Russia andUkraine sapped risk appetite.

Crude oil prices ratchetedup towards the USD 120 perbarrel mark on fears of supplydisruptions as western nationstightened sanctions on Russia,which accounts for around 10per cent of global oil output.

A weakening rupee andpersistent foreign fund out-flows also weighed on senti-ment, traders said.The 30-share BSE Sensex started the

trade on a firm footing andjumped 527.72 points in morn-ing deals to a high of 55,996.62.However, during the afternoonsession it surrendered all itsearly gains and finished at

55,102.68, down 366.22 pointsor 0.66 per cent.In similarfashion, the broader NSE Niftydeclined 107.90 points or 0.65per cent to close at 16,498.05.

UltraTech Cement wasthe biggest drag among theSensex components, tumbling6.47 per cent, followed byAsian Paints, Dr Reddy'sLaboratories, Maruti SuzukiIndia, Hindustan UnileverLimited and ICICI Bank.

In contrast, PowerGrid,Wipro, Tech Mahindra, HCLTech, ITC, Tata Steel andInfosys were among the promi-nent gainers, climbing as muchas 3.34 per cent. PTI

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New Delhi: Domestic card payment networkRuPay will be an official partner for TATA IPLtournament starting this month.

"This will be a multi-year partnership,"National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI)said in a release on Thursday.NPCI hadlaunched RuPay, the first-of-its-kind domesticcard payment network in the country.

The announcement regarding RuPay becom-ing an official partner was made by the IndianPremier League Governing Council (IPL GC) onThursday."We are pleased to have RuPay on boardas an official partner of the Indian Premier League2022. "This association of IPL and RuPay, the flag-

ship product of NPCI, brings together two ofIndia's best homegrown brands and is set to cre-ate a huge impact on millions of Indians acrossthe globe, encouraging digital payments adoptionin a faster and seamless manner," Brijesh Patel,Chairman of IPL, said. Praveena Rai, ChiefOperating Officer of NPCI, said it was delightedto partner with BCCI for IPL, one of the most cel-ebrated sports leagues. According to her, just likeIPL provides high voltage entertainment to allIndian cricket lovers, RuPay offers tech-led,innovative, and customised offerings to peopleacross the country, being accepted in India andinternationally. PTI

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New Delhi: IKEA Foundationon Thursday said it has com-mitted an immediate 20 millioneuro donation for humanitar-ian assistance for people whohave been forcibly displaced bythe military action in Ukraine.

This is in response to anemergency appeal fromUNHCR, the UN RefugeeAgency, to scale up its assis-tance and protection to peopleaffected by conflict in Ukraine.

As of March 3, UNHCRreported that 1 millionrefugees, mainly women, chil-dren, and families, have already

fled Ukraine to neighbouringcountries.

"This is a human tragedy.We believe everyone deservesa safe place to call home and wehave pledged to do all we canto help the children and fami-lies affected by the deadly war,"IKEA Foundation CEO PerHeggenes said in a statement.

UNHCR has been a long-standing partner and they havea proven track record, headded. "We therefore callon the world's governments,businesses, and philanthropiesto join us and increase the relief

support for UNHCR and thepeople f leeing Ukraine,"Heggenes said. UNHCRurgently requires USD 270million inside Ukraine for aninitial three-month period, andUSD 240 million for its region-al refugee response for sixmonths.

The UN estimates that 12million people inside Ukrainewill need relief and protection,while more than 4 millionrefugees from Ukraine mayneed protection and assistancein neighbouring countries incoming months. PTI

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Mumbai: Pinnacle Industries, which is among the 20 compa-nies that got approval to launch electric vehicle manufacturingunder the production-linked incentives scheme, will invest Rs2,000 crore to set up EV manufacturing units in Pune and Indore,according to a senior company official.

The Pune-based company, which has been into automotive seat-ings, interiors for speciality vehicles since 1996, has already setup an electric vehicle unit under the Eka label and has two busmodels awaiting regulatory nods.

In September 2021, the government announced the PLIscheme for the auto sector, offering Rs 26,058 crore in incen-tives along with 12 other manufacturing sectors.

The scheme for the auto sector seeks to incentivise domes-tic manufacturing of high-value advanced automotive technol-ogy vehicles and products, and expects over the next five yearsthe scheme to attract over Rs 42,500 crore in new investments,incremental production worth over Rs 2.3 lakh crore and gen-erate over 7.5 lakh new jobs. Last month, the government cleared20 PLI applications out of 115 it received since the scheme wasannounced. PTI

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Chennai: Omnichannel meatand seafood brand, TenderCutson Thursday announced open-ing its first all-women store inthe city and said it plans toestablish more such outletsacross the country. The storewas an extension ofTenderCuts' vision to enable allshoppers, especially women, tostep into meat or fish buyingexperience, a press release said.

"Butchering is not a com-mon career opportunity formost women, but atTenderCuts today, there aremore than 100 women butch-ers who are trail-blazing a newcareer. We are very proud to

have launched this womenstore in Chennai and are plan-ning to launch more suchstores across India", companyCo-founder Sasikumar K said.

TenderCuts employswomen, trains, deputes themfor store management, cus-tomer service. PTI

New Delhi: The Governmenthas received multiple expres-sions of interest for privatisa-tion of Projects & DevelopmentIndia Ltd (PDIL), DIPAMSecretary Tuhin Kanta Pandeysaid on Thursday.

The Department ofInvestment and Public AssetManagement (DIPAM) had onDecember 14 invited prelimi-nary bids for selling the gov-ernment's 100 per cent stake inthe CPSE which is underMinistry of Chemicals andFertilisers.

The last date for submittingexpressions of interest (EoIs)was January 31, which was laterextended till February 28. PTI

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Mumbai: The rupee declined by 14 paise to close at 75.94 againstthe US dollar on Thursday, pressured by surging crude oil pricesamid intensifying conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

Persistent foreign capital outflows and subdued domesticequity markets also affected market sentiment, forex dealers said.

At the interbank foreign exchange market, the rupee openedstrong at 75.76 against the American dollar but soon entered thenegative territory as investors turned towards safe-haven assets.During the session, it swung between a high of 75.60 and a lowof 75.98. The local unit finally settled at 75.94 against the dollar,down 14 paise from the previous close.

Meanwhile, the dollar index, which gauges the greenback'sstrength against a basket of six currencies, was trading 0.23 percent higher at 97.63.

On the domestic equity market front, the 30-share BSE Sensexended 366.22 points or 0.66 per cent lower at 55,102.68, whilethe broader NSE Nifty declined 107.90 points or 0.65 per centto 16,498.05. PTI

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More than 1 million peoplehave fled Ukraine fol-

lowing Russia's invasion, inthe swiftest refugee exodusthis century, the UnitedNations said Thursday, asRussian forces pressed theirassaults on the country's sec-ond-largest city and two strate-gic seaports.

The tally the UN Refugeeagency released to TheAssociated Press was reachedWednesday and amounts tomore than 2 per cent ofUkraine's population beingforced out of the country inseven days.

The mass evacuation couldbe seen in Kharkiv, a city of about1.5 million people where resi-dents desperate to escape fallingshells and bombs crowded thecity's train station and pressedonto trains, not always knowingwhere they were headed.

With a column of tanks andother vehicles apparently stalledfor days outside the capital ofKyiv, fighting continued onmultiple fronts across Ukraine.A second round of talks aimedat ending the fighting wasexpected later Thursday inneighbouring Belarus - thoughthe two sides appeared to havelittle common ground.

Britain's Defense Ministrysaid Mariupol, a large city onthe Azov Sea, was encircled byRussian forces. The status ofanother vital port, Kherson, aBlack Sea shipbuilding city of280,000, remained unclear.

Russia's forces claimed tohave taken complete control ofKherson, which would be thebiggest city to fall in the inva-

sion thus far. Britain's DefenseMinistry said that was possible,though not yet verified. Themayor said there were noUkrainian forces in the city -but he said the Ukrainian flagwas still flying over it.

Overnight, AssociatedPress reporters in Kyiv heard atleast one explosion beforevideos started circulating ofapparent strikes on the capital.

Russia's Defense Ministrysaid it had knocked out areserve broadcasting center inthe Lysa Hora district, about 7kilometers (4 miles) south ofthe government headquarters.It said unspecified precisionweapons were used, and thatthere were no casualties ordamage to residential buildings.

A statement from the gen-eral staff of Ukraine's armedforces didn't address the strikes,saying only that Russian forceswere "regrouping" and "tryingto reach the northern out-skirts" of the city. "The advanceon Kyiv has been rather notvery organized and now they'remore or less stuck," militaryanalyst Pavel Felgenhauer toldthe AP in Moscow.

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The father who fatally shothis three daughters and a

man at a California church thisweek repeatedly threatened tokill his estranged girlfriendand scared their girls so muchthey cried and one bit off herfingernails, according to arestraining order that was sup-posed to keep him away fromguns and bullets.

But 39-year-old DavidMora had both when he

showed up Monday for asupervised visit with his daugh-ters, ages 13, 10 and 9. He shotthem, the chaperone he and hisex-girlfriend had agreed couldoversee the weekly visits, andthen himself. The violence atThe Church in Sacramento, anondenominational Christianplace of worship, raised trou-bling questions: How did Moraget a gun? Should his arrest aweek earlier on felony chargeshave prompted postponementof his visitation?

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Kyiv, bracing for a poten-tially catastrophic Russian

attack, is the spiritual heart ofUkraine.

Among the sites at risk inthe Ukrainian Capital are thenation's most sacred Orthodoxshrines, dating back nearly1,000 years to the dawn ofChristianity in the region.

The sites, along with otherlandmark shrines in Kyiv, arereligiously significant to bothUkrainian Orthodox andRussian Orthodox. They alsostand as powerful symbols inthe quarrel over whether thetwo groups are parts of a sin-gle people - as RussianPresident Vladimir Putin hasclaimed - or are distinct butrelated Slavic nations.

The landmarks include thegolden domed St. Sophia'sCathedral and the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, a sprawlingunderground and above-ground complex also known asthe Monastery of the Caves.Others include the multi-tow-ered St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery and St.Andrew's Church. On Tuesday,Ukrainian officials said Russianforces damaged another mon-ument - Ukraine's mainHolocaust memorial, Babi Yar- prompting international con-demnation.

"What will be next if evenBabi Yar (is hit)" askedUkrainian PresidentVolodymyr Zelenskyy onWednesday. "What other mil-itary' objects, NATO bases' arethreatening Russia? St. Sophia's

Cathedral, Lavra, Andrew'sChurch?"

There is no indication theRussians intentionally targetedBabi Yar. Nor is there any con-firmation that the Russiansplan to target any of the sacredsites in Kyiv. But civilian build-ings have already been hit inother cities, and Kyiv's majorshrines sit in elevated locationsthat could leave them especiallyvulnerable.Case in point: TheAssumption Cathedral inKharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, was damaged in therecent attacks, reportedly withstained-glass windows brokenand other decorations dam-aged. The cathedral, which isunder the Moscow-affiliatedOrthodox church, wasKharkiv's tallest building untilsometime in the 21st century.

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Ekho Moskvy, a liberal radiostation and one of Russia's

leading media outlets, has beentaken off the air over its criti-cal coverage of Moscow's attackon Ukraine, the head of theradio station said on Thursday.

Alexey Venediktov, theradio station's Editor-in-Chiefand one of Russia's mostprominent journalists, wrote onTelegram that "higher-rank-ing people" earlier had hintedto him that such a decision wasunder consideration.

"The Ekho Moskvy boardof directors has decided by amajority to close down theEkho Moskvy radio channeland the website," he said.

The press service of theGazprom Media holding hasconfirmed the information to

Russia's state-run news agencyTASS.

Venediktov told TASS thathe planned to hold a meetingof the radio station's journal-istic staff later in the day. The Russian ProsecutorGeneral's Office earlierdemanded that access to theEkho Moskvy radio stationand the Dozhd (or Rain) TVchannel (designated in Russiaas a foreign agent media outlet)be restricted because of theircoverage of Russia's attack onUkraine.

"Having considered theRussian Prosecutor General'sOffice's order to limit access tothe Ekho Moskvy media outlet,the board of directors of theEkho Moskvy closed joint-stock company made a decisionon March 3 to close down themedia outlet, including theEkho Moskvy radio channel

and the digital news outlet ofthe same name," the report said.

The US State Departmenthas criticised Russia for engag-ing in a "full assault on mediafreedom" and its efforts to"suppress the truth of the bru-tal invasion".

The outlets were baseless-ly accused of "calling forextremist activity and violence"and sharing "deliberately falseinformation about the actionsof Russian military personnelin Ukraine," Spokesperson forthe US Department of StateNed Price said in a statement. Russia's govern-ment is also throttling Twitter,Facebook, and Instagram plat-forms that tens of millions ofRussia's citizens rely on toaccess independent informa-tion and opinions and to con-nect with each other and theoutside world, it said.

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Some of Ukraine's most vul-nerable citizens have

reached safety in Polandthrough an effort of solidarityand compassion that tran-scended borders and raised apowerful counterpoint to war.On Wednesday, a train pulledinto the station in Zahony,Hungary carrying about 200people with severe physicaland mental disabilities - resi-dents of two orphanages for the

disabled in Ukraine's capital ofKyiv that were evacuated asRussian forces battered thecity.

"Territorially, the orphan-ages are where the rocketsflew, where there were bursts ofrifle fire. A metro station nearthe orphanage was blown up,"said Larissa Leonidovna, thedirector of the Svyatoshinksyorphanage for boys in Kyiv. "Wespent more than an hourunderground during a bomb-ing."

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The House is poised to pass legislationthat would dramatically boost health

care services and disability benefits for vet-erans exposed to burn pits in Iraq andAfghanistan.

The bill set for a vote Thursday hasthe backing of the nation's major veter-ans groups and underscores the contin-ued cost of war years after the fighting hasstopped. If passed into law, it wouldincrease spending by more than $300 bil-lion over the next decade, according to theCongressional Budget Office.

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The House Committeeinvestigating the US

Capitol insurrection saidWednesday night that its evi-dence shows former PresidentDonald Trump and his associ-ates engaged in a "criminal con-spiracy" to prevent Congressfrom certifying the results ofthe presidential election, spreadfalse information about it andpressured state officials to over-turn the results.

The committee made theclaims in a filing in response toa lawsuit by Trump adviserJohn Eastman. Eastman, alawyer who was consultingwith Trump as he attempted to

overturn the election, is tryingto withhold documents fromthe committee as it investigatesthe Jan 6, 2021, insurrection.The committee argued there isa legal exception allowing thedisclosure of communicationsregarding ongoing or futurecrimes.

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The UN special envoy forAfghanistan said Wednesday

the international communityhasn't done enough to revive thecountry's economy as it headstoward "a point of irreversibility,"

while the US said it is the respon-sibility of the ruling Taliban tocreate the conditions for eco-nomic stability. The envoy, toldthe UN Security Council thatAfghanistan is nearing "a tippingpoint that will see more busi-nesses close, more people unem-

ployed and falling into poverty."Afghanistan's long-troubledeconomy has been in a tailspinsince the Taliban takeover Aug.15 as US and NATO forces werein the final stages of their chaot-ic withdrawal from the countryafter 20 years.

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The HermitageAmsterdam said it has long dis-tanced itself from politics inRussia under PresidentVladimir Putin as it built closeties with the Hermitage, givingthe Amsterdam museum accessto one of the world’s mostfamous art collections, whichwe could draw from for exhi-bitions. Russia’s recent attack onUkraine makes keeping thisdistance no longer tenable, theDutch museum said in a state-

ment. Our Board and directorshave decided to cut ties withthe State Hermitage Museum.

It added that it hoped toeventually be able to restore tiespending peace and changes inthe future of Russia.

In another move to cul-turally isolate Moscow, theSwedish Academy that handsout the coveted Nobel Prize inLiterature broke a long-stand-ing practice not to make polit-ical statements and condemnedthe invasion.

In a statement, the acade-my noted that its history andmission are deeply rooted inthe traditions of freedom ofexpression, belief and inquiry.

We therefore join thelegion of our fellow acade-mies, literary and cultural insti-tutions, places of higher learn-ing, defenders of a free press,

human rights organizationsand nation states in expressingour abhorrence of the Russiangovernment’s unjustified attackon Ukraine and its people, itsaid. The United Nations’ cul-tural agency, meanwhile,sounded the alarm about thedamage to Ukraine’s culturalpatrimony in announcing itwas working to assess Ukraine’seducational and cultural insti-tutions and its UN-designatedheritage sites.

Ukraine is home to sevenUNESCO World Heritage sites,including the famous St. SophiaCathedral and related monas-tic buildings in the capitalKyiv.

Other sites on the UN listare located in the western cityof Lviv, the Black Sea port cityof Odesa and in the secondlargest city of Kharkiv.

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Meanwhile, the Indian Air Force hasbrought 798 people between midnight ofMarch 2 and early morning of March 3 byits four C-17 flights. The first C-17 flightcarried 200 people from Bucharest andlanded at 1.30 am on Thursday. It wasreceived by junior Defence Minister AjayBhatt.

The second one carried 210 fromBudapest and that was followed soon afterby a third carrying 208 from Poland’sRzescow. The fourth brought 180 peopleback from Budapest.

Besides IAF, as many as 3,726 Indianswere brought back to India by 10 specialcivilian flights, including five fromBucharest, two from Budapest, one fromKosice, and two from Rzeszow. Accordingto Civil Aviation Ministry, 17 flights areexpected to bring back 3,500 people onFriday and around 4,000 on Saturday.

As per details shared by officials, asmany as 35 evacuation flights have beenplanned from Bucharest, which include 14flights of Air India, eight of Air IndiaExpress, seven of IndiGo, one of Spice Jet,three of Vistara, and two of Indian AirForce.

A total of 28 flights have been sched-uled to take off from Hungary’s capitalBudapest. Among these 28, 15 flights arefrom Go Air, 9 from IndiGo, 2 from AirIndia, 1 from Indian Air Force, and 1 fromSpice Jet.

A total of nine flights are scheduledfrom Rzeszow, Poland, which includeseight from IndiGo and 1 from Indian AirForce, while five flights will take off fromSuceava, Romania and 3 flights will takeoff from Kosice, Slovakia.

India has been evacuating its citizensthrough special flights from Ukraine’s west-ern neighbours such as Romania, Hungary,and Poland as the Ukrainian airspace hasbeen shut since February 24 due to theRussian military offensive.

The Government has also roped inMinisters to monitor smooth evacuationand receive evacuees at Delhi and MumbaiAirport who are coming from Hungary,Romania, Slovakia, and Poland underOperation Ganga. Union MinistersJitendra Singh, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, RaoInderjeet Singh, Narayan Rane, G KishanReddy, Kailash Choudhary, ParshottamRupala, Bhagwant Khuba, VirendraKumar, Meenakshi Lekhi, VMuraleedharan, and several others havebeen assigned to receive the flights carry-

ing Indians.As regards the efforts to bring out the

Indian citizens, including students fromKharkiv, Bagchi said the focus was now onevacuating them from eastern Ukraine.

He said most of the Indian studentsand citizens had left Kharkiv onWednesday after the Indian Embassyadvisory which urged them to leaveimmediately by any means including “onfoot”. However, a few hundred Indianswere still in the city, he said.

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“Excellent meeting of the ConsultativeCommittee on External Affairs this morn-ing on #Ukraine. My thanks to@DrSJaishankar & his colleagues for acomprehensive briefing and candidresponses to our questions and concerns.This is the spirit in which foreign policyshould be run,” he added in a tweet.

Echoing similar views, Shiv Sena MPPriyanka Chaturvedi described the meet-ing as “very good”. “We were well briefedand stand united with the Government,”she said YSR Congress MP Beeseti VenkataSatyavathi said the Ministry assured theMPs that stranded students would be evac-uated in the next few days.

Rahul reportedly sought to know theimpact of the Russian-Ukraine conflict onthe tense situation at the Line of ActualControl(LAC) between India and China inLadakh.

Rahul, according to sources, wanted toknow whether the Indian Governmentexpected China to take its cue fromRussia and step up aggression againstIndia. To this, Jaishankar said, “India is noUkraine”.

There were several questions fromOpposition MPs on the perceived delay inbeginning the evacuation process. Themembers asked questions on the timelineof advisories issued by the IndianGovernment as opposed to that by othercountries. They also sought to know therescue measures being taken, especially forstudents in Ukraine’s eastern sector and thepossibility of a humanitarian corridor topull students out from the Ukraine-Russiaborder.

Rahul also raised the issue of increas-ing proximity between China and Pakistanand its impact on India. While Congressleaders supported India’s position at theUN on Ukraine, some MPs, includingTharoor expressed concern over theGovernment’s stand, especially which wasmentioned in its first two speeches in the

United Nations, sources said.The meeting lasted for more than two

hours and came amid opposition criticismof the Government’s handling of theUkraine crisis- the evacuation of Indiansand the UN vote. Apart from being criti-cal of the Government’s evacuation efforts,Tharoor had also raised questions overIndia’s abstention in voting against Russiaat the UNSC.

“Our stand has been that we do notsupport invading other countries andregime change through violence andwar… After our abstention, many regret-ted that India had placed itself on the‘wrong side of history’,” Tharoor tweetedlast week.

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...the administration to impose sanc-tions on countries that purchase majordefence hardware from Russia in responseto Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014and its alleged meddling in the 2016 USpresidential elections.

Responding to a question on possibleCAATSA sanctions on India, Donald Lu,Assistant Secretary of State for South andCentral Asia told members of the SenateForeign Relations Subcommittee on theNear East, South Asia, Central Asia, andCounterterrorism on Wednesday that itwas for the President Biden to decidewhether to apply or waive sanctions onIndia.

“I can assure you that the adminis-tration will follow the CAATSA law andfully implement that law and will consultwith Congress as we move forward withany of them. What unfortunately I am notable to say is to prejudge the decisions ofthe President or the (Secretary of State) onthe waiver issue or on the sanctions issue,or whether Russia’s invasion of Ukraine willbear on that decision,” he said.

Lu said that the Biden administrationis yet to decide on applying sanctions onIndia under CAATSA.

“India is a really important securitypartner of ours now. And that we valuemoving forward that partnership and Ihope that part of what happens with theextreme criticism that Russia has faced isthat India will find it’s now time to furtherdistances,” Lu said.

The senior American diplomat said itis going to be very hard for any countryto buy major weapon systems from Russiabecause of the sweeping sanctions nowplaced on Russian banks.

“What we’ve seen from India in just the

last few weeks, is the cancellation of MiG29 orders, Russian helicopter orders andanti-tank weapon orders,” Lu said.

Lu’s remarks came as India faced flakfrom US lawmakers, both Republicans andDemocrats for choosing to abstain froma UN vote on Wednesday to rebukeRussia’s invasion of Ukraine.

A total of 141 nations voted in favourof the move condemning Russia’s invasionof Ukraine and five nations were againstit, with 35 countries, including India,abstaining. The UNGA resolution was sim-ilar to the one circulated in the 15-nationSecurity Council last Friday, on which alsoIndia had abstained.

The UNSC resolution, which received11 votes in favour and three abstentions,was blocked after permanent memberRussia exercised its veto.

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“The double-engine BJP governmentalso helped farmers adopt the latest tech-nology in farming and this is the reasonwhy a good number of farmers haveexported ‘Kala Namak’ rice variety,” he said.

Targeting the previous SP regime inUttar Pradesh, the Prime Minister said,“During the earlier government, wheat andpaddy was purchased from only 12,000farmers of Chandauli while during the BJPregime, the number went up to 50,000. Wealso improved the overall infrastructureand in coming years, Kashi to KolkataExpressway will be laid which will not onlyprovide ample job opportunities to youthsof Chandauli but also help local farmerssell their produce in big markets easily.”

Besides BJP candidates contestingvarious segments in Chandauli, the meet-ing was also attended by Deputy ChiefMinister Keshav Prasad Maurya.

Earlier, addressing an election meet-ing to garner support for party candidatesat TD College grounds of Jaunpur, Modilaunched a scathing attack on dynastic pol-itics (SP, BSP, Congress etc) and charged,"Their main objectives were to keep thesociety divided on religious and caste lines,while the BJP's norms, intent, dedicationand leadership (niti, niyat, nishtha andnetritva) is focussed on working for the

growth of all and ensure good governance. Citing a recent example of attacks on

the houses of a section of the poor inJaunpur, the Prime Minister cautioned thepeople not to allow the dynasts to reuniteagain with the mafia.

“By providing direct benefits to thefarmers, the BJP government has checkedcorruption and ended the game of mid-dlemen. During the SP regime, the poordid not get the benefits of several schemesstarted by the Centre despite severalreminders,” he stated.

In an obvious reference to the Russia-Ukraine strife and its global implications,Modi said, “The world is passing througha difficult phase, so there are several chal-lenges and the country is able to face thesetasks with confidence because of the sup-port of the people.”

The function was also addressed byChief Minister Yogi Adityanath and wasattended by BJP MPs Seema Dwevedi andBP Saroj and other BJP candidates.

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Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath beingamong 676 candidates, contesting on 57seats across 10 districts.

Till the end of the sixth phase, votingfor 349 of the 403 Assembly seats has beencompleted. The final phase of the electionson the remaining 54 seats will be held onMarch 7.

Districts where polling was held onThursday are Ambedkar Nagar, Balrampur,Siddharth Nagar, Basti, Sant Kabir Nagar,Maharajganj, Gorakhpur, Kushinagar,Deoria and Ballia.

Other prominent candidates includestate Congress chief Ajay Kumar Lallufrom Tamkuhi Raj (Kushinagar), formerminister and now SP candidate SwamiPrasad Maurya from Fazilnagar(Kushinagar).

The SP has pitted late BJP leaderUpendra Dutt Shukla's wife against theChief Minister while Bheem Army chiefChandrashekhar Ravan was also in the frayin Gorakhpur Sadar seat. Besides, Leaderof the Opposition in Assembly and SPleader Ram Govind Chaudhary is con-testing from Bansdih. The fate of severalincumbent ministers' fate will also bedecided in this phase and they includeSurya Pratap Shahi from Pathardeva,Satish Chandra Dwivedi from Itwa, JaiPratap Singh from Bansi, Shree RamChauhan from Khajani and Jai PrakashNishad from Rudrapur. In the 2017Assembly polls, the BJP had won 46 ofthese 57 seats.

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Ukrainian President VolodymyrZelenskyy’s office says a second

round of talks with Russia about the warin Ukraine has begun in neighbouringBelarus. A video released by Zelenskyy’soffice Thursday showed the informallydressed Ukrainian delegation walking intothe meeting room where they shookhands with Russian delegates in suits andties.

A video released by Zelenskyy’s officeon Thursday showed the informallydressed Ukrainian delegation walking intothe meeting room where they shookhands with Russian delegates in suits andties. The talks are aimed at stopping thefighting that has sent more than 1 millionpeople fleeing over Ukraine’s borders, butthe two sides appeared to have little com-mon ground. Russian President VladimirPutin has warned Ukraine that it mustquickly accept the Kremlin’s demand forits “demilitarisation” and declare itself neu-tral, formally renouncing its bid to joinNATO. Putin has long contended thatUkraine’s turn toward the West is athreat to Moscow, an argument he usedto justify last week’s invasion.

The talks came as the Russian mili-tary made significant gains in the southof Ukraine as part of an effort to sever thecountry’s connection to the Black andAzov seas.

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The great part about work-ing in a multi-culturalworkplace, where your

co-workers love food, is thatyou are exposed to a variety ofcuisines. And not just the kindthat is curated at restaurants butthe food that is cooked — withrough estimates that is the nor-mal at home — and served witha lot of love. So, my previousplace of work exposed me tocuisines that could easily layclaim to coming from differentparts of the country, Bengali —especially the Calcutta variant— being a prime one. Andalong the way I discovered thatKoraishutir kochuri and Luchiwith Kosha mangsho represent-ed ambrosial heaven, no less.

So, when I heard of TheTangra Project where ChefVikramjit Roy — who has beenassociated with several PanAsian restaurants like Wasabifor Taj, Pan Asian for ITC, Kianat the Maurya and Kimono —has decided to revisit his roots,I decided to head out and sam-ple the fare.

“Tangra stands for inclusiv-ity. These were Chinesemigrants who had come toCalcutta and the city welcomedthem with open arms and theyalso gave back to the city byadjusting their techniques to

suit the palate of the city. Thesame was true for all the inva-sions from the Mughals to theDutch, Danes, French andBritishers. Interestingly, theseled to cultural amalgamationand something unique cameout. The cuisine of Mughalsadapted to Calcutta. The bestexamples are biryani and reza-la,” Chef Vikramjit pointed out.

The reason why the wordproject has been added in thename is because the restaurantis seen as a beginning where theinitial point is Tangra and,from there, it is an upward spi-ral. So, it has Bengali heirloomrecipes, where the techniqueshave been tweaked to suit arestaurant. With around 200dishes, the menu is expansivebut the chef justifies it as, “Weare celebrating inclusivity soyou can’t be frugal in yourapproach. You cant say that Iwant to celebrate and I want toconfine it to this much.”

The restaurant is designedin a way so as to try and trans-port the nostalgia — thatCalcutta holds for many pro-boshis — to Delhi. The lampson the side are reminiscent ofbooks stacked up in the shopsof College Street while theflooring too reminds one of thesame area.

“If you look at it from themall side, you see a large fishbut, when you enter the restau-rant, you realise that the wallhas several divisions creatingthe impression of layers.Similarly, Calcutta is not justBengalis as there are so manycommunities who call the cityhome,” says Chef Vikramjit.

But moving on from theconcept and interiors of the 110covers restaurant, we come tofood. We started off with Sweetpotato chips with parwal gua-camole, which was high onflavours. It perfectly replicatedthe taste of the real McCoy. Butit was the Organic spinach,roasted poppy seed, sesame seedthat not only looked unusualbut also had a perfect balance

of taste. The spinach wrappedup in a roll was placed on a bedof a sauce of sesame and poppyseeds, which had a subtle sweet-ness that blended perfectly intoa lip-smacking whole. If it isthree dishes that I would goback to restaurant, this wouldcertainly be one.

Next up was the Paturi(prawns marinated in mustardand cooked inside bananaleaves). The sharp acidic tasteof mustard dominated the dish.There was also a dish of Buffkebabs and TTP Chilli chicken.It was the latter that hadachieved a perfect balance oftaste and textures. The slightbite in the capsicum and onionwas perfect while the sweet-sour sauce had each ingredient

in perfect symmetry so thatnone was overpowering.

In the main course, theJorasanko Irish mixed meat stewwith potatoes, meat and boiledeggs in a tomato-onion gravywhen paired with luchis madefor a hearty meal.

Though I was quite full butdessert has a way of makingspace for itself. What followedwas a lot of drama which cre-ated anticipation for what wasto follow. A roundel of sweetwas placed on the table and theserver handed a frozen rosedipped in honey and asked meto smash it. The dessert calledThe Rose was smooth and pleas-ant on the palate. And is a musttry. It was the perfect sweet noteto end the meal.

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Ever wondered whysome people don’t lose

fat or progress despite eat-ing ‘healthy’ and exercising?First and foremost, let’sunderstand the basics offood and that of fat loss.Anything that is not ‘tooprocessed’ and is nutri-tious which is high in vita-mins and minerals is con-sidered healthy. But whenwe aim is to lose fat/weight,just eating healthy is notenough.

Let’s understand why.To lose fat, we need to

ensure that we are eatinglesser calories than what weare burning over time. Theoretically, to lose one kg of fat,we need to be in a caloric deficit of 7,000 calories. If we eat7,000 calories less than what we burn (over time), we willlose one kg of weight.

Being in a caloric deficit is necessary to fat loss/weightloss. Now, back to healthy food. ● If a food source is ‘healthy’, it doesn’t necessarily mean

that it’s low in calories. ● Healthy food can be high in calories too.● And if we ‘overeat’ healthy food, that can pull us out of

the caloric deficit, or even make us gain weight.● So, overall calories matter irrespective of the food source.

Let me list out few food items, which are healthy but highin calories:1. All nuts and nut butters2. All oils (even olive oil)3. Dark chocolate4. Protein bars5. Most protein bars and breakfast bars6. Fruit juices (fruits are better as they are high in fibre and

satiety)7. Hummus and dressings

Again, does that mean that we should be eliminating thesewhile dieting? Not really. We just need to be mindful of thequantities as a lot of these are easy to overeat (and can blowoff our caloric balance)

In any nutrition plan, I would ensure that the plan hasadequate protein, carbohydrates and fats to ensure adher-ence and sustainability. I would also add a variety of foodsources that are healthy, nutritious, high in all essential vit-amins, minerals and fibre. Now, talking about exercising.

A lot of us believe that exercising alone will make us losefat/weight. Exercising is amazing for health, mobility, pos-ture, wellbeing and longevity.

But, we cannot out-train a bad diet. It’s much easier (andquicker) to eat back the calories, we burn. Let me give youan example: For example, we exercise for an hour and burn500 calories. Eating back those calories can be a matter ofseconds and minutes if food sources are not correct. So, weneed to ensure that we are eating in a caloric deficit (ie eat-ing lesser calories than what we are burning over time) whiletaking care of all nutrients, exercising regularly, staying activeand taking care of other lifestyle factors such as mindset, stressand sleep.

(The author is a health & fitness educator.)

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Chelsea survived a majorFA Cup scare to reach thequarter-finals with a 3-2win at Luton just hours

after Roman Abramovich put theclub up for sale on Wednesday.

Thomas Tuchel's side took tothe Kenilworth Road pitch for thefifth round tie with their heads stillspinning from Abramovich's bomb-shell announcement.

The Russian billionaire hasdecided to sell Chelsea amid fearshe could be sanctioned by theBritish government amid his coun-try's invasion of Ukraine.

Abramovich, who is alleged tohave close ties to Russian PresidentVladimir Putin, will give the netproceeds from the sale to victims ofthe Ukraine war, with his askingprice starting at a reported $4 bil-lion.

After his massive investmenthelped Chelsea win 19 major tro-phies in his 19-year reign,Abramovich admitted it had been"incredibly difficult" to give up thekeys to Chelsea.

Fittingly, it was Belgian strikerRomelu Lukaku who completedChelsea's escape act on the day the

Abramovich era entered its finalchapter.

Chelsea twice trailed againstsecond-tier Luton before Lukakubagged the winner in the closingstages to spare their blushes.

Abramovich sanctioned the clubrecord £97 million deal that broughtLukaku from Inter Milan last yearin the final blockbuster transfer ofhis reign.

It was a much-needed victoryfor Chelsea after their agonisingpenalty shoot-out defeat in theLeague Cup final against Liverpoolat Wembley on Sunday.

Chelsea conceded a shock goalin the second minute as ReeceBurke rose above Malang Sarr toglance his header past KepaArrizabalaga.

Tuchel's side hit back in the 27thminute when Saul Niguez scored forthe first time since his August loanmove from Atletico Madrid.

Saul drilled a composed finishfrom the edge of the area after TimoWerner started an incisive counter-attack.

Sarr was at fault again in the40th minute when he tried in vainto play offside and Harry Cornicksprinted onto Carlos MendesGomes' pass to net Luton's second

goal.Chelsea snatched an equaliser in

the 68th minute when Werner con-trolled Ruben Loftus-Cheek's superbhigh pass and slotted home for hisfirst goal in eight games.

Lukaku has yet to repay muchof that mammoth fee but he baggedhis 11th goal of the season as hestretched to tap in Werner's cross inthe 78th minute.

Liverpool kept up their bid foran unprecedented quadruple asTakumi Minamino's double sealeda 2-1 win against Norwich atAnfield.

Japan forward Minamino putLiverpool ahead in the 27th minutewith a clinical finish from DivockOrigi's pass.

He netted again in the 38thminute, this time lashing home offthe inside of the post, before LukasRupp got one back for Norwich inthe 76th minute.

Having lifted the League Cuplast weekend, Liverpool are firmlyin contention for the PremierLeague and Champions League,with no English side ever winningall four prizes in one season.

Elsewhere, Southampton easedthrough with a 3-1 win against WestHam at St Mary's.

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Goncalo Guedes' scintillating strikesent Valencia into the final of the

Copa del Rey on Wednesday after a 1-0win over Athletic Bilbao sealed a 2-1 vic-tory on aggregate.

Guedes' thundering effort at the end

of the first half decided the match atMestalla and the tie after the first leg hadfinished 1-1 at San Mames last month.

Valencia will meet either Real Betisor Rayo Vallecano in the final in April,with Betis looking to capitalise on a 2-1advantage when they play the second legat home on Thursday.

With Real Madrid, Barcelona,Atletico Madrid and Sevilla all sufferingearly exits, Betis are arguably favouritesnow to win the competition. They are thehighest-placed La Liga side left, sittingthird, six spots above Valencia in ninth.

But after defeating Athletic, Valenciawill fancy their chances of clinching aninth Spanish Cup.

They are the most recent winnersremaining, after they beat Barcelona tolift the trophy in 2019, when Marcelino,now Athletic coach, was in charge.

Athletic had knocked out bothMadrid and Barca en route to this year'ssemis but looked tired and flat against amore aggressive Valencia side, and missout on a third consecutive final.

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Christopher Nkunku con-tinued his hot streak by

scoring twice on Wednesday asLeipzig cruised into theGerman Cup semi-finals witha 4-0 victory at second-divisionHanover.

Also on Wednesday,Hamburg fought back fromtwo goals down to beatKarlsruhe on penalties in a bat-tle of fallen giants.

Frenchman Nkunku hasscored in each of Leipzig's lastfour Bundesliga games andtook his tally to 11 since thestart of January with goals inthe 17th and 22nd minutes.

Both goals came on thecounter-attack, for the firstNkunku sidestepped a defend-er on the edge of the box andguided a shot into the cornerof the net. For the second, heoutpaced the defence and

skipped round keeper Ron-Robert Zieler

Konrad Laimer added twomore in the second half.

With the three clubs abovethem in the Bundesliga --Bayern Munich, Dortmundand Leverkusen -- alreadyeliminated, Leipzig are thehighest-placed club left in thecompetition as they chase the

first major trophy in their his-tory.

In a meeting of two formerGerman Cup winners nowplaying in the second division,Hamburg fought back fromtwo goals down to draw 2-2and then won the shootout 3-2. On Tuesday, Union Berlin qualified by beating StPauli 2-1.

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Juventus took control of their Italian Cup semi-final on Wednesday after Lorenzo Venuti's late

own goal gave the visitors a 1-0 first-leg win onDusan Vlahovic's return to Florence.

Venuti left the field in tears after he deflect-ed Juan Cuadrado's cross into his own net in thefirst minute of stoppage time to hand Juve the winand a potentially crucial away goal.

Serbia forward Vlahovic was back at the StadioArtemio Franchi for the first time since movingto Turin in January but had little joy for depletedJuve in a tense match which lacked quality.

The tie will be decided at the Alianz Stadiumnext month, with the winners taking on either ACMilan or Inter Milan -- who drew 0-0 on Tuesday-- in May's final in Rome.

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Formula One has removedRussia as a Grand Prix host

for good due to the invasion ofUkraine, by terminating its con-tract with the organisers, thechampionship promotersannounced on Thursday.

"Formula 1 can confirm ithas terminated its contract withthe Russian Grand Prix promot-er meaning Russia will not havea race in the future," they said ina statement.

The Black Sea resort ofSochi has hosted the race sincethe first running in 2014 butSaint Petersburg was due toreplace it as the venue in 2023.

Formula One had alreadycancelled this year's race follow-ing public unease among lead-ing drivers.

Reigning champion Max

Verstappen and four-time cham-pion Sebastian Vettel had bothsaid they would not race there.

"For myself, my own opin-ion is I should not go, I will notgo. I think it's wrong to race inthe country," said the German.

But former F1 supremoBernie Ecclestone -- who playeda pivotal role in bringing the raceto Russia -- the cancellationmade no sense.

"It does not make sensewhichever way you look at,"Ecclestone said. "There is no warin Russia to my knowledge so ifit took place it would make nodifference to anybody.

"This idea of trying to pun-ish Russia this way in a sportingsense is not going to punish(Russian President Vladimir)Putin at all.

"The race would not matterto him."

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World champion Max Verstappen has signeda long-term contract extension with Red

Bull, the F1 team announced on Thursday.The deal, reportedly worth up to £40million

per season, will keep the Dutch driver with theteam until the end of 2028.

The 24-year-old's current contract was dueto expire at the end of next season but he hasbeen rewarded for beating seven-time champi-on Lewis Hamilton to the title.

"I really enjoy being part of the Red BullRacing team, so choosing to stay to the 2028 sea-son was an easy decision," said Verstappen, whowill begin his championship defence later thismonth at the Bahrain Grand Prix.

Team principal Christian Horner said: "Tohave Max signed with Oracle Red Bull Racingthrough to the end of 2028 is a real statementof intent.

"Our immediate focus is on retaining Max's

world championship title, but this deal alsoshows he is a part of the team's long-term plan-ning."

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The International OlympicCommittee's call for feder-

ations to bar Russian athletesdue to the invasion of Ukrainehas been criticised as "not justi-fied" by the International JudoFederation.

Russian and Belarusian ath-letes have been barred from anumber of sports including fig-ure skating and athletics,although swimming and tennishave refrained from doing so.

Judo has followed suitthough they did suspendRussian President VladimirPutin as honorary presidentand cancelled the Kazan GrandSlam tournament, due to be heldon May 20-22.

The IJF will however followthe IOC's instruction to ban all

Russian and Belarusian flags andthe national anthems will not beplayed. "As sporting events andsport itself promote peace andsolidarity worldwide, we consid-er that those athletes who par-ticipate in international sportingevents are promoting peace and

international solidarity," the IJFstatement said.

"On this basis, the globaldecision to sanction all Russianathletes, regardless of the differ-ent opinions many haveexpressed, is not considered tobe justified.

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The Indian trio of ShriNivetha, Esha Singh and

Ruchita Vinerkar combined towin the gold medal in thewomen's 10m air pistol teamevent of the ISSF World Cuphere on Wednesday.

The Indians shot 16 in thegold medal contest to finish onthe podium for the country'sthird medal, and second gold, inthe year's first World Cup. Indialed the standings with threemedals -- two gold and a silver.

Germany's Andrea

Katharina Heckner, Sandra Reitzand Carina Wimmer settled forthe silver medal after managing6 in the fight for the top prize.

The three Indian womenhad topped the qualificationstage 2 with a total score of 574on their way to the gold medalmatch. Behind the Indianwomen were Heckner, Reitzand Wimmer, with 571.

Esha, Shri Nivetha andRuchita had also topped quali-fication stage 1 with a total scoreof 856. Earlier in the day,Olympian Saurabh Chaudhary,Gaurav Rana and Uchaganve.

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Atailor-made low bounce andfast grass court arranged for

the home advantage, the IndianDavis Cup team will start as firmfavourite but Denmark is stillexpected to present a good fight inthe Davis Cup World Group Play-off tie, starting here on Friday.

India's best player YukiBhambri is back in the squad andthat changes the dynamics for thethree-day rubber. India terribly felthis absence when he was out ofaction in the last four years due tohis knee injury. India lost a fewwinnable ties but now with Yukiback in the mix, the team can bankon his immense talent and abilityto pull off tight matches against ahigh-quality opponent. The 29-year-old will know exactly what heneeds to do on the opening daysince it will be RamkumarRamanathan who will open the tiefor India with the first singlesagainst Christian Sigsgaard, theworld number 824.

Ramkumar could not haveasked for a better match since withhis experience of playing on grasscourt and on the ATP tour, itshould not be much of a problemto go past the Danish player.

Yuki will play against 305th

ranked Mikale Torpegaard, onwhom much will depend how thetie goes. If Holger Rune (ranked88) had not pulled out of the tie,it would have made it tougher forIndia. Going by rankings, Indianteam is strong but in Davis Cup the

players usually manage to punchabove their weight so it will comedown to who plays better on thematch day. As of now, the Indianteam looks sharp and completelyacclimatised to the grass court. Theplayers will have a feel of theCentre Court for the first time onFriday and skipper Rohit Rajpal isexpecting it to behave as per therequirement of the home side.

"The idea is to keep it low andas fast as possible. We will consultgrass court experts and local gar-deners to know how much rollingis required. Hopefully it will playwell," Rajpal said. Since the bounceis expected to be low, the teammanagement thought that it will bebetter to have Yuki playing the sin-gles instead of PrajneshGunneswaran as low bounce suitsthe former's game better.

Given that Rohan Bopannaand Ramkumar are a team, it wasexpected that they will be pairedfor the doubles but skipper choseleft-handed Divij Sharan with thebig-serving Coorgi.

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Hailed by many as the 'Last of the Mohicans'in cricket's purest format, Virat Kohli willbe focussed on making his 100th appear-ance memorable while "white-ball legend"

Rohit Sharma plots the demolition of an out-of-depthSri Lanka as India's 35th Test captain in the series-opener starting here on Friday.

If one looks back at Indian team's journey sinceits inception in international cricket back in 1932, ithas been about stars, superstars, and megastars, whobecome the reason for the footfall at turnstiles of var-ious stadiums across the country.

It was the case when Sunil Gavaskar scored his10,000th run, Sachin Tendulkar bade the most emo-tional farewell that cricket has ever seen and now thespotlight will be firmly on Kohli, whose domineer-ing presence has turned an international match intoa footnote.

Kohli is one among "them" and in a fast-pacedworld, perhaps the last cricket star who will enjoy anorganic following of manic fans.

India was, is and will remain more of a "crick-eter-loving" nation and the social media war-cry thatperhaps led to fans being allowed in the stadium fromFriday is a testimony to Kohli's immense populari-ty.

This is his 'Test' and for Kohli, a century to marka 'century' is something he would be craving, hav-ing missed that sense of accomplishment that comeswith a three-figure mark for over two years now.

A bowling attack that has the likes of SurangaLakmal, Lahiru Kumara or Lasith Embuldeniya is per-fect for a sumptuous 'five course' Kohli treat with coverdrives, on drives, flicks and pulls on the menu.

Gavaskar and Tendulkar couldn't, neither coulda Virender Sehwag, Rahul Dravid or VVS Laxmanbut Kohli is a different beast.

The empty amphitheatre was never meant forhim. He feeds off the energy from his fans, and asthe undisputed hero of his story, he always finds an

antagonist, he is trying to slay.He is a product of the modern day, who loves

the spotlight and the spotlight has always loved himback. However, every story has its own set of sub textsand this Test match is as much as a Kohli story as itis about Rohit and his remarkable ascendancy mak-ing light of set ideas and templates.

They say, a 'A good Captain, is a good captain,is a good captain". Everyone knows Roht's creden-tials in white-ball cricket especially IPL, where he haseven challenged the hegemony of the peerlessMahendra Singh Dhoni.

There is no reference frame to judge how goodhe will be in a game that's played over five days forsix hours. He is 34 and will surely not be playing whiteball cricket for more than three years at a stretch witha demanding calendar.

How he handles a transition phase in Indiancricket, which has started with curtains on careers ofCheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane and IshantSharma. Will have a huge impact on how he is per-ceived -- just a mere captain or a leader of men.

Does he have it in him to control the ebbs andflows of a Test match where a session changes thecomplexion or a long partnership can induce frus-tration?

The proof of the pudding as they say lies in eat-

ing and onecan only waitto see how heresponds to theentirely differentdynamics of five-day cricketas captain. Rohit's tactical acumenhas always got him respect from allquarters and the first reflection of it inTest cricket would be how he handles hisplaying XI.

It is expected that Shubman Gill will becoming in at number three in the place vacat-ed by Pujara and will have to show "intent"which was believed to be missing earlier. Gillhas the game to do that.

The tricky position will be the othermiddle-order slot which Rahane hadmade his own for the longest time.

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Left-arm spinner Nasum Ahmedand batsman Liton Das helped

Bangladesh halt an eight-match losingstreak in T20Is with a resounding 61-run win over Afghanistan in Dhaka onThursday.

Nasum returned with career-bestfigures of 4 for 10 as Bangladeshbowled out Afghanistan for 94 runs in17.4 overs after Liton's 60 off 44 ballsguided the side to 155-8 at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium.

The win ended Bangladesh's longstreak of defeats in T20Is starting fromthe T0 World Cup in Oman and theUAE last year and gave the side a 1-0lead in a two-match series.

Nasum picked up four wickets inhis only spell, opening the bowling forBangladesh to give the hosts a firm gripon the game as they reducedAfghanistan to 20 for 4 inside five overs.

Najibullah Zadran and skipperMohammad Nabi briefly stopped therot with a 37-run fifth-wicket standbefore Shakib Al Hasan dismissedboth.

Zadran, dropped on four by wick-etkeeper Liton, made 27 off 26 balls.Azmatullah Omarzai staged a late

fightback to score 20 off 18 balls but itwas not enough.

Earlier, left-arm pacer FazalhaqFarooqi and leg-spinner Rashid Khanstruck early to reduce Bangladesh to 25for 2 after Mahmudullah opted to batfirst.

But Liton hit four fours and twosixes to ensure the home side madesteady progress.

Afif Hossain made 25 off 24 ballsand shared 46 runs with Liton for thefifth wicket.

The second match of the series willbe held at the same ground on Saturday.

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Australia's first Test in Pakistanin 24 years starting on Friday

is threatened by rain, but evenstorm clouds failed to dampen themood of rival captains PatCummins and Babar Azam on theeve of the match.

Rain forced both teams tocancel their practice sessionsThursday, but the forecast is clearfor Friday and most of Saturday,with showers likely on the last threedays of play.

Despite the weather, Cumminsand Azam were geared up for thehistoric Test -- to be played in frontof a sell-out 16,000 crowd inRawalpindi.

Australia haven't toured

Pakistan since 1998 as securityissues kept international teamsfrom visiting, and as a result are

unfamiliar with the local pitches."It looks like a good wicket... as

expected," Cummins told reporters

on the eve of the match.He said Australia would prob-

ably go into the Test with threequick bowlers or two spinners.

"We just want to have anotherlook at the wicket," he said.

The Aussie skipper refused toaccept that Pakistan would befielding a depleted side as a resultof injuries to star fast bowlerHasan Ali and all-rounder FaheemAshraf.

"It's a loss for the Pakistan side,but there's always another guythat can step up," he said.

But he played down beingtagged as 'favourites' after theircomprehensive 4-0 drubbing ofEngland in the Ashes series thatended in January.

"To be honest it doesn't really

mean much," he said."We feel lucky that we've got a

strong squad coming off some real-ly good performances, but... it'sunfamiliar conditions, so we'llsee."

Pakistan skipper Azam, how-ever, said the side would definite-ly miss the pair -- particularlyHasan, who took 10 wickets inPakistan's win over South Africa inRawalpindi last year.

"Hasan is a match-winner andAshraf contributes in both battingand bowling so that has disturbedour combination," said Azam,whose team is likely to includeteenage fast-bowler Naseem Shah.

Naseem took a hat-trickagainst Bangladesh at Rawalpindistadium two years ago.

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Medium pacer Manisankar Murasinghpicked up a five-wicket haul as Tripura

bounced back after being shot out for 127to reduce Punjab to 79 for seven at stumpson day one of their Ranji Trophy Group Fmatch here on Thursday.

Murasingh was the wrecker-in-chief, reg-istering impressive figures of 9.3-2-25-5 asPunjab ended the day 48 runs behind withthree wickets in hand.

Murasingh took two wickets in succes-sive deliveries before the close of play toremain in contention for a hat-trick.

Earlier, Tripura skipper KB Pawan top-scored with a fighting 59 off 128 balls beforePunjab bowlers wrecked havoc, dismissingtheir opponents inside 55 overs after optingto field. Punjab new ball bowler Baltej Singhreturned with 5 for 33, while Siddharth Kauland Vinay Choudhary took two wickets each.

Delhi's poor outing in Ranji continues,Chhattisgarh post 290/4 on Day 1

Virtually out of quarterfinal race, Delhi'sdisappointing campaign in the Ranji Trophycontinued as Chhattisgarh posted 290 forfour on the opening day of their elite GroupH match here on Thursday.

Electing to bat, Chhattisgarh rode onhalf-centuries from Ajay Mandal (63 off 90balls), Amandeep Khare (68 not out off 170)and Shashank Singh (75 not out) to pile upa big score in 90 overs and take their side to

a strong position in the four-day contest.Mandal and Singh stitched 147 runs for

the unconquered fifth wicket to takeChhattisgarh forward. Besides, SanidhyaHurkat (44) and skipper Harpreet Singh (21)also made useful contributions with the bat.

Left-arm spinner Vikas Mishra (2/65)was the pick of the bowlers for Delhi.

Bawane's unbeaten ton powersMaharashtra to 298/4 against UP

Skipper Ankit Bawane's responsible 114

not out powered Maharashtra to 298 for 4on the first day of their last Ranji Trophy EliteGroup G league game against Uttar Pradeshhere on Thursday.

Electing to bat at the Gurugram crick-et ground, Maharashtra lost openers PawanShah (19), who was cleaned up by right-armmedium pacer Ankit Rajppot (1/59), andAvdhoot Dandekar (20) cheaply.

Maharashtra were struggling at 70 for 2then. But experienced campaigner Rahul

Tripathi, who was in search of runs, madea crucial 56, hammering nine boundaries anda six in the process.

He first added 48 runs with Dandekarand then shared a 41-run stand with skip-per Bawane before lobbing off a return catchto rival skipper and off-spinner KaranSharma (1/77).

Then Bawane, who paced his inningswell, found an able partner in NaushadShaikh (53 off 83 balls), as they frustratedthe UP bowlers.

Bawane struck 18 fours in his 211-ballknock, while Shaikh also hit seven bound-aries, as the duo forged a 99-run stand forthe fourth wicket.

Abhimanyu, Anustup give Bengal open-ing day advantage

Skipper Abhimanyu Easwaran led fromthe front with 114 as Bengal put up a solidbatting display to take the opening day'sadvantage against Chandigarh in their RanjiTrophy group B match here on Thursday.

Needing three points to seal their knock-out berth, Bengal sat pretty on 329 for 6 atstumps on day one with veteran ManojTiwary batting on 42 in company of SayanSekhar Mondal (33 batting) in an unbrokenstand of 61 from 86 balls.

Veteran Bengal batter AnustupMajumdar (95 from 149b; 13x4) gave a finesupport at the other end as the duo put ona potential match-decisive 193-run partner-ship to rebuild Bengal innings.

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Sourav Ganguly knowshow momentous an occa-

sion it would be for ViratKohli when he steps out toplay his 100th Test on Fridaybut the BCCI boss and for-mer national captain is con-fident that the superstar bat-ter will celebrate greatermilestones going forward inhis career.

In a video messageshared by the BCCI's officialTwitter handle, Ganguly con-gratulated Kohli, saying itwould a dream come truemoment for him when hetakes the field against SriLanka in the opening Testhere.

The 33-year-old Kohliwill become the 12th Indiancricketer after SunilGavaskar, Dilip Vengsarkar,

Kapil Dev, Sachin Tendulkar,Anil Kumble, Rahul Dravid,Ganguly, VVS Laxman,Virender Sehwag, HarbhajanSingh and Ishant Sharma toplay 100 Tests.

"It's a huge landmark inIndian cricket, playing 100Test matches is somethingthat you dream of when youstart playing cricket for yourcountry. It's a great momentfor Virat, it's momentousfor Indian cricket," Gangulysaid in his message.

"I have personally beenin that 100 Test match situ-ation and I realise, howmomentous and howhumongous the occasion canbe.

"Virat has had a greatjourney, exceptional achieve-ments, starting 11 years ago.On behalf of the BCCI andalso as a former captain who

has played 100 Tests, I wishhim all the best. He has hada fantastic career. He still hastime to achieve greater mile-stones," added the formerbatter.

Kohli and Ganguly haveendured a rocky past fewmonths during which theywere at opposite ends overthe former's captaincy tenurecoming to an end.

Ganguly had assertedthat Kohli gave up T20 cap-taincy despite requests tocontinue, while Kohli insist-ed that no such plea wasmade to him when he firstcommunicated his desire tostep down.

He was subsequentlyremoved from ODI captain-cy, before relinquishing Testcaptaincy at the end of aseries loss to South Africa inJanuary.

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South African batting sensationDewald Brevis, who is often

compared to the great A B deVilliers, says Sachin Tendulkar hasalways been his inspiration and hewould like to emulate the Indianicon while trying to create his iden-tity in international cricket.

The 18-year-old, who has beenpicked by Mumbai Indians for theupcoming IPL, has been nicknamed'Baby AB' for his resemblance to deVilliers' playing style.

Brevis scored 506 runs in therecent U-19 World Cup, the most ina single edition of the tournament,surpassing flamboyant India open-er Shikhar Dhawan's record of 505runs in the 2004 edition and alsopicked up seven wickets with hispart-time leg-spin.

"The way he (Tendulkar) playedwas always an inspiration to me. Myfavourite innings of his is the ODIdouble-century, which happened to

be against South Africa. I remem-ber watching the match with mybrother - it was an amazing innings,"the 18-year-old told'Mumbaindians.Com'.

"I read his autobiography'Playing it My Way' and there are alot of things from there that I'd liketo implement in my game. Onething I learnt from him is that youhave to be humble because pride can

be your downfall."Brevis said while it is an honour

to be compared to de Villiers, hewould like to create his own iden-tity.

"It is an honour to be comparedto him (AB De Villiers), but it isimportant for me to have my ownidentity. I want to be known asDewald Brevis," he said.

"We went to the same schooland played under the same coach sowhen I first met him, I could not geta word out. There were many thingsI wanted to ask him but I was star-struck," the right-handed batterremembered.

Brevis said he is now keen topick the mind of de Villiers, who hasretired from all cricket, before hestarts his IPL journey. De Villiersplayed for Royal ChallengersBangalore.

"I would say he (AB) is great tolearn from - he makes time for youand that is something I really appre-ciate.

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