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cmyk cmyk Actor Parineeti Chopra says growing up she fantasised being an agent for India and protecting the country CHILDHOOD FANTASY Jhulan Goswami will feature in her final international game today as India take on England in the 3rd ODI at Lord’s THE LAST HURRAH SPORTS | P12 LEISURE | P2 A team of UN experts said its initial probe turned up evidence of war crimes in Ukraine following Russia’s invasion INTERNATIONAL | P9 ‘WAR CRIMES COMMITTED’ 12 PAGES | ` 5.00 BHUBANESWAR | SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 | 2022 VOLUME 12, ISSUE 175 | www.orissapost.com IRREGULAR by MANJUL Last election was held 20 years ago. We need more time to teach party workers how to vote WEATHER BHUB 31.4° 32.5° CTK 25.5° MAX MIN TEMP Humidity 86% 85% Rainfall 5.3mm 1.2mm Forecast Light rain likely 25.9° INDEX VARIATION SENSEX 58098.92 1020.80 NIFTY 17327.30 302.50 DOLLAR 81.36 `0.21 EURO 79.60 `0.66 GOLD `49,390 `610 SILVER `56,140 `1887 BULLION BOURSES CURRENCY MARKET WATCH AGENCIES London, Sept 23: Scientists have genetically modified mosquitoes with the ability to slow the growth of malaria-causing parasites in their gut, an advance that can help prevent transmission of the dis- ease to humans. These engineered mosquitoes produce compounds which impede the growth of malaria-causing par- asites, which are then unlikely to reach the mosquitoes’ salivary glands and be passed on in a bite before the insects die. Researchers from the Institute for Disease Modeling at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation de- veloped a model which can as- sess the impact of such modifi- cations if used in a variety of African settings. They found that the modification in question could be effective even where trans- mission is high. While the technique, described in a paper published in Science Advances journal, has been shown to dramatically reduce the possi- bility of malaria spread in a lab set- ting, if proven safe and effective in real-world settings, it could offer a powerful new tool to help elimi- nate malaria. The disease is transmitted be- tween people through a female mosquito after it bites someone infected with the malaria parasite. The parasite then develops into its next stage in the mosquito’s gut and travels to its salivary glands, ready to infect the next person the mosquito bites. However, only around 10 per cent of mosquitoes live long enough for the parasite to develop far enough to be infectious. The team aimed to lengthen the odds even fur- ther, by extending the time it takes for the parasite to develop in the gut. Researchers from the Transmission: Zero team at Imperial College London, UK, genetically modified the main malaria-carrying species of mosquito in Sub-Saharan Africa, Anopheles gambiae, such that the mosquito produces an- timicrobial peptides in its guts, when it takes a blood meal. These peptides impair the malar- ial parasite’s development by in- terfering with the energy metab- olism of the parasite and also, causing the mosquitoes to have a shorter lifespan and further ham- pering their ability to pass on the parasite. By the time, the next parasite stage could reach the mosquito salivary glands, most mosquitoes in nature are expected to die. POLLUTING ACT: Farmers burn paddy stubble at a farm on the outskirts of Amritsar, Friday. The Punjab Pollution Control Board wants brick kiln owners in the state to replace at least 20 per cent coal with the paddy-straw pellets for fuel requirements in the kilns PTI PHOTO Woman gets family pension 52 yrs after husband’s death POST NEWS NETWORK Bhubaneswar, Sept 23: In a major jolt to the state government’s Baliyatra River Front Improvement (BARFI) project, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has ordered not to execute any concrete project at the Baliyatra ground on the Mahanadi riverbed in Cuttack. While hearing the applications of environmentalists Biswajit Mohanty and Pradip Kumar Pattnaik, the Eastern Bench of the NGT has issued the order September 21. The applicants moved the NGT against the illegal sand filling in the Mahanadi riverbed within the water area of Jobra Barrage at Cuttack. According to the appli- cant, the illegal action being un- dertaken is causing damage to the environment and the riverine ecosystem. The project BARFI is an attempt to monetise the riverbed for com- mercial purposes which will re- duce the water retaining capacity of the river at Jobra Barrage at Cuttack, they alleged. The applicants also said free flow of water of the riverbed will be affected due to the project and it will also affect supply of drink- ing water and obstruct dredging which is necessary. This will also add to the floods in the city, they said. In its order, the tribunal said, “It is made clear that no concreti- sation of any sort will be allowed in the entire 426 acres of land. While allowing Baliyatra in 34 acres of land, all due precautions for maintaining sanitation and hy- giene shall be observed.” “We find it difficult to accept the proposal of the state by way of a vision document/master plan for constructions in the reclaimed land which is established to be part of the floodplain zone. There is clear anticipated danger of flood- ing,” it said. Stating that the Baliyatra ground (34 acres) may be retained, the NGT said there should be no fur- ther expansion and no concreti- sation or compacting of the said ground. Remaining 392 acres of land be used for plantation of local species and the area be developed into a bi- ological park and no commercial use be allowed, it said, suggesting the state government to take steps for floodplain zoning of other major rivers. Continued on P4 AGENCIES Mumbai, Sept 23: The rupee slumped 30 paise to close at a fresh lifetime low of 81.09 against the US dollar Friday, weighed down by the strong American currency overseas and risk-off sentiment among investors. At the interbank foreign ex- change market, the local currency breached the 81-mark for the first time ever and slumped to 81.23 against the American currency. It finally ended at 81.09, down 30 paise over its previous close. Thursday, the rupee plunged by 83 paise -- its biggest single-day loss in nearly seven months -- to close at 80.79, its previous record low. This is the third straight ses- sion of loss for the Indian cur- rency during which it has lost 124 paise against the US dollar. Forex traders said escalation of geopolitical risk in Ukraine and rate hikes by the US Fed and Bank of England in a bid to contain in- flation sapped risk appetite. Further, the strength of the American currency in the over- seas market, a negative trend in do- mestic equities, and risk-off mood amid escalation of geopolitical risk in Ukraine weighed on the local unit. On the domestic equity market front, the 30-share BSE Sensex dropped 1,020.80 points or 1.73 per cent to end at 58,098.92, while the broader NSE Nifty fell 302.45 points or 1.72 per cent to 17,327.35. Foreign institutional investors were net sellers in the capital mar- ket Thursday as they offloaded shares worth `2,509.55 crore, as per exchange data. Meanwhile, the dollar index, which gauges the greenback’s strength against a bas- ket of six currencies, advanced 0.72 per cent to 112.15. AGENCIES New Delhi/ Bhubaneswar, Sept 23: Former India captain Dilip Tirkey, who was the front-runner for the post of Hockey India pres- ident, was elected unopposed for the top job Friday. Hockey India elections were scheduled to be held October 1 but the results were declared in ad- vance as there were no contest- ants for any of the posts. Tirkey was elected after Uttar Pradesh Hockey chief Rakesh Katyal and Hockey Jharkhand’s Bhola Nath Singh, who were in the fray for the president’s post, withdrew their nominations Friday. Congratulating newly-elected Hockey India president Dilip Tirkey, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Friday said he is sure that the new president will take the game to new heights. Continued on P4 Engineered mosquitoes that can’t spread malaria The genetically modified mosquitoes produce compounds which impede growth of malaria-causing parasites POST NEWS NETWORK Balasore, Sept 23: In an instance of delayed justice, an elderly woman, Lalita Mohanty, of Arada Bazaar in Balasore, received fam- ily pension 52 years after her hus- band’s death. At the age of 89, she received a provisional pension of `16 lakh. Lalita had lost her hus- band Bhimsen Mohanty when she was 37. Bhimsen was then working in the Odisha State Road Transport Corporation (OSRTC). After death of her husband, Lalita’s life turned topsy-turvy as she failed to get pen- sion from OSRTC. She struggled all her life and went through hardships in managing her family. She had moved the Orissa High Court in this regard. After a long legal battle to get family pension, Lalita finally got justice. It took nine years to im- plement the previous order of the court. Continued on P4 At 89, Lalita Mohanty receives provisional pension of `16 lakh No concretisation of Baliyatra ground: NGT AGENCIES New Delhi, Sept 23: India Friday advised its nationals in Canada and those travelling to that coun- try to exercise due caution and re- main vigilant in view of the “sharp increase in incidents of hate crimes, sectarian violence and anti-India activities” there. In an advisory, the Ministry of External Affairs also said the High Commission/Consulates General in Canada have taken up these in- cidents with the Canadian au- thorities and requested them to investigate these crimes and take appropriate action. The perpetrators of these crimes have not been brought to justice so far in Canada, the MEA said. “In view of the increasing inci- dents of crimes as described above, Indian nationals and students from India in Canada and those pro- ceeding to Canada for travel or ed- ucation are advised to exercise due caution and remain vigilant,” the advisory said. The advisory comes a day after India reacted sharply to the “so- called Khalistan referendum” in Canada, saying it was “deeply ob- jectionable” that such a “politi- cally motivated” activity by ex- tremist elements was allowed to take place in a friendly country. HATE CRIMES IN CANADA: INDIA ISSUES ADVISORY at new low of 81 At the interbank foreign exchange market, the local currency breached the 81-mark for the first time ever and slumped to 81.23 against the American currency FOREX RESERVES NEAR 2-YEAR LOW Mumbai: India’s foreign exchange reserves fell for a seventh straight week, dropping to $545.652 billion in the week to September 16, Reserve Bank of India’s weekly statistical supplement showed n Friday. This is the lowest level since 2 October, 2020. The reserves, which have been dipping as the central bank deploys the kitty to defend the rupee amid a pressure caused majorly by global developments, had declined by $2.23 billion to $550.87 billion in the previous week. The fall in the reserves for the week ended September 16 was on the account of a dip in the Foreign Currency Assets (FCA), a major compo- nent of the overall reserves, according to the Weekly Statistical Supplement released by the RBI. The FCA decreased by $4.698 billion to $484.901 billion during the reporting week, the apex bank said. Expressed in dollar terms, the FCAs include the effect of appreciation or depreciation of non-US units like the euro, pound and yen held in the foreign exchange reserves. The value of the gold reserves decreased by $458 million to $38.186 billion, the data showed. The Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) dropped by $32 million to $17.686 billion, the RBI said. The country’s reserve position with the IMF was down by $31 million to $4.88 billion in the reporting week, the data showed. Dilip Tirkey new Hockey India prez Dist planning bodies get new chairpersons POST NEWS NETWORK Bhubaneswar, Sept 23: The state government Friday appointed sev- eral ministers and MLAs as chair- persons of District Planning Committees (DPCs) in the state. Science and Technology Minister Ashok Chandra Panda has been ap- pointed as DPC chairman of Angul while Higher Education Minister Rohit Pujari is the chairman of Bolangir planning body and Ananta Das is the DPC chief for Balasore. Similarly, Rajendra Dholakia, Basanti Hembram, Jagannath Saraka and Pafulla Mallick (all ministers) have been appointed as the chairpersons of the DPCs of Deogarh, Dhenkanal, Gajapati and Ganjam districts, respectively. Other ministers who have been appointed as chairpersons of var- ious DPCs include Pramila Mallick (Jagatsinghpur), Samir Ranjan Dash (Jajpur), Pritiranjan Ghadei (Jharsuguda), Naba Kishore Das (Kalahandi), Srikanta Sahu (Kandhamal), Ranendra Pratap Swain (Kendrapara), Tukuni Sahoo (Nuapada), Nirajan Pujari (Puri), Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak (Rayagada), Pratap Keshari Deb (Sambalpur), Pradip Kumar Amat (Subarnapur), Tusharkanti Behera (Malkangiri) and Aswini Patra (Mayurbhanj). Besides, MLA Debesh Acharya has been appointed the DPC chair- person of Bargarh, Byomakesh Ray Bhadrak, Mahidhar Rana Boudh, Pramod Kumar Mallick Cuttack, Jagannath Naik Keonjhar, Rajendra Kumar Sahoo Khurda, Raghu Ram Padal Koraput, Manohara Randhari Nabarangpur, Satyanarayan Pradhan Nayagarh and Sarada Prasad Nayak Sundaragrh.

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Actor Parineeti Chopra says growing up shefantasised being an agent for India andprotecting the country

CHILDHOOD FANTASYJhulan Goswami will feature in her finalinternational game today as India take onEngland in the 3rd ODI at Lord’s

THE LAST HURRAH

SPORTS | P12LEISURE | P2

A team of UN experts said its initial probe turned upevidence of war crimes in Ukraine followingRussia’s invasion

INTERNATIONAL | P9

‘WAR CRIMES COMMITTED’

12 PAGES | `5.00BHUBANESWAR | SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 | 2022VOLUME 12, ISSUE 175 | www.orissapost.com

IRREGULAR by MANJUL

Last election was held 20 years ago. We need more time to

teach party workers how to vote

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AGENCIES

London, Sept 23: Scientists havegenetically modified mosquitoeswith the ability to slow the growthof malaria-causing parasites intheir gut, an advance that can helpprevent transmission of the dis-ease to humans.

These engineered mosquitoesproduce compounds which impedethe growth of malaria-causing par-asites, which are then unlikely toreach the mosquitoes’ salivaryglands and be passed on in a bitebefore the insects die.

Researchers from the Institutefor Disease Modeling at the Bill andMelinda Gates Foundation de-veloped a model which can as-

sess the impact of such modifi-cations if used in a variety ofAfrican settings. They found thatthe modification in question couldbe effective even where trans-mission is high.

While the technique, describedin a paper published in ScienceAdvances journal, has been shownto dramatically reduce the possi-bility of malaria spread in a lab set-ting, if proven safe and effective in

real-world settings, it could offer apowerful new tool to help elimi-nate malaria.

The disease is transmitted be-tween people through a femalemosquito after it bites someoneinfected with the malaria parasite.The parasite then develops intoits next stage in the mosquito’sgut and travels to its salivary glands,ready to infect the next person themosquito bites.

However, only around 10 percent of mosquitoes live long enoughfor the parasite to develop farenough to be infectious. The teamaimed to lengthen the odds even fur-ther, by extending the time it takesfor the parasite to develop in the gut.

Researchers from the

Transmission: Zero team at ImperialCollege London, UK, geneticallymodified the main malaria-carryingspecies of mosquito in Sub-SaharanAfrica, Anopheles gambiae, suchthat the mosquito produces an-timicrobial peptides in its guts,when it takes a blood meal.

These peptides impair the malar-ial parasite’s development by in-terfering with the energy metab-olism of the parasite and also,causing the mosquitoes to have ashorter lifespan and further ham-pering their ability to pass on theparasite.

By the time, the next parasitestage could reach the mosquitosalivary glands, most mosquitoesin nature are expected to die.

POLLUTING ACT: Farmers burn paddy stubble at a farm on the outskirts of Amritsar, Friday. The Punjab Pollution Control Board wants brick kiln owners in the state to replace at least 20 per cent coalwith the paddy-straw pellets for fuel requirements in the kilns PTI PHOTO

Woman gets family pension 52 yrs after husband’s death

POST NEWS NETWORK

Bhubaneswar, Sept 23: In a majorjolt to the state government’sBaliyatra River Front Improvement(BARFI) project, the National GreenTribunal (NGT) has ordered notto execute any concrete project atthe Baliyatra ground on theMahanadi riverbed in Cuttack.

While hearing the applicationsof environmentalists BiswajitMohanty and Pradip KumarPattnaik, the Eastern Bench of theNGT has issued the orderSeptember 21.

The applicants moved the NGTagainst the illegal sand filling in theMahanadi riverbed within thewater area of Jobra Barrage atCuttack. According to the appli-cant, the illegal action being un-dertaken is causing damage to theenvironment and the riverineecosystem.

The project BARFI is an attemptto monetise the riverbed for com-mercial purposes which will re-duce the water retaining capacityof the river at Jobra Barrage atCuttack, they alleged.

The applicants also said freeflow of water of the riverbed willbe affected due to the project andit will also affect supply of drink-ing water and obstruct dredgingwhich is necessary. This will alsoadd to the floods in the city, they said.

In its order, the tribunal said,“It is made clear that no concreti-sation of any sort will be allowedin the entire 426 acres of land.

While allowing Baliyatra in 34acres of land, all due precautionsfor maintaining sanitation and hy-giene shall be observed.”

“We find it difficult to acceptthe proposal of the state by way ofa vision document/master planfor constructions in the reclaimedland which is established to bepart of the floodplain zone. Thereis clear anticipated danger of flood-ing,” it said.

Stating that the Baliyatra ground(34 acres) may be retained, theNGT said there should be no fur-ther expansion and no concreti-sation or compacting of the saidground.

Remaining 392 acres of land beused for plantation of local speciesand the area be developed into a bi-ological park and no commercial usebe allowed, it said, suggesting thestate government to take steps forfloodplain zoning of other majorrivers. Continued on P4

AGENCIES

Mumbai, Sept 23: The rupeeslumped 30 paise to close at a freshlifetime low of 81.09 against theUS dollar Friday, weighed downby the strong American currencyoverseas and risk-off sentimentamong investors.

At the interbank foreign ex-change market, the local currencybreached the 81-mark for the firsttime ever and slumped to 81.23against the American currency.

It finally ended at 81.09, down30 paise over its previous close.Thursday, the rupee plunged by 83paise -- its biggest single-day lossin nearly seven months -- to closeat 80.79, its previous record low.

This is the third straight ses-

sion of loss for the Indian cur-rency during which it has lost 124paise against the US dollar.

Forex traders said escalation ofgeopolitical risk in Ukraine and

rate hikes by the US Fed and Bankof England in a bid to contain in-flation sapped risk appetite.

Further, the strength of theAmerican currency in the over-seas market, a negative trend in do-mestic equities, and risk-off moodamid escalation of geopoliticalrisk in Ukraine weighed on thelocal unit.

On the domestic equity marketfront, the 30-share BSE Sensexdropped 1,020.80 points or 1.73 percent to end at 58,098.92, while thebroader NSE Nifty fell 302.45 pointsor 1.72 per cent to 17,327.35.

Foreign institutional investorswere net sellers in the capital mar-ket Thursday as they offloadedshares worth `2,509.55 crore, asper exchange data. Meanwhile, thedollar index, which gauges thegreenback’s strength against a bas-ket of six currencies, advanced0.72 per cent to 112.15.

AGENCIES

New Delhi/ Bhubaneswar, Sept23: Former India captain DilipTirkey, who was the front-runnerfor the post of Hockey India pres-ident, was elected unopposed for thetop job Friday.

Hockey India elections werescheduled to be held October 1 butthe results were declared in ad-vance as there were no contest-ants for any of the posts.

Tirkey was elected after UttarPradesh Hockey chief RakeshKatyal and Hockey Jharkhand’sBhola Nath Singh, who were inthe fray for the president’s post,withdrew their nominations Friday.

Congratulating newly-electedHockey India president Dilip Tirkey,Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Fridaysaid he is sure that the new presidentwill take the game to new heights.

Continued on P4

Engineered mosquitoes that can’t spread malariaThe genetically modified mosquitoes produce compounds which impede growth of malaria-causing parasites

POST NEWS NETWORK

Balasore, Sept 23: In an instanceof delayed justice, an elderlywoman, Lalita Mohanty, of AradaBazaar in Balasore, received fam-ily pension 52 years after her hus-band’s death.

At the age of 89, she received aprovisional pension of `16 lakh.Lalita had lost her hus-band Bhimsen Mohantywhen she was 37. Bhimsenwas then working in theOdisha State RoadTransport Corporation(OSRTC). After death ofher husband, Lalita’s life turnedtopsy-turvy as she failed to get pen-sion from OSRTC.

She struggled all her life and

went through hardships inmanaging her family. Shehad moved the Orissa HighCourt in this regard. Aftera long legal battle to get

family pension, Lalita finally gotjustice. It took nine years to im-plement the previous order of thecourt. Continued on P4

At 89, LalitaMohantyreceives

provisionalpension of `16 lakh

No concretisation ofBaliyatra ground: NGT

AGENCIES

New Delhi, Sept 23: India Fridayadvised its nationals in Canadaand those travelling to that coun-try to exercise due caution and re-main vigilant in view of the “sharpincrease in incidents of hate crimes,sectarian violence and anti-Indiaactivities” there.

In an advisory, the Ministry ofExternal Affairs also said the HighCommission/Consulates Generalin Canada have taken up these in-cidents with the Canadian au-thorities and requested them toinvestigate these crimes and takeappropriate action.

The perpetrators of these crimeshave not been brought to justice sofar in Canada, the MEA said.

“In view of the increasing inci-dents of crimes as described above,Indian nationals and students fromIndia in Canada and those pro-ceeding to Canada for travel or ed-ucation are advised to exercise duecaution and remain vigilant,” theadvisory said.

The advisory comes a day afterIndia reacted sharply to the “so-called Khalistan referendum” inCanada, saying it was “deeply ob-jectionable” that such a “politi-cally motivated” activity by ex-tremist elements was allowed totake place in a friendly country.

HATE CRIMES INCANADA: INDIAISSUES ADVISORY

at new low of 81 At the interbank foreign exchange market, the local currency breached the 81-mark

for the first time ever and slumped to 81.23 against the American currency

FOREX RESERVES NEAR 2-YEAR LOWMumbai: India’s foreign exchange reserves fell for a seventh straight week,dropping to $545.652 billion in the week to September 16, Reserve Bank ofIndia’s weekly statistical supplement showed n Friday. This is the lowest levelsince 2 October, 2020. The reserves, which have been dipping as the centralbank deploys the kitty to defend the rupee amid a pressure caused majorlyby global developments, had declined by $2.23 billion to $550.87 billion in theprevious week. The fall in the reserves for the week ended September 16 wason the account of a dip in the Foreign Currency Assets (FCA), a major compo-nent of the overall reserves, according to the Weekly Statistical Supplementreleased by the RBI. The FCA decreased by $4.698 billion to $484.901 billionduring the reporting week, the apex bank said. Expressed in dollar terms, theFCAs include the effect of appreciation or depreciation of non-US units likethe euro, pound and yen held in the foreign exchange reserves. The value ofthe gold reserves decreased by $458 million to $38.186 billion, the datashowed. The Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) dropped by $32 million to $17.686billion, the RBI said. The country’s reserve position with the IMF was down by$31 million to $4.88 billion in the reporting week, the data showed.

Dilip Tirkey newHockey India prez

Dist planning bodiesget new chairpersonsPOST NEWS NETWORK

Bhubaneswar, Sept 23: The stategovernment Friday appointed sev-eral ministers and MLAs as chair-persons of District PlanningCommittees (DPCs) in the state.

Science and Technology MinisterAshok Chandra Panda has been ap-pointed as DPC chairman of Angulwhile Higher Education MinisterRohit Pujari is the chairman ofBolangir planning body and AnantaDas is the DPC chief for Balasore.

Similarly, Rajendra Dholakia,Basanti Hembram, JagannathSaraka and Pafulla Mallick (allministers) have been appointed asthe chairpersons of the DPCs ofDeogarh, Dhenkanal, Gajapati andGanjam districts, respectively.

Other ministers who have beenappointed as chairpersons of var-ious DPCs include Pramila Mallick(Jagatsinghpur), Samir RanjanDash (Jajpur), Pritiranjan Ghadei(Jharsuguda), Naba Kishore Das(Kalahandi), Srikanta Sahu(Kandhamal), Ranendra PratapSwain (Kendrapara), Tukuni Sahoo(Nuapada), Nirajan Pujari (Puri),Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak(Rayagada), Pratap Keshari Deb(Sambalpur), Pradip Kumar Amat(Subarnapur), Tusharkanti Behera(Malkangiri) and Aswini Patra(Mayurbhanj).

Besides, MLA Debesh Acharyahas been appointed the DPC chair-person of Bargarh, Byomakesh RayBhadrak, Mahidhar Rana Boudh,Pramod Kumar Mallick Cuttack,Jagannath Naik Keonjhar, RajendraKumar Sahoo Khurda, Raghu RamPadal Koraput, Manohara RandhariNabarangpur, SatyanarayanPradhan Nayagarh and SaradaPrasad Nayak Sundaragrh.

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Mumbai: Top actor Aamir Khan’s daughter IraKhan got engaged to her boyfriend NupurShikahre.

Ira, who has been dating Nupur for over twoyears now, took to Instagram where she shareda video from a cycling event. In the clip, Ira is seenstanding at the stands. Nupur, dressed in cy-cling gear, comes up to her, goes down on his kneesand pulls out a ring.

Nupur asks Ira: “Will you marry me?”, towhich she happily responds “Yes!.”

The two seal the deal with a kiss, while herfriends and the crowd cheer for the couple.

Ira is Aamir’s daughter from his first wifeReena Dutt, with whom he got separated in

2002. They also have ason named Junaid

together.AGENCIES

Mumbai:Parineeti Chopra, who is gearing upfor her next Code Name Tiranga,says growing up she fantasisedbeing an agent for India and pro-tecting it. The actress added thatshe used to carry a toy gun and pre-tended that she’s the best agent inservice of the country.

Parineeti said: “As an actor,we arecon-

stantly blessed to have many firsts allthrough our career. I’m thrilled that in my11th year in cinema I’m doing my first fullblown action film and I’m ecstatic aboutthe reaction that I have been getting forCode Name Tiranga’s teaser. It is hugelyencouraging for someone who has neverdabbled in this genre. Growing up, I fanta-sised being an agent for my country and pro-tecting it with all my heart. I used to carrya toy gun and pretend that I'm the bestagent in service of India. So, I'm also gettingto fulfil my childhood dream in this movie.”

She adds, “The teaser is just a glimpse ofwhat to expect from the trailer

and my performance onscreen. I have pushed

myself and my bodyfor this intenselyphysically chal-lenging film but I

have thoroughly en-joyed every bit of it.”Code Name Tiranga

will release in theatresOctober 14.

IANS

P2 CHARLIZE THERON CLAIMS SHE’S NOT AS FAMOUS AS KIM KARDASHIAN

leisureActress Charlize Theron has never had a level offame like reality TV star Kim Kardashian. In aninterview, the 47-year-old actress explained thatshe has never experienced global attention tothe same degree as the reality TV superstardespite her success, reports aceshowbiz.com.

Hollywood star Johnny Depp is datingJoelle Rich -- the attorney from Depp’s UKlibel case. Rich is a London lawyer whowas on 59-year-old Depp’s legal teamduring his libel case against The Sun,which he lost in November 2020.

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AQUARIUSSpirituality is your new pas-sion and Calvin Klein mat-ters less today! Mysticismattracts you, says Ganesha. This may leadyou to seek solace in holy books and reli-gious places. It's going to take some timefor you to understand that spiritual attain-ment can be had in the flesh-and-bloodworld as well.

PISCESYou are ceaselessly driven tofind room for improvement.A part-time course toenhance your skills or to increase your effi-ciency is what you will likely be pursuingtoday, says Ganesha.

SAGITTARIUSDetermined and dedicated,that's what you are when itcomes to work. Well, this may even findyou amidst heaps of files and loads ofwork. No wonder you become a worka-holic. You are likely to enjoy during thelatter half of the day.

LIBRAGanesha says that you shallsoon be able to travel or plana trip, not for family or busi-ness matters, but for getting away from themundane life. You will pay more impor-tance to your professional matters asopposed to your personal matters. Todayyou will be able to attain success in everything you do with the blessings of Ganesha.

SCORPIOToday promises to be a joyride for your hidden gour-mand side. Relish what youeat, and thank God for the good luck.Career wise, however, you may findyourself standing at a crossroads. But,the good part about that is there shallbe many paths to choose from. And,who knows the art of balancing betterthan you.

LEOYour decisions today will benot only be correct, but alsoresolute and steadfast. Yourhealth will be fine. At the work-place,things ought to proceed as usual.However, you will concentrate more onwork today. In personal relationships,some minor arguments could crop up.

VIRGOOpening up to your belovedabout your whims and fan-cies as well as your goalsshall be the key today. And, why not,urges Ganesha. Your intimate relationsshould be built on trust and mutualcompatibility. Your energy levels willhit the sky.

GEMINIA favourable day to put anend to all the doubts sur-rounding your ability to dowell, especially in the field of commu-nication. People around you will findyou incredibly charming and enchanti-ng. You will win hearts with your verveand panache.

CANCERIt is quite possible thatyour personal life will takeprecedence over your pro-fessional life. You will not be able torepress or ignore your feelings, and youshould not either, says Ganesha. Butyou should be careful about how youexpress yourself in public.

ARIESYour charismatic appeal isalways ready-to-use. Andtoday, you will possibly reaprich dividends through it. But there isalways scope for improvement and youwill find yourself drawn to altruism.Ganesha guarantees satisfaction in lend-ing a helping hand to the needy.

FORTUNE FORECAST

TAURUSYou will be very sensitiveabout the image you projectsocially and professionally.Ganesha sees you treating this very seri-ously and doing everything you can tomake this right impression. Today, youwill remain decent, dignified and fos-ussed in all that you do. Do not be tooeager to please others.

CAPRICORNYou may be attentive, asmuch as an eagle is whilechasing its prey, but you stillneed to be careful when signing anyimportant legal documents, advisesGanesha. Brokers and dealers, especially,are likely to incur heavy losses unlessthey take necessary precautions to avertmisfortune.

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Mumbai: SamanthaRuth Prabhu is one of the

busiest stars in the Southat the moment. She has sev-

eral promising dramas ofvivid genres in her

kitty. Along with this,she has also signed

her first Hindi projectCitadel. Made under

the direction offilmmaker duo

RajNidimoruand

KrishnaDK, the

filmwill have

VarunDhawan as thelead oppositeSamantha.

Recently, theYashoda

ac-tress

trav-eled tothe USand now it islearnt that hertrip was toprep for her

role in the movie.A source close to

Samantha revealed,"Samantha has beenworking on gettinginto her character for

Citadel in the US. Sheis following a very strictfitness and lifestyleregime there to get intothe physicality of hercharacter in the series.Over there, she is trainingwith renowned expertsworking in the enter-

tainment space for action.”Meanwhile, it was earlier

reported that Samantha andVarun Dhawan will per-form some high-octane ac-tion sequences in thedrama. They are even train-ing in martial arts as a partof their preparation fortheir characters. The tech-nical crew of Citadel is alsoexpected to include aHollywood stunt director.

IANS

Mumbai: Tabu is one of the most loved and versatile ac-tresses in Hindi film industry. Her career spans over three decadesand there has never been a time when her stardom has fazed.Fans loved to see her on the silver screen then and they love it now.But one thing which leaves fans stunned about her is the way shelooks even at 50. Recently in an interview Tabu opened up aboutwhat she’s doing to reverse her age.

Recalling an incident, she laughed and revealed that there isno particular routine that she follows. She said that she is awareof her image and works to preserve it. Talking about a funnyincident, Tabu said that her makeup artist Mithali always keeps

telling her that her skin is looking good and asks her thatis there some home remedy she does. Adding further

Tabu said, “some days, I’ll tell her that I put coffee here,and some plant there, and she’ll say, ‘You can’t do that,

you have to use this cream’, and she’ll suggestsome Rs 50,000 cream. I bought it once, but

never again. It was a mistake.”

Tabu admits her mistake

IRA GETS ENGAGEDTO BOYFRIEND NUPUR

Parineetishares her childhood

fantasy

Secret behind Samantha’s

US tourrevealed

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Lookout circular againstrealtor over `20cr fraudPRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Bhubaneswar, Sept 23: The Bureau ofImmigration has issued a lookout circularagainst the director of a real estate com-pany accused of cheating around `20crore from 42 people by assuring them ofdispute-free flats.

The immigration bureau issued the cir-cular based on a request of the EconomicOffences Wing (EOW) of Odisha police.

The accused Manoj Kumar Panda isthe director of Odyssa Homes andCommercials Private Limited. He hasbeen absconding since a criminal case wasfiled against him, police said Friday.

The case was registered on the basisof the written complaint by an employeeof a leading IT company that Panda hadcheated him and many others.

A lookout circular is generally issuedto alert immigration check posts at air-ports/seaports to alert law enforcementagencies if a wanted person tries to leavethe country or arrive in the countryfrom abroad.

During investigation it was found thatdirectors of the company had collectedaround ̀ 20 crore from 42 investors between2013 and 2016 to provide them flats attheir project by 2018. Necessary agree-ments were also executed for it.

But no flat has been allotted to the in-vestors. The directors of the real estatefirm instead knowingly lingered theprocess of handover of the flats and have

even reallotted seven of them to other in-vestors, the EOW said in a release.

The investigating agency also found dur-ing investigation that the company di-rectors had cheated many other investorsin their different projects and had de-liberately made multiple transactionsof flats against which they had alreadyreceived substantial amounts.

The managing director of the real es-tate firm Arabindo Santra has alreadybeen arrested and is in judicial custody.Panda and another director Saroj Pandaare absconding. The EOW has announcedreward for information leading to thearrest of the two absconding men, theagency said.

n The case was registered on thebasis of the written complaint by anemployee of a leading IT company that Panda had cheated him and many others

SC nixes Peter Heehs’ plea against book banPOST NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi, Sept 23: The SupremeCourt has dismissed a petition filedby Peter Heehs, author of ‘TheLives of Sri Aurobindo’ againstthe Orissa High Court’s order thatrefused to stay the ban imposedby the state government on thebook.

A two-judge bench of JusticesAjay Rastogi and BV Nagarathnadismissed the petition as with-drawn. The bench granted libertyto the petitioner to take remediesas per law.

Earlier, a three-judge bench ofOrissa High Court had dismissedthe petition in April 2021 on theground that the plea was filed aftera delay of more than two years.

A gazette notification on the banby the state government was pub-lished April 9, 2009. Heehs had filedthe petition seeking quashing of theban in 2012.

The bench noted that norms pre-scribed filing of such petitionswithin a maximum period of twomonths of notification of an order.However, the petition was filedafter a delay of over two years.

The state government in writtensubmission had contended thatthe author had clearly and inten-tionally overstepped his historiancredentials which promote com-munal disaffection affecting pub-lic peace and tranquillity.

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ANNUAL MEETEnergy Minister PK Debinaugurated the 22nd AnnualGeneral Body meeting ofOdisha Power TransmissionEngineers’ Association inBhubaneswar, Friday

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HANDLOOM EXPO: Visitors check handloom products at a national-level expo being organised by Boyanika at Exhibition Ground in Bhubaneswar, Friday

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Bhubaneswar, Sept 23: In a bid toensure safety and security of doc-tors and other medical staffers, thestate government Friday asked allDistrict Collectors to install CCTVsin all government hospitals.

Health and Family WelfareSecretary Shalini Pandit, in a let-ter to all the Collectors, superin-tendents of police (SPs), chief dis-trict medical officers (CDMOs) anddirectors of Capital Hospital &RGH, Rourkela, said, “Violence,harassment and even physical as-sault to doctors and health officialson duty are being reported fromdifferent parts of the state.

Stating the government has ‘zerotolerance’ towards violence againstdoctors, Pandit asked the district ad-ministrations to take exemplaryaction against the miscreants.

In view of the increasing unto-ward situations on the premisesof health institutions like man-handling of doctors and staffersof the institutions, she has sug-gested taking certain steps in-cluding installation of CCTV cam-eras at vital locations of the hospitalsfor monitoring of the activities inthe hospital.

The health secretary also askedthe officials to introduce visitors’pass system for the indoor patients.Two entry passes are to be issuedper patient for attending the pa-tient during the official visitinghours and the attendants enteringthe ward should be frisked by theinternal security guards, she said.

All the regular and contractualemployees of the hospitals will beprovided with ID cards. Entry of gen-eral public and vehicles will also beregulated strictly.

Similarly, signage highlightingthe Odisha Medicare ServicePersons and Medicare ServiceInstitutions (Prevention of Violenceand Damage of Property) Act, 2008will also be placed in front of thehealth institutions.

Internal security guards will pa-trol the campus and take steps forremoval of unauthorised vehiclesand vendors. Two security hubs

will be deployed to the crowded de-partments of the district head-quarters hospitals. The telephonenumber of the two hubs will bemade available through the dis-play of signage.

Further, a public redressal sys-tem will also be developed in whichthe aggrieved attendants may ap-proach the superintendent/headof office of the health institutionat the time of need rather than tak-ing the law into their hands.

The same along with the phonenumber will also be displayed in con-spicuous places of the campus of thehealth institutions.

In case any law and order situ-ation arises, the SP of the con-cerned district will have to takeimmediate, strict and appropriateaction as per law in order to dis-courage people from such activities,she added.

DMs told to installCCTVs in all hosps

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Bhubaneswar, Sept 23: TheCommissionerate Police Fridayissued a set of guidelines for theuse of loudspeakers during DurgaPuja celebrations. The organisersof Durga Puja as well as the bands,DJs and music parties have beenasked to ensure the sound of loudspeakers do not exceed the stipu-lated limit of 65 decibel.

“The provisions of NoisePollution (Regulation & Control)Rules, 2000 and the order of theHonorable Supreme Court, re-stricting of sound output of loud-speaker to the extent of 65 db (deci-bel) and stipulations ofCommissioner's order No. 7/10shall be strictly followed in theuse of loudspeaker during DurgaPuja Festival,” said the order issuedby Bhubaneswar DCP PrateekSingh, Friday.

All the band/DJ and music par-ties have been asked to installsound limiters while using am-plifiers along with other musicalinstruments to restrict the soundwithin 65 decibel. The police alsowarned the stakeholders not toallow any audio system during

the puja or immersion processionwithout being fitted with soundlimiters.

The city police has directed theparties concerned to ensure thatmusic is not played within 100metre radius of the areas ear-marked as silence zones likeschools, colleges, hospitals andcourts. “No music shall be playedwithin the radius of 100 Mtrs. ofsilence zone area (School, College,Hospital , Cour t etc. ) ,” the order reads.

Similarly, the city police also

prohibited organisers from play-ing music or performing musicparties on National Highway orin the areas where Section 144 ofCrPC has been imposed.

The organisers will be permit-ted to use only one band and onemusic party during the immer-sion procession. The city policealso asked the music party or-ganisers to use 4/5 sound boxesduring the Dussehra.

As per the order, the organis-ers of Durga Puja should use theband/DJ and music parties who

have fetched licence from the DCPoffice during the festival. Theband/DJ and music parties havebeen asked to strictly follow the timeand route permitted by the citypolice during procession.

The DCP has warned the con-cerned parties of stringent actionif they are found flouting theguidelines.

The Commissionerate Policehas also asked the music parties/DJs/bands to not useflash/focus l ights during procession.

ALL THE BAND/DJ AND MUSIC PARTIES HAVE BEEN ASKED TO INSTALL SOUND LIMITERS WHILE USINGAMPLIFIERS ALONG WITH OTHER MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS TO RESTRICT THE SOUND WITHIN 65 DECIBEL

Norms out for loudspeakers during puja

THE ORGANISERS WILL BEPERMITTED TO USE ONLY ONEBAND AND ONE MUSIC PARTY

DURING THE IMMERSIONPROCESSION

THE CITY POLICE ASKED THEMUSIC PARTY ORGANISERS TO USE 4/5 SOUND BOXES DURING

THE DUSSEHRA

THE POLICE WARNED THESTAKEHOLDERS NOT TO ALLOW

ANY AUDIO SYSTEM DURING THEPUJA OR IMMERSION PROCESSION

WITHOUT BEING FITTED WITHSOUND LIMITERS

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Bhubaneswar, Sept 23: TheMinistry of Road Transport andHighways (MoRTH) has issued a no-tification September 16 to ease theburden of citizens by making avail-able all the transport related serv-ices online.

Out of the 58 services, Odishahas introduced 44 citizen-centricservices related to Transport de-partment including driving licence,vehicle registration, permit, off-roadapplication and international driv-ing permit through online applica-tion process under the 5T initiative.

Odisha is the first state in the

country to introduce paperlessregistration system for fully builtnew vehicle and auto approval ofgoods & contract carriage permitto provide instant service in trans-port sector.

In a press note, Dipti RanjanPatra, Joint CommissionerTransport, Technical said, “A totalof 44 RTO related services are al-ready online in Odisha. The vehi-cle registration process has beenmade paperless and contactlesssince two years. Odisha is firststate in the country to introduce adocument upload system throughdigital signature with auto numbergeneration.”

44 transport related services available online

Preparations in full swing for Durga Puja at Sahid Nagar in Bhubaneswar

THE HEALTH SECRETARY ASKEDTHE OFFICIALS TO INTRODUCEVISITORS’ PASS SYSTEM FOR THEINDOOR PATIENTS

ALL THE REGULAR ANDCONTRACTUAL EMPLOYEES OF THEHOSPITALS WILL BE PROVIDEDWITH ID CARDS

n AccusedManoj KumarPanda, directorof Odyssa Homesand CommercialsPrivate Limited,has beenabsconding sincea criminal casewas filed against him

Jasidih-Bangalore trainvia Bhub from Sept 30POST NEWS NETWORK

Bhubaneswar, Sept 23: TheMinistry of Railways has decidedto introduce a new train betweenJasidih (Jharkhand) and Sir MVisvesvaraya Terminal (SMVT),Bang alore via Bhadrak-Bhubaneswar and Visakhapatnamunder ECoR jurisdiction.

On regular service, 22306 Jasidih-SMVT, Bengaluru Super Fast Expressfrom Jasidih will leave at 0630hrsevery Friday w.e.f. September 30,2022. In return direction, 22305 SMVT,Bengaluru-Jasidih Superfast Expressfrom SMVT, Bengaluru will leaveat 1000hrs every Sunday w.e.f. October2, 2022. This train will have stop-pages at Bhadrak, Cuttack,Bhubaneswar, Vizianagaram andVisakhapatnam in ECoR jurisdictionand will stop at important stationslike Asansol, Durgapur, Barddhaman,Kharagpur, Balasore, Nellore,Perambur, Katpadi and Jolarpettaibetween Jasidih and SMVT,Bengaluru from both the directions.

Pickpocket gang behindthefts in Mo Bus busted POST NEWS NETWORK

Bhubaneswar, Sept 23: TheCommissionerate Police Fridaybusted a pickpocket gang that wastargeting commuters in Mo Busin the City and arrested two of itsmembers.

The arrested were identified asSanjaya Singh, 26, of Purulia dis-trict in West Bengal and GaneshPradhan, 30, of Jakhapura areain Jajpur district. Singh has beenstaying in Jajpur too.

During the last couple of days,several complaints regarding theft ofvaluables, cash from passengers trav-elling in Mo Bus reached theCommissionerate Police which swunginto action.

During the probe, the cops foundthat the gang from Jajpur was be-hind the series of pickpocket casesreported in the MO Bus vehicles. Thepolice found that the gang also com-prises juveniles and women ofvagabond communities. Singh andPradhan along with other gangmembers used to stay in an aban-doned house near the railway sta-tion at Dhanmandal in Jajpur. Theyused to come to the Capital by busin the morning and return Jajpurafter committing the crime every day.

The gang would create an arti-ficial jam inside Mo Bus before de-camping with the cash and valuablesfrom the passengers. They also tar-get houses of individuals during thewee hours of the day on the pretextof drinking water or begging.

Police carried out a raid atDhanmandal and arrested the ac-cused duo while search is on to nabother members of the gang. Policeseized 15 cellphones including twostolen ones that belong to RD Women’sUniversity students, a pair gold ear topsand two laptops and ̀ 5,500 in cash.

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DOUSING BLAZE: Fire Services personnel and locals douse blaze that broke out at the fifth floor of Bhartia Tower, which is under construction, in Badambadi area of Cuttack, Friday OP PHOTO

DEMOLITION DRIVE: An excavator engaged by BDA demolished illegal structures near Kuakhai bridge in Bhubaneswar,Friday OP PHOTO

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Bhubaneswar, Sept 23: ChiefMinister Naveen Patnaik possessedproperties worth Rs 64.97 crore ason December, 2021, a marginal dipfrom Rs 64.98 crore a year ago, ac-cording to an official portal whereall ministers submit details of theirassets.

The website, which was updatedFriday with latest informationabout assets and liabilities of pub-lic representatives, showed thatPatnaik owned movable proper-ties worth Rs 12.09 crore, whichincluded bank accounts in NewDelhi, Bhubaneswar, Hinjlicut andBargarh, along with jewellery anda four-wheeler.

The gold jewellery was valued atRs 3.45 lakh and the old Ambassadorcar of 1980 model at Rs 6,434.

The Chief Minister had depositsof Rs 72 lakh in a bank at Janpath,New Delhi, and Rs 21.71 lakh inthe State Bank of India atBhubaneswar.

Patnaik possessed immovableassets worth Rs 52.88 crore – all ofwhich were inherited from par-ents Biju and Gyan Patnaik, ac-cording to the CM's property state-ment.

His immovable assets includedhis two-thirds share in NaveenNiwas, near Bhubaneswar airport,

worth Rs 9,52,46,190 (approximately),and 50 per cent share in the prop-erty at 3, Dr APJ Abdul KalamRoad, New Delhi wor th Rs43,36,18,000 (approximately).

Other Cabinet ministers, too,declared their assets on the website.

State Health Minister NabaKishore Das disclosed that his wifeowned as many as 75 vehicles, allof which were used for commercialpurposes. Of these, 18 were pro-cured in 2021.

Das’s fleet of vehicles includeda Mercedes Benz whose marketvalue was estimated at over Rs 1.14crore.

He had deposits of over Rs 45.12lakh in dif ferent banks ofSambalpur, Bhubaneswar andJharsuguda.

The health minister also had in-vestments over Rs 77.43 lakh invarious fixed deposit schemes, theproperty statement showed.

His wife, too, has deposits invarious banks, mostly in Sambalpur,amounting to over Rs 1.13 crore, andfixed deposits of more than Rs 2.24crore.

Similarly, Science andTechnology Minister AshokChandra Panda declared that heowned movable and immovableassets worth over Rs 6.49 crore.

Rural Development MinisterPritiranjan Ghadai, Handlooms,Textiles and Handicrafts MinisterRita Sahu and Steel and MinesMinister Prafulla Kumar Mallikdisclosed that they did not possessany four-wheeler.

Marginal dip inCM’s propertiesAs per the declaration made by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, his properties witnessed

a marginal dip from `64.98 crore in 2020 to `64.97 crore as on December 2021

Health Minister Naba Kishore Dasdisclosed that his wife owned asmany as 75 vehicles, all of which

were used for commercialpurposes

Science and Technology MinisterAshok Chandra Panda disclosed

that he owned movable andimmovable assets worth over

Rs 6.49 crore

Rural Development MinisterPritiranjan Ghadai, Handlooms,

Textiles and Handicrafts MinisterRita Sahu and Steel and MinesMinister Prafulla Kumar Mallik

revealed that they did not possessany four-wheeler

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Bhubaneswar, Sept 23: In a first-of-its-kind initiative in Odisha,Mission Shakti self-help groups(SHGs) will revive drain and lakeat Ward-36 here under the MukhyaMantri Karma Tatpara Abhiyan(MUKTA), an official said Friday.

In the pilot stage, as many as 16Mission Shakti SHGs of Wards-28, 35 and 36 will rejuvenate thedrain and lake No-10 at Ward-36near Nicoo Park here with a budg-etary allocation of Rs 1.85 crore,added the official.

Attending a meeting at SUDAoffice here on water body rejuve-nation in the City through com-munity participation, Housing andUrban Development departmentPrincipal Secretary G MathiVathanan said Odisha is appreci-ated globally for coming up with

model interventions like FSTP,MUKTA and JAGA Mission.

“The rejuvenation of water bodyin Ward-36 by Mission Shakti SHGsis a first-of-its-kind project in Odisha.Hence, we’ve to ensure that it be-comes a role model for others,”

said Mathi Vathanan.Bhubaneswar Municipal

Cor poration (BMC) MayorSulochana Das assured all sortsof support to the SHG members forhassle-free execution of the ini-tiative.

“The role of Mission ShaktiSHGs has been increasing witheach passing day. This project (re-juvenation of drain and lake No-10 at Ward-36) is another opportu-nity for our women to strengthentheir partnership with the stategovernment. Team BMC will extendall support to the SHG members,”Das added.

BMC Commissioner Vijay Amrut

Kulange said that they would fa-cilitate technical support to theMission Shakti SHG members atthe field level.

“Through this rejuvenation ini-tiative, efforts shall be made totransform BMC into a role modelfor other ULBs,” added Kulange.

State Urban Development Agency(SUDA) Director Sarada PrasadPanda highlighted the state gov-ernment’s commitment towardswomen empowerment.

“The state government has al-located Rs 700 crore for 2022–23and embarked on a path of em-powering women through theirengagement in various livelihood-focused activities. The initiativeof renovation of lake is anothersuch case of state showcasing itscommitment of empoweringwomen towards a sustainable liveli-hood,” Panda pointed out.

In a first, Mission Shakti SHGs to revive lake, drain in City STATE REGISTERS 202 FRESH COVIDCASES IN 24 HRS PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Bhubaneswar, Sept 23: Odisha’sCovid- 1 9 t a l l y m o u n t e d t o13,32,735 Friday as 202 more peo-ple, including 45 children, testedpositive for the virus, a Healthdepartment bulletin said.

The state had recorded 252 in-fections Thursday.

The death toll remained un-changed at 9,186. Odisha nowhas 1,400 active cases, while13,22,095 patients have recov-ered from the disease so far,including 238 in the past 24hours.

A total of 12,979 samples weretested for Covid-19 since Thursdayat a daily positivity rate of 1.56per cent.

In a first, researchers have linkedexposure to air pollutants like par-ticulate matter PM2.5 -- partic-

ularly in the first five years of lifestarting from the womb -- and al-terations in the brain structure thatmay put children at psychiatric andcognitive disorder risks later in life.

Experts assessed children's ex-posure to air pollution from con-ception to 8.5 years of age on amonthly basis.

The study, published in the peer-reviewed journal EnvironmentalPollution, found an association inchildren aged 9-12, between expo-sure to air pollutants in the womband during the first 8.5 years oflife and alterations in white matterstructural connectivity in the brain.

The greater the child's exposurebefore age five, the greater the brainstructure alteration observed inpreadolescence, according to theteam led by the Barcelona Institutefor Global Health (ISGlobal).

“The novel aspect of the pres-ent study is that it identified pe-riods of susceptibility to air pol-lution. We measured exposureusing a finer time scale byanalysing the data on a month-by-month basis, unlike previous

studies in which data was analysedfor trimesters of pregnancy orchildhood years," said Anne-ClaireBinter, ISGlobal researcher andfirst author of the study.

In this study, "we analysed the chil-dren's exposure to air pollutionfrom conception to 8.5 years of ageon a monthly basis", Binter added.

In addition to the association be-tween air pollution and white mat-ter microstructure, the study alsofound a link between specific ex-posure to fine particulate matter(PM2.5) and the volume of the "puta-men", a brain structure involved inmotor function, learning processesand many other functions.

Abnormal white matter mi-crostructure has been associated

with psychiatric disorders (de-pressive symptoms, anxiety andautism spectrum disorders).

The study found that the greaterthe exposure to PM2.5, especiallyduring the first two years of life, thegreater the volume of the putamenin preadolescence.

"A larger putamen has been as-sociated with certain psychiatric dis-orders (schizophrenia, autism spec-trum disorders, andobsessive-compulsive spectrum dis-orders)," said Binter.

The data analysed came from alarge cohort of 3,515 children en-rolled in the Generation R Study inRotterdam (the Netherlands).

"One of the important conclu-sions of this study is that the in-fant's brain is particularly sus-ceptible to the effects of airpollution not only during preg-nancy, as has been shown in ear-lier studies, but also during child-hood," the researchers noted.

"We should follow up and con-tinue to measure the same pa-rameters in this cohort to investi-gate the possible long-term effectson the brain of exposure to air pol-lution" added Monica Guxens,ISGlobal researcher and another au-thor of the study. IANS

Early life exposure to pollutionmay lead to brain disorder: Study

Woman gets family ... After the order of the HC, Lalita

received a provisional pensionof Rs 16 lakh. Four officers alongwith the Under Secretary of OSRTCcame to her house and gave herthe cheque. The HC expressed itsregret because of the delay.Referring to an order of the SC, theHC said, pension is not a favour.The HC said that it will make allefforts so that not a single benefi-ciary in the state is deprived ofpension. After receiving the pen-sion Lalita said: “We had to sufferwhat was destined to us. I had tobring up children after goingthrough a lot of difficulties. Finally,we got justice. The pension will beof great help to my children.”

In the pilot stage, as manyas 16 Mission Shakti SHGsof Wards-28, 35 and 36 willrejuvenate the drain andlake No-10 at Ward-36near Nicoo Park here witha budgetary allocation of`1.85 crore

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One of theimportantconclusions of thisstudy is that the

infant's brain is particularlysusceptible to the effects ofair pollution not only duringpregnancy, as has beenshown in earlier studies, butalso during childhoodMONICA GUXENS I ISGLOBAL RESEARCHER

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Bhubaneswar, Sept 23: BMCCommissioner Vijay AmrutaKulange attended ‘Mo Ward Meeting’at ward no-51 and 57 Friday. Theprime objective of the meeting wasto orient the community members

on sanitation habits and new sani-tation initiatives of the BhubaneswarMunicipal Corporation (BMC).

The session was facilitated bydeputy commissioner, SanitationSuvendu Kumar Sahoo.

“Public is our priority. All thedevelopmental measures that are

being taken are for the benefit of citydwellers. Sanitation being the keyindicator of livability should becommunity driven in a city likeBhubaneswar,” said the commis-sioner.

To make Bhubaneswar a betterperformer in the field of sanita-

tion, the civic body has devisedsteps like ‘Zero GPS’ and 5 metre ra-dious cleaning. This is equally ap-plicable for all dwellers and insti-tutions. Adoption of new initiativeswill keep Bhubaneswar ahead interms of livability and smart ap-proaches.

Sanitation should be community driven: BMC commissioner

No concretisation...

While 2/3rd of reclaimed landbe developed as a dense for-

est, the remaining 1/3rd land maybe developed as parks/playgroundswithout any permanent or tem-porary constructions and withoutallowing any commercial activities.

Parks may be maintained inaccordance with the judgmentsof the Supreme Court in theBangalore Medical Trust v. BSMuddappa case, the tribunal said.As per the order, the area whereforest is to be developed will behanded over to the forest de-partment, after demarcation. Restof the area will be maintained bythe concerned local body/floodand irrigation department, asdecided by the state government.

The state has also been askedto adopt necessary safeguardsfor protection of 38 villages likelyto be affected by floods in the pe-riphery of Cuttack.

Dilip Tirkey new...“Congratulate @DilipTirkey-

former Hockey Team Captain from#Odisha, on being elected as thePresident of @TheHockeyIndia. Iam sure, being an illustrious playerhimself from the cradle of Indianhockey, he will take the game tonew heights. Wish him all the verybest,” Patnaik said in a tweet.Spor ts and Youth ServicesSecretary R. Vineel Krishna alsocongratulated Tirkey. Stating itis a proud moment for Odisha,Krishna said, “Under his leader-ship, I am sure there will be newmomentum towards hockey de-velopment in the country.”

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Berhampur, Sept 23: Nearly 26years ago, the Water Resources de-partment had proposed Pipalapankareservoir on Rushikulya river inSorada Assembly constituency inGanjam district. Meanwhile, the de-partment has conducted a surveyand identified land for the project.

As per preliminary estimate,`1,000 crore will be spent for the project , said Sorada MLAPurnachandra Swain. He addedthat after completion of the proj-ect, it will provided irrigation of vastareas and drinking water in somerural pockets.

However, environmentalists hadopposed it in the initial years andhave again opposed it now.

It is worth mentioning here thatin the late 90s, Tata Group had pro-posed to set up a port-based megasteel plant at Gopalpur. The thenPrime Minister PV NarasimhaRao had contested Lok Sabha elec-tions on the Congress ticket fromBerhampur constituency in 1996.It was said that to ensure his elec-toral success, he had pressurisedthe Tata Group to agree for thepost-based steel plant.

Ahead of the parliamentary elec-tions, PV Narasimha Rao had laid

the foundation stone for the plantin December 1995. Top executivesof the Tata Group including RatanTata were present on the occasion.Here, a proposal was mooted tobuild Pipalapanka reservoir onRushikulya river to supply waterto the proposed steel plant.

Then, the district administra-tion extended all possible cooper-ation and drew up a master plan fordrawing water from the reservoir.

However, some local environ-mentalists strongly opposed thesteel plant as well as thePipalapanka water reservoir. Therewere agitations. The agitators saidthat if the reservoir project is ex-ecuted, it should be solely used forfarming. Hence, the proposed reser-

voir plunged into controversy. On 30 March, 1998, former

Berhampur MP Jayanti Patnaikhad raised the issue of Pipalapankareservoir project in Lok Sabha. Shehad then urged the Central gov-ernment for implementing thePipalapanka reservoir project on asthe execution of this project is verynecessary to meet the water needsof the steel plant proposed by TataGroup on the Gopalpur coast.

Tata had then acquired hun-dreds of acres of land for theplant, but due to still oppositionfrom locals, the company had towithdraw itself from the project.The Pipalapanka reservoir proj-ect also got stuck.

After 26 years, the issue of build-

ing the reservoir was raised again.The ruling party has laid empha-sis on execution of the project.

Decades ago, freedom fighterand Communist leader GobindaPradhan (then Bhanjanagar MLA)had mooted construction ofPipalapanka reservoir onRushikulya with a vision to useits water only for farming.

Environmentalist PrafullaSamantray who had been opposingthe reservoir along with otherssaid that no dam should be allowedin any river because the natural flowof river water gets affected.

“Dams on rivers only dry upwater. Water crisis crops up. Dueto Janibili dam, Rushikulya rivergoes dry in summer and winter,”he noted. He pointed out that Soradreservoir built during the BritishRaj on Jarau and Padma rivers isin dilapidated state, but there hasbeen no step for its restoration.He has opposed both Pipalapankaand Kansarigand reservoirs onRushikulya river.

Senior BJD leader RameshChandra Chyau Patnaik said thatthe state government has empha-sised on dam construction to boostirrigation and ensure drinkingwater to people. Pipalapanka reser-voir is a welcome step, he added.

Finally, plan afoot for Pipalapanka dam`1,000 CRORE WILL BE SPENT FOR THE PROJECT: SORADA MLA

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Nayagarh, Sept 23: People’s repre-sentatives including Zilla Parishad (ZP)members and MLAs at the second ZPgeneral meeting here expressed con-cern over non-execution of Brutang ir-rigation project. Notably, the ambitiousproject has been hanging fire over yearsfor various reasons.

At the meeting, ZP chairpersonDebasish Patnaik, Nayagarh MLA ArunSahu, Ranpur MLA Satya NarayanPradhan, Daspalla MLA Ramesh ChandraBehera, Khandapara MLA SoumyaranjanPatnaik, ZP members and district levelofficials of various departments dis-cussed a host of issues like farmers’registration, fertilizer shortage, effec-tive measures for elephant menace in var-ious parts, irregularities in Odagaonforest range and flood damage assessmentin various pockets.

Reports said, farming and irrigationis one of the priority sectors of thestate government, but the Brutang ir-rigation project in this district has al-legedly failed to take off for years due

to lack of green clearance. Thedream of the farmers hassuffered a jolt, as apathy ofthe gover nment haspushed the project intouncertainty.

The government has al-ready spent ̀ 4.99 crore to-wards survey and inquiryactivities, but its work hasnot progressed beyond that.

The Brutang project is aimed atirrigating 30,920 hectares of land inDaspalla, Khandapara, Nayagarh,Nuagaon and Odagaon blocks oncecompleted. The project will benefit 7.42lakh people of 309 villages in the districtbesides supplying drinking water toNayagarh town.

In Kharif season, the project is ex-pected to irrigate 20,970 hectares and inRabi season 9,320 hectares.

It was estimated that altogether 680families will be displaced by the proj-ect. However, no step has been taken fordisplacement till date while on the otherhand the government has not been ableto carry out the project due to lack of en-

vironmental clearance. The project is described as the lifeline

of Nayagarh district. The stage-I clear-ance, accorded to the project, has cre-ated concerns over submergence of akey elephant corridor. According to en-vironmentalists, the project will inun-date a route regularly used by elephants.

The order of the Ministry ofEnvironment and Forests and ClimateChange (MoEFCC), granting stage-Iforest clearance to the project, includedsome conditions intended to safeguardthe wildlife such as building overpassesto allow elephants to cross the canal.

The proposed submergence area isclose to Baisipalli Wildlife

Sanctuary. A studypointed out that

both the sub-mergence areaand the canalthat will con-nect Brutangand Kuanria

reservoirs arebeing regularly

u s e d by e l e -phants during their

transi t across theMahanadi in summer.

In February, 2021, protesting the delayof the project, farmers and project sup-porters had taken out a 40-km rallyfrom Daspalla to Nayagarh town. Theyhad staged protests in front of the col-lectorate, seeking expedition in execu-tion of the project.

They also demanded provision of re-habilitation of the people identified fordisplacement first and to include Ranpur,Bolagarh and Begunia blocks underthe project area.

Locals said that the project is a 50-year-old dream of the people of Nayagarh,but the dream is being sidelined.

Delay of Brutang project raises concern

Theproject will

benefit 7.42 lakh people of 309 villages in

the district besides supplying

drinking water toNayagarh town

Man awarded life term for murderBaripada: A court in Mayurbhanj district sentenced a 35-year-old man tolife imprisonment for murdering a man over a decade ago. Rairangpuradditional district and sessions judge Deepak Kumar also imposed a fineof `5,000 on Laba Bari for killing Kanhu Bagey (50). In January 2010, Bariassaulted Bagey with a stick following a quarrel at Sunamora village inJamda police station. The victim succumbed to his injuries later. Thejudgement given Thursday was based on the statements of foureyewitnesses, additional public prosecutor Pankaj Das said.

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Baliapal, Sept 23: Vigilance offi-cials have started an investigationinto irregularities worth ̀ 1.90 crorein various projects in Baliapal pan-chayat of Balasore district.

A three-member team of theVigilance department visited sev-eral project areas.

Sarpanch Banalata Das had ear-lier filed a complaint at the Vigilancethat former sarpanch MadhusudanBarik has misappropriated funds

for various projects in 2021-22 with-out executing them.She pointedout that funds received for pipe-laying work of a drinking waterproject, a couple of road projects,restoration of old market complexhave been misappropriated.

Vig starts probe into fund embezzlement

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Baripada, Sept 23:Union Ministerof State for Jal Shakti and TribalAffairs Bishweswar Tudu had ear-lier stated that leaders of variousoutfits protesting for tribal statusto the Kurumi community havebeen misleading people with anintention of creating vote bank.This statement of the UnionMinister has left the people ofKurumi community infuriated.Hundreds of people from variousorganisations staged protestsagainst this statement of the UnionMinister in front of the Collectoratein Baripada, Friday. Shouting slo-gans against Tudu, they burnt ef-figies of the Union Minister.

“It is unfortunate on part of anMP who is now in a constitutionalposition to make such undemocraticand insensitive statement towardsKurumis. We demand his ousterfrom the ministry as he is irre-sponsible,” the agitators fumed.

It may be noted here that peo-ple associated with variousKurumi outfits had staged a railroko at Bhanjapur railway sta-tion a few days ago seeking tribalstatus to them.

Later, Tudu reacting on theprotest had reportedly said thatleaders of the Kurumi outfits havebeen protesting from ‘Palli to Delhi’and mislead people with eye onvote bank, but they would not gettribal status even if they keep onagitating for 100 years.

Kurumis stir againstTudu’s statement

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Loisingha, Sept 23: People havebeen complaining over irregular-ities in two MGNREGS projectsimplemented at Luchkibahal villageof Jharmunda panchayat underthis block in Bolangir district.They have intimated the ZillaParishad office about it. Takingnote of the complaint, project di-rector (PD) of the District RuralDevelopment Agency (DRDA),Sushant Singh has directed theBDO to investigate the matter andsubmit a report as soon as possible.

The authorities of Jharmundapanchayat had taken up two MGN-REGS projects at Khajurikanta andLimbamunda (two hamlets whichare part of Luchkibahal village)in June 2022. Many job card hold-ers were engaged in the projects, buttheir wages have not yet beencleared. Surprisingly, their wageswere credited into accounts of somepeople of another village who werenot engaged in the projects.

The BDO had earlier served ashow-cause notice to the panchayatexecutive officer, the GRS and theGaonsathi about non-payment ofwages to the beneficiaries. But theofficials had ignored the noticeand no action was taken in thisregard. Upset, the job card holderstook up the issue with the ZillaParishad office and the block ad-ministration September 3.

PD orders probe intochinks in MGNREGS

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Jajpur, Sept 23: National GreenTribunal (NGT) has ordered an in-vestigation into alleged pollutionof Damasala creek in Sukinda areaof Jajpur district. The green courtissued the verdict while hearing acase (137/2022) in which it was al-leged that waste water from SouthKaliapani chromite mine andSukurungi chromite mine is beingdischarged into the creek.

One Amiya Panda had filed apetition at the NGT in this regard.

The NGT had directed the ad-ministration to form a committeeto look into the pollution. The re-port should be submitted within amonth. The green court stated inits order that scientists of CentralPollution Control Board (CPCB),Kolkata regional office and OdishaState Pollution Control Board(SPCB) will be members of the in-vestigating committee which willvisit the affected area and submittheir report. The next hearing of thecase is on November 11.

NGT orders probeDAMASALA CREEK POLLUTION

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“It is unfortunate on partof an MP who is now in aconstitutional position tomake such undemocraticstatement towardsKurumis. We demand hisouster from ministry,”agitators fumed

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Betanoti, Sept 23:Local residentsof Betanoti block in Mayurbhanj dis-trict have alleged that ̀ 5 lakh spentfor a building meant for conductingpost-mortem of bodies has gonedown the drain. The building is notbeing used by the Betanoti com-munity health centre (CHC) evenyears after its completion as it is sit-uated far away, sources informed.

They lamented that the purposefor which lakhs of rupees werespent has been defeated due to faultysite selection. Reports said the build-ing was constructed near a crema-tion ground on Betanoti-Manitiriroad, which is two kilometre fromthe CHC. The block administrationhad handed over the building tothe CHC authorities in 2012.

Officials of the CHC pointed outthat staff and doctors find it in-convenient to go that far to con-duct post-mortems at a desolateplace and so for the last 10 years,the building is lying unused.

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A fter a decade of witnessing declining Civil Service Examination (CSE)vacancies, the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has notifiedmore than 1,000 vacancies in the CSE this year.

Some observers link this jump in UPSC vacancies to jobs added in the newlycreated Indian Railway Management Service (IRMS) through the UPSCexam. Instead of 861 CSE vacancies, the recent recruitment circular issuedby UPSC notifies hiring on 1,011 posts. With IRMS now a part of the groupA central civil service cadre, nearly 150 personnel will be recruited to the serv-ice. The government recently created a new and separate IRMS cadre in thewake of the metro expansion, connectivity plan and bullet train projects.

According to the Minister of State, Department of Administrative Reformsand Public Grievances, Jitendra Singh, there were 1,472 vacancies in the IASand 864 vacancies in the IPS at the start of the year. Every year, some 150-200 vacancies for IAS rank and close to 250 vacancies for IPS are undertaken,we are told. But there is an asymmetry in terms of recruitment of shortlistedcandidates joining the service. That, and the overall decrease in the total num-ber of vacancies is something the government will need to address. The slightincrease in numbers due to the addition of new jobs in the railways isclearly not enough. But it’s a start.

Eye on Assembly pollsThe Gujarat government has transferred 20 IPS officers, including the

Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) RB Brahmbhatt. The 1995-batch Gujarat cadre officer has been named the new ADGP of state CID(Crime and Railways), relieving DGP Ashish Bhatia of the additionalcharge of CID.

RT Susara, an IPS officer from the 2011 batch, has been appointed as theDeputy Commissioner of Police for Zone 1 in Surat while Usha Rada, an IPSofficer from the 2013 batch, has been appointed as DCP, Zone-3, Surat city.

Ajit Rajian, the Superintendentof Police for Anand, has been ap-pointed as the DCP for Cyber Crimein Ahmedabad. He will be replacedby Praveen Kumar, a 2016 batch of-ficer who is currently serving asDCP, Zone-1, Rajkot.

To many observers, this jerky movement, so close to the assembly elec-tions, reeks of awkwardness after a long-in-place Gujarat government.Whether it is triggered by new worries or whether it was long in the worksis unclear. But with this major reshuffle coming barely a couple of monthsbefore the elections, the Bhupendrabhai Patel government is clearly mov-ing to close gaps and fortify the administration before facing the electorate.

Unresolved old issuesMeanwhile, away from a nation and media celebrating the reintroduction

of cheetahs, in Tamil Nadu, the state Environment and Forest Departmentis struggling with internal issues which threaten to subsume the many suc-cesses of the recent past.

Sources have informed DKB that the problem in the state Forest Departmentis not a dearth of officials or talent, rather it is administrative delays. Whilethe department has won accolades for the declaration of the Agasthyamalaias an elephant reserve, the lack of attention to professional training, researchand upgradation of posts is beginning to affect its otherwise laudable con-servation efforts.

Among the issues is the nonpayment of salaries to temporary staff involvedin anti-poaching activities and delays in filling vacant positions in the upperechelons of the department. Though Forest Department Secretary SupriyaSahu claims that these issues are being addressed, no one has a convincingresponse to the delays. While temporary staff have not been paid for months,and some have even been asked to leave, biologists, who have been workingat the department for more than two decades, have not been promoted.Neither has the department recruited permanent biologists on a fixed payscale.

Some officials say that the department has always been treated as less sig-nificant when compared to other departments led by IAS and UPS officers.Apparently, IFS officers of the 1990 batch are still trying to get their cadreupgraded. Clearly, the issues haunting the department require top-level attention from the DMK government.

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T he World Economic Forum’sGlobal Gender Gap Report2022 has noted that at the

current rate of progress, full gen-der parity will now take 132 yearsto achieve due to the COVID-19pandemic. The report ranked Indiaat 135 among 146 nations in termsof gender parity. This doesn’t augurwell for a country that is aspiringfor a bigger role among the comityof nations.

According to the report, thoughIndia improved five places sincelast year on better performance inareas of economic participationand opportunity, only 11 countriesare ranked below India on the indexof 146 nations. Clearly, this shouldbe unacceptable. The country’sgender gap score recorded its sev-enth highest level in the past 16years, but it continued to rankamong the worst performers onvarious parameters. “With a fe-male population of approximately662 million, India’s level of at-tainment weighs heavily on re-gional rankings”, it said.

It is also highly distressing tonote that on the health and sur-vival sub-index, India ranked low-est at 146th place and figured amongthe five countries with gender gapslarger than five per cent, the otherfour being Qatar, Pakistan,Azerbaijan and China. Similarly,India ranks at an abysmal 143rd ineconomic participation and op-portunity in 2022. The situationwas not much better in 2016 either,when the rank was 136th, the re-

port said.Achieving gender parity is cru-

cial as women by and large havelately been playing an importantrole in society, especially in themetros and cities. The change is dueto women getting educated andbeing made aware of their rights.There are some reports which alsoindicate that there has been man-ifest a general preference for the op-posite sex, especially in the pri-vate sector, in matters ofemployment in recent times.

One cannot deny an attitudinalchange in the thinking of urban so-ciety, though a relatively recentphenomenon, and this has beenbrought about by the waves of mod-ernisation that remained concen-trated among the educated. Thepicture, however, is completely dif-ferent in the backward and tribalregions of the country. Thus, prob-lems still persist as has been man-ifest from the recent report on gen-der parity.

The best way to improve India’sabysmal ranking, reflected in thecondition of women, is to changethe order of things. For that, it isimperative to increase represen-tation of women in leadership po-sitions at all levels so that womenget greater access to jobs and re-sources. It is indeed distressing tonote that, at the current rates ofprogress, it will take 155 years toclose the political empowermentgender gap -- 11 more than pre-dicted in 2021 -- and 151 years for theeconomic participation and op-

portunity gender gap, as indicatedin the report.

One may refer here to the ma-ternal mortality ratio (MMR) in448 of India’s 640 districts of thecountry which clearly reveal thatproper attention is not being givento women’s health. As per the UNSustainable Development Goals(SDGs), a report suggests that 70 per-cent of districts (448 out of 640 dis-tricts) reported MMR above 70deaths – a target set under theSDGs. The MMR under SDGs for2030 is 70 while India’s MMR is 113at present.

There is need to focus on fivemain concerns: one, give women ac-cess to education just like men,two, give women opportunities tobe in power and achieve economicsuccess, three, stop the violenceand sexual assault against women,four, end child marriages and five,make aware women about women’srights in India. By focusing onthese five major points sincerely bythe government as also all sectionsof society, the coming years mayachieve some equality betweenmen and women in the country.

It is up to the Government tomove beyond tokenism and helpwomen overcome staggering eco-nomic and social barriers. Thus,there is clearly a need for policy ini-tiatives to empower women as gen-der disparities in India persist evenagainst the backdrop of economicgrowth. However, it cannot be de-nied that a unique policy experi-ment in village-level governance

that mandated one-third repre-sentation for women in positionsof local leadership has shown prom-ising results. Further, it has beenfound that in villages led by women,the preferences of female residentsare better represented, and womenare more confident in reportingcrimes as earlier they may haveconsidered too stigmatising to bringto attention.

Improvements in labour mar-ket prospects also have the poten-tial to empower women. This alsoled to an increase in age at marriageand childbearing, a drop in desirednumber of children, and an in-crease in school enrolment ofyounger girls not exposed to theprogramme. Recent initiatives ontraining and recruiting youngwomen from rural areas for fac-tory-based jobs in cities provideeconomic independence and so-cial autonomy that they were un-accustomed to in their parentalhomes.

For India to maintain its positionas a global growth leader, moreconcerted efforts at local and na-tional levels and by the private sec-tor are needed to bring women toparity with men. While increas-ing representation of women inthe public spheres is importantand can potentially be attainedthrough some form of affirmativeaction, an attitudinal shift is es-sential for women to be consideredas equal within their homes and inbroader society.

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STING OF CLIMATE RISKS

cientists have longedwarned that climate changewil l adversely af fectweather patterns and living

conditions around the world. Thesewarnings are now turning into apainful reality. Worse, the range ofpossible outcomes has proven tobe increasingly “fat-tailed”: ex-treme weather events such as heat-waves, severe storms, and floodsare more likely than normal sta-tistical distributions would pre-dict.

None of this bodes well for fu-ture political stability or economicprosperity. Our best hope is thatthe sharp sting in these tails willgoad us into the necessary reme-dial action before things get evenworse. But will it?

The public is increasinglyaware that global warming isleading to more volatile weather.There have been record-settingheatwaves around the world thisyear, not just in India – wheretemperatures reached 49.2° Celsius(120.5°F) – but also in places likethe United Kingdom (40.2°C).France and China are experi-encing their worst droughts onrecord, and four consecutive yearsof failed rainy seasons in easternAfrica have put more than 50 mil-lion people at risk of “acute foodinsecurity.” Meanwhile, devas-tating storms and floods have hitMadagascar, Australia, the UnitedStates, Germany, Bangladesh,and South Africa.

These events are causing hun-dreds of thousands of deaths andenormous economic and finan-cial damage each year, makingweather volatility an increasinglyimportant factor in risk assess-ment. Whereas temperature in-creases of 0.5°C here or there arebarely perceptible, droughts, floods,and other short-term weather fluc-tuations can wreak deadly havoc.

Moreover, extreme weatherevents can cause changes that lastfar beyond the immediate shockand damage, especially when they

accelerate developments that mightotherwise have taken many years.Scientists are increasingly worriedabout “tipping points” – such asthe melting of polar ice sheets –that would carry us across thresh-olds of irreversible change. Thatcould create damaging feedbackloops between interconnected cli-mate risks, all of which wouldspill over into the real economy,driving defaults, job losses thatdisproportionately harm disad-vantaged communities, and po-litical turmoil.

Aside from the damage to thephysical environment, extremeweather may therefore triggerabrupt and sometimes permanentshifts in social attitudes and pub-lic policy. When people start los-ing their homes, livelihoods, oreven their lives, politicians mustrespond.

Surprisingly, while we are allacutely conscious of extremeweather, forecasters still widelyoverlook its role in acceleratingstructural changes. Mainstreamclimate scientists and economiststend to focus on the longer-term

effects of climate change broughtabout by global warming, withan emphasis on scenarios in-volving global average temperatureincreases in the range of only1.5°C-2°C – the targets enshrinedin the Paris climate agreement.And even in higher-temperaturescenarios, it is assumed that theeffects – on sea levels and agri-cultural output, for example – willaccumulate only gradually, im-plying that the ultimate reckoningis several decades away.

But a recent paper – “ClimateEndgame: Exploring CatastrophicClimate Change Scenarios” –shows that this conventional sce-nario analysis gravely understatesthe long-term risks, because itfails to give the more extreme cli-mate outcomes (the fat tails) theattention they deserve. As thestatistician Nassim Taleb haspointed out in the context of fi-nancial markets, conventionalmodels struggle to handle the con-sequences of fat-tail events, cre-ating a dangerous blind spot intheir outlook.

Higher temperature pathways

would unleash what the authorscall the “four horsemen” of the cli-mate endgame: famine and mal-nutrition, extreme weather, con-flict, and vector-borne diseases. Itdoes not take much imaginationto see how this herd of apoca-lyptic harbingers might createsocial and political chaos, espe-cially when they are all gallopingtogether – as is already the casetoday with the global food crisis,a new war in Europe, and the on-going pandemic. Worse, the men-tion of the second horseman sug-gests that the more immediaterisks of climate change are stillbeing underplayed. After all, ex-treme weather is also a driver ofthe other three horsemen, mak-ing it arguably the most important.

Weather shocks cause suffer-ing that grabs society’s attentionfar more than abstract (thoughno less warranted) warnings oflong-term doom. Polls show thatsupport for climate action isgreater for those who have per-sonally experienced extremeweather. Although the currentupsurge in inflation means thatpeople are less enthusiastic aboutmeasures that would hurt theirown finances, the growing inci-dence of disasters is shrinkingthe minority that remains skep-tical of climate change or climatepolicies altogether.

In this way, the fat tails of theweather – rather than the fat tailsof long-term climate change – arefar more likely to prompt actionwithin the shorter time horizonsthat preoccupy politicians andbusiness. Let us hope that as thestings from these tails becomeever more common and painful,they will spur us to sustain the poli-cies necessary to keep the climatehorses in their stable.

The writer is VisitingProfessor at the London

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A COUNTRY OFINDIA’S STANDING

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Muddle in media

Sir, The credibility of the mainstream media channels, whichinvited guests indulging in shouting matches, polarisationand spreading false narratives, would go down. The biggestthreat to mainstream media is not from new age digital plat-forms, but the mainstream media channel itself is mostcorrupt with unwanted hashtag topics, allegations andcounter allegations at the top of the voice. This has beengoing on for the last 15-20 years. The soul of the countrywas killed by the shouting, quarrelling persons. Firsttime someone from the government thought it fit to talkabout it without promising any action against such chan-nels? In the name of TRP and cut throat competition, peo-ple will have to digest more of fake news rather than thereal truth. The parties send a spokesperson who shouts,slanders are sour to the core and coarse and it seems theyare well trained and specialist in it. With a sudden surgeof welcome enlightenment, one wonders if the writing ison the wall for an open fight in the four walls of the news-room one day. CK Dorai Ramani Suresh, TRICHY

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Sir, One of the biggest challenges that India has been facing for a long timewhen it comes to safety and well-being of its people, is the appalling firesafety standards prevalent in workplaces, public buildings and homes.The fire tragedy that occurred at a hotel in Telangana very recently andfire that broke out in a commercial building near the Mundka metro sta-tion in outer Delhi in May this year, are stark reminders of how fire safetynorms are flouted by building owners with impunity. Buildings must be planned,designed and constructed to ensure that fire safety measures are in placein strict accordance with National Building Code of India's guidelineswhich regulate the building construction activities across the country.Even though NBC makes these measures mandatory, majority of multi-storeybuildings continues to ignore and violate the safety norms, and often playwith human lives. In fact, many buildings lack even basic fire safety sys-tems, like fire extinguishers. To reduce fire accidents, First Safety Auditshould be made mandatory across the country, and it must be entrusted tothird-party agencies, who have the expertise in it. A comprehensive fire safetyaudit can address the inherent fire hazards associated with the day-to-dayactivities in an occupancy and recommend measures to reduce the poten-tial fire accidents. Ranganathan Sivakumar, CHENNAI

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This is a term of the thatcher’s trade. A yealm — in older worksspelled yelm — is one of the individual bundles of straw, a sort of

straw tile, that’s laid on the roof. A writer in East Anglia in 1825explained that a yealm was the largest quantity of straw that could becarried under the arm at one time. As befits such an ancient trade,yealm is Old English, spelled then as gielm, gylm and in other ways. Itsfirst sense was of a sheaf of reaped corn (wheat or barley) and onlylater changed to mean the long straw that remained after threshing. Ithas often been confused with halm or helm in the same sense, and withhaulm for the stems or stalks of peas, beans, potatoes and other cropsthat remain after harvesting. However, these last three are from adifferent Germanic source which comes from an Indo-European rootthat appears in Latin culmus, a stalk, and Greek kalamos, a reed. Theyealms are fixed in place by hazel sticks called brotches, a word thatwas once commonly spelled broach or broche and which could mean apointed device of several kinds. It’s the same word as brooch for theornamental pin. The Oxford English Dictionary, in an entry that waswritten rather more than a century ago, says of brooch that thedifferentiation of spelling from broach was recent “and hardly yetestablished”.

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elements with political backing hadstalled the construction of SardarSarovar dam on the Narmada riverin Gujarat for many years byrunning a campaign that it wouldharm the environmentNARENDRA MODI | PRIME MINISTER

Vehicles in the national capitalwere moving at a snail’s pace atvarious places as roads wereclogged with heavy traffic jamsFriday morning following theovernight incessant rain

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BJP-led HimachalPradesh governmentbefore addressingthe rally, as the stateis reeling under a 70,000 crore debt,rising by 51 per cent under thecurrent government. He (Modi)should answer why so many areunemployed and even with 67,000posts vacant

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We arecommitted tofulfill our pre-

poll promise ofproviding 1 lakhgovernment jobs.About 27,000appointments have already beengiven in the last one-and-half-years, and today weare increasing the tally further

HIMANTA BISWA SARMA | ASSAM CM

Terror modulebusted in PunjabChandigarh: The PunjabPolice Friday claimed to havebusted an ISI-backed terrormodule jointly handled byCanada-based gangsterLakhbir Singh alias Landa andPakistan-based gangsterHarvinder Singh Rinda withthe arrest of two of itsoperatives. Lakhbir Singh isconsidered to be a close aideof Harvinder Singh, who hadjoined hands with BabbarKhalsa International (BKI),and the duo has close tieswith the ISI, a Punjab Policestatement said here.

Varavara Rao’splea rejectedMumbai: A special NationalInvestigation Agency (NIA)court in Mumbai Fridayrejected the plea of poet-activist Varavara Rao, anaccused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, seekingpermission to travel toHyderabad for cataractsurgery. The Supreme Courthad, in August, grantedmedical bail to the 82-year oldactivist, with his bailconditions being set by thespecial NIA court presidingover the case. Among the bailconditions laid down for Rao,who was arrested on August28, 2018 from his Hyderabadresidence in the case, was thathe would reside within thelimits of Greater Mumbai andnot leave the city without priorpermission of the NIA court.

ICMR gets new DGNew Delhi: Dr Rajiv Bahl hasbeen appointed as the newDirector General, IndianCouncil of Medical Research(ICMR) and Secretary, HealthResearch, succeeding DrBalram Bhargava. TheAppointments Committee ofthe Cabinet on Friday gave itsnod to the name of Bahl, whois currently Head of Researchon Maternal, Newborn Childand Adolescent Health cum-Newborn Unit Head,Department of MaternalNewborn Child andAdolescent Health and Ageingat the World HealthOrganisation. Prior to joiningthe WHO in 2003, Bahl was asenior scientist at the All IndiaInstitute of Medical Sciencesfor 10 years.

Youth ends lifeBangalore: A Delhi-basedyouth, who was undergoing airforce training in Bengaluru,was found hanging in his roomunder Gangammanagudi policestation limits on Friday. AnkitKumar (27) hailed from NewDelhi and was being trained atthe Air Force Technical College(AFTC) for the past one-and-a-half years, according to police.

SHORT TAKES

New Indiaprepared todeal with any

threat in healthcaresector

MANSUKH MANDAVIYA |UNION HEALTH MINISTER

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New Delhi, Sept 23: NationalHigh Speed Railway CorporationLimited (NHSRCL) has invitedbids for the construction of a 21-km-long tunnel, seven km of whichwill be under the sea, for theMumbai-Ahmedabad High SpeedRail Corridor.

The work on the corridor hasgained momentum after the changein government in Maharashtra,with tenders, which were previ-ously floated and withdrawn, beingrenewed again, sources said.Considered the highlight of theproject, the tunnel will be built be-

tween the underground station atBandra-Kurla Complex andShilphata in Thane district ofMaharashtra -- thus connectingthe two cities.

The tunnel will be built using tun-nel boring machine and the NewAustrian Tunneling Method(NATM), according to the tenderdocument. The seven-km under-sea tunnel at Thane Creek will bethe first undersea tunnel to comeup in the country.

The tunnel will be a single-tubetunnel to accommodate twin tracks.The section will include the con-struction of 39 equipment roomsat 37 locations adjoining the tunnel

location. To construct this tun-nel, tunnel boring machine witha cutter head of 13.1 meter di-

ameter will be used. Usually 5-6meter diameter cutter heads areused for urban tunnels used in

MRTS – Metro system.Three TBMs will be used to make

about 16 km of the tunnel portionand the remaining 5 km will bethrough NATM. This tunnel will beabout 25 to 65 metre deep from theground level and the deepest con-struction point will be 114 metrebelow the Parsik hill near Shilphata.

The last date for bid submissionis January 19, 2023. The bids for thedesign and construction of un-derground Bandra Kurla Complexhigh speed rail station, includingcut and cover length of 467m andventilation shaft of 66 metre, wasfloated on July 22 and bids sub-mission end date is October 22.

In November last year, NHSRCLhad invited bids for undergroundtunnelling works for the project. Butit was cancelled this year with of-ficials citing "administrative rea-sons". In 2019, NHSRCL had first in-vited tenders for the project butdidn't attract any bidder. It againfloated tenders in November 2021.

Land acquisition for the projectin Maharashtra, including atBandra-Kurla Complex, had been afestering issue during the previousstate government, sources said.Now, with the change in govern-ment, officials claim that nearly 96per cent of the land for the projecthas been acquired in Maharashtra.

Bullet train firm invites bids to construct India’s first undersea tunnelTHE SEVEN-KM UNDERSEA TUNNEL AT THANE CREEK WILL BE THE FIRST UNDERSEA TUNNEL TO COME UP IN THE COUNTRY

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Mumbai, Sept 23: The BombayHigh Court Friday granted per-mission to the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena to hold its annualDussehra rally at the iconic ShivajiPark ground in central Mumbaion October 5.

The venue, where the Sena hadbeen holding its Dussehra rallyyear after year, got embroiled in alegal battle after the rival factionled by Maharashtra Chief MinisterEknath Shinde too applied for hold-ing its rally there on the same day.

A division bench of Justices RD Dhanuka and Kamal Khata saidthe Brihanmumbai MunicipalCorporation's (BMC) decision notto grant permission to either fac-tion was a "clear abuse of theprocess of law." The Thackerayfaction had challenged the BMCorder before the court.

"In our view, the BMC decisionwas not bonafide (in good faith). Thepetitioner has been granted per-mission to hold the Dussehra rallyat the Shivaji Park in the past," itnoted. "The BMC order refusingpermission merely on the groundthat there was a second applica-tion filed to hold the rally at thesame place is a clear abuse of theprocess of law," the order said.

The civic body "misused its poweron a flimsy ground," the court re-marked. The bench allowed theThackeray faction to use the groundfrom October 2 to 6 while main-taining law and order. It also di-rected the police to video record the entire rally.

"There shall be no hindrance

caused to the police work," itwar ned."I infor med UddhavThackeray about the order and hetoo is happy. This rally is for the peo-ple of Maharashtra and there is nopolitics in it. It is a custom andtradition that has been going on insince many years. SatyamevaJayate," Sena leader Anil Desaitold reporters in the court.

The BMC had September 21 saidit was refusing permission for therally, because if permission wasgranted to any one group, it wouldlead to law and order problems.The corporation had also cited a re-port submitted by the Shivaji Parkpolice station expressing this apprehension.

MLA Sada Sarvankar, who hadsought permission from the BMCfor the rally on behalf of theShinde group, had also moved theHC. His plea opposed theThackeray group's petition say-ing the court should not decidethe matter as the dispute as towho represents the real Sena was

pending before the Supreme Court.The court rejected this applica-

tion noting that Sarvankar had no"locus" (right) to intervene. "In ourview, the issue of who is the realShiv Sena is pending before theSupreme Court and the ElectionCommission of India and this pe-tition regarding the Dussehra rallyhas nothing to do with the same andhence we are afraid we cannot gointo these contentions," the benchsaid. The bench also noted that theapplications for permission werepending since August 22.

"Only after this petition was filedon September 21, the corporationsought a report from the policeand then on the same day passedits order refusing permission. Thecorporation is unable to explainwhy the application couldn't be de-cided before," it said.

Senior counsel Aspi Chinoyand advocate Joel Carlos, appear-ing for the Thackeray faction, hadargued that it had the right to holdthe rally at Shivaji Park.

A big win in court for UddhavThe venue, where the Sena

had been holding itsDussehra rally year after

year, got embroiled in a legal

battle after the rival faction led by Maharashtra

Chief Minister EknathShinde too applied for

holding its rally there onthe same day

The BMC had September 21said it was refusing permission

for the rally, because if permissionwas granted to any one group, it wouldlead to law and order problems

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Purnea, Sept 23: Union HomeMinister Amit Shah Friday flayedformer ally Nitish Kumar, accus-ing the Bihar chief minister of“backstabbing” the BJP and try-ing to fulfill prime ministerialambitions while “sitting in thelaps of Congress and RJD”. At arally held in this north Bihar town,Shah asserted that the “jodi” ofKumar and RJD president LaluPrasad will be “wiped out” (‘soopdasaaf') in the 2024 Lok Sabha pollsand, a year later, the BJP will wina majority on its own in the stateassembly elections.

Widely regarded as the BJP'sprincipal strategist, Shah arrivedin Bihar on his first trip since theparty was robbed of power in theupheaval last month. He, however,refrained from joining issue withthe contention of Kumar's JD(U)that the BJP had tried to “break” the party.

“The number of seats won byKumar's party in 2020 assemblypolls was nearly half of our tally.BJP showed magnanimity (‘badap-pan') in backing him as the CM inkeeping with its earlier promise.But, with the Lok Sabha pollsnearing, his prime ministerialambitions got the better of him andhe backstabbed us,” alleged Shah.

The JD(U) has been indirectlyblaming the BJP for the fall in itstally in the last assembly pollswhen the Lok Janshakti Party,then headed by Chirag Paswan,fielded many saffron party rebelsagainst candidates of the chiefminister's party.

Shah mocked the seven-partyruling ‘Mahagathbandhan', whichalso includes three Left parties, forraising apprehensions that theBJP leader's two-day trip ofSeemanchal region could lead tocommunal polarisation in thearea, which has a high concen-

tration of Muslims.“The new regime has led to an

atmosphere of fear in these bor-der districts. But with (PM)Narendra Modi around, none ofyou need to be afraid. All of youhave been elated over scrapping ofArticle 370, which wiped off astigma from the forehead ofMother India. I challenge Laluand Nitish to utter a word in ap-preciation of the move,” the homeminister said.

The BJP leader also raked upKumar's unsteady relations withcolleagues like George Fernandesand Sharad Yadav, blaming it onthe CM's “lack of ideological com-mitment” and “excessive attach-ment to his chair”.

He also sought to drive a wedgebetween the JD(U) leader and thelatter's arch-rival Prasad, saying,“Tomorrow, Nitish Kumar mightdump the RJD and form a newfront with Congress and the Leftor he may even seek rapproche-ment with the BJP”. “He (Kumar)cut his political teeth taking partin the anti-Congress stir of 1970s.Now, he is sitting in the laps ofCongress and RJD… He won thelast mandate in the name ofNarendra Modi but backstabbedthe BJP like he had done eightyears ago,” Shah alleged.

Nitish betrayed BJPto become PM: Shah

The number ofseats won byKumar’s party in

2020 assembly polls wasnearly half of our tally. BJPshowed magnanimity(‘badappan’) in backing himas the CM in keeping with itsearlier promise. But, with theLok Sabha polls nearing, hisprime ministerial ambitionsgot the better of him and hebackstabbed us

AMIT SHAH I UNION HOME MINISTERINDO-ASIAN NEWS SERVICE

New Delhi, Sept 23: The SupremeCourt Friday stayed the investi-gation in an FIR lodged by theLokayukta police against formerKarnataka Chief Minister B.S.Yediyurappa in a corruption casein connection with the award of aBangalore Development Authority(BDA) contract.

Senior advocates Mukul Rohatgiand Siddharth Dave, representingYediyurappa, contended before abench headed by Justice D.Y.Chandrachud that the KarnatakaHigh Court ignored the fact that itwas mandatory to obtain priorsanction before issuing an order toregister an FIR.

The counsel, representing com-plainant activist T.J. Abraham, ar-gued that prior sanction require-ments had been dispensed withthe latest amendment in law inconnection with cases, which ariseout of complaints filed underSection 156(3) of the CriminalProcedure Code.

After hearing arguments, thebench, also comprising JusticeHima Kohli, issued notice toAbraham on a petition by the sen-ior BJP leader challenging the highcourt order. During the hearing, thetop court said it would examinethe matter.In an order earlier thismonth, the high court held thatthe rejection of sanction wouldnot come in the way of proceedingsagainst Yediyurappa. He movedthe apex court challenging the high court order.

In July 2021, a special court de-clined to entertain a complaint byAbraham, saying an order of in-vestigation under Section 156(3)of the Criminal Procedure Codecannot be made without valid sanc-tion under Section 19(1) of thePrevention of Corruption Act. Thecomplaint alleged that Yediyurappaand others, including his familymembers and two businessmen,collected bribes to the tune of `12crore to award a contract for a con-struction firm to build a housingcomplex for the government dur-ing his tenure as chief ministerin 2019-21.

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New Delhi/Kochi, Sept 23:Rajasthan Chief Minister AshokGehlot became the first person toannounce his candidature for theAICC presidential poll on Friday,a day before the nomination processbegins, and said Rahul Gandhi hastold him that no one from theGandhi family should become thenext party chief.

He also said the call on his suc-cessor to head the Rajasthan gov-ernment will be taken by the party'sinterim president, Sonia Gandhi, andthe Congress's Rajasthan in-charge,Ajay Maken.

With Shashi Tharoor likely tobe the second contender and thenames of several others also doingthe rounds for joining the fray,Gehlot said the aim should be thatall Congress members work to-g ether af ter the pol l to strengthen the party.

Talking to reporters in Kochi, the71-year-old leader said, "I will fix thedate (to submit the nomination pa-pers) after going back (to Rajasthan),but I have decided that I will haveto contest. It is a question of democ-racy and let us make a new start."

Gehlot also said Rahul Gandhihas told him that he respects thewish of the party workers that heshould take charge of the or-ganisation but no one from theGandhi family would become thenext Congress president.

"I requested him multipletimes. He has clearly said 'I know,everyone wants me to take it up,PCCs have passed resolutions,the workers want it. I have a lotof respect for them but due tocertain reasons, we have decidedthat a non-Gandhi family per-son should become the presi-

dent'," Gehlot said.With Thiruvananthapuram MP

Tharoor likely to enter the pollfray, Gehlot said other "Congressfriends" may also contest but whatmatters is unity and the need tostrengthen the organisation atall levels.

"There are Congress friends.Even if they contest, there is noissue. After the results, we shouldwork together to strengthen theCongress at the block, village anddistrict levels and also move for-ward making our (Congress)thought process as the base, sothat we emerge as a strong oppo-sition," he added.

Sonia, Maken to decideon Raj CM, says Gehlot

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SC stays investigationagainst Yediyurappa

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New Delhi, Sept 23: In a relief tojournalist Navika Kumar, theSupreme Court Friday clubbedand transferred to the Delhi Policeall FIRs registered against the newsanchor over the controversial re-marks made by ex-BJP spokesper-son Nupur Sharma on ProphetMohammad during a TV debatemoderated by her.

The top court noted that FIRs inthe case of Sharma have also beentransferred to IFSO Unit of DelhiPolice for investigation and therecannot be two investigating agen-cies with respect to the same com-plaints arising out of the same in-cident.

A bench of Justices M R Shahand Krishna Murari said no coer-cive action shall be taken againstKumar for a period of eight weeksso she can avail remedies in the in-terim period."The IFSO unit ofDelhi Police shall be at liberty tocollect and gather any informa-tion from the concerned State agen-cies, if so required, for the pur-pose of conducting a thoroughinvestigation and taking it to its log-ical conclusion. "The investigationof any subsequent FIRs/complaintswhich are registered in future inrespect of the same NewshourDebate telecast on Times Now shallalso stand transferred to IFSO unitof Delhi police," the bench said.

The apex court granted her lib-erty to approach the Delhi HighCourt for quashing of the FIR andsaid as and when such proceed-ings are instituted by Kumar, thesame shall be considered in ac-cordance with law and on theirown merit. "We clarify and makeit clear that we have not expressedany opinion on the merits of the al-legations contained in the variousFIRs/complaints," the bench said.

Prophet row: Bigrelief for Navika

Gehlot said Rahul Gandhihas told him that herespects the wish of theparty workers that heshould take charge ofthe organisation but noone from the Gandhifamily would become thenext Congress president

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Thiruvananthapuram, Sept 23:Masked men and miscreants wenton a rampage in different parts ofKerala Friday during the dawn-to-dusk hartal called by the PopularFront of India (PFI), under thelens for alleged terror activities,damaging state-run buses and am-bulance, injuring policemen andcommoners and vandalising shopsand threatening the public.

The Kerala High Court took cog-nizance on its own over the illegalhartal and initiated a case sayingthe flash protest was prima facie acontempt of court as it violated a2019 HC order on such agitations.

The violent incidents affectednormal life in many parts of thesouthern state, a day after theNational Investigation Agency ledmulti-agency pan-India raidsagainst PFI, accused of being aradical islamist outfit, arrestingover 100 persons.

The court, which said holdinghartals were banned by it earlier,also directed the state adminis-tration to take stern action againstthose who violate the court orderbanning hartals.

Cutting across cities towns, thehartal supporters took out protestmarches, burnt tyres on roads,blocked vehicles and forcefullydowned the shutters of shops in var-ious places. Face-covering gangs un-leashed violence and attacked shopsin Kozhikode, Kottayam andErnakulam districts.

Kerala State Road Transportbuses, freight lorries and airportvehicles were widely attacked andpelted with stones across the state.An ambulance was not spared fromstone-pelting in Thrissur district,

causing concern.At least 50 KSRTC buses were

damaged with their windscreenssmashed and seats damaged. Over10 of its employees suffered injuriesin the stone pelting and related in-cidents, official sources said.

The KSRTC management putout a facebook post against the at-tack on its buses, and the driverscould be seen plying the vehicleswearing helmets in many places toescape from the stone pelting.

Besides KSRTC employees, po-lice personnel, some bus and lorrydrivers and commuters sufferedinjuries in various incidents.

In Kannur, a group of PFI ac-tivists were beaten up by localpeople when they tried to force-fully down the shutters of shops.Ang ry local people reactedstrongly when the protesters askedthem to close the shops, beat themup and handed one of them tothe police at the Central Bazarin Payyannur in this politically-volatile northern district.

Following PFI’s hartal call madeThursday, the state police chiefhad given directions to beef up se-curity across Kerala and to takestern action against those who vi-olate the law.

Sources said a large number ofthe activists of the PFI and theSocial Democratic Party of India(SDPI) were taken into custody bypolice across the state for breakinglaws and engaging in violence onthe hartal day.

However, their exact number isyet to be revealed by the police.

The PFI Thursday had said ahartal will be observed in the statetoday against the RSS-controlled fas-cist government’s attempt to si-lence dissenting voices using thecentral agencies.

NIA had arrested 106 functionar-ies of the PFI Thursday in raids at93 locations in 15 states for allegedlysupporting terror activities in thecountry. Kerala, where PFI has somestrong pockets, accounted for themaximum number of 22 arrests,

PFI HARTAL

Widespread stone pelting,sporadic violence in Kerala

Kerala HC strongly condemned and initiated suo motu proceedings against PFI leaders for the illegal call of flash hartal

A driver wearing a helmet drives a KSRTC bus in Kochi, Friday as stones werepelted at KSRTC buses by protesters in almost all districts

INDO-ASIAN NEWS SERVICE

Srinagar, Sept 23: The villagesnear Line of Control (LoC) in thenorthern region of Kashmir arenow a new habitat for trekkersand tourists coming from differentparts of the country.

Not only from Kashmir valley butpeople from different states are ex-ploring the tourist spots and en-hancing the government’s initia-tives of border tourism in Kashmir.

“It’s really great to see that thepeople who suffered much are nowenjoying themselves. People fromdifferent parts of the country arevisiting us, listening to us besidesexploring the hidden beauty ofKashmir” said Irshad Ahmad, alocal resident of Uri.

He gave credit to Prime MinisterNarendra Modi for his efforts to up-lift the sufferings of poor people be-longing to the border villages ofJammu and Kashmir.

Irshad said that since long thepeople of border villages werebadly targeted with the Pakistanshells which always forced peopleto stay away from this part of theworld. “But since Article 370 wasscrapped we people too start livingour dreams and with the passageof time everything turned into re-ality,” Irshad added.

The villages of Baba Fareed,Kandi, Rustom Nambla (TV Tower),Copra Peak, Dudran, Dana Dudran,Chotali, Zulfiqar View Point oncebadly affected with Pakistan shellingare now best tourist locations in theborder town of Uri in north

Kashmir’s Baramulla district.Khatija, a housewife from Machil

sector of Kupwara with tears flow-ing from her eyes thanked PrimeMinister Narendra Modi for hiscommitment towards this area asthey saw a new dawn with peopleacross the country visiting the bor-der villages.

She said this border tourism hasbrought a smile to their faces. Sheadded that the current ceasefirebetween the two nations has broughtsome respite to the locals as dozensof tourists and trekkers are visit-ing the villages on a daily basisand enjoying the night camping.

Irfan Shah, CEO of valley-wan-ders, an off-road club, in a chatsaid that he came forward with amission to explore Kashmir andother parts of the valley and let peo-ple explore it.

“I believe in channelising youthin adventure and sports and alsoin spiritual tourism,” he said.

Irfan said that he started witha small group which later turnedinto a team and so far had ex-

plored hidden places of the north-ern region of Kashmir, includ-ing the most beautiful placesKeran, Machil, Gurez.

The main motive was to visitthe border areas of north Kashmirnot only to explore but to reachout to the people living there andto boost border tourism.

“It was very difficult during theinitial stage but thanks to theAlmighty everything workedsmoothly and later his club also seta record off-road by covering themost dangerous route from Machil-Gurez,” Irfan added.

In his message to youth Irfansaid, “As we all are well awareabout the ground situations whereour younger generation are beinginvolved in drugs and other wrongpractices, the best medicine for allsuch illegal activities is travellingand to explore beautiful places ofour paradise.”

Irfan said that in the future hisgroup will explore those areas androutes, where people haven’t sofar travelled.

He said earlier people were verymuch afraid to explore bordertourism due to the Pakistan shellingand now after guns fell silent, localsof these border villages too are en-joying the moment of joy with therest of the people.

Irfan further added, “It is reallygreat to explore our own land, es-pecially camping inside the denseforests, is a new dawn for the peo-ple of border villages.”

Mubashir Teli, a trekker fromSopore town of north Kashmirsaid exploring border tourism is likepeople reborn as since childhoodthey have only seen destruction, suf-ferings by Pakistan shelling.

There are several places in theUri area of Baramulla districtwhich have potential for tourism,however, the hostility between thetwo neighboring countries wouldkeep these areas from achievingtheir tourism potential.

The tourist destinations likeBaba Fareed, Kandi, RustomNambla (TV Tower), Dana Nambla,Nambla Waterfall, Bosiya, CopraPeak, Dudran, Dana Dudran,Chotali, Zulfiqar View Point, BilalAbad Garkote, Machichurand,Lachipora Wildlife sanctuary,Limber Wildlife sanctuary, Ghati,Gabaywar and Vijee Top in Urisubdivision are the top sought aftertourist destinations for trekkersin the recent months.

India and Pakistan in Februarythis year agreed to ceasefire alongthe LoC and all other sectors.

Irfan Rasool Wani (IFS) NorthKashmir circle Conservator saidthat the forest department hasopened 75 trekking routes in Jammuand Kashmir and forest rest houseshave been put to online booking forthe public.

“We are developing environmentparks near these trekking routes andForest Rest houses so that eco-tourism is promoted in offbeat des-tinations. This is helping us in for-est conservation as we are involvinglocal people in these activities. Theyget a livelihood also. These monthswe are witnessing a massive foot-fall in these parks,” Irfan said.

Once hotspot of shelling, Valley’s LoCvillages now new habitat for trekkers

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Jammu, Sept 23: Dressed to thenines, residents of Jammu Fridaytook out parades across the city tocelebrate the birth anniversary ofMaharaja Hari Singh, the last Dograruler of Jammu and Kashmir.

The Lieutenant Governor ad-ministration had recently declaredthe birth anniversary of MaharajaHari Singh, which falls September23, as an annual holiday in theUnion Territory.

The celebrations started withthe great grandsons of MaharajaHari Singh offering prayers at theRanbeshwar temple in the cityearly morning.

“I want to congratulate the peo-ple of Jammu and Kashmir on the127th bir th anniversary ofMaharaja Hari Singh ji. Grant ofholiday on his birth anniversary is

a victory of all the people of Jammuand Kashmir, particularly the youthof Jammu,” grandson of MaharajaHari Singh and former legislatorVikramaditya told reporters.

The celebrations by the YuvaRajput Sabha (YRS) that beganThursday night continued Fridaywhile people from all walks of lifeassembled at Tawi Bridge andMaharaja Hari Singh Park to paytributes. Adorning colourful turbansand holding flags of their organi-sation, several members of theRajput community on two-wheel-ers, tractors, cars and even horsestook out victory processions in theBan Talab area of the city.

They raised slogans glorifyingMaharaja Hari Singh and bran-dished swords as part of the cele-brations.

“Our continuous agitationyielded results and the govern-

ment has announced a holiday onthe birth anniversary of theMaharaja after 75 years,” YRSleader Arjun Singh said.

The Kashmir-based political par-ties, which have largely ruled the

erstwhile state of Jammu andKashmir, were opposed to the pub-lic holiday on the birth anniversaryof Maharaja Hari Singh, who signedthe instrument of accession withthe republic of India October 26,

1947, he said.At the Tawi bridge, the BJP

leadership led by its president,Ravinder Raina danced to tunesof drum beats amid slogans of‘Maharaja Hari Singh amar rahe’.Sweets were also distributedamong the people while medicalcamps were organised at severalplaces in the city. “It is victory ofpeople. It is justice done. We con-gratulate the people of J&K, par-ticularly Yuva Rajputs for theirfight,” Raina yold reporters.

A group of displaced KashmirPandits took out a rally in Muthiarea and raised pro-Maharaja slo-gans. Similar celebrations werealso held in Kathua, Samba,Udhampur, Reasi, Doda, Kishtwarand Rajouri districts.In Kathua,some public transporters offeredfree travel to passengers as a trib-ute to the Maharaja.

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Thiruvananthapuram, Sept 23:Just five days after being announcedwinner of the Rs 25 crore first prizein Kerala government’s mega Onamraffle, autorickshaw driver Anoopsays he regrets his windfall.

“I have lost all peace of mindand I can’t even reside in my ownhome as I am besieged with peoplewho come calling to ask me to sortout various needs of theirs as Ihave won the first prize. I now keepchanging where I stay as I havelost all peace of mind that I en-joyed till I won the prize,” he said.

Anoop lives with his wife, child,and mother at Sreekariyam, about12 km from the main capital city.

The winning ticket was takenby Anoop from a local agent hereafter breaking open his child’s smallsavings box.

After deduction of tax and otherdues, Anoop will get an amount ofRs 15 crore as the prize money.

“Now I really wish, I should nothave won it. I, like most people, re-ally enjoyed me winning for a dayor two with all the publicity. But nowthis has become a menace and Ican’t even go outside where I stay.People are after me seeking helpfrom me,” he added.

He is using his social media ac-count to tell people that he is yet toget the money.

“I have not decided what to dowith the money and at the moment,I will put the entire money in thebank for two years. Now I really wishI should not have this, instead of this,may be a lesser amount of prizemoney would have been better,”Anoop added.

Anoop rues that now the stage hascome where many who were knownto him who will become enemies.

“My neighbours are angry asmany people who come looking forme hang around in the neigh-bourhood. Even when wearing amask, people crowd around meknowing I am the winner. All mypeace of mind has disappeared,”said a peeved Anoop.

Kerala’s ̀ 25cr jackpot winner now rues his luck

Jammu celebrates Maharaja Hari Singh’s birth anniv

Mubashir Teli, a trekker from Sopore town of northKashmir says exploring border tourism is like people

reborn as since childhood they have only seendestruction, sufferings by Pakistan shelling

NOT ONLY FROMKASHMIR VALLEY BUTPEOPLE FROM OTHER

STATES ARE EXPLORINGTHE TOURIST SPOTS

AND ENHANCING THE GOVERNMENT’S

INITIATIVES OF BORDERTOURISM IN KASHMIR

DAWN AT DAL: Shikaras parked in Dal Lake during sunrise, in Srinagar, Friday PTI PHOTO

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Thiruvananthapuram, Sept 23:Group of Technology Companiesin Kerala (GTECH), the industrybody of IT companies in the state,in association with Tata Elxsi, haslaunched an app to create aware-ness and sensitise the youth in thecountry on road safety.

The android app namedDefensive Driving Tata STRIVEcontains a 24-episode web series,each of 5 minutes duration, called‘Badthi Ka Naam Gaadi’ whichwill be made available nationallyon the social media.

Pursuing a novel idea, the webseries features Bollywood actorVijay Raaz interviewing ghostsof road accident victims, fol-lowed by a quiz of 10 questionseach in English and various

Indian languages.Through the videos, viewers are

sensitised to various situationswhich are known to be the mostcommon causes of road accidentsin the country, a GTECH release saidhere Friday.

Participants who qualify, get ane-cer tificate signed by theGovernment of Kerala TransportDepartment and CEO Tata STRIVE,it said.

The app will be promoted ex-tensively through schools and col-leges across the country, the re-lease said.

GTECH, as part of its social out-reach initiatives, gives importanceto matters of public interest. Morethan 16,000 lives have been lost onthe roads in Kerala alone from 2018to April 2022, a majority of whomare young people.

Novel app aims to spreadawareness on road safety

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You have all seenthe appalling images fromPakistan. This is happeningat just 1.2 degrees of globalwarming. We are headedfor over 3 degreesANTONIO GUTERRES | UN SECRETARY-GENERAL

The New Zealand government Friday announcedfunding for projects that will cut plastic wasteand reduce its impact on the environment. Thefirst four investments were announced to bemade from the NZ$50 million ($29 million)Plastics Innovation Fund, which was set last year, Environment Minister David Parker said

FIGHT AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE

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$376 million in newhumanitarian aid tovulnerableVenezuelans,including Venezuelan refugees andmigrants and their host communities

ANTONY BLINKEN | US SECRETARY OF STATE

The warchangedeverything. It

disrupted theEuropean model,because manycountries weredepending on Russian gas for(energy) production. And clearly, for the first time, energy has become a weapon of war

EMMANUEL MACRON | FRENCH PRESIDENT

Wolf Hall authorHilary Mantel dies London: Hilary Mantel, theBritish author of the best-selling Wolf Hall trilogy andthe first woman to win theprestigious Booker Prizetwice, has died. She was 70,her publisher and agent saidFriday. Mantel, who wasregarded as one of thegreatest English-languagenovelists of this century, died"suddenly yet peacefully" onThursday surrounded by closefamily and friends, accordingto her agent.

4 killed Kabulmosque blastKabul: At least four people aredead and 10 wounded afterexplosion went off near amosque in Afghanistan'scapital of Kabul Friday, with ahospital confirming thenumber of casualties. A columnof black smoke rose into thesky and shots rang out severalminutes after the blast in thecity's diplomatic quarter. TheItalian Emergency Hospital inKabul said it had received 14casualties and that fourpeople were dead on arrival.Mosques have previously beena target for attacks.

HK to end hotelquarantine Hong Kong: Hong Kong'sleader announced the citywould no longer requireincoming travellers toquarantine in designatedhotels as it seeks to remaincompetitive and open upglobally after nearly twoyears. Incoming travellers willalso no longer need a negativePCR test within 48 hours beforeboarding a plane to HongKong, the city's chief executiveJohn Lee said Friday at a newsconference. The measures willcome into effect Monday.

Boat capsizes: 23Chinese missing Phnom Penh: At least 23Chinese nationals weremissing after a boatcapsized in Cambodia,Beijing's Embassy in PhnomPenh confirmed Friday. TheEmbassy said that itreceived a notification fromthe Cambodian PoliceDepartment Thursday night,saying that the boat carried atotal of 40 Chinese nationalson board, of which 18 wererescued following theaccident, reports said.

Shehbaz meets BidenNew York: Pakistan PrimeMinister Shehbaz Sharif metUS President Joe Biden at areception for world leadersparticipating in the 77thUnited Nations GeneralAssembly (UNGA) in NewYork, media reports said.

SHORT TAKES

Youths march during a demonstration by the Fridays for Future movement in Freiburg, Germany. Youth activists staged a coordinated‚ global climate strikeFriday to highlight their fears about the effects of global warming and demand more aid for poor countries hit by wild weather PTI PHOTO

WAKE-UP CALL

REUTERS

Busan, South Korea, Sept 23: AUS aircraft carrier arrived inSouth Korea Friday for the firsttime in about four years, set to joinother military vessels in a showof force intended to send a message to North Korea.

USS Ronald Reagan and shipsfrom its accompanying strike groupdocked at a naval base in the south-ern port city of Busan ahead ofjoint drills with South Koreanforces. Its arrival marks the mostsignificant deployment yet undera new push to have more US “strate-gic assets” operate in the area todeter North Korea. Strike groupcommander Rear Admiral Michael

Donnelly told reporters aboard theship that the visit was designed tobuild allied relations and boost in-teroperability between the navies.

“We are leaving messaging todiplomats,” he said, when askedabout any signal to North Korea,but added that joint drills would en-sure the allies were able to respondto all threats.

INDO-ASIAN NEWS SERVICE

Washington, Sept 23: Foreignministers of Quad countries --India, Australia, Japan and theUS -- have agreed to meet on thesidelines of the UN GeneralAssembly meeting every year, tak-ing another major step towards fur-ther institutionalising the plat-form focused on keeping theIndo-Pacific free and open fromChinese influence.

The four countries also signeda humanitarian and disaster re-lief agreement for the region,which was discussed and agreedupon at the Tokyo summit ofthe Quad.

The Quad, which started out in2004 as the Australia-India-Japan-US Tsunami Core Group and laterturned into the Quadrilateral

Security Dialogue, has witnessedintense engagement in recentyears after it was resurrected in2017 by the Donald Trump ad-ministration from its 2008 col-lapse. President Joe Biden took itto the summit level with a virtualmeeting in 2021, which was quicklyfollowed by one in-person meeting.Their fourth summit -- and sec-ond in-person meet -- took place inTokyo in May this year.

Though the leaders have hadtwo in-person summits in the twoyears since their first in 2021, therehas been no decision for them tomeet every year.

But Quad foreign ministers willmeet every year now, as they an-nounced at their meeting on Fridayon the sidelines of the UN GeneralAssembly meeting in New York.

Quad foreignministers to meetevery year onsidelines of UNGA

AGENCIES

Islamabad, Sept 23: Floods mayor may not be God-given. Pakistanclaims they are the result of climatechange to which its contributionis negligible. But they seem God-sent for their political class. Thosein the government have taken toglobe-trotting, trying to canvasrelief. They visit the very Christianworld that they otherwise vilify.Nobody talks of Islamophobia andby the way, self-respect.

They are successful, and how.From the UN Secretaries-Generalto Hollywood star and goodwillambassador Angelina Jolie have de-scended on Pakistan to expresssympathy and urge the world to

rush funds and material.For long years, the world kept urg-

ing Pakistan to “do more” in fight-ing terrorism. Now it is pleadingwith the world community to “domore”.

Relief diplomacy pays. For one,it takes the attention away fromissues like terrorism, terror fi-nancing, and things with Pakistanthat UN-mandated Financial ActionTask Force (FATF) wants to scru-tinize.

This diplomacy is done in style.Pakistani elite dress up in the mostexpensive foreign brands, inci-dentally produced by companiesowned by the same Christians andJews the Pakistani politicians asktheir people to hate.

Its women are more thoughtful,though. While men flaunt theirbest dresses, junior Foreign MinisterHina Rabbani Khar was carefulnot to display her purses and hand-

bags from world-renowned brands.She was seen not carrying anypurse at all while escorting theUN Secretary-General throughflood-ravaged areas. Reviled and

trolled for her expensive taste, shenow wants to be taken seriously asan international diplomat.

Her immediate boss, ForeignMinister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari,however, is more serious aboutdiplomacy. He has been meetingAmerican and European leaderswho were offended by or had of-fended, former Prime Minister

Imran Khan during the latter'sover three-year tenure.

Khan waited in vain for a phonecall from US President Joe Bidentill his last day in office and nowcontinues to blame the US for an"international conspiracy" to ousthim. He was voted out in theNational Assembly in April ear-lier this year.

Floods turn Pakistanis into globe-trottersFROM THE UN SECRETARIES-GENERAL TO HOLLYWOOD STAR AND GOODWILL AMBASSADOR ANGELINA JOLIE HAVE

DESCENDED ON PAKISTAN TO EXPRESS SYMPATHY AND URGE THE WORLD TO RUSH FUNDS AND MATERIAL

DENGUE RAMPAGE CONTINUESIslamabad: Pakistan continues to witness a growing momentum in thespread of dengue fever as over 1,000 new cases were registered in the past24 hours, health authorities have confirmed. The worst-hit Sindh provinceregistered 402 new cases, with the majority (297) reported in Karachi,Xinhua news agency quoted the provincial health department as saying. Thenumber of dengue cases in Sindh this month has risen to 4,319, bringing thetotal to 6,888 this year. The province has also reported 30 deaths.

REUTERS

Taipei, Sept 23: A Chinese blockade of Taiwan or the seizureof an offshore island would be considered an act of war andTaiwan would not surrender, asenior Taiwanese security officialtold Reuters using unusuallystrong and direct language.

While Taiwan President TsaiIng-wen and others in her ad-ministration have repeatedly saidthat while they want peace theywould defend themselves if at-tacked, the details of what Taiwanwould consider an attack war-

ranting a response have gener-ally been left unsaid, given themany scenarios.

Chinese military action mightnot be as straightforward as afull frontal assault on Taiwan: itcould include actions like a block-ade to try to force Taiwan to ac-cept China’s rule, strategists say.Tension between Beijing, whichviews Taiwan as its own terri-tory, and Taipei have spiked sinceUS House Speaker Nancy Pelosivisited the island in early August.

To show its anger, Chinamounted military exercisesaround Taiwan that included firing missiles and steps to mounta blockade. China has since thencontinued its military activities,though on a smaller scale.

That has focused attention in Taiwan and capitals of friendlycountries, like the United Statesand Japan, on how a any conflictwith China could play out, andhow Taiwan and its allies mightrespond.

AGENCIES

Geneva, Sept 23:A team of expertscommissioned by the UN’s tophuman rights body to look intorights violations in Ukraine saidFriday its initial investigationturned up evidence of war crimesin the country following Russia’sinvasion nearly seven months ago.

“We were struck by the largenumber of executions in the areasthat we visited. The commission iscurrently investigating such deathsin 16 towns and settlements,” ErikMose, the commission chairman,told the council. He didn't specifywho or which side in the war al-legedly committed the killings.

Mose said his team had receivedand was documenting “credibleallegations regarding many morecases of executions.” During a 10-day June trip to Ukraine, the teamvisited Bucha, a city outside Kyivwhere Ukrainian authorities foundmass graves and bodies strewn inthe streets after Russian forcespulled out in late March.

The findings echo reports bynews outlets and others of the de-struction, death and despair inUkraine since Russian PresidentVladimir Putin ordered the inva-sion February 24. The commis-sion’s work could ultimately con-tribute to the work of InternationalCriminal Court prosecutors whocould bring charges over warcrimes in Ukraine, although it re-

mains uncertain whether Russiaor other alleged perpetrators willever face justice.

Anton Korynevych, ambassa-dor-at-large for Ukraine’s ForeignMinistry, joined envoys from anumber of Western countries whospoke out against Moscow's war inthe wake of the commission's pres-entation. Russia’s delegation boy-cotted the council meeting.Korynevych, speaking by video,called for the creation of a specialtribunal that would have jurisdic-tion “over the crime of aggressionagainst Ukraine” and investigatesenior Russian political and mili-

tary leaders who were allegedlyresponsible.

He said said accountability wascrucial for rights violations andatrocities linked to Russia’s “ag-gression” but also highlighted howthe effects of the war has ‘rippled’through the world and “put nu-merous countries on the verge ofhunger, exacerbated extremepoverty, created the threat of nu-clear catastrophe unseen before”and harmed the livelihoods of millions worldwide.

Investigators for the Commissionof Inquiry on Ukraine visited 27towns and settlements, as well as

graves and detention and torturecenters; interviewed more than150 victims and witnesses; and metwith advocacy groups and gov-ernment officials, Mose said.

“Based on the evidence gath-ered by the commission, it has con-cluded that war crimes have beencommitted in Ukraine,” he said.

“The evidence of Russia's atroc-ities becomes more horrifying bythe day, most recently with the un-covering of mass graves in Izium,where the bodies show signs oftorture,” Michele Taylor, the US.Ambassador to the Human RightsCouncil, said, referring to a Kharkivregion city that Ukrainian forcesrecaptured in recent weeks.

China blockade wouldbe an act of war: Taiwan

War crimes committed in Ukraine: UN

THE EXPERTS FROM THE COMMISSION OF INQUIRY ON UKRAINE,MANDATED BY HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL EARLIER THIS YEAR, HAVE SO

FAR FOCUSED ON FOUR REGIONS – KYIV, CHERNIHIV, KHARKIV AND SUMY

PRESENTING THEIR MOST EXTENSIVE FINDINGS SO FAR, THEY CITEDTESTIMONIES BY FORMER DETAINEES OF BEATINGS, ELECTRIC SHOCKS

AND FORCED NUDITY IN RUSSIAN DETENTION FACILITIES, AND EXPRESSEDGRAVE CONCERNS ABOUT EXECUTIONS IN THE FOUR REGIONS

Ukraine: Residentscoerced into Russianannexation vote

Russia launched referendumsFriday aimed at annexing

four occupied regions of Ukraine, raising the stakes of theseven-month-old war in what Kyivcalled a sham that saw residentsthreatened with punishment ifthey did not vote. Ukrainianofficials said people were bannedfrom leaving some occupiedareas until the four-day vote wasover, armed groups were going tohomes to force people to castballots, and employees werethreatened with the sack if theydid not participate.

US aircraft carrierarrives in S Korea

UK unveils ‘new era’ of tax cuts with mini-budgetPRESS TRUST OF INDIA

London, Sept 23: In line withmuch of the tax focus for Liz Trussduring her leadership battle withBritish Indian ex-minister RishiSunak to be elected British PrimeMinister, her new Chancellor tableda mini-budget in Parliament onFriday packed with some of thebiggest tax cuts in the country for 50 years.

The much-anticipated fiscalevent, which had been delayed over

the course of the state mourning pe-riod for the late Queen Elizabeth II,was dubbed by Chancellor KwasiKwarteng as a “new growth plan fora new era” with the ambitious targetfor hitting 2.5 per cent economicgrowth in a couple of years' time. Itsees income tax and stamp duty landtax on home purchases cut andplanned rises in business taxesscrapped. “Economic growth isn'tsome academic term with no con-nection to the real world,” saidKwarteng. “We want businesses to

invest in the UK, we want the bright-est and the best to work here and wewant better living standards foreveryone,” he said.

Kwarteng, who made history as theUK's first black Chancellor when hewas appointed by Truss soon after

taking office on September 6, has prom-ised more jobs, higher pay and moremoney to fund public services likeschools and the National Health Service(NHS). “Cuts to stamp duty will getthe housing market moving andsupport first-time buyers to putdown roots. New Investment Zoneswill bring business investment andrelease land for new homes in com-munities across the country. Andwe're accelerating new road, railand energy projects by removingrestrictions that have slowed down

progress for too long,” he declared.To tackle the “biggest drag on

growth”, which is the high cost ofenergy driven by the Russia-Ukraine conflict and is, in turn,driving up inflation in the UK, thegovernment says its Energy PriceGuarantee will save the typicalhousehold 1,000 a pounds year ontheir energy bill with the EnergyBill Relief Scheme halving the costof business energy bills, reducingpeak inflation by about 5 percent-age points.

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There have been running

battles between Iranianpolice and anti-govern-ment protesters in Tehran,

reports say, in the worst unrestthere for years, BBC reported.

State television suggested thatthe death toll of protests hasrisen to over two dozen, without providing more information asthe unrest continues.

An anchor on Iran’s state television suggested the deathtoll from the mass protestscould be as high as 26, but didnot elaborate or say how hereached that figure.

The unrest was sparked bythe death of a woman detainedby morality police.

Anger erupted after MahsaAmini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman from the north-westerncity of Saqez, died at a hospital inTehran last Friday following threedays in a coma.

She was visiting the capital withher family September 13 when shewas arrested by morality police of-ficers, who accused her of violating the law requiring womento cover their hair with a hijab,or headscarf, and theirar ms and legswith loose cloth-ing. She collapsed

after

being taken to a detention centre.There are reports that officers hit

Amini on the head with a baton andbanged her head against one oftheir vehicles. The police have saidthere isno

evidence of any mistreat-ment and that she suffered“sudden heart failure”, BBCreported. In an interview with BBCPersian, Amini's father Amjad saidhe was not allowed by authoritiesto see all of her body before she wasburied. He said he was only able

to see her face, but not the backof her head, as well as her

legs, both of which werebruised.

Amjad Amini also in-sisted that his daughterdid not have any pre-ex-isting medical condition,as the interior ministerhas claimed. Many

Iranians were enraged byAmini’s death and the first

protests took place after herfuneral, when women were

filmed waving their headscarves inthe air and shouting death to the dic-tator’ - a chant often directed at theSupreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, BBC reported.

Similar demonstrations werestaged by

studentsat several

universities inTehran, before the

protests started spread-ing rapidly across the coun-

try. Central and some northernparts of Tehran became thick withtear gas Wednesday night as riot po-lice, assisted by plainclothes se-curity forces, attacked protestersin several neighbourhoods. Theprotesters set fire to big waste con-tainers and blocked access to somestreets, while shouting slogansagainst the Supreme Leader.

Scores of protesters were reportedly arrested, as securityforces went door-to-door at homesand shops where they had takenrefuge, our correspondent says.

There were also reports of policestations and other governmentbuildings being overrun or set onfire, as protests took place in dozensof other cities, BBC reported.

Videos posted on social media showed a crowd cheering as a billboard showing Ayatollah Khameneiwas torn down , as well as womenburning their headscarves on bon-fires and cutting their hair in public.

Internet-monitoring groupNetBlocks meanwhile reportedthat Iran was now subject to themost severe internet restrictionssince mass anti-government 2019.Mobile phone networks were largelyshut down, internet service wasdisrupted during protests, and ac-cess to Instagram and WhatsAppwere being restricted, it said.

In street protests, some womentore off their mandatory head-scarves, demonstratively

twirling them in the air. At someof the demonstrations, protestersclashed with police and thickclouds of tear gas were seen rising in the capital, Tehran.Protesters were also chased andb e a t e n w i t h c l u b s by t h e motorcycle-riding Basij.

The Basij, volunteers in Iran’sparamilitary Revolutionary Guard,have violently suppressed protestsin the past , including over water rights and the country’s cra-tering economy. Yet some demon-strators still chant “death to the dic-

tator,” targeting both SupremeLeader Ayatollah Ali Khameneiand Iran’s theocracy, despitethe threat of arrest, imprison-ment and even the possibility ofa death sentence. Women havebeen at the forefront of esca-lating protests in Iran sparkedby the death in custody of awoman detained for break-ing hijab laws. Crowdscheered when womenburned their hijabs ona b o n f i r e i n S a r i . HOW ARE WOMENTREATED IN IRAN?

Iranian women havefull access to education,

work outside the home and hold public office. But they are required to dress modestly in public, which includeswearing the hijab as well as long,loose-fitting robes. Unmarriedmen and women are barred from

mingling.The rules, which

date back to the days after the 1979Islamic Revolution, are enforcedby the morality police. Enforcementwas eased under former PresidentHassan Rouhani, a relative moderatewho at one point accused the moral-ity police of being overly aggressive.In 2017, the head

of the force

said it would no longer arrest womenfor violating the dress code. But underRaisi, a hard-liner elected last year,agents of the morality police appearto have been unleashed.

The UN human rights office saysyoung women have been slapped inthe face, beaten with batons andshoved into police vehicles in recentmonths.COULD THE PROTESTS BRING DOWN IRAN’S GOVERNMENT?

Iran’s ruling clerics have weathered several waves of protestsgoing back decades, eventuallyquashing them with brute force.

The most serious challenge to theclerics’ rule was the Green

Movement that emerged after thecountry’s disputed presidentialelection in 2009 and called for far-reaching reforms; millions ofIranians took to the streets.Authorities responded with a brutal crackdown, with theRevolutionary Guard and the Basijmilitia opening fire on protestersand launching waves of arrests.Opposition leaders were placedunder house arrest.

Among those killed was NedaAgha Soltan, a 27-year-old womanwho became an icon of the protestmovement after she was shot andbled to death in a video seen bymillions on social media.

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AS THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA HEARS THE PETITIONS SEEKING

RIGHT OF FEMALE STUDENTS INKARNATAKA TO WEAR HIJABS IN SCHOOLS,

IRAN IS WITNESSING MASSIVE RESENTMENT AGAINST THE

HIJAB RULES. WITH PROTESTSGOING ON AFTER THE DEATH OF

22-YEAR-OLD MAHSA AMINIWHO WAS DETAINED BY

THE “MORALITY POLICE” OF IRAN FOR NOT COMPLYING

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GLOBAL CRITICISMUS announces sanctions The United States Thursday

announced sanctions on Iransmorality police, media reports said.The US Treasury Department said in astatement that it is sanctioning themorality police “for abuse and violenceagainst Iranian women and theviolation of the rights of peacefulIranian protestors”, CNN reported. The Treasury Department alsosanctioned the head of the morality police, Mohammad RostamiCheshmeh Gachi, and Haj Ahmad Mirzaei, who served as the head ofits Tehran division during Amini’s detention and death. In addition, theTreasury Department announced sanctions on senior leaders of Iran’sMinistry of Intelligence and Security, Basij Resistance Forces, theArmy’s Ground Forces, and Law Enforcement Forces, CNN reported.

UN for independent probe

The United Nations has demanded an independent investigation

into the death Mahsa Amini .“Mahsa Amini’s tragic death andallegations of torture and ill-treatmentmust be promptly, impartially andeffectively investigated by an independent competent authority,” Nadaal-Nashif, the acting UN high commissioner for human rights, said. TheUN Human Rights Office said Iran’s morality police have expanded theirpatrols in recent months, targeting women for not properly wearing hijab.

Today we stand with the bravecitizens and the brave women of Iran who right now aredemonstrating to secure their basic rightsJOE BIDEN | US PRESIDENT

State-organiseddemonstrations took place inseveral Iranian cities

Friday to counter anti-government protests ,with some marcherscalling for theexecution of ‘rioters’.The demonstrationsfollowed thestrongest warningfrom the authoritiesyet when the army toldIranians it would confront‘the enemies’ behind theunrest - a move that could signal thekind of crackdown that has crushedprotests in the past.

Demonstrators condemned the anti-government protesters as “Israel’s

soldiers”, live state televisioncoverage showed. They

also shouted “Deathto America” and

“Death to Israel”,common slogansthe country’sclerical rulers useto try and stir up

support forauthorities.

“Offenders of the Koranmust be executed,” the

crowds chanted. The Iranian army’smessage Friday, seen as a warningto protesters enraged by the death,

read: “These desperate actions arepart of the evil strategy of theenemy to weaken the Islamicregime.” The military said it would“confront the enemies’ various plotsin order to ensure security andpeace for the people who are beingunjustly assaulted.” IntelligenceMinister Mahmoud Alavi also Fridaywarned “seditionists” that their“dream of defeating religious valuesand the great achievements of therevolution will never be realized,”according to the AsrIran website.

Also known by the namesof Guidance Patrol,

fashion patrol etc., moralitypolice of Iran was establishedin 2005 with the objective toensure compliance of dresscode. They have a van withb o t h m a l e a n d f e m a l e officers deployed in pubics p a c e s l i ke s h o p p i n g centres, subway stations,busy city squares etc., todetain women not comply-ing with the dress code.

Calls for execution of ‘rioters’ The Iranian army said itwill “confront theenemies” to ensuresecurity, the toughest

warning yet tonationwide protesters

RevolutionaryGuards issuewarning over

unrest

Who are Iran’smorality police?

The Iranian revolution of 1979was an important event in thehistory of the country whenpeople chose to live underIslamic laws in the referendum.The referendum was called afterIslamist movement supportedby left succeeded inoverthrowing Pahlavi dynastyunder Shah Mohammad RezaPahlavi. The government wasreplaced with an Islamicrepublic under rule of AyatollahRuhollah Khomeini. After theIslamic revolution, the countrycame under strict sharia lawwhich mandated severalrestrictions on womenespecially related to dress code.Under Iran's sharia law, whichwas imposed after the 1979revolution, it became mandatoryfor women to cover their hairand wear long, loose-fittingclothes to conceal their figures.All those who violated suchnorms are facing public rebukes,fines and even arrests.

Iranian revolution of

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Basis consultationprocess, we will create

final draft. That draft will then gothrough committee processes of Parliament. Then it has to go(to) Parliament. I see a timeline of 6-10 months but we are not in a hurryASHWINI VAISHNAW | COMMUNICATIONS MINISTER

Russia’s banks have lost an estimated 1.5 trillion roubles($25.5 billion) as a result of the fallout from the conflict inUkraine, a central bank official said Friday. MaximLyubomudrov, who heads the regulator’s department thatsupervises the country’s largest banks, said this was an“acceptable” level of losses and that the government hadplans in place to support Russia’s lenders through the crisis

RUSSIAN BANKS PAY COST OF CONFLICT

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In light of therecent tragicincident, we

have stopped third-party repossessionsand will furtherexamine whetherand how third-party agents will beused in the future

RAMESH IYER | VC AND MD, MAHINDRA

FINANCE

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When you lookinto theinvestment in

this country and theinvestment planthrough 2025, we aretalking about `5,000crore and that compares to `8,000crore over the last 60 years when westarted manufacturing in thiscountry

MARK SCHNEIDER | CEO, NESTLE

We areprivileged topartner with

OpenWorks on thisimportant effort andgrateful to AdvancedGlobal Resources forbeing a wonderful partner with us

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SYSTEMS

RIL acquires 20%stake in CaeluxNew Delhi: Reliance IndustriesLtd (RIL) Friday said it hasacquired a 20 per cent stake inCalifornia-based solar techfirm Caelux for $12 million asit strengthens its new energymanufacturing capabilities.Reliance New Energy Ltd, awholly-owned subsidiary ofthe firm, signed definitiveagreements to invest inCaelux Corporation, aPasadena, California-headquartered companyengaged in the developmentof perovskite-based solartechnology, it said.

Mahindra Financeshares drop 14%Mumbai: The share price ofMahindra & MahindraFinancial Services Limited(MMFSL) crashed by over 14per cent Friday a day after theReserve Bank of India (RBI)barred it from using third-party recovery agents. On theBSE, the share of MMFSL wastrading 11.42 per cent down at`198.20. The scrip crashed to alow of `192.05 in the intra-dayagainst its previous day’sclose at `223.75. The ReserveBank of India Thursdayannounced that it has directedMMFSL to “immediately ceasecarrying out any recovery orrepossession activity throughoutsourcing arrangements, tillfurther orders.”

CIL to ink pactswith three PSEsNew Delhi: State-owned CILwill sign agreements withthree public sectorenterprises (PSEs) -- BharatHeavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL),Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL)and GAIL (India)-- in order to setup four surface gasificationprojects. Through gasificationprocess, coal is converted intosyngas -- a fuel gas -- which canbe used in downstreamproduction of value addedchemicals. The governmentaims to achieve 100 milliontonne of coal gasification in thenext eight years in order toreduce the import of crude oilwhich is otherwise used toproduce syngas.

M&M, BII commit$500mn for E-SUV New Delhi: Mahindra Groupand British InternationalInvestment have committed$500 million (over `4,000crore) capital for the electricsports utility vehicle space,according to a companyspokesperson. Impactinvestor British InternationalInvestment (BII) has alreadyannounced an investment of$250 million in thecompany’s electric vehicleventure ‘EV Co’.

SHORT TAKES

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Mumbai, Sept 23: Economistsare unanimous in forecasting thatthe central bank has no other op-tion but to deliver a 50 bps ratehike next week and take the ter-minal rate to 6.25 per cent byDecember.

Soumya Kanti Ghosh, the groupchief economist at the nation’slargest lender SBI, in a detailednote Monday said, a half-percent-

age point hike in the repo ratelooks imminent in an aggressive re-sponse to external shocks.

“We expect the peak repo rate inthe cycle at 6.25 per cent. A final ratehike of 35 bps is expected inDecember policy,” he said.

Liquidity has become deficitafter 40 months which looks like an-other headwind for the centralbank, he said, adding this mayforce the RBI to support the mar-ket through a change in the CRR

and OMOs.Echoing the views, Tanvee Gupta-

Jain, the chief economist at UBSSecurities India, said in the basecase, she expects the MPC-RBI to

front-load the rate hike cycle andraise the repo rate by another 50 bps(versus 35 bps previously) nextweek taking the terminal repo rateto 6.25 per cent (previously 6 per

cent) by December.On the positive side, she said

the large current account deficit,elevated CPI inflation and astretched fiscal position are mostlyled by supply-side factors rather

than easy credit conditions push-ing domestic demand.

Rahul Bajoria, the chief econo-mist at Barclays India also raisedthe repo rate forecast to a 50 bps hikenext week (35 bps previously) anda 35 bps hike in the December meet-ing (25 bps previously), with upsiderisk to the forecast if commodityprices are higher in Q4.

“We now expect 50 bps of furtherrate hikes in 2023 (75 bps previ-ously) which would take the reporate to 6.75 per cent by April 2023.”

Goldman Sachs’ SantanuSengupta said also pencilled in a50 bps hike (35 bps previously) anda 35 bps hike in December (25 bpspreviously), with upside risk tothe forecast if commodity prices arehigher in Q4.

Economists see RBI delivering another 50 bps hike next weekEconomists from SBI, UBS, Goldman Sachs, Barclaysand Bank of Baroda in a rare unanimous call see the

RBI-led monetary policy committee delivering a 50 bps hike September 30, taking the overall repo rate

increase 290 bps to 5.90% since May this year

The recentdevelopments inthe forex market

can prompt a higherquantum of 50 bps to stay ontrack with other markets toretain investor interest as ahike of 25-35 bps would havesignalled that the RBI isconfident that the worst ofinflation is overMADAN SABNAVIS | CHIEF ECONOMIST, BANKOF BARODA

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Mumbai, Sept 23: The Sensextumbled 1,020 points while the Niftycrashed below the 17,350-markFriday as a flurry of rate hikes byglobal central banks spooked in-vestors and sparked a global sell-off.

The 30-share BSE Sensex tanked1,020.80 points or 1.73 per cent toclose at 58,098.92. Similarly, theNSE Nifty plummeted 302.45 pointsor 1.72 per cent to end at 17,327.35.

This is the third day of declinefor the equities and the BSE bench-mark has fallen by 1,620.82 pointsor 2.71 per cent during this time.

PowerGrid led the Sensex los-ers’ chart with a drop of 7.93 percent, followed by M&M, SBI, BajajFinserv, Bajaj Finance, NTPC,HDFC and IndusInd Bank.

Only three counters managed toclose in the green -- Sun Pharma,Tata Steel and ITC, spurting up to1.53 per cent.

On a weekly basis, the Sensex lost741.87 points or 1.26 per cent, whilethe Nifty declined 203.50 points or1.16 per cent. In the broader mar-ket, the BSE midcap gauge declined2.28 per cent and the smallcap indexslipped 1.92 per cent.

All the BSE sectoral indicesended in the red, with utilitiestumbling 3.48 per cent, followedby power (3.40 per cent), realty(2.97 per cent), financial services(2.56 per cent), telecommunication(2.17 per cent), capital goods (2.06per cent) and consumer discre-tionary (1.82 per cent).

Meanwhile, the internationaloil benchmark Brent crude declined1.87 per cent to $88.77 per barrel.

Foreign institutional investors(FIIs) offloaded shares worth a net`2,509.55 crore Thursday, accordingto data available with the BSE.World markets slumped followinginterest rate hikes in the US, Britain,

Sweden, and Switzerland, amongothers. Elsewhere in Asia, mar-kets in Seoul, Tokyo, Shanghai andHong Kong ended lower.

European bourses were tradingin the red in mid-session deals.The US markets ended in the neg-ative territory Thursday.

Indices crash nearly 2%BLOODBATH ON DALAL STREET

FALL IN LIQUIDITY IN THE BANKING SYSTEM, A WEAK CURRENCY AND A CURRENT PREMIUMVALUATION HAVE SET THE MARKET OUTLOOK BEARISH FOR THE NEAR TERM

With aggressive monetary policy action by centralbanks, the global growth engines are in a slowdown

mode. The current volatility might persist for a while.Investors are advised to wait and watch until the dust settles

VINOD NAIR | HEAD OF RESEARCH, GEOJIT FINANCIAL SERVICES

Sensex dips 1,020 points;

Nifty below 17,350-mark

On a weekly basis, the Sensex lost741.87 points or 1.26%, while theNifty declined 203.50 points or 1.16%

New Delhi: Investors’ wealtheroded by over `4.90 lakh croreFriday amid a sharp fall inequities. The marketcapitalisation of the BSE-listedfirms plummeted by `4,90,162.55crore to `2,76,64,566.79 croreFriday. In three days, investorswealth has eroded by`6,77,646.74 crore. “Indian equitymarkets witnessed a sharp fall onweekend due to weak global cues.We were outperforming but thelevel of 112 in the dollar index andthe level of 82 in USD INR spookedthe market sentiments. FIIs havestarted selling again in the Indianequity market therefore we areseeing selling pressure in large-cap stocks,” Santosh Meena, Head of Research at SwastikaInvestmart Ltd, said.

Sensex, Nifty fall for third consecutive day

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Mumbai, Sept 23: Indian banksmay be forced to compete harderto boost deposits amid tighteningliquidity and rising credit demandahead of the festive season, analysts warned.

Indian banking system liq-uidity slipped into deficit for thefirst time in nearly 40 monthsearlier this week, prompting theReserve Bank of India to infusefunds into the system.

“We think the real challenge isthe gap between deposit growthand loan growth, as deposit growthis weak, at 9.5% YoY – a good 600bps below loan growth,” said SureshGanapathy, head of financials re-search at Macquarie.

“Over the next few weeks, asthe festive season gathers steam, liq-uidity will tighten further. Also,people tend to hold a lot of cash dur-ing the festive season, and thattends to worsen the liquidity situ-ation,” Ganapathy said.

With excess liquidity in the bank-ing system over the last couple ofyears on account of the cash infusedby the RBI during the pandemic,banks chose to rely on raisingfunds from money markets to sup-port the prevailing demand forcredit. But with credit growth atmulti-year highs and the RBI fo-cussing on draining liquidity tocurb inflation, the cheaper fundingavenues are drying up.

“Banks have been laggards inraising deposit rates due to excess

liquidity in the system but lendingrates were raised instantaneously,”said Rupa Rege Nitsure, chief econ-omist at L&T Financial Holdings.“This has to change and if not, RBIwill come down heavily on banks.The excessive reliance on bulk de-posits is bad for overall financial sta-bility of the economy,” she added.

Bankers agree that relying on thedebt market to raise funds to sup-port growth may not be sustainable.

The average amount of CDsraised by banks in a month rosesharply to ̀ 400 billion in first quar-ter of FY23 compared with `260billion in the preceding quarter,according to a report by IndiaRatings.

Rates for bulk deposits, or de-posits of over `20 million, are ris-ing more rapidly than retail, high-lighting banks’ focus on raisingmore funds quicker.

State Bank of India’s 1 to 2-yearretail term deposit rate has gone upby 15 basis points in August to5.45%, while the bank raised thebulk deposit rate for the same tenorby 75 bps to 6%.

The incremental credit depositratio has already crossed 100%,suggesting that banks have startedlending more than the total de-posits they hold.

Tightening liquiditymay force banks to battle for deposits

Indian banking system liquidity slipped intodeficit for the first time in nearly 40 months

Bank loans rose 15.5% inthe two weeks to August26 from a year earlier,while deposits rose 9.5%

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Bhubaneswar, Sept 23: NationalAluminium Company Ltd (Nalco)has registered the highest-eversales of ̀ 14,181 crore and a recordprofit of ̀ 2,952 crore in the 2021-22financial year (FY22), an official saidFriday.

The Odisha-based public sectorundertaking has also reportedrecord production of aluminiumcast metal of 4,60,000 tonne, achiev-ing 100 percent capacity utilisa-tion of its plant for the first timesince inception, he said.

Addressing shareholders in thecompany’s annual general meet-ing Thursday, Nalco CMD SridharPatra said the 2021-22 fiscal was a his-toric year in the journey of the alu-minium maker, and the “spectacularresults are a testimony to the ex-

traordinary attitude" demonstratedby all the employees, despite thepandemic-induced adversity.”

“Despite inflationary pressure onvarious inputs, coal crisis, and un-certainty in LME (London MetalExchange) prices, the companyhas been able to maintain the sta-tus of being the lowest cost producerof bauxite and alumina in the

world,” he said.A final dividend of 130 per cent,

which is `1.50 per equity share,was also approved.

Its mines and refinery complexat Damanjodi reported the highest-ever bauxite production, register-ing a benchmark volume of 75,11,075mt, the official said.

Patra stated that the company ishopeful of operationalising theUtkal-D coal block in the 2022-23 fi-nancial year, which will help reducestress on fuel supply.

Speaking on the commissioningof the caustic soda plant under ajoint venture with Gujarat Alkaliesand Chemicals Ltd, he said, “Thefirst consignment of caustic sodahas been received at alumina re-finery and the operationalisationof the facility will further strengthenthe raw material security.”

Nalco registers highest-ever profit in FY22

BIZ BUZZFashionista inaugurated in CityBhubaneswar:The awardwinningfashion andlifestyleexhibition,Fashionistawasinaugurated inBhubaneswarSeptember 23at Hotel Pal Heights. The inauguration was done by MPSulata Deo, Mayor Sulochana Das, Monalisa Bal, SandhyaPatnaik, Jayshree Mohanty, Shreemayee Mishra, Dr RosalinPatsani Mishra, Dr Chidatmika Khatua, Sukirti Patnaik, PreetiPallavi Patnaik, Munmun Singh, Prasanna Pati and otherladies who have created a name for themselves. Awards werepresented to them by actor Pawan Shankar who also happensto be the MD of Fashionista Exhibitions. This edition of theexhibition “Durga Puja” is an unmissable event for all thefashion lovers of Bhubaneswar. The Durga Puja SpecialFashionista presents 50+ exquisite brands from 25 citiesacross the country. Fashionista has been organised in over 40cities in India with 365 exhibitions and over 10 lakh customershaving visited the exhibitions so far. This is the first edition ofthe exhibition in Bhubaneswar after huge public demand andtasting immense success in the other cities.

Central Bank holds MegaCluster Credit CampBhubaneswar: Ajay Kumar Singh, Zonal Head,Zonal Office, Central Bank of India, Kolkatavisited Cuttack & Bhubaneswar September 22 &23 respectively. During his visit, two MegaCluster Credit Camps were organised at boththe cities, in which the bank distributedsanction letters to different customers ofBhubaneswar Region, aggregating to anamount of `100 crore and disbursements of `40crore. Singh interacted with customers &assured them to provide better services. Laterhe interacted with all the branch heads &advised them to reach every needy customer,providing them utmost support in improvingtheir financial conditions. The programme washeld in presence of Anadi Biswas, RegionalHead along with other senior bank officials.

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New Delhi, Sept 23: Tata Groupwill merge seven of its metal com-panies into Tata Steel to drive ef-ficiencies and reduce costs. Theamalgamation will be through ashare swap, Tata Steel said.

The board of Tata Steel approvedthe amalgamation of subsidiaries-- Tata Steel Long Products, TataMetaliks, The Tinplate Companyof India, TRF Ltd, Indian Steel &

Wire Products, Tata Steel Miningand S&T Mining into itself.

Meanwhile, the company haswithdrawn from the earlier mergerscheme of Tata Metaliks and TataSteel Long Products (TSPL).

Explaining the rationale behindthe merger scheme, Tata Steel ina statement said the resources ofthe merged entities can be pooledto unlock the opportunity for cre-ating shareholder value.

Tata Group is said to be consid-ering consolidation of airline com-panies - Air Asia India and Vistara- under the Air India brand by 2024.

Since 2019 Tata Steel has re-duced 116 associated entities (72subsidiaries have ceased to exist,20 associates and JVs have beeneliminated and 24 companies arecurrently under liquidation).

Tata Group to merge sevenmetal firms into Tata Steel

MEGA MERGER

INVESTORS POORERBY `4.90 LAKH-CRORE

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New Delhi, Sept 23: India’s ther-mal coal imports from Russia areexpected to fall for the first time infour months in September, two re-search consultancies said, poten-tially resulting in lower revenuesfor Moscow at a time it is mobilisingmore troops to fight in Ukraine.

Indian consultancy Coalmint ex-pects September thermal coal im-ports from Russia to decline 30%from August to 1.4 million tonne, itsaid in a note to clients.

London-based analytics firmDBX Commodities estimates Indianshipments of the power genera-tion fuel to fall to 1.5 million tonnethis month from 1.9 million tonnein August, Chief ExecutiveAlexandre Claude said.

Energy exports to India andChina have been crucial revenuesources to sanctions-hit Russia,but have also helped bridge supplygaps and place a lid on surgingglobal fuel prices.

The value of India’s coal importsfrom Russia since troops marchedinto Ukraine February 24 rose toabout $2.4 billion as of Wednesday,said a source who requestedanonymity, citing nonpublic Indiangovernment data. This is a four-foldincrease compared with shipmentsduring the same period last year.

Traders and analysts say logisticalissues have resulted in lower importsin September by India from Russia.Coal shipments from Russia hadrisen in July and August despite adecline in overall Indian imports ofthe fuel, making Russia India’s thirdlargest coal supplier.

FIRST TIME IN 4 MONTHS

Russian thermal coalimports set to plunge

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London, Sept 23: Not winningan ODI World Cup will be her “onlyregret” in an otherwise distin-guished two-decade career, India’sfast bowling great Jhulan Goswamisaid Friday as she gears up for herfinal international game. Goswamiwill retire after the third ODIagainst England at the iconic Lord’sSaturday.

An emotional Goswami said sheis grateful to the game for givingher name and fame but not havinga World Cup trophy in her cabi-net will remain an un-ticked box.The Indian team had ended sec-ond-best during the 2005 and 2017editions of 50-over World Cup.

“I have played two World Cupfinals, if we had won at least one,then it would have been very nicefor me and the team. Every indi-vidual works for that goal. Weplayed 2-3 finals, but we were notable to win, that remains my onlyregret,” the 39-year-old pacer saidahead of third and final clash.

“You prepare for a World Cup forfour years. There is a lot of hard-work. For every cricketer, it is adream-come-true moment to wina World Cup. But from where I amlooking, the graph of women’scricket has only gone up.

“When I started I never thoughtof playing for such a long time. Itwas great experience. I am fortu-nate to play the sport.

“Honestly, coming from a hum-ble background and a small town likeChakdah (in West Bengal’s Nadiadistrict), I did not have any ideaabout women’s cricket and howprofessional setup works. I am for-

tunate enough, thanksto my family andparents, they al-

ways supported me,”she said.

Goswami said receiving the Indiacap was the most memorable mo-ment of her cricketing journey.“My best memory is when I gotthe India cap from my captain andbowled the first over because Inever imagined (that I will playfor India). The journey was diffi-cult as I had to travel for two-and-half hours by local train one wayeveryday for training.”

She recollected how the 1997Women’s World Cup final betweenAustralia and New Zealand at theEden Gardens, watched by close to90,000 people, fuelled her ambi-tions.

“In 1997, I was a ball girl at theEden Gardens where I saw my firstwomen’s World Cup final betweenAustralia and New Zealand. Fromthat day, my dream was to representIndia,” she said.

As Goswami walks into the sun-set, the BCCI is set to launch thewomen’s IPL sometime next year,but the stalwart hasn’t made upher mind whether she will be apart of T20 tournament.

Plagued by injuries after the2017 World Cup, Goswami said shehad been contemplating retire-ment for quite some years now.

“Well, after the World Cup (2017),in the last 2 years I was alwaysthinking each and every seriescould be my last. I was going througha lot of injuries and it was not easy.I was taking series by series.

“After World Cup, I thought SriLanka tour (in July) would be mylast series but I got injured. SoEngland tour was the last optionfor me. So I went back to NCA,got fit enough and thought of play-ing my last series in England,”she said.

With India taking an unassail-able 2-0 lead in the series, Goswaminow just wants to end her illus-trious career on a high note.

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England in the final ODI today

ONE FINAL SPELL

The best momentfor me was coming

out of dressingroom and singing

the national anthemand wearing the

India jersey. I willmiss those things.But everything in

life has to endsomewhere. I amhappy that I have

served the countrywith honesty anddedication for 20

yearsJHULAN GOSWAMI

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London, Sept 23: Jhulan Goswami,a name synonymous with ‘fastbowling’ in women’s cricket, willwalk into her cricketing sunset atthe Lord’s Saturday and the Indianteam will strive to make it a mem-orable swansong for her by com-pleting a historic ODI series cleansweep on English soil, here.

Playing one game at Lord’s isan ultimate dream for a cricketer.Scoring a hundred or taking a five-for is a different high but biddingadieu to the game following an il-lustrious career at the ‘Mecca ofCricket’ is only reserved for a fewchosen ones.

Sunil Gavaskar (although heplayed his last first-class gamethere) didn’t get that opportunity.Neither did a Sachin Tendulkaror a Brian Lara or a GlennMcGrath got that opportunity tostep down the stairs of the hal-lowed Long Room on their finalplaying day.

Even Goswami’s colleague fornearly 20 years, Mithali Raj, could-n’t retire from a cricket field. Butcall i t destiny or design,Goswami’s last hurrah is hap-pening at Lord’s.

There couldn’t have been a moreiconic setting as the strapping 5feet 11 inch lady walks her waythrough that Long Room wherethe MCC’s ‘suits’ will stand up andher teammates will give her a‘Guard of Honour’ when she willenter the ground.

A series already won with anunassailable 2-0 lead, HarmanpreetKaur and her team would leave nostone unturned to make it a fit-ting farewell for one of the ‘postergirls’ of Indian cricket.

Having lost the T20I series, Indiadid extremely well against a de-pleted England side in the twogames where they dominated whilechasing as well as while settingthe target.

T he last time Indian womenwon an ODI series inEngland was way back in

1999 when Goswami hadn’t madeher international debut. So as sheappears for her 204th and lastgame, Indian team’s revered ‘JhuluDi’ would know that she is a con-tented soul.

May be an ICC silverware (shehad two shots at that in 2005 and2017 when India played final) wouldhave looked nice but sometimessome things are not meant to be.

When she makes her bowlingmark for one last time, and stridesup that Lord’s slope to add to his353 international wickets (acrossformats), she might remember alot of things.

From a small town Chakdahin remote West Bengal to win-ning ‘ICC Woman Cricketer ofThe Year’ and shouldering theIndian pace attack for 20 years, youcan only doff your hat to her.

It wasn’t an easy journey totake the first local train to Kolkata

and start with routines at NorthKolkata’s Shradhhananda Park(a small non-descript ground).

Even after her India debut, whenshe would go back home, fromChakdah station, she would be seensitting in an open Van Rickshaw.

When she had first played forIndia, Shafali Verma and RichaGhosh were not even born andJemimah Rodrigues was perhapsin her nappies. Harmanpreet, cur-rent skipper, was still a dreamy-eyed Moga girl, who wanted toplay cricket.

She has been a bridge betweenthe struggles of travelling in sec-ond class compartments, living indormitories and youth hostels withcommon washrooms to businessclass travels and stay at swanky five-stars with proper central contractsand financial security.

In between, a lot of water hasflown through both Hooghly andThames as she went on her jour-ney undeterred. There won’t be an-other Jhulan Goswami.

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Paris, Sept 23: Kylian Mbappeadded another fine solo goal to hiscollection and Olivier Giroud movedcloser to France’s scoring record asthe defending World Cup champi-ons beat Austria 2-0 in the UEFANations League.

Mbappe skipped past three de-fenders before drilling in his 28thinternational goal in the 56thminute Thursday, before Giroudcelebrated his recall by headingpowerfully in from AntoineGriezmann’s cross 10 minutes laterto move onto 49 goals — two behindThierry Henry’s national record.

France already lost their NationsLeague title but Croatia, theNetherlands and Belgium — alsoplaying their penultimate matchesbefore the World Cup in Qatar —all won Thursday to stay in con-tention for the Nations League’sFinal Four next June.

France’s victory also saved themfrom relegation from the top tier ofthe Nations League, sending Austriainto last place with one game leftbut with only one point betweenthem.

Croatia leapfrogged Denmarkat the top of Group 1 by one pointafter beating the Danes 2-1 in Zagrebwith goals from left back BornaSosa in the 49th minute and mid-fielder Lovro Majer in the 79th,two minutes after ChristianEriksen’s equaliser.

The Group 1 winner and rele-gation will be decided Sunday when

France travel to play Denmark inCopenhagen and the Austrianshost Croatia in Vienna.

The same goes for Group 4, al-though the Netherlands are heavyfavorite since they lead Belgium bythree points and have a better goaldifference. The Belgians need towin by three goals in AmsterdamSunday.

The Netherlands won 2-0 inPoland with Cody Gakpo puttingthe Dutch ahead in the 13th minuteand fellow forward Steven Bergwijncurling the second home in the60th.

Belgium beat Wales 2-1 at homewith standout midfielder KevinDe Bruyne and forward MichyBatshuayi scoring in the first half.Striker Kieffer Moore pulled a goalback shortly after the break forWales, which is in last place andthree points behind Poland beforetheir meeting in Cardiff.

At Stade de France, defenderBenoit Badiashile made his Francedebut alongside Monaco teammateYoussouf Fofana, who lined up incentral midfield alongside RealMadrid’s Aurelien Tchouameni —their former Monaco teammate.

Mbappe’s early curler into topright corner was disallowed foroffside and he then fluffed a chanceafter a slick one-touch combina-tion with Giroud. Tchouameni hitthe crossbar with a superb overheadkick late in the first half. Mbappemissed a great chance to score a sec-ond goal when he went cleanthrough and shot wide.

UEFA NATIONS LEAGUE

France, Netherlands,Croatia, Belgium win

IMPRESSIVE SHOW: Kylian Mbappe celebrates his goal against Austria dur-ing their Nations League game, Thursday

Rohit, Axar help India level seriesPRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Nagpur, Sept 23: Rohit Sharma dis-played his six-hitting prowess withan unbeaten 46 (20b, 4x4, 4x6) afterAxar Patel snapped two wickets(2/13) in a fiery spell as Indianotched up a series-levelling six-wicket win over Australia in a rainhit second T20I here Friday.

The India skipper single-handedlyhelped India chase down a target of91 with four balls to spare in amatch which was reduced to eightovers a side due to a wet outfield.

Earlier, Matthew Wade smackedan unbeaten 20-ball 43 (4x4, 3x6)to fire Australia to 90/5. SkipperAaron Finch contributed 31 off 15balls (4x4, 1x6) after Rohit invitedAustralia to bat in a match thatwas delayed by two-and-half hours.

Chasing the target, Rohit madehis intention clear as he went on asix-hitting spree, unleashing threemonstrous hits off Josh Hazlewood(0/20) in the opening over to giveIndia’s chase a flying start.

The India opener then depositedPat Cummins’ (1/23) slower deliv-ery into the stands before liftingAdam Zampa (3/16) over long-off foranother maximum. But the spin-ner came back to disturb the stumpsof KL Rahul (10), who looked togo for a slog-sweep.

Virat Kohli (11) then picked up aboundary off Daniel Sams, beforesmacking one over Zampa’s head for

another four. However, the spinnerwon the battle of wits as his quickerdelivery beat the Indian and dis-lodged the stumps. Zampa dealt a dou-ble blow as he trapped SuryakumarYadav (0) in the very next ball as Indiaslipped to 55/3 in 4.3 overs.

Unfazed by the fall of wickets,Rohit continued to go strong as hechipped one over cover and thenpulled one wide of short fine as SeanAbbott conceded 11 runs. HardikPandya scored a four off Cumminsbut he couldn’t stay long as he holedout to Finch in the seventh over.

Designated finisher DineshKarthik then played his part to per-fection, knocking off the remainingruns with a six and a four off Sams.

Earlier, Australia looked to putup a show for the capacity crowdat the VCA stadium but Axarsnapped two wickets in an im-pressive spell to leave them at 31/3.

Jasprit Bumrah (1/23), who hasbeen out of action since the end ofEngland tour due to back injury, pro-duced a sensational yorker to getrid of the dangerous Finch dur-ing his spell.

However, Wade ensured the vis-itors ended things in a flourish ashe along with Steve Smith (8) added44 runs in the final 18 balls. Harshalhad another forgettable eveningas he conceded 32 without a wicketin his two overs, including a 19-run final over.

BRIEF SCORESAustralia 90/5 (Matthew Wade43 n o, Aaron Finch 31; Axar Patel2/13, Jasprit Bumrah 1/23) lost toIndia 92/4 (Rohit Sharma 46 n o;Adam Zampa 3/16, Pat Cummins1/23) by 6 wickets.

STARS OF THE DAY: Rohit Sharma plays a shot during his knock; (inset) Axar Patel reacts after getting a wicket

Goswami impact: then & now

POST NEWS NETWORK

Bhubaneswar, Sept 23: Presidento f t h e I n d i a n Vo l l e y b a l lFederation and Kandhamal MP,Dr. Achyuta Samanta feels that thevolleyball has a promising fu-ture in India.

Samanta, who is also thefounder of KIIT & KISS, is cur-rently attending the ongoing 38thCongress of the InternationalVolleyball Federation (FIVB) inArnhem, the Netherlands.

Samanta discussed a roadmapfor substantial g rowth andprogress of volleyball in Indiaand especially in Odisha, andsuggested some futuristic pro-posals for the growth of thegame.

The FIVB Congress, the apexmeet of the volleyball federa-tions and associations in theworld, was attended by repre-sentatives and volleyball feder-ations from 222 member nations.It will continue till September25 and will have extensive delib-erations on the development ofvolleyball across the globe.

On this occasion, the notededucationist proposed to cre-a t e a N a t i o n a l Vo l l e y b a l lAcademy in collaboration withF I V B a t K I I T a n d K I S SUniversity. He also proposed aNational Nodal Centre for‘ Vo l l e y b a l l f o r S c h o o lProgramme’ at KISS.

Samanta also requested FIVBto organize its next World Congressin Bhubaneswar and demanded tostart a Regional DevelopmentCentre in the capital city of Odishain order to have refresher coursesfor volleyball coaches and technicalofficers for the development ofvolleyball.

During his stay, Samanta hadcourtesy calls on Ary Graca, FIVBPresident and Director GeneralFIVB Fabio Azevedo, and the pres-idents of various associationsand federations of 222 membernations of FIVB.

Samanta is extremely hopefulthat following the discussions anddeliberations at the 38th FIVBCongress, India will definitelygain a lot on the development as-pect of volleyball in the countryin near future.

Volleyball futurelooks promisingin India: Samanta

Barabati set for Legends League Cricket finalINDO-ASIAN NEWS SERVICE

New Delhi, Sept 23: The final ofLegends League Cricket (LLC) willbe played at the iconic BarabatiStadium in Cuttack October 5, theorganisers announced Friday.

Legendary cricketers describedthe League as ‘serious’ businesswhere the superstars, many ofwhom are as efficient as they werein their prime, do not yield an inchwithout a fight.

While former India batterMohammed Kaif covered a lot ofground near the fence before tak-ing a diving catch and made the fansnostalgic about his brilliant field-ing skills, the swashbuckler YusufPathan has been playing as if he has

never retired. Stars like KevinO’Brien and Ashley Nurse havealso hit scintillating centuries.

All this has generated a tremen-dous response from the fans, saidRaman Raheja, the co-founder andCEO of Legends League Cricket.

“We have received a tremendous re-sponse both from the in-stadium au-dience and TV ratings. We have gotthe TV ratings for the first match. Wehave outdone ourselves,” said Raheja.

“It is five times higher than lastseason in terms of ratings. We

have also retained the position ofbeing the second-most watchedT20 league in India after the IPL andour digital footprint has crossed sixhundred million,” he added.

The on-going season has recordedmassive 16 million-plus uniqueviewers on the digital streamingplatforms in India and its digitalfootprints have also crossed 600million fans across the world.

According to the latest BroadcastAudience Research Council (BARC)TV ratings, the opening match of theseason between India Maharajasand World Giants, played at EdenGardens with the world’s greatestplayers taking part in it, has garneredhigher ratings than any other on-going cricket league in the country.

It is a brilliant tournament, it shocked me with howcompetitive it is. I thought it would be easier on the body

GRAEME SWANN

It’s not a charity game, everybody is at the gym, training. I amsurprised that I am bowling with the same vigour and speed

that I used to bowl when playing for the countryS SREESANTH

Everyone is playing very serious cricket here. A lot of thelegends are still very dangerous on the ground. I am

excited to play in this tournamentAJANTHA MENDIS

Jhulan opens upon only regret

SATURDAY | SEPTEMBER 24 | 2022 | BHUBANESWAR


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