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A day after the Lok Sabha passed two contentious agriculture Bills, despite the opposition by BJP’s oldest ally Shiromani Akali Dal terming it as an “anti-farmer” move, farm- ers’ protests have spread in sev- eral States, including Maharashtra, Punjab, Haryana, Telangana, Chhattisgarh and western Uttar Pradesh. A protesting farmer in Punjab on Friday tried to com- mit suicide by consuming poi- sonous substance. Farmers’ organisations have decided to hold a “rail roko” agitation from September 24 to 26 in protest against the Bills. Thousands of farmers from western Uttar Pradesh held a sit in protest on the Delhi-Meerut expressway on Friday. The Congress has announced to launch a nation- wide agitation against the farm Bills and is in talks with other Opposition parties to corner the Modi Government. Punjab Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal on Friday said Punjab alone would suffer a loss of 4,000 crore every year due to these legislations that will lead to mass destruction of rural livelihoods, increase farmer distress. “We have decided to hold a rail roko nationwide agitation from September 24 to 26 against the three agriculture legislations,” Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee general secretary Sarwan Singh Pandher said. Already, differ- ent farmer organisations in Punjab have given a call for a “bandh” on September 25. A protesting farmer has tried to commit suicide in Badal village, the hometown of the Badals, in Muktsar district. He ate poison on Friday morn- ing around 6:30 and his con- dition is still critical. Thousands of farmers are sitting on dharna in Muktsar, Amritsar and other areas in Punjab under the banner of Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee, Bhartiya Kisan Union, All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee and Rashtriya Kisan Mahasangh. The farmers argue that the legislations would lead to the dismantling of the minimum support price (MSP) system, leaving them at the “mercy” of big corporates. According to Rakesh Tikait, Bharatiya Kisan Union, thou- sands of farmers have protest- ed at the Delhi-Meerut Expressway against the passage of farm Bills. A member of Punjab Aarhtia Association, said, “These legislations will ruin the agriculture marketing infra- structure network created in the past five decades. Benod Anand of Rashtriya Kisan Mahasangh, an organisation of 62 farmers unions,” he said, adding that farmers will hit the road on September 24 across India. The Centre has brought the Bills without discussion with stakeholders, he alleged. “Agriculture falls in the State list of subjects,” he said, adding that the Union Government’s action impinges on the State’s rights. Traditionally at odds (farmers and arthiyas) are together in this one-on-one against the BJP-led Centre aided by Opposition parties, farmers’ organisations and activists. Perhaps the real issue is too technical and the threat of new ecosystem rendering MSP irrelevant more impacting. In Haryana, the members of the Bharatiya Kisan Union blocked the national highway-44 on September 10, demanding the immediate withdrawal of the agriculture ordinances. Protesters were also baton charged in Pipli near Haryana’s Kurukshetra, for defying the administration’s warnings dur- ing the coronavirus pandemic. Continued on Page 11 T he Lok Sabha on Friday witnessed heated exchanges between the Congress and the BJP members, leading to four adjournments over Minister of State for Finance Anurag Thakur barb that Sonia “Gandhi family was cheating the public”, during a debate on the tax laws amendment Act to include tax concessions to donations in PM Cares Fund. The Lok Sabha resumed only after Thakur apologised. Chaos started after Congress MPs Shashi Tharoor, Manish Tewari and TMC MP Sougata Roy opposed the cre- ation of PM Cares Fund and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman allowed her deputy Thakur to reply to the Opposition charges. Praising Prime Minister Naredra Modi and the fund, Thakur started attacking the Opposition and alleged that “Gandhi family” fooled the people by including the Congress president in the PMNRF set up by Jawaharlal Nehru. “Opposition opposing PM Cares Fund, just for the sake of it, is like they opposed EVMs & then lost many elections. They subsequently termed Jan Dhan, demonetisation, Triple Talaq and GST bad. They find a defect in everything, truth is their intention is defected. Nehru ordered the creation of the Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund in 1948 like a royal order but its registration has not been done even till today. How did it get FCRA clearance?,” Thakur asked. The Opposition leaders slammed Thakur and sought his apology. Continued on Page 11 H ours after the suspension of flights by Dubai Civil Aviation Authority (DCAA) from India to Dubai for 15 days after two fliers tested positive for coronavirus, Air India Express on Friday evening announced that flight opera- tions will begin as originally scheduled from September 19. The announcement was made by the Air India Express on its Facebook and Twitter pages late on Friday. “Attention passengers from/to Dubai! All Air India Express flights from/to Dubai will operate as per original schedule w.e.f tomorrow, September 19, 2020 (sic),” the airline tweeted. Earlier on Friday morning, the DCAA temporarily sus- pended Air India Express flights scheduled to resume from September 19 to October 2, for 15 days alleging that two coronavirus positive passengers flew on board the flights on two separate occasions despite hav- ing Covid-19 positive test reports, a day before start of mega T20 cricket event ‘Indian Premier League’ in the UAE. The Air India Express ear- lier submitted a letter to DCAA expressing its profuse apologies and detailing various actions taken in association with the concerned ground-handling agents to guard against such lapse in the future. Continued on Page 11 A n enquiry ordered by the Indian Army to probe a controversial encounter in which three unidentified “ter- rorists” were killed in Amshipora of Shopian on July 18 has concluded that the three of them were labourers from Rajouri. They have been identified as Imtiyaz Ahmed, Abrar Ahmed and Mohd Ibrar. Army chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane on Friday said investigation into the laps- es will be conducted with utmost fairness and will be taken to the logical conclusion. The Indian Army has ordered disciplinary proceed- ings under the Army Act against those found prima- facie answerable. Srinagar-based Defence spokesman Col Rajesh Kalia in a written statement said, “The enquiry has brought out certain prima facie evidence indicating that during the operation, pow- ers vested under the AFSPA 1990 were exceeded and the do’s and don’ts of Chief of Army Staff (COAS) as approved by the Supreme Court have been contravened.” Op Amshipora had earlier come under the scanner after three Rajouri-based families lodged a missing report on August 10 at police post Peeru in Kotranka tehsil claiming they were not in touch with their children, ever since they had reached Shopian in search of work since July 17, 2020. These families had approached the police after images of the slain ultras, killed in the encounter, were circu- lated in the social media along with images of three youngsters from Rajouri. The Defence spokesman, however, added, their DNA report is awaited and the police are also investigating if they were in anyway involved with terrorism or related activities. T he Central Government will allow private compa- nies to set passenger fares once they start operating train ser- vices in the country, a move aimed at luring investors. “Private players have been given the freedom to fix fares in their own way,” said VK Yadav, chairman of Railway Board. But, “air-conditioned buses and planes also operate on those routes, and they have to keep that in mind before fix- ing fares. The move is considered to attract investors. As per reports, the decision to allow private players in Indian Railways will attract an investment of around $7.5 billion in the next five years. Various companies like Alstom SA, Bombardier Inc, GMR Infrastructure Ltd and Adani Enterprises Ltd have reportedly expressed their interest in such projects. The Indian Railways will also start levying ‘’user fees’’ as part of train fares for the sta- tions that have been redevel- oped and those with high foot- fall in order to generate revenue to provide better facilities for passengers. Once it comes into effect, it will be for the first time that such charges are levied on rail passengers. Continued on Page 11 G oogle on Friday restored the Paytm app on its Play store after removing it for a few hours for violating its policy on sports betting activities. The app was back on the Google Play Store on Friday evening after the Softbank- backed Paytm removed the “cashback” feature from a recently-launched game on the application. “Update: And we’re back!” Paytm said in a tweet. On Friday morning, Google removed the Paytm app — which facilitates use of wallet and payments bank services — from the Play Store. “The app was blocked for violation of Play policies — a clarification of our policy was released earlier today ahead of the IPL tournament,” Google said in a response, adding that only the app availability on Play store was impacted. Continued on Page 11 A ccusing the opponents of the agriculture Bills passed by the Lok Sabha of “standing with middlemen”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday assured farm- ers that the Government’s pur- chase of their produce and Minimum Support price (MSP) would continue. He asked them “not to be mislead by the lies” of those “who ruled the country for decades”. Asserting that three Bills passed by the Lok Sabha on Thursday were aimed at “reforming agriculture”, the Prime Minister said the legis- lation would “free” farmers to sell their produce anywhere in the country and fetch them more returns. He said new moves by the Government would provide farmers with “rakhsha kavach” and save them from brokers. “But a few people who ruled the country for decades are trying to mislead farmers and telling lies. They had promised about the reform in their manifesto but forgot after reforms and when the NDA implementing them, these people are creating mis- givings,” Modi said on the occasion of inauguration of Kosi rail mega bridge in Bihar while addressing through video conference. Without naming the Congress, Modi hit out at the Opposition party for “double crossing” farmers and creating “disinformation”. Praising Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, Modi said, “Nitish understood what damage Agriculture Produce Market Committee (APMC), set up by States to regulate markets, had done to the farmers and “removed APMC Act in the State.” Continued on Page 11 A day after Akali Dal’s Harsimrat Kaur Badal resigned from the Union Cabinet opposing the contro- versial farms Bills, Haryana Deputy Chief Minister and JJP leader Dushyant Chautala met Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Friday in a bid to find a way out of the vexed sit- uation with farmers on the warpath in the State. Sources said the State Government would reach out to the farmers and their organisations to take the mes- sage across that the Bills would actually help their cause. JJP leader Digvijay Singh Chautala asserted that the party’s coalition with the BJP in Haryana is going strong and accused the Opposition Congress of trying to mislead the farmers. He downplayed reports that there was fissure in the alliance saying the Congress spreads rumours. Interestingly, JJP had ear- lier apologised for the lath- icharge on farmers in Kurukshetra’s Pipli last week when farmers were protesting against the three farm ordi- nances promulgated by the Union Government. Asked if the JJP was fac- ing any pressure in its alliance with the BJP after Harsimrat’s resignation, Digvijay said, “Our tie-up is strong. Our responsibility is to ensure that farmers’ crops are procured as per the MSP and we will ensure this in the upcoming procurement season. The biggest issue is the MSP. It is our commitment to farmers that we will not allow their crops to be procured below the minimum support price.” Continued on Page 11 ❝ ❝ ❝ B reaking all previous records, 1,244 more people tested positive for coronavirus infec- tion in the city which report- ed 15 more fatalities on Friday evening. Across the state too, there were 98 COVID-19 fatalities on Friday, taking the death toll to 4,869. A senior official at the CMO office in Lucknow said the tally of confirmed COVID- 19 cases in the city rose to 44,109 while the death toll Continued on Page 11

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Aday after the Lok Sabhapassed two contentious

agriculture Bills, despite theopposition by BJP’s oldest allyShiromani Akali Dal terming itas an “anti-farmer” move, farm-ers’ protests have spread in sev-eral States, includingMaharashtra, Punjab, Haryana,Telangana, Chhattisgarh andwestern Uttar Pradesh.

A protesting farmer inPunjab on Friday tried to com-mit suicide by consuming poi-sonous substance. Farmers’organisations have decided tohold a “rail roko” agitationfrom September 24 to 26 inprotest against the Bills.Thousands of farmers fromwestern Uttar Pradesh held a sitin protest on the Delhi-Meerutexpressway on Friday.

The Congress hasannounced to launch a nation-

wide agitation against the farmBills and is in talks with otherOpposition parties to cornerthe Modi Government. PunjabFinance Minister ManpreetSingh Badal on Friday saidPunjab alone would suffer aloss of �4,000 crore every yeardue to these legislations thatwill lead to mass destruction ofrural livelihoods, increasefarmer distress.

“We have decided to holda rail roko nationwide agitationfrom September 24 to 26against the three agriculturelegislations,” Kisan MazdoorSangharsh Committee general

secretary Sarwan SinghPandher said. Already, differ-ent farmer organisations inPunjab have given a call for a“bandh” on September 25.

A protesting farmer hastried to commit suicide inBadal village, the hometown ofthe Badals, in Muktsar district.He ate poison on Friday morn-ing around 6:30 and his con-dition is still critical.

Thousands of farmers aresitting on dharna in Muktsar,Amritsar and other areas inPunjab under the banner ofKisan Mazdoor SangharshCommittee, Bhartiya Kisan

Union, All India KisanSangharsh CoordinationCommittee and RashtriyaKisan Mahasangh. The farmersargue that the legislationswould lead to the dismantlingof the minimum support price(MSP) system, leaving them atthe “mercy” of big corporates.According to Rakesh Tikait,Bharatiya Kisan Union, thou-sands of farmers have protest-ed at the Delhi-MeerutExpressway against the passageof farm Bills.

A member of PunjabAarhtia Association, said,“These legislations will ruin the

agriculture marketing infra-structure network created inthe past five decades. BenodAnand of Rashtriya KisanMahasangh, an organisation of62 farmers unions,” he said,adding that farmers will hit theroad on September 24 acrossIndia.

The Centre has brought theBills without discussion withstakeholders, he alleged.

“Agriculture falls in theState list of subjects,” he said,adding that the UnionGovernment’s action impingeson the State’s rights.Traditionally at odds (farmersand arthiyas) are together inthis one-on-one against theBJP-led Centre aided byOpposition parties, farmers’organisations and activists.Perhaps the real issue is tootechnical and the threat ofnew ecosystem rendering MSPirrelevant more impacting. In

Haryana, the members of theBharatiya Kisan Union blockedthe national highway-44 onSeptember 10, demanding theimmediate withdrawal of theagriculture ordinances.

Protesters were also batoncharged in Pipli near Haryana’sKurukshetra, for defying theadministration’s warnings dur-ing the coronavirus pandemic.

Continued on Page 11

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The Lok Sabha on Fridaywitnessed heated exchanges

between the Congress and theBJP members, leading to fouradjournments over Ministerof State for Finance AnuragThakur barb that Sonia“Gandhi family was cheatingthe public”, during a debate onthe tax laws amendment Actto include tax concessions todonations in PM Cares Fund.The Lok Sabha resumed onlyafter Thakur apologised.

Chaos started afterCongress MPs Shashi Tharoor,Manish Tewari and TMC MPSougata Roy opposed the cre-ation of PM Cares Fund andFinance Minister NirmalaSitharaman allowed her deputyThakur to reply to theOpposition charges.

Praising Prime MinisterNaredra Modi and the fund,

Thakur started attacking theOpposition and alleged that“Gandhi family” fooled thepeople by including theCongress president in thePMNRF set up by JawaharlalNehru.

“Opposition opposing PMCares Fund, just for the sake ofit, is like they opposed EVMs& then lost many elections.They subsequently termed JanDhan, demonetisation, TripleTalaq and GST bad. They finda defect in everything, truth istheir intention is defected.Nehru ordered the creation ofthe Prime Minister’s NationalRelief Fund in 1948 like aroyal order but its registrationhas not been done even tilltoday. How did it get FCRAclearance?,” Thakur asked.

The Opposition leadersslammed Thakur and soughthis apology.

Continued on Page 11

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Hours after the suspensionof flights by Dubai Civil

Aviation Authority (DCAA)from India to Dubai for 15 daysafter two fliers tested positivefor coronavirus, Air IndiaExpress on Friday eveningannounced that flight opera-tions will begin as originallyscheduled from September 19.

The announcement wasmade by the Air India Expresson its Facebook and Twitterpages late on Friday. “Attentionpassengers from/to Dubai! AllAir India Express flightsfrom/to Dubai will operate asper original schedule w.e.ftomorrow, September 19, 2020(sic),” the airline tweeted.

Earlier on Friday morning,

the DCAA temporarily sus-pended Air India Expressflights scheduled to resumefrom September 19 to October2, for 15 days alleging that twocoronavirus positive passengersflew on board the flights on twoseparate occasions despite hav-ing Covid-19 positive testreports, a day before start ofmega T20 cricket event ‘IndianPremier League’ in the UAE.

The Air India Express ear-lier submitted a letter to DCAAexpressing its profuse apologiesand detailing various actionstaken in association with theconcerned ground-handlingagents to guard against suchlapse in the future.

Continued on Page 11

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An enquiry ordered by theIndian Army to probe a

controversial encounter inwhich three unidentified “ter-rorists” were killed inAmshipora of Shopian on July18 has concluded that the threeof them were labourers fromRajouri.

They have been identifiedas Imtiyaz Ahmed, AbrarAhmed and Mohd Ibrar.

Army chief General ManojMukund Naravane on Fridaysaid investigation into the laps-es will be conducted withutmost fairness and will betaken to the logical conclusion.

The Indian Army hasordered disciplinary proceed-ings under the Army Actagainst those found prima-

facie answerable.Srinagar-based Defence

spokesman Col Rajesh Kalia ina written statement said, “Theenquiry has brought out certainprima facie evidence indicatingthat during the operation, pow-ers vested under the AFSPA1990 were exceeded and thedo’s and don’ts of Chief ofArmy Staff (COAS) asapproved by the Supreme

Court have been contravened.”Op Amshipora had earlier

come under the scanner afterthree Rajouri-based familieslodged a missing report onAugust 10 at police post Peeruin Kotranka tehsil claimingthey were not in touch withtheir children, ever since theyhad reached Shopian in searchof work since July 17, 2020.

These families hadapproached the police afterimages of the slain ultras, killedin the encounter, were circu-lated in the social media alongwith images of three youngstersfrom Rajouri.

The Defence spokesman,however, added, their DNAreport is awaited and the policeare also investigating if theywere in anyway involved withterrorism or related activities.

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The Central Governmentwill allow private compa-

nies to set passenger fares oncethey start operating train ser-vices in the country, a moveaimed at luring investors.

“Private players have beengiven the freedom to fix faresin their own way,” said VKYadav, chairman of RailwayBoard. But, “air-conditionedbuses and planes also operate

on those routes, and they haveto keep that in mind before fix-ing fares.

The move is considered toattract investors. As per reports,the decision to allow privateplayers in Indian Railways will

attract an investment of around$7.5 billion in the next fiveyears. Various companies likeAlstom SA, Bombardier Inc,GMR Infrastructure Ltd andAdani Enterprises Ltd havereportedly expressed theirinterest in such projects.

The Indian Railways willalso start levying ‘’user fees’’ aspart of train fares for the sta-tions that have been redevel-oped and those with high foot-fall in order to generate revenueto provide better facilities forpassengers.

Once it comes into effect,it will be for the first time thatsuch charges are levied on railpassengers.

Continued on Page 11

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Google on Friday restoredthe Paytm app on its Play

store after removing it for a fewhours for violating its policy onsports betting activities.

The app was back on theGoogle Play Store on Fridayevening after the Softbank-backed Paytm removed the“cashback” feature from arecently-launched game on theapplication.

“Update: And we’re back!”Paytm said in a tweet. OnFriday morning, Googleremoved the Paytm app —which facilitates use of walletand payments bank services —from the Play Store.

“The app was blocked forviolation of Play policies — aclarification of our policy wasreleased earlier today ahead ofthe IPL tournament,” Googlesaid in a response, adding thatonly the app availability on Playstore was impacted.

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Accusing the opponents ofthe agriculture Bills

passed by the Lok Sabha of“standing with middlemen”,Prime Minister NarendraModi on Friday assured farm-ers that the Government’s pur-chase of their produce andMinimum Support price(MSP) would continue. Heasked them “not to be misleadby the lies” of those “who ruledthe country for decades”.

Asserting that three Billspassed by the Lok Sabha onThursday were aimed at“reforming agriculture”, thePrime Minister said the legis-lation would “free” farmers tosell their produce anywhere inthe country and fetch themmore returns. He said newmoves by the Governmentwould provide farmers with“rakhsha kavach” and savethem from brokers.

“But a few people whoruled the country for decadesare trying to mislead farmersand telling lies. They hadpromised about the reform intheir manifesto but forgotafter reforms and when theNDA implementing them,

these people are creating mis-givings,” Modi said on theoccasion of inauguration ofKosi rail mega bridge in Biharwhile addressing throughvideo conference.

Without naming theCongress, Modi hit out at theOpposition party for “doublecrossing” farmers and creating“disinformation”.

Praising Bihar ChiefMinister Nitish Kumar, Modisaid, “Nitish understood whatdamage Agriculture ProduceMarket Committee (APMC),set up by States to regulatemarkets, had done to thefarmers and “removed APMCAct in the State.”

Continued on Page 11

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Aday after Akali Dal’sHarsimrat Kaur Badal

resigned from the UnionCabinet opposing the contro-versial farms Bills, HaryanaDeputy Chief Minister and JJPleader Dushyant Chautala metChief Minister Manohar LalKhattar on Friday in a bid tofind a way out of the vexed sit-uation with farmers on thewarpath in the State.

Sources said the StateGovernment would reach outto the farmers and theirorganisations to take the mes-sage across that the Billswould actually help theircause.

JJP leader Digvijay SinghChautala asserted that the

party’s coalition with the BJPin Haryana is going strongand accused the OppositionCongress of trying to misleadthe farmers. He downplayedreports that there was fissurein the alliance saying theCongress spreads rumours.

Interestingly, JJP had ear-lier apologised for the lath-icharge on farmers inKurukshetra’s Pipli last weekwhen farmers were protestingagainst the three farm ordi-nances promulgated by theUnion Government.

Asked if the JJP was fac-ing any pressure in its alliancewith the BJP after Harsimrat’sresignation, Digvijay said,“Our tie-up is strong. Ourresponsibility is to ensure thatfarmers’ crops are procured asper the MSP and we willensure this in the upcomingprocurement season. Thebiggest issue is the MSP. It isour commitment to farmersthat we will not allow theircrops to be procured belowthe minimum support price.”

Continued on Page 11

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Breaking all previous records,1,244 more people tested

positive for coronavirus infec-tion in the city which report-ed 15 more fatalities on Fridayevening.

Across the state too, therewere 98 COVID-19 fatalities onFriday, taking the death toll to4,869.

A senior official at theCMO office in Lucknow saidthe tally of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the city rose to44,109 while the death toll

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Lucknow (PNS): Bahujan SamajParty chief Mayawati on Fridaysaid that her party was againstthe passage of two bills in theLok Sabha related to ‘reforms’ inagriculture marketing.

In a tweet in Hindi on Friday,the former chief minister of UttarPradesh said, “Two bills related tofarmers were passed inParliament on Thursday withoutclearing doubts of farmers andBSP does not agree with this.”

“It will be better if the Centralgovernment focuses on what thefarmers in the country want,” shesaid.

Lok Sabha on Thursdaypassed two bills related to reformsin agriculture marketing after adebate in which UnionAgriculture Minister NarendraSingh Tomar said that the legis-lation would “end licence raj” andthe farmers would be free to sell

their agricultural produce accord-ing to their choice.

BJP’s ally Shiromani AkaliDal opposed the two bills. Severalopposition parties including theCongress also strongly opposedthe bills. It resulted in the resig-nation of Union MinisterHarsimrat Kaur Badal.

The House passed theFarmers’ Produce Trade andCommerce (Promotion andFacilitation) Bill, 2020 and theFarmers (Empowerment andProtection) Agreement on PriceAssurance and Farm ServicesBill, 2020. The bills seek toreplace two ordinances broughtby the government earlier thisyear.

Tomar in his reply sought toallay apprehension of membersopposing the bills. “Both theseActs will empower the agricultur-al economy,” he said.

���� �� ���� �����������!)11Lucknow (PNS): Uttar PradeshCongress Committee has termedthe Farming Produce Trade andCommerce (Promotion andFacilitation) Bill and the Farmers(Empowerment and Protection)Agreement of Price Assurance andFarm Services and the EssentialCommodities (Amendment) Bill asblack laws and anti-farmer, sayingthey would break the backbone offarmers and promote contractfarming.

In a statement issued here onFriday evening, UPCC presidentAjay Kumar Lallu said that the threeagriculture bills passed byParliament were laws which wouldcompletely destroy common farmers.

“All the three laws would costmillions of marginal and smallfarmers of the state dearly and theirentire farming would be lost toclearing debt. He said the removalof food grains, fruits and vegetablesfrom the list of essential commodi-ties would lead to hoarding andthere would be price volatility.

Lallu demanded that under onecountry one support price, the min-imum support price be fixed for theentire country for all crops, fruits,grains, vegetables, etc.

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Uttar Pradesh ChiefMinister Yogi Adityanath

said that there was huge poten-tial for the manufacturing ofbulk drugs and medical equip-ment as there was huge spurtin demand for both followingthe coronavirus pandemic.

Yogi said the state wouldhave to take urgent measuresfor tapping the potential andfor this medical park had to beset up for the manufacture ofbulk drugs and medical equip-ment.

A presentation on themanufacture of bulk drugs andmedical equipment was made

before the chief minister onFriday.

The chief minister saidadequate human resources andinfrastructural facilities wereavailable in the state and boththe commodities (drugs andmedical equipment) wereneeded now in large quantities.

He said UP had a huge net-work of MSME units besidesCentral research laboratorieslike CDRI< NBRI, CIMAPand ITRC, and IITs at KanpurNagar and Varanasi andKGMU and other institutionsof excellence existed in thestate.

He said the setting up ofmedical parks would not only

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Chief Minister YogiAdityanath on Friday

stressed the need for revival ofPolice Awas Nigam, a presti-gious wing of the Uttar PradeshPolice.

The wing having a DG-rank officer was engaged withthe construction projects of theUPP but during the last onedecade, it went into deep finan-cial crunch as it was ignored bythe department as well as thegovernment and all major con-struction projects of the Policedepartment were given to otherconstruction agencies of thegovernment.

However, in the last twoyears, the government sanc-tioned works related to thedepartment to the Police AwasNigam, finally reversing thetrend, and this year, the PoliceAwas Nigam started to showprofit. The Police Awas Nigamhas its construction offices inLucknow, Meerut, Agra,Kanpur Nagar, Prayagraj,Varanasi, Gorakhpur andGonda.

Reviewing the meeting ofthe officials of the UP Police

Awas Nigam here on Friday,Additional Chief Secretary(Home) Awanish KumarAwasthi directed the officials toexpedite the ongoing projectsand complete them within thestipulated time while maintain-ing high standard of work.

He said on the directions ofthe chief minister, properfinancial support was beinggiven to the Police Awas Nigamso that it did not face any prob-lems in completing the projectswithin time.

ADG Hariram Sharma,who is presently heading thePolice Awas Nigam, disclosedthat the corporation was facingfinancial losses of Rs 11 crorein 2017-18 which was cut to Rs8 crore in the financial year2018-19 and in the currentfinancial year, the Police AwasNigam had shown tremen-dous progress and till August,it had earned a profit of Rs 1crore. He hoped that the prof-it would further increase by theend of the financial year inMarch 2021.

Sharma disclosed that ongovernment’s initiative, the cor-poration was engaged in 155projects.

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In view of the rise in COVID-19 cases in Uttar Pradesh,

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanathhas asked people to take pre-cautions and avoid any publicgathering during the festivals.

“Maintain vigil and takeprecautions in view of thecoming festivals. Avoid anypublic gathering during the fes-tivals and strictly follow thenorms of social distancing anduse of masks,” the chief minis-ter said while presiding over ahigh-level Unlock review meet-ing at Lok Bhawan here onFriday.

The chief minister reiterat-ed that mass awareness bespread about protection fromcoronavirus infection andobservance of traffic rules.

Additional Chief Secretary(Home) Awanish KumarAwasthi informed the chiefminister that all district mag-istrates and district police chiefshad already been instructed totake up awareness campaignthrough public address systemin their respective districts.

On the ongoing testing, thechief minister expressed satis-faction that the state govern-ment was carrying out morethan 1.55 lakh Covid tests perday. He asked the officials tomaintain the momentum astesting was the single mostimportant component ofCOVID-19 control measures.

He said that treatment ofthe COVID-19 patients couldbe started immediately if theperson was taken to Level-1hospital. He said that contacttracing became important inthis case hence it should be fol-lowed. Saying that the availabil-ity of oxygen and essentialmedicines should be ensured inthe Covid hospitals, the chiefminister said that other hospi-tals of the state should also notface any shortage of oxygen.

He said that treatment pat-tern of the successfully treated

COVID-19 patients should bestudied well in Lucknow andKanpur Nagar in order to con-tain the spread of coronavirusinfection.

In this regard, AdditionalChief Secretary, (Health) AmitMohan Prasad, in consultationwith doctors, shall study thetreated patients in the districthospitals while AdditionalChief Secretary (MedicalEducation) Rajneesh Dubewould do the same in medicalcolleges and medical institutes.By doing so, they will ensureincrease in the recovery rate.

Yogi directed officials toprepare an action plan formore registrations under thegoods and services tax (GST).He said efforts should be madeto augment the GST revenueand prevent tax evasion.

He also directed officials toconvene a meeting of UdyogBandhu to solve the problemsof investors and entrepreneurs.

The chief minister issuedspecific instructions to main-tain vigil and to take precautionin view of the coming festivals.He asked people to avoid anypublic gathering during the fes-

tivals and strictly follow thenorms of social distancing anduse of masks.

He also asked officials tomake sure that the financialassistance for disaster-hit per-son was distributed timely.

Additional Chief Secretary(Health) Amit Mohan Prasadsaid that there were 67,825active cases in the state while2,70,094 COVID-19 patientshad recovered, including 6,806who were discharged fromhospitals in the last 24 hours.He said 1,55,897 sample weretested on Thursday.

Prasad said there were35,124 asymptomatic COVID-19 patients in home isolation,3,926 in private hospitals, 202in semi paid hotels and the restin government-run Covid hos-pitals.

He said 3.61 lakh Covidsurveillance teams had covered2.39 crore houses and checked11.79 crore in 1,09,838 areas.

Those present in the meet-ing included the HealthMinister Jai Pratap Singh, ChiefSecretary RK. Tiwari,Infrastructure and IndustrialDevelopment CommissionerAlok Tandon, AgricultureProduction CommissionerAlok Sinha, Additional ChiefSecretary (Finance) SanjeevMittal, Additional ChiefSecretary (Home andInformation) Awanish KumarAwasthi, DGP HC Awasthi,Additional Chief Secretary(Health) Amit Mohan Prasad,Additional Chief Secretary(Medical Education) RajneeshDube, Additional ChiefSecretary to CM SP Goyal,Additional Chief Secretary(MSME) Navneet Sehgal,Additional Chief Secretary(Rural Development andPanchayati Raj) Manoj KumarSingh, Principal Secretary toCM Sanjay Prasad, Secretary toCM Alok Kumar, ReliefCommissioner Sanjay Goyal,Director of Information Shishirand other senior officers.

create fresh employmentopportunities but also go a long

way in strengthening the state’seconomy.

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Aday after Samajwadi Partyand Congress observed

the 70th birthday of PrimeMinister Narendra Modi asBerojgar Diwas, the YogiAdityanath government onFriday directed all govern-ment departments to givedetails of vacancies immedi-ately and asked the recruit-ment boards to prepare them-selves for large-scale recruit-ment within three months.

The government, whichwill go to the polls in thenext 16 months, has fixedthe target to give appointmentletters in the next sixmonths.

The chief minister, whileholding a meeting here onFriday, directed all depart-ments to give details of thevacant posts so that theprocess to fill them up couldbe started.

“We have to fill thesevacancies like we did by giv-ing jobs to over three lakhpeople during this regime ina transparent way,” he said.

Over one lakh govern-ment posts are vacant in the

state.Though there is a propos-

al to appoint the governmentemployees on contract forfive years and then only con-firm them, it is yet to beapproved.

During the his 3-year-5-month rule in UP, the YogiAdityanath government hasappointed 50,000 primaryteachers, 37,000 policeconstables and over one lakhgovernment employeesbesides over one lakh appoint-ments in other governmentsectors.

During the lockdownperiod, the UP governmentone crore migrant workers.

Meanwhile, BharatiyaJanata Party vice-presidentand MLC Vijay BahadurPathak thanked Chief MinisterYogi Adityanath for takingthe decision to make suchmassive appointments.

“No governments in thepast has taken such a decisionto provide such large-scaleappointments,” Pathak said,adding that the pastappointments in this regimewere done in a transparentway.

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There is 85-90 per cent occu-pancy of ICU beds in

Lucknow district and it hasdoubled since August when itwas half of what it is now. Asenior official at the Healthdepartment said that the occu-pancy for HDU beds was 75-80 per cent while that of isola-tion beds 50 per cent.

He admitted that with thenumber of severe patients hav-ing gone up in the district, theoccupancy of ICU bedsincreased. “We are already inthe process of increasing crit-ical care beds and one of theprivate hospitals will be short-ly starting Covid-19 facilities.We are also exploring the scopeof increasing the beds at LokBandhu and Sara Mau afterSGPGI and KGMU,” the officialsaid.

Meanwhile, DivisionalCommissioner Ranjan Kumarsaid would soon announce ahelpline number so that everyperson with the mildest ofsymptoms could call on it.“There will be a dedicatedteam of doctors to take thecalls,” Kumar said. The aim isto make the patients talk abouttheir ailments.

“First of all, patients willovercome the tendency not totell and feel comfortable tospeak about symptoms such ascough and fever. We had foundin our review that sometimesthe saturation level of oxygengoes down to a large extent andit is then that people come fortreatment. They need to be toldthat if they don’t hide theirsymptoms, 7-8 days would notgo waste. It will help becausethese kinds of calls are less andwe will monitor if the numberof calls was increasing after thisintervention,” he said.

He further pointed outthat if such cases were detect-ed early and treated accord-ingly, the number of caseswould automatically comedown.

He said he had discus-sions with officials on a long listof issues regarding the con-tainment of virus. Kumar saidhe had also held discussionswith KGMU, RMLIMS andSGPGI, and they were going todevelop tutorials and othertechnical interventions.

Regarding enforcement, hesaid people need to be toldabout the seriousness of thedisease as awareness makes a

lot of difference. “People startobserving precautions whenthey are told about the seri-ousness of the disease,” he said.

On Friday, the divisionalcommissioner presided over ameeting to discuss the provi-sion of one portable X-raymachine in all Level-1 hospi-tals and CHCs so that thespread of virus could be con-tained. The divisional com-missioner also took stock ofdoor-to-door surveillance inwhich he was informed thatnearly 600 teams were involvedin it. He said that strict mon-itoring should be carried outregarding the charges beingmade by private hospitals fortreatment of Covid patientsand that in the next one

week, monitoring of these hos-pitals should be completed.

Meanwhile, a senior fac-ulty member of KGMU’sdepartment of Pathology saidthat with different facilities, thelab was playing a leading rolein the field of diagnostics inCovid-19 times. “Our depart-ment is providing uninter-rupted services during thispandemic. We have processed6,495 surgical and cancer sam-ples since March,” he added.

“We have tested more than50,000 samples in the chemi-cal lab. We got NABL accred-itation for chemical pathologylaboratory for 2020-2222under the supervision of HoDDr Wahid Ali.

A separate dedicated

Covid pathology laboratory isfunctional since March and thedepartment is collecting sam-ples from different Covidwards and all samples areprocessed in a definite timelimit.

“In our laboratories, we arefollowing rules and regulationsof internal quality controls asper external quality controlsystem programme,” he said.

Meanwhile, a senior districtadministration official said thatpeople could visit the website(labsreports.upcovid19tracks.in)to know the status of theirreports. He said one could puttheir mobile numbers and aftersubmitting OTPs, the reportscould be printed or saved inPDF format.

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Police claimed to havearrested two criminals

from Hasanpur area underGosainganj police station onFriday morning while three oftheir accomplices managed toescape. Those arrested wereidentified as Santosh Kumarand Nanhe. Two knives, fourpackets of cigarettes, a ham-mer, rod, screw driver and sawwere recovered from theirpossession. The police dis-closed the identity of thosewho escaped as Shiv Kumar,

Rajendra and Ram Kumar.They assembled at a

deserted place in Hasanpurarea on the intervening nightof Thursday and Friday to plansome crime.

Information was passedon to the Gosainganj policearound 11 pm and the policewere told that a group ofcriminal had assembled atdeserted place to plan some crime. The informertold the police that they could be nabbed in case ofprompt action.

The police swung into

action and raided the placewhere the accused were hav-ing a meeting. The accused gota whiff of police action andsome of them managed toescape while Santosh Kumarand Nanhe were nabbed.

During interrogation, theyreportedly owned up theircrime. Kumar told the policethat he was involved in twocases registered at Gosainganjpolice station. One of thecases was related to loot at amakeshift paan shop whilethe other was registered underArms Act. Nanhe was also

named in the loot case.Following their confession,they were arrested in the weehours of Friday.

Meanwhile, two brothersand their accomplice werearrested on Friday on thecharges of pickpocketing. Theywere identified as brother duoFeroz & Chamanand and theiraccomplice as Faiz. The policesaid they had stolen Rs 5,00from one Anis Ahmed whowas taking the daughter of arelative to a clinic in Chowkfor a medical check-up onThursday evening.

,-"��"��� ������ ������� ��� ��������Lucknow (PNS): A 20-year-old mechanic, iden-tified as Ram Kumar Soni of Gudamba, was fatal-ly knocked down by an unidentified speedingvehicle in Tiwariganj on Faizabad road fallingunder Chinhat police station on the interveningnight of Thursday and Friday. Police said thedeceased was coming from Barabanki where hehad gone for some work. A security guard at anearby petrol pump said Ram Kumar’s bike washit by a speeding car even as the errant driversped off. Ram Kumar was rushed to RML hos-pital where he succumbed to injuries.

Meanwhile, a 46-year-old housewife, iden-tified as Sunia Gupta of Hanumant Nagar inTakrohi, hanging herself from the ceiling of aroom. However, no suicide note was recovered.She, along with her husband Piyush and 12-year-old son, had dinner together on Thursday.Her husband said she looked normal and therewas no hint of stress. She was found hangingfrom the ceiling of a room by her husband. Shewas rushed to RML hospital where she wasdeclared dead.

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District MagistrateAbhishek Prakash himself

called patients in home isola-tion in the district from theIntegrated Control andCommand Centre at the SmartCity Office on Friday to do areality check of facilities.

“Hello, this is district mag-istrate calling from theIntegrated Control andCommand Centre…,” the DMsaid as he made calls to

patients in different parts ofthe city. He inquired from thepatients if rapid responseteams reached their homes, iftesting teams conducted thetests free of cost, if the patientswere in separate rooms withattached washrooms, if theywere measuring temperatureand oxygen saturation level ona daily basis.

He also said that themoment the oxygen levelsdecreased, patients needs to beshifted to hospital. “Please be

careful because if the oxygenlevel falls below 95, they needto be hospitalised,” he told kinof the patients.

The DM took feedbackregarding the public griev-ance redressal system. He alsoinquired about the hospitals towhich the patients were shift-ed and whether they weregetting the required help ornot. He also inquired if theygot some help from theIntegrated Control andCommand Centre.

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The Samajwadi Party has accused theruling Bharatiya Janata Party gov-

ernment of pursuing vendetta politicsagainst its political opponents. Theopposition party has petitionedGovernor Anandiben Patel, seeking herintervention to put to end the revengepolitics of the BJP government.

A delegation of SP met GovernorAnandiben Patel on Friday and express-ing concern over the increasing inci-dents of repression and brutal policeaction against the Samajwadi Party lead-ers urged her to rein in the government.

In the memorandum submitted tothe Governor, the SP said that the BJPgovernment in Uttar Pradesh wasbehaving inappropriately against theopposition, especially the SamajwadiParty. It said the government’s conductwas against the oath taken by theConstitution and due to this, the lawand order situation in the state wasdeteriorating by the day. It said the pub-lic was frightened by the exploits ofpower-protected criminals. The SPleaders said that innocents were being

harassed in the state, and fake encoun-ters and custodial deaths had becomeorder of the day. They said abductions,loot, murders were increasing incidentsof rape were being reported fromacross the state and the government wasunable to control the situation. The SPalleged that the BJP government wasgoverning only through fake statistics.The memorandum said it was a mat-ter of concern that at the behest of theruling party, the behaviour of thepolice was becoming dictatorial andinsensitive. It said the Constitutionrecognised both the ruling party andthe opposition but the BJP governmentin UP wanted to have sole monopolyover political power.

The memorandum said the BJPgovernment was not willing to accepteven peaceful, non-violent protests andyouth staging protest against unem-ployment were subjected to brutallathi-charge by the police. SP state pres-ident Naresh Uttam, Sunil Singh Yadav,Anand Bhadauria and Udayvir Singh,all MLCs, were among those whohanded over the memorandum to theGovernor.

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Lucknow (PNS): An accused bookedunder Gangster Act and carrying Rs15,000 cash award, was arrested nearhis house in Aliganj (Sector-G) onFriday. He was identified as Saleem(23) aka Nanhu aka Alim. Police saidhe was a resident of Mehdi Tola underAliganj police station but was stayingwith a female friend in Sector-G ofAliganj since 2017. He was said to havebeen disowned by his father for crim-inal activities.

The police said Saleem, alongwith his accomplice Manoj Kumar,were booked under Gangster Act onMarch 23 last year. However, heabsconded even as the police failed totrace his whereabouts. Later, a cashreward of 15,000 was announced on hisarrest last month. Saleem’s location wastraced with the help of electronicsurveillance on Friday morning. Thepolice swung into action and nabbedhim. He was sent to jail.

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Utilising the facility extend-ed by the Rs 20 lakh crore

Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyanpackage announced by UnionFinance Minister NirmalaSitharaman in May, the UttarPradesh government has ropedin banks to extend creditsamounting to Rs 15,000 crore tothe micro, small and mediumenterprises (MSME) in the shortterm to overcome their workingcapital woes during theCOVID-19 pandemic.

The UP government aimsto help a large pool of MSMEunits under the EmergencyCredit Line Guarantee Scheme,which is a part of the Rs 20 lakhcrore package. While 80 per centof the state’s MSME units havealready started working at 80-100 per cent of their capacitiesafter the lifting of the lockdown,efforts are being made to helpthe remaining units resumeoperations quickly.

“We are targeting to dis-burse loans worth Rs 15,000crore to the MSMEs, for whichthe role of the commercialbanks will be imperative,”Additional Chief Secretary

(MSME and Export Promotion)Navneet Sehgal said.

In this regard, he had a vir-tual interaction, organised bythe Reserve Bank of India (RBI)on Thursday, with bankersregarding the loans to MSMEs,post-COVID-19 challenges, andthe steps needed to providecredit to the sector. The stategovernment sought the co-operation of the commercialbanks even when the overallgrowth of MSME in UP is bet-ter compared to other states.

“We have also identifiedindustrial clusters under theOne District, One Product(ODOP) scheme across 75 dis-tricts of the state,” Sehgal said,adding that the banks shouldselect ODOP products andhandicrafts for providing easycredit to the entrepreneurs.

The ODOP scheme waslaunched in 2018 to promoteindigenous industries and hand-icrafts by facilitating state sup-port in terms of setting up ofnew enterprises, bank credit andmarketing.

Sehgal lamented that theMSME units were still deprivedof funding under theAtmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan

package. He said the state hadnow decided to collate thedetails of MSME units to resolvetheir grievances and providethem the credit line.

Of the total 9,30,348 indus-trial units, according to thedatabase of the UP MSMEdepartment, about 8,18,000 arenow functional. More than 70per cent or 5,83,000 opera-tional units are working at 80-100 per cent plant load factor(PLF), thus indicating a robustrevival of their supply chains.

Similarly, 1,82,951 unitsand 34,515 units are working atthe PLF of 50-80 per cent and30-50 per cent, respectively.These operational industrialplants spanning different cate-gories employ more than fivemillion workers. Most of theseunits are located in the knownindustrial hubs of the state,including Moradabad, Noida,Ghaziabad, Jhansi, Lucknow,Bhadohi etc.

The state government islooking to double the MSMEexports in three years to Rs 2.40lakh crore. During 2018-19 and2019-20 financial years, theMSME exports from UP stoodat Rs 1.14 lakh crore.

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Agram pradhan was shotdead by unidentified

assailants in Galgala ShaheedBazaar in Sarpatahan area ofJaunpur on Thursday night.

Police said three assailantswho came on a motorcycleentered the pradhan’s clinicand shot him dead andescaped. The deceased’s sonlodged a report against fiveidentified persons out of whichfour were taken into custody.

Four policemen, includ-ing the incharge inspector,have been suspended in con-nection with the case.

Superintendent of PoliceRaj Karan Nayyar said thatSarpatahan Amari village prad-han Basant Lal Bind used to runa clinic at the Galgala ShaheedBazaar, about three kilometresfrom the village. The pradhanwas talking to one Ram TirthSharma of the village in his clin-ic at around 9 pm on Thursdaywhen three miscreants arrivedon a motorcycle and entered theclinic. As per Ram Tirth, thefaces of the trio were coveredand one of the assailants heldhis hand to prevent him fromraising an alarm. The assailantsthen shot three rounds of fire atthe pradhan’s head, killing himon the spot, and escaped. RamTirth rushed to the village andinformed people about the inci-dent after which a large num-ber of locals gathered at the spotand blocked the highway inprotest against the killing.

Varanasi Zone ADG andIG also sought informationabout the incident and issuedorders to punish the guiltycops. The district police chiefsaid that four of the five iden-tified accused had been takeninto custody. Incharge InspectorPankaj Pandey, the area inspec-tor and two beat constableswere suspended for negligence.

In Lakhimpur Kheri, aproperty-related dispute with-

in the family led to the murderof Lucknow University stu-dents leader Aman Bajpai in hisnative Gola area of the district.

Police said that Aman (22)was shot twice from close rangeby his step uncle Kuldeep oversome property-related disputelate Thursday night. He wasrushed to the hospital but diedduring treatment on Fridaymorning. Aman was staying inhis Laxminagar locality housefor the past five months due topandemic and closure of theLucknow University.

Police have arrested theaccused Kuldeep and furtherinvestigation was underway.

Meanwhile in Sitapur, dis-pute over construction of pan-chayat bhawan office betweensitting pradhan and an aspirantfor the post led to death of oneperson and injuries to half-a-dozen others.

Reports said that KaruneshKumar, sitting pradhan ofSohariya village in Tejnipurunder the Rampurkala policestation wanted to constructpanchayat bhawan but this wasopposed by Salman who ispreparing to contest the elec-tion this time. The matter is inthe court.

On Thursday night, whenKarunesh started construc-tion, Salman reached therewith his supporters and laterboth the sides clashed inwhich one Ikrar (45) waskilled while half-a-dozen oth-ers were injured. A heavypolice force is patrolling in thevillage to avert any fresh clash.

In Bahraich also, clashesbetween two groups overproperty dispute inRampurwa locality of Hardion Friday afternoon led to thedeath of an old man andinjuries to two others. SP(Rural) Ashok Kumar andother cops rushed to the spotand detained three personswhile others managed toescape.

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Lucknow (PNS): Regionaltourist off icer AnupamSrivastava said that theCentral government hasdeveloped a portal throughwhich tourists can get infor-mation about all hotels acrossthe country. He said the por-tal would help people get allthe information at one point

and it was developed toencourage tourism in all partsof the country.

“This portal lists all gov-ernment and private hotels. Atone portal, one can get allunits of that destination. Mostof the portals in privatedomain have just 15-20 hotelslisted and that too of those

9�������������� �������� who had got themselves reg-istered. This portal developedby the Centre has all thehotels listed,” he said.

He said that domestictourist movement hasincreased slightly in the statecapital. He said that 6,000Indian tourists came toLucknow in July and 7,280 inAugust. They are primarilythose who have to step outessentially for work.

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Amemorandum of under-standing (MoU) was

signed between IndianInstitute of ToxicologyResearch (IITR) and IntegralUniversity on Friday. Underthis MoU, both the institu-tions have agreed to workjointly on collaborativeresearch programmes, espe-cially in technology, engi-neering, pharmacy & healthand medical sciences toensure advances in scientificand technological knowledgefor the benefit of society atlarge.

Indian Institute ofToxicology Research directorAlok Dhawan said that under

this collaboration agreement,special emphasis has beenlaid on education, researchand training components.

“Integral University shallencourage its students to par-ticipate in research and devel-opment activities in collabo-ration with IITR while IITRshall share the expertise andresources with IntegralUniversity for research anddevelopment of new tech-nology. The MoU is in linewith the vision of interdisci-plinary research,” Dhawansaid. The MoU was signed byIndian Institute of ToxicologyResearchdirector AlokDhawan, and Vice-Chancellor of IntegralUniversity Aqil Ahmad.

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BBAU spokesperson RachnaGangwar said that cleaning skin, espe-cially hands, with a handwash couldremove many micro-organisms,including viruses, bacteria etc.

“Regular washing of hands isalways recommended for maintenanceof hygiene and to reduce the spread ofviruses and bacteria. During the cur-rent pandemic, washing hands is oneof the most important steps to combatcorona. There are several kinds of hand

wash available in the market but theycontain harmful chemicals like, n-Propanol, Benzalkonium-C, Triclosan,or Chlorohexidine etc. These chemicalsubstances work in the same way asantibiotics and can contribute to theproblems of bacterial resistance athome environment and in the widercommunity. Thus, the main objectiveof the invention is to provide anomega-3 fatty acid containing fixed oil-based anti-bacterial composition forcleaning hands, which should bedevoid of any harmful chemicals,” shesaid. The anti-bacterial substance usedin the current invention is an oilwhich contains approximately 56% ofomega-3 fatty acid called AlphaLinolenic acid.

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As many as 19 meritorious students of City MontessoriSchool, Mahanagar Campus, have been awarded scholarshipof Rs 76 lakh bythe UnionMinistr y ofScience andTe c h n o l o g y.Each studentwill be gettingRs 4 lakh. Thescholarship willbe given to theCMS studentsto pursue high-er studies inscience. Eachstudent will be getting Rs 80,000 per year for five years. Thesestudents performed excellently in ISC (Class XII) examinationand ended up in the ‘Top 1%’ merit l ist , thus getting an opportunity to bag the prestigious scholarship. Thestudents shortlisted for the scholarship are Adarsh Goel, AkshatSrivastava, Anshika Singh, Ayan Ahmad, Ishan Rastogi,Kenisha Mishra, Kshitij Kaithal, Kshitij Tandon, MallikaAgarwal, Prachi Gupta, Prakhar Mani Tripathi, RangeyRaghav, Raunak Kumar, Rayyan Ahmad, Sandhiyika Srivastava,Sudeshna Ray, Unnati Verma, Urooj Azeem and UtkarshSrivastava.

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On the occasion of the birth-day of Prime Minister

Narendra Modi, the local teamof Pradhanmantri Jan KalyanYojana, Kashi Kshetra organ-ised a health check-up camp atKashi Anathalay nearLahurabir here.

A team of doctors exam-ined the health of children liv-ing here and fruits and nutri-ent foods were distributedamong them. Besides, the teammembers also planted saplings.Earlier, the team organised aprogramme of hawan at RamJanaki Mandir and cut a cakeat Azad Park in Lahurabir tocelebrate the birthday of thePM. Deepak Kumar, DeepakSeth, Vikash Shah Sonu, NeerajRajhansh, Sharan Seth, PawanSingh, Kallu Kasera, Sonu Seth,

Sunil Seth and GyanendraSrivastava were mainly pre-sent to be part of the celebra-tion. Meanwhile, the womencell of social organisationShrishti Foundation distrib-uted fruits among inmates ofold-aged homes in Sarnathand celebrated the PM’s birth-day by cutting cake.

The president of founda-tion Vishal Srivastava threwlights on the life of Modi andemphasized on following theworking style of the PM in life.Poonam Jaiswal, Karan Jaiswal,Vandana Singh, Rita Bajaj, JyotiKhatri, Manju Vyas, AnitaGupta and Babita Chandel andmany others were present onthe occasion.

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Chief Medical Officer(CMO) Dr VB Singh said

that cases of high blood pres-sure (BP) have increased dur-ing COVID-19 pandemic peri-od. In such a situation, theimportance of NationalProgramme for Prevention andControl of Cancer, Diabetes,Cardiovascular Diseases andStroke (NPCDCS) hasincreased even more. Underthe NPCDCS, a training pro-gramme on IndiaHypertension ControlInitiative’ (IHCI) was organisedat CMO office here on Fridayfor the medical officers work-ing on various CHCs / PHCs.

Dr Singh further said that

the patient’s BP should bechecked regularly. ‘IHCI aimsat reduction in mortality dueto high BP by 25% and controlof high BP by 2025. Later,inaugurating the training ses-sion, nodal officer of non-communicable diseases, DrPP Gupta said that high BP isa major cause of death due tonon-communicable diseasesand high BP is a silent killer.A person suffering from this isunable to know and due to thishe suffers from other diseasesas well, he added.

CVHO and trainer fromthe World HealthOrganisation (WHO) DrAbhinav said that to improvethe condition of high BPpatients, blood pressure check

is necessary for every 30 yearsor older in the hospitals and ofthose patients whose BP is notcontrolled, they should begiven proper advice and treat-ment immediately. Medicalofficer of Arajline Dr Abhishekhas given all the details aboutIHCI and its drug protocolimplemented by the state gov-ernment.

WHO CVHO Dr LalithaChauhan said that a ‘simple’app has been created forreporting this programme, inwhich the complete informa-tion of all the patients ofhypertension will be compiledand through this, when thepatients are to be shown to thedoctors, information aboutthis will reach them automat-

ically. In the same sequence,senior medical officer of NCD,Dr DP Singh informed thatNCD corners are being built inNCD clinics and CHCs /PHCs so that people of thecommunity can get properhealth facilities. He said thatthis training will continue tillSeptember 19 in which med-ical officers of the districthospitals, urban and rural areahealth centres will be trained.

Project technical assistantof ICMR Ranjeet Singh saidthat everyone should playtheir important role to makeIHCI successful so that thepublic can benefit. NCD Unitfinance coordinator PramodKumar Singh was also presentin the training.

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From keeping vigil at stationsto busting illegal ticket rack-

et Railway Protection Force ofNorth Central Railway is mak-ing all out efforts and takinginitiatives to curb the menace.

The Railway ProtectionForce ensured safety of allempty coaching rakes, morethan 400 stations and otherrailway assets, served free mealsto over 30,000 stranded personsnear railway stations duringCovid period. Besides escort-ing 429 timetable parcel trains,4,500 Shramik special trainsand empty coaching rakes overNorth Central Railway, RailwayProtection Force of NCRplayed a crucial role in han-dling of approximately 400originating and terminatingShramik special trains at differ-ent stations of NCR. Withgraded start of passenger ser-vices wef May 12, 2020, RPF on

NCR is playing crucial role insafe and COVID-19 complianthandling of passengers at sta-tions as well as in trains.

In addition to the aboveefforts, Railway ProtectionForce of NCR, from January toAugust 2020 have arrested 157illegal ticket vendors and toutsand recovered 7584 ticketsworth � 97, 79,799. During thisperiod 10,926 offenders wereimposed fine of �51, 00,000and action has been takenagainst 148 offenders and rail-way property worth more than�7.00 lakh was recovered. RPFon NCR has taken actionagainst 1673 unauthorised ven-dors and collected fine of about�18,00,000 besides actionagainst 1774 people involved inunauthorised alarm chainpulling. About 876 callsreceived on the securityhelpline number 182 overNorth Central Railway wereattended and the passengers'

safety concerns were resolvedon real time basis.

The Railway ProtectionForce with the help of otherRailway officials have rescuedmore than 350 children andreunited them with their fam-ilies or handed over such chil-dren to NGOs or local policefor further assistance. Takingstrict action against the carri-er of intoxicated and bannedmaterials through trains,Railway Protection Forcearrested 33 persons involved insmuggling and 233 kg of ille-gal and banned material worth�23,50,000 was seized andhanded over to the concernedstate police. More than 100offenders have been arrestedand handed over to GRP incrime involvingpassengers.Personal belongingleft in coaches after journeywere connected and safelyreturned to passengers on 117occasions. From January to

August’2020 fine of �1,81,425realised from 906 persons trav-elling illegally in Divyang /reserved coaches and �2,53,000from 1,911 unauthorised maletravellers found travelling incoaches reserved for womenpassengers. Various advancedand innovative technologiessuch as Integrated SecuritySystem (ISS), VideoSurveillance System (VSS),Cyber Cell and DynamicTrain Escorting are being usedby the Railway Protection Forceunder "Zero tolerance" againstcrime.

Various workshops suchas narcotic drugs and psy-chotropic substance (NDPS)Act training, gender sensitisa-tion and project Saksham arebeing organised regularly witha view to further improve pro-fessional competence as well toequip RPF personnel with softskill on passenger and cus-tomer handling.

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The spread of corona infec-tion in the district contin-

ues unabated. On Thursday,Covid infection was confirmedin 329 new corona patients.The testing report of all hascome positive. At the sametime, samples of a total of2,879 people were taken fortesting. With this, the numberof active patients has increasedto 3,683. So far 16,741 peoplehave been diagnosed with theinfection.

According to CMO Dr GSBajpai, a total of 329 patientshave been diagnosed withinfection in 24 hours based onthe report received till night inthe district. Among them,except those applying for homeisolation, they are being admit-ted to various Covid hospitalsdepending on the severity ofinfection.

Dr. Bajpai said that in 24hours, a total of 259 patientsalso beat corona. Among them,43 patients were dischargedfrom various Covid hospitals.At the same time, home isola-tion of 216 people was complet-ed. There are currently 37patients admitted to CovidCare Centre Kalindipuram.Eight patients have been dis-charged from here. No patientwas discharged from UnaniMedical College. A total ofseven patients are admitted

here.A total of 55 patients are

admitted in the railway hospi-tal, while four patients weresent home after recoveringfrom this deadly virus. Twopatients were also dischargedfrom Beli Hospital. As many as41 patients were admitted here.Eight patients were dischargedfrom United Medicity, a total of41 patients are being treatedhere. Similarly, six patientswere discharged from SainathVatsalya AMA Hospital, while30 patients are admitted here.148 patients are admitted toSRN L3 Hospital. A total of 15people were discharged fromhere upon becoming infec-tion-free.

Meanwhile, three Covidinfected patients admitted toSwaroop Rani Nehru Hospital

L3 died on Thursday. Theseinclude an elderly woman andtwo other elders. All had otherserious illnesses with coronainfection.

According to SRN coincharge for corona Dr SujitKumar Verma, a 71-year-oldelderly resident ofMumfordganj was admittedon the evening of September13. During testing, it was foundthat he had diabetes, heartdisease with hypertension. Hedied during treatment ataround 12.30 pm. Similarly, a70-year-old female resident ofMeja was admitted onSeptember 12 after the formerwas tested for Covid infection.During testing, it was foundthat the elderly woman was apatient of TB. She also hadcomplaints of sugar and BP. She

died during treatment ataround 6.30 am.

According to Dr Sujit, a 67-year-old elderly resident ofGeorgetown had lung pneumo-nia with a corona infection. Hehad high blood pressure. Healso died during treatment ataround 2.30 pm. He said thattwo patients admitted to thehospital's Covid ward havebeen given ventilator supportin critical condition. At thesame time, about 65 patientsare on high flow oxygen.According to Principal Dr SPSingh, the doctors’ report statethat the patients being treatedon the support of oxygen, thecondition of most of them isbetter than before.

Two patients belonging toBhadohi and Kaushambiadmitted to Swaroop RaniNehru Hospital also died onThursday. According to coincharge Dr Sujit KumarVerma, 72-year-old elderly, aresident of Bhadohi, had acomplaint of septicemia withpneumonia. He died duringtreatment at 2 o'clock in theday.

At the same time, a 71-yearold resident of Kaushambi hadcomplained of BP, sugar alongwith corona infection. Beforehe was admitted, he had under-gone a paralysis attack. Hedied at 7 in the morning dur-ing treatment, added Dr SujitKumar.

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In a heart rending incident, aman attacked his own chil-

dren and wife with an axe in afit of rage over some trivialissues. The incident took placein an area under Koraon policestation of Prayagraj districtlate on Thursday night..

In a family dispute onThursday night, the manbecame so angry that heattacked his wife and two sonswith an axe kept nearby. Allthree were seriously injured inthe attack. All of them wererushed to the hospital, where ason was declared dead by doc-tors on the same night, whileher mother breathed her lastduring treatment on Fridaymorning. The condition ofanother son remains criticalwho is admitted to SRN

Hospital.. The injured son isbeing treated there. The policetook the body of the womaninto its custody and sent it toa mortuary for post mortemexamination. Pushparaj son ofFateh Bahadur, a resident ofBadokhar under the Koraonpolice station, is a truck driver.At home, Pushparaj lived withhis 32-year-old wife Sunita,10-year-old son Ratan andseven-year-old son Raj. Thehouse is also built on a farm farfrom the village. On Thursdaynight, a scuffle took placebetween husband and wifeover some petty issues. Whenthe quarrel escalated, angryPushpraj attacked his wife andtwo sons with an axe kept inthe house. All three wereinjured due to being hit in thehead, arms and legs by the axe.Hearing the screams, the peo-

ple around reached the spotand were stunned to see Sunita,Ratan and Raj lying on thefloor in a pool of blood.

The police control roomwas informed at around 11:30pm. Along with the police ofKoraon police station, SPCrime Ashutosh Mishra alsoreached the spot. The injuredwere first rushed to a nearbyhospital, where doctorsdeclared Raj dead. At the sametime Sunita and elder sonRatan were admitted toSwaroop Rani Nehru Hospital.Sunita too died on Fridaymorning. Police are assumingfamily reasons behind the inci-dent.

HC DISMISSES WRITPETITION : The AllahabadHigh Court has dismissed awrit petition filed by a person,who had occupied a piece of

land at the premises at 19Clive Road, Civil Lines,Allahabad, which has beenallotted to the Allahabad HighCourt for the purpose of con-structing the residential hous-es of the High Court Judges.

Dismissing the writ peti-tion filed by one Shiv KumarPandey, a division bench com-prising Justice Shashi KantGupta and Justice PiyushAgrawal observed, “The prop-erty in question has alreadybeen resumed by the state gov-ernment and the said resump-tion has been held legal andvalid by the apex court. Thepetitioner cannot take the pleaof adverse possession against aproperty of the state and moreso, no continuous possessionover the property in dispute hasbeen established by the peti-tioner’.

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Krishna Kumar Yadav tookcharge as new Post Master

General (PMG) of VaranasiRegion on Friday. Yadav is2001 batch officer of the IndianPostal Service. He was earlierserving as the Director, PostalServices of Lucknow (HQ)Region. Originally a resident ofAzamgarh district of easternUP, he is also a well-knownHindi litterateur, writer andblogger. Seven books written byYadav in various genres havealready been published. Aftergetting his initial educationfrom Jawahar NavodayaVidyalaya, Azamgarh, he com-pleted his Masters fromAllahabad University.

Popularly known as askilled and sensitive adminis-trator, Yadav has previouslyheld many important posi-tions in Surat (Gujarat),Lucknow, Kanpur, Andaman-Nicobar Islands, Allahabad andJodhpur (Rajasthan) in his 19years of service. Varanasi wasa part of the Allahabad Regionwhen Yadav was posted asDirector, Postal Services ofAllahabad Region (February2012 to March 2015). VaranasiRegion is not unknown tohim. Varanasi Region com-prises Varanasi, Bhadohi,Chandauli, Jaunpur, Ghazipurand Ballia districts.

While taking charge inPMG office located at theCantt. Head Post Office com-plex, Yadav expressed his com-

mitment to take the VaranasiRegion to new heights of suc-cess. He said that efforts will bemade to connect more andmore people with the publicwelfare schemes of theGovernment of India beingrun through the Department ofPosts. For this, the staff will bemade customer friendly withwide dissemination of services.Maximum people will be cov-ered under Post Office SavingsSchemes, Sukanya SamriddhiYojana, Postal Life Insurance,Rural Postal Life Insurance,India Post Payments Bank, etc.by promoting Digital Indiaand financial inclusion throughthe Post offices. Prompt andspeedy delivery of all types ofpostal articles will be ensuredand prompt redressal of publicgrievances will also be empha-sised.

On this occasion, SeniorSuperintendent of Posts

Offices, Varanasi (East)Division, Sumit Gutta,Superintendent of PostsOffices, Varanasi (West), RamMilan, Assistant Director,Shambhu Rai, PraveenPrasoon, senior Post Master,Varanasi Head Post Office, RKChauhan, Post Master CanttHead Post Office, RS Vermaand many other officials of theRegion were present.

FLAYED: Strongly flayingthe state government for itsproposal to provide jobs in thegovernment departments onfive-year contractual basis, thelocal unit of Rajya KarmachariSamyukt Parishad has onFriday decided to support themovement of Joint Forum ofofficers, employees, teachersand pensioners proposedagainst it next month.

Various organisations ofofficers, employees, teachersand pensioners have formed a

joint forum at state-level toraise their protest against thegovernment policy to handover the electricity and othergovernment departments intoprivate hands and the state gov-ernment’s proposal to makerecruitment on five-year con-tractual basis, the district pres-ident of Parishad ShashikantSrivastava adding, the jointforum has a proposal oflaunching a statewide move-ment in next month and thestate government officers,employees, teachers and pen-sioners would support it.

In a virtual meeting ofParishad at district-level, theparticipants said, the state gov-ernment’s proposal to providejobs in government depart-ments on the basis of five-yearcontract and review their per-formance on each six monthsafter the recruitment has cre-ated a sense of fear amongunemployed youths evenbefore they get employment.They termed the proposal asanti-youth and anti-employees.The change in recruitmentprocess of B and C categoriesof job for nothing just to intro-duce a contractual system ingovernment jobs, they blamedadding, the employees wouldbe like bonded labourers dur-ing the contract period.

Such a system is applicablein Gujarat where the employ-ees do not get increment foryears and they have to wait foryears to be permanent, theysaid further.

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For the second consecutiveday, as many as 208 new

COVID-19 cases have beendetected here on Friday,increasing the total number ofcases to 11,297. Besides, thedistrict also saw three moredeaths, increasing the toll to185. During the day, the follow-up negative reports included190 patients. Out of them, 180patients recovered from homeisolation and the total numberof patients cured at home hasincreased to 6,834. Besides, 10recovered from the hospitaland the number of patientswho have been dischargedfrom the hospitals has reached2,595. The total number ofcured patients is now 9,429,leaving 1,683 active patients.The recovery rate has improved

slightly to 83.46 per cent andmortality rate to 1.63 per cent.

Meanwhile, under thedirection of District Magistrate(DM) Kaushal Raj Sharma,the mass/group antigen testingdrive continued and a day ago415 tests were done at Shri ShivPrasad Gupta (SSPG) Hospitaland all of them were foundnegative. Similarly, 200 testswere done at GovernmentWomen’s Hospital and all ofthem were negative while all 68tests of patients were also neg-ative at LBS Hospital,Ramnagar. However, at thesame place two were foundpositive out of 65 other tests,three were positive out of 10employees of crime branch.Besides, all seven shopkeepersof Pathani Tola, Chittanpuramarket and Salempura werenegative apart from 31 tests at

Shivpur Urban Primary HealthCentre (UPHC) and 20 atTownhall UPHC, 104 atPremchandra Nagar Colony,Pandeypur, 22 at district pro-bation office, 14 shopkeepers atKotwa Bazar and four inKushhall Nagar but two werepositive out of 15 atVivekanand Hospital, Bhelupurand one out of eight at SigraColony.

Besides, Chief MedicalOfficer (CMO) Dr VB Singhhas informed that the Healthdepartment has distributed8,320 ivermectin tablets to1,040 persons. So far, he addedthat 8.68 lakh tablets were dis-tributed to 1.08 lakh personsand out of them, 6.77 lakhtablets to 84,725 persons weredistributed by the Healthdepartment while rest of tabletsby other departments including

Supply and Education depart-ments and Civil Defence so far.

CMO has also informedthat by the first of the day at 11am, 164 positive patients weredetected out of 2,136 reportsreceived. Till then, the total testreports received were 1,61,037and the results of 3,399 areawaited.

Out of them, 1,49,784 werenegative while 11,253 positive.The total number of samplescollected was 1,74,770. Earlier,a male aged 44 fromManduadih succumbed toCOVID-19 at SSH BHU.Besides, with the addition of 13new red zones, the total num-ber of hotspots has increased to1,863 including 380 red zones.One green zone has been con-verted into red zone again.There are 1,483 green zonesincluding 12 new ones.

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Alarge number of studentsunder the banner of Yuwa

Manch went on a rampageand resorted to demonstra-tion over the issue of unem-ployment and other demandshere on Friday. Protesters gath-ered at Balsan Crossing clashedwith police. Some students inthe crowd pelted the policewith stones, after which thecops had to resort to lath-icharge on them. This causeda stampede there. The policetook 15 people into custodyfrom the spot. Officials saidFIR was registered against 15named people and 250-300unidentified protesters in thecase.

Under the banner of YuvaManch at Balsan Crossing, alarge number of youths start-

ed gathering from 11 am. At 1o’clock in the afternoon, 500-600 protesters had reachedhere. All were shouting slogansagainst the government. Theirdemand was that the govern-ment should clarify on thenews of the proposal of con-tractual appointment for fiveyears. Also, if there is truth inthem, then the Chief Ministerhimself announce to take itback. Apart from this, theyouth were also demanding tofulfill the pending recruitmentand to get new recruitment.

The entire area turned intofortress with the news of a largenumber of mob. SP Cityreached the spot with the forceof many police stations. Aftersome time ADM City AshokKanaujia also reached the spot.ADM City received the memofrom them after hearing the

protesters. After this, everyonewas asked to return. This iswhere the things took an uglyturn. After giving the memo-randum, a large number of pro-testers returned but a group of100-150 youths gathered inthe park.

Police and administrativeofficials said that after givingthe memorandum there is nojustification for staying therebut the protesters were notready to accept it. After whichthe police started forciblyremoving them. The policestarted forcibly removing theprotesters from the park andstarted making them returnthat some people started pelt-ing stone on the cops afterreaching in front of the formerMP’s residence. Thereafter, thecops resorted to lathicharg onthem.

During this period, theone who was caught was beat-en fiercely. Some people werealso injured. Others escapedafter lathicharge, but 15 peoplewere taken into custody fromthe spot. After which theywere brought to the police sta-tion.

After giving the memoran-dum, they were asked to leave,on which the protesters start-ed attacking the police with abrick-stone. 15 people havebeen detained from the spot.FIR was filed against 15 namedpeople and 250-300 unknown.This was said by Dinesh KumarSingh, SP City

Some people also threwstones at the roadways bus atLallachungi intersection fol-lowing the uproar during thedemonstration at BalsanCrossing.

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Under the aegis of NERRajbhasha Department dur-

ing the Rajbhasha WeekCelebration-2020 being orga-nized at headquarters, Gorakhpurfrom September 14 to 18, a Hindiworkshop on the topic, ‘SocialConsciousness of Kabir’ was organ-ised in a virtual form under thepresidentship of Chief RajbhashaOfficer Arvind Kumar Pandey onThursday, CPROPKSingh said. Inhis presidential address ChiefRajbhasha Officer said that for-mer Chief Operations ManagerRakesh Tripathi gave factual,substantial and interesting infor-

mation on social consciousnessof Kabir. Chief RajbhashaOfficer while expressing happi-ness said that the use of officiallanguage on this railway wassatisfactory. Pandey said SantKabir had started improving theminds of ordinary citizenstowards the real truth throughthe couplets. He always object-ed to traditional methods as ameans of liberation. ChiefRajbhasha Officer and PrincipalChief Mechanical Engineer(PCME) Arvind Kumar Pandeyreleased the 82nd issue of theRajbhasha magazine ‘RailRashmi’. Former ChiefOperations Manager Rakesh

Tripathi who was the keynotespeaker while highlighting thetheme of ‘Social conscious-ness of Kabir’ threw light on hispersonality and work. DeputyChief Rajbhasha OfficerOmkar Nath Singh said in hiswelcome address that theRajbhasha Week celebrationwas being organised by theNER headquarters fromSeptember 14 to 18. The work-shop was conducted by seniortranslator Anamika Singh.Officers and employees of variousdepartments participated inthe workshop. In the endRajbhasha Officer Arshad Mirzaproposed the vote of thanks.

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UP Minister of State forEnergy Rama Shankar

Singh Patel said that serving thelast man of the society was areal celebration of birthday ofPM Narendra Modi. Theseviews were expressed by him aschief guest at a function organ-ised to celebrate PM’s 70thbirthday at the ground ofGovernment Inter College onThursday. The function con-cluded with the distribution of50 tricycles, 15 wheelchairs, 31crutches and 10 hearing aids

among Divyangjans. He saidthat PM gave the term ‘Divjang’to persons with disabilities.He said that Modi believed thatevery person should be associ-ated with nation building. MLACity Ratnakar Mishra exhort-ed the people to emulate Modi.He claimed that the responsi-

bility of every citizen for makingthe nation as a superpower wasas important as the politicians.The function was conducted byRavi Shankar Pandey. Prominentamong those present were MLAs,Rahul Kol and ShuchismitaMaurya, veteran BJP leaderSuryabali Singh, and district presi-dent, Apna Dal, Ramlautan Bind.The vote of thanks was proposed byBJP district presidentBrajabhashan Singh whoexpressed his gratitude to the par-ticipants who followed thenorms of social distancing dur-ing the programme.

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Recalling the rich legacy ofBharat Ratna Dr

Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya,Engineer’s Day was celebrated atvarious plants of NTPC, includ-ing Vindhyachal and Rihand,recently. Maintaining social dis-tancing the function was held atCV Raman Conference Hall inNTPC Vindhyachal in whichdistrict collector of SingrauliRajeev Ranjan Meena was thechief guest while ED MunishJauhari presided over it. It wasalso attended by RK Rout, CGM(O&M), Vipan Kumar, GM(SSC) besides other GMs andHoDs. The function began withthe paying of floral tributes to DrVisvesvaraya. Then general sec-retary of Executive AssociationAshok Kumar welcomed theguests. It was followed by a pre-sentation on ash dykes by NeerajTiwary, manager (Ash Handling).Nitish Vimal, manager(Operations), LK Gupta, deputymanager (C&I) and AnandRastogi, DGM (MMG) werehonoured with best engineer

awards for their contribution.ED Munish Jauhari describedhow agility was the most impor-tant quality in determining thesuccess of engineers. Talkingabout his education from IIT-Delhi, Rajeev Ranjan Meenasaid his engineering back-ground laid a sound foundationand helped him develop criti-cal problem solving abilities aswell as a scientific temperamentwhich greatly benefited himwhile discharging his dailyduties. Sandeep Kumar, presi-

dent of the association proposedthe vote of thanks. Rahul Dubeyand DC Gupta conducted theproceedings. The function wasalso attended by associationmembers VK Singh, MC Sahai,Hemant Kumar, SheikhSalaamat and SK Srivastava. AtNTPC Rihand the functionwas held at administrativebuilding in which ED BalajiIyengar, CGM (O&M) ACSahu and other GMs were pre-sent. In the beginning there wasa brief presentation on securi-ty by CHP team. Speaking onthe occasion, ED Balaji Iyengarsaid that engineering degreeshould not only be considered asource of income but should beused as a tool to bring revolutionin the society. AC Sahu said thatas an engineer we should try togive services back to the societyand serve as role models for theyounger generation. The pro-gramme was jointly organised byGM (TS) E Nand Kishore inassociation with NOAR(Association of Executives)and conducted by Amit Dhiman,senior manager (EMG/AU).

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As per the decision taken by Railway Boardthe movement of 02573/02574 Muzaffarpur-

Anand Vihar Terminus weekly clone specialtrain via Gorakhpur will be done fromMuzaffarpur from September 27 every Sundayand from Anand Vihar terminus fromSeptember 28 every Monday. The clone specialtrains will be fully reserved. The fare of thesetrains will be like Humsafar Express, Chief PublicRelations Officer (CPRO ) Pankaj Kumar Singhsaid. The 02573 Muzaffarpur-Anand ViharTerminus clone special train will fromSeptember 27 till further orders depart on everySunday depart from Muzaffarpur at 09:40hours, from Gorakhpur at 17:20 hours, fromLucknow at 21:45 hours, the next day fromMoradabad at 03:00 hours and reach AnandVihar terminus at 04:45 hours. On the otherhand, the 02574 Anand Vihar Terminus-Muzaffarpur clone special train from September28 till further orders will leave on everyMonday from Anand Vihar Terminus at 12.00hours, from Moradabad at 15:35 hours, fromLucknow at 20:55 hours, on the second day fromGorakhpur at 02:05 hours and reachMuzaffarpur at 10:30 hours. In these clone spe-cial trains rakes of Humsafar Express will be usedin which a total of 18 coaches, including two ofgenerator-cum-luggage, 12 of third air-condi-tioned and four of sleeper class will be attached.

Meanwhile keeping the convenience ofpassengers in mind the railway administrationwill operate 04005/04006 Sitamarhi-AnandVihar Terminus-Sitamarhi special train. Allreserved category coaches will be attached in thetrain which will run with electric engine fromSitamarhi to Anand Vihar Terminus. The04005 Sitamarhi-Anand Vihar Terminus specialtrain will daily from September 21 till furtherorders depart from Sitamarhi at 02:15 hours andafter stopping at Runni Saidpur, Muzaffarpur,Goraul, Bhagwanpur, Hajipur, Sonpur,Paramanandpur, Nayagaon, Sitalpur, Dighwara,

Avatarnagar, Badagopal, Dumri Juara andGoldinganj stations depart from Chhapra Jn08:20 hours, from Ekma to 08:43 hours, fromDuraundha at 09:08 hours, from Siwan Jn at09:50 hours, from Mairwa at 10:15 hours, fromBhatpar Rani at 10.30 hours, from Bhatni at 11:20hours, from Salempur at 11.33 hours, from LarRoad at 11:46 hours, from Belthara Road at 12.01hours , from Mau at 12.40 hours, from Jakhaniaat 13.05 hours, from Sarnath at 13.57 hours, fromVaranasi Jn at 14:40 hours, from Bhullanpur at15:00 hours, from Madhosingh at 15:45 hours,from Gyanpur Road at 16:10 hours, fromPrayagraj Rambagh at 18:33 hrs, from PrayagrajJunction at 19:00 hours and after stopping atKanpur Central, the second day at Aligarh, Khurjaand Ghaziabad stations will reach Anand ViharTerminus at 04:35 hours. On the other hand the04006 Anand Vihar Terminus-Sitamarhi Specialtrain daily from September 19 till further orderswill depart from Anand Vihar Terminus at 15:10hours and after stopping at Ghaziabad, Dadri,Khurja, Aligarh, Tundla and Kanpur CentralStations, on second day from Prayagraj Junctionat 02.45 hours, from Prayagraj Rambagh at 03:07hrs, from Gyanpur Road at 04:13 hrs, fromBhullanpur at 05:20 hrs, from Varanasi Junctionat 06:20 hrs, from Sarnath at 06:39 hrs, fromJakhanian at 07.19 hrs, from Mau at 08.15 hrs.,from Belthara Road at 08:57 hours, from LarRoad at 09:14 hrs, from Salempur at 09:27 hours,from Bhatni at 10:08 hrs, from Bhatpar Rani at10:40 hrs, from Mairwa at 10:56 hrs, from Siwanat 11:26 hours, from from Duraundha at 11:46hours, from Ekma at 12:15 hours, from Chhapraat 13:40 hours and after leaving Goldinganj,Dumri Juara, Bada Gopal, Avtarnagar, Dighwara,Sitalpur, Nayagaon, Paramanandpur, Sonpur,Hajipur, Bhagwanpur, Goraul, Kudhani,Ramdayalu Nagar, Muzaffarpur and RunniSaidpur will reach Sitamarhi at 21:00 hrs. A totalof 24 coaches, including two of SLR/D, six ofgeneral second class, 12 of sleeper class, apantrycar, two third AC class, one second ACcoach attached in this train.

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Northern Coalfields Limited(NCL), a Miniratna com-

pany, organised a Covid testingcamp at Central Hospital, NCL,Singrauli, on the occasion of thebirthday of Prime MinisterNarendra Modi on Thursday.The camp is being organisedfor quick and accurate testingof Covid, for the convenienceof NCL personnel and residentsof surrounding areas. A total of46 persons had been tested

so far. The NCL personneland others reached the camp

for rapid antigen tests .Meanwhile at another pro-

gramme Dr Anindya Sinha,director (Technical/Operations) and heads of var-ious departments plantedsaplings on the NCL (head-quarters) campus. They alsodistributed food packetsamong the people of nearbyareas. During both the pro-grammes, Covid-19 guide-lines were followed and thevisitors were also urged towear masks, wash their handswith soap frequently and followthe rules of social distancing.

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KANPUR (PNS): KanpurNagar reported 407 more coro-navirus positive cases on Fridayevening.

According to a report 407more people testing positivebetween Thursday eveningand Friday evening, the tally ofthe confirmed coronaviruscases in the city had surged to21,962.

With 375 COVID-19patients being discharged in thelast 24 hours, 16,678 infectedpeople had been cured in thecity.

Thirteen COVID-19deaths were reported till Fridayevening, taking the death toll to569. At present 4715 activecases were undergoing treat-ment in the city.

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Tension prevailed inMakanpur town of Bilhaur

after a group pelted stones atthe house of a youth belongingto another community inprotest against his inflamma-tory post on social media.

Later, a mob of around 500persons staged a massivedemonstration at the policeoutpost, demanding the arrestof the guilty youth.

Sensing the gravity of thesituation, force from fourpolice stations led by policeand district administrationofficers rushed to the spot andbrought the situation undercontrol.

Police took the accusedyouth into custody and regis-tered a case against him.

A heavy police force wasdeployed in the town to avertany untoward incident.

According to reports, thou-sands of devotees visit the dar-gah of Sayyad Badiuddin ZindaShah Madar Saheb inMakanpur (Bilhaur) every yearfor Ziarat-e-Ashura.

On Thursday evening, ayouth of Iliyaspur village post-ed objectionable commentsabout the deity of a communi-ty on the social media. Thissparked off tension and resent-ment among the members ofthe community.

At around 10 am on Friday,a group of one communityreached the house of the youth

and after heated argumentswith him, pelted stones at hishouse.

The local police immedi-ately reached the spot and tosave the situation from takingan ugly turn, took members ofboth the communities to theoutpost.

On hearing about the inci-dent, a mob of around 500 per-sons assembled at the tempostand near Makanpur outpostand staged a massive demon-stration, demanding the arrest

of youth. Outpost Incharge Ved

Prakash Mishra being on leave,senior police officers wereapprised of the incident.Immediately, Bilhaur KotwaliIncharge Santosh KumarAwasthi along with a forcereached the spot. SDM PNSingh and tehsildar Avneeshalso reached,

ADM (Finance) VirendraPandey, SP (Rural) BrijeshKumar, SP (East) Raj KumarAgarwal along with force from

Shivrajpur, Kakwan andChaubepur police stations alsoreached the spot. The officialspacified the mob by assuringthem of action against theyouth.

After registering an FIRunder the IT Act, Kotwalipolice arrested the youth.

The station officer saidinvestigations were on andthere was no tension in thetown. He said the police forcewas deployed to avert anyuntoward incident.

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The sharp increase inCOVID-19 deaths in

Kanpur Nagar has become acause of concern for the districtadministration. Despite allefforts to keep a check on pri-vate Covid hospitals and thepatients in home isolation, thefatalities are moving up regu-larly.

District Magistrate AlokTiwari admitted on Fridaythat the rising COVID-19deaths were a major cause ofconcern. He, however, addedthat the death rate was not ashigh as reported from severalother cities of the country.

Tiwari hoped that withstrict monitoring of privateCovid hospitals, the rise in thedeaths would be brought downsuccessfully. He pointed outthat the administration hadlaunched a crackdown on pri-vate Covid facilities to ensurethat they strictly followed theguidelines and the treatmentprotocols and had anaes-thetists on duty round theclock.

It may be mentioned herethat on an average, 8 to 12COVID-19 deaths are beingreported in Kanpur Nagarevery day. With a COVID-19death rate of 2.59 per cent,Kanpur Nagar is at

the second place in UP,behind Meerut which has adeath rate of 2.68 per cent.

Chief Medical Officer DrAK Mishra on Friday admit-

ted that out of the total sam-ples being collected in he dis-trict each day, over 50 per centwere active cases. He said thiswas mainly because in KanpurNagar, social distancing wasliterally not being followed.

Dr Mishra said despitecautions and warning issuedby the government, peoplewere not strictly following thesocial distancing norms.

The CMO added that themost encouraging part wasthat the recovery rate washigh in coronavirus positivepeople who opted for homeisolation. He said around10,500 people who had optedfor home isolation had recov-

ered in the district. However,Dr Mishra said, the coron-avirus active cases in KanpurNagar had increased to around6,000

The CMO said there werereports that some private hos-pitals were running Covidcare facility without anaes-thetists and the administrationhad banned them and was tak-ing action against those foundviolating norms.

He said all complaintsagainst private hospitals whichwere running without anaes-thetists had been referred tothe additional city magistrate(ACM) who would submit areport after which action

would be taken against theerring hospitals.

The CMO said the stategovernment had also beeninformed about anaesthetistswho were working on 8-hourduty in three hospitals in a day.He said complaints had comethat doctors too were workingin three hospitals which wasviolation of the Covid proto-col.

Dr Mishra said the ACMhad also been asked to iden-tify anaesthetists who wereworking in shifts but were notavailable when the patient wascritical. He said strict actionwould be taken against them.

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Meanwhile, the suddenspurt in dengue cases has setthe alarm bells ringing inKanpur Nagar which is reelingunder the onslaught of thenovel coronavirus.

The arrival of denguepatients from the surroundingdistrict and Fatehpur has madethe district administration pullup its socks.

Chief MedicalSuperintendent of LLRHospital, Dr PK Singh, saidthat some dengue patientshad also tested positive forcoronavirus infection, makingthe situation critical.

He said several denguecases had been admitted toLLR Hospital from the sur-rounding district and a fewcases had come from Fatehpur.

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Prof Kamal said with one month’s supply of the kits for freetests coming to an end, testing had stopped in the hospital. Hesaid a requisition had been sent to the government said approvalof the kits was awaited. He said the tests would start again in thehospital after it received the test kits.

The principal said these special tests cost between Rs 1,500and Rs 5,000 and had been recommended by a three-memberSGPGI team which had arrived in h city in the first week of Augustto bring the COVID-19 deaths under control. He said most ofthe people were unable to purchase the expensive kits and thattotal tests cost somewhere around Rs 6,000.

Prof Kamal said with free testing being stopped and the peo-ple not being able to afford it of payment, it had become a causeof concern.

He said it was hoped that in a week’s time the kits would arriveand tests would be started again.

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Armed miscreants raidedthe house of a building

material trader in KanpurDevelopment Authority’sSwarn Jayanti Vihar Colony inVidhnu police station area lateThursday night and lootedcash and valuables worth lakhsof rupees after holding thetrader’s minor son on knife-point.

After locking all familymembers in a room, the mis-creants collected cash and valu-ables from the house andescaped.

The incident came to lighton Friday morning after whichpolice officers along with foren-sic experts reached the spot forinvestigation.

The CCTV footage showedpictures of the miscreants.

Saurabh Singh ofHamirpur has been living in arented house in Swarn JayantiVihar Colony with his familyfor the past several years.

On Thursday evening, hehad gone to Lucknow on busi-ness trip. His wife Poonam, sonBabu (2) and grandmotherPrem Kumari (85) were presentat the house.

At around 2 am, twoarmed miscreants wearingmasks entered the house afterscaling the backside boundarywall and hid in the courtyard.When Poonam opened thedoors of her room to go to thewashroom, the miscreants tookher on pistol-point. Aftersnatching her mobile phone,they locked her in a room.They later locked the fast asleepgrandmother in the sameroom. Thereafter, after takingBabu (2) at knife-point, themiscreants collected the key ofalmirah from Poonam andlooted cash and jewellery worthlakhs of rupees. Before escap-ing from the house, theyremoved the SIM of Poonam’smobile phone.

Poonam informed her hus-band about the incident fromanother mobile phone. Saurabhreturned to Kanpur Nagar at 7am and informed the policeabout the loot. GhatampurCircle Officer Ravi KumarSingh said two miscreants cap-tured in the CCTV footagewould be arrested soon.

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KANPUR (PNS): TabirFoundation in association withEarthshakti Foundation felici-tated the winners of an essaywriting competition organisedon the occasion of Hindi Diwason Friday. President of TabirFoundation, Dr Saba Yunus,said this was an online com-petition meant for childrenbetween 12 and 18 years of age.She 50 essays were received viaemail from all over the state.

The work of all the partic-ipating children was found sat-isfactory. Essays were evaluat-ed by a panel of judges com-prising social workerDharmendra Kumar Singh andeducationist Mohini Agarwal.

All the three winners hailfrom Kanpur Nagar. They areNancy (first), Therim (sec-ond) and Shahin (third). Theywere felicitated with cash prize,certificate and medal at a func-tion organised at SahwesSchool in Juhi, on Friday.

Both the judges were alsofelicitated by Dr Saba Yunusand Somesh Kulshreshtha.

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Parliament on Friday passeda Bill to reduce for one year

the salaries of MPs by 30 percent “to meet the exigenciesarising out of the Covid-19pandemic”. The Bill was passedin Rajya Sabha with a voice votewhile Lok Sabha had passed theSalary, Allowances and Pensionof Members of Parliament(Amendment) Bill, 2020 Billearlier this week. The RajyaSabha also approved two Bills,replacing ordinances relatedto the Central Council ofHomoeopathy and the IndianMedicine Central Council.

While supporting the cutsin salaries, most Oppositionmembers who participated inthe discussion urged the gov-ernment to review its decisionto suspend the Members ofParliament Local AreaDevelopment (MPLAD)scheme for two years saying it

was necessary to carry outdevelopment works in theirrespective constituencies.Parliamentary Affairs MinisterPralhad Joshi, however, saidthis was a temporary suspen-sion.

Minister of State for HomeG Kishan Reddy moved theSalaries and Allowances ofMinisters (Amendment) Bill,2020 and both bills were takenup simultaneously and passedby voice vote.

During the debate, Joshisaid it did not matter howmuch money was being savedthrough salary cuts of mem-bers. “Charity should beginfrom home and that is the con-cept we have started. It is not�4 crore saving as said byDMK member but � 53.9 croreper year from members’ salary,”he said. DMK member PWilson had earlier during thediscussion said the measurewould entail savings of just �4

crore.On several opposition

members asking the govern-ment to stop various projectslike Bullet train and construc-tion of a new Parliament build-ing to cut costs, Joshi said,“First you say public spendingshould be increased and nowyou are demanding that allthese projects should bestopped. At least, we don’t pay

to some private trust from PMRelief fund. These peopleraised similar issues in 2019election and people haveanswered,” Joshi further said.

Reddy said COVID-19 hasimpacted the incomes of peo-ple working in the private sec-tor and so the Prime Ministerinitiated this bill which entails30 per cent reduction in min-isters’ salaries.

Senior Congress leaderGhulam Nabi Azad saidaround 70 per cent MPsdepend on their salaries andhave to take care of everyexpense through these emolu-ments alone. He said MPLADfunds are meant for takingcare of needy people in theirconstituencies and are utilisedfor various things like pur-chasing ambulances, making

small roads and communitycentres.

“It (MPLAD) should notbe suspended for two years.How did you presume thatcorona will go on for twoyears? Even if you had to do ityou should have reduced it byhalf to �2.5 crore. My sugges-tion to the Government will beto reduce it to one year and inthat one year �2.5 crore fund be

kept,” he said.Similarly, Vishambhar

Prasad Nishad (SP), V VijaysaiReddy (YSRCP), KSomaprasad (CPI-M), FauziaKhan (NCP), Veer Singh (BSP),Nazir Ahmed Laway (PDP)while supporting the reductionin salaries, sought restorationof the MPLAD scheme.

Pointing at the PM CARESfund, Congress MP Rajeev

Satav said “no one knows towhom it is caring”. He alsopointed out expenses by thegovernment during the pan-demic on projects such asCentral Vista, Bullet train anda special �850 crore aircraft forthe PM. Trinamool Congressmember Dinesh Trivedi saidthe bill for reduction of mem-bers’ salaries was decided onlyby some MPs on whatsapp.

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Indian genes are helping bat-tling coronavirus and reduc-

ing the mortality rate in com-parison to the US and Europe,according to scientists includ-ing an expert from the BanarasHindu University (BHU). Thestudy is published in the PLOSONE journal.

A team comprising distin-guished genetic experts fromsix institutions, led by ProfGyaneshwer Chaubey of theBHU, analysed complete DNAdata of the Angiotensin-con-verting enzyme 2 (ACE2) geneof X chromosome from variouscontinental populations andfound that it is the Indian genesthat have protected the popu-lation and helped battle thedeadly virus.

This explains why the mor-

tality rate of COVID-19 hasbeen much higher in Europeancountries and in the US, ascompared to India andSoutheast Asian countries, theysaid.

The scientists have provid-

ed a possible molecular genet-ic explanation for why Iranians,Europeans and Americans ofEuropean ancestry are at moremortality risk to the novelCoronavirus than people inIndia and East Asia, as reflect-

ed in the current global distri-bution of reported COVID-19cases per 1,00,000 inhabitants.

The international teamanalysed complete DNA data ofthe ACE2 gene from variouscontinental populations andfound that certain mutations inthis gene are helping SouthAsian and East Asian popula-tions in successfully battling thevirus and reducing mortalityrate in comparison to the USand Europe.

There have been a few ini-tial studies on the ACE2 geneby other research groups, butall of them looked for thepresence or absence of variousmutations, whereas, this teamused more powerful haplo-type-based analysis (themethod in which experts breakthe whole length of DNA intoseveral pieces and make com-

parisons).The second important

finding is about two majormutations which are responsi-ble for strengthening the entrypoint of the Coronavirusamong South Asians. “Thus,this paper adds importantpotential implications tounderstanding the transmis-sion patterns of Coronavirus invarious populations across theworld,” said Anshika Srivastava,one of the authors of the paper.

Rudra Pandey and PrajwalSingh from BHU, AvinashRasalkar, Pankaj Srivastavafrom Sagar Central University,Rakesh Tamang from CalcuttaUniversity and Pramod Kumarfrom National Centre forDisease Control (NCDC) werealso involved in this research.

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As the Covid-19 batteredworld continue to scout for

vaccine to combat the deadlyvirus, States in India are bank-ing on herbal immunity boost-ers among other safety normslike masks and social distanc-ing to keep the pathogen at abay which has so far infected 54lakhs people and claimed83,000 lives across the country.

While Tamil Nadu is dis-tributing Siddha-based herbalimmunity boosters like‘Athimathuram’ and ‘KabasuraKudineer’, Karnataka is sup-plying ayurveda-based immu-nity enhancing tablets anddecoction to the locals as partof the fight against coronavirus.So is the case with Delhi andPunjab where cops are beingarmed with the formulationbased on medicinal plants and

essential oils to fight the virusfrom the front.

Punjab has recentlyannounced doling out to itspolice personnel Covid-carekits having medical gadgetslike mask, oximeter besidesmedicines and an herbal immu-nity booster Amynity Plus tocombat the virus. Nearly 3,800police personnel have testedCovid positive in the State.

The herbal formulation isextract of around 51 herbs likeharad, Neem, Amla, Sunthi,Ashwagandha, Gudduchibesides eight essential oils toempower immunity of the bodysystem.

Dr Sanchit Sharma,Executive Director of AIMILPharmaceuticals which hasdeveloped the herbal brew,noted that not only a strongimmune system but multi-sys-tem immune defence could be

the perfect solution to tackle theinfection which has brought theworld standstill.

Like in Punjab, police per-sonnel in Delhi are being dis-tributed ‘Ayuraksha Kit’ com-prising of ‘Kadha’ concoction(herbal tea), ‘Sanshmani’ tablet(made from Giloy), oil to beused as nasal drops and pack ofChyawanprash while TamilNadu is offering the concoctionlike ‘Athimathuram’ and‘Kabasura Kudineer’.

“These are not a cure forCovid-19 but for boosting theimmunity of an individual,”said Chief Minister Edappadi KPalaniswami launched thescheme by distributing thedrink to police personnel.

Similarly, KarnatakaGovernment is offeringayurveda-based immunityboosting tablets and decoctionto lakhs of families in

Shivamogga under an initia-tive by Karnataka RuralDevelopment and PanchayatRaj Minister K S Eshwarappaas part of the fight againstcovid-19. Likewise, UttarPradesh too is pushing herbalimmunity boosters to fight thevirus. In fact, scientists fromGovernment organisations tooare doing their bit in thisregard. For instance, Dr SanjayJachak, scientist fromResearchers from NationalInstitute of Pharmaceutical Educationand Research (NIPER) inMohali, Punjab has devel-oped an immunity boosterherbal tea —a combination ofsix herbs such as Aswagandha,Giloy, Mulethi, Tulsi andGreenTea--to strengthen thebody and build physical resis-tance to the virulent infec-tions.

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Earlier in the day, theHomoeopathy Central

Council (Amendment) Bill,2020 seeking to further extendthe time to form the CentralCouncil of Homeopathy by ayear and the Indian MedicineCentral Council(Amendment) Bill, 2020 alsoseeking a year’s time to recon-stitute the central council andprovides for a board of direc-tors to exercise its powers inthe interim period was passedin the Upper House after adebate.

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The Congress on Fridayannounced to launch a

nationwide agitation againstthe Centre’s three agriculture-related Bills. It is in talks withother Opposition parties tocome on board to corner theModi Government on thefarmer related issue which hasalso led to the resignation ofUnion Minister HarsimranKaur of Shiromani Akali Dal,BJP’s oldest ally in the NDA.

With farmers protestingagainst the bills, Congressalleged that Prime MinisterNarendra Modi has misled thefarmers and the country andModi is a big liar.

“Person sitting on prime

minister’s post should not mis-lead farmers and country. ThePM is lying at a time when thecountry is battling coronavirusand China is breathing downour neck,” Congress chiefspokesperson Randeep SinghSurjewala said at AICC Pressconference near Parliament.

Congress said any move to“disturb” the present procure-ment system may deepen“social unrest” amongst farm-ers of the state”. “We urge uponthe government to review andreconsider these measures asthese are unlikely to deliver onthe promises made to them.Agri-marketing should be leftto the states as envisaged in theConstitution,” the party said.

Congress again questioned

as to why the ModiGovernment is trying to finishoff MSP. “Both the Agricultureminister and the PM are sayingthat MSP will continue butwhen mandis will be finished,who will give MSP? Will FCI(Food Corporation of India) goto farmers’ fields to give MSP?”Prime Minister Narendra Modisays now farmers can sell pro-duce anywhere, 86.2 per centfarmers own less than six acresof land and 60 per cent own lessthan two acres of land. Howcan such poor farmers haveaccess to far-off markets,”Surjewala said. He was joinedby his party colleagues andParliamentarians GauravGogoi, Rajeev Satav, JasbirSingh Gill, Hibi Eden, and

Amar Singh.Surjewala further asked

the Centre, “How will smallfarmers fight for rights againstmega corporate?” “WhenAPMC act will no longer bethere, how will small farmers,mandi workers and trans-porters earn their livelihood?The mandi fees helps develop-ment in villages,” Surjewalasaid also announcing for thejoint agitation against the deci-sion. AICC sources said thatagitation being planned withother parties can be both phys-ical and virtual.

Accusing the Congress ofdoublespeak, the BJP has beenpointing out that the opposi-tion party itself had in its man-ifesto for 2019 Lok Sabha elec-

tions proposed the abolition ofAPMC Act and making agri-cultural produce free fromrestrictions.

But former Haryana ChiefMinister Bhupinder SinghHooda said his party will movea resolution against the legis-lations when the assembly ses-sion is convened. Talking toreporters later, Hooda saidHaryana farmers are facing anexistential crisis due to thethree “black laws”, which will“take away” the protection pro-vided to them. It is importantthat all parties raise their voicein the interest of the State’sfarmers, he said, adding thatthey will not allow the imple-mentation of the legislations inHaryana.

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Following the agreementbetween External affairs

minister S Jaishankar and hisChinese counterpart Wang Yion September 10 to defusetension at the Line of ActualControl (LAC) at the earliest,the next round of militarylevel talks will see India urgingsimultaneous disengagementand de-escalation. The CorpsCommander-level talksbetween the two armies arelikely to take place in the nexttwo to three days.

The Indian stance during

the forthcoming military leveltalks was discussed at greatlength for more than 90 min-utes in the China StudyGroup(CSG)meeting chairedby National Security AdvisorAjit Doval here on Friday,sources said. The top defencebrass including Chief ofDefence Staff(CDS)GeneralBipin Rawat took part in thecrucial meeting, they added.

The two commanders LtGeneral Harinder Singh andMajor General Liu Lin haveheld five rounds of parleys sofar since June 6 but no signif-icant improvement took place

on the ground. The last roundwas held on August 2 when itwas agreed to disengage andde-escalate.

However, China did nothonour the commitment andin fact tried to unilaterallyalter the LAC in south bank ofthe Pangong Tso(lake)onAugust 29 and 30. The aggres-sive action was thwarted by theIndian army.

Moreover, both the sides inthe last fortnight fired morethan 200 rounds in the air onat least four occasions therebyincreasing tension at thealready volatile border.

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Sudarshan TV, which is fac-ing legal proceedings in the

Supreme Court, has moved anapplication seeking a live tele-cast of the hearing of the plea,which has raised a grievanceover its “Bindas Bol” pro-gramme, the promo of whichhad claimed that the channelwould air a “big expose on theconspiracy to infiltrate Muslimsin government service”.

On September 15, the topcourt had restrained the chan-nel from telecasting theepisodes of “Bindas Bol” tillfurther orders, saying that “theintent” of the episodes “primafacie” appeared to “vilify” theMuslim community.

The application filed bySudarshan News through itsdirector and editor SureshChavhanke said, “It is respect-

fully submitted that the presentcase is one of the most impor-tant cases concerning the pub-lic at large as the question offreedom of press protected byArticle 19(1)(a) of theConstitution of India isinvolved.”

It said crores of viewers ofthe channel want to knowabout the legal proceedingsand hear the points of argu-ments being raised by the par-ties.

“Direct for a live telecast ofthe proceedings of this casethrough audio-visual broad-casting/telecasting universallyby an official agency as thecourt may deem fit and prop-er,” the application said.

A bench comprising jus-tices D Y Chandrachud, InduMalhotra and K M Joseph willtake up the matter for hearingat 12 noon.

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Fifteen more Covid-19 patients died here in Jammu &Kashmir while 1,330 new cases of coronavirus were

reported taking the total tally of active positive cases to20,770 and the total number of deaths to 966 on Friday.

Compared to Kashmir valley, the situation is worrisomeacross Jammu region as no district remains untouched withthe spread of the virus in the last two weeks.

The hilly districts of Doda and Kishtwar and twin bor-der districts of Rajouri and Poonch are recording spike innumber of cases due to blatant violation of social distanc-ing norms and ignorance over use of face masks in public.

Several social gatherings in the region were directlylinked to spread of the virus in remote areas of the hilly dis-tricts. Meanwhile, situation across Jammu hospitals remaingrim. Large number of patients from the periphery arereaching GMC, Jammu for admission and when they failedto get hospital bed or admission in the isolation ward thecaretakers show their resentment as chaos is prevailing inthe hospital premises.

According to the media bulletin, 672 cases were report-ed from Jammu while Kashmir region recorded 658 cases.Out of fifteen deaths, 10 patients died in Jammu and fivein Kashmir valley on Friday. Out of 20770 active positivecases, Jammu region accounted for 11823 patients whileKashmir reported 8947 cases. Out of 966 deaths, 757 werereported from Kashmir and 209 from Jammu region.

A total number of 39,305 patients have recovered so faracross Jammu & Kashmir.

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The forecasts made by ChiefMinister Pinarayi Vijayan and

Health Minister KK Shylaja early thismonth is coming true in Kerala as thenumber of persons diagnosed withCovid-19 continued to surge ahead onFriday too. The last 24 hours saw theState identifying 4,167 new patientsacross Kerala out of which 3, 849 per-sons contracted the disease throughsocial contact.

The death toll in the State touched501 by Friday evening as theDepartment of Health confirmed that12 persons succumbed to the pan-demic. Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, CPI(M)State Secretary who addressed themedia earlier in the day blamed theopposition BJP and the Congress forthe surge in the Covid-19 cases.

“The demonstrations and ralliesstaged by the BJP and the Congress

across Kerala were with the intentionof sabotaging the good works beingdone by the CPI(M)-led Government.They threw to the wind all safety pro-tocols and restrictions like wearingfacemasks and maintaining social dis-tancing,” Balakrishnan said whilespeaking to the press after the StateSecretariat meet.

Thiruvananthapuram districttopped the table with 926 new patientson Friday while Kozhikode diagnosed404 patients. Except in Wynadu districtwhich diagnosed 68 new cases, all dis-tricts registered high numbers ofpatients. The medical fraternity in theState is upset over the ever increasingnumber of health workers who con-tract the pandemic. On Friday 102health workers were diagnosed withCovid-19. As on Friday, there were 35,724 Covid-19 patients in the State. OnFriday, 3,282 persons were admitted tohospitals across the State.

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Even as the CPI(M) State Secretary KodiyeriBalakrishnan alleged about a BJP-Congress con-

spiracy to derail the Kerala Government, the Centralinvestigating agencies, probing the gold smuggling,import of Quran and violation of protocols by aMinister, said that the Intelligence Wing of the KeralaPolice was spying on them.

“Telephones of senior investigating officials arebeing tapped by the State Intelligence Wing report-ing directly to the Chief Minister. They are keepingan eye on all out activities in the gold smugglingprobe, Quran import case and drug trafficking probe,”a senior official in the investigating team told ThePioneer on Friday. He said though he or other offi-cials in the team are not familiar with the nuancesof telephone tapping, it is a truth that the State offi-cials were resorting to all kinds of dirty tricks to keeptrack of the progress they make in the investigating.The Intelligence Bureau is closely following the activ-ities of their Kerala counterparts.

“It is routine and characteristic of the CPI(M)to ensure that their people are guarded and protectedfrom the investigation. They feel that we do not knowof their antecedents. Swapna Suresh and her associ-ate were taken to the Thrissur Medical CollegeHospital so that they could communicate with herthrough the mobile phones of the hospital staff. Aminister (A C Moideen) reaching the hospital at thattime was not a coincidence,” said the official.

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The CPI(M) on Friday allegedthat there was a deep-rooted

conspiracy by the BJP and theCongress against the Governmentof Kerala and the current unrestseen in the State is a proof of thissecret plan.

“The BJP and the Congresswant to sabotage and derail theKerala Government led by theCPI(M). A conspiracy has beenhatched by the Sangh Parivar andthe Congress to murder Minister KT Jaleel. The attacks on the officialcar of the Minister on Thursday bythe BJP elements is proof of thisplan,” said Kodiyeri Balakrishnan,CPI(M) Kerala secretary during apress meet at the capital city onFriday.

Balakrishnan was addressingthe media after Friday’s StateSecretariat meet of the CPI(M). Hesaid there was nothing unusual inthe National Investigation Agencysummoning Jaleel to their office.“The NIA in its letter of invitationsent to Jaleel has said that the agencywould like to speak to him as a wit-

ness. But the Congress and the BJPare blowing it out of proportion,”said the Secretary who se sonBineesh Kodiyeri too had beeninvited by the EnforcementDirectorate recently. Balakrishnansaid that the BJP and the Congresswere on a massive drive to recruitgoondas to eliminate the CPI(M)cadre and the State Government hasall the documentary evidence. “TheCongress is organizing ‘get togeth-ers’ of its goonda elements acrossKerala. The BJP is also doing thesame thing,” he said.

The State Secretariat in itsmeeting concluded that the Centrewas deliberately denying and delay-ing the financial dues meant for theState. “ The Congress is upset overthe general impression that theCPI(M) would come back to powerin the 2021 Assembly election andthat party is staring at a bleak future.Irrespective of the attitudes of theBJP and the Congress, the CPI(M)is going ahead with its developmentagenda for the welfare of the peo-ple,” said Balakrishnan whileexplaining the decisions taken in theSecretariat meeting.

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Maharashtra for the secondconsecutive day on Friday, as440 more deaths were report-ed in the state, while 21, 656more people tested positivefor Coronavirus.

A day after staggering 468deaths were reported in thestate, Maharashtra logged 440more deaths on Friday, takingthe total number of deaths to31,791.

Of the 440 deaths record-ed on Friday, 405 deaths werereported today while 35 olddeaths were added to the tallyafter the updation of the Covid-19 portal.

With 21,656 fresh infectedcases, the total number ofinfections jumped from

11,45,840 to 11,67,496.Of the total 440 deaths

(including 35 old deaths)reported on Friday, Nagpuraccounted for a maximum of64 fatalities, while there were52 deaths in Mumbai, 39 inPune, 34 in Satara, 32 inThane, 21 each in Ahmednagarand Sangli, 16 each in Nashikand Jalgaon, 12 each in Solapur,Aurangabad and Latur and 11deaths in Kolhapur and 10 inYavatmal.

Similarly, in the lowerrange, there were 9 deaths inRaigad, 7 in Beed, 6 inSindhudurg, 5 in Palghar, 4each in Nanded and Gondia, 3each in Dhule, Parbhani andWashim, 2 in Osmanabad andone each in Jalna, Hingoli,Akola, Amravati and Buldhana.In addition, two from outsidethe state died in Maharashtra.

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Media, particularlytelevision, coverageof Sushant SinghRajput’s suicide — Iwill call the manner

of his death so until established oth-erwise — and its aftermath hasraised questions. Avoiding themutually accusatory statementsthat have been doing the rounds, Iwould rather focus on some of thedeeper issues involved. The first iswhether the extent of coverageextended to it is justified.

The event, doubtless, was mosttragic. A young man, who has givenmuch to Indian cinema, and couldhave given more, has been cut shortin his prime. The unnatural natureof his passing, the allegations andcounter-allegations ranging over it,the controversy about who shouldinvestigate it, the Centre’s decisionto put the CBI in charge, theSupreme Court’s verdict endorsingthe transfer and the subsequentdevelopments, certainly meritedmedia coverage. But did it have totake up huge chunks of prime-timecoverage on most channels sinceJune 14 when the alleged suicideoccurred?

The question is relevant whenthe country is facing a seriousthreat of Chinese aggression, a rag-ing and escalating COVID-19 pan-demic and an economy in crisis —to mention three of the mostimportant challenges. The argu-ment that these are also receivingattention raises the question: Is theattention of the deserved qualityand extent? The question can becountered by two arguments. First,any answer, in the negative or affir-mative, will involve a large measureof subjective judgement and, hence,cannot be regarded as definitive.The second can be that viewerswant the kind of coverage provid-ed.

As to the first, all judgments onall issues are subjective in thesense that whatever the quality ofthe evidence, a person or a groupmust assess it and come to a con-clusion. The assessment is by indi-viduals who have their ownpredilections and orientations,which they may or may not be ableto overcome. But then, a societywould not have been able to func-tion if it did not proceed by accept-ing as valid judgements that, underthe normative criteria embedded inits underlying social contract,passed the tests of rationality andmorality.

Here, rationality dictates thequestion: Whether Rajput’sdeath and its sordid aftermathhas greater relevance to thelives of the country and its peo-ple than the Chinese aggression,the COVID-19 pandemicand/or the economic crisis?One can argue that the after-math’s importance can hardly beunder-stated because it is lead-ing to the unravelling of theBollywood drug network, whichin turn may lead to the eradica-tion of the drug trade’s tentaclesthroughout the country. Againstthis, one has the Union Ministerof State G Kishan Reddy’s writ-ten reply to a question by aCongress MP, K Sudhakaran, inthe Lok Sabha on September 15stating, “Narcotics ControlBureau (NCB) carries outsearch, seizure, arrest and inves-tigation continuously through-out the year on the actionableinputs developed on its ownand/or on receipt from othersources. During the period ofCOVID-19 lockdown, no suchactionable inputs were receivedby the NCB revealing the nexusbetween people in the filmindustry and drug traffickers.”He, however, added, “However,a case in this regard has beenregistered by NCB Mumbaizonal unit on August 28, 2020.Till date, in this case 10 personshave been arrested. Drugs suchas Ganja, Hashish, Tetra HydroCannabinol and Lysergic acidDe-ethylamide have been seizedin the operation.”

Clearly, one has to see whatthe NCB produces. Until then it

would be a bit too much to citethe possibility of its unearthinga pan-India drug racket to jus-tify the massive coverage givento the train of events followingRajput’s death. This leads to thesecond justification cited above:Viewers want it. This may betrue given that the titillation andvoyeuristic pleasure that a verylarge number of people getfrom watching the lives ofcelebrities unscramble or theaftermath of a shocking tragedyunfold.

The mere fact that peoplewant to see something does notmake it acceptable. Time waswhen nothing was consideredwrong with masses assembled inRome’s Colosseum roaring inapplause as a gladiator killedanother or a lion. Even now,many in Spain are happy to wit-ness bullfights in which mata-dors kill bulls in unequal com-bat, and thousands participate injallikattu in South India inwhich bulls suffer horribly.

Clearly, popular participa-tion or viewing does not by itselfjustify an event or its extensiveand approbatory coverage —especially when it diverts atten-tion from critical issues facing acountry and trivialises discoursein what the German socialphilosopher, Jurgen Habermas,calls the “public sphere.” The lat-ter, he states in The StructuralTransformation of the PublicSphere (1962), is a virtual orimaginary community whichdoes not necessarily exist in anyidentifiable space. In its idealform, the public sphere is “made

up of private people gatheredtogether as a public and articu-lating the needs of society withthe state.” It is a space where pri-vate individuals discuss publicmatters, which mediatesbetween society and the state,leading to a critical consensustranslating itself into a coherentpublic opinion, which makes thestate accountable to citizens.

The media has a critical rolein providing information for dis-cussion in the public sphere. It,however, also has a responsibil-ity to ensure that investigationsproceed along right lines.Investigating and prosecutingagencies charged with deliveringcriminal justice are known tomake mistakes and even frameinnocent persons, often whenunder pressure to solve a crime.This writer’s decision to becomea journalist has been significant-ly influenced by his witnessing,as a school student in the early1950s, the film Call Northside777. Directed by HenryHathaway, it was based on thereal life efforts by a Chicago DailyTimes reporter, James McGuire,undertaken at the behest of thecity editor, Karin Walsh, that ledto the release of Joseph Majczek,wrongly convicted of murderinga police officer and serving a 99-year prison term.

One, however, must proceedwith extreme caution. Pressureson investigative agencies to pro-duce results can make probes gohorribly wrong, leading to pro-longed, rough interrogation,arrest and prosecution of inno-cent people whose lives are dev-

astated in the process even if thejudiciary exonerates them in theend. The matter reminds one ofthe title of Malcom Feeley’smuch-discussed book, TheProcess is the Punishment:Handling Cases in a LowerCriminal Court, first publishedin 1979. Doubtless, the bookdeals with lower criminal courtsin the US and not India. Also, weare talking here not just aboutlower criminal courts but theentire process. It can be a longhaul, involving expenses in theform of lawyers’ fees and trans-port, time spent in preparations,which often involves time takenoff from income-generatingactivities and, of course, stressand worry.

Should a person, eventuallyproved innocent, have beenmade to suffer all this becausemedia pressure led to him/herbeing pronounced guilty? Thisdoes not mean that investigativejournalism should not extend tocases under investigation. But itdoes mean scrupulous obser-vance of the canons of fair playand integrity and two cardinalprinciples of democratic, liber-tarian jurisprudence, wedded torespect for human rights.

The first is enshrined inArticle 11(1) of the UniversalDeclaration of Human Rightsadopted by the United Nationsin 1948. It reads, “Everyonecharged with a penal offence hasthe right to be presumed inno-cent until proved guilty accord-ing to law in a public trial atwhich he has had all the guar-antees necessary for his defence.”

It is also incorporated in TheEuropean Convention for theProtection of Human Rights,originally Convention for theProtection of Human Rights andFundamental Freedoms, whichcame into force on 3 September1953. It states in Article 6(2),“Everyone charged with a crim-inal offence shall be presumedinnocent until proved guiltyaccording to law.”

The famous English jurist,William Blackstone, articulatedthe second principle when hewrote in Commentaries on theLaws of England, “..all presump-tive evidence of felony should beadmitted cautiously, for the lawholds that it is better that tenguilty persons escape than thatone innocent suffer.” BenjaminFranklin, one of the foundingfathers of the United States,went further and said, in a let-ter in March,1785, “That it isbetter 100 guilty Persons shouldescape than that one innocentPerson should suffer, is a Maximthat has been long and general-ly approved.”

Journalists should remem-ber both, always.

(The writer is ConsultantEditor, The Pioneer, and author)

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migrants, who have not been ableto articulate their plight.

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Sir — The ongoing investigationinto the Delhi riots of February2020 has begun to assume a far-cical character. The focus of the

investigation has shifted from theperpetrators of the riot and itsinstigators and turned towardsonly civil society dissenters andprotesters of Government poli-cies. In effect, the conspiratorialnet has been cast so wide as tocapture anyone who opposed theCitizenship (Amendment) Act(CAA), be it a student activist,political leader or voluntaryworker. The investigation must

be thorough, fair and transpar-ent, and deemed as such.

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matter of national security. AnEnglish newspaper report saidthat a company associated withthe Chinese Government and themilitary is monitoring theInternet and social media activ-ities of about 10,000 distin-guished Indians and their closeones. It is clear from this thatalong with strategic and econom-ic aggression, the digital breachis also a part of China’s hybridwar against India. Along with theexpansion of information tech-nology and the Internet, theissue of data security is a matterof grave concern.

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Responding to the pandemic, the Reserve Bankof India (RBI) had “permitted” banks to grantmoratorium on payment of instalments of

term loans due after March 1 up to August 31. Asimilar dispensation was “allowed” on recovery ofinterest on working capital. The moratorium wasinitially permitted up to the end of April and 55.1per cent of customers of Scheduled CommercialBanks (SCBs), accounting for 50 per cent of out-standing credit, had availed this facility. In PublicSector Banks (PSBs), 80.3 per cent of all individ-ual customers, accounting for 80 per cent of totaloutstanding individual loans, opted for the mora-torium. A whopping 74 per cent of Micro, Smalland Medium Enterprise (MSME) borrowers and28.8 per cent of corporate borrowers, covering 81.5per cent and 58 per cent (by outstanding amountin category loans), availed the facility.

For private banks, 41.8 per cent of individualcustomers, accounting for 80 per cent of outstand-ing individual loans, and 20.9 per cent of all MSMEcustomers opted for moratoriums, comprising 42.5per cent of outstanding loans to MSMEs. About 21.6per cent of corporate borrowers, covering 19.6 percent of total outstanding corporate loans, had availedthe facility.

The Supreme Court has extended the morato-rium and the Central Government has appointedan expert panel to look into the issue. Exactly howmany loans accounts and what loan amount is undermoratorium are not known. Some borrowers mayhave decided against seeking the moratorium facil-ity due to uncertainty about relief on interest. Hadthe interest relief been announced upfront, almostall borrowers would have instantly opted for themoratorium, except possibly for borrowers tooproud of their financial standing to seek any relief.

Since the verdict of the apex court was not avail-able by August 31, it was the borrowers’ call to takea wager on the verdict and decide whether to optfor a moratorium or not. It is unclear if the relief,if and when granted, would be available only tothose availing of the moratorium. Overall, the sys-tem lacks incentives for those remaining fully com-pliant while the non-compliant people may hopeto get some relief. Had the interest relief been a mat-ter of legal right under the Banking Regulation orDisaster Management Acts, it would have beenthrough by now. The Disaster Management Act(DMA), empowering the Government to takeimmediate relief and rescue measures, cannot beover-read to give it unfettered powers to deal withthe full economic fallout of the disaster. It certain-ly does not empower the Government to alter termsof private contracts on jobs, rentals, sales, lendingand so on. That explains why the tone and tenorof parts of the “orders” issued under the DMA isnot peremptory, prescriptive, definitive but indica-tive, persuasive and advisory in nature. Hence, legal-ly binding orders regarding timely payment of fullsalaries, non-recovery of rent and school fees andso on could not be issued for this reason. Appealsto good conscience is a different matter.

Likewise, the Banking Regulation Act (BR Act)would by itself not confer any rights on the RBI tomandate any alteration in individual contractsentered into by the banks unless supplemented withlegal remedies under the Securitisation andReconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcementof Securities Interest Act (SARFAESI Act) or theInsolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC).Appropriately, the RBI has “permitted” grants ofmoratorium while extending regulatory forbearanceon recognition of the non-performing asset (NPA).The BR Act does not empower the RBI to mandate

changing loan terms already contracted.Loan contracts can be changed only onthe orders of insolvency courts.Mandatory moratorium requires morethan the BR Act.

There are no free lunches in econom-ics except those paid for by others. If bor-rowers get interest relief during themoratorium period, bank investors anddepositors would stand to lose unlesscompensated by the Government, like ithappens in farm loan waivers. Charity atothers’ expense is systemic. Relief to bor-rowers at the expense of depositors is akinto relief to consumers ending up suppress-ing remunerative market prices for farm-ers.The bank depositors are also adverse-ly impacted by the pandemic-induced fallin interest rates that stand to benefit newborrowers as well as the borrowers whoare able to refinance high-cost old loans.The post-outbreak rate cuts and liquidi-ty infusion by the RBI, aided by rising for-eign exchange reserves, has caused a pre-cipitous fall in interest rates. Some areoffering record-low home loan interestrates under seven per cent per annumwith new products of repo-linked homeloans on offer. Low interest rates bringcheer to borrowers but gloom to depos-itors.

There are no fiscal guarantees todepositors on minimum interest rates andthe IBC haircuts have been too costly insome cases. When corporate borrowersget a tax reduction bonanza, they don’tshare the booty with lenders as they arenot obliged to. When farm loans arewaived, Governments provide fiscal sup-port to banks but at present the Centredoes not seem able and willing to com-pensate the banks for interest relief.

In the absence of fully disaggregat-ed data on different types of loans undermoratorium, a back-of-the-envelopequantification of the impact of interestrelief can be �1 lakh crore per month,

assuming interest relief to be about oneper cent per month on total pre-pandem-ic outstanding credit of about �100 lakhcrore. Even direct fiscal relief to the gen-eral population is not of this magnitude.

Financial stakes on the SupremeCourt’s verdict are very high. The inter-est relief has been sought from the high-est court of justice precisely because it isnot a legal right. The golden balance ofjustice is being watched by distressed bor-rowers and anxious depositors. All bor-rowers are not equally distressed by thepandemic. Some differentiating criterionbased on quantum of liability outstand-ing on March 1 and purpose of loan(whether educational; for first home/caror second one, for the EconomicallyWeaker Section or affordable housing,past credit history) and proven impact ofthe contagion on income can be evolvedto give relief to a truly needy class of bor-rowers. The relief even to this subsetshould not be entirely a burden on bankdepositors. Ideally such relief is best pro-vided by governments under fiscal stim-ulus paid by taxpayers, current or future.

The need to maintain the health ofbanks can hardly be overemphasised.Deep-rooted socio-cultural beliefs stigma-tising indebtedness (indebted personembarrassed and lenders reviled ) contin-ue to change worldwide.

Post World War, the wheels of growthare lubricated by the continuous supplyof credit. India joined the borrow/spendbandwagon in the 80s. Lending byScheduled Commercial Banks rose from�8,64,300 crore (30 per cent of the GrossDomestic Product [GDP]) at the end ofMarch 2004 to �67,35,200 crore at the endof March 2014 (60 per cent of the GDP).At present, bank lending is only about 50per cent of the GDP.

As on July 31, the total deposits ofSCBs were �141,61,689 crore (�127,44,583crore a year ago); outstanding credit was

�102,65,888 crore (�97,29,002 crore a yearago) and investments were �42,78,294crore (�35,57,063 crore a year ago). Thecombined effect of risk aversion of banksto lend and predominantly domesticfinancing of fiscal deficit is that only abouttwo-third of deposits get lent to non-Government entities.

We have made great strides in termsof expanding the reach of banking ser-vices and financialisation of savings buthigh-profile delinquencies by those whocan afford to pay continue to eclipse theseachievements.

The gross NPA of SCBs that hadpeaked to 11.2 per cent in 2017-18 hasbeen brought down to 8.5 per cent byMarch. This achievement is at great costto bank investors/depositors on accountof hefty haircuts following not-so-com-petitive slump sales of distressed compa-nies under the conventional, single roundbidding system being followed under theIBC. The RBI has assessed that the grossNPA of all SCBs may increase from 8.5per cent in March to 12.5 per cent byMarch 2021 and even to 14.7 per cent ifthe adverse economic impact of thepandemic is very severe. Seeing theplight of forecasting tools, the economicfallout of the contagion is hard to predictand measure.

Since bank lending is only about 50per cent of the GDP and post-pandem-ic recovery would require a heavy doseof credit, it is imperative to maintainincentives for financial savings.

Erosion of bank profitability runs therisk of dire consequences of de-finacial-isation or informalisation of savings,derailing the hard-won recovery. Thebanking system needs calibrated supportto prevent relapse into transmitted sick-ness.

(The writer is a retired IAAS officerand former Special Secretary, Ministry ofCommerce and Industry.)

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It is disconcerting that every sec-ond child in India suffers someform of nutritional failure in India.

Over the years, Government data haveborne witness to how many people,especially women and children, donot get three square meals in a day.Worryingly, the potential disrup-tions caused by the lockdown maymake the varied forms of malnutri-tion a lasting reality. However, thelaunch of the Government’s flagshipprogramme ‘POSHAN Abhiyaan’,seems to have made some headway,with an ambitious target of achievinga malnutrition-free India by 2022.

It also aims to reduce stunting inchildren aged between zero and five

years from 38.4 per cent to 25 per centduring the same period, along withreducing the level of anaemia and lowbirth weight in children.

With inter-sectoral convergencebeing the key strategy, the pro-gramme makes a shift from the exist-ing approach of making planning andimplementation the responsibility ofone Ministry. Instead, it rightly notesthe various critical components ofsuccess and makes ‘POSHANAbhiyaan’ a multi-ministerial initia-tive. While the Ministry of Womenand Child Development acts as thenodal office, the Ministry of DrinkingWater and Sanitation is responsible forthe Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM)that ensures cleanliness and hygieneand the Ministry of Education isresponsible for the Mid-Day MealScheme (MDMS).

Two other Ministries, that ofHealth and Family Welfare and theone responsible for RuralDevelopment, are looking after healthprogrammes such as Mission

Indradhanush for immunisation cov-erage and rural income schemes, suchas MNREGA, respectively. The LPGdistribution scheme by the Ministryof Petroleum and Natural Gas enabledsafe and hygienic cooking in under-privileged households.

But will India accept malnutritionas everyone’s problem? The copiousfund allocation for the ‘POSHANAbhiyaan’ and its increase in the pastthree years have shown theGovernment’s sincerity in taking themission to its intended conclusion.From �950 crore in 2017-18, the cur-rent allocation for the ‘POSHANAbhiyaan’ reached a sum of �3,400crore for the financial year 2019-20.However, the potential challenge canbe bringing social and behaviouralchange towards malnutrition at thecommunity level. Ensuring equitablenutrition to build a healthier nationwill require the following.

Eating local and seasonal food:This comprises a part of the trendknown as “sustainable eating” and has

been proven to be an economicalsolution to the food crisis globally.This saves time and the cost of trans-portation while promoting the use offewer preservatives. Such food itemsare also suitable to fulfil the nutrition-al needs of the people in a way thatis commensurate with the local envi-ronment.

The concept of introducingkitchen gardens in schools to fulfilsome part of the requirements underthe MDMS is an innovative step. Inthe coming days, introducing moresteps, such as promotion of local,nutritious millet and crop diversifica-tion to promote traditional millet willbe the right steps to complement thisongoing effort. Recent studies haveobserved that investing $1 in nutri-tion-related interventions will haveeconomic gains of about $19 to $22.

Addressing intrinsic social andcultural biases: In his paper‘POSHAN Abhiyaan: MakingNutrition a Jan Andolan’, NITI Aayogmember Vinod K Paul and co-

authors observe that despite theProhibition of Child Marriage Act,2006 mandating the legal age ofmarriage at 18 for girls, 30 per centof them are married before that ageand eight per cent are already preg-nant by the time they are 15-19 yearsof age. Facing intra-household depri-vations due to their sex and abjectpoverty, these young girls often foregonecessary nutrition, care, and rest evenduring their pregnancy, thus deliver-ing low birth weight babies. Forthese babies, the cycle of malnutritionhas already begun, they note.

This long-standing social biasdeepens with socio-economicnuances. For example, in tribal house-holds, the overall amount of food isanyway low and the men, by tradition,get the larger share of it, consideringthe physical labour they must under-take. A male child may get less to eatthan his father, but is likely to get morethan his mother, grandmother or sis-ter. There is a need to free nutritionfrom the perceived requirement of the

receiver. Disseminating a scientifical-ly-validated diet chart according to ageand sex to the Panchayat level can helpin spreading awareness and helphouseholds modify their practices.

Clear and visible measures forbetter accountability: Owing to thepossible institutional leakages,Government initiatives should bemonitored by some metric foraccountability. For this, an enhancedinformation and process system iscrucial. Monitoring, surveillance, andevaluation remain critical to allGovernment initiatives not only tofirm up the people’s trust but for bet-ter outcomes as well. Understandingground-level realities will not onlyenrich policymakers’ understanding,it may help in building a positive per-spective among beneficiaries aboutpublic interventions. Public consulta-tions, surveys among beneficiariesand social audits are some of the mosteffective ways to do this.

Building a case against hiddenhunger: Few realise that malnutrition

is not exclusively a rural phenomenon.Many people, especially children, inthe cities, too, suffer from malnutri-tion, albeit of a different kind. Sincea good part of their diet is filled withrefined and finished items, not tomention the large amounts of salt,sugar and trans-fat they consume, thechildren lack micronutrients such asiron and zinc. Traditional crops andmillet, marked as nutri-cereals thatshould have been part of our diet, arefast becoming a favourite of the edu-cated and wealthier part of the soci-ety. However, as companies produc-ing fast-moving consumer goodslook to the rural market to revive fromthe economic effect of the pandem-ic, it is important to ensure that ruralconsumers do not acquire the habitsof cities. The onus is on theGovernment to ensure that the learn-ings from the cities reach the villagesbefore it is too late.

(The writer is Associate Professor,Health Economist, IIHMR University,Jaipur)

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BEML 636.2 653.9 631 648.75RAYMOND 284.3 288 279.1 282.6PGHL 5398.05 5467.2 5246 5271.15BAYERCROP 5945.75 6527.15 5889 6368.75CANBK 100 100.35 98.25 98.6PCJEWELLER 15.2 15.55 15.05 15.15SOBHA 252.65 265 250.2 256.4SAIL 38.25 38.65 37.75 37.85HEG 765 773.95 750.05 759.95PIIND 2041.1 2048 1992.5 2037.6AVANTI 523.3 530.6 516.9 520.05PAGEIND 19019 19174.8 18571 18660.7JINDALSAW 71 71 67 67.35PNBHOUSING 332.5 337.85 331.85 335.35GLAXO 1785.45 1785.45 1661.25 1698.95COLPAL 1414 1414 1364 1372.95SOUTHBANK 7.05 7.12 6.92 6.95PHILIPCARB 124 130.7 124 126.4NMDC 89.95 89.95 86.45 86.95PTC 50.8 51.2 49.7 50.7FDC 359.65 367.55 352.4 357.75BANKINDIA 45.75 45.75 44.1 44.35MFSL 630 630 606.55 609.95INTELLECT 216.6 223.4 210.2 213.9PETRONET 235 236 226.6 228EIDPARRY 313.5 313.5 300 301.55NOCIL 133.15 136.25 131.25 131.95BERGEPAINT 565 583 565 578.4MARICO 365.5 365.5 356.6 362.5ALKEM 2850 2930.55 2828.1 2856.8PFC 95.95 95.95 92.25 93.35TATAMTRDVR 66 67 64.3 65.75BAJAJHLDNG 2493.05 2620 2483.15 2591.4GMRINFRA 24 24.5 23.75 23.95ABBOTINDIA 16550 16680 16444.35 16512.9ABFRL 136.95 136.95 132.45 133CONCOR 391.5 396 387.8 389.4CGCL 215.05 235.4 215.05 230.7AMBUJACEM 222 222.9 217.2 219.9HEXAWARE 453 460.9 453 458.35TV18BRDCST 32.75 33.2 31.65 32.2RECLTD 109 109.3 107 108SHREECEM 19995 20100 19410 19512.7ERIS 535.5 552 520 538.8RVNL 20.9 21.55 20.75 21.35BOMDYEING 69.15 69.45 67.2 68.05TATACOMM 886 898.85 843.65 854.05NILKAMAL 1335 1360.65 1306 1310.6SUZLON 3.24 3.24 3.08 3.11GRAPHITE 182.9 186.85 179.3 181.95NAM-INDIA 281.95 283.2 275.7 279.6ADVENZYMES 250.55 254 243.5 250.95COROMANDEL 825 825 798 810.55UNIONBANK 27.55 27.7 26.65 26.85CHAMBLFERT 154 157.95 153.85 156.8RITES 257 258.9 251.7 255.25JSWENERGY 59.05 61.5 58.9 60.9FINCABLES 292.05 298.95 289.5 294.15PERSISTENT 1173 1199.75 1156.1 1182.3OBEROIRLTY 413.9 442.3 412.45 429.4HINDZINC 215.9 220 212 213.55SBILIFE 863.2 863.2 845.75 847.9GPPL 76.05 90.6 76.05 89.95SWANENERGY 116.3 120.15 114.9 116.1FORCEMOT 1170 1193.95 1158.95 1164.6UJJIVAN 228.25 228.25 217.6 223.8ISEC 478 495.05 476 478.7MIDHANI 205 209.4 204 205.7ECLERX 772.2 780.2 744.85 774.75STRTECH 165 165 155.4 156.4ENGINERSIN 70.2 70.25 68.25 68.95CCL 272 282 265.55 279.4IDFC 32.35 33.3 31.25 32.1ITI 130.8 133 128.3 130.2EDELWEISS 71.95 71.95 67.6 67.7SUNTECK 283 296.6 280.05 285.1RATNAMANI 1285.2 1294.65 1244.15 1259.8CASTROLIND 119.45 120.35 116.6 119.2IBREALEST 59.5 61.5 58.25 60.35SANOFI 8750 8915 8386 8478.3HSCL 53.55 54.7 51.9 52.3HONAUT 34014.35 34014.35 32546.1 32792.1RALLIS 312 316 298.5 300.9NCC 33.6 33.75 32.4 32.8DCBBANK 94 94 89.5 92.65GODFRYPHLP 935 953 935 949.15CEATLTD 959.95 967.25 953.1 957.9FINOLEXIND 545 546.85 527.5 542.45KALPATPOWR* 263.95 264.15 252.55 254.25ADANITRANS 264.7 265.25 256.05 258.1HFCL 15.5 15.65 14.5 14.6BBTC 1431 1444.1 1380 1393.6KTKBANK 44.15 44.9 42.2 42.75IDBI 38 38 37 37.1WHIRLPOOL 2181 2203 2105 2118.3DALBHARAT* 800 806.2 762 768.3APLAPOLLO 2738 2772.95 2650.05 2703.25NESCO 591 600 569.5 596.25COCHINSHIP 350 350.2 343.05 344.2ASTERDM 137.35 147.5 137.35 145.6VARROC 325.9 328 315 318.25BALMLAWRIE 111.15 114 108.05 112.5KAJARIACER 530 534 503.4 514.1TRIDENT 6.85 6.9 6.8 6.85IRCON 89 90.7 87.5 89.1ABCAPITAL 71 71.65 69.35 69.85ZYDUSWELL 1920 1927 1878.85 1902.2EQUITAS 54.5 55.2 53.5 54.8REPCOHOME 170.85 177 166.25 167

PHOENIXLTD 633 643 629.2 641.35SOMANYCERA 188.5 191.75 175.1 185.4SYMPHONY 871 919.2 869.9 909.5INDOCO 285 289.9 266.85 269.9DEEPAKFERT 165.95 166.75 162.45 164.8GSPL 207.15 214.35 205.1 209.7ALKYLAMINE 3340 3390 3271 3340.3TATACOFFEE 112.25 112.75 108.8 111.65SPICEJET 52.2 52.6 51.25 51.5GSFC 62.7 62.7 59.35 60.5AIAENG 1755 1909 1749 1878.75RELAXO 678.1 679.9 655.6 674.75BASF 1529.95 1550 1500.8 1512.4NBCC 25.95 26.35 25.7 25.75INDHOTEL 101.5 102.3 99 100.4FCONSUMER 9.78 9.78 9.51 9.56VBL 720 720.6 690 699.85IRB 120.05 120.35 115.35 116.43MINDIA 19005 19005.55 18450 18724.55HUDCO 34.5 34.8 32.55 32.85JYOTHYLAB 150.85 154.5 150.1 153.4THERMAX 770 788.65 745 780.05GICRE 134.45 134.45 128.2 129.15VAIBHAVGBL 1815.45 1895 1798.95 1889.7KEI 369 374.05 366 372.2VGUARD 176.2 177.7 170.95 172.7BLUEDART 2775.05 2880 2698 2764.1REDINGTON 117 121 117 118.8MINDAIND 351.2 359.6 349.7 351.45CRISIL 1795.3 1837.45 1706 1730.85IFBIND 653 668.6 628.35 632.2OMAXE 68.1 68.35 64.65 67.35WABCOINDIA 6029.95 6044 5905 5990.8GUJALKALI 341.5 352.9 338.3 349.9PARAGMILK 102.15 104.2 98.9 101.35METROPOLIS 1952.85 1967 1848.35 1869.35TIMKEN 1145 1153.4 1090.1 1099.25CROMPTON 281.3 285.3 275.85 279.65UJJIVANSFB 34.15 34.75 33.6 34.3OIL 94.95 97.8 94.95 96.35SFL 1570 1575 1518.9 1530.85NHPC 20.65 21.55 20.55 21.25ABB 923.15 923.15 895 901.15GALAXYSURF 1960 1998.9 1923 1989.6SUPREMEIND 1423.4 1457.9 1365 1420.95JKPAPER* 96.6 97.8 94.5 96.95EMAMILTD 375.05 386.45 363.1 369.9TATAINVEST 877.4 910 866.55 882.65PRESTIGE 263.15 266.45 252.2 254.2UCOBANK 13.56 13.56 13.06 13.11VSTIND 3618 3710 3581.3 3688.7POLYCAB 899 899 867.1 877.3TAKE 47.8 48.85 46.5 46.8TTKPRESTIG 6195.25 6350 6195.25 6308.8WELSPUNIND 59.75 61.5 59 60.8ENDURANCE 1144.55 1156.65 1125 1143.8LUXIND 1411.45 1431 1394.25 1405.3BALRAMCHIN 159.35 161.45 159 160.15DBL 374.95 377.4 354.2 357.05TORNTPOWER 334.75 334.9 323.55 325.35GODREJAGRO 525.8 534.9 513.3 528.4BLUESTARCO 657 685 627 635.65VMART 2139.35 2160 2084.25 2136.05JKLAKSHMI 272.15 276 266.45 273.5RAMCOCEM 758.8 762.8 738.55 741.9SCHNEIDER 80 81.35 79.35 79.45LTTS 1672.65 1680.05 1639 1672.55HIMATSEIDE 89.15 92.4 86.15 90.55J&KBANK 17.1 17.1 16.05 16.35ASHOKA 70.6 72.4 69.75 71.85VENKYS 1465 1480.9 1440.5 1443.85VTL 815.4 815.4 765 785.4ORIENTREF 198.95 200.6 193.6 194.55SCI 56 58.25 55.6 57.8PGHH 10017.55 10017.55 9856 9908.95IIFL 88.95 89.9 86 87.25INDOSTAR 306 309.85 291.2 303.45GRSE 181.05 187.7 181.05 182.15ADANIPOWER 37.15 37.7 37.05 37.4KEC 350 354.15 333.4 341MRPL 29.5 29.6 28.75 28.85THYROCARE 815.45 819.55 793 806.8NBVENTURES 60 61.75 59.35 59.95SHK 85.65 87 84.85 86.3MAHABANK 12.5 12.61 12.22 12.26GESHIP 255.1 265 245.05 249.5ASTRAL 1179 1179.9 1117 1125.95BAJAJELEC 506 512.65 488.35 492.8JAICORPLTD 90.65 91 88 88.4JKTYRE 60.4 61.9 59.8 61.6FORTIS 135.35 135.6 131.8 133.25SOLARINDS 1050 1105 1038 1079.4CARBORUNIV 280 280.5 270.2 273.1INOXLEISUR 291 296.65 283.95 286.95PRSMJOHNSN 59.7 60.4 58 59.25CUB 143.75 145.2 142 143.8INDIANB 62.2 62.65 60.25 60.5GILLETTE 5550 5599 5533.55 5554.65MAHSEAMLES 234.9 242.6 234.15 236GMDCLTD 45.75 45.9 44.3 45.45GODREJIND 408.45 416.4 406.5 407.85ORIENTELEC 215.4 215.4 200.1 203.9HINDCOPPER 37.75 37.85 36.3 36.5LAOPALA 226.6 231.4 220.7 224SUNDRMFAST 429.4 442 407.95 417.35ALLCARGO 120.5 122.4 119.2 119.45SKFINDIA 1557.5 1571.4 1523.5 1539.9CREDITACC 732.8 735 717.35 725.4CHOLAHLDNG 442.45 448 425.5 431.7

GEPIL 465.15 475.8 462.7 463.8CHENNPETRO 79.9 79.9 75.75 76.2UFLEX 334.7 338 332.9 334.3SJVN 24 24 23.35 23.5JMFINANCIL 83.4 83.4 81.2 81.95TEAMLEASE 2420.05 2454.95 2355.05 2374.7JTEKTINDIA 83.9 84 81.15 81.75BRIGADE 181.85 181.85 170.6 174.85TCIEXP 881.25 881.9 862.9 866.35KRBL 281.5 283.75 276.8 278.6NIACL 109 114.6 108.9 113.3TIINDIA 651 663 625.6 640.9MINDACORP 73.5 73.5 71.85 72.35RCF 47.3 47.55 46.75 46.9CENTURYPLY 187.5 187.5 180.65 184IFCI 6.7 6.77 6.52 6.58MAHLIFE 248.5 250 241.35 243.15MOTILALOFS* 659.8 664.6 646.2 649.05KANSAINER 522.45 527 508.2 510.4ZENSARTECH 192.3 194.25 184.95 186.2TATAMETALI 531 559.95 531 553.55KPRMILL 658.4 665.3 633.5 637TVTODAY 223.5 231.35 221.1 223.55TNPL 111.7 112.1 110.05 110.55DCMSHRIRAM 388.7 393 377.2 389.9GREAVESCOT 78.85 80 77.8 78.2NLCINDIA 53.1 53.1 51.2 51.65JKCEMENT 1583 1605 1549.8 1555.1JSLHISAR 94.55 95.75 91.15 91.45HEIDELBERG 189.55 190.6 184.7 189.3VRLLOG 166.75 168.3 165.1 166.9KNRCON 266.25 271.95 264.05 269.25GARFIBRES 2000 2021.85 1980.55 1996.7TIMETECHNO 41.55 41.55 39.55 39.85ORIENTCEM 63 63 62 62.4SHANKARA 371.6 371.6 360 360.8LEMONTREE 29.1 29.1 28.1 28.3CSBBANK 226.25 229.5 222 223.55AKZOINDIA 2104.4 2174.4 2088.05 2152.15POWERINDIA 944.05 955 938 947.2MHRIL 184.8 184.8 179 179.3WESTLIFE 390.05 403.3 387.25 394.25SUPRAJIT 180.95 182.25 179.55 180TCNSBRANDS 393.65 398.15 391.4 395CARERATING 390.3 397.95 380.1 382.85GDL 91.75 94 88.45 89.45PNCINFRA 172.1 172.1 168.35 169.1ARVINDFASN 135.7 136.25 132 132.35TVSSRICHAK 1480 1515.9 1475 1480.45JSL 44.9 45.15 43.55 44GHCL 171 171 163.2 163.9MASFIN 867.25 877.75 851.25 859.05ITDC 265 266.05 257 258.55GULFOILLUB 672 677 655.05 658.35SPANDANA 578.45 578.45 563.85 569.25AAVAS 1407.4 1407.4 1380 1397.3STARCEMENT 90.4 91.35 88.2 88.7MAHLOG 331 348 331 345.05NAVNETEDUL 82.45 83 81.55 81.95MMTC 18.3 18.35 17.95 18.05IIFLWAM 977.95 992.8 957 973.55MAHSCOOTER 3038.1 3070 3018.75 3053.9IOB 10.1 10.16 10.04 10.07LAXMIMACH 3695.55 3735 3660 3686.1MAHINDCIE 131.8 131.8 121.4 122.85CENTRALBK 16.25 16.3 15.7 15.8JCHAC 2301.8 2306.55 2263.9 2266.1GET&D 100 101.9 98.8 99SCHAEFFLER 4029.35 4039 3822.25 3843.45MOIL 147.45 149.55 146 148.5SIS 369.05 385 365.5 382.1SHOPERSTOP 170.35 172 169.3 169.75HATHWAY 32.9 33.85 32.55 33HERITGFOOD 352 352.15 340.2 346FLUOROCHEM 528 536 525.45 531.95TASTYBIT 11907.95 11907.95 11400 11455.6JAGRAN 38.25 39 38.25 38.45KSB 530 530 521.4 527.35GRINDWELL 556.15 559.15 546.05 547.7SHRIRAMCIT 975.7 980 966.85 971.45CERA 2480.2 2482.85 2418.6 2424.2DBCORP 79.25 79.95 76.95 77.35ESABINDIA 1392 1400.2 1370 1371.55

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SCRIP OPEN HIgh LOW LTP CHANGENIFTY 50 11,584.10 11,584.10 11,446.10 11,504.95 -11.15DRREDDY 5,000.00 5,496.95 4,950.25 5,306.00 478.75CIPLA 780 819.3 776.15 804.9 53.4ADANIPORTS 348.7 359.8 347.1 359.1 13BHARTIARTL 483 497.65 475.3 496.85 17.85M&M 640 659.4 634.55 654.95 18.15GRASIM 727.95 748.65 724.65 744.5 19.8TECHM 793 808.8 788 807.9 20.95NTPC 89.05 91.1 88.7 90.9 2.25SUNPHARMA 517.45 535 515 523.85 11.85HINDALCO 177.45 182.2 176.55 179.4 3.55WIPRO 314 319 312.25 317.25 5.55POWERGRID 169.1 173 167.3 170.95 2.65HEROMOTOCO 3,080.00 3,121.85 3,075.10 3,109.00 48ONGC 73.8 74.8 72.95 74.25 1.1ASIANPAINT 2,026.30 2,044.35 2,015.00 2,037.85 29.9UPL 530.9 540 529.05 538.25 7.7GAIL 91 93.45 90.8 91.9 1.15INFRATEL 198 200.75 195.3 198.3 1.9ULTRACEMCO 3,983.90 4,019.40 3,950.00 4,007.05 38.1BAJAJ-AUTO 3,023.10 3,070.00 2,996.00 3,038.90 19.7AXISBANK 444.55 449.3 436.05 445.55 2.65ITC 179.55 179.85 177 179.5 0.9JSWSTEEL 285.3 293.55 284.45 288.1 1.25EICHERMOT 2,160.00 2,203.80 2,135.20 2,153.25 7.8NESTLEIND 16,250.00 16,250.00 15,925.00 16,160.00 38.65HCLTECH 808.3 824 804 810 1.7RELIANCE 2,314.25 2,319.45 2,276.55 2,303.60 4.85TATAMOTORS 148.7 150.5 146.25 147.75 0.1BAJFINANCE 3,491.40 3,503.80 3,429.00 3,470.65 -1.3ICICIBANK 370 374.65 364.55 368.85 -0.15TCS 2,485.00 2,500.40 2,436.40 2,457.50 -3.45INDUSINDBK 622.95 624.65 600 616.2 -1.15BRITANNIA 3,837.70 3,839.75 3,774.85 3,804.00 -11.65TATASTEEL 402.1 405.65 393.4 396.6 -2.1ZEEL 223.4 226.65 219.2 219.75 -1.35BPCL 420 422.9 409.6 413 -2.6HDFC 1,752.90 1,754.75 1,708.30 1,732.60 -11.75HDFCLIFE 594 594.8 583.5 587.8 -4.05LT 911.2 914.1 897 899.65 -6.65INFY 1,011.00 1,018.80 999.1 1,003.40 -7.6COALINDIA 125.25 125.25 122.9 123.35 -0.95IOC 82.6 82.85 80.25 80.8 -1SBIN 196 197.2 189.7 192.95 -2.5HINDUNILVR 2,120.00 2,127.55 2,090.00 2,099.00 -29.2TITAN 1,185.00 1,201.50 1,157.35 1,162.40 -20MARUTI 7,148.00 7,149.00 6,931.60 6,956.75 -129.1KOTAKBANK 1,313.10 1,314.00 1,262.50 1,281.00 -24.1BAJAJFINSV 6,040.05 6,060.00 5,862.45 5,896.00 -111SHREECEM 19,915.00 20,108.55 19,399.50 19,490.75 -397.65HDFCBANK 1,092.00 1,092.20 1,047.20 1,058.90 -24.7

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New Delhi:Beginning Monday,Indian customs authorities willstrictly scrutinise documentsprovided by importers claimingduty benefits under free-tradeagreements, a move aimed atcurbing serious misuse of theconcessions under these pacts,finance ministry sources said.

Importers will now have toprovide sufficient proof to thedomestic customs authoritiesthat the goods being importedhave a minimum 35 per centvalue addition in the countryfrom which it is being exportedto India, they said.

"It will be the responsibilityof importers to ensure that thegoods being imported by themshould have been only manu-factured or produced on the for-eign countries and minimum 35per cent value addition have

taken place in those countries,"the sources said.

For example, if a mobile isexported from, say, Indonesia toIndia, then it would qualify to beof Indonesian origin only ifsuch mobile is made significantlyin Indonesia and 35 per cent ofits value is contributed by thatcountry. The move assumes sig-nificance in the backdrop of con-cerns being raised by certainquarters of the domestic indus-try about misuse of free tradeagreement (FTA) benefits from10-member ASEAN countries.

The importer has to possessall documentary proof to provethat the 35 per cent value addi-tion requirement has been metand showing a mere 'certificateof origin' provided by the export-ing country to Indian importerwould not suffice. PTI

Mumbai: India Ratings andResearch has revised its outlookon the banking sector to 'neg-ative' from 'stable' for 2HFY21.

The ratings agency Ind-Rasaid this revision was done inview of an expected spike instressed assets, higher creditcosts, weaker earnings onaccount of interest reversalsand lower fee income, andmuted growth prospects.

Even the capital buffersfor most public sector banks(PSBs) remain modest, it said.

As per Ind-Ra's bear case,the spike in stressed assets dueto the pandemic is expected todouble the credit costs forbanking system than estimat-ed pre-Covid-19 levels forFY21.

Consequently, Ind-Ra

revised the rating outlook onPSBs to 'negative' for 2HFY21.

"PSBs' modest capitalbuffers are expected to depletefurther in FY21, due to provi-sioning requirements. Also,pre-Covid profitability expec-tations for FY21 would bebelied and most banks arelikely to report net losses," theagency said in a statement.

"They may also need tocontinue to build-up their pro-vision cover in FY22 forrestructured assets as some ofthe restructured assets couldturn NPA in FY23. PSBs' couldrequire INR350 billion-550 bil-lion in 2HFY 21 for Tier-1 ratioof 10 per cent. Covid-19 orcontingent provisions are muchlower than that for privatebanks." IANS

New Delhi: Retail inflationfor farm workers and rurallabourers cooled down to 6.32per cent and 6.28 per cent,respectively, in August com-pared to the year ago periodmainly due to the softening ofprices of some food items. Point-to-point rate of inflationbased on the CPI-AL(Consumer Price Index-Agricultural Labourers) andCPI-RL (Consumer PriceIndex-Rural Labourers) was6.39 per cent and 6.23 per centrespectively in August 2019, thelabour ministry said in a state-ment.

Inflation based on foodindex of CPI-AL is at 7.76 percent and of CPI-RL at 7.83 percent in August 2020 comparedto 7.27 per cent and 6.98 percent, respectively, in the same

month last year.Among states, the maxi-

mum increase in the CPI-ALand CPI-RL was experiencedby West Bengal State (27 pointsand 28 points respectively)mainly due to rise in the pricesof wheat-atta, pulses, mustard-oil, milk, chillies-green, ginger,country liquor, firewood, bidi,meat goat, fish dry, bidi, busfare, vegetables and fruits etc.

The maximum decreasein CPI-AL and CPI-RL wasexperienced by Kerala (6 pointsand 8 points respectively)

mainly due to fall in the pricesof pulses, coconut oil, chillies-dry, onion, fish fresh etc. Labour Minister SantoshGangwar said, "The continuedsoftening of inflation in suc-cession for seven months maybe mainly attributed to therelief measures announced bythe government to help poorpeople including labourers dur-ing the COVID-19 pandemic."The increase in the index willhave a positive impact on thewages of millions of workersworking in the unorganizedsector in rural areas."Director General LabourBureau D S Negi said, "LabourBureau has been able to bringout the monthly indices as perthe pre-defined schedule con-sistently even during the toughtime of COVID-19." PTI

Hong Kong: Investmentbetween the United States andChina tumbled to a nine-yearlow in the first half of 2020, hitby bilateral tensions that couldsee more Chinese companiescome under pressure to divestUS operations, a research reportsaid. Investment, both directinvestment by companies andventure capital flows, betweenthe two countries fell 16.2% to$10.9 billion in January-Junefrom the same period a year ear-lier - also hurt by the coronaviruspandemic, according to figuresfrom consultancy RhodiumGroup and the NationalCommittee on US-ChinaRelations, an NGO. That's a farcry from half-yearly totals ofnearly $40 billion seen in 2016and 2017. Flows are unlikely torecover this year, regardless of theoutcome of the U.S. presidentialelection, the report said.

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Mumbai: Equity benchmarksnursed losses for the secondconsecutive session on Friday asinvestors offloaded banking,finance and consumptionstocks amid mixed global cues.

The BSE Sensex, whichopened on a firm footing, cameunder fag-end selling pressureand closed at 38,845.82, down134.03 points or 0.34 per cent.

Similarly, the broader NSENifty slipped 11.15 points or0.10 per cent to finish at11,504.95. HDFC Bank wasthe top loser among the Sensexconstituents, skidding 2.39 percent, followed by Kotak Bank,Bajaj Finserv, Maruti, Titan,SBI, HUL, HDFC and TataSteel.

Bharti Airtel led the gain-

ers' list with a jump of 3.73 percent. M&M, NTPC, TechMahindra, Sun Pharma,PowerGrid and ONGC wereamong the other winners,climbing as much as 2.72 percent. During the week, theSensex dropped 8.73 points or0.02 per cent, while the Niftyadvanced 40.50 points or 0.35per cent. PTI

New Delhi: Although festiveseason demand may providesome temporary relief to the autoindustry in the next two-threemonths, the continued dispro-portionate wholesale billings byoriginal equipment manufactur-ers could lead to increased stressfor dealers if uptake is lower thanexpected, according to a report.

In its latest report on the

auto sector, India Ratings andResearch (Ind-Ra) on Fridaysaid retail sales are likely to con-tinue to lag behind wholesalesales in September 2020 althoughthe sector has reported a month-on-month rise in sales over May-August 2020 after the washout inApril. "After an above-averageacreage backed by adequatemonsoon, the prospects of a

robust kharif harvest have orig-inal equipment manufacturers(OEMs) hoping for a retaildemand revival from the ruralside during the upcoming festiveseason," the ratings agency saidin a statement. It added that salesare likely to remain sluggish inSeptember, especially on theretail side, "due to the inauspi-cious period of Shraadh".

New Delhi:Indian fan manufacturers on Thursday sought lowerGST rate at 5 per cent on fans, saying the existing 18 per centtax is "adversely" impacting the industry. The lower GST (goodsand services tax) slab would make the fans a promptly accessi-ble commodity for everyone by increasing grass-root level pen-etration, exceptionally in rural India, the Indian FanManufacturers Association (IFMA) said in a statement after itsvirtual Annual General Meeting. The fan industry lost around35 per cent of its annual sales due to the outbreak of COVID-19 this year during the peak sale period, causing huge financiallosses for fan companies, said the association. PTI

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Russia has approved R-Pharm’s Coronavir treat-

ment for outpatients with mildto moderate COVID-19 infec-tions and the antiviral drugcould be rolled out to phar-macies in the country as soonas next week, the company saidon Friday.

Coronavir’s approval as aprescription drug follows thegreen light for another RussianCOVID-19 drug, Avifavir, inMay. Both are based on favipi-ravir, which was developed inJapan and is widely used thereas the basis for viral treatments.

R-Pharm’s announcementis another sign Russia is push-ing hard to take a global leadin the race against the virus. Itis already exporting itsCOVID-19 tests and hasclinched several internationaldeals for supplies of its Sputnik-V vaccine.

R-Pharm said it receivedapproval for Coronavir afterPhase III clinical trials involving168 patients with COVID-19.

Washington: The United Stateson Friday ordered a ban ondownloads of popular Chinese-owned video app TikTok anduse of the messaging and pay-ment platform WeChat, sayingthey threaten national security.

The move, to be imple-mented Sunday, comes amid ris-ing US-China tensions andefforts by the Trump adminis-tration to engineer a sale ofTikTok to American investors.

“The Chinese CommunistParty has demonstrated themeans and motives to use theseapps to threaten the nationalsecurity, foreign policy, and theeconomy of the US,” CommerceSecretary Wilbur Ross said in astatement.

The initiative would banWeChat, an app with massiveuse among Chinese speakers,and TikTok from the onlinemarketplaces operated by Appleand Google.

But while WeChat will effec-tively be shut down from Sundayin the US, existing TikTok user

will be able to continue using theapp until November 12 -- whenit would also face a full ban onits US operations.

But the CommerceDepartment said if nationalsecurity concerns over TikTokwere resolved before then, theorder may be lifted.

TikTok’s brand of brief,quirky videos made on users’cellphones has become hugelypopular, especially among youngpeople.

The plan follows through ona threat by President DonaldTrump, who has claimedChinese tech operations may beused for spying, and it ramps upthe pressure on TikTok parentByteDance to conclude a deal tosell all or part of TikTok to allayUS security concerns.

A deal which appeared to betaking shape would allow SiliconValley giant Oracle to becomethe tech partner for TikTok, butsome US lawmakers haveobjected to allowing ByteDanceto keep a stake. AFP

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Hong Kong’s high court onFriday ruled that same-sex

couples should receive equaltreatment under inheritancelaw, in a step forward for LGBTrights in the finance hub.

But the victory came on thesame day as a separate legal bidfor full recognition of foreignsame-sex marriages was struckdown, underscoring what cam-paigners say is a lack ofprogress on equality issues.

Hong Kong’s law does notallow same-sex marriage anddoes not recognise foreignunions, though limited recog-nition has been granted inrecent years in several land-mark rulings.

Edgar Ng, a gay HongKonger, last year launched alegal challenge against the city’sinheritance and intestacy laws,alleging discrimination on thebasis of sexual orientation.

In 2018 he bought a gov-

ernment-subsidised flat, a yearafter marrying his partner inLondon, according to courtdocuments.

Under Hong Kong’s hous-ing policy, his husband cannotbe recognised as the jointhomeowner, and Ng was con-cerned that should he die with-out a will, his property wouldnot be passed to his partner.

In the judgement handeddown Friday, Judge AndersonChow said the exclusion ofspouses in same-sex marriagesfrom their legal entitlements“constitutes unlawful discrim-ination”.

The judge said “differentialtreatment is not justified”.

LGBT rights activists withcampaign group Hong KongMarriage Equality described theruling as an “important victory”.

“The government shouldseize this opportunity to workwith the LGBT+ community toimplement marriage equality inthe city,” the association said.

Taipei: China’s military sent 18planes including fighter jetsover the Taiwan Strait in anunusually large show of force onMonday as a US envoy held aday of closed-door meetingson the self-governing islandclaimed by China.

Under Secretary of StateKeith Krach, who handles theeconomic growth, energy andthe environment portfolio, heldtalks with Taiwan’s minister ofeconomic affairs and vice pre-mier. He also met with businessleaders over lunch and was todine with President Tsai Ing-wenlater Friday.

In response to Krach’s visit,the Eastern Theater Commandof the Chinese People’sLiberation Army held combatexercises near the Strait, in atleast the second round of wargames this month aimed atintimidating supporters of the

island’s independent identity.Taiwan’s defense ministry

said two bombers and 16 fight-er jets from China crossed intoTaiwan’s air defense identifica-tion zone. It said it scrambled jetsin response and monitored themovements of the Chineseplanes. Chinese defense ministryspokesperson Ren Guoqiangcalled the drills a “legitimate andnecessary action taken inresponse to the current situationacross the Taiwan Straits tosafeguard national sovereigntyand territorial integrity.”

“Recently, the U.S. And(Taiwan’s ruling) DemocraticProgressive Party authoritieshave stepped up their collusionand frequently stir up troubles,”Ren told reporters Friday morn-ing.

“Whether it is using Taiwanto contain China or relying onforeign powers to threaten oth-ers, it is wishful thinking and isdestined to be a dead end.” In abrief message on its microblog,the Eastern Theater Commandsaid the exercises involved navaland air force units in the TaiwanStrait aimed at gauging theirability to carry out joint opera-

tions.China’s Ministry of Foreign

Affairs also defended the move.Ministry spokesman WangWenbin said China has the“firm will, full confidence andsufficient ability to thwart allexternal interference and sepa-ratist actions by Taiwan inde-pendence forces.” Beijing viewsTaiwan as part of its own terri-tory and strongly opposes anytype of formal interactionbetween other countries and theself-ruled island democracy.

Krach’s trip follows a visit inAugust by U.S. Health SecretaryAlex Azar, the highest-level U.S.Cabinet official to visit since theU.S. Switched formal relationsfrom Taiwan to China in 1979.

It is one of a series of movesby the Trump administration tostrengthen relations withTaiwan, including stepped-uparms sales and support for theisland’s participation in inter-national forums.

Before Krach’s arrival, theU.S. Ambassador to the UnitedNations, Kelly Craft, had lunchWednesday with Taiwan’s topofficial in New York, in a meet-ing she called historic. AP

Beijing: Thousands of peoplein northwest China have test-ed positive for a bacterial dis-ease after a leak from a state-owned biopharmaceutical plantmaking animal vaccines lastyear.

Health officials in Lanzhoucity said 3,245 people had con-tracted brucellosis, a diseaseoften caused by close contactwith infected animals or animalproducts that can bring aboutfevers, joint pain andheadaches.

Another 1,401 people test-ed as an early positive for thedisease, and health authoritiessaid there was no evidence ofperson-to-person transmissionso far.

Chinese authorities found a biopharmaceuticalplant had used expired disin-fectant in its production ofBrucella vaccines for animalsbetween July and August lastyear — meaning the bacteriawas not eradicated in its facto-ry exhaust. AFP

Pristina: Kosovo awarded USPresident Donald Trump onFriday with one of the country’shighest honours for his gov-ernment’s efforts on peace andreconciliation in the formerwar-torn region.

President Hashim Thaciawarded Trump with Kosovo’sOrder of Freedom “for hisexceptional contribution forthe freedom of Kosovo and thestrengthening of Peace andreconciliation in the region.”

The honour is given tolocal and foreign citizens fortheir high contribution indefending Kosovo’s freedom.

Trump’s administration hasbeen working to normaliserelations between Serbia andKosovo, two former Balkanwar foes, and two weeks agoSerbian President AleksanderVucic and Kosovo PrimeMinister Avdullah Hoti signedan economic normalisationdeal at the White House.

Thaci also awarded Trump’sNational Security AdviserRobert O’Brien and his envoyfor Serbia-Kosovo talks RichardGrenell with the lowerPresidential Medal of Merits. AP

Houston: Sitting across fromher lawyer at an immigrationdetention center in ruralGeorgia, Mileidy CardenteyFernandez unbuttoned her jailjumpsuit to show the scars onher abdomen. There were threesmall, circular marks.

The 39-year-old womanfrom Cuba was told only thatshe would undergo an opera-tion to treat her ovarian cysts,but a month later, she’s still notsure what procedure she got.After Cardentey repeatedlyrequested her medical recordsto find out, Irwin CountyDetention Center gave hermore than 100 pages showinga diagnosis of cysts but noth-ing from the day of the surgery.

“The only thing they toldme was: ‘You’re going to go tosleep and when you wake up,we will have finished,’”Cardentey said this week in aphone interview.

Cardentey kept her hospi-tal bracelet. It has the date, Aug.14, and part of the doctor’sname, Dr. Mahendra Amin, agynecologist linked this weekto allegations of unwanted hys-terectomies and other proce-dures done on detained immi-grant women that jeopardizetheir ability to have children.

An Associated Press reviewof medical records for fourwomen and interviews withlawyers revealed growing alle-gations that Amin performedsurgeries and other procedureson detained immigrants that

they never sought or didn’t fullyunderstand. Although someprocedures could be justifiedbased on problems document-ed in the records, the women’slack of consent or knowledgeraises severe legal and ethicalissues, lawyers and medicalexperts said.

Amin has performedsurgery or other gynecologicaltreatment on at least eightwomen detained at IrwinCounty Detention Center since 2017, including one hysterectomy, said Andrew Free,an immigration and civil rightslawyer working with attorneysto investigate medical treat-ment at the detention center.Doctors on behalf of the attor-neys are examining new recordsand more women are comingforward to report their treat-ment by Amin, Free said. AP

Washington: An Indian-American federal judge hasturned down an appeal by 169Indian citizens who had chal-lenged President DonaldTrump’s order that barred for-eign nationals on H-1B spe-cialty occupation visas fromentering the US till the end ofthe year.

The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows UScompanies to employ foreignworkers in speciality occupa-tions that require theoretical or

technical expertise. The tech-nology companies depend onit to hire tens of thousands ofemployees each year fromcountries like India and China.

US District Judge Amit PMehta of US District Court forthe District of Columbia in his11-page order on Wednesdaysaid that Indian citizens, whoare now trapped abroad duringtrips to India when bordersclosed, are unlikely to win theircase contesting the travel banproclamation of Trump. PTI

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United Nations: The UNSecurity Council on Fridaywelcomed the start of theAfghanistan PeaceNegotiations in Doha andstrongly encouraged the partiesto continue pursuing confi-dence-building measures,including reduction in vio-lence and to continue to engagein good faith.

In a statement, the 15-member powerful organ of theworld body reaffirmed itsstrong commitment to the sov-ereignty, independence, terri-torial integrity and nationalunity of war-torn Afghanistan.

“The members of theSecurity Council recognisedthat a sustainable peace can beachieved only through a com-prehensive and inclusiveAfghan-led, Afghan-ownedpeace process that aims at apermanent and comprehen-sive ceasefire as well as aninclusive political settlement toend the conflict inAfghanistan,” it said.

They “strongly encouragedparties to the negotiations tocontinue pursuing confidence-building measures includingreductions in violence and tocontinue to engage in goodfaith.”

The Council reaffirmed theimportance of the UN’s role inpromoting peace and stabilityin Afghanistan and welcomedthe efforts of all regional andinternational partners ofAfghanistan in facilitating intra-Afghan negotiations and inhelping the parties reach peace.

The Security Council mem-bers also thanked the govern-ment of Qatar for facilitating thefirst round of negotiations.

The first-ever direct talksbetween the Afghan govern-ment representatives and theTaliban began on September 12.

Negotiators from theAfghan government and theTaliban will hold talks as partof intra-Afghan negotiations inDoha to bring a lasting peaceto Afghanistan. PTI

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The three-week lockdown, which began at 2 PM (1630 IST),will require the closure of many businesses and set strict limitson movement and public gatherings. The closures coincide withthe Jewish High Holidays, when people typically visit their fam-ilies and gather for large prayer services.

In an address late Thursday, Prime Minister BenjaminNetanyahu warned that even stricter measures may be neededto prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed. There are currentlymore than 46,000 active cases, with at least 577 hospitalised inserious condition.

It could be that we will have no choice but to make the direc-tives more stringent,” Netanyahu said.

I will not impose a lockdown on the citizens of Israel for noreason, and I will not hesitate to add further restrictions if it isnecessary.

Under the new lockdown, nearly all businesses open to thepublic will be closed. People must remain within 1 kilometer ofhome, but there are several exceptions, including shopping forfood or medicine, going to work in a business that’s closed tothe public, attending protests and even seeking essential pet care.

Israel has reported a total of more than 175,000 cases sincethe outbreak began, including at least 1,169 deaths. It is nowreporting around 5,000 new cases a day, one of the highest percapita infection rates in the world.

Israel was among the first countries to impose sweeping lock-downs this spring, sealing its borders, forcing most businessesto close and largely confining people to their homes.

That succeeded in bringing the number of new cases downto only a few dozen per day in May.

But then the economy abruptly reopened, and a new gov-ernment was sworn in that was paralyzed by infighting. In recentmonths authorities have announced various restrictions only tosee them ignored or reversed even as new cases soared to recordlevels.

The occupied West Bank has followed a similar trajectory,with a spring lockdown largely containing its outbreak followedby a rise of cases that forced the Palestinian Authority to imposea 10-day lockdown in July. The PA has reported more than 30,000cases in the West Bank and around 240 deaths.

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Harsimrat Kaur Badal, an Akali Dal MP whoresigned from the Prime Minister’s Cabinet onThursday over the farm Bills, said she hasopposed the ordinance and requested it to aselect committee.

The Congress said any move to “disturb” thepresent procurement system may deepen “socialunrest” amongst farmers of the state”.

“We urge upon the Government to reviewand reconsider these measures as these areunlikely to deliver on the promises made tothem. Agri-marketing should be left to the statesas envisaged in the Constitution,” the party said.

Breaking his silence after his resignation asa Minister last year, the cricketer-turned-politi-cian Navjot Singh Sidhu described farming asthe “soul of Punjab”. In a tweet in Punjabi, hesaid, “Farming is the soul of Punjab, thewounds of the body can heal but an attack onour spirit, our existence will not be tolerated. Thewar trumpet says Inqilab Zindabad, Punjab,Punjabiyat and each Punjabi are with the farm-ers.”

The three Bills will now be tabled in theRajya Sabha and become laws after the UpperHouse also passes them. The Bills seek to openup the farm sector to more competition, mod-ernise supply chains by allowing bigger agribusi-nesses to engage directly with farmers and cre-ate seamless access to markets.

Critics, including Opposition parliamen-tarians, however, said the Bills will dilute thecountry’s public procurement system and leadto exploitation by private companies. The Billshave already been passed by the Lok Sabha,where the ruling alliance has a brute major

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lowed by the nation,” the Prime Minister saidreferring to the bills to “free” farmers passed bythe Lok Sabha.

On Thursday when the Lok Sabha passedtwo agriculture bills, Leader of the CongressAdhir Ranjan Chowdhury had, however, madea counter point saying condition of Biharfarmers turned “worse” after deregulation in theState and at the same time he said farmers inthe regulated States of Punjab and Haryana faredbetter.

Referring to the Kosi rail bridge, the PrimeMinister again credited it to Nitish who he saidas Railway Minister started it and now givenextraordinary connectivity to many areas of the

State. Modi inaugurated the 1.9 km ‘KosiMahasetu’ (mega-bridge) along with 12 otherrailway projects across Bihar. The mega bridgehas been a much-awaited project for the peo-ple of Kosi and Mithilanchal regions who havewaited for 86 years.

Modi said Bihar created history today in rail-way connectivity with the launch of “KosiMahasetu” and “Kiul Bridge” along with dozenother projects which will contribute to Railwayelectrification, promoting Make in India inRailways and more job creators.

“I would like to quote some facts about thespeed with which work is being done onBihar’s Railway network. Before 2014, only 125crore new railway lines were started in Bihar.Whereas in the following 5 years, nearly 700 kmof railway lines have been commissioned,” saidthe Prime Minister, adding the State would wit-ness similar progress in the power sector in com-ing days. Bihar is to go to polls in October-November.

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Google, in a blog post earlier on Friday, hadsaid it does not allow apps facilitating sports bet-ting and will remove such apps from the Playstore.

These policies are in place to protect usersfrom potential harm, it added.

“We don’t allow online casinos or supportany unregulated gambling apps that facilitatesports betting. This includes if an app leads con-sumers to an external website that allows themto participate in paid tournaments to win realmoney or cash prizes, it is a violation of our poli-cies,” the blog post said.

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Digvijay’s elder brother and Deputy ChiefMinister Dushyant and Khattar held a meetingin the backdrop of the developments in bothPunjab and Haryana where farmers have repeat-edly taken to the streets against the farm Bills,which they have dubbed as “anti-farmer”.

They have expressed apprehension that thepassage of these Bills would pave the way for thedismantling of the MSP system and leave thefarming community at the “mercy” of big cor-porates.

On the meeting between Khattar andDushyant, Digvijay said the two held discussionson a range of issues, including the steps to betaken to ensure smooth crop procurement in the

upcoming season. The lathicharge on farmersalso figured in the discussions, he said withoutelaborating.

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“The charges will be nominal and will beapplicable in about 10-15 per cent of the 7,000railway stations across the country. We are goingto keep a very small amount for the user charge.We will issue a notification for the user chargefor all stations including both those that are get-ting redeveloped and those that are not,” thechairman had said.

Indian Railways had in July formally kick-started its plans to allow private entities to oper-ate passenger trains on its network by invitingrequests for qualifications (RFQ) for participa-tion on 109 pairs of routes through 151 mod-ern trains, the national transporter said.

The Railway Board had also formed anempowered group of secretaries in October lastyear that was headed by Niti Aayog CEOAmitabh Kant, to chalk out the modalities of thebidding process and take other decisions to fast-track awarding of bids to private players.

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As many as 33,489 COVID-19 patients haverecovered in the city so fare, including 970 dis-charged in the last 24 hours. At present, 10,044active cases are undergoing treatment in Covidhospitals or in home isolation.

Gomti Nagar remained the largest con-tainment area in Lucknow with 68 more test-ing positive there, followed by 65 in Indiranagar,57 in Alambagh, 52 at Rae Bareli road, 49 inJankipuram, 47 in Chowk, 42 in Thakurganj,41 in Hazratganj, 37 each in Aliganj andMadiaon, 37 in Vikas Nagar, 36 in Ashiyana, 34in Chinhat, 32 each in Talkatora and Hasanganj,30 in Mahanagar, 27 in Krishnanagar, 23 inCantonment, 21 in Bazaarkhala, 18 at Faizabadroad, 17 each in Gomti Nagar Extension andSushant Golf City, 14 in Gudamba, and 10 eachin Sarojininagar and Kakori.

The contact surveillance teams collected7,829 samples in he district.

Meanwhile, 6,584 people tested positiveacross the state, taking the count of confirmedcases to 3,42,788 on Friday evening, even as thedeath toll mounted to 4,869 with 98 more peo-ple succumbing the deadly virus.

On the positive side, the number of COVID-

19 patients who recovered in the last 24 hourswas more than the fresh cases on Friday. Asmany as 2,70,094 people have recovered acrossthe state, including 6,806 discharged in the past24 hours and at present 67,825 active cases areundergoing treatment.

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The airline announced that it had intro-duced additional flights to Sharjah to accom-modate passengers who had already bookedtheir flights to Dubai, and also given them optionto re-book on a future date.

Five flights, each to Kozhikode, Delhi,Mumbai, Kannur and Thiruvananthapuran, hadbeen rescheduled for this purpose,

The latest case happened on board a Jaipurto Dubai flight on September 4. Besides, theDCAA also penalised Air India Express to bearall medical and quarantine expenditures of theCOVID-19 positive patients who have been fer-ried to Dubai.

The world’s biggest T20 league has beenmoved out of India due to the COVID-19 pan-demic and will be played in the UAE. The firstIPL match is scheduled to be held betweenMumbai Indian and Chennai Super Kingsfrom Saturday in Dubai.

As per the UAE Government rules, eachpassenger travelling from India needs to bringan original COVID-negative certificate from theRT-PCR test done 96 hours prior to the jour-ney.

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“Who is this Himachal ka chokra (boy) whois abusing our leaders? He is abusing Nehru andthis guy was not born during Nehru’s time. Hemust apologise,” declared Congress LeaderAdhir Ranjan Chowdhury.

TMC’s Kalyan Banerjee accused Lok SabhaSpeaker Om Birla of showing “softness and par-tiality” to BJP, leading to the first adjournmentat 4pm. The House was adjourned for 30 min-utes and chaos continued when the Houseassembled up to 6pm.

After the fourth adjournment with each 30minutes deferring, Thakur apologised for hiscomments and House started the debate onSupplementary Grants from 6pm.

“My aim was not to hurt anybody with mywords. I am pained if my words hurt anybodyhere,” said Thakur.

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The pandemic and the lockdown; thatfollowed shortly after, gave us amoment to hit pause on our lives.

There was enough time to reflect on ouractions, relationships, beliefs, the power ofart, fashion and creativity. We discovereda narrative that stirs the existing dialogueof love. Here the boundaries are patched,narrow corridors of division, cults and def-initions are pushed far and wide to makespace for love — the only name that mat-ters. Through our theme we aim to focusall the light on love — love for self, lovefor all genders, love for all body shapes,love for all ethnicities, love for all sexual-ities, most importantly, love for inclusiv-ity,” says designer Gaurav Gupta who kick-started the first-ever-digital Couture weekby FDCI with the theme — Name is Love.

He shares that during the process ofcasting models for his show, he discoveredbeautiful stories where differences and sex-ualities were not just accepted but celebrat-ed. Says Gaurav, “We were enamoured bythe individuals’ sheer optimism, theirexperiences felt familiar and bold. Irealised that their stories needed to be told.”

In India, today, we are witnessing acultural shift. Through a young and proudlesbian couple Anjali and Manauti livingwith their parents, Vee, a trans-male 18year old at a University in Delhi, AnjaliLama, the first Trans-female supermodelof India, and various other unconvention-al models, the designer wants to represent-ed varied forms of love. “I hope that thismessage resonates and connects withmillions who are facing prejudice or feelinhibited to express themselves due to thepre-conceived societal norms,” says Gauravand emphasises, “We’re celebrating unique-ness.”

In these desperate times when humanshave become more agile and vulnerable,the designer is glad that the Couture weekhas turned online. Says he, “It was the needof the hour to keep the show going, light-en up the mood and make things more cel-ebrative. It has given me hope. It’s so niceto see that millions of people around theworld can view the show and collections.”

The show is definitely different underthe shadow of the novel Coronavirus butwhat’s new this time? “We have brought50 new Womenswear, 20 menswear and 50jewellery peices. I wanted my collection toreflect me and my choices. It had to be very

‘Gaurav Gupta.’ I discovered new colourslike Cerise, Bright Emerald, Berry Pink,Snow Pink, Shadow Pink and more. Iwanted to give a new life to these sophis-ticated colours. I also wanted to do a wholeBlack and White line. It was very new andcool for me. I’ve also played with a lot oforganza giving rise to new forms.

Another notable thing is that ourindigenous technique of sculpting wasreinvented in the form of structuredwings, graphic spiralling ruffles and archi-tected waves. We have also incorporateddramatic shimmers, sheer fabrics, 3Dfloral applique, intricate hand embroideriesalong with pearls and metallic sequins,”says Gaurav.

The designer’s Menswear was refinedwith embroideries and mystical motifs.Says he, “We have introduced full

Bordeaux velvet suits with the house’s sig-nature sculpting techniques punctuatingthe looks; perfect statement pieces for acocktail or reception.

The garments are precise with itssharp tailoring and accented withornate hand embroideries. Each lookhas been meticulously detailed all theway down to the crisp ‘DowntownAbbey’ shirt in Egyptian cotton.The collection is further elevat-ed with timeless accessoriesacross all categories like pock-et squares, bow-ties and loafers.”

Gaurav’s collection has nowextended its way to CoutureJewels. The line wasexpressed through fivedistinct elements of infin-ity, classic, pearl, feather and

forest and featured piecescreated with rare dia-monds, rubies, emer-alds, opals and tan-

zanite sourced fromBurma, Botswana,

Colombia and Hyderabad. The handmade col-

lection was createdwith precious stones,crafted in white and

rose gold settings. Itwas rendered withdetails of a custom wed-ding gown. The jew-ellery was inspired bythe Indian heritageintegrated with theinfluences of theVictorian era. SaysGaurav, “We have

taken this ideology toconstruct and re-inventthese jewels. Whatmakes our jewellerycouture is a uniqueapproach where eachdiamond is individuallycut according to thedesign.”

His latest collectionincludes necklaces,

bracelets, rings, earringsand ear-cuffs.

Asked if festive marketis trending more than thewedding one, the designerchooses the latter. He says,“The wedding market is more

in trend. Brides are lookingfor authentic sculp-tures and that ‘wow’factor, something

timeless that they can wear even after fourto five years. They also mix match a lot ofthings from my collection. They wear ourlehenga blouses with saris because there’sso much detail in each element that oneis able to play it up as they want to.”

When we talk of Couture week, it isimperative to know the consumer behav-iour. The buying pattern internationallyhas undergone a drastic change. The gulfcountries are purchasing more as they areless affected from COVID comparitively.Says Gaurav, “Yes, that’s true. But slowlyand gradually the international markets arecoming back into line. We have a big mar-ket in the gulf all across UAE and MiddleEast. Earlier, they used to fly down andhave couture appointments but this timethey’re all purchasing our products online,even couture. They do video consultationwith our stylists and get garments fittedvirtually,” says Gaurav.

The nation has been goingthrough tough times due to

COVID-19, making this seasoneven more special since it givesa reason for people to cometogether to watch our veryown tournament.

Farhan will set the tone ofthe tournament by introducing‘Cricket Live’, before the much-anticipated clash betweenMumbai Indians and ChennaiSuper Kings. He will beaddressing today’s testingtimes, and how we need to toride over this crisis.

Speaking on this, Farhansaid, “These are trying timesand our nation continues topersevere and move forward.With the world picking up pacein the new normal, theannouncement of the IPL wasa breath of fresh air. I have beenlooking forward to some sport-

ing action, and Live Indiancricket is back after a long hia-tus. There’s much to learnfrom the journey of a team oran individual in it. To rise afteryou fall, to learn from onesmistakes and most important-ly, to stay grounded and hum-ble in victory. I resonate withthis feeling even more afterworking on my forthcomingfilm Toofaan in which sport isthe backdrop, made on simi-lar ethos. It is important to stayresilient, optimistic and readyto battle all odds for a bettertomorrow. Personally, it also isan absolute pleasure to openthe maiden show Looking for-ward to a grand openinggame.”

(Watch the actor on StarSports’ pre-show Cricket Livefrom 6 pm onwards onSeptember 19.)

Fashion designerSharbari Dutta was

found dead inside the bath-room of her South Kolkata’sBroad Street residence onthe intervening night ofThursday and Friday.

As per police sources,Dutta was found deadinside her bathroom ataround 12.15 am on Friday.Officials of local police sta-tion and the Kolkata Policeheadquarters Lalbazar’shomicide branch reachedthe spot at night.

Her family members

said Dutta (63) was lastseen during the dinner onTuesday. After that she alsowent incommunicado.

Primary investigationsuggests that she died of asudden cardiac attack in thetoilet. But Dutta’s familymembers claim that shewas otherwise keeping fineand had no such chronicailment.

Kolkata Police’s homi-cide branch will carry outthe investigation to find outthe actual reason of thedesigner’s sudden demise.

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Daughter of celebratedBengali poet Ajit Dutta,Sharbari Dutta was a popularname in the costume designingindustry for over past fewdecades, and was the onlywomen designer to work onmen’s ethnic fashion wear. Itwas Dutta who had introducedcoloured Bengali dhotis anddesigner Punjabi kurtas to themainstream fashion world withher exclusive touch on brightcolours along with embroi-dery works.

The fashion mogul hasalso styled present PrimeMinister of Pakistan ImranKhan and cricketer SachinTendulkar.

Dutta has shattered stereo-types defining men’s ethnicfashion over the years. Well,through a flood of condolencesfrom models, actors and peoplefrom the film industry for herfamily on social media, we cancertainly see how significantlyshe contributed to the Indianfashion at large.

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India has made remarkable progress inseveral areas in the seven decades sinceIndependence. But at the same time, it

has also been beset by some fundamentaland chronic problems. There is povertyand inequity in society, the air in our citiesis unbreathable, there’s garbage on theroads, issues of women safety, levels ofbasic education are low and the economyis sharply declining.

These problems have lasted so longthat they often feel unsolvable in our life-times. But architect Goonmeet SinghChauhan argues that they can actually besolved decisively. For achieving this, hepresents a new methodology that he callsInvertonomics which inverts problemsinto economic opportunities. It identifieseight persistent problem areas and propos-es well-resolved and, in some cases, suc-cessfully implemented models for tacklingthem. This is a book of innovative yet prag-matic ideas that will have a direct impacton our lives and help us realise the dreamof an advanced India. We talk to him toknow how. Excerpts:

�Invertonomics is a book of ideas pre-senting well resolved and pragmaticmodels for solving some of India’s mostfundamental and chronic problems likesocial inequity, air pollution, cleanliness,safety for women and so much more...How did you conceptualise it?

I have always enjoyed solving prob-lems, especially the stubborn ones. A three-pronged strategy typically works for me.It begins with analysing the problem andits key drivers in a manner where we canmeasure the critical root causes and theirimpact. Then, the process of solutioneer-ing begins on how the ‘whole relates to theparts’, and simultaneously, how the ‘partsrelate to the whole’. It may seem abstractbut the key to problem identification typ-ically lies in a few parts, while the solutionlies in the whole. Once the key stone andthe king pin have been identified, the finalstep begins. The third leg of the exerciseis imagining a new ecosystem approach,wherein all parts work synergistically toachieve a new brighter, beautiful possibil-ity.

As architects, we have a free hand increating newness within the confines ofour plots of land. Sometimes, we look aturban design and try and impact the qual-ity of lives of our people and our nation.But our interventions tend to be morephysical in nature. This book is a responseto my inner calling to go beyond the phys-icality so that true transformation can hap-pen. It has ideas that use money, technol-ogy and common sense to solve some realhard problems of our country.

�What research went into it? And howlong did it take to complete the book?

I started thinking about it some 10years ago. I wanted to write 21 ideas butwhen we got to the research part andassessing the practicality of each solution,

it turned out to be an exhaustive processthat took more than a year each to accom-plish. The book project relied on a teameffort for research which was based onthree methods. Physical measurementand secondary data collection onground, internet-basedresearch to informus of inter-ventions thatspread acrossgeographiesand time,i n t e r -v i e w sw i t hi n f o r m e dpersons in civilsociety and thebureaucracy to gauge thepracticality of our solutionsproposed.

We have a format of explain-ing in each chapter. It starts with ageneral narrative of the problem —for this, we used internet-based researchto find out about the history of the prob-lem across geographies and time. So forinstance, we studied how honking was apublic issue in post-World War I Londonand in Hitler’s Germany. We also studiedthe solutions that various governments andNGOs had attempted to solve the problem.We studied successful case studies thatcould be scaled up to be applied across anational scale. It took seven years to com-plete the book including a year longprocess of edits and updations.

�Your book lists some successfullyimplemented models that you’vedesigned. Can you elaborate on them?

A few of the book’s ideas have been orare being implemented with some initialsuccess and a lot of promise.

- The Wise foundation (WorldInitiative for Service and Education):This idea looks at establishing free residen-tial schools for underprivileged children,who seek out a living foraging throughgarbage. These kids would now be housedin free residential hostels-cum-schools andreceive love and care. They would grow upin campuses called Sanctuaries, which

would be set in suburban fringes of thecities and would impart value based edu-cation based on Sewa and Samridhi.These Sanctuaries would be set up and

run by educational trusts and theentire capital expenditure and oper-

ational expenditure would be paidby the trust. However, the gov-

ernment would step in as a reg-ulator and funding agency.

They would pay a fee foreach child like a parent

would pay for a nor-mal residential

s c h o o l .This fee

w o u l denable the

educationaltrust to receive

a return on invest-ment for the education-

al trust, thereby allowingthis project to scale up. We

are imagining a project of onemillion children across 500 cen-

tres in 30 states. The Delhi Government has also

expressed its eagerness to adopt thismodel and are looking to establish the firstsuch school in Delhi soon.

- Clean and dry toilets: Six monthsbefore the Commonwealth games, theMunicipal Corporation of Delhi took onthe challenge of building public toilets ofinternational quality in Delhi. They werein need of 100 crores for the project andstruggling to provision for the funds. Atthis point, we suggested a model where-in new toilet complexes would be createdon a PPP model and sited adjacent to exist-ing MCD governed marketplaces withintheir parking lots. A concessionaire wouldbuild on a 2,000-square foot plinth, mod-ern toilets with a frontal entrance into areception area that would be manned tocollect charges and lead to separate, cleanand dry toilets with dedicated attendants.These would be flanked by two kiosks forice-cream/florist/ATMs and on top of thisstructure would be a coffee shop of 2,000square feet. The janitors and operations ofthe entire complex would be managed bythe concessionaire. The revenues from pay

and use toilets would far exceed the oper-ational expenses and we recommended theconcessionaire would pay an annuity to themarket association in addition to payinga upfront bid money to acquire the rightsto build to the municipality.

This proposal was implemented and28 brand new international quality toiletcomplexes were made and theMunicipality earned significant sums inrevenues as bid money. This project wasextremely successful and can be easilyreplicated across India.

�How can Invertonomics be used wide-ly in India, including even the remoteand underprivileged areas?

Invertonomics imagines a rejuvenat-ed Bharat and proposes three megainterventions in India’s rural hinter-land.

- Office of Bharat: The office ofBharat would be like a central business-cum-administrative district centre, oneeach for India’s 650 districts. This 100-acre development would have within ita new administrative set up includingcivil administration, police, districtcourts, disaster management centre.Social infrastructure such as education-al facilities, health facilities, culturalcomplex, sports centre, vocational train-ing centre and business centres includ-ing an international logistics orientedagricultural mandi, ware housing, coldstorage, food processing plants, commer-cial office centre, rural hotels, hostels,rural shopping centre etc. A new cen-tralised powerhouse like this will spur thedormant administrative, commercialand socio-economic energies of ourhinterland into action. This nucleuswould infuse capital into the districteconomy and act like a catalyst of com-merce and social change.

- Cocoons: The Cocoon Corporationof India shall provide postpaid contain-ers (called cocoons) to the farmers tostore their produce and support withfacilities for digital trade of their agri-commodities. This facility would help thefarmers and allow them to fetch a betterprice for their produce and significant-ly empower them financially both in

terms of revenue as well as the ability toraise capital at lower interest rates. Thecorporation shall also run a properlogistics centre to ship these cocoons(containers) which are rodent, dust andweather proof, and even refrigerated incase needed to their trade destinations.This platform would radically empowerfarmers and agriculture would onceagain become the engine of rural econ-omy, not remittances from rural folk liv-ing in cities.

- Residential development aroundthe office of Bharat: A true socio-eco-nomic revival shall happen around theseoffices of Bharat as new residentialdevelopments, schools, hospitals, cultur-al complexes etc will enable jobs, liveli-hood and good quality life will be avail-able to our rural folk. It will decongestour cities too as villages would becomepreferred places to live, learn and work.

�Long-term solutions such as sensitis-ing the public through education andawareness campaigns have always beenthere. Do you think this approachwould lead to faster and more effectivemeans of modifying citizen behav-iour?

The book promises to change thepace of change. So far, we have been cut-ting butter with a chainsaw, while all weneeded is a butter knife cal ledInvertonomics! I feel citizen’s behaviourcan be altered using a three-prongedapproach:

- Inspired citizenship where in indi-viduals act in the interest of collectivegood.

- Money and technology are key dri-vers for influencing individual behav-iour: Invertonomics uses a carrot andstick approach by offering each individ-ual monetary incentives or disincentivesfor expected citizen behaviour. Forassessing individual behaviour, it usesnon-invasive technology to gauge behav-iour in the public domain. For example,to manage the incidence of honking onour roads, the book proposes an audito-ry charge of �1 for every instance ofhonking beyond a threshold of say 30 freehonks a month. It further levies a charge

of �10, say for honking near a hospitalor a night within a colony. It also incen-tivises the least honkers by measuringtheir relative performance to peers in thesame city. Such positive citizens mayreceive recognition or rewards or corpo-rate discounts, while non-compliant cit-izens would pay hefty fee. They wouldalso receive surrogate tutorship on howto improve their citizenship by adjustingto acceptable behaviour.

- Measurement , transparency andconnectedness: More complex issues likesafety in cities and equity would requirean ecosystem level shift which shall beachieved using measurement of variouskey parameters, tabling them in a trans-parent technology driven manner andthen publishing the data real-time onpublic platforms so that all the stakeholders are connected with real-timedata. Such awareness and collectiveintelligence of the ecosystem shall raisethe median performance of all systemsand accelerate the transformation tohigher ground.

�In a country as diverse as ours, how dif-ficult do you think it is to catalyse change?

When demographics are diverse, onehas to work out simple and binary solutionswhere expected behaviour by citizens isunderstood by all. Like the Odd-Evenscheme of the Delhi Government was eas-ily understood by the auto driver as well asthe financial analyst because the expectationwas binary... as in one can either use his caron that day or not use his car — the com-pliance was very high. In India, we tend toobfuscate the law and the poor citizen oftenfinds himself on the wrong side of it, forc-ing him to use unfair means to extricatehimself out of the situation. This phenom-enon has led to the incremental lowering ofthe median of citizenship, with citizensadopting a sort of flexible morality that suitstheir convenience. Invertonomics proposesthe use of very simple laws and the newecosystem would lay down binary expecta-tions. Also incentives in terms of money areeasily understood by all. Money is like a uni-versal language that possibly rivals music inits universal appeal! Money-based systemsshall ensure that the systems operate in ademography agnostic manner, successful-ly.

�Like you mentioned in the book, “InIndia, we are in a negative cycle as far ascitizen participation for common good isconcerned. This shift can only come frompolicy change and legislation aimedtowards the creation of definitive goals...”How do you think this can be acted uponin India, where it might take years tochange policies and laws or create a newone.

Change is always bottom up. While it’seffected through top-down instruments likenew legislations, new institutions and newecosystems... the demand for it is always pro-pelled by the need for it. It takes civil soci-ety and thought leaders to articulate a visionthat gradually alters the popular narrative.Thereafter, the course of transformation caneither take an incremental route or an accel-erated route, depending upon the willing-ness of the political dispensation and thestrength of the advocacy to take a hard lookat issues and seek convenient and strong res-olutions.

We need enough conversations aroundinspired citizenship, we need local level lead-ership to demonstrate action in areas whichcan be handled locally like segregation ofgarbage, pedestrian safety and much more.We have set up the InvertonomicsFoundation for India which promises to takeup issues from the book and pursue themto see that they get implemented.

Last month, I discovered the power ofpaper in the hands of an artist sculp-

tor. I was looking at a lantern. One thatwas sliced vertically and had a surrealflavour. Suddenly, the object had becomesubject through an interplay colours andthe contours. Master sculptor VivekDas from Jharkhand is expanding thepaper’s potential through the time wornart of papier mache.

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tide. Paper has been the greatest inven-tion for an artist, it has been a symbolof possibility and an abacus for writers,researchers architects, designers, artistsand sculptors ever since its inventionin China around 105 A.D. We think ofLeonardo da Vinci’s drawings, we thinkof Reubens, Raphael, Rembrandt, VanGogh and the ultimate Picasso. Paper ismore than a medium, more than a mate-rial, it is the most humble of tools in anartist’s hands.

Vivek Das’s lantern tells us thatpaper has a vast potential as a materialfor sculpture. Not only is it versatile: itcan be featherweight and translucentwhile being heavy and rigid like papier-mâché. But most importantly, it’s non-toxic, it’s not so expensive and is acces-sible to everyone. Vivek says, “I try to cre-ate sculptures all the time in the hope thatI can convert these into bronze.”

Curves, curls, convex and concavesurfaces all come into play as he createssculptural wonders that celebrate themalleable magic of papier mache. Vivekbrings back the words of the greatFrench writer and poet Rainer MariaRilke who in his Book of Hours said: “Goto the limits of your longing… Let every-thing happen to you: beauty and terror.”

In that universal cadence, Rilkeassures us to “just keep going,” for “near-by is the country they call life.” Das exem-plifies this and more in his brilliantworks. Says he, “Whenever I try to pickout a subject to create, I find there is a

co-existence of life with thingsthat connect — for instance thelantern connects with life andlight. I didn’t want to create aportrait of the lantern as it is.That would be too common, Iwanted a unique portrayal.”

The lantern born of Vivek’smany moorings and thoughts isa metaphor for the existence ofman through thick and thin, forhis spirit of being that livesthrough the times rendered bothwithin and without. “Beauty hasno other origin than the singu-lar wound, different in everycase, hidden or visible, whicheach man bears within himself,”said the French writer JeanGenet. Vivek’s sculptures areabout solidity and an inner life-force, their undulating formsconveying “tension, force andvitality.”

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upon untold histories, as well ashighlighting its parallel to myown identity.” He appreciates thepapier mache for its accessibili-ty, and explores the medium invarious ways. “It’s a practicethat’s very practical to follow,” hesays. “No kiln, foundry, or harsh

chemicals are necessary.” Heapproaches the medium withempathy. “It’s about assessing thecomposition I want to make,responding to it, and giving itwhat it needs,” he explains. “Myapproach is to treat papier machelike a complex yet beautiful con-textual composition with adynamic, hidden life.”

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Using the traditional papier-mâché process to shape hissculptures, he models and occa-sionally carves the paper toachieve the desired shape, creat-ing a sort of hybrid of sculptureand drawing. His admiration forpaper’s tactile qualities, the sub-tlety of its colour and the softnessof its shadows evokes a sense ofphysical space.

The lantern seems to speakof a psychological space and timethrough the layering of paper.Looking at Vivek’s works werealise that papier mache isinnovative and inventive, thereare endless ways that paper canbe drawn on, cut, embossedand manipulated, both two-dimensionally and sculpturallyto create masterpieces.

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Newly crowned US Openchampion Naomi Osaka

pulled out of the French Openwith a sore hamstring on Friday,in a fresh blow to the coron-avirus-hit Grand Slam which isalready missing world numberone Ashleigh Barty.

Japan’s Osaka made theannouncement just days afterlifting her third Major titlebehind closed doors in NewYork.

“Unfortunately I won’t beable to play the French Open thisyear,” Osaka said in posts onInstagram and Twitter. “My

hamstring is still sore so I won’thave enough time to prepare forthe clay — these two tourna-ments came too close to eachother for me this year.”

The French Open is due tostart on September 27 at RolandGarros, rescheduled from earli-er in the year because of thecoronavirus pandemic.

Osaka, who has never madeit out of the third round of theFrench Open, did not say whenshe will play next. She did assureher fans they would see her“sooner than later”.

The withdrawal of third-ranked Osaka means RolandGarros will be missing two of the

world’s top three, after reigningchampion Barty said earlier thismonth that she wouldn’t returnto defend her title.

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Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s pokerface, Virat Kohli’s raw emotions

and Rohit Sharma’s effortless han-dling of his Galacticos will be backto charm cricket fans across the globewith the Indian Premier Leaguestarting on Saturday, promising to bea happy distraction in a worldscarred by Covid-19.

Rohit’s defending championsMumbai Indians will be lockinghorns with Dhoni’s Chennai SuperKings in what is likely to be a fitting-ly exciting opening showdown here.

The tournament, which has beenshifted to the UAE due to five mil-lion plus Covid cases in India, is a‘TV-only event’, expected to belapped up by all and sundry whocrave for cricket and Bollywood inequal measure during prime time.

Bollywood had its share of primetime in the past few months but restassured, the next 53 days wouldbelong to Dhoni’s CSK, Kohli’s RCBand Rohit’s Mumbai Indians chal-lenged by young pretenders compris-ing KL Rahul’s KXIP and ShreyasIyer’s Delhi Capitals among others.

IPL happening in foreign shoresis not a new phenomenon, not eventhe shift to the Emirates but as Indiansports hits the restart button with thebillion dollar cricketing extravagan-za, the hugely popular event to be

held closed doors in a bio-secureenvironment will be a new experi-ence.

David Warner or Chris Gayle’stowering sixes welcomed by artificialcrowd cheer will be the new normaland the deafening roars duringSuper Overs will be missing but noone can complain as at least the showwill go on in amid a devastatinghealth crisis.

A look at the teams would indi-cate that Mumbai Indians by a dis-tance is the most formidable withRohit, Pandya brothers — Hardikand Krunal, the indomitable KieronPollard and the ‘King of Death’bowling Jasprit Bumrah giving it amenacing look.

The perennial Dad’s ArmyChennai Super Kings can never becounted out till that man with ‘HawkEyes’ uses his peripheral visionbehind the stumps.

Experience can’t be bought andthe likes of Shane Watson, DwayneBravo, Faf du Plessis and Ravindra

Jadeja have given their blood andsweat for the ‘Yellows’ and it wouldbe no different this time.

For Kohli, winning a tournamentas a captain would reaffirm his sta-tus even as naysayers question hisstyle of leadership. The team is ashade better with presence of AaronFinch, Chris Morris and the wonder-fully gifted Devdutt Padikkal, who ifall goes well, is destined to becomea big name in years to come.

Delhi Capitals, with their newfound vigour and more pragmaticnew owners, found their mojo lastyear and would like to go one betterunder an enormously talented skip-per in Shreyas Iyer, who can bematched in skills by a Prithvi Shawor a Rishabh Pant.

Seasoned brains likeRavichandran Ashwin would beideal foil for the team’s youthful exu-berance.

KXIP’s KL Rahul is a class actand how he shapes as a leader couldalso create a narrative for the future

when Indian cricket goes throughanother change of guard in next fewyears.

There will be a lot of interest asto how he handles players like GlennMaxwell, Gayle and MohammedShami, who are savage on their daysbut can be ordinary on some others.

Handling an inconsistent team toa decent finish will be on top ofRahul’s agenda.

The low profile SunrisersHyderabad once again will be gun-

ning for a place in the summit clashand their skipper David Warnerknows how to win the IPL havingalways led the way with spectacularperformances.

There is Jonny Bairstow’s flair,Kane Williamson’s poise and RashidKhan’s flamboyance with a host ofyoungsters like Virat Singh andPriyam Garg eager to make a namefor themselves.

When the IPL was partially heldin UAE back in 2014, KKR were the

eventual champions.If Ben Stokes is the world’s best

all-rounder across formats, AndreRussell probably is a bit moredestructive in this format as he hit 52sixes during their horrendous lastedition.

The 2018 U-19 World Cup stars— Shubman Gill, Shivam Mavi andKamlesh Nagarkoti — add a dash ofyouth. Eoin Morgan’s leadershipskills that might prove to be handyin case a normally inconsistentDinesh Karthik misfires.

Rajasthan Royals is the weakestteam lacking quality in the Indianline-up but expect Jos Buttler, SteveSmith and Jofra Archer to do theheavy lifting in Stokes’ absence.Stokes is currently in New Zealandto be with his ailing father.

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slow-starters in the IPL but onpaper, they will be the favouritesagainst Chennai Super Kings in theopening game in Abu Dhabi.

MI looks the most preparedand set team with a scary batting line-up of Rohit, Quinton de Kock,Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan,Hardik and Krunal Pandya, KieronPollard. Trent Boult and NathanCoulter-Nile will complete their

quota of foreigners.For CSK, the core has remained

the same save for Suresh Raina, whowas their worst performer last yearand has pulled out citing personalreasons this year. His replacementRuturaj Gaikwad remains in quaran-tine having tested Covid-19 positiveat least five times.

But there is Watson, AmbatiRayudu, Kedar Jadhav, RavindraJadeja, and Bravo, who have all wonmatches from hopeless situations.

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Abu Dhabi: Going through a poorrun of form, Australian top-orderbatsman Chris Lynn is banking onhis exploits at last year’s T10 tour-nament in UAE to turn thingsaround and contribute to his IPLteam Mumbai Indians.

Lynn, a hard-hitting opener, hada poor run at the recently-conclud-ed Caribbean Premier League hav-ing scored less than 150 runs in ninegames for St Kitts and Nevis Patriots.

However, the 30-year-old wasthe highest run-getter at last year’sT10 league in UAE. He amassed 371runs for Maratha Arabians andalso smashed the highest individualscore of 91 off 30 balls.

“I have got some really goodmemories from the T10 tour-namemt last year here in AbuDhabi, so hopefully just reconnectwith what worked for me there andhopefully put some performaces onthe board,” he said.

However, Lynn will find it dif-ficult to break into the MI’s playingXI with coach Jayawardene alreadymaking it clear that he will not tin-ker with the opening combinationof Rohit Sharma and Quinton deKock.

The Australian said he is readyto bat at any position that MumbaiIndians coach Mahela Jayawardene

deems fit.“Rohit! what aworld class player, runson the board, on and offthe field what he’s con-tributed to Mumbai is

something really real-ly special. AndQuinny (De Kock)

has been out-standing withthe gloves andbat in hand,”Lynn said in a

video posted onMumbai Indians

official Twitterhandle.

New Delhi: Former Australian speedsterBrett Lee has tipped three-time championsChennai Super Kings to win the 13th IPL,saying the variety in their spin departmentgives them an advantage in the UAE condi-tions.

“They (CSK) are up there. I have pickedthem to win and I think CSK have a goodchance because of their spin attack,” Lee said

on Star Sports show Game Plan.“With Santner, Jadeja needs to step up

and be the No 1 spinner and CSK have gotgreat variety and none of the spinners aresame, so they are at an advantage for the con-ditions in the UAE as the tournament pro-gresses.”

Four-time winners Mumbai Indian willmiss the services of their bowling spearheadLasith Malinga who opted out of the tour-nament citing personal reasons.

However, the 43-year-old Lee said he hasno doubts that Jasprit Bumrah will be ableto fill in the shoes of the experienced seam-er.

“I am always Bumrah’s fan since he burstonto the scene some years ago. He has gota different bowling action, he pushes the ballin, and can swing the ball both ways. He isgood with the new ball but I like him withthe old ball and that’s why he can fill the shoesof Malinga and can bowl at death overs,”he said.

“He can bowl at 140kmph andzoom the ball in at the batsman’sfeet. He is bowling the yorkersconsistently and there are veryless bowlers like that, so he canfill those shoes.”

Lee, who has 310 wickets in76 Tests and 380 scalps in 221 ODIs,said he considers Mumbai Indians inhis top four.

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His sabbatical from the game hasdone Mahendra Singh Dhoni a

world of good, Chennai Super Kingscoach Stephen Fleming said onFriday, asserting that the enigmaticskipper is “mentally engaged anddetermined” to encounter the chal-lenges of a “tactically different” IPL.

Dhoni’s CSK will take on RohitSharma’s Mumbai Indians in thetournament opener on Saturday.Fleming, a former New Zealand cap-tain, stressed that his team’s experi-ence of winning big matches willcome in handy during the next 53days.

Dhoni retired from interna-tional cricket last month after beingon a break for over one year andwhen asked about the 39-year-old’spreparedness for the IPL, Flemingsaid, “It has been no different. He’svery fit and mentally, he’s been veryengaged and determined.”

“In some ways the break canwork for the experienced and older

players that we have. MS is fresh andready to go,” Fleming said in a pre-tournament interview to CSK’s offi-cial website.

The three-time champions arebanking heavily on their 35-plusplayers, including Dhoni himself,Shane Watson, Dwayne Bravo, Kedar

Jadhav, and Imran Tahir to name afew.

“...Experienced players identifykey times and that’s why they’ve doneso well in their careers. They can turngames, absorb pressure or just sumout the situation. That’s what expe-rience is about and that’s why wevalue it so highly,” said Fleming.

“And that’s why we’ve been ableto get over the line in so many closegames because the key player hasbeen one with a lot of experience.And you also mix that with skill. Youare conscious of having a skilful sideand adding youth when we can andwith that get the balance pretty right.”

Starting against a quality side likeMI is certainly exciting for Fleming,who wants his men to have a crackat the defending champions aftertheir agonising last-ball loss in theprevious edition.

“The first game is always full ofanxiety, nerves and excitement, andCSK-MI has added extra excitementand pressure and we enjoy that.We’ve earned the right to play the

first game by playing well last year,and given the way the final finishedlast year, it’s nice to have anothercrack at MI.

“They (MI) are a very good sideand it gives you a good gauge as tohow the pre-season has gone and theareas that need improvement. Youget a good idea after the first gameas to where your team is sitting.”

With the home advantage ofplaying seven games at Chepaukgone, Fleming is bracing up for avery different tournament tactical-ly where adaptability will be the key.

“I see this season is going to bevery different tactically. With no realhome ground advantage here, we’vegot to be very good at adapting to theconditions in each ground.

“We’ve got three differentgrounds to assess and each groundhas its own character and nuancesand we’ve just got to be good enoughto pick the right team and get theright game plan to match that. It’s likeevery game is an away game,” heexplained.

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Top-seeded Simona Halepimproved to 7-0 in tennis’

restart with a 7-5, 6-4 win overDayana Yastremska on Friday toreach the Italian Open quarters.

Halep, who is actually on an11-0 run overall stretching backto February, recovered an earlybreak in the opening set and thenoverpowered her 29th-rankedopponent the rest of the way.

Having won a title in Dubaibefore the coronavirus pan-demic, Halep marked herreturn with another trophyin Prague last month. Shethen skipped the US Opendue to health concernsamid the pandemic.

Halep, who losttwo straight finals inRome to ElinaSvitolina in 2017and 2018, will nextface either 10th-seeded Elena Rybakinaor Yulia Putintseva.

Also on the red

clay courts of the Foro Italico,defending champion KarolinaPliskova defeated Russian qual-ifier Anna Blinkova 6-4, 6-3and will next play 11th-seededElise Mertens, who eliminatedMontenegrin qualifier DankaKovinic 6-4, 6-4.

In men’s action, 15th-seed-ed Grigor Dimitrov ended therun of 19-year-old JannikSinner with a 4-6, 6-4, 6-4win.

Sinner, the Italian who hadbeaten third-seeded Stefanos

Tsitsipas in the previousround, missed an easy over-head smash into the net onDimitrov’s fifth match point.

The tournament hasbeen played without

fans so far due to thepandemic, althoughthe Italian Govtannounced Fridaythat up to 1,000spectators will beallowed in to watchthe semifinals andfinals.

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Tottenham scored twice in thefinal 10 minutes to avoid a humil-

iating Europa League exit toLokomotiv Plovdiv as Jose Mourinho’smen came from behind to beat thenine-man Bulgarians 2-1 onThursday.

Harry Kane’s penalty and TanguyNdombele’s winner five minutes fromtime ensured the 2019 ChampionsLeague finalists did not fall at the firsthurdle of their Europa League cam-paign to a side that have never pro-gressed beyond the qualifying stagesof European competition.

“I think it was a helluva experi-ence for the players. Sometimes infootball miracles happen and whenyou play a knockout, one-leg it is theperfect scenario for a miracle tohappen,” said Mourinho.

“Everyone on their side had themoment where they dream and wehad the moment where we believeda nightmare could arrive.”

Mourinho named a strong sidefeaturing Kane, Hugo Lloris and SonHeung-min with just four changesfrom Sunday’s 1-0 defeat to Evertonto start their Premier League cam-paign.

But there was more evidence

why Spurs are desperate to secureGareth Bale’s return on loan from RealMadrid as they struggled to breakPlovdiv down and went behind toGeorgi Minchev’s header 19 minutesfrom time.

The tie swung back in Spursfavour nine minutes later whenMomchil Tsvetanov punched clear offhis own line and the referee had nooption but to point to the spot andsend Tsvetanov off.

Birsent Karagaren was then also

shown a second yellow card beforeKane dispatched the spot-kick intothe top corner.

Ndombele has struggled for gametime under Mourinho despite beingthe club’s record signing.

But the Frenchman, who wasintroduced on the hour mark, provedthe match winner by bundling homefrom close range.

A trip to Macedonia next week toface KF Shkendija faces Mourinho’smen in the third qualifying round.

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Liverpool completed the signingof Thiago Alcantara from

Bayern Munich on Friday, bring-ing in one of the world’s most tech-nically gifted players to add anoth-er dimension to the English cham-pions’ midfield.

The 29-year-old Thiago endedhis seven-year spell at Bayern bymoving for an initial fee of 20 mil-lion pounds ($26 million), with apotential additional 5 millionpounds ($6.5 million) later.

“My decision is purely ofa sporting nature,” the Spaininternational said in a videoannouncing his departurefrom Bayern.

“As a football player, Iseek new challenges todevelop myself fur-ther. Bavaria willalways be my home.”

Thiago, whosefather is formerBrazi l midfielderMazinho, leavesBayern as a EuropeanCup winner, his lastmatch being the 1-0 vic-tory over Paris Saint-

Germain in the Champions Leaguefinal in August. He also won sevenstraight Bundesliga titles withBayern.

“When the years are passing,you are trying to win as much asyou can — and when you win, youwant to win more,” Thiago said.

“I think this club describeswhat I am as well. I want toachieve all of the goals, win asmany trophies as possible.”

At Liverpool, he will add amore creative edge — nurtured at

Barcelona’s famed La Masia acad-emy — to a midfield that cur-rently is more notable for itsenergy and intensity throughhard-running players likeJordan Henderson, Georginio

Wijnaldum and JamesMilner.

Thiago — withhis technique, touchand vision — willprovide Liverpoolwith more controlin midfield, too,allowing managerJuergen Klopp toadopt a different

approach in certaingames.

New Delhi: Olympic Silver medal-list PV Sindhu on Thursday pulledout of the Denmark Open tourna-ment scheduled to be held inOdense from October 13 to 18.

“Sindhu is not playing inDenmark, she has pulled out,” asource in the Gopichand Academytold PTI.

The BAI had on Tuesday writ-ten to the players who have senttheir entries for the DenmarkOpen, stating that they would be“travelling or participating at theirown responsibility due to the cur-rent pandemic” and “have to sendtheir consent within September17”.

Though Sindhu decidedagainst travelling to Denmark, sheplans to participate in the AsiaOpen-I and Asia Open-II sched-uled to be held in November.

Kidambi Srikanth, LakshyaSen and Subhankar Dey wereamong those players who have senttheir consent letters and will beparticipating in the super 750event.

Saina Nehwal and ParupalliKashyap have also sent their con-sent letters but will take a final callnearer to the date of the tourna-ment.

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