R ajya Sabha Chairman Venkaiah Naidu on Monday suspended eight Opposition members from the House for the rest of the Monsoon Session over the unprecedented chaos in the Upper House during the pass- ing of the controversial farm Bills on Sunday. Naidu also rejected a no-confidence motion moved by the Opposition parties against Deputy Chairman Harivansh Narain Singh. The suspended members refused to leave the House and sat on a protest dharna in front of the Mahatma Gandhi statute on the Parliament premises. The suspended members were joined by almost all the Opposition leaders, including former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda, National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah, Samajwadi Party leaders Ram Gopal Yadav, Jaya Bachchan, and leaders from the Shiv Sena. Meanwhile, 18 Opposition parties have written to the President of India, requesting him not to give his approval to the farm sector Bills passed by both Houses. The protest will continue overnight and the suspended members will again attempt to enter the Upper House. If they are stopped, the protest will continue on the Parliament lawns. A similar protest overnight had happened on the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Bill when members remained in the Lok Sabha till wee hours. The suspended members — TMC’s Derek O’Brien and Dola Banerjee, AAP’s Sanjay Singh, Congress’s Rajeev Satav, Sayid Nasir Hussain, Ripun Bora; CPI(M)’s KK Ragesh and Elamaram Kareem — were told by the Chairman that they had displayed “unruly behav- iour especially with the Chair and gross disorderly conduct”. “I am pained at what hap- pened yesterday. It defies logic. It is a bad day for the Rajya Sabha,” Naidu said. Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs V Muraleedharan moved the motion for the suspension of the eight MPs. Naidu also rejected the no-confidence motion moved by 12 Opposition parties against his Deputy Harivansh, saying a notice period of 14 days is required. The suspend- ed members were asked to leave the House, but when they refused to do so, the ses- sion was adjourned until 10 am and then for a hour again. After the House recon- vened at 10.30 am, Deputy Chairman Harivansh said he will ask the Leader of the Opposition to speak before any Bills are discussed, but said that those who have been named by the Chairman can- not participate. Continued on Page 11 I n a historic move to provide equal opportunity to women officers, for the first time the Indian Navy has allowed deployment of women offi- cers on warships. Till now, women were not given duties on sea-bound ships due to a variety of reasons, including lack of privacy and separate washrooms. In another development, the IAF has started training a woman pilot for flying the newly-inducted five Rafale jets. The force has already induct- ed ten women officers as fight- er pilots to fly various planes like the Mig-21s. As regards the Navy, Sub Lieutenant Kumudini Tyagi and Sub Lieutenant Riti Singh will be the first women officers deployed on Navy warships as part of the ship’s crew. These two officers are training to operate a host of sensors onboard multi-role helicopters, including sonar consoles and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) payloads. Earlier, entry of women was restricted to the fixed wing air- craft that took off and landed ashore. Continued on Page 11 A mid the likelihood of Bollywood actresses Sara Ali Khan, Rakul Preet Singh Singh and fashion designer Simone Khambatta being summoned by it for ques- tioning later this week, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Monday questioned Suashant’s talent manager Jaya Saha in connection with the ongoing drug case related to actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death. Meanwhile, a national TV channel reported that the NCB is likely to summon Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone after a few drug chats that came under NCB’s scrutiny had men- tions of individuals with initials “D” and “K”. Sushant’s ex-manager Shruti Modi will also be ques- tioned by the NCB officials on Tuesday. I n a move to placate agitating farmers from Punjab, Haryana, Maharashtra and other States, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on Monday hiked minimum support prices for rabi crops, including wheat, chana, gram, lentil, mustard, safflower among others, for the season 2021-22. The MSP for wheat has been hiked from 1,925 to 1,975 per quintal, an increase of 50 while MSP for chana (gram) has been hiked by 8.3 per cent from 4,875 to 5,100 a quintal, an increase of 225. As per the CCEA decision, MSP for masoor (lentil) dal has been hiked from 4,800 to 5,100 per quintal, an increase of 300. MSP of rapeseed and mustard has been hiked by 7 per cent, from 4,425 to 4,650 per quintal, an increase of 225. MSP for barley has been increased by 5.7 per cent, from 1,525 to 1,600, a hike of 75. The MSP of safflower has been increased to 112, from 5,215 to 5,327 per quintal. Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar announced the Cabinet decision to hike MSP of rabi crops for the season 2021-22 in the Lok Sabha. Hundreds of farmer unions across Punjab and Haryana have called for multiple protests in the coming days, including a total shut- down on September 25, against the two agriculture Bills. Meanwhile, buoyed over good monsoon and higher acreage during the ongoing kharif crops, the Ministry of Agriculture has revised food- grains production target for 2020-21 to a record 301 million tonnes, an increase of 1.5 per cent from 298.3 million tonnes fixed earlier in April 2020. Earlier at the national confer- ence for rabi campaign 2020, the Ministry has fixed the tar- get of 119.60, 108.00, 5.00, 9.57, 29.00 and 47.80 million tonnes of rice, wheat, jowar, bajra, maize and coarse cereals, respectively. T he military-level talks between India and China resumed on Monday after six weeks to defuse the tension at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with both sides reaf- firming the need for early dis- engagement and de-escalation. India made it clear that pullback has to be from all the friction points in Ladakh, while the Chinese wanted the Indian Army to first vacate the heights on the south bank of the Pangong Tso (lake). The last round of parleys was held on August 2. The Indian delegation was directed to insist that China has to make the first move of dis- engagement and New Delhi will then respond positively reducing its troop strength, sources said. Given the complex and sensitive nature of the issue against the backdrop of the volatile situation at the border for the last four months, the two delegations decided to continue the dialogue. They also agreed to follow the five- point roadmap laid down by External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi. They had held a bilateral meeting on the LAC on September 10 on the sidelines of the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation (SCO) in Moscow. With these guidelines etched at the political level, the dialogue at the Moldo meeting point on the Chinese side in Chushul on Monday went a notch higher with diplomats also part of the Indian delega- tion. Joint Secretary in the External Affairs Minister Navin Srivastava, who heads the Working Mechanism for Co- orindation and Co-operation (WMCC) for India-China bor- der issue, along with an Inspector General of the Indo- Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) participated in the parleys. The Indian team was led by Lt General Harinder Singh and two Major Generals. Lt General PG Menon also attended the crucial meeting. He is likely to replace Harinder Singh after his tenure as Leh- based 14 Corps ends in anoth- er couple of weeks. The Indian strategy for the latest round of military-diplo- matic level talks was cleared by the China Study Group (CSG) last week. It was made clear China has to refrain from its aggressive actions to unilater- ally change the LAC. Continued on Page 11 I n the wake of continuing protest over the passage of the farm Bills passed by Parliament on Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday asserted that the Bills were the need of 21st century India and reassured farmers that the Government “Mandis”, the Government purchase of their produce, and the Minimum Support Price (MSP) mechanism will con- tinue. Opposition parties and some RSS-affiliated organisa- tions have maintained that the Bills were tilted towards cor- porates vis-à-vis the small and marginal farmers, constitut- ing over 85 per cent of the farmers in the country. The PM, however, said that changes will help small farmers organise and get bet- ter price for their produce. Attacking those opposing the Bills, the Prime Minister said a “clique” of people exploit- ed farmers for long as they remained in shackles of rules regulating the sale of their produce and stated that this needed to change, which his Government has done. “After these historical changes in the agricultural sec- tor, some people are losing their control of it. So now these peo- ple are trying to mislead farm- ers on MSP. They are the same people who sat for years on the recommendations of the Swaminathan Committee on MSP,” Modi said striking at the Congress without naming it. Describing the legislations as “very historic”, the Prime Minister said if somebody says that Government-regulated agriculture markets will be fin- ished after these reforms, then he is “blatantly lying”. Noting that his Government had brought the farm Ordinances, which these legislations will replace, in June, he said farmers are already getting a better price by 15 to 20 per cent for their pro- duce in several States. Continued on Page 11 A trainee pilot was killed when his aircraft crashed near Kushwapurawa village in Sarai Meer police station area of Azamgarh on Monday morning. Officials suspect that bad weather led to the mishap. The aircraft belonged to Central government-run Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Udan Akademi (IGRUA) at Amethi. Azamgarh District Magistrate Rajesh Kumar said, “The plane took off around 10:30 am from a training insti- tute and was being flown by a trainee pilot and he was the lone crew when the aircraft crashed around 11:30 am.” . A senior police officer said that a native of Kushapurwa vil- lage said that the aircraft start- ed losing height all of a sudden and broke into several pieces after crashing into the ground. The deceased pilot was identified as Konark Saran from Palwal in Haryana. A spokesperson for IGRUA, said, “Saran had 125 hours of flying experience as a trainee, including 52 hours of solo flying. He was a skilled trainee with a very good track record. Prima facie his aircraft got caught in dense CB (cumu- lonimbus) clouds, leading to the tragedy. The official further said, “He was flying a four-seater SOCATA TB 20 aircraft with fully equipped avionics and related instruments. The inci- dent is unfortunate and all due procedures are being car- ried out. A probe has already been ordered into the tragedy.”
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Rajya Sabha ChairmanVenkaiah Naidu on
Monday suspended eightOpposition members from theHouse for the rest of theMonsoon Session over theunprecedented chaos in theUpper House during the pass-ing of the controversial farmBills on Sunday. Naidu alsorejected a no-confidencemotion moved by theOpposition parties againstDeputy Chairman HarivanshNarain Singh.
The suspended membersrefused to leave the House andsat on a protest dharna infront of the Mahatma Gandhistatute on the Parliamentpremises.
The suspended memberswere joined by almost all theOpposition leaders, includingformer Prime Minister HDDeve Gowda, NationalConference leader FarooqAbdullah, Samajwadi Partyleaders Ram Gopal Yadav, JayaBachchan, and leaders from theShiv Sena.
Meanwhile, 18 Oppositionparties have written to thePresident of India, requestinghim not to give his approval tothe farm sector Bills passed byboth Houses.
The protest will continueovernight and the suspendedmembers will again attempt to
enter the Upper House. If theyare stopped, the protest willcontinue on the Parliamentlawns. A similar protestovernight had happened on theAndhra PradeshReorganisation Bill whenmembers remained in the LokSabha till wee hours.
The suspended members— TMC’s Derek O’Brien andDola Banerjee, AAP’s SanjaySingh, Congress’s Rajeev Satav,Sayid Nasir Hussain, RipunBora; CPI(M)’s KK Rageshand Elamaram Kareem — weretold by the Chairman that theyhad displayed “unruly behav-iour especially with the Chairand gross disorderly conduct”.
“I am pained at what hap-pened yesterday. It defies logic.It is a bad day for the Rajya
Sabha,” Naidu said.Minister of State for
Parliamentary Affairs VMuraleedharan moved the
motion for the suspension ofthe eight MPs.
Naidu also rejected theno-confidence motion movedby 12 Opposition partiesagainst his Deputy Harivansh,saying a notice period of 14days is required. The suspend-ed members were asked toleave the House, but whenthey refused to do so, the ses-sion was adjourned until 10 amand then for a hour again.
After the House recon-vened at 10.30 am, DeputyChairman Harivansh said hewill ask the Leader of theOpposition to speak beforeany Bills are discussed, but saidthat those who have beennamed by the Chairman can-not participate.
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In a historic move to provideequal opportunity to women
officers, for the first time theIndian Navy has alloweddeployment of women offi-cers on warships. Till now,women were not given dutieson sea-bound ships due to avariety of reasons, includinglack of privacy and separatewashrooms.
In another development,the IAF has started training awoman pilot for flying thenewly-inducted five Rafale jets.
The force has already induct-ed ten women officers as fight-er pilots to fly various planeslike the Mig-21s.
As regards the Navy, SubLieutenant Kumudini Tyagiand Sub Lieutenant Riti Singhwill be the first women officersdeployed on Navy warships aspart of the ship’s crew.
These two officers aretraining to operate a host ofsensors onboard multi-rolehelicopters, including sonarconsoles and Intelligence,Surveillance andReconnaissance (ISR) payloads.Earlier, entry of women wasrestricted to the fixed wing air-craft that took off and landedashore.
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Amid the likelihood ofBollywood actresses Sara
Ali Khan, Rakul Preet SinghSingh and fashion designerSimone Khambatta beingsummoned by it for ques-tioning later this week, theNarcotics Control Bureau(NCB) on Monday questionedSuashant’s talent manager JayaSaha in connection with theongoing drug case related to
actor Sushant Singh Rajput’sdeath.
Meanwhile, a national TVchannel reported that the NCBis likely to summon Bollywoodactress Deepika Padukone aftera few drug chats that cameunder NCB’s scrutiny had men-tions of individuals with initials“D” and “K”.
Sushant’s ex-managerShruti Modi will also be ques-tioned by the NCB officials onTuesday.
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In a move to placate agitatingfarmers from Punjab,
Haryana, Maharashtra andother States, the CabinetCommittee on EconomicAffairs (CCEA) on Mondayhiked minimum support pricesfor rabi crops, including wheat,chana, gram, lentil, mustard,safflower among others, for theseason 2021-22.
The MSP for wheat hasbeen hiked from �1,925 to�1,975 per quintal, an increaseof �50 while MSP for chana(gram) has been hiked by 8.3per cent from �4,875 to �5,100a quintal, an increase of �225.
As per the CCEA decision,MSP for masoor (lentil) dal hasbeen hiked from �4,800 to�5,100 per quintal, an increaseof �300. MSP of rapeseed andmustard has been hiked by 7per cent, from �4,425 to �4,650per quintal, an increase of�225. MSP for barley has beenincreased by 5.7 per cent, from�1,525 to �1,600, a hike of �75.The MSP of safflower has been
increased to �112, from �5,215to �5,327 per quintal.
Union AgricultureMinister Narendra SinghTomar announced the Cabinetdecision to hike MSP of rabicrops for the season 2021-22 inthe Lok Sabha. Hundreds offarmer unions across Punjaband Haryana have called formultiple protests in the comingdays, including a total shut-down on September 25, againstthe two agriculture Bills.
Meanwhile, buoyed overgood monsoon and higheracreage during the ongoingkharif crops, the Ministry ofAgriculture has revised food-grains production target for2020-21 to a record 301 milliontonnes, an increase of 1.5 percent from 298.3 million tonnesfixed earlier in April 2020.Earlier at the national confer-ence for rabi campaign 2020,the Ministry has fixed the tar-get of 119.60, 108.00, 5.00,9.57, 29.00 and 47.80 milliontonnes of rice, wheat, jowar,bajra, maize and coarse cereals,respectively.
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The military-level talksbetween India and China
resumed on Monday after sixweeks to defuse the tension atthe Line of Actual Control(LAC) with both sides reaf-firming the need for early dis-engagement and de-escalation.
India made it clear thatpullback has to be from all thefriction points in Ladakh, whilethe Chinese wanted the IndianArmy to first vacate the heightson the south bank of thePangong Tso (lake). The lastround of parleys was held onAugust 2.
The Indian delegation wasdirected to insist that China hasto make the first move of dis-engagement and New Delhiwill then respond positivelyreducing its troop strength,sources said.
Given the complex andsensitive nature of the issueagainst the backdrop of thevolatile situation at the borderfor the last four months, thetwo delegations decided tocontinue the dialogue. Theyalso agreed to follow the five-point roadmap laid down byExternal Affairs Minister SJaishankar and his Chinesecounterpart Wang Yi. Theyhad held a bilateral meeting onthe LAC on September 10 onthe sidelines of the ShanghaiCo-operation Organisation(SCO) in Moscow.
With these guidelinesetched at the political level, thedialogue at the Moldo meetingpoint on the Chinese side inChushul on Monday went anotch higher with diplomatsalso part of the Indian delega-tion. Joint Secretary in theExternal Affairs Minister Navin
Srivastava, who heads theWorking Mechanism for Co-orindation and Co-operation(WMCC) for India-China bor-der issue, along with anInspector General of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP)participated in the parleys.
The Indian team was led byLt General Harinder Singh andtwo Major Generals. LtGeneral PG Menon alsoattended the crucial meeting.He is likely to replace HarinderSingh after his tenure as Leh-based 14 Corps ends in anoth-er couple of weeks.
The Indian strategy for thelatest round of military-diplo-matic level talks was cleared bythe China Study Group (CSG)last week. It was made clearChina has to refrain from itsaggressive actions to unilater-ally change the LAC.
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In the wake of continuingprotest over the passage of
the farm Bills passed byParliament on Sunday, PrimeMinister Narendra Modi onMonday asserted that the Billswere the need of 21st centuryIndia and reassured farmersthat the Government “Mandis”,the Government purchase oftheir produce, and theMinimum Support Price(MSP) mechanism will con-tinue.
Opposition parties andsome RSS-affiliated organisa-tions have maintained that theBills were tilted towards cor-porates vis-à-vis the small andmarginal farmers, constitut-ing over 85 per cent of thefarmers in the country.
The PM, however, saidthat changes will help smallfarmers organise and get bet-ter price for their produce.
Attacking those opposingthe Bills, the Prime Ministersaid a “clique” of people exploit-ed farmers for long as they
remained in shackles of rulesregulating the sale of theirproduce and stated that thisneeded to change, which hisGovernment has done.
“After these historicalchanges in the agricultural sec-tor, some people are losing theircontrol of it. So now these peo-ple are trying to mislead farm-ers on MSP. They are the samepeople who sat for years on therecommendations of theSwaminathan Committee onMSP,” Modi said striking at theCongress without naming it.
Describing the legislationsas “very historic”, the PrimeMinister said if somebody saysthat Government-regulatedagriculture markets will be fin-ished after these reforms, thenhe is “blatantly lying”.
Noting that hisGovernment had brought thefarm Ordinances, which theselegislations will replace, inJune, he said farmers arealready getting a better price by15 to 20 per cent for their pro-duce in several States.
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Atrainee pilot was killedwhen his aircraft crashed
near Kushwapurawa village inSarai Meer police station areaof Azamgarh on Mondaymorning.
Officials suspect that badweather led to the mishap.
The aircraft belonged toCentral government-run IndiraGandhi Rashtriya UdanAkademi (IGRUA) at Amethi.
Azamgarh DistrictMagistrate Rajesh Kumar said,“The plane took off around10:30 am from a training insti-tute and was being flown by atrainee pilot and he was thelone crew when the aircraftcrashed around 11:30 am.” .
A senior police officer saidthat a native of Kushapurwa vil-lage said that the aircraft start-ed losing height all of a suddenand broke into several piecesafter crashing into the ground.
The deceased pilot wasidentified as Konark Saranfrom Palwal in Haryana.
A spokesperson forIGRUA, said, “Saran had 125hours of flying experience as atrainee, including 52 hours ofsolo flying. He was a skilledtrainee with a very good trackrecord. Prima facie his aircraftgot caught in dense CB (cumu-lonimbus) clouds, leading tothe tragedy.
The official further said,“He was flying a four-seaterSOCATA TB 20 aircraft withfully equipped avionics andrelated instruments. The inci-dent is unfortunate and alldue procedures are being car-ried out. A probe has alreadybeen ordered into the tragedy.”
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Chief Minister YogiAdityanath called upon
industrialists, entrepreneurs andinvestors to invest in the statesaying that now was the time tocome to UP.
To buttress his statement,Yogi said that UP secured secondslot in the country in Ease ofDoing Business due to sustainedefforts of the state government inthe last three years. He said thathis government had come along way in transforming UPinto an investor-friendly place,conducive to industrialisationwith proactive measures in place.
Presiding over a meeting ofhigh level empowered commit-tee of Invest UP, formerly knownas Udyog Bandhu, the chiefminister said that his govern-ment had strived to developinfrastructure in terms of power,road, communication, transportand efficient law and order andUP was now on the path ofreleasing its much-cherisheddream of attaining one trilliondollar economy status.
“It was the government’sgoodwill coupled with tangiblefacilities that led to the signingof MoUs worth Rs 4.28 lakhcrore during UP Investors’Summit in 2018. MoUs worth Rs2 lakh crore have already actu-alised and the government hasreceived over 50 investment pro-posals worth over Rs 7,000 crorefrom investors of 10 countries,”Yogi said.
Aimed at attracting and pro-moting investment in the state,Invest UP would provide allfacilities to investors, removingobstacles in setting up unitshere.
The chief minister said thatNivesh Mitra, which provides146 services, was quite success-ful with a track record of 98 percent redressal of grievances ofinvestors and entrepreneurs.
He said that UP had a readyland bank of 20,000 acres onwhich industries could be set upand the state government wascoming up with a comprehensive
land policy besides formulatingnew pharma policy and data pol-icy. Yogi said that defence andaerospace. warehousing, datacentres, electrical vehicles andpharma sector were some of theemerging investment centres inUP.
“The government’s ambi-tious project of defence manufac-turing corridor has potentiallypromised an investment of Rs50,000 crore in the next twoyears and offers a good invest-ment opportunity. Also therevised MSME Policy and Start-up Policy has provided fillip tothe growth potential of the state,”
the chief minister said. Yogi said that the govern-
ment had also implemented 186of 187 reforms proposed in theaction plan of UnionDepartment for Promotion ofIndustry and Internal Trade in 20departments of the state. .
Speaking on infrastructure,the chief minister said that UPwas going to have a large net-work of expressways criss-cross-ing the state and referred to the340-km Purvanchal Expresswayfrom Lucknow to Ghazipur, the290-km BundelkhandExpressway linking Chitrakootto Agra-Lucknow Expressway,
the 90-km Gorakhpur LinkExpressway and the 170-kmPrayagraj Link Expressway.
Yogi also said that his gov-ernment also decided to con-struct a 600-km GangaExpressway from Prayagraj tothe National Capital Regionthrough Hardoi, Shahjahanpur,Kannauj and Meerut. He said itwould be the longest expresswayof the country.
The meeting was attended byMinister for MSME, ExportPromotion, Sidharth Nath Singh,Chief Secretary RK Tiwari andseveral additional chief secre-taries and principal secretaries.
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Lucknow (PNS): In a horrendous incident,a man ripped open his pregnant wife’s bellyto ascertain the gender of the foetus inBudaun on Sunday.
After an initial probe, the police saidthat the man, a father of five girls, wanteda son.
As per reports, daily wager Pannalalreturned to his Nekpur locality home inCivil Line police station area late Sundayevening. An inebriated Pannalal soon got
into an argument with his wife and slit openher belly with a sharp-edged weapon to findout the gender of the foetus.
While the foetus was untimely termi-nated, the seriously injured woman wasrushed to district hospital by her neigh-bours. She was later referred to a Bareillyhospital in a serious condition.
The police were trying to determine themotive of the crime. An FIR was registeredand the man was arrested.
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The Uttar Pradesh government willincrease its own power generation by
adding 7,260 megawatt by 2022 throughcommencement of new thermal powerunits. Around 1,320 MW of power wouldbe added within this year.
Energy Minister Shrikant Sharma, afterreviewing the performance of the UPThermal Power Generation Corporation,said after the Bharatiya Janata Party cameto power in the state in 2017, efforts weremade to increase the power generation andensure adequate supply of electricity to con-sumers.
“The two units (660 MW) of Meja ther-mal power station in Prayagraj district arebeing constructed jointly by UP governmentand National Thermal Power Corporation(NTPC). The first unit was completed lastyear in April and the second unit is likelyto be commissioned in October. The totalcost of this project is around Rs 12,176crore,” he said.
The first unit of 660 MW thermalpower station of Harduaganj would be com-missioned by December next. The govern-ment is spending Rs 6011.83 crore on it.
Besides, two units of 660 MW underconstruction at Obra-C thermal power sta-tion at a cost of Rs 10,416 crore would becompleted by March, 2022. The two 660MW units of the Jawaharpur thermalpower station, being constructed at a costof Rs 10,566 crore, would also be complet-ed by March, 2022.
The minister said the constructionwork of the new thermal plant at Panki inKanpur at a cost of Rs 5,816.70 crore wouldalso be completed by December, 2021.
Besides, the three thermal power unitsof UP government and NLC joint ventureunit at Ghatampur will also start generat-ing electricity by May, 2022. The total costof the Ghatampur thermal power plant isRs 17,237 crore and it would generate 1,980MW electricity.
After completion of these projects, thetotal power generation of the state throughthermal power station will increase to12,734 MW which includes 9,434 MW fromthe state-owned units and 3,300 MW fromthe joint venture units.
Sharma said the government was veryconcerned about the environmental aspectof the power plants and all the power sta-tions in the state had cleared the norms. Inmost of the power units, FGZ plants arebeing installed as per the norms of theEnvironment department.
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An 18-year-old girl was critical-ly injured after rivals tried to
burn her alive over a property-related dispute in Sultanpur, whiletwo minor girls, supposedly les-bians, were found hanging froma tree in Bahraich.
In Sultanpur, Shraddha Singh(18) of Tadrasa hamlet of Baldiraisuffered 80 per cent burns afterJaikaran, Subhash and Mahanteyof Parsauli hamlet gagged and tiedher and doused her in kerosenebefore torching her alive onMonday morning.
Shraddha was alone at homeand was filling water from a handpump when she was attacked bythe assailants over a property-related dispute. She was rescuedby her neighbours and rushed tothe district hospital. Later, she wasreferred to the Trauma Centre ofKGMU in Lucknow for spe-cialised treatment.
The police said thatShraddha’s father Pradeep Singhand Jaikaran had a property-
related dispute and both partiescame to a head on June 2, result-ing in injuries to several peoplefrom both sides. Jaikaran’s kinKunwar was critically injuredand died at a Lucknow hospitalafter which Pradeep Singh and hisaides were jailed. .
The police are yet to receiveany complaint as the victim wasshifted to Lucknow from the dis-trict hospital in Sultanpur.
Monday’s attack was beingperceived by the police as an actof vendetta to avenge the death ofKunwar Singh by Jaikaran.
Elsewhere in Bahraich, thebodies of two girls, Prema (17) andLakshmi (15), were found hangingfrom a tree in Loniyanpur hamletof Ramgaon on Monday morning.The girls were reported to be inti-mate with each other and could beseen in each other’s company athome and in the fields. Localsclaimed that their families wereopposed to their liaison and hadtried to stop them from meeting.
It appeared that upset withtheir kin, the two disappeared on
Sunday morning and later endedtheir lives. The bodies were sent forautopsy and investigations wereon.
Meanwhile in Pratapgarh,seven cops, including a SHO, wereattached to the Reserve PoliceLines on Monday after the deathof an elderly man during a raid inBabu Tara village of Lalganj.
The Lalganj police raided thehouse of Maqbool (60) andnabbed him around 1 am onSaturday. In the meantime,Maqbool’s health deterioratedand the police returned afterleaving him home. But soon afterthe team left, Maqbool died.
His family alleged that theraiding police team assaultedhim due to which the elderly mandied. Seven cops, includingLalganj police station in-chargePramod Kumar, were attached tothe Reserve Police Lines.
Enraged over the incident, thekin and locals created a ruckus atthe morgue. The family demand-ed that a case be filed against theguilty cops.
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Chief Minister YogiAdityanath will convene a
meeting with eminent Bollywoodproducers, directors, singers andactors for discussing the govern-ment proposal for setting up aworld-class Film City in UttarPradesh.
The meeting, scheduled atthe chief minister’s official resi-dence around Tuesday mid-daywill witness the physical andvirtual presence of Bollywoodentities.
Additional Chief Secretary(Home) Awanish Awasthi saidthat it would be the first meetingof its kind after the announce-ment of Film City by the chiefminister on Friday last.Bollywood personalities havebeen invited so that they couldsuggest ways and means to addvalue to the project, he added.
Meanwhile, Greater Noidaofficials proposed a 1000-acreland along Yamuna Expressway,earlier reserved for a night safari,in Sector 21.
The Film City would require550 acres of land. The area isclose to the upcoming Jewarinternational airport.
On Sunday, Film DirectorMadhur Bhandarkar had metChief Minister Yogi Adityanathin Lucknow and discussed theproposed Film City in detail.
On Friday, Yogi hadannounced the setting up of thecountry’s biggest and most beau-tiful Film City either in Noida,Greater Noida or by YamunaExpressway.
Actress Kangana Ranaut,along with Bharatiya Janata PartyMP Ravi Kishan and ManojTiwari, have praised the chiefminister for his initiative.
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Six months after restrictions were imposeddue to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Taj
Mahal was opened for tourists under strictguidelines of social distancing and using offacial masks.
“Taj Mahal and other historic monu-ments in Agra opened today after sixmonths of closure due to the pandemic. Inthe initial hours, tourists inflow to theMonument of Love was low but we areexpecting an encouraging footfall in aweek,” Agra’s District Magistrate Prabhu NSingh told this reporter over phone onMonday afternoon.
The white marble architectural marvelwas closed in March after lockdown wasimposed across the country to slow down thespread of novel coronavirus. With the gov-ernment deciding to Unlock various sectors,there was demand from tourism industry toopen the Taj Mahal along with other mon-uments like Agra Fort and Fatehpur Sikri.
“A maximum of 5,000 visitors will beallowed entry in two shifts a day. Not more
than five persons will be allowed inside themausoleum which has graves of MughalEmperor Shah Jahan and his wife Mumtaz,”Singh said.
“Tourists will go through thermal check-ing at the main gate and also get their handssanitised. An ambulance would be availablefor the tourists for emergency,” the officialsaid.
Archaeological Survey of India (ASI)official AN Gupta said that the majesticsheen of the monument was ensured dur-ing lockdown along with manicuring of thesprawling lawns.
“Now, we are ready to welcome touristswith Covid guidelines. The visitors have beenasked not to touch railings and dispose oftissue papers, gloves and used masks in dust-bins only,” Gupta said.
“The gates of the monument wereopened at 6:30 am but only a handful of vis-itors made their way in. We did not expecta large crowd today. But the opening of TajMahal is a big event not only for tourism butalso for local businessmen,” Gupta said.
Taj Mahal has attracted tourists fromacross the globe. Many dignitaries too visitthis monument of love during their visits toIndia. The last dignitary to visit the monu-ment was US President Donald Trump andwife in February this year.
Emperor Shah Jahan had Taj Mahal builtbetween 1632 and 1654 for his wife, MumtazMahal, after her death. He also planned onbeing buried next to her and the complexhouse their graves and a mosque, along withseveral other graves of lesser Mughal royal-ty. The stunning monument is India’s biggesttourist draw and registers about three mil-lion visitors each year.
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Chief Minister YogiAdityanath while presiding
over the meeting of Invest UPalso interacted with the repre-sentatives of industry throughvideo conferencing.
The representatives fromFICCI, CII, Northern Region,PHDCCI, IIA, Trade PromotionCouncil of India, and LaghuUdyog Bharti participated in themeeting.
The chief ministerannounced that the applicationfor land use change from agri-culture to industrial would bedisposed of within 90 days bythe Housing and UrbanDevelopment department. Hesaid the fee for the land usechange had also been reducedfrom 35 per cent of the circlerate to 20 per cent. He said theactual fee on the large plots ofland would be only 14 per cent.
The chief minister said theindustrial units located in ruralareas would be exempted fromdouble taxation as 60 per cent ofthe total tax collected by the dis-trict panchayat would be spenton the maintenance of theindustrial areas.
Reiterating his commitmentto making UP the most favoured
destination for investors, thechief minister said a new indus-trial estate would be developedin Meerut on the land of theclosed spinning mill.
He directed the districtmagistrates to hold meeting ofthe Udyog Bandhu every monthfor redressal of the grievances ofthe entrepreneurs at the locallevel.
The chief minister alsodirected the divisional com-missioners to hold meeting ofthe Udyog Bandhu every secondmonth. He said all the issuesrelated to urban development
authorities, UP Housing andDevelopment Board should alsobe addressed at the local, level.
Representatives of theindustry who participated in themeeting included FICCIPresident Dr Sangita Reddy,CII, Northern Region ChairmanNikhil Sawhney, PHDCCIPresident DK Agarwal, IIAPresident Pankaj Kumar, TradePromotion Council of IndiaChairman Mohit Singh, SharadKumar Sarraf from TradePromotion Council of Indiaand Laghu Udyog BhartiPresident Baldev Bhai Prajapati.
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STF sleuths claimed to have nabbed three gun-runners, identified as Vinay Kumar, Aditya
Kumar Vaishya and Banshi Thakur (all ofFerozabad), near Indira canal in Chinhat onMonday. The team recovered four pistols (eachof .32 bore), eight magazines (each of .32 bore),two mobile phones, two Aadhaar cards, a PANcard and Rs 1,030 in cash.
According to an official communiqué, theSTF was working on an inter-state gang of gun-runners. On Monday, the STF got a tip-off aboutthe miscreants who were carrying a consignmentof illegal weapons manufactured in Munger dis-trict of Bihar. They laid a trap and nabbed theaccused, who owned up their crime and disclosed
that they had set up a network for supply of ille-gal pistols manufactured by a person, identifiedas Babu of Munger, Bihar. The accused disclosedthat they used to sell 25-30 pistols costing Rs25,000-30,000 each. The cost of manufacturinga pistol is Rs 10,000, as per the accused. The STFshared the information with Chinhat police whoare working making further investigations.
Sources said the gun-runners were active inthe city for a long time. “In the murder of aHasanganj resident, Ashutosh Trivedi, accusedJai Singh had allegedly used an illegal pistol. Thepolice were probing from where he got the pis-tol and sought opinion of ballistic experts. “Ifit is proved that Jai Singh used an illegal pistol,it is clear that he got the same from some gun-runner,” the sources said.
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Acouple being brought toLucknow from Bareilly
consumed some poisonoussubstance on the way onMonday. The escorting teamrushed them to KGMUTrauma Centre where bothwere declared brought dead.Police said they were bringingthe couple to Lucknow as thewoman had to be producedbefore a since her motherhad lodged a case of kidnap-ping. The deceased were iden-tified as Vikas Soni (34) ofNew Premnagar inKrishnanagar while the girl asParul Rawat of Thakurganj.
As per reports, Vikas andParul had eloped a fewmonths ago and got marriedagainst the wishes of theirfamilies. They were staying inBareilly. After the womanwent missing, her motherlodged a case but police sat onit. She moved court, afterwhich the Krishna Nagarpolice were directed to recov-er the woman and present herbefore the court.
Krishnanagar SHO DKUpadhyay said a police teamtraced the couple’s location inBareilly and a team was dis-patched to the district to bringthe couple to Lucknow. “Thepolice team was in a privatevehicle with the woman’sbrother and her brother-in-law. When the woman wasasked to go along with thepolice team as the court had
summoned her to get herstatement recorded, she saidshe would not move withoutVikas and thus he was alsoallowed to travel with thepolice team,” the SHO said.On the way, the woman start-ed vomiting. After a while,Vikas also started vomiting.
“When asked by thepolice, the woman said theyconsumed poisonous sub-stance as they wanted to liveand die together,” he added.
The police team rushedthe couple to KGMU TraumaCentre where the couple weredeclared brought dead.
Asked if the couple werein custody, the Krishnanagarpolice said they were follow-ing court’s order. The policesaid the couple went insidetheir room in Bareilly tochange their clothes and con-sumed poisonous substance inthe meantime.
Sources said there were nofemale cops in the team thathad gone to bring the womanback to Lucknow. “That thecouple consumed poison
while changing their clothes isa lame excuse. They shouldhave been taken for a medicalcheck-up,” the sources said.
The police explained thatVikas was named in sections498 and 506 (Enticing or tak-ing away or detaining withcriminal intent a marriedwoman), which is a cognisableoffence and police can inves-tigate only after court’sinstructions, and the accusedcannot be arrested without awarrant which was not issuedby court. The police explainedthat the team consisted of asub-inspector and a constableand it was evident that theyhad no intention to arrest thecouple. The police said theirrelatives had asked them tocome along.
“The couple went insidetheir house to take theirclothes and ate some poiso-nous substance, three tabletsof which were recovered fromthe house during a search bypolice. The search operationwas videographed,” the policeexplained.
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Positivity rate of Lucknow ismuch lower than that of
other metropolitan cities, asenior official at the Healthdepartment said. The positiv-ity rate of Lucknow is 12.4 percent but it is lower as comparedto other metropolitan citieswhich have a positivity rate ashigh as 18-20 per cent.However, it is still the highestin Uttar Pradesh.
The positivity rate is thenumber of persons testingpositive for every 100 Covidtests conducted. The officialsaid that the infectivity rate ofLucknow — the number ofpersons getting infected by aCovid patient — is also low.“Through contact tracing, weare coming to know that thenumber of persons infected isless as compared to the metroswhere number of peopleinfected by one Covid patientis more,” he added.
Regarding the strategy tobattle coronavirus, he saidthere was no major change inthe containment strategy. “Weare focusing on robust contacttracing and trying to get max-imum people traced undercontact surveillance,” he said,adding that they had alreadystarted noticing a downwardtrend in some of the districtsacross the state.
However, he pointed outthat Lucknow is not showingany downward trend as far asthe number of coronaviruscases is concerned. “We areaugmenting the number ofbeds and carrying out focused
contact tracing and in quicktime,” he added.
On Monday, AdditionalChief Secretary Manoj KumarSingh had a meeting withDivisional CommissionerRanjan Kumar and DistrictMagistrate Abhishek Prakashat the Smart City office forcontainment of virus. The offi-cials took stock of the contacttracing being carried out atCHCs across the district.
The DM said that a com-mittee has been formed underthe chief medical officer tocarry out audit of all the deaths
taking place at Covid hospitalsin the district.
He said doctors in gov-ernment and private hospitalsshould regularly visit Covidwards with their names pinnedon their PPE kits so that therecord of visits could be main-tained. The DM said officialsshould coordinate with LMCto carry out extensive public-ity on coronavirus symptomsand precautions required.
Stressing on the issue ofcontact tracing, he said thenodal officers have to ensure it.The DM said if there is any
problem of feeding data, morecomputer operators should beappointed.
CMO Dr Rajendra PrasadSingh carried out an on-siteinspection of Bal MahilaChikitsalaya at Indiranagar onMonday to monitor the workbeing carried out by rapidresponse teams.
Meanwhile, KGMUspokesperson Dr Sudhir Singhsaid some of the Covid-19patients who have recoveredare coming back with variousissues. “Most of them are com-plaining of cough, weakness,
phobia and depression. Themaximum complaints are ofweakness and there is a highlevel of phobia of the disease.These patients are referred torespective OPDs. However,there is no count of thesepatients since the whole focusis on the number of recoveriesand deaths,” he added.
Former head of PlasticSurgery department, KGMU,AK Singh said there has beena drop by 70 per cent in thenumber of patients comingduring the pandemic.
“There are several rea-sons: first, we are not runningthe regular OPD; and second,there is a fear among peoplecoming to the hospitals. Third,if there is no pain, people areavoiding surgeries; and fourth,income of people has droppedand some surgeries which gowith affluence are also notbeing performed,” heexplained.
Meanwhile, drug inspectorBrijesh Pathak said the sale ofpulse oximeters has increasedby 50 per cent with home iso-lation cases increasing in thedistrict. The sales of thermalscanners has also increased butit is less than that of pulseoximeters,” he added.
It may be noted that thereare government directives forinstallation of oximeters atpublic places so that peoplewant to check their oxygen lev-els. President of Adarsh VyaparMandal Sanjay Gupta said 85per cent of the major show-rooms are keeping oximeters,as per instructions of the dis-trict administration.
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It is after a hundred years thatthe oldest Ramlila (of
Aishbagh) will not be stagedthis year due to the coronaviruspandemic. Aditya Dwivedifrom Aishbagh Ramlila Samitisaid though basic puja ritualswould be performed and theeffigy of Ravan set on fire in theabsence of general public,Ramlila would not be staged.The staging of Ramlila wouldhave traditionally started onOctober 17.
Aishbagh Ramlila, whichwas started during the time ofTulsidas by sadhus who did nottravel during rains and collectin Aishbagh ground to performRamlila, which is being stagedfor the past several years.
“Since then, Ramlila hasbeen regularly performed with-
out a break, except for the timeof pandemic (plague) a hun-dred years ago, and only thepuja rituals were performed.We have decided not to stageRamlila this year because of thecoronavirus pandemic,” he said.
He added that Ramlila can-not be staged because of thevarious fight sequences andcrowds required for the staging.However, we will perform puja,Ram janam, Ramabhishek andRavan dahan with no crowdpresence,” he said. He addedthat they would keep end ofcorona as the theme of Ravandahan and hope it eliminatesthe disease. The AishbaghRamlila has been a big favouritewith great personalities havingvisited the Aishbagh ground.Chief Minister Yogi Adityanathhas visited the Ramlila manytimes and his last visit was in
2019. “Even Prime MinisterNarendra Modi visitedAishbagh Ramlila in 2016 andthere have been many digni-taries visiting it in the past.President Ram Nath Kovindvisited us even before hebecame the president of India,”he said. He added that severalartistes have performed atAishbagh Ramlila as theyalways look forward to it. “It isa labour of love for them andthey do not do it for money,”Dwivedi said.
Aishbagh Ramlila Samitimembers said people in largenumber would come to witnessthe show. “We made it specif-ically interesting for them andadded things which are notfound on the small screen.After a scene was enacted, wewould give out details for thegeneral public,” a member said.
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Death of two jail inmates,who had tested positive for
coronavirus, created a flutter onMonday. Jail officials con-firmed that both the inmateshad tested Covid positive.However, they said the cause ofdeath was yet to be ascer-tained. As per reports, AmitGautam (30) died at Balrampurhospital on September 18 whileBachcha Yadav aka RakeshYadav (42) at Lok BandhuHospital on Monday.
The PRO of DG, Prison,confirmed that two sick jailinmates died. “Both were foundto be suffering from serious ail-ments and they tested positivefor coronavirus,” he said.
Sources opined that the jailinmates had co-morbiditieswhich made matters worse forthem. Since the autopsy reportof both is yet to be obtained,the cause of death is still notknown, the sources said.
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A14-year-old domestic helpwas found hanging at her
employer’s house under mys-terious circumstances inGomtinagar Extension policestation area on Monday.
As per reports, the girl,who was a resident of Ujariaon,was hired by Shashank Pathakof Gomti Nagar Extension(Sector-6) to mop the floor.Police said the girl reachedPathak’s house on Mondaymorning and later ended herlife.
A police spokesman saidthe girl was found hangingfrom the ceiling of a room witha dupatta tied around her neck.He said Pathak was not homeand the incident came to lightwhen other workers reachedthere. The father of the victimworked at a hotel. The case isbeing investigated by a sub-inspector.
The police said they wouldprobe how a minor girl wasemployed as a maid. However,the police ruled out the possi-bility of foul play but said theywere waiting for the autopsyreport.
In another incident, a 30-year-old woman, identified asShanno, ended her life at herhouse in Gosainganj policestation area on Monday morn-ing. Reports said Shanno livedwith her husband Ramu in
Gauriya Kala village of thearea. Their niece Shivani wasstaying with the couple andtheir children.
On Monday morning,Ramu left for the market topurchase fish for lunch andwhen he returned, he came toknow about the incident.Shanno was found hangingfrom the ceiling with a sareetied around her neck. Policesaid Shanno got married 13years back, scotching specula-tions that the woman was beingharassed for dowry or facingdomestic violence.
Meanwhile, a womanalleged that a relatives of herhusband blackmailed her afterhe filmed her while taking abath at her house in Gudamba.In her complaint, she said herhusband was out of town whenthe accused visited the house tostay with them.
“The accused made a videoof me while bathing and thenstarted blackmailing me to getmoney. I had to sell all myornaments to give him money.However, the accused stillshowed the video to my hus-band, making him doubt mycharacter. He left for Mumbaiand later divorced me. When Isought an explanation from myhusband, he sent me the video,”she told the police. She addedthat when she confronted theaccused, he threatened to chopoff her legs.
Lucknow (PNS): The ChiefSecretary inaugurated ApolloMedics Covid Hospital onMonday. Speaking on the occa-sion, he said doctors were doinga commendable job as frontlineworkers in the battle against
coronavirus. He said the newCovid facility was set up in fivedays under a high-end waterproof German Hanger and crit-ical Covid-19 patients would betaken care of there. He said themanner in which the coron-
avirus cases were increasing, itwas important to create this kindof facility. He said doctors shouldtake care of themselves even asthey fight the virus.
He added that the Covid-19patients’ bodies should be hand-
ed over to their relatives withinan hour. The hospital will beproviding quality care. It hasventilator, dialysis and isolationbeds. Also present on the occa-sion were DM Abhishek Prakashand other senior officials.
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The surge in cases contin-ued as 1,037 persons were
diagnosed with Covid-19 inLucknow on Monday.However, 1,114 were dis-charged after they complete-ly recovered, taking the totalnumber of recoveries to36,826. The death toll standsat 604 even as there are 9,746active cases in the district.
On Monday, there were 15deaths across the city andeight of the deceased belongedto Lucknow while others fromother districts like Sultanpur,Gonda, Jaunpur, LakhimpurKheri, Bareilly, Shahjahanpurand Deoria.
A senior official at theCMO office said those whotested positive in the cityincluded 72 from Gomtinagar,
59 from Indiranagar, 53 fromChinhat, 41 from Talkatora, 37from Chowk 39 fromHazratganj, 34 from Ashiyana,32 from Alambagh, 33 fromAliganj, 30 from Rae Bareliroad, 26 from Cantt, 24 fromKrishnanagar, 23 each fromJankipuram & Vikasnagar, 21each from Sarojininagar &Vrindavan Yojana, 19 eachfrom Madiaon & Thakurganj,18 from Telibagh, 16 fromMahanagar, 17 fromGomtinagar Extension, 16from Vibhuti Khand, 15 fromNaka, 14 from Bazaarkhala, 13from Gudamba and 12 fromHasanganj.
Four Covid-19 patientssuccumbed at KGMU, includ-ing a 34-year-old woman fromChowk, a 65-year-old womanfrom Lakhimpur Kheri, a 47-year-old man from Aliganj
and a 57 year old woman fromJankipuram.
Across the state, 4,703persons tested Covid posi-tive, including 295 in Kanpur,329 in Prayagraj, 105 inGorakhpur, 169 in Ghaziabad,184 in Varanasi and 102 inBareilly, taking the total num-ber of cases to 3,58,893.
There were 88 deathsacross the state, includingnine in Kanpur, five each inMeerut & Gorakhpur, four inPrayagraj, three each fromSaharanpur & Rae Bareli, twoeach from Varanasi, Amroha,Ballia, Mathura, Kaushambi,Basti & Pilibhit and one eachin Agra, Hardoi,Muzaffarnagar, Ghazipur,Sitapur, Unnao,Siddharthnagar, Chandauli,Badaun, Ferozabad, Kannaujand Lalitpur.
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Lucknow (PNS): An advocate,identified as Priya Singh,accused a woman and herbrother of duping her of Rs40,000 in the name of empan-eling her with legal supervisorin the legal cell of the bank andalso of threatening. In hercomplaint, she said she got acall from a woman who intro-duced herself as DiptiVishwakarma. She told Priyathat she worked with a privatebank.
“She asked me to pay Rs 2lakh for empanelment. I metthe woman near a hospital inGudamba, gave her Rs 40,000and promised to give theremaining amount later. Aweek later, I called Dipti to seekthe progress and she asked meto forget about it and not callher again. I then got a call fromDipti’s brother Shivam whothreatened me,” she alleged.
In another case, conmenimpersonating cops duped ancourier company employee ofgold ornaments in Chowk onMonday. Teams were formed totrack the conmen and policesaid they were scanning CCTVfootage. The victim, identifiedas Awdhesh Tripathi ofAlambagh, works as an agent ofa company which deals in
delivery of gold ornaments. OnMonday, Tripathi received theorder from a jeweller and heleft for Alambagh where thecompany’s office is situated. Ashe reached Charak crossing, aman appeared from some-where and introduced himselfas a policeman. He askedTripathi that his boss had askedhim to get the bag checked.
They took the bag andopened it. They later changedthe jewellery box in the bag andshooed him away.
“I was cautious when theywere checking the bag. But oneof the miscreants engaged mein futile talks while the otherreplaced the box. I checked thebag after moving a few stepsahead and found the orna-ments missing,” he said. Circleofficer, Chowk, said the policewere hunting for the accused.
Meanwhile, thieves madeoff with cash and ornamentsfrom the house of a labourer inBazaarkhala police station area.The incident came to lightwhen Bhagauti Prasad ofGulzar Nagar returned homefrom his native house inBarabanki on Monday. He saidthe thieves decamped withsome cash and his wife’s ornaments.
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Gayatri Prajapati’s companydirector Brij Bhawan on
Monday alleged that the for-mer Cabinet minister and hismen were threatening to kill.He said an FIR has alreadybeen lodged with the Lucknowpolice in this regard.
Brij Bhawan said he wouldrequest the Income Tax
department a probe financialtransactions between Prajapatiand Chitrakoot woman whohad first accused the formerminister but later turned hostile.
“The Chitrakoot womanacquired property worth Rs4.3 crore in the last threeyears through illegal means,”he alleged. Brij Bhawan alsoclaimed that he has a list of 20
aides of the minister involvedin the mining scam.
He also claimed that thefirst contract deal for miningof a particular land was givento a contractor and suddenlyit was revoked and given toanother contractor who gave ahigher price to the formerminister. “No rules and regu-lations were followed in allot-ment of tenders,” he alleged.
He claimed that he hasdetails of all the movable andimmovable assets of the for-mer minister and also underwhose name the same wereregistered.
“If I remain alive afterrecording my statement withthe ED, I will share the detailswith mediapersons,” he said.
Brij Bhawan also allegedthat Prajapati got all the lux-
uries when he was admitted toKGMU as he had a good rap-port with a leader in the rul-ing party.
Brij Bhawan hogged lime-light after he lodged an FIRagainst Prajapati and his sonand also the Chitrakootwoman on September 17. Healleged that the former minis-ter, his son Anil and his menforced him to get a land worth
Rs 2.5 crore registered in thename of the woman who hadaccused Prajapati of rape. Hesaid the woman turned hostileand was threatening him totake his name in her statementto be recorded in a rape caseregistered last year inGautampalli police station,while the aides of Prajapatiwere also threatening to kid-nap his son.
Lucknow (PNS): The onlineoff-campus counselling forundergraduate programmes atLucknow University will com-mence on September 22. LUspokesperson DurgeshSrivastava said the candidateswere advised to go through thecounselling guidelines and see
videos created for the purpose.“All the candidates whose
names are in the merit list canparticipate in counselling. Thecandidates have to first checkbank details for refunds, if any.They have to enter the correctdata. Thereafter, they have todeposit the counselling fee (Rs
200) and advance course fee (Rs1,000),” he explained.
There will be no entrancetest in some programmes as thenumber of forms is less thanthat of seats. Admission tothese programmes will be doneon the basis of marks obtainedin the qualifying exams. These
programmes include AacharyaMA (Arab Culture), MA(Arabic), MA (DefenceStudies), MA (Linguistics), MA(Modern Arabic), MA(Persian), MA (Philosophy),MA (Sanskrit), MA (Urdu),MA (Population Studies) andMSc (Biostatistics).
As per PG admissionguidelines, there will be noadmissions in self-financedprogrammes such as MA(Business Economics), MA(French), MA (Women's’Studies) and MSc (MassCommunication in Science andTechnology).
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gramme organised by Samarth, with the collaboration of UNWorld Food Programme (UNWFP) at the regional centre ofIGNOU on Monday. She gave away ration kits to labourers whocame from different places. Almost 45 local labourers affectedby coronavirus pandemic were there. Five trans-genders were alsoinvited to the programme. Speaking on the occasion, the mayorsaid it would give help to the needy. She said the pandemic hasadversely affected people cutting across castes, categories and gen-ders. Regional director, IGNOU, Manorama Singh stressed onthe importance of proper education and precautions for pro-tection. SP (STF) Vishal Vikram said it’s the time when womenhave to come forward to educate society. He said this food assis-tance would reduce people’s burden to some extent and theywould be able to invest in education of their children.
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petition of Science and Computer organised by City MontessoriSchool, Mahanagar Campus, was inaugurated online on Monday.The chief guest on the occasion was CEO of Aayushman Bharatand MD of Medical Supplies Corporation Sangeeta Singh. Theparticipating teams from Nepal and various states of India intro-duced themselves amidst educational-cultural items presentedby CMS students virtually. CMS founder Jagdish Gandhi and oth-ers were also present on the occasion. Forty teams of studentsfrom India and abroad are participating in the event online toshowcase their scientific skills. In her inaugural speech, SangeetaSingh said people were open to change due to the pandemic andit brought them closer to the fundamentals of life.
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Continuing her tiradeagainst the Uttar Pradesh
government over growingunemployment, Congress gen-eral secretary Priyanka GandhiVadra said that recruitments ingovernment jobs were nowbeing discussed due to fear ofyouth outrage.
In a tweet, Priyanka post-ed: “The UP government,which woke up after youthresentment, is now mullingon recruitments in a meetingtoday. The youth want to knowwhether the government willget serious and solve all issuesfor each recruitment and keepdetails of the confirmed dead-line for appointments.” TheCongress leader further tweet-ed: “Delaying recruitments,creating obstructions is injus-tice to the youth. Stop this.”
On Monday, Priyanka alsoheld virtual conferences withcandidates for the posts of vil-
lage development officer(VDO) and sub-inspector andheard their grievances. Sheassured them that her partywould do everything to get theprocess expedited.
It may be mentioned thatthe results of VDO selectionexamination held in 2018 areyet to be announced whilethat recruitment of sub-inspec-tors has been stalled since2016. Last Friday, ChiefMinister Yogi Adityanath hadsought details of vacant postsfrom all departments forrecruitment in governmentjobs in UP. Directing officialsto initiate the recruitmentprocess in the next threemonths, Yogi said that appoint-ment letters be distributedwithin six months. The CMalso directed officials that thesevacancies be filled like jobswere given to over three lakhpeople during this regime in atransparent manner.
Meanwhile, former paedi-
atrician of BRD MedicalCollege at Gorakhpur, DrKafeel Khan, and his familymet Priyanka Gandhi Vadra ather New Delhi residence. DrKhan was recently releasedfrom jail after National SecurityAct (NSA) invoked by the stategovernment was struck downby Allahabad High Court.
UP Congress president AjayKumar Lallu and the party’sminority cell chairmanShahnawaz Alam were also pre-sent during the meeting.
Dr Khan was arrested oncharges of making inflamma-tory speech against theCitizenship Amendment Act(CAA). The Congress had runa signature campaign and stageddemonstrations for his release.During his seven-month prisonstay, Dr Khan also wrote to theUNHRC, claiming widespreadviolation of internationalhuman safety standards andmisuse of the NSA to suppressvoices of dissent in India.
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Lucknow (PNS): UttarPradesh Power CorporationLimited has announced unin-terrupted power supply to thedistricts where by-electionsto eight assembly seats are dueto be held soon. The eight dis-tricts which will get uninter-rupted power supply areBulandshahr, Firozabad,Amroha, Rampur, Unnao,Kanpur, Deoria and Jaunpur.The assembly seats are locat-ed in these districts. Of theseeight seats, two— Swar(Rampur) and Malhani(Jaunpur) — have never beenwon by the BJP.
Attacking the YogiAdityanath government, theSamajwadi Party said it hadexposed the claim of uninter-rupted electricity supply in thestate, SP leader AbhishekMishra said, “The BJP gov-ernment in the state has failedto give electricity supply inUttar Pradesh. The SamajwadiParty government had invest-ed in transmission, distribu-
tion and even increased thebudget for the power sector.The current BJP governmenthas not worked on transmis-sion and generation of powerand did not even increase thebudget. The entire system hascollapsed under the currentregime.”
“Now orders have beengiven to supply 24-hour elec-tricity in eight districts whichwill be having by-elections,exposing the governmentclaims. They had made tallpromises four years back, butnow they have also acceptedthat what they said were mere‘jumlas’,” the SP leader said.
Abdullah Azam, son of SPMP Mohammad Azam Khan,had won from Rampur’s Swarassembly seat but he was dis-qualified from the member-ship of the assembly after theAllahabad High Courtquashed his election. By-elec-tion are due in Malhani seat ofJaunpur after the death ofParasnath Yadav of SP.
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Ten out of 14 districts in Kerala have comeunder the scanner of various intelligence
agencies of the Centre , according to sources inNational Investigation Agency (NIA).
The caution by the Centre has come as a fol-low up to Saturday morning’s arrest in Ernakulamdistrict of three persons with allege link to AlQaeda. The three were taken to Delhi where theyare being questioned about their activities inKerala.
“Ten districts in the State have sleeper cellsof various terrorist organisations and they areunder observation. We are also in the process offinding out their associates in the State Police,”said an official who did not want his name to bequoted. The presence of thousands of migrantworkers across the State have become a seriousissue in Kerala.
An intelligence official said that the GandhiBazar in Perumbavoor, a popular shopping cen-tre, is now known as Bhai Bazar because it is fre-quented by hundreds of migrant labourers.
“But we cannot tell that they are all fromBangladesh. Shops in this centre sell materialsbrought from their native places like Bengal,Assam and other north eastern States. Some shopseven sell paan masala, a product banned in Kerala.But we cannot torment them as they do not cre-ate law and order problems on a regular basis,”said the official. A state police official also saidthat tough action is initiated against those whoviolate the tranquillity of the town. “It is difficultto separate grain from chaff. We are proceedingcautiously,” said the inspector tasked with keep-ing an eye over the migrant workers.
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Former AMU studentSharjeel Usmani, who was
among the main accused inconnection with the ruckus inAMU regarding the CAA-NRC,is once again on the radar of thedistrict police and agencies.After objection to the postmade on social media recently,its investigation is being con-ducted from the SP city level. Atthe same time, legal opinion hasbeen sought from SPO onwhether this comes under thecrime or not? The decision willbe taken only after getting alegal opinion for filing the case.Meanwhile, other agenciesincluding ATS are monitoringhis activities.
Shamil Usmani, an alum-nus of AMU, who was themain accused of inciting theruckus on 15th December nightin AMU campus, was arrestedfrom Azamgarh. He was sent tojail in two main cases of AMUruckus. After this, Sharjeel wasreleased from prison on bail.After his release from prison, he
tweeted one post from hisTwitter account last week inwhich he has asked people tocome out on the streets andprotesting and finished histweet with poetry. This post wasobjected by the former studentof AMU and former districtspokesperson of BJP, NishitSharma, and tagged the tweet-er account of the UP Police foraction.
Taking cognizance of this,the Aligarh Police has started aninvestigation. In view of hisactivities, agencies are also keep-ing an eye on him. Accordingto the sources, an attempt isbeing made to know that noother mind is working behindi t .SSP Muniraj said that on receiv-ing a complaint about the postmade by Sharjeel on socialmedia, an investigation hasbeen started at the SP city level.Legal opinion on that post hasalso been sought from the SPOlevel and asked whether basedon the post, a crime is com-mitted or not? SPO opinion isyet to be received and we are
hoping to get an opinion bytomorrow, after this, a decisionwill be taken on the lawsuit, etc.
Unknown students havebeen booked in the city's CivilLine, Delhi Gate, and KwarsiPolice Stations, whose deliber-ations are not being proceededdue to the non-availability ofnames of accused students forfurther investigations. The sit-uation is that at the time of theruckus in AMU, a joint letterwas written by the districtpolice and district administra-tion to the AMUAdministration, in which itwas said that AMU shouldprovide the names of studentsinvolved in the ruckus insideand outside the campus on thebasis of their CCTV footages.The same letter has not beenreplied so far. Now the situationis that a case of unknownKashmiri students is pendingfor a protest in Jeevangarh.Similarly, there is a pending caseagainst unknown students onthe protest of Shah Jamal ofDelhi Gate and Purani ChungiGate.
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Twenty three Covid-19 patients died in theUnion Territory of Jammu & Kashmir on
Monday while the total number of recoveriesreported a slight jump in comparison to totalnumber of fresh positive cases.
According to the media bulletin, 1,158patients recovered and discharged from dif-ferent hospitals while 1036 new cases weredetected taking the tally of active positive casesof Coronavirus to 21887 while the death tollreached 1024.
Out of these 1036 fresh cases, Jammu divi-sion reported 536 and Kashmir division report-ed 473 cases. On the other hand, out of 23deaths, 14 deaths were reported from Jammuregion and nine patients died across Kashmirvalley on Monday.
Out of a total number fo 65026 positivecases, 42115 patients have recovered so farwhile 21887 are active positive. Out of these12643 cases are active in Jammu and 9244 inKashmir region.
On the other hand, the team of doctorsheaded by Principal Government MedicalCollege,Jammu Dr NC Digra Mondayclaimed the premier Health Institution iscatering well to all sick patients amid theCovid-19 Pandemic.
The Principal said that the Hospital is tack-ling the situation well despite manpower issues.“Maximum positive cases admitted in thehospital have recovered. The recovery rate ofthe hospital is no less than the NationalAverage”, he said and added 12 covid patientshave been discharged in last 24 hours after fullrecovery.
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The Lieutenant Governor,Manoj Sinha, who is the
Chairman of Shri MataVaishnoDevi Shrine Board on Mondayformally launched home deliv-ery of Shri Mata Vaishno DeviPooja Prasad for devotees whomay not be able to visit thefamed Hindu pilgrimage, locat-ed between three peakedmountains popularly known as'Trikuta’, during the Boardmeeting at the Raj Bhavan onMonday. To get Prasad deliv-ered home packed in sanitizedboxes, a devotee can book thePooja Prasad through ShriMata Vaishno Devi ShrineBoard's website.
Once the booking is done,the Board ensures that Pooja isperformed within 72 hours
and Prasad is dispatchedthrough Speed Post.
So far, around 1500 pack-ets of Pooja Prasad have beendispatched by the Shrine Board to the devoteesacross the country throughspeed post for which the Boardhas entered into an agreementwith the PostalDepartment.
The Lieutenant Governor,while chairing the first meetingof the Shrine Board since tak-ing over in August this year,welcomed the Board Members,at the outset.
The meeting was attendedby the Board Members - H. H.Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Dr. AshokBhan, Justice (Retd) PermodKohli, K. K. Sharma, Maj. Gen.(Retd) Shiv Kumar Sharma,and K. B. Kachru.
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Bhadaravathi is about 280km northwest ofBengaluru in the southern state. “It appears thatthe MLA got infected after four workers at hishome in Shivamogga tested positive last week,”Gowda said.
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Welfare Party of India, thepolitical outfit launched
by the Jamaat e Islami, came out on Monday ques-tioning the legality of thearrests of three migrant workers from Ernakulam distr ic t by the NIA onSaturday.
“We cannot believe theversion of the NIA that thethree were arrested because oftheir links with Al Qaeda.These arrests smack of a con-spiracy,” said HameedVaniyambalam, WPI, presi-dent, in a statement releasedto the media.
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Even as the AllahabadUniversity holds online
exams for final year students ofundergraduate (UG) and post-graduate (PG) courses, itsauthorities are faced with theproblem of multiple upload ofanswer sheet by the students.Of the first three days of theexams, several examineesuploaded their answer sheetseven five times. The examsbegan on September 14 andwill continue till October 19.
Controller of ExaminationProf RK Singh said that prob-lems are being faced by bothstudents and the varsity. All thiscould be avoided if the studentsstick to the guidelines.
Explaining further, he saidthat as the website opens for thequestion paper of a givencourse, far too many unautho-rised persons log on to italthough they are not enrolledin any course.
Likewise, when we havegiven two hours for writing thepaper and additional two hoursto upload the answer sheet, stu-
dents keep on writing foraround three and half hoursand then start uploading theanswer sheet in the last half anhour. And because of the rush,the server becomes slow andcauses problems, said ProfSingh. However, to solve theproblem, AU has opened sev-eral options in the larger inter-est of the students.
‘We have opened a separatecounter at the Arts campusoffice where the examineescan submit the hard copy of theanswer sheets. Besides, stu-dents are mailing me, sendingcopies through speed post,registry, courier, etc., and weare accepting them,’ the con-troller assured the students.
The problem, being facedby the varsity authorities couldbe gauged by the fact that onthe first three days of the finalexaminations some studentsuploaded their answer sheetseven five times.
On one such day, 782 stu-dents were registered for theexamination, to be held forboth the shifts, whereas at10am, around 5,500 people
started searching the paper onthe website slowing down theserver. ‘I would request the stu-dents to stick to the time limitgiven to them to solve thepaper (two hours) and uploadthe paper as soon as they com-plete the same. I assure themthat there would be no problemin the server,’ said Prof Singh.
He added that the counterfor taking the hard copy, wouldbe open till 6 pm and studentscan submit their copies theirtoo, but that should be the lastoption in view of corona crisis,he suggested.
FDP ORGANISED: Afive-day Faculty DevelopmentProgramme and workshop on‘Creative Problem Solving andCritical Thinking’ was organ-ised by Department ofManagement Studies, IndianInstitute of InformationTechnology, Allahabad.
Prof P Nagabhushan,Director of IIIT-A inauguratedthe programme and enlight-ened everyone with his knowl-edge, stating that ‘creativity isin everything, creativity comesfrom intelligence, intelligence
in everywhere’.The convenor Dr Vijayshri
Tewari, also the Head of theDepartment said that the‘workshop was the demand oftoday’s dynamic world’.
Dr Madhavendra Mishra,Co-chair and AssociateProfessor threw light on the dif-ferent aspects of creativity.
Prashant Mishra, Vice-President, Genpat, AbhinavJohri, Director & Practice Headof Digital Transformation, EY,Manu Sharma, Partner WiproDigital Consulting , UK will besharing their knowledge. Therewill be a panel discussion onSeptember 23 focussing toincrease the interactions andcollaborative knowledge shar-ing between the industry &academia.
Prof US Tiwary (DeanHA); Prof Pramod Pathak,IIT(ISM) Dhanbad, Prof YSinha, University of AllahabadProf Shekhar Verma (DeanIP& RM); Prof T Lahari (DeanA&R); Prof Anupam (DeanTPA) and Prof Shrishu Verma(Registrar) spoke on the occa-sion.
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Amidst the deployment ofheavy police force, the
Samajwadi Party (SP) workerson Monday staged a demon-stration in protest against thefaulty policies of the state gov-ernment, poor law & order sit-uation and rising number ofunemployment in the state.They submitted a memoran-dum to district administra-tion regarding their demands.
On the call of Tehsil Chalogiven by party national presi-dent and former Chief MinisterAkhilesh Yadav, the SP work-ers reached Sadar Tehsil inlarge numbers and demon-strated to raise their protestagainst the faulty policies beingadopted by the government inthe state. There was alreadydeployment of heavy policeforce in view of the proposedprotest of the SP. Even, the SSPwas also present to avert anyuntoward situation.
The farmers, unemployedyouths, weavers and labourersare facing hard times becauseof faulty policies of govern-ment, they said blaming, thegovernment has failed in pro-viding urea to farmers andalso the price of their crops.The government has promised
of doubling farmers’ incomebut the fact is that they are fac-ing hardship and have nooption except to commit sui-cide, they blamed further.
The workers and labourersin lakhs had to return to vari-ous districts of UP from otherstates after they lost their jobsduring lockdown, but the stategovernment failed in reducingtheir miseries by providingjobs to them in their home-towns, they blamed adding,rather, the government is mak-ing their exploitation. The stategovernment has also failed inclearing the dues of labourers,they blamed further.
The number of unemploy-ment is rapidly rising in thestate and the government hasfailed in generating employ-ment to sort out this acute cri-sis, they blamed adding, insteadof providing employment tounemployed youths, the gov-ernment has added to theirwoes by deciding the recruit-ment in government depart-ments on the five-year contrac-tual basis.
The government promisesof investment at large-scalebut in reality, the developmenthas come to a grinding halt inthe state. The weavers arealready facing financial crunch
due to lockdown and instead ofaddressing their problems, thegovernment has hiked electric-ity tariff, they blamed adding,moreover, the government hasa proposal of privatising thePVVNL. The law and order sit-uation has come to its worstand the government has virtu-ally failed in controlling thecrime, they blamed adding,the exploitation of party work-ers has increased during the lastfew months.
They demanded, the gov-ernment should realise electrictariff from weavers at flat rate,reconsider its decision to makeprivatisation of PVVNL, takeinitiative to generate employ-ment for unemployed youths inorder to lower their miseries,reconsider its decision on con-tractual basis recruitment, stopthe exploitation of party work-ers, check the crime effective-ly, waive off five months schoolfee of students, restore old sys-tem of admission to SC stu-dents in BEd and other cours-es, etc. They submitted a mem-orandum of their demands tothe representative of the DM tobe forwarded to the Governor.Ex-state minister Manoj RaiDhoopchandi, Sujit Yadav,Vishnu Sharma and othersjoined the demonstration.
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To mark its 11th anniversary,the Utkarsh Small Finance
Bank Limited (USFBL) onMonday launched its combobranch with new banking ser-vices at Sigra here. The bank asan NBFC MFI also startedgroup loans with four branch-es of district.
District Magistrate KaushalRaj Sharma formally inaugurat-ed the new branch and appre-ciated the efforts put in byUtkarsh in the area of financialinclusion for the last 11 years.He also recognised the effortsput in by the bank during theCOVID-19 pandemic by serv-ing their customers on panIndia basis. The bank has alsoparticipated in various govern-ment initiatives like PMSVANidhi Yojana by makingloans available at affordablerates to the needy sections ofthe society. The bank disbursed7 loans under the PMSVANidhi Yojana, amongstother loans.
The bank’s customers atSigra branch can now avail thebank’s services and depositproducts including savingsbank account, term depositsand recurring deposits. TheUSFBL caters to more than 27lakh customers through its 523banking outlets spread acrossmore than 175 districts of 16States & 2 Union Territoriesand served by more than 8,700employees.
Speaking on occasion,Govind Singh, MD & CEO,USFBL, said, ‘We are pleased to
expand our footprint bylaunching the new concept ofcombo branch at Varanasi inUttar Pradesh.’ The focus hasalways been to reach out andserve the marginalised andunbanked. With its branchinfrastructure, digital bankingcapabilities and ATM network,the bank provides integratedcustomer service’.
The bank provides accessto financial assistance and cred-it to the underprivileged, whileserving other segments of thesociety. The launch of thiscombo branch in Varanasi,coinciding with the completionof 11 years of Utkarsh’s journey,is aligned with the bank’s strat-egy to extend its reach and offervarious financial services
including current and savingsaccount, fixed and recurringdeposits, loans, credit, insur-ance and investment productsto customers across our net-work. The customers can accessbanking services through mul-tiple channels like bankingoutlets, 24*7 ATM, internetbanking, mobile banking andcall centre. As Utkarsh expandsinto newer markets and geo-graphies, it continues to widenits customer base. The bankofficials, observing social dis-tancing norms, were presentduring the event. The USFBLstarted its banking operationsin January 2017 post receivingthe final license from ReserveBank of India. Prior to that,Utkarsh was operating as a
micro finance institution underNBFC – MFI license. It is aScheduled Commercial Bankhaving received the scheduledstatus in November 2017. Apartfrom banking services, Utkarshalso provides corporate socialservices through UtkarshWelfare Foundation (UWF),which aims at providing finan-cial awareness to thousands ofunserved people in the ruralarea. The CSR initiatives with‘UWF’ focus on education(financial awareness) andhealth (poly clinics with mobilevan) activities. It also under-takes vocational training withmarket linkage and organisesblood donation camps andsupports orphanages and elder-ly homes.
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Under Hindi Pakhwada pro-gramme of the North
Central Zone Cultural Centre(NCZCC) a musical renderingof the creations of all time greatHindi poets was organisedonline. The programmeHindotsav-2020 included sig-nature poems of Kabir, Meera,Nirala, Dinkar, MahadeviVerma, Shivmangal SinghSuman, Bachchan and AshokChakradhar and were sung byChinmayee Tripathi and JoyelMukhernee from Mumbai.
The NCZCC DirectorIndrajit Grover welcomed theartistes and the audience andhighlighted the importance ofHindi Pakhwada.
The programme beganwith Ramdhari Singh Dinkar’srevolutionary poem Kalam AajUnki Jay Ho, rendered byChinmayee Tripathi. This was
followed by Nirala’s BaandhoNa Naav Is ghaat Bandhu,Dinkar’s Rashmi Rathi,Mahadevi’s Jaa Re Tujhko DoorJaanaa Hai, AshokChakradhar’s Mhare HibadaMein Uthe Re Hilor, Bachchan’sPagala Mallah, and ShivmangalSingh Suman’s PatavaarToofano Ki Or Ghumado.Bhajans of Meera and Kabirwere also rendered on theoccasion.
While extending vote ofthanks the programmeincharge Madhukant Mishrarecited Vah Todati Patthar.
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In the case of corona infec-tion, Sunday was a big relief.
On this day, the number ofnewly infected people camedown to 300 after 27 days,while the number of peoplerecovering was more than thenew patients for the sixth con-secutive day. The recovery ratereached 78 per cent on Sunday.However, four people died dueto infection.
CMO Dr GS Bajpai saidthat a total of 272 new infec-tions were found on Sunday.With this, the figure of coronapatients in the district hasincreased to 16,687. and 13,010people have been cured so far.A total of 369 people becameinfection-free on Sunday. Ofthem, 31 people were dis-charged from the hospital,while the home isolation of 338was completed.
Those who were dis-charged included six from therailway hospital, one from Beli,eight from two private hospi-tals and 16 from the SRNHospital. This has also reducedthe number of active caseswhich stands at 3,432. Thereare 3,110 people in home iso-lation, while 322 people areadmitted in different hospitals.As many as 151 patients admit-ted in SRN Hospital, 55 inRailway Hospital, 25 in CovidCare Centre Kalindipuram, 12in Unani Medical College, 87 intwo private hospitals and 49 inBeli Hospital.
According to the Healthdepartment report, the number
of newly infected people hascome down to 300 in 24 hoursafter 27 days. Earlier, on August24, 260 patients were found inone day. Since then the figurehas been consistently morethan 300.
Meanwhile the testing forCOVID-19 haS been startedwith a new and advanced tech-nology CT scan machine inSRN Hospital from Sunday. Itis housed in the PMSSY build-ing. This will only test Covidpatients. Physicians said thatthis will further ease the treat-ment of Covid patients.
Principal of Moti LalNehru Medical College, Dr SPSingh said that CT scanmachine was constantly beingdemanded by the doctors. After
the approval from the govern-ment, the CT scan machinewas installed and operated onSunday. This machine isequipped with new and mod-ern technology. Even after thepatient is in the same position,the body will be scanned andreported back. This will only doa CT scan of corona patients.There is already a CT scanmachine in the old building forother patients.
Dr. Mohit Jain, incharge ofPMSSY Building said that thesystem has been developed inadvance for the report. Afterthe scan, the report can betransmitted directly to the con-cerned physician present in theICU or other wards.
Dr Jain further informed
that more than 50 per cent ofthe patients admitted are thosewho need CT scan. With itsintroduction, infection in thelangs can now be easily detect-ed in patients. The first CT scanwith this new machine wasdone for the patient admittedin Covid ward number 13.This was followed by a CT scanof 10 more patients. Duringthis period, the Principal of thecollege, Dr SP Singh,Superintendent of SwaroopRani Nehru Hospital, Dr AKSrivastava, Vice-Principal Dr.VK Pandey, SuperintendentCovid Dr Mohit. Jain, Dr SBYadav, Dr Santosh Singh,Superintendent GautamTripathi etc were present on theoccasion.
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As many as 150 newCOVID-19 cases have
been detected in the district onMonday, increasing the totalnumber of cases to 11,771.Besides, the district also sawone more death, increasingthe toll to 191. During the day,the follow-up negative reportsincluded 160 patients and all ofthem recovered from homeisolation, increasing the num-ber to 7,394 as none of thepatients has been dischargedfrom the hospital and the num-ber of cured patients from thehospitals remained at 2,611.The total number of curedpatients is now 9,965, leaving1,615 active patients. Therecovery rate has improved to84.65 per cent and mortalityrate to 1.62 per cent.
Meanwhile, the testingthrough antigen kits has inten-sified not only in the districtbut also in all the 10 districts ofthree division of this belt ofPurvanchal (eastern UP). Bythe morning report, in Varanasithe total of 1,69,951 reportsreceived whereas by a day ago,in this region, the number oftests has inched close to 10lakh-mark as it was 9,92,188.For the last many days, testingis being done at many govern-ment hospitals including ShriShiv Prasad Gupta (SSPG)
Hospital, adjacent GovernmentWomen’s Hospital, LBSHospital Ramnagar,Vivekanand Hospital Bhelupur,Shivpur CHC and manyUPHCs and PHCs apart fromother places under mass/ groupantigen testing on the instruc-tions of District Magistrate(DM) Kaushal Raj Sharma.
Even on Sunday whenOPDs of government hospitalswere closed, the testing wasdone by Health departmentpersonnel at many places asone person was found positiveout of 48 tests done atPanchganga Ghat. However,in all the 359 tests done at twobranches of Sant AtulanandPublic School at Shivpur and
Koirajpur, 198 in Ramnagar, 21at Prahlad Ghat and Rajghatand 19 at Konia UPHC, all thetests were negative. Besides,Chief Medical Officer (CMO)Dr VB Singh has informed thatthe Health department has dis-tributed 8,720 ivermectintablets to 1,090 persons. So far,8.95 lakh tablets were distrib-uted to 1.11 lakh persons andout of them, 7.05 lakh tabletsto 88,189 persons were distrib-uted only by the Health depart-ment while rest of tablets byother departments includingSupply and Education depart-ments and Civil Defence so far.
CMO has also informedthat in the first report of the dayby11 am, 101 positive patients
were detected out of 1,601reports received. Till then, thetotal test reports received were1,69,951 and the results of4,213 are awaited.
Out of them, 1,58,229 werenegative while 11,722 positive.The total number of samplescollected was 1,84,428. Earlier,a male aged 60 from SaraiNandan succumbed to Covid-19 at SSH BHU, while a female(60) from Khojwa died at DDUHospital.
Besides, with the additionof nine new red zones, the totalnumber of hotspots hasincreased to 1,897 including382 red zones. During the dayno green zone has been con-verted into a red zone again.There are 1,515 green zonesincluding 12 new ones.
Earlier, in this region 479new cases were found onSunday and maximum 162cases were detected in Varanasi,followed by 65 in Ballia, 57 inAzamgarh, 47 in Jaunpur, 35 inMau, 31 in Sonbhadra, 27 inGhazipur, 24 in Chandauli, 18in Mirzapur and 13 in Bhadohi.During the day, as many as 554patients were recovered eitherduring home isolation or fromthe hospitals. The total numberof cases has increased to 40,480and overall recovered rate con-tinued above 85 percent andmortality rate around 1.32 percent.
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�34 �! ������ ����������"�����ALLAHABAD (PNS): NorthCentral Railway is observingSwachhta Pakhwara fromSeptember 16 to October 2.Besides intensive sanitisationand cleanliness drives in differ-ent areas; creating awareness isan integral and important partof ongoing Swachhta Pakwara.In this connection a rally-cum-awareness campaign wasorganised by St JohnAmbulance Brigade to createawareness in railway colonies.
Under the aegis of NCRCentral Hospital Prayagraj,members of St JohnAmbulance Brigade distrib-uted mask, sanitiser, and pam-phlets on COVID-19 relatedprecautions in GRP, Malgodam
and other Railway colonies atPrayagraj. During the cam-paign residents of railwaycolonies were informed onimportance of social distancingnorms, use of face cover/masks, hand washing and per-sonal hygiene habits. Railwayemployee and their familymembers were also made awareon symptoms of COVID-19and advised to visit Centralhospital Prayagraj for furtherscreening in case they havesymptoms like cough, fever.
Brigade members advisedresidents in colonies that theyneed not be afraid of COVID-19 and urged them to follow allCOVID-19 guidelines givenby central and state govern-
ment. This rally-cum-aware-ness campaign was coordinat-ed and organised by CMSPraygraj Dr Sumant Bhal,ACMS Prayagraj Dr RakeshNigam, Sr DMO(Health) DrParvej , members of St JohnAmbulance Brigade PavanKumar Yadav, Alok KumarVerma, Uday Chandra Maurya.
On Swachh Hospital Diwasbeing observed on September21 and 22 intensive cleaning,sanitisation and disinfectionhave been undertaken in hos-pitals and health units of NorthCentral Railway. DuringCOVID-19, sanitisation andcleanliness of healthcare facil-ities has been a thrust area andso far, more than 600 formal
and informal training sessionscovering ICE and sanitisationhave been conducted for doc-tors, paramedical and otherstaff of Railway hospitals overNCR. As on September 20,2020 more than 14,000 Railwayemployees and their familymembers have been screenedin five separate clinics beingoperated in Railway hospitals toscreen patients with COVID-19 like symptoms. As onSeptember 20 approximately30,000 PPE coveralls, 2.5 lakhthree ply masks, 47,000 N 95masks, 1.92 lakh gloves, 26,000shoe covers, 35,000 gogglesand 36,000 face shields havebeen made available in differ-ent hospitals on NCR.
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On the entire IndianRailways and on the direc-
tive of direction of DivisionalRailway Manager (DRM) VijayKumar Panjiar on Varanasidivision the ‘Swachchata RailSwachh Bharat Pakhwada’ isbeing organised fromSeptember 16 to 30. Under iton Varanasi division CleanStation Day wasobserved onSunday. Duringthe day an effortwas made tomake stationsclean underwhich an exten-sive cleanlinesscampaign wasrun by designatedofficers in apartfrom A-1 and Acategory stations in all theremaining B and D categorystations like Sarnath, Banaras,Varanasi City, Audihar, Siwan,Ballia, Bhatni, Yusufpur,Nandganj, Ghazipur City,Azamgarh, Didarganj, Fariha,Sathiaon, Chhapra Rural,Dullahapur, Durondha, Ekma,Ghughuli, Gyanpur Road,Hathua, Kaptanganj, Khadda,Kiriharapur, Lar Road,Muhammadabad, Sahatwar,Thave and Chhapra Junction
stations. On the day the use ofplastic at the above stations waschecked by the officials ofVaranasi division in order tomake the station premises freefrom it. The toilets, bathrooms,drains, section tracks, plat-form drainage, passenger toi-lets, pay and use ones, passen-ger halls and circulating areasof all the stations were freedfrom plastic abandonment and
intensive cleaning was done.During this period, the desig-nated officials and seniorsupervisors did intensiveinspection and ensured theavailability of separate dustbinsfor dry and wet waste, suitableuniforms for the cleaning staffand saw to it that the stationplatforms were garbage free.They also saw the cleaningequipment and ensured theuninterrupted supply at waterbooths and smooth drainage
with cleanliness. Disinfectionand sanitisation too was doneby following the Covid-19rules. During this campaign thepassengers found littering thetrains were fined and let offwith a strict warning. Duringthis period feedback was alsotaken from the passengers inthe context of maintainingcleanliness at the stations. Theywere told that during the jour-
ney theyshould alwaysremain awareabout the dis-eases causedby spreadingdirt in trainsand on sta-tions. Theywere alsogiven themessage tomake other
passengers aware about clean-liness. During this campaignthrough posters, banners, streetplays etc awareness was beingspread about hygiene in stationpremises. Through publicaddress system passengers arebeing made aware of cleanli-ness in stations and trains dur-ing the journey and an appealwas being made to make oth-ers aware about cleanliness,Public Relations Officer (PRO)Ashok Kumar said.
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Police under the leadershipof SHO Padari Venkatesh
Tiwari arrested four accused,recovered 125 bags of DAP fer-tiliser and seized a DCM truckon Sunday. Giving details, ASPSanjay Kumar said that thepolice teams were alreadyactive for working out the casesince an FIR had been lodgedat Padari police station onAugust 24 about the theft offertiliser from Parasanpurcooperative godown. Underthe investigation the policewas collecting the clue when onSunday morning on beingtipped off by an informer aboutthe presence of a DCM truckloaded with fertilser bags at astone crusher the police raid-ed the site located at Bhenduahillock in Chaandleva villageunder Padari police station.The ASP said that the accusedconfessed that after the theftthey had hidden the fertiliser ata mining site and were waitingfor a suitable time for disposeit of. But after loading thetruck when they started mov-ing they were caught by thepolice. The accused were iden-tified as Ramlakhan Patel, a res-ident of Bujahaan village underMandhata police station inPratapgarh, Arjun Patel, a res-ident of Raipur village underCity Kotwali, Pratapagarh,Deepak Patel, a resident ofHatimpur village under Soraonpolice station in Prayagraj andVeerendra Patel, a resident ofVeerbhanpur village underHolagarh police station inPrayagraj. For successfullyworking out the case the policeteam was awarded a cash prizeof �5,000. An earlier reportsaid that the Padari police havearrested one accused alongwith stolen goods worth lakhsof rupees recently. As per thereceived reports, SHO Padari
was on patrolling duty when hewas tipped off by informer thatsome persons were trying tosell some electronic goods atlow cost in Mohanpur Pahadivillage. At the information thepolice swung into action whichwas already investigating thecase of theft in a mobile shopat Sikari village which was reg-istered a few days ago and raid-ed the place. Seeing the police,two persons managed to fleebut one was caught. When thesuspect was interrogated hetold the police about the stockof stolen items and revealedabout his accomplices whohad fled from the scene. Onclues provided by him policerecovered a laptop, 17 androidmobile phones, 10 keypadphones, data cables, monitor,UPS etc. The accused was iden-tified as Ramashankar aliasChhotu Patel, a resident ofSurhuruvaan village underPadari police station. After com-pleting the legal formalities thepolice sent the accused to jail.
PROPERTY CONFIS-CATED: Jamalpur police con-fiscated the property worth �30lakhs of a cattle smuggler onSunday. As per the receivedreports, Jamalpur police hadinvoked G a n g s t e r Ac tagainst Siraj Khan, son ofRiyaj Khan, a resident ofBakharia vi l lage underAuraiya police station in
Auraiya district, for cattlesmuggling. On the report ofSO Jamalpur, on the recom-mendation of SP and on theapproval of the DM the orderfor the confiscation of truck NoUP 77-AN/0207 was compliedwith under Gangster Act.About the recovery of truck theSO Vijay Shankar Saroj saidthat it was seized by the policeearlier when cattle was beingsmuggled in it.
THREE DIE: As many asthree persons lost their lives inthe district in separate incidentsrecently. As per the reportsreceived here, Badama Devi(55), wife of Mukhlal Bind, aresident of Devhat villageunder Halia police station, wasbitten by a snake which washiding in her house. Thereaftera snake charmer Bahadur (55)was called but he too also bit-ten by the snake. The villagerssomehow managed to catch thesnake but Badama andBahadur could not be savedand died. In another case,Lalbahadur Bind (30), a resi-dent of Aghawar village underPadari police station, was runover by a train at Aamghatrailway crossing in the morn-ing recently. On beinginformed about the matter, thepolice reached the spot, tookthe body of the victim into cus-tody and completed the legalformalities.
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On the directive ofSuperintendent of Police
(SP) Yashveer Singh andAdditional Superintendentof Police (ASP) DrAwadhesh police appre-hended one accused alongwith 1.35 kg ganja. Sub-inspector (S-I) DivyaprakashTiwari, Hadrukh outpostincharge arrested theaccused Golu alias YogendraBalmiki from five km southof Harsinghpur village underKuthond police station.Police lodged a first infor-
mation report (FIR) againstthe accused under Section18/20 of the Narcotics Drugsand Pscyhotropic Substances(NDPS) Act.
Meanwhile the OraiKotwali police arrested oneaccused along with 30 litresof illicit liquor. Police arrest-ed Imran, a native ofIndiranagar Mohalla, Orai,and confiscated 30 litres ofillicit liquor from his pos-session. Inspector JP PalKotwali Orai incharge saidthat the name of the accusedfigured in the list of top-10criminals.
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The Northern CoalfieldsLimited (NCL), a minirat-
na company of theGovernment of India, undercorporate social responsibility(CSR) through skill develop-ment is doing remarkablework in the direction ofempowerment of women andtheir self-reliance in its sur-rounding areas. In the samesequence Block B area of NCLduring the Covid-19-generat-ed crisis trained over 20women to stitch masks andprovided them self-employ-ment opportunities. Besidesthe Block B area purchasedmore than 10,000 masks
made by these women undercorporate social responsibil-ity and distributed themamong the needy peoplebelonging to the nearby areasin view of Covid-19 pan-demic. It may be pointed out
here that the Block B area hadearlier trained these youngwomen under CSR in sewingand embroidery. As a resultthese young women were lead-ing their lives with respect andearning through sewing work.
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A30-year-old man died whenhis tractor overturned near
Mamari village under the Madihanpolice station recently.
According to a report receivedhere, Anup Kumar Singh, a residentof Pachokhara village underMadihan police station, died whenhis tractor suddenly overturnednear Mamari village. On gettinginformation, the Madihan policereached the spot and took the bodyof the victim into custody for com-pleting the legal formalities.
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Anotorious criminal escapedfrom police custody at
Chamanganj police station onMonday morning.
Police were conductingraids to arrest him.
He was found involved inaround 25 cases registeredagainst him at different policestations of the city, includingChamanganj, Begumganj,Colonelganj and Bajaria forloot, theft and fraud.
Chamanganj SHO RajBahadur Singh said Javed aliasJugunu, after his release fromthe jail about two monthsback, had again started com-mitting crime with his gangmembers. During patrollingon Sunday evening, he wasarrested and put in the lock-up.
Around 8:30 am onMonday, Javed wanted to go totoilet to ease himself. Whenconstable Kishanlal was takinghim to the toilet, Javedthrashed him and escaped.He was chased by Kishan Lal,Nitesh Kumar and Rahul post-
ed at the police station butmanaged to flee.
The issue was brought to
the notice of higher police offi-cers. After lodging an FIRagainst
Javed, two teams weredeputed to arrest him.
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Aman, who broke into ahouse with malintention
late Sunday night, was batteredto death in Paras village inGhatampur Kotwali policearea.
During questioning bypolice, the villagers disclosedthat the deceased oftenindulged in obscene acts.
According to reports,Guddan Singh (45) of Paras vil-lage was a bachelor. LateSunday night he broke into thehouse of a neighbour andentered the room of a womanwith malintention. Seeing himthere, when the woman raisedalarm, the local residentsrushed to the spot and caughtGuddan and brutally beat himup.
The police took the uncon-scious Guddan to the commu-nity health centre but he suc-cumbed to his injuries on theway.
Police took many villagersinto custody and were carryingout investigation.
SHO Satyadeo Shara saidGuddan had entered the neigh-bour’s house to commit theft.
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Kanpur DevelopmentAuthority plans to offer
cheaper flats and plots to thecitizens during Diwali festivalseason.
KDA Executive EngineerAshu Mittal said on the direc-tives of the developmentAuthority’s Vice ChairmanRakesh Kumar Singh, theyplanned to offer cheaper flatsand plots to the citizens in var-ious schemes during Diwali fes-tival season. He said the actionplan was being prepared witha list of vacant plots for sale.
The plots available for saleare in Jawaharpuram andShatabdi Nagar schemes.
For the plots available inthese two schemes, the KDAmay organise lottery to sellthem.
In the Jawaharpuramscheme, there are 200 plotssuiting everybody’s require-ments. Priority would be givento sale of 90 disputed plotswhile the remaining plotswould be sold through lottery.The cost of these plots rangesfrom ��30,000 to ��32,000 persquare metre.
In the Shatabdi Nagarscheme, there are 150 plots andthey will cost ��25,000 persquare metre.
The cost of 800 flats avail-able in the scheme ranges from��7.50 lakh to ��12 lakh,according to Mittal.
During a meeting with theofficers, the KDA vice chair-man directed them to identifythe vacant plots for sale.
Meanwhile, efforts are onto sell 2,000 flats to the policedepartment. Exchange of cor-respondence with the stateadministration has alreadybeen started. A letter has alsobeen sent to the additional chiefsecretary to approve the pur-chase of 2,000 flats wortharound ��500 crore.
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In a midnight swoop on theLLR Covid Hospital, District
Magistrate Alok Tiwari foundover half-a-dozen doctors miss-ing and the control roomlocked.
The crackdown came inthe wake of the death of eightCOVID-19 patients onSunday.
The district magistrateexpressed shock and concernover the mismanagement inthe LLR Hospital and hasapprised Chief Minister YogiAdityanath of the situation.
The three-member teamled by District MagistrateAlok Tiwari and having ChiefDevelopment Officer MaheshKumar and AdditionalDistrict Magistrate (Supplies)Basant Lal as the other mem-bers, found several irregular-ities in the hospital.
Meanwhile, the juniordoctors strongly protested thehigh-handed attitude of thedistrict magistrate andgheraoed GSVM MedicalCollege Principal Dr RBKamal in the morning.
District Magistrate AlokTiwari, since taking overcharge of the district, hasbeen constantly raiding gov-ernment and private hospitals,pathologies, gas suppliers inthe wake of large-scale corruptpractices being adopted bythem.
The arrival of the districtmagistrate and his team at theLLR Hospital at 12:00 mid-night came as a big surpriseand caught the medical staffand doctors off the guard. Thedoctors initially did not allowthe team to enter the ICU unit
on the third floor but the teambarged in and came to knowabout the absence of seniordoctors, including anaes-thetists, and half-a-dozenjunior doctors.
The district magistratesaid that in the absence ofdoctors, including anaes-thetists, eight critical COVID-19 patients died in the hospi-tal which was gross negligenceand needed strictest actionagainst the erring medicalofficials.
Tiwari said in view ofviolation of Covid protocol, itwas felt that there need to con-duct raids to find out the facts.He said the team entered thehospital wearing full person-
al protective equipment (PPE)kits and did not violate anyhospital norms.
The district magistratesaid the medical staff at thehospital, when caught red-handed, resorted to blamegame. He said if there wassupply of sub-standard PPEkits, it should be brought tothe notice of the authorities.
Tiwari said eight doctorsbeing absent from duty anddeath of eight patients that daydemanded legal and discipli-nary action. He said recom-mendations had already beenmade to higher authoritiesalong with the raid report.
The district magistratesaid there had been many
complaints against LLRHospital by the relatives ofpatients admitted there andeven those who had died. Hesaid the main concern of therelatives of the patients wasthat as their patient was insidethe ICU, they were not awareof what was going on insidethe ICU, nor were they awareif their patient was beingattended to or not.
Tiwari said surprisingly,the control room which wasrequired to function 24 hoursa day and seven days a weekwas found locked. He saidduring the raid there was noteven one official who couldinform them who had the keyof the locked control room.
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Chief Medical Officer Dr AKMishra said that in view of
the sudden increase in oxygendemand, it had been decided toset up a 20,000 litre liquid oxy-gen plant at the LLR Hospital.
Dr Mishra said currentlyover 170 COVID-19 patientswere admitted at the LLRH
and thus there was anincreased demand of oxygen.He said in the neurosciencecentre alone, the requirementof liquid oxygen was maxi-mum and thus it had beendecided to set up a bigger liq-uid oxygen plant.
The CMO said the con-stant inspections and surpriseraids had brought trans-
parency in the working and in18 days of September alone,contact tracing and samplecollection had increased in thedistrict.
Dr Mishra said in UttarPradesh, Lucknow was at thetop in detection of confirmedcoronavirus positive cases,followed closely by KanpurNagar. He admitted that
COVID-19 deaths were morein Kanpur Nagar compared toLucknow.
He said to break the coro-navirus chain, contact tracingwas under focus and thoseidentified positive were alsoprovided treatment.
He said the recovery ratein Kanpur Nagar was alsoquite encouraging.
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Lala Lajpat Rai Hospital,which has the highest num-
ber of COVID-19 deaths inKanpur Nagar and over twodozen complaints of corruptpractices in different areas, hasearned notoriety. The constantvisits of the chief secretary,principal secretaries, medicaland health director and districtofficials to the hospital and fre-quent shifting of doctors andother medical personnel sub-stantiates the charge.
Despite the best efforts, theCOVID-19 deaths continue to
be the highest at the LLRH.During Chief Secretary RK
Tiwari’s visit to LLR Hospital,a CCTV footage was shown inwhich ward boys and safaikarmacharis were seen carry-ing out Covid test in the labo-ratory. The senior doctorscared two hoots to enter orcross-check the reports. Theissue was swept beneath thecarpet on account of politicalinfluence and it was claimed bythe hospital authorities that“just for fun”, the ward boyswere conducting test in theCovid laboratory. It was a seri-ous offence yet nothing hap-
pened on the issue.District Magistrate Alok
Tiwari on Sunday summonedall the doctors from the ICUunit for verification as therewere reports that due to thePPE kits covering one fromhead to toe, it was difficult torecognise the doctors or para-medical staff on duty.
There were reports thatdoctors played truant and theward boys and safai karma-charis sat in the ICU posing asdoctors.
On Sunday, the doctorstried to resist coming out of theICU and removing the PPE
kits. However, the adamantdistrict magistrate made themremove the PPE kits and foundthat half-a-dozen doctors wereabsent from the ICU duty.
Another corruption issuewas the supply of sub-standardventilators, PPE kits, opacity inperforming tests honestly in thelaboratory and all this hadtogether been the reason for theconstant high death rate inLLR Hospital.
Although the district mag-istrate refused to disclose anydetails of the midnight raid, itwas said that he had foundgrave irregularities.
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Kanpur Nagar reported 263fresh cases of coronavirus
infection till Monday evening.Chief Medical Officer Dr
AK Mishra said 263 morepeople had tested positive forcoronavirus infection betweenSunday evening and Mondayevening, taking the count ofconfirmed cases to 23,146.He said a total of 79 cases weredischarged and 6015 COVID-19 patients had been cured inthe city so far, and atpresent 4690 active coron-avirus cases were undergoingtreatment.
The CMO said 7COVID-19 deaths werereported in the city til lMonday evening taking thetoll to 603.
He said a total of 7128samples were sent for testingin the district.
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Scientists at the CSIR-Centrefor Cellular and Molecular
Biology (CCMB) in Hyderabadhave analysed more than 2,000SARS-CoV-2, the virus thatcauses Covid-19 genomes fromIndia available in the publicdomain to understand the var-ious strains in circulation.
The clade or genetic groupcirculating in India has 70 percent similarity with the majorstrain around the world, hence, one vaccine or drug is suffi-cient to fight it, they said.
Earlier in June, the teamhad revealed the presence of adistinct virus populationamong Indians. This wasnamed the clade I/A3i, and isrecognised by the presence of4 specific variations in theirgenetic makeup (genomes).
At that time, 41 per cent ofall Indian SARS-CoV-2
genomes belonged to this clade.However, the current
analysis showed that the pro-portion of the A3i cladedropped to 18 per cent, it said.The findings of the study donewith scientists from CSIR-Institute of Integrative Biologyas collaborators, are now peer-reviewed and published in thejournal Open Forum InfectiousDiseases published by theOxford University Press.
The decrease in the pro-portion of A3i clade is accom-panied by an increase of theA2a clade, also referred to asthe G clade or the 20A/B/Cclades in other nomenclatures.
Viruses of the A2a or the Gclade carry the D614G muta-tion in their spike proteinwhich is shown to be associat-ed with an increased infectiv-ity.
At present, approximately70 per cent of all Indian as well
as global SARS-CoV-2genomes fall into this clade.“As expected for a strain whichis more infectious, A2a cladequickly became the dominantclade in India just like every-where else. There is no evi-dence to state that this muta-tion is clinically a more diffi-cult one,” Dr Rakesh K Mishra,Director, CCMB and a co-author of the study said.
“The similarity in viralgenome globally should beconsidered a positive news,because a vaccine or a drugtargeting this mutation willwork with the same effective-ness all over the world,” headded.
It is, however, important tonote that no clade at presenthas been conclusively shownto be associated with a moresevere form of COVID-9, oran increased risk of death, saidthe scientists.
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As the number of coron-avirus cases in India
mounts and demand formedical facilities increases,a survey by LocalCirclessaid that only four per centpatients were able to get aCovid-19 ICU bed throughthe routine process, while 78per cent had to use connectionsand clout. Another four percent said they did not get anICU bed at all.
After receiving many com-plaints from citizens fromacross the country about theirfamily friends or associatesnot being able to find an ICUbed at a government or privatehospital, LocalCircles con-ducted a survey to get citizen’spulse on the issue and receivedover 17,000 responses from
citizens located in over 211 dis-tricts of the country.
On experiences of peoplein their social network withregard to getting a COVID-19ICU bed, 55 per cent citizenssaid that they did not have anyperson in their network whoneeded it.
Thirty eight per centrespondents said they had touse clout to secure an ICU bedwhile seven per cent said theyhad to follow up extensively tosecure the ICU bed.
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The Lok Sabha on Mondaypassed the amendments to
the Foreign Contribution(Regulation) Act, 2010 thatseek to make Aadhaar manda-tory for NGOs to receive for-eign funds. The amendmentsaim to streamline the provi-sions of the FCRA by strength-ening the compliance mecha-nism and enhancing trans-parency and accountability inthe receipt and utilisation offoreign contribution worththousands of crores of rupeesevery year, said MoS HomeAffairs Nityanand Rai.
The amendments will limitthe use of foreign fundsreceived under FCRA foradministrative purposes fromthe current limit of 50% to20%. Also, Aadhaar card willbe mandatory for all officebearers of NGOs and otherorganisations which are seek-ing funds from foreign sources.
“The annual inflow of for-eign contribution has almostdoubled between the years2010 and 2019, but manyrecipients of foreign contribu-tion have not utilised the samefor the purpose for which theywere registered or grantedprior permission under thesaid Act. Many of them werealso found wanting in ensuringbasic statutory compliancessuch as submission of annualreturns and maintenance ofproper accounts,” the proposed
amendment States. “This has led to a situation
where the Central Government had to cancelcertificates of registration ofmore than 19,000 recipientorganisations, including non-governmental organisations,
during the period between 2011 and2019,” it added.
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Parliament on Mondaypassed the Insolvency and
Bankruptcy Code (IBC) Billproviding reliefs to companiesfacing insolvency due to thelockdown. Rajya Sabha hadalready passed the Bill. FinanceMinister told Lok Sabha whilereplying to the debate on IBC(Second Amendment Bill) thatthe Government passedOrdinance to protect the com-panies facing insolvency casesdue to the Lockdown. “Manycountries changed rules due tothe Lockdown to protect thecompanies who were facinginsolvency cases and recoverycases .
These amendments weremainly to stop the recoveriesand extension of time limit dueto Lockdown,” she said,explaining why Governmentbrought Ordinance and need-ed to accommodate theamendments.
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Parliament on Mondaypassed the Epidemic
Diseases (Amendment) Bill2020 to include Covid-19 pan-demic in the list of epidemicdiseases and also include thestringent punishments to thoseattack doctors and healthcareworkers. Rajya Sabha hadpassed the Bill earlier. Duringthe pandemic, the Governmenthad issued an Ordinance toprotect doctors and healthcareworkers after a series of reportsof attacks against them. HealthMinister Harsh Vardhanthanked the Lok Sabha MPs forpassing the Bill unanimouslyand said society must observezero-tolerance to any form ofviolence against healthcare ser-vice personnel and damage toproperty. As per its provisions,the commission or abetment ofsuch acts of violence will bepunishable with an imprison-ment for a term of threemonths to five years, and witha fine of �50,000 to �2,00,000.
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Asserting that it had a clearmajority in the Rajya Sabha
during the passage of the farmBills, the Government onMonday described the behav-iour of Opposition members inthe Rajya Sabha as “veryshameful and irresponsible” asalso their refusal to leave thehouse despite the Chairman’sorder to suspend them onMonday. The Government alsopointed out that there isenough visual evidence that theDeputy Chairman would havebeen nearly physically assault-ed had the Marshals not pro-tected him.
Union minister RaviShankar Prasad said the con-duct of leaders of oppositionparties was “illegal” and viola-tive of all parliamentary normsand rules and accused theCongress of double standardson the issues including contractfarming.
“The Government had aclear majority yesterday, 110present members were sup-porting the Agriculture Billsand only 72 were opposing. Wehad a decisive majority...theiragenda was to stop the House(Rajya Sabha) from passing theBills,” Prasad maintained.
On the Opposition’s claimthat the bills were passed with-out voting on Sunday, Prasad
said the deputy chairman hadasked the members ofParliament (MPs), who went tothe well of the house, to returnto their seats 13 times. He saiddiscussion went on peacefullyfrom 9.30 am to 1.30 pm andafter that the deputy-speakersaid “you want it to go to selectcommittee, I have to put it tomotion and please, go back onyour seats”. “How can votingtake place when you won’t goto your seats,” he asked.
Pointing to the possibilityof the chairman being physi-cally attacked, the Union min-ister said, “Yesterday was ashameful day in parliamenthistory. Mic was broken, aleader of a party tore a rulebook” and the chair came“very close to being physical-ly hurt”. “But for Marshalls,some physical hurt was possi-ble”, he sought to say addingthere is enough visual evi-dence if Marshallls would havenot protected the DeputyChairperson , he would havebeen nearly physically assault-ed.
He said following theirsuspension the oppositionmembers had no right to stayback in the house which theydid on Sunday. He said oncesuspension is ordered there isno discussion allowed andmembers have to exit thehouse.
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An eight-week programmecombining dementia edu-
cation with lifestyle changes todiet, physical activity and cog-nitive engagement throughbrain boosting games can sig-nificantly improve cognitiveperformance and reduce therisk of Alzheimer’s diseaseamong seniors with pre-dementia conditions,researchers have found.
Alzheimer’s disease is aneurological disorder whichcauses problems with memory,thinking skills, and behaviourand is the most common formof dementia.
The study used theBrainHQ app from PositScience for its brain exercisecomponent. Published in theJournal of the AmericanGeriatrics Society, the ran-domised trial assigned 119participants over the age of 65to either an active controlgroup or an intervention group.
The research team foundthat the intervention grouphad a significantly largerreduction in Alzheimer’s risk— using the AustralianNational UniversityAlzheimer’s Disease RiskIndex — than the controlgroup over the duration of thestudy. The size of the riskreduction was clinically sig-nificant, similar to the differ-ence in Alzheimer’s riskbetween a person who hasdiabetes and one who doesn’t.
Memory loss is one of the
earliest symptoms, along witha gradual decline of otherintellectual and cognitivefunctions leading to change ofbehavior, RK Dhamija(Director Professor andHOD), Department ofNeurology at Delhi-basedLady Hardinge MedicalCollege said. He added that asthere is no cure, it is impor-tant that one should take upreading, play brain challeng-ing games like crosswordsand Sudoku, connecting withpeople to keep the mindactive. “Lifestyle diseases suchas diabetes, high blood pres-sure should be strictly con-trolled.
“Since it is a neuro-degen-erative disease, it is thereforeimportant to recognise thesymptoms early. Timely andregular follow-up with a neu-rologist along with good sup-portive care can minimise thesuffering of these patients,” DrDhamija said.
Initial symptoms arememory impairment, word-
finding difficulties during con-servation, patients may forgettheir recent conversation,where they had kept theirwallets, they may even forgetwhether they had food or notor forget bank/ATM pass-words or their way to home.
Around 5 crore peopleare suffering with dementiaand it is estimated that everyyear one crore people withdementia are added , said DrDhamija. In India, 40 lakhpeople are afflicted with theneurodegenerative disease.
“The Government isn’tcurrently prioritising theirneeds, since the medical sys-tem is already burdened withthe responsibility of providingbasic care for infectious ill-nesses, cardiac ailments,oncology problems etc. Butthe Government needs to lookinto this gap in geriatric careon an urgent basis,” said JoyDesai, Director of theNeurology Department atJaslok Hospital & ResearchCentre, Mumbai.
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The CBI has registered a caseagainst Delhi-based private
firm Kwality Ltd and its direc-tors for causing an alleged lossof over �1,400 crore to a con-sortium of banks led by Bank ofIndia.
Following registration ofthe case on September 10, theagency on Monday conductedsearches at the premises of theaccused firm and its directors.
The CBI registered the caseon a complaint from Bank ofIndia against Kwality Ltd andothers including its Directors,and other unknown personsfor causing an alleged loss of�1,400.62 crore to Bank of Indiaand other consortium banks, theagency said.
“It was alleged in the com-plaint that the said accused hadcheated the Bank of India-ledconsortium comprising BOI(lead bank), Canara Bank, Bankof Baroda, Andhra Bank,Corporation Bank, IDBI,Central Bank of India,Dhanlaxmi Bank and SyndicateBank to the tune of �1,400.62core by way of diversion of bankfunds, sham transactions withrelated parties, fabricated docu-ments/receipts, falsified books ofaccounts, created false assets andliabilities among others,” it said.
The searches were con-ducted at eight locations includ-ing Delhi, Saharanpur,Bulandshahr (Uttar Pradesh),Ajmer (Rajasthan) and Palwal(Haryana) at the premises of theprivate company and otheraccused persons in the case.Further investigation is contin-uing, it further said.
Those named as accused inthe case include Kwality Ltd,Sanjay Dhingra, SiddhantGupta, Arun Srivastava andother unknown persons.
According to the FIR, diver-sion/misappropriation of publicmoney by the accused firm andindividuals was done during theperiod 2010-2017.
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The Supreme Court Mondaystayed former Uttar
Pradesh minister GayatriPrasad Prajapati’s interim bail,granted for two months onmedical grounds by theAllahabad High Court, in agang rape case.
The Lucknow bench of theAllahabad High Court onSeptember 3 had granted theinterim bail to Prajapati whowas a minister in the erstwhileSamajwadi Party Government.
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The Government onMonday informed the
Parliament that Pakistan istrying to target Indians work-ing in Afghanistan.
The Government in awritten reply in Lok Sabhasaid that several Indiansworking in development projects in Afghanistan havebeen attacked or kidnapped inthe last 12 years.
Pakistan under the UnitedNations Security CouncilResolution 1267 has also triedto designate four Indiansworking in Afghanistan asterrorists, the Government
reportedly said adding thatthe request was not approved.
“Pakistan has been tar-geting Indian professionalsworking in Afghanistanthrough a variety of ways.Several Indians working inAfghanistan on various development projects havebeen attacked and kidnapped over the past 12years,” Minister of State forExternal Affairs VMuraleedharan said.
“With the assistance of[the] Government ofAfghanistan, India has beenable to secure [the] release ofmany Indians from captivity.In addition, [the] Indian
embassy and its consulateshave also been attacked,” hesaid.
The Government alsoinformed Monday that it hasadopted a multi-pronged approach tos t r e n g t h e nprotection along the Line ofControl (LoC) with Pakistan.In a written reply in RajyaSabha, the Governmentinformed that improved tech-nological sur vei l lance,weapons and equipment forsecurity forces, improvedintel l igence and operational coordination arealso being carried out, report-ed a news agency.
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The ministry of housing andurban affairs (MoHUA)
has received proposals of 392km metro rail from six Stateswith an estimated cost of�1,27,825 crore so far. Theproposals have been receivedfrom Maharashtra, Karnataka,Kerala, Tamil Nadu, remainingthree corridors of Delhi metrophase 4 and Jammu andKashmir.
As per the ministry data,the remaining three corridorsof Delhi Metro Phase IV–Inder lok-Indraprastha ,Rithala-Bawana-Narela, andLajpat Nagar-Saket G Blockcorridors would be 44 kms long
and it would cost Rs 12,635crore. The deadline of the pro-ject is December 2024.
Bangalore Metro RailProject (Phase 2A and 2B) willbe 58 kms long and it wouldcost �14,844 crore. The projectis expected to be completedwithin 45 months from the dateof sanction.
Chennai Metro Rail ProjectPhase –II is 119 kms long andit would cost �63,246 crore.The dealine of this project isJune,2026.
Maharashtra’s metro railprojects include Nagpur,Thane, Pune and Nashik. Thetotal length of these four cities’metro will be 119 kms and itwould cost �22,961 crore.
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The Supreme Court onMonday agreed to hear a
plea which has sought direc-tions to the Centre, all Statesand Union Territories toforthwith re-open allAnganwadi centres in thecountry which were closedamid the COVID-19 pan-demic.
The apex court issuednotices to the Centre, statesand UTs and sought theirresponses on the plea whichhas claimed that functioningof all Anganwadi centres inthe country came to a “suddenhalt” and poor pregnant andlactating women and chil-dren were “left in the lurch”.
“Issue notice, returnablein four weeks. Counsel for thepetitioner is permitted to servea copy of this petition to theoffice of Solicitor General of India,” a benchcomprising Justices AshokBhushan, R S Reddy and M RShah said.
The bench was hearing aplea filed by Maharashtra-based Dipika Jagatram
Sahani who has sought adirection to the Centre, allstates and UTs to “conductgrowth monitoring of chil-dren to document growth inthe wake of the after effectsof the pandemic more par-ticularly malnourishmentamong children and anaemiain girl children and initiatecorrective steps forthwith”.
The petition has said thatthe Centre, states and UTsshould forthwith re-open allAnganwadi centres and pro-vide Angangwadi services inaccordance with the provi-sions of the National FoodSecurity Act, 2013.
“This public interest peti-tion filed under Article 32 ofthe Constitution of India,relates to the closure of theintegrated child developmentservices all across the coun-try, which provided supple-mentary nutrition to preg-nant women, lactating moth-ers, adolescent girls and chil-dren up to the age of 6 years,”it said.
“The Anganwadi centreswhich were running underthis scheme for decades wasclosed down using COVID asan excuse,” it claimed,adding,
“As a result, the most vul-nerable sections of the Indianpopulation suffered malnu-trition nation-wide. Thispetition seeks the re-startingof the Anganwadi centresimmediately.”
It has also sought a direc-tion to the Centre, states andUTs to provide hot cookedmeals, take home rations inconsonance with the provi-sions of the National FoodSecurity Act, 2013 as well asThe Supplementar yNutrit ion (under theIntegrated Child develop-ment Services Scheme) Rules,2020.
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The Government has com-pleted computerisation of
16,845 district and subordi-nate courts, Parliament wasinformed on Monday.
Union Minister of Lawand Justice Ravi ShankarPrasad also said 51,52,921cases were pending in highcourts across the country.
In a written reply to aquery in Lok Sabha, the min-ister said the Governmenthas released �1,459.52 crore to
various organisations involvedin implementation of the pro-ject.
This includes �1,077.76crore released to all highcourts, out of which �790.04crore has been utilized tillAugust 31, he said.
In the 2020-21 fiscal,funds have been released foreSewa Kendras in high courtsand district court complexes,equipment for VC cabins andconnectivity in court com-plexes and creating help deskcounters
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There cannot be a “univer-sal policy” on right to
protest and possible curbs asalso balancing it with acts likeblocking of roads are neededbecause the situation may“vary” from case-to-case, theSupreme Court said onMonday.
The top court’s observa-tion came while reserving theverdict on a batch of pleasagainst the anti-CAA protestswhich had led to blocking ofa road in Shaheen Bagh inthe national capital lastDecember.
The situation normal-ized later due to COVID-19
pandemic fear and subse-quent observance of protocol.
“There were some super-vening circumstances whichcame into play and it was noone’s hand. God almightyitself intervened,” said abench comprising Justices SK Kaul, Aniruddha Bose andKrishna Murari.
Taking note of the sub-missions of lawyers includingShashank Deo Sudhi, thebench said: “We have to bal-ance right to protest and theblocking of roads. We have todeal with the issue. Their cannot be universal policy asthe situation may vary oncase to case basis.
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democracy protest can hap-pen in Parliament and onroads but on road it has to bepeaceful”.
Amit Sahni, one of thelawyers who had filed theplea in the case, said that thiskind of protests should nothave been allowed in thelarger public interest.
“This was allowed tohave continued for more than100 days and people faceddifficulty. This kind of inci-dent should not have happened.
Yesterday in Haryanathere was ‘Chakka Jam’ inHaryana. They have alsocalled Bharat Bandh onSeptember 24-25,” he said.
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The UAE-based arms man-ufacturer Caracal on
Monday renewed its com-mitment to supply 93,895carbines to the Indian Armyunder a deal which has beenpending since 2018.
The Caracal in a state-ment stressed that it is com-mitted to the ‘Make in India’initiative and referred to itsselection for the deal to sup-ply the carbines.
“Caracal has alreadyidentified the required land,facility and local partners tobe able to commence pro-duction immediately.
Over 20 per cent of thecomponents fitted on theCAR 816 are already made inIndia, with Caracal now mak-ing commitment to fully manufacture the rifles in (the)country, in alignment withthe ‘Make in India’ initiative,”the company said in a state-ment.
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The crass attempt by ShivSena to intimidate thenational award-winningactor, Kangana Ranaut,and to demolish her
property without adequate notice,must be condemned by all thosewho cherish democracy and rule oflaw in the country. It is also time totell the Shiv Sena that it does notown Mumbai and no Indian willgrant it the power to issue entry visasfor the city. Mumbai belongs toIndia.
The demolition of the actor’sproperty in Pali Hill area onSeptember 9 for alleged violationswas preceded by repeated threats byparty leaders and some goons, whowarned her not to return to herhome in Mumbai from HimachalPradesh. Among those who adopt-ed such a threatening tone was theState’s Home Minister. In addition,party leaders have hurled filthyabuses at her. Somebody should tellthese worthies to read Article19(1)(d) and (e) of the Constitutionof India which says all citizensshall have the right “to move freelythroughout the territory of India”and “to reside and settle in any partof the territory of India”. The ShivSena must also be told that “we thepeople” are not going to give upthese rights ever and give in to goon-da raj.
The Chief Minister of HimachalPradesh, Jairam Thakur, has right-ly taken up the cudgels on behalf ofRanaut and said that the attitude ofthe Maharashtra Government is“condemnable” and smacks ofvendetta politics. This disrespect to“Himachal’s daughter” is intolerable,he said while ensuring “Y Plus” secu-rity for her. This should alert theMaharashtra Chief Minister to whatlies ahead because nobody will tol-erate this kind of behaviour by ShivSainiks towards citizens hailingfrom other States.
The Bombay High Court hasrightly rapped the municipal corpo-ration on the knuckles and said thedemolition “smacks of malafide” andis “deplorable”. The court noted thatwhat the corporation terms as“unauthorised” construction didnot come up overnight. However,the corporation had suddenlywoken up from its slumber, issueda notice to Ranaut when she was outof the city and proceeded with thedemolition 24 hours later. Further,the court wondered whether themunicipal corporation would actwith “similar swiftness” in respect of
other numerous unauthorisedconstructions. In its order ofSeptember 9, the court hasrecorded in detail the attemptsmade by the municipal corpora-tion to stall the hearing and toprevent it from taking cognisanceof the petition until it had com-pleted the demolition. This isindicative of the arrogance of theexecutive and disrespect for thejudiciary.
The Shiv Sena has to be toldthat it does not own Mumbai.Sainiks have lived in this delusionfor too long. In fact, sevendecades ago, there was a strongargument in favour of makingBombay a Union Territory inview of its cosmopolitan outlookand strategic location.
A memorandum submittedon behalf of the Gujarat ResearchSociety in 1948 to the LinguisticProvinces Commission arguedfor Bombay’s independence. Itsaid “Bombay has been an allIndian city with an internation-al outlook and a distinctive non-provincial culture in which peo-ple from all provinces of Indiaand even foreigners play theirpart…It would, therefore, beunfair to transfer an internation-al port like Bombay to theprovince of Maharashtra ... cre-ated on the narrow ground of aprovincial language.”
The Commission saw merit inthis argument and said:“Nationalism and sub-national-ism are two emotional experi-ences which grow at the expenseof each other.” It said Bombay“should receive special treat-ment and be disposed of in thebest interests of India as a whole”and in its own interest.
The States ReorganisationCommission, which submitted itsreport in September, 1955, alsowarned of the pitfalls of region-al chauvinism. “The Constitutionof India guarantees commoncitizenship to all Indian people.There can, therefore, be only onenationality in India”, it said.
All this eventually convincedthe Centre that Bombay shouldbe a Union Territory and PrimeMinister Jawaharlal Nehru madethe announcement on January16, 1956. SK Patil, the presidentof the Bombay Pradesh CongressCommittee, said “the city wouldbe an oasis in the desert ofregionalism in India” and “ashining example of cosmopoli-tanism and liberal nationalism”.It is, therefore, strange that India’sgrand old party — Nehru’sCongress — which professedsuch liberal values, now sharespower with the Sena but has noinfluence over it.
The Shiv Sena is trying to por-tray Ranaut as a person who is ill-disposed towards Mumbai,Maharashtra and Marathi people.This does not appear to be truealthough there can be issues inregard to her choice of words.Ranaut has not attacked any ofthese entities. Her attack is on theShiv Sena for converting liberalMumbai into a garrison of hate.Nor is the Sena the sole reposi-tory of Chhatrapati Shivaji’s lega-cy. Indians across the worldadore him for his valour, hisnationalism and for his invaluablecontribution towards preservingIndia’s civilisational values. Theattempts by the Shiv Sena toappropriate him and reduce himto an icon of Marathi pride
must, therefore, be resisted. Shiv Sena leaders are also
talking about what Mumbai hasgiven to different professionals,including actors, directors andothers in the cine and televisionworld. They seem to forget whatthese individuals have given toMumbai. The city became whatit is because the best of entrepre-neurs and talented persons inbusiness, trade, manufacturing,entertainment and hospitalitygravitated towards this city,invested billions of rupees andgenerated employment for mil-lions. People from different States— Gujarat, Punjab, UttarPradesh, Bihar, Karnataka, TamilNadu, Jammu and Kashmir andKerala to name a few — arrivedin this city chasing their dreamsand made Mumbai what it istoday. For example, what wouldMumbai business and industrybe if the Gujaratis and Marwarishad not made it their home? Or,what would Bollywood be with-out the Punjabis? Or what wouldeateries be without the Irani andUdupi restaurants?
It is indeed tragic that the ShivSena, which stood so firmly forIndian nationalist causes duringthe life of its firebrand founder,Balasaheb Thackeray, shouldnow become a caricature of itselfand metamorphose into a “SoniaSena.” If it fails to appreciate andrespect our constitutional dhar-ma, many more States and ChiefMinisters will call it out. BharatMata will never allow Mumbai,a jewel in her crown, to fall intounworthy hands.
(The writer is an author special-ising in democracy studies. Viewsexpressed are personal)
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Sir — It is due to the completedisregard for COVID-19 proto-cols that Mumbai has become theworst-hit State in the country. Itwas recently observed that walk-ers on Marine Drive had beenopenly flouting the guidelinesunder which both wearing a facemask and following social dis-tance is mandatory. They notonly risked their lives but also putothers in danger. Despite BMC’sattempt to keep law and order,the officials have been facingresistance from the people whoare unwilling to pay fines fornon-compliance. CSMT,Crawford Market and BoraBazaar are other areas wheresuch irresponsible attitude is onpublic display. It’s high time thatpeople realise their responsibil-ity in helping the StateGovernment stop the spread ofthe virus.
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Sir — The mega sporting extrav-aganza, Indian Premier League,that started last week, was eager-
ly awaited by cricket fans acrossthe globe. Barring three shortseries in England, we haven’t seena lot of cricket this year. Thoughthese couple of weeks will havemany of us glued to the TVscreens, one is yet to get used tothe cricketers playing in emptystadiums with no cheerleaders orfans to motivate them.
Bal GovindNoida
����� ��� �� �Sir — Appropriate policyresponse and sustainable alterna-tives are needed to further theargument around the currentagricultural methods practised inIndia. According to the latest datareleased by National CrimeRecords Bureau on accidentaldeaths and suicides, 10,281 farm-ers committed suicide in 2019,
down from 10,357 in 2018,whereas the figure for dailywagers rose to 32,559 from30,132. The total number ofsuicides in the country went upto 1,39,123 in 2019 from 1,34,516in 2018. These worrying statis-tics call for an urgent responsefrom the Government to assistthe food producers of this nation.
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On March 27 the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)Governor, Shaktikanta Das, announced acomprehensive action plan to resuscitate the
economy devastated by the Coronavirus. Apart frommeasures to increase availability of credit andreduction in the cost of capital, the plan sought toease the stress of loan repayments on businesses andindividuals. Among others, this included a three-month moratorium on payment of instalments inrespect of all term loans outstanding on March 31.On May 22, Das announced extension of the mora-torium for three months till August 31. To ease theburden of payment on those who availed of work-ing capital facilities, the Governor allowed them toconvert accumulated interest for the deferment peri-od into a funded interest term loan (FITL) which canbe paid by March 31, 2021.
The RBI eased asset classification norms for allaccounts coming under moratorium, too. Theseaccounts will be treated as non-performing assets(NPA) from 270 days overdue instead of 90 days over-due as per extant rule. It has also extended the 210-day resolution period for all large stressed accountsunder its June 7, 2019 circular (on its expiry, if banksare not ready with a resolution plan, the Insolvencyand Bankruptcy Code [IBC]comes into play) by afurther 180 days. To address the situation after themoratorium ends, on August 6, the RBI announceda scheme for one-time restructuring of the debt forlarge companies, besides extending till March 31, anexisting restructuring scheme for micro, small andmedium enterprises (MSME) with relaxed norms.It also set up an expert committee under KV Kamathto recommend the required financial parameters,along with the sector-specific benchmarks for thisspecial window.
Meanwhile, one Gajendra Sharma had filed aPublic Interest Litigation (PIL) in the Supreme Court(SC) demanding waiver on interest charged by a pri-vate bank, citing relief given by the RBI on paymentof Equated Monthly Installments (EMIs) duringMarch and August 31, due to the pandemic. Duringthe last three months or so, the SC has heard the mat-ter thrice. It has made the following observations:On June 4 it said, “On one hand, you are grantingmoratorium (on loans) but continuing with inter-est. It is more detrimental.” On June 17 it observed,“There is no merit in burdening customers, who haveopted for the RBI-approved loan moratorium, withadditional interest. Once you fix a moratorium itshould serve the purpose desired. We see no meritin charging interest on interest.”
On September 10, 2020, it said, “We are keento waive interest on interest” for borrowers whoavailed the moratorium and asked the Governmentand the RBI to come up with a “concrete plan” withregard to the vexed issue. It posted the matter forhearing on September 28, when it is likely to giveits final order.
From the above, it is abundantly clear that theSC does not want banks to charge interest on inter-est for the moratorium period. Whether or not thiswill get reflected in its order, one can only wait andwatch. Meanwhile, it may be worthwhile to look atthe desirability or otherwise of such a move in par-ticular, its impact on the viability and financial sta-bility of the banking system.
At the outset, by granting moratorium to all andsundry, the RBI gave a signal that almost everyone
would be devastated by the pandemic. The SC has gone a step further by
aligning itself with a plea that the banksshould also not be charging “interest onunpaid interest amount during the mora-torium period.” Such a sweeping andbroad-based generalisation is totallydivorced from the reality. No doubt, theCoronavirus has caused unprecedenteddamage but this can’t be pushed to a pointof arguing that almost everyone has beenincapacitated and hence unable to servicethe loans. After all, even during the lock-down, a number of activities, especiallyhealth related, all essential goods and ser-vices besides firms in several other sectorspermitting work from home (WFH) con-tinued their business. Look at the GrossDomestic Product (GDP). During April-June 2020 it was about 23 per cent less thanduring April-June 2019 but it was notreduced to zero.
Businesses which contributed to thisGDP (about �2,550,000 crore duringApril-June 2020) can’t be termed as notbeing in a position to service their loan.The proof of the pudding is in the eating.A large number of borrowers have notavailed of the moratorium. For instance,in case of the State Bank of India (SBI), over80 per cent of its retail borrowers did notavail of the moratorium for two out of thefirst three months (March-May) initiallyallowed by the RBI. Further, 90 per centof such borrowers did not avail of themoratorium for one month. In otherwords, they continued to pay their EMI.
Yet, if in retrospect, the SC allowswaiver of “interest on unpaid interestamount” for all and sundry, this will beunfair to and discriminate against suchborrowers who decided not to avail of themoratorium and continued to service theirloans. A business by nature has ups anddowns. Every enterprise has a phase ofbuoyancy when it gets to reap extraordi-
nary profit (for instance, in the automo-bile sector during 2017-18/2018-19). Whycan’t the surplus or savings from thoseyears be used as a buffer against the cur-rent setback? Alternatively, in future, sayduring 2022-23, when the pandemicimpact will subside and the sectors startgenerating good profits, the surplus to beretained therefrom will provide adequatecushion to pay for current liabilities(including interest on interest).
The point in short is that there is nocompelling need for a firm impacted bythe crisis to rush to banks for relief. Toenjoy the fruits when the going is good andcome to the bank or Government for bail-out when in crisis is totally unacceptable.A bank does not run a charity. Its businessmodel involves taking money from depos-itors in lieu of promising a fixed return (callit interest rate) which is added to the invest-ed amount and returned to the depositoron maturity. The bank lends the funds thuscollected to borrowers, viz. industries, busi-nesses or individuals and so on and usesthe interest earning to service its deposi-tors (besides paying for its own “interme-diation” expenses).
The bank is legally bound to honourits contractual obligation to the depositori.e. it must return to him/her the princi-pal amount plus accrued interest on thematurity/due date. Imagine a situationwherein a bank defers payment of theinterest portion say by six months (becauseit is under stress for that long). Then it willnecessarily have to pay “interest on theunpaid interest amount.”
The depositor won’t forego this justbecause the bank was under stress. Thislogic holds with equal force when itcomes to the borrower discharging his/herliabilities to the bank. If the former delayspayment of interest (courtesy, moratoriummandated by RBI) then it must pay“interest on unpaid interest amount” to the
latter. Yet, if the top court forces banks toforego it, this will dent their ability to ser-vice the depositors. It will strike at the rootof architecture of the financial system andpose a serious threat to the viability ofbank.
Businesses can always approach banksfor support by way of additional fundingand negotiate for changes in the terms ofpayment. This is precisely what the RBI isfacilitating by way of one-time restructur-ing scheme (as 26 sectors have been iden-tified by the Kamath Committee for a cus-tomised package). But to expect banks tobear a portion of the cost in a broadsideand high-handed manner is an abhorrentidea.
On the other hand, to expect theGovernment to pick up the cost tagwould also be illogical and unfair. Apartfrom COVID-related expenses on medicalfacilities and health infrastructure (besidesincreasing expenditure on defence in thecurrent security environment), the Union’sscarce resources need to be preserved onlyfor addressing basic needs of the poorwhose survival depends on daily wages andwho — unlike firms — had neither anysavings from the past nor any hope of hav-ing any windfall gain in the future.
To conclude, if SC orders what it hasalluded to, this will affect the viability ofbanks or further bloat fiscal deficit (in case,the Government foots the bill), therebyjeopardising the country’s macro-eco-nomic fundamentals. This should beavoided and businesses need to remainfocussed on making best use of the RBI’spackage. Even so, the most crucial require-ment at this juncture is to “flatten” theCOVID curve at the fastest pace so thateconomic activities get back to normal.Sans this, any relief, howsoever generous,won’t be of much help.
(The writer is a New Delhi-basedpolicy analyst)
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The National Education Policy(NEP) 2020 offers accreditationto institutions for running open
distance learning and online pro-grammes. This is a unique opportuni-ty for Higher Education Institutes(HEIs) to enhance the courses beingoffered, improve access, increase enrol-ment and provide opportunities for life-long learning. Even before the lock-down, online learning platforms likeNPTEL and MOOCS were beingutilised in Uttar Pradesh (UP) for tech-nical education. However, these wereconsidered largely experimental and thereliance on e-learning in higher edu-cation was minimal. The pandemic,however, decreed teach-from-homeand learn-from-home. The PM e-Vidya scheme was launched and HEIsin UP embraced online education.Around 15,000 teachers adopted onlinepedagogy and over nine lakh students
benefitted from it during the first twophases of the lockdown.
However, like any technologicalrevolution, online education brings withit both opportunities for unparalleledgrowth and threats in the form of newlyvulnerable populations. To get maxi-mum dividends, we need to constructa structured environment for onlineeducation with the twin targets of inclu-sion and personalisation.
Content preparation, delivery andassessment will need to be optimiseddifferentially to match the needs of var-ied target groups. High calibre e-con-tent is the foundation of any such pro-gramme. A wealth of course content isavailable in English on various opensource platforms. This may be integrat-ed into the curriculum to maximisedelivery at the earliest. Meanwhile,efforts have to be made to prepare con-tent in regional languages. The coursematerial needs to be engaging and inter-active, with liberal use of audio, video,visuals and other features tailored to thecourse.
For instance, a course in zoologywould be more visual while a course inlanguage will require an interfaceequipped with grammar andspellcheck. Online learning is self-pacedand self-motivated. Students can learnat their own speed, going back and re-
reading, skipping or acceleratingthrough concepts as they choose.However, it relies heavily on the learn-er’s inclinations. Laid-back studentsmay fall behind the rest of the class.Thus, a time bound-schedule with fre-quent evaluation is necessary. Specialattention must be paid to students notdoing well, as to why their grades areslipping.
This scenario again points to theneed of a robust system of content deliv-ery and assessment. Discussion forumsand Breakout rooms (GoogleClassroom, Moodle, Zoom and so on)allow small-sized groups to be formed,with the instructor being able to visiteach of these and share his notes. Withwhiteboard integration, science teach-ers find mini gadgets like tabs with pensconvenient for performing mathemat-ical derivations and solving numericalproblems. Cross-institutional collabo-rative learning is also possible on plat-forms such as MS teams, WebEx,Skype and Google Hangouts whichallow learners to discuss problems inreal time. Simulation software and vir-tual labs help in imparting practicalknowledge to the students. This needsto be supplemented by tutorials andremedial classes, which should be per-sonalised and customised further.
Classroom interactions are also
essential for learning from peer groupsand acquiring networking skills andcivic sense. The challenge is to arriveat an optimal blend of online and class-room teaching. Topics that requireintrospection and debate should betaken up in traditional settings. Forexample, philosophy requires the abil-ity to analyse a given set of hypothesesand synthesise new postulates. It maybe difficult to acquire this proficiencyvirtually. Assessment of the studentsboth during and at the end of a coursehas always been a challenge for distancelearning programmes. Using e-plat-forms, a combination of online andoffline evaluations may be used.Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled ver-ification, face movement recognition,screen locking and remote invigilatorare some techniques that can minimisechances of use of unfair means duringonline tests.
Simultaneously, stringent qualitycontrol measures need to be put in placeto evaluate teachers. Of course, the end-term performance of the students is anabsolute parameter for making suchassessments. But concurrent evaluationsare essential to check time lags and pro-tect the students’ interests. The LearningManagement System (LMS) is a goodsolution that can be indigenised andadapted by institutes. It can review per-
formance and learn about the impactof teaching with dashboards andreports. Institutions can modify theexisting features of LMS to identify auser’s learning abilities, articulateaccordingly and extract meta-data tomake suitable recommendations forhelping them.
External reviews of content deliv-ery by subject experts and industrydoyens will be vital to upgrading thestandards of education. Peer review isa necessary part of any academicendeavour and will become easierthrough e-platforms. The NEP pavesthe way for multi-disciplinary institutesthrough course flexibility and transferof credits. Online education will be acornerstone in this. A ComputerScience major student wanting to cre-ate a start-up can do courses notbeing offered in his/her college, like anEconomics or Commerce minor, froma university specialising in it, throughan e-platform. This way, students canget a well-rounded education encom-passing all their diverse interests.
Basic compulsory courses likeethics, health and hygiene, digitalawareness and communication skillscan also be offered by universitiesonline. Some HEIs can strive tobecome centres of excellence for pro-viding specialised courses, like AI,
Internet of Things and MachineLearning, creative and liberal arts oryoga and meditation, online. Studentscan attend these even during their vaca-tions, thus freeing up time for regularcourses. The increased flexibility in tim-ings may be used to maximise the pay-off from physical college hours.
However, the biggest challenge inUP is equity and inclusion. The NITIAayog, in its Strategy for New India @75report, highlighted the quality and reli-ability of the internet as a major bot-tleneck. Only about 25 per cent of stu-dents have access to smartphones,laptops and the internet. Universitieswill have to develop mechanisms within-built functionalities to overcomethese deficiencies.
They can develop tabs preloadedwith e-content and devise a system forissuing such tabs for a fixed time, likebooks issued from library. Students canuse them at home, even without inter-net connectivity. The local industry canbe motivated to use their CorporateSocial Responsibility funds (CSR) toprovide hardware and software to col-leges. The National Broadband Mission,aiming to provide internet access in allvillages by 2022, will be a great help. TheGovernment can establish e-LearningParks in schools in remote areas withcomputers and internet connectivity.
Students enrolled in higher educationprogrammes can use these to accessdigital platforms after school hours.
The benefits of online learningextend to beyond just students. Onlineeducation opens up avenues for lifelonglearning. Once people get habituated tolearning and absorbing content throughe-platforms, they can continue to readand learn beyond the years of formaltraining. The NEP has called for a com-plete revamping of the higher educa-tion sector. Colleges will have to re-imagine their mission and work togeth-er towards reforming education.Coordination and collaboration will bekey to future growth. To jump start theprocess, the UP Department of HigherEducation has developed a portal foruploading of e-contents by HEIs. Thisis available to students across thecountry free of cost. Called the UPHigher Education Digital Library, thisbilingual portal was started on Teacher’sDay. UP has declared September andOctober as Vidyadaan Maah and urgedteachers to contribute to this library, inkeeping with our culture of charity.More than 3,000 pieces have beenuploaded by HEI faculty voluntarily onthe library till date.
(The author is Additional ChiefSecretary Higher Education Department,UP)
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BOSCHLTD 13040.00 13040.00 12783.70 12897.15ADANIGREEN 682.95 686.00 645.90 651.85BANKINDIA 44.30 44.90 41.55 42.10IGL 417.30 429.05 412.20 414.85GNFC 225.05 232.00 207.75 209.40PEL 1351.00 1354.00 1260.55 1273.65AMBER 2069.90 2084.50 1960.05 1993.30HAVELLS 670.00 688.15 665.00 667.65LTTS 1668.05 1684.40 1661.70 1663.55SUDARSCHEM 526.00 537.30 480.00 489.80ADANIGAS 194.65 196.50 182.60 186.10NMDC 87.05 87.35 82.55 83.25DIXON 9500.00 9689.10 8506.00 8826.35MEGH 83.90 85.00 77.25 78.30COALINDIA 123.35 124.00 121.20 121.70EXIDEIND 166.20 166.50 157.25 159.00TATAMTRDVR 66.55 66.55 60.20 60.95VINATIORGA 1330.00 1334.00 1250.00 1256.90AJANTPHARM 1625.00 1655.00 1505.00 1588.55INFRATEL 199.20 199.20 186.85 188.40GRASIM 750.00 750.40 710.80 715.85BHARATFORG 480.55 483.40 451.50 454.90ABBOTINDIA 16500.00 16678.00 15660.85 15891.45CHOLAFIN 241.15 242.15 228.85 231.30VOLTAS 678.00 689.45 661.25 670.60KPITTECH 107.60 118.90 102.50 104.30STRTECH 155.00 158.55 148.00 149.20BEL 104.00 104.00 95.20 96.20BATAINDIA 1340.00 1352.50 1315.00 1322.80PIIND 2025.00 2051.00 1928.00 1944.75SUMICHEM 304.40 311.80 302.40 303.15JUBLFOOD 2359.00 2363.05 2292.00 2310.45BSOFT 195.50 203.50 188.50 189.95LTI 2763.95 2763.95 2615.00 2649.25AMARAJABAT 758.30 758.30 718.65 724.90CESC 684.40 700.00 623.65 639.25COFORGE 2212.40 2270.40 2085.50 2096.95BAYERCROP 6368.75 6550.00 6021.00 6132.55GODREJCP 710.00 716.15 680.00 687.60CONCOR 382.20 387.00 372.05 378.60DISHTV 15.34 15.34 14.00 14.00LICHSGFIN 302.00 303.00 288.25 291.30OFSS 2990.70 3185.55 2990.70 3044.40NTPC 91.30 91.30 87.40 88.30IPCALAB 2172.00 2177.00 2042.05 2082.80SBILIFE 850.00 852.25 836.05 840.55INFIBEAM 77.00 80.45 76.40 77.45ALKYLAMINE 3305.00 3357.85 3097.00 3197.50CANBK 98.60 98.95 95.05 95.60PNBHOUSING 336.35 336.50 306.45 314.60DABUR 510.00 510.70 487.55 490.80ACC 1431.80 1431.80 1367.10 1377.65NOCIL 134.90 138.10 126.60 128.20MARICO 362.95 362.95 348.00 350.00FSL 74.10 76.20 68.50 71.50NAVINFLUOR 2080.00 2089.00 2027.20 2050.30RAMCOCEM 742.00 754.40 710.25 721.25SYNGENE 573.00 574.00 547.35 559.05SONATSOFTW 339.00 345.45 321.25 329.25ICICIPRULI 422.05 422.40 408.50 412.85MRF 59069.65 59069.65 57880.00 58134.25NBCC 25.90 26.15 24.45 24.80AUBANK 722.70 733.30 689.00 696.00NCC 32.10 33.20 30.95 31.35RELAXO 675.85 675.85 642.60 653.00BDL 318.00 320.90 300.00 302.25COROMANDEL 816.95 819.00 790.00 799.45MPHASIS 1397.55 1405.30 1365.00 1381.40INDIACEM 123.00 124.60 112.75 114.65SRF 4334.50 4348.90 4135.50 4157.80CANFINHOME 421.50 423.70 415.15 418.40TRENT 685.00 693.10 642.40 649.30PTC 50.60 50.70 46.00 46.45WABCOINDIA 6014.00 6030.05 5700.00 5763.20ADANIPORTS 358.70 358.70 344.10 347.40UNIONBANK 26.70 27.90 25.65 26.05BLISSGVS 154.75 155.00 152.85 153.85GUJGAS 316.25 318.70 303.65 308.60CAPPL 605.00 615.00 547.20 566.60GODFRYPHLP 931.00 950.00 908.00 913.85HAL 846.00 849.35 793.10 798.75CYIENT 428.00 442.00 393.65 407.75ICICIGI 1301.05 1307.95 1260.55 1275.80CHAMBLFERT 156.30 156.80 151.15 152.40ENGINERSIN 68.75 68.95 66.20 67.05GMRINFRA 23.95 24.25 22.80 23.00NATIONALUM 35.30 35.30 32.90 33.10APLLTD 968.90 974.90 907.70 918.65UJJIVAN 223.10 225.70 212.45 215.40POWERGRID 172.00 172.00 167.75 170.30RALLIS 301.00 312.70 292.00 295.25SUZLON 3.09 3.25 3.02 3.13
RAJESHEXPO 512.90 536.95 474.35 482.05PFIZER 4990.00 5089.50 4802.85 4858.35ABCAPITAL 69.85 70.40 64.25 64.55RECLTD 107.85 107.85 102.05 102.50LALPATHLAB 2000.00 2000.00 1815.80 1884.65BEML 649.00 650.00 618.00 625.25BAJAJCON 190.00 191.70 175.75 180.25SOUTHBANK 6.99 7.00 6.79 6.81RADICO 456.60 456.60 416.00 420.85KAJARIACER 517.80 519.30 500.55 501.60VIPIND 328.00 332.50 304.10 310.30WABAG 209.75 211.95 191.20 194.50HEG 759.00 768.95 724.05 732.00JUSTDIAL 378.15 382.50 362.90 365.15FINEORG 2890.60 2963.15 2659.15 2679.60TVSMOTOR 460.00 460.00 447.90 453.00DEEPAKFERT 164.50 164.90 154.90 155.60TORNTPOWER 330.00 333.60 316.40 330.60NESCO 591.00 609.00 557.00 563.30BERGEPAINT 583.95 583.95 565.00 569.10INDHOTEL 101.50 101.50 95.00 95.60TATACOMM 843.00 863.00 811.35 815.55TV18BRDCST 32.50 32.50 29.65 30.10ATUL 6794.65 6804.10 6236.25 6250.95BIRLACORPN 703.95 703.95 660.60 669.35ADANITRANS 258.15 260.00 240.05 245.35WELSPUNIND 60.80 63.30 57.80 57.90VAIBHAVGBL 1885.00 1940.00 1765.55 1790.40PFC 92.30 94.05 87.90 88.35ABFRL 135.00 135.00 123.70 126.80PERSISTENT 1195.00 1201.05 1147.25 1156.30CASTROLIND 120.40 120.40 113.55 114.65INOXLEISUR 286.00 290.00 272.20 275.70IDBI 37.60 39.05 35.65 35.95EQUITAS 55.00 55.40 51.50 52.20AARTIIND 1079.00 1095.25 1025.00 1048.60ZYDUSWELL 1922.00 1950.00 1728.50 1778.20TRIDENT 6.90 6.90 6.45 6.64UBL 1020.05 1020.50 970.90 982.15RITES 256.40 256.40 245.25 246.60HINDZINC 212.15 216.30 205.00 206.20VARROC 314.50 329.40 300.00 306.10GLAXO 1720.00 1765.00 1640.00 1694.45SPICEJET 51.50 52.00 49.30 49.80LINDEINDIA 828.95 838.55 759.00 766.25FDC 360.00 364.75 322.20 330.40CENTURYTEX 367.90 371.95 341.00 343.65CGCL 242.70 251.60 223.90 227.30HSCL 52.75 54.70 50.35 51.20THYROCARE 806.00 815.00 751.50 776.90SHREECEM 19515.00 19515.00 18724.90 18904.70PETRONET 226.50 228.45 222.60 224.50IRB 115.70 119.20 111.40 114.90JUBILANT 798.80 804.25 762.30 769.00SPARC 180.50 181.80 168.05 168.90TTKPRESTIG 6278.15 6324.90 5875.05 5952.80SIEMENS 1260.00 1260.00 1227.50 1243.25ADVENZYMES 253.50 257.00 231.05 234.20SWANENERGY 113.65 116.75 108.20 114.75JAMNAAUTO 51.75 51.80 49.00 49.60ADANIPOWER 37.80 37.80 36.80 36.95METROPOLIS 1869.35 1909.00 1767.50 1786.05AFFLE 3054.60 3061.20 2893.00 2951.05WELCORP 111.60 115.00 109.65 109.65FCONSUMER 9.58 9.58 9.09 9.11AIAENG 1910.00 1941.45 1769.10 1794.40DELTACORP* 114.00 117.80 107.80 109.25ECLERX 778.00 783.80 729.35 735.05GPPL 90.10 94.70 85.35 87.60BBTC 1400.00 1417.70 1343.55 1352.85JKPAPER* 96.80 98.95 91.65 93.00RAYMOND 282.70 282.70 263.30 267.40HONAUT 32998.95 33100.00 31032.95 31272.90DCBBANK 92.85 93.00 85.00 85.60RVNL 21.05 21.50 20.30 20.40AMBUJACEM 220.00 220.00 207.95 209.70PCJEWELLER 15.40 15.40 13.90 14.30IDFC 32.85 32.90 30.90 31.30GODREJPROP 925.00 925.00 851.05 859.40PAGEIND 19000.00 19000.00 18171.70 18279.25BLUESTARCO 620.00 648.50 616.50 631.45AVANTI 520.95 524.95 494.10 499.10SUPRAJIT 178.90 180.15 175.65 176.45INTELLECT 213.55 217.60 203.25 207.30BOMDYEING 68.00 68.00 63.70 64.65PHILIPCARB 128.45 130.55 122.00 122.90GALAXYSURF 1994.00 1995.00 1873.00 1892.30IIFL 86.45 87.85 81.65 83.60VSTIND 3589.15 3668.45 3550.00 3558.95MIDHANI 205.00 206.15 197.20 198.20ABB 901.00 920.00 897.20 898.80NAM-INDIA 277.85 279.00 270.55 272.25CREDITACC 725.00 725.00 685.30 695.05SUNTECK 285.00 289.05 267.05 270.65APLAPOLLO 2671.00 2729.00 2660.05 2678.20IBREALEST 61.65 61.65 54.35 54.35JKLAKSHMI 275.00 277.95 263.20 265.85QUESS 426.85 436.30 401.20 408.05CEATLTD 970.00 970.00 906.50 913.00GARFIBRES 1984.30 2001.80 1916.00 1928.85FORCEMOT 1164.60 1174.95 1100.00 1109.15PHOENIXLTD 643.00 643.00 579.95 595.80HEXAWARE 460.00 460.95 456.50 457.10HAWKINCOOK 5489.95 5499.95 5180.00 5231.45LAXMIMACH 3740.00 3740.00 3522.05 3545.40CUMMINSIND 485.00 485.00 462.00 467.75DHANUKA 828.00 838.40 772.05 787.65POLYCAB 881.75 884.75 841.50 847.80EDELWEISS 68.70 68.70 64.35 64.35
WOCKPHARMA 304.70 308.00 290.25 291.60JINDALSAW 67.20 67.80 63.10 63.45RATNAMANI 1266.15 1280.30 1199.00 1222.10SFL 1550.00 1550.00 1450.65 1456.40NILKAMAL 1300.00 1328.35 1295.70 1305.90KEC 350.90 350.90 323.00 324.75JSWENERGY 60.90 60.90 56.50 57.30BASF 1513.00 1548.00 1448.90 1459.80SOBHA 254.10 254.10 230.55 237.95VENKYS 1458.55 1459.55 1370.00 1378.95REPCOHOME 166.00 166.00 158.65 158.65INDIANB 61.00 61.00 57.30 57.95BAJAJHLDNG 2560.00 2610.65 2489.05 2515.10EIHOTEL 87.00 87.00 78.30 83.70ENDURANCE 1150.00 1166.00 1079.15 1086.90SOMANYCERA 191.00 198.50 178.15 185.15CENTURYPLY 184.00 186.00 168.00 169.95HFCL 14.70 15.30 14.00 14.15EIDPARRY 301.25 308.55 283.60 286.20IRCON 89.00 89.15 84.40 84.60CCL 279.40 281.90 262.40 263.45OMAXE 67.40 68.05 66.65 67.20PRESTIGE 257.75 258.95 236.00 243.15SIS 389.25 395.00 373.00 375.10PARAGMILK 100.00 102.35 96.00 97.70TATACOFFEE 111.55 112.40 105.00 105.95ITI 131.15 131.40 123.50 124.95TNPL 110.95 111.10 104.65 105.30GRAPHITE 186.00 186.00 175.10 175.85WESTLIFE 392.00 397.30 361.75 370.00KTKBANK 42.85 43.30 41.55 41.75KALPATPOWR* 252.10 258.10 243.75 248.80PGHL 5344.90 5344.90 5108.60 5141.80HUDCO 32.80 33.35 31.45 31.60LEMONTREE 28.35 28.40 26.90 26.95JKTYRE 61.60 61.60 57.45 58.20MOTILALOFS* 658.00 665.35 618.00 622.90HEIDELBERG 189.00 189.75 180.00 185.80LAOPALA 225.00 227.60 210.00 211.90WHIRLPOOL 2105.80 2138.50 2070.00 2084.75SWSOLAR 223.00 224.35 205.10 208.35SUPREMEIND 1434.00 1472.15 1371.00 1450.00KPRMILL 653.00 654.05 592.00 606.10DCAL 165.00 168.00 155.40 155.65ARVINDFASN 133.65 134.55 125.75 126.40SHK 86.50 87.75 80.95 81.60GREAVESCOT 77.40 78.20 74.35 75.10PRSMJOHNSN 61.80 61.80 56.55 57.55GMDCLTD 45.05 45.45 42.60 43.00IFBIND 632.35 645.00 576.45 581.50SCI 56.50 57.50 53.05 54.40PGHH 9927.00 9953.00 9760.00 9862.40GICRE 129.60 129.60 124.00 125.05GSFC 59.65 61.50 58.00 58.20INDOCO 265.00 272.65 254.20 258.10SUNDRMFAST 411.00 431.95 405.40 423.45CSBBANK 223.30 229.50 205.00 218.45BALRAMCHIN 161.00 161.00 148.30 149.65ISEC 475.00 485.20 466.00 468.85RAIN 104.15 107.20 101.30 102.453MINDIA 19247.00 19247.00 18170.00 18246.90NHPC 21.10 21.25 20.35 20.40RCF 47.55 47.55 44.70 44.90UJJIVANSFB 33.20 34.45 33.00 33.15J&KBANK 16.90 16.90 15.55 15.70JAICORPLTD 89.15 89.60 83.25 84.40OIL 96.65 96.65 91.50 92.40OBEROIRLTY 435.00 435.00 407.00 411.75CUB 143.00 143.90 136.35 138.65SCHNEIDER 79.50 80.60 78.15 79.35UCOBANK 13.10 13.15 12.50 12.68JSLHISAR 90.00 92.10 84.00 86.40ASTERDM 146.00 146.00 127.25 134.00ASHOKA 70.25 72.80 67.25 68.00IOB 10.06 10.10 9.50 9.62SANOFI 8526.15 8550.75 8407.05 8422.70DBL 368.85 368.85 351.55 354.65MAHABANK 12.59 12.59 11.50 11.64AAVAS 1397.00 1428.70 1315.00 1341.65VRLLOG 167.50 168.00 156.50 161.65ZENSARTECH 187.50 194.70 182.60 186.10FINOLEXIND 540.00 552.55 512.05 515.80COCHINSHIP 334.90 334.95 326.35 328.80BAJAJELEC 493.00 503.55 467.50 473.30CROMPTON 285.00 285.00 267.80 269.75VGUARD 172.70 177.55 169.00 169.90DALBHARAT* 776.80 788.40 752.00 755.85TASTYBIT 11400.00 11478.00 10800.00 10898.85TATAMETALI 549.85 555.25 522.20 531.05HIMATSEIDE 90.80 90.80 84.05 85.05BALMLAWRIE 111.85 111.90 106.30 106.80ORIENTELEC 210.95 210.95 188.45 190.80GSPL 215.00 215.00 201.85 203.85MRPL 29.05 29.35 28.00 28.15CHENNPETRO 76.00 76.10 71.65 72.45HATHWAY 32.70 33.40 31.35 31.35FORTIS 131.35 134.70 130.35 131.25CARBORUNIV 273.00 273.30 259.50 264.75POWERINDIA 952.50 952.50 923.55 927.45GRSE 182.60 184.70 173.00 174.75IFCI 6.52 6.60 6.19 6.26EMAMILTD 380.00 380.00 360.15 362.15ASTRAL 1120.10 1147.20 1073.65 1102.20MINDAIND 355.00 355.00 334.10 336.35MASFIN 870.00 876.10 820.00 834.25NH 337.20 343.00 328.65 331.85KRBL 283.00 283.65 259.60 264.15CENTRALBK 15.25 15.85 14.90 15.05CARERATING 383.05 387.20 375.00 375.55
ORIENTREF 195.90 200.20 189.55 190.70TATAINVEST 886.00 903.00 862.40 870.30AEGISLOG 240.00 245.00 230.70 234.25SHOPERSTOP 170.00 171.00 167.60 168.50GUJALKALI 350.85 355.00 336.00 337.90MOIL 147.55 148.35 144.10 144.90KANSAINER 502.05 513.45 491.05 493.55UFLEX 334.95 343.00 320.05 323.15CRISIL 1692.00 1763.00 1692.00 1738.65NLCINDIA 51.65 52.25 50.60 50.70JYOTHYLAB 153.50 155.40 146.60 147.70PNCINFRA 171.00 171.85 157.00 160.05JAGRAN 38.80 39.20 37.00 37.85MAHINDCIE 122.85 126.15 121.30 121.80TVTODAY 231.50 232.00 214.60 215.95GODREJAGRO 533.35 533.35 500.00 503.35DBCORP 78.65 79.45 75.75 77.10SYMPHONY 911.00 920.00 877.10 891.20HINDCOPPER 36.85 36.85 34.75 35.00FINCABLES 298.80 299.90 284.00 285.50LUXIND 1404.60 1422.20 1350.00 1353.85MINDACORP 74.50 74.50 69.00 69.35GILLETTE 5600.00 5600.00 5500.00 5526.00KEI 379.00 379.00 361.25 362.75GHCL 164.00 167.05 160.60 161.35ERIS 557.00 557.00 512.25 514.45VBL 708.00 708.00 685.80 691.55TIMETECHNO 40.00 40.00 37.75 37.90SJVN 23.35 23.35 22.70 22.85BLUEDART 2770.00 2770.00 2558.55 2607.60THERMAX 792.00 795.25 744.00 750.45TAKE 46.80 47.50 44.80 45.20SHRIRAMCIT 972.50 972.50 885.00 894.20VMART 2131.90 2147.00 2045.00 2057.50MAHSEAMLES 236.00 239.10 220.00 223.15JKCEMENT 1599.00 1599.00 1520.60 1526.00GEPIL 468.05 468.80 439.65 444.75GESHIP 250.00 257.80 244.05 245.00TIMKEN 1108.90 1115.05 1100.00 1106.40
TCIEXP 860.60 860.60 800.50 805.60STARCEMENT 88.70 91.45 85.50 85.75MAHLIFE 240.00 243.85 224.00 232.45SPANDANA 571.50 571.50 554.85 556.10GULFOILLUB 661.00 665.00 636.00 650.05CHOLAHLDNG 426.15 428.75 404.30 406.80TCNSBRANDS 393.05 395.30 381.60 384.40TIINDIA 638.00 638.00 620.75 621.45AKZOINDIA 2133.60 2140.95 2097.75 2102.00DCMSHRIRAM 394.00 394.05 369.30 371.70JSL 43.95 44.90 43.00 43.20MAHLOG 342.00 348.00 322.00 325.80ALLCARGO 119.00 120.80 116.40 116.85NIACL 114.00 114.80 107.45 107.90REDINGTON 119.35 120.15 112.00 114.25NBVENTURES 60.60 60.60 57.40 57.50KNRCON 275.00 275.00 252.20 255.00IIFLWAM 990.00 1025.70 932.55 980.05GET&D 100.00 100.00 94.05 95.00HERITGFOOD 342.05 346.90 334.25 335.85TVSSRICHAK 1470.00 1479.75 1438.80 1442.60TEAMLEASE 2585.00 2585.00 2230.75 2278.60MHRIL 180.60 181.55 168.00 168.90MAHSCOOTER 3077.30 3083.00 3012.60 3019.95ITDC 258.15 259.50 240.10 245.65BRIGADE 176.00 177.75 163.15 169.45JMFINANCIL 83.00 83.00 79.25 79.60KSB 525.65 527.00 506.85 507.70INDOSTAR 295.10 304.95 292.65 295.05FLUOROCHEM 540.00 543.70 520.40 521.45NAVNETEDUL 84.50 84.50 80.00 80.70GODREJIND 409.70 414.60 394.25 397.65SHANKARA 360.00 360.00 340.00 343.15GRINDWELL 549.75 549.75 531.40 532.45SOLARINDS 1081.20 1088.00 1056.35 1064.35ORIENTCEM 62.25 62.25 59.50 59.55JCHAC 2296.30 2296.30 2160.00 2190.20JTEKTINDIA 82.20 82.20 76.00 76.35MMTC 18.15 18.20 16.95 17.20SCHAEFFLER 3913.00 3929.55 3750.00 3790.15GDL 91.00 91.10 87.50 88.40CERA 2470.60 2470.60 2350.00 2364.80VTL 777.80 785.20 754.85 756.55ESABINDIA 1378.90 1390.60 1370.00 1370.00
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SCRIP OPEN HIgh LOW LTP CHANGENIFTY 50 11503.80 11535.25 11218.50 11250.55 -254.40TCS 2465.00 2504.90 2452.15 2467.00 17.10INFY 1001.00 1031.00 1000.50 1007.00 4.85KOTAKBANK 1276.00 1319.45 1273.15 1281.85 4.75HDFC 1722.80 1738.75 1701.85 1707.75 -16.25HDFCLIFE 587.00 589.80 577.25 578.65 -6.45POWERGRID 171.00 171.70 167.65 169.95 -1.95HCLTECH 823.00 849.90 793.45 801.15 -9.45UPL 537.00 546.50 521.85 530.60 -6.70HDFCBANK 1055.00 1071.35 1041.50 1042.10 -15.20WIPRO 315.90 324.50 309.95 311.05 -5.45TECHM 807.00 830.00 784.30 789.60 -15.05COALINDIA 123.65 124.15 121.10 121.20 -2.45ITC 180.00 180.60 175.05 175.30 -3.80HEROMOTOCO 3122.00 3124.45 3033.05 3042.90 -69.75RELIANCE 2300.00 2336.00 2247.35 2250.00 -55.70LT 901.00 903.80 874.30 878.55 -22.15EICHERMOT 2153.05 2160.90 2088.10 2094.40 -58.55ASIANPAINT 2036.40 2057.00 1962.30 1973.10 -55.30NTPC 91.15 91.35 87.35 88.00 -2.55BAJAJ-AUTO 3045.95 3045.95 2960.10 2962.20 -88.75HINDUNILVR 2098.70 2099.00 2022.10 2035.00 -63.70BPCL 413.50 415.70 399.05 399.40 -12.65ADANIPORTS 358.00 359.00 343.95 345.95 -11.90BAJAJFINSV 5896.00 5909.90 5631.00 5690.00 -198.45ULTRACEMCO 4002.60 4003.60 3850.00 3857.00 -145.60SUNPHARMA 523.80 528.25 499.00 504.05 -19.30SBIN 193.05 193.50 184.25 185.40 -7.20SHREECEM 19520.95 19600.00 18707.65 18778.90 -742.05DRREDDY 5333.35 5512.65 5111.25 5130.00 -203.35TITAN 1163.60 1171.80 1115.05 1116.95 -46.65BRITANNIA 3790.00 3795.00 3613.50 3643.50 -154.00IOC 80.80 81.00 77.00 77.40 -3.30GRASIM 749.65 749.65 710.05 713.00 -32.00BAJFINANCE 3462.80 3467.00 3314.25 3321.85 -152.95NESTLEIND 16025.00 16049.50 15154.50 15375.05 -712.00ONGC 74.00 74.10 70.90 71.00 -3.30ZEEL 221.75 224.80 204.35 210.50 -9.80GAIL 92.20 92.20 87.40 87.95 -4.15AXISBANK 443.00 444.00 420.55 422.30 -21.05MARUTI 6964.75 6986.90 6590.00 6631.50 -333.25CIPLA 806.25 811.95 762.00 765.15 -41.10ICICIBANK 366.65 367.40 348.50 350.70 -18.85INFRATEL 199.20 199.20 186.70 189.10 -10.25M&M 657.00 666.60 615.45 619.95 -34.20BHARTIARTL 496.00 496.00 461.25 467.55 -27.00JSWSTEEL 289.40 290.30 270.05 270.30 -17.40TATASTEEL 396.00 399.20 371.00 371.55 -23.95HINDALCO 179.40 180.70 163.10 166.50 -13.00TATAMOTORS 147.75 147.75 135.50 136.30 -11.60INDUSINDBK 612.90 617.40 553.85 560.95 -52.25
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SCRIP OPEN HIgh LOW LTP CHANGENIFTY NEXT 50 27601.80 27601.80 26544.45 26671.25 -881.60OFSS 3020.00 3185.00 3010.00 3028.00 37.30PGHH 9895.00 9948.55 9737.25 9895.05 -7.50SBILIFE 849.00 851.80 835.60 838.50 -9.60COLPAL 1376.10 1385.45 1352.00 1356.35 -16.30HAVELLS 668.65 688.50 665.00 666.75 -8.50SRTRANSFIN 649.40 652.85 631.00 638.00 -8.60PIDILITIND 1455.00 1460.75 1410.55 1435.00 -20.10IGL 416.90 429.00 412.10 414.00 -6.00ICICIGI 1304.45 1315.55 1260.60 1273.00 -22.95BERGEPAINT 580.15 583.00 565.10 566.95 -11.55PETRONET 225.95 228.50 222.50 223.50 -4.70BOSCHLTD 13080.00 13115.00 12750.00 12800.00 -270.60INDIGO 1321.70 1350.80 1286.60 1287.55 -27.65HDFCAMC 2199.90 2208.00 2159.00 2168.00 -47.45SIEMENS 1257.45 1259.90 1228.00 1228.60 -28.25GICRE 129.10 129.90 124.00 125.85 -3.15PAGEIND 18745.00 18868.75 18127.35 18198.20 -466.05ICICIPRULI 421.55 423.30 408.50 411.00 -10.75CONCOR 388.00 388.00 372.05 375.95 -10.50DMART 2175.00 2177.00 2056.00 2090.00 -59.05HINDPETRO 194.50 198.50 188.25 188.50 -5.55BAJAJHLDNG 2608.00 2615.00 2490.00 2510.30 -77.20SBICARD 855.00 857.00 811.00 824.05 -25.35NHPC 21.35 21.35 20.35 20.50 -0.70NAUKRI 3475.00 3583.55 3361.10 3370.35 -116.95ABBOTINDIA 16511.05 16800.00 15660.00 15898.90 -607.25CADILAHC 412.90 416.95 390.55 394.05 -15.65MARICO 362.00 363.05 347.65 348.60 -13.90HINDZINC 214.20 216.40 204.80 205.10 -8.35DABUR 510.00 511.95 487.25 488.00 -20.45LUPIN 1085.85 1097.85 1030.30 1040.55 -45.35UBL 1018.65 1022.15 971.00 974.90 -43.85ACC 1431.40 1431.40 1366.20 1369.00 -62.80NMDC 87.35 87.35 82.55 82.90 -4.00GODREJCP 715.90 716.95 680.05 680.55 -33.20AUROPHARMA 835.00 857.90 785.80 789.55 -38.55MCDOWELL-N 544.75 545.00 511.20 516.30 -27.40ADANITRANS 259.75 259.75 244.15 244.55 -13.40AMBUJACEM 220.00 220.25 207.70 208.20 -11.80BANKBARODA 45.30 45.30 42.50 42.60 -2.45DIVISLAB 3350.95 3374.25 3120.05 3151.35 -193.05PFC 94.00 94.00 87.85 88.00 -5.40TORNTPHARM 2890.00 2890.50 2685.35 2700.90 -175.40MUTHOOTFIN 1111.00 1119.75 1036.10 1036.50 -68.50BIOCON 453.95 453.95 425.35 425.35 -28.65MOTHERSUMI 122.85 123.10 112.90 114.90 -7.75DLF 161.65 162.45 150.00 150.90 -10.35PNB 32.55 32.60 30.40 30.45 -2.15PEL 1352.50 1354.95 1260.00 1261.00 -90.90BANDHANBNK 298.00 298.00 273.10 275.95 -22.80
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Asserting that there is muted demand for loans, SBIChairman Rajnish Kumar on Monday said banks
are not risk averse but they are being prudent in thesetrying times to avoid a repeat of the post-2008 sce-nario when there was “dilution” in credit underwrit-
ing standards. Data clearly shows that investment in the econ-
omy has come down, the head of the country’s biggestlender said.
“If the capex (capital expenditure) is not hap-pening and investment in the economy is not hap-pening at the same pace, then obviously this is a
demand issue and the risk aversion would be wherethere is a demand and banks are not lending,” he saidat a virtual event organised by AIMA.
Non-food bank credit grew 6.7 per cent year-on-year in July as against a growth of 11.4 per cent in thesame month of the last year, as per latest data by theReserve Bank of India (RBI).
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The Indian stock marketplunged on Monday, track-
ing a global selloff due to afresh spurt of coronavirus casesacross Europe.
The BSE Sensex plungedover 800 points and the Nifty50closed below the 11,300 markas the resurgence in Covidcases has also given fuel toanticipation of renewed lock-down restrictions across coun-tries in Europe, including theUK and France.
The BSE Sensex closed at38,034.14, lower by 811.68points, or 2.09 per cent, fromthe previous close of 38,845.82.The Nifty50 on the NationalStock Exchange (NSE) settledat 11,222.20, lower by 282.75point, or 2.46 per cent, from itsprevious close.
The across-the-board sell-off was led by auto, telecom,metal and FMCG stocks.
Manish Hathiramani,
technical analyst with DeenDayal Investments, said: “Themarkets have broken the sup-port of 11,300 on a closing basisand this is definitely an alarm-ing situation. We could drop to10,950-11,000 levels as the falltoday has been fierce and onthe back of good volumes.”
“The resistance on theupside is at 11,550-11,600. Untilthen the markets look weak,” headded. Siddhartha Khemka,Head of Retail Research atMotilal Oswal FinancialServices, said that the globalcues were negative at the startof the day with lofty valuations,fading US stimulus and freshwave of coronavirus infectionsin Europe being major risks. “Inthe US, attention is turningback to negotiations on freshstimulus and the forthcomingelection. Further, Europeanmarkets fell after a report onbank allegations and signs thatLondon is heading for a secondlockdown,” he added.
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The Government has setfoodgrain production tar-
get at a record 301 milliontonnes for the 2020-21 cropyear, up nearly 1.5 per centfrom the previous year’s output,
on the back of good monsoonrains and higher acreage in thekharif season. The target forthe 2020-21 crop year (July-June) was set at the NationalConference for Rabi Campaign2020, which was held on Mon toreview the progress of the kharif
(summer-sown) season and planfor the rabi crops. Addressing theevent, Agriculture MinisterNarendra Singh Tomar congrat-ulated farmers and state govts forrecord foodgrain production of296.65 million tonnes in the2019-20 crop year.
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States which failed to submittheir options before the GST
Council meeting in Octoberwill have to wait for at least twoyears to get compensation onGoods and Services Tax col-lection shortfall expected dur-ing the transition period,Finance Ministry sources saidon Monday.
The sources said that suchstates will have to wait tillJune 2022 to get compensationdues, subject to the conditionthat the GST Council extendsthe cess collection periodbeyond 2022.
This is so because theCouncil is expected to adoptone of the two options given bythe Centre to meet the GSTcompensation needs of thestates this year.
The states which decideagainst operationalisation ofthe new GST compensationformula will get their duesonly to the extent of compen-sation cess collected in FY21
and distributed in proportionamong all states and union ter-ritories.
The balance shortfall willonly be met from the collectionof GST compensation cessbeyond the five-year transitionperiod that ends in June 2022.This will be subject to GSTCouncil approval to the exten-sion of compensation cess.
The GST Council, in its41st meeting on August 27,2020, had decided to give itsmember-states two borrowingoptions to meet their compen-sation shortfall and a responsetime of 7 working days fromthe formal receipt of thedetailed proposal on theoptions by email. Almost 15states had submitted theiroptions by September 15 andmore have joined since.
Option-1 on GST com-pensation brought before theCouncil last month allowsstates to borrow, under a spe-cial dispensation from theReserve Bank of India, a sumof about Rs 97,000 crore short-
fall calculated by the Centrethat is directly on account ofGST implementation.
Option-2 allows states toborrow the entire projectedGST compensation shortfallof Rs 2,35,000 crore (totalshortfall of Rs 3 lakh croreminus Rs 65,000 crore collect-ed as GST compensation cess)for FY21.
So far, 21 states/UTs haveexpressed preference forBorrowing Option-1 proposedby the Centre.
With GST Act requiringvoting for any resolutionregarding an option by at least20 states, the move is expectedto be adopted by the GSTCouncil at its meeting nextmonth.
If this option is indeedadopted, all states would beable to move ahead and borrowunder the scheme suggested bythe Centre to meet their short-fall arising due to GSTswitchover. If states still opt out,they will have to wait to get fullcompensation.
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Former RBI GovernorRaghuram Rajan on
Monday suggested the gov-ernment to privatise selectpublic sector banks, set up abad bank to deal with NPAsand dilute the role ofDepartment of FinancialServices.
The reforms are necessaryto ensure growth of the bank-ing government without theperiodic boom-bust cycles, saida paper titled ‘Indian Banks: ATime to Reform?’, co-authoredby Rajan and former ReserveBank Deputy Governor ViralAcharya.
“Re-privatization of selectPSBs can then be undertakenas part of a carefully calibrat-ed strategy, bringing in privateinvestors who have both finan-cial expertise as well as tech-nological expertise; corporatehouses must be kept fromacquiring significant stakes,
given their natural conflicts ofinterest,” the paper said.
Noting that the govern-ment obtains enormous powerfrom directing bank lending, itsaid sometimes this power isexercised to advance publicgoals such as financial inclusionor infrastructure finance, some-times it is used to offer patron-age to, or exercise control over,industrialists. “Winding downDepartment of FinancialServices in the Ministry ofFinance is essential, both as anaffirmative signal of the intentto grant bank boards and man-agement independence and asa commitment not to engage in‘mission creep’ when compul-sions arise to use banks for serv-ing costly social or politicalobjectives,” the paper noted.Acc to the paper, private assetmanagement and national assetmanagement ‘bad banks’should be encouraged in par-allel to the online platform fordistressed loan sales.
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against the US dollar onMonday, extending its gainsfor the second day on theback of firm Asian currenciesand weak crude oil prices.
Forex dealers said inflowsinto Indian equities and firm-ing Asian currencies againstthe dollar lent support to thelocal currency.
At the interbank forexmarket, the domestic unitopened at 73.43 and later roseto a high of 73.26 in the daytrade.
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Athens: Greece and Turkey areclose to reviving talks on atense dispute over rights toexploit potential offshore naturalgas deposits in the easternMediterranean, a Greek officialsaid on Monday.
“We are close to restartingthe exploratory talks. ... Therewill be an announcement whenthis is finalised but the atmos-phere is good,” Greek govern-ment spokesman Stelios Petsastold reporters.
Petsas also confirmed localmedia reports that US Secretaryof State Mike Pompeo is expect-ed to visit Greece for a meetingwith Greek Prime Minister
Kyriakos Mitsotakis to discussthe crisis, but added that theschedule is still being workedout.
The two neighbouringNATO members have been atodds for decades over mar-itime boundaries for commer-cial exploitation in an areabetween Turkey’s southerncoast, several Greek islands andthe war-divided island ofCyprus.
Under international pres-sure, Turkey pulled back aresearch vessel in the area whileboth countries have also easedtheir naval presence and haltedmilitary exercises.
Greek-Turkish talks on theissue were last held in 2016. Inrecent years, the dispute that hasbeen fueled by soured relationsbetween the EU and Turkey andwell as the discoveries of largenatural gas fields in other partsof the eastern Mediterranean.
Turkey argues that Greekislands near its coastline shouldbe excluded from the calculationof commercial maritime bound-aries that far exceed the limits ofterritorial waters.
Athens calls the Turkishposition a violation of interna-tional law but says it is willingto settle the dispute at an inter-national court. AP
Beijing: A look at recent devel-opments in the South ChinaSea, where China is pittedagainst smaller neighbours inmultiple territorial disputesover islands, coral reefs andlagoons. The waters are a majorshipping route for global com-merce and are rich in fish andpossible oil and gas reserves.
CHINA SEND WAR-PLANES OVER TAIWAN
China flooded the TaiwanStrait at the northern end of theSouth China Sea with war-planes over two days last weekin an apparent attempt tointimidate the self-governingisland democracy it claims asits own territory.
The drills were timed tocoincide with the visit toTaiwan by a high-ranking USenvoy for talks and to attend amemorial service for formerTaiwanese President Lee Teng-hui, who led the island’s tran-sition to full democracy in theface of Chinese threats.
China’s defence ministrysaid the planes, including 32fighters of various types, fourbombers and one anti-subma-
rine warfare aircraft, crossedinto Taiwan’s air defense iden-tification zone on Friday andSaturday.
Taiwan responded by acti-vating its ground-based airdefence systems and scram-bling fighters, who orderedthe Chinese planes to leave,saying they would “bear all theconsequences” if they did not.
The Taiwan Strait is a busytransit route to and from theSouth China Sea which isroughly divided between Chinato the west and Taiwan to theeast.
CHINA COAST GUARDLEAVES INDONESIAWATERS
An Indonesian patrol shipconfronted a Chinese coastguard vessel that spent almostthree days in waters whereIndonesia claims economicrights and are near the south-ernmost part of China’s dis-puted South China Sea claims.
“We asked them to moveout as it was Indonesia’s EEZ.But they insisted that it isChina’s nine-dash- line terri-tory. Our officers at the vesselargued with them until theymoved out,” said Aan Kurnia,chief of the IndonesianMaritime Security Agency.
“The Chinese coast guardvessel finally left the NorthNatuna Sea on Monday at11:20 am,” he said.
China’s “nine-dash line”delineates its claim to virtual-ly the entire South China Sea.A 2016 international arbitra-tion ruling involving thePhilippines invalidated most ofChina’s sweeping claims in thesea, but China has ignored theruling.
US OFFICIAL: CHINAINSINCERE TOWARDSOUTHEAST ASIA
A US official accusedChina last week of bullying andinsincerity in its dealings withSoutheast Asian nations.
US Assistant Secretary ofState David Stilwell saidTuesday that Chinese insin-cerity is best illustrated in itsaggressive behaviour in theSouth China Sea, where it hasturned disputed reefs intoweaponised artificial islandoutposts despite a commit-ment not to militarise theregion.
In later testimony beforethe Senate, Stilwell said it wasnow clear to the US and othersthat China “seeks to disruptand reshape the internationalenvironment around the nar-row self-centered interests andauthoritarian values of a singlebeneficiary, the ChineseCommunist Party.”
Chinese Foreign MinisterWang Yi lashed back at the USin last week’s ASEAN meetings,saying Washington was the“biggest driver of militarisa-tion” and the “most dangerousfactor damaging peace” in theregion. AP
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Washington: Authorities havearrested a person suspected ofsending the deadly poison ricinin an envelope addressed to theWhite House but interceptedbefore it could be deliveredthere, a law enforcement sourcesaid on Sunday.
In response to a Reutersquery seeking confirmation ofmedia reports that a womanaccused of mailing the ricin-tainted letter had been takeninto custody at the US-Canadian border, the FBI fieldoffice in Washington issued astatement saying: “An arrestwas made of an individualallegedly responsible for send-ing a suspicious letter.”
The statement added: “Theinvestigation is ongoing.”
The law enforcementsource, familiar with the casebut speaking on condition ofanonymity, told Reuters the“suspicious letter” referred to inthe FBI statement was thesame as the envelope found tohave contained ricin.
The source also said theperson arrested was a woman
of Canadian citizenship.The Royal Canadian
Mounted Police said onSaturday that it had received arequest for assistance from theFBI in the investigation andthat the suspicious letter inquestion appeared to have beensent from Canada.
The RCMP further statedthat an FBI analysis of a sub-stance inside the envelopedetected “the presence of ricin,”a highly toxic agent derivedfrom castor beans.
While naturally occurring,the toxin requires a deliberateact to convert it into a biological weapon, with exposure to an amount as small as a pinhead capable ofcausing death within 36 to 72hours. No known antidoteexists.
Initially asked about theincident on Saturday, the FBIsaid it had joined the US SecretService and the US PostalInspection Service in the inves-tigation of “a suspicious letterreceived at a U.S. governmentmail facility.” AFP
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Washington: President DonaldTrump on Monday threw intodoubt a deal to restructure own-ership of the popular video appTikTok, vowing to block anydeal that allows its Chinese par-ent firm to retain any control.
The comments raised freshconcerns over a weekend dealthat appeared to avert a US-ordered ban of TikTok, whichthe Trump administration hascalled a national security risk.
The deal would makeSilicon Valley giant Oracle thedata partner for TikTok withretail giant Walmart also tak-ing a stake in a new entity to becalled TikTok Global.
But details of the planremained unclear, amid differ-ing accounts on the Americanand Chinese shares of the newfirm, and who would be in con-trol of the data and algorithms.
Trump on Monday toldFox News that TikTok’sChinese parent firm ByteDance“will have nothing to do withit and if they do, then we justwon’t make the deal.”
He added Oracle andWalmart “are going to havetotal control over it. They’regoing to own the controllinginterest... If we find they don’thave total control, then we’renot going to approve the deal.”
ByteDance, under pressurein China not to give in to USdemands, said it would hold an80 per cent stake in TikTokGlobal after a public shareoffering. The Chinese firmsaid the current plan “does notinvolve the transfer of anyalgorithms and technologies”and that reports to the contrarywere “rumors.”
A separate statement fromOracle offered a different viewof the transaction.
“Upon creation of TikTokGlobal, Oracle/Walmart willmake their investment and theTikTok Global shares will bedistributed to their owners,Americans will be the majori-ty and ByteDance will have noownership in TikTok Global,”Oracle vice president KenGlueck said. AFP
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Islamabad: DemandingPakistan Prime Minister ImranKhan’s immediate resignation,the country’s major Oppositionparties have launched analliance to hold a countrywideprotest movement to oust hisgovernment.
A 26-point joint resolutionwas adopted on Sunday by the
All Parties Conference (APC),which was hosted by thePakistan Peoples Party (PPP)and attended by PakistanMuslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Fazl(JUI-F) and several other par-ties.
At a joint press conferenceafter the end of the multi-party
meeting, JUI-F chief MualanaFazl ur Rehman read out the res-olution and said that theOpposition parties have agreedto launch an alliance namedPakistan Democratic Movement(PDM) to organise country-wide protests against thePakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)government from October.
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The two candidates’ viewson nuclear weapons policyand strategy carry unusualsignificance in this electionbecause the United States is ata turning point in deciding thefuture of its weapons arsenaland because of growing debateabout the threat posed byChinese and Russian nuclearadvances.
China, whose relativelysmall nuclear force is growingin sophistication, is cited by thePentagon’s top nuclear com-mander as a leading reasonwhy the United States shouldgo all out on nuclear modern-ization.
“We are going into a verydifferent world,” Adm. CharlesRichard, the head of U.S.Strategic Command, said Sept.14. “We are on a trajectory, forthe first time in our nation’shistory, to face two peernuclear-capable competitors.”He was referring to Russia,
which has long been a nuclearpeer, and China, whose lead-ers Richard says have put astrategic nuclear buildup “nexton their to-do list.”
Days later, Richard saidChina could become a peer“by the end of the decade, ifnot sooner.” But other esti-mates suggest a slower pace.The Pentagon recently saidBeijing may double its nuclearstockpile over the next 10years, which would still leaveit far behind the U.S.
Trump entered the WhiteHouse in 2017 with little to sayon the subject of nuclearweapons, but his administra-tion produced a policy docu-ment a year later that thePentagon portrayed as largelytracking the path of theObama administration.
Trump did, however, addtwo weapon types and beef upthe budget for a years-longoverhaul of the nuclear arsenal— an overhaul that Biden seesas excessive.
“Our nuclear now is in thebest shape it’s been in decades,”the president said this month,although the military says thearsenal’s main componentsare so old they are long pastdue for replacement.
He has boasted in broad,sometimes cryptic, terms ofU.S. nuclear advances, telling
journalist Bob Woodward in2019 that he had built a secretnuclear weapon that neitherRussian nor China knewabout.
If reelected, Trump wouldbe expected to stay on his pathof modernizing the nucleararsenal, which has bipartisansupport in Congress despitegrowing budget pressures. Lessclear is how Trump wouldapproach nuclear arms control,including the problem ofNorth Korea’s unconstrainedarsenal. His administrationhas walked away from onearms control deal with Russiaand balked at extending anObama-era strategic nucleartreaty with Russia that Bidensays he would keep in place.
Just days before Trumpentered the White House,then-Vice President Bidencautioned against abandoningObama’s approach.
“If future budgets reversethe choices we’ve made, andpour additional money into anuclear buildup, it hearkensback to the Cold War and willdo nothing to increase the day-to-day security of the UnitedStates or our allies,” Bidensaid in a Jan. 11, 2017, speechat the Carnegie Endowmentfor International Peace.
James Acton, a nuclearexpert at the Carnegie
Endowment, says Biden’sinstincts on nuclear weaponsare more liberal than those ofmuch of the DemocraticParty’s defense establishment.But that doesn’t necessarilymean he would fundamental-ly change U.S. nuclear policy.
“In practice, there areoften pressures to continue thestatus quo,” Acton said in aninterview.
Biden embraces thenotion that nuclear weaponsshould play a smaller role indefense strategy and that theultimate goal should be anuclear-free world. He has notspelled out how he would pur-sue this, but he has droppedclues.
He has said, for example,that he opposes the Trumpadministration’s decision todevelop and deploy two typesof missiles armed with less-powerful “low-yield” nuclearwarheads. One is a sea-launched cruise missile that issome years from being field-ed; the other is a long-rangeballistic missile that the Navybegan deploying aboard sub-marines nearly a year ago.
“Bad idea,” Biden said inJuly 2019. Having these makesthe U.S. “more inclined to usethem,” he added.
During the campaign,Biden also has embraced what
nuclear strategists call a “nofirst use” policy. In simplestterms, that means not initiat-ing a nuclear war — notbeing the first to pull the trig-ger, so that in a nuclear crisis,the U.S. president might optto unleash a retaliatory strikebut not a preemptive one.
Longstanding U.S. policyhas been to reserve the optionof striking first, arguing thatthis makes war less likely.
Obama considered butrejected a shift to “no firstuse.” The Biden campaignhas made few pronounce-ments on U.S. nuclearweapons policy or strategyand it declined to make anadviser available for an inter-view.
The campaign websitesays Biden believes “the solepurpose of the U.S. nucleararsenal should be deterring —and if necessary, retaliatingagainst — a nuclear attack.
As president, he will workto put that belief into practice,in consultation with our alliesand military.” In a question-naire last year by the Councilfor a Livable World in whichBiden and other candidateswere asked whether the U.S.should review its policyreserving the option of usingnuclear weapons first, Bidensaid yes but did not elaborate.
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The suspended members refused toleave the House while the Oppositionprotested loudly against the action, caus-ing five adjournments of the Rajya Sabha.The Opposition said the members shouldhave been given a chance to explain anddemanded a vote on their suspension, butthe Rajya Sabha said the decision was basedon a Government motion.
Naidu said the members threw papers,wrenched mics away, “physically threat-ened” Deputy Chairman Harivansh Singhand even abused him.
“I am naming Mr Derek O Brien.Please go out of the House,” Naidu said, ashe named the suspended members.
But the eight suspended MPs didn’tbudge, even after the House adjourned, andone of them even called for a blanket andpillows for an overnight stay. Later, theprotest started on the lawns of theParliament complex, with MPs holding upplacards that read - “We will fight for farm-ers” and “Parliament assassinated”.
Two of the Government’s three farmBills, which have led to massive protests byOpposition parties and farmers, werepassed on Sunday amid an uproar in theRajya Sabha.
Congress termed “undemocratic” and“one-sided” the suspension of eightOpposition Rajya Sabha MPs, includingthree of its own, with Rahul Gandhi say-ing the “muting of democratic India con-tinues by initially silencing and later sus-pending the parliamentarians.
“Muting Of Democratic India contin-ues: by initially silencing and later, sus-pending MPs in Parliament and turning ablind eye to farmers’ concerns on the blackagriculture laws. This ‘omniscient’Government’s endless arrogance hasbrought economic disaster for the entirecountry,” tweeted Congress leader RahulGandhi.
West Bengal Chief Minister MamataBanerjee posted: “Absolutely unbelievable!BJP MURDERED democracy by ruthless-ly silencing all the Opposition leaders inRajya Sabha. Citizens of the nation, raiseyour voice before we’re completely underNarendra Modi’s dictatorship!#BJPKilledDemocracy”.
The Congress party’s leader in the Lok
Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury and itschief spokesperson Randeep Surjewalalater addressed a Press conference wherethey accused Rajya Sabha DeputyChairman Harivansh of acting at thebehest of the Prime Minister’s Office(PMO).
Chowdhury alleged that the newlyelected Deputy Chairman of the RajyaSabha was working under Governmentobligation. “At the behest of PMO, he triedto muzzle and throttle the voices of theOpposition parties,” he said.
“Congress condemns this kind ofexpulsion of members of the Rajya Sabhain such a brazen and undemocratic man-ner? We will be protesting to restore the sta-tus quo ante of our honourable membersof the Rajya Sabha,” Chowdhury toldreporters.
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Modi made the comments at a virtualceremony to lay foundation stones of ninehighway projects in Bihar and to inaugu-rate optical fibre internet services throughwhich all 45,945 villages in the State will beconnected.
The Prime Minister said he wanted tomake it clear that the Bills are not againstagriculture ‘mandis’ (agricultural markets)and they will continue like they always have.
No Government has done as much toboost MSP and Government procurementof farmers’ produce than his dispensation,the Prime Minister said.
During the coronavirus pandemic, arecord purchase of wheat was made fromfarmers during the rabi season, he said,adding that farmers were paid Rs 1.13 lakhcrore at MSP for wheat, paddy, pulses andoilseeds.
“If I talk about pulses and oilseeds, thenGovernment procurement of pulses andoilseeds has been increased almost 24 timesmore than before,” he said.
Noting that a majority of farmers havesmall landholdings, he said the changes willhelp them organise and get a better priceof their produce.
On the occasion, Modi laid the foun-dation stone of nine highway projects andlaunched optical fiber network in Biharthrough video conferencing on Monday.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar alsoattended the ceremony.
These nine highway projects involve aroad length of about 350 kilometres at a costof Rs 14,258 crores. The Prime Minister alsoinaugurated the optical fibre internet ser-vices under which all the 45,945 villages ofBihar will be connected through opticalfibre internet service.
The roads will enhance better connec-tivity, convenience and economic growthin and around the State and movement ofpeople and goods will also improve sub-stantially, especially with the neighbouringStates of Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand.
The optical fibre internet services willmake the internet available to remote vil-lages in Bihar. Digital services like e-edu-cation, e-agriculture, telemedicine, tele-lawand other social security schemes will beeasily available to all citizens of Biharthrough the implementation of this project,according to a statement released by thePrime Minister’s Office.
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The last round of Corps Commandertalks between Harinder Singh and MajorGeneral Liu Lin was held on August 2. Thetwo sides then agreed to mutually disen-gage but China later went back on its wordand instead pumped in more troops at thefriction point including the contentiousPangong Tso.
The last five rounds of military com-mander talks since June 5 discussed themodalities of withdrawal from the face-ofsites and thinning out troops from thedepth areas. Both the sides deployed addi-tional troops and heavy weapons since theface offs commenced in mid-May andefforts were on to reduce the troops as aconfidence building measure, sources said.
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These officers are a part of a group of17 officers of the Indian Navy, includingfour women officers and three officers ofthe Indian Coast Guard, who were award-ed “wings” on graduating as “observers” at
a ceremony held on Monday at INSGaruda, Kochi. The ceremony was presidedby Rear Admiral Antony George, Chief StaffOfficer (Training) who presented theawards and coveted wings to the graduat-ing officers.
In addition, he also awarded the‘Instructor Badge’ to six other officers, (fivefrom the Indian Navy including a womanand another from Indian Coast Guard) whohad successfully graduated as QualifiedNavigation Instructors (QNI) on the occa-sion.
Sources said Tyagi and Singh willeventually fly the Navy’s new MH-60 R heli-copters. Widely considered the mostadvanced multi-role helicopters of theirclass in the world, the MH-60R is designedto detect enemy ships and submarineswhich can be engaged using missiles andtorpedoes. The 2.6 billion dollar deal wasapproved in 2018 for procuring these heli-copters manufactured by the Lockheed-Martin.
Hailing from Ghaziabad, Tyagi is thefirst from her family to join the Armedforces while Singh who is her course-mateis fourth generation Services officer. Herfather had retired from the Navy some yearsback.
Both of them said the training was veryrigorous and thorough and the two officerscompleted more than 60 hours of flying.Once inducted on the warships, they willbe responsible for hunting enemy subma-rine and provide crucial information to thepilot to fire missiles or torpedoes to neu-tralise the threat. When asked about pres-sure, the two officers said the training hasequipped “them to take pressure and ten-sion bang on.”
Meanwhile, the IAF has selected awoman pilot for training to fly the multi-role Rafale jets. Operational conversion ofthis officer has begun and she may join theGolden Arrows squadron of the Rafales atthe Ambala airbase.
In 2016, Flight Lieutenant BhawannaKanth, Flight Lieutenant Avani Chaturvedi,and Flight Lieutenant Mohana Singhbecame India’s first women fighter pilots.At the moment, the IAF has 1,875 womenin service including 10 fighter pilots.Eighteen women officers are navigatorsdeployed in the fighter-fleet as well, oper-ating as Weapons Systems Operators onfighter jets.
7*=��2�����20&%���$����:60����$�%%.�$���'��A������06�#��$2�%���C$�0�London (PTI): Britain has turned a cor-ner in the coronavirus pandemic in a“bad sense”, which means infections willrise at a dangerous pace unless tougheraction is taken, the UK’s top medicaladvisor said on Monday.
Chief Medical Officer (CMO) ChrisWhitty joined the government’s ChiefScientific Adviser, Patrick Vallance, at aDowning Street briefing to present a hostof charts and data to warn that the rateat which coronavirus is spreading acrossthe country could see 50,000 new casesa day by mid-October without furtherrestrictions.
Their warnings indicate that tighterlockdown measures on household inter-actions and hospitality businesses areimminent.
“We have, in a bad sense, literally
turned a corner, although only relative-ly recently,” said Whitty.
“If this continued, the number ofdeaths directly from COVID will con-tinue to rise, potentially on an expo-nential curve, that means doubling anddoubling and doubling again. And youcan quickly move from really quitesmall numbers to really very large num-bers because of that exponential process,”he warned. Both senior scientific experts,addressing their first briefing withoutbeing accompanied by either PrimeMinister Boris Johnson or a seniorCabinet minister, were brought in toissue a stark warning that the UK washeaded in the “wrong direction” and laythe groundwork for further UK-widecurbs expected to be announced by thegovernment later in the week.
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Hajj Minister Muhammad Bentensaid the kingdom will launch an onlineapplication that allows citizens, residentsof Saudi Arabia and visitors to apply andreserve a specific time and date inwhich they can perform the pilgrimage,known as “umrah,” to avoid crowdingand maintain social-distancing guide-lines.
The minister, who spoke during avirtual seminar, did not say when the pil-grimage would be permitted to resumenor how many people would be allowedto perform it at the same time.
The kingdom held a dramaticallydownsized, symbolic hajj pilgrimage in
July due to concerns that it could easilyhave become a global super-spreaderevent for the virus. Pilgrims were select-ed after applying through an online por-tal and all were residents or citizens ofSaudi Arabia. Rather than the more than2 million pilgrims the kingdom hosts forthe annual event, as little as 1,000 tookpart after being tested for the virus andquarantined.
Saudi Arabia on Monday beganeasing some restrictions on interna-tional flights for the first time in sixmonths.
The kingdom allowed Gulf Arabnationals and foreign residents of SaudiArabia abroad to enter the country, pro-vided they are not infected with thecoronavirus. The kingdom also allowedfor some residents of Saudi Arabia,such as Saudi students with scholarshipsabroad and foreign embassy staff, to exitand enter the kingdom.
Alzheimer’s disease firstdescribed in 1906 by AloisAlzheimer (in Latin ‘de’,which means a depriva-
tion or loss; ‘ment’, which meansmind; and ‘ia’, is a state). Alzheimer’sdisease is presently the commonestcause of dementia having its onsetmost often after the age of 65 years.Presently, it is estimated that at least50 lakh people live with Alzheimer’sdisease in India (that is 0.003 per centof our entire population). However,as life span increases, it is estimatedthat this figure may double in theensuing decades.
The term dementia includessymptoms not only of memory lossbut may also include abnormalitiesof various other cognitive domainssuch as language functions, social andbehavioural aspects, inability to nav-igate and directional confusionoccurring in a person with previous-ly intact such abilities.
Alzheimer’s disease is charac-terised by gradually progressivememory loss as its core featurewhich also is the earliest feature. Thememory loss is mainly for recentevents and episodes (called episod-ic memory in medical terminolo-gy).The patients’ memory for pastevents of life remains unaffected in
the early years. Early features ofepisodic memory loss include repeat-ing the same questions again, mis-placing personal items, forgetting topay bills, keep appointments, difficul-ty retrieving names and also multi-tasking which was previously easilypossible. A change in personality ordevelopment of late-life depression oranxiety also warrants an evaluationfor onset of dementia.
Current studies believe that thebrain abnormality leading toAlzheimer’s disease starts at a muchearlier age and may be stronglyrelated to poor life-style habits name-ly bad sleeping habits, like late nightsor lesser sleep hours, excessive stress,obesity, Diabetes, high cholesterollevels, physical inactivity, excessivetobacco or alcohol intake. Geneticfactors certainly would be incriminat-ed if there are multiple membersfrom the same family developingmemory loss or for the younger onsetcases.
A common parlance among theyoung these days is that they sufferfrom poor memory. Encouraging forthem would be to note that this gen-erally is the result of lack of concen-tration arising out of poor sleepinghabits, excessive stress and physicalinactivity. However, if these poorlifestyle factors are not addressed intime they may sow the seeds forfuture dementia. Therapy forAlzheimer’s unfortunately is notcurative. As is known the dementia
slowly progresses to a point where inthe later stages the patient looses mostof the memory, mobility and sense ofbladder-bowel control. Therapymainly remains symptomatic withmedications that help replace somechemicals in the brain to partiallyboost up the memory. Stimulatingthe mind with brain games, socialinteraction with family/friends, musictherapy or any hobby that intereststhe patient helps slow down thesymptom progress. Massive fundshave been spent and even presentlybeing invested all over the world onexperimental studies for drugs still inthe pipe-line.
So would knowing the earlysymptoms help us? Yes, changingone’s life style habits for the betterwith strict control of contributory ill-nesses like Diabetes mellitus, hyper-tension, obesity, sleep apnea are thebest ways thence, to fight this fierce-ly progressive condition which affectsnot only the patient but the entirefamily who has to cope with this ill-ness which may run into years result-ing in what is often known as care-giver burnout for family members.An adequate sleep schedule, a goodfitness regime, a healthy diet, regu-lar meditation and avoidance ofstress in today’s fast life would hencebe of utmost importance to preventthis unforgiving illness.
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Cardiac ailments are considered to be one of the deadliest dis-eases and the leading cause of mortality in India. As per the
reports of WHO, cardiac problems are estimated to kill at leastone in every five men and one in every eight women. Progressiveheart failure which is caused due to the plaque (fatty substance)build up in the arterial linings of the blood vessels are primar-ily attributed to lifestyle habits and conditions such as smoking,overweight, high cholesterol, high blood pressure and diabetes.
Heart attacks were once only associated with old age. Recently,more people in their 20s, 30s and 40s have been suffering fromheart ailments. Apart from a person’s genetic disposition and fam-ily history which are the most common and uncontrollable riskfactors, the Indian youth is now being succumbed to heart ail-ments due to poor lifestyle, stress, erratic sleep patterns. This inturn causes inflammation and raises the risk of cardiac ailments.Sedentary lifestyle clubbed with smoking are further risk factorsthat trigger the risk symptoms among the younger generation.
Cardiac Hospitals in India perform more than 2 lakh openheart surgeries and are increasing annually by 25 per cent butthey are not able to control the numbers of heart attacks. Thesurgeries done are only palliative. Educating the essentials aboutHeart disease and its risk factors is important to eradicate thecasualties from the root.
What are the symptoms?Not every CHD patient has the same symptoms and angi-
na chest pain as its most common feature. Symptoms may varyfrom nil to severe, some may have an uncomfortable feeling like
indigestion and some casesmay be experiencing severepain, heaviness or tightness.The pain is usually felt in thecentre of the chest, that spreadsto the arms, neck, jaw and evento stomach, and is accompa-nied by palpitation and unusu-al breathlessness.
If arteries become com-pletely blocked, it can cause aheart attack that can causepermanent damage to the heartmuscle. The discomfort or painof a heart attack is usuallysimilar to that of angina, but isoften more severe and may beassociated with sweating, light-headedness, nausea and breath-lessness. This is more commonin people with Diabetes. Heart
attack if not treated straight away can be fatal.Assessment of a suspected CHD patient involves the med-
ical and family history, assessing the lifestyle and taking bloodtests. Further tests to confirm a diagnosis of CHD includes non-invasive tests like an electrocardiogram (ECG) to identify thestructure, thickness and movement of each heart valve, X-rayto look at the heart, lungs and chest wall to rule out any otherconditions that may be causing symptoms, Treadmill test (TMT)during exercise to know the effect of exercise on the heart,Cardiovascular cartography heart flow mapping, CT angiogra-phy and the invasive coronary angiography to identify whetherthe coronary arteries are narrowed and how severe the block-ages are.
Although coronary heart disease cannot be cured, treatmentcan help manage the symptoms, improve the functioning of theheart and reduce the chances of problems such as heart attacks.Effective management includes a combination of lifestylechanges, medicines and non-invasive treatments. Invasive andsurgical treatments are required in more severe cases and the out-comes are favourable in most of the cases, where the person isable to resume their normal life. Some simple lifestyle changesinclude eating a healthy balanced diet, doing regular exercise,no smoking and controlling blood cholesterol and sugar levels.These can reduce the risk of CHD, stroke and dementia.
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mon can lower blood sugar byseveral other mechanisms. Sonow you have more than onereason to add it in your dailyroutine.
One of the most basicthings that one mustdo for long hair is to
oil them regularly. One canuse coconut, almond oreven olive oil. Massage itinto the scalp and leave itovernight. Wash witha mild shampoo inthe morning.However, if youhave an oily skin,oil your hair andleave it for anhour and thenwash off. One canwrap a hot towelaround the head for10 minutes to help inthe better absorption of theoil.
If one reason why youdon’t want to sport long hairis because they fall, use aloevera. It soothes the scalp andconditions hair. It reducesdandruff and unblock hair
follicles that may be blockedby excess oil. You can applypure aloe vera gel to yourscalp and hair a few times aweek.
Apply a m mask madeof egg; it is an excellent
source of protein,which helps your
hair grow longer.Just crack opentwo eggs, strainthe yolks and usethe egg white onyour hair. Let it
stay for 20 min-utes and wash off.
Another reasonwhy hair don’t grow
long could be split ends.Boil two-three cloves ofgarlic with an essential oiland massage this on hairroots. Garlic is known toreduce breakage andimprove blood circulation,which leads to long hair.
Most women love long andsilky hair but end up with dull
and lifeless ones and henceprefer to keep them short.
ROSHANI DEVI shareshousehold tips that one can
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waxing to epilators to laser hair removaland shaving, are some of the easily avail-able options for hair removal. KeratosisPilarsis is a non-contagious skin conditionwhich can be cause due to shaving. Alsoknown as a strawberry legs, this conditiongives you small red bumps that have a seedlike appearance.
Strawberry legs can make you feel alittle conscious of your appearance ifyou’re wearing shorts, skirts or dresses.However, this is not something that oneshould worry about. Its one of the mostcommon skin conditions and has over 1crore cases each year in India alone. It canbe easily controlled and treated by select-ing the right skin care routine and service.
Here are some insights into this prob-lem and how one can deal with it.Characterised by the appearance darkspots, Strawberry legs can be caused dueto unclogged pores, excessive keratinbuilding up extra skin which blocks poresand hair follicles. These blocked pores andhair follicles can lead to ingrown hair,causing the skin to get patchy and dry.Frequent usage of razors can also cause acondition called Folliculitis, where hairfollicles can become inflamed and infect-ed.
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In a rare case, 86 year old lady who herself wasa doctor, became one of the oldest cadavericdonor in Delhi. A resident of South Delhi, the
lady was declared brain dead on September 12late at night, at a Delhi hospital, after sufferingfrom an acute stroke post which the familyexpressed her wish of donating her liver and kid-ney at the time of her death.
Many hospitals were apprehensive of retriev-ing the organs from an 86 year old, undermin-ing the health of those organs, but IndraprasthaApollo welcomed this liver donation as it wouldbe life saving for a patient in need. A 42 year oldman who was a patient of Hepatitis C, consequent-ly, had suffered from liver failure and was in urgentneed of a liver transplant. The liver transplant teamheaded by Dr Neerav Goyal carried out theprocess of extracting the liver from the lady, har-vesting it to ensure it can be used for transplantin a healthy condition and successfully conduct-ing the procedure of liver transplant. While thekidney was accepted by the hospital where shedied, the donor’s liver was transplanted atIndraprastha Apollo Hospitals, into the 42 yearold man at midnight on September 13, withinhours of the donation.
Dr Neerav Goyal, Senior Consultant, LiverTransplant, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, said:“The usual acceptable age for cadaver organ trans-plant is 65 years of age, people beyond that ageare considered as marginal donors. When we gotto know that there is a cadaver donor for liver,we decided to evaluate the organ to examinewhether it will be suitable for donation. The liverbiopsy revealed that the lady had a perfectlyhealthy liver, like that of a young person, hencewe decided to go ahead with the procedure.”
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The patient showed initial symptomsand discomfort in July this year when shespit blood while coughing. She underwenta CT scan of the chest which revealed 43X 35mm cyst (equivalent to a size of ten-nis ball) in superior segment of lower lobeof right lung. The patient followed the CTscan with a bronchoscopy procedure there-after in Srinagar. However, her conditiondeteriorated, and she went into respirato-ry distress. Ruhi-Un-Nisa was unable to liedown and had not slept for close to twomonths. She had severe difficulty in breath-ing; she went to hospital in Kashmir where
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After days of uncertainty and noth-ingness due to the pandemic-induced lockdown, many are find-
ing their own ways to rise to life again. Fordesigners Shantanu and Nikhil, the spir-it of this much-needed revival camewith the FDCI India Couture Week2020. What better than the duo’s collec-tion, The Resurgence, could explain this?
For them, it is an ode to hope, thespirit to resurface and recommence theirduties for the universe. Said Shantanu,“With an almost spiritual connotation tothe capabilities of cyclic existence, the col-lection celebrates a renewed strength andpower to adapt and #RiseAgain.”
So how does a Shantanu-Nikhil bridelook like this time? Taking inspirationfrom the central emotion of the duo’s col-lection — “hope” — their bride celebratesher way towards a new, optimistic worldof happiness, leaving the sorrow anduncertainty behind. Added Shantanu,“With hope, we’re moving ahead of the
sorrow that has gripped the world.While we take baby steps towards nor-malcy, the collection reconstructsromance through fluidic drapes andgodly architecture symbolic of thehope within. With this, we alsocelebrate a new world and our20 years. We are reinterpret-ing our classics and bringingback the opulence of ourjourney with new sustain-able practices put intoplace for our brides.We take pride in ourartisans and theircraf t smanship.This season wedid revisit a lot ofm e t a l l i ce mbroi d e r y,Goth appliqueand the classiczardozi, all cre-ating neo-luxe bridal
looks.”For Nikhil, newer times call for
newer actions and with the blurringlines between technology and fashion inthe new normal, it felt “fitting” to haveshowcased the duo’s Ceremonial Couture‘20 Collection, virtually. He added, “It isan exciting and unusual experience andfeels great to be a part of an ecosystem thatis constantly innovating and connectingwith a larger audience every now andthen.”
Shot at The Roseate Hotels andResorts, Delhi Aerocity, its architecturaldesign added to the collection’s raw por-trayal. The anti-trend aesthetics, thestructure and the linearity as a signaturewere kept intact. For the duo, “this dig-ital model of a showcase definitelydemocratised fashion and integratedwith it a cutting-edge customer expe-rience. We have tried to use this plat-form creatively to showcase a film-likepresentation than just a blatant run-way showing.”
So has it been pivoted aroundthe wedding perspective only?Nikhil said, “In this pandemic, onething is very clear that design willbecome a lot more precious, sus-tainable, valuable and yet, luxu-rious. We have always beenstrong advocates of anti-trendcouture, where the focus is onneo-shapes, silhouettes, min-imalism and of course, thewearer. The brides of today
are looking at timeless andclassic vintage with hints
of contemporary light-ness.”
To represent thestrength we need toleave behind themelancholy andfight on, the col-lection was given a
metallic touch. The gold and sheen donein hand-woven silks and brocades repre-sented a beacon of hope. The abundanceof fluidic drapes created through light fab-rics like georgette and chiffon worked intandem to create a sense of positivity andease, which is much needed at a time likethis.
Talking about whether the festivemarket is outdoing the wedding marketthis year, Shantanu said, “India has alwaysbeen a country of celebrations and thereis nothing more celebratory than anIndian wedding. Hence, the demand forheavy and glorious couture will remainunchanged. With several weddings beingpostponed, the new wedding season hasbrought with it double excitement and thebrides will not compromise on their wed-ding outfits now. The voluminous ballgowns, our signature drapes, anti-trendstyles and cuts are still our brides’ go-toapparel for their dream wedding.”
He added that their brides are look-ing for the same grandeur as it was ear-lier but they are now far more emotion-al about things they do in their lives.Hence, buying behaviour is now hedonis-tic in nature and design is paramount.
While the designers tweak theirapproaches a little to showcase couture,they feel going digital has made everyfashionista their front row client. Nikhilsaid, “We have opted for digital launch inthe past as well and it has helped us con-nect to a larger and newer audience. In thewake of the ongoing pandemic, when theentire world is relying on the digital plat-forms to keep themselves busy and runtheir businesses, there is no other medi-um bigger than this to present fashion topeople. Hence, the challenge now athand would be to translate the grandeurof the physical runway into a virtual one,making it as alive and experiential as theformer where everyone will have a frontrow access.”
Bringing alive the timelessFrench song, La Mer by
Charles Trenet, a painting byartist VS Gaitonde, in a suffu-sion of green, showcasing thesoftness and gentility of thesand, is reminiscent of the sea.This is a masterpiece createdin 1983 and was bought at thePundole Gallery. It is also oneof the three works by the artistto go up on sale. It will be apart of the Christie’s SouthAsian Modern +Contemporary Art Sale onSeptember 23 in New York.
The other two worksbelong to the Sotheby’s salethat will be held in London onSeptember 29. Part of TheGunnar and Inger HansenCollection, these two workscelebrate Gaitonde as the ulti-mate abstract master.
The first is a 1954 amor-phous-looking work thatbelongs to George Butcher, aBritish art critic for TheGuardian and a stalwart sup-porter of the burgeoningIndian and South Asian mod-ern art scene. He spent morethan two years in India andbefriended many artists, gal-lerists and critics. Using hisknowledge and contacts, hecurated several shows onSouth Asian art featuringartists from both home andabroad. Butcher was one ofthe first writers to assert theunique and remarkable con-tribution of South Asianartists to a global form ofmodernism. He has left an
indelible mark on the historyof modern Indian and SouthAsian art.
The second comes fromthe Inger Hansen collection, aDanish couple who collectedIndian art. The work hailsfrom 1969, a smoky crimsonand tangerine sunset that her-alds the sounds and flats andsharps of a raga.
Following a 1964 trip toNew York on the RockefellerFund Fellowship, whereGaitonde encountered sever-al abstract expressionists’works and conceptual artistsfor the first time, his stylebegan to evolve. His paintingsbegan to explore the rela-
tionships between form, lightand colour in a diligent andsophisticated manner. Thework was all about how the“planes of paint spread overthe canvas, a reminder ofnothing other than self. Analmost spiritual sublimationgets created from within paintrather than by reference to anyschool of thought.”
What makes Gaitondestand apart in the Indianmodern art tradition was theway he immersed into itsshared language and a univer-sal vocabulary. For many ofhis contemporaries, the lan-guage was just a tool toexpress something. For
Gaitonde, the languagebecame the subject. He didnot attempt to use line andcolour to create forms; hisforte was the exploration ofthe relationship between lineand colour. If he captured theessence of Indian mod-ernism, it was by disengagingfrom its effusion, its gaietyand its materialism.
“The central characteris-tic of Gaitonde’s artistic per-sonality, it must be under-stood, is that he likes tostand alone. This indepen-dent-mindedness was accom-panied by a firm belief in hisidentity as a painter,” wrotecritic Dnyaneshwar
Nadkarni.An uncompromising
artist of integrity, Gaitondedistanced himself from any-thing he deemed superfluousto the contemplative rigourhe believed his art required.After he shifted Delhi in theearly 1970s, he was “verymuch the artist in a garret.”The few writers who visitedhim spoke about the dustyinteriors and the immensereticence of the place.
Goan artist TheodoreMesquita, who met him inDelhi in 1991, described himas a “hermit,” who is impas-sive to the mundane worldaround him.
Deviyon aur sajjano, brace yourself for the 12thseason of Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC). This
season, the show makes a comeback with a two-foldmessaging that conveys not just a better return amida pandemic but also a motivational nudge for par-ticipants and viewers to consider setbacks as a step-ping stone. It is produced by StudioNEXT and host-ed by actor Amitabh Bachchan.
The first ever digital audition of this seasonraised hope, dreams and aspirations among peoplefrom across the country.
While the core of the show remains the same,it comes with a few changes relevant to the currenttimes. It will not host in-studio audiences keepingin line with the government mandated safetyguidelines and protocols in response to COVID-19.The in-studio audience played a huge role as a life-line – Audience Poll, to help the contestants on thehotseat move ahead in the game. This year, this life-line will be replaced by another lifeline Video-A-Friend. The other three lifelines remain the same– 50:50, Ask The Expert and Flip The Question. Thenumber of fastest finger first contestants who willcompete to be on the hot seat per week, has beenreduced from the usual 10 to 8.
With KBC Play Along on Sony LIV, viewers canenjoy the gameshow by participating and matchingtheir knowledge with the contestants on the hot seat.
(The show premieres from September 28, Mondayto Friday at 9 pm on Sony Entertainment Television.)
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Top seed Simona Halep won herfirst Italian Open title on Monday
after defending champion KarolinaPliskova retired injured while trailing6-0, 2-1 in the final.
World No 2 Halep was compet-ing in her third Rome WTA final,having finished runner-up in 2017and 2018 on the clay at the ForoItalico.
“Finally after two finals I couldwin this title,” the Romanian said.
“I love this tournament and I’mreally happy to have this beautiful tro-phy in my hand.
“In 2013 here I started to go inthe top in world tennis. I reallyenjoyed and I realy was happy oncourt that I could play the semi-finalsback then. Since then I have startedto play really well.”
Pliskova, the secondseed, was playing withher left thigh heavilybandaged.
The Czech struggled withher serve from the outset,falling behind to a doublebreak, handing Halep a 3-0 advantage with a doublefault.
Halep, 28, saved threebreak points against heron her next service game
before conquering a first one-sidedround in 20 minutes.
Pliskova had treatment on herlower back and upper leg before thesecond set, but pushed on with abreak for 1-1after half anhour.
But the 28-year-old called timein the third game, heading towardsHalep to signify the end of thematch after 32 minutes.
In total, Halep converted five ofseven break point opportunities forher eighth win in 13 meetings withPliskova, who converted one of four.
Wimbledon champion Halep’s22nd career title comes just a weekbefore the start of the French Openwhich she won in 2018.
Halep extended her winningstreak this season to 14 consecutivevictories.
She won the Dubai title inFebruary, before the coronaviruslockdown, coming back to claim vic-tory in Prague last month havingskipped the US Open.
Former world No 1 Pliskova, nowranked four, had been having a
successful week on clay afterher disappointing secondround exit in the US Openwhere she was the top seed.
In the men’s final, worldNo 1 Novak Djokovic will bidfor a record 36th Masters titlelater Monday against ArgentineDiego Schwartzman.
The Serbian, a four-time win-ner, is currently tied on 35 Masters
crowns with Rafael Nadal, who fellin the quarter-finals this week toSchwartzman.
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Adepleted Rajasthan Royalshave an onerous task of
stopping the mighty ChennaiSuper Kings on a Sharjah bel-ter with no Ben Stokes in theirline-up but skipper Steve Smith’savailability after recoveringfrom a concussion injury haslifted some gloom ahead oftheir IPL match on Tuesday.
The absence of Stokeswould severely impact Royals’campaign at least in the first halfof the tournament because ofthe balance he brings to the sidebut having Smith in the playingXI would mean that the contestwill not be without a fight.
Smith, who missed theODI series against England, hasundergone various concussiontest protocols and is ready to teeoff.
Apart from premier all-rounder Stokes, also absentfrom the first match willbe Jos Buttler, theirimpact player at thetop-order. TheEngland batsman willbe missing the first gameas he arrived separatelywith his family and need to
undergo mandatory 36-hourquarantine in Dubai.
Jofra Archer’s presence willbe important along with sea-soned T20 stars like SouthAfrican batsman David Miller,Australian pacer Andrew Tyeand England all-rounder TomCurran.
The Royals’ main problemlies in their Indian core, whichhasn’t exactly been consistent.The likes of Sanju Samson,Robin Uthappa, Jaydev Unadkat
and Varun Aaron have failed tolive up to the expectations overthe years.
Sharjah pitch will be a dif-ferent challenge for the bowlersboth in terms of surface as wellas the size of the ground.
CSK have once againshowed how to work aroundwith resources and Sam Currancoming good with an all-roundshow means that Dwayne Bravowould not be missed even if hemisses a few more games due toinjury.
Rayudu and Faf du Plessisperfectly maintained the CSK
“run-chase tem-plate” of attackingin the back 10 bypreserving wick-ets.
The addition of PiyushChawla, a very successful IPLbowler, is also a big plus.
However it needs to beseen how Deepak Chahar isshaping up after sustaininga niggle in the final over ofthe MI innings. In case,Chahar can’t make it,they have ready replace-ment in ShardulThakur.
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Young opener DevduttPadikkal starred on debut
before Yuvzvendra Chahalproduced a crafty spell to setup a 10-run win for RoyalChallengers Bangalore intheir opening IPL contestagainst Sunrisers Hyderabadhere on Monday.
Padikkal (56 off 42, 8fours) displayed his highlyrated talent with a half-cen-tury before AB de Villiers (51of 30) provided the muchneeded final flourish to takeRCB to 163 for five after theywere sent in to bat. Chasing164 for a win, SRH were allout for 153 in 19.4 overs.
The Sunrisers were oncourse for a comfortablechase with Jonny Bairstow(61 off 43) looking in omi-nous touch. Chahal (3/18)removed the Englishman andVijay Shankar in successiveballs in the 16th over to tiltthe game decisively in histeam’s favour.
Bairstow perished in hisattempt to hoick Chahal outof the park while Shankar had
no clue about the perfectlyplaced googly.
That double blow led to abatting collapse, exposingSunrisers’ inexperiencedmiddle-order. Mitchell Marshsuffering an ankle injurywhile bowling meant he cameat number 10 and could onlylast a ball.
Pacer Navdeep Saini(2/25) and Shivam Dube(2/15) also returned tidy fig-ures but Umesh Yadav wasexpensive for RCB yet again,leaking 48 runs in four overs.
Earlier, the class andcalmness Padikkal showedin his first high-profile gamewas remarkable, so much sothat Australian limited overscaptain Aaron Finch (29 off27) was happy to play secondfiddle at the other end.
Sunrisers pulled thingsback in the middle overs fol-lowing a 90-run openingstand between Padikkal andFinch. De Villiers came upwith crucial boundary hitstowards the end to take theteam score past 160.
The 20-year-old Padikkal,possessing a near perfect bal-
ance in the crease, played allaround the ground, playingthe pull and aerial coverdrive with equal confidence.
Padikkal got going withthree boundaries in an overof f lef t-arm pacer TNatarajan. The left-handedopener brought up his half-century with a slog sweepover the fielder at deep squareleg. With the openers lookinggood, RCB cruised to 86 forno loss in 10 overs. However,both Padikkal and Finch felloff successive balls and thatput the brakes on the scoringrate with RCB collecting only30 runs from the next fiveovers. Skipper Virat Kohlideparted after scoring 14 off13, leaving de Villiers to pro-vide the final flourish. TheSouth African star deliveredonce again, smashing his200th six for RCB in theprocess.
There was also an injuryscare for Australian all-rounder Marsh, who limpedoff the field with an ankleinjury after bowling four ballsin his debut game for theSunrisers.
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It wasn’t the best of starts fordefending champion Real
Madrid, which needed a good per-formance by goalkeeper ThibautCourtois to salvage a 0-0 draw at Real Sociedadin La Liga opener.
With a squad mostly unchanged from lastseason, Madrid looked out of rhythm on Sundayand couldn’t get more than a point in a lacklus-ter match at the Reale Arena in the BasqueCountry.
Zinedine Zidane’s team struggled in attackand saw Sociedad create some of themost dangerous chances, including oneby forward Alexander Isak just beforehalftime that forced Courtois to makea superb save with his legs as he chargedout from the goal. “We were wellorganised,” Courtois said.
“We didn’t allow them manyopportunities other than thesave I made and another shotthat went wide. The problemis that we couldn’t score,but that will come withtime.”
David Silva madehis La Liga returnafter a decade withManchester City as he took theplace of Alexander Isak for thefinal 25 minutes.
Turin: Andrea Pirlo got hiscoaching career off to a winningstart as Juventus launched theirbid for a 10th consecutiveleague title with a 3-0 win overSampdoria on Sunday.
Swedish debutant DejanKulusevski opened the scoringafter 13 minutes in Turin withLeonardo Bonucci adding asecond on 78 minutes andCristiano Ronaldo a late third.
The match was played infront of 1,000 spectators asSerie A stadiums reopened onSunday to a limited number offans after a seven-month coro-navirus lockdown.
Pirlo could not have hopedfor a better start to his coach-ing career having taken over
from Maurizio Sarri this sum-mer.
The win againstSampdoria, coached by veteranClaudio Ranieri, came just daysafter the former Italy andJuventus star received hiscoaching diploma.
Juventus handed debuts tonew signing Weston McKennieand Kulusevski, who joinedfrom Atalanta in January beforeimmediately returning toParma on loan.
Kulusevski curled in thefirst goal in a move started byRonaldo, who hit the bar min-utes later. But it was not untilthe last quarter of an hour thatthe champions finally killed offthe game they dominated. AP
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Indian tennis player PrajneshGunneswaran overcame a
sluggish start to advance to thesecond round of the FrenchOpen men’s singles qualifyingevent but country’s top play-er Sumit Nagal bowed outafter a close defeat onMonday.
Seeded 16th, Nagal —who became the first Indian inseven years to win a singlesmatch at a Grand Slam withhis opening round victory atthe US Open — lost 6-7 (4),5-7 to Germany’s seasonedplayer Dustin Brown in onehour and 47 minutes.
Nagal had his chances inthe second set as he was lead-ing 3-0 but Brown did not lethim continue with themomentum.
Prajnesh, India’s second-highest ranked singles player,got the better of Turkey’s CemIlkel 6-3, 6-1 after losing hisservice early in his openingqualifier of the clay courtGrand Slam.
Another Indian featuringin the qualifying draw isRamkumar Ramanathan, whois up against local wildcardTristan Lamasine.
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Kings XI Punjab have appealedagainst on-field umpire Nitin
Menon’s controversial ‘short run’ callat crunch time of their IPL gameagainst Delhi Capitals as formerplayers seek more technologicalintervention for the sake of fairresults.
Before the match went intoSuper Over, the TV footage showedthat square leg umpire Menon haderred in calling Chris Jordan for a‘short run’ in the third ball of the19th over, bowled by KagisoRabada.
The TV replays showed thatJordan’s bat was inside the creasewhen he completed the first run,starting from the non-striker’s end.
However to KXIP’s horror,Menon gestured that Jordan has notcompleted the run and only one runwas added to Mayank Agarwal andthe Punjab team’s total.
The decision was not reverseddespite technological evidence thatit was a wrong call.
In the final over, Punjab need-ed 13 runs to win and Agarwalmanaged 12 runs in the first threeballs.
If that one ‘short run’ was cred-ited to their total, Punjab wouldhave won with three balls to sparebut they lost two wickets in the finaltwo balls after a dot fourth ball andit spilled to a Super Over, whichthey lost.
“We have appealed to the matchreferee. While a human error canhappen and we understand that,there is no room for human errorslike these in a world class tourna-ment like the IPL. This one runcould cost us a play off berth,” KXIPCEO Satish Menon told PTI.
“A loss of a game is a loss of agame. It is unfair. Hope the rules arereviewed so that there is no marginfor human error.”
However the appeal is unlikelyto yield any result since rule 2.12(Umpire’s decision) in the IPL rulebook on playing conditions says that“an umpire may alter any decisionprovided that such alteration ismade promptly. This apart, anumpire’s decision, once made, isfinal.”
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Crestfallen after losing theirIPL opener, Kings XI
Punjab batsman MayankAgarwal said it feels terrible tonot close off the game aftermaking a stupendous come-back against Delhi Capitalshere.
Chasing 158 to win, KXIPwere looking down the barrel at55 for 5 but Agarwal’s blister-ing 89-run knock took them to157. They needed one run offthe final two balls but MarcusStoinis’ twin strike took thegame to the Super Over, whichthey lost on Sunday night.
“We had a tough day. Thereare a lot of positives to take out.The way we came back was fan-tastic, the way we bowled withthe new ball was terrific. It real-ly hurts to not close off thegame from the situation wewere in, feels terrible,” Mayanktold KXIP TV.
“This is just the first game.We can get things rolling again,let’s see how we will go in thecoming games. I think to playa game like that first up was fan-tastic. Everyone was up for it,guys really put in the effort.
“Definitely, we should havefinished the game when weneeded one run,” he added.
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Australian all-rounderMitchell Marsh suffered
an ankle injury while bowlingduring his side SunrisersHyderabad’s IPL openeragainst Royal Challengers onMonday.
The 28-year-old Marshtwisted his ankle on the fol-low through during the fifthover of the RCB innings andhe was seen hobbling out ofthe ground. Vijay Shankarcompleted the remaining twoballs of the over and gaveaway nine runs.
Marsh, who bowled onlyfour deliveries, has had a his-tory of injuries in the past dueto which he has missed num-ber of editions of IPL. Marshdidn’t come back to field dur-ing the rest of the RCBinnings.
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