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T he ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) in Maharashtra on Friday suf- fered a massive setback on Saturday, as the BJP sprang a nasty surprise on its main con- stituent Shiv Sena by snatching the sixth seat from the latter and winning two other seats in the Rajya Sabha polls held on Thursday. Pulling off an unthinkable feat, the BJP in Maharashtra bagged one additional RS seat, as its candidate Dhananjay Mahadik trounced the Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Pawar in an elec- tion battle that witnessed a majority of Independent MLAs from smaller parties — who are actually the supporters of the MVA Government — voting in favour of Mahadik instead of (Sanjay) Pawar. While in Haryana, in a jolt to the Congress, the BJP’s Krishan Lal Panwar and the saffron party-backed Independent candidate Kartikeya Sharma were declared elected for the two Rajya Sabha seats, after a high drama over allegations of vio- lations of polling rules that delayed the counting by more than seven hours. The count- ing of votes in State began past midnight and the results were announced after 2 am on Saturday. According to Election Commission officials, Congress candidates Ajay Maken did not get enough votes. The party said one of its MLAs cross-voted while the vote of an MLA was declared invalid. Congress MLA and the party’s authorised polling agent BB Batra said while the vote of a party MLA was declared invalid, MLA Kuldeep Bishnoi cross-voted for Sharma, a media baron who had entered the poll as an Independent candidate supported by the BJP and its ally JJP. Friday’s development in Maharashtra brought back the grim memories of the 1998 Rajya Sabha polls when the Congress’ official candidate Ram Pradhan was defeated due to cross-voting indulged in by the Congress MLAs. Senior leader Sharad Pawar, who was then with the Congress, was blamed for Pradhan’s defeat, as he had opposed the latter’s candidate. Mahadik scored a comfortable victory over Pawar at the end of the second round of counting of votes. While Mahadik polled 41 votes, Pawar secured 33 votes. The mini- mum quota of votes required for winning the Rajya Sabha seat was 40.58 votes. Continued on Page 6 A day after Uttar Pradesh witnessed violent protests over comments on Prophet Mohammad, bulldozers rolled in two cities: Saharanpur and Kanpur. Earlier on Saturday, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s media advis- er Mrityunjay Kumar posted a veiled message with a warning: “Remember every Friday is followed by a Saturday. He posted the message with a photo of a bulldozer.” The cryptic tweet implied stern action against people indulging in clashes. Haryana BJP IT cell in charge Arun Yadav on Friday tweeted, now Friday being “stone day, Saturday should be declared as bulldozer day”. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday held a review meeting with the team of top officials. He gave a free hand to police to deal with anti-social elements with iron hand and impose Gangsters Act and National Security Act on them, and search out those who used adolescents to disturb peace and social harmony. “Toughest action will be taken against all those anti- social elements who partici- pated in the anarchist attempts to vitiate atmosphere in various cities of the State. Such people have no place in civilised soci- ety. Take care that no innocent is harassed, but ensure not a single guilty escapes,” the Government said in a state- ment. According to NDTV report, police in UP’s Saharanpur shared videos of municipal teams out with bulldozers under a heavy police presence, demolishing parts of homes of two of the accused arrested for dis- turbing the peace and social harmony. Visuals shared by the police showed cops and municipal teams at the residences of accused Muzammil and Abdul Waqir, with bulldozers razing gates and outer walls of their houses which they claim were illegal constructions. In Kanpur, where violent clashes and stone-pelting took place on June 3 over the same issue, the police demol- ished properties belonging to a man they called a “land mafia linked to local leader Zafar Hayat Hashmi who is the main accused in the violence”. Continued on Page 6 A day after they went against their respective party lines and indulged in cross-voting in the Rajya Sabha elections, the Congress and the BJP on Saturday acted against the errant MLAs. The Congress expelled its Haryana MLA Kuldeep Bishnoi from “all his present party positions, including the post of special invitee of the Congress Working Committee, with immediate effect”. For its part, the BJP sus- pended its Rajasthan MLA Shobharani Kushwaha for cross-voting in favour of a Congress candidate and asked her to explain her action. Bishnoi, who has been cut- up with the Congress central leadership for overlooking his candidature for the party’s Haryana president’s post, cross- voted for the BJP-JJP-backed Independent candidate media executive Kartikeya Sharma. As a result, former Union Minister Ajay Maken lost, in a major embarrassment for the Congress which had the required numbers to win. Bishnoi, the Congress MLA from Adampur, followed up his act with a cryptic tweet on Saturday morning saying, “I have the capability to crush snakes’ hood. I do not leave the jungle fearing snakes.” With the Congress favour- ing old guard Bhupinder Singh Hooda over him for the PCC chief’s post, Bishnoi had been seeking an appointment with former Congress president Rahul Gandhi. However, he did not get an audience. In Rajasthan, what came as a surprise was the cross voting by BJP MLA Shobharani Kushwaha in favour of Congress candidate Pramod Tiwari, who sailed through smoothly. Continued on Page 6 T wo people were killed and many, including security personnel, were critically injured as violent protests rocked Ranchi over the com- ments made by two suspend- ed BJP spokespersons on Prophet Mohammad, officials said on Saturday. As per the post-mortem report, the two persons died due to gunshot wounds. Prohibitory orders under Section 144 of the CrPC have been clamped in 12 police sta- tion areas, including Sukhdev Nagar, Lower Bazar, Daily Market and Hindpidi, to pre- vent any further flareups, they said. Internet has also been sus- pended in the district, they added. The situation is under con- trol and is being monitored. Sufficient security forces have been deployed. CCTV footage and videos are being scruti- nised and necessary action will be taken, the officials said. Over two dozen people were injured in the clashes that rocked the State Capital on Friday, officials said. Thirteen of the critically injured people were admitted to the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS), doc- tors there said. “Two of them died late last night. The condi- tion of three people is serious and they are battling for their lives. Continued on Page 6 T he Delhi Police has regis- tered a case in connection with Friday’s protest outside Jama Masjid to demand the arrest of suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma for her controversial remarks on Prophet Mohammad, offi- cials said on Saturday. According to Shweta Chauhan, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Central district, an First Information Report (FIR) has been registered under sec- tion 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) on Friday against the protesters and further investigation is underway. Police said the messages circulated on WhatsApp are being scrutinised and the ini- tial probe has identified 4-5 miscreants, who are locals. “Police might add more UPC sections, keeping in view the provocation as witnessed by our police force and in the con- tents of CCTV footage that have been acquired,” said police. On Friday, the DCP had said, “Around 1,500 people had gathered at the mosque for Friday prayers. When the prayers ended peacefully, some people came outside, started shouting slogans. Continued on Page 6 Kolkata: BJP’s West Bengal unit president Sukanta Majumdar was arrested on Saturday afternoon when he tried to visit violence-hit Howrah district, police said. Majumdar, the MP, was arrested near the toll plaza on Vidyasagar Setu, they said. New Delhi: A YouTuber from Kashmir, Faisal Wani, has been arrested for posting a video that showed him beheading an effigy of a sus- pended BJP spokesperson. Police said the video had caused fear and alarm among the public. W est Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday took the lead in attempting to forge a unity for the Presidential polls and wrote to almost all the Opposition leaders requesting them to attend a meeting on June 15 convened by her in the nation- al Capital to prepare a joint strategy for the upcoming elec- tions. Besides writing to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, Mamata also reached out to the Opposition CMs and leaders to participate in the joint meeting in the national Capital. The Bengal Chief Minister addressed her letter to 22 Opposition leaders. Y oung Indian Grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa emerged winner in the Norway Chess Group A open chess tournament here with 7.5 points from nine rounds. The 16-year old GM, the top-seed, was in fine form and remained unbeaten through the nine rounds. He finished the tournament with a win over fellow Indian V Praneeth, an International Master, on Friday. Praggnanandhaa (Elo 2642) finished a full point ahead of second-placed IM Marsel Efroimski (Israel) and IM Jung Min Seo (Sweden). Former world champion Viswanathan Anand scored a win over Aryan Tari in the ninth and final round to finish third in the Norway Chess tournament which was won by world number one Magnus Carlsen. Praneeth with six points was joint third but was placed sixth due to an inferior tie-break score. Apart from beating Praneeth, Praggnanandhaa posted wins over Victor Mikhalevski (in round 8), Vitaly Kunin (round 6), Mukhammadzokhid Suyarov (round 4), Semen Mutusov (round 2) and Mathias Unneland (round 1). He drew his other three games. Continued on Page 6 A n Army jawan from Dehradun deployed on the India-China border in Arunachal Pradesh has been missing for the past 13 days, causing great anxiety among his family members in Dehradun. The jawan, Prakash Singh Rana, was reported missing on May 29. Army authorities informed his wife about it tele- phonically. A jawan in 7th Garhwal Rifles, Rana who is originally a resident of Ukhimath in Rudraprayag district was deployed at the Thakla post on the Indo-China border in Arunachal Pradesh. With the jawan missing from his Thakla post on the Indo-China border for the past 13 days, his family including his wife Mamata and his two minor children Anuj (10) and daughter Anamika (7) are a worried lot. BJP MLA from Sahaspur, Sahdev Singh Pundir, met the jawan's family at their Sainik colony residence here on Friday to share their concern. “I have spoken to the Union Minister of State for Defence Ajay Bhatt about it and he has assured me that some- thing will be done,” Pundir told PTI. He said details of the miss- ing jawan have been sent to the Union Minister. N agaland Police has charge- sheeted at least 30 mem- bers of the 21 Para Special Force, including a Major, in the December 4, 2021 botched Army operations in Oting- Tiru area of Mon district when at least 13 civilians died. The chargesheet has slapped charges of murder and culpable homicide not amount- ing to murder under on the team of soldiers. The probe which preceded the chargesheet has found that the team had not followed the Standard Operating Procedure and Rules of Engagement and had resorted to indiscriminate and disproportionate firing leading to immediate death of six civilians and grievous injury to two more. Addressing a press confer- ence at Chumoukedima Police Complex on Saturday, Director General of Police (DGP), Nagaland, T John Longkumer said that the Tizit Police Station case related to the Oting inci- dent where civilians were killed in an ambush laid for militants as a result of mistaken identi- ty on December 4, 2021. The case was re-registered by State Crime Police Station on December 5 against unknown persons of the Indian Army under sections 302, 304 and 34 IPC and investigation handed over to a SIT. “A professional and thor- ough investigation was car- ried out by the SIT” in this case, he said, adding that various evidences, including relevant important documents from various authorities and sources, scientific opinions from CFSL Guwahati, Hyderabad and Chandigarh and technical evi- dences from National Institute of Electronics & Information Technology were collected dur- ing the course of investigation. Continued on Page 6 I n a significant initiative, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has adopt- ed an India-sponsored resolu- tion on multilingualism that mentions the Hindi language for the first time. The resolution passed on Friday encourages the UN to continue disseminating impor- tant communications and mes- sages in official as well as in non-official languages, includ- ing in Hindi language. “This year, for the first time, the resolution has a men- tion of Hindi language. ...The resolution also mentions Bangla and Urdu for the first time. We welcome these addi- tions,” India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador TS Tirumurti. He said multilingualism is recognised as a core value of the UN and expressed gratitude to the Secretary-General for prioritising multilingualism. “India has been partnering with the UN Department of Global Communications since 2018 by providing an extra- budgetary contribution to mainstream and consolidate news and multimedia content in the Hindi language,” he said. As part of these efforts, ‘Hindi @ UN’ project was launched in 2018 with an objective to enhance the pub- lic outreach of the United Nations in the Hindi language, and to spread greater awareness about global issues among mil- lions of Hindi-speaking popu- lations around the world. Continued on Page 6
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The ruling Maha VikasAghadi (MVA) in

Maharashtra on Friday suf-fered a massive setback onSaturday, as the BJP sprang anasty surprise on its main con-stituent Shiv Sena by snatchingthe sixth seat from the latterand winning two other seats inthe Rajya Sabha polls held onThursday.

Pulling off an unthinkablefeat, the BJP in Maharashtrabagged one additional RS seat,as its candidate DhananjayMahadik trounced the ShivSena’s Sanjay Pawar in an elec-tion battle that witnessed amajority of Independent MLAsfrom smaller parties — who areactually the supporters of theMVA Government — voting infavour of Mahadik instead of(Sanjay) Pawar.

While in Haryana, in a joltto the Congress, the BJP’sKrishan Lal Panwar and thesaffron party-backedIndependent candidateKartikeya Sharma weredeclared elected for the twoRajya Sabha seats, after a highdrama over allegations of vio-

lations of polling rules thatdelayed the counting by morethan seven hours. The count-ing of votes in State began pastmidnight and the results wereannounced after 2 am onSaturday. According to ElectionCommission officials, Congresscandidates Ajay Maken didnot get enough votes. Theparty said one of its MLAscross-voted while the vote of anMLA was declared invalid.

Congress MLA and theparty’s authorised polling agent

BB Batra said while the vote ofa party MLA was declaredinvalid, MLA Kuldeep Bishnoicross-voted for Sharma, amedia baron who had enteredthe poll as an Independentcandidate supported by theBJP and its ally JJP.

Friday’s development inMaharashtra brought back thegrim memories of the 1998Rajya Sabha polls when theCongress’ official candidateRam Pradhan was defeateddue to cross-voting indulged in

by the Congress MLAs. Seniorleader Sharad Pawar, who wasthen with the Congress, wasblamed for Pradhan’s defeat, ashe had opposed the latter’scandidate. Mahadik scored acomfortable victory over Pawarat the end of the second roundof counting of votes. WhileMahadik polled 41 votes, Pawarsecured 33 votes. The mini-mum quota of votes requiredfor winning the Rajya Sabhaseat was 40.58 votes.

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Aday after Uttar Pradeshwitnessed violent protests

over comments on ProphetMohammad, bulldozers rolledin two cities: Saharanpur andKanpur. Earlier on Saturday,Uttar Pradesh Chief MinisterYogi Adityanath’s media advis-er Mrityunjay Kumar posted aveiled message with a warning:“Remember every Friday isfollowed by a Saturday. Heposted the message with aphoto of a bulldozer.”

The cryptic tweet impliedstern action against peopleindulging in clashes. HaryanaBJP IT cell in charge ArunYadav on Friday tweeted, nowFriday being “stone day,Saturday should be declared asbulldozer day”.

Chief Minister YogiAdityanath on Saturday held areview meeting with the teamof top officials.

He gave a free hand topolice to deal with anti-socialelements with iron hand andimpose Gangsters Act andNational Security Act on them,and search out those who usedadolescents to disturb peaceand social harmony.

“Toughest action will be

taken against all those anti-social elements who partici-pated in the anarchist attemptsto vitiate atmosphere in variouscities of the State. Such peoplehave no place in civilised soci-ety. Take care that no innocentis harassed, but ensure not asingle guilty escapes,” theGovernment said in a state-ment.

According to NDTVreport, police in UP’s

Saharanpur shared videos ofmunicipal teams out withbulldozers under a heavypolice presence, demolishingparts of homes of two ofthe accused arrested for dis-turbing the peace and socialharmony.

Visuals shared by the policeshowed cops and municipalteams at the residences ofaccused Muzammil and AbdulWaqir, with bulldozers razing

gates and outer walls of theirhouses which they claim wereillegal constructions.

In Kanpur, where violentclashes and stone-pelting tookplace on June 3 over thesame issue, the police demol-ished properties belonging to aman they called a “land mafialinked to local leader ZafarHayat Hashmi who is the mainaccused in the violence”.

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Aday after they went againsttheir respective party lines

and indulged in cross-voting inthe Rajya Sabha elections, theCongress and the BJP onSaturday acted against theerrant MLAs.

The Congress expelled itsHaryana MLA KuldeepBishnoi from “all his presentparty positions, including thepost of special invitee of theCongress Working Committee,with immediate effect”.

For its part, the BJP sus-pended its Rajasthan MLAShobharani Kushwaha forcross-voting in favour of aCongress candidate and askedher to explain her action.

Bishnoi, who has been cut-up with the Congress centralleadership for overlooking hiscandidature for the party’sHaryana president’s post, cross-voted for the BJP-JJP-backedIndependent candidate media

executive Kartikeya Sharma. Asa result, former Union MinisterAjay Maken lost, in a majorembarrassment for theCongress which had therequired numbers to win.

Bishnoi, the CongressMLA from Adampur, followedup his act with a cryptic tweeton Saturday morning saying, “Ihave the capability to crushsnakes’ hood. I do not leave thejungle fearing snakes.”

With the Congress favour-ing old guard Bhupinder SinghHooda over him for the PCCchief ’s post, Bishnoi had beenseeking an appointment withformer Congress presidentRahul Gandhi. However, he didnot get an audience.

In Rajasthan, what came asa surprise was the cross votingby BJP MLA ShobharaniKushwaha in favour ofCongress candidate PramodTiwari, who sailed throughsmoothly.

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Two people were killed andmany, including security

personnel, were criticallyinjured as violent protestsrocked Ranchi over the com-ments made by two suspend-ed BJP spokespersons onProphet Mohammad, officialssaid on Saturday. As per thepost-mortem report, the twopersons died due to gunshotwounds.

Prohibitory orders underSection 144 of the CrPC havebeen clamped in 12 police sta-tion areas, including SukhdevNagar, Lower Bazar, DailyMarket and Hindpidi, to pre-vent any further flareups, theysaid. Internet has also been sus-pended in the district, theyadded.

The situation is under con-trol and is being monitored.Sufficient security forces havebeen deployed. CCTV footageand videos are being scruti-

nised and necessary action willbe taken, the officials said.Over two dozen people wereinjured in the clashes thatrocked the State Capital onFriday, officials said.

Thirteen of the criticallyinjured people were admittedto the Rajendra Institute ofMedical Sciences (RIMS), doc-tors there said. “Two of themdied late last night. The condi-tion of three people is seriousand they are battling for theirlives.

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The Delhi Police has regis-tered a case in connection

with Friday’s protest outsideJama Masjid to demand thearrest of suspended BJPspokesperson Nupur Sharmafor her controversial remarkson Prophet Mohammad, offi-cials said on Saturday.

According to ShwetaChauhan, the DeputyCommissioner of Police(DCP), Central district, anFirst Information Report (FIR)has been registered under sec-tion 188 (disobedience to orderduly promulgated by publicservant) of the Indian PenalCode (IPC) on Friday againstthe protesters and furtherinvestigation is underway.

Police said the messagescirculated on WhatsApp arebeing scrutinised and the ini-tial probe has identified 4-5miscreants, who are locals.

“Police might add more

UPC sections, keeping in viewthe provocation as witnessed byour police force and in the con-tents of CCTV footage thathave been acquired,” saidpolice.

On Friday, the DCP hadsaid, “Around 1,500 peoplehad gathered at the mosque forFriday prayers. When theprayers ended peacefully, somepeople came outside, startedshouting slogans.

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Kolkata: BJP’s West Bengalunit president SukantaMajumdar was arrested onSaturday afternoon when hetried to visit violence-hitHowrah district, police said.Majumdar, the MP, wasarrested near the toll plazaon Vidyasagar Setu, theysaid.

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West Bengal Chief MinisterMamata Banerjee on

Saturday took the lead inattempting to forge a unity forthe Presidential polls and wroteto almost all the Oppositionleaders requesting them toattend a meeting on June 15convened by her in the nation-al Capital to prepare a jointstrategy for the upcoming elec-tions.

Besides writing toCongress chief SoniaGandhi, Mamata also reachedout to the Opposition CMs andleaders to participate in thejoint meeting in the nationalCapital.

The Bengal Chief Ministeraddressed her letter to 22Opposition leaders.

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Young Indian GrandmasterR Praggnanandhaa

emerged winner in the NorwayChess Group A open chesstournament here with 7.5points from nine rounds.

The 16-year old GM, thetop-seed, was in fine form andremained unbeaten throughthe nine rounds. He finishedthe tournament with a win overfellow Indian V Praneeth, anInternational Master, on Friday.

Praggnanandhaa (Elo2642) finished a full pointahead of second-placed IMMarsel Efroimski (Israel) andIM Jung Min Seo (Sweden).

Former world championViswanathan Anand scored awin over Aryan Tari in theninth and final round to finish

third in the Norway Chesstournament which was won byworld number one MagnusCarlsen. Praneeth with sixpoints was joint third but wasplaced sixth due to an inferiortie-break score.

Apart from beatingPraneeth, Praggnanandhaaposted wins over VictorMikhalevski (in round 8),Vitaly Kunin (round 6),Mukhammadzokhid Suyarov(round 4), Semen Mutusov(round 2) and MathiasUnneland (round 1). He drewhis other three games.

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An Army jawan fromDehradun deployed on the

India-China border inArunachal Pradesh has beenmissing for the past 13 days,causing great anxiety amonghis family members inDehradun.

The jawan, Prakash SinghRana, was reported missing onMay 29. Army authoritiesinformed his wife about it tele-phonically.

A jawan in 7th GarhwalRifles, Rana who is originallya resident of Ukhimath inRudraprayag district wasdeployed at the Thakla post onthe Indo-China border inArunachal Pradesh.

With the jawan missingfrom his Thakla post on theIndo-China border for the past13 days, his family including hiswife Mamata and his twominor children Anuj (10) anddaughter Anamika (7) are aworried lot.

BJP MLA from Sahaspur,Sahdev Singh Pundir, met thejawan's family at their Sainikcolony residence here on Fridayto share their concern.

“I have spoken to theUnion Minister of State forDefence Ajay Bhatt about it andhe has assured me that some-thing will be done,” Pundir toldPTI.

He said details of the miss-ing jawan have been sent to theUnion Minister.

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Nagaland Police has charge-sheeted at least 30 mem-

bers of the 21 Para SpecialForce, including a Major, in theDecember 4, 2021 botchedArmy operations in Oting-Tiru area of Mon district whenat least 13 civilians died.

The chargesheet hasslapped charges of murder andculpable homicide not amount-ing to murder under on theteam of soldiers.

The probe which precededthe chargesheet has found thatthe team had not followed theStandard Operating Procedureand Rules of Engagement andhad resorted to indiscriminateand disproportionate firingleading to immediate death ofsix civilians and grievous injuryto two more.

Addressing a press confer-ence at Chumoukedima PoliceComplex on Saturday, DirectorGeneral of Police (DGP),

Nagaland, T John Longkumersaid that the Tizit Police Stationcase related to the Oting inci-dent where civilians were killedin an ambush laid for militantsas a result of mistaken identi-ty on December 4, 2021.

The case was re-registeredby State Crime Police Stationon December 5 againstunknown persons of the IndianArmy under sections 302, 304and 34 IPC and investigationhanded over to a SIT.

“A professional and thor-ough investigation was car-ried out by the SIT” in this case,he said, adding that variousevidences, including relevantimportant documents fromvarious authorities and sources,scientific opinions from CFSLGuwahati, Hyderabad andChandigarh and technical evi-dences from National Instituteof Electronics & InformationTechnology were collected dur-ing the course of investigation.

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In a significant initiative, theUnited Nations General

Assembly (UNGA) has adopt-ed an India-sponsored resolu-tion on multilingualism thatmentions the Hindi languagefor the first time.

The resolution passed onFriday encourages the UN tocontinue disseminating impor-tant communications and mes-sages in official as well as innon-official languages, includ-ing in Hindi language.

“This year, for the firsttime, the resolution has a men-tion of Hindi language. ...Theresolution also mentionsBangla and Urdu for the firsttime. We welcome these addi-tions,” India’s PermanentRepresentative to the UnitedNations, Ambassador TSTirumurti.

He said multilingualism isrecognised as a core value of

the UN and expressed gratitudeto the Secretary-General forprioritising multilingualism.

“India has been partneringwith the UN Department ofGlobal Communications since2018 by providing an extra-budgetary contribution tomainstream and consolidatenews and multimedia contentin the Hindi language,” he said.

As part of these efforts,‘Hindi @ UN’ project waslaunched in 2018 with anobjective to enhance the pub-lic outreach of the UnitedNations in the Hindi language,and to spread greater awarenessabout global issues among mil-lions of Hindi-speaking popu-lations around the world.

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Novel coronavirus positive casescontinue to show a spurt in

Uttar Pradesh as 236 more peoplehave tested positive across the statein the last 24 hours prompting offi-cials to issue a fresh warning onSaturday, asking people to follow theCovid protocol in letter and in spir-it.

A government spokesman saidthat 152 COVID-19 patients recov-ered in the last 24 hours and at pre-sent there were 1,087 active cases inthe state.

Over 90 per cent of the COVID-19 patients are being treated athome, the officials claim.

"Genome sequencing has shownthat the new COVID-19 cases are ofthe Omicron variant of the novelcoronavirus. This is not so lethal andpeople should not panic. Still, peo-ple should follow the Covid proto-col because the spread of coron-avirus infection may be under con-trol but the virus is still active," thespokesman said on Saturday.

He said aggressive vaccinationwas an integral part of the compre-hensive strategy of the YogiAdityanath-led UP government tocontain the pandemic, along withadherence to Covid appropriatebehaviour.

He said amid rising cases ofCOVID-19 in other states, vaccine

cover would aid in controlling thespread of the virus in Uttar Pradesh.

Standing on the top, UttarPradesh has so far administeredover 33.24 crore doses of Covid vac-cine. Out of these, over 17,48,68,307are first doses, while over15,42,43,354 individuals are fullyvaccinated.

In terms of percentage, over 94per cent of the adult population isfully vaccinated and 100 per cent hasreceived one dose of the vaccine.

In the age category of 12-14,over 91.44 per cent of the childrenhave received at least one dose of thevaccine while over 47 per cent inthis age category are fully vaccinat-ed.

Committed to providing addi-tional protection cover to the peo-ple, Uttar Pradesh started adminis-tering booster shots (precautiondose) from January 10. Over 32.91lakh 'precaution doses' have beenadministered in the state so far.

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Samajwadi Party's alliance with MahanDal headed by Keshav Dev Maurya has

finally ended on a bitter note withAkhilesh Yadav asking his former ally toreturn the luxury SUV gifted to him at thetime of forging alliance for the March 2022UP assembly elections.

"It is a deliberate insult heaped on usby Samajwadi Party president AkhileshYadav. He had given the vehicle to us dur-ing Diwali last year. I had never sought anyfacility from the Samajwadi Party andAkhilesh Yadav had given the vehicle on

his own volition. I have already returnedthe vehicle to the SP. I got a message fromthe Samajwadi Party office for returningthe SUV and I told them that the vehiclehas already been returned," said KeshavDev Maurya, president of the MahanDal.

Chandra Prakash, son of Keshav DevMaurya, and his wife Suman had contest-ed the last assembly election on SamajwadiParty symbol and both lost the poll.Chandra Maurya had contested fromBilsi seat in Budaun and Suman fromFarrukhabad.

The relations of the Samajwadi Party

with allies Mahan Dal and SuheldevBhartiya Samaj Party (SBSP) were strainedas the SP refused to share seats with boththe parties in the Rajya Sabha and UPLegislative Council elections. Followingthe denial of seats in these polls, KeshavDev Maurya had recently announced tobreak the alliance with the SamajwadiParty.

The SBSP had termed the list of can-didates released by the Samajwadi Partyfor UP Legislative Council election as "dis-appointing".

SBSP chief Om Prakash Rajbhar hadbeen lobbying for a berth for his son

Arvind Rajbhar in the UP LegislativeCouncil. Rajbhar, however, maintainedthat he was in the SP-led alliance andwould extend full support for victory ofcandidates not only in the UP Councilpolls but also in the bypolls to Azamgarhand Rampur Lok Sabha seats.

Bypolls to these parliamentary con-stituencies were necessitated after the elec-tion of senior SP leader MohammadAzam Khan and party chief AkhileshYadav to UP Assembly in March.

Sources in Samajwadi Party, howev-er, said that just after mounting a challengeto the Bharatiya Janata Party in recent UP

Assembly election, Samajwadi Party chiefAkhilesh Yadav faced the challenge of sav-ing the party's bastions Azamgarh andRampur in the Lok Sabha bypolls due onJune 23. Both are prestige seats, havingbeen vacated by Akhilesh Yadav himselfand by party stalwart Azam Khan.

The other challenge is internal:quelling dissension from uncle ShivpalSingh Yadav and Azam Khan. The first hasa strong internal component too, mappedby the drama that preceded candidateselection - the party managed to finalisenames just hours before the nominationprocess ended.

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Haldi, or turmeric, a commonly usedIndian spice, will now be declared as

One District One Product (ODOP) of UttarPradesh's Kushinagar and popularizedamong farmers. Turmeric has a long histo-ry of its use in Asian, African and Caribbeancuisines.

With turmeric becoming the ODOP ofKushinagar, the Buddhist pilgrimage site hasthe potential to become like the Erode,Sangli and Nizamabad districts of SouthIndia, known for its high-volume turmer-ic cultivation. Turmeric in Kushinagar ismainly cultivated in Dudahi, Ramkola,Bishunpura, Khadda, Severhi, Kaptanganj,Kathkuiyan, and Fazilnagar.

The Uttar Pradesh government willexplore the possibilities of cultivation ofturmeric in Kushinagar at a high level.According to a government's spokesman,turmeric is cultivated on about 800 hectaresin the entire district. The yield per hectareis about 36.77 quintals. As per groundreports, turmeric is cultivated on more than200 hectares in Ramkola block alone.Accordingly, the area under cultivation ofturmeric will be about three times.

The yield of local and developed speciesin the trial ranges from 150 to 400 quintals,respectively.. At present, about 10,000farmers of the district are associated withthe cultivation of turmeric.

According to the official spokesman, ifthe farmers are trained on a large-scaleabout the improved methods of farming andquality seeds of better species are provid-ed and cooperation in processing, packingand marketing of the produce is given, thenturmeric can change the fortunes of thefarmers of Kushinagar.

Efforts have also been started in thisregard by a private company as a pilot pro-ject. The company was formed by joining1,150 farmers. All farmers are stakeholdersin this project. A processing unit of limit-ed capacity has also been set up, but the gov-ernment will have to come forward to maketurmeric a brand like Kala Namak rice ofSiddharthnagar.

Kushinagar has better connectivityfrom Bihar to Bengal and north-easternstates by a four-lane road. Once the inter-national airport is built, it will be accessi-ble to most countries too. Turmeric, alsoknown as haldi, is the most effective nutri-tional supplement in existence. Being anti-bacterial and anti-inflammatory, turmericis beneficial in pain, injury, sprain, and den-tal diseases. It also helps in boostingimmunity and purifies blood. Not only isit very beneficial for the skin but the mela-tonin present in it is helpful in bringingabout sleep. Turmeric gets a yellow colourbecause of the main active ingredient pre-sent known as curcumin, which inhibits thegrowth of cancer cells.

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Owing to the successful implemen-tation of the School Chalo cam-

paign, the target to enroll students inprimary and upper primary schools inthe state will be achieved ahead of thestipulated timeline, the statistics reveal.

"The overall target is to connect twocrore children aged 6- 14 years with thedrive in the academic year 2022-23.Currently, there are 1.88 crore childrenenrolled and studying in 1.3 lakhschools in 75 districts of the state," agovernment spokesman said here on

Saturday.The campaign was launched by

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath onApril 4 from Shravasti.

Expressing satisfaction on the func-tioning of the Basic EducationDepartment, Chief Secretary DurgaShankar Mishra said that the state wasmoving in the right direction due to thecontinuous reforms in the educationsector.

Under the School Chalo campaignin all the districts, the parents wereappealed to enroll their children dur-ing the school management committee

(SMC) meetings. The teachers areconducting household surveys acrossthe state to increase enrollment. Alongwith that, enrollment of child labour-ers engaged in brick kilns and otherindustries was done under the cam-paign.

It may be noted that as per the com-parative study of the Basic EducationDepartment, in the year 2016-17 about1.52 crore students were enrolled in theprimary and secondary schools. AfterYogi Adityanath took over the reins ofUttar Pradesh, the number of studentsincreased to 1.88 crore.

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Rashtriya Lok Dal state pres-ident Ramashish Rai criti-

cised the small increment inminimum support price (MSP)of paddy approved by thePrime Minister NarendraModi-led committee andtermed it a "drop" for the farm-ers.

He said the Union govern-ment did not take care of theincrease in the cost of seeds,fertilisers and other inputs

needed by farmers, at the timeof deciding the MSP.

"Inflation has increasedthe cost of agriculture. TheUnion government slogan todouble the income of the farm-ers has turned a farce now. Thegovernment is not taking stepsto increase the income of farm-ers who do not have enoughmoney to meet the expenses oneducation, medicine and otherneeds. The government hascheated the farmers," healleged.

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In yet another considerate act underthe ambitious Mission Shakti cam-

paign, Uttar Pradesh Chief MinisterYogi Adityanath has announced to dis-tribute 'Dignity Kits' as relief assistanceto women and adolescents affected byfloods and other calamities.

A unit of Dignity Kit willinclude sanitary pads (20), bathingsoaps (2), washing soaps (2), towel (1),cotton cloth (1 metre), disposablebag (20), bucket (1), mug (1) andmasks (2).

The new provision in MissionShakti has been included in the wake ofthe rainy season in Uttar Pradesh.

Apart from the Dignity Kit, thegovernment has also directed officialsto provide an ample supply of drinkingwater, dry food packets, medicines,clothes, utensils and bedding amongothers while adhering to Covid proto-cols.

Fully equipped to tackle anynatural calamities in the future, the Yogigovernment is preparing a robust sys-tem in Uttar Pradesh to prevent dam-age and help people during rain, hail-storm and floods.

The UP government, in collabora-tion with the State Disaster ManagementAuthority, is all set to expand its AapdaMitra and Aapda Sakhi schemes to 25districts of the state.

Aapda Mitra and Aapda Sakhi willbe provided flood protection equip-ment, safety kits and training to dealwith any disaster.

Under the scheme, people will beprovided assistance to deal with natur-al calamities such as rain, cloudburst,hailstorm, etc.

It may be recalled that in the last fiveyears, with the efforts of the Yogi gov-ernment, a state-level emergency cen-tre and relief helpline 1070 were estab-lished under the supervision of the reliefcommissioner's office.

Moreover, to keep the relief helplinefunctional 24 hours, 15 call centres arealso operating in the state.

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Continuing the crackdown onprotesters who indulged in

violence in different parts of stateon Friday, police arrested 245people by Saturday afternoon forpelting stones and defying law andorder restrictions while protestingagainst the alleged derogatoryremarks against ProphetMohammed in separate incidents.

In the FIRs lodged in connec-tion with these incidents, over6,000 people, including unidenti-fied mobs, have been booked.

Senior officials are keeping aclose watch on such incidents andpolice action that is being initiat-ed. At least 150 companies ofProvincial Armed Constabulary(PAC) and another 20 companiesof Rapid Action Force (RAF) havebeen deployed in the sensitiveareas across the state.

The police officials said eightpersons were arrested in Firozabad,three in Aligarh, 50 in Hathras, 25in Moradabad, 28 inAmbedkarnagar, 64 in Saharanpur,and 68 in Prayagraj while 6,000people had been booked in thesedistricts in 13 FIRs (includingone each in Kheri and Jalaun), outof which 245 were identified andhad been arrested while 5,755were being identified.

The police are tracing thestone-pelters with the help ofCCTVs footages. The local intel-ligence units are also zeroing in onthe trouble-makers, while proper-ties of some of the main accusedidentified in the violence inPrayagraj are being traced.

The officials said that thesocial media cells of the UP Policeas well as the district police werekeeping round-the-clock vigilanceon social media handles trying tospread hatred and vitiate atmos-phere.

In Ambedkarnagar, the imam

of a mosque in Tanda, identified asFaraz Ahmad and accused of stok-ing protests, has been arrestedalong with 27 others. The policeteams also met religious leaders tomaintain peace.

Three FIRs were registered inSaharanpur which witnessed vio-lence on Friday.

In Moradabad, police teamsremained at the violence-hit spotand kept scanning the CCTV

footages. In Firozabad, local intel-ligence units visited the spot andchecked credentials of locals inorder to identify outsiders involvedin the violence. A heavy policeforce remained deployed in

Hathras.In Prayagraj, officers of

Prayagraj Development Authority(PDA) visited the spot of violenceand carried out a survey of prop-erties of those arrested in the vio-

lence.Meanwhile, Lucknow Police

Commissioner DK Thakur held ameeting with the officials of thewest zone which comprises the oldcity areas.

Lucknow (PNS): To ensurethat people of the state remainhealthy and to curb spread ofcommunicable diseases in mon-soon, Uttar Pradesh Chief MinisterYogi Adityanath has instructedofficials to organise a statewidecommunicable disease controlcampaign from the month of July.

Addressing a high-level meet-ing with senior officials onSaturday, the chief minister said,"Ensure all preparations to launchthe communicable disease controlcampaign across the state from July.Under the campaign, educate therural population about measures toprevent communicable diseases, aswell as, start mass-scale foggingand sanitisation."

The communicable diseasecontrol campaign, starting fromJuly, will be rolled out in all 75 dis-tricts to educate people aboutmeasures to prevent communica-ble diseases. Under this campaign,health workers will go door-to-door to identify patients with viral

fever, vector-borne diseases, andother symptoms.

Yogi said, "Patients should notface any kind of inconvenience atgovernment health setups in all dis-tricts. No patient should returnfrom the hospital unattended."

The government has alsoordered to ensure inter-depart-mental coordination in order tomake the implementation of thecampaign successful. It will bemaking foolproof arrangements,including state-wide surveillancecampaigns, spraying of anti-larvachemicals under extensive mass-scale sanitation, fogging, and clean-liness drives, to ensure the safetyof the state's people.

Under the communicable dis-ease control campaign, awarenessdrives will be carried out particu-larly to enlighten the people resid-ing in villages and other rural areasabout the ways in which commu-nicable diseases are transmittedand also about various measures tocheck their spread.

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The Prayagraj administrationhas arrested 68 out of the 70

identified trouble-makers, includ-ing the alleged mastermind JavedAhmad popularly known as Pumpowing to his pump business, inconnection with the violence inAtala area of the district on lastFriday.

Revenue records and houselayouts of the local residents arebeing scanned thoroughly to bringbulldozers into action.

Police officials are pinningthe needle of suspicion towardsJaved Ahmad and his daughterwho lives in Delhi and is in con-tact with Islamic activists. Javed'sphone call details have revealedthat he was quite active in spread-ing messages and collecting peo-ple at Atala crossing, the epicen-ter of the trouble.

Some All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM)activists are also under the scan-ner and if their involvement isproved, they too will be brought tobooks.

The police will not hesitate inimposing National Security Actand Gangsters Act on those whoincited trouble and backed boys tohurl stones and crude bombs onthe police and set vehicles on fire.

Teams of PrayagrajDevelopment Authority and offi-cers of Sadar tehsil visited the areawith revenue records and blueprint of the house maps to iden-

tify unauthorised constructions,and then bring the bulldozersinto action.

The trouble-makers wereidentified with the help of CCTVfootage and video recordings. Asmany as 70 trouble-makers werenamed in the FIR, which alsomade mention of 1,000 more.

Officials had made prepara-tions near Jama Masjid to controlany trouble after the Friday namaz,but dodging the police the crowd

gathered at strategically strongAtala and pelted stones from nar-row lanes and roof tops. Crudebombs were also hurled to keepthe police at bay. Later, addition-al police force arrived from near-by districts and the situation wasbrought under control.

Alleged prime accused Javedwas also involved in agitationagainst Citizenship AmendmentAct particularly in Atala area.

Attempts are still being made

to disturb peace in other areas also.In Koteshwar Mahadev temple inShivkuti area, an egg was found inthe temple. Police are collectinginformation about the miscreanton the basis of CCTV footage. Apolice force has been deployedthere.

District Magistrate SanjayKhatri and Senior Superintendentof Police Ajay Kumar visited thearea along with policemen andtook stock of the situation. The

atmosphere was tense but peace-ful.

Since Saturday morning, allroutes leading to Atala have beenbarricaded. No one is beingallowed to enter Atala. The sus-pects are being stopped and inter-rogated. Policemen are patrollingfrom the main road to the streets.The people living there are notventuring out of their homes andall shops are closed. People are notseen even on rooftops.

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Screen time should be fixedfor prevention of gaming

disorders in children, accord-ing to the guidelines of paedi-atric associations.

Senior paediatrician DrPiyali Bhattacharya fromSanjay Gandhi PG Institute ofMedical Sciences said no childup to 2 years of age should beallowed any screen time at allwhile kids aged 4-5 yearsshould not be allowed screentime not more than an hour.There should be supervisedvideo-calling, basically withfamily and friends. As for chil-dren above five years, thereshould be a 20 seconds breakafter every 20 minutes whilefollowing associated parame-ters of distance from the screen,postural guidelines etc,” shesaid.

Dr Bhattacharya said thatas per the guidelines of various

associations, there needs to bea balance between sleep (8hours) and physical activity (1hour) while hobbies, studies,family media usage time andfamily time should have fixedhours. “Talk about uncom-fortable messages, images,cyber protection, use teachablemoments and digital footprints.Make kitchens, dining tables,bedrooms and cars media-freezones. There should be judi-cious use of media and any flagsigns of digital addiction mustbe detected,” she said. Sheadded that it is important forparents to upgrade themselves,look for subtle signs and seekconsultation, if needed.

Regarding the posturalguidelines, she said: “The topof the screen should be at eyelevel while the chair shouldcompletely support the thighs.The forearms should be paral-lel to the floor and the chairshould have a backrest to sup-port your lower back. Your

legs should be bent in a 90-110degree angle and make sureyou relax the shoulders whileon the screen.”

“Take a break and look atan object around 20 feet away.Besides, some amount of dis-cipline is also required on theside of parents because eversince children start under-standing thing around them,they see their parents busywith the mobiles and they alsoend up picking this habit,” shepointed out.

Dr Bhattacharya said sheunderstands the importanceof mobile use but one should becareful about how much timeto spend. “There are apps in mymobile which tell me that Ihave looked at the screen fortoo long and that it’s time toswitch it off. There should besome cut-off time because onceyou become habitual, screenaddiction is difficult to get ridof,” she said, adding that it isimportant for the parents to

discipline themselves first.Senior paediatrician Arun

Tewari from Lok BandhuHospital said it has been seenthat when one tries to help chil-dren in deaddiction, theybecome violent. “We also seechildren who have this kind ofaddiction and it is important thatthe screen time is limited. Thechildren should not be given thatmuch liberty or total degree offreedom whereby they are keep-ing their eyes totally on thescreen and damaging them. Itwill become a precarious situa-tion and it is a problem of dis-cipline only. The family systemhas changed as earlier, there usedto be a joint family system andall would live together. Thesekinds of electronic devices werenot there but now because mostof the families are nuclear fam-ilies and both are working par-ents, the children get free timeand they end up getting addict-ed to mobile gaming,” he point-ed out.

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For the complete disposal oflife-threatening diseases

like cervical cancer in women,Uttar Pradesh is setting anexample under the guidance ofGovernor Anandiben Patel.

The programme isdesigned in such a way that iteducates women about HPVvaccination and spreadsawareness for cervical cancerin the society while also mon-itoring the availability of vac-cine at the same time.

Under Vice-ChancellorProf Alok Kumar Rai,Lucknow University, along

with Ram Manohar LohiaInstitute of Medical Sciences,is working to make this impor-tant and mega campaignlaunched by the governor asuccess. These two institu-tions are emerging as animportant link in the aware-ness campaign on cervicalcancer.

In this sequence, a cervi-cal cancer awareness pro-gramme was organised by LUat the Radha KamalMukherjee Auditorium onSaturday. The objective was tocreate awareness among thestudents and parents of theuniversity and colleges.

Presiding over the pro-gramme, Rai said LU is com-mitted to quality educationand good health of women.

He said they understand itssocial responsibilities andwould extend all help andcooperation in this direction.The programme is being con-ducted under the supervisionof DSW (LU) Poonam Tandon.NSS coordinator RupeshKumar said they are commit-ted to making this programmea success. The chief guest onthe occasion was RMLIMSdirector Dr Sonia Nityanand,who explained the importanceof this campaign. She said this

campaign will raise awarenessin the society with respect tocervical cancer and will be aconsiderable step towards theelimination of this fatal disease.

Gynaecologist Dr NeetuSingh gave detailed informa-tion regarding the symptomsof cervical cancer along withmeasures to prevent this dis-ease. She also discussed theimportance of screening andHPV vaccination. Efforts werealso made to clear the doubtsof the participants through anopen session.

The seriousness of thissubject was effectively andinterest ingly displayed

through street plays by theMBBS students of RMLIMS.

For women’s health, LUhad organised a menstrualawareness campaign lastmonth, under which sani-tar y napkin vendingmachines and incineratorswere distributed in 41 ruralschools while adolescentswere made aware about menstrual hygiene throughstreet plays.

DSW Poonam Tandonsaid that in the second phaseof this cervical cancer aware-ness programme, LU will takeadequate steps towards thevaccination of girl students.

Lucknow (PNS): In an attemptto augment organ donation ratein the state of Uttar Pradesh,increased emphasis has beenlaid on facilitating deceasedorgan donation while attemptshave been made to increaseorgan sharing across institutesand hospitals of Lucknow.

One such exemplary effortto save lives through organdonation was made on Saturdayafter a patient was declaredbrain dead at KGMU.

When the relatives ofPradeep Kumar Vishwakarmaconsented to donate his organsafter declaration of brain stemdeath on Saturday following aroad accident, the organ shar-ing network of UP was activat-ed so that this window of oppor-tunity could be efficientlyutilised as a chance to save manyother lives. The donor wasmaintained in the ICU atKGMU until the recipients wereidentified and the liver wasretrieved by a KGMU transplantteam, led by Dr AbhijitChandra, following completionof all legal obligations. Theretrieval team of KGMU fromthe departments of Urologyand Nephrology and that teamof SGPGIMS, under the guid-ance of Dr Sanjoy Surekha fromthe department of Urology,worked together to retrieve thekidneys.

The kidneys were subse-quently transported toSGPGIMS by a green corridorcreated under the supervision oftraffic officials.

The arduous task of coordi-nation between the liasioninghospitals was done under theguidance of SGPGIMS directorDr RK Dhiman, SOTTO nodalofficer and head of the HospitalAdministration department ofSGPGIMS Dr R Harshvardhan.

Both the kidneys weretransplanted immediately tosuitable recipients at SGPGIMS.

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Awoman was killed alleged-ly by her husband and her-

in laws as she resisted theirdowry demand in Dubaggapolice station area. Thedeceased was identified asNidhi Dubey aka Ratna of RaeBareli district. She had marriedBal Kishor Dubey of DaulatKhera locality in the area eightyears ago.

On the complaint of Nidhi’smother Uma, police registereda case of murder under Section302 of IPC and also booked theaccused under Section 34 ofIPC. As per Uma, she belongsto a poor family and could notmeet the dowry demand madeby Nidhi’s husband and in-laws.

For the last four years,Dubey had been allegedly pres-suring Nidhi to bring cash asdowry from her parents. Herhusband and in-laws alsothreatened to kill.

“They forced Nidhi to talkto us regarding their dowrydemand. Her husband, broth-er-in-law and sister-in-law usedto force us to give them money.They used to threaten us sayingotherwise Dubey would marryanother woman,” Uma alleged.

“On Friday, they killedNidhi at their house inGudamba,” she added alleging.The police sent the body forautopsy and started furtherinvestigation. Earlier, thewoman was found murdered ather house on Saturday and thenews spread like wild fire. Herparents also came to knowabout the incident.

Meanwhile, two groups

clashed in Sohava locality inMohanlalganj late on Fridaynight. The groups led by Aveshand Lavkush pelted one anoth-

er with stones and bricks. Theyalso attacked one another withsticks, leaving several injured.

Heavy police force was

despatched to the scene tobring the situation under con-trol. A cross-FIR was registeredin this connection.

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Three students of CityMontessori School, Aliganj

Campus II — Anava Jain,Mayuresh Srivastava andHimanshu Singh — have beenselected in the All-India

Discovery School SuperLeague. After their outstandingachievement in round one,they will now take part in

round two of the competition.The event was organised joint-ly by Discovery network chan-nels and Byjus. DiscoverySchool Super League (DSSL) isthe biggest inter-school quizcompetition in the country inwhich students from 23,000schools of all 29 states and UTsof the country participated.Amidst of a tough competition,these CMS students advancedto the second round. CMSfounder Jagdish Gandhi con-gratulated these students ontheir achievement.

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Aretired sub-inspector,along with his wife, son

and daughter-in-law, wasaccused of duping his broth-er of Rs 8 lakh on the pretextof helping latter’s son get thejob as a constable in UP Policein Gautampalli police stationarea. Not only this, theaccused threatened the com-plainant and his son fordemanding the money back.

As per complainant RamMilan Yadav aka Pappu ofAmethi district, his sonappeared for the police consta-ble recruitment exam in June2018. It was the time whenRam Milan was looking forhelp for the selection of hisson. selected in the exam.Ram Milan’s nephew PradeepKumar Yadav told the formerthat he would help him as heis the commando of the chiefminister. He demanded Rs 10lakh for the favour.

On his assurance, RamMilan arranged Rs 8 lakh andwent to his elder brotherSwaminath Yadav’s house inIndira Nagar. “Swaminathretired from the post of sub-

inspector recently. His wifeKrishna and Pradeep’s wifePushpa advised me to arrangethe money and avail of theopportunity. I gave them themoney for the favour,” he said.

He alleged that Pradeepcalled and asked him to meetnear the CM’s residence onseveral occasions. “On oneoccasion, he said that he didnot care much about money.He told me that he had earnedhuge money in Vyapam scamin MP when he was serving ascommando in the securitywing of the then governor,” thecomplainant alleged.

He said Pradeep abusedhim and threatened to kill himwhen he demanded his moneyback as he failed to keep hispromise. “I will get severalhundreds of crime cases reg-istered against you at differentpolice stations in UP,” Pradeeptold the victim. He allegedthat Swaminath and Pradeep,who was donning the uniformof a commando, slapped himwhen he was near CM’s resi-dence and threatened to killhim if he demanded themoney back.

Meanwhile, the manager

of NABARD, Kolkata, lodgeda case with Hazratganj policeregarding withdrawal of overRs 49,000 from her bankaccount. In her complaint,Snehlata Singh of VivekKhand in Gomti Nagar saidunidentified accused fraudu-lently withdrew money fromher bank account betweenJune 1 and 6. She said she gotto know about it on June 6.“These transactions were notdone by me,” she stated in theFIR.

She further said that shedid not get any OTP or e-mailfor these transactions. “Idialled customer care servicebut the call went unanswered.I had to report the matter tothe bank through e-mail,” shesaid.

In another incident, awoman lost over Rs 41,000 ina cyber fraud in Hazratganjpolice station area. The inci-dent took place on June 4.Samra Khan of Gokhale Margsaid she got a message ofdeduction of Rs 41,500 fromher bank account and shecontacted the bank the nextday and lodged a complaint inthis regard.

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Alleging that the mindsetof both the BJP and the gov-ernment is “anti-farmer”, hesaid their record of nurturingcorporates at the expense offarmers is well known. The SPis committed to the interests ofthe farmers and poor and willcontinue to strongly opposethe policies of the BJP govern-ment, he said. PTI

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Special arrangements havebeen made at the

Chaudhary Charan SinghInternational Airport inLucknow so that Haj pil-grims are not inconveniencedeven as flights are being oper-ated from the city by Saudiairlines.

“We have identified aspecial gate for the entry ofHaj pi lgr ims. A specialhelpdesk has also been cre-

ated for last-minute formal-ities at the airport. The air-port is working with all thestakeholders concerned toensure Haj pilgrims com-mence their journey safely,”a airport spokesperson said.The passengers travelling bythe first flight to Medina for

were greeted with roses bythe ai r p or t of f ic ia l s .Separate areas have beenearmarked for rel ig iousactivities inside the interna-tional terminal-1. A dedicat-ed ‘wazu khana’ has been setup while prayer mats havebeen placed for the pilgrims.

A special parking area hasalso been earmarked at theairport. “Special parking tar-iff has also been fixed forfamily members coming byvehicles to see off their lovedones,” the spokesperson said.There is a dedicated staff tomanage luggage while thereis a separate machine forscreening the baggage of Hajpilgrims. Thee is also a doc-tor at the terminal-1 to dealwith any medica l emergency.

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Sakhi Kendra general secre-tary Neelam Chaturvedi,

while speaking on ‘stress man-agement’ on Saturday, saidwomen were more likely thanmen to report symptoms ofstress and added that it was areaction to a change or a chal-lenge and often made onemore alert and provided ener-gy to get things done. Shesaid however, long-term stresscould lead to serious healthproblems.

Chaturvedi said womenwere more likely to have men-tal health conditions that weremade worse by stress, such asdepression or anxiety, andstress was a reaction to achange or a challenge. She saidstress could also cause symp-

toms such as irritability, sleep-ing problems, changes inappetite, headaches, sadnessor depression. She said forwomen juggling many respon-sibilities, it might seem difficultto find time to adequatelymanage stress.

Chaturvedi said womenwith high stress levels may tryto manage their stress inunhealthy ways, such as over orunder-eating, drinking alcohol,or lying around the house.

She said communityempowerment focused onenhancing the communitythrough leadership develop-ment, improving communica-tion, and creating a network ofsupport to mobilise the com-munity to address concerns.She said similarly organisa-tional empowerment aimed to

create a base of resources for acommunity, including volun-tary organisations, unions andassociations that aimed to pro-tect, promote and advocate forthe powerless women.

Chaturvedi said one needsto set limits and list the projectsand commitments that makeone feel overwhelmed. She alsoadvised women to identifywhich commitments were pri-orities and cut back on any-thing nonessential. She saidwomen need to refrain fromaccepting any more commit-ments until one feels the stresswas under control. She saidsetting limits on non-essentialobligations was important tolessening chronic stress.

She suggested that womenneed to reach out to family orfriends and added that there

was no need to face challeng-ing life circumstances alone assupport from family or friendsmay help start and to take bet-ter care of oneself. She said tomake a health-related com-mitment one needed to dowhat one could do to boosthealth so that one had theenergy and strength to tacklethe challenges one was facing.

Chaturvedi said womenwho were chronically stressedoften suffered from lack ofadequate sleep and, in somecases, stress-induced insomnia.She advised them to start wind-ing down an hour or twobefore they went to sleep andengage in calming activitiessuch as listening to relaxingmusic, reading an enjoyablebook, or practicing relaxationtechniques like meditation.

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Deputy Director of Industry,Udyog Protsahan and

Udyamita Vikas Kendra, SKSrivastava on Saturday saidthat the Uttar Pradesh govern-ment had launched UP UdyamSarathi mobile app and ChiefMinister Yogi Adityanath waseager to give further momen-tum to industrialisation inUttar Pradesh. He said this ini-tiative of the UP governmenthad brought the job industry

right to the people for whom itwas meant, with just one clickof the mouse. He said that thiswas a high-tech platform forthe youth to help them findself-employment opportuni-ties. He said this app wouldprovide all the requisite infor-mation about self-employmentand encourage people, espe-cially the youth, to explorevarious ideas and schemes forself-employment opportuni-ties. He said this app wouldcontain all the relevant infor-

mation and directions requiredto make a living on one’s terms.

Srivastava said the stategovernment’s primary objectivewas to make Uttar Pradesh themost developed state, possess-ing the highest employmentrate, pushing the state tobecome a vast enterprise hub ofthe country. He said the UPUdyam Sarathi Mobile Appwould also play a big role inboosting ambition amongyouth, urging them to seeksolutions and opportunities

that suited them best. He saidthe Udyam Sarathi was a greatapp in the hands of the youthof Uttar Pradesh, especiallythose who were aspiring tobecome entrepreneurs. He saidit aimed to encourage spe-cialised products and arts andcrafts in UP. He said the detailswere all available on the toll freehelpline number. He saidyouth need to download theapp from Google Play Storeand avail themselves of thebenefits.

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Kanpur DevelopmentAuthority (KDA) will

introduce the LandManagement System adoptedby the Greater Noida IndustrialDevelopment Authority. Forthis, officials of Tila Consultants& Contractors Pvt. Ltd.(TCCPL) gave a presentationbefore KDA Vice-ChairmanArvind Singh. After goingthrough the presentation, Singhsaid the introduction of the landmanagement system wouldfacilitate the operation of a sin-gle window system in the KDAand the data available in softcopy would easily be accessible.With this system, identification

of unused land or plots or dis-puted lands will be easy. Withthe introduction of this system,it will be easy to find out details

of schemes developed on anykhasra, land use in khasra’smaster plan and the status ofany particular khasra. Singh

said the entire land manage-ment system would be com-puterised with the introductionof this system.

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The state administration hastightened the noose around

rioters involved in the violencewhich erupted after Fridayprayers on June 3 during thevisit of President Ram NathKovind and Prime MinisterNarendra Modi to the city.

Although the city policehave already started initiatingaction against these rioters,Kanpur DevelopmentAuthority (KDA), on Saturday,launched a drive to demolishthe unauthorised constructionof those involved in the June 3violence.

On the directives of KDAVice-Chairman Arvind Singh,the enforcement squad, accom-panied by officials of the dis-trict administration and policeand paramilitary forces, demol-ished the unauthorised con-struction in premises No.1,Part-112/08A, BenajhabarRoad (Zone 1) of a trader,Mohd Ishtiyaq, on Saturday.

Sources said that the ordersto demolish the unauthorisedconstruction of this buildinghad already been issued in thepast but in view of MohdIstiyaq being a relative of HayatZafar Hashmi, the mastermindof the Kanpur violence, theaction was initiated onSaturday. The sources also saidthat Hayat Zafar Hashmi hadinvested money in the con-

struction of this building. Besides, the name of a big

builder, involved in Nai Sarakviolence on June 3, has alsocome to fore due to his share inconstruction of this building.

Meanwhile, the KDA hasalso started identifying unau-thorised constructions of manyother rioters involved in theJune 3 violence. About a fort-night ago, it had sealed sixbuildings of a big builder andhad started a probe intoresumption of construction ina sealed premises by a builderin Darshan Purwa area.

KDA Officer on SpecialDuty (OSD) Avaneesh Singhsaid Mohd Ishtiyaq had sub-mitted the layout for residen-tial construction but he got theentire building constructed forcommercial purpose. Apartfrom 130 square metre land,illegal construction was alsocarried out on around 10square metre land on the road.Besides, no space was left byhim for the setback also.Hence, on the orders of theKDA vice-chairman, the driveto demolish the illegal con-struction was carried out on

Saturday. According to KDAofficers, the building wassealed in 2021 with orders forits demolition. Even after this,the construction work contin-ued there. Therefore, half ofthe building was demolishedon Saturday. The squad alsodemolished unauthorised con-struction of Mohd Rizwan onarazi No.729, Baikunthpur-Singhpur Mandhana Road, onSaturday. Mohd Rizwan wascarrying out construction forsetting up a petrol pump therewithout getting the layoutapproved by the KDA.

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The third meeting of theTown Official Language

Implementation CommitteeOffice-3 (TOLIC) was held atthe Indian Institute ofTechnology, Kanpur.

It was presided over by IIT-Kanpur Director Prof AbhayKarandikar. More than 45Central government officeslocated in Kanpur Nagar havebeen attached to this commit-tee. The IIT-Kanpur has theresponsibility of monitoringthe progress and implementa-tion of official language in allthese offices. Speaking at themeeting, IIT-Kanpur DeputyDirector, Prof S Ganesh,called upon all the heads ofoffices present to take con-crete steps for the promotionand implementation of offi-cial language so that thegoals set by the Departmentof Official Language, Union

Ministry of Home Affairs,could b e achieved.Reviewing the half-yearlyreport received from themember offices, Dr

Vedprakash Singh, member-secretary of the committee,advised all the heads of officesto avoid violation of OfficialLanguage Rules or Acts while

filling the report and fill the fig-ures clearly in the half-yearlyreports to avoid any kind ofuncomfortable situation orobjections during inspection bythe Parliamentary Committeeon Official Language.

Nirmal Kumar Dubey,assistant director, RegionalImplementation Office (NorthZone, Ghaziabad, also joinedthe meeting virtually and askedall the office heads present toensure compliance withOfficial Language Rules andActs.

He also called upon all theoffices to organise half-yearlymeetings and workshops reg-ularly and provide detailedinformation about the rulesand Acts related to officiallanguage.

IIT-Kanpur RegistrarKrishna Kumar Tiwari wel-comed all the heads of officesand other officers and thankedthem for attending the meeting.

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Additional DistrictMagistrate Satyendra

Kumar (LA), on the directivesof District Magistrate Visakh GIyer, made a surprise visit to theKanpur District Jail onSaturday. The visit was a fol-low-up action after a vernacu-lar daily published misleadingand frivolous news that therioters arrested for their role inthe recent violence in the citystaged a protest and createdbedlam inside the jail trigger-ing apprehensions of furthertension inside the jail.

The ADM denied any suchincident in the jail as reportedin the vernacular daily. Hesaid the report was baseless.However, he made no com-ment on whether any actionwould be taken against the ver-nacular daily. It may be men-tioned here that from the timeof the riots which took placelast Friday, the vernaculardailies have been printing news

which are highly misleadingand have created tension allover the city. The people of thecity refrained from movingout in Kanpur on Friday,apprehending more violenceand political turbulence. The

Muslim-dominated area andthe residents were under fear,apprehending further violence.From the time the violenceerupted last Friday, Kanpurhas been in news on variouspretexts and the vernacular

dailies were stoking passionsand this can be substantiated bythe fact that they printed newsabout disturbance in the jail,forcing the district adminis-tration to pull up its socks andrush to take all preventivemeasures. However Kumarsaid the team, which com-prised top police officials, metthe jail officials and the jailinmates and came to know thatthe news of disturbance insidethe jail by rioters was totallybaseless and wrong. The citywas agog with rumours onFriday about the spillover of theKanpur violence to other citiesof Uttar Pradesh. The law abid-ing citizens of both minorityand majority communities,restricted their movement andquite a few shops in sensitiveareas remained closed allthrough the day. However spe-cial PAC pickets were deployedall over the sensitive areas of thecity and a vigil was beingmaintained on mischief-mak-ers and rumour mongers.

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Healthcare, who is an expert intrans-radial and trans-femoralcoronary angiography andangioplasty, Dr AbhineetGupta, while addressing aCME on “Approach to case ofsyncope-A confusing domain”on Saturday said the presenceof confusion after the event wasthe single most powerful dis-criminator between seizureand syncope. He said mentalfunction was usually quicklyrecovered after a syncopalepisode, whereas seizures werefollowed by a postictal period

of residual confusion whichcan last from minutes to hours.He said syncope was in fact asudden temporary loss of con-sciousness associated with aloss of postural tone and spon-taneous recovery not requiringelectrical or chemical car-dioversion. He said it had alarge differential diagnosis,which was difficult to evaluate,and can be disabling as well.He said there were subsets ofsyncopal patients with a highrisk of sudden death and thecentral issues in the evaluationof syncope were establishingthe cause of syncope, decidingwhether the patient needed tobe admitted and treating the

causes of syncope effectively toreduce recurrences and poten-tially improve patient out-comes. He said truly it was aconfusing domain and addedthat the first issue to resolvewas whether the patient hadsyncope, dizziness, presyncope,drop attacks and vertigo wereeasily distinguished from syn-cope because these symptomsdo not lead to loss of con-sciousness. He said featuresuseful in separating seizureand syncope were precipitants,prodromal symptoms, com-plaints during the spell andsymptoms after the episode.He said loss of consciousnessprecipitated by pain or occur-ring after exercise, micturi-tion, defecation and stressfulevents was generally due tosyncope, whereas aura mayprecede a seizure. He saidsymptoms such as sweatingand nausea during the episodewere associated with syncopeand a long duration of loss ofconsciousness disorientationafter the event and slowness ofreturn to consciousness sug-gested a seizure. He said syn-cope can result in seizure-likeactivity, but when rhythmicmovements were reported,seizure was the likely diagno-sis. He said reasons for vari-ability included aggressivenessof diagnostic testing, diagnos-tic criteria for causes, patientpopulations and whetherpatients with a likely seizuredisorder were excluded. Hesaid in approximately 39 percent of patients, the cause ofsyncope was not established.Dr Gupta said the initial eval-uation may lead to no diagno-sis and the strategy of evalua-tion varied according to theseverity and frequency of theepisodes. He said in patientswith unexplained syncope thelikely diagnosis was neurally-mediated. He said the tests forneurally mediated syncope con-sisted of tilt testing and carotidmassage. He said majority ofpatients with single or rareepisodes in this category probablyhad neurally mediated syncope.

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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)honoured 157 street ven-

dors of the city here onSaturday under its ‘service,dedication and poor welfarescheme’ programme duringongoing fortnight long cam-paign to celebrate the comple-tion of eight years tenure ofPrime Minister NarendraModi, On the call of the cen-tral leadership of the party, thestreet vendors were felicitatedfor the first time by the party.

Presiding over the func-tion, city BJP presidentVidyasagar Rai said that duringthe time of Covid-19 pandem-ic, the street vendors, whofaced financial crisis, have beengiven the benefit of PradhanMantri Svanidhi Yojana.

MLA Saurabh Srivastavasaid street vendors have a hugecontribution in the country’seconomy. He praised the streetvendors for working hard butsuggested that they should dobusiness in such a way to avoidtraffic jams.

Mayor Mridula Jaiswal saidPrime Minister always advo-cated making the people finan-cially self-reliant and it was thereason why he had launchedseveral schemes for self-employment, small business-men and street vendors. Shecalled upon the street vendorsthat it is the moral responsi-bility of all of us to keep Kashiclean.

On the occasion as many as157 street vendors were felici-tated. While conducting theprogramme, Abhishek Nigam

informed that 66 vending zoneshave been set up in the city.Programme coordinatorJagdish Tripathi proposed avote of thanks.

Prominent among thosewho were also present wereproject officer Jaya Singh,Sanjay Jaiswal, city partyspokesman Kishore Seth, cor-poratos Shailendra SrivastavaMunna, Dinesh Yadav, MadanMohan Dubey and SandeepSrivastava, Rohit Maurya,Prakash Srivastava, Mannu Raiand Hrithik Mishra.

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Deputy Chief MinisterBrajesh Pathak conducted

a surprise inspection of the TBHospital here on Saturday. Theminister took the officials totask on spotting several flaws.

Deputy CM reachedTeliarganj’s DistrictTuberculosis Hospital i.e. TBHospital and found dirt there.Seeing the dirt around thedustbin, the Deputy CM rep-rimanded the officers of theMedical department.

Pathak met many patientswhile inspecting the TB hos-pital for about 10 minutes. Hetook a feedback about theircondition and asked whetherthe treatment is done prop-erly or not. On the questionof getting �500 per month,some patients nodded theirheads in no. The ministertold the officers concernedthat all patients should be

given the amount receivedfrom the government. Duringit Chief Medical Officer(CMO) Dr Nanak Saran wasalso with him.

MISHRA DIES: DrPrakash Chandra Mishra, pres-ident of Prayagwal Sabha, apremier organisation of TeerthPurohits, died in Naini Jail. He

had been ill for a long time.Teerth Purohits alleged thatdespite showing the form of ill-ness to police officers, DrPrakash was not given anyfacilities. After the issue of abailable warrant in a dispute inthe year 2019, the president ofPrayagwal Sabha surrenderedin the court on June 7. Afterthis his bail application wasrejected and he was taken intopolice custody and sent toNaini Central Jail. His condi-tion started deteriorating inbarrack number 6 of NainiCentral Jail and he died onFriday. Relatives accused thejail administration of causingdeath due to negligence. Theysaid his health was already bad.Treatment and necessary med-icines were not available in thejail. Prayag DharmasanghPresident Rajendra Paliwalalleged Dr Prakash’s life wouldhave been saved had the officialsprovided proper treatment.

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Three people were killed on the spot afterbeing hit by a train at Shankargarh rail-

way station in Pratapgarh of North CentralRailway (NCR) on Saturday morning. Thecondition of a railway passenger is stated tobe critical in this accident. All were going fromBihar Pradea to Pune and were hit by a trainat Shankargarh railway station. One serious-ly injured passenger has been referred by thedoctor to Prayagraj. Public Relations Officerof NCR Amit Singh said when Gyan GangaExpress stopped at the Sankargarh railway sta-tion, three passengers from Bihar got downon the main line railway track and startedlooking on the other side. Meanwhile, the fourpassengers were hit by the Chambal Expressgoing from Prayagraj to Manikpur. In the acci-dent, Vikas Paswan and Deepak died on thespot and two were injured. On getting infor-mation, RPF took Munnu Shah and VikasPrajapati to the community health centre(CHC) Shankargarh in an injured condition.There Munnu Shah was declared dead and

after primary treatment Vikas Prajapati wasreferred to the city hospital. After the incidentthe three bodies were taken by the Railwaypolice and sent for the post-mortem exami-nation. The four passengers who were hit bythe train were on their way from their villageto Pune to do their job. Those deceased includ-ed Vikas Kumar Paswan (22), son of SamidiPaswan, a resident of Bihar, Munnu Shah (27),son of Raju Shah, a resident of Andhayari,Madhubani district, Bihar, Deepak (22), sonof Satyanarayan, a resident of AmitedanTelhan, Darbhanga. Besides injured was VikasPrajapati (20), son of Deepak Prajapati, a res-ident of Bihar. Meanwhile, on Saturday morn-ing, on the Delhi-Howrah rail route in Ajuhatown, Saini Kotwali area in Kaushambi dis-trict, a young man died after being hit by atrain coming on the Up-line. The policereached the spot on getting the informationand sent the body for post-mortem. RamCharan (33), son of Kishanlal resident of NagarPanchayat Ajuha, due to domestic dispute onSaturday morning, committed suicide byjumping in front of the train.

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Ameeting of the KashiDharma Parishad was held

at Sudama Kuti here onSaturday under the auspices ofVaishnava Virakta Sant Samajin which a resolution waspassed condemning the vio-lence that took place afterFriday’s namaz across the coun-try. The saints, mahants andacharyas in the meeting whichwas presided over by MahantBalak Das Maharaj of PatalpuriMath, expressed concern overattempts of some to create ter-ror in the country in the nameof Islamic jihad. Terming theincident as horrifying andfrightening for Indians, theparticipants said they wouldnever tolerate the way Islamicfundamentalists had createdviolence on the streets afteroffering prayers. They strong-ly condemned the threats madeby some people to suspendedBJP leader Nupur Sharma anddemanded action under

National Security Act (NSA)against them. Addressing themeeting, Kotwal Mohan Dassaid as we are followers of LordRam, we are peace seekers butviolence is unacceptable andurged the government to takean early step against thoseinvolved in it. Mahant BalakDas said as temples are beingdemolished and deities arebeing insulted everyday so wewant strong action against theIslamic fundamentalists.“To

save the country, the SantSamaj will come out on thestreets and we’ll take a big deci-sion after talking to religiousleaders of all the sects, akhadasand nagas,” he said. Theypassed a 10-point resolutionand decided to send it to cen-tral and all state governmentsapart from different dharma-charyas. They resolved thatthose groups involved in vio-lence should be banned,mosques from where stones

were pelted be sealed and prop-erty of those who fanned theflames of violence be seized.They also urged the govern-ment to end trade relationswith such countries speakingagainst the dignity of India.They said that a joint meetingof saints, mahatmas and Nagasadhus will be organised soonin which the future plan ofaction will be taken. Prominentamong those present wereMahant Raghav of SudamaKuti, Mahant AvadhkishoreDas of Ramjanki Math(Bulanala), Mahant AvadheshDas (Panthacharya ofRampanth), Dr Rajiv Shriguruji,Mahant Pramod Das, MahantSatyanarayan Das, Narayan Das,Dr Shravan Das, MahantRameshwar Das, MahantRamsharan Das,, Mahant SiyaramDas, Vijay Das, Mahant IshwarDas, Mahant Sarveshwar SharanDas, Mahant Chandra BhushanDas, Mahant Vaibhav Giri, TandavMaharaj, Rameshwar Das andMahant Shri Ram Das.

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General Manager of BanarasLocomotive Works (DLW) Anjali

Goyal stressed the need for creatingawareness among the people towardsfinancial literacy. “Today India is close tobecoming a three trillion dollar economy,but huge efforts are still needed in the workof investing in the capital market. Forwhich digital and financial literacy willhave to be disseminated to every family.People need to be educated on how toaccess different segments of the capitalmarket as well as its risks and benefits,” shesaid while addressing a conference organ-ised at Rudraksh InternationalCooperation and Convention Centre hereon Friday. It was a part of the nation-wideprogramme organized by the UnionMinistry of Finance in 75 cities across thecountry on the topic of ‘Creating Wealththrough Market’ under the Azadi KaAmrit Mahotsav. The objective of organ-ising the conference was to encourage andeducate the existing and potential investors

to get benefits from the capital market. Themain conference was addressed live from

Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi in the presenceof Union Finance Minister NirmalaSitharaman and Union Minister of Statefor Finance Dr Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad.

While speaking at the local conferenceas the chief guest, BLW GM said that inthe financial market today with the pro-liferation of digital banking and use oftechnology, financial services are reachingeverywhere. “Investors can now do UPItransactions up to �5 lakh in the stock mar-ket. Most of our population has beenlinked with Aadhaar and 45 crore Jan-Dhan accounts have also been opened, sothis is the right time to increase public par-ticipation in the capital market,” she saidand expressed hope that it would furtherincrease the participation of people innation building. “Investing in this will openup more savings options and diversify thefinancial resources of every family and getmore benefits of investment,” Anjali Goyalsaid, adding that at present, trading ofinstruments like municipal bonds isincreasing in the stock market today giv-ing further options to the investors.

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This can bring much relief tothe people residing in Sonia

area at a time when thegroundwater level is graduallydeclining as the VaranasiMunicipal Corporation (VMC)has started the work to bringthe historically important SoniaTalab to its original nature byremoving debris on the direc-tive of the Uttar PradeshMinister for Urban develop-ment, Energy and AlternativeEnergy AK Sharma. The VMCwill also beautify it by erectingfencing with a grill around it.

It is learnt that the Soniapond has historical impor-tance as the freedom fighters ofVaranasi had broken the saltlaw along it and that was whythe road adjoining this pond isknown as Satyagrah Road. Thefirst Member of Parliamentfrom Varanasi after the inde-

pendence Raghunath Singhhad dedicated this pond to thenation. Meanwhile the localresidents fought from time totime to revive this pond but itwent in vain. They claimedthat due to the negligence of theauthority concerned the landmafia encroached upon thispond of historical importanceduring the last few years and itsexistence was threatened.

Meanwhile a local residentbrought the matter of this pondto the cognizance of the UPMinister for UrbanDevelopment Sharma whotook it seriously and issued adirective to VMC for action inthis direction. On the directiveof the minister, the VMCswung into action andMunicipal CommissionerPranay Singh conducted aninspection of this pond andissued appropriate directive tohis subordinates. On his

instruction the corporationstarted the work to removeencroachment and debrisfrom the pond. As there isscorching sun and high tem-perature with high humidityduring the day hours, thework of removing the debrisis being done at night, chiefengineer of the VMC said.Two JCBs and about half adozen tractors are engaged inlifting the debris. and over 50tractors lifted the debris dur-ing the last two days, headded. The work is beingdone on a war footing for therevival of this pond, the chiefengineer said. The develop-ment and revival work of thepond is being carried out intwo phases, the engineer saidand added that in the firstphase, the debris would beremoved from the pond whilethe beautification work ofthe pond will be done in the

second phase. The boundarywall of the pond will bemaintained by removing theencroachment from here andfencing will be done aroundit with iron grills. TheRevenue department hasbeen asked to conduct a sur-vey of the pond so that theencroachment could beremoved from here. Thepond is to be developed andbeautified in such a way thatit could conserve only therainwater and so toi letdrainage would be diverted tothe other side. The VMCmade an appeal to the peopleresiding around the pondnot to dumb domestic wastein it. After its revival thepond could maintain thegroundwater level of Soniaand adjoining areas address-ing the problem of water tothe great extent, hoped VMCofficers.

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Regional president ofBharatiya Janata Party

(BJP) Mahesh ChandSrivastava reviewed the party’spreparations for InternationalYoga Day on June 21 throughvirtual medium at the party’sregional office at Rohaniyahere on Saturday. Addressingthe meeting, he said that yogais a powerful medium forestablishing harmony betweenbody and mind, action andthought, and between manand nature. “This priceless giftof Indian culture to the entirehumanity was given globalacceptance by MP of Kashi andPrime Minister Narendra Modiwith his efforts, so that todaythe whole world has adopted

Yoga,” he added.According to him, yoga

camps will be organised in all337 mandal units of 16 organ-isational districts of Kashiregion on the eighth Yoga Dayin which national and stateoffice-bearers of the party,MPs, MLAs and other publicrepresentatives will participate.He instructed all the districtpresidents and convenors tomake the programme a success.He said camps would be organ-ised in the division and districtheadquarters at the parks, reli-gious places, public places,schools/colleges, village streetsetc which were developed bythe central and state govern-ments in recent years andinstructed the party office-bearers to highlight such devel-

oped places and ensure maxi-mum participation of the peo-ple. According to him, formonitoring of these pro-grammes, convenors will benominated at the regional,divisional and district levelswho will invite social organi-sations for participation ensur-ing social distance.

Regional spokespersonNavratan Rathi said the PMhad launched the M-yoga appon the seventh InternationalYoga Day last year which wasjointly developed by the UnionMinistry of AYUSH and theWorld Health Organisation(WHO) with an aim to provideyoga training and practice ses-sions of varying duration to thegeneral public and enthusi-asts. This app is available in dif-

ferent languages so that peopleall over the world can use it. Heasked all the Mandal units todownload the photos of theWorld Yoga Day programmeson the Namo App and alsosend them to the party’s stateheadquarters.

In the virtual meeting, dis-trict president HansrajVishwakarma, city chiefVidyasagar Rai, AmarnathYadav, Dilip Singh Patel, AshokChaurasia, Sushil Tripathi,Santosh Patel, Ashok Tiwari,Rakesh Sharma, Dr SudamaPatel, Pradeep Agrahari,Santosh Solapurkar, UdayPratap Singh ‘Pappu’, ShriPrakash Shukla, NaveenKapoor, Jagdish Tripathi,Shivanand Rai and many oth-ers also participated.

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As many as 179 couples tiedthe nuptial knot at a mass

marriage organised by SocialWelfare department at GICground on Friday. SocialWelfare Officer (SWO) GireeshDubey, said target had beenalready allocated to the blocksas well as the nagar panchayatswhich could reached up to179 and the marriages wereperformed amidst religious rit-uals with proper preparation.The SWO said one beneficia-ry belonged to general caste,one to minority, 63 to OBC and114 to Schedule Caste. DMPraveen Kumar Laxkar, CDOShrilaxmi VS and other officialswere present to see the arrange-ments. MLAs Ratnakar Mishraand Rama Shankar Singh Patel,

Chairman Nagar PalikaParishad (NPP) Manoj Jaiswal,and others blessed the newlymarried couples.

FUNCTION: AdditionalDistrict Magistrate (F&R) ShivPratap Shukla said that thoughit is a matter of pride for us thatwe are honouring the success-ful aspirants of UPSC exami-nations for their hard labour attheir birth place but it will bereal honour for us if theyachieve laurels for the districtwith their remarkable perfor-mance during duty. Theseviews were expressed by him aschief guest in a function organ-ised by Akhil BhartiyaBrahman Ekta Parishad onFriday to honour three youthsof the community who securedthe post of IPS in the recentlyheld UPSC examination.

Extending best wishes to thesuccessful youth the ADM saidthat it is the need of the hourthat the parents provide fullsupport for the education oftheir children.

Vipin Kumar Dubey saidthough his schooling startedfrom a rural background butthe inspiration of his parentsinstilled in him the spirit thathe could get success after pass-ing engineering. GauravPandey said he did not learn toaccept defeat before the chal-lenges so he could secure thepost of IPS with all kind of sup-port from his parents andguide. Vivek Tiwari said it wasthe principle of his father thatnothing was the end so his spir-it inspired him to achieve moreand despite being selected inIES examinations he continued

his learning and got success. Hesaid that it is not the end ofjourney.

Kamlakar Pandey whoseson became an IAS two yearsago and Deepu Paney whoseson became IFS one years agowere also honoured by theorganisers on behalf of theirsons. The programme waspresided over by president ofthe organisation Shesh ManiChaubey and jointly conduct-ed by Dr Surendra Dubey andRajendra Tiwari. The vote ofthanks was proposed by patronof the organisation Dr SNPathak. Balendumani Tripathi,Pankaj Dubey, Devi PrasadDubey ‘Mauji,’ AkhileshMishra, Salil Pandey, NanheyTiwari, Dr Ramesh ChandraOjha and Dr Neeraj Tripathiwere present.

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North Central Railway (NCR)’sJitendra has been appointed

coach of Indian Powerlifting team. Jitendra Nath Singh, Checking

Staff working in PrayagrajDivision of North Central Railwayhas been named as the coach ofthe Indian Team in the AsianEquipped Sub Junior, Junior,Open and Masters PowerliftingChampionship to be held inCoimbatore from June 17 to 22.

Jitendra is the coach ofPowerlifting and Weightliftingteam of NCR and under his guid-ance the players of NCR havewon many medals.

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The closing function of sum-mer hobby camp organised

by North Central RailwayWomen’s Welfare Organisation(NCRWWO), Headquarters,Prayagraj was held atSpandan Club, Subedarganj.A total of 146 children par-ticipated in the summerhobby camp which lasted forabout a month. Various cours-es — skating by Jitendra

Prajapati, art and craft by AnjaliSharma and Pooja Sharma,dance by Neha Sharma andtaekwondo by Raja BabuSharma were successfullyorganised.

On the occasion childrenwho secured first, second andthird place in skating and taek-wondo competition were felic-itated with medals and gifts bythe president of the organisa-tion Poonam Kumar. Apartfrom this, an exhibition of art

and craft paintings made bychildren was also organised.Under it children who got first,second and third place wereawarded with medals and gifts.Simultaneously, dance compe-tition programme was alsoorganised and the winnerswere presented medals andgifts. On the occasion gifts andcertificates were also distrib-uted to all the children whoparticipated in the summercamp.

Secretary Vandana Mishra,Alka Mehta, Geetanjali Verma,Nupur Agarwal, MadhuriSingh, Purnima Singh,Archana Kumar, MamtaVerma, Supriya Sinha, RichaVerma, Moushumi Chaudhary,Taru Sharma along with othermembers of the organisationwere present on the occasion.

The members of PrayagrajDivision Women’s WelfareOrganisation were also presentin the programme.

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The Purvanchal Unit ofRajya Vidyut Parishad

Junior Engineers’ Sangthan onSaturday organised its sixthconference at RudrakashConvention Centre in Sigra,here and handed over a 21-point charter of demands to theManaging Director ofPurvanchal Vidyut VitaranNigam Limited (PVVNL)Vidyabhushan for the better-ment of energy sector. The MDassured to pay serious consid-eration to the demands.Inaugurating the conference,MD PVVNL Vidyabhushanlauded the efforts of juniorengineers for betterment ofenergy sector. Regional pres-ident of the organisationRatnesh Seth said junior engi-neers were working with the

limited resources in the presentchallenging circumstances forthe betterment of the energysector and hoped that the man-agement would provide thenecessary resources on time toensure 24 hours uninterruptedpower supply and maintain

the better consumer service.Presiding over the conference,president of Purvanchal Unit ofSangthan Balveer Yadavadministered a pledge to allmembers of the organisation toprovide better service to powerconsumers, work to ensure 24

hours uninterrupted powersupply, make efforts to ascer-tain cent per cent revenue real-isation and make efforts tominimise the line loss. He alsohanded over a 21-point charterof demands to the MDVidyabhushan. Secretary ofPurvanchal Unit of the organ-isation Neeraj Bind conductedthe conference. Director(Personnel/ Administration) ofPVVNL Shesh Kumar Baghel,Director (Commerce) RajendraPrasad, central president of AllIndia Power Diploma EngineerMahasangh RK Trivedi, centralpresident of Rajya VidyutParishad Junior EngineersSangthan GB Patel, central gen-eral Jai PRakash Patel, centralpublicity secretary Arvind Jhaand publicity secretary ofPurvanchal Unit Sarvesh KumarSharma were present.

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On the instructions ofDistrict Magistrate (DM)

Kaushal Raj Sharma andCommissioner of Police (CP) ASatish Ganesh, a joint team ofpolice and health departmenttook action against 28 shops orvendors selling tobacco prod-ucts in Kashi and Varunaregions of the city by runninga three-day campaign underWorld Tobacco ProhibitionDay programme.

The team comprising sub-inspector (S-I) Ashiq Ali andhis associates (Police), DrSaurabh Pratap Singh, DistrictAdviser of District TobaccoControl Cell (Health depart-ment), psychologist AjaySrivastava and social workerSangeeta Singh inspected sev-eral shops/vendors selling bidi,cigarette and other tobaccoproducts in Pandeypur,Shivpur Bypass, AtulanandCrossing, JP Mehta, CentralJail, Nadesar, Sigra and other

areas. The team membersfound that many vendors wereselling pan masala and othertobacco products hanging out-side the shops. Along withthis, some cigarette productswere seen being sold withoutstatutory warnings with pic-tures, which completely violatesthe Cigarettes and OtherTobacco Products Act(COTPA), 2003. For violatingCOPTA and some other simi-lar acts, the team challaned 28shops and warned them also

for more stringent action in thefuture. The team also collect-ed �4,500 as fine from theseshops. Meanwhile, both theDM and CP warned all thetobacco product vendors of thecity as well as rural areas thataction would be taken againstthem if they violate the provi-sions of COTPA, 2003. ChiefMedical Officer (CMO) DrSandeep Chaudhary appealedto the people to keep them-selves away from smoking anduse of tobacco items.

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Ukrainian and British offi-cials warned on Saturday

that Russian forces are relyingon weapons able to cause masscasualties as they try to makeheadway in capturing easternUkraine and fierce, prolongedfighting depletes resources onboth sides.

Russian bombers have like-ly been launching heavy 1960s-era anti-ship missiles inUkraine, the U.K. DefenseMinistry said. The Kh-22 mis-siles were primarily designed to

destroy aircraft carriers using anuclear warhead.

When used in groundattacks with conventional war-heads, they "are highly inaccu-rate and therefore can causesevere collateral damage andcasualties," the ministry said.Both sides have expended largeamounts of weaponry in whathas become a grinding war ofattrition for the eastern regionof coal mines and factoriesknown as the Donbas, placinghuge strains on their resourcesand stockpiles.

Russia is likely using the

5.5-tonne anti-ship missilesbecause it is running short ofmore precise modern missiles,the British ministry said. It gaveno details of where exactlysuch missiles are thought tohave been deployed.

As Russia also sought toconsolidate it's hold over terri-tory seized so far in the 108-daywar, U.S. Defense Secretarysaid Moscow's invasion ofUkraine "is what happens whenoppressors trample the rulesthat protect us all."

"It's what happens whenbig powers decide that their

imperial appetites matter morethan the rights of their peace-ful neighbours," Austin saidduring a visit to Asia. "And it'sa preview of a possible world ofchaos and turmoil that none ofus would want to live in."

A Ukrainian governoraccused Russia of using incen-diary weapons in the village ofVrubivka in Ukraine's easternLuhansk province, southwest ofthe fiercely contested cities ofSievierodonetsk andLysychansk.

While the use offlamethrowers on the battle-field is legal, Serhii Haidai, gov-ernor of Luhansk province,alleged the attacks overnightcaused widespread damage tocivilian facilities.

"Information about thenumber of victims in Vrubivka,in the Popasnyanska district, isbeing specified. At night, theenemy used a flamethrowerrocket system - many housesburnt down," Haidai wrote onTelegram on Saturday.

The accuracy of Haidai'sclaims could not be immedi-ately verified. Sievierodonetskand neighboring Lysychanskare the last major areas ofLuhansk province remainingunder Ukrainian control.

Haidai said the Russianswere destroying critical indus-trial facilities, including railwaydepots, a brick factory and aglass factory. During a visit to

Kyiv by the European Union'stop official, UkrainianPresident Volodymr Zelenskyycalled for a new round of "evenstronger" EU sanctions againstRussia.

Zelenskyy called for thenew sanctions to target moreRussian officials, includingjudges, and to hamper theactivities of all Russian banks,including gas giant Gazprom'sbank, as well as all Russiancompanies helping Moscow"in any way."

He spoke during a briefpress appearance withEuropean CommissionPresident Ursula von der Leyenat the heavily guarded presi-dential office compound inKyiv.

The pair discussedUkraine's aspirations for EUmembership. Zelenskyy saidUkraine "will do everything" tointegrate with the bloc.

Von der Leyen praisedUkraine's "strength andresilience" in the face of Russia's"horrible and atrocious" inva-sion and said the EU wouldassist with reconstruction sothe country could "rise fromthe ashes."

"We are mourning withyou. We share the tears withyou," she said. Von der Leyenwas on her second visit toUkraine since Russia invadedits neighbor. She was one of thefirst European leaders to go to

Ukraine during the war.Russian-installed officials inUkraine's southernZaporizhzhia region have setup a company to buy up localgrain and resell it on Moscow'sbehalf, a local representativetold the Interfax news agencyon Saturday. Ukraine and theWest have accused Russia ofstealing Ukraine's grain andcausing a global food crisis thatcould cause millions of deathsfrom hunger.

Yevgeny Balitsky, the headof Zaporizhzhia's pro-Russianprovisional administration, saidthe new state-owned graincompany has taken control ofseveral facilities. He said "thegrain will be Russian" and "wedon't care who the buyer willbe."

Balitsky added that thecompany is considering thepurchase of grain from boththis year and last year's har-vests, with collection beginningin two weeks. It was not clearif the farmers whose grain wasbeing sold by Russia were get-ting paid.

He said his administra-tion would not forcibly appro-priate grain or pressure pro-ducers to sell it. Russian forcesoccupying the southernUkrainian city of Melitopolbegan handing out Russianpassports to local residentsSaturday, according to Russianstate TASS agency.

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President Joe Biden, speakingto donors at a Democratic

fundraiser here, said UkrainianPresident VolodymyrZelenskyy "didn't want to hearit" when US Intelligence gath-ered information that Russiawas preparing to invade.

The remarks came as Bidenwas talking about his work torally and solidify support forUkraine as war continues intoits fourth month. "Nothinglike this has happened sinceWorld War II.

I know a lot of peoplethought I was maybe exagger-ating. But I knew we had datato sustain he" — meaningRussian President VladimirPutin - "was going to go in, offthe border."

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Civilians fled intense fight-ing in eastern Ukraine

on Friday as Russian andUkrainian forces engaged in agrinding battle of attritionfor key cities in the country'sindustrial heartland.

Mostly women, childrenand elderly residents left on aspecial evacuation train thatdeparted from the city ofPokrovsk and headed west.

"We live on the front linenow," said Svitlana Kaplun,whose family fled as shellingreached their neighborhoodin the city of Krasnohorivka."The kids are worried all thetime, they are afraid to sleepat night, so we decided to takethem out."

After a bungled attempt tooverrun Kyiv, Ukraine's cap-ital, in the early days of thewar, Russia shifted its focus toan eastern region of coalmines and factories known asthe Donbas. The area bordersRussia and has been partlycontrolled by Moscow-backedseparatists since 2014.

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The American Secretary ofDefence Lloyd Austin

stressed American support forTaiwan on Saturday, suggestingat Asia's premier defence forumthat recent Chinese militaryactivity around the self-govern-ing island threatens to changethe status quo.

Speaking at the Shangri-LaDialogue in Singapore, Austinnoted a "steady increase inprovocative and destabilisingmilitary activity near Taiwan,"including almost daily militaryflights near the island by thePeople's Republic of China.

"Our policy hasn't changed,but unfortunately that doesn'tseem to be true for the PRC," hesaid.

Austin said Washington

remains committed to the "one-China policy," which recognis-es Beijing but allows informalrelations and defence ties withTaipei. Taiwan and China splitduring a civil war in 1949, butChina claims the island as itsown territory and has not ruledout using military force to takeit. China has stepped up its mil-itary provocations against demo-cratic Taiwan in recent years,aimed at intimidating it intoaccepting Beijing's demands tounify with the communist main-land. "We remain focused onmaintaining peace, stability andthe status quo across the TaiwanStrait," Austin said in his address."But the PRC's moves threatento undermine security, and sta-bility, and prosperity in theIndo-Pacific."

He drew a parallel with the

Russian invasion of Ukraine,saying that the "indefensibleassault on a peaceful neighbourhas galvanised the world and ...Has reminded us all of the dan-gers of undercutting an inter-national order rooted in rulesand respect." Austin said that the"rules-based international ordermatters just as much in the Indo-Pacific as it does in Europe.""Russia's invasion of Ukraine iswhat happens when oppressorstrample the rules that protect usall," he said.

"It's what happens when bigpowers decide that their impe-rial appetites matter more thanthe rights of their peacefulneighbours. And it's a previewof a possible world of chaos andturmoil that none of us wouldwant to live in."

Austin met Friday with

Chinese Defence Minister GenWei Fenghe on the sidelines ofthe conference for discussionswhere Taiwan featured promi-nently, according to a seniorAmerican defense official,speaking on condition ofanonymity to provide details ofthe private meeting.

Austin made clear at themeeting that while the U.S.Does not support Taiwaneseindependence, it also has majorconcerns about China's recentbehaviour and suggested thatBeijing might be attempting tochange the status quo.

Wei, meanwhile, com-plained to Austin about newAmerican arms sales to Taiwanannounced this week, saying it"seriously undermined China'ssovereignty and security inter-ests," according to a Chinese

state-run CCTV report after themeeting.

China "firmly opposes andstrongly condemns it," and theChinese government and mili-tary will "resolutely smash anyTaiwan independence plot andresolutely safeguard the reunifi-cation of the motherland," Weireportedly told Austin.

Chinese Defence Ministryspokesperson Col. Wu Qianquoted Wei as saying Chinawould respond to any movetoward formal Taiwan inde-pendence by "smashing it evenat any price, including war." Inhis speech, Austin said the USstands "firmly behind the prin-ciple that cross-strait differ-ences must be resolved by peace-ful means," but also would con-tinue to fulfill its commitmentsto Taiwan.

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Hindus living in Bangladeshare not enthusiastic about

the CAA which seeks to provideIndian citizenship to the perse-cuted minorities in the neigh-bouring countries, a prominentcommunity leader said onSaturday, asserting that theminority community will get itsrights by staying here in theMuslim-majority country.

Moninder Kumar Nath, aprominent leader of the Hinducommunity and president ofMahanagar Sarvajan PujaSamiti, said that a lot remains tobe done for the community.

Hindus in Bangladesh willhave to deal with their own chal-

lenges, Nath told PTI-Bhasha.He said that the Hasina gov-ernment is also taking steps inthis direction. Commenting onthe Citizenship AmendmentAct (CAA) of India, Nath saidthat the Hindu community liv-ing in Bangladesh is not veryenthusiastic about it and doesnot consider it to be of muchhelp. "We do not need it, this isour country and we will get ourrights by staying here," he said.The Government of Indiapassed the CAA in 2019 whichis aimed at providing Indian cit-izenship to the minorities whohave been persecuted inBangladesh, Pakistan andAfghanistan.

There is a demand for a sep-

arate minority ministry and aminority commission on hisagenda and he is trying his bestto get them for his communityafter the next year's elections,Nath said. "Our demand for aminority ministry and minori-ty commission is yet to be ful-filled. We are raising our voicefor this right of ours," he said.

Nath said that the interestsof the minorities will be pro-tected through the minorityministry and the minority com-mission. He said that Hindusand other minorities living inBangladesh are safer than everunder the regime of PrimeMinister Sheikh Hasina, butmore steps are needed to betaken.

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UP Police’s additional director general (law and order)Prashant Kumar said the situation is under control now and thepolice are taking strict action against those responsible for theviolence.UP police said it had arrested 237 people from variousdistricts. In Saharanpur and Prayagraj, police officials said actionwill be taken against those arrested under the stringent NationalSecurity Act. Among those arrested, 68 were held in Prayagrajand 50 in Hathras, Kumar said in a statement on Saturday.

He said 55 people were arrested in Saharanpur, 28 inAmbedkarnagar, 25 in Moradabad, eight in Firozabad, and threeis Aligarh. In Prayagraj after Friday prayer, some motorcycles andcarts were set on fire and an attempt was made to set ablaze apolice vehicle. Police used tear gas and lathis to disperse mobsand peace was later restored and one policeman was hurt in theregion. Nupur Sharma was suspended by the Bharatiya JanataParty (BJP) while another leader, Naveen Jindal, was expelled overtheir controversial remarks on Prophet Mohammad.

The comments led to an intense backlash in several Islamiccountries and calls for a boycott of Indian products. There havebeen protests in many Indian cities as well, while multiple FIRshave been registered against Sharma.

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“Police deployment always remains at Jama Masjid duringFriday prayers. The protesters were dispersed within 10 to 15 min-utes and the situation is peaceful. Legal action will be taken inconnection with the incident. We have identified some of the mis-creants and our teams are working to identify others,” said theDCP. After the Friday prayers, a large crowd of people had gath-ered on the steps of the famous mosque, carrying placards andshouting slogans against Sharma and Jindal, former head of theDelhi BJP’s media unit, for allegedly making derogatory remarkson the Prophet.

Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid, Syed Ahmed Bukhari, had dis-tanced himself from the protest, saying “nobody knows who theprotesters were” and demanded action against such people.

The row over the remarks against Prophet Mohammad esca-lated on Sunday with protests from countries such as Saudi Arabia,Kuwait, Qatar and Iran, prompting the BJP to suspend Sharmaand expel Jindal as the party asserted that it respects all religions.

The Delhi Police has registered an FIR against 31 people,including AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi and controversialpriest Yati Narsinghanand, and filed a separate case againstSharma for allegedly spreading hate and hurting religious sen-timents.

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The injured include CRPF personnel and policemen,” a RIMSofficial said, adding the two deaths were caused by bullet injuries.Ranchi’s Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Surendra KumarJha was admitted to a hospital with head injury, officials said.Besides head, he also received injuries in other parts of his bodyafter he was hit by stones, they said.

Some Hindutva outfits have called for a Ranchi bandh onSaturday, asking traders to keep their shops shut in protest againstthe violence. “We have called for a peaceful Ranchi bandh todayagainst yesterday’s incident. All Hindu religious organisations suchas VHP, Hindu Jagaran Manch and others have extended theirsupport to the bandh call,” Mahavir Mandal president Ashok

Purohit told PTI. He said traders have been urged to shut their shops volun-

tarily. “We will not take to the streets to enforce bandh. Sincemorning, we are witnessing huge support from traders to ourbandh call,” Purohit said.

Condemning the violence, Governor Ramesh Bais has askedChief Minister Hemant Soren to take strict action against thoseinvolved. The violent protesters have been demanding the arrestof suspended BJP spokespersons Nupur Sharma and NaveenJindal for their controversial remarks on Prophet Mohammad.

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The BJP’s Union Minister Piyush Goyal, it’s Kisan Morcha’snational general secretary Dr Anil Bonde and party’s Statespokesperson and former Kolhapur MP Dhananjay Mahadikromped home in the RS polls. Goyal and Bonde, both BJP can-didates, got the highest votes at 48 each, while Mahadik secured41 votes. The NCP’s Praful Patel secured 43 votes, while theCongress Imran Pratapgadi got 44 votes Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Rautmanaged to get 41 votes. While the Shiv Sena is in the processof analysing the contributory factors for its second candidatePawar’s defeat, the BJP -led by former Chief Minister and cur-rent leader of the Opposition in the Assembly Devendra Fadnavis-outmanoeuvred the ruling MVA by winning one extra seat inthe RS polls. The election for the sixth seat turned out to bethe highlight of the Rajya Sabha elections, which exposed thelack of coordination among the MVA constituents - Shiv Sena,NCP and Congress, leading to the defeat of the Shiv Sena’s sec-ond candidate.

In all 284 MLAs out of the total 288 MLAs in the StateAssembly cast valid votes in Friday’s polls. The MVA -- whichon paper enjoyed the support of 168 MLAs (the number gotreduced from 170 to 168 after the NCP’s two incarceratedMinisters Anil Deshmukh and Nawab Malik were refused tem-porary bail to participate in the RS polls)-- could have in the nor-mal course easily won four out of the six RS seats, while the BJPwas assured of two seats. What happened in the end was: the BJPwalked away with three seats, while the ruling MVA constituents- Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress - won one seat each in the polls.

With the rejection of the pleas by Deshmukh and Malik, thestrength of the ruling MVA has come down to 168 MLAs --- ShivSena 55 (one MLA Ramesh Latke, died in Dubai recently ), NCP51 ( minus the votes of Deshmukh and Malik), Congress 44,smaller parties/groups 10 and 8 Independents. The BJP, whichhas a combined strength of 113 seats as against an approximatestrength of 123 needed for winning three seats, managed to muster10 to 12 seats from outside to win the third seat.

The Shiv Sena, which had fielded two candidates, ensuredthe victory of Sanjay Raut elected, while second candidate SanjayPawar lost. Informed sources said that at least 10 to 12 MLAsfrom the MVA fold -mostly Independents, who were supposedto have voted in favour of the Sena candidate, passed on theirvotes to the Opposition BJP, contributing to the victory of theBJP’s third candidate Dhananjay Mahadik.

On its part, the Shiv Sena has blamed the smaller partiesand Independents for not voting in favour of its second candi-date, despite assurances to the contrary.

Shiv Sena spokesperson Sanjay Raut said that the MVA didnot get three votes from the Hitendra Thakur-led Maha VikasAghadi and some independent members like Sanjay Patil andDevendra Bhuyar. "There were "horses" that were ready to be"sold". It’s not the mandate of the people but the mandate of horse-trading," he said.

Raut also accused the Election Commission of India forfavouring the BJP. "The Election Commission made our one vote

invalid. We objected to two votes of Sudhir Mungantiwar (BJP)and Independent MLA (Ravi Rana) but no action was taken onthat. The Election Commission favoured them. EC should haveacted in an impartial manner," he said.

Meanwhile, NCP chief Sharad Pawar said that he was notsurprised at the result.

"I am not shocked to see the results. If you see the votes polledby every candidate of NCP, Shiv Sena and Congress, they receivedthe votes as per the quota. Only Praful Patel (of NCP) receivedone extra vote and I know where it came from. That was notMVA’s vote, it was from the opposite side," Pawar said.

"There was a "big gap" for the six seats but the MVA madeall efforts to bridge it. I must say Fadnavis has succeeded in pullingoff a miracle of winning an extra RS seat despite the lack of ade-quate numbers," Pawar said.

Having won one extra seat in the RS polls, the BJP is goingwhole hog into the June 20 Maharashtra Legislative Council pollsfor 10 seats. For the 10 MLC seats, the NCP has put up two can-didates - Khadse and Nimbalkar, while alliance partner Shiv Senahas nominated Sachin Ahir and Amasha Padvi as its candidates.The Congress, the third ruling MVA has fielded its formerMinister Chandrakant Handore and Mumbai party President BhaiJagtap for the polls.

The over-ambitious Opposition BJP, which has tasted bloodin the RS polls, has fielded as many as six candidates ---currentleader of the Opposition in the Upper House Pravin Darekar,Ram Shinde, Shrikant Bharatiya, Uma Kapre and Prasad Lad,while it has offered its support to Independent MLA Sadabhau.It remains to be seen if it will walk away with the maximum num-ber of seats from the 10 MLC seats for which elections are beingheld. In Haryana, both the winning candidates were present-ed with their victory certificates around 3.30 am as Chief MinisterManohar Lal Khattar congratulated them. Speaking to reportersin the Vidhan Sabha complex shortly after 4 am, Khattar said,"I thank all those MLAs who voted for the BJP candidate andthe Independent candidate. This in a way is a victory for thepeople of Haryana and a victory of democracy."

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His victory was not expected because of a tough fight frommedia baron Subash Chandra given the uncertainty related tothe BSP MLAs who had joined the Congress.

Leader of Opposition Gulab Chand Kataria issued an orderstating Kushwaha voted for Tiwari despite a whip and that shewas being suspended from the BJP’s primary membership.

In the letter, Kataria also asked the MLA to clarify why shevoted against the whip. BJP State president Satish Poonia saidthe party high command has been informed about the matter.

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The DGP said the probe was complete and the chargesheetwas submitted to the District and Sessions Court, Mon on May30, 2022 through Assistant Public Prosecutor.

A case under various sections of the IPC has been made outagainst thirty members of the operations team of 21 Para SpecialForce including a Major, two Subedar, eight Havildars, four Naiks,six lance naiks and nine paratroopers, he said.

Accordingly, the DGP said that the CID report seeking sanc-tion for prosecution was forwarded to the Department of MilitaryAffairs in the first week of April this year and a reminder sentin May. The sanction for prosecution is still awaited, he said.

Meanwhile, the charge-sheet has been filed, pending sanc-tion for prosecution against the 30 accused, he said.

Investigation has revealed that Alpha team of 21 Para SpecialForce consisting of 31 personnel led by a Major launched an oper-ation in Oting Tiru Area on December 3, 2021, based on intel-ligence inputs on the presence of a group of National SocialistCouncil of Nagaland (Khaplang) (Yung Aung) (NSCN-K(YA)and United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) cadres in the area,he said. On December 4, 2021 around 4.20 pm the operation teamof 21 Para Special Force who had laid an ambush at Longkhaobetween Upper Tiru and Oting Village opened fire at a WhiteBolero pick up vehicle which was carrying eight civilians belong-ing to Oting Village, most of whom were working as labourersin coal mines at Tiru without ensuring positive identification orchallenging them, he said.

The DGP said that when the villagers of Oting and Tirureached the incident spot in search of the missing villagers andthe Bolero pick up vehicle at around 8PM, they turned violenton discovering the dead bodies and a scuffle ensued between thevillagers and members of 21 Para Special Force.

One Paratrooper succumbed to injuries and 14 personnelfrom 21 Para Special Force team sustained injuries, as a resultof the scuffle, he said. This led the Major to order firing at around10 PM and the operation team started to break contact, he said.In the second incident seven of the villagers were gunned downby the special force.

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“In this context, I would like to recall UNSC resolution 13(1)adopted In its first session on 1 Feb. 1946, which stated that theUnited Nations cannot achieve its purposes unless the peopleof the world are fully informed of its aims and activities,” theIndian envoy said.

He further stated it is imperative that multilingualism at theUnited Nations in a true sense is embraced and India will sup-port the UN in achieving this objective. Multilingualism is anessential factor in harmonious communication among peoplesand an enabler of multilateral diplomacy. It ensures effective par-ticipation of all in the Organization’s work, as well as greater trans-parency and efficiencies and better outcomes.

“Multilingualism is recognized by the General Assembly asa core value of the Organization. As such, all United NationsSecretariat entities are expected to contribute actively and demon-strate their commitment to this joint endeavor. Multilingualismmandates also call for the mainstreaming of multilingualismthroughout the Secretariat,” according to UN.

Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish arethe six official languages of the United Nations; English andFrench being the working languages of the United NationsSecretariat.

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The Indian teenaged star has been putting in impressive per-formances in recent times and had beaten world number oneMagnus Carlsen for a second time in the Chessable Master onlineevent and lost a close final to China’s Ding Liren.

The GM will be part of the India B team in the open eventof the 44th Chess Olympiad in Chennai next month.

Praggnanandhaa’s coach R B Ramesh congratulated him afterthe win and said it will help boost his confidence.

“Congratulations to him for the victory. He was the top seed,so it is not a surprise that he won the tournament. He playedwell in general, drew three games with black pieces and wonthe remaining games. It will help boost his confidence,” Rameshsaid.

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Goalkeeper PR Sreejeshsaved a penalty stroke in

an exhilarating shoot out aftermaking some breathtakingsaves in regulation time as theIndian men's team stunnedOlympic champions Belgium5-4 in the first match of thetwo-legged FIH Pro HockeyLeague here on Saturday.

The Indian team wasdown 1-3 with just eight min-utes left in the match but madeit 3-3 to force a penalty shootout.

Sreejesh foiled an attemptfrom Alexander Hendrickx,who was taking his third PS,when the shoot out was locked4-4 and Akashdeep Singhfound the net to make it 5-4 forthe Tokyo Games bronzemedallists.

Sreejesh, as usual, was bril-liant under the bar, foiling anumber of attempts from thehosts throughout the match buthis two saves in the final quar-ter proved to be crucial.

The eventful first quarterended in a goalless stalematewith Sreehesh doing a fantas-tic job under the bar, making

two saves. It was India who hadthe first opportunity to openthe scoring but both the shortcorners went abegging as thehome goalie foiled thoseattempts with his rock soliddefence.

Akashdeep too fluffed ashot near the goalpost whichon any other day he would haveflicked inside the post.

However, early in the sec-

ond quarter, India found thenet when Abhishek's shotrebounded off the custodian'sleg and Shamsher Singh (18')tapped the high ball into thenet after it came off the post.

Belgium found the equalis-er through Cedric Charlier(21'), who deflected a passfrom Nicolas de Kerpel inlightening quick time. It wasArthur van Doren, who pushed

it towards Kerpel from the leftflank. Both the teams got apenalty corner each but did notutilise.

The hosts broke the dead-lock in the third quarter withSimon Gougnard (36') slottinga fierce hit home after being fedby Florent van Aubel, whocontrolled the high ball nicelyto push it towards his team-mate. Sreejesh saved India

from more ignominy when hemade two heroic saves, parry-ing the ball away with hisstick, stretched fully on hisright. De Kerpel, though, final-ly breached the defence with afurious hit off a penalty cornerto make it 3-1.

India were given a lifelinein the match when ManpreetSingh won a penalty whichHarmanpreet converted andtwo minutes from the hooter,Jarmanpreet Singh found theequaliser through a short cor-ner.

India opted for a variationas Jugraj let it slip towardsJarmanpreet from behind hisback after faking a stroke, andthe latter blasted that into thenet.

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Accidental captain Rishabh Pant will expectan improved showing from the India

bowlers as he plots a comeback against amarauding South Africa in the second T20 ofthe five-match series here on Sunday.

Leading India for the first time ever, Panthad to swallow a bitter pill when David Millerand Rassie van der Dussen shot down an impos-ing 212 with utmost nonchalance to go up 1-0in the series.

The southpaw also had a forgettable IndianPremier League where he failed to lead DelhiCapitals to the playoffs.

Seen as a future white-ball captain, Pant'sstakes have suddenly come down post-IPL andthat has coincided with the resurgence ofHardik Pandya.

Returning to full fitness, the pace bowlingall-rounder took the IPL by storm not only byhis form but by pulling off a coup as he ledGujarat Titans to the title in their debut season.

Amid the growing chorus of 'Hardik Pandya-- the next white-ball captain of India', Pant willbe under scrutiny again as he masterminds acomeback. It may still be early days for Pant theleader, but his body language never stood outand he looked under pressure on his captaincydebut.He also made a debatable decision tounderbowl the IPL Purple Cap winnerYuzvendra Chahal, fresh from claiming 27 wick-ets for runners-up Rajasthan Royals. At Kotla,the leggie bowled only two full overs.

As for Pandya, fresh after his historic suc-cess with GT, continued from where he left in

the IPL. Pandya, who last played for India inNovember last year in the 2021 T20 World Cup,dazzled with the bat with a 31 not out from 12balls to prop the total past 200.

But he failed to impress with the bowl andleaked 18 runs in his only over. T h ebig headache for Pant would be the bowlingdepartment where he would have to make a callbetween Arshdeep Singh and pace gun UmranMalik.

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Arusty-looking Indianwomen's hockey team gave

away possession quite easily anumber of times before puttingup a fight in the fourth quar-ter but eventually lost 1-2 toBelgium in its first of the two-legged FIH Pro League tie hereon Saturday.

An attacking start to thematch saw both the teams cre-ating opportunities in theopening minutes, but it was

Belgium who got better asthey took the lead through cap-tain Nelen Barbara in the thirdminute.

The hosts piled pressure onIndia with their structuredattack and earned two penaltycorners in the 5th and 7threspectively, but the Indiandefence stood tall to deny themfrom scoring the second goal.

Minutes later, India earnedtheir first penalty corner of thematch, but Rani's attempt wentoff target, thus missed out on

fetching an equaliser in the firstquarter.

Trailing by a goal, Indiastarted putting pressure on theBelgian defence and midfield.They even created an opportu-nity in the opening minutes,but Neha's pass to Salima Teteinside the circle went wide.

The home side respondedwith a quick counterattackwhich helped them earn back-to-back penalty corners, but yetagain missed out on convertingtheir chances.

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Rahul Srivatshav P ofTelangana has become

India's 74th Grandmaster,achieving the title after break-ing the 2500 (Elo points) bar-rier in live FIDE ratings duringthe 9th Cattolica Chess Festival2022 in Italy.

The 19-year old playerreached the 2500 Elo live rat-ing mark after drawing his 8thround game againstGrandmaster Levan Pantsulaiain the Cattolica event.

His current Elo rating is2468.

Srivatshav had alreadysecured five GM norms andachieved the title when hecrossed the rating threshold of

2500 on Friday.To become a GM, a player

has to secure three GM normsand cross the live rating of 2500Elo points.

"India one more step clos-er to getting 100 Grandmasters!Meet our newest addition tothe elite club, 19-year-old RahulSrivatshav from Telangana,India's 74th Grandmaster! Abig congratulations to Rahul,his coach and family!," AllIndia Chess Federation presi-dent Sanjay Kapoor tweeted onSaturday.

Bharath Subramaniyamhad become the country's 73rdGM in January. The legendaryViswanathan Anand is India'sfirst GM, which he became wayback in 1988.

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As part of its detailed investigation, the SportsAuthority of India (SAI) will speak with entire

cycling contingent that travelled to Sloveina, where afemale cyclist accused sacked national coach R K Sharmaof 'inappropriate behaviour'. While the female cyclist,who made the allegations had returned from Sloveniaearlier this week, the rest of the contingent includingfive male cyclist and coach Sharma got back on Saturdaymorning.

“The SAI probe panel had already spoken to the coachand female cyclist, now it will be speaking to other

members of the contingent next week as part of adetailed investigation," said a SAI source. The train-ing-cum-competition trip to Slovenia was arranged tohelp Indian team prepare well for the Asian TrackCycling Championships, scheduled to be held in thenational capital from June 18 to 22.

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India on Saturday qualified forthe FIFAe Nations Cup 2022

for the first time ever.The esports showpiece event

is set to be held in Copenhagen,Denmark this year, from July 27to July 30.

India defeated KoreaRepublic and Malaysia in theFIFAe Nations Series 2022 play-offs to seal their qualification.

The journey for the Indianefootball team kicked off inJanuary last year when All IndiaFootball Federation signed theparticipation agreement withFIFA for the FIFAe NationsSeries 2021.

India was among 60 coun-

tries to participate and wasplaced in the Middle East &Africa Zone. India finished thirdin its zone, narrowly missing outon a place in the FIFAe Nationsplayoffs 2021.

India ended the season with

a global ranking of 22 and fin-ished above heavyweights suchas Italy, Argentina and Spain inthe 2021 rankings.

For the 2022 season, Indiawas moved to Asia/Oceaniaregion and was awarded a spot

in the Play-Ins, which wouldprovide direct qualification tothe Playoffs (the last stage beforethe Nations Cup).

During the play-ins, Indiaplayed 32 games across fourmatch weeks and got 12 wins, 11losses and nine draws.

With this, India successful-ly qualified to the Playoffs by fin-ishing second in the ConsistencyPoints chart, moving one stepcloser to the FIFAe NationsCup 2022. During this period,India also achieved its highestglobal ranking of 19.

Going into the Playoffs, thegoal for India was simple. Wintwo matches and seal the spot atthe showpiece event and that isexactly what they have done.

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Reigning world champion Nikhat Zareen andOlympic bronze medallist Lovlina Borgohain

on Saturday sealed their berths in the Indian teamfor the Commonwealth Games with dominatingwins in the selection trials here. While Nikhat(50kg), the two-time Strandja Memorial goldmedallist, blanked Haryana's Minakshi 7-0 in anunanimous decision, Lovlina (70kg) outclassedRailways' Pooja by an identical margin.

Nitu Ghanghas (48kg) and Jaismine Lamboriya(60kg) were the other boxers, who also sealed spotsfor the quadrennial event, which is set to be heldin Birmingham from July 28 to August 8. Six-timeworld champion MC Mary Kom missed out on achance to fight in what would have been her lastCWG. The veteran boxer was forced to withdrawafter suffering a knee injury midway into her bouton Friday.

The 39-year-old will thus be unable to defendher light flyweight title. The Manipuri had creat-

ed history at Gold Coast in 2018 by becoming thefirst Indian women pugilist to win a gold medalat the event.

At the Indira Gandhi Stadium, Nikhat lookedin control throughout her bout, landing clearpunches as she danced around the ring dodgingher opponent. The Telangana boxer looked at easein her new weight category. She had won the world

championship gold in the 52kg weight division lastmonth.

"It was very difficult for me to get back intomy competitive zone because since WorldChampionships I hadn't trained. I went home andthen there were a lot of programmes," Nikhat toldreporters after the bout.

"I know the game that I have shown here atthe trials is not even 50 per cent of what I showedat the World Championships but still I managedto beat all my opponents by unanimous decision,"she added.

Tokyo bronze medallist Lovlina, who is com-ing off an underwhelming World Championshipscampaign, too put up a convincing performanceto punch her way to the Birmingham event. "I'mhappy that I have won. I trained a lot after the worldchampionships for this because I was well-preparedfor the worlds.

I have to give my hundred percent now,"Lovlina, a two-time world championship bronzemedallist, said.

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Top-ranked IgaSwiatek has pulled

out of next week'sgrass-court tourna-ment in Berlin becauseof a shoulder problem,saying Friday sheneeds to rest up aheadof Wimbledon.

Swiatek is comingoff her second FrenchOpen title after beatingAmerican teenagerCoco Gauff in the finalat Roland Garros onSaturday. She had been

set to open her grass-court season in Berlinbut joined No. 2 AnettKontaveit, No. 3 PaulaBadosa and former No.1 Naomi Osaka inpulling out of theevent.

Swiatek wrote onTwitter that she waswithdrawing becauseof "a recurrent discom-fort I am feeling in myshoulder." She addedthat "I will focus onrecovery and rest inorder to be ready forWimbledon."

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Delhi girl Anahat Singh hassealed her spot in the World

Junior Squash Championship inAugust after topping the selec-tion trials in Chennai.

The world event will beplayed in Nancy, France.

Anahat beat AishwariyaKhubchandani of Maharashtra3-0 in the finals of the selectiontrials held at the Indian SquashAcademy in Chennai earlierthis week.

The top ranked player in theU15 category in India and Asia,Anahat had won the US JuniorSquash Open in December lastyear. She has also won multipleinternational medals for Indiaincluding the gold at BritishJunior Squash Open 2019, fol-lowed by a silver in 2020.

The two-time nationalchampion is now preparing toplay the Asian Junior SquashChampionship at Pattaya fromJune 15-19.

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As many as 200 players will gounder the hammer when the

auction for the inaugural edition ofthe Grand Prix Badminton League(GPBL) takes place here on Sunday.

The GPBL has eight franchises— Bengaluru Lions, MangaloreSharks, Mandya Bulls, MysorePanthers, Malnad Falcons, BandipurTuskers, KGF Wolves and KodaguTigers. Each team comprises ofmaximum of eight players each andshould include one icon player, aminimum of two Tier-1 and Tier-2 players respectively and also aminimum of two female playersincluding icon category.

Each team has a star mentorincluding Kidambi Srikanth, SaiPraneeth, Ashwini Ponappa, Chirag

Shetty, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, HSPrannoy, PV Sindhu and JwalaGutta.

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Jesús Ferreira had a night toremember against an over-

whelmed opponent in theUnited States' World Cup send-off. The 21-year-old forwardtied the U.S. Internationalrecord with four goals thatincluded a hat trick in a 13-minute span Friday night dur-ing a 5-0 rout over Grenada.

The hard-to-evaluate per-formance against the world's170th-ranked team came in aCONCACAF Nations Leaguematch played 164 days beforethe Americans' opener in Qatar.Just three warmup matchesremain before U.S. CoachGregg Berhalter picks his World

Cup roster. "I think I'm in agood spot," said Ferreira, a sonof former Colombian nationalteam midfielder David Ferreira,the 2010 Major League SoccerMVP. "I'm not going to focuson the goals because I know

they will come. Just having agood game will do the job."

Ferreira is competing for aroster spot and playing timewith Ricardo Pepi, Haji Wright,Josh Sargent, Jordan Pefok andDaryl Dike. After an array of

misfires, Ferreira put the 15th-ranked U.S. Ahead in the 43rdminute, then added goals in the54th, 56th and 78th to give himseven in 12 internationalmatches. His four goalsmatched Landon Donovan(2003), Joe-Max Moore (1993),Buff Donelli (1934) and ArchieStark (1925).

"There's a certain validationthat you get as a striker whenyou do hit the back of the net,"Berhalter said.

Paul Arriola added a goal inthe 62nd as the Americansstretched their home unbeatenstreak to 26 games since aSeptember 2019 loss to Mexico,matching the team record setfrom 2013-15.

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him to invest? There is Atal Innovation

Mission (AIM), a flagship ini-tiative to promote innovationand entrepreneurship set upby the NITI Aayog that ishelping us curate and findthe right talent. Wechoose the best amongthem and understandtheir talent and ideas. Weanalyse what is right andwrong and later presentthe ideas to the corpo-rate. That being done, wetry to figure out whichcorporate will work best

for what idea. It's likemaking sure that we are

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in the best possible way.�On what basis are the con-

testants being selected? On their ideas, how far they

have come with that idea, whatstage they are at and what are thekind of ideas they are talking about.Checking the need and potential ofgrowth of an idea and it doesn not

matter whether it's tech, product-based or others. We examine if theidea has the potential to make it bigor to go to the next stage, where canit stagnate or how far can it go.�Are the juniors being trainedfor the same?

Of course they will be. Theywill be mentored by all of our teamwhich are a bunch of young entre-preneurs who are involved withHorses Stable.� It is obvious that the rules andregulations of the show will notentirely match those of the one foradults but what are the similarities?It's about talent, ideas and innovation.� You have been hosting the showfor three seasons now. How hasyour experience been? What areyour expectations from theyounger lot?

Fantastic! Very satisfying. It is atalent platform that gives young tal-ents a great opportunity. Younggirls and boys no matter where theycome from, all od them get this

opportunity. There have been over2000-3000 success stories. Horsesstable is an exciting conncept wherekids will pitch their start-up ideaslike any other adult and instead ofdirect funding, we will providegrants for their future research,experimentation and entrepreneur-ial ideas till they become oldenough to venture it out on theirown. My expectaions are huge.Even if we can get one Gates orMusk coming out of India, we canget the Ambanis, the Birlas and theAdanis to get involved too. It's anicing on the cake.� You yourself are a businessmanand if you were to train or guidean aspirant, how would you goabout it?

Give it your best and if you fail,understand why you are failing andwhat is wrong with what you aredoing. When I failed as an actor,my film was successful but I wasnot. That bothered me but Irealised that I didn't learn acting.One opportunity came and I justgrabbed it. Until then, I did deathdefying stunts. By the time I didfour to five films I was successful aspeople saw me. It's also about howyou market yourself. I haven't donea film in seven-eight years. Peopleshould have forgotten but theyhaven't. They love me and mediahas kept me alive and nobody gives

me a complex. No super successfulactor will make me feel that he ismore successful than me. I'll givehim a bigger complex, that's howconfident I am. It's not about mypride, it's about what kind of a per-son I am. What am I doing in thesociety? What is my reputation? Iwill outdo all of them together. So,that's what mentoring is all about,to tell a child what you have is mag-ical. Go there and kill it. You triedwhile the others haven't ever.� You have been into acting andequally into sports. What droveyou to the business world?

I have passion. I started youngwith dad. I understood the value ofmoney. I made my own moneywhen I was 15. I did my ownthings. I bought my own tickets,clothes. That is a matter of pride forme but a bigger pride for my father.He always told people that I didn'ttake a single rupee from him. Thatone thing kept me going. Thatbecame a part of me. When I wastraining in martial arts, he told menot to drink or smoke, you will bestronger and I listened to him toonly notice that I am actualllybecoming stronger.

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Sports or business, teamwork iswhat matters the most.

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�Taking healthy diet in which seasonalfruits need are included such as water-melon, muskmelon, lychee and cucum-ber. This increases the salivary flow andprevent food particles from sticking toteeth�Avoid chewing tobacco and drinkingalcohol. It not only damages oral cavi-ty but our entire body� Fruits such as pineapple, guava andkiwi are rich source of vitamin C. Theyhelp in preventing bleeding of gums� It is very important for pregnant ladiesto consume foods that are rich sourceof folic acid. It will help in preventingcleft lip and palate in infants. Rich sourceof folic acid includes eggs, grapes,tomatoes and lady finger� It is always advised to eat calcium-richfoods — milk, paneer, apricots, papaya— that helps in building strong teeth.

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to plan family trips. During summervacations, it is better not to neglect yourand your loved one’s oral hygiene.

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May 24, 2022, Bacchor, Baghpat,Uttar Pradesh:

Amother and her two daughtersconsumed poison when policeraided their house. The policewere looking for her son, whohad eloped with a neighborhood

girl. For the last one week, the police alongwith the girl’s brothers frequently visited thewoman’s house, sometimes at odd hours. Thelast time when the girl’s brothers had come,they threatened to rape the girls if they donot reveal the location of the boy. That day,May 24, the police raided the house againwhen there was no male member present.The woman did not open the door. But thepolice along with the girl’s brothers managedto enter through the backyards. When thewoman saw the police with the brothers ofthe girl, she along with her daughters aged 18and 16 drank poison and committed suicide.

May 25, 2022, Dudi, Jaipur, RajasthanThree sisters, two of them pregnant,

walked with a 4-year-old toddler and a 24-day infant for four-kilometer in the scorchingheat. These three sisters, aged 27, 23, and 20years respectively, were married to threebrothers, who were well off. The sisters werefrequently beaten up. The eldest of thesethree sisters, who was a post-graduate inMathematics, tried three to four times toreturn to her father’s house. As the father waspoor, he cajoled her to go back to her in-laws.She returned with the hope that the situationwill improve. One fine morning in mid-May,she was again beaten up by her husband. Shewas admitted to a hospital in Jaipur for eightdays. When she recuperated, the three sistersdecided to end their lives to escape from theroutine bashing by their husbands. “We donot want to die … we want to live. But can-not live in this situation,” the youngest of thesisters wrote in her WhatsApp status. Thethree sisters, along with two kids jumped intothe well and committed suicide.

The two incidents, which took place a dayapart in two different states ruled by two differ-ent political parties, highlight the dominance ofa patriarchal society where women are beatenup at the drop of the hat and are made to live alife no better than animals. “Women suffer insilence. In Indian society, the women take thebashing by husbands or other male members ofthe family as their bhagya (fate). When the tor-ture crosses the limit, these women decide toend their lives,” Nomita P Kumar, an AssociateProfessor of Giri Institute of DevelopmentStudies (GIDS), Lucknow said.

A recent government survey claims thatwomen were frequently forced to commit sui-cide as they had faced spousal violence.There is no secret that the daily drudgery canmake marriages oppressive and matrimonialhomes suffocating. This exactly had hap-pened in the case of the three sisters ofRajasthan. They were subjected to physicalabuse on one pretext or the other. In 2018,the eldest of these three sisters registered acase of dowry harassment and domestic vio-

lence against her husband and in-laws at thelocal police station. She withdrew the caseafter a compromise between her in-laws andher father.

These three sisters were married to threebrothers in 2015. The sisters were educat-ed—the eldest a post-graduate in mathemat-ics, the second one a Graduate, and theyoungest one and the youngest doing herB.Ed. In contrast, their husbands were illiter-ate. “As the girls were more educated thantheir husbands this could be a possible rea-son for friction between them as there arereports that these women were forced tocook in firewood oven despite the householdhaving an LPG connection. The other fric-tion point could be that father of these girlswas poor and they did not bring enoughdowry,” Kumar said and added: “Women arereally resilient, but there's a limit to toler-ance”.

According to the recently released databy the government's National Crime RecordsBureau (NCRB), 22,372 housewives tooktheir own lives last year - that's an average of61 suicides every day or one suicide every 25minutes. Housewives accounted for 14.6 per-cent of the total 153,052 recorded suicides inIndia in 2020 and women account for morethan 50 percent of the total number of sui-cides.

The rate of suicide in India is so highthat women in India accounted for 36 per-cent of global female suicide deaths in 2016,a study in The Lancet Public Health said. Itfurther said that women between the agegroup of 15 and 29 years account for themaximum number of suicides in India. Theauthors of this study speculate that these sui-

cides may be related to a conflict betweenwomen’s increasing education and empower-ment and the persistence of their lower sta-tus in Indian society.

But sometimes, it is the societal fear andstigma that forces women to end their lives.In the Baghpat case, humiliated by a policeraid after weeks of alleged harassment, themother, 45, and their two daughters, aged 18and 16, killed themselves by consuming poi-son. She belonged to the OBC caste. The girlwho eloped with her son Prince belonged tothe Dalit community.

On May 2, the boy, 22, and the girl 19eloped. The FIR was lodged on May 4. Thisstarted days and weeks of harassment. Thefather was first taken to a police station andwas detained for two days where he wasbeaten up. They asked only one question -where were his son and the girl. A few dayslater, police started raiding their house. Thepolice used to come with the brothers of thegirl. The brothers even threatened to taketwo daughters of the women with them andrape them.

“We were scared because the brothers ofthe girls had repeatedly said that they wouldtake my daughter and keep them at theirhouse till the eloped couple returns. Theyeven threatened to rape them. My wife wasso scared that she stopped going out. Evenshe stopped the daughters to move out of thehouse because some boys of their own castepassed comments about their brother beingeloped with a Dalit girl,” the father of thedaughter, who is a menial labourer, said.

He said that his wife was in such a trau-ma that she used to say who will marry theirdaughters now. My daughters were also

scared of the way the police and brothers ofthe girl behaved with them. They used to sayit is better to die than to live with this kalank(blot). Fearing the social stigma my wifecommitted suicide with two daughters.

“There is a gender bias. The woman willbe subjected to ill-treatment if her brotherelopes with a girl while the brother of thegirl will be spared of the barbs. Why is this?This shows the patriarchal mindset wherethere are two sets of rules for boys and girls.This biased approach leads a woman to com-mit suicide as she is vulnerable in this male-dominated society,” Lenin Raghuvanshi ofPeople's Vigilance Committee on HumanRights (PVCHR) said.

Gender bias is an inherent characteristicof a patriarchal society - it is a form thatdemeans women in a variety of ways.“Patriarchy is a system of social structureand practices in which men dominate,oppress, and exploit women. The male-dom-inant Indian society makes its women habit-ual of this discrimination. As a result, mostwomen fail to understand their own rightsand freedom”, Raghuvanshi said

“Unfortunate part is Indian women haveaccepted their subordinate position to menand are also part and parcel of the samepatriarchal system,” he said.

This is evident in the Rajasthan incident.The mother-in-law of the three womenremained a mute spectator as her sons tor-tured their wives. “Sab bhagya hai (it is alldestined)”, she uttered as police arrested herthree sons.

(The writer is Political Editor, The Pioneer, Lucknow)

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The previously recommendedtreatment for VL-HIV coinfec-tion consisted of intermittent

daily injections of liposomal ampho-tericin B (AmBisome) over a periodof up to 38 days. The new evidence-based treatment uses a combinationof AmBisome and oral miltefosine.“This has resulted in significantly bet-ter efficacy rates,” points out DrKavita Singh, director, Drugs for Neglected Diseases (DNDi), South Asia.

It is a matter of concern that peo-ple living with HIV are 100 to 2,300times more likely to develop KA,caused by bites from infected femalesandflies which attacks the immunesystem. These co-infected patients aremarginalised and stigmatised, facepoor treatment outcomes and alsoserve as a reservoir for KA, which ishampering sustainable eliminationefforts in the country.

Kala azar and HIV co-infection isdisastrous because both conditionsweaken the immune system andreinforce each other, leaving a personvulnerable to other opportunisticdiseases like TB, malaria and dysen-tery.

Because of their weakenedimmune systems, such patients don’trespond well to standard treatmentsand have higher risk of relapse. If leftuntreated, VL can be fatal in over 95%of cases. It is caused by the protozoan

parasite of the genus Leishmania. Itsclinical manifestations include irreg-ular bouts of fever, weight loss andanemia. The new WHO guidelinescomes in the wake of positive resultsof two studies conducted in India byMédecins Sans Frontières (MSF),and in Ethiopia by the DNDi.

In India, the study was conduct-ed on 150 patients between 2017 and2020 at Patna’s Rajendra MemorialResearch Institute of Medical Sciences(RMRIMS), which is a centre for clin-ical trials of the Indian Council ofMedical Research (ICMR).

The findings were published inthe Clinical Infectious Diseases scien-tific journal on February 11, 2022.

Soon thereafter, the research partnersmoved the WHO for approval.

“The new treatment regimen isgood, as it reduces the use of injectabledrugs and significantly increases thechances for patients to be cured,”asserts Dr Krishna Pandey, director,Rajendra Memorial Research Instituteand the principal investigator in thestudy.

In the Indian study, the new rec-ommended treatment regimendemonstrated 96% efficacy at sixmonths compared to 88% in the pre-vious treatment, says Dr Kavita Singh.

Bihar and Jharkhand are the twomost kala-azar endemic states inIndia. Goriakothi block in Bihar’sSiwan district and Isuapur in Sarandistrict; besides Hiranpur, Amrapara,Littipara and Jama blocks inJharkhand’s Pakur district andKathikund and Dumka sadar inDumka district have kala-azarendemicity of over 1 per 10,000 pop-ulation.

Cutaneous leishmaniasis is con-fined to the north-western part of thecountry (Himanchal Pradesh,Rajasthan), whereas KA is endemic in4 states, Bihar (33 districts, 458blocks), Jharkhand (4 districts, 33blocks), West Bengal (11 districts, 120blocks) and Uttar Pradesh (6 districts,22 blocks),3 which contain approxi-mately 10% of the total population atrisk in India (136.5 million).

In Bihar – India’s most endemicstate – an estimated 6% of VL casesare co-infected with HIV.

It is hoped that the new WHOguidelines will significantly improvethe lives of patients affected by bothdiseases who suffer from stigma,ostracization, loss of income andrepeated relapses, says Dr FabianaAlves, Director of neglected tropicaldiseases Leishmaniasis and Mycetomaat DNDi.

However, Dr Sakib Burza, medical advisor and study coordina-tor at MSF has a word of caution. “Forthe first time, patients with KA-HIVco-infection in India will be treatedwith an evidence-based treatment.However, there remains a lot to bedone, as these patients present withmultiple complex medical issues thatneed to be addressed holistically,including a very high prevalence ofTB,” he says.

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This doctor has several medical innovations to his nameever since the bug bit him in 2008 when he was still an

MBBS student. But that’s just one of his talents. He's a standupcomedian, an author and an entrepreneur too.

When this multifaceted ENT surgeon, Dr JagdishChaturvedi from Fortis Hospital, Bengaluru, tells you thathis contributions have been a game changer in the medicalfield, especially in rural areas, he’s not exaggerating. In thelast 10 years, Dr Jagdish’ 18 innovations include the bowelcleaning device, esophageal varices management device, med-icine management box, and adaptive noise cancellation forTinnitus among others. Low-cost and easy to use, to makehealthcare accessible in rural areas, are the hallmark of hisinnovations.

As an entrepreneur, Dr Jagdish runs a digital platform,Healthcare Innovation for Indian Healthcare (Hiiih), a med-ical entrepreneurship and innovation-enabling platform thatsees doctors, engineers and entrepreneurs connecting andworking on innovations.

“The platform has helped 40 Indian startups in terms ofguidance, funding, product development and more. We alsoconduct training programmes and develop our own devices,”he says.

Dr Jagdish's first invention was a cheap alternative to theexpensive imaging equipment to diagnose throat cancer. Afterseeing the results of his ‘jugaad’, he decided to build a pro-totype and eventually launched it in the market to help moredoctors practising in rural areas. Though there were no tak-ers for his first innovation, he was not deterred.

“I faced flak from my fraternity, who advised me to stickto my job instead of capitalising on the prototype. But I didnot give up and gave the licence to Icarus, who then sold itto Medtronic. It uses the third-generation Medtronic ShrutiENTraview Otoscope (attached to an Android phone). It hashelped around seven lakh people,” he says proudly.

It was good learning for him. With help from his seniorslike Dr Ravi Nair, he enrolled himself in a Stanford bio-designprogramme in 2012. “I learnt how to approach a design andbring a solution while keeping factors like affordability andaccessibility in mind. The fellowship made my second inno-vation a smooth ride,” he says.

His Noxeno, a device that removes foreign bodies fromthe noses of children in rural areas, without needing any inva-sive surgery is being used across 1,000 hospitals, and was evenfeatured in News Asia’s documentary ‘Field Guide toInnovations’ in 2017. His other invention--a tele examina-tion system can be used by doctors while sitting anywherein the world.

He has also penned three books, Inventing MedicalDevices – A perspective from India, The Benefits of FailingSuccessfully and One year of Stand up comedy: A Journeyin India.

A standup comedian, Dr Jagdish’s eponymous YouTubechannel has over 1 lakh subscribers while a comic awarenessvideo on the coronavirus had 1,62,000 viewership. Fun andserious work goes hand-in-hand for him.

—As told to Archana Jyoti(Medicos may write to us at [email protected])

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istration process, staff requirement, minimum equipment requiredand the license granting format for Assisted ReproductiveTechnology (ART) in the country.

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tified a new disease that affects the macula, a small part of the light-sensing retina needed for sharp, central vision.

After witnessing adecline in Covidcases till mid-May,the Coronavirus has

gradually started movingtowards northward, less thana month after the country wasopened up post the thirdwave. This has evoked fear ofa fourth wave in the countrywith some states likeMaharashtra and Karnatakabringing back the mask man-date in the public.

On June 11, with 8,329fresh Covid-19 cases and 10deaths in the last 24 hours,India reported the highestnumber of daily cases inmonths. While the total activecases stand at 40,370, thecountry saw 4,216 recoveries.On Friday, the country hadreported 7,584 cases and 24deaths.

Analysis of the datashows that in just ten days,cases have doubled while thetest positivity rate (TPR) – thenumber of positive cases outof the total tests conductedhas increased to 2.3 per cent,which is the highest sinceFebruary.

WHO Director-GeneralTedros AdhanomGhebreyesus warned that thepandemic is not yet over.Tedros noted that 18 monthsafter the first mass coron-avirus immunization pro-grams began in rich coun-tries, 68 countries have yet toprotect 40% of their popula-tions.

While enough vaccinesare now available, demandhas fallen, he said. "The per-ception that the pandemic isover is understandable, butmisguided," the WHO chiefsaid. "A new and even moredangerous variant couldemerge at any time, and vastnumbers of people remainunprotected."

However, doctors in Indiablame Omicron sub-variantsto be behind the spike inCovid caseload in the coun-try. And since it is mild innature, one should not panic,they assured.

India has reported agradual rise in coronavirusinfections since mid-May asBA.4 and BA.5 sub variants ofthe Omicron strain of SARS-CoV-2 made their way intothe country.

The doctors asserted thatthe ongoing surge in Covid-19 cases in some parts of thecountry should not be seen as

the start of the fourth wave ofthe pandemic. Most peopleare protected by prior infec-tion and high vaccinationcoverage, they reason.

“It's wrong to say the 4thwave is coming, we need toexamine district-level data. Ahigh number of cases in a fewdistricts can't be considered asa uniform increase in casesacross the whole country,”said Samiran Panda, ADG,Indian Council of MedicalResearch (ICMR).

“There is no reason tobelieve that the current rise inCovid-19 cases heralds thebeginning of the fourth pan-demic wave in the country,”Dr Sujeet Kumar Singh,director of the NationalCentre for Disease Control,which heads the IndianSARS-CoV-2 GenomicSurveillance (INSACOG)project told a media house.

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the rise in cases may be theresult of the spread of theBA.4 and BA.5 sub variants inseveral states, it does notmean much given India’shybrid immunity in the wakeof prior infection with otheromicron sub variants andhigh vaccination coverage.

Dr N K Arora, chief ofthe Covid-19 working groupof the National TechnicalAdvisory Group onImmunisation, expressedsimilar views. “Rise in caseswas the result of unbridleddomestic and internationaltravel by Indians after a longgap.” He dismissed fears thatthe country is in the grip ofthe fourth wave. Mumbai hasbeen reporting a sharp rise incases over the past severaldays. In the first five days ofJune, about 4,000 cases wereregistered — higher than thenumber reported in the wholeof March and April and

almost the same as the totalin May.

"It’s because of business-es and travel returning backto normal and many peoplegetting exposed to the virus,”Arora said.

He added, INSACOG’ssurveillance so far had shownthat there is no new variant atplay, other than Omicron subvariants.

Dr Rahul Bhargava, fromFortis Hospital in Gurugram,Haryana called for a guardedapproach. “These wave pat-terns will continue to affectmankind. We need to have astrategy by making rapidchanges in our daily life, bybringing mask and social dis-tancing back in our lifestylequickly as cases rise.

“At the same time weneed to have robust genomesurveillance to keep a watchon the rise of new variants.Research needs to clearly

guide us on the frequency ofcovid vaccination in thefrontline and high risk group,”he suggested.

With immunity becom-ing a buzz word duringCovid-19 pandemic, DrTanuja Nesari, Director of theAll India Institute ofAyurveda (AIIA) talked aboutthe importance of holisticwell-being in checking thevirus as well as other infec-tions. She stressed on adopt-ing time tested home-reme-dies and ayurvedic immuni-ty herbs like Chyavanprasha,AYUSH Kwath and herbslike Tulsi leaves, crushed gin-ger and turmeric could bebeneficial in developing over-all immunity.

In this regard, she citedrecovery of over 400 patientsfrom Covid-19 in their insti-tute through Ayurveda. Only4% needed integration withoxygen, she said.

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The terrible spectre ofclimate change and itsdevastating conse-

quences hang over the world.It is the biggest health threathumanity is facing. As oceanscover more than 70 per centof the planet earth’s surface,protection of the oceans isparamount in the efforts todelay or stop theunfavourable climate change.

With a view to highlight-ing the aspect, the WorldOcean Day is celebrated onJune 8 every year. The themefor the 2022 World OceanDay “Revitalization: Collec-tive Action for the Ocean”sheds light on the communi-ties, ideas and solution thatare working together to pro-tect and revitalise the oceanand everything it sustains.This is once again a reminderto the international commu-nity to protect and preservethe oceanic resources. Unlesswe listen to the stern warn-ings from global bodies, sealife will perish and the wholeof humanity will have to facethe consequences.

The UN General Assem-bly officially recognised theWorld Ocean Day in 2008 butits actual celebration startedin 2009 only. The origin of theWorld Ocean Day goes backto the historic Earth Summitorganised in the year 1992 inthe city of Rio de Janeiro,Brazil. In the same confer-ence, Canada initially pro-posed the concept of theWorld Ocean Day. In thesame year, an event called“Oceans Day at GlobalForum: The Blue Planet” wasorganised by the OceansInstitute of Canada (OIC),supported by the CanadianGovernment. And the speak-er who suggested the idea wasJudith Swan, an international-ly known marine jurist andDirector of the OIC. Thus,this year marks the 30th

anniversary of the WorldOcean Day. The main mottobehind the World Ocean Dayis to spread awareness to pro-tect the planet earth through-out the year.

Again, this day is a part ofthe worldwide movement tosave the world’s 30 per cent ofthe land, water and ocean bythe year 2030. This daydirectly supports the effortstowards the realisation of theSustainable DevelopmentGoals (SDGs) set by the UNin the year 2015. These SDGs(also called Agenda 2030) area collection of 17 interlinkedgoals to achieve a better andmore sustainable future for allby the end of 2030.

The oceans are home toapproximately 700,000 to onemillion species. Also, theoceans contain more than 97per cent of the world’s water.It is the largest ecosystem onearth. It is the life support sys-tem of the planet earth.Hence, the ocean is extremelyvital for the survival and sus-tainability of not only thelives in it but also for humansas well. These oceans producemore than half of the oxygenof this beautiful planet.

When we talk aboutocean conservation, generallyanimals like sharks, whales,and turtles have taken thecentre-stage of almost all theocean protection movementsand awareness campaigns.For decades, we are trying toprotect and preserve them allas they are facing gravethreats to lives along withmillions of other species. Butwe all simply ignore the factthat human beings are alsoequally relying on a healthyocean for their survival.

Most of the 3 billionhumans who earn their liveli-hood from the rich oceans,belong to the Global South. Itconsists of the agrarianeconomies of Africa, Latin

America, India, China andother areas of the world.However, the term GlobalSouth is a dynamic conceptwhich is not restricted to geo-graphic boundaries. There-fore, the countries that reacha certain level of developmentmay easily cross over to theGlobal North. It is clear thatthe developing countries ofthe Global South are highlydependent on the rich oceanresources for their life and living.

Today, the ocean is underconstant pressure fromintense pollution, over-fish-ing, unsustainable develop-ment and finally from mas-sive climate change. The car-bon emissions from humanactivities lead to ocean warm-ing, acidification and oxygenloss, according to latestreports released by the UN.Our oceans directly absorb 90per cent of the heat releasedby the greenhouse gases.

The pollutants found inthe oceans are life-threaten-ing for humans as well. Thecarcinogenic microplasticshave already entered our foodchain. And these toxic conta-minants pose a major healthrisk for all humans aroundthe world. So we are at immi-nent risk from the degrada-tion of marine life today.

Another perilous aspect isthat each year at least 8 mil-lion tonnes of plastic wastegathers in the oceans. Furtherthe situation is aggravated bythe dumping of huge amountsof poisonous chemicals andhuman waste in these oceans.The worst part of the oceanpollution is that all the man-made wastes go deep down tothe ocean bed and severelyaffect marine life and theirsurrounding habitat.

Over the years, over-fish-ing in many parts of the worldis causing serious damage tomarine lives. Because com-

mercial level exploitation ofthe fish reserves is mainlycarried out by huge nets, the-ses destroy other marine livesin the sea beds. Therefore,trawling and dredging are animminent threat to marineecosystems.

Recently, the Internation-al Union for Conservation ofNature (IUCN) listed nearlyeight marine species as “criti-cally endangered species” andthey may face high risk ofextinction in future. Thesespecies are great hammerheadshark, European eel, sun-flower sea star, angel shark,scalloped hammerhead,oceanic white tip shark,North Atlantic right whale,and Nassau grouper. Theseare a few species that are fac-ing threat today, but manymore will be added to the listfor sure. The marine ecosys-tem is very sensitive to out-side influence.

The ocean economy con-tributes nearly $1.5 trillion invalue to the global economy.Interestingly, it offers foodand livelihood to about 3 bil-lion people across the globe.It supports huge employmentopportunities in the areas oftourism, fishing and trans-portation. So far studies showthat around 80 per cent ofmarine pollution comes fromthe land in different forms ofpollutants, mostly from man-made activities. However,plastic pollutants pose thebiggest threat. In fact, the listof such pollutants keeps onincreasing each day startingfrom industrial chemicals,sewage, pesticides and othergarbage, including the e-wastes released in the oceansacross the globe.

Currently, only about 7per cent of the ocean is pro-tected. Latest research revealsthat for the preservation ofmarine life, increased supplyof food and reduced carbon

emissions, we urgently needto save 30 per cent of theoceans.

Our incredible oceanmust be protected. It is timeto act. Protecting the oceansmeans protecting the people.Ocean conservation is key toour survival. The fact remainsthat consistent increase in thenumber of pollutants has ledto the degradation of waterbodies to the point of noreturn. It is true that majorsteps are already being taken.The UN and its allied agen-cies with a host of interna-tional NGOs and civil societyorganisations are makingserious efforts to preventdamage to the marine envi-ronment. Hope environmen-tal justice would be given toall the marine lives andhumans by other humans inthe days to come. Finally, withthe celebration of the WorldOcean Day this year, we allneed to commit to ourselvesthat we will not exploit theoceans anymore to threatenthe marine ecosystem.

(The writer is a young environmental

conservationist)

United Nations ClimateReport recorded thelast decade as the

hottest decade in human his-tory. We read about climatechange and global warmingand how it can lead to glaciersmelting and islands sinking.Most of us are aware of theproblem. Question is what wecan do. Posting climatechange photos on socialmedia? Switching off lightsfor one hour and calling itEarth Hour? Dispose of wasteproperly? Ban single-use plas-tics? Are these all or can wedo more and take construc-tive action? Very often, welimit ourselves to thistokenism as we don’t knowwhat to do? What can we aschildren, youth, and respon-sible citizens of this countrydo every day to save our envi-ronment?

One of the biggest con-tributors to climate change isthe textile industry. We allregularly wear jeans. Youwould be shocked to knowthat it takes 7,600 litres ofwater to produce one pair ofjeans! This is due to the factthat the amount of waterrequired to grow cotton foryour jeans is exorbitantlylarge. Considering each of usowns multiple pairs of jeans,we are continually wastingthousands of litres of water!So what can you do instead?Try to look for sustainablefabrics of jeans before pur-chasing. There are multiplebrands that are recycling thewater they use for more pro-ductive uses. So giving athought before buying yourfavourite denims could helpsave a lot of water!

The meat industry, par-ticularly beef, is anothermajor source of fossil fuels.Many studies have indicatedthat approximately 60 percent of all greenhouse gasesfrom food production comefrom the meat industry. Foodproduction itself is responsi-ble for almost one third of allgreenhouse gases producedby humans and producinganimal food results in twicethe amount of emissions ascaused by plant-based foods.Rise in demand for meat pro-duction requires a large quan-tity of pastures leading tomore forests to be cleared forgrazing of cattle or growinganimal feed. When animalsfeed on plants, they emit toxicgreenhouse gases such asmethane and nitrous oxidedue to widespread use ofchemical fertilizers and pesti-cides in the growth of plants.Meat as a food item is lessefficient than plants as ani-mals require more biomass tofeed to give the same amountof calories. So, what can wedo? While dietary choices arepersonal, we should knowthat being vegetarian andconsuming more fruits andvegetables is more climatefriendly. So why not adopthealthier diets now and livelonger later?

Many among us would beshocked to know that ourbathroom to contribute to cli-mate change. Skincare andhygiene products like scrubsand toothpaste containmicrobeads. Thesemicrobeads eventually landup in oceans and seas, wherethese insalubrious productsare consumed by marine ani-

mals. Lastly, although this may

seem counterintuitive, agreen lawn is actually notecologically sustainable.Maintenance of these greenlawns requires lawn mowersand leaf blowers which arepowered by gasoline with twostroke and four strokeengines. Fuel doesn’t combustcompletely in these enginesand results in release of toxicgases in the air. A four strokelawn mower produces carbonemissions equivalent to avehicle that has travelled 500miles! So how can one make agreen lawn sustainably green?You can start using electricengines instead as they areeasier to maintain and have alower carbon footprint. Youcan also diversify your greenlawn with creepers and mosses!

This year’s theme forWorld Environment Day is“Only One Earth”. So we asstudents, youth, adults, lead-ers and responsible citizens ofour society, country and theworld need to work towardsrethinking, reworking andretrying new sustainablealternatives.

(The writer is a young climate activist)

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Since time immemorial,man has been raking his

brains trying to find theanswers to questions pertain-ing to his existence and hisrelative identity. In docu-mented evolutionary historyalso, innumerable thinkers,philosophers, saints, scien-tists, etc, have pondered overthe issue and provided theirobservations on the subjectdepending upon their capaci-ty and bent of mind.

From “god’s creation” to“creation of god”, from reli-gion to science, from forms toformlessness, man has left nostone unturned to understandthis web of his identity andbeing. Before, he could settlesuch deep and dense spiritualquestions, more trouble camehis way in the form of societalidentities. These self-createdidentities have brought withthem all sorts of superiorityand inferiority complexes.

Indian history andmythology are nothing if nota grand testimony of co-exis-tence between various castes,belief systems, religions (ifBuddhism and Jainism are tobe considered separate reli-gions) and cultural groupsdespite their differences,occasional skirmishes andconflicts.

The amalgamation ofpost-colonial socio-politicaldevelopments and modernscientific advances have pro-vided a never before opportu-nity to both individuals andsocieties to ponder over issuesrelated to indigenous socio-religious identities in bothglobal and glocal perspec-tives.

In Indian context, thismuch-needed exercise isextremely crucial specially inhandling sensitive issues likeclan, caste and religion, etc.

During the last 75 yearsor so, Indian society has wit-nessed tremendous changesin its social structures and

social values. Metropolitancities have become casteless.Some studies have abortivelyattempted to interpret theirdata to show that the majorityof the poor clusters belong toa particular caste or religion.The reservation, educationand ever increasing jobopportunities have impactedthe interior corners of thecountry too.

Of course, major socialchanges sometimes take hun-dreds of years. One thing is

sure that India has definitelytaken a giant leap towardscastelessness within such ashort span of 70 odd years.

The academic and politi-cal mafias are the biggest hin-drances in finishing the evil ofcaste. Dr Ambedkar wantedhis disciples and followers towork for annihilation of caste.But there are ecosystems insome academic institutionswhere some of the academicbigwigs promote suchresearch which not only

encourages divisive agendasbut inculcates hatred forother castes. It requiresabsolutely no rocket scienceto understand that there aremany caste based politicalparties and political figuresfor whom socially dividedcaste based society is oxygen.And, time and again suchpolicies and programmeshave been framed in the pastwhich have played a majorrole in widening the socialdivides. In other words, will-

ingly political mafias havemade communities stand infront of each other with dag-gers.

Coming to the post 2014era where the Governmenthas been trying to do awaywith caste politics with themotto of “Sabka Saath, SabkaVikas, Sabka Viswaas”, thecastiest narrative buildershave got tremors in theirstomach. The underlyingmessage is that India cannotprogress if we Indians keep

fighting for our communitiesagainst each other instead ofcoming together for eachother.

On a deeper psychologi-cal level, the efforts of thegovernment towards makingIndia self-reliant can be seenas an inspiration where thegovernment wants todecolonise the young mindsas individuals as well as com-munities.

Of course, we all haveevery right to agree or dis-

agree with the government’spolicies but most importantly,the Narendra Modi Govern-ment has shown a way for-ward towards castelessnesswhere the Government treatsone and all as equal citizens,and it is the requisite of “rajdharma” also, as given in theancient Indian scriptures.

(The writer is ResearchAssistant, Indian Council ofSocial Science Research, Theviews expressed are personal)

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habit tendencies, coming as it may asKarmic carryover from the past. Asand when congenial ground becomesavailable they come into play.Experience suggests that more oftenthan not, if ever one loses sense ofalert, the negatives if not addressed intime, play a spoil sport with their posi-tives, and evidently to one’s detriment.

The irony is that negative imprintsremain in the sub-conscious memoryand so they play out involuntarily. Thepositives, on the contrary, lying at adeeper level need to be explored, con-sciously invoked and put to use.Otherwise, they may remain dormant.As one begins life, people behave twoways. Some are guided by persistentindwelling desires, as guided byindwelling seed-potential. They have adesired destination in mind. Humblyand single pointedly, they put in theirwhole to achieve their end. A largemajority of them succeed in theirendeavour. Consciously, they try tokeep their negatives in check. The fautlines, however, do not go away, waiting

for their turn to play out. There areothers, who guided by tempting influ-ences of the seeming world, lack prop-er direction, not aware what they arereally worth. Even when made awareof their indwelling potential, it is diffi-cult for them to digest. Such characterstake long to settle down. It is onlywhen they are pushed to the wall, theytry out the option suggested, to make aliving. And if the seed potential relatedto that field is strong, they move aheadin life. Having tasted the fruits of suc-cess, the feel of achievement rakes upthe indwelling sense of Ahamkara(Ego consciousness). The sense ofdoer-ship thus arising, make thembelieve that nothing can stop themanymore. In the process, they losetheir sense of alert. Following which,the inherent habit tendencies, undercheck thus far, raise their head. Peopleseldom realise that their infirmitiescould derail them.

A couple of years back someone,toying with many ideas, but not able tomake a considered choice, came seek-ing guidance. He was advised to takeup a product that helps people in diffi-culty. For, Karmic Saturn, the 8th lord

identified with difficulties was tenant-ed in the career signifying the 10thhouse, from where it aspected the 7thhouse marked with the person in need.As advised, he opened a workshop to

make implements to support disabledpeople. He put in his whole into it andquickly attained success. Ambitiousthat he was, went ahead full hog open-ing shops in different cities within no

time, without raising necessary infra-structure to sustain them. So, he couldnot manage them well. Very soon, hisbusiness collapsed and got into a debttrap, difficult to manage.

He then came running again seek-ing guidance on how to come out hisproblem, which had become unbear-able. He asked: “Sir, I took up the busi-ness you suggested and initially I suc-ceeded well. But not long after it col-lapsed. Why? Suggest me some puja tocome out of my woes.”

Well, when you first came, apartfrom suggesting you a suitable voca-tion, I also made you aware of yourinherent weaknesses. I recall tellingyou in clear words that unless youaddress them well in time, that areimmense, at some point of time, itcould take you for a ride. Now I see ithappening. I had also offered you amethod to overcome them throughfresh educative inputs. But, you nevercared, and went by your self-definedflow without applying proper fore-thought. The problems that I see havemind genesis. How can a puja con-ducted by a pundit enter your mindspace to make necessary corrections?

You yourself could self-reflect, identifyacknowledge your infirmities, and takecorrective initiatives.

Even in terms of your business, Iadvised you not to go overboard asindiscrete investments could prove dis-astrous, as finance signifying Venuswas placed adverse to mischievousNeptune. All the more because intelli-gence signifying Mercury was alsoplaced adverse to Neptune, whichaccounted for your impaired reasoningand judgment. If that would not beenough, the Sun placed adverse toNeptune and Jupiter, in the first placespeaks of your inflated ego. Second,you are bound by self-defined delu-sionary perceptions, distanced fromground realities, and not open to lookbeyond for a reality check. You won’tacknowledge truth on its first appear-ance, and would prefer pursuing yourbelief till pushed to the wall. The resultis there to see.

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