T he Government on Wednesday asserted that microblogging platform Twitter has lost its legal pro- tection in India because it deliberately chose non-com- pliance despite multiple oppor- tunities to it. Losing legal pro- tection means Twitter’s top executives, including the nation’s managing director, face police questioning and crimi- nal liability under the Indian Penal Code over “unlawful and inflammatory” content posted by users on Twitter. Accusing Twitter of delib- erately refusing to comply with Indian laws, in identical posts on Twitter as well as its Indian rival Koo, Union IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said Twitter was given “multiple opportunities to comply” but it deliberately chose non-com- pliance. In a related development, the Ghaziabad police have booked Twitter Inc, its India unit and seven others in con- nection with a viral video of an attack on an elderly person and issued notices to them. This is the first case that holds the social media giant responsible for third-party content. Twitter has lost its inter- mediary immunity (legal pro- tection) in India after it failed to appoint statutory officers on the company’s role, in accor- dance with the new Information Technology (IT) rules. This means Twitter’s top executives, including the nation’s managing director, face police question- ing and criminal liability under the Indian Penal Code over “unlawful and inflammatory” content posted by Twitter users on its platform. In a series of tweets, Prasad said there are numerous queries arising as to whether Twitter is entitled to safe har- bour provision. “However, the simple fact of the matter is that Twitter has failed to comply with the Intermediary Guidelines that came into effect from the 26th of May,” he said. Continued on Page 11 I f a corona warrior passes away due to Covid-19 infec- tion, his relatives might get compensation as high as 1 crore, but there is no compen- sation available to a common man in case of death linked to vaccination. Clinical trial procedures do have compensation provi- sions which are paid by the companies, though the process is fraught with difficulties and may stretch years. A senior Union Health Ministry official said there is no provision of doling out com- pensation for recipients of Covid-19 vaccine against any kind of adverse events follow- ing immunisation (AEFI) or medical complications that may arise due to inoculation. In this connection, he cited chil- dren immunisation pro- gramme where no compensa- tion has been given so far. The AEFI is defined as “any untoward medical occurrence which follows immunisation” and which does not necessar- ily have a causal relationship with the usage of the vaccine. As per the Government report, since the launch of the nationwide vaccination from January 16 till June 7, one per- son has died due to severe aller- gic reaction of vaccination while 488 succumbed post inoculation which the Government said were due to co-incidental reasons, includ- ing co-morbidities, and cannot be directly attributed to the vaccination. So far, 26 crore people have been vaccinated in the country with Covaxin or Covishield. In fact, in a written reply in Parliament, Union Health Minister of State Ashwani Kumar Choubey on March 19 said, “There is no provision of compensation for recipients of Covid-19 vaccine against any kind of side effects or medical complications that may arise due to inoculation. The Covid- 19 vaccination is entirely vol- untary for the beneficiary.” However, measures have been put in place like avail- ability of anaphylaxis kits at each vaccination site, immedi- ate referral to AEFI manage- ment centre and observation of vaccine recipients for 30 min- utes at session site for any adverse events so as to take timely corrective measure. Also, the AEFI management of such cases are provided free of cost treatment in Public Health Facilities, he had said. “Though under clinical tri- als conducted in India, there are specific rules defining com- pensation for participants, this is not so in case for the vacci- nation. There is no method under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act to provide any type of compensation against any adverse event after receiv- ing a vaccine approved for restricted emergency use. Continued on Page 11 A s the third Covid-19 wave is projected to impact chil- dren in a bigger way, the Government has issued guide- lines for Covid-care manage- ment for kids. According to the guidelines, drugs such as iver- mectin, hydroxychloroquine, favipiravir and antibiotics like doxycycline and azithromycin, which are prescribed for adult patients, should not be recom- mended for treating the minor. The Union Health Ministry’s recommendations include augmenting existing Covid-care facilities to provide care to children with acute coronavirus infection. “Similarly, issues of optimal treatment for multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children ( MIS-C ) need to be addressed by clinical trials, such as comparison of low dose with high doses steroids, comparison of steroids with IVIG and others,” it added. Various States like Delhi, UP and Maharashtra on their own have already started tak- ing measures — from ramping up paediatric beds to prioritis- ing vaccination for parents of kids below 12 years. Continued on Page11 L ok Janshakti Party (LJP) leader Chirag Paswan on Wednesday vowed to fight back to save the party found- ed by his father late Ram Vilas Paswan, saying he was “sher ka beta” (lion’s son). In his first media interac- tion after split in the LJP par- liamentary party and five of LJP MPs writing to Lok Sabha Speaker to appoint his uncle Pashupati Kumar Paras as the leader of the party, Chirag blamed the Janata Dal (United) for crisis in the party. While blaming the JD(U) for the split, he steered clear of questions regarding the role of the BJP in the development and added that what has happened is also an internal matter of his party for which he will not tar- get others. Chirag may have avoided any reference to the role of the BJP behind the split in the LJP, but it is well known that the saf- fron outfit had lent its weight behind Paras. State BJP chief Sanjay Jaiswal had met Paras just three days before the split in the parliamentary party. When asked if “Hanuman” who is in trouble now will seek help from “Ram”, a reference to his projection of his relation- ship with Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the Bihar Assembly polls as that between the two famous char- acters of epic Ramayan, he said, “If Hanuman has to seek help from Ram, then what good is Hanuman and what good is Ram.” It is going to be a long bat- tle, Paswan said, as the group headed by him fights the fac- tion of five other party MPs, led by Paras, to claim ownership of the LJP. The JD(U), he alleged, had been working to cause a split in the party even when his father was alive. Targeting the party, he said it has always worked to divide Dalits and weaken its leaders. The LJP draws its support from Paswans, the largest Dalit caste in Bihar. Continued on Page 11 I n a run up to the 2022 Assembly polls in Punjab, the BJP has stepped on the accel- erator with Union Home Minister Amit Shah placing himself on the driver’s seat before the poll process. Worst-affected by the farmers’ ongoing agitation against the Centre’s three agri- marketing laws and the resul- tant political circumstances in the State, the saffron party on Thursday inducted six “promi- nent Sikh personalities”, besides directing its State leadership to put up its act together by tak- ing the workers along. Those who joined the party in Delhi include former presi- dent of All India Sikh Students’ Federation (AISSF) Harinder Singh Kahlon, advocate Jagmohan Singh Saini who is also the president of Farmers’ Intellectual Front (Patiala), advocate Nirmal Singh from Mohali, Kuldeep Singh Kahlon (former AISSF) from Gurdaspur, former vice-chan- cellor of Guru Kashi University Jaswinder Singh Dhillon, and Col Jaibans Singh from Patiala. Continued on Page 11 I n a move unheard of in the contemporary political his- tory of India, Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Wednesday called on National Human Rights Commission Chairman Justice Arun Mishra apparently to apprise him of what he called “retributive post poll violence” in the State. The ruling Trinamool Congress, the prime target of Dhankhar’s attack, promptly reacted saying “Governor… don’t come back to Bengal.” The Governor is reported to have drawn the attention of the NHRC chief towards the attacks mounted on the Opposition supporters and human rights violation in the State. Dhankhar, who was on a three-day trip to New Delhi, also met Union Ministers Prahlad Singh Patel and Prahlad Joshi before tweeting, “… Had useful interaction with Union Minister of Coal and Mines and Parliamentary Affairs...” Earlier dwelling on the post poll violence and the alleged Governmental apathy, Dhankhar said how the State Government was turning a blind eye to the incidents of “retributive post poll violence” that had rendered thousands of people homeless and properties worth crores looted and destroyed. “Four Cabinet meetings have taken place in the past six weeks … not a single word has been spent on the post poll vio- lence … no Minister or officer has visited the affected areas and no compensation has been declared,” the Governor said, adding, “I told the Chief Minister to update me about the situation but … there was no response on her part… it seems that the police have for- gotten their work … the police and the Home Department must rise above partisan poli- tics … (or else) I shall not over- look the matter.” Continued on Page 11 T he CBI has filed a chargesheet against the for- mer international head of the Gitanjali Group of Companies, Sunil Verma, and others in connection with an alleged fraud in the PNB involving an amount of over 7,080 crore, in which the promoter of the group, Mehul Choksi, is want- ed by the agency, officials said on Wednesday. Two officials of the Punjab National Bank (PNB) — Sagar Sawant and Sanjay Prasad — and a director of the Gili and the Nakshtra brands under the group, Dhanesh Seth, have also been named as accused in the supplementary chargesheet filed by the CBI, they said. The supplementary chargesheet, filed more than three years after the first chargesheet, coincides with the legal proceedings against the fugitive diamantaire in a court of Dominica, where he was arrested for on May 24 after his mysterious disappearance from Antigua and Barbuda. L ife was never the same for Abhishek Chaubey, an IAS aspirant after the lockdown imposed in Delhi after Covid-19 pandem- ic hit him hard. He had rented a single room at Shakarpur in East Delhi and was dependent on local dhabas for food. After the lockdown was announced, the dhabas shut down and he had a tough time to survive. “I felt so helpless being new in the city. I spent the first few days with milk and bread but the situation turned grimmer after I tested positive for coro- navirus with nobody to look after me. I was without food for days. This was the most trau- matic period of life. I don’t know how I survived,” Chaubey said in a choked voice. The tragedy did not end here as his mother also tested positive in Paroraha village in Bihar. “My landlord was kind enough to get me the medi- cines being circulated on WhatsApp. I did not see him after that despite knowing that he was the only person I was in touch with,” he said. “The condition of my mother was also deteriorating in the absence of proper treat- ment and lack of awareness. I could not afford to just sit and leave it to destiny. I caught the train and somehow managed to reach my village. Although, I was still struggling to breathe, I got my mother admitted to hospital. Her life was saved with proper medication and care. I also recovered fol- lowing doctors’ prescrip- tion,” he said. There are many like him residing around the north campus of the Delhi University who were forced to leave the city after lockdown was announced. Similarly, Divya Prakash, who was preparing for civil ser- vices and lived at Gandhi Vihar, had to leave the Capital. “I used to teach students here to fund my studies. But after the pan- demic returned and lockdown was imposed, everything was destroyed. Kundan Kumar, a student of the Department of Buddhist Studies, was left with very lim- ited options to survive during the pandemic as all the dhabas were closed. Kumar approached one of his friends and requested him to allow sharing the kitchen. “Two of my friends also tested Covid positive and after noticing the situation here, I decided to be back in my town. I came back recently to Delhi and hope for a new beginning,” he said. New Delhi: Amid stand-off with the Government, Twitter shared details of an interim compliance officer with the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. Twitter has reiterated that it is making all possible efforts to comply with the new IT rules. A Twitter spokesperson stated on Wednesday that the interim Chief Compliance Officer had been retained by the company.
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The Government onWednesday asserted that
microblogging platformTwitter has lost its legal pro-tection in India because itdeliberately chose non-com-pliance despite multiple oppor-tunities to it. Losing legal pro-tection means Twitter’s topexecutives, including thenation’s managing director, facepolice questioning and crimi-nal liability under the IndianPenal Code over “unlawfuland inflammatory” contentposted by users on Twitter.
Accusing Twitter of delib-erately refusing to comply withIndian laws, in identical postson Twitter as well as its Indianrival Koo, Union IT MinisterRavi Shankar Prasad saidTwitter was given “multipleopportunities to comply” but itdeliberately chose non-com-pliance.
In a related development,the Ghaziabad police havebooked Twitter Inc, its Indiaunit and seven others in con-
nection with a viral video of anattack on an elderly person andissued notices to them. This isthe first case that holds thesocial media giant responsiblefor third-party content.
Twitter has lost its inter-mediary immunity (legal pro-tection) in India after it failedto appoint statutory officers onthe company’s role, in accor-dance with the newInformation Technology (IT)rules.
This means Twitter’s topexecutives, including thenation’s managing director, face
police question-ing and criminal liability underthe Indian Penal Code over“unlawful and inflammatory”content posted by Twitter userson its platform.
In a series of tweets, Prasadsaid there are numerousqueries arising as to whetherTwitter is entitled to safe har-bour provision. “However, thesimple fact of the matter is thatTwitter has failed to complywith the IntermediaryGuidelines that came into effectfrom the 26th of May,” he said.
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If a corona warrior passesaway due to Covid-19 infec-
tion, his relatives might getcompensation as high as �1crore, but there is no compen-sation available to a commonman in case of death linked tovaccination.
Clinical trial proceduresdo have compensation provi-sions which are paid by thecompanies, though the processis fraught with difficulties andmay stretch years.
A senior Union HealthMinistry official said there is noprovision of doling out com-pensation for recipients ofCovid-19 vaccine against anykind of adverse events follow-ing immunisation (AEFI) ormedical complications thatmay arise due to inoculation. Inthis connection, he cited chil-dren immunisation pro-gramme where no compensa-tion has been given so far.
The AEFI is defined as “anyuntoward medical occurrencewhich follows immunisation”and which does not necessar-ily have a causal relationshipwith the usage of the vaccine.
As per the Government
report, since the launch of thenationwide vaccination fromJanuary 16 till June 7, one per-son has died due to severe aller-gic reaction of vaccinationwhile 488 succumbed postinoculation which theGovernment said were due toco-incidental reasons, includ-ing co-morbidities, and cannotbe directly attributed to thevaccination. So far, 26 crorepeople have been vaccinated inthe country with Covaxin orCovishield.
In fact, in a written reply inParliament, Union HealthMinister of State AshwaniKumar Choubey on March 19said, “There is no provision ofcompensation for recipients ofCovid-19 vaccine against anykind of side effects or medicalcomplications that may arisedue to inoculation. The Covid-19 vaccination is entirely vol-untary for the beneficiary.”
However, measures havebeen put in place like avail-ability of anaphylaxis kits ateach vaccination site, immedi-ate referral to AEFI manage-ment centre and observation ofvaccine recipients for 30 min-utes at session site for anyadverse events so as to taketimely corrective measure.Also, the AEFI management ofsuch cases are provided free ofcost treatment in Public HealthFacilities, he had said.
“Though under clinical tri-als conducted in India, thereare specific rules defining com-pensation for participants, thisis not so in case for the vacci-nation. There is no methodunder the Drugs andCosmetics Act to provide anytype of compensation againstany adverse event after receiv-ing a vaccine approved forrestricted emergency use.
Continued on Page 11
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As the third Covid-19 waveis projected to impact chil-
dren in a bigger way, theGovernment has issued guide-lines for Covid-care manage-ment for kids. According to theguidelines, drugs such as iver-mectin, hydroxychloroquine,favipiravir and antibiotics likedoxycycline and azithromycin,which are prescribed for adultpatients, should not be recom-mended for treating the minor.
The Union HealthMinistry’s recommendationsinclude augmenting existingCovid-care facilities to providecare to children with acutecoronavirus infection.
“Similarly, issues of optimaltreatment for multisysteminflammatory syndrome inchildren ( MIS-C ) need to beaddressed by clinical trials,such as comparison of lowdose with high doses steroids,comparison of steroids withIVIG and others,” it added.
Various States like Delhi,
UP and Maharashtra on theirown have already started tak-ing measures — from rampingup paediatric beds to prioritis-ing vaccination for parents ofkids below 12 years.
Continued on Page11
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Lok Janshakti Party (LJP)leader Chirag Paswan on
Wednesday vowed to fightback to save the party found-ed by his father late Ram VilasPaswan, saying he was “sher kabeta” (lion’s son).
In his first media interac-tion after split in the LJP par-liamentary party and five of LJPMPs writing to Lok SabhaSpeaker to appoint his unclePashupati Kumar Paras as theleader of the party, Chiragblamed the Janata Dal (United)for crisis in the party.
While blaming the JD(U)for the split, he steered clear ofquestions regarding the role ofthe BJP in the development andadded that what has happenedis also an internal matter of hisparty for which he will not tar-get others.
Chirag may have avoidedany reference to the role of theBJP behind the split in the LJP,but it is well known that the saf-fron outfit had lent its weightbehind Paras. State BJP chiefSanjay Jaiswal had met Parasjust three days before the splitin the parliamentary party.
When asked if “Hanuman”who is in trouble now will seekhelp from “Ram”, a reference tohis projection of his relation-ship with Prime MinisterNarendra Modi during theBihar Assembly polls as thatbetween the two famous char-acters of epic Ramayan, hesaid, “If Hanuman has to seekhelp from Ram, then whatgood is Hanuman and whatgood is Ram.”
It is going to be a long bat-tle, Paswan said, as the group
headed by him fights the fac-tion of five other party MPs, ledby Paras, to claim ownership ofthe LJP.
The JD(U), he alleged, hadbeen working to cause a split inthe party even when his fatherwas alive. Targeting the party,he said it has always worked todivide Dalits and weaken itsleaders.
The LJP draws its supportfrom Paswans, the largest Dalitcaste in Bihar.
Continued on Page 11
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In a run up to the 2022Assembly polls in Punjab, the
BJP has stepped on the accel-erator with Union HomeMinister Amit Shah placinghimself on the driver’s seatbefore the poll process.
Worst-affected by thefarmers’ ongoing agitationagainst the Centre’s three agri-marketing laws and the resul-tant political circumstances inthe State, the saffron party onThursday inducted six “promi-
nent Sikh personalities”, besidesdirecting its State leadership toput up its act together by tak-ing the workers along.
Those who joined the partyin Delhi include former presi-dent of All India Sikh Students’Federation (AISSF) HarinderSingh Kahlon, advocateJagmohan Singh Saini who isalso the president of Farmers’Intellectual Front (Patiala),advocate Nirmal Singh fromMohali, Kuldeep Singh Kahlon(former AISSF) fromGurdaspur, former vice-chan-cellor of Guru Kashi UniversityJaswinder Singh Dhillon, andCol Jaibans Singh from Patiala.
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In a move unheard of in thecontemporary political his-
tory of India, Bengal GovernorJagdeep Dhankhar onWednesday called on NationalHuman Rights CommissionChairman Justice Arun Mishraapparently to apprise him ofwhat he called “retributive postpoll violence” in the State.
The ruling TrinamoolCongress, the prime target ofDhankhar’s attack, promptlyreacted saying “Governor…don’t come back to Bengal.”
The Governor is reportedto have drawn the attention ofthe NHRC chief towards theattacks mounted on theOpposition supporters andhuman rights violation in theState. Dhankhar, who was on athree-day trip to New Delhi,also met Union Ministers
Prahlad Singh Patel andPrahlad Joshi before tweeting,“… Had useful interaction withUnion Minister of Coal andMines and ParliamentaryAffairs...”
Earlier dwelling on thepost poll violence and thealleged Governmental apathy,Dhankhar said how the State
Government was turning ablind eye to the incidents of“retributive post poll violence”that had rendered thousands ofpeople homeless and propertiesworth crores looted anddestroyed.
“Four Cabinet meetingshave taken place in the past sixweeks … not a single word hasbeen spent on the post poll vio-lence … no Minister or officerhas visited the affected areasand no compensation has beendeclared,” the Governor said,adding, “I told the ChiefMinister to update me aboutthe situation but … there wasno response on her part… itseems that the police have for-gotten their work … the policeand the Home Departmentmust rise above partisan poli-tics … (or else) I shall not over-look the matter.”
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The CBI has filed achargesheet against the for-
mer international head of theGitanjali Group of Companies,Sunil Verma, and others inconnection with an allegedfraud in the PNB involving anamount of over �7,080 crore, inwhich the promoter of thegroup, Mehul Choksi, is want-ed by the agency, officials saidon Wednesday.
Two officials of the PunjabNational Bank (PNB) — SagarSawant and Sanjay Prasad —and a director of the Gili andthe Nakshtra brands under thegroup, Dhanesh Seth, have alsobeen named as accused in thesupplementary chargesheetfiled by the CBI, they said.
The supplementarychargesheet, filed more thanthree years after the firstchargesheet, coincides with thelegal proceedings against thefugitive diamantaire in a courtof Dominica, where he wasarrested for on May 24 after hismysterious disappearance fromAntigua and Barbuda.
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Life was never the samefor Abhishek Chaubey,
an IAS aspirant after thelockdown imposed inDelhi after Covid-19 pandem-ic hit him hard.
He had rented a singleroom at Shakarpur in EastDelhi and was dependent onlocal dhabas for food. After thelockdown was announced, thedhabas shut down and he hada tough time to survive.
“I felt so helpless being newin the city. I spent the first fewdays with milk and bread butthe situation turned grimmerafter I tested positive for coro-navirus with nobody to lookafter me. I was without food fordays. This was the most trau-matic period of life. I don’tknow how I survived,” Chaubeysaid in a choked voice.
The tragedy did not end
here as his mother also testedpositive in Paroraha village inBihar. “My landlord was kindenough to get me the medi-cines being circulated onWhatsApp. I did not see himafter that despite knowing thathe was the only person I was intouch with,” he said.
“The condition of mymother was also deterioratingin the absence of proper treat-ment and lack of awareness. Icould not afford to just sit andleave it to destiny. I caught thetrain and somehow managed toreach my village. Although, Iwas still struggling to breathe,I got my mother admitted tohospital. Her life was savedwith proper medication and
care. I also recovered fol-lowing doctors’ prescrip-tion,” he said.
There are many likehim residing around thenorth campus of the DelhiUniversity who were
forced to leave the city afterlockdown was announced.
Similarly, Divya Prakash,who was preparing for civil ser-vices and lived at Gandhi Vihar,had to leave the Capital. “I usedto teach students here to fundmy studies. But after the pan-demic returned and lockdownwas imposed, everything wasdestroyed.
Kundan Kumar, a studentof the Department of BuddhistStudies, was left with very lim-ited options to survive duringthe pandemic as all the dhabaswere closed. Kumarapproached one of his friendsand requested him to allowsharing the kitchen.
“Two of my friends also
tested Covid positive and afternoticing the situation here, Idecided to be back in my town.
I came back recently to Delhiand hope for a new beginning,”he said.
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Lucknow (PNS): In a tragicaccident, three children losttheir lives while others sustainedinjuries after a wall collapsed inAgra’s Kagarol on Tuesday. Thedeceased included two girlsand a boy, aged between 3 and8 years. After the incident,locals tried to rescue the peopletrapped under the debris.
On getting informationabout the incident, policereached the spot and rushed allthose trapped under the debristo a hospital where doctorsdeclared three children dead.
“Three children died whileothers were injured after a wallcollapsed in Kagarol. Two girlsand a boy were brought dead tothe hospital. The injured areunder treatment. A total of
nine people were trapped underthe debris,” Agra DistrictMagistrate Prabhu N Singhsaid.
In another incident, agroom died a few hours beforehis marriage. The incident tookplace in Barabanki onWednesday morning. Reportssaid that Tafazul, a resident ofNahamau hamlet of Masauli inBarabanki, was to get marriedon Wednesday afternoon.
Everyone in the family wasgetting ready for the wedding.The tragedy struck whenTafazul was trying to switch ona water pump. He inadvertent-ly touched a live wire and waselectrocuted. He was rushed tohospital where the doctors pro-nounced him dead upon arrival.
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With assembly electionsjust six months away,
the Bharatiya Janata Partyhas started setting the casteequation in its favour. Thebeginning was made onWednesday when the YogiAdityanath government gaveplum posts to BJP leaders inthe Schedule Caste andScheduled Tribe (SC/ST)Commission.
Governor AnandibenPatel approved the 18-mem-ber committee which includesa chairman, two vice-chair-men and 15 members.
Rambabu Harit of Agrahas been made chairman ofthe commission whileMithlesh Kumar of
Shahjahanpur and RamnareshPaswan of Sonebhadra havebeen made vice-chairpersons.
The members of theCommission are KamleshPasi (Varanasi), Teejaram(Azamgarh), SheshnathAchar ya (Bal l ia) , AnitaSiddhartha (Jaunpur), RamAsare (Farrukhabad), ShyamAheria (Mathura), ManojSonkar (Varanasi), ShravanGond (Sonebhadra), AmreshChandra (Sonebhadra),Kishanlal (Kanpur), KK Raj(Etawah), Ram Singh Valmiki(Lucknow), Ramesh Toofani(Lucknow), Om PrakashNayak (Aligarh) and SadhviGita Pradhan (Sambhal). Theappointments are for one yearor attainment of 65 years,whichever is earlier.
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With the rumblings in theBJP, expulsion of rebel
MLAs from BSP and the rebelsseeking comfort zone, the polit-ical parties have kick-started thebattle for the 2022 UP Assemblyelections. The political activitiesare likely to gather pace with asharp dip in the Covid curve.
The Samajwadi Party, facing
������������������������ !��"���!�� !��#$%�&�!'�(��Lucknow (PNS): Deputy Chief MinisterKeshav and PWD Minister Prasad Mauryainaugurated and laid the foundation for 395projects spread in Mathura and Agra districtsworth over Rs 48426.55 lakh on Wednesday.
An official communique released onWednesday said that Maurya inaugurated orlaid the foundation stone of 272 projectsamounting Rs 33317.36 lakh in Agra while123 projects were started in Mathura with atotal budget of Rs 15109.19 lakh.
Conveying his condolences to thoseofficials who succumbed during the secondwave of COVID-19 in Uttar Pradesh, Mauryaappealed to everyone to follow strict Covidnorms and to defeat the pandemic. He saidthat the department should meet the dead-line of all on-going projects complying withCovid protocol besides maintaining a highstandard of work. The PWD minister alsosaid that the government had already decid-ed for beautification and broadening of all5 kilometers and more length roads, partic-ularly those on which pilgrimage or touristspots were situated. He said that now the gov-ernment has also decided that rural roadswould also be not less than 5 meters wide.
Maurya further said that there were morethan 5,000 roads which connect hamlets hav-ing 250 or more population and work onthem would be started within a year. He saidthat the total budget for the above project wasRs 2500 crores and tender process hasalready started. He also informed that roadsnamed Dr Abdul Kalam Haurav Path will beconstructed in the villages of those students who figured amongst the toppers inBoard exams.
Meanwhile, Maurya also sanctioned Rs104 crore to complete the ongoing 23 pro-jects. Similarly Rs 170.63 crore was sanc-tioned to complete four ongoing projects ofbroadening and beautification of roads.
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In yet another gesturetowards the children who
were orphaned due to Covid,Chief Minister YogiAdityanath upwardly revisedthe aid being given to childrenwhose guardian’s income isbelow Rs 3 lakh per year.
“For the legal or naturalguardian, the annual incomeof Rs 2 lakh limit is very low,hence the monthly assistancewill be provided to everyorphaned child whoseguardian's income is below Rs3 lakh per year," announcedthe Chief Minister at a high-level COVID review meeting
in Lucknow on Wednesday.Under the ‘Uttar Pradesh
Mukhyamantri Bal SevaYojana’, the state governmentwill provide financial assis-tance to a child’s guardianwhile those who did not haveanyone to look after will besent to children’s homes.
Taking care of theupbringing and education ofchildren orphaned by Covid,a monthly financial assistanceof Rs 4,000 will be given to achild's guardian or caretaker,till he or she attains adulthood.
Further, the state govern-ment will also provide tabletsor laptops to all such childrenstudying in schools, colleges,
or pursuing vocational education.
Children below 10 yearswho did not have any familymembers alive will be takencare of by the state governmentChildren's Homes, functionalin Mathura, Lucknow,Prayagraj, Agra and Rampur.
Minor girl children will behoused in Kasturba GandhiGirls (residential) Schools runby the Government of India orChildren’s Homes for Girlsrun by the state government.
In addition, the YogiGovernment will also providefinancial assistance of Rs1,01,000 for the marriage ofgirls under the scheme.
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The UP government is expected tomake more stringent laws against
gambling in public places. The StateLaw Commission has not only madethe Public Gambling Act enactedduring the British era stricter but alsoput online gambling and variousforms of betting in the category ofnon-bailable offences.
After studying the laws of sever-al states, the draft of Uttar PradeshPublic Gambling (Prevention) Bill hasbeen prepared under the chairman-ship of a commission led by JusticeA N Mittal. A draft scripted by theCommission was submitted to ChiefMinister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday.It is believed that the state govern-ment would soon implement itsown law across the state with regards
to gambling. The State LawCommission in its draft has recom-mended to increase the amount offine along with the provision ofmaximum punishment of three years.The special component is that thedraft of this new law has been madekeeping in mind the fast growinghabit of online gambling in the lastdecade. Important recommenda-tions have also been made to breakthe nexus of gambling houses andbookies in the state.
The Central government is alsopreparing to repeal the PublicGambling Act and the states havebeen instructed to make their ownlaws for this. For this Meghalaya,Maharashtra, Goa, Nagaland, Odisha,Telangana, Delhi and some otherstates have already enacted theirown laws. The UP Law Commission
has studied many important decisionsof the Supreme Court and HighCourt along with the laws of otherstates. Along with this, keeping inmind the circumstances of the state,the draft of UP Public Gambling(Prevention) Bill has been drafted.
At present, there is a provision ofimprisonment of three months anda fine of Rs 50 for gambling in a pub-lic place. The Commission has rec-ommended increasing the punish-ment to one year and a fine of Rs5,000. Also, making online gambling,house gambling operation and bet-ting a non-bailable offense, it has rec-ommended punishment of up tothree years. The salient feature is thatnow the police will not have to resortto IPC sections to tighten the legalnoose on those betting crores ofrupees in cricket matches or other
sports. The commission has also pro-posed that if betting was being con-ducted in a gambling house or anypremises, then it would be pre-sumed that the amount recovered isrelated to gambling and all the peo-ple present there were gamblers.
Chairman of the commission,Justice AN Mittal said that a distinc-tion has also been made betweengame of skill and chance. Cardgames played under a game of skilllike rummy, bridge etc will not bepunishable. However games like katpatta and teen patti, in which the bet-ter is solely dependent on a singlechance, would amount to a punish-able offence. He said that if a familyplays cards in their house for ritualsand entertainment and no outsideris present there, it will not be punishable.
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existential crisis after three con-secutive defeats in UP (2014 LokSabha polls, 2017 UP Assemblypolls and 2019 Lok Sabha elec-tions) is desperately trying toreinvent itself. The SP, havingburnt its fingers after forgingalliance with the Congress forthe 2017 UP Assembly electionsand later with the BSP andRashtriya Lok Dal for the 2019Lok Sabha elections, seems tohave grown wiser. It has ruledout alliances with bigger partiesand decided to have a truck onlywith small parties. The SP hasalready firmed up alliance withthe Rashtriya Lok Dal, (RLD) apredominantly Jat political out-fit.
Newly elected RLD chiefJayant Chaudhary has made itclear that his party will contestthe assembly elections inalliance with the SP to send amessage to its support base, theJat community in western UP.RLD has also announced itssupport to SP candidates in thezila panchayat chairpersons’
elections.The SP has also firmed up
the alliance with the Mahan Dalthat is said to be popular amongMaurya, Kushwaha and Sainicaste voters in western UP dis-tricts. The Mahan Dal has also
announced its support for theSP in the assembly elections. SPsources said the party leadershipis worried by not getting thevotes of non-Yadav OBCs andnon-Jatav SCs in the last threeelections which it lost.
“SP has repeatedly commit-ted the mistake to overwhelm-ingly rely on the Yadav-Muslimvote bank, leaving the rest of theHindu votes for the BJP,” asenior SP leader said, adding:“To bridge this gap, the SP is
forging alliance with small caste-based political parties to preventthe ‘Ati Picchda’ votes going tothe BJP.”
A SP leader said: “With 11per cent Yadav votes and 19 percent Muslim votes, we wereactually treating the Muslims asa majority community.”
Another SP leader said:“The BJP, since 2014, hasworked relentlessly to get rid ofthe ‘Brahmin-Bania’ party tagand succeeded in forging arainbow alliance of poor anddisadvantaged castes amongthe OBCs and SCs.”
He said that during the2017 UP Assembly elections, theBJP had given as many as 119tickets to ‘Ati Pichda’ castes likeRajbhar, Kushwaha and Mauryaand 69 tickets to non-JatavDalit communities, and theyreaped rich political dividends.“The SP, by forging alliance withsmall caste-based parties, willprevent the BJP from reapingthis dividend in 2022,” the SPleader said.
������������,����������������������'�����Lucknow (PNS): The rebelBSP MLAs who met SamajwadiParty chief Akhilesh Yadav onTuesday are in a dilemma overjoining the new party. Rightnow, the prime objective of therebel MLAs is to avoid disqual-ification from the membershipof Vidhan Sabha on thegrounds of defection. Some ofthe rebels are trying to form anew party and later merge itwith the SP while some are intouch with the BJP and alsotheir parent party.
The sharp attack on the SPby BSP chief Mayawati onWednesday added to the dis-
comfiture of the rebel MLAs.“The SP is propagating in themedia that some BSP MLAs areswitching over to the SP, whichis a hoax. These MLAs weresuspended from the BSP longago for defeating the son of aDalit in the Rajya Sabha elec-tions to connivance with the SPand an industrialist,” Mayawatisaid on Wednesday.
She also questioned thepolitical integrity of theSamajwadi Party, saying: “Hadthe SP been even a little hon-est towards these suspendedMLAs, it would not have keptthem in limbo till now.”
SP sources said AkhileshYadav has given a broad hintthat his party is willing toaccommodate five rebel BSPMLAs and give them partytickets for the 2022 assemblyelections, provided they formal-ly join the party. The rebels,despite the assurance, areunwilling to join the SamajwadiParty. While one faction is try-ing to mobilise the 11 MLAs toform a new party, some are stillin touch with BSP for a patch-up, provided they are accom-modated in the party withhonour and are given tickets forthe next assembly elections.
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Attacking the SamajwadiParty further, Singh said that theparty which did not have anylove for Lord Rama and LordKrishna, who denied the exis-tence of Ram and Ram Setu andfired bullets at Ram Sevakswere now talking about Ram
Mandir. “Every Ram bhaktknows the truth about the trans-parent way the lands were pur-chased in Ayodhya,” he said. TheBJP leader visited the Etawahvillage to pay homage to the BJPworker who died from coronaon Wednesday and said that hewas visiting the houses of all BJPworkers and their families wholost their near and dear ones inthe state during the coronaperiod. Etawah also witnessedthe death of BJP MLA SavitriKatheria's husband and region-al vice-president ManvendraSingh’s uncle.
Appealing to people, Singhsaid that more and more peo-ple should get themselves vac-cinated to prevent coronainfection in future.
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Chief Minister YogiAdityanath has said that in
view of students and sportsmenfrom Uttar Pradesh goingabroad, special vaccinationbooths should be set up in allthe district hospitals.
“Special booths should beset up in all the district hospi-tals for the vaccination of peo-ple going abroad for studies,jobs or sports competitionsfrom the state,” the chief min-ister said during a Covid reviewmeeting held here onWednesday.
Yogi said that action shouldbe taken in a planned and effec-tive manner for vaccination ofthe maximum number of peo-ple across the state. Specialattention should be given tovaccination in rural areas, hesaid. “Awareness campaignsshould be conducted to moti-vate rural people for vaccina-tion. Awareness about vaccina-tion should be spread in allgram panchayats throughposters and pamphlets. Photosof people who have taken vac-cine jabs should also be put inthe posters to inspire the vil-lagers,” he said.
The chief minister wasapprised that a comprehensiveaction plan has been preparedregarding vaccination in ruralareas of the state. A large num-ber of vaccinators have beentrained for the inoculation sys-tematically and smoothly.
In a recent achievement,Uttar Pradesh crossed the mile-
stone of administering 2.30crore cumulative COVID-19vaccine doses. UP has outnum-bered many states in terms ofvaccination. So far, the state hasadministered as many as2,39,49,661 cumulative doses,the CM said.
Meanwhile, the positivityrate came down to 0.1 per centin Uttar Pradesh as 310 freshCOVID-19 cases came up inthe last 24 hours. The activecases also went below the 300-mark in all the districts barring
Lucknow. UP has also beenregistering a steep decline inthe active cases as the figure hasdropped from a high of3,10,783 in April to 6,496 now,which is a remarkable reduc-tion by 98 per cent. InLucknow, 29 people tested pos-itive for coronavirus infectionon Wednesday while 41patients recovered. There were10 deaths in the state capitalwhile the active cases camedown to 393.
As many as 2,86,396 sam-
ples were tested in the last 24hours, pushing the total num-ber of tests to 5,41,45,947 so far.
In a significant develop-ment, 14 more oxygen produc-ing plants have become func-tional in the last 24 hours, mak-ing the state self-reliant in oxy-gen generation. “As many as100 of the 436 sanctioned oxy-gen plants have already beenestablished and are functionalwhile the work for the rest isgoing on in the state,” a govern-ment spokesman said.
�&������������������Lucknow (PNS): Unidentifiedmiscreants shot at a jewellerwhen he, his wife and anemployee were at the shop inSarojininagar on Wednesdayafternoon. Narendra KumarYadav (40) of Bijnaur inSarojininagar suffered firearminjuries in the head. He wasadmitted to Medanta Hospitalwhere his condition was said tobe critical. As per reports,Narendra, who is also a proper-ty dealer, opened the shop eightmonths ago on the groundfloor of his three-storey house.
Around 4:30 pm, he, alongwith his wife Vinod Kumari,was in the shop while hisemployee Akash was busy withsome work when two miscre-ants entered the shop. Theemployee asked them to put offtheir shoes but they opened fireon Narendra's wife. Luckily,the bullet missed the targetand hit a glass case behind her.
Akash was pushed by themiscreants who opened anoth-er round of fire and the bullethit Narendra in the head.
Police said the attackersdid not commit loot and it indi-cated that they attacked the jew-eller over some old rivalry ordispute. The police said theywere collecting CCTV footagesin the area to spot the miscre-ants. Sources said the police hadgot some important clues aboutthe attackers based on the infor-mation provided by Akash.They said the number of mis-creants was four and they hadcome on two bikes. “The policerecovered a CCTV footage fromthe shop. The attackers are saidto be in the age group of 25-30years. Police have identifiedsome of them and are conduct-ing raids,” the sources said.
Lucknow (PNS): A chaat ven-dor had to spend around fivehours at a police check post inMohanlalganj on Monday andhad to pay the damages afterhis bike brushed past the car ofa sub-inspector. As the newswent viral on social media,police officials took note of theincident and set up a probe.
Reports said GovindJaiswal of Asoha in Unnaoputs up a stall in Gangaganj inGosainganj to eke out his liveli-hood. On Monday morning, hewas going to his workplace andhis bike kidded on the way atJail Road tri-section inMohanlalganj and brushedagainst the car of Khujaulipolice outpost incharge.
The incharge blew his topand took out the bike’s key sothat Govind could not driveaway. The incharge allegedlyforced Govind to pay the dam-
age and handed him over tocops at a police check postthere after he expressed inabil-ity to pay.
Govind said he was notallowed to leave the policecheck post even as he repeat-edly requested the cops to lethim off. He said he had to bor-row Rs 3,000 from his relativesas the policemen wereunmoved.
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down a 27-year-old labourer inMohanlalganj on Tuesdaynight. As per reports, RamBalak of Ayodhya, along withhis brother Shiv Balak, wasworking at a construction sitein Jaiti Kheda of Mohanlalganj.Around 10:15 am, he was hit bythe speeding truck. Police reg-istered a case in this connectionand started further probe.
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It was a landmark achieve-ment in the field of obstetric
critical care at KGMU.Spokesperson Dr Sudhir Singhinformed that a patient namedNidhi was admitted to KGMUon March 19 with 34-weekpregnancy, respiratory failure,shock and acute kidney injurywith severe metabolic acidosis.
“She was immediately puton the ventilator support. Shewas unfit for routine dialysisdue to low blood pressure, so
CRRT (continuous renalreplacement therapy) was start-ed. She delivered the dead foe-tus while still on CRRT.Gradually her conditionimproved and she was shiftedto routine dialysis. Her renalfunction and respiratory para-meters improved, and she wastaken off the ventilator as wellas dialysis support. She was dis-charged after one month ofICU stay,” he said.
He said that to the best oftheir knowledge, it was for thefirst time in UP that any patient
underwent normal deliverywhile still on dialysis as thisfacility and expertise are avail-able only in limited hospitals.
“Though she surviveddespite multiple organ failure,it is advisable for doctors andparamedics working in theperiphery to send sick patientsto higher centres early duringthe course of the disease. Oncemultiple organ failure sets in,the chances of survival arereduced. The team of doctorswas headed by Prof UmaSingh,” he added.
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The Forest department willbe carrying out massive
plantation on the banks ofGanga river and its tribu-taries under the directions ofChief Minister YogiAdityanath.
A senior official from theForest department said it isbeing done for the conserva-tion of rivers, providing shadytrees on the banks of therivers and for diversification
of the crops. He said thatunder the ‘Vriksharopan JanAndolan 2021’, 57 lakhsaplings will be planted on thebanks of the Ganga river inMuzaffarnagar, Meerut,Hapur, Bulandshahr, Amroha,Bijnore, Kasganj,Farrukhabad, Kannauj,Kanpur, Unnao, Fatehpur,Varanasi, Mirzapur, Ghazipur,Ballia and Sant Ravidas Nagar.As many as 1,70,66,720saplings will be planted andover 26 other departments
will also support the campaignon the banks of others rivers.
The forest official saidthat on the land adjacent tothe rivers, saplings of Arjun,neem, bargad, peepul, pakad,sahjan and other fruit treeswill be planted. “The farmerswill be asked to plant speciesof their choice in themicroplan which was pre-pared by the Forest depart-ment. The farmers will be pro-vided these saplings too,” hesaid.
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With the second waveebbing, the patients after
recovering from COVID-19are reaching hospitals withcomplaints of mental healthand respiratory problems.
According to BalrampurHospital director Dr SantoshKumar Pandey, they are nowgetting patients complaining ofheart rate being high, respira-tory problems and mentalhealth issues. Most of thesepatients are aged above 50years. “There are 7-8 patientsadmitted in the post-Covidward at the moment and we get3-4 such patients in the OPDon a daily basis. The patientswho are admitted in the hospi-tal because their oxygen satu-ration level is going down,” hepointed out.
Those coming to the OPDare facing mental health prob-lems and they are being coun-selled. “These are primarily
cases of depression. Thesepatients complain that theyhave lost interest in their dailyactivities as basic as eating andreading newspapers. They feelthey are a burden on their fam-ilies. They include both who areworking and those who are not,and they have to be counselledas it makes a lot of difference.Depression is also because ofthe overall illness and listeningto the news of deaths allaround,” he pointed out.
Dr Pandey said that of thetotal number of patients in thepost-Covid category, 60 percent are suffering from mentalhealth problems. Regardingthe post-Covid cases at KGMU,nodal officer Dr Surya KantTripathi said they have com-plaints of fatigue and lack ofconcentration. “There are alsoothers who complain of brainfogging,” he said.
Dr Shrikesh Singh fromRam Manohar Lohia Instituteof Medical Sciences said they
are getting post-Covid caseswith cardiac problems andblack fungus. “The patientswho brains have been penetrat-ed by black fungus have a feel-ing of altered senses,” he point-ed out.
He said the patients com-ing to the OPD are sufferingfrom weakness and musclepain and they are not beingable to resume their regularactivities like earlier.
“This is leading to somesort of depression and an emo-tion of not feeling good, notbeing able to cope with the rou-tine, anxiety and restlessness,”he said.
“Since a huge populationwas affected in the secondwave, the post-Covid cases arein all age groups,” he said. Hesaid counselling works andcomplaints are more from peo-ple who are working becausethey feel they are not reachingtheir optimum level of performance.
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The next three months arecrucial with respect to
coronavirus spread and if peo-ple do not follow the Covid-appropriate behaviour, thethird wave could be advancedby a month or two, accordingto nodal Covid officer atKGMU, Dr Surya KantTripathi.
The next three months areimportant also because thevaccination has still not pickedup pace. “The pace of the vac-cination has not reached thedesired levels. We have thecapacity of vaccinating onecrore people per day but rightnow due to the scarcity of vac-cines, we are not vaccinatingmore than 30 lakh people perday. We have to increase thepace of inoculation which islikely to happen after June 21,”he said.
He said another importantthing is the public behaviour asfar as following Covid protocolsis concerned. “If people behavelike they did in January andFebruary earlier this year, wemay see a moderate third wave.If the vaccination is expeditedand people follow Covid-appropriate Covid behaviour,the third wave would be mild,”he said. Dr Tripathi pointed outthat Covid-appropriate behav-iour is being followed inLucknow for now as people canbe seen wearing masks.
“Reports have come fromHaryana and Delhi where peo-ple are being careless. In sucha scenario, the third wave could
well be advanced by a fewmonths. In December, peopletook precautions followedCovid protocols. Even the NewYear celebrations were sub-dued. However, by the end ofFebruary earlier this year, peo-ple were indisciplined andcasual. It was why the virus wasrampant in the second wave,”he noted.
He said that currently thecases are low, but it is still essen-tial to break the chain of trans-mission. “As for black funguscases, it depends on the sever-ity of COVID-19 and the hos-pital stay apart from co-mor-bidities. There have been nocases of black fungus in homeisolation patients,” he added.
About the high number ofblack fungus cases in KGMU,he said mucormycosis cannotbe treated in a short time span.“It is a long process and the
cases are cumulative. Thereare no or too few new casescoming now,” he said. He addedthat the deaths across the coun-try and in the state have alsobeen low.
The senior doctor said thatin the second wave, the blackfungus cases came up in largenumbers because the virus wasmore virulent and more pro-longed hospitalisation wasrequired. He said they do notexpect children to get blackfungus in the third wave.
“I am also against theassumption that children willbe largely affected by coron-avirus in the third wave.Children have emerged assuper immune to Covid in thefirst and second waves. Theimpact will only be seen in chil-dren the age group of 5-12years because there is no vac-cination cover for them.
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The increased costs of con-sumables such as oil,
lentils, eggs and vegetables isadding to the woes of con-sumers in these trying times ofpandemic. Traders say thatwith production being low atthe time of lockdown, thecosts of these commoditiesincreased, but as the produc-tion gathers pace in the com-ing days, the prices maydecrease in a week or so.
President of AkhilBharatiya Vyapar MandalSandeep Bansal said there hasbeen an increase in almost allthe commodities because thefactories were closed due tolockdown. “Currently, mus-tard oil is selling at Rs 200 perlitre. The cost of oil increasedbecause the processing workwas halted. Many local traders
involved in the work of oilextraction say that the rawmaterial was very high, sothey stopped the work. Leavingaside arhar daal, all the otherlentils are selling at 15-20 per-cent of their regular costs. Theproduction of lentils was alsolow and the sellers sold themat at the price which suitedthem,” Bansal explained.
Eggs are costlier because ofthe large-scale publicity abouta high-protein diet for Covidpatients, he pointed out.
“The prices of eggs, fruitsand vegetables have increasedand coming back to previousrates may take more than twoweeks. We expect the prices toease by July. The vegetables arecostlier also because of therains,” Bansal said.
He added that the rates ofother commodities like flourdid not increase because they
were in adequate stock.“Mustard oil is selling at Rs
160 per litre at wholesale ratesby branded companies and Rs155 by other companies. Twoto three months back, mustardoil was selling at Rs 120 perlitre but it went up to Rs 170per litre. Refined oil is sellingat Rs 155 per litre at present.Most of the companies say it isbecause of the low production,
but we believe that the compa-nies are getting high profitsand the consumers are forcedto buy oil at high rates becausethey have no option. A rise ofRs 40 per litre is inexplicable,”he said.
President of UP PoultryFarmers’ Association NawabAli Akbar said it was a recordhigh rate of Rs 180-200 percrate of eggs in the retail mar-
ket. “Normally, rates fall downto Rs 125 per crate in summersbut this time owing to the pan-demic, the prices have soaredbecause of the huge demandand low production. Peoplewere having eggs for a highprotein diet because they couldnot procure mutton and chick-en because of the lockdown,” hesaid. He added that chickenrates also went high and it wasselling at Rs 250 per kg. “Again,the production was low and thedemand was high. The poultryfarmers were very hesitant inchick production for meatbecause of the problems whichthey faced recently, but thedemand was high,” he added.
Regarding vegetables, thesellers said that in the last oneweek, the rates of green vegeta-bles which were selling at Rs 30per kg saw an increase of Rs 10per kg.
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In a Facebook post inHindi on Wednesday, Priyankasaid, “According to newsreports there have been irreg-
ularities in buying land. OnMarch 18, two people boughtland in Ayodhya for Rs 2 crore.And within five minutes theland was bought by the ShreeRam Mandir Trust which wasformed by the Prime Ministerfor Rs 18.5 crore.”
“Can anyone imagine andbelieve this ? Not to be forgot-ten, the entire money belongsto the people of the countrywho donated for the construc-tion of Ram temple. In the saledeed of the land and registrypapers, most of the names inthe column of witnesses werecommon,” she said.
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As many as 110 childrenhave been identified whose
either father or mother or bothhave died of COVID-19 andout of them three girls have losttheir both parents.
The district level task forceon Wednesday gave its nod toapplications of 61 COVID-19orphaned children for the ben-efits under the Uttar PradeshMukhyamantri Bal SevaYojana.
The district level task forceheld a meeting presided over byDistrict Magistrate KaushalRaj Sharma to benefit the chil-dren who have lost either theirfather or mother or both par-ents to COVID-19 under theUttar Pradesh MukhyamantriBal Seva Yojana.
In the meeting, the appli-cations of 61 such children, ver-ified and forwarded with rec-ommendations by the respec-tive sub-district magistrates(SDMs) and block develop-ment officers (BDOs), wereconsidered for approval. Themeeting gave its nod to all theapplications.
As many as 162 applica-tions were received by theadministration by June 16,seeking benefits of UttarPradesh Mukhyamantri BalSeva Yojana. District probationofficer Praveen Tripathi said110 children had lost theirparents to COVID-19, out ofthem 97 children had lost theirfather, 10 children had lost theirmother while three girls hadlost their both parents.
He said no evidence wasfound in the case of the remain-ing 52 children that their par-
ents had died of COVID-19and the district magistrate haddirected the officer concernedto benefit them with the schol-arship scheme.
It may be mentioned herethat Chief Minister YogiAdityanath had on June 4 lastlaunched a welfare scheme forchildren who have lost eitherone or both parents to COVID-19. Under this scheme, thestate government will providefinancial assistance to anorphaned child’s guardian whilethose who do not have anyoneto look after them will be sentto children’s homes. The gov-
ernment will take care of theupbringing and education ofthese children orphaned in thepandemic. The governmentwill provide Rs 4,000 to a child’sguardian or caretaker till he orshe attains adulthood and thechildren below 10 years who donot have any family memberswill be taken care of by the stategovernment children’s homesunder the scheme. Child pro-tection officer Nirupama Singh,chairman of child welfare com-mittee Manoj Mishra and cen-tre manager of one stop centreRashmi Dubey were also pre-sent in the meeting.
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The police claimed to havearrested the mastermind of
the murder of branch manag-er of Punjab National Bank(PNB). The police also claimedto have arrested four otherscriminals involved in the sen-sational killing, including theshooters who had shot thebranch manager dead at thebehest of the mastermind of thecrime.
A Scorpio, one country-made pistol of 315 bore andone mobile phone handsetused in the crime were alsorecovered from the posses-sions of criminals besides twolive cartridges and Rs 1,00,250in cash.
Six criminals involved inthe murder have already beenarrested by the police.
It may be mentioned herethat PNB Karkhiyaon-Pindrabranch’s manager PhulchandRam was shot dead byassailants on a Scorpio late onJune 9. During investigation, ithad come to light that thebranch manager was lured byan offer to double the moneyand thus he had withdrawn Rs41 lakh from another branch ofthe bank in Jaunpur and Rs 6
lakh from his branch on thefateful day to earn quickmoney. He had kept the cash intwo bags and the criminals hadsucceeded in taking away a bagcontaining Rs 20 lakh afterkilling the manager but theycould not take the bag contain-ing Rs 27 lakh in a hurry as hehad kept it with him. Thebranch manager was sitting onthe seat beside the driver whilethe shooter was sitting at the
center of the back seat. It transpired that Alok Rai
of Mau had hatched the con-spiracy to loot Rs 50 lakh fromthe branch manager and hetook the help of shooters to killhim after looting the cash. Asper the conspiracy, when thebranch manager had with-drawn the cash, the assailantsmet him through a criminal,Vikash Gond, and took him toSandaha crossing. The branch
manager was sitting beside thedriver of the Scorpio andshooter Rahul Tiwari, who wasin the back seat, shot himfrom point blank range in therunning vehicle. Thereafter, allthe criminals fled the scenebarring driver Sanjay and Sunilwith whom the branch manag-er had come out from his bankafter withdrawing the cash.
Crime Branch inspectorAshwani Kumar got a tip off
about the presence of the mas-termind and his aides involvedin the murder of the branchmanager and acting on theinformation, his team alongwith cops of Phulpur andChaubeypur police stationssucceeded in arresting Alok Raiand four other criminals,Superintendent of Police(Rural) Amit Verma said whileproducing the arrested crimi-nals before the media personson Wednesday.
Besides Alok Rai, the otherarrested criminals includeVikash Gond of Ghazipur,Rahul Tiwari of Ghazipur whohad opened fire at the branchmanager, Nitesh Singh ofGhazipur and Arun Mishra ofMau. The six criminals --Adesh Srivastava, Mukesh Pal,Atul Kumar Singh, AtulVishwakarma, Sanjay KumarPatel (driving the Scorpio ofbranch manager at the timewhen the crime took place) andSunil Kumar Patel -- hadalready been arrested by thepolice.
With this, 11 criminalshave so far been arrested inconnection with the murder ofthe PNB branch manager whiletwo criminals, Dhirendra Singhand Satpal, are still on the lam.
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Varanasi (PNS): With thesecond wave of novel coron-avirus outbreak receding,Varanasi recorded new posi-tive cases in single digit aftera long time.
Eight people tested posi-tive for novel coronavirusinfection during the past 24hours, taking the tally of con-firmed cases to 82,132, as perthe figures released by theHealth department onWednesday evening.
With one COVID-19patient dying during the last24 hours, the death toll stoodat 771. As many as 37COVID-19 patients recoveredduring the past 24 hours -- 34in home isolation and three inhospitals. With this, 81,145COVID-19 patients have beencured in the district – 74,886in home isolation and 6,259 inCovid hospitals.
The vaccination drive
continued on Wednesday at135 vaccination centres,including 87 for people above45 years, 48 for peoplebetween 18 and 44 years, eightfor working employees agedbetween 18 and 44 years,three for parents having chil-dren up to the age of 12 yearsand two for working women.
Besides, the drivers ofcommercial vehicles were vac-cinated at a booth set up atRTO office in Babatpur andstreet vendors at the commu-nity health centre (CHC) atChowkaghat.
Meanwhile, DistrictMagistrate Kaushal RajSharma said a special vaccina-tion booth was being openedat ESIC Hospital in Pandeypurfor vaccination of physicallychallenged people and thevaccination would start therefrom Thursday from 10.00 amto 4.00 pm.
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Varanasi (PNS): Varanasi DistrictMagistrate Kaushal Raj Sharma hasdirected the district panchayat officersto complete all 55 pending projects byJune 19. He was reviewing the progressmade in various district panchayatworks at a meeting here on Tuesday.
He also directed the officers toensure payment of all completed workswithin two days.
In the meeting, the district magis-trate was informed that out of 90works sanctioned during 2016-17, as
many as 28 had been completed. On thestatus of payment of these works, whenthe district magistrate was informed thatthe payments were still pending, hedirected the additional chief officer ofthe district panchayat to release pay-ments of these works by June 17,adding that payment of any completedwork should not remain pending.
Giving details of the 203 works ofthe year 2018-19, when the district pan-chayat officials informed the districtmagistrate that the payments of 35
works had already been made whilethose of 27 works were in progress, hedirected them to ensure early comple-tion of all the pending works by visit-ing the sites in three days.
Warning officials, he said that if thecontractors concerned failed to com-plete the work by Saturday next, theunfinished works done by them bedeclared as ‘shramdan’ and the contrac-tors be blacklisted apart from startingprocedures for issuing recovery certifi-cates against them from the tehsils con-
cerned.When he asked how many firms
were blacklisted for not completing thework, he was given the details of threefirms. In reply the district magistratesought the character certificates ofthese firms so that they were not ableto work anywhere in the state in future.
Apart from this, the district mag-istrate was also informed that the secu-rity deposits of five firms had been for-feited and they were stopped from con-tinuing their works further.
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The arrest of six illegal armssuppliers has come as a shot
in the arm of UP Police inexposing the networking ofracketeers who used to inviteillegal weapon manufacturersfrom Bihar to expand their ille-gal trade.
A joint team of UP ATSand Lalganj (Pratapgarh) policehad arrested six persons froma house at Asrahi village andseized two country-made pis-tols of 0.32 bore, two country-made pistols of 0.315 bore, twocountry-made pistols of 0.12bore, 23 semi-assembled pistolsof 0.32 bore, 46 semi-finishedpistol magazines, 300 live car-tridges of 0.32 bore, 17 framesof country-made pistols, 30barrels and other apparatuson the spot.
The police arrested six per-sons operating an interstate ille-gal weapon sale and manufac-turing racket and identifiedthem as Shyal Alam aliasChhotu, Mohd Sarfaraz Alam,Mohd Azad, all residents ofMunger, Tirupati Nath Vermaalias Guddu Gandhi ofGorakhpur, Swalheen Ansarialias Babloo of Lalganj(Pratapgarh) and his sonAqleen Ansari of Lalganj.
Police said that arrestedSwalheen Ansari alias Babloowas operating the entire rack-et of sale and manufacturing ofillegal weapons from his housefor the past four to five yearsand he had been calling kattamanufacturers from Bihar ondemand for shaping fine-
shaped kattas and pistols.Police also revealed that
Babloo had a vast network ofagents working on a commis-sion basis and they supplied theillicit firearms to criminal gangsin districts across UP.
Tirupati Nath Verma dis-closed to the police that he hadbeen in the illegal trade ofweapons for the past four yearsand used to come fromGorakhpur to purchase kattasand pistols from Babloo. Afterpurchasing kattas fromPratapgarh, he used to sellthem at higher prices inGorakhpur. He also confessedthat he had given Rs 75,000advance to Babloo about threemonths back and had demand-ed kattas and 100 live cartridgesfrom him.
Manufacturers fromMunger in Bihar, who werearrested by the joint team ofATS and Pratapgarh police,told the police that they wereinvited by Babloo for shapingkattas and pistols and allexpenses of boarding, travellingand other expenses were paidby him.
The agents who purchasedillegal weapons from Bablooused to sell them at higherprices in other states and dis-tricts.
As the Munger-made ille-gal weapons are high indemand among criminals,Babloo found an easy way toinvite katta manufactures fromBihar by offering them higherprices and selling the country-made pistols to gangs throughthe agents.
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Divisional Railway Manager(DRM) of Varanasi Division,
North-Eastern Railway (NER),Vijay Kumar Panjiar, inspected theprogress of various works beingdone under the doubling project ofAunrihar-Jaunpur (49 km) onVaranasi-Aunrihar-Jaunpur rail-way section in order to make thetrain operation ease.
The DRM first reachedAunrihar station after checkingrear window trailing through hisspecial vehicle and inspected theparameters of railway track inlays,ballast spreads, line fittings,crossover lines, overhead tractions,colour light signals,information/warning boards, sta-tion and block sections.
He also stayed at Dobhi andmade a thorough inspection of thestation, seeing the yard plan andinspected the map of infrastructuredevelopment works for the dou-
bling project. He gave directions to the offi-
cers concerned regarding the worksto be done under the doubling pro-
ject at Dobhi railway station like sig-naling, new platform, location box,foot over bridge and station bound-ary etc.
Earlier, Panjiar inspected theunderpass (low height subway)near Dobhi station of Aunrihar-Jaunpur railway section andreviewed the drainage system.
After this, the DRM reachedJaunpur via Kerakat, Gangauli,Muftiganj and Yadvendra Nagar,seeing railway tracks, overheadcables, high tension crossing andtraction lines on this railway sec-tion.
Talking to the officers con-cerned, he stressed on completingthe doubling-cum-electrificationworks going on from Aunrihar toJaunpur with full quality within thetime limit so that the second line ofthis section could be started soon.
Deputy Chief Engineer(Construction) Gaurav Gupta,Senior Divisional Engineer(Coordination) Rakesh Ranjan,Senior Divisional Engineer-III AtulTripathi and senior supervisors ofvarious departments were also pre-sent during the inspection.
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General Manager of North CentralRailway and North Eastern Railway
Vinay Kumar Tripathi reviewed the safe-ty issues of North Central Railway.
Additional General Manager, NorthCentral Railway, Ranjan Yadav, principalhead of departments, North CentralRailway and divisional railway managersof Prayagraj, Jhansi and Agra divisionsalong with other officers of headquartersand divisions attended this meetingthrough video conferencing.
The general manager said that anylapse in respect of safety in operations wasnot acceptable in any way. He said all estab-lished rules should be followed by takingall possible precautions. Referring to theincidents of boom breaking by vehicles atlevel crossings, the general manager direct-ed officials to ensure availability andproper visibility of indication boards at allcrossings. He also directed that the FIRshould be lodged in the boom breakingcases and necessary action should beensured.
Apart from this, he also stressed on
controlling incidents of damage to the sig-nal posts due to the open gates of goodstrains. He said that the gates should besecured at the loading or unloading pointsto avoid such incidents.
The general manager also said thatsuch open gates should be closely moni-tored whenever trains were passing.
Information regarding patrolling andpreparations related to monsoon was alsoobtained from the divisions.
While talking about the infrastructuredevelopment, the general manager askedofficials to take necessary steps to completethe work of Bhaupur-Panki fourth line byOctober-2021 as per the target. Issues likerevenue earning, loading, Covid pre-paredness and human resource manage-ment were also discussed in the meeting.
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Upgradation and replacement ofequipment in use over Indian Railways isa continuous process and is undertakenbased on its condition, operational needsand availability of resources and in orderto further improve safety in train opera-
tion and generate additional line capaci-ty, modernisation of the signaling systemhas been taken up.
North Central Railway has been on theforefront of modernisation of railway sig-naling initiatives. The NCR has alreadyprovided modern electronic interlocking(EI) at 180 stations and will soon provideEI at all stations of both Palwal-Bina andGZB-DDU sections and other routes of thezone. The NCR is amongst the three zonesin Indian Railways to have automatic trainprotection (ATP) system (in Agra-Delhisection) and is working on projects to pro-vide ATP in all important routes of NCRby 2024 thus enhancing train safety signif-icantly.
The NCR zone has 847 route kilome-tre of automatic signaling, highest in allzones in non suburban sections and hasprojects in pipeline to provide automaticsignaling in the balance portion of HDNroutes thus enhancing line capacity onbusy HDN routes.
Availability of new 5MHz spectrum in700MHz band will help NCR in fast roll-out of around 2700 route km of 4G LTEwireless system for safety of rail operations.
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Police are still groping in the dark in theirbid to solve the mystery surrounding the
death of journalist Sulabh Srivastava inPratapgarh. The relatives of the scribe havefiled an FIR in which they have alleged thatSulabh was murdered as he had receivedthreats from the liquor mafia.
When the eight-member investigationteam constituted led by ASP examined thefootage of the CCTV camera, it showed Sulabhcoming alone on his bike from SagraSunderpur market between Lalganj and thespot. The footage of other places is also beingcollected to solve the mystery. The police teamalso closely inspected the spot.
Along with this, the police have ques-tioned other people, including some mediapersons, about the incident.
Meanwhile, the journalists collectivelyorganised a condolence meeting in the DistrictPanchayat Auditorium.
On Wednesday afternoon, a delegation ofJansatta Dal Loktantrik Party reached Sulabh'sresidence and provided Rs 51,000 to his wifeRenuka Srivastava as financial assistance.
The delegation demanded a high-levelinquiry into the incident and financial assis-tance from the government.
The delegation comprised MLC AkshayPratap Singh (Gopal) who is state presidentof the party, and MLA Vinod Saroj, nationalgeneral secretary Dr. KN Ojha, district pres-ident Ram Achal Verma, media inchargeMukku Exorcist etc.
Sulabh Srivastava (45) was district corre-spondent of the TV news channel. He hadgone to the village of Lalganj area late onSunday evening to cover the news of the ille-gal arms factory unearthed there by the ATS.Later he was seen lying injured on the roadnear a brick kiln at around 10:30 pm whilereturning home to Sihodar near the railwaystation in the city. The family members, whocame to know about this over phone from kilnworkers, took him to the hospital where he waspronounced dead.
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The medical fraternity under the banner ofAllahabad Medical Association (AMA) has
expressed deep concern over the FIR being reg-istered with Kotwali police against four unknowndoctors in connection with the death of a 21-year-old Mirzapur woman.
However, all the allegations levelled by thefamily members against the doctors who oper-ated on the woman were found false in the inves-tigation.
President-elect of Allahabad MedicalAssociation, Dr Sujit Singh, said thatfollowing the death of the Mirzapurwoman on June 8 and subsequent post- mortem,an FIR was lodged against four unknown doc-tors due to pressure being mounted by theactivists of a political party and family membersof the woman even though the investigation bytwo different panels made it clear that
the allegations do not hold any ground.He added that since the FIR has been lodged
against four unknown doctors, it had becomequite difficult for doctors to work in such cir-cumstances and under unjustified mental pres-sure.
The AMA said that the campaign againstdoctors on social media despite the facts beingrevealed by the panels, had also miffed them.
Resident Doctors' Association of MLNMedical College, Prayagraj had recently hand-ed over a memorandum to senior police author-ities, claiming that a group of people, includingsome leaders of a political party, were makingattempt to tarnish the image of doctors and thehospital through social media regarding thecharges levelled by family of the woman.
Dr Singh said the patient hailing fromMirzapur was admitted to the emergency wardof the SRN Hospital surgery department on May29 with acute abdominal pain and septicemia
shock. He said the doctors conducted all nec-essary tests and found that the patient was suf-fering from perforation peritonitis and operat-ed upon her in the night on May 31. There wereeight members of the staff, including fivefemales and three males, during the entire exer-cise including the operation.
The doctors, meanwhile, said that thepatient was not left alone at any time and thiswas vouched by the family members of thewoman.
Later, on June 2, a close relative of the patientalleged through social media that the patient wassexually harassed during surgery.
Two separate committees wereset up by MLN Medical College authorities andthe chief medical officer Prayagraj and both com-mittees found the allegations baseless. Thecommittees questioned doctors and medical staffpresent during operation and found the allega-tions do not hold any ground.
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Police said that according tofamily members, he wasdepressed. The body was sentfor post-mortem. AshutoshKumar, a resident ofJanhvipuram Sulemasarai, is aveterinary doctor. Presently, heis posted at Manda inYamunapar. Shashwat was theeldest of their two childrenwho was currently preparing forthe medical examination.According to the police, around5 am on Wednesday, he reachedthe bushes in an empty groundbehind Nehru Park and com-mitted suicide by sprayingpetrol on himself. He died onthe spot due to severe burns.
Varanasi (PNS): All IndiaCongress Committee (AICC)secretary Rajesh Tiwari saidthat the party would fight inforthcoming assembly electionsin UP with its full strength.
Criticising the YogiAdityanath-led Bharatiya JanataParty government in UP, he saidthat the people in the state want-ed a change and the presentpolitical scenario was also show-ing such signs. According tohim, in such a situation only theCongress party could live up tothe expectations of the people.
During his visit, Tiwariheld a meeting with Congressworkers at the party's Maidaginoffice here on Wednesday. Themeeting was also attended bythe party’s corporators andoffice-bearers of its variousfrontal organisations.
According to Tiwari, the
Congress is strengthening itsorganisation by making com-mittees from booth to city/dis-trict levels. During the meeting,he asked the party workers toapprise the people of the poli-cies and ideology of theCongress.
At the start of the meeting,Congress city unit chiefRaghavendra Choubey wel-comed the AICC secretary. Themeeting was attended byCongress state vice-presidentVishwavijay Singh, general sec-retary in-charge Varanasi,Devendra Pratap Singh, secre-tary Imran Khan, state presidentof Congress Seva Dal PramodPandey, general secretaryManindra Mishra, leader ofCongress Corporators’ PartySitaram Keshari, FasahatHussain Babu, Afroz Ansariand Manish Morolia.
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Recently, the departmenthad done a caesarian sectionapart from some rare surgerieson animals. According to headof the department Dr NKSingh, the dog from Varanasisuffered from a large tumor(lump) in the right paw duringthe first wave of the coron-avirus outbreak.
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For the convenience of passengers the restora-tion of the following special trains will be
done by the railway administration. Besides, therake composition of some special trains has beenchanged. All coaches in these trains will be ofreserved class and passengers travelling inthem will have to follow the Covid-19 preven-tion guidelines, CPRO PK Singh said.
CHHAPRA-NAUTANWA SPL: The 05105Chhapra-Nautanwa special train will be runfrom June 21 until further notice. Likewise the05106 Nautanwa-Chhapra special train will berun from June 21 until further notice.
CHHAPRA-LUCKNOW JN. SPL: The05053 Chhapra-Lucknow Jn special train will berun from July 1 until further notice. The 05054Lucknow Jn.-Chhapra special train will be runJune 28 until further notice.
CHHAPRA-FARRUKHABAD SPL: The05083 Chhapra-Farrukhabad special train willbe run from June 29 untill further notice. The05084 Farrukhabad-Chhapra special train willbe run from June 30 until further notice.
CHHAPRA KACHERI-GOMTINAGARSPL: The 05114 Chhapra Kacheri-Gomtinagarspecial train will be run from July 1 until fur-ther notice. The 05113 Gomtinagar-Chhapraspecial train will be run from July 2 until fur-ther notice.
GORAKHPUR-ANVT SPL: The 02595Gorakhpur-Anand Vihar Terminus (ANVT)special train will be run from June 17 until fur-ther notice. The 02596 Anand Vihar Terminus-Gorakhpur special train will be run from June18 until further notice.
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position of 05053/05054 Chhapra-LucknowJn.-Chhapra and 05083/05084 Chhapra-Farrukhabad-Chhapra special trains. As per thechanged rake composition, a total of 21 coach-es, including two of SLRD, eight of general sec-ond class, eight of sleeper class, two of AC thirdclass and one of AC second class will be attachedin these trains. Besides, the rest of the above-mentioned trains will run as per their pre-sched-uled route, stoppages and timings.
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The railway administrationfor the convenience of pas-
sengers will until further noticeextend the running period ofthe following puja special trainsnotified till June 30. However,their days of running, stop-pages and rake compostionwill remain the same. All thecoaches in them will be ofreserved class and passengerstraveling in them will have tofollow the Covid-19 preventionguidelines, Chief PublicRelations Officer (CPRO) PKSingh said. The running peri-od of the following puja specialtrains will be extended fromJune 30 until further notice —02511 Gorakhpur - Kochuvelipuja special, 02512 Kochuveli-Gorakhpur puja special, 05028Gorakhpur-Hatia puja special,05027 Hatia-Gorakhpur pujaspecial, 05115 Chhapra-Delhipuja special, 05116 Delhi-Chhapra puja special, 05018Gorakhpur - Lokmanya TilakTerminus puja special, 05017Lokmanya Tilak Terminus-Gorakhpur puja special, 05048Gorakhpur-Kolkata puja spe-cial, 05047 Kolkata-Gorakhpurpuja special, 05050 Gorakhpur-Kolkata puja special, 05049
Kolkata-Gorakhpur puja spe-cial, 05052 Gorakhpur-Kolkatapuja special train, 05051Kolkata-Gorakhpur puja spe-cial, 05101 Chhapra-Lokmanya Tilak Terminus pujaspecial, 05102 Lokmanya TilakTerminus-Chhapra puja spe-cial, 02597 Gorakhpur-Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus(Mumbai) puja special, 02598Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus(Mumbai)-Gorakhpur pujaspecial, 02529 Lucknow Jn-Patliputra Puja special train,02530 Patliputra-Lucknow Jnpuja special, 02595Gorakhpur-Anand ViharTerminus puja special, 02596Anand Vihar Terminus-Gorakhpur puja special, 02581Manduadih - New Delhi pujaspecial, 02582 New Delhi-Manduadih puja special, 05029Gorakhpur-Pune puja special,05030 Pune-Gorakhpur pujaspecial, 05022 Gorakhpur-Shalimar puja special train,05021 Shalimar-Gorakhpurpuja special, 05120Manduadih-Rameswaram pujaspecial, 05119 Rameswaram-Manduadih puja special, 02587Gorakhpur-Jammu Tawi pujaspecial train, 02588 JammuTawi-Gorakhpur puja specialtrain, 05097 Bhagalpur-Jammu
Tawi puja special, 05098Jammu Tawi - Bhagalpur pujaspecial, 05045 Gorakhpur-Okha puja special train and05046 Okha-Gorakhpur pujaspecial.
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G O R A K H P U R -BANDRA TERMINUS SPE-CIAL: In 05403 Gorakhpur-Bandra Terminus special trainon June 18 and 05404 BandraTerminus-Gorakhpur specialtrain on June 19 as many asthree additional coaches ofgeneral second class chair carwill be attached.
GORAKHPUR-CSMT(MUMBAI) SPL: In the 02597Gorakhpur-Chhatrapati ShivajiMaharaj Terminus (CSMT)(Mumbai) special train fromJune 22 to July 27 and in 02598Chhatrapati Shivaji MaharajTerminus (Mumbai)-Gorakhpur special train fromJune 23 to July 28 as many asthree additional general secondclass chair car coaches will beattached.
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During his hectic tour of Madihan block DMPraveen Kumar Laxkar inspected con-
struction works and warned working agenciesto work with quality otherwise remain preparedto face the music. During the inspection of inte-grated special intermediate college the DMexpressed discontent over the quality of worksand warned the engineer to improve it other-
wise theaction will betaken. Hewas apprisedby the engi-neer thatwork wasstopped dueto the pauci-ty of fund.The DMspoke to MD
of the working agency and was informed thatthe fund was to be released the same day. TheDM inspected the under construction work ofa mini stadium located at Patehra and wasinformed that against the allocation of �331lakh,a sum of �248 lakh had been released and thework was to be completed within this month.He inspected the strengthening work of DIETbuilding for which �115.14 had been sanctioned
and �25.74 lakh had been released. The DM tookthe engineers to task and warned to improve thequality by using material as per the norms.During the inspection of under constructionbuilding of fire brigade at Madihan the DMwarned the engineer for inferior quality of workand directed to improve it and ensure con-struction as per the norms. He was apprised bythe engineer that against the allocation of�828.37 lakh the work had been completed asper the released fund of �277 lakh.
CASH RECOVERED: Under the jointoperation of Katra Kotwali police, SOG andSWAT team police recovered �35 lakh out of �50lakh which had been made off by miscreantsfrom a bank premises on June 8. Giving detailsin this connection, Superintendent of Police (SP)Ajay Singh said on Tuesday the miscreants hadbeen identified in the CCTV footage of the bankand he had formed a team under the supervi-sion of ASP (City) Sanjay Kumar. The SP saidthe team led by SHO Katra Kotwali SwaminathPrasad raided the hideout of the miscreants inthe jungle situated in their village with the helpof MP police but somehow they managed to fleefrom there. After a search the police recoveredthe cash. He announced a reward of �25,000 forthe police team. According to the SP, theaccused were identified as Kokisasi andKabirsasi, residents of Kadiyasasi village underVoda police station in Rajgarh district, MP.
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Kumar Sinha on Tuesday re-commissioned the Yamunadragline of Jayant Project intothe mine. In place of replace-ment of dragline boom byrepairing and recommission-ing it there has been a mon-etary saving of more than 80per cent. On the occasionSinha said, “due to excep-tional skills and tirelessefforts of team NCL suchhuge and seemingly impossi-ble tasks are completed inrecord time with minimumcost and proper safety”. Sinhaappreciated the efforts madeby the management for the
supply of necessary sparesfrom other coalfields andcoordination with variousagencies for the execution ofthis work. Sinha inspectedthe Jayant mine and reviewedthe preparation for monsoonbesides the construction work
of important First MileConnectivity (FMC) projects.Significantly, the dragline is theworld’s largest machineemployed in mining opera-tions. As many as 23 draglinesare deployed to remove over-burden of six mines of NCL.
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Newly-joined ADM PoojaNigam has taken strict action
against illegal mining. A teamcomprising SDM Satyendra Singhand District Mines Officer RBSingh was formed under theleadership of ADM. She saidthey had checked two ghats —one at Bandhauli Khand-3 and the other atBhedi Khurd village. She further added that
they had checked geotags andinstructed the lease owners thatmining should be done accord-ing to the government guide-lines. She checked 11 sand dumplicenses and found five sanddumps had dumped sand morethan the permission given tothem. She said they had beengiven permission to dump 30,000
cubic metre of sand but as dumping was muchmore so we fined them a total of around �1 crore.
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The Startup Incubation andInnovation Centre (SIIC) at
the Indian Institute ofTechnology, Kanpur has raisedfunding from the global leaderand innovator of engineeringsimulation software Ansys,under the Mission Bharat O2,to support manufacturing ofoxygen concentrators on arapid scale.
This association comes ata crucial juncture to promoteindigenous manufacturing atpar with global standards.Ansys has nurtured a legacy ofcontributing towards develop-ment initiatives across India.Their corporate social respon-sibility (CSR) efforts show adeep commitment towards
nation building.Commenting on SIIC’s
vocal for local vision, SIICCEO Dr Nikhil Agarwal says,“The SIIC team at IIT Kanpuraims to turn the country intoa manufacturing hub by sup-porting product innovationthat originated from the cut-ting-edge research and devel-opment. Our incubated com-panies have contributedimmensely since COVID-19struck India. With this experi-ence, we want to go a step fur-ther to build a nexus of localmanufacturers who will putIndia on the map of the glob-al manufacturing hubs. Thesupport from Ansys is a much-needed contribution in thatdirection.”
Speaking about the initia-
tive, Ansys area vice president(India and South Asia Pacific)Rafiq Somani, said, “MissionBharat O2 under the aegis ofSIIC, IIT Kanpur is a crucialstep towards the indigenisationof oxygen concentrators andplants that will go a long wayin fighting COVID-19 here.We, at Ansys, are committed tothe Make in India initiative andfor this to be successful, man-ufacturing is the key andhealthcare is no exception.Simulation driven productdevelopment is the edge thatwill provide that much neededinnovation, improved qualityand decrease risks. We arehappy to partner with the IITKanpur team and help theMission Bharat O2 task forcefacilitate this decentralised and
rapid-scale production of theoxygen concentrators acrossthe nation.”
The Mission Bharat O2project, led by Prof AmitabhaBandyopadhyay, Professor in-charge, Innovation &Incubation, IIT Kanpur, SrikantSastri, director, FIRST-IITKand chairman, I3G AdvisoryNetwork, and Rahul Patel, headof strategic initiatives, SIIC IITKanpur will support local man-ufacturers to develop oxygenplants and concentrators. Theinitiative will operate on adecentralised model to gener-ate indigenous manufacturingcapabilities and a distributionnetwork of quality health infra-structure.
Through Mission BharatO2, the SIIC aims to create
decentralised manufacturingpockets where Indian manu-facturers will develop oxygenconcentrators and plants on arapid scale.
The SIIC has also selectedeight manufacturing partnersfrom 70+ participants whocompeted to manufactureindigenous oxygen plants andoxygen concentrators underthe Mission Bharat O2. Withthis initiative, SIIC IIT Kanpurhas taken a step forward tomake the Indian healthcaremanufacturing ecosystem self-sustaining by reducing depen-dence on imports. As a covet-ed funding partner, Ansys’generous support will pivotSIIC’s efforts towards efficientexecution of the Mission BharatO2.
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Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi MemorialMedical College Vice-Principal Dr
Richa Giri on Wednesday said that the UPgovernment had sought a detailed reporton the present progress of the setting upof pediatric intensive care units (PICUs)and had directed that each governmenthospital should had 50 pediatric bedseach.
Dr Giri said that orders had beenissued to give momentum to setting upof PICUs before the apprehended thirdwave of COVID-19 outbreak to ensureminimal life loss.
She said the government had alsoissued a green signal to run the OPDs fornon-COVID-19 patients. She said onaccount of COVID-19, the worst affect-ed were the non-COVID patients. Shesaid in the first phase it had been decid-ed to run medicine, surgery, orthopedic,dermatology, ENT and ophthalmologyOPDs and each day these OPDs wouldattend 100 patients in each of the depart-ments.
Dr Giri said a decision had also beentaken to attend to 50 patients each in theremaining departments like pediatrics,neurology, neurosurgery, dentistry, andpsychiatry.
She said to prevent the crowd and tostrictly maintain Covid protocol, it hadbeen decided that those seeking medicalcheck-up would have to seek priorappointment.
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Following recommendation of athree-member committee of GSVM
Medical College to suspend Covid hos-pital sister-in-charge of ManjulikaMishra and pharmacist NagendraBajpai for their involvement in theRemdesivir injections scam at LLRHospital, further investigations wouldnow be carried out by a committee setup by the district magistrate.
The probe by the committee will beassisted by the LLR Hospital commit-tee. Meanwhile, a show-cause noticehas been issued to eight other nursingstaff members.
GSVM Medical College PrincipalDr RB Kamal said the probe reportsubmitted by his three-member com-mittee had been sent to the districtauthorities for further action.
It may be recalled that a majorscam had surfaced wherein Remdesivirinjections were allegedly issued in thename of dead COVID-19 patientsduring the second wave of novel coro-navirus pandemic in the GSVMMedical College-run LLR Hospital.
The involvement of the hospital’snursing staff had come to light inremoving the Remdesivir vials from thehospital's store. These injections wereissued in the name of two dead patients,including a woman who died ofCOVID-19. As per doctor's report, the
female patient died on May 22 where-as the Remdesivir injections wereissued in her name on May 26.
Thereafter, a three-member com-mittee comprising LLR Hospital ChiefMedical Superintendent Dr JyotiSaxena, professor of pediatric depart-ment Dr Arun Kumar Arya and chiefpharmacist Rajendra Singh Patel wasformed to probe into the scam.
It may be recalled that similar alle-gations had come to fore on April 30when the police Crime Branch hadbusted a racket and nabbed four per-sons, including two members of LLRHospital nursing staff and a private hos-pital employee in connection withblack marketing of Remdesivir.
The arrests were made after asting operation carried out by a cop ofKakadeo police station. The cop, whoapproached the accused as a decoy cus-tomer, had managed to strike a dealwith them for Rs 30,000 to Rs 35,000per injection.
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Dr Raj Shekhar, while inspecting theMama Talab situated in the AwasVikas Colony at MachwanpurChauraha on Wednesday, directed thesub-divisional magistrate of Sadar toverify the land records of the site forthe Fasli year of 1359 and check out theownership and also the nature of land
mentioned in records at that time.He also directed the SDM to check
the subsequent chakbandi and thecorrections made in the records, if any,and submit a report. He then directedthe superintendent engineer of AwasVikas to submit a plan proposal for thissite by June 22 after a detailed surveyof the area and studying the present sit-uation. He said as per the information,the total area of the site was around 2.44hectares. He said ironically this areawas not mentioned as a pond in therevenue records.
The superintendent informed thedivisional commissioner that it was alow lying area which had been acquiredby Awas Vikas in the year 1991 by pay-ing compensation to the owner of theland and added that at that time alsoit was in the form of a pond. He alsomentioned that as it was also a low lyingarea the nearby village water anddrains of the houses flowed into it. Hesaid Awas Vikas had plans to developit in the coming days. The divisionalcommissioner was informed that cur-rently the area was being used as a solidwaste dumping ground by KanpurNagar Nigam. Dr Shekhar directed theKanpur municipal commissioner toensure that the solid waste was notdumped at this site. He directed a prop-er barricading and tree plantation in thearea with joint efforts of Kanpur NagarNigam and Awas Vikas.
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Altigreen, an electric vehicleOEM (original equipment
manufacturer), has partneredwith electric fleet startupMoEVing to launch its EVs inDelhi-NCR.
Delivery of the state-of-the-art NEEV 3-wheel EVs forMoEVing’s portfolio in Delhi-NCR has already commenced.The two partners will worktogether to augment the adop-tion of EVs over traditionalinternal combustion engine(ICE) vehicles in a bid torelieve the city’s stressed airquality.
Vikash Mishra, founderand CEO of MoEVing saidAltigreen NEEV was an L5Cargo vehicle that had beendesigned keeping the specificneeds of Indian users in mind.He said it was a matter ofdelight to have Altigreen’s 3Was part of the supply portfolio.
He said the high-perfor-mance vehicle built customerconfidence, eliminated driverrange anxiety and the need forday charging. He saidAltigreen's NEEV product wasthe perfect example of it inIndia.
He said at MoEVing, theyhad deployed multipleAltigreen NEEVs acrossBengaluru and Delhi NCR andlook forward to deployingmore NEEV EVs across allcities pan India.
Commenting on the part-nership, Amitabh Saran, CEO,Altigreen Propulsion Labs, saidthere was a growing demandfor sustainable last-mile ser-vices in Delhi-NCR, owing toenvironmental concerns andincreased operational costs ofICE vehicles. He said theorganisation believed thatAltigreen NEEV provided anideal, robust, long-term solu-tion that was tailor-made forIndian road conditions.
He said the partnershipwith MoEVing would helpboth the companies achievetheir vision of deploying envi-ronment friendly mobility solu-tions in the region.
Altigreen’s NEEV, with its11-kWh battery solution, cancover up to 125 km with 550Kg payload in city traffic con-ditions.
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Asix-day-old child beingtaken from Delhi to Bihar
was rescued by the HarbanshMohal police from SwatantrataSangram Senani Express trainon Wednesday.
On a tip off from DelhiPolice, the Harbansh Mohalpolice arrested the couple andthe man’s mother-in-law alongwith the child. The child waslater handed over to the DelhiPolice.
According to reports,Govind Kumar, a native ofMuzaffarpur (Bihar) hadlodged an FIR with theFatehpur Beri police of SouthDelhi about the theft of hischild.
Govind, a daily wager, livedin a rented house in Gurgaon(Haryana). His wife, Puja, hadgiven birth to a child six daysback. As Govind was living ina very small room, his friend,Haripal, took them to his friendRaman's house in FatehpurBeri in Delhi for the propercare of the newborn. OnTuesday morning, when Pujawoke up, she found her child
missing along with Haripaland Raman. On finding themobile phones of Haripal andRaman switched off, Govindinformed the police and thecops immediately traced thelocation of Haripal and Ramanand arrested them with the helpof Harbansh Mohal police.
During interrogation,Raman told the cops that thechild was given to his brother-in-law Vidyanand Yadav whoalong with his wife MakhniDevi and mother-in-lawRampari had left for Bihar by
the Swatantrata SangramSenani Express train.
Then the Delhi policeapproached the Kanpur policeand apprised them about theincident.
Harbansh Mohal StationHouse Officer SatyadeoSharma said all the threeaccused along with the childhad been given in custody ofDelhi police.
Vidyanand said beingissueless, he had taken this stepwith the help of his brother-in-law Raman.
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The Uttar Pradesh govern-ment, in a bid to eliminate
child beggary, has launched aspecial drive to identify suchchildren and send them toshelter homes. The drive willalso take action against thegang which forces children tobeggary and arrest them aswell. On the first day, four chil-dren were trapped while thegang behind them fled thescene.
A special team of police hasbeen set up to keep an eye onsuch people who run a childbeggary syndicate in Kanpur.
DPO Abhay Singh saidchild beggary had taken deeproots in Kanpur but ironicallythe syndicate never came tofore as they maintained a vigilon these child beggars from afar distance. He said child beg-gary was not alone because ofthe syndicate but a big numberof parents also forced their chil-dren to beg outside Malls,shops and in main markets. Hesaid now because a crackdownhad been launched on thechild beggars it could bringdown the number of childbeggars in Kanpur.
Singh said the main caus-es of child beggary in Kanpurwere prevalence of poverty,illiteracy, by inheritance ofcaste, handicap, diseases anddeath of parents. He said it hadbeen observed that childrenfrom lower socio-economiclevels were more likely to beabused due to parental pover-ty, and hence were forced tobeg so that they could supple-ment the total earning of thefamily. He said congenital birthdeformity in such children orthose children who weremiamed to gain sympathy werethe part of the syndicate whichforced them into beggary andwith nowhere to go or no oneto protect them they wereforced to beg for them.
Singh said as per the reportof the National Human RightsCommission of India, 40,000children are abducted everyyear which roughly means onechild went missing every eightminutes in India, over 50 percent of whom remaineduntraced.
Kanpur (PNS): ChiefDevelopment Officer DrMahendra Kumar, whilereviewing the developmentworks in Kalyanpur develop-ment block on Wednesday,issued warning to the officialsconcerned for their poor andapathetic performance inPradhan Mantri Awas Yojana(Gramin) and said it had to beset right in 48 hours or strictaction would be taken againstthem.
He said by the end of thismonth the target was to ensure60 per cent of the work wascompleted.
The CDO directed the offi-cials to give further momentumto Operation Kayakalp and toensure that the construction ofthe Panchayat Bhawan wascompleted. He warned the offi-cials against any compromiseon time schedule or quality ofwork.
He said all those foundinvolved in laxity and derelic-
tion of duties would face severeaction.
He also directed the offi-cials to give momentum to theMNREGA projects also.
He said as per the stategovernment orders, all devel-opment works need to be com-pleted on time with strict qual-ity control.
He said the focus was onthe housing scheme for thepoor in the rural areas. He saidthe work had to be carried outin full transparency andproper feedback of all theschemes and their progressand quality control should beregularly reported to theauthorities.
He then asked the reasonfor the poor performance in theMNREGA work and directedthe officials to ensure it wasgiven speed so that it wasaccomplished at the earliest.
Over two dozen officials ofvarious departments attendedthe meet.
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Kanpur (PNS): On thedirectives of the Indian MedicalAssociation, headquarters, theIMA-Kanpur has decided toobserve June 18 as Protest Day toshow solidarity and stronglyexpress resentment of the med-ical fraternity which has recent-ly been the target of mob violencein prominent states of the coun-try. The IMA strongly condemnsthe statement of Baba Ram Devwho has openly disgraced themedical profession and made amockery of allopathic mode oftreatment. The medical profes-sionals will on June 18 wear blackarmbands and sport black rib-bons to express their concernagainst the increasing violenceagainst doctors and the “apathyof the government which haskept its eyes closed to all this”.
Addressing press persons,president of IMA-Kanpur, DrNeelam Mishra, said what couldbe more disgraceful for the med-ical professionals that allopathywas termed as sham.
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As a prelude to its original demand for the cre-ation of a separate Malabar State incorpo-
rating the regions of Kerala, Tamil Nadu andKarnataka, the Social Democratic Party of India(SDPI), the political outfit of the extremist organ-isation Popular Front Of India, launched a month-long agitation on Wednesday in Malappuram ask-ing for the setting up of a new district with Tiruras district headquarters.
According to a release issued by the SDPI, thenext 30 days would see party activists stagingdemonstrations in front of all Taluk offices in thedistrict calling for the immediate creation of thenew district. The Muslim Youth League in itsannual State conference held last year haddeclared that the party would launch an agitationfor the creation of separate Malabar State bifur-cating Kerala and adding some districts ofTamil Nadu and Karnataka.
It may be remembered that Malappuram dis-trict was formed in 1969 by the then United FrontGovernment led by the CPI(M) in which theMuslim League, CPI and some regional outfitswere the constituents. The Muslim League hadjoined the alliance on the condition that a sepa-
rate Muslim district would be formed as a quidpro quo.
The year 2021 being the centenary year of theMoplah Rebellion of 1921, an event dear to theIslamic outfits in the State. Though it waslaunched as an agitation against Britain demand-ing the restoration of the Khalifa of Turkey, thestruggle turned out to be a pogrom in which thou-sands of local residents belonging to a particu-lar community were annihilated for their refusalto undergo religious conversion.
“We have been subjected to the worst kindof treatment during the last five decades and wewant speedy economic development of thisregion. The formation of a new district with Tiruras head quarters is the only solution for the same,”said the SDPI release.
Tirur is the birth place of ThunchathuRamanujan Ezuthachan, the father of Malayalamlanguage who authored Aadhyatma Ramayanam.But the local body controlled by conservativeIslamists have not allowed to instal a statue of theFather of the Malayalam language in his place ofbirth.
Leaders of the SDPI called on P Ubaidulla,MLA and submitted a memorandum demand-ing the formation of the new district.
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KOCHI/CHENNAI: TamilNadu has stabilised the trans-mission of Covid-19 in theState as the data furnished bythe Directorate of Health andPreventive Medicine showsthat the instances of the pan-demic was on a downwardjourney.
On Wednesday, the Statelogged 10,448 new cases while270 succumbed to the pan-demic. Coimbatore and Erode,the industrial hub, had 1,420and 1,123 new cases respec-tively while Tirupur had 608
new patients.Kerala, which begins the
lifting of lock down by phas-es on Thursday registered 13,270 new cases and 147 deaths.Test Positivity Rate in theState as on Wednesdayevening was 11.79. There were1.09 lakh patients across theState as on Wednesday.
The liquor outlets in theState would start operatingfrom 9 am on Thursday andthere is no restriction otherthan the Covid-related stan-dard protocols.
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The Covid-19 deathsdropped to 1,236 in
Maharashtra on Wednesday,even as the State logged 10,107infections and recorded recov-eries by 10,567 patients.
A day after the daily pan-demic deaths – inflated by1,070 “old” and unaccounted
fatalities – jumped to 1,458 inthe state, the fatalities wentdown to 1,236. The dailydeaths comprised 237 newdeaths and 999 “old” deaths.
The infections went up by577 — from 9,350 on Tuesdayand 10107 on Wednesday.With 1,458 deaths reported onWednesday, the Covid-19 tollin the State jumped from
1,14.154 to 1,15,390.With 10,107 fresh infec-
tions, the total infections inthe State rose from 59,24,773to 59,34,880.
As 10,567 patients weredischarged from the hospitalsacross the State after fullrecovery, the total number ofpeople discharged from thehospitals since the second
week of March last yearincreased from 56,69,179 to56,79,746. The recovery ratein the state rose 95.69 per centto 95.7 per cent.
The total “active cases” inthe state dropped from1,38,361 to 1,36,661. Thefatality rate in the state wentup from 1.93 per cent to 1.94per cent.
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Prime Minister NarendraModi will launch a
‘Customized Crash Course pro-gramme for Covid-19 Frontlineworkers’ on Friday via videoconferencing.
The launch will commencethe programme in 111 trainingcentres spread over 26 States.
The launch on June 18will be followed by the PrimeMinister’s address. UnionMinister of Skill Developmentand EntrepreneurshipMahendra Nath Pandey willalso be present on the occasion.The programme aims to skill
and upskill over one lakh Covidwarriors across the country,according to the PrimeMinister's Office. The trainingwill be imparted to Covid war-riors in six customised jobroles namely Home Care
Support, Basic Care Support,Advanced Care Support,Emergency Care Support,Sample Collection Support,and Medical EquipmentSupport.
The programme has beendesigned as a special pro-gramme under the CentralComponent of Pradhan MantriKaushal Vikas Yojana 3.0, witha total financial outlay of Rs.276 crore.
The programme will createskilled non-medical healthcareworkers to fill the present andfuture needs of manpower inthe health sector, said the state-ment from the PMO.
New Delhi: The Union Cabineton Wednesday approved thecorporatisation of OrdnanceFactory Board (OFB) by splittingit into seven entities to improveautonomy, accountability andefficiency. There are 42 ord-nance factories spread all overthe country and its employeeshad opposed corporatisationwhen it was mooted more thantwo years back.
There are more than 82,000employees in the ordnance fac-tories and many of them hadresorted a stir in 2019 and gavea notice for agitation last yearalso against the proposal tocorporatize these units. Basedin Kolkata, the Ordnance fac-tories have a history of morethan 200 years old and nowmanufacture guns, missiles,tanks and other such equipmentfor the armed forces.
The Cabinet Committeeon Security (CCS) last year inJuly had approved to convert theOrdnance Factory Board (OFB)“into one or more than one 100
per cent Government-ownedcorporate entities”.
The official communiqueregarding this also said then thecorporatisation of OFB willimprove its autonomy, account-ability and efficiency inOrdnance Supplies.
It said the government hastaken note of the strike byworkers of the OFB against theproposed corporatisation andtheir concerns in the noticedated 04.08.2020 from the threerecognized Federations ofDefence Civilian Employees,proposing to call an indefinitestrike from 06.00 am of12.10.2020 by the DefenceCivilian Employees of OrdnanceFactories against the govern-ment move to corporatize OFB.
An Empowered Group ofMinisters (EGoM) has beenconstituted under theChairmanship of Minister ofDefence to oversee and guide theentire process of corporatisationof the OFB, including transitionsupport and redeployment plan
of employees while safeguardingtheir wages and retirement ben-efits.
The OFB products arepriced on a cost based method-ology without charging anyprofit over the cost of produc-tion for supply to the armedforces. Since the OFB is nomi-nated as a production agency forsupply of core items to thearmed forces, no comparisonwith international prices can bemade. This information wasgiven by Minister of State fordefence Shripad Naik in a writ-ten reply to Santanu Sen in theRajya Sabha on September 19last year.
The EGoM comprisedHome Minister Amit Shah,Finance Minister NirmalaSitharaman, Minister for Lawand Justice Ravi Shankar Prasad,Minister of State for Labour andEmployment Santosh KumarGangwar and Minister of Statefor Personnel, Public Grievanceand Pension Dr Jitendra Singh. PNS
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After the residents of a cityhousing society alleged a
fraud in the vaccination campheld by a private agency in theirhousing society, theBrihanmumbai MunicipalCorporation (BMC) andMumbai police on Wednesdaylaunched independent investi-gations into manner in whichthree persons claiming them-selves to represent two leadinghospitals fleeced them of �4.91lakh on the pretext of organis-ing a vaccination camp.
A day after the residents ofthe Hiranandani HeritageSociety comprising 435 flats inthree towers at Kandivali (west)in north Mumbai flagged theissue in the media, BMCAdditional CommissionerSuresh Kakani took suo motocognisance of the residents’grievance and asked his deputyVishwas Shankarwar to con-duct an enquiry and submit hisreport within 48 hours..
Similarly after the officebearers of HiranandaniHeritage Residents’ WelfareAssociation (HHRWA) lodgeda complaint with them, theKandivlin police also launchedinvestigations into the allegedfraud.
The HHRWA office bear-ers told the police that the threealleged fraudsters collected�4.92 lakh from 390 residents,housekeeping staff, securityguards, drivers or domestichelpers on May 30 for con-ducting a vaccination camp.
The camp was conductedthree facilitators, includingRajesh Pandey and SanjayGupta, who claimed to repre-sent leading private hospitalslike the Kokilaben DhirubhaiAmbani Hospital (KDAH) andthe Nanavati Hospital. Theyagreed to provide 400 vaccinedoses for around �1,260 each,for which the society paidaround �4.92 lakh. Howeverthe vaccination facilitator didnot provide receipts for the
money taken.On their part, the KDAH
and the Nanavati Hospital havedistanced themselves from thequestionable vaccination campby saying that they had noth-ing to do with the vaccinationcamp conductred atHiranandani Heritage Society.They said that they were notapproached by the housingsociety. The residents got sus-picious after as none of thebeneficiaries were given thevaccination certificates. Theyalso noticed that the vials usedfor vaccination camp bore 'NotFor Sale' stamp.
The society membersapproached one of the facilita-tors Sanjay Gupta for vaccina-tion certificates.
However, Gupta said thatthe certificates would be givenafter 3-4 days. Later on the res-idents found out after June 8that the certificates were beinggenerated from different hos-pitals in the city, without thedate of vaccination i.e, May 30.
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Amid BJP’s continued alle-gations of State repression
of its workers and leaders theKolkata Police on Wednesdaygrilled super star MithunChakrabarty for allegedly pro-voking violence during theelections. The actor who wascurrently in Puri was virtual-ly grilled for about 45 minutesby the additional Officer in-charge of the ManicktallaPolice Station and was askedwhether he had incited peoplethrough his speeches or not.
The Bollywood star hadcampaigned for the BJP in theState polls and had apparent-ly in a bid to perk up thecrowds recited a number ofdialogues from Bengali filmsthat he had acted in.
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Facing criticism for increas-ing the gap between two
Covishield doses withoutallegedly taking all the expertsinto confidence and beingquestioned if the indigenously-developed Covaxin containednewborn calf serum, theGovernment on Wednesdaydefended itself on both thecounts and termed the politi-cisation of the issue as “unfor-tunate”.
Union Health MinisterHarsh Vardhan said the deci-sion to increase the gapbetween two doses ofCovishield has been taken in atransparent manner based onscientific data. “Decision toincrease the gap betweenadministering 2 doses of#COVISHIELD has been takenin a transparent manner basedon scientific data. India has arobust mechanism to evaluatedata. It’s unfortunate that suchan important issue is beingpoliticised!” he tweeted.
The National TechnicalAdvisory Group onImmunization (NTAGI) chairN K Arora said, “The decisionregarding enhancing intervalbetween two doses ofCovishield was based on sci-entific evidence and taken in atransparent manner.” “Therewas no dissenting voice amongthe NTAGI members,” heasserted.
Sharing details of the deci-sion taken in this regard, theHealth Ministry in a state-ment said that on May 13, ithad approved extending thegap between the two doses ofthe Covishield vaccine from sixto eight weeks to 12 to 16 weeks
following a recommendationfrom the NTAGI.
“The 22nd meeting ofCovid-19 Working Group ofNTAGI was held on May 10.There, a proposal for a changein dose interval for Covishield,used under the NationalVaccination Policy, was con-sidered. Based on the real-lifeevidence, particularly from theUnited Kingdom, the Covid-19Working Group agreed toincrease the interval betweentwo doses of CovishieldVaccine to 12 to 16 weeks, ‘’ thestatement said.
“This recommendationwas taken up for discussion atthe meeting of the StandingTechnical Sub-Committee(STSC) of NTAGI held onMay 13 under the joint chair-personship of the secretary ofthe Department ofBiotechnology, the secretary ofDepartment of HealthResources and the DG of theIndian Council of MedicalResearch,” it said.
“The STSC of NTAGI gavethe following recommenda-tion: ‘as per the Covid-19Working Group recommen-dation, a dosing interval ofminimum three monthsbetween two doses ofCovishield vaccine was rec-ommended’,” the statementsaid.
In both the meetings -- ofthe Covid-19 Working Groupand of the STSC -- no dissentwas given by any of the threemembers who have been quot-ed in the news report, namelyDr Mathew Varghese, Dr M DGupte and Dr J P Muliyil, thestatement said adding that DrVarghese has denied talking tothe reporter on the issue of his
alleged dissent.Regarding social media
reports on Covaxin containingcalf serum, it clarified that the
indigenously developed jabdoes not contain newborn calfserum at all and that the calfserum is not an ingredient of
the final vaccine product.Bharat Biotech, on its part alsoechoed similar points.
The Health ministry said
that the newborn calf serum isused for preparation andgrowth of vero cells which areused in production of vac-cines. This technique has beenused for decades in Polio,Rabies, and Influenza vaccines.
“It is used for the growth ofcells, but neither used ingrowth of SARS CoV2 virusnor in the final formulation.Covaxin is highly purified tocontain only the inactivatedvirus components by removing
all other impurities,” theMinistry said.
These cells are then washedwith water, chemicals to makethem free of the newborn calfserum. The vero cells are theninfected with coronavirus forviral growth and in the processthey are completely destroyed.
“In the final vaccine for-mulation no calf serum isused,” the Ministry said.
Bharat Biotech also clari-fied that the usage of new
born calf serum was ‘transpar-ently documented’ in severalpublications in the last ninemonths. The company hadmentioned the same when itpublished animal trial studydocuments -which involvedtrials on hamsters and mon-keys; in pre-clinical safety andimmunogenicity study reports;in studies on neutralisation ofthe UK variant, the SouthAfrica variant, the Delta vari-ant among others.
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Amuseum dedicated to thecountry’s 5,000-year mar-
itime history will be set up inGujarat’s Lothal by the CultureMinistry in collaboration withthe Ministry of Shipping, Portand Waterways (MoSPW).
The two Ministries onWednesday inked aMemorandum ofUnderstanding for‘Cooperation in Developmentof National Maritime HeritageComplex (NMHC) at Lothal,Gujarat. According to a state-ment from the CultureMinistry, the world-class facil-ity will be developed in thevicinity of the ArchaeologicalSurvey of India (ASI) site inLothal, located about 80 kmaway from Ahmedabad.
NMHC would be devel-oped as an internationaltourist destination where themaritime heritage of India --from ancient to modern times
-- would be showcased and anedutainment approach usingthe latest technology would beadopted to spread awarenessabout the country’s maritimeheritage, it said.
The NMHC project hasbeen taken up under theunique and innovative pro-jects categor y of theSagarmala programme underMoSPW. The Government of
Gujarat has transferred 375acres of land in Saragvada vil-lage on lease for 99 years at atoken rate to MoSPW.
“The complex will beshowcasing the thousands of
year old maritime strength ofIndia,” said Culture MinisterPrahlad Patel.
Renowned architectHafeez Contractor has beenselected as the PrincipalProject Consultant to preparea master plan and requisitedesign and engineering doc-uments for inviting EPC ten-ders and project managementconsultancy.
NMHC would be devel-oped in an area of about 400acres with various uniquestructures such as the National
Maritime Heritage Museum,lighthouse museum, heritagetheme park, museum-themedhotels, maritime-themed eco-resorts and maritime instituteamong others which would bedeveloped in a phased man-ner.
The unique feature ofNMHC is the recreation ofancient Lothal city, which wasone of the prominent cities ofthe Indus valley civilization.
“NMHC is to be devel-oped as a first of its kind in the
country dedicated to the lega-cy of the maritime heritage ofIndia, to showcase India’s richand diverse maritime glory,”Mansukh Mandaviya, theMinister of MoPSW said dur-ing the signing ceremony.
The museum is set to becompleted in three years fromthe date the project com-mences.
As a part of the museum,14 galleries have been pro-posed to exhibit the evolutionof India’s maritime heritageduring various eras.
Key galleries includemythologies and wilderness ofIndian Ocean, Harappans: ThePioneer Master Seafarers,Indian Ocean: an InteractiveSphere, India’s contact with theRoman World: The Quest forthe Spice, Trade, Commerceand Cultural Interaction withChina and South-East Asia.
Artefacts from Lothal andDholavira will also be displayedat the NMHC complex.
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The Congress onWednesday questioned
the decision of the ModiGovernment to double the gapbetween the doses of theCovishield Covid-19 vaccine,asking whether it was prompt-ed by a vaccine shortage.
The party also announcedto launch a nationwide out-reach programme to collect allthe data pertaining to thepandemic, the affected fami-lies and losses incurred by thecommon man among others.Through the outreach pro-gramme, Congress aims todirectly cover approximatelythree crore households in 30days, as per an AICC pressstatement.
The Congress said Indianeeds quick and completevaccination and not the BJP’s“brand of lies and rhymingslogans” to cover up the vac-cine shortage caused by thegovernment’s inaction.
Congress leaders, includ-ing former party presidentRahul Gandhi, said the gov-ernment was trying to coverup a vaccine shortage. “Indianeeds quick & complete vac-cination,” Rahul Gandhi saidin a tweet.
The Government hadsaid that the gap within twoshots of covishield wasincreased based on scientif-ic evidence and that the issuehad been discussed in detailby members of NTAGI aswell as its working group onCOVID-19.
Rahul alleged that theGovernment was trying to
save the image of PrimeMinister Narendra Modi,attempts that are facilitatingthe virus and costing people’slives. Rahul had earlier alsoaccused the Centre of hidingactual figures of Covid-19deaths in the country.
He also tagged a mediareport that the governmentdoubled the gap between thetwo doses of Covishield with-out the agreement of the sci-entific group that it claimedhad recommended theincrease.
As for the nationwideoutreach campaign, it aimedengaging party cadres fromPradesh CongressCommittee (PCC) to thePanchayat level and estab-lishing contact with targetgroups in urban, semi-urbanand rural areas.
Local leaders will organ-ise visits of senior leaders tothe households of the Covid-affected families and help indisseminating informationregarding health issues andpost-Covid care.
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Earlier on Wednesday, theCongress sought a clari-
fication from theGovernment following thecontroversy in the wake of anRTI reply that allegedly sug-gested that newborn calfserum has been used to makethe Covaxin Covid-19 vac-cine. Congress spokesmanPawan Khera said that theparty wants “the Governmentand Bharat Biotech torespond to the reply that hascome in the RTI, then we willgive a detailed response on it”.
Gaurav Pandhi, thenational coordinator ofDigital Communications andSocial Media at AICC, hadtweeted the RTI response toapplicant Vikas Patni. The“newborn calf serum is used
in the revival process of Verocells, which is further used forthe production of coron-avirus during the manufac-turing of Covaxin,” read theresponse by the CentralDrugs Standard ControlOrganisation.
Taking to Twitter, Pandhicited the RTI response andsaid that the Modi govern-ment admitted that the vac-cine manufactured by BharatBiotech “consists NewbornCalf Serum which is a por-tion of clotted blood obtainedfrom less than 20 days youngcow-calves, after slaughteringthem”. “This is heinous. Thisinformation should havebeen made public before,”added Pandhi. He alsoattached a screenshot of theresponse to the RTI applica-tion as well.
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Accusing the Congress of“ c o m m u n a l i s i n g ”
and spreading disinformationon the indigenous CovaxinCovid-19 vaccine, the BJP onWednesday demanded toknow whether Congress pres-ident Sonia Gandhi and herparty leaders, Rahul Gandhiand Priyanka Gandhi, werevaccinated or not.
Addressing a Press con-ference here, BJP nationalspokesperson Sambit Patrarejected the Congress charge
that Covaxin has calf serum,saying the Opposition partyhas committed “a big sin” bymaking such allegations.
He said the scientificcommunity and the HealthMinistry has said there is nocalf serum in Covaxin andthat it is “fully safe”.
Patra said Congress hasgiven a “communal angle” tothe vaccination process andasked whether “Gandhi fam-ily members Sonia, Rahuland Priyanka and RobertVadra have vaccinated them-selves and if so when, where
and which vaccine?”As against Congress “dis-
information”, the BJPspokesperson said India isthe fastest vaccinating coun-try and that the efforts shouldbe applauded.
Patra said the Congress islowering the name of Indiaand is only known for creat-ing vaccine hesitancy and itswastage. He said Congress-ruled Chhattisgarh said no toCovaxin , Rajasthan threwvaccines into “garbage” andPunjab indulged in “profi-teering”.
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Drones will play a major rolein India’s national highway
construction plans. TheNational Highway Authority ofIndia (NHAI) on Wednesdaymade the use of drones manda-tory for a monthly recording ofall national highway projectsduring their different stages ofdevelopment, construction,operation and maintenance.
The NHAI has mandated
that contractors and conces-sionaires will carry out thedrone video recording in thepresence of the SupervisionConsultant, and upload com-parative project videos of thecurrent and previous month onNHAI’s portal ‘Data Lake’, cap-turing all project-related devel-opments in a month.
Supervision consultantswill analyse these videorecordings and provide theirinputs/comments in the digi-
tal monthly progress reportscovering various aspects of theproject development.
“Project Directors ofNHAI shall undertake month-ly drone survey from the dateof signing of contract agree-ment till the start of con-struction of the project at siteand also on completion of theproject. NHAI will also under-take monthly drone survey inall developed projects whereNHAI is responsible for oper-
ation and maintenance,” theMinistry of Road Transportand Highways said in a pressnote.
Further, mandatorydeployment of a NetworkSurvey Vehicle (NSV) to carryout a road condition survey onnational highways willenhance the overall quality ofthe highways as NSV uses thelatest survey techniques suchas a high-resolution digitalcamera for 360 degreeimagery, Laser RoadProfilometer and other latesttechnology for the measure-ment of distress in the roadsurface.
The decision to usedrones comes a day after theRoad Transport HighwaysMinister Nitin Gadkarireviewed the projects andasked the stakeholders includ-ing NHAI to put in use tech-nology and innovative ideas tokeep a track on the develop-ment of the highways androad infrastructure projectsacross the country.
As part of mission PRA-GATI, the Centre has beenmonitoring the progress ofseveral other major infra-structure projects includingBullet Train, Dedicated FreightCorridors and Ports amongothers.
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As China is muscling intothe Indo-Pacific region
causing concern, DefenceMinister Rajnath Singh onWednesday called for an openand inclusive order in theregion based upon respect forsovereignty and territorialintegrity of nations.
He also flagged terrorismand radicalisation as the“gravest threats” to peace andsecurity in the world and saida collective approach isrequired to combat the chal-lenges. This observation was inapparent reference to Pakistanaiding and abetting terrorism.
Rajnath made these asser-tions while addressing the 8thAssociation of Southeast AsianNations (ASEAN) DefenceMinisters Meeting (ADMM)Plus. The ADMM Plus is anannual meeting of DefenceMinisters of 10 ASEAN coun-tries and eight dialogue partnercountries - Australia, China,
India, Japan, New Zealand,Republic of Korea, Russia andthe United States. Brunei is theChair of the ADMM Plusforum this year.
Refraining from namingChina, Rajnath talked aboutthe Indo-Pacific region stress-ing the need for rule-basedorder and stressed on “peace-ful resolutions of disputesthrough dialogue and adher-ence to international rules andlaws.”
“India has strengthened itscooperative engagements inthe Indo-Pacific based on con-verging visions and values forpromotion of peace, stabilityand prosperity in the region.Premised upon the centrality
of ASEAN, India supportsutilisation of ASEAN-ledmechanisms as important plat-forms for implementation ofour shared vision for the Indo-Pacific,” he added.
Highlighting India’s con-cerns over maritime securitychallenges, he noted thatdevelopments in the SouthChina Sea attracted attentionin the region and beyond. Itwas in obvious reference toChina’s aggressive behaviourin the critical waterways.
“Maritime security chal-lenges are a concern to India.The Sea lanes ofCommunication are criticalfor peace, stability, prosperityand development of the Indo-Pacific region,” he stressed.
He hoped that the Code ofConduct negotiations will leadto outcomes keeping withinternational law and do notprejudice the legitimate rightsand interests of nations thatare not party to these discus-sions.
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The EnforcementDirectorate (ED) has arrest-
ed Vivekanand Shankar Patil,Chairman of Karnala NagariSahakari Bank, Panvel, Raigad,Maharashtra, in a bank fraudcase worth over �500 crore.
The fraud came to lightafter an audit was done at thebehest of the Reserve Bank ofIndia in 2019-20.
The audit revealed thatPatil was siphoning off fundssince 2008 from the bankthrough 63 fictitious loanaccounts of Karnala CharitableTrust and Karnala SportsAcademy, which were foundedby him, the agency said.
No collateral securitieswere taken against such loansand no correspondence wasmade with the revenue author-ities regarding payment ofstamp duty for the purpose ofpurchasing immovable prop-erties for which loans wereobtained, thereby making theloans unsafe/unsecured, it said.
Further, all the above loanaccounts that were used fortransferring funds to the saidtrust, were found to be non-performing asset (NPA).
It was further observedthat without following KYCnorms and other RBI guide-lines, the said loans were sanc-tioned and disbursed at theinstruction and for gains byPatil, the agency alleged.
Patil was produced beforethe Special Court for PMLAcases in Mumbai onWednesday. The court grantedhis custody till June 25.
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Ruchi Global Limited and itsdirectors for cheating a con-sortium of banks led by Bankof Baroda to the tune of�188.35 crore. The accusedfirm is registered in Mumbaiand has a corporate office inIndore (Madhya Pradesh). Thefirm and the accused directorscheated the banks betweenJanuary 1, 2016 and December2017.
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conservation of forests.The path-breaking law gave
three generations of tribals theright to live on their land. Butthey were asked to prove theirownership, which most of themcan’t and that is the biggest stickto beat them up with. Thoughthe authorities want them toshow papers of the inheri-tance, they have lived on theland even before paper wasinvented! Even so, they havebeen branded a “danger to for-est land and wildlife”.
The adivasis have managedtheir environment better thanneo-conservationists. Peoplein Gosaba, Sunderbans, arekilled by the Bengal Tigers.There is a village in Gosabanamed Vidhwapalli, a village ofwidows whose husbands werekilled by tigers. The very samepeople feed the tigress whotakes shelter in the village whenshe is about to deliver hercubs! Now think about theDelhi ridge or Mumbai’s Aareyforest constantly waning eachpassing year. Nearly 80 per centof biodiversity in the world isin areas inhabited by tribals.They have conserved the forestspretty well. They take from itwhat they need, without mak-ing permanent damage andgiving time and chance tonature to recuperate and grow.
Their religious practices forbidthem to even enter the coreareas. The modern conserva-tion programmes would havethese forests as open zoos forthe inspection of tourists.
While tourists and otheroutsiders are welcome, theadivasis are not. They are aliensin their own homes. Even ifthey venture inside, they arebeaten up, tortured, even killedby rangers. Their houses areburnt and properties van-dalised. Not very long ago, a 13-year-old boy was shot in theKaziranga for wandering insidethe protected area. The park hasa shoot-at-sight policy. TheJenu Kuruba, tribals living inthe Nilgiri in Karnataka, are fre-quently shot while collectingmushrooms. Over 50 peoplehave been shot dead by theguards in the last five years. Ofcourse, you haven’t heard orread about them. They were sel-dom reported!
Another aspect of tribalpersecution is the Maoist vio-lence in forested areas. It is oftenreported from Chhattisgarh,Madhya Pradesh, Odisha,Jharkhand, and others. Thesecurity forces are up againstthe armed resistance in theforests. However, not all tribalsare supporters or sympathisersof Maoists. Most of them face
pressure both from Maoists aswell as the security forces.They are routinely rounded upand made to suffer.
It is indeed a problem thatrefuses to go away. TheGovernment, for its part, hasnever tried to find the root ofthe problem and solve it polit-ically. The Maoists draw cadresfrom the wronged people. Sincethe exploitation doesn’t end,they never run out of cadres.The basis of the problem isindeed economic beingaddressed with force. Since2010 when it was at its peak, ithas come down. It is now con-fined to around 30 districts, butthere is a long way to go. Thegains of security forces are noguarantee that the problem isover. Maoism is a problemborn out of the social and eco-nomic milieu of the region andlack of development. TheGovernment gives themenough fuel and exploitationthat oils this war machinery.
If the current rate ofexploitation of nature contin-ues, we may lose the forests andforest dwellers. And, with them,their wisdom to survive with-out harming nature.
(The writer is a columnistand documentary film-maker.The views expressed are personal.)
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����������������� ������������Sir — As per reports, a housing society inMumbai’s Kandivali area has complained tothe police that it was cheated by some per-sons who organised a COVID-19 vaccina-tion camp by claiming to represent a pri-vate hospital, and the vaccine administeredcould be spurious. The society, HiranandaniHeritage Residents Welfare Association, hasnow sought investigation into the matter.
A vaccination camp was arranged by theresidential complex on May 30. But later itfound that the Co-WIN portal did not haveany record of the people who participatedand they received certificates in the nameof different hospitals, it said. “If the vaccineis found to be spurious, the people who gotvaccinated will have a medical emergencyto deal with. Therefore, there is an urgentneed to investigate the whole episode so thatsuch fraudulent activities are not repeatedat other places,” the complaint stated.
The HHRWA had organised the campthrough a person who claimed to be a salesrepresentative of a private hospital inAndheri. As many as 390 members receivedthe jabs at �1,260 per person. They wereshocked to receive vaccination certificatesin the name of Nanavati Hospital, LifelineHospital and NESCO COVID Camp,among others. Nanavati Hospital denied anyinvolvement and said they’re themselves avictim of the situation.
There are even doubts whether the res-idents were actually given Covishield or ifit were just glucose or expired/waste vaccine.Meanwhile, the BMC, from this week, hasmade signing of a Memorandum ofUnderstanding mandatory between privatevaccination providers and housing societiesif such camps are organised.
Bhagwan Thadani | Mumbai
����������� ��������� Sir — The group of seven largest indus-trial and developed nations was found-ed in1970 with a focus on economic issueand to resolve global problems. The47th G7 Summit was held in the city ofCornwall, the United Kingdom. Thewestern media focused only on the
beaches and the glowing sun.The G7 grouping took three important
decisions to restrict China, which is consid-ered to be moving in an unethical way. Thefirst is the threat to humanity, the sanctionof $40 trillion and re-investigation into thealleged Wuhan lab’s virus leak. We havealways seen that when a programme is beingheld in developing nations, the news andarticles underlining the headlines of “Hidingthe poverty” in the international media popsup. But when the same thing happens in thedeveloped world, it is hushed up. The poor-est city of the United Kingdom, Cornwall,where the G7 summit was organised, does-n’t get any space in international coverage.
The powerful nations didn’t evenfocus on how to address the issue of theappetite of the poor by providing shelterto their bodies and food to their stomach.It seems that poverty is the selling pointonly in certain cases.
Aman Jaiswal | New Delhi
�������������� �������� ����Sir — Raja, the famous festival of Odisha,was badly hit by the COVID-19 secondwave. Due to the rising cases, theGovernment imposed lockdown in most ofthe state. During this festival in the pre-pan-demic times, people used to wear newclothes, moved around having fun, enjoyedsavouries and involved themselves in “RajaMauja” for various games and activities.
But this year, the evergreen and colour-ful Raja witnessed no colours due to the sec-ond wave of the pandemic. People, being ina state of fear and negative mindset, wereadverse to letting their hair down. Maybethe State Government should start a showthat will add some colour and flavour to thelife of the Odia people.
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the mainstream. Even thoughthe tribal population is nine percent, they live as invisible Indians.Their presence is felt only whenthey make headlines for thewrong reasons, for obstructingtraffic with their protests, forinstance, and thereafter againfade into oblivion.
These are the people whohave been on the frontline ofIndia’s war of independence andthe ones to have suffered the most.The British branded 150-oddtribes as “criminal tribes” byimposing the Criminal Tribe Act,starting in 1871. It took theNehru Government five years tode-notify these tribes and replacethe derogatory law on April 31,1952. Adivasis now celebrate April31 as the alternative IndependenceDay.
Even today, tribals live on thesidelines of the Indian politicallandscape. They are indeed themarginalised entities in India’spolitical life. The adivasis havelived in forests at peace withnature for ages. But they have beencastigated, charged, blamed anddemonised, often stripped oftheir basic human rights, theirright to life and property includ-ed. They are evicted from theirdwelling places in the name ofconservation and national inter-est. To use the conservationistlingo, their habitat is shrinking. Itis being usurped legally. Despitesome sops here and there, the con-dition of tribals has not improvedeven after Independence. Theyremain on the margins, their lifeand livelihood constantly underthe threat. The neo-colonialmindset has replaced the olderone. Conservation is one bigplank that is a legit and subtle wayto evict tribals from their land.
The Forest Rights Act (FRA),2006, for the first time recognisedthe rights of tribal communitiesto forest resources. Hitherto,Government Acts and policies didnot recognise the symbiotic rela-tionship of the forest dwellers withthe forests. This, ironically, wasalways present in their depen-dence on the forest as well as intheir traditional wisdom for the
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Things don't happen easily in the gov-ernment. And, if they do happen, it isdifficult to sustain them. I had been ofthe view that for anything to happen
and sustain in the government it had to bepolitically acceptable, socially desirable, tech-nologically feasible, financially viable, admin-istratively doable and judicially tenable. Thisin itself was quite a handful. However, theunexpected agitation against the Farm Bills hascompelled me to add another dimension:"Emotionally relatable".
There is a feeling outside the governmentthat not much happens in the government. Notonly that, each one of them will have an ideaon how to make-things-happen. However, ifthe sixafore-mentioned aspects are not takeninto consideration, the idea will perhaps nottravel much distance on the ground. Let usconsider each one of them.
No matter how good an idea is, it will getconverted into a policy only if the ultimatedecision-making authority, a politician or agroup of politicians, puts its stamp on it. Forexample, many would argue that reservationin government jobs is adversely impacting gov-ernance. If there is a referendum, perhaps themajority will vote against it. But can we dis-pense with it now or at any time in the future?Perhaps not, because it will never be political-ly acceptable. That is why decision making indemocracies takes much longer than in coun-tries like China. A lot of time gets spent in con-sensus building. This is not to say that democ-racies are worse than autocracies because polit-ical acceptability, as an underlying principle ofdemocracy, has its own merits.
Social desirability of an idea is equallyimportant even if it may not appear to be so.It is important in the context of implementa-tion of an idea that may be politically accept-able. A number of schemes announced by thegovernment, hence politically acceptable, failon the ground because while formulating thescheme, the social context is not taken intoconsideration. Thus, the infamous FamilyPlanning effort of the government during thedark days of Emergency not only met with fail-ure but led to the fall of the government. Thismay be an extreme example but many schemesand ideas face enormous problems if they arenot socially desirable. Understanding theneeds of the stake holders is critical for the suc-cess of any scheme.
Technology is changing by the day. Hence,the feasibility of technology becomes animportant determinant in the implementationof an idea and sustaining it. Many of those thathave not travelled to various parts of the coun-try advocate the use of internet to reach outto children during COVID-19 times forschooling. They are perhaps unaware of thefact that internet has not reached out as yet toa large part of the country. The situation maychange over a period of time but as of now, itmay not be possible to reach out to all the chil-dren through the net.
The most critical part in implementation ofan idea is the availability of funds to back suchan idea. Till a couple of years ago, number ofrailway lines were announced by successiveMinisters for Railways in their budget speech-es (fortunately this has ceased now) without thefunds to back them. These railway lines weresocially desirable and technologically feasible.
They were obviously politicallyacceptable as well. But they neverhappened on the ground. Similarapprehensions are raised about therecently announced NationalEducation Policy (NEP). ThePolicy recommends allocation ofsix per cent of GDP to EducationSector. This is nothing new. It wasrecommended long ago by DrKothari in his Report as well. Butthe money never came despite acess levied by the government toraise resources. In fact, during theperiod from 2014 to 2018 the bud-getary allocation to school educa-tion actually came down in realterms. Without requisite money toback ideas, such ideas will nottravel a long distance.
Even if we have the requisitemoney, if the desired humanresources are not available, theidea will not work on the ground.One of the reasons of failure indelivery of health care in ruralareas is the shortage of doctors.Health care is politically acceptableand socially desirable. There is rea-sonable amount of money avail-able. But shortage of humanresource is a major constraint.School education in the country isanother example where there is anacute shortage of humanresources. There is an additional
problem relating to their manage-ment as well. This management ofthe teachers who are the pivot ofschool education, has left a lot tobe desired. The biggest mafia inschool education is the one thatprovides pre-service training, theB.Ed and D.El.Edcolleges. A largenumber of them exist only onpaper but they can give you adegree. The selection of teachersto government schools is anoth-er racket. One former ChiefMinister is behind the bars formanipulating selection. What canbe expected of teachers who havecome through such a process?Human resource management isthe key to the success of any pro-gramme.
Finally, no matter what thegovernment does, the final arbiteris the judiciary. It can undo all thatmay have been attempted. Theover-indulgent judiciary can makematters worse.
The Farm Bills appear to befine on all these dimensions men-tioned above. Even those who areopposing it on account of politi-cal considerations were them-selves pushing for such reformswhen they were in power. Most ofthemwould privately agree that theBills would benefit the farmersand will free them from the
clutches of "middle-men".However, opposition to the Billswasstill so huge. It reflected theinability of the proponents tomake this idea "emotionally relat-able" to the farming community.The Bills are indeed socially desir-able but the government whichhas otherwise demonstrated to beso skilful in communicating mes-sages, has apparently been unableto do so in the present instance.Hence, the Bills that are so bene-ficial to the farmers are not per-ceived as such. There is, therefore,this problem of perception and alarge number of farmers are notable to relate emotionally with theBills.
The listing of these limitationsdoes not mean that things donothappen in the government. Thesuccess of Ayushman Bharat, theCoal Block auctions and unprece-dented increase in coal productionduring 2014-16, the successfulmanagement of Covid-19 falloutin Mumbai and many districts ofthe country and the like prove thatit-can-happen. These pro-grammes/ schemes/ efforts under-stood these limitations andworked around them. There isindeed a lot to learn from howthey made-it-happen for others tomake-it-happen.
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Lifting Trump's sanctions,@SecBlinken, is a legal&moral obligation, NOT
negotiating leverage. Didn'twork for Trump - won't work foryou," tweeted Iran's ForeignMinister Mohammad JavadZarif late last month. But whatif US Secretary of State AntonyBlinken (and President JoeBiden) have just decided thatreviving the 2015 nuclear deal isa lost cause?
There are quite a few peo-ple in the Biden administration,and particularly in the StateDepartment, who can count totwenty without even takingtheir shoes off. So they musthave realised that there wasgoing to be an election in Irannext Friday (18 June).
Many of them would evenhave known that this time the
Iranian election has been riggedso that the 'hard-liners' arebound to win it.
Joe Biden therefore onlyhad five months to reverseDonald Trump's deliberatewrecking of the 2015 treaty thatprevented Iran from working onnuclear weapons. After the Juneelection, the wreckers would bein power in Tehran, and theywould sabotage the talks.
So why didn't Blinken'speople move faster?
It was the Trump adminis-tration that unilaterally pulledout of the JCPOA treaty (JointComprehensive Plan of Action)and slapped crippling econom-ic sanctions on Iran in 2018.Since then, Iran has repeatedlysaid that if the US just cancelledTrump's sanctions and rejoinedthe treaty, all would be well. Now
it's probably too late.Iran did nothing for more
than a year, waiting and hopingthat the other signatories(Britain, France, Germany,Russia and China) would findways to help Iran get around theAmerican sanctions.
The other countries allagreed that Iran was not violat-ing the terms of the treaty in any
way, but none of them wantedto get into a showdown withTrump by breaking the USsanctions. So when Trump tight-ened the sanctions further inMay 2019, crushing Iran'sremaining oil exports, Tehranbegan to go beyond the treatylimits - a little bit.
It didn't leave the treaty, butit began to enrich its uranium a
bit beyond the treaty limit of3.67% (far below weapons-grade). It allowed inspections tocontinue, it kept nothing secret,but every three or six months itmoved the enrichment upanother notch to create somecounter-pressure on the othersignatories to sort theirAmerican problem out.
Finally, Trump lost the 2020election, Biden replaced him inthe White House last January,and it became possible to repairall the damage. However, thenew secretary of state, AntonyBlinken, then announced thatIran would have to roll back allits post-2019 increments to theenrichment process BEFOREthe US lifted its sanctions.
The shoe is clearly on thewrong foot there. It was theUnited States that showed itself
to be untrustworthy by quittingthe treaty. The Iranian economypaid the price, starving in thegutter for three years.
The question of who goesfirst is fundamentally childish ifthere is trust, but America hasforfeited the right to demandthat Iran trust it. Biden andBlinken must know thatdemanding Iran go first doomsthe negotiations, and that arigged election in Iran willshortly close the door on the dealfor good. It would break themoff, because Iran's SupremeLeader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,has arranged for his faithful sup-porter Ebrahim Raisi to win theelection by banning more open-minded candidates from run-ning at all.
Both men are fiercely anti-Western ultra-conservatives, but
they wouldn't have got awaywith rigging the election like thisfour years ago, when the treatywas new and popular hopeswere still high in Iran. Thedespair created by Trump'srenewed sanctions killed thosehopes. Biden may be wrong tolet the JCPOA treaty die. Animmediate end to US sanctionsand a quick roll-back of Iran'sdeviations from strict adherenceto the treaty's terms might havebeen done the trick. Even a newhard-line government in Iranwould have found it hard tounpick that sort of done deal.
But it would have been agamble, and Biden seems to havedecided that he couldn't affordto risk his political capital thatway. It will be years before weknow if this was a fatal mistake(and who it was fatal for).
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Sellers who do not declarelocal content percentage
while uploading their productsat public procurement portalGeM will lose out on businessand will not be able to partic-ipate in bids in which buyer haschosen to procure only made-in-India items, the commerceministry said on Wednesday.
The Government e-Marketplace (GeM) portal waslaunched in 2016 for onlinepurchase of goods and servicesby all central and state gov-ernment ministries and agen-cies.
The Ministry also saidGeM was the first e-commerceportal in the country whichhad started displaying the‘country of origin’ of all prod-ucts prominently for giving itsbuyers the right to makeinformed decisions of pro-curement.
Now, it is mandatory for allsellers to upfront declare the‘country of origin’, withoutwhich they cannot uploadproducts on the platform.
“Going a step further,GeM has also started high-lighting the local content %(percentage) on the productdescription page prominently.
“So, even within the prod-ucts made in India, buyers canidentify products that havehigher local content and takeinformed decisions according-ly,” it said.
Buyers have been providedwith a filter in the marketplaceto identify and select productsfrom among MII (make inIndia) complaint sellers/ prod-ucts only, it said.
“Sellers who do not declarelocal content % (percentage)while uploading product andcreating catalogue on GeMwill lose out on business andwill not be able to participatein bids in which the buyer haschosen to procure only MII-compliant products,” it added.
In the portal, a MII filterhas been provided using whicha buyer can filter out all non-local suppliers and restrict itsprocurements under directpurchase and L-1 (lowest bid)purchase from among localsuppliers only.
Informing about the por-tal, Commerce Secretary AnupWadhawan said it is providingincreasing market access toseller groups like MSEs (microand small enterprises), womenself-help groups (SHGs), andstart-ups.
Currently, GeM has over6,90,000 MSE sellers and ser-vice providers and they con-tribute over 56 per cent of thetotal order value on the plat-form.
Speaking with reporters,GeM Chief Executive Officer PK Singh said there are 9,980start-ups registered on GeMcurrently.He said that toaddress the credit access chal-lenges faced by MSMEs,GeMSAHAY app has beenrolled out.
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As India emerges from adevastating second wave
of Covid-19 infections, PrimeMinister Narendra Modi onWednesday said the focusmust be on repairing andpreparing the health infra-structure as well as the econ-omy for future challenges.
To prepare a base for asustained higher growth rate,the Government continues tounleash reforms and has alsoextended free food distribu-tion schemes to aid the poorhit hard by the pandemic.
“Over the past year, wehave witnessed a lot of dis-ruption in different sectors.Much of it is still there,” Modisaid at the VivaTech Summit.“Yet, disruption does not haveto mean despair. Instead, wemust keep the focus on thetwin foundation of repair andprepare.”
This time last year theworld was still seeking a vac-cine and today two vaccinesare being made in India, andmore are in the developmentor trial stages, he said. “Wehave to continue repairinghealth infrastructure and oureconomies,” he said. “Andwhen I say prepare, I mean
insulating our planet againstthe next pandemic, ensuringwe focus on a sustainablelifestyle that stops ecologicaldegradation, strengtheningcooperation in furtheringresearch as well as innova-tion.”
Indian economy sufferedits worst contraction in fourdecades as coronavirus-induced lockdowns stalledbusinesses and economicactivity.
While attempts weremade to control the spread ofinfections and healthcareinfrastructure built to treatthe ill, the government imple-mented huge reforms acrosssectors - from mining tospace, from banking to atom-ic energy.
“This goes on to showthat India as a nation isadaptable and agile,” he said.After the brutal second wavein April and May, the Covidcase has fallen more than 80per cent since its peak 5weeks ago.
This as also the pick up inthe pace of vaccination hadaided state governments torelax restrictions at a rela-tively faster pace than in2020.
“I believe where con-vention fails, innovation canhelp. This has been seen dur-ing the Covid-19 global pan-demic, which is the biggestdisruption of our age. Allnations have suffered lossesand faced anxiety about thefuture,” Modi said.
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Adani Total Gas went upby 921 per cent while
Adani Enterprises went upby 890 per cent in the lastone year compared to 60.7per cent return for the NSENifty index, as per Trendlynedata.
Adani Group stocks havebeen scorchers in the stockmarket in the last year beforethey started unravelling inthe last three days and havebeen going down ever since.
Adani Group investorshave seen wealth erosion of� 1.10 lakh crore in the lastthree trading sessions.
Adani Enterprises wasdown 5 .82 p er cent at�1449.30.
Adani Enterprises Ltdhas gained 213.40 per cent inthe last six months. It has amarket cap of �1.59 lakhcrore. Adani Total Gas is up917.9 per cent in the last oneyear and has a market cap of�1.53 lakh crore. It was downon Wednesday by 5.02 percent at �1,394.
Adani Total Gas hasgained 86.09 per cent in thelast three months, as perTrendlyne data.
While Adani Enterprisesand Adani Ports have beenthe flagship companies, it isAdani Green Energy which
is the star in the portfolio ofthe group with the highestmarket capitalisation.
Adani Green’s marketcap is at �1.83 lakh crore,even though it is a relative-ly new company. AdaniGreen has given a one yearreturn of 238.4 per cent.Along with other stocks,Adani Green was down by3.38 per cent at � 1,171.25 onWednesday.
Adani Ports has given aone year return of 108 percent compared to 61.1 percent for the Nifty. Its marketcap is at �1.44 lakh crore. Itwas down 7.22 per cent at�706.85 on Wednesday.Adani Ports and SpecialEconomic Zone Ltd has lost19.14 per cent in the last oneweek.
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WIPRO 562.45 562.50 553.40 555.35RBLBANK 220.00 220.00 215.20 215.90L&TFH 98.60 99.35 95.95 96.30CESC 800.00 801.35 760.35 770.35WABAG 359.80 379.25 355.95 367.60COALINDIA 157.50 158.80 155.00 155.45JSL 106.30 107.45 100.20 102.10CANBK 155.00 155.90 151.85 152.10TATACHEM 746.00 749.35 734.50 736.85DEEPAKFERT 445.05 471.25 425.00 458.25MUTHOOTFIN 1517.00 1541.10 1497.00 1509.40SCI 117.00 118.00 114.10 114.90INTELLECT 777.00 813.10 760.05 764.65SRTRANSFIN 1460.00 1463.90 1426.10 1433.60THYROCARE 1260.00 1328.00 1231.00 1297.15ASIANPAINT 3030.00 3041.90 3006.60 3019.00CONCOR 685.00 694.95 680.55 681.75NESTLEIND 17700.00 18051.95 17599.95 17972.45M&MFIN 172.80 172.80 168.70 169.50MARUTI 7175.00 7191.00 7075.00 7112.65RALLIS 343.80 343.80 337.00 341.05ISEC 650.85 678.00 634.00 639.70CUMMINSIND 850.00 855.00 834.00 849.05CARERATING 664.00 719.20 664.00 711.70GREAVESCOT 157.00 157.00 150.00 152.10NATCOPHARM 1120.00 1149.00 1082.80 1131.25IOC 116.40 117.10 115.55 115.90ESCORTS 1211.90 1211.90 1187.05 1193.90J&KBANK 29.20 31.60 29.20 30.55FORTIS 234.00 241.30 229.25 238.20NBVENTURES* 118.00 126.00 113.50 120.80MPHASIS 2055.15 2110.00 2038.70 2097.80HCLTECH 985.00 985.50 974.00 982.55GSPL 320.30 324.25 307.10 312.65TATACOFFEE 181.85 185.90 178.35 181.45SYMPHONY 1078.70 1148.00 1078.40 1110.35MFSL 1026.30 1044.55 1019.00 1022.25GSFC 117.00 123.50 114.80 121.65RAJESHEXPO 588.00 619.80 588.00 590.65TV18BRDCST 46.00 46.45 43.70 44.20BEML 1355.00 1355.00 1324.45 1330.00GRASIM 1499.95 1500.85 1464.40 1469.70WABCOINDIA 6872.40 7870.45 6856.95 7298.95PTC 106.65 109.25 106.50 108.15DIVISLAB 4344.50 4344.50 4284.10 4290.05COCHINSHIP 416.00 433.75 401.40 415.90POLYCAB 1875.00 1926.35 1858.75 1920.05RECLTD 156.15 159.90 155.30 155.90TITAN 1725.00 1728.50 1706.80 1714.00COFORGE 3974.70 4023.95 3911.80 3958.25SRF 7155.00 7206.00 7088.40 7140.95BAJAJCON 293.95 302.70 291.50 295.60
KAJARIACER 1009.80 1012.00 990.00 995.15PFIZER 5500.00 5532.45 5440.00 5440.00PHILIPCARB 235.05 237.10 229.10 230.65INDIGO 1775.00 1780.85 1727.35 1735.25BATAINDIA 1646.00 1658.25 1626.35 1647.10SBILIFE 1001.80 1002.40 988.70 993.00HINDZINC 341.00 341.35 328.30 333.85NCC 89.90 89.90 86.10 87.00LAURUSLABS 624.85 625.80 616.85 618.00JINDALSAW 112.30 112.55 105.40 106.35CIPLA 969.60 971.00 954.00 956.60SUNTV 524.40 532.65 521.00 529.70MGL 1275.00 1276.90 1245.25 1248.15TATAELXSI 3775.00 3818.55 3740.70 3776.30PETRONET 233.85 234.25 230.10 230.45SUMICHEM 385.70 394.45 381.50 387.00NAVINFLUOR 3365.15 3412.65 3336.95 3360.00BIOCON 410.50 411.00 402.55 403.20AARTIIND 1844.00 1844.80 1819.00 1829.00GICRE 195.75 202.50 195.35 200.20INFIBEAM 50.25 51.45 50.00 50.50TORNTPOWER 468.15 472.00 455.55 467.00GRANULES 330.00 330.00 323.10 323.70KRBL 234.00 240.80 231.00 234.70IGL 545.00 545.00 532.80 534.00MRPL 55.30 56.20 53.55 53.85UNIONBANK 37.50 37.80 36.85 37.50IEX 377.50 380.45 372.45 374.80MINDAIND 646.00 662.25 640.45 655.80RVNL 32.95 33.20 32.15 32.40SPICEJET 78.55 79.10 77.50 77.70ICICIPRULI 580.40 590.65 576.05 579.85IDFCFIRSTB 59.85 59.90 58.30 58.50
HATHWAY 28.00 28.40 27.15 27.30INDIANB 143.00 147.70 139.25 141.55CENTURYTEX 582.70 589.35 563.15 576.90COROMANDEL 840.15 882.25 840.15 865.60TAKE 70.20 70.65 68.20 68.65COLPAL 1720.00 1724.00 1701.25 1710.00GET&D 139.50 150.50 136.90 144.95TATAMETALI 1175.30 1175.35 1134.80 1142.00GESHIP 421.35 477.00 408.00 410.40RELAXO 1114.00 1114.00 1092.80 1099.60CHOLAFIN 566.00 570.90 560.15 564.55ULTRACEMCO 6666.05 6690.15 6570.00 6585.70SPARC 248.00 248.00 236.00 238.35IDBI 38.85 39.30 38.60 38.75FDC 382.40 382.40 354.15 359.40BANDHANBNK 324.00 325.30 319.15 320.90IBREALEST 111.00 111.30 107.05 108.70NOCIL 206.00 213.70 205.45 207.95GEPIL 323.00 339.80 317.95 331.60CEATLTD 1382.00 1398.85 1366.10 1371.40VRLLOG 283.00 294.25 280.45 290.25AMBUJACEM 340.00 344.00 337.75 338.85DHANUKA 980.00 997.85 956.80 984.10LTTS 2862.00 2899.00 2835.00 2835.00KEI 720.00 730.75 685.35 693.00HAVELLS 1022.00 1022.00 1005.20 1007.25IOB 21.10 21.30 20.50 20.65UCOBANK 14.30 14.43 13.81 14.03APOLLOTYRE 235.35 238.05 232.30 233.15RAMCOCEM 1035.00 1035.35 1015.35 1015.40PNBHOUSING 701.15 774.00 701.15 722.80GPPL 120.50 121.30 115.15 116.25PIDILITIND 2147.00 2148.95 2121.80 2131.65TATAMTRDVR 164.30 165.80 161.20 162.50RITES 288.00 290.10 272.30 276.35ADANIPOWER 127.25 127.25 127.25 127.25BHARATFORG 745.00 745.00 729.00 729.30GODREJPROP 1433.00 1441.80 1405.00 1405.00ASHOKA 100.00 102.00 98.60 100.90NIACL 170.50 175.95 167.40 174.20TRIDENT 16.65 16.90 16.45 16.55VENKYS 2703.00 2725.00 2640.10 2645.80GODREJAGRO 552.95 569.95 552.55 555.55SBICARD 1074.60 1084.85 1070.00 1074.80ADANIGREEN 1203.00 1220.00 1155.00 1171.25HSCL 54.90 55.00 53.15 53.70MAHABANK 26.40 26.40 25.80 25.85APLLTD 1003.00 1019.00 991.00 997.00EICHERMOT 2756.00 2773.90 2725.95 2744.45BANKINDIA 79.30 80.50 78.25 78.50BERGEPAINT 826.00 827.50 816.10 819.90EXIDEIND 193.00 193.55 190.10 191.10BRITANNIA 3630.05 3644.00 3606.25 3631.70IPCALAB 2068.20 2071.05 2040.80 2050.70MINDTREE 2475.00 2485.55 2436.25 2468.85MIDHANI 214.40 215.95 207.00 208.15FSL 165.00 169.30 162.70 165.00DCBBANK 110.85 112.50 109.25 111.30MANAPPURAM 169.20 169.35 165.80 166.60MAHSEAMLES 317.50 333.35 310.10 323.15MOTILALOFS 814.00 828.40 802.25 815.60INDIAMART 7387.00 7431.55 7250.00 7270.00BAJAJ-AUTO 4130.00 4151.60 4102.50 4109.60ORIENTELEC 319.90 334.90 317.80 324.95MRF 82989.95 83140.75 82414.00 82543.95METROPOLIS 2913.85 2927.85 2775.00 2791.00ECLERX 1721.15 1773.70 1684.25 1715.05PERSISTENT 2554.90 2587.00 2512.15 2541.05ZENSARTECH 305.00 307.00 298.00 303.55GMM 4643.05 4722.00 4613.10 4646.55BOSCHLTD 15960.00 15960.00 15745.65 15798.55VIPIND 402.15 409.45 401.35 402.00KEC 399.50 404.00 397.45 402.70DIXON 4237.00 4242.05 4156.60 4190.65BBTC 1374.55 1374.55 1337.95 1341.00CRISIL 2480.00 2567.45 2389.75 2445.55HDFCAMC 3070.05 3077.30 3045.90 3050.00JAMNAAUTO 87.50 89.00 84.10 86.00CENTRALBK 20.85 21.00 20.40 20.70ABB 1700.00 1727.00 1674.50 1717.45RAYMOND 411.00 413.75 404.30 405.15ENGINERSIN 84.70 85.20 83.30 83.60LINDEINDIA 1579.50 1630.50 1570.00 1588.65SHREECEM 28412.65 28587.00 28126.50 28233.10WOCKPHARMA 642.00 648.65 626.50 628.05GRAPHITE 735.00 738.20 716.70 720.60VARROC 375.00 387.55 371.10 378.30NAM-INDIA 372.00 372.65 364.30 366.70ABCAPITAL 123.90 125.55 123.00 123.35JUBLPHARMA 775.00 775.40 753.40 761.95PVR 1459.00 1464.35 1437.00 1440.70ABFRL 205.80 205.80 202.00 203.45CAPPL 678.40 683.95 667.00 674.00DISHTV 15.55 16.00 15.14 15.24AUBANK 1056.55 1065.00 1036.25 1041.80NHPC 27.15 27.30 26.85 27.00AFFLE 5185.00 5185.00 5110.00 5122.90GNFC 374.50 381.00 366.20 372.55OIL 151.95 153.00 146.55 147.20JKPAPER 177.45 178.50 171.80 175.40CUB 170.00 170.00 166.50 167.80TVSMOTOR 629.55 632.50 620.45 622.00CASTROLIND 147.75 152.40 147.40 150.15LUXIND 3511.30 3530.00 3409.85 3438.00GMDCLTD 78.55 80.50 76.10 78.50VINATIORGA 1766.45 1780.30 1738.70 1746.20BLUEDART 5810.00 5985.00 5766.20 5840.00SHANKARA 439.30 446.20 435.05 441.35
DBL 562.30 562.30 545.00 549.60SHK 156.20 165.10 156.20 161.35BALRAMCHIN 349.75 352.95 334.85 337.80IDFC 56.00 56.75 55.10 55.55ALKEM 3187.35 3207.05 3131.35 3183.00SIEMENS 2060.00 2060.00 2020.35 2023.00BAYERCROP 5722.70 5740.70 5600.00 5639.25JSLHISAR 199.50 200.35 187.60 191.65
JKLAKSHMI 569.40 574.00 554.50 560.00MAHLIFE 615.25 665.00 615.25 635.20DELTACORP 183.50 183.50 179.55 180.70BALKRISIND 2274.65 2274.65 2240.05 2244.80CANFINHOME 524.00 528.40 516.15 517.25TNPL 170.10 172.40 162.20 167.00AEGISLOG 368.35 372.55 361.20 361.20JTEKTINDIA 110.40 115.75 107.40 108.85UBL 1383.10 1383.10 1354.35 1363.55QUESS 812.00 853.00 812.00 836.20HEG 2265.00 2285.00 2230.25 2252.00UJJIVANSFB 33.50 33.70 32.15 32.55APLAPOLLO 1510.00 1525.00 1470.20 1492.50SWSOLAR 238.20 241.50 235.10 236.30RADICO 730.05 738.60 722.00 732.20PARAGMILK 146.00 150.55 141.20 142.15CARBORUNIV 578.00 584.35 570.80 574.55LEMONTREE 41.20 43.20 41.05 42.25ASTRAL 1960.00 1971.15 1923.00 1957.80ACC 2040.00 2052.80 2013.00 2020.00CREDITACC 780.00 780.00 750.00 755.60WELCORP 154.05 156.70 151.50 151.75BALMLAWRIE 144.70 144.70 140.95 141.50JBCHEPHARM 1530.00 1532.90 1503.00 1529.50OBEROIRLTY 652.00 658.00 639.00 641.95FINEORG 2890.00 2924.95 2856.05 2860.55VBL 800.25 800.25 785.50 787.10EQUITAS 96.55 96.55 95.00 95.10SUDARSCHEM 696.00 700.75 677.50 677.50INDHOTEL 136.95 137.35 134.65 135.40ASTRAZEN 3755.00 3820.00 3752.00 3770.00PAGEIND 30088.60 30132.85 29805.00 29859.65MAHINDCIE 214.80 217.90 212.35 215.00CGCL 530.50 536.05 525.00 527.00ADVENZYMES 416.00 416.10 405.25 415.50TORNTPHARM 2958.00 2958.00 2881.70 2888.80EMAMILTD 539.25 546.60 534.70 541.05CROMPTON 432.00 432.00 421.60 423.70HUDCO 53.60 53.60 51.45 51.70MOIL 189.00 191.50 185.65 186.20PNCINFRA 247.50 260.50 247.50 256.00PCJEWELLER 27.35 28.00 26.50 27.25DCMSHRIRAM 741.65 752.50 730.00 737.35DALBHARAT 1875.20 1899.60 1823.00 1835.70HAL 1050.00 1050.00 1027.00 1029.85MAHLOG 600.10 611.75 575.45 579.00MCX 1549.90 1556.55 1536.00 1541.35AJANTPHARM 2000.00 2024.00 1984.40 1995.00ALKYLAMINE 3590.00 3608.75 3555.30 3558.00AVANTI 595.00 599.95 584.70 588.35MHRIL 271.10 271.10 260.00 261.25ADANITRANS 1369.35 1369.35 1369.35 1369.35EPL 254.00 262.50 254.00 260.10KPITTECH 236.00 240.00 235.00 236.45FLUOROCHEM 1150.00 1175.00 1125.55 1139.30EDELWEISS 73.60 73.75 70.70 72.15GUJALKALI 419.80 423.70 412.45 413.80GHCL 284.00 292.50 283.25 287.00OFSS 3750.00 3750.00 3680.00 3710.75IRCON 48.20 48.45 47.65 47.80BAJAJELEC 1052.00 1057.45 1034.65 1044.80ENDURANCE 1594.40 1601.95 1530.20 1574.45FINOLEXIND 168.90 169.70 167.35 167.85VAIBHAVGBL 812.00 813.90 797.90 801.20GALAXYSURF 3070.00 3073.45 3021.90 3029.30IFCI 13.40 13.71 13.00 13.16TATAINVEST 1169.50 1175.00 1150.00 1154.80PRESTIGE 287.25 292.95 281.20 284.30CCL 345.00 347.90 341.00 343.50ASTERDM 159.00 159.00 153.50 156.00NH 481.05 484.55 472.00 473.60MINDACORP 135.15 138.15 132.50 135.40ATGL 1394.00 1394.00 1394.00 1394.00INDUSTOWER 253.90 256.05 251.10 251.35INOXLEISUR 315.05 320.00 314.10 316.00GLAXO 1580.00 1589.65 1558.90 1568.35UJJIVAN 218.00 219.45 214.05 214.75SCHNEIDER 129.80 129.80 125.35 125.95KANSAINER 588.80 588.80 577.00 577.80GODFRYPHLP 945.15 948.00 932.65 936.20BLUESTARCO 814.50 817.55 807.15 811.05HONAUT 40685.50 40952.50 40259.00 40296.00TCIEXP 1552.40 1552.40 1462.05 1485.55
SONATSOFTW 717.00 732.70 711.95 717.00ZYDUSWELL 2036.00 2076.80 2031.65 2042.00GODREJIND 546.20 548.70 531.15 538.55KNRCON 228.10 229.55 219.25 220.00SUNTECK 302.50 304.00 293.50 296.45SANOFI 7777.35 7815.95 7744.00 7757.00JAGRAN* 62.75 64.25 60.75 62.10SWANENERGY 141.40 141.40 137.55 140.60REDINGTON 270.15 273.45 265.00 267.85VGUARD 274.00 274.00 268.10 268.10GRSE 200.00 206.70 197.05 201.00TRENT 856.05 869.85 847.20 851.20ITI 131.90 132.00 127.65 128.35ALLCARGO 144.00 144.05 140.60 141.25ARVINDFASN 141.65 141.65 138.25 138.80IFBIND 1123.25 1131.45 1083.15 1091.30CSBBANK 330.10 331.65 322.50 325.65FINCABLES 499.55 503.15 476.90 489.90JYOTHYLAB 158.00 161.70 157.20 158.20JCHAC 2342.90 2367.35 2277.95 2288.00BIRLACORPN 1231.10 1237.00 1216.00 1220.00POWERINDIA 1843.50 1843.50 1777.50 1805.00HERITGFOOD 434.50 434.50 408.75 414.80DBCORP 117.50 117.50 112.65 113.35ATUL 8950.00 9016.00 8900.80 8904.00AAVAS 2491.00 2524.95 2437.10 2497.00SOMANYCERA 502.85 502.85 481.90 493.35STLTECH 266.00 267.95 256.25 257.30DCAL 209.00 211.00 202.90 203.70KTKBANK 63.90 64.15 63.20 63.30GDL 319.50 321.00 310.05 312.60SOBHA 515.00 516.45 500.00 502.70PRSMJOHNSN 132.35 134.90 129.00 129.75KALPATPOWR 436.20 440.00 432.45 433.85JKCEMENT 2788.90 2816.95 2766.55 2774.95SUNDRMFAST 846.00 846.00 827.00 835.80SPANDANA 727.95 727.95 696.00 701.50KPRMILL 1547.00 1556.45 1510.35 1530.00EIHOTEL 119.00 119.00 114.95 115.65INDOCO 410.45 420.00 401.00 405.60TIMKEN 1377.60 1391.00 1356.05 1376.40CHENNPETRO 136.00 136.95 133.60 134.10ITDC 385.70 396.00 384.00 386.35SUPREMEIND 2280.00 2280.00 2251.00 2261.80PHOENIXLTD 824.15 828.70 801.35 810.25SOLARINDS 1625.30 1625.30 1570.00 1594.95HEIDELBERG 251.10 251.10 247.60 248.65NAVNETEDUL* 95.95 96.00 93.25 94.00GULFOILLUB 704.00 704.00 692.10 695.25UFLEX 479.50 479.50 465.60 468.65JMFINANCIL 97.00 97.05 94.05 94.35TTKPRESTIG 8830.00 8836.45 8668.00 8668.00TIMETECHNO 86.00 87.25 84.55 85.55GILLETTE 5762.10 5826.20 5723.35 5741.45FORCEMOT 1264.20 1264.20 1229.00 1230.10REPCOHOME 403.05 408.70 394.35 394.70GRINDWELL 1176.35 1183.60 1152.00 1155.40AMBER 2782.85 2790.05 2761.00 2769.00ABBOTINDIA 16500.00 16500.00 16330.70 16469.90SJVN 29.85 29.95 29.20 29.30LAXMIMACH 6550.95 6550.95 6400.00 6428.00STARCEMENT 111.05 113.10 108.50 108.65TVTODAY 322.50 322.60 309.40 312.00ESABINDIA 1896.80 1918.05 1860.00 1881.80SIS 425.40 425.95 412.50 419.55ORIENTREF 311.95 311.95 304.00 305.153MINDIA 25700.65 25814.65 25420.00 25478.35AIAENG 1971.70 2000.20 1957.70 1993.80PGHL 5800.50 5835.75 5780.00 5780.00ORIENTCEM 137.00 137.00 133.75 135.20SHOPERSTOP 231.50 236.50 230.80 234.40HAWKINCOOK 6091.00 6139.00 6000.30 6024.15NILKAMAL 2244.80 2244.80 2200.00 2206.45WESTLIFE 485.00 490.50 477.05 485.90GARFIBRES 3000.90 3086.00 2976.10 3051.95TEAMLEASE 3600.00 3600.00 3532.00 3549.75THERMAX 1487.00 1503.65 1476.60 1476.60BDL 361.00 363.75 358.50 359.65BAJAJHLDNG 3546.25 3574.20 3523.40 3542.55TCNSBRANDS 563.20 563.20 545.80 552.25KSB 1009.80 1009.80 987.90 995.30VMART 2804.30 2811.90 2769.10 2778.00IIFL 260.00 270.00 252.00 257.00NESCO 577.55 580.95 566.10 567.70CHOLAHLDNG 693.00 693.00 652.60 660.15ERIS 702.65 709.75 701.25 706.85INDOSTAR 404.00 405.95 385.00 389.00CERA 4462.00 4480.00 4319.20 4330.50MASFIN 889.05 893.10 863.60 873.10TVSSRICHAK 2055.00 2090.35 2014.00 2022.00BLISSGVS 115.25 116.15 113.50 113.75VTL 1435.10 1444.90 1394.15 1399.35RATNAMANI 2015.00 2030.00 2015.00 2030.00CENTURYPLY 419.00 423.80 413.65 418.00SFL 2199.90 2244.45 2171.65 2206.40MAHSCOOTER 3836.45 3836.45 3774.00 3801.35PGHH 13064.95 13225.10 13064.95 13212.20SHRIRAMCIT 1752.60 1763.70 1703.75 1706.15HIMATSEIDE 175.70 177.35 172.10 172.60IIFLWAM 1154.65 1154.65 1132.00 1147.75LAOPALA 284.95 284.95 279.85 283.10AKZOINDIA 2318.25 2328.00 2287.85 2287.85SKFINDIA 2640.00 2640.00 2554.45 2572.45TASTYBIT 15298.60 15399.00 15086.15 15234.00BRIGADE 282.35 286.25 281.40 281.95VSTIND 3485.05 3485.05 3456.25 3475.00SCHAEFFLER 5250.35 5263.30 5209.55 5238.20OMAXE 84.30 84.30 82.40 82.85
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With stern expressions andpolite words before the
cameras, President Joe Bidenand Russia’s Vladimir Putinplunged into hours of face-to-face talks on Wednesday at alush lakeside Swiss mansion, ahighly anticipated summit at atime when both leaders sayrelations between their coun-tries are at an all-time low.
Biden called it a discussionbetween “two great powers”and said it was “always betterto meet face to face.” Putin saidhe hoped the talks would be“productive.”
The meeting in a book-lined room had a somewhatawkward beginning — bothmen appeared to avoid lookingdirectly at each other during abrief and chaotic photo oppor-tunity before a scrum ofjostling reporters.
Biden nodded when areporter asked if Putin could betrusted, but the White Housequickly sent out a tweet insist-ing that the president was “veryclearly not responding to anyone question, but nodding inacknowledgment to the pressgenerally.” Putin ignored shout-ed questions from reporters,including whether he fearedjailed Russian opposition leaderAlexei Navalny.
The two leaders did shakehands - Biden extended hishand first and smiled at the
stoic Russian leader - momentsearlier when they posed withSwiss President Guy Parmelin,who welcomed them toSwitzerland for the summit.
Biden and Putin first helda relatively intimate meetingjoined by US Secretary of StateAntony Blinken and RussianForeign Minister Sergey Lavrov.Each side had a translator forthe session, which lasted aboutan hour and a half. The meet-ing, after about a 40-minutebreak, then expanded to includesenior aides on each side.
Biden and Putin wereexpected to meet for a total offour to five hours of wide-rang-ing talks.
For months, they havetraded sharp rhetoric. Bidenhas repeatedly called out Putinfor malicious cyberattacks byRussian-based hackers on USinterests, for the jailing ofRussia’s foremost oppositionleader and for interference inAmerican elections.
Putin has reacted withwhatabout-isms and denials— pointing to the Jan. 6 insur-rection at the US Capitol toargue that the US has no busi-ness lecturing on democraticnorms and insisting that theRussian government hasn’tbeen involved in any electioninterference or cyberattacksdespite US intelligence showing
otherwise.In advance of Wednesday’s
meeting, both sides set out tolower expectations.
Even so, Biden said it wasan important step if the UnitedStates and Russia were able toultimately find “stability andpredictability” in their rela-tionship, a seemingly modestgoal from the president fordealing with the person hesees as one of America’s fiercest
adversaries.“We should decide where
it’s in our mutual interest, in theinterest of the world, to coop-erate, and see if we can do that,”Biden told reporters earlierthis week. “And the areas wherewe don’t agree, make it clearwhat the red lines are.”
Putin’s spokesman, DmitryPeskov, told The AssociatedPress on Wednesday that nobreakthroughs were expected
and that “the situation is toodifficult in Russian-Americanrelations.” He added that “thefact that the two presidentsagreed to meet and finally startto speak openly about theproblems is already an achieve-ment.”
Arrangements for themeeting were carefully chore-ographed and vigorously nego-tiated. Biden first floated themeeting in an April phone call
in which he informed Putinthat he would be expellingseveral Russian diplomats andimposing sanctions againstdozens of people and compa-nies, part of an effort to holdthe Kremlin accountable forinterference in last year’s pres-idential election and the hack-ing of federal agencies.
Putin and his entouragearrived first at the summit site:Villa La Grange, a grand lake-side mansion set in Geneva’sbiggest park. Next came Bidenand his team. Putin flew intoGeneva on Wednesday short-ly before the scheduled start ofthe meeting; Biden — who wasalready in Europe for meetingswith allies — arrived the daybefore. After the meeting con-cludes, Putin is scheduled to
hold a solo news conference,with Biden following suit. TheWhite House opted against ajoint news conference, decidingit did not want to appear to ele-vate Putin at a moment whenthe US president is urgingEuropean allies to pressurePutin to cut out myriad provo-cations.
Biden sees himself with fewpeers on foreign policy. Hetraveled the globe as a memberof the Senate Foreign RelationsCommittee and was given dif-ficult foreign policy assign-ments by President BarackObama when Biden was vicepresident. His portfolio includ-ed messy spots like Iraq andUkraine and weighing the met-tle of China’s Xi Jinping duringhis rise to power.
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Russian President VladimirPutin says he and US
President Joe Biden haveagreed to return their ambas-sadors to their posts in a bidto lower tensions.
Putin made theannouncement at a news con-ference following a summit onWednesday with Biden inGeneva.
The return of ambassadors
follows a diplomatic tug-of-war that saw deep cuts indiplomatic personnel.
Russia’s ambassador to theUS, Anatoly Antonov, wasrecalled from Washingtonabout three months ago afterBiden described Putin as akiller.
US Ambassador to RussiaJohn Sullivan left Moscowalmost two months ago afterRussia suggested he return toWashington for consultations.
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Government troops inMyanmar have burned
most of a village in the coun-try’s central heartland, a resi-dent said Wednesday, con-firming reports by indepen-dent media and on social net-works. The action appeared tobe an attempt to suppressresistance against the rulingmilitary junta.
The attack is the latestexample of how violence hasbecome endemic in much ofMyanmar in recent months asthe junta tries to subdue anincipient nationwide insur-rection. After the army seizedpower in February, over-
throwing the elected govern-ment of Aung San Suu Kyi, a
nonviolent civil disobediencemovement arose to challenge
military rule, but the junta’sattempt to repress it withdeadly force fuelled ratherthan quelled resistance.
Photos and videos of dev-astated Kinma village inMagway region that circulatedwidely on social media onWednesday showed much ofthe village flattened by fire andthe charred bodies of farmanimals. One report said thevillage had about 1,000 resi-dents.
A villager contacted byphone said only 10 of 237houses were left standing. Thevillager, who asked that hisname not be used because offear of government reprisals,said most residents had already
fled when soldiers firing gunsentered the village shortlybefore noon on Tuesday.
He said he believed thetroops were searching formembers of a village defenseforce that had been estab-lished to protect against thejunta’s troops and police. Mostsuch local forces are verylightly armed with homemadehunting rifles.
The village defense forcegave residents advance warn-ing of the troops’ arrival, soonly four or five people wereleft in the village when theybegan searching houses in theafternoon. When they foundnothing, they began setting thehomes on fire, he said.
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London: Dominic Cummings, the former top aideof UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, onWednesday reignited an ongoing row over the gov-ernment’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic ashe shared expletive-laden WhatsApp messagesbelieved to be from his former boss in which thepremier brands his health secretary “hopeless”.
Johnson’s former Chief Strategy Adviser,who left Downing Street unceremoniously lastyear, has previously made withering attacks onUK Health Secretary Matt Hancock and claimedthe minister should have been sacked for 15-20things, including “for lying” to people.
Following Hancock’s own evidence beforea parliamentary committee to deny all the alle-gations, Cummings took to his blogpost to brandthe Cabinet minister’s parliamentary evidenceas an attempt to rewrite history.
“Number10/Hancock have repeatedly lied
about the failures last year,” he writes in his blog.In screenshots of WhatsApp messages he has
shared alongside, the Prime Minister appears tocall Hancock’s efforts “totally f****** hopeless”in response to a message from Cummings andin others seems to consider replacing him.
The 7,000-word blogpost dubs Hancock’sversion of events as “fiction” and criticises “sys-temic incompetence” surrounding the UKPrime Minister.
Downing Street has refused to be drawn intothe latest WhatsApp messages row, with the UKPrime Minister’s official spokesperson sayingJohnson continued to have “full confidence” inHancock. “I am not planning to engage withevery allegation put forward, the Prime Ministerhas worked very closely with the HealthSecretary throughout and will continue to do so,”the spokesperson said. PTI
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Such people can explore legal options.In such cases, the liability will be of the vac-cine-maker,” an official said.
The Government on Tuesday saiddeaths reported post-vaccination standingat 488 were a small percentage of the num-ber of doses given, but this did not meanthey were due to vaccination.
“We ascertain if it is a minor adverseevent or it is a serious or severe adverseevent. Then it is monitored and causes areascertained. The vaccines approved by us,their safety parameters are very good.When 23.5 crore doses were given, theAEFI deaths were 0.0002 per cent whichcomes to 488 deaths which does not meanthese deaths were because of vaccination,”Lav Agarwal, joint secretary in the HealthMinistry had said.
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They are formulating children-specificprotocol to set up oxygen plants and estab-lishing more testing labs.
According to the Central guidelines,once vaccines are approved for children,those with comorbid conditions havingmore severe manifestations of Covid-19and poorer outcomes should be a priori-ty group for immunisation.
About the treatment of children, theguidelines said most drugs used in adultssuch as ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine,favipiravir and antibiotics such as doxy-cycline or azithromycin have not been test-ed on children for prevention or treatmentof Covid infection among them.“Therefore, these are not recommended inchildren.”
Stating that there may be intermittentsurges in the number of coronaviruscases, the guidelines said, “A combinedeffort from the private and public sectoris needed to handle any surge (in cases) inthe future after the withdrawal of the lock-down, school reopening or as a third waveover the next three to four months. Thebasic principles of equity and dignity ofcare should be followed.”
The guidelines said estimates foradditional bed capacity for pediatric caremay be calculated based on peak dailycases in different districts during the sec-ond wave of the Covid-19 infections.
From this, projections for pediatriccases and the number of admissionsrequired can be derived, it said.
“It is desirable to augment the exist-ing Covid-care facilities to provide care tochildren with acute Covid. This will needadditional pediatric-specific equipment,infrastructure and pediatric formulations.
“Also, an adequate number of trained
manpower -- both doctors and nurses --should be provided. The health authori-ties should initiate capacity building pro-grammes for appropriate pediatric care. Instandalone paediatric hospitals, separatearrangements, for example, separate bedsfor paediatric Covid care need to be set up,”the guidelines said. It is desirable to des-ignate specific areas in the Covid facilitiesfor pediatric care and parents should beallowed to accompany the child there.
“For children with MultisystemInflammatory Syndrome who test negativefor acute Covid, care has to be providedby the existing pediatric facilities. Thesefacilities also need augmentation, especiallyHDU and ICU services,” it said.
Noting that a majority of children haveasymptomatic or mild illness and can bemanaged at home by parents, it said treat-ment for symptomatic patients includeparacetamol for fever and monitoring con-ditions such as measuring respiratoryrates, difficulty in respiration, oral intakeand oxygen saturation.
“In a community setting, ASHA andMPW should be involved for managementof children at home and also monitor toassess the need for referral and admission,”the guidelines said.
The document stressed on impartingtraining to community health workers forpicking up the red flag signs. Also, allstakeholders, including the community,should be educated by information edu-cation communication.
“A few centres may be designated asregional centres of excellence for Covidcare and research. These centres can pro-vide leadership in clinical management andtraining. Telemedicine could be harnessedfor reaching out to a large number of facil-ities,” it said.
The guidelines said that based on sero-surveillance reports, Covid-19 infection inchildren above 10 years of age occurs in asimilar frequency to that of adults, eventhough among the confirmed cases lessthan 12 per cent are individuals less than20 years of age.
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50 BJP MLAs led by Bengal Oppositionleader Suvendu Adhikari on Monday metthe Governor asking for his interventionto stop the ongoing attacks on the saffronworkers in the State.In private the BJP lead-ership said their workers were beinghounded out of their houses and torturedeverywhere.
“What they did to the communiststhey are doing to the BJP workers …theirgoons are killing, raping and looting ourworkers whereas their police force are slap-ping false cases and putting them to jail …
the worse part of it is the leaders and MLAsare not being allowed to visit the affectedareas … if this is not fascism and Staterepression then what is … but they mustunderstand that we are not CPI(M) … wewill hit back organisationally and politi-cally … we will not let Mamata sit in peace… just wait and see,” said a BJP MP. Hittingback at Dhankhar for “doing what noGovernor has done since Independence”,TMC Rajya Sabha MP Sukhendu ShekharRoy said “a Governor meeting the NHRCchairman on the issue of his State isunprecedented, crooked and condemnable… he has denigrated the high post he isin … he has sent a bad precedence mak-ing it the blackest day in Indian federal pol-itics … As Governor he has crossed theconstitutional barriers … the TMC strong-ly condemns this act…” AnotherTrinamool MP Saugato Roy quoted Article163 of the Constitution saying “thereshould be a council of ministers to aid andadvise the Governor … he has no powerto act outside this advice … Hecannot seecentral ministers or NHRC on Stateaffairs.”
Attacking the Governor for making thecontents of his letter --- about post poll vio-lence --- to Chief Minister Mamata pub-lic, he said, “A Governor has no businessto make public the privileged
communication between him and theChief Minister but he did so breaking theconstitutional norms.”
Calling the Governor a “mentalpatient” senior Bengal Minister FirhadHakim said, “This man has become a men-tal patient … he is a frustrated
person now as he could not take theBJP’s defeat in the State …instead of goingto Delhi he should visit a counselor.”
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The saffron brigade, as of now, is ona sticky wicket with its former alliancepartner, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD),tying up with the Bahujan Samaj Party(BSP), in an apparent attempt to woo theDalit voters of the State - which is 32 percent of the State’s total population. Whatis more, the farmers, which also form aconsiderable voter base in the State, are alsoat swords’ points against the party forintroducing the contentious farm bills.
The development came a day after theparty’s State leadership held a brain-storming session with BJP national pres-ident Jagat Prakash Nadda and AmitShah to chalk out its strategy for the ensu-ing Assembly polls in the State, scheduledto be held early next year.
The saffron brigade not only discussedthe prevailing political scenario in Punjab,
but also deliberated upon the possiblealliances, identifying areas to be focusedupon, besides holding the ways to respondto the rebellion within the state BJP unitover the farm bills issue.
Sources informed The Pioneer that theBJP high command was unhappy with theparty’s Punjab leadership, especially for itsfailure to get in touch with the party work-ers and the entire cadre at the grassrootscausing loss of support for the party.
“Because of this farmers’ agitation, itwas really hard for the BJP leaders andeven workers to move out or hold meet-ings, even at a small scale. Though sever-al campaigns were started, and pro-grammes were launched to make the farm-ers, and the people aware of the benefitsof the farm bills and other decisions takenby the Central Government, but all thatwas of no use as these were badly disruptedby the farmers or their supporters,” a seniorBJP leader told The Pioneer.
It was without any doubt that the farm-ers’ agitation against the agri bills has madea great impact on the politics of the region,especially Punjab, with the saffron partybeing the biggest loser. Over the past oneyear, the BJP leaders and workers inPunjab, and also in other states includingHaryana, have witnessed social boycottsfrom the masses, strong protests, unend-ing dharnas outside their residences, andwhat not.
Perturbed, the party’s two senior lead-ers and former Ministers came out in opento question the party high commandregarding its stand on the farm bills, whilealso openly speaking about their dissatis-faction with the top leadership in handlingthe farmers’ protest.
“We could not step out of our hous-es. Everywhere our party leaders go, theywere hounded, gheraoed. The state lead-ership was totally detached from theparty workers due to COVID and alsothese agitations. And that’s why the cen-tral leadership wanted us to launch con-tact programmes and get in touch with theparty cadre,” the party leader said.
Party sources indicated that consid-ering the prevailing circumstances in thestate, the party stalwart and key strategistAmit Shah has taken upon himself to bringout the state party unit out of the marshygrounds. The BJP has all along been declar-ing to field its candidates on all 117 seatsin the state.
At the same time, the changing polit-ical equations in Punjab - SAD and BSPforging an alliance, three AAP MLAs shift-ing loyalties towards Congress, and pre-vailing infighting within the Congressparty - has forced the party to chalk outits own line of attack and identify the pos-sible alliances and areas to focus upon.
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back while I was ill,” Paswan said. He hadrecently suffered from typhoid.
The 38-year-old MP from Jamuiexpressed determination to take on therival group while also taking swipe at hispaternal uncle without using any strongwords to attack him.
“I did not feel orphaned when myfather died last year. I do feel now,” he said,adding that he had expected his uncle toplay the role of the family’s patriarch butwas instead abandoned by him.Paswanrecalled his decision to walk out of the rul-ing NDA in Bihar to take on ChiefMinister Nitish Kumar, and said manywanted him to opt for a life of comfort andnot struggle by allying with him.
“For that I would have to bow beforeNitish Kumar. I could not do that. Myuncle played no role in the election cam-paign,” he said and rejected accusationsfrom the rival group that he took unilat-eral decisions during the polls.
Chirag has also contested Lok SabhaSpeaker Om Birla’s decision to nameParas as the leader of the party in theHouse, saying it is “contrary” to the con-stitutional provisions of his organisation.
In a letter written on Tuesday, Paswanalso informed Birla of the party’s decisionto expel five MPs, who have joined handsagainst him, and urged the Speaker toreview the earlier decision and issue a newcircular naming him as the LJP leader inthe Lok Sabha.
“Since Article 26 of the Constitutionof Lok Jan Shakti Party empowers CentralParliamentary Board of the party todecide who would be Leader of our Partyin Lok Sabha, hence, the decision ofannouncing Pashupati Kumar Paras MP asLeader of LJP party in the Lok Sabha iscontrary to provision of Constitution ofour party,” he wrote.
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given multiple opportunities to complywith the new IT rules, however it has“deliberately chosen the path of non-com-pliance”.
“Twitter fails to address the grievancesof users by refusing to set up process asmandated by the law of the land.Additionally, it chooses a policy of flaggingmanipulates media, only when it suits itslikes and dislikes,” Prasad tweeted.
Twitter has flagged posts by severalruling Bharatiya Janata Party leaders thataccused the Congress of defaming PrimeMinister Narendra Modi.
The Government sources onWednesday confirmed that Twitter hasalready lost its status as “intermediary” for
failing to comply with the new IT guide-lines. Now, Twitter will not be consideredas a platform hosting something that some-body has tweeted, but it will be editorial-ly responsible for the posts. If there is anycharge against Twitter, then it will be liablefor any punishment under any law, includ-ing the IPC. If Twitter decides to complywith the IT rules, it may again come underthe legal cover of a third party.
Prasad called it astounding thatTwitter, “which portrays itself as the flagbearer of free speech”, has chosen the pathof “deliberate defiance when it comes tothe Intermediary Guidelines.” He hit outat the company for “arbitrarily” decidingwhich posts to mark as “manipulatedmedia”.
Prasad defended the new guidelinesand said they were brought to counter themenace of fake news. “The culture of Indiavaries like its large geography. In certainscenarios, with the amplification of socialmedia, even a small spark can cause a fire,especially with the menace of fake news.This was one of the objectives of bringingthe Intermediary Guidelines,” he said.
The Internet Freedom Foundation(IFF), a group of digital experts, has castdoubt on the “intermediary” tag itself.Responding to the reports that Twitter haslost its legal protection in India, the IFFsaid the “intermediary status” is not a reg-istration that is granted by theGovernment, but “is actually a technicalqualification as per criteria under theSection 2(1)(ua)(w) of the IT Act”.
“As per Section 79, intermediaries areimmune from liability/penalty if theycomply with legal takedown requests ofuser posts from courts & public authori-ties,” it adds. “When companies likeTwitter are prosecuted, they will seek pro-tection before courts, which will decide ifit is an intermediary, not the government.The IT Act and Rules do not contain thepower for any registration, grant or revo-cation process or notification of an inter-mediary status,” IFF said.
Prasad said what happened in UttarPradesh was “illustrative of Twitter’s arbi-trariness” in fighting fake news. “WhileTwitter has been over enthusiastic aboutits fact checking mechanism, its failure toact in multiple cases like UP (UttarPradesh) is perplexing as well as pointstowards its inconsistency in fighting mis-information,” Prasad said. “If any foreignentity believes that they can portray itselfas the flag bearer of free speech in Indiato excuse itself from complying with thelaw of the land, such attempts are mis-placed.” The rule of law is the bedrock ofIndian society and India’s commitment tothe constitutional guarantee of freedom ofspeech was yet again reaffirmed at the G7summit, he said.
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The COVID-19 outbreak elicited awide spectrum of merchants’sentiments and behaviours. The
retailers are focussing on innovation tooperate to the best of their capacities inthe new normal. If the modifications,that merchants are compelled to makeas a result of the pandemic, are goodenough, they will become the newbenchmark for customer experience.When you introduce customers to anew level of convenience, reducedpricing, or better fit, their future expec-tations will be established accordingly.As sad as a pandemic of this magnitudeis, merchants simply cannot afford towaste time.
During the first several months,dealing with the new social distancestandards was difficult, and only a fewshops could open, largely selling food,medical supplies, and necessities. Withmany establishments closing, the retailsector business faced a very low con-sumer base and was at times nil.However, as time passed, each sectorlearned new strategies to deal with thenew difficulty.
Consumer behaviour was forced toalter during the lockdown. With phys-ical stores closing, everyone, even sec-tors and client groups that had previ-ously avoided doing so, had to turn tothe digital realm for their retail require-ments. Now that this behaviouralchange has been adopted, it is doubt-ful that things will revert to their pre-vious state.
This indicates that the offline-online link is more crucial than everbefore. Brands that are unable to bal-ance the two might struggle. Physicalretail remains a very powerful tool forcustomer engagement and the digitalenvironment will never be able tocompete with its value and experience,hence, being omnichannel is the wayforward to exist in composure.
E-commerce will continue to eatmarket share because it already has thetools in place to provide what customerswant — price, selection, free and rapiddelivery, to mention a few. Many brick-and-mortar stores were failing evenbefore the outbreak. The reasons for thisare numerous and complicated, but itis reasonable to assume that the rise andpopularity of e-commerce are to blamefor a large portion of it.
Another trend that will undoubted-ly become popular in the future is con-tactless shopping, which helps avoid
crowded stores while preferring lowexposure; a retail experience in whichno items are touched, displays are not
restocked, and large crowds are notrequired. Products are displayed in dis-plays, and purchases are either made
there and then and produced from therear, or they are delivered directly toyour home the following day. While thisis a format that has emerged as a resultof the short-term restrictions of work-ing in a Covid environment, it is quitelikely that customers will come toaccept it and then prefer it.
Technology will drive a revolutionin the forthcoming months and yearsand thus, retailers should invest in dig-itally advanced infrastructure and facil-ities. Digital transformation will pave theway for touch-free shopping experi-ences, merchandising, transactions, andeliminate physical interactions, there-fore, investment in retail technology willbe seen. The use of VR and AR for mar-keting changed the playing field dramat-ically. Leading companies are adoptingaugmented reality (AR) or virtual real-ity (VR) into their digital marketingstrategy to attract customers, advertisetheir goods, improve sales, retain con-sumers, and give consumers new expe-riences. Their application is expandingin a variety of fields, including health-care, medicine, astronomy, education,defence, and consumer products.
AR and VR also allow for in-storeexperiences to be had from the comfortof one’s own home, eliminating the needto travel to the store. AR is rapidly beingused by e-commerce platforms to allowbuyers to experience the goods as if theywere there in a real-life situation. Theuse of augmented reality and virtualreality in retail establishments, e-com-merce, and advertising is the next bigthing poised to disrupt marketing par-adigms. AR is more successful since ithas reduced costs and assists customersin making purchasing decisions whilethey are engaged with the information.
‘Shopping by appointment’ is anoth-er shopping trend now gaining morepopularity. This is already happeningwith a lot of designer labels and fashionfirms, and it’s a trend that may continueto spread when Covid fades into obscu-rity. In a nutshell, ‘appointment only’refers to booking an appointment andreceiving a time window in the store foryourself only or with a restricted num-ber of other clients. While the short-termgoal is to maintain social distance stan-dards and make the client feel safe, thelong-term goal is to deliver a variety ofsubstantial benefits leading to a lastingexperience. Customers with an appoint-ment are more likely to make purchas-es, allowing retailers to spend more oftheir time and effort on other aspects oftheir business.
With huge retailers suffering and arein the midst of a recession, landlords willneed to rethink their options and tacticsif they want to keep filling their facilitieswith brands that attract customers andconfirm growth.
(The writer is the Vice Chairman ofKGK Group.)
Two years ago in June, Dia Mirza-starrer and Sonal Nair-directorial
Kaafir made their debut as a web tele-vision series and instantly connectedwith the audience across the world.Written by Bhavani Iyer, the series toldthe wrenching story of Kainaaz Akhtar,a woman who mistakenlycrosses the LOC, is pre-sumed to be a militant,and is held, prisoner.
The series was agrim and poignantretelling of a similarincident andreminded the audi-ence of the humancost paid by inno-cent citizens whennations mistrusteach other.
Dia says, “Itis difficult tonot empathisewith a womanwho goesthrough somuch sufferingfor no fault ofhers. A womanwho is also amother and nolonger knows ifshe will ever expe-rience a sense ofhome. It is ahuman story thatwill always be rel-evant for its mes-sage of love andpeace but is par-ticularly perti-nent now because weare being reminded everyday by the pandemic ofour shared humanity.We are being remindedthat hate and violence are ultimately
futile emotions. What remainsafter we are gone is just thisquestion, ‘Did we love this worldand those inhabiting it enough?’”
Dia says, the fundamentalhumanism informing the storyinstantly drew her to the char-acter of Kainaz and she says,“Deep-rooted prejudices makeus forget that we are human
first and Kaafir continues to remind usof this fact. Hate is a corrosive emotionand robs us of our ability to empathisewith each other and vitiates life somuch that we forget to love, to be kind,to build a world where there is morelight than darkness. Yes, geopoliticaltensions are real but so is the hope thatone day we can resolve them.”
Kaafir was also Dia’s digital debut
and she says, “The performance had tobe subtle and yet expressive of the tur-moil within the character and I felttruly humbled when so many fans andcritics sent me appreciative messagesafter watching the series.”
She also won a Critic’s Choice nodfor Best Actor (OTT) at Gold Awards.
According to a National Centre forComplementary and Integrative
Health survey, one in 12 childrenpractice yoga. Over the years, yogahas become increasingly pop-ular among Indian children.It helps in improving bal-ance, strength, endurance,and aerobic capacity. Itcan also help to boostmemory, self-esteem, acad-emic performance, and class-room behaviour, therebyreducing anxiety and stress inchildren.
As we approachInternational Yoga Day, TataSky Fitness is introducing Yoga KiPaathshala by Shrradha Setalvad.The series will focus on ‘3Fs’ —fitness for the body, focus on themind, and fun for the soul.Setalvad explains ‘3Fs’ in detail:
FITNESS FOR BODYAsanas like Shavasana,
Navasana, Tolasana,Suryanamaskar, Chakrasana helpsin strengthening the overall well-being of kids. It aims to developboth physical health as well as cog-nitive skills in children. It opens theenergy channels throughout thebody, increasing flexibility of thespine, strengthening bones, andstimulating the circulatory andimmune systems. Along with prop-er breathing, these poses or asanas
also calm the mind and reduce stress.
FOCUS ON MINDAsanas like Pranayama, Padmasana,
Sukhasana, and others, help a child to be awareof themselves and help them control theiremotions. These act as a tool for calming and
energising the child to develop a state-of-relaxed mind, which is crucial for learn-
ing. It also develops social-emotion-al awareness, body awareness andcoordination, and interpersonal
skills.
FUN FOR SOULChildren can adapt to all kinds of exercise
and practicing yoga asana at an early age canlead them to have a healthy head start in life.In this fast-paced world, it helps to rejuvenatekids inside-out. The meditative pose helps torelax both our mind and body. It promotesspiritual awakening and awareness of higherconsciousness. It is a perfect choice if you wanta holistic approach to mind and body strength.
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Actor Ayushmann Khurrana’s equity has been soar-ing since the past few years as he delivered eight
back-to-back hits in theatres. His booming credibil-ity with inclusive, conversation-starting social enter-tainers in India has made him one of the most sought-after brand endorsers in the country.
Now, Ayushmann has been roped in to be the faceof a mobile phone brand. As we all know, mobilephones and banking are two sectors that thrive on thecredibility of the artist to become the face. Recently,mobile phone brands have signed on the superstarslike Robert Downey Jr and Virat Kohli. So, Ayushmannbeing roped in for a mobile phone brand surely meanshis credibility with the masses is only on the rise.
When asked if Ayushmann could decode whatmakes him so brand-friendly, he candidly says,“Whatever my equity is today, is mainly due to the suc-
cess of my social entertainerswhich have made me connectto the people of India. Thesefilms have told people whoI’m, how I think, and what myintent is as an entertainer.”
He adds, “I’d like to believebrands have noticed this
and connected with theidea that I try to tell realstories of real people. Ifeel thrilled that I’mpart of a brand’s visionand journey to reachout to the audiencewith a narrative thatresonates with myjourney in cinema.I’m grateful that my
films have workedwonderfully at the box
office and also got the loveand appreciation frompeople.”
Ayushmann says hehas been fortunate to getthe right films that have
become huge hits. Successalways translates to equity,
he feels.“I have always believed in
letting my work do the talking. Ihave been fortunate enough topick projects that have contributedto the new discourse of how cin-ema in India can be unique,clutter-breaking, conversation-starting entertainers that don’tneed to follow the same, stereo-typed norms of how stories have
been told,” says Ayushmann.
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Jai Ram Thakur, Chief Minister ofHimachal Pradesh (HP), flagged off
truck-mounted sewer jetting and litterpicking machines, provided to theMunicipal Corporation of Shimla byPower Grid Corporation of IndiaLimited (POWERGRID), as part of itsCorporate Social Responsibility (CSR)initiative.
Suresh Bhardwaj, UrbanDevelopment Minister of HP, V KSingh, Director (Personnel) of POWER-GRID, Kailash Rathore, ExecutiveDirector, Northern Region-II of POW-ERGRID and other senior officials werealso present on this occasion.
POWERGRID had sanctionedfunds amounting to �1.98 crores for pro-viding four special purpose vehicles(SPVs) to the state of HP. One truck-mounted sweeping machine with vacu-um cleaner and one truck-mountedcompactor had been handed over to theMunicipal Corporation of Shimla inDecember 2020. The remaining twomachines were flagged off on the daybefore yesterday.
This initiative of POWERGRIDshall help the municipal corporation increating smart city infrastructure. These
machines shall help in maintaining thecleanliness and hygiene of the city.Furthermore, with the introduction ofthese technologically advancedmachines, the process of cleaning, espe-cially in difficult terrains of the hillyregion, will be done easily and rapidly.
Earlier, one SPV mounted vacuum-assisted road sweeper, two sewer clean-ing jetting vehicle machines costing�1.31 crore had been handed over to theSub Divisional Magistrate (SDM) ofManali, district Kullu. Apart from this,3,250 solar LED street lights and 13,000twin-bin dustbins having financial impli-cation of �11.49 crore, have been suppliedand installed in various parts of HP.
Besides, POWERGRID has alsoundertaken efforts for skill developmentfor local youth in district Lahaul andSpiti, through infrastructure additions &capacity building in the field of moun-taineering & allied activities with thefinancial implication of �32 lakhs. As partof CSR efforts in the state, 4 MedicalMobile units costing �1.06 crores toBilaspur District Authorities, two ambu-lances in IGMC Shimla and DistrictHospital, Chamba have been provided inthe state of Himachal Pradesh.
The National Cadet Corps,a premier uniformed
youth organisation of ourcountry, has contributed sig-nificantly to nation-buildingsince its inception. It hastransformed the lives of mil-lions of youth by shapingtheir character and showingthem the path of ‘Unity andDiscipline’, the motto of NCC.
The NCC has madenotable and praiseworthycontributions in spreadingawareness among the masseson important issues like waterconservation, environmentprotection, Swachhta Abhiyanand enforcing COVID-19protocols. It is time that NCCnow be considered as a gen-eral elective subject/creditcourse in all universities andcolleges which are affiliatedwith NCC in an extracurric-ular capacity.
Secretary of theDepartment of HigherEducation from the Ministryof Education, Amit Khareheld a meeting with Lt GenTarun Aich, Director-Generalof NCC and Maj Gen MIndrabalan, ADG of NCC, onfacilitating the implementa-tion of NCC general electivecredit course across universi-ties and technical colleges inIndia. He welcomed the circu-lars issued by UGC andAICTE that recognises NCCas a credit course designed byDirectorate General NationalCadet Corps (DGNCC),which he hailed as a landmarkstep.
In phase one, adoption ofthe course in colleges alreadyhaving NCC units will bemade possible. Subsequentexpansion to other collegeswould depend on the creationof necessary capacity withDGNCC or by the collegesthemselves. DGNCC revealedthat under Fully Self-FinancedScheme, one lakh vacancieshave been released for privatecolleges over and above the 15lakh sanctioned strength ofNCC.
Interestingly as a JS in2013, Khare had initiated asimilar process. But at thattime it was considered as anelective subject since choicebased semester system wasnot in place. He mentionedthat the National EducationPolicy, 2020 has already recog-nised the importance of holis-tic education, social service,community development et alas credit courses under the
Choice Based Credit Systemand NCC training alreadyfalls in this ambit.
Out of the 979 universitiesin India, only 54 are centraluniversities, 425 are state uni-versities and 125 are deemeduniversities. To achieve imple-mentation of NCC elective instate universities, the DoEwould approach the state gov-ernments to facilitate theprocess. The DoE would alsoconsider the suitability ofintroducing the NCC creditcourse in IITs and NITs.
Khare also conveyed thatthe benefits of the NCC cred-it course to students need tobe adequately publicised togenerate awareness and inter-est among universities andstudents. He appreciated theefforts being made by DG ofNCC and the state direc-torates engaging with uni-versities and colleges in assist-ing the implementation.
Sudhanshu Pandey, Secretary ofFood and Public Distribution for
the Ministry of Consumer Affairs,Government of India launchedNAFED Fortified Rice Bran Oil onJune 15. This Rice bran oil will bemarketed by NAFED (NationalAgricultural Cooperative MarketingFederation of India Ltd), India’sapex Agri-marketing Organisationwhich has been serving the coun-try since 1958.
On the occasion, Sudhanshustated that this initiative by NAFEDwill reduce the country’s consump-tion dependence on imported edi-ble oil in the future. He also saidthat this will provide opportunitiesfor Indian edible oil manufacturerswhile giving an impetus to theAatmnirbhar Bharat initiative.
Guest of Honour, Arun Singhal,Chief Executive Officer of FoodSafety and Standards Authority of
India (FSSAI) highlighted the ben-efits of rice bran oil stating it is oneof the healthiest cooking oils andhas numerous benefits like beingrich in antioxidants and havinganti-cancerous, anti-ageing proper-ties.
Atish Chandra, Chairman &Managing Director of FoodCorporation of India (FCI) alsograced the e-launch and outlined thevarious health and lifestyle benefitsof rice bran oil and the importanceof standardisation of this product inthe industry. Recently an MoU hasbeen signed between NAFED andFCI for the production and market-ing of fortified rice kernel.
Regarding this initiative,Sanjeev Kumar Chaddha,Managing Director of NAFED,said, “We aim to support con-sumers by providing immunityboosting products in the backdropof the pandemic by introducingproducts aimed at promotinghealthy food habits.” He also men-tioned that this initiative will pro-vide easy access to NAFED brand-ed high-quality rice bran oil, whichwill boost the indigenous oil man-ufacturing industry.
Pankaj Kumar Prasad, NAFED’sAdditional Managing Director, con-cluded the event by highlightingthat such initiatives will broaden the
organisation’s consumer marketingsegment by offering daily essentialhealthy products at affordable price.
Rice bran oil from NAFEDwill be fortified and will containadditional nutrients and vitamins.According to the FSSAI, fortified oilcan help a person fulfil 25-30 percent of the recommended dietaryintake for vitamins A and D.NAFED Fortified Rice Bran Oil willbe available at all NAFED Storesand also on various online plat-forms and is recommended by theAmerican Heart Association andthe World Health Organization(WHO) as one of the best substi-tutes for other edible oils..
Sankalp Se Siddhi — MissionVan Dhan, was launched byArjun Munda, Minister for
Tribal Affairs on June 15. Theevent also witnessed the inaugura-tion and launch of several otherprogrammes, including the newpremises of the Tribal CooperativeMarketing Development Federationof India (TRIFED) headquarters.Keeping in line with the PrimeMinister’s clarion call ‘Vocal forLocal’ and to build an AtmanirbharBharat, TRIFED has been comingup with several initiatives, aimedat sustainable livelihoods for ourtribal population.
Munda formally inauguratedthe new office by cutting the ribbonin the presence of Renuka Singh,Minister of State for the Ministry ofTribal Affairs, Bhaskar Khulbe,Advisor to the PM, Ramesh ChandMeena, Chairman of TRIFED, andPravir Krishna, Managing Directorof TRIFED.
Speaking on the occasion,Munda remarked, “I am delightedto inaugurate the new premises of
TRIFED and unveil some notewor-thy initiatives that TRIFED hasbeen working towards, such asSankalp se Siddhi — Mission VanDhan. Implementation of this cru-cial mission will result in the trans-formation of the tribal ecosystem inour country. Today, is a momentousday for tribal people, as today seesthe culmination of the valuableeffort put in by the TRIFED teamover the past years. It is commend-able that the Ministry of TribalAffairs and the TRIFED team hasachieved this, despite the difficultcircumstances of the past twoyears.”
Renuka said, “It is noteworthythat the new initiatives beingunveiled today take care of allaspects of tribal empowerment, beit spreading awareness about therichness of tribal lifestyle and nat-ural produce with the immunityboosting product hampers and theattractively designed H&IG prod-ucts which are not only sustainable;or preserving the culture throughthe vivid colourful Coffee Table
book.”The new TRIFED Office
premises at NSIC Complex, OkhlaIndustrial Area, Phase-III, NewDelhi is around 30,000 sq ft in areaand has state-of-the-art infrastruc-ture and is equipped with twoconference rooms for video confer-encing and other latest amenities.It houses office space for theMinister for Tribal Affairs,Managing Director, senior offi-cials and all staff.
The most notable initiativeunveiled was Sankalp Se Siddhi —Mission Van Dhan. TRIFED hasbeen implementing several note-worthy programmes for theempowerment of the tribals. Overthe past two years, The ‘Mechanismfor Marketing of Minor ForestProduce (MFP) through MinimumSupport Price (MSP) andDevelopment of Value Chain forMFP’ has impacted the tribalecosystem in a major way. It hasinjected �3,000 crores into thetribal economy, even during suchdifficult times, aided by government
push. The Van Dhan tribal start-ups, a component of the samescheme, have emerged as a sourceof employment generation for trib-al gatherers and forest dwellers andthe home-bound tribal artisans. Inless than two years, 37,362 VanDhan Vikas Kendras (VDVKs),subsumed into 2240 Van DhanVikas Kendra Clusters (VDVKCs)of 300 forest dwellers each, havebeen sanctioned by TRIFED out ofwhich 1200 VDVK Clusters areoperational. A total number of 134Tribes India Outlets have beenopened for retail marketing todate, and have made a total sale of�53.66 crores. Besides, two TRI-FOOD Projects at Jagdalpur andRaigarh (Maharashtra) are beingshortly commissioned for under-taking value-addition of variousforest products being procured bybeneficiaries of Van Dhan Kendras.As a result of the above, an estimat-ed amount of �3800 crores has sofar been injected in the tribal econ-omy while impacting the lives of 50lakh members of the tribal popu-
lation. TRIFED now plans toexpand its operations through theconvergence of various schemes ofdifferent ministries and depart-ments to launch various tribaldevelopment programmes underthe Sankalp Se Siddhi — MissionVan Dhan banner for expediting itsimplementation in a Mission mode.Through this mission, the establish-ment of 50,000 Van Dhan VikasKendras, 3000 Haat Bazaars, 600godowns, 200 Mini TRIFOODunits, 100 common facility centres,100 TRIFOOD parks, 100 SFURTIclusters, 200 Tribes India retailstores, e-commerce platforms forTRIFOOD and Tribes India brandsis being targeted.
Munda also inaugurated sevenmore Tribes India outlets, two inJagdalpur, three in Ranchi, one inJamshedpur and another at Sarnath.Showcasing tribal products from allover the country, the outlets will havespecific GI and Van Dhan cornersand will display the large variety ofGI tagged and natural productsfrom different parts of the country.
The Sarnath outlet is the first suc-cessful collaboration with theMinistry of Culture at an ASI her-itage site. With these outlets, the totalnumber of Tribes India outlets havegone up to 141.
A Tribes India Coffee TableBook, which showcases the rich cul-tural tribal heritage and highlightsthe journey of various tribal artisanspractising different arts and craftsand how TRIFED has impacted theirlivelihoods, was also unveiled today.With the mission to make TribesIndia the ultimate gifting destina-tion, TRIFED has compiled a ham-per of unique handicrafts, GI prod-ucts and immunity boosters fromdifferent parts of the country. Thesehampers, unveiled today, will makefor unique gifts both here andabroad. TRIFED has also been pro-viding skill upgradation and designdevelopment workshops for thedevelopment of tribal artisansthrough handicraft and incomegeneration training programmes.During the pandemic, efforts weremade for the skill development of
tribal artisans and 17 training pro-grammes were approved for bene-fitting 340 tribal artisans and devel-oping 170 new designed products.Twenty five newly designed productsfrom the recently completed Designworkshop training programmes forthe Boksa tribal artisans at Rishikeshand Meena tribal artisans at Jaipur,were also launched.
Speaking on the occasion, Pravirsaid, “TRIFED is working consis-tently on its mission towards mak-ing the tribals atmanirbhar andself-reliant. These are just a glimpseof the activities it has undertaken inthis regard. The team is striving inthis direction and will continue todo so.”
With the emphasis on being‘Vocal for local’ and building a self-reliant India, TRIFED, as the nodalagency working towards tribalempowerment, continues tolaunch and start new initiativesthat helps in improving the incomeand livelihood of the tribal people,while preserving their way of lifeand traditions.
Apromotion-cum-pipping ceremonyof other ranks was organized at CISF
Headquarters, New Delhi and simulta-neously at all the zonal headquartersacross India.
In a path-breaking initiative for thewelfare of the personnel, 2100 consta-bles/GD have been promoted to the rankof Head Constable/GD. Sudhir KumarSaxena, DG of CISF put ranks to promot-ed CISF personnel during the promo-tion-cum-pipping ceremony held atCISF HQ. Arvind Deep, ADG (North),P S Phalnikar, ADG (APS), PrateekMohanty, IG (Pers) and other senior offi-cers of CISF were present during the cer-emony. The ceremony witnessedimmense pride and enthusiasm amongstthe promoted personnel. To implementthis transformational agenda, the officersand staff of CISF HQ pursued hard andmaintained liaison & coordination withMHA, for promoting the force person-nel.
Because of the COVID menace andguidelines of social distancing, only a
few constables were invited from Delhi-NCR Units and IGI Airport for puttingtheir rank on promotion during the pip-ping ceremony. Similarly, pipping cer-emonies were also organised in all thezonal headquarters of CISF for promot-ing the CISF personnel to the next high-er rank.
Saxena congratulated all the pro-moted head constables. He said that reg-ular promotions to the personnel go along way in enhancing our capabilitiesand also motivates other personnel toimprove in their tasks and aspire for asimilar promotions. It thus improves theoverall employee morale and job satis-faction thereby promoting the devel-opment of the organisation as person-nel feel connected with their organisa-tion and willingly give their best for itseffective functioning and growth. Healso added that in the present scenarioof negativity, these promotions will notonly boost the morale of the personnelbut also help to create a positive func-tional atmosphere at workplaces.
RITES Ltd (NSE: RITES, BSE:541556), the leading
Transport InfrastructureConsultancy and Engineeringfirm, announced its standaloneand consolidated financial resultsfor the Quarter and Year ended onMarch 31, 2021.
Commenting on the results,Rajeev Mehrotra, Chairman andManaging Director, RITESLimited, said, “Given the testingscenario, our focus remained onproject delivery & executionwhich helped us to registerQuarter to Quarter operationalrevenue growth in every quarterof FY21. Our Q4FY21 results sur-passed the Q4FY20, but were notenough to make up for the short-falls in first three quarters.”
Revenue and profit growthQ4FY21 total revenue is up
by 6.1 per cent to `632 crore asagainst �596 crore in Q4FY20 andhas shown a QoQ growth of 36.2per cent. Revenue improved dueto growth in consultancy, exports
and turnkey. Similarly, operatingrevenue, excluding other income,is up by 12 per cent to �619 crorein Q4FY21. EBITDA, excludingother income, and PAT has showna growth of 17.3 per cent and 2.4per cent respectively and sus-tained margins at 27.8 per centand 21.3 per cent respectively.During the quarter, exports start-ed for cape gauge locomotives toMozambique and coaches to SriLanka and as a result, exportshave shown a YoY growth of 54.5per cent. However, revenue fromsome consignments which wereready for shipment is spilling overto Q1FY22. Consultancy andleasing remained almost flat andseen revenue reaching towards thepre-COVID levels.
FY21 (consolidated)FY21 total consolidated rev-
enue stands at �2005 crore against�2735 crore in FY20. Similarly,the operating revenue, excludingother income, stand at �1860crore against �2474 crore in
FY20. The decrease is attributableto a decrease in exports by �448crore, disruptions in the supplychain and restrictions imposeddue to pandemic and one-timesettlement income of �91 croreduring FY20. Excluding exports,the fall in operating revenue is 8.7per cent. EBITDA (excludingother income) and PAT stands at�505 crore and �444 crore,respectively, against �668 croreand �633 crore respectively inFY20. EBITDA and PAT marginsare sustained at 27.2 per cent and22.2 per cent respectively due totimely cost reduction measures.
FY21 (standalone)Similarly, standalone revenue
also got impacted due to disrup-tions in the supply chain andrestrictions imposed due to pan-demic and total standalone rev-enue now stands at �1947 croreagainst �2665 crore in FY20.EBITDA (excluding other income)and PAT stands at �460 crore and�424 crore, against �602 crore and
�596 crore respectively in FY20. Inconsultancy and turnkey, the mar-gins were maintained at 44.2 percent and 3.8 per cent howeverexports and leasing margins mod-erated to 19 per cent and 35.6 percent respectively, due to fewerexports and reduced locomotiverequirement in H1FY21.
DividendAfter declaring two interim
dividends of �120 crore (�5 pershare) and �96 crore (�4 pershare) for FY21, the Board ofDirectors has recommended afinal dividend of �96 crore (�4 pershare) for FY21 which is 40 percent of paid-up capital. This div-idend will take the dividend pay-out of the company to 73.6 percent for FY21 based on the PATof FY21.
Performance of our subsidiaryand JV
Revenue from our subsidiaryREMC Ltd stands at �69 croreagainst �81 crore in the previous
financial year. Profit after taxstands at �24 crore against �35crore in FY20. Consultancy rev-enue from this subsidiary gotimpacted due to less tractionpower requirement by railwaysduring FY21, however, powergeneration revenues are up by46.9 per cent to �16 crore inFY21.In FY21, our wagon man-ufacturing joint venture, SRBW-PL, revenue and profit stands at�161 crore and �2.5 crores against�265 crore and �15.5 croresrespectively in FY20. In our JointVenture IRSDC, revenue andprofit stand at �39 crore and �5crores respectively against �50crore and �5 crores in FY20.
Growth outlook for FY21Commenting on the outlook,
Mehrotra said, “We can deliverorders in hand in a timely man-ner but post-COVID normalcywill set the pace for execution. Weare also aligned to seize moreopportunities for growth in com-ing years.”
State-owned non-banking financial firmPower Finance Corporation (PFC)
records highest ever net profit of �8,444crore for FY 21, up 49 per cent on Y-o-Ybasis.
STANDALONE�Highest annual PAT of �8,444 crore.�Approximately 49 per cent jump in
Standalone Profit After Tax from FY 20. �Around 28 per cent increase in net
interest income from FY 20.�Dividend of �2 declared per share.
Thus, in FY 21, PFC has given a total div-idend of �10 per share i.e. 100 per cent.
�Aided by profit growth, company’snet worth for FY 21 is up by 16 per centto �52,393 crore and has crossed the fiftythousand mark.
�Around 25 per cent Stressed BookResolved in FY 21:
�Gross NPA ratio saw a sharp reduc-tion of 238 bps from FY 20. The currentGNPA ratio is at 5.70 per cent against 8.08per cent in FY 20.
�Lowest Net NPA levels in past fouryears. Net NPA ratio saw a sharp reduc-
tion of 171 bps from FY 20. The currentNet NPA ratio is at 2.09 per cent against3.80 per cent in FY 20.
�The Capital Adequacy Ratio of thecompany has also improved sequentiallyto 18.83 per cent as on March 31, 2021.The capital adequacy is at a comfortablelevel with sufficient cushion over andabove the prescribed regulatory limits.
CONSOLIDATED FY 21 vs FY 20�Around 66 per cent increase in con-
solidated profit after tax from FY 20. PATat �15,716 crore for FY 21 vs �9,477 crorefor FY 20.
�Loan Asset book grows at 12 percent. For FY 21, it was at �7,45,189 croreand for FY 20, it was at �6,67,330 crore.
�Reduction in consolidated net NPAratio to 1.91 per cent in FY 21 from 3.57per cent in FY 20 due to resolution ofstressed assets.
�Reduction in consolidated grossNPA ratio to 5.29 per cent in FY 21 from7.36 per cent in FY 20 due to resolutionof stressed assets.
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Seven top Australian cricketerswho recently played in the
IPL have pulled out of the coun-try’s white-ball tour of WestIndies and Bangladesh.
The two tours are part ofteam’s preparations for the T20World Cup later this year.
David Warner, PatCummins, Glenn Maxwell, JhyeRichardson, Kane Richardson,Marcus Stoinis and Daniel Samshave requested not to be consid-ered for the tours for various rea-sons while Steve Smith has beenrested to fully recover from anelbow complaint which flaredduring the IPL, Cricket Australiasaid in a statement.
Cricket Australia onWednesday named a 18-mansquad for the twin tours.Australia play five T20Is andthree ODIs between July 9 and24. The five-match T20 tour ofBangladesh is yet to be con-firmed.
Jason Behrendorff, MoisesHenriques and Riley Meredithhave all agreed to go for the tourdespite also being part of the IPLcontingent that recently left
hotel quarantine.The squad is due to depart
for the West Indies on June 28for five T20Is in St Lucia fol-lowed by three ODIs inBarbados. If confirmed, theteam will then play five T20Isagainst Bangladesh.Squad: Aaron Finch (c), AshtonAgar, Wes Agar, JasonBehrendorff, Alex Carey, DanChristian, Josh Hazlewood,Moises Henriques, MitchellMarsh, Ben McDermott, RileyMeredith, Josh Philippe,Mitchell Starc, MitchellSwepson, Ashton Turner,Andrew Tye, Matthew Wade,Adam Zampa.Travelling reserves: NathanEllils, Tanveer Sangha.
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AMats Hummels own goalwas enough to handFrance a 1-0 victory over
Germany on Tuesday as theworld champions made a win-ning start to their Euro 2020campaign by controlling thegame in Munich.
Hummels turned the ballinto his own net in the 20thminute, which ultimately decid-ed the contest.
France also saw KylianMbappe and Karim Benzemahave second-half goals ruled off-side, while Adrien Rabiot hit thepost for Les Bleus.
“It was a clash that couldhave been a semi-final or a final,so to take three points wasimportant,” said France coachDidier Deschamps.
“We played a big gameagainst a very good Germanteam, but we were up to the leveland this victory does us good.”
The result leaves Francesecond on goal difference in theearly Group F table behindPortugal, after the holders’ 3-0win over Hungary earlier in
Budapest.The home defeat piles the
pressure on Germany ahead oftheir next game againstCristiano Ronaldo’s Portugal onSaturday, also at Allianz Arena.
“It was a brutally intensegame,” said Germany headcoach Joachim Löw. “We foughtuntil the end and I can’t blamethe team, we gave it everythingwe had. What was missing wasa bit of penetrating power in thefinal third. We didn’t do enoughthere.”
He refused to blameHummels for the own goal,saying: “There is no need toreproach Mats for the own goal.It was difficult for him to clear.”
It was a heartbreaking nightfor Hummels, back to boost theGerman defence after a two-yearexile from International football.
Seven years ago, it wasHummels’ headed goal whichknocked France out of the 2014World Cup in the quarter-finalsas Germany went on to win thetitle in Brazil.
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too overtly bothered by what peoplethink about his game as he goes onwith his job of winning Test match-es for the Indian team.
Despite his blow-hot-blow-coldform over the last few years, India’sTest vice-captain with 1095 runs in17 games is team’s top scorer in thetwo-year World Test Championshipcycle leading to the final against NewZealand.
“It feels special,” Rahane saidabout emerging as the top scorer.
But what about the flak that hehas faced because of poor run ofscores?
“I’m happy to take criticism. I feelit’s because of the criticism I’m here.I always want to give my best whetherpeople criticise me or not.
“For me, it’s important to give mybest for my country and contributeeach and every time be it as a bats-man or a fielder,” Rahane, whoplayed a massive role as skipper dur-ing epic series against Australia,said.
Having played Test cricket formore than eight years, Rahane knowsthat public opinion is fickle and at
best left alone with focus on control-lables.
“I don’t really think about criti-cism. If people criticise me, that’s
their thing, and that’s their job. I can-not control all these things. For me,I always focus on controllables,putting my best foot forward, work-ing hard and following my processand the result follows.”
Rahane feels that even if hescores 40 and it proves to be usefulfor the team’s cause, he is more thanhappy.
“I will be playing my naturalgame. Winning is really importantwhether I score hundred or not. Idon’t want to put too much pressureon myself and even if my 30 or 40 isvaluable for the team, I am happy.”
The Indian vice-captain in 2019had played for the Hampshire coun-ty and has a better idea about theground where he has also played twoTests in 2014 and 18, both of whichthe visitors lost.
“I like to be in the present. I knowthe conditions. It’s about being in themoment, adjusting to the conditions.Also me being the highest scorerdoesn’t matter now. It’s past. I justdon’t want to put extra pressure andwould want to play freely,” saidRahane, who has three hundreds andsix fifties in this inaugural cycle ofWTC.
For Rahane, the WTC final is justanother game and his mental make-
up is such that he is not thinking ofit as the biggest event.
“It’s just a mental thing. If we canswitch mentally and adapt, it’s impor-tant. Yes one off, we have to take itas another game not as a final or any-thing. We just want to give our best,play good cricket, be consistent in thefive days.”
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Former Australian skipper SteveSmith replaced New Zealand cap-
tain Kane Williamson as the numberTest batsman in the ICC rankingsreleased on Wednesday.
Williamson, who missed thesecond Test against England due toinjury, has slipped five points behindSmith’s 891 rating points and is sec-ond in the batters’ list.
India skipper Virat Kohli climbedto the fourth spot and has 814 points.
Also, Indian wicketkeeper bats-man Rishabh Pant (747 points) andopener Rohit Sharma (747 points),have retained their joint sixth posi-tion.
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Legendary opener Sunil Gavaskar believesthat India will go in with both Ravindra
Jadeja and Ravichandran Ashwin againstNew Zealand in the World TestChampionship final as Southampton’s‘boiling hot’ weather is going to ensure thatthe pitch dries up progressively and assistsspinners.
Gavaskar is part of the match’s com-mentary panel and is currently inSouthampton with first-hand knowledgeabout the pitch and conditions forthe match starting June 18.
“In Southampton, it’s beenboiling hot over the last few daysso the pitch will definitely be dryand help spin as the match pro-gresses, so yes both Ashwin andJadeja will play,” Gavaskar said.
Southampton’s maximumtemperature has been over250C for the past few days butthere is a forecast of rain fromThursday.
For Gavaskar, it’s not just bowl-ing but all-round abilities that giveIndia the kind of balance they needgoing into a marquee match likethis.
“That (Ashwin and Jadeja together) alsogives depth to the batting as well as give afine balance to the bowling attack. For theseries later (vs England) much will dependon the weather and pitch conditions.”
While New Zealand will be ona high after their series winagainst England, Gavaskar does-n’t feel that the Indian team isunder-prepared either justbecause it didn’t get any practicematches.
“(In) today’s tours thereare barely one or two
practice games beforethe Test series beginsand the Indian teamhas had intra-squadmatches so theyhave had that prac-
tice.“The team is
a good blend ofyouth and expe-
rience and most ofthe players have been toEngland several timesso they know the con-ditions and what toexpect,” said the formerIndia captain.
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Indian Women picked up thecrucial wicket Tammy
Beaumont (66) in the secondsession but England Womenconsolidated their position byreaching 162 for two at tea onthe opening day of the one-offTest here on Wednesday.
After getting rid of LaurenWinfield-Hill (35) in the firstsession of the day, IndiaWomen toiled hard for mostpart of the post-lunch periodbefore debutant off-spinnerSneh Rana picked up her maid-en Test wicket.
She got rid of in-form ofBeaumont, who was brilliant-ly caught by Shafali Verma atshort leg.
Beaumont faced 166 ballsand decorated her innings withsix fours en route to her secondTest fifty.
Skipper Heather Knight(47 not out) batted cautiouslyand remained unbeaten in thecompany of Natalie Sciver (11not out) as England made 76runs off 28 overs in the secondsession.
Earlier, the hosts made asolid 86 for one in the openingsession.
The Indian pace duo ofveteran Jhulan Goswami andShikha Pandey made a promis-ing start, doing just enough totrouble the English batswoman
on more than one occasion.In the seventh over,
Goswami induced an edgefrom Winfield-Hill as the bat-ter went for an extravagantdrive but Smriti Mandhanadropped the chance in the slipcordon despite getting bothhands on the ball.
In the next over, Winfieldgot lucky again. Debutant PoojaVastrakar induced a thick edgefrom the batter but the ball flew
between second slip and gullyto the boundary.
After a slow and cautiousstart, England picked up thepace. Winfield was the morepositive of the two batters asshe lofted Pandey over themid-wicket to hit the first sixof the innings and in theprocess brought up England'sfifty in the 17th over.
An over later, Winfield hitanother maximum, this timeover backward square leg offVastrakar.
Vastrakar eventually hadthe last laugh as she hadWinfield caught by wicket-keeper Taniya Bhatia, givingIndia the breakthrough.
As many as five playersmade Test debut for India,including Verma, DeeptiSharma, Vastrakar, Rana andBhatia, while for EnglandSophia Dunkley was the loneplayer to earn a Test cap.
Indian women team isplaying its first Test match inseven years. It last played thetraditional format of the gamein November 2014 againstSouth Africa in Mysuru.
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Austria forward MarkoArnautovic has been given
a one-game Euro 2020 ban forinsulting a North Macedoniaplayer in his side’s openingmatch at the tournament, UEFAsaid on Wednesday.
UEFA said Arnautovic hadbeen punished for ‘insultinganother player’ and the 32-year-old will miss his side’s matchagainst the Netherlands inAmsterdam on Thursday as aresult.
European football’s govern-ing body had opened an inves-tigation into Arnautovic fol-lowing the incident in Sunday’s3-1 win over North Macedoniain Bucharest.
The former West HamUnited player, who now plays forShanghai Port in China, nettedAustria’s third goal in the game
and then launched into an ill-tempered celebration until histeammate David Alaba inter-vened to calm him down.
Media reports claimed heinsulted Leeds United’s EzgjanAlioski, referring to the NorthMacedonia defender’s Albanianheritage.
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Aspecial goal by AlekseiMiranchuk allowed Russia to
kickstart their Euro 2020 campaignwith a 1-0 win over Finland in SaintPetersburg on Wednesday, but thegame was marred by an injury toMario Fernandes.
Miranchuk, of Serie A sideAtalanta, produced a glorious finishin first-half stoppage time for theonly goal of the game between theneighbours in Group B.
It blows open the section afterRussia, one of nine participatingnations at the Euro playing match-es at home, had lost 3-0 to Belgiumin their opening game at the week-end.
Finland, making their debut ata major international tournament,had beaten Denmark 1-0 inCopenhagen on Saturday, a game
completely overshadowed byChristian Eriksen’s cardiac arrest.
Here it was Russia’s Fernandes,the Brazilian-born CSKA Moscowright-back, who provided an injuryscare.
The 30-year-old went up for ahigh ball in the Finland box in thefirst half and came down awkward-ly, the back of his neck taking the fullforce of the landing.
He needed to be stabilised andwas stretchered off before beingtaken to hospital.
The Russian team’s Twitter feedsaid he was undergoing tests for asuspected spinal injury.
Russia went on to win the gamewithout Fernandes, as Miranchukturned on the edge of the box andplayed a one-two with skipperArtem Dzyuba before sending a glo-rious left-foot shot into the top cor-ner of the net.
That was enough for the 2018World Cup quarter-finalists to winthe game but it could have been verydifferent.
Finland thought they had gonein front inside three minutes whenJoel Pohjanpalo headed in a JukkaRaitala cross.
However Pohjanpalo, who gotthe winner against Denmark, wasthis time denied as a VAR check con-firmed a marginal offside against theBayer Leverkusen player.
Russia went on to have the bet-ter chances and could have won bya wider margin, with Finland goal-keeper Lukas Hradecky producing asuperb fingertip save to deny DalerKuzyaev in the second half.
Russia’s final group game will bein Denmark next Monday, whileFinland should again have a sizeablesupport behind them as they stay inSaint Petersburg to play Belgium.
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Netherlands star MemphisDepay has hinted that he
is on the verge of sealing amove to Barcelona as headmitted his desire to team upagain with former nationalteam coach Ronald Koeman.
“Things will become clearwith the transfer. I want toleave it at that for now,” Depaysaid after being asked abouthis club future at a press con-ference ahead of theNetherlands’ Euro 2020 gameon Thursday against Austria.
“Everyone knows that Ihave been linked to Barcelonafor a long time and that I wantto play under RonaldKoeman. “Let’s wait and see.”
Depay, 27, is a free agentafter opting not to extend hiscontract with Lyon, for whomhe scored 20 goals in the pastLigue 1 season.
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Budapest: Portuguese superstarCristiano Ronaldo removed Coca-Colabottles placed in front of him at a Euro2020 press conference here, whichreportedly cost the global beverage gianta staggering $4 billion.
A well-known fitness enthusiast,Ronaldo set aside two Coca-Cola glassbottles which lay in front of him dur-ing a press conference ahead ofPortugal’s opening Euro match againstHungary here on Monday.
According to media reports, theshare price of Coca-Cola, one of theofficial sponsors of Euro 2020, slippedfrom $56.10 to $55.22 almost immedi-ately after Ronaldo’s gesture.
The market valuation of Coca-Colawent from $242 billion to $238 billion,a fall of $4 billion.
On Tuesday, France mid-fielderPaul Pogba also removed a bottle ofHeineken beer that had been placed infront of him at a Press conference. PTI
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