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Patent PPrraayyaaggrraajj:: The Center ofFood Technology,Allahabad University, hasreceived patent for its‘potato flakes energy bar’which can meet theimmediate energy needsof runners, growing chil-dren and patients withsevere energy deficit. Thepatent has been grantedby the Office of theController General ofPatents, Designs &Trademarks under theUnion commerce andindustry ministry.

RejoinCChhaannddiiggaarrhh:: FormerHaryana Minister SampatSingh on Monday rejoinedthe Congress in the pres-ence of senior partyleader Bhupinder SinghHooda and others.Haryana Congress chiefUdai Bhan and RajyaSabha MP DeependerHooda were also presenton the occasion.

ElectrocutedMMhhooww:: A kanwaria pilgrimdied of electrocution,while three others sus-tained injuries on Mondayafter coming in contactwith a high-tension powerline while dancing on topa vehicle in MadhyaPradesh’s Indore district,police said.

Demand NNeeww DDeellhhii:: Students ofDelhi University’s Facultyof Law on Monday stageda protest, demandingpostponement of theirexamination and changesin the date sheet toensure a sufficient gapbetween two papers. Thestudents gathered outsidethe administration officeof the Campus Law Centre(CLC) and raised slogans.

Suspended AAlliiggaarrhh:: Three students ofAligarh Muslim University(AMU) were on Mondaysuspended for allegedlyattempting to abduct afellow student, universityofficials said. AMUProctor MohamadWaseem Ali said under-graduate students AshrafAli, Atif Jamal and FarhanAli attempted to abductMohamnad Kashif whilehe was coming out of theexamination hall.

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Union Home Minister AmitShah with Union Education

Minister DharmendraPradhan and BJP MP

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Birmingham, Aug 08 (PTI):

Superstar P V Sindhu andyoung gun Lakshya Senlived up to expectations bygrabbing gold medals asIndia swept the singlesbadminton competi-tion at theCommonwealthGames for thefirst time, here onMonday.

India’s sportingicon Sindhu added a CWGgold to her already bulgingcollection with a convinc-ing straight game win overCanada’s Michelle Li.

The world numberseven from India out-played her 13th ranked op-ponent 21-15 , 21-13 in frontof a packed crowd at theNEC arena.

Later in the day, 10th-ranked Sen came from be-hind to end Ng Tze Yong’sgiant-killing run in thecompetition. The 20-year-old defeated the worldnumber 42 from Malaysia

19-21, 21-9, 21-16.Sen trailed for majority

of the first game butstayed close to theMalaysian who had ac-counted for world champi-on Yew Kean Loh and

Kidambi Srikanth in hisprevious two matches.

Sen made it 19-18 from16-19 before Yong producedback-to-back forehandwinners to gain a gamepoint. Sen misjudged abaseline call after a gru-elling rally to hand the ad-vantage to Yong.

The second game wasone way traffic after Senled 11-9 at the interval.The Indian took 12points in a row postthe break to level thefinal. Yong made a slew ofunforced errors and itseemed he wanted to pre-serve energy for the thirdgame.

Sen was at his attackingbest in the decider and leduntil the end. Yong triedhis best to mount a come-back but Sen was unstop-pable. He converted hisfirst match point followinga long rally, leading to afrenzied celebration thatsaw him throw his racketinto the stands.

“It was tense in thestart, I had to work reallyhard. Yong also played agreat tournament.Congratulations to him aswell,” said Sen after a hardfought contest.

Earlier, the 30-year-oldMichelle had to producesomething special for herfirst win against Sindhu ineight years but the Indiandid not give her a window.Sindhu was clinical in hershort game and pouncedon the slightest of attack-ing opportunities.

Michelle had beaten the2019 World Champion wayback in the GlasgowCommonwealth Games in2014.

In the first game,Michelle was trying to getpoints by playing close tothe net while Sindhu sasthe more attacking one.

A smash on Li’s leftmade it 7-5 before theCanadian came with adrop shot on Sindhu’sright to make it 7-6.

Sindhu took threestraight points after the in-terval to stretch her lead to14-8. Michelle then netteda regulation forehanddrop, leaving her smilingin frustration.

New Delhi, Aug 08 (PTI):Twenty-four candidateshave got the perfect scorein the engineering en-trance exam JEE-Main, re-sults of which were an-nounced on Monday, ac-cording to the NationalTesting Agency.

The top scorers includetwo girl students. Resultsof five candidates havebeen withheld by theagency for using unfairmeans.

Maximum candidatesbagging the top score inthe first edition of JEE-Main, 2022 are fromAndhra Pradesh andTelangana (5) followed byRajasthan (4) and UttarPradesh (2).

One candidate eachfrom Haryana,Maharashtra, Assam,Bihar, Punjab, Kerala,Karnataka andJharkhand, has baggedthe perfect score. The topscorers from Telanganaare Rupesh Biyani,Dheeraj Kurukunda, JastiYashwanth V V S, BusaSiva Naga Venkata Adityaand AniketChattopadhyay. Menda

Hima Vamsi, KoyyanaSuhas, Palli Jalajakshi,Penikalapati Ravi Kishoreand Polisetty Karthikeyaare the top scorers fromAndhra Pradesh. The topscorers from Rajasthanare Krishna Sharma,Mayank Motwani andParth Bhardwaj.

Other candidates whoscored 100 are SarthakMaheshwari (Haryana),Kushagra Srivastava(Jharkhand), Mrinal Garg(Punjab), Sneha Pareek(Assam), Boya HarsenSathvik (Karnataka) andSaumitra Garg andKanishka Sharma fromUttar Pradesh.

Sikar (Rajasthan), Aug08 (PTI): Three womenwere killed in a stampedeoutside the district’sKhatu Shyamji templewhen people waiting inqueues tried to rush in asits doors opened in theearly hours of Monday.

Four others were in-jured in the incident on aday when tens of thou-sands of people fromRajasthan and neighbour-ing states were headed tothe famous temple to markGyaras or Ekadashi .

Sikar Collector AvichalChaturvedi said close toone lakh people were out-side the main gate, queu-ing up after the doors

closed the previous night.The stamped took place

a little before 4.30 a.m.There was rush to enterand a woman fell, trigger-ing the brief stampede

that also killed two others,according to officials.

Prima facie, they died ofsuffocation but the exactcause of death will beclear after post-mortem,

Chaturvedi told reporters.The incident is unfortu-

nate. The women fell dueto the pressure of thecrowd in their line. Thelines for the entry to thetemple start at differentpoints and converge at theentry point, he said.

Superintendent ofPolice K Rashtradeep saida 63-year-old woman whosuffered from a heart ail-ment collapsed. Twowomen behind her too felldue to the rush.

Victim Shanti Devi’sbrother Mangat Ram wasamong those in the queue.

“The stampede tookplace as soon as the templeopened for prayers.

JJaammmmuu//DDooddaa,, AAuugg 0088 ((PPTTII))::The National InvestigationAgency (NIA) on Monday car-ried out searches at multipleplaces in Jammu and Doda dis-tricts of Jammu and Kashmiragainst members of thebanned Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI)in a terror-funding case, offi-cials said. Simultaneous raidswere conducted at sevenpremises of JeI office-bearersand members in different partsof the two districts in the earlyhours of Monday, they said.

“NIA conducted searches atpremises of six suspects inDoda and one in Jammu in thecase pertaining to JeI, whicheven after its declaration as anunlawful association in 2019,continues to raise funds in var-ious forms purportedly for

charitable purposes,” an NIAspokesperson said. The NIAsaid the searches led to therecovery of incriminating liter-ature, receipts of funds raisedby JeI, bank and property-relat-ed documents, and electronicdevices.

Official sources said theraids were carried out atDhara-Gundana, MunshiMohalla, Akramband, Nagri NaiBasti, Kharoti Bhagwah,Thalela and Malothi Bhalla inDoda district and Bhatindi inJammu. The searches werecarried out in a case related toterror funding, they said.

The case, registered by NIAsuo motu on February 5 lastyear, pertains to the activitiesof the Jamaat-e-Islami mem-bers who have been collecting

funds domestically and abroadthrough donations, particularlyin the form of ‘Zakat, Mowdaand Bait-ul-Mal’ purportedly tofurther charity and other wel-fare activities but are using themoney for “violent and seces-sionist” activities.

According to the NIA, thefunds being raised by JeI arealso channelised to proscribedterrorist organisations such asHizb-ul-Mujahideen, Lashkar-e-Taiba and others throughwell-organised networks ofJamaat-e-Islami cadre.

“JeI has also been motivat-ing impressionable youth ofKashmir and recruiting newmembers (Rukuns) in theUnion territory to participate indisruptive secessionist activi-ties,” the NIA had said.

Surajpur, Aug 08: Policehave arrested the 45-year-old principal of a privateschool in Surajpur districtfor allegedly molestingtwo minor girl students,an official said on Monday.

The two students ofClasses 5 and 7 informedtheir parents after reach-ing home last week thatthe principal allegedly mo-lested them in his officechamber, Kotwali StationHouse Officer PrakashRathore said.

The parents lodged acomplaint following whichthe police arrested theprincipal on Saturday, hesaid. The accused wasbooked under relevant sec-tions of the Indian PenalCode and the Protection of

Children from SexualOffences (POCSO) Act, theofficial said. The schoolowner also complained topolice against parents ofsome students for alleged-ly thrashing him, after theincident came to light, hesaid. A probe was on intothe matter, he added.

New Delhi, Aug 08 (PTI):

Parliament Mondaypassed a bill to convert theNational Rail andTransportation University,a deemed-to-be university,into Gati ShaktiVishwavidyalaya, an au-tonomous central institu-tion.

The CentralUniversities (Amendment)Bill, which also seeks toexpand the scope of theUniversity from beyondthe railways to cover theentire transport sector tosupport the ambitiousgrowth and modernisa-tion in the field, waspassed by a voice vote aftera brief discussion. The billwas passed by the Rajya

Sabha by a voice vote. Itwas cleared by the LokSabha last week, also by avoice vote.

Union Railways andTelecom MinisterAshwini Vaishnaw re-sponded to the debate onthe bill on Monday in theUpper House.

“Railways’ nationaltraining institute is estab-lished in Gujarat. Thisuniversity covers the en-tire transport sector.Railway plays an impor-tant role in that,”Vaishnaw said.

He said several campus-es of the university will beset up in various parts ofthe country and childrenwill be able to take admis-sion.

The minister said thebill has provision to usethe existing training infra-structure.

He said the railways,metro and transportationsector is a very complexsector and many disci-plines including mechani-cal, electrical, telecommu-nications, signalling andcivil come together to runthe railway system.

“This is a public univer-sity. Already, the Ministryof Railways has made pro-vision of Rs 166 crore inthe budget plus there is an-other budget being workedout for the construction ofthe building. This is goingto be a publically fundeduniversity,” Vaishnawsaid.

MMuummbbaaii:: A special court here onMonday remanded Shiv SenaMP Sanjay Raut to 14-day judi-cial custody in a money launder-ing case linked to alleged irreg-ularities in the redevelopment ofa Mumbai ‘chawl’. The courtallowed Raut’s plea for homefood and medicines, but refusedto pass an order on his prayerfor bedding. The judge said asper the prison manual, jailauthorities make adequate bedarrangements. TheEnforcement Directorate (ED),which had arrested the SenaRajya Sabha member on August1, said during the course of cus-todial interrogation, Raut didnot explain about his involve-ment into the alleged crime. The

release of the accused at thisstage will hamper the investiga-tion, the probe agency said in itsapplication. “Being a very influ-ential person, against whomallegations of threatening of thewitnesses have surfaced, it isapprehended that he may tamp-er with the evidence and ensurethe trail of proceeds of crime iscompletely obfuscated,” it said.

UGC-NET phase 2postponed

NNeeww DDeellhhii:: The second phase ofthe University GrantsCommission-National EligibilityTest has been postponed and willbe conducted between September20 and 30, a top official said onMonday. It was earlier scheduledto be conducted between August12 and 14. “The National TestingAgency (NTA) conducted the firstphase of UGC-NET December 2021and June 2022 (merged cycles)examination on July 9, 11 and 12,2022 for 33 subjects in 310 exami-nation centres located in 225 citiesacross the country,” UGC chair-man M Jagadesh Kumar said.“Second phase was earlier sched-uled to be held on 12, 13 and 14August 2022. However, now thefinal phase examination ofUGC-NET December 2021 andJune 2022 (merged cycles) hasbeen scheduled to be conduct-ed between 20 and 30September 2022, involving 64subjects,” he said.

Chennai, Aug 08 (PTI):

An idol of GoddessParvati, which went miss-ing from theN a d a n a p u r e s h w a r a rSivan Temple atT h a n d a n t h o t t a m ,Kumbakonam, half a cen-tury ago, was traced toNew York, said the TamilNadu Idol Wing CID onMonday. The idol wasfound at the BonhamsAuction House, New York,the CID said.

Though a complaint wasgiven to the local police in1971 and an FIR registeredby the idol wing on a com-plaint from an individual

K Vasu in February 2019,the case was pending sincethen. It received attentiononly recently after the IdolWing Inspector M Chitratook up the investigation,started browsing for theParvati idols of the Cholaperiod in various muse-ums and auction housesabroad.

After a thorough search,she found the idol at theBonhams Auction house.

The copper-alloy idol ofthe Chola period circa 12century measures about 52cm in height and is valuedat US$ 212,575 (about Rs1,68,26,143), a release fromthe Idol Wing said.

Idol of Goddess Parvatistolen from temple

Traced to US after 50 years

Parl passes Gati Shakti Bill MONEY LAUNDERING CASE

Court remands Raut to 14-day judicial custody

School principal arrestedfor molesting 2 girl students

About the incidentThe two students of Classes 5 and7 informed their parents afterreaching home last week that theprincipal allegedly molested themin his office chamber. The parentslodged a complaint followingwhich the police arrested the prin-cipal on Saturday.The accusedwas booked under relevant sec-tions of the Indian Penal Code andthe Protection of Children fromSexual Offences (POCSO) Act.

Three killed, 4 injured in stampedeOutside temple in Sikar

Inconsolable relatives of a victim after an incident ofstampede at Khatu Shyam Ji temple, in Sikar district ofRajasthan, Monday.

TERROR-FUNDING CASE

NIA carries out raids against JeI members

JEE-MAIN RESULTS

24 candidates score perfect 100

2.62 lakh qualify forJEE (Advanced)A total of around 2.62 lakhcandidates from JEE (Main)have qualified for the JEE(Advanced), with the maxi-mum coming from UttarPradesh followed byMaharashtra and Telangana.The registration for the JEE(Advanced) started onMonday and the exam isscheduled for August 28.

GOLDEN DOUBLE FOR INDIA

Sindhu, Sen grab goldSweep singles badminton titles

Lakshya Sen poses forphotos with his goldmedal after winning theMens Singles FinalBadminton match.

P.V. Sindhu poses for pho-tos with her gold medalafter winning theWomens Singles FinalBadminton match.

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Governor attends third NationalExecutive meeting

Raipur, Aug 08:Governor Ms. AnusuiyaUikey attended the thirdNational Executive meet-ing of of the ‘Azadi kaAmrit Mahotsav’ held inNew Delhi. The meetingwas attended by PrimeMinister Narendra Modi,Home Minister AmitShah, Lok Sabha SpeakerOm Birla, DefenseMinister Rajnath Singh,Governors of all states,Chief Ministers and othereminent personalities andartists from variousfields. In the meeting, the

Secretary of the CentralCulture Department in-formed about the activi-ties done so far under the‘Azadi ka AmritMahotsav’ and apprisedeveryone about the fur-

ther action plan. It is to beknown that under the‘Azadi ka AmritMahotsav’, various pro-grams and activities arebeing organized acrossthe country.

IIT Bhilai celebrates its 7th Foundation DayRaipur, Aug 08: IndianInstitute of Technology(IIT) Bhilai celebrated its7th Foundation Day withjoy and fanfare. It also pre-sented the institute withan occasion to reflect onits inception and contem-plate on the significant de-velopments since then.

The function com-menced with a lamp light-ing ceremony followed bythe Saraswati Vandanaand felicitation of the dig-nitaries. The chief gueston the occasion was Prof.Nitin M. Nagarkar,Director, AIIMS Raipur. K.V e n k a t a r a m a n a n ,Chairman of the Board ofGovernors, IIT Bhilai,graced the occasion as the

guest of honour.In his welcome address,

Prof. Rajat Moona,Director, IIT Bhilai, spokeabout the achievements ofIIT Bhilai and the remark-able journey behind it. Heacknowledged the efforts

of the faculty and staffmembers in overcomingthe initial constraints andchallenges that a new in-stitute faces. Among theinstitute’s achievements,he spoke about the highplacement percentage

which has led to severalalumni of IIT Bhilai to be-come well established.Today, the institute isproud to have 900 students,state of the art equipmentand innovative educationtechniques. Shri K.Venkataramanan ad-dressed the audience byhighlighting the impor-tance of social activitiesand sports. He hailed theassociation of AIIMSRaipur with IIT Bhilai as agreat move towards inno-vation. He also added thatthe foundation day iswhen we respect theachievements of the pastand also ready ourselvesfor the challenges of thefuture. Prof. Nitin M.

Nagarkar and Prof. RajatMoona released the ‘IITBhilai: In Press 2021-22’magazine highlighting theInstitute’s achievementspublished by the pressover the past year. Theyalso presented awards tothe best performing em-ployees of the year. Thewinners were commendedfor their hard work, andall the institute memberspresent were encouragedto perform their dutieswith pride and dedication.

The vote of thanks wasdelivered by Dr. Sonal Jha,Assistant Professor,Department of LiberalArts and the function con-cluded with the nationalanthem.

Family members reach thana alongwith body of auto driver

Raipur, Aug 08: A youthwas murdered in BSUPcolony in Bhatagaon hereon Monday. It was justtwo-days back that thesame youth was attackedand was undergoingtreatment in a privatehospital. On Monday theyouth had died and thefamily members reachedthana along with thebody of the youth and de-manded action againstthose who attacked himand gheraoed the thanaand the wife of the de-ceased was all in tearsand demanding justice.This hampered work inthana for about two-hours today.

The youth named AjayTandi used to work as

auto driver and the peo-ple from Bhatagaon areainformed that a youthfrom Bhatagaoon alongwith three others at-tacked against AjayTandi on night of Aug 6at around 3:00 am, early

in the morning. He wasbadly beaten with wood-en bat, that he turned halfunconscious and then hewas taken to the hospital.

The local people in-formed that the youthwho attacked Tandi were

involved in intoxicationand other drugs and haddemanded cash fromAjay Tandi for the same.Earlier there was similarcontroversy over his mo-bile phone as well. Afterthis he was attacked lateat night entering insidehis house. The Police hasnot been able to find anyclue in this regard andhas taken only 1 youthwho was involved in theattack into arrest and isholding inquiry withhim.

The youth living nearAjay’s residence in-formed that the attackersmade video of the beat-ing the youth Ajay and in-formed that they werekeeping knife as well andwere instigating eachother to stab him. By put-ting the same on the so-cial media, they are try-ing to create threat in themind of others.

AIIMS-R conducts first AHA certifiedcourse in Basic Life Support

Raipur, Aug 08: All IndiaInstitute of MedicalSciences conductedAmerican HeartAssociation (AHA) certi-fied Basic Life Support(BLS) and AdvancedCardiovascular LifeSupport (ACLS) work-shop. This international-ly recognized course en-sured that 33 participantscan provide CPR in emer-gencies, which can be ap-plied in real life. Expertssay that survival depends

on immediately receivingCPR from someone dur-ing cardiac arrest.

Prof. (Dr.) Nitin M.Nagarkar congratulatedthe Department ofAnaesthesiology for con-ducting AHA certifiedcourse. ‘AHA is a leader inresuscitation science, ed-ucation, and trainingworldwide. It provides of-ficial guidelines for CPRand ECC. Healthcare pro-fessionals trust the AHAfor their life-saving train-

ing, he said.Prof. (Dr.) Alok

Chandra Agrawal, Dean(Academics), highlightedthe role of training in reallife. The participantswere trained on how toprovide Basic LifeSupport to a victim whohad cardiac arrest out ofthe hospital and how toprovide AdvancedCardiovascular LifeSupport to a victim ofcardiac arrest inside thehospital. They were also

trained regarding how toprovide medical supportto a drowning victim andhow to remove a foreignbody from a victim whohas choking. They weretrained regarding how torecognize signs & symp-toms of stroke in a personand provide him medicalhelp in time.

AHA certified instruc-tors Prof. (Dr.) VinayPandit, Dr. SaritaRamchandani, Dr.Pradeep Sharma, Dr.Smita Moitra, and Rimi(Kolkata) trained the par-ticipants. Prof. N.K.Agrawal, HoD, andAshish Kumar Kundualso graced the occasion.According to Dr.Ramchandani, the AHAheart saver course is aninternationally recog-nized course designed toprepare students in firstaid, CPR, and the use ofan AED in a safe, timely,and effective manner.

Collector hears public grievances atJanchaupal, takes steps for redressal

RRaaiippuurr,, AAuugg 0088:: Raipur DistrictCollector Dr SarveshwarBhure today resolved theapplications related to thegrievances of the people whocame from different parts ofthe district at ‘Janchaupal’ pro-gramme. After examining theapplications submitted by thepeople, necessary instructionswere also given to the con-cerned officials over thephone. More than 40 applica-tions were received atJanchaupal. ShatrughanBanjare of Nagar PanchayatKoonra submitted an applica-tion to provide benefits of thePrime Minister’s SammanNidhi. Residents of RawatpuraPhase-2 Mathpuraina raisedissue of obstruction of mainroad built for the public in thearea. Pankaj Dodwani of Tildasubmitted an applicationseeking removal of the stayorder passed by the Tehsildar.

Similarly, the residents ofNagar Panchayat KoonraWard-14 submitted applica-tion for allotment of residen-tial patta. The Collector talkedof taking action as per therules on a demand for rein-statement to the post ofAnganwadi assistant ofBirgaon.

Ramesh Patel, resident ofArang submitted applicationseeking action to remove

encroachment from govern-ment grass land. He said thatencroacher illegally construct-ed commercial complext afterencroaching governmentgrass land. Shanta Kosaria ofMandir Hasaud submitted anapplication seeing rights overfather’s property. TheCollector directed the con-cerned officers to take actionon the applications submittedas per rules.

Chandrakar is facing ‘lossof memory’: CM

Raipur, Aug 08: CMBhupesh Baghel on his re-turn from tour to Delhiand HP said that he metthe newly electedPresident of India, PMand Home Minister inDelhi. Taking part in theNITI Aayog meeting heput forth hosts of demandand urged to clear the Rs13000 crore amount of thetax at the earliest. Alongwith this he also held talkswith PCC State in-ChargePL Punia and held talks onvarious issues related toChhattisgarh.

CM speaking to sectionof media persons in-

formed that he raised de-mand to pay back the CoalRoyalty amount of Rs 4000crore and to ensure thatbusinessman and produc-ers in Chhattisgarh canget benefit he urged tostart Cargo services.Baghel informed thatstate’s Godhan NyayYojana is being discussedat national-level and it willbe implemented in state’slike UP and MP and afterthis the BJP leaders of

Chhattisgarh are in dilem-ma.

Commenting upon risein number of Swine flucases, Baghel said thatmany viruses are presentin the atmosphere duringrainy season and eventhere is threat of Dengueand Malaria in this seasonand asked all to remain onthe alert.

On asking about pro-posed polls in HP, Baghelclaimed that party is instrong position inHimachal and there isanti-incumbency againstthe ruling party and addedthat if all contest togetherthen the party will defi-nitely achieve success.

Targetting on the Tweetrelated to naxal rally byAjay Chandrakar, CM

Baghel said that AjayChandrakar has fallenprey of ‘loss of memory’and added that duringterm of last governmenthow many rallies used tobe taken out, he does notremember. Naxalites areon the back-foot and thisprogramme was held inthe remote interior areas.

On asking about partici-pation in the party’s‘Padyatra’ on occasion of‘A z a d i - k a - A m r u tMahotsav’, CM informedthat on occasion ofTribal’s day, he will stay inRaipur, Bilaspur tomor-row and would leave forJharkhand to take part inthe programme in Ranchi.It is after coming back hewould take part in differ-ent ‘Padyatras’.

Scout guide improves the spirit of disciplineand patriotism: Dr. Premsai

Raipur, Aug 08: Statelevel meeting of BharatScout Guide was held inthe auditorium of CircuitHouse on Monday inwhich the cadets weremade aware of the activi-ties and responsibilities ofthe Scout Guide. PresidentBharat Scouts and GuidesCouncil and MinisterSchool Education StateAdministration, Dr.Premsai Singh said thatthe scout guide teaches dis-cipline in children with pa-triotism.

Along with education,

such activity definitelymoves the students for-ward. He said that its ac-tion plan would bestrengthened by establish-ing coordination withscout guides from allschools. Tekam said thatthe activities of scout

guide in every school haveto be associated with thechildren so that the spiritof social service, disciplineand patriotism can be de-veloped through scoutguide in the society.

The scouting ofChhattisgarh state has an

important contribution inour country. Various pro-grams are held every yearin the state. About 2 thou-sand children fromEducation Department andTribal Welfare Departmentare going to Panchmarhi,Kullu Manali, Darjeelingand doing disaster man-agement and adventurecourses free of cost everyyear. Programs likeTrekking, Cub BulbulUtsav, Rally are also contin-uing in the state level.

The Minister furthersaid that the Tricolor cam-paign is being run by ChiefMinister Bhupesh Baghelfrom August 11th to 17thunder the Amrit Mahotsavof Independence. In whichscout guide, rover-rangerscoute and guider celebrat-

ed 75th anniversary byhoisting the tricolor intheir respective homes infull scout guide uniformand make others aware tohoist the tricolor flag.

Satyanarayan Sharma,National Vice President,Rajesh Agarwal ExecutivePresident, Krishna Swamy,Director, NationalHeadquarters New Delhi,Kanhaiya Agrawal, VicePresident Bharat Scoutsand Guides, ChandraPrakash Bajpai, VicePresident, Mrs. AnitaRaote, Mrs. ShashiChandrakar, Mrs. MamtaRai, Kailash Kumar Soni,Ankit Bagbahra, MukeshChandrakar, SureshShukla and members ofBharat Scouts and GuidesChhattisgarh were present.

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Girl and women are selecting among variety of colourful threads for their brothers for the festival of‘Rakshabandhan’ in coming days.

State Council meet-ing of Bharat Scoutsand Guides con-cludes

On his Tweet overmassive rally by thenaxalites

Creates scene atthe thana, demandsjustice

Of ‘Azadi ka AmritMahotsav’


World Breastfeeding Week observed at JLNHRC Bhilai, Aug 08: WorldBreastfeeding Week was ob-served at SAIL-BSP'sJawaharlal Nehru Hospitaland Research Centre fromAugust 01 to August 07, 2022.The week is observed withthe aim of promotingbreastfeeding and improv-ing the health of childrenaround the world. It is cele-brated by 170 countries toprotect, promote and sup-port breastfeeding.

World BreastfeedingWeek was first celebrated in1992 by WABA (WorldAlliance for Breast feedingAction) and is now observedin over 170 countries byUNICEF, WHO and theirpartners including individu-als, organizations, and gov-ernments. WABA itselfhave been formed onFebruary 14, 1991, with thegoal to re-establish a globalbreastfeeding culture andprovide supportfor breast-feeding everywhere. Everyyear Breastfeeding week iscelebrated with a uniquetheme. This year's theme is ---- "Step upfor Breastfeeding:educate and Support"

The week-long programwas organized as per theleadership of CMOIncharge Dr MRavindranath and CMODrPramod Binayake, underthe guidance of Head of theDepartment of PaediatricsDrSambita Panda, with thetireless efforts of the duo DrSubodh Saha (AdditionalCMO& in-charge ofNeonatal unit) and DrNoharSingh Thakur(Additional

CMO) and team of doctorsof the department ofPaediatrics including DrSanjeevani Patel (DeputyCMO), Dr Meeta Sachdev(Deputy CMO),DrNootanVerma (AssistantCMO), Dr Kaushik Kishore( C h i e fConsultant),DrWrindaSakhare (Senior Consultant), DrSeema Verma (Consultant)Dr Ruchika Tamrakar(Senior Medical Officer) andPost Graduate DNB stu-dents, studying in the de-partment . Successful imple-mentation was ensured withthe cooperation of all stu-dents, nurses and staff.

On the first day of the pro-gram, on August 01, a postercompetition was organizedin the OPD complex ofJLNH &RC, in which stu-dents of various nursingcolleges participated enthu-siastically.

On the second day of theprogram, collaborativeteaching work by senior doc-tors in Paediatrics OPD andObstetric& GynaecologyOPD about the techniques ofbreastfeeding to mothersand benefits of breastfeed-ing to the mothers, babies ,

families and societyweretaught.Expert answers weredelivered to queries ofmothers.

During the third day, theprogramme was conductedin online mode, in which thedetailed description of theplan to make the Neonatalunit of Jawaharlal NehruHospital as a "Baby FriendlyUnit" was presented. All thedoctors of the JLNH & RCBhilai actively participatedin this.

The fourth day was organ-ised in various wards of theDepartment of Paediatricsby team led by Dr SambitaPanda, Head of theDepartment and they taughtthe mothers & relatives ofpaediatric patients aboutthe care of the newbornba-by, breastfeeding, mother'shealth& benefits.

The importance of safemotherhood to mothers inH-1 &H-2 wards ofGynaecology and ObstetricsDepartment were taught bya team of neonatal unit doc-tors , under the leadershipof Dr. Subodh Saha, in-charge of neonatal depart-ment,on the fifth day of theprogramme. Discussions

were held on the care of ba-bies, the knowledge ofbreastfeeding techniquesand the methodology tosolve the problems faced bythe newborn babies and thecuriosity of the motherswere dealt with.

On the sixth day of pro-gram, a quiz competitionwas organized for Post-Graduate DNB students anda debate competition was or-ganized among the studentsof various Nursing Collegesof Bhilai.

The welcome address ofthe program was presentedby Dr Sambita Panda(Additional CMO) and theweek long activities for thewhole week was presentedby DrSubodh Saha(Additional CMO). Prizeswere distributed to the win-ners of the competition bythe hands of the chief guestand certificates were dis-tributed to all the contest-ants. At the end of the pro-gram, Dr.Nohar SinghThakur (Additional CMO)thanked all the doctors fortheir excellent teamworkand hospital managementfor their cooperation andsupport.

DPS Bhilai holds Senior SchoolAnnual Exhibition 2022

Bhilai, Aug 08: Delhi PublicSchool, Bhilai, held itsAnnual Exhibition 2022 theother day. Its talented stu-dentsshowcased the hall-mark of unity in diversity inIndia, the country's achieve-ments in its different sec-tors, and three-dimensional(3D) models of various as-pects of science and technol-ogy; which cast a spell on thevisitors.

Five stalls displayed thediverse cultures of differentstates of India. The fooditems and thedances fasci-nated the visitors. One stallshowcased India's bounties

of nature and efforts tosavethem. Another stall dis-played the technological de-velopments in the agricul-tural sector.The stall display-ing space exploration and itstechnologies fired the youngwith enthusiasm.The onedisplaying the projects on ar-tificial intelligence arrestedeach one's imagination.

The biology laboratorydisplayed 3D models of thecell and its organelles, asalso those of aerobic respira-tion. The physics laboratoryshowcased Li-Fi (light fideli-ty), a futuristic technology,in addition to showcasing

several other models relat-ing to magnetism and opti-cal illusion. The chemistrylaboratory showcased theuses of chemistry in every-day life. Thedepartment ofcomputer science gave sev-eral PowerPoint presenta-tions on the theme EkBharatShreshtha Bharat.

Lippan art, mandala art,Bastar art, Madhubanipainting, and the works ofterracotta made by some stu-dents in the terracotta sculp-ture workshop, too, were ondisplay, separately in the artexhibition hall. The rangolipatterns and the carved veg-etable patterns, too, fascinat-ed the visitors.

The world of counselling,through its several exhibits,tried to educate the visitorsabout anger management,conflict management, sub-stance abuse, sibling rivalry,dyslexia, etc.

The school was privileged

to have as the Chief GuestAnbalagan P, Secretary -WaterResources andTourism & Culture,Government ofChhattisgarh. SmtAlarmelmangai D, Secretary-Urban Administration &Development and Finance,Government ofChhattisgarh graced the oc-casionas the Guest ofHonour. The other digni-taries who graced the occa-sion were - Smt & ShriPrabir Kumar Sarkar, Pro-Vice Chairman, SMC, DPSBhilai & CGM (Services),BSP, Bhilai,Members, SMC,DPS Bhilai - DN Karan,CGM (F&A), BSP, Bhilai,Smt& ShriSaptarishiSengupta, GM(RSM), BSP, Bhilai,RenuVashishta.

All the visitors felt en-lightened after seeing thevarious models and presen-tations.

BSF conducts tree plantation drive in naxal infested areasBhilai, Aug 08: Underthe directions of IGIndraj Singh (BSF,Frontier Headquarters,Bhilai), tree plantationdrive was conducted bythe 167th and 17th battal-ions of BSF in its area ofdeployment in the naxalinfested areas of Kanker.Local representatives andcommon people are en-thusiastically participat-ing in the drives.

On August 06, thetroops of 167th Battalionled by COB BadgaonCompany CommanderRajbir Singh plantedabout 320 saplings nearthe Women CommunityCentre in Badgaon.Jawans and locals led byCOB Madgaon AssistantCommandant DaanSingh planted over 305saplings at villageTadhur and Salepara.Troops led by COBBadejharkata I/cCompany CommanderInspector Heera Lal

planted over 440 saplingsat Primary School inGondpara, Badejharkataand Devipara. COBGumrideeh I/c CompanyCommander InspectorMunish Kumar led theplantation drive atGovernment HigherSecondary School in vil-lage Konde where about

300 saplings were plantedby students and locals.COB Bhuski I/cCompany CommanderInspector Surender Singhled the plantation drive atPrimary School andAanganwadi ofBhurkhaguddum andSchoolpara of Bhuski.Over 350 saplings were

planted by the studentsand locals.

The troops of 17th BSFBattalion led by COBIragaon I/c CompanyCommander InspectorRavi Kumar accompaniedby the students of NehruHostel, teachers and lo-cals planted over 210saplings near Panchayat,

Nehru Hostel and nearbyareas. It needs to be men-tioned here that BSF con-ducts tree plantationdrives in its area of de-ployment every year dur-ing the monsoons. Peopleare made aware about theconservation of environ-ment and importance oftrees and greenery.

DCC issues instructions forAzadi Ki Gaurav Yatra

Bhilai, Aug 08: BhilaiDistrict CongressCommittee PresidentMukesh Chandrakar hasissued instructions to allthe Congress party officebearers and members re-garding the Azadi kiGaurav Yatra which isscheduled to be held dur-ing August 09 to 14. Theyatra would cover a dis-tance of almost 75 kilome-ters in every AssemblyConstituency. All the partyworkers participating inthe yatra will hold theNational Flag in theirhands while they willhoist the party flag at theirhomes. They have beenasked to wear Gandhi Topiin the procession and raisepatriotic slogans. Localplaces of historical and re-ligious importance wouldbe included in the route.They will also visit theplaces of freedom fightersand senior congress lead-

ers. Pamphlets having de-tails of achievements ofCongress StateGovernment and thePublic Welfare Schemeswould be distributed.Pamphlets having detailsof Congress's contributionin the independence move-ment as well as develop-ment of the country wouldalso be distributed.

In Vaishali nagar con-stituency, the yatra wouldcommence from ShivTemple in Khamhariya onAugust 09. The yatra

would cover Junwani,Panchmukhi HanumanTemple, Nehru Nagar,Kosa Nagar, Dixit Colony,Sanjay nagar, Islam nagar,Krishna Nagar, and con-clude at Radhika NagarKalibari. On August 10,the yatra would coverAvanti Bai Square, Kohka,Purani basti, PardesiChowk, Ravan Bhata,Laxmi Nagar, HardwareLine, Bajrang Square,Gurunanak Nagar andconclude at Pragati SportClub. On August 12, theyatra would cover Vaishalinagar, Shanti Nagar,Kailash nagar, GhasidasNagar and conclude atHousing Board. On August13, the yatra would coverRoad No 18, Camp-1 andconclude atBaikunthdham Mandir.On August 14, the yatrawould cover Camp-2 andconclude near RajasthanHotel in Link Road.

Azadi Ki Gaurav Yatra to beginfrom Kolihapuri in Durg (Rural)

Bhilai, Aug 08: IndianNational Congress isgoing to take out "AzadiKi Gaurav Yatra" in allthe assembly constituen-cies during August 09 to15. In Durg (Rural) assem-bly constituency, the yatrawill be taken out underthe leadership ofTamradhwaj Sahu,Minister of Home, Jail,Public Works, Dharmasvaand Tourism. A largenumber of people willparticipate in this yatra.The "Azadi Ki GauravYatra" will move acrossdifferent villages of Durg(rural). Cabinet MinisterTamradhwaj Sahu has re-quested all the citizens toactively participate in thepadyatra. The yatra wouldvisit the residences offreedom fighters / rela-tives and seniorCongressmen and honourthem. Home MinisterTamradhwaj Sahu,Matikala Board PresidentBalam Chakradhari,MLA RepresentativeKeshav Bunty Harmukh,Block PresidentNandkumar Sen,Mukund Bhau, PresidentCooperative Cell RivendraYadav, District PanchayatPresident Shalini Yadav,Speaker (Agriculture)Yogita Chandrakar,President Janpad

Panchayat DurgDevendra Deshmukh,Janpad Vice PresidentJhamit Gaikwad,Municipal CorporationRisali Mayor ShashiSinha, Speaker KeshavBanchore, all Councilorsof Risali, President NagarPanchayat Utai DikendraHirwani, Vice PresidentRavindra Verma andCouncilors, PradeshKisan Congress VicePresident KrishnaDevangan, JanpadPanchayat Durg PresidentPukesh Chandrakar,Member Mandi BoardTarakeswar Chandrakar,Farmers Welfare BoardMember Jagdish DeepakSahu, Janpad members,Sarpanch SanghPresident MukundParkar, all Sarpanch, UpSarpanch and Panchs,Rajiv Yuva Mitan Clubmembers, Gothan

Presidents, office bearersof all the cells, YouthCongress, MahilaCongress, BackwardClasses, Kisan Congress,NSUI, as well as all the dis-trict, block office bearers,booth in-charge, zone in-charge, sector in-chargeand the Congress party of-fice bearers will partici-pate in the padyatra.

The Yatra would com-mence from the memorialof Late ChandulalChandrakar at villageKolihapuri on August 09.The yatra would cover vil-lages Kolihapuri,Pisegaon andChandkhuri on the firstday. On August 10, theyatra would cover vil-lages Konari, Kuthreland Anda. On August 11,the yatra would covervillages Anda, Risama,Chirpoti andManchadur. On August12, the yatra would covervillages Manchadur,Ghughasidih, Khopliand Utai. On August 13,the yatra would coverNagar Panchayat Utai,village Kargadih, Puraiand Umarpoti. OnAugust 14, the yatrawould cover villagesUmarpoti, Newai,Maroda and would con-clude at Azad MarketRisali.

Junk dealer hires four trucks tosteal pipes worth Rs 32 lakhs

Bhilai, Aug 08: With thearrest of two persons, po-lice claimed to have solveda major theft incidentwhich was committed in avery smart and plannedmanner. The kingpin ofthis incident is a Bilaspurbased junk dealer. Hehired four trucks to stealand transport the pipesworth Rs 32 lakhs. The ac-cused escorted the trucksto reach the crime scene atKumhari. The labourerswere ready here to load thepipes on the trucks. Thenthe accused took thetrucks to Siltara and gotthe stolen pipes unloaded.Police have recovered thestolen pipes and have ar-rested two drivers. Searchoperations are on to trapthe absconding accused.

CSP (Chhawani)Kaushalendra Patel in-formed that they had re-ceived a complaint regard-ing theft of 70 nos DI Pipes(Class K9), weighingaround 14 tonnes worth Rs

32 lakhs. The pipes weredumped near theOverhead Tank, AhiwaraRoad Bus Stand, Kumhari.Under the directions of SPDr Abhishek Pallava, ASP(City) Sanjay Dhruv andDSP (Crime) NasarSiddhiqui, a joint team ofKumhari Police Stationand Anti Crime and CyberUnit launched investiga-tions. On examining theCCTV footage, Police dis-covered a suspicious car

and four trucks approach-ing the crime scene andthen moving away withthe pipes. Police collecteddata of the vehicles fromthe Transport Departmentand rounded up two driv-ers from the SiltaraIndustrial area. During in-terrogation, the drivers in-formed that four truckswere booked from theirvehicle owner JitendraSingh of Sirgitti Bilaspuron July 26. The drivers

Amar Singh, SureshYadav, Mahaveer and RajuSrivas reached Siltarawith their vehicles around23:30 hrs on July 26. Herethey met a junk dealerChhotu Pandey who askedthem to follow his car. Allthe vehicles reached nearthe Water Tank onKumhari - Ahiwara Road.Here one Bhola was readywith labourers wholoaded the pipes on thetrucks. After getting the

pipes loaded, ChhotuPandey again asked thedrivers to follow his carand took them toMahindra Chowk inSilatara where he got thepipes unloaded.

Police have arrested thedrivers Amar Singh andSuresh Yadav as well asseized four trucks (CG10-C-8980, CG10-C-7285, CG10-C-9284 and CG10-R-0323)which were used in thecrime. The stolen pipeshave also been recovered.CSP Kaushalendra Patelinformed that the kingpinof this theft is ChhotuPandey, who resides atBilaspur Bus Stand. Bholaworked as his managerand had arranged thelabourers at Kumhari.Police are trying to arrestChhotu Pandey, Bhola,drivers Raju Srivas,Mahavir and other ac-cused.

ASI Ajay Singh, ASIShamit Misgra, HeadConstable ChandraShekhar Banjir, ConstableArvind Mishra, AvonBanchor, Vikrant Singh,Dilip Harde, RajkumarSingh and Rakesh Yadavplayed a vital role in ar-resting the accused.

Two drivers arrested; kingpinand accomplices atlarge

Naxalites burnt the Poklan, shifter Central Chronicle News

KKoonnttaa,, AAuugg 0088:: In Sukma district,the Naxalites have once again setablaze two vehicles, creating aruckus. Both the vehicles burntbelongs to a contractor.According to the information,Naxalites have burnt two vehiclesin Sindurguda area of Kistarampolice station area of Konta block.Construction work was going on inthis area, in which both the vehi-cles were engaged. The incident

has been confirmed by Sukma SPSunil Sharma. It is being told thatthe said vehicles were installed forculvert repair work in Sindurguda

area of Kistaram. Meanwhile,Naxalites reached the spot and es-caped by setting fire to Poklaneand shifter machine. Police offi-cers say that the constructionwork was being done by the con-tractor at the site without any se-curity arrangement. This incidenthappened due to the negligenceof the contractor. After the inci-dent came to light, the police isinvestigating the matter andsearch has been intensified inthe area.

Central Chronicle News

Dongargaon, Aug 08: Itwas amidst slogans 'Bolbum' on occasion of'Shravan maas' on Aug 6, amassive 'Shobha Yatra' ofLord Mahakal BabaChandramoleswarji wastaken out and it was ac-corded floral welcome andprayers by the devotees atvarious places in the city.

It was under the aegis of'Mahakal Bhakt Sena' thatthe 'Palki' of ShriChandramoleshwar, whois in the form of 'Raja' thatof 'Baba Mahakal' that the

'Shobha Yatra' was takeout from Lord Hanuman'stemple in Killapara alongwith drum beats andmusic.

The devotees of'Mahakal' were seen danc-

ing on the religious musicand bhajans and this 'PalkiShobha Yatra' passedthrough Sadar Line,Fawarra Chowk, ChowkiRoad, Main Road, old BusStand and market area

and concluded at the tem-ple.

The 'Yatra' was accordedfloral welcome by devoteesand they also offeredprayers at different placesand in this 'Yatra' taken

out amidst beating ofdrums and religiousmusic and bhajans, thedevotees were seen mes-merized in 'Bhaktibhav'.

In order to carry this'Palki' there was huge rushof devotees and this 'PalkiYatra' concluded withprayers to 'Baba Mahakal'in the evening.

In this 'Yatra', the officebearers of Mahakal Sena',members, party workers,devotees, public represen-tatives, men, women andchildren too were presentinlarge number. In thefirst of its kind 'PalkiYatra' in city on occasionof 'Shravan Maas' thatthere was huge responseof people from all sectionsof the society.

Students stage chakka-jam on NH-53


Pithora, Aug 08:Hundreds of School stu-dents staged chakka-jam atNH-53 under the block overproblems being faced inthe schools, 'Ashrams', de-mands of teachers. It wasafter explaination by the of-ficer and employees of theregion, the students called-

off the chakka-jam.It was on Sunday that

hundreds of students fromGram Dumarpali,Singhupali, Rampur,Jampali, Khargotora,Daank, Kasibahara stagedchakka-jam on NH-53 withdemand for school buildingin Gram Dumarpali, in-creasing the number seatsin Pre-Matric Tribla's Boy's

hostel from 30 to 100; ap-pointment of English andMaths teacher in Govt. Pre-Secondary School inDumarpali; Dhaank tollplaza should be made freefor an area of 10 kms; andother demands.

Due to this 'chakka-jam'the residents of the nearbyareas, vehicle riders andother faced massive prob-

lems for hours. Seeing thesituation, sufficient policeforce was deployed at thechakka-jam venue.

Further it was on ex-plaination by the NayabTehsildar that he would in-form about their problemsto the senior officers thatthe students called-offtheir chakka-jam and traf-fic movement was restored.

MLA lays stone for SHCin Gram Borgaon


Bhond, Aug 08: ThePresident ChhattisgarhHandicraft DevelopmentBoard (CHDB) and MLANarayanpur Chandan

Kashyap laid the stone fora Sub-Health Centre (SHC)in Gram Borgaon comingunder this VS area at thecost of Rs 26.54 lakh.

On this occasion he in-formed that whatever

problem exists to villagersin this VS is his own per-sonal problem and irre-spective of its seriousness,he always tries to solve itat the earliest and wouldcontinue to do so, to en-

sure that general publicand villagers do not sufferor faces problems.

He said that under lead-ership of CM BhupeshBaghel, massive develop-ment works are underwayin all the areas of the stateand that he and other pub-lic representatives wouldcontinue to work for devel-opment of the region andits people. Duringi thisBCC President MardapalSukhram Poyam, JanpadV-P Kondagaon ManojSethia, Sarpanch BorgaonMohan Korram, MP's repDashrath Netam, MLA'srep Varun Sethia, Janpadmember Shiv Korram, YCBlock President DevsinghBaghel, Santosh Nag,Ramesh Sethia,Phoolsingh Kora, Patel,Pujari, Gayata, BMOKondagaon Dr SurajRathore, and other officersand employees fromMardapal were present.

p Devotees accordedfloral welcome to ‘Palki’


In support of their various demands

Principal of High Schoolsubmitted memorandum


Dongargaon, Aug 08:Different problems of thestudents were put forthbefore the Principal ofHigh School inTumdibod through amemorandum here onSaturday.

NSUI workers under

leadership of DistrictPresident NSUI AmarJha charged lack of disci-pline in the school, wan-dering of students dur-ing class and period hereand there; movement ofoutsiders during schooltimings and no uniformgiven to the students.

NSUI delegation urged

the Principal to sort outall these problems soon.During this NSUI mem-bers Ghanshyam Sahu,Bhupendra Sahu and stu-dents Vasu, Trilok,Devilal, Deepak, Sahil,Dhanendra, Chiteshwar,Kushal, Ritesh, Yash,Aishwarya and otherswere present.

About different problems of students by NSUI

‘Palki Yatra’ of Baba Chandramoleshwar Shri Mahakal taken out


Konta, Aug 08: InSukma district, there wasa sensation when thebody of a young womanwas found hanging frombranch of a tree. Thebody could not be identi-fied. Police reached thespot and is investigatingthe matter.

According to the infor-mation, the body of anunknown girl was foundhanging on a tree onMonday near AnjargatMahadev temple ofSukma Kotwali policestation area. Nearby peo-ple, on seeing the deadbody hanging from a tree,informed the police about

the matter.On receiving informa-

tion, the Sukma Kotwalipolice team reached thespot and the body wasbrought down from thetree. Police have startedfurther action by takingthe body in their posses-sion.

Police say that prima-facie it appears to be acase of suicide. The bodyof the girl is being expect-ed to be two to three daysold. Police has started in-vestigating the matter.Under what circum-stances the unknown girlcommitted suicide andthe reasons is what thepolice is trying to solvethe mystery.

WSHGs to awaken thespirit of patriotism


Kawardha, Aug 08:Preparations are in fullswing to mark the com-ing Independence weekwith the aim of hoistingthe flag atop every houseand the women of SelfHelp Groups have startedpreparing the flag to in-culcate the spirit of pa-triotism in every citizen.

A total of 20000 flagsare being prepared bythe groups mainly fromJai Mahamaya, JaiVaibhav Lakshmi,

Chanda, Radharani andJai Maa Lakshmi SelfHelp Groups of villageMarka of Kawardhablock.It is to be notedthat on the completion ofthe 75th anniversary ofindependence, the AmritMahotsav ofIndependence will be cel-ebrated in the countryfrom August 11 to August17, here in the districtunder the collective guid-ance of District CollectorJanmejay Mahobe. ZillaPanchayat CEO SandeepAgarwal informed thatstalls will be set up forsale and distribution offlags at a total of 109places in the district.

p Mass production of tricolor flags

Work of environmental protectionis being done thru ‘NGGB’: Jain


JJaaggddaallppuurr,, AAuugg 0088:: Forest de-partment organized 'VanMahotsav' here on Tuesday. Thechief guest was MLA Jagdalpurand Parliamentary SecretaryRekhchand Jain and he said thatthe Chief Minister is doing im-portant work in the direction ofenvironmental protectionthrough 'Narva Garva GhurvaBari' scheme. Continuous workis being done to promote treeplantation. A grant has beensanctioned for plantation of

trees on the barren land. He saidthat in order to deal with climatechange in the present time,more and more trees should beplanted and protected till theygrow up. On this occasion, alongwith MLA Rekhchand Jain,Chairman of MunicipalCorporation Kavita Sahu,District President Anita Poyam,General Secretary of CityDistrict Congress CommitteeHemu Upadhyay, Awadhesh Jhaof Law Department, CollectorChandan Kumar and otherspresent.

Body of the girl foundhanging on the tree

National seminar organized in IGNTU

Amarkantak, Aug 08: Anational seminar was or-ganized by Indira GandhiNational TribalUniversity (IGNTU),Amarkantak, (MP) on“National EducationPolicy (NEP): Reflectionson tribal education inglobal perspective” onunder the auspices of‘Azadi ka amrit mahot-sav’. Guntha Laxman,National Joint secretaryfor Akhil BhartiyRashtriya ShaikshikMahasang graced the pro-gram as chief guest. Prof.B.J. Rao, Vice Chancellor

of Central University ofHyderabad and Prof.Rama Shankar Dubey,Vice Chancellor of cen-tral university of Gujaratwere Guest of honor andkey-note speaker of theprogram.

At the onset, Dr.Parikipandla Sridevi, co-convenor of the programbriefed the importance ofthe program and intro-duced the guests to theaugust audience.Convener of the programProf. M.T.V, Nagaraju wel-comed the guests andProf. Alok Shrotriya,Dean academics present-ed the resurgence of theuniversity. Prof. R.S.Dubey in his key note ad-dress spoke on the impor-

tance of NEP in the cur-rent era and Prof. B.J. Raoemphasized the impor-tance and implications ofNEP on the education intribes. Guntha Laxmanhighlighted about therich cultural heritage ofIndia including tribalethos and importance ofimplementation of NEPall over the country in thecontext of development ofthe marginalized commu-nities. He also highlight-ed that the reforms in ed-ucational policy will ben-efit tribal and rural ad-vancements and will haveimplications on the globalprogress and hence inturn have a significantrole on intellectual devel-opment of future genera-

tions. He not only moti-vated the part of teachersin primary and higher ed-ucation in the implemen-tation of NEP but also ac-centuated the teachers tocraft global leaders fromthe deprived communi-ties who in turn will in-spire the nation as awhole. Prof. PrakashMani Tripathi, ViceChancellor of IGNTU inhis presidential addressexpressed the importanceof dissemination of cul-tural values and tradi-tional knowledge oftribes to the world andalso has articulated hisviews on national educa-tion policy in indigenousperspective. Further abook edited by Dr.

Anirudh kumar, assistantprofessor, Dept of Botanyentitled “Omics technolo-gies for sustainable agri-culture and global food se-curity; vol-1” was re-leased by the honorableguests.

A poster making con-test was held for studentson the theme “Unsung he-roes of freedom struggleof Madhya Pradesh” onthis occasion. The postersreceived were displayedby the students to the au-dience in the auditoriumpremises and the studentswho won were given cashprizes and certificates bychief guest. The programended with the vote ofthanks by the Registrar ofIGNTU, P. Siluvainathan.

Four day free eye check-up camp held

JJaaggddaallppuurr,, AAuugg 0088:: MahavirInter-continental inauguratedfree eye check-up and specta-cles distribution camp in Bastardistrict from August 6 to 9 atSindhu Bhawan. On the firstday, more than 1000 patientsreached the camp, after consul-tation by expert doctors, adviceand specs were distributed tomore than 200 needy people.Some people have also beenselected for eye surgery. Check-up facility is available in thecamp in a fully equipped bus.

Program coordinator AnilLunkad and co-convenerShivnarayan Chandak said thatthe first day’s camp was con-ducted at Sindhu Bhavan from

10 am to 5 pm by a team of eyespecialist doctors. After exam-ining the patients who reachedhere, they were provided spec-tacles free of cost as per therequirement. Some patientshave also been selected for theoperation. The selected patientswill be operated very soon.

On the first day of the camp,people from rural areas alongwith urban areas had reached inlarge numbers. He said that onAugust 7, a camp would beorganized at the communitybuilding at Bada Kilepal ofBastanar block, on August 8 atGoyal Dharamshala and onAugust 9 at MaheshwariBhawan.

Flood disaster relief teamsave life of elderly villager

Konta/Sukma, Aug 08:Once again in Sukma dis-trict, a villager was res-cued by the team of HomeGuards jawans in themidst of flood conditions,the life of an elderly per-son has been saved. A vil-lager named Lakhma Ramhas been rescued underthe Chhindgarh block

Puspal police station areaof Sukma district. He wassitting atop a tree to pro-tect himself after beingtrapped in the flood whilekeeping the field undersurveillance for hours allnight.

When Puspal station in-charge Pramod Kashyapgot the information aboutthe villager sitting on thetree for whole night, he im-mediately informed thetop senior officers andcalled the team of stateflood disaster relief andassisted in getting him outsafely.

It is being told that thevillager, who was sittingon the tree amid risingwater level, is a resident ofKinderwada village ofChhindgarh block.

Collector inspects waterlogged areas

Konta/Sukma, Aug 08:Due to the increasingwater level of Shabririver in Sukma due to

continuous rain for lastfew days, water logginghas been created in themain road connecting themunicipality to Sukma.Jhapra bridge on Sukma-Malkangiri (Orissa) road,Gidmanala on Sukma-Jagdalpur road,Dubbatota bridge on

Konta road, and Gadiras-Jirampal road have beenblocked due to rise inwater level in the bridge.

Sukma Collector HarisS. visited the affectedareas and took cog-nizance of the water log-ging situation and securi-ty and relief arrange-ments. He visited Jhaprabridge, Geedmanala,Gadiras-Jirampal bridge.During this, Sub-Divisional Officer SukmaPreeti Durgam was alsopresent.

The Collector said thatrevenue, police, city fight-ers and district level offi-cers should be on thealert mode. All necessarysecurity arrangementshave been ensured so thatemergency situation doesnot arise in the flood af-fected area. He instructed

the SDM to maintain con-stant contact with theconcerned officers of theborder state of Odishaduring the observation ofJhapra bridge.

He asked to ensurearrangement of adequatenumber of rescue boatsin the waterlogged areasand for a big boat in thewaterlogged area nearNH-30, Geedmanala, sothat the common man canbe crossed in a conven-ient and safe manner.

In view of the safety,the road was asked to beclosed by rope or barri-cade at a sufficient dis-tance on both sides of thesubmerged areas. Alongwith this, he directed todeploy police force andjawans in sufficient num-ber at all the sensitiveplaces.

BJPians take out the ‘Tiranga yatra’

Jagdalpur, Aug 08: BJPNagar Mandal of Bastardistrict, along withschool children, took outa tricolor tour and wentdoor-to-door to LokmayTilak ward and handedover the tri-colour to theresidents and motivatedthem to place it. StateGeneral Secretary KiranDev said that 25 to 50 tri-colors should be hoistedin every booth. He saidthat earlier the flag usedto fly after sunrise andbefore sunset. Now onecan fly this flag day andnight at the home or of-fices.

Lokesh Kavadia, in-charge of Bastar districtsaid that the PrimeMinister of the country,Narendra Modi deservescongratulations. In orderto spread the spirit of pa-triotism from door-to-door, during the 75thAmrit Mahotsav ofIndependence, ‘Har GharTiranga’ campaign wasstarted. Bastar DistrictPresident RoopsinhMandavi said that BJPworkers have been in-structed to reach everybooth through all themandals of the district.

City President Suresh

Gupta said that the BJPNagar Mandal takes apledge to put up 25 to 50flags in every booth inthe 48 wards of the city.In this campaign, mainlyBJP General SecretaryRamashray Singh, CityGeneral SecretarySangram Singh Rana,Sudha Mishra, LaxmiKashyap, Yogesh Shukla,Roshan Jha, Bijli Vaidya,Kaushalya Sahu, TekSingh Thakur, GopalPatel, Poornima, Janki,Sundari, Neha, BJPworkers were also pres-ent along with Champaand school children.

Music, speech-making, drama markTulsi-Tilak- Premchand Jayanti

RRaaiippuurr,, AAuugg 0088:: It goes withoutsaying that Rajkumar College,Raipur follows a tradition, whichis indeed age old. The celebrationof Tulsi –Tilak -Premchand Jayantiis one such rich tradition of RKC.This year, the event took place on7th Aug at Jashpur Hall, where anumber of participants took partin either music, speech-makingand drama, based one of the trio.

The programme began sharpat 9:00am sharp with the lightingof the ceremonial lamp, beforethe combined photos ofLokmanya Bal GangadharTilak,Tulsi Dasji and MunshiPremchandji. The curtain raiserswere two soulful bhajans of

Tulsidasji namely “Bhajaman,bhajaman Ramacharan sukhdayi”and “Payoji maine Ram rattandhan payo.” The student anchorsof the event were Adidev Rajaramand Jincy Ratnakar for Englishand Hindi anchoring respectively.The following students deliveredtheir speeches in Hindi: - NaveenKhute, Apurve Agrawal,Yaduvardhan Bansal andBhumika Kurre. Then the stu-dents who delivered theirspeeches in English wereSwarnim Kunj, Aparajeeta Telang,Pritha Jain, Tanushree Gangdev,Jai Prakash Singh BaghelandKunal Kawasi.

The event concluded at

10:20am with the staging of thetouchy Hindi play “Idgah” byMunshi Premchand. It tells us ofthe story of a four-year oldorphan named Hamid, who liveswith his grandmother Amina.Hamid, the protagonist of thestory, has recently lost his par-ents. However, his grandmothertells him that his father left himto earn money and that his moth-er has gone to Allah to fetch love-ly gifts for him! (The play has alesson for all of us. Premchandalways maintained that“Literature should be like a lampof the society and not just a mirror.”

It was very well enacted by26of our talented actors.Coincidentally, our powerful pro-gramme began with a bang withthe bhajans of 26 musicians ofMusic Department and endedwith 26 actors on stage, whotouched the strings of our heartwith their adorable acting. Theundersigned praised the jointefforts of Hindi, English,Humanities and MusicDepartments, informs a pressrelease.

BJYM tried to gherao the MLA’s office

Jagdalpur, Aug 08:Bastar district BJYMworkers played the bugleof protest against thegovernment went outtogherao the MLA’s of-fice. They raised slogansdemanding unemploy-ment allowance and em-ployment to educatedyouths.

Bastar District BJPNagar Mandal took outthe tricolour yatra underthe campaign to hoistthe tricolor flag at everyhouse. The booth level

was inspected during thetricolor yatra and theymotivated people to hoistthe tricolor in theirhomes.

Police arrested BJYMworkers who came togherao the MLA’s office

BJYM of Bastar dis-trict, started protestagainst the MLA and thegovernment, regardingthe demand for unem-ployment allowance andemployment and wentout to gherao the officeof local MLA. The police

stopped the activistsmid-way and arrestedthem.

The police had madeelaborate arrangementsaround the MLA’s office.BJYM workers werestopped before reachingthe MLA bungalow byputting up barricades.Some workers kept in-sisting on reaching theoffice by jumping thebarricade. During thisthere was minor scufflebetween the police andthe workers. During the

protest, BJYM raised slo-gans against theCongress, demandingfulfillment of the prom-ises made to the public.Recalling the electionpromises of Congress,BJYM District PresidentAvinash Srivastava saidthat dearness allowanceand employment to theunemployed were prom-ised. On these two de-mands, BJYM workersfrom the BJP office cameout to gherao the MLA’s office.

Shravani Upkram to be heldnear Kharun River on Aug 11

Raipur, Aug 08: Like everyyear, this year also‘Shravani Upkram’ will beorganised by VedDepartment of GovernmentSanskrit College (GSC)Raipur on Aug 11 on thebanks of Kharun river inMahadev Ghat at 7:00 amand all the ‘Viprabandhus’have been asked to avail itsfull benefit.

Apart from this some re-puted Acharyas of Raipur(C.G.) have taken some deci-sion going against the rulesas mentioned in the‘Shastras’ related toRakshabandhan andAcharya RamkishoreMishra (Vedic ji) hastermed it as inappropriate.Specially the ‘Lok’ in which‘Bhadra’ exists, it gives dueresults. According to

Muhurt Chintamani,‘Bhadra’ resides in the‘Patal’ of ‘Makar Rashi’. Asper the local ‘Panchang’(Dev), ‘Bhadra’ is cominginto effect in ‘Makar Rashi’on Aug 11, 2022 (Thursday)at 10:38 am and it resides inthe ‘Patal Lok’. Thereforethere is no result of‘Bhadra’ in ‘Mrityu Lok’.Therefore it is a good newsfor the general public thatfrom 10:38 minutes onwardson Aug 11, they all can cele-brate the festival of‘Rakshabandhan’ till night,says Acharya RamkishoreMishra (Vedicji) of GovtSanskrit College, Raipur, ina press release.

HNLU career developmentconclave -2022 begins


Raipur, Aug 08: The twomonth long CareerDevelopment Conclave –2022 at HidayatullahNational Law University,Raipur (“HNLU” got un-derway with the inaugu-ral session held on August7, 2022 on the theme‘Getting to Law Firms:Unravelling the Path’.Sapan Gupta, the GeneralCounsel of ArcelorMittalGroup was the ChiefGuest for the event. Thepanellists involved AnantKaushik, Partner at WadiaGhandy & Co., SaurabhBindal, Partner at Fox

Mandal & Associates, andMr. Rachit Jain, Partner atLakshmikumaran andSridharan. The inauguraladdress was delivered bythe Vice Chancellor Prof.(Dr.) V. C. Vivekanandan,and the Welcome Addresswas given by the RegistrarProf. (Dr.) Uday Shankar.

The panellists ad-dressed issues related todifficulty of entry into lawfirms without prior con-nections, stable work-lifebalance, and lack of mobil-

ity in the market. Theseproblems were contextu-alised with the currentskill requirements of lawfirms. The panellists eluci-dated the importance ofspecialisation and brandbuilding with the help ofextracurricular activities,and the manner of select-ing such activities. Theyreflected upon the impor-tance of continuous andstrategic skill developmentafter entering law firms.The panel further empha-

sised the importance ofhealthy competition, hardwork and amiable relation-ships in the formativeyears of their career.

In the Q&A section, thepanellists emphasised theimportance of technologi-cal literacy for lawyers, thebenefits and risks of pur-suing niche fields of law,and a cost-benefit analysisof taking additional certi-fications, like SecretarialExecutive Certificate.

Prof.(Dr.) YogendraShrivastava and Dr. AnkitAwasthi proposed the voteof thanks in the inauguralsession and panel discus-sion respectively.

The HNLU CareerDevelopment Conclave -2022 plans to host manysuch discussions with ex-perienced professionals,on specialised careerpaths in the legal domain.

State-level school sports competition heldJJaaggddaallppuurr,, AAuugg 0088:: Final resultsof Dodge ball, yoga and tabletennis have come in the statelevel school sports competitionorganized at Indira PriyadarshiniStadium, Jagdalpur. The result offootball competition will bereceived tomorrow. The boysand girls of Bastar proved theirmettle in the Dodge Bal organ-ized in the state level schoolsports competition. In Boy’s cat-egory, Durg Zone secured sec-ond position and Bilaspur Zonesecured third position. In girl’scategory, Surguja zone got sec-ond position and Bilaspur zonegot the third position. In theyoga competition of 14 years ofage group of boys, Raipur gotfirst place, second place went toDurg and third went to Bilaspur.In the competition of girls of thesame age group, Raipur got firstplace, Durg second and Bilaspur

got third place. Raipur got thefirst place, Durg got the secondplace and Bilaspur got the thirdplace in the yoga competition forboy’s in the age group of 17years. In the competition of girl’sof the same age group, Raipurgot first place, Durg second andthird place Bastar.

Raipur got the first place,Bilaspur got the second and Durgthird place in the yoga competi-tion for boys in the age group of19 years. In the competition ofgirls of the same age group,Raipur got first place, Durg sec-

ond and Bilaspur third place. Inthe table tennis competition forboy’s in the age group of 14years, Raipur got the first place,Durg second and Bilaspur got thethird place. In the competition ofgirl’s of the same age group,Raipur got first place, Durg sec-ond and Bilaspur third place. Inthe table tennis competition ofboys in the age group of 17years, Raipur got the first place,Durg second and Bilaspur thirdplace. In the competition of girlsof the same age group, Durg gotfirst place, Raipur second andBastar third place. In the tabletennis competition of boys in theage group of 19 years, Raipur gotfirst place, second place went toBilaspur and third to Durg. In thecompetition of girls of the sameage group, Bilaspur got firstplace, Durg second and Raipurthird place.


On the theme‘Getting to LawFirms: Unravellingthe Path’

People can celebrate‘Rakshabandhan’on Aug 11: AcharyaMishra

Issues instructionsfor safety and reliefarrangements

Along with the helpof police

On completion of 2yrs of NationalEducation Policy


BRIEF

Ambassador diesBeijing: Myanmar’sambassador to Chinahas died, the Chinesegovernment said onMonday. I can confirmwhat you mentioned,Foreign Ministryspokesperson WangWenbin said in re-sponse to a questionabout the reporteddeath of AmbassadorMyo Thant Pe. He didnot say when thediplomat had died orwhat the cause ofdeath was. Myo ThantPe had been ambassa-dor to China since2019, Wang said. Hededicated himself tothe development ofChina-Myanmar rela-tions, he said. We ex-press our deep condo-lences and regret overhis sudden passingand our sincere sym-pathies to his family.

Afghan suspectTehran: Police inIran arrested anAfghan man suspect-ed of stabbing 10other farm labourersto death following aquarrel over land,Iranian state mediareported on Monday.The rampage in a re-mote village insoutheastern Iranwas a rare such inci-dent in the IslamicRepublic. The offi-cial IRNA newsagency said fourIranians and sixAfghans were killed,and one farm workerwas wounded in therampage on Sundayand was in hospital.According to the re-port, the suspect wasmentally unbal-anced.

A Hindu devotee takesholy dip with his child be-fore collecting waterfrom the Bagmati riverduring the Bol Bom pil-grimage at Sudarijaal, onthe outskirts ofKathmandu, Nepal,Monday.

Gaza City, Aug 8 (AP):

A fragile cease-fire dealto end nearly three days offighting between Israeland Palestinian militantsin Gaza held into Mondaymorning - a sign the latestround of violence mayhave abated.

The flare-up was theworst fighting betweenIsrael and Gaza militantgroups since Israel andGaza’s Hamas rulersfought an 11-day war lastyear, adding to the destruc-tion and misery that haveplagued blockaded Gazafor years.

Since Friday, Israeli air-craft had pummelled tar-gets in Gaza while theIran-backed PalestinianIslamic Jihad militantgroup fired hundreds ofrockets at Israel.

Over three days of fight-ing, 44 Palestinians werekilled, including 15 chil-dren and four women, and311 were wounded, thePalestinian HealthMinistry said. IslamicJihad said 12 of thosekilled were militants andIsrael said some of thedead were killed by mis-fired rockets.

Israel on Monday said itwas partially reopeningcrossings into Gaza for hu-manitarian needs andwould fully open them ifcalm was maintained.

Fuel trucks were seen en-tering a cargo crossing forthe first time since cross-ings with the strip wereclosed last week, prompt-ing a fuel shortage thatground Gaza’s lone powerplant to a halt on Saturday.The plant was set to re-sume full operations laterMonday. Gaza suffers froma chronic power crisis.

Life for hundreds ofthousands of Israelis wasdisrupted during the vio-lence. Security precau-tions imposed in recentdays on residents of south-

ern Israel were being grad-ually lifted Monday, themilitary said.

Both sides boasted oftheir successes. Speakingto reporters in Tehran onSunday, Islamic Jihadleader Ziad al-Nakhalahsaid the militant group re-mained strong, despite los-ing two of its leaders. Thisis a victory for IslamicJihad, he said.

Despite that claim, thegroup undoubtedly sus-tained a blow duringIsrael’s fierce offensive.Beyond losing the two

leaders, it reduced its arse-nal by firing hundreds ofrockets without striking asingle Israeli, thanks toIsrael’s missile defensesystem that shot most ofthem down. Its own rock-ets may have killed severalGazans, according toIsrael.

The cease-fire deal con-tained a promise thatEgypt would work for therelease of two seniorIslamic Jihad detaineesheld by Israel, but therewere no guarantees thiswould happen.

Fragile cease-fire betweenIsrael, Gaza militants holding

Palestinians celebrate the cease-fire agreement between Israel and Islamic Jihad

Movement in Gaza City, early Monday.

Islamabad, Aug 8 (PTI)

A top commander ofthe outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)Omar Khalid Khorasaniand three other top mili-tant leaders have beenkilled in a mysteriousblast in easternAfghanistan’s Paktikaprovince, a Pakistanimedia report said onMonday.

A vehicle carrying sen-ior commanders of themilitant group, includingKhorasani, was onSunday targeted with amysterious explosive de-vice, according to Afghanofficials and local sources,The Express Tribunenewspaper reported.

The top militants weretravelling in the Birmaldistrict of the provincefor a meeting when theirvehicle hit a roadsidemine, the report said.

All aboard the vehicle,also carrying other TTPcommanders such as

Abdul Wali Mohmand,Mufti Hassan, and HafizDawlat Khan, were killedin the explosion, TheExpress Tribune quoted asenior Afghan official assaying.

According to a localsource, the TTP leaderswere travelling for consul-tation when their vehiclehit a roadside mine onSunday.

Khorasani, who be-longed to the Mohmandtribal district, was consid-ered a top member of theTTP — the militant groupwhich wants to imposethe law of Sharia acrossPakistan. Khorasani, whocarried a bounty of Rs 10million on his head.

Hafiz Dawlat from theOrakzai tribal districtwas an important mem-ber of the group and aclose trustee ofKhorasani, while MuftiHassan hailed from theMalakand division andpledged allegiance to AbuBakr al-Baghdadi, the de-

ceased leader of theIslamic State terrorist or-ganisation.

TTP intelligence chiefAbdul Rashid alias UqabiBajauri was also killed ina landmine blast in Kunarprovince of Afghanistanon Sunday morning, ac-cording to local Afghansources.

The TTP is yet to con-firm these targetedkillings of its top com-manders, an incident thatwould certainly under-mine the Afghan Taliban-brokered peace negotia-tions between the TTPand the Pakistan govern-ment. The news comesafter the outlawed groupand Pakistan reached adeadlock during theirtalks as the outfit refusedto budge from its demandfor the reversal of themerger of the erstwhileFederally AdministeredTribal Areas (FATA) withthe Khyber-Pakhtunkhwaprovince of Pakistan, thereport said.

Top TTP commander Omar Khalid Khorasanikilled in mysterious blast in Afghanistan

BBeeiijjiinngg,, AAuugg 88 ((PPTTII)):: China onMonday continued its unprece-dented military drills aroundTaiwan, extending the sched-ule of war games launched inretaliation to the visit by USHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosito the breakaway islandwhich Beijing claims is partof its territory.

The People’s LiberationArmy (PLA) Eastern TheatreCommand, which overseesTaiwan, said on Monday itwould continue drills inwaters near Taiwan island,focusing on anti-submarineand air-to-ship strikes, state-run Global Times reported.

The PLA conducted jointdrills involving all wings ofits armed forces in six areasaround the island fromAugust 4 to 7.

The PLA’s latestannouncement notice didnot specify the location ofthe exercises nor did it men-tion when they would end.The PLA on Sunday proceed-ed with the plan and contin-ued realistic combat-sce-nario joint exercises in the

sea and air space around theisland of Taiwan practicingisland capturing drills andbomber deterrence flights in

Taiwan Strait, a rehearsal forreal operation, state-runGlobal Times reported onSunday.

China continues unprecedented military drillsaround Taiwan even after end of schedule

London, Aug 8 (PTI)

The race to elect a newConservative Party leader,who will take charge asBritish Prime Ministerearly next month, heated upon Monday as the two final-ists Rishi Sunak and LizTruss clashed over theirproposals to tackle the soar-ing cost-of-living crisisacross the country.

The issue of inflation andhow best to curb it hasemerged as the main battleline in the race to 10Downing Street, with bothcandidates offering differ-ent approaches. WhileTruss has pledged immedi-ate tax cuts if elected,Sunak has promisedmore targeted supportfor the most vulnerablehouseholds and tax cutsfurther down the line.

A fresh row brewedout over the weekendafter Foreign SecretaryLiz Truss told TheFinancial Times’ thather plan to lower taxesrather than offer hand-outs was moreConservative. Thisprompted an immediaterebuke from formerChancellor Rishi Sunakthat it is “simply wrongto rule out further directsupport” for strugglingfamilies this winter.

Families are facing along, hard winter with ris-ing bills. Yet Liz’s plan todeal with that is to give abig bung to large business-

es and the well-off, leavingthose who most need helpout in the cold, Sunakwrites in The Sun’.

Worse still, she has saidshe will not provide directsupport payments to thosewho are feeling the pinchmost. We need clear-eyed re-alism, not starry-eyed boos-terism. That means bolderaction to protect peoplefrom the worst of the win-ter. I have the right plan andexperience to help peoplethrough, he said.

Supporters of Truss hitback to say her remarksover the weekend had beenmisinterpreted . “What shehas, I think, rightly chal-

lenged is the wisdom of tak-ing large sums of moneyout of people’s pockets intax and then giving some ofthat back in ever more com-plicated ways,” said TradeMinister Penny Mordaunt,a supporter of the ForeignSecretary.

“She’s willing to do moreto help people but her focusis around doing it in a waythat puts more money inpeople’s pockets, creating ahigh-growth economy withhigher wages, more peo-ple in work,” addedNorthern IrelandSecretary Brandon Lewis,another Truss supporter.

While Truss has

pledged a package of taxcuts worth GBP 30 billion,which Sunak has arguedwould increase inflationand only save lower earnersGBP 59 a year. However,both candidates are feelingthe heat on the issue as theUK economy is expected toplunge into a year-long re-cession as inflation goes be-yond 13 per cent later thisyear, according to the Bankof England forecasts fromlast week.

UK PM race: Sunak, Truss feel heatover cost-of-living crisis

A dolescence is a unique stage ofhuman development and is a

phase of life between childhood andadulthood from 10 to 19 years of age.During this period, all experiencerapid changes in physical, cognitiveand psychosocial growth of life. Thiscritical change affects everything â€“how they feel, think, make their deci-sions and interact with people aroundthem. The transition of life sometimescarries new risks of life that may re-sult from bodily or behaviouralchange or may influence the futurehealth of young people. In this period,all experience growth spurts and pu-berty changes. There is rapid bodilygrowth for a period and followed byslow growth then another growthspurt. The changes with puberty mayhappen gradually and bodily changesbecome obvious at the same time.The World Health Organization(WHO) defines an adolescent as anyperson between 10 and 19. This agerange also falls within the definition ofyoung people which refers to the 10-to-24 age group.

The physical changes occur dur-ing the adolescence period due tothe effects of hormonal changes.The teenager's body is transformedfrom child to adult. This particularphase is called puberty, and it usual-ly starts between the age of 9 and16. The sexual hormone that plays itsrole in the bodily changes in boys istestosterone and the one that playsits role in the bodily changes in girlsis estrogen. Most physical changesobserved are increased perspiration,acne problems, development of ex-ternal sex characteristics, growth ofhairs in the pubic region and armpit,changes of voice and broader shoul-der in boys and starting of menstrua-tion and broadening of hips in girls

etc. In general, the first sign of pu-berty appears in girls earlier than inboys. These changes continue untilthe age of 18 to 22.

Adolescence is the period of lifewhere there is not only bodilychanges but there will be full of emo-tional and psychological transforma-tion that is very significant as physi-cal changes. As part of life, theysearch for their identity and feel theneed for their independence. Ofcourse, there is confusion about theirneed and desire for autonomy in theback of their mind. The growth offriendship is prominent in mostteenagers and changes in behaviourare observed the most. It may evenlead to conflict between teenagersand parents. Sometimes, they feelcarefree, try to seek new experiencesand sometimes may get exposed tosituations that are dangerous to theirhealth and wellbeing, like smokingcigarettes, drinking alcohol, takingdrugs, reckless driving or sexual mis-behaviour etc. Apart from bodilychanges due to influences of hor-mones, adolescence may lead tomood swings as well. This needs lotsof patience and understanding fromparents. This is also a time for thefirst experience of sexual relationsdue to the hormonal and physicalchanges that are experienced byteenagers. The changes make themmore aware of their sexuality. Thismay again lead to behaviouralchanges as well. So, it is important tocreate an environment for helpful andeffective discussion of sexuality too.But this is not an easy thing.Therefore, it is very important tochoose the right strategy and righttime for parental discussion withoutdisturbing their mindset and privacy.

There are about 1.2 billion peoplebetween the ages of 10 and 19 world-wide as per UNICEF. It is important toknow how they develop and growacross us. As determined, some ofthe factors that have a tremendousimpact on the development of adoles-cents like social media, urbanization,unhealthy food habit, conflict in smallissues leading to even armed conflictin developed countries, migration todifferent countries and urban areas ofnative countries and climate changeetc. Though it is expected that ado-lescent has a better way of improvinghealth and wellbeing, there are ap-

proximately 1.2 million deaths in ayear, and unfortunately, they are allfrom preventable causes. This is agreat loss to a nation. Sometimesself-harm is also a leading cause ofdeath amongst youth. This is becauseof a lack of information, adequateand quality services and even a pro-tective environment that is needed tostay healthy. The main reasons areconsidered to be some communica-ble diseases like malaria, cholera, andlack of sanitation and hygiene facili-ties. Especially in middle-incomecountries, the risk due to HIV anddeaths due to AIDS are high. Otherfactors like unhealthy diet, unhealthylifestyle, alcohol and substanceabuse, mental ill health and un-healthy environment are also thecause of ill-health of teenagers today.For girls, the onset of puberty is amajor factor which results in earlymarriage and pregnancy in somecountries where poverty, and socialand gender norms are the factors forrestricted life choices of girls. This re-stricts them from education and so-cial and economic opportunity aswell. It is estimated that 23 millionadolescent girls become pregnantevery year and maternal mortality ison the rise. It is also linked to childmarriage.

The UNICEF responded with thepartner countries to improve theoverall health of adolescents. This isin the direction toward communica-ble disease, gender-responsivehealthcare, supporting HIV and AIDSprevention programmes as per need,looking into menstrual health and hy-giene, promoting mental health andwellbeing, good nutrition, respondingto non-communicable disease and re-ducing home violence due to behav-ioural changes etc. The Governmentof India has taken steps throughNHM, as there are approximately 253million people of this age group inIndia. The direction is to get divi-dends through the proper mainte-nance of the health of this group bydelaying marriage, reducing teenagepregnancy and maternal mortality,reducing STI incidence, reducing HIVprevalence and considering the youthas important resources of the econo-my. Rashtriya Kishor SwasthyaKaryakram (RKSK), launched on 7thFebruary 2014 and School Health &Wellness Programme launched in

February 2020 are two especially ded-icated programmes for the holisticdevelopment of the adolescent. RKSKis targeted to improve nutrition, in-juries and violence (including gender-based violence), non-communicabledisease, mental health, and sub-stance abuse. The target of the pro-gramme is to reach adolescents intheir own environments such as fami-ly, school and community to provideadequate care through counselling,social and behavioural change com-munication and strengthening ado-lescent-friendly health clinics. TheSchool Heath & Wellness programmeplays a critical role to improve life-long healthy behaviours. This is alsoan important part of the health andwellness component of theAyushman Bharat Programme and isincorporated in government-aidedschools in districts. Two teachers(preferably one male and one female)are designated as 'Health andWellness Ambassadors', and they willbe trained for health promotion anddisease prevention on 11 thematicareas with a joyful interactive sessionfor one hour every week.

The adolescent is now considereda source of development of a nation,so proper care must be taken to com-plete at least secondary education foreveryone whatever the economiccondition might be, particularly thefemales. The goal needs to be the de-velopment of adolescents' strengthand values through education to buildthe entire generation economicallyindependent and productive to breakthe cycle of poverty. The develop-ment of strength of adolescents is as-sociated with resilience and life satis-faction. Identification of strengthalong with health assessment canprovide a picture of how teenagersare doing in different contexts of life.All youth have the ability to accessand act on their strengths. Astrength-based evaluation and per-spectives development should beconsidered to develop a way to em-power children and adolescents to beexperts in their own field of choiceand to find solutions to face chal-lenges of life so that they can happilycontribute to the development of thenation.

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Welcome a farmer VP

Arun Jaitley who wasUnion finance ministerwould have been a happyman today as JagdeepDhankad who was his pickfor governor of West Bengalwill be the Vice President ofIndia.The two were in jobsthat approximated eachother in 1989-90: Jaitley asadditional solicitor generaland Dhankad as a supremecourt lawyer as well as Loksabha MP and they becamegood friends. Mr Dhankadhails from Jat communitywhich is dominant in partsof UP, Haryana andRajasthan which can paydivident to the ruling partyat centre in the coming as-sembly elections in the stateas well as in general elec-tions in 2024.Vice Presidentof the country is also thechairman of Raiya sabha -two offices that require oc-cupants to be unfailinglynon-partisan and are ex-pected to adhere to rulesand the constitution on theone hand, and on the other,innovate to ensure smoothrelations between the gov-ernment and the opposi-tion. And also Mr Dhankadshould strive to build betterrelations between the gov-ernment and oppositionand to uphold the honour ofthe upper house.There is atransition that he mightstruggle to effect, given thetemperament he has dis-played so far, as he stepsinto a new national role.RUckus is already in theparliament and in the lastseason also there was pan-demonium in the parlia-ment and it is likely to hap-pen till March 2024 whenthe general elections will bedeclared and in this regardboth ruling party and oppo-sition parties are sailing inthe same boat and the VicePresident have to show theextra skills for smooth func-tioning of Rajya sabha andbeing a lawyer,a formermember of parliament andan avid "student" of legisla-tive rules so it is believedthat he has the skills tomanage the more complexupper house.

Yash Pal Ralhan,Jalandhar

Wake up to realityDivisive politics is a

crime against democracyand may not last long sincethe poor and deprived will,sooner or later, realise thatthey are being cheated. Theissue at this stage is not howthe Congress or any otherparty will play their cards,but how and when the peo-ple will awaken to seek re-dress of their real andpressing issues. Punjab hasnot just given a thumpingwin to the AAP but has setan example by voting, irre-spective of religion or caste,for quality and affordableeducation and healthcare,and with the hope that theirbasic needs will be takencare of.

HL Sharma, by mail

LETTERSTO THE EDITOR✍


NCC cadets during an event for Sarva Dharma Prathana Sabha and Ahinsa March on the 80th anniversary of Quit IndiaMovement, in Jaipur, Monday, Aug. 8.

Adolescence: A period that needs special care

80TH ANNIVERSARY OF QUIT INDIA

T hankfully, the UKnow looks to be past

the peak of both the recentheatwave and the latestCOVID wave. But there willbe more of both and in fu-ture, we might think abouthow we protect ourselvesfrom COVID in the same waywe protect ourselves from theweather. An umbrella is auseful analogy. If we look outthe window or check theweather forecast and seerain, we would probably takean umbrella out with us.Similarly, if COVID cases arestarting to rise or if a newwave is forecast, we mightconsider grabbing a facemask, for example.

But just as there's no needto carry an umbrella with uswhen it's sunny, we needn't beexpected to wear masks allthe time. Of course, some peo-ple may choose to wear masks

more consistently incertain settings, whileothers may forgo wear-ing them altogether.This is the nature of thecurrent phase of thepandemic we're in, a bigpart of which is basedon personal choice andresponsibility. Thankslargely to the impact ofvaccines, we no longerneed the kind of rules-based approach to riskmanagement we sawearlier in the pandemic.

But the umbrella analogycan guide our behaviour andchoices in a variety of areasof our response moving for-ward. Beyond masks, theseinclude testing, ventilationand social distancing. Theidea is that we can pick up orstep up precautions when wemost need them (whenCOVID cases are on the rise),

before relaxing them, if wewant to, when infection ratesand risk are lower.

What might this look like in practice?

Let's say we start to seeCOVID cases rising againcome autumn. This is a dis-tinct possibility. It then be-comes even more important totake a test if we have any

symptoms that might beCOVID-related. This willhelp inform our deci-sion of whether, and towhat extent, to min-imise contact with oth-ers. Isolation is nolonger a legal require-ment, and I think thisshould remain the case.However, if possible,staying at home whilewe're unwell is a sensi-ble and consideratething to do, particularlywhen COVID rates are

high. Distancing should alsoremain a choice. But during awave of infections, peoplemight wish to maintain moredistance between themselvesand others in shops, or maychoose to avoid crowded ven-ues. Back on masks, whencases begin to rise, the risk ofcontracting and transmittingCOVID also rises, so masks be-

come a more useful and rea-sonable precaution. They canbe particularly valuable incertain circumstances for ex-ample, if someone is unwellbut can't isolate, when visitingpeople who are vulnerable, orin crowded indoor spaces.Opening windows even a littlecan increase fresh air indoorsand also help reduce the likeli-hood of transmitting thevirus. Finally, the number ofpeople in the UK who havehad a COVID booster vaccineis considerably lower than thenumber who received theirfirst and second doses. Weknow immunity from vac-cines wanes, and boosters re-store vaccine effectiveness. Soif we start to see rising cases,or looking ahead to futurewaves, it would make goodsense for people who are be-hind on their vaccines to getup-to-date.

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Living with COVID: How treating masks like umbrellascould help us weather future pandemic threats

Rajender Kumar Sharma

W ho is not happy to hear the name of holiday or holiday, every-one gets happiness. The arrival of Sunday after working six

days of the week, relieves the fatigue of the whole week. There is also apsychological logic behind the provision of this type of leave that if any or-ganization or department has to make its employees more productive,then to give one day's leave/holiday in a week to the employee or anybusiness person. It is essential for physical and mental health. It can proveto be a useful asset for the organization. A day off makes him energetic. Ifwe talk about our country, then the situation is somewhat different fromother countries. Here is a long list of public holidays other than Sundays,which vary from state to state, depending on the culture and festivals ofthe state. If we make a small estimate, then in a year about 52 Sundayscome. In some departments, there is a 5 day week, then 52 Saturdays addto list of holidays. Now count the number of festivals coming on the birth-days of great personalities, great saints, great leaders, so this too doesn'tbecome less than 25-30 in every state. Then after that if you are a govern-ment employee then you also have earned leave, casual leave, half payleave (medical leave) etc. If we sum up all these holidays, then we will findthat we do not work even half of the 365 days of the year, and then we talkabout why we don't come in the category of developed countries? Somepolitical parties are shining their politics in the name of regional holidaysonly. Some leaders and political parties also promise to make provision forsome new holidays in their election manifestos to get cheap popularity. Inthis way, the increasing number of holidays hinders the progress of thecountry. The most pathetic situation is that of the education departmentwhere teachers get summer vacation, autumn vacation, Diwali vacationalong with the students in addition to the above mentioned normal holi-days. And then, if the teacher takes other leave also, then it becomes to beconsidered that how much will the teaching work be? Casual leave is forcasual needs. Employees can use it in case of sudden need, whose num-ber remains 8 or 10 in a year. If you do not need them for the whole year,then these holidays end with the end of the year. In such a situation, it hasbeen seen that employees, in the month of December, take their casualleave even without need, because they feel that it is our right and whyshould we not take advantage of these holidays? At times, many employ-ees take casual leave and sit at home, due to which the work of the entireorganization and department gets blocked. The common man keeps onmaking rounds of the departments, but due to the employees being onleave, no work gets done. By the time the employee arrives on duty after along leave, the queue of files to be gathered at his desk is also long. In sucha situation, the employee, looking at the number of files, will be careless incompleting the work quickly, which will result in mistakes in the work orelse instead of completing so many work peacefully, he will keep on post-poning it. The result will be trouble for the people who have these files. Ithas been seen many times that such employees do not have any sympathyfor the public. Even if a person comes to know the current status of his file,then he is rebuked or even if there is no deficiency in his file, it is returnedafter showing the deficiency. The hope of getting work done from the of-fice is lost. It is very sad that holidays have been established as a right ingovernment departments. Holidays on our religious festivals are justifiedbecause these festivals keep us connected with our cultural roots and cel-ebrating them is an integral part of our culture. As far as the holidays de-clared for political gains cannot be called justified, and the best example ofthis is Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan's saying that I do not want any holiday tobe kept on my birthday, but my birthday should be dedicated to teachers.These quotes show us that the real respect of great men is to follow theirteachings, follow the path shown by them, and not sit at home after takingleave on that day, instead of a holiday in their name, more work should bedone which can lead the country towards progress, this is the way bywhich they will be respected in the true sense. Because he became greatby his works which he did for his country and the people of the country.We also have to think, whether leave is our right or just a facility given foremergency situations.

How many days a year do we work?

T here is a widely shared view that the All India Services, which pro-vided the 'steel frame' of governance in a democratic India, granti-

ng Constitutional autonomy to the state administration, particularly on thepolicy front, are failing to deliver because of a declining decision-makingability of its officers, their smugness arising from notions of total employ-ment security and inadequacy of parameters used for evaluating their per-formance. Selection on the strength of a merit-based examination that isopen to all - irrespective of class, creed or region - is still a huge commen-dation for the Civil Services and it can also be said that the pride and confi-dence of their young officers in the initial few years of service is still hold-ing, by and large. However, things did not add up as the officers moving upthe career graph lost their shine and took to serving their personal interestsgenerally. The 'steel frame' today looks rusted. Still, no other nation has anequivalent of All India Services in terms of offering a career starting at the'leadership level' in the administration of various wings of the country'sgovernment, including the handling of foreign affairs. An entrant in theCivil Services - after the initial years of training - gets the status of UnderSecretary to the Government of India. The IAS and IPS are trained by theCentre before they are allocated to various states with the expectation thatthey would give India - which is a Union of States - a comparable quality ofadministration and public-oriented governance, uniformly throughout thecountry. A major cause behind the degradation of these Civil Services is thecontrolling influence that the corrupt leaders ruling the states exercise onthe bureaucracy and the police in pursuit of their own vested interests. Apractice has developed whereby they put greater reliance on the pliablestate service personnel at the cost of IAS and IPS officers - this results in thecommon phenomenon of the Chief Secretaries and Director Generals ofPolice appearing to be at the weakest, not the strongest, point of their ca-reer - incapable of upgrading the system presided over by them or uphold-ing the cause of officers below who were upright and firm. The Centreshould make a beginning by acquiring a say in the appointment of CS andDGP of the state by getting the UPSC to draw up a panel of suitable officersin consultation with the state government - the Supreme Court had wayback in 2018 favoured this approach. This idea should have been furtherconcretized by now. Also, since the Department of Personnel and theMinistry of Home Affairs have the right to track the performance of IAS andIPS officers, the legitimacy of in-service evaluation of these officers forhigher responsibilities at the end of 15, 20 and 25 years of service throughappropriately constituted boards, should be firmly established so that poor-ly performing officers are given a decent 'shake hand' with compulsory re-tirement. In India, a major reason for the decline of public administration isthe shrinking of the position and authority of the District Magistrate-cum-Collector as the anchor of governance. The DM is the symbol of the stateclosest to the people and the overriding monitor of the working of all wingsof the government in the district. The image of the nation takes a beatingwhen manholes left uncovered by a careless sewage repairman or a water-filled pit or bore well left unguarded at a construction site result in the deathof a child, when an old tree by a roadside 'counted' by the forest authoritybut not marked as a potential hazard suddenly falls, crushing a passerbyunder it or when an ambulance though available is denied to an ordinary cit-izen admitted to a hospital and need a shift in an emergency. It is the DMwho is supposed to create a deterrence against such grave anti-people actsof functionaries in the district linked to public service, but this is now totallyabsent because of the play of politics even at the local levels and the abdica-tion by young IAS and IPS officers of their basic responsibilities.

Civil services have to improvefor better governance


BRIEF

HandloomCensus data

New Delhi: UnionMinister PiyushGoyal on Sundaystressed upon theneed to put the Censusdata of Handlooms,pertaining to over 35lakh handloom work-ers, in the public do-main for transparencyand validation so thatthe benefits of hand-loom schemes reachthe genuine benefici-aries. Addressing anevent on the NationalHandloom Day, theMinister for Textilesand Commerce andIndustry emphasisedupon free of cost on-boarding on theGovernment e-Marketplace (GeM)for maximum numberof handloom productsso that artisans canavail selling opportu-nities in governmentprocurement.

Turbine plantHyderabad:Hyderabad-basedSwan TurbineServices on Sundaysaid TelanganaFinance Minister THarish Rao inaugurat-ed its second plant atPashamailaram inSangareddy district ofthe State. This plantspread across fouracres is going to pro-vide employment op-portunities to around300 people directly, PSatyanarayana, MD,Swan TurbineServices said in a re-lease here. “We arecatering our servicesin India, Middle-Eastand Africa.

Energy demands

New Delhi: Niti Aayogmember and scientistV K Saraswat onSunday suggested thatthe governmentshould focus on set-ting up small modularreactors as it wouldhelp meet the coun-try’s energy needs andalso in replacingaging thermal powerplants. Saraswat alsosaid nuclear powerplant projects whichhave been set upunder the fleet modeproduction, should beaccelerated, so thatIndia is able to meetbase load require-ments at the earliest.“We are suggestingthat in future weshould go for smallmodular reactorswhich will be able tomeet this (energy) re-quirements in a dis-tributed manner.

Labour welfarescheme

New Delhi: TheCentre is running alabour welfarescheme for nearly 50lakh ‘beedi’ workersand their families liv-ing across the coun-try, Union Labour andEmployment MinisterBhupender Yadavsaid in Lok Sabha onMonday. Yadav saidthe scheme envisageshealth care facility,scholarship and housing.

New Delhi, Aug 08:

The long-awaited high-speed 5G services are ex-pected to be rolled out inabout a month, Minister ofState for TelecomDevusinh Chauhan saidon Monday. Addressingthe inaugural event of theI n t e r n a t i o n a lT e l e c o m m u n i c a t i o nUnion’s RegionalStandardisation Forum(RSF) for Asia andOceania region, Chauhansaid India is likely to de-ploy indigenously devel-oped and manufactured5G telecom gears by end ofthis year for 5G services.“In about a month, 5G mo-bile services will roll outin the country, which willhave multiplier effects onthe development of all sec-tors.

A 6G TechnologyInnovations Group, hasalso been set up, which isworking towards the de-velopment of indigenous6G stack,” Chauhan said.He said that the govern-

ment is promoting, the in-digenously designed, de-veloped and manufacturedadvanced telecom technol-ogy, and as a result, Indiatoday has a strong home-grown 5G mobile commu-nications ecosystem. “Wehave developed a fully in-digenous 5G test bed,which will facilitate test-ing of 5G network ele-ments. By the end of thisyear, we are likely to seeindigenously developed,and manufactured 5Gstack, getting deployed inrolling out 5G network inIndia,” the minister said.

India’s biggest ever auc-tion of telecom spectrumthat concluded on August1 (Monday) received arecord Rs 1.5 lakh crore ofbids, with MukeshAmbani’s Jio corneringnearly half of all the air-waves sold with an Rs88,078 crore bid. The min-ister said that the growthin the Indian telecom mar-ket has been spurred bythe market-friendly poli-cies of the ModiGovernment. “We initiat-ed a number of structuraland procedural reforms inthe telecom sector. Thesereforms have created avery positive, and forward-looking environment forthe telecom industry. As aresult, a recent 5G spec-trum auction in India hasfetched bids of USD 20 bil-lion (Rs 1.5 lakh crore),”Chauhan said.

He said that Indian engi-neers have developed a setof 5G standards, whichwill facilitate the spread ofthe 5G network in ruralareas.

5G mobile services likely to be rolledout in about a month: MoS Telecom Mumbai, Aug 08:

Equity benchmarkSensex jumped over 465points on Monday, track-ing gains in index majorsHDFC twins and RelianceIndustries amid positiveglobal market trends.

The 30-share BSE gaugeclimbed 465.14 points or0.80 per cent to finish at58,853.07. During the day,it jumped 546.97 points or0.93 per cent to 58,934.90.The broader NSE Niftygained 127.60 points or0.73 per cent to end at17,525.10. Mahindra &Mahindra was the biggestgainer from the Sensexpack, climbing 3.13 percent, followed by BajajFinserv, NTPC, AxisBank, HDFC Bank,Larsen & Toubro, HDFC,Dr Reddy’s, IndusIndBank and RelianceIndustries. State Bank ofIndia, UltraTech Cement,Nestle, Wipro and PowerGrid were among themajor laggards.

In Asia, markets inSeoul, Shanghai andTokyo ended higher,while Hong Kong settled

with losses. Europeanbourses were trading inthe green during mid-ses-sion deals. The US mar-kets had ended mostlylower on Friday.Meanwhile, internationaloil benchmark Brentcrude declined 0.68 percent to USD 94.32 per bar-rel.

Foreign institutionalinvestors remained netbuyers in the capital mar-kets as they bought

shares worth Rs 1,605.81crore on Friday, as per ex-change data. “SustainedFII buying and falling oilprices are the major driv-ers for the ongoing mar-ket rally. Heavyweightsplayed a significant rolein today’s rise, while PSUbanks remained underpressure following weakresults of the PSB major,”said Vinod Nair, Head ofResearch at GeojitFinancial Services.

Sensex climbs 465 points; Nifty above 17,500

New Delhi, Aug 08:

JSW Steel will investover Rs 48,000 crore in thenext three years as part ofits capex plan, the compa-ny’s Chairman andManaging Director(CMD) Sajjan Jindal hassaid. Out of Rs 48,700, Rs20,000 crore capex (capitalexpenditure) is for the2022-23 financial year, hesaid.

Besides, JSW Steel isalso eyeing to amalga-mate JSW Ispat SpecialProducts with it by theend of the ongoing fiscal.According to a regulatoryfiling on Monday, Jindaladdressing a sharehold-er’s query said: “The totalplanned capex for thenext three years is Rs48,700 crore, which in-

cludes Rs 20,000 croreplanned for this currentfinancial year.” The com-posite scheme of amalga-mation between the com-pany and JSW IspatSpecial Products Limited(Monnet Ispat) is expect-ed to be completed duringthis financial year, hesaid. In August 2018, ajoint consortium of AIONInvestments Private II Ltd(AION) and JSW Steel

Limited acquired control-ling stake in JSW IspatSpecial Products Limited(formerly known asMonnet Ispat & EnergyLimited). The consortiumwas the sole bidder forthe 1.5-million-tonneasset in Chhattisgarh.The National CompanyLaw Tribunal (NCLT) hadapproved a Rs 2,875-crorebid to acquire the bank-rupt Monnet Ispat &Energy, which owed overRs 11,000 crore to a clutchof lenders.

As per JSW Steel, “The5 MTPA (million tonneper annum) brownfieldexpansion at Vijayanagaris progressing well, withcivil works underway atthe site. The project is ex-pected to be completed bythe end of FY2024.”

JSW Steel outlays Rs 20,000 crorecapex for FY23: CMD Sajjan Jindal

New Delhi, Aug 08:

PNB Housing Finance isrevamping its ‘Unnati’loan portfolio to go deeperinto the affordable hous-ing segment eyeing cus-tomers who need loans ofRs 9-12 lakh, MD & CEOHardayal Prasad said.PNB Housing has createda small vertical underUnnati which will be dif-ferent from existing Rs 18-19 lakh as affordable hous-ing loans. “We are settingup a whole infrastructure,we have already opened 10more branches in Junequarter. This policy onUnnati is completely re-vamped, this is a complete-ly different way the busi-ness will take place. Theloan ticket size will comedown to about Rs 9-12 lakhas against Rs 18-19 lakh

which is there today. “Sothere is world of differ-ence in the way as we planto hit the road bySeptember and that iswhere the Unnati bookwill start growing,”Prasad said, adding itopened 20 branches inMarch 2022 quarter andmore will be added goingforward.

PNB Housing was neverthere in this loan bracket,some of the competingHFCs offer these types ofloans. “As a very largeHFC it was important forus to provide full suite ofservices,” Prasad ex-plained further. Promotedby Punjab National Bank(PNB), the housing fi-nance company (HFC) hasidentified and mapped al-most 140 districts where itwill offer products under

this vertical of Unnati.“We are going to enterabout 10-12 states.Whether it is UttarPradesh, Uttarakhand,Madhya Pradesh,Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh,Gujarat, Tamil Nadu,Andhra Pradesh,Telangana, we are going tobe pan-India. We will havebranches in these states,”Prasad said. The housing

financier has appointed anew official who will headthis vertical of the afford-able housing segment.“The biggest advantagethat we have with PNB isthat we are across India.These are tier-IV kind oflocations and we will alsogo to gram panchayats,”he said further.

Speaking about the de-mand scenario, he said be-cause of the 90 basispoints increase in the reporate in May and June, andincrease in the cost of con-struction material,builders are saying thereis a little push back in de-mand. There is more effortthat is being made to sell aproperty. The industry isexperiencing a little reduc-tion as compared to whatwas seen up to March 2022,Prasad said.

PNB Housing revamps ‘Unnati’ to offer Rs 9-12 lakh as affordable loans: MD&CEO Prasad

Mumbai, Aug 08:

The rupee fell 40 paiseto close at 79.64 (provi-sional) against the USdollar on Monday amidwaning risk appetiteamong investors.

Lower global crudeprices and a rally in do-mestic equities restrictedthe losses to some extent,forex dealers said. At theinterbank foreign ex-change market, the do-mestic currency openedweak at 79.50 per dollar.

It oscillated between ahigh of 79.45 and a low of79.65 during the session.It finally settled at 79.64,down 40 paise over itsprevious close of 79.24.The dollar index, which

measures the green-back’s strength against abasket of six currencies,slipped 0.25 per cent to106.57.

Brent crude futures,the global oil benchmark,declined 0.54 per cent toUSD 94.38 per barrel. On

the domestic equity mar-ket front, the BSE Sensexended 465.14 points or0.80 per cent higher at58,853.07, while thebroader NSE Nifty ad-vanced 127.60 points or0.73 per cent to 17,525.10.Foreign institutional in-vestors remained netbuyers in the capitalmarket on Friday as theypurchased shares worthRs 1,605.81 crore, as perexchange data.

After turning net buy-ers last month, foreigninvestors continued theirpositive stance on Indianequities and investedover Rs 14,000 crore inthe first week of Augustamid softening of the dol-lar index.

Rupee falls 40 paise to closeat 79.64 against US dollar

Equity mutual funds’

inflow drops 43 pc to

Rs 8,898 cr in July

NNeeww DDeellhhii,, AAuugg 0088:: Equitymutual funds attracted Rs8,898 crore in July, a sharpdecline of 43 per cent from thepreceding month, amid volatilemarket conditions. Although,this was the 17th straightmonth of positive inflow inequity schemes. The netinflows in July were lower com-pared to the net inflow of Rs15,495 crore seen in June, Rs18,529 crore seen in May andRs 15,890 crore in April,according to data released byAssociation of Mutual Funds inIndia (Amfi)on Monday.

Equity schemes have beenwitnessing net inflow sinceMarch 2021, highlighting thepositive sentiment amonginvestors. Prior to this, suchschemes had consistently wit-nessed outflows for eightmonths from July 2020 toFebruary 2021, losing Rs 46,791crore.

All the equity-oriented cate-gories received net inflows inJuly with the Small Cap Fundcategory being the biggestbeneficiary with a net inflow ofRs 1,780 crore. This was fol-lowed by the Flexi Cap Fundfund that witnessed Rs 1,381crore net infusion.

New Delhi, Aug 08:

Country’s largest tele-com player Jio has com-pleted 5G coverage plan-ning in top 1,000 cities andconducted field trials ofits home-grown 5G tele-com gears, RelianceIndustries said in its an-nual report. In the report,RIL (Reliance IndustriesLimited) said that Jio tookmajor steps during 2021-22in getting ready for 5Gwith its 100 per cent in-digenous technology.

The company was thebiggest bidder in the re-cently-concluded 5G spec-trum auction. India’sbiggest-ever auction oftelecom spectrum thatconcluded on August 1(Monday) received a

record Rs 1.5 lakh crore ofbids, with MukeshAmbani’s Jio corneringnearly half of all the air-waves sold. “Jio’s 5G cov-erage planning has beencompleted in top 1,000cities based on targetedcustomer consumptionand revenue potentialusing heat maps, 3D mapsand ray tracing technolo-gy,” the report released onAugust 7 said. Reliance Jiowas the top bidder, offer-ing a cumulative bid of Rs88,078 crore for 24,740 MHzof airwaves across fivebands capable of offeringspeeds about 10 timesfaster than 4G, lag-freeconnectivity, and can en-able billions of connecteddevices to share data inreal-time. It has acquired

the coveted 700 MHz spec-trum, which can provide6-10 kilometres of signalrange with one tower, andforms a good base for of-fering fifth generation(5G) services in all 22 cir-cles or zones in the coun-try. Jio has also joinedhands with University of

Oulu in Finland — theleader of the world’s firstmajor 6G research pro-gramme — to accelerateresearch and standardisa-tion in 6G.

The company has doneactive trials of 5G usecases ranging from aug-mented reality, virtual re-ality, low-latency cloudgaming, network slicingand multi-tenancy forvideo delivery, TV stream-ing, connected hospitalsand industrial applica-tions.

According to theDepartment of Telecom,5G technology is expectedto deliver 10 times betterdownload speed than thatof 4G and up to threetimes greater spectrum ef-ficiency.

Jio completes 5G coverageplanning in top 1,000 cities

New Delhi, Aug 08:

Infrastructure assetsworth over Rs 1.62 lakhcrore are expected to bemonetised during the cur-rent fiscal, Parliament wasinformed on Monday. Thegovernment had last yearannounced a Rs 6 lakhcrore NationalMonetisation Pipeline(NMP) to unlock value ininfrastructure assetsacross sectors, rangingfrom power to road andrailways in four years till2025. In a written reply tothe Lok Sabha, Minister ofState for Finance PankajChaudhary said about Rs97,000 crore worth of pub-lic assets were monetisedin the last fiscal (2021-22).The key transactions in-

clude highway toll-operate-transfer (TOT) based PPPconcessions, NHAI’sInfrastructure InvestmentTrust (InvIT), PowerGridInvIT, annual accrualsfrom mineral and coalblocks auctioned in FY21-22, private investment inthe redevelopment of rail-way colonies, receipts from6 airports leased on PPPmode and private invest-ment from port terminalsbid out on PPP mode.“Indicative value of assetsenvisaged to be monetisedunder NMP during FY22-23 is Rs 1,62,422 crore,” hesaid. Chaudhary said thevarious transactions pro-posed to be undertakenduring FY22-23 includehighway TOT bundles andInvIT future rounds, rede-

velopment of sports stadia,operational power genera-tion & transmission assets,lease of airports throughPPP, PPP projects at vari-ous port trusts, develop-ment of silos and ware-houses, monetisation oftower assets and miningassets. The indicativevalue refers to the value ex-pected to be realised by theasset owners through themonetisation process, ei-ther in form of accruals orby way of private sector in-vestment. The sectorsidentified under the NMPinclude roads, ports, air-ports, railways, warehous-ing, gas & productpipelines, power genera-tion and transmission,mining, telecom, stadiumand urban real estate.

Infra assets worth over Rs 1.62 lakh crto be monetised this fiscal: FinMin

New Delhi, Aug 08:

The commerce min-istry’s arm DGTR has rec-ommended imposition ofanti-dumping duty on im-ports of a kind of cuttingtool from China, for fiveyears, to protect the domes-tic industry from cheap in-bound shipments. TheDirectorate General ofTrade Remedies (DGTR)has recommended the dutyafter conducting an investi-gation on the dumped im-ports of ‘resin bonded thinwheels’. It is used in vari-ous sectors ranging fromwelding and cutting. Thedirectorate in its findingshas concluded the item isbeing imported from Chinainto India in significantquantities in both absolute

and relative terms. The im-ports are undercutting theprices of the domestic in-dustry, it added. “Definitiveantidumping duty...is rec-ommended to be imposedfor five years...,” the DGTRhas said in a notification.The recommended dutywas in the range of USD78.38 per tonne and USD90.12 per tonne on imports.While DGTR, which isunder the commerce min-istry, recommends the duty,the finance ministry takesthe final decision to imposethe same within threemonths of the recommen-dation. Countries initiateanti-dumping probes tocheck if their domestic in-dustries have been hurt be-cause of a surge in below-cost imports.

New Delhi, Aug 08:

Tata Play (formerlyknown as Tata Sky) an-nounced new affordablepacks for its subscribers.“Entertainment is a basichuman necessity.

However, rising pricesareforcing people to makea choice between necessi-ties like food & fuel anddiscretionary spends likeentertainment.

As the country’s largestcontent distributor, wetake it upon ourselves tomake entertainment morea f f o r d a b l e . ” s a i dHaritNagpal, MD & CEO,Tata Play. The new packsand prices are available toall existing and new cus-tomers across India.Subscribers can avail thenew Super Saver Packs by

visiting their nearest TataPlay dealers or logging onto www.Tataplay.com.Existing subscribers canfind the new ‘Super SaverPacks’ under the ManagePacks tab on the Tata Playmobile app.

The Hindi Super ValuePack consists of StarPlus,SET,Colors, Zee TV,Star Gold,Sony Max, ZeeCinema, Colors Cineplex,Aaj Tak, NDTV and 203other channels for Rs 249only.

To create awarenessabout these super saverpacks, Tata Play is launch-ing a mass campaign, fea-turing Kareena Kapoor&Saif Ali Khan intheHindispeaking marketsand Madhavan &Priyamani in the Southmarkets.

Tata Play’s bold move to helpviewers save on TV bills

Commerce ministry recommends anti-dumpingduty on Chinese cutting tool

Allu Arjun’s all praise for success

of Kalyan Ram-starrer ‘Bimbisara’

The unit of directorMallidi Vasishta's

just released Telugufilm, 'Bimbisara', fea-turing actorsNandamuri KalyanRam, Catherine Tresaand Samyuktha Menonin the lead, is 'ecstatic'as several top stars in-cluding Allu Arjun andRam Pothineni havenow praised their film,which has got a greatopening.

Taking to Twitter,Allu Arjun on Sundaysaid, "Big congratula-tions to the 'Bimbisara'team. Very interestingand engaging fantasyfilm. Impactful pres-ence by NandamuriKalyan garu . Myrespect for him foralways bringing innew talent into theindustry and attempt-ing new kind of films.

"I appreciate debutdirector Vasishta forhandling it well.Commendation to allthe technicians andartistes. M MKeeravaani garu,Catherine Tresa,S a m y u k t h a .'Bimbisara', an enter-tainment for all agegroups."

Actor NandamuriKalyan Ram respondedto the tweet, saying,"Thanks brother. Yourappreciation on a per-sonal note means a lotto me. Our team is ec-static." Similarly, actorRam Pothineni too con-

gratulated the unit ofthe film. He tweeted,"Congratulations mydearest brotherNandamuri KalyanRam and the entireteam for the block-buster success of'Bimbisara'!"

On Saturday, KalyanRam had sharedlengthy post, thankingthe audiences for thesuccess of the film.

He had said: "In 2019,when we started work-ing on 'Bimbisara', wewere all excited to kickoff the project and tellthis amazing story tothe world. But the ex-citement soon turnedinto tension due to mul-tiple waves of Covidand lockdowns.

"Amidst all this, wewanted to give a greattheatrical experienceto all the movie loversand put in all our ef-forts and hardwork.

"I was anxious aboutthe film because of thescale of it and the am-bition of the team. Weare relieved and gladafter seeing the block-buster response, postrelease.

"Thank you to all thefriends from the filmfraternity, media, wellwishers, movie loversand my dearestNandamuri fans for allthe support and love.The success of'Bimbisara' is the suc-cess of the entire filmindustry. Thank you."

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1. Tempo

5. Road bends

10. Burden

14. Egg-shaped

15. Flowering bush

16. Highest point

17. “____ of the Flies”

18. Drummer Ringo ____

19. Pare

20. Possessed

22. Enjoyable

24. Zodiac sign

27. Program

28. Informer

30. Yarn craft

33. Boric ____

35. Viewed

36. Achievers

41. Loafer, e.g.

42. Legislate

44. Actor ____ Baldwin

45. Hair dye

47. Mimic

48. Casino game

49. Renovate

52. Camp bed

53. Attack

57. Bowler’s button

59. ____ of living

62. Kitchen gadget

65. Mailed

66. Verse makers

69. Dress for Caesar

70. Horse feed

71. Like honey

72. Uneasy

73. Modeling material

74. Writing assignment

75. Famous loch

DOWN

1. Marco ____

2. Declare

3. Pink flower

4. Senior

5. City trains

6. Occupy a chair

7. Smack

8. English nobleman

9. Shriek

10. Expire

11. Atlantic or Pacific

12. Modify

13. Letter after gamma

21. Poorly lit

23. Ripened

25. Relaxation

26. Panoramas

28. Reckless29. Long (for)31. Respond32. Tom Brokaw, e.g.34. Lion’s lair37. Acorn tree38. Conducting contact39. Casino city40. Highlander43. Shredded46. Parched50. Go by51. Sixth sense (abbr.)53. Business gp.54. Shoplift55. Mr. Claus56. Fidgety58. Corroded60. Aisles61. Inferior grades63. Omelet ingredients64. Beams67. Earl Grey, e.g.68. Pigpen


A group with which you’re affiliated may be

temporarily torn apart by quarrels among its

members, Aquarius. It’s best to stay out of it.

A friend could be having trouble and come

to you for advice and help. Don’t let yourself

get too frustrated by his or her weakness.

This could be a frustrating day for you, and

one best spent concentrating on projects. All

will be better tomorrow.

Aquarius: Jan 21 – Feb 18

Changes taking place in your home couldcause some temporary frustration tensenerves on the part of family members,Pisces. Perhaps you’re moving or refurnish-ing or trying to do a thorough cleaning andeveryone is getting into everyone else’sway. Just try to get the job done as quicklyas possible. Once it’s done, tempers willsubside, and all will be well.

Pisces: Feb 19 – Mar 20

Miscommunication with someone from far

away could lead to bruised egos, heightened

emotions, and angry phone calls. It’s best not

to get drawn into a quarrel, Aries. Try to

straighten it all out. Changes in your neighbor-

hood could cause problems with travel, so be

prepared for blocked streets and heavy traffic.

Walk - it will clear your head and get you

where you’re going more quickly.

Aries: Mar 21 – Apr 20

Your talents as a psychologist could be put

to work today when misunderstandings

arise. Your companions aren’t likely to be

thinking straight and may not respond to

reassurance, Taurus. Use your intuition to

find the best way to defuse the situation.

Finances might cause some worry right now,

but your ingenuity and money sense should

put things right. Go out and have fun tonight.

Taurus: Apr 21 – May 21

Someone who interests you could seem tobe showing interest in someone else. Thismight arouse your insecurities and cause abit of jealousy. Don’t make yourself crazy,Gemini. All may not be as it seems. Try todiscern the facts. Invitations to do morethan one thing on the same night mightforce you to make an uncomfortablechoice. Make the one that suits you best.

Gemini: May 22 – June 21

Someone is keeping secrets from you. We all

have private issues, Cancer, but this situation

affects you. Your intuition will probably tell

you who the person is. Try to get them to open

up without exerting pressure. Unfinished

tasks could drive you crazy. You may try to

race through them, which can cause too much

stress. Get the crucial ones done and let the

others go. Relax with a movie tonight.

Cancer: June 22 – July 22

Circumstances beyond your controlmight get in the way of attending agroup event. This could cause some dis-appointment for you and others, Leo.It’s best to find something else to do.Your own project is likely to need someattention, and this could prove to be achallenge that keeps you engrossed forhours. Treat yourself to takeout tonight.

Leo: July 23 – Aug 23

A female visitor who needs some sympathy

could contact you today. She may want advice

on some problems, Virgo, but she could also

bring information, possibly involving new sci-

entific or metaphysical studies that you find

fascinating and that you’ll want to relate to

others. This information could trigger your

own insights. Write down your ideas. You’ll

want to remember them.

Virgo: Aug 24 – Sept 22

Some important plans, perhaps involving a

vacation or education, could be temporarily

blocked by circumstances beyond your con-

trol, Libra. This can make you upset and might

even set your temper on edge. You may be

tempted to take out your frustrations on oth-

ers. It would be more productive - and chal-

lenging - to find ways to make your plans

work, even if they’re delayed.

Libra: Sept 23 – Oct 23

A letter or call could arrive today bringing

upsetting news about money, Scorpio. Your

first reaction might be to blame yourself or

someone else, but the circumstances are

probably beyond anyone’s control. Chances

are it can be set right. Before anyone gets too

upset, it’s best to investigate and find out

what needs to be done. It might take some

effort, but all will be well.

Scorpio: Oct 24 – Nov 22

Jealousy could rear its ugly head today,

Sagittarius. This could involve a romantic

relationship. Jealousy is often groundless, so

avoid it by doing some communicating. This

is the time to make the effort to turn a dis-

advantage into an advantage. Strong emo-

tions can work for you under some circum-

stances. A passionate reconciliation is better

than an angry estrangement.

Sagittarius: Nov 23 – Dec 21

Nervous tension could cause a temporarymalaise that keeps your energy very lowtoday. But there are tasks that need to bedone, Capricorn, so you’ll probably try to dothem in spite of the way you feel. Try not tooverwork yourself or take your wearinessout on others. It’s better to let some thingsgo than make yourself and everyone elsethat much more stressed out.

Capricorn: Dec 22 – Jan 20

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SOLUTION 385

HOROSCOPE TUESDAY AUGUST 09

TT he family drama‘Appnapan...Badalte

Rishton Ka Bandhan’ onSony EntertainmentTelevision has captured thehearts of the viewers withits storyline that offers anew perspective on ‘secondchances’ while highlightingthe difficulties and intrica-cies relationships gothrough. Theshow, whichstars CezanneKhan andRajshree Thakur, focuses onthe lives of an estrangedcouple, Nikhil and Pallavi,who are dealing with theirown set of challenges relat-ed to parenthood owing totheir past and has viewersinvested in their story. Now,the show will be goingthrough a time slot changein the upcoming week.While the show would airevery Monday to Friday at10:00 pm previously, itwould now be airing at 6:30pm with a repeat telecast at10:30 pm starting 8thAugust onwards.Talking about the change inthe timeslot, RajshreeThakur who plays the role of

Pallavi in the show opined,"We have been receivingsuch lovely responses fromthe viewers and our fans.Their love for our show iswhat is making us workharder and give them quali-ty entertainment that theycan enjoy to the fullest. Weare going to have a time slotchange and now 'Appnapan'will be airing at 6:30 pmthan its original time of10:00 pm. I hope that theviewers keep supporting us

and they keep giving us thelove that they have beenshowering us with, more sonow because we will becoming on TV twice! Wehave lots of drama tounpack and so stay tuned!"Even though the two are atodds with one another—Nikhil is battling for custodyof his children, while Pallaviis trying to stand her groundand keep all of her childrento herself—there are timesof generosity when the twocome to each other's res-cue. Pallavi has beendefending Nikhil from someunpleasant questions fromthe journalists during theFood Mela in recentepisodes. Pallavi would res-cue Nikhil from peril, andNikhil's mother would seethis on television and feelhopeful for them once more.Will Nikhil's mother serve asthe impetus for the reconcil-iation of the couple?

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'Appnapan... Badalte Rishton KaBandhan' to get a new time slot

Rashmika Mandanna, who is fast ris-ing as one of the top actresses in the

Tamil and Telugu film industries, onSunday, expressed her love for friends onthe occasion of Friendship Day, saying,they had a piece of her heart. Taking toInstagram, she posted pictures of herselfwith friends, and said: "I am not someonewho generally takes Friendship Day, HugDay, Chocolate Day or Valentine's Dayvery seriously, and I am not someonewho puts my personal life out a lot… butthese people in these photos (some aremissing)... It's a surprise for them too!

"But I just randomly wanted to say howimportant these people are in my life… Iwouldn't be the same person withoutthem… "Some who I grew up with, somewho I work with, some who I am not intouch with very much but they have stillmanaged to make a mark so deep in myheart that they will always and forever bespecial! "So, you guys I love you. A notifi-cation from you makes me smile. Therandom calls good or bad make my hearthappy. I love you! "Thank you for makingme the person I am today. You have apiece of my heart."

Rashmika posts Friendship Day pix,says ‘friends are a piece of my heart’

With its extraordinary dis-play of India's young singingtalent, Sony EntertainmentTelevision's homegrown kidssinging reality showSuperstar Singer 2 has capti-vated its audience.

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Afilm that markedthe ‘Rise’ of un-

matched cinematic expe-rience, created a ‘Roar’ atthe Box Office Worldwideand started a ‘Revolt’ thatbrought people back tothe theatre. The film ofthe year, the magnumopus, RRR is all set tohave its World TelevisionPremiere and ZeeCinema audiences willget front row seats!

Hailed for his larger-than-life cinematic show-cases, filmmaker S. S.Rajamouli created a mas-terpiece with RRR star-ring not only two power-houses of Indian cinema,Ram Charan and Jr. NTRbut also faces like Ajay

Devgn and Alia Bhatt –the multi-starrer shookthe entertainment indus-try, globally.

Capturing the essenceof the pre-independenceera, RRR takes us on acaptivating ride filledwith a virtuous friend-ship, unbelievable energy,jaw-dropping action, andinnocent romance,drama that will compelyou to sit up and whistlefor your favorite star. So,this Independence week,block your calendars towitness a spectacle fromthe Indian film industrywith the World TelevisionPremiere of RRR on 14thAugust only on ZeeCinema.

The mega multi-starrerfilm produced from India,RRR is one of the mostexpensive productionswith a budget of over 550Crores. The cutting-edgevisual graphics thatmade the story comealive on screen in themost extravagant way, re-ceived applause not onlyfrom the national filmfraternity but also the in-ternational industry.Here are some of the en-dorsements that the filmhas earned:

For the announcementof the World TelevisionPremiere of a film that isas grand as RRR, ZeeCinema is leaving nostone unturned. A promo

with the premiere dateand time was launchedacross 9 Hindi moviecluster channels of Zeefor audiences to blocktheir calendar for thismega event. While thispractice is followed forannouncements of the-atrical releases, withRRR, it’s the first time achannel has made such ahuge announcement forthe World TelevisionPremiere of a film.

This IndependenceDay, come together andenjoy this mega enter-tainer with your familywith the World TelevisionPremiere of RRR on ZeeCinema on 14th August at8 pm.

World TV Premiere of ‘RRR’on Zee Cinema


BBiirrmmiinngghhaamm,, AAuugg 0088 ((PPTTII))::

Sharath Kamal showed ageis just a number as the 40-year-old capped his best ever per-formance at theCommonwealth Games by win-ning the men’s singles goldhere on Monday. After losingthe first game that he shouldhave closed, Sharath beat amuch younger yet experiencedLiam Pitchford of England 11-13, 11-7, 11-2, 11-6, 11-8 at theNEC arena.

Sharath, who had first wonthe singles gold back in 2006,had already claimed two goldshere in the team and mixeddoubles event alongside SreejaAkula. With this yellow metal,he increased his tally to a stag-gering 13 medals across fiveCWG appearances.

In the final, he was at hisfinest, firing winners from bothsides. Long rallies away fromthe table was the order of theday and Sharath won majorityof them. He was also brilliant incutting the points short withperfectly placed backhand win-ners. In what turned out to bethe final game of the title clash,Sharath led 6-1 beforePitchford reduced the deficit to

5-6 by winning the best rally ofthe match. Sharath absorbedthe pressure to make it 10-6after time out. He thought hehad converted his secondmatch point but the umpiresawarded the point to his oppo-

nent as the ball was close toSharath’s body at the time ofhis retrieve. He converted thenext one to complete a memo-rable run in Birmningham. GSathiyan secured the bronzeafter a marathon battle against

England’s Paul Drinkhall.Sathiyan bagged his maidenCWG singles medal after beat-ing home-favourite Drinkhall 4-3 in front of a packed crowd.The Indian thus avenged hismen’s doubles final lossagainst the same opponent bywinning 11-9 11-3 11-5 8-11 9-

11 10-12 and 11-9. The bronzewas Sathiyan’s sixth overallmedal at the CWG since GoldCoast 2018. On Sunday,Sathiyan paired up with theSharath to claim the men’sdoubles silver after going downto the English duo of Drinkhalland Pitchford.

BBiirrmmiinngghhaamm,, AAuugg 0088 ((PPTTII))India’s star doubles pairof Chirag Shetty andS a t w i k s a i r a jRankireddy wonthe country’sthird gold fromthe badmintoncourt with astraight gamevictory overEngland’s Ben Laneand Sean Mendy atthe CommonwealthGames. The Indianduo won 21-15, 21-13.India thus finished afantastic badmintoncampaign with threegold, one silver and twobronze. The Satwik-Chirag pair followeddouble Olympic medal-list PV Sindhu and AllEngland runners-upLakshya Sen, whoalso won yellowmetals on the day.The silver came inteam championshipand the bronze medalswere won by KidambiSrikanth in the men’s sin-gles and Treesa Jolly andGayatri Gopichand in thewomen’s doubles.

Birmingham, Aug 08 (PTI):India settled for the silvermedal in men’s hockeyafter losing to Australia 0-7in a one-sided final at theCommonwealth Gameshere on Monday.

The goals were scored byBlake Govers, NathanEphraums, JacobAnderson, Tom Wickhamand Fynn Ogilvie.

Up against the rampag-ing Australians, Indiansstruggled to get their actright in the summit show-down, which turned out tobe completely lopsided.

Australia scored the firstgoal of the game in the thefirst quarter, having start-ed the final on a dominat-ing note. Australia were 2-0at the end of the first quar-

ter, with Ephraums scor-ing the second goal for thesix-time CWG champions.

They continued to domi-nate the game and scoredfive more goals to extend

their domination at themulti-sport sporting ex-travaganza.

Birmingham, Aug 08 (PTI):Fast-rising Indian boxerSagar Ahlawat concludedan impressiveCommonwealth Gamescampaign by clinching thesilver medal in the super-heavy weight (+92kg) divi-sion here. Competing inhis maiden internationalevent, Sagar lost the goldmedal bout to homefavourite Delicious Orievia a 5-0 unanimous deci-sion late on Sunday.

The 20-year-old, who sur-prised everyone with hispowerful performance inthe earlier bouts, wasforced to defend in theopening round as Orie as-sumed the role of the ag-gressor. But the Indian de-fended well and also man-

aged to land some counterpunches with all fivejudges ruling in his favour.However a minute into the

second round, the Haryanapugilist, who belongs to afamily of farmers, seemedto have tired as he repeat-

edly resorted to clinching,which also earned him awarning by the referee. Bythe third round, Sagarlooked completely spentbut managed to land a fewjabs. He also started bleed-ing as one of Orie’s punch-es left a cut above his lefteye.

The Englishman tookfull advantage of that con-nected a flurry of uppercuts to take the title.

Despite the loss in thefinal it was a successfulcampaign for the young-ster, who took up the sportfive years ago after readinga newspaper article on the2015 ‘Fight of the Century’between boxing legendsFloyd Mayweather Jr andManny Pacquiao.


Heartbroken after a goldmedal slipped out of theirhands, India skipperHarmanpreet Kaur harpedon the need to stop repeat-ing same mistakes in ‘titleclashes’, saying the “men-tal block” has to be broken,going forward. Indian teamcame to close winning cov-eted gold on women crick-et’s CWG debut but fellshort by nine runs afterbeing in a dominant posi-tion against mightyAustralia. It was deja vu forHarmanpreet and Co. whohad suffered a similar inex-plicable batting collapseduring the T20 World Cupfinals defeat againstAustralia in 2020 and the2017 ODI World Cup finalin England. “Every time in

big finals, we make thesame mistakes again andagain (with the bat), that issomething we have to im-prove,” Harmanpreet saidafter the match on Sunday.

“We don’t do these mis-takes in the league phaseor in bilateral. That isblocking our mind some-where,” the skipper added.

With 50 needed off thelast six overs with eightwickets in hand, Indiaseemed to be on course totitle triumph but lost lastfive wickets for 13 runsowing to some poor shot se-lections. Harmanpreet andJemimah Rodriguesstrung a 96-run partner-ship but both ended upplaying some poor shots tomake their way back to thedug out.

Birmingham,Aug 08 (PTI):Star mixed doubles pair ofSaurav Ghosal and DipikaPallikal won the bronze tosecure India’s secondmedal in squash at theCommonwealth Gameshere on Sunday.

In a repeat of last edi-tion’s final, Ghosal andPallikal hardly broke asweat as they prevailed 11-8 11-4 over the Australiancombine of DonnaLobban and CameronPilley in the bronze medalplay-off.

The Indian duo, whohad won the silver medalin the mixed team event inthe 2018 Gold Coast edi-tion, had gone down toJoelle King and Paul Collin the semifinals. “To win

the gold medal would havebeen huge for India, so forus to come back today andproduce the performanceand play the way we did, isbrilliant,” Ghosal saidafter the win.

“It’s something that Iwill always cherish andfeel very proud of. It willgo down as personally mybest CommonwealthGames ever. It’s some-thing I can always lookback on with fondness.”

Dipika added: “It’s al-ways hard to back up aftera very tough loss and itwas very important to bementally strong today. Wehad to try and put that be-hind us we played reallywell and stuck to ourgame plan.”


The Duleep Trophy, backin the calendar in its oldzonal format after threeyears, will kick-start theIndian domestic seasonfrom September 8 with1500 games across all age-groups over a period ofsix months, the BCCI saidon Monday.

“The prestigiousDuleep Trophy will markthe start of a full-fledgedseason, which will alsosee a return of the IraniCup,’ BCCI secretary JayShah was quoted as say-ing by media release.

“The Duleep Trophy(September 8-25) will be

contested between sixzones (North, South,Central, West, East andNortheast) on a knockoutbasis,” Shah added.

The BCCI was not fol-lowing the zonal formatfor the last few seasons,fielding the India Red,Blue and Green teams in-stead.

With the zonal formatmaking a comeback, itwill have one extra zonein northeast, besides theexisting five.

The two multi-day tour-naments will be followedby the Syed Mushtaq AliTrophy (October 11-November 5) and the

Vijay Hazare Trophy(November 12- December2). The two white-balltournaments will be con-tested between 38 teamssplit into three groups ofeight teams and twogroups comprising sevensides.

The Ranji Trophy willbe back to its old formatand starts from December13 and ends on February20. The elite and plategroups will be back. Theelite group will comprise32 teams and will havefour groups of eightteams in a home andaway format with eachteam playing seven

matches in the leaguestage. The top two teamsfrom each of the fourgroups will directly quali-fy for the quarterfinals.

The plate group willcomprise six teams with15 league matches and thetop four will directly qual-ify for the semi-finalwhile the bottom two willplay against each otherfor the 5th/6th place.

Both the elite groupand plate group leaguematches will start onDecember 13 with theplate league concludingon January 29 and theelite group finishing onFebruary 20.

Dubai, Aug 08 (PTI): SriLanka spin sensationPrabath Jayasuriya andEngland women’s cricketteam’s emerging all-rounder Emma Lambwere on Monday votedICC ‘Player of the Month’for July.

The 30-year-oldJayasuriya faced off com-petition from England’sin-form batter and June’sPlayer of the Month win-ner Jonny Bairstow andFrench youngster GustavMcKeon to claim the hon-our. Jayasuriya, whomade his Test debut in SriLanka’s final Test match

against Australia in Galleearlier in July, picked up12 wickets and guided theLankans to a series-level-ling victory.

He also scalped another17 wickets in the recently-concluded two-match Testseries against Pakistan.

“I am delighted withthis announcement, andwish to thank the fans forvoting me as the ICCMen’s Player of theMonth. Certainly it hasbeen an incredible monthfor me, as I made the Testdebut, and also got the op-portunity to contributefor my team to level the

Test series played againstAustralia and Pakistan,”Jayasuriya said.

“I take this opportunityto thank my fans, team-mates, coaches, familyand friends for helpingmy journey, and thrilledwith what I am experienc-ing at this moment in mylife,” he added.

Meanwhile, Lamb wasrewarded after an ex-traordinary three-matchODI series against SouthAfrica.

The 24-year-old young-ster beat compatriot NatSciver and India pacerRenuka Singh to win the

award. Lamb amassed 234runs in three matches, in-cluding a match-winningcentury (102 off 97 balls)followed by two half-cen-turies (67 off 65 balls and65 off 66 balls) in the nexttwo games.

“It’s very exciting tohave been awarded theICC Women’s Player ofthe Month award for July.I’m very happy to haveearned my spot at the topof the order in the Testand ODI team and it’sbeen brilliant to be able toscore some runs and helpthe team win,” Lambsaid.

40 and going strong: Sharathwins singles gold after 16 years

Indias Achanta Sharath Kamal and Akula Sreeja inaction against Malaysia during Mixed Doubles TableTennis final match, at the Commonwealth Games 2022in Birmingham.

Birmingham,Aug 08 (PTI):G Sathiyan bagged hismaiden CommonwealthGames singles medal ashe won bronze, beatinghome-favourite PaulDrinkhall 4-3 in front ofa packed crowd here.Sathiyan avenged hismen’s doubles final lossagainst Drinkhall andtriumphed 11-9 11-3 11-5 8-11 9-11 10-12 and 11-9. Thebronze was Sathiyan’ssixth overall medal at theCommonwealth Gamessince Gold Coast 2018and back-to-back medalsin as many days.

G Sathiyan wins bronze in Men’s singles

Sathiyan Gnanasekaranof India hits a forehandreturn to Paul Drinkhallof England in their mens

singles table tennisbronze medal match at

the CommonwealthGames in Birmingham in

Birmingham, England,Monday.

Badminton: Chirag-Satwikpair wins men’s doubles gold

Indias Satwiksairaj Rankireddyand Chirag Shetty celebrateafter winning the Mens DoublesFinal Badminton match againstEnglands Ben Lane and SeanVendy at the CWG Monday.

Fast-rising boxer Sagar Ahlawatwins silver on international debut

Boxer Sagar Ahlawat during his bout against EnglandsDelicious Orie in the final of 92kg (Super Heavyweight)boxing match, at the Commonwealth Games 2022.

India settle for silver in men’s hockey, lose 0-7 to Australia in final

Australias Jacob Anderson, center, after scoring his sides third goal during the mensfinal hockey match between Australia and India at the Commonwealth Games inBirmingham, England, Monday.

Pallikal-Ghosal bag mixed doubles bronze in CWG squash

Harmanpreet rues trend of mistakes in big final

Washington, Aug 08 (AP):

It was quite a week forRussia’s professional ten-nis players four tourna-ments, three titles.

One of them, LiudmilaSamsonova, thinks itmight not be merely a co-incidence that this recentrun of success for her,Daria Kasatkina andDaniil Medvedev comesshortly after they werebanned from competing atWimbledon because oftheir country’s invasionof, and ongoing war in,Ukraine.

We are are all veryangry about the situation,Samsonova said after beat-ing Estonia’s Kaia Kanepi4-6, 6-3, 6-3 in the final of

the Citi Open on Sundayfor her second career WTAtitle. I mean, it was a reallytough month.

Samsonova earned hertrophy in Washington aday after Medvedev, wholeads the men’s rankings,defeated Britain’s CamNorrie for the champi-onship at Los Cabos,Mexico, and several hoursbefore Kasatkina won thetitle at San Jose,California, with a victoryover American ShelbyRogers. All three eventsare hard-court tuneupsahead of the year’s lastGrand Slam tournament,the U.S. Open, which be-gins in New York on Aug.29; Medvedev is the defend-ing champion there.

Russian tennis players collect3 titles at US Open tuneups

Prabath Jayasuriya, Emma Lambwin ICC Player of Month honour

Duleep Trophy back in old format,Irani Cup slotted in calendar New Delhi, Aug 08 (PTI):

As the celebratory daysfor the Centre's 'Har GharTiranga' campaign arenearing, the sale of tri-colour has risen manifoldsin the national capital,leaving traders and manu-facturers scrambling tomeet the pent-up demands.

Gulshan Khurana (63), awholesale trader fromDelhi's Sadar Bazaar hasbeen in the business ofsupplying national flagsfor over 50 years, but hasnever witnessed such anenormous demand for thetricolour in the past.

Traders have claimedthat the sale of all kinds of

tricolours has increased 50times since the announce-ment of the campaign byPrime Minister NarendraModi on July 22. However,the demand for mediumsize and national flagsmade up of satin is at anall-time high.

Under the campaign, theCentral government isaiming to have at least 20crore flags atop housesfrom August 13 to 15 tomark 75 years of India'sIndependence. Khuranawas in the United States ofAmerica (USA) on vaca-tion when he started re-ceiving dozens of callsfrom the buyers for largeorders of flags.

"I am in this business forover 50 years, you can saysince childhood. But I havenever seen demands forIndian flags like this. Myphone does not stop ring-ing," he said, adding thathe had to rush back tocomplete the orders.

To meet the demands,Khurana is manufactur-ing only two sizes -- 16X24and 18X27-- of the tri-colour or 'tiranga', as it iscalled in Hindi.

"We are only producingtwo types of tricolours sothat all the resources canbe utilised in making theflags with the highest de-mands," he told PTI."Every day we are produc-

ing around 15 lakh flagsbut the demand is evenmuch higher. The ordersare coming in from allover India as their is ashortage of flags in thecountry. So people are get-ting flags from whereverthey can. We have justsent an order of a lakhflags to Goa," he said,adding that despite work-ing day and night, theyare unable to meet thesky-high demands.

"I am receiving ordersof crore of flags everyday. We have only beenable to fulfil a part of itonly. We have tried to ful-fil all orders but it is diffi-cult," he said.

Members laud Naidu’srole as RS Chairman


Members cutting acrossparty lines bade farewell tovice president M VenkaiahNaidu on Monday in RajyaSabha, lauding his role asits chairman and recollect-ing how he inspired and al-lowed them to speak intheir native languages.

While some Oppositionmembers urged him to penan autobiography, Leaderof Opposition in RajyaSabha Mallikarjun Khargeappreciated how Naidufunctioned despite being"under pressure".

Noting that the produc-tivity of the House in-creased under Naidu,Prime Minister Narendra

Modi said the outgoingchairman encouraged dia-logue and his legacy willcontinue to guide his suc-cessors. He worked on theprinciple that 'let the gov-ernment propose, letOpposition oppose, let thehouse dispose', the primeminister said. "One of theadmirable things aboutNaidu is his passion forIndian languages. This wasreflected in how hepresided over the House,"Modi said, adding as chair-man he encouraged the useof the mother tongue. OnNaidu's famous one-liners,the prime minister said"they are wit-liners. Thereis both depth and sub-stance in what Naidu says."

Naidu turned emotionalwhen Trinamool CongressMP Derek O'Brien narratedan incident from the VicePresident's early life whenhe lost his mother as a one-year-old. "From that earlyloss, you went on to do somany things in your glori-ous career... I am sure itwill make a good story foryour autobiography...whichyou must write," he said.

Referring to the pas-sage of the farm bills inthe House in September2020, the TMC MP said itwas a "very importantday about my outlookabout you...maybe youwill answer that questionsomeday in your autobi-ography".

‘Oppn leaders criticise courts whenjudgments do not favour them’


Law Minister KirenRijiju on Monday slammedRajya Sabha MP and sen-ior advocate Kapil Sibal forhis criticism of theSupreme Court, saying itwas "very very sad for theentire country" that oppo-sition leaders start attack-ing constitutional authori-ties when their judgmentsdo not favour them.

Sibal, a former law min-ister, had criticised theapex court over its recentjudgments, including onthe PMLA, at an event onSaturday and reportedlyclaimed there is "no hope"left in it. How can one keeptrust in the SupremeCourt when it upholdssuch laws, he reportedly

said, referring to the judg-ment which upheld vari-ous provisions of thePrevention of MoneyLaundering Act (PMLA),condemned by oppositionparties as draconian.Lashing out at him, Rijijusaid statements made bySibal and some Congress

leaders "betray a mindset"that courts or any consti-tutional authority mustfavour them or work ac-cording to their interest.

Whenever courts give adecree or a judgmentagainst their mindset, theystart attacking the consti-tutional authorities, hetold reporters. This is "veryvery sad for the entirecountry" that prominentleaders and parties are crit-icizing constitutional insti-tutions like the SupremeCourt, high courts,Election Commission andother important agencies,the BJP leader said. Theseagencies and institutionsare absolutely autonomousand work according to therule of law and are guidedby the statutes, he said.

‘Fewer children able to catch up with age-appropriate learning’


Less than 50 per cent ofchildren are able to catchup with their age-appropri-ate learning following theCOVID-19 pandemic andthey get distracted easily, anew survey on learningloss and education recov-ery has claimed.

Over 48,000 students par-ticipated in the survey bythe Smile India foundation.It covered urban, rural andaspirational districts of 22states. "According to teach-ers, less than 50 per cent ofchildren have been able tocope with the learning loss

over the last two years andare able to catch up on theirage-appropriate learningcurrently," it said. "Theseare mostly those studentswho have been regularlyperforming well prior tothe pandemic as well.Hence, bringing the rest ofthe students to par withtheir expected learninglevel will require sometime and effort in the up-coming months," the sur-vey said. Fifty-eight percent of teachers were ofthe opinion that childrenhave missed on social skillsand now get distracted easi-ly, it added. "Their attentionspan has gone low." Thesurvey noted that parentshave started getting more

involved in their wards' ed-ucation. Forty-seven percent of them were of theview that there is an in-creased interaction be-tween them and teachers inschools as well as overphone calls, it said.

"Thirty-eight per cent ofparents started interactingwith teachers by visitingschools, and there is a 27per cent increase in atten-dance in parent-teachermeetings (PTMs). Fifty percent of parents interviewedfelt the absence of digitallearning resources like de-vices, networks, and datapacks made the learningexperience inadequate forthe children during thepandemic," the survey said.

Shimla, Aug 08 (PTI):

The Congress onMonday promised 300units of free electricity tohousehold consumers anda financial assistance ofRs 1,500 to poor women ifvoted to power inHimachal Pradesh.

Chhattisgarh ChiefMinister and Congress'Chief Election Observerfor Himachal PradeshBhupesh Baghel alsopromised implementationof the old pension scheme,as done in party-ruledRajasthan andChhattisgarh, within 10days of assuming power.

The senior Congressleader made the an-nouncements during aninteraction with the mediahere. To a query on avail-ability of funds, Baghelsaid suitable provisionswill be made in the state

budget to fulfil the promis-es, if his party came topower. These promises

will be included in theparty's poll manifesto,which is to be issued soon,

he added. HimachalPradesh is likely to go topolls in December.

Rs 1,500 per month to poor women

p Post pandemic


Kiren Rijiju

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Bal Vikas Evam Pustahar department employees carry the national flag during a programme as part of Har Ghar Tirangacampaign, in Meerut, Monday.

HAR GHAR TIRANGA CAMPAIGN

Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah pays tribute to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose during his visit to hisbirthplace in Cuttack, Odisha.

TRIBUTE TO NETAJI

73 people die due to flood in Karnataka

Bengaluru, Aug 08 (PTI):

As many as 73 peoplelost their lives while7,386 people have takenshelter in 75 reliefcamps in Karnataka dueto floods and rain-relatedincidents during the on-going monsoon, stateRevenue Minister RAshoka said on Monday.

The minister said 161villages in 14 districtswere badly hit by theheavy rains and floodsaffected 21,727 people inrecent days.

"As many as 73 peoplelost their lives, whichcomprises 15 deaths dueto lightning, five due to

tree collapse, 19 due tohouse collapse, 24 sweptaway in rivers, nine dueto landslide and one dueto electrocution. Theseincidents happened fromJune 1 to August 7," theminister said at a pressconference.

As many as 8,197 peo-ple were shifted to safety,Ashoka said, adding, 75relief camps have beenopened where 7,386 peo-ple have taken shelter.

The minister said 666houses have been com-pletely damaged while2,949 were severely dam-aged and 17,750 houseswere partially damaged.Agriculture crops in

1,29,087 hectares andhorticulture crops in7,942 hectares were dam-aged, the minister said.

He also said the rainsthis year damaged 11,768km of road, 1,152 bridgesand culverts, 122 pri-mary health centres,2,249 anganwadi centresand 95 irrigation lakes.

"We have directed thedeputy commissionersto intensify the reliefwork. The districts havea fund of Rs 857 crore (totake up relief works),"Ashoka said.

The minister said Rs 5lakh is given as compen-sation to the next of kinof those who lost their

lives in flood-related inci-dents, which includes Rs4 lakh from the NationalDisaster Response Fund.

Those who lost theirhouses completely willget Rs 5 lakh whereas forseverely and partiallydamaged houses, thegovernment gives Rs 3lakh and Rs 50,000, re-spectively, as compensa-tion.

He also said the stategovernment has im-proved the relief campsby giving food kits,which comprise 10 kgrice, one kg pulse, one kgsugar, one kg salt, chillipowder, one litre oil, andother essential spices.

No proposal to setup new IIT incountry: Govt

New Delhi, Aug 08 (PTI):There is no proposal to es-tablish any new IndianInstitute of Technology (IIT)in the country, the Ministryof Education said onMonday. The informationwas shared by UnionMinister of State forEducation Subhas Sarkar inresponse to a written ques-tion in Lok Sabha."Presently, there is no pro-posal to establish any newIIT in the country," he said.In the Budget for the year2014-15, setting up of fivenew IITs in the states ofAndhra Pradesh, Kerala,Chhattisgarh, Jammu &Kashmir and Goa, was an-nounced. Similarly, in the2015-16 Budget, setting up ofan IIT in Karnataka andupgradation of IndianSchool of Mines, Dhanbadinto an IIT were announced.

SC refuses to interfere with pension

of Army jawan Discharged for alcohol

dependency

NNeeww DDeellhhii,, AAuugg 0088 ((PPTTII)):: TheSupreme Court on Monday re-fused to interfere with the orderof the Armed Force Tribunal(AFT) granting a pension to anArmy jawan, who was dischargedfrom service due to his alcoholdependency. A bench of JusticesDY Chandrachud and ASBopanna accepted the Centre'scontention that it should not be-come a precedent and orderedthat in the facts and circum-stances of the case, it is not inter-fering with the order of the AFT.Additional Solicitor GeneralMadhvi Divan, appearing for theCentre, said that the order of theAFT should be set aside other-wise it would become a norm andincrease indiscipline in the force.The bench said that it is uphold-ing the order of AFT in the factsand circumstances of the case.

ASSLY POLL HP

Cong promises 300 units free power

Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel along with Congress leaders Rajeev Shukla,Partap Singh Bajwa and others addresses a press conference, in Shimla, Monday.

SURVEY RESULT

Urge him to write autobiography

‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ campaign

Flag sale skyrockets, traders struggling to meet demand

PROPHET ROW

Relief for news anchorNavika Kumar

SC grants interim protection from arrest

NNeeww DDeellhhii,, AAuugg 0088 ((PPTTII)):: TheSupreme Court Monday grantedinterim protection from arrest toNavika Kumar in connectionwith FIRs lodged against herover controversial remarksmade by former BJP spokesper-son Nupur Sharma on ProphetMohammad during a TV debatemoderated by the news anchor.A bench of Justices KrishnaMurari and Hima Kohli issuednotices to the Centre, WestBengal government, and otherson Kumar's plea seeking quash-ing of proceedings initiatedagainst her. As an interim meas-ure, no coercive action shall betaken against the petitioner pur-suant to the impugnedFIRs/complaints or future FIRs/complaints which may be regis-tered with respect to the broad-cast of May 26", the bench said.

Patent PPrraayyaaggrraajj:: The Center ofFood Technology,Allahabad University, hasreceived patent for its‘potato flakes energy bar’which can meet theimmediate energy needsof runners, growing chil-dren and patients withsevere energy deficit. Thepatent has been grantedby the Office of theController General ofPatents, Designs &Trademarks under theUnion commerce andindustry ministry.

RejoinCChhaannddiiggaarrhh:: FormerHaryana Minister SampatSingh on Monday rejoinedthe Congress in the pres-ence of senior partyleader Bhupinder SinghHooda and others.Haryana Congress chiefUdai Bhan and RajyaSabha MP DeependerHooda were also presenton the occasion.

ElectrocutedMMhhooww:: A kanwaria pilgrimdied of electrocution,while three others sus-tained injuries on Mondayafter coming in contactwith a high-tension powerline while dancing on topa vehicle in MadhyaPradesh’s Indore district,police said.

Demand NNeeww DDeellhhii:: Students ofDelhi University’s Facultyof Law on Monday stageda protest, demandingpostponement of theirexamination and changesin the date sheet toensure a sufficient gapbetween two papers. Thestudents gathered outsidethe administration officeof the Campus Law Centre(CLC) and raised slogans.

Suspended AAlliiggaarrhh:: Three students ofAligarh Muslim University(AMU) were on Mondaysuspended for allegedlyattempting to abduct afellow student, universityofficials said. AMUProctor MohamadWaseem Ali said under-graduate students AshrafAli, Atif Jamal and FarhanAli attempted to abductMohamnad Kashif whilehe was coming out of theexamination hall.

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School students participate in an umbrella painting workshop, organised under Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsavcelebrations, in Varanasi, Monday.

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Union Home Minister AmitShah with Union Education

Minister DharmendraPradhan and BJP MP

Aparajita Sarangi visitsLingaraja Temple to offer

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month of Shravan, inBhubaneswar, Monday.

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Superstar P V Sindhu andyoung gun Lakshya Senlived up to expectations bygrabbing gold medals asIndia swept the singlesbadminton competi-tion at theCommonwealthGames for thefirst time, here onMonday.

India’s sportingicon Sindhu added a CWGgold to her already bulgingcollection with a convinc-ing straight game win overCanada’s Michelle Li.

The world numberseven from India out-played her 13th ranked op-ponent 21-15 , 21-13 in frontof a packed crowd at theNEC arena.

Later in the day, 10th-ranked Sen came from be-hind to end Ng Tze Yong’sgiant-killing run in thecompetition. The 20-year-old defeated the worldnumber 42 from Malaysia

19-21, 21-9, 21-16.Sen trailed for majority

of the first game butstayed close to theMalaysian who had ac-counted for world champi-on Yew Kean Loh and

Kidambi Srikanth in hisprevious two matches.

Sen made it 19-18 from16-19 before Yong producedback-to-back forehandwinners to gain a gamepoint. Sen misjudged abaseline call after a gru-elling rally to hand the ad-vantage to Yong.

The second game wasone way traffic after Senled 11-9 at the interval.The Indian took 12points in a row postthe break to level thefinal. Yong made a slew ofunforced errors and itseemed he wanted to pre-serve energy for the thirdgame.

Sen was at his attackingbest in the decider and leduntil the end. Yong triedhis best to mount a come-back but Sen was unstop-pable. He converted hisfirst match point followinga long rally, leading to afrenzied celebration thatsaw him throw his racketinto the stands.

“It was tense in thestart, I had to work reallyhard. Yong also played agreat tournament.Congratulations to him aswell,” said Sen after a hardfought contest.

Earlier, the 30-year-oldMichelle had to producesomething special for herfirst win against Sindhu ineight years but the Indiandid not give her a window.Sindhu was clinical in hershort game and pouncedon the slightest of attack-ing opportunities.

Michelle had beaten the2019 World Champion wayback in the GlasgowCommonwealth Games in2014.

In the first game,Michelle was trying to getpoints by playing close tothe net while Sindhu sasthe more attacking one.

A smash on Li’s leftmade it 7-5 before theCanadian came with adrop shot on Sindhu’sright to make it 7-6.

Sindhu took threestraight points after the in-terval to stretch her lead to14-8. Michelle then netteda regulation forehanddrop, leaving her smilingin frustration.

New Delhi, Aug 08 (PTI):Twenty-four candidateshave got the perfect scorein the engineering en-trance exam JEE-Main, re-sults of which were an-nounced on Monday, ac-cording to the NationalTesting Agency.

The top scorers includetwo girl students. Resultsof five candidates havebeen withheld by theagency for using unfairmeans.

Maximum candidatesbagging the top score inthe first edition of JEE-Main, 2022 are fromAndhra Pradesh andTelangana (5) followed byRajasthan (4) and UttarPradesh (2).

One candidate eachfrom Haryana,Maharashtra, Assam,Bihar, Punjab, Kerala,Karnataka andJharkhand, has baggedthe perfect score. The topscorers from Telanganaare Rupesh Biyani,Dheeraj Kurukunda, JastiYashwanth V V S, BusaSiva Naga Venkata Adityaand AniketChattopadhyay. Menda

Hima Vamsi, KoyyanaSuhas, Palli Jalajakshi,Penikalapati Ravi Kishoreand Polisetty Karthikeyaare the top scorers fromAndhra Pradesh. The topscorers from Rajasthanare Krishna Sharma,Mayank Motwani andParth Bhardwaj.

Other candidates whoscored 100 are SarthakMaheshwari (Haryana),Kushagra Srivastava(Jharkhand), Mrinal Garg(Punjab), Sneha Pareek(Assam), Boya HarsenSathvik (Karnataka) andSaumitra Garg andKanishka Sharma fromUttar Pradesh.

Sikar (Rajasthan), Aug08 (PTI): Three womenwere killed in a stampedeoutside the district’sKhatu Shyamji templewhen people waiting inqueues tried to rush in asits doors opened in theearly hours of Monday.

Four others were in-jured in the incident on aday when tens of thou-sands of people fromRajasthan and neighbour-ing states were headed tothe famous temple to markGyaras or Ekadashi .

Sikar Collector AvichalChaturvedi said close toone lakh people were out-side the main gate, queu-ing up after the doors

closed the previous night.The stamped took place

a little before 4.30 a.m.There was rush to enterand a woman fell, trigger-ing the brief stampede

that also killed two others,according to officials.

Prima facie, they died ofsuffocation but the exactcause of death will beclear after post-mortem,

Chaturvedi told reporters.The incident is unfortu-

nate. The women fell dueto the pressure of thecrowd in their line. Thelines for the entry to thetemple start at differentpoints and converge at theentry point, he said.

Superintendent ofPolice K Rashtradeep saida 63-year-old woman whosuffered from a heart ail-ment collapsed. Twowomen behind her too felldue to the rush.

Victim Shanti Devi’sbrother Mangat Ram wasamong those in the queue.

“The stampede tookplace as soon as the templeopened for prayers.

JJaammmmuu//DDooddaa,, AAuugg 0088 ((PPTTII))::The National InvestigationAgency (NIA) on Monday car-ried out searches at multipleplaces in Jammu and Doda dis-tricts of Jammu and Kashmiragainst members of thebanned Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI)in a terror-funding case, offi-cials said. Simultaneous raidswere conducted at sevenpremises of JeI office-bearersand members in different partsof the two districts in the earlyhours of Monday, they said.

“NIA conducted searches atpremises of six suspects inDoda and one in Jammu in thecase pertaining to JeI, whicheven after its declaration as anunlawful association in 2019,continues to raise funds in var-ious forms purportedly for

charitable purposes,” an NIAspokesperson said. The NIAsaid the searches led to therecovery of incriminating liter-ature, receipts of funds raisedby JeI, bank and property-relat-ed documents, and electronicdevices.

Official sources said theraids were carried out atDhara-Gundana, MunshiMohalla, Akramband, Nagri NaiBasti, Kharoti Bhagwah,Thalela and Malothi Bhalla inDoda district and Bhatindi inJammu. The searches werecarried out in a case related toterror funding, they said.

The case, registered by NIAsuo motu on February 5 lastyear, pertains to the activitiesof the Jamaat-e-Islami mem-bers who have been collecting

funds domestically and abroadthrough donations, particularlyin the form of ‘Zakat, Mowdaand Bait-ul-Mal’ purportedly tofurther charity and other wel-fare activities but are using themoney for “violent and seces-sionist” activities.

According to the NIA, thefunds being raised by JeI arealso channelised to proscribedterrorist organisations such asHizb-ul-Mujahideen, Lashkar-e-Taiba and others throughwell-organised networks ofJamaat-e-Islami cadre.

“JeI has also been motivat-ing impressionable youth ofKashmir and recruiting newmembers (Rukuns) in theUnion territory to participate indisruptive secessionist activi-ties,” the NIA had said.

Surajpur, Aug 08: Policehave arrested the 45-year-old principal of a privateschool in Surajpur districtfor allegedly molestingtwo minor girl students,an official said on Monday.

The two students ofClasses 5 and 7 informedtheir parents after reach-ing home last week thatthe principal allegedly mo-lested them in his officechamber, Kotwali StationHouse Officer PrakashRathore said.

The parents lodged acomplaint following whichthe police arrested theprincipal on Saturday, hesaid. The accused wasbooked under relevant sec-tions of the Indian PenalCode and the Protection of

Children from SexualOffences (POCSO) Act, theofficial said. The schoolowner also complained topolice against parents ofsome students for alleged-ly thrashing him, after theincident came to light, hesaid. A probe was on intothe matter, he added.


Parliament Mondaypassed a bill to convert theNational Rail andTransportation University,a deemed-to-be university,into Gati ShaktiVishwavidyalaya, an au-tonomous central institu-tion.

The CentralUniversities (Amendment)Bill, which also seeks toexpand the scope of theUniversity from beyondthe railways to cover theentire transport sector tosupport the ambitiousgrowth and modernisa-tion in the field, waspassed by a voice vote aftera brief discussion. The billwas passed by the Rajya

Sabha by a voice vote. Itwas cleared by the LokSabha last week, also by avoice vote.

Union Railways andTelecom MinisterAshwini Vaishnaw re-sponded to the debate onthe bill on Monday in theUpper House.

“Railways’ nationaltraining institute is estab-lished in Gujarat. Thisuniversity covers the en-tire transport sector.Railway plays an impor-tant role in that,”Vaishnaw said.

He said several campus-es of the university will beset up in various parts ofthe country and childrenwill be able to take admis-sion.

The minister said thebill has provision to usethe existing training infra-structure.

He said the railways,metro and transportationsector is a very complexsector and many disci-plines including mechani-cal, electrical, telecommu-nications, signalling andcivil come together to runthe railway system.

“This is a public univer-sity. Already, the Ministryof Railways has made pro-vision of Rs 166 crore inthe budget plus there is an-other budget being workedout for the construction ofthe building. This is goingto be a publically fundeduniversity,” Vaishnawsaid.

MMuummbbaaii:: A special court here onMonday remanded Shiv SenaMP Sanjay Raut to 14-day judi-cial custody in a money launder-ing case linked to alleged irreg-ularities in the redevelopment ofa Mumbai ‘chawl’. The courtallowed Raut’s plea for homefood and medicines, but refusedto pass an order on his prayerfor bedding. The judge said asper the prison manual, jailauthorities make adequate bedarrangements. TheEnforcement Directorate (ED),which had arrested the SenaRajya Sabha member on August1, said during the course of cus-todial interrogation, Raut didnot explain about his involve-ment into the alleged crime. The

release of the accused at thisstage will hamper the investiga-tion, the probe agency said in itsapplication. “Being a very influ-ential person, against whomallegations of threatening of thewitnesses have surfaced, it isapprehended that he may tamp-er with the evidence and ensurethe trail of proceeds of crime iscompletely obfuscated,” it said.

UGC-NET phase 2postponed

NNeeww DDeellhhii:: The second phase ofthe University GrantsCommission-National EligibilityTest has been postponed and willbe conducted between September20 and 30, a top official said onMonday. It was earlier scheduledto be conducted between August12 and 14. “The National TestingAgency (NTA) conducted the firstphase of UGC-NET December 2021and June 2022 (merged cycles)examination on July 9, 11 and 12,2022 for 33 subjects in 310 exami-nation centres located in 225 citiesacross the country,” UGC chair-man M Jagadesh Kumar said.“Second phase was earlier sched-uled to be held on 12, 13 and 14August 2022. However, now thefinal phase examination ofUGC-NET December 2021 andJune 2022 (merged cycles) hasbeen scheduled to be conduct-ed between 20 and 30September 2022, involving 64subjects,” he said.

Chennai, Aug 08 (PTI):

An idol of GoddessParvati, which went miss-ing from theN a d a n a p u r e s h w a r a rSivan Temple atT h a n d a n t h o t t a m ,Kumbakonam, half a cen-tury ago, was traced toNew York, said the TamilNadu Idol Wing CID onMonday. The idol wasfound at the BonhamsAuction House, New York,the CID said.

Though a complaint wasgiven to the local police in1971 and an FIR registeredby the idol wing on a com-plaint from an individual

K Vasu in February 2019,the case was pending sincethen. It received attentiononly recently after the IdolWing Inspector M Chitratook up the investigation,started browsing for theParvati idols of the Cholaperiod in various muse-ums and auction housesabroad.

After a thorough search,she found the idol at theBonhams Auction house.

The copper-alloy idol ofthe Chola period circa 12century measures about 52cm in height and is valuedat US$ 212,575 (about Rs1,68,26,143), a release fromthe Idol Wing said.

Idol of Goddess Parvatistolen from temple

Traced to US after 50 years

Parl passes Gati Shakti Bill MONEY LAUNDERING CASE

Court remands Raut to 14-day judicial custody

School principal arrestedfor molesting 2 girl students

About the incidentThe two students of Classes 5 and7 informed their parents afterreaching home last week that theprincipal allegedly molested themin his office chamber. The parentslodged a complaint followingwhich the police arrested the prin-cipal on Saturday.The accusedwas booked under relevant sec-tions of the Indian Penal Code andthe Protection of Children fromSexual Offences (POCSO) Act.

Three killed, 4 injured in stampedeOutside temple in Sikar

Inconsolable relatives of a victim after an incident ofstampede at Khatu Shyam Ji temple, in Sikar district ofRajasthan, Monday.

TERROR-FUNDING CASE

NIA carries out raids against JeI members

JEE-MAIN RESULTS

24 candidates score perfect 100

2.62 lakh qualify forJEE (Advanced)A total of around 2.62 lakhcandidates from JEE (Main)have qualified for the JEE(Advanced), with the maxi-mum coming from UttarPradesh followed byMaharashtra and Telangana.The registration for the JEE(Advanced) started onMonday and the exam isscheduled for August 28.

GOLDEN DOUBLE FOR INDIA

Sindhu, Sen grab goldSweep singles badminton titles

Lakshya Sen poses forphotos with his goldmedal after winning theMens Singles FinalBadminton match.

P.V. Sindhu poses for pho-tos with her gold medalafter winning theWomens Singles FinalBadminton match.

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Governor attends third NationalExecutive meeting

Raipur, Aug 08:Governor Ms. AnusuiyaUikey attended the thirdNational Executive meet-ing of of the ‘Azadi kaAmrit Mahotsav’ held inNew Delhi. The meetingwas attended by PrimeMinister Narendra Modi,Home Minister AmitShah, Lok Sabha SpeakerOm Birla, DefenseMinister Rajnath Singh,Governors of all states,Chief Ministers and othereminent personalities andartists from variousfields. In the meeting, the

Secretary of the CentralCulture Department in-formed about the activi-ties done so far under the‘Azadi ka AmritMahotsav’ and apprisedeveryone about the fur-

ther action plan. It is to beknown that under the‘Azadi ka AmritMahotsav’, various pro-grams and activities arebeing organized acrossthe country.

IIT Bhilai celebrates its 7th Foundation DayRaipur, Aug 08: IndianInstitute of Technology(IIT) Bhilai celebrated its7th Foundation Day withjoy and fanfare. It also pre-sented the institute withan occasion to reflect onits inception and contem-plate on the significant de-velopments since then.

The function com-menced with a lamp light-ing ceremony followed bythe Saraswati Vandanaand felicitation of the dig-nitaries. The chief gueston the occasion was Prof.Nitin M. Nagarkar,Director, AIIMS Raipur. K.V e n k a t a r a m a n a n ,Chairman of the Board ofGovernors, IIT Bhilai,graced the occasion as the

guest of honour.In his welcome address,

Prof. Rajat Moona,Director, IIT Bhilai, spokeabout the achievements ofIIT Bhilai and the remark-able journey behind it. Heacknowledged the efforts

of the faculty and staffmembers in overcomingthe initial constraints andchallenges that a new in-stitute faces. Among theinstitute’s achievements,he spoke about the highplacement percentage

which has led to severalalumni of IIT Bhilai to be-come well established.Today, the institute isproud to have 900 students,state of the art equipmentand innovative educationtechniques. Shri K.Venkataramanan ad-dressed the audience byhighlighting the impor-tance of social activitiesand sports. He hailed theassociation of AIIMSRaipur with IIT Bhilai as agreat move towards inno-vation. He also added thatthe foundation day iswhen we respect theachievements of the pastand also ready ourselvesfor the challenges of thefuture. Prof. Nitin M.

Nagarkar and Prof. RajatMoona released the ‘IITBhilai: In Press 2021-22’magazine highlighting theInstitute’s achievementspublished by the pressover the past year. Theyalso presented awards tothe best performing em-ployees of the year. Thewinners were commendedfor their hard work, andall the institute memberspresent were encouragedto perform their dutieswith pride and dedication.

The vote of thanks wasdelivered by Dr. Sonal Jha,Assistant Professor,Department of LiberalArts and the function con-cluded with the nationalanthem.

Family members reach thana alongwith body of auto driver

Raipur, Aug 08: A youthwas murdered in BSUPcolony in Bhatagaon hereon Monday. It was justtwo-days back that thesame youth was attackedand was undergoingtreatment in a privatehospital. On Monday theyouth had died and thefamily members reachedthana along with thebody of the youth and de-manded action againstthose who attacked himand gheraoed the thanaand the wife of the de-ceased was all in tearsand demanding justice.This hampered work inthana for about two-hours today.

The youth named AjayTandi used to work as

auto driver and the peo-ple from Bhatagaon areainformed that a youthfrom Bhatagaoon alongwith three others at-tacked against AjayTandi on night of Aug 6at around 3:00 am, early

in the morning. He wasbadly beaten with wood-en bat, that he turned halfunconscious and then hewas taken to the hospital.

The local people in-formed that the youthwho attacked Tandi were

involved in intoxicationand other drugs and haddemanded cash fromAjay Tandi for the same.Earlier there was similarcontroversy over his mo-bile phone as well. Afterthis he was attacked lateat night entering insidehis house. The Police hasnot been able to find anyclue in this regard andhas taken only 1 youthwho was involved in theattack into arrest and isholding inquiry withhim.

The youth living nearAjay’s residence in-formed that the attackersmade video of the beat-ing the youth Ajay and in-formed that they werekeeping knife as well andwere instigating eachother to stab him. By put-ting the same on the so-cial media, they are try-ing to create threat in themind of others.

AIIMS-R conducts first AHA certifiedcourse in Basic Life Support

Raipur, Aug 08: All IndiaInstitute of MedicalSciences conductedAmerican HeartAssociation (AHA) certi-fied Basic Life Support(BLS) and AdvancedCardiovascular LifeSupport (ACLS) work-shop. This international-ly recognized course en-sured that 33 participantscan provide CPR in emer-gencies, which can be ap-plied in real life. Expertssay that survival depends

on immediately receivingCPR from someone dur-ing cardiac arrest.

Prof. (Dr.) Nitin M.Nagarkar congratulatedthe Department ofAnaesthesiology for con-ducting AHA certifiedcourse. ‘AHA is a leader inresuscitation science, ed-ucation, and trainingworldwide. It provides of-ficial guidelines for CPRand ECC. Healthcare pro-fessionals trust the AHAfor their life-saving train-

ing, he said.Prof. (Dr.) Alok

Chandra Agrawal, Dean(Academics), highlightedthe role of training in reallife. The participantswere trained on how toprovide Basic LifeSupport to a victim whohad cardiac arrest out ofthe hospital and how toprovide AdvancedCardiovascular LifeSupport to a victim ofcardiac arrest inside thehospital. They were also

trained regarding how toprovide medical supportto a drowning victim andhow to remove a foreignbody from a victim whohas choking. They weretrained regarding how torecognize signs & symp-toms of stroke in a personand provide him medicalhelp in time.

AHA certified instruc-tors Prof. (Dr.) VinayPandit, Dr. SaritaRamchandani, Dr.Pradeep Sharma, Dr.Smita Moitra, and Rimi(Kolkata) trained the par-ticipants. Prof. N.K.Agrawal, HoD, andAshish Kumar Kundualso graced the occasion.According to Dr.Ramchandani, the AHAheart saver course is aninternationally recog-nized course designed toprepare students in firstaid, CPR, and the use ofan AED in a safe, timely,and effective manner.

Collector hears public grievances atJanchaupal, takes steps for redressal

RRaaiippuurr,, AAuugg 0088:: Raipur DistrictCollector Dr SarveshwarBhure today resolved theapplications related to thegrievances of the people whocame from different parts ofthe district at ‘Janchaupal’ pro-gramme. After examining theapplications submitted by thepeople, necessary instructionswere also given to the con-cerned officials over thephone. More than 40 applica-tions were received atJanchaupal. ShatrughanBanjare of Nagar PanchayatKoonra submitted an applica-tion to provide benefits of thePrime Minister’s SammanNidhi. Residents of RawatpuraPhase-2 Mathpuraina raisedissue of obstruction of mainroad built for the public in thearea. Pankaj Dodwani of Tildasubmitted an applicationseeking removal of the stayorder passed by the Tehsildar.

Similarly, the residents ofNagar Panchayat KoonraWard-14 submitted applica-tion for allotment of residen-tial patta. The Collector talkedof taking action as per therules on a demand for rein-statement to the post ofAnganwadi assistant ofBirgaon.

Ramesh Patel, resident ofArang submitted applicationseeking action to remove

encroachment from govern-ment grass land. He said thatencroacher illegally construct-ed commercial complext afterencroaching governmentgrass land. Shanta Kosaria ofMandir Hasaud submitted anapplication seeing rights overfather’s property. TheCollector directed the con-cerned officers to take actionon the applications submittedas per rules.

Chandrakar is facing ‘lossof memory’: CM

Raipur, Aug 08: CMBhupesh Baghel on his re-turn from tour to Delhiand HP said that he metthe newly electedPresident of India, PMand Home Minister inDelhi. Taking part in theNITI Aayog meeting heput forth hosts of demandand urged to clear the Rs13000 crore amount of thetax at the earliest. Alongwith this he also held talkswith PCC State in-ChargePL Punia and held talks onvarious issues related toChhattisgarh.

CM speaking to sectionof media persons in-

formed that he raised de-mand to pay back the CoalRoyalty amount of Rs 4000crore and to ensure thatbusinessman and produc-ers in Chhattisgarh canget benefit he urged tostart Cargo services.Baghel informed thatstate’s Godhan NyayYojana is being discussedat national-level and it willbe implemented in state’slike UP and MP and afterthis the BJP leaders of

Chhattisgarh are in dilem-ma.

Commenting upon risein number of Swine flucases, Baghel said thatmany viruses are presentin the atmosphere duringrainy season and eventhere is threat of Dengueand Malaria in this seasonand asked all to remain onthe alert.

On asking about pro-posed polls in HP, Baghelclaimed that party is instrong position inHimachal and there isanti-incumbency againstthe ruling party and addedthat if all contest togetherthen the party will defi-nitely achieve success.

Targetting on the Tweetrelated to naxal rally byAjay Chandrakar, CM

Baghel said that AjayChandrakar has fallenprey of ‘loss of memory’and added that duringterm of last governmenthow many rallies used tobe taken out, he does notremember. Naxalites areon the back-foot and thisprogramme was held inthe remote interior areas.

On asking about partici-pation in the party’s‘Padyatra’ on occasion of‘A z a d i - k a - A m r u tMahotsav’, CM informedthat on occasion ofTribal’s day, he will stay inRaipur, Bilaspur tomor-row and would leave forJharkhand to take part inthe programme in Ranchi.It is after coming back hewould take part in differ-ent ‘Padyatras’.

Scout guide improves the spirit of disciplineand patriotism: Dr. Premsai

Raipur, Aug 08: Statelevel meeting of BharatScout Guide was held inthe auditorium of CircuitHouse on Monday inwhich the cadets weremade aware of the activi-ties and responsibilities ofthe Scout Guide. PresidentBharat Scouts and GuidesCouncil and MinisterSchool Education StateAdministration, Dr.Premsai Singh said thatthe scout guide teaches dis-cipline in children with pa-triotism.

Along with education,

such activity definitelymoves the students for-ward. He said that its ac-tion plan would bestrengthened by establish-ing coordination withscout guides from allschools. Tekam said thatthe activities of scout

guide in every school haveto be associated with thechildren so that the spiritof social service, disciplineand patriotism can be de-veloped through scoutguide in the society.

The scouting ofChhattisgarh state has an

important contribution inour country. Various pro-grams are held every yearin the state. About 2 thou-sand children fromEducation Department andTribal Welfare Departmentare going to Panchmarhi,Kullu Manali, Darjeelingand doing disaster man-agement and adventurecourses free of cost everyyear. Programs likeTrekking, Cub BulbulUtsav, Rally are also contin-uing in the state level.

The Minister furthersaid that the Tricolor cam-paign is being run by ChiefMinister Bhupesh Baghelfrom August 11th to 17thunder the Amrit Mahotsavof Independence. In whichscout guide, rover-rangerscoute and guider celebrat-

ed 75th anniversary byhoisting the tricolor intheir respective homes infull scout guide uniformand make others aware tohoist the tricolor flag.

Satyanarayan Sharma,National Vice President,Rajesh Agarwal ExecutivePresident, Krishna Swamy,Director, NationalHeadquarters New Delhi,Kanhaiya Agrawal, VicePresident Bharat Scoutsand Guides, ChandraPrakash Bajpai, VicePresident, Mrs. AnitaRaote, Mrs. ShashiChandrakar, Mrs. MamtaRai, Kailash Kumar Soni,Ankit Bagbahra, MukeshChandrakar, SureshShukla and members ofBharat Scouts and GuidesChhattisgarh were present.

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Girl and women are selecting among variety of colourful threads for their brothers for the festival of‘Rakshabandhan’ in coming days.

State Council meet-ing of Bharat Scoutsand Guides con-cludes

On his Tweet overmassive rally by thenaxalites

Creates scene atthe thana, demandsjustice

Of ‘Azadi ka AmritMahotsav’


World Breastfeeding Week observed at JLNHRC Bhilai, Aug 08: WorldBreastfeeding Week was ob-served at SAIL-BSP'sJawaharlal Nehru Hospitaland Research Centre fromAugust 01 to August 07, 2022.The week is observed withthe aim of promotingbreastfeeding and improv-ing the health of childrenaround the world. It is cele-brated by 170 countries toprotect, promote and sup-port breastfeeding.

World BreastfeedingWeek was first celebrated in1992 by WABA (WorldAlliance for Breast feedingAction) and is now observedin over 170 countries byUNICEF, WHO and theirpartners including individu-als, organizations, and gov-ernments. WABA itselfhave been formed onFebruary 14, 1991, with thegoal to re-establish a globalbreastfeeding culture andprovide supportfor breast-feeding everywhere. Everyyear Breastfeeding week iscelebrated with a uniquetheme. This year's theme is ---- "Step upfor Breastfeeding:educate and Support"

The week-long programwas organized as per theleadership of CMOIncharge Dr MRavindranath and CMODrPramod Binayake, underthe guidance of Head of theDepartment of PaediatricsDrSambita Panda, with thetireless efforts of the duo DrSubodh Saha (AdditionalCMO& in-charge ofNeonatal unit) and DrNoharSingh Thakur(Additional

CMO) and team of doctorsof the department ofPaediatrics including DrSanjeevani Patel (DeputyCMO), Dr Meeta Sachdev(Deputy CMO),DrNootanVerma (AssistantCMO), Dr Kaushik Kishore( C h i e fConsultant),DrWrindaSakhare (Senior Consultant), DrSeema Verma (Consultant)Dr Ruchika Tamrakar(Senior Medical Officer) andPost Graduate DNB stu-dents, studying in the de-partment . Successful imple-mentation was ensured withthe cooperation of all stu-dents, nurses and staff.

On the first day of the pro-gram, on August 01, a postercompetition was organizedin the OPD complex ofJLNH &RC, in which stu-dents of various nursingcolleges participated enthu-siastically.

On the second day of theprogram, collaborativeteaching work by senior doc-tors in Paediatrics OPD andObstetric& GynaecologyOPD about the techniques ofbreastfeeding to mothersand benefits of breastfeed-ing to the mothers, babies ,

families and societyweretaught.Expert answers weredelivered to queries ofmothers.

During the third day, theprogramme was conductedin online mode, in which thedetailed description of theplan to make the Neonatalunit of Jawaharlal NehruHospital as a "Baby FriendlyUnit" was presented. All thedoctors of the JLNH & RCBhilai actively participatedin this.

The fourth day was organ-ised in various wards of theDepartment of Paediatricsby team led by Dr SambitaPanda, Head of theDepartment and they taughtthe mothers & relatives ofpaediatric patients aboutthe care of the newbornba-by, breastfeeding, mother'shealth& benefits.

The importance of safemotherhood to mothers inH-1 &H-2 wards ofGynaecology and ObstetricsDepartment were taught bya team of neonatal unit doc-tors , under the leadershipof Dr. Subodh Saha, in-charge of neonatal depart-ment,on the fifth day of theprogramme. Discussions

were held on the care of ba-bies, the knowledge ofbreastfeeding techniquesand the methodology tosolve the problems faced bythe newborn babies and thecuriosity of the motherswere dealt with.

On the sixth day of pro-gram, a quiz competitionwas organized for Post-Graduate DNB students anda debate competition was or-ganized among the studentsof various Nursing Collegesof Bhilai.

The welcome address ofthe program was presentedby Dr Sambita Panda(Additional CMO) and theweek long activities for thewhole week was presentedby DrSubodh Saha(Additional CMO). Prizeswere distributed to the win-ners of the competition bythe hands of the chief guestand certificates were dis-tributed to all the contest-ants. At the end of the pro-gram, Dr.Nohar SinghThakur (Additional CMO)thanked all the doctors fortheir excellent teamworkand hospital managementfor their cooperation andsupport.

DPS Bhilai holds Senior SchoolAnnual Exhibition 2022

Bhilai, Aug 08: Delhi PublicSchool, Bhilai, held itsAnnual Exhibition 2022 theother day. Its talented stu-dentsshowcased the hall-mark of unity in diversity inIndia, the country's achieve-ments in its different sec-tors, and three-dimensional(3D) models of various as-pects of science and technol-ogy; which cast a spell on thevisitors.

Five stalls displayed thediverse cultures of differentstates of India. The fooditems and thedances fasci-nated the visitors. One stallshowcased India's bounties

of nature and efforts tosavethem. Another stall dis-played the technological de-velopments in the agricul-tural sector.The stall display-ing space exploration and itstechnologies fired the youngwith enthusiasm.The onedisplaying the projects on ar-tificial intelligence arrestedeach one's imagination.

The biology laboratorydisplayed 3D models of thecell and its organelles, asalso those of aerobic respira-tion. The physics laboratoryshowcased Li-Fi (light fideli-ty), a futuristic technology,in addition to showcasing

several other models relat-ing to magnetism and opti-cal illusion. The chemistrylaboratory showcased theuses of chemistry in every-day life. Thedepartment ofcomputer science gave sev-eral PowerPoint presenta-tions on the theme EkBharatShreshtha Bharat.

Lippan art, mandala art,Bastar art, Madhubanipainting, and the works ofterracotta made by some stu-dents in the terracotta sculp-ture workshop, too, were ondisplay, separately in the artexhibition hall. The rangolipatterns and the carved veg-etable patterns, too, fascinat-ed the visitors.

The world of counselling,through its several exhibits,tried to educate the visitorsabout anger management,conflict management, sub-stance abuse, sibling rivalry,dyslexia, etc.

The school was privileged

to have as the Chief GuestAnbalagan P, Secretary -WaterResources andTourism & Culture,Government ofChhattisgarh. SmtAlarmelmangai D, Secretary-Urban Administration &Development and Finance,Government ofChhattisgarh graced the oc-casionas the Guest ofHonour. The other digni-taries who graced the occa-sion were - Smt & ShriPrabir Kumar Sarkar, Pro-Vice Chairman, SMC, DPSBhilai & CGM (Services),BSP, Bhilai,Members, SMC,DPS Bhilai - DN Karan,CGM (F&A), BSP, Bhilai,Smt& ShriSaptarishiSengupta, GM(RSM), BSP, Bhilai,RenuVashishta.

All the visitors felt en-lightened after seeing thevarious models and presen-tations.

BSF conducts tree plantation drive in naxal infested areasBhilai, Aug 08: Underthe directions of IGIndraj Singh (BSF,Frontier Headquarters,Bhilai), tree plantationdrive was conducted bythe 167th and 17th battal-ions of BSF in its area ofdeployment in the naxalinfested areas of Kanker.Local representatives andcommon people are en-thusiastically participat-ing in the drives.

On August 06, thetroops of 167th Battalionled by COB BadgaonCompany CommanderRajbir Singh plantedabout 320 saplings nearthe Women CommunityCentre in Badgaon.Jawans and locals led byCOB Madgaon AssistantCommandant DaanSingh planted over 305saplings at villageTadhur and Salepara.Troops led by COBBadejharkata I/cCompany CommanderInspector Heera Lal

planted over 440 saplingsat Primary School inGondpara, Badejharkataand Devipara. COBGumrideeh I/c CompanyCommander InspectorMunish Kumar led theplantation drive atGovernment HigherSecondary School in vil-lage Konde where about

300 saplings were plantedby students and locals.COB Bhuski I/cCompany CommanderInspector Surender Singhled the plantation drive atPrimary School andAanganwadi ofBhurkhaguddum andSchoolpara of Bhuski.Over 350 saplings were

planted by the studentsand locals.

The troops of 17th BSFBattalion led by COBIragaon I/c CompanyCommander InspectorRavi Kumar accompaniedby the students of NehruHostel, teachers and lo-cals planted over 210saplings near Panchayat,

Nehru Hostel and nearbyareas. It needs to be men-tioned here that BSF con-ducts tree plantationdrives in its area of de-ployment every year dur-ing the monsoons. Peopleare made aware about theconservation of environ-ment and importance oftrees and greenery.

DCC issues instructions forAzadi Ki Gaurav Yatra

Bhilai, Aug 08: BhilaiDistrict CongressCommittee PresidentMukesh Chandrakar hasissued instructions to allthe Congress party officebearers and members re-garding the Azadi kiGaurav Yatra which isscheduled to be held dur-ing August 09 to 14. Theyatra would cover a dis-tance of almost 75 kilome-ters in every AssemblyConstituency. All the partyworkers participating inthe yatra will hold theNational Flag in theirhands while they willhoist the party flag at theirhomes. They have beenasked to wear Gandhi Topiin the procession and raisepatriotic slogans. Localplaces of historical and re-ligious importance wouldbe included in the route.They will also visit theplaces of freedom fightersand senior congress lead-

ers. Pamphlets having de-tails of achievements ofCongress StateGovernment and thePublic Welfare Schemeswould be distributed.Pamphlets having detailsof Congress's contributionin the independence move-ment as well as develop-ment of the country wouldalso be distributed.

In Vaishali nagar con-stituency, the yatra wouldcommence from ShivTemple in Khamhariya onAugust 09. The yatra

would cover Junwani,Panchmukhi HanumanTemple, Nehru Nagar,Kosa Nagar, Dixit Colony,Sanjay nagar, Islam nagar,Krishna Nagar, and con-clude at Radhika NagarKalibari. On August 10,the yatra would coverAvanti Bai Square, Kohka,Purani basti, PardesiChowk, Ravan Bhata,Laxmi Nagar, HardwareLine, Bajrang Square,Gurunanak Nagar andconclude at Pragati SportClub. On August 12, theyatra would cover Vaishalinagar, Shanti Nagar,Kailash nagar, GhasidasNagar and conclude atHousing Board. On August13, the yatra would coverRoad No 18, Camp-1 andconclude atBaikunthdham Mandir.On August 14, the yatrawould cover Camp-2 andconclude near RajasthanHotel in Link Road.

Azadi Ki Gaurav Yatra to beginfrom Kolihapuri in Durg (Rural)

Bhilai, Aug 08: IndianNational Congress isgoing to take out "AzadiKi Gaurav Yatra" in allthe assembly constituen-cies during August 09 to15. In Durg (Rural) assem-bly constituency, the yatrawill be taken out underthe leadership ofTamradhwaj Sahu,Minister of Home, Jail,Public Works, Dharmasvaand Tourism. A largenumber of people willparticipate in this yatra.The "Azadi Ki GauravYatra" will move acrossdifferent villages of Durg(rural). Cabinet MinisterTamradhwaj Sahu has re-quested all the citizens toactively participate in thepadyatra. The yatra wouldvisit the residences offreedom fighters / rela-tives and seniorCongressmen and honourthem. Home MinisterTamradhwaj Sahu,Matikala Board PresidentBalam Chakradhari,MLA RepresentativeKeshav Bunty Harmukh,Block PresidentNandkumar Sen,Mukund Bhau, PresidentCooperative Cell RivendraYadav, District PanchayatPresident Shalini Yadav,Speaker (Agriculture)Yogita Chandrakar,President Janpad

Panchayat DurgDevendra Deshmukh,Janpad Vice PresidentJhamit Gaikwad,Municipal CorporationRisali Mayor ShashiSinha, Speaker KeshavBanchore, all Councilorsof Risali, President NagarPanchayat Utai DikendraHirwani, Vice PresidentRavindra Verma andCouncilors, PradeshKisan Congress VicePresident KrishnaDevangan, JanpadPanchayat Durg PresidentPukesh Chandrakar,Member Mandi BoardTarakeswar Chandrakar,Farmers Welfare BoardMember Jagdish DeepakSahu, Janpad members,Sarpanch SanghPresident MukundParkar, all Sarpanch, UpSarpanch and Panchs,Rajiv Yuva Mitan Clubmembers, Gothan

Presidents, office bearersof all the cells, YouthCongress, MahilaCongress, BackwardClasses, Kisan Congress,NSUI, as well as all the dis-trict, block office bearers,booth in-charge, zone in-charge, sector in-chargeand the Congress party of-fice bearers will partici-pate in the padyatra.

The Yatra would com-mence from the memorialof Late ChandulalChandrakar at villageKolihapuri on August 09.The yatra would cover vil-lages Kolihapuri,Pisegaon andChandkhuri on the firstday. On August 10, theyatra would cover vil-lages Konari, Kuthreland Anda. On August 11,the yatra would covervillages Anda, Risama,Chirpoti andManchadur. On August12, the yatra would covervillages Manchadur,Ghughasidih, Khopliand Utai. On August 13,the yatra would coverNagar Panchayat Utai,village Kargadih, Puraiand Umarpoti. OnAugust 14, the yatrawould cover villagesUmarpoti, Newai,Maroda and would con-clude at Azad MarketRisali.

Junk dealer hires four trucks tosteal pipes worth Rs 32 lakhs

Bhilai, Aug 08: With thearrest of two persons, po-lice claimed to have solveda major theft incidentwhich was committed in avery smart and plannedmanner. The kingpin ofthis incident is a Bilaspurbased junk dealer. Hehired four trucks to stealand transport the pipesworth Rs 32 lakhs. The ac-cused escorted the trucksto reach the crime scene atKumhari. The labourerswere ready here to load thepipes on the trucks. Thenthe accused took thetrucks to Siltara and gotthe stolen pipes unloaded.Police have recovered thestolen pipes and have ar-rested two drivers. Searchoperations are on to trapthe absconding accused.

CSP (Chhawani)Kaushalendra Patel in-formed that they had re-ceived a complaint regard-ing theft of 70 nos DI Pipes(Class K9), weighingaround 14 tonnes worth Rs

32 lakhs. The pipes weredumped near theOverhead Tank, AhiwaraRoad Bus Stand, Kumhari.Under the directions of SPDr Abhishek Pallava, ASP(City) Sanjay Dhruv andDSP (Crime) NasarSiddhiqui, a joint team ofKumhari Police Stationand Anti Crime and CyberUnit launched investiga-tions. On examining theCCTV footage, Police dis-covered a suspicious car

and four trucks approach-ing the crime scene andthen moving away withthe pipes. Police collecteddata of the vehicles fromthe Transport Departmentand rounded up two driv-ers from the SiltaraIndustrial area. During in-terrogation, the drivers in-formed that four truckswere booked from theirvehicle owner JitendraSingh of Sirgitti Bilaspuron July 26. The drivers

Amar Singh, SureshYadav, Mahaveer and RajuSrivas reached Siltarawith their vehicles around23:30 hrs on July 26. Herethey met a junk dealerChhotu Pandey who askedthem to follow his car. Allthe vehicles reached nearthe Water Tank onKumhari - Ahiwara Road.Here one Bhola was readywith labourers wholoaded the pipes on thetrucks. After getting the

pipes loaded, ChhotuPandey again asked thedrivers to follow his carand took them toMahindra Chowk inSilatara where he got thepipes unloaded.

Police have arrested thedrivers Amar Singh andSuresh Yadav as well asseized four trucks (CG10-C-8980, CG10-C-7285, CG10-C-9284 and CG10-R-0323)which were used in thecrime. The stolen pipeshave also been recovered.CSP Kaushalendra Patelinformed that the kingpinof this theft is ChhotuPandey, who resides atBilaspur Bus Stand. Bholaworked as his managerand had arranged thelabourers at Kumhari.Police are trying to arrestChhotu Pandey, Bhola,drivers Raju Srivas,Mahavir and other ac-cused.

ASI Ajay Singh, ASIShamit Misgra, HeadConstable ChandraShekhar Banjir, ConstableArvind Mishra, AvonBanchor, Vikrant Singh,Dilip Harde, RajkumarSingh and Rakesh Yadavplayed a vital role in ar-resting the accused.

Two drivers arrested; kingpinand accomplices atlarge

Work of environmental protection is being done thru ‘NGGB’: JainCentral Chronicle News

JJaaggddaallppuurr,, AAuugg 0088:: Forest depart-ment organized 'Van Mahotsav'here on Tuesday. The chief guestwas MLA Jagdalpur andParliamentary SecretaryRekhchand Jain and he said that theChief Minister is doing importantwork in the direction of environ-mental protection through 'NarvaGarva Ghurva Bari' scheme.Continuous work is being done to promote tree plantation. A grant

has been sanctioned for planta-tion of trees on the barren land.He said that in order to deal withclimate change in the presenttime, more and more treesshould be planted and protected

till they grow up. On this occasion,along with MLA Rekhchand Jain,Chairman of Municipal CorporationKavita Sahu, District PresidentAnita Poyam, General Secretary ofCity District Congress CommitteeHemu Upadhyay, Awadhesh Jha of

Law Department, CollectorChandan Kumar, Chief Conservatorof Forests Mohammad ShahidKhan, CEO Jila panchayat RohitVyas, Forest Divisional Officer Sahualong with officers and employeesof Forest Department were present.


Students stage chakka-jam on NH-53


Pithora, Aug 08:Hundreds of School stu-dents staged chakka-jam atNH-53 under the block overproblems being faced inthe schools, 'Ashrams', de-mands of teachers. It wasafter explaination by the of-ficer and employees of theregion, the students called-

off the chakka-jam.It was on Sunday that

hundreds of students fromGram Dumarpali,Singhupali, Rampur,Jampali, Khargotora,Daank, Kasibahara stagedchakka-jam on NH-53 withdemand for school buildingin Gram Dumarpali, in-creasing the number seatsin Pre-Matric Tribla's Boy's

hostel from 30 to 100; ap-pointment of English andMaths teacher in Govt. Pre-Secondary School inDumarpali; Dhaank tollplaza should be made freefor an area of 10 kms; andother demands.

Due to this 'chakka-jam'the residents of the nearbyareas, vehicle riders andother faced massive prob-

lems for hours. Seeing thesituation, sufficient policeforce was deployed at thechakka-jam venue.

Further it was on ex-plaination by the NayabTehsildar that he would in-form about their problemsto the senior officers thatthe students called-offtheir chakka-jam and traf-fic movement was restored.

MLA lays stone for SHCin Gram Borgaon


Bhond, Aug 08: ThePresident ChhattisgarhHandicraft DevelopmentBoard (CHDB) and MLANarayanpur Chandan

Kashyap laid the stone fora Sub-Health Centre (SHC)in Gram Borgaon comingunder this VS area at thecost of Rs 26.54 lakh.

On this occasion he in-formed that whatever

problem exists to villagersin this VS is his own per-sonal problem and irre-spective of its seriousness,he always tries to solve itat the earliest and wouldcontinue to do so, to en-

sure that general publicand villagers do not sufferor faces problems.

He said that under lead-ership of CM BhupeshBaghel, massive develop-ment works are underwayin all the areas of the stateand that he and other pub-lic representatives wouldcontinue to work for devel-opment of the region andits people. Duringi thisBCC President MardapalSukhram Poyam, JanpadV-P Kondagaon ManojSethia, Sarpanch BorgaonMohan Korram, MP's repDashrath Netam, MLA'srep Varun Sethia, Janpadmember Shiv Korram, YCBlock President DevsinghBaghel, Santosh Nag,Ramesh Sethia,Phoolsingh Kora, Patel,Pujari, Gayata, BMOKondagaon Dr SurajRathore, and other officersand employees fromMardapal were present.

In support of their various demands

Principal of High Schoolsubmitted memorandum


Dongargaon, Aug 08:Different problems of thestudents were put forthbefore the Principal ofHigh School inTumdibod through amemorandum here onSaturday.

NSUI workers under

leadership of DistrictPresident NSUI AmarJha charged lack of disci-pline in the school, wan-dering of students dur-ing class and period hereand there; movement ofoutsiders during schooltimings and no uniformgiven to the students.

NSUI delegation urged

the Principal to sort outall these problems soon.During this NSUI mem-bers Ghanshyam Sahu,Bhupendra Sahu and stu-dents Vasu, Trilok,Devilal, Deepak, Sahil,Dhanendra, Chiteshwar,Kushal, Ritesh, Yash,Aishwarya and otherswere present.

About different problems of students by NSUICentral Chronicle News

Dongargaon, Aug 08: Itwas amidst slogans 'Bolbum' on occasion of'Shravan maas' on Aug 6, amassive 'Shobha Yatra' ofLord Mahakal BabaChandramoleswarji wastaken out and it was ac-corded floral welcome andprayers by the devotees atvarious places in the city.

It was under the aegis of'Mahakal Bhakt Sena' thatthe 'Palki' of ShriChandramoleshwar, whois in the form of 'Raja' thatof 'Baba Mahakal' that the

'Shobha Yatra' was takeout from Lord Hanuman'stemple in Killapara alongwith drum beats andmusic.

The devotees of'Mahakal' were seen danc-

ing on the religious musicand bhajans and this 'PalkiShobha Yatra' passedthrough Sadar Line,Fawarra Chowk, ChowkiRoad, Main Road, old BusStand and market area

and concluded at the tem-ple.

The 'Yatra' was accordedfloral welcome by devoteesand they also offeredprayers at different placesand in this 'Yatra' taken

out amidst beating ofdrums and religiousmusic and bhajans, thedevotees were seen mes-merized in 'Bhaktibhav'.

In order to carry this'Palki' there was huge rushof devotees and this 'PalkiYatra' concluded withprayers to 'Baba Mahakal'in the evening.

In this 'Yatra', the officebearers of Mahakal Sena',members, party workers,devotees, public represen-tatives, men, women andchildren too were presentinlarge number. In thefirst of its kind 'PalkiYatra' in city on occasionof 'Shravan Maas' thatthere was huge responseof people from all sectionsof the society.

p Devotees accordedfloral welcome to ‘Palki’

‘Palki Yatra’ of Baba Chandramoleshwar Shri Mahakal taken out


Konta, Aug 08: In Sukmadistrict, the Naxalites haveonce again set ablaze twovehicles, creating a ruckus.Both the vehicles burnt be-longs to a contractor.According to the informa-tion, Naxalites have burnttwo vehicles in Sindurgudaarea of Kistaram policestation area of Kontablock.

Construction work wasgoing on in this area, inwhich both the vehicleswere engaged. The inci-

dent has been confirmedby Sukma SP Sunil

Sharma. It is being toldthat the said vehicles were

installed for culvert repairwork in Sindurguda area ofKistaram. Meanwhile,Naxalites reached the spotand escaped by setting fireto Poklane and shifter ma-chine. Police officers saythat the construction workwas being done by the con-tractor at the site withoutany security arrangement.

This incident happeneddue to the negligence ofthe contractor. After theincident came to light, thepolice is investigating thematter and search has beenintensified in the area.

Naxalites burnt the Poklan, shifter Engaged in the construction of the culvert in Konta

Body of the girlfound hanging

on the treeKKoonnttaa,, AAuugg 0088:: In Sukma dis-trict, there was a sensationwhen the body of a youngwoman was found hangingfrom branch of a tree. Thebody could not be identified.Police reached the spot and isinvestigating the matter.According to the information,the body of an unknown girlwas found hanging on a tree onMonday near AnjargatMahadev temple of SukmaKotwali police station area.Nearby people, on seeing thedead body hanging from a tree,informed the police about thematter. On receiving informa-tion, the Sukma Kotwali policeteam reached the spot and thebody was brought down fromthe tree. Police have startedfurther action by taking thebody in their possession.Police say that prima-facie itappears to be a case of suicide.The body of the girl is being ex-pected to be two to three daysold. Police has started investi-gating the matter. Under whatcircumstances the unknowngirl committed suicide and thereasons is what the police istrying to solve the mystery.

National seminar organized in IGNTU

Amarkantak, Aug 08: Anational seminar was or-ganized by Indira GandhiNational TribalUniversity (IGNTU),Amarkantak, (MP) on“National EducationPolicy (NEP): Reflectionson tribal education inglobal perspective” onunder the auspices of‘Azadi ka amrit mahot-sav’. Guntha Laxman,National Joint secretaryfor Akhil BhartiyRashtriya ShaikshikMahasang graced the pro-gram as chief guest. Prof.B.J. Rao, Vice Chancellor

of Central University ofHyderabad and Prof.Rama Shankar Dubey,Vice Chancellor of cen-tral university of Gujaratwere Guest of honor andkey-note speaker of theprogram.

At the onset, Dr.Parikipandla Sridevi, co-convenor of the programbriefed the importance ofthe program and intro-duced the guests to theaugust audience.Convener of the programProf. M.T.V, Nagaraju wel-comed the guests andProf. Alok Shrotriya,Dean academics present-ed the resurgence of theuniversity. Prof. R.S.Dubey in his key note ad-dress spoke on the impor-

tance of NEP in the cur-rent era and Prof. B.J. Raoemphasized the impor-tance and implications ofNEP on the education intribes. Guntha Laxmanhighlighted about therich cultural heritage ofIndia including tribalethos and importance ofimplementation of NEPall over the country in thecontext of development ofthe marginalized commu-nities. He also highlight-ed that the reforms in ed-ucational policy will ben-efit tribal and rural ad-vancements and will haveimplications on the globalprogress and hence inturn have a significantrole on intellectual devel-opment of future genera-

tions. He not only moti-vated the part of teachersin primary and higher ed-ucation in the implemen-tation of NEP but also ac-centuated the teachers tocraft global leaders fromthe deprived communi-ties who in turn will in-spire the nation as awhole. Prof. PrakashMani Tripathi, ViceChancellor of IGNTU inhis presidential addressexpressed the importanceof dissemination of cul-tural values and tradi-tional knowledge oftribes to the world andalso has articulated hisviews on national educa-tion policy in indigenousperspective. Further abook edited by Dr.

Anirudh kumar, assistantprofessor, Dept of Botanyentitled “Omics technolo-gies for sustainable agri-culture and global food se-curity; vol-1” was re-leased by the honorableguests.

A poster making con-test was held for studentson the theme “Unsung he-roes of freedom struggleof Madhya Pradesh” onthis occasion. The postersreceived were displayedby the students to the au-dience in the auditoriumpremises and the studentswho won were given cashprizes and certificates bychief guest. The programended with the vote ofthanks by the Registrar ofIGNTU, P. Siluvainathan.

Four day free eye check-up camp held

JJaaggddaallppuurr,, AAuugg 0088:: MahavirInter-continental inauguratedfree eye check-up and specta-cles distribution camp in Bastardistrict from August 6 to 9 atSindhu Bhawan. On the firstday, more than 1000 patientsreached the camp, after consul-tation by expert doctors, adviceand specs were distributed tomore than 200 needy people.Some people have also beenselected for eye surgery. Check-up facility is available in thecamp in a fully equipped bus.

Program coordinator AnilLunkad and co-convenerShivnarayan Chandak said thatthe first day’s camp was con-ducted at Sindhu Bhavan from

10 am to 5 pm by a team of eyespecialist doctors. After exam-ining the patients who reachedhere, they were provided spec-tacles free of cost as per therequirement. Some patientshave also been selected for theoperation. The selected patientswill be operated very soon.

On the first day of the camp,people from rural areas alongwith urban areas had reached inlarge numbers. He said that onAugust 7, a camp would beorganized at the communitybuilding at Bada Kilepal ofBastanar block, on August 8 atGoyal Dharamshala and onAugust 9 at MaheshwariBhawan.

Flood disaster relief teamsave life of elderly villager

Konta/Sukma, Aug 08:Once again in Sukma dis-trict, a villager was res-cued by the team of HomeGuards jawans in themidst of flood conditions,the life of an elderly per-son has been saved. A vil-lager named Lakhma Ramhas been rescued underthe Chhindgarh block

Puspal police station areaof Sukma district. He wassitting atop a tree to pro-tect himself after beingtrapped in the flood whilekeeping the field undersurveillance for hours allnight.

When Puspal station in-charge Pramod Kashyapgot the information aboutthe villager sitting on thetree for whole night, he im-mediately informed thetop senior officers andcalled the team of stateflood disaster relief andassisted in getting him outsafely.

It is being told that thevillager, who was sittingon the tree amid risingwater level, is a resident ofKinderwada village ofChhindgarh block.

Collector inspects waterlogged areas

Konta/Sukma, Aug 08:Due to the increasingwater level of Shabririver in Sukma due to

continuous rain for lastfew days, water logginghas been created in themain road connecting themunicipality to Sukma.Jhapra bridge on Sukma-Malkangiri (Orissa) road,Gidmanala on Sukma-Jagdalpur road,Dubbatota bridge on

Konta road, and Gadiras-Jirampal road have beenblocked due to rise inwater level in the bridge.

Sukma Collector HarisS. visited the affectedareas and took cog-nizance of the water log-ging situation and securi-ty and relief arrange-ments. He visited Jhaprabridge, Geedmanala,Gadiras-Jirampal bridge.During this, Sub-Divisional Officer SukmaPreeti Durgam was alsopresent.

The Collector said thatrevenue, police, city fight-ers and district level offi-cers should be on thealert mode. All necessarysecurity arrangementshave been ensured so thatemergency situation doesnot arise in the flood af-fected area. He instructed

the SDM to maintain con-stant contact with theconcerned officers of theborder state of Odishaduring the observation ofJhapra bridge.

He asked to ensurearrangement of adequatenumber of rescue boatsin the waterlogged areasand for a big boat in thewaterlogged area nearNH-30, Geedmanala, sothat the common man canbe crossed in a conven-ient and safe manner.

In view of the safety,the road was asked to beclosed by rope or barri-cade at a sufficient dis-tance on both sides of thesubmerged areas. Alongwith this, he directed todeploy police force andjawans in sufficient num-ber at all the sensitiveplaces.

BJPians take out the ‘Tiranga yatra’

Jagdalpur, Aug 08: BJPNagar Mandal of Bastardistrict, along withschool children, took outa tricolor tour and wentdoor-to-door to LokmayTilak ward and handedover the tri-colour to theresidents and motivatedthem to place it. StateGeneral Secretary KiranDev said that 25 to 50 tri-colors should be hoistedin every booth. He saidthat earlier the flag usedto fly after sunrise andbefore sunset. Now onecan fly this flag day andnight at the home or of-fices.

Lokesh Kavadia, in-charge of Bastar districtsaid that the PrimeMinister of the country,Narendra Modi deservescongratulations. In orderto spread the spirit of pa-triotism from door-to-door, during the 75thAmrit Mahotsav ofIndependence, ‘Har GharTiranga’ campaign wasstarted. Bastar DistrictPresident RoopsinhMandavi said that BJPworkers have been in-structed to reach everybooth through all themandals of the district.

City President Suresh

Gupta said that the BJPNagar Mandal takes apledge to put up 25 to 50flags in every booth inthe 48 wards of the city.In this campaign, mainlyBJP General SecretaryRamashray Singh, CityGeneral SecretarySangram Singh Rana,Sudha Mishra, LaxmiKashyap, Yogesh Shukla,Roshan Jha, Bijli Vaidya,Kaushalya Sahu, TekSingh Thakur, GopalPatel, Poornima, Janki,Sundari, Neha, BJPworkers were also pres-ent along with Champaand school children.

Music, speech-making, drama markTulsi-Tilak- Premchand Jayanti

RRaaiippuurr,, AAuugg 0088:: It goes withoutsaying that Rajkumar College,Raipur follows a tradition, whichis indeed age old. The celebrationof Tulsi –Tilak -Premchand Jayantiis one such rich tradition of RKC.This year, the event took place on7th Aug at Jashpur Hall, where anumber of participants took partin either music, speech-makingand drama, based one of the trio.

The programme began sharpat 9:00am sharp with the lightingof the ceremonial lamp, beforethe combined photos ofLokmanya Bal GangadharTilak,Tulsi Dasji and MunshiPremchandji. The curtain raiserswere two soulful bhajans of

Tulsidasji namely “Bhajaman,bhajaman Ramacharan sukhdayi”and “Payoji maine Ram rattandhan payo.” The student anchorsof the event were Adidev Rajaramand Jincy Ratnakar for Englishand Hindi anchoring respectively.The following students deliveredtheir speeches in Hindi: - NaveenKhute, Apurve Agrawal,Yaduvardhan Bansal andBhumika Kurre. Then the stu-dents who delivered theirspeeches in English wereSwarnim Kunj, Aparajeeta Telang,Pritha Jain, Tanushree Gangdev,Jai Prakash Singh BaghelandKunal Kawasi.

The event concluded at

10:20am with the staging of thetouchy Hindi play “Idgah” byMunshi Premchand. It tells us ofthe story of a four-year oldorphan named Hamid, who liveswith his grandmother Amina.Hamid, the protagonist of thestory, has recently lost his par-ents. However, his grandmothertells him that his father left himto earn money and that his moth-er has gone to Allah to fetch love-ly gifts for him! (The play has alesson for all of us. Premchandalways maintained that“Literature should be like a lampof the society and not just a mirror.”

It was very well enacted by26of our talented actors.Coincidentally, our powerful pro-gramme began with a bang withthe bhajans of 26 musicians ofMusic Department and endedwith 26 actors on stage, whotouched the strings of our heartwith their adorable acting. Theundersigned praised the jointefforts of Hindi, English,Humanities and MusicDepartments, informs a pressrelease.

BJYM tried to gherao the MLA’s office

Jagdalpur, Aug 08:Bastar district BJYMworkers played the bugleof protest against thegovernment went outtogherao the MLA’s of-fice. They raised slogansdemanding unemploy-ment allowance and em-ployment to educatedyouths.

Bastar District BJPNagar Mandal took outthe tricolour yatra underthe campaign to hoistthe tricolor flag at everyhouse. The booth level

was inspected during thetricolor yatra and theymotivated people to hoistthe tricolor in theirhomes.

Police arrested BJYMworkers who came togherao the MLA’s office

BJYM of Bastar dis-trict, started protestagainst the MLA and thegovernment, regardingthe demand for unem-ployment allowance andemployment and wentout to gherao the officeof local MLA. The police

stopped the activistsmid-way and arrestedthem.

The police had madeelaborate arrangementsaround the MLA’s office.BJYM workers werestopped before reachingthe MLA bungalow byputting up barricades.Some workers kept in-sisting on reaching theoffice by jumping thebarricade. During thisthere was minor scufflebetween the police andthe workers. During the

protest, BJYM raised slo-gans against theCongress, demandingfulfillment of the prom-ises made to the public.Recalling the electionpromises of Congress,BJYM District PresidentAvinash Srivastava saidthat dearness allowanceand employment to theunemployed were prom-ised. On these two de-mands, BJYM workersfrom the BJP office cameout to gherao the MLA’s office.

Shravani Upkram to be heldnear Kharun River on Aug 11

Raipur, Aug 08: Like everyyear, this year also‘Shravani Upkram’ will beorganised by VedDepartment of GovernmentSanskrit College (GSC)Raipur on Aug 11 on thebanks of Kharun river inMahadev Ghat at 7:00 amand all the ‘Viprabandhus’have been asked to avail itsfull benefit.

Apart from this some re-puted Acharyas of Raipur(C.G.) have taken some deci-sion going against the rulesas mentioned in the‘Shastras’ related toRakshabandhan andAcharya RamkishoreMishra (Vedic ji) hastermed it as inappropriate.Specially the ‘Lok’ in which‘Bhadra’ exists, it gives dueresults. According to

Muhurt Chintamani,‘Bhadra’ resides in the‘Patal’ of ‘Makar Rashi’. Asper the local ‘Panchang’(Dev), ‘Bhadra’ is cominginto effect in ‘Makar Rashi’on Aug 11, 2022 (Thursday)at 10:38 am and it resides inthe ‘Patal Lok’. Thereforethere is no result of‘Bhadra’ in ‘Mrityu Lok’.Therefore it is a good newsfor the general public thatfrom 10:38 minutes onwardson Aug 11, they all can cele-brate the festival of‘Rakshabandhan’ till night,says Acharya RamkishoreMishra (Vedicji) of GovtSanskrit College, Raipur, ina press release.

HNLU career developmentconclave -2022 begins


Raipur, Aug 08: The twomonth long CareerDevelopment Conclave –2022 at HidayatullahNational Law University,Raipur (“HNLU” got un-derway with the inaugu-ral session held on August7, 2022 on the theme‘Getting to Law Firms:Unravelling the Path’.Sapan Gupta, the GeneralCounsel of ArcelorMittalGroup was the ChiefGuest for the event. Thepanellists involved AnantKaushik, Partner at WadiaGhandy & Co., SaurabhBindal, Partner at Fox

Mandal & Associates, andMr. Rachit Jain, Partner atLakshmikumaran andSridharan. The inauguraladdress was delivered bythe Vice Chancellor Prof.(Dr.) V. C. Vivekanandan,and the Welcome Addresswas given by the RegistrarProf. (Dr.) Uday Shankar.

The panellists ad-dressed issues related todifficulty of entry into lawfirms without prior con-nections, stable work-lifebalance, and lack of mobil-

ity in the market. Theseproblems were contextu-alised with the currentskill requirements of lawfirms. The panellists eluci-dated the importance ofspecialisation and brandbuilding with the help ofextracurricular activities,and the manner of select-ing such activities. Theyreflected upon the impor-tance of continuous andstrategic skill developmentafter entering law firms.The panel further empha-

sised the importance ofhealthy competition, hardwork and amiable relation-ships in the formativeyears of their career.

In the Q&A section, thepanellists emphasised theimportance of technologi-cal literacy for lawyers, thebenefits and risks of pur-suing niche fields of law,and a cost-benefit analysisof taking additional certi-fications, like SecretarialExecutive Certificate.

Prof.(Dr.) YogendraShrivastava and Dr. AnkitAwasthi proposed the voteof thanks in the inauguralsession and panel discus-sion respectively.

The HNLU CareerDevelopment Conclave -2022 plans to host manysuch discussions with ex-perienced professionals,on specialised careerpaths in the legal domain.

State-level school sports competition heldJJaaggddaallppuurr,, AAuugg 0088:: Final resultsof Dodge ball, yoga and tabletennis have come in the statelevel school sports competitionorganized at Indira PriyadarshiniStadium, Jagdalpur. The result offootball competition will bereceived tomorrow. The boysand girls of Bastar proved theirmettle in the Dodge Bal organ-ized in the state level schoolsports competition. In Boy’s cat-egory, Durg Zone secured sec-ond position and Bilaspur Zonesecured third position. In girl’scategory, Surguja zone got sec-ond position and Bilaspur zonegot the third position. In theyoga competition of 14 years ofage group of boys, Raipur gotfirst place, second place went toDurg and third went to Bilaspur.In the competition of girls of thesame age group, Raipur got firstplace, Durg second and Bilaspur

got third place. Raipur got thefirst place, Durg got the secondplace and Bilaspur got the thirdplace in the yoga competition forboy’s in the age group of 17years. In the competition of girl’sof the same age group, Raipurgot first place, Durg second andthird place Bastar.

Raipur got the first place,Bilaspur got the second and Durgthird place in the yoga competi-tion for boys in the age group of19 years. In the competition ofgirls of the same age group,Raipur got first place, Durg sec-

ond and Bilaspur third place. Inthe table tennis competition forboy’s in the age group of 14years, Raipur got the first place,Durg second and Bilaspur got thethird place. In the competition ofgirl’s of the same age group,Raipur got first place, Durg sec-ond and Bilaspur third place. Inthe table tennis competition ofboys in the age group of 17years, Raipur got the first place,Durg second and Bilaspur thirdplace. In the competition of girlsof the same age group, Durg gotfirst place, Raipur second andBastar third place. In the tabletennis competition of boys in theage group of 19 years, Raipur gotfirst place, second place went toBilaspur and third to Durg. In thecompetition of girls of the sameage group, Bilaspur got firstplace, Durg second and Raipurthird place.


On the theme‘Getting to LawFirms: Unravellingthe Path’

People can celebrate‘Rakshabandhan’on Aug 11: AcharyaMishra

Issues instructionsfor safety and reliefarrangements

Along with the helpof police

On completion of 2yrs of NationalEducation Policy


BRIEF

Ambassador diesBeijing: Myanmar’sambassador to Chinahas died, the Chinesegovernment said onMonday. I can confirmwhat you mentioned,Foreign Ministryspokesperson WangWenbin said in re-sponse to a questionabout the reporteddeath of AmbassadorMyo Thant Pe. He didnot say when thediplomat had died orwhat the cause ofdeath was. Myo ThantPe had been ambassa-dor to China since2019, Wang said. Hededicated himself tothe development ofChina-Myanmar rela-tions, he said. We ex-press our deep condo-lences and regret overhis sudden passingand our sincere sym-pathies to his family.

Afghan suspectTehran: Police inIran arrested anAfghan man suspect-ed of stabbing 10other farm labourersto death following aquarrel over land,Iranian state mediareported on Monday.The rampage in a re-mote village insoutheastern Iranwas a rare such inci-dent in the IslamicRepublic. The offi-cial IRNA newsagency said fourIranians and sixAfghans were killed,and one farm workerwas wounded in therampage on Sundayand was in hospital.According to the re-port, the suspect wasmentally unbal-anced.

A Hindu devotee takesholy dip with his child be-fore collecting waterfrom the Bagmati riverduring the Bol Bom pil-grimage at Sudarijaal, onthe outskirts ofKathmandu, Nepal,Monday.

Gaza City, Aug 8 (AP):

A fragile cease-fire dealto end nearly three days offighting between Israeland Palestinian militantsin Gaza held into Mondaymorning - a sign the latestround of violence mayhave abated.

The flare-up was theworst fighting betweenIsrael and Gaza militantgroups since Israel andGaza’s Hamas rulersfought an 11-day war lastyear, adding to the destruc-tion and misery that haveplagued blockaded Gazafor years.

Since Friday, Israeli air-craft had pummelled tar-gets in Gaza while theIran-backed PalestinianIslamic Jihad militantgroup fired hundreds ofrockets at Israel.

Over three days of fight-ing, 44 Palestinians werekilled, including 15 chil-dren and four women, and311 were wounded, thePalestinian HealthMinistry said. IslamicJihad said 12 of thosekilled were militants andIsrael said some of thedead were killed by mis-fired rockets.

Israel on Monday said itwas partially reopeningcrossings into Gaza for hu-manitarian needs andwould fully open them ifcalm was maintained.

Fuel trucks were seen en-tering a cargo crossing forthe first time since cross-ings with the strip wereclosed last week, prompt-ing a fuel shortage thatground Gaza’s lone powerplant to a halt on Saturday.The plant was set to re-sume full operations laterMonday. Gaza suffers froma chronic power crisis.

Life for hundreds ofthousands of Israelis wasdisrupted during the vio-lence. Security precau-tions imposed in recentdays on residents of south-

ern Israel were being grad-ually lifted Monday, themilitary said.

Both sides boasted oftheir successes. Speakingto reporters in Tehran onSunday, Islamic Jihadleader Ziad al-Nakhalahsaid the militant group re-mained strong, despite los-ing two of its leaders. Thisis a victory for IslamicJihad, he said.

Despite that claim, thegroup undoubtedly sus-tained a blow duringIsrael’s fierce offensive.Beyond losing the two

leaders, it reduced its arse-nal by firing hundreds ofrockets without striking asingle Israeli, thanks toIsrael’s missile defensesystem that shot most ofthem down. Its own rock-ets may have killed severalGazans, according toIsrael.

The cease-fire deal con-tained a promise thatEgypt would work for therelease of two seniorIslamic Jihad detaineesheld by Israel, but therewere no guarantees thiswould happen.

Fragile cease-fire betweenIsrael, Gaza militants holding

Palestinians celebrate the cease-fire agreement between Israel and Islamic Jihad

Movement in Gaza City, early Monday.

Islamabad, Aug 8 (PTI)

A top commander ofthe outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)Omar Khalid Khorasaniand three other top mili-tant leaders have beenkilled in a mysteriousblast in easternAfghanistan’s Paktikaprovince, a Pakistanimedia report said onMonday.

A vehicle carrying sen-ior commanders of themilitant group, includingKhorasani, was onSunday targeted with amysterious explosive de-vice, according to Afghanofficials and local sources,The Express Tribunenewspaper reported.

The top militants weretravelling in the Birmaldistrict of the provincefor a meeting when theirvehicle hit a roadsidemine, the report said.

All aboard the vehicle,also carrying other TTPcommanders such as

Abdul Wali Mohmand,Mufti Hassan, and HafizDawlat Khan, were killedin the explosion, TheExpress Tribune quoted asenior Afghan official assaying.

According to a localsource, the TTP leaderswere travelling for consul-tation when their vehiclehit a roadside mine onSunday.

Khorasani, who be-longed to the Mohmandtribal district, was consid-ered a top member of theTTP — the militant groupwhich wants to imposethe law of Sharia acrossPakistan. Khorasani, whocarried a bounty of Rs 10million on his head.

Hafiz Dawlat from theOrakzai tribal districtwas an important mem-ber of the group and aclose trustee ofKhorasani, while MuftiHassan hailed from theMalakand division andpledged allegiance to AbuBakr al-Baghdadi, the de-

ceased leader of theIslamic State terrorist or-ganisation.

TTP intelligence chiefAbdul Rashid alias UqabiBajauri was also killed ina landmine blast in Kunarprovince of Afghanistanon Sunday morning, ac-cording to local Afghansources.

The TTP is yet to con-firm these targetedkillings of its top com-manders, an incident thatwould certainly under-mine the Afghan Taliban-brokered peace negotia-tions between the TTPand the Pakistan govern-ment. The news comesafter the outlawed groupand Pakistan reached adeadlock during theirtalks as the outfit refusedto budge from its demandfor the reversal of themerger of the erstwhileFederally AdministeredTribal Areas (FATA) withthe Khyber-Pakhtunkhwaprovince of Pakistan, thereport said.

Top TTP commander Omar Khalid Khorasanikilled in mysterious blast in Afghanistan

BBeeiijjiinngg,, AAuugg 88 ((PPTTII)):: China onMonday continued its unprece-dented military drills aroundTaiwan, extending the sched-ule of war games launched inretaliation to the visit by USHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosito the breakaway islandwhich Beijing claims is partof its territory.

The People’s LiberationArmy (PLA) Eastern TheatreCommand, which overseesTaiwan, said on Monday itwould continue drills inwaters near Taiwan island,focusing on anti-submarineand air-to-ship strikes, state-run Global Times reported.

The PLA conducted jointdrills involving all wings ofits armed forces in six areasaround the island fromAugust 4 to 7.

The PLA’s latestannouncement notice didnot specify the location ofthe exercises nor did it men-tion when they would end.The PLA on Sunday proceed-ed with the plan and contin-ued realistic combat-sce-nario joint exercises in the

sea and air space around theisland of Taiwan practicingisland capturing drills andbomber deterrence flights in

Taiwan Strait, a rehearsal forreal operation, state-runGlobal Times reported onSunday.

China continues unprecedented military drillsaround Taiwan even after end of schedule

London, Aug 8 (PTI)

The race to elect a newConservative Party leader,who will take charge asBritish Prime Ministerearly next month, heated upon Monday as the two final-ists Rishi Sunak and LizTruss clashed over theirproposals to tackle the soar-ing cost-of-living crisisacross the country.

The issue of inflation andhow best to curb it hasemerged as the main battleline in the race to 10Downing Street, with bothcandidates offering differ-ent approaches. WhileTruss has pledged immedi-ate tax cuts if elected,Sunak has promisedmore targeted supportfor the most vulnerablehouseholds and tax cutsfurther down the line.

A fresh row brewedout over the weekendafter Foreign SecretaryLiz Truss told TheFinancial Times’ thather plan to lower taxesrather than offer hand-outs was moreConservative. Thisprompted an immediaterebuke from formerChancellor Rishi Sunakthat it is “simply wrongto rule out further directsupport” for strugglingfamilies this winter.

Families are facing along, hard winter with ris-ing bills. Yet Liz’s plan todeal with that is to give abig bung to large business-

es and the well-off, leavingthose who most need helpout in the cold, Sunakwrites in The Sun’.

Worse still, she has saidshe will not provide directsupport payments to thosewho are feeling the pinchmost. We need clear-eyed re-alism, not starry-eyed boos-terism. That means bolderaction to protect peoplefrom the worst of the win-ter. I have the right plan andexperience to help peoplethrough, he said.

Supporters of Truss hitback to say her remarksover the weekend had beenmisinterpreted . “What shehas, I think, rightly chal-

lenged is the wisdom of tak-ing large sums of moneyout of people’s pockets intax and then giving some ofthat back in ever more com-plicated ways,” said TradeMinister Penny Mordaunt,a supporter of the ForeignSecretary.

“She’s willing to do moreto help people but her focusis around doing it in a waythat puts more money inpeople’s pockets, creating ahigh-growth economy withhigher wages, more peo-ple in work,” addedNorthern IrelandSecretary Brandon Lewis,another Truss supporter.

While Truss has

pledged a package of taxcuts worth GBP 30 billion,which Sunak has arguedwould increase inflationand only save lower earnersGBP 59 a year. However,both candidates are feelingthe heat on the issue as theUK economy is expected toplunge into a year-long re-cession as inflation goes be-yond 13 per cent later thisyear, according to the Bankof England forecasts fromlast week.

UK PM race: Sunak, Truss feel heatover cost-of-living crisis

A dolescence is a unique stage ofhuman development and is a

phase of life between childhood andadulthood from 10 to 19 years of age.During this period, all experiencerapid changes in physical, cognitiveand psychosocial growth of life. Thiscritical change affects everything â€“how they feel, think, make their deci-sions and interact with people aroundthem. The transition of life sometimescarries new risks of life that may re-sult from bodily or behaviouralchange or may influence the futurehealth of young people. In this period,all experience growth spurts and pu-berty changes. There is rapid bodilygrowth for a period and followed byslow growth then another growthspurt. The changes with puberty mayhappen gradually and bodily changesbecome obvious at the same time.The World Health Organization(WHO) defines an adolescent as anyperson between 10 and 19. This agerange also falls within the definition ofyoung people which refers to the 10-to-24 age group.

The physical changes occur dur-ing the adolescence period due tothe effects of hormonal changes.The teenager's body is transformedfrom child to adult. This particularphase is called puberty, and it usual-ly starts between the age of 9 and16. The sexual hormone that plays itsrole in the bodily changes in boys istestosterone and the one that playsits role in the bodily changes in girlsis estrogen. Most physical changesobserved are increased perspiration,acne problems, development of ex-ternal sex characteristics, growth ofhairs in the pubic region and armpit,changes of voice and broader shoul-der in boys and starting of menstrua-tion and broadening of hips in girls

etc. In general, the first sign of pu-berty appears in girls earlier than inboys. These changes continue untilthe age of 18 to 22.

Adolescence is the period of lifewhere there is not only bodilychanges but there will be full of emo-tional and psychological transforma-tion that is very significant as physi-cal changes. As part of life, theysearch for their identity and feel theneed for their independence. Ofcourse, there is confusion about theirneed and desire for autonomy in theback of their mind. The growth offriendship is prominent in mostteenagers and changes in behaviourare observed the most. It may evenlead to conflict between teenagersand parents. Sometimes, they feelcarefree, try to seek new experiencesand sometimes may get exposed tosituations that are dangerous to theirhealth and wellbeing, like smokingcigarettes, drinking alcohol, takingdrugs, reckless driving or sexual mis-behaviour etc. Apart from bodilychanges due to influences of hor-mones, adolescence may lead tomood swings as well. This needs lotsof patience and understanding fromparents. This is also a time for thefirst experience of sexual relationsdue to the hormonal and physicalchanges that are experienced byteenagers. The changes make themmore aware of their sexuality. Thismay again lead to behaviouralchanges as well. So, it is important tocreate an environment for helpful andeffective discussion of sexuality too.But this is not an easy thing.Therefore, it is very important tochoose the right strategy and righttime for parental discussion withoutdisturbing their mindset and privacy.

There are about 1.2 billion peoplebetween the ages of 10 and 19 world-wide as per UNICEF. It is important toknow how they develop and growacross us. As determined, some ofthe factors that have a tremendousimpact on the development of adoles-cents like social media, urbanization,unhealthy food habit, conflict in smallissues leading to even armed conflictin developed countries, migration todifferent countries and urban areas ofnative countries and climate changeetc. Though it is expected that ado-lescent has a better way of improvinghealth and wellbeing, there are ap-

proximately 1.2 million deaths in ayear, and unfortunately, they are allfrom preventable causes. This is agreat loss to a nation. Sometimesself-harm is also a leading cause ofdeath amongst youth. This is becauseof a lack of information, adequateand quality services and even a pro-tective environment that is needed tostay healthy. The main reasons areconsidered to be some communica-ble diseases like malaria, cholera, andlack of sanitation and hygiene facili-ties. Especially in middle-incomecountries, the risk due to HIV anddeaths due to AIDS are high. Otherfactors like unhealthy diet, unhealthylifestyle, alcohol and substanceabuse, mental ill health and un-healthy environment are also thecause of ill-health of teenagers today.For girls, the onset of puberty is amajor factor which results in earlymarriage and pregnancy in somecountries where poverty, and socialand gender norms are the factors forrestricted life choices of girls. This re-stricts them from education and so-cial and economic opportunity aswell. It is estimated that 23 millionadolescent girls become pregnantevery year and maternal mortality ison the rise. It is also linked to childmarriage.

The UNICEF responded with thepartner countries to improve theoverall health of adolescents. This isin the direction toward communica-ble disease, gender-responsivehealthcare, supporting HIV and AIDSprevention programmes as per need,looking into menstrual health and hy-giene, promoting mental health andwellbeing, good nutrition, respondingto non-communicable disease and re-ducing home violence due to behav-ioural changes etc. The Governmentof India has taken steps throughNHM, as there are approximately 253million people of this age group inIndia. The direction is to get divi-dends through the proper mainte-nance of the health of this group bydelaying marriage, reducing teenagepregnancy and maternal mortality,reducing STI incidence, reducing HIVprevalence and considering the youthas important resources of the econo-my. Rashtriya Kishor SwasthyaKaryakram (RKSK), launched on 7thFebruary 2014 and School Health &Wellness Programme launched in

February 2020 are two especially ded-icated programmes for the holisticdevelopment of the adolescent. RKSKis targeted to improve nutrition, in-juries and violence (including gender-based violence), non-communicabledisease, mental health, and sub-stance abuse. The target of the pro-gramme is to reach adolescents intheir own environments such as fami-ly, school and community to provideadequate care through counselling,social and behavioural change com-munication and strengthening ado-lescent-friendly health clinics. TheSchool Heath & Wellness programmeplays a critical role to improve life-long healthy behaviours. This is alsoan important part of the health andwellness component of theAyushman Bharat Programme and isincorporated in government-aidedschools in districts. Two teachers(preferably one male and one female)are designated as 'Health andWellness Ambassadors', and they willbe trained for health promotion anddisease prevention on 11 thematicareas with a joyful interactive sessionfor one hour every week.

The adolescent is now considereda source of development of a nation,so proper care must be taken to com-plete at least secondary education foreveryone whatever the economiccondition might be, particularly thefemales. The goal needs to be the de-velopment of adolescents' strengthand values through education to buildthe entire generation economicallyindependent and productive to breakthe cycle of poverty. The develop-ment of strength of adolescents is as-sociated with resilience and life satis-faction. Identification of strengthalong with health assessment canprovide a picture of how teenagersare doing in different contexts of life.All youth have the ability to accessand act on their strengths. Astrength-based evaluation and per-spectives development should beconsidered to develop a way to em-power children and adolescents to beexperts in their own field of choiceand to find solutions to face chal-lenges of life so that they can happilycontribute to the development of thenation.

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Welcome a farmer VP

Arun Jaitley who wasUnion finance ministerwould have been a happyman today as JagdeepDhankad who was his pickfor governor of West Bengalwill be the Vice President ofIndia.The two were in jobsthat approximated eachother in 1989-90: Jaitley asadditional solicitor generaland Dhankad as a supremecourt lawyer as well as Loksabha MP and they becamegood friends. Mr Dhankadhails from Jat communitywhich is dominant in partsof UP, Haryana andRajasthan which can paydivident to the ruling partyat centre in the coming as-sembly elections in the stateas well as in general elec-tions in 2024.Vice Presidentof the country is also thechairman of Raiya sabha -two offices that require oc-cupants to be unfailinglynon-partisan and are ex-pected to adhere to rulesand the constitution on theone hand, and on the other,innovate to ensure smoothrelations between the gov-ernment and the opposi-tion. And also Mr Dhankadshould strive to build betterrelations between the gov-ernment and oppositionand to uphold the honour ofthe upper house.There is atransition that he mightstruggle to effect, given thetemperament he has dis-played so far, as he stepsinto a new national role.RUckus is already in theparliament and in the lastseason also there was pan-demonium in the parlia-ment and it is likely to hap-pen till March 2024 whenthe general elections will bedeclared and in this regardboth ruling party and oppo-sition parties are sailing inthe same boat and the VicePresident have to show theextra skills for smooth func-tioning of Rajya sabha andbeing a lawyer,a formermember of parliament andan avid "student" of legisla-tive rules so it is believedthat he has the skills tomanage the more complexupper house.

Yash Pal Ralhan,Jalandhar

Wake up to realityDivisive politics is a

crime against democracyand may not last long sincethe poor and deprived will,sooner or later, realise thatthey are being cheated. Theissue at this stage is not howthe Congress or any otherparty will play their cards,but how and when the peo-ple will awaken to seek re-dress of their real andpressing issues. Punjab hasnot just given a thumpingwin to the AAP but has setan example by voting, irre-spective of religion or caste,for quality and affordableeducation and healthcare,and with the hope that theirbasic needs will be takencare of.

HL Sharma, by mail

LETTERSTO THE EDITOR✍


NCC cadets during an event for Sarva Dharma Prathana Sabha and Ahinsa March on the 80th anniversary of Quit IndiaMovement, in Jaipur, Monday, Aug. 8.

Adolescence: A period that needs special care

80TH ANNIVERSARY OF QUIT INDIA

T hankfully, the UKnow looks to be past

the peak of both the recentheatwave and the latestCOVID wave. But there willbe more of both and in fu-ture, we might think abouthow we protect ourselvesfrom COVID in the same waywe protect ourselves from theweather. An umbrella is auseful analogy. If we look outthe window or check theweather forecast and seerain, we would probably takean umbrella out with us.Similarly, if COVID cases arestarting to rise or if a newwave is forecast, we mightconsider grabbing a facemask, for example.

But just as there's no needto carry an umbrella with uswhen it's sunny, we needn't beexpected to wear masks allthe time. Of course, some peo-ple may choose to wear masks

more consistently incertain settings, whileothers may forgo wear-ing them altogether.This is the nature of thecurrent phase of thepandemic we're in, a bigpart of which is basedon personal choice andresponsibility. Thankslargely to the impact ofvaccines, we no longerneed the kind of rules-based approach to riskmanagement we sawearlier in the pandemic.

But the umbrella analogycan guide our behaviour andchoices in a variety of areasof our response moving for-ward. Beyond masks, theseinclude testing, ventilationand social distancing. Theidea is that we can pick up orstep up precautions when wemost need them (whenCOVID cases are on the rise),

before relaxing them, if wewant to, when infection ratesand risk are lower.

What might this look like in practice?

Let's say we start to seeCOVID cases rising againcome autumn. This is a dis-tinct possibility. It then be-comes even more important totake a test if we have any

symptoms that might beCOVID-related. This willhelp inform our deci-sion of whether, and towhat extent, to min-imise contact with oth-ers. Isolation is nolonger a legal require-ment, and I think thisshould remain the case.However, if possible,staying at home whilewe're unwell is a sensi-ble and consideratething to do, particularlywhen COVID rates are

high. Distancing should alsoremain a choice. But during awave of infections, peoplemight wish to maintain moredistance between themselvesand others in shops, or maychoose to avoid crowded ven-ues. Back on masks, whencases begin to rise, the risk ofcontracting and transmittingCOVID also rises, so masks be-

come a more useful and rea-sonable precaution. They canbe particularly valuable incertain circumstances for ex-ample, if someone is unwellbut can't isolate, when visitingpeople who are vulnerable, orin crowded indoor spaces.Opening windows even a littlecan increase fresh air indoorsand also help reduce the likeli-hood of transmitting thevirus. Finally, the number ofpeople in the UK who havehad a COVID booster vaccineis considerably lower than thenumber who received theirfirst and second doses. Weknow immunity from vac-cines wanes, and boosters re-store vaccine effectiveness. Soif we start to see rising cases,or looking ahead to futurewaves, it would make goodsense for people who are be-hind on their vaccines to getup-to-date.

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Living with COVID: How treating masks like umbrellascould help us weather future pandemic threats

Rajender Kumar Sharma

W ho is not happy to hear the name of holiday or holiday, every-one gets happiness. The arrival of Sunday after working six

days of the week, relieves the fatigue of the whole week. There is also apsychological logic behind the provision of this type of leave that if any or-ganization or department has to make its employees more productive,then to give one day's leave/holiday in a week to the employee or anybusiness person. It is essential for physical and mental health. It can proveto be a useful asset for the organization. A day off makes him energetic. Ifwe talk about our country, then the situation is somewhat different fromother countries. Here is a long list of public holidays other than Sundays,which vary from state to state, depending on the culture and festivals ofthe state. If we make a small estimate, then in a year about 52 Sundayscome. In some departments, there is a 5 day week, then 52 Saturdays addto list of holidays. Now count the number of festivals coming on the birth-days of great personalities, great saints, great leaders, so this too doesn'tbecome less than 25-30 in every state. Then after that if you are a govern-ment employee then you also have earned leave, casual leave, half payleave (medical leave) etc. If we sum up all these holidays, then we will findthat we do not work even half of the 365 days of the year, and then we talkabout why we don't come in the category of developed countries? Somepolitical parties are shining their politics in the name of regional holidaysonly. Some leaders and political parties also promise to make provision forsome new holidays in their election manifestos to get cheap popularity. Inthis way, the increasing number of holidays hinders the progress of thecountry. The most pathetic situation is that of the education departmentwhere teachers get summer vacation, autumn vacation, Diwali vacationalong with the students in addition to the above mentioned normal holi-days. And then, if the teacher takes other leave also, then it becomes to beconsidered that how much will the teaching work be? Casual leave is forcasual needs. Employees can use it in case of sudden need, whose num-ber remains 8 or 10 in a year. If you do not need them for the whole year,then these holidays end with the end of the year. In such a situation, it hasbeen seen that employees, in the month of December, take their casualleave even without need, because they feel that it is our right and whyshould we not take advantage of these holidays? At times, many employ-ees take casual leave and sit at home, due to which the work of the entireorganization and department gets blocked. The common man keeps onmaking rounds of the departments, but due to the employees being onleave, no work gets done. By the time the employee arrives on duty after along leave, the queue of files to be gathered at his desk is also long. In sucha situation, the employee, looking at the number of files, will be careless incompleting the work quickly, which will result in mistakes in the work orelse instead of completing so many work peacefully, he will keep on post-poning it. The result will be trouble for the people who have these files. Ithas been seen many times that such employees do not have any sympathyfor the public. Even if a person comes to know the current status of his file,then he is rebuked or even if there is no deficiency in his file, it is returnedafter showing the deficiency. The hope of getting work done from the of-fice is lost. It is very sad that holidays have been established as a right ingovernment departments. Holidays on our religious festivals are justifiedbecause these festivals keep us connected with our cultural roots and cel-ebrating them is an integral part of our culture. As far as the holidays de-clared for political gains cannot be called justified, and the best example ofthis is Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan's saying that I do not want any holiday tobe kept on my birthday, but my birthday should be dedicated to teachers.These quotes show us that the real respect of great men is to follow theirteachings, follow the path shown by them, and not sit at home after takingleave on that day, instead of a holiday in their name, more work should bedone which can lead the country towards progress, this is the way bywhich they will be respected in the true sense. Because he became greatby his works which he did for his country and the people of the country.We also have to think, whether leave is our right or just a facility given foremergency situations.

How many days a year do we work?

T here is a widely shared view that the All India Services, which pro-vided the 'steel frame' of governance in a democratic India, granti-

ng Constitutional autonomy to the state administration, particularly on thepolicy front, are failing to deliver because of a declining decision-makingability of its officers, their smugness arising from notions of total employ-ment security and inadequacy of parameters used for evaluating their per-formance. Selection on the strength of a merit-based examination that isopen to all - irrespective of class, creed or region - is still a huge commen-dation for the Civil Services and it can also be said that the pride and confi-dence of their young officers in the initial few years of service is still hold-ing, by and large. However, things did not add up as the officers moving upthe career graph lost their shine and took to serving their personal interestsgenerally. The 'steel frame' today looks rusted. Still, no other nation has anequivalent of All India Services in terms of offering a career starting at the'leadership level' in the administration of various wings of the country'sgovernment, including the handling of foreign affairs. An entrant in theCivil Services - after the initial years of training - gets the status of UnderSecretary to the Government of India. The IAS and IPS are trained by theCentre before they are allocated to various states with the expectation thatthey would give India - which is a Union of States - a comparable quality ofadministration and public-oriented governance, uniformly throughout thecountry. A major cause behind the degradation of these Civil Services is thecontrolling influence that the corrupt leaders ruling the states exercise onthe bureaucracy and the police in pursuit of their own vested interests. Apractice has developed whereby they put greater reliance on the pliablestate service personnel at the cost of IAS and IPS officers - this results in thecommon phenomenon of the Chief Secretaries and Director Generals ofPolice appearing to be at the weakest, not the strongest, point of their ca-reer - incapable of upgrading the system presided over by them or uphold-ing the cause of officers below who were upright and firm. The Centreshould make a beginning by acquiring a say in the appointment of CS andDGP of the state by getting the UPSC to draw up a panel of suitable officersin consultation with the state government - the Supreme Court had wayback in 2018 favoured this approach. This idea should have been furtherconcretized by now. Also, since the Department of Personnel and theMinistry of Home Affairs have the right to track the performance of IAS andIPS officers, the legitimacy of in-service evaluation of these officers forhigher responsibilities at the end of 15, 20 and 25 years of service throughappropriately constituted boards, should be firmly established so that poor-ly performing officers are given a decent 'shake hand' with compulsory re-tirement. In India, a major reason for the decline of public administration isthe shrinking of the position and authority of the District Magistrate-cum-Collector as the anchor of governance. The DM is the symbol of the stateclosest to the people and the overriding monitor of the working of all wingsof the government in the district. The image of the nation takes a beatingwhen manholes left uncovered by a careless sewage repairman or a water-filled pit or bore well left unguarded at a construction site result in the deathof a child, when an old tree by a roadside 'counted' by the forest authoritybut not marked as a potential hazard suddenly falls, crushing a passerbyunder it or when an ambulance though available is denied to an ordinary cit-izen admitted to a hospital and need a shift in an emergency. It is the DMwho is supposed to create a deterrence against such grave anti-people actsof functionaries in the district linked to public service, but this is now totallyabsent because of the play of politics even at the local levels and the abdica-tion by young IAS and IPS officers of their basic responsibilities.

Civil services have to improvefor better governance


BRIEF

HandloomCensus data

New Delhi: UnionMinister PiyushGoyal on Sundaystressed upon theneed to put the Censusdata of Handlooms,pertaining to over 35lakh handloom work-ers, in the public do-main for transparencyand validation so thatthe benefits of hand-loom schemes reachthe genuine benefici-aries. Addressing anevent on the NationalHandloom Day, theMinister for Textilesand Commerce andIndustry emphasisedupon free of cost on-boarding on theGovernment e-Marketplace (GeM)for maximum numberof handloom productsso that artisans canavail selling opportu-nities in governmentprocurement.

Turbine plantHyderabad:Hyderabad-basedSwan TurbineServices on Sundaysaid TelanganaFinance Minister THarish Rao inaugurat-ed its second plant atPashamailaram inSangareddy district ofthe State. This plantspread across fouracres is going to pro-vide employment op-portunities to around300 people directly, PSatyanarayana, MD,Swan TurbineServices said in a re-lease here. “We arecatering our servicesin India, Middle-Eastand Africa.

Energy demands

New Delhi: Niti Aayogmember and scientistV K Saraswat onSunday suggested thatthe governmentshould focus on set-ting up small modularreactors as it wouldhelp meet the coun-try’s energy needs andalso in replacingaging thermal powerplants. Saraswat alsosaid nuclear powerplant projects whichhave been set upunder the fleet modeproduction, should beaccelerated, so thatIndia is able to meetbase load require-ments at the earliest.“We are suggestingthat in future weshould go for smallmodular reactorswhich will be able tomeet this (energy) re-quirements in a dis-tributed manner.

Labour welfarescheme

New Delhi: TheCentre is running alabour welfarescheme for nearly 50lakh ‘beedi’ workersand their families liv-ing across the coun-try, Union Labour andEmployment MinisterBhupender Yadavsaid in Lok Sabha onMonday. Yadav saidthe scheme envisageshealth care facility,scholarship and housing.

New Delhi, Aug 08:

The long-awaited high-speed 5G services are ex-pected to be rolled out inabout a month, Minister ofState for TelecomDevusinh Chauhan saidon Monday. Addressingthe inaugural event of theI n t e r n a t i o n a lT e l e c o m m u n i c a t i o nUnion’s RegionalStandardisation Forum(RSF) for Asia andOceania region, Chauhansaid India is likely to de-ploy indigenously devel-oped and manufactured5G telecom gears by end ofthis year for 5G services.“In about a month, 5G mo-bile services will roll outin the country, which willhave multiplier effects onthe development of all sec-tors.

A 6G TechnologyInnovations Group, hasalso been set up, which isworking towards the de-velopment of indigenous6G stack,” Chauhan said.He said that the govern-

ment is promoting, the in-digenously designed, de-veloped and manufacturedadvanced telecom technol-ogy, and as a result, Indiatoday has a strong home-grown 5G mobile commu-nications ecosystem. “Wehave developed a fully in-digenous 5G test bed,which will facilitate test-ing of 5G network ele-ments. By the end of thisyear, we are likely to seeindigenously developed,and manufactured 5Gstack, getting deployed inrolling out 5G network inIndia,” the minister said.

India’s biggest ever auc-tion of telecom spectrumthat concluded on August1 (Monday) received arecord Rs 1.5 lakh crore ofbids, with MukeshAmbani’s Jio corneringnearly half of all the air-waves sold with an Rs88,078 crore bid. The min-ister said that the growthin the Indian telecom mar-ket has been spurred bythe market-friendly poli-cies of the ModiGovernment. “We initiat-ed a number of structuraland procedural reforms inthe telecom sector. Thesereforms have created avery positive, and forward-looking environment forthe telecom industry. As aresult, a recent 5G spec-trum auction in India hasfetched bids of USD 20 bil-lion (Rs 1.5 lakh crore),”Chauhan said.

He said that Indian engi-neers have developed a setof 5G standards, whichwill facilitate the spread ofthe 5G network in ruralareas.

5G mobile services likely to be rolledout in about a month: MoS Telecom Mumbai, Aug 08:

Equity benchmarkSensex jumped over 465points on Monday, track-ing gains in index majorsHDFC twins and RelianceIndustries amid positiveglobal market trends.

The 30-share BSE gaugeclimbed 465.14 points or0.80 per cent to finish at58,853.07. During the day,it jumped 546.97 points or0.93 per cent to 58,934.90.The broader NSE Niftygained 127.60 points or0.73 per cent to end at17,525.10. Mahindra &Mahindra was the biggestgainer from the Sensexpack, climbing 3.13 percent, followed by BajajFinserv, NTPC, AxisBank, HDFC Bank,Larsen & Toubro, HDFC,Dr Reddy’s, IndusIndBank and RelianceIndustries. State Bank ofIndia, UltraTech Cement,Nestle, Wipro and PowerGrid were among themajor laggards.

In Asia, markets inSeoul, Shanghai andTokyo ended higher,while Hong Kong settled

with losses. Europeanbourses were trading inthe green during mid-ses-sion deals. The US mar-kets had ended mostlylower on Friday.Meanwhile, internationaloil benchmark Brentcrude declined 0.68 percent to USD 94.32 per bar-rel.

Foreign institutionalinvestors remained netbuyers in the capital mar-kets as they bought

shares worth Rs 1,605.81crore on Friday, as per ex-change data. “SustainedFII buying and falling oilprices are the major driv-ers for the ongoing mar-ket rally. Heavyweightsplayed a significant rolein today’s rise, while PSUbanks remained underpressure following weakresults of the PSB major,”said Vinod Nair, Head ofResearch at GeojitFinancial Services.

Sensex climbs 465 points; Nifty above 17,500

New Delhi, Aug 08:

JSW Steel will investover Rs 48,000 crore in thenext three years as part ofits capex plan, the compa-ny’s Chairman andManaging Director(CMD) Sajjan Jindal hassaid. Out of Rs 48,700, Rs20,000 crore capex (capitalexpenditure) is for the2022-23 financial year, hesaid.

Besides, JSW Steel isalso eyeing to amalga-mate JSW Ispat SpecialProducts with it by theend of the ongoing fiscal.According to a regulatoryfiling on Monday, Jindaladdressing a sharehold-er’s query said: “The totalplanned capex for thenext three years is Rs48,700 crore, which in-

cludes Rs 20,000 croreplanned for this currentfinancial year.” The com-posite scheme of amalga-mation between the com-pany and JSW IspatSpecial Products Limited(Monnet Ispat) is expect-ed to be completed duringthis financial year, hesaid. In August 2018, ajoint consortium of AIONInvestments Private II Ltd(AION) and JSW Steel

Limited acquired control-ling stake in JSW IspatSpecial Products Limited(formerly known asMonnet Ispat & EnergyLimited). The consortiumwas the sole bidder forthe 1.5-million-tonneasset in Chhattisgarh.The National CompanyLaw Tribunal (NCLT) hadapproved a Rs 2,875-crorebid to acquire the bank-rupt Monnet Ispat &Energy, which owed overRs 11,000 crore to a clutchof lenders.

As per JSW Steel, “The5 MTPA (million tonneper annum) brownfieldexpansion at Vijayanagaris progressing well, withcivil works underway atthe site. The project is ex-pected to be completed bythe end of FY2024.”

JSW Steel outlays Rs 20,000 crorecapex for FY23: CMD Sajjan Jindal

New Delhi, Aug 08:

PNB Housing Finance isrevamping its ‘Unnati’loan portfolio to go deeperinto the affordable hous-ing segment eyeing cus-tomers who need loans ofRs 9-12 lakh, MD & CEOHardayal Prasad said.PNB Housing has createda small vertical underUnnati which will be dif-ferent from existing Rs 18-19 lakh as affordable hous-ing loans. “We are settingup a whole infrastructure,we have already opened 10more branches in Junequarter. This policy onUnnati is completely re-vamped, this is a complete-ly different way the busi-ness will take place. Theloan ticket size will comedown to about Rs 9-12 lakhas against Rs 18-19 lakh

which is there today. “Sothere is world of differ-ence in the way as we planto hit the road bySeptember and that iswhere the Unnati bookwill start growing,”Prasad said, adding itopened 20 branches inMarch 2022 quarter andmore will be added goingforward.

PNB Housing was neverthere in this loan bracket,some of the competingHFCs offer these types ofloans. “As a very largeHFC it was important forus to provide full suite ofservices,” Prasad ex-plained further. Promotedby Punjab National Bank(PNB), the housing fi-nance company (HFC) hasidentified and mapped al-most 140 districts where itwill offer products under

this vertical of Unnati.“We are going to enterabout 10-12 states.Whether it is UttarPradesh, Uttarakhand,Madhya Pradesh,Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh,Gujarat, Tamil Nadu,Andhra Pradesh,Telangana, we are going tobe pan-India. We will havebranches in these states,”Prasad said. The housing

financier has appointed anew official who will headthis vertical of the afford-able housing segment.“The biggest advantagethat we have with PNB isthat we are across India.These are tier-IV kind oflocations and we will alsogo to gram panchayats,”he said further.

Speaking about the de-mand scenario, he said be-cause of the 90 basispoints increase in the reporate in May and June, andincrease in the cost of con-struction material,builders are saying thereis a little push back in de-mand. There is more effortthat is being made to sell aproperty. The industry isexperiencing a little reduc-tion as compared to whatwas seen up to March 2022,Prasad said.

PNB Housing revamps ‘Unnati’ to offer Rs 9-12 lakh as affordable loans: MD&CEO Prasad

Mumbai, Aug 08:

The rupee fell 40 paiseto close at 79.64 (provi-sional) against the USdollar on Monday amidwaning risk appetiteamong investors.

Lower global crudeprices and a rally in do-mestic equities restrictedthe losses to some extent,forex dealers said. At theinterbank foreign ex-change market, the do-mestic currency openedweak at 79.50 per dollar.

It oscillated between ahigh of 79.45 and a low of79.65 during the session.It finally settled at 79.64,down 40 paise over itsprevious close of 79.24.The dollar index, which

measures the green-back’s strength against abasket of six currencies,slipped 0.25 per cent to106.57.

Brent crude futures,the global oil benchmark,declined 0.54 per cent toUSD 94.38 per barrel. On

the domestic equity mar-ket front, the BSE Sensexended 465.14 points or0.80 per cent higher at58,853.07, while thebroader NSE Nifty ad-vanced 127.60 points or0.73 per cent to 17,525.10.Foreign institutional in-vestors remained netbuyers in the capitalmarket on Friday as theypurchased shares worthRs 1,605.81 crore, as perexchange data.

After turning net buy-ers last month, foreigninvestors continued theirpositive stance on Indianequities and investedover Rs 14,000 crore inthe first week of Augustamid softening of the dol-lar index.

Rupee falls 40 paise to closeat 79.64 against US dollar

Equity mutual funds’

inflow drops 43 pc to

Rs 8,898 cr in July

NNeeww DDeellhhii,, AAuugg 0088:: Equitymutual funds attracted Rs8,898 crore in July, a sharpdecline of 43 per cent from thepreceding month, amid volatilemarket conditions. Although,this was the 17th straightmonth of positive inflow inequity schemes. The netinflows in July were lower com-pared to the net inflow of Rs15,495 crore seen in June, Rs18,529 crore seen in May andRs 15,890 crore in April,according to data released byAssociation of Mutual Funds inIndia (Amfi)on Monday.

Equity schemes have beenwitnessing net inflow sinceMarch 2021, highlighting thepositive sentiment amonginvestors. Prior to this, suchschemes had consistently wit-nessed outflows for eightmonths from July 2020 toFebruary 2021, losing Rs 46,791crore.

All the equity-oriented cate-gories received net inflows inJuly with the Small Cap Fundcategory being the biggestbeneficiary with a net inflow ofRs 1,780 crore. This was fol-lowed by the Flexi Cap Fundfund that witnessed Rs 1,381crore net infusion.

New Delhi, Aug 08:

Country’s largest tele-com player Jio has com-pleted 5G coverage plan-ning in top 1,000 cities andconducted field trials ofits home-grown 5G tele-com gears, RelianceIndustries said in its an-nual report. In the report,RIL (Reliance IndustriesLimited) said that Jio tookmajor steps during 2021-22in getting ready for 5Gwith its 100 per cent in-digenous technology.

The company was thebiggest bidder in the re-cently-concluded 5G spec-trum auction. India’sbiggest-ever auction oftelecom spectrum thatconcluded on August 1(Monday) received a

record Rs 1.5 lakh crore ofbids, with MukeshAmbani’s Jio corneringnearly half of all the air-waves sold. “Jio’s 5G cov-erage planning has beencompleted in top 1,000cities based on targetedcustomer consumptionand revenue potentialusing heat maps, 3D mapsand ray tracing technolo-gy,” the report released onAugust 7 said. Reliance Jiowas the top bidder, offer-ing a cumulative bid of Rs88,078 crore for 24,740 MHzof airwaves across fivebands capable of offeringspeeds about 10 timesfaster than 4G, lag-freeconnectivity, and can en-able billions of connecteddevices to share data inreal-time. It has acquired

the coveted 700 MHz spec-trum, which can provide6-10 kilometres of signalrange with one tower, andforms a good base for of-fering fifth generation(5G) services in all 22 cir-cles or zones in the coun-try. Jio has also joinedhands with University of

Oulu in Finland — theleader of the world’s firstmajor 6G research pro-gramme — to accelerateresearch and standardisa-tion in 6G.

The company has doneactive trials of 5G usecases ranging from aug-mented reality, virtual re-ality, low-latency cloudgaming, network slicingand multi-tenancy forvideo delivery, TV stream-ing, connected hospitalsand industrial applica-tions.

According to theDepartment of Telecom,5G technology is expectedto deliver 10 times betterdownload speed than thatof 4G and up to threetimes greater spectrum ef-ficiency.

Jio completes 5G coverageplanning in top 1,000 cities

New Delhi, Aug 08:

Infrastructure assetsworth over Rs 1.62 lakhcrore are expected to bemonetised during the cur-rent fiscal, Parliament wasinformed on Monday. Thegovernment had last yearannounced a Rs 6 lakhcrore NationalMonetisation Pipeline(NMP) to unlock value ininfrastructure assetsacross sectors, rangingfrom power to road andrailways in four years till2025. In a written reply tothe Lok Sabha, Minister ofState for Finance PankajChaudhary said about Rs97,000 crore worth of pub-lic assets were monetisedin the last fiscal (2021-22).The key transactions in-

clude highway toll-operate-transfer (TOT) based PPPconcessions, NHAI’sInfrastructure InvestmentTrust (InvIT), PowerGridInvIT, annual accrualsfrom mineral and coalblocks auctioned in FY21-22, private investment inthe redevelopment of rail-way colonies, receipts from6 airports leased on PPPmode and private invest-ment from port terminalsbid out on PPP mode.“Indicative value of assetsenvisaged to be monetisedunder NMP during FY22-23 is Rs 1,62,422 crore,” hesaid. Chaudhary said thevarious transactions pro-posed to be undertakenduring FY22-23 includehighway TOT bundles andInvIT future rounds, rede-

velopment of sports stadia,operational power genera-tion & transmission assets,lease of airports throughPPP, PPP projects at vari-ous port trusts, develop-ment of silos and ware-houses, monetisation oftower assets and miningassets. The indicativevalue refers to the value ex-pected to be realised by theasset owners through themonetisation process, ei-ther in form of accruals orby way of private sector in-vestment. The sectorsidentified under the NMPinclude roads, ports, air-ports, railways, warehous-ing, gas & productpipelines, power genera-tion and transmission,mining, telecom, stadiumand urban real estate.

Infra assets worth over Rs 1.62 lakh crto be monetised this fiscal: FinMin

New Delhi, Aug 08:

The commerce min-istry’s arm DGTR has rec-ommended imposition ofanti-dumping duty on im-ports of a kind of cuttingtool from China, for fiveyears, to protect the domes-tic industry from cheap in-bound shipments. TheDirectorate General ofTrade Remedies (DGTR)has recommended the dutyafter conducting an investi-gation on the dumped im-ports of ‘resin bonded thinwheels’. It is used in vari-ous sectors ranging fromwelding and cutting. Thedirectorate in its findingshas concluded the item isbeing imported from Chinainto India in significantquantities in both absolute

and relative terms. The im-ports are undercutting theprices of the domestic in-dustry, it added. “Definitiveantidumping duty...is rec-ommended to be imposedfor five years...,” the DGTRhas said in a notification.The recommended dutywas in the range of USD78.38 per tonne and USD90.12 per tonne on imports.While DGTR, which isunder the commerce min-istry, recommends the duty,the finance ministry takesthe final decision to imposethe same within threemonths of the recommen-dation. Countries initiateanti-dumping probes tocheck if their domestic in-dustries have been hurt be-cause of a surge in below-cost imports.

New Delhi, Aug 08:

Tata Play (formerlyknown as Tata Sky) an-nounced new affordablepacks for its subscribers.“Entertainment is a basichuman necessity.

However, rising pricesareforcing people to makea choice between necessi-ties like food & fuel anddiscretionary spends likeentertainment.

As the country’s largestcontent distributor, wetake it upon ourselves tomake entertainment morea f f o r d a b l e . ” s a i dHaritNagpal, MD & CEO,Tata Play. The new packsand prices are available toall existing and new cus-tomers across India.Subscribers can avail thenew Super Saver Packs by

visiting their nearest TataPlay dealers or logging onto www.Tataplay.com.Existing subscribers canfind the new ‘Super SaverPacks’ under the ManagePacks tab on the Tata Playmobile app.

The Hindi Super ValuePack consists of StarPlus,SET,Colors, Zee TV,Star Gold,Sony Max, ZeeCinema, Colors Cineplex,Aaj Tak, NDTV and 203other channels for Rs 249only.

To create awarenessabout these super saverpacks, Tata Play is launch-ing a mass campaign, fea-turing Kareena Kapoor&Saif Ali Khan intheHindispeaking marketsand Madhavan &Priyamani in the Southmarkets.

Tata Play’s bold move to helpviewers save on TV bills

Commerce ministry recommends anti-dumpingduty on Chinese cutting tool

Allu Arjun’s all praise for success

of Kalyan Ram-starrer ‘Bimbisara’

The unit of directorMallidi Vasishta's

just released Telugufilm, 'Bimbisara', fea-turing actorsNandamuri KalyanRam, Catherine Tresaand Samyuktha Menonin the lead, is 'ecstatic'as several top stars in-cluding Allu Arjun andRam Pothineni havenow praised their film,which has got a greatopening.

Taking to Twitter,Allu Arjun on Sundaysaid, "Big congratula-tions to the 'Bimbisara'team. Very interestingand engaging fantasyfilm. Impactful pres-ence by NandamuriKalyan garu . Myrespect for him foralways bringing innew talent into theindustry and attempt-ing new kind of films.

"I appreciate debutdirector Vasishta forhandling it well.Commendation to allthe technicians andartistes. M MKeeravaani garu,Catherine Tresa,S a m y u k t h a .'Bimbisara', an enter-tainment for all agegroups."

Actor NandamuriKalyan Ram respondedto the tweet, saying,"Thanks brother. Yourappreciation on a per-sonal note means a lotto me. Our team is ec-static." Similarly, actorRam Pothineni too con-

gratulated the unit ofthe film. He tweeted,"Congratulations mydearest brotherNandamuri KalyanRam and the entireteam for the block-buster success of'Bimbisara'!"

On Saturday, KalyanRam had sharedlengthy post, thankingthe audiences for thesuccess of the film.

He had said: "In 2019,when we started work-ing on 'Bimbisara', wewere all excited to kickoff the project and tellthis amazing story tothe world. But the ex-citement soon turnedinto tension due to mul-tiple waves of Covidand lockdowns.

"Amidst all this, wewanted to give a greattheatrical experienceto all the movie loversand put in all our ef-forts and hardwork.

"I was anxious aboutthe film because of thescale of it and the am-bition of the team. Weare relieved and gladafter seeing the block-buster response, postrelease.

"Thank you to all thefriends from the filmfraternity, media, wellwishers, movie loversand my dearestNandamuri fans for allthe support and love.The success of'Bimbisara' is the suc-cess of the entire filmindustry. Thank you."

ACROSS

1. Tempo

5. Road bends

10. Burden

14. Egg-shaped

15. Flowering bush

16. Highest point

17. “____ of the Flies”

18. Drummer Ringo ____

19. Pare

20. Possessed

22. Enjoyable

24. Zodiac sign

27. Program

28. Informer

30. Yarn craft

33. Boric ____

35. Viewed

36. Achievers

41. Loafer, e.g.

42. Legislate

44. Actor ____ Baldwin

45. Hair dye

47. Mimic

48. Casino game

49. Renovate

52. Camp bed

53. Attack

57. Bowler’s button

59. ____ of living

62. Kitchen gadget

65. Mailed

66. Verse makers

69. Dress for Caesar

70. Horse feed

71. Like honey

72. Uneasy

73. Modeling material

74. Writing assignment

75. Famous loch

DOWN

1. Marco ____

2. Declare

3. Pink flower

4. Senior

5. City trains

6. Occupy a chair

7. Smack

8. English nobleman

9. Shriek

10. Expire

11. Atlantic or Pacific

12. Modify

13. Letter after gamma

21. Poorly lit

23. Ripened

25. Relaxation

26. Panoramas

28. Reckless29. Long (for)31. Respond32. Tom Brokaw, e.g.34. Lion’s lair37. Acorn tree38. Conducting contact39. Casino city40. Highlander43. Shredded46. Parched50. Go by51. Sixth sense (abbr.)53. Business gp.54. Shoplift55. Mr. Claus56. Fidgety58. Corroded60. Aisles61. Inferior grades63. Omelet ingredients64. Beams67. Earl Grey, e.g.68. Pigpen


A group with which you’re affiliated may be

temporarily torn apart by quarrels among its

members, Aquarius. It’s best to stay out of it.

A friend could be having trouble and come

to you for advice and help. Don’t let yourself

get too frustrated by his or her weakness.

This could be a frustrating day for you, and

one best spent concentrating on projects. All

will be better tomorrow.

Aquarius: Jan 21 – Feb 18

Changes taking place in your home couldcause some temporary frustration tensenerves on the part of family members,Pisces. Perhaps you’re moving or refurnish-ing or trying to do a thorough cleaning andeveryone is getting into everyone else’sway. Just try to get the job done as quicklyas possible. Once it’s done, tempers willsubside, and all will be well.

Pisces: Feb 19 – Mar 20

Miscommunication with someone from far

away could lead to bruised egos, heightened

emotions, and angry phone calls. It’s best not

to get drawn into a quarrel, Aries. Try to

straighten it all out. Changes in your neighbor-

hood could cause problems with travel, so be

prepared for blocked streets and heavy traffic.

Walk - it will clear your head and get you

where you’re going more quickly.

Aries: Mar 21 – Apr 20

Your talents as a psychologist could be put

to work today when misunderstandings

arise. Your companions aren’t likely to be

thinking straight and may not respond to

reassurance, Taurus. Use your intuition to

find the best way to defuse the situation.

Finances might cause some worry right now,

but your ingenuity and money sense should

put things right. Go out and have fun tonight.

Taurus: Apr 21 – May 21

Someone who interests you could seem tobe showing interest in someone else. Thismight arouse your insecurities and cause abit of jealousy. Don’t make yourself crazy,Gemini. All may not be as it seems. Try todiscern the facts. Invitations to do morethan one thing on the same night mightforce you to make an uncomfortablechoice. Make the one that suits you best.

Gemini: May 22 – June 21

Someone is keeping secrets from you. We all

have private issues, Cancer, but this situation

affects you. Your intuition will probably tell

you who the person is. Try to get them to open

up without exerting pressure. Unfinished

tasks could drive you crazy. You may try to

race through them, which can cause too much

stress. Get the crucial ones done and let the

others go. Relax with a movie tonight.

Cancer: June 22 – July 22

Circumstances beyond your controlmight get in the way of attending agroup event. This could cause some dis-appointment for you and others, Leo.It’s best to find something else to do.Your own project is likely to need someattention, and this could prove to be achallenge that keeps you engrossed forhours. Treat yourself to takeout tonight.

Leo: July 23 – Aug 23

A female visitor who needs some sympathy

could contact you today. She may want advice

on some problems, Virgo, but she could also

bring information, possibly involving new sci-

entific or metaphysical studies that you find

fascinating and that you’ll want to relate to

others. This information could trigger your

own insights. Write down your ideas. You’ll

want to remember them.

Virgo: Aug 24 – Sept 22

Some important plans, perhaps involving a

vacation or education, could be temporarily

blocked by circumstances beyond your con-

trol, Libra. This can make you upset and might

even set your temper on edge. You may be

tempted to take out your frustrations on oth-

ers. It would be more productive - and chal-

lenging - to find ways to make your plans

work, even if they’re delayed.

Libra: Sept 23 – Oct 23

A letter or call could arrive today bringing

upsetting news about money, Scorpio. Your

first reaction might be to blame yourself or

someone else, but the circumstances are

probably beyond anyone’s control. Chances

are it can be set right. Before anyone gets too

upset, it’s best to investigate and find out

what needs to be done. It might take some

effort, but all will be well.

Scorpio: Oct 24 – Nov 22

Jealousy could rear its ugly head today,

Sagittarius. This could involve a romantic

relationship. Jealousy is often groundless, so

avoid it by doing some communicating. This

is the time to make the effort to turn a dis-

advantage into an advantage. Strong emo-

tions can work for you under some circum-

stances. A passionate reconciliation is better

than an angry estrangement.

Sagittarius: Nov 23 – Dec 21

Nervous tension could cause a temporarymalaise that keeps your energy very lowtoday. But there are tasks that need to bedone, Capricorn, so you’ll probably try to dothem in spite of the way you feel. Try not tooverwork yourself or take your wearinessout on others. It’s better to let some thingsgo than make yourself and everyone elsethat much more stressed out.

Capricorn: Dec 22 – Jan 20

C R O S S WO R D 386

SOLUTION 385

HOROSCOPE TUESDAY AUGUST 09

TT he family drama‘Appnapan...Badalte

Rishton Ka Bandhan’ onSony EntertainmentTelevision has captured thehearts of the viewers withits storyline that offers anew perspective on ‘secondchances’ while highlightingthe difficulties and intrica-cies relationships gothrough. Theshow, whichstars CezanneKhan andRajshree Thakur, focuses onthe lives of an estrangedcouple, Nikhil and Pallavi,who are dealing with theirown set of challenges relat-ed to parenthood owing totheir past and has viewersinvested in their story. Now,the show will be goingthrough a time slot changein the upcoming week.While the show would airevery Monday to Friday at10:00 pm previously, itwould now be airing at 6:30pm with a repeat telecast at10:30 pm starting 8thAugust onwards.Talking about the change inthe timeslot, RajshreeThakur who plays the role of

Pallavi in the show opined,"We have been receivingsuch lovely responses fromthe viewers and our fans.Their love for our show iswhat is making us workharder and give them quali-ty entertainment that theycan enjoy to the fullest. Weare going to have a time slotchange and now 'Appnapan'will be airing at 6:30 pmthan its original time of10:00 pm. I hope that theviewers keep supporting us

and they keep giving us thelove that they have beenshowering us with, more sonow because we will becoming on TV twice! Wehave lots of drama tounpack and so stay tuned!"Even though the two are atodds with one another—Nikhil is battling for custodyof his children, while Pallaviis trying to stand her groundand keep all of her childrento herself—there are timesof generosity when the twocome to each other's res-cue. Pallavi has beendefending Nikhil from someunpleasant questions fromthe journalists during theFood Mela in recentepisodes. Pallavi would res-cue Nikhil from peril, andNikhil's mother would seethis on television and feelhopeful for them once more.Will Nikhil's mother serve asthe impetus for the reconcil-iation of the couple?

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'Appnapan... Badalte Rishton KaBandhan' to get a new time slot

Rashmika Mandanna, who is fast ris-ing as one of the top actresses in the

Tamil and Telugu film industries, onSunday, expressed her love for friends onthe occasion of Friendship Day, saying,they had a piece of her heart. Taking toInstagram, she posted pictures of herselfwith friends, and said: "I am not someonewho generally takes Friendship Day, HugDay, Chocolate Day or Valentine's Dayvery seriously, and I am not someonewho puts my personal life out a lot… butthese people in these photos (some aremissing)... It's a surprise for them too!

"But I just randomly wanted to say howimportant these people are in my life… Iwouldn't be the same person withoutthem… "Some who I grew up with, somewho I work with, some who I am not intouch with very much but they have stillmanaged to make a mark so deep in myheart that they will always and forever bespecial! "So, you guys I love you. A notifi-cation from you makes me smile. Therandom calls good or bad make my hearthappy. I love you! "Thank you for makingme the person I am today. You have apiece of my heart."

Rashmika posts Friendship Day pix,says ‘friends are a piece of my heart’

With its extraordinary dis-play of India's young singingtalent, Sony EntertainmentTelevision's homegrown kidssinging reality showSuperstar Singer 2 has capti-vated its audience.

With their impeccablesinging, the contestants a.k.athe 'Best Bache Ever' contin-ue to impress the judges andspecial guests week onweek.

The upcoming episode isgoing to take the audienceon a musical roller coasterride as the show will cele-brate the original music mav-erick – Kishore Kumar in the‘Non-stop Kishore Kumar’special episode this Sunday.Making the evening extraspecial, the contestants, cap-

tains, and judges will per-form to the ever green songsof the legendary playbacksinger, Kishore Da. While thespecial episode will gettransformed into a musicalextravaganza, Judge JavedAli will share an interestingmemory about his first superhit song ‘Kajra Re’ from themovie Bunty and Babli. Heshares, “‘Intehan hogyiintezar ki’ is the song whichbecame the inspiration formy first ever hit song Kajrare.And you won’t believe it, I

was asked to playback forMr. Abhishek Bachchan jiand at that time I was veryyoung and I was not sure ifI could do justice to thesong.

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Javed Ali shares an interesting anecdote

Afilm that markedthe ‘Rise’ of un-

matched cinematic expe-rience, created a ‘Roar’ atthe Box Office Worldwideand started a ‘Revolt’ thatbrought people back tothe theatre. The film ofthe year, the magnumopus, RRR is all set tohave its World TelevisionPremiere and ZeeCinema audiences willget front row seats!

Hailed for his larger-than-life cinematic show-cases, filmmaker S. S.Rajamouli created a mas-terpiece with RRR star-ring not only two power-houses of Indian cinema,Ram Charan and Jr. NTRbut also faces like Ajay

Devgn and Alia Bhatt –the multi-starrer shookthe entertainment indus-try, globally.

Capturing the essenceof the pre-independenceera, RRR takes us on acaptivating ride filledwith a virtuous friend-ship, unbelievable energy,jaw-dropping action, andinnocent romance,drama that will compelyou to sit up and whistlefor your favorite star. So,this Independence week,block your calendars towitness a spectacle fromthe Indian film industrywith the World TelevisionPremiere of RRR on 14thAugust only on ZeeCinema.

The mega multi-starrerfilm produced from India,RRR is one of the mostexpensive productionswith a budget of over 550Crores. The cutting-edgevisual graphics thatmade the story comealive on screen in themost extravagant way, re-ceived applause not onlyfrom the national filmfraternity but also the in-ternational industry.Here are some of the en-dorsements that the filmhas earned:

For the announcementof the World TelevisionPremiere of a film that isas grand as RRR, ZeeCinema is leaving nostone unturned. A promo

with the premiere dateand time was launchedacross 9 Hindi moviecluster channels of Zeefor audiences to blocktheir calendar for thismega event. While thispractice is followed forannouncements of the-atrical releases, withRRR, it’s the first time achannel has made such ahuge announcement forthe World TelevisionPremiere of a film.

This IndependenceDay, come together andenjoy this mega enter-tainer with your familywith the World TelevisionPremiere of RRR on ZeeCinema on 14th August at8 pm.

World TV Premiere of ‘RRR’on Zee Cinema


BBiirrmmiinngghhaamm,, AAuugg 0088 ((PPTTII))::

Sharath Kamal showed ageis just a number as the 40-year-old capped his best ever per-formance at theCommonwealth Games by win-ning the men’s singles goldhere on Monday. After losingthe first game that he shouldhave closed, Sharath beat amuch younger yet experiencedLiam Pitchford of England 11-13, 11-7, 11-2, 11-6, 11-8 at theNEC arena.

Sharath, who had first wonthe singles gold back in 2006,had already claimed two goldshere in the team and mixeddoubles event alongside SreejaAkula. With this yellow metal,he increased his tally to a stag-gering 13 medals across fiveCWG appearances.

In the final, he was at hisfinest, firing winners from bothsides. Long rallies away fromthe table was the order of theday and Sharath won majorityof them. He was also brilliant incutting the points short withperfectly placed backhand win-ners. In what turned out to bethe final game of the title clash,Sharath led 6-1 beforePitchford reduced the deficit to

5-6 by winning the best rally ofthe match. Sharath absorbedthe pressure to make it 10-6after time out. He thought hehad converted his secondmatch point but the umpiresawarded the point to his oppo-

nent as the ball was close toSharath’s body at the time ofhis retrieve. He converted thenext one to complete a memo-rable run in Birmningham. GSathiyan secured the bronzeafter a marathon battle against

England’s Paul Drinkhall.Sathiyan bagged his maidenCWG singles medal after beat-ing home-favourite Drinkhall 4-3 in front of a packed crowd.The Indian thus avenged hismen’s doubles final lossagainst the same opponent bywinning 11-9 11-3 11-5 8-11 9-

11 10-12 and 11-9. The bronzewas Sathiyan’s sixth overallmedal at the CWG since GoldCoast 2018. On Sunday,Sathiyan paired up with theSharath to claim the men’sdoubles silver after going downto the English duo of Drinkhalland Pitchford.

BBiirrmmiinngghhaamm,, AAuugg 0088 ((PPTTII))India’s star doubles pairof Chirag Shetty andS a t w i k s a i r a jRankireddy wonthe country’sthird gold fromthe badmintoncourt with astraight gamevictory overEngland’s Ben Laneand Sean Mendy atthe CommonwealthGames. The Indianduo won 21-15, 21-13.India thus finished afantastic badmintoncampaign with threegold, one silver and twobronze. The Satwik-Chirag pair followeddouble Olympic medal-list PV Sindhu and AllEngland runners-upLakshya Sen, whoalso won yellowmetals on the day.The silver came inteam championshipand the bronze medalswere won by KidambiSrikanth in the men’s sin-gles and Treesa Jolly andGayatri Gopichand in thewomen’s doubles.

Birmingham, Aug 08 (PTI):India settled for the silvermedal in men’s hockeyafter losing to Australia 0-7in a one-sided final at theCommonwealth Gameshere on Monday.

The goals were scored byBlake Govers, NathanEphraums, JacobAnderson, Tom Wickhamand Fynn Ogilvie.

Up against the rampag-ing Australians, Indiansstruggled to get their actright in the summit show-down, which turned out tobe completely lopsided.

Australia scored the firstgoal of the game in the thefirst quarter, having start-ed the final on a dominat-ing note. Australia were 2-0at the end of the first quar-

ter, with Ephraums scor-ing the second goal for thesix-time CWG champions.

They continued to domi-nate the game and scoredfive more goals to extend

their domination at themulti-sport sporting ex-travaganza.

Birmingham, Aug 08 (PTI):Fast-rising Indian boxerSagar Ahlawat concludedan impressiveCommonwealth Gamescampaign by clinching thesilver medal in the super-heavy weight (+92kg) divi-sion here. Competing inhis maiden internationalevent, Sagar lost the goldmedal bout to homefavourite Delicious Orievia a 5-0 unanimous deci-sion late on Sunday.

The 20-year-old, who sur-prised everyone with hispowerful performance inthe earlier bouts, wasforced to defend in theopening round as Orie as-sumed the role of the ag-gressor. But the Indian de-fended well and also man-

aged to land some counterpunches with all fivejudges ruling in his favour.However a minute into the

second round, the Haryanapugilist, who belongs to afamily of farmers, seemedto have tired as he repeat-

edly resorted to clinching,which also earned him awarning by the referee. Bythe third round, Sagarlooked completely spentbut managed to land a fewjabs. He also started bleed-ing as one of Orie’s punch-es left a cut above his lefteye.

The Englishman tookfull advantage of that con-nected a flurry of uppercuts to take the title.

Despite the loss in thefinal it was a successfulcampaign for the young-ster, who took up the sportfive years ago after readinga newspaper article on the2015 ‘Fight of the Century’between boxing legendsFloyd Mayweather Jr andManny Pacquiao.


Heartbroken after a goldmedal slipped out of theirhands, India skipperHarmanpreet Kaur harpedon the need to stop repeat-ing same mistakes in ‘titleclashes’, saying the “men-tal block” has to be broken,going forward. Indian teamcame to close winning cov-eted gold on women crick-et’s CWG debut but fellshort by nine runs afterbeing in a dominant posi-tion against mightyAustralia. It was deja vu forHarmanpreet and Co. whohad suffered a similar inex-plicable batting collapseduring the T20 World Cupfinals defeat againstAustralia in 2020 and the2017 ODI World Cup finalin England. “Every time in

big finals, we make thesame mistakes again andagain (with the bat), that issomething we have to im-prove,” Harmanpreet saidafter the match on Sunday.

“We don’t do these mis-takes in the league phaseor in bilateral. That isblocking our mind some-where,” the skipper added.

With 50 needed off thelast six overs with eightwickets in hand, Indiaseemed to be on course totitle triumph but lost lastfive wickets for 13 runsowing to some poor shot se-lections. Harmanpreet andJemimah Rodriguesstrung a 96-run partner-ship but both ended upplaying some poor shots tomake their way back to thedug out.

Birmingham,Aug 08 (PTI):Star mixed doubles pair ofSaurav Ghosal and DipikaPallikal won the bronze tosecure India’s secondmedal in squash at theCommonwealth Gameshere on Sunday.

In a repeat of last edi-tion’s final, Ghosal andPallikal hardly broke asweat as they prevailed 11-8 11-4 over the Australiancombine of DonnaLobban and CameronPilley in the bronze medalplay-off.

The Indian duo, whohad won the silver medalin the mixed team event inthe 2018 Gold Coast edi-tion, had gone down toJoelle King and Paul Collin the semifinals. “To win

the gold medal would havebeen huge for India, so forus to come back today andproduce the performanceand play the way we did, isbrilliant,” Ghosal saidafter the win.

“It’s something that Iwill always cherish andfeel very proud of. It willgo down as personally mybest CommonwealthGames ever. It’s some-thing I can always lookback on with fondness.”

Dipika added: “It’s al-ways hard to back up aftera very tough loss and itwas very important to bementally strong today. Wehad to try and put that be-hind us we played reallywell and stuck to ourgame plan.”


The Duleep Trophy, backin the calendar in its oldzonal format after threeyears, will kick-start theIndian domestic seasonfrom September 8 with1500 games across all age-groups over a period ofsix months, the BCCI saidon Monday.

“The prestigiousDuleep Trophy will markthe start of a full-fledgedseason, which will alsosee a return of the IraniCup,’ BCCI secretary JayShah was quoted as say-ing by media release.

“The Duleep Trophy(September 8-25) will be

contested between sixzones (North, South,Central, West, East andNortheast) on a knockoutbasis,” Shah added.

The BCCI was not fol-lowing the zonal formatfor the last few seasons,fielding the India Red,Blue and Green teams in-stead.

With the zonal formatmaking a comeback, itwill have one extra zonein northeast, besides theexisting five.

The two multi-day tour-naments will be followedby the Syed Mushtaq AliTrophy (October 11-November 5) and the

Vijay Hazare Trophy(November 12- December2). The two white-balltournaments will be con-tested between 38 teamssplit into three groups ofeight teams and twogroups comprising sevensides.

The Ranji Trophy willbe back to its old formatand starts from December13 and ends on February20. The elite and plategroups will be back. Theelite group will comprise32 teams and will havefour groups of eightteams in a home andaway format with eachteam playing seven

matches in the leaguestage. The top two teamsfrom each of the fourgroups will directly quali-fy for the quarterfinals.

The plate group willcomprise six teams with15 league matches and thetop four will directly qual-ify for the semi-finalwhile the bottom two willplay against each otherfor the 5th/6th place.

Both the elite groupand plate group leaguematches will start onDecember 13 with theplate league concludingon January 29 and theelite group finishing onFebruary 20.

Dubai, Aug 08 (PTI): SriLanka spin sensationPrabath Jayasuriya andEngland women’s cricketteam’s emerging all-rounder Emma Lambwere on Monday votedICC ‘Player of the Month’for July.

The 30-year-oldJayasuriya faced off com-petition from England’sin-form batter and June’sPlayer of the Month win-ner Jonny Bairstow andFrench youngster GustavMcKeon to claim the hon-our. Jayasuriya, whomade his Test debut in SriLanka’s final Test match

against Australia in Galleearlier in July, picked up12 wickets and guided theLankans to a series-level-ling victory.

He also scalped another17 wickets in the recently-concluded two-match Testseries against Pakistan.

“I am delighted withthis announcement, andwish to thank the fans forvoting me as the ICCMen’s Player of theMonth. Certainly it hasbeen an incredible monthfor me, as I made the Testdebut, and also got the op-portunity to contributefor my team to level the

Test series played againstAustralia and Pakistan,”Jayasuriya said.

“I take this opportunityto thank my fans, team-mates, coaches, familyand friends for helpingmy journey, and thrilledwith what I am experienc-ing at this moment in mylife,” he added.

Meanwhile, Lamb wasrewarded after an ex-traordinary three-matchODI series against SouthAfrica.

The 24-year-old young-ster beat compatriot NatSciver and India pacerRenuka Singh to win the

award. Lamb amassed 234runs in three matches, in-cluding a match-winningcentury (102 off 97 balls)followed by two half-cen-turies (67 off 65 balls and65 off 66 balls) in the nexttwo games.

“It’s very exciting tohave been awarded theICC Women’s Player ofthe Month award for July.I’m very happy to haveearned my spot at the topof the order in the Testand ODI team and it’sbeen brilliant to be able toscore some runs and helpthe team win,” Lambsaid.

40 and going strong: Sharathwins singles gold after 16 years

Indias Achanta Sharath Kamal and Akula Sreeja inaction against Malaysia during Mixed Doubles TableTennis final match, at the Commonwealth Games 2022in Birmingham.

Birmingham,Aug 08 (PTI):G Sathiyan bagged hismaiden CommonwealthGames singles medal ashe won bronze, beatinghome-favourite PaulDrinkhall 4-3 in front ofa packed crowd here.Sathiyan avenged hismen’s doubles final lossagainst Drinkhall andtriumphed 11-9 11-3 11-5 8-11 9-11 10-12 and 11-9. Thebronze was Sathiyan’ssixth overall medal at theCommonwealth Gamessince Gold Coast 2018and back-to-back medalsin as many days.

G Sathiyan wins bronze in Men’s singles

Sathiyan Gnanasekaranof India hits a forehandreturn to Paul Drinkhallof England in their mens

singles table tennisbronze medal match at

the CommonwealthGames in Birmingham in

Birmingham, England,Monday.

Badminton: Chirag-Satwikpair wins men’s doubles gold

Indias Satwiksairaj Rankireddyand Chirag Shetty celebrateafter winning the Mens DoublesFinal Badminton match againstEnglands Ben Lane and SeanVendy at the CWG Monday.

Fast-rising boxer Sagar Ahlawatwins silver on international debut

Boxer Sagar Ahlawat during his bout against EnglandsDelicious Orie in the final of 92kg (Super Heavyweight)boxing match, at the Commonwealth Games 2022.

India settle for silver in men’s hockey, lose 0-7 to Australia in final

Australias Jacob Anderson, center, after scoring his sides third goal during the mensfinal hockey match between Australia and India at the Commonwealth Games inBirmingham, England, Monday.

Pallikal-Ghosal bag mixed doubles bronze in CWG squash

Harmanpreet rues trend of mistakes in big final

Washington, Aug 08 (AP):

It was quite a week forRussia’s professional ten-nis players four tourna-ments, three titles.

One of them, LiudmilaSamsonova, thinks itmight not be merely a co-incidence that this recentrun of success for her,Daria Kasatkina andDaniil Medvedev comesshortly after they werebanned from competing atWimbledon because oftheir country’s invasionof, and ongoing war in,Ukraine.

We are are all veryangry about the situation,Samsonova said after beat-ing Estonia’s Kaia Kanepi4-6, 6-3, 6-3 in the final of

the Citi Open on Sundayfor her second career WTAtitle. I mean, it was a reallytough month.

Samsonova earned hertrophy in Washington aday after Medvedev, wholeads the men’s rankings,defeated Britain’s CamNorrie for the champi-onship at Los Cabos,Mexico, and several hoursbefore Kasatkina won thetitle at San Jose,California, with a victoryover American ShelbyRogers. All three eventsare hard-court tuneupsahead of the year’s lastGrand Slam tournament,the U.S. Open, which be-gins in New York on Aug.29; Medvedev is the defend-ing champion there.

Russian tennis players collect3 titles at US Open tuneups

Prabath Jayasuriya, Emma Lambwin ICC Player of Month honour

Duleep Trophy back in old format,Irani Cup slotted in calendar New Delhi, Aug 08 (PTI):

As the celebratory daysfor the Centre's 'Har GharTiranga' campaign arenearing, the sale of tri-colour has risen manifoldsin the national capital,leaving traders and manu-facturers scrambling tomeet the pent-up demands.

Gulshan Khurana (63), awholesale trader fromDelhi's Sadar Bazaar hasbeen in the business ofsupplying national flagsfor over 50 years, but hasnever witnessed such anenormous demand for thetricolour in the past.

Traders have claimedthat the sale of all kinds of

tricolours has increased 50times since the announce-ment of the campaign byPrime Minister NarendraModi on July 22. However,the demand for mediumsize and national flagsmade up of satin is at anall-time high.

Under the campaign, theCentral government isaiming to have at least 20crore flags atop housesfrom August 13 to 15 tomark 75 years of India'sIndependence. Khuranawas in the United States ofAmerica (USA) on vaca-tion when he started re-ceiving dozens of callsfrom the buyers for largeorders of flags.

"I am in this business forover 50 years, you can saysince childhood. But I havenever seen demands forIndian flags like this. Myphone does not stop ring-ing," he said, adding thathe had to rush back tocomplete the orders.

To meet the demands,Khurana is manufactur-ing only two sizes -- 16X24and 18X27-- of the tri-colour or 'tiranga', as it iscalled in Hindi.

"We are only producingtwo types of tricolours sothat all the resources canbe utilised in making theflags with the highest de-mands," he told PTI."Every day we are produc-

ing around 15 lakh flagsbut the demand is evenmuch higher. The ordersare coming in from allover India as their is ashortage of flags in thecountry. So people are get-ting flags from whereverthey can. We have justsent an order of a lakhflags to Goa," he said,adding that despite work-ing day and night, theyare unable to meet thesky-high demands.

"I am receiving ordersof crore of flags everyday. We have only beenable to fulfil a part of itonly. We have tried to ful-fil all orders but it is diffi-cult," he said.

Members laud Naidu’srole as RS Chairman


Members cutting acrossparty lines bade farewell tovice president M VenkaiahNaidu on Monday in RajyaSabha, lauding his role asits chairman and recollect-ing how he inspired and al-lowed them to speak intheir native languages.

While some Oppositionmembers urged him to penan autobiography, Leaderof Opposition in RajyaSabha Mallikarjun Khargeappreciated how Naidufunctioned despite being"under pressure".

Noting that the produc-tivity of the House in-creased under Naidu,Prime Minister Narendra

Modi said the outgoingchairman encouraged dia-logue and his legacy willcontinue to guide his suc-cessors. He worked on theprinciple that 'let the gov-ernment propose, letOpposition oppose, let thehouse dispose', the primeminister said. "One of theadmirable things aboutNaidu is his passion forIndian languages. This wasreflected in how hepresided over the House,"Modi said, adding as chair-man he encouraged the useof the mother tongue. OnNaidu's famous one-liners,the prime minister said"they are wit-liners. Thereis both depth and sub-stance in what Naidu says."

Naidu turned emotionalwhen Trinamool CongressMP Derek O'Brien narratedan incident from the VicePresident's early life whenhe lost his mother as a one-year-old. "From that earlyloss, you went on to do somany things in your glori-ous career... I am sure itwill make a good story foryour autobiography...whichyou must write," he said.

Referring to the pas-sage of the farm bills inthe House in September2020, the TMC MP said itwas a "very importantday about my outlookabout you...maybe youwill answer that questionsomeday in your autobi-ography".

‘Oppn leaders criticise courts whenjudgments do not favour them’


Law Minister KirenRijiju on Monday slammedRajya Sabha MP and sen-ior advocate Kapil Sibal forhis criticism of theSupreme Court, saying itwas "very very sad for theentire country" that oppo-sition leaders start attack-ing constitutional authori-ties when their judgmentsdo not favour them.

Sibal, a former law min-ister, had criticised theapex court over its recentjudgments, including onthe PMLA, at an event onSaturday and reportedlyclaimed there is "no hope"left in it. How can one keeptrust in the SupremeCourt when it upholdssuch laws, he reportedly

said, referring to the judg-ment which upheld vari-ous provisions of thePrevention of MoneyLaundering Act (PMLA),condemned by oppositionparties as draconian.Lashing out at him, Rijijusaid statements made bySibal and some Congress

leaders "betray a mindset"that courts or any consti-tutional authority mustfavour them or work ac-cording to their interest.

Whenever courts give adecree or a judgmentagainst their mindset, theystart attacking the consti-tutional authorities, hetold reporters. This is "veryvery sad for the entirecountry" that prominentleaders and parties are crit-icizing constitutional insti-tutions like the SupremeCourt, high courts,Election Commission andother important agencies,the BJP leader said. Theseagencies and institutionsare absolutely autonomousand work according to therule of law and are guidedby the statutes, he said.

‘Fewer children able to catch up with age-appropriate learning’


Less than 50 per cent ofchildren are able to catchup with their age-appropri-ate learning following theCOVID-19 pandemic andthey get distracted easily, anew survey on learningloss and education recov-ery has claimed.

Over 48,000 students par-ticipated in the survey bythe Smile India foundation.It covered urban, rural andaspirational districts of 22states. "According to teach-ers, less than 50 per cent ofchildren have been able tocope with the learning loss

over the last two years andare able to catch up on theirage-appropriate learningcurrently," it said. "Theseare mostly those studentswho have been regularlyperforming well prior tothe pandemic as well.Hence, bringing the rest ofthe students to par withtheir expected learninglevel will require sometime and effort in the up-coming months," the sur-vey said. Fifty-eight percent of teachers were ofthe opinion that childrenhave missed on social skillsand now get distracted easi-ly, it added. "Their attentionspan has gone low." Thesurvey noted that parentshave started getting more

involved in their wards' ed-ucation. Forty-seven percent of them were of theview that there is an in-creased interaction be-tween them and teachers inschools as well as overphone calls, it said.

"Thirty-eight per cent ofparents started interactingwith teachers by visitingschools, and there is a 27per cent increase in atten-dance in parent-teachermeetings (PTMs). Fifty percent of parents interviewedfelt the absence of digitallearning resources like de-vices, networks, and datapacks made the learningexperience inadequate forthe children during thepandemic," the survey said.

Shimla, Aug 08 (PTI):

The Congress onMonday promised 300units of free electricity tohousehold consumers anda financial assistance ofRs 1,500 to poor women ifvoted to power inHimachal Pradesh.

Chhattisgarh ChiefMinister and Congress'Chief Election Observerfor Himachal PradeshBhupesh Baghel alsopromised implementationof the old pension scheme,as done in party-ruledRajasthan andChhattisgarh, within 10days of assuming power.

The senior Congressleader made the an-nouncements during aninteraction with the mediahere. To a query on avail-ability of funds, Baghelsaid suitable provisionswill be made in the state

budget to fulfil the promis-es, if his party came topower. These promises

will be included in theparty's poll manifesto,which is to be issued soon,

he added. HimachalPradesh is likely to go topolls in December.

Rs 1,500 per month to poor women

p Post pandemic


Kiren Rijiju

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Bal Vikas Evam Pustahar department employees carry the national flag during a programme as part of Har Ghar Tirangacampaign, in Meerut, Monday.

HAR GHAR TIRANGA CAMPAIGN

Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah pays tribute to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose during his visit to hisbirthplace in Cuttack, Odisha.

TRIBUTE TO NETAJI

73 people die due to flood in Karnataka

Bengaluru, Aug 08 (PTI):

As many as 73 peoplelost their lives while7,386 people have takenshelter in 75 reliefcamps in Karnataka dueto floods and rain-relatedincidents during the on-going monsoon, stateRevenue Minister RAshoka said on Monday.

The minister said 161villages in 14 districtswere badly hit by theheavy rains and floodsaffected 21,727 people inrecent days.

"As many as 73 peoplelost their lives, whichcomprises 15 deaths dueto lightning, five due to

tree collapse, 19 due tohouse collapse, 24 sweptaway in rivers, nine dueto landslide and one dueto electrocution. Theseincidents happened fromJune 1 to August 7," theminister said at a pressconference.

As many as 8,197 peo-ple were shifted to safety,Ashoka said, adding, 75relief camps have beenopened where 7,386 peo-ple have taken shelter.

The minister said 666houses have been com-pletely damaged while2,949 were severely dam-aged and 17,750 houseswere partially damaged.Agriculture crops in

1,29,087 hectares andhorticulture crops in7,942 hectares were dam-aged, the minister said.

He also said the rainsthis year damaged 11,768km of road, 1,152 bridgesand culverts, 122 pri-mary health centres,2,249 anganwadi centresand 95 irrigation lakes.

"We have directed thedeputy commissionersto intensify the reliefwork. The districts havea fund of Rs 857 crore (totake up relief works),"Ashoka said.

The minister said Rs 5lakh is given as compen-sation to the next of kinof those who lost their

lives in flood-related inci-dents, which includes Rs4 lakh from the NationalDisaster Response Fund.

Those who lost theirhouses completely willget Rs 5 lakh whereas forseverely and partiallydamaged houses, thegovernment gives Rs 3lakh and Rs 50,000, re-spectively, as compensa-tion.

He also said the stategovernment has im-proved the relief campsby giving food kits,which comprise 10 kgrice, one kg pulse, one kgsugar, one kg salt, chillipowder, one litre oil, andother essential spices.

No proposal to setup new IIT incountry: Govt

New Delhi, Aug 08 (PTI):There is no proposal to es-tablish any new IndianInstitute of Technology (IIT)in the country, the Ministryof Education said onMonday. The informationwas shared by UnionMinister of State forEducation Subhas Sarkar inresponse to a written ques-tion in Lok Sabha."Presently, there is no pro-posal to establish any newIIT in the country," he said.In the Budget for the year2014-15, setting up of fivenew IITs in the states ofAndhra Pradesh, Kerala,Chhattisgarh, Jammu &Kashmir and Goa, was an-nounced. Similarly, in the2015-16 Budget, setting up ofan IIT in Karnataka andupgradation of IndianSchool of Mines, Dhanbadinto an IIT were announced.

SC refuses to interfere with pension

of Army jawan Discharged for alcohol

dependency

NNeeww DDeellhhii,, AAuugg 0088 ((PPTTII)):: TheSupreme Court on Monday re-fused to interfere with the orderof the Armed Force Tribunal(AFT) granting a pension to anArmy jawan, who was dischargedfrom service due to his alcoholdependency. A bench of JusticesDY Chandrachud and ASBopanna accepted the Centre'scontention that it should not be-come a precedent and orderedthat in the facts and circum-stances of the case, it is not inter-fering with the order of the AFT.Additional Solicitor GeneralMadhvi Divan, appearing for theCentre, said that the order of theAFT should be set aside other-wise it would become a norm andincrease indiscipline in the force.The bench said that it is uphold-ing the order of AFT in the factsand circumstances of the case.

ASSLY POLL HP

Cong promises 300 units free power

Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel along with Congress leaders Rajeev Shukla,Partap Singh Bajwa and others addresses a press conference, in Shimla, Monday.

SURVEY RESULT

Urge him to write autobiography

‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ campaign

Flag sale skyrockets, traders struggling to meet demand

PROPHET ROW

Relief for news anchorNavika Kumar

SC grants interim protection from arrest

NNeeww DDeellhhii,, AAuugg 0088 ((PPTTII)):: TheSupreme Court Monday grantedinterim protection from arrest toNavika Kumar in connectionwith FIRs lodged against herover controversial remarksmade by former BJP spokesper-son Nupur Sharma on ProphetMohammad during a TV debatemoderated by the news anchor.A bench of Justices KrishnaMurari and Hima Kohli issuednotices to the Centre, WestBengal government, and otherson Kumar's plea seeking quash-ing of proceedings initiatedagainst her. As an interim meas-ure, no coercive action shall betaken against the petitioner pur-suant to the impugnedFIRs/complaints or future FIRs/complaints which may be regis-tered with respect to the broad-cast of May 26", the bench said.

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