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N itish Kumar will remain the Chief Minister of Bihar if the NDA return to power in the State irrespective of the number of seats the BJP and the Janata Dal(U) clinch in the polls. The BJP made this dec- laration on Tuesday as the two parties announced their seat sharing pact. The JD(U) will contest 122 seats and the BJP 121. The differences of one seat means BJP’s symbolic acceptance of Nitish Kumar as the “elder brother” in Bihar politics. The BJP also rebuffed LJP chief Chirag Paswan who has decided to go solo in the polls and put up candidates against the JD(U) nominees. Without directly naming Chirag or his party, the BJP said no one out- side the NDA alliance in Bihar was allowed to use Prime Minister’s name in poll cam- paigning. Incidentally, Chirag has been repeatedly saying his can- didates will strengthen the hand of the Prime Minister after the polls. Bihar Deputy Chief Minister and senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi said that the NDA in this election will mean only four parties — the BJP, the JD(U), Jitan Ram Manjhi’s HAM and the Vikassheel Insaan Party. “Only four NDA parties can use PM’s photo during campaign. If needed, we will write to the Election Commission that PM Modi’s photo must not be mis- used,” he added. Sources said before the two sides held a joint Press con- ference to announce their seat sharing deal, the JD(U) lead- ership told the BJP that it must distance itself from Chirag Paswan. Following this, BJP State president Sanjay Jaisawal issued a brief statement which said, “Only those who accept Nitish Kumar’s leadership in Bihar will remain in the NDA. The leader of the NDA in Bihar is Nitish Kumar. The BJP accepts his leadership in Bihar and everyone in the NDA should accept his leadership.” Jaisawal later said “the LJP was an ally at the Centre and we pray for early recovery of its founder and Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan. But there should be no confusion with regard to the fact that in Bihar the NDA’s leader is Nitish Kumar. Our alliance with his party is atoot (unbreakable).” Declaring the seat-sharing arrangement, Nitish Kumar said, “The JD(U) has got 122 seats out of which we have set aside seven for the Hindustani Awam Morcha (headed by for- mer CM Jitan Ram Manjhi). The BJP has got the remaining 121 wherein new entrant Vikassheel Insaan Party of Mukesh Sahni will be accom- modated.” Responding to a query about post-poll scenario Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi asserted, “We have said unequivocally that Nitish Kumar will be our Chief Minister. It does not matter which party gets how many seats in the elections”. Nitish did not mention Chirag by name but remarked sarcastically, “I believe in doing my job. If some people derive pleasure out of saying some- thing inconsequential, they are most welcome to do so. It does not bother me”. However, he sought to repudiate Chirag’s allegation that the JD(U) has not treated its alliance partners in the State well and asked “did Ram Vilas Paswan get elected to the Rajya Sabha without the JD(U)s sup- port?” In the outgoing Assembly, the RJD is the single largest party with 73 MLAs, followed by the JD(U) with 69, BJP (54), Congress (23), CPI-ML (3), LJP (2), HAM and AIMIM of Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi one each, and Independent (5). Several senior leaders of both the BJP and JD(U), including BJP Bihar in-charge Bhupendra Yadav, BJP’s Bihar poll in-charge Devendra Fadnavis and JD(U) State chief Vashisht Narayan Singh too were present at the joint press meet. A mid its strained relations with China, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday said New Delhi is committed to peaceful resolu- tion of disputes and rule-based world order even as he called for a free and open India- Pacific region. Making these opening remarks at the meeting of Foreign Ministers of Quad countries including India, Japan, Australia and the US in Tokyo, he also said the four democratic countries favour a free and open India-Pacific region. The Quad meeting comes at a time when China is aggressively asserting itself in this region leading to tension. Jaishankar, however, refrained from naming China. This is the second Minister-level meeting of the Quad countries in the last two years. The ongoing two- day conclave is the first against the backdrop of ongoing ten- sion between India and China at the LAC in Ladakh and coronavirus pandemic. Jaishankar had held a two- hour long bilateral meeting with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on September 10 in Moscow to end the logjam at the border. The Quad meeting dis- cussed the issue of ensuring a free and open Indo-Pacific in the face of China’s increasing- ly aggressive behaviour across the region. The other three Ministers include Marise Payne (Australia), Toshimitsu Motegi (Japan)and Mike Pompeo (US). Jaishankar said the events of this year have demonstrated how “imperative it is for like- minded countries to coordinate responses to the various chal- lenges that the pandemic has brought to the fore”. On the situation in the strategically important India- Pacific region, he said “as vibrant and pluralistic democ- racies with shared values, our nations have collectively affirmed the importance of maintaining a free, open and inclusive Indo-Pacific.” “It is a matter of satisfaction that the Indo-Pacific concept has gained increasingly wider acceptance,” he said. T he Information and Broadcasting Ministry on Tuesday issued strict Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) to re-open cinema theaters from October 15. The SOP includes filling up only for 50 per cent capacity, keeping one seat vacant between the viewers, and main- taining temperature condi- tions. The SOP bars serving cooked food of any kind and says only packaged food and beverages will be allowed for sale at refreshment points. The viewers will not be allowed to carry any food inside the cin- ema hall. Releasing the SOP, Minister Prakash Javadekar said local authorities must ensure the guidelines are adhered to along with strict physical distancing norms. In multi-halls, to prevent the crowding, the SOP has suggested staggered timing also. Mask wearing will be compulsory for viewers and staffers and theater mangers must ensure medical facilities if anybody is feeling uneasy. “The highlights of the guiding principles include the general principles which have been given by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, including thermal screening of all visitors/staff, adequate physical distancing, use of face covers/masks, frequent hand washing, provision of hand sanitisers, etc and respiratory etiquettes specifically with regard to the exhibition of films,” the I&B Ministry said. The Ministry said it has formulated the general SOPs taking into consideration inter- national practices notified in the sector, including physical distancing, entry and exit with designated queue markers, sanitisation, safety of staff, con- tact minimisation. The SOP said there should be one seat vacant between the viewers and the vacant seat should be marked. The SOP also asked the local PWD authorities to ensure the tem- perature and air-conditioning norms. “Temperature setting of all air conditioning devices should be in the range of 24-30°C. Relative humidity should be in the range of 40-70 per cent. Re- circulation of air is to be avoid- ed to the extent possible. Intake of fresh air should be as much as possible. Cross ventilation should be adequate,” said the guidelines. T he Uttar Pradesh Police has arrested a journalist and three other people in Mathura while they were on their way to Hathras, home to a Dalit woman who died after being allegedly gangraped. The police had on Monday said it has arrested four people having links with the Popular Front of India and its affiliate in Mathura. The PFI had been accused of funding protests against the CAA earlier this year and the UP Police had sought a ban on the outfit. H aryana Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala was among 1,206 new Covid positive patients on Tuesday which pushed the infection tally to 136,115. Eighteen more people suc- cumbed to the disease, taking the death toll to 1509, accord- ing to the health department's daily bulletin. Dushyant said he has tested positive for coron- avirus, adding that he was asymptomatic and feeling alright. The Haryana Deputy CM urged people who had met him during the past week to get themselves tested. "My Covid-19 test report has returned positive. There are no symptoms of COVID-19 like fever etc, but as the report is positive, I am self-isolating," he said in a message on Twitter. As many as 1690 patients recovered on Tuesday, taking the overall recoveries to 1,23,286. The tally of active cases stood at 11,320 while the recov- ery rate was 90.57 per cent. C ongress MP Rahul Gandhi’s three-day Punjab ‘Kheti Bachao Yatra’ in Punjab culminated on Tuesday at the border along Haryana, after hours of high drama at the bor- der between two states. Rahul, after winding up his last rally at Sanaur in Patiala, himself drove the tractor to reach the Haryana border along with Punjab Congress president Sunil Jakhar, party’s national general secretary in- charge of Punjab affairs Harish Rawat, besides a number of Congress workers. However, the Haryana Police stopped the procession on the highway near Teokar village in Pehowa for an hour. The senior Haryana police officials at the spot made it clear that they would not allow more than 100 people to gath- er at one place, as per the guidelines in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Later, Rahul and a few Congress leaders were allowed to enter Haryana. Earlier, Rahul, along with Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh, vowed to not budge even an inch from their principled stand in support of the farmers, who were under attack by the Centre’s “dracon- ian” farm laws. Rahul, as a public rally at Francewala village near Sanaur in Patiala district – the final point of the tractor rally of the Congress leaders, including AICC general secretary Harish Rawat and Punjab Congress president Sunil Jakhar, lashed out at the BJP-led Central Government for inflicting atrocities upon atrocities on the people of all sections in the past six years. “The poor have become poorer and the rich are getting richer,” he said, slamming the Prime Minister Narendra Modi of serving the interests of cor- porate houses at the cost of those of small businessmen, farmers, arhtiyas, and farm labour. “But the farmers would die rather than bow their heads before these unjust and bar- baric laws,” said Rahul, adding that the mandi and procure- ment system, which the Farm Laws would destroy, was the protective shield for the farm- ing community. These laws would make farmers bonded labourers in the hands of Ambani and Adani, said Rahul, calling upon the farmers to act so that they don’t have to repent later. “This is not a fight only for Punjab but for the entire coun- try,” said Rahul, warning that once these laws are imple- mented, farmers would not be able to knock at the doors of Administration for help. “Do you need such a system where shopping malls are construct- ed while farmers die of starva- tion?” he asked, adding that he will now allow this to happen. Continued on Page 2 C ongress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday lambasted the Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not conceding to “China’s incursion to protect his image”, blaming the media for helping him in doing so. “Modi is not interested in India’s people but is only con- cerned about protecting and promoting his image, which would have got dented had he admitted to China’s incursion. The media, by helping promote his image, is also to blame,” said Rahul while addressing the media on the third and final day of his three-day ‘Kheti Bachao Yatra’ against the black farm laws. Continuing his tirade against the Prime Minister, Rahul said that Modi was com- fortable in the knowledge that the press would project his one- sided statements. “Why don’t you question him at press con- ferences,” he asked the media. Categorically rejecting the suggestion that the Central Government was able to take unilateral decisions because of a “weak Opposition”, Rahul Gandhi asked to provide him “free press and other key insti- tutions”, while declaring that the Narendra Modi Government would not last long. “Give me free press and free institutions and this (Narendra Modi) Government won't last long,” he declared. He said that the Modi Government has taken control of all key institutions, and it has done so not democratically but forcibly. “The BJP Government has captured the soul of the country, which is what the Congress is fighting,” he said, adding that this fight will become more and more aggres- sive, going forward. Terming the control of institutions by the Government a “big problem”, Rahul noted that no other country in the world today is faced with a sit- uation where even the media does not question the Government when its land has been seized by another nation. Pointing out that the Opposition in any country func- tions within a framework, including the media, the judicial system, and institutions that protect the voice of the people, he said: “In India, that entire framework has been controlled and captured by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Government, the entire architecture designed for giving voice to the people has been captured.” “While the government may have captured the institu- tions, the fact is that they can- not control the farmers, the youth, and the small traders, whose interests they are destroy- ing. I work among these people, who are the hardest hit by Modi’s policies. I am a patient person, and will wait till the people of India see the truth,” added Rahul, who was flanked by Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh. Rahul, on the Centre’s three new farm laws, said that he was committed to fighting against the Modi Government’s attack on farmers, just as they had earlier targeted SMEs and small traders with demonetization and GST. “I will fight them and stop them,” he declared, pointing out that if MSP goes, Punjab, Haryana, and other agricultural states like Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan will have no future left. He slammed the Modi Government for destroying key systems such as SMEs and small businesses, which were the backbone of the nation and were generating employment for lakhs of youth, on directives of big corporate houses. “The trio of Modi, Ambani and Adani has ruined the struc- ture of employment by destroy- ing SMEs, now they are destroying the foundations of agriculture, and soon the peo- ple of India will be left with no jobs, nor food, and no future,” he warned. Asked to comment on BJP’s claims that the farm laws, just like demonetization and GST, were major achievements of the Modi Government, Rahul told the media to go and ask the small traders and busi- nessmen, and the farmers, whether they considered these actions to be accomplishments or failures. “If the Farm Laws are an achievement, then why are the farmers not celebrating, why are they not bursting fire- crackers with joy?” he asked.

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Nitish Kumar will remainthe Chief Minister of Bihar

if the NDA return to power inthe State irrespective of thenumber of seats the BJP andthe Janata Dal(U) clinch in thepolls. The BJP made this dec-laration on Tuesday as the twoparties announced their seatsharing pact.

The JD(U) will contest122 seats and the BJP 121. Thedifferences of one seat meansBJP’s symbolic acceptance ofNitish Kumar as the “elderbrother” in Bihar politics.

The BJP also rebuffed LJPchief Chirag Paswan who hasdecided to go solo in the pollsand put up candidates againstthe JD(U) nominees. Withoutdirectly naming Chirag or hisparty, the BJP said no one out-side the NDA alliance in Biharwas allowed to use PrimeMinister’s name in poll cam-paigning.

Incidentally, Chirag hasbeen repeatedly saying his can-didates will strengthen thehand of the Prime Ministerafter the polls.

Bihar Deputy ChiefMinister and senior BJP leaderSushil Kumar Modi said thatthe NDA in this election willmean only four parties — theBJP, the JD(U), Jitan RamManjhi’s HAM and theVikassheel Insaan Party. “Onlyfour NDA parties can use PM’sphoto during campaign. Ifneeded, we will write to theElection Commission that PMModi’s photo must not be mis-

used,” he added.Sources said before the

two sides held a joint Press con-ference to announce their seatsharing deal, the JD(U) lead-ership told the BJP that it mustdistance itself from ChiragPaswan. Following this, BJPState president Sanjay Jaisawalissued a brief statement whichsaid, “Only those who acceptNitish Kumar’s leadership in

Bihar will remain in the NDA.The leader of the NDA inBihar is Nitish Kumar. The BJPaccepts his leadership in Biharand everyone in the NDAshould accept his leadership.”

Jaisawal later said “the LJPwas an ally at the Centre andwe pray for early recovery of itsfounder and Union MinisterRam Vilas Paswan. But thereshould be no confusion with

regard to the fact that in Biharthe NDA’s leader is NitishKumar. Our alliance with hisparty is atoot (unbreakable).”

Declaring the seat-sharingarrangement, Nitish Kumarsaid, “The JD(U) has got 122seats out of which we have setaside seven for the HindustaniAwam Morcha (headed by for-mer CM Jitan Ram Manjhi).The BJP has got the remaining

121 wherein new entrantVikassheel Insaan Party ofMukesh Sahni will be accom-modated.”

Responding to a queryabout post-poll scenarioDeputy Chief Minister SushilKumar Modi asserted, “Wehave said unequivocally thatNitish Kumar will be our ChiefMinister. It does not matterwhich party gets how manyseats in the elections”.

Nitish did not mentionChirag by name but remarkedsarcastically, “I believe in doingmy job. If some people derivepleasure out of saying some-thing inconsequential, they aremost welcome to do so. It doesnot bother me”.

However, he sought torepudiate Chirag’s allegationthat the JD(U) has not treatedits alliance partners in the Statewell and asked “did Ram VilasPaswan get elected to the RajyaSabha without the JD(U)s sup-port?”

In the outgoing Assembly,the RJD is the single largestparty with 73 MLAs, followedby the JD(U) with 69, BJP (54),Congress (23), CPI-ML (3), LJP(2), HAM and AIMIM ofHyderabad MP AsaduddinOwaisi one each, andIndependent (5).

Several senior leaders ofboth the BJP and JD(U),including BJP Bihar in-chargeBhupendra Yadav, BJP’s Biharpoll in-charge DevendraFadnavis and JD(U) State chiefVashisht Narayan Singh toowere present at the joint pressmeet.

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Amid its strained relationswith China, External

Affairs Minister S Jaishankaron Tuesday said New Delhi iscommitted to peaceful resolu-tion of disputes and rule-basedworld order even as he calledfor a free and open India-Pacific region.

Making these openingremarks at the meeting ofForeign Ministers of Quadcountries including India,Japan, Australia and the US inTokyo, he also said the fourdemocratic countries favour afree and open India-Pacificregion. The Quad meetingcomes at a time when China isaggressively asserting itself inthis region leading to tension.Jaishankar, however, refrainedfrom naming China.

This is the secondMinister-level meeting of theQuad countries in the lasttwo years. The ongoing two-day conclave is the first againstthe backdrop of ongoing ten-sion between India and Chinaat the LAC in Ladakh andcoronavirus pandemic.Jaishankar had held a two-hour long bilateral meetingwith his Chinese counterpartWang Yi on September 10 inMoscow to end the logjam atthe border.

The Quad meeting dis-cussed the issue of ensuring afree and open Indo-Pacific inthe face of China’s increasing-ly aggressive behaviour acrossthe region. The other threeMinisters include Marise Payne

(Australia), Toshimitsu Motegi(Japan)and Mike Pompeo (US).

Jaishankar said the eventsof this year have demonstratedhow “imperative it is for like-minded countries to coordinateresponses to the various chal-lenges that the pandemic hasbrought to the fore”.

On the situation in thestrategically important India-Pacific region, he said “asvibrant and pluralistic democ-racies with shared values, ournations have collectivelyaffirmed the importance ofmaintaining a free, open andinclusive Indo-Pacific.”

“It is a matter of satisfactionthat the Indo-Pacific concepthas gained increasingly wideracceptance,” he said.

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The Information andBroadcasting Ministry on

Tuesday issued strict StandardOperating Procedures (SOP) tore-open cinema theaters fromOctober 15.

The SOP includes filling uponly for 50 per cent capacity,keeping one seat vacantbetween the viewers, and main-taining temperature condi-tions.

The SOP bars servingcooked food of any kind andsays only packaged food andbeverages will be allowed forsale at refreshment points. Theviewers will not be allowed tocarry any food inside the cin-ema hall.

Releasing the SOP,Minister Prakash Javadekarsaid local authorities mustensure the guidelines areadhered to along with strictphysical distancing norms.

In multi-halls, to preventthe crowding, the SOP hassuggested staggered timingalso. Mask wearing will becompulsory for viewers andstaffers and theater mangersmust ensure medical facilitiesif anybody is feeling uneasy.

“The highlights of theguiding principles include thegeneral principles which havebeen given by the Ministry of

Health & Family Welfare,including thermal screeningof all visitors/staff, adequatephysical distancing, use of facecovers/masks, frequent handwashing, provision of handsanitisers, etc and respiratoryetiquettes specifically withregard to the exhibition offilms,” the I&B Ministry said.

The Ministry said it hasformulated the general SOPstaking into consideration inter-national practices notified inthe sector, including physicaldistancing, entry and exit withdesignated queue markers,sanitisation, safety of staff, con-tact minimisation.

The SOP said there shouldbe one seat vacant between theviewers and the vacant seatshould be marked. The SOPalso asked the local PWDauthorities to ensure the tem-perature and air-conditioningnorms.

“Temperature setting of allair conditioning devices shouldbe in the range of 24-30°C.Relative humidity should be inthe range of 40-70 per cent. Re-circulation of air is to be avoid-ed to the extent possible. Intakeof fresh air should be as muchas possible. Cross ventilationshould be adequate,” said theguidelines.

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The Uttar Pradesh Policehas arrested a journalist

and three other people inMathura while they were ontheir way to Hathras, home toa Dalit woman who died afterbeing allegedly gangraped.

The police had on Mondaysaid it has arrested four peoplehaving links with the PopularFront of India and its affiliatein Mathura.

The PFI had been accusedof funding protests against theCAA earlier this year and theUP Police had sought a ban onthe outfit.

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Haryana Deputy ChiefMinister Dushyant

Chautala was among 1,206 newCovid positive patients onTuesday which pushed theinfection tally to 136,115.Eighteen more people suc-cumbed to the disease, takingthe death toll to 1509, accord-ing to the health department'sdaily bulletin. Dushyant said hehas tested positive for coron-avirus, adding that he wasasymptomatic and feeling

alright. The Haryana DeputyCM urged people who had methim during the past week to getthemselves tested.

"My Covid-19 test reporthas returned positive. There areno symptoms of COVID-19 likefever etc, but as the report ispositive, I am self-isolating," hesaid in a message on Twitter.

As many as 1690 patientsrecovered on Tuesday, takingthe overall recoveries to1,23,286. The tally of active casesstood at 11,320 while the recov-ery rate was 90.57 per cent.

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Congress MP RahulGandhi’s three-day Punjab

‘Kheti Bachao Yatra’ in Punjabculminated on Tuesday at theborder along Haryana, afterhours of high drama at the bor-der between two states.

Rahul, after winding up hislast rally at Sanaur in Patiala,himself drove the tractor toreach the Haryana borderalong with Punjab Congresspresident Sunil Jakhar, party’snational general secretary in-charge of Punjab affairs HarishRawat, besides a number ofCongress workers. However,the Haryana Police stopped the

procession on the highwaynear Teokar village in Pehowafor an hour.

The senior Haryana policeofficials at the spot made itclear that they would not allowmore than 100 people to gath-er at one place, as per theguidelines in place due to theCOVID-19 pandemic. Later,Rahul and a few Congressleaders were allowed to enterHaryana.

Earlier, Rahul, along withPunjab Chief Minister CaptAmarinder Singh, vowed to notbudge even an inch from their

principled stand in support ofthe farmers, who were underattack by the Centre’s “dracon-ian” farm laws.

Rahul, as a public rally atFrancewala village near Sanaurin Patiala district – the finalpoint of the tractor rally of theCongress leaders, includingAICC general secretary HarishRawat and Punjab Congresspresident Sunil Jakhar, lashedout at the BJP-led CentralGovernment for inflictingatrocities upon atrocities on thepeople of all sections in the pastsix years.

“The poor have becomepoorer and the rich are gettingricher,” he said, slamming thePrime Minister Narendra Modiof serving the interests of cor-porate houses at the cost ofthose of small businessmen,farmers, arhtiyas, and farmlabour.

“But the farmers woulddie rather than bow their headsbefore these unjust and bar-baric laws,” said Rahul, addingthat the mandi and procure-ment system, which the FarmLaws would destroy, was theprotective shield for the farm-

ing community.These laws would make

farmers bonded labourers inthe hands of Ambani andAdani, said Rahul, calling uponthe farmers to act so that theydon’t have to repent later.

“This is not a fight only forPunjab but for the entire coun-try,” said Rahul, warning thatonce these laws are imple-mented, farmers would not beable to knock at the doors ofAdministration for help. “Doyou need such a system whereshopping malls are construct-ed while farmers die of starva-tion?” he asked, adding that hewill now allow this to happen.

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Congress leader Rahul Gandhion Tuesday lambasted the

Prime Minister Narendra Modifor not conceding to “China’sincursion to protect his image”,blaming the media for helpinghim in doing so.

“Modi is not interested inIndia’s people but is only con-cerned about protecting andpromoting his image, whichwould have got dented had headmitted to China’s incursion.The media, by helping promotehis image, is also to blame,” saidRahul while addressing the

media on the third and finalday of his three-day ‘KhetiBachao Yatra’ against the blackfarm laws.

Continuing his tiradeagainst the Prime Minister,Rahul said that Modi was com-fortable in the knowledge thatthe press would project his one-sided statements. “Why don’tyou question him at press con-ferences,” he asked the media.

Categorically rejecting thesuggestion that the CentralGovernment was able to takeunilateral decisions because of a“weak Opposition”, RahulGandhi asked to provide him

“free press and other key insti-tutions”, while declaring that theNarendra Modi Governmentwould not last long.

“Give me free press andfree institutions and this(Narendra Modi) Governmentwon't last long,” he declared.

He said that the ModiGovernment has taken controlof all key institutions, and it hasdone so not democratically butforcibly. “The BJP Governmenthas captured the soul of thecountry, which is what theCongress is fighting,” he said,adding that this fight willbecome more and more aggres-sive, going forward.

Terming the control ofinstitutions by the Governmenta “big problem”, Rahul notedthat no other country in theworld today is faced with a sit-uation where even the media

does not question theGovernment when its land hasbeen seized by another nation.

Pointing out that theOpposition in any country func-tions within a framework,including the media, the judicialsystem, and institutions thatprotect the voice of the people,he said: “In India, that entireframework has been controlledand captured by the BharatiyaJanata Party (BJP) Government,the entire architecture designedfor giving voice to the people hasbeen captured.”

“While the governmentmay have captured the institu-tions, the fact is that they can-not control the farmers, theyouth, and the small traders,whose interests they are destroy-ing. I work among these people,who are the hardest hit byModi’s policies. I am a patient

person, and will wait till thepeople of India see the truth,”added Rahul, who was flankedby Punjab Chief Minister CaptAmarinder Singh.

Rahul, on the Centre’s threenew farm laws, said that he wascommitted to fighting against theModi Government’s attack onfarmers, just as they had earliertargeted SMEs and small traderswith demonetization and GST. “Iwill fight them and stop them,”he declared, pointing out that ifMSP goes, Punjab, Haryana,and other agricultural states likeUttar Pradesh and Rajasthan willhave no future left.

He slammed the ModiGovernment for destroyingkey systems such as SMEs andsmall businesses, which werethe backbone of the nation andwere generating employmentfor lakhs of youth, on directives

of big corporate houses.“The trio of Modi, Ambani

and Adani has ruined the struc-ture of employment by destroy-ing SMEs, now they aredestroying the foundations ofagriculture, and soon the peo-ple of India will be left with nojobs, nor food, and no future,”he warned.

Asked to comment onBJP’s claims that the farm laws,just like demonetization andGST, were major achievementsof the Modi Government,Rahul told the media to go andask the small traders and busi-nessmen, and the farmers,whether they considered theseactions to be accomplishmentsor failures. “If the Farm Lawsare an achievement, then whyare the farmers not celebrating,why are they not bursting fire-crackers with joy?” he asked.

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Himachal Chief Minister JaiRam Thakur on Tuesday

said that the Atal TunnelRohtang, which was dedicatedto the nation by Prime Minister

Narendra Modi on third of thismonth, provides strategicadvantage to the armed forcesof the country by providingyear-long connectivity to bor-der areas.

The Chief Minister said

that Manali-Leh-Ladakh roadhas a huge strategic significanceand Atal Tunnel would facili-tate faster mobilisation oftroops and supplies to bordersof the country. He said that thetunnel would save an entire day

for troops and supplies as theymove towards forward posts.

The all-weather tunnelwould also be a blessing for thepeople of Lahaul and Spiti dis-trict, as it would help themremain connected with the

rest of the country throughoutthe year. For tourists, the 9.02kms long tunnel would short-en the distance from Manali toLahaul and Spiti districts byseveral kilometers, he added.

The Chief Minister furthersaid that the reduction in trav-el time would help farmers ofthe valley to transport theirproduce easily to the market.Now, their precious crops likepeas, broccoli and potatoes

would no longer rot in trucksbefore reaching Kullu and othermarkets. Essential commoditieslike petrol and vegetable sup-plies would also be availablethroughout the year, he said.

Thakur said that the tunnelwould also give a big boost totourism development in theLahaul valley.

Prior to the opening of AtalTunnel, residents of Lahaul-Spiti had to face immense

hardship to avail even basicfacilities like healthcare andfood supplies would now beable to reach Manali and con-nect with the rest of the coun-try, he added.

Notably, the 9.02-km longAtal Tunnel, running across the13,050-ft high Rohtang pass, onthe Manali-Leh axis is the high-est motorable highway tunnel inthe world. The tunnel hasreduced the distance between

Manali and Leh by 46 km.Among other features, the

tunnel has telephone connec-tions at every 150 meter foremergency communication,fire hydrant mechanisms atevery 60 meter, auto incidentdetection system with CCTVcameras at every 250 meter, airquality monitoring at every 1km, broadcasting systemthroughout the tunnel andcameras at every 60 meters.

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From Page 1Castigating the BJP

Government, Capt Amarindersaid that farmers all over thecountry have risen up againstthe Modi regime and warnedthat “these oppressors will bedecimated in the next elec-tions.”

“If the farmers are reallyhappy with these laws, as theModi Government claims, thenwhy are they out on the streetsprotesting?” he asked, assertingthat till these laws are rolledback, Punjab’s war against themwill continue. This is a fight for‘roti’ as 65 percent of the coun-try's population thrives onagriculture, he said, extendinghis full support to the farmers.

Equating Modi with theBritish, AICC general secretaryand in-charge Punjab affairsHarish Rawat said that just asthe atrocities of the Britishempire failed to dampen thespirit of the Gandhi family,Modi also would not be able todo so.

Calling Rahul Gandhi thefuture of the country, Rawatsaid that only he can give abefitting response to the ModiGovernment.

Punjab Congress presidentSunil Jakhar said that the daythe farmers’ destinies wentinto the hands of corporategiants, the PDS system and themandi system would be fin-ished, with devastating effecton the farming communityand the poor. “The farm lawswould turn farmers into dailywagers,” said Jakhar, lashing outat the Akalis, whom he brand-ed agents of Modi.

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RN Batta, Advisor toHimachal Chief Minister

Jai Ram Thakur has testedpositive for COVID-19. Thedevelopment came a day afterthe Chief Minister had isolat-ed himself for three days as aprecautionary measure.

During the inauguration ofAtal Tunnel Rohtang, the ChiefMinister had come in contactwith BJP MLA from Banjar,Surender Shourie, who wastested positive for COVID-19.

Meanwhile, the Congressleader and Shimla (rural) MLAVikramaditya Singh hasaccused the State Governmentof violating COVID-19 safetyprotocols.

While talking to the medi-apersons, Vikramaditya Singhsaid that the state HealthDepartment has allegedly cov-ered up the COVID positivereport of BJP MLA fromBanjar, who attended the func-tion of inauguration of AtalTunnel on Saturday.

Prime Minister NarendraModi and other dignitaries

were present at the inaugura-tion.

The Congress leader saidthat the Health Departmentwithheld the information ofCOVID report of MLA underpolitical pressure. A large num-ber of dignitaries including thePrime Minister were presentduring the inauguration func-tion. Hence, those responsiblefor such lapses should be heldaccountable, he added.

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Himachal Pradesh on

Tuesday reported 31 newCOVID-19 cases, taking thetally of people infected with thevirus in the state to 16106.According to the HimachalHealth Department’s eveningbulletin, seven persons suc-cumbed to COVID-19 in thepast 24 hours and the death tollin the state stood at 223. Therewere 3027 active cases inHimachal while 12831 haverecovered from the virus tillnow.

Sirmour reported a maxi-mum of 12 cases followed byMandi which reported eightcases, four cases were record-ed in Kullu, three in Kangra,two in Hamirpur, one each inShimla and Lahul & Spiti in thelast 24 hours, the bulletin said.

As per the bulletin, Solanhas reported a maximum of3171 positive cases whileKangra has reported a maxi-mum of 53 fatalities till now.310019 samples have beentested so far in the state. In thepast 24 hours, a total of 1649were tested in the state andreport of 828 is awaited, itadded.

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Declaring that he was com-mitted to fighting against

the Centre’s “attack on farmers”,Congress leader Rahul Gandhion Tuesday pointed that if theMSP (minimum support price)goes, Punjab, Haryana, andother agricultural states likeUttar Pradesh and Rajasthanwill have no future left.

“I am committed to fight-ing against the ModiGovernment’s attack on farm-ers, just as they had earlier tar-geted SMEs and small traderswith demonetization and GST.I will fight them and stopthem,” he declared.

In response to a questionon Modi & Co making fun ofhis protests in Punjab andHaryana, Rahul shrugged it off,pointing out they had done thatin February too, when he hadfirst warned about Corona.“But the truth is there for all tosee now,” he said, adding thatsix months on, everyone willknow the truth of what he issaying now on the farm lawstoo.

Taking a dig at the PrimeMinister Narendra Modi’s ear-lier statement that India willwin the war against COVID-19

in 22 days, he said: “You can seefor yourself who talks moresense — Modi or me?...You(media) can decide who isjoking.”

Noting that all systems areconnected, and destruction ofone leads to the ruin of others,Rahul said that the farm lawswill end up destroying MSPand PDS for the poor too. “Thedanger is real and cannot benegated just because Modi &Co are making fun of me,” heremarked.

Rahul slammed the ModiGovernment for destroyingkey systems such as SMEs andsmall businesses, which werethe backbone of the nation andwere generating employmentfor lakhs of youth, on directivesof big corporate houses.

“The trio of Modi, Ambaniand Adani has ruined the struc-ture of employment by destroy-ing SMEs, now they aredestroying the foundations ofagriculture, and soon the peo-ple of India will be left with nojobs, nor food, and no future,”he warned.

Calling the existing foodsecurity system a fortress forthe farmers, Rahul said that ithad needed improvement andreforms, which is what the

Congress manifesto had alsopromised.

He cited key promises ofdevelopment of the agricultur-al system through farmer mar-kets, mandis every few kms,farm to fork infrastructure etc.“We never said we will destroythe whole food security system,which Modi has done withthese farm laws,” he said.

He warned that this willaffect the entire chain of thesystem, rendering lakhs of peo-ple employed in the farmingsector jobless, and also endingthe subsidies for the poor.

Asked to comment onBJP’s claims that the farm laws,just like demonetization andGST, were major achievementsof the Modi government, Rahul

told the media to go and ask thesmall traders and business-men, and the farmers, whetherthey considered these actions tobe accomplishments or failures.“If the farm laws are anachievement, then why are thefarmers not celebrating, whyare they not bursting fire-crackers with joy?” he asked.

“In any case, if Modi was so

confident that these laws werebeneficial to farmers, why did-n’t he face a debate inParliament, why did he pushthe laws during COVID timeswhen the farmers cannot comeout on the roads, why did henot hold a press conference orcome and meet the farmers inPunjab,” he quipped.

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Rahul Gandhi slammedPrime Minister Narendra Modifor not “uttering a word” on thetragic Hathras incident. “I findit interesting that PrimeMinister has not uttered aword about the incident, inwhich a kid was raped andmurdered and her whole fam-ily was under attack by theadministration,” he said.Maintaining that it was UttarPradesh Chief Minister YogiAdityanath’s prerogative to seean ‘international conspiracy’ inthe Hathras incident, RahulGandhi said that he personal-ly sees in it a major tragedy.“Yogi Aditynath is entitled tohis opinion, he can imaginewhat he wants, but what I sawwas a lovely girl brutalizedand killed, and her family

threatened and subjugated,” hesaid adding that YogiAdityanath should also havehad the decency to do so.

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On he and PriyankaGandhi Vadra being pushedaround and manhandled onway to Hathras, and FIRs beingregistered against large numberof Congress workers by the UPpolice, Rahul said what he andhis party men and women suf-fered was “minor” comparedwith what the victim’s familywas going through. “They arethe ones who have really beenpushed around…It was no bigdeal for me to be pushedaround by the cops in UP,” hesaid, adding that he went therenot just for the Hathras victimand her family but for thesake of lakhs of Indian womenwho suffer, and thousands ofwomen who are raped in thecountry every day.

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Recalling a childhoodmemory of how a handful ofSikhs had protected his family

when his grandmother IndiraGandhi lost the parliamentaryelection in 1977, Rahul Gandhisaid that he felt he owed a debtto Punjab and Punjabis. “Therewas nobody in the Houseexcept these Sikhs who pro-tected my grandmother,” herecalled. Asked why Punjabisshould trust him, Rahul saidthat the people of Punjabshould see his actions and lookat his political career, allthrough which he had alwaysstood with those suffering anyinjustice. Asserting that he hadlearnt a lot from Punjabis,Rahul said that he had a lot ofappreciation for the Punjabispirit, and he always had a feel-ing that “I owe a debt to thepeople of Punjab”, and “I havesimilar feelings also for the peo-ple of Tamil Nadu”.

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Patiala: Taking a dig at theBJP for criticizing his tractorride on a ‘gaddi (cushion) putthere by someone else’,Congress leader RahulGandhi quipped that thePrime Minister’s new AirIndia One plane, bought formore than Rs 8,000 crore ofthe taxpayers’ money, hadnot just a cushion but a wholelot of luxury beds for his com-fort. “Why don’t you questionthem about this?” Rahul askedthe media, while slammingthe Prime Minister for wast-ing thousands of crores ofrupees on the plane justbecause “his friend DonaldTrump (US President) hasone”.

“It is strange that nobodyis seeing or questioning theVVIP Boeing 777 purchasedfor this whopping amount, buteveryone being quick to pointto the ‘gaddi’ which somewell-wisher had put on a trac-tor for me,” he said. PNS

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Punjab Chief Minister CaptAmarinder Singh on

Tuesday announced that hisgovernment will soon intro-duce a new scholarship schemefor Scheduled Caste (SC) stu-dents, who had been back-stabbed by the central govern-ment, which had abruptlyended the post- matric schol-arship scheme for them.

He said the new schemewould give an opportunity tostudents of weaker sections topursue higher learning in var-ious streams, which they hadbeen deprived of due to with-drawal of the scholarshipscheme by the Government ofIndia. He said the state gov-ernment was in the process ofrecasting this scheme with theaim of ensuring that no SC stu-dent is deprived of higher edu-cation.

Capt Amarinder also reit-erated his government’s resolveto recruit 1 lakh youth in gov-ernment jobs over next one and

half year, of which 50,000 willbe recruited till March, 2021,and another 50,000 by the endof its term.

Addressing a virtual pro-gramme on the culmination ofthe 6th State Level Mega RozgarMela from Patiala, along with

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi,whom the Chief Ministerthanked for his vision to includethe state government’s flagshipprogramme for employmentgeneration - ‘Ghar Ghar Rozgarand Karobar’ - in the party’smanifesto during the 2017

Assembly elections, CaptAmarinder noted with satisfac-tion that his government had, inthe past 3.5 years, successfullycreated job opportunities for13.42 lakh youth through place-ment and self-employmentassistance under the scheme. Of

these, 50,000 government and4.04 lakh private jobs had beengiven to the youth, besidesfacilitating nearly 8.80 lakhyouth in taking up self- employ-ment ventures, he said.

The Chief Ministerapprised Rahul Gandhi thateminent multinational corpo-rates like Microsoft, and otherprivate companies of India,including Trident, GuruGobind Singh Refinery(HPCL-Mittal Energy Ltd.),Bathinda, had played a pivotalrole in offering remunerativejobs to Punjab’s youth.

Pointing out that Punjabhad once led the country in theSME sector, despite being a pre-

dominantly agrarian econo-my, Rahul said the previousAkali-BJP government in thestate had decimated the same,just as they were now trying toruin agriculture.

However, under theincumbent government,Punjab continues to nurture itscottage small and micro indus-trial units, which have anenormous potential to growand result in job creation, hesaid. He noted that evenMicrosoft started its journey asa small company, and thesesmall Punjab units would alsogrow into large companiesunder the nurturance of theinnovative and hardworking

youth.Rahul emphasized the

need to create a perfect syner-gy between agriculture andindustry to ensure balancedeconomic growth in the coun-try.

He said instead of bringingthe draconian agricultural laws,the Centre should have helpedthe farmers by creating anexcellent infrastructure andsystem to ensure holisticgrowth of agriculture.

They should have focusedon the welfare of the farmers byproviding them a well-knitnetwork of Mandis and silos forscientific storage of foodgrains,he added.

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Former Congress president and MP RahulGandhi was briefly stopped near the

Haryana border on Tuesday while he was lead-ing a farmers' rally to protest against the farmlaws.

After confrontation and heated argumentsbetween Congress leaders and the police on theinterstate border, Rahul along with activists wereallowed to enter Haryana where they werereceived by Haryana leaders, comprising for-mer Chief Minister Bhupinder Hooda and stateparty chief Kumari Selja.

Haryana Government officials had appar-ently told Gandhi that only 100 people wouldbe allowed to enter the state. Three tractors,including Gandhi’s, were allowed to pass.Several top Congress leaders travelling withGandhi were left behind.

Meanwhile, Gandhi had earlier shared avideo of the Congress cavalcade at Haryana’sborder on Twitter and said that he wouldpatiently wait for permission to proceed. “They

have stopped us on a bridge on the Haryanaborder,” he wrote. “I’m not moving and amhappy to wait here. 1 hours, 5 hours, 24 hours,100 hours, 1000 hours or 5000 hours.” TheCongress leader added that he only wanted tomove along peacefully. “When they open theborder, I will peacefully proceed,” he said. “Untilthen I will peacefully wait here.” The tractor rallywas a part of the Congress’ “Kheti Bachao yatra”

At the border, on the Haryana side, stateCongress chief Kumari Selja, senior leadersBhupinder Singh Hooda, Randeep SinghSurjewala, Kiran Choudhary, Ajay Singh Yadavand party's Haryana affairs in charge VivekBansal were present.

Ahead of Gandhi's tractor rally in Haryana,the BJP-led government on Monday had saidthe Congress leader can bring a few people inthe state but it will not permit a big crowd fromPunjab which can "disturb" the atmosphere.Chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar saidGandhi has the right to put forth his views but"if he comes with a big procession fromPunjab, we won't allow it".

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Punjab Chief Minister CaptAmarinder Singh on

Tuesday declared that the StateGovernment would soon con-vene a special Vidhan Sabha ses-sion to scuttle the Centre’s threenew farm legislations.

“Punjab Government willsoon bring a special session toscuttle these legislations of theCentre, which were crafted todestroy not just the farmers butthe entire agricultural system,and the State,” the ChiefMinister told the media in thepresence of the Congress leaderRahul Gandhi.

The Chief Minister saidthat the special session of thePunjab Assembly would discussand oppose the three laws in thestate.

He added, “We will alsotake legal recourse and a sessionwill soon be summoned.”

Meanwhile, ShiromaniAkali Dal president SukhbirSingh Badal demanded thatthe “anti-farmers” and “pro-cor-porate” provisions of the APMCAct, 2017, enacted by the CaptAmarinder-led CongressGovernment must be scrappedin a special Vidhan Sabha ses-sion.

“The Chief Minister’s u-turn on the session is a decisivefirst victory of SAD and thefarmers’ organizations. This isone of the major objectives ofthe party’s massive Kisan RoshMarch on October 1, alongwith the annulment of theCentre’s three Acts on farmmarketing,” he said.

Sukhbir recalled how CaptAmarinder had ridiculed theAkali demand saying that thiswas no solution to the problem.“But seeing the intensity of thePunjabis, especially the farmers’rage during the October 1 Akali

Ros March and in the protestsof the farmers’ organizations,Amarinder has felt compelled totake this U-turn and to agree toconvene a session,” he said.

“Scrapping of the provi-sions of the anti-farmer 2017APMC Act as well as declaringthe whole of the State of Punjabas notified Mandi, or PrincipalMarket Area, have been the con-sistent demands of the SAD,” hesaid while urging the StateGovernment to convene a spe-cial session of the state assem-bly.

Maintaining that thoughthe Centre’s acts must be reject-ed by the state assembly, Sukhbirsaid that a mere rejection ofthese Acts would have no prac-tical implication or utility for thefarmers if the State is notdeclared an agricultural marketand also if the 2017 APMC Actcontinues to remain in force inthe state.

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Farmers' bodies will discusson Wednesday Punjab

Chief Minister CaptAmarinder Singh's appeal forrelaxing their ongoing ''railroko'' agitation to allow move-ments of goods trains in thelarger interest of the state.

Representatives of 31farmers' organisations, whichhave been holding the state-wide protests against the newfarm laws, will hold a meet-ing, Krantikari Kisan Unionpresident Darshan Pal said onTuesday.

The chief minister had onMonday urged the protestingfarmers to ease their railblockade to ensure that thestate can meet its criticalneeds. Capt Amarinder hadsaid due to the prolongedblockade of goods trains, thesituation at Punjab's coalplants was critical and theywere left with only five to sixdays of coal. He had furthersaid with not a single fertiliz-er rake entering Punjab forthe past one week, there couldbe a severe shortage of fertil-izer for the use by farmerssowing the wheat crop.

Different farmers' bodieshad stepped up their agitationby resorting to blocking railtracks for an indefinite peri-od from October 1 in the stateto protest the new farm laws.Farmers under the banner ofthe Kisan Mazdoor SangharshCommittee, however, havebeen squatting at rail tracks inAmritsar and Ferozepur sinceSeptember 24.

At present, farmers con-tinue to block rail tracks at 33places in the state. Besides,they have also staged sit-insoutside several petrol pumps,toll plazas, and shoppingmalls. Farmers have alsobeen staging ''dharnas'' out-side the houses of some BJPleaders.

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About 48 per cent of thetotal Covid-19 deaths in

the country is concentrated ineight States of 25 districts, ofwhich 15 districts are inMaharashtra alone, theGovernment said on Tuesday.The target is to bring thefatality rate below 1 per cent,it maintained.

Giving figures on Coviddeaths in the country at apress briefing here, UnionHealth Secretar y RajeshBhushan said, “Out of 25 dis-tricts in eight States, 15 dis-tricts are in one state alone,that is Maharashtra. Two dis-tricts each are in Karnataka,West Bengal and Gujarat andone each in Tamil Nadu,Punjab, UP and AndhraPradesh.”

The Ministry is in talkswith these states to control thedeaths due to the pathogen,Bhushan told the reporters.He was of the view that thedeaths in these identified dis-tricts were not due to poor

health infrastructure butbecause of delay in treatment.

The States have beenasked to enhance tests andthus detection so that thoseneeding the treatment aregiven adequate medical facil-ities. “Delay in treatment canprogress the disease and hencedeaths,” Bhushan said even ashe added that the States werehaving enough supply of oxy-gen and other infrastructureto manage the disease. Morethan 8 crore COVID testshave been conducted so far, ofwhich 80 lakh tests were donein the last week

While talking about thespread of Covid-19 in thecountry, he said that ten Statesaccount for 77 per cent of totalactive cases of which threeStates viz. Maharashtra,Karnataka and Kerala accountfor 50 per cent of country’stotal active cases.

Analysing the trend ofCOVID cases reported in dif-ferent states, he remarked thatit is too early to take a call onMaharashtra and that there is

a need to observe the state fora longer period of time. “As weapproach festival and winterseason which is conducive for spread of dis-eases such as influenza, we

need to be extra cautious. Wehave told all states to ensureeffective implementation ofpublic health strategies in thefight against COVID-19”, headded.

He also said that a digitalplatform is being built totrack COVID-19 vaccineadministration and move-ment, from procurement tostorage to distribution to indi-

vidual beneficiaries and thatonline training modules arebeing developed for vaccina-tors.

Bhushan further said that

the average daily Covid-19positivity rate has declinedfrom 9.21 per cent recordedbetween September 16-22 to6.82 per cent registered from

September 30 to October 6.The total Covid cases in

India have crossed 66.85 lakhwith total deaths at 1,03,569,including 884 in 24 hours.

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Ahead of the festivals likeNavratri, Durga Puja,

Diwali, Chhath Puja,the UnionHealth Ministry on Tuesdayissued advisories on preventivemeasures such as staggeredtimings, thermal screening,physical distancing, sanitisa-tion and monitoring throughCCTVs at the events to containthe spread of Covid-19 whichare on increase across thecountry.

While festive events inthe containment zones willnot be allowed, the StandardOperating Procedures (SOPs)enlists necessary preventivesteps that need to be followedfor religious worship, fairs, ral-lies, exhibitions, cultural func-tions during the festivitiesthat are expected to witnessgatherings of a large numberof people.

The document says thatorganisers/staff/visitors fromthe containment zones shallnot be permitted in areas

where festive events are organ-ised. People residing in thecontainment zones may beencouraged to observe all fes-tivals inside their homes andnot move out.

Persons above 65 years,those with co-morbidities,pregnant women and chil-dren below 10 years havebeen advised to stay at homeand avoid large gathering forfestivals to be held in October,November and December.

As per the SoPs preparedby the Union Health Ministry,the committees will have toensure the adequate area forevents with a detailed sitemap and proper markings tomaintain social distancing.Touching of idols and holybooks has been prohibited toprevent the spread of infec-tion.

People wishing to attendthe events, including the staffshould be allowed entry onlyif they are using a face mask.The SOPs clearly state that thevisitors will have to maintain

physical distancing of a min-imum of six feet.

In case of rallies andimmersion processions thenumber of people should notexceed the prescribed limitand proper physical distanc-ing and wearing of masksmust be ensured. In any case,the number of such rallies andthe distance covered by themmay be kept within manage-able limits, as per the adviso-ry.

“Adequate manpowershall be deployed/ arranged bythe organisers to ensure obser-vance to physical distancingnorms and other preventivemeasures at all times, appro-priate arrangements for per-sonal protection gears likeface covers/masks, and otherlogistic like hand sanitizers,soap, sodium hypochloritesolution for sanitising fre-quently touched surfaces etc.shall be made available byevent organizers/businessowners for their staff as perrequirements,” it said.

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To bring in uniformity andconsistency in the Ayush-

based Covid-19 treatmentacross the country, the UnionHealth and Ayush Ministrieson Tuesday jointly launched aprotocol for the clinical man-agement of Covid-19 based onIndian traditional medicinesystem for prevention of coro-navirus infection and treat-ment of mild and asympto-matic cases.

According to the ‘NationalClinical ManagementProtocol, based on Ayurvedaand Yoga for Management ofCOVID-19’, which wasreleased by Union HealthMinister Dr Harsh Vardhan onTuesday in the virtual presenceof Shripad Naik, Minister ofState for AYUSH, one shouldfollow dietary measures, yogaand consume Ayurvedic herbsand formulations such asAshwagandha and AYUSH-64among few other herbal for-mulations.

“This protocol dealing

with preventive and prophy-lactic measures is a significantstep not only in managementof COVID-19 but also in mak-ing traditional knowledge rel-evant to solving problems ofthe modern time,” Vardhansaid.

“Unfortunately, Ayurvedadid not receive much attentionafter independence untilPrime Minister NarendraModi took up this cause withthe importance it deserves,” hesaid while stressing thatAyurveda “had a significantimpact in the foundations ofmodern medicine”.

The protocol documentpoints out that the currentunderstanding indicates agood immune system is vitalfor prevention of coronavirusinfection and to safeguardfrom disease progression.

It suggests use of medi-cines such as Ashwagandha,Guduchi Ghana Vati orChyawanaprasha as prophy-lactic care for high risk popu-lation and primary contacts ofpatients while recommend-

ing consumption of GuduchiGhana Vati, Guduchi andPippali or AYUSH 64 forasymptomatic COVID-19positive patients for preven-tion of disease progression tosymptomatic and severe formsand to improve recovery rate.

Guduchi and Pippali, andAYUSH 64 tablets can begiven to mild coronavirusinfected patients, it said.

Union Secretary RajeshKotecha said, “We call this firstversion of the protocol, whichwill be modified as more evi-dence is generated throughfurther studies in future.”

The document also listedA s h w a g a n d h a ,Chyawanprasha or RasayanaChurna for post-COVID-19management to prevent lungcomplications like fibrosis,fatigue and mental health.

Further, to improve respi-ratory and cardiac efficiency,to reduce stress and anxietyand enhance immunity, theministry has listed YogaProtocol for PrimaryPrevention of COVID- 19.

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The EnforcementDirectorate (ED) has filed

a prosecution complaint(chargesheet in police par-lance) under Prevention ofMoney Laundering Act against10 individuals and one entity inthe infamous railway briberycase.

The PMLA case was anoutcome of a CBI case in whichthen railways minister PawanKumar Bansal’s nephew VijaySingla was caught red handedwhile accepting a bribe of�89,68,000 for favourableappointment and posting ofMahesh Kumar, a 1975 batchofficer of Indian RailwayService of Signal Engineers(IRSSE) as Member(Electrical), Railway Board.

Those named in the pros-ecution complaint are MaheshKumar (former officer ofIndian Railway Service ofSignal Engineers), NManjunath, Sandeep Goyal,Vijay Singla, Ajay Garg, RahulYadav, Sameer Sandhir, SushilDaga, CV Venugopal and MVMurali Krishna besides privatefirm Venkateshwara RailNirman Pvt. Ltd.. The prose-cution complaint was filedbefore the Special Court(PMLA) at Chandigarh in theRailway Bribery case.

“The ProsecutionComplaint has been filed witha prayer to punish the accusedin accordance with the law andto confiscate the asset attachedunder PMLA,” the ED said in

a statement. The ED had initiated inves-

tigation under the provisions ofPMLA on the basis of CBI’s FIRand chargesheet filed beforeSpecial judge (SPE/ CBI cases)Patiala House Court, NewDelhi against Mahesh Kumar(Member (Staff ), RailwayBoard),Vijay Singla, SandeepGoyal and seven other accusedpersons under Section 120-B(criminal conspiracy) of theIndian Penal Code and relevantprovisions of the Prevention ofCorruption Act.

“During the course ofinvestigations under PMLA, itwas revealed that N Manjunath,on behalf of Mahesh Kumar,had persuaded various Railwayvendors/S&T manufactures/contractors for making arrange-ment of bribe amount for pro-motion of Mahesh Kumar asMember (Electrical) by alluringthem that all the contributorswill be taken care of/benefitedfrom the desired posting ofMahesh Kumar,” the ED said.

Investigation furtherrevealed that the first instal-ment of bribe amount of�89,68,000 was contributed byN Manjunath, MV MurliKrishna, Sushil Daga andVenketeshwara Rail NirmanPvt. Ltd. Of this, Rs 50 Lakhwere contributed by Manjunathhimself, �25 Lakh by MVMurali Krishan, �5 lakh bySushil Daga and Rs 10 Lakhfrom the account ofVenkteshwara Rail Nirman Pvt.Ltd. by Rahul Yadav and Sushil Daga.

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The ‘70@70’ programme,launched on Gandhi

Jayanti as part of celebrationsof 70th birthday of PrimeMinister Narendra Modi,would in the first phase focuson providing accessible andaffordable smart education,smart health, smart agricul-ture and clean energy in the 70villages that would be adopt-ed.

Launching the pro-gramme, Agriculture andRural Minister NarendraSingh Tomar had extended theCentre’s full support to theproject as, he said, it would

help people in the villages takeadvantage of technology andprocesses.

Tomar said the programwould also inspire neighbor-ing villages to move towardsbecoming self-reliant.

The initiative of adoptionof villages has been under-taken by various organisa-tions like eKisaan founda-tion, GIBV, and organisationsincluding Jaipur Foot USA,Computer Society of India,Edufront, Friends of MP, IndiaGlobal, True TeslaTechnologies and ATREE.

The core team for this‘70@70’ programme includesPramit Maakoday, Kanchan

Bannerjee, Jyoti Bhowraskar,Sanjeev Tripathi, SrikantaBhaskara and Manoj Sisodia.

Maakoday said the objec-tive of this program is to edu-cate, engage, and empowerour farmers, along with imple-menting programs in PPPmode. While eKisaan foun-dation is a registered organi-zation based in India, theGlobal Indians for BharatVikas (GIBV) is a not-for-profit organization based inBoston, United States and itsmission includes establishinga network of volunteers fromaround the world in organicdevelopment of villages andrural ecosystem in India.

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Eleven political partiestogether collected �2,777.97

crore comprising donationsabove �20,000 between 2014-15 and 2018-19 with the rulingBJP accounting for 80.12% ofthe total donations by collect-ing �2225.66 crore, followed byits rival Congress at 13.64%with �379.02 crore.

According to theAssociation for DemocraticRights (ADR), only three of the11 mainstream parties analysedhad submitted their reports ofdonations to the ElectionCommission (EC) within thestipulated time frame.

The income for all political

parties for the 11-year period was esti-mated at �11,367.34crore, includingnational and region-al outfits at�9,278.30 crore and�2,089.04 crore,respectively. TheADR report showedthat �1,405.19 crorewas declared by six nationalparties through known sourcesof donation worth above�20,000.

There were donationsworth �325.23 crore that weredeposited without anyPermanent Account Number(PAN), which is issued by theIncome Tax (I-T) Department.

The BJP accounted for thelion’s share of unaccountedsource of donations at �237.22crore, or 72.94%, followed bythe Congress (�81.87 crore)and the Communist Party ofIndia (CPI) (�5.04-crore).Besides, �15.75 crore wasdonated to the parties viaincorrect PAN numbers.

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The Union Health Ministryon Tuesday said that insur-

ance claim of �50 lakh each waspaid to the kin of 95 frontlinehealthcare workers who suc-cumbed to the coronavirusdisease, while 176 claims werestill under process.

“In 95 cases of death ofhealthcare workers across thecountry, insurance money of Rs50 lakh each has been paid.There are 176 claims which arebeing processed by the nodalinsurance company. Out ofthese, 79 claims are yet to bereceived from various states,”said Union Health SecretaryRajesh Bhushan at a pressbriefing here.

In the wake of Covid-19pandemic, the Centre has madea provision for insurance coverunder the Pradhan MantriGarib Kalyan Package forhealthcare providers and com-munity health workers, whomay have to be in direct con-tact and take care of Covid-19patients and thus at risk.

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The Central Drugs StandardControl Organisation

(CDSCO) has asked DrReddy’s Laboratories to submita revised protocol for con-ducting both phase 2 andphase 3 human clinical trialsfor the Russian vaccine againstCovid-19, Sputnik V, in India,the Government said onTuesday.

The Hyderabad-basedpharmaceutical company hadapplied to the DrugsController General of India(DCGI) late last week, seekingpermission to conduct phase-3 human clinical trials of theRussian vaccine.

The Subject ExpertCommittee (SEC) on Covid at

the CDSCO, which held itsmeeting on Monday, deliber-ated on the application andasked the firm to submit arevised protocol stating it willhave to conduct combinedphase 2 and 3 clinical trials,

The firm has been asked toprovide some other informa-tion as well.

In reply to a media queryhere at a press briefing, UnionHealth Secretary RajeshBhushan said that the Russianvaccine has an agreement withan Indian commercial entity(Dr Reddy’s Lab) which hasapproached the Indian regula-tor (DCGI) for clinical trialsand that the regulator hasgiven some suggestions whichneed to be incorporated by theentity.

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In a move aimed to benefit thedeaf and those with hearing

disabilities, the NationalCouncil of EducationalResearch and Training(NCERT) inked a pact with theIndian Sign Language ResearchAnd Training Centre (ISLRTC)on Tuesday to come up withresources to standardisethe Indian Sign Language toprepare inclusive academicmaterial for persons with dis-abilities.

The agreement was signedon the occasion of the 60thfoundation day of NCERT.

Union Education Minister

Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’said : “This new initiative by theNCERT and ISLRTC for thespecially abled children, especially for those who cannothear or speak, will help to guidethem along with the rest of thestudents in terms of education.”

Officials said that the pri-ority will be to convert text-books into the Indian SignLanguage for Classes 1 to 5 andlater for Classes 6 to 12.ISLRTC will provide the edu-cators, interpreters andresources for this task.

As per the census 2011,there are 50, 71,007 deaf peo-ple and 19, 98,535 with speechdisability in India.

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The Supreme Court Tuesdaysought response from the

Centre, CBI and 12 States on aPIL seeking directions to set upa mechanism to bring backIndian workers who have losttheir passports in Gulf countriesand implement policies framedfor their welfare.

A three-judge bench com-

prising Justices N V Ramana,Surya Kant and AniruddhaBose issued notices to theMinistry of Home Affairs, theCBI as also Telangana, AndhraPradesh, West Bengal, Odisha,Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and otherStates.

Advocate Sravan Kumar,appearing for the petitioner,

told the court that IndianEmbassies in many cases arenot working proactively and notadopting any effective mea-sure to bring back the workersas it is being done by othercountries.

The apex court was hearinga plea filed by Basanth ReddyPatkuri, president of GulfTelangana Welfare and CulturalAssociation, who has alsosought guidelines to help Indiancitizens visiting other countriesfor employment who are cheat-ed by agents and employer.

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ignated 11 IndianAdministrative Service offi-cers and five Indian PoliceService officers.

Aparna Arora has beenappointed Principal Secretaryof School Education andLibrary Department, where-as Roli Singh is the newPrincipal

Resident Commissioner,New Delhi, an order issued bythe Department of Personnelsaid.

Hemant Kumar Gera,who was earlier the Secretaryof Food and Civil SuppliesDepartment, has beenappointed to the Departmentof Personnel.

P Ramesh has replacedVikas Sitaram Bhale as theUdaipur DivisionalCommissioner. Bhale willnow be the Commissioner ofTourism Department andRTDC Chairman.

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Bengal BJP spokesperson andformer MLA Samik

Bhattacharya was on Tuesday phys-ically assaulted and his car literallysmashed by alleged TrinamoolCongress supporters while he wasgoing to join a party meeting atDiamond Harbour some 50 kmsouth of Kolkata.

The attack came close on theheels of the murder of BJPCouncil lor Manish Shuklademise at Titagarh in North 24Parganas. Two persons werearrested in the case.

“I was going to DiamondHarbour to attend a party meeting.Suddenly my vehicle was stopped bya crowd of 100-150 people shout-ing anti-BJP slogans. They smashedthe windshields of my car, pulled meout, threw me on the ground,kicked me, rained blows on me,”Bhattacharya whose clothes were

tattered in the scuffle said.State BJP president Dilip Ghosh

too was black-flagged even as South24 Parganas district TMC leaderShaukat Molla said the saffronleaders would face more attacks ifthey continued with dirty politics.

Molla a party strongman said “ifthe BJP leaders do not stop the dirtypolitics they are playing then thepeople will now resort to more suchattacks and they will break theirlegs… That party is playing the pol-itics of hatred throughout India …like what they did in Hathras andother places. They are setting onecastes and communities againsteach the other. People will seethrough this dirty game.”

Incidentally the attack came aday after Dilip Ghosh made a con-troversial statement saying Bengalwas fast turning into a “mafia raj likeBihar and UP” providing the desiredammo to the Trinamool Congresswhich quickly got back wonderingwhether Ghosh genuinely meantthat the BJP ruled states were in thegrip of mafia raj.

Kolkata: Veteran Bengali actorand Dadasaheb Phalke awardeeSaumitra Chatterjee has con-tacted corona and has beenhospitalized with mild fever, hisfamily sources said adding hehad to be taken to a hospitalconsidering his age and comor-bid conditions. Chatterjee is 85.

Poulami Chatterjee thedaughter of Padma Bhushanaward winning actor said, “heis stable. He had a fever in thelast few days. We wanted toadmit him as a precautionarymeasure since he has multiplecomorbidities,” adding a three-member medical team wasmonitoring the legendary actorwho is a patient of chronicobstructive pulmonary disease.

Chatterjee is known for hislife-long association with Oscarwinning director Satyajit Rayplaying the leading role inmost of his classicsapart fromplaying private detective Feluda(also a Ray creation) inhismovies. PNS

Hathras (UP): The YogiAdityanath Government hasdeployed round-the-clock securi-ty outside the house of the Hathrasvictim.

The family had sought securi-ty from the government.

Hathras Superintendent ofPolice Vineet Jaiswal said that twowomen sub-inspectors and sixwomen constables have been sta-tioned at the victim's house.

“Two security personnel havebeen deployed for the security ofthe victim's brother. ProvincialArmed Constabulary personnelare also camping outside thehouse,” he said.

Apart from this, 15 police per-sonnel, three station house officers

and one deputy superintendent ofpolice have been deployed in thevillage to prevent any untowardincident, he added.

The victim's family had repeat-edly said that they feared for theirsafety. They had even said that theywanted to leave the village and set-tle elsewhere.

“We are afraid of threats (fromthe supporters of the four accusedarrested in the case). The comingdays will be more challenging forus,” the victim's brother said.

Meanwhile, in a video that hasgone viral on social media, someupper caste men can be heardthreatening the victim's family anddefending the four men arrested forthe crime. IANS

Balrampur (UP): Two strik-ingly similar incidents tookplace at a distance of about 540kilometres and within a matterof 24 hours last week.

A Dalit girl died after beingassaulted in Hathras and anoth-er Dalit woman was raped andkilled in Balrampur district.

In both the cases, theaccused were promptly arrest-ed and the police forced thefamilies to cremate theirdaughters in the dead of thenight. Hathras has gone on tobecome a story of nationalshame while Balrampurremains largely uncovered bythe media.

Political parties in theopposition have also chosen toignore the Balrampur incidentwhere the 22-year-old B.Comstudent was raped,drugged/poisoned and senthome in a rickshaw with herback and legs broken. IANS

KOCHI: Kerala may soon lose its lone representative in the unioncouncil of Ministers as the demand to sack V Muraleedharan,Minister of state for external affairs, has reached a crescendo fromdissenters in the BJP.

This is a follow up to the favouritism shown byMuraleedharan, who has been elected to Rajya Sabha fromMaharashtra, towards Smitha Menon, a Public RelationsExecutive from Kochi. Menon attended the Indian Ocean RimAssociation of Council of Ministers held at Abu Dhabi inNovember 2019 and shared the dais, which according to a socialactivist in Kerala was a violation of diplomatic protocol.

Salim Madavoor, a RTI and civil rights activist had receiveda reply from Indian embassy in UAE stating that Menon was nota member of the official delegate which proves that she was notentitled or eligible to sit in the dais. PNS

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KOCHI: The gold smuggling scamand Quran import case which rockedKerala politics took a new turn onTuesday as the Forensic Departmentwhich probed the August 25 firemishap at Government Secretariat inits report stated that the fire was notcaused by short circuit as claimed bythe Police.

The Protocol Room, where allsensitive files of the government’sdealings with foreign countries werestored, was gutted in the fire. Whilethe entire files got destroyed in themishap all other items in the roomremained intact. “Even the sanitizerbottles stored in the room remainedsafe,” said one of the Forensic ScienceDepartment officials.

The National InvestigationAgency (NIA) probing the goldsmuggling case was to inspect theProtocol Room for seizing the fileswhen the fire destroyed the entire lot.Files dealing with the official tours ofChief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan andother ministers too were stored in theProtocol Room. PNS

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KOCHI: Thrissur residentsbreathed a sigh of relief byTuesday as the police arrestedthe prime accused in theSunday night murder ofCPI(M) activist Sanoop.

Nandan, a former CPI(M)leader was arrested by thepolice in connection with themurder on Tuesday afternoon.The cops seized the passportand other relevant documentsfrom the 48-year-old accusedwho murdered Sanoop withthe help of two accused.

Police are on the trail of theother two who are absconding.The CPI(M) State leaders con-tinued to allege that the mur-der of Sanoop was the handi-work of Sangh Parivar ele-ments.

Kerala Minister forCooperation A C Moideen ,who had alleged on Mondaythat they CPI(M) knew whowere the murderers and evennamed Sangh Parivar activistschanged tack by Tuesdaymorning and said the killingof Sanoop had wider perspec-tive. Gopalakrishnan, the BJPspokesman told reporters thatNandan who has been arrest-ed was a CPI(M) member andthe Sangh Parivar has no rolein this incident. PNS

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Aligarh: Joint team of kwarsipolice and SOG raided andcaught the bookie center of IPLbetting running in a privateschool in Swarna Jayanti Nagarcolony. Three people includingthe center leader were arrestedalong with online money trans-actions and cricket bets. Afterlate-night interrogation, theywere charged under theGambling and IT Act.

According to ASP VikasKumar, the police got informa-tion about the IPL bookie cen-ter inside a school in SwarnaJayanti Nagar running by ChiragSingh who also owns a show-room named Chirag Tiles near-by. On information, the team ofInspector Kwarsi Chhotalal andSOG in-charge Sanjeev Kumarraided and arrested Chirag,Ishaan Yagnik resident ofSurendra Nagar and NeerajKumar resident of Jaiganj whiledoing on-line transactions andclaims in this bookie center.

Aligarh: There was a conspiracyincite caste-based riots in the Stateunder the cover of Hathras case. Onthe disclosure of PFI funding,unknown media persons and associ-ated social media people have beenbooked in Chandpa police station in20 serious sections. This lawsuit alsomentions the audiotape in which theconversation of tricking the daughters'brother was made public.

They are booked under section109, 120B, 124A, 153A, 153A1,153A1A, 153A1B, 153A1C, 153B,195, 195A, 465, 468, 469, 501, 505/1,501 / 1B, 505 / 1C, 505/2 and 67 ITAct in Chandpa police station. It hasbeen mentioned in the case thatsome anarchic elements are trying totake advantage by hatching a crimi-nal conspiracy and spoiling the imageof the government and distorting thepeace in the state.

In the same case, it was men-tioned that they are threatening,tricking, and provoking the victim'sfamily to change their statements andoffered Rs 50 lakh for this misrepre-sentation. PNS

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Near the Sasani gate police station inter-section, an inspector has filed a case in

police station against Bheem Army chiefChandrashekhar Azad and his 400-500 sup-porters for protesting and jamming the high-way. All these have been accused in the law-suit of violating the instructions of the Coronaguidelines. At the same time, police have alsofiled a case against former BJP MLA RajveerSingh and other people doing Panchayat.

Former BJP MLA Rajveer Singh said thathe has received information that a case hasbeen filed against him and his supporters atHathras Gate police station. This case has beenfiled for holding Panchayat. He further toldthat there was no Panchayat there and they allgathered to welcome the Chief Minister’s deci-sion of CBI inquiry, yet the police filed a casein this. He added that he will give arrest in thiscase and are preparing the same strategy withtheir supporters as to when they will give arrest.

A case has been registered againstunknown 400 Samajwadi Party and RLDworkers for creating a ruckus on the road lead-ing to the Chandpa village of the victim girl.

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Total number of Covid-19patients in Kerala reached

87,738 by Tuesday evening,according to Pinarayi Vijayan,Chief Minister. Briefing themedia Vijayan said 7,871 newpatients were diagnosed acrossthe State till Tuesday eveningwhile the last 24 hours saw 25fatalities.

Situation has stabilised inneighbouring Tamil Nadu. TheState diagnosed 5,017 newCovid-19 patients on Tuesdayevening.

The total number ofCovid-19 patients in the Statestood at 45, 279.

The medical bulletin issuedby the Tamil NaduGovernment said 71 personssuccumbed to the pandemicwhile 5,548 patients who recov-ered from Covid-19 were dis-charged from hospitals acrossTamil Nadu.

Though Kerala had a highconcentration of Covid-19patients, CM Vijayan told thepeople that there was no needto panic.

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Even before themortal remains

of Subedar SukhdevSingh,martyred in aceasefire violationby Pakistan on theline of control inNowshera sector ofRajouri lateMonday night,arrived in his native villagePeoni falling under Majaltatehsil of Udhampur district onTuesday, his daughter TanviRajput took a pledge to serve theIndian Army by becoming anace shooter, as desired by herfather.

“My father was a brave sol-dier and an 'ace shooter'. Whenhe was off duty and staying athome he used to train me andmotivate me to become a shoot-er. After completing my studiesI would like to serve the Indianarmy and become an ace shoot-er like my father” Tanvi Rajputtold reporters while payingglowing tributes to him at hervillage home in Peoni on

Tuesday.Holding the hands of her

younger brother in her lap,Tanvi kept repeating the lastwords uttered by her father.“Beta when you will completeyour class 10th i will start yourtraining, i want to becomeshooter like my father”

Subedar Sukhdev Singh,labeled as 'sher' (Lion) in hisnative village, had also partici-pated in the Kargil war.

Remembering Singh's val-our one of his ageing uncles said,“Sukhdev was very courageous.He never showed his back to hisenemies. He led from the front,was not afraid of meeting deathon the front line.

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The impact of the Hathras rape case is being felt even inBihar Assembly elections with Congress postponing

announcement of its list of candidates for the upcoming pollsin the state with few party leaders asserting tickets shouldnot be given to tainted leaders.

AICC sources said the Congress Election Committeewas to finalize and release its list of candidates by Mondayevening but it was unable to do it and the matter has beenplaced before the party high command to take a view.

“The party wants to keep away from the controversyof proposing the names of tainted candidates, particularlythose related to cases on women issues. Our top leadershiphave been fighting on this front and most recently over theHathras,” said the party sources. With Congress leaders RahulGandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra leading the campaignagainst Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, seniorparty leaders are of the view that giving tickets to the rapeand crime against women related cases will boomerang anderode the moral of the grand old party which taken on theHathras incident by attacking the government tooth and nail.

Further explaining the reasons for the delay is the nameof shortlisted candidates like Brajesh Pande (for Govindganjconstituency) tainted with rape and other crimes againstwomen, attracting protests from several leaders most notablebeing senior Congress leader and former Union ministerGirija Vyas.

Jammu: An 'unidentified' ter-rorist was killed in retaliatoryfiring by the personnel securi-ty officer of a local BJP leaderin Nunar area of centralKashmir's Ganderbal districtlate Tuesday night.

The BJP leader has beenidentified as GhulamQadir bythe local police authorities.According to police, he escapedunhurt while one of his PSOreceived injuries in the attack.

Confirming the groundreports, the twitter handle ofKashmir Zone police said, “ter-rorists fired upon one BJPworker at Nunar in Ganderbal.He is safe, howerever, his onePSO was injured in this inci-dent. One unidentified terror-ist got killed in PSOs retalia-tion”. Meanwhile, an encounterbetween the security forcesand a group of terrorists hid-ing inside a home was going onin the Sugan area of Shopian. PNS

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In a new dimension to theSushant Singh Rajput death

case which has reached a deadend after the All India Instituteof Medical Sciences (AIIMS)ruled out murder and said it wasa case of “suicide”, the cybercrime sleuths of the Mumbaihave launched thorough inves-tigations into 80,000 allegedfake accounts created by “vest-ed interests” on various socialmedia platforms to “discredit”the Mumbai police force, itsCommissioner Param Bir Singhand “derail “ the investigationsinto the actor's death.

After having been at thereceiving end of vicious criticismover what was described as the“shoddy” manner in which thecity police officials investigatedthe Sushant Singh Rajput deathcase, Mumbai PoliceCommissioner Param Bir Singh

has ordered an investigationsinto thousands of alleged fakeaccounts on various social mediaplatforms including Twitter,Facebook and Instagram acrosscountries and continents.

Confirming the develop-ment, Mumbai’s DeputyCommissioner of Police (CyberCrime) Rashmi Karandikar saidon Tuesday: “Several socialmedia account holders aretrolling the Mumbai Police com-missioner on different platformslike Twitter, Instagram andFacebook and are using abusivelanguage against him and theforce” Karandikar said that whileone FIR had been registeredagainst the fake account holdersunder section 67 of InformationTechnology Act, another FIRhad been launched against a per-son who had allegedly usedmorphed image Mumbai PoliceCommissioner’s office twitteraccount.

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The only photograph Ihave of Jaswant Singhand me together was theone he gave me a yearbefore he was admitted to

the hospital in August 2014, neverto regain consciousness. It wastaken on December 10, 1957, whenwe were on stage enacting a play,Choice of Arms, at the IndianMilitary Academy, Dehradun, dur-ing the silver jubilee of the academyand our passing out parade celebra-tions. Portraying the hallmark cav-alry officer, Jaswant reflected its mir-ror image: suave, stylish and snob-bish. I played the rough and readyinfanteer, his poorer cousin, crew cutet al. As Jaswant Major Saab badefarewell to arms in 1966, complain-ing about excessive employment of“Yes Sir,” his sputnik political rise sawhim become Defence, Finance andForeign Minister. In those headydays, he would tell Jeeves, PepSingh: “General Sahab ko man-pasand whisky pilao”. During theseconvivial encounters, he wouldrecount in fits of laughter, incidentsin the academy — of lost patrols,enemy ambush and one derelictionthat nearly delayed graduation. Hispassion for Western classical music,literature and history never desert-ed him. Bach, Beethoven andMozart played softly even at 35,000feet on Air India or in his offices inSouth Block and 16 Teen MurtiLane.

A conspiracy hatched by ArmyChief, General SF Rodrigues,marked my parting from the Army.I sought Jaswant’s help which cameunflinchingly. As a member of theLok Sabha and a rising star in BJP,one evening over sundowners, heinvited two of the country’s best legalminds — Ram Jethmalani andArun Jaitley — both from his partybut with their mutual dislike nevercamouflaged. Only Jaswant couldhave brought them together andalong with Jaitley’s junior, ArvindNigam, they managed, 20 years later,to defeat the Government for thefirst time in India’s independent his-tory over its imposition of Army ActSection 18 and the PleasureDoctrine. All three legal eaglesbecame good friends.

Jaswant also introduced me to histailor in Khan Market, MukhtarAhmad, who patterned his blackmazri bush shirts in the Army’sWalking Out style. The trademarkepaulette bush shirt — Jaswant’scopyright — is now worn by all andsundry.

Jaswant’s mastery of theEnglish language and his gor-geous handwriting were leg-endary. He wrote a dozen semi-nal books, three focussed ondefence and national security: ACall to Honour, Defending Indiaand his last before he was hospi-talised, India at Risk. In 2013, heinvited me to Mumbai on a whis-tle-stop tour to promote hisbook and quiz him on the risksfacing India. I recall vividly anearlier evening at his home thatwas rudely interrupted byDefence Minister Sharad Pawar’scall announcing that he was onhis way. I was urged to knockback my drink and leave. ThenArmy Chief Rodrigues, in aninterview to this newspaper, hadindiscreetly called neighbour-ing countries as bandicoots andcounselled for good governance.This created a furore inParliament which forced Pawarinto administering a warning toRodrigues. It was the draft of thisadmonition that Pawar wantedJaswant to edit and embellish thatled to my retreat. With hisSheaffer pen, Jaswant correctedthe parliamentary reprimandwhich Pawar read out the nextday in Parliament, pacifying theOpposition ranks of which hewas one.

Perhaps Jaswant’s most anx-ious moments were during theKandahar hijack of IC 814. Hetold me that relatives of passen-gers made good copy for televi-sion and that IB was reportingthat the incident could triggercommunal disturbances. Duringthe Cabinet Committee onSecurity (CCS) meeting, he vol-unteered, since no one else did,to accompany the three Jaish ter-rorists to Kandahar for release of

Indian hostages. The stigma ofthis enduring ignominy he par-ried bravely.

During the Kargil skirmish, onthe day Tololing heights werecaptured (June 11, 1999), Iaccompanied Jaswant to Beijingas part of the press delegation inmy post-Army avatar. India hadcarried out nuclear tests the pre-vious year and attributed them tothe threat from China. His mis-sion to China was to restore bilat-eral relations gone in deep freezesince the tests. The frosty meet-ing with Foreign Minister TangJiaxuan began with Tang insist-ing that China was never a threatto India, adding that we “have asaying in Chinese that thosewho tie the knot must untie itfirst” to which Jaswant recalled aRajasthani aphorism from his vil-lage Jasol: “you need two handsto untie a knot.” The strategic dif-ference was not allowed tobecome a dispute.

Jaswant was full of witty repar-tees. After the nuclear tests,which stunned and annoyed theAmericans, he met Secretary ofState Madeleine Albright whoremarked with dripping sarcasmthat “India had dug itself into ahole”. “Madam Secretary of State,India is a civilisational state, itdoes not dig holes,” he repliedwith exceptional grace. The twodeveloped healthy respect andaffection for each other. Throughthe ‘Next Steps in StrategicPartnership’ Jaswant discussedwith Deputy Secretary of State,Strobe Talbott, and over 16 meet-ings in different parts of the globe,they sketched the path towardsthe landmark India-US nucleardeal.

In the last of his nine stints asa parliamentarian, Jaswant rep-

resented the Gorkhas fromDarjeeling. Since I was from thefifth Gorkha regiment, had wide-ly trekked in Nepal, was fluent inGorkhali and familiar with theproblems of India-domiciledGorkhas and their demand forGorkhaland, I became his occa-sional advisor in his constituen-cy. I once accompanied him toDarjeeling, meeting GorkhaJanmukti Morcha leaders BimalGurung, Roshan Giri andRamesh Ale, who was from myregiment. Jaswant would parkhimself in a quaint 19th centuryEnglish hotel — below Kalimatitemple — which was then underAmerican ownership but wouldannually fly in English actors tostage plays like that year OscarWilde’s Importance of BeingEarnest.

As convenor of India-PakistanTrack Two dialogue, which ranfor nearly 15 years till the rulingdispensation forced it to stop, Itried to invite Jaswant to partic-ipate when he was not inGovernment. I suggested “youcould meet your Kargil counter-part Sartaj Aziz, with whomyou refused to shake hands” buthe steadfastly refused.

Jaswant was a prolific rider andplayed horse polo and cycle polofor the academy. He continuedriding for several years andowned ponies till a back problemforced him to stop. While I havelost a true friend from whom Ilearnt a lot, India and the BJPhave lost a great scholar, states-man and soldier.

(The writer, a retired MajorGeneral, was Commander IPKFSouth, Sri Lanka and foundermember of the Defence PlanningStaff, currently the IntegratedDefence Staff.)

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Haridasan RajanKozhikode

������ �����������Sir — An interesting political sce-nario has cropped up in Biharwith Lok Janshakti Party (LJP)under the leadership of ChiragPaswan breaking away from NDAto contest the Assembly polls onits own, while remaining glued tothe party at the Centre. Thismeans Chief Minister NitishKumar might witness a drastic cut

in the number of Janata Dal(United) seats to accommodateLJP. Nitish will try to contest atleast 120 seats so that he can beclose to the majority mark on hisown in case NDA wins the polls.At the same time, if the LJP getsmore seats, the BJP will have morespace to counter Nitish if the lat-ter decides to switch sides.

Subhash Chandra AgarwalChandni Chowk

������������Sir — The report submitted bythe All Indian Institute of MedicalScience, confirming actorSushant Singh Rajput’s death asa suicide, has exposed theBollywood actress KanganaRanaut and certain media hous-es, who were fabricating storiesfor their personal benefit. Whatstarted as an investigation of the

late actor’s alleged murder turnedinto an issue of nepotism anddrugs in the film industry withcertain names being targetted.Ranaut should come forwardand apologise for politicisingRajput’ death. It is time that weaccept the fact that Rajput wasindeed depressed and committedsuicide. The resources spent onpoliticising his death should beused to get justice in the rape-murder case of the 19-year-oldDalit woman in Hathras. And ifRanaut is really the person tobreak glass ceilings, then it is caseslike this that she needs to focuson.

Bhagwan ThadaniMumbai

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As popular opinion for the KrishnaJanmabhoomi dispute in Mathura is beingslowly galvanised after the court dismissed

a civil suit on September 30, it looks like histo-ry is repeating itself. It wasn’t a usual day at theoffice for Civil Judge, senior division, ChhayaSharma of the Mathura Civil Court, although,what happened wasn’t unexpected. The court hadjust received a civil suit by a Hindu deity — LordKrishna Virajman. Since the Lord is a “minor”,he was represented in the suit through his “nextfriend.” The suit had been filed against encroach-ing and illegally building a Shahi Idgah mosqueon the minor’s property. The allegation wasagainst the Uttar Pradesh Waqf Board and themosque trust for illegally allowing the entry of“some Muslims” for the said purpose.

It had been claimed in the suit that “everyinch of land in Katra Keshav Dev (the disputedsite) is sacred for the devotees of Lord Krishna”as he was born on that site. It had been demand-ed on behalf of the deity that, “Darshan, pooja,rituals according to Vedic Sanatana Dharma,faith, belief, usages, traditions and customs”,which are protected under Article 25 of theConstitution, be allowed to be performed at theactual birthplace which lies beneath the ShahiIdgah mosque. The suit was dismissed by thecourt on September 30 at the admission stageitself. The court cited that the Places of WorshipAct, 1991, which provides for the maintenanceof the religious character of any place of worshipas it existed on August 15, 1947, barred it fromaccepting the suit at this stage.

Don’t be surprised if you are getting a feel-ing of déjà vu, because the country has beenthrough this before. The filing of a civil suit beforethe Mathura court was only symbolic. What iteffectively did, irrespective of the dismissalorder, is that, it has set the tone for an all newbattle that Right-wing Hindus are ready to fightin their attempt to regain their cultural heritageand lost religious integrity.

The Krishna Janmabhoomi in Mathura hasfor decades been one among the three sites (oth-ers being the Ayodhya Ram Janmabhoomi andthe Kashi Vishwanath Temple in Varanasi) thatHindu Right-wing political organisations havebeen fighting for. The battle is to reclaim the reli-gious and cultural heritage of India which waslost when Aurangzeb had issued orders for thedemolition of a large number of temples (closeto 40,000) in 1669-1670 and had built mosquesover them. This, of course, is a matter of fact andhistory. But, how will this lost heritage beregained today? The answer is: “By the demoli-tion of these mosques built by barbaric Muslimrulers over temples.”

One can’t help but be reminded of theAyodhya Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri masjid dis-pute. It was one of the longest and the most fierce-ly fought legal as well as political battles in ourcountry which changed the way politics was doneand elections were fought. Although appeasementpolitics was used as a tool during elections evenbefore the 1990s, such glorification of a partic-ular belief system juxtaposed to the vilificationof another was unprecedented. Populism anddivisive politics were played like never before.Politics of identity based on new definitions ofHinduism had emerged — one that was based

on the faith of exclusion and anti-com-munitarian. The battle even definedwhat is meant by community, society,and citizens and who deserved to stayin it. It set new standards for everything.No one knew what was the “commongood” anymore. This led to socialatomisation, cultural fragmentationand moral and religious decadence.

For 25 long years, Lord Ram waspoliticised. He was made an emotion-al issue to garner votes. Rabble-rousersand demagogues were allowed to riseto positions of political power using hisname. A new politico-cultural spacewas created in this country which said,“Let me glorify my own religion.”

This led to bloodshed that costthousands of lives. The most viral slo-gan on the streets, for the longest timeever was, “Tareekh nahi batayenge parmandir wahi banayenge (we will notgive you a date, but we will make thetemple there only).”

Suddenly, everybody was a staunchsupporter of this new version ofHindutva. Everybody wanted a templeto be built in Ayodhya on the disput-ed Babri mosque site — legally or ille-gally, peacefully or violently. All this washappening simultaneously with anequally fierce legal battle being foughtbefore the courts.

When the apex court gave a finaldecision in the case, allowing for a tem-ple to be built on the disputed site, itwas clear that this was an apt exampleof decisions based on faith. The major-ity of the parties to the suit were happy.However, senior advocate RajeevDhawan had warned the court duringthe hearings by stating that the courtmust consider how future generationswould view this verdict.

The demand for declaring the dis-puted site in Mathura as KrishnaJanmabhoomi is gaining momentum. A

‘Krishna Janmabhoomi Nirman Nyas’has already been set up by a group ofreligious men. Mass support for the suitis on the rise on social media wherepolitical groups are even demanding forthe scrapping of the 1991 Act.

“Hindu unity” like never before isbeing called for. Statements by top polit-ical leaders and members of Right-wingorganisations have already startedpouring in. And last but not the least,prime-time drama on TV news chan-nels have got new fuel for their dailyduels. Popular opinion is being slowlygalvanised, and this all looks like his-tory repeating itself. This was theinevitable consequence of the Ayodhyaissue and the verdict.

One has to understand that polit-ical parties, whose rise to power hastranspired due to a combination of cer-tain formulae and tools of politicaloppression, will always be reluctant tolet those formulae go away so soon. Itwas the Ayodhya dispute, the reasser-tion of the “persecution complex” onthe part of Muslims, and the subsequentwave of “Hindu nationalism” thattransformed the BJP from a cadre-based party to one with mass support.The BJP has leap-frogged into powerand consecrated its image of a “Hindunationalist.” A denouement of the sameis, therefore, impossible especiallywhen it is faced with a crippling econ-omy and the worst rates of unemploy-ment this country has seen in decades.

Religion, historically, has proven tobe the best political weapon, to inter-nalise oppression among the masses. Asedative that helps cool down dissent-ing voices, where people can agree tonot disagree.

Mathura will be the new metaphorfor Hindutva politics. The KrishnaJanmabhoomi movement will serve asa consistent emotional issue required to

connect to the masses. This time, LordKrishna will be used. Fringe groups willagain devise a putsch to assert majori-tarianism. New definitions of State andcitizens will be written down in thename of “religious freedom.” Safespaces for minorities will again becrushed. The judiciary will again befaced with an all-new battle where it willagain choose necessity over rationali-ty. But, what after Mathura? Howmany more Ayodhyas and Mathuraswill we be spectators to? Isn’t our her-itage more about inclusivity, acceptance,tolerance, trust and harmony? Whycan’t a mosque in Mathura’s KatraKeshav Dev stand together with LordKrishna’s temple? Why can’t the com-promise arrived at between the twocommunities, based on mutual respectfor each other’s faith, way back in 1968,be allowed to survive? Isn’t that the idea of India we are duty-bound to pro-tect?

I am reminded of two kalyug pre-dictions that Ved Vyasa made. First, hesaid that cities will be dominated bythieves, the Vedas will be contaminat-ed by speculative interpretations, polit-ical leaders will virtually consume thecitizens and the so-called priests andintellectuals will be devotees of theirgreed. (Srimad Bhagavatam Verse12.3.32) Second, he said, “Unculturedmen will show their austerity to theLord by wearing a mendicant’s dressand those who know nothing aboutreligion will mount a high seat and pre-sume to speak on religious principles(Srimad Bhagavatam Verse 12.3.38).”The dismissal of the suit by the Mathuracourt doesn’t matter because the poli-tics around Krishna Janmabhoomi hasjust started. India is fully set to vindi-cate Ved Vyasa. Jai shri Krishna!

(Anurag is from the National LawUniversity, Visakhapatnam)

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The Indian economy’s downhilljourney was all over the media,but the news about 88.17 per

cent women workers surviving with areduced number of meals in the 26 dis-tricts of Madhya Pradesh (MP) and the52.46 per cent dip in women’s partic-ipation, the lowest in eight years in theNational Rural Employment GuaranteeAct, received very little media attention.

When the pandemic struck theworld, Maria Holtsberg, United Nation(UN) Women, Humanitarian andDisaster Risk Advisor, Asia and Pacific,rued that a “crisis always exacerbatesgender inequality.” In 2016, a high-levelUN panel called for incorporating gen-der dimensions in any public healthemergency response. Unfortunately,Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and EconomicSecurity Act’s appraisal of 73 policy

statements, guidance documents andresponse strategies, laid bare a shock-ing revelation that nearly half or 46 percent ignored the gendered effects of thepandemic and hunger crises and onlyseven per cent proposed any concreteaction.

“The pandemic-containment pub-lic policies and health strategies so farhaven’t looked through the genderlens… and now the pre-existing gen-der inequalities, in every sphere, fromhealth to the economy…are likely to befurther amplified,” lamented PoonamMuttreja, Executive Director,Population Foundation of India (PFI).

In the light of the past adversehealth consequences of epidemics,the World Health Organisation’s(WHO’s) early advisory urged priori-tising sexual and reproductive healthservices as “essential services.”Nevertheless, a survey in 103 countriesfound large-scale disruptions in 67 percent. A Guttmacher Institute’s projec-tion, on the basis of data from 1.6 bil-lion women of reproductive age from132 low and middle income countries,envisaged that a “10 per cent declinein use of reversible contraceptivemethods, would hit 49 million more

women, cause 15 million additionalunintended pregnancies and 3.3 mil-lion unsafe abortions over the courseof a year.” Going by official figures, thehealth deficit (April-June) in Indiaamounts to a drop in immunisation by27 per cent, institutional deliveries by28 per cent and major surgeries by 60per cent in comparison to last year.

Despite abortions being enlisted as“emergency services,” very few in real-ity could reach the clinics due to inad-equate transport and lack of informa-tion. Ipas Development Foundation(IDF), India, collating data from eightStates, evaluated that “from March 25to June 24, about 1.85 million Indianwomen could not terminate unwant-ed pregnancies. About 80 per cent forabsence of medical abortion drugs atpharmacy stores, another 20 per cent,due to reduced access to health facil-ities.”

However, women play a lead rolein care-giving within families or ashealthcare workers. “Women’s socialconditioning makes them take chargeof a sick family member. And as pro-fessional care-givers, nursing contin-ues to be seen as a women’s domain.But the risks of being with patients for

longer hours than the doctors are oftenundermined. We tend to fall into gen-dered hierarchies in recognising theservices of a nurse contracting the dis-ease and succumbing, as against thedoctors falling prey to the disease,” saysPadmini Ghosh, country co-ordinator,Women’s Regional Network.

The recent agitation of the ASHAworkers against underpayment andincreased workload, without the min-imum protective gear, further exposedthe inadequacies of the public healthsystem. PFI’s Muttreja was categoricalthat “we must invest in our 3.3 millionstrong female frontline workforce forcombating COVID-19 by valuing andresourcing their needs.”

A PFI study in Uttar Pradesh (UP),Bihar and Rajasthan, disclosed that anincreasing care-giving role within thehousehold has led to high degrees ofpsychological distress amonggirls/women. Ghosh says that women’smental health problems are oftenignored as “figments of imagination”and receive no medical interventions.In this regard, the launch of a toll-freehelpline “Kiran” to address the risingnumber of pandemic-induced mentalhealth problems is a welcome step.

Furthermore, the economic slumphas also created ripple effects on foodsecurity in India, which experts appre-hend, would reinforce inequalities infood distribution within the household,making structural inequities morevisible in food systems.

Dr Shweta Khandelwal, Head,Nutrition Research, Public HealthFoundation of India, asserted that“women tend to remain vulnerable tomultiple forms of malnutrition due tovarious socio-economic, demograph-ic and cultural factors. Undernutritionenhances their susceptibility to infec-tion, including respiratory infectionsand immuno-deficiency, making themmore vulnerable to COVID-19.”

Plus, with less than a quarter beingpresent in the labour force in the pre-pandemic era, Indian women are nowlikely to be further pushed out of gain-ful employment. The Centre forMonitoring Indian Economy’sConsumer Pyramids HouseholdSurvey data confirmed that, at least,four out of ten women in India losttheir jobs. In rural India, the hugeinflux of migrants workers to home-towns and villages generated a down-swing of about 2.24 per cent in the rate

of women’s work participation. WilliamJoe, Professor, Population ResearchCentre, Indian Institute of EconomicGrowth, alerted that, “Women beinghardly present in the core sectorlabour force are less likely to benefitfrom macro-support programmes.There is a need for direct wage supportprogrammes like MNREGA, ruraland urban. These should beredesigned to fit into gender needs andwork preferences as unskilled labourwork may not find many takers inurban areas.”

Many experts also fear that “about23.5 percentage points less women thanmen employed in the pre-Coronaphase are likely to be re-employed later.”

Besides, the lockdowns haveturned homes into a place for physi-cal, sexual and psychological abuse formany women. During the first fourphases of the lockdown, Indian womenfiled more domestic violence com-plaints than in the last ten years dur-ing the same period.

Now, while assessing women’sCOVID-19 disease burden and healthoutcomes from the biological perspec-tive, many researchers affirmed that“women tend to mount a stronger

immune response,” while some con-tended that “sex patterns are not uni-versal among all viruses.” How sex andgender are influencing clinical care can-not be fully explained for lack of com-prehensive sex-disaggregated data, asthe WHO in its 2007 guidelinesemphasised. Nevertheless, in the pasttoo, WHO guidelines have been over-looked which seriously affectedwomen’s health needs.

“The pandemic’s imagery in pub-lic consciousness and reportage hasbeen dominated by a male doctor, apoliceman, a male migrant labourer.While a nurse, the policewoman whohas to go back home to an infant, a job-less migrant domestic help or a traf-ficked sex-worker with no income,rarely feature in public imagination,”laments Ghosh. Sadly, this rings true.

The UN Secretary-General’s callfor focussing on women’s interests inthe pandemic remains largely unheed-ed. The world is far away from build-ing more equal and resilient societiesand creating equitable policies andinterventions.

(The writer is a retired IndianInformation Service Officer and amedia educator.)

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Washington: President DonaldTrump staged a dramaticreturn to the White Houseafter leaving the military hos-pital where he was receiving anunprecedented level of carefor COVID-19. He immedi-ately ignited a new controver-sy by declaring that despite hisillness the nation should notfear the virus that has killedmore than 210,000 Americans— and then he entered theWhite House without a pro-tective mask.

Trump’s message alarmedinfectious disease experts andsuggested the president’s ownillness had not caused him torethink his often-cavalier atti-tude toward the disease, whichhas also infected the first ladyand several White House aides,including new cases revealedMonday.

Landing Monday night atthe White House on MarineOne, Trump gingerly climbed

the South Portico steps,removed his mask anddeclared, “I feel good.” He gavea double thumbs-up to thedeparting helicopter from theportico terrace, where aideshad arranged American flagsfor the sunset occasion. Heentered the White House,where aides were visible millingabout the Blue Room, withoutwearing a face covering.

The president left WalterReed National Military MedicalCenter, where his doctor, NavyCmdr. Sean Conley, said earli-er Monday that the presidentremains contagious and wouldnot be fully “out of the woods”for another week but thatTrump had met or exceededstandards for discharge fromthe hospital. Trump is expect-ed to continue his recovery atthe White House, where thereach of the outbreak that hasinfected the highest levels of theU.S. government is still being

uncovered.Still, just a month before

the election and anxious to pro-ject strength, Trump tweetedbefore leaving the hospital,“Will be back on the CampaignTrail soon!!!” And in case any-one missed his don’t-worrymessage earlier, he rushed outa new video from the WhiteHouse.

“Don’t be afraid of it,”Trump said of the virus. “You’regoing to beat it. We have thebest medical equipment, wehave the best medicines.” Hisremarks were strong, but hewas taking deeper breaths thanusual as he delivered them.

On Tuesday, Trump went astep further, repeating his pre-vious comparisons betweenCOVID-19 and the seasonalflu.

“Many people every year,sometimes over 100,000, anddespite the Vaccine, die fromthe Flu,” he tweeted. “Are wegoing to close down ourCountry? No, we have learnedto live with it, just like we arelearning to live with Covid, inmost populations far lesslethal!!!” AP

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Washington: His press secre-tary once described PresidentDonald Trump as the “mosttested man in America” whenit came to COVID-19.

And variations on thatmessage were the WhiteHouse ready response anytime critics questioned thepresident’s lax approach tofollowing guidelines for avoid-ing the novel coronavirus.

But that vaunted testingoperation proved woefullyinsufficient in protecting thepresident and those who workfor him at the White House, asevidenced by a string of pos-itive tests over the past weekfor Trump, his wife and othersin their orbit.

Trump demonstrated indramatic fashion that relyingon testing alone isn’t enoughto create a safe bubble. Maskwearing and social distancingare other key ingredients forpreventing the spread ofCOVID-19, and both haveoften been in short supply atthe White House.

From the earliest days ofthe virus, Trump has providedconflicting advice on wearing amask, noting that federal healthexperts were recommendingthem, but adding that “I don’tthink I’m going to be doing it.”At another point, he said that“maybe they’re great, andmaybe they’re just good. Maybethey’re not so good.” AP

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Brussels: A top EuropeanUnion official dealing with theUnited Kingdom said Tuesdaythat a cliff-edge rupture betweenthe two without even a basictrade deal by the end of the yearis becoming more likely by theday.

European Vice PresidentMaros Sefcovic told theEuropean Parliament that “timeis short” to reach a deal beforea Brexit divorce transition peri-od ends by year’s end, effectivelygiving negotiators less than fourweeks to broker a deal whichmust subsequently go througha lengthy approval process.

And he pointed his finger atBritish Prime Minister BorisJohnson for making things evenmore difficult when he decidedlast month to introduce a billthat breaches the legally bind-ing Withdrawal Agreement itstruck with the bloc to makesure it could leave on January31.

Sefcovic said it made Britainless trustworthy and called theplans “a heavy blow to theBritish signature and reliability.Respecting agreements is first amatter of law, but also of trustand in good faith.” He said theplans left the EU with no choice

but to launch legal action againstBritain.

If passed into law, theInternal Market Bill wouldundermine the EU’s previous-ly agreed oversight of trade toand from Northern Ireland,which is part of the U.K andshares a border with EU mem-ber Ireland.

The bloc is furious thatBritain plans to breach portionsof the withdrawal treaty thatwere put in place to maintain anopen Irish border, which hasunderpinned peace sinceNorthern Ireland’s 1998 GoodFriday accord.

Sefcovic said the EU wouldnever change anything to theBrexit divorce deal.

“The full and timely imple-mentation of the withdrawalagreement is simply not debat-able,” he told the EuropeanParliament.

Under such adversarial con-ditions, negotiators from bothsides continue to look for com-mon ground to broker a rudi-mentary trade deal to avoid abarrage of uncertainty, tariffsand red tape that would hurteconomies on both sides whenthe transition window ends onJanuary 1. AP

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won this year’s Nobel Prize inphysics Tuesday for advancingour understanding of blackholes.

The Royal SwedishAcademy of Sciences said thatBriton Roger Penrose willreceive half of this year’s prize“for the discovery that blackhole formation is a robust pre-diction of the general theory ofrelativity”.

Goran K Hansson, theacademy’s secretary-general,said German Reinhard Genzeland American Andrea Ghezwill receive the second half ofthe prize “for the discovery ofa supermassive compact objectat the center of our galaxy.”

The prizes celebrate “one ofthe most exotic objects in the

universe,” black holes, whichhave become a staple of sciencefiction and science fact andwhere time even seems tostand still, Nobel committeescientists said.

Penrose proved with math-ematics that the formation ofblack holes was possible, basedheavily on Albert Einstein’sgeneral theory of relativity.

Genzel and Ghez looked atthe dust-covered centre of ourMilky Way galaxy where some-thing strange was going on,several stars moving aroundsomething they couldn’t see.

It was a black hole. Not justan ordinary black hole, but asupermassive black hole, 4 mil-lion times the mass of our sun.

Now scientists know thatall galaxies have supermassive

black holes.It is common for several

scientists who worked in relat-ed fields to share the prize. Lastyear’s prize went to Canadian-born cosmologist JamesPeebles for theoretical workabout the early moments afterthe Big Bang, and Swissastronomers Michel Mayorand Didier Queloz for discov-ering a planet outside oursolar system.

The prestigious awardcomes with a gold medal andprize money of 10 millionSwedish kronor (more than$1.1 million), courtesy of abequest left 124 years ago bythe prize’s creator, Swedishinventor Alfred Nobel. Theamount was increased recent-ly to adjust for inflation. AP

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Washington: Vice PresidentMike Pence and hisDemocratic challenger SenatorKamala Harris are all set for adebate in the Sal Lake City ofUtah on Wednesday.

This will be for the firsttime in the American historythat an Indian origin personwill be taking up the podiumfor a vice presidential debate.

Political analysts believethat an aggressive Harris, 55,will easily prevail over Pence,61, during the only vice-pres-idential debate and help herrunning mate Joe Biden, 77, towiden his lead over Trump, 74.

Biden, in the last few days,has widened his lead overTrump by double digit.However, the Trump

Campaign believes that Pencecould come out with a stellarperformance during the debate.

The debate gains addedsignificance, given the COVID-19 infecting Trump, triggeringspeculations that Pence may betaking over the reigns of thecountry temporarily.

Also, many believe thatHarris will be the real force ina Biden administration.

Both Pence and Harris hassaid that they are well preparedfor the debate, which would bemoderated by journalist SusanPage, Washington BureauChief, USA Today.

According to mediareports, plexiglass will beinstalled between Pence andHarris on the debate stage.

“The debates are a crucialpart of making our democra-cy work and I am honored toparticipate,” Page said in astatement.

The debate will be dividedinto nine segments of approx-imately 10 minutes each, saidthe Commission onPresidential Debate. The mod-erator will ask an openingquestion after which each can-didate will have two minutes torespond.

The moderator will usethe balance of the time in thesegment for a deeper discus-sion of the topic, it said. PTI

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Breil-Sur-Roya (France): Thegrim job of searching for floodvictims in Alpine villages andon the nearby French andItalian coasts has grown evenmore gruesome: Along withstorm casualties, authoritiessay corpses from cemeterieshave also been found aroundthe Mediterranean shore,apparently swept down themountain by violent rains.

A total of 12 deaths havebeen reported since the stormpounded France’s Alpes-

Maritimes region and Italy’snorthwestern regions ofLiguria and Piedmont startingFriday – four on the Frenchside, eight on the Italian side.

More than 600 rescuersand others were searchingTuesday for some 20 peoplestill missing, according to aspokeswoman for the Alpes-Maritimes regional adminis-tration.

Corpses unearthed fromcemeteries have washed up onthe Italian side, she told The

Associated Press. She could notsay how many or where theycame from, and it was unclearwhether the bodies wereamong the eight reported deadin Italy from the storm. Italianlocal authorities could notimmediately be reached forcomment.

The cemetery corpses werein such an advanced state ofdecomposition that they wereclearly distinguishable fromrecent storm victims, the Frenchspokeswoman said. AP

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tenced to 20 years in prisonafter he pleaded guilty tomoney laundering and embez-zlement under orders from theformer president.

The Criminal Court onMonday night also finedAhmed Adeeb $129,800. Theprison sentence, which will beshortened by one year becausehe served time after a previousconviction on the same

charges, also covered charges ofcorruption and possession ofan unlicensed firearm.

Adeeb was a protege to for-mer President Yameen AbdulGayoom during the early yearsof his presidency between 2013and 2018. He had been sen-tenced to 33 years in prison in2016 for several counts includ-ing masterminding a blast in apresidential speedboat inwhich Yameen’s wife waswounded. He was freed fromall charges after Yameen lostreelection in 2018.

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New Delhi:Union Minister forMinority Affairs Shri MukhtarAbbas Naqvi today said herethat Union Ministry ofEducation is constructing 99Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayasin backward, weaker andMinority concentrated areasacross the country for the firsttime in the history, and sever-al of these Jawahar NavodayaVidyalayas are being con-structed jointly by UnionMinistry of Education andUnion Ministry of MinorityAffairs. Naqvi along with UnionMinister for Education Shri Dr.

Ramesh Pokhriyal “Nishank”today laid foundation stone fora new Jawahar NavodayaVidyalaya at Pakur in Jharkhandthrough video conferencing.This school is being construct-ed by the Ministry of MinorityAffairs under the “PradhanMantri Jan Vikas Karykram”.Naqvi said that the UnionMinistry of Education and theUnion Ministry of MinorityAffairs are also jointly con-structing 4 Jawahar NavodayaVidyalayas at Uttar Dinajpurand Howrah in West Bengal;West Kamang in ArunachalPradesh; Mamit in Manipur.

New Delhi:Arvind Singh,Chairman, Airports Authorityof India (AAI) unveiled thecomprehensive document on‘Review of Traffic at IndianAirports 2019-20’ in the pres-ence of Board Members ofAAI today

The document includesthe traffic analysis of last twoyears (2019-20v/s 2018-19) interms of growth rate, airportwise traffic share, month-wisetraffic at top 45 airports andmarket share of airlines in2019-20. It also covers the his-toric year- wise traffic data forall Indian airports since AAI’sinception i.e. 1995-96 w.r.t.aircraft movements, passen-gers, cargo and mail.

The document would be ofimmense use to aviation plan-ners, researchers, regulators,concessionaires and policymakers in Civil Aviation to

meet the challenges ahead anddevelop new strategies.

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Equity benchmarks defiedgravity for the fourth suc-

cessive session on Tuesday asinvestors piled into financeand banking counters amidfirm global cues following USPresident Donald Trump’s dis-charge from hospital.

Encouraging macroeco-nomic data and anticipation ofhealthy Q2 results furtherbuoyed sentiment, traders said.

The BSE Sensex zoomed600.87 points or 1.54 per centto close at 39,574.57.

Similarly, the broader NSENifty climbed 159.05 points or1.38 per cent to end at11,662.40.

HDFC was the top per-former in the Sensex pack,surging 8.35 per cent, after themortgage lender said its indi-vidual loan disbursements in

the second quarter of 2020-21reached 95 per cent of the year-ago level and September sawthe strongest recovery since theCOVID-19 outbreak.

Other prominent gainerswere IndusInd Bank, Mahindraand Mahindra, Asian Paints,Bajaj Finance, HDFC Bankand Ultratech Cement.

HDFC and HDFC Bankaccounted for over half of theSensex’s gains. On the otherhand, Tata Steel, Nestle India,Larsen & Toubro, Sun Pharma,NTPC and Reliance Industriesslipped up to 1.26 per cent.

Asian shares followed WallStreet higher after US PresidentDonald Trump was dischargedfrom hospital followingCOVID-19 treatment. Investorsentiment was also boosted byhopes of a fresh US stimuluspackage.

European markets were

mixed in opening trade. On the macroeconomic

front, India’s service sectoroutput broadly stabilised inSeptember but remained inthe contraction zone as incom-ing new business fell moder-ately due to the damagingimpact of the pandemic ondemand, leading to more joblosses.The seasonally adjustedIndia Services Business ActivityIndex rose for the fifth straightmonth in September to 49.8from 41.8 in August.

Meanwhile, the MonetaryPolicy Committee (MPC) ofthe RBI will begin its three-daydeliberations on Wednesdayafter the government appoint-ed three external members tothe rate-setting panel.

“Market is booming to anew level in anticipation of bet-ter Q2FY21 results, clearimprovement in domestic eco-nomic data and uptick in theglobal market.

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The Indian IT services sec-tor is expected to return to

high single-digit revenuegrowth in 2021-2022 gal-vanised by higher demand fordigital transformation after aflattish 2020, according to FitchRatings.

In a new report titled`Spotlight: Indian IT ServicesSector’, Fitch said the impact ofthe coronavirus pandemic isseen to be only moderate andshort term, as customers focuson transforming their busi-nesses digitally, moving ser-vices and work platformsonline, and minimise spending

on legacy services.Pandemic will accelerate

digital IT spends, it said. Mostcompanies have reportedrobust deal wins that shouldsupport growth in 2021-2022,despite the revenue decline inthe second quarter of 2020, saidthe “The Indian IT servicessector is likely to resume highsingle-digit revenue growth in2021-2022 on higher demandfor digital transformation,” itsaid.

Fitch added that it expect-ed the Indian industry to con-tinue to take advantage of itslow-cost operations and main-tain its strong foothold in theglobal IT landscape.

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India is expected to overtakeChina as the world’s largest

cooking gas LPG residentialsector market by 2030, WoodMackenzie said on Tuesday.

“Liquefied petroleum gas(LPG) demand in the residen-tial sector will continue to seesustainable growth at a cumu-lative annual growth rate(CAGR) of 3.3 per cent, reach-ing 34 million tonnes (MT) in2030 as households’ depen-dence on solid biomass dimin-ishes in the long run support-ed by rising average householdincomes and urban popula-tion,” it said in a report.

Driven by environmentaland health concerns, the gov-ernment has also been imple-menting schemes to helplower-income families copewith the cost of switching fromdirtier biomass to LPG.

The Direct Benefit

Transfer of LPG (DBTL) givesout subsidies to the vulnerablepopulation, while the PradhanMantri Ujjwala Yojana(PMUY) provides families liv-ing below the poverty lineaccess to free LPG stoves.

Wood Mackenzie researchanalyst Qiaoling Chen said:“Although nationwide LPGcoverage has reached 98 percent, up 42 per cent from 2014,usage is still low.

Average annual cylinderrefills have not kept up with thepace of new connections, withaverage consumption remain-ing below the benchmark of 12cylinders.”

Even with subsidy and theinitial cost of set-up covered bythe government, LPG is moreexpensive than biomass. Still,the Indian government is com-mitted to roll out plans to fur-ther address affordability andinfrastructure challenges inthe LPG sector.

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The Government hasexempted power trading

transactions from the purviewof tax deducted at source (TDS)and tax collected at source(TCS) to prevent practical dif-ficulties in implementing thelevy from affecting functioningof the exchanges.

The Finance Act, 2020inserted new section 194-0 inthe Income Tax Act 1961 whichmandated that from October 1,an e-commerce operator shalldeduct income tax at the rateof one per cent of the grossamount of sale of goods or pro-vision of service or both, facil-

itated through its platform.Also, a sub-section (1H) in sec-tion 206C of the Act was insert-ed that mandated deduction ofa sum of 0.1 per cent on all e-commerce transactions aboveRs 50 lakh.

The Central Board ofDirect Taxes has now exempt-ed transactions in securitiesand commodities, tradedthrough recognised stockexchanges or cleared and set-tled by the recognised clearingcorporation, including recog-nised stock exchanges or recog-nised clearing corporationlocated in InternationalFinancial Service from thislevy.

New Delhi: The newly-consti-tuted Monetary PolicyCommittee (MPC) of theReserve Bank will begin itsthree-day deliberations onWednesday amid expectationsthat the central bank this timearound may refrain fromchanging the benchmark lend-ing rates. On September 28, theRBI had postponed the meet-ing of the Monetary PolicyCommittee (MPC), whichmust have a quorum of four, asthe appointment of indepen-dent members was delayed.The meeting was scheduled totake place from September 29.

Within a day of the gov-ernment appointing three inde-pendent members of the MPC,the Reserve Bank announcedthat the rate-setting panel willmeet from October 7 to 9 forthe bi-monthly review of themonetary policy.

“... The next meeting of theMonetary Policy Committee(MPC) is scheduled during

October 7 to October 9, 2020,”the Reserve Bank said in astatement. The decision of therate-setting panel will beannounced on October 9.Thegovernment has appointedthree eminent economistsAshima Goyal, Jayanth RVarma and Shashanka Bhide asmembers of the MPC. The newmembers replace ChetanGhate, Pami Dua, andRavindra Dholakia. They wereappointed on the panel forfour years on September 29,2016. As per the RBI Act, theexternal members can holdoffice for a period of four yearsand are not eligible for re-appointment. Bhide is senioradvisor at the National Councilfor Applied EconomicResearch, while Goyal is a pro-fessor at the Indira GandhiInstitute of DevelopmentResearch. Varma is professor atthe Indian Institute

of Management,Ahmedabad.

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HDFC Bank ManagingDirector and Chief

Executive Officer Aditya Purihas assured employees of thecountry’s largest private sectorlender that their jobs andbonuses are secure.

Even as the COVID-19pandemic rages on, Puri, whoretires later this month, said thebank is doing well, has suffi-cient capital and does not haveany strain in the loans that ithas made.

He also hinted that thebank may post a strong set ofquarterly numbers in therecently ended July-September

period and quarters ahead aswell.

The COVID-19 pandem-ic has resulted in job losses,especially in the organised sec-tors, as businesses suffered dueto economic activity coming toa halt in lockdowns. HDFCBank and its private sectorcompetitors have met hikesand bonuses commitmentssince the start of the pandem-ic.

“Not only are your jobssecure, your increment is alsosecure. Your bonus and yourpromotion are secure,” Puritold over 1.15 lakh employeesof the bank, in a video messagelast week.

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Tata Motors on Tuesday saidits group global wholesales,

including Jaguar Land Rover,declined by 16 per cent to2,02,873 units in the secondquarter of the current financialyear over the year-ago period.

The drop in sales of itscommercial vehicles andDaewoo range was higher at 29per cent (56,614 vehicles) dur-ing the second quarter ofFY2021 as compared to pas-senger vehicles sales, whichdeclined 9 per cent (1,46,259units) over the second quarterof the previous fiscal, accord-ing to a release.

Global wholesales forJaguar Land Rover were 91,367vehicles in the July-Septemberquarter of FY21. Jaguar whole-sales for the quarter were18,189 vehicles, while LandRover wholesales for the quar-ter were 73,178 vehicles, TataMotors said.

New Delhi:Larsen and Toubro(L&T) on Tuesday said it haslaunched the seventh and finaloffshore vessel for the IndianCoast Guard at its defenceshipyard at Kattupalli.

The vessel is the last in theseries of seven offshore patrolvessels (OPVs) contracted toL&T by the defence ministry inMarch 2015. OPVs are long-range surface ships, capable ofoperation in maritime zones ofIndia, including island territo-ries with helicopter operationcapabilities. PTI

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New Delhi:Gold prices roseby Rs 454 to �51,879 per 10gram in the national capitalon Tuesday amid rupeedepreciation, according toHDFC Securities.

The precious metal hadclosed at �51,425 per 10gram in the previous trade.

Silver prices also jumped�751 to �63,127 per kilogramfrom �62,376 per kilogramin the previous trade.

“Spot gold prices for 24carat in Delhi were up R�454 amid rupee deprecia-tion,” HDFC SecuritiesSenior Analyst(Commodities) Tapan Patelsaid. The rupee pared initialgains and settled for the day17 paise lower at 73.46 (pro-visional) against the US dol-lar on Tuesday. PTI

Mumbai:The rupee paredinitial gains and settled forthe day 17 paise lower at73.46 (provisional) againstthe US dollar on Tuesday.At the interbank forex mar-ket, the domestic unitopened at 73.17 trackingpositive domestic equitiesand weak greenback, butsoon pared the gains andfinally closed at 73.46, down17 paise over its previousclose of 73.29. During thesession, the local unit wit-nessed an intra-day high of73.15 and a low of 73.51against the American cur-rency.Meanwhile, the dollarindex, which gauges thegreenback’s strength againsta basket of six currencies,was trading 0.02 per centlower at 93.49.

New Delhi: With a view to pro-mote dairying and rural liveli-hoods in the Union Territory ofLadakh, the National DairyDevelopment Board (NDDB)and UT Administration ofLadakh has signed an MoU forconducting a benchmark sur-vey in the newly formed UT.

NDDB’s dairy potentialsurvey will help prepare a roadmap to boost dairying in theUT and will help in enhancingincome of the rural populationin the mountainous borderareas. NDDB Chairman DilipRath said that NDDB is happyto support the efforts of the UTAdministration who have takeninitiative for dairy develop-ment in the interest of milkproducers in particular and thecooperative movement in gen-eral in Ladakh region. He fur-ther said that the Dairy Boardhas also offered managerialand technical support to pro-mote producer-owned insti-tutions that remain true tocooperative values. PNS

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The Noida InternationalAirport Limited, the

Yamuna Expressway industri-al development authority, air-port concessionaire, ZurichAirport International AG, andspecial purpose vehicle, theYamuna International AirportPrivate Limited, would sign theconcessionaire agreement forthe �29,560 crore Jewar airporton Wednesday.

The agreement was supposedto be signed by July 2, accord-

ing to the earlier schedule.Later on June 10, the UP gov-ernment postponed the agree-ment signing date to August 17in view of the Covid-19 pan-demic.

According to officials,

restriction on flight servicesdue to COVID-19 outbreakand subsequent lockdown hastwice led to the extension of thedate for signing of the conces-sionaire agreement betweenselected developer and the stategovernment agencies for theproject.

Officials said that theagreement for the interna-tional airport is scheduled tobe signed at 1 pm onWednesday.

Zurich International andYamuna International Airportprivate limited had on January30 applied for security clear-ance to the ministry of homeaffairs.

Zurich AG cannot startwork at the Jewar airport sitebefore the agreement is signed.

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The COVID-19 pandemic hasled to an unprecedented eco-nomic crisis. Every industry

around the world has been affected bythis pandemic, with the IMF callingit the worst recession since the GreatDepression. Companies are missingtheir earnings estimates, people arelosing their jobs, experiencing salarycuts and many traditional investmentshave taken a hit across the board. Aspeople strive to find a more reward-ing haven for their investments, cryp-tocurrencies such as bitcoin have nowbecome the talk of the town. What arethe reasons that are propelling thisphenomenon? Let’s analyse.

First and foremost the equitymarket is losing its attractiveness postthe coronavirus crisis because ofdecreased demand for many compa-nies' products, resulting in long-term declines in corporate profits.Investors are looking for morerewarding options to invest other thanstocks. Since Cryptocurrencies suchas Bitcoin possess many propertiesthat are similar to that of preciousmetals such as Gold, they are indeed

emerging as an important and high-ly rewarding asset class.

Secondly, cryptocurrencies suchas Bitcoin are proving to be an attrac-tive option because there is very lit-tle correlation between them and tra-ditional investments. So even if tra-ditional investments are growing ordeclining, the appreciation in cryp-tocurrencies is fairly immune tothem. As a result, for Investors, thereis more room to incorporate assets intheir portfolio that have little corre-lation with the uncertainty in theeconomy.

Thirdly, even before the out-break of COVID-19 pandemic andsubsequent economic fallout, finan-cial experts around the world werealready recommending some expo-sure to cryptocurrencies withininvestment portfolios. Post COVID-19 pandemic, the crypto marketremains on the growth path, andcryptocurrency trading participationby institutional investors has becomemuch more significant. One such rea-son behind this is because cryp-tocurrencies are protected against

inflation. So, events like the crash ofthe stock market, the spread ofCOVID-19 and others has littleimpact on the value of these digitalcurrencies.

The fourth and most importantreason is that cryptocurrency is oneof the biggest applications of verypopular and very trust-worthy Block-chain technology that eliminates theneeds of middlemen, allowing trans-actions to perform directly and swift-ly between two entities. This phe-nomenon of performing transac-tions swiftly while saving on broker-ages and middlemen feeshas partic-ularly piqued the interest of severallarge scale investors, particularly thelarge global banks.

Blockchain has leaped onto theworld stage and presented itself as thenext-generation solution for many ofthe tech & finance sectors' mostpressing problems. It has nowreceived influential endorsementsfrom government leaders, industrytitans and ambitious entrepreneurs inan unprecedented acknowledgmentof the technology’s prowess. The

future of cryptocurrency seems verybright not just for investing but as acareer path also.

What the blockchain industryneeds are people who are aware of thisecosystem and are interested in con-tinually enhancing their skills, andstaying up to date with the industry’sadvancement. There are stepsblockchain enthusiasts can take tostart developing their careers in thespace.

Popular career options in cryp-tocurrency

Want to apply your passion andknowledge of cryptocurrency to aprofession? Here are three burgeon-ing career options you can pursue:

Blockchain Engineer :Blockchain engineer is an attractivecareer option that helps buildingapplications using blockchain tech-nology. While typical blockchainengineers used to track digital cur-rency transactions, many companiesare now creating customised tech-nologies as per their own require-ments.

Financial Analyst: As the world

is moving more-and-more towardsdigitalisation, the need for financialanalysts who are fluent in crypto asan asset class has increased more thanever. As a financial analyst, your roleis to help clients make smarterinvestments in digital currency.

Cryptographer: The work profileof a cryptographer is to developalgorithms and security systems toencrypt sensitive information, such asprotecting data in finances. If dataprotection interests you, you canprobably lookout for this as a pro-fession. Additionally, cryptographersare engaged in designing and devel-oping several customised applicationsthat help in maintaining nationalsecurity.

Alternatively, there are manycareer options that exist in the Sales& Marketing functions and otherfunctions such as Business Analysis,Technology Analysis, Advertisement& PR, Investor Relations, Legal,Regulations, CorporationCommunications and others.

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The COVID-19 pandemic hasaffected every industry. It has

brought the world to a standstill andhas impacted our lives deeply. Oneof the largest affected sectors isLogistics Industry. According to theIndustry body Indian Chambers ofCommerce (ICC) due to coron-avirus lockdown, the logistics sec-tor lost at about �50,000 crore.

Recently, a report by GlobalConsultants states that around 122million people lost their jobs due tothe Covid-19 pandemic in India,and 40% of those are from blue-col-lar jobs. To solve this problem andto help revive the economy, Gxpress,

one of the fastest growing logisticscompanies in India took this as anopportunity to create job opportu-nities. Gxpress conducted a megaWalk-in drive.

In this drive jobs were offeredto skilled workers who were eitherjobless or left without a job becauseof the economic slowdown. Themain jobs were given in courierdelivery, warehouse associate,machine operator, warehouse exec-utive, data analyst, technology offi-cer and packers. Gxpress also didnot go for lay-offs or salary-cutsduring the COVID-19 period,unlike they are conducting jobwalk-in drive to hire more manpower on a large scale.

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Afirst-ever virtual24 hour

Hackathon competi-tion has beenannounced by leadinge-learning platform-Fliplearn to helpshowcase technologyprowess of students &engineers and creativ-ity with an aim todevelop innovativesolutions in the edu-cation domain.

The virtual eventwill take place onOctober 17 to October

18, 2020 from 10 amonwards. On October17th, 2020, all admit-ted teams will have 24hours to build cre-ative solutions to theproblems throughcoding, programming,design, data etc. Thegoal of the event is tobuild the future ofeducation using tech-nology.

The competitionis open for the stu-dents of Class IX toClass XII, engineeringstudents and engi-neering professionals.

As far as their career is concerned,Class XII remains a threshold for

students with a lot of unanswered ques-tions pondering inside their head, leav-ing them confused. The most commonnotion that students have while decid-ing to choose the right career revolvesaround how to choose the right career,which course to opt for and what theyare good at, among many others.

Such thoughts oscillating betweenquestions about the future can bedaunting, confusing, and lead to anunclear frame of mind. In such a dilem-ma the one thing that becomes an inte-gral part and adds on to the confusionis “Should I take a drop if things don’tturn out the way I have planned them?”

While this question remains a toughnut to crack, requiring countless self-introspection to reach a point where youcan swiftly answer this, especially wheneverything seems to be at stake. Theimpression of dropping a year hasalways been accredited with wasting theyear and the student has been leftbehind their batchmates in terms of theacademic session. But now the scenariohas completely reversed and if one isdetermined to go to their dream college,with parental support, if a student doesnot score well as per the desired resultsin the entrance exam, they have beenopting to drop a year.

Dropping a year — waste or invest?There is no absolute answer to this

question if one should drop a year ornot, with a very thin line differencebetween waste and investment. It is allabout the mindset of the individual, andaccording to experts one will definite-

ly be investing. Aspirants aiming fortheir dream career, with disciplinedapproach, dedication in their prepara-tion are contributing to a positiveinvestment towards their future.

But it is not that black and white tomake up your mind so quickly on thisquestion. One reaches to this questionafter contemplating about variouspoints:

Missed the college by whisker: Awise student should evaluate the dif-ference between the targeted and actu-al score. If the difference between thetwo is small and seems realistic that with

a little more effort and reworking thepreparation strategy, they can easilyreach the required score. However, if thedifference is a major one then thechances with some extra efforts are neg-ligible. The fact is to look for an alter-native career path. And in other caseswhere a student gets into a good collegebut it is not his dream college, in suchcase he should join the college and con-tinue alongside rather than dropping ayear.

Poor scores in both Boards andentrance: This is a tough situation butas they say, every situation has a solu-

tion. A child should be very sure of thecareer path he/she intends to takethereon. While many attributes it as adead-end situation, but it is not the endof the road and there exists multipleoptions: �New age careers/skill-based careers�Admissions in Tier-II colleges�Universities

If none of the above-mentionedpoints works, and if one considersdropping a year to get into a good col-lege then joining some certificate cours-es that will enhance your performance.

Need time to prepare and to planagain: The preparation for entranceexams requires hard work and perse-verance irrespective of the entranceexam. In this scenario, one shouldevaluate what were the reasons for theprevious performance. Self-questioningabout the failure to prepare well, alsoopens up clarity, and seeking guidancefrom a career counsellor before takingthe plunge also helps in revamping thepreparation strategy.

In all these scenarios, one has tothink articulately before reaching adecision of taking a college this year ordropping a year. It is not an end of theroad if you are dropping a year, it’s onlythat you are taking one year extra toshape your career the way you want itto be. Also, don’t listen to anyone whotells you that it is a crime to drop a year.In the end, what matters is that you con-sider all your options well and do well.A happy mind is always capable to dowonders.

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It is an interesting reflection. When I was grow-ing up, and perhaps till a decade back, manyof the career aspirations were decided by one

set of parents proudly proclaiming, “My son willbecome an engineer or a doctor”. The other setwould tell you, “We are not Tata or Birla. Studyhard to get into a job from where you can retire”.Indians were traditionally risk-averse when it cameto career choices.

However, the situation today has turned onits head, and we sure have come a long way. Thefact that India needs job creators and not job seek-ers isn’t lost on anyone, including the youth. Weare now witnessing a paradigm shift with entre-preneurship fast becoming the first-choice careerfor our best and brightest, and startup successesinspiring a new generation of Indians. This hasmainly been due to a significant shift in the wayEntrepreneurship Education is now being impart-ed at campuses. The new trends inEntrepreneurship Education are experiential andfocused on ‘learning by doing’.

Mainstreaming entrepreneurship coursewith credits: Educational Institutions which areserious about creating a culture of entrepreneur-ship at their campus are mainstreaming the coursewith credits and bringing in an evangelist facul-ty for the same. This has gone a long way in gen-erating more interest in entrepreneurship amongststudents.

Project-based learning: The course is nowless theoretical and focused on out-of-the-class andout-of-the-book approach — validating the start-up idea, how to create business models, under-stand the nuances of Minimum Viable Product(MVP), do’s and don’ts before starting up etc. arereal-time scenarios ensuring that startups oftomorrow begin on the right footing.

Exposure to industry experts, mentors andentrepreneurs: It is widely acknowledged that thebest teachers of entrepreneurship are entrepre-neurs themselves who have dirtied their hands,

faced myriad challenges and done it all. Whileindustry experts give an outlook of the variousfacets of the business, the entrepreneurs give a first-hand feel of what’s to come in the entrepreneur-ial journey.

Practice ventures: Practice ventures by stu-dents lay a clear roadmap for venture creation andbuild entrepreneurial muscle. A number of star-tups have arisen from campus ventures as theyprovide real-word learning into business planning,customers, markets, revenue, competition andfunding.

Design thinking: Innovation andEntrepreneurship are two sides of the same coin.Fostering innovative thinking through creative andcollaborative workflows helps to facilitate proto-typing and discovery of new solutions.

The new entrepreneurship education trendsat the campus are fostering innovation andexperimentation through hands-on experientiallearning and providing an opportunity to buddingstartups for building and executing the businessidea, learning to challenge the status quo, anddeveloping a risk-taking mindset. More impor-tantly, this will go a long way in grooming a newgeneration of educated and robust startups whoare more aware of the pitfalls that lead to failureand hence, will maximise their success rate.

We are looking at a future where our entre-preneurs will be heroes much like the Bollywoodstars and cricketers.

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The ILAMED announces thelaunch of its one-year

Fellowship in Aesthetic & Anti-Aging Medicine (FAAM)Programme. This FlagshipProgram is in Collaboration withUniversity Medicine Greifswald,Germany. The eligibility criteriais the participants should have arecognised Medical Degree fromany university/traineeship or spe-cialised degree in Dermatology.

This one-year Fellowshipprogramme is also approved andendorsed by The Indian Societyof Aesthetic Medicine and ThePlastic Surgery Center of Western

New York.This programme will be

delivered in a blended format ofself-learning, live sessions, casestudies & hands-on trainingwhich will be off One Monthduration. One to one teachingformat of this programme iswhat makes it unique from oth-ers in the world as this consistsof concise and clinically relevantpractical lectures on various top-ics. Live demonstrations withdetailed explanations by theexpert faculties of ILAMED fromaround the world. At the end ofthe programme all the successfulparticipants will be awarded -The Fellowship in Aesthetic &

Anti -Aging Medicine which is anInternational Certificate and thiswill help them to excel in theircareers.

This fellowship programmewill give a chance to all the bud-ding doctors & physicians tomaster themselves by hands-ontraining on live patients underInternational Faculty supervi-sion and learn latest andadvanced techniques. Also, all theparticipants will get AlumniStatus of Indian Society ofAesthetic Medicine (ISAM) . Alife membership certificate free ofcost.

During this programme, stu-dents will implement and test the

acquired knowledge under clin-ical and practical conditions, aswell, record experiences andindividually prepare suitabletreatment procedures. On theother hand, a scientific focuswill give the students an exten-sive interdisciplinary overview ofavailable methods and possibili-ties and acquire the ability to sci-entifically handle methods andtheir principles in Aesthetic &Anti-Ageing Medicine.

After finishing this fellowshipprogramme, students will haveinterdisciplinary in-depth knowl-edge and skills across the area ofAesthetic & Anti-AgeingMedicine.

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located at sector Omega 1,yet again featured in theLeadership Ranking and hasretained its second spot in theLeadership category of theTimes school annual ranking2020 which is the most soughtafter Annual ranking of theregion. The key factors of eval-uation based on infrastruc-ture and facilities, student -teacher ratio, network,exchange programs, awards,alumni, extracurricular activ-ities and others.

“We are very proud of thisachievements and wish to con-vey to all parents that the fac-ulty and staff of our school hasbeen putting their best and wehope to reach at the top alsosoon,” says Roshan Agarwal,Chairman of the JP interna-

tional school.Amit Saxena, Vice

President cites a series ofmetamorphic changes that JPInternational School has takenin last few years and said “JPInternational School believes infuturistic education and haveintroduced many new subjectslike Artificial Intelligence,E n t r e p r e n e u r s h i p s ,Computational thinking andintegrated 21st century skills inits pedagogy to make theschool education more relevantand help our students to befuture ready”.

Principal, Sadhana Malliksaid: “We are extremely grate-ful to all our parents and fac-ulty members who have placedtheir trust on us and we shallcontinue to work hard to retainit.”LAUNCH A CRYPTOCURRENCY CAREER

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The IP University has start-ed a new academic pro-

gramme — PG Diploma inHealthcare Management —from this academic session.

This one-year weekendprogramme will be run underthe University School ofManagement Studies (USMS)with collaboration and sup-port of Association of HealthProviders ( AHPI).

The total seats for thisprogramme is 45. Any health-care professional withGraduate or Post Graduatedegree from a recognised uni-versity with minimum of 50per cent marks and havingminimum experience of oneyear in healthcare sector canapply for the programme.Admission will be given onmerit list prepared on thebasis of marks obtained inGraduation/Post - Graduation

(70 per cent weightage) plusmarks obtained in Interview(30 per cent weightage). Thereis no age limit for this pro-gramme. Classes will be heldon weekends days (Saturdaysand Sundays) in the campus.The fee for this programme is�81,000. The last date of sub-mission of online form for thisprogramme is October 15,2020.

Admission brochure,online apply option and otherdetails of the programme areavailable on the universitywebsite www.ipu.ac.in.

According to Dean —USMS Prof A K Saini thisprogramme has been espe-cially designed for practicinghealthcare professionals/hos-pital administrators toupgrade their knowledge andskill in healthcare manage-ment to serve the society inmore efficient and effectivemanner.

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The National Education Policy2020 is a critical and timelyintervention that is destined

to make Indian education land-scape globally competitive. Thepolicy is comprehensive andencompasses significant reformin every area of our education sys-tem. The focus towards making thehigher education ecosystem inclu-sive, affordable, equitable coupledwith adequate emphasis on tech-nical and vocational skill devel-opment are welcome steps towardsemployment generation, econom-ic productivity and economicgrowth.

Making higher educationalinstitutions multidisciplinary withadequate flexibility in course selec-tion, multiple entry and exit crite-ria in conjunction with a drivetowards research and innovationare significant proactive overhauls.This makes new education systemmore realistic.

To accelerate the innovativeapproach, the move towards mak-ing engineering institutions, suchas IITs, to include holistic and mul-tidisciplinary education curricu-lum with the inclusion of arts andhumanities is in sync with the needof the hour towards holistic edu-cation.

One of the hallmarks of NEP2020 is the rightful emphasis onvocational and skill developmentintending to make far reaching

implications in enhancing acade-mia-industry collaboration andfacilitating outreach-practice-research endeavors with an intentof establishing Centres ofExcellence in higher educationinstitutions.

Such an intent embedded inthe NEP 2020 is aimed at makingfresh graduates ready for future intandem with the objective to pro-mote self-employment opportu-nities, making it a catalytic forcetowards promoting business andeconomic development in globalparadigm.

All these aspects are destinedto make a synergy between high-er education and industry in amanner that provides comple-mentarity between our educationsystem and industrial manage-ment and productivity enhance-ment. The emphasis on importantvocational skills is to boost smalland medium sectors.

The critical significance pro-vided to Open Distance Learning(ODL) and online programmes,provided they are specificallyaccredited to do so, aims toimproving access and increasedopportunities for lifelong learning(SDG4) and development of man-agement attributes.

As a corollary, the NEP 2020envisages that all academic pro-grams, courses, curricula, peda-gogy, across subjects, including

those in class, online and ODLmodes, achieve global standards.

One significant dimension ofNEP 2020 is its emphasis on inter-nationalisation for increasedexchange of expertise and har-nessing manpower resourcesoptimally. Research and develop-ment collaboration and studentand faculty exchanges between theIndian higher educational institu-tions and global institutions areintegral components the policy. Inan era of global economic andbusiness interdependence, suchprovision is going to metamor-phosize the entire landscape ofbusiness and management com-petency among students graduat-ing from universities and institu-tions of higher education in India.

One critical aspect of NEP2020 is the realisation that voca-tional and professional educationamong students, in the form ofintegrating vocational educationprograms into mainstream educa-tion system, is of utmost signifi-cance.

Additionally, the policy initia-tives further allow for incubationcentres to be set up in universitiesand higher education institutes inpartnership with industries.Simultaneously, deliberations onagricultural education, legal edu-cation and healthcare education areimportant to serve the societyeffectively.

Research and development,innovation, incubation centresand entrepreneurship skill devel-opment are predominant elementsof NEP 2020.

Towards this, technical edu-cation encompassing engineering,technology, management, archi-tecture, town planning, pharmacy,hotel management and cateringtechnology are going to be criticalin employment enhancement andhigher trajectory of productivity.

At the same time the policyfurther envisions that India musttake the lead in preparing profes-sionals in cutting-edge areas thatare fast gaining prominence, likeArtificial Intelligence (AI), 3-Dmachining, big data analysis andmachine learning among others. Intechnical education, genomic stud-ies, biotechnology, nanotechnolo-gy, neuroscience and other scien-tific pursuits would pave the wayto facilitate linkage of universitieswith industry.

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demic led to closure of education intu-itions to prevent the spread of virustherefore a new gateway for impartingeducation emerged. Virtual classrooms,a new and innovative concept in India.Global experimentation with remoteteaching is the most efficient optionavailable to bridge the education gap.Almost every education institutiontoday has opted for the online mode.Adapting to this new mode was quitedifficult initially but it is turning out tobe an effective mode for students andteachers both and the best alternativeoption under the circumstances.

Here are the top five features ofexperimental mode of learning makingit the future of new education.

Flexibility: Online education isenabling teachers and the students to settheir personal learning pace, addingmore flexibility to set class schedules, andadding innovative methods to checkstudent’s learning. Now the student cantake his lecture from anywhere. It is alsohelping students to improvise timemanagement skills and consequentlybecome more disciplined which appar-ently helps in maintaining good work-study balance. Unlike traditional meansof learning the student can give hisassessments online as also availablecourse material online. There is directcontact between teacher and studentswhich enables both parties to under-stand and respond in the required way.

Affordability: It is a more afford-able option as compared to offlinemode of education as it eliminates a widerange of payment options as the studentcan pay for the webinars that are rele-vant to him. Besides, for the academicclasses it eliminates commuting costs,course material costs and many moremiscellaneous fees. Therefore, there isless monetary investment and the edu-cation is more advanced.

Easily accessible: It enables study-ing or teaching from anywhere in theworld. That is there is no need of com-muting from one place to another or fol-low any rigid schedule which not onlyhelps to save time, but also helps in sav-ing money. Virtual classrooms are avail-

able anywhere where an Internet con-nection is available.

Career relevant: Learning with thenew method of education is more flex-ible and multi-tasking as students canmeet career relevant skills while sittingat home apart from learning fromonline classes there is more time for stu-dents to attain online training, pursueskill based online courses, etc. Thesesources boost up a student's résumémaking him future ready. E-learning isnot only beneficial for students but alsofor the teachers as it is making teachersmore updated to e-teaching techniques.

Enhance new age technology:Unlike traditional education, learningonline is more advanced, as now stu-dents and teachers both are becomingmore innovative, self-introduaderswhich are helping to discover the undis-covered and setting of new trends.Both are navigating the course lectures,downloading course materials, inter-acting online, communicating well dig-itally and making new networks. E-learning allows a wide scope of practi-cal and innovative learning. Online edu-cation ensures learning more than whatis just written in books. The student canavail study material in the form of video,document, and voice notes. Virtualeducation has widened the scope oflearning.

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Twin Win, has launcheda scholarship pro-gramme for students

from Government Schoolsand poor households .Students with best results arebeing interviewed and finan-cial assistance is being givento the best ones. The schol-arship will be awarded to stu-dents of Government schoolsand children of poor back-ground.

Written tests, talent huntsare being conducted online.Twin Win has a reach ofaround one lakh individualsannually. It aims this schol-arship to reach students ofaround 10 states byNovember end.

It has also started socialmedia campaigns to give freeCareer advice to studentswho cannot afford costlycareer counsellors. It also hasan e-magazine — Yuvaan —to improve the habit of read-ing among masses. Also theorganisation wishes to helpyoung entrepreneurs withfinancial assistance.

The University ofOxford is offering SkollScholarships for MBA stu-dents. The scholarship pro-vides full funding plus a liv-ing stipend to complete aMasters of BusinessAdministration (MBA) at the

University of Oxford’s SaïdBusiness School.

Award: It covers partialliving expenses of at least anadditional £14,777.

Eligibility: Students ofany nationality can apply.Have started a new socialventure or an initiative with-in an existing organisation, orpursued positive change as animpact career professional(i.e. someone who has usedentrepreneurial approachesto address the samesocial/environmental issuewith a clear core thread thatunites his work) for prefer-ably 3 years or longer by thetime you apply for the MBA.

Have demonstrated evi-dence of personal qualitiesstrongly resonating withentrepreneurial leadership.

Have demonstrated howa business education will helpfurther your career goals;Have demonstrated need forfinancial support.

English languagerequirements: Candidateswhose first language is notEnglish or who have notstudied at an English-speak-ing university are required totake either the TOEFL orIELTS tests.

How to apply: To applyfor the Skoll Scholarship youfirst need to apply and beaccepted onto the SaïdBusiness School’s MBA pro-gramme

Application deadline:The last date is January 8,2021.

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Kings XI Punjab batting coachWasim Jaffer said overseas

stars Chris Gayle and MujeebZadran could feature in the play-ing eleven soon in the ongoingseason of IPL.

KXIP have struggled so far,losing four of their five games,with death bowling proving to betheir biggest concern.

Jaffer said the campaign hasbeen disappointing so far but “itonly takes a game or two” to turnthings around. For that to happen,the more match winners in theteam the better, said Jaffer addingGayle in that list.

Both Gayle and spinnerMujeeb are yet to play in the IPL.

“It should happen soon. As Isaid, it needs to happen soonerthan later. We don’t want tobring them when every game isa must win game. Hopefully, wewill have those guys featuringsoon,” Jaffer told PTI.

Jaffer said the 41-year-oldWest Indian great is in top shapeand hungry to do the job for theteam.

“Chris looks very much readyand is keen to get onto the park, he hasbeen trainingreally well

and has looked really good in thenets.

“He is such an impact play-er, we all know what he can do. Ihope he turns up and turns it onstraightaway and changes thetide for all of us. He looks hun-gry and that is a very good signfor the franchise.

“I am hoping he plays quick-ly. We need match-winners, asmany as as possible. Not just forthe next game, also for the rest ofthe tournament as he can easilywin you four-five games on hisown,” said the former India open-er. Jaffer said his team is in a sit-uation where it needs to winseven out of the remaining nineleagues games to finish in the top-four, a tough task but possible.

For that, it will have to reworkits composition and decide whowill make way for Gayle andMujeeb. Nicholas Pooran andGlenn Maxwell, who is yet to fire,are certain to retain their place inthe eleven. Sheldon Cottrell andChris Jordan are the other over-seas players who featured in thelast game which KXIP lost to CSKby 10 wickets.

Besides death bowling, Jafferfeels even the finishing with

the bat alsoneeds improve-ment.

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Under-fire Kolkata KnightRiders captain Dinesh

Karthik will have to figure outurgent fixes for his star-stud-ded team’s faltering perfor-mances when it takes on aresurgent Chennai SuperKings in the IPL here onWednesday.

KKR acquiredEngland’s World Cup-winning skipper EoinMorgan but the man-agement reposed confi-dence in Karthik andasked him to lead theside. However, a few of hisbaffling decisions apartfrom his own poor runwith the bat — 37 runsfrom four matches —has put the Indian wick-etkeeper-batsman in theline of fire.

Promoting himself ahead ofthe star duo of Morgan andAndre Russell and preferringSunil Narine in the opening slotover Big Bash sensation Tom

Banton — who has been com-pared with Kevin Pietersen —has put 35-year-old Karthik inthe dock.

Narine has looked woe-fully out of sorts, managingonly 27 runs from fourmatches at 87.09 strike rateand it’s high time that theteam brings in the big-hit-ting English youngster.

KKR have plenty ofresources in bowling butKarthik, it seems, has not

been able to manage themwell and their match againstDelhi Capitals could be acase in point.

Pat Cummins’ not-so-impressive perfor-mance has added to the

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Former India battingcoach Sanjay Bangar

believes Rishabh Pant is aperfect replacement forMS Dhoni in the nation-al side as the left-handedwicketkeeper-batsmanprovides Team India witha much-needed balancein the middle order,

which is full of right-handers.

Pant has been ingood form in the ongoingIndian Premier League,scoring 171 runs in thefive matches he hasplayed for the DelhiCapitals.

“In terms of wicket-keeping, I think it wouldbe Rishabh Pant. I think

the way he started thisyear’s IPL and I think it isvery important to have aleft-hander as an optionbecause for Team Indiawhen it comes to themiddle-order as it helpsto balance out the right-handers,” said Bangarwhile speaking on StarSports show CricketConnected.

Meanwhile, formerIndia pacer Ashish Nehraalso supported Bangar’spoint of view on Pant andsaid: “I am in total agree-ment with Sanjay Bangar.I think they should goahead with Rishabh Pant.Pant should be backed.Every player needs to bebacked when it comes tointernational cricket.”

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In-form opener Prithvi Shaw feelsDelhi Capitals are doing every-

thing “perfect” in all departments ofthe game after they climbed to thetop of the points table with four winsout of five games in the ongoingIPL.

Shaw provided DC yetanother blazing start againstRCB on Monday, smashing aquickfire 42 off 23 balls.The Delhi outfit went onto win the matchcomfortably by 59runs.

“It is a verygood start to thistournament and wehave to carry thismomentum. Whateverwe do in practice ses-sions, we just have to exe-

cute ourselves in the match andrightly, we are doing perfectly,” the20-year-old said.

“Everything is going perfect, youknow, the batting, bowling — skills-wise we are going in the right direc-tion, so really happy for the team.”

Shaw on Monday missed outwhat could have been his thirdfifty of the season. He is the sec-ond highest scorer for DC so farwith 179 runs, behind his cap-

tain Shreyas Iyer (181).“I would have car-

ried on after the pow-erplay, but unfortu-nately I lofted it.However, it’s just agame and I think

this has become his-tory now, so I’ll leave

this over here itselfand concentrate on the

next game,” said Shaw.

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Manchester United swoopedfor Edinson Cavani among

four signings on Monday, butArsenal completed the biggestdeal of transfer deadline daywith the arrival of midfielderThomas Partey from AtleticoMadrid.

United were under the spot-light to respond to a humiliat-ing 6-1 home defeat toTottenham in the PremierLeague on Sunday. Dutch inter-national midfielder Donny vande Beek had been the onlyaddition to Ole GunnarSolskjaer’s squad prior toMonday’s arrival of Cavani, AlexTelles, Amad Diallo andFacundo Pellistri.

Cavani, 33, has been a freeagent since leaving Paris Saint-Germain in June and signed aone-year deal with the option fora second season.

The Uruguayan scored 200goals in seven seasons in theFrench capital to become theclub’s all-time top goalscorer.

The arrival of left-backTelles from Porto for £13.5 mil-lion ($19 million) is arguablyeven more important to aid aUnited defence that has conced-ed 11 goals in three Premier

League games to start the season.After a forlorn chase of

Borussia Dortmund’s JadonSancho, United also securedtwo promising 18-year-oldwingers in Uruguayan Pellistrifrom Penarol and Atalanta’sDiallo, who will join in Januaryin a deal that could reportedlyreach up to 41 million euros.

LONG-TERM TARGETPartey has been a long-

term target for the Gunners,who have matched his 50 mil-lion euro (£45 million, $59 mil-lion) buyout clause to bolstertheir threadbare midfieldoptions.

The Ghanaian has made188 appearances for the Spanishgiants and was part ofthe Atletico sidesthat reached the2016 ChampionsLeague final andbeat Arsenal onthe way to win-ning theEuropa Leaguein 2018.

“We havebeen watchingThomas for awhile, sowe’re nowdelighted to

add such a high-quality player toour squad,” said Arsenal bossMikel Arteta. “He is a dynamicmidfielder with great energy.”

Uruguayan internationalLucas Torreira has gone theother way from Arsenal toAtletico on a season-long loandeal, while another frozen outmidfielder at the Emirates,Matteo Guendouzi, joined

Hertha Berlin onloan.

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t o p p e r sEverton signedcentre-back

Ben Godfreyfor a reported ini-

tial fee of £25

million and Swedish interna-tional goalkeeper Robin Olsenon loan from Roma.

Meanwhile, Fulham securedthe loan signing of Chelseamidfielder Ruben Loftus-Cheekon loan while Southamptonwelcomed back Theo Walcottwho joined from Everton.

Elsewhere, Juventus securedone of the hottest properties inItalian football as FedericoChiesa joined from Fiorentinaon a two-year loan deal worth 10million euros with an obligationto buy if certain conditions aremet for a further 40 million.

English defender ChrisSmalling returned to Roma ona permanent deal fromManchester United for 15 mil-lion euros after impressing dur-ing a loan spell last season.

French midfielder TiemoueBakayoko has also returned toSerie A, joining Napoli on loanfrom Chelsea.

Bayern Munich added atrio of new players as DouglasCosta returned to the AllianzArena for a second spell on loanfrom Juventus.

The European championsalso signed former PSG strik-er Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting on a one-year deal andBouna Sarr from Marseille.

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Argentina’s Nadia Podoroskabecame the first qualifier in

the Open era on Tuesday toreach the women’s semi-finals at Roland Garrosafter stunning thirdseed Elina Svitolina 6-2, 6-4.

World number131 Podoroska hadnever won a GrandSlam main draw matchbefore the tournament and isthe only the third female qual-ifier to make the last four of amajor.

Podoroska, 23, will playPolish teenager Iga Swiatek orItaly’s Martina Trevisan as she

attempts to become the firstwomen’s qualifier in history toadvance to the final of any ofthe four Majors.

Alexandra Stevensonreached the semi-finals atWimbledon in 1999 whileChristine Dorey achieved asimilar run at the 1978Australian Open.

"It's a little bit difficult forme to speak now after thematch," said Podoroska, whoseonly other Grand Slam appear-ance came at the 2016 USOpen.

"We did a very good jobwith my coaches during the

(coronavirus) quarantine.I've been training a lotwith all of my team Ithink that's why I'mhere today."

It was the first timePodoroska had even

faced a player inside the top20, having started the yearranked a lowly 255.

She is guaranteed 425,250euros ($501,740) following herbreakout performance in Paris,easily doubling her total careerearnings of $301,547.

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Suryakumar Yadav smashedan unbeaten 79 off 47 ballsto fire Mumbai Indians to

an imposing 193 for four againstRajasthan Royals in an IPL con-test here on Tuesday.

Mumbai suffered a minimiddle-order collapse after agood start but late-hitting fromYadav and Hardik Pandya (30not out off 19) enabled thedefending champions to amass51 runs in the last three overs.

The two shared 76 runs forthe unbroken fifth wicket stand.

Opting to bat, openers RohitSharma (35 off 23) andQuinton De Kock (23off 15 balls)forged aquickf i re4 9 - r u nstand.

Mumbai amassed 15 runs inthe third over off Ankit Rajpoot,the highlight of it being Rohitlaunching one into the orbitover the bowler's head.

Debutant pacer KarthikTyagi (1/36) removed De Kock

in his very first over to providethe much needed breakthrough.

Yadav at the other endsmashed Tyagi for three bound-aries in ninth over. His inningscomprised 11 fours and twosixes.

However, leggie ShreyasGopal (2/28) struck twice in asmany balls removing Rohit andIshan Kishan (0) to leaveMumbai at 88 for three in the10th over.

While Rohit gave a sitter toRahul Tewatia at long-on, SanjuSamson took a running catch atextra-cover to send Kishan back.

Yadav kept playing his shotsand scored successive bound-aries off Gopal in the 12thover. It became 117 for fourafter Krunal Pandya fell cheap-ly.

Yadav, however, keptlaunching into the RR attackwith great gusto and was partic-ularly brutal on Tom Curran(0/33) in the 18th over that wentfor 19 runs.

He was ably supported byHardik, who produced a time-ly cameo.

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team’s woes.The pitch in Sharjah is a

batsmen’s paradise and bothteams cantered past the 200-mark but it’s the bowlers whomade the difference in a closechase.

The pair of Morgan andRahul Tripathi looked to seal itbut Delhi’s bowlers strangulat-ed KKR’s batting at the death.

Karthik will need to back hisbowlers, especially Indian leadspinner Kuldeep Yadav whoseems to have been under-

utilised and bowled just nineovers after being dropped fromthe Delhi game.

Chennai, on the other hand,rediscovered some of the formthat made them three-timechampions. After three losses onthe trot, the Mahendra SinghDhoni-led side would look tomake its ascent to top-four frombeing at the bottom.

Not known to tweak his sidemuch, Dhoni persisted withShane Watson and the Aussieveteran finally came to formwith an unbeaten 83.

Chasing 179 against KingsXI Punjab, Watson and Faf duPlessis made light work of theirbowlers in a record 181-rununbeaten stand to seal the chase.

The coming to form of amis-firing top order is what CSKneeded to come out of a miser-able start and having done that,they would certainly lookfavourites against a strugglingKKR.

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