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Anurag Thakur Puri stresses energy takes charge as PM interacts with Directors of Availability; Will focus Information and On domestic production Broadcasting Premier science institutions New Delhi, Jul 8 (UNI) Pe- Minister troleum and Natural Gas New Delhi, Jul 8 (UNI) presentation on their key cer cure and their aca- Minister Hardeep Singh After his interaction with Research and Develop- demic innovations like Puri on Thursday stressed more than 100 Directors of ment initiatives in areas starting LASE programme, the importance of energy Centrally Funded Techni- like robotics, efforts in Masters in Digital Health, availability and consump- cal Institutions on Thurs- education such as training AI and Data Science”. In tion in India's efforts to become a 5-trillion dollar New Delhi, Jul 8 (UNI) Mr day, Prime Minister maths/science teacher, his tweet, the Prime Min- economy. "As we transform towards a 5-Trillion Anurag Thakur on Thurs- Narendra Modi shared Covid 19 work. “They ister also said, “Proud to economy, energy availability and consumption will be of day assumed the charge details of his interaction emphasised on the need to see @IITKanpur become paramount importance," Puri said. The minister also said as Union Minister of In- with the premier science give importance to health a hub for futuristic re- he will focus on ramping up domestic production oil and formation and Broadcast- and technology institu- in Aatmanirbhar Bharat search and innovations in gas and push reforms in the sector. "My focus will be on ing. Prime Minister tions of the country that vision”, PM Modi added. blockchain technologies, increasing domestic production of crude and natural gas, Narendra Modi has done made presentations at the said “Had an enriching in- ing India a hub for R&D, Mr Modi also said, “I monitoring air quality, a remarkable work in the in line with the Prime Minister’s vision of Aatamnirbhar meeting. The Prime Min- teraction with Directors of innovation and was happy to know details electronic fuel injections Bharat," said Puri, who took charge of the crucial minis- last seven years and he ister tweeted about IISc leading IITs and popularising science on @iitbombay’s exten- and more. The support will work to fulfill the ex- try earlier in the day after Wednesday's cabinet revamp Bangalore, IIT Mumbai, @iiscbangalore during among the youth”. He sive work in technology being given to start-ups, pectations and responsi- by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. bilities given to him as the IIT Chennai and IIT which we exchanged also said that Indian Insti- for conversion of nitrogen upskilling of profession- Puri also said he will work towards development of a Information and Broad- Kanpur. In a series of thoughts on a wide range tute of Science Bangalore generator to oxygen gen- als will greatly benefit natural gas-based economy in the country and increase casting Minister, Mr tweets the Prime Minister of subjects including mak- team shared an interesting erator, cell therapy for can- India’s Yuva Shakti”. the share of natural gas in primary energy mix of the Thakur said. Mr Thakur, country to 15 per cent by 2030 as announced by the who was the Minister of prime minister. The former diplomat's coming into the States in the Finance Odisha CM seeks cooperation of servitors ministry is significant given that India is import-depen- Ministry, was promoted dent and it is looking to diversify the sources of energy to the Cabinet rank in Puri residents for smooth celebration of Car Festival yesterday's mega re- at a reasonable price in the international market. His ex- Bhubaneswar, July 8 ebrated smoothly and impact of the second shuffle and expansion of perience in complex negotiations is likely to come in (UNI) Odisha Chief Min- people watch it sitting in wave of the covid is on the Modi Cabinet. He is handy in India's energy diplomacy. Another issue that BJP Lok Sabha Member ister Naveen Patnaik to- their homes. declining trend in Odisha he has to handle is surging prices of fuel in the country. from Hamirpur in day sought the coopera- Mr.Patnaik said like still the danger has not Diesel and petrol prices have breached the Rs100 mark Himachal Pradesh. tion of netizens of Puri last year this year also the yet been fully averted . in several parts of India. Aware of the responsibility, and servitors of Sri Ratha yatra is going to be He sought the blessings Odisha CM Announces Puri said the work of his ministry touches each and ev- Jaganath temple for the celebrated in a very un- of Lord Jaganath for the ery citizen in the country, directly or indirectly. Cash Prize For Winning smooth celebration of the usual situation. The en- smooth celebration of the "The energy issues in this ministry have immense po- Medal In Tokyo Olympics Ratha yatra this year. tire world,he said, will car festival this year. tential and several challenges. The need to adapt to Presiding over the prepa- watch the deities through Speaking on the occasion changing times, adopt new technologies and to be in ratory meeting for the July television and social me- Odisha Health and Fam- consonance with the energy transition taking place across 12 Ratha yatra, Mr.Patnaik dia. So the rituals of the ily Welfare Minister Naba the world, provides a fascinating opportunity. thanked all for the hassle deities need to be con- Kishore Das said arrange- ployed for the ratha yatra tal to meet any emergen- Dharmendra Pradhan who handed over the charge of free celebration of the ducted in time. This apart ment has been made to will be carried out . The cies . Odisha DGP Abhay the ministry to Puri, extended his "best wishes" in the Ratha yatra last year. the covid protocols give priority to health first aid centres, ambu- said a full proof security minister's endeavours to ensure India’s energy security. Bhubaneswar, July 08 The Chief minister sought should be followed dur- care services during the lance, Medical Aid Post, arrangement has been "May the oil and gas sector embrace newer horizons (TNB): Odisha Chief Min- the cooperation of all ing the Ratha yatra ratha yatra. The covid and arrangements would made for the smooth cel- under his stewardship," said Pradhan, who has been ister Naveen Patnaik to- this year also to ensure strictly, he remarked Mr test and vaccination of all be made in the Puri Dis- ebration of the ratha yatra shifted to the education ministry. day spoke to Tokyo Olym- that the Ratha yatra is cel- Patnaik said though the servitors and officials de- trict head quarter hospi- in Puri this year. pics participants from the state and announced cash Odisha to set up eco cottages Two interstate bike Cabinet approves modifications in financing prize for winning medal in lifters nabbed by facility under Agri Infrastructure Fund the grandest sporting At select tourist destinations Garhwa police, 5 New Delhi, Jul 8 (UNI) Narendra Singh Tomar Groups (SHGs). At event. The CM an- motorcycles recovered The Union Cabinet said that the eligibility has present interest subven- nounced Rs 6 crore for Bhubaneswar, Jul 8 (UNI) be spend in each destina- availing different statu- Odisha government is tion for undertaking works tory permissions. It was Garhwa, Jul 8 (UNI) The chaired by Prime Minister now been extended to tion for a loan upto Rs winning Gold medal, Rs district police have planning to set up eco cot- such as land development, decided to select private Narendra Modi on Thurs- State Agencies or Agricul- two crore in one loca- 4 crore for Silver medal nabbed two members of an day gave its approval to tural Produce Market tion is eligible under the and Rs 2.5 crore for tages at selected destina- landscaping and setting partners through an ap- interstate bike lifters gang clinching Bronze medal. tions in the state to pro- up of ecologically suitable propriate open bidding and has recovered five the modifications in Cen- Committees (APMCs), Na- scheme. In case, one eli- CRPF jawans commits vide round the year facili- and sustainable cottages. process and to involve motorcycles from their tral Sector Scheme of Fi- tional and State Federa- gible entity puts up nancing Facility under tions of Cooperatives, projects in different loca- suicide at Madhuvan ties to the tourists The The Chief Secretary di- them as a stakeholder possession. project would be imple- rected officials to design, from the beginning of the The arrested have been ‘Agriculture Infrastruc- Federations of Farmers tions then all such projects camp in Giridih mented on pilot basis at develop and maintain the projects. The meeting de- identified as Rahul ture Fund’. Sharing the Producers Organiza- will now be eligible for in- Giridih, Jul 8 (UNI) A jawan two destinations— cottages on PPP mode liberated on the feasibil- Kashyap and Aakash details of the modifica- tions (FPOs) and Fed- terest subvention for loan of the 154th battalion of the Hirakud in Sambalpur dis- with credible private part- ity of developing such fa- Sharma from the tions, Agriculture Minister erations of Self Help upto Rs two crore. CRPF on Thursday com- Ramanujganj Police Sta- mitted suicide by shooting trict and Baliput ners having experience in cilities at Paradeep, (Satkoshia) in Cuttack dis- the trade. Daringbadi, Pati Sonapur tion area of Chhattisgarh. himself at the Madhuvan Briefing the press SDPO Odisha covid tally surges to trict. Tourism Principal He assured that the Gov- and Koraput. Mr camp located in this dis- Awadh Kumar Yadav said trict. The deceased has Secretary Vishal Dev told ernment would provide all Mohapatra directed the that from June 24 from 9,32,330 with 2542 new cases been identified as Ratan a high level meeting held support like viable gap Tourism department to Kalyanpur village under Das who originally hailed under the chairmanship of funding for setting up the lease out various tourism Garhwa Police Station area Recovery surpasses nine lakh mark from Assam and was Chief Secretary S C cottages, and properties like two bikes were stolen fol- Bhubaneswar, Jul 08 posted six months earlier at Mohapatra that around six infrastructural support Panthanivas and Road lowing which a team was (UNI) Odisha reported the CRPF camp at acres of land have already like road, power and wa- Side Amenity and constituted to crack the 2542 new covid positive Madhuvan. It is being sus- been identified at each of ter . The private partner operationalize those case which in due course cases, 57 deaths in the pected that the jawan took these two tourist spots. would also be provided through operation and man- of investigation nabbed past 24 hours pushing the the extreme step due to Rahul Kashyap on family problems. Around Rs.6.25 crore will handholding support for agement (O&M) partners. covid tally in the state to Wednesday evening. 9,32,330 with 4415 fatali- ties. The recovery of covid patients today Facial make up of the Lords known as “Banak Laggi” crossed nine lakh after Completed prior to Car Festival on July 12 2920 patients cured on Wednesday taking the to- Puri, July 8 (UNI) Dutta istrator A K Jena said the venue of the fete would tal recoveries in the state Mahapatra, a special set of deities on Friday will ap- be put under section 144 to 9,00,282. 4862 active cases to date ( 150). The test positivity servitors expert in facial pear in full rejuvenated to prevent gathering of The active cases in the while Deogarh in Western rate ( TPR) has started de- make up worked for hours youth called” Nabajouban devotees. state further declined to Odisha has the lowest clining in many districts. on Thursday, 14th day of Darshan”. Special RT-PCR test cen- 27,580. At least three dis- number of 54 active cases. As per the latest report, no moon (krishna This apart the chariots tres are busy collecting tricts- Khordha, Cuttack Two other districts- only five districts in the chaturdashi) to colour the would be decked with their swab samples of servitors. and Balasore have re- Nuapada and Gajapati state have a TPR between face of Lord Jagnnath, his respective colours on Fri- RT-PCR test will be done ported high active cases have also active cases 5 per cent to 7 per cent elder Balavadra and their day. Unfortunately like on three thousand servi- of over 2500 and declared less than 100. Health and while the rest 25 districts sister Devi Subahdra, previous years no devo- tors besides one thousand as Red Zone. Four other Family Welfare depart- have a TPR of less than 5 called "Banak laagi . The tees could witness the temple official including districts such as Jajpur, ment sources said in the per cent. Cuttack district paste of black conch is event as the entire festi- police personnel . As per Mayurbhanj, Puri and past 24 hours 1458 infec- in coastal Odisha has the used to colour the eyeballs val is being observed Covid protocol only those Bhadrak have active cases tions were reported from highest TPR of 6.9 per cent and white conch powder Darshan of the deities af- (conch shell) powder be- without the presence of tested negative would be over 1000 but less than the quarantine centres and Bolangir district in is used for colouring the ter Anasar is most impor- sides other natural colours devotees. The police to- allowed to participate in 2000 declared as Orange and 1084 local contact Western Odisha has the white portion of the eye. tant. were used to decorate the day conducted flag march the festival. Meanwhile , zone while the other 23 dis- cases from all the 30 dis- lowest TPR of 0.3 per cent. According to Sanjay Dutt He said a special mixture face of deities. The sur- along the Badadanda Puri the administration has tricts having less than tricts. Official sources said in the Mahapatra, servitor for of Khadi (mixture of white plus Khadi and the mixture SP K.Vishal Sing said on put barricades on the 1000 active cases are con- Cuttack district registered past 24 hours 72,645 tests facial of the deities , nor- chalk stone and white rice were taken in a procession the festival day the streets connected to the sidered as Green Zone. the highest number of 428 were conducted in the mally face make up of the powder), Kasturi (musk), by the Dutta Mahapatra Gundicha temple would grand road to prevent any According to official positive cases followed state and 2542 ( about 3.5 deities are done at regular Hingula (sulphate of mer- servitors to the palace of be kept under three lay- devotees to enter the sources, the Khordha dis- by Khordha(424), per cent) of them were intervals at least once in a cury), Harital (yellow Gajapati King and depos- ers of security cordon city and the venue during trict in coastal Odisha has Balasore ( 221), found infected with the week. But for Nabajouban orpiment) and Sankha ited there. Temple Admin- while Grand road,the the Car Festival. the highest number of Kendrapara ( 167) and Puri coronavirus. Orissa Today WORLD Friday 09 July 2021 Bhubaneswar 2

Pentagon confirms 2 US sol- Bangladesh secures place on high table of world cinema with MeToo story in Cannes diers injured in rocket attack New Delhi, Jul 8 (UNI) co-production, tells the 'Live From Dhaka', about Jeremy Chua and cin- tal murder of a teenage among the ten film The Cannes film festival story of Rehana Maryam a disabled man's ematographer Tuhin girl, Nusrat Jahan Jafi, projects from emerging on Al-Assad air base in Iraq has a Bengali language Noor, an assistant profes- struggles within society. Tamijul at the world pre- for reporting sexual ha- countries at La Fabrique film in the official selec- sor at a medical college This is the first time a miere yesterday. Badhon, rassment to the authori- Cinema mentorship tion this year. And it is not finding herself on the Bangladeshi film is in the a graduate of the ties, had shocked the programme of the from India. wrong side of the estab- official selection of the Bangladesh Medical Col- South Asian nation. Cannes film market this 'Rehana Maryam Noor' lishment when she ex- Cannes festival. In 2002, lege in Dhaka and a "You know what happens year. "It was Saad's first by Bangladeshi director poses sexual harassment Bangladeshi filmmaker former beauty pageant to the girls who speak film, 'Live From Dhaka', Abullah Mohammad by a senior faculty mem- Tareque Masud's ' Matir winner before she be- up," a medical college which had connected me Saad created history yes- ber. Set in the middle of Moina' (The Clay Bird) came an actor, will be student tells Noor while to my Bangladeshi pro- terday when it became the last decade, years was screened at the Di- vying for acting honours begging her not to report ducers Arifur Rahman the first film from before the MeToo move- rectors' Fortnight, a par- at Un Certain Regard sexual harassment by her and Bijon," adds the Bangladesh to be ment exploded globally, allel selection of the Awards with her power- professor to the college Mumbai-based Sen. screened at the world's the film brings to light the Cannes festival. Films in ful performance as a principal in the film that "I am really happy for the Washington, Jul 8 (UNI/Sputnik) Two members of biggest film festival. Part harrowing gender injus- Bengali language by whistleblower. is shot entirely indoors. film's Singaporean pro- the US military were injured during a rocket attack of Cannes festival's Un tice and inequality exist- Satyajit Ray and Mrinal Though women consti- "It is extremely special ducer Jeremy Chua as against the Ain Al-Assad Air Base that hosts Coalition Certain Regard section ing in the Sub-continent. Sen had been a regular tute a major share of the and emotionally impor- well. He is a well-re- troops in Iraq, Defense Department spokesperson that celebrates fresh Supported by the Busan feature in the main com- working population in tant that Saad's film is in spected producer," says Commander Jessica McNulty confirmed to Sputnik. voices in world cinema, International Film petition section of the Bangladesh, especially in official selection in Sen. "Though I do not Saad's second feature Festival's Asian Cinema Cannes festival in the lat- its booming garment ex- Cannes," says Kolkata- think language defines Earlier on Wednesday, Operation Inherent Resolve film had its world pre- Fund and post-produc- ter half of last century. ports industry, they regu- born filmmaker Suman our films, more than any- spokesman Col. Wayne Marotto said two personnel miere on the second day tion grant from the Doha Director Saad was joined larly face discrimination Sen, whose Bengali film thing else, the selection of suffered minor injuries after 14 rockets were fired at of the festival. Film Institute, 'Rehana by his leading actor and harassment in the in development, an India- 'Rehana Maryam Noor' in the air base. The 107-minute film, a Maryam Noor' follows Azmeri Haque Badhon, male-dominated society. Bangladesh co-produc- Cannes means a lot. It is Bangladesh-Singapore Saad's debut feature film, Singaporean co-producer Two years ago, the bru- tion titled 'Eka' (Solo), is a huge achievement." "I can confirm two US service members had the mi- nor injuries in today's attack at Al Asad Air Base, Iraq," Trump announces class action lawsuit Pakistan fears terrorists disguised as Afghan McNulty said in a statement on Wednesday. against YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, CEOs refugees to infiltrate country - Ex-Diplomat This is the second rocket attack on the Ain Al-Assad Washington, Jul 8 (UNI/ St Petersburg, Jul 8 base this week. On Monday, the air base was hit by Sputnik) Former US Presi- (UNI/Sputnik) Pakistan three rockets that did not result in any injuries or ma- dent Donald Trump on is concerned that ex- terial damage. Wednesday announced a tremists may hide among class action lawsuit refugees coming from On June 27, the Defense Department said US fighter against Facebook, Twit- Afghanistan and spread jets struck facilities of the Iranian-backed militants - ter, Google subsidiary uncontrollably across the Kata'ib Hezbollah and Kata'ib Sayyid al-Shuhada - in YouTube and their CEOs. region with migrant the Syrian-Iraqi border region in response to attacks flows, Tasnim Aslam, against United States interests in Iraq. "Today, in conjunction former Pakistani Foreign with the America First Ministry spokeswoman, EU says Belarus 'further Policy Institute, I'm filing told Sputnik on Wednes- a major class action law- concerning Twitter and vague and ever-shifting day. their operations. around 90% of the US isolates' itself with expulsion suit against the big tech Dorsey and the third is standards," the lawsuit forces have left the coun- giants including against Youtube and said. "For Pakistan, a renewed In view of this, Aslam try, sparking fears about of Lithuanian diplomats Facebook, Google and Pichai. influx of refugees is a urged the regional part- the ability of the Afghan Brussels, Jul 8 (UNI/Sputnik) The European Union is Twitter, as well as their Facebook and Twitter major concern. Even big- ners to strengthen border government to contain calling on Belarus to revise its policy of diplomatic CEOs Mark Zukerberg, The lawsuit says the sta- have maintained their bans ger concern would be the protection as, she added, Taliban without foreign expulsions and allow the full presence of EU diplo- Sundar Pichai, Jack tus of the three tech gi- on Trump are not censor- infiltration of terrorists in under the US "occupa- help. matic missions in the country, European Commission Dorsey," Trump said dur- ants "rises beyond that of ship but were set up for the guise of refugees," tion" Afghanistan's drug spokesman Peter Stano said on Wednesday. ing a news conference. a private company to that public safety in response Aslam said. production has only in- Russian Foreign Minister The statement comes a day after Belarus decided to of a state actor" and is to the January 6 unrest at creased. Sergey Lavrov stated on leave only one consul and three administrative and tech- Trump added he demands constrained by the First the US Capitol. She also noted that the Wednesday that Presi- nical staff at the Lithuanian Embassy. On Tuesday, an end to "silencing" and Amendment right to free instability in the country Afghanistan has been dent Vladimir Putin was the Belarusian Foreign Ministry said that it had de- "blacklisting" in the United speech in the censorship Trump signed an execu- will allow drug traffick- witnessing a surge in vio- in contact with the lead- cided to minimize the diplomatic representation of States, adding that both decisions it makes regard- tive order in 2020 to re- ing to flourish, as various lence during the with- ers of Central Asian Lithuania until it drops unfriendly initiatives. are "unconstitutional and ing their users. duce legal protections for groups inside Afghanistan drawal of NATO troops, countries on the rapidly "With this, the Lukashenko regime is closing further un-American." social media companies will increasingly rely on set to be completed by deteriorating situation in diplomatic channels of communication. ... By these "Plaintiff, a sitting Presi- from liability for the con- the drug trade to fund September 11. As of July, Afghanistan. actions, the regime further isolates itself. Such deci- The plaintiffs’ statements dent of the United States, tent that users post on sions are also detrimental to Belarus and its popula- were expressed in three was banned by the defen- their platforms. Current Japan declares virus emergency tion. Keeping diplomatic channels of communication separate documents - the dants, as were putative President Joe Biden can- open in time of difficulties is crucial. The EU calls on first concerning Facebook class members, using celed that executive order in Tokyo ahead of Olympics 2020 the Belarusian authorities to allow full presence of the and Zukerberg, the second non-existent or broad, in May. EU’s and it Member States’ diplomatic missions to al- low diplomacy to work," Stano said in a statement. COVID-19: Despite lockdown, Sydney The reduction of the Lithuanian diplomatic represen- tation took place after the office of Belarusian opposi- tion leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya received diplomatic sees highest caseload in months status in Lithuania. Minsk said that such actions by Sydney, Jul 8: Despite im- people are allowed to leave Vilnius constituted a series of "ridiculous and openly position of lockdown and their homes for essential hostile steps" toward Minsk. curbs, Australia's New reasons like shopping, ex- South Wales on Thursday ercise and care-giving. Massive blast at Dubai reported year's highest Businesses such as restau- covid-19 cases in a single rants offering takeaway port, no casualties reported day as officials struggle to and many retail shops re- Tokyo, Jul 8: Japan's gov- taking and will uniformly Tokyo and may rise fur- stamp out a growing clus- main open. Abu Dhabi, Jul 8: A huge explosion has rocked Dubai's ernment on Thursday im- suspend the serving of al- ther. ter of the highly infectious Jebel Ali Port just before the midnight on Wednesday, posed a state of emer- coholic beverages at res- Under the new restric- Delta variant. However, Prime Minister resulting in a large cloud of flame and causing a shock gency throughout the du- taurants," Suga added. tions, alcohol will be Premier Gladys Berejiklian Scott Morrison said the wave that rattled windows of buildings several ration of the Olympics banned at bars and restau- With a spike in cases af- said on Thursday, which federal government would kilometres away.According to initial reports, there was, amid surging coronavirus The emergency measures rants and it will be or- ter two weeks of a hard saw the highest figures in ensure adequate economic however, no loss of lives.The explosion took place on cases in the country. come as local media re- dered to close by 8pm. lockdown in Sydney, a day in the last 14 support if the lockdown a small ship at Jebel Ali Port. ports said Olympic orga- raised the chances of a months. Please stop visit- was extended, saying the "We will impose the state nizers are set to ban spec- Tokyo 2020 Olympics has Commander-in-Chief of Dubai Police, Lieutenant Gen- further extension in re- ing people indoors, outside state was on "shifting of emergency in Tokyo," tators for the event. Re- already been delayed by eral Abdullah Khalifa Al Marri said: "The fire in Jebel strictions, with officials your family, your house- sands" and urged pa- Japan's Prime Minister ports say people have year with the sporting Ali Port broke out on board a small-sized container blaming illegal family vis- hold. Your immediate fam- tience. Yoshihide Suga said, add- been asked to avoid the event due to take place last ship. No casualties were reported." its for a continuing rise in ily means those you live ing, "The period will be route when the marathon year but was postponed Director General of Dubai Civil Defense, Major Gen- infections. with, it doesn't mean ex- The state's police force until August 22." even takes place in north- last year as the pandemic eral Rashid Thani Al Matrooshi told Dubai Media Of- New South Wales re- tended family or friends," will deploy 100 additional ern Hokkaido. took hold worldwide. fice that the fire was brought fully under control some ported 38 new local cases, she said. officers in Sydney's south The Tokyo Olympics two and a half hours after the incident and the cooling up from 27 on July 7, with west, from Friday to en- starts on July 23 and is set The Olympic torch relay In polls conducted across process had started. 11 of those having spent Australia's biggest city, sure that residents are to end on August 8 with event has already been the country, most Japa- An official told a local TV channel that the crew had time in the community home to five million wearing masks and not at least 11,000 athletes scrapped by organizers nese wanted the event to managed to evacuate in time before the fire caused while infectious. people, is under a stay-at- breaking COVID-19 re- from around 200 coun- amid the pandemic in To- be postponed further, one of the containers to explode. The nature of the home order until 17 July. strictions. tries set to take part in the kyo. however, the mood has material in the container is not known at the moment. Given the rise in cases, The neighbouring Blue sporting extravaganza. changed somewhat in re- Indian expat Vishal Bathija, who lives relatively closer authorities say household Mountains, Central Coast, Australia has fared much The Japanese capital re- The Japanese prime min- cent weeks. to Jebel Ali Port, was watching the England-Denmark visits and meet-ups be- Wollongong, and better than many other corded 896 new COVID- ister assured citizens that match when the blast took place. tween friends were still Shoalhaven regions are developed countries in 19 cases on Thursday the emergency measures Japan has recorded "My TV room faces towards the port. The sound was driving the virus' spread. also affected. keeping COVID-19 num- even as authorities begin could be lifted if the ef- 810,000 COVID-19 cases very loud and it caused our windows to rumble," said They have pleaded with bers low, with just under the final lap to host the fect of the vaccine is vis- with 14,900 fatalities so the 49-year-old from Mumbai. residents to follow the COVID-19: New Zealand 30,900 cases and 910 mega sporting event. ible and demand for hos- far with health authorities Another Indian expat, Madhuri Bhandari, said she could rules more strictly. suspends travel bubble deaths, however, the pital beds go down. fearful that cases could hear the blast nearly 35 km away inside Dubai Mall, arrangement with Austra- country's slow vaccina- "In areas under the state rise during the Olympics despite a fairly crowded environment in the mall. "We just need people to lia till June 29 tion rollout has taken of emergency, we will Authorities say the Delta as thousands of athletes, Jebel Ali is one of the biggest ports in the world on the stop interacting for this some of the shine off this continue with the mea- variant now accounts for organizers and fans gather northern end of the city. lockdown to work," NSW Under the direction, success. sures we have been under- 30 per cent of cases in for the event. Orissa Today Friday 09 July 2021 Bhubaneswar 3 Anurag Thakur's elevation reaffirms faith in young First consignment of red stone reaches brigade by Modi govt, welcome step for HP politics Ram Janmabhoomi site in Ayodhya Hamirpur (HP), Jul 8 the state BJP chief, Prime Minister, Narendra is happy with the eleva- in the state anymore. (UNI) The elevation of sources said. Modi awarded him two tion of Anurag Thakur as the local MP, Anurag youth-related depart- a cabinet minister, his One of the top Congress Thakur from the post of Moreover, by bringing a ments to showcase his own father, PK Dhumal party leaders of the state Union Minister of State young man into his cabi- talent. is optimistic that his won on anonymity told UNI for Finance and Corpo- net, the Prime Minister will come up to the aspi- today that by making rate affairs to cabinet has shown that he had Son of the former HP rations of the people of Anurag Thakur as the Minister-in-charge, In- full faith in the abilities of Chief Minister and senior India and work accord- Union cabinet minister, formation-cum broad- the young force so that BJP leader, Prem Kumar ing to their wishes. the Prime Minister had casting, and Youth wel- they are trained for tak- Dhumal, Junior Dhumal killed two birds with one fare and sports in Modi ing reins of the nation/ who preferred to be Dhumal has thanked stone. cabinet has been hailed as states in the future, they called Thakur is likely to Prime Minister for pos- a welcome step for the said. create a sports-related en- ing faith in Anurag He said through this way, state polity and Modi's vironment in various Thakur for the second the prime Minister had commitment to induct Incidentally, this step has parts of India in general time during the last two given a lesson to the BJP youngsters. been taken at a time when and HP in particular. He years, firstly when he leaders and the Congress the party is working on had already set up two was made the Minister of party both not to become Ayodhya, Jul 8 (UNI) Saints and seers of Ayodhya showered flowers as the first This is because of the its Mission-2022 to retain big cricket stadiums at state and now the cabi- so passive that another consignment of red stones to be used for the foundation of Ram temple reached reason that another Rajya the party government in Dharamshala in Kangra net minister. force takes advantage the city, sources said on Thursday.In the first phase, 30 stones of 16 cubic feet Sabha MP from the state, the state through the and Nadaun in Hamirpur and eventually the reigns arrived here last evening. Another 19,000 stones that will be used in the temple JP Nadda is also the All coming Vidhan Sabha districts respectively. Meanwhile, the people of of the state. construction are yet to be brought. India President of the elections. While world-class the state in general and BJP, and by making matches were used to be the BJP people, in par- Meanwhile, people of the The stones, brought from the mines of Mirzapur, are to be transported to the Ram Anurag as the cabinet The four timers MP from held at Dharamshala sta- ticular, are hopeful that state especially that of the Janmabhoomi complex, they said.The truck driver, who reached Ayodhya with the minister, the Prime Min- Hamirpur aged forty-six dium, the Nadaun sta- Anurag Thakur and the Hamirpur Parliamentary consignment, was also garlanded. ister has shown that he and half years old is well dium known after the Chief Minister, Jai Ram constituency are eager to has great love and affec- known for his interest in former Prime Minister, Thakur would work in meet their own leader and For the foundation of the Ram Mandir, about 15 layers of stuffing have been tion for the people of the the sports and the youth Atal Bihari Vajpayee is unison for the upliftment to greet him in a befitting completed.The four-feet long, two-feet high and two-feet wide red stones will be state where he had welfare activities and holding national-level of the state and to take manner for getting such used from October.Inside the temple complex, a temporary workshop has also worked as the party’s or- perhaps keeping in view matches and credit for the party to the heights a prestigious post that no been set up behind Ramlala Virajman, the sources said.For the foundation of the ganization-in-charge his interest in the sports that goes to Thakur only. so that the Congress was one from Hamirpur's seat temple construction, 42 layers have to be cast, out of which 15 layers have been when PK Dhumal was and media activities, the While the common man not able to create its dent could get earlier. filled.Each layer is 10 inches thick. PM condoles demise of former Natural justice done to 'betrayer Himachal CM Virbhadra Singh of Goa': Girish Chodankar New Delhi, Jul 8 (UNI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi Panaji, Jul 8 (UNI) Goa Commenting on change of Babu Ajgaonkar,' he said. some respite to Covid on Thursday mourned the demise of former Himachal Pradesh Congress Com- portfolio of lone union Patients and Social Me- Pradesh chief minister Virbhadra Singh and said that mittee (GPCC) President minister from Goa, Mr 'The cabinet reshuffle is dia users,' he said. he played a pivotal role in the state and served its people. Girish Chodankar on Chodankar said,' actually just an face sav- Thursday said that natu- ing exercise of Prime Mr Chodankar wel- Taking to twitter, he said, "Shri Virbhadra Singh Ji had ral justice was done to Our own North Goa MP Minister Narendra Modi. comed the decision of the a long political career, with rich administrative and leg- those had betrayed the Shripad Naik is now the The need of the hour was newly-appointed Gover- islative experience. He played a pivotal role in Himachal coastal state. new Minister of State for to change the pilot and nor of Himachal Pradesh Pradesh and served the people of the state. Saddened Ports, Shipping, Water- co-pilot of the aircraft Rajendra Arleker of re- by his demise. Condolences to his family and support- In a statement, he ways and Tourism. His when the nation is pass- signing from the primary ers. Om Shanti." said,'Goa is land of natu- demotion from Indepen- ing through turbulent membership of BJP. ral prosperity. Goans have dent charge of Ayush Min- times. Changing the Singh had been battling a prolonged illness. Report- always worshiped the na- istry to Minister of State cabin crew will not help 'I hope he (Mr Arlekar) the country in anyway,' will not put Goa to shame edly, he breathed his last at the Indira Gandhi Medical he was Himachal Pradesh's chief minister for six terms ture. Natural justice has is actually a blessing in he taunted. with his acts and work College Hospital in Shimla due to multi organ failure - from April 8, 1983 to March 5, 1990, December 3, been done to the 'betrayer disguise for Goa. I hope only under the constitu- around 0400 hrs today. 1993 to March 23, 1998 and from March 6, 2003 to of Goa' former Union he will protect the inter- The State Congress tional framework,' Mr December 29, 2007 and for the sixth time from De- Minister Prakash est of Goans and save President said,'The most Chodankar said. A nine-time MLA and five-time member of Parliament, cember 25, 2012 to December 26, 2017. Jawdekar who connived Goa's coastline and rivers with the Chief Minister of from getting into the incompetent Health Min- Goa Dr. Pramod Sawant clutches of Crony Club of ister Dr Harsh Vardhan 'Congress party will keep Happy Birthday: Sourav Ganguly turns 49, in selling our Mother Prime Minister Narendra got his punishment for a close watch on the new River Mhadei to Modi.' killing thousand of pa- political developments. Simple ceremony is on card owing to Pandemic Karnataka. His other part- tients in Covid Pandemic. We want to warn all the ner in the crime, Goa CM 'We hope he will take im- Law and IT Minister Ravi new ministers inducted Kolkata, Jul 8 (UNI) When asked it has been Dr Pramod Sawant will mediate steps to revive the Shankar Prasad who by the Prime Minister BCCI President Sourav 25 years since his debut soon get his punishment. most affected tourism in- murdered freedom of ex- Narendra Modi not to Ganguly, the Maharaja of for the Indian team, the This is a lesson for all dustry in Goa and put an pression on social media play with the sentiments Indian cricket, turned 49 former captain was those who play with the end to "Mission 30 percent is now silenced. The exit of Goans. We hope bet- on Thursday through the quoted saying that " The sentiments and emotions Commission" of Tourism of both the ministers is ter sense will prevail with yearly celebration at his year is really significant. of most tolerant Goans.' Minister Manohar alias hopefully going to bring all of them,' he said. ancestral home at Behala But it has nothing to do to be a low key affair with Birthdays. Birthday owing to the current pan- is Birthday. The game is Drishti issues advisory: Stay away from rocky demic situation in this the game. It has been 25 metropolis. years since my debut for areas and cliffs; avoid venturing into sea " There is no celebration the Indian team. Lord is Panaji, Jul 8 (UNI) beaches. lived to the rough sea. and rocky areas along for Covid-19 this time. a part of that tour. Even Drishti, the state ap- The state has been lift- Such incidents are heart- the coastline; Drishti During the current situ- Gangopadhyay affec- this city in 1972. then more such parts pointed lifesaving ing curfew and opening breaking. Many of the Marine had previously ation, there is no celebra- tionately known as Dada, " Happy Birthday" mes- came. Many opportuni- agency, has advised up activities across Goa. images and videos identified unsafe zones tion of birthdays. I will an Indian cricket admin- sages poured in for " ties have come. Each beach goers to stay After having been con- posted online are located which are strictly no- stay at home. I will istrator, commentator, Dada" of Indian cricket event has a different rel- away from rocky areas fined indoors for several at extremely dangerous selfie zones. Appropriate spend the whole day with quiz master in a talk as players and adminis- evance. These are not and cliffs along the weeks, residents of the locations amidst steep signage boards continue the family," said Dada. show and former national trators of yesteryears just another incident. My coastline. The rocks are state and tourists have rocks with jagged edges, to be posted at these Sourav Chandidas cricket team captain, and current and fans whole career has a dif- very slippery during been heading to the areas with loose rocks spots along the coast. Ganguly, or Sourav was born on this day in wishing him a long life. ferent relevance." monsoon season and beaches along the coast. and locations prone to rip Red flags are put up on Owaisi meets Rajbhar over 2022 assy polls in UP to counter BJP also wave height, inten- “It has been observed currents and fierce all beaches marking them sity and frequencies are that there has been a waves. Many such loca- as strictly no-swim Lucknow, Jul 8 (UNI) In AIMIM is on a strong caste justice is an eye Bahriach to inaugurate his very high and one can spike in visitors to the tions are at beaches zones. a run up for the 2022 as- pitch and both parties wash and it proves that party's office there. easily get washed out. beaches along the coast. which are unmanned by The advisory come in sembly polls in Uttar have agreed to certain centre has failed in the When asked about the The advisory come in A number of visitors are lifeguards. This poses a the wake of unfortunate Pradesh , the Bhagadari points, besides claiming field of economy and statement of Congress the wake of unfortunate scaling rocky area and serious threat to visi- incidents which took Sankalp Morcha led by that in 2022 his Morcha health. leader Digvijay Singh on incidents which took cliff tops in an attempt tors,” said Navin place last week where a Suheldeo Bharatiya Samaj will get enough seats to the DNA controversy place last week where a to get photographs to Awasthi, Operations young boy slipped from Party(SBSP) has called form the government. Giving ministerial berth to raised by RSS chief re- young boy slipped from share on their social me- Head, Drishti Marine. a dangerous cliff at Cabo for all non- BJP parties to a few OBC and dalit lead- cently, Mr Owaisi said ," a dangerous cliff at Cabo dia profiles. In an unfor- He said, “The monsoons da Rama fort when at- join their front to defeat "Doors open to all oppo- ers is not going to bail out Digvijay always drowns da Rama fort when at- tunate incident which are on in Goa. Visitors to tempting to take a selfie. BJP in the UP polls. sition SP, BSP and Con- BJP in UP, Rajbhar added. his party whereever he tempting to take a selfie. took place earlier last the beach are advised to Last weekend two SBSP president Om gress. Any non-BJP party Mr Owaisi, who talked goes." Last weekend two week a young man had not enter the sea as the young males succumbed Prakash Rajbhar made who is open to agenda of less after his meeting with " Congress had ditched the young males succumbed scaled the rocky hill at sea conditions in the to the rough sea at this appeal after his meet- social justice unlike BJP Mr Rajbhar in a hotel here, Muslims , the most, due to to the rough sea at Cabo da Rama fort and monsoons are extremely Utorda when they ven- ing with AIMIM chief can join us," Mr Rajbhar said talks are underway which the community Utorda when they ven- slipped into the waters rough with fierce under- tured into the rough sea Asauddin Owaisi here on said . for pre- poll alliance. Not- youths are still uneducated tured into the rough sea when attempting to take water currents.” for a swim despite warn- Thursday . ing has been finalised yet, in large numbers and pov- for a swim despite warn- a selfie from a danger- In an effort to reduce ings from lifesavers and Mr Rajbhar announced He also said union minis- he added. The AIMIM erty is extreme amongst ings from lifesavers and ous edge. At Utorda two the number of accidents red flags posted on the that pre poll alliance with try expansion showcasing leader then left for them," he alleged. red flags posted on the young males lost their and falls from slippery beaches. Orissa Today Friday 09 July 2021 Bhubaneswar 4 Letters to the editor: Tirath On a two-way street: Investment Treaty Arbitration Singh Rawat resigns as For middle-income countries like India, which are investment importing as well as Uttarakhand CM, right to investment exporting, the Investor-State Dispute Settlement can be a useful tool The State being held accountable by democratic government or an impartial food of stray dogs courts is a cherished feature of judiciary. In the absence of these, democracies. Even a submission to investors may find themselves in want the jurisdiction of international courts of a forum to seek compensation for a is applauded on some occasions. But genuine wrong done to them. For sovereign powers are not usually middle-income countries like India, expected to be bound by decisions of which are investment importing as well tribunals comprising individuals sans as investment exporting, the ISDS can institutional backing. And yet, the be a useful tool. It is particularly Investor-State Dispute Settlement valuable for Indian investors in foreign does this very thing. Also referred to countries. as the Investment Treaty Arbitration, In recent years, the Government of India this mechanism rooted in the has opposed not only the mechanism but Investment Treaties and Trade also some of the reforms proposed to Sir — It was hardly surprising when the chief minister Agreements signed among improve the system. In 2016, India of Uttarakhand, Tirath Singh Rawat, handed over sovereigns subjects the states to unilaterally terminated its bilateral his resignation to the governor, Baby Rani Maurya, arbitration when they fail to provide investment treaties with over 50 within only four months of being appointed, the promised benefits to foreign countries. Admittedly, the new model reportedly citing the constitutional provision that investors. BIT of 2016 retained the provision for requires him to get elected to the assembly within In the Indian context, we have had at resolving disputes through the ISDS but six months of assuming office, and the unlikelihood least three recent examples of liability only as a last resort. Moreover, to regain of the bypolls in the state being held in time on fixed upon the state as a result of ISDS regulatory autonomy of the state, many account of the pandemic (“Uttarakhand CM steps — the Cairn arbitration award, the subject matters have now been excluded down after 4 months”, July 3). In the meantime, Vodafone arbitration award and the from the scope of the ISDS. In an Uttarakhand gets Pushkar Singh Dhami as its new Devas arbitration award. What added been criticized by not just states but also other attempt to explore alternatives, the chief minister — its third in four months. Dhami, to the worries of the embattled Indian economy are stakeholders. The primary complaint against the ISDS Investment Cooperation and Facilitation Treaty signed who is the youngest chief minister Uttarakhand has proceedings initiated by Devas Multimedia Pvt Ltd is that it undermines the powers of the sovereign state. with Brazil in 2020 strongly emphasizes a mechanism seen till date, expressed his gratitude to prime and Cairn Energy before US federal courts to seek the A foreign corporation can bring an arbitration claim for dispute-prevention and a tiered dispute-resolution minister, Narendra Modi, the home minister, Amit enforcement of awards against India to the tune of process. Prima facie, the mechanism appears to be Shah, and the Bharatiya Janata Party national against a state and then bind the latter to the award $135 million and $1.2 billion, respectively. It may rendered by a private tribunal, all the while bypassing arduous and one that could culminate into a diplomatic president, J.P. Nadda, for giving him this seem arbitrary and a case of a foreign corporation limbo. opportunity. the judicial system in the country of investment. holding hostage a sovereign power to amend and Moreover, it restricts the government from altering its The new treaty texts may be a step in the right direction However, Rawat seems to be merely a pawn in the enforce its laws; more so when the country is flailing to qua regulatory control of the sovereign but they border plans of the BJP leadership that wants to show that it regulatory policies. fully provide for its own citizens. But there is some In cases such as Eli Lilly vs Canada, the legal basis of the on protectionism. On the two-way street of BITs, these stands for the Constitution by sacrificing Rawat method in this madness. India is not the only country to also subject Indian investors abroad to similar rigours. instead of forcing the Election Commission to hold decision taken by the government was challenged and face such proceedings. In 2012, an arbitral tribunal had eventually upheld by the courts of Canada. In 2009, a It may seem arbitrary that a corporation can hold a the bypolls. This might have been done to set a directed Ecuador to pay $1.77 billion to Occidental for government liable for losses. But these are legal template to be used against Mamata Banerjee, who Swedish company, Vattenfall, brought an investor cancelling the latter’s contract. In 2014, an arbitration claim against Germany when the latter delayed obligations that the state has exposed itself to is also supposed to contest the bypolls to keep her tribunal at The Hague rendered an award in favour of willingly; and legal obligations to which Indian position as chief minister of West Bengal within the granting permits for establishing a coal-fired power Yukos against Russia that was in excess of $50 billion. investors in foreign countries can hold foreign next few months. It is likely that the Election plant. The delay was on account of public opposition Similarly, Venezuela was ordered to pay $1.6 billion to Commission will hold up Rawat’s case as an and reports of inter-ministerial consultation on climate governments liable. Governments that have been example for not conducting bypolls in Bengal. This Exxon to compensate it for nationalizing the country’s change, pursuant to which the government intended to stronger critics of the system have also complied with could force Banerjee to step down. But one should oil projects. That said, it is not always that these alter its laws. The state was faced with an investment adverse awards to maintain bona fides. Even as not forget that these two cases are different. Rawat’s tribunals rule in favour of corporations. In fact, as per arbitration claim of $1.9 billion that ultimately had to governments around the world look for a better mismanagement of the Kumbh Mela and the fake data available with the United Nations Conference on be settled. The ISDS is an imperfect system but all is solution to the BITs, pending arbitrations and their RT-PCR tests scandal during the event could cost Trade and Development, out of 1,104 known cases of not wrong with it. It is a two-way street that has the final awards, such as in the case of Cairn, Vodafone him dearly, especially with the Uttarakhand ISDS, 274 were ruled in favour of states against 212 potential to unduly overburden a state but, more and so on, would have to be duly honoured by the state. legislative assembly election knocking at the door. rulings in favour of investors. In 2018, a tribunal ruled importantly, also provide an independent forum for Future treaties may assert the regulatory authority of On the other hand, Banerjee lost her seat but her in favour of India and against the French investor, foreign investors to seek redressal of their grievance. the state but a difficult dispute resolution process is party won by a massive mandate. Besides, there are Louis Dreyfus Armateurs. Nevertheless, the ISDS has Not every country that imports investment has a bound to detract potential investments in India. no state elections in the near future, so there is no reason for the bypolls being delayed. Rawat’s case is a clear example of the myopic vision of the outgoing chief minister and the BJP high command. Cannon fodder More so because even though he knew that he would have to be voted to the assembly in six Ten years ago, the Salwa Judum, an armed vigilante outfit raised and patronized by the State for its battle against Maoists, had been banned by the Supreme Court months, neither he nor the party could chalk out an effective plan for this. Sir — Tirath Singh Rawat’s A shadow often falls between enlightened law and the only because of its patchy implementation. There is resignation may prove to be an alarm bell for nature of its implementation. An instance of this also the matter of the judgment exposing the Bengal’s chief minister, Mamata Banerjee. Ever worrying gap has come to the fore — ironically — on hypocrisy of the State. It is fashionable to chastise since the result of the Bengal elections went against the 10th anniversary of a momentous legislation. Ten ‘non-State actors’ in the modern security parlance. the saffron party, the BJP has been restless — the years ago, the Salwa Judum, an armed vigilante Usually, and not always without reason, non-State ruckus inside the assembly during the governor’s outfit raised and patronized by the State against its actors are, it is argued, rogue elements that retain address is a recent example. There is a chance that battle against Maoists in Chhattisgarh, had been the potential to disrupt peace and wreck lives. But the Election Commission decides to postpone the banned by the Supreme Court, which stated that the this branding is not unproblematic. The rise of shrill Bhawanipur bypolls to next year because of the deployment of tribal youth as special police officers nationalism in India has resulted in the conflation of was illegal. The apex court, in essence, was frowning critical opinion with that of non-State actors in a bid pandemic. After all, nothing is impossible in upon the practice of raising militias whose members to delegitimize — criminalize — their views. Little politics. Sir — The change of guard in Uttarakhand — cannon fodder to the powers that be — bore the wonder then that the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party may have had the hidden agenda of rattling the brunt of the collateral damage in the battle between is prone to spotting an ‘urban Naxal’ — a bona fide leadership in Bengal, but it has also exposed fault the State and the insurgents. The learned judges had dissenter — in every corner of the country. This lines in the saffron party. Whatever the pretext of also strongly argued in favour of rehabilitating and could well be a ruse to deflect attention from the Tirath Singh Rawat’s resignation, it reflects poorly protecting members of the militia that was to be deployment of militias, admittedly with a few on the leader who was chosen by the BJP to govern disbanded. It would be instructive to assess the tweaks to their form, in conflict zones. The the state. This would not inspire trust among the State’s response towards this intervention after a violation of the letter and spirit of an important people in the new chief minister either. Besides, the decade. There are allegations that the SPOs have justice for the victims of the militia’s crimes. Depositions judgment on an extrajudicial agency — the Salwa rise of Pushkar Singh Dhami has disappointed been rechristened as the District Reserve Guard, a by survivors before judicial commissions or India’s Judum — must be an occasion to deepen the public many senior leaders in the party — the leadership constituency of poorly- trained and poorly-paid personnel, premier investigative agency yielded very little corrective engagement with the layered nature of its history and State reportedly had to spend an entire day trying to which has been known to commit excesses much like the action against the perpetrators. complicity. pacify discontented members. Salwa Judum. Even more worrying is the absence of The Supreme Court’s judgment assumes importance not

Welcome to the show STATE OF PLAY | The farcical nature of Narendra Modi’s meeting with Kashmir’s leaders

Remakes are never their own thing although treaty would be worth the paper it is written on, if minister of the state of Jammu and Kashmir as it once sometimes they can affect at what they will never it was to be repudiated soon after...” The used to be. She remains too, with the Abdullahs and be; they are a pretence, often counterfeit, often relationship is fast funnelling down the vortex of sundry others, part of the exclusive club labelled the plain farcical. The one purpose remakes may yet suspicion. On the night of August 8, 1953, the Gupkar Gang by those she sat across on June 24. serve is to remind us of the original. June 24 Sheikh is dismissed from office and bundled into In that time, in those three-and-a-half decades of remaking occasioned such a reminder; Prime Minister jail for conspiracy. He would remain behind bars and remaking redux, these few things too came to be. Narendra Modi’s ‘Dilli ki doori, dil ki doori’ until just a month before Nehru’s death in May A murderous drift took hold of the Kashmir Valley and session with Kashmiri entities was a pyrrhic 1964. It is during that time, during the long shook the foundations of state and society alike. The gun- attempt at a remake whose use-before date has chaining of the “lion of Kashmir” that the blazoned “aazaadi” insurrection invited a jackbooted quickly expired. This is how the original played Constitution of Jammu and Kashmir gets drafted military crackdown, but the crossfire brought upon the out. November 2, 1947, Lal Chowk, Srinagar. A and adopted; the Sheikh had no role to play. Pandits a harsh, and yet unresolved, banishment. The lofty stage, a large congregation. The ink is still But the show proceeded. The bonhomie of 1947 hurricane barrelled into the Valley’s core and its far moist on the Instrument of Accession, Article utterly unmade, remakes were in the making. corners and deposited them in tattered tent shanties 370 of the Constitution will take another two Sheikh Abdullah would himself come to play a across the Banihal, India’s largest, and probably most years to be written in (and another seventy to be role in the first one. He would sign a power intractable, internal displacement. Kashmir was turned struck out). Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah turns accord with Indira Gandhi in 1975 and become into a ghastly theatre of discord, destruction, disruption fondly to Jawaharlal Nehru, Kashmiri Nehru. “Shri Ayyangar stated that Article 370 was not a chief minister again. But this remake was to give and wanton death, such that other than the pitiless Musalmaan to Kashmiri Pandit, and sings out the vows permanent feature of the Indian Constitution and ‘when way to another, and many yet would follow. In 1984, the brochure cliché of paradise, there remained nothing in Amir Khusro’s verse: the time was ripe’ the provision could be wiped off the Sheikh’s son and successor, Farooq Abdullah, is toppled paradisal about it. A people more battered and brutalized “Mun tu shudam/ Tu mun shudi;/ Man tan shudam/ Tu jaan Constitution... This clearly shows that even though in a palace coup effected under the auspices of Rajiv would be hard to find. The subcontinental collaboration shudi;/ Takas na goyad bod azeen/ Mun deegaram/ Tu assurances were given to us... such assurances came with Gandhi, then general secretary of the ruling Congress. towards the reduction of what it means to be a Kashmiri, deegaree.” (“I am You and You are me; I am your body, a good deal of mental reservations.” No assurance to the Two years later, Rajiv and Farooq would turn out as dual- in body and in soul, remains a work in progress. It is a You are my soul; So none should hereafter say, I am contrary is forthcoming from Nehru. This is mid-1953. lead of another remake; they would hold hands at a rally project so engulfing that you may be excused if you someone and You someone else.”) What was to follow The Sheikh activates his agitations and is quick to get the in Jammu and utter sweet things of each other that time omitted to remember that a war too was fought — would knock the stuffing off that sublime song and National Conference to propose an “end to the and cynicism have now completely obliterated. Anyhow, another one — over Kashmir’s northern flank in the render it a tattered feast for vultures. That is how we uncertainty” — a call for plebiscite with the option of Farooq is chief minister again. summer of 1999, the first military eyeball-to-eyeball began, in poetry. This is where we are now, in the ringing independence written in. In the three-and-a-half decades since, this is how the lead between nuclear powers. What’s left of Kashmir to do a absence of it and worse. Recall just some of what those Nehru responds with affront. He writes to the Sheikh: “You cast of recurrent remakes has looked: Farooq Abdullah. remake with? And where have Kashmiris figured in it, if convened around the prime minister’s table have know that the question of Kashmir has had not only a A long and tumultuous interregnum presided over for the ever? What was the gathering of June 24 on about? There publicly said of each other recently, recall the logical appeal for me but also a strong emotional one. But better part by Jagmohan. In 1996, Farooq Abdullah were those there who’d travelled down from demands of circumstances they have wreaked on each other, or have I can suppress my emotion, if necessary, if logic demands again. Then Mufti Mohammed Sayeed in the company of secession or self-rule or, at the very least, autonomy. The expressed the desire to wreak. All of what briefly came to that... Thus far I have proceeded on the basis of the Congress. Then the Congress’s Ghulam Nabi Azad in Sheikh’s distrustful prophecy over Article 370 is now the transpire on June 24 is a remake; it’s all happened before, friendship and confidence in you and have been vain the company of Mufti Mohammed Sayeed. Then Omar truth. There is no state that “cornerstone” guarantee can and happened time and again. Here’s a taste of the first enough to expect the same from you... To me it has been a Abdullah. Then Mufti Mohammed Sayeed again, this be applied to for there is no state anymore. The demand souring. Sheikh Abdullah is irked that Gopalaswami major surprise that a settlement arrived at between us time in the company of the BJP. Then, upon his passing, that the state be restored, moth-eaten as it would be, and a Ayyangar, Nehru’s minister for Kashmir affairs, should be bypassed or repudiated, regardless of the Mehbooba Mufti in the company of the BJP. And then, throne be readied, however sawn and stunted, is just how underlines the impermanence of Article 370. He writes to merits. That strikes at the root of all confidence... No poof! She may be written down in history as the last chief farcical and fake the nature of this latest remake is. Orissa Today Friday 09 July 2021 Bhubaneswar 5 FOOD FOR SOUL Letter to Editor farmers to plant one tree medicines. Can anybody curs annually for one week right time to plant trees. firstly, Unlike animals, trees Questions on the judicial system in each home then our area imagine the most contro- where people plant trees. The only to heal this Earth never die out because of Sir, may have 1000's of trees versial yoga guru Baba Now in many areas of In- that we have been continu- old-age, in fact plants have Fr StanSwami (84 years old) is no longer with us. planted this year. Defi- Ramadev and dia, people celebrate the ously torturing is by plant- been alive on Earth for the His death raises many questions on the judicialsystem nitely it's going to be mul- AcharyaBalkrishna with- Van Mahotsav in their lo- ing trees and being cau- most prolonged . After having requested the court about his ill tiplied in coming years out medicinal plants! cality by planting trees. tious about using prod- time.Around 50 thousand healththe court did not take his words seriously or which may paint green to Their empire now exceed- Trees provide raw materi- ucts. Planting more trees square miles of forest are the investigating agency did not take a soft approach our entire Mahanadi River ing above 1000cr just als to the industry, and pri- will only benefit us by en- lost every year and already to his bail application. Despite protests from many bank areas within five trading the juice and pow- marily wood is used for hancing our life with im- 46% of the woods in the social workers and organizations, he was imprisoned years.It's a charity of only ders of some leaves and creating the paper. A lot of provements in our social world have been in Mumbai's Taloja Jail and finally breathed his last.His illness and death could have been avoided. 10k or even less but may roots of some Indian timber is required in the and economic well-being. destroyed.Proper planting Er. Bidyadhar Panda Arguably, it was the inherently pathetic B. Tech. Civil, M. Tech. benefit to the state with Trees are precious to of trees and their use can conditions at Taloja jail, followed by an obdurate web Env., LL.B. higher dividends sooner both nature and us be- save around 25% of one's of deceit woven by the jail bureaucracy and the Na- or later for many decades. cause our entire existence electricity bills.Humans de- tional Investigation Agency (NIA) that simply did not Soul also needs some We are cutting trees in and survival depend on it. stroy eighty thousand admit to this condition.The death of Fr Stan is noth- food like a body to be both sides of our state From providing us oxygen, acres of forest on an aver- ing short of an institutional murder by the NIA and healthy and happy. We highway roads to widen wood, food to providing age day.The researchers the Taloja Jail authorities.Suffering from Parkinson's take utmost care to feed for development. But habitat to animals, control- show that trees can protect disease, yet dedicated as always to the battle for land, our body but forget our never thought who has ling the temperature, hold- themselves from insect at- dignity and the Constitutional Rights of India's soul to grow in peace. Few planted those without any ing the soil during water tacks by flooding their Adivasis and Indigenous people.Fr Stan Swamy was people do meditation and scheme and govt. help be- runoffs, etc. trees do all of leaves with chemicals called not just a voice of the voiceless, organizingAdivasis around their Constitutional rights for decades, he had yoga to maintain correla- fore five decades back. it.Since urbanization and phenolics. The trees can filed a path breaking Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in tion in-between body and They were real earth lov- industrialization, humans also communicate or signal the Jharkhand High Court (High Court, WPC (PIL) No soul which is very impor- ers and environment have already destroyed other trees in the surround- 4212 of 2017) exposing the incarceration and praying tant. There are few other friendly people though not Plants in large scale. Our paper industry, and it also many forests and trees to ing about the possible for the release of about 4,000 tribal youth languishing options to feed our soul so educated in comparison economy would fall apart results in the cutting of create products or to make danger.Due to deforesta- in prisons of Jharkhand. Rulers of India of today see too. Helping the needy to us. Few roads are hav- if trees were in crisis right trees resulting in defores- area for construction. If tion, it is estimated that al- this as the greatest threat, citizens who believe in the people, Planting trees and ing green tunnel like scen- now. As a habitat for sev- tation. The ruthless exploi- the balance number of most twenty-eight thou- Constitution, communities who organize, individuals doing some sorts of Char- ery and gives cold feeling eral species, trees mean tation of trees for human trees of this planet is dis- sand species will become who refuse to be silenced. So he was targeted. ity are few of them. In cur- in summer season too. that deforestation would activities has impacted the turbed anyhow, we will extinct in the next 20-25 ASIT MOHANTY rent season if someone is Trees have been essential also suggest taking away natural flow of the ecosys- have to face the adverse years.Each year trees ab- JAJPUR involving himself to plant aspects of nature that have the lives of those living tem, and no doubt that glo- effects of it because of the sorb around 50 pounds of trees, I feel that is best provided us with re- organisms. bal warming is just an- significant changes that Carbon-dioxide of the form of charity in this pan- sources to sustain life. We are experiencing that other adverse effect of the will take place in the atmosphere.Orissa Envi- 97-YEAR-OLD WOMAN demic situation. These as- Since our ancestors dis- the areas with a lesser extended act. Millions of ecosystem.To heal our for- ronmental Society is en- BEATS COVID AT SUM pects I thought and then covered that trees have number of trees are hotter species are lost because of ests and bring back the couraging lot of things to Bhubaneswar, July took few mango plants to been providing us food, and dry, even more pol- the lesser number of trees. conditions of Earth so that heal the environments 8(TNB): Doctors at our village to distribute shade, wood, and flowers, luted. Trees act like a If anyone has watched we can exist on this planet which is need of the hour. the SUM Covid Hos- one in each home day be- they started worshipping natural ventilator that pu- closely to the life of our in future lives; we need to Dr Surya Narayan Patra pital here have done fore yesterday. I was over- them as a sign of gratitude rifies the air and balances schedule tribes in KBK understand the impor- and Dr.J.K.Panigrahi are it yet again. whelmed with the re- and a request to those the temperature of the cli- areas you might have seen tance of planting trees. We taking several initiatives Though the dark sponse of our village farm- trees continue providing mate. Trees and their by- they live by the forest should preach and prac- with other active members clouds of Covid-19 ers and my hungry soul them those resources. It is products are used for the only. Husband goes half tice planting trees because on several projects to hung overhead, they got food for next six because of the trees and manufacturing of goods day to forest and collect it is for our benefit. Taking avoid nature's anger on toiled to help 97- months to think positive other natural resources and also to build things. fire wood which wife goes care of trees now with time mankind and we all need year-old Ms. Chanchala Behera recover from the infec- while day in day out we that the Earth is habitable. Trees also are used for to sale in nearest market and effort, will in return, to support them seriously tion even though she had co-morbidities. Ms. Behera, listen all sorts of negative It is not only oxygen or social activities like climb- and fetch food items to provide us with benefits like to keep our environment who hailed from Balasore district, was admitted into the news. I distributed few food that trees provide us, ing and hiking or trekking cook. However, People fresh air, fruits, timber, etc. good and rich for our fu- hospital on June 18 after she tested positive for the dis- plants is one thing but an- but trees are also respon- trees to create a beautiful need to be educated about in the future. ture coming generations ease. Her condition was serious at the time of admission other thing is that this act sible for controlling soil view. There have been the benefits of planting Recently, I distributed to breathe fresh air and live as she had high blood pressure and had difficulty in of mine,spread by villag- erosion, water purification, plenty of campaigns and trees and before that they few mango grafting plants happily here in this earth. breathing. ers in such a way that few climate change, community activities re- need to understand the in my village and I could see L-17/15, Panchasakha She was taken to the ICU and special care and attention of my friends are calling me biodiversity. A consider- garding the planting of situations that will be cre- their interest in grabbing Nagar, Khandagiri, was given as she also had cardiac issues. The patient to do these thing in their able contribution to the trees. In Punjab, there is a ated against them if there one for them to plant caring Bhubaneswar-751019 was discharged from the hospital after 20 days. "I thank respective villages, So, I health industry is from the festival called the 'Van are many trees every day. like a child. But if you ask Odisha, Mob: the SUM Covid team who took excellent care of my think magic can happen if trees because they are the Mahotsav' which means We are already almost me that why did I do so, I 9439128050, mother-in- law," said her daughter-in-law, Ms. Tapaswini ten friends help village source of many lifesaving 'Forest festival,' which oc- twenty years late for the may tell you few things that '[email protected] Behera at the time of her discharge from the hospital. Decorative Ceiling Fans from Usha International Congress begins ten-day stir in Odisha on hike in Designed for your comfort and elegance oil prices, Left parties call Odisha bandh on July 15 The ceiling fan is no Usha Bloom Dahlia is flower is priced at INR Bhubaneswar, Jul 8 (UNI) in front of all petrol pumps longer the ubiquitous blob priced at INR 5295. These 4495. Hundreds of Congress against the unprecedented with blades that churns fans are available at retail Bloom Primrose fans party workers today held hike in oil prices. The Con- overhead to move the air. stores across India. Elevating the décor of demonstrations in front of gress activists would The ceiling fans of today Bloom Bellflower fans any room they are placed have the propensity to add An addition to Usha in, Bloom Primrose fans all Block Development of- move from door to door in a flair to the interiors of any International's Bloom se- by Usha International are fices in Odisha as the a month-long campaign to room. Whether you are hassle-free. These fans ries of fans inspired by packed with high-tech fea- party launched a ten-day apprise the people about planning on how to do up operate at low voltage and soft aesthetics of summer tures and the goodbye statewide agitation pro- the price hike, and the your new home or reno- have a unique blade de- flowers, the new Bloom dust finish. With a sweep testing the hike in oil anti-people policy of vating where you live, a sign for higher air delivery Bellflower is uber stylish of 1250 MM, the unique prices. Beating cymbals both the Union and state well-designed high per- and thrust to keep you and comes in three colour design of the blades and bells, the Congress government. Meanwhile, forming fan also adds a cool and fresh throughout variants - Sparkle Black makes for higher air deliv- activists today lodged the left parties in Odisha touch of glamour enhanc- the day. with Maroon, Sparkle ery and thrust. It has a their protest against the today gave a call for six- ing the overall visual ap- Lily and Dahlia both come Brown with Gold, and speed of 380 rpm and is hike in oil prices, cooking has skyrocketed the would organize demon- hour Odisha bandh on peal and aesthetics of the with four blades and are Sparkle White with Silver. dust, oil, water, scratch and gas and prices of other prices of essential com- strations on July 9 before July 15 next in protest room. Fans have become equipped with a 16-pole With a sweep of 1300 MM, stain resistant. Inspired an integral a part of home strong motor that en- the unique design of the by the aesthetics of the essential commodities. modities and hurt the all district headquarters in against the hike in oil décor accessories and hances the life expectancy blades makes for higher primrose flowers, these The agitation will con- people hard. Condemning protest against the hike. prices.CPI State Secre- Usha's beautiful and of fans and offers a high air delivery and thrust.It fans come with a super tinue in phases till July 17 the oil price hike at a time On July 14 a state-level tary Ashis kanungo said smart-looking Bloom se- air delivery (250CMM) has a unique self-protec- high 230 m³/min air deliv- next. Odisha Pradesh when the covid pandemic protest and agitation will the Odisha bandh called ries ceiling fans, are a great and speed (280 RPM). tive anti-germ ery, power consumption of Congress Committee has shattered the financial be held in the state capi- by CPI, CPI-M, CPIM (L offering from the These fans come with the nanotechnology that 78 watts, and a promise of President Niranjan Patnaik backbone of the people, tal. Mr Patnaik appealed )and Forward Block will company's robust portfo- Novel Silane technology strengthens its range of great performance at low said the prices of petrol Mr Patnaik demanded roll to all people of the state be held from 0600 hours lio of fans. Inspired by from PPG Asian paints fans and keeps the circu- voltage, further making it and diesel has crossed Rs back the hike in taxes on not to buy petrol and die- till 1200hours. Mr Flowers, these fans are making them dust, oil, lating air hygienic. a durable buy for consum- 100 per litre in many cities petroleum products im- sel and cooking gas on Kanungo said the ve- contemporary, feature- moisture, scratch, and Perfect for those looking ers. due to additional taxes im- posed both by the state July 15 as a mark of pro- hicular traffic will be off loaded, and high-perform- stain-resistant, therefore to spruce up the décor in Bloom Primrose fans are posed by both the central government and the cen- test. the roads and all commer- ers, making them a compel- providing greater durabil- their homes, these fans available in dual-colour ling buy for any house- ity during extreme weather are a perfect blend of designs, including, and state governments. tre. As per the agitational On July 17 a signature cial establishments will be hold. conditions. beauty and functionality Sparkle Golden & Cherry, The hike in oil prices programme, the congress campaign will be launched closed on the day. Bloom Lily and Dahlia Aesthetically crafted, with a high-air delivery of Sparkle Golden & Brown, Thisvibrant and elegant these fans are available in 250 CMM and speed of and Sparkle White. Priced series of fans inspired by dual-color designs, includ- 300 RPM. Bloom at INR 3595, these fans Rural customers in Odisha can pay flowers come with the ing, Sparkle White & Sil- Bellfloweris completely come with a warranty of goodbye dust finish that ver, Sparkle Black & Ma- dust, oil, water, scratch, two years. Electricity bills at Bharat Money Stores prevents dust accumula- roon, and Sparkle Brown and stain-resistant and For more information on Bhubaneswar, Jul 08 TPCODL area. The cus- tances to make utility bill launch of another cus- tion on the fans and & Gold. With a two-year comes with 100% copper the same, please visit: (UNI) Rural customers in tomer has to approach the payments. She said keep- tomer-centric initiative thusmaking the cleaning warranty, Usha Bloom Lily motor. Withtwo-year war- https:// Odisha can now pay their nearest Bharat Money ing this in view, we are Chief Executive Officer, TP process convenient and is priced at INR 5505 and ranty, Usha Bloom Bell- www.ushafans.com/ electricity bills at the near- Store for making a bill delighted to partner with Central Odisha Distribu- est rural Kirana shop mak- payment. Speaking about TP Central Odisha Distri- tion Ltd M. Shenbagam, ing bill payment an easy the partnership, Head of bution Limited to facilitate said “It’s always been our World Population Awarness Day Observed at Khordha process. The Tata Power Corporate & Investment electricity bill payments prime focus to enhance Khordha, July 08: World tance of family planning, sions ADM, Manoj )Khordha, Dr. Viswaranjan Central Odisha Distribu- Banking, CSR & Sustain- in a fully digital manner, customer experience population awarness day poverty, maternal health Kumar Padhi said "that if Pati said "Due to over tion Limited (TPCODL ) able Banking, IndusInd through our vast network through numerous initia- Observed by Khordha and human rights. In this population goes on in- populations and spreads District Administration occasions Additional Dis- creasing the government awarness about how over has now collaborated Bank Mrs Roopa Satish of Bharat Money stores. tives. Bharat Money and the District Health trict Magistrate (ADM) would find it difficult to population may hinder the with BFIL, IndusInd bank said, “IndusInd Bank has “We believe, this will of- Stores will help the and Family Welfare De- Manoj Kumar Padhi ensure better facilities and environment and talks for accepting bill payment over 20 lakh customers fer immense convenience people pay their elec- partment. It observed to flagged off the population also such growth will give about family planning, through Bharat Money based in rural and semi- to our rural customers as tricity bills at their near- raise awareness among awarness Rath. The Rath rise to competition forcing poverty, gender equality, Stores. A TPCODL re- urban locations of they will now be able to est location. This ser- people about the impact is moved 10 block of the the people to search for maternal health, human lease here said around Odisha. simply walk into their vice is to make our rural of a growing population district to create aware- short cuts to achieve suc- rights and also the health 8500 plus Bharat Money Majority of them had nearest Kirana shop and customers payment pro- and issues including gen- ness among the peoples. cess." Chief District Medi- issues faced by child Stores, the local Kirana to spend a lot of time and seamlessly make pay- cess as convenient as der equality, the impor- Speaking on the occa- cal Officer(CDMO bearing women. Shop, are spread across effort traversing long dis- ments”, she said. On the possible, he said. Orissa Today Friday 09 July 2021 BUSINESS 6

Big jolt to Indian government! Cairn Energy freezes 20 state- Zomato IPO to open on July 14: owned properties in France: Report Check 5 things you need to know before subscribing New Delhi: In a big jolt to the Indian government, Britain's Cairn Energy Plc has New Delhi: Zomato is all geared up for year 2020-2021, Zomato’s revenue secured a French court order to seize about its upcoming initial public offering stood at Rs 1,367 crore. Overall, the 20 state-owned government properties in (IPO) that is expected to help the food food delivery giant made a loss of Rs Paris, France. Cairn is aiming to recover a delivery giant mop up roughly around 684 crores during the same period, total of USD 1.7 billion in arbitration $1.25 billion. The IPO is likely to which means that the firm is yet to awards from the Indian government. open for subscription from July 14. turn profitable. The French court had ruled on June 11 that Zomato was founded in 2008. In India, Chinese funding Cairn can take over Indian government- the startup rivals Swiggy and Zomato is backed by China`s Ant owned properties in France, mostly Amazon. At present, the company is Group. However, before the IPO, Ant including flats. The legal process regarding valued at around $4.2 billion, Group has reduced its stake in the the takeover was completed on Wednesday according to estimates by research food aggregator due to the rising (July 7). According to a report by Financial firm RedSeer. Experts are suggesting tensions between India and China. Times, Cairn has identified USD 70 billion that the IPO could be a blockbuster on According to Zomato’s draft in assets around the world. These assets Indian bourses. If you’re planning to prospectus, Ant Group now owns range from buildings to Air India aircraft. If subscribe to Zomato’s IPO, you can 558.9 million shares, down from a the Indian government refuses to pay up take note of the following five things: total of 777.5 million shares a year Cairn, then the energy firm is all set to seize Zomato IPO date ago. Also Read: Big jolt to Indian more assets. Meanwhile, in December, an Zomato is planning to open its IPO for government! Cairn Energy freezes 20 arbitration panel had ordered the Indian subscription from July 14. You’ll get state-owned properties in France: government to pay USD 1.2 billion-plus three days to subscribe to the IPO Report interest and penalty to Cairn in a case from July 14 to July 16. Successful IPO of food delivery involving tax demand. Zomato IPO price companies Zomato is reportedly planning to price In the US, food delivery startup its share at around Rs 72 to 76 apiece. DoorDash recently a blockbuster Petrol, Diesel Prices : Fuel The lot available for a subscription IPO. The offering had strong demand could be worth anywhere around Rs from investors worldwide. Taking rates hiked for 2nd straight 15,000. cues, we can expect that Zomato Zomto financials might be able to repeat the success of day, check rates in your city In the first three quarters of the financial DoorDash in India. New Delhi: Petrol and diesel prices across the country were increased again on Thursday (July 8) after touching the Rs 100 mark in Delhi on July 7. Petrol prices have been increased by 35 paise to Rs 100.56 per litre Sensex, Nifty start on choppy Government has not in Delhi while diesel rates have been surged by 9 paise to Rs 98.40 per litre in the received any notice: national capital. Meanwhile, in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, Finance Ministry on petrol prices have been increased by 25 note amid weak global cues Cairn order paise to Rs 108.88 per litre. Diesel in the city is retailing at an unchanged rate of New Delhi. Responding to reports at 53,058.10 in initial deals, institutional investors (FIIs) were 98.40 per litre. Coming to Kolkata, petrol that Cairn Energy has seized while the broader NSE Nifty net buyers in the capital market as prices have surged by 39 paise in the city to around 20 Indian government- inched 8.95 points or 0.06 per they purchased shares worth Rs Rs 100.62 per litre while diesel prices have owned properties in France, the cent lower to 15,870.70. Bajaj 532.94 crore on Wednesday, as per been increased by 15 paise to Rs 92.65 per Ministry of Finance on Thursday Auto was the top gainer in the provisional exchange data. litre. This is the sixth hike in the month of said that it has not received any Sensex pack, rising nearly 2 Domestic equities do not look to July. In June and May, petrol and diesel notice, order or communication, in per cent, followed by Tech be inspiring as of now. prices were surged by a total of 16 times this regard, from any French court. each month, according to daily price Mahindra, NTPC, IndusInd Notably, visible improvement in “Government is trying to ascertain notifications by oil retailers. Also Read: Bank, PowerGrid, M&M and business momentum with ease of the facts, and whenever such an RBI slaps penalty on SBI, Bank of Baroda HCL Tech. business curbs by states started order is received, appropriate legal and 12 other banks, should customers On the other hand, UltraTech offering comfort, said Binod Modi remedies will be taken, in worry? At present, petrol is selling at above Cement, HUL, Sun Pharma Head-Strategy at Reliance consultation with its Counsels, to the Rs 100-a-litre mark in Delhi, West and Nestle India were among Securities. However, profit- protect the interests of India,” the Bengal, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, the laggards. In the previous booking at higher levels is leading finance ministry said in an official Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, session, Sensex climbed to bouts of correction in the statement. It added that the Karnataka, Jammu and Kashmir, Odisha, 193.58 points or 0.37 per cent market, traders said. Elsewhere in government has already filed an Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Bihar, Punjab, Sikkim to close at its fresh lifetime Asia, bourses in Shanghai, Hong application on March 22, 2021, to and Ladakh. high of 53,054.76, and Nifty Kong, Seoul and Tokyo were New Delhi: Equity benchmarks negative trend in Asian peers. The set aside the December 2020 rose 61.40 points or 0.39 per cent trading in the red in mid-session Sensex and Nifty started on a 30-share BSE index was trading international arbitral award in The to its record 15,879.65. Foreign deals. Cairn gets French court order to choppy note on Thursday amid a 3.34 points or 0.01 per cent higher Hague Court of Appeal. “Government of India will seize 20 Indian properties in vigorously defend its case in Set Aside proceedings at The Hague,” Paris From vegetables to edible oils, fuel price hike is the statement said. “It is also stated that the CEO and the New Delhi. In a setback to India, Britain’s representatives of Cairns have Cairn Energy Plc has secured a French court approached the Government of order to seize some 20 government stretching your budget in more ways than one India for discussions to resolve the properties in Paris to recover a part of the matter,” it added. The finance USD 1.7 billion due from New Delhi prices have surged by 52% in the past year. ministry said that constructive following an arbitration panel overturning Also, there’s a 36% and 37% jump in soya discussions have been held and the levy of retrospective taxes. and palm oil prices in one year. Fuel prices government remains open for an The centrally located properties mostly ? Fuel prices are on the boil are one of the many crucial factors that amicable solution to the dispute comprise of flats, valued at more than EUR decided the prices of edible oils. within the country’s legal 20 million, were used by Indian across the nation. With the latest Meanwhile, other commodities such as framework. Earlier in the day, news government establishment in France, three revision of prices on Wednesday pulses and sugar have also become in the agency PTI reported that Cairn people with direct knowledge of the matter recent past. For example, the prices of Energy Plc secured a French court said. The French court, Tribunal judiciaire (July 8), petrol is now selling at arthur/tur daal have increased from Rs 96 order to seize some 20 government de Paris, on June 11 agreed to Cairn’s per Kg in July 2020 to Rs 110 per kg, a 25% properties in Paris to recover a part application to freeze (through judicial over Rs 100 per litre in all metro hike. of the $1.7 billion due from the mortgages) residential real estate owned by cities, with Delhi being the latest Expensive Vegetables, fruits and other Indian government following an the Government of India in central Paris, snowball effect associated with the recent perishable items arbitration panel overturning levy price hike will further fuel inflation, making they said adding the legal formalities for the to join the list. Petrol and diesel prices directly impact the rates of retrospective taxes. The same was completed on Wednesday essential goods and services expensive than centrally located properties mostly ever. Many who are working from home of vegetables, fruits and other perishable items. evening. While Cairn is unlikely to evict the The rising fuel prices are therefore leading to comprise of flats, valued at more Indian officials residing in those properties, haven’t realised the impact of increased fuel than EUR 20 million, were used by prices on their daily lives. However, it’s hard an increase in the transportation costs of such the government cannot sell them after the items from farms to a mandi near you. Indian government establishment court order. A three-member international New Delhi: Fuel prices are on the boil across the to ignore inflation driven by increased fuel in France, the report said citing prices, especially when daily need items such In Pune, vegetable prices have gone up by 30% in arbitration tribunal that consisted of one nation. With the latest revision of prices on the past few days, and retailers have the three people with direct knowledge judge appointed by India, had in December Wednesday (July 8), petrol is now selling at as milk, oil, and pulses, among others, are of the matter. The French court, costing an arm and a leg, shattering the increased fuel prices to blame. last year unanimously overturned levy of over Rs 100 per litre in all metro cities, with Interest rate hike on the cards Tribunal judiciaire de Paris, on taxes on Cairn retrospectively and ordered Delhi being the latest to join the list. monthly budgets of common households. June 11 agreed to Cairn’s Here are five things that have become An increase in fuel prices leads to an overall refund of shares sold, dividend confiscated Besides metro cities, petrol is also retailing at increase in inflation rates. If the inflation rates application to freeze (through and tax refunds withheld to recover such above Rs 100 per litre in many small towns and expensive due to fuel price hike: judicial mortgages) residential real Impact on essential commodities go beyond a certain point, then the Reserve demand. With the Indian government far fledged villages. In a few parts of Bank of India comes into action. In such a estate owned by the Government of refusing to honour the award, Cairn has Rajasthan, even diesel, the juice for almost all In the past few months, prices of edible oils such India in central Paris, the report as mustard, groundnut and soyabean, among situation, the RBI can consider increasing moved in multiple overseas jurisdictions to carrier vehicles, has topped the Rs 100 mark. interest rates by disrupting the existing status said adding that the legal enforce the award by seizing Indian assets. Daily revisions in fuel prices have started to put others, have almost doubled in many parts of formalities for the same was India. For instance, in Delhi, sunflower oil quo. All those who are planning to take a loan Last month, Cairn brought a lawsuit in the US a dent in the pockets of the common man. The will get negatively affected by an increase. completed on Wednesday evening. District Court for the Southern District of New York pleading that Air India is controlled by the Indian government so much that they are ‘alter egos’ and the airline should be held liable for the Gold Price arbitration award. Similar lawsuits are likely to be brought in other countries, primarily with high-value assets. The arbitration award has been registered in Gold dips by Rs 200, selling Rs 8,500 cheaper from record highs countries such as the US, UK, Canada, Singapore, Mauritius, France and the New Delhi: After showing slight fears of an economic downturn as a Netherlands. Cairn has identified USD 70 ? Gold September strength in the past few days, gold result of the COVID-19 pandemic. billion of Indian assets overseas for the prices have plummeted on Thursday Investors invested heavily in yellow potential seizure to collect award, which futures are trading Rs (July 8). On Multi Commodities metal during that time, and as a now totals to USD 1.72 billion after 236 cheaper than Exchange, gold September futures result, gold prices surged to their including interest and penalty. While the are trading Rs 236 cheaper than lifetime highs. finance ministry did not immediately offer yesterday’s closing yesterday’s closing price at Rs Also Read: Big jolt to Indian comments on the matter, a Cairn price. 47,674 per 10 grams, in what could government! Cairn Energy freezes spokesperson said: “Our strong preference be a golden opportunity for buyers 20 state-owned properties in France: remains an agreed, amicable settlement ? Gold became one planning to add yellow metal to their Report On MCX, gold prices in with the Government of India to draw this portfolios. In the coming weeks, August 2020 peaked at Rs 56,191. matter to a close, and to that end we have of the hottest assets gold prices are expected to rise, and In comparison, gold prices are submitted a detailed series of proposals to last year. that’s why it could be the right time currently selling at around Rs Rs them since February this year.” “However, to invest in yellow metal to rake 47,674 per 10 grams. This clearly in the absence of such a settlement, Cairn ? On MCX, gold some gains. Gold trading cheaper means that gold is selling cheaper by must take all necessary legal actions to by around Rs 8,500 from record Rs 8,500 from record levels, and protect the interests of its international prices in August 2020 highs Gold became one of the therefore it could be a great shareholders,” the spokesperson said peaked at Rs 56,191. hottest assets last year when stock opportunity for investors to bag without elaborating. markets globally crashed due to the some yellow metal. Orissa Today Friday 09 July 2021 SPORTS 7

Sourav Ganguly turns 49: Former team mates celebrate Copa America Final: Can Lionel Messi end his international 'Dada ka junoon' as wishes pour in on birthday title drought in Brazil vs Argentina showdown?

New Delhi. Former India captain and current New Delhi. It might be the last chance for Brazil became Copa America president of Board of Control for Cricket in Lionel Messi to get his hands on the host only two weeks before the India (BCCI) Sourav Ganguly celebrated international silverware as Argentina will opener. It will be a memorable his 49th birthday on Thursday. Considered take on Brazil in the much-awaited final at ending to a tournament one of the most successful Indian captains Rio de Janeiro's historic Maracana Stadium, plagued by setbacks and of all time, wishes poured in on the one of soccer's spiritual homes on Sunday. moved at the last minute to one occassion, led by his former India team The final will be played in an empty Maracana of the countries hardest-hit by mates. due to health protocols. The six-time Ballon Covid-19. Ganguly was captain of India for five years, d’Or winner will be hoping to lift his first Neymar was ruled out of the during which time India reached the final of major trophy with his country, which hasn't 2019 Copa due to injury. He the 2003 World Cup and beat the all- won any since 1993. Messi played and lost said after Brazil's 1-0 win conquering Australian team in the thrilling the Copa America finals of 2007, 2015 and 2000/01 Test series at home. The series against Peru on Monday that included a win that came after India were 2016 and the 2014 World Cup — the latter he wanted to face Argentina in forced to follow-on, making the team only against Germany at the Maracana. “What I the decider. “But Brazil wins the third in the history of Test cricket to win want the most is to win a title with the the final," Neymar jokingly from that situation. Ganguly is India's third national team," said Argentina captain Messi said. He was one of the players highest run scorer in ODIs with 11,163 said after Tuesday's 3-2 penalty shootout who expressed concerns about runs, including 22 centuries and 72 half- victory against Colombia in the semifinal. the late decision to stage the centuries. Apart from featuring in 311 “We aim high, we managed to get the first tournament in his country after ODIs, Ganguly played 113 Tests, scoring objective, which was to play the final, play Argentina and Colombia were 7212 runs with 16 centuries and 35 fifties. every match. Now we aim higher than ever,” dropped as co-hosts. He never played an international T20 he added. Messi and Neymar, who won the Argentina and Brazil have match but lead Kolkata Knight Riders and Champions League together with Barcelona faced off more than 100 times, Pune Warriors in the Indian Premier in 2015, are good friends. They were on but only in four deciders. opposite sides in 2011 when the Catalan Argentina won the first of them 2-0 in 1937 last shot in regular time. One year later, the was heavy favorite to win the 2007 Copa, but League (IPL). After retiring from the game two arch rivals met for the Confederations Brazil crushed Messi's hopes with a 3-0 win in 2008, Ganguly served as the Cricket giants thrashed Brazil's Santos 4-0 in the for the South American championship, the Club World Cup final. Neymar's Brazil predecessor of the Copa. Brazil won the Cup title in Germany. The Selecao in the final. Brazil also beat Argentina in the Association of Bengal president. On hammered Argentina 4-1 after another great previous Copa. A 2-0 victory in the semifinal October 23, 2019, Ganguly formally took team, the defending champions, and Lionel other three. Brazil beat Argentina 4-2 on display by Adriano, who was playing came with goals by Gabriel Jesus and over as the 39th BCCI President without Messi's challengers have won a combined penalties to win the 2004 Copa after striker facing any opposition to his candidacy. seven World Cups and 23 continental titles. Adriano levelled the game at 2-2 with the alongside Kaká and Ronaldinho. Argentina Roberto Firmino. Hailed all over the country as a player's man and the best possible person for the job, Ganguly has had an eventful tenure as BCCI president, mostly affected by the County Championship: Hashim Amla’s defensive Covid-19 pandemic. Happy Birthday Sourav Assam spinner who bowled to masterclass earns Surrey draw against Hampshire Ganguly: India cricket Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav legend and BCCI New Delhi. Adefiant batting performance into the hands of Holland, before first- president turns 49 Ganguly, forced to sell tea from from the Hashim Amla helped Surrey to innings centurion Colin de Grandhomme earn a draw against Hampshire in a bowled debutante Ben Geddes for 15. New Delhi. Former India captain and roadside stall County Championship match at the Barker got his third wicket when Jordan current president of Board of Rose Bowl in Southampton. Hashim Clark was trapped lbw for four, before Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) New Delhi. Prakash Bhagat, a left-arm Amla scored a painstaking knock of 37 Organ raised hopes of a home victory Sourav Ganguly turned 49 on spinner from Assam who once shared the not out off 278 balls. when he bowled Jamie Overton. Thursday. Ganguly is credited for National Cricket Academy (NCA) with the Resuming on a precarious six for two after However, Amla and fellow fellow veteran putting fire in the belly of Indian likes of Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly being made to follow on, Surrey finished Rikki Clarke held firm for the final nine cricket. and VVS Laxman, has now been forced to 128-8 on Wednesday with South African overs to see out the draw. Revolutionary Captain sell tea and dal puri from a roadside stall to Amla batting the whole day. Amla Amla is no stranger to dour batting Ganguly took over India's captaincy support his economically poor family. scored only three runs from the first 100 displays. after the match-fixing fiasco in Bhagat took seven wickets, including a hat- balls he faced and notched the first of his He famously made 25 off 244 balls in a 2015 2000 and has nurtured one too trick, against Bihar in the under-17 Vijay five boundaries on the 126th. Amla Barker when the batsman was on 30. test in New Delhi where he and South many youngsters during his Merchant trophy match and also represented demonstrated incredible restraint to repel an Following-on after being bundled out for just Africa team mate AB de Villiers, who made 43 captaincy. Yuvraj Singh, Mahendra Assam in Ranji Trophy. The 34-year-old is a attack which bowled an incredible 64 maidens 72 in response to the home side’s 488, the off 297 balls, fought in vain to avoid defeat to Singh Dhoni, Zaheer Khan, resident of Itakhola area in Silchar town, and over 500 dot balls in a glacial innings visitors scored just 18 runs in the first session India. "Every batter that went out there had a Harbhajan Singh, Virender situated in Assam's Cachar district. He sits where the hosts were made to pay dearly for with nightwatchman Amar Virdi the only plan and (we) tried our best to just block it out," Sehwag, Ashish Nehra, with his mother every day and sells tea and three dropped catches. Despite staving off wicket to fall. Ryan Patel soaked up 85 balls said Amla, who played 124 tests and 181 one- Mohammed Kaif made their fast food. defeat, Surrey will almost certainly fail to make before his off-stump was uprooted by Abbott dayers before quitting international cricket in respective debuts under the Bhagat was called to the NCA in Bengaluru, Division One as one of the top six teams. The after lunch. 2019. "The last thing you want to do is play a captaincy of Sourav Ganguly. where the Indian team was preparing for only time Amla looked in danger was when Ian Felix Organ took Hampshire’s third wicket of the couple of bad shots and the game is over by Ganguly asked Virender Sehwag to their 2002/03 tour of New Zealand. Ganguly Holland dropped him at leg slip off Keith day when Jamie Smith’s inside edge looped lunchtime," he added. open the innings In Test and and co. were preparing to face Kiwi spinner changed the career of Delhi's Daniel Vettori, for which Bhagat was called batsman, who went on to made two in as a net bowler. "In 2009-10, 2010-11, I Euro 2020: triple centuries in the longest played for Assam team in Ranji trophy. In Controversial penalty, arrests and fans booing format of the game. Ganguly made 2007, Silchar became the champion of some brave decisions during his Nuruddin trophy inter-district cricket tenure in the captaincy. For championship and I was the captain of Denmark's national anthem mar England's semi-final win example, when India was Silchar district team," he said. Bhagat had to struggling to find a wicketkeeper- leave cricket in 2011 when his father died Moreover, many questioned whether batsman, he asked his deputy from a cardiac arrest at the age of 65. "After there was enough contact on Sterling Rahul Dravid to wear the gloves the death of my father, all family for the penalty to be given. Former and it helped him to play an extra responsibilities came on my shoulders. At > Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger and batsman in the playing XI. Under that time, I was under pressure and I had An extra ball could be seen his one-time arch-rival Jose his leadership, India went on to gone a little behind in cricket because I Mourinho both seemed to agree that beat Australia in Test series in could not give time in my regular practice. on the pitch when Raheem the penalty should not have been 2001, beat England at Lord's to win Sterling went down and got given. "It's never a penalty. The best 2002 Natwest Trophy, reached Tokyo Olympics: IOC president team won, England deserve to win. 2003 World Cup final, drew England a penalty while England was fantastic, but for me it’s against England in Test series in Thomas Bach arrives in city, never a penalty," said Mourinho on 2004, and even defeated Pakistan London police said that they TalkSport. "England was really, in a Test series in 2005. greeted by state of emergency really good and no doubt they King of nicknames made over 20 arrests after about the game against Denmark. deserved to win that match. But, for me, it's 'Dada,' 'Prince of Kolkata,' 'God of Tokyo. IOC President Thomas Bach arrived Controversial penalty never a penalty. At this level, a semi-final of a the off-side,' 'King of comebacks,' in Tokyo on Thursday just as a ban on the match. England's second goal came through captain Euro I don't understand really the referee’s 'Maharaj,' Royal Bengal Tiger,' spectators at the Tokyo Olympics is likely Harry Kane turning the ball into the net after decision," he said. Wenger said that VAR let former Indian captain has been after Japan Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga it rebounded off Denmark goalkeeper Kasper the referee down. "Look in the moment like given multiple nicknames by announced a state of emergency because of Schmeichel who saved the former's penalty that I believe that the VAR I don't understand cricket fans, experts, and rising coronavirus infections in the capital. kick. The penalty came after Raheem why they don’t ask the referee to have a look teammates in his cricketing career. Suga said the state of emergency would go Sterling was taken down inside the box and at it. In a moment like that it’s important that Geoffrey Boycott once called him into effect on Monday and last through Aug. New Delhi. England reached the final of the the video assistant referee (VAR) deemed the the referee is absolutely convinced that it was 'The Prince of Calcutta.' His 22. This means the Olympics, opening on European Championships for the first time contact on the England winger enough to a penalty. It was not clear enough to say 'yes it parents nicknamed him 'Maharaj.' July 23 and running through Aug. 8, will be ever on Wednesday with a 2-1 win over warrant a penalty. However, neither the is'. At least he should have looked on the Some labeled him the 'Royal held entirely under emergency measures. Denmark in front of their ecstatic home fans officials on the pitch, nor the VAR seem to screen. I don’t know why the VAR did not ask Bengal tiger' for his temper, while The Paralympics open on Aug. 24. "Taking at Wembley Stadium. Gareth Southgate's have noticed the extra ball on the pitch as him to go. For me no penalty. I think the VAR some argued him to be the best into consideration the impact of the delta team have been recognised as one of the most Sterling was beginning his drive into the box. has left the referee down," he said on BeIN Indian Cricket team captain ever. strain, and in order to prevent the resurgence consistent sides in the tournament and while Strangely enough, even the Denmark players Sports. Finally, Schmeichel seemed to have And most lovingly, he is known as of infections from spreading across the their run to the semi-final had been largely didn't seem to include that point when they had green lasers shining on his face near his 'Dada.' Making Steve Waugh wait country, we need to step up virus prevention free of controversy, the same can't be said were protesting the penalty. eyes while preparing to save the penalty kick. for the toss or the shirtless measures," Suga said in announcing the emergency measures. Bach largely avoided cameras at Tokyo's Haneda Airport and, on a rainy afternoon, went to the International Euro 2020: England beat Denmark 2-1 in extra-time to set up final against Italy at Wembley Olympic Committee's games headquarters in Tokyo, a five-star hotel in the center of the one netted the winner while the other Denmark forward Kasper Dolberg was city. He is reported to need to self-isolate for found the back of his own net, much to saved in the 59th but the scores remained three days. Bach's arrival comes just two Denmark's despair. England and Denmark level. England's most dependable player in weeks before the postponed Tokyo Games are to open. The IOC and local organizers were level at 1-1 in normal time after the this tournament, Raheem Sterling once are attempting to hold the games during a visitors took the lead through a superb again provided the decisive move for his pandemic despite opposition from the free-kick from midfielder Mikkel side when he burst into the Danish box Japanese public and medical community. Damsgaard in the 30th minute, but the from the right flank and managed to earn a The main focus of the emergency is a request hosts equalised when Simon Kjær scored penalty for the Three Lions. for bars, restaurants and karaoke parlours an own-goal in the 40th while trying to Captain Harry Kane stepped up in the 104th serving alcohol to close. A ban on serving stop a cross from Raheem Sterling. minute, his first effort saved by Denmark alcohol is a key step to tone down Olympic- ENGLAND VS DENMARK: goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel but he related festivities and keep people from HIGHLIGHTS slotted the rebound to seal the deal and drinking and partying. Tokyo residents are Damsgaard's goal was the first of this become England's joint-highest scorer in expected to face stay-home requests and edition through a direct free-kick and the major tournaments (Euro & World Cup), watch the games on TV from home. "How to first conceded by England in Euro 2020. moving level with Gary Lineker on 10 stop people enjoying the Olympics from On the other hand, Kjaer's own goal was goals. going out for drinks is the main issue," the first England benefited from in CHRISTIAN ERIKSEN TRIBUTE Health Minister Norihisa Tamura said. The European Championship history. There England paid a touching tribute to Christian present state of emergency ends Sunday. were no goals in the second half but both Eriksen on Wednesday night by presenting Tokyo reported 896 new cases on Thursday, England ended a 55-year wait on Thursday to Wembley Stadium in London. England will teams created plenty of chances. England a signed jersey for the Denmark star who up from 673 a week earlier. It's the 19th make their way into the Euro 2020 final now face Italy in their maiden European defender Harry Maguire’s header was was ruled out of the Euro 2020 after straight day that cases have topped the mark with a hard-fought 2-1 extra-time win over Championship final at the same venue on clawed away by goalkeeper Kasper suffering a cardiac arrest in his team's set seven days prior. Denmark in the second semi-final at the July 12. Captains from both teams scored - Schmeichel in the 55th minute. A shot by opening game last month. Orissa Today STATE Friday 09 July 2021 Bhubaneswar P-8 Odisha Agriculture Minister Dr Arun Kumar Sahoo Today flagged off Nano Urea dispatch for state farmers Bhubaneswar, July 08 (TNB): Suresh Kumar Vashishth Brazil, Argentina and few more soon the plant would dis- Dr Arun Kumar Sahoo Minis- Commissioner cum Secretary, countries as part of Interna- patch 10 trucks every day. ter of Agriculture & Farmers Government of Odisha said tional Cooperative Alliance, Kalol plant is producing 6750 Empowerment today virtually that the state would help in Dr Awasthi said. IFFCO had tonne equivalent of urea per flagged off Nano Urea truck the outreach program. "Gov- earlier dispatched Nano Urea day, which would result in for the farmers in the state. ernment of Odisha will extend shipments to Haryana, saving Rs 35,000 crore of The truck containing Nano full support to the innovative Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Government's subsidy bur- Urea (Liquid) was dispatched product and will create aware- Uttar Pradesh and Jammu and den and would also help from the Kalol plant in Gujarat ness about Nano Urea among Kashmir. The stocks were farmers earn additional Rs to Bhubaneswar in Odisha. farmers," he said. Speaking sold within half an hour. 35000 crore. In Phase-II, four The use of Nano Urea will help on the occasion, Dr U S IFFCO is already in the pro- more plants will be commis- Shri Dharmendra Pradhan takes charge as education minister. increase farmers' income, re- Awasthi Managing Director terrains. Nano Urea has been cess of construction of its sioned by year 2022-23, pro- Pradhan has been the longest serving petroleum minister of In- duce input cost and enhance IFFCO said, "We will soon set tested on many crops and re- plants at its Kalol unit in ducing another 18 crore dia, in his previous portfolio. the quality of yield besides re- up Nano Urea (Liquid) and sults showed that Nano Urea Gujarat and also at Aonla and bottles. Nano Urea has been ducing the use of chemical fer- NANO DAP plants and IFFCO is very useful in increasing Phulpur in Uttar Pradesh in tested on over 11000 loca- tilizers. Paradip will have the biggest yield and also nutritional Phase- I by year 2021-22. The tions, 94 crops and 20 Indian Birth day celebration "Nano Urea (Liquid) will not Nano Urea plant." One half li- quality of the crops. It also total annual production ca- Council of Agricultural Re- only help increase the income ter of Nano Urea bottle gives helps reduce water and envi- pacity would be initially 14 search (ICAR) institutes and With Blood Donation of farmers but will also help equal or better impact when ronment pollution thereby crore bottles of 500 ml, which State Agricultural Universi- B.K.Swain solve the problem of Urea in compared to a bag of urea from making the planet safer for the will further be raised to 18 ties. During the virtual flag Angul,July 08: Now a day the the state. It is a very efficient the effectiveness perspective humans and other living be- Crore. off event, Dr M Muthukumar, people are celebrating their product," the minister said on crops. Because of its small ings. Kalol plant is dispatching Director Agriculture, Vice Chair- Birthdays following the west- while flagging off the dis- size it is very convenient to The Nano Urea production one truck with 15000 bottles man IFFCO Shri Dileep ern culture by lighting candle patch to Bhubaneswar. be used by farmers in difficult plants are also coming up in of Nano Urea per day and Sanghaniwerealso present. and cutting cake. On the other hand Sri Manas Ranjan Lack of govt assistance In-house revival of Main Air Compressor in Dwibedy, Lecture in English of Shree Chandra Sekhar country is facing dire short- Hits jute farming hard ASU - III of RSP brings about substantial Savings Higher Secondary of School, age of blood and to meet this Akshya Rout Rourkela, July 08 (TNB): Ideas Mechanical Section developed Bantala has celebrated his birth need of blood such blood do- JAJPUR, July 08: The jute farm- with any agricultural law, lead- combined with the industrious the drawing along with Design day in a unique way by donat- nation must be encouraged. ers of riparian areas of Birupa, ing to malfunction of jute coop- bent of mind of Oxygen Plant Department for the tube ing Blood and planted a tree He also planted some sap- Genguti and Kelua rivers under erative societies and the closure collective and Design Depart- bundle along with develop- while the Banamohstab week is lings on his by lane for the Barchana Block in Jajpur dis- of Dhanmandal jute mill, the only ment of SAIL, Rourkela Steel ment of indigenous supplier for being celebrated all over. purpose of making the day trict are starting at an uncertain jute mill in Odisha. Plant helped restore 100 per- retrofitting. Order was placed Moreover, he has donated memorable during the future as they are constantly These factors started taking cent performance of Main Air and procurement of 2 sets of Blood 12 times in his life. Ac- Banamohatsrab week for re- being deprived of government their toll on the farming and jute Compressor (MAC) having capacity 1,02,000 Nm3/hr was new Intercooler tube bundles cording to his view the whole ducing the pollution in Angul. support. According to the ag- farmers turned their faces away grieved farmers, jute was culti- from jute farming by 2000. As of rated production capacity of installed and commissioned in was done indigenously. New vated in thousands of hectares now, a handful of farmers in vil- handling Oxygen at the rate of 2010 in ASU-III, 700 TPD Oxy- Tube Bundles were received IRC Village Ladies Club gave heartfelt in these areas and it helped im- lages l Anaka, Manduka, 20,500 Nm3/hour. This has gen Plant. In February 2020 it at RSP on 31st May'2021 and Condolences to Kabita Tripathi considerably enhanced the was noticed that, there is re- shut down of ASU-III was prove the financial condition of Kolangiri, Raipur and Bhubaneswar, July 08 (TNB): Mrs. Kabita the farmers. Ramdaspur , availability of Liquid Medical duction in MAC capacity and taken during BF-V shutdown. Tripathi was a visionary role model for young- Then, thousands of quintals of Bhuluka,krusndaspur,under Oxygen (LMO) production by compressor was surging when Replacement job of Stage-1 sters and highly respected and regarded by se- jute were shifted to the business Barchana block and Talua and 12 Tons, Gaseous Oxygen for loaded beyond 80% capacity. and 2 Intercooler tube niors. She was a versatile and multi-talented per- points in Dhanmandal, Majhipada villages of Saudia Oxygen Enrichment in Blast This resulted in reduction in bundles was carried out son with proficiency in various activities like Panchupandab and panchayat have kept the tra- Furnaces and increased the Oxygen Production over the round the clock and com- singing, cooking, yoga,etc and motivating all to Kendupatna areas. And from dition alive and are cultivating Hot Metal production of RSP. period to about 13,500 Nm3 per pleted within 2 days that is participate in cultural activities. She was also an there, they would be transported jute. However, farmers includ- Further it has significantly re- hour against the rated produc- between 5th and 6th June- excellent housewife and taking utmost care of family members to states like West Bengal, ing Prakash Sahu and duced the power consumption tion of 20,500 Nm3 per hour. 2021 by the employees of Oxy- and friends. Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu Prabhakar Senapati have She was an active member of Laughing Club and Ladies Club of as the jute grown here was in urged the government to buy of Main Air Compressor bring- To tide over the situa- gen Plant under the supervi- ing about a substantial sav- tion the original tube bundles sion of Mr. U K.Bhujabal, IRC village. We are all deeply stunned and shocked by her de- high demand in those states. jute from them. Otherwise, they mise and cannot bear the inseparable loss. All members of Laugh- ings to the tune of Rupees 40 were imported from Germany. DGM, Mr. H.H.Das, AGM and With the passage of time, the would have to sell their har- ing Club and Ladies Club of IRC village express their heartfelt jute farming took a beating as vest at throwaway price and lakhs per month. After several brainstorming Mr. SK Panigrahi, Senior Man- condolences to the family members and sincerely pray to God to the government did not come up thus suffer a huge loss. It may be noted that the MAC, session the Oxygen Plant, the ager of Oxygen Plant. give the departed soul eternal peace. Engineers praised for development works execution Lyricist Lalit Rath won the hearts of many fans by Akshya Rout the ongoing development infrastructure. The Government Writing Various songs in India and abroad Jajpur, July 08: A number of projects. Besides, they carried goal is to provide bridges for Rakesh Das to be released by Taranga development projects have out various social activities like smoothening the transport Bhadrak, July 08: Art is Channel shortly. been completed are ongoing in distributing masks, sanitisers system, schools and colleges a wonderful quality that As the duo has been the Jajpur district under the and free food to the needy for education, healthcare facili- is abundant among all successful in the multiple supervision of Public Works people. Mishra said it gives him ties for patients. Besides, the artists. Mr lalit Narayan songs , the musician Department Cuttack Circle immense pleasure to serve river embankments are being Rath's special aspects is Pabitra Patnaik,Abhijit Chief Construction Engineer mankind in these difficult strengthened to protect the song writing. He has a Majumdar and Taraprasad Mishra and Execu- times.During the second wave residents from floods. The special interest in the Omprakash Mohanty tive Engineer Arun Kumar of coronavirus pandemic, the Works Department has re- arts, culture, philosophy said that Lalit's songs are Patanik .The projects include ment. These projects have been Covid-19 positive cases and solved to complete the projects and tradition of full of sweetness. Mr a trauma care hospital in completed in time without any deaths are soaring alarmingly within the stipulated time-frame Odisha.In general , he is Ratha has been honored Panikoili , Medical College in cost overruns. Besides, stress in the country and Odisha. This laying stress on quality aspect, the possessor of an ex- on stages for composing Jajpur town, a 150- feet statue has been laid on maintaining the is putting strain on the health said Mishra . The Government traordinary personality. very sweets songs in- of Lord Shiva on the banks of quality norms. Works Depart- infrastructure and the health is always there for people and Similarlly, Mr Rath a lyricist, Since the song he has been cluding Guru Gopi Krishna river Baitarani, the Administra- ment Cuttack Circle Chief Con- workers. is aware of all their was seen performing some climbing the ladder of suc- award, Aradhana award, tive Bhawan, relaying and wid- struction Engineer Taraprasad At this crucial juncture, every- problems,said Mishra CCE impossible art. Because he is cess one step at a time. To- Visva Odisha samman awad. ening of major roads. Nota- Mishra and Panikoili Circle Ex- body should cooperate with the Mishra said the department has a high ranking corporate of- gether with musician Pabitra Lalit Rath the lyricist, per- bly, CCE Mishra had earlier ecutive Engineer Arun Kumar Government and obey the been entrusted with the work ficial by profession, he is ad- Patnaik, he has composed 16 forms his duties well in the earned lavish praise for suc- Patanik, who were in-charge of Covid protocols strictly. If it is for a Tumour Hospital in dicted to writing various songs for Tarang office, and likes to writes cessfully renovating the these projects, have earned lav- not essential one should not Panikoili, and up-gradation of new songs.Sj Lalit Narayan channel.The song that Mr songs when he has the time. Taladanda canal in Cuttack. A ish praise from people of the dis- venture outside their homes. It the houses of the District Head- Rath is Deputy Manager to Rath has released so far are In fact he is highly educated, signage, ‘I love Cuttack’, trict for their dedication and ef- is better to stay at home to keep quarters Hospital and Jajpur CEO, Adani Dhamara Port Sundar mo odisha Bhumi, high ranking officials . He has which was a brainchild of forts to ensure timely comple- the virus at bay. Hand wash- MLA Pranab Prakash Das’ with Life time Mentor and Mana mora uda become the favorite of all for Mishra, has become a selfie tion. Notably, Mishra was ear- ing, masking and maintaining dream project, a state of the art advisor of Odia Jatra Lover chadhei,Premara his song and art of lyrics. point for the resident of millen- lier praised for the beatification social distance are the best administrative building which with and alsolife time men- sahara,Dhinak dhin dhina,Tu nium city and widely circulated of the Taladanda canal. weapons against the virus besides housing a number of tor with advisor of Vishva kemitika gote nari,Tame sina in social media. Recently Well-known social spread. Government offices, will have a Odisha (an international sathi mora,Mo bhala paibare The locals have praised the organisation (NATION) virtu- So kindly follow Covid large convention centre for organisation with Indian ki dosa rahila,Jay Shiv engineers for completing the ally felicitated Public Works appropriate behaviour to keep holding meetings and seminars. Trust act) As Mr Rath is a Shankar, Mora smriti projects in time and for the qual- Department CCE Tara Prasad yourself and your family and Besides, Mishra and Patnaik be- talented lyricist, his first goal Ghatare,Jagat sain,Bhija bhija ity of work. Of late, a number of Mishra and EE Arun Patnaik for friends safe, Mishra appealed , come popular in the district for is to capture the hearts of the ratire,Sabu hajei paichhi ote, infrastructure projects like their work as Covid warriors. The State Government is com- providing food to many hungry audience through song. Premara Prajapati ,Batoi re bridges, roads hospital and The engineers despite the shut- mitted to provide the best of people during the lockdown Lalits first song,'To bina' was Batoi.To bina dina sarena, parks have been executed in down toured various areas in services to people and improve period and repair of flood af- composed by the voice of Boula lo boula. The above 9 Jajpur district by Works Depart- the district and took stock of their daily life by upgrading the fected roads on a war-footing. musician Pabitra Patnaik. lyrics of Mr Rath are going Crack in Sri Baladevjew temple need immediate repair Naresh Ch. Pattanayak crack might have been created it is not repaired immediately will write to the Archeological the chanting of Tantra. Here the Keonjhar, July 08: A crack in due to lightning. As the famous then the tomb on which the department for its repair”. color of Devi Subhadra is blood the top part of four hundred Car festival is ahead, it may flag and ‘Chakra’ is fixed will According to the sources the color, whereas in the rest of the year old Lord Sri Baladevjew uproot and fall down in cy- be uprooted” said Ashok Das, temple was built in the year world the color is yellow. Local temple of old town Keonjhar clonic wind. The servitor may a senior advocate. 1661 by the former ruler of belief that it happens due to the has needed immediate repair. face danger during the fixing Ramchandra Kisku, Sub Col- Keonjhar state Laxminarayan effect of ‘Tantra’, which is The crack was detected after a of the flag in the ‘Neta Utsav’ lector and Executive Officer, Bhanj. It is a unique temple like unique. The chariot of Lord video went viral a few days on the occasion of Car festi- Endowment department said Sri Jaganath temple of Puri. Baladevjew is the tallest in the back, which was later con- val. “Due to lack of proper “one of the servitors has con- The height of the temple is about world as recognized by differ- firmed by the temple author- maintenance the temple re- firmed about the crack. As the 70 hands. The ‘Chakra’ was ent institutions after examining ity. It is suspected that the mains in a dilapidated state. If temple is very old, hence we fixed at the top of the tomb with facts and records.

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