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DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD,CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA,LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA ● REG.NO. MCS/067/2018-20RNI REGN. NO. 1543/57 JOURNALISM OF COURAGE MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2021, MUMBAI, LATE CITY, 14 PAGES SINCE 1932 `5.00, WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM OXFAMREPORT SUPPLEMENTARY CHARGESHEET Covid deepened Goswami paid inequalities:wealth, me $12,000 and education, gender Wealth surge of richest11inpandemic SINGHU Rs 40 lakh to fix could sustain NREGS for10years ECHO IN MUMBAI ratings: Dasgupta UDITMISRA Growth NEWDELHIJANUARY24 vs Farmers from various BARC ex-CEO’slawyer: Handwritten inequality parts of Maharashtra ANEW reportbyOxfam has arrivedinMumbai on statementhas no evidentiary value found that the Covid pandemic Sundaytoparticipate deeplyexacerbated existing in- HIGH LEVELSofinequal- in arally on Monday equalities in India and around ities hurtthe economy against the newfarm MOHAMEDTHAVER& the world. and undermine social laws. Ganesh Shirsekar KRISHNKAUSHIK The report, titled ‘The cohesion. Some argue REPORT, PAGE 4 MUMBAI,NEWDELHI, Inequality Virus’,has foundthat that governmental ef- JANUARY24 as the pandemic stalledthe econ- fortstoreduce inequal- omy, forcingmillionsofpoor ity mustsucceed, not THE FORMERCEO of Broadcast Indians out of jobs, the richestbil- precede, effortstoboost 1YEAR AS UNION TERRITORY Audience Research Council lionaires in India increased their growth because that will (BARC) India, Partho Dasgupta, Dasgupta’s statement wealth by 35 per cent. define howmuchthere has claimedinahandwritten againstGoswami partof “Thewealth of Indian billion- is to distribute. That will statement to Mumbai Police that chargesheet airesincreasedby 35 percentdur- be the challenge forthe J&K:Dropinlaw&orderincidents he receivedUS$12,000 from ing the lockdown and by 90 per Budget. Republic TV Editor-in-Chief cent since 2009 to $422.9 billion Arnab Goswami fortwo separate AUDITREPORT rankingIndiasixthintheworldaf- holidays andatotal of Rs 40 lakh terUS, China, Germany, Russia the strictestlockdown anywhere butuptickinmilitantrecruitment over three years, in return for ■Favouritism and France,” states the report. in the world, India’s top100 bil- manipulating ratings in favour of towardschannels According to Oxfam's calcu- lionaires sawtheir fortunes in- the news channel, according to lations, since March,asthe gov- crease by Rs 12.97trillion— J&KDGP Dilbag Singh says severalmilitant commanders Kargil ignored the supplementarychargesheet ■ Ratings were ernment announcedpossibly CONTINUEDONPAGE2 filedinthe TRP scam case. pre-decided killedinayear, ‘situation better’ on allparameters in first Ladakh The 3,600-pagesupplemen- ■ BARC officials tary chargesheet, filedby violated code dentsalso dropped5per centto tableau: chief MumbaiPoliceon January11, also BUSINESSASUSUAL NAVEEDIQBAL VIOLENCERELATED 243in220 compared with255 includes aBARCforensic auditre- SRINAGAR,JANUARY24 TOMILITANCY in 2019.The fall is significant of Hill Council port, WhatsApp chatspurport- The audit reportnames sev- BY UNNY when compared with 2018, edly between Dasgupta and eral news channels, including IN ITS FIRSTfull year as the 2019 2020* whichwitnessed417 militancy- Goswami, and statementsof59 Republic, Times Nowand Aaj newest Union Territoryofthe Militancy- 255 243 related incidents. BASHAARATMASOOD persons, includingformer council Tak, andlists instances of country, Jammuand Kashmir relatedincidents The number of recruitsjoin- SRINAGAR,JANUARY24 employees and cable operators. CONTINUEDONPAGE2 witnessedanuptickinrecruit- Lawandorder 584 143 ing militancy in the UT has, how- ment to militant ranks; the incidents ever,seen a22per cent riseto OLD FAULTLINES between number of lawand order inci- Militantskilled 157 222 174in2020 from 143in2019. Of BuddhistLadakh and Muslim dents, however, droppedsignif- Militant 143 174** the 174recruits, 76 militants Kargil have emergedinthe icantlyduring the year. recruitment were killedand another 46 ar- Republic Daytableauofthe new According to police datafor Ceasefire 605 930 rested.Just52remain active, Union TerritoryofLadakh. the lastthree years, the number datawith the J&K Police shows. The firsttableau of Ladakh violation DR SHEKHAR MANDE of lawand order incidentsinJ&K When contacted,Director will depict the Thiksey *UptoDec 30 DIRECTOR GENERAL, COUNCIL OF SCIENTIFIC plunged 75 percent to 143in **Out of which76killed,46arrested General, J&KPolice, DilbagSingh, Monastery in Leh and the Indian AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH and 52 still active 2020 compared with 584in told The Indian Express that Astronomical Observatoryin PAGE 8 2019.Militancy-related inci- CONTINUEDONPAGE2 CONTINUEDONPAGE2 India, China hold ninth Sexual assault under round of LAC talks POCSOneeds skin to region, along with additional KRISHNKAUSHIK artillery, tanks, and air de- skincontact:Bombay HC NEWDELHI,JANUARY24 fence assets. It followedamemo from Manwho pressedbreasts of child over SENIOR MILITARYcommanders India fortalkswhile the two from India and China meton countries maintainedregular herclothes convicted formolestation Sundayfor the ninth round of contact through the hotlineand talkstodiscuss apossible solu- other mechanisms to prevent The verdict, deliveredby tion to the nearly nine-month anyuntowardincident that VIVEKDESHPANDE Justice Pushpa VGanediwala on border standoffineastern couldcomplicate the situation. NAGPUR,JANUARY24 January19, setaside the rulingof Ladakh. In the lastfew months, Indiare- alower courtunder Section 8of The meeting, whichbegan turnedtwo Chinese soldiers IN Acontroversial order that POCSO applicable to “sexual as- around 10 am on the Chinese who had strayed across the Line could have implications on a sault” on children, againstcon- side of the Chushul-Moldo of Actual Control in separatein- rangeofcases, the Nagpur bench vict Satish Bandu Ragde. Border Personnel Meeting cidents. of Bombay High Courtacquitted Saying that Section 8of (BPM) point, continueduntil On Sunday,the Indian dele- aman of sexual assault on the POCSOprovides forstringent evening. gation wasled by Lt Gen PGK grounds that pressing the breasts punishment of five years’ of rig- The latesteffortcame two- Menon, XIV CorpsCommander, of achild over her clothes with- orous imprisonment (RI), the and-a-half months afterthe whichisresponsible forthe LAC outdirect “skin to skin”physical High Courtobserved that lastround of discussions be- in eastern Ladakh, and included contact doesnot constitute“sex- “stricter proof and serious alle- tweenthe twosides on another senior militaryofficer ual assault” under the Protection gations arerequired”. November 6, with around from Delhi. Naveen Srivastava, of ChildrenfromSexual Offences The judgesaid: “As such, 50,000 troops deployedinthe CONTINUEDONPAGE2 (POCSO) Act. CONTINUEDONPAGE2 THE WORLD At IIM Calcutta, it’s teachers versus PRACHANDAGROUP EXPELSOLIFROM Director over her powers, their role PARTYGENERAL MEMBERSHIP PAGE 12 culture of transparency and ac- RITIKACHOPRA Director countability. NEWDELHI,JANUARY24 Anju Seth That group isn’t small. says ‘small Lastmonth, as manyas61 INSIDE THE FACULTYat Indian Institute group’ upset teachers —over75% of the IIM- of Management, Calcutta, is with her Calcutta’s faculty —wrotetothe MAHARASHTRA lockedinanunprecedented MinistryofEducation (MoE) AIMSTOCROSS2 standoff withthe institute’sdi- urging it to step in alleging that rector alleging that she has cen- Director Anju Seth has attrib- Seth’s styleoffunctioning, was LAKHVACCINATION tralisedpowers in her hands and uted the confrontation to "a “arbitrary, discriminatory,and, FIGURE PAGE 4 usurpedtheir role in administra- small group of individuals" up- having averynarrowvision.” tion and decision-making. setwith her effortstofostera CONTINUEDONPAGE2 Afterstrides in social welfare, Latur village hands over batontoall-womanpanchayat PAGE 1 waypaved by the performance ANCHOR of two-time sarpanch BhagyashreeChame, who was one of the three women elected in 2015,along with Shobha Kasle MAYURAJANWALKAR and Kalpana Sagar. ANANDWADI(LATUR), Giventhe number of JANUARY24 ‘Anandwadis’ in Nilanga, the vil- lage, located 25 km from Latur NINE YEARS after50per cent city, is morecommonlyknown seatswerereserved forwomen as Gaur.Home to 635people, in Maharashtra’s gram panchay- mostlyfarmers, Gaur has in the ats, AnandwadivillageinLatur’s pastfiveyears seen improved Nilanga taluka has pickedanall- cleanliness, acampaign against woman panchayat. The six were superstitions,changeinname elected unopposedinthe pan- The members were elected unopposed. 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