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y k y cm RUMOURS QUASHED PLAN REJECTED 3RD ODI TODAY Actor Sonam Kapoor Ahuja has quashed China rejects WHO’s plan for second phase of With the series already in the bag, India look to rumours about her pregnancy with coronavirus tracing in Wuhan, to probe the tinker with the playing XI in the third ODI against Sri Lanka a social media post LEISURE | P2 lab leak theory INTERNATIONAL | P10 SPORTS | P12 VOLUME 11, ISSUE 113 | www.orissapost.com BHUBANESWAR | FRIDAY, JULY 23 | 2021 12 PAGES | `5.00 ODISHA OFFICER IN UN PANEL I-T RAIDS ON MEDIA COMPANIES Bhubaneswar: IRS officer Rasmi Ranjan Das from Odisha has New Delhi: The Income Tax department conducted Thursday multi- been appointed as an expert in the UN Tax Committee for the city raids against two prominent media groups – Dainik Bhaskar and 2021-2025 period. He is the only Indian among the 25 chosen Bharat Samachar – on charges of tax evasion, official sources said. for the panel. Das is currently serving as Joint Secretary in the Residences of promoters and some staffers of Dainik Bhaskar were Ministry of Finance. He has around 28 years of experience as also searched in Bhopal. Raids at the newspaper’s offices at Bhopal, a member of Indian Revenue Service (IRS) in policy making Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Noida are continuing at the time of filing this and implementing Direct Tax Laws in the country. He is also report. The two media groups have been critical of the Covid-19 the Indian delegate to the Inclusive Framework (IF), a group of management in India by the Centre and have done numerous more than 135 countries monitoring BEPS. stories highlighting failings of authorities. P9 IRREGULAR by MANJUL Scribes detain MLAs Mediapersons demand action against policewoman for assaulting reporter POST NEWS NETWORK Aul MLA Pratap Keshari Deb. The when he found the policewoman scribes also demanded the sus- working without a mask. He clicked Kendrapara, July 22: Tension pension of the three police per- a photo of hers and posted it on prevailed as journalists Thursday sonnel present during the assault social media platforms. Since then allegedly locked up five BJD MLAs on the web journalist. Pinu Nayak had been nursing a in the district collector’s office here According to our Derabish block grudge against Sethi. and refused to release them protest- correspondent, Bebarta Ajay Das, When Sethi went to cover I know the news is about ing against the attack on a scribe the journalists asked the legislators Wednesday, a BJP demonstration potholes but get it cleared of a web portal by a female constable, to take action against the errant over an attack on the Dalit families from IT, CBI & EDI the previous day. The journalists in cops but the MLAs tried to sideline in the district, the lady constable the district staged demonstrations their pleas. This angered the me- assaulted him while hurling abuses. all through the day. diapersons as they locked up the leg- The highhandedness of the fe- According to our district cor- islators inside the Collectorate. male cop angered the scribes after MARKET WATCH respondent Jagannath Dhal, the Some sources in the know of things the video went viral on social media scribes demanding action against also confirmed the development. platforms Thursday morning. INDEX VARIATION the female cop, detained The legislators had come to the Demanding stringent action Mahakalapara MLA Atanu district collectorate to attend a vir- against the accused, hundreds of SENSEX 52837.21 638.70 Sabyasachi Nayak, Kendrapara tual meeting on construction of a journalists Thursday gheraoed the PROTECTING NATURE MLA Sashi Bhusan Behera, barrage on Mahanadi river. Collector’s office during which Four-year-old Nino Gomes, who has been named ‘Green Agent’ by the ‘Municipal Urban Cleaning Group’, collects garbage BOURSES NIFTY 15824.00 191.90 Patkura MLA Sabitri Agrawal, Scribe Bhimsen Sethi had gone they locked up the legislators. under the sea accompanied by her marine biologist father Ricardo REUTERS PHOTO DOLLAR 74.77 `0.18 Rajnagar MLA Dhruba Sahoo and to the Kendrapara SP office July 19 The legislators invited a five- member team of the scribes to EURO 87.77 `0.05 come inside and have a discussion CURRENCY with them. They assured the del- ` ` No UC, no aid GOLD 47,540 33 egation that action will be taken Delta variant may SILVER `66,974 `163 against the errant cops follow- BULLION ing the discussions. The law- Tribals deprived due makers were then released. to Odisha’s glitch The journalists later, met the lead to third wave collector at his residential office WEATHER and submitted a memorandum de- POST NEWS NETWORK BHUB CTK manding suspension of the cops. MUTANT CAN REMAIN ACTIVE FOR 1 MONTH Collector Amrit Ruturaj assured New Delhi, July 22: The Union gov- MAX 32.2° 33.8° them of action after discussing POST NEWS NETWORK ernment has not released funds to the issue with the SP. Odisha under the Special Central TEMP MIN 25.5° 24.6° FATALITY RATE Forecast Purna Chandra Das, secretary Bhubaneswar, July 22: In spite of Assistance to Tribal Sub-Scheme Humidity 94% 95% of State Web-Media Association the slowly receding number in REMAINS HIGH (SCA to TSS) for the year 2021-22 as Light rain Rainfall 1.1mm 2.0mm very likely BJD lawmakers including Pratap Keshari Deb (blue shirt) and Sashi Bhushan said the agitation will continue till Covid-19 cases in the state, experts BHUBANESWAR: Even though the rate the state has failed to provide util- Behera were locked up by journalists in Kendrapara OP PHOTO the errant cops are punished. are of the opinion that people should of new infections in Odisha continued isation certificates (UCs) against the be wary about the Delta variant as to remain below the 2,000-mark, the previous year’s allocation. it has the ability to mutate quickly. fatality rate remained high with the The Union Ministry of Tribal It has been found that 93 per cent state registering 67 deaths in the last Affairs, in response to a written of the new cases during the sec- 24 hours, according to information pro- question by Biju Janata Dal (BJD) ond wave of Covid-19 that hit the vided by the Health department. The Amar Patnaik, said that there is Vaishnaw under Opposition fire state were due to the Delta vari- new fatalities took the death toll to zero allocation to Odisha under ant. This information was shared 5,308 in the state. Odisha also reported SCA to TSS for 2021-22 and also Thursday by Ajay Parida, Director, 1,948 new cases of infection. It took the grants under Article 275 (1) of the Pegasus statement snatched from IT minister, torn and flung in air Institute of Life Sciences (ILS). total tally of infected persons to Constitution as the state govern- Parida also informed that the Delta 9,61,934 while the active caseload now ment has not submitted the util- stands 19,623. AGENCIES heated words were exchanged be- targeted through surveillance using variant is highly infectious. isation certificates and physical tween Union Minister Hardeep Israeli company NSO Group's Parida attributed this to the re- progress reports for previous New Delhi, July 22: Trinamool Singh Puri and the Trinamool MP. Pegasus spyware. sults of genome sequencing of ran- year’s funds. Congress (TMC) MP Shantanu Sen Marshals had to intervene to bring In the statement, Vaishnaw, domly selected samples from Covid- The Centre had released `90.10 snatched papers Thursday from the situation under control. Later Sen whose phone number was among 19 infected persons done at the crore under SCA to TSS for the Communications and Information alleged at a press conference that Puri those listed as compromised by institute. He claimed that the genome year 2020-21 but the Odisha gov- Technology Minister Ashwini had verbally abused him and was on ‘Washington Post’, called the re- sequencing hints towards the stag- ernment, according to the min- Vaishnaw in the Rajya Sabha. He the verge of physically assaulting ports an ‘attempt to malign the nation of Covid-19 cases in the state. the Delta variant,” Parida added. istry, has utilised only `56.35 crore. then tore the papers and flung him before he was rescued by his col- Indian democracy and its well-es- “The Delta strain of the virus was Parida also pointed out that un- Similarly, there is zero utilisation those in the air as Vaishnaw was leagues. He also claimed Puri even tablished institutions’. responsible for the spread of the dis- like other mutants the Delta variant of `63.04 crore grant released by the about to make a statement on the gesticulated rudely at him. “A highly sensational story was ease during the second wave. is active up to more than a month. Centre under Article 275 (1) for the alleged snooping row using Israeli Deputy Chairman Harivansh “The Union Minister threat- published by a web portal and Genome sequencing of around Hence there is always the possi- year 2020-21. spyware Pegasus. Singh asked the members to desist ened me and abused me. He many over-the-top allegations made 65,000 people were done in India and bility of the virus spreading quickly. “Main reason for non-release TMC, Congress and other from unparliamentary behaviour. He was about to assault me when around this story. The press re- it was found that close to 96 per “In the second wave we have seen of approved funds during any Opposition members rushed to the then adjourned the proceedings of my other colleagues came to ports appeared a day before the cent were infected by the Delta infections lasting for more than given year has been non-submis- Well of the House as Vaishnaw the House for the day.