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RAIN DAMAGE TO naviestosailtogether, STANDING CROP IN NASHIK DISTRICT CAUSES STEEP RISE IN ONION PRICES PG 3 Indo-USpactontable Covid puzzles: jobs back, India, US, Japan &Australia in joint PLA soldier labour shrinks, demand exercise; BECAbeing readiedfor talks strays across low but inflation still high SHUBHAJITROY& LAC, Army KRISHNKAUSHIK NEWDELHI,OCTOBER19 AANCHALMAGAZINE says will &ANILSASI AMID THE Sino-Indian military NEWDELHI,OCTOBER19 BACK TO SCHOOL standoffalong the Line of Actual return him Control in Ladakh and rising ten- WITHECONOMICactivitypicking AClass 9student at the RajkiyaInter CollegeinNoida on Monday. Schools reopenedfor the sions in the South China Sea, the paceaftertheeasingof lockdown senior classes forthe firsttime since the Covid-enforcedlockdown. AbhinavSaha Quadrilateral grouping of US, During the 2017 Malabar KRISHNKAUSHIK measures, the recovery has Datasuggests migration Japan, Indiaand Australia are Exercise in the Bayof NEWDELHI,OCTOBER19 thrownupsome paradoxes: re- backtocities nothappening sending their warships forthe Bengal. File vivalinemploymentamidafallin as expected. Malabar Exercise next month. ACHINESE soldier wasappre- labourforceparticipation,surging NewDelhi and Washington hendedMondayinthe inflationrate despitedisinflation- New digital health ID will be used arealso stepping up effortsto Demchok sector of eastern aryimpact from weak demand, didnotwentonto leave thelabour conclude the Basic Exchangeand Thetroika Ladakh amid tensions over the and improvement in futureout- force, datacollated by the Centre Cooperation Agreement (BECA) E border standoff. The Indian ● ofpacts looksurveysevenasthesituation forMonitoring Indian Economy in Covid immunisation, says PM ahead of the Indo-US 2+2 minis- EXPLAINED Armysaid the soldier had worsens in households. (CMIE) showed. Typically, when terial meeting on October 26-27 strayed across the Line of Actual In September,aslockdowns morepeoplefindjobs,ashadhap- health ID, will be usedtoensure –defence and foreign ministers GEOSPATIAL SPECIFICS Control and would soon be were progressively eased, an un- penedduringSeptember,agreater KAUNAINSHERIFFM immunisation of our citizens.” of the twocountries will be in a shared under the BECA handedovertothe PLA. usuallabourmarket phenomenon number should have come in NEWDELHI,OCTOBER19 Modi had In his Independence Dayad- huddle at the 2+2. will help enhance the ac- In astatement, the Armysaid, wasobservedinIndia—whilesev- looking forjobs. announced dress, the PM had said that the Akey militarypact, BECA curacy of Indian missiles, "A PLAsoldier,identifiedas eral workers got jobs, manywho CONTINUEDONPAGE2 TWOMONTHS afterhean- health ID in Unique Health ID providedto will allowIndia to use US and will be keytoplans Corporal Wang Ya Long, wasap- nouncedthat aunique health ID I-Dayspeech everycitizen would have details geospatial intelligence and en- forarmeddrones. It will prehendedinthe Demchok sec- will be providedtoevery citizen of diseases, diagnosis, report, hance accuracy of automated complete the troika of torofEastern Ladakh on 19 under the National Digital Health medication, etc. in acommon systems and weapons likemis- foundational pacts– October 2020 afterhehad Tejashwi attacks Nitish Mission, Prime MinisterNarendra the forefront of vaccine develop- database. siles and armeddrones. In COMCASAand LEMOA strayed across the LAC." Modi on Tuesdayindicated that ment forCovid-19. Some of As reportedbyThe Indian February, US President Donald being the other two-- The Armysaid, "a requesthas over Chirag; RJD says on the “digital health ID will beused them areinadvancedstages. We Express, ahigh-levelexpertgroup Trumpand Prime Minister with the US forgreater also been receivedfromthe to ensureimmunisation”. arenot stopping here; India is al- on vaccine administration is NarendraModi had calledfor militarycooperation. PLA” on “the whereaboutsofthe Addressing the inaugural ready working on putting awell- looking at mechanisms to track early conclusion of BECA. missing soldier”, and "as per es- CM, both ‘on same page’ function of the Grand Challenges establishedvaccine delivery sys- recipientsasand when the vac- On Monday, India an- tablishedprotocols,hewill be Annual Meeting 2020, the Prime teminplace. This digitised cine is ready to beadministered; nouncedthat Australia will be countries that makethe returnedbacktoChinese offi- Kumar treated Chirag, it is injus- Ministersaid, “...India is nowat network, along with the digital CONTINUEDONPAGE2 partofthe Malabar Exercise in Quadrilateral grouping, better cials at the Chushul-Moldo SANTOSHSINGH tice to him.” November,making it the first known as Quad. meeting point aftercompletion PATNA,OCTOBER19 Tejashwi wasthe onlysenior militaryexercise between all CONTINUEDONPAGE2 of formalities". Bihar Opposition leader to have The Chinese soldier,the FISHINGinNDA waters mud- metChirag to offerhis condo- ED quizzes Farooq, NC BUSINESSASUSUAL Armysaid, "has been provided diedbythe LJP's grow- lences afterPaswan's Pompeo to visit Sri Lanka, medical assistance including ing ambition, the RJD mortalremains arrived BY UNNY oxygen, food and warm clothes Mondayappeared to at Patna airport. and PDP say vendetta to protect him from the vagaries reachout to Chirag Earlier,inaninter- Maldives after Delhi talks of extreme altitude and harsh Paswan, with Tejashwi viewtoThe Indian legedirregularitiesingrantsgiven climatic conditions". Yadavaccusing JD(U) Express, Chirag had DEEPTIMANTIWARY by BCCI to Jammu and Kashmir Astatement from the chief Nitish Kumar of DECISION dodgedaquestion &BASHAARATMASOOD Cricket Association (JKCA). NIRUPAMA His Lanka visit National Defence Ministryof treating him badly. 2020 about Tejashwi's abili- NEWDELHI,SRINAGAR, The ED action, whichcame SUBRAMANIAN comes amid China quoted PLAspokesperson Talking to reporters BIHAR ties as aleader, saying, OCTOBER19 days afterpolitical parties of MUMBAI,OCTOBER19 concerns over Colonel Zhang Shuili saying the while campaigning, RJD “He is the Leader of the Jammu and Kashmir came to- China soldier losthis waywhile looking chief ministerial candi- Opposition and has THE ENFORCEMENT Directorate gether to announce aunited IN THE final week before the US forayak that had gone missing. dateTejashwi said, “It is Chirag CONTINUEDONPAGE2 (ED) on Mondayquestioned struggle forthe restoration of presidential elections on It said herders had asked the Paswan who would be needing National Conference president Article 370, evoked angryreac- November 3, SecretaryofState Maldives, afterattending the 2+2 soldier to trace the yak. Chinese his father mostnow.Weare all Farooq Abdullah in connection tions in the Valley. Michael RPompeo plans to visit talksinDelhi, The Indian Express border guards, Zhang said, in- sad that RamVilas Paswan is not DECISION 2020 withacaseof allegedmoneylaun- The People's Alliance for India's twoIndian Ocean neigh- has learnt. formedthe Indian side about the among us. But the wayNitish PAGE 9 dering. The case is related to al- CONTINUEDONPAGE2 bours, Sri Lanka and the CONTINUEDONPAGE2 CONTINUEDONPAGE2 TOUR OF RAIN-HIT DISTRICTS Two weeks to go for polls, Fadnavis calls govt inefficient, Trump narrows gap, but Uddhav hits back: ‘Prioritise crisis Biden still has the edge in state rather than Bihar elections’ Donald Trumphas narrowed, leaving both campaigns on edge. Biden campaign manager Jen AJAYJADHAV RACE FOR O'MalleyDillon said in amemo PUNE, OCTOBER 19 THE WHITE to donors, reportedbyReuters, “Wecannotbecome complacent CHIEF MINISTER Uddhav HOUSE because the very searing truth is Thackeray and Opposition that Donald Trumpcan still win leader DevendraFadnavis were EXPRESSIN this race, and everyindication engaged in awar of wordson THEUS we have shows that this thing is Mondaywhile touring areas in going to come down to the wire.” western Maharashtrathat were “New polling shows this hit by heavy rain lastweek. election is going to come down Fadnavis claimedthat NCP KARISHMAMEHROTRA to afew swing states likeNorth chief Sharad Pawarhas to de- SANFRANCISCO,OCTOBER19 Carolina, Minnesota,Arizona, fend the “inefficient” Maha Chief MinisterUddhavThackeray meets farmers in Solapur Florida, Pennsylvania, and Vikas Aghadi government led district on Monday. Express WITH Afortnight leftfor the Wisconsin... Simplyput, we can by Thackeray,prompting the November 3Election Dayinthe win this but we'vegot to ramp latter to hit back, saying the BJP US, Democrat nominee Joe up our campaign,” said Trump's leader should prioritise sup- Maharashtrawho have been hit stead of camping in Bihar. Biden's once-encouraging lead campaign manager Bill Stepien porting the people of by heavy rain and flooding, in- CONTINUEDONPAGE2 over incumbent Republican CONTINUEDONPAGE2 To bring emptyIPL stands alive in UAE, engineers in aMumbai studio cut-pasteaudio from archives

PAGE1 “Wewent backand studied And so, when Mumbai cap- ANCHOR the sounds of over 100IPL tain Sharma or Bangaloreskip- matches starting from 2018.We per Kohli walk in to bat, asound studiedthe sounds associated engineer in LowerParel gets into with aspecific team, and also the the mix. When Dhoni connects DEVENDRAPANDEY team theyare playing against. those sixes, thereisapplause MUMBAI,OCTOBER19 Forexample, if Chennai Super from Chepauk,with avuvuzela Kings and Mumbai Indians are playing along and the trademark THE IPL that yousee is being playing, the decibel levelisvery fanwhistles. Thereare roars playedinDubai, AbuDhabi and different from agame between from the Chinnaswamy forAB Sharjah. But what about the IPL Kings XI Punjab and Delhi de Villiers while the Kotla roots that youhear? Capitals,” says Star India's head forDelhi Capitals' captain with With teams playing in front (Sports)Sanjog Gupta. chantsof“Shreyas, Shreyas” —all of emptystands due to Covid “Wehad to arrive at aframe- dubbed inside the studio. curbs, the answer lies 2,000 km work of sound that is unique to “The reaction from the crowd away from the UAE, wherea When Rohit Sharma hitsasix, the cheers aredifferent. File everyplayerand everyteam. to acatchdroppedsounds differ- “sound bank” compiledina When MSDhoni, Rohit Sharma ent from the one when aplayer Mumbai studio has recreated or ViratKohli hitsasix, the cheer missesahit,”says Gupta,pointing the mood and buzz of athrob- ChinnaswamyinBengaluru or broadcaster, involvedthree is different compared to aplayer out that everydip of disappoint- bing stadium —beitthe Chepauk in Chennai. months of preparation and re- who is unknown or an upcom- menthasitsbespokedecibel,and Wankhede in Mumbai, Getting this right, says the search. ing youngster,”says Gupta. CONTINUEDONPAGE2

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In Delhi, the talkswill involve Pompeo, Forinstance, as againstthe general ex- Signal to China, Quad navies to sail together inefficient, Uddhav US Defence SecretaryMarkEsper and their pectation globallythat the massive demand Indian counterparts,External Affairs shockfromthe pandemic would over- hits back MinisterSJaishankar and Defence Minister shadowany supplyshockand would there- Since 2017,the year Quad wasrevived, been working to finalise the pact. to replenish from the other’s bases. Rajnath Singh. Pompeo's stop in Colombo fore be disinflationary, the oppositehas Malabarhadbeenatrilateralexerciseinvolv- Thisisoneof thelastofthefoundational These pactstie in well with the Malabar Fadnavis, who is the BJP in charge for later comes amid US and Indian concerns happenedinIndia. While CPI inflation has ing the navies of US, India and Japan. It in- agreements,andlargely pertainsto geo-spa- Exercise, since India has signedversions of Bihar elections, rushedbacktoMaharashtra at China's stepped-up engagement with the consistentlysurgedfromjustover6per cludes simulated wargames and combat tial intelligence, sharing information on LEMOAwith all Quad countries. on Monday. government of recentlyelected Prime cent in in June to nearly 7per cent in each manoeuvres. Lastyear,itwas held in maps and satelliteimages fordefence pur- Confirming the Malabar Exercise, a “Thereisalot of unrestamong public. The MinisterMahinda Rajapaksa and his of the three months between Julyand September offthe coastofJapan, and in- poses. The US had submitted adraft pact, MinistryofDefencestatementMondaysaid: stategovernment is inefficient and the NCP brother,President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. September,some of it ledbyfood inflation, cludedcomplexmaritimeoperationsinsur- andIndiahadsoughtmoredetailsontheex- “AsIndiaSeekstoincreasecooperationwith chief has to defend it,” said the former CM Earlier this month, ahigh-profile theunexpectedtrend is the rise in corein- face,sub-surfaceandairdomains,withfocus tentof informationneededtobesharedun- othercountriesinthemaritimesecuritydo- during his visit to Pune district. Chinese delegation ledbyYang Jeichi, for- flation -- non-food, no fuel inflation -- dur- on anti-submarine warfare, anti-air and der this arrangement. “It’s come down to main and in the light of increaseddefence “Therehas been heavy damagetocrops mer foreign minister, CommunistParty ing aperiod when GDP growth is settoreg- anti-surface firings, maritime interdiction dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s now,”a cooperation with Australia, Malabar 2020 in flood-affected areas. The government Politburomember and head of the Central isterarecordcontraction. operations (MIO) including Visit Board source told The Indian Express Monday. will see the participation of the Australian should immediatelyprovide financial assis- Foreign Affairs Commission, had visited Whilemuchofthe worldisseeing be- Search and Seizure(VBSS) and tactical sce- Even if BECAisnot signed, the twosides Navy.” tance to farmers... instead of waiting forthe Colombo. Following discussions with the nign inflation trends, India is aclear excep- nario-basedexercises at sea. arelikelytoannounce conclusion of the “Thisyear,theexercisehasbeenplanned panchnama to be completed,” he told me- delegation, Gotabaya Rajapaksa had said tion. Among the drivers of headline infla- The fast-tracking of work on BECAand agreement during the visit, the source said. on a‘non-contact-at sea’ format. The exer- diapersons. that the twosides would restartnegotia- tion in India in recent months has been food the decision of the four Quad countries to In September 2018,after the first2+2 di- cise will strengthen the coordination be- On Thackeray and Pawarsaying the state tions forafreetrade agreement, and aim to prices, especiallythose of vegetables. Also, participateinthe Malabar Exercise areper- aloguebetweenthetwocountries–thethen tweentheNaviesof theparticipatingcoun- will seek financial assistance from the Union complete the Colombo Port City and other the frequent rounds of hikes in excise du- ceivedtobeastrategicsignalto anaggressive ExternalAffairsMinisterSushmaSwaraj and tries,” the statement said. government, Fadnavis said, “It is the prime projects quickly. He also said he wanted a ties on fuel, thrice in the lastone year,cou- China whichExternal Affairs MinisterS Defence MinisterNirmala Sitharaman met “The participantsofExercise Malabar responsibility of the stategovernment to China-style development forSri Lanka. pledwith increase in statelevies of sales Jaishankar described lastweek as a “critical visiting US counterparts SecretaryofState 2020areengagingto enhancesafetyandse- provide immediatehelp to the affected Meanwhile, a$480million US develop- tax/VAT,are having apass-through effect securitychallenge”attheborder.Indianand MichaelRPompeoandSecretaryofDefence curityinthemaritimedomain.Theycollec- farmers. It is improper to always put the ball ment assistance fund forSri Lanka, through on the retail inflation. Chinese troops have been in amilitary JamesMattis--thetwosideshadsignedthe tively supportfree,openandinclusive Indo- in the courtofthe Centre, whichwill defi- Millenium ChallengeCorporation (MCC), But, the collapse in demand since March standoffalong the Ladakh frontier since CommunicationsCompatibilityandSecurity Pacific and remain committed to a nitelyprovide help aftercompleting the pro- an aid agency setupbythe US Congress, is should have ideallytriggered adropincore early May. Agreement (COMCASA) whichpaved the rules-basedinternational order,” the state- cedurefor it.” gathering dust. The funding wasmeant for inflation -- price levels in non-food and USSecretaryofState MichaelRPompeo wayfor transfer of communication security ment said. “When it comes to providing help, the atransportproject and an agricultural proj- non-fuel items. In the latestprint for and SecretaryofDefense MarkTEsper are equipment from the US to India to facilitate Responding to this announcement, stateisciting procedure. At the same time, ect, but nevergot offthe ground amid po- September,though coreinflation softened expected to come to India forthe 2+2 min- “interoperability”betweentheirforces--and Australian Foreign MinisterMarise Payne it is also holding the Centreresponsible for litical opposition to the previous govern- marginallyto5.67per cent from 5.77per isterialmeetingwithJaishankarandDefence potentiallywithothermilitariesthatuseUS- said, “Following an invitation from India, notproviding help. Whythis double stan- ment's plan to renewa1995 Status of cent in August, it continuedtostayabove 5 MinisterRajnath Singh on October 26-27. origin systems forsecured datalinks. AustraliawillparticipateinExerciseMalabar dard?” he asked. Forces Agreement (SOFA) with the US. per cent forthe fifthconsecutive month. Sources said that ever since February, Earlier,inAugust2016, India and the US 2020. The exercise will bring together four “Prime MinisterNarendraModi has per- Pompeo, who lashedout at China at the The mostcompelling explanation of- when Trumpvisited India and the joint signedthe Logistics Exchange keyregional defence partners: India, the sonallycalledChief MinisterUddhav recent Quad meeting in Japan, blaming it feredbyeconomists is the disruption in statement underlined “early conclusion” of Memorandum of Agreement (LEMOA), United States, Japan and Australia in Thackeray and reassured all help. Nobody forthe tensions in the Indo-Pacific and at supplychains post-March.Evenafter the BECA, negotiators from the twosides have whichallows the militaryofeachcountry November 2020,” she said. had approachedthe Centre(from the state). the LACwith India, as well forthe coron- national lockdown waslifted, the local lock- Butthe PM took cognizance of the gravesit- avirus, will aim to revive the stalledproj- downs have impacted the supplychains uation,” Fadnavis said. ectsunder the MCC, sources said. But there that ensuregoods aretransportedthrough- PLA soldier strays across LAC, Army says will return him “NCPpresident Sharad Pawarhas been a maybeapushback, theysaid. out the country. The severedlinkscreated Union minister. He understands the proce- Pompeo's visit to Maldiveswill be eas- shortages, adding to prices across the board. missing soldier “and hopedthat the Indian aftermedical examination”. leveltalksand multiple rounds of diplo- dure... acentral team firstvisitstoassess the ier.The twocountries recentlysigneda The repeated local lockdowns in states side would assistinsearch and rescue”. The incident comes at atime when matic talkshavebeen held as partofef- situation and then submitsareport. Based “Framework foraDefence and Security addedtouncertainties forbusiness and India, the PLAsaid, “notifiedthe India and China have stationedaround fortstoresolve the situation. With the on the report, the Centreprovides financial Relationship”. The US Department of forced curtailmentsintheir supplychains - Chinese side that amissing person from 50,000 soldiers eachalong the Ladakh mercuryplunging, troops on either side aid... Yet, theywant quickrelief from the Defence said the agreement wasintended -impacting rawmaterials, intermediate the Chinese side had been found and frontier as partofthe militarystandoff. arebracing forextendeddeployment Centre...,” he said. “to deepen engagement and cooperation in goods, final products. would be handedovertothe Chinese side Sevenrounds of Corps Commander- through the harsh winter months. Fadnavis further said that the previous supportofmaintaining peace and security Whilereal GDP in India is projected to government headedbyhim had provided in the Indian Ocean, and marks an impor- contract in 2020-21under the baseline sce- immediatehelp to farmers during the floods tant step forward" in the partnership be- nario, reflecting both demand and supply zeroper cent chance of the LJP going with in their joint names with Jammu and pandemic and aneedfor amoral and fair lastyear and usedcellphone photographs as tween the twocountries. shocks,consumer price inflation remain- the RJD under anycondition.” Kashmir Bank Ltd. and crores of rupees of leader. “Ifeel so deeplythat this country proof to assess the damage. He claimedthat MaldivesDefence MinisterMariyaDidi ing elevatedpointstothe fact that supply While welcoming the fact that funds belonging to JKCA were transferred needs to be aplace to represent opportu- this time, it wasonlyafter he declared his in- said the agreement would add “immense bottlenecksare outweighing the softening “Tejashwi stands by us in time of our grief”, intothis joint bank account and these funds nity in the world,” said Biden's Chief tention to tour the affected areas that state value to the excellent US-Maldivespartner- impact expected from weaker demand. Khalique added, “Howabout his party's be- were either withdrawnincash or trans- Financial Officer Saloni Multani to The ministers rushedtothe districtstoassess the ship definedbyshared principles &inter- These “counterintuitive inflation dynam- haviourtowards our leader in the past? It ferred to other bank accounts... In... 2009, Indian Express. “Ilook at my young girls and damage. ests in peace &security of the Indo-Pacific ics”, the ReserveBank of India said in itslat- wasthe RJD that had usedthe pejorative Mirza waselected as Treasurer of JKCA with Ihope that that foundational partof While Pawarhad startedtouring the &IOR amid rising threatslikepiracy &ter- estMPC report, “have complicated the adjective ‘weather vane’ forour leader Ram Dr Farooq Abdullah and Saleem Khan, were America remains. That is on the ballot. We flood-affected districtsonSunday, Fadnavis rorism”. India, competing with China to macroeconomic outlook”. Vilas Paswan... Tejashwi's fake sympathy elected as President and General Secretary needafunctioning democracy forgenera- visited Baramati, Pune and Solapur districts keep itsinfluence in itsneighbourhood, had can hurtusand help Nitish.” of JKCA,respectively.Inthe JKCA elections tions to come.” on Monday. said it supports defence cooperation be- Digital health ID held in year 2011,‘Ahsan Ahmad Mirza’ was With Biden's leads in national polls, all Thackeray,who visited Solapur on tween the Maldivesand the US. this is because therecould be twoorthree JKCA case elected as the General SecretaryofJKCAand conventional political understanding says Monday, hit back, saying: “The leader of doses, and population groups mustbefol- Gupkar Declaration condemnedthe Dr.Farooq Abdullah waselected as he should win. But, the landscape feels like Opposition is aresponsible leader.Heshould Covid puzzles lowedaccurately. Centre's “vindictive politics” and “witch President of JKCA.Investigation under deja vu forpunditswho remember former give priority to the crisis in staterather than The reverse seems to have happened, the The Prime MinisterunderlinedIndia’s hunt”, and said that it had been “unnerved” PMLArevealedthat during this entirepe- Democratic nominee HillaryClinton's poll- the Bihar elections. In this situation, we CMIE estimates suggest. The unusual trend global reputation on vaccine manufactur- by the coming together of Kashmir's par- riod, funds of JKCA were continuouslylaun- lead in the run-up to the 2016 election. An should all reachout to the Union govern- is explainedbyarural-urban disaggrega- ing. “Beyond Covid too, India is known for ties. It alleged the action wasintended “to dered,” the ED said in itsstatement. NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll had ment forfinancial help forthe farmers.” tion of the data: rural India is seeing an in- itsprovencapacity to produce vaccines at a kill dissent” across the countryand to “si- In achargesheetfiledinJuly2018, the Clinton at +10percentagepointsover On Fadnavis saying that stateministers crease in jobs while employment in urban lowcost. Morethan 60 per cent of the vac- lence the genuine demand forreversal of CBI had alleged that Farooq had connived Trumpbackthen. The same poll has +11for startedtouring affected areas onlyafter he India is on aslide. cines forglobal immunisation arebeing unilateral and unconstitutional decisions with the treasurer of JKCA and others for Biden now. Poll aggregation done by data announcedhis plans to do the same, Forpolicy makers, therecould be two manufactured in India. We includedthe in- of 5th August, 2019”. misappropriation of funds. The CBI had analytics outletFiveThirtyEight has Biden Thackeray said, “The Opposition leader is significant takeaways:while labour data digenous Rotavirus vaccine in our This is the second time that Farooq chargedFarooq and three others under at +10.6. campaigning forhis party in Bihar elections. shows arecovery in employment, the qual- Indradhanush immunisation programme. Abdullah has been questionedinthis case provisions of the Ranbir Penal Code related “Still, Trumphas ameaningful chance He should go to Delhi to getassistance for ity of recovery is aproblem —inother This is asuccessful example of astrong – the firsttime wasinChandigarh, before to criminal conspiracy and criminal breach per our forecast—alittle worse than the the statefromthe Centre.” words, better quality and higher paying partnership forlong-lasting results. The J&K wasstrippedofits special status and of trust. chances of rolling a1onasix-sideddie and Without naming Fadnavis, Thackeray jobs in urban areas arebeing lostand sub- Gates Foundation has also been apartof Farooq washimself put under detention. The CBI chargesheetcame weeksafter alittle better than the chances that it's rain- said, "If he (Fadnavis) goes to Delhi instead stituted by lower-paid rural jobs. And this this effort,” he said. Farooq had deniedthe allegations the BJP pulledits supporttothe PDP-led ing in downtownLos Angeles. And remem- of Bihar,the PM will also come out of his pointstothe fact that areversal of migra- “With India’s experience and research againsthim at the time. “Ihavedone no coalition government in the state. The CBI ber, it does rain there,” reads an analysis by home." This wasinresponse to the BJP's al- tion backtothe cities is nothappening to talent, we will be at the centreofglobal wrong. Iamopen to investigation. Ihave had takenoverthe case from the statepo- FiveThirtyEight. legations that he wasnot going on the field the extent that it should have. health careefforts.Wewant to help other recordedmystatement today. The matter is lice in 2015 on orders of the Jammu and In American political punditry, national to take stockofthe situation. In September,according to CMIE, while nations, enhance their capacities, in these sub judice and Ihavefull faith in the judici- Kashmir High Court. polls have to be understood alongside state- "I have been constantlymonitoring the overall employment increasedby5.1 mil- sectors.” aryofthe country,”hehad said. In atweet on Monday, PDP chief leveldynamics. The Electoral Collegesys- situation arising out of excess rain, Ihave lion from 392.5 million to 397.6million, un- Disease, Modi said, does notdiscrimi- The ED's case is basedonanFIR by the Mehbooba Mufti said: “ED’s sudden sum- temgives eachstate adesignated number been in touchwith officials and regularly get- employment declined by 7.3million from nateongrounds of religion or race, and the CBI, whichhas already chargesheeted mon to Farooq sahab displays the extent of of electoral votes that go to the candidate ting latestupdates. Ihavecome heretoday 35.7 million to 28.4 million. The greater global community mustfight it together. Farooq forallegedly siphoning offRs43 GOI's nervousness about mainstream par- who wins the popular voteinthat state. to assurethe farmers that the government margin of the fall indicates that while many “..It has takenaglobal pandemic to make crorefromgrantsgiven by BCCI to JKCA.The ties in J&K fighting as one unit. Also reeks is withthem...I willbevisiting the affected unemployedpersons found jobs, others ex- us realise, yetagain, the importance of funds were allegedly diverted between of political vendetta&won't in the least IPL areas on Tuesdayand Wednesdayaswell," ited the market,leading to the labour force teamwork.After all, disease does nothave 2002 and 2011,when Farooq wasJKCA blunt our collective resolve to fight forour everyhigh adifferent echo. he said. shrinking by 2.2 million from 428.3 million geographic boundaries; disease does not president. rights.” “During the CSK vs SRH match, we in- The chief ministeradded, “Iwill notmake in Augustto426 million in September. discriminateonthe grounds of faith, race, In February, ED had attachedassets Former BJP allyand People's Conference troducedthe 'Go RavindraJadeja' chant. mereannouncementsbut will actuallypro- Disaggregated datashowthat in rural gender,orcolour,” he said. worthRs2.6 crorebelonging to twoac- leader Sajjad Lone tweeted: “What asorry The idea is to keep creating chantsaswego vide financial assistance to farmers. We have India, employment increasedby7.4 million cusedinthe case, Ahsan Ahmad Mirza and stateofaffairs. Dr Farooq sahib summoned along and players starttodowell,” he says. already startedproviding assistance to those and unemployment declinedbyalittle over Tejashwi Mir Manzoor Gazanffer. In astatement by ED. Reeksofvendetta. Contrarytowhat Afterthe Mumbai vs Chennai game, who losttheir familymembers in the tor- 5million, pointing to apost-harvest-ledin- been doing his job. My entirefocus is on the then, the ED had said that itsinvestigation theywant to coercively achieve this will Australian star Shane Watson had this to rential rain. The financial assistance forcrop crease in economic activity.Atthe same current CM and to ensurethat he does not had found that during 2005-06to2011-12 certainlyhavethe oppositeimpact.” say: “as close to normal as possible... loss would be givenassoon as the panch- time, employment in urban India declined return to the post.” (up to December 2011)JKCAreceivedRs Farooq's son and former Chief Minister Something as simple as howthe speakers in nama is completed...” by 2.3 million and unemployment by 2.3 Asked about Tejashwi's remarks,RJD 94.06crore from BCCI in itsthree bank ac- Omar Abdullah tweeted: “...This is nothing the stadium were able to have the white Thackeray said he was “convinced” that million. As aresult, the labour forcewas re- spokesperson MrityunjayTewari said they counts, but the funds were transferredinto less then political vendettacoming days af- noise. The cheering and chanting, for PrimeMinisterNarendraModi will extend ducedby4.6 million in towns and cities in were on the same side againstthe JD(U). severalother accountsthat were openedin terthe formation of the People’s Alliance Mumbai and CSK and particular players. It all possible supportfor the flood-affected September —amonthlyfall in the labour “Tejashwiji and Chiragji areyoung leaders the name of JKCA.These accountsalong forGupkar Declaration. To setthe record reallydid createmoreofanatmosphere people of Maharashtra. “On Friday, the PM forceof3.3 per cent that is the highestsince and have been raising valid pointsagainst with the existing bank accounts, were later straight no raids arebeing conducted at Dr compared to what Iwas expecting.” calledmeand told me nottoworry,(he said) the meltdown month of April 2020. the Nitish government. Our leader has ex- usedfor laundering funds, the ED had al- Sahib’s residence.” According to Gupta,the broadcasters 'if necessary, we will extend all possible This is qualifiedbysurveysdone by pressedsolidarity with the LJP leader as leged. had to build alibraryofambient scorefrom help'... what is wrong in seeking help from CMIE up to August, whichhaveshown that theyare on the same pageonattacking the “...Ahsan Ahmad Mirza transferredhuge US election scratch. the Centre,” the CM told mediapersons after the biggestlosses in employment arein current government.” amount intohis personal bank accounts in amemo shared with his party campaign “We formedasound bank.Werecorded visiting flood-affected villages in Solapur. quality jobs —salariedemployment. RJD leaders said that while Chirag and then these amountswerefurther trans- mailing listonSunday. the sound again in astudio. We could not Stating that his government understands Salariedjobs typicallyoffer better terms of Paswan's supportbase is limited,hehas ferred /paid or withdrawnincash. Out of Republicans have attempted to keep the use the actual game sound because it has farmers' pain, he added, "The farmers have employment and wages, and households giventhe Opposition ahandle to target thelaundered amounts, Rs. 1.31 crorewas narrative on “lawand order”, painting this toomanythings likefireworks,cheerlead- tears in their eyes. Rather than asking us for with salariedjobs arebetterplacedtobuild Nitish. receivedbyMir Manzoor Gazanffer, who summer's BlackLives Matters protests as ers, songs playing in the stadium. Thereare help, thereisaneedfor us to do something savings and plan asustainedimprovement LJP principal general secretaryAbdul wasmember of aFinance Committee of violence endorsedbyBiden. Morerecently, various layers of sound, the firstisthe sta- forthem. Understanding their pain and tak- in standardofliving. Suchhouseholds are Khalique, however, dismissedany chance JKCA,between year 2006 to 2009, which in the debates and town halls, the campaign dium ambience. Thereisanother sound, ing careoftheir needs is very important at also better placedtoborrowand service of the party coming together with the RJD. wasarbitrarilyconstituted by Dr Farooq has emphasisedBiden's taxplans. “Hello...,” whichisaddedtothe moment, likefor asix this juncture." their borrowing because of the steady na- “SinceTejashwi is sensing upper-caste Abdullah, the then President of JKCA,” the aTrumpcampaign mass text messageread. or four.The mostinteresting sound is inter- WITHINPUTSFROMENSMUMBAI tureoftheir earnings. Going forward, this consolidation in our favour,heistrying to ED said. “Biden will raise taxes. That's it, that's the active audio, likewhen Dhoni hitsasix and could have an impact on consumption createconfusion in the minds of voters,” According to the ED, Mirza and text.” we hear the Dhoni chant. It's to do with the FULLREPORTSON trends and the recovery process in India. Khalique said. “Letmeclarify that thereis Gazanffer “openedapersonal bank account Democratshavetriedtofocus on the situation of the match,” he says. www.indianexpress.com

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Mulnivasi Muslim Manch RaindamagetostandingcropinNashik opposes PMC move to shift Naidu hospital’s districtcausessteepriseinonionprices location to Baner Price rise likely struction of kharif crop in over forits treatment of infec- Karnataka due to heavy rain in EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE tious diseases. to continue due September wasthe main reason PUNE,OCTOBER19 "The hospital has ahistory of forthe price rise. 120years of providing public to significant Deshmukh and other EVEN AS the PMC has proposed health services. It playedacrucial traders said while the present to shiftNaidu Hospital from its role in containing the plague epi- delayinarrival of price hikewould continue till existing location at Raja Bahadur demic in the past. It has been do- the end of November,the arrival Mill to Baner,the Mulnivasi ing an excellent job in the current newkharif crop of the newkharif crop wasex- Muslim Manchhas opposedthe pandemic," he said, alleging that pected to be delayed. civic body'smove, saying the some politicianswere"conspir- PARTHASARATHI Since the pasttwo days, hospital has served poor slum ing" to move the hospital away BISWAS Nashik has reportedheavy rain residentsfor years in the heartof from the heartofthe city. PUNE,OCTOBER19 that has damaged the standing the city. He also said the PMC should onion crop in the district. The PMC-run hospital has a setupthe proposedmedical col- ONION PRICES across whole- "Farmers from Kalwan, long historyas it has existedfrom legewithin the 28-acrepremises, sale marketsinNashik have Malegaon have reportedheavy the pre-independence eraand but should notshiftits location. recordedasteep rise as reports losses to crop that wastobe playedacrucial role in treatment The Manchhas made an ap- of extensive damagetothe harvestedinthe next fewdays," of patientssuffering from infec- peal to corporators from all po- standing crop have started Deshmukh said, adding that the tious diseases. Representativesof litical parties to oppose anymove coming in. Market sources said crop would nowarrivetowards the ManchonMondayheld to move the hospital to Baner. the price rise will continue for the end of November or early demonstrations outside the col- Municipal Commissioner thedays to come as the arrival December. lector's office and submitted a Vikram Kumar recentlysaid of the next kharif crop would be In the run-up to Diwali, memorandum demanding that therewerediscussions on mov- significantlydelayed. onion prices areexpected to the PMC mustnot be allowedto ing the hospital to Baner,soasto On Monday, onion markets rallyfurther as demand from to shiftthe hospital's location construct amedical collegeon across Nashik district witnessed north Indian marketslikeDelhi from the heartofthe city. the same site. The PMC has com- abullrun that took them by sur- and Punjab is expected to fur- In itsmemorandum, Manch pletedmostofthe administrative prise. The averagetradedprice ther rise. "Weexpect onion president Anjum Inamdar said process forsetting up amedical of the bulb in mostmarketswas prices to cross Rs 100per kg thehospital wasknown world college. around Rs 5,600toRs5,700per markinsome time," quintal. Suresh Deshmukh, a traders said. commission agentoperating Samartha, the son of onion vendor Hanumant Pujari, attends an online class on his father’s mobile phone, at a mandai Unavailability of imported out of Dindori Mandi in Nashik in Pune on Monday. Ashish Kale onions has also hit the domes- district, said farmers were hold- tic markets. The fewcontainers ing ontostoredonions in hope from Iran arriving at the forfurther price escalation. who hinted at indefiniteclosure Escalating onion prices have earlier in the year even as the from the purviewofthe Act, on Mumbai portare headed "Arrivals have tanked and the of their market following raids caught the government's atten- central government amended September 22. Ban on exports straight to south Indian mar- demand-supplymismatchhas by income taxofficials, were tion with severalmeasures be- the Essential Commodities Act, did nothaveadesired effect as kets, wheretheyare mainly pushedupprices," he said. also backinbusiness on ing put in place to control the 1955, to delink onions, potatoes, prices continue to rise with usedbyhotels and catering Traders from Lasalgaon, Monday. same. Exports were banned pulses, oilseeds, and edible oil market sources saying the de- sectors. Published between Uddhav govt denotifies land reserved for 1832 and 1900, rare Nanar refinery, wants to set up pharma city joint venturebetween Ratnagiri in Raigad were renotifiedbyhis minimum investment expected collection of 24 VISHWASWAGHMODE Refineryand Petrochemical department as an industrial area is Rs 30,000 crore. “If the Centre MUMBAI,OCTOBER19 Limited (RRPCL) and apartner- on October 8. This wasthe same approves the stategovernment’s ship between the Saudi-owned land whereFadnavis plannedto Bulk DrugsParkproposal, then it Marathi books digitised IN Amovethat will further push Aramco and UAE’s National Oil build the refinery. “The land is will provide Rs 1,000 croreasin- theRs3lakhcroreRatnagirirefin- Company. The government had nowbeing notifiedasanindus- frastructurecostand the remain- eryand petrochemical project initiated the process of land sur- trial area forindustrial projects. A ing costwill be borne by the state According to RajendraSutar, intocold storage, the Uddhav veywhenitwasshelvedsuddenly pharmaceuticalparkwillcomeup government,” said the official. He EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE honorarysecretaryofthe library, Thackeray-ledstate government before the Lok Sabha elections in in this industrial area,” Desai said. addedthat the pharmaceutical PUNE,OCTOBER19 the RajyaMarathi Vikas Sanstha hasdenotifiedthe19,146-hectare 2019 over “environmental con- Asked what would happen to citywouldbecompletely environ- had held aworkshop in Thane in landreservedinRaigaddistrictby cerns” expressedbythe Sena. therefinery, Desaisaidtheproject ment friendly. While 800acres is AT RAJGURUNAGAR Public February2018, proposing to un- the previous DevendraFadnavis- InJanuary2019,thethengov- wasnot apriorityforthestategov- government land, locals have Library, ararecollection of 24 dertake aproject to digitise ledgovernment forthe megaoil ernment had notified19,146 ernment. Government officials givenconsent foracquisition of Marathi books, publishedbe- archival material from libraries refinery. Sources said the land is hectaresof landinRaigadasanin- said2,000hectaresisrequiredfor 700acres.TheMIDCplansto com- tween 1832 and 1900,has been that were over a100 years old, nowbeing ‘renotified’ forsetting tegrated industrial cluster. In settingupthepharmaceuticalcity, plete thelandacquisitionprocess digitisedand made available on across the state. "Thereare atotal up an integrated pharmaceutical September 2019,the then chief whichwould be referred by the in the next two-three months. Wikimedia Commons, to be eas- of 87 suchlibraries, and our li- city in Raigad. ministerDevendraFadnavisonce CentreasBulk Drugs Park as part The Bulk Drugs Park will pro- ilyaccessedbyscholarsandread- brary…has become the firstone TheShivSenahasbeenaverse again said the stategovernment of AtmaNirbharBharat,andmore duce basic rawmaterials suchas ers across India and abroad. The to participateintheproject,"Sutar to the oil refineryproject coming waskeen on building Asia’s landinRaigadwouldberenotified BulkDrugs(Key StartingMaterials project wasundertakenwith said. In the workshop, patrons up in Konkan. The facility,which biggestandfirstgreenoilrefinery soon. The Centreisgoing to ap- (KSMs)/DrugIntermediates(DIs) funding from the Rajya were taught about proper careof wastocome up at Nanar,was in Konkan. provethree suchparksacross the and Active Pharmaceutical Marathi Vikas Sanstha, agovern- oldanddelicatebooks.Education cleared by the Centreand state StateIndustries Minister countryand the stateishopingto Ingredients(APIs)) that areused ment undertaking. instituteVignyanAshram (in government in December 2015, Subhash Desai told The Indian getanapprovalforitsproposal,an to produceessentialmedicines.It The librarywas establishedin Pabal) helpedthe libraryinthe and wastopass through land Express that the entire 19,146- official said. willboost domestic manufactur- 1862as'GeneralNative Library'by digitisation process. Pupils were spread across 17 villages in hectareland has been denotified AnMIDCofficialsaidtheinfra- ingof 53bulkdrugs,forwhichthe local social activists,who pooled trainedtoscanpagesof thebooks, Ratnagiri and Sindhudurgdis- and 1,652 hectares in the 16 vil- structurecostofthe pharmaceu- countryiscriticallydependenton togetherreligioustextsandbooks and to handle them with care. tricts.Itwastocomeupasa50:50 lages in Roha and Murud tehsils tical city is Rs 2,500crore and the imports. thatwere available.Withtime,the Scannedpages were also numberofreader-memberswent processedthrough optical char- up,andthelibraryaccumulateda acterrecognition.Thebookswere richheritageofbooksandperiod- thus converted intouni-code, so Arrested for trying to steal steel, icals.Aspartofthepilotprojectfor researchers can read them easily. the digitisation of the archival Yogesh Kulkarni, who repre- Marathi content, atotal of 24 sentsthe VignyanAshram, said, man doesitagain when out on bail bookswith about 6,300pages "Thegirlswhoareapartofthisor- restedonOctober11 fromMorshi Express."Thetruck,valuedatRs6- were digitised. ganisation were also familiarised VIVEKDESHPANDE towninAmravatidistrictafterthe 7lakh, wascarrying steel worth The digitisedbooks(that can withthetechnology.Theyhelped NAGPUR,OCTOBER19 truckwas stolen from hereon Rs7.5lakhthatbelongsto atrader be accessedunder the 'Booksin these booksgodigital." October9.Hewasthenremanded here,” he added. Marathi' section on Wikimedia SubodhKulkarni,programme AMAN,who wasarrestedon in police custody till October 15. Asked howthe suspect could Commons) include rare books officer of the project, said, "The October 11 forstealing atruck The truckwas kept in front of the managetostealthetruck,Hiware suchasDeshi Hunnar (Industrial booksbeing digitisedare difficult ladenwithsteel,managedto steal policestation.OnMondaymorn- said,"Itwasonoldtruckandcould Crafts in India), VidhwaVivah to find.Withthisproject,ithasbe- it again on Mondayafter his re- ing, around 5.30 am, he ranaway be startedmechanicallywithout (whichsummarises arguments comeeasierforeveryoneto search lease on bail, from near the police withthetruckagain,.We arelook- usingkeys. We had told the com- forwidowremarriage), and a forthem,andstudentsofMarathi, stationwhereithadbeenparked. ing forhim," Police Inspector plainant,thetruckowner,tokeep translationof Berquin'sChildren's as well as laureates and re- "Thethief,SanjayDhone,who NarendraHiwareofLakadganj aguard nearthetruck.Butappar- Books, among others. searchers,cannowperusethem." is around 50 years old, wasar- police station told The Indian entlyitwasn't done."

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Lawyer missing BRIEFLY since October 1 Higherseveritylengthenspost-Covid Corpsof murdered, MilitaryPolice three arrested: recoverytimeinsomepatients:doctors mark81st Pune police RaisingDay

EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE ANURADHA Pune:TheCorpsof Military PUNE,OCTOBER19 MASCARENHAS INNUMBERS Withdeclinein Police markedtheir 81st PUNE,OCTOBER19 Covid-19patients, Raising DayonMonday. LAWYER UMESH The Corps have playeda Chandrashekhar More, who has PATIENTS OF coronavirus infec- 42 containment major role in all wars beenmissingsinceOctober1, has tion (Covid-19) in the moderate fought by India. Astate- been murdered,Pune City Police to severe categoryare taking Covid-19deaths reportedin zonesinPMC ment issuedbySouthern said on Monday. alonger time to recover. Pune on Monday. areasdownto33 Command stated, Policehave arrestedthreeper- Complaintsofpost-Covid fa- “...Lieutenant General CP sons, including alawyer, in con- tigue and anxiety arecommon Pune: ThePuneMunicipal Mohanty,General Officer nection with the case. Theywere among those who were in home 7,491 Corporation (PMC) revised Commanding-in-Chief, identifiedasKapil Vilas Phalke quarantine or had mild symp- Death toll so farinthe the number of contain- SouthernCommand,com- (34),DeepakShivajiVandekar(28) toms, while patientswho have district. ment zones on Monday. plimented all ranksofthe and alawyer, Rohit Dattatraya had alonger hospital stay face Thereare now33zones in Corps of MilitaryPolice for Shende (32). other challenges likeextended the city afterthe civic ad- living up to their motto, Shendeisaccusedinabribery needfor oxygen due to lung 549 ministration deleted33 ‘Seva TathaSahayata....”ENS caselinkedto alanddeallitigation damage, and counselling. Covid-19cases reportedin zones from the previous registeredwith the Bund garden Dr Kapil Zirpe, in charge of the district on Monday. listand added11new ones. police station in 2018,and More the neurotrauma intensive care Municipal Southern wasthe complainant, said police. unit and isolation facility at Commissioner Vikram Commandto Police suspect that following Ruby Hall, said that the problem 3,15,011 Kumar declared the new anearlierdispute,Shendeandtwo is usuallyrelated to patients Totalcases reportedinthe containment zones based holdonline other accused, Phalkeand who have had moderatetose- district so far. on the Covid-19situation Vandekar,kidnappedand mur- vere form of Covid-19. “These in the city over the competition deredMore.PoliceCommissioner patientshavehad alonger stay pasttwo weeks. On Amitabh Gupta said the accused in the hospital, been sedated if physician at RaoNursing Home, October 5, the PMC had Pune: The Southern were arrested on Sunday. The theywereonventilation and said thereare severalyoung pa- reducedcontainment Command,headquartered courthas remandedthem to po- also face loneliness as theywere tientswho, afterrecovering zones from 71 to 59. in Pune, is organising an lice custody till October 22. in isolation. Post discharge,they Asanitiser stand partlysubmergedinrainwater, at Model ColonyinPune on Monday. Arul Horizon from Covid-19, sufferweight The zones nowinclude onlinecompetitionforslo- Morehad been practicing in requireoxygensupportathome loss and fatigue and areunable five in Hadapsar- ganwriting,videomaking, the Shivajinagar courtfor the last and it takesatleasttwo to six to do routine activities. “Theyare Mundhwa, four eachin photographyandpainting, fewyears. According to his fam- months forthem to recover. The problems and shortness of deep breathing exercises aread- foranti-clotting drugs and nutri- unhappywith their post-Covid Dhankawadi- under the theme ‘Indian ily, he went to the courtasusual good news is that with ahealthy breath. Those who have co-mor- vised,” said Dr Gaikwad. tion supportisessential,” he said. recovery and hence getanx- Sahakarnagar,Nagarroad- Army: ASymbol of Unity on October 1, but did notreturn diet, plenty of rest,counselling bid conditions arealso affected,” Doctors also said that there Dr Pradeep D’Costa,chief in- ious,” said Dr Kolge. Vadgaonsheri and inDiversity’.Entriesforthe home. His familyinitiallylodged and avoiding exertion, the re- said Dr Salunkhe. arecomplications related to the tensivistatKEM Hospital, said Doctors advisedthat with Kothrud-Bavdhan, three contestcanbesentto their amissing reportwith Pune city coveredpatient can be better At BJMedical Collegeand heart, lung, intestines, brain and thereare patientswho have re- proper post-Covid manage- zones eachinKasba- Facebook page, or at scon- police.Then,basedonacomplaint managed,” said Dr Zirpe, who is Sassoon General Hospital, kidneydue to Covid-19. coveredfromCovid-19who ment, the recovery time is usu- Vishrambaugwada, [email protected],and filedbyUmesh'sbrotherPrashant amember of the Pune city whichconductsapost-Covid According to Dr Shashank maystill requireoxygenation. allyone to three months. Wanowrie-Ramtekdi and have been openedfrom More, an offence of kidnapping Covid task force. OPD, doctors saythereisagreat Joshi, amember of the state This is basedonthe severity of Dr Shivakumar Iyer,chief in- Kondhwa-Yeolewadi, two October 19,and will close under Section 365 of the Indian According to Dr Subhash deal of weakness among recov- Covid task force, thereare sys- the disease and if the patients tensivistatBharati Hospital, said in Sinhagad Road and one on December 10.-ENS PenalCode(IPC)waslodgedatthe Salunkhe, chairman of the ered patients. temic Covid-related issues or have had to undergo acompli- guidelines have been prepared eachinBhavanipeth, Shivajinagar police station. stateCommunicable Diseases Dr SanjayGaikwad, head of lung-related problems post cated course of medication, formanaging post-Covid mani- Dhole-Patil, Bibewadi, PMCsetsup Police said the accusedhave Prevention and Control the Department of Pulmonary Covid-19. “The commonest steroids and others, said Dr festations, mostcommonlythe Yerawada-Kalas-Dhanori confessedtokidnapping and Technical Committee and one of Medicine at BJMedical College, complaint is fatigue but nowwe D'Costa. “We areseeing patients Covidfatigue syndrome. “There and Warje-Karvenagar. teamtosurvey killing More. Theyaddedthat the the keymembers managing the said theyhaveseen at least60- areseeing an entirespectrum of with manifestations of neuro- areasmaller number of patients According to the PMC, accusedstrangulatedMore,burnt pandemic in Pune, thereisadis- 70 patientswho have recovered. the disease. Lung fibrosis is a logical and psychiatric prob- with lung fibrosis, and patients the newzones will be slumsforMetro hisbodyanddumpedtheremains tinct loss of vigour and energy “We checktheir X-Rays after cause of concern... the main ele- lems. Afterdischarge,some are who requirehome oxygen ther- sealedand roads in the rehabilitationplan in Tamhini Ghat area. among patientswho have re- theytestnegative forCovid-19, mentsnow would be pul- unable to walk properly or move apy, and we have been assuring area barricadedtoprevent Theyhadalsoallegedly placed coveredfromthe disease. conduct asix-minutewalk test, monaryrehabilitation, physio- well. The effect can be debilitat- the patientsthat fatigue and free movement of trafficin Pune:ThePMChassetupa More's cell phone in atruckto “Those who were in the ICU and checkoxygensaturation therapyand mental health ing,” said Dr D’Costa. tiredness will go away with and out of the zone. team to conduct asurvey mislead the police investigation. continue to face respiratory levels. Spirometryand other counselling. Thereisalso aneed Dr Manish Kolge, consulting time,” he said. of slumsand prepareare- habilitation plan foraf- fected families. Deputy To streamline processing of Chief MinisterAjit Pawar SPPU online exams: Server glitches crop has closelymonitored the work of theongoingMetro applications for licences &permits, projectinthecity.Tencivic up again, helpline flooded with complaints workers under Deputy Municipal Commissioner it took me an hour and ahalf to police chief comes up with SOPs Nitin Udas have gotthe re- ALIFIYAKHAN solve the one-hour exam be- sponsibility to complete PUNE,OCTOBER19 cause afterevery four to five and analysed howthose were ease to the people seeking those the rehabilitation process questions, the screen would EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE processed. We realisedthat there permitsandalsokeeptherequire- of affectedfamiliesof Rajiv TECHNICAL GLITCHES have con- hang and take nearly aminuteto PUNE,OCTOBER19 waslackofclarity whichresulted ment of physical contact mini- Gandhi Nagarand Juna tinuedtobring down the online restart. Finally, afterIfinishedthe in delays and other issues. We mum, reducing the risk of Covid- Topkhana in Shivajinagar examination system of Savitribai exam, the system hanged and TO REMOVE delays in processing listedout all the applications that 19.Mostofthese applications are to acquireland forPune PhulePuneUniversity(SPPU)with showedanother error. Icalled various applications from local we receive and put in place stan- alreadyonline,nowtheirprocess- Metro. The team will con- no solution in sight. On Monday, the helpline and, initially, they residents, and bring clarity and dardoperating procedures for ing will also be very swift.” duct afield survey to iden- complaintsfloodedthehelplineas did notrespond but later they transparencyto theprocess,Pune processing eachone of them. We Gupta has also recently tify families and collect studentsacrossfacultiesandcities took my complaint and asked Police Commissioner Amitabh fixedaspectslikewhowillinitiate launchedadedicated helpline documents. -ENS reportedthattheserverwasrefus- me to keep trying. Finally, Itook Gupta has introducedStandard the file, who will be the final au- namedSamadhan forspeedy re- ing to acceptsolvedpapers even the exam again, but the second Operating Procedures (SOPs) to thorityandhowwillthefilemove. dressal of applications by serving Youth,friends afterstudentshad finishedwith paper had anew setofquestions ‘codify’ the movement of files in Nowthat we have codifiedall and retired police personnel and the examination. and wasfar tougher,” he said. the system. theseprocesses,we believe thatit officers. Adedicated phone line bookedfor According to students, while Astudent of LLB three-year Thevariousresponsibilitieson willresultinnotjustbringingclar- and aseparatesection in the in- the online examination sawsev- course from MMCC, who also the police machineryinlarge ur- ityandtransparency,butalsosig- ternal police phone application cuttingbirthday eral interruptions, theymanaged took her firstonline exam on banjurisdictionslikePuneinclude nificantlyreduce delays.” hasbeenallocatedforSamadhan. cakewithsword to complete the exam but at the Monday, said the incident had left issuance of various licenses, per- Additional Commissioner of Servingandretiredpersonnelwill time of submission, the system Studentssaid that while the online examination sawseveral studentsworried. “It’s notfair to mits,policeclearancesandnoob- Police (Administration) Jalindar be able getthe benefit of speedy Pune: Ayoungsterand his would notacceptthe answers interruptions, theymanaged to complete the exam. But at the forceustowriteanexamtwice. jection certificates (NOCs) re- Supekarsaid, “Many types of li- processingof applicationsforpriv- friends have been booked and, eventually, studentswere time of submission, the system would notacceptthe answers. Afterfinishing the entirepaper, quiredforpermitsissuedbyother cences, ranging from firearms li- ilegeleave,medical leave,house forallegedly cutting a forced to reappear. the system hangedand therewas government departments. cences to different types of police rent allowance, pension griev- birthdaycakewith a Shubham Gunjal, afinal-year no supportfromthe university. Gupta and ateam of officials clearances, character certificates, ances,medicalbills,salaryandpay swordatapublic place MBAmarketing student who ap- legealso said theycan’t help be- said his laptopshowedthat the Even on our second attempt,the from the administration branch police verification reports,NOCs rise issues, encashment of leaves, and then circulating pho- peared forhis exam on sustain- cause the onlinesystemisman- paper wassubmitted,but his questions were tougher and peo- have beenworkingonasystemto from police forthe other permits, provident fund queries etc. tographs of it on social able marketing, said, “Actually, aged by the university.Theysim- mobile phone showedthat it ple on the helpline were so casual streamline these processes and permissions forvarious public The queries will be processed media. Police have the problem croppedupatthe plyadvisedmetoappear forthe wasn’t, and, ultimately, there about it,” she said. work towardsremovingambigu- events,ralliesandfestivalcelebra- throughacentralisedsystemand bookedSwapnil Potbhare, time of submission. Ihad fin- exam again. Icalledupmany wasalot of confusion.” Despiterepeated attempts, ities in processing these applica- tions areissuedbypolice bodies adedicated team. The applicant MahendraSaravde, Salim ishedsolving the entirepaper, studentsfrommybatchlater Astudent of MSc (organic Mahesh Kakade, director of ex- tions. Speaking to The Indian incityjurisdictions.TheSOPsthat will be kept updated about the Shaikh, Abhishekh but it justsuddenlyhanged.I and everyone wasfacing the chemistry), who wasappearing aminations and evaluation, Express, Gupta said, “We took we have put in place laydowna status of the requestand the Devkar and three others kept calling the helpline, but same issue. One student took the forhis exam on advancedsyn- SPPU,could notbereachedfor a stockofthe various applications clear chartofmovement of files. process is being monitored by under sections of the therewas no response. Our col- exam thrice. Another student thetics, said, “In the firstround, comment. that local residentssubmit to us This would certainlybring alot of senior officials on adailybasis. Arms Act. -ENS GENOMEINDIA PROJECT TO CATALOGUE GENETIC DIVERSITY Sex workers have human DBT selects Pune as clinical sample collection rights too: Activists and women’s organisations site, to tap four Maharashtrian sub-groups Pune: Women’s rightsactivists As manyas11,428 persons, and organisations, sexworkers’ including women’s activists, India,” Prof Vijayalaxmi tory reports,” Dr Dixit said. “But we all have distinct ge- Kolkataand CSIR-IGIB areun- rightsorganisations and sex members of various organisa- ANURADHA Ravindranath, national coordi- The Human Genome He also said the CTCR team netic identity.Aswediverge in dertaking whole genome se- workers themselveshaveex- tions and groups have signeda MASCARENHAS nator of GenomeIndia Project, Project showedthat the wasnow conducting multiple our lineages, these variations in- quencing and bio-banking of presseddisagreement with alet- statement whichstatesthat the PUNE,OCTOBER19 told TheIndianExpress. study camps across Pune city to crease. Suchheterogeneity plays 10,000healthyindividuals from terbySunitha Krishnan and her “myopic and moralistic objec- In acountryof1.3 billion human genome was avoid commuting amid the an important role in inherited all over India. organisation, Prajwala, to the tions in the letter to the NHRCad- THE DEPARTMENT of people, thereare approximately made of 3.2 billion pairs Covid-19pandemic, and that for traits, susceptibility to diseases, “India representsaunique National Human Rights visoryare adirect attackonthe Biotechnology (DBT) has identi- 4,500well-definedethnic of nucleotide base pairs study volunteer participation, response to drugs and helps challengeinterms of genetics. Commission (NHRC). rightsofvulnerable communi- fied Pune as akey centrein groups, and this diversity also theywerereaching out to sev- trackour anthropologic history While the DBT reviewfor this This letter wasinresponse to ties likesex workers in the con- Maharashtraunder the land- implies that biomedical re- eral individuals and organisa- and evolution patterns,” Prof mission mode project took 15 NHRC’s recent advisorytitled text of Covid-19.” mark‘GenomeIndia’ project. search from other populations tions from the city,ranging from Shashidharasaid. months, we have sequenced ‘Human rightsadvisoryonrights According to astatement is- Under this project, scientists will of the worldcannotbemerely four major Maharashtrian sub- public to private sectors repre- Officiallylaunchedin over 300samples so far. Analysis of women in the contextof suedbythe Forum Against identify genetic variation lead- extrapolated forIndians. groups (Maratha, Deshastha senting all professions. He also January, this project has created is underwayand this is anovel Covid-19’, whichrecommended Oppression, the NHRCadvisory ing to different traitsinIndians. The DBT has chosen Centre Brahmins, Koknastha Brahmins made an appeal to the younger anational consortium involving project, so we arelooking that sexworkers be recognised rightlyacknowledgesthose in Atotal of 10,000 genetic sam- forTranslational Cancer and Koli) would be recruited in generations to take partinthis 22 premier national institutes forwardtocollection of as informal workers so that they sexworkasworkers and citizens ples have to be collected across Research (CTCR, an initiative of the research project from Pune “national mission” project. from different locations across moregenetic samples,” Prof areable to getworkers’ benefits. entitledtowelfaremeasures and India in the next twoyears and, IISER Pune and Prashanti Cancer regions as well as other parts of The Human Genome Project India. Experts from various sci- Ravindranath said. Prajwala has been working to access to schemes formigrant in Pune, scientists arelooking at CareMission) as aclinical sam- the state. showedthat the human entific domains suchasmedi- Whole genome sequencing eradicatesex trafficking and sex- workers in these pandemic four major Maharashtrian sub- ple collection sitefromthe state. “The participantsshould be genome wasmade of 3.2 billion cine, clinical research,anthro- and subsequent dataanalysis ual slavery forovertwo decades times. The Forum’s members groups to be recruited forthe re- Dr Santosh Dixit, senior scien- healthyand aged between 18 pairs of nucleotide base pairs, pology,genomics, genetics, data will help aid our understanding and Krishnan had pointed out emphasise that by reducing search project. tistatCTCRand co-principal in- and 70.After taking informed said Prof LSShashidhara, pro- sciences and information tech- of the natureofdiseases affect- that the Immoral Traffic those in sexworkmerelytovic- “This is the firstlarge effort vestigator on the GenomeIndia written consent and 30 to 45 fessor and dean (research), nology arecontributing to the ing the Indian population and (Prevention) Actlays down that tims of sexual violence, the letter in the countrytocatalogue ge- project, said the firstphase of minutes fordataand blood Ashoka University,and profes- design and implementation of open up newvistasfor advanc- the institution of prostitution is from Prajwala diveststhem of ba- netic diversity by doing whole the ambitious project wasun- sample collection, theywill also sor at IISER Pune, who is also co- project plans. ing next generation person- illegal. She had written to the sic rightsand entitlementsthat genome sequencing of repre- derwayand approximately receive acomplete health check- principal investigator on the IISc Bangalore, CSIR-CCMB alisedmedicine in the country, NHRCchairperson and said she fundamentallyacknowledge sentative communities across 1,200healthyparticipantsfrom up forfreewith signedlabora- GenomeIndia project. Hyderabad, DBT-NIBMG Prof Ravindranath added. wasdisturbed by the advisory. that theyare humans. ENS

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§ FOUNDED BY § RAMNATH GOENKA Fifty-eight yearslater,India-China relationship has BECAUSETHE TRUTH INVOLVES US ALL changed. Inequality has grown

HOPE AND CAUTION SanjayaBaru

Reports of COVID-19being pastits peak areheartening. FIFTY-EIGHT YEARS AGO, Chinese troops en- leastinpartdue to the destructive impact of militarycapabilityordiplomatic effort.Onthe Buttherecan be no lowering of guard teredthe Indian territory to makeapoint. theCultural Revolution on China’s economy other hand, India under Modi finds itself in a Historians and international relations schol- and the beneficial consequences of the Green better militaryand diplomatic space. Indeed, NDIA MAYBEentering the festival season on anote of hope. Apanel appointed by ars have spent half acentury trying to explain Revolution forthe Indian economy. Indian diplomacy todayhas been superior to that unexpected and first-everwar between China bolsteredits position over thelast that in the run-upto1962.Nehrupaidthe the Union MinistryofScience andTechnology (MST) has reportedasteadydecline the twoAsian giants. The simple point that quarterofthe 20th centuryfirstbybuildinga price forheeding Krishna Menon’s advice. in COVID-19cases since September 17,when the countryrecordednearly 98,000 Mao Zedong triedtomakeatthe time to strong alliance with the United States and, Modi is benefitting from SJaishankar’s ma- Icases —the highestspikeinaday. The graph, in fact, has fallen sharplyinthe first Jawaharlal Nehru wasthat China did notre- second, by carrying outsweeping internal re- tureadvice and Rajnath Singh’s quietleader- fortnight of October —the number of active cases fell by about 18 per cent in this gard India an equal. Fifty-eight yearslater, forms thatcontributed to amassiveboostto ship. India’s relations with the Quad countries period. On Sunday, these numbers went belowthe eight-lakh markfor the firsttime in six that is preciselythe point that Xi Jinping has what Chinese scholarshavecalledits have addeddiplomatic muscle to an ade- weeks. The mortality rate is also falling appreciably. If the current trend persists,according been trying to maketoNarendraModi. There Comprehensive National Power(CNP). India, quatelycompetent militaryframe. is, however, one fundamental difference. too, begantopickupand, thanks to the suc- However, the major powerdifferentialis to the panel, the contagion could run itscourse in the countrybyFebruary.The past10 In the 1950s, objective circumstances and cessive leadership of Prime Ministers PV economic and technological. In 1960, China’s months have,however, shown that the virus defies prediction. Thereismuchabout the material reality offeredadequatereasons for Narasimha Rao, Atal Bihari Vajpayeeand gross domesticproduct (GDP),valuedinUS pathogen that remains in the realm of the unknown —infact, we still do nothaveaconclu- Nehru to imagine that India wasChina’s Manmohan Singh, the Indianeconomybe- dollars at 2010 prices,was estimated to have sive reason forthe slowing down of the infection rate.The hope generatedby reports of the equal andhe, Mao’s. In 2020, Modi would be gangainingmomentum. been $128.3 billion, while India’s was$148.8 diseasebeing pastits peak,therefore, needs to be tempered with caution. living in amake-believe worldincase he har- The so-called “India story” wasdefinedin billion. Even as late as 1978, China’sGDP was While the juryisout on the precise impact of the dipping temperatureonthe coro- boured anysuchillusions. Xi wantshim to simple numbers —anannual averagerateof estimated to be $293.6billion,compared to navirus, the recent upsurge of casesinEurope suggests that the coming winter will be getthe message. growth of 3.5 per cent in 1950-80 (close to India’s $293.2 billion. Today, the Chinese econ- In the 1950s, and indeedtill the turn of the China’s ownrates of around4per cent), 5.5 omyisnearly five times the size of India’s in critical in thebattle againstthe health crisis. As epidemiologistand amember of the century, there were good reasonsfor Indian per cent in 1980-2000 and 7.5per cent in US dollar terms and almosttwo-and-a-half MSTpanel, Gagandeep Kang, told this newspaper, “thereisaseasonality associated with leaders to viewChina as an equal.Apartfrom 2000-2015.China’s great moderniserDeng times India’s in purchasing powerparity the spread of viruses and basedonthat experience, it would notbeout of placetosug- civilisational legacies and cultural factors, the Xiaopingwas willing to tell Prime Minister terms. Moreover, in terms of CNP, whichin- gest that the coronavirus might spread in winter”. The high levelofparticulatematter performance of both economies allowed RajivGandhi in 1988 that “Onlywhen China corporatesscientificandtechnological power in the air of severalIndian cities during early winter could increase the vulnerability of them to feel so. Indeed, before the twobe- and India have developedwill areal Asiancen- and human capital formation, China out-ranks those with respiratoryailments. ANational CentreofDisease Control reporthas warned came independent nations, Indian represen- turyemerge”. It wasthis narrative that fedthe India manytimes over. tativesfought hardatthe BrettonWoods con- popular discourse best capturedin Singapore’s Xi’s confidence is basedonthe material the Delhi government of asharp uptickinCOVID-19cases during the winter.The re- ference, wherethe International Monetary founder-leader’s metaphor of Asia being the foundations of Chinesepower, requiringModi port’s suggestion to the Delhi government forthe festiveseason —engagewithreligious Fund (IMF)and the International Bank for jetplane that wastaking off, poweredbytwo to adoptamorecautiousapproach. Forall the leaders to ensurethat celebrations likeDurga Puja, Dussehraand Chhath Puja remain Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) — engines —China and India. The Chinese were bravado of Modi’s domestic politics, he has so low-keyaffairs —ispertinent forgovernmentsinmostpartsofthe country. The spike nowthe WorldBank —werecreated,for par- India under Modi finds itself amusedbythisnarrative,giventherapidpace farwalked acautious diplomatic path, while in Kerala’s caseload afterthe week-long Onam festivities in Augustisawarning —fes- ity with China.Itwas the United States that in a better military and of their ownrise post-1980and the slower keeping the powder dry. Modi cannotafford tivals can be super-spreaders. voted in favour of China being givenahigher pace of India’s. However, till around 2015,they Nehru’s pretence forhecan easilypay Nehru’s votesharethanIndia, and John Maynard diplomatic space. Indeed, were willing to toleratethis view. price. To regain global stature, India has to con- The MSTpanel reportshould be seen in conjunction with the recent serological stud- Keynes, the intellectual architect of the IMF Indian diplomacy today has Prime MinisterModi clearly hopedto tinue to focus on itsdomestic economic capa- iesinseveral parts of the country. They indicatethatabout 30 per cent people have been and WB, wasdeployedtochastise hisformer been superior to that in the build on this foundation. However, thema- bility and human capital. Thereare no short exposedtothe virus in urban areas —anICMR study conductedacross 70 districtsinthe students, who were nowIndian government run-up to 1962. Nehru paid terial basis and the international environment cutstoglobalpower and influence. countryinSeptember,infact, pointsout that this figurecould be as lowasseven per cent officials, to fall in line. forthe bilateral relationship had inexorably Modi mayhavesat on the same swing the price for heeding Krishna at the all-India level. By all accounts, therefore, it would be prematuretosay that the virus Independent India, however, insistedon changed afterthe 2008 trans-Atlantic finan- with Xi in Ahmedabad and drawnattention has exhaustedits supplyofvulnerable people. The receding rate of infection should not viewing China as an equal. Tworecentlypub- Menon’s advice. Modi cial crisis. The Chinese economyenteredwhat to India’sglorious past at Mahabalipuram, but bring alowering of guard. lishedbooksshowclearly Nehru’s thinking is benefitting from the economistWaltRostowwould have he and his advisors would knowthat Xi along these lines.Francine Frankel’s When S Jaishankar’s mature advice calledstage four — “the drive to maturity”, merelyplayedalong,likeMao did with Nehru. Nehru Looked East:Origins of India-US Suspicion having successfullystayedatthe wheel dur- Good fences, theysay,makefor good neigh- and India-China Rivalry and TanviMadan’s and Rajnath Singh’s quiet ing stagethree, “pre-conditions fortake-off” bours. AmoreimpressiveCNP,alongwith bet- Fateful Triangle: HowChina Shaped US-India leadership. India’s relations phasefrom1990to2008. India, on the other terrelationswith other neighbours and with TOLL ON HER Relations During theCold War offeradequate with the Quad countries hand, has faltered,especiallyafter 2012,re- other powers, is the real fence to keep. evidence to suggest that Indian hubris wasas have added diplomatic maining firmlyinstage three. responsible forthe 1962 border waras To cutalong storyshort, Nehru’shubrisin The writer is Distinguished Fellow, Virus might notdiscriminateinits victims, but pandemic Chinese duplicity.Inthe twodecades follow- muscle to an adequately the 1950s had some historical and material United Service Institution of India has strengthenedsystemic inequalities ing the 1962 clash, India emergedstronger at competent military frame basis.However, it wasnot backed either by and theInstituteofDefence Studies &Analysis

HE SIGNS ARE worrying, and theyall point to an intensifying crisis in gen- der inequality.For one, the pandemic appears to have setbackyoung women aiming to getintomedical school morethan the men. Analysis of Tnumbers of thosewho appeared forthe National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) from 2017 shows asharp fall in the attendance rate of girls in THEIR QUEST FOR FREEDOM 2020 —afirstinfour years. Onlyabout 85 per cent of the girls who registeredfor the test wroteiteventually, as compared to 86 per cent of the boys.In2019, the corresponding fig- ures were 93 per cent and 92 per cent respectively.This could be one indexofwhat teach- Isher Ahluwalia and Devaki Jain fashioned feminism outoflived experience ers and experts have been warning of: As education goes intoatailspin due to the pan- demic, the disproportionateburden of consequences will fall on girls and women in higher education, undoing the gains of decades. UmaMahadevanDasgupta The virus might notdiscriminateinits victims, but the pandemicappearstohave strengthenedall systemic inequalities. It has been extremelyhardonIndian women, es- TWORECENT AUTOBIOGRAPHIES by Indian ensurethat their daughterswenttoschool. thors’ questfor freedom. The narrativesde- women economists describehowtheymade Those were difficult times. Children were vul- scribetheir intellectual and emotional growth. peciallythose at the bottom of India’s caste and class hierarchies.Itisnot education alone. their wayinadiscipline and aworld domi- nerable to infections; some did notsurvive. These arewomen whofashionedtheir femi- Evidence is also tricklinginofhow women arebeing edgedout of the post-lockdown nated by men. But theyalso saymuchmore. The girls grew up seeing the stoicism of nism out of livedexperience. economic scenario.For instance, as migrantsreturnedtovillages in the great exodus, the In Breaking Through,the lateIsher Judge women, and the helplessness of widows and What is the measure of alifewell-lived? shareofwomen in theworkgenerated under the MGNREGAdippedtoaneight-year low Ahluwalia recountsinthoughtful, understated unmarriedwomen.Jain describes her aunt Rather than speaking onlyabout themselves during the firstfivemonths of this financial year.The labour forceparticipation rate of prose howher childhood —asayoung girl Andal as the “living exampleofunpaid fam- and their individual accomplishments,the Indianwomenhas been appalling even in good years. But as analysis of real-time employ- from aconservative,middle-class Sikhfam- ilylabour,and this wasthe pattern forall un- writers of these spare, reflective lifestories also ily, attending aMarwari girls’ school in marrieddaughters and relatives—stigma- include their families,friendships and con- ment datainJune by researchers showed, women who had jobs before thevirus struck Calcutta—wasthe starting pointforher fem- tisedand enslaved”.Desaidedicatesher book nections and their owngrowth in relation to were 23.5 percentagepointslesslikelytoretain them thanmen. In aworseningeconomic inism.In The BrassNotebook,Devaki Jainshows to Kaki,her uncle’s widow, asad, silent figure those with whom theyinteracted. scenario, this leavesthem to fight foronlythe mostprecarious,ill-paid work —ifthey howher approachtoeconomicquestions was who stayedwith them, caredforthe children, Thereare lessons to be drawnfromthese have notalready optedout of the workplace because of the increasedresponsibilities of shapedbyher struggle forfreedom from an and didthe cooking. “Were Itocharge God thoughtfullynarratedlifestories. Foracade- domestic work and childcareduring the pandemic. The home, itself, is hardlyanide- affluent but restrictiveupbringing. Though the with acase,” she writes, “Iwould bring my mia,historicallyshapedatatime whenitcon- alisedsafehaven, withseveral studies flagging women’s increasedvulnerability to domes- twowomen’schildhoodscouldnot have been Kaki as my firstwitness.” sistedmainlyofmen, it is time to find more tic violence during the lockdowns. moredifferent,bothknewthat education was In their ownlives,the women discovered egalitarian ways of working. Foramoreequal their path to freedom. that academic success wasonlythe firststep; society, women and men both needfulfilling Fordecades, Indian women have mounted achallengetothe inequality hard-wired Reading their stories, Iwas remindedof therewereother hurdles. Aflasher on the and decentlypaidjobs, supportive parental intofamilies, societalstructures and institutions through education andaspiration. As another deeplyfelt autobiographybyan Delhi bus; apredator at Oxford; an offensive leave,organisedchildcare, and ways to share the pandemic eatsintothoseprecious reservoirs of resilience, the implications for Indian woman, BreakingOut (2012)byPadma eveningonanIMFtour;beingpassedover for domestic and familyresponsibilities. Career their autonomy, health, nutrition and general well-beingare bound to be dire. Desai.Thebook describes her difficult passage promotion because aman neededitmore. graphs neednot be straight lines. Working Governmentsand policymakers mustfind away to address and mitigatethis silent but from childhood in atraditional middle-class There are lessons to be Therewerealso momentsofagonising self- conditions can bemoreflexible. Women’sac- snowballing crisis. familyinSurat, through apainful firstmar- drawnfrom these doubtor the necessity of aruefulcompromise. complishments oftendepend on help from riage, to becoming asuccessful economistin But theypersisted. “Sometimes the mostwe other women who carefor their children and the US. In areflective account,she writes about thoughtfully narrated life can do is to learn nottobebrokenbyour ex- do the domesticwork.The work of allwomen her complicatedrelationship with her parents stories. Foracademia, periences, to rebuild our liveswith what ma- should be recognisedand paid for. as well as her evolving understanding of her historically shaped at a terials areathand, bit by bit,slowly and pa- Finally,for young girls without privilege, daughter’s choices in aculturedifferent from time when it consisted tiently,”writes Jain. educationcanbetheway to fulfillingtheirpo- KIM’STEARS the one in whichshe had grownup. As ambitious young girls, theyrealisedthat tential. The arcofopportunity mustbe All three women were born before India mainly of men, it is time to education wasthe waytofreedom. Higher ed- widenedthrough quality education, mentor- Since the onlydrama available on NorthKorean media is the attainedIndependence: Desai in 1931,Jain in find more egalitarian ways ucation wasabrave newworld of independ- ing and support. As Ahluwalia notes, reflecting 1933,and Ahluwalia in 1945, ayear afterthe entliving, and freedomofmovement and on her ownexperience:“Scholarshipsare the Kim Jong-Unshow, an oldtricklooksnew of working. Foramore equal Presidency Collegefirststarted admitting society, women and men choices. Theybuilt networks of careand soli- best investment that asociety can make.” women students. Their fathers were family daritywithotherwomen.Not leastofall,they PARE ATHOUGHT forKim Jong-Un.North Korea’s third-generation dictator patriarchs. Theirmothershadmarriedyoung, both need fulfilling and marriedmen who regarded them as equals. The writer is in theIndian Administrative —largerthan lifetohis people, the butt of jokes and an object of fear in much withlittleornoeducation,whichmadethem decently paid jobs The titles of all three booksreflect the au- Service, and is based in Bengaluru of the world—was forced to shedatear.Lastweek,carefullyedited footage of amilitaryparade celebrating the 75th anniversaryofNorth Korea’s rul- Sing party (on October 10), featuring what appearedtobeamong the largest contemporaryballistic missiles, made global headlines. The talking point, though, isn’t the volatile nation’s big stickbut the hitherto unseen emotional Kim. OCTOBER 20, 1980, FORTY YEARS AGO This year has been tough on NorthKoreans. In addition to the hardships causedby COVID-19, the countryhas been devastatedby typhoons and economic sanctions have re- CABINET EXPANSION. the ministry. So does former speaker of the PEACE PLANS FOR GULF portedly drivenmanytopovertyand destitution. Kim’s meaculpa —the tearsstreaming PRIME MINISTER INDIRAGandhi todayex- Maharashtra assembly,Shivraj Patil. IRAN AND IRAQignored appeals forafour- down his face accompaniedanapology fornot fulfilling the promise to take careofhis pandedand reshuffledher Council of dayceasefire,pressing the Persian Gulf war Ministers. Among the 11 newentrants, SB MANIPUR BANDH intoits 28th day. Iran has rejected Pakistani people—may appear to be unexpected.But it is of apiece withstrategies employedby Chavan, former Maharashtrachief minis- THE ALL MANIPUR StudentsUnionand the President General Zia’s appeal foracease- “strong leaders”—the vulnerability of thepaternal figure, the guardatthe gate,who wields ter, alone gets cabinetrankand has been All Manipur StudentsCoordinating fire during the Hajseason. Palestinian the threat of forcebothtoprotect his people andtodiscipline them. Unlikehis father and givencharge of the education portfolio. B Committee, the twogroups that areleading leader Yasser Arafat has also reportedly predecessor,Kim Jong-Il, Kim oftendoes publicevents—interacting with workers,sol- Shankaranand, who wasincharge of two the agitation in the state, againstthe for- drawnupatruce plan. diers,teachers andparty loyalists. Clearly,hesees himself as a “dictator of the people”. portfolios —education as well as health and eign nationals’ issue have calledabandh Political leaders oftenuse lessons from film and television to help them win over peo- familywelfare—will nowlook afterhealth on October 22 againstthe government’s SOVIET ATTACK ple. In melodramas and reality shows,the easiestway to makeanotherwise macho, un- and familywelfare. BhagwatJha Azad decision to go ahead with thematricula- ABOUT 200MEN,women and children were makes are-entryintothe council of minis- tion examination. The twogroups said that killedand 50 per cent houses were destroyed likeablecharacter moresympathetic is to either have them go through atrauma (usually ters. Bhishma Narain Singh, ministerfor the government had notpaid heedtotheir in Farza, atinyvalleynorth of Kabul, as Soviet forwomen) or getthem to cry(mostlyfor men). Sincethe onlydrama available on North parliamentaryaffairs, willlook afterworks demandsoverthe foreigners’issue andalso MIG-21s poundedthe placefor sheltering Korean media is the Kim show, theold tricklooksnew.But remember,ifthe tears don’t and housing also. Maternal aunt of the ignored the plight of the flood-affected rebels. The fruit orchards and the standing work,there’s always aballistic missile. prime minister, Sheila Kaul, finds aplacein people in the state. crop were destroyed.

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THEINDIANEXPRESS,TUESDAY,OCTOBER20,2020 WHATTHE OTHERSSAY “The comprehensive achievementsofthe COVID-19fight have greatly improvedChinese people’sconfidence in theircountry.Itisbelieved that many people are inclinedtofollowtheir government’s guidance about when the 7 THE IDEAS PAGE vaccination canbeuniversally available.” — GLOBAL TIMES, CHINA The goodneighbour An urban safetynet As economystruggles to recover, policyneeds to TheeconomicriseofBangladesh is also an opportunity forIndia. But those address —and help —those who have seen the prospectsare overshadowedbynegative domesticpolitics greatestdistress during lockdown forwomen,but, by the thirdquarter, it had returnednearly to its2019levels forboth men and women. Microbusinesses experi- encedconsiderable distress in the early phase of the lockdown but theyseem to be easing. In contrast, wage employment for men declinedby19percentagepointsdur- ing the lockdown and remains about 7per- Sonalde Desai, Neerad centagepointslower in thethirdquarter; for RAJAMANDALA women, comparable figures are10and two Deshmukh and percentage pointsbelowthe 2019 figures by CRajaMohan forsecond and thirdquarters respectively, Santanu Pramanik though women startfromamuchlower levelofparticipation in wage work. THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARYFund’s Third, the immediateand lingering im- latest WorldEconomic Outlook published WHILE COVID-19continues itsassault on pact of the lockdown has been uneven, and last week has triggered muchoutragein human lives, the Indian economy, afterthe largeremployment declines areobserved India. The provocation wasthe IMF’s predic- devastation in the wake of the lockdown, is in urban areas. The year-on-year WPR dif- tion that Bangladesh’sper capitaGDP will showingsignsof recovering.Datafromava- ference forurban men was35percentage overtake that of Indiathis year.The projected riety of sources,suchasexportsand carsales, pointsinthe second quarterand 10 percent- difference is rather small —$1,888 to $1,877 as well as datafromNCAER’s Business agepointsinthe thirdquarter. While forru- —and unlikelytolastbeyond this year.But Expectations Survey,point to the onsetofa ralmen, thedeficitwas15percentagepoints it offeredenough ammunition forapoliti- recovery.Anew employment survey in the in thesecondquarter, downto twopercent- cal attackonthe NDAgovernment’s eco- Delhi-NCR region, fieldedbyNCAER, adds agepointsinthe thirdquarter—analmost nomic record. to this chorus. However, it also pointstothe complete recovery. Thereare manyreasons foranxiety about unevenness of this recoveryand the contin- Fourth, individuals at the bottom of the India’s economic slowdown in recent years. uedvulnerability of specific populations. incomepyramid have been affected by job But in using Dhaka’s impressive economic NCAER’s National DataInnovation losses farmorethan the individuals at the performance to attackDelhi’s, India is miss- Centreinitiated amonthlytelephone sur- topofthe income pyramid and thisdiffer- ing the bigger storyabout the strategic con- veyofmen and women in the agegroup of ence is striking in cities.The WPR dropped sequences of Bangladesh’s economic rise. 21-59 in March 2019 to improvethe meas- by awhopping 44 percentagepointsinthe International development institutions urementofwomen’s work.The sample for second quarterand remains 13 percentage areconvincedthat the rest of the subconti- the survey wasdrawn to be representative pointsbelowits 2019 levelsinthethirdquar- nent and developing countries around the of the 31 districtsfalling within Delhi-NCR. terfor urbanmen who were in the bottom worldcan learn muchfromDhaka’s experi- This includes both urban and rural areas, threequintiles of the householdassetown- ence —the so-called “Bangladesh model”. CRSasikumar some as farawayasBharatpur and Jind. ershipbeforethe pandemic. In contrast, for Our focus hereisdifferent. It is about the re- This survey would have endedinApril this thetoptwo quintiles,thedeclinewas27per- gional implications of Bangladesh’s eco- salience in the years ahead. progress in strengtheningeconomic ties and year,but withthe onsetoflockdown, after centagepointsinthe second quarter, rising nomic success—fiveofthem stand out. Third, Bangladesh’s economic growth connectivity between eastern Indiaand abrief hiatus, it wasextendedtomeasure thereaftertoremainonly8percentage points First, rapid and sustainedeconomic can accelerateregional integration in the Bangladesh in recent years. But so much the impact of the lockdownand itsgrad- belowtheir 2019 levels in the thirdquarter. growth in Bangladesh has begun to alter the eastern subcontinent. Whether one likes it moreispossible —those prospectsare over- ual relaxation. Telephone interviews with Even as the threat of the disease per- world’s mental maps of the subcontinent. or not, the region’s prospectsfor acollective shadowedbynegative politicsinIndia. about 2,200adults, who were interviewed sists,Delhi-NCR, significantlyaffected by Over the lastfivedecades and more, South economic advance arerather dim. Thanks In Punjab,the chief ministers of both monthlybetween March 2019 and COVID-19early on, is showing signs of an Asia, formostpurposes, has meant India and to Pakistan’s opposition to economic coop- Congressand AkaliDal have oftendemanded September 2020,paint an interesting pic- economic recovery.However, this recov- Pakistan. The other countries were generally eration with India and itssupport forcross- greater economic engagement with West ture. While everyindividual did notre- eryisunevenand the mostvulnerableur- described as the “smaller” states of the re- border terror,the main regional forum for Punjab. This sentiment wasreciprocated by spondtoeachmonthlysurvey, contrasting ban residentsseemtobethe lasttorecover. gion. Bangladesh wasnever reallysmall; its the subcontinent, the South Asian the Sharif brothersinLahore, but crushedby employment in the second quarterofthe Theywerealso theones mostaffected dur- population todaystands at about 160mil- Association forRegional Cooperation Rawalpindi’sstrongresistance. In the east, calendar year (April-June) and thirdquar- ing the lockdown. As the Delhi-NCR lion.Itisdemographically theeighth-largest (Saarc), is in acoma. Delhi and Dhaka areeager to promote ter(July-Sept) for2019and 2020 forthe Coronavirus Telephone Surveys (DCVTS) nation in the world. Instead of merelypraying forthe revival greater cooperation; but therehas been lit- same population, allows forrobustyear- show, the urban poor, particularly the ur- But it did notseem to matter.The global of Saarc, Delhi could usefullyfocus on pro- tle political enthusiasm in Kolkata. In Assam, on-year comparison. ban informal sector workers, showedthe interest, of course, wasriveted on Pakistan— motingregionalism among Bangladesh, the issue of migrationcontinuestoimpose Four observations from thisstudy are greatest signs of distress duringthe lock- itsnuclear weapons,claimsonKashmir, wars Bhutan, India and Nepal. The BBIN sub-re- majorpoliticalconstraints. noteworthy. First, the employment data down and reportedgreater hunger,indebt- with India,role inAfghanistananditscosy re- gional forum —involving the four,activated Prime MinisterNarendraModi deserves shows definitesigns of arecovery. edness and an inability to payrent. lationshipwithinternational terrorism. The in the middle of lastdecade —has notad- muchpolitical credit forgetting parliamen- Comparingemploymentpatternsof individ- The virulence and spread of COVID-19 economic rise of Bangladesh is changing some vancedfastenough. It is time forDelhi and tary approvalofthe boundarysettlement in uals in 2019 and 2020 over the April to have justifiedthe early preventive actions of that. If thereisnoend to bad news from Dhaka to take afresh look at the forum and 2015,despitethe oppositioninhis ownparty. Septemberperiodshows thatasharpdecline takenbythe government.Aslarge parts of Pakistan, Bangladesh provides apositive nar- find ways to widen the scope and pace of The UPAgovernment, whichnegotiated the in employment took place in the second the countrystruggle to contain the pan- rative about the subcontinent’s prospects. BBIN activity.Meanwhile, thereisgrowing boundarypact in 2011,could notmustersuf- quarterdue to the lockdown as well as signs demic, the experience of Delhi-NCRholds The second implication is about the interest in Bhutan and Nepal foreconomic ficient politicalsupport. Modi also accepted of arecoverysincetherelaxationofthelock- important lessons. Social safetynetslike changingeconomic weightsofBangladesh integration with Bangladesh. the 2014 internationalarbitration awardon down restrictions. Formen, the worker-to- MGNREGAand PM Kisan have historically and PakistaninSouth Asia. This year, Fourth, the economic success of the maritime boundarydisputebetween population ratio (WPR)inthe second quar- been targetedtowards ruralresidents. Bangladesh’s GDP is expected to reachabout Bangladesh is drawing attentionfromarange India and Bangladesh. terfellfrom88percentin2019to62percent While arural biasmakes sense under nor- $320 billion; the IMF did nothavethe 2020 of countries in EastAsia, including China, But the very positive dynamic sur- in 2020 —afall of 26 percentage points. In mal conditions,the lockdown has dispro- numbersfromPakistantoreportbut in 2019, Japan,South Korea, and Singapore. The US, rounding the bilateral relationship in contrast, in the thirdquarterof2020, the portionately affected urban workers, par- Pakistan’s economywas at $275 billion. whichtraditionally focusedonIndia and Modi’s firsttermhas, unfortunately, ac- WPR wasonly5percentagepointsbelow ticularly wage workers who had fewassets Even moreconsequently, while Pakistan, has wokenuptothe possibilities in quired anegative tone in the second amidst thatin2019.Forwomen,thecomparablede- to begin with.The urbanpoor is still find- Bangladesh continues to grow,the IMF sug- Bangladesh. That theUSDeputy Secretaryof the poisonous rhetoric in India around the clinewas16percentagepointsinthesecond ing it difficult to return to work.Targeting geststhat Pakistan’s economywill contract State, Stephen Biegun,travelledlastweek Citizenship Amendment Act. Thereismuch quarter, regainingmostofthislostgroundin social safetynetstowards them is necessary further this year.Adecade ago, Pakistan’s from Delhi to Dhaka ratherthan Rawalpindi, room forcourse correction in Delhi and to the thirdquarter, and remaining only2per- as the economystruggles to recover. These economywas $60 billion largerthan says somethingabout Washington’s chang- shiftthe focus from legacy issues to future centage pointsbelowits 2019 level. findings add to theurgency of thinking Bangladesh. Today, Bangladesh’s weight is ing South Asian perspective.Bangladesh Thepositive dynamic possibilities. Second, self-employment has emerged about an urban employment programme bigger than Pakistanbythe same margin. doesnot want to getintothe fight between surrounding the bilateral Bangladesh is getting ready to celebrate as aprotective force. Individuals engagedin analogous to MGNREGA. AUSdollar todaygetsyou 85 Bangladeshi Beijingand Washington, but the great power relationship in Modi’sfirst the golden jubileeofits liberation from farming and smallhousehold businesses taka and 119Pakistani rupees. The trend line wooingofDhaka is bound to intensifyinthe PakistaninMarch next year.Modi, who plans have weathered theemployment slow- Desaiisprofessor,University of Maryland is unlikelytochangeinthe near future—for newgeopolitics of theIndo-Pacific. term has, unfortunately, to join the celebrations, mustuse the special down better than those engagedin salaried anddirector,NCAER National Data Bangladesh has controlledits population Finally, the economic rise of Bangladesh acquired anegative tone in occasion to jointlydevelop andpursue with employment or those employedascasual Innovation Centre, Deshmukh and growth and Pakistanhas not. Dhaka has a couldboostIndia’s national plans to accel- the second amidst the Dhaka an ambitious framework forshared labourers. Self-employment in the second Pramanik areresearchassociateand deputy grip over itsinflationand Islamabad does not. eratethe development of itseastern and poisonous rhetoric in India prosperity.That would help India consoli- quarterof2020 wasdownby12percentage director at NCAER NDIC, respectively. Thereisnoquestion thatPakistan’s neg- northeastern states. Considerthis: datethe golden chapterinIndia-Bangla rela- pointsfor men and nine percentagepoints Viewsare personal ative geopolitical weight in the worldwill en- Bangladesh’s economyisnow one-and-a- around the Citizenship tions that Modi has sought to scriptwith dure, thankstoits muscular foreign policies half timesaslarge as that of West Bengal; Amendment Act. There is Prime MinisterSheikh Hasina. drivenbythe army. Bangladesh does not better integration betweenthe twowould muchroom forcourse have an atomic arsenal likePakistannor does provide ahugeboost foreastern India. So correction in Delhi and to The writer is director,InstituteofSouthAsian it weaponise violent religious extremism; would connectivity betweenIndia’sland- Studies, National University of Singapore, LETTERSTOTHE EDITOR but itsgrowing economic muscle will help lockedNortheastand Bangladesh. shift the focus from legacy and contributing editor on international Dhaka steadilyaccumulategeopolitical Undoubtedly,therehas been some issues to future possibilities affairs for The Indian Express UNDEMOCRATIC POLL IDEAS THIS REFERS TO the editorial, ‘A begin- ning’ (IE, October 19). Thedistrictdevel- ONLINE opment council elections in J&Kcannot betermedasafairelection.Infact,itshall ONLYINTHE EXPRESS be afixed matchwith the candidates The rest is noise propped up by the BJP without anyreal ● JANANDOLANFOR competition from mainstream parties. NUTRITION: This electionisapretexttobelittlethe KMADANGOPAL The TRP warisabattle of ideas andideologies PDP and NC and to establish that main- streampartieshave beenwrittenoffwith ● INDIANSCHOOLS—A Shazia Ilmi the rescinding of Article 370. SYSTEMOFHIERARCHY: Deepak Singhal, Noida YUVRAJSINGH THE TRP WARison, with allgunsblazing. TRPs do notalways spikeonsensation- students, wage-earners, tenured employees, silent when non-Dalitsand non-Muslimsgot STILL IDENTITY Speaking forthe ruling party,asoften as Ido, alism; theyrespond to authentic news-wor- farmers, the self-employed, businessmen killed. Those aggrievedbythe arbitrariness of www.indianexpress.com Ifeel the searingheat. As aformer TVanchor, thycontent. Ironically, it wasnot so muchas and shopkeepers, teeming with political the Leftists found an amplification in those THIS REFERS TO the article, ‘A broader Iunderstand the significance of TRPs (tele- aTVanchor but moreasanactivistthat Icon- views andleanings,that allows media to be who openlyvowedtoexpose the deliberate imagination’(IE,October16).Itisthenon- vision rating points) forchannels, whichare tributed to making news relevant. Anumber what it is. Television cannotbeblind to their deviance and gave spacetoChandans,Ankits Dalit politics thatpushedDalitsintothe constantlystriving to outperform eachother of my former TV colleaguestold me they dynamic roles as voters, democratic activists, and Rahuls in the airwaves thatreachedout entrapmentof identitypolitics,aswe did ises at atime when the economyis and maximise viewership. As Ilook back,I were happytosee the end of the tabloidisa- and nationalists. to the heartland. notcreateenough space forthem in the threatenedbythe pandemic. slip intonostalgiaand discomfort in equal tion of news and areturn of real news with Is the assertion of anew aggressive chan- Bari Weiss, the NewYork Times journal- mainstream. Indian politics is notabout SSPaul, Nadia measure, knowing the unpredictable stakes the Anna HazareAndolan. This wasone good nel seeminglyabout righting the historic and istwho resignedinprotest againstthe ortho- ideology.Itisidentity-based. of the game. reason formetomoveon. current wrongs of the Leftistecosystem that doxLeft, wrote: “The lessons thatought to Anup Dev, Amravati FINALLY, ADIPLOMAT Iwas the debut anchor forStarNews While Ifirmlybelieve that ameter or two is out of sync with the pulse of the people? have followed the election —lessons about when PrannoyRoy’s NDTVofficiallyparted in Mumbai cannotpushone channel to the Beyond big profitsand advertising money, it the importance of understanding other JACINDA’SCHALLENGE THIS REFERSTOthe report‘Peace along ways with the Star Networkand Rupert number one position across the countryfor is nowabattle of ideasand ideologies, and Americans, the necessity of resisting tribal- LACdeeplydisturbed.ImpactingIndia- Murdoch launchedaslick24/7 news channel nine consecutive weeks, the fact is that then eventually, the battle forBharat and itspul- ism, and the centrality of the free exchange THIS REFERS TO thereport,‘Jacinda China ties: Jaishankar’ (IE, October 18). in Hindi in 2003. The idea wastochallenge TAM, and nowBARC, call the shots with their sating collective subconscious, significantly of ideas to ademocratic society—havenot Ardernwinslandslidere-electioninNew Diplomat-turned-politician Foreign the monopolyofAaj Tak, whichhad turned meters. The 45,000 households whichhad represented by the Hindi heartland. been learned. Instead, anew consensus has Zealand vote’ (IE, October 18). Jacinda MinisterSJaishankarhascalledaspadea 24/7 in 2001,inthe Hindi news universe.In thesemeters installedhavebecomethe cov- The fight is betweenthe brawling camps emergedinthe press,but perhaps especially Ardern’s phenomenal performance in spade.At last,thediplomatinhimseems September 2005, whenStarNewsedged eted influencers of TVnews —its form, con- of Leftists who rule the roostinuniversity at this paper:that truth isn’t aprocess of col- thegeneralelectionisattributableto her to have asserteditself.Diplomacyallows past AajTak foragood spell, on ashowbased tent and translationintoadvertisers’ money. classrooms and newsrooms, and others, who lective discovery,but an orthodoxy already government’s success in eliminating stakeholdersto becourteousbutnotdu- on the live depiction of howanashram alien- The mootquestion in this season of open areunforgiving and unapologetic, and wish known to an enlightenedfew whose job is community transmission of the coron- plicitous.Ridesindecoratedswingscan- ated children from their parents, it wasbig mudslinging between TVchannelsisthis: Is to assert their presence. Call it an overreac- to inform everyone else.” avirus,decisive actiononguncontrolfol- notmakesupremos forget thesu- news.Then, again, Star News got aheadby this just afight foreyeballs, or does it reflect tion to an overdose. Or perhaps an over-cor- This is abattle in whichthe viewers lowingtheChristchurch terroristattacks premacy of their coreinterests,nor can broadcasting the footageofgangster Dawood agenuinedesireofmillionsofviewers for rection to what wasbeing served as news will have the final word.The point is the cow andswiftmanagingof aneruptionatthe sabre-rattling makethem turn tail. Now Ibrahim’s familywedding. Star Newshad quality,firepower andaccountability from through theprism of the self-anointed, self- belt matters. BARC’s meteristhe EVM of the White Islandvolcano in last December. letuswaitforaflickerofhopefortheces- managed acoup by exposing the linksofthe channels? Areweignoringthe existence of righteous intellectual pundits,who talked news world. ThecoredecisionthatArdernfacesishow sation of hostilities across the border. D-Family/CompanytoBollywood and politi- the elephant in the newsroom —the audi- down to others on predictablelines.Past farshe willpush her progressive prom- Tarsem Singh, Mahilpur cians. Iremember the sense of jubilation at ence? This audience —orviewership — masters knewtospinthe agenda on Akhtar- The writer,aformer journalist, becoming numerouno in the news game. drivesTRPs.Itisthis ecosystem of kids, teens, Junaid-Pehlulynchings, but theyweresadly is amember of theBJP

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No. J.S.V.190 (2020-21) EXECUTIVE ENGINEER (SOUTH) 7673.31 lakhs through Biomining and Construc�on of Rs.76.73 lakhs Interim Landfillsite(Package6) T TAMILNADU MEDICAL SERVICES CORPORATION LTD. PreBid Mee�ng 12th November 2020, 11.00 A.M No.417, Pantheon Road, Egmore, Chennai-600 008. LastDateand Time of Submission of Bid 25th November 2020, 03.00 P.M Phone :28191890 /28190259; Fax: 044–28190636 E-Mail: [email protected] Bid Opening Date and Time 26th November 2020, 04.00 P.M INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIVE BIDDING –TENDER EXTENSION NOTICE DIPR/3891/Tender/2020 Superintending Engineer /SWM 1. TheTender duedateisextended as follows: 1) Tender No.PKG6/ICB/TNUHP/JICA/C2/OPE-I/TNMSC/ENGG/2020, dt.04.02.2020 –Mul�paraMonitor (4), GOVERNMENT OF TAMIL NADU Mul�paraMonitor with IBP (4), Mul�paraMonitor with EtCO2(18), Defibrillator(15), AnesthesiaWorksta�on with MADURAI CITY MUNICIPAL CORPORATION Monitor (18), Anesthesia Worksta�on (20), Opera�on TheatreFractureTable (17) and Opera�on TheatreTable (10) Arinagar Anna Maligai, Tallakulam, Madurai, Tamil Nadu. Sl. No. Sale period Submission of Bids Opening of Bids INVITATION FOR BIDS 1Upto09.11.2020 10.11.2020, 03.00 PM 10.11.2020, 04.00 PM Fordetails visit www.tenders.tn.gov.in and TNMSC websitewww.tnmsc.tn.gov.in. Date 19th October 2020 DIPR/3887/Tender/2020 General Manager (Services) Loan No. and Title Tamil Nadu Urban Flagship Investment Program (TNUFIP): Tranche 2 Contract No. and Tender Notice No. Ma.Po. 2/12276/AMRUT(WS) 4/2020-2021 Title Dedicated Water Supply Scheme for Madurai City Municipal Corporation from Mullai Periyar River at Lower Camp -Construction of Distribution Network System (DI & HDPE), House Service Connections, and Instrumentation for Madurai City Municipal Corporation Added Area -Package 4–Phase II Deadline for 03.12.2020, upto 15.00 Hrs. Submission of Bids 1. India has applied for financing from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) towards the cost of Tamil Nadu Urban Flagship Investment Program (TNUFIP) –Tranche 2. Part of this financing will be used for payments under the Contract named above. Bidding is open to Bidders from eligible source countries of theADB. 2. “The Commissioner,Madurai City Municipal Corporation” (“the Employer”) invites sealed bids from Pimpri-Chinchwad My old name Sufiyah eligible Bidders for the following works. BUSINESS Broilers Traders’ Bano Ataharuzzaman SERVICES Dedicated Water Supply Scheme for Madurai City Municipal Corporation from Mullai Periyar River at Lower POULTRY Association “Rate On PeerzadaChanged to Camp -Construction of Distribution Network System (DI &HDPE), House Service Connections, and 20.10.2020 ForLiveBig new name as Sufiyah Instrumentation for Madurai City Municipal CorporationAddedArea - Package 4–Phase II (“the Works”). Birds Rs- 134 LiveSmall WATER PROOFING Peerzada as per 3. National competitive biddingwill be conducted in accordance with ADB's Single-Stage: Two-Envelope Birds Rs- 140 Al-Taqdeer Broiler(Siraj Shaikh) adharcardno.995714706970 Without Breaking bidding procedure and is open to all Bidders from eligible countries as described in the Bidding Document. 9822931357, 9767869302 0090276889-2 Toilet, Bathroom, 4. Only eligible Bidders with the following key qualifications should participate in this bidding: 90273225-1 5years Gurantee, I Have Changed My Old Terrace 10yrs l Minimum average annual construction turnover of INR.114.55 Crores,calculated as total certified received Pune Broilers Traders’ Name Suman to New payments for contracts in progress or completed, within the last three (3) years; Gurantee,All Leakage Association Rate On Name Suman Madhukar Work, Free Visit l Financial resources, less its financial obligations for its current contract commitments defined, meet or 20.10.2020 ForLiveBig Ambikar Vide Govt. of Authourised Birds Rs- 133 Live exceed the total requirement for the Subject Contract of INR.19.10 Crores MaharashtraGazette Applicator Tandoori Birds Rs- 140 l Participation in at least one contract that has been successfully or substantially completed within the last Number: P-2023844 Dr.Fixit7666729911/92 Momin Poultry (Asif five years and that is similar to the proposed works, where the value of the Bidder's participation exceeds Dated: 15/10/2020 25534110. INR.183.29 Crores. The similarity of the Bidder's participation shall be based on the physical size, nature of Momin) 26336349. 0090276885-1 0090271273-1 works, complexity,methods, technology,orother characteristics as described in Section 6(Employer's 0090273461-3 Requirements). Reeya Amod Shirolkar Sheetal Agro Traders (New Name) Previously PROPERTY l Meets other Personnel and Equipment requirements as stipulated in the Bidding Document. Today’sEx-Shop called RiyaAmod However,for complete eligibility and qualification requirements, refer to the bid document. delivery for livesmall Shirolkar(Old Name)Regd birds sizebetween1.3 to PROPERTY FORSALE 5. To obtain further information and inspect the bidding documents, Bidders should contact: A Pimpri Chinchwad No -11179 0090276884-1 Broiler Traders 1.5 rate at PuneRs. 140/- I Ex ArmyNo. 13615907H MIDC PLOT for SALE. THE COMMISSIONER, Association Rate on per Kg.7776024132, Rank L/ HAV. Sharad At AMBARNATH 15000 Madurai City Municipal Corporation. 20.10.2020 for Livebig 7588532184 90274713-1 Pandurang Sawant R/ at SQ FEET MIDC BCC birds Rs -139 LiveSmall AringarAnna Maligai, Tallakulam, Vencobb today’s ex- 56 /2/29 Kawade Nagar, ApprovedTable Top. Birds Rs- 140 contact- Alagar Kovil Main Road, shop delivery rate at Pimple Gurav,Pune- Wide Entry. 7720828080. 90271130-18 Pune Rs.108 per kg. 411061. declares that in Foundation for Madurai –625002. Contact (9522) A Pune Broiler Traders my ArmyService Book/ colums and Boundry 22872417, Pune (9520) E.mail :[email protected] [email protected] Association Rate on Recordmyboth daughter’ Complete. open 24269414. 90272255-1 Phone: 0452 –2531116, FAX: 0452 –2530965 20.10.2020 for Livebig sname recorded as space in Front. 6. APre-bid meeting shall take place on 10.11.2020 at 16.30 Hrs (IST), at the address stated above. birds Rs -136 LiveSmall Harishadha &Gaytri Expected price :Rs. which is incorrect. Both 3500 per SQ Feet. 7. To purchase the bidding documents in English language, eligible Bidders should: Birds Rs- 141 contact - 869584268. daughter’s correct Genuine parties l Visit the office of the City Engineer,Madurai City Municipal Corporation, Madurai at address stated above name is Harshada Welcome. Contact : 0090265628-21 and pay anon refundable fee of INR 5000 towards the cost of bidding document in the form of Bank Sharad Sawant & 8309755233 Demand Draft in favor of the Commissioner,Madurai City Municipal Corporation, Madurai. Gayatri Sharad Sawant Archana Poultry farm. 0050170474-1 l In case of written request, the document will be sent by post /courier.The Bidders who wish to receive the Available wholesale live vide Gaz. No. P2024319 & bidding document by post/courier shall have to pay an additional amount of INR 1000 for delivery within broilers 1.3-1.5kg; 2kg& P2024621 dtd. Oct.15- LOST &FOUND India, or USD 16 for delivery outside India.The method of payment will be through bank demand draft in above.Eggs at attractive 21,2020. 90276876-1 favor of the Commissioner,Madurai City Municipal Corporation, Madurai. No liability will be accepted for rates. Shop delivery I have changed my It is notified for the loss or late delivery. available. 9767101013/ name from Mohammed information that my Eligible bidders may otherwise download the bidding document in English language from the website 9552525315/ 9552525316 Akil Haji to Muhammed original Qualifying http://www.tenders.tn.gov.in from 19.10.2020 to 03.12.2020 upto 15.00 Hours. 0090272941-1 Aqueel Hazi by Adhaar Examination certificate of Main Eligible bidders who download the bidding document from above website shall inform The Commissioner, no :- 7337617164488 Madina Poultry Traders, Secondary Madurai City Municipal Corporation in writing (and provide the contact details) at the address given above, 0090276887-1 Pune.Paper rate on Examination of year failing which The Commissioner,Madurai City Municipal Corporation shall not be responsible if the bidder 20.10.2020 for LiveBig My old name wasHarish 2018-2019 and Roll does not receive clarifications and amendments, if any. Birds Rs. 133/- Kg .Shop Jogaram Jatt changed No.-4189892 issued 8. Bids should be submitted DeliveryContact OTHER CLASSIFIED to new name Harish by CBSE has been 9763333335 90273396-1 Jogaram Jaat as per l to the address above CHANGE OF NAME actually lost. Name aadhar cardno of the candidate Kore l on or before the deadline 03.12.2020 upto 15.00 Hrs. (IST) NECC suggested farm- gate price for 100eggs on I have changed my 438684099070 KaranKrishna, Full l Together with aBid Security as described in the Bidding Document. 20.10.2020 in Pune name from 0090276889-1 Address- Qtr No. l Electronic submission is not allowed. Muhammed Aaquib without tray is Rs.510 - AI have changed my P200/D2, church Bids will be opened on 03.12.2020 at 15.30 Hrs (IST) in the presence of Bidder's representatives who choose (FiveHundred and Ten Muhammed Aqueel to name from Raukaeya Road, Near BSNL to attend, whereas the Financial Bids shall remain sealed and unopened and shall be placed locked. The Rupees only) Mohamed Aquib Mohammed Akil Haji to office, Khadki ,Pune- Financial Bids of only Technically Responsive and Qualified Bidders shall be opened after technical bids Phone:NECC 24270724, Muhammad Aqueel by Raukeaya Muhammed 411003, Tel- evaluation, whereas, the financial bids of those Bidders whose technical bids are not responsive and qualified 26336377, Dealer: Aadhar no 932020644679 Aqueel Hazi by Adhaar 9422723903 shall be returned unopened after the contract is awarded. 24332689, 24455130, No :947234183010 Commissioner, 0090276887-3 0090276888-1 24265787. 90272256-1 DIPR/3886 /TENDER/ 2020 Madurai City Municipal Corporation 0090276887-2

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Jinnah jibe: Cong KISHANGANJ PHASEI CRIMEPATROL:BIHARBAHUBALIS candidate says SEATS IN THE RACE 71 onus on Nitish if ■ Candidatesfielded Who is talking CANDIDATES ■ Candidateswithpendingcriminalcases he faces an ‘attack’ 1,065 RJD 29 42 BJP 21 29 LJP 21 42 about the floods? 353 164 JAP 21 32 RLSP 17 42 Everyyear,the waters wreak destruction in Seemanchal; this year,the govt Candidatesfrom Candidateswith JD(U) 14 35 leadingparties pendingcriminalcases INC 12 21 wasaccusedofbeing ill-prepared.But, “elections arefought on other issues” TOP GUN WALIAHMAD Congress candidateMaskoor Usmani KOCHADHAMAN,BAHADURGANJ,OCT19 AnantSingh(aka‘ChhoteSarkar’) Party: RJD Constituency:Mokama Criminalcasespending:38 THERE IS an early morning rush over asmall Win:2005,2010onJD(U)ticket,2015asIndependent,beating SABARAHMAN bridgethatservesasasingle-lanelinkbetween RJD-JD(U)-Congressalliance.ElderbrotherDilipSinghendedINC's NEWDELHI,OCTOBER19 district headquarters Kishanganj and itsfour ShyamSunderSinghDhiraj'sinfluenceinthe1990s Vidhan Sabha constituencies in this northern THE CONGRESS candidateaccusedbythe BJP partoftheSeemanchalregion.Smallvanscar- of being a “Jinnah sympathiser” says he has rying vegetables, to heavy trucks and daily CANDIDATE PARTY CONSTITUENCY CRIMINALCASESPENDING written to itsallyand JD(U) leader Nitish commuters, all arejostling to cross the bridge. SudhirKumarVerma JAPGurua 37 Kumar,saying his government would be re- Severalricketybridgeslikethismakecom- (aliasVinodMarandi) sponsibleincaseof any“attack”onhimduring municationalittleeasierinmostofthe802vil- AjayYadav RJD Atri 17 the campaign. lages of the district. But floods everyyear cut FieldedbytheCongressfromJaleAssembly offand sweep away roads. The soil embank- AbhaySinha JD(U) Belaganj 14 seat in Darbhangadistrict, Maskoor Usmani, mentof theMahanandariverisnot enoughto LalanKumar INC Sultanganj 10 26, said the BJP’s “unwarranted”campaign contain the ravaging waters, says 60-year-old Source: Election Commission of India againsthimwasnot surprising.“Iamastrong, JogiRai,whorunsasmallteastallattheMauja fearless Muslim voice raising anti-people is- Bari Ghat of the river. sues, and theydon’t likethat,” Usmani, afor- Rai, whose leftleg wasamputatedafteran merpresidentof theAMUstudents’union,told accidentlastyear,says landlesspeoplelikehim The Indian Express. areatthe mercy of the river. Once flood water Aplus for BJP in the maths: Whywas“thedjinnof Jinnah”beingraked enters, we arepushedontothe road, he says. up,headded,when“nobodyonthissideof the InBahadurganjtownof Kishanganjdistrict, border has anyfaith in his ideology”. a paan stall owner who declines to reveal his JDU faces RJD on most seats Senior BJP leaders, including Union min- name says floods should be an important is- isterofstate Giriraj Singh, have accused sue in this election giventhe scale of devasta- Usmani of supporting the “ideology” of tiontheyleave everyyear.“Butnooneisboth- SANTOSHSINGH Pakistan’s founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah. eredto talkaboutthis.Electionshereare fought PATNA,OCTOBER19 In 2018,Usmani, headedthe union when lo- on other emotive issues,” he says. cal BJP MP had ledaprotest demanding the Floodsearlierthisyearhadsubmergedthe MUCHBEFOREtheRJD-ledGrandAlliancean- removalofJinnah’s portrait hanging in the paddy fields on either side of the road from nounceditsseat-sharing,seniorBJPleaderand university’s students’ union building since Kishanganj to Thakurganj. Mujibur Rahman, Deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi had said, 1938. AMU had defendeditpointing out that 47,ofTengarmari village, says he has seen this (Above)Ataflood-relief campinPatna. “Morethe number of seatsthe RJD contests, Jinnah had been granted lifetime member- happen manytimes. “Those who lose homes This year’s floods left83.62 lakh people the keener the fight.” ship of the union. take refugeonthis road.” in 16 districtsaffected;Jogi Raiathis TheBJP’swishappearsto have beengrant- Adental surgeon, Usmani said the saffron Accordingto anAugust27bulletinreleased teastall. ANI, Wali Ahmad ed,inways morethan one. The RJD, that con- party had found in him their “best bettoplay by the stateWater Resources Department, tested101seatsintheNitishKumar-ledMaha- polarisedpolitics”. However, he said, he was 83.62 lakh people were affected in 16 districts gathbandhan in the 2015 Assemblypolls and canvassing on the plank of development, of thestateinthefloods,includingKishanganj. won80,isfightingon144constituenciesinthe health and education. Tithya villageinAmour Assemblycon- Thakurganj coming election. Notonlythat, the RJD, the On whythe Congress nominated him, stituency,representedby CongressMLAJaleel Bahadurganj strongestoftheGrandAllianceparties,isfight- Nitish at arallyinGaya, Monday. ANI making him one of the youngestcandidates Mastan, has over 40 Mallah (fishermen) fami- Tengarmari ing on mostofits seatsagainstthe JD(U). inthefray,the26-year-oldsaid:“TheCongress lies.HemanKumarDas,45,says thevillagehad On as manyas77ofits seats, RJD candi- is fighting fascistforces. The topleadership beenuprootedbytheMahanandariver. “Most datesareupagainsttheNitish-ledJD(U),which contestthis time, with victorymargins 2,000 supportsyouthandwantstogiveproportional of thevillagershave nowshiftedtosaferareas,” PATNA Amour hadbargainedhardtoensureitgot morecon- to 5,000on severalseats.” representation to all sections of the society.” says Das,whoteachesatagovernmentschool. stituencies (115)than the BJP (110)inthe NDA With LJP chief Chirag Paswan openlysup- The Congress has nominated 12 Muslim “Floods have increasedinthese parts after Baisi seat-sharing.Inotherwords,injustabout30% porting BJP candidates and taking on Nitish, it candidatesfortheelections.TheBJP,likeinthe 2016 when abarrage on the Teesta riverwas of itsseats(38 in all), the JD(U) can expect an couldfurtherdenttheJD(U)’sprospects.Nitish recent past, has fieldednone. built. The Farakka barrage in neighbouring easier fight. hasexpressedhisdispleasureoverseveralBJP West Bengal also contributes, while siltation KISHANGANJ In contrast, the RJD candidates areupaga- leaderswho were deniedseatscontesting on has reducedthe depth of the river, increasing Mahananda instthe BJP on 51 of its110 seats, leaving the LJP tickets. One of them, RajendraSingh, who IHerebyDeclare chancesof floods,”says HajiAbdusSubhan,the BasinProject Bahadurganj latter withprospectsofaneasier win on the is contesting from Dinara, enjoys the backing RJD MLAfromBaisi seat. remaining 59. Five RJD nominees areupaga- of BJP cadre. “Theymay be doing so on their Since2000,thefive VidhanSabhaseatsun- instformer chief ministerJitan RamManjhi’s own. Ihavenot lured anyone,” Singh says. der Kishanganj Lok Sabha constituency have Kankai,Noona, Bakra, Khadam, Kisley, Burhi, CMwasstartedintheyear2010 andcompleted Hindustani Awam Morcha(Secular), and 11 The BJP has been trying to assuageNitish, been represented either by the Congress, RJD Rajai and Lohendra,” says Jha. in 2013.The land acquisition is in progress for will take on the Vikassheel Insaan Party(VIP). assuring that he will remain CM irrespective orJD(U).TheBJPhadwontheBahadurganjand In2010,CMNitishKumarhadinaugurated the second phase,” Jha says. The RJD says the social realities on the of the number of seatsthe parties win. It has Thakurganj seatsinthe post-Babri Masjid the Mahananda Basin Project at Paranpur in However, Congress MLAMastan, who ar- grounddictateditsseatchoices,andthatitisa also been criticising Paswan forlatching on to demolition election of 1995. Katihardistrict,anotherregioninSeemanchal gues that floods also help enrichthe soil and merecoincidence that the BJP might end up it, accusing him of trying to createconfusion. SanjayJha,BiharMinisterforWaterResour- affected by floods. The riverand other rivulets improvecropyield,says theywon’tlettheproj- being the gainer —bothinits bid to emerge as JD(U)nationalspokespersonKC Tyagisays ces,says thetotalareaaffectedby annualfloods criss-cross the district. Fortification of the ectbeimplementedintheregion.Accusingthe the dominant party in the NDA, and even as theyare notworriedabouttheRJDgameplan. intheSeemanchalregionis5.20lakhhectares. Mahananda wasthe focus of the project, and government of having “no plan at all”, Mastan the single-largest party post-polls. “Thefactthatitistreatingusasitsmainoppo- “Everyyear,heavy rains in Nepal and West Jha says this will help contain the floods. adds, “The Mahananda project proposes to An RJD leader says, “Tejashwi Yadavisthe nent shows we aremoving towardsapresi- Bengalinnundatethelowlandof Seemanchal. “The work of the Mahananda riverflood build the embankment 1kmfromthe river- CM candidateofthe Grand Alliance and has dentialformof governmentinthestateaswell. RAJENDRAPRASADSINGH The rainwaterflows down through various managementschemewillbecompletedinfive bank.Itwill uprootatleast50villages and ap- takenonthe incumbent CM. Plus, eachseat People have to decide if theywant Nitish LJP candidate, Dinara; Ex-BJP leader tributaries likeBalson, Chenga, Mechi, Donk, phases. The firstphase work initiated by the proximately1lakh people.” hasitssocialarithmetic.Therewouldbeakeen Kumar or not. The rest is irrelevant.”

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**Total assets Rs 1.15 crorein2015 MOVABLE ASSETS ‘Image of Bihar is of aworker, in rags... But we’ve done well’ `11 LAKH Assets 2015 2020 Ludhiana have returnedafter turning around Guptasays theRJDwillhighlightproblems RAAKHIJAGGA their lives, to open ventures backhome. withNDAschemessuch astheSwachhBharat Cashinhand 1.36lakh 71,000 LUDHIANA,OCTOBER19 Also going to vote in the elections in Bihar and Bihar’s Nal-Jal Yojana. “Ithink therewill Bankbalance 2.82lakh 2.51lakh areAnil Jha, 48,and Bhola Jha, 40. Anil works be achangeinBihar this time.” Stocks&bonds 2.46lakh 3.70lakh IT WASthe mid-’80s when GangaPrasad inafactoryaswellasrunsasmallhosieryunit. However, Thakur remains asupporterof OtherInvestment 25lakh 34.3lakh Thakur (55), aresident of Jaypatti villagein Bhola has aunit making polybags. “Thereare Nitish Kumar. “During the lockdown, more Darbhanga, came to Ludhiana, the city with manyformalities to getting voter cards made than3lakhmigrantsreturnedtoBihar.Initially, Jewellery -4.06lakh the largest migrant population in Punjab, in in Ludhiana, and then we will have lose vote people were angry, but in Bihar,theygot ra- TOTAL 36lakh11.7lakh search of work.Thakur was19and got work inBihar.ButourheartliesinBihar,”says Bhola. tionsregularly.”Helists otherbenefits,includ- IMMOVABLEASSETS inoneof thecity’smanyindustrialunits.Now, No one can live on freebies from the gov- ing free LPG and moneyunder the PM-Kisan he owns ajewelleryshop and amedical store, ernmentalone, Bhola adds. “We can perhaps scheme.“Becauseof this,onehasforgottenthe `1.29 CRORE isthepresidentof the‘BiharGoldsmithSamiti’ survive justsitting at our home in Bihar.But, pain of walking on foot,” Thakur smiles. Assets 2015 2020 that has about 1,700members, and his son, we cannotgrow. If Bihar starts giving us those TRMishra,thechairmanof afederationof Agriland 45lakh 45lakh who has done apharmacy course, is planning opportunities, what is the needtodoso?” Ludhiana’s dyeing unitswhichemployover to open anursing home backinBihar. Mohd Ghulam, Chairman of the ‘Punjab 40,000migrants,hasrelativesinBihar.Hesays Non-agriland -- It has been morethan three decades since Parvasi Cell’ who is also originallyfromBihar, candidates oftencome to campaign among Commercial -- heleft,but,forThakur,Jaypattiremainshome. Living along an unusedrailway trackatFocal Point in Ludhiana. The city has the says, “Punjab has 70 lakh migrantsfromout- migrantsinthecity,andthistimetheBJPissaid Residential 34.19lakh 84.14lakh “Everytime thereare Vidhan Sabha or Lok highestmigrant numbers in Punjab; manyare going to Bihar to vote. GurmeetSingh side, of whom notless than 30 lakh arefrom to have linedupsome virtual rallies. Mishra Sabha elections, Igoand vote. This time, elec- Bihar.Alarge chunkcontinuesto vote inBihar.” says he wantsgood candidates who can help Total 79.19lakh 1.29 cr tions in Darbhangaare on November 3, and I Amember of the Congress, Ghulam says changetheimageofBihar.“We feelbadwhen and400-500othersfromherewillgo to vote.” joyaquality of lifethat we could nothavegot medicalhelp.”Hissix-bighalandinthevillage the party will soon startcanvassing in people saycriminals contestpolls there.” LIABILITIES `21LAKH The members of the Samiti belong to the in Bihar.Wewould still be marginal farmers.” is looked afterbyhis brother. Ludhiana forvotes. Bipin Gupta,president of Thakur agrees. “When it comes to Bihar, CRIMINALCASES Sunar (goldsmith) community in Bihar. “We Thakuriswell-versedwiththeissuesback Thakur hopes his son will settle in Jaypatti the RJD in Ludhiana district, says, “Fifteen of the imagethat comes to mind is of apoor formedthe group to remain in touch. Mostof home,andhencetheplansforanursinghome. oncethenursinghomeisupandrunning.“He ouryoungstershave goneto differentdistricts labourer in soiledclothes. But anumber of us No pending criminal cases us aredoing well here, we have houses, our “Jaypatti has ahospital wheredoctors hardly is apharmacist, we can appoint doctors.” of Bihar to campaign.” The Congress and RJD have workedveryhard,andaredoingwell.We children aregetting agood education. We en- come, people travel 30 km to Darbhangafor Severalamong the migrant population in arepartofthe Mahagathbandhan in Bihar. want people to changetheir pictureofBihar.”

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TRP case: Issue Mizoram rolls Assam-Mizorambordercalm;Sonowal back prohibitory summons to Arnab orders from village on before arraigning talkstoPM,ShahandZoramthanga Tripura border Home Secy also calls up; MHA tells both states thatpanel of officers will resolve border dispute him, HC tells police DEBRAJDEB discussion with Zoramthanga, as AGARTALA,OCTOBER19 made out by the police, and ABHISHEKSAHA& well as the steps takenbythe OMKARGOKHALE claimedmala fide action with an DEEPTIMANTIWARY Assam government to defuse ADAY afterTripurastood its MUMBAI,OCTOBER19 attempt to suppress the petition- GUWAHATI,NEWDELHI, Longstanding tension. Shah assured Sonowal ground over administrative con- E dispute ers’ voice. OCTOBER19 ● of all supporttorestore peace on trol at Phuldungsei villagein EXPLAINED THE BOMBAY High Courton Salve saidthatif aprobehasto the border between the states. NorthTripuradistrict, Mizoram Mondaytold the Mumbai Police be conducted,itshould notbe TWODAYSafter Assam- THE BOUNDARYdispute Afterspeaking with his on Sundaywithdrew prohibitory that if it proposes to arraign doneby theMumbaiPolice,who, Mizoram border witnessedar- between the twostates Mizoram counterpart, Sonowal orders restricting public move- Republic TV Editor-in-Chief hesaid,wasbiasedagainstthepe- son over aterritorydispute, offi- has been simmering tweeted, “We agreedtomaintain ment in the border village. Arnab Goswami in the TRP (tel- titioners. He also submitted that cials on Mondaysaid the since the formation of the lawand order situation of the The standoffbetween Tripura evision rating points) case, it thepetitioners would cooperate situation has calmeddown. Mizoram as aseparate area so that peace returns imme- and Mizoram over Phuldungse should firstissue summons to with the investigation. Assam Chief Minister stateinthe 1980s. diately. We resolve to work to- villagestarted in August, when him. It said that if summons are Opposing the plea, Senior Sarbananda Sonowalspokeover According to an agree- gether formaintaining brother- Tripuraauthorities found that issued, Goswami should appear Counsel Kapil Sibal and Devadatt the phone with Prime Minister Security personnel and officials at the siteSunday. Twitter ment between govern- hood between both the states.” 130residentsofthe Jampui Hills before the police and cooperate Kamat,appearingforthestateand NarendraModi, Home Minister mentsofAssam and Zoramthanga'sofficetweeted: hamletwereregisteredinthe with the investigation. Mumbai Police Commissioner, Amit Shah, and his Mizoram Mizoram some years ago, “Home Minister@AmitShah, electoral rolls of both states, and The Division BenchofJustices saidthepetitionwas “entirelypre- counterpartZoramthanga. the MHA,including the Kashmir carryingfoodandotheressentials, status quoshould be DoNER Minister had ration cards and enjoyed SSShindeandMSKarnikalsotold mature”. The investigation is still In Delhi, Home Secretary division, LeftWing Extremism whosedriverswere apprehensive maintainedinno-man’s @DrJitendraSingh, Home public welfarebenefitsfromboth the Mumbai Police to submit its on and Goswami is noteven AjayBhalla held avirtual meet- division and the Police division. yesterday, willgo today. Theyhave land in the border area. Secretary&others have tele- sides of the border. investigationpapersrelatedto the namedasanaccusedinthe FIR, ing with chief ministers and “The situation is currently been assured by both sides that However, clashes have phonedHCM @ZoramthangaCM The NorthTripuradistrict ad- case in asealedcover by Sibal said. The right to freedom of chief secretaries of both states. under control and violence has thereisnothing to worry.” eruptedfromtime to regarding the situation in ministrationalsofoundthatapart November 4. speechgrantsprotection to air Sources in the twostatesand abated.Bothstatesare working “Officials on both sides have time over the issue. Mizoram'sborder.Theyexpressed of Phuldungsei wasshown as be- TheBenchwashearingapeti- your views but notfrominvesti- the MinistryofHome Affairs towardsmaintaining calm and spoken and resolvedthe issue of supportofthe CM's wish for ing in Mizoram’s territorial area. tion filedbyARG Outlier Media gation, he said. (MHA) said the MHA has con- we arehopeful this won't recur," the roadblock. If necessary, po- peaceful resolve of the situation.” Subsequently, alocaltribalorgan- Pvt Ltd, whichruns Republic TV, The Benchalso referred to the veyedtoSonowaland an MHA official said. lice escortwill be providedby and one of them is admitted to "The issue has been festering izationcalledSONGRONGMAan- seeking quashing of the Mumbai petitioners’ contention regarding Zoramthangathat the firstpri- Violence brokeout Saturday Assam on their side and by hospital. On Assam side, one per- since the British Raj, when inner nounceditwouldconstructaShiv PoliceFIRinthecaseandthesum- the press conference and inter- ority should be to stop violence between residentsofLailapur vil- Mizoram police on our side,” son sufferedminor injuries, an lines were demarcated accord- temple,followingwhichMizoram mons to itssenior officials. views givenbytheMumbaiPolice and maintain calm at the border, lageinAssam’s Cachar district Kolasib Deputy Commissioner H Assam Police officer said. ing their administrative needs. opposedthe move and issued Alleging aracket to “spike Commissionerinthecaseandsaid and that anyborder disputebe- and residentsoflocalities near Lalthangliana said. Mizoram officials said the Unfortunately, it could notbe prohibitoryorders in the village. TRPs” by Republic TVand twore- “thereisatendencyby investigat- tween the twostateswould be VairengteinMizoram’s Kolasib According to officials in twostateshad agreedsome settledonce and forall when the On Saturday, Tripura gionalchannels,BoxCinemasand ing officers to disclose about the resolvedindue course. district. This wasthe second such Mizoram, whichshares a165-km years agotomaintain status quo statewas created in independ- Additional Home SecretarySAK Fakt Marathi, the Mumbai Police ongoinginvestigationsinsensitive Sources said both were also clash between residentsofthe boundarywith Assam, the vio- in the no-man’s land in the bor- ent India. The result is both states Bhattacharya wrotetohis coun- lastweek issuedsummons to cases”.“We donotknowifitisthe informedabout acommittee of twostatesthis month —on lence brokeout on Saturdayafter der area, but people from continue to have adiffering per- terpartinMizoram, requesting eight persons, including the chief correctmethodto give interviews four joint secretaries, whichwas October 9, thereweretensions on some people from Lailapur Lailapur allegedly built some ception of the border,” asource the withdrawal of the orders. financialofficer(CFO)of Republic to themediaby policeofficersand formedthree months agobythe the border of Assam's Karimganj startedthrowing stones at temporaryhuts, whichpro- privy to the issue said. On Sunday, Mizoram with- MediaNetwork.Thepetition,filed disclose ongoing investigation. It MHA to resolve border disputes and Mizoram's Mamit districts. Mizoram police personnel de- vokedpeople on the Mizoram drew the prohibitoryorders fol- lastweekaftertheSupremeCourt is notonlyhappening in the pres- among states in the Northeast. “No incident of violence has ployednear the border. “In turn, side. Jalli, however, said the con- EXPLAINED lowing dialogue between the two asked Republic TV to firstap- ent case, but has been happening The joint secretaries, sources said, been reportedsince yesterday Mizoram residentsmobilisedand tested land belongs to Assam as stategovernments. “Prohibitory proachthe High Court, sought an in other matters wherethe inves- will visit all inter-state borders (Sunday). We areinconstant went afterthem,” Lalthangliana per the state’s records. ASSAM-MIZORAM,AND order… issuedbythe under- interim stay on the investigation. tigation is in progress. We arenot and talk to stakeholders to resolve touchwiththeconcernedofficials had said on Sunday. In an official statement, THE OTHER BOUNDARY signed…herebystands revoked Italsoaskedthecourttodirectthe attributingthisto anyone,butoffi- disputes and settle the issues. inMizoram,”KeerthiJalli,Deputy According to Mizoram offi- Sonowalsaid he had apprised ISSUES IN N-E with immediateeffect...,” an or- MumbaiPolicenottotakeany co- cers arenot supposedtogivein- The bureaucratshavebeen Commissionerof Cachar,toldThe cials, at leastseven persons on the Modi about the latestsituation PAGE 14 der by Mizoram's Mamir DM ercive stepsagainstthechannelor criminating material to media,” drawnfromvarious divisions of Indian Express Monday. “Vehicles Mizoram side sufferedinjuries, and informedthe PM about his Dr Lalrozama on Sundayreads. itsemployees, including their in- said Justice Shinde. vestigation and questioning. Sibalsaidhewasinagreement While the petition sought in- andhadearlierspokenoutagainst Centre NDA will return to terim protection from arrest for suchpractice. “When an investi- ‘CAA delayedbyCovid, Goswami, the Benchnoted gationby CBI,NIAetc.isbeingcon- that he wasnot an accusedat ducted,the officers continually hikes poll this stage. give media statementstopreju- power with two-thirds SayingthattheMumbaiPolice dicethetrial,”hesaid.“Thereisan- implementation soon’ expenditure was “determinedtofalselyimpli- othersideto thestory. Mediatrial majority, says Shah cate” the channel and “silence isgoingononTVchannels,includ- limit by 10% news reporting”doneby it,thepe- ing Republic TV.This has even EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE tition asked forthe case to be been deprecatedby the Supreme KOLKATA,OCTOBER19 transferredtothe CBI. Court.Itisaviciouscircle,”hesaid. EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE ItsaidthepoliceFIRwasavio- Afterhearingthesubmissions, BJP PRESIDENT JPNadda NEWDELHI,OCTOBER19 NEWDELHI,OCTOBER19 lationof thefundamentalrightto the Benchnoted that if the inves- Mondaysaid the implementa- freedom of speechand expres- tigation officer issues summons tion of Citizenship (Amendment) THE UNION government on UNION HOME MinisterAmit sion,andsoughtdisciplinarypro- to Goswami, as per Salve’s sub- Act(CAA) wasdelayeddue to the Mondayamendedthe election Shah on Mondayexpressedcon- ceedings againstMumbai Police mission,Goswamiwouldhonour pandemic and the lawwill beim- rules to increase the campaign fidence that the NDAwill win Commissioner ParamBir Singh it and appear before the police to plemented soon. expenditurelimit by 10 per cent two-thirds majority in the up- for “gross dereliction of duty and cooperatewith the probe. The Nadda wasaddressing party forall futureelections. coming Bihar Assemblyelec- abuse of power”. Benchalso said that if suchsum- workers at ameeting in Siliguri in Candidates contesting elec- tions and Nitish Kumar will be Appearing forthe petitioners, mons areissued, Goswami could north Bengal wherehealso tions in Bihar will be the firstto Chief Minister. Amit Shah senior counsel Harish Salve and move theCourtforrelief.Thenext slammedthe West Bengal gov- benefit from the development as “We will win with atwo- Milind Sathe told the courton hearing has been scheduledfor ernment foradopting a “divide the expenditureceiling forthe thirdmajority and Nitish Kumar Mondaythat no offence was November 5. and rule policy” and stopping BJP chief JP Nadda on avisit to Siliguri on Monday. PTI statepolls is nowincreasedfrom will be our Chief Minister… being partofthe NDAatthe benefitsofCentre’s schemes from Rs 28 lakh to Rs 30.8 lakh. Resultswill be very good,” Shah Centre, but notcontesting as part reaching the people of the state. The notification came more told Zee News in an interview of the allianceinBihar,Shah said, “Due to Covid-19pandemic, rule.... When election comes, the floral tributes at the statue of than amonth afterthe Election telecastedonMonday. “Thereare onlyfour parties -- Zee News argues to protect the implementation of CAAwas stategovernment makesefforts Panchanan Barma at Noukaghat Commission (EC) had proposed Criticising the Opposition, HAM, JD(U), VIP and BJP -- in delayed. However, as the overall to unitethem all by providing Morenear Siliguri. He also of- the hike, giventhe constraints Shah said, “On one hand, there NDAinBihar,” Shah said. source, HC says you are situation is improving slowly, doles. But onlyNarendraModi feredprayers at Anandamoyee posedbytheCovid-19pandemic. areblank promises and frighten- On aquestion about rela- rules arenow being framed. CAA has the ability to take everyone Kalibari temple. The lasthikeinthe expendi- ing backgrounds; on the other tions between India and China, will be implemented very soon along with him. The BJP does Responding strongly to tureceiling waseffected before hand, thereisconcretework, Shah said one musttry to im- no prosecuting agency and all of youwill getthe bene- what it promises to the people. Nadda’s remarks,Trinamool the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. whichhas been done in the past, proverelations with the neigh- fits of the law. We arecommit- “Mamata didi stoppedthe Congress MP Derek O’Brien said As reportedbyThe Indian and arobuststrategy for bour,but we cannotsacri- sources. He referred to Section 15 tedtoit,” said Nadda. benefitsofCentre’s Ayushman in astatement, “The ironyisnot Express on September 10,the future. fice our interests in order SOFIAHSAN (2)of thePressCouncilAct,which The BJP president wasona Bharat from reaching out to the lostwhen the President of the commission,initsproposalto the “Ithink the people to improvethe relation- NEWDELHI,OCTOBER19 protects “anynewspaper,news day-long visit to the statetotake poor people in the state. BJP talksabout ‘divide and rule’. LawMinistry, arguedthat cam- of Bihar would likethe ship. agency,editor or journalist” from stockofthe party’s organisa- Unfortunately, the Mamata ‘Divide and rule’ is aploylearnt paigning during apandemic will concreteworkdone by “We triedtoimprove THE DELHI High Courton disclosureof“the source of any tional preparations and strength Banerjee government has notal- from the colonialpastand be challenging forcandidates.In the NDAgovernment. (the relationship), but MondayquestionedZeeNews for news orinformationpublishedby ahead of the 2021Assembly lowedPM-KISAN Samman Nidhi playedout deviouslyevery day order to followthe Commission’s Therefore, we will win DECISION wheneverwefelt that an makingpublicthepurported “dis- that newspaper or receivedorre- polls. During the visit, he held Yojana in West Bengal,” he said. by your party.Overthe lastsix restrictions on rallies and meet- the Bihar election with 2020 attemptwas being made closurestatement” of an accused portedbythatnews agency,editor separatemeetings with party “We assureyou that if we years, your party has done ings, candidates will end up with averygood majority,” BIHAR to encroachour border, in acase related to the Northeast orjournalist”duringproceedings leaders, MPs, MLAs and social come to powerinBengal, we will everything it can to ‘divide and moresmall gatherings to avoid he said. we gave abefitting re- Delhi riots,saying it wasnot a before the Press Council of India. and religious groups. provide the scheme forall farm- rule’ the people of this great na- crowding, whichwill lead to Shah said that people ply,”Shah said. prosecutingagencyandthedocu- He also referred to a “pro- Targeting the stategovern- ers in the state. If youvotefor the tion. Also, we did afactcheckof addedexpenditure. of Biharwillcertainlycompare He expressedhope that the ment, whichhas “little eviden- posed” provision of a1983Law ment, Nadda said, “Prime BJP in April, then we will imple- your speechtoday. Likeyour two The LawMinistry's Monday the 10 years of Congress rule, 15 standoffwill be resolved tiaryvalue”inatrial,hasbeenpor- Commissionreport.However, the MinisterModi ji’s policy is inclu- ment the schemes in one other ‘senior’ colleagues, there notification is silent on whether years of Lalu Prasad and 15 years through dialogue. trayed as something that courtobserved that something sive and foreveryone’s develop- month,” Nadda said. were gaping holes in it. But no, the increase will be withdrawn of Nitish Kumar. “25 years of rule “Iwant to saythat no one will “completely indictsaperson”. whichisnot in the statutebook ment. Our sloganisSabka Saath, He also expressedconfidence we will notdefile this auspicious once the pandemic is over. —10years under Congress and be able to encroachonaninchof “It is amisrepresentation of cannotbereliedupon. Sabka Vikas. On the other hand, that the BJP will form the next occasion. This is aspecial time for The expenditurelimit for 15 years under RJD —has ruined land in India. This is afirm deci- factsofadifferentlevel,”observed Saying that the courthas to MamataBanerjee’s government government in the state. all of us in Bengal. Let’s keep it stateand Parliament elections Bihar,”hesaid. sion of the government of India,” Justice Vibhu Bakhru. Saying that weigh between the constitu- believesinthe idea of divide and Earlier in the day, Nadda paid that way.” differs from statetostate. On aquestion about the LJP Shah said. the documents “were notsup- tional rightsoftwo persons, posedtobetaken out and pub- Aggarwal said the petitioner had lished,”thecourtaskedZeeNews earlier “confessed” that he “did BJP MP ASKS TO BE NOMINATED TO DIFFERENT HOUSE COMMITTEE to fileanaffidavitanddisclosethe nothaveregardfor the Actor withdraws from Murali source of the alleged confession Constitution of India”. by the accused. “Ithink youare crossing aline TRP case: Dubey writes to The courtalso rejected the here. Youhavenomaterial what- biopic after request from cricketer channel'srequesttobeallowedto soevertomakethisallegation.You disclose the name of the journal- arenot the prosecution agency. Speaker on Tharoor tweets the project “considering the sen- ist, who got the statement, in a We have foundthatyourconduct, EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE timentsofTamil people.” sealedcover. “Youmake(public) primafacie,hasbeenremiss…the Clause’ in the Speaker’s direction Committee in an effective man- CHENNAI,OCTOBER19 On Monday, Muralitharan is- documentswhichare notsup- police itself has instituted avigi- LIZMATHEW forthe parliamentarypanels. ner,” Dubey wrote. suedastatement asking posedtobetaken out and you lance enquiry(into) howyou ac- NEWDELHI,OCTOBER19 The Standing Committee on In aseries of tweets,Tharoor FOLLOWINGOUTRAGE from Sethupathi to backout from the wantyournameto beconcealed,” cessedthe documentswhich IT,whichwas recentlyreconsti- hasquestionedcorporatesforgiv- Tamil nationalists and asection project. Thanking the cricketer, the courttold AdvocateVijay should nothavebeen leaked in BJPMPNishikantDubey,whoear- tuted and Tharoor wasre-ap- ing advertisementstocertain of film personalities and politi- Muttiah Muralitharan and Sethupathi sharedthe statement. Aggarwal, who appeared forZee the firstplace. Please refrain from lier sought removalofCongress pointed as itschairman, is look- channels. “It is also an abject dis- cians in Tamil Nadu, actor Vijay VijaySethupathi Talking about asection that is News.Thesingle-judgeBenchwas making anyallegations against MPShashiTharooraschairmanof ing intothe alleged TRP fraud playoftruantbehavioronthepart Sethupathi has decidedtoopt “imposing pressureonactor Vijay hearing apetition filedbyJamia the petitioner,” the courtsaid. the ParliamentaryStanding case afterMumbai Police said of Dr Tharoor to abusively call the out of abiopic of Sri Lankan Sethupathi to withdraw himself Millia Islamia student Asif Iqbal Saying that the documents Committee on Information their investigation had revealed Republic TV as Repulsive TV and cricketer Muttiah Muralitharan. point out thereisfootage and from the movie due to the wrong Tanhaagainsthis“disclosurestate- “were notsupposedtobetaken Technology over the Facebook three news channels manipu- also making unsubstantiated in- The film, titled 800,was news reports suggesting the notions surrounding me,” ment” being allegedly leaked by outandpublished”,thecourtsaid row, has nowwritten to Speaker lated numbers in their favour. sinuations and rant againstvari- caught up in acontroversy over cricketer’s seemingly supportive Muralitharan said he doesn’t policeto themedia.Lastweek,the Article 19 (1) (a) wasnot an “un- OmBirla,accusingTharoorof “vi- “Since the conduct of ous reputable Companies / Sethupathi’s decision to playthe stand forGotabaya Rajapaksa, the want an artiste from Tamil Nadu courthad asked Zee News to dis- trammelledright” that can ex- olatingthe confidentialityclause Tharoor has nowbecome incor- Entities…,” the BJP MP wrote. titlerole,givenwhatmanyTamils island-nation’s President who to sufferbecause of him. close itssource afterDelhi Police pand and has no limitations. again” andappealedto“consider rigible I – being apublic repre- Opposition sources from the inSriLankaandinTamilNadube- wasthe war-time defence secre- The former international said none of itspersonnel had “Thereseems to be no doubt nominatinghim(Dubey)tosome sentative forthe thirdconsecu- standing committee have told lieve wasMuralitharan’s support tary,and other remarksmade to- spinner said the movie, planned leaked the purportedstatement. about it (publishing of the docu- other committee”. tive term – feel painedand The Indian Express that Dubey of theLankangovernmentduring wardsthe end of the civil war. as an inspirationfor futuregen- Aggarwal submitted that the ment). The officers that have Citing Tharoor’s tweets in therefore, to requestyour good- has notattendedmeetings of the the civil warwith the LTTE. In Tamil Nadu, film personal- erations, will materialise and journalistmay notbeaskedto dis- taken(it) out… aregoing to face whichhequestionedcorporates self to kindlyconsider nominat- panel since it wasreconstituted Even though Muralitharan ities suchasBharathiraja, Ameer, that the producers have assured closehissourceasthequestionof vigilance enquiry,”itsaid. “Prima about the funding to television ing me to some other commit- and that this issue wasnot dis- himself triedtoexplain his case, Thamarai and Cheran and even him that further information re- privilegeisinvolved, and journal- facie,we thinkyouhavegot noar- channels, Dubey said the teesothat Iwould once again be cussedinthe committee and andarguedthat he nevertreated astate minister, Kadambur C garding the project will be an- ists getinformationonthebasisof gument …but we will give it the Congress MP has “compro- able to participateinthe delib- hence, thereisnoquestion of Eelam Tamils with disrespect cit- Raju, had made statementsurg- nouncedsoon. "I will stand with an understanding with their consideration it deserves,” it said. mised” the ‘Confidentiality erations of the Parliamentary confidentiality violation. ing his ownTamil origin, many ing Sethupathi to withdraw from them,” Muralitharan stated.

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MAHARASHTRA SC asks SDMA to decide DurgaPujapandalsinBengal TRACKING INDIA’S COVID CURVE 231 CASES: RECOVERED:66,63,608 DAYSSINCE 75,50,273 DEATHS:1,14,610 on Nanded gurdwara PANDEMIC Dussehra procession outofboundsforvisitors:HC BEGAN TESTS: 9,50,83,976 | DOUBLING RATE: 85.65**

19 situation and that it had con- Says govt’s measures ‘well-intentioned’ but mayremain ‘pious wish on paper’ EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE sciouslydecidednot to allowany NEWDELHI,OCTOBER19 religious function to checkthe 10-metrezone beyond the ex- spread of the virus. SANTANUCHOWDHURY tremitiesof thepandalonallsides THE SUPREME CourtonMonday The board’s counsel pointed KOLKATA,OCTOBER19 willbeapartoftheno-entryzone. KEYSTATES TOTAL SURGEIN 7-DAYAVG DOUBLING asked the MaharashtraState out that it could be allowedwith In other words, the area covered TOWATCH CASES 24HOURS GROWTH* TIME** DisasterManagement Authority 40-50 people in attendance EXPRESSINGAPPREHENSION by thepandalsandtheadditional (SDMA) to take acall on the giventhat the stategovernment thatovercrowdingduringthefes- area around the pandals extend- ■ Maharashtra 15,95,381 9,060 0.62% 116.84 Nandedgurudwaramanage- has already allowedmarriage tive season could lead to an “un- ing 5m from the smaller pandals ■ Andhra 7,83,132 3,986 0.51% 141.13 ment board’s requestfor permis- ceremonies with 50 guests. controllable” rise in the number and 10mfromthe bigger pandals ■ Karnataka 7,65,586 7,012 1.08% 66.89 sion to conduct the annual As concerns were expressed of Covid-19cases, the Calcutta willhave to bebarricadedasano- Dussehracelebrations and the on the number of people who High CourtonMondayordered entryzone,” read the judgment. ■ Tamil Nadu 6,87,400 3,914 0.66% 108.80 Guru Granth Sahib procession. would join the procession along that Durga Puja pandals in West Also, the High Courtlimited ■ Kerala 3,41,859 7,631 2.42% 29.77 Aspecial benchofJustices L the wayifitisconducted some- Bengal will be out of bounds for theentryofPujaorganisingcom- NageswaraRao, Hemant Gupta time in afternoon, Solicitor the visitors “in public interest”. mittee members – 15 forsmaller *Compounded Daily Growth Rate over last7days**Calculated over 7-daygrowth and AjayRastogi asked the board General Tushar Mehta, appear- Hearing apublic interestliti- pandals,25forbiggerones.Alistof CASEFATALITYRATIO POSITIVITYRATE DAILYIN,DAILYOUT to file arepresentation in this re- ing forthe Centre, pointed out gation (PIL), aDivision Benchof namesof theorganiserswillhave 7DAYSEARLIER: 7DAYSEARLIER: DETECTED TODAY gard with the SDMA and said it that the procession would cover theHighCourt,comprisingJustice to be put up outside the pandals could approachthe Bombay 1.5kmand “theycould consider Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Arijit and onlytheycan enter forpuja- 1.53 8.10 55,722 High Courtifitisnot satisfied holding it between 7-9 am so Banerjee, said no one, barring se- related work,the courtruled. NOW: NOW: RECOVERED TODAY: with the decision. that onlythe persons participat- lect members of the puja organ- “Theonlyexceptionwouldbe 1.52 7.94 66,399 It asked the Authority to ex- ing in the ritual arethereand ising committee, would be al- forthe namedpersonnel, includ- Deaths as aratio of Positives against Becoming sick vs amine if the procession could be passers-byare notinvolved”. lowedtoenter marquee of the ing the priest, who will be identi- positive cases (in %); number tested recovering; more allowedtobeheld early in morn- The benchreferredtothe pandals. The Benchsaid, “When fied by the puja organisers in ad- indicator of progress (in %); indicator of recoveries for 14 days in averting deaths the spread of disease may signal the peak ing with limited gathering Jagannath Puri Yatrabeing held students... have been prevented vance and whose names would DataasonOctober18,releasedbyUnionMinistryofHealth,ICMRandstates.Oftendailynumbers The NandedSikh Gurudwara with acurfew in place and fromattendingeducationalinsti- At apandal in KolkataonMonday. Partha Paul be displayedfor checks to be includedatafrompreviousdays.Assuch,trendsbasedondailynumbersareindicative,notdefinitive Sachkhand Shri Hazur sought to knowifthe same could tutions formorethan six months made at anypoint of time. At the Abchalnagar Sahib Boardhad be done in the Nandedcase. andseveralstudentsstandto lose smaller pandals, 15 persons will approachedthe Supreme Court, But the Maharashtragovern- ayear,itisratherincongruousthat thoughthemeasuresannounced Directing puja organisers to be namedinthe listwho may seekingits nodfor the ‘Dushera, ment said it is notabout curfew Pujafestivitieswouldcontinueas by the stategovernment were barricade entrances to pandals, have access to the no-entryzone Takht Isnan, Deepmala and or barricades and that hundreds in the previous years.” “well-intentioned”, “theymay theHighCourtsaidthatareawith atalltimes.Thenumberwillbe25 Karnataka issues advisory on Gurta Gaddi’ whichitsaid has of people will come from across “Life has notbeen normal for onlyremain apious wish on pa- aradiusof 5metresforsmallpan- to 30inrespectof thebiggerto the been organisedfor about three the countryand crowdcontrol thehumanspeciessinceorabout perwithout anyblueprint being dalsand10 metresforbigpandals biggestpandals. These directions festivities during pandemic centuries. will notbepossible. March 2020anditmayhavebeen chalked out fortheir implemen- willbeoutof boundsforrevellers. will applytoall public puja pan- The stategovernment in an The Supreme Courtthen said better if restrictions were put in tation on the ground”. “...for the smaller pandals, a dals all over the state, including manydays or weeksshould affidavit told the courtthat al- it is something wherethe court placeasto howtheDurga Pujafes- TheHighCourtinitsorderlaid five-metrezone beyond the ex- the 34,000pujas, whichhaveob- EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE have adequatemeasures to en- lowing it will notbea“practically cannotinterferewhen the state tivities would be celebrated this down adetailedplan on limiting tremities of the pandals on all tainedgrantsfromthe state(gov- BENGALURU,OCTOBER19 sureacap on physical num- feasible option” giventhe Covid- is saying it is difficult. year,” the benchsaid, adding that entryofpeople to Puja pandals. sidesand,forthelargerpandals,a ernment),” it added. bers,” says the circular issuedon WITH Atechnical advisory October 14 by commissioner of committee advising the health and familywelfare Karnataka government to make PankajPandey. Daily Covid cases in Gujarat fall below 1,000; Junagadh, Jamnagar new hotspots Dasarafestivities asafeaffair on Atechnical advisory com- account of Covid-19, the gov- mittee constituted by the health At ameetingwithstatehealth Control (NCDC) director Sujeet mission in future. Surat rural, in the agerangeof15-60 years, percentof thesymptomaticrapid ernment has issuedguidelines department had earlier recom- EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE functionaries onMonday, several Kumar Singh and the Union VadodaraMunicipal Corporation whichisanactive agegroup antigen negative test samples to conduct festivities in amuted mendedvirtual Dasaracelebra- AHMEDABAD,OCTOBER19 issueswere flaggedby theCentre, health secretary. and Gandhinagar Municipal (working demography)...” withRT-PCRtests.Secondly, once manner,ensuring precautions tions forthe public – especially includingaobservationaboutdis- Singh, who gave apresenta- Corporation areinborderline ar- He addedthat in aperson testspositive tracking suchassocial distancing and with regard to the traditional GUJARATONMondayreported trictsofGandhinagar,Vadodara tion highlighting the Covid con- eas... Jamnagar sees 80-100cases Gandhinagar,Vadodaraand shouldbecompletedwithinthree use of masks. The stategovern- festivities in Mysuru. less than a1,000 fresh Covid-19 and Rajkot —wherehalf the pa- cerns in Gujarat, said, “Our main aday and Junagadh sees 30-40 Rajkot,thereisaneedtopay at- days.Thirdly, withthefestivesea- ment has advisedthat senior The celebrations beganina cases in aday forthe firsttime tientswho diedofCovid-19, suc- concerns on the basis of testsper cases aday... we mustfocus on tention on surveillance or early son,we suggestthecollectorscon- citizens and children be kept scaleddownmanner on since the thirdweek of July, even cumbedto theinfectionwithin48 millionandsamplepositivityrate testinghereandstrategiseaccord- detection to reduce fatality. duct ameeting with SPs (in re- away from gatherings. October 17. as the municipal corporation ar- hours of detection or hospitalisa- areJunagadh Municipal ingly...Timingof testingisalsoim- UnionhealthsecretaryRajesh spective districts) so that in case In acircular,the government According to the norms pre- easof JunagadhandJamnagarare tion. PresidedoverbyUnion Corporation and Jamnagar portant."PointingoutthatCovid- Bhushansaidstateshave to mon- festivities arepermitted,written has statedthat crowds should be scribe, only300 people should emerging as newhostpots,rais- health ministerHarsh Vardhan, Municipal Corporation that are related deaths have come down itor the situation closelyatleast permissionmustalsoincludecon- regulated“to ensurephysical dis- participateinthe Jumbo Savari ing concerns, Union health min- the meeting wasattendedby emergingashotspotsandmaybe- acrossthestate,Singhsaid,“Forty forthe next three months. ditions related to Covid norms... tance and frequent sanitization”. event at the MysorePalace on istryofficials said. National Centrefor Disease come areas of continuedtrans- per cent of our 3,600deaths was “It is important to retest 100 with penalty mentioned...” “Eventsplannedtolastfor October 26.

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and went afterthem,” Kolasib Deputy der Karimganj’sjurisdiction. Anbamuthan past argued againstthe demarcation noti- paper from the Manohar Parrikar Institute ABHISHEKSAHA Commissioner HLalthangliana said. told The Indian Express that the issue was ASSAM NAGALAND fied in 1933 becauseMizosocietywas not forDefence Studies and Analyses, violent GUWAHATI,OCTOBER19 beingresolved. MEGHALAYA Karimganj consulted.MZP’sVanlaltana said the Assam clashes and armedconflicts, markedby What ledtothis? Mizoram borders Assam’s Barak Valley; government follows the 1933 demarcation, killings, have occurredonthe Assam- Hailakandi OVER THE last one week,residentsofAssam “According to an agreement between bothborder Bangladesh.Mizoram civilsociety and that wasthe point of conflict. Nagaland border since 1965. In twomajor in- and Mizoram have clashedtwice overterri- governmentsofAssam and Mizoram some groups blame “illegal Bangladeshis” (alleged Lailapur Cachar The lasttimethe boundarysaw violence cidentsofviolence in 1979 and 1985,atleast tory,injuring at leasteight people and torch- yearsago, status quo should be maintained migrantsfromBangladesh) on the Assam side. MANIPUR wasinFebruary2018. The MZP had built a 100personswerekilled, The IndianExpress ingafew hutsandsmallshops.Itspotlightsthe in no man’s landinthe borderarea. However, “Illegal Bangladeshis arecreating all thistrou- built awooden rest houseinaforest, its has reported earlier.The boundarydispute long-standing inter-state boundaryissues in peoplefromLailapur brokethe statusquo ble. Theycome and destroy our huts, cut our Vairengte stated purpose being to serveasaresting for is nowinthe Supreme Court. theNortheast,particularly betweenAssamand and allegedly constructed sometemporary plantsand this time pelted stones on our po- MIZORAM farmers. Assam police and forest department On the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh the states that were carved out of it. huts. People from Mizoram side went and licemen,” said BVanlaltana, presidentofthe h officials demolisheditsaying this wasin boundary(over 800km), clashes were first Aizawl setfireonthem,” Lalthangliana said. On the students’ union MZP (Mizo Zirlai Pawl). Assam territory. MZP members clashedwith reportedin1992, according to thesame re- What were the recent clashes about? other hand, Keerthi Jalli, the DC of Cachar, Kolasib Assam personnel, who also thrashedagroup search paper.Since then,therehavebeen On Saturday,residentsofLailapur village told The Indian Express thatthe contested Howcomplexisthe boundary dispute? Mamit of Mizoram journalists who hadgone to severalaccusations of illegal encroachment Banglades in Assam’s Cachar districtclashedwith resi- land belongs to Assam as per state’s records. In the Northeast’s complexboundary coverthe incident. from both sides, and intermittentclashes. dentsoflocalities near VairengteinMizoram’s In the October 9incident, according to equations,showdowns betweenAssam and This boundaryissue tooisbeing heardbythe Kolasibdistrict. On October 9, asimilar clash Mizoram officials, the land claimedby Mizoram residentsare lessfrequent than plains of Cachar,and another of 1933 that de- What arethe other boundaryissues in Supreme Court. took place on the border of Karimganj Assam is being cultivatedfor along time by theyare between, say, Assam andNagaland marcates aboundarybetween Lushai Hills the Northeast? The 884-kmAssam-Meghalaya bound- (Assam) and Mamit (Mizoram) districts. residents of Mizoram. The DC of Mamit, residents. Nevertheless, the boundarybe- and Manipur. During British rule,Assam includedpres- ary, too, witnesses flare-ups frequently.As On October 9, afarm hut and abetel nut Lalrozama, has urgedthat status quo be tween present-dayAssam and Mizoram, 165 AMizoram ministertold The Indian ent-dayNagaland, ArunachalPradesh and per Meghalaya government statements, to- plantation belonging to twoMizoram resi- maintained. The Karimganj DC, km long today, dates backtothe colonial era, Express thatMizorambelieves theboundary Meghalaya besides Mizoram, whichbecame daythereare 12 areasofdisputebetween the dentswereset on fire.OnSaturday, some Anbamuthan MP,said that although the when Mizoram wasknown as Lushai Hills, should be demarcated on the basis of the separatestate one by one. Today, Assam has twostates. In Februarythis year,the Chief people from Lailapur startedpelting stones at contestedland washistoricallycultivated adistrictofAssam. 1875 notification, whichisderivedfromthe boundaryproblemswith eachofthem. Ministers of the twostatesspoketoeach Mizorampolice personneland Mizoram res- by Mizoram residents, on paper it fell The disputestems from anotification of BengalEastern FrontierRegulation (BEFR) Nagaland shares a500-km boundary other about the needtomaintain status quo idents. “In turn, Mizoram residentsmobilised within the Singla Forest Reservethatisun- 1875 that differentiatedLushaiHills from the Act, 1873.Mizo leaders have arguedinthe with Assam.According to a2008research and peace.

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APATIENT recovering method in thejournal JCI The government proposes to limit the amount of fertilisers eachfarmer canbuy during acropping season. from Covid-19 mayhave Insight.“Ourassayexam- developedantibodies, ines whether antibodies What is theobjective of this move,and what will itsimplications be,including on the subsidy bill? but this does notreally arepotentiallyprotective, tell them howmuchim- whichmeans theypre- munity theyhavedevel- PAPER vent apatient from rein- What is the fertiliser requirement of a oped. Some antibodies fection and blockviral HARISHDAMODARAN typical farmer? might protect the body, replication,” he said. NEWDELHI,OCTOBER19 It dependsonthe crop. Afarmergrowing some might notbeso, CLIP Tests withthis new irrigated wheat or paddy mayuse about while some antibodies assayshowedthat, over- THE CENTRE is working on aplan to restrict three 45-kgbags of urea, one 50-kgbag of might even cause harm NEWRESEARCH all, ICU patients had pro- the number of fertiliser bags that individual DAPand half-a-bag (25 kg)ofMOP per acre. to the body. ducedthe highestcon- farmers can buy during anycropping season. Atotal of 100bags would easily coverthe sea- Scientists at the Ohio State centration of neutralising antibodies, Whatare the implications, including forits sonal requirement of a20-acrefarmer.And University have developedanew lab andconvalescent plasma donors and fertiliser subsidy bill? that could possiblybeareasonable cap to im- testing procedurefor the detection of healthcareworkers had the lowest pose; thosewanting morecan well afford to antibodies, one that specificallyiden- antibody levels. What is fertiliser subsidy? paythe unsubsidisedrates forthe extrabags. tifies the “neutralising”antibodies “So the moreseverethe disease, Farmers buy fertilisers at MRPs (maxi- that protect againstinfection of cells. the higher the antibody levels pro- mum retail price) belowtheir normalsup- Howmuchsubsidy does afarmerreally “With manyassays currentlyin duced. And what this tells us is there ply-and-demand-basedmarket ratesor getper acre? use,wecan detect antibodies, but that is awide spectrum of different anti- what it costs to produce/importthem. Forthree bags urea, one bag DAPand half- doesn’ttell us if they’re neutralizing body levels afterinfection,” said Liu. The MRP of neem-coated urea,for in- a-bagMOP per acre,the farmerwouldspend antibodies. We only know thelevel of “...Our assaycould be usedtotell stance, is fixedbythe government at Rs atotal of Rs 2,437atexisting MRPs. The cor- antibodies someonehas,” the Ohio whether antibodies have been devel- 5,922.22 per tonne, whereas itsaverage cost- Farmers load fertiliser on atruck in Uttar Pradesh. File photo responding subsidy value – at an averageof StateUniversity’s Dr Shan-Lu Liu said opedinindividuals who have had plus price payable to domestic manufactur- Rs 13,000per tonne (Rs 585/bag) forurea, Rs in astatement. Liuisthe senior author contactswith SARS-CoV-2.” ers and importers comes to around Rs 17,000 511.55/bag forDAP and Rs 303.5/bag forMOP of aresearch paper describing the new Source: Ohio StateUniversity and Rs 23,000 per tonne,respectively.The sales to farmersbyretailers. Eachretailer — pronetodiversionfor non-agricultural use – will add up to Rs 2,418.3 peracre. difference, whichvaries according to plant- thereare over 2.3 lakh of them across India —asabinderbyplywood/particle board But then, farmers arealso taxedonother wise production costand importprice,is —now has apoint-of-sale (PoS) machine makers, cheap protein source by animal inputs. Take diesel,wherethe incidenceof INDIAACTIVE CASES 772,055 footed by the Centreassubsidy. linked to the Department of Fertilisers’ e- feed manufacturers or adulterant by milk excise and value addedtax is Rs 42.19ona The MRPs of non-ureafertilisers arede- UrvarakDBT portal. Anybody buying sub- vendors —apartfrombeing smuggledto litreretailing at Rs 70.46inDelhi. On 30 litres controlledorfixed by the companies. The sidisedfertilisers is required to furnish Nepal andBangladesh.The scopefor leak- of averageper-acreconsumption forpaddy 950,000 Centre,however, pays aflatper-tonnesub- his/her Aadhaar unique identity or Kisan agewas moreinthe earlier system, right or wheat, that will be nearly Rs 1,266. So, for sidy on these nutrients to ensuretheyare Credit Cardnumber.The quantities of the from the point of dispatch till theretailer everyRe1spent on fertiliser subsidy,more 883,185 pricedat“reasonable levels”. The per-tonne individual fertilisers purchased, along with end. With DBT,pilferagehappens onlyat than half is recoveredasdiesel tax. subsidy is currently Rs 10,231 fordi-ammo- the buyer’s nameand biometricauthenti- the retailer level, as thereisnosubsidy pay- In addition, farmers paygoods and serv- nium phosphate (DAP), Rs 6,070 formuriate cation,havetobecapturedonthe PoSde- ment till sales aremadethrough POS ma- icetax (GST)oninputs, rangingfrom12% on of potash (MOP) and Rs 8,380 forthe popular vice. Onlyupon the sale getting registered chines and subject to the buyers’ biometric tractors,agriculturalimplements,pumps 850,000 ‘10:26:26’ complexfertiliser,withtheircorre- on the e-Urvarakplatform can acompany authentication. and drip/sprinkler irrigation systemsto18% spondingaverage MRPs at Rs 24,000,Rs claim subsidy,with thesebeing processed on crop protection chemicals. Fertiliser it- 772,055 17,500and Rs 23,500per tonne, respectively. on aweeklybasis and paymentsremitted What is the next step being proposed? self is taxedat5%. And since there’s no GST Decontrolledfertilisers, thus, retail way electronicallytoits bank account. At present, the Centreisfollowing a “no on farm produce, theycannotclaim anyin- LAST 10 DAYS aboveurea, while theyalso attractlower denial” policy. Anybody,non-farmers in- put taxcredit on their sales, unlikeother Oct 9Oct 18 subsidy. What wasthe newpaymentsystem’s cluded, can purchase anyquantity of fertilis- businessmen. 750,000 underlying purpose? ersthrough thePoS machines. That obvi- Howisthe subsidy paidand who gets it? The main motive is to curb diversion. This ouslyallows forbulk buying by unintended What’s the wayforward? Note: The Oct 18 figureinthis graphisbasedonthe government updateonOct 19 The subsidy goes to fertiliser companies, is natural withany under-pricedproduct, beneficiaries, who arenot genuine or deserv- Thetimehas cometoseriouslyconsider although itsultimatebeneficiaryisthe moresoinurea, whose basic MRP (excluding ing farmers.While thereisalimit of 100bags paying farmers aflat per-acre cash subsidy farmerwho pays MRPs lessthanthe market- taxesand neem-coating cost) has been that an individual can purchase at one time, that they can use to purchase anyfertiliser. INDIATOTAL CASES WORLDTOTAL CASES determinedrates. Companies, until recently, raisedbyhardly11% from Rs 4,830 to Rs it does notstopanyone from buying any The amount could vary,dependingonthe 7,550,273 40,155,883 were paid aftertheir bagged material had 5,360 per tonne since April 2010.The same number of times. Oneplan under discussion number of crops grownand whether the land been dispatchedand receivedatadistrict’s period —fromwhen all other fertilisers were is to cap the total number of subsidisedfer- is irrigated or not. This is,perhaps, the only Source:MinistryofHealth&Family Source:JohnsHopkinsUniversity, railhead point or approved godown. decontrolled—has seen the per-tonne MRP tiliser bags that anyperson can buy during sustainable solution to preventdiversion and Welfare,updatedat11pmonOct19 updatedat11pmonOct19 From March 2018,anewso-called direct of DAPrise from Rs 9,350 to Rs 24,000,while an entirekharif or rabi cropping season.This, also encouragejudicious application of fer- benefittransfer (DBT) system wasintro- similarly going up forMOP (Rs4,455toRs it is expected,would end even retail-leveldi- tilisers,with the right nutrient(macroand duced, wherein subsidy payment to the 17,500) and ‘10:26:26’ (Rs 7,197toRs23,500). version and purchases by large buyers mas- micro) combinationbasedonproper soil test- companies would happen onlyafter actual Being super-subsidised, urea is always querading as farmers. ing and crop-specific requirements. 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character,pre-empting government criti- been in powerremains an open question. Army, andsaid “oneortwo personalities are NIRUPAMASUBRAMANIAN cism of aforeign hand in theseprotests. notthe entireinstitution, but one or two MUMBAI,OCTOBER19 Howwill the Armyrespond? people can defame the entireinstitution…” What does the PDM want? Bajwaand the ISI chief, Lt Gen Faiz The PakistanArmycravespublic legiti- TWOBACK-TO-BACKjoint opposition rallies Itsmain demand is that the Imran Khan Opposition Hameed, arereportedtohavehad ameet- macy.Itwould be worriedatbeing identi- inPakistanwithtensof thousandstakingpart government mustgo. It hasalleged he was supporters ing with key opposition leadersin fied toocloselywith agovernment that has despite thepandemic,thefirstinGujranwala notsomuchelected as “selected”inthe at the September,and asked them nottodragin provedineptfromthe getgo. It would rather on October 16 andthe second in Karachi on 2018 election by the PakistanArmy. Karachi the Army. Sharif hasindicated,inasmany sacrifice individuals than the institution. Sunday, have setthe stagefor anew season Although the pandemic appears to have rallyon words, thathe“willnolonger be silenced”. During the election, Bajwawas the face of agame of thronesinthat country. tapered down, the report cardonImran Sunday. The Army's reaction will depend on the of the Army's plan to have Imran Khan Four big opposition parties, the Pakistan Khan's 27 months in office is dismal:ac- Reuters momentum the oppositionisable to gather. elected.His fate is inextricablylinked to Muslim League (Nawaz), PakistanPeople's cording to theWorld Bank,Pakistan's As the final arbiter,itwilldecide howmuch Imran's. BeforeBajwa retires in 2022, he Party, the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (Fazlur), growth rate hascontracted from 1.9% in leewaytoallowtheprotestors.Itwillundoubt- would want to line up the ducksforhis cho- and thePakhtunkhwaMilli Awami Party, FY2019 to –1.5% in 2020; and inflation is at attackonthe Army? Modi's game, in trying to weaken Pakistan edly factor in thepolitical fallout of acrack- sen successor.Thatperson, it is believed, is and some smaller ones, including the 10.7% this year,four points higher than in Sharif's speeches areunprecedented, by trying to topple his government, acharge down to itself, againstthe costsofmaking a ISI head Lt Gen Faiz Hameed, but it will not BalochNational Partyand the Pashtun 2019.What has kept Pakistanafloat is the and take his long battle with the Armytothe the PDM has refuted at both rallies by heap- dealwithpartsorthewholeof theopposition. be smooth, as thereare other contenders. Tahaffuz Movement, have come together to infusion of financial aid. next level. No politician, particularly one ing scorn on Modi and his actionsinKashmir, If the Armygets nervyabout being chal- Jettisoning Imrancouldtorpedo the plan, channelise public discontent at rising prices, But it is notjustImran Khan who is being hailing from Punjab, of Sharif’s staturehas and talking up communalism in India. lenged politically, it mayreviewits relation- as it would weaken Bajwahimself. But first, powercuts, closure of businessesand other targeted. Foratleastthe PML(N), the target is openlychallengedthe country's mostpow- The Kashmir issue, and Imran's inaction, ship with Imran Khan. Thereare manycon- Lt Gen Hameedhas to commandacorps to economic misery. Their alliance is called clearly the PakistanArmy. From London, erfulinstitutioninthis manner. Most of the as perceivedinPakistan, is oneofthe big tenders within Imran’sparty waiting in the be considered forthe topslot, forwhich PakistanDemocratic Movement (PDM). whereheisunder treatment aftersecuring Army, from general to soldier, is drawnfrom themes of the protest—“Imran Khan did wingsfor the topslot. therehas to be afullreshuffle. Postingout a The PDM has also launchedGen Next bail from hisimprisonment in acorruption the Punjab province. This is also the firsttime nothing to protect Kashmir or Kashmiris, trustedintelligence chief will deprive Bajwa leaders of political dynasties: NawazSharif’s case,NawazSharifhasmadetwothundering suchanattackhas come from the opposi- he did adeal on Kashmir,the Armydid a But doesn't the Armyowe Imran forthe of apowerful ally. All in all,thisisastill de- daughter MaryamNawaz, andAsifAli attacks againstthe Army'srole in politics in tion when an electedcivilian government is deal on Kashmir” —was arecurringtrope three-year extensiontoGen Bajwa? veloping complexthree wayhandshake. Zardari’s son BilawalBhutto. The counter- Pakistan, singling out Armychief General in office. But the Imran Khan government in speeches at the tworallies. That is partofthe problem, but could intuitive choice of Maulana Fazlur Rahman, Qamar JavedBajwa by name to blame him has declaredmanytimes that it is “on the The 2013 Sharif government wasIndia's also be thekey to Imran's survival. The ex- What next? head of theJUI(F) as president of PDM, side- forPakistan'sills.Onbothoccasions,heaccu- same page” as thePakistanArmy. Theop- best chance forrapprochementwith tension had to be approved by Parliament, The eventual plan is foralong march in steppedapossible leadershiptussle be- sedthe Army and GenBajwa of ousting him, position alliance is thus targeting both. Pakistan. Sharif's overtures to Indiamade and wasnot popular within the Army. JanuarytoculminateinIslamabad in ashow tweenthe Sharifsand the Bhutto-Zardaris. thejudiciaryof colludinginthis,andtheArmy the PakistanArmyjumpy.While his re- Sharif’s repeated namingofBajwa seemed of strength.Morerallies areplannedinthe The Islamistmaulana also brings to the PDM of havingbecome “astate aboveastate”. Howhas Imran responded? movalasPMwasasetbackfor India- to be signalling thatheheld no grievance build-up to that. The next one is in Quetta, asizeable Pashtun following, asubstantial Imran has hit out at the oppositionfor Pakistanrelations,how he might have re- againstothers in the Army. In Karachi, on October25. Howitgoes could provide a hardline right wing element, and anational What this so remarkable about this playing India and Prime MinisterNarendra acted to the changes in Kashmir had he Maryam Nawazshoweredpraiseonthe clue as to whatthe Armyintends to do next.

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Internationalmarket data till 1900IST ‘INDIA NEEDS TO MOVE AWAY FROM THE SOCIALISTIC BAGGAGE’ Insurers’entry in surety bond Havenotclosedtheoptionfor biz for infra projects proposed arenot providingany waivers on GEORGEMATHEW ED Actsas collateralsforgrantingbankguar- MUMBAI,OCTOBER19 contractual antees. Big corporatefailuresre- PLAIN E sulting in non-performing assets ● BIGCONSTRUCTIONandinfrastr- EX obligation have drivenbankstoexercise anotherstimulus:Sitharaman uctureprojectsmay soonwitness tighter controlsinissuing bank the conceptofsuretybond as an IN LARGEconstruction or guarantees. The National Highw- optionandalternate to bankguar- infrastructure projects, ays AuthorityofIndia(NHAI)rece- sible to be done within the given intoadigital society;transforma- antees.AWorkingGroupof insur- bank guaranteeorsurety ivedrepresentationsfromcontra- ENSECONOMICBUREAU ‘ANNOUNCEMENTAFTERCONSULTATIONS’ constraints. Quoting Plutarch, tion in education sector to ance regulator Irdai has already bondisacontractual req- ctorsanddevelopersasobtaining NEWDELHI,OCTOBER19 Singhsaid:“To findfaultiseasy;to strengthenthe skill base in India recommendedissuanceofsurety uirement or precondition bank guarantees were becoming “EVERYTIME we have do better maybedifficult”. The through linkages among educa- bonds by insurance companies of the projectowner for very difficult,the panel said. FINANCE MINISTER Nirmala announced one, it is aftera bookalsotriesto addresswhether tion, skill training and employ- whichwill function as the per- awarding an order to the In 2016,the Department of Sitharaman on Mondaysaid the lotofconsultationswith the Covid-19pandemic is likea ment;and lastlyamovement formanceordeliveryobligationto contractor.Ifthe contract FinancialServices had written to governmenthasnotclosedtheop- various sections of “1991 moment in our history” away from fossilfuels towards complete an insured project. is nothonoured,the bank Irdai to explorethe possibility of tion of one morestimulus to sup- society,” said Finance whereweare forced to push the completelyrenewableenergyover The panel, headedbyformer or insurance firm is called introducing suretybonds in portthe economy. TheFinance MinisterNirmala resetbutton, Singh said. the next three decades. NewIndiaAssuranceChairmanG upon to paythe bond or favour of the Central Boardof Ministryhasstarteditsassessment Sitharaman at an online Reliance IndustriesCMD Ambani said his firstimpres- Srinivasan, has proposedthat the assure finalisationofthe IndirectTaxesandCustoms(CBIC) of the likelyeconomic growth for conference to launchthe Mukesh Ambani,who partici- sion of Singh wasthat “the IAS InsuranceRegulatoryandDevelo- contractual obligation. to facilitatetrade by substituting the current year and will release autobiographyof15th patedinthediscussion,saidsome guyshavestyle”andhewasstruck pment Authority of India (Irdai) bank guarantees. theestimateswhentheyare ready. Finance Commission of themostsecond generationre- by hisunendingcuriosityandabil- mayallow insurers to enter the In the wake of the Covid-19 Speaking at an online confer- Chairman NK Singh. forms have been takeninlastsix ityto deliveroneconomicreforms. suretybond insurance business uctsintheglobalmarket.Though pandemic and consequent eco- ence to launchthe autobiography months in agriculture,labour and Speaking at the event, withsolvencymarginabove acer- in manynations originallybanks nomic impact on liquidity and of 15th Finance Commission education sectors. He said thereis Singapore’s Senior Ministerand tain threshold as the experience issuedbonds, the security pro- cash flowissues in the banking Chairman NK Singh — Portraits of (PrimeMinister’sOffice)andthen federal structureinthe country, needtosupport small and Coordinating Minister forSocial of suretybond insurance is yetto videdbyaninsurer hasproven sector,the MinistryofRoad Power: HalfaCentury of Being at take afinal call. Yes, Ihavenot shesaid:“Federalismisneededto medium enterprises and order to Policies Tharman Shanmu- developinthe Indianmarket and equallyacceptable. Insurance Transportand Highwaysadvised Ringside —Sitharaman hopedfor closedtheoptiontocomeoutwith makeour countrystronger. We createanecosystem entrepre- garatnam said India’s challenges theriskexposureunderthisbusi- companiesinmarketssuchasthe Irdaito examinepossibleoffering improvement in the education one more stimulus,” Sitharaman needgreaterrobustnessinfederal neurship grows. Some of that is exceedthoseofmostsocieties nessisquitesignificant. US, Brazil, Mexico,Germany, of suretybond being issuedby sector and further opening up of said to responding to aquery. engagementasevenif onestateis happening already in the batter- facing Covid-19but the pan- The performance bonds is- AustraliaandthePhilippinesissue general insurance companies. theeconomytotheprivate sector. Amidthegovernmentplanningto leftbehind, it canslowdown iesandsolarmanufacturingareas. demicalso representsa“huge suedmay coverupto10-20 per suretybond and manyleading The proposal under consider- “Ihavenot closedthe option come out with apublicsector en- India’s growth potential.” To aqueryonwhat he wished opportunity” forthe countryas centorsometimesguarantee100 companiesinthesecountries ationisthatSuretyBondsbusiness foranother stimulus. Everytime terprise policy to open up allsec- Singh, who has had alongca- to be remembered for, Ambani the global supplychainischang- per cent of the projectvalue, the have setupseparatelinesof credit mayberevived with offering of we have announcedone,itisafter tors forthe private sector,she said reer as atop bureaucrat and afor- said it “should notbeabout him ing. This presentsanopportu- panelhasproposed.Suretybonds andbondswithsuretyofinsurers. suretybondsinitially to construc- alot of consultations with various India needs to move away from merMP, said his booktries to look buthiscontributionto thesociety” nity to become amajor pro- aretypicallyconditional,while The need forsuretybondfor tion companies including road sections of society and then we “the socialistic baggage”. at the brighter side of society and and he wishedtoworkonthree ducer of goodsand services for bankguaranteesare on demand, road and civilinfrastructureproj- projects,housing/ commercial work with ministries, the PMO Stressing the needfor arobust economyintermsofwhat is pos- things —transformation of India the world. andareofferedasinsuranceprod- ectswas felt since Indian banks buildings and other projects. Edelweiss AAA Cox &Kings loaned out`6,071 cr to at ‘Fibrebroadband market share ● 3MILLION: NUMBER OF SUBSCRIBERS CURRENTLY raises `6,600 cr growing, but penetration limited’ BEING SERVED BY FIBRE least20related partiessansboard nod BROADBAND IN INDIA India’s fibrebroadband is an underserved marketat ENSECONOMICBUREAU about 3million subscribers, and renewedefforts will help ● ~1.2 MILLION: NEW MUMBAI,OCTOBER19 SUBSCRIBERS ADDED BY actionstorelated parties. It said operators gain ‘walletshare’ among top-end of KHUSHBOONARAYAN A/c of one arm that got funds had some of the boardmembers of RELIANCE JIO DURING EDELWEISS ALTERNATIVE Asset MUMBAI,OCTOBER19 Cox&Kings had “professional re- consumption class, aCLSAreport said LOCKDOWN Advisors (EAAA) has raisedRs deceased manager as signatory lationships” with relatedentities. 6,600crore throughitsalternative AFORENSIC audit of Cox&Kings Mumbai:Sagar Deshpande, count wasusedtotransfer Cox&Kings, promotedand investment fund, ESOF III, the Ltd,the listedtravelfirm that has 38, the finance manager of fundsfromEzeegoOne to controlledbyAjayAjitPeter thetotal,andoverallbroadband largestfundmobilisation in the come under the scanner of the Cox&Kings,whosewasfound Redkite Capital Pvt Ltd, Kerkar and his family, wassentto penetrationisstillabysmalat7per privatecredit space in 2020 amid EnforcementDirectorate(ED)and dead on the railway tracks in ownedbyfour firms con- bankruptcycourtinOctober2019, centofall-Indiahouseholds subdued economic climate. the Economic Offence Wing of KalyanonOctober12,wasthe trolledbyAnil Khandelwal, afteritdefaulted on payments. “This fund raise,amidstthe MumbaiPolice (EOW),hasfound officialsignatoryof analleged chief financialofficer (CFO)of Whilethe promotergroup owns WALLETSHARE: subduedeconomic climate, is a the companydid nottakeboard “undisclosed”bankaccountof Cox&Kings and Naresh Jain, 12.20 per cent shares in the com- Walletshareorshareofwalletis strongendorsementof theoppor- approvalsfor Rs 6,071 croreloans EzeegoOne Travel and Tour theinternal auditorofCox & pany, thepublicownstheremain- amarketingtermusedtodenote tunities in the Indian alternative extendedtoatleast20relatedpar- Ltd,asubsidiaryofCox & Kings. Both Khandelwal and ing 87.80 per cent. Cox&Kings portionofcustomer’sspendona assetmanagement space, as well ties between 2014 and 2019. Kings, officialsfamiliar with Jainhave beenarrestedby the owes Rs 5,500crore to banksand particularitem,orservice as the robustand unique private The audit conducted by the ongoing probeintothe ED under the Preventionof financialinstitutions,anditisone debt platform of Edelweiss Asset PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) bankrupttravelcompany said. MoneyLaundering Act of the topborrowers of YesBank 7.9 million: Total 1million: New WHYISITIMPORTANT: Management (EAM),”Edelweiss hasfoundthatthecompanyreco- Sources said this bank ac- (PMLA). ENS Ltd when co-founder Rana wireline broadband connections added to wireline Theadditionthisyearsofar,is Financial Services said. rded related party loans and ad- Kapoor wasincharge.Yes Bank subscribers with Bharat broadband market amid the higherthancumulative0.9 It said the ESOF III strategy has vances of Rs 9,494 croreduring has an exposureofoverRs2,267 Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL), pandemic and lockdowns — millionsubscriberadditionover generatedstronginvestorinterest the same period, of whichabout Further,the PWCauditfound croretransferredfromCox & croretothe Cox&Kings Group. making it the largest more than in FY17-20 FY17-20,aspertheCLSAreport, and has receivedcommitments Rs 4,008 crorewas loaned to 11 thatrecoverablesof atleastRs589 Kings to afew connectedentities The travel firm came under incumbent player combined as per Trai data whichalsopointedthatIndia frommarqueeglobalinstitutional overseasentitiesconnectedto Cox crorefrom11disclosedrelated were never “discussedinany of the lens afterthe ED initiated a wirelinebroadbandmarkethad investors,whichincluderecentin- &Kings.Aspertheauditreportre- parties arebasedona“generic” the board/finance committee probeintoallegationsof kickbacks 20 million: Total GROWINGSHAREOFFIBRE: stagnatedatmere0.3millionan- vestmentsbythe Canadian viewedbyThe Indian Express,out memorandum of understanding meetings”ofthelistedtravelfirm. takenbyKapoor in lieu of grant- subscribers in India’s wireline Withinwirelinebroadband,share nualaddsoverpastthreeyears Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan of theseoffshoretransactions, whichcannotbe“legallyen- Theforensicauditalsoalleged ingloansto severalfirmsthathave broadband market so far this offibreisgrowingfasteryetitis Board, Florida’s StateBoardof transfers of Rs 581crore wasal- forced”incase of adefault. apotential conflict of interest of nowdefaulted on repayments. year, as per Trai data limitedat15percent/3millionof Source: CLSA/PTI Administration, Swedish Pension legedly done in violation of the The audit hasallegedthat in- theboardandfinancecommittee Fullreport on Fund-AP4 and aEuropean ReserveBankof India(RBI)norms. ter-corporatedepositsofRs2,565 of Cox&Kingsinapprovingtrans- www.indianexpress.com InsuranceInvestor,amongothers. BRIEFLY Thiruvananthapuram Unemployment rate in urban Wadhawanoffers Sebisetsup mktdatapanel airport leasing: HC areas at 8.4% in July-Sept 2019 ‘`43K cr’ofassetsto Mumbai:TheSecuritiesand ExchangeBoardofIndia rejects state govt plea quarterand 36.1 per cent in the repay DHFLcreditors (Sebi) has setupaMarket ENSECONOMICBUREAU FEMALEJOBLESSNESS same period in the previous year, DataAdvisory Committee writ petitions filedbythe State NEWDELHI,OCTOBER19 the datashowed. Rs 95,000crore. Adanihas bid for (MDAC)torecommendan EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE and the case setupbythem, ac- ■ Female State-wise breakup showed ENSECONOMICBUREAU DHFL’s wholesale and Slum appropriatepolicy forac- THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, cording to us, is aclassic example UNEMPLOYMENT RATE in ur- unemploymentrate thaturbanunemploymentrate MUMBAI,OCTOBER19 RehabilitationAuthority (SRA) cess to securities market OCTOBER19 of the proverbial ‘sour grapes.’” ban areas moderated to 8.4 per easedto9.7 percent in washigher than the national av- portfolio. Piramal has reportedly data, among otherfunc- “Interference to apolicy fra- cent in July-September 2019 July-September,from erageinUttar Pradesh, Kerala, AT LEASTfourbidders, including bid forDHFL’s retail portfolio for tions. The panel will be led THE KERALAHighCourt on medbythe electedGovernment from 8.9 per centinApril-June 11.3 per cent in Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh, the Adani group, Piramal around Rs 12,000crore. by Madhabi Puri Buch, Mondayrejectedapetition of the it is trite, is difficult, and the fee- 2019 and 9.7 per cent in July- April-June 2019,asper Delhi, Bihar,Chhattisgarhand Enterprises, US-based Oaktree Meanwhile, Wadhawan Whole-timeMember,Sebi. Kerala government challenging blechallengeraisedherein September 2018,the quarterly MinistryofStatistics MadhyaPradesh. and SC Lowy of Hong Kong have claimedthat the Rs 43,000 crore the Centre’s decision to lease out againstthe policy is devoid of Periodic Labour ForceSurvey and Programme Unemploymentdatafor ur- evincedinterestintakingoverthe offertolendersistoensurethat theinternationalairport hereto merit.’’ (PLFS) releasedbythe Ministry Implementationdata. ban areas is releasedquarterly. assetsof troubledDewanHousing maximum value is obtainedfor ‘5Grolloutmay Adani Group. Hours afterthe The statehad argued that by of Statistics and Programme This datasetdiffers from the Finance Corporation Ltd(DHFL). the assets which arebeingput on need`2.3tn’ high court verdict, Chief Minister awarding the tender to Adani, the Implementation (MoSPI) Annual ReportofPeriodic Labour In aparallel move,DHFL pro- theblockandmaximumamount Pinarayi Vijayantold the media central government had violated showed. cent in April-June 2019 and 12.7 ForceSurvey, whichcovers both moterKapilWadhawan,whoisin is paidtothe lender. NewDelhi: Totalcapital in- that the stateisagainst handing the promise that the statewould Urban unemployment in the per cent in July-September 2018, rural and urban areas and gives judicial custody,has written to R In aletterdated October 17, vestmentneededtorollout over the airport to Adani group. be allowedinthe management agegroup 15-29 years was20.6 while unemployment rate for estimates of employment and Subramaniakumar,the RBI-ap- 2020 sent from the Taloja jail, 5Gservicespan-Indiacould “Our stand is againstthe lease of the airport. It said the awardof per cent in July-September 2019, males stood at 8.0 per centin unemployment in both usual pointed administrator,offering Wadhawanhas stated that the bein the rangeofRs1.3 tril- out of the airport. The matter the tender to Adani wasvitiated lowerthan21.6per cent in the July-September,asagainst8.7 status (ps+ss) and CWS. familyassets“valuedatRs43,000 valuationof propertiesandassets, liontoRs2.3trillion,areport does notend withthe high court by arbitrarinessbecausethe previous quarter and 23.1per per cent in the previousquarter The sample size forthissur- crore” to facilitatethe resolution carriedout by KnightFrank, by research firm Motilal verdict. Furtheractionwould be group had no prior experience in cent in thesame period previ- and 8.9 per cent in July- veywas lowercovering1.76lakh process of DHFL. would be Rs 43,040 crore. Oswal said. ENS takeninit,” the CM said. developing and managing an air- ous year. September 2018. people and 44,471 households in Thelargestbidhascomefrom Wadhawan, in his letter,has of- Dismissing the state’s peti- port. The statealleged that the Female unemployment rate Labour forceparticipation July-September 2019 compared Oaktree,whichofferedaroundRs feredhis personal and family tion,aBenchofJustices KVinod tenderwas tailor-made to suit eased to 9.7 per centinJuly- rate rose to 36.8per cent from with1.79 lakh people and45,288 20,000-28,000croreforDHFLas- propertiesto bemonitoredto en- Fed’sPowellon Chandran and CS Dias said, “The Adani Group. September,lowerthan 11.3 per 36.2 per cent in the previous households in April-June 2019. setswhilethetotalclaimsareover surerepaymentofDHFL lenders. digitalcurrency London: In anydevelop- BULLETTRAINPROJECT GDP GROWS AT 4.9% AS AGAINST 3.2% IN Q2 ment of across-borderdig- Meet 75%ofFY21capextargetby ital currency,itismoreim- L&T lowest bidder for China’s recovery quickens portantfortheUnitedStates “to getitright than befirst,” Dec: FM to oil&gas,coalCPSEs the United States Federal Package C4 at `24,985 cr as consumption picks up ReserveChair Jerome ‘Govtasks at least8 Powell said on Monday ENSECONOMICBUREAU Fourth meetbyFMthis by three infrastructuredevelop- duringapanel discussion NEWDELHI,OCTOBER19 year about CPSE capex state-run firmsto ENSECONOMICBUREAU ment firms. REUTERS Retail sales grew 3.3%in ondigitalpaymentshosted MUMBAI/NEWDELHI, PackageC4isthe largest BEIJING, OCTOBER 19 Septfromayear earlier by theInternational DURINGAvideo conference on consider buybacks’ OCTOBER19 among all as it represents46.66 MonetaryFund. REUTERS Monday, FinanceMinisterNirmala CPSEs/undertakings with an an- NewDelhi:Indiahasaskedatleast per cent of the main-line. CHINA’S ECONOMIC recovery Sitharamanasked fourteen cen- nual capexbudget of Rs 500crore eightstate-runcompaniesto con- LARSEN &Toubro(L&T) has Three biddersinvolving seven accelerated in the thirdquarter second quarter’s 3.2 per cent tral public sector enterprises and morethat theymustachieve sider sharebuybacks in thefiscal emergedasthe lowest bidder at majorinfrastructuralcompanies, as consumers shook offtheir growth. ExecutiveVC (CPSEs)inthe petroleum andcoal 150per cent of initial capextarget year that runsthrough March Rs 24,985 crorefor constructing including the Tatas, had partici- coronavirus caution, although “The weaker-than-expected ofIL&FSquits sectors to accelerate spendingto of Rs 4.9 lakh croreinFY21. 2021, twogovernment officials the 237.1kmunder PackageC4of patedin the competitive bidding, the weaker-than-expected headline figures weighedon achieve75percentof theirannual Monday’s video conference said.ThefirmsincludeminerCoal the 508.17 km Mumbai- the NHSRCL said. headline growth suggestedper- China’s yuan and mainland NewDelhi: Infrastructure (FY21) capextargets by theend of wasthefourthby theFMthisyear India,powerutilityNTPC,minerals AhmedabadHigh-SpeedRail, Others bidders were “Afcons sistent risksfor one of the few stockbenchmarks andcapped LeasingandFinancialServi- December quarter. relatedto CPSEcapex.Sitharaman producer NMDC and Engineers alsocalled MAHSR BulletTrain InfrastructureLimited IRCON drivers of global demand. broader market gains in ces (IL&FS) Group on Mon- The elevenCPSEs,whichat- asked the CMDs of the 14 CPSEs, India Ltd, said one of the sources. project, the country’s biggestin- International Limited JMC Gross domestic product Asia.The world’s second-largest dayannouncedresignation tendedthemeeting,includeONGC, secretariesof administrative min- “Buybackisanimportant tool frastructureproject to date. ProjectsIndia Ltd-Consortium (GDP) grew 4.9 percent in July- economygrew 0.7 per cent in of itsexecutive vice chair- Indian Oil, BPCL, GAIL (India) and istries of petroleum and coal to inourstrategyandithelpsinbuild- The National High-Speed and NCCLimited Tata Project Ltd September from ayear earlier, the firstninemonths from a man Vineet Nayyar. PTI Coal India. As reportedearlier,the closelymonitor the capexper- ing market price,” added the sec- Rail Corporation (NHSRCL) -J.Kumar InfraProjectsLtd.- HSR officialdatashowedon year earlier,the National Bureau finance ministryhas told formance. FE ond official. REUTERS openedfinancialbids submitted Consortium,” NHSRCL said. Monday. It wasfasterthan the of Statistics(NBS) said.

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BRIEFLY CSK’s hopes Tottenhamcollapse Shami’sblock-holeblockbusterover onBale’sreturn seem all but With justfiveruns to defend in the firstSuper Over on Sundaynight, fast bowler excelledwith yorkers TottenhamwastransformedbyGareth over after Bale'shomecoming,justnot intheway that Jose Mourinho had imagined. SHAMIKCHAKRABARTY Cruising 3-0 when Bale came offthe KOLKATA,OCTOBER19 SHAMIIN1STSUPEROVER benchinthe72ndminuteagainstWest RR defeat Ham, Tottenham incrediblycollapsed BOWLINGASuper Over mustfeel different 0.1(1RUN): Awide-lowyorker, de in agame it had been in control of to from delivering the 20th over of achase in a Kock tries to ramp on the full. draw 3-3 in the Premier League on T20.Ithas the quality of aset-piece about it. 0.2 (1 RUN): Sharma attemptsan SYNOPSIS Sunday.Itwaswithalmostthelastkick Cutofffromtherest of thegame,adriftinapar- inside-out to afull ball. of the game that Manuel Lanzini allel universe with itsown setofrules, it has 0.3 (1 RUN): Wideyorkertode Buttler takesRoyals home after blastedashotfromdistance intothe thewhiffofaFast Draw aboutit.Somebowlers Kock,hitstodeep cover CSK’s muddledbatting approach roof of the nettosnatchapoint that justseem better equippedtohandle it. seemedextremelyunlikelywhen Son And so, when Mohammad Shami lin- 0.4 (NORUN): AyorkertoSharma. Heung-min scored in the firstminute geredatthe topofhis run-up, with justfive 0.5 (1 RUN): Another yorker, VISHAL MENON and Harry Kane netted twice by the runs to defend, notmanywould have felt he Sharma tries the ramp shot OCTOBER 19 16thminute.“It'sdifficultto believe,we would be able to do it, as Kings XI Punjab’s 0.6 (1 RUN, WICKET/RUN OUT): losttwo points, threw them away," survivalwas at stakeinthe IPL, and Mumbai WideYorkeragain, de Kock hitsto THERE IS asense of impending doom every Mourinho said. Indians’ Quinton de Kock and Rohit Sharma extracover. time MS Dhoni gets run out. Alacklustre were at the crease. Jasprit Bumrah’s bril- batting performance notwithstanding, liance, when MI bowled in the firstSuper Chennai Super Kings seamers provideda Nationalthrows Over,had restricted the victorytargettoa batsmen also don’t use the crease fully. A glimmer of hope when theyhad Rajasthan eventpostponed very chaseable one. Unsurprisingly,Bumrah Pollardwould have either gone well outside Royals in strifeat28/3. had gone with yorkers. the crease or retreated backtotry getting un- Ultimately, it wasJos Buttler’s masterful The inaugural National Throws Shami has the yorker but doesn’t rely on der the ball. With justfiveruns to overhaul, unbeaten 48-ball 70 that steered them Championships, the onlysenior level it. He likes to mix them up, oftenchoosing these twodidn’t feel the necessity to extend through choppywaters. event slated this year,was on Monday back-of-length balls, bouncers or slowerones. themselvesthus. Theyperhaps thought this The 7-wicket win catapulted Steve postponedindefinitelybytheAthletics In this tournament, he has even shown achild- could be done the traditional way. Smith’s team to fifthspotinthe points Federation of India (AFI) due to the ris- likejoyous obsession with his knuckle-ball “When youare nailing them (yorkers), it table, and with achance of clinching aspot ing cases of COVID-19inthe country. slowerones. He took out ViratKohli with a seems to be happening automatically. When in the playoffs. Forbottom-placedCSK, they Thetwo-daymeetwasscheduledtobe knuckle-ball bouncer,avariety he uses spar- youare not, it’s acompletely different story,” could do with abit of soul-searching. held in Patiala on October 26 and 27. ingly.Heheld his arms aloft, asmile rapidly Rabada again, from lastyear. "Weconsulted chief coach, high-per- filledhis face, and had alook of joyashe In the hereand now, Shami ranintobowl. CSK’s muddledbatting approach formance director and other coaches glancedatKohli, before his eyes jerkedaway. His firstball wasanattemptedyorker out- Rarely does one see bowlers exerting and theyexpressedtheir concern on Subsequently, in that game and in the ones side off. It endedupasalow full-toss, whichde complete control over batsmen in an IPL risk of exposureofathletestoCOVID- that followed, the knuckle ball has bled Kock triedtoramp, unsuccessfully.Rohit faced game. That’s exactlywhat transpired when 19.Afterconsultationwithall,we have boundaries too. the next ball, another attempted yorker,and Chennai Super Kings batsmen were up decidedtopostpone the throwscom- Shami’sreluctance to go all-yorkers in the MohammedShami defendedsix runs againstMumbai’s Rohit Sharma and scored another single, trying to playitinside- againstRajasthan Royals in AbuDhabi on petition until further notice," AFI pres- pasthas been understandable as he doesn’t Quinton de Kock during the firstSuper Over. BCCI out. The thirdball wasawide yorker.Once Monday evening. Theywerefacing afiery identAdilleJSumariwalasaidinastate- have the control of aBumrah. It has, everynow again, de Kock couldn’t forcethe pace. JofraArcher and twodisciplinedleg-spin- ment. "Wefeel the conditions arestill and then, slippedout as afull toss, under pres- Shami's fourth ball wasadot,acopybook ners in Shreyas Gopal and Rahul Tewatia, notconducive to hold acompetition sure. Typically, he goes foranassortment of mustfeel likeanuntameable beast. Both don’t move around their crease too yorker that Rohit triedtoplayopening the face on aslow, gripping surface. due to COVID-19pandemic situation. deliveries in the end overs, in the belief that Lastyear,inasuccessful Super Over face- much; theycertainlydon’t ramp toowell and of the bat to trybeating shortthirdman and Despitethese challenges, therewas no Sinceitwasanopencompetition,there variety would work in T20s. And to be fair,it offagainstKolkataKnight Riders, Delhi aren’t known fortheir lap shots.Theymight backwardpoint but couldn’t pierce the gap. excuse fortheir shoddy batting perform- wasarisk forathletestravelling from has worked,evenifabit inconsistently. And Capitals’ Kagiso Rabada had talked about his try, as theydid, but it doesn’t have the threat Fifthball, and Shami nailedhis yorker again. ance. Ascoreof125/5 waspretty abysmal, outside. "AsIhaverepeatedly saidear- the batsmen with their ramp shots and re- choice of yorkers. “In the regular 20 overs, of aJos Buttler. Rohit attempted aramp, got an outside edge one that hardlygavetheir bowlers a lierthatforusthewell-beingof ourath- verse laps rack up the pressuretoget the yorkers wasPlan B. In the Super Over,itwas and scampered asingle. Tworuns to getoff chance. The real issue wasthe utter lackof letesisofutmostimportanceandcom- yorker inch-perfect, resulting in mostbowlers Plan A. (Some days)you can be positive with Different mindset the final delivery,and another excellent yorker intent from their batsmen. Chennai lost petitions will be held onlywhen the losing their nerve. twothings youwant to do, todayitwas just Both areexplosive batsmen but areessen- restricted the scoring to one, as de Kock was their twoin-form batsmen -Faf du Plessis situation is conducive," he added. Last yorkers.” tiallyopeners and don’t carrythe aura of ama- run out, going forthe second. and Shane Watson -inside the Powerplay. month,theAFIhadcancelledthisyear's Clear plan, great execution Rabada also made it clear that he had de- rauding big hitter.Inthe bowler’s mind, the Perhaps, since it wasShami, the twobats- In the eight overs afterthe field restrictions, allnationalchampionships,barringthe “He (Shami) wasveryclear he wanted to cidedonyorkers before he took the field for threat is different. Especially, when Shami had men were also unsureifhewould go all-york- CSK choked under the pressureappliedby throwsevent,inviewofthe pandemic, go six yorkers,” KXIP captain KL Rahul said af- that Super Over.Asdid Shami, with his pre- decidedhewas going with yorkers. The two ers on them. That might have influencedsome the Royals’ spinners. virtuallybringing the season to an end terthe match. That’s asurprise, apleasant one. determinedclarity. openers might bebest equippedskill-wise to of their decision-making and reflected in Bowling in tandem, Gopal and Tewatia without anycompetition. AGENCIES He hasn’t always shown that sortofclarity in The choice of weapon wasperhaps dic- put away aseaming or swinging delivery to some of the weak shots theyplayed. Shami concededjust32runs and removedSam the past. Without aclear focus, the Super Over tatedbythe batsmen -Sharma and de Kock. the rope, but yorkers aredifferent. These two had done the unthinkable. Curranand Ambati Rayudu. From 43/2 af- tersix overs, Chennai stuttered to 85/4 in the 14th over.The onlycrumb of comfort came during a51-run fifth-wicket stand How Champions League will change during the pandemic between Dhoni and RavindraJadeja. But even this partnership did little to drag them to aposition of respectability.The CSK cap- Howisthe scheduling this season? tain, who has looked apale shadowofhim- TUSHAR BHADURI UEFAsays the season “will be played With coronavirus cases on the rise in the football world, including self in this tournament, notonlystruggled NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 19 out in itsentirety, in itsexisting (tradi- with his timing, as the big hitsalso deserted tional) format with the final in Istanbul” one of the biggeststars Cristiano Ronaldo, UEFAhas put measures in him. Dhoni’s gamble of keeping wicketsin- Europe’s biggestclubs begin their questfor on May29nextyear.The Turkish city was place to ensurethat itspremier club competition can proceedon tact forapotential blitzkrieg in the end the HolyGrail, the UEFAChampions due to hostthe showpiece game lastsea- neverpaid offashewas run out in the 18th League, on Tuesday, but though the pres- son before the pandemic intervened. schedule. Matches can go ahead if eachteam has at least13fit over forarun-a-ball 28. tige and gloryassociated with it remains players, including agoalkeeper. intact, the competition has introduced Is it morehectic than ever? Buttler takesRoyals home some regulations in light of the ‘newnor- The six rounds of group games – that Shane Warne calls Jos Buttler his crick- mal’ that the worldisfacing. begin on Tuesday – arescheduledtobe eting crush. Forgood reason. Over the Bayern Munichwerecrownedcham- over on December 9, i.e. in eight weeks. In If thereare travel restrictions in place Howmanysubstitutes areallowed? years, the wicketkeeper-batsman has been pions of the continent less than two contrast, lastseason’s group stageran for forahostcity,agame can be playedatthe As wasthe case with ‘Project Restart’ at an irresistible forceinthe shorterformats months ago. aweek shortofthree months. away venue or even aneutral venue. the end of lastseason, five substitutions forEngland and Rajasthan Royals. Barring Theyhaven’t had toolong to celebrate The Round of 16 ties will be held in will be allowedper team in amatch. A that 70 in the lostcause againstMumbai as theyopen their title defence against February-March with the quarterfinals in What if ateam refuses to take to the sixth will be allowedifaknockout game Indians, this season had been agrind for Atletico Madrid on Wednesday. The late the firsthalf of April and the semifinals in pitch? goes intoextra-time. the 30-year-old. But he came with atypical finish to lastseason has notonlyreduced lateApril and early May. If ateam refuses to playorisconsid- But therewill be onlythree opportu- counter-attacking knockthat easedhis the gapwith the newseason, it ered responsible forthe matchnot taking nities to makesubstitutions (four if there’s team to victoryonMonday. has also curtailedthe time be- Will therebespectators at place, theywill be deemedtohavefor- extra-time). Therecan be amaximum of What made the knockmoreimpressive tween twoties in this campaign. venues? feited the game. 12 players on the substitutes’ bench. were the circumstances under whichitwas UEFAwill allowfans at If this applies to both the teams in orchestrated. What happenedlastseason? stadiums “at amaximum of Man United’s Edison Cavani could geta question, both will be disqualified. In pursuit of 126, the Royals had lost Afterfootball resumedafter 30 per cent of capacity”, but chance to face his former club PSG. three wicketsupfront forprecious little on months of hiatus, UEFAwas E whether spectators areal- What if infections render ateam KEYCLASHES theboard when Buttlerwalked out to bat. ● forced to stagethe tournament, EXPLAINED lowedisdependent on local unable to play? But he absorbed the pressureand took con- quarterfinals onwards, behind administrations. If ateam has players and/or officials trol of proceedings to ace the chase. Man United vs PSG closeddoors in Lisbon. premier club competition can proceedon testing positive forCOVID-19and as are- The unbeaten 98-run stand with Smith The last-eight and last-four stage What do newregulations stateonthe schedule. Matches can go ahead if each sult, unable to playthe matchbeforethe Chelsea vs Sevilla took Royals pastthe finish line with the matches were one-offaffairs and not minimum number of players ? team has at least13fit players, including a deadline setbyUEFA, theywill be deemed Barcelona vs Ferencvárosi TC captain playing second fiddle. playedonhome-and-awaybasis as was With coronavirus cases on the rise in goalkeeper. to have forfeited the game. BRIEF SCORES: RR 126/3 in 17.3 overs (Jos usuallythe case. the football world, including one of the Even if postponementsare unavoid- TVGUIDE: LiveSonyTen 2and Sony Buttler 70 notout) beat CSK 125/5 Thecompetition finishedalmostthree biggeststars Cristiano Ronaldo, UEFAhas What’s the wayout if the hostcity fora able, the group stagehas to be completed Ten2HDfrom12:30 am (Wed) (RavindraJadeja 35 notout, JofraArcher months behind schedule. put measures in place to ensurethat its matchdoesn’t allowvisitors? latestbyJanuary28. 1/20, Shreyas Gopal 1/14) by 7wickets. Conquering mind to rule court: Swiatek’s secret to French Open triumph

healthprofessionalby herside,letaloneadvo- ShecoachedPoland'snationalsailingteam forSwiatek "because she lovesthose interac- GAURAVBHATT cating forothers to do the same. And forten years, studiedpsychology and transi- tions." ForSwiatek,Abramovicz channelled NEWDELHI,OCTOBER19 Abramovicz couldn't be prouder. tionedintoworking with cyclists and swim- theyoungster'slove forAC/DC,PinkFloydand "I respect that alot," Abramovicz tells The mers.TheassociationwithSwiatekbeganlast GunsN'Rosesandadvancedmathematicsinto WHEN ROLAND Garrosannouncedthe new Indian Express. "I appreciatethat she's willing year. tools. Throughout the FrenchOpen, Swiatek datefor women's singles final, October 10, to talk about it. And it won't be an exaggera- wouldmarch onto thecourtwith'Welcometo sports psychologistDaria Abramovicz turned tionto saythatI'mproudof herbecauseit'snot Covid-19impact the Jungle' pumping through her earphones. to then-unheraldedIga Swiatek and said: an easy topic to speak about. But Idobelieve, Abramovicz believesasimilar desireto ForthefinalagainstAustralianOpenchampion "Okay, nowyou can give me the best birthday as acoach, and as an athlete formany, many learnandknowmoreaboutmentalhealthhas SofiaKenin,Abramoviczchangeditto soothing gift." Her ward respondedbybecoming years, that it is very important." been the silverlining of the Covid-19. jazz because the GnR number was"alittle bit Poland'sfirstGrandSlamsingleschampionon Abramowicz, 33,took up sailing at five "The pandemic has shown notonlythe tooloud and energetic and toofastfor that." Abramovicz'sbirthday—also,incidentally, the and competedinthe Olympic single-handed sports environmentbutthesociety,thatmen- "Wehavealot of research in terms of mu- WorldMental Health Day. dinghyclass before an injuryforcedher to re- talhealth is important in terms of asatisfying, sic'sinfluenceontheperformance,butit'seven “The psychological work is very complex tire. It wasduring her time as acompetitor securelife. In my experience, alot of athletes, simplerbecauseshelovesmusic,it'sanimpor- and continues all the time. Daria understands that she realisedthat ahigh-performance teams, coaches, parentshavedecidedthat it tant partofour life. Ithought, let's use it in our me very well and we talk alot.She justmade athlete's struggles could be morethan just might be agood time to startworking on this work.The same waswith maths when Ifirst mesmarter,”Swiatektoldreportersafterwin- physical or technical. sideof sports development,notonlyhighper- sawher solving problems before acompeti- ning the FrenchOpen without dropping aset. "I was15and competing in the European formance," she says. tion.Usethesethingsforhertraininganditbe- “Youshouldnotthinkthatapsychologistisfor tournament.AndIrememberthatIwassailing The pandemic break also worked for comes an enjoyable approach." peoplewithproblems,Ithinkheisalsoforpeo- absolutelyperfectlyduring training sessions Swiatek."In her second professional season, It'sbeenlittleoveraweeksincethatdayof plewhowantto develop.Thework thatwe do justbeforethe competition, and then some- therewerethe finals at school, the Tokyo doublecelebrationinParis,andTeamSwiatek with Daria maynot be ideal foreveryone, be- thinghappened.Ididn'tknowwhatitwas,and Olympics... that would be alot forIga in one is on alittle vacation together. cause noteveryone would be ready to allowa thecoachcouldn'texplainitto me.Otherpeo- year.Itisalittlebitfortunateforhersomeways, "The other day, Iasked her,'afternine team member intotheir lives, but my advice plecouldn'texplainitto me.Theinternetwas- butontheotherhand,we workedalot to cope weeksonthe road together,ifwe'restill not is to tryand see howitworks." n'tsopopular,wedidn'thave manysourcesof with other factors," Abramovicz adds. fedupwitheachotherandwantto spendmore Sports psychologistDaria Abramowicz (extreme left) has playedaprominent role It'snoteverydaythata19-year-oldathlete knowledge or experience. Ididn't knowbut I Likegetting usedtothe tennis bubble and time together,wemustbedoing something in FrenchOpen champion IgaSwiatek's rise. Instagram realises the importance of having amental wanted to know." thelackofcrowd,"strangeanduncomfortable" right," Abramovicz laughs.

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