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The waterhas turneda AndhraPradesh ChiefMinister contumacious’ listofstar resultssofar on troops returning NarendraModi and poisonous green, with garbage No.of YSJagan Mohan Reddy’s letter THE SUPREMECourt Monday campaigners to their April locations —the sta- Chinese President Xi seats collected over the years and a PhaseII to ChiefJustice of India SA stayed the Election Commission tus quoante, before the startof Jinping areset to meet sheet of mosquitoes over itssur- 94 Bobde, complainingagainst General KKVenugopal on order revoking former Madhya the standoffinMay —but the eachother at three vir- face. Foryears, allthat the Doms No.ofvoters Contesting Justice NVRamana, andthe Monday,however, declined con- Pradesh Chief MinisterKamal “Weare staying your order,” Indianestablishment is hopeful tualsummitsthis month herehaveasked from their morethan candidates state’s move to makeitpublic sent to initiateproceedings Nath’s name from the listofstar Chief Justice of India SABobde, of “partial disengagement”at cer- —ofthe BRICS, SCO, politicians is to at leastremove 2.85 cr 1,463 “couldcertainlybesaidtobesus- againstReddy forcriminal con- campaigners forthe Congress headingathree-judgeBench, told tain friction pointsinthe region. G-20. Ahead of these the waterand levelthe land, es- pect” in the wake of the latter’s temptofthe Supreme Court. party in the stateAssemblyby- Senior Advocate Rakesh Dwivedi Sources said this is largely meetings, the twosides peciallyafter afive-year-old fell order to expeditetrial in cases In alettertoAdvocate polls —elections to 28 seatswill who wasappearing forthe EC. supposedtotranslateintothin- will hope to dial down and drownedhere10years ago. MORE REPORTS againstlegislators, Attorney CONTINUEDONPAGE2 be held Tuesday. CONTINUEDONPAGE2 ningoftroops massed by the the tensions somewhat. “Once, theycame and threw PAGE 13 twosides on the northand south CONTINUEDONPAGE2 banksofPangong Tso. Friction pointsalso remain in Gograand since June, movement of troops HotSpring areas aftersome ini- and artillery by either side has AN EXPRESSINVESTIGATION PART THREE tial disengagement. onlyincreasedinthe region. Nov 3ishere: in Biden While sevenroundsoftalks This move to effect some Fraudwent on uncheckedeven as red at the levelofthe Corps thinningoftroops by either side home town, nostalgia Commanderhavetaken place CONTINUEDONPAGE2 and hope line up to vote flags were waved in Centre and state Get environmental ABHISHEKANGAD THE Have started RANCHI,NOVEMBER2 EXPLAINED SCHOLARSHIP probe: Naqvi clearance for HCMTR ON OCTOBER 31,barely48hours SCAM RACE FOR GUIDETOTRACKING after TheIndianExpress told him project: NGT to PMC THE WHITE THEU.S.RESULTS that official records had listed listofcomplaintsand redflags — ESHAROY HOUSE PAGE 10 180beneficiaries from his school from theCentral Governmentto NEWDELHI,NOVEMBER2 acquiring279.77acresof landand BUSINESSASUSUAL forthe Centre’s pre-Matricschol- stateanti-corruption officials to EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE removing 1,982trees. The project EXPRESS arship forminoritystudents, the school owners in Jharkhand — UNION MINIS- PUNE,NOVEMBER2 —tobuild a35.96-km ringroad BY UNNY whentheBidenfamily movedout principal of Blue Bells in warning of fraudand forgerybya TER of Minority stretchtodecongestcity roads — INTHEU.S. of Scranton,Pennsylvania.Later Jharkhand’s Ramgarhrushed to nexus of middlemen, school and Affairs Mukhtar THE NATIONAL Green Tribunal wasproposednearly 40 years ago regretting it, the Kearns patched the nearestpolice station. bankstaff,andstateemployees,to AbbasNaqvisaid (NGT)onMondaydirected the and is nowestimated to costRs up the wood carving in the bed “Wehavenot appliedfor any illegallydivertfunds from the na- Monday that PMC to getenvironmental clear- 5,192crore. 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Fraudwent on tration) at the Jharkhand State labour,and Scranton was sometimes even roadkill. But Minorities Finance and pridefulofits working-class then, we became aware, and the findings of itsinvestigation Development Corporation (JS- grit.Labour unions, astrong stopped,” he says. that trackedhundredsofappli- MDC), the implementing Timing of Jagan letter suspect: AG coreofAmerica’s industrial This “awareness”did not cationsfrom15schools in six agency,“the scholarship portal revolution, gainedpolitical and come from government inter- districtsand showedhow mul- is notveryrobust”. Ashwini Upadhyay, who had Ministertothe Chief Justice of ditiously. As youyourself have inal contempt of theSupreme economic clout, winning foun- vention, but from the work of tiple layers of verification, from On September 2, he wroteto sought his consent to initiate India, Hon’ble Mr.Justice S. A. pointed out, thereare 31 crim- CourtofIndia,” he said. dational worker protections. Bahishkrit Hitkari Sangathan, an the school to thestate level, AdityaSSingh, Under Secretary, criminal contempt of courtpro- Bobde. The letter wasthen re- inal cases pendingagainstthe Upadhyay,inhisletterseek- “It wasamarkofpride to organisation ledbySanjeev failedtodetect the scam -- de- Minority Affairs Ministry, about ceedings againstReddy and the leasedtothe press by Sh. Ajeya Chief Minister,”hesaid. ing consent, had said Reddy’s have ajob even when youwere Kumar,anMBA graduatewho spitechecks like Aadhaar IDs the “technical” problems of the Chief Minister’s Principal Kallam,Principal Advisor to the “In this background, prima letteranditssubsequentrelease young,” 50-year-old Kearns returnedfromDelhi in 2005 to and fingerprints, and systems NSP that did notallowfor cross- Advisor Ajeya Kallam, Chief Minister, at apress confer- facie, the conduct of thesaid to themediaby Kallamatapress said of his days working in Khagaria. Kumar is fighting likeDirect Benefit Transfer verificationatthe statelevel. Venugopal said since the mat- ence on 10.10.2020. The Chief persons is contumacious. conference “scandalise the au- kitchens or delivering the elections forthe firsttime from (DBT) and the National “Weare notable to see the ac- terispending before the CJI, it Justice is thereforewell aware However, what has to be noted thority of the Supreme Court newspaper.“The union culture the neighbouring Khagaria seat Scholarship Portal (NSP). count numbers of beneficiaries, will notbeappropriatefor him of the natureofthe allegations is, that the entirecase of con- and the High Court” apartfrom celebrated the worker.” forthe Plurals Party. On Sunday, JharkhandChief leaving little scope forcross ver- to deal with it. He did point out containedinthe said letter.” temptarises out of the letter “interfering with the courseof Shah said he movedto The Plurals Partyisheaded MinisterHemant Soren reacted ification,” Xaxa said. though that the conduct of “I am of the opinionthat the dated 6.10.2020 written by the judicialproceedingsandthead- Scranton from Vadodarabecause by LSEgraduatePushpam Priya to the findings by ordering a But thereisnoanswer to Reddy and Kallam is prima fa- timing itself of the letter,aswell Chief Minister directly to the ministrationofjustice”. his hardworkwas rewarded Choudhary, who is the daugh- probeand promising to revamp howthe redflags were ignored. cie “contumacious” –wilfully as itsbeing placedinthe public Chief Justice of India and the He contendedthat“if this with better jobs forhis children, terofJD(U) leader Vinod the verification system. Chief disobedient or rebellious. domain through apress confer- subsequentpress conference kind of precedent were al- who areinmedical training and Choudhary and is contesting SecretarySukhdevSingh said ‘Checks do not Writing to Upadhyay, ence could certainlybesaidto held by Sh. Kallam. The Chief lowed, political leaders would asoftwarecompany. “Whenyou from BankipurinPatna. verification “has been stopped” happen’ Venugopal said: “I have care- be suspect, in the background Justice of India is therefore startmaking reckless allega- work here, the work is appreci- LaunchedinMarch,the party’s till theprobe is completed. fullygone throughthecontents of the order passed by Justice seizedofthe matter.Hence it tions againstjudges who do not ated,” the 62-year-old said. “This websitesays it is crowdfunded And yet, with the Centre Former Chief Secretary of your petition. Ifind that the Ramana dated 16.09.2020,di- would notbeappropriate for decide cases in their favour and countryisgood forimmigrants and wantstoend dirty politics granting Rs 61 croreto Tiwary did notrespond to re- objectionable statementshave recting pendingprosecutionsof me to deal with the matter.For this trendwould soon spell the and the Democratsare working fora“progressive”Bihar. Jharkhand under the scheme for quests forcomment on the ac- been made in aletterdated elected representativestobe thesereasons,Ideclineconsent death knellofanindependent forthe immigrants.” 2019-2020,the big question be- tion takenafter the alertfrom 06.10.2020 written by theChief takenupand disposedofexpe- to initiateproceedings forcrim- judiciary”. But Parini said his town is Get ing asked nowisthis: Whywere the Centre lastyear.BJP leader still nostalgic forthe “good all the warnings ignored? and Chief Ministeratthe time, days”between the 1950s and environmental One of these alerts came on Raghubar Das, and the then 70s. When manufacturing and July5,2019, when theSecretary, stateWelfareMinisterLoius SC stays EC orderonKamal Nath,panelsays willreply mining took ahit, so did the clearance for Union MinistryofMinority Marandi, did notrespond to re- “Who has givenyou power Reacting to the develop- takenafter Thakur encouraged deliveredon13.10.2020”, was families in town. Kearns grew HCMTR Affairs, wrotetothe then quests forcomment. to delistacandidatefrombeing mentsinthe court, an EC offi- the crowdatarallytochant passedwithout anynotice, up around conversations of Jharkhand Chief SecretaryDK Following the NDA's defeat astarcampaigner or aleader of cial said, "The Hon'ble Supreme “desh ke gaddaron ko goli without hearing from him. mine subsidence. Coal compa- project: NGT to Tiwary,warning of “repeatedat- in the statepolls, aJMM- the party (under the law),” the Court is supreme. EC has been maaro…(gun down traitors)”, On October 13,hehad de- nies had desertedtown, taking tempts to subvert” the NSP,es- Congress-RJDgovernment took CJI asked him. givenanopportunity to file are- and Singh, in an interview, scribed Chief MinisterShivraj the columns holding up the PMC peciallyatthe verification stage over lastDecember.Sources in DwiveditoldtheBench,also plyinthe matter,whichshall be claimedthattheShaheen Bagh Singh Chouhan “mafia” and mines as well. Now, thetown of applications. the administrationsaid the comprisingJusticesASBopanna filedatthe earliest." protesters could “enter homes “milawatkhor”. deals with collapsedland and Theylater appealedbefore Norms forthe scheme, Centre's letter was“forwarded and VRamasubramanian, that TheEC officialsaidNath's re- andrapesisters anddaughters”. Nath saidthe EC had issued sinkholes, along with mount- the NGTinthe matter."The hear- whichwas launchedbythe UPA to the WelfareDepartment”. hewouldfileareply. Hepointed movalasstarcampaigner dur- Appearing forKamal Nath, himnoticeonOctober21,aftera ing unemployment. ing on the application challeng- Government in 2008, statethat On Xaxa's complaint about outthatthematterhadbecome ing the election wasnot un- Senior Advocate KapilSibalsaid complaintbythe BJP,for al- “I remember what it was ing the process followedbythe applicationsneedtobeverified the NSP,official sources said the infructuoussince campaigning precedented.Earlier this year, the Commission hadnotissued legedly violating the Model liketowait foryour father’s pay PMC forthe construction of firstbydesignated nodal heads portalcontains the phone num- wasover. duringthe Assemblyelections anynotice to the Congress Codeatarally inDabra,Gwalior, checkbyFriday,”said Parini, HCMTR washeardbythe NGT in schools who areregistered bers of applicants. “Theverifica- Having astarcampaigner in Delhi,the EC had removed leader before passingthe order. on October 18.This wasthe day whose parentsmoved from today(Monday). The NGThas with district welfareofficers. tion is justacall away,” they means that it is the political BJP leader Anurag Thakurand In hisplea, Nath saidthe poll hehadmadethe“item”remark Italydrawn by coal. “That’s the directed the PMC to take envi- The applications arethen said. party that footsthe bill forex- Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma panel's October 30 order,"based againstImartiDevi,astate min- background Joe came from. His ronment department clearance checkedbythe district and state Therewereotheralerts,too. penditureincurredduring can- fromthe party's listofstarcam- on acomplaint by Bharatiya isterand the BJP candidatefor father wasstruggling.” Biden’s before implementingthe proj- nodal officers before being sent On July22, 2019,the Jharkhand vassing, notthe candidate. paigners. The decision was JanataParty againstaspeech the Dabra seat. father movedthe familyto ect," said petitioner Sarang to the Minority Affairs Ministry, Anti-Corruption Bureauwrote Delaware when he losthis job. Yadwadkar,adding that the NGT whichverifies and uploads to the PrincipalSecretary Parini said the economic will issue an order of the copyin them on the NSP before disbur- (Cabinet Secretariat) and scholarship in an unauthorised cations,’’ Naqvi said. “The result is that thereare Theyare union leaders with conditions in the town sank the next fewdays. salthrough DBT. Vigilance Department on a manner from our school...It is a Senior officials in the 1500-2000soldiers on each side the Pennsylvania Joint Boardof moreinthe years to follow. Yadwadkar said it wasnec- On paper,the system is fairly complaintithad receivedabout humblerequesttoyou to please Ministrysaid the scholarship, in at the topofthe ridgebetween Workers United.Almosthalf of “These places arehollowedout. essaryfor thePMC to seek envi- foolproof. But on the ground, “fake” beneficiaries. lookintothis as amatterofseri- itspresent form, is operational Finger 4and Finger 3. The situa- their 1,400colleagues are Houses sell fornothing. ronmental clearance beforeim- The Indian Express found the Referring to aletterfromau- ous concern.” only till2021. The Ministryisin tion is no different on the south Gujaratiand in the union. Shah Healthcareishardtoget. plementing the project, but the processbeing subverted at the thorities at Madrasa Alia Arabia the process of re-evaluating the bank whereChina has triedto walksbacktohis apartment There’s no coal leftand it’s not civic administration had not firststepitself. in Ranchi's Kanke, whereteach- ‘Started probe’ scheme, whichwas launched in mirrorthe Indian strength.This complex, wherehehas made coming back.” done the same.Accordingtothe In severalcases, middlemen ersfoundthat all102 students pre-Matric minority studentsin 2008,and is likely to consider is arecipe foraclash. Moreover, handwritten charts of the 600 The battle over theunion civic administration,the PMC either convincedschool owners listedasbeneficiaries for2019- Jharkhand afteraninvestigation restructuring of finances, eligi- in the harsh winter,with tem- Gujarati families who live voteinand around had planned to build the transit or nodal officers to providethe 2020 were “fake”, the letter by TheIndian Express revealed bility norms and procedure,of- peratures diving severalnotches there, their citizenship status, Pennsylvania will be keytoa routeyears ago, but it neverma- NSPlogin IDs and passwordsor stated: “It is requestedthat the howthe moneywas being ille- ficials said. belowfreezing point, sustaining and their voting status. “There WhiteHouse win this year. terialiseddue to theconsider- usedfakeschool letter pads to school education department gallydivertedbyanexus of mid- thesepositions is adifficult task are100 families leftthat we Twelve percentofthe state’s able costofthe project. The obtain them. Theyinvolved do the needful.” dlemen, bank and school staff, LAC talks foreither side,” the source said. have to makesurevoteon workers areinaunion, the Wall HCMTR will be 24-m wide, with banking correspondents to “An inquirywas initiated but and stateemployees. comes at atime when Prime Tuesday,”hesaid in Hindi out- Street Journal reported. six lanes, including twoexclu- open accountsofprospective nothing came out of it,” said a Speaking to The Indian MinisterNarendraModi and Nov 3ishere side his home. Scranton leans Democrat sive lanesfor busrapid transit beneficiaries using their senior stategovernment official, Express afterchairing ahigh- Chinese President Xi Jinping are forget aboutit,” said Kearns. Shah and Patel’s activism, (BarackObama wonby12per system (BRTS), and aspeedlimit Aadhaar cards and fingerprints speaking on the condition of levelmeeting to discuss the is- likelytomeeteachother thrice “Wetookcareofeachother.” afterliving in the town for15 cent in 2012), but almostwent of 50 kmph. The transit route before applying forscholarships anonymity. sue, Naqvi said: “Wehaveiniti- this month -- over video-con- Intermixed with Halloween years each, shows howmuch Republican in 2016 (Hillary will be connected withmajor on their behalf. Ranchi Deputy ated an investigation intothe ference -- at the BRICS, SCOand decorations, Biden’s neigh- has changed in Scranton since Clintonwon by three per cent). city roads and 26 BRTS stations Commissioner Chhavi Ranjan matterand areinconstant G-20 summits. bourhood nowcarries mostly Biden movedaway. Itsneighbouring county, via33ramps. Officials point to anumber said verification happens fre- touchwith the stategovern- “Atthe moment,China does signs forhis name but acouple This area has seen some of Luzerne, is ahot battleground, The civic administration said of reasons whythe scam quently. “But if irregularitiesstill ment.” notappear to have anyintention of yardsshowcasedprominent the fastest-growing Hispanic flipping from Blue to Redlast theHCMTRwillstartfromBopodi slippedunder the radar -- from happen,itisamatterofcon- Naqvi said the stategovern- to concede to India’s demand Trumpparaphernalia, too. In and Asian growth in the coun- time. Vice President nominee and run all the waytothe connivance at the local levelto cern,” he said. ment hasbeenasked to verify forrestoration of status quo the final stretchasanation, try, at 376and 94 per cent be- Kamala Harris will visit that Vishrantwadi junction,passing staffshortage to difficulties in JSMDC chairman and the findings of The Indian ante. Theyseem to be confident split right down the middle tween 2000 and 2010, county Monday. throughAmbedkarChowk,Pune handling theNSP.Jharkhand's WelfareDepartmentsecretary Express investigation and “get of sustainingthe redrawing of prepares to vote tomorrow Brookings found. University junction, SB Road, WelfareDepartment, whichis Amitabh Kaushal said: “I cannot backtousassoon as possible”. the LACthattheyhavedone Democratic Presidential nom- In the 20th century, Battered by bias Erandwane,Dattawadi,Swargate, in charge of the scheme, has comment until Isee specific “Once this is done, we will have unilaterally. However, there inee Biden has made Scranton, Scranton wasacollection of some earth on the road outside. JN Road, Market Yard,Ganga been withoutanin-charge of its cases.” But JSMDC nominee di- aclearerpicture,’’ he said. have been feelers from the other wherehespent the first10 European enclaves, all coming We thought it would finallyget Dham,Lulla Nagar, Wanwadi, ownsince October 3, when rector Iqbal Imam acknowl- The Indian Express found side that it is willing to thin years of his life, thecentrepiece in forbooming coal mines. done. But theynever came in- Hadapsar IndustrialEstate, MinisterHajiHussain Ansari edgedthat “thereare various is- thatthe scholarships, whichare down troops at certain friction of his campaign. Biden’s parentsand grandpar- side the village. Theythink we Magarpatta, Wadgaon Sheri, succumbed to health complica- sues”. “Our roles have notbeen disbursedfromfunds sanc- points. The next Corps His tagline:Scranton versus ents’generation movedinfrom areuntouchable. Theydon't Viman Nagarand Lohegaon air- tions 10 days aftertesting posi- clearly designated,sochecks do tionedbythe Union Ministryof Commander leveltalkshavenot Park Avenue, referring to the Ireland, Poland, Italy, Lithuania, want to come near us,” says port.An official said the rampsto tive forCovid. nothappen at our level. Since Minority Affairs, arebeing dis- been scheduledyet.Asand Trumpbuilding. Ukraine, and the like—each Vipin Mallick, alocal resident. connectcityroadswere proposed Chief SecretarySukhdev thecoronavirus outbreak,not tributedtostudents and fake when it happens,this matter Multiple advertisements enclave revolving around their The Dom community is one to be built at Ambedkar Chowk, Singh said the “collaborative much is happening,”hesaid. beneficiaries in Jharkhand by will be discussed,” said asource tout Biden’s Scranton values of ownneighbourhood church. of the 22 sub-castesamong UniversityChowk,SenapatiBapat connivance of various stake- Asenior stateofficial middlemen who pocket ashare privy to negotiations between hardwork, appealing to the “When Joe says things like, DalitsinBihar,categorisedas Road,Passport office, PaudRoad, holders is acause of concern”. summedupthe situation: of the money. the sides. formerly Democratic blue-col- that’s awhole lotofmalarkey, I Mahadalits.But even among the KarveRoad,Swargate, JN Road, “Manyschools arenot veri- “There is justnowill to act.” On Sunday, reacting to the India, thesourcesaid,will lared base. Lasttime, union think backtomyfamilyinhigh Mahadalits, the Doms are LullaNagar,Vaiduwadi, fied by the district. That is where Ultimately, it's lefttoahand- findings, Jharkhand Chief continue to push forrestoration workers voted forTrumpin school,” said JayParini, whose treated as thelowest rung -- at Magarpatta, Tadigutta, Phoenix the problem lies. The forms are ful of schools to take actionon MinisterHemant Sorenordered of status quoanteand will not drovesunknown to mother wasfriends with Aguani village in Parbattacon- Junction,Symbiosis Road, New acceptedorrejected by the dis- their own. Pastor Anil Chakor, aprobe intothe “big scam’’ and agree to any“mutual equidis- Republicans since the 1980s. Biden’s mother and babysat stituency, for instance.Parbatta AirportRoad,AirportRoad and trict administration. First, the chairman, AssemblyofGod assured action. tant withdrawal”. A“partial dis- “I learnedwhathonour and Biden. He remembers the is one of 94 seats thatgoesto Rakesh Bote Chowk. school owners themselvesneed Church School in Ranchi's “Wehad put anumber of engagement”, the source said, decency and courageand all death of aSyrian neighbour. polls in Bihar in the second Theofficeralso said nearly 60 to verify, then at thedistrict Hutup, said theyhavesus- safeguards to ensurethat the would be in the interestofboth those things areabout at that The next day, afeastfromthe phase Tuesday, with the RJD arterial and main cityroads will level, and finallyitcomes to me. pendedthe school in-charge af- process is transparent and that countries fornow. kitchen table,” Biden said of his neighbourhood landedonthe contesting in 56 seats, the BJP in be connectedtothe transit Idorandomchecks but that is terauthorities came to know suchincidents don’toccur,in- Following the June 15 childhood home at avirtual family’s front porch,including 46 and the JD(U) in 43. route, and that heavyvehicles, notsufficient. Iamalso overbur- thatheallegedly “stole the cluding asystemofDirect Galwan Valley clash,inwhich event last week.“Wall Street baklava,Italian meatballs, and In the village, thereisanar- whichare oftenonlypassing dened. We needamorerobust school’s letterhead and stamp Benefit Transfer,stringentveri- 20 Indian soldiers were killed didn’t build this country. Hard- Ukrainian pancakerolls. rowlane thatleads to the through Pune, will be able to use system. We have oftenalerted to getthe User ID andpassword fication of applications,scholar- and the Chinese an unspecified working,decent middle-class Parini’s father said to himat shadedchaupal, with ahigh the HCMTR instead of entering theconcerneddistrict but there from the NSP”. ships through the National number,Corps Commander people likethe folksherebuilt the man’s funeral: “Who needs wall on both sides. “The land is the city and clogging the is no action,” saidRaj Kishore But at the same time, several Scholarship Portal as well as leveltalks secured disengage- this country.” the United Nations? We do it ownedbyanuppercaste fam- lanes.The transit routewill be Xaxa,the statenodal officer. schools sent complaintstodis- linking of Aadhaar cards to ment at the spotofthe clash Astraighttwo-miledrive right in Scranton.” ily. Theydon't likeseeing us,” connected to major highways, At the district level, officials trict officials onlyafter The these applications. But it seems withforces of the twocountries from Biden’s former home, “Afterthe ’90s, Iwatched Mallicksays. suchasNH48(between pointed to astaff shortage.“In Indian Expressstarted verifying some people at averylocal level moving 2kmbehind. Tarun Shah and Janak Patel, my street go from amix of Yet, it is notasifthe commu- Mumbai and Bengaluru), NH 65 Ranchi, thereare onlytwo Block the beneficiaries. “Manyof have found ameans to get But ever since, no substan- workers at adistribution site Italian and Irish to amix of nity has notmade strides it is (between Mumbai and WelfareOfficers when thereare them arenow desperatelytry- around this,” Naqvi said. tial disengagement has been foralarge Americandepart- Italian, Irish, Mexican, and proud of. Mallickpoints to eight Machilipatnam), NH 60 (be- 16 morerequired. The rest of the ing to distance themselvesfrom “Theprocess of verification achieved. As acountermeasure, ment storeTJMaxx, stand out- Indian,” said Parini, who is now young men standing behind tweenPune and Nashik) and work is seen by the supervisors. the scam fearing an investiga- is carriedout by the state.For Indian forces have occupied side the Scranton Community an English professor at him. “Wefought to put them statehighway 27 (between Pune We do checkthe authenticity tion,” said adistrict official. the 2019-2020 scholarship dis- dominating heightsonthe Center planning forNovember MiddleburyUniversity. through school. Theyare all ed- and Ahmednagar).The civic and reject forms when we find In his police complaint,Blue bursal,the Ministry had sent south bank of Pangong Tsoand 3. The town wasonce at the ucated and have either passed body is alsoplanning to build anydiscrepancies,” said Bells principal Verma wrote: “I back26,000 applications from the Chushul sub-sector. Theydiscuss boxedlunches cutting edge of technology, class10or12. 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JAISINGPUR 40 writers, activistsappeal Farmers’outfitdemands to CM, Pawar, Guv: Don’tlift fullFRPaspaymentof prohibitionin Gadchiroli season’sfirstinstalment VIVEKDESHPANDE NAGPUR,NOVEMBER2

PARTHASARATHIBISWAS FORTYLEADINGwriters,thinkers PUNE,NOVEMBER2 and socialactivists from Maharashtrahaveappealedto AT THE startofthe 2020-21sug- Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari, arcanecrushing season, farmer Chief MinisterUddhavThackeray outfit Swabhimani Shetkari and NCPchief Sharad Pawarthat People purchase winter clothing at astreetmarketinPune on Monday. AshishKale Sanghtana has demandedpay- the ban on alcoholinGadchiroli ment of full fair and remunerative district mustnot be lifted. price(FRP) asthefirstinstalment "It is in the interestoftribal of the season. The outfit's leader people and women, and has the and former MP,RajuShetti, while widesupportofgramsabhasand SPCBs have inadequate resources to addressing the 19th Cane thewomen'smovement.Alcohol Conclave at Jaisingpur on consumptioninthedistricthasre- Monday, whichwas attendedby duceddue to the ban. The ideaof enforce air quality standards: Study manyonline,also demandeda14 acommitteeto liftthebanshould percentpayment over theFRP as be canceledand, on the contrary, additional payment to be re- The 19th Cane Conclave at Jaisingpur. Express thebanshouldbemoreeffectively Primaryresearchforthestudy els forambient air quality,India mandateandareprimarilyseenas leasedtofarmers afterthe season implemented,”statedtheletterby EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE wasconducted in eight sample establishedits ownNAAQS in holding administrative positions. is over.Healsoannouncedarasta the activists andartists, as pera PUNE,NOVEMBER2 cities —Lucknow,Patna,Ranchi, line withinterim targetssug- Often, stateboardofficials have a roko on November 5topress for held online in viewofthe mentsentered with the pressnote issuedbyactivistAbhay Raipur,Bhubaneswar,Vijayawada, gested by the WHO. Since most diminishedviewoftheir own the demands of cane growers. Covid-19pandemic. Shetti also MaharashtraState Cooperative Bang, who serves the Gadchiroli ASTUDYreleasedbyDelhi-based Goa and Mumbai. Qualitative in- regions in India fail to meetthe roles, whichhas shiftedtheir per- With manymills in the core tested positive forthe virus, but Sugar Factories Federation, mills tribal communities with his CentreforChronicDiseaseControl depth interviews were also con- relaxednational air quality stan- ceivedrolefromthatof regulators sugar belt of Kolhapur district has recoveredafter twoweeks have agreedtoprovidea14 per health initiatives. (CCDC), on Mondayhighlighted ducted withmembers of the dards, comparedtothe more to technical advisors, stated the having already agreedtothe de- in the hospital. cent hike in the charges. StateMinisterforOBCWelfare that while StatePollution Control Central Pollution Control Board stringent global ones, it is crucial study.Manyare unaware of thefull mands raisedbyShetti at the Shetti, while addressing the On Saturday, some sugar and Relief and Rehabilitation, Boards(SPCBs)have expandedthe (CPCB) and the respective SPCBs. to understand thesegaps at the scopeof responsibilitiesaccorded conclave,theremight be no agi- conclave online,asked forfull mills in Kolhapur,led by state VijayWadettiwar,who has been scopeandscaleof theirwork over Poornima Prabhakaran, head ground levelofimplementation.” to them under the existing laws. tation in Kolhapur by cane grow- FRP as the firstinstalment. MinisterofHome Satej Patil, met makingstatements againstprohi- thelasttwo decades, their budget of environmentalhealth and The study reveals severalkey PHFI’sBhargavKrishna,oneof ers this season. "Additionally, we demand 14 and declaredthattheywould bition in Gadchiroli and andmanpowerdoesnotmeetthe deputy director at the centre for structural, informational and in- the authorsofthe report, said, Maharashtra's crushingsea- per cent rise to be paid to farm- paythe FRP at one go.BothPatil Chandrapur,hadsaidthegovern- transitorydemands. healthatthe PublicHealth stitutionalbarriersthatinhibitthe “While interventions forlegisla- son has kickedoff to aslowstart ersafter the season is over," he and ministerHasan Mushrif, mentwouldconstituteacommit- Titled‘StrengtheningPollution FoundationofIndia (PHFI), said, effective implementationof exist- tive framework arewelcome, as waterlogginghas prevented said. This refers to the hikebe- whose families control sugar teewithaviewtoliftprohibition Control Boards to achieve the “Acuteand chronic exposureto ingregulationsandsubsequently, they’ll be ineffective unlessregu- harvesting labour from entering ing promisedtotransport and mills in the district, said they in the twodistricts. It has, how- National Ambient Air Quality air pollution arealeading riskfac- the broader achievement of am- latory bodiesare strengthened the fields. The sugar commis- harvesting staff, whichwill be would be paying the FRP at one ever,not been doneasyet. Standards(NAAQS) in India’, the torfor illhealth in India. Exposure bientairqualitystandards,aspera with technical andfinancial re- sioner'soffice has talked about deducted from the FRP payment go,but anypayment higher than Social activists Anna Hazare, study attemptstounderstand the to ParticulateMatter (PM 2.5) statement issuedonMonday. sources.Protectinghumanhealth 23 mills starting their season, al- of the farmer by the mill. Unlike that wasnot feasible. Anjali Damania and Prakash barriers hamperingthe goal of and ozone alone contributes to Asperthestudy,theleadership is whywehavethese laws.Toen- though the stategovernment their counterparts in Uttar Mushrif,while speaking to Amte, actor Amol Palekar,scien- achievingNAAQSacrossthecoun- over 1.2million premature of these boards is staffed by offi- surethatthisgoalisachieved,pub- had announcedOctober 15 as Pradesh, cane growers in The Indian Express,talked about tist-administrator AnilKakodkar, tryand providesrecommenda- deaths annually. In an effort to es- cialswholackthedomainexpert- lic health mustfeatureatthe core the startdatefor the present Maharashtra do nothaveto pendingsubsidies that mills are writerAnilAwachatandMember tions to addressthese gaps. tablish minimumacceptable lev- ise necessarytodeliver on their of policy making.” crushing season. To date, 150 arrangefor harvesting and yettoreceive from thecentral of ParliamentVinay mills have gotlicence while 50 transportation as the mills deal government, which hashit their Sahasrabuddhe areamong those moreare in the pipeline. with it. Mills enter intoanagree- balance sheet. "In case the gov- who have made the appeal. SALUTE THE SOLDIER The cane conclave is thean- ment with labourers, mainly ernmentdoes notdecide to in- InGadchiroli,activistshave re- nual showofstrength organised from Beedand North crease the minimum selling vivedthe District Darumukti Maj PPurushottam In proud memory of Maj PPurushottam, by farmer outfits, where Shetti Maharashtra, whocome to the price of sugar,morethan 50 per Sanghatana ledbyAbhayBang, (4 BIHAR). While serving as the Defence declares their demandsinway millsiteatthe startofthe sea- cent sugar mills in the statewill whichhad struggled forprohibi- Spokesperson at Srinagar his office faced a of payment forthe upcoming son to harvestand transport notstart operations next sea- tioninthelate‘80s,resultinginthe Fidayeen attack. Although unarmed ,heengaged the terrorists in ahand to hand fight, thereby season. This year's conclave was cane. This season, as per agree- son," he said. declarationof prohibitionin1993. saving the lives of journalists present in the office. In the process, he made the supreme sacrifice. His gallantry serves as an inspiration to us. We,the SIMPLYPUT Trekker dies fraternity of the Veer Biharis, salute him. The Bihar Regiment Association Why state govt started online while on his way back from Dhak classes for FYJC students while Bhairi caves NOTICE is herebygiven that M/s.MODERN PUBLIC ASSOCIATES,aPartnership Firmduly formed EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE NOTICE under the provisions of the Indian Partnership Act PUNE,NOVEMBER2 Act, 1932 having its Registered Office at E-1, admission process is incomplete Hermes Complex, Dhole Patil Road, Pune-411001, having SHRI. KISHORE ARJUN BHAGTANI as its authorized partner, Department ropedin80teach- on September 10 but, following ATREKKER from Pimpri- are the owners of all that piece and parcel of land or ground ALIFIYAKHAN ers and beganonline classes for the Supreme Court stay on Chinchwad diedafter falling admeasuring Hectares 00=03 Ares bearing SurveyNO.57 PUNE,NOVEMBER2 English language, whichiscom- Maratha quotainjobs and edu- about 200feetintoavalleywhile Hissa No.1 situate,lying and being at Village Undriwithin the mon to allstreams, from cation, the admission process onhiswaybackfromDhakBhairi Registration Sub-District of Taluka Haveli, District Pune and MONDAYMARKED the firstday November 2. washalted.The quotahad been cavesinthe Sahyadri Hill Range PUBLIC NOTICE within the limits of the Municipal Corporation of Pune and which land is bounded as follows:- of free online classes offeredby appliedwhile giving admissions on Mondaymorning. NOTICE is herebygiven that (1) SHRI. SADANAND GOVIND PANDIT and (2) SHRI PAD- the stateSchool Educationde- What is the issue with FYJC in the firstCAP round. Police have identifiedthe de- MAKAR AMRUT AAJGAONKAR are the holders of aportion admeasuring Hectares On or towards the East : By land out of SurveyNo.57, Undri. partment forClass XI students admissions? ceasedasPrachiket Bhagwan 01=01 Ares out of land admeasuring Hectares 07=62 Ares presently bearing Hissa On or towards the South: By land out of SurveyNo.56, Undri. of arts,science and commerce FYJC admissions take place What's next forstudentsand Kale (32). Kale and his friends No.1/A (earlier bearing Hissa No.1A) of SurveyNo.63 situate,lying and being at Village On or towards the West : By Road marking the Boundary Line between the villages of Undri streams. The ironyis online through acen- junior colleges? had gone to the Dhak Bhairi Bavdhan Khurd within the Registration Sub-District of Taluka Haveli, District Pune and within the limits of the Municipal Corporation of Pune and which portion admeasuring and Pisoli. that while more tralisedadmission process Officials of the state cavesonSunday. They stayed

ED Hectares 01=01 Ares is On or towards the North : By land out of SurveyNo.57, Undri. than 1.2lakh stu- (CAP) in six districts. This Education department said backinthe cavesduringthe bounded as follows,that is to say: The said M/s.ModernAssociates are negotiating dentshaveregis- AIN year,over4lakh students theyare still awaitinginstruc- night and at around 7amon On or towards the East :byland out of SurveyNo.63, Bavdhan Khurd with our Client forsale of the said land to our Client and they teredthemselves who passedClass Xhave tions from the stategovern- Monday, theystarted coming On or towards the South :byland bearing SurveyNo.41, Bavdhan Khurd have assured our Client that their title to the same is free,clear E● forthese online EXPL appliedfor admissions ment on howthe rest of the down the steep slope. Kale On or towards the West :Partly by land out of SurveyNo.43 and partly by and marketable and that there are no outstanding classes, manyare through CAPinMumbai admission processistobecar- slippedand fell intothe valley. land out of SurveyNo.44, Bavdhan Khurd On or towards the North: by land out of Survey encumbrances on or in respect thereof.Aspartofinvestigation No.63, Bavdhan Khurd unsurewhichjunior college Metropolitan Region, Pune, ried out. He sustainedseveral injuries and The said Shri. Sadanand Govind Pandit and ShriPadmakar Amrut Aajgaonkar have of title of the said M/s.ModernAssociates to the said land, we theywill getadmission to and if Nashik,Nagpur,Amravati and In the meantime,most succumbed to them. instructed me to investigate their title of the said portion out of the said land bearing are having this Notice published. admissions will take place in Aurangabad divisions. Of these, coaching classes have started Ateam of trekkers, includ- SurveyNo.63 Hissa No.1/A, Bavdhan Khurd. As partofsuch investigation of title,Iam In the above circumstances,all persons or parties time forcollegelectures to take some 2.4 lakhstudentsare from conducting classes forFYJC stu- ing Aniket Bokiland Deepak having this Notice published. having anyclaim, right, title or interest in or to the said land bearing SurveyNo. 57, Hissa No.1, Village Undriorany partor place. Mumbai, Thane and adjoining dentsasitisuncertain when Pawar, who were conducting In the circumstances, all persons having anyclaim, right, title or interest in or to the said portion admeasuring Hectares 01=01 Ares out of land bearing Hissa No.1/A of Survey portion thereof by wayofsale,gift, lease,tenancy,licence, areas while Pune has over junior colleges will open. reconnaissance forclimbing ac- No.63, Village Bavdhan Khurd or anypartorportion thereof by wayofsale,gift, lease, exchange,partition, mortgage,charge,lien, inheritance,trust, Whydid the government 68,000 students who qualified However, parents who can't af- tivity in Kalakray area,rushed tenancy,license,exchange,partition, mortgage,charge,lien, inheritance,trust, mainte- maintenance,possession, easement, agreement or otherwise startonline classes? foradmissions. Thefirstround ford privatecoachinghave to DhakBhairi. nance,possession, easement, agreement or otherwise howsoeverare herebyrequired to howsoeverare herebyrequired to makethe same known in Foroveramonth, FYJC ad- of CAPadmissiontook placein protestedagainstthe delayin Sunil Gaikwad of Shivdurg makethe same known in writing to the undersigned at the address given belowwithin writing together with documentaryproof in supportofsuch missions across the statehave the firstweek of September, admissions. Scores of parents Pratisthansaid the trekkers in- fourteen days from the date of publication hereof,falling which it shall be presumed that claim to the undersigned at the address given belowwithin there is no such claim and the same,ifany,shall be considered to be waived. been at acomplete standstill. In whereover78,000 students have written to thestate gov- formedthe Kamshetand Karjat SevenDaysfrom the publication hereof,failing which it shall be Dated this 31st dayofOctober,2020. Sd/- presumed that there is no such claim and the same,ifany,shall the absence of clarity over when from MMR and morethan ernment, requesting that the policestationsabouttheincident. TEJAS M. DUBEY junior colleges will begin and if 40,000in Puneweregiven allot- admission process should begin Meanwhile, Kale's friends and Advocate be considered to be waived. therewill be enoughtimeto mentsand confirmedseats. so that admissions cantake othertrekkerspulledoutthebody. For PANDIT AJGAONKAR ASSOCIATES MAH/2863/2017 Dated this 2nd dayofNovember,2020. coverthe entire syllabusinafew The second round of CAP place and studentscan start Karjat Police is investigating (L.D.DIVISION) Office-Kalawati Niwas,235, Mahatma M/s. Rajiv Patel &Associates Sd/- R.V.Patel, Proprietor,Advocates, months, the state Education wasscheduledtobeannounced their FYJC lessons. the case further. 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The survey wasconducted cause the samples collected non-Covid patients.” MANOJMORE between October 7and 17. were justaround 25. The sero- Dr Salunkhe, however, PUNE,NOVEMBER2 Dr Salukhe said this wasa INNUMBERS survey conductedacross the city warnedaboutthe possibilityof morecomprehensive survey presentsanaccurateconclu- asecond waveofCovid-19infec- NEARLY35per cent of the 25 compared to the one carriedout sion," he said. tions. "Wecan't relax even if the lakh-odd population in Pimpri- in areasunderPuneMunicipal The PCMC chief said the sero- number of cases drops below10. Chinchwad— almost8.5 lakh Corporation (PMC). "In PMC ar- 20 survey willhelp PCMC plan its Winter is coming and the possi- residents—have developed eas, the survey wasrestrictedto The number of Covid- futurestrategies. "... Now, we bility of cases rising againcan't Covid-19 antibodies, according containment zones. The 19 deaths reportedin have afair idea whether to start be denied," he said, adding that to asero-survey conducted by methodology wasdifferent... Pune on Monday. the schools or not. We will dis- the PCMC “can't lowerits guard”. the Pimpri-Chinchwad theychose onlyaffected clus- cuss the matter with the state Hardikar said though the Municipal Corporation (PCMC) ters. But in Pimpri-Chinchwad, government and initiatefuture civic bodyhas closeddownpri- and Dr DYPatil MedicalCollege the survey wasconducted 7,927 action," he said. vate Covid care centres, it will and Research Institute. across the industrial city.This The toll so farinthe Hardikarsaid sincethe num- keep the jumbo facility and Auto The presence of antibodies wasamorecomprehensive sur- district. berofcases has been falling for Clusterfacility open. "Anyone indicates the individual has been vey than the one conducted in amonth, thecivic body has de- who has symptoms should go to exposed to the virus in the past. PMCareas," he said. cidedtothrow open YCM these centres. The treatment is Giving details about the sero- Dr Salunkhe said the serolog- 372 Hospital fornon-Covid patients. free. These centres will provide survey at PCMC headquarters on ical survey tested the blood sam- The number of fresh "FromTuesday, we will startad- primarytreatment," he said. Monday, Dr Subhash Salunkhe, ples foraspecific class of SARS- Covid-19cases mitting non-Covid patients. He said Covid-19cases were technicaladvisor on Covid-19, CoV-2 antibodies."These are At Yeolewadi near KondhwaonMonday. Doctors said the sero-surveyinPMC areaswas reportedonMonday. YCMH will reserve50per cent expected to rise afterNavratri. Maharashtragovernment, said immunoglobulin GorIgG. They restricted to containment zones,while the survey in Pimpri-Chinchwad wasconducted bedsfor Covid patients and 50 "But that didn't happen...proba- the survey wasconducted appear within twoweeksofthe across the entire industrial city. PavanKhengre 3,24,666 per cent fornon-Covid patients," blybecause Navratri is notcele- among 5,000 people andin200 infection.These antibodies also he said. brated on awide scale here, clusters. appear in those who were pre- The total positive cases PCMC House leader compared to Gujarat or West “The survey wasconducted symptomatic or asymptomatic Dr Salunkhe. sis. All effortsshouldbemade to conducted among local resi- so farinthe district. NamdevDhakeadded, Bengal. Nowour worry is Diwali. in slums, in gaonthan areas and and had notbeen tested for He said the stategovernment bring down the case fatality dentsabove 12 years of age. “Corporators have been getting We want local residentstore- in housing societies. It wascon- Covid-19," he said. hasasked PCMC to setupadeath rate," said Dr Salunkhe. Antibody prevalence was34.9 complaintsfrompoor patients main on guard, maintain social ducted in the form of question "The timingofthe sero-sur- audit committee in everyCovid Municipal Commissioner per cent in the agegroup of 12- 66 years of age," he said. thattreatment in private hos- distancing, wear masksand and answers, and by taking vey wasperfect.Therewas no hospital. The industrial city has ShravanHardikarsaid sero-pos- 18 years, 29 per cent in the age Hardikar said in some areas, pitals is unaffordable. Now, wash their hands repeatedly. blood samples," Dr Salunkhe delay. This wasdone to help the reported1,529 Covid-related itivity washighest, at 35.5 per groupof19-30, 31 percentin the antibody prevalence was sincethereare fewerCovid-19 Diwali period will be very crucial said, adding that it wasarandom PCMC plan better strategise to deaths. "The committee should cent, in the agegroup of 51 to 65 the agegroup of 31-50 years found to be very low. "But that is patientsatYCM Hospital, we to see whether the second wave sampling survey. tackle futurerise in cases," said submit itsreportonaweekly ba- years. "Thesero-surveywas and 28 per cent in those above notanaccurateconclusion be- have decidedtostart admitting arrivesornot," he said. 27-year-old Many recruitment PhD scholar rackets for jobs in from IISER succumbs armed forces, the to dengue pattern same: Police

ANJALIMARAR Involvement of serving and retired PUNE,NOVEMBER2 personnel common factors: investigators A27-YEAR-OLD PhD scholar from theIndianInstituteof holdings, youth from farmer Science,Education and SUSHANTKULKARNI familiesalso look at these jobs Research (IISER), Pune, suc- PUNE,NOVEMBER2 as steady employment opportu- cumbed to dengue lastweek. nities with aguarantee of pen- The deceased, Kshetrimayum AN INVESTIGATION intothe al- sion.Overthe pastmanyyears, Borish, who wasfrom leged recruitment racket forse- youth from Marathwada have Manipur,was in his fourth year lection in the Armythrough the also aspiredfor these jobs. at the institute’s chemistry Common Entrance Examination Whilemostgenuinely prepare department. (CEE)has brought to light yetan- forarmyrecruitment, achunkof He is survivedbyhis par- other waythrough whichdes- them don't hesitatetoexplore entsand twoyounger brothers. perateyouthsaspiring forde- illegal ways.Theyare ready to In an official statement to fence jobs arebeing duped. In a paylarge sums of moneyin The Indian Express on Monday, joint operation of the Military lakhs to agents,inmanycases by the institute's administration Intelligence (MI) and Pune selling or mortgaging land hold- said Borishapproached the on- Police, three men, including a ings," said an officer. campus clinic on October 26 serving Armyjawan, were ar- Apolice officer from Pune, and wasadvisedtoundergo rested on Sunday forallegedly who has served in Kolhapur and medical tests. running the racket. Satarainthe past, said, He waskeptatthe insti- According to investigators, "According to aprimaryesti- tute's guesthouse, wherehe thereare striking similarities mate, thereare at least50small underwent Covid-19 andblood with pastcases -- desperate and big coaching centres in tests. But apartfrommild fever youth ready to paymoney, role Kolhapur, Sangli and Sataradis- and bodyache, he did notre- of insiders, either serving or re- trictsthat provide training for portany prominent symptoms, tired,and anexus of toutsand the armedforces and police jobs. said an official. REMEMBRANCE dubious coaching classes. At some of these entities, agents "Thetestresultsshowed In January, the MI andpolice hunt fortargets with or without lowplateletcount, suggesting Tributes andprayers on ‘AllSoulsDay’atthe City ChurchCemetery,inPune on Monday. Arul Horizon bustedanalleged racket of the the collusion of the owners of dengueand promptedthe saleoffakequestion papers of these centres. Through old ac- clinic to admit him to ahospi- the CEE forArmyrecruitment in quaintances, theseagentsand talonOctober 28. Sadly, Borish Kolhapur. some peoplewithinside knowl- passedawayinthe hospital on Between March and edge of defence establishments, Friday, October 30, "the state- Woman staffer alleges mistreatmentbystate September 2019,the MI and po- either serving or former soldiers ment read. liceinSataraarrestedthe owner in mostcases, come together to Though thereisnogovern- of aprivate coaching centrefor cheat aspiring candidates. With ment policy to extend anyfor- higher educationdirector,employees stop work recruitment intoarmedforces, concreteinputsfromthe MI and mal help to thedeceased's twolocal agentsand three serv- localreach, thestate police has family in suchcases, IISER stu- ing jawans forallegedly handing been able to crackdownonthese dents andfaculty have volun- cott of work on Monday, the out fake recruitment letters. rackets, but no one can deny teered to raise funds and sup- ALIFIYAKHAN woman employee, whohad In February2019, alabour thereare moreundetected portBorish's family. PUNE,NOVEMBER2 undergone amajor surgery a contractor wasarrestedfor al- nexuses. It is certainlyworrying However, other students couple of years ago, had to be legedly running arecruitment forobvious reasons. We urge have demandedthat the insti- WORK CAME to astandstill at admitted to ahospital under racket forcivilian posts in various youths to approachusormilitary tuteformallyextendall help to the office of the director of observation on Monday. defence organisations through authorities if theyhavebeen ap- the family. "Borish wasthe sole higher education in Puneon Demandingthat action be forged appointment letters. proachedbysuchagentsand breadwinner of hisfamilyand Mondayafter employees takenagainst the director for In February2018, aserving have information about such it is acollectiveresponsibility stoppedworktoprotest the di- his alleged behaviour towards Junior CommissionedOfficer of rackets." to supportthem in this hour of rector'salleged mistreatment women staffers, the staffatthe the Armywas arrested foral- Investigators said sometimes crisis.Wewant the instituteto of awoman stafferlastweek. department refusedtowork legedly cheating at least300 as- theyweresurprisedthat these provide them some kindof The woman also com- until their demands were met. pirantstothe tune of Rs 7crore racketswererun so overtly. In compensation,"said aresearch plainedabout the“workplace While work remainedsus- from Jalgaonand Nashikdistricts February2017, apolice probe student. harassment' to stateHigher pendedonMonday, theem- on the pretextofjobs in the intothe alleged leakofthe ex- The instituteadministra- Education MinisterUday ployees have threatenedto Armyand handing outfakere- amination paper of the Army tion has, meanwhile, encour- Samant, alleging that Dhanraj continuethe agitation till ares- cruitment letters. Recruitment Board, showedthat aged studentstoseek medical Mane -- who is the director of olution is reached. Investigatorssaid the man- an Armysoldier,who wasar- help anytime. higher education, Maharashtra Mane, meanwhile, said that ner in whichjob aspirantswere rested later,had receivedthe The on-campus wellness -- had verballyabusedher in a Employees of the office of Director of Higher EducationprotestonMonday. Express he wasaware of theprotests cheated in these cases had a leaked paper on his phonefrom centrewith twomedicaldoc- public place, causing her men- but wasn't in office. "I wasout common pattern. "There is ahis- an office employeeand sent it to tors and three nursingstaff op- taltrauma. of town till Mondayafternoon tory of militaryservice at vil- others. Nine suspectsarrested erates from Mondayto According to the woman's some urgent papers signed, but usedderogatorylanguagetoin- ashamedthat Istarted shiver- and once IreachedPune, I lages in Kolhapur,Sangli and from Thane had gone to the ex- Saturday. The medical teams at complaint, Mane is oftenrude when Isaw that he wasleaving dicatethat Ican't do my job ing and fell sick,"the woman asked them to comemeetme Sataradistrictsand western tent of hiring acommunity hall the centreare reachable even and high-handedtowards in ahurry,Iturnedback. He saw properly.The entireincident stated in her complaint. foradiscussion, but theyre- Maharashtra in general, which and were coaching candidates afterworking hours, said an in- women employees and staffers. me turning backand calledme took place in apublic place, According to members of fused. Thereissome miscom- reflects in youths from these ar- on the previous night foran- stituteofficial,"In general, due "At1.30 pm on October29, I over by yelling and gesturing in with severalpeoplewatching three staffers' unions, which munication... therewas no dis- eas aspiring to jointhe armed swerstothe questions whenpo- to the ongoing pandemic, had approachedhis office to get averyrude manner.Hethen me gethumiliated.Ifelt so had calledfor acomplete boy- respect to anyone," he said. forces. With ever-reducing land lice raidedthe premises. everybody is hesitant to get themselvestestedorvisit a hospital," the official added. The campus wasfumigated 32-year-old man drowns Pulastya science festival to be held on November 7-8 afew weeksago but after Borish's death, theengineering in Pavana dam water everyyear by the IUCAA to pandemic. founder of the LIGO project on the 2020 NobelPrizes and and maintenance teams have EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE commemoratethe birth an- As November 7isthe birth and aprofessor emeritusof live skywatching sessions have checkedfor spotswith water Pune: A32-year-oldman anoli foraswim. When Saurabh PUNE,NOVEMBER2 niversaryofcelebrated anniversaryofbothNobel lau- physics at the Massachusetts been organisedfor the festival. logging on the campus, which drownedinPavana dam waterin starteddrowning,hisfriendstried Marathi writer and actor PL reates MarieCurie and CV InstituteofTechnology, Prof Ajit Kembhavi is also setto wasagain fumigated over the Lonavala area Sundaymorning. to rescue him and localresidents The annual Pulastyascience Deshpande, born on November Raman, ateam of LIGO-India Dr Samir Dhurde, incharge speak on blackholes, the sub- weekend. Thedeceased,SaurabhMalik(32), alsorushedtohelp.Theyfishedhis festival will be organisedon 9, who had generously do- (Laser Interferometer officer at IUCAApublicout- ject thatbagged the Nobel The institutecurrently wasundergoing yoga training at body out of the waterand imme- November 7and 8bythe nated to setupthe MVSbuild- Gravitational-Wave reach, said that science activi- Prize forphysics this year. houses 300research students aninstitute inLonavala.Heandhis diatelytookhimtotheruralhospi- Muktangan VidnyanShodhika ing at the IUCAA. Observatory) has arranged for ties to spread awareness about As the activitieswill be con- on campus since the govern- friends had gone camping in talinLonavala,wherehewaspro- (MVS) at the Inter-University The festival, that includes a an interviewwith Professor issues related to viruses, cur- ducted onlyonline, thereisno ment allowedresearch and Pavana dam area Saturdaynight. nounceddead by thedoctors. Centrefor Astronomy and variety of science activities, Rainer Weiss, who had won rent happenings in the solar restrictiononthe number of laboratoryactivities to resume On Sundaymorning, theyen- LonavalaPolicehas lodged a Astrophysics (IUCAA) in Pune. willbeconducted online this the NobelPrize forphysics in system, Q&A sessions with IU- participantsorage group, in September. teredthedamwaternearBramh- case of accidental death. ENS The programme is organised year in viewofthe Covid-19 2017.ProfRainer is also the co- CAAacademicians, public talks Dhurde said.

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Bengalmadrasa First India-born 20yearsoflifelostperCoviddeathinIndia, teacher held for ‘raisingfunds, minister in NZ, butimpactstilllessthanroadinjuries:Study bid to recruitfor her fathersays mates of the years of lifelost around 50–59 years of agedies, morethan2million years of life in 2016 in India was15.39 mil- Al-Qaeda’: NIA ANURADHA (YLL) due to Covid-19sofar and the lifeexpectation in that age have already been lostdue to lion. MASCARENHAS the projection forthe full year so group is 21.8 years and is lostdue Covid-19and thepattern indi- "With the Indian lifeex- ‘proud,not surprised’ PUNE,NOVEMBER2 that the health damagefrom to death. This metric is crucial to cates that thecountry mayend pectancy,these maybearound EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE Covid can be compared with understand the full impact of a up with nearly 4million years of halfofthis on the pattern of total NEWDELHI,NOVEMBER2 ON AN average, everyperson other ailments. disease on the longevity of peo- lifelostYLL duetothis disease. YLL. So, this wasnearly 7.7mil- SHAJUPHILIP who dies from Covid-19inIndia Dr Abhaya Indrayan, mem- ple. This is nearly 20 years lostper lion. Compared to this, the 4.04 THE NATIONAL Investigation THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, could have livedfor at least20 berofthe Epidemiology By mid-October,India re- Covid-19death. The age-group million YLL by Covid-19inthe Agency (NIA)has arrested a NOVEMBER2 moreyears. The fatalities may Foundation of India and former portedmorethan 7million 50–59 years has been particu- whole year is just57.71 per cent madrasa teacherfrom cause atotal loss of morethan head of the biostatistics depart- Covid cases and over alakh larly affected,Indrayan said. of the YLL duetoroad injuries. Murshidabad in West Bengal for ON MONDAY,when India-born four million lifeyearsinafull ment at University Collegeof deaths. To calculatethe YLL, an "However, even though the So, the loss of years of lifeby allegedlybeingpartofanAl- Priyanca Radhakrishnan was year,according to experts.Still, Medical Sciences, NewDelhi, age-wise distribution of Covid- YLL so farand anticipated in the Covid-19infull year is expected Qaeda module operatingout of appointed as aMinisterinthe the impact of Covid-19deaths is told The Indian Express that the 19 casesand deaths wasob- full year areenormous, theymay to be less than 60 per cent of the the stateand Kerala. Abdul New ZealandCabinetled by expected to be farless than road YLLbyone premature death is tainedfromofficial government still be lowercompared with loss by road injuries," Indrayan Momin Mondal,32, wasarrested Prime MinisterJacinda Ardern, injuries, anew study has found. the expectation of lifeatthat age. sources. Forcomparison, similar some other causes suchasroad said. by the agency on Sundayfor al- it wasa“proud moment” forher In the study publishedon The YLL foraperson is how calculationsweredone forthe injuries,” the study said. Road injurydeathsare more legedly “trying to recruit new father RRadhakrishnan, an IIT- medrxiv.org, whichisyet to be long the person would have lived general population from all According to WHO esti- common in younger agegroups, membersforthegroup”andrais- Kanpur alumnus hailing from PriyancaRadhakrishnan peer reviewed, the researchers had he or she notdiedprema- causes. mates, the highestlifeex- whichmakes the YLL high, he ing funds. NorthParavur in Kerala's have presented preliminary esti- turely. Forexample, if aperson According to researchers, pectancy forYLL by road injuries added. “Investigation Ernakulam district. revealedthat ac- But it washardlyasurprise. and could notbepresent when cused, Abdul Foryears now, her mother breathedher last,’’ ‘OFFENSIVEONLINE POSTS’ AGAINST UDDHAV, AADITYA Momin Mondal, Radhakrishnan had been nudg- said Radhakrishnan, adding Mumbai Policejoin wasworkingasa ing his daughter towardspolitics that his elder daughter Manavi Arrested by Nagpur Police, man gets bail, teacherinRaipur in NewZealand whereshe had is settledinCanada and mar- hands withNGO to clear Abdul DarulHuda gone to pursueher higherstud- riedtoaCanadian manage- Momin Islamia Madrassa iesfromSingapore. In 2017,she ment professional. only to be rearrested by Mumbai Police Mondal in Murshidabad went on to become an MP in Afterpost-graduation in civil abandoned vehicles district... and was Ardern's Labour Party. engineering from IIT-Kanpur, minority community on Twitter. obscene material on social media found to be in- “The postofMinisterwas not Radakrishnan worked forthree up.Insomecases,thepolicehadto MOHAMEDTHAVER Thakkar's lawyer Prakash and also usedabusive language volved in aseries of conspirator- totally unexpected.Webelieved years with Mumbai Port Trust DEVENDRAPANDEY take thecourt’s approval before MUMBAI,NOVEMBER2 Jaiswal said that apartfromthe againstSupreme Courtjudges." ial meetings convenedbythe that she would getsome greater before moving to Singaporein MUMBAI,NOVEMBER2 auctioningoffunclaimedvehicles. FIR at VP Road police station for Jaiswalopposedthe applica- members of the Al-Qaeda mod- role in the government,and the 1972 where he worked as aport The NGOwill take down de- SAMEET THAKKAR, who wasar- whichthe Mumbai Police got his tion made by the Mumbai Police ule. He wasalso trying to recruit PrimeMinisterhad indicatedto engineer.Hereturnedwith wife WITH THE premisesof policesta- tails of eachunclaimedvehicle rested by the Nagpur Police last custody,thereisanother FIR at forcustody on the grounds that newmembersfor the group and her about it,” said Usha to settle in Chennai in 1999. tions in Mumbai cluttered with from eachpolicestation. It will week forallegedly posting BKCpolice stationinMumbai "Mumbai is aCovid-prone city wasraising funds forfurthering Radhakrishnan, whoissettled Both their daughters were unclaimed or abandonedvehi- contact the owner,and if the defamatorycontent against againstThakkar.These twoFIRs and thereare thehighestnumber itsterroristactivities. The resi- in Chennai. born in India, but completed cles, the Mumbai Police has de- owner refuses to collectthe vehi- MaharashtraChief Minister areinaddition to the FIR regis- of Covid patientsinMumbai and dential premises of the accused “Today,Ispoketoher after school in Singaporebefore cidedtojoin hands with NGO cle, the NGOwill work to acquire UddhavThackeray and his son teredagainst him at Nagpur. the police could beCovid positive person were searched anddigi- hearing about her newrole. She Priyanca movedtoMassey GangamataWahan Shodh an NOC from the owner and sell Aaditya, also astate cabinetmin- "Wehavealready movedthe anditcouldadverselyimpact the taldevices were seized,” an NIA is thrilled. She is the firstIndian University in NewZealand to Sanstha that has offeredits help the vehicle forscrap. The money ister, wasgrantedbail by aNagpur Supreme Courttoclub these of- health of the applicant". statement said. to become aMinisterinthe New pursue acourse in in clearingthese vehiclesby trac- will go to the government. courtonMondaybut wasrear- fences. Offences forthe same is- The local courtinNagpur, This is the eleventh arrest the ZealandGovernment. ButIhave Development Studies. ing their owners. The Pune-based The unclaimedvehicles, ac- restedby the Mumbai Police min- sue cannotberegisteredindiffer- however, gave permission forhis agency has made since advisedher to notforgetthe “Priyanca made her debut in NGOmade the proposal last cordingto Patil,takeupmajorityof utes laterafter the samecourt ent parts of thecountry,"Jaiswal custody by the Mumbai Police. September when it firstappre- familyevenwhile pursuing aca- politics when she contestedand week to Joint Commissioner of spaceateverypolicestation."Like granted them Thakkar's custody said. The court, however, asked the hended ninemembers of the al- reer in politics,” he said. got elected as theInternational Police VishwasNangrePatil, who in LT Marg police station, thepo- in a Jaiswal further alleged that Mumbai Police to ensurethat all leged modulebasedonintelli- Priyanca, 41,has been a Students’ Officer of the Massey subsequentlyapproved it. lice motorcycles and carsare similar case. Thakkar wasbrought to court precautions aretaken to ensure gence inputs. According to NIA, member of the Labour Party UniversityStudentsAssociation. "The NGOhas helpedusear- parkedoutside the station while The Mumbai Police FIR regis- with his face coveredand there thereisnoriskofCovid. Thakkar thecase“pertainsto anti-national since 2006.“Her husband She decidedtostaybackinNew liertoo. We did this in Nashik and unclaimedvehiclesareparkedin- teredinJulyisregarding his washeavy police security cover will be producedbeforealocal activities by agroup of jihadi ter- Richardson, aNew Zealand citi- Zealand, whensenior leaders of disposedof2,000vehicles," Patil side. Theseunclaimedvehicles tweets in the lastweek of June "as if he wasaterrorist".When he courtinMumbai on Tuesday. rorists consisting of more than 10 zen who workswithanITfirm, the Labour Partyencouragedher told The Indian Express."They have turnedintogarbageand can and firstweek of July, whilethe wasarrested, Jaiswalhadtold the An FIR waslodged against members inspired by globally joinedthe party recently. They to join the party,” said found and approachedthe own- cause amishap. The NGOhas the Nagpur Police FIR is basedon courtthat the case smackedof Thakkar,abusinessman, at proscribed terrorist organisation metwhen she wasworking with Radhakrishnan. ers of unclaimed vehicles. They expertise,andtheyhavedoneitin tweets putout by him in thelast "political intolerance" and that "if Sitabuldi policestationinNagpur Al-Qaeda,who were planningto an NGOfor women survivors of “She is hardworking and has ask peopletoclaim the car (or Pune rural area earlier," Patil said. week of July. The tweets aresim- people were to be arrested for on August 12 on the basis of a carryoutanti-nationalandterror- domestic violence and migrant excellent oratoryskills. We en- two-wheeler) from apolice sta- RamUdvanth, the NGO's ilar in naturewherebythe suchremarksonTwitter, thenwe complaint by ManishTiwari, said istactivities at different locations workers.Theyhavedecidednot couraged and supportedher de- tion but the owners areoften re- founder,began the survey from Thackeraysalong with other lead- will have to createspecial Twitter to be an aide of ShivSena MLC inIndia,including,butnotlimited to have children forthe sakeof cision to join politics in New luctant forvarious reasons. The the NirmalNagar police station. ers of the Maha Vikas Aghadi jails in the country". Dushyant Chaturvedi. to West Bengal,DelhiandKerala.” Priyanca's political career,’’ said Zealand. We allowedher to survey has already begun to find According to Udvanth,the NGO (MVA) in Maharashtraare al- AdvocateDharam Mishra, He wasgranted relief by the The agency had arrested the Radhakrishnan. move in the direction she out howmanyvehicles were im- has helpedpoliceinPune and legedly called objectionable from ShivSena's legal cell, who is Nagpur benchofBombayHigh nine accused—who were al- Priyanca had lastvisited wanted to go,’’ he said. poundedand forwhat reason-- Kolhapur dispose of over 7,000 names. the complainant in the case said, Court, whichhad orderedthe po- legedly operating out of Kerala in July2019totakepartin In NewZealand, Priyanca will howmanyare from accidents, vehicles so far. "Wehavedone Thakkar had allegedly termed "SameetThakkar,who wasab- lice on August28torefrain from MurshidabadinWest Bengaland rituals related to the death of her be Ministerfor Diversity, and howmanyare unclaimed," this in the past. Therehavebeen the CM "adhunik (modern) sconding formorethan three taking coercive actionagainst Ernakulam in Kerala —on mother Usha, who diedin Inclusionand Ethnic Patil added. instances wherewehavecon- Aurangzeb" forhis permission to months, is nowfinallyarrestedby him. The court, however, had September 19 andhad recovered Februarythat year. Communities; Ministerfor the Following procedure, the tactedan owner who washappy celebrateEid. He had also al- the Mumbai Police. He insulted asked him to reporttothe police country-made pistols, rudimen- “When her mother was Community and Voluntary Mumbai Police sent notifications to getthe vehicle. We have re- legedly coined theterm "baby persons holding Constitutional station daily, whichThakkar did- tary body armour,batteries, hospitalisedinChennai, Sector;and Associate Minister to owners to collecttheirvehicles turnedvehicles to people from penguin" forAaditya.Heallegedly posts by making derogatoryand n't follow. TheHChad then dis- switches and firecrackers, litera- Priyanca stayed forseveral days forSocial Development and buttherehavebeennumerousoc- Gujarat and other statesaswell," also had "abusive communal ex- abusive statements, outragedthe missedhis petition on October 20, tureonhome-madeIEDs and at her bedside.But she had to Employment. The newCabinet casionswhereownersdonotturn Udvanth said. changes" with members of the modesty of women by posting paving the wayfor his arrest. other “incriminating material”. return forameeting in London, will be sworn in on Friday. OVER THE HEDGE by Michael Fry &TLewis CROSSWORD 4266 DAYTODAY BYPETERVIDAL

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§ FOUNDED BY § RAMNATH GOENKA Cartoons in our timesneednot be blunt BECAUSE THE TRUTH INVOLVES US ALL instruments.The message hastobeclear,not loud

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Economic indicators suggestnormalisation of economic TO TWEAK AN Einstein quote, cartoons media warbetween twonewspaper barons mincedwords. The waythings aregoing,it should be made as simple as possible, but —Joseph Pulitzer, who pioneered itspublica- won’t be long before manypartsofEurope activities. But durability of the rebound is amatter of concern notsimpler. CharlieHebdo cartoons arelook- tion in 1895 in his NewYork World, and his have considerable migrant populations. The ing increasinglysimpler in aworld that is get- rival, William Randolph Hearst, who ac- cartoon readershipstherewouldincreas- EEN AGAINSTTHE depths to whicheconomic activity had plummetedinthe ini- ting thoroughlycomplicated.Since the sim- quired it afterthree years forhis NewYork ingly begin to look likeIndia’s or Sri Lanka’s tial phase of thenational lockdown, the sequential improvement in economic in- plestsolutiononoffer thesedaysissimpler Journal.The bulk of thecomics readership —mixed,varied, young. Even then, Charlie dicatorsoverthe pastfew months suggests that theprocess of normalisation of than the simplestofcartoons —single- wasthe growing migrant population. Hebdo mightmerrilycarry on but notmany Seconomic activities is well underway. As indicatedbyleading indicators, both ag- mindedterror—cartoonists mustwonder The expatstooktothe comics,thencalled will lookuptoit, justbecause it is European. gregatedemandand supplyhavewitnessedanimprovement with the easing of lockdown howtheygot themselvesintothis mess. And funnies, wherehand-drawncartoon charac- Younger cartoonists theworld over rethink notinterms of pulling punches but ters spokepithycolloquial English, handwrit- would look elsewhere. Theyface the predica- restrictions.However, onemustbecautiouswhileinterpretingthesenumbers.Forinstance, in terms of anew perspective. tenintospeechballoons.The lookand feel ment of having to makeimpossible choices large partsofthe high-contact servicessector suchasairlines, hospitality and tourism con- The Hebdo cartoon wasaready excuse, a wasinformal and non-intimidating, alto- and sharp distinctions —say betweenacom- tinue to lag the industrial sector,and their revivalinpartdepends on the successincontain- trigger forthe killings, notthe cause. gether inviting. Kids mimicked, parentsread passionatereligion and those who wield the ing the virus. Provocation could have come from cinema, TheFrenchweekly that sees out and families startedspeaking imperfect swordinits name. Theywould love Mike On the productionside, signalling acontinuing pickupinthe supplyside, the Nikkei’s writing, music, fashion or food. Organised itself as politically left English. The newspaper’s comics pagebe- Luckovichfor hisclassic on the 9/11attack manufacturing purchasing managers index, releasedonMonday, rose to 58.9inOctober — terror waitsfor acontextand the cartoon should have nothing against came an early facilitator of the migrant’s on the WorldTrade Centre. Luckovichdrew could easilyprovide it because it is the car- journeyinthe Land of Opportunity. the HolyQuran standinglikeatower and indicating the fastestexpansioninfactory outputinoveradecade. Similarly,the indexof toonist’s job to provoke, ridicule and offend. immigrants, but it has hurt True, these aresequential comics and not showedatinyairplane labelled“Islamic eight coreindustries in September wasalmostatthe same levelaslastyear,withcoal, elec- But is that all acartoon can do? them with the cartoon as a political cartoons of the kind CharlieHebdo Terrorists”about to crash intoit tricity,andsteelswingingintopositive territory. Ontheconsumptionside,indicatingapickup The Frenchweeklythat sees itself as polit- blunt instrument. France has features. Getcloser home and you’ll find that Amidstthe soaring Islamophobia that fol- in demand, the goods and servicestax collections forthe monthofOctober rose to an eight- icallyleftshouldhavenothing againstimmi- asignificant Muslim the political cartoon worksfor themigrant no lowedthe terror strike, the messagecame month high of Rs 1.05 lakh crore—10per cent higher than collections over the same period grants, but it hashurtthemwiththe cartoon less.India’s core cartooninghasbeen political across, anything but loud but crystalclear,on population, most of them lastyear.While partofthisrise could be attributedtothe September 30 deadline forclaim- as ablunt instrument. France has asignificant and our cartoons have growninand around howuntrue these bigotsweretothe religion Muslim population, mostofthemimmi- cities backedbyjob-seeking migrants, includ- theyswore by.Inthe same vein, Art inginputtaxcreditandthereconciliationforbusinessesfor2019-20,thecontinuedriseine- immigrants. Agood many grants. Agood manyare believers and new are believersand new to the ing the cartoonists themselves. Most of our Spiegelman did In the ShadowofNoTowers waybillgenerationalsopointstowardsimprovementinactivity. Recentreportsalsosuggest to thehostculture, whichisusedtohandling prominent practitioners from Shankar to RK (2004), agraphic novelthat treatsalQaeda thatdemand forbothfour-wheelers and two-wheelers appears to be firming up. Sales for suchexcesses in acartoon with ashrug of the host culture,whichisused to Laxman andAbuAbraham to SudhirDarwere and the Pentagon with equal scorn. The mas- MarutiSuzuki,forinstance,stoodat1,63,656unitsinthedomesticmarket,up18percentover shoulder,apungent letter to theeditor or a handling suchexcesses in a expats. And theyhandledabigger,moreun- terrefusedtomakeachoice between terror the same period lastmonth.Similarly,HeroMotoCorp reportedaspikeindemand from ur- searing counter-cartoon. The settlers would cartoon with ashrug of the certain democracy than the post-war and astate that exploited it to undermine its banandsemi-urbanareas.Railway freightrevenuewasupinthefirsthalf of Octoberaswere take awhile to acquiresuchskills. Meanwhile, shoulder,apungent letter to European ones in France or West Germany. It ownproclaimeddemocracy. diesel sales,whichreportedly witnessedthe firstyear-on-year growth since February.This the artform would getsufficientlydemonised wouldn’t have been easy to cartoonthrough Charlie Hebdo has no suchhesitation. It in theireyes. Historically, this is asad betrayal the editor or asearing the Partition of the subcontinent that came takessideswithout asecond thought. It has sequentialimprovement in economic activityisalso reflected in preliminary resultsofcor- of the abidingbond between the immigrant counter-cartoon. Thesettlers withthe birth of the nation.And, when finally alegacyadvantage: The moodofWestern porates forthe second quarterofthe current financialyear,whichindicateaturnaround in and cartoon art. The Hebdo cartoonistisan- would take awhile to acquire thepolitylookedlikesettling down, came the Europe that breathedeasy afterthe defeat of performance afterthe collapse in the firstquarter. tagonising awilling natural readership. suchskills. Meanwhile,the Emergency and press censorship. At the best the Nazis. Founded in 1970, Charlie Hebdo’s Yet, this optimism needs to be tempered.For one, part of the recovery in economic ac- At the close of 19th century, the advent of times, cartoonists and their editors dealt artpracticecelebrates that WorldWar II mo- art form would get tivities can be tracedtothe ongoing festiveseason. Whether this momentum sustains, or of the comics coincidedwith the rise of the with amuch-layered, multi-ethnic,often ment whichchose unbridledfreedom over theextentto whichitsustains,beyond themonthsofOctober andNovemberremainsto be big American cities built by wavesofimmi- sufficiently demonised in touchy readership. In neighbouring Sri Lanka, allelse.The choice is no longerthat simple gration. Distinguishedcartoon historians like cartoonists have facedtougher times. To cut —between an evil Hitler and liberating seen. Then, thereisthe possibility of asurge in COVID-19infections during the festivesea- their eyes. Historically,this Judith O’Sullivanhavedwelt at length on this. is asad betrayal of the the storyshort, outside the structureddemoc- armies. Right now, theworld’s mostpower- son, whichcould heighten risk aversion.Thiscoupledwithcontinuing incomeuncertainty Those who came in were struggling to pick racies of the West,the artpractice has coped. ful electorateisn’t making half as clear a could adverselyimpact the growth trajectorygoing forward, though itsimpact will be vis- up American English and theyfoundthe eas- abiding bond between the This is nottosuggest thatcartoonists choice —between aTrumpand his chal- ible with alag. iestlearning device —the comics in the immigrant and the cartoon mustfunction under aDamocles’sword and lenger.And no WorldWar IIIisinsight to sort newspapers, printed big and in colour. The art. The Hebdo cartoonist is turn out suitablyevasive and safestuff, which out matters and bring the much-needed very firstcomic character,YellowKid,cre- antagonising awilling the reader somehowfigures out. This is not clarity to thecartoonist. ated by RichardOutcault,was asensation the wayour predecessors functioned. The SCRAP THEINDEMNITY and got priceyenough to setoff alegendary natural readership. best of them neithertrimmedthe picturenor [email protected]

Kerala Congress chief mustpay forhis rank misogyny

EXISTFOUL-TALK —ofthe kind that belongsinlocker-rooms —continues to en- joyindemnity in Indian politics. Nothing else explains whyMullappally AN AMERICAN STORY Ramachandran, aveteran leader of the Congress in Kerala, aformer Union minis- Sternoless,wouldwantto counterawoman’stestimonybyshamingherasa“pros- titute”. It is this impunity that also emboldenedhim to discredit the charge that shewas Multiracial citizens like Kamala Harris will vote forarecognitionoftheirAmerica rapedbyseveralministersintheformerUDFgovernmentby insinuatingthatawomanwith “self-respect” would have diedrather than be assaulted severaltimes over.Ramachandran forked out an apology afteranuproar, but there is morethanawhiffofinsincerity to it.But BryanMonroe his remarks,undeniably, putthe Congress national leadership on test.Lastmonth,former WE CLAIM her as our own. We shareher bourhoods. It washardtobeofbothworlds. the weekendsand getintrouble forsneaking chief ministerofMadhya Pradesh Kamal Nath had gottenawaywith amurmur of disap- with you. But her storyisanAmerican story Still, in America, our diversity is our out of the house in high school. provalfromRahulGandhi,evenwhenhecalledImartiDevi,aDalitleaderandaformerparty —ofstruggle, changeand hope. strength, even though thereare manytoday We wouldjokethat we knewmoreabout colleague, an “item”. No doubt. Kamala Harris is aBlack trying to widen the cracks betweenus. For the customs, tastes and practices of white The question forthe Congress is this: If leaders likeNath and Ramachandran continueto woman. The US senator who is, perhaps, less those who grew up with multicultural back- America than theyknewabout ours. We had incur zeropolitical costfor rank sexistabuse, forusing language that demeans and dehu- than aday away from being elected as the grounds, with feet in both worlds, theysee to listen to their LedZeppelin and eattheir maniseswomen,forwieldingdecayingnotionsofhonourandrespectagainst victimsof sex- firstfemale vice-president of the United themselvesasAmerica, the embodimentof under-seasonedchicken at the soccer team States, wasborn in Oakland and raisedin what actuallymakes this countrygreat. potluck.We had to learn their traditions, but ual assault, what is itscredibility when it campaigns forjustice foraDalit teen rapedand Berkeley. She went to Howard University,a And that’s the America voters will be theyknewlittle about our lives, our habits, murderedinHathras?Thatisnot to saythatthisbrandof coarsenessislimitedonlytoCongress. historicallyBlackcollegeinWashington, D.C. choosing. A2015Pew Research Centersurvey our world. We’d go to the same schools and Itisendemicto Indianpolitics,andusedthoughtlesslyagainstwomen,especiallyfrommar- She is amember of Alpha Kappa Alpha of multiracial American adultsshowedthat wear the same clothes, but we’d still be seen ginalisedcommunities.Ramachandran’splatitudesaboutrapevictimstapintoalargercon- Sorority,one of the “Divine Nine” US Black while 59 per cent felt their backgroundsmade through an unfamiliar lens. sensus—fashionedbysociety,cultureandpolitics—thatsays thatacagedsexuality—owned sororities andfraternities. In America,you them moreopen to other cultures, 55 per cent It didn’t seem fair.Our normal should by men and protected from other men —iswhat giveswomenworth. don’t getmuchBlackerthan that. said theyhavebeensubject to racial slursor have been justasvalid as the whitekids’nor- Theregularitywithwhichmenstoopto suchrhetoricisadirectoutcomeof genderinequal- But she is also achild of India. Her mother, jokes. About one in four (24per cent) have also mal. Still, we were the ones, in the eyes of Shyamala Gopalan Harris, wasborn in felt annoyedbecause people have made as- manywhiteAmerican adults with limited ityinIndianpolitics.Withappallinglevelsof representationof women,acrosslevelsandpar- Chennaiand mether father,Donald JHarris, sumptionsabout theirracialbackground,the expectations of Blackpeople, who were un- ties,thepublicsphere hasbecome,by default,amaleturf,wheretoxicspeech goeslargely un- an immigrant from Jamaica, duringaprotest “where-are-you-really-from” question. usual, or exceptional. punishedand where pieties of sexual dishonour go uncontested.But till acriticalmassof at the UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley, in the A2015 PewResearchCenter I’veknown Kamala formorethan 20 years We’reinthis country, we’reofthis coun- women politicians pushes backagainstthis cheap misogyny, national parties cannotafford early ’60s. survey of multiracial —webothlived and worked in theSan try, but still, in 2020, we don’t feel others think to sleepontheir watch. It is incumbent on them to detoxify the public space. The Congress Kamala and her younger sisterMayahad American adults showed Francisco BayAreainthe 1990s.Iwas an ed- that we arethis country. This, despite thefact must makesurethatthereare political consequencesfor Ramachandran’s floridloose talk amiddle-class upbringing in northern itor at the San Jose Mercury News,and shewas that, by 2045,the US Census predictsthat California but were notsheltered from the that while 59 per cent felt atalentedprosecutor anddistrict attorneyfor America willmorenon-whitethan white. —and thatshould be an example forother parties to follow. racial complexities of America in the ’70s, es- their backgrounds made the cityand county of SanFrancisco,later to It’s true thatKamala Harris identifies as peciallyassomeone who shared multiple them more open to other becomethe state’s firstattorney-generalof Black. And sheidentifiesasIndian. Butshe cultures —Blackand Indian. cultures, 55 per cent said African-American (and Indian)heritage. firstidentifies as American. As American as But even in the BayArea, one of the most We areabout thesame age, with similar dosas and friedchicken. That’s the America DIAMONDFOREVER raciallydiverseregions of America—the pop- they have been subjectto circumstances as young Blackkids in that we live in now. On November 3, that’s ulation todayismorenon-whitethan whitein racial slursorjokes. About America. Both of our parentshad graduate all that should matter. mostofits major counties —the voices of degrees. This, too, wasnormal among many In her memoir, TheTruths We Hold (2019), Sean Connerysurvivedthe Bond persona to become one in four (24per cent) those of colour struggle to be heardoverthe have also felt annoyed of the Blackfamilies we grew up around. Like Kamala recalledher mother’s wordstoher: an all-time great actor pain of pastinjustices. Berkeley, forinstance, Kamala and Maya,myolder sisterand I “Don’t letanybody tell youwho youare.You hadahistoryof racial segregation,with redlin- because people have would oftenbethe only or one of justafew tell them who youare.” UNNY THEY SAID,you onlylivetwice. Sean Conneryshowedyou couldhaveas ing —the practice of banksrefusing to write made assumptions about Blackchildren in our classes, or on our sports mortgages in predominantlyBlackneigh- teams, or in one of manyextracurricular ac- The writer is an associateprofessor at Temple manylives as youwanted —asJames Bond, as areturning JamesBond, as a their racial background, bourhoods —dating backto1933and many tivities. In the ’70s and ’80s, we’d wear University in Philadelphia, and wasformerly sworn Scotsman, as “the man’s man” in akilt,asastar who chose his ownre- the ‘where-are-you-really- F areas having restrictive covenantsthatpro- Brittania jeans and watch Soul Train on theeditor-in-chief of Ebony magazine and tirement, and as the world’s mostfamous secret agentwhose suitactorsstrug- hibitedminorities from living in certainneigh- from’ question. Saturdaymornings. We’d go to cookoutson theeditor of CNN Politics digital gled to fill out till twodecades later.EvenIan Fleming, who created Bond, gave it anew life—one starting from Scotland —impressedbyConnery. Did the manylives theactor had ledtill the point he blazedontothe screen in svelte suitsand skimpy swimwear,conquering villains and women alikewith panther-like grace and alicence to kill, inform the actor he would be?Connerydidn’t liketotalkabout NOVEMBER 3, 1980, FORTY YEARS AGO it —eitherhis humble beginnings, or his journeyfrombeingamilkman, aNavyman, a labourer and acoffinpolisher,toabodybuilder,leadingtoaMrUniverse No.3finish, and A RMYPUMPS OIL Narengi, until their demandswerefulfilled. ABADANBATTLE films. However, partofthe Connerycharm, that wouldbecome inseparable from his Bond THE ARMY WASfirmlyonthe Assam scene, IRAQI FORCES MOUNTED newassaults on character,was to notreally lead life—that word again—by other people’s rules. When facilitatingthe flowofblocked crude oil from JANATA’SCALL Abadan’s eastern gates, as defenders of Iran’s he decidedhehad had enough of playing 007, across three decades, he movedontoroles Upper Assamwells to the Gauhati refinery THE JANATA PARTYurged oppositionparties largest oil refining city “fought with all their and takingoverthe maintenance of lawand and individuals “sharing itsperception” to might to stop the enemy’s advances”, war with moreshades of grey.Inanensemble castofunmatchables in The Untouchables (1987), order in the Dispur MLAs’ hostelarea. cooperatewith it in resisting the “anti-dem- communiques from Tehran reported. he wonhimself an Oscar. Pumping commencedafter a11-month halt ocratic policies” of Prime MinisterIndira But even diamonds arenot forever, and Connery’s alpha male charm, his love-them- forced by the agitation on the foreigners’ is- Gandhi’s government. In itsresolutiononthe NAM PANEL MEET and-leave-them Bond, and itsPussy Galorewomen, maynot have done as well in the sue. Whilethe resumptionofoil flow will politicalsituation, the national executive of THE NON-ALIGNED COUNTRIES’ committee #MeToo era. Conneryhad to spend years accounting foradvocating hitting women, save the750-km-long Gauhati-Barauni the party regrettedthat Mrs Gandhi’s gov- of “goodoffices”onthe Iran-Iraq warmet in though with an “open-handedslap”, in a1975interview. He approved, though, of Daniel pipeline from the gelling of crude in winter, ernment had “nearly destroyed the material Belgrade. The meeting wasattendedbyfour it mighttakeafew days forthe Barauni re- and moral fibreofthe nation”.Itnotedthat foreign ministers —PVNarasimha Raoof Craig, whose Bond is more emotional.Craig is up next in hisfifth,and overall the 25th, finerytobefed,according to Oil India offi- the people had givenamassive mandate to India, IsidoroMalmierca of Cuba, Wilson Bond. He has promised No Time To Die is hislast. Connery, perhaps agreeingthat 90 is a cials. However, the AllAssam Students’ Union the Congress-I hopingtoget a“government Chakouli of Zambia and Josip Vrhovecof good agetocall it awraponalifelived well, would perhaps be swirling that Martini and and the All Assam Gana Parishad decidedto that works”. But all their hopes had been be- Yugoslavia. The meeting came to an endun- smiling thatsmile. His last,after all, waspropitiouslynamed NeverSay NeverAgain (1983). resistany attempt at crude oil flowbeyond liedbythe IndiraGandhi regime. expectedly,for reasons that arestill unclear.

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THEINDIANEXPRESS,TUESDAY,NOVEMBER3,2020 WHATTHE OTHERSSAY “Killed,maimed,jailed,sued,bullied and harassed in various other ways, journalists are undergrowing pressure acrossthe world. With the addition of ‘virtual violence’, threats facing the fourth estate are profound and many.” 9 THE IDEAS PAGE —DAILY STAR, BANGLADESH Outside the Quad The plural saffron Everyspoken or written word maskedwith Bipartisan agreementinUSfor overhaul of global order couldsee creation of anew leagueofdemocracies, ‘Hindutva’ is notthe viewofthe RSS, whichisthe with consequences forIndia’s economic prosperity and technologicalfuture civilisational conceptofHinduness

what seem likesemantic variationsinthe ideological lexicon. Forexample, many be- lieve that “Hindu” is asynonym for “Bhartiya”. He states that“theremay be some who have an objectioninaccepting this term. We do notobject to theyusing other wordsifthe content in their mind is RAJAMANDALA thesame”. Thecontent is moreimportant Rakesh Sinha than the container. by CRajaMohan Secularists have intellectuallycoerced the historical nuances of Hindus and THE VIJAYADASHAMI FUNCTION of the RSS Hindutva. This is evident from colonial-era AUSTRALIA’S PARTICIPATION IN the annual is notjustacustom—itisideologicallysig- censusreports, whichshowaseriousen- Malabar exercises, kicking offthis week in nificant. The Sarsanghachalak candidlycon- deavour by scholars to understand what it theBay of Bengal,marks theemergence of textualises the organisation’s worldview. meanstobeaHindu. In thesecondall-India the Quad as anew featureofthe Indo- The tradition is as old as the RSS itself. Mohan censusin 1881,JamesAustinBourdillon,the Pacific geopolitics. Although the recent de- Bhagwat’s Vijayadashami speechwill augur census superintendent, asked,“What is a cisions on itsconsolidation have all come afresh debateonvital issues of being Hindu, Hindu?” In 1911,LSSO’Malley, census su- in the final weeksofPresident Donald the Hindu nation and Hindutva. Earlier def- perintendent of Bengal and Orissa, found Trump’sfirstterm,the Quad is likelytoen- initions and interpretations of all three cat- suchexercisesfutile. The1921 census report dure, thankstothe strong institutional com- egories fell prey to discursive political de- of Punjab and Patiala mentionedRev.WW mitment in all four capitals —Canberra, bates whichlackedhistorical perspective. Wilkins’ understanding of being aHindu: Delhi, Tokyoand Washington. HinduMahasabha (HMS) leader VD “In fact, Hinduism is notareligion but a The question is no longer about the Quad’s Savarkar’s work, Hindutva (1923) wasthe group of religions in whichdiversereligious sustainability,but India’s abilitytotakefull firsttheoretical proposition on the issue. It beliefsare compoundedtogether.Nosingle advantageofthe possibilities afterthe US monopolisedsuccessive debatesonthese man can beascribedasthe originator of this elections to constructawide rangeofnew in- three categories since the colonial era. religion. Whatever religion wasprevalent in ternational coalitions. Despitemanyideolog- Savarkar drew the geo-cultural boundaryof pre-historic time in India and whatever icalcontentionsbetween them,Republicans CRSasikumar Hindutva objectively. Contextually, it wasan changes wrought with the tide of civilisa- and Democratsagree on the needfor an over- attempt to safeguardHindusfrombecoming tion… should be consideredasHinduism.” haul of global structures to cope with the partofIndia’s deepening territorial and po- administration promote a“Clean Network” definitionallyorphanedgiven thecommu- Bhagwat conceptualisedHindu Rashtra emerging challenges. liticaldisputeswith China. Delhi also figured thateliminates untrustworthyvendors from nal challenges posedthrough conversions as an adjective forthe collective of Hindus. The likelychanges could envelop arange out thatitwas notpossiblefor BRICStocon- telecom systems, digital apps, trans-oceanic and bubblesofreligious nationalities. While Hesaid:“HinduRashtraisnot apoliticalcon- of old institutions likethe Five Eyes —the strain Beijing, since China wassomuchbigger cablesand cloud infrastructure. While it be- abrilliant text, Hindutvaisnot the sole deter- cept.” But he also leavesanunsaid question: Anglo-American alliancefor sharing intelli- than the other four members put together.As ganwith the targeting of Chinese suppliers minantof pastand presentHindutvaworld- Do the followers of Islamand Christianity, gence between theUS, UK, Canada, Australia India’s focus inevitablyshifted to the con- likeHuawei, Clean Networkisnow abroader view. The likes of Bipin ChandraPal, twomajor faiths in India,accommodatethe and NewZealand —and the G-7 grouping struction of a“multipolarAsia”, the Quad and effort to build securetechnology ecosystems Rabindranath Tagore and SRadhakrishnan cultural and civilisational journeyofIndia thatcoordinates Western policies on global itscentral role in constructing astable bal- among like-mindedcountries. as thinkers, and the RSS as amovement, from timeimmemorialordoes their exclu- economic management. We could also see ance of powerinAsia became apparent. Britainissaid to be developing plans to have theirown imaginationofHindutvaand sivism notallowtheir secularisation? the creation of anew League of Democracies That brings us intothe fourth phase in convene acoalition of 10 democracies, includ- the Hindu nation. The secularistdiscourse Exclusivism is incompatible with diversity that will address awide rangeofissues, in- India’s multilateralismthat is markedbythree ing India, that can contributetothe construc- disparaged this, whichisintellectuallyim- andassimilation.We have instancesof force- cluding the defence of shared values, com- features —the relative rise in Delhi’s interna- tion of secure5Gnetworksand reduce the moral and afraud on their part. fullyconvertedpeoplenotabandoningtheir merce, corruption, taxation,climatechange tional standing, the breakdown of the great current dependence on China.France and Secularists paintedHindutvaasamono- culturalandspiritualtraditions.However, ex- and digital governance. powerconsensus on economic globalisation, Canadahaveinvited India to join theGlobal lith and acceptedsemantic variations within clusivists considered suchtraitsasviolating The consolidation of the Quad reflectsthe and the breakout of the US-China rivalry. Partnership on artificialintelligence that now it, notphilosophical ones. This helpedthem “religiouspurity”.CELuard,superintendent politicalwill in Delhi to breakfreefromold Shaken by the aggressive Chinesestrat- includes 15 countries.The objective is to pro- to impose an imaginaryobjective on it — of CensusOperation in Central India, 1901, shibbolethsand respondtosecurityimpera- egy to weaken the US-ledpost-Wararchitec- mote responsible development of AI thatis majoritarian political exclusivism. They wrote: “It is notatfirstsight alwayspossible tives. The post-Quad eraopens anew phase ture, both Republicans and Democratsare ea- consistent withshared democratic values. drew parallels between Hindutvaand dis- to distinguish between aHindu and a in whichIndia, forthe firsttime, can help gertoreorder internationalinstitutions.The Oneofthe mostconsequential develop- credited concepts like racial purity and mi- Mohammedanwedding.”Thecensusreport shape global institutions. Trumpadministrationhas already soughtto mentsafter theUSelections will be thede- nority subjugation.Concomitantly, they of 1921 givesanotherinstanceof themerger Changing the worldwas indeed amajor imagine the Quad’s possibilitiesbeyondthe mandto reformtheglobaltradingsystemthat treatedtheRSS as an appendageofthe (now of tradition and religious practices: The theme of newly independent India’s aspira- defence domain. The invitation to India to join has been distortedbyChinese success in sub- dead organisation) HMS. In this context, Dudekula—acommunitynumbering71,612 tion in the middle of the 20thcentury.But the aFiveEyesmeeting earlier this month in verting it. If Trumpwins,his assault on the Bhagwat’s speech is aremarkable interven- people —performed shastrapuja on Bakrid, gapbetween Delhi’s ambition and impact Tokyooncommunications security came WorldTradeOrganisationcouldbefiercerthan tion to correct both sides of the contempo- as manydoonDussehra, and adoptedboth waslarge.Ifidealism wasthe hallmarkof amidstthe bipartisan calls in the US Congress now. To be sure, Biden has been supportive of rary debate. Hindu and Mohammedan names. India’s internationalisminthe 1950s, the forthe expansion of theforumand the inclu- multilateralism in general. But pressurefrom The RSS has neverbeen avotaryofa Hindutvaisapolitico-cultural response harsh politicsofthe Cold Warquicklydamp- sion of India. While an early expansion of the Trumpaswell as theworking classes and the theocratic state. Itsfounder,KBHedgewar, to Semiticpejorativesandtheirprogramme enedit.Inthe 1970s, Indiaembracedthe rad- forum is notonthe cards, it appears interested progressives in his ownparty have compelled delineatedacivilisational concept. Hence, to impact thereligious demographyand un- ical agendaofaNewInternational Economic in developing wider circles of intelligence Biden to promise therewill be no return to an it has continued to evolve andassimilate. broken historical journeyofIndia.Savarkar’s Order,asthe leader of theNon-Aligned sharing and cooperation. ideologicallydrivenfreetrade policy. Hedgewar’s perspective wasinformed not work is apartofthis, but the ideological re- Movement and the Group of 77.The results The “Quad Plus” dialogue, whichbegan Biden has alsojoinedTrumpinempha- by the eventsofhis time butthe longcivil- sponse hasmanystrands. The RSS, in this re- were meagre. this spring at the initiative of the Trump sising the case foranAmerican industrial pol- isational and spiritualarc of Hindus. His gard,has acquired hegemony. Thethirdphase beganwiththe end of the Administration, has variouslydrawn in Brazil, icy and “Buy American” strategy that could conceptofthe Hindu nation was, as aresult, Contemporaryscholars of the history of ColdWar, the collapse of theSovietUnion,the Israel, NewZealand, SouthKorea, and run counter to the WTOrules.AsDelhi em- notessentialist. Bhagwat contextualised ideas errintaking the definitions of the pe- emergence of the unipolar moment and the Vietnam forconsultations withthe Quad phasises asimilar agenda foritself in build- this with substantive philosophical argu- ripheryasthe coreofthe ideology. Washington Consensus in favour of globalisa- members on coordinatingthe responses to ingan“Atmanirbhar India”, it becomes im- ments. He aptlysaid that the identity of a Bhagwat has amessagefor the other tion.AndasIndia’sowneconomicmodel col- the pandemic. Variations on this theme are portant to engagethe US on rewriting the Hinduiscommensuratewiththe universal side too: Everyspoken or written word lapsed, Delhi had no option but to temper its of considerable interesttothe Democrats. global trade rules. virtues of humanity and it accommodates masked with“Hindutva”isnot theviewof political ambitions,putitspolitical headdown, India is also engagedwith Japan and Australia Looking ahead to thenextUSadministra- and swallows diversities at the micro-level. theRSS, whichisthe civilisational concept focus on economic reform and prevent the in developing resilient supply chains to re- tion, the Quad could soon become routine Bhagwat stated that Hinduidentity is not of Hinduness. And while the organisation worldfromintruding toomuchintoits inter- duce the reliance on China. and boring. The real excitement will beabout derivedfromparticularism:“‘Hindu’isnot is prepared to safeguardits plurality of nal affairs. While the imperative of growth de- Both Republicans and Democratsare Theconsolidation of the Delhi’s participationinthe sweeping re- thenameofsome sect or denomination, it ideas and practices, it cannotfall prey to mandedagreater engagement with the West, veering around to ideas of the “free world” Quad reflects the political arrangement of the global structures that will is notaprovincial conceptualisation, it is narrowideological battles. The RSS em- the fear of the USactivismon Kashmirand nu- coming together to setupnew international will in Delhi to break free have majorconsequences forIndia’s eco- neither asingle caste’s lineagenor the priv- braces thinkers and organisations who sig- clear issues sawDelhi turn to Russia and China coalitions to address the emerging challenges from old shibboleths and nomic prosperity and technologicalfuture. ilegeofaspecific language. It is that psycho- nificantlycontributetothe discourse but in search of a“multipolarworld” that could from China. President Trumphas proposed Unlikeinthe past, Delhi nowhas the re- logical common denominator whose vast it is notthe appendix of anyorganisation, constrain American power. TheBRICS forum the expansion of G-7 grouping to include respond to security sources, leverage and politicalwill to makea courtyard cradledhuman civilisation, that living or dead. Our challenge multiplies withRussia, China,BrazilandSouthAfricabe- Australia, India, Russiaand South Korea. The imperatives. Thepost-Quad difference to theglobal order. whichhonours andencompasses innumer- withthe growing shadowofthe organisa- came emblematic of this strategy. Democratsare opposedtothe inclusionof eraopens anew phase in abledistinctidentities.”Earlier MS tion on policies, politics and the public. But Delhi soon found that differences with the Russia, andJoe Bidenhas promisedtocon- whichIndia,for thefirst Thewriter is director,InstituteofSouth Asian Golwalkar,inaninterview to theRSS daily politicaldiscourse cannotconfine the RSS US on Kashmir and nuclear issues were eas- vene asummit of major democracies soon af- Studies, National University of Singaporeand Motherland (1973), echoed asimilar idea — to itsnarrowlane. ing, thanks to George WBush’spolicies. But terhetakes charge. time,can help shape contributingeditor on international affairs “nature abhors uniformity”. Kashmir and the nuclear question became The lastfew months has seenthe Trump global institutions. for The Indian Express Moreimportantly, Bhagwat clarified The writer is BJP RajyaSabha MP Needed:Reinventing Nehru LETTERSTOTHE EDITOR A FRAUD IDEAS THIS REFERS TO thereport, ‘Manyways Congress mustworkonits inabilitytoframe issues in contextofstrong nation to dupe apoorstudent:steal IDs, lie ONLINE about source of funds, pocket mostofit- all officially'’(IE, November 2).Scamsare ONLYINTHE EXPRESS PurushottamAgrawal ahallmarkofacorruptsystem. But for theIndian Express investigationthecon- ● BENARASITHUGS GOINGBYREPORTS from Bihar, the dissatis- and missteps, including demonetisation and historicalmemories,whichare ultimatelyne- Nehruvian nationalism.The Nehruvian “idea spiracy by touts, school and bank officials ANDPAKISTANI faction with the Nitish Kumar government the abject surrender to China, areeither for- gotiatedin accordance with the kindoffuture of India” wasnot merelyatributetothe plu- and governmentofficials to siphon off POLITICS: seems quitepalpable. Putting the blame on gottenorforgivenas“themanissincerely try- vision, the “imagination” it is built upon. ralityanddiversityof Indiantraditionandcul- crores of scholarship moneyfrom RAHULTRIPATHI LaluPrasad’srule,invokingmemoriesof “jun- ing to save and, in fact, rebuild the nation”. Jawaharlal NehruwasoneIndian, who re- ture;moreimportantly, itwasavisionof asen- Jharkhand studentswould nothave gleraj”doesn’t seemto beworking forthe rul- Under Modi, the BJP has perfected theRSS’s flecteddeeplyonthesequestions.Hewasara- sitive,inclusive, justand, of course, strong and come to light. It also reflectsdigital di- ● THELONGWINTER ing combine.Onthe other hand, according to traditionallyeffective communication strat- tionalist,butneverdismissedemotions,senti- assertive nation.ThisiswhatNehruevocatively vide in the society,whereasupposedly recentsurveys,atleast70percentrespondents egy.ApartfromWhatsApp,thesupposedlyre- mentsand images associated with cultural termedasthe “discoveryofIndia”.Whatever better system of direct digital transfer OFAMERICANDISCONTENT: were satisfiedwith the NarendraModi gov- spectableandreliablemedialikeTVhavebeen memories.Hedidnotdoawaywiththeimage the votariesofidentity politics might say, the could be easilymanipulated forfraud. PRAVINPRAKASH ernment’shandlingof COVID-19,includingthe put in service to construct aregime of violent of Bharat Mata, but infuseditwithavision of ideaof anation,andimaginedorrealthreatsto LRMurmu, Delhi forced migration causedbythe lockdown. “debates” and shapea“lowinformation” and ademocraticandinclusiveIndia.Hewasclear it, continues to haunt popularconsciousness This reflects thesuccess of the BJP’s media a“low-expectationvoter”.TheCongressisnot thatwhile youcannot“live in thepast”, you even in post-industrial societies, nottotalk of WORK FOR PEOPLE www.indianexpress.com management.Itwillbewise to face the fact able to makeaserious dent in Modi’s popular cannotignore it either.Multi-levelplurality is apost-colonialsocietylikeIndia.At stake,then, thatModi has been able to convincepeople — appeal,despiteRahulGandhiconsistentlytalk- themostbasicfactof lifeinIndiaandanyfuture is the corecontent of the idea of India as ana- THIS REFERS TO the editorial, ‘Hand and mainlyHindus, but, mindyou, notmerelythe ing sense, arguing rationallyonissues of gov- imaginedby erasingthatpluralityisgoingto be tion.Tosaveand strengthen that content, it is sickle’ (IE, November 2). Both the CPI(M) upper-caste ones—thataprocessof redesign- ernance, economyand national security. adisaster. Pakistanwas “taught” this lesson necessarytoreinventtheNehruvianapproach and the Congress appear to be facing an andefficiencyof thejudiciaryasaninsti- ing the nation is under way. The basic “mal- The fundamental reason forthis failureis within10years of itsexistence, though it re- to nation-building. It certainlydoesnot imply existential crisis in West Bengal. An al- tution has remainedunshattered since adies”,secularism—inwhatevermanner one the inability to put issues in aframework of fuses to learn. Ironically, we seem eager to fol- mimicry—that would turn history into liancethatwasnot a“politicaloptionbut Independence. Ourlearnedjudges’ im- defines it —and liberalismare “being taken preservingand strengtheningthe Indian na- lowthe same path now. tragedy, maybeevenafarce. anecessity” needs to emergeasaviable peccable character and conduct have careof”. Derisive worlds like“sickular” have tion. Even the humblestand mostdisadvan- “PluralityisadefiningfeatureofIndianna- The point is to “reinvent” the sense of the alternative to both the ruling TMC and beenbeyondquestion.Indiahasbeenfor- been put in circulation in asystematic way. tagedIndian, at some levelofconsciousness, tion,butitcannotbeanexcuseto tamperwith historical destinyofIndia that is so strong in the BJP by launching ajoint movement tunatetohavescholarly andenlightened Whilemostliberalanddemocraticvoiceshave is concerned with the security andfutureof the integrity of the nation”: This wasthe gist Nehru’s worldview. This ideahas to live up to on ahostofissuesand shifting itsfocus minds adoring the title of justices in this discardedtheideaof agrandnarrative andem- India. Contrarytothe dominant liberal wis- of themessagethatNehruandPatelconveyed the challenges of the present moment. It has and concentrateonissues that affect the country. Indiacannotwaitforanappoint- bracedpoliticsof identity,Modihasgoneback dom, the days of the“nation”are notover. In unambiguouslyinthe fraught years from to be moreinclusive in nature,moreaccom- livesofcommonpeople. ment to go wrong before initiating the to theidea of nation in abig way, convincing fact,dueto theliberalobsessionwithpoliticsof 1947-1950.TheyrefusedtosendIndiantroops modative in approachand, at the sametime, SSPaul, Nadia processof institutionalisationof the sys- manythatIndia as anation is under grave cultural identities at the costofeconomic and to Kashmirunless the Maharajasignedthe moreassertive.IfIndia has to survive as asec- temofappointment of judges to the threat.“In suchasituation, ‘wethe nationalis- common social issues,questionsaround the Instrumentof Accessionandnippedinthebud ulardemocracywithvibrantinstitutions,there SYSTEMNEEDED higher judiciaryand continue with its ticIndians’mustnot cribaboutdifficultieslike nationhave comeback withabangalloverthe the designsofthe Nizam, while also putting is no other waybut to take the Nehruvian ap- glorious tradition of elevating the best pricerise, mismanagement of COVID-19 and world.Ithasbeentheoreticallyarguedthatthe down acommunistinsurgency with afirm proachtonation-rebuilding. THISREFERSTOthearticle,‘Officesatwar’ and the brightestinthe countrytothe otherdisasters.Letusstandby thePM instead nation is justan“imaginedcommunity”. hand. Nehru neverlostsightofwhat he called (IE, November 2). The enormous faith of high offices in the judiciary. of supportinghiscritics,”arguehissupporters. Indeeditis,andthatiswhyitisdisastrousto ig- “India’s destiny” —amajor role in shaping the Agrawalisawriter, historian and author of thepeopleofIndiainthequality,integrity, Sudip Kumar Dey, Kolkata Herein lies thesecret of Modi’s hold on nore the social and moral orientation of this future of theworld. WhoisBharat Mata?,anedited people’simagination. All his faults, blunders imagination. Amodernnation evolvesout of TheCongressseemstohavelosttouchwith collectionofwritingsonJawaharlal Nehru

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states in the US. Florida swings betweenthe statepolls,and is widelyfavoured to win. But SHUBHAJITROY major parties —Democrat BillClinton carried EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE nopollhaspredictedthatTrumpwilldefinitely NEWDELHI,NOVEMBER2 the statein1996, Republican GeorgeWBush NEWDELHI,NOVEMBER2 lose. Nate Silver, perhaps the mostinfluential in2000and2004,DemocratBarackObamain of forecasters, remindedeveryone on Sunday THE ELECTION of the Presidentofthe United 2008and2012,andRepublicanDonaldTrump When do the pollsopen and close? that in his projection, the President has a10% States is consideredthe world’s mostconse- in 2016.The ‘Sunshine State’ is specialalsobe- IT VARIES from statetostate.The earliest they chanceof retainingtheWhite House,not zero. quentialdemocraticexercise.Thisisespecially causeitisseenasabellwether state—except open is 6am, andthe latestthe close is 9pm He could have a2016moment again in the true of Election 2020 —asthe US is moredi- for1992,whenitsidedwithincumbentGeorge local time on November 3. India is between ElectoralCollege.Biden’sleadinPennsylvania, videdthanatany other time in itsrecent his- HWBush,Floridahasvotedwiththewinning 10½and 13½hoursahead, depending on whichaccording to some forecasts is the tip- tory,theplanetfacesanexistentialthreatfrom candidateineveryelectionfrom1964(Lyndon whereintheUSyou’relooking.However, early ping-point state, is 5points—“solid but not catastrophicclimatechange,newgeopolitical BJohnson) to 2016 (Trump). votinghasbeenopensincemid-September— spectacular”,accordingtoSilver. Pennsylvania forcesarethreateningto upendthe balance of InbeatingHillaryClinton,Trumpalsowon and by Monday night Indiatime, over 96 mil- and Florida will together give Trump49 globalpower, and aonce-in-a-century pan- Pennsylvania,Michigan,andWisconsin,albeit lionAmericanshadalreadycasttheirvotes,ei- Electoral Collegevotes, atallyBidencan over- demic has deliveredashocktoeconomies. with small margins. This time, analysts feel Duringthe early voting stage, campaign signs near apolling station in ther in person or by returnedmail ballots,ac- take onlyifhewinsallof theremaining4toss- Tomorrow, November 3, is amomentous Pennsylvania will be the “tipping point”. Pinellas CountyinLargo,Florida. Reuters cording to the US Elections Project. ups —Michigan, North Carolina, Arizona, day—forthe US and the world. Thecomplicationisthis:threeof thebattle- Wisconsin—anddoeswellinotherstates,too. AsElectionDay andNightunfolds,thebat- ground states —Pennsylvania,Michigan, and When will the votes be counted? Also, polling errors do happen —all fore- tleforthe270ElectoralCollegevotesneededto Wisconsin —will notbegin counting early TOTALELECTORALCOLLEGEVOTES:538 UnlikeIndia’s Election Commission, there casters were wrongin2016. Andnoone is rul- win the WhiteHouse will boil down to how votesuntilElectionDay, which meansitislikely is no federal body in the US thatruns theelec- ing out thepossibility that Trumpmay seek President DonaldTrumpand his Democratic thatfinalresultsand projections will notbe tion or tallies the results. Eachstate runs the some sortof“illegitimate” path to victory, al- challenger,former Vice President Joe Biden, possible that night. But NorthCarolina and 212 270 125 election according to itsown rules. Although though that scenario has manymind-bog- performinwhatarecalledthe“battleground” Arizonahavebeguncountingballots,andthese SOLIDORLIKELY VOTESNEEDEDTO SOLIDORLIKELY moststatesallow electronic gling unknowns. or “swing”states. Butthereisareal possibility states arelikelytobecalledonElection Night. DEMOCRATIC REACHWHITEHOUSE REPUBLICAN methods, paper ballots are thatthe result of the election maybedelayed the normacrossthe coun- So,isfraud expected? —and that thereisnoclear winner until late Whyistheresuchuncertainty around the BATTLEGROUND STATES try. 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Alarge numberofvoters—over96million FLORIDA separate,andlater,process. in the US. Democratsand until Monday night in India —havevoted 29 46% Eachstate has itsown live stream. These otherTrumpcriticsarecon- Whyare battlegroundstatesimportant? through mail-in ballots and early voting (to NOV datefor starting in-person include NBC, CBS, and vincedthatheisraisingthe Battleground or swing states hold the key avoidthe crowds on November 3). 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CORONAVIRUS DASHBOARD Impact of school closure on Malabar Navy Exercise: purpose, participants WhyisAustralia’sparticipation is necessary keeping Chinainmind”.Hesaid student learning, quantified KRISHNKAUSHIK important? “theQuad need notbeNATOinits formality, NEWDELHI,NOVEMBER2 On October 27,following the 2+2 dia- in itspolitical congruence and as apost-war HOWMUCHhas theclo- year,students likelydid not logue with the US, Defence MinisterRajnath response” but it can “deternonetheless”. sureofschools inducedby gain as muchacademically PHASE 1ofthe Malabar NavalExercise kicks Singh said: “We… agreedthat upholding At awebinar on September 3, Chief of the Covid-19pandemic duringthe truncated 2019–20 offonTuesday, withparticipation of the rules-basedinternational order,respect- Defence StaffGeneral Bipin Rawathad said impacted studentlearn- school year,and likelylost Australian navy forthe firsttimesince 2007. ing the rule of lawand freedom of naviga- Quadis“agoodarrangement”,which“willen- ing? Astudy by American moreofthose gains due to the Alook at what the exercise is about,and why tion in the international seas and uphold- sure,thattheIndianOceanRegionandallother researchers,publishedlast PAPER extendedtime out of school. it is particularly significant this year. ing the territorial integrityand sovereignty oceans around thereiscomplete freedomof week,has quantifiedthe The authors estimated that of all states areessential. Our defence coop- navigation,withoutfear of anyother nation impact, projected to the CLIP returning studentslikely What is MalabarExercise? Lastyear’sMalabar Exercise offthe eration is intendedtofurther these objec- singularly trying to dominatethe oceans”. end of the academic year. startedschool this fall (au- It is amultilateral navalexercise that in- coast of Japan. Indian Navy tives. Both sides welcomedAustralia join- While the projectionshave tumn) with approximately cludes simulated wargames and combat ing the forthcoming MalabarExercise.” Does India conduct anyothernaval been made forUSschools, NEWRESEARCH 63% to 68%ofthe typical an- manoeuvres. It startedin1992 as abilateral As the standoff in eastern Ladakhcontin- exercises with thesecountries? whichhavereopenedin nual learninggains in reading. exercise between the Indian and US navies. countries in the maritime security domain ues,theparticipationoffourlarge naviesfrom Overthelastfew months,theIndianNavy some states during the autumn,concerns Formathematics, theyestimatedthatthe Japan joinedin2015. This year theexercise and in the light of increaseddefence coop- theIndo-Pacificregionwillsendamessage to hasconductedanumberof PassageExercises around setbacks to learning areuniver- studentsstarted the autumn classes with will be held in twophases, the firstfrom eration with Australia, Malabar 2020 will China.Sourceshave mentionedthatearlier,it (PASSEX) with navies from Japan, Australia sal. In India, anumber of states have be- 37%to50% of the typical annual learning Tuesdayoff the coastnear Visakhapatnam, see the participation of theAustralianNavy”. wasthe possibilityof riling upChinathathad and the US. But those were basic exercises to gun to reopen or announceddates forre- gains. This reducedlearning wasnot uni- and the second in the Arabian Sea in mid- This will bethe second time Australia will preventedIndiafromexpandingtheMalabar increaseoperabilitybetweenthenavies,while opening school forsenior classes. versal; the researchers estimated that the November.Lastyear it washeld in early participate. In 2007,thereweretwo Malabar Exercise,and from Australia joining it. Malabarinvolvessimulatedwargames.Inlate The US study is publishedin topone-thirdofstudentspotentially September offthe coastofJapan. Exercises.The firstwas heldoff Okinawais- RearAdmiralSudarshanShrikhande,who September,the IndianNavyconducted PAS- Educational Researcher,ajournal of the made gains in reading. This year’s Malabar Exercise has been land of Japan in the Western Pacific —the retired in 2016 andhad headedNaval intelli- SEX with the RoyalAustralian Navy. American EducationalResearch The researcherssaidthese projections plannedona“non-contact-at sea” format firsttime the exercise washeld away from gence earlier,and had served as theDefence InJuly, IndiaconductedaPASSEXwiththe Association. It uses amodelthatassumes implythat educators and policymakers keeping Covid-19protocols in mind. Indianshores—and the second in Advisor at the IndianHigh Commission in UScarrierstrikegroupledbyoneof thelargest that school closures in spring 2020 func- will needtoaddress that manystudents September 2007,off Visakhapatnam, with Canberra (2005-08), saidthat “with the warships in the world, USS Nimitz. The car- tionedasanextendedsummerbreak,and aresubstantiallybehind academicallyas What is the difference this year? the Indian,Japanese, US, Australianand clearerenunciationoftheQuadinrecentfor- rier strikegroup had been passing through providespreliminaryprojectionsoftheim- aresult of extendedschool closures. Forthe firsttime in over adecade, the Singapore navies. eign ministers' meetinJapan, it would have the Indian OceanRegion aftercompleting a pact of theseclosures on student learning. ENS&AmericanEducational exercise will see the participationofall four The following year,Australia stopped been counterproductive to the objectivesof freedomofnavigation exercise in the South The takeaway: Compared to atypical Research Association Quad countries. In astatement lastmonth, participating.Japan became aregular par- statecraftnot to invite Australia”. He said the China Sea, whichChina is quitesensitive the Defence Ministryhad said that “as India ticipant only in 2015,making it atrilateral Quad “must, among other things, contribute about.Asimilarexercisewasconductedwith seekstoincrease cooperation with other annual exercise since then. to beingakey instrument of deterrencethat Japan Maritime Self DefenceForce in June.

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Holding Act, 1962; Land Improv- ARUNSHARMA ement Scheme Act, 1972;Preve- IRAMSIDDIQUE ED Aggressive JAMMU,NOVEMBER2 ntion of Fragmentation of GWALIOR,NOVEMBER2 campaignmay Agricultural HoldingsAct, 1960; PLAIN E giveBJPedge ● AMID PROTESTS by opposition Alienation of Land Act, 1995; INArecentvideo,BJPRajyaSabha EX parties and manysections of the Right of Prior Purchase Act, 1936; memberJyotiyadityaScindiawas Newly-elected BJP RajyaSabha MPs in Lucknow. Express public in Jammu and Kashmir J&K Flood Plain (Regulation and seen urging voters to press the WHAT MIGHT work forthe againstthe newlandlawsintro- Development) Act, 2005; J&K ‘panja’ —the Congress’s electoral ruling party in theseMPby- ducedbythe Centre, the Union Underground PublicUtilities symbol —while campaigning in polls is the aggressive cam- Territoryadministration’sspokes- (Acquisition Of RightsOfUser In DabraconstituencyofMadhya paigning by senior BJP lead- BJP wins 9of11RS personRohit Kansal on Saturday Land) Act, 2014;Tenancy (StayOf Pradesh.Hecorrectedhimself im- ers —fromUnion minister defendedthe move,sayingthat Ejectment Proceedings)Act, mediately, asking voters to press NarendraSingh Tomar to manyofthese laws repealedor 1966;J&K Utilization of Lands the button for‘kamal’ —the BJP CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan, seats;Cong strength modifiedhadbecome“outdated” Act; and Prohibition of symbol—but that moment cap- and former CM UmaBharati and“obsolete’’andwere even“re- ConversionofLandand Alien- tured thepredicament facedby to incumbentstate Home gressive’’ and “anti-people”. ationofOrchards Act, 1975. The both sides in the 28 seatsgoing to Government employees withelection material forpolling MinisterNarottamMishra. set to dip below40 While NationalConference government has also modified the bypolls on Tuesday. booths on the eveofpolls, in Indore. ANI They all held severalmeet- leader and former J&Kchief min- four major existing laws:Agr- With Scindia, who joinedBJP ings with influential caste isterOmar Abdullah has accused arian Reforms Act, 1976;Land after20yearsinthe Congress groups. While Chouhan re- EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE Varanasi lawyer the government of opening J&K Revenue Act, 1939; Lands Grants alongwith25ex-CongressMLAs, sidedwith the British, leaving whereImartiDevi, initiallyseen frainedfromsharing adais NEWDELHI,NOVEMBER2 “for sale”, and said thatthe new Act, 1960; and J&K Development bringing down the KamalNath “JhansikiraniLaxmiBai”alonefol- astrailing,haswonsupportof the with JyotiradityaScindia,he told to approach laws trytodoawaywith land re- Act, 1970. government,theoppositionparty lowing the Revolt of 1857,which business community following has announcedaslewof WITHTHEBJPwinningnineof the Allahabad HC forms thathad been hallmarkof Calling the newlaws“mod- has been seen as being fumbling eventually ledtoher death. some aggressive campaigning by schemes —CMKisan 11 RajyaSabha seatsonMonday, the erstwhile state, Kansal main- ern and progressive”, and afford- slightly inraisingissuesotherthan Butevenwiththeheavy-duty BJP.But a“strong” BSP candidate SammanNidhi, Ladli Laxmi, the ruling party’s strength in the NewDelhi: TheSupreme tainedthat the reality is “actually ing “adequateprotection against “gaddari”—betrayal—byScindia round of campaign by Nath, inSantoshGaudislikelytoeatinto and Kanyadan yojna, among Upper House has gone up to 92 Court on Mondayasked quitetothe contrary’’. alienation of land to outsiders’’, and his team of legislators. Congress, whichlooksstrongin Congress votesinaseat that has others—whichthe BJP ex- while the main opposition Varanasi-basedlawyer Citing an instance, he said Kansal said severalprotections While that line of betrayal — about six seats, is facingatough traditionallybeen with the party. pectswill helpitinclose Congressissettodipbelow40for PrakashBajaj,who ques- whileAgrarianReformsAct,1976, have been introduced on similar setout by the party —isseenas fight from the BJP in aregioncon- Aiming to wooDalit voters, contests. thefirsttime. tioned the rejection of his had already supersededthe Big lines, as enacted in states such as having created an undercurrent sideredaScindiastronghold.With Nath has emphasisedthat the The BJP on itsown is still 31 SP-backednominationfor LandedAbolition Act, relevant Himachal Pradesh and Uttarak- of sympathyfortheCongress,but Congress seen as being ahead in Constitutionof BRAmbedkarhad shortofthe halfway markof123 the RajyaSabha elections provisionsof bothlaws have been hand. He said that no agricultural it is unlikely to be enoughfor the reserved(SC)seatssuchasGohad provisionsforbypollsintheevent their knowledge,and that they in the Upper House, but with al- from UttarPradesh alleg- included in the newlaws. land canbetransferred to any party.The party has 87 MLAs in and Ambha, Satish Shikarwar, its of death of asitting MP or MLA, had receivedlittle help from BJP, lies JD(U), whichhas five mem- ing aconspiracy by the re- According to Kansal, the new person from outside J&K but can the current House, and will have candidatefromGwalior-East, is “but these bypolls have been whichwas then in power. bers,andRamdasAthawaleof the turning officer to favour laws were required since the en- onlybesoldtoanagriculturist to win all 28 seatstoget to the likelytogiveatough fight to forced on us due to betrayal”. Meanwhile,counteringNath’s RepublicanPartyofIndia,theNDA the BSP,toapproachthe tiregamutofearlierlandlaws was from within the UT.Hesaid halfway markof115. MunnalalGoyal,oneof theformer In alateattempt to sway Dalit “gaddar” narrative,Scindia,for tallystands at 98.Adding the Allahabad High Court for meant to servean“old agrarian “agriculturist’’ in the newlaw The BJP,with 107seats, needs Congress MLAs who switched votes, BJP releasedapamphlet whomthe bypolls would deter- AIADMK, whichhas nine MPs, redressal of his grievance. rural”, and many of these had be- has been definedasaperson only eight. sides. Notably, theSC-STpopula- withapictureofShikharwarshar- minehispositioninhisnewparty, and some parties from the AbenchheadedbyChief come“outdated andobsolete”. who himself/ herself cultivates Nathhasrepeatedly reminded tion is about 21 to 28 percent of ing the dais withRishabh has pointedout that the 25 MLAs Northeast, the NDAtallyeasily Justice of IndiaSABobde The Centrehad on October 26 land in the UT.Kansal also said votersintheGwalior-Chambalre- the electorateinatleast 21 con- Bhadoriya, main accused in the hadlittleoptionbutto move to BJP, crosses 110. allowedhim to withdraw amendedand notifiedland laws that no land usedfor agricultural gion, whichaccountsfor 16 of stituencies, including Gwalior- 2018 caste violenceinGwaliorfol- as their demands forvarious de- Meanwhile, the Election his plea. ENS forthe UT and explicitlyomitted purpose can be used forany non- these 28 seats, that“Chambal’s East.Inwhatcouldqueerthepitch lowing the Bharat bandh–three velopment worksintheir con- Commission on Monday an- the protection earlier available to agricultural purpose, and that bloodishot —anditwillneverfor- forCongress, the BSP has fielded members from Dalit community stituencies went unheardunder nouncedabypolltothe lone va- its‘permanentresidents’.Theam- the terms “agriculturalland” and getpeople who have betrayed 27 candidates, making it atrian- were killedintheviolence.Acon- the “corrupt” Congress govern- cantseat in Karnataka on UP and one from Uttarakhand — endedlawsopenupurbanornon- “agriculturist” have been unam- them”. This exhortation wasfol- gular contestonmanyseats. troversysoon arose, with family ment. Scindia has emphasised December 1, necessitated by the areretiringonNovember25, in- agricultural land forpurchase by biguouslydefinedinthe new lowedbyareminder thatthe Among the seatsfacing a members of the deceasedstating thatheisa“dog”loyalto his“mas- death of BJP MP Ashok Gasti. The cluding Congress members PL outsiders,permitcontractfarming laws to include notjustagricul- Scindia familyhad purportedly three-way contest in Dabra, thatthepicturewasusedwithout ters”, who arethe voters. BJP,which is in powerin Punia and RajBabbar. on agricultural lands, provide for turebut also horticultureand al- Karnataka,willwintheseatwhich Consequently, theCongress’stally settingupofanindustrialdevelop- liedagro-activities. The safe- willtake theparty’stallyto93be- will come down to 38 from 40. ment corporation, amongothers. guardonagricultural land alone Cong MLA who fore the Winter Session. BesidesPuri, those elected In effect, adozen land-related would ensurethat morethan 90 ‘My calling is not photos, TheBJPstrengthwentupto 92 unopposed in UP areBJP's laws have been repealed: Big per centlandinJ&K —whichis defected to BJP afternineof itscandidates–eight Neeraj Shekhar, ArunSingh, LandedEstates Abolition Act, agriculturalland —remains pro- in UP and one in Uttarakhand – Geeta Shakya, Haridwar Dubey, 1950;Common Lands (Regul- tected and with the people of titles... Iamanordinary BJP willbemade were elected unopposedon Brijlal, BLVarma and Seema ation) Act, 1956; Consolidation of J&K, he added. Monday. In UP,one candidate Dwivedi; Samajwadi Party's ministerif eachofthe Samajwadi Partyand RamGopal Yadav; and BSP's BSP were electedunopposed. Ramji Gautam. workerand content with that’ elected:BSY Among those elected unop- In Uttarakhand, senior BJP Willgive10lakh posed from UP include Union leader Naresh Bansal wasde- RAJYASABHA MP JYOTIRADIYA This is aparty,inaway, ministerHardeep Singh Puri and clared elected unopposed. SCINDIA speakstoIRAM foundedbymygrandmother. EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE SP leaderRam GopalYadav. FULLREPORTON jobs even if it means SIDDIQUE on whyheconsiders Thereisasaying,“matbhed(dif- BENGALURU,NOVEMBER2 Elevenmembers —10from www.indianexpress.com himself aBJP worker,his experi- ferenceof opinion)honabohot za- ence in the Kamal Nath govern- roorihaiparmanbhed(difference ACONGRESS MLAwho defected withholding MLAs’ ment and his switchfromthe of hearts)nahihonachahiye.”...To to the BJP in July2019will be Congress to theBJP.Excerpts: me,it’sironicthatthepartymy fa- made aministerifelected again Ideologies opposite, ther spent 30 years in and the in the November 3bypolls, salaries:Tejashwi What is the mostimportant party Ispent 20 years in, how Karnataka Chief MinisterBS agenda forMadhya Pradeshin cometheydidn’tspeakallthelan- Yediyurappa has said. BSP-BJP alliancenot these bypolls? guage they arespeaking now... The CM This is an election forthe fu- had earlier PRESSTRUSTOFINDIA tureofMadhya Pradesh and its Is this in reference to youbeing promised possible: Mayawati PATNA,NOVEMBER2 people. ACongress government termeda‘gaddar’? ministerial po- wasputinplace18 monthsago,it THEEXPRESS Notonlythat, manymore sitionstoall 17 RJD LEADER Tejashwi Yadavon hadaChief Ministerwhowasself- barbs and taunts... It justshows Congress and MAULSHREESETH Mondaysaid he will implement centredandranacorruptgovern- INTERVIEW their duplicity... JD(S) rebels LUCKNOW,NOVEMBER2 hispollpromise of giving10lakh ment. Mr Kamal Nath achieved who helped jobs even if it meanswithhold- the impossible task of losing 30 Will your voters, who Karnataka the BJP form DAYS AFTER stating that her WITH ingthe salaries of thechief min- Yadav, Nadda per centofhis lawmakers within JYOTIRADITYA identifiedwith your secular CM the govern- party could even supportthe ister, ministers and MLAs. 15 months... SCINDIA image,beable to connect? ment in 2019. BJP to ensurethe defeat of Referring BJP RAJYA SABHA MP WhyamInotsecular if Iam The bypolls for Samajwadi Party's candidatein to thecriticism repeating he has given6lakh jobs Your pictures have been withtheBJP?Whyistalkingabout 15 seatswereheld in December Uttar Pradesh Legislative the RJD has during his 15-year rule. But he missing from hoardings and Hinduism notbeing secular? If 2019,inwhich13rebels were Counciland RajyaSabha elec- Mayawati facedoverits neversays allthese were contrac- the party manifesto.How yourself from earlierbeing youare talking about the aspira- fielded, and all but twowon tions, BSP chief Mayawati on performance tual jobs, notpermanentones,” oftendoyou interact with called Maharaj? tion of the majority of Indians, in- again. The bypolls forthe re- Mondayasserted that her party during its15- Tejashwitold the ‘Naukri Chauhan over poll strategies? All thesesobriquetsare apart cluding anumber of Muslims maining twoseats—RRNagar would neverform an alliance Bahujan SamajParty (BSP) and DECISION year rule, he Samwad’ programme. We havedecentralisedthesys- of my illustriouspastthat Iam who have supportedthe con- seat in Bengaluru and Sirain withthe saffron party as long as Samajwadi Party(SP) triedto 2020 said that some Referring to Tejashwi's prom- temamong all BJP leaders and proud of... Our familystarted in a struction of the RamMandir, Tumkur —are scheduledfor she is alive,asthe twoparties’ project themselvesasthe BIHAR people are ise,BJP president JPNadda on cadres. But Shivraj Singh ji and I small villageinSataracalled what’s wrong withthat? November 3. ideologies areincomplete stronger alternative to ruling BJP “stuckonthe stale Mondaysaid that “25-30 lakh” makeitapoint to talk everyday... Kanerkhe and my forefathers Campaigning forMunirathna contrast. in the state. pages of history,but we carefor peoplemigratedoutof Bihardur- My calling is notabout photos, ti- were the‘Patil’of thatvillage.Patil Isn’t it away to appeasea Naidu, acivil contractor-turned- “BSP’s ideology is basedon Speakingatanevent to wel- Bihar’sfuture”, and appealedto ingthepreviousRJDgovernments tles and lists buttoearn aplace in is essentiallythe sarpanch... That majority community? film producer contesting from R the mottobenefitfor all religions come former Congress MP Annu people to give him “one chance” and he shouldfirstanswer that. the hearts of the people. Iwas a wasourbeginning.Eventodaywe No,it’s not. If youtalk about RNagar,Yediyurappa said that and secularism, while BJP’s ide- Tandon to his party,SPchief to govern. Addressing apoll rallyat ministerintheCentralgovernment areconnectedto thesoil...Itisless something.. the path forwhich he had already sanctionedhuge ology is completely itsopposite. Akhilesh Yadavquestionedhow Speaking at on online event Sitamarhi, Nadda said, “These foreight years and did nothavea about royaltyand title,more has been pavedbythe Prime funds forthe RR Nagarcon- In suchascenario, BSP cannot both BSP and BJP have thesame of hisparty,hequestionedChief days our Tejashwi babu keeps lal-batti on my car.TodayIaman aboutbeingonewiththesoil.The Ministerand the Supreme Court stituency whichwill be utilised enter intoalliance with BJP in desire —ofdefeating the SP —to MinisterNitish Kumar’s assertion saying he will give 10 lakhjobs. ordinaryBJPworkerandIamvery Maharajbit is only200yearsold. whichconnectswith the aspira- by Naiduasaminister to carry anyelection anywhereinthe indicatethatthe twoparties are that he provided6lakh jobs dur- Youhaveforced25-25lakh peo- happy and contentwith that. tion of 99 per cent of all Indians, out development work. country,”Mayawatisaid. The coming together.Hesaid: “Both inghis 15-year rule compared to ple to migrateout of Bihar.Who Is it difficulttoadjusttothe BJP what is wrong with that? All the rebels who wonthe statement comes aday before BSP and BJP want Samajwadi RJD’s 95,000.“He (Nitish) keeps will answer that?” Youcall yourself acommon ideology andthe RSS after FULLINTERVIEWON elections have been inducted sevenAssemblyseatsinthe state Partytolose —their desireis BJP worker,isthathow yousee about 20 years with Congress? www.indianexpress.com intothe cabinetsofar. go to the bypolls, as both matching somewhere... Manjhi seeks probe into Paswan’s death, Chirag CHHATTISGARH BYPOLL claims Nitish ‘plot’ BJPbuoyed by JCC support in Jogi ‘family bastion’

positionBJP and ruling Congress anyreason to be with the party aresultofadealwiththeBJP.“The geon GambhirSingh. PRESSTRUSTOFINDIA GARGIVERMA afterthe nomination papers of where the decision of supporting BJPraisedthe question on Jogi’s Politicalanalystsbelievethatin- PATNA,NOVEMBER2 RAIPUR,NOVEMBER2 Jogi’s son and daughter-in-law, Appeal to the BJP wastaken without any tribalstatus.Peoplehave theright fighting in Congress over holding Amit and Richa Jogi, were can- people of coregroup meetings,”the duo to knowwhatBJPisofferinginlieu ralliesandchoiceofcandidatemight NDAALLYHAM created aflutter THE BYPOLL in Chhattisgarh’s celledfollowing revocation of Marwahi to saidinajointstatement.However, of the support,”party spokesper- alienatethevoters,andeventhough on Mondaywith its leader Jitan Marwahi on Tuesday will see their castecertificates. vote against theJCCsaidthetwowerenot part sonRPSinghsaid. BJP does nothaveasolid base, the RamManjhidemandingajudicial manyfirsts —the firstelection in However, just aheadof theby- Congress: of the corecommittee. TheBJP,ontheotherhand,has supportfromtheJogismightmean inquiryintothe death of Union the stateamid the pandemic, the poll,the BJP has receivedashotin Amit Jogi While support from the Jogis welcomedJogi’s supportand ac- alotonthedayofelection.Whoever ministerRamVilasPaswanto un- Chirag Paswan, Jitan Manjhi firstsincethe formation of thearmwithAmitJogiextending mayfetch the BJPmanysympa- cusedthe Congressofbeingin- wins, experts believe,will notbe ravelthe “dubious role”ofChirag Gaurella-Pendra-Marwahi dis- hisparty’s supporttothe saffron thyvotes,experts believe itwillbe sensitivetowards the family. with ahugemargin. Paswan. This prompted the LJP trict, and the firstwithout any party in astatement on October Marwahi to vote againstthe atough contestwith topleaders “Renu Jogi (Ajit Jogi’s wife) has The district will have 286 chief to claimitwasa“plot”by CM he wassickand hospitalised, member of the Jogi family, which 31,increasing the supporterbase Congress and teachthem ales- of the Congress throwing their been hurtbythese actions, and polling centers wheretrenches Nitish Kumar to discredit him sometimes to even inform him has held theseatsince 2001,be- of theBJPwhichhadalreadybeen son,” he said. weightbehind the party candi- hencesheisaskingpeopletofight have been dug forpeople to dis- throughanemotionalissuewhen about the LJPfounder’s condition ing allowedtocontest the “fam- making inroads in villages on a But some in the JCC areun- dateintheconstituency.Nineral- forher 'aatmasamman'(self-re- pose of their gloves aftervoting. election wasunderway. aftertalkingtodoctors. ilybastion”. booth level. comfortable with siding with the lies by ChiefMinisterBhupesh spect),” said formerCMand BJP “Wehavebeen preparing for Chirag, in an angry retort to Manjhi wanted to knowwho The bypoll in thereserved ST “The Congress chief minister BJP.Two of the four party MLAs, Baghelunderscoretheamountof leader Raman Singh. nearly amonth. We have had flag Manjhi,said the former CM orderedthe hospitaltonot issue constituencywasnecessitatedaf- andhispartymembershave been Devwrat Singh and Pramod effort theCongress is putting in While the Congress has and foot marches across the re- should ask PM NarendraModi regularhealthbulletinsof Paswan. terthe death of former CM and continuouslyinsulting my father Sharma,onSunday extendedsup- the bypolls to counterthe chance fieldedKKDhruw,an“outsider” gion and despitethe pandemic abouttheissue.PaswansaidModi Manjhi also claimedpeople were Janta Congress Chhattisgarh Ajit Jogi that goes againstthe tra- porttothe Congress,calling Jogi’s of sympathyvotes. whoservedasthemedicalofficer areexpectingfor apeaceful and usedtocall him up everyday to preventedfrommeetingtheDalit founder Ajit Jogi.Itisexpected to dition of the countryand basic decision “ridiculous”. “Afterthe On the JCC’s decision, the intheareaformanyyears,theBJP safeelection,” SP Suraj Singh inquireafter hislatefatherwhen leader whenhewas hospitalised. beaclosecontestbetweentheop- morality...Iappealtothepeopleof demiseof (Ajit)Jogi,we don’thave Congress has been quicktocallit has nominated local tribal sur- Parihar said.

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PUNJAB ShauryaChakra Chushulcouncillor recipient’s murder:8held seeksmorefacilities Amritsar: The Tarn Taran police have arrestedeight persons in the murder of ShauryaChakrarecipient BalwinderSinghSandhu. forvillagesalongLAC Tight-lippedoverthe mo- tive behind murder, stituency and Moldo, on the the territory,”Stanzin said. “We sources in police said that NIRUPAMA Chinese side,isstark. arethe government's eyes and murder is linked to gang- SUBRAMANIAN Stanzin said: “In Moldo, they ears there; our people notice war. Sandhu (62),who MUMBAI,NOVEMBER2 have 5G networks –not onebut everything. People living at the wasfetedforfighting mil- twoorthree networks.There is border arethe second guardian itancy in Punjab, was THE NEWLYelected representa- 5G even in other areas suchas forceofthe nation–theyare sol- gunneddownathis home tive of Chushul constituency in Dumtele, Demchok.Wecan see diers withoutuniform.” in Tarn Taran's the Leh-Ladakah Autonomous their areas have 24x7 electricity. AresidentofLukung village Bhikhiwindbytwo Hill Development Council Theyhavedevelopedhydel in Chushul, on the banksof unidentified bikers on (LAHDC) has said that the gov- dams that provide powersupply Pangong Tso, Stanzin said he had October16. The attack ernment mustprioritisedevel- to these areas. We can see all this on manyoccasions triedtocon- took place months after opment of villages on the Line of from Chushul. The peoplein veyseriousness of the situation his security coverwas re- Actual Control (LAC), as the peo- Chushul aremaking do witha to the party leadership. “But Igot movedbythe stategov- ple living thereare “second fewhours of supply, and even acall from the BJP headquarters ernment.Sandhu's fam- SNOWBOUND guardianforce”ofthe country our 2G coverage is pathetic.” telling me that the border situa- ilytermed the killing a afterthe armedforces. He said thereisinsecurity tion is beinghandledseparately; terror attack, and blamed Aftersnowfall in Lahaul-Spiti region on Monday. ANI The 26 newmembersofLeh- among peopleinthe border vil- that Ishould remain silent and it on the decision to re- LAHDC were sworn in on lages.“Whenevertensionsflareup notspeak about it at all,” said move his security. ENS Saturday. TheBJP,with 15 mem- on the LAC, thefirstthing to go is Stanzin, who quit BJP afterthe bers, heads the council. The telephone connectivity,and peo- party nominated another candi- After UP and Cong rebel MLA Congress has nine members, and plegetcompletely cutoff,”hesaid. datefor theelection. Rahul should clarify if thereare twoIndependents. The government needstode- He said it is difficulttokeep Haryana, MP seeks probe into Konchok Stanzin, who quit velop “smartvillages” on the LAC, silent on the issue whenpeople ‘Central he retracted from 2019 BJP before the LAHDC election he said. “It (a village) shouldhave in the villagesinChushul had considers law Kamla Nehru lastmonth and successfullycon- all facilities –health, education, been steadilylosing their access tested as an Independent from roads, telecommunication, elec- to theirwinter grazing areas due agencies against love jihad Cong manifesto: Tomar Edu Society Chushul, aforward area on LAC, tricity.Ifthe government de- to the westward spread of the on Sundaysaid therehad been privespeople living on the bor- Chinese army. This year,that lack exceeding “inadequateattention” to vil- der of these things, theyare not of access has widened, he main- PRESSTRUSTOFINDIA HARIKISHANSHARMA RAJASTHANPASSES MAULSHREESETH lages on the LACinLadakh, and going to remain there, and that tained. The Fingers area had also jurisdiction BHOPAL,NOVEMBER2 NEWDELHI,NOVEMBER2 THREEFARMBILLS LUCKNOW,NOVEMBER2 the difference between his con- will notbegood forsafeguarding become out of bounds, he said. THE MADHYAPradesh govern- UNION MINISTER of Agriculture Jaipur:The Rajasthan CONGRESS REBEL MLAAditi ment will makelegal arrange- and Farmers' WelfareNarendra AssemblyonMonday Singh has written to the to malign mentstocurbthe alleged prac- SinghTomar on Mondayattacked passedthree Bills to counter Economic Offence Wingdirec- Poet Munawwar Rana booked ticeoflovejihad in thestate,Chief Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, the farm laws enacted by the torgeneral, demanding aprobe state govt’ Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan asking whether he has retracted Centre. The Bills were passed intothe allegedirregularities in said Monday.With this, Madhya from his party'smanifesto forthe by voice vote, whichtook the functioning of the Kamla over remarks on Francekillings Pradesh has becomethe third 2019 general elections. placeafter the opposition Nehru Educational Society. BJP-ruledstate to announce its Tomar's remarks came in re- BJP staged awalkout. "The trustwas givenlandin Rana on Monday told The SHAJUPHILIP intentiontomakelegal provi- sponsetoatweet by Rahul, in TheBJPearlierobjectedto the 1970swith a30-year lease for EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE Indian Express that he hadnever THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, sions against“love jihad”. whichhetaggedanews report the Bills, saying that the lan- educational purposes in Rae LUCKNOW,NOVEMBER2 promotedviolence nor justified NOVEMBER2 Earlier,Uttar Pradesh CM whichappeared in The Indian guageusedpaintsthe Centre Bareli city... Whiletheydid not the French killings. “I am notthe Yogi Adityanath and his Haryana Express on Monday and wrotein government “as if it is the use it forthe purpose it wasgiven, URDU POET Munawwar Rana onewho changes party,and I WITH Afew keyprojectsofthe counterpartMLKhattar had Hindi, "Farmers of thecountry Pakistani government”. ENS theyare trying to sell it," Singh has been booked forallegedly don’t changemystatementsei- CPI(M)-ledLDF government in made simila announcements. asked formarket,PMoffered a told TheIndianExpress."My fight supporting twoknife-wielding ther.Imighthaveusedsome Kerala under the scanner of the Therewill be no jihad in the terrible recession." is forbothi.e. against the fraudu- assailantswho recentlykilled wrong wordsasIamold...What ED and other central agencies, name of love,whoeverdoes such Sharplyreacting,Tomarsaid, ment is committedto the welfare lent methodsofthe trustand also four people in France in protest Isaid is the same thing repeated Chief MinisterPinarayiVijayan an act will be setright. Legal "Rahul Gandhishouldclarify of farmers, Tomar said agrarian forover100 familieswho have againstcaricaturesofProphet by the FrenchPresident on Mondaysaid that central in- arrangementswill be made for whether he has retracted from reforms whichwerepending for been living therefor decades." Mohammed. Rana says he never (EmmanuelMacron) todaywho vestigating agencies probing the this,Chouhantold reporters. the 2019 Congress manifesto." long have been implemented RaeBareli Congress chief In an interview to Zee News, promotedviolence,nor said that making objectionable gold smuggling case are“ex- He wasresponding to ques- Speaking to The Indian Express through the newfarmlaws. "The PankajTiwari said,"Thematter the 67-year-old poetispurport- justifiedthe Frenchkillings cartoon is wrong, and murdering ceeding their jurisdiction to ma- tions on the issue afterattending overthe phone, Tomar said, "The Congress is anti-farmer,due to is under litigation and the High edly heardsaying that he would some is even worse. Inever justi- lign and destabilise an elected ameeting at stateBJP headquar- Congress party had amanifesto whichthe condition of the farm- Courthad orderedtovacatethe have done the same if somebody fied the killing.When Isaid that stategovernment.’’ ters hereonMondayevening. in whichitmentionedall these ers could notimprove even after land,while we also want govern- drew caricatures of his parents youcall this illegitimate?” Iwould have done thesame was Vijayantold the media that “Lovejihad” is term usedby things, firsttheyshould have re- their 50-60 years' rule," he said. ment to do something about the or deities. Talking to The Times of India, in adifferent context...,” he said. these agencies have exceeded right-wing activists to referto tracted from their manifesto… The newlawshavegiven families, who have been living Rana is purportedly heard the poet had allegedlysaid cari- Lastmonth, aschool teacher their authority and their actions the alleged campaignof Congress should notmislead freedom to farmers to sell their therefor ages but we cannotsay telling the channel, “If someone catures of ProphetMohammed in aParis suburb wasbeheaded areaclearviolation of the fed- Muslims forcing Hindu girls to farmers." produceand this will lead to the muchasParty has got nothingto makes adisgusting cartoon of were intentionallydrawn by the forshowing Charlie Hebdo car- eral norms of the country. convertinthe guise of love. Statingthatthe Modigovern- end of middlemen, Tomar said. do with the trust.” my father or mother,Iwill kill satiremagazine Charlie Hebdo toons of ProphetMohammed He said: “I don’t want to that person. If someonemakes because Frenchmen did notbe- during aclassonfreedom of ex- blameany agencyorany official. an objectionableand disgusting lieve in the Prophet. pression. Afew days later,three But Iwant to makeclear certain MIZORAM ORDERS JUDICIAL ENQUIRY cartoon of Indian Gods and The FIR wasfiledat morewerekilledinthe French things when professional stan- Goddesses likeMother Sitaor Lucknow’s Hazratganj Police city of Nice by aknife-wielding dards generallyacceptedbyin- LordRam,Iwill kill that person. Station on acomplaintbySub- assailant. vestigative agencies arebeing Assam man dies in Mizoram custody, When honour killing has been inspector Deepak Kumar Pandey HazratganjSHOAnjaniKumar subverted andinvestigations are considered acceptable in India who alleged that Rana’s remarks Pandeysaid theywouldfirstun- being diverted to suit certain forthousands of years and there to the news channel promoted dertake adetailedinvestigation vested interests.’’ CM writestoShah over border tension is no punishment, then howcan enmity between groups. and take actionaccordingly. AfterVijayan’sformer prin- cipal secretaryMSivasankar was terclashes betweenresidentsof Laskar's next of kin and asked dered ajudicialenquiryintothe arrested in the gold smuggling ABHISHEKSAHA border villages of Assam and Chief SecretaryJishnu Barua and death. The man wasallegedly a case, the ED has brought under GUWAHATI,NOVEMBER2 Mizoram. DGP Bhaskar JyotiMahanta to drug peddler and we have found Stir against Macron: Cong MLA, 49 itsscannerKerala-Fiber Optic Sonowalinastatement said visit the border area and take asmall amount of heroin on his Network(K-Fon) project and e- ASSAM CHIEF Minister thatLaskarwas"abductedbythe stockofthe situation. person. Some locals had appre- others arrested in MP, released on bail mobility project, earlier handled Sarbananda Sonowalwrote to miscreantsfromLailapur Border Cachar SP BLMeena told The hendedhim on the Mizoram side by Sivasankar as the stateITsec- Home MinisterAmit Shah on OutpostareaofCachar district". IndianExpress,"He (Laskar) used and handedovertopersonnel theCovid-19outbreak,apolice bers of the Muslim community retary forthe lastfour years. Mondayafter aman hailing from The statement said that "follow- to collect wood from aforest from the Excise andNarcotics de- PRESSTRUSTOFINDIA official said. Masoodand 49oth- had staged theprotest at Iqbal Besides, financialtransactions in Cachar district diedinthe cus- ing the sequel of boundaryrows along the border... As faraswe partment. He wasadmitted to BHOPAL,NOVEMBER2 erswerearrestedbythe policeon Maidan hereagainstMacron ahousing project of the govern- tody of Mizoram authorities af- alongAssam-Mizoram border, know, he wasincustody of the hospital becausehewas Sundayand later releasedonbail over the cartoon controversy re- ment, implemented with the terhewas allegedlyabducted Chief MinisterSonowalsent the Mizoram. Mizoram Police has in- weak.Noexternal inquiryhas MADHYAPRADESH Congress as offencesregisteredagainst latedtodepictions of Prophet funding of Emirates Red from the inter-state border. details of the incidentstoUnion formedustoday that hehasdied." been found on the body." leader and MLAArif Masood was them were bailable, he said. Muhammad in France. Crescent, is alsobeingprobed by According to Assam officials, Home MinisterAmit Shah today". He addedthat Laskar did nothave Lalthangliana said the body among 50 people who were ar- Theywereset free from apo- The protesters violated the central agencies. Intazul Laskar wasawoodcutter The statement, however, did acriminal recordinthe district. will be handedovertoAssam on rested forstaging aprotest here lice station aftertheyfurnished district administration order Vijayansaid asituation has without anycriminal record, notmention the contentsofthe Meanwhile, Deputy Tuesdayafter the completion of lastweek againstFrench bail bonds,Additional Director banning assemblyofpeople in arisen wherecentral probe whileMizoramofficialsmaintain letter to Shah. Commissioner of Mizoram's the judicial enquiryand con- President Emmanuel Macron General of Police(ADG) Upendra the wake of the coronavirus out- agencies areresponsible for he wasinvolvedinpeddling The CM has also announced Kolasib district, HLalthangliana, ducting the post-mortem. over acartoon rowinviolation of Jain said. break,Talaiyapolice stationoffi- analysing policies and pro- drugs.Hisdeathcomesweeksaf- an ex-gratia of Rs 5lakh to told The Indian Express,"Ihaveor- --WITHPTIINPUTS restrictionsput in place to curb The MLAalongwith mem- cer DP Singh had said earlier. grammes of the stategovern- ment,whichisinnoway accept- able to those who believe in democratic values and respect the Constitution. Some of these GOANS'NIGHT PROTEST AGAINST INFRA PROJECTS agencies areencroaching into executive powers of the state government and the scrutinyof ‘This is not the land to destroy…we do not accept pollution’ constitutionalinstitutions, he said. “It is aviolation of their own tracks.“FortyMLAssitintheAsse- beingraisedandsomehadstarted jurisdiction and therebyanen- SMITANAIR mbly. Notonce have theydiscus- performing the traditional Kunbi croachment on the Constitution. CHANDOR,NOVEMBER2 NED Protestingto sedour issues.” His friend Jimmy “dancing protest”. Christabelle This is undemocraticand uncon- Rodriques nodded. “The govern- Gomes,22,stoodwithherfriends. stitutional and it cannotbeal- BY 10.30 PM, Nossa SenhoraDe E protectenvironment ment has to listen. Policycan nev- “I want to sitathome and study. ● lowed. The stategovernment Belem church square in Chador, EXPLAI er be against people. These coal But disturbing informationon so- will makenecessaryinterven- Goa’sancientcapital,hadacrowd imports forAdani, Jindal and Ve- cialmediathatwe aregoingto lose tions within the existing legal of morethan 3,000 —mosthad MORMUGAO PORT Trust’sprojections for2030 saytheywant dantaoverlook our stateissues of ourbiodiversitymakesmeangry.” framework,” he said. come to protestagainst the dou- to import51.6million tonnes of coal forAdaniGroup, JSW heritageand environment. The By 1.30 am, the deputy collec- Vijayansaidwhenthe state ble-trackingof railway lineswhich Group and Vedanta. Muchofthis will be transportedthrough burden to thestate’s ecology due tor, JyotiKumari, reachedthe site urgedthe Centre foraconcerted Goans fear is towardsexpansion Goa to other states.Also,Shipping Ministryhas identified17 to this hugecoal corridor is not and appealedtothe peopletore- and comprehensive probeinto of coal importsfromMormugao coal-backedpowerplants and22steel plantsas“potential even being discussed.” turn. She said thereisnopermis- the gold smuggling case, the Port TrusttoKarnataka. clients” forthe port. The protests areagainstinfrastructure ViennaFernandes,62,thema- sion forthe protest. Her appeals stategovernment had alegiti- Aman said on thespeaker,“If projectsbeingdesignedtocarry this coal that is expected to tronfroma500-year-oldheritage that the crowd’s demand that no mateexpectationthat the inves- this is the pandemic,the urgency destroy ecological biodiversity.Railwayshaven’t got permis- home,stoodwithahelmet onher train “will cross today...has been tigation would go through is to stand here to safeguard the sions forlaying tracks in western Ghatsand has startedlaying head. “Thiscoal directlyaffects accepted” wasdrownedwith the proper legal channels. “Some in- futurefromabigger pandemic.” At the protestinChandor. SmitaNair them in the state, whichiswhen the Goans protested. me.The pollution has spoilt our crowdresponding, “Never.Say terventions on partofthese Earlier thisweek,the South living.Iamforcedtocome out,” theywillcross never”.Abhijeet agencies have castdoubt on Western Railway startedlaying shesaid.“Theytellusthesecorpo- Prabhudesai,anenvironmentalist, whether our expectations were tracksatavillage inGoa,leadingto tracksfrommidnightto5am.Iam crowdswelled.“Thiscrowdisnota have aculturetoprotect, we do expansion of cargo jetties offthe ratesare big.Thentheydonot askedherto give theorderinwrit- misplaced. It lookslikethe inves- environmentalists groupscalling here, and hope my prayers hold votebank.This is history being notacceptpollution,” Vazsaid, state’s tworiver banks. know us, we arefromSalcettein ing and “tokeepthe project in tigating agencies arefollowing a themidnightprotest. By11.30pm, methroughthenight.”Thecrowd, made. We do notwant our MLAs pointingto theinfrastructureproj- By1am,thecrowdhadstarted Goa. Thereisareason they call us abeyance”. Till 5am, no one predeterminedpath scriptedby the crowdbegan itssilent march mostlycomprising youth and th- to speakfor us. We areenough,” ectsatdifferent stages of govern- singingKonkanisongs.MLasfrom thefighting redde (fighting bulls). budged.The protesters have now fewpeople outside the agency. towardsthe tracks offChandor. ose who insisted to be called “vil- said Arvind Menezes from Aldo- ment clearance —four-laning of the Opposition triedtomakea Besides, thereisasenseofbroth- saidtheywantthecollectorto stop This is aserious situation where SandraD’Sa,aPhDscholar,had lagers”, hadadisagreement with nha, as he walked on the tracks. NH4A,double-trackingofSouth speechbut were packedoff. erhoodinGoa,wefighttogether.” givingclearanceto layingof tracks. suchactions would undermine her candle wrappedinarosary. political groups, asking them to PiedadeVaz held acandle. WesternRailway andapowerline ConstancioFernandes, 45, a By then, slogans of “Go Back FULLREPORTON their credibility.’’ “Themessage wastooccupythe lowerpartyflags.Bymidnight,the “Thisisnotthelandto destroy; we through the western Ghats, and sailorfromLoutolim,stoodonthe Adani” and “Go BackJindal” were www.indianexpress.com

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SECOND PHASE PATNA CONFIDENTIAL In Bhagalpur, aJDU-BJP snag In 94 seats today, RJD bets Left AHEAD OF Phase-2 polling in Bhagalpur, Mandal says in the clip. The RJD tweeted local channel Voice of Bihar playedaclip theclip,saying,“NDAisnopoliticalalliance, fromaconversationbetweenJD(U)worker it’saconspiracy”,andadvisedBiharisto not Chandan Kumar and sitting party MP Ajay touchthis “madhumakkhi ka chhatta (bee- Mandal about the latter “quietly” visiting hive)”.Later,Mandaltoldreportersthatthe Bhagalpur’sPirpaintiandcampaigningfor conversationwasreported“tod-madod-ke proves right; BJP hopes 2015 does Independent candidateAman Paswan. (twisted)”. BJP MP Nishikant Dubey told “JD(U)shouldn’tsupportBJPunderanycir- Voice of Bihar,onlymeeting people mat- cumstance... We don’t careifthe RJD wins, ters,“notaudio/video,Facebook,Twitter....” Contesttough, but Mahagathbandhan feels it has an edge with alliance workers ‘in sync’ on the ground RAGHOPUR DIPANKARGHOSE& Phase2Phase3 PHASE-2:PARTY &SEATS SANTOSHSINGH PHASEII KEYCONTESTS PATNA,NOVEMBER2 56 52 1. HASANPUR 43 46 7 7 IN THE 2015 Assemblyelections, when the TejPratapYadav,RJD; 3 Patna 36 6 8

Mahagathbandhan had wonagainstthe BJP 13 102 24 LaluPrasad’sson 14 28 103 101 18 30 16 22 29 in Bihar at the peak of the NarendraModi 100 15 104 17 37 99 39 105 90 36 110 96 RajKumarRai,JD(U); 106 111 38 98 6 wave, NorthBihar had giventhe saffron party 82 95 4 107 3 112 99 109 116 81 94 97 108 80 SittingMLA 115 113 half of its43seats. Mostofthe 94 seatsvot- 125 79 117 120 114 4 124 139 seats 121 78 5 118 119 ing on Tuesdayare in NorthBihar.Aspartof 122 123 129 140 CPI

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186 LJP RJD 127 BJP 187 181181 182182 141 148 183 (ML) 184 142 147 128 137 RLSP 149 JD(U) the NDA, the BJP is contesting 46 of them, 6 185 146 188 180 150 143

2. BANKIPUR CPI 145 177 144 151 152 CPI and the JD(U) 43. 153 154 Congress 175 172 156 171 158 LuvSinha,Congress; 174 176 The contestislikelytobetough, with the 2 173 171 2015 ASSEMBLYPOLLS NDAbanking on EBC and women voters, and Actor-turned-politician 1 ShatrughanSinha’sson RJD JD(U) BJP INC the Mahagathbandhan on the combinedso- 4. RAGHOPUR cial base of the Congress and Left. The dark PushpamPriyaChoudhary,PluralsParty; 31 30 22 7 TejashwiPrasadYadav,RJD; horses could be the LJP,that has put up can- DaughterofJD(U)leaderVinodChoudhary LJP didates in 52 seats, and the RLSP,with 36 LaluPrasad’ssonand 2 nominees in the fray —bothofwhichcould NitinNavin,BJP; CMnomineeofGrandAlliance SittingMLA end up hurting the NDAcombine. SatishKumar,BJP; Others Tejashwi’s biggestbet is along-awaited bridgeoverthe Ganga. Dipankar Ghose In the 2015 Assemblyelections, 31 of sittingMLA,defeatedRabrionJD(U)ticket 2 these 94 seatshad been wonbythe RJD, 30 3.GOPALGANJ by the JD(U) and 22 by the BJP,while the SadhuYadav, BSP; 5. PARSA 6. MANER 7. MADHUBAN Congress and LJP had wonseven and two RabriDevi’sbrother Lalu family bastion has seatsrespectively. ChandrikaRai,JD(U); BhaiBirendra,RJD; RanaRandhirSingh,BJP; The JD(U) might be out of the SubhashSingh,BJP; Formerministerandfather-in- Two-timesittingMLA SittingMLA SittingMLA Mahagathbandhan, but the RJD-ledalliance lawofLaluPrasad’selderson NikhilAnand,BJP; MadanPrasadSahu,RJD is confident itsnew Leftpartners will fill the TejPratapYadav had CMs, what it wants AsifGafoor,Congress; Formerjournalist ShivjeeRai,Independent gap. The RJD setaside as manyas29seatsfor grandsonofex-CMAbdulGafoor ChoteLalRai,RJD the Left—six forthe CPI, four forthe CPM and 19 forthe CPI (M-L), counting on the lat- from Tejashwi is vikas ter’s “veryhigh strikerate”. Of the 29 seats, 13 phase, is counting on aresurgence in areinthis phase. Begusarai. It wasonce known as “mini Despitehow latethe partnership was Moscow” or “Leningrad”, with the CPI win- But while the Yadavs see the crowds at stitched, it is seen as working well on the ning from Begusarai Northfor the firsttime SANTOSHSINGH&DIPANKARGHOSE Tejashwi’s rallies as asign of return of “our” ground, with the RJD confident that itsgam- backin1957(itsfirstwin in NorthIndia). PATNA,RAGHOPUR,NOVEMBER2 rule, the desirefor “development” is palpable. ble on the transferability of Leftvotes will This time, as partofthe Having juststruggledacross the ricketypon- payoff.Though the Leftvotesharehas de- Mahagathbandhan, it is contesting from “RAGHOPURPEOPLEdonotjustelectanMLA, toon bridge, Satish Yadavsays,“WheneverI clinedfrom5.04% in 2005 to 3.51% in 2015,its Teghra, Bakhri (SC), Bachhwara, as well as theyelectthechief Minister”—TejashwiYadav have to cross this bridge, my heartsinks. Ifear voters comprise acommitted cadre. This is twoseatsinMadhubani, and one in Purnea. underlinedashefiledhisnominationfromthe that it might fall anytime. Maybe, if Tejashwi one reason the RJD pushedfor an alliance Teghraseat is home to the CPI’s newicon, constituency,represented by Lalu Prasad in becomes CM, some work will be done.” with them and chose to letgoofthe HAM KanhaiyaKumar,and is settosee atriangu- 1995 and 2000,and Rabri Devi in 2005. The Raghopur Assemblyseat is estimated and VIP,though the Congress had wanted a lar contestamong the party’s RamRatan However, located by the banksofthe to have around 1.25 lakh Yadavs,with other larger gathbandhan.“Further,inapost-poll Singh, sitting JD(U) MLAVirendraKumar Ganga, Raghopur has little to showfor this as- castesway behind —thereare 40,000-odd scenario, the Leftparties arethe leastlikelyto Singh (son of former advocategeneral Ram sociation with successive CMs, exceptfor un- Rajputs, and around 20,000 SCs and 10,000 break away,” says an RJD leader,speaking Balak Mahto), and the LJP’s Lalan Kuwar(a interruptedpowersupply. In 2010,the Yadav- non-YadavOBCs. The LJP has put up acandi- from experience of the bitter parting BJP rebel). The latter twoare fighting forthe dominated Lalu stronghold chose the JD(U)’s date,RakeshRoshan,whichmightendupben- with the JD(U). same Bhumihar votes. SatishKumar,alsoaYadav, overRabri.Tejashwi efiting the RJD. Both the CPI (M-L) and RJD leaderssay Pointing out that it washerethat Nitish wonin2015,andisupagainstKumarthistime. Thegiant-killerof the2010 election,Satish their workers areinsync, as opposedto“the recentlymade his remark“baap se poochho”, Apartfromthefamilyname,Tejashwi,who Kumar,has been canvassing hardinthe seat fracturedNDA coalition”. “Thereistrust, as telling the crowdtoask their fathers what is hoping to expand the RJD’s appeal beyond evenasTejashwicriss-crossesthestateshoul- well as the recognition of adesirefor change Rahul Gandhi, Tejashwi Yadavatarally. The Mahagathbandhan is confident that the statehad before his time, Bhavesh Kumar caste to development,iscountingongoodwill dering the RJD campaign. ABJP worker out- in government. People have aspirations, are the Leftparties, contesting on 13 seatsinPhase 2, will fill the gapleftbyJD(U). PTI says,“VirendraKumar Singh seldom visited arisingoutof aproject side arallybysenior tired of Nitish Kumar and arelooking fora the constituency afterbecoming an MLAand to build a9.6-km leader Nityanand Rai viable alternative,” says aCPI (M-L) leader, is facing strong anti-incumbency.” He be- bridgebetween says,“The seat is diffi- claiming theyare notflusteredbythe BJP (M-L) givesacushion.” down and ASHA workers involvedinCovid lievesthe CPI is ahead, though adding point- Kachchi Dargah cult but Satishji is a throwing allegations of Naxaland extremist The CPI (M-L) leader givesthe example work aresupporting the alliance. edly,“Therehas been hardlyany demand for (Patna) and Bidupur Phase2 maati putra (son of the Phase3 linksatthem. of Aurai, wherethe party went in with a Says Dipankar Bhattacharya,the CPI (M- Kanhaiyatocampaign here.” (Hajipur). Work on it Hajipur soil). He will emerge According to the leader,theyare even weak organisation. With twoYadavcandi- L) general secretary, “Weare very encour- The CPM, the weakestamongstthe three beganin2015, when Patna victorious again.” In morepositive afterthe firstphase, wherethe dates in the race, it believesits Muslim nom- aged by the firstphase and the momentum Leftparties with no win in 15 years, is con- Tejashwi wasthe 2010,Kumar had de- CPI (M-L) contestedeight seats(it is in the inee is ahead, with the help of the RJD. is onlygrowing. All these comments(by the testing from Bibhutipur,Matihani, Pipraand deputy CM and held RAGHOPUR Phase1 feated Rabri by over fray in six in this phase). “Wehaveawinning “Muslims arethe largest blockhere, but since BJP) arenot making adifference on the Majhi, three of whichvoteonTuesday. the Road Cons- 1,300votes. chance in all of them, including Arrah, where Independence, onlyYadavs have been win- ground. The needfor changeissuchthat However, even the party is aiming high, says truction portfolio. At Rustampur vil- we came from behind... In manyseats, the ning,” the leader says,adding that in many none of this matters.” aleader,due to “the winds of changeand the The bridgeisa lage, Lalit Kumar,30, a RJD contesting alone is notviable. The CPI urban areas, the poor hit hardbythe lock- The CPI, four of whose six seatsare in this supportofother alliance partners”. godsend foranareawherepeople have long Kurmi likeCMNitish, says it would be sad if got by onboats,oratemporarypontoonbridge. Tejashwi wins despiteRaghopur’s state. “We “I take the boat to go to Patna to sell milk. areonly40kmfromPatna, but thereisnode- Hundredsofvegetable sellers do the same,” velopmenthere.LookatNitishKumar’svillage says Awadhesh Rai, adding that the fewin in Nalanda and see what he has done there.” FORMORELOGONTOINDIANEXPRESS.COM/ELECTIONS Raghopurwhoownfour-wheelersalsohave to However, inthissentimentfor“vikas”,there oftenload them ontoboats. is no patience forNitish even among others COVID-19UPDATE Thereisdiscontent on other issues too, gathered around him. “Workdid nothappen ● WHO’S WHERE TODAY ● RALLYWATCH CASES IN 24 HRS*: giventhat Raghopur has stood by the RJD first herebecauseNitishdidnotlet ithappen.When familyfor years. Ravi Mahtocomplains of a Tejashwi is CM, of course he will have to de- PM MODI IN SAHARSA, BEHIND 577 flourishing illicit liquor business. “Even police velop Raghopur... The government must areafraid of venturing intothis area,” he says. change.Andif Tejashwidoesnotwork,we will FORBESGANJ; TEJASHWI DEATHS: 4 PraveenSingh,astudent,remindsTejashwi throw himoutlikeRabriDevi,”says SanjaySah. RAHUL GANDHI IN KATIHAR, WHATISLAKADSUNGHA, PACE,PLAN of his promise once to live in Raghopur. Ramesh Singh, aBhumihar and usuallya TOTAL CASES: 2,18,118 KISHANGANJ; THETERMUSEDBYPM TOPROJECT “Instead,hewashardlyhereduringthefloods BJP supporter, says that Tejashwi might rally TEJASHWI YADAVIN MODIDURINGCAMPAIGN? ‘YOUTH, TOTAL DEATHS: 1,101 ortheCovidcrisis.”SinghgrantsthatTejashwi the Yadavs behind him but that doesn’t dis- ACTIVE CASES: 7,036 mightstill win from the seat but says that will count desirefor someone new. “I will decide BIHARIGANJ ENERGY’ be onlydue to the caste combination. “If he is onthelastday,butmaybeitwillbegoodto see *BiharHealthDepartment(asof6pmonNov2) so sureofhis development plank,why did he change.Whoknows,ifTejashwibecomesCM, notcontestfromany other constituency?” Raghopur might finallysee development.” Urea to dairy, an old industrial capital scripts arevival story

Putzmeisterboom placers. plantsinlocations that previouslyhad units IOC’s oil refineryatBarauni wasIndia’s taking the total to 720MW. HARISHDAMODARAN The newplant —whichcan produce running on naphtha and fuel oil, respectively, second afterAssam’s Digboi. It came on Lastbut notleastisthe Barauni Dairy. BARAUNI,NOVEMBER2 2,200metric tonnes per day(mtpd) of am- and lying closedfor twodecades or more. stream in July1964with 1million tonnes With aturnoverofRs755.36 crore, it is not monia and 3,850 mtpd urea, as againstthe “The commercial operation datefor (mt) annual crude processing capacity,aug- justBihar’s, but also eastern India’s, largest BIHAR, FORlong, has been agraveyard of in- 600mtpd and 1,000mtpd capacity of the de- Gorakhpur wasoriginallyFebruary2021. But mented to 3mtin1969 and 6mtby2002. cooperative dairyunion. In 2019-20, the dustry. Those searching foraglimmer of functunit —was earlier supposedtobeready due to Covid, that will nowbeAugust, while On January30, afternearly 18 years, the IOC Deshratna Dr RajendraPrasad Dugdh hope, though, needn’t look beyond Barauni by May2021, 36 months from the dateofin- it is November-December forBarauni and boardapproved afurther expansion to 9mt Utpadak Sahkari Sangh, as it is called, made town in Begusarai district. BilledasBihar’s vestment approval. That schedule has been Sindri,” Gupta says. at an estimated costofRs13,779 crore. This Rs 499.03 crorepaymentsto1.32 lakh farm- “industrial capital” —voting forthe state somewhat upset, thankstothe disruptions Urea from these plantswould, thus, be project —entailing the setting up of anew 9 ers and procured 4.55 lakh kg per dayofmilk Assemblypolls hereisonNovember 3—itis from Covid-19and the lockdown. available to farmers from next year’s rabi mt atmospheric and vacuum distillation unit, on an average. actuallywitnessing aresurgence of sorts. “Till March 21,wehad about 4,000work- cropping season.HURL has even startedmar- the contract forwhichwas awardedtoL&T Barauni Dairyisplanning to invest Rs 95.5 There’s no better symbolofthat than ers. Once the lockdown wasimposed, all keting its‘Apna’ urea brand in Bihar since Hydrocarbon Engineering in April —istobe croreinwhat will be the country’s biggest HindustanFertilizer Corporation Ltd’s (HFCL) work stopped. The administration gave us February, by sourcing material from the pub- commissionedbyApril 2023. plant formaking indigenous milk products. ammonia-urea complexatBarauni, which permission to restartonApril 26, but most lic sector RashtriyaChemicals and Fertilizers. Equallysignificant is the Barauni Thermal The proposedplant will consume 2lakh shut down in 1999 and is nowbeing revived workers (75% from Bihar and the rest from ForBihar,the Barauni project’s revivalis PowerStation (BTPS). This coal-fired project, litres per dayofmilk to exclusively produce —throughabrandnewplantonthesame480 West Bengal, Jharkhand and other states) had no small thing. Itsannual production capac- too, came up in the early-Sixties, with five rasagulla, gulab jamun, peda, cham cham, acres land that housedthe earlier project. At already left. We could resume onlyonMay 4 ity,at12.7 lakh tonnes (lt), can meetamajor unitsof145 megawatt (MW) aggregategen- kalakand, misti dahi, raskadam,milkcake, Rs 7,043.26 crorecapital cost, it would be with the 600-700 who had stayed backin partofthe state’s consumption/sales of 22.64 erationcapacitybeing made operational be- khoa, paneer,lassi and plain dahi.The dairy Bihar’s biggestindustrial investment. the labour camps here. As the lockdown lt in 2019-20. Neither Bihar nor Jharkhand tween January1963 and December 1971.All union is already using 70,000-80,000 litres “Construction is morethan 70 per eased, the worker strength rose to 1,900in has anyureaplants; the closestone at of them were retired by 1995-96. Units6 dailynow forproducing indigenous milk cent complete.Machineryorders are early-June, 3,500inJuly, 4,000in Augustand Phulpur in Uttar Pradesh is 490kmfrom and 7, of 110MWeachestablishedin1984- sweets under the ‘Sudha’ brand. already placed, and we will begin pre-com- 5,000 since September,” adds Sinha. Barauni and 550 km from Sindri. Both proj- 85, were takenupfor renovation and “Weare in discussions with the National missioning and commissioning activity from Arun Kumar Gupta,managing director of Work is on in full swing at the Barauni ectswill getgas from GAIL (India) Ltd’s modernisation. DairyDevelopment Boardfor aRs70crore February,”says Sunil Kumar Sinha, general HURL, is hopeful of the project being com- urea project site. Harish Damodaran Jagdishpur-Phulpur-Haldia pipeline. Aspur On December 15,2018, NTPC acquired loan at 6.5% concessional interestratefor 10 manager of HindustanUrvarak &Rasayan missionedbyDecember 2021. The company line, from Dobhi in Gaya,has already been BTPS from the Bihar StatePowerGeneration years under the Centre’s DairyProcessing & Ltd (HURL) in charge of the project site —ajoint ventureofCoal India Ltd, NTPC, laid till Barauni. Company. Today, notonlyare Units6&7run- InfrastructureFund. Since the land forthe that currentlyhas 5,000-plus workers, along- Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), HFCL and urea complexesatGorakhpur (Uttar But Begusarai’s revivalstory —whose ning, anew 250 MW plant wasdeclared op- project is available here, we can expect the side Sarens, Sanghvi and Escorts Fertilizer Corporation of India —isalso put- Pradesh) and Sindri (Jharkhand). These, like fruitswould accrue to whichevergovern- erational on March 1, this year.Another 250 plant to be ready in two-three years,” stated Hydracranes, JCB excavators and ting up twoother similar-sizedammonia- Barauni, aregreenfield natural gas-based ment comes next —isn’t confinedtourea. MW unit is expected to be addedby2021, aBarauni Union official.

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USA ActorEddie RACE FOR Resultsmaybe 22killedafterIS delayed,butthat Hassellkilledin THEWHITE isnotunusual Texasshooting HOUSE gunmenstorm THE ACTOREddie Hassell, TRUMP HAS said the onlyway known forhis roles in the he would lose is if the election NBC show Surface and the ADAMNAGOURNEY was“rigged”, and that it 2010 film The Kids AreAll NOVEMBER2 would be “terrible” if votes Right,has diedafter a were stillbeing counted for“a KabulUniversity shooting in Texas, police ELECTION DAYisusuallyamo- long period of time” afterthe said. He was30. The ment of tension and release, of election. However, no presi- Attack took placeascampushosted shooting happenedearly angerand somebitterness, but dentialelection in recent years Sundayinthe Dallas sub- also the closurethat comes with has seen all votes being abookfair attended by Iranian envoy urb of GrandPrairie,police watching Americans choose counted on the dayofthe said. Apolicestatement their next president. election itself, and the results said officers respondedto But this campaign is in- areofficially declared days RAHIMFAIEZ& Mostofthe casualties areportofashooting and evitablyending on afar more later.OnElection Day, media KATHYGANNON were studentsand there found Hassell suffering disturbing note.These dyspep- organisations usuallycall the Hundredsofvehicles gather at TropicalParkinMiami ahead of acar caravaninsupportof KABUL,NOVEMBER2 fromgunshotwounds.He tic final days have been marked election in favour of acandi- Trump, on Sunday. AP were fears thetoll could wastaken to ahospital by threatsofviolent skirmishes dateafter acertain number of ISLAMIC STATEmilitantsin climb further with some wherehewas pro- and street demonstrationsin votes arecounted,but even AfghanistanstormedKabul of the woundedsaid to nounceddead,police said. places likeBeverly Hills. Store that could be delayedinvery University on Mondayasit Arepresentative for ownersare putting plywood on tight contests.The much Trump supporters block highways hostedabook fair attendedby be in critical condition Hassell told Variety that their windows,anticipating are- largernumber of mailed-in the Iranian ambassador,spark- the shooting appeared to turn of this summer’s unrest. ballots this year due to the ing an hours-long gun battle and beconnectedto acarjack- President Donald Trumphas pandemic arealso likelytode- as tensions play out in the streets leavingatleast22dead and 22 government” gathered at the ing. Police said the motive made it clear that he will not laythe resultsbecause they wounded at the war-torn coun- campus, according to theSITE remainedunder investi- concedeevenifheappears to be take longer to count. Trumphas notcommitted to a try’s largest university. Intelligence Group, whichmon- gation, but that acar had losing—if, forexample, Florida RICKROJAS, peacefultransfer of power. Mostofthe casualties were itors terror online messaging. been takenfromthe scene tiltstoJoe Biden, the Democratic JENNIFERSTEINHAUER Sunday’s incidentscame two studentsand therewerefears The IS statement claimedonly of the shooting. AP presidential nominee. thatall the votes be counted on &EMMAGFITZSIMMONS days afteragroup of Trumpsup- the death toll could climb further twoofits fighters were involved, Speaking to reporters Sunday Election Day. “I don’t thinkitis NOVEMBER2 porters in Texas, driving trucks with some of the woundedsaid and postedtheir photographs, evening, Trumpvowedtomount fair that we have to wait along and wavingTrumpflags, sur- to be in critical condition. whichconflictedwiththe Afghan alegal challengeinPennsylvania period of time,” he said. VEHICLES WITH Trumpflags rounded andslowedaBiden- It wasthe second attackon authorities’reportofthree attack- SWITZERLAND even before allvotes were ‘Plan to declarevictory’ halted trafficonSundayonthe Biden has previously criticised Harriscampaignbusasitdroveon an educational institution in ers. The claim did notindicatethe WHOchiefto counted,whichcould take days Garden StateParkway in New Trumpfor notcondemning Interstate 35,leading to the can- Kabulinasmanyweeks. IS intendedtotargetthe Iranian as mail-in ballots continue to ar- Trumphas reportedlysaid Jerseyand jammedthe Mario hissupporters’actions. Reuters cellation of twoplannedrallies. The Taliban promptly issued envoy or thebook fair. quarantineafter rive afterthe election. that he plans to declare victory Cuomo Bridgebetween TheFBIconfirmedonSundaythat astatement denying theytook Lastweek,ISalso claimeda contactgetsCovid “We’regoing to go in the on election night if early returns Tarrytownand Nyack,New York. it wasinvestigatingthe incident. partinthe assault, whichcame brutal assault on atutoring cen- night of, as soon as that election show him in the lead. But while Another pro-Trumpconvoy in ence”drawn by PresidentDonald On Saturday, Trumptweeted as the insurgentscontinuepeace terinthe Afghan capital’s mostly THE HEAD of the World is over,we’regoinginwithour voters who turn out on Election Virginiaended in atense shout- Trump’s ownevent nearby. avideo of the incidentwith a talkswith representativesof Shia neighbourhood of Dasht-e- HealthOrganisationsays he lawyers,” Trumpsaid. Daytend to skew Republican, ing matchwith protesters as it As the nation races toward message, “I love Texas!” Kabul’s US-backedgovernment, Barchithat killedatleast24stu- will self-quarantine after The President, who has spent the majority of mail-in ballots approachedastatueofRobertE Election Day, the tensions and In NorthCarolina, aget-out- with the aim to help theUnited dentsand woundedmorethan beingidentifiedasacontact months undermining public con- have been castbyDemocrats, Lee in Richmond. acrimony surrounding an ex- the-vote rallyonSaturdayended States finallywithdraw from 100others on October 24. of apersonwhotestedpos- fidence in the election system, meaningearly returnsmay not In Georgia, arallyfor traordinarilydivisive campaign, with the police using pepper Afghanistan. Later in theday,the Thepeace negotiations be- itive forCovid-19. Tedros said that he would also probably accuratelyreflectthe full vote. Democratswas cancelledshortly coming on the heels of asum- spray on some participants, in- Islamic Stategroup claimedre- tweenthe Taliban and the Kabul Adhanom Ghebreyesus mountlegal challenges in other Asked to comment on the re- before it wasscheduledtobegin mer of protests and racial unrest, cluding young children, and sponsibility forthe attack. government, known as intra- wroteonTwitter late states, including Nevada, because port in Philadelphia on Sunday, on Sunday, with organisers wor- arebleeding intoeverydaylife making numerous arrests. As the attack unfolded, stu- Afghan talks, were partofadeal Sundaythat he is “well and the governor thereisaDemocrat. Biden said, “The President is not riedabout what theyfeared and adding further uncertainty Organisers of the rallycalledit dentsandteacherswere seenflee- Washington signedwith the in- without symptoms” but Trumprepeated his desire going to steal this election.” NYT would be a“large militia pres- to an electoralprocess in which flagrant voter suppression. NYT ingthe partofthe campus where surgentsinFebruary. Theyare will self-quarantinein lawandjournalismschoolsarelo- taking place in the Gulf Arab “coming days,inline with cated, while hand grenades ex- stateofQatar,and areseen as WHOprotocols, and work plodedand automatic riflefire Afghanistan’s best chance at from home.”OnMonday, Trump suggests he will trytofire Faucipost-election could be heard. Scores of Afghan peace —though dailybloodshed the UN health agency’s special forces surroundedthe has continued. sought to dispelmisinfor- Fauci, the country’s leading hurt. It’s notagood situation,” Locka airportinthe Miami area, campus, shepherding teachers Afghan media reportedthat mation about Tedros’ self- REUTERS infectious-disease expert who is Fauci told The Washington Post on a“Fire Fauci” chant brokeout. and studentstosafety. abook exhibition wasbeing held isolation,writingonTwitter OPA-LOCKA,NOVEMBER2 director of the National Institute Friday. “Allthe starsare alignedin In response to thechant, The chaos subsidedasthe at the university and attended by that “contrarytosome in- of Allergy and Infectious the wrongplaceasyou go intothe Trumpsaid: “Don’ttell anybody, sun setoverthe Afghan capital anumber of dignitaries at the correct reports,” he has not US PRESIDENT Donald Trump Diseases, has takenissue with fall and winter season, with peo- but letmewait until alittle bit and the Interior Ministry’s time of the shooting. None of the testedpositivehimself. The suggestedearly on Monday that Trump’s repeated assertions that ple congregating at home in- afterthe election.” spokesman, Tariq Arian, said all dignitaries were reportedhurt. WHO is basedinGeneva, he mightseek to fire ahighlyre- theUSfight againstthe virus was doors. Youcould notpossiblybe Fauci is one of the mostpop- three attackers involved in the Iran’s semiofficial ISNAnews where casesare rising. AP spected member of his coron- “rounding the turn” when in fact positionedmorepoorly.” ular health experts in the United assault were killed. agency had reportedSunday avirus task force, AnthonyFauci, tens of thousandsofpeople are When Trumpdefendedhis States, afact that Trumphas The Islamic Stategroup said that IranianAmbassador PHILIPPINES afterFauci further criticised Fauci is the US’ leading being infected daily. handling of the virus at alate- cited in the pasttoavoid getting it targeted newly graduated Bahador Aminian and cultural Typhoondeath Trump’s handling of the virus. infectious-disease expert “We’reinfor awhole lotof night campaign rallyatOpa- intotangleswith him. “judges and investigators be- attaché Mojtaba Norooziwereto tollrisesto16 longing to the apostate Afghan inauguratethe fair. AP AT LEAST16people were killedasTyphoon Goni Turkey pulls 2girls out of lashedthe Philippines over Hindu homes attacked in Bangladeshafter the weekend,and about 13,000shantiesandhouses rubble 3days after quake were damagedorswept rumours of allegedFBpost ‘slandering’ Islam away in the eastern island provincethatwasfirsthitby ASSOCIATEDPRESS Idil Sirin, Macron fortaking steps against sentimentsonSunday,the report local residentscarriedout arson theferociousstorm,officials IZMIR,NOVEMBER2 14,was PRESSTRUSTOFINDIA “inhumane ideologies”after a quotedQamruzzaman Talukder, attacksonhomes,includingthose said Monday. Goniblasted rescued. DHAKA,NOVEMBER2 teacher in Paris wasdecapitated officer-in-charge of Bangra Bazar of the twowho were arrested. intoCatanduanes province IN WHATone rescueworker AP forshowing caricatures of the Police Station, as saying. Askedwhatmeasurestheau- JohnnyDepp at dawn Sunday as asuper called“amiracle,” extraction THE HOUSES of severalHindu ProphetMuhammad, The headmasterofthe thoritieshavetakenagainsttheat- typhoon with sustained teams brought twogirls out alive families have been vandalised bdnews24.com reported. kindergarten and aresident of tackers, Mir said the administra- windsof 225kilometresper Mondayfromthe wreckageof Rescue workers clappedin and burnedinBangladesh’s The headmasterofakinder- nearbyAndikot village were the tion has swungintoaction. Depp loses libel hour and gusts of 280 kph. their collapsedapartment build- unison Mondayas14-year-old Comilla district over rumours garten school in Purbo Dhour twotobearrested. Qamruzzaman said the But the storm weakened ings in the Turkish city of Izmir, Idil Sirin wasremovedfromthe about an alleged Facebook post welcomedMacron’s action in a “Thesituation is under con- process to file acase over theat- case in UK over considerablyafter making threedays afteranearthquakehit rubble, afterbeing trappedfor 58 slandering Islam, according to a commentonthe post. trol now,”MdAbul Fazal Mir, tack wasunderway. landfall and shifteddirec- Turkey and Greece, killing85. hours.Seven hours later,rescuers media reportonMonday. As the rumours about the deputy commissioner of Cumilla Demonstrations against ‘wife-beater’ tion to spare the capital, Onlookers applaudedinjoy working on another toppled The households were van- Facebook postspread, tension district,told bdnews24.com af- France over caricatures of the Manila, before blowing out and wept with relief as ambu- building extricated three-year- dalisedand later setonfireon mounted in theareaon tervisiting the area. Syed Nurul ProphetMuhammad have been claims in tabloid intotheSouthChinaSea.AP lances carrying the girls rushed oldElif Perincek,whose mother Sundayafter aBangladeshi man, Saturday, the reportsaid. Islam, Superintendent of Police, taking place in different Muslim- to hospitals immediately after and twosisters had been rescued who livesinFrance, allegedly Thepolicearrestedtwopeople has also visited the scene. majority countries, including their rescues. twodays earlier. praisedPresident Emmanuel on chargesofhurting religious Thedeputycommissionersaid Bangladesh, forseveral days. PANPYLAS LONDON,NOVEMBER2

JOHNNYDEPPlosthishigh-stakes libelcaseMondayagainsttheSun THE BRITISH JOURNALIST WAS BEST KNOWN FOR HIS REPORTING FROM THE MIDDLE EAST tabloid newspaper forlabelling hima“wife beater,” as aBritish judgepointedto severalepisodes Robert Fisk, veteran foreign correspondent, dies in Dublin at 74 thathesaidshowedtheactor’sex- wifehad feared forher life. JusticeAndrew Nicolsaidthat 1989, described himasthe most beyond,covering almostevery backedChristian militiamen andpopularityintheregionforhis the defendantshad proved that ZEINAKARAM celebrated journalist of his era. big storyinthe region, including slaughtered hundredsofoppositiontothe Iraq war—chal- what theypublishedwas “sub- BEIRUT,NOVEMBER2 “Fearless, uncompromising, the Iran-Iraq war, theArab- Palestinian refugees. Earlier that lengingtheofficialUSgovernment stantiallytrue”duringatrial in determinedand utterly commit- Israeli conflict,the warinAlgeria, year,hewas also thefirstforeign narrative of weapons of mass de- London over the summerthatin- VETERAN BRITISH journalist tedtouncoveringthetruthandre- the conflict in Afghanistan, journalisttoreportonthe scale of structionasitlaidthegroundwork cludedlurid accountsfromDepp Robert Fisk,one of the best- alityatallcosts,RobertFiskwasthe Saddam Hussein’s invasion of theHamamassacrein1982,when forthe 2003 invasion —and dis- and AmberHeardinwhicheach known Middle Eastcorrespon- greatestjournalist of his genera- Kuwait, the US invasion and oc- then-SyrianPresidentHafezAssad puting US and Israeli policies. accusedtheotherof abuse.Depp’s dentswho spent his career re- tion,” said Christian Broughton, cupationofIraq, the Arab Spring launchedawithering assault on Hewasoneof thefewjournal- lawyerssaid theywouldappeal. porting from the troubledregion managingdirectorof thenewspa- and Syria’s civil war. His report- the rebellious city in central Syria, ists who interviewedOsama bin Depp suedNewsGroup and wonaccolades forchalleng- per.“The fire he lit at The ing earnedhim awards, but also levelling entireneighbourhoods Ladenseveraltimes.AftertheSept Newspapers,publisherofTheSun, ing mainstream narrativeshas Independentwillburnon,”hesaid. invited controversy,particularly andkillingthousandsinoneof the 11,2011attacks andthe subse- and the newspaper’s executive diedafter ashortillness, his em- Born in Kent, in the United his coverage of the Syria conflict. mostnotorious massacres in the quent US invasion of Iraq, he trav- editor,DanWootton,overanApril ployer said Monday. He was74. Kingdom,Fiskbeganhiscareer on Fisk in asuburb of Damascus,Syria, in 2018.Hehas spent his Afearless, bespectacledand modern Middle East. elledtothe Pakistan-Afghan bor- 2018 articlethataccusedhim of Fisk,whose reporting often FleetStreetatthe SundayExpress. entirecareer reportingfromthe Middle Eastand has won cheerful personalitybristling “So sad to lose atrue friend der,where he wasattackedbya assaultingfellow actor Heard. sparkedcontroversy,died He went on to work for The Times, accolades forchallenging mainstream narratives. AP with energy,Fisk wasoften the and agreat journalist. The temple group of Afghan refugees. Fornow,the ruling dealsabig SundayatahospitalinDublin, wherehewas basedinNorthern firstreportertoarriveatthe of truthisgone,” said Marwan He later wroteabout the inci- blowtoDepp’sreputation that shortlyafter he wastaken there Ireland, Portugal and the Middle scene of astory. Chukri, director of the Foreign dent from the refugees’ perspec- could damagealucrative movie afterfalling ill at his home in the East. He movedtoBeirutin1976, and live from an apartmentlo- until his death. In 1982, he wasone of thefirst Press Centreatthe Information tive,describing his beating by career,whichhas seen theactor Irishcapital. The Independent, ayear afterthe country’s civil war cated on theLebanese capital’s From his base in Beirut, Fisk journalistsattheSabraandShatila MinistryinBeirut. refugeesasa“symbolof thehatred take thelead in severalpopular wherehehad worked since brokeout, and continuedto work famedMediterranean corniche travelledacross the Mideastand camp in Beirut, whereIsraeli- Fisk gained particularfame and furyofthis filthywar”. AP familymovies. AP

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Internationalmarket data till 1900IST ECONOMY WATCH ARBITRARY,HIGHLEVYBREEDSINEFFICIENCIES: FINANCESECY AUCTIONS FOR COMMERCIAL COALMINING OCTOBER DATA Strong competition on ‘Customsduty:Needjudicious Day 1: Vedanta bid for Indicators hint at Odisha mine highest demand revival; use,hastobephasedoutslowly’ Acloser look at the regression juicesto mobilephones.InBudget ENSECONOMICBUREAU TOPBIDDERS AANCHALMAGAZINE dataofIndia’s imports of rawma- 2020-21, the government had NEWDELHI,NOVEMBER2 caution prevails NEWDELHI,NOVEMBER2 terials, intermediategoods,capi- hiked import duties on over 100 ANDTHEMINES taland consumer goods in the categories of productsacrosssec- THE FIRSTauction of coal blocks THE GOVERNMENT proposes to weightedaverageofimporttariffs tors, including certain food items, forcommercial mining waskick- VEDANTARESOURCES: Manufacturing PMI India Biz Resumption Index slowlyphase out the hikein during1990-2017shows thatwith furniture,footwear,householdap- startedonMonday, withfive Odisha’sRadhikapur 60 58.9 Customs duties leviedearlier for even 1per cent increase in tariff, pliances, parts of mobile phones, mines goingunder the hammer. West coal mine. 82.2 82.1

51.4 81.6 81.2

40 84.4 protectionof domesticmanufac- the imports decline by around andtoys.Morerecently, inOctober, VedantaResourcesemergedasthe 80.8 83.3 80.3

79 turing.High, arbitraryCustoms $2billiononanaverage,thusmak- a5per cent Customs duty wasin- highestbidder forOdisha’s AURBINDOREALITY 20 duty ratesbreed inefficiencies ing acase forimproving the man- troduced on opencell —a RadhikapurWestcoalmine,offer- and Infrastructure: 0 and thereisaneedtohave“judi- ufacturingbase of the country, it keycomponentinTVpanel ing 21 percent revenue sharefor Takli Jena BelloraNorth

Sept 2019 Oct 2020 01 06 13 20 27 04 11 18 25 Note: Reading below 50 suggests contraction cious use” of Customs duty, AJAYBHUSHANPANDEY said.Intheexportbasket,thehigh- manufacturing. themine,whichhasestimatedre- and Takli Jena Bellora Oct Oct Oct Oct and above it indicates expansion Nov Sept Sept Sept Sept Source: IHS Markit Source: Nomura Finance SecretaryAjayBhushan FinanceSecretary estshareisofconsumer goods, TheFinanceSecretaryalsosaid servesof 312 milliontonnesof coal South coal mines in Pandeysaid. whichare manufacturedproducts, the government has movedto- withapeakcapacityof 6.0million Maharashtra. Power demand Petrol/diesel sales (% change, y-o-y, 2020) (in thousand tonnes) “... we willensurethat on the followedbyintermediategoods wardsplugging the loopholes for tonnesper annum. Customsdutyfront,we have avery items ranging from apples and al- and these twoattract highesttar- misuse in rules of origin forim- The auctions will include 14 HINDALCO: Chakla 20 8,000 12.1 Diesel 6,790 judicious use of Customs duty. monds to cellphone parts. iffsintheimportbasket,thusmak- ports.The earlier rules of origin morecoal blocks andare setto coal mine in Jharkhand. 10 6,000 6,942 Having arbitraryhigh Customs In itsresearch report on ing acase againstthe fact that would result in alot of misuse as continuetillNovember9,withthe 0 3.9 4,000 dutybreedsinefficienciesandthe Monday,StateBank of Indiaalso higher tariffs have notprotected unscrupulouselementswouldtry successful bidders to be an- YAZDANI -10 2,000 consumersaswelldomesticman- statedthatthecountryneedsto fo- theseindustries. “Othercountries to bypass the rules, whichinturn, nouncedbyNovember 11. INTERNATIONAL: 2,456 2,629 -20 Petrol -23.2 0 ufacturingsuffer. So, what is re- cusmoreonincreasingproductiv- with muchlower tariffstructures wouldimpactdomesticmanufac- “Thefirstday of auctionof coal MarkiMangliIImine -30 Jan Oct* quired is areasonable amount of ity and less on importtariffs in its have built manufacturingbases, turing. “In the lastbudget,we mines forsale of coal sawstrong inMaharashtra. Jan Apr Oct *extrapolated from PSU retail sales Customs duty foralevel playing questfor Atmanirbhar Bharat. whichhavehelpedthem in their amendedthe Customs Act, new andhealthycompetition among Oct sales in units (Mumbai) On track field, and it has to also be phased “After2004,Indiasawrapidreduc- exports,” it said. rules of origin have comewhich thebidders,”saidagovernmentre- JMS MINING: Urtan No. of sale documents registered Freight loading Freight revenue outslowlyonceasectorhasdevel- tioninAHSWeighted Average(%) The government had levieda have become effective from lease, noting that the auction mine in Madhya Pradesh. (million tonne) (` crore, RHS) oped,” Pandeytold The across all product categories. 10 percentbasicCustomsdutyfor September this year and nowim- process forsome of the mines 7,929 125 12,500 6,377

6,068 10,405 5,811 5,668 10,728 5,225 4,902 4,483 100 10,000 Indian Express. Despite the reducedtariffs,India smartphones effective July2017 porters arebound to specifywhat lastedfor “3-4 hours”. 2,619 75 7,500 This marks adeparturefrom has one of the highestweighted oncoveredcellularmobilephones, is the value addition is happening Aurbindo Reality and Jharkhand, offering a14.25 per 5,000 ‘12 ‘13 ‘14 ‘15 ‘16 ‘17 ‘18 ‘19 ‘20 50 the earlier stance as the govern- averagetariffsintheworldof man- andpartslikecharger, battery,key- so that theyhavetaken Customs Infrastructurewasthehighestbid- cent revenue sharetothe govern- 25 2,500

Oct Oct Oct Oct Oct Oct Oct Oct Oct menthasprogressivelyraisedim- ufacturers,comprising both con- pad, USB cable, whichwas later dutyexemptions.So,suchmisuse derfortheTakliJenaBelloraNorth ment forrightstomine. With re- Source: Department of registrations and 0 106.5 108.07 0 stamps, Government of Maharashtra, Feb Oct portdutiesforanumberof manu- sumer and capital goods,” the SBI raisedto15percentin December. usedtohappen, whichusedtoaf- and Takli Jena BelloraSouth coal gard to MarkiMangli II minein Knight Frank Research 2020 2020 factured productsincluding reportsaid. The duty on TV sets wasraisedto fect domesticmanufacturing, de- minesinMaharashtra,offeringthe Maharashtra, Yazdani Intern- television,mobilesandhousehold During 2004-2017,India’s 20 per cent from 15 percent in prive the domesticmanufacturer government arevenue shareof ationalbidthehighestat30.75per 13-year high, while sales, too, appliances over the lastsix years. shareinglobal manufacturing in- December2017.InFebruary2018, from alevel playing field. So with 30.75percentforthemineswhich centrevenuesharing. JMSMining ENSECONOMICBUREAU improveddramatically. In itsprevioustenure,the NDA creasedby1.5 percentagepoints, Customsdutieswere hikedacross these things, domestic manufac- have reserves of 117.26 metric Pvt Ltd bid the highestfor Urtan NEWDELHI,NOVEMBER2 Electricitygeneration, a governmenthadengagedinatar- while China gaineda18per cent 46 items spanning imported turing,economywillmovefor- tonnes. Hindalco wasthe highest mineinMadhya Pradesh at 10.50 closeproxyforeconomicactiv- iffhiking spree covering over 400 share, the report said. brandedgoods ranging from fruit ward,” he said. bidder forthe Chakla coal mine in per cent revenue sharing. AREVIVAL of demand seen in ities, rose forasecond straight September apparentlygath- month in October,registering ered moresteam in October, a12.1percentyear-on-year(y- GSTCOMPENSATION SHORTFALL with asurge in certain early o-y)rise,against4.6percentin US ELECTIONS high-frequencyindicators,like the previous month. Diesel 2nd tranche: Centretotransfer manufacturing PMI, power consumptioninOctober rose WITHBIDENBETSANDTRUMPHEDGES,INVESTORSGETREADY generation, auto salesand rail 6.6 per cent. freight, and even fuel sales. Auto sales,too,zoomed in Four yearsafter Donald Trump’ssurprise Presidential victoryroiled markets, `6,000 cr to 16 states and 3UTs This lends some credence October,drivenbyfestive de- investorsare prepared forshort-term trading turmoil and major long-term to thenotionthattheeconomy mand.Mirroringtheimprove- policy shifts, according to a Reuters report cialwindowtilldateandtheloans maybehealingfasterfromthe ment in leading gauges, the ENSECONOMICBUREAU BORROWING raisedbythe Centre would be re- BIGGESTWORRY Covid-inducedshock thanan- NomuraIndia Business HOWTHE MARKETS NEWDELHI,NOVEMBER2 DONEAT4.42% leased on aback-to-backbasis to ticipated earlier.But analysts Resumption Indeximproved FORMARKETS: REACTED? states/UTs. warnthatthedurabilityof this to 82.4 in October,arise of 2.6 Theoutcomemostlikelyto ■ Asof02:04p.m.EST,the THE FINANCE Ministryon ■ This round of borro- This second round of borrow- rebound, seeminglyaidedby pointsfrom80.3inSeptember shakemarkets—atleastinthe DowJonesIndustrialAverage Mondaysaid it will transfer the wing wasdone at an ingwasdone at an interestof4.42 spilloverofpent-up demand and 73.6 in August. nearterm—isnoimmediate wasup225.46points,or0.85 second tranche of borrowing interestof4.42 per cent, percent, whichislower than the post-lockdown, can be estab- “However, it remains to be outcomeatall.Marketsfeara percent,at26,727.06 worthRs6,000croreforcompen- whichislower than the costofborrowings forthe states lished only if the momentum seenwhetherthismomentum contestedelection ■ EuropeansharesMonday sation shortfall to 16 states and 3 costofborrowings for andUTs,thusbenefitingthem,the outlasts the festiveseason. outlivesthe festival-ledactiv- UnionTerritoriesincludingAndh- the states and UTs, thus Finance Ministrysaid. The first WHAT WOULD BE recoveredfrom1-monthlows TheNikkeiManufacturing ity surge.Wealso remain cau- ra Pradesh,Maharashtra, Bihar, benefiting them, the tranchelastmonthwasborrowed GOOD NEWS? Purchasing Managers'Index tious on the potential reversal ■ TheSensexsettled143.51 Karnataka,PuducherryandDelhi. Finance Ministrysaid. at 5.19 percent. (PMI), compiledbyIHS of pandemic gains in Nove- Adecisivevictoryofeither points,or0.36percent,higher The Centrehad on October 23 The Finance Ministryhad last Markit, rose to 58.9 in October mber-December,asthefestive TrumporDemocratic at39,757.58.Brentcrude transferredRs6,000 croreto16 monthsaidtheCentrewouldbor- from September's 56.8. A season drawsdown,” Sonal JoeBiden,wouldbe pricesfelltoalowof$35.74 states and2UTs of Delhi and latest to optfor borrowing under rowfromthemarket andthenact reading over 50 indicates eco- VarmaandAurodeepNandiof goodnewsforstocks perbarrel,alevelnotseensince Jammu and Kashmir,takingthe the special windowand has been as an intermediarytoarrange nomic expansion. Man- Nomura said in areporton lateMay,laterrecoveringto totalborrowedamountunderthe includedinthe second tranche. back-to-backloans to paythe GST ufacturing output toucheda Monday. FE Source: Reuters tradeup1.69%at$38.58 specialwindowtoRs12,000crore. With this, 21 states and 3Union compensation shortfall of Rs 1.1 Puducherry has become the Territorieshaveoptedforthe spe- lakhcrore to stategovernments. What led to the 8.6% fall in RIL shares? HDFC Q2 net falls 27.5%

September and stole all the lime- tail arm in the wake of the Covid Experts saywhen shareprices Sept, Oct see strongestrecoverysince outbreak SANDEEPSINGH light with recordfund-raising of pandemic and lockdown. had hit over Rs 2,300per share, &GEORGEMATHEW over Rs 1.5lakh crorefromglobal manyfelt theyhad missedthe op- NEWDELHI/MUMBAI,NOV2 investorsintoits telecomand re- What is the wayforward? portunity to buy itsshares and so ENSECONOMICBUREAU PNB profit tail arms over lastsix months, the IsthesharpfallonMonday the forthem the current fall provides MUMBAI,NOVEMBER2 jumps 22% SHARE PRICE of Reliance sharp fall comes both as adamp- endofthe fairytale run of the the opportunity to enter the stock Industries —India’slargest com- ener forsome andop- scrip?Brokeragehouses forlong term gains. While some HOME MORTGAGEfirm HDFC NewDelhi: Punjab National panybyprofitability and market portunity forothers. don’tfeelso.Fundman- global investment firms like Ltd has reporteda27.56 percent Bank(PNB)onMondaysaidit capitalisation —fell sharplyby8.6 agers and analysts feel Macquarie have talked abouta42 declineinnetprofitforthequarter witnesseda22per cent in- per cent on Monday, bringing its What ledtothe sharp that since the stockwas per cent further downside in RIL endedSeptember 2020 (Q2) at crease in netprofittoRs totalmarketcap down by Rs 1.23 fall on Monday? richly valued, the weak shares, thereare some whofeel Rs 2,870 croreasagainstRs3,962 620.81crore forthe quarter lakhcrore (taking intoaccount The sell-offwas trig- quarterly resultsgavea since thereisnofresh trigger for croreinthe year-agoperiod. endedSeptember30oneas- both fullyand partlypaid shares), geredbythe weak sec- reasonformanytobook priceriseasmostoftheinvestment HDFCVice Chairman and ing of bad loans. PTI or$16.6billion,fromRs14.37lakh ond quarterresultsbythe com- profitsand that resulted intofur- deals have been announced, the CEO Keki Mistrysaid individual croreonFriday to Rs 13.14lakh panywith the netprofitfalling 15 ther decline of the shareprice as scripmayremainrangeboundand disbursementsduringthe quar- croreonMonday. per cent to Rs 9,567crore in the the dayproceeded. itcouldbeagoodtimeforinvestors terended September 2020 were and October 2020 have seen the Forastock that rose 170per September quarterdue to asharp to accumulateits shares. at 95 per cent levels of theprevi- strongestrecovery since the out- centfromlows of Rs 875inMarch declineinrefiningmarginsto $5.7 Does it throw open an Fullreport on ous year. break of the pandemic,” Mistry to hitahigh of Rs 2,368 in perbarrelandweaknessinthere- opportunity to invest? www.indianexpress.com “The months of September said in aconference call. BRIEFLY Expert committee rejects Dr Reddy’s Lastdatefor proposalfor remdesivir’sfull approval ECLGS:Nov30 ceptedbythe Central Drugs NewDelhi: Thegovernment ENSECONOMICBUREAU The panel’s suggestions StandardControl Organisation on Mondayextendedthe NEWDELHI,NOVEMBER2 come nearly twoweeks (CDSCO), would mean that India EmergencyCreditLineGua- wouldnotfollowtheUSdrugreg- rantee Scheme (ECLGS) for ASUBJECT expertcommittee afterthe US Food and Drug ulator’sleadingrantingremdesivir MSMEstillNovember30,as (SEC) under the nation’s topdrug Administration approved fullmarketingapproval.“Afterde- the scheme has failedto regulatorybodyhasrejectedapro- the drug as arecognised taileddeliberation,thecommittee reachthe target Rs 3lakh posal by Hyderabad-headquar- treatment forCovid-19 did notrecommend forgrant of croreofsanctions. teredDrReddy’s Laboratories to full marketing authorisation and grantfullmarketingauthorisation opinedthatapprovalforrestricted forantiviral remdesivir. nearly twoweeksafter the US emergencyuseof thedrugshould AdityaPurito Theexpertpanel’srecommen- FoodandDrugAdministrationap- continue,”statedtheSECinitsrec- joinCarlyle dations, whichsuggestthat India proved thedrug as arecognised ommendations on October 29. shouldcontinue withrestricted treatment forCovid-19. The minutes of the panel’s meet- NewDelhi: Former HDFC emergency use of the drug, come The recommendations, if ac- ingwere madepubliconMonday. BankMD&CEO AdityaPuri will join privateequity ma- jor Carlyle on investment opportunities across Asiaas UPI transactionscross 2bn/month in Oct asenior advisor. PTI CorporationofIndia(NPCI).The cash has forced users andbusi- ENSECONOMICBUREAU totalvalue of these transactions nesses to shiftprioritiestoon- NEWDELHI,NOVEMBER2 stood at Rs 3.8 trillion, up from line payments nearly overnight. ‘Octjoblessrate Rs 3.2 trillion in September,the Forexample, in May, which risesto6.98%’ THE TOTALnumber of transac- datashowed. sawcomplete lockdown, the tions conducted on the Bharat As of October,asmanyas189 number of transactions done NewDelhi: Unemployment Interface forMoney-Unified bankswereusing the UPI plat- through UPI stood at 1,234.5 mil- rate in Octoberrose to 6.98 PaymentsInterface (BHIM-UPI), form developedbythe NPCI, lion transaction, while in June per centfrom6.67per cent known moresimplyasthe UPI compared to 141inthe corre- and July, whenlockdown meas- in September,asper the crossedthe 2billion transac- sponding month ayear ago. The ures were relaxed alittle, the Centre forMonitoring tions count amonth in October, platformhas seen tremendous number of transactions stood at Indian Economy. REUTERS according to the datareleased growth over the lasteight 1,336.9 millionand 1,497.3mil- by NationalPayments months as the limited use of lion, respectively.

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THEINDIANEXPRESS,TUESDAY,NOVEMBER3,2020 WATSON LIKELY TO QUIT TopAustralian all-rounder Shane Wa tsonhas decided to call time on his competitive cricket career after Chennai SuperKings' exit from the Indian Premier League. While Wa tson has not made anyofficial announcement,ithas been learnt that afterCSK ended 16 SPORT their IPL campaign on Sundaywith awin over Kings XI Punjab,the senior player told his teammates about the decisiontoretirefrom all forms of cricket. PTI

BRIEFLY POINTSTABLE ADCmarvel Team Matches Won Lost Pts NRR Sindhu‘retires’, MI 13 9418 1.296 DC 14 8616 -0.109 clarifiesnotfrom RCB 14 7714 -0.172 Delhibounce backafter 4losses in arow to beat RCBand take 2nd spot; Kohli’s team qualifies too KKR 14 7714 -0.214 badminton SRH 13 6712 0.555 Worldcham- KXIP 14 6812 -0.162 pion PV SYNOPSIS Hugecredit goes to Shikhar CSK 14 6812 -0.455 Sindhu cre- Rahane returns to form afterDC Dhawan, who scored a41-ball RR 14 6812 -0.569 ated astir on showbowling discipline 54.Hetook the attacktothe OrangeCap KL Rahul (670 runs) Mondayby posting "I opposition upfront, allowing Purple Cap KRabada(25 wkts) Retire" on so- Rahane to settle down. The two cial media SHAMIKCHAKRABARTY India stalwarts added88runs FINALPLAYOFFSPOT: SRH OR KKR? onlytofollow NOVEMBER2 and DC were home and dry. ● Delhi Capitals sealedsecond spot it up with alengthystatement declar- in the pointstable. Theywill face ingthat shewould actuallybesaying RIDINGONafine partnership between Mumbai Indians in Qualifier1and goodbye to "the negativity,fear,and Shikhar Dhawan and AjinkyaRahane, Delhi even if theylose that game, will geta uncertainty" triggered by theCOVID- Capitalsendedtheirfour-matchlosing processofcutting loose. He hit afabulous second chance to makethe final as 19 pandemic.The Olympic silver- streak to finish second in the pointstable. loftedcover driveoff Kagiso Rabada forafour theywill playQualifier 2. medallist, who is currentlyinLondon It givesthemthe leewayofanextragame before lifting Pateloverlong-on. Ashwin to work on her nutrition and recovery in the playoffs, as theybeat Royal made atimelyintervention. As forNortje, he ● RoyalChallengers Bangalorehave needs at the Gatorade Sports Science Challengers Bangalorebysix wicketsinAbu came backbrilliantlytomakeaserious im- also made it to theplayoffsand will Institute, startedher rather stunning Dhabi on Monday.RCB, too, qualified, pact with the ball. The wickets of awell-set be one of the teams contesting the postbysaying that the "DenmarkOpen thankstotheir better netrun rate than Devdutt Padikkal and the dangerous Chris Eliminator. wasthe final straw. IRetire". She was KolkataKnight Riders. Morris inside three deliveriesthwartedRCB’s ● The identity of their opponents referringtoher pullout from the event Afterposting 152/7,RCB had to take the progress in the slog overs. will be decided by Tuesday’s final due to the pandemic. "...I'm writing to- game deep to ensurethat theygothrough. Padikkal scored afinehalf-centurybut league game between MI and daytotell youthat I'm done...Not be- Theystayput on 14 pointsbut as DC sur- there’s one aspect of his game he would like Sunrisers Hyderabad. If the latter ing able to represent India in the passedtheirtotal in 19 overs, RCB’s netrun to look into. The left-hander occasionallyex- emerge victorious,theywill makeit, DenmarkOpen wasthe last straw," rate remainedabove KKR’s. poses his offstump while facing fast bowlers. or else KolkataKnightRiders will go Sindhu's note stated."Today, Ichoose Speedsters liketosee the stumps, forthey through.. to retirefromthis current sense of un- Rahane returns to form believe if they can see them, theycan hit rest.Iretirefromthis negativity,the Foraplayerofhis pedigree, Rahane had them. On Monday, Padikkal made room and ●LIVE constant fear,uncertainty.Ichoose to been going through alengthyform slump. triedtohit a152kphdelivery from Nortje TUESDAY: SRH vs MI 7:30pm retirefromacomplete lackofcontrol Exclusion from India’s white-ball set-up af- over cover. over the unknown," she said. fected hisconfidence and this year,after He wasbeaten forpace and castled. Qualifier 1 makingthe switch from RajasthanRoyals Morris wasdone in by extrabounce. NOV5: DC vs MI 7:30pm wherehewas thecaptain lastterm, Rahane’s Nortje returnedwith three wickets, but 2DDCAemployees game time had been limited.Inthe previous it wasacollective effort by DC bowlers. contractcoronavirus five matches,hebarelymade anycontribu- Delhi’s AjinkyaRahanescored 60 off46balls, playingorthodoxcricket. BCCI/IPL Rabada wasexcellent forhis 2/30. Ashwin tion with the bat. His footwork looked ten- teasedthe batsmen and Daniel Sams, too, Chuffed with the The FerozShah Kotla premises is un- tative,his approachcagey. waspretty tight upfront before conceding 17 performance. We knew it was dergoinganotherroundof sanitisation Today, cominginatNo. 3after Prithvi opposition upfront, allowing Rahane to set- startwith. When he steppedout to an Axar runs in his final over. adoordie and we just drive aftertwo Delhi&DistrictsCricket Shawyet again fell cheaply, Rahane played tle down. The twoIndiastalwarts added88 Pateldelivery,hedidn’t time it properly.It Until the 15th over,RCB were going at un- focused on the win, not NRR. Association (DDCA) employees have assertive cricket.Heshowedintent with two runs and DC were home and dry. wasasimple catchatlong-on, but Nortje lost der sevenruns per over. AB de Villiers and The teams who won in the tested positive forCOVID-19, days be- fours in an over againstIsuru Udana. He his footing and droppedit. ShivamDubeuppedthe ante, but de Villiers latter half completely fore thestate unit'selections. However, sweptbeautifullyagainstYuzvendra Chahal DC showbowling discipline But Ashwin ensured that Nortje’s blem- wasrun out in the final over,trying to go for the elections forthe postoftreasurer and came down the trackagainstShahbaz Earlier AnrichNortje might well have ish didn’t provecostly. Kohli wasdroppedon an improbable second.Together,DCbowlers changed the scenario. It's a and four directorswillbeheld as per Ahmedtohit asix. Rahane scored 60 off46 droppedthe match, had Ravichandran 13,Ashwin removedhim on 29. The off-spin- restricted RCBtoaverychaseable total. really competitive schedule from November 5to8atthe balls, playing orthodoxcricket.When he Ashwin and Marcus Stoinis notbailedhim ner wastaking pace offthe ball and one such BRIEF SCORES: Delhi Capitals 154for 4 tournament for sure.” Kotlapremises."Two employeesNeeraj triedtoplayanuncharacteristic reverse out.Inamust-wingame to secure atop-two delivery forced Kohli to mistime again. The (Rahane60, Dhawan54, Ahmed2-26) beat Sharma and Pradeep Banerjee have sweep, he got out. spotfor theplayoffs, dropping ViratKohli skier went to Stoinis at deep mid-wicketwho RoyalChallengers Bangalore152 for7 SHREYAS IYER tested COVID-19 positive and have Huge credit also goes to Dhawan, who could have been costly. The RoyalChallengers grabbed it with both hands. (Padikkal 50, de Villiers 35,Nortje 3-33) by DELHI CAPITALS’ SKIPPER been advised18days of home quaran- scored a41-ball54. He took the attacktothe Bangalorecaptain had been circumspect to Following the reprieve,Kohliwas in the six wickets. tine.Theirofficeshave beenshutdown and entirepremiseswill be sanitised," DDCAjointsecretaryRajanManchanda told PTIonMonday.Heinformedthat Why Charlton’s dementia puts focus back on headers elections will be held as per schedule. "Theelections areonasper schedule and all kinds of health safetyprotocols first, Shearer wasmade to head aball –which tia. The four others areRay Wilson (diedin CardiffUniversity pointedto six cases of play- areinplace,"Manchanda said. MIHIRVASAVDA weighs close to 500gm–20times. 2018), Martin Peters (diedlastyear), Nobby ers in 60s developing dementia having played DELHI,NOVEMBER2 Immediatelyafter,hehad to take the same Stiles and Charlton’s brother Jack, both of foranaverage of 26 years. Four showedsigns testsagain. The result postheading showed whom diedthis year.The team’s manager, of CTE adding that the risk was‘extremely Balebacktowinning ALMOSTONE-fifth of the 260 career goals changes in the waythe brain communicated Alf Ramsey, also had dementia. low’ from playing recreational football. waysatTottenham Alan Shearer scored–the mostinEnglish with muscles and impulses took alittle Premier League history –came from head- longer to travel down the nerves. Is thereany evidence to suggestheaders Howdid the footballworld respondto GarethBale soared intothe air, con- ers, askill he practicedover100 times aday This, aUniversity of British Columbia re- increaseddementiarisk? thesestudies? nectedwith the ball and poweredit in training formorethan 20 years. search in 2018 said, happens The firstlink wasmade in In November 2015,the USAbecamethe intothe net. It's takenmorethan Three years ago, Shearer,50, underwent a because the blood levels of pro- 2014.In2002, former England in- firstcountrytoban headersfor children

sevenyears but Bale wasTottenham's raft of tests–including an MRI –tocheckif teins associated with damage ED ternationalJeffAstle, diagnosed under-11tohelp reduce concussion. The match-winner again. And it had only heading the ball had causedany damageto One of England’s greatestfootballers to nerve cells increase after with dementia, diedaged59. move also helpedinreducinginjuries; required three minutes on the field for his brain. The testswereapartofBBC docu- Sir BobbyCharltonhas been diagnosed headingthe ball. Scientists say Medical experts told the coroner, since heading wasnot allowed, the ball was AIN the substitutetoclincha2-1 victory mentaryAlan Shearer:Dementia,Football and with dementia. Reuters morethan in amatch, it is the as per reports,that the damageto notloftedinthe air and thus, chances of

over Brighton on Sunday. Apartfrom Me, in whichheinvestigates thelink between repeatedpractice drills that PL Astle’s brain wasaresultofre- heads colliding or elbows being smashed the emptystadium, due to ongoing the sportand the syndrome. The one-hour cause greaterharm.The risk peated minortrauma, ‘probably significantlyreduced.

EX E● pandemic restrictions, this wasthe feature dugdeep into growing fearsworld- risk of Alzheimer’s, afour-fold increase in wasgreater among players causedbyheading aheavy leather In Februarythis year,England, Scotland type of moment Bale imaginedpro- wide thatheadingafootballincreasesthe risk motorneurone disease and atwo-fold in- from the older generations football’. In 2014,there wasare- and Ireland also barred players aged under- ducingonhis return to Tottenham af- of dementia and dying because of it. On crease in Parkinson’s”. since the balls usedthen were alot heavier. examination of Astle’s brain and it wasre- 12 from heading the ball during training. But terseven years. While Arsenal cele- Sundaycame the news that EnglandWorld This, the researchers concluded,was be- vealedhehad diedfromChronic Traumatic theycan still do that in games. Coaches use brated itsfirstleague win at Old Cup winner BobbyCharlton, regarded cause of the damage to the brain due to re- What made thoseballs heavier? Encephalopathy (CTE). softballs in training to develop aplayer’s Trafford in 14 years, thankstoPierre- England’s greatest, had developeddementia. peated heading of the football over aperiod The inner bladders were made of strong heading technique. Experts in Turkey,too, EmerickAubameyang's penalty, But as Shearer had learnt, the arguments of time. But it wasnot conclusive.Itisargued rubber while the outer layerwas formedof What is CTE? have recommendedthe same. ManchesterUnitedisreeling from its aren’t as blackand whiteashis stripes at that physical contact during amatch–like leather,with stitches cut out. These balls It is adisease that causes severe damageto However, with no conclusive evidence worststart to aseason in 48 years. Newcastle United,for whom he scored more an elbowtoplayers’ head –can also be afac- were particularlyuncomfortable to play– the brain because of repeated head injuries linking headingtodementia, no uniform rule Onlyseven pointshavebeen collected than half of his goals. toralong with acombination of lifestyle and and especially head –inwet-weather con- and is linkedto memoryloss, depression and by FIFAexists. from itsfirstsix games of the league genetic factors. ditions as the leather would absorb the rain dementia.Formerboxers aremostcom- season, with no wins at home forOle Can playingfootball lead to dementia? water, thus becoming heavier. The newtype monlydiagnosedwith it, however, therehave Have players in India sufferedfromthis? Gunnar Solskjaer's 15th-place side Last year,the Guardian quoted aland- Howdoesheading the ball affect the wasintroduced1970World Cuponwards. been instances of CTE in manyothercontact LegendaryIndian striker PK Banerjee was “Firsthalf we neverturnedup,” markstudy by UniversityofGlasgow, reveal- brain? Incidentally, Charlton is the fifthplayerfrom sports likepro wrestling, mixed martial arts, diagnosedwith dementia before he passed Solskjaersaid afterhis 100thmatch ing that “former professional footballers are ScientistsatScotland’s University for England’s 1966 WorldCup-winning cam- ice hockey,rugby,baseball, Australian rules away this year.Thereare,however, no restric- in charge of United. AGENCIES three-and-a-halftimes morelikelytosuffer Sporting Excellence conductedvarious cog- paign, the lastmajor tournament with the football and, of course, football.A 2017 re- tions on players across all agegroups head- from dementia… five-fold increase in the nitive testsonShearerintwo parts. Afterthe old-style balls, to be diagnosed withdemen- search by University College London and ing the ball, in matches or duringtraining.

WOMEN’S T20 CHALLENGE No access to cricket on TV, now ready to play ‘live’: Chantamadvances

takenfor granted in countries wherecricket T20 WorldCup.Thailand’s coachisHarshal throughthe gap. Our (hers and her batting DEVENDRAPANDEY is amainstream sport-likeaturf pitch-have In Thailand, channels showing live Pathak,aformer cricketerfromPune. He in- partner’s)approachisdifferent,my planis(to) MUMBAI,NOVEMBER2 notbeen easilyavailable. Improving her game cricket are not available. We forms her nickname is Jean and describes hit through the gapand give herthe strike,” by switching on the TVtooproveddifficult. needed to buy an extra TV box to Chantam as an opener with asharpmindwho Chantam added. Whichexplains her choice NOT MANY cricketcareers would stutter for “In Thailand,channels showinglivecricket receive the signal. Otherwise, it can bat at anyposition. of Mithali Rajand ViratKohliasfavourite wantof aTVset-top box-anadditionalsecond arenot available. We neededtobuy an extra was just highlights on social “Her game sense is immense and she reads Indian cricketers. one in the family.For NatthakanChantam TVboxtoreceive the signal. Otherwise, it was media platforms. They (family) matchsituations muchbetterthan others. At She lovesagood challengethough: like (pronounced: na-taa-kaan chan-taam), justhighlightsonsocial media platforms,” the same time, her strokesare world-class. English batter Danni Wyatt in full flow. “I Thailand's right-hand opening bat and pacer, Chantam told The IndianExpress. were confused because they don’t The fiftyshe scored againstPakistanbowling wanna see howaggressive she can bat trying to capturethe signal of acricketrelay- Everypiece of playing gear tooneededto know much about cricket or what brought her in the limelight,”Pathaksaid. The againstus,” the pacer told ICC, adding South ing-channelinBangkokbecame crucialwhen be imported-fromIndia, Australia or this Women’s T20 League means coachwould ensure the Thai team spent an African Lizelle Li’s quickbowling is another she felt the needtowatchwhat authentic Malaysia. “Weneededtoplaninadvance if we to cricket players. Itold them this extended stint at Pune's CadenceAcademy, source of inspiration. cricketatthe topmostlevel looked like. had to buy cricketequipment,” she added. is big, so they are excited for me” soaking in the skills. She admitstobeing pleasantlysurprised The AssociateNation player’s onlywin- when chosen forthe Challenger. “I couldnot dowintothe game were highlightson True calling NATTHAKAN CHANTAM Smartcricketer believe it because Idid notexpect to be cho- YouTubeand Facebook,whichshe soon Chantam startedplaying cricket with TRAILBLAZERS’ PLAYER Chantam’s farfromthe impetuous crick- sen. It wasalot of emotions when Ifirst outgrew.This week,the exuberant Thai will herschool team in her thirdgrade. “I did- eter who’ll use aggressive battingasthe best heardthe news.Iwas shocked, delighted, be on TV herselfaspartofBCCI’sWomen's n’t knowcricketbackthen. As asportsper- Allthiswhile,herparentswouldstayalit- me,”Chantamsaid.“My friendswere verycu- recourse andperishif thebig hitdoesn’tcome excited and nervous. As soon as Irealised T20 Challenger tournament in UAE, ahistoric son, Iwas keen to trynew games and was tle boggledabout this newsport, even when rious. When Itriedasimple explanation that off.Chantam respectsthe cricketingsingle,ro- that Iwould be joining IPL (Women’s firstfor the south-eastAsian nation. Suleeporn also in the basketballclub. However, at she setoff forDubai to play the BCCI tourna- youuse athin flat wood bat to hit the ball, most tating strikeand finding the gaps -signs of a Challenger), Iplannedfor mental and phys- Laomi wasthe firstThai to turn out forSydney some point, Ineededtochoose and Iknew ment. Her father is ateacher and mother a of them thought it washockey!” she laughs. wise and evolving cricketer. ical training justtobereadyfor the tourna- Thunderinthe Women’s Big Bash in Australia. cricketwas simplythe one,” says the38- hairdresser,and both earnestly sharedher en- She came up on the Indian board’s radar She told the ICC earlier,“In Powerplay, ment,” she said. The Indian tournament will welcome the games-oldThaiinternational. Talkingtothe thusiasm when she announcedshe was because of her batting performances against everyone (is fielding) inside,onlytwo outside. ●LIVE easy-smiling speedsterwith the disarming ICC’s officialYouTubechannel lastyear, pickedfor theevent. Indiaand Pakistan. Playing forThailand Aas So everywhere,(thereis)space forme. Big gap folded-hands greeting, commontoseveral Chantam described howthe Thai team lived “Theywereconfused because theydon’t partofaquadrangular series in Patna, forme.”She'dviewthe openspaces with a 4TH NOV: SupernovasvsVelocity 7:30pm Thai international athletes, as the 4-match thewholeyearroundinamassive housewith knowmuchabout cricketorwhat this Chantam had scored 80 againstthe Indian glint in her eye, though she’s known to send 5TH NOV: Velocity vs T’blazers 3:30pm event takesoff on Wednesday. Forthe 24- three bedrooms and trainedtogether,solidi- Women’sT20 League means to cricket players. bowlingattackand later anotherhalf-century some soaring as well. 7TH NOV: T’blazers vs Supernovas7:30pm year-oldfirst-timerinthe big league, things fying the bond among the players. Itold them this is big, so theyare excited for againstastrong Pakistanline-up at lastyear’s “My mentality is (to) hit forone run 9TH NOV: Finals(TBD) 7:30pm

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