Charges Against Anil Deshmukh Are Serious, Says Sharad Pawar

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Tirupati . lucknow . cuttack . patna NEARBY Myanmar border shut amid Charges against Anil Deshmukh strains over refugee crisis are serious, says Sharad Pawar Mizoram CM talks to Yangon Minister as Centre checks influx NCP president says Maharashtra CM Thackeray will take a decision on Minister ‘University regrets events Dinakar Peri surrounding resignations’ AIZAWL SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT NEW DELHI NEW DELHI Fadnavis calls Mizoram Chief Minister Zo The top functionaries of ramthanga held a virtual Nationalist Congress Party Ashoka University said in a for resignation meeting on Sunday with Fo (NCP) president Sharad Pa joint statement with Prof- essors Pratap Bhanu Mehta reign Minister of Myanmar war on Sunday said the A day after a letter, allegedly and Arvind Subramanian on Zin Mar Aung amid the on charges against senior NCP written by Param Bir Singh, Sunday that they regretted going military crackdown leader and Maharashtra levelled “extortion” charges the events surrounding the following the February Home Minister Anil Desh against Maharashtra Home resignations of the two. coup, even as India sealed all mukh, made by former Minister Anil Deshmukh, NEWS Ī PAGE 12 entry points along the bor Mumbai Police Commission Leader of the Opposition DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD der with the southeast Asian er Param Bir Singh, are “se Devendra Fadnavis demand ‘Centre punishing AAP neighbour and is closely rious” and any decision re ed that Mr. Deshmukh resign monitoring them to prevent garding him will be taken by govt. for backing farmers’ immediately. Ī Page 11 NEW DELHI any Myanmar national from Chief Minister Uddhav DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Delhi Chief Minister and entering the country. On this side: An Indian policeman and a man on a bridge near Thackeray. national convener of the Aam “Had a fruitful meeting the India-Myanmar border in Mizoram on Saturday. * AP On Saturday, in an email as police chief over “lapses” stated by Mr. Singh last year former IPS officer Julio Ribei Aadmi Party Arvind Kejriwal [online] this morning with letter to the Chief Minister, in the probe into the security and neither the Chief Minis ro’s help for looking into the said the Centre was punishing Zin Mar Aung, Hon’ble Fo eye to the humanitarian cri military overthrew the de Mr. Singh had alleged that threat outside industrialist ter nor the State Home Mi claims made by Param Bir his government for reign Minister, Myanmar. sis unfolding in front of us in mocratically elected govern the Home Minister had Mukesh Ambani’s residence. nister was responsible for it. Singh.” supporting the farmers in Our thoughts and prayers our own backyard,” the ment, around 300 Myanma asked police officers, includ Mr. Pawar suggested an “The allegations against The NCP chief told repor their agitation against the are with Myanmar in these Chief Minister said. rese nationals, including ing the suspended officer Sa indepth probe by former the Maharashtra Home Mi ters at his official residence three agricultural laws. trying times,” Mr. Zoram The letter comes after a many policemen, have chin Vaze, to collect ₹100 Mumbai Police Commission nister are serious. Chief Mi in Delhi that Mr. Param Bir NORTH Ī PAGE 6 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD thanga said on Twitter. series of exchanges between crossed into India and crore every month from bars er Julio Ribeiro, whose nister has the full authority Singh did meet him but it He had earlier written a the State and the Central go sought refuge. and hotels in the city. “credibility is beyond to take a decision regarding was only “when his transfer Mob attacks man’s house letter to Prime Minister Na vernments over the han Mr. Pawar, however, ques questioning”. an inquiry on these allega orders were about to be is over interfaith marriage rendra Modi, urging inter dling of the refugees. Deep ties tioned the timing of the alle He claimed that Mr. Vaze, tions against the Home Mi sued by the Maharashtra go NEW DELHI vention so that “political re Stating that the whole of There is considerable sup gations levelled by Mr. Singh, who was suspended for over nister,” Mr. Pawar said, ad vernment”. Security has been stepped up fugees” from Myanmar are Myanmar is in turmoil and port and sympathy among pointing out that they were 16 years for his role in a cus ding, “I would suggest to in south-east Delhi’s Harijan given asylum and food and “innocent hapless citizens the people of Mizoram over made after he was removed todial death case, was rein Uddhav Thackeray to seek CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 Basti after a mob allegedly attacked the house of a man shelter in the country. are being persecuted” by the the situation in Myanmar as for marrying a woman from military regime, who are many have relations across another community. Sensitive issues supposed to be their guar the border, a government of The tussle between the dians and protectors, Mr. ficial stated, adding that it CITY Ī PAGE 4 Centre warns of COVID19 spike at Kumbh DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Centre and the State on the Zoramthanga said the was a very emotive and sen issue has created a tough “Myanmar area bordering sitive issue in the State. time for New Delhi and se Mizoram is inhibited by Chin India and Myanmar have 1020 pilgrims test around 50,000 rapid anti curity agencies in handling communities, who are ethni an arrangement called Free gen tests and 5,000 RTPCR the situation on the ground, cally our brethren with Movement Regime (FMR), positive daily, says tests, were inadequate, gi multiple officials said. whom we have been having which allows locals on both Health Ministry ven the expected number of In the letter dated March close contacts throughout sides to go upto 16 km across pilgrims. 18, Mr. Zoramthanga said the all these years even before the other side and stay up to SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT people residing on both India became independent.” 14 days. NEW DELHI ‘No obstructions’ sides have close linkages. Following the February 1 A Health Ministry team has Mr. Rawat’s predecessor, Tri EDUCATION PLUS PAGE 7 Ī “India cannot turn a blind coup when the Myanmar CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 reported that nearly 10 to 20 vendra Singh Rawat, had pilgrims and 10 to 20 locals mandated a negative test as at the ongoing Kumbh Mela part of the Standard Opera in Haridwar, Uttarakhand, tion Procedure for pilgrims. are being reported positive However, the CM, follow every day. ing a meeting of the State Ca Such a positivity rate had Cause for concern: In this photo from earlier in March, binet last week, said while

the potential to rapidly turn devotees attend prayers at the Kumbh Mela in Haridwar. * AFP guidelines such as “masking into an “upsurge” in cases, and sanitising” would be fol the team said. hand Chief Minister Tirath the festival at Haridwar. lowed, there would no ob Singh Rawat has stated that a The Uttarakhand govern structions to the “smooth” ‘No test needed’ negative COVID19 test ment had also been told that movement of people. The report assumes signiﬁ wouldn’t be a requirement the daily testing numbers be cance given that Uttarak for those intending to visit ing reported in Haridwar, CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10

HC to consider transfer of Hathras case

Anuj Kumar Ghaziabad Responding to an affidavit filed by the elder brother of the Hathras gang rape and murder victim to stay the trial proceedings given the “real and grave risk of a miscarriage of justice”, the Allahabad High Court has asked the District Judge, Hathras, and the Inspector General, CRPF, to look into the allegations and submit a report within 15 days. A twojudge Bench of Justices Rajan Roy and Jas preet Singh said on Friday that it would “consider whether trial in question before the Special Judge (SC/ST), Hathras, is re quired to be stayed and is to be transferred elsewhere in the exercise of powers un der Section 407 of CrPc”. The affidavit submitted by the victim’s brother on March 18 said that on March 5, when he and his counsel, Seema Kushwaha, went to the Special Court of B.D. Bharti in Hathras to record prosecution evidence, an advocate named Tarun Hari Sharma stormed into the courtroom and charged to wards him and his counsel, shouting and issuing threats. Mr. Sharma seemed to be under the in fluence of alcohol and said that Ms. Kushwaha could not represent the victim’s family. On account of fear for their life and security, the affidavit said, the prosecu tion witness could not de pose properly.

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The Nizamuddin centre, the headquarters of the Tablighi Jamaat, has been shut since March last year; the market near the centre.

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Much ado about one thing While the last batch of nonIndian Tablighis held in Delhi exited the country earlier this month, the harrowing experiences that the brouhaha over the Nizamuddin centre event of March 2020 unleashed continue to dog the attendees and those who stood by their side

Soibam Rocky Singh plementary chargesheets were on February 29, 2020 and after Hemani Bhandari filed arraying 953 foreign nation Hemani Bhandari attending the congregation in New Delhi als of 36 different countries as ac NEW DELHI Delhi, came to Mumbai on March lmost a year after a na cused. They were charged with Next to the Hazrat Nizamuddin police sta Nizamuddin streets 7. They were remanded in judicial tionwide crackdown violating visa rules, government tion, on a street with a tricolour divider, custody on April 28 and granted was launched on people guidelines issued in the wake of Mohammed Iqbal exhorts passersby to buy bail on May 9. Awho attended a religious the pandemic, Epidemic Diseases a plateful of roses to offer at the dargah up In another case, a sessions congregation at the Tablighi Ja Act and Disaster Management Act ahead. A lot has changed in a year since the await the throng of yore court at Dindoshi on May 5, 2020 maat centre in Nizamuddin dur rules and prohibitory orders un Tablighi Jamaat congregation at the Niza granted anticipatory bail to 20 fo ing the early stage of COVID19 der Section 144 of the Code of Cri muddin Markaz (centre) grabbed national Local businesses remain affected; vendors, shopkeepers reign nationals who had visited proliferation, many who gave minal Procedure. They were also headlines after the initial proliferation of the Nizamuddin centre but had shelter to the attendees continue booked for the offences under COVID19 cases. Mr. Iqbal, whose income pray for the Tablighi Jamaat centre to reopen soon not volunteered information to to face legal cases. Sections 188, 269, 270 and 271 has dropped drastically since the event, the Mumbai police. Four residents of the Old Delhi (disobedience to quarantine rule) takes solace in the fact that he can at least On September 21, the Nagpur area who housed four female Ta of the IPC and relevant sections of come to the area and sell flowers. Bench of the Bombay High Court blighis from abroad in March last the Foreigners Act. Last year in March, this street was cor quashed an FIR filed against eight year have been slapped with Sec All the foreigners were kept in doned off with multiple layers of barricad Myanmar nationals, members of tions 188 (disobedience to order institutional quarantine till the ing and security personnel standing guard the Tablighi Jamaat, who had at duly promulgated by public ser High Court on May 25 permitted – initially wearing PPE kits. The congrega tended the Nizamuddin event. The vant), 269 (unlawfully or negli their shifting to an alternative tion at the centre, popularly known as Ban court said “compelling them to un gently doing an act likely to accommodation. glewali Masjid where thousands of people dergo trial would cause grave injus spread infection of any disease), Of the 953 foreigners, 911 en from across the country and the world tice” as there was “no evidence to 270 (malignant act likely to tered plea bargains by accepting come to stay from time to time for religious show that they indulged in any act spread infection of disease dange mild charges. They were let off on reasons, was being tagged as a “super that was likely to spread the virus”. rous to life) and 120B (criminal payment of fines ranging from spreader event” after several COVID19 cas Eleven Bangladeshi Tablighi Ja conspiracy) of the Indian Penal ₹5,000 to ₹10,000 and subse es were detected at the centre. All those maat members, who were arrest Code. quently left the country. Howev staying at the centre were shifted to various ed from Bhadohi in U.P. for flout On Rizwan, Abdul Wahid, Mo er, 42 of them decided not to quarantine centres across the Capital and ing visa norms and put on a hammad Nosad and Feroze Siddi plead guilty to the charge and criminal cases were registered in the government travel blacklist, left qui’s plea seeking to quash claimed trial. All of them matter. the country on March 20, 2021 af the FIR registered at were subsequently dis The centre was shut down in the last week ter a Lucknow court allowed the Chandni Mahal charged or acquitted of March 2020 and has not been reopened them go on completing their pun police station, the in the case. yet. The street is still waiting to come back to ishment. They were arrested on Delhi High Court On December its full glory. Local businesses have been se Dry spell continues: The market near the Nizamuddin centre is yet to pick up business. March 31 last year from a private has on March 15 15, a Delhi court verely affected and those running the shops * SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR guest house where they had been restrained the while acquitting are praying for it to open again. The income staying after coming from the Del lower courts 36 foreign nation of the vendors selling food, flowers, cloth sealed. “The dargah [of Sufi saint Nizamud managing things peacefully, buying vegeta hi congregation. from passing als noted, “It is ing, perfumes, books and souvenirs has re din Auliya] also shuts at 6.30 p.m. after bles and necessary things from the local any order in beyond compre duced by more than half which this street feels as if the lockdown is stores, but on TV we used to see a complete Centre still locked their case. hension of the court on here. Thousands of people used to come ly different picture,” he says. The only good The first FIR registered on March Advocate Ashi as to how the IO [in No visitors, no footfall here and have tea but now I am barely mak thing that came out of the incident was that 31, 2020 named Tablighi Jamaat ma Mandla, who vestigating officer] Mohammed Nadeem, 34, runs Mahir Zaki ing ends meet,” he says. “There have been people who did not know about the Niza leader Maulana Saad and six oth represented all Tablighi Jamaat chief could have identified Hotel, which was opened 60 years ago by his days when we ate our first meal in the after muddin centre became aware of it, adds Mr. ers on a complaint of the SHO of four before the Maulana Saad. 952 foreign nationals grandfather and was one of the goto places noon and had no idea how we would man Hussain. Nizamuddin under sections of the High Court, told [sic] out of 2,343 per for breakfast, lunch and dinner for those vis age the next.” Recalling the time when people residing Epidemic Diseases Act, Disaster The Hindu that around 60 per sons, who, as per the SHO, were iting the Nizamuddin centre. inside the Tablighi Jamaat building were Management Act, Foreigners Act sons continue to face different found flouting the guidelines, with “Our income has remained at 20% of ‘Lifestyle changes’ asked to leave, he says, “Thousands of peo and other relevant sections of the charges in connection with the out any TIP [Test Identification Pa what it was. During peak meal hours, there Mohammed Khalid, 49, who sells books in ple used to stay here on a daily basis. It’s not IPC. Tablighi Jamaat incident. rade], but on the basis of the list used to be no space to walk or even enter a small shop, says sales have dropped 50 like they had come here particularly around The Tabligh chief is yet to join provided by MHA.” the hotel but now look at this,” he says, 60% since the centre shut down. People that time. When the lockdown was an the investigation despite being The crackdown Advocate Mandla, who repre pointing to the empty chairs and tables. Mr. visiting the centre used to buy religious and nounced, people were asked to stay where served several notices, said a se The crackdown on the Tabligh sented all the 953 foreigners dur Nadeem used to make 20 kg portions but other books from his shop. “We have made they were and that’s what people here also nior Delhi police officer. members began after the Minis ing the trials, said the last batch of now it has come down to about 8 kg. lifestyle changes – especially in our meals – did. When the police and the government or “We have recorded statements try of Home Affairs (MHA) issued eight foreigners left for their res He used to employ 18 workers till March because of low income. A lot of books were dered them to leave, they left. Why turn of Maulana Saad’s sons and office a notification on March 28 last pective countries on March 8, last year; their number has now come down bought by foreign tourists and we have no them into villains?” bearers of the centre in connection year “to identify, isolate and qua 2021. to four. Most businesses started picking up idea when that is going to happen again,” with the case. Most of the forensic rantine” workers of the mission after the lockdown restrictions were eased he says, adding that Muslims staying Negative publicity reports of documents and electron ary movement who might be Memories that haunt but Mr. Nadeem is yet to start making abroad might think twice about visiting the Nizamuddin Dargah committee member Al ic devices seized from the organisa COVID19positive. Apart from the foreign nationals, money. centre again after last year’s controversy. tamash Nizami says the shrine – which was tion’s offices have come and only a The MHA had estimated that most of the Indians who attended “Business was flourishing here, especially Locals believe the area is more of a tourist instrumental in bringing back the cheer in few are awaited. The chargesheet is around 2,100 foreigners were in the religious congregation had to in this street, because of the markaz. Even place and if not for the dargah and the Ta the area – opened after nearly six months in its last phase of finalisation and India for Tabligh activities at the face extended periods of institu though the centre provided food, people bligh centre, “this place has no meaning”. and thanks to that the shops close to it were will be submitted in court at the time of announcement of the na tional quarantine. The Hindu coming here at odd hours and wanting to eat Mr. Hasan says there’s still a sense of hesita able to make some money. earliest,” the officer said. tionwide lockdown on March 24, spoke to two who recalled their something different used to come to our ho tion among people to come here and blames He says there was a lot of negative public Almost a year since it was shut 2020. Many of them were already time in centres and how the pe tel,” says Mr. Nadeem. the media and the authorities for “showing ity for the area last year. “This disease [CO after several people contracted dispersed in different parts of the riod impacted their life, including Mohammed Hasan, a 70yearold resi the Markaz and Nizamuddin in a negative VID19] was not related to any religion but COVID19 there, the Nizamuddin country while others stayed put one who lost his job. dent of the area, switched from selling tea light”. one religion was blamed for the spread, centre — comprising the Bangle at the Nizamuddin centre. Mohammed Hanif, a 64year near the Tablighi Jamaat centre to selling Mohammed Hussain alias Babu Bhai, a which was wrong. A wrong message was wali Masjid, Madrasa Kashiful A nationwide search operation old from West Bengal, is now at ‘datun’ (teethcleaning twigs) on the street. 50yearold resident, recalls how he used to sent to society,” says Mr. Nizami. uloom and attached hostel – con was also carried out for Indians peace but he shudders at the Mr. Hasan has six children – four sons and sit at home and watch Nizamuddin being He is glad that the impact of the negative tinues to be locked up. who had attended the religious thought of the time he spent at a two daughters, none of them earning yet – shown “as a highly infected area where even publicity has not lingered and people are The continued closure of the congregation and left for different quarantine centre in east Delhi’s and a wife to feed. He was making a decent breathing could infect one with COVID19”. back to the dargah and the streets of Niza premises, according to the Delhi parts of the country. In Delhi, all Mandoli area. “I remember falling income until the Tabligh headquarters were “We were sitting inside our houses and muddin, even if in relatively lesser numbers. Waqf Board’s plea before the High the attendees including foreign so sick that I couldn’t get up. I was Court, is leading to “growing dis ers who were evacuated from the bleeding from my nose twice ev content” among members of the Tablighi Jamaat headquarters ery day but was locked up in a days and then to a centre in Man 49, lost his job because he was from hospital and stayed there till that they neither arrested nor de Muslim community. between March 26 and April 1 room without even a window and doli for the next 35 days. I’ll never forced to stay in Delhi till Mayend he took a flight back on May 28. tained any of the 953 foreign na The Board has contended that were sent to different quarantine treated badly even after I had re forget those 35 days,” he said. He last year. “I was supposed to Now, he cooks occasionally to tionals in the case, other States even after Unlock1 guidelines centres. covered,” he said. remembered being thrown medi come back in April but even after earn some money. His wife runs a took different routes. permitted religious places out On March 31, the first FIR was Mr. Hanif had come to the Ta cines at him. “We were treated I recovered, I was forced to stay in smalltime tailoring business In Mumbai, 10 Indonesian na side containment zones to be registered against the congrega blighi Jamaat headquarters on worse than animals.” the quarantine centre. When I from home and his children go to tionals were arrested on April 23 opened, the centre has remained tion organisers, including Maula March 21, 2020 after completing Mr. Hanif and others from West came back, I had already lost the school. and charged with Sections 307 locked. The High Court has na Saad, the head of Tablighi Ja his religious tour of four months Bengal left for their home in a bus job,” he said. “I had donated plasma and (attempt to murder), 304 (ii) (cul sought response from the Delhi maat. Later, 29 other FIRs were and was to leave in a day or two thereafter. He got better in about Mr. Sharfuddin had come to have a certificate for it. For no pable homicide not amounting to government and the police on the registered at different police sta but the lockdown forced him to a week and there was no looking the Nizamuddin centre on Febru fault of ours, we were defamed murder), 269, 270 and 188 of the plea. tions in the Capital. stay inside the building for the back. “I just want to forget that ary 15, 2020 to offer his services and now I am jobless,” he said. IPC. On completion of the investiga next nine days. “We were taken to time,” he said. for two months. He was sent to While in the Capital, the Delhi The Indonesians were part of a With inputs from Saurabh Trivedi, and tion, 48 chargesheets and 11 sup Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital for 14 Back in Port Blair, Sharfuddin, the Sultanpuri quarantine centre police had categorically stated group of 12 that had come to India Sonam Saigal in Mumbai

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IN BRIEF Timings ‘CM should hold meet DELHI COVID-19 cases continue to MONDAY, MAR. 22 Light rain likely in Capital till tomorrow, says IMD RISE 06:23 SET 18:34 over rising virus cases’ NEW DELHI RISE 12:04 SET 01:40 Cloudy weather and light TUESDAY, MAR. 23 show upward trend in Capital rain over the next two days is RISE 06:22 SET 18:34 Widen free vaccination bracket: Cong. likely to bring the mercury RISE 12:58 SET 02:32 Special Correspondent down in Delhi by a few WEDNESDAY, MAR. 24 823 fresh infections reported; positivity rate above 1% for second day: bulletin NEW DELHI notches, the India RISE 06:21 SET 18:35 Meteorological Department RISE 13:58 SET 03:22 Special Correspondent carry their Aadhaar card or The Delhi Congress on Sun NEW DELHI said on Sunday. The city any other valid identity day said that the rising num recorded a maximum of 35.2 The number of COVID19 proof,” Mr. Jain said. ber of COVID19 cases in the degrees Celsius, four cases continued to show an He added that arrange city was a cause for con notches above normal, on upward trend in the Capital ments were being made to cern. Sunday. PTI with 823 new cases being re increase the number of vac He appealed to Chief Mi ported. cination centres as well as nister Arvind Kejriwal to According to a health bul number of people adminis convene an allparty meet letin released by the Delhi tering the vaccine at a partic ing as well as a meeting of government, 79,714 tests ular site. the Delhi Disaster Manage Ch. Anil Kumar were conducted with a posi ment Authority (DDMA) to tivity rate of 1.03%. This was Aggressive testing assess the situation and ed that more people should the second day in a row that A health worker conducts a COVID-19 test at Adarsh Nagar in The Minister said that due to make plans to tackle the be brought under the free the positivity rate has been north Delhi. * SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA the recent spike in cases, the surge in cases. vaccination bracket, as the above 1%. Delhi government has been ₹50 crore earmarked in the The bulletin added that in isolation. The total number those people eligible for the conducting aggressive test Fourth wave Delhi budget for free CO 24 hours, one death oc of cases in the Capital since vaccine but have not regis ing and contact tracing and Delhi Congress chief Ch. VID19 jabs would cover on curred due to the virus and the beginning of the pan tered can walk into vaccina authorities have been asked Anil Kumar alleged that the ly 5% of Delhi’s population, 613 patients recovered. This demic is 6,47,984 with tion centres between 3 p.m. to take strict action against fourth wave of the COVID19 he alleged. is the highest number of cas 10,956 deaths. and 9 p.m. and take the jab. violations at markets and pu pandemic was sweeping “More funds should be al es recorded this year in the “Only registered beneﬁci blic places. Delhi, as the Aam Aadmi located for free vaccination Capital, according to data by Walk in to get jab aries will be given vaccine “The number of cases had Party government had lo to all Delhiites as most peo the health department. In a bid to encourage more shots between 9 a.m. and 3 increased during the festive wered its guard when the ple are not in a position to There are currently 3,618 people to get vaccinated, p.m. The unregistered ones season last year. So, I appeal COVID19 positivity rate wit aﬀord vaccination on pay active cases in the city out of Health Minister Satyendar can take the jabs from 3 p.m. to everyone to stay safe,” Mr. nessed a slump. ment in private hospitals,” which 1,893 are under home Jain said on Sunday that to 9 p.m… They just need to Jain said. Mr. Kumar also demand Mr. Kumar said.

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Three to four people were the woman said the wedding Uttarakhand, Haryana, and ter said: “A large group of Two men have been arrest New Delhi injured in the incident. was conducted with her con Punjab on Sunday started women has started padya- ed for allegedly killing a wo Security personnel have The police said the wo sent. Since the two were gathering at the Ghazipur tra [foot march] from va man in north Delhi during a been deployed in southeast man’s family was against adults, they were sent back border ahead of the martyr rious cities of Punjab. Their robbery attempt, the police Delhi’s Harijan Basti in Sarai their relationship. home, an officer said. dom anniversary of Shaheed march will culminate at Gha said on Sunday. Kale Khan after a mob alleg DCP (SouthEast) R.P. At the time of the incident, Bhagat Singh on March 23. zipur, Tikri and Singhu bor The accused — Sameer edly attacked the house of a Meena said: “The spot was vi Sumit’s family was not pre The protesters came to ders. On March 23, we will and his nephew Faizan — 22yearold man for marrying sited by senior officers and it sent in the locality. The cou the spot on vehicles that had also honour the family were arrested from Geeta a woman from another com was revealed that Sumit and ple was in Ghaziabad. Su the banners of martyrs — members of the farmers, Colony on Saturday, the pol munity, the police said on Khushi, both adults, of the mit’s mother Rajni said the Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and who sacrificed their lives for ice said. The duo was in Sunday. same locality got married woman’s family has threa Sukhdev — installed on Farmers from Punjab arrive at the Ghazipur border in Delhi on the movement.” volved in over 25 cases of The incident took place on against the will of the wo tened them of dire conse them. Sunday. * R.V. MOORTHY The protesters asked robberies. On Wednesday, Saturday night when around man’s parents. The mob quences. The rally passed through more youth to join them. the duo targeted a woman 1520 men entered the locali comprised woman’s relatives “My son married a Muslim various areas of both Utta tioning like East India Com fizzle out and we will be near Majnu ka Tila and ty and created a ruckus, they and acquaintances.” girl. They [woman’s family] rakhand and Punjab. The pany and only benefitting termed antiIndia but we On Tikait’s absence when she resisted, they said. Four persons have been The residents of the locali were against it. They abused protesters were seen re corporate houses. Shaheed took control of the situation After farmers’ leader Rakesh opened fire on her. Howev arrested in connection with ty, however, alleged that they us and said they will not al questing more and more pe Bhagat Singh is an inspira and instructed the youth not Tikait, who was leading the er, the bullet missed her the case, an officer said. feel unsafe as the accused low us to stay here. We were ople to join them in their ag tion for every youth and to fall into the trap of the go movement at Ghazipur prot and hit Meena, who hails In the CCTV footage of the men are still “roaming free”. called to the police station on itation against the new farm teaches how to raise voice vernment. We will keep est site, went to pollbound from Nepal. Meena runs a incident, shared on a social The couple got married on Saturday. Khushi had even laws. Lakhveer Singh, who against a dumb and deaf go fighting till our demands are States for campaigning, the snacks shop in the area. She media platform, the mob March 17 and a missing per said she was happy with the has come to the border from vernment,” he said. met.” crowd was visibly thin. The was declared brought dead. could be seen entering the son report was filed by the marriage but after we re Rampur in U.P., said there Another protester Gur protesters leading the move at a hospital. lane and breaking pots, pelt woman’s family at Sunlight turned from the police sta will be a gathering of around meet Chaudhary said: “After Women start foot march ment in the absence of Mr. Just before this, they had ing stones, damaging vehi Colony police station on Sa tion, they created ruckus one lakh protesters on the incident on January 26, The protesters said that to Tikait cited hot weather and robbed two women of gold cles and banging on the turday. When the couple was here. We are all scared,” she March 23. many people thought that make a huge impact on the harvesting season as rea in Rohini Sector 7. doors in an attempt to break called to the police station, added. “This government is func the farmers’ movement will day, a similar kind of mobili sons for thin crowd. Court refuses bail to man who Unable to conceive, woman kills Plea on emergency vehicle lane needs policy decision, says HC killed couple in Paschim Vihar neighbour’s toddler as ‘sacrifice’ Staff Reporter New Delhi Staff Reporter It also said: “The petition the bodies were of Jagir Singh Tantrik from U.P. advised her to take this step, she tells police The Delhi High Court on Fri New Delhi er [Rinku] is accused of a and Gurmeet Kaur, husband day asked the government The Delhi High Court has re crime of double murder. The and wife. The cause of death STAFF REPORTER police opened the bag, they tion, Neelam said she got to treat as representation a fused bail to a man, who has case is at initial stage, the in both cases was “asphyxia NEW DELHI saw the body of the boy. He married in 2013 and could petition, seeking direction been arrested for killing an charges are yet to be framed. as a result of antemortem A 25yearold woman has had injury marks on his not conceive despite medi to reserve a lane for unres old couple in Paschim Vihar The possibility of the accused smothering”. been arrested for allegedly neck. It was found that the cal aid. She was under lot of tricted movement of emer here, after he was tipped off fleeing from justice or from The couple’s children le killing a threeyearold boy toddler was strangulated, an pressure from her inlaws gency vehicles by the conspirator of the tampering evidence cannot veled allegation against their in Rohini’s Budh Vihar, the officer said. and others to conceive. Four roundtheclock. ing direction to the Delhi go crime. be ruled out”. sister Davinder Kaur and her police said on Sunday. The A murder case was then years ago, she approached a An HC Bench said the is vernment’s Transport The court noted that Ragh paramour Prince Dixit for the accused has been identified registered. During probe, fa tantric in her village in Har sue raised in the petition re Department and Delhi Pol vender Singh alias Rinku was Two years ago murder. as Neelam Gupta, they said. mily members, relatives and doi, Uttar Pradesh. He sug quired policy decision. “We ice to provide a dedicated in constant touch with the The case came to the fore on They were arrested on The matter came to the neighbours were ques gested her to sacrifice a child direct the respondents to reserved lane for unrestrict prime accused at the time of March 8, 2019, when a wo March 10, 2019. The police fore on Saturday when the tioned. It was found that the if she wanted to conceive. So treat the petition as a repre ed use of emergency servic committing the crime. man’s body was found lying said the duo told they had boy’s parents approached boy was last seen with Nee in desperation, she decided sentation and decide it in es 24 hours, 7 days a week. “There have been recover near a sewer in Sayed village, hatched the conspiracy to kill the police with a missing lam, he said. to kill the son of her neigh accordance with rules, law The petition stated that in ies at the instance of the peti Nangloi. the couple as they wanted the complaint following which a When questioned, Nee bour, the police said. and policy applicable in the case of emergencies, people tioner [Rinku]. The item reco Next day, another body, property of the victims. search operation was lam initially tried to mislead “She killed the toddler facts of the case,” the court will have the benefit of vered from his instance this time of a man, was found The duo also said they had launched. the police but later con when he was playing alone said. reaching the hospitals belonged to the deceased and near the drain. The bodies roped in Rinku, who commit During this, an officer not fessed to the crime. on the roof,” said Mr. Tayal. The court’s direction quickly if dedicate lanes are this has been confirmed by were found in suitcases. ted the crime. Rinku was then iced a bag on the roof of the DCP (Rohini) Pranav Tayal Further probe is under way, came while hearing a peti provided by the their son,” the court added. Investigation revealed that arrested on March 12, 2019. adjacent house. When the said during the interroga the police added. tion by Vinay Kumar seek government.

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RAHUL KARMAKAR each to 377 temples, mos namghar. The community proposal and provided the GUWAHATI ques and churches. ownership of some nam grant. We cannot but be Mandate 2021 has made the The State’s Cultural Af ghars range from 150 to 400 grateful on the day of elec ‘namghar’, a common fea fairs Department had esti families. tion,” he added. ture across Assamese villag mated about 1.10 lakh stan A village or urban locality es and urban localities, quite dalone neighbourhood manages its namghar. Some Urban areas not left out special. namghars — structures built are run by organisations Many of the namghars that Five centuries ago, saint by communities or villages such as Srimanta Sankarade have received the grant are reformer Srimanta Sankara and not within a satras or va Sangha, headquartered in in the rural areas. The urban deva and his disciples intro Vaishnav monastery. central Assam’s Nagaon. pockets cultivated by the BJP duced the namghars as a have been on the govern place of congregation for lo ‘Overestimation’ ‘Hope it’s made annual’ ment’s radar too. callevel spiritual, cultural “Going by the number of “We have more than 6,000 “We have received the al and educational events. Ov Hindu villages — and not all units but about 5,000 of lotment letter against which er time, the ubiquitous of them sport a namghar — them have namghars. Most we submitted the estimate. structures yielded space for this seems to be an overesti of our namghars have re We hope to get the grant af Temperature Data: IMD, Pollution Data: CPCB, Map: INSAT/IMD (Taken at 17.00 Hrs) political discussions. mation. A more realistic esti A basic village namghar. * RITU RAJ KONWAR ceived the grant, which we ter the elections,” said Bhas Forecast for Monday: Thunderstorm with lightning, hail and A grant appears to have mation may be 40,000,” said hope will cover all the nam kar Goswami of Guwahati’s gusty winds (speeds reaching 40-50 kmph) very likely at isolated made these namghars more Pulin Deka, who wrote a na sect of Hinduism specific with a beneficiary namghar, ghars and be made annual if Silpukhuri Rajahuwa Nam places over Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Haryana, electorally relevant than ev book on the namghar insti to Assam — for grants. The the move could be a mathe the BJP returns to power,” ghar. Chandigarh, Delhi, west Uttar Pradesh and Punjab city rain max min city rain max min er before. The importance of tution. BJPled government went matical masterstroke,” said the Sangha’s secretary gen “Money for the namghars Agartala...... —....36.4....20.8 Kozhikode...... 3.3....34.4....26.3 the grant was not lost when The Congress government beyond the satras to splurge Sandhya Goswami, retired eral Babul Bora told The Hin- could translate into votes. Ahmedabad...... —....38.8....21.2 Kurnool ...... —....37.1....22.6 the BJPled coalition govern had also “overestimated” on the standalone nam professor of political science du. But we are not sure if such a Aizawl...... —....28.8....12.8 Lucknow...... —....35.7....17.9 Allahabad...... —....37.0....19.6 Madurai...... —....37.5....24.7 ment released ₹2.5 lakh each the number of satras — they ghars. at Gauhati University. “People are happy that Fi strategy in the name of reli Bengaluru ...... —....34.0....19.7 Mangaluru ...... —....36.0....20.5 to 8,756 namghars in August have considerable influence “When you look at the An average of 70 house nance Minister Himanta Bis gion can be sustained,” Ms. Bhopal ...... —....35.0....18.6 Mumbai ...... —....32.2....23.5 2020 along with ₹10 lakh among adherents of Eksara number of voters associated holds are associated with a wa Sarma responded to our Goswami said. Bhubaneswar...... —....40.0....23.2 Mysuru ...... —....34.0....18.0 Chandigarh ...... —....32.4...... — New Delhi ...... —....35.2....16.2 Chennai ...... —....34.6....23.8 Patna ...... —....36.0....20.4 Coimbatore ...... —....36.4....23.2 Port Blair...... —....31.6....24.4 CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Dehradun...... —....31.1....15.5 Puducherry ...... —....33.2....23.6 ‘Didi will score Gangtok...... —....20.8....11.9 Pune...... —....34.9....20.3 All smiles Assam BJP candidate Goa...... —....32.8....24.2 Raipur ...... —....35.0....21.8 Guwahati ...... —....35.5....18.9 Ranchi...... 4....34.0....18.7 10 goals with Hubballi...... —....34.0....21.0 Shillong...... —....26.1....14.0 Hyderabad ...... —....35.0....22.2 Shimla...... —....23.2....13.0 tests COVID19 positive Imphal ...... —....32.2....16.6 Srinagar...... 0.2....19.9...... 6.2 broken leg’ Jaipur ...... —....36.2....20.6 Thiruvananthapuram...... —....33.0....25.0 Kochi ...... —....32.4....25.0 Tiruchi...... —....37.2....25.0 Kohima ...... —....24.8....12.0 Vijayawada ...... —....37.2....23.4 Press trust of india She got infected for the second time Kolkata ...... —....36.8....25.3 Visakhapatnam ...... —....34.0....26.4 Jhargram (Rainfall data in mm; temperature in Celsius) Trinamool Congress MP Special correspondent ers did not rule out the pos Pollutants in the air you are breathing Yesterday Guwahati Dev on Sunday claimed that sibility of some of her sup CITIES SO2 NO2 CO PM2.5 PM10 CODE the work done by the Ma BJP candidate Ajanta Neog porters carrying the virus. Ahmedabad..... 85 112 46 ..243 .322 ....* Bengaluru ...... 10 .15 29 ..112 .....— ....* In observation made at 4.00 mata Banerjee government has tested positive for CO The former Minister had * p.m., Siliguri, West Bengal Chennai ...... 8 .18 56 ....77 ...82 .... recorded an overall air in West Bengal is unpa VID19 a week ahead of the tested positive in August Delhi ...... 47 .77 55 ..302 .352 ....* quality index (AQI) score of ralled, asserting that she first phase of polling in As and underwent treatment at Hyderabad ...... 4 102 41 ..... — .134 ....* 340 indicating an unhealthy Kolkata...... 27 .22 43 ..286 .199 ....* level of pollution. In would score 10 goals in the sam on March 27. She has the Gauhati Medical College * contrast, Sagar, Madhya Lucknow...... 25 .61 43 ..267 .200 .... Pradesh recorded a healthy upcoming elections even been infected for the second and Hospital (GMCH). Mumbai ...... 21 .68 50 ..305 .246 ....* AQI score of 38 with a broken leg. time in seven months. She is the second BJP Pune...... 6 .85 63 ..191 .129 ....* Visakhapatnam 10 .58 37 ..122 .126 ....* Addressing an election A former Minister, Ms. leader after MP Topon Ku rally at Silda in the Jhargram Neog is seeking to retain mar Gogoi to test positive Air Quality Code: * Poor * Moderate * Good (Readings indicate average AQI) SO2: Sulphur Dioxide. Short-term exposure can harm the respiratory system, district, the Tollywood su eastern Assam’s Golaghat for the second time. making breathing difficult. It can affect visibility by reacting with other air perstar hit out at the BJP ov Assembly seat that she had Mr. Gogoi got himself test particles to form haze and stain culturally important objects such as statues er the rise in fuel prices. won four times since 2001 ed at a screening centre at and monuments. NO2: Nitrogen Dioxide. Aggravates respiratory illness, causes haze to form by “The work done by Ma as a Congress candidate. Sonari in eastern Assam reacting with other air particles, causes acid rain, pollutes coastal waters. mata Banerjee in the last 10 She switched over to the BJP during the thick of cam CO: Carbon monoxide. High concentration in air reduces oxygen supply to critical organs like the heart and brain. At very high levels, it can cause years is unparallel. Because in December . paigning. His report came dizziness, confusion, unconsciousness and even death. of the work done by her, ‘Di Ms. Neog, home quaran out positive. He had tested PM2.5 & PM10: Particulate matter pollution can cause irritation of the eyes, di’ can score 10 goals even Actor and BJP candidate from Behala-Paschim Assembly constituency Srabanti Chatterjee tined, had been campaign positive almost a year ago nose and throat, coughing, chest tightness and shortness of breath, reduced lung function, irregular heartbeat, asthma attacks, heart attacks and premature with this broken leg,” Mr. meets elderly women during her door-to-door campaigning in Kolkata on Sunday. * PTI ing extensively for the past and was administered plas death in people with heart or lung disease Dev said. CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC few days. Local party lead ma at the GMCH.

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Special Correspondent “The Aam Aadmi Party is ter Dushyant Chautala on He said the State govern NEW DELHI the only party that can make Sunday said neither would ment was fully committed to Addressing a kisan maha 24hour electricity possible the mandis be closed in Ha providing all kinds of facili panchayat in Moga in Punjab for the people of Punjab. If ryana nor the procurement ties to the farmers and if re on Sunday, Delhi Chief Mi the people of Punjab vote for system on Minimum Support quired, the crop can be di nister and Aam Aadmi Party AAP, the State can have free Price be scrapped. He added rectly procured from the national convener Arvind education and good health that mandis were the back farmers’ fields as well. Kejriwal said the Central go services like we promised bone of the crop procure Talking about the deve vernment was punishing the and delivered in Delhi,” Mr ment system. lopment of roads in the Delhi government for sup Kejriwal said. Mr. Chautala was address Deputy CM Dushyant Chautala at a Holi programme in State, Mr. Chautala said that porting the farmers in their ing a gathering during “Holi Faridabad on Sunday. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT under the Gramin Sadak Yo agitation against the three AAP convener and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal during a rally at Promises jobs Milan” programme at Nariala jana, ₹2,000 crore was spent new agricultural laws but Baghapurana in Moga district on Sunday. * PTI Mr. Kejriwal also promised here. the State. Earlier, the farm ter they submit FormJ. and roads connecting most AAP was strongly against the to provide employment to all In view of the ongoing ers’ payment was deposited of the mandis were built. He laws. in the Parliament which ers, would overcome all ob 20 lakh youths in Punjab farmers’ agitation and the in the account of the arthi- Procurement centres said that KundliGhaziabad “I have been a part of this takes away the powers from stacles that are being created who were issued unemploy boycott of ruling coalition yas (commission agents), but Mr. Chautala said some peo Palwal Expressway would movement since the begin the elected government and for them. ment cards by the State go leaders in many parts of the direct payment was made to ple were spreading rumours prove to be boon for the peo ning and refused to sign the puts it in the hands of the Making an electoral pitch vernment in the name of State, the district administra 23% farmers in the wheat that mandis would be shut ple of the region. documents to convert the LieutenantGovernor. for the Punjab Assembly votes. He also said that AAP tion had appointed six duty season and 67% farmers in down, but mandis were the Along with other indus stadiums into jails where the He assured the farmers election scheduled to be will give unemployment allo magistrates to maintain law the paddy season last year. backbone of the State go tries, big IT companies agitating farmers would be that as long as he was the held next year, Mr. Kejriwal wances to the people till the and order during the This time 78% farmers have vernment’s procurement would also come here, he held. Due to this, the Naren Chief Minister, he would not said four years ago Chief time they get jobs and re programme. uploaded their account process. He said that there added. dara Modi government is let the Central Government Minster Amrinder Singh also quested them not to throw Addressing the gathering, details. were 450 procurement He said Jewar Airport causing us great inconve take any unruly action made many promises to the the card away since it will the Deputy Chief Minister He said this time the pay centres in Haryana and in would be connected to Fari nience,” said Mr. Kejriwal. against those protesting in people and farmers of the make them realise how they claimed that during the ment will be deposited di view of COVID19 last year, dabad with three flyovers He added that the Centre Delhi and that his govern State but all his promises have been deceived by a par wheat season last year, every rectly to the accounts of the the number was increased to and prove to be a milestone had brought a Bill last week ment, along with the farm have remained unfulfilled. ty in the name of votes. single grain was procured in farmers within 48 hours af 1,800. Considering the con in its development. Article 370 move was made Night curfew in 8 cities in Rajasthan Jammu police to probe with best intentions: Chirag ‘attack’ on Gujjar family Visitors asked to carry COVID19 negative report or stay in quarantine for 15 days ‘I will take up your issues with PM’ Peerzada Ashiq der various sections of the Press Trust of India Jaipur, Jodhpur, Kota, Udai Srinagar IPC was filed in the Samba Special Correspondent for which I need your sup Jaipur pur, Sagwada (Dungarpur) The Jammu police on Sun police station against the al Srinagar port.” Amid a surge in the COVID19 and Kushalgarh (Banswara). day took cognisance of an leged attackers. Lok Janshakti Party presi The LJP leader said he cases, the Rajasthan govern alleged attack on a nomadic The police statement dent and MP Chirag Paswan was apprised of the con ment has decided to impose Exemptions Gujjar family and “attempt came after PDP president on Sunday said the Centre’s cerns being faced by the lo night curfew in eight cities The curfew will not be ap to outrage the modesty” of a Mehbooba Mufti tweeted move to abrogate the provi cals during his meeting with from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. and or plicable to those factories woman in Samba. about the incident. sions of Article 370 in 2019 delegations. “I will bring up dered closure of all markets which have a system of night “The police have taken “The culprits tried to ab was aimed at “providing these issues with Prime Mi by 10 p.m. from Monday. shifts. Also IT companies, cognisance. The injured has duct their daughter, the fa best to the people of J&K”. nister Narendra Modi, Un The government has also restaurants, medical shops, been shifted to hospital. The mily resisted and were bea Speaking at an award ion Home Minister Amit made it mandatory for peo offices related to essential Deputy Superintendent of ten up. The father has been function in Srinagar, Mr. Shah and see to it that ge ple coming to Rajasthan from Passengers taking a short cut to avoid COVID-19 testing at and emergency services, Police Headquarters has admitted to the GMC. The Paswan said the move was nuine issues are other States to carry a CO Bikaner railway station on Sunday. * PTI medical institutes, bus reached the Government goons later set their sheds “with good intentions”. addressed.” VID19 negative test report stands, railway stations and Medical College (Jammu) to ablaze. I request IGP Singh He said his father Ram Vi Mr. Paswan, who is on a along with them from March to an official statement. The in a review meeting chaired airports will also be record the statement of the to look into this immediate las Paswan had a dream to twoday visit to Kashmir, 25. If the passengers do not passengers will also be exa by Chief Minister Ashok exempted. injured,” Jammu Inspector ly,” she tweeted. see a developed Kashmir. “I distributed awards at ‘Real have a negative test report, mined at airports, bus stands Gehlot. A total of 476 fresh CO General of Police Mukesh However, Mr. Singh clari want to fulfil his dream...I Heroes Awards 2021’ pro they will have to stay in qua and railway stations. The night curfew will be VID19 cases were reported Singh said. fied that no sheds were will try to deliver my best, gramme in Srinagar. rantine for 15 days, according The decisions were taken imposed in Ajmer, Bhilwara, in Rajasthan on Sunday. The police said an FIR un burnt in the incident.

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Candidates who have submitted their institutionled b Deepali Dharmaraj & thesis are also eligible. Amy Lightfoot internationalisation. Teachers Prizes and Rewards: Up to ₹55,000 per month in India’s higher education Deadline: March 26 institutes are already Application: Via email The effectiveness of deliberating the scope in this b4s.in/edge/RME3 learning and teaching regard, but are not fully b Keep India Smiling Foundational has long been equipped to realise the full Scholarship Programme measured by focusing potential of primarily on the results internationalisation of Indian ColgatePalmolive (India) Ltd. gives young stu of standardised tests. In education. In the coming dents financial aid to pursue studies at various this light, new years, the overhaul of Indian postmatric and undergraduate levels. methodologies, education largely depends on Eligibility: Open to students who have passed Class curriculum and delivery the support provided to 10 with at least 75% marks or Class 12 with at least mechanisms are all teachers and the initiatives 60% marks in 2020 board exams and are pursuing tailored to improve learner they take. Optimum higher secondary, graduation, diploma or oneyear outcomes. This has been technological and non vocational courses. Annual Family income must be further exacerbated by the technological teacher training less than ₹5 lakhs per annum. 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However, at Application: Online truly successful unless those during the COVID19 investigated from a wide technological skills are not the needs. the start of this lies the b4s.in/EDGE/KISSP01 delivering the education are pandemic”, where more than variety of perspectives: only skills that teachers want monumental task of training b SwarnaJayanti Fellowships Scheme 2020- fully equipped themselves? 9,600 teachers and teacher to develop. Building a A global perspective teachers as leaders and locally, nationally and 21 Developing teachers’ skills is educators from over 150 internationally. collaborative classroom Currently, schools carry thinkers who can transform arguably of more importance countries responded, 59% said dynamic with creativity, various tags — local, regional, this sector from within. The Department of Science and Technology, Go now than ever before as they were teaching remotely, motivation and engagement is national, international, To borrow a simple fact vernment of India invites applications from young modes of teaching continue to using online tools to teach in while others share the latest equally important. For this to government, private etc. — from engineering: the better scientists. The duration of the fellowship along undergo a massive real time. However, the and most slick online tools to happen, teachers require each with its own learning the conductor, the greater the with the project will be for a period of five years. transformation in the post assumption that digital skills keep their students motivated training in empathy, emotional remit. While local flow. Therefore, a focus on the Eligibility: Open to Indian nationals who have a COVID 19 era. and the use of technology are and engaged. This shows that intelligence, and leadership. contextualisation is important, development of teachers will regular position in a recognised Indian academic/ common among teachers is teachers need significant Continuing professional issues discussed in the eventually benefit the research organisation. They must possess a PhD in Developing technological wrong. Technology is by no support, development and development is necessary to classroom must also have a ecosystem: institutions, Science/Engineering/Medicine. They must not be skills means standardised and standardisation in order to innovate and engage creatively global perspective. Teachers learners and the nation at drawing fellowship from any other scheme of GoI. A wellknown adage in the integration of gadgets and deliver remote teaching and with their students. Power must adapt teaching materials large. Prizes and Rewards: Fellowship worth ₹25,000 per education world is that technology into the delivery learning effectively. structures impacting teachers to enable issues to be month and other benefits technology cannot replace a mechanism varies need to be disassembled and a investigated from a wide Deepali Dharmaraj is the Assistant Deadline: March 31 teacher but a teacher who uses enormously. Social media is Building collaborative participatory approach variety of perspectives: locally, Director Academic – English, Application: Online technology will replace one rife with images of teachers classrooms established where teachers are nationally and internationally. British Council India, and Amy b4s.in/edge/FIS6 who does not. Nevertheless, using household equipment In the survey, 83% of teachers given more agency. This will Their expertise must be Lightfoot is the Regional the pandemic has shown us like clothes hangers to hold up agreed they needed some or a allow them to be creative and developed to present a bigger Education and English Academic Courtesy: buddy4study.com that teachers, with or without phones and record videos lot of help with aspects such as have the freedom to interpret picture to their students, Lead – South Asia, British Council

perspective viewpoint ) ) save the date (ECE), HumanCentred Design ) (HCD), Mathematics (Maths), and Social Sciences and Humanities Made for the masses b Fashion and Design (SSH). Admissions Deadline: April 4 https://bit.ly/30URKr0 JD Institute of Fashion Technolo Technology has made it possible for b Sanskriti University gy has commenced registration Admission Open higher education to be made accessible for the academic year 202122 to a larger and diverse population for its Undergraduate, Postgrad Sanskriti University, Mathura, in uate and Diploma programmes. vites online applications for its b R.W. Alexander eters, these modes are flexi Eligibility: For Undergraduate diploma, undergraduate, and Jesudasan ble, allowing the students to and Diploma programmes, stu postgraduate programmes in En attend the counselling/con dents can seek admissions on the gineering, Management & Com While higher education of the tact programmes, according basis of their Class 12 results merce, Education, Special Educa masses has been in vogue to their comfort. Not only are from a recognised board. For tion, Humanities & Social since the early 18th century, it these methods costeffective Master’s programmes, students Sciences, Pharmacy, Agriculture, should have completed their Fashion Designing, Law and Legal was formally implemented in but also allow multiple access FREEPIK the mid19th century by the to content and enable stu graduation from a recognised un Studies, Yoga and Naturopathy, University of London. From dents to immerse themselves iversity. There are no entrance Tourism & Hotel Management, the 1960s, the trend began to in the lessons without exter exams and admission is based on Medical & Allied Sciences, Basic & be adopted in India (Kundu, nal disturbances. merit. Applied Sciences, Ayurveda, Un 2014). Today, this venture has Engineering sans Deadline: May 31 ani, and Nursing courses. been taken over by two Challenges https://bit.ly/3eQGtQL Eligibility: Applicants who have modes: the Open and Dis However a few things need to b B.Tech Admissions passed or will appear for the tance Learning (ODL) and On be fixed. Some students may higher secondary (10+2) from line Learning (OL). What do lack exposure to such techno Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham has any recognised Board. For diplo Maths and Physics opened admissions for its B.Tech. ma programmes, students are re these modes entail? logical tools and will require Suitability: ODL and OL training. Second, appropriate programmes in Robotics and Au quired to have passed the Class X target learners like home infrastructure to enable ac What bearing will AICTE’s latest relaxation on technical education? tomation, Internet of Things examination from any state or makers who would like to cess to the right tools needs to (IoT), Cyber Security, Artificial In central board. continue their studies, stu be developed. Third, it may b P.V.Navaneethakrishnan programmes such as Medicine and matics, it allowed candidates who telligence, Aerospace Technology Deadline: June30 dents who do not have access not be possible to offer sub Dentistry and that ‘suitable bridge had done Biology and not Maths in and more. https://bit.ly/3bWiWfa Eligibility: Students have to take to Higher Education Institutes jects that involve practical Some time ago, the All India Coun courses’ can be offered for them HSC to join. However, after observ b International Summer (HIEs) and those in the work training through these cil for Technical Education (AICTE) too? ing that they could not cope, it had the Amrita Engineering Entrance Programme force who want to upskill or modes. made Chemistry nonmandatory in to include Maths for all branches of Examination (AEEE), or Remote update themselves. With the pandemic yet to the higher secondary course (HSC) Additional requirements engineering. Proctored Examination (CBT or BenGurion University of the Ne Paperless mode: Both abate, there is uncertainty for engineering aspirants. Now, in There are students who have gone Interestingly, for the B.Arch pro RPE) or JEE Mains 2021 or SAT or gev (BGU), Israel, invites applica ODL and OL currently require around the reopening of edu its Approval Process Handbook through HSC with a full dose of gramme, for which AICTE’s appro Pearson UG Entrance Examination tions for the second online edi being plugged in to Learning cational institutions. Perhaps, 2021, Maths and Physics have also MPC but failed in one or more of val is not required, Maths, Physics Score (PUEE). The eligibility is tion of its onemonth Global Management Systems (LMS), this is a time to look at allocat been declared nonessential for these subjects in college. Then, and Chemistry are mandatory at Class 12 or equivalent from a re Health International Summer which depend on the institu ing a part of the syllabus for BE/BTech candidates and candi how will a bridge course serve the the HSC level, as per the gazette cognised board with not less than Programme, about various as tion’s needs. For example, ac online delivery, given that the dates can have studied any three of purpose? Further, will colleges be notification dated August 11, 2020, 55% in Physics, Chemistry & pects of global health decision cessing video lectures either NEP 2020 also encourages in the 14 subjects: Physics, Maths, able to take up this burden, which issued on behalf of the Council of Mathematics separately, and an making, such as globalisation, synchronously or asynchro stitutions to offer UG and PG Chemistry, Computer Science, will require with more man power, Architecture. aggregate minimum of 60% in ethics, migration, and case nously, sharing lecture notes, programmes through both Electronics, IT, Biology, Informat expenses, and infrastructure in ad Technical subjects are analytical Physics, Chemistry and studies. assignment submission, webi ODL and OL modes. ics Practices, Biotechnology, Tech dition to their normal work? in nature, and Maths is the best tool Mathematics. Eligibility: Students in their third nars, evaluation and assess nical Vocational Subject, Agricul If Maths, Physics and Chemistry to master them. Emerging technol https://bit.ly/3vAMwyF year (or higher) of Bachelor’s de ment and maintenance of re The writer is Pro Vice-Chancellor, ture, Engineering Graphics, are no more required for admission ogies such as AI, Machine Learn b PhD Admissions gree, or pursuing their Master’s cords can all be done digitally. Hindustan Institute of Technology Business Studies and Entrepre in engineering, why are competi ing, Data Science and Deep Learn degree or Ph.D. in the fields of Adaptability: With no res & Science (Deemed to be neurship. tive exams like the JEE (Main) and ing involve much statistical Indraprastha Institute of Informa Health Sciences or Social Sciences trictions on age, location, University), Chennai. Universities are expected to off JEE(Advanced) conducted with knowledge. Most research in Engi tion Technology Delhi (IIITDelhi) and health professionals with in qualification or other param [email protected] er suitable bridge courses such as these subjects? neering utilises advanced mathe invites applications for Ph.D. pro terest in Public Policy and Health Maths, Physics and Engineering Perhaps, no changes will be matical techniques. Subjects such grammes in Computational Biolo Economics. English proficiency Graphics. Subsequently, in a press done in the exam pattern. Then, a as forecasting, reliability, solid/ gy (CB), Computer Science and required. conference, the AICTE chairman large chunk of engineering aspi fluid dynamics and the like inte Engineering (CSE), Electronics Deadline: April 20 clarified that the change was only a rants will be denied admission in grate Maths with seemingly unre and Communications Engineering https://bit.ly/3tALLEe relaxation, and that institutions nationally important institutions lated subjects such as Economics, and universities decide what they such as the IITs and NITs. Management and Medicine. wanted to do. When Anna University intro Thus the relaxation proposed by The proponents of this change duced biologybased courses such AICTE is viewed by many academi seem to have taken refuge in the as Industrial Biotechnology, Bio cians and technologists as a retro ‘flexibility’ that the National Educa medical Engineering and Bioinfor grade step that may result in furth tion Policy 2020 advocates. Howev :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: er deterioration of the standard of er, experts believe flexibility should technical education. also have limits. Technical subjects are Can this change be extended to analytical in nature, The writer is Former Professor and say that Biology need not be stu and Math is the best Director, Entrance Exams and

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DELHI THE HINDU 8 EDITORIAL MONDAY, MARCH 22, 2021 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE The ground report in the Assam duel The Congressled alliance faces the ruling BJP and allies and an idea of nationalism subsuming distinctive identities deshi infiltrators” in a bid to polar Congress rule but are subsequent AIUDF is easier for the BJP and the ise the electoral narrative. The rul ly mobilising people against the AGP as it was floated to protest the ing alliance has also been trying to CAA. The AJP is led by former AA scrapping of the erstwhile Illegal Junk inefficiency project the Opposition Grand Al SU General Secretary Lurinjyoti Migrants (Determination by Tribu Scrappage policy can work if incentives are liance as the mere ‘CongressAI Gogoi. nal) Act, 1983 by the Supreme UDF alliance’ to suit its narrative. The Raijor Dal, led by jailed pea Court in 2005. The s pectacular confined to fuelefficient vehicle replacements Sushanta Talukdar The BPF won 12 seats in the Bodo sants’ leader Akhil Gogoi, has success of the AIUDF in electoral he muchawaited vehicle scrappage policy an land Territorial Region (BTR) and been floated by the Krishak Mukti politics and the expansion of its was, till recently, a constituent of Sangram Samiti (KMSS) and allied support base among a section of nounced by the Transport Ministry, coming after n the 2016 Assam Assembly the BJPled coalition government organisations, which have been at Muslim voters of erstwhile East Tthe move for a green tax on ageing and polluting elections, the Bharatiya Janata headed by Sarbananda Sonowal. the forefront of a parallel stream of Bengal origin did not spell an op automobiles, promises economic benefits, a cleaner en IParty (BJP)’s promise to imple The BTR — being an autonomous antiCAA movement. Mr. Gogoi portunity for it in getting a share of vironment and thousands of jobs. Although it will take ment the Assam Accord in letter region under the provisions of the PTI was arrested in December 2019 the power pie as former Assam until April 1, 2022 for vehicles belonging to the govern and spirit helped it win the over Sixth Schedule — is excluded from block to the Hindutva dream of during the antiCAA movement, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi resist ment and the public sector to be scrapped, another whelming support of a vast section the purview of the CAA. The BJP the BJP and the Sangh Parivar. As jailed and later handed over to the ed it in his three consecutive te year thereafter to identify junk heavy commercial veh of Assamese voters and enab led it has dropped the BPF and chosen samese and other language speak National Investigation Agency nures. Gogoi’s “who is Badrud to capture power at Dispur. In this the United People’s Party Liberal ers are apprehensive of Bengali (NIA) in an old case of 2009 of an din?” poll rhetoric was targeted to icles through mandatory fitness checks, and finally oth election, (in three phases on (UPPL) as its new ally in the BTR. speaking “illegal migrants” from alleged Maoist link. woo Assamese and indigenous vo er vehicles by 2024, it is a constructive road map. It will March 27, April 1, April 6), the saf The BJP and the UPPL share power Bangladesh posing an existential The two parties forged an elec ters, but the Congress ended up be no easy task, however, to put in place a credible sys fron party is looking at Assam as in the Bodoland Territorial Coun threat to them. This explains the toral alliance and rejected an ap getting only 53 seats in the 2006 tem of automated fitness checking centres with help the springboard tofurther its polit cil which governs the BTR. resistance to the Citizenship peal by the Congress and other Assembly polls against the 71 seats from States to assess whether commercial and private ical machinations of making sub In its quest to return to power in (Amendment) Act, 2019 in the Mahajot constituents to join the it had won in 2001. vehicles are roadworthy after 15 and 20 years, respe c national aspirations for distinctive this election, the Congress hopes State and why the BJP is wary of grand alliance alleging that it has a tively, as the policy envisages. Equally important, enfor linguistic and cultural identities that its guarantee to pay daily wag seeking votes on the CAA in As “communal” AIUDF. The AJP and ‘A conflict’ cement will be key to get them scrapped once they are submissive to the idea of national es of ₹365 to tea garden workers sam, especially in districts with an the Raijor Dal have also failed to The BJP harps on the narrative ism based on its core Hindutva will help it regain some of its lost overwhelming population of Assa reach a consensus on the proposal that it is population growth among found unfit for use and to stop them from moving to agenda. support base among garden work mese and other ethnic communi of Mr. Gogoi to push for all Opposi Muslim migrants of erstwhile East smaller towns. States must also come on board to pro ers and also turn the tide against ties. tion parties (it includes them) to Bengal and East Pakistan origin vide road tax and registration concessions, while the A multipoint narrative the BJP which made a poll promise The AGP (which was formed at field a common candidate to de and Muslim Bangladeshi migrants automobile industry is expected to sweeten the deal The election planks of unemploy in 2016 (in its Vision Document) of the culmination of the Assam feat the BJP and its allies. The AJP within the S tate — and not post with genuine discounts on new vehicles. Transport Mi ment, price rise of essential com increasing this amount to ₹351. Movement after the signing of the is firm on its position of opposing Partition Hindurefugees who nister Nitin Gadkari, who has had limited success with modities and wages of tea garden Tea garden workers play a crucial accord) choosing to ignore the ma the national parties as well as de came to the S tate till December enforcement of the amended Motor Vehicles Act of workers laid by the Congressled role in about 25 of the total 126 nipulation of the cutoff date to de feating and resisting a “communal 2014 — that poses the greater de Mahajot (Grand Alliance) have pre seats; the BJP has made inroads in termine Indian citizenship BJP and AIUDF”. mographic threat to Assamese 2019 because States are not entirely on board, has t he vented the dominant electoral dis this region and consolidating itself through the enactment of the CAA This has resulted in the possibil Hindus and other indigenous com difficult task of ensuring that the scrappage plan gets course from being centred around here which has eroded the Con in the accord and continu ing the ities of the antiCAA votes being munities. their support, and the backing of manufacturers who a single polarising narrative. This gress’s base. electoral alliance with the BJP, is split to the advantage of the ruling The BJP has dubbed this elec stand to benefit from a spurt in demand. Heavy com is notwithstanding opposition to reflective of a core constituency of alliance. However, its election tion as “a conflict of two civilisa mercial vehicles, which contribute disproportionately the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, Issue of migrants Assamese voters at the crossroads prospects could be affected in tions” — civilisation represented to pollution — 1.7 million lack fitness certificates — pose 2019 being the cementing factor The BJP does not hide its ideologi of the two binaries of the Hindu some constituencies if there are by 35% population and the civilisa the biggest challenge. Many of these cannot be replaced behind the formation of the grand cal intentions in the language it is Muslim and the AssameseBengali three cornered contests and rebel tion represented by the rest 65% Opposition alliance and also one using in the runup to the election. when it comes to distinguishing an candidates of the ruling alliance. population to strengthen the reli quickly in the absence of financial arrangements for of the common major election When it says “infiltrator”, it is re infiltrator from a refugee. The BJP has refrained from gion binary. (According to Census small operators, who have opposed the new measures. planks. The ruling alliance has also ferring to Muslim migrants from making the CAA an issue in the 2011, Muslims account for 34.22%, Vehicle scrappage and replacement is seen interna made development an election erstwhile East Pakistan and pre Path of subnationalism first phase of polling for 47 seats in while Hindus and other religions tionally as a route to rejuvenate COVID19affected eco plank to counter the O pposition sent Bangladesh; when it says “re The formation of two new regional the Brahmaputra valley. The BJP account for the rest of the popula nomies by privileging green technologies, notably elec campaign. fugee”, it is referring to Hindu and parties, the Assam Jatiya Parishad AGP combine won 35 of these tion in Assam.) tric vehicles (EVs), and also as an initiative to achieve The Congressled Mahajot, of 10 other nonMuslim migrants from (AJP) and the Raijor Dal, borne out seats that catapulted the saffron The BJP has reiterated its pro net zero emissions by midcentury under Paris Agree parties, has the three Left parties the same geographical landmass of the vigorous antiCAA move party to power and helped instal mise to protect jati (nationality), — the CPI(M), the CPI and the CPI without any cutoff date. ment, has put Assamese subna the first BJPled government in the mati (land), bheti (foundation) of ment commitments. India’s automobile ecosystem is ML — the All India United Demo The core clause of the Assam tionalism on a new trajectory State in 2016. The Congress won the Assamese and other ethnic complex, with dominant, legacy motors spanning fos cratic Front (AIUDF), the Anchalik Accord does not distinguish “ille which may not remain limited to nine and the AIUDF won two communities. The electoral narra silfuel driven vehicles and a nascent EV segment. Th e Gana Morcha (AGM), the Bodo gal migrants” on basis of religion electoral ambitions alone. seats. For the ruling coalition, in tive around the AIUDF and Maula industry’s share preCOVID19 was about 7.5% of GDP land People’s Front (BPF), the and stipulates March 24, 1971 as The AJP has been formed under creasing or retaining its tally in the na Badruddin Ajmal has been with significant downstream employment, but it also Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), and the cutoff date for detection, dele the aegis of the All Assam Students first phase is key to its retaining pushed to shape the perception imposes a fuel import burden. The Centre has to arrive now the Jimochayan (Deori) Peo tion of names from the voters’ list Union (AASU) and the Asom Jatiya power. The split in votes among that instead of language, religion at a balance and have incentives that reward manufac ple’s Party (JDPP) and the Adivasi and expulsion of all migrants from tabadi Yuba Chatra Parishad the constituents of the Mahajot should be the basis of identities of turers of vehicles that are the most fuelefficient . Fai National Party (ANP). Bangladesh who entered the S tate (AJYCP) which strongly defend the has helped the ruling alliance win the majority Assamese and other The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) without valid travel documents af secular character of the Assam Ac many seats in the 2016 A ssembly ethnic nationalities. lure to prioritise fuel efficiency and mandate even high and the Asom Gana Parishad ter this date. cord and oppose the CAA. Both elections and increase its tally in er standards and enhance taxes on fuel guzzlers will (AGP) have projected Maulana Ba This secular fundamental of the the AASU and the AJYCP backed the 2019 Lok Sabha election. Sushanta Talukdar is the Editor, only repeat the mistakes of vehicle exchange pro druddin Ajmal and the AIUDF led Assam Accord incorporated in the the BJP, the AGP, and their allies in Setting the narrative around nezine.com, a bilingual online magazine grammes abroad , where full environmental benefits by him as “protectors of Bangla citizenship laws poses a stumbling 2016 to bring an end to 15 years of Maulana Badruddin Ajmal and the on the Northeast could not be realised, and taxpayers ended up subsidis ing inefficiency. Ecological scrapping, as a concept, must lead to high rates of materials recovery, reduce air pollution, mining and pressure on the environment. Doubling down on a resilient India For leading companies with global ambitions, the rewards of investing in this complex country are worth pursuing Rising poverty That India should emerge as a companies such as Samsung have the complex challenges of the 21st With the spurt in COVID19 cases, the nascent leading destination for FDI might invested billions in the Indian mar century, and global investors are economic recovery is under threat strike some observers as an unex ket, and manufacturers such as clearly taking note. pected outcome. It is certainly one Cisco, Nokia, Ericsson, and Flex new study by the Pew Research Center estimates that deserves parsing. are reportedly weighing new in Value creation that the COVID19 pandemic has had a dispro Indeed, a significant share of In vestments that take advantage of Of course, unlocking opportuni Aportionately deleterious impact on living stan Nirav Patel & dia’s FDI inflows arose from fo fresh incentive programs. ties in the Indian market cannot dards in India and China in 2020, with the sharp eco Anand Raghuraman reign investments directed solely Third, rising digital connectivi take the form of a oneway wealth nomic contraction in the former pushing as many as 7.5 at Reliance Jio. Meanwhile, India’s ty. Cheap mobile data have po transfer, and companies should latest FDI totals still lags behind wered a revolution across India’s not expect a warm welcome with crore people into the ranks of the poor (those who earn sia watchers observing Chi the highest tallies in other markets GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO digital economy and connected an out continuously demonstrating $2 or less a day). In contrast, the figure is about 10 lakh na are, above all, missing such as China and Brazil. tional companies are making India estimated 700 million Indians to their commitment to India. Suc in China, whose economy slowed but continued to post Athe real economic shift at an essential part of their growth the Internet. As Mr. Modi has said, cessful companies do this by plac growth. In absolute terms, the number of poor in India play — that this is India’s economic Adapting to the Indian market story. more than 500 million Indians still ing shared value creation at the is posited to have swelled to 13.4 crore, reversing the decade. Despite CEOs and inves Three decades after its economy First, sheer demographics. remain offline, and the rise of heart of their business strategy. gains made in the preceding nine years when the coun tors alike having faced years, if not was liberalised, India remains a What India offers through its near these ‘next gen netizens’ is a key They tie corporate success to In try cut the number of poor by more than threefourths decades, of false starts in the sub complex and challenging place to ly 1.4 billion people and their reason why leading global tech dia’s growth and development. continent, it is undeniable that al do business. Frequent shifts in the growing purchasing power is un companies are investing in India They forge enduring partnerships to an estimated 7.8 crore in 2019. In China, the popula most every major global company policy landscape and persistent iquely valuable for multinationals and weathering acute policy pres and lasting relationships, elevate tion of the poor likely inched up to 40 lakh, matchi ng is either contemplating or operat market access barriers are stan with global ambitions. No other sure. Domestic Indian companies and invest in Indian talent, align the 2019 level. Similarly, the numbers of India’s middle ing on the assumption that India is dard complaints levied against In country outside of China has a have also demonstrated their abil products with Indian tastes, and class — those with a daily income of $10.01– $20 — are a key part of their growth story. dia by the business community. market that houses nearly one in ity to innovate and deliver high ultimately tackle the hardest pro projected to have shrunk by 3.2 crore to about 6.6 Meanwhile, the Modi govern six people on the planet and a ris quality services at scale. The part blems facing India today. crore, compared with the number this income cohort FDI inflows ment’s push to build a “selfre ing middle class of 600 million. nerships and FDI flows linking Charting a path forward in this would have reached absent the pandemic. Here again, Google, Facebook, Walmart, Sam liant” India has also rattled skittish Failure to compete for a share of multinationals and Indian tech dynamic growing market will re sung, Foxconn, and Silver Lake investors and smaller companies Indians’ wallets is not just a missed firms will continue to unlock quire corporate executives to China likely experienced just onethird the level of con have been just a handful of the that lack the resources to navigate strategic opportunity; it’s border shared market opportunities for make new commitments and navi traction, with the population of those deemed as mid firms that made big ticket bets on ontheground hurdles. line malpractice at the boardroom years to come. gate choppy waters. But for lead dle income set to have narrowed to 49.3 crore com India in 2020. As a result, even as Still, leading corporate inves level. Fourth, national resilience. Des ing companies with global ambi pared with the prepandemic projection of 50.4 crore. India experienced one of the tors see the Indian market diffe Second, shifting geopolitics. pite facing the scourge of the novel tions and a willingness to make big The Pew assessment, which is based on an analysis of world’s sharpest economic con rently. They recognise that doing Rising U.S.China competition is coronavirus head on, India has bets, the rewards of investing in the World Bank’s PovcalNet database, does, however, tractions, it also saw the fastest business in India — or any emerg redefining the global landscape for managed the pandemic better the Indian market are substantial acknowledge the multiple assumptions that inform the growth in Foreign Direct Invest ing market for that matter — comes investment and manufacturing, than many of its western peers and well worth pursuing. study. These include varying base years for income/ ment (FDI) inflows among all the with inherent risks but that adap forcing multinationals to rethink and restored economic activity major economies last year. India’s tation in approach is critical to their footprints and production even before implementing a mass Nirav Patel is CEO and CoFounder of The consumption figures — with India’s from 2011 and 2016 $60 billionplus tally for new an success. Most importantly, they hubs. Savvy countries such as Viet vaccination programme. These Asia Group, a leading firm specialising in for China. Still, the study serves as a stark reminder of nual FDI equity inflows was its lar have the vision to understand that nam have capitalis ed on this op are remarkable developments, providing comprehensive market entry the economic disparities, both within India and at a gestever haul and a milestone in these are risks worth taking given portunity to great effect, but India and yet they speak to India’s un strategies for global businesses in the comparative level with its northern neighbour. The lat the agenda of Prime Minister Na the scale of the India Opportunity. is finally getting serious about at derlying resilience even in the face IndoPacific region. Anand Raghuraman est report once again spotlights the widening inequality rendra Modi’s government in its Four core dynamics drive this tracting largescale production of historic challenges. This ethos is Vice President of the India Practice at in India, exacerbated by the pandemic, as the lower in second term. calculus and explain why multina and exports. Major multinational will serve India well as it navigates The Asia Group come populations have disproportionately borne the brunt of job and income losses in the wake of the mul LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letters emailed to [email protected] must carry the full postal address and the full name or the name with initials. tiple lockdowns. The fiscal policy response to redress To read more letters this massive increase in precarity has also been under Islands in peril illegal loggers. The Centre ‘and ‘sustainable?’ The ugly nonrecyclable waste helpless in fighting corrupt online, scan the QR code whelming, especially when viewed from the perspec The NITI Aayog vision for can take a cue from Brazil haste with which the whole materials are bound to be practices. Ultimately, it is the tive of the prepandemic tax cuts that the governmen t ‘development’ in the to address the ecological process is unfolding, shows generated too. And in a few people who are the victims. no preexisting conditions) handed to corporates in an attempt to revive private in Greater Nicobar Islands is concerns of the fragile the mala fide intent to keep years, the unique, pristine How long do we have to live are being vaccinated in vestment and rekindle growth. That the National Rural against all norms that Andamans and stop the genuine stakeholders in and spectacular islands will with this? Is there none to hospitals in and around govern the protection of tinkering with biodiversity the dark. Knowing fully well become like any other Indian bell the cat? Chennai. Social media has Employment Guarantee scheme has been seeing re one of the best tropical there. Have we forgotten that the project would be the city. We need to cry ‘halt’. J.P. Reddy, such people posting their cord levels of demand is testimony to the struggles rainforest regions in the the case of the Jarawa tribes death knell for the unique Mohamed Iqbal, Nalgonda, Telangana vaccination photos with those in the rural hinterland have been facing in finding world (‘Special’, Page 1, of the Andamans who are diversity of the Andamans, Udhagamandalam, The Nilgiris messages such as “We got it gainful employment since the onset of the pandemic. “NITI Aayog vision for now an endangered lot the NITI Aayog is trying to Flouting the rules through our influence” or With the number of COVID19 cases once again rising Great Nicobar ignores notwithstanding their defend the indefensible. Maharashtra events There are several instances “This hospital belongs to a disconcertingly across the country, there is a clear and tribal, ecological concerns, special status? Ayyasseri Raveendranath, The goingson in of people getting vaccinated family friend. So got it as a Aranmula, Kerala present danger that not only could any nascent eco March 21). A case in point is A.V. Narayanan, Maharashtra, on allegations out of turn, especially in favour from them”, and so Brazil’s Amazon rainforests Tiruchi, Tamil Nadu of ‘collections’ through a Chennai. Although the on. Of course, this means nomic recovery be stymied even before it gains traction and its tribes which are ■ If all the development netababupolice nexus are government directive states more numbers of people are but that the number of those sliding into poverty could taken care of by a task force ■ Without addressing plans see the light of day, astonishing — the amount is that people above 60 and getting vaccinated. But why jump dramatically. The policy responses to the rising set up by the Brazilian ecological concerns and the they are sure to spell the now ₹100 crore (Page 1, those above 45 with co are the government’s orders wave of infections could well test the government’s government to protect the interests of the tribals first, destruction of hundreds of March 21)! It is an open morbidities are eligible, being flouted? ‘lives versus livelihoods’ playbook to the hilt. indigenous Guajajara tribe how could NITI Aayog’s acres of rare forests and secret that every one several youngsters in the age Madhav G., and the rainforests from ‘vision’ be called ‘holistic various creatures. Tons of including the media are group of 2030 years (with Chennai

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Iran deal could be rescued by the IAEA FROM THE READERS’ EDITOR A new initiative by IAEA may help to find an alternative to JCPOA in the changed circumstances No selfcensorship of the Treaty, to verify fulfilment of the nonproliferation commitment A close reading of the coverage of two recent developments assumed by nonnuclearweapon reveals the gap between perception and reality States party to the Treaty. The NPT assigns to the IAEA the has to abide by the present binding order. responsibility for verifying, at the In another case, K. Balakesari, a contribu T.P. SREENIVASAN global level, through its safeguards tor to this newspaper, asked: “Why has The system, that nonnuclear weapon Hindu not carried a single item of news these States fulfil their obligations not to past few days about the resignation of Profes Even as the chickenandegg game is use their peaceful nuclear activities sor Pratap Bhanu Mehta from Ashoka Un being played between the U.S. and to develop any nuclear explosive A.S. Panneerselvan iversity, apparently because of him being Iran on the Joint Comprehensive devices of any kind. Accordingly, the considered a political liability by the Univer Plan of Action (JCPOA) as to whether Iranian file could go back to the IAEA sity’s Trustees? I thought in such matters, Iranian compliance comes first or to start fresh negotiations to restrain There were questions regarding the report, The Hindu would be in the forefront of pu the lifting of sanctions by the U.S., Iran to remain within the permissible “State govt. suspends former Special DGP” blishing the facts about the case.” the International Atomic Energy level of enrichment of uranium. In ef (March 19, 2021). The senior IPS officer is fac Agency (IAEA) is back on the stage to fect, this may mean going back to the ing sexual harassment charges made by a A detailed report rescue the JCPOA. The U.S. tried to presix nation initiative, when the serving woman IPS officer. While the Tamil On March 19, in the national news section on pressurise Iran by proposing a reso IAEA could not certify that Iran was Nadu government did not issue a formal not Page 11 (Chennai edition), the report “Arvind lution in the IAEA Board of Gover not engaged in weapon activities. ification, the newspaper’s reporter gathered resigns from Ashoka University” dealt with nors (March 15) meeting criticising With the experience of the JCPOA, information from reliable sources that the of all the developments in Ashoka University. Iranian noncompliance with the any new arrangement has to ensure ficer has been suspended pending inquiry. The strapline for the report read: “Devastat JCPOA and its alleged IAEA safe that Iran must have sanctions relief, Earlier, the government had sus ed by circumstances behind P.B. guards violations amidst rumours the stockpile of enriched uranium pended the Chengalpattu Superin Mehta’s resignation, says former that Iran might withdraw from the should not exceed the limits esta tendent of Police in the same case CEA”. Further, the opening para NonProliferation Treaty (NPT) and blished, and there should be iron for acting in favour of the Special graphs of the report dealt with Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, proceed to develop nuclear wea clad guarantees that Iran will not vio Director General of Police and try Mr. Mehta’s case exclusively. arrives to open the IAEA Board of Governors meeting at the agency's pons. Iranian Intelligence Minister late the safeguards agreement. The ing to prevent the survivor from They read: “Political scientist headquarters in Vienna, Austria on March 1, 2021. * AFP Mahmoud Alavi had hinted at it in an test is whether these can be accom making a formal complaint. Right and commentator Pratap Bhanu interview with Iranian State televi plished within the framework of the ly drawing from earlier court direc Mehta resigned from Ashoka Un sion in February. Mr. Alavi’s widely problems and challenges to its sove not to move a resolution in the IAEA IAEA. tives that prohibit the media from iversity after a meeting with the reported remark — that “a cornered reignty by foreign powers.” If the sta Board, so that the IAEA did not get revealing only the names of the vic university’s founders made it cat may behave differently from lemate continues on JCPOA, because entangled in the U.S. position on Discussions at a technical level tims in sexual assault cases and not the offen clear his association with the institution when the cat is free” — was interpret of the U.S. pressure, public opinion Iran. It was important for the IAEA to Since the IAEA is a technical body, its ders, readers asked why the newspaper did could be considered a ‘political liability’. In ed as a warning that Iran might aban may shift towards the Indian model pursue its nonproliferation efforts deliberations may be kept at the not publish the names of the two IPS officers his resignation letter dated March 15 to Vice don the JCPOA and proceed with un of creating a deterrent and then seek with Iran outside the JCPOA. technical level. At the same time, involved in the case. Chancellor Malabika Sarkar sent on Tuesday, bridled nuclear activities. ing a special dispensation to avoid Perhaps, Mr. Grossi expects that in since it is open for the IAEA to report which The Hindu has seen, he said his writ severe sanctions. But the risks in the event of the present efforts to re to the Security Council for necessary Abiding by the court’s order ing was ‘perceived to carry risks for the un The Indian model volved in such a policy will be grave, new the JCPOA failing altogether, it action, the IAEA will have the neces There are several rules and codes that gov iversity.’” The report also carried the opera Having sat in the alphabetical order including the possibility of military should be possible to consider a sary clout to insist on the implemen ern reporting on sexual violence, including tive portion of Mr. Mehta’s resignation letter: next to Iranian Ambassadors and top action by Israel. fresh initiative by the IAEA to deal tation of the NPT and its additional Section 228A of the Indian Penal Code, “After a meeting with Founders it has be nuclear negotiators on the IAEA The Iranian elections in June make with the issue. The IAEA is neither protocol. A new avenue may open which was brought in through an amend come abundantly clear to me that my asso Board of Governors for about four it imperative for the country to have the Secretariat of the NPT nor is it for Iran to continue its peaceful nu ment in 1983 to Section 6(ii) of the Press ciation with the University may be consi years, I know they looked at India at least an initial breakthrough be empowered to request States to adh clear activities as permitted in the Council of India’s ‘Norms of Journalistic Con dered a political liability. My public writing with admiration for the way India fore the polls. If not, the new govern ere to it. It does, however, have for NPT. Iran may have a certain comfort duct’. It is true that there is neither a legal in support of a politics that tries to honour had handled the NPT. They often ment, which might be more radical mal responsibility in the context of level in the IAEA as some members bar nor an ethical bar in naming offenders. constitutional values of freedom and equal wished that they had not signed the than the present one, would be implementing Article III of the Trea of the Board will be supportive of In this particular case, the court had inter respect for all citizens, is perceived to carry NPT, developed a capability like In tempted to adopt a policy of creating ty. The IAEA’s mandate, expertise, Iran’s aspirations to develop nuclear vened and issued a binding order restraining risks for the university”. dia did, and then negotiated a deal. I a de facto deterrent as the only op and experience also equip it well to power for peaceful purposes without the media from publishing not only the The perception among some readers is did not have to remind them that tion for survival. assist in the implementation of other unnecessary restraints. names of the survivor but also of the accused that the newspaper had resorted to one form such an option was not available and Articles. At the broadest level, the If the beginning of the new nego and witnesses. I would like to draw the atten of selfcensorship or the other in the two cas that the United Nations Security IAEA’S two service functions IAEA provides two service functions tiations on the JCPOA drag on in the tion of the readers to a report, “Madras HC to es — one in not naming a senior police officer Council would not give them permis A technical ‘understanding’ reached under the NPT. It facilitates and pro new circumstances in West Asia, par monitor probe against former Special DGP” in a sexual harassment case and the other in sion to leave the NPT even if they on February 21 by IAEA Director vides a channel for endeavours ticularly the interest of Saudi Arabia (March 2), which read: “Passing an elaborate not reporting about shrinking academic free wished to do so. General Rafael Grossi allowing moni aimed at the “further development and the UAE to be part of any arran interim order, he [judge] restrained the me dom. But a closer reading reveals the gap Even though the Supreme Leader toring by the IAEA to continue in Iran of the applications of nuclear energy gement with Iran, which the U.S. dia from publishing the names of the com between this perception and the reality. In Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s fatwa for three months augured well for a for peaceful purposes, especially in supports, the IAEA may provide an plainant, the accused and witnesses in the the sexual harassment case, The Hindu had against nuclear weapons still stands, possible IAEA effort in case the the territories of nonnuclearwea alternative venue to open discus case as there was an express bar on such pu reported as much information as possible in Foreign Policy recently noted: “Wide JCPOA talks broke down. Iranians pon States Party to the Treaty, with sions on Iran’s obligations under the blications under Section 16 of the Sexual Ha the light of a binding High Court order. Re swaths of Iranian society, among the had also agreed to an early April visit due consideration for the needs of NPT, which do not have a time limit. rassment of Women at Workplace (Preven garding the developments in Ashoka Univer public and policymakers alike, seem to Iran by an IAEA technical team to the developing areas of the world.” tion, Prohibition and Redressal) Act of 2013.” sity, the newspaper looked at all issues aris to increasingly see the weapon not discuss outstanding safeguard mat Its other major function is to admi T.P.Sreenivasan is a former Ambassador and While one can argue that the single judge’s ing from Mr. Mehta’s resignation. just as an ultimate deterrent but as a ters. It was against this backdrop that nister international nuclear safe the Governor for India of the IAEA from 2001 order contradicts earlier judicial pronounce panacea for Iran’s chronic security Mr. Grossi persuaded the Americans guards, in accordance with Article III to 2004 ments, the fact remains that a newspaper [email protected]

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Indira Hirway cessible to women. Also, they could Thant’s message on earth day redistribute the work between men Women everywhere carry a dispro and women by providing different in The U.N. SecretaryGeneral, U Thant, hailed portionately higher burden of un centives and disincentives to men Earth Day today as the start of a “new chap paid work, namely, unpaid domestic (e.g. mandatory training of men in ter of United world history”. He spoke — and services as well as unpaid care of chil housework, childcare, etc.) and fi rang a Japanesecontributed Peace Bell, at dren, the old and the disabled for nancial incentives for sharing house what the U.N. Office of Publication has called their respective households. Though work. These measures will give free as a ceremony “proclaiming March 21 as this work contributes to overall well time to women and open up new op ‘Earth Day’. It is the first day of spring. He being at the household level and col portunities to them. said that in view of the arms race, over pop lectively at the national level, it is in ulation, poverty, materialism, violence and visible in the national database and Unpaid work and the economy the deterioration of the natural environ particularly in national policies. What is critical is to understand the ment, an “Earth Day” has become suddenly This work is repetitive, boring and linkages between unpaid work and necessary to remind us of the fact that our frequently drudgery — a 24hour job the economy. The household pro planet is perishable. “All of us, especially the without remuneration, promotions duces goods and services for its leaders of the world,” he said, “must have or retirement benefits. It restricts op members, and if GDP is a measure of the vision, the courage, and a new broadly portunities for women in the econo the total production and consump based sense of human solidarity to join our my and in life. Women do this job not tion of the economy, it has to incor thoughts, our hearts and our forces to necessarily because they like it or are porate this work by accepting the CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC change the present course of detrimental efficient in it, but because it is im household as a sector of the econo manmade events and divisions...” posed on them by patriarchal norms, my. DATA POINT which are the roots of all pervasive At the macro level, unpaid work A HUNDRED YEARS AGO MARCH 22, 1921 gender inequalities. This unequal di subsidises the private sector by pro vision of unpaid work between wo viding it a generation of workers (hu A Sedition Trial. men and men is unfair and unjust man capital) and takes care of wear and it deprives women of equal op and tear of labour who are family The sensational sedition trial of Hpoongyi U. portunities as men. members. The private sector would Ottama, the first of its kind in Burma, came For political parties to recognise have paid much higher wages and on for hearing on the 21st before Mr. Upohla, this work is a positive development, earned lower profits in the absence District Magistrate, Pyapon. The compound, and the demand for wages for house of unpaid work. Unpaid work also corridors, balconies, and the court house wives has emerged from this con subsidises the government by taking were thronged by enormous crowds, num cern. However, its implementation care of the old, sick and the disabled. bering not less than fifteen thousand, con may create problems such as afforda The state would have spent huge sisting of Burmese ladies and men, Indians bility of the government and calcula amounts in the absence of unpaid and an admixture of Chinese. Crowds of tion of the amounts. Women may not work. Unpaid work is a privately pro Buddhist worshippers gathered together at be eager to enter the labour maket. duced public good which is critical the jail gates with golden umbrellas to shel More important, these wages may for the sustenance of the mainstream ter Hpoongyi Ottama from the burning sun confirm unpaid work as women’s economy. This work, therefore, as the Hpoengyee surrounded by a police work only, which would deny oppor needs to be integrated with the main cordon stepped out of the jail. Burman la tunities to women in the wider stream economy and policies. It will dies and men and Indians “shitcei” (Bur world. Payment of pension to old wo be up to public policies then to im mese word for salute) the great priest and men (60+ years) may be a better idea prove the productivity of unpaid spread silk pawas and turbans four and five to compensate them for their unpaid workers, reduce their burden, and deep for him to walk over up to the Court work. tap their potential in development, house. It was a sight for the gods to see. All, as the household could also be an im especially ladies, bent down on the knees What the government could do portant economic sector. with floods of tears. A dozen lawyers with U. What governments could do is recog By excluding this work from the Pu, Barrister, led the defence. U. May Oung, nise this unpaid work in the national economy, macroeconomics shows a Government advocate, appeared for the database by a sound timeuse survey clear male bias. It is not surprising Crown. After the preliminary application for and use the data in national policies. that many economists call economics transfer was refused, U. Pu asked for an ad Also, they could relieve women’s bur “a wrongly conceived discipline” that journment and the case was adjourned for den of unpaid work by improving is narrow, partial and truncated. the 31st March to enable the defence to ap technology (e.g. better fuel for cook There is an urgent need to expand ply to the Chief Court for transfer. Hpoon ing), better infrastructure (e.g. water the purview of economics not only gyee We Fullah harrangued crowds from the at the doorstep), shifting some un for gender justice but mainly for different centres to keep peace of mind and paid work to the mainstream econo moving towards a realistic econom peace even against provocation. The ac my (e.g. childcare, care of the dis ics. cused U. Ottama was requested by the Dis abled, and care of the chronically trict Magistrate to advise the crowds in the sick), and by making basic services Indira Hirway is Professor of Economics, balconies not to make noise and a few words (e.g. health and transportation) ac Centre for Development Alternatives from him silenced the crowds.

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Singh did meet him but it a retired police officer be months are crucial,” he told and all schools and educa No lessons learnt: People thronging the Marina beach in Chennai on Sunday. * R. RAGU Tamil Nadu reported was only “when his transfer asked to do this?” the reporters. The Minister said tional institutions where 1,289 fresh cases with five orders were about to be is former Mumbai Police the Technical Advisory Com there were no exams going ICUs. The positivity rate for The addition of 13 deaths 368 new infections on Sun districts – Chennai, Chengal sued by the Maharashtra Commissioner asked. PTI mittee (TAC) on the pandem on, for at least two weeks. the day stood at 1.68%. From which took place in the past day but no death. The num pattu, Coimbatore, Thanja government”. DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD ic had given clear guidelines Across Karnataka, 1,715 94,043 tests done on Satur few days to the official list of ber of active cases increased vur and Tiruvallur – account Asked if there was an at and warned of serious conse new cases were detected . day the testing figure rose to COVID19 fatalities on Sun to 2,188. ing for 66% of them. tempt to destabilise the Ma puty Chief Minister Ajit Pa quences if certain activities Bengaluru Urban district ac 1,01,840 on Sunday, includ day took the cumulative toll The daily test positivity Nine more persons suc ha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) go war and State NCP chief were not controlled. counted for 1039. Two pa ing 95,959 RTPCR tests. On to 4,495. State capital Thiru rate was 1.18%, with 31,138 cumbed to the infection, tak vernment, the NCP chief Jayant Patil to discuss the is tients – one each in Bengalu Sunday 11,948 people were vananthapuram reported samples tested. Meanwhile, ing the toll to 12,599. said, “I don't know whether sue. The NCP supremo also ‘Avoid gatherings’ ru Urban and Bidar – vaccinated including 7,933 five deaths. Among districts, the weekly tally was the high (With inputs from efforts are being made or said the party must hear out “We have crossed 1,000 cas succumbed to the virus. aged above 60. Kozhikode reported the max est so far this year. Thiruvananthapuram, not to topple the [MVA] go Mr. Deshmukh, who has ca es a day just in Bengaluru. Among the 13,493 active Kerala reported 1,875 new imum of 241 new cases. After Chittoor, Guntur was Vijayawada, Hyderabad vernment. All I can say is tegorically denied all the al We cannot be in denial any cases, 137 patients were in cases from 44,675 samples. Andhra Pradesh reported witnessing a surge in infec & Chennai) they will have no impact on legations, before taking a fi the government.” nal decision. The episode has led to The central leadership of IN BRIEF tensions in the Maha Vikas the Congress, the third Aghadi (MVA) government partner in the MVA alliance, ECI lets Telangana govt. Nursing mothers as the Shiv Sena leadership decided to adopt a ‘wait and is reported to be against Mr. watch approach’. Party spo Deshkmukh’s continuance kesperson Abhishek Singhvi assigned poll duty as a Minister. said the All India Congress announce pay revision Mr. Pawar is learnt to Committee’s (AICC) Maha Kerala cites shortage of personnel have convened a meeting of rashtra incharge, H.K, Patil, party leaders including De will speak on the issue soon. A.S. Jayanth have gone up across the Package respectable and pleasing to employees, says KCR Leopard caught after it Kozhikode State in view of the pandem N. Rahul enters house in Udupi severe unrest among them, Nursing mothers and preg ic. They said if government MANGALURU HYDERABAD particularly after the first nant women are exempted staff are exempted from poll A leopard that entered a Amid refugee crisis, The decks were cleared for PRC headed by a retired IAS from COVID19 vaccination. duty on one pretext or the house in Udupi district during the Telangana government officer C.R. Biswal fixed a fit They are not to be deputed other, it would lead to a the early hours of Sunday to announce pay revision for ment of 7.5% on basic pay a for Assembly election duty shortage of personnel. Since was trapped inside a room, Myanmar border sealed its staff after the Election few months ago while the as well. But government or we have already attended Forest department sources Commission of India on Sun unions bargained 63% hike. ders in this regard are not the training session, we said. The leopard was chasing day expressed “no objec At 7.5%, the burden to the honoured, say some govern have no other way now than a dog which went inside the tion” to the State’s request, exchequer was estimated at ment staff in Kerala . join election duty,” the wo house in Nailadi village in but laid down a condition ₹2,252 crore. The commis A woman employee men said. It is learnt Brahmavar taluk. Forest Department personnel later that “no undue publicity be K. Chandrasekhar Rao sion was also said to have re in the Animal Husban that the staff in a vac given to it to gain political commended extension of dry Department in a cine production unit released the leopard in the mileage” in view of the mo on pay revision when he re age of superannuation from southern district, too have been marked nearby reserve forests. PTI del code of conduct in force plied to the debate on bud 58 to 60 years and reduced whose child is only se for election duty. for the byelection to the Na get in the Assembly on Mon the HRA payable in four ca ven months old, said Though there are simi Global e-auction of red sanders logs from April 9 garjunasagar Assembly con day afternoon. He said in the tegories. It defended 7.5% fit on Sunday that senior lar but isolated com VIJAYAWADA stituency next month. Assembly on Wednesday he ment on the ground that the officials had declined her re plaints from different parts The Andhra Pradesh Forest The government had will himself an salary and pension bill had quest for exemption from of the State, these women Department will hold global earlier in the day re nounce the same in mounted from ₹16,378 crore election duty. She alleged are not willing to go public eauctions of the seized quested the ECI to be the House after the in 201415 when the State that they forced her to at fearing official reprisal. red sanders logs on April 9, allowed to announce results of elections to was created, to ₹35,282 tend the training session for According to a govern 16 and 23. Red sanders acceptance of the Pay the Legislative Coun crore in 201718. poll officials. ment order on February 2, (Pterocarpus santalinus) is an Seeking asylum: A police officer who fled Myanmar seen at Revision Commission cil were declared. He A purported deliberate Another woman in the pregnant women, lactating endangered tree species an undisclosed location in Mizoram last week. * AP (PRC) report by extend maintained that the leak by the government that Revenue Department, who mothers with children aged found in Chittoor, Kadapa, ing immunity from the pay pack would be it was willing to concede has a ninemonthold child, less than one, cancer pa Kurnool and Nellore districts Thousands of Myanmarese Bangladesh border, over code. The development respectable and pleasing to 29% hike created furore in said she had a similar expe tients, and those about to of Andhra Pradesh. The nationals visit regularly for 60% of which is fenced, the paved the way for Chief Mi the employees. political circles that the code rience. undergo organ transplant seized logs have been work and to meet relatives. Myanmar border is un nister K. Chandrasekhar Rao The pay revision was due was violated. It also became “We were told that the can opt for ‘work from stocked at the central In March 2020, FMR was fenced and completely to make an announcement since July 1, 2018 and caused an issue in Council polls. number of polling booths home’. godown in Tirupati. suspended due to CO blocking it is not possible gi VID2019 and no one has ven the tough terrain. Mizo been being allowed since. ram shares a 510kmlong The fallout of this, officials border with Myanmar. ₹1,815 cr. for environment said, was that there has All the refugees who have BJP rebel talks of regime change again been an increase smuggling come in earlier have been across the border as the live housed in camps along the Despite warning, “The party high com nying it on public forums,” protection at Kadapa plant lihood of people has been border by the local adminis mand wants to change Chief he said. Mr. Singh publicly disrupted due to the tration and security forces Yatnal remains Ministers in three States — snubbed Mr. Yatnal last week Plan for green belt on 485 hectares pandemic. have no direct access. unrepentant Uttarakhand, Karnataka and saying he need not be taken On February 26, the State For Central agencies and Haryana — of which one (Ut seriously. V. Raghavendra surrounded on three sides government issued a Stan Assam Rifles on the ground, Karnataka Bureau tarakhand) has already been The party high com VIJAYAWADA by the steel plant site, and dard Operating Procedure it is a tricky situation in Belagavi/Bengaluru done and the other two will mand’s delay in taking disci As part of its Environment raise a 50metre green belt (SOP) to Deputy Commis maintaining a delicate ba Amidst campaigning for by be changed post the As plinary action against Mr. Management Plan (EMP) for buffer zone around it. sioners detailing how the re lance in executing the MHA polls in the State, Basana sembly polls in some States,” Yatnal has irked the Chief Mi the integrated steel plant in These are among the 24 fugees are to be handled. orders and maintaining the gouda Patil Yatnal, Bharatiya he claimed. nister’s camp no end, espe Jammalamadugu mandal of specific conditions laid This was subsequently re cordial relations with the Janata Party (BJP) MLA, His party having cially since the notice has Kadapa district, the Andhra down by the expert apprai voked after directions from States agencies and the lo yet again forecast a lea served him a show Basanagouda Patil Yatnal done little to silence his pu Pradesh government has sal committee of the Minis the Ministry of Home Affairs cals, the official added. dership change in Kar cause notice as to why blic criticism. earmarked approximately try of Environment, Forest (MHA). In a letter to the four nataka, and said it was disciplinary action stant critic of Mr. Yediyurap On Sunday, the Chief Mi ₹1,815 crore towards the and Climate Change After the MHA directive, States bordering Myanmar necessary if “the party should not be taken pa. nister’s political secretary capital cost of air, water which have to be no one is being allowed to dated March 10, the MHA has to survive in the against him, and be “The high command M.P. Renukacharya hit back and noise pollution con complied with in a enter India from Myanmar said State governments have State”. ing snubbed by party knows that the leadership at Mr. Yatnal calling him a trol, green belt and timebound manner. and the Assam Rifles, which no powers to grant refugee Speaking at Vijayap incharge Arun Singh has to be changed if the par “Congress agent” and said a open area develop is the border guarding force status to any foreigner and ura, he said this would hap publicly several times, ty has to survive in the State. group of MLAs was sche ment, rain harvesting River protection there, is keeping a close India is not a signatory to pen after the upcoming As seems to have had little im Even Mr. Singh knows this is duled to meet on Monday to structures, occupation Some of the other watch, said a second local the United Nations Refugee sembly election. pact on Mr. Yatnal, a con imminent, but has been de give Mr. Yatnal a fitting reply. al health and safety conditions are the in official. However, the bor Convention of 1951 and its measures etc. stallation of a waste recy der is porous and unlike the 1967 Protocol. It also includes an annual cling plant for recovering CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC recurring cost of ₹53 crore. metal and flux from the The government is under blast furnace slag, water an obligation to develop a consumption should not ex Kumbh: Centre warns Barter continues in this Andhra hamlet green belt of native tree spe ceed 3.96 cubic metres per cies on about 485 hectares, ton of steel produced and Women exchange their products at throwaway which is roughly 33.31% of the development of a biodi of COVID-19 ‘upsurge’ rates. the total project area, ac versity park on 10 hectares. forest produce for On March 19, this cording to official sources. The Penna river which “We have increased the bus cerns raised by the NCDC rice and salt correspondent documented Another important sub flows 1.60 km from the site es to transport people and led team. the thriving sales at the component of the EMP is is to be protected from ef seers to the various pilgrim The government has T. Appala Naidu shandy, where tribals traded the mandate to set up a 10 fluents. age spots. This event hap been advised to “scrupu EDUGURALLAPALLI sesame seeds, dry mahua metre high dust curtain that A 24×7 effluent and emis pens once in 12 years and it lously follow” the Health Mi The Edugurallapalli tribal flowers, tamarind seeds and shields the ancient Kanya sion monitoring system is al would be wrong to discour nistry’s guidelines including shandy that gathers on tamarind fruit primarily in Teertham temple which is so to be put in place. age people from taking a ho display signages, increasing Fridays is reminiscent of the exchange for two ly dip,” he had said. awareness of selfreporting ancient barter system. commodities — rice and The Health Ministry symptoms of cases sugges Here the tribals exchange iodised salt. team, led by Sujeet Kumar tive of COVID19, to increase forest produce for rice, Very few tribals were seen Singh, Director, National testing, particularly in po iodised salt and other accepting money for Centre of Disease Control in tential high transmission commodities. The shandy is commodities. Delhi, had visited Uttarak areas and after key auspi in Chintoor Agency in Presently, a kg of dried hand on March 16 and 17 to cious days of the 30day fes Andhra Pradesh’s East mahua flowers (used by the review the preparedness tival. Godavari district. local tribes to brew liquor) measures undertaken by The Melalinked ceremo The majority of those Counter is open: A woman from Chhattisgarh readying ‘mahua’ and sesame are being traded the State for the Mela. nies are expected to last for engaged in exchanging the flowers for sale in East Godavari district of A.P. * T. APPALA NAIDU for two kg of rice or a few Rajesh Bhushan, Secre most of next month. A for forest produce are Muria packets of iodised salt. tary, Ministry of Health and mal order specifying new tribal women from Banda shandy and return in the produce, thus exploiting the The products traded here Family Welfare, wrote to Ut guidelines that pilgrims are and Muriagudem areas in evening. tribals. Communication in varies every season but tarakhand Chief Secretary expected to adhere to is ex the Naxalhit Sukma region In the ‘exchange trade the tribal language enables mahua is sold round the Utpal Kumar Singh on Sun pected to be made public by in Chhattisgarh. They travel practice’, middlemen decide nontribal middlemen to year, according to some day, highlighting the con the month end. nearly 40 km to reach the the worth of the forest convince the Muria to sell traders.

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‘Centre silent Rahul, Priyanka crisscross on Chinese Assam, but skip West Bengal dam projects’ SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT They may campaign with the Left only after polling in Kerala GUWAHATI Congress general secretary SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on New Delhi Sunday slammed the BJP With Congress general se government for not object cretary Priyanka Vadra mak ing to China building a dam ing a strong pitch on behalf on the upper reaches of of Debabrata Saikia, Leader the Brahmaputra in Tibet, of the Opposition in the As which would aﬀect the life sam Assembly, at Nazira on and economy of the people Sunday, she and her brother, in Assam. former Congress president She said Prime Minister Rahul Gandhi, have fo Narendra Modi’s attack on cussed on the State for the the Congress based on a third day in a row. conspiracy theory trig gered by the tweet of a 22 Assam campaign yearold (green activist Dis Mr. Gandhi wound up his ha Ravi) did not behove of twoday trip on Saturday his position. with the release of the ma At election rallies in Jor nifesto in Guwahati, while hat, Nazira and Khumtai in Ms. Vadra will spend anoth eastern Assam, Ms. Vadra er day in Assam and visit the said the dam being built by birthplace of 15th century China would damage the Vaishnavite saint Srimanta Big pitch: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi during ecology associated with

Sankardev, as the Congress campaigning in Sivasagar district of Assam on Sunday. * PTI the Brahmaputra. tries to wrest back the State “The Prime Minister has that was once its bastion. a close fight, it does not want play the kingmaker’s role. campaigned in Assam sev But the top party cam to be seen as having any In Assam, where the par eral times but said not a paigners have carefully “soft spot” for the Left and ty’s internal surveys have word on this vital issue ,” avoided campaigning in will welcome some extra ag shown a gap between the she said. neighbouring West Bengal. gression from the Gandhi si ruling BJP and the Congress, She said Mr. Modi was Party insiders say Mr. blings. On Monday, Mr. the party is pushing Ms. Va delivering poll speeches Gandhi, a Lok Sabha mem Gandhi has a series of pro dra and Mr. Gandhi besides that a Prime Minister of a ber from Kerala, is likely to grammes in Kochi and Alap banking on the strength of country was not expected campaign for the Left Front puzha districts. its alliance with the All India to make. She said this in re Congress alliance in Bengal In Bengal, where the high United Democratic Front, ference to Mr. Modi raking only after Kerala voting is ov pitched battle seems fo led by Badruddin Ajmal, and up the toolkit issue to claim er on April 6 as the CPI(M) cused on the ruling Trina the Bodo People’s Front. that the Congress was col led Left Democratic Front mool Congress and the BJP, Though the emergence of luding with foreign forces (LDF) is the Congress’s main the Left FrontCongress al regional parties such as the to finish off Assam’s tea in rival in Kerala. liance is fighting for its polit Asom Jatiya Parishad and dustry. A source said that if the ical relevance. the Raijor Dal out of the anti She said the BJP had Gandhis campaign alongside Citizenship (Amendment) “two CMs” in the State, an Left party leaders in Bengal Best scenario in Bengal Act (CAA) movement had indirect reference to Fi ahead of the Kerala voting, it A senior Congress leader threatened to make it a nance Minister Himanta will send “confusing signals” told The Hindu that a hung threecornered fight, the Biswa Sarma who, rivals to workers and voters. Assembly in Bengal would Congress has stepped up the say, wields more power In Kerala, where the Con be the best possible scenario campaign to make it a bipo than Chief Minister Sarba gress’s own assessment is of for the alliance as it could lar contest in most seats. nanda Sonowal.

‘Pay revised wages to Sisir Adhikari joins BJP at rally Ahom warrior a symbol of tea workers’ ‘Mir Jafars’ have brought the BJP to West Bengal, says Mamata Banerjee atmanirbhar military: PM SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Shiv Sahay Singh vernment at the Centre and GUWAHATI Kolkata the State. Modi addresses election rally in eastern Assam Assam Finance Minister Trinamool Congress MP Sisir The Home Minister also and BJP’s chief poll strate Adhikari was present at a pu promised to implement the SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT gist Himanta Biswa Sarma blic meeting addressed by Seventh Pay Commission for GUWAHATI on Sunday warned tea es Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) employees of the govern Prime Minister Narendra tate owners to pay daily leader and Union Home Mi ment of West Bengal if the Modi on Sunday called 17th wages to their workers at nister Amit Shah on Sunday. BJP was voted to power. century Ahom General La the revised rate or face the Mr. Sisir Adhikari, who re chit Borphukan a symbol of music. presents the Kanthi Lok Sab CM’s charge India’s “atmanirbhar” mili Addressing an election ha constituency in Purba Addressing a public meeting tary might. rally in eastern Assam’s Medinipur district, said that Chief Minister Mamata Ba He waxed eloquent on the Mahmora, Dr. Sarma said, he was pushed towards the nerjee said that ‘Mir Jafars’ legendary military strategist “Your daily wage was ₹96 BJP by the Trinamool. had brought the BJP to West days after referring to him as before Narendra Modi be “There is no question of hav Bengal. a freedom fighter who “con Prime Minister Narendra Modi waving at the crowd during an came Prime Minister. We ing any ties with the Trina “I used to respect them a tributed to the indepen election rally at Bokakhat, Golaghat district, on Sunday. * PTI revised it to ₹217 but a few mool,” he said. Planning strategy: Amit Shah arriving for a meeting with lot, shower lot of love. Today dence of the country” at a tea garden owners went to His son Suvendu Adhikari officebearers of Purba Medinipur at Mecheda on Sunday. * PTI there are saying that they programme to launch the He said Borphukan used er, to victory over the Mugh the High Court against the had joined the BJP in Decem were in touch with BJP since ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’ the Brahmaputra’s water als. The Prime Minister said revision in connivance ber and is contesting against said. sents the Tamluk Lok Sabha 2014. It is these Mir Jafars on March 12. power to defeat forces inimi Borphukan was the inspira with the Congress.” Chief Minister Mamata Ba At Mr. Shah’s rally, the se constituency, has not ruled who have brought BJP to Addressing a rally for the cal to India. “The great Gen tion behind strengthening “I am warning tea gar nerjee from the Nandigram nior leader raised the slogan out the possibility of joining West Bengal,” she said refer Asom Gana Parishad, BJP’s eral taught us to be India’s naval force and revi den owners that they constituency in the district. Bharat Mata ki Jai (Long live the BJP. ring to the members of the ally, at Bokakhat in eastern atmanirbhar (selfsufficient) talising inland water tran should straightaway pay Mother India), and said that Addressing the rally at Adhikari family. Assam, Mr. Modi said, “This in military warfare and our sport and creating infras the workers at a rate of ‘Battle for Medinipur’ he had joined the BJP the ve Egra in Purba Medinipur, Mr. The Chief Minister said land belongs to Lachit Bor armed forces are heading in tructure. ₹217. They will otherwise “It is battle for the prestige of ry day Mr. Suvendu Adhikari Shah emphasised on the par that even the Trinamool phukan, one of India’s great that direction,” he added. The Congress termed Mr. be made to pay ₹350 if they Medinipur... Whatever Su joined the party. Another ty’s slogan of making Sonar Congress candidates which est sons who saved Assam In 1671, Borphukan led Modi’s new take on the le keep stalling the revised vendu is saying will turn MP from the district, Dibyen Bangla (golden Bengal) in the “landlords” of Purba Me from outside forces with his the Ahoms in the Battle of gendary Ahom General as wage with support from true… Suvendu will win Nan du Adhikari, who belongs to the next five years, propelled dinipur did not like were swadeshi (indigenous) stra Saraighat, considered the “damage control” after the the Congress,” he said. digram,” Mr. Sisir Adhikari the same family and repre by the doubleengine go made to lose in the district. tegy.” greatest naval battle on a riv gaffe almost a fortnight ago. BJP’s Bengal manifesto offers Fadnavis demands CPWD to lay three roads CAA, job quota for women Deshmukh’s ouster near China border in Ladakh BJP seeks courtmonitored inquiry

Document is a vision for realising Sonar Bangla: Shah Special Correspondent highlighted the racket of It has floated tenders worth ₹212.99 crore for the purpose Pune transfers within the Police Special Correspondent received international ac riod of misrule” of the Trina A day after a letter allegedly Department and the ex Damini Nath Kolkata claim. mool Congress government written by former Mumbai change of money. He had NEW DELHI The BJP on Sunday promised Mr. Shah promised the im for the low development indi Police Commissioner Param submitted this report along The Central Public Works reservation of 33% for wo plementation of the CAA in cators. Accusing the Trina Bir Singh levelled charges of with transcripts,” the BJP Department (CPWD) has men in government jobs, im the first Cabinet meeting of mool of indulging in politics ‘extortion’ against Maha leader said in Nagpur on floated tenders worth a total plementation of the Citizen the BJP government in West of appeasement, Mr. Shah rashtra Home Minister Anil Sunday. of ₹212.99 crore this month ship (Amendment) Act (CAA) Bengal. The BJP had pro said citizens under the BJP Deshmukh, the Leader of Remarking that the series for laying and maintenance and allocation of ₹18,000 mised its implementation in rule will not have to ap the Opposition and former of incidents after the arrest of three highaltitude roads pending to 75 lakh farmers the 2019 Lok Sabha polls too proach the courts for holding Chief Minister Devendra of Assistant Police Inspector near the IndiaChina border under the PM Kisan Samman after the Bill was passed in Durga and Saraswati Puja. Fadnavis demanded that (API) Sachin Vaze in connec in Ladakh. Nidhi in its manifesto for Parliament. During the run The BJP also promised Mr. Deshmukh resign imme tion with the security scare While the projects are tit West Bengal. Releasing the up to the campaign, the BJP ₹6,000 per annum for fisher diately. outside industrialist Mukesh led as roads “to IndoChina “Sonar Bangla Sonkolpo Po leadership including Mr. men. The manifesto also pro Mr. Fadnavis further al Ambani’s residence had cast Border” from the IndoTibe tro 2021”, Union Home Minis Shah have maintained that mised Annapurna Canteens leged that former Maharash aspersions on the function tan Border Police bases at Following protocol: All three roads will be singlelane projects ter Amit Shah said the manif the rules for the CAA are be where subsided cooked tra DirectorGeneral of Pol ing of the Uddhav Thacke Shilung La, Nyakmikle and built to specifications of the National Highways. * FILE PHOTO esto is a vision of realising the ing framed and the Act will meals at ₹5 a day will be ice (DGP) Subodh Jaiswal, rayled Maha Vikas Aghadi Hena, the three tender docu party’s slogan of Sonar Ban- be implemented after the served thrice a day. A similar too, had submitted an ex (MVA) government, Mr. Fad ments said: “The work is sit Shilung La base was estimat tee on Home Affairs report gla (Golden Bengal). vaccination for COVID19 is announcement of “Maa can tensive report to the Chief navis said the BJP demand uated in Leh District of U.T. ed to take 42 months and presented on March 15, the The BJP also promised free completed. The CAA is an teens” was made by the Tri Minister in which he alleg ed a courtmonitored inqui of Ladakh near International cost ₹93.8 crore, according Centre had informed the pa education for girls from KG to emotive issue for the Matuas, namool Congress. edly pointed to rampant ry and that it would keep on Border.” All the three roads to the tender document. nel that a “standalone pro PG, free rides for women in Hindu refugees who migrat The Trinamool Congress corruption within the State agitating until Mr. Desh would be single lane pro The Nyakmikle road pro ject” of constructing a criti public transport and condi ed from Bangladesh. They said the manifesto was re Home Department. mukh submitted his resigna jects as per the relevant ject was estimated at ₹55.37 cal road along the border in tional cash transfer to school can influence electoral re leased in Hindi and not Ben “Param Bir Singh’s letter tion. specifications of National crore and take 30 months Ladakh was ongoing. The girls in Class 6, 9, 11 and 12. It sults in 40 of the 294 seats. gali. “For the first time ever, a is not the first one to expose He said the matter could Highways, according to the for construction of the 9.29 Ministry of Home Affairs promised nine womanonly Mr. Shah also promised nonBengali has released a irregularities within the not be satisfactorily investi documents. km stretch. The 7.64km He told the panel, chaired by police battalions and three the implementation of Ay manifesto meant for Bengal State Home Department. gated if Mr. Deshmukh The CPWD floated one na project till the ITBP post Congress MP Anand Shar battalions under the State Re ushman Bharat in the first Ca because @BJP4Bengal did Subodh Jaiswal, too, had stayed on in his post and tender on March 12 and two was estimated to cost ₹63.82 ma, that 57 roads along the serve Police force. The Trina binet meet. He said the BJP not have a single ‘son of the submitted an extensive re that the latter would first on March 19 and set the date crore and take up to 30 IndiaChina border were be mool Congress has a condi government will ensure that soil’ to do the same. Bengal port on this to the Chief Mi have to resign. for opening of bids as April 8 months to construct, the ing constructed, as well as tional cash transfer scheme there is zero infiltration and will never forget this insult. nister raising issues regard “Param Bir Singh’s letter and April 15 respectively. tender document showed. 47 outposts, 32 helipads and for schoolgirls called Ka promised fencing of the bor #BengalRejectsGujaratiMa ing functioning of the Home contains irrefutable evi The singlelane road project According to the Parlia 18 foot tracks in Arunachal nyashree Scheme, which has der. He blamed the “black pe nifesto,” it tweeted. Department in which he dence,” he said. of 10.22 km length till the mentary Standing Commit Pradesh.

DELHI THE HINDU 12 NEWS MONDAY, MARCH 22, 2021 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF COVID-19 cases see a new high IndianIsraeli collaboration India records 43,846 new infections; six States account for over 80% of fresh cases testing oral COVID vaccine SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT NEW DELHI A year after Prime Minister But findings on formulation have not been published yet Om Birla tests positive Narendra Modi announced a for COVID-19 Jacob Koshy NEW DELHI ‘janta curfew’ that ended up teinbased VLP (Virus Like NEW DELHI Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla being a prelude to the na Particle) vaccine candidate” tested positive for COVID-19 tional lockdown on March 25 An IndianIsraeli collabora that generates “triple pro on March 19, confirmed a last year, new daily cases tion has reportedly deve tection” against the SARS statement by the All India skyrocketed to 43,846 — a loped an oral vaccine for CO CoV2 virus, i.e., it is able to Institute of Medical Sciences new high for this year — on VID19, one that can be target the spike, membrane, (AIIMS), Delhi on Sunday. Sunday. This took the num swallowed like a pill instead and envelope proteins of the The hospital said his ber of confirmed infections of being injected, as is the coronavirus. condition is stable and that in India to nearly 11.6 norm. A preliminary test in Oravax, the company de he was admitted for million. animals showed that the vac Preliminary tests showed veloping the vaccine, is a observation on March 20. Maharashtra, Punjab, Kar cine produced the expected that the vaccine produced joint venture between Pre nataka, Gujarat and Madhya antibodies that confer pro the expected antibodies. mas and Oramed. Lay out a comprehensive Pradesh accounted for 77.7% tection. However, the find “The vaccine candidate is vaccination plan: Cong. of the new cases in the 24 Nashik were the districts re least one dose and 4.8 mil have receieved the jabs. ings have not been reported months. Premas Biotech, a also safe, efficacious and NEW DELHI hours to 8 a.m. on Sunday. porting the highest number lion who have got both. India’s total active case in a scientific publication yet Gurugrambased biotech welltolerated at normal to The Congress on Sunday said Maharashtra reported of cases. About 8 million frontline load stood at three lakh, an and cannot be independent nology firm, and Oramed high doses, and generated the Centre should spell out a 27,126 cases followed by Pun workers have got the first increase of 20,639 cases ov ly verified. Pharmaceuticals, a Jerusa high titres of neutralising an “comprehensive vaccination jab with 2,578 and Kerala Over 4 crore doses dose, and 2.6 million have er the last 24 hours. There The product is also far lem headquartered compa tibodies. The VLP is manu plan” to cover India’s with 2,078. Almost 4.4 crore vaccine got both doses. were 197 deaths in the last 24 from being tested in human ny, have a longstanding col factured using Premas’ pro population against COVID-19. A little over 80% of the doses had been adminis About 17 million senior ci hours. Six States accounted trials, though company pro laboration on developing prietary DCrypt platform, Addressing a press new cases reported were tered till 7 a.m. on Sunday. tizens have been inoculated for 86% of the new deaths, moters say depending on new drug delivery which is highly scalable and conference, Congress from six States. The beneficiaries include with at least one dose, and with Maharashtra reporting how tests pan out, the vac techniques. can be manufactured on spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi said the second wave In Maharashtra, Pune, 7.7 million healthcare work 3.6 million people above 45 92, followed by Punjab with cine could be ready for hu The nascent COVID19 large scales,” Oravax said in was at India’s doorstep. He Nagpur, Mumbai, Thane and ers who have received at with specific comorbidities 38 and Kerala with 15 deaths. man trials in the next three vaccine candidate is a “pro a statement. said the Central government should come out with a plan to say that in 12 months, all would be vaccinated, but “we Corrective voice from top court have asked for a plan for SC walks a tightrope over vacancies months as otherwise, it would take decades and years at this rate”. against stereotyping women Collegium has to take into account both seniority and representation from HCs

Declare March 23 as Krishnadas Rajagopal year include Telangana Chief with Justices M.M. Shantana Inquilab Diwas: CPI It forbids judges from making such comments NEW DELHI Justice Kumari Hima Kohli, goudar, S. Abdul Nazeer and NEW DELHI The Supreme Court Collegi Chhattisgarh Chief Justice A.S. Bopanna. However, the The Communist Party of India legal correspondent abuse and sex stereotyping um is striving to reach a con P.R. Ramachandra Menon, name of Justice B.V. Naga (CPI) urged the Centre to NEW DELHI of women. sensus on recommendations Himachal Chief Justice L.N. rathna from Karnataka High declare March 23, the A judgment by the Supreme Some notable judgments to fill the five vacancies in Swamy and Uttarakhand Court is under consideration martyrdom day of Bhagat Court forbidding judges which have lashed out at sex the top court. Chief Justice R.S. Chauhan. in the Collegium to replace Singh and his comrades, as from making gender stereo stereotyping include the With barely a month left Justice Indu Malhotra’s va ‘Inquilab Diwas’ to be marked typical comments came as a framing of the Vishaka Gui for Chief Justice of India Sha Crowded space cancy. with a national public holiday. corrective voice from within delines on sexual harass rad A. Bobde to retire, the Of the remaining, however, While Allahabad High This year is the 90th the highest level of judiciary ment of women at workplac Collegium is discussing di most Chief Justices belong to Court Chief Justice Govind anniversary of the martyrdom of freedom fighters Bhagat in India. es, and Justice D.Y. verse opinions from within parent High Courts which al Mathur is from Rajasthan, Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru. The judgment, pro Chandrachud’s historic on issues like proportionate ready have multiple repre the Supreme Court already In an appeal, CPI general nounced on March 18, came The judgment comes days judgment giving women representation from various The year 2021 will see four sentations in the Supreme has Justices Ajay Rastogi and secretary D. Raja asked all days after the court ran into after CJI Bobde’s remark. Armed Forces officers equal High Courts and seniority retirements in the top court, Court judiciary. Dinesh Maheshwari from party units and student a maelstrom of criticism af access to Permanent Com among High Court judges be starting with Chief Justice For instance, Justice Oka’s that State. bodies to observe the day as ter the Chief Justice of India court, reflects adversely on mission while debunking fore finalising the names to Bobde, and Justices Ashok parent High Court is Bom ‘Inquilab Diwas’ to honour the (CJI), during a virtual hear the entire judicial system of the establishment’s claim recommend to the govern Bhushan, Rohinton Nariman bay, which now has the lar Lone representations freedom fighters’ memory ing on March 1, reportedly the country, undermining that women were physiolog ment for appointment. and Naveen Sinha. The latter gest representation in the There are in the Supreme and to take their ideas to the asked an alleged rapist’s la the guarantee to fair justice ically weaker than men. Proportionate representa two judges retire in August. Supreme Court with Chief Court, nevertheless, some people of the country. wyer to enquire whether his to all, and especially to vic Justice Chandrachud, in tion from High Courts and The names of several High Justice Bobde, followed by State HCs which have lone client would marry the tims of sexual violence (of the Permanent Commission seniority, though only con Court judges are in the zone Justices A.M. Khanwilkar, representations. These in Naxals kill constable survivor. any kind from the most ag for women officers case, ventions and not constitu of consideration. D.Y. Chandrachud and B.R. clude Justice N.V. Ramana, after abducting him gravated to the socalled mi said, “women officers of the tional or legal mandates, car Information published by Gavai. Justices Chandrachud the next CJI as per the senior BIJAPUR ‘Completely misquoted’ nor offences),” the judg Indian Army have brought ry weight during the the Law Ministry on March 1 and Gavai are in line to be ity norm, whose parent HC Naxals allegedly killed a On March 8, Chief Justice ment, authored by Justice S. laurels to the force … Their appointment process. shows that the s eniormost CJIs as per the seniority is Andhra; Justice Ramasu policeman, constable Sannu S.A. Bobde said he was Ravindra Bhat, said. track record of service to the among current Chief Justices norm. bramanian whose parent HC Punem, after abducting him “completely misquoted”. nation is beyond reproach. Fading strength of the 25 High Courts, as per Justice Vikram Nath’s pa is Madras; Justice K.M. Jo in Bijapur district of The CJI said the court had Series of orders To cast aspersions on their The last appointments to the their initial appointment in rent High Court is Allahabad. seph whose parent HC is Ker Chhattisgarh, an official said the highest respect for wo The judgment stopped abilities on the ground of Supreme Court were of Jus 2003 and 2004, are Karnata But this High Court already ala; Justice R.S. Reddy is the on Sunday. Punem was manhood. The top judge’s courts from trying to man gender is an affront not only tices Krishna Murari, S. Ra ka Chief Justice A.S. Oka, has three representations — sole representation from Te abducted on Saturday from statement coincided with In date marriage or compro to their dignity as women vindra Bhat, V. Ramasubra Tripura Chief Justice Akil Ab Justices Bhushan, Vineet Sa langana HC; Justice Roy Pondum village under ternational Women’s Day. mise between a sex offender but to the dignity of the manian and Hrishikesh Roy dulhamid Kureshi, Delhi ran and Murari. Justice Koh whose parent HC is Gauhati; Bhairmgarh police station Ten days later, a Bench of and his victim. It was based members of the Indian Army in September 2019. Chief Justice D.N. Patel, Alla li’s parent High Court is Del Justices M.R. Shah and Sinha limits and his body was found on Sunday near a rivulet. Justices A.M. Khanwilkar on an appeal against a Mad — men and women — who The past several months habad Chief Justice Govind hi, which has three from Gujarat and Patna HCs, “Punem, who was posted at and S. Ravindra Bhat, in its hya Pradesh High Court or serve as equal citizens in a have seen the Supreme Mathur, Gujarat Chief Justice representations in Justices respectively. Gangaloor police station, was judgment, urged courts to der directing an alleged mol common mission.” Court function under a se Vikram Nath and Calcutta S.K. Kaul, Sanjiv Khanna and In fact, the number of di on leave and had gone to avoid using reasoning or lan ester to “allow” his victim to In the Anuj Garg case, the ries of challenges posed by Chief Justice T.B. Radhak S. Ravindra Bhat in the top rect appointees from the Su Pondum, located around 450 guage which diminished a tie a rakhi on him. Supreme Court had rebuked the COVID19 pandemic, rishnan. court. preme Court Bar to the km away from capital Raipur,” sexual offence and tended to This judgment is one “the notion of romantic pa even as its judicial strength Of them, Chief Justices Then again, Justice Swa Bench — Justices Nariman, police said. A search trivialise the survivor. among a series of interven ternalism”, which, “in prac faded to 29 with the recent Mathur and Radhakrishnan my is from Karnataka. But U.U. Lalit and L. Nageswara operation has been launched “Even a solitary instance tions with which the top tical effect, put women, not retirement of Justice Indu will retire during the course this HC has three representa Rao — exceeds representa to trace the Naxals. PTI of such order or utterance in court has clamped down on on a pedestal, but in a cage”. Malhotra. of 2021. Others retiring this tions in the Supreme Court tion from some State HCs. Webinar to discuss Three held as ‘Varsity regrets events surrounding resignations’ woman, baby eradication of TB Top functionaries of Ashoka University say there were some ‘lapses’ in institutional processes die in U.P.

Special Correspondent Special Correspondent The joint statement terests of the university,” he Special Correspondent CHENNAI NEW DELHI comes after Professor Mehta wrote. “The underlying cir LUCKNOW A webinar on “Eradicating The top functionaries of Ash told Ashoka University stu cumstances that led to the A “doctor” who was found Tuberculosis — The Clock is oka University said in a joint dents that he will not with resignation will not change to have passed only Class 8 Ticking” will be conducted statement with Professors draw his resignation as “the for the foreseeable future, in and having no medical de at 5 p.m. on March 23 as Pratap Bhanu Mehta and Ar underlying circumstances my case, at any rate,” he said gree was among three per part of The Hindu Wellness vind Subramanian on Sun that led to [it] will not in the letter. sons arrested after a preg Series presented by day that they regretted the change for the foreseeable Professor Mehta resigned nant woman and her Macleods. events surrounding the re future”. earlier this week after a unborn child died due to a S.K. Katiyar, former pre signations of the two. meeting with the universi faulty deliveryrelated sur sident, Indian College of The statement, by Chan ‘Closed chapter’ ty’s founders made it clear gery, allegedly done with a Chest Physicians and In chest physician due to social cellor Rudrangshu Mukher In a letter to his students on that his association with the blade, at a hospital in Sul dian Chest Society; Ashok stigma or reasons such as jee, ViceChancellor Malabi Sunday, he insisted that his institution could be consi tanpur district of Uttar Mahasur, senior chest con nonavailability of drugs at ka Sarkar, Chairman of the in consultation with all sta sor Mehta and Professor time with Ashoka was a dered a “political liability”. Pradesh. sultant, P.D. Hinduja Hos DOTS centres, interim man Board of Trustees Ashish keholders. This will reaffirm Subramanian were “sad to closed chapter. Professor Subramanian, Apart from the fake doc pital, Mumbai; Vijay Agar agement of patients waiting Dhawan, Professor. Mehta our commitment to academ be leaving Ashoka” and that “[It] is not an easy deci former Chief Economic Ad tor Rajendra Prasad Shuk wal, business development for culture sensitivity data and Professor Subramanian, ic autonomy and freedom they continued to believe sion. But it is, for me, the on viser, resigned in solidarity la, 54, the manager of the director, Macleods Phar and role of nutrition in the said: “We acknowledge that which have always been at that the university “embo ly honourable thing to do, two days later, saying the Un hospital, Rajesh Kumar maceuticals Ltd. and Shil management of TB will be there have been some lapses the core of the Ashoka Un dies a liberal vision and com consistent with my values, iversity could “no longer Sahni, 32, and a driver pa Joshi, vicepresident, In discussed . in institutional processes iversity ideals.” mitment to academic free values I think you share. I al provide a space for academic Arun Kumar Mishra, who dian Dietetic Association, The session will be moder which we will work to rectify The statement said Profes dom and autonomy”. so believe it is in the best in expression and freedom”. allegedly assisted in the op are the panelists. ated by eration, were also arrested, Topics such as the status Shubash the police said. The three of tuberculosis in India to ree Desi were booked after police day, pulmonary and extra kan, senior Research institution joins efforts to bring law on right to health found the hospital run by pulmonary TB, is TB eradi assistant them to be unregistered , cation possible and wheth editor, The said Superintendent of Pol er the country is on track, Hindu. To Quality of medical services cannot be measured unless the standards are laid down: IIHMR ice, Sultanpur, Arvind Cha the role of private practi register for the session, visit: turvedi. tioners, management of http://bit.ly/TBTHWS or scan Special Correspondent mentation of the Rajasthan year as part of measures to The Indian Public Health namic process. The standards The matter came to light patients who approach a the QR code. JAIPUR Model of Public Health, while reinforce health infrastruc Standards (IPHS), set by the can further be enhanced after Rajaram approached A Jaipurbased research insti presenting the State Budget ture and ensure accessibility Union government, have also when a satisfactory level of the Baldirai police station tution has joined the efforts on February 24, and said that to all citizens. been revised keeping in view medical investigation, treat on March 17, alleging that 2 PDP leaders quit party for bringing a “robust legisla it would include a Right to The scheme stipulates the changing protocols of the ment and supply of drugs is he had taken his wife, 33, tion” on right to health in Ra Health Bill as well as mea cashless health services up to existing programmes. achieved,” he said. for delivery to the Jai Ma Peerzada Ashiq from the basic membership jasthan with the emphasis on sures for preventive, primary ₹5 lakh to every family in the Dr. Sodani highlighted the Sharda Hospital, where Srinagar of the party. Mr. Reshi an setting the standards for de and curative care as envi State. ‘Dynamic process’ aspect of ensuring high quali Shukla, the hospital man Two more Peoples Demo nounced his ‘dissociation’ livery of services, human re sioned by the World Health The Indian Institute of IIHMR president P.R. Sodani ty of public health services at ager and the driver carried cratic Party (PDP) leaders from the PDP during a meet sources and medical facilities. Organisation (WHO). Health Management Research said here on Saturday that the a Statelevel consultation on out an operation on his quit the party on Sunday ing in Sonawari. The 202122 State budget has The Mukhya Mantri Chi (IIHMR) has recommended quality of medical services the Right to Health Act here. wife. without citing any reasons. The fresh resignations made a provision for the law ranjeevi Yojana will also be setting of standards in accor could not be measured unless He said the State government During the operation, Khursheed Aalam, PDP’s come just days after Arif along with a new model of pu launched on May 1 as a univer dance with the resources the standards were laid down should first set the norms and the baby died and his wife Srinagar face, and Yasir Amin, the party’s young blic health. sal health care scheme with available in the State to match as per the availability of re later allow flexibility to suit suffered from excessive Reshi, a former legislator face from Pulwama, joined Chief Minister Ashok Geh an allocation of ₹3,500 crore with the rights of patients as sources at primary and terti the diverse needs of different bleeding, Mr. Rajaram from Bandipora resigned the Peoples Conference. lot had announced the imple in the upcoming financial well as the service providers. ary levels. “It should be a dy regions. alleged.

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ty is vaccination. For new pa SREEJITH R KUMAR rents trying to determine the * :: Damon Centola credibility and safety of vac 7 cines, the opinions of other pa In 2017, two social scientists rents are often seen as more re 1,500ppm,” explains from Stanford University, Lau levant than the opinions of Dr Abhirami. ren Howe and Benoit Monin, expert epidemiologists. It is not Brush for two mi wanted to find out how to make surprising that physicians’ ad :: Susan Joe Philip nutes with a peasize health messages from physi vice about vaccination is often amount of toothpaste. The cians more effective. For de more influential when they The FDI World Dental Federation angle of the bristles should be cades, marketing firms have re share stories about vaccinating tells us that 2.3 billion people such that it reaches the gum line. lied on the popular idea that their own children. across the world suffer from tooth “Brush in a small circular mas medical experts are the most in The same principle powers caries of permanent teeth. sagelike motion and cover the en fluential people for spreading the success of the online patient “One of the most important rea tire surface of your teeth. Do not healthandlifestyle changes. If community Patients Like Me. sons for this is not cleaning our be too harsh. Also, avoid a hori a physician wants you to try a People with rare illnesses are re teeth properly. This can lead to zontal motion as that can be abra new diet, they would be most ceptive to advice coming from the formation of a sticky layer sive,” explains Dr Mathew. convincing if they were to mo others who have the same con called plaque in which bacteria Airdry the brush after each use del that behaviour themselves. dition. For patients considering called Streptococcus mutans pro and store each one’s separately, But for an obese patient, a the use of a new medical device liferate. It produces an acid that or, “It can cause bacterial transf healthy physician who advertis An or weighing whether to join a demineralises our teeth, which in er,” says Dr Abhirami. She also re es the merits of exercise by dis randomized controlled trial, ad turn leads to cavities, gum pro commends using dental floss and cussing their personal routine is vice from peers who have faced blems, and eventually loss of mouthwash once every day. “Floss not in fact likely to be an effec similar challenges is often teeth,” explains Dr K Abhirami, or helps to clean in between the tive source of influence. In fact, viewed as more credible than thodontist and associate pProfes teeth. Do not use anything else this rolemodel strategy can advice from medical sor, Department of Dental Sur like toothpicks or pins to clean backfire: Howe and Monin influential professionals. gery, PSGIMSR, Coimbatore. these areas. Also, most of the com found that less healthy patients Excerpted with permission mercially available mouth washes feel judged — even devalued — from Change: How To Make Big When should we clean our tend to be strong and cause a mild by physicians who advertise Things Happen by Damon Cen- teeth? burning sensation. To avoid this, their own healthy lifestyles. The tola, published by John Murray/ We should brush our teeth twice dilute it with water in a 1:1 ratio be unintended effect is to make pa Hachette India daily: in the morning when we fore using,” she adds. tients less receptive to medical matter wake up and at night before sleep. advice regarding changes to “As the natural cleansing action For children their diets and exercise habits. young, athletic, and fit. In happening in our teeth is mini Cleaning of teeth should begin as When people need to be con fact, my colleague who mum at night, it is important to soon as the first teeth appear, vinced that a new behaviour or spoke up was a runner who <> Doctors’ ability clean and remove any of the resi usually when a child is around six technology will be useful for had been a competitive ath to persuade dual food particles from our teeth months old. One can begin by them, the most influential con lete all through college and their patients to before we go to sleep. Make sure wiping the teeth with a wet wash tacts are typically people who graduate school. try something not to eat anything post this. Also, cloth or a soft silicone brush. As resemble them. In the dietdi It didn’t matter. Nor did it brush your teeth in the morning to your child is around one, intro new may come ary study, for example, obese matter that we were all working clean any of the bacterial buildup duce a smallsized, softbristled participants were far more like on healthpolicy research at the not from their at night,” says Dr Mathew Baby, brush. Dr Gopika Sharma, consul ly to adopt the innovation when time; somehow the lecturer had medical public health dentist, Tooth Fairy tant paediatric and preventive they learned about it from simi United States, and the changes made us all feel selfcon authority but Dental Clinic, Ernakulam. dentist, Phoenix Hospital, New larly overweight peers. For that most Americans needed to sciously different from him. from their Delhi, explains, “Initially just wet them, less healthy people were make to their diets. None of us could even re perceived The process it to make it soft before using it. more relevant sources of in Afterward, my colleagues member the main points similarities with While children can use brushes Later, introduce a grain size fluence than highly fit ones. and I stood silently in the lobby. of the lecture. All we the patients specifically designed for their age, amount of fluoride toothpaste. Af I once attended a lecture by a Finally, someone spoke. “I have could think adults can choose a soft or medi ter brushing, keep rinsing to a mi world expert on the topic of never felt so defensive in my en um bristled toothbrush. The nimum to benefit from the fluo obesity. He presented a chart of tire life,” he said. “All I could brush should be replaced once in ride in the paste. After three years heighttoweight ratios and think about was how skinny three months. For toothpaste, any of age, toothpaste can be a pea asked the audience to find that lecturer was.” We burst into brand which contains fluoride can size amount.” themselves on that chart. He a chorus of agreement. be used. “It protects teeth from then proceeded to lecture them My colleagues and I were all cavities and the optimum level of In this column, we introduce you to or on the problem of obesity in the recent PhDs. All of us were fluoride is between 1,350ppm and remind you of basic wellness hacks

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In the process I have booking of time slots, restricted Manisha, of the loss of pace and been told that I tend to numbers, and fewer pools form. “A well conditioned swim get personal, impatient, reopening. mer won’t take more than four and unavailable to swims to get back to prepandemic reason. Overall ill-health levels.” She says others may take My submission to Manisha Khungar, a swim coach in up to eight weeks. “Stick with the those like I who have Gurugram is waiting until April, drills, look at stroke and technique :: TT SRINATH suffered owing to our when summer is fully here, to be correction. Be regular and inability or gin coaching. She wants to wait consistent.” I have just negotiated unwillingness to out the changeofweather period Pooja Zeuch, an aqua aerobics sale of a personal asset dialogue, results in such of “coughcold symptoms that teacher at the Conrad in Bengalu and while I assumed all messy situations. overlap with COVID19 ones”. ru says her batches have just six was clear when we In human interaction In order to make sure people do people, where earlier there were spoke, several ‘conflict’ or not show up at the pool sick, even 15. She now does three sessions unspoken issues disagreement may arise, if it is a regular flu, pools are now rather than one. “I have created seemed to have yet as was said to me by offering addon periods, so people stations so that there is social dis remained dormant and an eminent own up to their sickness and not tancing,” she says, adding that pe not talked through. businessman, “We can forgo using the facility. “Earlier we ople would earlier exchange Consequently after disagree yet we need would say no to makeup classes; equipment in a circuit, which is the deal was done, both not become now we would rather people stay not done any longer. “Earlier, if the purchaser and I have disagreeable.” The away for those two or three weeks the next batch came in early, I been left with a feeling former may leave both, and take the classes at a later would tell them to get in the pool of being shortchanged. the other and I perhaps date,” says Nisha Millet, who runs to wait; now that is not done.” Our inability to only misunderstood, training in 11 centres across Benga Manisha says many people are confront what we but the latter will surely luru. Fitso centres in DelhiNCR opting to get trainers to condomi believe or imagine is reveal us to be offer this extension too. nium pools so they are aware of ‘ugly and comfortable’ intolerant and even Nisha’s academy has twoweek medical history. For tweaks to and not address it when obnoxious. SWIM training classes in addition to technique, she has found that she it must, results in, as I monthlong ones, because of the can coach from outside of the wa have just experienced, The writer is an overall uncertainty. Most pools ter. Nisha says her instructors have souring of what may organisational and will ask for a health declaration. been taught to hold the kickboard have been a fruitful behavioural consultant. He at one end while the child holds can be contacted at season is here association and leads to [email protected] In the water the other, to be as distant as immense trust deficit. Pick a pool that does not allow possible. :: Sunalini Mathew through the water in pools…” walkins and restricts entry to only However, it is best to be cau a few, so you will need to book a Before and after a swim Pools are opening up across the tious, check pool protocol, and al time slot that is fixed. Now, lanes Masks, temperature checks, saniti country, and while many doctors ways maintain physical distance in are designated, with one person sation are all a part of onground say they are best avoided because the water, on the deck, and in per lane only, for a metre long protocol. In addition, make sure of crowds and the looming second changing rooms. Swimming facili physical distancing to be main you are not touching other peo wave of infections, it is not the wa ties and trainers are putting some tained. If there is no lane divide, ple’s towels or clothes. ter itself that is the problem. precautions in place. Check for avoid crowding or standing in If possible, shower in an out The US’ Centers for Disease these at your local pool. groups. door area before you plunge into Control and Prevention says that it Know that you may experience Safety first (Top) Aqua aerobics by With events having begun, ama the pool. You could opt not to en “is not aware of any scientific re reduced use of changing facilities, Pooja Zeuch; (above) One of the teur athletes are often in a hurry to ter the changing room after, dry ports of the virus that causes CO more physical health checks, and pools run by Nisha Millet get back to training. “Take it slow, off in the sun, and head home to * GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCK VID19 spreading to people depleted access with advance * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT and don’t judge yourself,” says bathe and change. 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Unplugged Anoushka Shankar ‘I don’t * LAURA LEWIS CHOOSE PROJECTS out of fear’ ‘De-exotify’

Shriya Pilgaonkar, who will soon be seen in Haathi Mere Saathi, asserts that she has a long-term the sitar approach to her career in cinema Ahead of the release of her latest single, ‘Sister Susannah’, sitar exponent Anoushka Shankar ed actors who could take that leap of 50year career plan talks about the evolution of the instrument faith and do what was necessary . Step In her growing years, she had observed ping into this film after Baahubali, Rana her parents Sachin and Supriya Pilgaon went through a transformation.” kar straddling the worlds of television, Haathi Mere Saathi was scheduled to theatre and cinema. However, she as Sweta Akundi uu’, and there we are. Someone release in April 2020 but was serts that she never took it for grant Sangeetha Devi Dundoo gets high and ‘treeaiuu’, flying for director Prabhu Solomon. One of his postponed owing to the pan ed that she would be a performer. Anouska Shankar has never carpets and ‘treeaiuu’,” — the si earlier films, Kumki, was the story of a demic. Shriya says the wait A competitive swimmer, she also shied away from talking about tar, to the world, is a cultural Haathi Mere Saathi (Aranya in Telugu pet elephant being made to masquerade will be worth it since this will began learning Kathak. “Per abuse. Four years before the marker of India. The imagery is and Kaadan in Tamil), the trilingual that as a fighter/kumki elephant. Haathi Mere be an “audiovisual sensory forming in front of people came MeToo movement took hold part of its journey but to limit it is scheduled to release on March 26, nar Saathi, Shriya explains, required the ac experience where the au naturally to me. Then I took to globally, in 2013, the sitar expo to one particular picture does it rates the story of a ‘jungle man’ fighting tors to surrender themselves to the direc dience will feel like they are in theatre, documentaries and nent revealed in a video that a disservice,” she says. to save elephants. The film, headlined by tor’s vision of narrating a story that talks a forest, watching things un cinema.” she had been sexually abused Having been surrounded by Rana Daggubati, stars Shriya Pilgaonkar about the need for humans to respect fold.” Shriya was noticed in A look shows diversity, not as a child. In the following Indian classical music all her life as a reporter who decides to walk the forest boundaries. mainstream cinema when she dictated by the need to be in a years, she was candid about her — Anoushka had been perform path of truth and do her bit in the fight acted in the Shah Rukh Khan rat race. “Young actors are of father, Pandit Ravi Shankar, un ing with her father since she for justice. Off the grid starrer Fan. She then worked ten told that their careers dergoing a similar experience. was 10, — she says, “I grew up The film required her and Rana to She joined the team when they had com in both films and web series, might last 10 years. I look So in a way, her latest song, with it, so of course I have all shoot in all three languages, learning pleted filming in Thailand and moved to including Mirzapur. at it longterm, say a 50 Sister Susannah has been years the love and respect for it, but I their lines so that the lipsync would not Kerala. year career. I don’t in the making. also think the sitar is a beautiful be off . So far, Shriya has worked in a “The hotel was a good hour and a half choose projects out of ...... Written by poet Nikita Gill, and fascinating instrument, in French movie, Hindi and Marathi films, away from the location. We travelled by fear. I am open to work and recited in spoken word by dependent of that musical but this was her first brush with Tamil road to reach the forest zone, where Shriya was noticed ing in films and series Anoushka over loops of the si style,” she says. and Telugu. “I was particular that I won’t there was no mobile network. Being one in mainstream in different languages tar, the track is a satirical take “Traditionally, the sitar speak gibberish,” she says, referring to a with Nature helped me get into charac within India and in from the point of view of a con would be recorded with one mi shortcut that some film units and actors ter. I liked Arundhati’s [her character in cinema when she ternationally. The acted in the Shah trolling man. “It creates this crophone. It is a phenomenal tend to take. “Dialogues are an impor the film] arc in the film, she decides to languageregion di tension in the song, which I acoustic with a bright sound, tant part of your performance and I stand her ground and not bow to Rukh Khan-starrer visions are blur hope will broaden the conversa but it also would not translate wanted to learn the lines from the Tamil, pressure.” Fan. She has also ring.” tion around abuse and vio into other situations very well. Telugu and Hindi writers,” she says, ad Letting go of urban comforts and been part of lence,” says Anoushka, over a If you play with a band, a loud ding that she found the challenge excit roughing it out in the forest, she says, call from her London home, drum kit, or a plugged in guitar ing, rather than daunting. was rewarding. “Prabhu sir was clear Mirzapur Jungle tales Shriya Pilgaonkar where she is waiting out the for example, the sitar just won’t The dense forests are familiar terrain how he wanted to tell this story; he want * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT pandemic with her two sons. be heard,” she says. ‘“Sister Susannah’ is a song I She wants to challenge the have toyed with for some time, idea of what a sitar is, by finding and the current situation, different ways of playing it. alongside people’s visceral “What happens if you play just Return of the sociable house sparrow reactions to our rare live perfor the rhythm strings, or just the mances of the song, prompted resonances? Maybe you don’t me to revisit and release it,” she bend the notes at all but play in The friendly bird, whose tions and become a citizenbased move campaign started in 2007 when we be says. The “current situation” is a staccato way,” she says. population has been ment across cities,” he adds over call gan by distributing earthen pot bird what she calls a shadow pan Incidentally, her father from Nashik. nests to homes in Purnabandha village demic of domestic abuse. taught the instrument to Ge declining in cities for NFS has city coordinators in New Del (Ganjam district). Over the years, we In ‘Sister Susannah’, Anoush orge Harrison of The Beatles, decades, has found an hi, Hyderabad and Bengaluru who work have made nests out of coconut husk and ka is creating the same space and its staccato form of playing at local levels to empower the citizens. plywood, and distributed them across 10 that we found in her previous later featured in ‘Norwegian ally in citizen-led Coordinators work towards spreading districts in Odisha. Now the sparrow album, Love Letters, with col Wood’. In India too, there are movements across awareness to create an ecosystem of bird population has increased significantly,” laborations with many of the ongoing experiments with the feeders, nests and sources of food for says Magatha Behera, who with Rabin same women musicians and sitar with an Indian classical various states house sparrows in residential localities dranath Sahu is heading the sparrow producers, including Alev Lenz. metal band, Sitar Metal making as well as schools. project in the region. The track, with a few other un the instrument its star. Nivedita Ganguly Nin Taneja, the Delhi coordinator of In Visakhapatnam, documentary film released singles and remixes, “Anyone who has a love of a NFS, shares, “A couple of years ago, maker V Arjun Kumar in association with will be included in an extension different genre might find use of Over the years, the sparrow has vanished Hello, neighbour Sparrows cooling off in when I was teaching schoolchildren citybased NGO Green Climate has made of the album, called, Love Let- the sitar within it,” says Anoush a pool of water * KR DEEPAK from cityscapes due to a lack of nesting about birds found in our neighbour a film on sparrow conservation, charting ters PS, to be released this June. ka, “As long as it is a good mus sites and food. Thebirds are now getting hood, I saw how a majority of them the need to save the species as well as For many years now, ician, who understands the in a helping hand from citizen groups had to start a lifesaving project for spar struggled to identify the house sparrow ways to create an ecosystem to make the Anoushka has been trying to strument, and also other forms across the country. According to conser rows if we wanted to hear the chirp which used to be an integral part of our bird thrive. ‘deexotify’ the sitar. Her calm of music. So that they are not vationist Mohammed Dilawar, the de again. So we started reaching out to peo lives once.” While sustaining the citizen move and measured voice breaks into just sticking Indian classical on cline in the population of sparrows be ple and authorities to campaign for the The movement to save house spar ment is important, creating an environ peals of laughter as she explains top of that genre, but actually gan much earlier, but it was not until the bird,” says Dilawar, founder and presi rows has spread its wings in semiurban ment where birds thrive naturally is the the word she made up.“In any presenting a unique sound. It early 2000s that the need for its conser dent of Nature Forever Society (NFS). “In regions as well. In Odisha, the Rushiku only way to secure the future of many movie there is an opening shot brings the sitar to a different vation was stressed upon. the past decade the campaign to save the lya Sea Turtle Protection Committee has such neighbourhood birds. of India, the sitar goes ‘treeai audience.” “About 15 years ago, we realised we sparrow has grown beyond organisa been spearheading a campaign . “The World Sparrow Day was on March 20.

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U.K. warns EU Protester shot dead in Myanmar, Philippines accuses China against vaccine of ‘incursion’ in disputed sea export ban 2 Australians under house arrest Agence France-Presse Defence Secretary asks Beijing to immediately recall vessels London Amid continued bloodshed, hundreds of doctors, nurses march through Mandalay Britain on Sunday warned Agence France-Presse the European Union Agence France-Presse putsch also remains in Manila against halting exports of Yangon custody. The Philippines on Sunday AstraZeneca’s COVID19 Security forces in Myanmar accused China of “incur vaccines if the bloc did not shot dead an anticoup prot Spate of violence sion” after more than 200 receive promised deliver ester on Sunday, as the Aus Weekend violence failed to militia boats were spotted ies first, saying the move tralian government con deter hundreds of doctors near a disputed reef in the would be firmed it is assisting two and nurses donning hard South China Sea, in a rare re “counterproductive”. nationals who were detained hats and brandishing posters buke of its superpower Defence Secretary Ben after trying to leave Yangon. of Suu Kyi as they marched neighbour. Wallace said “the world is Myanmar has been in tur at dawn through Mandalay, The Philippine coast watching” how the EU res moil since soldiers ousted ci Myanmar’s secondlargest ci guard detected the boats “in Troubled waters: Some of the over 200 Chinese boats moored ponds to a shortfall in de vilian leader Aung San Suu ty and cultural capital. line formation” at the boom at Whitsun Reef, South China Sea, in this file photo. * AP liveries of the inoculation Kyi last month, triggering na Sustained protest: Healthcare workers taking part in a rally in Later, other demonstra erangshaped Whitsun Reef, from the AngloSwedish tionwide protests demand tors placed protest signs in around 320 km (175 nautical Mr. Lorenzana said the contested waters an pharma giant, and that Mandalay on Sunday against the military coup. * AFP ing a return to democracy. pot plants along a street. miles) west of Palawan Is government was consider nounced Saturday the detec Brussels’ reputation was at One man was killed on know if the man, who died It is understood business By afternoon there were land on March 7. ing “appropriate action” to tion of around 220 “Chinese stake. Sunday in the central city of on the spot after he was hit consultants Matthew O’Kane barricades set on fire, gun “We call on the Chinese to protect Filipino fishermen, Maritime Militia Vessels” His comments follow EU Monywa and at least two pe on his head, was killed from and Christa Avery, a dual Ca fire in the streets and at least stop this incursion and im the country’s marine re earlier this month. “Despite chief Ursula von der Leyen ople were injured in a clash rubber bullets or live nadianAustralian citizen, four people injured, a doctor mediately recall these boats sources and maintain peace clear weather at the time, again threatening on Satur with security forces at barri rounds.” are under house arrest after in Mandalay said. violating our maritime rights and stability in the area. the vessels massed at the day to impose an export cades, two witnesses said. Australia’s Foreign Minis trying to leave the country Mandalay has been the and encroaching into our so Foreign Secretary Teodo reef showed no fishing activ ban on the AstraZeneca “I saw people carrying a try confirmed on Sunday it on a relief flight on Friday. scene of some of the worst vereign territory,” Defence ro Locsin said on Twitter he ities,” the agency said. vaccine unless the compa man who was shot and was providing consular assis The couple run a bespoke violence from police and sol Secretary Delfin Lorenzana had lodged a diplomatic The U.S. has previously ny delivers more of the 90 killed,” a local resident told tance to two of its nationals consultancy business in diers since the coup. The said in a statement. protest over the ships. accused China of using mar million doses it agreed to AFP, adding the body was ta in Myanmar. Yangon. protests came a day after a “This is a clear provoca The Chinese Embassy in itime militia to “intimidate, supply in the first quarter ken to a local hospital. “Due to our privacy obli A third Australian, econo monitoring group confirmed tive action of militarizing the Manila did not respond to a coerce and threaten other of 2021. “They used stun grenades gations we will not provide mist Sean Turnell, an advi the killing of four protesters area. These are territories request for comment. nations” over its claims to al Appearing on several and tear gas... later they further detail,” a spokeswo sor to Ms. Suu Kyi, who was at the hands of security forc well within Philippine Exclu A government task force most the entire South China political talk shows, Mr. started shooting. I don’t man said. arrested a week after the es around the country. sive Economic Zone.” charged with monitoring the Sea. Wallace said trying to “bal kanise or build walls” around vaccine production ELSEWHERE would damage both British Pentagon chief makes and European citizens. Malaysia expels N. Korean diplomats “If contracts get broken, and undertakings, that is a surprise visit to Kabul Pyongyang had snapped ties over extradition of a criminal suspect to the U.S. very damaging thing to happen for a trading block Biden is reviewing Afghan peace process Associated Press Malaysian Foreign Minis rean man to the U.S. to face that prides itself on the KUALA LUMPUR ter Hishammuddin Hussein money laundering charges, a rule of law,” he told Sky Agence France-Presse North Korean diplomats va said the expulsion was in res furious North Korea on Fri News. Kabul cated their Embassy in Ma ponse to Pyongyang’s “un day announced it was termi “It is counterproductive As Congo Republic votes, Nguesso expected to win U.S. Defense Secretary laysia and were expelled on ilateral and utterly irrespon nating ties with Malaysia. In because the one thing we BRAZZAVILLE Lloyd Austin made an unan Sunday, after the two na sible decision” on Friday to a titfortat response, Malay know about vaccine pro Polls opened in Congo nounced visit to Afghanis tions cut diplomatic rela sever diplomatic ties. sia gave North Korean diplo duction and manufacture Republic on Sunday, with tan on Sunday just weeks tions in a spat over the extra “This action is a reminder mats 48 hours to leave. is that it is collaborative. President Denis Sassou before Washington is due to dition of a North Korean that Malaysia shall never tol Kim Yu Song, the Chargé “They would under Nguesso widely expected to withdraw the last of its criminal suspect to the Unit erate any attempt to meddle Kim Yu Song d’Affaires and Councillor in mine not only their own ci extend his 36year rule troops under a deal struck ed States. in our internal affairs and Kuala Lumpur, said Malaysia tizens’ chances of having a despite an economic crisis in with the Taliban last year. The North Korean flag and judiciary, disrespect our go zen since the 2017 assassina had “committed an unpar proper vaccine pro the Central African oil The visit comes at a cru Embassy signage were re vernance system and con tion of the estranged half donable crime.” Echoing gramme, but also many producing country. With his cial time when U.S. Presi moved from the premise in a stantly create unnecessary brother of North Korean Pyongyang’s statement, he other countries around the grip on power firm, dent Joe Biden’s administra Lloyd Austin Kuala Lumpur suburb. Two tensions in defiance of the leader Kim Jongun at Kuala accused Malaysia of being world with the reputation diplomats and analysts doubt tion is reviewing the Afghan buses ferried the diplomats rulesbased international or Lumpur International subservient to the U.S. and al damage for the EU which any of Mr. Sassou’s six peace process. Mr. Biden ly in rural areas. and their families to the air der,” he said in a statement. Airport. being part of a U.S. conspira they would find very hard opponents will unseat him or said last week the May 1 dea Major urban centres are port, where they boarded a Ties between both coun Two days after Kuala Lum cy aimed at “isolating and to change over the that the election will see a dline agreed by predecessor also in the grip of a bloody flight to Shanghai. tries have been virtually fro pur extradited a North Ko suffocating” his country. shortterm.” repeat of the sporadic Donald Trump would be terror campaign in the form violence that marred the last “tough” to meet — prompt of attacks targeting politi vote in 2016. REUTERS ing outrage from the insur cians, civil servants, aca gents, who warned that demics, rights activists and Syria regime’s attack kills Australia’s east faces Washington would be “res journalists. Thousands join antiNetanyahu worst floods in 50 years ponsible for the Kabul was the last stop on MELBOURNE consequences”. a whirlwind tour of Asia for six civilians in hospital Heavy rain along Australia’s The Afghan government the new Pentagon chief, a protest ahead of general polls east coast over the weekend is also keen to keep U.S. former career soldier who Agence France-Presse Human Rights said. has brought the worst forces in the country for as served in Afghanistan as a Beirut Eleven others were flooding in half a century in long as possible for the vital division commander from Israel is holding its fourth election tomorrow in less than 2 years Syrian regime artillery fire wounded, including health some areas, authorities said air cover they provide. September 2003 until Au killed six civilians, including care staff, said the Britain on Sunday, forcing thousands Agence France-Presse to evacuate and damaging After talks with President gust 2005. tered the economy and con his own people,” she said. a child, when it hit a hospi based monitoring group’s Jerusalem hundreds of houses. People in Ashraf Ghani on Sunday, Mr. Mr. Austin and his entour tributed to job losses. Mr. Netanyahu was the tal in the last major rebel head Rami Abdel Rahman. parts of Sydney’s northwest Austin would not be drawn age flew into Afghanistan on Thousands of Israelis rallied Waving flags, including first Israeli premier to be in bastion of Idlib on Sunday, a Also on Sunday, artillery were ordered to flee their for comment on the a U.S.liveried aircraft in outside Prime Minister Ben the Israeli blueandwhite, dicted in office for corrup war monitor said. fire killed one civilian and houses at night as waters deadline. stead of a military plane that jamin Netanyahu’s Jerusa protesters led by a young tion when he was formally The attack on the north wounded three others in the caused widespread “That’s the domain of my usually carries U.S. officials lem residence on Saturday man with a bullhorn chant charged last year in three western town of Atareb regimeheld city of Aleppo, destruction. REUTERS boss,” he told reporters. to the wartorn country. to protest his policies and ed “Bibi go home”, using the cases over claims he accept came despite a RussianTur outside the rebel bastion, “That’s the... decision premiership, days before a Prime Minister’s nickname. ed improper gifts and sought kish ceasefire since March state news agency SANA U.K. police arrest 36 at that the President (Biden) Taliban warning general election that could They also held up signs to trade regulatory favour 2020 supposed to protect said. anti-lockdown protests will make at some point in Asked about the Taliban see the longstanding leader carrying a broad range of with media moguls in ex the wider jihadistheld The Idlib region, on the LONDON time, in terms of how he warning that Washington removed from power. messages, from the need for change for positive stronghold. border with Turkey, is con Police arrested dozens of wants to approach this go would face consequences if Mr. Netanyahu, 71, in a leadership “revolution” to coverage. It “hit the courtyard and trolled by Hayat Tahrir al people on Saturday after ing forward.” the deadline wasn’t met, Mr. power for a record 12 con mistrust in the police. The combative premier main entrance of the hospi Sham, which is led by mem thousands turned out in the Under the deal thrashed Austin said he was sure U.S. secutive years, is hoping to “We came to protest denies wrongdoing. tal inside a cave,” killing six bers of Syria’s former Al British capital to protest against lockdown restrictions. out between the Taliban forces could cope. remain in office following Is against a dictator,” Anat First launched in June last civilians, including a child Qaeda affiliate, but several The Metropolitan Police and Washington, the insur “I have great confidence rael’s fourth election in less Gourelle, a 60yearold la year, the vocal and colourful and a hospital employee, rebel groups are also Service said it had made 36 gents pledged also to engage and in his ability to protect than two years on March 23. wyer from Tel Aviv, said of demonstrations against Mr. the Syrian Observatory for present. arrests, most for breaching in peace talks with Afghan our troops,” said Mr. Austin, His detractors accuse him Mr. Netanyahu. Netanyahu have gained mo monthsold regulations that government negotiators, referring to General Austin of corruption and say his “It is outrageous what is mentum over the past 38 outlaw leaving home except but they have made almost Miller, commander of U.S. management of the corona going on in Israel. It is un weeks, with Saturday night’s for a limited number of no progress and fighting has and NATO forces in virus pandemic, including thinkable that somebody is rally — the 39th — the largest reasons. AFP only worsened — particular Afghanistan. protracted lockdowns, bat using his power to steal from in recent months. Bolsonaro critics face ‘intimidation’ Surge in legal and extralegal moves to stifle dissent against President: activists

Agence France-Presse New York Times, in which he Rio de Janeiro called Mr. Bolsonaro the When the police knocked on world’s worst President. Brazilian influencer Felipe In his latest jab, he called Neto’s door to tell him he Mr. Bolsonaro “genocidal,” was being investigated for in reference to the Presi threatening national securi dent’s attacks on lockdowns, ty, he says his heart skipped face masks, vaccines and a beat. other expert advice for con His crime, it turned out, taining COVID19 deaths. was accusing farright Presi That led Mr. Bolsonaro’s dent Jair Bolsonaro of “geno Dissent note: Demonstrators taking part in a protest against son Carlos, a Rio de Janeiro cide” for his handling of the Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro in Brasilia last week. * REUTERS city councilman, to ask pol coronavirus pandemic, ice to open an investigation which has left over 290,000 backlash, in the form of “on ly nostalgic. against Mr. Neto. people dead in Brazil. line militias” of Mr. Bolsona “The President, his fami “How would he like me to Brazilian police are also ro’s supporters, who launch ly, his administration and his refer to the President, who investigating former Cabinet coordinated attacks and followers... are blatantly pro called the biggest pandemic Minister Ciro Gomes for call smear campaigns against his moting an intimidation cam we’ve seen in years a ‘little ing Mr. Bolsonaro a “thief” perceived opponents on so paign against his political op flu,’ who encourages crowds over corruption allegations, cial media. ponents, as if free thought and tells people to go out like sociologist Tiago Costa Ro Lawyers and human and free speech did not exist there’s nothing happening?” drigues for calling him a rights activists warn Brazil is in this country,” newspaper said Mr. Neto. “liar,” and even, according to seeing a surge in legal and Estado de Sao Paulo said in Support for the influencer news site Brasil 247, an oth extralegal moves to stifle an editorial on Saturday. soon poured in on social me erwise unknown citizen dissent against Mr. Bolsona dia and beyond, making the named Roger Orsi who ro, in some cases with legis Facing backlash phrase “Bolsonaro genoci shared an antiBolsonaro lation and tactics dating back Mr. Neto, a 33yearold You da” a top trending topic in meme on Facebook. to the country’s 19641985 Tube star, rose to interna Brazil. A judge blocked the Other critics of the Presi military dictatorship — for tional prominence last year investigation, ruling it was dent complain of lessofficial which the President is open with an opinion video for the legally baseless.

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N. Sree Kanth term and taxed at 20%. Other going the stock route, taking wise, it is called a shortterm the ETF/passive fund route, es Q. I am working in an NBFC drawing a gross gain and taxed at your slab pecially in the U.S., can fulfil salary of ₹20 lakh p. a. and also getting a rate. In the fund route, they are multiple needs. A ‘foreign’ treated like debt funds for tax One, you need not burn pension of ₹5 lakh p.a from my previous employer. Besides, I get interest income purposes. Dividends too are your fingers choosing stocks from bank deposits and debentures. IT taxed. that may go bust. Two, passive returns is filed by including all these You might need an auditor investing is known to beat ac incomes. The Form No.16 issued by my to help you with all these com tive funds most of the time in employer as well as by my previous plexities and her/his fees is an the U.S., and the country has employer is supported by the relevant TDS investing t(r)ip! additional charge too! an enviable range of ETFs. entries in my 26 AS. Whenever income tax is deducted from my salary/pension/ interest Fourth, brokerage ex Three, you can do this through etc., the gross amount and the TDS deducted You need to choose markets that are less correlated penses on purchase or the direct investing route (buy are correctly shown in the 26 AS. But, when sale of foreign stocks is ETFs through brokers) or ea TDS is not deducted, my 26 AS does not give Vidya Bala ly. The company’s business and not as low as it is lo sier still, use Indian funds that the details of such incomes, say interest financial fundamentals, moat, cally. This is be invest in such indices in the from banks, etc. My pension income was not When a stock rises 17 times in quality of balance sheet and go cause your U.S. disclosed in the 26AS statement in FY 2018 15 days, what happens? You vernance, all matter. If not, fo local brok The latter is hasslefree as 2019, since there was no TDS in FY 2018 jump in after the 15th day, of reign stocks too can go down to er is typical you invest in rupees (there is 2019. Regarding interest received from banks, some banks are correctly showing course! That is the story of being penny stocks and destroy harm ly associated no remittance involving you) this interest in the 26AS, whether TDS is GME (the stock ticker for Amer your wealth. you. with a fo and yet gain from any currency deducted or not. When the employees ican electronics games retailer Next, you should know reign broker depreciation. The expense is approach the bankers for a housing loan, the Gamestop) and that of hordes which markets to choose. A Costs and that quite low (less than 0.5%), and bankers insist that the Form 16 issued by the of Indian investors entering the market that behaves like India involved brings the you don’t even need a broker employer be taken from the Income Tax U.S. market – kickstarting their may not offer any diversifica You need to be cost of inter account if you use the fund website. But many employers are giving the equity journey with a ‘foreign tion. So, you need to choose aware of the up mediary into route. salary certificates physically prepared, since stock’. And how? After reading markets that are less correlated front costs, re your total cost. 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As interest paid etc. investing in the U.S., in stocks rency movement. currency may not work in your investing large reign country’s regula with everything, excess of M.V. BABU of companies you find value in For example: The annual favour as the currency ex sums. tor, apart from the anything is bad. So, keep your A. TDS with respect to deductions by banks is everyday life (Google or Apple ised fiveyear return of the Nas change fee you are charged for Third, you should local firm’s history exposure at 1020% of your covered under Section 194A wherein it is the or Netflix). The question is, daq 100 index (as of March 12, this by your bank/broker may be aware of the tax (as there are many portfolio. Second, as is the rule responsibility of the respective banker to which route to investing in the 2021) was 25%, as opposed to not be competitive at all. This is treatment including new startups in with equities, don’t make a deduct TDS at a rate of 10% (when U.S. is prudent and how much the 26.5% return of an Indian the upfront cost you incur — so dividends or capital this field). beeline seeing high returns. deductee’s PAN is available) if the interest can you expose yourself to a fund that invests in the same mewhat like an entry load as gains and inheritance That’s poor timing. Third, you that is paid or likely to be paid is more than market you know little about. index. Clearly, the additional one fund manager put it. tax in the country in How to? should invest only to diversify; ₹40,000 for nonsenior citizens and So, here are things you need to returns came from the rupee Second, know your tax laws. which you are investing. The above not with the intent of earning ₹50,000 for senior citizens. The bank will file know before investing depreciation. But the reverse 2020 saw a new rule of tax col In India, the gains from list points notwith higher returns than India. The TDS returns in Form 26Q mentioning the amount credited and the TDS deducted on internationally. can also be true in that you may lection at source for foreign re ed foreign stocks are taxed dif standing, there is no denying GME rocket can come crashing the same each quarter. At the year end, they First, choosing a foreign have lower returns if the rupee mittances above ₹7 lakh, at 5%. ferently from local equity that your portfolio will stand down in flames too! shall provide the deductee with Form 16A, stock is no different from appreciates. So, currency While this can be claimed in shares. If held for more than enriched if you add some inter (The writer is Cofounder, which serves as a certificate for deduction of choosing an equity share local movements can benefit or your tax returns, you should be two years, it is considered long national flavour to it. Instead of PrimeInvestor.in) TDS. Further, if the interest is not exceeding the amounts aforementioned, the TDS is not required to be deducted on the same by the respective banks. TDS with respect to deductions by THINK INVESTOR: RISK APPETITE VS ALLOCATION BLACKBOARD: MWPA INSURANCE employers is covered under Section 192, wherein it is the responsibility of the employer to deduct TDS on the salary/ pension disbursed by them to their Rest in peace after employees and also taking into consideration The multiple ‘risk’ personalities in you income from house property and income from other sources based on the declarations submitted by their employers. Deductions Your asset allocation should align with the risk attitude you have towards a goal taking this life cover under Chapter VIA and exemptions are also taken into consideration while arriving at the Venkatesh Bangaruswamy TDS that is to be deducted. The employer you have multiple risk perso Are you looking to purchase a life in children as beneficiaries. However, will then file Form 24Q mentioning the nalities associated with your surance policy to financially secure the benefit can only be availed of amount credited and the TDS deducted on Your spouse could be afraid investment decisions. your wife and children in case you while taking the policy, and that too the same each quarter. At the year end, they of socialising because of the Your asset allocation is a are no more? But what if your wife if you buy the policy in your own shall provide the employee with Form 16, fear of contracting the CO function of your risk atti and children don’t get even a rupee name. which serves as a certificate for deduction of VID19. But, you may be ad tude. So, a conservative risk out of the proceeds when they need TDS. Further, if the total income as per the venturous, arguing that behaviour towards your it the most? This can happen if you Whom can you name as declarations do not exceed the taxable limits wearing a mask and building child’s education goal means have an ongoing home loan or a bu beneficiaries? and after considering rebate under Section ■ 87A the TDS is not required to be deducted herd immunity is a better you should have more bonds siness that has incurred debts. In The beneficiaries defined in a on the same by the respective employers. way to counter the virus. and less equity in the portfo such a situation, the sum assured policy that is covered under the The furnishing of TDS returns are covered Does your risk attitude to lio earmarked for this goal. can be claimed by your creditors or MWPA can be your wife alone, just under Section 206 of the IT Act. In either wards socialising reflect Whereas, your housing attached by the court for repayment your child or children, or your wife case, if the deductions are within the limits your behaviour towards per goal can have more equity of your debts. But there’s good and children together. As a policy prescribed under the respective TDS sonal finance decisions? and less bonds as you have news: you can avoid this by simply holder, you can assign specific per provisions, the deductors are not required to Here, we show that you higher risk tolerance for this buying your life insurance policy un centages of the sum assured to each deduct TDS and hence will not provide with have multiple risk attitudes Common ground: You and your spouse may have different risk goal. Note that your asset al der the Married Women’s Property beneficiary or divide it in equal the deduction certificates. and how that impacts your attitudes needing reconciliation. * GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCK location is driven by your Act, 1874. amounts. However, once the policy Q. I am a 54yearold with a significant personal finance decisions. goal priority and not neces has been issued, you cannot change corpus in my EPF. I worked continuously for bungee jumping. So, you can accumulating money to fund sarily by the goal you want to What is the MWP Act (Married the beneficiaries. So, when you ap more than 10 years and resigned in May Stable traits? be riskseeking while taking your child’s education. From achieve first. For instance, Women’s Property Act, 1874)? point your wife as the beneficiary 2016. I applied for withdrawing my PF as a You may socialise with your certain decisions and risk a personal finance perspec investments you make for a ■ Section 6 of this Act highlights its and in case you go through a divorce full and final settlement and applied for friends despite the risk of averse for others. This tive, the answer is simple — 15year, highpriority goal importance: “a policy of insurance later, your beneficiary (wife) will re Form 19 with the EPFO. However, the EPFO has deducted about 10% tax on the corpus contracting COVID19, but means your risk behaviour is you cannot postpone this could have more bonds and effected by any married man on his main the same. amount and transferred the balance amount you may be risk averse while not a stable personality trait. goal. So, it takes priority. less equity than those for a own life and expressed on the face to my bank. Why did EPFO deduct this tax? taking investment decisions. We can extend this argu Setting priorities for life 10year, lowpriority goal. of it to be for the benefit of his wife, What else does the MWPA do? ■ VENKATRAMAN Your spouse could be risk ment further. Does your risk goals is important because Your risk attitude towards or of his wife and children, or any of As a policyholder, you cannot seeking while taking invest behaviour change for each you have to use your income life goals could be different them, shall ensure and be deemed take a loan against the policies that A. No TDS deduction is applicable at the time ment decisions, but may not investment decision you to fund your present lifestyle from your spouse’s. You may to be a trust for the benefit of his are endorsed under MWPA. In case of withdrawal if you were in continuous employment for more than 5 years. Further, engage in adventurous take? 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THE HINDU DELHI MONDAY, MARCH 22, 2021 SPORT 17 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE South Africa clinches a thriller India used the series to try out new talent Suryakumar and Ishan began their international careers with a bang Lee, Wolvaardt mastermind the chase; Shafali, Richa knocks in vain for India ENGLAND IN INDIA <> India outplayed us in the big moments Ashwin Achal and deserved to win. We Ahmedabad generally bat deep and try Right through the fivematch to take advantage of it, but T20I series against India, En couldn't do so in big gland captain Eoin Morgan insisted that his team viewed moments the outings as a great chance Eoin Morgan to prepare for the ICC T20 that he was a cut above the World Cup to be held in In rest. dia later this year. The home side did have to True to form, England deal with a couple of fai played a strong unchanged lures. K.L. Rahul’s wretched eleven in the majority of the run, with scores of 1, 0, 0 matches, kept the batting or and 14, led him to being der constant, and even stuck dropped for the decider. to its preferred route of opt Rahul started the series ing to field when the toss with Kohli’s backing as the went Morgan’s way. Class act: Suryakumar impressed one and all with his firstchoice opening partner

aggressive batting. * SPORTZPICS/BCCI alongside Rohit Sharma, but Better understanding it ended with Kohli replacing The series may have been staked claim to longterm In dul Thakur — the highest the Karnataka lad at the top lost 23, but the visitor fin dia spots. None more so than wickettaker of the series — of the order. Grit and determination: The spirited South Africans overcame India’s challenge to take an unbeatable 2-0 lead. * BCCI ished with a good under Suryakumar Yadav, whose stood out. The pacer put the Shikhar Dhawan, another standing of its strengths and two outings with the bat skids on England with cru opener, was unceremo SA IN INDIA for a single to trigger celebra wicket with Harleen (31, 31b, fifth match, the Siliguri teen weaknesses. yielded 89 runs at a terrific cial double strikes in the niously dropped after failing tions in the South Africa du 4x4) before she was bowled ager’s superb timing and po India, on the other hand, strikerate of 185.41. The fourth and fifth T20Is. in the first T20I. P.K. Ajith Kumar gout. by leftarm spinner Nonkulu werful shots saw her com took a more fluid approach. Mumbai cricketer impressed On both occasions, he Under Kohli’s impulsive LUCKNOW Earlier, two 17yearolds — leko Mlaba after missing the pile an unbeaten 26ball 44 This leg was used as a one and all with his impetu showed great control over captaincy, one can expect It was not just a challenging opener Shafali Verma and line completely. (8x4). chance to test new talent, ous hitting — a quality that the slower deliveries, and more changes in personnel target set by India that the No. 5 Richa Ghosh — pro However, Richa ensured Shafali and Richa’s knocks and a new ‘baggagefree’ ag captain Virat Kohli demands turned the game in India’s and tactics before the World South African women were duced quality batting at eith that India finished with a were, however, not enough gressive batting style. Plan from his batsmen. favour. Cup begins. A lot can hap chasing on Sunday night. er end of the Indian innings flourish. Playing in only her for India on this night. ning for the World Cup was pen over the course of seven They were chasing history to ensure that the goodly, vo not of utmost priority, a Fearless style Bhuvi’s dream return months. too. cal crowd had something to point underlined by vice Ishan Kishan enjoyed a re Fellow speedster Bhuvnesh And they did it – off the cheer about. SCOREBOARD captain Rohit Sharma, who markable debut in the se war Kumar enjoyed a dream last ball. They won the se India had a poor start stated on Saturday that there cond T20I, striking a match return from injury. The En cond T20I by six wickets to once again as skipper Smriti INDIA Rajeshwari 2 (5b), Sune Luus was still a long way to go. winning 32ball 56 as opener. gland batsmen struggled to India fined claim their first ever series Mandhana edged a wide de Shafali Verma b Mlaba 47 (31b, run out 20 (21b, 3x4), Laura With the IPL, and perhaps Ishan, batting at onedrop in deal with his sharp swing 6x4, 2x6), Smriti Mandhana c Wolvaardt (not out) 53 (39b, against India in the format. livery from seamer Shabnim a few T20Is slotted for the the next match, only made with the new ball, and were for slow Jafta b Shabnim 7 (9b, 1x4), 7x4), Mignon du Preez c Deepti While poor fielding and Ismail to the wicketkeeper. coming months, the Indian four, and then sat out due to all at sea when he used the Harleen Deol c Shabnim b b Harleen 10 (8b, 1x4), Nadine overrate catching made things easier Harleen Deol, who had Bosch 31 (31b, 4x4), Jemimah de Klerk (not out) 3 (3b); Extras team management will a groin injury. Like Suryaku cutters in his later spells. for them, chasing 159 was in made her maiden Interna Rodrigues c Jafta b de Klerk 16 (nb-1): 1; Total (for four wkts. in adopt a waitandwatch ap mar, Ishan’s fearless style Bhuvneshwar’s two for 15 in deed a creditable effort. tional halfcentury just a day (15b, 2x4), Richa Ghosh (not 20 overs): 159. proach before focusing all makes him a hot favourite to the final T20I, where bow Press Trust of India Ahmedabad Opener Lizelle Lee (70, 45b, ago, was content to play se out) 44 (26b, 8x4), Deepti FALL OF WICKETS energy on the mega event. grab a World Cup berth. lers from both teams were 11x4, 1x6) and Laura Wol cond fiddle to the aggressive Sharma (not out) 7 (8b, 1x4); 1-8 (Bosch, 1.3), 2-66 (Luus, Regardless, a few faces Among the bowlers, Shar under the pump, proved India was fined 40% of vaardt (53 not out, 39b, 7x4) Shafali. Extras (w-6): 6; Total (for four 9.2), 3-116 (Lee, 15.1), 4-140 its match fee for slow were the architects. wkts. in 20 overs): 158. (du Preez, 18.2). overrate in the fifth When the hardhitting On the attack FALL OF WICKETS INDIA BOWLING T20I against England Lee, who was dropped The teenaged opener hit the 1-8 (Smriti, 1.4 overs), 2-87 Arundhati 4-0-35-0, Rajesh- here on Saturday. twice, was dismissed by left experienced Shabnim for (Shafali, 10.6), 3-94 (Harleen, wari 4-0-20-1, Deepti 3-0- Match referee 12.6), 4-129 (Jemimah, 16.4). 31-0, Radha 4-0-25-1, Simran arm spinner Radha Yadav in three fours in her second ov Javagal Srinath SOUTH AFRICA BOWLING 2-0-16-0, Harleen 3-0-32-1. the 16th over, India was back er. Shafali then smashed imposed the sanction Mlaba 4-0-27-1, Shabnim 4-0- Toss: South Africa. in it. But, Wolvaardt showed seamer Nadine de Klerk 31-1, Khaka 4-0-24-0, de Klerk South Africa won by six wick- after India was ruled to nerves of steel to take her straight over her head for a 3-0-28-1, Bosch 3-0-26-1, Luus ets off the final delivery and be two overs short of side home. Nine was needed four before hitting her for a 2-0-22-0. took an unassailable 2-0 lead in the target after time off the 20th over, and one off six. SOUTH AFRICA three-match series. allowances were taken the final delivery. The 21 Shafali (47, 31b, 6x4, 2x6) Lizelle Lee c & b Radha 70 (45b, Third and final T20I: March 23, into consideration. yearold scampered home added 79 for the second 11x4, 1x6), Anneke Bosch b 7 p.m. Injured Archer Kohli as opener was a tactical move: Rohit Sri Lanka Zii Jia, Okuhara triumph ruled out of 129 for five ALL ENGLAND Okuhara got the better of Early days yet to talk about World Cup line-up, says vice-captain Pornpawee Chochuwong of ODI series AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Sports Bureau Thailand 2112, 2116 in 44 Ashwin Achal Ishan Kishan: Shardul is a NORTH SOUND BIRMINGHAM minutes. Ahmedabad Press Trust of India wickettaking bowler. In the Sri Lanka was 129 for five at Malaysia’s Lee Zii Jia and Ja Other results: AHMEDABAD After finding success as last two matches, he bowled tea on the opening day of pan’s Nozomi Okuhara Doubles: Men: Yuta Watanabe Jofra Archer has been ruled opener in the final T20I here to high quality batsmen, and the first Test at North claimed the men’s and wo & Hiroyuki Endo bt Keigo So- noda & Takeshi Kamura 21-15, out of England’s ODI series on Saturday, India captain reacted to pressure very Sound, Antigua and Barbu men’s singles crowns at the 17-21, 21-11. against India and will also Virat Kohli stated he was well. He went for some runs, da, on Sunday. All England Open here on miss the start of the IPL keen to have a longer run at but as long as bowlers give us Sunday. Women: Mayu Matsumoto & Opener Lahiru Thiri Wakana Nagahara bt Sayaka due to an elbow injury, an the top of the order. crucial breakthroughs in the manne (56) and Niroshan Zii Jia dethroned Den Hirota & Yuki Fukushima 21-18, ECB statement said on At a media interaction, middle overs, that is all we Dickwella (21) were the bat mark’s Viktor Axelsen 30 21-6. Sunday. Kohli's partner Rohit Sharma ask for. smen at the crease. 29, 2022, 219 to claim his Mixed doubles: Yuta Watanabe “Jofra’s elbow issue de took a more measured The change I’ve noticed in At one stage, the visitors maiden crown in a marath & Arisa Higashino & Misaki teriorated over the course stance, explaining that the Ishan is that he understands were 92 for five before Thi on that lasted 74 minutes. Matsutomo & Yuk Kaneko 21- of the T20I series and he batting order was open to Avenues to explore: Kohli at the top of the order with Rohit the game a lot better now. He rimanne and Dickwella Earlier, former champion 14, 21-13. has been deemed unfit for change. opens up several options for the team. * SPORTZPICS/BCCI captains Jharkhand in limit held firm. The former hit selection for the ODIs,” Both Kohli and Rohit men edovers tournaments, so three boundaries in his read the statement. tioned that India could play days to talk about what the enough time to judge. that helps him read the game halfcentury. England’s ODI squad: a few more T20Is before the batting lineup will be. World Cup preparation: better. Guys like Ishan and West Indies pacer Ke ICC T20 World Cup begins in We have to think about This series does not send Suryakumar have to be given Eoin Morgan (Capt.), mar Roach took two for 39 October. As per the current what suits the team. Today, it any signals about our perfect the freedom to express Moeen Ali, Jonnny Bairstow, while seamer Jason Holder Sam Billings, Jos Buttler (wk), schedule, the recent five (Kohli opening) was a tacti eleven. There’s still a long themselves. and offspinner Rahkeem Sam Curran, Tom Curran, Liam match series against England cal move to fit in the extra way to go for the World Cup. On Bhuvneshwar Kumar: Cornwall took a wicket Livingstone, Matt Parkinson, is the last T20Is India play bowler. Unfortunately, we We need to see the form of In this lineup, Bhuvneshwar each. Adil Rashid, Jason Roy, Ben before the marquee event. had to leave K.L. Rahul out. the players, and take a call is our leading bowler. We The scores: Stokes, Reece Topley, Mark Excerpts: There will be an IPL in bet on the ideal eleven based on place responsibility on him Sri Lanka 129/5 in 52 overs Wood. Opening with Kohli: ween, and I hear there will the opposition and during crucial overs, and he (Lahiru Thirimanne 56 bat- Reserves: Jake Ball, Chris Jor- There is still a long time to go be a few T20Is as well before conditions. has accepted it pretty well. I ting) vs West Indies, at tea. dan, and Dawid Malan. for the World Cup. It’s early the World Cup. There’s On Shardul Thakur and hope he stays fit and in form. Toss: West Indies. Nozomi Okuhara. * AFP Lee Zii Jia. * AP

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IN BRIEF Disha helps A day to remember for Ganemat Vidarbha Wins a bronze in skeet, the ﬁrstever World Cup medal for India in women’s event qualify

come up with a medal,” said down as Vietnam enjoyed 51 (122); 3. Nasser AlAtiya Sports Reporter SHOOTING CHENNAI Ganemat. the lead in the final, but were (Qat) 44 (123); 6. Gurjoat Khan National coach Mansher dominant thereafter to tri gura 17 (121) (9); 7. Mairaj Ah Skipper Disha Kasat’s un Kamesh Srinivasan Singh said it was a good sign umph 1711. mad Khan 121(7); 19. Angad Vir beaten 126 (149b, 15x4, Zverev beats Tsitsipas, NEW DELHI Singh Bajwa 117. that both Ganemat and Kart The women’s air pistol 2x6) helped Vidarbha wins Acapulco title MQS: Amrinder Singh Sekhon It was a bronze, but a signifi tiki Singh Shaktawat did ex team of Yashaswini Deswal, down Karnataka by four ACAPULCO 117; Kram Sukhbir Singh 115. cant one for Indian women ceptionally well, both in Manu Bhaker and Shri Ni runs in the BCCI senior wo Secondseeded Alexander Women: Team air pistol: 1. In as Ganemat Sekhon won a qualification and the final. men’s onedayer (Elite Zverev beat topseeded vetha beat Poland 168. dia (Yashaswini Deswal, Shri Ni Stefanos Tsitsipas 64, 76(3) skeet medal in the shooting In air rifle, however, the vetha Paramanantham, Manu Group E) here on Sunday. on Saturday to win the ATP World Cup at the Dr. Karni India on top Indian men took the bronze Bhaker) 16 (576) 1731; 2. Poland The victory ensured Vi Acapulco tournament. World Singh Range, Tughlakabad, There were many other me and the women were beaten 8 (567) 1701. darbha qualified for the No. 7 German Zverev had lost on Sunday. dals for India that helped the by Poland for the bronze. Team air rifle: 1. Denmark 16 knockouts by prevailing ov his last five matches to the It was the first ever World team climb to the top with The results: (625.9) 1880.7; 2. USA 8 er Karnataka on headto World No. 5 from Greece. AFP Cup medal for India in wo three gold, three silver and Men: Team air pistol: 1. India (627.3) 1883.5; 3. Poland 17 head basis despite both men’s skeet. two bronze medals. USA was (Saurabh Chaudhary, Shahzar (624.1) 1884.3; 4. India (Shri teams being tied on 16 Daria Kasatkina clinches Ganemat, who was placed in second with three gold Rizvi, Abhishek Verma) 17 (579) yanka Sadangi, Nisha Kanwar, points. second title of year second in qualification with and two silver, followed by 1750; 2. Vietnam 11(565) 1798. Apurvi Chandela) 7 (623.7) The scores: Vidarbha 216/5 in SAINT PETERSBURG 117, behind eventual gold me Denmark with two gold and Team air rifle: 1. USA 16 (625.1) 1878.6. 50 overs (Disha Kasat 126 Daria Kasatkina captured her dallist Amber Hill of Great Iran with one gold. 1880.8; 2. India (Aishwary Pra Skeet: 1. Amber Hill 51(4) 124; n.o., Bharti Fulmali 41) bt Kar second WTA title of the tap Singh Tomar, Deepak Ku 2. Zoya Kravchenko (Kaz) 51(3) Britain, overcame a nervous Both the air pistol teams nataka 212/9 in 50 overs (S. season as Margarita mar, Pankaj Kumar) 14 (623.4) 114; 3. Ganemat Sekhon 40 Shubha 85, G. Divya 57, Nupur start to deal with the final won the yellow metal for In Gasparyan retired with a back 1885.9; 3. Korea 17 (621.2) (117)4; 4. Karttiki Singh Shakta Kohale 3/34). Points: Vidarb injury during the second set with confidence. dia with authority. 1880.3; 4. Iran 15 (620.1) wat 32 (116); 9. Parinaaz Dhali ha 4(16); Karnataka 0(16). of Sunday’s final. Kasatkina “I am very excited and Saurabh Chaudhary, Abh 1869.7. wal 108. Tamil Nadu 132 in 49.4 ov was leaing 63, 21. AFP Scaling new heights: Ganemat overcame a nervous start to happy. I was hoping to enter ishek Verma and Shahzar Skeet: 1. Jesper Hansen (Den) MQS: Darshna Rathore 117; Zoh ers (S. Anusha 77, Babita Negi shoot in the final with confidence. * KAMESH SRINIVASAN the final and I am thrilled to Rizvi took time to settle 58 (121); 2. Saif Bin Futais (UAE) ra Deesawala 106. 3/34) lost to Delhi 133/4 in Karatsev claims maiden 41.2 overs (Shweta Sehrawat ATP title in Dubai 35, N. Niranjana 4/23). Delhi DUBAI 4(12); TN 0(8). Russian Aslan Karatsev won Meghalaya 28 in 20.1 overs his first ATP Tour title, Maiden National titles for Arjun Kadhe and Shrivalli (Tanuja Kanwer 6/10) lost to beating Lloyd Harris 63, 62 Himachal Pradesh 30/0 in in the Dubai Open final on four overs. Saturday. The 27yearold, Former downs Prithvi while the latter defeats top seed Vaidehi who became the first man to the Pune for the ITF reach the semifinals on Grand TENNIS tournament. Shakib slams Slam debut at this year’s “I will play the ITF events Australian Open, had won a Special Correspondent BCB first Tour title in last week's at home and then try to get GURUGRAM into the Challengers,” he ANI doubles tournament in Doha DHAKA alongside Andrey Rublev. AFP Arjun Kadhe prevailed over added. Prithvi Sekar 63, 64 to It was a welcome triumph GM Iniyan clinch the men’s title in the for the 19yearold Shrivalli . bags silver National hard court tennis For coach Sajid Lodi, it was CHENNAI championship at the Tennis another milestone after Ma Indian Grandmaster P. Iniyan Project, Baliawas, on hak Jain had won the title bagged the silver in the first Sunday. twice. World University online blitz In the women’s final, se Vaidehi had played the in chess championships recently. cond seed Shrivalli Bhamidi ternational events well in re Representing Bharathiar, he cent weeks, competing hard Shrivalli Bhamidipaty. finished second scoring 5.5 paty downed top seed Vaide * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT points. He ended up on top in hi Chaudhari 62, 76(2) for against some of the best players, but could not match the group phase with 8.5 her maiden National title. Shrivalli when I saw her in Shrivalli this day. points from 10 games. the National junior cham Long wait ends pionship two years ago. She Saurav Ghosal Overwhelmed It was the completion of a has a big game and one of the advances * long wait for the National tit “I am overwhelmed. It has best serves among the new Shakib Al Hasan. FILE PHOTO CAIRO le for the 27yearold Arjun been a dream for me. I am India’s topranked player lot. She has improved a lot who had lost three finals ov happy to win the National tit and hopefully this is her first Allrounder Shakib Al Ha Saurav Ghosal defeated Tom er the years to Jeevan Nedun le. It feels unbelievable that it san has hit out at the Ban Richards of England 113, step towards doing well in chezhiyan, Mohit Mayur and has come this quick,” said gladesh Cricket Board 118, 115 in the second round the international circuit,” Siddharth Vishwakarma. Shrivalli. (BCB) for suggesting that of the men's PSA Black Ball said Zeeshan. “I have been searching for National coach Zeeshan Squash Open here on Sunday. The results (finals): he does not want to play this title for quite a while. I Ali watched the finals and Men: Arjun Kadhe bt Prithvi Se the longest format of the ISWAI recognised as a am very happy to get the tag, was particularly impressed kar 63, 64. Women: Shrivalli game. NSF by Sports Ministry which will be with me for ev with Shrivalli. Bhamidipaty bt Vaidehi Chaud Trophy time: The winners and runnersup with National coach Zeeshan Ali, left, and Shakib has clarified that NEW DELHI er,” said Arjun, on his way to “I was impressed with hari 62, 76(2). organisers. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT he just doesn’t want to play The Indian Style Wrestling the upcoming twomatch Association of India (ISWAI), Test series against Sri Lan formed in 1958, has officially ka as he wants to play the been recognised as a National Antwi stars in Gokulam’s win Juventus suffers shock loss to Benevento Indian Premier League Sports Federation (NSF) by (IPL) for preparing himself the Sports Ministry, making it Kerala side goes to the top on better headtohead results Benzema continues scoring spree as Real moves to second for this year’s T20 World eligible to receive fund and Cup which will be played in support from the top spot. the second half as substitute to continue his insatiable the gap with Atletico to three India. government. Indian style I-LEAGUE EURO LEAGUES All three teams will be in custodian Zafar Ali Mondal scoring run as his side points, although the leaders “These two Tests are our wrestling is an indigenous contention for the title dur made some excellent saves earned a 31 win away to Cel host Alaves on Sunday. Celta sport played on mud, unlike last matches in the World Special Correspondent and the forward line created Reuters professional wrestling, which ing the last round on ta Vigo on Saturday to move are 11th on 34. Test Championship so it is KOLKATA Saturday. chances. TURIN is contested on the mat. PTI to second in the LaLiga be Brighton & Hove Albion not as if we are going to Ghanaian forward Dennis Sujit Sadhu’s 85th minute Benevento dented Juven hind Atletico Madrid. took a stride towards Pre play the final. We are at the Chelsea and Manchester Antwi’s brilliant brace First strike header put GKFC under tus’s Serie A title hopes on Benzema curled a shot in mier League safety and left bottom of the points table. City in FA Cup semifinals helped Gokulam Kerala FC GKFC played with purpose pressure but the green shirts Sunday when Adolfo Gaich’s to the bottom corner to give Newcastle United deep in I don’t think it makes much LONDON record a 21 win over Mo and Antwi drew first blood managed to hang on to their secondhalf strike sealed a Real the lead in the 20th mi the relegation mire after a of a difference. The other Chelsea moved into the FA hammedan Sporting in a He when he chested down the lead. shock 10 victory here and nute after being released by 30 home victory in the major reason is that the Cup semifinals as Oliver ro ILeague championship ball inside the box and The results: GKFC 2 (Dennis ended the relegation bat a fine piece of play from basement battle on World Cup T20 is in India Norwood’s own goal and round match at the Kalyani turned to his left to shoot Antwi 19, 33) bt Mohd. Sport tler’s 11match winless run. Kroos, who danced past a Saturday. later this year. Hakim Ziyech’s late strike Stadium on Sunday. home in the 19th minute. ing 1 (Sujit Sadhu 85). The Argentine pounced defender before taking out The results: Serie A: Juventus “It is a very important sealed a 20 win against GKFC has now tied with Antwi again showed his on a careless pass from Juve three more with a pass into 0 lost to Benevento1 (Adolfo tournament where we Sheffield United on Sunday. TRAU 1 (Phalguni Singh 43) Tiddim Road Athletic Union class when he shot from a midfielder Arthur Melo to the feet of his team mate. Gaich 69); Hellas Verona 0 lost have much to achieve. Manchester City and drew with Churchill Brothers 1 (TRAU) and Churchill Broth tight angle to beat goalkeep (Luka Majcen 28). fire in the decisive goal after Kroos was again involved to Atalanta 2 (Malinovskyi 33 There isn’t much to Southampton had made the pen, Zapata 42) ers on 26 points, but leap er Priyant Singh between his Roundglass Punjab FC 1 69 minutes, and the tooth for the second goal arriving achieve in these two Tests. last four on Saturday. LaLiga: Getafe 1 (Unal 60) frogged both on better head legs in the 33rd minute. (Chencho Gyeltshen 37) bt Real less host failed to find a way on the halfhour mark, win I think it is a better option Quarterfinal results: drew with Elche 1 (Milla 20). Chelsea 2 (Norwood 24og, tohead results to take the Sporting played better in Kashmir FC 0. past goalkeeper Lorenzo ning the ball back on the that I prepare myself for Bundesliga: Hoffenheim 1 (Be Ziyech 90+2) bt Sheffield Montipo. edge of the box and allowing something bigger,” Shakib bou 39) lost to Mainz 2 (Glatzel United 0; Bournemouth 0 The defeat left champions Benzema to dribble across 1, Kohr 41); Hertha Berlin 3 said. lost to Southampton 3 Juve in third place, 10 points the box and score his eighth (Zeefuik 4, Cunha 26, Cordoba “Those who keep saying (Djenepo 37, Redmond 45+2, James limps off in Lakers’ loss to Hawks behind leader Inter Milan goal in six matches in all 33) bt Bayer Leverkusen 0. that I don’t want to play 59). with 11 games remaining. competitions. Saturday: Premier League: Tests, I am sure they didn’t Everton 0 lost to Manchester Benevento’s survival Santi Mina headed Celta Brighton 3 (Trossard 45+3, read my letter. I didn’t City 2 (Gundogan 84, De Right ankle injury to sideline superstar indefinitely hopes were boosted as they back into the game in the Welbeck 51, Maupay 68) bt mention anywhere in my Bruyne 90). REUTERS NBA and clutching his right Devastating blow moved seven points clear of 40th minute following a free Newcastle 0. letter to the BCB that I ankle. A lengthy layoff for James the relegation zone in 16th kick. It took a strong save LaLiga: Celta Vigo 1 (Mina 40) don’t want to play Tests. I The 36yearold returned would be a devastating blow position. from keeper Thibaut Cour lost to Real Madrid 3 (Benzema wrote that I want to play Agence France-Presse briefly to hit a threepointer to reigning champion Lak Elsewhere, Atalanta drew tois to prevent Iago Aspas le 20, 30, Asensio 90+4); Huesca the IPL to prepare myself Los Angeles before limping back to the ers, who are already without level with Juve on 55 points velling in the second period. 0 drew with Osasuna 0; Valla for the World Cup.” dolid 1 (Orellana 44pen) drew LeBron James crashed out of star Anthony Davis as he re and strengthened its grip on Real found a third deep in Shakib also said that he locker room, knocking over with Sevilla 1 (Bounou 90+4). Los Angeles Lakers' 9994 covers from Achilles tendon fourth place with a 20 win stoppage time when Benze clarified in his letter why a chair in frustration. Serie A: Spezia 2 (Piccoli 49, loss to Atlanta Hawks on Sa at Hellas Verona. ma crowned his exceptional ESPN later reported that trouble. Maggiore 80) bt Cagliari 1 (Pe he wants to skip the Test turday with a right ankle in an MRI scan revealed a high The Lakers fell to 2814 to display by sending in a cross reiro 83). series against Sri Lanka jury that will sideline the ankle sprain and that James remain in second place in Double strike to Marco Asensio, who Bundesliga: Schalke 04 0 lost and the reason was to pre NBA superstar indefinitely. faced an "indefinite" injury the Western Conference be Real Madrid forward Karim walked the ball over the line. to Borussia Monchengladbach pare himself for this year’s The Lakers superstar col layoff. Depending on the se hind Utah Jazz. Benzema twice combined Real moved up to second 3 (Stindl 15, Lainer 63, Roen T20 World Cup. with teammate Toni Kroos in the standings and closed now 72). However, Akram Khan, Bhavani wins ninth lapsed to the court in agony verity, recovery from high BCB’s cricket operations straight Natl. sabre title after a collision with Hawks’ ankle sprains can take Sixth straight victory chairman had said that RUDRAPUR (UTTARAKHAND) Solomon Hill in the second anywhere from a few weeks Elsewhere, Milwaukee Bhavani Devi, who recently quarter, crying out in pain up to several months. Bucks kept the accelerator Shakib doesn’t want to play became the first Indian fencer down, notching up a sixth the two Tests against Sri to secure an Olympic berth, straight victory, a 120113 Lanka, to be held from won ninth successive win over San Antonio Spurs. April 21 to May 3. individual National sabre title In Memphis, the Grizzlies “Akram Bhai, especially, here on Saturday. ANI got the better of shorthand has repeatedly said that I don’t want to play Tests. I National para athletics ed Golden State, turning the tables on the Warriors a think he said it again in an championship interview yesterday. I BENGALURU night after losing to them with a 111103 victory. guess he never read the let The 19th National para ter. People should have a athletics Championship is Jonas Valanciunas scored clear idea that I wanted to scheduled to be held in 19 points and pulled down 15 play the IPL even if ODIs Bengaluru from March 24 to rebounds. were scheduled during this 27. The competition has been The results: LA Lakers 94 lost time,” said Shakib. moved from Chennai owing to to Atlanta Hawks 99; Memphis cancellation of permission by Grizzlies 111 bt Golden State <> Those who keep the Govt. of Tamil Nadu, the Warriors 103. saying that I don’t Paralympic Committee of LA Clippers 125 bt Charlotte want to play Tests, India stated on Saturday. Hornets 98; Milwaukee Bucks Events will be held at the 120 bt San Antonio Spurs 113; I am sure they Sree Kanteerava and Ouch, that hurt! LeBron James grimaces as he trips and Phildelphia 76ers 129 bt Sacra didn’t read my Vidyanagar stadiums. injures himself in Saturday’s game against Atlanta Hawks. * AP mento Kings 105. Ecstatic: Gaich, foreground, is thrilled after scoring for Benevento against Juventus.* AP letter CM A ND-NDE YK