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THE HINDU DELHI SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 2020 NATION 9 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF ‘Jail officials not handing over ‘Indian scientists must try to documents to file mercy plea’ work on interesting subjects’ Nirbhaya case Potential to do crucial work in the country: Nobel laureate ED issues summons to Kin informed senior AirAsia executives convicts’ lawyer SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT NEW DELHI of rejection NEW DELHI The ED has issued fresh moves Delhi court summons to senior of mercy plea Young scientists in India functionaries of AirAsia Press Trust of India should work on doing “im­ New Delhi airlines for recording their portant and interesting” statements in connection An advocate appearing for STAFF REPORTER science and it was possible NEW DELHI with a money laundering three of the four death row to be based in India and do case. Among those convicts in the 2012 Nirb­ Tihar jail authorities have groundbreaking work with­ summoned are AirAsia’s CEO haya gang rape and murder written a letter to the fami­ out “lowering the level” of Tony Fernandes (in photo), case moved a Delhi court on ly members of Nirbhaya the science attempted, No­ who has been asked to Friday alleging that the Tihar case convict Mukesh, in­ bel Laureate and President appear before the jail authorities are not hand­ forming them about the re­ of the Royal Society Venka­ Science push: ‘Venki’ Ramakrishnan delivering the lecture at investigating officer. ing over certain documents Bitter memories: Women carrying a floral tribute at an event jection of his mercy plea, traman ‘Venki’ Ramakrish­ the AIIMS Auditorium in New Delhi on Friday. * R.V. MOORTHY and this is causing delay in in London to mark the anniversary of the incident. * REUTERS said an officer on Friday. nan, said at a lecture here. Periyar statue vandalised filing their mercy and cura­ “As per the procedure, His talk, ‘My Adventures on to make up our bodies on the rivalry among scien­ in Kancheepuram district tive petitions. victs — Vinay and Mukesh containing 70 pages with the we have informed the fami­ in the Ribosome’ was deli­ and sustain its processes. tists around the world to de­ CHENNAI A.P. Singh moved an ap­ Singh, 32. mercy petition and had ly members of Mukesh vered as part of the 10th edi­ Dr. Ramakrishnan refe­ cipher the structure of the Tension prevailed in plication alleging that the jail Mukesh’s mercy petition asked the jail authorities to about the rejection of his tion of the TNQ Distin­ renced heavily from his me­ ribosome. Groups in Israel Kaliyapettai of Tamil Nadu’s authorities are yet to give the was rejected by the Presi­ provide it. mercy plea. We have also guished Lectures in the Life moir, The Gene Machine, to and at Yale University, at va­ Kancheepuram district after a Sciences 2020. “There are a narrate personal anecdotes: rious points, appeared to statue of social reformer documents which are re­ dent earlier this month. The However, the diary is yet asked all the four convicts Periyar was vandalised. The quired to file the mercy peti­ hanging of all four is to take to be provided and because to tell when they want to wealth of problems consi­ about switching from phys­ have a lead on his group. So statue was installed by local tion for Vinay Kumar Shar­ place on February 1 at 6 a.m. of this the plea could not be meet their families before dering the biodiversity of In­ ics to biology as a graduate he took the “risky” step of residents 20 years ago. The ma, 26, and curative according to the court order. filed, he said. February 1,” said the dia that need investigation,” student because he intuited moving to a new country — face and a hand of the statue petitions for Akshay Kumar In his petition, the lawyer The counsel said he had officer. he said. that he'd likely be able to the United Kingdom — and were damaged. The damaged Singh, 31, and Pawan Singh, said he had expressed “an also sought some documents All the four convicts will His address focussed on make a significant contribu­ taking a 40% pay cut. Ho­ portions were subsequently 25. urgent will to file a mercy pe­ of convicts Pawan and Aksh­ be hanged at 6 a.m. on Fe­ his contribution to the role tion, as well as reflect on the wever, the decision paid off covered with white cloth. The plea is likely to be ta­ tition before the relevant ay which have not been bruary 1 as per the court of deciphering the structure practice of science saying, as he was able to solve the Security was beefed up ken up for hearing on authorities and undertook provided. order. of the ribosome. This is the “Scientists are neither structure of the ribosome following the incident. Saturday. several steps to obtain rele­ The petition sought a di­ “Hangman Pawan will biological machinery neces­ Spocks nor saints”. He ad­ and was instrumental in The Supreme court re­ vant information to file it”. rection to jail authorities to reach Tihar on January 30. sary to transform the genetic ded that the “Nobel is mista­ bringing to a wider audience Pleas for FIRs against cently dismissed the curative He said Vinay wanted to provide the documents on He will stay there till the ex­ code, which is stored as ken for greatness.” the significance, Dr. Ramak­ Rajinikanth withdrawn petitions of other two con­ attach his personal diary “an urgent basis”. ecution,” the officer added. DNA, into proteins that go The Nobel laureate dwelt rishnan said. CHENNAI The Madras High Court on Friday permitted two office­ bearers of the Dravidar Viduthalai Kazhagam, from Centre seeks to revamp child care scheme in urban areas CJI wants speedy Chennai and Coimbatore, to withdraw the petitions they had filed seeking registration NITI Aayog will develop draft policy, which will be circulated to the Ministries for consultations of First Information Reports resolution of cases (FIRs) against actor JAGRITI CHANDRA Ministry of Drinking Water try there are only 1.38 lakh mothers have to travel long NEW DELHI Rajinikanth over a speech he and Sanitation. anganwadis in urban areas. distances for work. It also Bobde lays emphasis on tax disputes had made regarding a 1971 Urban areas are likely to re­ “Health and ICDS models The Integrated Child Deve­ found a higher prevalence of incident involving Dravidar ceive a renewed focus under that work in rural areas may lopment Services (ICDS) pro­ obesity because of relative SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Kazhagam founder E.V. the government’s ICDS pro­ not work in urban areas be­ vide for anganwadis or day­ prosperity and lifestyle pat­ NEW DELHI Ramasamy alias Periyar. gramme, which provides for cause of higher population care centres which deliver a terns, along with iron and Vi­ Lower pendency of cases in­ anganwadis or day­care density, transportation chal­ package of six services in­ tamin D deficiency. spires public faith in the jud­ GoAir suspends flights, centres across the country lenges and migration,” a go­ cluding supplementary nu­ Avani Kapur, a policy re­ iciary, and the use of tech­ cites shortage of aircraft for delivery of nutrition and vernment official familiar trition, pre­school non­for­ searcher, said improving in­ nology, including Artificial MUMBAI pre­school education. with the deliberations, who mal education, nutrition and frastructure in urban areas Intelligence (AI), in the judi­ GoAir has announced the The government’s think spoke on condition of ano­ health education, immunisa­ would be key as the govern­ cial work can help in speedy suspension of several flights The Hindu owing to non­availability of tank, the NITI Aayog, has nymity, told . tion, health check­up and re­ ment embarks on improving justice, but it can never re­ aircraft. The shortage is due prepared a draft working Urban areas have far fewer ferral services to hospitals. service delivery under the place human discretion in to grounding of planes for paper, which once approved ‘Other models’ anganwadis as compared to ICDS programme. just decision­making, Chief lack of engines and non­ would be circulated to diffe­ “Because of these issues it rural areas. Urban challenges “One thing which will be Justice of India S.A. Bobde delivery by the aircraft rent ministries for consulta­ may not be possible for a The first­ever pan­India sur­ crucial for anganwadi servic­ said on Friday. S.A. Bobde manufacturer. The airline, tions. These include the Mi­ community worker to keep and we are trying to synthe­ vey on the nutrition status of es in urban areas is streng­ Speaking at the 79th however, did not specify the nistry of Health and Family in contact with the benefici­ size learnings from those,” children, highlighted that thening safety and infras­ foundation day of the In­ and free the funds locked in number of flights cancelled Welfare, the Ministry of Wo­ aries, which she is able to the official added. malnutrition among chil­ tructure,” said Ms. Kapur, come Tax Appellate Tribu­ litigation. or the number in shortage. men and Child Develop­ achieve in rural settings. We According to government dren in urban India is cha­ Director at Accountability In­ nal, he said that while tax “A just and speedy dis­ The demand­supply gap in ment, the Ministry of Urban have seen some models in In­ data from 2018, of the 14 lakh racterised by relatively poor itiative of the Centre for Poli­ evasion was injustice to fel­ pute resolution is perceived aircraft will last till March. Housing and Affairs and the dia, and in other countries anganwadis across the coun­ levels of breastfeeding as cy Research. low Indian citizens, arbi­ as a tax incentive by the tax­ trary or excessive taxation payer. To the tax collector, resulted in social injustice an efficient tax judiciary as­ Weather Watch by a government. sures that demands arising He said speedy resolution out of legitimate assessment Rainfall, temperature & air quality in select metros yesterday Plea for judicial probe Raids at hotels uncover of tax disputes would act as are not strangled in delayed in custodial death cases assets worth ₹1,000 cr. an incentive to taxpayers litigation,” he said.

SC seeks government’s response Special Correspondent Managing Director Jyotsna NEW DELHI Suri. Legal Correspondent 2006 and 2018­2019. The Income Tax depart­ NEW DELHI Mr. Chakma said the Na­ ment’s searches of the Bha­ Assets abroad The Supreme Court on Fri­ tional Crimes Records Bu­ rat Hotels group, which The search operation has day asked the government reau’s annual reports from runs the Lalit Hotels chain, so far resulted in the sei­ to respond to a petition 2005 to 2017 state that judi­ has uncovered more than zure of unaccounted assets seeking implementation of cial inquiry was not con­ ₹1,000 crore in undis­ valued at ₹24.93 crore, in­ Section 176(1A) of the Code ducted in about 80% of the closed foreign assets, ac­ cluding ₹71.5 lakh in cash, of Criminal Procedure, cases recorded by it. cording to government jewellery worth ₹23 crore which provides for manda­ The reports further state sources. and expensive watches va­ tory judicial inquiry in cases that with respect to 476 cas­ An official statement lued at ₹1.2 crore, said the of death, disappearance or es of “death or disappea­ from the Finance Ministry statement. Foreign assets rape in police and judicial rance of persons remanded said that the search opera­ include investment in a custody. in police custody by court,” tion was conducted on Ja­ U.K. hotel, immovable pro­ A Bench led by Justice Ro­ 266 cases were registered nuary 19. Organised against perties in the U.K. and the hinton Nariman issued not­ and 54 policemen were a leading hospitality group, UAE, and deposits with fo­

Temperature Data: IMD, Pollution Data: CPCB, Map: INSAT/IMD (Taken at 18.00 Hrs) ice to the government on chargesheeted, but not a the operation also found reign banks. the petition made by activist single policeman was con­ domestic tax evasion to the “Evidence seized during Forecast for Saturday: Shallow to moderate fog likely over isol­ ated parts of West Bengal, Sikkim, Bihar, Assam, Punjab, Haryana Suhas Chakma, who point­ victed. Out of the 827 cases tune of ₹35 crore. While the search reveals that a and Chandigarh. ed out that since the enact­ of death or disappearance the statement did not name large amount of black mo­ city rain max min city rain max min ment of Section 176(1A) in of persons in police custody the group, government ney was stashed abroad by Agartala...... —....25.7...... 8.3 Kozhikode...... —....35.2....24.0 2005, the National Human without court remand, judi­ sources confirmed that it the group, through the me­ Ahmedabad...... —....28.0....13.2 Kurnool ...... —....34.2....19.5 Rights Commission has re­ cial inquiry was ordered on­ was the Bharat Hotels chanism of Trusts, formed Aizawl...... —....16.7...... 5.6 Lucknow...... —....21.3...... 7.5 Allahabad...... —....21.9...... 8.4 Madurai...... —....32.8....22.6 corded 24,043 custodial ly in 166 cases — 20% of the group, under the leader­ in early 1990s in tax ha­ Bengaluru ...... —....31.3....17.0 Mangaluru ...... —....37.3....23.2 deaths/rapes between 2005­ total cases. ship of Chairperson and vens,” it said. Bhopal ...... —...... —...... — Mumbai ...... —....34.5....19.8 Bhubaneswar...... —....29.6....21.1 Mysuru ...... —....30.8....20.0 Chandigarh ...... —....19.4...... 7.7 New Delhi ...... —....21.4...... 8.8 Chennai ...... —....31.0....20.4 Patna ...... —....22.0...... 8.6 Coimbatore ...... —....32.4....19.4 Port Blair...... —....30.8....23.5 Dehradun...... —....23.6...... 4.9 Puducherry ...... —....30.4....19.4 Schools in Odisha’s Jajpur remain Gangtok...... —....23.6...... 4.9 Pune...... —....30.9....15.9 Goa...... —....35.6....21.4 Raipur ...... —....28.0....15.0 Guwahati ...... —....19.3....10.9 Ranchi...... —....23.4...... 8.6 Hubballi...... —....32.0....18.0 Shillong...... —....11.2...... 1.2 Hyderabad ...... —....30.8....15.8 Shimla...... —....14.0...... 4.5 closed as elephant runs amok Imphal ...... —....19.5....3.70 Srinagar...... —...... —...... — Jaipur ...... —....23.1...... 7.4 Thiruvananthapuram...... —....34.1....25.4 Kochi ...... —....32.6....24.8 Tiruchi...... —....32.8....21.4 Kohima ...... —....24.2...... 6.4 Vijayawada ...... —....32.5....20.6 Officials fear it could enter human habitation Kolkata ...... —....24.3....15.1 Visakhapatnam ...... —....29.2...... — (Rainfall data in mm; temperature in Celsius) Staff Reporter naik, a Forest Ranger of Jaj­ Pollutants in the air you are breathing Yesterday BHUBANESWAR pur Road, said. The loss of CITIES SO2 NO2 CO PM2.5 PM10 CODE * Hundreds of schools re­ human lives in elephant at­ Ahmedabad...... — ..— .30 ..... — .....— .... In observation made at Bengaluru ...... 09 .50 .51 ..181 .....— ....* 4.00 p.m., Guwahati, Assam mained closed in Jajpur dis­ tacks in the State has crossed Chennai ...... 46 .64 .10 ..215 .....— ....* recorded an overall air trict of Odisha on Friday as the 100­mark, for the first Delhi ...... 8 .43 .37 ..246 .207 ....* quality index (AQI) score of * 261 indicating a hazardous an elephant trampled two time, in the current year, Hyderabad ...... 23 .76 .39 ..180 .....— .... level of pollution. In Kolkata...... 13 .81 .32 ..224 .168 ....* contrast, Maihar, Madhya persons to death. between April and March. Lucknow...... 12 .24 106 ..217 .....— ....* Pradesh The district administra­ Mumbai ...... 16 .38 .37 ..214 .143 ....* recorded a healthy AQI Pune...... 74 .21 .57 ..195 .142 ....* score of 26. tion on Thursday declared a 102 deaths Visakhapatnam ..9 .61 .60 ..158 .152 ....* holiday for primary and high According to Wildlife Socie­

Air Quality Code: * Poor * Moderate * Good (Readings indicate average AQI) schools in the Korei, Danaga­ ty of Orissa (WSO), which SO2: Sulphur Dioxide. Short-term exposure can harm the respiratory system, di and Sukinda blocks, ap­ keeps a tab on the human­ making breathing difficult. It can affect visibility by reacting with other air prehending that the ele­ A team has been formed to elephant conflict, 102 per­ particles to form haze and stain culturally important objects such as statues track the elephant. Photo and monuments. phant could veer towards sons have died. NO2: Nitrogen Dioxide. Aggravates respiratory illness, causes haze to form by habitations. for representational purpose. “Such a high number of reacting with other air particles, causes acid rain, pollutes coastal waters. human deaths has only 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 Second attack The Forest and Environ­ pushed villagers to retaliate. dizziness, confusion, unconsciousness and even death. Ishwar Das of Godipatana ment Department has con­ This is contributing to the PM2.5 & PM10: Particulate matter pollution can cause irritation of the eyes, and Chintamani Ram of Rad­ stituted a team to track the alarming number of unnatu­ nose and throat, coughing, chest tightness and shortness of breath, reduced lung function, irregular heartbeat, asthma attacks, heart attacks and premature hapatana died in an attack, elephant. ral deaths of elephants...,” death in people with heart or lung disease three days after the elephant “We have planned to tran­ WSO secretary Biswajit Mo­ killed a person. quillise it,” Debendra Pat­ hanty said.

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