Need to Protect Tagore's Bengal from BJP: Mamata
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DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA JOURNALISM OF COURAGE WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2020, KOLKATA, LATE CITY, 12 PAGES SINCE 1932 `5.00/EX-KOLKATA `6.00 (`12 IN NORTH EAST STATES &ANDAMAN) WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM IN LETTER TO CENTRE, FARMER UNIONS LIST FOUR-POINT AGENDA WORLD Talkstoday,farmerstoGovt:Willonly discussrepeal,MSPlegalguarantee DESIGNER PIERRE CARDIN DIES AT 98 PAGE 10 PM appeals againstdamagetoinfra, Disquiet in Punjab govt over cell tower says keep it away from politics vandalism, police seek to control damage BUSINESSASUSUAL EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE towers of Reliance Jio Infocomm Punjab Chief Minister BY UNNY NEWDELHI,LUCKNOW, ANJUAGNIHOTRICHABA, being vandalised, allegedly by Amarinder Singh told The Indian DECEMBER29 RAAKHIJAGGA protestingfarmergroups,thestate Express,“Ihavedirected police &AASHISHARYAN police have fannedout across the to take action againstthose van- AHEAD OF the resumption of JALANDHAR,LUDHIANA, affecteddistrictstorestore power dalising the mobile towers. Iwill talkswith the Centre NEWDELHI,DECEMBER29 supplytothese towers. notallowanyone to take lawin Wednesday, farmer unions, On Tuesday, aday afterheis- their hands. The situation is un- protesting at the gatesofDelhi AMIDGROWINGconcernoverin- suedastern warning to those der control now.” againstthe newfarm laws,wrote cidentsofaround2,000cellphone vandalising mobile towers, CONTINUEDONPAGE2 to the government saying the discussion can onlybeonafour- 6with UK strain point agenda including modali- Prime MinisterNarendra ties of repealing the laws and Modi inaugurates the Farmers in Madhya Pradesh duped by providing alegal guarantee on dedicated freight corridor minimum supportprice. via video conference. PTI traders, lens on key clauses in farm laws in India; experts In alettertoSanjayAgarwal, Secretary, Department of trict of their 2,581quintals of duo had cancelledthe registra- Days after Agriculture, Cooperation and Capital Region and adjoining ar- IRAMSIDDIQUE lentil and gram produce worth tion within three months of it be- Farmers Welfare, the Samyukt eas, 2020’, and the procedurefor BHOPAL,DECEMBER29 nearly Rs 2crore. ingissuedbythe mandi lastyear. say vaccine will Kisan Morcha, representing 40 withdrawalof thedraft'Electricity The 22 farmers firsttriedto Theywent to the residence of Karnataka farmer unions, listedthe two Amendment Bill 2020'. CITINGTHE newlyenacted farm locatethe trader by knocking at the Khojas in Khategaon tehsil other items on the agenda as Formallyaccepting the gov- laws,Khoja Traders, atrader firm Dewasmandi since the Khoja but could notfind them. Finally, remain effective House ruckus, amendmentstothe‘Commission ernment’s invitation to the talks, in Dewasownedbybrothers brothers had shown them the the farmers filedanFIR with the Ordinance forAir Quality the Morchasaid, “It is necessary PavanKhoja and Suresh Khoja, trading licence registeredbythe Khategaon police and also Dy Chairman Management in the National CONTINUEDONPAGE2 duped22farmers in Harda dis- mandi. But theyrealisedthat the CONTINUEDONPAGE2 Unproven therapies can trigger mutation: found dead Govt;5%positive samples to besequenced KAUNAINSHERIFFM DARSHANDEVAIAHBP Need to protect Tagore’s NIA: PDP’s Para paid &SREENIVASJANYALA CHIKMAGALUR,DECEMBER29 NEWDELHI,HYDERABAD DECEMBER29 TWOWEEKSafterhewascaught Rs 10 lakh to Hizbul in the middle of aruckusinthe Bengal from BJP: Mamata THE VACCINES developedagainst Nocauseforworry KarnatakaLegislative Council,JDS the novelcoronavirus would re- leader and Deputy Chairman of via Davinder Singh main effective despitethe emer- WHILE IT is possible that a the House, SLDharme Gowda, ATRIMITRA gence of the new, moreconta- mutant of the UK or South wasfound dead on the railway BOLPUR,DECEMBER29 gious strain in the United Africa kind can emerge in tracksinKarnataka’sChikmagalur Para’s lawyer declines comment;bail plea Kingdom, India’s topgovernment India as well, thereisno districtearly Tuesdaymorning.He WEST BENGALChief Minister says being framedtosettle political scores medical experts said on Tuesday. immediatecause forworry is suspected to MamataBanerjee on Tuesdayin- However, theycautioned as long as effective surveil- have diedby vokedRabindranath Tagore in her that injudicious use of unproven lance and genome se- suicide. speechatapublic meeting here DEEPTIMANTIWARY WaheedUr therapies againstCovid-19puts quencing is carriedout to On in Birbhum district, and hit out at NEWDELHI,DECEMBER29 Rehman “immune pressure” on the virus, detect the newstrain early. December 15, theBJP,saying the land of Tagore Para was whichcan lead to mutations. Prof KVijay Raghavan, as the BJP and would neverallowhatepolitics JAMMU &Kashmir Peoples arrested in The government on Tuesday Principal Scientific Advisor Congress to triumph over secularism. Democratic Partyleader Waheed November announcedthatatleast six per- to the Government of clashedover The Trinamool Congress Ur Rehman Para allegedly paid sons who have returnedrecently India, has also said that the who would (TMC) chief attendedafour-kilo- Rs 10 lakh to terror outfit Hizb- from the United Kingdom have vaccines being developed SLDharme control the 75- metreroadshowbeforeaddress- ul-Mujahideen to ensureits sup- connection with itsprobe into been found positive forthe new will work againstthis mu- Gowda member ing the rallyinwhichshe ac- portahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha suspendedDySP Davinder “variant under investigation”, tant strain as well. Upper House, cused the BJP of enabling polls, an investigation by the Singh’s linkswith the Hizbul. whichisbeing calledVUI- Gowda, who communal politics at Visva- National Investigation Agency CONTINUEDONPAGE2 202012/01. wasushered to the chairman’s Bharati, whichwas foundedby (NIA) is said to have found. Three of the positive samples Cellular and Molecular Biology seat by BJP members, was Tagore. The Central agency arrested were detected at the National (CCMB), Hyderabad, and one at pushedoff his chair. The rallyvenue wasdotted Para in November,justahead of OFFICER TO FACE InstituteofMental Health and the National InstituteofVirology According to the railway po- with placards containing lines the District Development MILITARY COURT IN Neurosciences (NIMHANS), (NIV), Pune. The Pune sample is lice, the JDS legislator wasfound from Tagore’s poems. Council (DDC) polls in J&K, in SHOPIAN CASE PAGE 5 Bengaluru, twoatthe Centrefor CONTINUEDONPAGE2 dead on the tracks near his Banerjee’sroadshowandrally hometown GunasagarainKadur were heldoveraweekafterasim- taluk of Chikmagalur district. ilarevent,whichwasattendedby THE EDITORIAL PAGE Local police said theyfound a BJP leader and Union Home Adelaide hurt fuels resolve, suicide note near his body. MinisterAmit Shah here. According to police, on CONTINUEDONPAGE2 SECESSIONOF Mondayevening, Gowda, accom- THESUCCESSFUL India make history at MCG paniedbyhis driver, had lefthis CM MamataBanerjee holds aphoto of Rabindranath Tagore BY SANJAYA BARU farmhouse in Sakkarayapattana MORE REPORTS during her roadshowinSantiniketan on Tuesday. Partha Paul PAGE 6 CONTINUEDONPAGE2 PAGE 3 fast bowler Umesh Yadavinthe SRIRAMVEERA middle of the game. MUMBAI,DECEMBER29 The celebration wasmuted —some laughter and quietbeers IAF chief says Chinese air Behind police raid on Pracha, trail MOHAMMED SIRAJ, the 26-year- —until the Siraj moment came old who losthis father lastmonth, up. “Wewerecelebrating his assets fully deployed, flags wasmoved to tears in the dress- performance on debut, and the- of ariot victim and ariot accused ing room as the Indian players worldknows what he has been toastedhis splendid performance through when he struggledto deepening Sino-Pak ties told him that Malik was“wit- in his debut Test at the Melbourne hold his tears. Rahane and acou- KAUNAINSHERIFFM ness” to the incident and if he at- Cricket Ground, the setting for ple of others hugged him, and sat &SOFIAHSAN tached Malik’s complaint, it “one of the great comebacks in him down. It wasanemotional KRISHNKAUSHIK NEWDELHI,DECEMBER29 would makeAli’s case “stronger”. the history of the game”, in the and lovely moment forthe NEWDELHI,DECEMBER29 Mehmood Ali denies Pracha calledhim, wordsofcoachRaviShastri. whole team, really,”asource in Air Chief SHARIF Malik,whose allegations Pracha and has told TheIndianExpress India, who were blown away the team said. UNDERLININGTHATunder- Marshal RKS form the basis of Delhi Police’s that he went to meethim on his fortheir lowest scoreinTesthis- Siraj’s father,anautorick- standing China is “our mostim- Bhadauria controversial search of advocate own. tory aweek agoinAdelaide, re- shawdriver, wasabig supporter portant national security chal- Mehmood Pracha’s home last connected to the riots filedat Ali’s case itself is fraught, ac- boundedspectacularly with an of his cricket,and sawthe crick- lenge” and cautioning againstits week,was accusedofrioting and Dayalpur police station, with little cording to the sequence of events eight-wicket win over Australia, eting rise of his son as the fam- “possible game plan” and the to supporttroops along the Line attempt to murder in the Delhi opposition from the prosecution. basedonpolice and courtrecords ledbyacharacter-defining hun- ily’s fortunes changed due to his “deepening and evolving Sino- of Actual Control in Ladakh. riots.But amonth ago, police told Police, in areportsubmitted accessedbyThe Indian Express. dred by stand-in captain Ajinkya Indian Premier League (IPL) stint. Pakrelationship”, Air Chief The IAF