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Vol. 13 No. 63 RNI NO. DELENG/2008/25465 New Delhi, Sunday, 18 July, 2021 [email protected] 9971359517 12 pages. 2/- Yediyurappa may step down as Gaurav Gogoi writes to CM Mamata Banerjee on ‘organ racket’, seeks Karnataka CM. Conditions apply inquiry against Kolkata hospital Simmi Kaur Babbar New Delhi Karnataka Chief BS Yediyurappa will resign Minister BS Yediyurappa said Kolkata. The Congress’ Deputy Leader in on Saturday he has not from the post of Karnataka the Lok Sabha, Gaurav Gogoi, has written resigned from his post, but he to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, urging her to initiate an inquiry might do so if certain chief minister if his sons are into the alleged involvement of a Kolkata- conditions are met. His based hospital in a human organ racket. In statement comes a day after he given a reputable position the letter dated Thursday, the MP from met Prime Minister Narendra in the central government. Kaliabor in Assam wrote: “As per Modi to discuss various villagers’ statement, the racket targeted development projects. villagers who were under financial distress Sources said that Yediyurappa "He has a very good opinion of me. I will under the pretext of paying them about Rs told PM Modi that he is ready work for the party to come back to power in 3-4 lakh in exchange of kidney. The links of and Dibrugarh districts have also registered to follow all his directions and the state again. The news of my resignation the racket have been traced to Kolkata…all cases in the matter. Bora claimed that more will even step down from his is not true," the chief minister activities happened at the Rabindranath than 140 kidney donors were taken to post only if all his conditions said.Yediyurappa also met Defence Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Kolkata by agents from various districts are met. One of these Minister Rajnath Singh in the Sciences, Kolkata.” with a promise to pay them Rs four to five conditions includes a position afternoon.Repeated open remarks by some Saying that the pandemic had pushed people lakh each but the donors were paid much at the central level for his disgruntled leaders within the Karnataka into “poverty and paved the way for such less. “There is every reason to believe that sons."CM Yediyurappa has BJP targeting him and his family with abominable instances”, Gogoi added, “I such illegal racket of selling human organs asked PM Modi to offer his accusations of corruption and interference humbly request you to instruct the police to could not have been possible unless there sons a reputable position in the in the administration have embarrassed the initiate an enquiry and verify the substance was some support from higher-ups in the government,” alleged the Congress leader. central government. If his in detail the development of the party in party and the government, despite warnings of these media allegations.” The Congress demand is accepted, he will step down from of disciplinary action by the leadership. MP said that “in the hour of grief, we must A report from Nagaon said an FIR was Karnataka."We discussed the development registered at the Nagaon Sadar police his post and follow all directions of PM of the party in the state. He asked me to give Another section of the party is demanding the stand in solidarity with the victims”. The Modi. He has also told the BJP high Assam Congress on Thursday demanded a station on Thursday after a person alleged special emphasis on bringing the BJP back to replacement of Yediyurappa (79) citing his that a fellow villager took him to Kolkata, command that he is committed to BJP power in Karnataka. The same was said by age and the need to project a new CM face CBI inquiry into the allegations of illegal ideology," sources said. kidney trade. Congress state unit President promising a high-salaried job. He was the prime minister also.Adetailed discussion ahead of assembly polls in 2023, sources introduced to another agent who allegedly The meeting comes at a time when political happened," Yediyurappa told reporters after have said.On a possible cabinet rejig, Ripun Bora in a memorandum to Governor Jagadish Mukhi alleged that the illegal offered him Rs four lakh for a kidney but he circles are abuzz with speculations of meeting Nadda.He said that these are the Yediyurappa, before the meeting with the refused. He managed to flee, returned home Yediyurappa being replaced as the chief responsibilities the BJP chief has given to prime minister, had said, "I will tell you if kidney trade had been going on for the last five years under the BJP rule. The alleged and filed a complaint, said the police. The minister of Karnataka.Yediyurappa on him.Yediyurappa also dismissed rumours there is any such discussion with (party) complainant also claimed that many people Saturday met BJP chief JP Nadda at his about his resignation, saying they are not at seniors over the restructuring or expansion of organ racket first came to light in Assam’s Morigaon district earlier this week and two from the village had gone to Kolkata and residence. After his meeting with Nadda, the all true. the Cabinet." sold their kidneys. Karnataka chief minister said they discussed people were arrested. The police in Nagaon Trinamool's Mukul Roy FIR lodged against BJP BJP may move court: Suvendu Adhikari Takes Charge As Chief Of MLA’s son for firing in air Top Bengal Assembly Panel on seeking Mukul Roy's disqualification Kolkata: Legislator Mukul Roy, who has Ghaziabad. An FIR has been lodged against a switched over to the ruling Trinamool son of BJP MLA Nand Kishore Gurjar for Congress after winning the West Bengal allegedly firing in the air, police said on Kolkata. BJP MLA and Leader of Opposition specific time frame within which the defections in West Bengal. Not much election on a BJP ticket, on Friday took charge Friday. Naresh was booked under section 30 in West Bengal Assembly Suvendu hearing will be completed. We want Roy to happened... We don't have confidence in this as the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the Arms Act and section 336 Adhikari on Friday said the saffron party get disqualified as soon as possible. We are (TMC) government," he said. Asked about chairman of the state assembly. may move the court to disqualify former considering our legal options. The party the development during Friday's hearing, he (endangering life or personal safety of Mr Roy, officially a BJP MLA, was appointed others) of the Indian Penal Code, they said. party leader Mukul Roy, who defected to the may move the court," PTI quoted Suvendu said, "The BJP will not go into ruling TMC, as MLA. Adhikari as saying after his meeting with technicalities... We have been asked to the Public Accounts Committee chairman on He had fired in the air during a plantation drive July 9. Objecting to the appointment, eight in Ganoli village under the Loni police The Nandigram MLA, who recently the Speaker. Explained: Suvendu Adhikari attend the hearing again on July 30." submitted a 64-page document to Speaker versus Mukul Roy over disqualification Suvendu Adhikari, along with other BJP BJP legislators on Tuesday resigned as heads station area, police said, adding the video of of various assembly panels. The BJP has said the incident has gone viral on social media. Biman Bandyopadhyay demanding He further said the BJP has already submitted MLAs, had staged a walkout in the West disqualification of Mukul Roy, attended the all documents, audio clips and video Bengal Assembly last week in protest that as per norms, an opposition MLA is Investigation revealed that the pistol, from appointed as the Public Accounts Committee which he fired the rounds, was provided to hearing on his petition at the Speaker's footage backing their demand to the against Mukul Roy's appointment as Public chamber on Friday. The next date of hearing Speaker. "We have already provided a 64- Accounts Committee (PAC) chairman. chairman and the Trinamool has misused that Naresh by officer of the forest department rule. The assembly Speaker's office Ashok Kumar who was present there, Senior is July 30. In the document submitted to the page dossier to the office of the Speaker. Reacting to Suvendu Adhikari's statement Speaker, Suvendu Adhikari had said that The process of hearing should not take too on moving court, TMC leader Mukul Roy announced new names of chairmen of the Superintendent of Police Amit Pathak said. eight committees on Friday. All of them are Police said a notice has been sent to the forest Mukul Roy, who won an assembly seat on a long. We have great respect for the said, "Let him. He can go wherever he BJP ticket and later joined the Trinamool Speaker's chair but past experiences have wants." Mukul Roy also attended a meeting Trinamool MLAs. Mr Roy, the MLA of department in connection with the incident. Krishnagar Uttar seat, was at the office for Gurjar, who is an MLA from Loni, told PTI Congress, should be disqualified under the made us sceptics. Over the last 10 years, of the Public Accounts Committee as its anti-defection law. "We would want a there had been at least 50 cases of such chairman during the day. over half an hour after taking over his new that some people who are not happy with his responsibility. Asked to comment on reports work made a fake video of his son. The pistol seen in the video is a “toy gun” and it has that BJP is planning to move court seeking his been handed over to police for investigation, disqualification as an MLA, he told reporters: he said. "Alliance Is Strong": Ajit Pawar Plays Down State Congress Chief's Remark "Anyone can go anywhere he wants." Speaker Biman Bandyopadhyay earlier said that there Pune: Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Balasaheb Thorat and Ashok Chavan have government had not received the Zoting was no impropriety in the appointment of Mr All border fencing gaps Ajit Pawar on Friday said that despite some clarified that the (MVA) alliance is strong Commission report as yet. Asked on the Roy as the Public Accounts Committee statements made by state Congress chief and we all are working together. Even BJP-ruled Pune Municipal Corporation chairman. He had also said as per norms, the Nana Patole, the latter's colleagues Patole echoed similar sentiments later," he passing a resolution to draft a development chairmanship of eight standing panels went to with Pakistan, Balasaheb Thorat and Ashok Chavan have said, adding that the entire Congress party plan for 23 villages merged into it recently, opposition BJP MLAs but if they resigned, the clarified that the alliance government in the was working as one under the leadership of Pawar said the PMC could take such a posts will automatically go to the next Bangladesh to be filled state was strong and working unitedly. its chief Sonia Gandhi. decision but it was for the state government seniormost members of the House. Queried on whether Mr Patole's recent Mr Pawar refuted media reports that he had to decide whether the DP will be made by Accordingly, Trinamool legislators Madan remarks pointed to lack of unity in the discussed this issue with Chief Minister the civic body or the Pune Metropolitan Mitra, Sudipto Roy, Tapan Dasgupta, by 2022: Amit Shah ruling coalition, Mr Pawar said such Uddhav Thackeray, and also rubbished Region Development Authority. The state Rukbanur Rahman, Ashok Chattopadhyay statements are made in closed-door others which said the Zoting Commission government had recently issued a and Abdul Khaled Mollah and two others meetings to boost the morale of party report had indicted BJP-turned-Nationalist notification appointing PMRDA as the were appointed as chairmen of various workers. "Even if such statements were Congress Party leader Eknath Khadse in a "planning authority" for the 23 villages. committees on Friday.They took the place of made, other Congress leaders like land deal. He added that the state BJP's Manoj Tigga, Mihir Goswami, Bisnuprasad Sharma, Nikhilranjan Dey, Dipak Barman and Krishna Kalyani and two others. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Partha Vidisha well accident Chatterjee said that the eight new committee chairmen will take charge on July 26. PM Modi announces Rs 2 lakh ex-gratia for kin of dead CBI Court Summons Ex-Minister New Delhi Union Home Minister Amit Shah Azam Khan In Recruitment Scam on Saturday asserted that all border fencing ? gaps with neighbouring Pakistan and Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced an ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakh for the kin of those who died in an Bangladesh will be filled till 2022. Shah accident in Vidisha. At least 11 people were killed while trying to rescue a girl who had fallen into a well. Lucknow: A special CBI court In UP's made the announcement while addressing Lucknow summoned former minister the 18th Border Security Force (BSF) Mohammad Azam Khan on Friday, while Investiture Ceremony. Noting that fencing New Delhi. Prime Minister medical treatment to those taking cognizance of the offences mentioned Narendra Modi on Friday who were injured. on border with neighbouring Pakistan and in a chargesheet in connection with the Bangladesh is significant in view of security, announced an ex gratia of What happened in Vidisha? Rs 2 lakh for the kin of recruitment scam in the Uttar Pradesh Jal Shah said, "There is no benefit of fencing the On Thursday, a girl fell into a Nigam (Water Department) during the border if gaps are not completely filled. I those who died in an 50-feet deep well at Ganj want to ensure that there will be no gap in accident in Madhya Basoda, about 50 km from previous Samajwadi Party (SP) government. fencing on border by 2022." Pradesh's Vidisha district. the Vidisha headquarters. SinceAzam Khan is in the Sitapur jail in another At least 11 people were The minister said that all issues related to the Some villagers climbed case, CBI judge Manoj Pandey directed the killed in Vidisha while down to rescue her while jail superintendent to ensure his appearance fencing project have been resolved and if trying to rescue a girl who there is any hurdle found during others stood on the parapet through video-conferencing on Monday (July had fallen into a 50-ft deep wall around it to help them. implementation of the goal in future will well on Thursday. 19). The court also issued summonses to the However, the wall suddenly other accused in the case, including Girish also be solved.India has been erecting fences "Anguished by the tragedy in to plug vulnerable and infiltration-prone crashed, throwing those Chandra Srivastava, Neeraj Malik, Vishwajeet Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh. standing on its edge into the patches along its sensitive border with My condolences to the Singh, Ajai Yadav, Santosh Rastogi and Pakistan and Bangladesh for long and there water. Later, a tractor was bereaved families. An ex- engaged in the rescue Kuldeep Negi. The special investigation team is lot of work that is happening to secure the gratia of Rs. 2 lakh each (SIT) formed to probe the case had filed the borders.The Comprehensive Integrated operation along with the from PMNRF would be police. However, the tractor chargesheet after investigation following a Border Management System (CIBMS) that given to the next of kin of and four policemen skidded case registered at the SIT police station by entails deployment of smart fences, those who lost their lives," into the well when the area inspector Atal Bihari on April 25, 2018. Mr advanced surveillance gadgets and anti- a tweet from the Prime kin of those who lost their lives: PM around it caved in, Khan was the urban development minister in infiltration alarms has been sped up by the Minister's Office read. @narendramodi Madhya Pradesh Chief eyewitnesses said. border management division under the the Samajwadi Party government headed by Anguished by the tragedy in Vidisha, Madhya Minister Shivraj Singh also announced an ex According to latest reports, the police have Akhilesh Yadav and it was alleged that norms Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and Pradesh. My condolences to the bereaved gratia of Rs 5 lakh for the kin of those who Border Security Force along the borders recovered 11 bodies and more than 19 were not followed in the recruitments in the families. An ex-gratia of Rs. 2 lakh each died in the incident. The CM also announced people have been rescued. More people are Uttar Pradesh Jal Nijam. with the two nations. from PMNRF would be given to the next of financial assistance of Rs 50,000 and free believed to be trapped inside the well. 2 New Delhi, Sunday, 18 July, 2021 NATIONAL THE SIKH TIMES

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NAME CHANGE ‚Êfl¸¡ÁŸ∑§ ‚ÍøŸÊ Allahabad HC issues notice to BCI on plea I, VINEET KUMARI TOMER W/O ◊⁄UË ◊ÈflÁP§‹Ê πÊÃÍŸ ÁŸ‡ÊÊ SflÆ »§Ã„ ◊ı„ê◊Œ MOHIT KUMAR TOMER RESID- ÁŸflÊ‚Ë ◊∑§ÊŸ ŸÆ zy, ª‹Ë ŸÆ •¥∑§È⁄U ING AT E-12 NARAINA VIHAR ßã∑§‹fl, »‘§‚-w, ‹ÙŸË ªÊÁ¡ÿÊ’ÊŒ ◊⁄UÊ ¬ÈòÊ DELHI-110028 HAVE CHANGED ß◊⁄UÊŸ •ı⁄U ©‚∑§Ë ¬àŸË »§⁄U„ÊŸÊ ¬ÈòÊË ◊ıÆ seeking ban on present dress code for lawyers MY NAME TO VINEET TOMER ◊Ë͒ ◊Ȥʂ •ı⁄U ◊⁄U ¬Á⁄UflÊ⁄UflÊ‹Ù ‚ ªÊ‹Ë FOR ALL FUTURE PURPOSES. ª‹ıø ∑§⁄UÃ „Ò. ¤Êª«Ê ∑§⁄UÃÊ „Ò •ı⁄U ◊Ê⁄U ¬Ë≈U Lucknow. The Allahabad High a band around the neck is not suitable ment to ask the BCI to reconsider its ∑§⁄UÃ „Ò •ı⁄U ÿÁŒ „◊ ∞‚Ê ∑§⁄UŸ ‚ ⁄UÙ∑§Ã „Ò¥ ÃÙ Court issued notice to the Bar Council for the climatic condition of the coun- decision, but the government did not PUBLIC NOTICE ◊ȤÊ ¡ÊŸ‚ ◊Ê⁄UŸ ∑§Ë œ◊∑§Ë ŒÃÊ „Ò •ı⁄U ∑§ß¸ of India (BCI) on Friday on a plea seek- try. "The advocate's band is a religious perform its duty in order to protect the Notice to public at large that my ’Ê⁄U ©‚Ÿ ◊ȤÊ ◊Ê⁄UÊ ÷Ë „Ò ¡’∑§Ë ◊Ò flÁ⁄UC ing a ban on the present dress code of symbol of Christianity and a non- fundamental right of lawyers of not client Sh. Sandeep Singh S/o Late ŸÊªÁ⁄U∑§ „È°– •Ã ©‚∑§Ë ßã„Ë ’ÊÃÙ ‚ ¬⁄U‡ÊÊŸ black coat and robes for lawyers. The Christian cannot be compelled to wear being forced to follow a dress code that Sh. Surjeet Singh R/o C-83-Y DDA „Ù∑§⁄U ◊Ò¥Ÿ ¬ÈòÊ ß◊⁄UÊŸ •ı⁄U ©‚∑§Ë ¬àŸË »§⁄U„ÊŸÊ Lucknow bench of the court also direct- it," he submitted. The petitioner also is extremely challenging in summer Flats Jahangir Puri DELHI-110033 ¬ÈòÊË ◊ıÆ ◊Ë͒ ∑§Ù ©‚∑‘§ ª‹Ã •Êø⁄UáÊ, have severed all her relations and ŒÈfl¸˜ÿfl„Ê⁄U fl •flôÊÊ∑§ÊÁ⁄UÃÊ ∑‘§ ∑§Ê⁄UáÊ •¬ŸË ed the Centre and the high court said, "Wearing a white saree or salwar and against our religious belief," the debarred her sister namely ø‹-•ø‹ ‚¥¬ÁûÊ ‚ ’Œπ‹ ∑§⁄U ÁŒÿÊ „Ò ÃÕÊ administration to file their responses kameez is a symbol of widows accord- petitioner argued before the court. As Mandeep Kaur D/o Late Sh. Surjeet ©‚‚ •¬Ÿ ‚¥’¥œ Áflë¿Œ ∑§⁄U Á‹∞ „Ò¥– ÿÁŒ on the issue by August 18. A division ing to the Hindu culture and traditions Assistant Solicitor General of India SB Singh R/o Village Baupaur, Afgana, ∑§Ù߸ √ÿÁQ§ ©‚‚ Á∑§‚Ë ¬˝∑§Ê⁄U ∑§Ê ‹Ÿ-ŒŸ fl bench of Justice Devendra Kumar and there was no application of mind on Pandey, assisted by advocate Anand VPO Dugri, District Gurdaspur, √ÿfl„Ê⁄U ∑§⁄UªÊ ÃÙ fl„ ©‚∑‘§ Á‹∞ Sflÿ¥ Punjab-143526 from all his movable Á¡ê◊ŒÊ⁄U „٪ʖ ¡Ù Á∑§ ÿ„ »Ò§‚‹Ê ◊Ò¥Ÿ ‚Ùø- Upadhyay and Justice Ajai Kumar the part of the BCI while prescribing Dwivedi, and the high court adminis- / immovable property of her free will Srivastava issued the notice to the BCI the present dress code for lawyers in tration's lawyer Gaurav Mehrotra were and consent as she is not according ‚◊¤Ê∑§⁄U Á‹ÿÊ „Ò– to the temperaments of the depon- ‚Ù„Ÿ ¬Ê‹ Á‚¥„ (•ÁœflQ§Ê) on a PIL filed by lawyer Ashok Pandey. the country." present in the court, the bench asked øÒÆ Ÿ¥Æ ‚Ë-}v Ÿ¡ŒË∑§ ¬ÙS≈U •ÊÚÁ»§‚ Considering the importance of the Criticising the dress code, the peti- them to file a counter-affidavit. Since ent and not obedient to him. If any- body deals with her which is at their ÃË‚ „¡Ê⁄UË ∑§Ù≈U¸ ÁŒÑË -zy issue, it asked all the respondents to tioner said, "Even a mad man will not the BCI was not represented by any own risk and responsibility. come up with their stand on the next go for a coat and a gown in summer but lawyer in the court, it issued notice to Ankur Modi (Advocate) date of hearing. The petitioner has chal- sadly, lawyers and judges are wearing the council for filing its response. Ch.No.P 9A, Tis Hazari Courts, PUBLIC NOTICE Delhi-110054 lenged the provisions of the fourth those proudly." The Information is given to general public NAME CHANGE NAME CHANGE at large that our clientSmt. chapter of the BCI Rules, 1975 framed black robes pre- I, HIRA LAL S/O MURARI LAL I, Moumita Bala Spouse of Army No. 14823721N Rank - HAV Name 38%/,&127,&( JyotiBhasinowner of Freehold under section 49(i)(gg) of the scribed by the BCI SAINI RESIDING AT H NO-J-130, - Santi Ranjan Das Presently Residential Built on Second floor NEAR NAVEEN PUBLIC SCHOOL, :H3HJDVXV/DQGDQG+RXVLQJ Advocates Act 1961, alleging that the and the high court Residing at Unit 5017 ASC BN, Portion without roof rights area meas- NEW SEELAMPUR, DELHI-110053 3ULYDWH /LPLWHG KDV EHHQ same are ultra vires (beyond the pow- administration is Kanchrapara Military Station, P.S. - uring 63 sq. yds. Built-Up Property HAVE CHANGED MY NAME TO Bizpur, Dist - North 24 Parganas, DFFRUGHG(QYLURQPHQW ers) to the Constitution, violating arti- unreasonable, unjust, HIRA LAL SAINI FOR ALL FUTURE West Bengal Pin - 743193 & &OHDUDQFHIURP6(,$$YLGHWKHUH bearing no. 94/4, out of Khasra no. cles 14, 21 and 25. The petitioner has improper and violative PURPOSE. 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Char Dham board decides to not livestream ceremonies held Roshni scam case: CBI searches inside shrines Dehradun. The Uttarakhand Char Dham Devasthanam Management Board on Friday decided that it would not livestream religious ceremonies performed inside the sanctum sanctorum of the four shrines. residences of former IAS officers According to a government release, Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, who chaired the board’s meeting, said that the Jammu . The CBI Friday conducted searches pertaining to several immovable livestreaming of only the outer premises of at nine places in Jammu and Kashmir, properties in Srinagar, Jammu and the shrines would be possible. On June 28, including the residences of at least two Delhi, besides fixed deposits of more while hearing a bunch of petitions related to former IAS officers, one being Mehboob than Rs 25 lakh during the searches. the availability of health infrastructure in Iqbal who is now with the National Cash of Rs 2 lakh, keys of six bank the state, the Uttarakhand High Court had Conference, in connection with a case lockers and a number of bank accounts stayed for four weeks the state cabinet related to conferment of ownership rights of were also found, it claimed. When decision allowing the Char Dham yatra for prime state land in Srinagar at low prices to contacted, Mehboob Iqbal confirmed residents of three districts from July 1. The ineligible applicants. the CBI searches at his and his brother court had directed the government to ensure The CBI is investigating a bunch of cases Aijaz Iqbal’s residences in connection that the ceremonies carried out within the relating to similar conferment of ownership with the more than 13-year-old case. sanctum sanctorum of the Char Dham rights, which have caused a loss to the state Pointing out that he has been in his temples be livestreamed for the people. In exchequer, on the orders of J&K High Court. native Bhaderwah town since last the next hearing on July 7, the Advocate The alleged illegalities have come to be month, Iqbal said his son was present at General had informed the court that the state collectively known as Roshni scam, named his house in Jammu at the time of the government has referred the matter to the after the 2001 land Act, under which the search. Char Dham Devasthanam Board. ownership rights were transferred, and The CBI spokesperson said the case Therefore, he had sought time to further which was repealed in 2018. According to a relates to an alleged arbitrary inform the court whether the livestreaming CBI spokesperson, searches were carried out conferment of ownership rights of state of the pujas and archanas, carried out within on Friday at the premises of two former land, measuring 7 Kanals and 7 Marlas the sanctum sanctorum of the Char Dham Divisional Commissioners of Kashmir, a (39,837 sq feet), situated at a prime temples, would be possible or not. After the former Srinagar Deputy Commissioner, location in Srinagar in 2007 on an Mehboob Iqbal is among 20 people, transferred ownership rights of state land board’s meeting Friday, Tourism Minister apart from the then Assistant Commissioner ineligible applicant at a low price, leading to including Baseer Khan, the Advisor to UT Lt meant for development of tourist and vice-chairman of the board Satpal and Tehsildar Nazool (Srinagar), besides a loss to the state exchequer. It was also Governor Manoj Sinha, who have been infrastructure to private hoteliers in 2008 in Maharaj said, “The opinion of all the board private person/ beneficiary. The CBI alleged that the land category was changed named as accused in the similar Gulmarg violation of the J&K State Lands (Vesting of members, priests of shrines and other claimed it found documents, including by the then public servants, who were land scam. In this, bureaucrats allegedly Ownership to the Occupants) Act, 2001 or organisations have been received on the conferment of land ownership rights, papers members of the Price Fixation Committee. misused their official position and RoshniAct. issue. The government will apprise the High Court about the opinion.” 2 LeT militants killed in Srinagar encounter J&K: Letter against animal sacrifice US hands over MH-60R Srinagar. TWO MILITANTS from Lashkar- helicopters to Indian Navy e-Toiba (LeT), who were wanted for a spate of attacks on civilians and police personnel, New Delhi. In yet another sign of were killed in a gunfight with security forces sparks row, admin clarifies no ban strengthening India-US defense in Danmar area of Srinagar early on Friday. relationship, the US Navy has handed Police identified the two as Irfan Ahmad Sofi over the first two MH-60R Multi Role and Bilal Ahmad Bhat, both residents of “It was a letter from the Animal Welfare Board the Animal Welfare Board bars slaughter of Helicopters (MRH) to the Indian Natipora in Srinagar. According to police Navy. The Indian Navy is procuring records, they had been active since December and I only forwarded it. It has been animals outside slaughterhouses in municipal misunderstood. There is no ban on areas. Since the Valley doesn’t have functional 24 of these helicopters manufactured last year. The police said in a statement that The UT administration, however, by Lockheed Martin under foreign following a tip-off about presence of slaughtering of animals,” Director Planning, slaughterhouses, barring a few in Srinagar, the militants, a cordon and search operation was clarified that there was no ban Animal Husbandry, G L Sharma, told The letter kicked up a row. military sales from the US launched by joint forces in the area. “During Indian Express. ‘Stoppage of illegal When asked how can people slaughter animals in government at an estimated cost of the search operation, as the presence of on animal sacrifice, and that the killing/sacrifices of cows/calves, camels & slaughterhouses when there aren’t many, USD2.4 billion. terrorists was ascertained, they were given other animals…’ as its subject line, the letter Sharma told The Indian Express: “That is only A ceremony was held at the Naval Air repeated opportunities to surrender,” the letter was a routine advisory sent by Sharma said, “A large number of for the municipal areas. In villages, people can Station North Island or NAS North statement said. “However, they fired sacrificial animals are likely to be slaughtered slaughter the way they do. There is no ban on Island, San Diego on Friday that indiscriminately upon the joint search party, sent out every year. in the UT of J&K during Bakr Eid festival slaughtering.” Later, the Animal and Sheep marked the formal transfer of the which was retaliated, leading to an encounter scheduled from 21-23 July 2021 and the Husbandry Department also clarified that the helicopters from US Navy to Indian in the early hours [of Friday].” According to Animal Welfare Board of India, in view of J&K government has not issued any ban order Navy. It was attended by India’s the police, Irfan and Bilal were part of The animal welfare, has requested for on slaughtering of animals in accordance with Ambassador to the US Taranjit Singh Resistance Front (TRF), an umbrella body, implementation of precautionary measures to rules. “Pertinently, Animal Welfare Board of Sandhu. The ceremony also which draws militants from various terror strictly implement the Animal Welfare India every year issues advisory regarding witnessed exchange of documents outfits, including LeT. “It is pertinent to between Vice Adm Kenneth mention that self-claimed terrorist outfit TRF Laws….” animal slaughtering to be carried out while It cited provisions in law relating to cruelty to following laws and rules. The same advisory Whitesell, Commander Naval Air shared on social media that terrorists Irfan Srinagar. A GOVERNMENT letter asking Forces, US Navy and Vice Adm and Bilal had left TRF and joined ISJK,” the animals and slaughterhouses. “In view of the has been issued this year also and has been senior administrative and police officers to bar above, I am directed to request you to take all forwarded to the concerned authorities,” it said Ravneet Singh, DCNS. Senior police statement said. According to police sacrifice of animals outside slaughter houses records, both Irfan and Bilal “were part of preventive measures as per the provisions of in a statement. Earlier in the day, the Muttahid leadership of the US Navy and during Bakr Eid festival next week generated Acts and Rules referred above for Majlis Ulema (MMU), an amalgam of the Lockheed Martin Corporation were groups involved in several terror crimes”, heat in Kashmir valley on Friday, with Muslim including attacks on police and security implementation of the animal welfare laws, to religious leaders led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, also present. Sandhu said the forces. religious leaders calling it unacceptable. The stop illegal killing of animals and to take termed the order as unacceptable and sought its induction of the all-weather multi role UT administration, however, clarified that stringent action against the offenders violating immediate revocation. “The MMU is surprised helicopters is an important milestone there was no ban on animal sacrifice, and that animal welfare laws,” said the letter sent to that sacrifice of bovine animals on the religious in India-US bilateral defense ties. An Express Series: Next to lotus the letter was a routine advisory sent out every senior administrative and police officers. As occasion of Eid is being termed illegal and “India US friendship Touching the on a wall, a death, a piece of year. the letter started doing the rounds on social disallowed under the garb of prevention of Skies!” he said in a tweet. He noted The Animal Husbandry official, who sent the media, voices of concern were raised because cruelty to animalsAct… that the bilateral defence trade has letter, said the order has been misunderstood. expanded to over 20 billion dollars in land and a web of politics the last couple of years. Going beyond defence trade, India and the Bhatpara. Standing at the narrow door of their US are also working together on co- small house in Bhatpara, North 24 Parganas 12.5 lakh private school students ‘missing’, Haryana sounds Highway production and co-development of district, Swapna Yadav, 17, shows the tiny defense platforms, he said. lawn where her uncle Joy Prakash Yadav (28) died, hit on the head by a crude bomb a month robbery: Many aspects of crime remain to be unravelled, says Kerala HC Sandhu also highlighted reform into the West Bengal results. measures that have been undertaken by India in the defense sector in The family alleges that Joy Prakash was one of Thiruvananthapuram. The Kerala High Court the vehicle, purpose for which it was the victims of the violence unleashed by the has observed that “very many aspects of the carried etc. are not traced.” Police sources recent times that have opened up new Trinamool after its return to power, as he was crime are remaining to be unravelled” in the said the investigation is nearing opportunities for foreign investors. a BJP worker and a lotus symbol adorns a case pertaining to the highway robbery of Rs completion. “We have no plan to question The MH-60R helicopter is an all- wall of their house. While police have 3.5 crore, even as the state police is set to file a any other senior BJP leader. The source weather helicopter designed to arrested two people, including one alleged to chargesheet in the case. and destination of the money would be support multiple missions with state- have links with both the TMC and BJP, the The probe into the robbery, which occurred on mentioned in the charge sheet,” the sources of-the-art avionics. The induction of family claims the “mastermind” was a TMC April 3 – days before Assembly elections – had said. Meanwhile, state Congress chief K these MRH would enhance Indian worker who roams free. Swapna says police taken a curious turn after several BJP leaders, Sudhakaran on Friday alleged that the Navy’s three-dimensional only collected evidence such as the phone on including state secretary (organisation) M probe into the robbery has turned into a capabilities. The helicopters would which she recorded a video of the incident Ganeshan and party state president K “farce” due to the “understanding” also be modified with several unique two days ago. In its report submitted to the Surendran, were questioned. Rejecting the between the BJP and the ruling CPI(M). equipment and weapons. The first Calcutta High Court on the post-poll violence bail applications of ten persons arrested for the He said the robbery case has put BJP in the batch of the Indian crew is presently in Bengal, the findings of which came out robbery, High Court judge Justice K Haripal Some of the accused are still at large. Very dock, while a separate case involving undergoing training in the US. Thursday, the National Human Rights on Thursday said, “It seems that there are many aspects of the crime are remaining to be smuggled gold at Kozhikode airport has According to the Department of Commission (NHRC) accused the Mamata numerous mysterious aspects in the case… unravelled… Source of the money carried in brought to focus the involvement of CPI (M). Banerjee government of letting violence prevail in the period since the results, and recommended a CBI probe and trial outside the state in the serious cases. Soon after the 28-year-old was killed in the attack on June 6, most senior leaders of the BJP had raised the issue, with images of his body. “Violence Thwart Opposition bid to misguide people: continues after the elections in West Bengal! TMC miscreants bombed and killed BJP activist Joy Prakash Yadav… The death of Democracy in Bengal, freedom strangled!” tweeted the BJP state unit. Employed with a CM Yogi Adityanath to party workers real estate company in Rajarhat alongwith his father Mishri Lal Yadav, Joy Prakash hung out with BJP leaders and was known to have Lucknow. Chief Minister Yogi security agencies that are “exposing education, employment generation, and the friendly relations with BJP Bhatpara MLA Adityanath on Friday warned BJP the attempts of terrorists”. management of migrant labourers. Pawan Singh, the son of BJP Barrackpore MP leaders and workers that in the run-up to Adityanath alleged that soon after the With the Opposition targeting the state Arjun Singh. June 6 was a Sunday, the Yadav next year’s Assembly elections they SP came to power in 2012 it cleared government’s handling of the Covid family recalls, and they had just had their would have to be cautious not just about the charges against the accused in the pandemic, the political resolution at length lunch when there was a loud banging at the that the issues that have to be raised but 2008 CRPF camp attack, the 2005 mentions the government’s “successful door. Joy Prakash answered the door, and two also face the Opposition’s attempts to Ram Janmabhoomi attack, and those Covid-19 management” and how the state people allegedly started abusing him. As he divert attention from the involved in the court blasts in with the largest population was able to stepped out, the men then took a bomb and administration’s successes. Ayodhya and Varanasi. The chief control it despite the Opposition’s struck him on the head. Joy Prakash died on At the party’s state executive committee minister claimed that “Pakistan “negativity”. The document claimed that the the spot. He is survived by his wife Sangita meeting, Adityanath claimed that the zindabad” slogans were raised at a second Covid wave was handled in just 10 (27), children Anuj (6) and Anushka (3), and Opposition would try to spread recent SP rally in Agra. Meanwhile, days in Varanasi, the parliamentary his parents. “I recorded the men on my negativity but BJP workers would have the state executive committee constituency of PM Narendra Modi. phone… I ran behind them but they escaped,” to inform the public about the efforts of approved the political resolution According to it, record vaccination took says Swapna, who is the key eyewitness in both the Centre and the state people changing their identities, and using placed by BJP state vice-president place in the state. The party claimed that the the case, her voice choking. In the video she government during the Covid-19 pandemic. children with disabilities to spread “jihadi and MLA Laxman Acharya. Fellow state party performed well in the rural polls has on her phone, before the sound of the “We are standing on the verge of the 2022 unmad [jihadi frenzy]” had proven that his vice-president Pankaj Singh and state because of the policies of the government, bomb going off, a man can be heard saying, Assembly elections. Thus, selection of administration’s apprehensions were secretary Meena Chaubey backed the and Adityanath’s hard work. The BJP “… forget police…. You are doing too much issues and attempts of Opposition to correct. resolution. The resolution lists the claimed it had given the state a government BJP, BJP… leave it.” He also accuses Joy government’s “achievements”, including the Prakash of having encroached upon the land misguide will go on simultaneously,” said The chief minister lashed out at his of “best law and order, and governance”. It the chief minister. Backing his government’s predecessor and Samajwadi Party (SP) start of the construction of the Ayodhya Ram alleged that previous governments led by the where his house stood. Police are pursuing temple, the construction of expressways, this line of investigation. decision to enact an anti-conversion law, president Akhilesh Yadav, saying a SP, the Bahujan Samaj Party and the Adityanath claimed that recent incidents of responsible leader was questioning the Covid-19 management, improving Congress promoted “terrorist activities”. New Delhi, Sunday, 18 July, 2021 DELHI-NCR THE SIKH TIMES 5

Common High Court of J-K, Ladakh changed to 'High Court Next R-Day Parade On Refurbished of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh' New Delhi. A notification has been issued by the Ministry of Law and Justice informing Rajpath After Central Vista Completion that the 'long-winding and cumbersome' nomenclature 'Common High Court of UT of Jammu and Kashmir and UT of Ladakh' Hardeep Singh Puri, who reviewed the status of ongoing construction works, said citizens will get an have been changed to 'High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh'. avenue that they will be proud of. President Ram Nath Kovind on Friday has signed the Jammu and Kashmir New Delhi: The Republic Day parade next amenities blocks and horticulture work and Reorganisation (Removal of Difficulties) year will be held on the refurbished sufficient space for parking. "Twelve Order, 2021, to effect the change. Rajpath as the redevelopment work of the bridges on artificial ponds are being built. "Present nomenclature is found to be rather Central Vista Avenue, stretching from People visiting Rajpath will have an long-winding and cumbersome. The said Rashtrapati Bhavan to India Gate, is amazing experience. The redevelopment nomenclature may be substituted as High expected to be completed by this of the Central Vista Avenue will be Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, November, officials said on Friday. completed by November and the Republic which besides being convenient would also Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Day parade next year will be held on the be in consonance with the name pattern Hardeep Singh Puri, who reviewed the newly-developed Rajpath," the official followed in other common HCs," the status of ongoing construction works, said said. notification read. Considered views on the citizens will get an avenue that they will be Infrastructure firm Shapoorji Pallonji and proposal were sought from the Lieutenant proud of. "Reviewed the status of ongoing Company Private Limited has been Governor of Union Territory of Jammu and construction works of Central Vista executing the project as part of the Kashmir, the Lieutenant Governor of Avenue project with the secretary of the government's ambitious Central Vista Union Territory of Ladakh and the Chief Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, r e d e v e l o p m e n t p r o ject. The Justice of the High Court. "The Lieutenant officials of ministry and CPWD, contractor redevelopment project of the Central Vista Governor of the Union Territory of Jammu and architect Bimal Patel. The progress so -- the nation's power corridor -- envisages a and Kashmir vide letter dated October 27, far is satisfactory and on schedule. Citizens new triangular Parliament building, a last year, and the Lieutenant Governor of will get an avenue they will be proud of," common central secretariat, revamping of Union Territory of Ladakh vide letter dated he tweeted. An official in the ministry said the three-km-long Rajpath, from October 20, 2020, have conveyed their that the Rajpath redevelopment project Rashtrapati Bhavan to India Gate, new agreement to the proposed change in the includes large-scale stonework, prime minister residence and PMO, and name of the High Court," it said. "The then construction of underpasses, underground new Vice President Enclave. chief justice of the common High Court for the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir and Union Territory of Ladakh vide letter COVID-19 third wave may hit by August-end, but will be less severe than second: ICMR expert Clear morning in Delhi; heavy dated November 21, 2020, has also conveyed her no objection to the proposed Head of epidemiology and the second wave is not over as yet rainfall likely on Sunday name," it added. and there are fluctuations in the infectious diseases at the ICMR, Dr reported number of symptomatic New Delhi. Delhiites woke up to a clear Samiran Panda said, "It's very cases. We are talking about the morning on Saturday with the minimum Ashraf Ghani slams Pakistan fluctuation over 24 hours which temperature settling at 28.2 degrees Celsius, for Afghan crisis; not fair, important for each state to examine certainly has to do with the test a notch above season's normal. The India the state level epidemic and take a conducted and the reporting Meteorological Department (IMD) has, retorts Imran Khan mechanism," Panda said. however, predicted heavy rainfall at isolated call like some of them might be in a Regarding the states that are reporting places in the city on Sunday. New Delhi. With Pakistan Prime Minister situation where they have the very the highest number of Covid cases, “The minimum temperature recorded at the Imran Khan listening, Afghanistan’s Panda said, "I could say that now the Safdarjung Observatory, considered the PresidentAshraf Ghani on Friday lashed out low intensity of the first and second time is such that we shouldn't talk official reading of the city, was 28.2 degrees intensity of the first and second wave but if about a country as a whole because the at him and Pakistan’s military for supporting wave." the restrictions are not maintained now they Celsius, and the relative humidity at 8.30 am the Taliban. External Affairs Minister S epidemic is taking a very heterogeneous was recorded at 75 per cent,” it said. The then they might experience very hard the course in states, so each state looks into the Jaishankar slammed Islamabad for third wave. So if the third wave happens weather man has predicted partly cloudy sky “blocking connectivity” with landlocked state-specific data and try to see at which with light rain or thundershowers later in the then it will hit around August-end or so but stage the epidemic they are in. So it's good Afghanistan. it's not inevitable." day, while the maximum temperature is Ghani’s accusation that “more than 10,000 New Delhi. An Indian Council of Medical to talk about the state-specific nature, expected to hover around 37 degrees Celsius. Research (ICMR) expert suggests that a "States need to look into their own COVID analyze data and transmission and what is jihadi fighters” have entered Afghanistan data and check, at which stage of the The city had received the first rain of the from Pakistan in the last month, and that COVID-19 third wave may hit the nation by happening in terms of the population monsoon season on Tuesday, 16 days after August-end, but it will be less severe than epidemic they are in. The third wave could mixing and travel or the neglect of a Covid Islamabad had failed to convince the Taliban happen around the end of August but it isn't the usual date of June 27. On Friday, the to participate “seriously” in the peace talks, the second wave. Commenting on the appropriate behaviour." Further, he minimum temperature in the national capital situation, Head of epidemiology and inevitable. We need to be more careful," he explained, "If we allow the virus to transmit was rejected by Khan. Khan said it was added. He also warned that the second wave was recorded at 27 degrees Celsius, while the “unfair” to blame Pakistan for the situation infectious diseases at the Indian Council of then it will get transmitted if we were given maximum settled at 37.8 degrees Celsius, Medical Research, Dr. Samiran Panda said, is not over yet and there are fluctuations in the opportunity then the virus will spread, in Afghanistan. They were all speaking at the reported number of symptomatic cases. three notches above the season's normal. the international conference on ‘Central and "It's very important for each state to so, we have to be very careful because there South Asia Regional Connectivity: examine the state level epidemic and take a "When the third wave will come and how is possible to win over this virus and there is Challenges and Opportunities’ in Tashkent, call like some of them might be in a intense it could go are all questions that are also the possibility of also losing the chance Priyanka Gandhi in UP: Congress the capital of Uzbekistan. “Contrary to situation where they have the very low related to many factors which are not of winning of the game." leader to visit Lakhimpur Kheri, repeated assurances by Prime Minister Khan known to the full extent. But what it is said and his Generals that Pakistan does not find to meet SP worker Anita Yadav a Taliban takeover in Afghanistan in Pakistan’s interest and short of use of force will use its power and influence to make the South Africa President sends senior leaders New Delhi. Congress general secretary Taliban negotiate seriously, networks and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is on a two-day visit organizations supporting the Taliban are and is all set to visit Lakhimpur Kheri district openly celebrating the destruction of the today to meet SP worker Anita Yadav, who assets and capabilities of the Afghan people to check ethnic tensions against Indians was allegedly manhandled by BJP workers and State,” Ghani said. Jaishankar said and her saree was pulled when she went to file nominations for block panchayat polls. economic growth is universally driven by New Delhi. Days after External Affairs directing the security forces and getting the 3Cs of connectivity, commerce, and Minister S Jaishankar spoke with his South them to go to those areas that are volatile at On Friday, Gandhi began her 2-day visit with a silent protest before a Mahatma Gandhi contacts — and all three need to come African counterpart Naledi Pandor and the moment.” On Friday, the Indian High together to ensure regional cooperation and statue against the BJP government in the prosperity. “The challenge we face is that expressed concern over the widespread Commission in South Africa said Pandor state. The party'sUttar Pradesh in-charge politics, vested interests and instability can violence and rioting in that country, on Wednesday, who has “asserted that the reached Lucknow's Chaudhary Charan be formidable impediments to its President Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday said early restoration of normalcy and peace Singh Airport in the afternoon and moved in realization. There are lessons too from our he has dispatched his police minister and was her government’s overriding a procession through the main roads of the experiences that need to be understood. The the premier of KwaZulu Natal province to a priority”. “The High Commissioner of state capital to the Hazratganj GPO Park real issues are of mindsets, not of disputes. township in Durban, amid escalating South Africa in New Delhi has also Gandhi statue and garlanded it. Priyanka Blocking connectivity in practice while tensions between the Indian and Black updated the Government of India on the Gandhi will also meet the block Congress professing support in principle benefits no communities there. region. However, he did not visit the situation,” the High Commission tweeted, presidents of Amethi and Rae Bareli on one. A one-sided view of trade rights and Tensions between the two communities in the suburbs of Phoenix and Pietermaritzburg, adding that the Indian High Commission in Saturday, the second day of her tour, and hold obligations can never work. No serious township of Phoenix and surrounding areas the provincial capital of KwaZulu-Natal, Pretoria and consulates in Johannesburg and a meeting with the office-bearers of the connectivity can ever be a one-way street,” were sparked by social media posts that have been most affected. “The Minister Durban are in contact with Indian 'Berozgar Manch', a body representing the he said, in a reference to Pakistan not following the violence over the arrest of of Police was on his way to Phoenix. Our community leaders and have offered unemployed. She will also hold a meeting with former MPs, ex-MLAs, former district allowing overland transit for trade and former President Jacob Zuma on July 7. local leaders — the Premier, the MEC’s support and assistance to distressed connectivity with landlocked Afghanistan. families. Edited posts of Ethekwini Mayor and city presidents and former heads of Concerned by the violence, Jaishankar had (Members of the Executive Committee of frontal organisations and departments and Responding to Ghani, Khan said, “President on Wednesday spoken with Pandor, who Mxolisi Kaunda, manipulated to create a Ghani, let me just say that the country that the City) are going to have to deal with that members of zila panchayats and blockheads. will be most affected by turmoil in assured him that her government was doing type of situation,” Ramaphosa said. “I highly inflammatory message against She is scheduled to return to Delhi Saturday Afghanistan is Pakistan. Pakistan suffered utmost to enforce law and order. wanted to go myself, but time now is of the Indians, also emerged on social media. In evening. Priyanka Gandhi's visit to Uttar 70,000 casualties in the last 15 years. Ramaphosa was briefly in Ethekwini, a essence. We are going to have a Cabinet the original post, Kaunda had quoted Pradesh comes as it prepares for the metropolitan municipality that includes the meeting later, so I’m going to have to go someone else to call for all to exercise Assembly polls early next year. She faces an city of Durban and surrounding towns, to back to Gauteng (province), but I’m here restraint, appealing for calm to prevail. uphill task of reviving the party to a position assess the situation following the now, encouraging and holding the hands of Police Minister Cele said he was confident of strength in the politically crucial state continuing violence and looting in the both our people on the ground and also that with the deployment. where the Congress. Government reaches out to Opposition ahead of Monsoon Session

New Delhi. With the Opposition gearing up to question the indicated that the Monsoon Session would be rocky for the government in the Monsoon Session of Parliament government. Shiromani Akali Dal, a former ally of the BJP, beginning Monday on a range of issues, including the has roped in a number of parties like NCP, DMK, TMC, Covid-19 pandemic situation, delay in vaccination BSP and Shiv Sena to demand for the repeal of the programme and price rise, the treasury benches on Friday contentious farm laws. The Congress has indicated that it started an outreach exercise. would raise the border row with China in both Houses. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh met former defence Meanwhile, the government said it is prepared to “respond ministers Sharad Pawar and A K Antony to brief them on to every attack” from the Opposition. “We are in a good the India-China border situation. Singh has provided position to reply to all the questions they raise. The Covid Pawar and Antony with details about India’s military crisis was not limited to India, it is a global crisis. Barring preparedness in the region, sources said. The meeting was the 14-16 days during which there were crises like Oxygen also attended by Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat shortage, the government could provide support to the and Army Chief Gen M M Naravane. Piyush Goyal, the affected people. But the demand was 20 times more than newly-appointed leader of Rajya Sabha, met Pawar and the capacity,” said a senior minister. He added that the former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. These meetings vaccination programme in India has been a huge success so came a day before the scheduled meeting of floor leaders of far. During the 19-day session, the government is ready for all parties in the Upper House, called by Rajya Sabha any kind of discussion on the pandemic situation, he added. Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Sources said the government will take up nine pending Birla has called party leaders on Sunday to ensure a smooth Bills and five ordinances during the session, that ends session, while the BJP has called their partners in the NDA August 13. According to PRS Legislative Research, there for a meeting on the same day for coordination. The are 38 Bills pending in Parliament. Among the Bills which unusual moves from the ruling BJP assume significance as will be introduced are the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code the Opposition, buoyed by the recent Assembly elections (Amendment) Bill, 2021, which replaces an ordinance; the results, has already launched multiple efforts to get non- Limited Liability Partnership (Amendment) Bill, 2021; the NDA parties together to raise issues like the “mishandling Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation of the pandemic situation” and “unprecedented fuel price (Amendment) Bill, 2021; and the Electricity (Amendment) increase”. Opposition parties, especially the TMC, have Bill, 2021. New Delhi, Sunday, 18 July, 2021 EDITORIAL THE SIKH TIMES 6 Letters to the editor: Time for celebrations: Fourth of July Rishabh Pant tests American Diaries: Plant-based food trend son Grubhub, New York City's American LGBTQ+ Museum; Airbnb outreach programmes The United States of America celebrated its 246th Independence Day this July 4. It was one of the first Covid positive, Modi's major holidays and nationwide celebrations since the easing of Covid restrictions. More than half the country’s adults are fully vaccinated and were busy praise for Adityanath planning and attending firework-viewing parties and cookouts — something that was sorely missed last year. The White House celebrated Fourth of July, and also marked the country’s progress on the fight against the virus. It was one of the largest events hosted since the pandemic. “Today, all across this nation, we can say with confidence: America is coming back together,” the president, Joe Biden, remarked outside the White House. “Two hundred and forty-five years ago, we declared our independence from a distant king. Today, we’re closer than ever to declaring our independence from a deadly virus.” Around 1,000 people attended the event hosted on the South Lawn, including military families and families of essential workers. Sir — It is really unfortunate that the Indian wicket- Boston, Philadelphia and New York City are the top keeper and batsman, Rishabh Pant, and a member attractions for visitors during the celebrations. NYC’s of the men’s cricket team’s support staff have Macy’s fireworks show is the largest in the country, tested positive for Covid-19 ahead of the five- often viewed from the Brooklyn Bridge. The famous match Test series against England. However, with July 4 Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest also took place Pant not playing, K.L. Rahul would likely get to with the winner, the 37-year-old Joey Chestnut, eating be the wicket-keeper for India in the practice 76 hot dogs in 10 minutes. He beat his previous year’s #PastaChips have over 361 million views. You boil voices, but it focuses only on art. match against the Combined Counties from July record by one hot dog. The stadium was packed with farfalle pasta, add grated Parmesan, olive oil, garlic and Stay out 20. If Rahul plays and scores 50-odd runs and gets around 5,000 people all eagerly watching him wolf onion powder to the bowl, then air-fry until the contents Airbnb, the popular “home away from home” vacation some catches, the problem of the opening slot down the dogs. Grubhub, the popular food delivery app, crisp up into chips. rental app, has expanded in its unique and creative could be solved for India. Rahul and the team just released its third annual report of trending foods Proud moment offerings during Covid and continued to do so even as deserve the nation’s support during the Test series. after analysing and studying customer orders from the New York City is opening up a museum to be dedicated to travel restrictions were lifted. Just recently, it partnered Sir — When the prime minister, Narendra Modi, past six months. It reports an overall increase in plant- the LGBTQIA+ community and its history. The with New York Mets’ Citi Field stadium where you can recently applauded the Uttar Pradesh chief museum, named The American LGBTQ+ Museum, is stay overnight at the VIP suite created at the stadium minister, Yogi Adityanath, for his ‘remarkable’ based food requests with plant-based sausage wrap trending at the top. Its popularity has increased 549 per formed as an expansion of the New-York Historical itself and watch two back-to-back games on July 28. management of the deadly second wave of Covid- Society museum and library and is scheduled to start Guests who are lucky enough to get a booking also get 19 in the state, he was trying to pat his own back cent. Bubble milk tea, an Asian drink with tapioca programmes and hire an executive director sometime unlimited classic stadium park food such as hot dogs, and forge a positive narrative of his own pearls, came second with over 500 per cent increase. On ‘achievements’ in the handling of the pandemic. its heels were Birria tacos — a Mexican adobo soon. The idea was conceptualized in 2017 and sodas and Cracker Jack popcorn. To top it all, guests By doing so, he made a mockery of the countless flavoured goat or beef stew, not unlike the Bengali approved in 2018 by the New York City Council. The will get a signed baseball from the team players. Just deaths witnessed in the state — the disturbing mangshor jhol. The report also dives into favourite food website describes a study conducted with 3,200 people last week the Airbnb co-founder and CEO, Brian images of corpses of suspected Covid patients by city. For example, app requests and trends show that from the LGBTQ+ community, including historians, Chesky, was appointed to the United States Travel and floating in the Ganga or buried in the sands of the NYC craves a toasted Monte Cristo panini, on the top of students, academics, and the general public across Tourism Board.According toAirbnb’s site, from July to river’s banks are a testimony. the list in Washington, DC is jumbo lump crab cake, Los different demographics. It also says that the mission of September last year, there was a 128 per cent increase in It is well known that Adityanath’s government made Angeles enjoys its beef barbacoa taco while Chicago, the museum is “to advance LGBTQ+ equality through guest reviews mentioning “relocation”, “relocate”, a huge mess of the Covid-19 situation in UP. By the home of the deep dish pizza, saw nearly 700 per cent the lens of social justice movements, including, but not “remote work” and “trying a new neighborhood” lauding him for an ‘achievement’ he can lay no increase in demand for thin crust pizza. The forecast limited to, race, gender, class, immigration, and compared to the same time the previous year. People claim to, Modi betrayed his own insensitivity to expects this summer to see a rise in the popularity of disability” through its exhibits and events. The museum have been looking for more rural, larger spaces, and the pain of those who not only lost their loved ones loaded chicken nachos, barbecue pork quesadilla and focuses on highlighting the community’s experiences trying to move out of cities, with provisions to work owing to the failure of the state government to watermelon slushies. The reports are based on studying through the intersection of different identities. The remotely. Airbnb reports that Park City (Utah), provide timely medical care, but were also denied millions of online food orders. Another food trending museum will have a “core” section while everything Steamboat Springs (Colorado) and Durham (North the chance to give their dead a dignified cremation now, although less research-based, is pasta chips, which else will be dynamic to avoid an exclusionary view of Carolina) are among the top trending destinations for or burial. The disturbing visuals had triggered made its way to the top on TikTok. It became famous history. This section will highlight the history of NYC remote work. In terms of vacations, stays like cabins global outrage at the appalling state of public through a food blogger, whose post garnered two and some key moments in LGBTQ+ history. This is the and cottages crack the top five space types for 2021 health infrastructure in UP, where several million views and, ever since, videos under first museum of its kind in the city. The Leslie-Lohman trips, replacing villas and townhouses from 2020. hospitals reportedly refused to admit patients Museum of Art in SoHo also highlights LGBTQ+ gasping for breath. Many died waiting for a bed. The prime minister ought to have remembered that Forgotten food his own senior cabinet minister, Santosh Gangwar — he was recently replaced as Union minister of Now that panta bhaat has gone where no ‘peasant food’ has gone before, it is time that other such humble delicacies followed state for labour in the cabinet reshuffle — had written a letter to Adityanath expressing deep Bengalis were torn between salivating and gloating cannot have enough of theplas and poha. But concern at the dismal healthcare infrastructure in when steaming plates of panta bhaat, alu bhorta and fetishes are seldom representative; they can be UP. A sitting minister from UP, too, had shared maachh bhaja were served by a contestant of severely exclusionary, rendering invisible local — Gangwar’s concern. By boasting that the UP Bangladeshi-origin at the grand finale of MasterChef especially indigenous — food and its history. The government has vaccinated the highest number of Australia. There are whispers that while some market, that iniquitous platform under capitalism, persons in the country, the prime minister is Bengalis rushed to the kitchen to try out bowls of this has done its bit to push to the margins already- misleading the nation. He is suppressing the fact proletarian, hence niche, delicacy, some — those with marginalized food. Fermented rice, celebrated as a that UP’s vaccination record has been one of the the Bengali version of the stiff upper lip — were left health drink and gruel by India’s adivasis, is lowest in the country in terms of population. One shocked at the decision to push rice gruel, a staple unlikely to be marketed as a palatable product for would expect the prime minister of India to be cooked with leftovers in poorer households, under the the urban, uninformed stomach under the spell of more honest on matters concerning citizens’ lives spotlight. Their derision is suggestive of a fact that the basmati. A prevailing fallacy among cultural and deaths. Sir — It was both laughable and cannot be masked by either aroma or flavour: the world commentators is to view parochialism as being frightening to witness Narendra Modi lavish of food is a distinctly segregated territory in which synonymous with regional sentiments. Yet, as praise on Yogi Adityanath’s handling of the some dishes, usually the ones endorsed by rich and Bengal’s panta bhaat has just shown, the provincial Covid-19 situation in Uttar Pradesh, especially powerful nations, culinary cultures and people, have can essentially serve as capital to ignite interest — when the state government not only allowed permanent seats at the high table of global cuisine. reliable mirrors of cultural and ethnic prejudices and fault scholarly and mundane — in the vanishing dishes thousands of patients to die from the lack of Thus paella and risotto — panta bhaat’s Spanish and lines. India — home to a dizzying array of dishes — is a that ought to make up India’s food map. medical care and oxygen but also cracked down Italian cousins, respectively — have gone chic and are convincing example of food fetishes. While the north What is getting erased, from plates and public imagination, on ordinary citizens trying to seek help online. being wolfed down by patrons in Michelin-starred chomps on chhole bhature, dal makhani and tandoori transcends food. The effacement has serious real-life Perhaps that is the ‘handling’ of the situation that restaurants. Yet, it took the world a while to discover the chicken, a day in the southern part of the country is consequences. Consumption patterns have a bearing on Modi admires? After all, brutality and the hiding humbler paterfamilias of the clan. incomplete without tucking into dosas and vadas. agricultural productivity. A study by the Central Rice of the truth are common in Bharatiya Janata Party- This hierarchy of tastes must be examined in the wider Meanwhile, the east salivates at fish curry, and the west Research Institute in Cuttack shows that the rising ruled states. context. Cuisines, integral to culture, are, ironically, popularity of basmati is driving.

Second assassination POLITICS AND PLAY | Defiling the Mahatma

I first visitedAhmedabad in 1979, and in the following Gandhi by his side. For all his interest in the absence of policemen in khaki carrying rifles or even decade went back often for both professional and Sabarmati Ashram since he became prime minister, batons, the view of the river — all these give the place a personal reasons. Then I began research on Gandhi, the moral and ideological distance between Gandhi special, welcoming character absent in every other and my attachment to the city deepened even more. and Modi may be forever unbridgeable. A prime monument or museum in India today. Of the five ashrams In the summer of 2002, on my first trip back after the minister whose party cannot number a single that Gandhi established, two in South Africa and three in horrific riots that had taken place earlier that year, I Muslim among its 300-odd Lok Sabha MPs, and India, Sabarmati is unquestionably the most significant. naturally went to the Sabarmati Ashram, where I whose government passes a raft of discriminatory Millions of people from all over India, and across the spent some time talking to one of the Trustees, a legislations stigmatizing Muslims, practises a world, have visited this ashram over the years. No one quiet, self-effacing man who had spent thirty years politics that Gandhi, the prophet of inter-faith comes away without being moved by the beauty and in the service of Gandhi. In the course of our harmony, abhorred and opposed all his life. A man simplicity of the surroundings as much as by the historic conversation, he told me that the Gujarat riots of who has so extravagantly embroidered his personal associations they carry. When a regime known for its 2002 were “the second assassination of Mahatma history, whose regime systematically doctors aesthetic barbarism and its worship of monumentalism Gandhi”. statistics with regard to economics, health and all uses the word, ‘world-class’, in connection with the The person under whose watch those riots took place, else, is worlds removed from the person who Sabarmati Ashram, it sends shivers down the spine. That the then chief minister, Narendra Modi, was entirely proclaimed ‘Satyameva Jayate’, truth shall prevail. the chosen instrument of this ‘upgradation’ is the educated by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, an In fact, so ubiquitous has been this regime’s lying architect, Bimal Patel, makes one more nervous still. organization whose sectarian, xenophobic ideology is But instead of asking one of these experts to show the and dissembling that a writer I know says that the Patel’s work is undistinguished. His cold, concrete utterly at odds with the capacious and open-minded foreign dignitary around, Modi — a man trained in the Bharatiya Janata Party’s motto should be ‘Asatyameva structures are cut of a cloth very different from that which worldview of Gandhi himself. Modi grew up venerating school of Gandhi-baiters and Gandhi-haters — insisted Jayate’— through falsehood we shall triumph. marks the homes and dwellings in Gandhi’s ashrams in the sarsanghchalak of the RSS, M.S. Golwalkar, whose on doing so himself. The cameraperson was instructed to Truth, transparency, and religious pluralism, that was Sabarmati and Sevagram. Bimal Patel is apparently the detestation of Gandhi is a matter of public record. In a have only the Indian prime minister and the visiting head Gandhi. Deceit, secrecy, and majoritarianism — that is only architect the prime minister has heard of. As with speech in December 1947, Golwalkar remarked: of state in the frame, the better to show Modi gesturing Modi. How then can the latter claim any kinship with the other sarkari projects in Delhi, Varanasi, and “Mahatma Gandhi could not mislead them any longer. with his hands towards various landmarks in the Ashram former? Logic and morality suggest that he cannot, but Ahmedabad, here too Patel has been assigned the We have the means whereby such men can be — the hut where Gandhi stayed, the ground where he power and ambition mandate that he must. That is why, in makeover of the Sabarmati Ashram almost immediately silenced, but it is our tradition not to be prayed, his spinning wheel — while talking with the latest and most egregious attempt to whitewash automatically. Modi has also deputed, to work on the inimical to Hindus. If we are compelled, we will have to apparent authority on the Mahatma, his life, and his Modi’s dark record by association with Gandhi’s name, project, some Gujarat civil servants whom he likewise resort to that course too.” For Modi, Golwalkar was message. How does one explain the prime minister’s we now have on the anvil a lavishly-funded, State- personally trusts. The plan for ‘redevelopment’ was ‘Pujniya Shri Guruji’, most revered Teacher and Master. new-found desire to publicly associate with Gandhi? It directed project to radically reshape the Sabarmati drafted by Modi’s inner circle with no inputs from Through much of his career, he held Golwalkar in appears that Modi’s desire for personal glory has Ashram on the pretext of making it a ‘world-class architects knowledgeable about conservation and enormous regard while scarcely sparing a thought for superseded old political loyalties and ideological memorial’ to the Mahatma. My life is my message, said heritage, and without consulting Gandhians or scholars Gandhi. In his years as chief minister, Narendra Modi affiliations. The RSS remains deeply ambivalent about Gandhi. Unlike Modi, he did not need a stadium named either. Even the Trustees of the Ashram were kept visited Sabarmati Ashram infrequently. However, after Gandhi. Modi bhakts on social media are nakedly hostile after himself, or capitals redesigned to obliterate the entirely in the dark about the plan and its contents. he became prime minister, he developed a keen interest to Gandhi. But Modi himself knows that Gandhi image of past rulers and superimpose his own, to assure The Modi plan for Sabarmati is steeped in secrecy and in the place. He has personally escorted to Gandhi’s remains, to use the contemporary argot, the Indian himself a place in history. The Sabarmati Ashram as it characterized by cronyism. It is in striking contrast to an ashram, among others, the prime ministers of Japan and ‘brand’ most visible and most appreciated around the stands today is a perfectly adequate memorial to Gandhi earlier (and admirably modest) intervention that dates to Israel and the presidents of China and the United States world. So, whether it be Japan, China, Israel or France, or and what he stood for. The charming low buildings the 1960s. When the then Trustees decided that the ofAmerica. Several of theAshram’s Trustees have a deep America or Russia or Germany, if Modi wants to make an existing still from Gandhi’s time, the trees and the birds, Ashram needed a small museum, they chose not a fellow knowledge of Gandhi’s life, as do members of the staff. impression he must cynically, instrumentally, have the open ingress and lack of guards or of an entry fee, the Gujarati but Charles Correa from Bombay. New Delhi, Sunday, 18 July, 2021 CareerCAREER THE SIKH TIMES 7

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Toll from Europe floods tops 150 as water recedes WHO proposes fresh coronavirus

Berlin. The death toll from disastrous flooding in western Europe rose above 150 on Saturday as rescue workers toiled to clear up the devastation and prevent further mission to China and lab audits damage. Police said that more than 90 people are now known to have died in western Germany’s The WHO has proposed a second phase of studies into the origins of Covid-19 in China. Phase two work would require studies Ahrweiler county, one of the worst-hit areas, and more casualties are feared. On of humans, wildlife and animal markets in Wuhan, including Huanan wholesale market, WHO has said. Friday, authorities gave a death toll of 63 for the whole of Rhineland-Palatinate state, Geneva. The World Health Organization on door talks saying: "This plan is not a basis where Ahrweiler is located.Another 43 Friday proposed a second phase of studies for future studies." A WHO-led team spent people were confirmed dead in neighboring into the origins of the coronavirus in China, four weeks in and around the central city of North Rhine-Westphalia state, Germany’s including audits of laboratories and markets Wuhan with Chinese researchers and said most populous, and 20 others were killed in Wuhan, calling for transparency from in a joint report in March that the virus had across the border in Belgium. By Saturday, authorities. probably been transmitted from bats to waters were receding across much of the WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom humans through another animal. But affected regions, but officials feared that Ghebreyesus presented the plan to member countries including the United States and more bodies might be found in cars and states a day after saying that investigations some scientists have demanded further trucks that were swept away. German were being hampered by the lack of raw data investigation, particularly into the Wuhan President Frank-Walter Steinmeier planned on the first days of spread of Covid-19 in Institute of Virology which was conducting to travel Saturday to Erftstadt, southwest of China. Phase two work would require research into bats. Cologne, where a harrowing rescue effort studies of humans, wildlife and animal "Finding the origins of this virus is a unfolded on Friday as people were trapped markets in Wuhan, including Huanan scientific exercise that must be kept free when the ground gave way and their homes wholesale market, he said in remarks from politics. For that to happen, we expect collapsed. released by the agency. It would also require China to support this next phase of the "audits of relevant laboratories and research scientific process by sharing all relevant institutions operating in the area of the initial data in a spirit of transparency," Tedros Joe Biden To Host Iraqi PM At human cases identified in December 2019", said. China has called the theory that the Tedros said. Read: Origin of Covid-19: Why virus may have escaped from a Wuhan White House On July 26 Wuhan lab of China continues to be prime laboratory "absurd" and said repeatedly Friday, when asked about Tedros's earlier spokesperson Zhao Lijian said that some suspect Diplomats said that China, which that "politicizing" the issue would hamper comments on the need for more data from data was unable to be copied or leave China has resisted a return by international investigations. At a regular news briefing on China, China's foreign ministry as it involved personal information. scientists, voiced objections at the closed- "Everything Was Under Water In 15 Minutes": Floods Tear Through Germany 'He was our eye': Schuld, Germany: Devastating floods have interior minister for Rheinland-Palatinate, Maastricht. torn through entire villages and killed at least told Bild the death toll was likely to rise as Fearing the worst Tributes pour in for 128 people in Europe, most of them in western emergency services continued to search the In Germany's hard-hit Ahrweiler district in Germany where stunned emergency services affected areas over the coming days. "When Rhineland-Palatinate, several houses photojournalist Danish Washington: President Joe Biden will were still combing the wreckage on Friday. emptying cellars or pumping out cellars, we collapsed completely, drawing comparisons to welcome Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al- Unsuspecting residents were caught keep coming across people who have lost their the aftermath of a tsunami. At least 24 people Siddiqui Kadhemi to the White House this month, completely off guard by the torrent dubbed the lives in these floods," he said. With five more were confirmed dead in Euskirchen, one of the his office said Friday. The July 26 meeting "flood of death" by German newspaper Bild. dead found in the state by Friday evening, the worst-affected towns. "I fear that we will only London. A Pulitzer Prize-winning will "highlight the strategic partnership Streets and houses were submerged by water nationwide death toll mounted to 108. Adding see the full extent of the disaster in the coming photographer for the Reuters news between the United States and Iraq," the in some areas, while cars were left overturned to the devastation, several more people were days," Chancellor Angela Merkel said late service was killed Friday as he White House said in a statement. on soaked streets after flood waters passed. feared dead in a landslide in the town of Thursday from Washington, where she met chronicled fighting between Some districts were completely cut off. Erftstadt in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) with President Joe Biden. "My empathy and Afghan forces and the Taliban near Kadhemi and US envoy Brett McGurk a strategic border crossing amid the discussed the withdrawal of troops from "Everything was under water within 15 triggered by the floods. In neighbouring my heart go out to all of those who in this minutes," Agron Berischa, a 21-year-old Belgium, the government confirmed the death catastrophe lost their loved ones, or who are continuing withdrawal of U.S. and Iraq Thursday in Baghdad. NATO troops. Danish Siddiqui, 38, Some 3,500 foreign troops are still on Iraqi decorator from Bad Neuenahr in Rhineland- toll had jumped to 20 -- earlier reports had said still worrying about the fate of people still Palatinate state, toldAFP. 23 dead -- with more than 21,000 people left missing." In Ahrweiler, around 1,300 people had been embedded with Afghan territory, including 2,500 Americans, who special forces for the past few days have been posted to help fight the Islamic "Our flat, our office, our neighbours' houses, without electricity in one region. Calling the were unaccounted for, although local everywhere was under water." In nearby floods "possibly the most catastrophic our authorities told Bild the high number was and was killed as the commando State group since 2014. In Washington, unit battled for control of the Spin Kadhemi is expected to push for a concrete Schuld, Hans-Dieter Vrancken, 65, said country has ever seen," Prime Minister likely due to damaged phone networks. "caravans, cars were washed away, trees were Alexander De Croo declared Tuesday a day of Lewentz told local media that up to 60 people Boldak crossing on the border timetable of American troop withdrawal. between southern Afghanistan and The implementation of their departure uprooted, houses were knocked down". "We national mourning. Luxembourg and the were believed to be missing, "and when you have lived here in Schuld for over 20 years and Netherlands were also hammered by heavy haven't heard from people for such a long Pakistan. could take years. Iraq, long an arena for Siddiqui was part of a team that won bitter rivalry between the US and Iran we have never experienced anything like it. It's rains, inundating many areas and forcing time... you have to fear the worst". Billions in like a warzone," he said. Roger Lewentz, thousands to be evacuated in the city of damage. the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for feature despite their shared enmity towards IS, has photography for their coverage of seen growing numbers of rocket and drone Rohingya refugees fleeing attacks on American targets in recent Myanmar. More recently, he had months. Kadhemi's meeting with McGurk captured searing images of India’s came a little more than a week after 14 World Day For International Justice 2021: Theme struggle against COVID-19 and rockets were fired at the Ain al-Assad air protests against new farming laws. base, which hosts American troops in Farhat Basir Khan, a professor of western Iraq, and three others which landed For Celebration And Some Famous Quotes mass communications at Jamia near the US embassy in Baghdad. They Millia Islamia University in New were the latest in a spate of attacks targeting Delhi, lauded his former student’s US military and diplomatic facilities in inequa ities too, considering sense of empathy and his Iraq. The attacks have been blamed on pro- those with access to the Internet l determination to go after difficult Iranian armed groups within a state- and those without. And the and complex stories. “He was our sponsored paramilitary force. Last month, significance of access to digital eye. He gave voice and agency to the US launched air strikes against pro- World Day for International resources has been visible thousands whose suffering might Iranian militias along the Iraq-Syria border. throughout the Covid-19 crisis. have been lost,” Khan said in a Justice 2021: The theme for The ones with access to the statement. “If a picture is worth a Sydney Tightens Lockdown As Internet, comparatively, have thousand words, his were worth the celebration of this been able to handle the situation millions." The Taliban have turned Australia's Covid Cases Rise or at least have been able to over Siddiqui’s body to the year's World Day of address some issues, while the International Committee of the Red ones without digital resources Sydney: The Australian city of Sydney on International Justice is “A Cross, Indian authorities said. struggled. Reuters said it was seeking more Saturday ordered a shutdown of building Here are some of the quotes on sites, banned non-essential retail, and Call for Social Justice in the information about how Siddiqui justice by judges: was killed, describing him as a threatened fines for employers who make On July 17, 1998, the International Court of staff come into the office as new COVID-19 Digital Economy.” "It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps “devoted husband and father, and a cases kept rising three weeks into a Justice (ICJ), also known as the International justice alive," Earl Warren, 14th Chief Justice much-loved colleague.” “It is so citywide lockdown. Criminal Court (ICC), adopted the Rome of the United States If you're going to be a devastating for me to imagine that I Authorities in New South Wales state, of Statute and the day also commemorates the good and faithful judge, you have to resign won’t be talking to Danish which Sydney is the capital, also banned New Delhi. The world celebrates International adoption of ICC's founding treaty. Established yourself to the fact that you're not always going anymore,” said Ahmad Masood, hundreds of thousands of people in the Justice Day on July 17. It's sometimes also in 1945, the ICJ is the United Nation's principal to like the conclusions you reach. If you like Asia Editor for Reuters Pictures. city's western suburbs - the worst affected referred to as World Day of International judicial organ. Interestingly, it's the only them all the time, you're probably doing “A kind-hearted human being. … area - from leaving their immediate Justice or International Criminal Justice Day. It principal UN body -- located in The Hague something wrong," Antonin Scalia, Former He was the best of the best, as a neighbourhoods for work, as they recorded marks the coming together of people from all (Netherlands) -- outside New York. Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the person and a professional. His 111 new cases in the prior 24 hours, up from walks of life to support the idea of justice, Celebration For International Justice Day United States."Only a Free and Unrestrained work speaks volumes of his 97 the day before. The state also recorded victims' rights and most importantly ensuring 2021: Press can effectively expose deception in bravery and his passion in an additional death from the virus, taking no crime that jeopardises peace takes place. The theme for the celebration of this year's World government," Hugo Black, Former Associate photojournalism. He cared.” The the total to three since the start of the year Day of International Justice is “A Call for Justice of the Supreme Court of the United fighting around Spin Boldak comes and the national total to 913 since the The day is also a reminder of the significance of social justice for the underprivileged and Social Justice in the Digital Economy.” While States. "It usually takes 100 years to make a as the U.S. and NATO forces pandemic began. "I can't remember a time technology and social media have brought law, and then, after it's done its work, it usually when our state has been challenged to such oppressed. It reminds states as well as civil complete the final phase of their society of the need for their commitment to the people from different parts of the world takes 100 years to be rid of it, "Henry Ward withdrawal from Afghanistan, an extent," NSW Premier Gladys together, there are growing signs of Beecher. Berejiklian told a televised news international justice system. opening the door for the Taliban. conference. The city of 5 million people, Australia's largest, has been under lockdown since June 26, with a planned end date of July 30, after an airport transit driver After Conquering Earth, Jeff Bezos Eyes New Frontier In Space brought the virus into the community and sparked an outbreak of the highly infectious variant, according to the authorities. More than 1,000 people in the city and Jeff Bezos, 57, remains executive chair at the technology and e-commerce colossus he surrounding districts have since tested founded 27 years ago. But he is clearly looking to even loftier ambitions. positive. Of most concern to health leaders is the number of infectious people who are Washington,: Jeff Bezos sets his sights the age of four by his Cuban immigrant days at Amazon, when he packed orders active in the community, which remained at on a new frontier in space in the coming stepfather. Bezos was attracted by himself and drove boxes to the post office. 29 on Saturday, in line with previous days. days after building a gargantuan computer science when the IT industry Today, Amazon has a market value of more "We are chasing our tail in terms of the business empire which has in many was in its infancy and studied than $1.8 trillion. It posted 2020 annual cases," state Chief Health Officer Kerry ways conquered the Earth. His journey engineering at Princeton University. revenues of $386 billion from operations in Chant said at the news conference. into space aboard a reusable rocket built After graduating, he put his skills to work e-commerce, cloud computing, groceries, NSW Police Deputy Commissioner Gary by his firm Blue Origin comes just two on Wall Street, where by 1990 he had artificial intelligence, streaming media and Worboys said the "tempo of the police weeks after he stepped aside as chief risen to be a senior vice president at response will increase" across Greater more. "Bezos has been a transformational Sydney and regional areas. Stores that can executive of Amazon, which grew from investment firm D.E. Shaw. But about leader... in book selling, the retail market, remain open in Sydney include a garage startup into one of the world's four years later he surprised peers by cloud computing and home delivery," said supermarkets, pharmacies and hardware most formidable businesses. Bezos, 57, leaving his high-paid position to open an Darrell West, a senior fellow at the outlets. All building work must stop until remains executive chair at the online bookseller called Amazon.com, Brookings Institution's Center for the July 30 deadline including cleaning, technology and e-commerce colossus backed by money from his parents. Technology Innovation. "He was a pioneer property maintenance and home he founded 27 years ago. But he is Amazon, a behemoth with a presence in 'Keep inventing' who introduced many of the conveniences renovation, authorities said. People who clearly looking to even loftier ambitions. dozens of countries and some 1.3 million In his parting letter to staff, Bezos said the that people take for granted, such as going to lived in three of Sydney's local government With a fortune worth more than $200 billion, employees. company succeeded by following his an online store, ordering something, and districts - with a total population of 612,000 Bezos has been at or near the top of the But Bezos often points to his humble mantra: "Keep inventing, and don't despair having it delivered to your home the next - were banned from leaving their district for world's richest people, even after his divorce beginnings: born to a teenage mother in when at first the idea looks crazy." In public day. The whole e-commerce sector owes work unless they were emergency. settlement. He owns some 10 percent of Albuquerque, New Mexico and adopted at appearances, Bezos often recounts the early many of its innovations to this individual." New Delhi, Sunday, 18 July, 2021 Tech&CAREERCareerCareer THE SIKH TIMES 9 Tips to crack your job Interview

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lack direction. Recruitment as a You may ask, "I don't have a recruitment HR background, how will I recruit?" So, we will let you in Here's how to influence a little secret recruitment begins as a science. It's highly methodical you learn it by the book and over a period of time, you hone it into a fine art. CareerCareer And here is another open secret People at work option after 40 anybody can recruit. Not convinced yet? Here are two great reasons why ENHANCE YOUR CREDIBILITY within the organization (such as recruitment becomes a choice of Being "Knowledge is power" ~ Francis your peers, supervisors or direct Looking for a career post 40? Maybe vocation in your 40s: Bacon reports) as well as people outside you can turn to recruitment. Your experience: authoritative is It can hardly be debated that people the organization (such as You have been working for about By the time you are 40, you have who lack formal power can exert customers, vendors, and 15-18 years. You have seen your role gained enough experience in the not the only way very little influence on others. Your competitors). You cannot demand grow and expand and you have MARKET - this gives you an edge recent promotion might have brought commitment from people; you matured as an individual, but on the over many recruiters who recruit in which you can you more formal power than you had have to earn it. work front, there is a lot of with no industrial knowledge. You exercise power before, but it may not be enough to One way to do this is by building operational maintenance and know the industry by its length and fulfill your high-level ambitions. If networks and alliances to opportunities for growth may be breadth, understand what talents within a team or you aspire to gain access to important accomplish your goals. Create getting limited both laterally and and skills are required to fill a role, organizational resources or visibility opportunities to spend time with upwards. know how the remuneration cycle an organization. with top-level executives, you must your supervisor, peers or Even if you move to another - As a candidate, how was your works within that industry and the enhance your credibility and gain customers.You can do this at office company, after the initial months of experience of working with kind of talent that is available in the Here are a few centrality in the organization. as well as in less formal settings being onboarded and throwing recruiters? market. To achieve this, ask yourself if you such as over lunch. 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Aside around you in knowledge and expertise? people from other divisions. to best use your network and discussions? from the connections you already Knowledge indeed is power. If -DEVELOP AND EMPLOY knowledge and at the same time, The truth is that there is a dearth of have, you're decades ahead of the the workplace people perceive you as someone ELOQUENCE give you back your zest for risk professional executive recruitment competition in terms of knowledgeable, hard-working or Studies have shown that people taking and FINANCIAL rewards? service providers in a vast MARKET interpersonal skills. without coming trustworthy, they are more likely to who are more expressive generally Does this sound familiar? like India. And more than ever, with There is also movement of be influenced by you. have a greater ability to lead and If yes, have you considered the war for talent brewing in employers preferring to work with across as too -DEVELOP NETWORKS AND influence others. Why? professional many industries, this is niche recruiters ALLIANCES Because they are more aware of executive the right time to Niche recruiters are specialists they bossy. "If you want to go fast, go alone. If their ideas, emotions and recruit get into the don't cater to all sectors; they cater you want to go far, go together" ~ Old reactions; they, therefore, have a recruitment to the industry market that they are Take a situation where you tendency to reach a business familiar with and confident about; have just been promoted greater audience than and start and this is what makes them and are now in charge of less expressive people. mentor successful. They know the needs of leading and motivating So, the final ing the their clients and understand talent in others. 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The authority that don't just get formal authority but exploiting people in selfish ways meaningful proposition for you, stems from your position as manager is also new duties and responsibilities. or manipulating others. The proper think back to your corporate life and just one of the many sources of power You must learn to manage not only attitude to have towards power is to ask yourself: that you can rely on to get things done. your team, but also the context within see it as a tool to influence people - How did you find peopletalent for Your knowledge, network, reputation, which it operates. Oftentimes, you in an ethical way to achieve desired your team? character and personal charm are other will have far less time and autonomy organizational outcomes.Staying - What were your expectations from sources you can and should tap into in than you might have imagined.This true to your core values and beliefs your recruitment partners and how order to accomplish your mission. is why you need to rely on the and engaging others when well were they met? Here are some strategies to activate your cooperation of other people to get exercising power will allow you to - Have you ever wished you could other power bases that will allow you to things done swiftly. use it in a more authentic and recruit your team members yourself, make a difference in your organization: These individuals could be people responsible manner. but couldn't due to paucity of time? -GAIN CENTRALITY AND New Delhi, Sunday, 18 July, 2021 BUSINESS THE SIKH TIMES 10

Gold Price Gold selling at Rs Bank Holidays July 2021 48,350 in Delhi, check rates in metro cities New Delhi: Gold prices on the Multi Banks to remain shut for 5 days straight from July 17 Commodity Exchange (MCX) plummeted by Rs 342 on Friday (July 16) to close the day trade at Rs 48058 per gram. The drop in New Delhi: If you have any bank-related work the prices of the yellow metal has come as a pending and you’re planning to step out to respite for investors who are planning to the bank, then you may need to wait for at put their money, as gold rates in the recent least five days. Banks in some states will be weeks have increased by more than a closed for five days starting today (July 17) thousand rupees. due to regional or national festivals and Moreover, the drop in the prices could be Sunday. short-lived, and gold could price could In total, employees of the banking sector in again start climbing uphill in the coming some states are enjoying up to 15 holidays in weeks, which makes the yellow metal an July, including a five-day break starting from impressive investment opportunity. July 17, according to the calendar shared by Meanwhile, in terms of retail prices, 24- the Reserve Bank of India. In Dehradun, carat gold is retailing Rs 10 less than bank employees also enjoyed an off on July yesterday’s rate at Rs 48,350 per 10 grams 16 on the occasion of Harela Puja. in Delhi. On the other hand, the price of 22- Meanwhile, banks are closed again for U carat gold in Delhi stood at Rs 47,350 per Tirot Singh Day and Kharchi Puja in 10 grams. Also Read: Bank Holidays July Agartala and Shillong on July 17. In the 2021: Banks to remain shut for 5 days coming days, banks will remain closed on straight from July 17 The 22-carat gold and July 18, which is a Sunday. On July 19, bank 24-carat gold are retailing at Rs 47,340 and employees in Gangtok will get an off on the Rs 48,340 per 10 grams in the financial occasion of Thungkar Tshechu festival of capital of India, Mumbai. In Chennai, the Guru Rimpochhe. Similarly, on July 20, 22-carat gold is selling at Rs 45,420 and the 2021, there will be no bank transactions in 24-carat gold at Rs 49,550 per 10 grams. Jammu, Kochi, Srinagar and Thiruvananthapuram due to Bakrid. Banks Fixed deposit (FD) rates of IDBI across the country will remain closed for Eid July 21. 17 July 2021: Saturday - Kharchi July 2021: Tuesday - Eid al Adha (Jammu, happen simultaneously in all states on a al Adha on July 21. However, banks in Puja - (Agartala, Shillong) 18 July 2021: Kochi, Srinagar and Thiruvananthapuram) single date. In the guidelines issued by RBI, Bank changed! Check latest Aizawl, Bhubaneshwar, Gangtok, Kochi and Sunday 19 July 2021: Monday - Thungkar21 July 2021: Wednesday - Bakrid (All over it has been told that the public sector, private Thiruvananthapuram will remain open on Tshechu of Guru Rimpochee - (Gangtok) 20 sector, foreign banks, cooperative. rates here the country) Notably, bank holidays do not

New Delhi: Fixed deposit or FD rates of IDBI Bank has been revised for a few maturity periods. The new rules are effective from Eye on ‘new commerce’, Reliance From plate to purse: July 14 and are applicable on retail fixed deposits of less than Rs 2 crores. Investors lap up With the latest revision, IDBI Bank’s FD rates now vary from 2.7% to 4.8% for all the Retail buys Just Dial for Rs 3,497 cr Zomato IPO, subscribe fixed deposits with a maturity period of 7 days to 20 years. Here are the latest interest over 38 times rates offered by IDBI bank to its customers: Mumbai. Reliance Retail Ventures platform,” the filing said. - IDBI Bank is offering a 2.7% interest on an Limited (RRVL), the retail arm of These investments will leverage Just Mumbai. The Rs 9,375-crore initial annual basis for fixed deposits maturing in 7 Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), Dial’s existing database of 30.4 public offering (IPO) of online food to 14 days and 15 to 30 days. For FDs will acquire a majority stake of million listings and its existing delivery services provider Zomato maturing in 31 to 45 days, the bank is 66.95 per cent in B2B search engine consumer traffic of 129.1 million was subscribed 38.25 times on offering a 2.8% interest on an annual basis. Just Dial for Rs 3,497 crore. quarterly unique users (as of Friday, the third and final day of - Investors will get 3% interest on annual RRVL will hold 40.95 per cent and March 2021), it added. Reliance bidding. The offer received bids for basis on their FDs maturing between 46-90 would make an open offer to Retail director Isha Ambani said, 2,751.25 equity shares against IPO days FDs maturing between 91 days to 6 acquire up to 26 per cent in “The investment in Just Dial size of 71.92 crore equity shares, months will provide a 3.5% interest. - accordance with Sebi takeover underlines our commitment to the subscription data available on Investors will benefit with a 4.3% interest regulations. VSS Mani will new commerce by further boosting the exchanges showed. The retail on FDs maturing between six months to one continue as managing director and the digital ecosystem for millions investor portion was subscribed year. - FDs maturing between one to three chief executive officer of Just Dial, of our partner merchants, micro, 7.45 times, while non-institutional years will provide a 5.1% interest rate. RIL said in a stock exchange filing. small and medium enterprises.” investors put in bids for 32.96 times The deal will involve a preferential Our vision has evolved to not only - IDBI Bank is offering a 5.25% interest rate against their reserved portion. The allotment of 2.12 crore equity provide search and discovery but portion set aside for employees was on FDs maturing between five years to 10 shares (equivalent to 25.33 per cent drive commerce across merchants years. - Lastly, investors will get a 4.8% subscribed 62 per cent and that of post preferential share capital) at Rs share capital) at a price per share of Rs 1,020. through our B2B platform and qualified institutional buyers interest rate on FDs maturing between 10 to 1,022.25 per share and acquisition of 1.31 crore enable further consumer to merchant 20 years. “The capital infused by RRVL will help drive (QIBs) subscribed 51.79 times. The equity shares by RRVL from VSS Mani the growth and expansion of Just Dial into a commerce given our platform engagement,” company has fixed the primary (equivalent to 15.62 per cent post preferential comprehensive local listing and commerce said Mani. market offering’s price band at Rs Kisan Sarathi platform launched 72-76 per share. Zomato’s shares are likely to be listed on the BSE to boost agri income, here’s and the NSE on July 27. The public how it’ll benefit farmers offer consists of a fresh issue of Rs Pratt & Whitney to advance its 9,000 crore and an offer for sale of Rs 375 crore by promoter Info Edge New Delhi: The Indian government has India. launched the ‘Kisan Sarathi' platform, in a bid to provide additional support to millions of farmers to get crucial information at their hybrid-electric propulsion technology India expresses fingertips. The scheme was launched by the Information concerns over high oil Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw reduction in fuel burn and carbon along with the Minister of Agriculture & dioxide emissions. prices to Saudi, UAE Farmers' Welfare Narendra Singh Tomar “Pratt & Whitney Canada is proud via video conferencing on Friday (July 16). to be a leader toward ever more New Delhi. India has expressed its What is the Kisan Sarathi platform? Using ?It will be a clear opportunity sustainable aircraft propulsion concern over high oil prices to the Kisan Sarathi digital platform, farmers technologies and be an integral Saudi Arabia and the UAE as it is can get information about crop and crop for India to grow these part of Canada’s green recovery adding to the inflationary pressure production, among other things that will plan,” said Maria Della Posta, on an economy struck by the help them in improving the quantity of their segments in a sustainable president, Pratt & Whitney coronavirus. produce. With the help of the Kisan Sarathi Canada. “Hybrid-electric Petroleum minister Hardeep Puri is platform, farmers will be able to get manner, said Ashmita Sethi, technology has an important role in talks with the UAE to press for a information about good crop practices, the president and country head of to play in enabling the next step- reduction in the rate on long-term right amount of produce and many other change in efficiency for aircraft supply contracts. Puri’s basic things. The information related to the Pratt & Whitney. engines, and we are uniquely predecessor, Dharmendra Pradhan, crop is directly provided by scientists. including regional airliners, will be the first to positioned to demonstrate this potential.” was rebuffed by the Saudis when Moreover, farmers can also learn new benefit from this technology, creating a clear P&WC, in collaboration with De Havilland he had approached them for a farming methods using the Kisan Sarathi opportunity for India to grow these segments Aircraft of Canada Limited (De Havilland similar cut. A day after he spoke to platform, which has been launched by the in a sustainable manner,” said Ashmita Sethi, Canada), will be integrating the new his UAE counterpart, Puri spoke to Indian government on the 93rd Foundation president and country head, Pratt & Whitney. technology into a De Havilland Canada Dash Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman al Day of ICAR. Talking about the technology benefiting 8-100 flight demonstrator, stated the press Saud, minister of energy of Saudi New Delhi. Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC), India, Sethi added, “India has one of the release. The government of Canada’s Strategic Arabia. He had on Saturday spoken an organisation designing, manufacturing and newest and most fuel efficient aircraft fleets in Innovation Fund will be supporting the servicing aircraft and helicopter engines, will to his Qatari counterpart. Puri in a Petrol, Diesel Prices Petrol the world, powered by our GTF, V2500, PT6 technology demonstrator as a part of Canada’s be advancing its hybrid-electric propulsion tweet said he “conveyed my desire and PW100 engine families. So India’s green recovery plan. The project is a part of a technology and flight demonstrator to work with Prince Abdulaziz to prices hiked again to record aviation sector is superbly positioned to lead a $163M CAD investment, supported by the programme. “We see hybrid-electric bring greater predictability and sustainable flying roadmap in the future.” The governments of Canada and Quebec. P&WC is propulsion systems as one of the key routes to calm in the global oil markets, and highs, check rates in your city hybrid-electric propulsion technology would targeting ground testing of the technology in making aircraft of the future even more fuel also to see hydrocarbons become enhance the performance of different phases of 2022 and flight testing of Dash 8-100 more affordable”. New Delhi: Petrol prices were again efficient. We expect that smaller aircraft, flight, and it would allow a 30 per cent increased on Saturday (17 July) by 30 demonstrator in 2024. paise in Delhi, according to daily price notification by oil retailers. Overall, this is the 10th hike in petrol prices in the first 17 days of this month. On the other hand, PNB Housing-Carlyle deal: Sebi to probe board role, disclosure lapses diesel prices remained unchanged in the national capital on July 17. With the latest revision in prices, petrol is now retailing New Delhi. The Securities and General Meeting (EGM) for Calling the EGM notice “ultra vires” of the at Rs 101.84 per litre while diesel is Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is shareholder approval to the share company’s Articles of Association (AoA), retailing at Rs 89.87 per litre in Delhi. planning to probe the role of the allotment to investors led by Carlyle. Sebi said it should not be acted upon until Petrol and diesel are a bit costlier in board of directors of PNB Housing It also directed the company to not the company undertakes the valuation of Mumbai in comparison to Delhi. In the Finance in the Carlyle stake deal. declare the results of voting to be held shares — as prescribed in its AoA — by an financial capital of India, petrol and diesel According to sources, the market on June 22 until further orders from independent registered valuer. On June 8, are retailing at Rs 107.83 per litre and Rs regulator has conveyed its intention the tribunal. The Indian Express reported how a leading 97.45 per litre, respectively. Meanwhile, to probe the role of board of Sebi had earlier effectively put on pause proxy advisory firm, Stakeholders’ in several cities in Madhya Pradesh and directors and the company its Rs 4,000-crore share allotment to a Empowerment Services, at the behest of Rajasthan, petrol has even breached the irrespective of the verdict of the clutch of companies led by the Carlyle minority shareholders, had red flagged the Rs 110 mark. Petrol prices have been Securities Appellate Tribunal group. This would have made the US- proposed transaction. On the pricing of the increasing since May 18 when oil retailers (SAT) on the Sebi action against based private equity giant a majority preference share at Rs 390, PNBHF, the decided to revise fuel rates on a daily PNB Housing. Punjab National shareholder in the company and firm’s report said, ignored its AoA, which basis, following the changes in the prices Bank MD & CEO S S Mallikarjuna the housing finance company, which need brought down the stake of Punjab calls for the price to be “determined by the of crude oil in international markets. In Rao is the Chairman of the PNB Housing to be dealt with separately. The case has National Bank in its housing finance valuation of a registered valuer.” Given the the past few weeks, petrol prices have board. The regulator, in its submissions to been adjourned and will be heard again on subsidiary to under 26 per cent. On May book value of PNBHF share is Rs 540, that crossed the Rs 100 mark in most of the SAT on Friday, also made it clear that Monday, when PNB Housing will get a 31, PNBHF issued a notice for an EGM of would have pegged it at a more realistic metro cities across the country, including irrespective of whether the deal goes chance to counter Sebi’s argument. PNB shareholders to be held on June 22 to level, experts said, as it gives indication of Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Bengaluru. through or not, the board approval in itself Housing moved SAT against Sebi’s June approve the issuance of its shares to intrinsic value. Instead, the company went In the last week of June, petrol prices in will have ‘legal consequences’. The 18 order. In its interim order, the tribunal investors led by Carlyle including Aditya by Sebi rules on pricing under which it’s Patna and Thiruvananthapuram also regulator also alleged that there are gave its nod to PNB Housing Finance Puri, former MD of HDFC Bank and a based on either 12-week or two-week jumped above the Rs 100 mark. numerous disclosure lapses on the part of (PNBHF) to hold its Extraordinary senior advisor to Carlyle. highs. New Delhi, Sunday, 18 July, 2021 SPORTS THE SIKH TIMES 11

Ire vs SA, 3rd ODI: Janeman Malan and Quinton de Kock tons India in Sri Lanka: Shikhar Dhawan eyes Sourav help South Africa to draw series against Ireland Ganguly's ODI record in maiden series as captain New Delhi. Opener Janneman Malan smashed the fourth highest score in South Africa’s one-day international history as India in Sri Lanka: Shikhar Dhawan will bid to break former India captain Sourav Ganguly's record when he takes the field his scintillating 177 not out helped steer the tourists to a series-levelling 70-run victory against Sri Lanka in his first series as India skipper. over Ireland at Malahide, Dublin on Friday. Malan put on 225 for the first wicket with the New Delhi. Thrust into captaincy second-fastest Indian batsman to (8,273) lead the Indian list of equally impressive Quinton de Kock (120 for the Sri Lanka tour, Shikhar reach 6,000 ODI runs. Regular highest run-scorers in ODI from 91 balls) as South Africa amassed 346 Dhawan is at that stage of his captain Virat Kohli remains the cricket. for four in their 50 overs, before bowling career, where he is in line to fastest (136 innings) to reach this Dhawan eyes 1,000 ODI runs vs Ireland out for 276 in 47.1 overs of their rewrite record books every time milestone, followed by Ganguly Sri Lanka reply. Malan struck 16 fours and six sides in he steps out on the field. Dhawan (147 innings) while Dhawan has On the upcoming tour, Dhawan can his 169-ball stay at the crease, falling 11 will head into the 3-match ODI played 139 ODI innings. As of become the only 12th Indian runs short of Gary Kirsten’s South Africa series against Sri Lanka with eyes now, Dhawan has amassed 5977 batsman to complete 1,000 ODI record of 188 not out against the United on major landmarks. Sri Lanka's runs in 139 ODI innings at a runs against Sri Lanka. The Arab Emirates in the 1996 Cricket World limited-overs tour, consisting of healthy average of 45.28 and a senior opener has scored 983 runs Cup. The Proteas could only draw the three ODIs and as many T20s, strike rate of 93.9 with 17 against the Island nation at a three-match series after losing Tuesday and will begin on July 18 in Colombo. hundred. Dhawan is just 23 runs seeing the first match washed out due to phenomenal average of 70.21. He The left-handed opener was away from becoming the 10th has smashed 4 hundred and 5 rain — more typical of Irish weather. handed the reins of the team after Indian batsman with 6,000 or Ireland’s 43-run victory was its first ever fifties against them. "It is a big Virat Kohli and other key players more runs in ODI cricket. If he achievement for me that I have over South Africa. Ireland were tottering at were sent to England for the WTC achieves the feat during the series 92 for 6, but all-rounder Simi Singh (100 become the captain of the Indian Final against New Zealand and he would join an elite group. side. As a leader, my idea is to not out) scored his maiden ODI century, the five-Test series against the Sachin Tendulkar (18,426), Virat and the top score for an Irishman batting at keep everyone together and hosts. Kohli (12,169), Sourav Ganguly happy that is the most important number eight, to go with a half-century for (11,363), Rahul Dravid (10,889), South African-born Curtis Campher (54). Dhawan bids to break Ganguly's thing," Dhawan said on Star record MS Dhoni (10,773), Mohammad Sports show 'Follow the Blues'. Tabraiz Shamsi (3/46) was the pick of the Azharuddin (9,378), Rohit tourists' attack, but they put in another S h i k h a r D h a w a n h a s a n "We have got a lovely bunch of opportunity to break Sourav Sharma (9,205), Yuvraj Singh boys, great support staff, and we sloppy display in the field that saw a (8,701), and Virender Sehwag number of dropped catches. Andile Ganguly's India record for the have worked earlier as well." Phehlukwayo (3/56) three wickets, while left-arm spinner Keshav Maharaj (2/51) claimed two wickets. The teams will now contest a three-match Twenty20 Norman Pritchard: The story of India's first-ever international series starting on Monday. Eng vs Pak, 1st T20I: Olivier Giroud to Chelsea fans: Olympian and medallist at the Summer Olympics Liam Livingstone’s Our victories in FA Cup, Europa India's Olympics history dates back to 1900, the second edition of the Games. Kolkata-born Norman 42-ball hundred in League and Champions league Pritchard won two medals and the IOC accredited them to the Asian country. have been magnificent vain as Pakistan beat New Delhi. India have named their to August 8, with more than been won. Barring London (6) the history of the Indian biggest-ever contingent -- 119 11,000 athletes set to take part in and Beijing (3), not once has India Olympics. New Delhi. New Delhi. France international striker and counting -- for the Tokyo 33 different sporting events. A lot won more than two medals at a However, it's hard to ignore India's England b y 31 Olivier Giroud wrote a heartfelt message Olympics, the 32nd edition of the is expected of the Indian single edition of the Games. first-ever Olympian, who also on to thank the Chelsea's fans, players and Summer Games. For the first time contingent as the country is Abhinav Bindra remains an icon went on to become the country's Liam Livingstone smashed the fastest coaches for ‘special moments’ as his switch since World War II, the Games looking forward to a record medal of Indian sport, having become first-ever Olympic medalist, often T20I century scored by an England away from the Premier League club drew were rescheduled as the Covid-19 tally after some inspiring results the only Indian athlete to win an dubbed as "India's greatest cricketer in just 42 balls against closer. The 34-year-old striker is set to join pandemic forced a postponement in the lead-up to the Games. individual gold medal when he Olympic hero" -- Norman Pakistan but his knock went in vain SerieA club AC Milan on two-year deal. of the Olympics last year. India's best Olympic performance bagged the elusive gold medal in Pritchard. as the visitors secured a 31-run win World Cup-winner Giroud scored 39 goals in Amid stiff opposition from their came in 2012 when the Asian the 10m Air Rifle event at the in the first Twenty20 on Friday at When 5 Indian athletes officially Trent Bridge. 119 games in all competitions for Chelsea countrymen, Tokyo is gearing up country won as many as six 2008 Beijing Games. The likes of represented the country and helped the London outfit claim the What makes this win commendable to host what is being looked at as medals, including four bronze and Dhyan Chand, Balbir Singh Sr, India's first-ever official Olympic Champions League, Europa League and FA for Pakistan that they have defeated an important edition of the Games two silver medals. KD Jadhav, Leander Paes, contingent was named in 1920 Cup since joining them from Arsenal in England’s first team after being which is expected to bring For a nation of billions, India has, it Karnam Malleswari, Sushil after the country got its affiliation 2018. "To all the Blues, to my team mates, humiliated by the hosts second- positivity and joy amid these is safe to say, underperformed at Kumar, Mary Kom, Saina from the International Olympics to all my coaches, to the whole club, a huge string side in the ODIs. Morgan troubled times. The Olympic the Games. In its 116-year history Nehwal, PV Sindhu, and several Committee in February that year. thank you for these special moments," won the toss and chose to bowl first Games will be held from July 23 in Olympics, only 28 medals have others have etched their names in One of pre-Independent. Giroud tweeted. "I'm starting a new but the move backfired as Pakistan journey with a light and happy heart. Our capitalised on the short boundaries, victories in the FA Cup, Europa League and smashing 20 fours and 12 sixes to Champions League have been post 232-6 -- their highest total in magnificent." Giroud had signed a new Olympics: From bowling with red cherries to throwing iron T20 internationals. A lightning-fast one-year deal at Chelsea last summer and opening stand of 150 in 15 overs last month the club took up an option to between skipper Babar Azam and extend it by a further 12 months. He started hammer, journey of shot-putter Tajinderpal Singh Toor his deputy Mohammad Rizwan set only eight Premier League games for the tone for Pakistan. Azam hit 85 from 49 balls and Rizan 63 from 41 Chelsea last season following the arrival of He was admitted at the Command German forwards Kai Havertz and Timo in a brilliant stand. Fakhar Zaman Hospital in Panchkula. Toor received (26 off 8) and Mohammad Hafeez Werner. e was part of France's Euro 2020 the news of his father’s demise when he campaign where the world champions were (24 off 10) provided the perfect knocked out by Switzerland in the last-16. was in Taxi, heading towards flourish to Pakistan’s innings with > hot-putter Tajinderpal Singh Panchkula to surprise his father. Toor’s Arsenal sold Giroud to Chelsea for £18m in their 46-run partnership off just 16 January 2018, six years after signing him Toor has won gold at the father never got to hold the gold in his deliveries to guide Pakistan to a from the Ligue 1 title-winning Montpellier hand, but he did saw his son making record total. In reply, England have side for £10.8m. In June, Milan signed Asian Games in Jakarta history on a TV set in his room while a terrible start as they lost four Chelsea's Fikayo Tomori on a permanent > Toor qualified for the lying on the bed. Toor got over that wickets in the first seven overs. transfer after the defender spent the second difficult phase and won the gold medal Seamer Shaheen Afridi (3/30) half of the 2020-21 season with the Italian Olympics with a throw of at the 2019 Asian Athletics struck early to dismiss Dawid side on loan. took up shot put only after the insistence of Championships in Doha. He had then Malan, diving forward on his 21.49m in the Indian Grand his father, late Sardar Karam Singh. dedicated the medal to his late father. In follow-through to have the opener 2015, his father was diagnosed with a form caught and bowled, before he had Tokyo 2020: PV Sindhu has Prix-4 at Patiala “Like most Indian boys, he (Tajinder) was Bairstow caught off a top edge to initially interested in cricket. But Sardar ji of skin cancer. But since the cancer was in its > Toor lost his father to bone initial stage, surgery was enough, and his leave England two down in the improved on her defence, insisted that he should try an individual fourth over. Pakistan's poor fielding sport. Since I was already into shot put, he father recovered. But the next year, his father cancer days after he returned was diagnosed with bone cancer. was a major talking point in the worked on motion skills for saw me being actively involved in the sport. final ODI but they turned up on the from his Jakarta heroicsS And, that’s how shot put happened to him,” Unfortunately, unlike the first time, the night, taking difficult catches in the Olympics, says Park Tae-sang Gurdev Singh, Tajinder’s uncle, tells cancer was in its fourth stage. In 2020, when deep and even inflicting a run out IndiaToday.In from Moga. Cut to the the sporting world came to a halt due to the with a direct hit. Moeen Ali fell Covid-19 pandemic, the lack of competition New Delhi. Aweak defence was the reason present, Toor, 26, is one of India’s best hope when Haris Rauf took a bizarre and shadow practicing in his room at NIS behind P V Sindhu's slip in performance New Delhi. He is the best shot-putter of Asia, for a track and field medal. But to finish at catch in the deep, holding on to the early in the year and the COVID-induced the podium, he will have to breach the 22m Patiala lead Toor towards depression. ball even as he jumped into Sohaib but growing up in Khosa Pando village in “During the lockdown, he went into break has helped her address the flaw and Punjab’s Moga district, Tajinderpal Singh mark, a target set by his coach Mohinder Maqsood's arms as his team mate also work on her motion skills ahead of the Singh Dhillon, when he won the gold medal depression. He started questioning himself,” tried to avoid a collision, while Toor wanted to be a fast bowler. Toor, the recalls Mohinder Singh Dhillon, Tajinder’s Jason Roy (32) failed to make good Tokyo Olympics, said India's foreign coach fast bowler, was a ‘terror’ to the kids of his at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta. Park Tae-sang. coach. Once the lockdown was lifted, and on a bright start. Livingstone hit a age group in the village. No one wanted to King of setbacks The 42-year-old, who was roped in for India's A couple of days after his heroics at the players were asked to resume training, Toor barrage of sixes to initially bring up face him because of his bustling pace. Toor England's fastest. men's singles players in 2019, has been Jakarta, Toor lost his father to bone cancer. was hit by another swing of misfortune. training Sindhu following the departure of fellow Korean coach Kim Ji Hyun after the Basel World Championship two years ago. "Sindhu's defence is weak compared to her WI vs Aus, 5th T20I: Opener Evin Lewis’s scintillating 34-ball 79 propels West Indies to beat Australia by 16 runs attack. So I have been focussing on her defence training before the Olympics," Park, who was the national coach with the Opener Evin Lewis smashed a 34-ball 79 as West Indies clinched a 16-run victory to complete a 4-1 series win over Australia at Korean team from 2013 to 2018, told PTI. "When Olympic was postponed, I thought it the Darren Sammy Cricket Stadium in St Lucia. was an opportunity to work on her motion skills and net training. All top players like New Delhi. West Indies opener Evin batting display and the West Indies build on their starts as the hosts Akane Yamaguchi, Tai Tzu Ying all know Lewis smashed 34-ball 79 as the were at 168-4 when they lost 4-25 produced yet another dominating that Sindhu has got a strong attack, so they T20 world champions defeated before tailender Hayden Walsh Jr. display at the Daren Sammy wait for her powerful smash. "So we have Australia by 16 runs in the fifth hit a six to end the home side’s National Cricket Stadium. tried to work on her defence which has been game in St Lucia on Friday to win innings. Andrew Tye made his first "It's always good to contribute to a her weakness. So the idea was to help her get the series 4-1 and send out a warning appearance of the tour and led the win. I've been working extremely some variation from the back of the court, to rivals ahead of this year's World Australian bowlers with 3/37, while hard from 2017 to now," Lewis said, like playing more drops or tosses or half Cup. West Indies stand-in captain Adam Zampa and Mitch Marsh before looking ahead to the visit of smashes." Sindhu didn't get much success Nicholas Pooran won his first toss of added two wickets each. Chasing after returning to the court following the Pakistan this month. "This series COVID-19 break. She exited at the first the series and decided to bat against 200 to win, Australia made a solid means a lot to me, when you score round and quarters of the first two Super Australia. start despite losing Josh Philippe in runs against these teams you feel 1000 events in Thailand and also failed to Player-of-the match Lewis scored 79the first over as skipper Aaron Finch very good. It's good for us, we have a reach the knockout stage at the World Tour runs off 34 balls, including 9 sixes, (34) and Mitchell Marsh (30) took lot of confidence going into Finals. The Indian, however, made it to the to put the Caribbean side well on its charge, but the visitors lost their way Pakistan, but we want to keep finals of Swiss Open only to suffer a way to its fourth win in the five-after the duo departed to finish at playing smart cricket." The teams demoralising loss to Spain's Olympic match series. Despite a late collapse, 183 for 9 in 20 overs. West Indies will now play three one-day champion Carolina Marin. She also went the West Indies scored its highest fast bowlers Sheldon Cottrell (3/28) internationals at Bridgetown, down without a fight against Thailand's total of the series — 199 for eight. and Andre Russell (3/43) ensured Barbados. The first match is Pornpawee Chochuwong. Pooran added 31 to Lewis’ dominant that Australia's batsmen could not scheduled for Tuesday. 12 New Delhi, Sunday, 18 July, 2021 FILM THE SIKH TIMES Hrithik, Katrina, Farhan, Abhay celebrate 10 years of AreAre Leander Leander Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara. Paes and KimKim SharmaSharma t’s been a decade since Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara released. Directed by Zoya Akhtar, the film Istarred Hrithik Roshan, Farhan Akhtar and dating? These Abhay Deol in lead roles. Katrina Kaif and Kalki Koechlin played supporting roles in the 2011 film. On Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara’s tenth anniversary, the film’s team had a virtual reunion and talked about why it is special to them. pics from their Goa ZINDAGI NA MILEGI DOBARA TEAM REUNITES AFTER 10YEARS Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara has a timeless appeal, something which gained the film a cult status it enjoys today. The film’s director and writer Zoya Akhtar, co-writer Reema Kagti, producer Riteish holiday hint at it Sidhwani and cast members Hrithik Roshan, Farhan Akhtar, Abhay Deol and Katrina Kaif reunited virtually to celebrate 10 years of the film. The table read was hosted by comedian Vir Das. The ZNMD team shared special memories of the film and talked about their characters. The YouTube channel of Excel Entertainment, under which the film was produced, shared the video and wrote, “To memories that will last a lifetime, unbreakable bonds, crazy moments and a decade full of love. Our favourite gang is here yet again for a special treat! 10 years later, team ZNMD reunites for a virtual table read, reminiscing the best moments from a journey close to our hearts. Celebrating #10YearsOfZNMD (sic).” HRITHIK ROSHAN CALLS ZINDAGI NA MILEGI DOBARA ‘A REVELATION’ Hrithik called the film ‘a revelation’ and added, “Something about Zoya’s individuality was shining through the script.” He said Zoya and Reema don’t write heroes, they write characters. The actor also revealed that his favourite scene is the one where he comes out of the water after scuba diving. He said, “For me, that was the entire film in one moment.” Disha Patani shares then-and- ports personalities dating Bollywood celebrities is not new. It seems like we have a new duo on the list. Tennis star Leander Paes and actress Kim Sharma have sparked dating rumours Swith their photos of vacationing together in Goa. The snapshots were shared by a restaurant now pic with her brother to in Goa on social media. Take a look. LEANDER PAESAND KIM SHARMA’S GOA PICS wish him on his birthday It is not the first time that Leander Paes and Kim Sharma have been spotted together. Last month, they were clicked by paparazzi in Bandra Mumbai. However, it is the first time that the two have been seen holidaying with each other. Their photos were shared by Goa’s restaurant, Pousada By The Beach, on Instagram. In the pictures, Leander Paes can be seen hugging Kim Sharma from behind and enjoying a meal together. “Biscuit & Chai hosting Leander Paes and Kim Sharma at Pousada by the Beach. @pousadabythebeachgoa (sic),” the official page of the restaurant captioned the post. KIM SHARMA SHARES PIC FROM HER GOAVACATION Taking to her official Instagram handle, Kim Sharma posted a picture of herself. In the snap, she is smiling for the camera in a white shirt and denim shorts. The photo seems to be from the same day. “#Mood (sic),” she captioned the post. She added a picture courtesy to Mr P, and no points for guessing that it is Mr Paes. Leander Paes was in a live-in relationship with model Rhea Pillai, with whom he welcomed a daughter, Aiyana. Kim previously dated actor Harshvardhan Rane. Kim made her Bollywood debut in 2000 with the Shah Rukh Khan and Amitabh Bachchan- starrer Mohabbatein. She was next seen in Fida and Taj Mahal: An Eternal Love Story. Leander Paes is a renowned tennis player, who will soon reunite with another tennis star, Mahesh Bhupathi, for an OTT project. He also tried his luck at acting with the 2013 film Rajdhani Express. SanjanaSanjana Sanghi’s Sanghi’s

Humans of Bombay post on't we all love to dig out pictures from days gone by and compare them to now? Yesterday D(July 15), Bollywood star Disha Patani took a trip down memory lane in her latest Instagram story deleted after backlash to wish her little brother on his birthday. She shared a throwback picture and then a picture from the umans of Bombay, a social media post, many Instagram users started present day.What a transformation! handle that documents different reacting and demanded that the HOB DISHA PATANI SHARES THROWBACK SNAP Hindividuals’ stories of struggle post should be taken down as it WITH HER BROTHER and triumphs, has deleted a post appeared to use Sanjana’s domestic Disha Patani was recently in the news after Jackie featuring actor Sanjana Sanghi and her staff to earn praise for her. Diet Sabya, Shroff called her a charming lady and spoke up domestic workers. The page faced a while calling out the actor on their about working with her. Now, the diva's old snap is severe backlash for Sanjana‘s post Instagram stories, wrote, “’Help’ going viral on the internet. The actress shared the old where she spoke about how she has suggests that they are doing picture to wish her little brother Suryansh Patani on been helping her domestic staff during charity/pro-bono work out of the his 18th birthday. In the first snap, a visibly young the pandemic and also got them kindness of their heart.’Workers’ Disha poses with her little brother. Her brother vaccinated. She also spoke about how suggests that they are getting paid for looked visibly small in the photo. In the second snap, her staff was very helpful to her during their service. They deserve all rights which is from the recent days, both the kids look the pandemic, and now she is returning that any employee would get. Here’s the favour. This piece with Sanjana was how netizens reacted to Diet Sabya’s grown-up. Disha can be seen hugging Suryansh, reportedly a promoted collaboration post: Many also reacted by saying, who seems to have surpassed his sister's height. with a beer brand. “This post reeked of privilege and self DISHA PATANI'S BIKINI PICTURE GOES Just hours after the HOB post went live importance through and through.” VIRAL on their social media platforms, Diet Some also felt that Sanjana’s domestic Disha Patani's love for the beach and bikinis is a well- Sabya called out the post, highlighting workers didn’t get anything out of their known fact. The diva often posts sultry pictures in how HOB and Sanjana have ended up faces being shown all over the internet, bikini, giving fans a glimpse of her wonderful using her three domestic workers as whereas Sanjana got more praise and fashion choices. In the snap shared by the Baaghi props to improve her own image. Diet apparently got paid for telling the story star, she can be seen enjoying the sun, the sand and Sabya is a sharp-tongued anonymous too.”After the backlash that the the sea in an animal printed bikini. On the work Instagram account dedicated to Humans of Bombay received on front, Disha has Ekta Kapoor’s KTina. The actress exposing imitations or appropriations, featuring Sanjana Sanghi’s story, the will also be seen in Mohit Suri's Ek Villain 2. even blatant copies, in fashion. As Diet platform has now taken down the story. Alongside Disha, the film also stars Tara Sutaria, Sabya put out the story about Sanjana’s An official statement. Arjun Kapoor and John Abraham.