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+,  -   Q  !""  #R    !"./,(         '( !)         !       )       : The State     on Wednesday reported a high      any Covid-related queries. of 1,078 new Covid-19 positive  “Around 10 per cent of the he Government is all set cases in 30 districts and State ! ranksters are resorting to callers are abusive. Such calls Tto acquire 50 million pool, with which total tally Phoax and indecent calls to result in wastage of precious doses of vaccine produced by surged to 9,90,075. A total of   the State Covid Helpline time of the helpline, during Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE, 68,724 samples were tested in the  Number 104. Though 38 per- which other genuine callers with an aim to boost vacci- last 24 hours and test positivity    sons were earlier booked by seeking help for themselves or nation drive and ease the rate (TPR) was 1.56 per cent. The police over such offences, sim- their family members can be pressure on the production of active cases in State stood at   eploring pandemonium in ilar incidents continue unabat- helped by our executives,” the vaccines in the country. 10,682. Out of new cases, 626 Dthe Rajya Sabha a day ear- ed. Team Head of the helpline More than 40 lakh vac- were from quarantine and 452 he Shree Jagannath Temple lier, Chairman M Venkaiah In one of the several prank said.“Some callers manage to cine doses have been admin- local contacts. district TAdministration (SJTA) on Naidu on Wednesday broke into calls, a person asked the call get their calls forwarded to the istered across India on reported day's highest 372 cases Wednesday issued a Standard tears and termed the behaviour of centre executive to give Rs 100 doctors for tele-consultation on Wednesday, taking total followed by with 147, Operating Procedure (SOP) would remain closed for pub- Prasad and lamps into the some Elders as “sacrilege.” for consuming liquor. Other the pretext of Covid symptoms. cumulative Covid vaccina- Jagatsinghpur and 58 for reopening of the lic darshan on all Saturdays and temple. Big containers would Expressing “anguish” over mem- callers allegedly misbehaved Later, they misbehave with the tion coverage to 52,32 crore, each, Kendrapada 51, 48, Shreemandir here for devotees Sundays as a measure to con- be placed at the entrance, bers climbing on the table, Naidu with the executives and doctors doctors too,” a doctor at the as per the Union Health Baleswar 45, Mayurbhanj 35, in phases from August 16. tain the spread of Covid-19 and where such items can be said he spent a “sleepless night.” and kept the line busy without helpline said. Mnistry. and Nayagarh 26 each, The shrine was closed for sanitise the temple premises. dropped. Lighting of Diyas Naidu made these remarks “It is also expecting to 25, 16, public since April 24 due to the It is mandatory for all would not be allowed. There after the House witnessed unruly receive about seven million Keonjhar and 12 second wave of Covid-19. The devotees to wear masks inside would be no partaking of scenes with some Opposition doses of a vaccine made by each, , , temple would be opened grad- and outside the temple. They Mahaprasad at the Ananda members standing on the table of Moderna Inc from the US Ganjam, Kandhamal and ually for public entry from will leave their belongings at Bazar and temple premises. the Rajya Sabha secretariat and through Covax, a programme Sundargarh six each, Malkangiri, August 16. However on August the designated place outside the However, the devotees can throwing a file at the Chairperson’s to supply Covid-19 vaccines Nuapada and Subarnapur five 12 and 13, family members of temple produce their ID proofs carry Mahaprasad and par- seat. However, there was no one to poorer nations,” a report in each, , Deogarh and the servitors would be allowed for verification and follow the take it at their residences or any present in the chair. These actions WSJ said. Rayagada four each, Gajapati two for darshan of the deities. The Covid-19 guidelines. other convenient places. There took place when a discussion on Recently, US-based phar- and Boudh, Kalahandi and darshan timings would be from All the devotees would would be a separate queue for farmers’ agitation against the ma giant Johnson & Johnson’s Nabarangpur one each. Besides, 7 am to 7 pm. The residents of enter through the Singhadwar differently-abled devotees for farm Bills was initiated in the single-dose Covid-19 vaccine 83 cases were reported from State Puri Municipality would be and after the darshan, the exit darshan of the Lords. Parking Rajya Sabha on Tuesday. were given Emergency Use pool.Meanwhile, another 65 allowed darshan from August would be through the of vehicles would be done only Expressing distress over the Authorisation (EUA) in India. patients succumbed to disease, 16 to 20. Uttaradwar. The devotees are at Jagannath Ballav Mutt ruckus created by the Opposition The five vaccines granted taking total death toll to 6,530 in All devotees would be requested not to touch statues premises or any other desig- MPs, Naidu said he struggled to EUA in India are Covishield, State, the Health and Family allowed for darshan from or idols in the temple. They are nated place, the SOP men- find a provocation or reason for Covaxin, Sputnik V, Moderna Welfare Department said. PNS August 23.But the temple prohibited to take flowers, tioned. such a low in the “august House”. and janssen. '  *  R   ,        %--     .)   !)& **)  % &' tion will be multiple choice hours duration while questions the forms online to appear at the due to worsening of pandemic be brought down so that the dif- order of 20% internal assess-   & questions of 20 marks and sub- will be set by BSE, . The examination centres selected by situation, the students will have ference in percentage remains at ment, 50% first term end exam- jective questions of 20 marks of examination will be conducted the Board. The first examination to appear the examination from 30% level. In case the first term ination and 30% final examina-         ( 1 hour total duration. The exam- at schools and evaluation will be will be conducted during the last home. Evaluation will be done end examination could not be tion (second term end exami- ination will be conducted at done by neutral school to be week of November. The pattern by neutral school and marks held and final exam is conduct- nation. hubaneswar on Wednesday      schools and questions will be notified by the board. of examination will be of mul- shall be uploaded in BSE’s por- ed, the results will be processed However, the marks of final Bregistered 261 Covid-19 prepared by the BSE. The eval- In case the term-end exam- tiple choice questions of 50 tal to be notified by the board. as per the marks obtained in year examination will be mod- positive cases. With this, the he Board of Secondary uation will be carried out by a inations could not be conduct- marks of 1 hour duration to be The District Education Officers final examination along with the erated as per the moderation total tally in the city rose to TEducation (BSE), Odisha, neutral school to be notified by ed at schools, the students can answered in OMR answer (DEOs) will determine the neu- internal assessments marks and policy of the Board and differ- 1,02,751. Notably, the capital has introduced a new scheme of the BSE. appear the examinations at their sheets. tral schools where evaluation marks obtained in first term ence in percentage of marks city had recorded 223 positives examination for the academic The final examination will homes and submit the answer Questions will be from first will be done. The weightage for examination conducted at home between internal assessment on Tuesday. Out of the 261 new session 2021-22 for Class-IX and be conducted at the end of sec- books with the schools in sched- 50 per cent of the syllabus. different examinations are in with the weightage in order of and first term end examination cases, 187 were local contacts Class-X students as no exami- ond term during second week of uled time. Weightage to be Evaluation will be done by the order of 20% for internal assess- 20% internal assessment, 20% shall be brought down to 30 per- and 74 from quarantine. nations have been conducted April, 2022. Questions will come given for final results are in the BSE through computer. The ment, 30% for first term-end first term-end examination, 60% cent in case internal mark is in The local contacts includ- either at school or board level in from the entire syllabus. order of internal assessment final examination will be con- examination and 50% for final final examination (second term- higher side. ed 16 in Patia, followed by 13 Class-IX during the session However, 30 per cent of the (20%), first term-end examina- ducted during last week of April examination (second term-end end examination). In case both examinations each in Nayapalli and 2020-21 due to the Covid-19 sit- questions will be from the first tion (30%), final examination 2022 while the pattern of exam- examination). In case the first term is held are cancelled, the weightage will Rasulgarh. The active cases in uation. 50 per cent of the syllabus and (second term-end examination) ination will be multiple choice However, the difference and the final exam could not be be given to different examina- the city stood at 2,853. For the Class-IX students, the rest 70% of the questions will (50%). questions of 50 marks and sub- between internal assessment conducted, the results will be tions for determination of school Meanwhile, 13 more patients there will be two term-end be set from the second 50 per There will be two examina- jective questions of 30 marks. marks and term end examina- processed as per marks obtained wise merit list. Last 5 year succumbed to the disease, examinations. First exam at the cent of the syllabus. The pattern tions, one each at the end of each Questions will be set from the tion marks should be within at first term-end examination results will be analysed and increasing mounting the total end of Term-1 will be held dur- of examination will be multiple term for the Class-X students. whole syllabus. Multiple choice 30%. In case the percentage of along with performance of can- results will be published basing death toll to 959. However, 223 ing 3rd week of November cov- choice questions of 50 marks Both the examinations will be questions will be answered in difference is more with internal didates in internal assessment on moderation policy of board persons recovered from the ering 50 percent of the total syl- and subjective questions of 30 directly conducted by the BSE. OMR answer sheets. In case the assessment on higher side, the and final examination conduct- to ensure validity and reliabili- virus in last 24 hours, increas- labus. The pattern of examina- marks. The tests will be of two The students will have to fill up examinations could not be held marks of internal assessment will ed at home with weightage in ty of assessment. ing total recoveries to 98,918.   ! "  

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0  50 lakh each to Deep Grace the CM the team jersey with        Ekka and Namita Toppo. He signatures of all the team mem-  commended the spirited fight bers. Deep Ekka, Vice-Captain book titled "Reflections" of the women’s team in reach- of the women’s team, also pre- Aauthored by Ipsi Ipsita  0 ing the semifinals and creating sented him the team jersey with Rath was unveiled by Governor  1 history in Indian hockey. the signatures of all the team Prof Ganeshi Lal on Monday.  Patnaik advised them all to members. It is a collection of forty poems continue their hard work and Minister for Sports and and songs in English.      bring more laurels to the coun- Youth Services Tusharkanti The book features fore- try. He also assured them full Behera, Odisha Hockey words by Prof Sanat Das hief Minister Naveen support in future. The Kalinga Promotion Council Chairman Patnaik and Prof KC Tripathi, CPatnaik felicitated the play- Stadium has become the glob- Dilip Tirkey, 5-T Secretary VK retired professors of English ers from Odisha in the Indian al hub of hockey. The next edi- Pandian and Sports Secretary department, Ravenshaw Hockey teams at a function at tion of Men’s Hockey World R Vineel Krishna were present. College, Cuttack. Ipsita says her the Kalinga Stadium here on Cup will be played at this sta- Earlier on Tuesday when mother has been her source of lescence. Some of the compo- the book is available via both Tuesday. Deep Grace Ekka, dium. The players expressed the players had arrived at the inspiration for the poems and sitions can also be regarded as digital and print media through Namita Toppo, Birendra Lakra their deep sense of gratitude to airport here, the Sports songs that reflect nature, beau- background songs in various international platforms such as and Amit Rohidas were part of each to Birendra Lakra and (DSPs). He appreciated the Patnaik for supporting Indian Secretary received them with ty, love, joy, sorrow, pain, fear, genres of literature. Although Amazon, Google and Flipkart. the Indian Hockey teams which Amit Rohidas. He also handed performance of the players in hockey leading to wonderful flower bouquets and presented struggle, peace and divinity. these are written in a simple Ipsita is a versatile person who created history at the Tokyo over them offer letters for winning bronze medal for the results at the Tokyo Olympics. them scarfs. It was a rousing Some of the poems and songs style, a brief summary can be is simultaneously a lawyer, an Olympics. Patnaik handed over appointment as Deputy country. Besides, the CM Birendra Lakra, Vice-Captain and memorable welcome for refer to the author’s deep expe- provided on request of the engineer, a storyteller and poet- a cash award of Rs 2.5 crore Superintendents of Police handed over a cash award of Rs of the men’s team, presented the players. riences in childhood and ado- reader. Published by Blue Rose, ess. O# %    "    & '(P  *        +     "#             here, party State secretary  ( (0 ily walked out of the Covid asadhar Pati from Odisha Tankadhar Tripathy said if ward around 3 am on Tuesday Swas among the eight artists he BJP on Wednesday Government really wishes to patient allegedly escaped night," said Mangalabag police who got Art Excellence Award Tdemanded that the State construct such indoor stadi- Afrom the Covid ward of the station IIC Amitav Mohapatra. in a virtual art exhibition Government name the pro- ums, they should be named SCB Medical College Hospital Sources said the man had been organised by the Kala Mithra posed 89 indoor stadiums after after local legends and in Cuttack in the wee hours of admitted to the hospital on 78&  Central legislation for empow- Foundation, Hyderabad, to eminent personalities, includ- sportspersons.Tripathy ques- Wednesday Both the Cuttack August 5 after he tested posi- erment of the States and a mark the platinum jubilee of ing well-known sportspersons tioned where all 314 stadiums city and rural police have tive for the virus. Family PNS BHUBANESWAR: Biju caste-based census for identi- the Indian Independence Day. and legends of State like Netaji in 314 blocks announced by the launched a massive hunt to members have also filed a (BJD) MPs on fying and enumerating the A large number of profes- Subhas Chabdra Bose, Veer Government before 2019 trace the 55-year-old man, a complaint with Mangalabag Wednesday met Union Home SEBCc and OBCs. Shah report- sional artists participated and Surendra Sai, Madhusudan Assembly elections have gone? native of the Mahanga area in police. Minister Amit Shah at his edly appreciated concern of the exhibited their innovative art Das, Buxi Jagabandhu, While the State Government is . "As the patient was from Parliament chamber in New BJD MPs for increasing reser- works. The virtual show was Gopabandhu Das, Baji Rout, running short of finance to We got a written complaint the Mahanga area, we have Delhi and submitted a memo- vation ceiling and caste-based inaugurated on August 10 by er Ramesh Mothukuri of Kala Krushna Chandra Gajapti, provide salary and pension, "from the hospital about the alerted the Mahanga police. randum seeking an increase in census for SEBCs and OBCs. Lalita Kala Academy, New Mithra and other dignitaries. Rendo Majhi, Jai Rajguru and from where money meant for incident this morning and the Both the city police and rural reservation beyond the 50-per The meeting was cordial and Delhi secretary Ramakrishna The event will conclude on Fakir Mohan Senapati. constructing these stadiums CCTV footage of the hospital police have begun investigation cent ceiling by enacting a positive, party sources said. Vedala in presence of organis- August 16. Addressing a Press Conference would come, he wondered. revealed that the man stealth- into it.” Mohapatra said. 1(      #           30 0 0  PNS n CUTTACK: Suspended challenging the two impugned lenged in HC by Panigrahy and      nal riots are caused due to pop- Gopalpur BJD MLA Pradeep orders of the High Court. “In HC in February this year set it ulation explosion. Foundation Panigrahy on Wednesday said SLP, the Lokayukta and its aside and, instead, asked   1 emanding mandatory pro- president Bipin Das said the moved the Secretary have attached forged Lokayukta to conduct probe Dvision of a two-child norm population of country was 36 seeking initiation of contempt and fabricated orders of HC,” against Panigrahy through for each family irrespective of crore when country got proceedings against Odisha they said. Acharya said his Lokayukta’s own Inquiry Wing. 2   caste, religion, coulour and Independence and now it has Lokayukta Justice (Retd) Ajit client has appealed to HC to The Lokayukta once again sect, the Janasankhya reached 140 crore. Every Kumar Singh and Lokayukta award severe punishment with approached HC through a  ( (0 Samadhan Foundation on minute, 51 new childbirths are Secretary Manas Ranjan heavy penalty on contemnors. review writ petition urging Wednesday submitted a mem- taking place. Because of the Tripathy for allegedly forging, In December 2020, Lokayukta court to revisit its earlier order. he Commissionerate police orandum to the Prime Minister population explosion, the den- fabricating two orders of High had directed the Directorate of The court in May this year dis- Ton Tuesday busted a bike through Governor Prof sity of population in every Court passed in February and Vigilance to conduct a prelim- missed petition and questioned looters’ gang by arresting three Ganeshi Lal here. The mem- square km is increasing. While April this year. Panigrahy and inary inquiry against Panigrahy about locus standi of Lokayukta persons in this connection orandum said all the problems India has only 2.4% of world’s his counsel Pitambar Acharya following a complaint against saying, “Lokayukta was not an under the Madhupatna police the country is witnessing today land, 411 of its people are liv- said Lokayukta in May this year him for possessing dispropor- aggrieved party in case and station here. like unemployment, environ- ing in every square km, the approached Supreme Court in tionate assets through corrupt hence, the review petition is The cops also seized eight mental disasters and commu- highest in world, Das said. a Special Leave Petition (SLP) practices. This order was chal- also dismissed.” stolen motorcycles from the possession of the accused According to information, a team of Madhupatna police, / / 0 -  "         acting on a tipoff, conducted raids at a place and made the seizure and arrest. The arrest-      dedicated a Saheed Smarak martyrs.The memorial has that will quickly detect the taken to meet any kind of ed looters included two minor (Martyr’s Memorial) near the been constructed to com- (    virus mutation. This will help eventuality. Training is being boys and a receiver. ast Coast Railway General Railway Auditorium here for memorate the sacrifices of the us tackle the impending third given to doctors, nurses and The arrested minors were EManager Vidya Bhushan paying homage to the great bravehearts. This will also  -6    wave. other health workers for treat- lifting bikes from different witness innumerable stories of All Sentinel surveillance ment of children. A drive to parts of the city and selling bravery and courage. sites and laboratories have been sensitise public about the pos- them to the reciever Consequent to inauguration,      open labs in the remaining 16 asked to send around 10 per sible third wave has also Krushnaprasad Nayak, in the a Guard of Honour with full districts of Bhadrak, Boudh, cent samples of the total posi- begun.” Athgarh area for Rs 2,000 to Rs Railway Protection Force o speed up the Covid-19 Dhenkanal, Gajapati, Khordha, tive cases to the Institute of Life Regarding the Covid situ- 3,000 per bike. (RPF) honours was given to Ttesting, RT-PCR laborato- Jagatsinghpur, Jajpur, Science (ILS). RT-PCR labs in ation in the State, he stated, “If Krushnaprasad was then all martyrs. ries would be set up in all dis- Kendrapada, Nabarangpur, all districts will function from we see the overall graph, the changing the registration num- The General Manager tricts by August 15, said Malkangiri, Nuapada, August 15,” he stated. On a pos- infection rate has definitely ber plates and colours of the also laid a wreath at the Director of Public Health Subarnapur, Kandhamal, sible third wave, Mishra said, dropped. The number of cases bikes and disposing of them. Shaheed Smarak and paid Niranjan Mishra on Sundargarh, Rayagada and “As it is being predicted that has declined significantly in the The Zone 6 ACP said the rich tributes to all who sacri- Wednesday. Bargarh. Tenders have already children will be mostly infect- districts that reported maxi- seized bikes would be handed ficed their lives to uphold the He informed that current- been floated for the purpose. ed in the third wave, we have mum positive cases earlier. over to their original owners dignity, honour and pride of ly, 14 districts have RT-PCR “Besides, we are setting up our kept 3,000 hospital beds ready. The situation is not concerning soon. the nation. labs and steps are afoot to own genome sequence facility All necessary steps are being anymore.” 012213 20+445           !   

causing such havoc as the best words, when the virus mutates, people get away safe; quite a earlier and remain sick for a protection. Severe disease and be back to face-masking protocols. In Odisha, like else- of medical minds find tough to the antibodies are less able to few fall severely sick. The Delta longer period of 18 days rather death are not likely to happen. indoors. First, even fully-vac- where, even schoolteachers are evaluate and manage. Strangely, do what they are supposed to variant is fuelling Covid cases than the usual 13 days. Latest So, for the unvaccinated, Delta cinated people can still carry expected to show full dose this frighteningly infectious do, which results in break- across all places, particularly research findings in Scotland presents a serious threat and, high viral loads and transmit vaccine testimonials to enter strain was first traced in India. through infection. the US, and raising questions and Singapore indicate higher right at the moment, more the virus. classrooms or even the campus. Alpha and Beta had evolved in For the unvaccinated, Delta about vaccines’ efficacy against odds of hospitalisation and than ever. Over 97% of those So masking protects those Whereas religious places, the affluent Western countries. presents a serious threat for infection. death from Delta. currently hospitalised in the US who are not vaccinated, includ- which are only sentiment- World famous India-born these people are without any- Leading global centres for Vaccination is not a 100% with severe Covid are unvac- ing children under 12, and vac- linked, should not be flung virologist Dr Jacob John said body soldier to resist and fight. disease control and prevention barrier against the Delta vari- cinated. cinated individuals who may open without strict safety pro- only days ago that the Delta More than 97% of those cur- have already recommended ant as its viral load is just too The faster people can get mount weaker responses to tocols. Emotionally-driven virus is like a heat-seeking rently hospitalised with severe that even fully-vaccinated peo- huge. So, breakthrough infec- vaccinated, more easily they the vaccine, such as immuno- devotees have to produce safe- missile. It would easily locate Covid-19 in the USA are ple in areas of high transmis- tion is bound to impact public will recover from the current compromised individuals. The ty documents like RTPCR neg- the uninfected people like a unvaccinated. sion wear masks at all public health very adversely. surges, minimise deaths, and second reason is that we still ative or full vaccination cer- sophisticated missile catching Even for people who are places citing evidence that All the successive variants avoid exerting unmanageable don’t know the risk of long- tificates. /2 up with any heat-emitting fully vaccinated, medical Delta produces high viral loads thus far have proven to be pressure on the medical system. haul corona disease following The proposal of letting object like a jet or a submarine experts prescribe face-masking in noses and throats of even the much more efficient at evading Breakthrough infection will breakthrough infections. So, it’s Puri locals into the Jagannath everal State Governments emitting engine heat. while indoors mainly because fully-vaccinated on interior the immune system’s antibody cause little harm in most cases, smart to put on masks for some Temple without any health Sare proudly declaring big Any uninfected vulnerable fully-vaccinated people can locations because of the same response, most so Delta. When but transmissibility will keep more time. safety proof is likely to pose temples open for devotees human is easily traced by Delta. still carry high viral loads and air circulating for long. the virus mutates its spike pro- posing a huge problem. Hence, It is evident that all over grave health hazards. It may when the unprecedented pan- It traces for cracks or openings transmit the virus to others. According to top medico tein, the antibodies of the vic- be cautious. India the Delta variant caused also cause embarrassment if the demic is not yet contained in facemasks to enter. Unlike Masking thus protects scientists, Delta is more than tim may not bind as well and Only the workplaces be havoc. Most States which expe- decision is challenged in courts even after 22 months of its dis- the original Covid-19 virus, it those who are not vaccinated, fifty times as infectious as the the virus gains an advantage. open with care and caution. rienced second wave early have of law for endangering public covery in the Chinese city of multiplies at alarming speed including children under 12, original virus at most places That’s precisely why Livelihood activities can hap- just begun recovering. But safety and encouraging dis- Wuhan in December 2019. and puts a huge viral load too and those vaccinated individ- and one hundred times at a few. Governments should not take pen without big worry because States like Odisha that got the crimination. Subsequently, the Wuhan soon. The victim becomes too uals who may mount weaker A study from China has report- Delta lightly as they did the people at work are by and second wave late are still bat- For sure, cities of Puri, respiratory virus has devel- sick too quickly. responses to the vaccine such ed that people infected with original. Delta is still under the large healthier and with proven tling to keep everyone safe. Bhubaneswar and Cuttack are oped so much in time gaining Thus, even a little delay in as immuno-compromised indi- Delta can carry 1,000 times the scanner and there is no con- safe behaviour protocols; eco- Delta is still around there. now geographically local. ‘No enormous virulence and trans- getting medical care can lead to viduals. The second reason is viral load as those infected with clusive finding as yet in hand. nomic activities will add value High precaution for another safety certificate, no entry’ has missibility. The latest variant of irreversible damage or death. that medical experts still don’t the original Wuhan virus. Delta for all practical purpos- to quality of life without much month or two should be fine to to be the precondition for the unruly, intractable single- Delta is one hundred times know the risk of long-haul Another recent study has es is still an invisible dangerous danger. For people who are remain safe for a long time. All entry irrespective of place of stranded RNA pathogen is more infectious than the Covid following breakthrough shown that the Delta-infected enemy. All the same, vaccines fully-vaccinated, there are two economic activity centres have residence. Authorities better called ‘Delta’ which has been Wuhan original. In other infections. 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The Chief Secretary also increasing frequency and department to talk with peo- saline/flood embankments. pare the action plan focusing    and flood embankments, Chief asked to identify ‘at-risk’ areas, intensity of the cyclones, there ple who live close to the sea Raising the heights of the on the highly-vulnerable tracks Secretary Suresh Chandra from where permanent evac- would be necessity of further and who have their landed embankments would save within a month. ties in their centre in the want Mahapatra has directed the uation would be the only sci- -   of regular visits by doctors. Department of Water entific solution. Among the inmates, only 30 Resources. Principal Secretary Garg    avail the disability pension and Mahapatra gave the direc- said, “With around 17per cent O 0   #%$$P the rest are waiting to have it tion while looking into the of the coastline of 480 km, BALESWAR: The Baleswar due to lackadaisical attitude of increased frequency and inten- Odisha faces around 35per  3;; Odisha’s Paradip, are likely to Intergovernmental Panel on Working Group report. district administration is on its the district administration. sity of the cyclones in the cent of the cyclonic storms be submerged under sea by the Climate Change (IPCC) report Climate change is bringing toes after a three- member The HC’s deputed team context of changing climatic along with tidal surges. The end of this century, the to analyse changes in sea lev- multiple changes in different team of lawyers visited a comprising lawyers Goutam conditions. State is the sixth-most cyclone-      National Aeronautics and els across the world. The Indian regions which will all increase British-time leprosy colony Mishra , Bibhu Prasad Tripathy A high-level meeting to prone area of the world. Space Administration (NASA) cities/towns that are likely to be with further warming. These here in Bampada as amicus and Pami Ratha after visiting this effect was held under his There are also flat terrains everal coastal cities and of the US has predicted. The submerged by year 2100 are include changes to wet and curiae to assess the ground the colony submitted a report chairmanship on Tuesday with fertile agricultural land Stowns of India, including NASA utilised the Kandla, Okha, Bhavnagar, dryness, to winds, snow and reality following an Orissa stating various difficulties and wherein Principal Secretary with dense population adjacent Mumbai, Mormugao, ice, coastal areas and oceans, High Court direction. deficiencies in the area. Water Resources Anu Garg to the coastline.” The review Mangalore, Cochin, Paradip, the report said. There were reports that “The shortcomings and outlined the changing coastal showed that 1,636 km of saline Khidirpur, Visakhapatnam, As per the UN’s climate the inmates of the leprosy difficulties of the leprosy colony characteristics and existing protection embankments and Chennai and Tuticorin. report, continuous reliance on rehabilitation centre were lack- are being addressed, including infrastructure for checking 5,864 km of flood protection “Coastal areas will see con- fossil fuels is warming world at ing basic facilities in their drinking water supply and the tidal surge. embankments were built dur- tinued sea-level rise through- a rate unprecedented in the colony as well in a hospital in healthcare in a war footing Mahapatra directed the ing the last years mostly in the out the 21st century, con- past 2,000 years and its effects their campus. basis. The left-out eligible per- department to identify the districts of Ganjam, Puri, tributing to more frequent and are already visible as droughts, Their dwelling rooms had sons are in process of getting vulnerable locations and tracks Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapada, severe coastal flooding in low- wildfires and floods around the become dilapidated with no pension,” said Additional where there would be proba- Bhadrak and Baleswar. During lying areas and coastal erosion world. The average global sur- drinking water and electricity District Magistrate Nilu bility of the tidal ingress to the last ten years, the State faced with extreme sea-level events face temperature has risen by supply, while the toilets were in Mohapatra. The leprosy colony, land. Development seven very severe to extreme that previously occurred once about 1.1 degree Celsius a miserable state. As a whole, known as Lewis Leprosy Commissioner Pardeep Kumar severe cyclones. The coastal in 100 years could happen between 1850-1900, a level not the environment had become Colony, was built on a nine- Jena directed for a scientific belt witnessed tidal surges of every year by the end of this seen since 125,000 years ago, unhygienic. Further, the acre land donated by a gener- assessment of the coastal geo- 3.5 meter to 4.5 meter at the century,” said the IPCC before most recent Ice Age. inmates lack healthcare facili- ous Zamindar in 1945.

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He is an enthusiastic occurred during a combat exer- ments have not been repaired Subarnarekha was impaired High Court at Brahmapur has Acer impaired with disabil- Book of World Records, Asia Yoga expert having 34 years of cise session. even after two months of the due to choking in the want of once again been intensified ity is all set to register another Book of Records, India Book of natural calamity, submitted a maintenance. following a large number of record in his name by exhibit- Records, Limca Book of memorandum to the district The locals alleged due to senior lawyers and members of ing a phenomenal perfor- Records, Best of India Records Collector. the current situation not only the Ganjam Bar Association mance, yoga on top of a 20-feet and Coca cola Book of Records The farmers said that about paddy cultivation, betel vine, resorting to a four-day-long ladder fitted with a moving car. to name a few, to his credit. 1,000 acres of agriculture land vegetables, pulses, groundnut Satyagraha in the district court queries of media for the reason He would demonstrate his “I have, for the new record, of Chaumukh and Dagara vil- cultivation, and freshwater pisi- premises here since Wednesday of self immolation, Palo said mettle on a Maruti Gypsy car already practiced Yoga and lagers were adversely affected ci culture too were affected. last week. that for last 10 years, the driven at a speed of around 40 obtained permission from the due to Yass triggered saline They said cultivated veg- Adding strength to the agi- lawyers have been resorting to kmph and wind speed of about Defence authorities. Three water ingression and their etables and other crops are tation, former president of the agitation in support of their 70 kmph at Nasik on the forth- judges and judicial officers will fields were still lying water- damaged as their roots rot due Ganjam Bar Association demand, but the Government coming Independence Day. be witnessing and assessing my logged in the want of adequate to saline waterlogging in their Bansidhar Palo, who has been continues to be apathetic, Lieutenant Colonel Laxmidhar performance. Our top brass draining provision.They said patches. Rabindra Pradhan, practicing in the district court which is quite deplorable. He Bhuyan will demonstrate his officers, including Brigadier A while on the one hand, the Rabindra Bhuyan, Subodh for last 40 years, threatened said that the Bar would give a skills ‘Longest time hitting on Ragesh, Station Commander breaches are not repaired and Behera and Bhaban Bhuyan self-immolation if the demand deadline to the Government, hips by heels on headstand and Commandant Artillery, high saline water continues to were among the affected farm- for a permanent Bench is not failing which he would set yoga position’ atop a moving and several other officers and flow into their land, on the ers were present during sub- fulfilled soon. Replying to the himself ablaze in protest. car on that day And if he suc- men will be present on the other, the water draining was mission of the memorandum. 1R'  8;  -&  & R, &  <   ,  *0  67P%8#        The goods and materials of reports of water logging were - &    2  & the shops were damaged due reported from other low-lying PNS CUTTACK: The Vigilance to the inundation. In the areas too with the residents 0  police on Wednesday conduct-  (   havan was performed to mark   meanwhile, fire tenders have blaming the local municipal ed simultaneous house searches the occasion. Workers, employ- been pressed to suck water authorities for not clearing the on properties of Santosh Kumar he Jindal Steel and Power ees and their family members 'R   from the complex. Similar clogged drains.     Sahoo, Panchayat Executive TLimited (JSPL) observed the paid respect to the revered soul Officer (PEO), Dighi and 91st birth anniversary of Om at the end of the day-long event. Mathakargola gram panchayats Prakash Jindal, founder of Jindal In a unique way, paying tribute       ( in Bhuban block in Dhenkanal Group, here on Saturday. To to the leader, students of Jindal district on allegation of posses- commemorate the day, several humble beginning to being a School performed cultural pro- raders and shopkeepers     sion of assets disproportionate to programmes were organised at successful industrialist, Bauji gramme through virtual meet. Tvented their anger after his known sources of income. pellet plant and Jindal School was a man with highest stan- The event witnessed mes- rain water gushed into a mar- wo persons were killed Five teams of Cuttack Vigilance Executive Vice-President and dards of ethics, transparency merizing performance of various ket complex near Fandi square Tand another suffered crit- Division comprising one DSP, JSPL’s Unit Head Brij and integrity. classical dance forms of the stu- here following heavy down- ical injuries when an onion- seven Inspectors and other staffs Badhadra along with other heads He was very optimistic and dents and recitation of self-com- pour for about an hour on laden truck plunged into a during searches have recovered of departments, employees and his journey will remain as an posed poems in memory of the Wednesday evening. 100-feet-deep gorge near movable and immovable prop- workers of the pelletisation com- eternal source of inspiration and great leader. Among others, The ground floor of the Bangiriposhi on NH-49 in erties worth Rs 1.20 crore so far. plex offered floral tributes to the guidance for all young Indians. GM (HR and ES) Sarat Kishore New Market Complex is now on These included one triple-storied visionary industrialist and phil- He will always be remembered Panda, Jindal School advisor completely lying submerged Wednesday morning. building and two single storied anthropist, who was fondly called for his immense contribution to Arjun Sharma and Jindal School with rainwater. Reports said All three of them were buildings under the as Bauji. Addressing the gather- the Indian Steel Industry.” Earlier principal Sangitarani Das were water of about nine feet high identified as residents of Kamakhyanagar PS. ing Shri Badhadra, said, “From in the day, a special puja and present on occasion. was flowing in the complex. Malkapur in Maharashtra. The truck from Nashik was en route to West Bengal. The 3    ' ,R& mishap took place when the #  &$'  driver lost control over the vehicle while crossing  0   Bangiriposhi Ghati. 5)  P44 )  While truck helper henkanal BJP leader Er Wasim jumped off the vehicle DDebashisha Hota met and including her son-in-law and main accused had given Rs 2 gunshot wounds. Acting on a to save his life when the vehi- discussed with BJP national = &   brother in this connection. lakh to the supari killers in complaint, police began an cle was falling down, driver general secretary and Odisha Nuapada SP Pratyush Diwaker advance. On July 31 night, the investigation. Later, the cops Yunus and his friend Jawal in-charge D Purandeswari    on Wednesday said the two hit men came by a motor- arrested all of them and seized died on the spot. regarding forthcoming Zilla deceased Apna Dhaba owner cycle with a country-made gun Rs 90,000 cash, two motorcy- Receiving information, Parishad elections in Odisha in Basanti Meher’s son-in-law and and stopped at the dhaba. They cles and four mobile phones locals along with a firefight- New Delhi on Tuesday.     elder brother had hatched a later went inside and asked from them. Further investiga- ing team reached the site and He focused on how to conspiracy, a month back, to Basanti for food. When she tion ongoing and other details rushed all of them to a local improve party’s performance in olice have cracked the July bump her off over a family refused as no food was avail- would be shared later, police hospital. While Yunus and the PRI elections due in P31 murder of a woman feud. For that purpose they had able, one of them fired at her said. Among others, Khariar Jawal were declared dead by February next. Purandeswari dhaba owner of Duajhar village hired two contract killers and from close range. Following SDPO Santak Jena and Khariar the doctors, Wasim was assured Er Hota to take a deci- ing State leadership. Earlier, Er cussed with Union Minister under the Khariar police sta- struck a deal of Rs 6 lakh with which she was rushed to the PS IIC Kailash Chandra Sethi undergoing treatment. sion very shortly after consult- Hota also had met and dis- Parshottam Rupala. tion and arrested four persons, them.As per the deal, the two hospital but succumbed to the were present. ;#  # 3    &  , A# '-&' lives in a small hut with him that he would get a house officials has increased due to trict as well State level," remarks ; 86 thatched roof. "My condition is to live this year," said the BDO. constant monitoring at the dis- Tapan Dash, a journalist. The weapons of offence with very bad. This thatched roof "Visiting the house of a poor #   which the accused killed    cannot resist heavy rain; water man provides you insight; you Krushna was seized by the pours heavily inside," adds get to know better about his liv-  12  ago. The arrested accused iden- police.  Kanhu, who never expected ing conditions. tified as Chandlu Kishan, Based on a complaint that a Government officer Once I reached his he old coin collection has Surendra Majhi, Daitari Kishan lodged by the family members 2    would arrive at his doorstep to doorstep, I could know that Tmany takers. Antique cur- and Pradeep Majhi had alleged- of the deceased, police started inform him about Government Kahnu is a very good dairy rency sells like hotcakes online. ly called one Krushna Kishan an investigation into the inci- anhu Majhi of Kokpadar support. farmer. So, I assured him finan- But sometimes some anti- from his home and killed him dent and arrested the accused Kvillage in Sadasib Naik, BDO, cial support under the MGN- socials resort to violence to in cold blooded manner over a after three months. is now assured that he would Sinapali, said he immediately REGS to construct a cow shed. acquire those with pictures of Hanuman coin in a planned “We have been able to get a pucca house to live in. rushed to Kokpadar to meet Besides, he will also be pro- deities depicted on them and manner, informed police. arrest the accused after a thor- "The BDO of Sinapali block Kanhu when he learnt about vided fund for construction of often this leads to loss of lives. Cops said that Krushna ough investigation and col- came to my house on Sunday his condition from some media a dug-well," added the BDO. In such an incident, the was called out to a secluded lecting all the information to inform that I have been reports. "He is a deserving "The instant action by block Deogarh police on Tuesday place outside his village and about the incident. A small included in the list," says Kanhu person. It is a matter of regret administration reveals two arrested as many as four per- was attacked by the group with coin, which seems to be an gleefully as if he has achieved that such a poor family has not things. First, they are sensitive sons in connection with the sticks on May 3, 2021. Later, his Australian currency, has also an unachievable. Kanhu with yet benefited under the RH towards need of people; and murder of a youth at Raital area body was found near an elec- been seized,” said Deogarh SP his wife and an 11-year-old son scheme. Thus, I committed second, accountability of the in the district three months tric transformer in the village. Rajkishor Paikaray.   ! "  .

& * +   0, - P    0 4 -      )  $    ,- * !     xpressing displeasure over he Enforcement Ethe disruptions in Lok TDirectorate (ED) on Sabha proceedings during the Wednesday said the Special Monsoon Session, Speaker Om (PMLA) Court, Mohali, has Birla on Wednesday said he allowed the confiscation of was “extremely hurt” and assets worth around 10 crore voiced hope that parties will, in the Bhola Drug case on its through consensus, ensure that request. members follow the rules The ED had earlier strictly and maintain the dig- attached these assets including nity of the House. immovable properties, Indian The Lok Sabha was   currency, foreign currencies, adjourned sine die on fixed deposits. Subsequently, Wednesday, two days before witter on Wednesday the agency filed applications schedule, after Opposition Tinformed Delhi High Court under Prevention of Money protests over the Pegasus that Congress leader Rahul Laundering Act against four snooping row, farm laws and Gandhi’s Twitter account is accused persons, Roy Bahadur other issues. locked due to violating their Nirwal, Mahesh Gaba, Anoop Addressing a press confer- policy by uploading the photos Singh Kahlon and Varinder ence, Birla said out of the total so that elected representatives had climbed on the officers’ of recently raped and murdered /  Singh Raja, who were abscond- 96 hours, the House func- can raise matters of public table in the Well and hurled nine year old Dalit girl’s par- ing during the course of trial. tioned for only 21 hours and its concern and feel saddened files on Tuesday, and said that ents. Twitter was responding to     “In this case, the Court productivity reduced to 22 when it does not happen. they had committed sacrilege. a petition seeking FIR against    while passing the confiscation percent due to the ruckus. He Asserting that the House can On possible action to check Rahul Gandhi for allegedly order categorically observed disapproved of the members only run through dialogue and unruly behaviour of members, revealing the identity of the  &0  that no objection regarding Drug and Psychotropic So far, a total of five coming into the Well and consensus, the Speaker said he Birla said it is not necessary that Dalit girl.    confiscation of the properties Substances (NDPS) Act, Indian Provisional Attachment Orders shouting slogans, saying pre- also held several meetings with action would yield the desired Senior advocate Sajan has come from any quarter in Penal Code (IPC) and Arms have been issued in this case siding officers have maintained leaders from both treasury and result, but added that he will Poovayya, representing Twitter,   spite of publication in the Act were registered by the wherein total ‘proceeds of that such conduct was unac- opposition sides to end the log- call a meeting of leaders from told the court that the tweet by /  newspaper to the general pub- Punjab Police in 2013 and crime worth 95 crore has ceptable. “I am pained at con- jam but it could not happen all parties to discuss “stringent Rahul Gandhi has been   lic. The Court held that since 2014. Consequent to that, the been attached, it said. tinuous disruptions of the due to several factors. action against habitual offend- removed as it was found to be the properties attached by ED ED initiated investigation in Jagdish Singh alias Bhola, House. I don’t have words to “Members should maintain ers”. Birla also informed that the in violation of the platform’s have been confirmed by the this case of multi-crore syn- who was the kingpin of the express my anguish over the the dignity of Parliament and construction of the new own policy. “The account has Rahul Gandhi. Adjudicating Authority and thetic drug racket that was syndicate, was arrested under ruckus in the House... I am help run the House according Parliament building is expect- been locked and the tweet is A bench of Chief Justice D the accused persons have been operated by wrestler-turned- the relevant Section of extremely hurt,” Birla said. to traditions... It is a collective ed to be completed before not available,” Poovayya said. N Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh declared as Proclaimed cop-turned-drug Mafia Jagdish Prevention of Money The Speaker said he will responsibility,” he said while August 15 next year. Counsel for Mhadlekar, advo- refused to issue notice on the Offenders by the Court for Singh alias Bhola. Laundering Act (PMLA) in call a meeting of leaders of all replying to questions, and After the Lok Sabha was cate Gautam Jha, however, public interest litigation (PIL) evading the process of law During the course of the January 2014 by the ED, and parties to build consensus on expressed confidence that the adjourned sine die, Prime responded that he disputed by Makarand Suresh subsequent to the Prosecution money laundering investiga- since then he has been in judi- ways to ensure that rules are next session will be more pro- Minister Narendra Modi, Twitter’s stand and urged the Mhadlekar at this stage and Complaints filed against them, tion, statements of accused cial custody. strictly followed and to discuss ductive. His remarks came on Home Minister Amit Shah, court to call for an affidavit. “If asked the parties to “keep 1-2 said properties are confiscated persons and witnesses were Singh had filed three bail stringent action against habit- a day Rajya Sabha Chairman M Congress President Sonia this is the attitude, we are not pages of submissions ready on to the Central Government,” recorded and numerous docu- applications on various dates to ual offenders. Birla said the Venkaiah Naidu broke down in Gandhi and floor leaders of issuing notice,” the court next date”. The case was post- the agency said in a statement. ments from different agencies/ secure his bail, however, all people of the country expect the Upper House while various other parties met the remarked as it proceeded to ed for hearing on September 27 In the Bhola Drug case, authorities have also been were dismissed by the Special Parliament, which is the tem- expressing anguish over the Speaker in his chamber over adjourn hearing. Senior advo- in which was the petitioner has multiple FIRs under Narcotic obtained. PMLA Court. ple of democracy, to function unruly conduct of MPs, who tea. cate R S Cheema appeared for made Twitter as party. 6  &   %     &  %

   '     2   follow in order to stay safe from malicious actors which include do aking note of a new type of not browse un-trusted websites or   Tcyber-attack on banking cus- follow un-trusted links and exercise tomers, the Indian Computer caution while clicking on the link n a day the Monsoon Session Emergency Response Team (CERT- provided in any unsolicited emails Oof Parliament ended prema- IN) under the Ministry of and SMS. “Look for suspicious turely there was a bitter clash Electronics and Information numbers that don’t look like real between the Opposition and the Technology issued a warning saying mobile phone numbers. Scammers Government over use of security attackers are using ‘ngrok’ platform often mask their identity by using personnel in the Rajya Sabha dur- to host phishing websites that look email-to-text services to avoid ing the passage of the insurance like internet banking websites of revealing their actual phone num- amendment Bill to privatise general popular banks in India to collect ber. Genuine SMS messages insurance companies. sensitive information such as inter- received from banks usually contain The Opposition MPs walked net banking credentials, mobile sender ID (consisting of bank’s out of the Rajya Sabha alleging number and one-time password short name) instead of a phone heavy deployment of marshals to (OTP) to carry out fraudulent number in sender information prevent their protests. transactions. field,” it said. It further suggested While the Opposition alleged the Rajya Sabha Derek O Brien on Thursday. “It has been observed that internet banking users to “only that marshals manhandled two alleged that there were more secu- “The insurance amendment Indian banking customers are being click on URLs that clearly indicate women MPs, the treasury bench- rity guards in the Rajya Sabha than Bill to privatise general insurance targeted by a new type of phishing the website domain.” “When in es accused the Opposition to attack MPs as the government bulldozed companies was passed in the Rajya attack using ngrok platform. The doubt, users can search for the the marshals and pushed in the the insurance Bill. Sabha with a large force of securi- malicious actors have abused the phishing links ending with Once stolen, the scammer gen- organisation’s website directly using Rajya Sabha. “RSTV will not show you that. ty personnel present. The govern- ngrok platform to host phishing ngrok.io/xxxbank. erates OTP by entering your details search engines to ensure that the The incident comes a day later This is censorship, the Modi-Shah ment refused to send it to a select websites impersonating internet According to officials, you may on the actual online banking web- websites they visited are legiti- when two Opposition MPs had Gujarat model at work in committee as demanded by all banking portals of Indian banks. get a message like “Dear customer, site which gets delivered to your mate,” it said. jumped on the table of the Parliament,” he said. Opposition parties, including those Using these phishing websites, your xxx bank account will be sus- phone number. “Users are advised to hover Secretary General in the House. The TMC also alleged that the close to the BJP. What happened malicious actors are collecting sen- pended! Please Re KYC Verification Now, the victim unknowingly their cursors over the shortened Before staging a walkout in the government used “gender shields” this evening was worse than atro- sitive information such as internet Update click here link enters the same OTP on the phish- URLs (if possible) to see the full upper house, Leader of Opposition to foil MPs’ protests inside Rajya cious,” Congress chief whip Jairam banking credentials, mobile num- http://446bdf227fc4.ngrok.io/xxxba ing website, thus giving away the real website domain which they are vis- Mallikarjun Kharge conveyed to Sabha. “Male marshals were sent Ramesh said. ber and one time password (OTP) nk” The moment you click on this OTP to the scammer. For stealing iting or use a URL checker that will the presiding officer that women after women MPs and female mar- Before the Deputy Chairman to carry out fraudulent transac- link to login to your internet bank- money, the SMS text may be allow the user to enter a short URL MPs were manhandled and this shals were posted in front of male Harivansh announced sine die, tions,” the advisory said. ing account, your online banking changed to fetch OTPs in a similar and view the full URL,” it said. Users should be condemned and MPs,” Brien said as some women Rajya Sabha passed The In a warning, the CERT-In login details and mobile number way. can also use the shortening service demanded that sufficient number MPs, including TMC’s Dola Sen Constitution (One Hundred and said the scammers are sending may be stolen to carry out fraud CERT has also released some preview feature to see a preview of of female Marshals should be and Congress’ Ami Yagnik, alleged Twenty-Seventh Amendment) Bill, SMS to customers with embedded money transfers. best practices which users should the full URL, the advisory stated. deployed so that our female col- manhandling by marshals. 2021 that restores the states’ right leagues are safe. Congress Chief Whip in Rajya to create their OBC list, General Condemning the allegations Sabha Jairam Ramesh termed the Insurance Business 7 #85(3   of attack on women MPs, NCP day as “worse than atrocious” amid (Nationalisation) Amendment Bill, supremo Sharad Pawar said that indications that Opposition leaders 2021, the National Commission for     (  never in his Parliamentary career and MPs would assemble in Homoeopathy (Amendment) Bill,   has heard or seen such a nasty inci- Parliament on Thursday to protest. 2021, and the National   dent guided by the government. Congress has convened all its Commission for Indian System of    Trinamool Congress leader in Parliamentarians in the Parliament Medicine (Amendment) Bill, 2021. he India Meteorological TDepartment (IMD) said on Wednesday the monsoon  :   over the country has entered a break mode and is likely to     ").   continue for the next five days. ver 2.45 lakh urban home- However, the intense Oless people have so far been rainfall spell over the north- identified in the country via sur-      4 east and adjoining east India, veys conducted by the respec- northern parts of Uttar tive States and Union Pradesh and Bihar, is expect- Territories, the Centre told   Education Policy.” ed to last till August 14 and Rajya Sabha on Wednesday. This e-learning programme reduce thereafter. Crisil In a written reply, Minister o promote the Ayush industry will be conducted through a series Research in its report on of State for Housing and Urban Tnationally and globally, the of tutorials, which will run all along Kharif sowing forecasts that Affairs Kaushal Kishore said the Government is infusing young pro- the course. uneven distribution of mon- central government is adminis- fessionals in the sector to help This programme is designed to soon rainfall is likely to tering ‘Shelter for Urban them start their own small-scale provide students, practitioners, impact the kharif sowing, Homeless (SUH)’ scheme under Start-ups. pharmacists an in-depth under- which is expected to fall one per cent is very likely over Tamilnadu and the Deendayal Antyodaya In this direction, the Union standing and detailed knowledge of as compared to last year. (  14  Kerala during next five days with iso- Yojana National Urban Ayush Ministry has also launched a medicine globally. For this purpose, core-concepts of Ayurvedic phar- According to the IMD data, 0  / 1 2 lated heavy falls over Tamil Nadu dur- Livelihoods Mission (DAY- web-based e-learning programme of there is also a need for quality. This maceutical science, techniques and from June 1 to August 10, the ing August 11-14 and over Kerala NULM) through states and all the pharmaceutical processing course will help meet the cus- principles involved in the prepara- country received 5 per cent less rain- 6(1  during August 11-12. “The current UTs. The guidelines of SUH involved in preparation of tomers’ desire for quality, safe and tion of classical Ayurvedic and fall than normal. The east and spell of weak monsoon conditions provide for conducting system- Ayurvedic drugs in line with the effective medicines. Ayurvedic patent and proprietary northeast India meteorological divi- 1(1 over the country is likely to contin- atic third party surveys in cities New Education Policy. “Since there are less Start-ups in formulations, said an official. sion of the IMD has recorded 12 per 3 ?1?3  ue till next 5 days (August 11-15), and towns by urban local bod- The web-based e-learning pro- the Ayush sector and to infuse A total of 50 students will be cent less rainfall, while the northwest outside northeast and adjoining east ies to identify the number of gramme for Rasa Shastra Bhaishajya young professionals of Ayush system allowed to enroll on first come-first India and central India meteoro- India, northern parts of Uttar Pradesh urban homeless in order to Kalpana (RSBK) education has been to start their own small-scale Start- serve basis and a student has to logical divisions have recorded and Bihar where current activities of assess the need for shelters. launched by the Rashtriya Ayurveda ups, this course will give them complete the whole course within 6 minus 2 and 7 per cent rainfall intense rainfall spell likely to contin- “So far, 2,45,945 urban Vidyapeeth (RAV), an autonomous great scope. to 8 months of enrollment, the offi- respectively. “Subdued rainfall is very likely ue till August 14 with reduction there- homeless have been identified in organisation under the Union This programme will help in cial said. The south peninsula meteoro- over north Indian plains (Punjab, after,” the IMD said. surveys conducted by respective Ministry of Ayush. achieving the Prime Minister’s goal It will also provide an opportu- logical division has 8 per cent more Haryana, Rajasthan), adjoining cen- In its report, Crisil said that states/Union territories (UTs),” This programme will give the of Atmanirbhar Bharat”. nity to get exposure through live rainfall than normal so far. The cur- tral India and most parts of penin- overall kharif sowing is expected to the minister said. The Union participants a practical feel of con- Dr Srivastava further said, “This demonstration and working expe- rent spell of fairly widespread to wide- sular India (outside Tamil Nadu and remain one per cent lower year-on- government is augmenting ceptual learning of the principles programme will not only help in the rience in the manufacturing units of spread rainfall activity with isolated Kerala), including Maharashtra and year. “Cumulative sowing till August efforts of state and Union terri- and knowledge of RSBK. setting up Start-up of the sector but Pharma industries to learn the con- heavy to very heavy falls are very like- Gujarat till August 15, the IMD said. 8 was two per cent lower year-on- tory governments through the According to Director of RAV, will also be helpful to students in cept of the operations involved in ly to continue over northeast and sub- Rainfall activity will increase over year, attributable to the advancement Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana- Dr Anupam Srivastava, “In the cur- acquiring credit points to enrich the manufacturing of classical and Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim peninsular India from August 16 in sowing last year, and three per cent Urban (PMAY-U) to meet the rent scenario, there is a great their credit bank for their future P&P Ayurvedic preparations among during August 11-14 and reduce onwards, it said. higher than the average of the past housing demand through finan- demand in Ayurveda system of endeavor in line with the New others. thereafter. 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They were suspecting tested while the Test Positivity Meanwhile the Kerala Banerjee and a couple of senior ly attacked in Tripura. which is likely to be attended wrote “I would like to express killed in Bihar's East some untoward incident might Rate remained on the higher High Court lambasted the State Bengal leaders including a state Subsequently three Bengal by Pope Francis and German my personal congratulations on Champaran district, an official have happened with him. side with 14.49 per cent. A administration for the second minister and an MP. youth TMC leaders were also Chancellor Angela Merkel. your significant election and for said. Hence, they have lodged FIR release issued by Health day in succession for the latter’s Apart from Banerjee who attacked in that State by alleged The conference being organ- the important work for social The decomposed body of against 12 persons including Minister Veena George said indifference towards the court is also the nephew of Bengal BJP men. In the attack their ised by a religious Community justice, for the development of Manish Kumar Singh was those two alleged journalists." 116 persons succumbed to the directive to ensure that the pan- Chief Minister Mamata vehicles were smashed and they of Sant Edigio Ait will be held in your country and, therefore, for found on Tuesday from "The father suspects that he pandemic on Wednesday and demic does not spread through Banerjee the Bengal Education sustained injuries for which the first week of October. peace, which you have been Mathlohiar Gaddi Tola — three has property dispute with his this took the death toll to the outlets of the liquor outlets. Minister Bratya Basu, TMC they were flown in to Kolkata In the invitation written to doing for over ten years now.” days after his disappearance. cousin brothers and they may 18,120. Justice Devan MP Dola Sen and State and were being treated at the Banerjee the President of the When contacted the The killers have removed both be involved in his murder. Thrissur replaced Ramachandran, hearing a peti- Trinamool spokesperson and Government-run SSKM Community Marco Impagliazzo Bengal BJP leadership would of his eyes. Besides, he also suspects that Malappuram as the district tion against the Kerala former MP Kunal Ghosh, Hospital. has, apart from congratulating not give a public reaction but Singh is a native of his son, who had done many with the highest number of Government for its vacilla- senior leaders Subal Bhowmick Incidentally Mamata the Chief Minister for her recent privately a senior leader sar- Paharpur village in the same investigative stories and new Covid-19 patients on tions towards court directive to and Sri Prakash Das also have Banerjee had earlier blamed electoral victory in Bengal, said castically said “good! Finally district and his father Sanjay exposed wrongdoings in the Wednesday. Thrissur tested provide safe and clean envi- been named in the FIR. Union Home Minister Amit “in the framework of this Mamata Banerjee has received Kumar Singh is an editor of a district, could have been tar- 3,124 new Covid-19 cases while ronment to tipplers queuing up The Bengal politicians have Shah for the attacks saying human, social and spiritual an international invitation for Hindi news paper (Areraj getted by criminals he exposed. Malappuram was relegated to in front of the watering holes been booked for misbehaving “Biplab Deb does not have the dimension I would like to invite promoting peace and social jus- Darshan). He was receiving threatening the second spot with 3,109 new in the State, told the Beverages with Additional SP and SDPO courage to do such works … it You, Excellency, to honour us tice regardless of the unre- In a statement to the calls for the past few days," the patients. Corporation that just because of Khowai and obstructing pub- all have been done on the with Your relevant presence strained post-poll violence in Harshidhi police, Sanjay Singh officer said. Till Wednesday evening, the State gets revenue out of lic servants from discharging instructions Amit Shah.” She and your meaningful and Bengal, and the damning said that his son went to "The villagers on Tuesday, the State had 1.75 lakh patients liquor sale, it cannot compro- their official duty, sources said. said the BJP was running anar- enriching contribution to the National Human Rights Mathlohar Gaddi Tola three spotted a pair of shoes in the undergoing treatment for mise on safety norms to expose Bengal TMC leadership chic governments wherever international event in Rome: Commission report.” days ago. farm land. When they searched Covid-19. The weekly Infection customers to Covid. condemned the legal process they were in power. "He had posted a photo- further, the dead body was Population Ratio (WIPR) in 52 The justice told the saying “this only proves the fas- “I have information that graph of a get-together party of found from a Sareh village. The local self-government bodies Government that it should not cist nature of the BJP Abhishek’s life is in danger as the Meanwhile former Bengal was done in Bengal by Mamata himself and two other jour- dead body was in a semi- spread across 266regions stood have an indifferent attitude Government.” Senior BJP’s goons are following him … Minister and senior CPI(M) Banerjee who provided that nalist friends Amrendra Kumar decomposed state," the officer at 10 which means that the towards people who line up in Trinamool leader Firhad when he went to Tripura five leader Ashok Bhattacharyya political relevance to the BJP and Ashlaj Alam at 8.42 p.m. said. entire regions would be shut front of the Bevco outlets. “We Hakim said “today the Tripura suspicious people followed him said “the BJP knows that the using similar tactic … again in Since then, he was missing and "We have arrested journal- down as per the revised safety must save the lives of every cus- Police is framing us but tomor- and were seated around him in TMC is not a threat in that State the Centre the BJP is using the we lost contact with him. ists Amrendra and Ashlaj regulations. tomer who goes there because row when we will capture the flight,” Banerjee who enjoys … they are doing so to provide same tactic to use Mamata "We searched for him for Alam. A bag belonging to On Tuesday, Kerala had it doesn't affect just them, they power the same police will a reputation for making similar them unnecessary publicity in Banerjee to break the opposi- the entire night and the next Manish was also found in the diagnosed 21,119 new Covid will carry the disease to their salute us … and power we will “life-threatening” claims order to divide the opposition tion vote… these two parties are two days but he has not been house of Amrendra," he cases across the State, Veena house and give it to their wives capture in that state definitely throughout political career said. votes … the very same thing complementary to each other. traced," Sanjay Singh said. said. George had told media persons and children,” the judge said. (  ,-#   > 0( ''       . 1 2      + **  &&8?    /  0      01(  into its functioning. “The      (01 retary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Central Government is the and stage a comeback in the he Kerala High Court on only authority which can con- o fight the growing dissent state after three decades. TWednesday stayed till fur- stitute a judicial commission Tbetween senior and young Former MPs Rajesh ther orders the probe by judi- to probe the functioning of the leaders in Uttar Pradesh Mishra, Rajaram Pal, Rakesh cial commission constituted ED,” the agency told the Congress, the party brass con- Sachan, Begum Noor Bano, by Government of Kerala into Court. stituted Uttar Pradesh Congress Zafar Ali Naqvi, Harendra the functioning of the Solicitor General Tushar Election Committee (UPCEC) Malik, Rashid Alvi, Enforcement Directorate in Mehta, appearing for the ED, including almost all senior lead- Mohammad Muqeem,  2  the State in connection with the other three who reported- had argued that constitution of ers and present office bearers of Naseemuddin Siddiqui and the the infamous gold smuggling ly played major role in getting the Commission by the State UPCC in it on Wednesday. party's Lok Sabha candidate he Karnataka High Court case in which many senior the gold smuggled in with the Government was ultra vires Congress president Sonia from Lucknow in 2019, Thas ordered the manage- Government Staff attached connivance of people in power Section 3 read with Section 2A Gandhi approved a proposal for Acharya Pramod Krishnam ment of 16 mosques in to the Chief Minister’s Office continue to languish in of Commission of Inquiry Act the setting up of the Pradesh are also part of the panel. Bengaluru to submit affidavit allegedly played crucial jail. (COI Act) wherein the Central election committee which was All India Congress in connection with sound pol- roles. The Kerala Government Government is the competent confirmed by a statement issued Committee (AICC) secretaries lution on Tuesday. A single Bench headed by constituted the commission of authority for matters related to by AICC general secretary Imran Masood, Brijlal Khabri, The divisional bench head- Justice P B Suresh Kumar grant- inquiry following the ED’s an entry in Central list/ list 1 of (organisation) KC Venugopal Sudhanshu Tripathi, BP Singh ed by Chief Justice A.S. Oka and ed interim stay to a plea by the probe extending to other the 7th Schedule of the on Wednesday. and Jitendra Baghel are also Justice Sanjay Gowda gave direc- Enforcement Directorate which areas like the LIFE Mission Constitution Apart from the 38 members among those included in the tions in this regard. The Public challenged the Kerala pay off, a flagship programme Section 3 of the COI Act Panaji: A day after a video incidents will not be tolerated," named in the panel, national committee. Interest Litigation (PIL) was filed Government Order dated 7th of the LDF Government to states that a COI can be showing three rape accused adding that the enquiry would presidents or chairpersons of Congress functionaries said by 32 residents of Icon apartment May, 2021 constituting a com- provide houses and liveli- appointed "for the purpose of being forced to do sit-ups in the also probe whether such "rag- AICC organisations or depart- that the party was prioritising on Thanisandra Road. mission of inquiry headed by hood to those without a roof making an inquiry into any nude at the Aguada central jail ging" rituals are common in the ments from Uttar Pradesh, the organisation building and con- During the hearing, the retired Judge V K Mohanan over their head. The judicial definite matter of public impor- in North Goa, prison authori- prison complex. state heads of frontal organisa- tinuing with the battle against masjid management submitted under the Commission of probe was ordered to examine tance". ties on Wednesday directed a The three accused were tions, vice-presidents and gen- the Bharatiya gov- that they have taken permis- Inquiry Act 1952 to probe the if the ED and the Customs However, Mehta submitted probe into the incident. arrested last month in connec- eral secretaries of UPCC will be ernment on the streets in the sions to use loudspeakers. agency’s role in the alleged gold Department had made an that the notification in this case Speaking to reporters, tion with the alleged rape of its ex-officio members. run-up to the crucial polls. The bench stated that the smuggling through the green alleged attempt to falsely was issued to impede an ongo- Inspector General of Prisons, three persons at Colva beach in The poll committee UP Congress leaders have management of masjids has to channel of Thiruvananthapuram implicate Chief Minister ing investigation against the Goa, Venancio Furtado, said South Goa. includes UP Congress chief already organised ‘BJP Gaddi submit an affidavit before the International Airport in the Vijayan in the gold smuggling same executive functionaries that that the central jail super- In the video, the three Ajay Kumar Lallu, CLP leader Chhodo’ marches in all assem- court on whether they are fol- year 2020. case. There were allegations who have issued said notifica- intendent has been directed to naked inmates can be seen Aradhana Mishra `Mona’, senior bly constituencies across the lowing the guidelines pre- M Sivasankaran, the then by the State Government that tion and therefore it serves per- submit a report within 24 hours. made to do sit-ups, while other leaders Mohsina Kidwai, state to expose the wrongdo- scribed by the government to principal secretary to Chief the ED and the Customs were sonal interests "I have asked the jail super- other inmates can be heard Salman Khurshid, Rajeev ings of the Yogi Adityanath avoid sound pollution. Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, coercing Swapna Suresh and Judge Suresh Kumar, while intendent to submit the inquiry cheering in the backdrop. Shukla, Nirmal Khatri, Pramod government as well as to high- They also have to mention Swapna Suresh, a former her kingpins to falsely impli- accepting the argument of the report within 24 hours. If other In all, four persons, name- Tiwari, PL Punia, RPN Singh light how the prices of all in the affidavit that, they have employee of the UAE Consulate cate the Chief Minister in the ED, ordered notice to the inmates are found to be ly Asif Hateli, 21, Rajesh Mane, and Vivek Bansal. essential commodities, includ- obtained a license as per the in the capital city, Sarath and case. Kerala Government (except involved, we will take action as 33, Gajanand Chinchankar, 31, Lallu said that the ing petroleum, have gone Pollution Control Board (PCB) Sandeep Nair were arrested in The contention of the ED the chief minister) and ordered per the prison rules," Furtado and Nitin Yabbal, 19, have Congress would fight the 2022 through the roof in the BJP rule guidelines and if a license is not connection with the scam. was that the Kerala interim stay to the functioning told reporters.Terming the inci- been arrested in connection UP Assembly polls under the at the Centre in 2014 and in obtained they will not use Sivasankaran was released on Government did not have the of the said judicial dent as deplorable, Furtado said, with the alleged rape incident. leadership of party general sec- Uttar Pradesh in 2017. loudspeakers. bail after 90 days in jail while authority to order an inquiry commission. "A message needs to go that such IANS !*A@/     ( .    & R  /       ;<  ="6  2  distancing. As many as Medical Education Dr K. 5,25,196 cases have been Sudhakar said on Wednesday ruhat Bengaluru lodged in connection with that Karnataka has crossed 4  01( foreign currency through BMahanagara Palike Covid guidelines violations. crore Covid tests marking yet diplomats, she replied that in (BBMP) has collected Rs 12.58 About 150 industries were another milestone in the battle n what could spell further the beginning of 2017, she got crore as fine for Covid guide- shut down by the BBMP in the against the pandemic. More Itrouble for Kerala Chief instructions from the Consul lines violations in the past 16 same period for Covid proto- than 80 per cent of the tests Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, General to call (Vijayan's then months in Bengaluru. col violations. conducted in state are RT- gold smuggling case prime Principal Secretary) M. According to data given BBMP has deputed mar- PCR. accused Swapna Suresh has Sivasankar and to ask whether by BBMP, from May 2020 to shals to ensure the implemen- Karnataka has tested the alleged that a packet of foreign any arrangements could be August 7, 2021, Rs 11.86 crore tation of Covid guidelines third-highest number of sam- currency was sent to him made for Chief Minister's fine amount has been collect- across the city. The fines were ples in the country. The tests while he was on a visit to the arrival at UAE, that she had ed from 4.93 lakh plus persons collected from apartments, were conducted in 3,338 swab UAE in 2017, through a diplo- called Sivasankar and he told for not wearing masks.A total markets, hotels, bars, restau- collection centres, 252 Covid- mat of its Consul General's her to try to make necessary of 31,339 cases were lodged rants, bus stops and other 19 testing labs and 81.45 per office here. arrangements, if possible, but and Rs 71.35 lakh fine has places. cent of total tests conducted Her allegation came in they were also trying to make               ..      0 been collected from those Meanwhile, Minister for are RT-PCR tests, he response to a show cause notice arrangements through the .    )  )   who did not ensure social Health, Family Welfare and stated. issued by the Customs to her Indian Embassy in the UAE, on the issue of illegal export of that she agreed and did the dollars abroad. necessary things." >    )  0  The show cause notice, "Next day, Sivasankar Q9&   4   R dated July 29 and surfacing in called her and said there was the media on Wednesday, has a very important packet that  (01     virtually presenting free LPG Wednesday.  (01 As per reports, four resi- statements of Swapna Suresh had to be sent to the UAE to + ,  & connections to some benefi- In another tweet, the dents of Surahia village in and others. According to it, Chief Minister, who had ongress leader Priyanka ciaries in Mahoba district of Congress top leader tagged a video clip of four men Sahatwar police station area Swapna, asked who were all reached the UAE on the pre- CGandhi Vadra attacked the Uttar Pradesh which goes to media report on the problems Athrashing a youth and tied the hands and legs of these senior politicians she vious day, without any hin- ruling polls early next year. being faced by the poor due to administering electric shocks Pintu Rajbhar of Rajbharbasti has accused, replied that pre- drance and delay. She spoke to Government over the issue of "Ninety per cent of the rising prices of cooking gas and after tying his hands went of the same village and beat sent Chief Minister Pinarayi the Consul General and told high prices of cooking gas and cylinders provided under posted, "If the government is viral in Ballia on Tuesday, after him up brutally in the early Vijayan and then Assembly him about the requirement said that if the government was Ujjwala Scheme are lying in honest about Ujjwala then it which a case was registered at hours on August 7. What is Speaker P. Sreeramakrishnan and the CG told her that indeed honest about its Ujjwala disuse and women are forced to should give subsidies to the the local police station and a more, the assaulters were also had sent foreign currency to Ahmed Doukhi could be sent Scheme, it should provide sub- cook using firewood because poor and reduce inflation.” probe was initiated. While seen giving the victim electric the UAE through Ahmed Al to the UAE for that purpose. sidy to the poor and reduce the the BJP government has dou- Earlier on Tuesday, the UP the reason for the heinous act shocks while another local Doukhi, a diplomat of the She asked Sarith (PRO) to galloping inflation in the coun- bled the rates of a cooking gas Congress had said that Ujjwala was still not known to the shot a video of the incident. Consul General Office, and contact Sivasankar and to col- try. cylinder in the last seven years Scheme had proved to be a police, efforts were under- After Pintu's condition dete- Consul General, Jamal Al lect the packet and deliver to Priyanka’s attack on the launched Ujjwala 2.0, the sec- and reduced subsidy to a neg- “hollow gimmick” of the gov- way to locate the accused so riorated, he was admitted to Zaabi, respectively. the diplomat Ahmed Al government came a day after ond phase of Pradhan Mantri ligible amount," Priyanka ernment as a domestic cooking that stern action could be Ballia district hospital by his "When Swapna was asked Doukhi, for carrying it to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY), by tweeted in Hindi on gas cylinder was costing  888. initiated. family. how these politicians sent UAE."   ! " 

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The most lucrative perk H  3  I    (        of such opposition is it can belittle a leader who stands unreachably tall in their polit- ical arena. Congress and its cohorts are now in such an op(portunistic) position. One of the prime examples of this opposition behaviour is the attempt made to derail the Central Vista Project (CVP) by dubbing it as sheer wastage of public money at a time when India is reeling under 11 7 This would be a major deterrent to lobby worked overtime to derail the of Unity was completed in a record the impact of the pandemic. It was said that     the anti-development lobby that projects. time of just three years and today the healthcare budget is being subverted    1 plans to block any project of nation- Imagine what would have been this engineering marvel attracts and that the project will have grave envi- al importance. the scene if there was no more visitors from around the ronmental consequences. All this was  2   The hullabaloo over CVP and Rashtrapati Bhavan, no Parliament world than the Statue of Liberty in being done just to delay the project, like in  1  the manner in which it is being building, no Red Fort, no India the US. the case of all development projects or pro- / ? 2 protested is not new. It bears the Gate, or no Rajpath made by the In just five years, from 2014 to people policies in India particularly in the  ? footprints and traits of the same earlier rulers. The President of the 2019, the Ganges in Modi’s parlia- last seven years under the government led 1  anti-development lobby active in World’s largest democracy would mentary constituency of Varanasi by Narendra Modi. However, the Delhi the country for the last several have been living in some decrepit became cleaner than ever before. High Court and recently, the Supreme /1 1/ decades with the singular motive of accommodation and the national He paved way for three new Court, rejected all such petitions and 1    depriving India of any major devel- flag on August 15 would have Sewage Treatment Plants, rural   <@@@@   =  *+ >    $   5  review petitions seeking to stay the CVP.  opment project and painting our been hoisted by the PM from atop sanitation, and bioremediation in  (    7             The CVP, besides constructing the  0 own country in a bad light. some insignificant structure. a record time, to make Varanasi the           =4   ( ( new Parliament building, also aims at / (  Take the example of the Statue The foundation of our Supreme first Indian city with zero discharge integrating the Central Secretariat and of Unity, the world’s tallest statue, Court building was laid in 1954. of sewage into the river.     I    ?A         14 1/    > J      7      bringing together over 75,000 employees which faced stiff opposition ever Thankfully there was no such No doubt, Prime Minister for better synergy and seamless execution  9 1 since it was conceived. A vicious op(portunistic) opposition during Modi emerges as the most far-        H;   ;6 6     #   of work. The Congress, however, remains (1 1  campaign was launched against the that period. Had it also faced sim- sighted and result-oriented per-           I      silent on its own aggressive lobbying for /1 1/ Sabarmati River front Project, too, ilar motivated protests, imagine former of our times. And when he     S   #  6         a new Parliament building in 2012. The ( 4  terming it “disastrous” for the peo- where our honourable judges would has taken up the infrastructural           (   I  5 then Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar ple of Ahmedabad. The magnitude have been sitting today. These pro- overhaul of India’s power corridor 15(71        4          ?@*, and the then Minister of Environment of protest was many times bigger in paganda wars were, however, dealt in the form of CVP, people must               and Forests, Jairam Ramesh, had   1 the case of the Sardar Sarovar with by a firm conviction of a polit- support the project wholehearted- #        S         expressed an urgent need for a new 15( Project (SSP) where even the inter- ically decisive government in ly as it is for their larger benefit. Parliament building saying the existing national anti-development lobby Gujarat under the leadership of Eliminating parking woes in               )  1 3 one was simply “outdated”.   /1 lent hands to scuttle the project that Narendra Modi who also brings the Central Secretariat, lesser traf- 5             Opposition in India has for long used was to ensure water security in with him a high reputation of con- fic woes owing to VVIP move- D        9    the judiciary to slow down development.   2 Western India. Several years rolled structing futuristic infrastructural ments, and a safer Parliament             4    This ploy has, however, been busted by the /  by, depriving thirsty communities monuments of distinction in record building for MPs would do more                  Judiciary in recent times wherein cases of of water. The project was anyway time. In just 17 days after becom- good to the public than spending  5            ( frivolous nature have not only been sum- completed at an abominably high ing the PM in 2014, Modi gave the thousands of crores of rupees on        0           marily dismissed but the proponents have cost after getting the go-ahead final go-ahead to complete the maintenance and upkeep of the old been heavily fined for their misadventures. from the SC, but they succeeded in SSP which was lingering despite SC buildings.   (   (     8: 0 R8S  Here it is pertinent to recall an SC delaying the project inordinately. order in the year 2000. Thereon, the As the world’s largest democ- 6   1 :  (           order dated May 11, 2011, in a case involv- It is a grim reality that India project progressed at an unprece- racy and one of the most dynam-   ?@@?   (          4      ing the Medha Patkar-led Narmada could not boast of even one mon- dented pace and was finally com- ic societies, we need to progress               1 :  0 Bachao Andolan (NBA) wherein the ument of national or international missioned in 2017. SSP has brought multilaterally and multi-sectorally,       8  *A           court’s scathing remarks against NBA left repute that was built post-indepen- about a sea change in the lives of without one programme being    (         (  S    15 this anti-development lobby and their dence. But when the government crores of people living in the west- exclusive of the other. We need to modus operandi completely exposed. started making efforts in con- ern States. address joy and misery alike and       6 $       ( While the courts’ ire against such friv- structing large dams, nuclear and Sabarmati River front is the cannot be cowed down by the pres-       )     1          olous petitions is a welcome move, it would (The writer is Chairman, hydro power houses, river-linking, new identity of Gujarat and India. sures of the unilateral opposition,                    Khadi & Village be in the larger national interest if it also Industries Commission. a new parliament building, bridges, It is a model of how a river flow- whose aim is not the development         5         orders recovery of the cost overrun of pro- The views expressed expressways, metro, monumental ing through an urban space needs of the country but the unseating of                 jects from such “motivated” petitioners. are personal.) statues, etc., this anti-development to be treated and used. 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he Supreme Court is show the somersaults Congress ing of the Constitution in its It becomes necessary here mote or incite violence.” enacted by Congress in 1967 seized of a bunch of peti- party has made on the subject. milder form in the name of to give the background of the Evidently, even Gandhi was of under the protection of Ttions challenging the law Law of sedition in India, “public order”, as interpreted in Amendment: it is was primar- the view that expressing disaf- Sixteenth Amendment which of sedition, effectually tasked like other laws, was imported by the Kedarnath judgment. ily done to legally tame Syama fection can be an offence if it added the “the sovereignty and with reviewing a five-bench Britishers from Common Law The restriction of public Prasad Mookherjee who had has the tendency to subvert a integrity of India” restriction to judgment in the landmark in England and customised to order was not there in the orig- been a stern critique of the “government established by Article 19(2). India was yet Kedarnath case where in it had  #$%!456# sustain the British inal Article, it was added by the Nehru-Liyaquat Pact and was law” by inciting violence. struggling with appeasement upheld its constitutionality. The Government’s rule over First Amendment to the the flag-bearer of ‘Akhand Another argument for and secessionist politics of law of sedition is enacted in sec- ‘Akhand Bharat’. The Indian Constitution in 1951 by Bharat’ seeking the reunion of retaining the law is that the unreasonably ambitious politi- tion 124A of IPC under which version was much different place in the Constitution in let- Jawahar Lal Nehru, having the India-Pakistan. Kedarnath judgment in 1962 cians when Sixteenth bringing of hatred, contempt, from its counterpart in England ter but is espoused in spirit in full support of Sardar Patel who Even Gandhi, whose lega- has already diluted the law to Amendment was brought and inciting disaffection against where it was narrowly defined Article 19(2). Its constitution- was spearheading the integra- cy the Congress first family match its ancestral provision in because Punjab, Nagaland, and the government established by to mean “inciting violence” or ality is challenged against the tion of newly Independent claims to have privately inher- the England by holding that the Dravidian states were seek- law is penalised. “insurrection” against the gov- right to free speech enacted in India with reluctant princely ited by adopting his surname only the acts which have the ing separate Republics to fulfill The challenge to this law ernment. In England, it was just Article 19(1)(a). It shall be States. Patel wrote to Nehru, was not in favour of erasing effect of “subverting the gov- their Prime Ministerial dreams. comes amid a resonating nar- slander that attracted a two-year adverted here that Article “Constituent Assembly had sedition from the book of the ernment by violent means” or The political regimes may rative created by the opposition sentence and hence was bail- 19(2) which enumerates the drafted very idealistic provi- law. In 1922, pleading guilty to creating “public disorder” have changed, but the issues that the ruling regime has mis- able. In India, it is a grave restrictions on free speech sions in the Constitution which the charge of sedition Gandhi would come within the defin- marring the national integrity used the law to muzzle dissent (The writer is a lawyer at offence attracting life imprison- does check free speech which were not rooted in practical said: “Affection can’t be manu- ition of sedition; reading the and public order remain large- and criticism in the country. Chandigarh High Court ment and hence non-bailable. has the propensity to disturb considerations.” This is how the factured or regulated by law. If spirit of sedition in Article ly the same even today and, the Not going into a political and Sr. Additional However, the offence was made “public order”, the Common First Amendment came into one has no affection for a per- 19(2). Let's counter the other refore, the law holds good. debate, a flashback into the his- Advocate General for congnisable by Indira Gandhi Law counterpart of sedition. being adding three restrictions: son or system, one should be narrative. Sedition is often However, a case for making the Govt of Haryana. tory of the law of sedition and The views expressed in 1974, just before imposing Thus, though the sedition public order, friendly relations free to give the fullest expres- charged with provisions under sedition non-cognisable offence Article 19(2) of the are personal.) the Emergency. finds no mention in the with foreign states, and incite- sion to his disaffection, so long the Unlawful Activities can be made to thwart allega- Constitution will be enough to Sedition does not find a Constitution, it has the bless- ment to an offence. as he doesn’t contemplate, pro- (Prevention) Act, 1967. It was tions of bias and misuse.   ! "  9

          + +3(Q '  R , , ,   &; <+  98&  (-(  *  Washington: President Joe     5 2 Luiza Ribeiro Viotti, President of high-level UNSC meeting on Biden has ruled out any change Kenya Uhuru Kenyatta and maritime security. in the US plan to withdraw its Kabul: A new US intelligence aced with scathing criti- Prime Minister of Vietnam The meeting underlined  0  ty in the capital. about the losses. troops from Afghanistan assessment says Afghanistan’s Fcism from the US of its Pham Minh Chinh. the primacy of the United The US military, which Humayoon Shahidzada, a despite the Taliban increas- capital could fall within 90 expansive claims over the dis- The US and China had Nations Convention on the he Taliban seized three plans to complete its with- lawmaker from the western ingly gaining control over large days after the Taliban armed puted South China Sea at a UN clashed at the meeting of the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), Tmore provincial capitals in drawal by the end of the province of Farah, confirmed swaths of the war-torn country, group took more than a quar- Security Council meeting UNSC where a presidential state- which sets out the legal frame- Afghanistan and a local army month, has conducted some Wednesday to The Associated saying Afghan leaders need to ter of the country’s provincial presided over by India this ment on maritime security that work applicable to activities in headquarters in a blitz across airstrikes but largely has avoid- Press his province’s capital of come together and fight for capitals in less than a week. week, China said on recognised the importance of the oceans, including counter- the country’s northeast, officials ed involving itself in the ground the same name fell. themselves and their nation. The group has captured Wednesday that the high- enhancing international and ing illicit activities at sea, send- said on Wednesday, with the campaign. Neighboring Nimroz province President Biden in April nine provincial capitals in power body of the United regional cooperation to counter ing a strong message to China. insurgents now controlling The Afghan Government was overrun in recent days after ordered the withdrawal of all Afghanistan since Friday, Nations is not a “suitable place” threats to maritime safety and This is highly significant some two-thirds of the nation and military did not respond to a weeklong campaign by the the US troops from including Faizabad, Farah, Pul- to discuss the contentious issue. security was unanimously adopt- since it marks the first ever out- as the US and NATO finalise repeated requests for comment Taliban. Afghanistan by September 11 e-Khumri, Sar-e-Pul, Prime Minister Narendra ed on Monday. China, a mem- come document by the UNSC their withdrawal after its to end America’s longest war. Sheberghan, Aybak, Kunduz, Modi had chaired the high-level ber of the permanent five of the on the issue of maritime secu- decades-long war there. The Pentagon’s massive task Taluqan and Zaranj. Agencies open debate on maritime secu- UNSC, backed the resolution. rity. Also for the first time in The fall of the capitals of E    of removing service members rity attended virtually by Russian “The Security Council is the Presidential Statement there Badakhshan and Baghlan and equipment out of President Vladimir Putin, US not a suitable place to discuss are references to UNCLOS, a provinces to the northeast and Afghanistan is nearly complete .  )     Secretary of State Antony the South China Sea issue,” the convention over which China Farah province to the west put  E      and the US military mission is Blinken, Chef de Cabinet of the Chinese Foreign Ministry here has had long-standing reser- increasing pressure on the slated to end by August 31.   UN Secretary-General Maria said in its first reaction to the vations and objections. country’s Central Government “No,” Biden told reporters to stem the tide of the advance, 2 '    on Tuesday at the White House "    even as its lost a major base in when asked if his current plan     @ & & &  Kunduz. Kabul: Afghan President “There was no way to fight to withdraw troops could    Afghan President Ashraf Ashraf Ghani flew to the back,” he told AFP. change at all.    Ghani rushed to Balkh besieged northern city of “My unit, with 20 soldiers, “Look, we spent over a tril- ermany and the '    * province, already surrounded Mazar-i-Sharif Wednesday to three humvees and four pick- lion dollars over 20 years. We GNetherlands have suspend-     by Taliban-held territory, to rally his beleaguered forces, up trucks just surrendered. We trained and equipped over ed any deportations of migrants  2010 night, security officers said in seek help pushing back the with Taliban fighters having are now all waiting to get our 300,000 Afghan forces. Afghan to Afghanistan due to the tense   # a radio conversation that five insurgents from warlords now taken more than a quar- pardon letter. There is a big leaders have to come together,” security situation as Taliban ive people jumped from an people — four men and a linked to allegations of atroci- ter of the country’s provincial queue.” he asserted. PTI insurgents make sweeping gains Dandong (China): A Canadian Fapartment building in woman — jumped from the ties and corruption. capitals in less than a week. In Mazar, Ghani held talks in the Central Asian country. entrepreneur was sentenced to Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city, apartment building before they While Kabul itself has not His visit was immediately with long-time local strongman Almost 30,000 Afghans in 11 years in prison Wednesday in to escape government security could be apprehended. They been directly threatened in the overshadowed by the mass sur- Atta Mohammad Noor and *  ** . Germany, many of them failed a spying case linked to Beijing’s forces who were raiding the said three died and the two oth- advance, its stunning speed render of hundreds of Afghan infamous warlord Abdul asylum-seekers, are currently effort to push his country to building, and at least two died, ers had life-threatening injuries. raises questions of how long the soldiers in nearby Kunduz, Rashid Dostum about the   9 required to leave the country. release an executive of tech according to Government and In a statement, however, Afghan government can main- along with the overnight cap- defence of the city, as Taliban Germany’s interior minister giant Huawei, prompting an media reports on Wednesday. the government said the inci- tain control of its countryside. ture of another provincial cap- fighters inched closer to its out- * * ** said the decision was taken unusual joint show of support During the raid on Tuesday dent involved eight people. The multiple fronts of the bat- ital — the ninth city to be over- skirts. The loss of Mazar would due to concerns for the safety of for Canada by the United States tle have stretched the govern- run since Friday. be a catastrophic blow to the   those involved in the deporta- and 24 other governments. ment’s special operations forces One army officer who asked Kabul government and repre- tion. A deportation of six China is stepping up pres- — while regular troops have not to be identified said they had sent the complete collapse of its Kabul: An Afghan official and Afghan citizens to Kabul sure as a Canadian judge hears often fled the battlefield — and endured withering mortar fire at control over the north — long local media reports say planned for Aug. 3 was canceled final arguments about whether the violence has pushed thou- Kunduz airport, and were left a bastion of anti-Taliban mili- President Ashraf Ghani has at short notice due to a bomb to send the Huawei executive to sands of civilians to seek safe- with no choice but to surrender. tias. AFP replaced the Army chief of staff attack in the Afghan capital. the United States to face amid a Taliban blitz across the “The security situation on charges related to possible vio- country. the ground is changing so lations of trade sanctions on A Defense Ministry official quickly at the moment that we Iran. On Tuesday, a court said Gen. Hibatullah Alizai can’t fulfill (our responsibility rejected another Canadian’s replaced Gen. Wali Ahmadzai for the safety) of the deportees, appeal of his sentence in a drug as the Afghan army chief of the staff accompanying them or case that was abruptly staff. The officials spoke on the flight crews,” Interior increased to death after the condition of anonymity to dis- Minister Horst Seehofer said. executive’s arrest. cuss the change that has not yet But he defended the depor- Entrepreneur Michael been announced publicly. tations in general as “an important Spavor and a former Canadian Local media widely report- part of migration policy,” adding diplomat were detained in what ed Ghani’s decision. Afghan that the expulsion of convicted critics labeled “hostage politics” government officials for days criminals and people considered after Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou have not responded to repeat- a security threat would resume as was arrested Dec. 1, 2018, at the ed requests for comment. AP soon as the situation allows. Vancouver airport. AP   ! "  : 4  *     %3       Snapping its two-session  /   2021, from July 31 to give tax- “Taxpayers have been other e-filing utility is a com- rising streak, the 30-share BSE &#-%%- /  2/3)*  payers compliance relief during advised to use the latest version mon phenomenon. quity benchmarks recouped Sensex ended 28.73 points or the pandemic. of the ITR preparation software After realising the Eintra-day losses to end on a 0.05 per cent lower at !%-&-&& However, some taxpayers or file online. If, by any chance, errors/ bugs, the Income Tax flat note on Wednesday as 54,525.93. The broader NSE complained that interest and someone has already submitted Department releases profit booking in banking and Nifty inched up 2.15 points or !#7%!$%& %   late fee was charged while the ITR with such incorrect new version of such e-fil- finance counters offset 0.01 per cent to 16,282.25. fil?ing income tax return (ITR) interest or late fee, the same will ing utility, removing the error/ robust demand for metal and Tata Steel was the top gain- New Delhi:To curb excessive 1,000 crore and on securities he Income Tax Department after July 31, 2021. be correctly calculated while bug. energy stocks. Midcap and er in the Sensex pack, jumping volatility in mid and small cap in groups -- X, XT, Z, ZP, ZY, Ton Wednesday said it will The department in a tweet processing at CPC-ITR and the “Thus, taxpayers are smallcap stocks saw heavy sell- 3.86 per cent, followed by counters, the BSE has intro- and Y, BSE said in a circular refund the excess interest and said the ITR software was rec- excess amount paid, if any, will always advised to check the lat- ing following BSE’s new sur- NTPC, PowerGrid, Reliance duced a new surveillance mea- on Wednesday. Under the late fee paid by taxpayers due tified on August 1 itself to be refunded in the normal est e-filing utility, while filing veillance measure for the seg- Industries, Bajaj Finserv and sure for certain stocks having framework, BSE said “the to software error while filing remove the error due to incor- course,” the I-T department their ITR. If any errors are still ment. However, the counters IndusInd Bank. On the other a market capitalisation of less shortlisted securities, will have ITR for 2020-21. rect computation of interest tweeted. found, then it must be report- stabilised after the exchange hand, Bajaj Auto, Sun Pharma, than 1,000 crore. The new 6 monthly, 1 yearly, 2 yearly The last date for filing ITR under section 234A and late fee Nangia & Co LLP Partner ed to the concerned authorities clarified the additional price Kotak Bank, ICICI Bank, measure, add-on price band and 3 yearly price band in for last financial year has been under section 234F of Income Shailesh Kumar said having for necessary resolution,” limits would be applicable only M&M, Nestle India and HDFC framework, will be applicable place of weekly, monthly, extended till September 30, Tax Act. errors or bugs in ITR or any Kumar said. to certain stocks having market Bank were among the lag- to companies with a market- quarterly price band”. capitalisation of less than Rs gards, shedding up to 1.84 per capitalisation of less than PTI 1,000 crore. cent.        /= "     %%' %&  +8 %$$0  0 0     #&?$7%% %*  +     !4      2!?&% !'=5*/-  Ghaziabad: Paan Club Samiti         :. 0    0:*" / %$2@?>#% Ghaziabad, representing the   The secretary said that collective voice of more than   .  Indian exports have been New Delhi:Disinvestment of Mumbai:The agriculture sector 40,000 traders, small retailers he country’s merchandise roughly fluctuating between public sector companies is back recorded the highest 103 per and panwallas selling tobacco Texports are expected to USD 290 billion and USD 330   on track after the Covid- cent growth in new business products in Ghaziabad, has   plunged 2.15 per cent. touch USD 1 trillion by 2027- billion for the last 10 years. induced setbacks, and DIPAM registrations at 12,368 in raised strong objections on the At close, the BSE smallcap 28 and the government has “We have actually laid ighlighting the importance is aiming to conclude a host of FY2021, compared to 6,107 in draft proposal issued by the UP mallcap and midcap stocks index dipped 216.75 points or laid down a road map, includ- down a roadmap on how we Hof infrastructure develop- transactions by March-end, the previous fiscal, according to Urban Development Scontinued to tumble on 0.83 per cent, while the mid- ing district as an export hub hit USD 500 billion in mer- ment for the country, Union Department of Investment and a paper released by Dun & Department which mandates Wednesday following the cap index declined 51.09 scheme, to achieve that num- chandise exports and when minister Nitin Gadkari on Public Asset Management Bradstreet on Wednesday. separate licences for retailers BSE’s new surveillance mea- points or 0.22 per cent. ber, Commerce Secretary we hit a trillion dollar exports. Wednesday said his target is to Secretary Tuhin Kanta Pandey The white paper on selling tobacco products like sure but later recovered some The 30-share BSE bench- BVR Subrahmanyam said on Our guess is that, by 2027-28, achieve the pace of 100 km per said on Wednesday. He also ‘Business Dynamism in India’ pan, bidi, cigarette, etc. of the lost ground after the mark closed lower by 28.73 Wednesday. very very modest estimates, day in highway construction. said the mega initial public showed that the manufacturing If the licensing require- exchange clarified that the points or 0.05 per cent. This fiscal, the com- we should touch USD 1 tril- Addressing a virtual event offering of Life Insurance sector witnessed 39,539 regis- ment for selling tobacco prod- additional price limits would To curb excessive volatil- merce ministry is aiming at lion figure in exports of mer- organised by industry body Corporation is expected by the trations in FY21 compared to ucts is made mandatory, it will be applicable only to certain ity in mid and smallcap coun- USD 419 billion of exports chandise,” Subrahmanyam CII, the road, transport and end of the current fiscal, and 26,406 in FY20, a growth of 50 drive the families of micro- stocks having market capital- ters, the BSE has introduced and for that a detailed analy- said at the CII’s Annual highways minister said delays the Govt is looking to collect per cent.In FY21, a total of retailers to starvation as it will isation of less than 1,000 a new surveillance measure sis has been carried out and Meeting 2021. He also said and not taking decisions is a big 50,000 crore as dividend from 1,95,880 businesses were reg- severely impact their liveli- crore. for certain stocks having a the target was disaggregated at that work is underway for the problem in the country. state-run companies. istered, which is a record high, hoods, besides causing likely During the day, the small- market capitalisation of less the level of country, com- services sector as well and the “Infrastructure (develop- Stressing that privatisation of it said. “While the agriculture harassment to poor and most- cap index tumbled 3.30 per than 1,000 crore. modity, region, and states target is to take these exports ment) is very important for the Air India, BPCL, Shipping sector observed 12,368 regis- ly uneducated micro-retailers at cent and the midcap index across 31 commodity groups. to USD 700 billion in 2027-28. country...Even during the Corp of India, Pawan Hans, trations in FY21 compared to the hands of enforcement offi- Covid-19 pandemic, we have BEML and Neelachal Ispat 6,107 in FY20, the services sec- cials, the samiti said. made a world record of con- Nigam Ltd would be complet- tor also fared well with the structing 38 km of road in a ed this year, Pandey said highest number of registra- day,” he said. change of ownership and con- tions at 83,079 in FY21 and wit- The pace of highway con- trol would boost the valuations nessed a growth rate of 14 per struction in the country of these companies. “COVID cent,” the paper showed. touched a record 37 km per day actually hit us very badly... It is The birth rate of new busi- in 2020-21. “...(but) I am not much easier to do a market nesses showed a healthy pace of satisfied with the present per- transaction, much more diffi- growth from 7.8 per cent in formance,” Gadkari said, cult to do a strategic sale where FY16 to 10.2 per cent in FY20 adding that his target is to the bidders will actually take and further to 11.6 per cent in achieve the pace of up to 100 control of the company and the FY21, despite the pandemic km per day of highway con- due diligence process is and subsequent waves of lock- struction. extremely rigorous,” he said. down. PTI   ! "   

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- <   P     - )" A)  0          2 1=8&; &(    6  )A    - <   P.   !   ) meeting was held with Himanta     ; /  )A  * Biswa Sarma, Chief Minister of "   )6 *    6  *  8 AAssam on August 8 at Assam A)      0" 0   ) House, New Delhi. The objective of the     .   !   meeting was to identify the contours of       setting up a comprehensive Van Dhan network of 7000 VD SHGs subsumed . < / )  under 350 VDVKCs, five TRIFOOD        Tribal Food Parks and a digital mar-     )    keting network. Besides the Chief     . -    Minister, seven MPs of the region were     .   also present. During the meeting, Pravir Krishna, managing director of TRIFED, made a presentation which explained the Van Dhan Model of Tribal Development /0"$%  and how it can benefit the state of Assam. Assam is one of the largest tribal states with 38.84 lakh tribal population which ..    constitutes around 12.4 per cent state population. Out of the total 39 tribal aspi- ITES Ltd (NSE: RITES, BSE: 541556), the rational districts in the country, four Rleading transport infrastructure consultan- belong to Assam. The state has 16 trib- cy and engineering company, secured its high- al groups, some of which comprise est-ever work order for railway track works from about 78 per cent of ST population. the Ministry of Railways. TRIFED as the nodal agency that is This turnkey order includes the three new working towards tribal empowerment, line projects — Belgam-Dharwad via Kittur, has been implementing several notewor- Shimoga-Shikaripura-Ranebennur and Tumkur- thy initiatives in this direction. TRIFED Devangree via Chitradurga, with a total cost of has been providing necessary marketing 4027 crore. RITES is currently executing a dou- interventions for the tribal products on bling project at Gooty-Dharmavaram and a 3rd which tribal livelihoods depend. The line project at Annupur-Pendra road of approx- main philosophy behind this approach is imately 140 km, which are near completion. to empower tribal communities with Commenting on this order, V G Suresh knowledge, tools and pool of information Kumar, chairman and managing director (addl which further aids them to undertake charge), RITES Limited, said, “We are happy to their operations in a more systematic and have secured RITES’ highest-ever order. This scientific manner. new order testament to our project delivering The presentation touched upon the capabilities and expertise in undertaking mega importance of minor forest produce in infrastructure projects. It also demonstrates our the tribal economy and the various ini- efforts to consolidate our order book amid the tiatives that have been undertaken. A challenging business environment.” holistic model of MFP-led Tribal Development, which includes the MSP for MFP scheme and the Van Dhan Yojana and has put in place several schemes for the same were touched upon. Currently in Assam the total procure- scheme and take lead in empanelling arti- will be sold through the chain of Tribes The MSP for MFP scheme envisages fix- ments achieved is  34.79 lakhs under the sans and provide impetus to its tribal India outlets. There are plans of setting ation of Minimum Support Price (MSP) MSP for MFP scheme with some of the products using the scheme. TRIFED has up new Tribes India outlets in the major for the selected MFPs which provides key products procured being thatch, entered into MoU with different min- cities/towns of Assam. A Tribal Mall is both subsistence and cash income for an bamboo, cane, hill broom, medicinal istries where in convergences are pro- being planned to promote tribal artisans estimated 100 million people who live in plants, ahoi and koroi. Under the Van posed to further develop the value chain and create a brand recognition for the or near forests. Dhan Yojana, TRIFED has set up 128 for the established Van Dhan Vikas heritage products that the tribals produce. In the past two years, the revamped VDVKCs benefiting over 37,786 house- Kendra Clusters. Currently in Assam, To preserve the tribal heritage and gen- ‘Mechanism for Marketing of Minor holds. under convergence with MSME Ministry, erate local employment, at the same time Forest Produce (MFP) through As a follow up to this meeting, 100 trainings have been identified. Under protecting the interests of tribal produc- Minimum Support Price (MSP) and the TRIFED and the government of Assam the SFURTI scheme, two proposals are ers, TRIFED is also working towards pro- Development of Value Chain for MFP’ will be developing an enterprise model under development. In convergence with moting geographical indication products has impacted the tribal ecosystem in a for Van Dhan Yojana incorporating MoFPI, 10 Mini-TRIFOOD units have in the State of Assam. 11 new products positive way. It has injected  3000 crores components of forward linkages includ- been proposed and four Honey FPOs have been identified for GI tagging and into the tribal economy, even during such ing setting up of common facilities at dis- have been allocated, in conjunction with more tribal suppliers will be supported difficult times, aided by government trict HQs for handling/packaging, test- the Ministry of Agriculture. to register as authorised users. push. The Van Dhan Yojana is an initia- ing, demonstration centers for minor for- to develop a marketing and logistics plan With regard to the intervention The fruitful meeting thus out- tive targeting livelihood generation for est produces/silk/lac/agri produces, clus- for promoting tribal products from the ‘Marketing and logistics development for lined the plans that TRIFED has in the tribals by harnessing the wealth of for- ter level tertiary processing units, mar- Northeast region, where it plans to promoting tribal products from the state of Assam and the CM’s support 010  1 est i.e. Van Dhan. The programme keting and branding. The initiatives will empanel more than 4,000 artisans and Northeastern region’, it will be imple- was sought. It is hoped that the imple- envisages to establish tribal entrepreneurs be implemented in convergence with identify tribal products which can be reg- mented across all the eight Northeastern mentation of these beneficial schemes for generating livelihoods leading to MoTA, TRIFED, Govt of Assam, MSME, istered under Geographical Indication states including Assam. Through that, can be accelerated with the leadership  K   1  enhanced income generation among MoFPI and MoRD. The presentation having a proposed budget of  150 Crore. TRIFED will procure tribal products and patronage of the CM, the entire tribal people and cover over 5.3 lakh trib- spoke in detail about these plans. It was iterated during the meeting that worth  6.625 Cr. from over 250 Tribal tribal population in Assam will be ben- 4 ( al households. In addition, TRIFED has proposed Assam can hugely benefit from this suppliers in the next year. These products efitted. or the convenience of metro commuters, Kolkata FMetro has decided to add eight more metro ser- elhi Development Authority held public dealing departments of DDA are vices (UP & DN). Metro will now run 228 (114 UP Dits meeting on August 10, through PM Uday, Land Disposal and Housing. & 114 DN) daily services instead of 220 services video conferencing under the chair- The processes in PM Uday and LD from Monday to Friday so that the passengers can manship of Anil Baijal, Lt Governor of Updates from DDA meeting have already been computerised. It was travel comfortably. Delhi and chairman of DDA, attend- brought to the notice of the Authority Out of these services, 150 services (75 UP & 75 ed by Anurag Jain, IAS, vice-chairman stantially lesser in comparison to the liminarily approved by the Authority that processes of Housing have also DN) will run in between Kavi Subhash and of DDA and other members of the fee payable in neighbouring states. The in its meeting held on March 13 ear- been computerised and from June 1, Dakshineswar. Metro services will run at an inter- Authority including Vijender Gupta new policy will encourage private lier this year. After that, a public 2021, only online applications are val of 5 minutes during morning and evening peak (MLA), Somnath Bharti (MLA), O P investment by improving the environ- notice was issued for inviting objec- being received. The offline process has hours. ;14 ,   Sharma (MLA) and Kailash Sankla, ment of certainty. tions/suggestions. been done away with. municipal councillor of the South The policy is futuristic and The new norms will bring more A campaign was initiated to dis-  Delhi Municipal Corporation. improves the ease of doing business. It clarity in terms of the FAR to be utilised pose of all the offline cases in a time- At 07:30 hrs from Dakshineswar to Kavi &  Following major decisions were allows CNG and any other non-fossil for commercial use, which is a prereq- bound manner so that after the tran- Subhash (no change) taken: fuel. Further, only restrictions are uisite considering the viability of the sition to the online processes, no case At 07:30 hrs from Dum Dum to Dakshineswar those mandated by Petroleum and projects. The current modification has will remain pending beyond the time (no change)  & POLICY FOR ALLOTMENT OF Explosives Safety Organisation (PESO) adopted a graded approach for appor- prescribed in the citizen's charter. At 07:30 hrs from Kavi Subhash to CNG STATION SITES and Unified Building Bye-Laws tionment of commercial FAR on the The matter was also discussed in Dakshineswar (no change) AIL (India) was today awarded by the To bring in transparency and (UBBL) plots which varies as per the plot size. the Authority meeting in January At 07:30 hrs from Dum Dum to Kavi Subhash GGovernment e-Marketplace (GeM) for mak- increase efficiency in the process of Any gas distributing companies, The norms have introduced flexibility 2021 where it was desired that the (no change) ing the highest procurement of  1,033 crore allotment of CNG station sites' plots, their LoI holders or even those persons in the provisioning of commercial process should be completed at the ear- among Central Public Sector Enterprises through the Authority has approved policy for who are likely to get LoI within a year FAR for the specific size of plots to be liest.  the GeM portal in 2020-21. e-auction of CNG station sites, under are eligible to participate in the auction. constructed for public use provided the Anurag, the vice-chairman At 19:48 hrs from Dakshineswar to Kavi Accepting the award, GAIL's chairman and which DDA will allot sites to individ- Therefore, any person who may not stipulated condition of Traffic Impact informed that there is no pendency on Subhash (no change) MD, Manoj Jain said GAIL was continuously uals or gas distribution companies and have an LOI at the time of auction but Assessment (TIA) and Traffic part of DDA in Housing Department At 20:00 hrs from Dum Dum to Kavi Subhash striving to increase its procurement through its Letter of Intent (LoI) holders is eligible to get the LoI of M/S IGL can Management Plan (TMP) is fulfilled. cases before June 1. However, there are (no change) GeM. He also thanked GeM for accepting through the mode of the auction on a also participate in the e-auction It has been mandated that the con- pending 882 cases, where action is At 20:00 hrs from Kavi Subhash to GAIL’s suggestion to facilitate the procurement license basis. Earlier, the lands were process. struction of MLCP is to be linked with awaited on part of applicants, where- Dakshineswar (no change) of critical items like line pipes through its por- allotted for five years and the increase It was also decided to allot 25 per TIA and TMP studies and the manage- in either payment is due or some doc- tal for the first time. in the rates was also uncertain as it was cent sites directly to IGL for running ment aspect of assigning a single uments need to be submitted. The On Saturdays, 104 numbers (52 UP & 52 DN Government e-Marketplace facilitates online related to average auction rates. Under the station on Company Owned agency to ensure proper utilization of name and other details of these appli- )maintenance special services will be run only for procurement of common use Goods & Services the new policy, the tenure of the Company Operate (COCO) model. the MLCP and decongestion of the cants have been uploaded to DDA’s essential staff from 08:00 hrs to 11:30 hrs and 15:30 required by various government departments, licence is 10 years, renewable up to 30 adjoining areas. Besides, annual website. The applicants may access the hrs to 19:15 hrs between Kavi Subhash and organisations, PSUs. years, and the increase in the licence MULTI-LEVEL CAR PARKING accounts of the Authority for the year deficiency letter online using NSK ID. Dakshineswar. GAIL Director (Finance), A K Tiwari was fee is fixed. The Development Control Norms 2019-2020 were approved by the The Land Disposal Department of There will be no services on Sundays. also present on the occasion. The award was pre- To promote green fuel in the cap- of Multi-Level Parking for private Authority. DDA is also making similar efforts to East –West Metro services will remain unchanged. sented by P K Singh, CEO of GeM. ital city, the Authority decided to modes were approved by the Authority reduce pendency and it is expected to No tokens will be issued. In the current financial year, GAIL has made grant a discount of 50 per cent on the for consideration and final approval by OTHER DEVELOPMENTS bring down the pendency within the Commuters are requested to maintain social dis- procurement of  526 crores through the GeM value of land in fixing the reserve price. MoHUA, as a part of the amendment Computerisation of processes time limit prescribed by the Citizen tancing and all other covid protocols in the metro portal till July 2021. The licence fee (reserve price) is sub- to MPD-2021. The proposal was pre- related to Housing Department: Major Charter by September 2021. premises. 8  ,   32R'   

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In case the pitch offers Rohit Sharma, Cheteshwar Pujara, irat Kohli might have to training session at the Lord’s on brittle England batting used during that post-match some assistance, Moeen Ali, who Mayank Agarwal, Ajinkya Rahane seriously consider playing Monday. line-up with their differ- conference and hence has been inducted might again like (vice-captain), Hanuma Vihari, his best tweaker It’s still not clear whether he ent variations. The Ashwin, who is currently on to torment the Indians like he did Rishabh Pant (wicket-keeper), R. VRavichandran Ashwin picked up the injury during the first poor quality of the new the verge of surpassing in 2014 and ‘18 series or else there Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar instead of the injured Shardul Test or not. With Thakur all but generation of Harbhajan Singh’s (417 wick- is world’s fastest bowler Mark Patel, Jasprit Bumrah, Ishant Thakur but the Indian captain did- ruled out of the upcoming match England Test ets) tally, comes into the pic- Wood, whose average speed is 90 Sharma, Mohd. Shami, Md. Siraj, n’t specify whether the seasoned off- starting Thursday, Kohli might have ture. clicks per hour. Umesh Yadav, KL Rahul, spinner would get the nod ahead of to revisit his 4-1 bowling combina- If the skipper believes that For India, KL Rahul would Wriddhiman Saha (wicket-keeper), a pacer in the second Test against tion which can’t be cast in stone his batting needs to be suitably like to consolidate his position at the Abhimanyu Easwaran, Prithvi England. While India were in a bet- considering the lean nature of his beefed up, then Ashwin is the right top of the order even though Shaw, Suryakumar Yadav. ter position to win the first Test team’s lower-order batting. choice in case weather permitting, Mayank Agarwal being back in the England: Joe Root (capt), James before the heavens opened up on the “For us, it’s about finding there is something available on the nets is a welcome sign for India. Anderson, Jonny Bairstow, Moeen final day, the first innings score of that perfect balance but if some- fourth or fifth day Lord’s pitch. While batting order might not Ali, Rory Burns, Jos Buttler, Zak 278 was still below par as none one like Shardul is not available, England are likely to miss their be tinkered with but Agarwal’s fit- Crawley, Sam Curran, Haseeb among Kohli, Cheteshwar Pujara then we definitely need to think senior pacer Stuart Broad as he had ness could also make Rahul an Hameed, Dan Lawrence, Jack and Ajinkya Rahane scored runs. how to pick up 20 wickets and injured his right calf muscle during option in the middle-order, where Leach, Ollie Pope, Ollie Robinson, Not to forget that all three not try to plug in another guy, players was a training session which possibly he personally prefers batting. Dom Sibley, Mark Wood, Saqib haven’t scored heavily in the past two who can give us some runs with exposed again as rules him out of the game. While both Pujara and Rahane Mahmood. years and save Rahane, who got a the bat. I think we are very com- skipper Joe Root had to hundred in Melbourne, the other fortable how first Test went,” come to his team’s rescue two batting mainstays haven’t been Kohli gave an open-ended for the umpteenth time nd able to convert a lot of their half-cen- answer. with a fifty in the first Stuart Broad to miss 2 Test with right calf injury: ECB turies into three-figure marks. London has been record- innings and a match-saving “I don’t think that’s an area of ing a maximum temperature 21st Test hundred in the  11 concern. Our basic focus is not to of 24 degrees with average second essay. think individually where people are temperature around 14 There is every possibil- ngland will miss the services of Stuart Broad in but collectively how much strength degrees. ity that Rory Burns could be Ethe second Test against India as the senior fast they bring into the team is our focus. It would be interesting replaced by Haseeb Hameed, bowler was on Wednesday ruled out due to a calf What’s your best and strongest bat- to see if England retain a who scored a hundred open- injury sustained during a training session ahead of ting unit that you can take on the green top like they did ing the the match starting on Thursday. park,” the skipper said. in 2018 when Indian innings for the “England seamer Stuart Broad has sustained a As far as team combination is batting collapsed Combined Counties tear to his right calf and has been ruled out of the concerned, Shardul being ruled out twice in two days against Indians in the tour LV= Insurance Test series against India,” the England with a “left hamstring injury” does and all-rounder game last month. and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said in a statement. tilt the lower-order batting balance, Chris Woakes For Kohli, if four pac- “He underwent an MRI scan in London on although the Mumbai seamer did- walked away with ers are non-negotiable, Wednesday lunchtime, which revealed a tear. Broad n’t trouble the scorers in the only the honours. then one among Ishant sustained the injury during the warm-up on In 22 first-class games, he has picked up 65 wick- innings that he played. In case, the Sharma or Umesh Yadav Tuesday afternoon at Lord’s.” ets. With Saqib joining the squad, the ECB informed Ashwin, who was dropped from pitch is on the will be straightaway replac- England have called up Lancashire seamer that off-spinner “Dom Bess will leave the squad and the playing XI in the drawn open- drier side, there ing Thakur but the choice Saqib Mahmood as cover. The 24-year-old Saqib, who return to Yorkshire this morning.” ing game in Nottingham because of will possibly be might not be that easy. is of Pakistani descent, has played 16 white-ball games Broad was on the verge of playing his milestone Ravindra Jadeja’s superior skills with no harm in play- “Most likely it will be a for England — seven ODIs and nine T20Is — from 150th Test. He suffered the injury when he slipped the willow, is back in the mix as ing both Ashwin template going ahead [4-1 which he has taken 21 wickets. while doing a light warm-up jog.  -"   3 R ,   !"    Bumrah returns to top 10, Kohli slips in ICC Test Players rankings   mance of 64 and 109 earned fourth spot. Ashwin continued to   :A  -  &  &&  :  6  him 49 rating points. stay at the second place in the iding on his fine show in the Opener Rohit Sharma and bowlers list, which was topped by     Chopra before the Olympic Ropening Test against wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Australia’s Pat Cummins. Games. But after winning the England, India pacer Jasprit Pant were static at the sixth and Shardul Thakur was also up ndian shooting could soon tar javelin thrower Neeraj javelin in Tokyo, and in the Bumrah has returned to the top seventh spots respectively. 19 places to 55th, while England Ireach a point of no return if SChopra’s historic gold-win- process becoming India’s first 10, but skipper Virat Kohli India all-rounder Ravindra seam bowlers James Anderson there is no fairness in selection ning feat in the Olympics was athletics gold medallist in slipped to the fifth position in Jadeja progressed three slots to (up one place to seventh) and of coaches and athletes, no fix- listed as one of the 10 magical Olympic history, Chopra’s pro- the latest ICC men’s Test play- 36th among batters with a first Ollie Robinson (up 22 places to ing of accountability and no dis- moments of track and field in file sky-rocketed,” the global er rankings. innings half-century and open- 46th) also moved up in the lat- cipline, reckons Jaspal Rana. the Tokyo Games by World governing body said on its web- Bumrah, who held a career- er KL Rahul has re-entered the est men’s weekly rankings Dronacharya awardee coach Athletics. site. WA noted that the 23-year- high third position in rankings in 56th position with update issued every Wednesday. Rana has also revealed that The 23-year-Chopra old Chopra had 143,000 follow- September 2019, has improved duck in the first innings of the scores of 84 and 26. Bangladesh’s Shakib-Al- “nobody” wanted him to be a clinched the country’s maiden ers before the Olympics, but 10 slots to grab the ninth place series opener. He was overtak- Jadeja also improved a spot Hasan was back to number part of the Indian shooting Olympic medal in athletics with now has a staggering 3.2million among bowlers after a match en by England skipper Joe Root, to take the second position in Test one position among all- coaching setup except the a best throw of 87.58m on (on Instagram), making him the haul of nine for 110 in the who grabbed the fourth position all-rounder ranking list, which rounders in T20I rankings, hav- national federation (NRAI) pres- Saturday to become only the most followed track and field Nottingham Test. Kohli, howev- in the batters’ list after his also had senior India spinner ing reached that spot last in ident Raninder Singh. second Indian to win an indi- athlete in the world. er, slipped a place following his Player of the Match perfor- Ravichandran Ashwin at the October 2017. Amid the bitter mudslinging vidual yellow metal in the In a tweet posted after win- in the wake of the Indian shoot- Games. ning the gold in Tokyo, Chopra ers’ disastrous outing at the “Most keen followers of the has said, “Still processing this Tokyo Olympics, the 1994 Asian sport had heard of Neeraj feeling.” Games gold medallist said it’s high time the problems facing the sport in the country are fixed.   *5 “We need absolute fairness in selection of both coaches and shooters, fixing of accountabil- 1426  *   17 ity and there cannot be a place for non-performers in the team,” Rana told PTI during a chat.  (0  out elaboration, urged people to But the 45-year-old former seek help for mental health if shooter was quick to add that the ivia Podmore, a track cyclist for needed. “Be kind to each other bunch that failed to deliver in lNew Zealand who competed at and take care of each other,” the Tokyo comprised mostly young- the 2016 Olympics in Rio de statement said. The New Zealand sters, who will gain in experience Janeiro, has died. She was 24. Olympic Committee said it has and mature by the time the next Cycling New Zealand said begun offering support to athletes Olympics come calling. Podmore died “suddenly” and staff on the country’s The young shooters should Monday but did not disclose a standably devastated” and, with- Olympic team. be backed, he said, as there is no cause or other details. dearth of talent among them. Podmore also represented “We don’t need to train New Zealand at the 2018 them, they already know there Commonwealth Games on game, we need to protect them, Australia’s Gold Coast. which was not there. That’s In a statement Tuesday, what I think, but then, nobody Cycling New Zealand described wanted me in the federation Podmore as a “much loved and except the president,” Rana respected rider.” The organization added. noted that many are “under- *7   *       *** 

champion in Canada. “And I really don’t believe that I have chances to fight for the things that I really need to fight for.” The 35-year-old from Spain played last week at the hard- court event in Washington, winning his first match against Jack Sock and losing his second to Lloyd Harris — both in three sets. Nadal was bothered  111 by the foot there.

afael Nadal pulled out of the RNational Bank Open on Tuesday because of an injured left foot that has troubled him for months, putting his prepa- ration for the U.S. Open on hold. The 20-time Grand Slam champion was replaced in the draw at the hard-court tourna- ment in Toronto by Feliciano Lopez, who lost in qualifying. “I need to go back and try to find a way to be better again, no? At the end of the day, for me, the most important thing is (to) enjoy playing tennis. Today, with this pain, I am not able to enjoy it,” said Nadal, a five-time