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THE LARGEST CIRCULATED ENGLISH DAILY IN SOUTH INDIA CHENNAI I SUNDAY 8I NOVEMBER 2020 WEATHER STATE | 3 WORLD | 5 SPORT | 8 Max: 31OC Min: 25OC Kamal’s birthday celebrated WH chief of staff tests Holder praises his bowlers Rainfall: 1 mm with a political twist virus +ve for ‘using skills and brains’ ASTROGUIDE Sarvari: Aippasi 23 deccanchronicle.com, facebook.com/deccannews, twitter.com/deccanchronicle, google.com/+deccanchronicle Vol. 16 No. 224 Established 1938 | 8 PAGES| `4.00 Tithi: Ashtami Star: Aayilyam Rahukalam: RJD LARGEST PARTY 4.30 pm to 6 pm Yamagandam: Biden-Kamala trumps Don 12 noo to 1.30 pm It’s exit NDA, say PRAYERS Fajar: 4.52 am Zohar: 11.58 am Pennsylvania’s 20 help Harris is first woman, Prez Trump likely to Asar: 3.12 pm Democrats cross 270 of colour Vice-President mount legal challenge Bihar exit polls Maghrib: 5.41 pm Washington, Nov. 7: New Delhi, Nov. 7:Several Today's Chanakya-CNN Isha: 6.54 pm Democrat Joe Biden on exit polls on Saturday gave News18 projected 180 seats Saturday defeated incum- Kamala will stand the RJD-led opposition for the RJD-led grand CORONA bent Republican US alliance in Bihar an edge alliance, 55 for the NDA and President Donald Trump in up for human over the ruling NDA while eight for others. 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It predicted 3-5 seats (+34,697) (+489) the 46th president of the tial candidate Joe Most of the exit polls also for LJP and also 3-5 for oth- 1,26,094 United States, CNN report- Biden and his running predicted the RJD to again ers. 84,95,748 ed, after a victory in emerge as the single largest The ABP-CVoter exit poll Pennsylvania, the state mate Senator Kamala party in the 243-member predicted NDA to get 104-128 covid19india.org where he was born put him Harris winning the US’ assembly along with a clear seats and 108-131 seats for over the 270 electoral votes election, Kamala’s dip in the seat tally of Bihar the opposition grand STATE GOVERNMENT BULLETINS needed to win. uncle Dr Balachandran chief minister Nitish alliance. It projected Chirag With Pennsylvania's 20 The work ahead of us will be This election…is about the soul Kumar-led JD(U). Paswan-led LJP to get 1-3 electoral votes, Biden now hard… I will keep the faith that told B. Vijayalakshmi Counting of votes for the seats. (+ 2,341 ) of America and our willingness that their win was on has a total of 273 electoral you have placed in me. three-phase Bihar assembly A similar trend was pre- votes. Before becoming the to fight for it. expected lines. On polls, which ended on dicted by Times Now- TN: 7,41,488 11,324 — JOE BIDEN, President-elect Democratic presidential — KAMALA HARRIS. VP-elect Kamala’s strong views Saturday, will be held on CVoter, which projected 116 nominee, Mr Biden served November 10. Exit polls are seats for the NDA, 120 for WORLD CONFIRMED CASES as vice-president under for- that you have chosen me to golf in Virginia when major Georgia. Mr Biden has the on Kashmir , typically based on feedback the opposition alliance and mer President Barack lead our great country. The media outlets called the lead in all the four states, Balachandran said, from a limited number of a single seat for the LJP. It 4,99,91,929 Obama. He is also work ahead of us will be race. He is now the first which according to major “Yes, she always voters in select areas and predicted six seats for oth- Delaware’s longest-serving hard, but I promise you incumbent president to lose media outlets is unlikely to stands up for human none of them have a 100 per ers. this: I will be a President for reelection bid after George be reversed. DEATHS senator. Senator Kamala rights.” More on P3 cent accuracy record. P4 Harris, 56, who is of Indian all Americans whether you H.W. Bush in 1992. “Former vice-president origin, has become the first voted for me or not. I will Major media outlets start- Joe Biden is projected to Jr. was elected the 46th 12,53,443 ever woman vice-president- keep the faith that you have ed calling Mr Biden the win Pennsylvania and its president of the United The winner is… COUNTRIES, elect of the US. She would placed in me,” Mr Biden winner after it became 20 electoral votes, accord- States on Saturday, promis- AREAS WITH also be the country's first said in a tweet soon there- clear that he has taken a ing to Edison Research, ing to restore political nor- CASES 216 Indian-origin, first Black after. major lead the battle- putting him over the 270 malcy and a spirit of EXIT-POLL BIHAR ASSEMBLY and first African American “This election is about so ground state of needed to win the presiden- national unity to confront MAHA MAJORITY MARK worldometers.info GADBANDHAN NDA Vice-President of the coun- much more than Joe Biden Pennsylvania, which has 20 cy,” The Washington Post raging health and econom- TODAY’S CHANAKYA try. or me. It's about the soul of electoral college votes, reported. ic crises, and making CNN NEWS18 180 55 122 America and our willing- making him cross the The call came about 11:30 Donald J. Trump a one- TN wins best state Mr Biden and Ms Harris ness to fight for it. We have benchmark of the 270 elec- a.m. Saturday (local time), term president after four INDIA TODAY- award for water would be sworn in a lot of work ahead of us. toral college votes. after a report of more years of tumult in the AXIS MY INDIA 139-161 69-91 President and Vice- Let's get started,” tweeted Counting of ballots is still counted votes from White House, The New ABP-CVOTER 108-131 104-128 TOTAL SEATS management President on January 20. Vice President-elect Harris. going on in Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania. York Times said. “America, I’m honoured Mr Trump was playing Arizona, Nevada and "Joseph Robinette Biden — Agencies TIMES NOW-CVOTER 120 116 243 DC CORRESPONDENT CHENNAI, NOV. 7

Tamil Nadu has won the ‘National Water Award’ for being one of the I-T digs out `1K cr Karnataka allows only green crackers best states for water security and management in 2019, Chief Bengaluru, Nov. 7: The tival in a simple, meaning- Minister K. Palaniswami said on sale and bursting of ‘green ful and devotional way," RSS-affiliate SJM opposes Saturday. It gives great pleasure fraud in TN firm crackers’, as per Supreme the chief secretary said in to the government of Tamil Nadu Court guidelines, will be his order. receiving the National Award of allowed during Deepavali, He said only green crack- ban on fire crackers the Ministry of Jal Shakti as the New Delhi, Nov. 7: The Sources said the the Karnataka govern- ers will be sold from Best State for Water Management Income Tax department ment said on Saturday, as Saturday to November 16 New Delhi, Nov. 7: RSS- are less polluting." For 2019, the chief minister said. has conducted searches raids were on IG3 it stressed on restrictions in an open space where affiliate Swadeshi Jagran some time, without any Vellore and Karur districts have against a Chennai-based Infra Limited, which to contain the coronavirus social distancing can be Manch (SJM) on Saturday factual information, state been ranked first and second IT infrastructure group owns Chennai One IT infection. maintained. said illegally imported governments have been TNCC against respectively, under the 'Revival of and detected `1,000 crore Special Economic Hours after indicating The Chief Minister had firecrackers from China taking action like banning River' sub-category while alleged black money and that the state would ban said on Friday that there primarily cause pollution all types of firecrackers on Perambalur district came second possible instances of hold- Zone. It was incorpo- fireworks due to the pan- will be restrictions on and urged state govern- Diwali, which is complete- in the Water Conservation catego- ing of benami assets, the rated in 2004 as demic, Chief Minister B.S. bursting of crackers. mr ments to avoid banning ly inappropriate. "It has to release of Rajiv ry, he said in a tweet. Tamil Nadu Central Board of Direct Indian Green Grid Yediyurappa had appealed Yediyurappa had earlier "less polluting" green be understood that till has bagged the first place under Taxes (CBDT) said on Group Limited to the people on Friday to said the state government crackers made in India. now the pollution caused case convicts the 'Best State' category under Saturday. celebrate the festival in a will issue an order ban- Underlining that the by firecrackers was pri- the National Water Awards It said the raids were a Singapore registered simple way by using only ning the use of firecrack- livelihood of nearly one marily due to illegally DC CORRESPONDENT (NWAs) 2019, presented by the carried out on November company, it said. green crackers. ers during the festival in million people depends on imported firecrackers CHENNAI, NOV. 7 Union Ministry of Jal Shakti, 4 at five locations in “The shareholding of In view of the prevailing view of the pandemic situ- the firecracker industry, from China," he said. The Department of Water Resources, Chennai and Madurai in this company is held by Covid-19 pandemic, chief ation. Several states, SJM co-convener Ashwani SJM pleads to the govern- TNCC president K. S. River Development and Ganga Tamil Nadu. two companies, one secretary T.M. Vijay including Rajasthan, Mahajan in a statement ments of Delhi, Rajasthan, Alagiri raised a lone voice Rejuvenation. P3 “The searches had led to owned by the group Bhaskar said more strin- Odisha and Delhi,have said, "Throughout the Odisha, West Bengal, of dissent taking a stand the detection of unac- searched while the other gent measures are needed already decided to ban fire- year, these people wait for Karnataka and all other diametrically opposite to counted income of around company is a subsidiary to be initiated to check the crackers. Deepawali to sell their state governments, which that of the popular narra- COUNTER `1,000 crore out of which of a major infrastructure spread of the disease. The surroundings of the firecrackers. In such a sit- have imposed a complete tive on setting at liberty the POINT disclosure of additional development and financ- “Keeping in mind the cracker shops should be uation, it is not prudent to ban on firecrackers, to seven persons convicted in income of `337 crore has ing group,” the CBDT existing situation, there is sanitised, the chief secre- ban domestically made repeal the same, Mahajan the Rajiv Gandhi assassina- already been made by the said. a need to celebrate the fes- tary said. PTI green firecrackers which said. — PTI tion case. Despite all politi- assessee, besides action- “It has been found that cal parties, including their able issues under the the company belonging to ally DMK, in the state root- Benami and Black Money the searched group has ing for the release of the Acts,” the Board said in a invested a very nominal seven convicts and the statement. amount, although it has Drones to monitor TNagar festivities Supreme Court also asking The CBDT is the admin- 72 per cent shareholding, the Governor, before whom istrative authority for the while the other company DC CORRESPONDENT ing crime-free shopping existing devices in a state government recom- Income Tax department. having 28 per cent share- CHENNAI, NOV. 7 and accident-free celebra- Mambalam and Pondy mendation was pending on Sources said the raids holding only has invested tions, city police commis- Bazaar in T. Nagar. the issue, Alagiri queered were on IG3 Infra almost the entire money,” The Greater Chennai sioner Maheshkumar “The movement of the the pitch by playing the dis- Limited, which owns it said. Police will deploy drones, Aggarwal told reporters crowd is being monitored cordant note. Chennai One IT Special This has resulted into a advanced closed-circuit here. by police personnel in a When asked about it, Economic Zone (SEZ). It “benefit or gain” of television (CCTV) cam- Mr Aggarwal said the control room. As and when DMK MP R. S. Bharathi was incorporated in 2004 almost seven crore eras with face-recognition police has chalked out a any suspicious movement said principles and as Indian Green Grid Singapore Dollars, which software, and equip its three- pronged strategy. is noticed or any criminal alliances were different. Group Limited. is about `200 crore, in the personnel with body cam- Maheshkumar Aggarwal There will be 100 addition- suspect is found in the The TNCC president The raids led to hands of the company of eras to ensure that people al CCTV cameras crowd, police personnel remonstrated against “unearthing” of evidence the searched group. follow Covid-19 protocols Deepavali. installed in shopping will take immediate describing the seven con- relating to investments in Turn to P4 in T. Nagar ahead of It is also aimed at ensur- areas in addition to the action,” he said. P3 victs as Tamils. Give details of yatra to govt, PSLV puts Earth Observation Satellite in orbit Madras High Court tells BJP

PATHRI RAJASEKHAR I DC Centre (SDSC). The count- Subsequently, nine com- teams for rising to the occa- Luxembourg satellites, DC CORRESPONDENT interfering with its Yatra. NELLORE, NOV. 7 down was halted 18 minutes mercial satellites were sion amidst the Covid-19 Kleos (KSM-1A/1B/1C/1D), CHENNAI, NOV. 7 In his petition, state gen- before launch. released into their intended restrictions. are designed for maritime eral secretary K. Nagarajan In its first launch this year, After hectic deliberations, orbits. EOS-01, earlier known as applications. The USA The Bharatiya Janata also sought to quash Part- India’s workhorse rocket, the scientists led by Dr K. After separation, the two RISAT-2BR2, is an earth satellites, named Lemur Party (BJP) has informed II, Clause VII of the G.O the Polar Satellite Launch Sivan, Indian Space solar arrays of EOS-01 were observation satellite (Lemur-1/2/3/4), are meant the Madras High Court that dated October 31, 2020 Vehicle, placed the Earth Research Organisation deployed automatically and intended for applications in for multi-mission remote it will give an additional (which stated that religious Observation Satellite (EOS- (ISRO) Chairman and the ISRO Telemetry agriculture, forestry and sensing. ISRO used the representation to the state congregations, with a max- 01) and nine foreign satel- senior scientists S. Tracking and Command disaster management sup- PSLV-DL variant, which government, giving partic- imum ceiling of 100 people, lites into their designated Somanath and P. Network at Bengaluru port. The international has two strap-on boosters ulars about the number of would be permitted in the orbits after a textbook-per- Kunhikrishnan decided to assumed control of the satellites — one from with 12 tonnes of propel- participants and the num- state from November 16), in fect blast-off from the space- postpone the launch by satellite. In the coming Lithuania, four each from lant, for the mission. This ber of vehicles likely to par- so far it relates to persons port at Sriharikota near nine minutes. The count- days, the satellite will be Luxembourg and the USA – variant was first used to ticipate in its Vel Yatra in going for the Vel-Yatra and Nellore on Saturday. down resumed, and the PSLVC-49 carrying all brought to its final opera- were launched under com- launch a Microsat-R satel- the State, besides number to direct the government to Minutes before the rocket, designated PSLV- tional configuration. mercial agreement with lite on January 24, 2019. of participants above the issue order to all the dis- weather Earth Imaging launch, heavy downpour C49, blasted off at 3.11 pm “PSLV-C49 successfully NewSpace India Limited This was the 51st launch age of 65. trict police officers to facili- and lightning at the instead of the scheduled Satellite EOS-01 and nine placed all ten satellites pre- (NSIL), department of of the PSLV, the 76th The party made the sub- tate free movement of Vel- Sriharikota range (SHAR) 3.02 pm. other foreign satellites cisely into their 575-km space. launch vehicle mission mission before the High Yatra conducted by the caused some concern at the After 15 minutes and 20 launches from Satish orbit,” Dr Sivan declared The Lithuania satellite, from the SDSC and the 38th Court at a special sitting on petitioner between mission control in the seconds, EOS-01 was inject- Dhawan Space Centre in and congratulated the R2, is a technology demon- launch from the first Saturday while seeking November 8, 2020 and Satish Dhawan Space ed into its orbit. Sriharicota on Saturday. launch vehicle and satellite strator while the launch pad at SHAR. restraining the police from December 6, 2020. P3 CITY pg DECCAN CHRONICLE | SUNDAY | 8 NOVEMBER 2020 | CHENNAI 2

OTHER STORY Chennai metro DGP shifts Pushback: AI serves revises train custody death timings case to CB-CID showcause to 2 staff DC CORRESPONDENT CHENNAI, NOV. 7 DC CORRESPONDENT T. SUDHEESH I DC order will be issued, said called back after the pas- CHENNAI, NOV. 7 CHENNAI, NOV. 7 the sources. senger questioned the The Chennai Metro Rail It was on Wednesday ground staff ’s lapse and Limited (CMRL) has re- Tamil Nadu Director General of Two ground staff of Air evening the aircraft was exchanged war of words. scheduled its train servi- Police J.K. Tripathi has trans- India have been issued pushed back after a An airport official said a ces from Sunday for m- ferred the recent alleged show-cause notice in con- Madurai-bound passenger flight being pushed back aking the timings conve- Cuddalore custodial death case nection with the ‘push- failed to get on board once it started moving is nient for all passengers. of a 40-year-old man to the back’ incident of though his luggage was quite unusual. The passe- Metro services will be Crime Branch-CID (CB-CID) on Chennai-Madurai flight at loaded in the flight. nger reported at the airp- in operation from 5.30 am Friday. The case pertains to the Chennai airport on Pushback is an airport ort very late. It wouldn’t to 11 pm from Monday to death of Selvamurugan, who Wednesday. The airline procedure to push an air- have been pushed back if Saturday with a peak died in judicial custody at swung into action after craft backwards away the passenger had not cre- hour headway of 7 mi- Virudhachalam jail on DC published an exclusive from an airport gate by ated a mess with the gro- nutes and non-peak hour November 4. report titled “Pushback: external power; that is und staff ’, the official headway of 10 minutes. ADULTERATION WARNING As per police sources, Airport seeks report from pushback tractors or avia- said. Currently, the services Selvamurugan of Panruti was AI” on Saturday. tion tugs. However, the official are from 7 am to 9 pm. TN food safety officials warn people against adulteration in sweets and savouries taken into custody by the Airlines sources told DC When the passenger admitted lapse on the part On Sundays and public ahead of Deepavali at T Nagar. — DC Neyveli township police on that the staff members reached the departure of the ground staff. It was holidays metro trains October 28 in Neyveli in connec- had been issued notice gate, he saw the flight the duty of ground staff will run from 7am to 10 tion with a theft and was after prima facie finding moving from the bay. The to make sure the head pm without any peak remanded at Virudhachalam lapse on their part in the panicked passenger alert- count of onboard passen- hour headway. CMRL sub-jail. His wife Prema went to incident. As part of the ed the ground staff. As a gers before providing a requested all passengers Orange alert in certain meet him on November 2 at procedure, they will be result, the flight was signal for taking off. to maintain social dis- Virudhachalam sub-jail, when given a 7–day timeframe pushed back to the bay so Meanwhile, the airport tancing norms by wear- he looked weak and his throat to present their case. If that the passenger could authorities had also asked ing face masks to pre- was swollen. He was unable to their reply is unconvinc- get onboard. DC has the airline for a report on vent the spread of places of Tamil Nadu eat and talk properly. ing, then suspension learnt that the flight was Thursday in this incident. Covid-19. Prema returned home and on DC CORRESPONDENT According to the Chennai received light to Wednesday night, she received a CHENNAI, NOV. 7 moderate rains in some call informing her that her hus- bulletin, Puviara- areas. The highest rainfall band had been taken to the hos- Bullet in luggage, principal held at Chennai airport Various places in Chennai san, Director of the in the state was recorded pital. When she rushed to the experienced scanty rain- RMC, Chennai, in parts of Madurai, Virudhachalam government DC CORRESPONDENT said the personnel, adding fall on Saturday. The Met said, “In the next Virudhunagar and hospital along with her chil- CHENNAI, NOV. 7 that his travel to Delhi has department forecast 72 hours, many Sivagangai. dren, she was told that been cancelled. cloudy skies and moder- Chennai-based weather Selvamurgan had suffered A 42-year-old school prin- Sources said he was ate rain in Chennai on parts of the state blogger Pradeep John also seizures and had died. cipal, bound for Delhi, was handed over to the airport Sunday. An orange alert will experience dry said the city will witness Prema and her relatives imme- arrested after he triggered police for an inquiry. has also been issued in weather. Some of short, intense spells of diately started to protest. They a scare at the Chennai air- During the investigation, certain parts of the state. the coastal areas rains till late Saturday refused to receive the body and port after security person- the principal said that in Several parts of Tamil night. However, the rains alleged that he died of custodial nel found a live bullet in the recent past, one of his Nadu is expected to are likely to will start to reduce from torture. Prema alleged that her his luggage, on Saturday. students had brought the receive mild to moderate receive mild to November 8. husband’s body had several Selvaraj, a native of bullet to the school, which rains for the next 48 hours moderate rainfall” On Saturday morning , wounds on the neck and back Uthiramerur in was seized and he had starting from Saturday, as he posted that there were and that he had been tortured to Kanchipuram, is the prin- kept it in his bag. a result of a change in temperature is predicted good rains in Anna Nagar death. The wife and kin of the cipal of a private school in According to the airport cipal denied having any The airport police wind directions, forecast to be 32?, with a minimum West and many parts of deceased man continued to Punjab, sources said. He sources, the bullet was dis- bullet in his bag, but the passed on the information the Regional temperature of 25?. Chennai for the last 30 protest on Saturday and sought came to the Chennai air- covered after the scanner airport security personnel to their counterparts in Meteorological Centre For the next 48 hours, minutes. Meenambakkam the intervention of Chief port on Saturday morning alarm went off and the recovered a live bullet Punjab, to investigate the (RMC) in Chennai. Puviarasan said, "The has recorded 21 mm so far. Minister Edappadi K. to board an Air India bag was taken out for thor- from his bag. matter there. Inquiries are According to the bul- places will be cloudy with More popup is forming in Palaniswami. flight to Delhi. ough checking. The prin- “It was a 9mm bullet,” underway. letin, Puviarasan, some parts of the city the northeast of Chennai Director of the RMC, experiencing mild show- and likely to move Chennai, said, "In the next ers with thunderstorms. towards Chennai in the DC CORRESPONDENT ry 2019 in Vadapalani in a hig- Karangal, said,” when he was belonged to Chhodaatharakotha 72 hours, many parts of The maximum tempera- coming hours and many Man CHENNAI, NOV. 7 hly deranged condition. Dress- brought to our home at Th- village, Moamari panchayat, Co- the state will experience ture will be 33? and the parts of the city will get ed up in rags with unkempt iruverkadu, he seemed to be och Behar district, West Bengal. dry weather. Some of the minimum temperature rains. With the fading reunited A 40-year-old mentally chal- matted hair he kept muttering mentally ill and also anaemic. The Udavum Karangal team coastal areas are likely to will be 25?." easterly wave, there are lenged man from Cooch Behar to himself. Jacob, a social wor- We immediately referred him to contacted the family and the re- receive mild to moderate Parts of Thanjavur, chances of short intense district in West Bengal was ker, says,” I saw him in a very a psychiatrist, who diagnosed latives were happy to hear abo- rainfall." Tiruvarur, Nagapattinam, spells on Saturday morn- with family reunited with his family on pitiable condition and when him as a psychotic patient. He ut Makbul who was said to be In the case of Chennai Pudukottai and ing and Saturday late Saturday by social workers asked if he was willing to co- was also anaemic and was given missing for 12 years. His broth- and its outskirts, the RMC Ramanathapuram are night in parts of Chennai from Bengal here at ‘Udavum Karangal’ in me with me to Udavum Karan- 4 units of blood in the hospital. er immediately rushed to Udav- predicted cloudy skies for likely to experience heavy city. “Then we head for a Thiruverkadu. gal home, where he would be After receiving medication and um Karangal on Saturday mor- the next 24 hours. Some rainfall, coupled with break of rains from after 12 years The man, Makbul Hossain, taken care well, he immediate- psychiatric treatment for a few ning and was filled with joy to parts of the city will wind and thunderstorms November 8 as dry air was spotted by a social worker ly got into the ambulance.” months, he gave the details of see his brother hale and receive rains with thun- in the next 48 hours. moves into the city,” he of Udavum Karangal in Janua- Vidyakar, founder of Udavum his family. He divulged that he healthy. derstorms. The maximum In the last 24 hours, said. STATE pg DECCAN CHRONICLE | SUNDAY | 8 NOVEMBER 2020 | CHENNAI 3

OTHER STORY 500 more cops to Kamal’s birthday celebrated manage festive crowds with a political twist From P1 DC CORRESPONDENT Gandhi, who described meetings that he had with CHENNAI, NOV. 7 him, in a tweet, as ‘A his party functionaries He also said 500 police person- strong voice that has con- and leaders, who had nel would additionally be The 66th birthday of tributed to modern Tamil urged him to contest the deployed since more shoppers Makkal Needhi Maiam culture.’ election from his home are likely to visit over the week- founder Kamal Haasan Kerala Chief Minister town of Paramakudi and ends. As many as 10 beat consta- was celebrated on Pinayari Vijayan, DMK also from Mylapore in bles have been given smart jack- Saturday by his fans and president M. K. Stalin and Chennai. ets with body cameras and followers with a clear MDMK founder Vaiko It is said that Haasan deployed for round-the-clock political twist as for the were among the promi- and also his supporters patrolling in 15 sectors. first time he was openly as the future Chief nent politicians who con- are a bit upbeat about Police watchtowers have been hailed as the future Chief Minister. Besides, the veyed their wishes to their electoral prospects, set up at vantage points. The Minister of Tamil Nadu. MNM party flag was hoist- Haasan. Stalin, who greet- particularly in the context police have also opened mini- DEEPAVALI ALERT Wall posters appeared all ed on the occasion, pre- ed him over the phone, of Rajinikanth opting out control rooms and police assis- over Chennai, in which senting him as a full- also wished him a long life of the political race. The tance booths under the his followers declared that fledged politician to all. in his Facebook post. followers believe that Mambalam and Police Commissioner Mahesh Kumar Aggarwal inspecting the drone to be used as their vote would be for Kamal met his followers Among those in the film Kamal’s prospects have Soundarapandianar Angadi part of security measures in shopping hub T Nagar. — DC Kamal Haasan only, thus who turned up at his office fraternity who greeted increased and also expect police station limits. reaffirming their support to greet him and accepted him were actor Rajinikanth to support Similar bandobast arrange- for his political move. their wishes personally on Rajinikanth and actress him. ments would be in place in shop- Though Haasan’s film Saturday and also spoke to Khusboo. They believe that the ping areas in other parts of the fans have been calling on many well-wishers who This was the first birth- MNM has emerged as an city as well. The commissioner him on his birthdays and called him over phone. day in which his followers alternative to the two said meetings were already con- DMK raises questions of law have even put up wall Among the prominent pledged their electoral major Dravidian parties, ducted with the office-bearers of posters greeting him in personalities who greeted support to him through DMK and AIADMK, as the traders associations in the city the past, this is perhaps him on the occasion was posters as is came close on party founder himself had to ensure they follow the Covid- the first time he is hailed Congress leader Rahul the heels of a series of said. 19 protocols. in conduct of gram sabha case DC CORRESPONDENT Thoothukudi bags CHENNAI, NOV. 7 HC extends Challenging the action of DMK meet: Cases Dead leopard found 1st place in water the Tamil Nadu govern- parole to ment in cancelling the conservation gram sabha meetings at corona affected From P1 village panchayats, sched- against 2K cadre in snare in Nilgiris uled on October 2, 2020, life convict Under the 'Water Conservation' the DMK party has raised DC CORRESPONDENT tered cases against 2,036 B RAVICHANDRAN | DC ened metal wires around category for South, four questions of law, THOOTHUKUDI, NOV. 7 DMK functionaries, DC CORRESPONDENT OOTY, NOV. 7 Forest officials its carcass. Further Sasthavinathur village pan- which assumes including DMK MP CHENNAI, NOV. 7 attached to the enquiries in the village chayat, Thoothukudi, bagged Constitutional impor- Police here registered Kanimozhi, sitting MLAs A leopard trapped in a Coonoor forest revealed that two persons, the first place. Madurai tance, before the Madras cases against 2,036 DMK P Geetha Jeevan, Anitha The Madras high court metal snare in a farmland Murugan (38) and Selvam Municipal Corporation was high court. men including MP Radhakrishnan and has extended by 15 days, along the jungle fringes of range who rushed (40), hailing from Kakanji awarded the first place in the Senior counsel Kanimozhi Karunanidhi Shanmugaiah under sec- the parole granted to a Kakkanji Nagar hamlet to the spot on Nagar hamlet had set up 'Best Urban Local Body' catego- N.R.Elango, assisted by and three sitting MLAs on tions 147, 269, 270, 271 and 27-year-old life convict, near Coonoor was found Saturday found the snare in the private ry. advocate V.Arun raised Saturday, for organising 189 of Indian penal code who was convicted and dead, and foresters have farmland. Under the Best the four questions of law and participating in DMK (IPC), for holding public sentence to life in a mur- nabbed two persons in the that it was a five- “They were said to be in Research/Innovation/Adaptatio before a division bench president MK Stalin’s vir- meeting in violation of der case, as he is also village on charges of year-old female the habit of setting up n of New Technology for Water comprising Justices tual meeting tittled ‘Ta- public order, negligent affected with corona killing the animal. leopard with wire snares to trap wild Conservation category, Hari M.Sathyanaraynan and milagam Meetpom’ (‘Re- and malicious act likely to while attending his For the past one month, boars and other small ani- Kuppuswamy, ICAR-Sugarcane R.Hemalatha when a PIL trieve Tamil Nadu) in the spread infections danger- father, who was affected it turned out be a period of tightened metal mals. Regarding Friday’s Breeding Institute, Coimbatore, filed by DMK MLA district on November 5. ous to lives, for knowingly due to corona, during distress for wild animals wires around its incident, they had set up T Pradeep, IIT Madras and Va K.N.Nehru came up for MK Stalin had held the disobeying the rule prom- his earlier parole period. here, as two elephants, carcass the snare to trap wild Tech Wabag Ltd bagged the first hearing on Thursday. virtual meeting in 147 pla- ulgated by the govern- A division bench com- one in Gudalur and the boars in the area, but the three spots respectively. In his petition, Nehru, ces to address party func- ment, and for threatening prising Justices other in Ooty, and a wild leopard got trapped. While Manikandan, co-ordinator, sought a direction to the tionaries in the district, in a public servant. The M.Sathyanarayanan and boar were electrocuted in remote villages along the trying to rescue itself Kovai Kulangal Pathukappu state government to violation of Covid-19 nor- police also invoked the R.Hemalatha granted Gudalur, while a leopard jungle fringes to unearth from the trap, the leopard Amaippu, Coimbatore and Prof abstain from interfering ms. Hence, Thoothukudi ‘epidemic diseases act’ extension of parole for was found dead with bul- the clandestine snares set sustained internal Sakthinathan Ganapathy with the administration police on Saturday regis- against the functionaries. 15 days while disposing let injuries in Gudalur up to trap wild animals. injuries and suffocation, Pandian, CWG Campus, Anna and conduct of gram of a petition filed by limits. Now, another leop- Forest officials attached resulting in its death,” for- University bagged the top two sabha meetings by the vil- tance and therefore, still it was open to the Abisri, which sought to ard has been found dead to the Coonoor forest est official sources said, places under the Best Water lage panchayat presidents prayed for appropriate inspector of panchayats extend the parole grant- within Coonoor limits. range who rushed to the and added that they Warrior for South Zone. and people of gram sabha orders and it was relevant or the delegated official to ed earlier to her hus- The incident now calls spot on Saturday found arrested Murugan and Indira Gandhi Government under the provisions of to extract the same. The take preventive measures band Gunasekaran for for foresters to personally that it was a five-year-old Selvam. Further investi- High School, Katterikuppam, the Tamil Nadu bench said government and prayed for accommo- 30 more days. inspect farmlands in female leopard with tight- gation is underway. Puducherry, was awarded the Panchayats Act, 1994, and pleader V.Jayaprakash dation to file a compre- first place in the Best School cat- Tamil Nadu Grama Sabha Narayan, accepting notice hensive counter affidavit egory. The awards distribution (quorum and procedure on behalf of the authori- with supporting docu- >>>> ceremony will take place on for convening and con- ties, has drawn the atten- ments, the bench added November 11 and 12, virtually. ducting meetings) Rules tion of this court to and posted to January 22, The National Water Awards 1998 to exercise their con- Chapter X of the Tamil 2021, further hearing of READY FOR VISITORS 2019 are presented in 16 cate- stitutional rights con- Nadu Panchayat Act, 1994 the case. Similarly, the gories including Best State, Best ferred on the gram sabha and submitted that in the bench also ordered notice, District, Best Village Panchayat, as per Article 243G and light of Section 202 of the returnable by January 22, Best Urban Local Body, Best eleventh schedule of the said Act, the powers were 2021, to the state govern- Research/ Innovation/ New Constitution of India. available with the inspec- ment, on another PIL filed Technology and Best Education The bench said senior tor of panchayats or the by A.G.Mourya, general Workers spray among others, and each of the counsel invited the atten- delegated official and fur- secretary, Makkal Needhi disinfectant in categories has sub-categories in tion of this court to para- ther pointed out that any Maiam party, through Government Egmore different zones of the country. graph 4 of the affidavit subject sought to be advocate Vijayan museum which is to be Tamil Nadu was followed by and submitted that the fol- included in the agenda of Subramanian, which reopened on November Maharashtra and Rajasthan as lowing questions of law a gram sabha concerned sought to conduct gram 10. — DC the best states under the normal also assumes with the sovereignty and sabha meetings all over category. Constitutional impor- security of the country, Tamil Nadu state. Indira Gandhi Government High School, Katterikuppam, Was sure of Kamala’s win: Uncle Puducherry, was awarded the first B. VIJAYALAKSHMI | DC place in the Best CHENNAI, NOV. 7 School category. The With Democratic presi- Twin villages in state get awards distribution dential candidate Joe ceremony will take Biden and his running place on November mate Senator Kamala Students from private schools joining state-run Harris winning the US’ ready for early Deepavali 11 and 12, virtually. election, Kamala’s uncle Dr G. Balachandran said Nagapattinam, Nov. 7: alongside Joe Biden to leading to schools a heartening trend, says minister their win was on expected With Democratic candi- start celebrations. The vil- Thulasenthirapuram and Vel yatra will lines. date for the Vice President lagers have now kept fire- Painganadu villages from Tirunelveli, Nov. 7: "From a migration of tions appreciated the cur- Speaking to DC from of the United States, crackers ready to hail a nearby Mannargudi town State-run schools have- about 20,000 to 50,000 riculum of government New Delhi, Dr Kamala Harris confident win for Kamala Harris, is filled with wall posters scripted history by students to private schools, saying it was bet- resume, says Balachandran said, “I am of her victory, the people also a US Senator. Women and digital banners wish- attracting 5.18 lakh stu- ter than the curriculum of glad the suspense is over. I of two villages in Tamil are also planning to draw ing a resounding win for dents from several private schools in the past, there CBSE schools. TN BJP was confident that Biden- Nadu, which are native to a mega rangoli in front of Joe Biden and Kamala schools across Tamil has been a steep enroll- Sengottaiyan, who earlier Chennai, Nov. 7: The BJP's Kamala would emerge vic- her maternal grandpar- the village temple. "We Harris. Earlier, on Nadu, and this reverse ment in our schools. participated in a pro- Tamil Nadu unit chief L torious in the election. It ents, are also equally con- have collected Rangoli November 2, when the US exodus is a heartening About 5.18 lakh students gramme organised to Murugan on Saturday said the is not a surprise to me.” vinced that she would powders in different went to the polls, the peo- trend,School Education who opted out of several grant recognition to pri- 'Vel Yatra' would resume from When asked about any emerge victorious and colours and are planning ple performed special Minister K A private schools have vate schools in tomorrow and go on as per the change in India-US bilat- eager to celebrate her win, to draw the image of prayers in the local temple Sengottaiyan said on joined government Tirunelveli, Tenkasi, schedule. A day after police eral relationship with the an early Deepavali. The Kamala Harris. It is a mat- praying for a win for Saturday. The scenario of schools" Thoothukudi and stopped the 'Vel' or 'Vetrivel' change of guard there, Dr mood is upbeat at ter of pride for the entire Kamala. exodus from state govern- Kanyakumari districts, Yatra at Tiruttani near here Balachandran, who has Thulasenthirapuram and womenfolk," said Thulasenthirapuram and ment schools in the past schools," the minister told said the state government since the government had specialised on issues relat- Painganadu, tucked away Meenakshi, a housewife at Painganadu are agrarian has completely changed reporters here. Claiming was willing to issue banned it in view of the COVID- ed to technology and eco- in a corner of Tiruvarur Thulasenthirapuram. villages and are located and a large number of stu- that state government orders granting perma- 19 pandemic, the BJP top state nomics, said a strong foun- district, a part of the fer- The people feel proud very close to each other dents are flocking to state- schools have scripted "his- nent recognition status to leader expressed confidence dation has already been tile Cauvery delta region, that their villages happen near Mannargudi. Both run schools, he said. tory in Tamil Nadu," private schools. About that the statewide campaign laid for India-US ties. and people are waiting to be the native place of villages appear to be head- "From a migration of Sengottaiyan said, the 2,515 private schools shall restart on Sunday from “There is no outstand- only for a formal declara- the grandparents of ed for prolonged celebra- about 20,000 to 50,000 stu- reverse exodus on a mas- across the state would here. ing issue between the two tion that Kamala has won Kamala Harris. The road tions. — DC dents to private schools in sive scale took place dur- soon be provided recogni- "The yatra will start at 10 am countries. I think the new the past, there has been a ing the tenure of chief tion, he added. The recog- from Vadivudayamman temple, US regime will continue to Americans, had said the Balachandran said,” Yes, hisniece sounded cheer- steep enrollment in our minister K Palaniswami. nition which was extend- Tiruvottiyur," he told reporters strengthen its relation- US and India share a she always stands up for ful. schools. About 5.18 lakh "This is something that ed year-on-year basis till here. The yatra, according to the ship with India.” It may be strong interest in a rules- human rights.” “Based on my analysis, I students who opted out of gives happiness," he last year, will be issued for BJP, was to 'expose' the DMK recalled that Biden, in his based Indo-Pacific region. Balachandran, who had told Kamala that I was several private schools added. The minister also two years from this year, and other forces that had hurt address to a virtual On Kamala’s strong spoken to his niece twice sure of her victory,” he have joined government claimed that several sec- he said. —PTI the sentiments of people by den- fundraiser for Indian views on Kashmir, in the last few days, said added. igrating the Kanda Sashti Kavacham, a spiritual hymn in praise of Lord Muruga. The PONDY WITNESSES DROP IN DAILY Saffron party also has approached the Madras High Only 14 cars and 30 people for yatra: BJP CORONA CASES, 3 MORE DIE Court seeking a nod for holding the yatra. On Friday, the police From P1 he added. from the party on the number of people aged Yatra) was the concern of Puducherry, Nov. 7: Puducherry recorded a dip in the did not allow the BJP leaders Advocate-general Vijay entire tour. They were say- above 60. "Being the state the state, the petitioner daily count of coronavirus cases with 73 fresh infec- including Murugan to com- When the hearing com- Narayan said when the ing that they were being president of a national will conclude the yatra on tions on Saturday, taking the overall tally to 35,744. mence the yatra from Tiruttani menced, BJP's counsel representations were denied permission to visit party, do not forget the fact December 5. The petition- Three people, including a 55 year old woman from and detained all of them.They Raghavachari submitted made by the parties, the a temple but actually they that apart from Covid-19, er will give an additional Yanam died due to the virus, pushing the toll to 601. were released later. The party that once the temple was police directed them to were bringing a huge revenue and police will representation to the A release from Director of Health and Family had announced that the yatra opened subject to certain approach the local police. crowd, he added. now have to deal with state, giving all the partic- Welfare S Mohan Kumar said 73 new cases were iden- would commence on November conditions, it was not The October 31 GO clearly Pointing out that the monsoon also," the bench ulars including the num- tified at the end of examination of 3,981 samples dur- 6 at Tiruttani and culminate on appropriate to prevent stated that religious con- petitioner cannot choose added. ber of participants and ing last 24 hours ending 10 am on Saturday. December 6 at Tiruchendur cov- people from entering the gregations will be permit- the route, the bench said Counsel said his client the vehicles, he added. While Puducherry accounted for 58 cases, Karaikal ering all the six abodes, 'Padai temple. ted only after November the petitioner has to state will use only 15 cars and The bench posted and Yanam regions had two fresh cases each while Veedu' of Lord Muruga in Tamil Once the temple was 15. the number of people and he will be accompanied by to November 10, fur- Mahe had 11. Nadu. opened for public view, the The authorities had the vehicles accompany- 30 people. If December 6 ther hearing of the The deceased had complaints of co-morbidities like — PTI state can only regulate it, indeed sought particulars ing him as well as the (the ending date of Vel- case. diabetes and hypertension. — PTI NATION pg DECCAN CHRONICLE | CHENNAI | SUNDAY | 8 NOVEMBER 2020 4

IN BRIEF SHIVRAJ SAYS SOVAN TO PLAY STAN SWAMY NATH WOOING 55% vote in Bihar’s crucial ACTIVE ROLE IN SEEKS COURT NOD BJP MLAs BJP AHEAD OF RABINDRA NATH WB ELECTIONS TO USE SIPPER CHOUDHURY | DC final phase, results on 10th BHOPAL, NOV. 7 DC CORRESPONDENT RAJIB CHOWDHURI | DC MUMBAI, NOV. 7 Madhya Pradesh chief Voting held for 78 seats in 15 districts of north Bihar and Seemanchal KOLKATA, NOV. 7 minister Shivraj Singh Father Stan Swamy, the 83- Chouhan and Congress NAYEAR AZAD | DC In what appears to be a year-old tribal rights activist veteran Kamal Nath on with agency inputs major takeaway for arrested in the Elgar Parishad- Saturday traded charges PATNA, NOV. 7 union home minister alleged Maoist links case, has against each other of Amit Shah from his moved a special court in poaching MLAs from the Bihar on Saturday record- West Bengal visit, BJP Mumbai for permission to use rival camps even as rul- ed a voter turnout of leader Sovan Chatterjee a straw and sipper in Taloja ing BJP and Opposition around 55 per cent during has asserted within two jail in Navi Mumbai, where he Congress waited for the the third and final phase days ofmeeting him is currently lodged. outcome ofthe ofpolls. Voting in this that he never quit the Swamy, through his lawyer November 3 by-elections phase was held in 78 con- party. Kritika Agarwal, moved the to 28 assembly con- stituencies spread across The former Kolkata plea before the special NIA stituencies. 15 districts ofnorth Bihar, mayor, who was once court on Friday seeking straw Talking to reporters Seemanchal and Kosi chiefminister Mamata and sipper in jail citing health here, Mr Chouhan said region ofthe state. Banerjee’s close aide issues. “I cannot hold a glass he was informed by Like the previous two and also her cabinet col- as my hands are unsteady due some BJP MLAs that the phases, the final phase too league with three portfo- to Parkinson's,” Swamy said in former chief minister is considered crucial for lios, maintained dis- his application. Mr Nath was wooing the ruling NDA led by the tance from the BJP for The special court judge D.E. them to join Congress. JD(U) and for the Grand over a year following a Kothalikar has asked the But, the BJP legislators Alliance comprising the spat with its state lead- national probe agency to file have spurned the offer, RJD, Congress and Left ership soon after his its reply on the matter on Mr Chouhan claimed. parties. However, the defection from the November 26. “It is Mr Nath who entry ofparties like LJP, Trinamul Congress. Swamy was arrested from brought the culture of Asaduddin Owaisi’s To get back its Narada his home in Ranchi last month luring MLAs ofthe rival AIMIM and Pappu Yadav’s sting scam accused in connection with the vio- party to Congress in JAP made the fight trian- Behala East MLA, the lence in Bhima Koregaon near Madhya Pradesh. We gular in most seats. TMC meanwhile Pune in January 2018. have never approached Chirag Paswan, who had renewed efforts which Last month, the NIA had the Congress MLAs who pulled out ofthe NDA cit- saw Mr Chatterjee meet- filed a charge-sheet in the mat- resigned from their ing ideological differences ing the CM in person ter against eight people, party and joined BJP. with chiefminister Nitish and also getting security including Swamy. The investi- They (Congress legisla- Kumar ahead ofseat-shar- cover from the state gov- gating agency has alleged that tors) volunteered to join ing, emerged as the third ernment. But his meet- Swamy was actively involved BJP”, Mr Chouhan said. force and fielded candi- Security personnel escort a man with physical disability as he arrives to cast his vote at a polling station for the ing, in presence ofhis in the activities ofthe CPI As many as 22 dates on 42 seats, mostly third phase of Bihar elections at Raxaul in East Champaran district on Saturday. - PTI close friend Baishakhi (Maoist). Congress lawmakers against the JD(U) and Banerjee, with Mr Shah resigned from the Hindustani Awam Morcha the Kosi region where had won 23 out of78 seatshome Nityanand Rai, district when he was going on November 5 dashed assembly and subse- (HAM) during the third Yadavs and Backwards are in the third phase ofpollsUnion ministers Giriraj to cast the ballot, police all hopes of the TMC for ACTIVE COVID quently from their party phase ofpolls. the deciding factors. followed by BJP’s 20, Singh and Ashwini said. his return to the party. in March to pull down Political analysts believe Pappu Yadav contested RJD’s 20, Congress’ 11 and Choubey. The 30-year-old Beni On Saturday Mr CASES STAY the Nath government. that the NDA as well as the from Madhepura. others four seats. In the In all the three phases Singh was shot dead at Chatterjee said, “I took Shivraj said Mr Nath Grand Alliance are set to A total of1,204 candi-previous two phases, the the BJP took the campaign Sarsi village in Dhamdaha the BJP membership 18 BELOW 6 LAKH first took the step to woo witness a tough fight in dates are in the fray for the voter turnout was 54.26 beyond local issues by assembly constituency by months ago. But did I 2 BJP MLAs into his the Muslim-dominated 78 Assembly seats out of and 54.05 per cent. The speaking about the abro- a bike-borne assailant, take any other party's New Delhi, Nov. 7: India's party after Congress Seemanchal region where which the RJD had fielded results will be declared on gation ofArticle 370 andSuperintendent ofPolice membership since then? Covid-19 caseload mounted to came to power in the AIMIM has a visible influ- the maximum (46 candi- November 10. Pakistan-backed terror. Vishal Sharma said. Or has there been my 84,62,080 with 50,356 infections state in 2018. “Mr Nath ence and has fielded 15 dates), followed by LJP’s During all the three Mr Adityanath took up He said the assailant severance from the BJP? being reported in a day, while has introduced the cul- candidates. 42, JD(U)'s 37, BJP's 35, phases, the BJP cam- Ram Temple in Ayodhya pumped eight bullets in Did I ever say anything the number ofpeople who ture ofhorse trading in “Asaduddin Owaisi’s Congress’ 25, the RLSP’s paigned aggressively for and triple talaq and while Beni Singhs body and fled like that? So where does have recuperated from the dis- MP by wooing 2 BJP party AIMIM has a visible 25, BSP’s 20, AIMIM’s 16, NDA candidates. Prime addressing rallies. He had from the spot. such a scope arise ease crossed 78 lakh pushing MLAs. He is now accus- influence in some of the VIP's 5, CPI-ML’s 5, CPI's 2 Minister Narendra Modi created a flutter by bring- Beni Singh was killed from?” He also hinted to the national recovery rate to ing BJP oftrading seats in the Seemanchal and HAM’s one candidate. addressed 12 rallies across ing up the CAA and NRC barely 100 meters ofa become active for the 92.41 per cent, according to MLAs”, he added. region. The party may cut Casting ofvotes began at the state. Besides, UP CM issue while campaigning polling booth near his first time in the party data updated by the Union Earlier, Mr Nath has votes and cause a major 7 am at all 33,782 polling Yogi Adityanath also held in Seemanchal ahead of home when he was going ahead ofthe Assembly Health Ministry on Saturday. accused BJP oftrying to dent in the NDA as well as stations where as many rallies across the state to the third phase ofpolls. to cast his vote, the police Elections. The coronavirus death toll ‘purchase’ Congress the Grand Alliance in this EVM sets and VVPAT campaign for the NDA. Meanwhile, the younger said. On Mr Shah he said, climbed to 1,25,562 with 577 MLAs. “I have been phase ofpolls,” a political machines were installed Other Central leaders of brother ofjailed criminal Locals and Singhs rela- “He wanted to know the new fatalities, the data updat- informed by some observer said. and paramilitary forces the BJP who toured Bihar Bittu Singh, wanted in tive created a ruckus after situation. I tried to ed at 8 am showed. Congress MLAs that Similarly, Pappu Yadav’s deployed to maintain for campaigning were more than a dozen murder the incident following explain the issues to A total of78,19,886 people they were getting offers JAP is also likely to make order, officials said. party’s national president and extortion cases, was which the SP and other him. He tried to under- have recuperated from Covid- from BJP to join the the contest tough for NDA In 2015 polls, the JD(U) as J.P. Nadda, defence minis- shot dead on Saturday officials reached the spot stand them during our 19 so far pushing the national party”, Mr Nath said. and the Grand Alliance in part ofthe Grand Alliance ter Rajnath Singh, MOS near a polling booth in the to pacify them. exchange ofopinion.” recovery rate to 92.41 per cent, while the case fatality rate has further declined to 1.48 per cent. J&K ALLIANCE The number ofactive cases ‘Valley has less than ofCovid-19 remained below 6 Bombay HC issues notices to Maha, lakh for the ninth consecutive TO CONTEST d a y. 200 militants now’ There are 5,16,632 active LOCAL POLLS cases of coronavirus infection DC CORRESPONDENT the Kashmir Valley is Mumbai CP in TRP scan case in the country as on date NEW DELHI, NOV. 7 now less than 200. We YUSUF JAMEEL | DC which comprises 6.11 per cent are confident now that SRINAGAR, NOV. 7 DC CORRESPONDENT Hansa Research Group ofthe total caseload, the data Security forces in no reinforcements are MUMBAI, NOV. 7 stated. Jammu and Kashmir coming from across the The recently formed had lodged a complaint India’s Covid-19 tally had are extremely opti- border we will will alliance ofJammu and The Bombay High Court on against its employee Vishal HC reserves order crossed the 20-lakh mark on mistic that overall launch a fresh opera- Kashmir's regional Saturday asked the state Bhandari on October 6 after August 7, 30 lakh on August 23 security scenario in tion to eliminate the opposition parties and government and Mumbai he was found allegedly and 40 lakh on September 5. It the Valley would remaining active mili- their allies from the Police Commissioner accepting payments illegal- went past 50 lakh on improve considerably tants in the region,” national Left parties Param Bir Singh to reply a ly to make certain house- on Arnab’s bail plea September 16, 60 lakh on during the winter sea- the official added. has decided to contest plea filed by Hansa holds watch specific TV September 28, 70 lakh on son as they have been Top security sources the elections for the Research Group Pvt Ltd, the channels, allegedly to fudge DC CORRESPONDENT bench ofJustices S.S. October 11 and crossed 80 lakh able to successfully have confirmed that in District Development complainant in the televi- MUMBAI, NOV. 7 Shinde and M.S. Karnik on October 29. thwart major infiltra- the past two months Councils and vacant sion rating points (TRP) TV TRP ratings. said, “We will pass the According to the Indian tion attempts from ter- despite more than 20 seats ofPanchayats in scam, alleging harassment Ten arrests have been The Bombay High Court on order at the earliest. The Council ofMedical Research ror outfits in Pakistan infiltration attempts the Union Territory by the police. made so far, including Saturday reserved its order pendency ofthis matter (ICMR), a cumulative total of Occupied Kashmir. not a single attempt (UT) unitedly. The petition filed by the those of former employees on Republic TV Editor-in- does not preclude you 11,65,42,304 samples have been This, sources claim, was successful. “Any After holding day-long company and three ofits ChiefArnab Goswami's (Goswami) or the other tested up to November 6 with would have a direct attempt to push mili- deliberations at the res- senior officials alleged that of the company. interim bail plea. accused from approaching 11,13,209samples being tested impact on the security tants into India from idence ofits president the city police was conduct- The police, after prelimi- When his lawyer Harish the concerned lower court on Friday. The 577 new fatali- situation as militant across the border have and former chief minis- ing the probe in an illegal nary inquiry, had claimed Salve insisted that an ad- seeking regular bail.” ties include 161 from groups were facing a failed completely due ter Farooq Abdullah in and highly objectionable that two local regional interim reliefbe granted, The high court was hear- Maharashtra. severe crunch ofboth to the pro-active sur- Jammu on Saturday, the manner. the court said it will reserve ing petitions filed by men and material. veillance undertaken ‘People’s Alliance for The petition claimed that channels and Republic TV orders and will pronounce Goswami, a high-profile TV Intelligence inputs by the Army along Gupkar Declaration the company’s officials was also involved in the them some day in the com- journalist, and two other BIDEN-KAMALA had revealed that 250- with BSF, CRPF and (PAGD)’ spokesman were being harassed and scam. ing week. accused — Feroze Shaikh 300 militants were the local police,” a sen- Sajad Gani Lone said coerced into making false The division bench and Nitish Sarda — seeking TRUMPS DON waiting at the various ior security official that all seven member statements against a partic- assured that the court will interim bail and challeng- launchpads close to the said. parties will unitedly ular news channel and pronounce the order as ing their “illegal arrest”. From Page 1 Line ofControl and What is even more fight these elections. sought for the probe to be the fore against the peti- early as possible. The trio were arrested by International Border significant is that He said, “The PAGD transferred to the CBI. tioners. Meanwhile, the HC said Alibaug police in of national unity to confront along with Pakistan. despite Pakistan Army has unanimously decid- The petition has named The bench, however, noted Mr Goswami can move the Maharashtra's Raigad dis- raging health and economic Following this security deploying its Border ed to fight the DDC elec- assistant police inspector that since the petitioners sessions court for regular trict on November 4 in con- crises, and making Donald J. forces had further Action teams (BAT) tions unitedly. Despite Sachin Waze and assistant are complainant in the case, bail in the meantime. nection with the suicide of Trump a one-term president strengthen their three- which helps facilitate the abruptness ofthe commissioner ofpolice they should not be called to The bench clarified that architect-interior designer after four years of tumult in tier anti-infiltration infiltration by mili- DDC elections in terms Shashank Sandbhor as the the police station without the pendency ofthe case inAnvay Naik and his mother the White House, The New grid. tants has also failed oftiming it is impor- ones who were harassing any reason. the High Court will not be in 2018 over alleged non- York Times said. Senior security offi- completely in its tant that this sacred them. “They are the com- an impediment for the peti- payment ofdues by the Mr Biden's victory amounted cials claimed success- attempts this winter space in democracy is On Saturday, advocate plainant and not the tioners to seek regular bail accused's respective firms. to a repudiation ofMr Trump fully checking infiltra- season. This is largely not allowed to be invad- Devadutt Kamat, appearing accused in the case. We are under Section 439 oftheThe petitions also sought a by millions ofvoters exhaust- tion will have a direct on account ofthe new ed and marauded by for the government, Param not saying stop the investi- Code ofCriminal stay to the investigation ed with his divisive conduct impact on the Kashmir surveillance and divisive forces”. Bir Singh and the two police gation, but call them only Procedure before the con- and quashing ofthe FIR. and chaotic administration, security situation as patrolling strategies The J&K administra- officers, refuted the allega- when required and on spe- cerned court. Ifsuch an The HC, meanwhile, also and was delivered by an militants here were adopted. In the past tion had announced to tions and said the petition- cific days and for reason- application is made, the sought response from the unlikely alliance ofwomen, facing sever shortage Pak Army’s BAT has hold the first ever DDC ers are being called for able time,” Justice Shinde court ordered, the same state government on a peti- people ofcolour, old and ofboth men and mate- been involved in tar- elections in eight phas- questioning only when said. should be decided by the tion filed by Anvay Naik's young voters and a sliver of rial. “The total number geted attacks on Indian es from last week of required. Mr Kamat agreed and told concerned court within daughter Adnya Naik seek- disaffected Republicans. PTI ofactive militants in security personnel. November. He further told the court the court that the petition- four days of the filing. ing a fresh probe by an inde- that investigation in the ers would be called for ques- After hearing arguments pendent agency. case is still on and certain tioning twice a week for a from all sides for more than It will be heard on TOUGH | TALK Abdullah wants J&K’s special status restored material has also come to reasonable time. six hours, the division December 8. Raut tells Farooq to go to Pak IT raid unearths Rs 1,000-cr fraud BHAGWAN PARAB | DC Mr Abdullah, also the special status to Jammu The Sena few days back From Page 1 Black Money Act, 2015, for was transferred abroad and finances,” the board said. MUMBAI, NOV. 7 president of the NC, was and Kashmir. However, the had also opposed the BJP not disclosing foreign utilised for purchase of “Allotment ofanother Rs Narendra Modi-led BJP over the recent decision of This was not disclosed by it assets and beneficial inter- shares in the name ofthe150 crore worth preference Shiv Sena on Saturday recently appointed as the government had abrogated permitting people across in its return ofincome andest in the I-T return. son ofthe main assessee,”shares in 2015 from funds slammed former Jammu chairman of the just floated law in August 2019 and the country to buy land in also in the foreign assets It added that the present the CBDT alleged. from group companies, and Kashmir chiefminis- Peoples Alliance for the bifurcated the state into Jammu and Kashmir. schedule, the CBDT value ofthis investment One ofthe directors, itwho in turn took ter Farooq Abdullah saying Gupkar Declaration. two union territories. Mr Raut, in his weekly alleged. exceeds Rs 354 crore. said, has admitted that they loans/entries, is being Article 370 has no place in Mr Abdullah, also the column in party’s mouth- “Thus, there is suppres- Raids found that the have “diverted” funds examined,” it said. India and he can go to vowed to restore the special president ofthe National piece Saamna, said that sion of foreign income group had “acquired five through these companies. The CBDT claimed the Pakistan and implement it status ofJammu andConference, was recently some days ago, the police received in the form of shell (dummy) companies “Evidence has also been group had borrowed funds there. “IfFarooq Abdullah Kashmir. “I will not die appointed as the chairman stopped the youths who had share subscription equiva- recently, which were used found regarding allotment from banks on interest and wants, he can go to until the constitutional of the just floated Peoples gone to Srinagar’s Lal lent to Rs 200 crore, which to siphon off as much as Rs of preference shares worth diverted to other group Pakistan and implement rights ofmy people areAlliance for the Gupkar Chowk to hoist tricolor. “If is taxable in India in the 337 crore from the main Rs 150 crore in 2009 in the companies free of interest Article 370 there. In India, given back.... I am here to Declaration. we can’t hoist our national hands ofthe shareholder," group company by raising group company by passing for investments in proper- there is no place for Article do something for the people PDP chiefMehbooba flag on that land, then what it said. bogus bills and without accounting entries only to ties. “The total interest dis- 370 and 35A,” Sanjay Raut and the day I will finish my Mufti is his deputy. The is the fun to invite country- The statement said that doing any real business in project inflated capital allowance on this count said. work, I will leave this alliance’s objective is to men for buying land in action “will be initiated” these companies,” it said. before banks and financial works out to about Rs 423 Mr Abdullah, speaking in world,” he said. restore the special status of Jammu and Kashmir,” he against the group under the “The siphoned off money institutions to obtain crore. Agencies a rally on November 6, had Article 370 had granted a Jammu and Kashmir. asked. WORLD pg DECCAN CHRONICLE | CHENNAI | SUNDAY | 8 NOVEMBER 2020 5

IN BRIEF WH CHIEF OF STAFF TESTS Is Murdoch dumping Trump? VIRUS +VE Media magnate Murdoch-owned Fox News helped Don come to power in ’16 Washington, Nov. 7: White New York, Nov. 7: Fox munications professor Trump. AMERICA, I’M honoured that you have I WON THIS ELECTION, BY A LOT! Bad House chief of staff Mark News and the New York Jeffrey McCall said Fox Behind chosen me to lead our great country. things took place during those hours Meadows has tested positive Post, magnate Rupert News has always had a Fox News, The work ahead will be hard, but I promise: I where LEGAL TRANSPARENCY was viciously for Covid-19, becoming the lat- Murdoch's main media twin identity — on one which will be a President for all Americans — & crudely not allowed. Windows were est Trump administration offi- outlets, have started dis- hand, star anchors who chalked whether you voted for me or not. I will keep covered with thick cardboard so observers cial to contract the disease, tancing themselves from are more editorialists up 14.1 which has killed over 2,36,000 Donald Trump as the US than journalists and on million the faith that you placed in me could not see into the count rooms. Americans. election vote counting the other a newsroom that viewers on JOE BIDEN, President-elect DONALD TRUMP, outgoing Prez It was not immediately clear drama drags on — a first is much more measured. US elec- how 61-year-old Meadows — since the president came Some Fox journalists, tion night, who has often appeared at pub- to power and a potential such as Chris Wallace, is, of cou- lic events without a face mask turning point. who was the moderator at rse, Murdo- — was infected. A White On Thursday night in the first Trump-Biden ch. The 89- Don rages at ‘bad things’ House official told Fox News Phoenix, Arizona, sup- debate, are very well year old me- that Meadows was “doing porters of Trump bluntly respected professionals. dia mogul is well.” shouted “Fox News On the in-your-face edi- known for his Meadows’ positive test comes Sucks” in reference to the torial side stands Fox star conservative inside counting rooms weeks after President Trump news outfit considered Sean Hannity, who is very views but and first lady Melania Trump fiercely loyal to the presi- close to Trump and said over the past few Washington, Nov. 7: Donald saying that "official sources may contracted the Coronavirus dent for the past five on Thursday evening, months has come Trump on Saturday declared not have called the race when this and recovered. years. Fox News infuriated “Americans have every to grips with the himself as the winner of the was tweeted. Trump also repeated Trump and his people on right to be suspicious ... to idea of a Bid- November 3 presidential elec- his allegations of electoral fraud by election night by calling distrust the legitimacy of en win. tion, even as major American claiming without evidence that BORIS HAILS Arizona for Democrat Joe the results.” McCall said media outlets projected his "bad things happened" inside the Biden. that the way Fox News has — AFP Democratic rival Joe Biden counting rooms and tens of thou- Jared Kushner, Trump's treated Trump since the as next president of the sands of votes were illegally DIWALI SPIRIT advisor and son in law, election and its early call- United States. "I WON received in the key battleground called Murdoch in vain to ing of Arizona for Biden THIS ELECTION, state of Pennsylvania. try to get that call retract- show the more serious BY A LOT!" The president has repeatedly OF VICTORY ed. Other media held off side of the network is try- tweeted attempted to question the validity London, Nov. 7: UK Prime from calling the battle- ing to “operate as inde- Trump as major of vote counts in key swing states Minister Boris Johnson hailed ground state for Biden as pendently as possible from American media and made unfounded claims that the Diwali spirit of the victory the tallying of ballots con- the opinion section and outlets declared the election is being "stolen" from of light over darkness and good tinued. even from the ownership.” that he has lost the him. "Bad things took place during over evil as he delivered a mes- Since that night, Fox “These people have their election and Biden those hours where LEGAL TRANS- sage of optimism about over- News has stepped very own journalistic stan- would be the 46th PARENCY was viciously & crudely coming the Coronavirus pan- carefully around allega- dards that they want to president of the not allowed. Tractors blocked doors demic for a first-of-its-kind vir- tions of massive vote uphold.” United States. & windows were covered with thick tual Diwali festival this week- fraud coming from the But Reece Peck, who Twitter immedi- cardboard so that observers could end. Johnson appealed for a Trump campaign and the wrote a book about Fox ately flagged not see into the count rooms. BAD “huge collective effort” as man himself. News called “Fox Trump's THINGS HAPPENED INSIDE. BIG England entered its second “We just haven't seen it. Populism”, said this dis- tweet CHANGES TOOK PLACE!" he said stay-at-home lockdown earlier It hasn't been presented to tancing could in a tweet. this week, to last at least until us,” Fox News anchor alienate Four days after the November 3 December 2, in order to curb a Brett Baier said on the air some view- presidential election, votes were surge in coronavirus infec- Friday. ers and still being counted in several key tions across the country. So people are asking if prompt them battleground states. “While undoubtedly there are Fox News, which helped to switch to — PTI huge challenges ahead, I have bring Trump to power in another news every confidence in the 2016, is in the process of source, such resilience and resolve and good dumping him as Biden as OAN, a sense of people across the closes in on the magic small new country and that together we number of 270 electoral outfit, ultra will overcome this virus, just votes that would win him conservative as Diwali teaches us that light the White House. and extreme- triumphs over darkness, good DePauw University com- ly pro- over evil, knowledge over igno- rance,” said Johnson. RAPPER KING Bannon lawyer VON KILLED IN ATLANTA quits fraud case Atlanta, Nov. 7: Chicago rap- New York, Nov. 7: A IN A letter dated per King Von was among three lawyer for President Friday, defence attorney TOUGH ROAD FOR people shot and killed in a Donald Trump's former William Burck told a shooting early Friday outside a chief strategist, Steve federal court judge in nightclub in Atlanta that also Bannon, quit defending DON TO GET SC left three people wounded, him in a federal fraud New York City that he state investigators said. case a day after Bannon was withdrawing from TO INTERVENE “The preliminary investiga- made inflammatory com- the case. tion indicates that Dayvon ments about Dr. Anthony Washington, Nov. 7: Bennett, aka King Von, and a Fauci and FBI Director President Donald Trump group of men left the Opium Christopher Wray. either get with the pro- has repeatedly said Nightclub and went to the In a letter dated Friday, gramme or you are gone." there's one place he Monaco Hookah Lounge,” the defence attorney William Bannon, 66, is facing wants to determine the Georgia Bureau of Investigat- Burck told a federal court charges he ripped off outcome of the presiden- ion said in a statement. “Once judge in New York City Trump supporters as an tial election: the US there, two men approached the that he was withdrawing organiser of a group Supreme Court. But he group in the parking lot, and from the case. He did not called “We Build The may have a difficult time the two groups of men started give a reason why. Wall” that portrayed itself ever getting there. to argue with each other. The Reached by email, Burck as eager to help the presi- Over the last two days, argument quickly escalated to declined to discuss the dent build a barrier along Trump has leaned in to gunfire between the two decision. The lawyer quit the US-Mexico border. He the idea that the high groups.” The GBI said on- and after Bannon suggested has pleaded not guilty. court should get involved off-duty Atlanta police officers on an online broadcast Prosecutors have in the election as it did in responded and one of each that Fauci and Wray accused Bannon and co- 2000. Then, the court fired shots. “During the shoot- should be beheaded for defendants of misappro- effectively settled the ing incident, six men were shot being disloyal to the pres- priating money from the contested election for during the group altercation ident. The remarks group, which raised $25 President George W. and officer encounter.” prompted Twitter to per- million from thousands of Bush in a 5-4 decision manently suspend Bann- donors who thought their that split the court's lib- on's account. cash would be used to erals and conservatives. INDIAN ELECTED “I'd put the heads on build the wall. Prosec- Today, six members of pikes” as a warning to utors declined comment the court are conserva- federal bureaucrats, Ban- on Friday. tives, including three TO UN ADVISORY non said on video. “You — AP nominated by Trump. But the outcome of this year's election seemed to COMMITTEE be shaping up very differ- United Nations, Nov. 7: In a NATIONS CHIDE Biden: Youngest ently from 2000, when significant victory for India at Florida's electoral votes the United Nations, Indian dip- delivered the presidency lomat Vidisha Maitra was elec- TRUMP CLAIMS senator to oldest to George W Bush. Then, ted to the UN Advisory Comm- Bush led in Florida and ittee on Administrative and OF FRAUD President went to court to stop a Budgetary Questions (ACA- recount. BQ), a subsidiary organ of the Bogota, Nov. 7: Dem- Washington, Nov. 7: Third Trump, for his part, has General Assembly. In the ands to stop the vote time lucky is an apt phrase suggested a strategy that Group of Asia-Pacific States, count. Baseless accusa- to describe the remarkable would focus on multiple Maitra, First Secretary in tions of fraud. Claims rise of Joe Biden, a veteran states where the winning India's Permanent Mission to that the opposition is in US politics for around margins appear to be the UN, obtained 126 votes. The trying to “steal” the elec- five decades, from being one slim. But he might have 193-member General Assembly tion. Across the world, of the youngest senators in to persuade the Supreme appoints members of the many were scratching history to the oldest Court to set aside votes in Advisory Committee. Members their heads on Friday — American president. two or more states to pre- are selected on the basis of bro- especially in countries The 77-year-old six-term vent Joe Biden from ad geographical representa- that have long been Democratic senator, who becoming president. tion, personal qualifications advised by Washington triumphed over incumbent Chief Justice John and experience. on how to run elections Republican President Roberts, for his part, is In the group, Ali Mohammed — wondering if those Donald Trump in Tuesday's not likely to want the Faeq Al-Dabag of Iraq drew 64 assertions could truly be presidential election, ran election to come down to votes. The Fifth Committee of coming from the presi- twice unsuccessfully for himself and his col- the General Assembly, which dent of the US, the president — in 1988 and leagues. Roberts, who deals with administrative and nation considered one of 2008. The presidential was not on the court for budgetary issues, recommend- the world's most emble- dreams that the veteran Bush v Gore in 2000 but ed Maitra to the Assembly for a matic democracies. leader from Delaware had was a lawyer for Bush, three-year term beginning “Who's the banana harboured since childhood has often tried to dis- January 1, 2021. republic now?” Colombi- seemed all but over for a tance the court from the The victory comes as India an daily newspaper Pub- third time until he won political branches of gov- gets ready to sit in the UN limetro chided on the South Carolina's ernment and the politics Security Council as a non-per- front page with a photo Democratic Party primary he thinks could hurt the manent member for a two-year of a man in a US flag on February 29, forcing court's reputation. term beginning January 2021. print mask. The irony of most rivals out of the race It's also not clear what India's Permanent Represe- seeing US President Do- and making one of the most legal issues might cause ntative to the UN Ambassador nald Trump cut off by dramatic comebacks in the justices to step in. T.S. Tirumurti said that Maitra major media networks American political history. Trump has made repeat- was elected on Friday to the Thursday as he launch- Biden served two terms in ed, unsubstantiated UN ACABQ "in a strong dis- ed unsubstantiated clai- the White House as former claims of election fraud. play of support by UN member ms lambasting the US president Barack Obama's Lawsuits filed by his states". electoral system was not vice president, capitalised campaign so far have He expressed confidence that lost on many. on that experience to por- been small-scale efforts Maitra "will bring an inde- The US has long been a tray himself as a tested unlikely to affect many pendent, objective and much- vocal critic of strong- leader and a better alterna- votes, and some already needed gender-balanced per- man tactics around the tive to Republican incum- have been dismissed. spective to the functioning of world. bent President Donald Still, Trump has focused ACABQ". — AP Trump. on the high court. — AP EDIT DECCAN CHRONICLE | SUNDAY | 8 NOVEMBER 2020 | CHENNAI pg 6

Subhani LETTERS BORDER ISSUE Our CDS has come out with a statement that 8 NOVEMBER 2020 larger conflicts with China cannot be ruled out. It is a cause for concern for the people of both the Shashi Warrier nations. People are fight- ing the pandemic. The Off the beaten track government is spending a lot of money to arrest the spread of the disease. There are job losses and the economy is in bad Plotting a son-rise shape. At this point a war will have disastrous con- sequences. More than eight rounds of diplomat- on shifting sands ic talks have been held so ying in bed at night at home by Someshwar beach, it’s hard to far. Our Prime Minister is believe that the economy has slowed down. The quiet is broken by to meet Xi in the the roar of diesel engines as trucks carry sand away from the Shanghai Cooperation Lbeach. It’s all illegal, this sand mining, but it goes on through the Organisation (SCO) meet. night and most of the day despite recent headlines in a newspaper claim- Both the leaders should ing that the Mangalore police have cracked down on it. Complaints to the local police had unexpected consequences. They have a one-to-one meet brought a visitation from a gangster — a minor gangster, but big enough to sort out differences for to deter senior citizens — who was recently released from prison after war is no answer to the serving a sentence for murder. That was the end of the complaints. border issue. It should be I considered going higher up, to the Deputy Commissioner of the district, but then that’s time-consuming and useless. I went to the DC a couple of resolved bilaterally. years ago with a complaint about the local panchayat breaking all sorts of Sravana Ramachandran, rules for friends and relatives. After a dozen calls, four visits to his office Biden takes high road, Chennai and six hours of waiting, I got three minutes in the presence of the man to explain these troubles. A month later, there was a letter from his office saying that my complaint had been transferred to the local authorities, POLES APART who would get back to me. They never did: it was like asking a burglar to ACCORDING TO British tabloid investigate her own crimes. The Daily Mirror, UK Prime At my wits’ end, I thought I’d wait for my friend Murthy, the one with Trumpism is still alive Minister Boris Johnson is plan- the contacts in high places, to visit. Thanks to the lockdown, he’s been in ning to resign after six months as these parts for some months, and drops in once in a while to drink my wash as Republicans have tutional statements and he finds the salary too low in com- most expensive whiskey. The least he could do in return, I thought, was to done well to keep Senate unbecoming conduct. If Mr parison to his previous occupa- get some high-up to stop the sand mining, which is destroying what’s left control and Mr Trump’s Biden widens his Pennsyl- tion. Johnson earns approximate- of the beach after the sea is done with it. votes exceed his 2016 tally. vania lead to where it is ly 1,50,400 pounds which is report- Murthy turned up one weekend. My wife, being aware of his habits, went K.C. Singh Mr Biden simply got more seen as irreversible and the edly not sufficient for his sur- off to watch TV, leaving the two of us to ourselves. I still haven’t figured votes, breaking existing election is called, the wind vival. He is said to be ‘jealous’ of out how he managed to swallow, with no sign of haste, two large pegs of records. In a similar situa- may leak out of Trumpian his predecessor Theresa May, scotch, without giving me a chance to tion in 2016, Hillary Clinton bravado. A Biden presiden- whose earnings have gone up sub- edge a word into the conversation. But was advised by then cy appears inevitable. stantially after she quit as the then he bit into a samosa that was a little President Barack Obama to All nations are observing Prime Minister last year. Have we too spicy for him and had to shut up for a concede to avoid uncertain- silently the high theatre in ever heard of an Indian leader giv- moment to let his tongue cool off and I merica’s presi- gap is within the 0.5 per ty. But Mr Trump has no world’s most powerful ing up his political career due to grabbed the opportunity to present my dential election cent difference mandated adviser with the gravitas of democracy. A senior BJP poor earnings? In fact, people case. on November 3 as a pre-condition. In James Baker, who con- leader has written, as head enter politics purely because it is You have to hand it to the man. I gab- took pollsters, Pennsylvania, carrying vinced a cornered Richard of a party-linked think the most lucrative profession in bled my problems in the thirty seconds or Democrats and which will take Mr Biden Nixon that his only good tank, to indirectly convey the country. When there was a so that it took him to recover, and he Athe world by surprise when across the 270 mark to vic- option was to resign after the government’s thinking. report that this is the last election grasped it all. “So now you want me to see the early results showed tory, with each group of the Watergate scandal. Mr He incorrectly claims no of Bihar chief minister Nitish whether I can persuade some big shot to It’s all illegal, this sand President Donald Trump mail-in ballots counted Mr Trump seems to think he Republican President lost Kumar, his party officials prompt- stop this illegal sand mining, someone leading in most swing Biden’s lead increases. The can reel-back Arizona, reelection in a century, for- ly came out with a clarification with enough clout to avoid interference mining, but it goes on states, including in the so- main news networks, how- where he’s cutting Mr getting George H.W. Bush’s that there was no retirement for from local gangsters or officials or both.” through the night and called Democratic “Blue ever, haven’t yet called the Biden’s lead, see a turn- loss to Bill Clinton in 1992. their leader and that he would “Yes,” I responded, and sat most of the day Wall” states like election as the uncounted around in Pennsylvania as Naturally, he ignores the stay in politics “as long as the pub- back to receive the flood of the rest of his despite recent head- Pennsylvania, Michigan votes exceed Mr Biden’s more votes are counted and “Abki baar” slogan Prime lic wants”! monologue. lines in a newspaper and Wisconsin. Mr Trump lead. keep Georgia logjammed in Minister Narendra Modi P.G. Menon, Chennai As he left that night, he paused at the had snatched these Rust There are multiple issues recounts or legal chal- raised in Houston, crossing claiming that the the line between personal door of his cab, an anonymous white Mangalore police have Belt states from the in play. Mr Trump is not lenges. A protracted stand- hatchback, very unlike the Mercedes in Democrats in 2016, and only unwilling to concede off, he hopes, can somehow friendship and political COMMENDABLE WIN which he made his first visit to my house. cracked down on it their 46 Electoral College defeat but maintains, retrieve the situation, endorsement of Mr Trump. SUNRISERS HYDERABAD “I’m not sure it’ll work,” votes secured Mr Trump’s through tweets and other- maybe by going to the He now avows permanence (SRH) did everything right (right he said. “No one else wants this to stop.” victory four years ago. wise, the false narrative of Supreme Court. Unfortun- of interests and not friends from winning the toss and decid- “What do you mean?” I asked. Former vice-president electoral fraud. He plays on ately, even senior Repub- as the guiding principle. ing to bowl) on Friday to eliminate “A few people here, a hundred voters, maybe, want the mining to stop,” Joe Biden told his party the confusion between in- lican leaders fear speaking A Biden presidency Royal Challengers Bangalore he replied. “Thousands of others, voters for whom the sand means busi- that as someone born in person votes, which his the truth to Mr Trump as means both continuity and (RCB) from this edition of the ness, or work, or hope, will want it to continue.” Scranton, Pennsylvania, he supporters mostly cast, and they can see his mesmeris- change. The basic trajecto- Indian Premier League. That they “The whole beach and the township will be gone in twenty years,” I said. could reclaim the wall by legal mailed-in votes most- ing grip on a huge electoral ry of India-US relations will (SRH) restricted the RCB to a pal- “Name one leader who looks beyond the next elections,” he told me. bonding with the alienated ly going to Democrats. The base, which many senators continue, but its momen- try total of 131 in 20 overs suggests “Twenty years is long past any politician’s horizon. Five years is the working class, who had Democrats advised all, due have just enchased. tum will be conditioned by how much homework they would absolute maximum.” defected to Mr Trump, who to the Covid pandemic, to After waiting unsuccess- how Mr Biden handles have done in an eliminator match. He dropped in again just three days later. My hopes rose when he walked in 2016 played on the twin avoid the voting day rush fully for the election to be China, Pakistan, Though the RCB tried to compen- in, but fell again when he started talking. For the first time in my experi- fears of these people. One, and use mail-in voting. called, Joe Biden finally Afghanistan and Iran. sate its batting lapses with some ence, he seemed chastened, apologetic, and even humble. “What hap- deindustrialisation caused They also feared intimida- addressed the nation. He Trade ties would not be tight bowling, it could not prevent pened?” I asked. by the 1970s’ oil price rise, tion by Mr Trump’s follow- chose the high road, treated as Mr Trump did by the Sunrisers from romping “I blew it,” he said, with uncharacteristic directness. “One of these VIPs and then globalisation that ers to suppress the minori- promising to heal divides, seeking make-or-break home. Full marks to Sunrisers invited me home a couple of days ago. He told me that his security level stretched supply chains ties’ votes. Mr Trump promising to deal with the solutions. Climate change Hyderabad for winning the match had just been upgraded, so he’s got an armed guard now. His teenage son worldwide. China’s manu- realised weeks earlier that economy, climate change provides a new area of con- by six wickets. wanted to borrow the guard’s pistol to shoot at coconuts on a palm, and the facturing prowess after those enlisting for mail vot- and the pandemic. He rec- vergence, which Mr Trump S. Ramakrishnasayee, Chennai bodyguard refused to hand it over. The VIP was chewing out the body- joining the World Trade ing were mostly ommended patience, and contemptuously ignored. guard when I got to his place, and eventually the bodyguard had to submit. Organisation in 2001 Democrats, so during elec- unlike Mr Trump endorsed But the Democrats would After the boy went out, weapon in hand, the VIP turned to me, smiled, and turned global trade upside tioneering, he started the integrity of the electoral hold India to a higher stan- said, ‘Boys will be boys. I was just like that at his age.’ He was in a good down. China built huge demonising mailed ballots. process. He assumed the dard of liberal democracy SRH FAVOURITES mood, for he then asked, ‘What can I do for you?’ trade surpluses, while the In the presidential election, posture of de facto winner than the government in KUDOS TO David Warner and “I told him about the sand mining and the beach disappearing and so on, US expended money on two the methodology is left to by promising to again New Delhi is used to. his team for decimating Kohli’s and he seemed to be thinking about it. I should have shut up then but costly wars abroad. Mr each state, so the proce- address the nation the fol- Kamala Harris will remem- team to enter the qualifier 2 stage instead I told him you were afraid your township would disappear under Trump exploited these dures vary from one state lowing day. Slowly, senior ber the insulting treatment to meet Delhi Capitals on Sunday. the waves in twenty years. fears and xenophobia to another. Many allowed Republicans are moving of her comrade Pramila Like the previous seasons, RCB “His face lit up. ‘Does that mean that fifteen years from now we’ll build under his “America First” mail-voting or in-person away from solidly backing Jayapal, convincingly re- progressed well till the middle a sea wall there?’ he asked. I told him yes, and he smiled happily. slogan. early voting. However, Mr Trump in his unconsti- elected, by external affairs stages and then choked to throw ‘Elections are a part of politics,’ he said, ‘and you get used to winning The power of his message while some allowed count- minister S. Jaishankar. away their chances to lift the IPL about half the time. The important thing is your first election. If you win is clear despite Mr Biden ing of this mix of votes India has an outstanding trophy. Ironically, this season that, you’re doing fine. Building a sea wall there after some years will flipping Pennsylvania, simultaneously or early, in The basic ambassador in Washing- even the skipper was found wanti- fund my son’s first election. So tell your friend not to worry. We’ll build Arizona, Nevada and, more many crucial swing states, trajectory of ton, on a third posting ng, both as a batsman and captain. him a sea wall to keep his house safe.’” significantly, Georgia after the Election Day votes there, having relationships A.B. de Villiers too was patchy. If I didn’t know what to say, so I got up to fetch Murthy a whiskey. He read three decades of Repub- were tabulated first. The India-US relations with both sides. But then, only they had played Zampa or my mind, for he said, “I can’t stay for a drink. I’ve got to move on.” lican dominance. Of the 150 first reports thus showed will continue, but as the BJP ideologue wrote, even Moeen Ali in place of Finch, “Where?” I asked, surprised. million votes cast, the heav- Mr Trump leading, which its momentum will interests can outrank kin- things could have gone their way. “Back to that VIP. It’s the son’s birthday today, and he’s having a party… iest ever, Mr Trump has in some states began dissi- be conditioned by ship or friendship. The way Sunrisers Hyderabad I’ll get my scotch there.” under half. It signals a pating as mailed ballots how Mr Biden have bounced back, it seems they deeply divided nation, with were counted. This Mr handles China, will topple Delhi Capitals on one half wedded to a divi- Trump decried as fraudu- The writer is a former Sunday and lift the Cup on Shashi Warrier has written fairy tales, thrillers, a semi-fictional sive, racist and exclusionist lent disappearance of his Pakistan, secretary in the external Tuesday. biography, satires, and a love story. Besides writing, he teaches strategic vision. Recounting looms votes. Afghanistan affairs ministry. He tweets Capt. N. Viswanathan communication at a business school. in Georgia, as the voting This argument doesn’t and Iran at @ambkcsingh. Coimbatore

n American from Chennai do this as the US administration was bipartisan and strong footing”. Mr includes Ms Jayapal) has become the US administration act and impose won re-election this past week. headed by Republican Donald Trump, Madhav wrote: “Some in India believe stronger inside because of the success “targeted sanctions on Indian govern- Her name is Pramila Jayapal who doesn’t care about human rights. Biden-Harris would be bad news for of the human rights messaging. ment agencies and officials responsible Aand she heads the It will not be possible for Mr US-India relations.” Most Indians may not know that in for severe violations of religious free- Congressional Progressive Caucus. A Jaishankar to do what he did in Actually, nobody believes that. Mr April India was earmarked as a dom by freezing those individuals’ few months ago, India’s external affairs December 2019 again. Madhav is confusing the BJP with “Country of Particular Concern” by the assets and/or barring their entry into minister S. Jaishankar cancelled a The BJP has invested a lot in doing India. There is no question that US US Commission on International the United States under human rights- meeting with the US House Foreign what no other Indian government has India relations run deep and at times Religious Freedom. Its report said that related financial and visa authorities, Aakar Patel Affairs Committee, which included its done before -- meddle in the US elec- there is a civilisational connect “India took a sharp downward turn in citing specific religious freedom Republican chairman and Democratic tions and try and get Mr Trump elected between the two nations. This is not 2019” because the Modi government violations”. members. Mr Jaishankar refused to again. A group called the “Overseas such a time. India has taken a turn “instituted national-level policies vio- India was able to ignore this till now meet them because the group included Friends of the BJP” had registered towards majoritarianism. The Indian lating religious freedom across India, because Mr Trump was running the Pramila Jayapal, who had pushed a res- itself officially as a foreign agent in the State is bullying and harassing its own especially for Muslims”. It said of the administration and he was the one who olution demanding that India end the US in September. After this was discov- citizens at a scale which has alarmed Citizenship Amendment Act that “this would decide. India put out a statement communications blackout in Kashmir. ered, the party instructed these Indian the world. law is meant to provide protection for that said: “We reject the observations Mr Jaishankar told the Americans that Americans to help Mr Trump in their Pramila Jayapal and Kamala Harris listed non-Muslim religious communi- on India in the USCIRF annual report. Amid new dawn he would meet them only if they “personal capacity” and to not use the did not casually take up the issues they ties — but not for Muslims — against Its biased and tendentious comments dropped Ms Jayapal from the group. Of BJP’s name, but it is clear that they are chose to. They will not stop taking them exclusion from a nationwide National against India are not new. But, on this course, the Americans refused. all BJP supporters. up now as the previously partisan BJP Register of Citizens and the resulting occasion, its misrepresentation has in the US, India Mr Jaishankar is paid by us to defend Prime Minister Narendra Modi him- now pleads for bipartisan support. detention, deportation, and potential reached new levels.” India abroad but chose instead to duck self asked Indians in the US to vote for Events in America have strengthened statelessness”. It said India had seen This was also a form of running away. the meeting as it would involve a diffi- Mr Trump at the “Howdy Modi” rally the hand of those leaders there who “nationwide campaigns of harassment If you think you are friends with cult conversation or perhaps he was in September 2019. Or at least that is wish India well but think of India as and violence against religious minori- America, you have to convince them may now have to just afraid of a confrontation. After his one interpretation we can give to his being a collection of Indians. If Indians ties to continue with impunity, and that their findings are wrong. Refusing running away was widely reported in line “Ab ki baar Trump sarkar”. are mistreated, they will object. engaged in and tolerated hate speech to engage with them is not a solution. It the American media, Senator Kamala What happens now that Mr Trump is The Democratic Party fought this and incitement to violence against worked when Mr Trump was in charge. work differently Harris of California had tweeted: “It’s on his way out? The BJP has begun election on a very liberal platform. On them”. It will not work now. wrong for any foreign government to backpedalling from its recklessness. It the question of human rights, the most It names home minister Amit Shah tell Congress what members are trotted out in-house intellectual Ram powerful message they were aligned and UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath allowed in meetings on Capitol Hill.” Madhav to write a newspaper article on with was Black Lives Matter. This part and reproduces their statements. Most The writer is a columnist and a senior Mr Jaishankar felt he could afford to Saturday that “US-India ties stand on a of the Democratic Party (which important, it has recommended that journalist

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OUR CRITIC’S RATING Outstanding ##### | Great #### | Good ### | Okay ## | Poor # | Truly Terrible TT Parveen Babi: How a life of glamour ended as Token No. 62 at the morgue feel of the changing times, are times when the reader the 1970s which were more might lose track of timelines about gay abandon, to the as not all events in the book dark chambers of the 1980s. are in strict chronology. In Anirudha Bhattacharjee The gradual loss of inno- this case, the editors should cence and how we lost the have been extra careful. A lovely and capable actress to few behind-the-scene film- schizophrenia and manic making stories would have depression is the highpoint added value as well, for exam- of the book. The book ends ple the inspiration behind with Parveen Babi getting Vijay Anand’s B&W centre- of the lady who, along with registered as “unclaimed slick Bullet (1976), or how spread I grew up Sunil Gavaskar, Amitabh body number 16” at Cooper Bhappie Sonie borrowed an Harnessing horror to with in my child- Bachchan, Kishore Kumar, Hospital and later as Token idea from Billy Wilder hood featured a R.D. Burman and a few oth- No. 62 at the morgue. in Chalta Purza, the Rajesh- prominent crick- ers, made our lives worth Poignant? Yes, it is. Heart- PARVEEN BABI: A LIFE Parveen starrer which was Aeter. I do not remember living when we were young. breaking? Surely. expected to rock but did where I saw it. Could be Reports about her were Routine? No. What is dis- By KARISHMA rather badly. Lastly, the book showcase female rage Sportsweek, or one of the mostly about various glam- tinctly different about this UPADHYAY deserved many more photo- film magazines which would our, lifestyle, perversion, book is the immense effort Published by Hachette graphs, properly catalogued tmospherics play a significant too - being a girl - begins to learn the be sold on the pavement out- and schizophrenia. Upadhyay has pumped into India `467 ones. role in setting the tone of any bitter truth of her being an unwanted side the main road connect- Thankfully, Karishma her work. Of late, with the However, these are minor Afilm, more so, in a film that child. ing Pirmohani to Kadam Upadhyay’s book on Parveen boom of social media, the chapters create a very visual issues. The book’s major needs to draw you in and make you To tell such a story, smoky and Kuan in Patna. The cricketer is a godsend. The 290+ page- groundwork in terms of story. Needless to mention, strength is the storytelling care. And, if sets out to raise the patri- spooky sound and dim vision are not was Salim Durrani, the hero long impressive compendi- interviews and detailing in Upadhyay’s standing as a which, like good biogra- archal practice of killing female new- enough for viewers to get an authentic of young women at that um serves three purposes. biographies has shown a reporter/scribe comes out phies, can be given multiple borns, it’d better be logical too. Not feel to a plausible story. To be fair, Sejal time. The beautiful but little- One, it documents Parveen marked increase. Upadhyay, very strongly in her work. reads simply to get the feel of just in its premise but in its story- Shah’s muted camerawork uses the known young woman in the Babi’s life in intricate detail. however, takes it to a differ- Investigative journalism it the enigma that was telling too. right mix of dark lens and natural picture, we were told, was a Two, it gives a rationale ent level. For someone who is, but sans judgement. The Parveen. The 90-minute film Kaali Khuhi (The light to give us shudders in a few new actress. Parveen Babi. behind the myths associated did not grow up during the book not only forces the The 10-year-old small-town Black Well) ambitiously tries to com- scenes, and the technical aspects of In no time the little-known with the actress. Myths time Parveen was a Page 3 reader to think, it also boy, after seeing a few cen- ment on an age-old malpractice seen the film are laudable. Choosing a sub- young woman, advertised as which have been floating in regular for causes other makes you feel. It takes you tre-spreads of Parveen, had more in North India – the killing of ject that is so commonly known in the “Hottest Discovery” by various forms for the last 30 than controversies and hal- back in time, it makes the formed an opinion. She was female infants at the very moment of India and yet brushed under the car- director B.R. Ishara soon years. And three, it gives her lucinations, the effort is eyes moist. The helplessness like a happy girl with very their birth. Its first-time director pet when confronted with it, is itself a became a centrespread regu- persona a human face. mind-boggling. of one of the most beautiful, sad, lonely eyes. The idea Terrie Samundra does have his heart very apt choice. Considering such lar. Her pictures would Upadhyay starts off with The book has a plethora of articulate and modern was cemented after watch- in the right pace when the killings are even justi- adorn the walls of hair the history of the Babi interviews, with her family women in cinema rubs on to ing Deewar (1975). Despite grave issue as the basic fied by some and many salons along with another dynasty. The roots are traced members, school/college the reader as well. her western outfits and premise in the film is set Kaali Khuhi of the chauvinists centrespread where the back almost 350 years. We mates, film and media per- Quibbles? I have a few. The chain-smoking avatar, she in Punjab (albeit the would react to such a reigning sexy symbol, get to know about Parveen’s sonalities, her life-long extreme neutral stance taken seemed to be a simple, trust- small town is fictional Miasma of story only when prod- Zeenat Amar, in her youth parents, her education in a friend-cum-secretary and, of by Upadhyay implies that she ing and down-to-earth girl here) where patriarchy Smoke! ded, making them mat- icon photograph where she Gujarati medium school, her course, the three known does not question even basic next door with an elusive has always ruled primari- CAST: Shabana Azmi, ter-of-fact too, we ought would be swinging from a rather modest upbringing men in her life. things like a 14-year-old join- quality which was beyond ly due to sex-selective Sanjeeda Sheikh, Riva to make people aware hammock. The filmy press where aspirations were lim- While Parveen was per- ing college. The subcontinent definition. She was like abortions that abound Arora, Satyadeep Misra of such dogmatic non- even gave Parveen a ited, her college days at St. ceived to be a Page 3 item, is infamous for fake birth cer- someone who was so near, leading to a dispropor- DIRECTOR: Terrie sensical views. The moniker –- poor man’s Xavier’s, Ahmedabad, and the interview responses are tificates and records, but in and yet so far. After reading tionately higher number Samundra shameful tradition can Zeenat Aman, though by all her modelling spree which definitely not of the “oh, she this case Upadhyay accepts Upadhyay’s book, those of male children in the RATING: ## ## be so routine for some standards Parveen was the started with Calico. was such a beautiful girl” what was told to her. Two, “sad, lonely eyes” linger in state. And, the aforemen- Streaming on: that they may not even better actress of the two. Moving to the world of cin- variety. They have depth, Parveen’s role as the “other my head. tioned imbalance – well- Netflix react. But do we need to Gradually, the poor man’s ema, Upadhyay narrates and coverage wide enough to woman” in Marc Zuber’s life documented in umpteen accentuate the gory Zeenat became part of the how Parveen became part trace Parveen’s life across a in Yeh Nazdeekiyan is like a Anirudha Bhattacharjee, data culled from research happenings that are, lives of teens brought up on of Dhuen ki wide span of time. And in slice of her own life, and this author of the National papers published in many may be, not every day a diet of Hindi films. Lakir and Charitra almost quite some detail. Stitched could have been discussed in award-winning book R D journals – is a direct occurrences any more, However, except for her asso- simultaneously in detail. almost seamlessly, with more detail rather than limit- Burman, the man the music, insult since Punjab is oth- but nevertheless are ciation with multiple men at Her journey -– both personal anecdotes and news reports ing the filmic interpretation is a huge fan of 1970s cine- erwise a highly developed state in eco- prevalent even today, with haze and various points in time, little and professional –- is out- sourced from multiple peri- of her psyche only to Kavita ma and a self-confessed fan nomic terms. The nameless village uncanny eerie scenes to make it a hor- was known about the roots lined well enough to get a odicals/publications, the Sanyal in Arth. Three, there of the actress. could well be a deliberate attempt at ror genre film? Agreed the ambience reminding us that it could be any place denoting scare and chilling effects of with such depraved and evil thinking an infant getting killed by self-styled people. That too in this day and age! do-gooder women who believed that a The Netflix India original film tends girl-child would bring a curse is fore- to deal with such a solemn subject boding. But creating a mysterious using great cinematic visuals that pro- atmosphere when everything is famil- vide more jitters than substance but iar and evident is unnecessary. Diane Lane and Kevin Costner reunite with a scant regard for depth.Though There are flashes of great analysis well intentioned the result is both half- when we see nearly an all –woman cast baked and murky. dealing with the subject for which they Upon hearing her grandmother’s themselves are equally to blame for (Leela Samson) sudden illness, the 10 perpetuating the unjust social system for some Western warmth year old Shivangi (Riva Arora)leaves of patriarchy. That women could joint- for her father Darshan’s (Satyajeet ly take a stand to stop such evil is what ing to a genre they’ve visited before Mishra) and mother Priya (Sanjeeta one learns about all the women char- Let Him Go but from a different standpoint in Sheikh) ancestral village in Punjab acters involved in the story. life. (Costner is more identifiable with them. She looks and behaves just The girl-child as a protagonist repre- CAST: Diane Lane, Kevin Costner with Westerns thanks to Dances like any girl her age would but little sents the new generation who must Direction: Thomas Bezucha With Wolves, Wyatt Earp and others, does she know that she would soon be bring about the desired change and the DIRECTOR: yyy but don’t forget Lane in Lonesome embroiled in a conflict that bodes omi- film is seen through the prism of RATING: ## ## ## Dove.) nous repercussions. Earlier, when we Shivangi. Their search takes them into see a man unsealing the unused well in That apart, the one and half hour North Dakota where the dark repu- the introductory sequence, we are sort film fails to elicit a thought provoking tation of Donnie’s family, the of prepared to read more into the well response from its viewers. The narra- Weboys (pronounced “wee-boys”), - supposed to be the life-giving source- tive is fairly simplistic and in no way, uperman, that boring lug, has begins to surround them before the neighbourhood that has a lot more makes us reason out. thankfully flown the coop. they’ve even crossed state lines. to reveal than hide from its depths. While the idea to scare us by under- SWriter-director Thomas Finding them at all seems uncer- For Shivangi, who is beginning to lining the message that it’s scary to Bezucha’s Western thriller Let Him tain, but they manage it, and in a learn life’s lessons on her own owing know that female infanticide is an ugly Go reunites Diane Lane and Kevin menacing dinner, they meet the to the constant bickering between her reality we cannot escape from. But Costner, who as the Kents were easi- Weboys. Their clan, too, comes with parents, the creepy atmosphere in the leaving many of the questions unan- ly the warmest presences in the oth- a formidable matriarch in Blanche village adds a pall of gloom all the swered in a fog that the lens of the erwise dully dour Man of Steel. (Lesley Manville, bringing dramatic more. As she explores the village along camera uses in abundance, leads to an They are together again in Let Him and dancing with his wife, Lorna street. Before she’s had much time flare to an otherwise restrained with her grandmother’s neighbour even moremiasma of smoke and Go,this time front and center but(Kayli Carter), and their newborn. If to respond to it, she finds the family film), a much more violent and sin- Satya Maasi(Shabana Azmi) and her uncertainty. Why, for instance, the likewise retired and living close to there’s a trace of discord, it’s in a has unexpectedly moved out of ister corollary to Margaret. granddaughter Chandni (Hetvi ghost of a girl kill all those who she the land. And the pairing is just as moment where Lorna puts her son their new apartment. Margaret But the collision of the two families Bhanushali), strange things begin to believes prevented her from living? Or, good. Both Lane and Costner, direct under water too hot, leading starts packing up the Chevy station is managed awkwardly. The Weboys, happen leaving her wondering what why does Darshan behave the way he and earthy performers from the Margaret to take the child with wagon. She’s going to look for them, which include a grinning father all this would lead to. A girl appears does, and insists on staying back in the start, have only added depth with what probably isn’t her first she says. George, a former lawman, (Jeffrey Donovan) and two other below her grandmother’s bed;a dead village after his mother’s demise? age. As long-married Montana reproachful glance at her daughter- gets in. brothers, never come through clearly. rat and unnerving ghost-like sounds, It is also unpardonable to use actors ranchers in Let Him Go, they’re in-law. It’s an early sign: Let Him At this midway point, Let Him It’s unclear what they’re about, etc. Soon, she begins to experience and of the calibre of Shabana Azmi in a basically the platonic ideal of an Go might be set on familiar, tense Go is good. As two childless, griev- except that they’re bad news, and uncover the mystery surrounding role that she tries hard to sink her old-fashioned, homespun Western plains, but it’s about moth- ing figures traversing a Western their cruelty comes off as strange, their house that also helps her discov- teeth into but in the absence of any- Americana. They could sell you a ering. landscape, the Blackledges seemed extravagant gestures in uncertainly er the gruesome past that has been credible approach, her efforts are as mountain of jeans if they wanted to. In a series of fast-moving events, carved out of an elegiac mythology. defined roles. What seems set up for a lurking in the village. That the dark fleeting as the length of her role itself. In Bezucha’s film, adapted from James is killed in a horsing acci- They are trying to beat back the loss slow-burn showdown between rival and gloomy incidents of the bygone Watch Kaali Khuhi, if you must, but Larry Watson’s novel, they are dent. Bezucha cuts immediately to they feel creeping over their lives. grandmas dissipates in blunt shoot- days are back to haunt and avenge is don’t look for any lessons though the Margaret and George Blackledge, three years later, when Lorna is “Sometimes that’s all life is, outs that sidelines Lane’s Margaret evident from sudden noises and disap- film’s writers Terrie Samundra, David and the opening scenes are of omi- remarrying in a small, joyless cere- Margaret,” says George. “A list of at just the wrong time. It’s Margaret pearances of characters in her life. Walter Lech and Rupinder Inderjit do nous harmony. Their son James mony. Soon after, Margaret sees the what we’ve lost.” It’s an impression who leads the charge, and it’s Lane’s Not only her father, who faces the have a message for you all – the (Ryan Bruce) returns from the fields new husband Donnie (Will Brittain) made more powerful by Lane and movie even when the film momentar- wrath of the spirit, other members of abysmal dark well of superstitions for breakfast, turning the radio on striking both mother and son on the Costner, both of whom are return- ily forgets it. — AP her family get resurrected too, as she must be done away with! A grand contribution to Hollywood history better-known Mankiewicz. doesn’t take a writer to know Burke). Bedridden from a car in large part to Seyfried’s Davies, But in another version of that there’s nothing more death- accident, he dictates dialogue who beautifully reclaims the life Mank Hollywood history, the one ly boring and uncinematic as and scribbles notes that his prim and agency of a woman who his- CAST: Gary Oldman, Amanda David Fincher tells in the glori- the writing process. Nor is it a British assistant Rita (Lily tory and “Citizen Kane” reduced Seyfried, Lily Collins, Arliss Howard, Tom Pelphrey, Sam ous new film Mank, Herman referendum on the old “who Collins) puts through a type- to Hearst’s showgirl mistress. Troughton, Ferdinand Kingsley, Mankiewicz as portrayed by really deserves credit for Citizen writer. Mank and Davies are kindred Tuppence Middleton, Tom Burke Gary Oldman was early Kane” debate. There are more questions than spirits and she is the moral com- DIRECTOR: Hollywood in all its greatness Instead, Mank is about the con- answers when it comes to Mank, pass of the ridiculous world they and tragedy. Working off a text around Citizen Kane, the tar- including why he seemed so inhabit. When Mank is eviscer- Armando Iannucci crackling screenplay by his late nished realities of Hollywood’s intent on self-sabotage and why ating everyone in a drunken RATING: ## ## ## ## ## father Jack Fincher, David Golden Age, the seductive power his wife Sarah (Tuppence rant, you’re looking for her reac- Streaming on: Netflix Fincher has made Mank into an of filmed imagery and how a Middleton) stayed around. tion. It makes the question of incisive look at a complex man man who was once a friend not Although pushing the limits of why he ended up writing what who was once William Randolph just to Hearst, but to Marion what a 43-year-old man looked he did ever more vexing toward Hearst’s favorite dinner com- Davies, too, would decide to like in 1940, Oldman is naturally the end. Was it a paycheck? A n one history of the panion but by 43 was a write about them against the lence of the movie business can survive the Depression. The terrific at playing the guy who bout of moral conscience? An movies, Citizen Kane screen- Hollywood has-been — washed advice of everyone in his life. there is the Depression going on hypocrisy of it all is getting too refuses to suffer fools and is attempt to burn bridges? A com- Iwriter Herman Mankiewicz up and laid up while writing In order to do this, Fincher and worldwide unrest that will much for Mank to handle with always ready with a comeback, bination of all? Or something might look like a footnote. The what would become “Citizen flashes back to 1934, when Mank soon lead to another war. In one his usual sarcasm. He already but who takes it too far too often else altogether? former playwright had a hand in Kane” in a bungalow in is riding high in the studio sys- scene Louis B. Mayer (Arliss believes he’s slumming it in his (the tragedy of the arrogant “Mank” isn’t interested in pro- many famous pictures, includ- Victorville in 1940. tem, getting invited to all the Howard) walks Mank and Joe mercenary procession and is drunk). viding the answers, which is just ing The Wizard of Oz, but most Even though it’s filmed in parties, helping his little brother through the studio lot while giv- unafraid to speak his mind to the The film is wry and observant as well. It’s simply telling a story went uncredited. He was the black and white with a big band Joe (Tom Pelphrey) get a foot in ing a lively speech about the suits around him, who tolerate about the movie business and all about a man behind so many of smartest guy in the room, a score (from Trent Reznor and the door and hanging around “dream factory,” only to end up him until they don’t. the things that haven’t changed, our movie memories and mak- drunk and a gambler who was Atticus Ross) and made to look Hearst (an intimidating but on a big soundstage where he By 1940, Mank is a Hollywood as well as those that have. That ing a new one in the process. dead at 55. And his kid brother, and sound like a film of the warm Charles Dance) and tells everyone from movie stars exile who agrees to write a script it’s a Netflix production is a deaf- And it is, without a doubt one, of Joe, who directed and wrote All time, this isn’t some dreamy, Davies (an outstanding Amanda to grips that they’ll have to take for the 24-year-old radio wun- ening statement of its own. But the year’s very best. — AP About Eve, would go on to be the nostalgic writer-as-hero tale. It Seyfried). But outside of the opu- a 50% pay cut so the “family” derkind Orson Welles (Tom it also has a beating heart thanks GAMES pg 8 DECCAN CHRONICLE | CHENNAI | SUNDAY | 8 NOVEMBER 2020

SHORT TAKES Supernovas edge past Saints top for 1st time in 32 years Can Delhi eclipse Sun? Trailblazers, in final Sharjah, Nov. 7: Two-time Opener Chamari London: Southampton swept to champions Supernovas the top of the Premier League defeated Trailblazers by Atapattu top-scored for the first time since 1988 Inconsistent Capitals face red-hot Hyderabad in Qualifier 2 two runs in a must-win with a 67-run knock with a 2-0 win against game to enter the final of as Supernovas Newcastle, while Burnley Abu Dhabi, Nov. 7 the Women’s T20 Challenge posted 146 for six remain without a victory this Peaking at the right time here on Saturday. season after they were held to and with all their boxes Opener Chamari after opting to bat. a 0-0 draw at Brighton on ticked, Sunrisers Atapattu top-scored with a Friday. Hyderabad are certain to 67-run knock as Goals from Che Adams and hold sway over a dishev- Supernovas posted 146 for was the best bowler with Stuart Armstrong ensured elled Delhi Capitals in the six after opting to bat. figures of one for 17 from 4 Southampton finished the day second Indian Premier Trailblazers were then overs, while Harleen and at the summit of the English League qualifier here on restricted to 144 for five in Khatun picked up a wicket top-flight table for the first Sunday. The past couple of 20 overs. each. There were also three time since Chris Nicholl’s team weeks have been a picture Electing to bat, run-outs in Supernovas’ 32 years ago. It is Ralph in contrast for the two fran- Supernovas rode on innings. Hasenhuttl in charge of the chises. Atapattu’s aggressive 47- Earlier, left-handed open- Saints now and the Austrian has After an underwhelming ball 67, which was studded er Atapattu looked for runs masterminded a remarkable first half, Hyderabad start- with five fours and four from the word go and made revival on the south-coast. ed pushing the envelope sixes, and skipper her intentions clear with Just over a year after they were with the mercurial David Harmanpreet Kaur’s big two boundaries in the sec- humiliated in a 9-0 thrashing by Warner marshalling his shots (31 off 29) in the slog ond over of the innings Leicester at St Mary’s, resources well. overs to post a challenging bowled by Deepti Sharma. Southampton have been trans- Capitals, on the other total on board. Later in the fourth over, formed so thoroughly that they hand, looked like serious Supernovas were going the Sri Lankan noncha- now look capable of beating contenders till their first strong at 80 for no loss in 10 lantly hoisted one over anyone in the country on their nine games, winning seven overs but the Trailblazers mid-off for a six and then day. Sustaining their place at in that phase before an spinners Harleen Deol swept Deepti for a bound- the top is likely to prove a step inexplicable slump saw (1/34) and Salma Khatun ary as Supernovas too far, yet there is no reason them lose five out of their (1/25) pulled things back, amassed 15 runs. — PTI why they shouldn’t dream of next six matches with skip- giving away just 23 runs in European qualification and per Shreyas Iyer looking next five overs. BRIEF SCORES even a surprise bid to finish in all at sea. However, Harmanpreet Supernovas 146/6 the top four. The current situation exploded in the 19th over, (Chamari Athapaththu 67, Hasenhuttl recently claimed he notwithstanding, young smashing a four and a six Harmanpreet Kaur 31; wanted his team of “pirates” to Iyer would want to lead the to pile up 15 runs to take Jhulan Goswami 1/17) bt stay out of the spotlight, but Capitals to their first sum- them close to 150-mark. Trailblazers 144/5 (Deepti their swashbuckling form will mit clash in 13 editions For Trailblazers, experi- Sharma 43 n.o., Shakera make that impossible. — AFP while Warner wouldn’t enced Jhulan Goswami Selman 2/31). mind adding another sil- verware to his 2016 tri- Ram reaches umph. In fact, if he can win the next two games, Warner Challenger final could boast of guiding Eckental, Germany: Indian ace comparatively one of the Ramkumar Ramanathan fought more inexperienced teams back from a set down to beat in this IPL. Germany’s Marvin Moller 4-6, 6- For Capitals, the biggest 1, 6-1 and enter the final of the worry has been their top- Sunrisers Hyderabad captain David Warner (left) with his Delhi Capitals counterpart Shreyas Iyer. — BCCI Eckental Challenger tennis tour- order woes — especially nament here on Saturday. the first three slots where Ramkumar fired 12 aces and Shikhar Dhawan (525 in 15 won five of seven break points games) has shone the NUMBERS GAME on his way to the final of the brightest. Holder praises his bowlers Euro 88,520 event. Ramkumar Prithvi Shaw’s (228 from HEAD TO HEAD will face Sebastian Korda of 13 games) technique OVERALL: United States in the final on against top quality fast Matches: 17 Sunday. This is his fifth singles bowling has left a lot to be Hyderabad: 11 for ‘using skills and brains’ final on the Challenger circuit. desired and Ajinkya Delhi: 6 He has never won a title. Rahane (111 from 7 games) MEETING IN Abu Dhabi, Nov. 7: West lots of discussions about he said. On Friday, Ramkumar achieved has had only one knock of LEAGUE STAGE Indies captain Jason certain players and in For Holder, who has the best performance of the note so far. Holder, whose late inclu- the heat of the battle, it’s made the difference with season by reaching the semifi- Something that would Sunrisers Hyderabad sion galvanised a much- all about executing. Led his steady medium pace, nals with a straight set 6-2, 6-1 definitely worry coach beat Delhi Capitals by 15 improved Sunrisers by our bowlers, we have picking up 13 wickets in runs in Abu Dhabi. win over Evgeny Donskoy of Ricky Ponting is the num- Hyderabad, praised his used our skills and our six games, it was being Sunrisers Hyderabad Russia. Before this event, mak- ber of ducks by the top- side’s bowlers for “using brains,” Holder said. in a good space after two beat Delhi Capitals by 88 Coimbatore’s Arjun Balu steers his car during the MRF ing the Bangkok Challenger order — nine. Dhawan has runs at Dubai. brains” as much as skills The Caribbean skipper difficult years when he quarterfinals in January was the four, Shaw has three and which earned them a is happy that SRH have hardly bowled due to a MMSCI Indian National Car Racing Championship in unseeded Indian’s best result. Rahane didn’t bother the FOR THE RECORD place in the second IPL “peaked at the right shoulder injury. Chennai on Saturday. He resumed competitive tennis scorers twice. Warner with 546 runs at qualifier against Delhi time”. “I have had a few last month after a long coron- However, the bowling an average of 42 in 15 Capitals. “Morale is really good injuries in the last cou- avirus-forced break. unit has done well save a innings is the second high- Sunrisers bowlers sti- as we have done well at ple of years, which have Entering the last-four clash on few occasions like the first est run-getter in this IPL. fled RCB to a paltry score the back half of the tour- hampered my prepara- Arjun, Rithwik and the back of a convincing quar- qualifier, where Mumbai Kagiso Rabada with 25 of 131 and won the nament. We peaked at tions. I had a bad shoul- terfinal win over Donskoy, Indians batting took them wickets at an average of ‘Eliminator’ by 6 wickets the right stage and (we der and had surgeries. Ramkumar started the match apart. Kagiso Rabada (25 19.48 in 15 innings is the with Holder playing an are) carrying good So, I worked a little hard- on the wrong foot, losing the wickets), Anrich Nrtje (20) second highest wicket- important all-round role momentum. Different er, fine-tuned my skills. I Diljith hog limelight first set 4-6. — PTI and Ravichandran Ashwin taker in this IPL. with 3 for 25 and 24 not guys have put up hands am in a good space and (13) have done exceedingly out off 20 balls. on different occasions. that gives me confi- DC CORRESPONDENT 1-2 for Momentum well in most of the games. — S. PERVEZ QAISER “For me, it’s all about One more good effort and dence,” Holder said. CHENNAI, NOV. 7 Motorsport after holding Azam leads Pak’s — PTI execution. We have had we will be in the finals,” — PTI off team-mate Chirag Coimbatore veteran Arjun Ghorpade in a tense battle Balu (Race Concepts) with Diljith TS (DTS rout of Zimbabwe chalked up another fluent Racing) completing the Rawalpindi, Pakistan: Skipper win despite teething trou- podium. It was a good run Babar Azam smashed a robust Japanese league will be a NOVAK DJOKOVIC EQUALS ble with his car in the top by Ghorpade who started half-century to lead Pakistan’s end Indian Touring Cars seventh on the grid and cut six-wicket rout of Zimbabwe in class as the second round through the field to catch the first Twenty20 international SAMPRAS RANKING RECORD of the MRF MMSC fmsci up with Tijil. The two were in Rawalpindi on Saturday. different ball game: Sathiyan Paris, Nov. 7: Novak September. Indian National Car locked in a tense battle, but Azam proved yet again why he Djokovic on Friday emu- Djokovic can go past all- Racing Championship Tijil just about kept his is one of the top batsmen in NEHA SURANA | DC matches that will be held lated childhood hero Pete time record-holder Roger commenced here at the nose in front while Dilijith white-ball cricket with an CHENNAI, NOV. 7 in November but is hope- Sampras by claiming the Federer’s mark of 310 MMRT behind closed doors made two places from fifth attractive 55-ball 82 to anchor ful of playing eight year-end world number weeks on March 8 next and complying with Covid- to finish third. Pakistan’s chase of a modest India’s star paddler G. matches in December. He one ranking for the sixth year. 19 safety protocols after a In the second Formula 157-run target in 18.5 overs. Sathiyan marked his is expected to return to time. “To finish the year as nine-month break. LGB 1300 race, Mohamed The win gives Pakistan a 1-0 return to competitive India on December 30. Djokovic, 33, was con- No.1 is one of the most Also finishing on the top Ryan (M Sport) won handi- lead in the three-match series table tennis after a break “Now, I am back to my firmed in the position impressive achievements step of the podium were ly from reverse grid start and a 12th straight win over of seven months when he lockdown routine. I have after Rafael Nadal, the in our sport, one which Bengaluru’s Rithwik ahead of Karthik Krishna Zimbabwe in all Twenty20 made his Polish G. Sathiyan my fitness and yoga ses- only man who could deny requires sustained excel- Thomas (Race Concepts) in (Hasten Performance) and international cricket. Superliga debut last sions online and I am him top spot, opted not to lence across the season,” the Super Stock class, Viswas Vijayaraj (DTS month. Now back in game. practicing with my robot. play in the Sofia event next said ATP chairman Diljith TS from Thrissur in Racing). Chennai, Sathiyan is on a “Okayama Rivets has Also, I am in constant week. Andrea Gaudenzi. the MRF Saloon Car Balu, thus, swept to his Live on TV 14-day home quarantine been helping me with the touch with my mental Djokovic was also a sea- “To see Novak achieve Championship (Toyota third consecutive win in and is set to fly off to visa and other arrange- conditioning coach, dieti- son-ending world number this for the sixth time and Etios), and Tijil Rao the championship follow- CRICKET Japan on November 23 to ments in such a short cian and physio to keep one in 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015 match Pete’s record is sim- (Momentum Motorsport) ing a double in the opening IPL: Qualifier 2 — Sunrisers represent Okayama span of time. They are as myself mentally and and 2018. ply incredible, and he con- and Mohamed Ryan (M round in February, but was Hyderabad vs Delhi Capitals from Rivets in the Japanese T- thrilled as I am. The com- physically fit,” Sathiyan “Pete was somebody I tinues to cement his place Sport) in the Formula LGB far from pleased with his 7.30 pm on Star Sports 1, HD League. As his quaran- petition level is high and added. looked up to when I was in the history books.” 1300 category that had two performance. “I was still tine period ends on it is going to be massive. When asked about the growing up, so to match Djokovic has compiled a races today. down on my lap times and Women’s Big Bash League: Brisbane Heat vs Melbourne Stars Thursday, he will train Playing in such elite possibilities of joining his record is a dream come 39-3 winning season, pick- A couple of spells of was not too happy with the from 8.15 am on Sony Six for a week before he leagues will help me the national camp, true,” said Djokovic. ing up four titles — a rains led to a few delays, balance of the car. We packs his bag again. grow,” said Sathiyan. Sathiyan said: “Once I The Serb star, a winner record eighth Australian but the stop-go proceedings made some changes to the TENNIS The 27-year-old, who The Japanese league come back from Japan, of 17 Grand Slam titles, Open, Dubai, the did not affect the competi- car from the previous ATP Paris Masters: Semifinal from will become the first starts on November 17 and things start to get bet- had already moved past Cincinnati tournament, tive nature of the races round, and so, had to deal 7.30 pm on Sony Six Indian in the Japanese T- and will go on till April ter, I will look at the pos- Sampras’ tally of 286 which was staged in New that produced plenty of with some teething issues. League, believes it is 30, 2021. Sathiyan will be sibility to go the camp in weeks in the top spot in York, and in Rome. — AFP action. I hope to do better in the FOOTBALL going to be a different ball missing out on four January or February.” Pole-sitter Tijil Rao led a next outing,” said Balu. English Premier League: West Brom vs Tottenham Hotspur from 5.30 pm; Leicester City vs Wolverhampton from 7.30 pm; Manchester City vs Liverpool from 10 pm on Star Sports Select 2, HD Delhi have to put up an all-round show to beat SRH Italian League: Lazio vs Juventus from 5 pm; Atalanta vs Inter Milan and the scenario changes amply evident in the first team has managed in this ment, regroup in time, and Diminutive leg spinner from 7.30 pm; Bologna vs Napoli dramatically. DC, after a qualifier against Mumbai tournament, and saw SRH now look like the team to Rashid Khan has been the from 10.30 pm; AC Milan vs Verona spate of wins, suddenly hit when DC were reduced to leapfrog over hapless KKR beat. stand out performer, with from 1.15 am (Monday) on Sony Ten 2 a slump, got stranded on 14 0-3! into the play-offs. So remarkable has been others only a whit behind. Ayaz Memon points for a long while, and Shaw, Pant, and Rahane Their next match, their turnaround after los- The IPL is played at fre- UFC FIGHT NIGHT only just made it to the have been struggling badly, against RCB, was a cliff- ing their first two matches netic pace, players and Thiago Santos vs Glover Teixeira Over The Top play-offs. which is adding pressure hanger, victory coming that SRH can afford to teams that show stamina, and other bouts from 8.30 am on That they finished no.2 not just on Iyer and Stonis, only in the final over. The leave out senior pro and physical and mental, are Sony Ten 2 on the points table was sta- but also the bowlers. DC’s calmness of Williamson white ball specialist Johny most likely to succeed. hich team will clash today for a place in tistical fact, but in terms of bowling which was the and the rich experience of Bairstow from the playing This also finds expression play Mumbai Tuesday’s final is worth a quality of performance, most penetrative when the Holder saw them through. side without worry. in the composition of the Indians in the study simply because of DC were not quite the tournament started These two wins showed The batting leans heavily playing sides. Regd. No. WIPL final on the hugely contrasting same, exciting, winning appears to have lost edge. how quickly and well SRH dependent on Warner no It is no surprise that Tuesday? style in which they’ve side that one saw at the Even Rabada has been could adapt to different doubt, but in crunch situa- Mumbai Indians have TNENG/2010/35692 It is perilous to pick win- reached this situation. start of the tournament. innocuous. pitches and situations. tions, other batters have made the least changes in ners in a format which is When the tournament Some stats here to Contrast this with SRH That’s because they’ve delivered too. Williamson’s the tournament followed Printed & Published by known to throw up topsy- started, DC couldn’t put a explain the turmoil DC has in the past fortnight. struck a formidable combi- composed half century by SRH, allowing, of K. Sudhakar on behalf of turvy results. I have so foot wrong and SRH could- undergone. They’ve lost Starting with two defeats, nation nearing the end of and fine partnership with course, for those forced by Deccan Chronicle Holdings Limited often ended up my foot in n’t put a foot right. Mid- five of their last 6 matches. the team picked up the league phase. Holder took the team home injury. What DC are up and Printed at against tonight is a well- Deccan Chronicle Presses situated the mouth after making way through the league In the first qualifier, they momentum towards the Though hit by injuries under pressure against at SP 3, Developed Plot, Industrial Estate, was seemed a ‘safe’ fore- stage, DC seemed the were 0-3 against MI chas- end of the league stage, (Mitch Marsh, RCB. balanced, ambitious team Guindy, Chennai - 600 032. cast, that I now leave pre- strongest rivals for ing 200 and lost by a whop- and now has five succes- Bhuvaneshwar Kumar, It’s in the bowling though led aggressively by captain RNI Registration No: TN ENG/2005/14987 dictions to the more brave Mumbai Indians, SRH ping 57 runs margin. sive wins to its credit. Williamson, Vijay that SRH have stood out, Warner that is refusing to Ph Nos: 22254747, 22254748, 22254750, or foolhardy. appeared lackluster, and The top order, full of This includes a massive Shankar, Saha have been more so after Holder’s yield an inch. To beat this 22254751 Yet, how the two teams — still seeking their best youthful energy and brava- 10-wicket victory over casualties, long or short inclusion. The attack now team, Delhi have to put up Editor: KAUSHIK MITTER Sunrisers Hyderabad and combo. do, now appears as hardy Mumbai in the last league term), SRH have been able has a fine blend of quality a capital show in every Delhi Capitals — which Cut to the last fortnight, as papadum, which was match, which no other to find adequate replace- pacers and spinners. sense of the word.