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TABLIGHIMATTER:GOVT SAYS CAN'T GAG SON TAKES OVER IN POLL-BOUND BIHAR Freedom of speech most abused: SC; slams Govt VeteranDalitleader, for its ‘evasive’ affidavit MinisterwithsixPMs, ing forpetitioner Jamiat-Ulama- ANANTHAKRISHNANG i-Hind whichsaid the Tablighi is- NEWDELHI,OCTOBER8 sue wasreportedinsuchaman- RamVilasPaswandies ner that it spread communal “FREEDOM OF speechand ex- hatred,submitted that the gov- pression maybethe most ernmentaffidavitaccuseditoftry- 50 yrs in public abusedfreedom in recent ing to muzzle freedomofspeech. times,’’ the Supreme Court ob- At this, the CJIsaid, “theyare life, blending servedThursdayasittook ex- entitled to makeany argument ‘I’M SPEAKING’ ception to what it calledan‘‘eva- likeyou peopleare.Thisfreedom principle with sive’’ affidavit filedbythe Centre of speechmay be the most Kamala Harris and MikePenceatthe US vice-presidential debate, at the University of Utah in in response to apetition alleging abusedfreedom in recent times". Salt LakeCity,onWednesday. “Mr Vice President, I’m speaking,”Harris said, when Pence realpolitik discriminatory news coverage of The bench, alsocomprising interruptedher.Pencelet her finish. Reuters REPORT,PAGE13 the Tablighi Jamaat issue. Justices ASBopanna and Chief Justiceof IndiaSA Bobde VRamasubramanian, made ev- RAVISHTIWARI made this remarkwhen Senior ident itsdispleasureoverthe &MANOJCG AdvocateDushyantDave,appear- CONTINUEDONPAGE2 Pelting stones, egging on mob: Delhi NEWDELHI,OCTOBER8 “Rashtrapati ka beta ho ya chaprasi RAM VILAS PASWAN 1946-2020 govt flags ‘police complicity’ videos ka ho santaan, Birla ya garib ka Mumbai Police allege beta,sabki shiksha ek samaan (Whether it's the President's son TRP fraud by Republic DelhiPolicesaysanalysing twoclips, takenactiononone or the sonofapeon, Birla'sson or Weathervane who worked for that of the poor,all should get portedly throwing bricks along- East) has repliedthat action has equal education).” Dalits, friends across divide and 2other channels SOURAVROYBARMAN side rioters and egging them on been takenonthree of the RamVilas Paswan liked to re- NEWDELHI,OCTOBER8 during the NortheastDelhi riots. videos, while the rest “arebeing citethese lines,whichhehad Mausam Vaigyanik (weather- Athirdshows policemen pur- analysed and report regarding pickedupwhen he startedhis COOMIKAPOOR vane) since Paswan had the un- 4held, says Commissioner;Republic ON OCTOBER 5, the Delhi portedlymaking five injured the same will be submitted in political career —theywerepart NEWDELHI,OCTOBER8 cannyknackofsniffing out the threatens criminal defamation Government's Home men, lying on the ground, sing the due course of time afterascer- of asocialistsloganusedbythe winning side in politics. Department flaggedaset of seven national anthem. taininglocation, and exact date then SamyuktaSocialistParty RAM VILAS PASWAN’S fellow Because of his shrewdpolit- videoclips to the Delhi Police that Twodays later,the Deputy and time". (SSP). And the passion with Bihar politician Lalu Prasad ical judgment, Paswan had an MOHAMEDTHAVER ED include twoofpolicemenpur- CommissionerofPolice(North CONTINUEDONPAGE2 CONTINUEDONPAGE2 Yadavonce angrilycalled him a CONTINUEDONPAGE2 MUMBAI,OCTOBER8 WhatTRP PLAIN datashow EX E MUMBAI POLICE on Thursday ● Accused claims he was saidtheyhad busteda“racket” BUSINESSASUSUAL of “fradulent”manipulation of TRPs CLAIM to showhow J&K L-G visits families of labourers killed Television Rating Points(TRPs) manypeople, from BY UNNY friends with Hathras teen, involving three channels in- which socio-economic cluding Arnab Goswami's categories, watched in Shopian, assures ‘justice at all costs’ Republic TV. whichchannels forhow family denies they beat her “So farthree channels includ- long over aparticular the 19-year-old woman was ers who were killedinafakeen- ing Republic, Fakt Marathi, and time period. TRP dataare JIGNASASINHA beaten up by her brother and ARUNSHARMA counter by theArmyinShopian BoxCinema have been found to usuallyreleasedweekly, &AMILBHATNAGAR mother on September 14,the JAMMU,OCTOBER8 on July18this year. be indulging in suchmalprac- and form the basis of NEWDELHI,OCTOBER8 dayofthe incident. "Restassured,you will get tices,” Mumbai Police claims by channels to be- The 19-year-old Dalit woman IN Avisible outreacheffort, justice at all costs," the Lt Commissioner ParamBir Singh ing the “most watched”. THE FOUR men accusedinthe had died15days afterthe inci- Jammu &Kashmir Lt Governor Governor told the grievingfam- said at apress conference. Hathras assault and gangrape dent, forwhichthe four upper Manoj Sinha walked over half-a- ilies who had gathered at Tarkasi Four persons —the owners EXPLAINED case have writtentothe Hathras caste menhavebeen booked.In kilometreacross mountainous villageinRajouri district, at the of the Fakt Marathi and Box PAGE 15 Superintendent of Police, claim- astatement recordedbeforea terrain to meetthe familymem- Manoj Sinha with the family house of MohammadYusuf, CONTINUEDONPAGE2 ing theyare “innocent” and that CONTINUEDONPAGE2 bers of the three Rajouri labour- members in Rajouri. Express CONTINUEDONPAGE2

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If he Hajipurwiththelargest marginat India Todaywas available until everygovernmentfrom1989to could oblige afellowpolitician, that time, entering the Guinness press time. 2020, with onlyoccasional peri- even if the person were from the Book of Records. He wastowin whichhedid even 50 years into throughportfolioslikeRailways, Soon, he embarkedonaca- bers, had appeared immuneto Singh said “the moneyearned ods of being out of power. opposing side, or assistajour- from this reservedconstituency his public lifespokeeloquently Coal, Communications, and reer mostlycentred on anti- political pressure. through advertisementsbythese He servedasaminister in the nalistintrouble, he would go out eighttimes.Lastyear,for thefirst about what he deeply believed Chemicals and Fertilisers. Congress politics. Aproduct of AfterVPSingh, Paswan car- channels through fake TRPs will governmentsofVPSingh, HD of his waytohelp. His doors time, he lethis brothercontest ineversincehisfirstelectionwin And yet, today, it is the im- theJPmovement—hisdeathto- riedsimilar weight in the HD be considered as the proceeds of Deve Gowda, IKGujral, Atal were always open and he never from Hajipur,while he was as an MLAfromBihar in 1969. print of Paswan's political jour- daycoincidedwith the death DeveGowdagovernmentduring crime.Once we find the accounts Bihari Vajpayee, Manmohan stood on ceremony. electedtoRajya Sabha in adeal On Thursdayevening, the neythatwillbehardtomatch. anniversaryofJayprakash whichhewas Leader of theLok wherethe moneywas trans- Singh and Narendra Modi. The As aministerinVajpayee’s worked out withthe BJP. 74-year-old breathedhis lastin “Shri RamVilas Paswan Ji Narayan —hewas arrested Sabha as Gowda had taken ferred,wewillget them frozen”. portfolios he held included government, Paswan still kept Of the six LJP MPs in the cur- aDelhi hospital, following car- rose in politics through hard- whenEmergency waspro- charge without yetbeinganMP. Republic has accusedthe Railways, Labour and Welfare, verycordial relations with neigh- rent Lok Sabha, twoare Pas- diacailmentsandakidneyshut- work anddetermination.Asa claimedand spent that entire The divisions within the Janata Mumbai Police and itschief per- Food. The 74-year-oldwas Union bour Sonia Gandhi who lived wan’s brothers and another is down, leaving behind alegacy youngleader,heresistedtyranny periodinjail. Dal,however, forcedhimto seek sonallyfor allegedlynot carry- MinisterofConsumerAffairs, down the road in New Delhi. son Chirag. In fact, Paswan wan- that spannedtwo of the biggest and the assault on our democ- But then, he waselected to hisownperchinnationalpolitics. ing out afair investigation in the Food &Public Distribution at the When he quit the Vajpayee’s gov- tedModi to makeChirag amin- churning pointsofpost- racy during the Emergency.He the Lok Sabha in 1977 from In 2000,hefloated theLok Sushant Singh Rajput case. After time of his death. ernment in 2002 over the Gujarat ister, but the PrimeMinisterin- Independent politics —Mandal wasanoutstanding Parlia- Hajipurwithathenrecordmar- Janshakti Party(LJP) to carve his the Supreme Courtallowed the Hisdetractorssometimessaid communal riots,Gandhi was sistedonretaining the senior andDalit.Paswan,infact, wasa mentarianandMinister, making gin of 4.2 lakh votes and moved politicalspaceinDelhidespitebe- CBI to take over the investiga- Paswanpunchedmuchabove his onlytoo happytowelcome him Paswan in his cabinet. Dalit leader long before Dalit lasting contributions in several to national politics. Although ingarelatively smaller forcein tion, Goswami had demanded weight in NewDelhi,simplybe- intothe UPAfold. empowerment and social jus- policyareas,”thePrimeMinister thosemarginsgot himthehead- Bihar.Heleveragedhiscommand Singh's resignation. causehewasaconvenientsenior Similarly,NarendraModidid J&K L-G ticebecameanirreversibleforce postedonTwitter. lines —heset anew recordin overasectionof theDalitvotesin Aftertwo sadhus and their DalitleaderforapartyliketheBJP notseemto holditagainstPaswan whose son AbrarAhmed,25, in mainstream politics. “I am saddened beyond 1989 with amargin of over 5 Bihar to remain sought-afterby driverwerelynchedinPalghar, to hold up as ashowpiece. They thathelefttheNDAostensiblybe- wasamong the three youth From his socialisttraining of words. Thereisavoid in ourna- lakhvotes—itwashisstintdur- majoralliances at theCentre. Republic had alleged—wrongly, said he wasnot amass leader in causeoftheGujaratgovernment’s killedinShopian. the1960sto anti-Congressismto tion that willperhaps neverbe ing the VPSinghgovernment One of his big-ticketan- as it turnedout —acommunal terms of vote-pulling ability. His failuretoprotectminorities.When When Yusufasked that the quittingaCabinetpositioninthe filled.ShriRamVilasPaswanJi’s that made him afront-ranking nouncements in his lastassign- angle in the attack, and accused party,LokJanshaktiParty, usually he returned to the NDAfold, guilty be punished,the L-Gsaid, ABVajpayeegovernmentover demise is apersonalloss. Ihave nationalleader.Inall,hewas ment wasthe rollout of ‘One the government of failing to pro- garneredonlyaround6.5percent Paswan wasrewardedbybeing "The Modi government is known the 2002 Gujarat riots to joining lostafriend, valuedcolleague electedto Lok Sabhaninetimes Nation, One Ration Card’ in all tect the Hindu holymen. of the voteinhis home state madeaministerintheModiIand forensuring justice. Letthe in- theCongress-ledUPA-1,Paswan and someone who wasex- and RajyaSabha twice. states by March-end 2021. The Mumbai Police had registeredan though it could, on occasion,tip Modi II governments. quirybecompleted, strict action steppedoverseveral linestore- tremely passionate to ensure Having startedasasocialist, ambitiousschemeenablesben- FIR againstGoswami afterre- the balance. As aminister, Paswan’s most willbetaken againstthe guilty." main politically relevant since everypoorperson leadsalifeof Paswan had sensedthe im- eficiaries to withdrawtheir ceiving complaintsbyCongress But this is afacile underesti- memorable achievement was Sinha, who reachedYusuf's the turn of the century. dignity,” he posted. pendingwaveofDalitpoliticsin foodgrainquotafromany ration workers that he had made objec- mation of averyshrewdpoliti- gettingthe Mandal Commission home around 5.30pm, alsoas- So muchso, thathis last as- “He wasthe voice of the op- the Hindi heartlandinthe early shop in the country. tionable remarks againstparty cian whose mastery of realpoli- reportimplementedin1990dur- sured them that amember from signmentwasasUnionMinister pressed, and championedthe 1980s itself, whenBSP founder Andalthoughhewasilldur- presidentSonia Gandhi with ref- tik is reflected in his long survival ing the term of the short-livedV eachofthe three families would of Consumer Affairs, Food and cause of the marginalised,” said Kanshiram had begun moving ing pre-poll alliance negotia- erencetothe Palghar case. in acut-throat game. He wasthe PSinghgovernment.Paswanwas be givengovernment jobs, be- Public Distribution under the PresidentRamNathKovindina in that direction. tions forthe Bihar polls starting In astatement, BARC India best known Dalit politician from thenMinisterofWelfare andwas sides cash assistance. leadership of Prime Minister condolence message. Paswan would fondly recall October 28, the developments said it “continuestofollowits es- Bihar afterJagjivanRam. among the firsttoinsistfirmly NarendraModi, who wasthe “A towering personality, how, as WelfareMinisterunder over the lasttwo weeks—the tablishedvigilance and discipli- Even as Paswan layinahos- that therewouldbeearly imple- Hathras teen Chief MinisterofGujaratduring whostoodwiththecauseof so- VPSingh, he worked to ensure LJPunderChiragexitedtheNDA naryguidelines”.Itsaid“BARCre- pital in NewDelhi, his young son mentation of reservations on the magistrate, shehad said she had the 2002 riots. cial justice and empowerment thattheBharatRatnawentto Dr in Bihar while remaining in the mainssteadfastlytrue to its Chirag, who oncetriedtomake linessuggested by the Mandal been rapedbythe four. His ability to gauge the polit- of the mostmarginalised, Shri BRAmbedkar.Thatgovernment allianceinDelhi—showthathis purpose to accuratelyand faith- aname in Bollywood but failed, Commission,despitenationwide The letter,written by prime ical wind once made his rival Paswan will beforeverremem- also rolledout the Scheduled sonhas takenupthe mantle. fullyreport‘What India Wat- kept his father’s tradition of en- protests from upper caste youth accusedSandeep, carries the from Bihar,RJD founder Lalu beredfor asserting the cause of Caste andScheduledTribe AsPaswan'sfavouriteslogan ches’”,and“appreciatestheefforts suring that the LJP remainsrel- opposedtothereservationpolicy. thumb printsofall four of them, Prasad,describehimas“mausam social and political equity,” (PreventionofAtrocities)Act, goes: “Sansopa (SSP) ne bandhi of the Mumbai Police and will evant in the forthcoming Bihar Although Nitish Kumar and including Luv Kush, RamKumar vigyani”(weather scientist). Yet, Congress president Sonia 1989. These twodecisions have gaanth, pichhda pave sau mein provide the supportasked of it”. assemblypolls. Lalu Yadav, his rivals in his home and Ravi, and wassenttothe SP thereweresomeinstanceswhen Gandhi said. sincebecomethepoliticaltouch- saath; raj-pathhai kiske haath, Hansa Research CEO Praveen Chirag has been regularly state,havedominated Bihar pol- lateonWednesdayevening. It he did miss the political current, Hailing from the Paswan stone forthosereaching out to angrezi aur unchi jaat;unchi jaat Nijharasaid in astatement: criticising Nitish Kumar,much iticsfor thelastfivedecades, surfacedinsocial media on forinstance during the 2005 community,heturnedaway Dalitsentimentsandaspirations. ka kyapehchan, git-pit boli kare “Hansa Research andBARCcon- to thechagrin of the Bihar Chief Paswan in fact entered politics Thursdaymorning. AlokSingh, Biharelectionsandthe2009Lok from ajob in the statepolice to Paswan wasalso thefirstoff na kaam; angrez yehan se chale ducted an investigation intothe Ministerwho is furious that the muchbeforethem. the Senior Superintendent of Sabhaelections. join politics. Muchlater,he the blocktoget Prime Minister gaye,angrezi ko bhijanahai; matter over the lastfew weeks, BJP has made little effort to rein He came from apoor Dalit AligarhJail, wherethe four are But the fact that he worked wouldoftenrecounthowasen- Moditotakethelegislative route rashtrapati ka beta ho ya.... (SSP the conclusion of whichresulted in itsally. In fact, in acurious familybut worked his wayupto lodged,confirmedthe four had with six Prime Ministers —VP ior socialistonce asked him to counter the Supreme Court has takenapledge; backwards in Hansa Research filing an FIR stateofaffairs permitted by the completeMAand LLB. In 1969, sent the letter. Singh,HDDeve Gowda, IK whether he wanted to become rulingthathad,ineffect,diluted will gettheir share; poweris againstanex-employeewho BJP leadership, the LJP remains he waselected to theBihar as- In the letter,Sandeep says he Gujral,ABVajpayee,Manmohan agovernment servant or be the provisions of the SC/STAct. By with those who knowEnglish wasengaged in some wrongdo- an allyofthe government at the semblyfromthe Samyukta and the woman were “friends” Singh and NarendraModi— oneto getgovernmentservants then, Paswan had earned andareupper-caste;onesignof ing. Hansa Research has always Centrewhile itscandidates con- SocialistParty (SSP). He wasim- who oftenspoke over the phone. spokeofhisendurance.Fromthe to work forthe people. It was enough goodwill and leverage the upper-castes is glib talk,lit- been vigilant about these issues test againstthe JD(U) at thestate prisonedduring the Emergency “I wasarrestedonSeptember 20 ThirdFront to theCongress and thisline,hesaid,thathelpedhim while being partofagovern- tlework;theBritishhaveleft,it's and has been proactive in in- under afalse case. My relatives to theBJP,hetraversed easily makeuphis mind. ment that, because of itsnum- time forEnglish to go...).” forming BARC andthe lawen- Ramand Ravi were also arrested forcement agencies as and when along with alocal, Luv Kush. The suchcases have come to our no- woman (victim) wasmyfriend. Freedom of speech most abused: SC tice.Wewouldcontinuetoco- We would meeteachotherand operatewithBARCand withthe also talk overthe phone. Her authoritiesasand when called familywas againstour friend- affidavit filedbythe Ministryof and thatitmustreflect on the againstmaintenanceoflaw should be grantedonthe basis upon to do so.” EXPRSESEDUCATION ship,” he says. Information andBroadcasting. instances complained about. and order and/or whichpro- of such“general assertions”, the The woman’s familycalled The CJI told Solicitor General Defending freedom of the motesanti-national attitudes”. affidavit said that “attempt to ‘Complicity’ the allegations by Sandeep and TusharMehta, appearingforthe press,the Centre’s affidavitsaid The affidavit said the plea seek ablanket ‘gag order’ On the national anthem the letter anotherattempt to Centre,“...Mr Mehta, youcan- spread of Covid-19among at- raisedgrievances against“cer- againstthe entire media in re- video, the Delhi Police has said malign them. “She (the 19-year- nottreat the Courtthe wayyou tendees of the Tablighi Jamaat tain section of media”without spect of Markaz Nizamuddin that "investigation is beingcar- old) didn’t have acellphone and aretreatingitinthis case.You convention at the Nizamuddin namingany,and “certain news will effectively destroy freedom riedout by special investigation didn’t knowhow to useone… have filedanaffidavit by aJunior Markaz, attacks on health reports”without producing of the citizen to knowaboutthe team of the Crime Branch". Sandeep had been harassing her Officer.Wefind it extremely workers by some sections etc, thesereports,and“merelyrelied affairs of therespective sections One of the videos purport- formonths,” the victim’s sister- evasive.Itmentions nothing were all matters of fact and upon‘certainfactchecknews re- of the society in the nation &the edly showsgroups of policemen in-lawsaid. about bad reporting. Howcan that“news reportsbasedon ports’tocontendthatentireme- right of the journalisttoensure carrying arms and batons On September 14,Sandeep yousay there’s no incident?". facts... cannotbecensored”. dia is perpetratingcommunal an informedsociety”. throwing portions of bricks says in the letter,hehad metthe Mehtasaid he would file a The affidavit said the re- disharmonyandhatredtowards The benchasked Mehtafor alongside alleged rioters. The woman in the fields, whereher freshaffidavit.The benchsaid it portscomplainedabout “do Muslims, and is therefore re- information on laws underwh- faces of the policemen as well as motherandbrotherwere present. mustbefiledbythe Secretary notencourageorincite vio- quired to be censured/gagged”. ichthe government had exer- the rioters arevisible. Apolice He alleged that he “leftthe place of the department concerned lence or contain anything Maintainingthatnorelief cisedsimilar powers in the past. outpostseen in the video indi- whenshe asked him to do so”. cates the siteofthe incident. This Accordingtohim,the villagers incident, the police response later told Sandeepthe woman’s will notstand in court. The fam- some senior employees of Re- Group, whichiscontractedby Both Hansa employees had said, is beinganalysed. family had beat her up because ilymembers areinvolvedinthe public,includingtheirpromoters, BARC to carryouttheresearch,to leftthe companyinJune. One of Another video shows police- she wasfriends with him. case and the accusedhavenoth- to establish if theywereaware of manipulateTRPs in their favour. them had Rs 20 lakh in his bank men standingalongside alleged “Hermotherandbrotherbeat ing to hide,” said MunnaSingh. thealleged manipulation. This is mainlyinthe Mumbai re- account, and Rs 8.5 lakh in his rioters. Afew seconds intothe her up. She sustainedseverein- AdvocateMSArya, whobe- Later in the evening, gion,” Singh said.“Theyinturn locker. The money“wastobe clip,theyare seen purportedly juries, whichlater causedher longs to theBhim Armyand is Republic claimeditwas not were paying certain households paid to people to keep particu- ordering the rioters to charge to- death.Ihaveneverhitthewoman providing the familylegal aid, namedinthe FIRregisteredby selected forputting up BAR-o- lar channels on”, Singh said. wardsthe oppositedirection, or done anything wrong. Her calledthe letter fake.“Afakenar- the police; rather another chan- meters to keep certain channels During interrogation, these men following whichbothpolicemen mother and brotherregistered a rative is being built by the au- nel was. In response, the police likeRepublic switched on to had said theyhad been paid by and civilians startthrowing falsecase.We areinnocent.Please thorities and locals… Why issued aclarification stating that showhigher TRPs,” he said. the three channels, Singh said. bricks. investigatethis matter and getus would the victim lie? Ispoketo the names of Republic and the Singh said some households Republic TV rubbished Severalfaces arevisible, as justice,” says Sandeep. the familyoverthe phone. They other twochannels had come up were beingpaidRs500-600per Singh’s claims. Editor-in-chief well as severalshop hoardings AligarhJail’sAlok Singh said, told me thatthe letterisfalse. during interrogation of the sus- daytokeep aparticular channel Goswami said: “Mumbai Police with their addresses. This inci- “Theygaveusaletter addressed We have requestedthe courtto pectsinthe case. Asenior police on. “In some cases, people who Commissioner ParamBir Singh dent, too, as per the police re- to theHathras SP on constituteaspecialcommittee official said the FIR wasonlythe do notunderstand English were has made false allegationsagainst sponse, is being analysed. Wednesday. As per law, we for- headedbyaretired judgetoin- beginning of the investigation. keeping English-languagechan- Republic TV because we have The thirdvideo is of the men warded the letter to theHathras vestigatethe matter.” Some 30,000 “BAR-o-me- nels such as Republic on through questionedhim in the Sushant purportedly being made to sing police in the evening.” The victim’s cousin told The ters”, whichmeasure TRPs, are the day. We have recordedtheir Singh Rajput case investigation. the national anthem. One of the Hathras SP VineetJaiswal, Indian Express the police have placedinhomes across the statements,” he said. Republic TV will file acriminal men, identifiedasFaizan (24), brought in afterhis predecessor put up CCTVcameras outside country, including in about The “unsual trends” in TRPs defamation case against... Singh. had later died. In this incident, a wasremovedoverthe handling the family’s house, and arenot 1,800homes in Mumbai, were firstspotted by Hansa and Thereisnot asingle BARC report case been lodgedunder Sections of the case, said he had received letting anybody in or out. “They Commissioner Singh said. To BARC,who complainedtopolice, that mentions Republic TV.” 147, 148,149and302(murder)of the letter.“Ihavebeen told that arescared of the police, author- prevent the datafrombeing ma- Singh said. TheCrime Branch On Republic TV’s claim that the IPC at the BhajanpuraPolice the letter has been written by ities and media now.” nipulated, the locations of these registeredanFIR at Kandivali po- IndiaToday, andnot Republic,was Station, the police response said. the accusedinwhich theyare al- “panel homes” arekeptsecret. licestation on chargesofcheat- namedinthe FIR,Joint The four other videosflagged leging their version of the case. TRP fraud The dataisusedbythe Broadcast ing and criminal breachoftrust, Commissioner of Police (Crime) by theHomeDepartmentfeature Therequisitelegal proceedings Cinema channels, and twofor- Audience Research Council and arrested twoformer em- MilindBharambesaid:“IntheFIR, men making open threatsand will take place,” he said. meremployees of the marketre- (BARC), an industrybodyowned ployees of Hansa –Vishal the nameofIndia Todayismen- calling forviolence meanttotar- The lawyer of the accused search agencythatcollectsthe by advertisers, ad agencies, and Bhandari, 21,and Bompally Rao tioned;however, itisnotsubstan- getaparticularcommunity.Police said the police had no proof TRP data—havebeen arrested. broadcasting companies, to cal- Mistry, 44,onWednesday.The tiated by anyofthe accusedor have repliedthattheyhavetaken againsthis clients. Theywillbeproducedbeforea culatethe TRP of eachchannel. owners of Fakt Marathi –Shirish witnesses.Onthecontrary, theac- action in twoofthese videos,and Contact forAdvt. Booking: M/sFriends Publicity Service “Wedon’texpect theretobe courtonFriday. “Wefound that some chan- Pattanshetty,44–and Box cusedand witnessesare specifi- areanalysing the other two. 23276901, 23282028 (M): 9212008155, 9212665841. achargesheet. If theyfile a Police said theywereinthe nelswerepayingformer employ- Cinemas –Narayan Sharma, 47 callymentioning the names of FULLREPORTSON chargesheet under pressure, it process of issuing summons to ees of agencyHansa Research –werearrestedonThursday. RepublicTV,FaktMarathiandBox www.indianexpress.com

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DELHI ENVIRONMENT Minister EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE MEASURESINPLACE Gopal RaiThursday launcheda NEWDELHI,OCTOBER8 Tackling air pollution FROMOCT15 warroom to monitor air pollu- tion levels in real-time and stub- DIESEL GENERATORsetswill be PRESCRIBEDMEASURES 1. BanonDGsetsinNCR ble burning in neighbouring bannedOctober 15 onwardsin 2. Large construction states. A10-member expert Delhi and neighbouring National UNDERGRAP projectstocomplywith team will operatefromthe war Capital Region townswiththe FOR ‘MODERATE’ TO dustcontrol measures room under twosenior scientists implementation of the Graded of the Delhi Pollution Control ‘POOR’ AIR 3. Industries to use only Response Action Plan (GRAP) to Committee (DPCC). authorised fuels checkworsening air pollution. 1. Stop garbageburning in Speaking at the Delhi Directions were issued landfills 4. Night patrolling to Secretariat, Raisaid the room is Delhi Environment MinisterGopal Raiand team at the war Thursdaytothe chief secretaries 2. Periodic mechanised checkwaste burning, equippedwith high-end technol- room launchedatthe SecretariatonThursday. Tashi Tobgyal of Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh sweeping on roads with industrial and dust ogy and has three large screens and Rajasthan on implementing heavy traffic. Water emissions on whichconcentrations of dif- pollution control measures un- sprinkling on unpaved 5. Mechanised ferent pollutants, the status of 13 work done by the MCDs through ity index(AQI) of Delhi was der GRAP by the Supreme Court- roads everytwo days sweeping of roads air pollution hotspots in Delhi, GPS. Dailyreports willbesentto ‘poor’ forasecondconsecutive mandated Environment 3. Stop plying of visibly dayand night, and and satelliteimagesfromNASA the CM, myself, and the dayonThursdaywithareading Pollution (Prevention&Control) polluting vehicles GRAP is aplan to tackle air pollutioninthe NCR. It was watersprinkling to andISROofstubble burning will EnvironmentSecretary.” of 208, as per the Central Authority (EPCA). notifiedbythe environment ministryin2017. Tashi Tobgyal control dust be monitored in real-time. At the launch, officials in- Pollution ControlBoard(CPCB). 4. Enforce dustcontrol in AGRAP taskforce, ledbythe He said, “Wewill also moni- formedthe ministerthat the air On Wednesday, the AQIwas 215. construction activities Central PollutionControlBoard torcomplaintsfiledbythe peo- quality of Delhi at the time was The concentration of PM 2.5, (CPCB), has advisedEPCAthat ‘VERY POOR’ AIR ‘SEVERE’ AIR 4. Increase frequency of 2. Stop construction ple through the Green Delhi ap- in the ‘poor’ category, and thatit emitted through combustion the NCRhas slippedinto‘poor’ plication, whichthe Chief will worsen with arise in the activities, was89.6micrograms 1. Stop useofdiesel 1. Close brickkilns, hotmix mechanisedcleaning of roads activities air categoryasweather condi- Ministerwill launchinthe com- concentration of particulate per cubic metreair (µg/m3)as generator sets plants, stone crushers and sprinkling of water 3. Introduce odd-even tions were turning adverse. ing days.Wewillmonitor the matter of 2.5 micrometres (PM of 5pminDelhi-NCR. 2. Enhanceparking feeby on roads scheme forvehicles EPCAchairman BhureLal 2. Maximisegeneration of complaints and implement strict 2.5) from stubble burning in Concentration of PM 10,com- 3-4 times told the chief secretaries in alet- powerfromnatural gas-based ‘SEVERE+’ OR 4. Task forcetotake action. We will also monitor road Punjab and Haryana. prising dustand smoke, was ter, “The winter period sees 3. Increase bus and Metro plants, reduce operation of ‘EMERGENCY’ AIR decision on sweeping and watersprinkling The 24-hour averageair qual- 224.3 µg/m3. worsening air quality because services coal-basedpower plants 1. Stop entryofall trucks, additional steps, thereisless dispersion, and 4. Stop use of coal/firewood 3. Increase public transport exceptessentialcommodities, including shutting down lowertemperatures trap pollu- in hotels and open eateries services intoDelhi schools tantsclosetothe ground.Itis, 2MPs write to PM over Kerala therefore, necessarytoensure thatthe levels do notrise fur- the need arises. boards to ensureadherence to teronroads to control dust, night lockdown, and therefore, our ther.” “The use of diesel generator dustmanagement norms, and in patrollingtocheckwaste burn- combinedeffort is to ensure that journalist bookedunder UAPA GRAP is aplan to tackle air sets will be banned, other than case of industries, using onlyau- ing and dustemissions, anden- thereisnofurther disruption,” pollution in the NCR, whichwas foressentialoremergency serv- thorisedfuel and operating with suring long-term solutionsto Lal said in the letter to thechief that UP police has flouted all “Freedomof pressisacornerstone notifiedbythe Union environ- ices, in Delhi and in vicinity prescribed pollution control solid wastedumping. secretaries. EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE guidelines laid out by the of ahealthydemocracyandarrest mentministryin2017. It lists the towns —Ghaziabad, Noida, measures. If weather conditions and air He added, “However, we also NEWDELHI,OCTOBER8 Supreme Courtregarding arrest of areputed seniorjournalistlike measures that needtobetaken Greater Noida,Faridabad and States have been asked to pollution levels turn adverse, recognise that co-morbidity is a in the case of Siddique Kappan, Kappan on terror chargesisadi- by authorities basedonthe re- Gurgaon,”EPCAchairman said take theseactions in additionto moremeasureswould be di- hugechallengeinthe pandemic ADAY afteraDelhi-based jour- secretaryofthe Delhiunit of the rect attackonthis freedom…” gion's air quality. in the letter. those that EPCAhas already di- rected,including closureof as thereisenough evidence that nalisthailing from Kerala, who Kerala Union of Working According to theFIR filedin From October 15 onwards, Large construction projects, rected them to take.These in- powerplantsthat do notadhere pollution will makeCovid-19 wasdetained by UP police along Journalists and who is associated Maant police station,Kappan, some measures under ‘Very including highways and Metro, clude enforcement of action to 2017 emission norms, restrain moredangerous. Therefore, we withthree others, wasbooked with various Malayalam news along with Campus Front of India Poor/Severe’ air categorywill and industries, particularly in the plans forcontrolling emissions on use of private transportand musthavezerotolerance forair under the UAPA,two MPs from outlets,including website office-bearers Atiq-ur-Rahman come intoforce, and the task- redand orangecategories, will in air pollution hotspots,mech- ban on construction activities. pollution in this period as it will the stateThursdaywrote to PM azhimukham.com. and Masood Ahmed, and aman forceand EPCAwill direct forad- be required to give an undertak- anisedsweeping of roads both at “Werecognisethat the econ- come at hugehuman health NarendraModiseeking his inter- Pointing out that Kappanwas identifiedasAlam, were booked ditional measures to be takenif ing to statepollution control dayand night, sprinklingofwa- omyisalready under stress post- cost.” vention to ensurehis release. doing his duty as areporter, foralleged “conspiracybehind In their letters, Congress Lok Behanan said UP police has given their visittoHathras”. The FIR al- Sabha MP from Chalakudy aclearmessagetothe media that leged theyweretrying to invoke BennyBehanan and CPI’s Rajya “objective reportingwillnotbeal- riots andthreaten lawand order Girls display coding skills, Sisodia announces plan to Sabha MP BinoyViswam argued lowedinthe state.” Viswam said: andsocial harmony. expand programme to several Delhigovtschools Chadha: Centre

and technology aremissing. How animated videos using Scratch, purchased no WANTED TECHNICAL ANALYST EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE can we prepare our children fora ablock-basedvisual program- NEWDELHI,OCTOBER8 futurehi-techworld? It is neces- ming languageand website. crops from Delhi sarytoprepare them now… We This limitation waseven Good-touch-bad-touch, protect- will graduallystart teaching all pointed outbyHena, aclass VII in last 5years ing the environment, the impor- children in all our schools howto student from Madangir,who had Spices Board, Ministry of Commerce &Industry,Government of India tance of school education forgirls, code even though it will take created avideo on ‘good-touch- NewDelhi: AAP spokesperson proposes to engage Technical Analyst(Chemistry/Microbiology) on contract the needtouse masksand sani- some time.Veryfewofthese chil- bad-touch'. “Wecould do it but Raghav ChadhaThursdayalleged basis in Quality EvaluationLaboratories of theBoard in Mumbai,Raebareli tisers to protectagainstCovid-19 dren arelikelytohavecomputers thereare manychildrenwho do thattheCentrehadnotpurchased and Kolkata. Eligible candidates maysendthe application by e-mail. —these were amongthe topics at home and their interaction nothavethese kinds of phones. It crop producefromDelhi farmers Last date forreceiving applicationsis22October, 2020. on whichsix middle school stu- with technological programmes would beverygood forother chil- at MSP in the last5years. “After / Formore details please visit the Board's website dentsofDelhi government might be limited to things like dren if youcould help out with 2015,the Centrehas notpur- schools created animated videos YouTubeand WhatsApp," hesaid. this,” she said, adding that she chasedasinglecropfromfarmers using codingskills theypickedup Though the programme had wantstobeasoftwareengineer. of Delhi,letaloneonMSP.Farmers over the lastfew months. Manish Sisodia at theevent on Thursday begun with 1,000girls, it raninto RupinderKaur, founder of of Delhiwere lefttoget plundered Thesixgirlswereamong1,000 an obstacle withthe nationwide She Codes, said from October,the by privateplayers,” Chadha said. whohadbeenenrolledintoacod- lockdown. Afterthat, the pro- same setofgirls will be taught He alleged that officials, ing programme forgirlstudents, Manish Sisodia announcedhis “These arethings missingin gramme went onlinewith 870 loops and logics of coding, and mandi presidentsand ministers ‘She Codes’,initiatedbythe Delhi planto expandtheprogrammeto our education system… Our girls who had smartphones and the organisation would be pro- had written to the Centretopro- government in January. On asmany studentsofDelhigovern- teachers work very hardbut internetconnectionsathome, viding 30 GB internetdatafreeof cureproduce throughthe FCI but Thursday, Education Minister ment schools as possible. thingsconnectedwiththefuture wheretheylearnt howtomake costtothemfor thepurpose. gotnoresponse. ENS

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Total22,232* 2,72,948 5,653 34,75,795 *T BRIEFLY HC grants bail to riot accused, says ‘INCREASING TESTS SHOULD REFLECT IN CASES’ DJBtoopen innovation witnesses against him seemplanted Nomorepostersoutside

centre registeredatDayalpur police sta- throwing petrol bombs on the sum of Rs 25,000 and with SOFIAHSAN tion on February28. “Asper the houses of othercommunity. one suretyinthe like amount to homesofCovidpatients NewDelhi:The Delhi Jal NEWDELHI,OCTOBER8 statementofConstable Pawan The courtwas alsotold one the satisfaction of the trial Board (DJB)onThursday and Constable Ankit (both are of the eyewitnesses, Rohit, has court/duty judge.” approved construction of THE DELHI High Courthas eyewitnessesand present at the confirmedAhmad’s role and “The trial courtshall notget a‘DJBInnovation, Design granted bail to an accusedina spot), theyhad identifiedthe pe- identification, and that influencedbythe observation and Research Centre’ at Delhi riots case, observing that titioner and other co-accused. mobile phonelocationofthe made by this courtwhilepass- ASTHASAXENA& the Chandrawal Water the witnessesagainsthim seem However, theyhavenot made accusedalso shows his pres- ing the order,” said the bench. SOURAVROYBARMAN Treatment Plant. The ap- to be planted.The accused, anycomplaintonthe dateofin- ence at the spot. The trial court, while dis- NEWDELHI,OCTOBER8 proval wasgiven in a Irshad Ahmad, wasbookedinan cident, i.e. 25.02.2020,whereas However, the courtsaid the missing Ahmad’s application in boardmeeting on FIR registeredagainstpeopleal- FIR waslodged on 28.02.2020. chargesheethas already been August, said that at this stage, it THE PRACTICE of putting up Thursdaychaired by wa- leged to have used former AAP Thus, the said witnesses seem to filedinthe case and trialwill take cannotbesaidwith certainty home isolation posters outside terminister Satyendar councilor Tahir Hussain’s house be planted,” the order said. substantial time. “Without com- that he did nothaveacommon houses of those who have tested Jain. Astatement from the forattacking houses of the other Opposingthe bail, policehad menting on the meritsofthe object with the other persons of positive forCovid will end in the DJBsaid, “This innovation community. arguedthatAhmad’sname was case, this court is inclinedto grant “unlawful assembly”. city, officials have decided. The centrewill carry outac- Justice Suresh Kumar Kait, in disclosedby co-accusedHussain bail to thepetitioner,” it said. The courthad also notedthat move comes aweekafter the tivities necessary forexe- an order,said thereisnoelec- and thattheyare associates. The HC bench, in the order at thetime of search of Hussain’s Delhi High Courtsought the cution of non-conven- tronic evidence suchasCCTV Police had submittedthat around dated October 7said, “Heshall house, “a number of acid stategovernment’s response on tional projects, pilot footageorphotostoimplicate 100people were standingonthe be releasedonbailonhis fur- pouches, petrol bombs, stones apleaasking officialstodoaway studies and alliedworks, Ahmadinthe case. The FIR was terrace of Hussain’shouse and nishing apersonal bond in the and catapults were recovered”. with the practice. The poster According to officials, people were notgettingtestedfearing likeonsite pilottesting, mentions the number of people suchposters outside homes surveys, microanalysis, in ahousehold that have tested expertvisits...” The Board Order declining positive andthe duration of also approved construc- Man wholost armduring NE home isolation. Existing posters areunder home isolation. Total The committee said that tion of alab equipped plea seeking FIR will also be takendown. cases in the city crossedthe 3- morethan 80% testshavebeen with machines to per- Accordingtosources,the de- lakh markonThursdaywith conductedbyrapid antigen test form advancedtests,in- Delhi riotsgot Rs 20K as relief against MoS cisionhas been takenafter it was 2,726 fresh cases being reported. and in afew districts,itisupto cluding virus detection found out that severalpeople, The total cases touched3,00,833 90-95%. Positivity rate is 4.3% by tests, and detection of Thakur,Verma even those with symptoms, while the death toll is 5,653 with RATand 20.33% by RT-PCR as on pollutantslikepesticides, flagged at leastsix suchcases of were notcomingforward to get 37 newdeaths reportedon September 24. heavy metals and antibi- SOURAVROYBARMAN allegedly wrong medico legal challenged tested fearing that aposterwill Thursday. The committeehas also said otics. NEWDELHI,OCTOBER7 assessmentsatthe meeting, be putupoutside their homes. A Meanwhile, arevisedcon- that city hospitals should be pre- whichwas also attendedby senior government official said: tainment strategy preparedby pared forasurge of 15,000 pos- THE EXTENT of the injurycan be Principal Secretary(Vigilance) EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE “Due to the stigma attachedwith an expertcommittee ledbyNITI itive cases per daywiththe Fourwanted gaugedfromthefactthathisright RajeevVerma, acting as link of- NEWDELHI,OCTOBER8 the disease, notmanypeople Aayogmember Dr VK Paul has changeinseason and movement criminalsheld arm had to be amputatedatthe ficer of Principal Secretary were voluntarilycomingfor- suggestedtothe Delhigovern- of patientsfromotherstates. elbowandafingerremovedfrom (Home) BSBhalla. CPI(M) LEADER Brinda Karat ward to gettested. The move has ment that testing should notbe Expressing concernover NewDelhi: The Special theleftpalm, whichwas severely As per the Delhi government’s Thursdaychallenged an order been takentomotivatepeople. geared towardstargets but to- mortalities reportedinunder 15 CellofDelhiPolice have disfigured.TheNortheastDelhiri- compensation policy,those who passedbyanAdditional Chief In severalcases, patientshave wardssurveillance.“Increase in (1.5% approx)and young age arrested four wanted otsinFebruaryturnedAkram sufferedminor injuries areenti- Metropolitan magistrate in the reachedthe hospitalinasevere number of testsshould be re- groups 16-44years(17%),itsug- criminalsafter an ex- Khan’s(22)lifeupsidedown,asan tledtoget Rs 20,000,victims of Delhi High Court, in whichthe stage whichleadstocomplica- flected in increasedcase finding. gested aregular death audit re- changeoffireinRohini. explosion lefthim permanently seriousinjuries aretoget Rs 2 prayer forregistrationofaFirst tions. We do notwantthatsce- Merelyincreasing the number of viewofCovid and non-Covid The accusedaremembers incapacitated,entitledtobe lakh, andthosewho sufferedper- Information Reportagainst nario.” teststoreduce positivity rate mortalities in coordination with of Kala Jhatri Lawrence granted acompensation of Rs 5 AkramKhan manentincapacitation areenti- MinisterofState forFinance Thereare 22,232 active cases would notbeappropriate,” the the National Centrefor Disease Bishnoigangand arein- lakh from the Delhi government. tledtoget Rs 5lakh. Anurag Thakur and MP Parvesh as of now, outofwhich12,890 reportsaid. Control. volvedinmultiplecases of But all he receivedwas Rs Asenior official of the GTB Verma fortheir alleged hate murder,attempt to mur- 20,000 as hisinquirywas my rightarm wasamputated at Hospital told the committee that speechwas declined. der andextortion. All four termed“minor” aftermedico le- GTBHospital,” Akram told The medico legal cases were carried Following ahearing,the sin- accusedsustainedbullet galassessment at the Delhi gov- Indian Express. out and injury assessment re- gle-judgebenchofJustice 5-yr-old, assaulted by stepdad, injuries duringthe ex- ernment-runGTB Hospital, The area in and around ports shared withthe revenue Yogesh Khanna asked the coun- changeoffire. whichreceivedand treated the Mohan Nursing Home is among department in 285 out of 364 sel representing Karat to submit largest number of riotvictims. the areas whichsaw the mostvi- persons treated during the riots. copies of the judgmentsbeing mother,rescued in Faridabad Topofficialsofthe Delhiad- olenceduring the riots,which Singla said cases likethat of cited by him in supportofthe ‘MCDsto ministration, including Delhi claimed53lives. Akram's, whereerrors have been contentions. deprivedhim of food. Police have member,indicates that the deseal3,000 Health SecretaryPadmini Singla He remained hospitalisedfor committed in assessment of in- The counsel representing SAKSHIDAYAL arrested them. child’s ordeal beganhours after and the sub-divisional magis- the next 32 days.Doctors triedto juries, can be reassessedona Delhi Police challenged the GURGAON,OCTOBER8 Policesaid theywerealerted reachinghis newhome when, properties’ trateofYamuna Vihar,admitted reconstruct his leftarm through case to case basis afterreview- maintainability of the petition, to the matter Sundaybyamem- on his asking forfood, hisstep- Wednesdaythatthe assessment skin grafting, but Akram, who ing the records. The meeting was and submitted that the same ar- FORAfive-year-old child resid- berofthe Child Helpline in father allegedly beganbeating NewDelhi: TheBJP ruled in Akram’s case wasinadequate worked in ajeansmanufacturing also told that the Cabinethas ap- gumentscan be raisedinarevi- ing in Faridabad, avisit from his Faridabad, who had receivedin- him with abelt. When the child three municipal corpora- and should be reviewed, said of- unit, will be unable to carry out proved therevenue depart- sion case too. maternal grandparentslastweek formation that the child had been cried, his stepfather allegedly put tions will complete de- ficials afterameeting of the anysuchtasknow.“Iamgetting ment's proposal to release the The courthas nowlisted brought an end to an ordeal he admittedtoBKHospital with in- his hand over hismouth and sealing of over 3,000 Delhi Assemblycommittee on treated at aprivate facility now. I relief amount in pending cases. the case forhearingon had been undergoing forthe last juriesinflicted on him by his threatenedtokill or burn him. properties in residential welfareofminorities wherethe don’t understand howtheyas- In terms of false rejections of November 2. one month,after hismother got stepfather. “The stepfather wasinflicting areas of the city by Diwali, issue came up. sessedmyinjuriesasminor. Ihave claimsunder the head of prop- On August 26, ACMM Vishal marriedagain.Her second hus- The latter,a26-year-old di- burns on different parts of the DelhiBJP president Adesh “I wasgoing to an ijtima on beenrenderedjobless.Mybrother erty damage, also flaggedbythe Pahuja had dismissedthe com- band allegedly inflictedburns on vorcee, had marriedthe boy’s child’sbodyusing amatchstick, Gupta said on Thursday. February24. Ourbus came to a lostoversix months of income as House panel, the department plaint filedbyKarat andCPI(M) the child’s body,beat him with a mother,also adivorcee,last and had also tried to sexually as- Gupta accompaniedby halt near MohanNursing Home hehadto take careofme,”Akram, has so faridentified25such leader KMTewariinFebruary belt, and attempted to sexually month. Prior to that,the child and sault him lastweek,”said apo- NorthDelhi mayorJai at 1pmasclashes brokeout and aresident of Mustafabad who cases under the Seelampur sub- forregistration of an FIR against assault him on one occasion. The his mother had been living with lice officer. Prakash earlier in the day we deboarded. As Iwaited with hailsfromUP’sBulandshahr,said. division, 74 under KarawalNagar Thakur and Verma fortheir al- child’smother, in whom he had his maternal grandparents. Police said the child has been launchedthe desealing others, something fell on my The committee, headedby subdivision and 19 underthe leged hatespeechinrelation to confidedabout the violence, al- The FIR, registeredbasedona dischargedfromhospital and is exercise at Todapur area. hand and exploded. The next day, Okhla MLAAmanatullah Khan, Yamuna Vihar subdivision. the anti-CAA protests. legedly beat him with astick and complaint by the Child Helpline staying with his grandparents. He said 1357 properties in North, 700inSouth MCD and around 1000 in East MCD will be desealedun- Courtpulls up police, points to Video moves web, many turn up at aged der the ambit of SC ruling providing relief from seal- ing drive undertaken by ‘defects, violations’ in probe couple’s Malviya Nagar dhaba for abite the monitoring commit- teeinrecent years. on February24. In hisorder, The courtsaid, “Thereisnoeye- ANANDMOHANJ Additional Sessions JudgeVinod witness who has givenevidence EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE NEWDELHI,OCTOBER8 Yadavwrote that from the video, in this regard... If complaintsof NEWDELHI,OCTOBER8 DFSevacuates hisbehavior was“cool, calm and both complainants couldbe 4peoplestuck INVESTIGATINGofficerrecorded composed...Hesimplyappearsbe legallyclubbed... is again debat- TILL WEDNESDAY,80-year-old the complainant’s statement to walking around the fire with a able as theywereoftwo dates. KantaPrasadwould have to take inhotellift coverupadefect, recovery of rod/stickinhis hand, probably However, IO triedtocover up the home mostofwhat hecookedfor stolen aircompressor tank from thinkingofsomeway(s) to douse defect by recording statement of customers at his small blue kiosk NewDelhi: Ateam of five the house of the accusedwas a thefire.Admittedly,applicantdid complainantYakubon18.03.2020 in MalviyaNagar.OnThursday,he Delhi Fire Service(DFS) “grossviolation”,and theaccused notgotoany otherstreet/galiwith to theeffect that incident in his had to shut shop before noon as personnel evacuated a seen carryingastickinavideo said rod/stick... instead he is just case took place on 25.02.2020 in- he ranout of food. restaurant liftinWest did it “probablywithaninten- seenroaming/strollingaroundhis stead of 24.02.2020...” Avideo on social media, Delhi Thursdaymidnight, tion”savehis family from rioters shop, probablywithanintention Onrecoveryof aircompressor whichwent viral on Wednesday, afterfour people were —these aresome pointsthat a to save it from rioters, as his fam- tankfromSumit’shouse,thecourt showedPrasad and his wife Thecrowd outsideBaba ka Dhaba on Thursday. stuckinit. DFS chief Atul Delhi courtraisedwhile pulling ilyresides on the firstfloor.” said withouttaking independent Badami Devi talkabouthowthey (Right)KantaPrasadand his wifeBadamiDevi. AbhinavSaha Gargsaid, “Wegot acall up Delhi Police during the bail Sumits’s counsel RKKochar witnessesand taking onlypolice were barelygetting anycus- from AIR restaurant in hearing of a25-year-old man. had arguedthatthe complainant witnessesto thediscoverywould tomers at their kiosk called'Baba Punjabi Bagh at 12.10am The man, Sumit, has been ac- in the second case, Yakub, used “renderthediscovery,atleast,not ka Dhaba' since the lockdown. am and did notdisperse even also metthecoupleandtheirson, said Prasad, who does nothavea that due to technical fault, cusedintwo complaints—set- to be Sumit’s tenant and thatre- free from doubt”. “Itisnotedthat Prasad, with tears in his eyes, when theyran out of food. Azad Hind, and handedoveran bank account yet. the lifthad stoppedwork- ting ashop on fire as well as for lations between them were the same has been recoveredin spokeabout howheisunable to Area MLASomnathBhartivis- envelope full of cash. The couple have three chil- ing and people were stealingascooter, auto wheel strainedashewas askedtova- absenceof anyindependentpub- sell even the smallquantity of ited the kiosk. “Visited ‘Baba Ka But he wasn’t the onlyone as dren -adaughter who liveswith stuckinside. Afiretender parts worth7lakh andaRs2.5 catefor notpaying hiselectricity lic witness(es)... Investigating food he cookseachday. Dhaba’ and have done the need- peoplekeptcoming notonlyto her husband and twomarried wasdispatchedand four lakh air-compressor from a bill. He arguedthat the IO ma- agency has neither bothered to Gaurav Wasan, who shotthe ful to bring asmile on their faces eat but also to donatemoneyand sons who live with them in a people were removed tyre/puncturerepair shop dur- nipulated Yakub’s statementin join anyindependentpublicwit- video, put it up on Instagram and as promised. Will take careof dryrations to the family. jhuggi at Jagdamba Camp. from there. Theywere ing the NortheastDelhi riots. his “zeal to work out the case”. ness(es)whileeffectingrecovery... asked people to come and eat at them and Iamstarting adrive to “I had neverimaginedthe By evening, the dhaba was stuckinside for30min- Sumit wasgranted baileven In this case, twocomplaints to lendsomecredibility...norgiven the kiosk to supportthe couple. take careofsimilarly placedpeo- video wouldbringmesomuch listedonZomatowhichalso utes." ENS though he wasseen carrying a were clubbed intoone as police anycogentexplanationforfailure On Thursday, customers were ple,” he tweeted. help. Till yesterday, we were asked userstopoint out similar stickand walking aroundthe fire said theywereofthe same date. to do so...,” the order read. linedupoutsidethekiosk since8 Delhi BJP chief Adesh Gupta struggling. Now, we have hope,” people in needofhelp.

WATCHING SC JUDGMENT FROM GROUND ZERO At ShaheenBagh, graffiti only signofprotest that spread across the country

zindabad, No CAA, No NRC. licplaceforprotests is notaccept- best to meetatamiddle ground. no one from the government en- protestbetaken away?" SUKRITABARUAH "Nobody heretalksabout the able." However, themovementandthe gagedwiththeprotestersevenaf- The form of sit-inprotest, with NEWDELHI,OCTOBER8 protestoriswilling to talk about BackinShaheen Bagh, many protesthad growntoo large,ina tereverything," she said. women taking the lead, had it anymore. They'rescared," said of those who were an active part waythatitbecomes difficult to Everyone said theyrespect spread from Shaheen Bagh to AT THE siteofthe Shaheen Bagh Bilkis Bano, the 82-year old 'Dadi of the sit-in said the protesthad tell people what to do," said the Supreme Court's observa- over 12 locations in Delhi itself sit-in on the Kalindi Kunj road to of Shaheen Bagh'. takenthat form in an organic Shaheen Kausar,one of the par- tions. However, socialactivist and to other cities suchas Noida, all signs of the over 100 On Wednesday, in reference manner. "Thereweresomany ticipantsofthe sit-in. Bahadur Abbas Naqvi, aresident Mumbai, Allahabad,Lucknow, days protest aregone.Shops on to the Shaheen Bagh protest, a people partofitwho had always But she is quicktostate that it of Shaheen Bagh, said, "As for Kolkata, Gaya and Kota. the road arebuzzing once again, Supreme Courtbench of Justices been known as housewivesbe- wasthe peopleofthe area who shifting the protesttoanalternate Onthefutureofanti-CAAand the tent sheltering the protesting SKKaul, Krishna Murari and fore that,who were protesting in had ensured theprotest re- designatedsite,whatsitehad we NRCprotestsagainstthe back- women has disappeared along Hrishikesh Roystated, "Public their ownarea, in Shaheen Bagh... mainedpeaceful. "Therewereat- been given? Therewerelakhs of drop of the Supreme Court's ob- with mostofthe artworkand places cannotbeoccupiedindef- When the Supreme Courtinter- tempts from all quarters to pro- people protesting, while Jantar servations, Bilkis said, "The hope sculptures, including the 40-foot initely. Dissent and democracy go locutors (SanjayHegde and voke people, but the people here Mantar has acapacity for1,000 is that in the future, we won't iron map of India. All thatremain hand in hand but protests must Sadhana Ramachandran) had were sensible anddid notallow and RamleelaMaidan for25,000. have to go out on the roads and aresomeslogans graffitiedona becarriedout in designatedarea... come there, it wasverypositive Shops on the road arebuzzing once again the slightestbit of violence. And If therecan be no alternative,can thatthe government engages and nearbyfoot-overbridge—Inquilab Suchkind of occupation of pub- and manythought it would be the fact remainsthat at the end, people's constitutional right to talkstous."

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State’s politics will be SPEAKINGHIS poorerfor losingthe MIND ON CASTESYSTEM lastofDalit socialists ■The caste system has ruined this country. We all areagainstit. Time and again we saythat to end the castesystem, we needtofinda He made politicalwaves solution forroti(food) and beti (women). We have tackledthe in his very firstelection, food problem to some extent, but therehas been no solution to the defeating veteranafter issues that women face in the country. We still have khap campaigningonacycle panchayats,honour killings continue… Changing this mentality is important. RAM VILAS PASWAN SANTOSHSINGH ON PM MODI PATNA,OCTOBER8 1946-2020 ■When Iwriteabook towardsthe WHEN RAM Vilas Paswan came to Patna af- end of my life, then Iwill write terwinning his firstelection from Alauli TRIBUTES about these experiences. All Ican (Khagaria) in 1969 as aSamyuktaSocialist sayisthat NarendraModi is all Partycandidate, he did notknowwhathis He was among the most active and about work,and no one can deny leader Karpoori Thakurlookedlike. Thakur longest-serving members of this. Work means NarendraModi would grow to respect Paswan as muchas and NarendraModi means work. Parliament. He was the voice of the In five days,hetravels from Saudi the youngMLA admired the man who as CM oppressed, and championed the in 1977 ushered in social and political change Arabia to Mexico andthe USA. He by enforcing reservations. cause of the marginalised...” worksall day, forgetsabout food, Paswan, who would go on to seta RAM NATH KOVIND addresses international gatherings… He obviouslyhas Guinness Recordfor the largest ever victory PRESIDENT margin, had made politicalwaves in that very some charisma. firstelection–defeatingCongress veteran “Whetheritwasstrugglingagainst Misri Sada, while campaigning on abicycle theEmergencyin1975,or ON ATROCITIES ON he had bought with some of the moneyhis strengtheningthegoalofpoverty DALITS father Jamun Das gave him to buy ahealth alleviationduringtheCOVID ■Dalit ministers and MPs, such as drink to tone up his lanky stature. pandemicintheModigovernment, me, arepainedbythe atrocities Paswan,who went on to form the Lok againstmembers of our JanshaktiParty in 2000,was aUnion minis- hehasplayedanunparalleledrole...” community.Thereisalaw to teratthe time of his death at the ageof74 AMIT SHAH handle suchcases, the SC and ST following illness.The biggestDalit leader of HOME MINISTER (TRANSLATED FROM HINDI) Prevention of Atrocities Act. But Bihar afterJagjivanRam, hisother claim to then Ikeepsaying that the Actis fame wasthisuncannyability to pickthe “Atoweringpersonality...willbe different, fact is different and tact winning side,ofwhateverhue, and retain a foreverrememberedforassertingthe is different. The Actneeds to be place in the Union Cabinet. causeofsocialandpoliticalequity...” implemented strictly. Backin1990, Paswan oncetold this re- porter, he had come closetobecoming the SONIA GANDHI Bihar CM. He said he wasthe firstchoice of V CONGRESS PRESIDENT ON RESERVATION PSingh who had become the Prime Minister “The death... has caused me ■Our party has been demanding defeating RajivGandhi, but Singh ultimately reservationinthe privatesector. We chose another Dalit leader,Ram Sundar Das. personalhurt... (it) is an irreparable have alsosought reservationsin Finally, it would be Paswan’s junior Lalu loss to Indian politics...” promotions. We want the SC/ST Prasadwho would become theCMfor the NITISH KUMAR atrocities Acttobeimplemented strictly. Dalitsand Adivasis firsttime, stealingamarch on him as the JD(U) CHIEF (TRANSLATED FROM HINDI) tallestleaderinthe state. Paswan would hold constitutethe mostdowntrodden the consolation of trouncing Das almostall “... The political, social struggles sections of the society.Today, many the half-a-dozen times theyfacedeachother fought with him are before my eyes. members of theAdivasi community in elections. Ramvilas bhai, you left too early... have become Naxals becausethey In 2005, Paswan got another shotat (Clockwise from top) Paswan smiles as son Chirag greets PM NarendraModi at an event in Delhi in 2019;withthenPM feel thattheyare notgettingjustice. CMshipwhen the LJP got 29 seatsand held LALU PRASAD Manmohan Singh and SP leader Mulayam Singh YadavinDelhi in 2011;with then PM IKGujral andCabinetcolleagues at Excerpts from The IndianExpress Idea keys to government formation in ahung RJD LEADER (TRANSLATED FROM HINDI) swearing-in ceremony in June,1997; on the occasionofthe 50th Republic Dayduring the Atal BihariVajpayeegovernmentin Exchangeprogramme on Aug7,2016 House. He would claim to have also been dis- 2007;with then Prime MinisterVPSingh and Dr BRAmbedkar’s wifeSavitaAmbedkar in Delhi in April 1990. Express archives cussedasapossible PM afterHDDeve Gowda resignedinApril 1997."It wasanout- side chance but still ahugehonour foraboy forthe same space at the Centre. Another of from anon-descriptvillageofKhagaria,” he his claims wasthat he wasdeniedthe would say. Railway Ministryatthe last momentin2004 His death will castashadow on Bihar elections While notadirect product of the 1974-75 as the UPAhad committed it to Lalu Prasad. JP Movement, unlikeother Bihar leaders such When he rejoinedthe NDAin2014, 10 move.While BJP has handled Chiragwithkid calls, keeping old relationships.... He is the Therewas never, however, anydoubt in asLalu, NitishKumar andSushil KumarModi, yearsafter parting with it over the 2002 SANTOSHSINGH&DIPANKARGHOSE gloves so farevenashehas walked out of tallestPaswanleaderever. Chirag is the boy Paswan's mind over Chirag being his political he wasclose to Jayaprakash Narayan. In the Gujarat riots,hehad told The Indian Express PATNA/NEWDELHI.OCTOBER8 NDAinBihar and openlytaken on Nitish, who went to Bollywood, but nowiscreating heir.Healwaysplayedthe indulgent father as 1977 Lok Sabha elections, whereIndira he had no choice as the alliance had started with the death of long-time allyPaswan, the his ownspace. He speaksEnglish well, and hissonspokeofrebootingLJP’spolitics.Paswan Gandhi wasoustedasabyproduct of the JP giving morepreference to Nitish.And while AFORTNIGHT ago, as Union MinisterRam saffron partywillbeevenmorecautious can pull in the youth and is positioninghim- had proudly claimedthat the LJP's Anglicised Movement, Paswan calledhimself "a candi- Paswan liked being in the limelightatthe Vilas Paswan wasbeingadmittedtoaDelhi about anyovert criticism of the LJP. self as such.Theycomplement eachother,” political slogan, “Bihar First, Bihari First”, was dateofJP" in theHajipurseat.Hewould go on Centre,heensured his holdinthe state, re- hospital with multiple complications, he had As forLJP presidentChirag, who has taken the seniorleader had said. Chirag’sidea.Infact,Paswanhadstartedtrans- to represent the constituency severaltimes. maining the thirdangle of Bihar politics after tweetedthat he would stand by anydecision aleapoffaithbyfighting the elections alone, Now, with one pillarofthat edifice gone, ferring powertohis son soon afterthe 2014 When unable to campaign in 2019 due to ill- Lalu and Nitish. His LJP continues to com- son Chirag took on Bihar.Itwas astrong sig- hisfather’sdeath leaveshim in an extremely politicalleaders in Bihar saythere could be Lok Sabhapolls.After the LJP wonsix of seven ness, he deliveredanimpassionedspeech. The mand at least 5-7%ofthe voteshare, with nal from the LJP patriarch that put to rest all delicateposition.Four days ago, aseniorLJP consequences forthe LJP. seatsitcontestedthatelection,hemadeChirag saying went that Hajipur wasfamous fortwo Paswan virtuallyits onlybankable name. speculation about whether he wasuneasy leader had described the father-son’s poli- Asenior JD(U) leader said Paswan's death chairman of the party's parliamentaryboard. things -- itsbananas and RamVilas Paswan. Paswan had growntofavour along over- over Chirag's aggressive posturing against tics as complementing eachother.“Even has leftall of Bihar,evenhis political oppo- When Chirag starts campaigninginBihar, An affable leader known to courtfriend- coat in the winters,but Bihar will remember Bihar CM Nitish Kumar. though he is unwell, the merepresence of nents, in grief. “That is howbig he was. His emotions will inevitablyrun high. It remains shipsand forhis large heart,atatime when him as aleader rootedtohis origins. The Paswan’s death on Thursday, days before RamVilas-jireassures the Dalit voter,espe- death will have no effect on votes the LJP to be seen whether the sympathyfactor will politics has grownbitterand visceral, Paswan state’s politics will be poorer forlosing the Bihar votes in the firstphase on October28, ciallythe Dusadh (Paswans). He wonhis first wanted from anti-incumbency.But theques- translateintovotes forLJP. wasnever closetoLalu or Nitish,despite lastofthe Dalit socialists the countryhas willinevitablycastashadowonthe polls, election in 1969. Since then, he has always tion is of the coreDalit voter.... Will the core FULLREPORTON sharing asocialistbackground, as theyfought known. and have abearing on almostevery political been aman of the people, making phone Dalit voter trustChirag,” this leader said. www.indianexpress.com

Calculations did not work out: LJP list of 42 has 5BJP ticket-seekers, 1from JD(U) Centreallows bigger political gatherings Ex-DGP on not getting ticket Sasaram and Paliganj,respectively. Jagdishpur. SANTOSHSINGH Chourasia said: "I got acallfromBJP na- Imam Gajali (Shekhpura) is the only in Bihar, bypoll PATNA,OCTOBER8 tional president JPNadda to reconsider Muslim candidateonthe LJP list. Nine candi- my decision, but decidedtogowith dates on the listare women. SANTOSHSINGH THE LJP’S firstlistof42candidates included LJP becauseofmysupporters.” Other LJP candidates include constituencies PATNA,OCTOBER8 five unsuccessful ticket-seekers from the BJP Another BJP rebel, RavindraYadav, Krisha Kabir (Nokha) and NewDelhi:Aheadof theBiharelectionsandby- and one from the JD(U). willcontest as an LJPnomineefrom Muneshwar Pathak (Kurtha). polls in 11 states, the MinistryofHome Affairs FORMER BIHAR DGP Gupteshwar Pandey, TheLJPhasalsofieldedseveralof itsdistrict Jhajha. Mrinal Shekhar,who wasthe In amessage to the candidates, has allowedpolitical gatherings in poll-bound who optedfor VRS four months before he presidents andsoughtto maintainasocialbal- BJP runner-upfromAmarpur,will LJP president Chirag Paswan ear- constituencies before October 15 and also re- wastoretireand joined the JD(U), did notget ancebygivingtickets to ScheduledCaste contestthe same seat as an LJPnom- DECISION lier said: "It is very importantto laxed the ceiling on the number of attendees. atickettocontest theBihar Assemblypolls. Paswan, upper caste andOBC candidates. inee. 2020 win to shape our future.Voting for In guidelines issuedonSeptember 30, the He had lookedset to contestfromhis Topstate-levelBJP leaders Rajendra Another BJP leader,Indu Devi BIHAR the JD(U) means damaging Bihar.I governmenthad allowedthe attendance of hometown Buxar.But, the seat, held by the Singh, Rameshwar Chourasia and Usha Kashyap, will contestasLJP candidate am notabletogotothe people be- 100persons at suchgatherings. Congress in the outgoing Assembly, went to Gupteshwar Pandeywas the BiharDGP Vidyarthi, who recentlyquit the party,will from Jehanabad. JD(U) rebelBhagwan Singh cause of my father’s illness but Iwill be soon According to theorder,the relaxation will the BJP quotainthe seat-sharing arrange- before he optedfor VRSand joined be contesting as LJP nominees from Dinara, Kushwaha will contest as LJP nominee from among people.” be subjecttothe condition thatinclosed ment within NDA. Nitish Kumar’s JD(U), four months spaces, no morethan 50 per centofthe hall According to sources, JD (U) did notpress before he wastoretire capacity will beoccupiedwith aceiling of 200 muchfor swapping Buxar with anyother persons. In open spaces, the size of the gath- seat from BJP,asitdid in the caseofJhajhafor RLSP, BSP, AIMIM open new front in Bihar ering is to bedecidedbasedonthe size of the former ministerDamodar Rawatand gave have hurthis chances to getaticket. “No venue so that distancing norms can bemain- Jamui to BJP.JD(U) also managed to take Bihar ministerorNDA politicianspokeasag- andKatiharandsomeseatsoftheMithilanchal tained.Wearingofmasksand thermalscan- Paliganj from BJP to accommodate gressively in favour of the Bihar government EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE region of Darbhanga Madhubani. The ningofthose attendingsucheventswillbe Jayvardhan Yadav, who hadcrossedoverto as he did. He wasbehaving likeapolitician PATNA,OCTOBER8 Samajwadi JanataDal Democratic, ledbyfor- mandatory, theorder said. JD (U) from RJD. butitwould nothavegone toowell with the mer MP DevendraYadav,would field candi- However, therelaxationdoesnot applyto Sources said neither the JD (U) pressed CM,” said aretired IPSofficer, recalling how THE RLSP,BSP and AIMIM have joined hands datesmainlyinMadhubani and Darbhanga. containmentzones. Pandey’s case muchnor the BJP looked too he had cautioned Pandeyagainsttakinga with twoother parties to announceafront The Jantantrik Partywould fieldcandidatesin “Election Commission has announced keen to oblige him. VRS in 2009 when he wasreportedly eyeing calledthe Grand Democratic Secular Front. areas bordering UP. holding of general elections in the stateof “Unlikeanother retired DGP (home aBJP ticketfromBuxar,but did notget it. TheJantantrikPartyandSamajwadiJanata AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi said at a Bihar…andby-electionsin11 statesforassem- guards) Sunil Kumar,who got aJD(U) ticket Pandeydismissedsuchtheories. “It is true Dal Democratic areotherconstituents of the jointpressmeetonThursday, “LaluPrasadand blyand parliamentary constituencies. Now from Bhore, Pandeywas perhapstoo vocal. that Ihad takenVRS to contestpolls. Lekin front, whichhas announced Kushwaha as its Nitish Kumar and BJP have wasted 30 years of therefore... it is decidedthatthe stategovern- His over-enthusiasm to become apopular samikarannahibana(calculationsdidnotwork Chief Ministerface. Kushwaha, Owaisi in Patna Twitter the state. Socio-economic condition and the mentsconcernedmay permit political gath- politician toosoon could have marred his out). Iamaloyal soldierofJD(U). If JD (U) and The RLSP is likely to contest on themaxi- education system needs an overhaul.” erings,outsidethecontainmentzones,beyond chance to contestfromBuxar,” said asource BJP want me to campaign in this election, I mum number of seats, followedbyBSP and RLSPchief Kushwahayetagainstressedon the existing limit of 100personsonany date in the NDA. woulddoso,”hesaid.TheformerDGPalsode- AIMIM. While Kushwaha would field candi- asizeable Dalit population. overhaulingthe education system of Bihar. before October 15 in thoseassembly/parlia- Sources said Pandeywent“overboard” in fendedhisstandintheSushantcase.“Ihave no dates across the state, the BSP would focus on The AIMIM would focus on the “LaluPrasadandNitishKumarfailedtorevamp mentaryconstituencies onlywhereelections theSushant Singh Rajputcase and thatcould regretsabout the stand Itook in the case.” constituenciesborderingUPandtheoneswith Seemanchalbeltof Kishanganj,Araria,Purnea the education system,” said Kushwaha. aretobeheld,” stated the order. ENS

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ELGAARPARISHAD CASE CBI books rebel YSRCP MP, kin Branch Office: Doctor’s Colony,Malahi Pakri Chowk, NIA takes 83-year-old rights Lohiya Nagar,Kankarbagh, for ‘Rs 826-crore bankloan fraud’ Patna-800020, Ph-0612-2364422-2364423, activistStan Swamyintocustody [email protected] Despiteprotests from his [Rule 8(1)] POSSESSION NOTICE (For IMMovaBlE PRoPERty) EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE party MPs, Raju continuedto Whereas, the undersigned being the Authorised Officer of Union Bank of India, Doctor’s Colony Branch (Erstwhile Corporation Bank) under the Securitisation Swamyhas implicated hisconnection with NEWDELHI,OCTOBER8 speak on the issue and de- and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement Security Interest Act, EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE Maoistforces. He said he has Ramakrishna mandedaHindu commission, 2002 and in exercise of powers conferred under Section 13(12) read with Rule 3 said he was of the Security Interest (Enforcement) Rules 2002 issued ademand notice dated MUMBAI,OCTOBER8 falsely been working forAdivasis and AMID SPECULATION about Raju saying that despitebeing the 27/01/2020 calling upon the borrowers: M/s Sunilam Hospital Private limited linked with questioning the government AndhraCMJagan Mohan majority Hindus were being and Guarantors Shri. Sunil Kumar Singh, Dr Neelam Verma and Smt Rama Singh THE NIA on Thursdaytookinto over issues of land rights,repre- Reddy-ledYSRCP joining the treated likethe minority.The to repay the amount mentioned in notice being Rs. 64,34,906 (Rupees Sixty Four Maoists Lakh Thirty Four Thousand Nine Hundred and Six Only) as on 14.01.2020 alongwith custody 83-year-old Jharkhand- sentation of community mem- NDA, theCBI hasbooked the searches at around 11 locations partylater initiated disciplinary interest thereon within 60 days from the date of receipt of the said notice. basedactivistStanSwamy from bers and forest rights. “This, Ibe- party’s rebelMPKanumuru in Hyderabad, Mumbai and proceedings againsthim and is- The Borrower/Guarantor/Mortgagor having failed to repay the amount, notice is his Ranchi home in connection that he couldbequestionedover lieve,isthe main reason whythe Raghu Ramakrishna Raju and West Godavari district of suedashowcause notice. hereby given to the borrower and also the public in general that the undersigned has taken possession of the property described hereunder in exercise of the powers withthe Elgaar Parishad case. video-conference. Stateiskeen to put me outofthe his wifeinconnectionwithal- AndhraPradesh on Thursdayin ApartfromRajuand his conferred on him under Section 13(4) of the Act read with rule 8ofthe said rules on This is the 16th arrest in the case. “...what is happening to me is way…,” his statement said. leged bank loan fraud. connection with the case. wife,the CBI has booked his this 6th day of October of the year 2020. The Borrower/Guarantor/Mortgagor in particular,and public in general is hereby Swamy, aJesuit priest, was notunique. Manyactivists, Condemning the arrest, Raju has been namedalong Lastmonth, Raju had criti- daughter Kotagiri Indira cautioned not to deal with the property and any dealings with the property will be questionedbythe NIA in Julyand lawyers,writers, journalists, stu- People’s Union forCivil Liberties with his wifeKanumuru Rama cisedhis party,calling it anti- Priyadarshini, Ind Bharat subject to the charge of Union Bank of India, Doctor’s Colony Branch (Erstwhile Augustand summonedtothe dentleaders,poets,intellectuals (PUCL) said: “...the arrest of Fr. Devi and nine others in an FIR Hindu. During ZeroHour in Lok ThermalPowerLtd (of which Corporation Bank), for an amount of Rs. 64,34,906 (Rupees Sixty Four Lakh Thirty Four Thousand Nine Hundred and Six Only) as on 14.01.2020 and interest thereon. agency’s office in Mumbai this and others who stand forthe Stan by the NIAismalicious and thatalleges that aconsortium Sabha, the MP from Raju is director) and sevenoth- The Borrower’s/Guarantor’s/Mortgagor’s attention is invited to provisions of sub- week. rightsofAdivasis, Dalitsand the spiteful as Fr.Stanhas consis- ledbyPunjab National Bank Narsapuram had on September ers who had held positions in section (8) of section 13 of the Act, in respect of time available, to redeem the In astatement, Swamysaid marginalisedand express their tentlydeniedany link with ex- (PNB) hadbeen defraudedby 19 said, “In AndhraPradesh, as the company. The casewas reg- secured assets. Description of Immovable Properties: EMG of 4.46 Decimal (2025 sqft) land he is notinapositiontounder- dissent to the ruling powers of tremistleftistforces or Maoists. him and his companyofRs826 of nowaconstructive destruc- isteredafter acomplaint by alongwith house in the name of Smt Rama Devi, W/o Shri. Bhubneshwar Singh, take the journey,given hisage the countryare being targeted,” He had also clearly told the NIA croreofloans. tion is happening with regard PNB. FULLREPORTON situated at Mauza-Dumra Salempur,Thana No:10, Tauzi No:5296, Khata No: 150, and the pandemic. He said he Swamy’s statement said. that some so calledextractsal- The agency carriedout to Hindu temples.” www.indianexpress.com Survey Plot No: 336 (P), Samiti Plot No:C/51, Indrapuri, Patna-800026, Bihar Place :Patna authorised officer had told NIA that therewas a The NIAhas claimedthat the legedly takenfromhis computer Date :06.10.2020 Union Bank of India Jharkhand government directive accusedhad linkswith CPI shown to himbythe NIA were Branch Office: Chunni Plaza, Complex -A,Near NMCH, that thoseabove 60 years of age (Maoist). fake and fabricatedand that he Kankarbagh, Patna-800026, E-mail: [email protected], maynot appearinpublic and Swamysaid the NIA falsely disownedthem.” Tele :0612- 2344318, 2344324 [Rule 8(1)] POSSESSION NOTICE SXFáÑXe¹F IYûd¾FIYF d½FÄFF³F IZÔYýi, ´Fb¯FZX (For IMMovaBlE PRoPERty) NIA arrests 2 NATIONAL CENTRE FOR CELL SCIENCE, PUNE AN AUTONOMOUS INSTITUTE OF DEPARTMENT OF Whereas: BIOTECHNOLOGY, The undersigned being the Authorised officer of Union Bank of India (Erstwhile Corporation Bank), under the over‘recruiting MINISTRYOFSCIENCE &TECHNOLOGY,GOVT. OF INDIA Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement Security Interest Act, 2002 (54 of 2002) and in NCCS COMPLEX, S. P. PUNE UNIVERSITY CAMPUS, exercise of powers conferred under Section 13 (12) read with Rule 3ofthe Security Interest (Enforcement) Rules, 2002 for IS, funding GANESHKHIND,PUNE –411 007. issued ademand notice calling upon the following borrowers, guarantors and mortgagors, to repay the amount mentioned in the notice within 60 days from the said notice Website: www.nccs.res.in e-Mail: [email protected] The borrowers/guarantors/mortgagors having failed to repay the amount, notice is hereby given to the borrowers/guarantors/ travel to Syria’ Ph:020 25708000 mortgagors and the public in general that the undersigned has taken possession of the property described herein below in Advt. No. Admin/03/2020, Dt. 08.10.2020 exercise of powers conferred on him/her under sub-section (4) of Section 13 of Act read with Rule 8ofthe Security Interest National Centre forCellScience,Pune is apremier Enforcement Act rule 2002, on this the 3rd Day of October of the year 2020. AutonomousInstitution establishedbythe Department of The borrowers/guarantors/mortgagors in particular and the public in general is hereby cautioned not to deal with the property DEEPTIMANTIWARY and any dealings with the property will be subject to the charge of Union Bank of India (Erstwhile Corporation Bank) for NEWDELHI,OCTOBER8 Biotechnology,MinistryofScience &Technology,Government an amount mentioned as stated below and interest thereon. of India,for Research, Development &Training. The borrower’s/guarantor's/mortgagor's attention is invited to provisions of sub-section (8) of section 13 of the Act, in respect THE NATIONAL Investigation The Institute invites applications from Indian nationals forthe of time available, to redeem the secured assets. Scientist ‘G’(UR-1), Scientist ‘D’(UR-1,OBC-3, SC-2, ST-1), (a) Name of the Borrower (a) amount of Demand Notice Agency(NIA) has arrested two Scientist ‘C’(SC-1) possessing excellent academic records and (b) Name of the Mortgagor/Guarantor Description of the Secured assets (b) Date of Demand Notice men from Tamil Nadu and relevant work experience. (c) Name of Branch (c) Date of Possession Karnataka forallegedlyrecruit- Fordetailed advertisement, prescribed application format, (a) M/s. Ali Fashion Point, Prop. Ali Asgar All that part and parcel of the property consisting (a) `25,64,296.00 (Rupees ingfor the Islamic State(IS) and Khan S/O Md. Hazi Akhtar Khan Shop No. of: 1. Registered Mortgage of immovable landed Twenty five Lakh Sixty four relevantterms andconditions&lastdate forreceiptof 10, Budha Plaza, Near Ashok Cinema, Budha property along with building measuring an area of thousand two hundred ninty funding the travel of the recruits application please see our website https://www.nccs.res.in/ Marg, Patna-800001, Permanent Address:- bearing total land of 2722 sq. ft. residential land six only) to Syria. index.php/careers /staff (Understaff in career tab). The Ali Asgar Khan S/O Md. Hazi Akhtar Khan, under Thana no. 98, Tauzi No. 5533, Khata No. 143, (b) 02/07/2019 R/O Bakshi House, ICE factory lane, Near CSPlot No. 586 (P) situated at Mauza Rahimpur, (c) 03/10/2020 AhamedAbdul Cader,40, applicationalong with all the necessary certificates and Bank of India, Karbighahia, Patna- 800001 from Ramanathpuram in Tamil Demand Draft should reach to the Director,NCCS,Pune on or (b) 1. Md. Ashraf Khan S/O Md. Hazi Akhtar P. S. Parsa Bazar,Town &District Patna. Bounded as under North: Kadai Khan, R/O Bakshi House, ICE factory lane, Gop South: 9feet wide Road 33 East: Md. Aftab Alam West: Alang. Nadu and Irfan Nasir, 33,from before the last date as mentioned in detailed advertisement. Near Bank of India, Karbighahia, Patna- 2. Landed property along with building measuring an area of bearing total Bengaluru, were arrested on -DIRECTOR 800001. 2. Md. Shabbar Khan S/O Md. Hazi land of 577 sq. ft.under Thana no. 137, Sheet no. 16, Circle no. 8M.S.Plot Akhtar Khan, R/O Bakshi House, ICE factory Wednesday aftertheir names no. 282, Holding no. 99A/71, Situated at Mohalla Karbigahia, P.O. –GPO, lane, Near Bank of India, Karbighahia, Patna- P.S. Jakkanpur,Town &District Patna. Bounded as under North: MSPlot croppedupduring investiga- 800001. 3. Najma Khatoon W/O Hazi Akhtar Khan, Bakshi House, ICE Factory lane, Near no. 282(P), Ashraf Zeyauddin &Arif Sahabuddin South: Khurshid Anwar tions in acase related to the ter- Bank of India, Karbigahia, Patna- 800001 &Jamal Anwar East: Road thereafter Binny cold storage godown West: rorgroup. (c) Chunni Plaza, Kankarbagh Branch Municipal lane thereafter Binni cold storage godown. NIA sources said Cader is a Place :Patna authorised officer Date :03.10.2020 Union Bank of India business analystinabankin Chennai,whileNasirisaricemer- chant in Bengaluru. The NIA, whichregisteredacaseinthe matter on September 19,calls it the “Bengaluru-ISIS module”. NIA said it arrested the two “for having affiliation with the bannedterroristorganization ISIS/ISIL/Daesh and forentering intoaconspiracy to radicalize and motivate Muslim youth of Bengaluru to join ISIS, and for raising funds to facilitatetheir travel to Syria”. The agency said that the names of the duo surfaceddur- ing itsprobe intothe March 2020 arrest of Kashmir residentsHina Bashir Beg (39) andher husband Jahanzaib Sami (36) from Jamia NagarinDelhi. The agency conducted searches at the residence of Both Caderand Nasir and claimedto have recovered“incriminating material” Both were producedbeforea Special NIA CourtinBengaluru and remandedin10days’ NIA custody. Government of NCT of Delhi Department for the Welfare of SC/ST/OBC/MIN. B-Block, 2nd Floor.Vikas Bhawan, I.P.Estate, New Delhi e-mail:- [email protected], Website: www.scstwelfare.delhigovt.nic.in Office of the CEO &Dean Shyam Shah Medical College Pre-Matric, Post-Matric and Merit-Cum-Means based Scholarship Rewa (M.P.) 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Rawat, ArmyChief Gen MM cluding the connectivity projects toricaltiesbetweenIndiaandAfg- SHUBHAJITROY Naravane, Foreign Secretary thatwereimportant notjustfor hanistan. The twoleaders discu- NEWDELHI,OCTOBER8 HarshVardhanShringla,andJoint Afghanistan, India, and Central ssedissues of bilateral and re- Secretary(Pakistan-Afghanistan- Asia, but “all across South and Ce- gionalinterest,”theMEAsaid.“Dr AFTER MEETINGPrime Minister Iran) in theMinistryofExternal ntral Asiaand Afghanistanall to- Abdullah Abdullah briefed the NarendraModiand National Affairs, JPSingh, among others. gether”.New Delhi’s support for Prime Ministeronthe Afghan Security Advisor Ajit Dovalover During aspeechatthe the Turmenistan-Afghanistan- peace process and the ongoing the lasttwo days,the visiting Institute forDefence Studies and Pakistan-India(TAPI)gaspipeline, talksinDoha.” chairman of the HighCouncilfor Analyses (IDSA) on Thursday, andtheprojectsinChabahar, Iran, Bilateral issues, including National Reconciliation in Abdullah said: “Weare counting will help the futureofthe region’s India’s development coopera- AfghanistanAbdullah Abdullah on your support, your under- people, he said. tion withAfghanistan, were also saidonThursdaythathewas“en- standingand your continued The MEA said that during his discussed, the statement said. ergisedandre-energised”thatthe friendship forabetterfuturebe- PrimeMinisterNarendra Modi withtop Afghan negotiator meeting withAbdullah,Prime Abdullah appreciated India’s de- Indian leadership was“support- tweenour twonations, and our Abdullah AbdullahinNew Delhi on Thursday. ANI MinisterModihad “reiterated velopmental commitmentof$3 PENNING A PAEAN ive” of the effortsofthe Afghan greaterregion.Duringmy discus- India’scommitmenttowardssus- billion, projectsunder whichare MINORITIES AFFAIRS MinisterMukhtar Abbas Naqvi’slatest people to achieve a“dignified, sionswith(the)Indianleadership tainable peace and prosperity in benefiting Afghans across the blog is apaean to Prime MinisterNarendraModi. Thenearly durable, and sustainable peace”. here, we were energisedand re- your foreign policy towardsthe Jaishankar had “expressedhis Afghanistanandwelcomedefforts country’s 34 provinces, it said. 1,500-wordblog, titled“Shri NarendraModi's 20 glorious years Abdullah,whoarrivedinIndia energised, that the leadership futureofour country–Afghan- supportfor the effortsofthe towardsacomprehensive andpe- According to the statement, of good governance”, talksfirstaboutModi as the GujaratChief on Tuesday, metModionThurs- hereissupportive of the effortsof led, Afghan-owned,and Afghan- Afghan people, whichweare rmanentceasefireinAfghanistan. Dovaland Abdullah discussed Ministerand then as thePrimeMinister. Naqvi calls Modi’s day, andwillmeetExternalAffairs the people of Afghanistan for controlled, is welcomedbyour thankfulfor...”, Abdullah said. “In keepingwith the govern- the Afghan peace process and re- tenurea“crownofthorns”, the thorns being the natural calami- MinisterSJaishankar on Friday. achieving peace, dignified, people.” Abdullahexpressed gratitude ment’s policyofNeighbourhood latedissues, including “increased ties: earthquakeinBhuj, Gujarat, and nowCovid-19. The blog NSADoval,who metAbdullah on durable,sustainablepeace.” Inhisvirtualaddressto thein- forthe support that India has ex- First, thePrime Minister reaffir- levels of violence across details howModi has tackledevery crisis with efficiency and Wednesday, wasaccompaniedby He said,“The principle that augural ceremonyofthe Intra- tended“in manyways” to Afgha- medIndia’slongtermcommitm- Afghanistanand peaceand secu- grace, finally lacingIndia firmly on theworld stage. Chief of Defence StaffGen Bipin youhavelaidthe foundation of Afghan negotiations in Doha, nistanoverthe past20years, in- ent to further deepeningthe his- rity in the region”. SEE-SAW SIGHT New intel says China ON THE 88th Air ForceDay,the celebration at Hindan Air Force Station featured,for the firsttime, therecentlyarrived Rafale fighterjets. Of thefiveplanesthathavearrived,two were pres- ent at the ceremony: one fordisplay, and another as partof helping Pak set up the flypastshow. However, the aeroshowturnedout to be a bit of adampener due to reasons beyond IAF’scontrol. The in- creasing levels of pollution in the NCRoverthe lastfew days made tracing the aircraftacrobatstougher than expected. missile systems in PoK

TRIBUTE TO A PIONEER navalassets.Atthe moment, KRISHNKAUSHIK Pakistaniswaitingto receive eight AS THE worldwaits foraCovid-19vaccine, the Frenchmis- NEWDELHI,OCTOBER8 Yuan class submarines and four sion in Delhi is celebrating vaccine pioneer Louis Pasteur.With Type 054A frigates. aworld-famousPasteur InstituteofIndia in Tamil Nadu, the CONFIDENT THATthe armed Threedays ago, IAF chief Air French cultural instituteinIndia is coming out withaTamil forcescanmeetatwo-frontthreat Chief MarshalRKSBhadauriasaid translation of Pasteur’s biography. should it arise, the militarybrass Areaskeyto Indiais“awarethat China and At the Air ForceDay ceremonyatHindanair base on Thursday. Praveen Khanna saythere’snoevidence yetof Pakistan arecooperatingclosely, ChinaandPakistanbeingincollu- CPEC,BRI and Pakistannow is increasingly sion while the Ladakh standoff dependent on China fortheir de- continues. Yetthe security estab- PAKISTAN’S DEEP ties fencesupplies,andtheyare doing Rajasthan: Circular asks IAF showed resolve during lishmenthasbeenkeepinganea- with China is no secret, alot of exercisestogether...thisac- gleeye becausethere’sincreasing but greater economic and tivityintermsof theirbilateralex- officers to ‘stand up in intelligenceonthe Chinese help- militarycooperation in ercises is on the increase”. standoffwith China: Air Chief ing Pakistanimprove itsmilitary PoKand OccupiedGilgit- Whileheruledouta“collusive infrastructure, especiallyin Baltistan alsopoint to threat”saying“thereisnosuchin- respect’ for MPs, MLAs across the entirespectrumof Pakistan-occupiedKashmir. Beijing’s vested interest dication”,hesaidIndiaisprepared EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE warfare.” He said the vision “for This, sources said, suggests there. Becausethese areas foratwo-front threatand is “ob- ment forpublicwelfareworks, HINDANAIRFORCESTATION this decade, is to continue to that their militaries areattempt- arekey to the CPEC and serving all the activitiesacross”. DEEPMUKHERJEE theyshouldbebehaved with (UP),OCTOBER8 comprehensively scale up our ing “betterintegration”. BRI, projectsatthe heart On September 3, Chief of JAIPUR,OCTOBER8 humblyand with respect.The of- combat capability,and beaforce Latelastmonth, the Research of Chinese expansionism. DefenceStaffGeneralBipinRawat ficialsshouldberightandcourte- APPRECIATINGTHE quickre- to reckon with across the entire and Analysis Wing (R&AW), warnedofthe two-front threat THE RAJASTHAN government ous. Whenever MPs/MLAscome sponseofIndianAir Forceinde- sphereofinfluence; through sourcessaid,providedintelligence from China and Pakistan, but said has instructed itsofficials that to meet them, theyshould stand ploying itsassets facing the careful forcestructuring, mod- onChinahelpingPakistanset upa The R&AW, sources said, men- Indian armedforces were fully theyshould stand up to wel- in respect during the welcome northern borders in the backdrop ernisation, operationaltraining, newmissilesysteminPoK. tionedthat similar construction prepared to deal with it. come MPs and MLAs during andfarewellof themembers,and of thestandoffwithChina in and acquisition of indigenous The input, sources said, con- had also been reportedatChinari Speaking at the US-India their visits,and alsowhenthey alsotakeswiftaction aftergiving eastern Ladakh since early May, equipment to achievesubstan- veyedthatPLAandPakistanArmy inJhelumdistrict,andChakothiin Strategic Partnership Forum leave,asagestureofrespect. due diligence to problems/ solu- Air ChiefMarshal RKSBhadauria tialself-reliance”. personnelwere carryingoutcon- Hattian Bala district of PoK. (USISPF)conclave,GeneralRawat This is partofdetaileddirec- tions intimated by them (public on Thursdaysaid the forcehas The evolving threat matrix in struction work forinstallation of Earlier,inJune, intelligence saidChinaandPakistanhavebeen tions/instructions issuedbythe representatives).” Copies of the shown itsresolve and capabili- IAF chief Bhadauriaatthe the region, he said, “is becoming asurface-to-airmissile(SAM)sys- agenciessaidPakistanhadposted collaboratingmilitarily, econom- stategovernmentto allofficialsre- circular have been sent to all de- ties to the adversary. ceremony. Praveen Khanna complex, ranging from aspira- temnearLasadannaDhokinPoK. asenior Armyofficeratthe PLA icallyand diplomatically. garding taking swiftactiononis- partment heads, district collec- He asserted, “Wehaveclearly tional adversaries with hugein- It said approximately130 headquartersinBeijingfor“better “Chinese economic coopera- sues raisedbypublic representa- tors, divisional commissioners, demonstrated our resolve,oper- vestmentsinmilitary arsenal, to PakistanArmypersonneland25- integration” of the twomilitaries. tionwithPakistan,inPakistan-oc- tives, and replying to their letters. district SPs and other officials and ational capability,and thewill to when we deployedour combat thosecollusively supportedby 40 civilians were workingatthe OnFebruary5,theIndianCoast cupiedJammu and Kashmir, The directions were men- departmentsacross the state. effectively engagethe adversary, assetsatshortnoticeto handleany non-state actors,apartfromgrow- construction site. The control Guardsighted aChinese warship along with continuedmilitary, tionedinacircular issuedbythe Among others, the officers should the needarise.” eventuality,and providedproac- ingsub-conventionalthreatsfrom room forthe system, sources in Pakistani waters. The frigate economicanddiplomaticsupport state's Administrative Reforms have been directedtosendac- Speaking at the Air ForceDay tive supporttoallrequirementsof terrorismand cyberspace”. quotedtheintelligencereportsay- Jiangwei-Ilwasspottednotveryfar mandatehigh levels of prepara- Department on September 23, knowledgmentof lettersreceived ceremonyatthe Hindanair base, deployment and sustenance for Hementionedthat“disruptive ing, would be located at the fromPorbandar,around11 nautical tion by us,” he said.“This also signedbyChief Secretary from public representatives, and in Ghaziabad, on the 88than- the Indian Army.” technologies and easy access to Pakistani Army’s brigadehead- miles inside Pakistani waters. poses the threat of coordinated Rajeeva Swarup. givingthelatterupdatesonissues niversaryofIAF,hesaid, “I would He said, “(The) emerging se- low-costoptions likedrones, are quarters in Bagh district. The Pakistani and Chinese action along the northern and The circular states:“Whene- raisedinthose letters. liketocommend allwarriorsfor curity scenario mandatesa increasinglydemandinggreater TenPLA personnel, including naviesconductedabilateralexer- western fronts, whichwehaveto verMPs/MLAswriteletters or FULLREPORTON the quickresponse in the recent greater needtohaveastrong Air attentionto thesub-conventional three officers, will be stationedat ciseinJanuary.SourcessaidChina considerinourdefenceplanning,” contact agovernment depart- www.indianexpress.com standoffonournorthernfrontiers, Force, to fight acrossdomains domain”. thecontrolroom,thereportstated. is alsohelpingPakistanacquire he said. MEA: 7Indians GOVT LAUNCHESCOVIDAWARENESSDRIVE Under Covid shadow, medical kidnappedin Jan Andolan campaign begins, Libya, efforts on to securerelease film industrylends support tourism begins aslow recovery

bility in the area wherethe skull EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE ENS&PTI TRACKING INDIA’S COVID CURVE TABASSUM meets the spine.She had gradu- NEWDELHI,OCTOBER8 NEWDELHI,MUMBAI, BARNAGARWALA allylostsensation in her leftarm OCTOBER8 RECOVERED:58,27,704 MUMBAI,OCTOBER8 and had to eventuallygiveupher SEVENINDIANS, hailing from 220 CASES: career as aphysiotherapist. AndhraPradesh, Bihar,Gujarat THEUNIONgovernmentonThur- DAYSSINCE 68,35,655 DEATHS:1,05,526 TWENTYDAYSafter shelanded Kattelus visited over 20 spe- and Uttar Pradesh,werekid- sdaylaunchedapublicawareness PANDEMIC in Mumbai withalmostzerosen- cialists in Canadaand USAbefore BEGAN | nappedinLibya lastmonth and drive as partofits fight against TESTS: 8,34,65,975 DOUBLING RATE: 62.95** sation in her leftarm and ade- beingreferredtoGoel, who is India is in touchwith authorities Covid-19, with Prime Minister generative spine, Canadian na- renownedfor his surgical tech- in the African nationtosecure NarendraModiand hisministe- tional Sanna Kattelus on nique on the craniovertebral their release, the Ministryof rial colleagues asking people to Thursdayfinallybid goodbye to junction. ExternalAffairs saidonThursday. take precautions likewearing her sea-facing room in TajLands Kattelus wassupposedtofly The Indians were kidnapped masksandmaintainingsocialdis- End Hotelwhereshe had been to India in Maybut the surgery at aplace calledAsshwerifon tancing. The ‘Jan Andolan’ cam- recuperating forthe lastfew days. got indefinitelypostponeddue September14 whentheywereon paigncomesaheadof festivalsand The 43-year-old had ob- to the pandemic. Over the last their waytothe Tripoli airportto the winter season andamidthe KEYSTATES TOTAL SURGEIN 7-DAYAVG DOUBLING tainedanemergency medical fewmonths, she startedhaving catchaflighttoIndia, MEA opening up of the economy. TOWATCH CASES 24HOURS GROWTH* TIME** visa to undergo surgery in Sanna Kattelus, 43, in Mumbai. Tabassum Barnagarwala blackoutsand sufferedintermit- spokesperson Anurag Srivastava Modi tweeted, “Wehaveto ■ Maharashtra 14,80,489 14,578 0.96% 74.78 Mumbai under astrict Covid-19 tent hearingloss. Besides,the said at amedia briefing. continuethemomentumandpro- protocol. numbness spread from her left Andhra 7,34,427 5,120 0.82% 87.50 “Thegovernmentisintouch tect our citizens from the virus.” ■ “Thisismyfirstvisit to the slowing opening up itsskies with chronic kidneydisease. arm to the other limbs. with their family membersand “Letus#Unite2FightCorona! ■ Tamil Nadu 6,35,855 5,447 0.89% 80.87 city.There wassomuchtosee, through air bubbles with select Anyvisit involvesalot of pa- So whenflightsresumedbe- wouldliketoassurethemthatwe Letusalwaysremember:Weara ■ Kerala 2,53,405 10,606 3.73% 19.30 but Ididn’t leave the hotelexcept countries, private hospitals have perwork.InKattelus’s case, she tween Canada and India in early aremakingall possible effortsin mask.Washhands. Followsocial formytrips to the hospital. graduallyrestarted admitting said she submitted over 150 August, Kattelus decidedtotake ■ Delhi 2,98,107 2,871 0.91% 78.78 consultation and coordination distancing. Practice ‘Do GajKi Maybenexttime,” she said. A emergency cases from abroad. pages with references and tests therisk. with Libyanauthorities and the Doori.’ Together,wewill succeed. *Compounded Daily Growth Rate over last 7days**Calculated over 7-daygrowth blackbrace that she usedfor two “Because Mumbai has so to the Indian consulatein Once in Mumbai,doctorsvis- employertotrace our nationals Together,wewill win against years to supporther spine, lay manyCovid-19cases, severalof Vancouver to obtain avisa. She ited Kattelus at the hotelfor a andsecuretheirreleasefromcap- COVID-19,” he said. CASEFATALITYRATIO POSITIVITYRATE DAILYIN,DAILYOUT discardedinthe hotelroom. our international patientshad arrivedinMumbai on check-up and decidedthat she tivity at the earliest,” he said. Home MinisterAmit Shah 7DAYSEARLIER: 7DAYSEARLIER: DETECTED TODAY According to the Ministryof put their surgeries on hold,” said September 18,and hadtoapply neededanimmediatesurgery. Srivastavasaid the Indian na- said thepandemic can be fought 1.56 8.35 78,524 Tourism,the countrygot 6.97 Dr Santosh Shetty,executive di- forspecial permission to cut “Thetechnique Iuse is not tionalswereworking at aconstr- onlywhenall countrymen come NOW: NOW: RECOVEREDTODAY: lakh foreign patientsonmedical rector at Kokilaben Dhirubhai down the seven-dayquarantine performedanywhereelse and uction and oil field supplies com- together. visa in 2019,accountingfor 6.9 Ambani hospital. to twodays, before undergoing that is whyshe decidedtofly all pany. “The employer has been The film industryextended 1.54 8.19 83,011 per cent of foreign touristar- Overthe last month,however, asurgery on September 21 in the waytoIndia. We corrected contacted by the kidnappers and supporttothe JanAndolan, with Deaths as aratio of Positivesagainst Becoming sick vs rivals. While thereare no official the hospital has been getting its Lilavati hospital. the deformity in the spine,and positivecases(in %); numbertested recovering; more shownphotographs asproof that Modi’s messagebeingretweeted indicator of progress (in %); indicatorof recoveries for 14 days numbersyet for2020,byall es- firstset of patients from abroad, “In her case, we simply could nowshe can walk straight,” neu- theIndiannationalswere safe and by film personalities including in averting deaths the spreadofdisease may signal the peak timates, Covid brought the med- especiallytoits Centre forPhysical notwait further,”said her treat- rosurgeon Goel said. keepingwell,”hesaid.Hesaidthe Salman Khan, Kriti Sanon, Ran- DataasonOctober7,releasedbyUnionMinistryofHealth,ICMRandstates.Oftendailynumbersinclude ical tourism sector to ahalt in Medicine &Rehabilitation. ing neurosurgeon Dr Atul Goel, On October 3, her stitches Indian embassy in Tunisia has veer Singh,VarunDhawanand datafrompreviousdays.Assuch,trendsbasedondailynumbersareindicative,notdefinitive mid-March,wheninternational Recently, twopatientsfrom adding that Covid testswere removed, Kattelus celebrated reachedoutto theLibyanauthor- TigerShroff.Khanwrote,“…Indif- travel froze and majorcentres Oman flewininaprivate air-am- donebeforehand. her birthdayinthe hotelroom, ities and the international organ- ficult times mein, only do three Let’simplement PM Modi’s -Jan Ranveer Singh retweetedthe suchasDelhi and Mumbai bulance forstroke-rehab. Kattelus had metwithacar watching the Bandrasea isationsthere,seekinghelpinres- things: 6ftkadistance, mask pe- andolan againstcovid.Come on PM’s postwith themessage: “Let turnedintohotspots. In Nanavati hospital, aforeign accident in November 2017, stretchout from behind her cuing the Indiannationals. heno &wash&sanitise ur hands. buckupindia! Jai hind!!...." us #Unite2FightCorona”. But now, with the country national, asea farer, wasflown in leading to craniocervicalinsta- glass window.

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§ FOUNDED BY § RAMNATH GOENKA Permission Rajlooms over public spaces, right to protest. BECAUSETHE TRUTHINVOLVES US ALL SC order on ShaheenBagh fails to recognise this

DISSENT, TO ORDER TMKrishna

Therewas areason behind the geographyofanti-CAA sit-ins. FORPEOPLE LIVING in the city of Chennaior ciary, doesnot treat everyprotestwiththe trylikeIndia,wherethe political class doesnot By ignoring it, SC constrictsdefinition of the public sphere followers of Tamil cinema, the word porom- same yardstick.Hence, public order and social appreciate beingquestioned,especially when boku is notnew.Anoften-heardabuse, it is tranquillity arenot objective notionsand are in power, howdoes the courtexpect anyfair- used to shame an individual, implying that oftenmanipulated by the state. ness in protest space allocations? The consid- HE SUPREMECOURT hasspoken on the Shaheen Bagh sit-in, in response he is good fornothing, useless, unproductive, While the argument that public move- eration will always be:How can we limit its to apetition that sought removalofthe protestors, whose protest had and valueless. In reality, poromboku is abeau- ment and normal lifeshould notbeaffected growth, effect and keep it under our control? blockedtraffic andthe public way. It is disappointing to hear what the apex tiful expression; awordthat means “the com- by protests has value, howcan we notfactor Thereislittle value in speaking about public courthas to say. The Shaheen Bagh protestislongover, it endedinMarch. mons” referringtoeverythingthat we —asa in theutter inequality in the wayevery insti- inconveniencewithout addressing the limi- TBut in the national capital, and in small towns across the country, where, tak- society —own collectively and sharewith one tution views public protestand protesters? tations that areplacedonour right to protest. another.Rivers,lakes, grazing lands, man- Within this labyrinth lies social discrimina- It is alsoessential to realisethat protest- ing inspiration from ShaheenBagh,similarsit-ins had come up to express opposition to a groves, marshlands and forestsare porom- tion.Public protests or processions by Dalits, ing is oftenaspontaneous act and cannotbe discriminatorycitizenship law, theanti-CAA mobilisation has leftamark —orscar. These boku. In the contextofthe urban, it is our minorities, women, trans people areviewed bottledbyallocations and permissions. Avi- were largelyspontaneous, mostlyleaderlessprotestswhich shelteredunder portraitsand streets, parks,beaches, graveyards andplay- with disdain but nonewill darequestion talquality of protestispublic awareness and banners of the founding fathers and held up the tricolourand the Constitution as theyad- grounds that all of us have free access to. protestsbypowerful castelobbies, political participation; consequently, public roads can- dressedthe governmentand demandedthe roll-backofalawthatspecifically excludes These spaces arenot privately ownedand, in parties or the religiousmajority. notbeoff-limits. Unless we areshaken awake Muslimsfromits promise of fast-trackedcitizenshiptoreligious minorities.Inits response, ademocraticcountry, everyone irrespective The incongruencies do notstophere. In from our slumber by slogans, cheers, de- the government sought to labelthe protests as anti-national, and even criminalise them. of religion, caste,gender or even nationality, everycity, we areasked to obtain policeper- mands,songs and hundredswalking the participates in theiruse. But we also know mission foraprotest. Inevitably, if the protest streets, those of us who complainofdisrup- If the governmentturnedadeaf ear to theprotesters of Shaheen Bagh —whichisalso why that this is notentirelytrue.Moreoften than We a re now a democratic is againstthe government, police or anystate tion will nevernotice thefarmer or labourer. the sit-in continuedfor as long as it did —the court looksbackatthemnow with an un- not, the commons areguardedbyreligious country; yet how can we be institution,the permission is rejected or de- Yes! We arenow ademocratic country; seeing eye. Public protest, it said Wednesday, must be “in designated areasalone”and bigots, castearmies, or the moral police. Yet, blind to the lack of freedom layeduntil the very lastmoment forcing the yethow can we be blind to the lackoffree- “public ways and public spacescannotbeoccupied… and that tooindefinitely”. we fight doggedly forour shared rightshop- organisers to cancel or rush to thecourtfor dom and independence and the pervading and independence and the With due respect, the courtresponse shows aconstricted viewofthe public sphere. ing to push backthe parochials. relief. Constantlychallenging the police in the fear in the heartsofsomany? The stateisan Even though it had tworeports by the interlocutors it appointed to go to Shaheen Bagh, Shaheen Bagh stands tall as abattle- pervading fear in the hearts courts is tiresome, leading citizens to justgive enormouslypowerful machine and, in or- ground to save our poromboku.But thecom- up. In effect,protestsare crushedbythe state. der to forceajust response,common peo- it doesn't see, in the geographyofthe anti-CAA protest, the bigger picture. Certainly, it is of so many? The state is an mons that the women protesters andfriends enormously powerful The courts do notseem to beinterestedin ple needtoapplycollective pressure. In this unexceptionable that sit-ins mustnot inconvenience commuters and citizens who wish in Shaheen Bagh fought forwerenot spatial addressing this serious countrywide use of tussle, public spaces arecrucial to empower to go on with work andplay. But in ademocracy whichassures the right to dissent, this —theywereabstract. Theywerethe founda- machine and, in order to permission raj. It is notjustprotests; we strug- people, makethem heard, and bring some is surelyanegotiation, notinflexible rule. The anti-CAA protests in Shaheen Bagh and in tionsonwhich we have built our entirena- force a just response, gletoobtain permission even forperforman- parity intothe discourse. Therefore, the oc- the mini-Shaheen Baghs —inWasseypur in Dhanbad, Park Circus in Kolkata, Subzibagh tion. Equality,equity,fundamental rights, lib- common people need to ces in public spaces. The police informallyque- cupation of highways by citizens whose lives in Patna,orMohalla Bhandaridih in Giridih, to name justafew—had aspecificand shared erty,justiceand secularism areour shared apply collective pressure. In stion us about the contentofthe plays or have been torn apartbysexual, corporate conceptual poromboku-s. Theyare notthe pri- songs. On one occasion in Chennai, the Caste- and political violence is an important tool characteristic: Theywerelocated in Muslim-dominated neighbourhoods, even as they vate properties of asingle individual living in this tussle, public spaces are less Collective band wasforcedtostopsinging and to treat it as apublic annoyance is ma- invokedand invited largersolidarities, across communities. It is notsurprising that in its thisland; neither aretheyownedbythe ex- crucial to empower people, asong because it containedthe word “Modi”. joritarian browbeating. effort to makeitself heard, and to makethe government listen, an embattledminority ecutiveorjudiciary. These arethe principles make them heard, and bring Since the jallikattu protests of 2017,thereisa Thereisnodoubt thatsocial media plays should have sought the comfortofits ownneighbourhoods. of our democracy thatwecherish and the val- some parity into the blanket denial forpermission forany gather- ahugerole in bringing people together and The onus wasonthe court to understand whythe protesters converged at Shaheen uesthat we defend. The Shaheen Bagh ing at Chennai’s famedMarina beach. “Main- giving powertothe collective.But unless pub- Bagh, or Mohalla Bhandaridih, and notelsewhere. And to understand, too, that in ademoc- protests were necessarytopush back agov- discourse. Therefore, the tenance of lawand order” is used by the state lic spaces arefreelyavailable fordemonstra- racy,protest cannotbeshapedand designedtofit its, or the government’s, convenience ernment that is bent on demolishingour con- occupation of highways by to stifle public questioning. At the very same tions, we will remain amutedemocracy.The stitutional soul, using everyMachiavellian time, large corporations buy their wayinto SupremeCourthad theopportunity to ex- or taste. Apublic space musthostnot justconsensus, it mustnot justbecommon ground citizens whose lives have trickinthe book. publicspaces,erectstages,hoardingsanddes- pand the contours of itsorder keeping in —itmustalso give expressiontonew needs anddemands to break old inequities and But the question oftenasked is whether been torn apart by sexual, troy theenvironment with impunity and wit- mind reality with all itsunevenness, but it re- discriminations.Itmustbewherecriticismcan be heardofpowerand of powerful insti- suchprotestsare also apublic nuisance to corporate and political hout awhimperfrom ourpublic bodies.Does mainedsilent and forgot that democracy tutions. The public space mustbewherethe public can stand up, safelyand peacefully, those who do notsharethe sameopinion or violence is an important tool the esteemedcourtexpect us to come to its thrivesinthe poromboku! and point out that theyare being ignored or minimised, as in the citizenship law. The justwant to go ahead with their everyday and to treat it as a public doorstepevery time these things happen? courthas done well to underline the powerofdissent in ademocracy -- it should have un- routine. This is afair question, but needs anu- Even theideaofdesignated locations for Krishnaisamusician and authorof ancedresponse. Societyisnot alevel-playing annoyance is majoritarian protestneeds to bechallenged.Whodesigna- Sebastian and Sons: ABrief History of derlinedthat dissent, by itsverydefinition,cannotbemadetoorder. field and everyinstitution, including the judi- browbeating. testhese spaces and on what basis? In acoun- Mrdangam Makers ENSURE FAIR PLAY Google vs Paytm lays out the challenge: Competition policy REIMAGINING THE PUBLIC-PRIVAT E should safeguardcompetition, notparticular competitors VER THE PAST Fewweeks, founders of Indian start-ups have begun to Revivingprivateinvestment in infrastructurewill be keyinpost-COVID recovery rallyagainst the dominance of US tech companies suchasGoogleinthe Indian market.The immediateprovocation wasGoogle’s decision to Olevy a30per cent commission forall in-app purchases of digitalgoods Elias George in itsnear ubiquitous app system. Notwithstanding Google’s assertion that less than3per cent of thedevelopershad sold digitalgoodsoverthe lastyear,and of THE STORYOFpublic-private partnerships pacity-building. This reportisladen withem- water-supplytotelecom and alsoenabling thesenearly 97 per cent were already paying the fee, the move triggered outrageacross (PPPs) in India has been achequered one. inentlysensible plug-and-playrecommenda- flexibility in project design and execution. the broader start-up ecosystem in India. Paytm launchedits ownapp storetocompete While we have had some notable successes, tions whichcan radicallyimprove thePPP en- Infrastructureprojectstypically have long- with Google’s PlayStore.While Google has subsequentlydeferredits plan, these devel- the landscapeisalso litteredwith troubled vironment, if implementedwith consistency duration profitability cycles. The keytoasuc- opmentsraiseseveral trickyissues. projects, ranging from ones whereunfair risk and firm purpose. cessful PPP is to provide stable revenue flow allocation by government entities has up- Among the mostdifficult, but necessary assurances and asettledecosystem to in- Arecent reportbythe US House of Representative has said that Amazon, Apple, Google endedthe fortunes of the private partner,to initiatives, is the needtooverhaulthe culture vestors over long periods by meansofpolicy and Facebook have exercisedand abusedtheir monopolypower,with US lawmakers say- ones wherethe privateinvestorhas managed and attitude towardsthe conjoining of gov- stability,assurancespossiblysecured by law. ing thatthese companies“had abused their dominant positions, setting and oftendictat- to extractmorethan afairshareofbenefits ernment entities and private partnersfor cre- PPP contractsalsoneedtoprovidefor mid- ing prices and rules forcommerce, search,advertising, social networking and publishing.” from the project. ating specificpieces of infrastructure. As the course corrections giventhat the ecosystem In India, the smartphone marketisdominated by Google’s Android platform. This places Currently, the quantum of private financ- Kelkar committee has stated,thereneeds to surrounding the infrastructurepiece, includ- it in aunique position to dictateterms. Itsproducts, suchasGoogle Pay, arealsoindirect ing flowing intothe infrastructuresector has be an approach of give andtake, instead of ing utilisation patterns, as well as the creation ebbedto around 20 per cent of the total fund- governmentinterlocutors trying to adopta of competing infraassets maynecessitatea competition with Indian firms suchasPaytm. Thus thereare legitimateconcerns over ing, forreasonsthat arewell known —the cri- purelytransactionalapproachwithout ade- dynamicapproachtoaspectslikerisk andrev- possible conflict of interestand abuse of itsdominant marketposition.The fundamen- sis in the non-banking finance sector,the fi- quatefocus on outcomes, while also trying to enue sharing. Giventhe complexity surround- talquestion is:Has Google abusedits marketdominance? Aretherebarriers to entry? Is nancialchallenges facedbyinfrastructure minimise risktothemselvesbypassingon un- ing the creation of infraprojects, andthe dif- competition being thwarted? And what should be the deterrentstoensurethat Google companies, and the inadequatelydeveloped certain elementsinaproject —likethe land ficulty of predicting the stability of revenue does notfavour itsown companies? Indian market forinfrastructurefinancing. The acquisition risk —tothe private partner.This flows over long periods of time, government It mustalso bepointedout that this is notalicence-drivenmonopoly,but one drivenby EconomicSurvey 2017-18has assessedIndia’s attitudinalchange canbefacilitatedif laws like partnersinPPP arrangementsneedtoensure infrastructurefinancingneeds at $4.5 trillion the Prevention of Corruption Actare further that open-endedarrangements that might networkeffects. However, while barriers to entrymay notexist, it is difficult fornew play- by 2040. Reviving private investment flows amendedtoencompassmodern-dayrequire- entail unforeseeable risk areminimised for ers to enter,and grab market share,simplybecause thereisnot muchspace formultiple intoinfrastructurecreation to moresustain- ments, includingfactoringintheneedfor gov- the private investor,includingaspectssuchas networks.But couching this debateinterms of self-reliance or Atmanirbharta,orerecting able levels of around 40 per cent will be key Thechallenge of ramping up ernment agentstotakecalibratedriskswhile land availability and community acceptance. barriers or intervening to putinplace price caps on commissions is notthe answer.Policy to attaining this threshold. private investments in engaging with the private sector.The private Afterweemergeout of this pandemic, a should be drivenbythe principle of protecting competition, notcompetitors. Thechallengeoframpingupprivate invest- infrastructure will need partners also needtobeincentivisedtofocus focus area forpublic policy has to be the cre- mentsininfrastructure willneedactionontwo on projectoutcomes,withguard-railsinplace ation of amodern-day, sustainable and re- fronts: Refreshing institutionsand policies for action on twofronts: to discouragerent-seeking behaviour.Insum, silientinfrastructure that notonlyimproves channeling financing; and providing astable, Refreshing institutions and risk avoidance by the public entity and rent- theeaseofliving forall Indians, but also ab- JOURNEYAND THE PRIZE durable,and empowering ecosystem forpri- policies forchanneling seeking by the private partner arethe twin sorbsamajority of the millionsof young peo- vate players to partner with government en- financing;and providing a challenges that needtobecarefullyaddressed. ple who enter the workforceevery year. tities in the task of infrastructure-creation. On the regulatoryfront,acompellingneed Designingafresh approachand creating asta- Nobelfor chemistryspeaks of irrepressible ambition of Learning from the pastmixed experience stable,durable,and would be to promulgateaPPP legislation ble policy environmentthatprovidescomfort of PPPs, we needtoreimagine and redesign empowering ecosystem for whichcan provide arobustlegal ecosystem and incentives to private investorswill bekey science. And tells astory of twowomen scientists the PPP ecosystem along manyfronts. The private playerstopartner and procedural comforttothe various actors to attaining this goal. VijayKelkar committeehad put out atimely, with government entities in andstakeholders. Suchlegislation should en- NAYEAR WHENavirus has laidwaste to humanhubrisand capability, the Nobel practical,andbalancedreportin 2015 on over- compass theneedforfostering innovation and The writer is partner and national head, prize in chemistrytoFrenchmicrobiologistEmmanuelleCharpentierand hauling the PPP ecosystem, including gover- the task of infrastructure- global best practices,factoringinthe require- InfrastructureGovernment andHealthcare, American biochemistJennifer Doudna is areminder of the irrepressible ambi- nance reform, institutional redesign, and ca- creation. mentsofdiverseinfra sectors ranging from KPMG tion of science. In 2012,the twoscientists collaboratedtocreatethe CRISPR/Cas9 Iscissors —asharpgene-editing tool that has turnedout to be moreofaSwiss knife, givenits precision in changing the DNAofplantsand microorganisms and wide applicability in medical science. This storybegan in Charpentier’s lab, with amicroscopic viewofthe bacteria OCTOBER 9, 1980, FORTY YEARS AGO Streptococcus pyogenes. What the scientistsaw wasabacterial immune system thatre- peatedly went to battle by shearing offinvasiveviruses with asharp bit of RNA.The French POLICE IN HOUSE as did members of the Lok Dal, whose de- reachedthe Iraqi side safely. scientistcollaboratedwithDoudna to replicatethis natural defence mechanism in atest THE POLICE AND PACentered the Vidhan recognition as the main Opposition party tube,and endedupwith atooltoedit gene sequences.The implicationsforcancerresearch, Parishad in Lucknowtohelp thecouncil wasbeing demandedbythe UOP. BESIEGED CITY guards eject members of the newlyformed IRANIANFORCES CONTINUED to holdout in in finding cures of genetically-transmitted diseases as well as the murky possibilities of it United Opposition Front (UOF). The House INDIANS KILLED IN IRAN the besieged town of Khorramshahr as Iraqi being hijackedbyeugenicists dreaming of designer babies, were mind-boggling. had to be adjournedfour times foratotal of FIVE INDIAN SEAMEN were killedat artillery maintainedits steady bombard- The mind alsostruggles to come to gripswithanother fact:That only sevenwomen two-and-a-half hours. One platoon of the Khorramshahr docks duringfresh flare-up ment of the battered city and the nearby have been awardedthe Nobelprize forchemistrysince 1901,including this year’s awardees. PACconsisting of about 30 men, police su- of fighting between the Iranians and Iraqis blazing oil complexofAbadan. The crackof In an interviewlastyear,Doudna described herself as “a budding feminist”, who had gone perintendent SNSingh, with aposse of 13 around thedocks.The firstengineerofa small arms fire could be beardfrom from believing that she did notwant “advan-tages or disadvantages basedonmygen-der” policeman, six guards of the council and 18 Romanian ship, Valentin, said that the sea- Khorramshahr.whereIraqi troops and tanks guards of the the secretariat ejected the men were killedbyIranian machine gunfire seizedcontrol of the important dockson the in her 40s, to realising in her 50s that theformidable prejudice loadedagainstwomen would protesting members. The process came to a while theyweretrying to swim to safety banksofthe disputed Shatt-al-Arabwater- notgoawaywithout systemic changes. Indeed, the lastrevolutionarybreakthrough involv- halt when Janatamember Sarju Prasad be- acrossthe Shatt-al-Arabfromtheirship, wayfourdaysago.But eyewitnesses said ingthegenewasbuilt on theworkofRosalind Franklin, aBritish womanscientistwhose work came “unconscious” and had to be attended whichcame under attacklastnight. One sur- Iranian forces control pocketsinthe north- waswrittenout of history andscience, as the Nobelfor medicinewent to James Watson to by doctors. Members of the ruling vivorsaidheand 29 other crew members of ern part of thetownand mostofthe south and Francis Crick. From Franklin to Charpentier-Doudna, the tide is, hopefully, turning. Congress (I) sat silentlywatching the scene, his ship 'Olaneste,. whichwas also attacked, side.

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THEINDIANEXPRESS,FRIDAY,OCTOBER9,2020 WHATTHE OTHERSSAY “The Rohingyahavefaced enough hardships and are alreadyliving adifficult life in the camps in Cox’sBazar as they cling on to hope of being repatriated 11 to their homeland some day. Thelast thing theyneed are incidents of THE IDEAS PAGE violence within the camps threatening their safety.”—DHAKA TRIBUNE The Hathras dead-end Bill of exclusions AssistedReproductive Technology Bill raises What does the UP government so ferociouslyseek to protect —after having violated constitutional, medico-legal, regulatoryconcerns. everypossible fundamental right of itspeople? It needs athorough review

embryo suffersfrom“pre-existing,heritable, life-threatening or geneticdiseases”, it can be donated forresearch with the commis- sioningparties’permission.Thesedisorders need specification or theBillriskspromot- ing animpermissibleprogramme of eugen- ics. Prior versionsofthe Billregulated re- search using embryos, whichmustbe KTSTulsi and brought back. Prabha Kotiswaran Although the Bill and the SRB regulate TanessaPuri ARTs andsurrogacy,respectively,there is considerable overlap between both sectors. UNIONHEALTHMinisterHarshVardhanin- YettheBillsdonotworkintandem.CoreART THIS ARTICLE SHALL neither delve into troducedthe Assisted Reproductive processesareleftundefined;severalofthese whether arapehappened or someone sim- Technology (Regulation) Bill, 2020 (Bill) in aredefinedinthe SRB but notthe Bill. plywentmissing while going intothe field, the Lok Sabha on September 14.Its aim is to Definitionsofcommissioning “couple”, “in- nor the atrocity of dragging someone by their regulateARTbanksandclinics,allowsafeand fertility”,“ARTclinics” and “banks” needto dupattawhile injuring their neckand spinal ethicalpractice of ARTs andprotect women be synchronisedbetween the Bills. Asingle cord. Theauthorsshall notdevote space to andchildren from exploitation. The Bill was woman cannotcommissionsurrogacy but howabominable the incidentis. Protestors introducedtosupplement the Surrogacy canaccessART. TheBilldesignatessurrogacy shall be buriedunder pandemic lawviola- (Regulation) Bill, 2019 (SRB), whichawaits boardsundertheSRBto functionasadvisory tion litigation.Afundamental right to protest consideration by theRajya Sabha afterre- bodies forART,whichisdesirable. However, peacefullyunder Article 19 exists.Despite viewbytwo parliamentarycommittees. bothBillssetupmultiplebodiesforregistra- being lawyers, we fail to understand the le- Fifteen years in the making, the ARTBillis tionwhich willresultinduplicationorworse, galviolationinawish to offercondolence unsatisfactoryand fails to respond to the lackofregulation(e.g. surrogacy clinic is not and supporttothe victim’s family. We fore- needs of the27million infertile Indian cou- required to reportsurrogacy to National see being framedasanti-national, seditious, ples. Registry).Also, thesameoffendingbehav- systemic dismantlersofthe UttarPradesh The firstconcern is who can access ART. iours under both Bills arepunisheddiffer- government. We wonder what the govern- The Bill allows foramarriedheterosexual ently+punishmentsunder the SRB are ment so ferociouslyseekstoprotect —after couple and awoman abovethe ageofmar- greater.Offences under the Bill arebailable having violated everypossiblefundamental riagetouse ARTs.Itexcludes single men, co- but notunder the SRB. Finally, records have rightofits people? habiting heterosexual couples and LGBTQI to be maintainedfor 10 years under the Bill The Sexual Harassment of Women at individualsandcouplesfromaccessingARTs. butfor25yearsundertheSRB.Thesameac- Workplace Actisaproduct of Vishaka v. This violates Article 14 of theConstitution tions takenbyasurrogacy clinic and ART Rajasthan.Underneath thiscase, lies buried and the righttoprivacy jurisprudence of clinic(likelytobethesameentity)attractvar- aDalit female victim. Bhanwari usedtowork Puttaswamy, where theSupremeCourtheld iedregulation. forthe Women’s Development Programme that“the sanctity of marriage, the liberty of Previous versions of the Billrequired in- in Rajasthan. While campaigning against procreation,thechoiceof afamilylifeandthe dependence between ARTbanksand ART child marriage,Bhanwari identifiedfamilies dignity of being” concerned all individuals clinics. Thereisnosuchdistinctionnow. in her villagewho engaged in the practice. irrespective of their social status and were Wheregametedonationisnotcompensated, She wassuccessful in preventing amarriage aspectsofprivacy.InNavtejJohar,Justice howwillARTBanksbeeconomicallyviable? in the familyofdominant-caste Gujar men. Chandrachudexhortedthestatetotakepos- Perhapsclinicsareallowedtooperate banks This ledtoher rape at her “workplace” —in itive steps forequal protection forsame-sex and subsidise them throughART services? afield. She identifiedGyarsa Gujarand Badri couples. Unlikethe SRB, thereisnoprohibi- In previous drafts,gametescould notbe Gujar as responsible forrapingher. tion on foreign citizens accessing ARTs. giftedbetweenknownfriendsandrelatives. Bhanwari’s husband, Mohan, wasalsophys- ForeignerscanaccessARTbutnotIndiancit- Hasthis changedsince the Bill has shiftedto icallyassaulted by the same men. The izens in loving relationships. This is an illog- an altruistic model of gamete donation? Supreme Courtchose to expandthe defini- icalresultwhichfailstoreflectthetruespirit Eitherway, gamete shortage islikely. Further, tion of sexual harassment to makeituniver- CRSasikumar of the Constitution. the Bill’s prohibition on the sale, transfer,or sallyapplicable at all sorts of workplaces. daughters good values. Whichlessons on less. The state’s role behindthis delay elic- The ARTBilldoesnot do what it says on use of gametesand embryosispoorly However, the onlyhomageweoffer to good valuesdid Bhanwari Devi and the itsinvestigation.Policing aside, seminal thelabel.Itdoeslittleto protecttheeggdonor. wordedandwillconfuseforeignanddomes- Bhanwari is asingularmention of her in the Hathras victim forget?Anex-MLAfromthe stains in avictim’s body areinessentialto Harvesting of eggsisaninvasiveprocess tic parentsrelying on donated gametes. Vishaka judgment. ruling party held ameeting in supportof proverape based on UttarPradeshv. which,if performedincorrectly, canresultin The Bill requires clinics and banksto A19-year-oldDalit waswoman allegedly the accused. Some lessons on good values Babulnath (1994). death.The Billrequires an eggdonor’s writ- maintain agrievance cell but these will be gangrapedbyfourmen. The incident oc- seemskippedhere. If the above fails to proverape, then under tenconsent but does notprovidefor her one-sided. Clinics mustinstead have ethics curredwhile the victim wasaccompanying Thevictim’sbodywas Section 32(1), Evidence Act — solely based counselling or the ability to withdraw her committees.Mandatedcounsellingservices her mother to the field.She sustainedinjuries Q. What wasthe urgency behind crema- cremated by the police on the victim’s dying declaration —the rape consentbefore orduringtheprocedure(un- shouldalsobeindependentoftheclinic.The and diedeventually. The police denythe oc- tion? Wasittoprevent asecond post- mustbeupheld. Thereisapresumption that likeforcommissioningparties).Shereceives SRB and the Bill impose high sentences(8- currence of rape. mortem? hurriedly.Videos show on imminent fear of death, everywordut- no compensation or reimbursement of ex- 12 years)and heftyfines. The poorenforce- “Intersectionality” is about facets of aper- The hasty and forceful cremation is avi- relatives throwing teredbyadying person is true. Nobody penses forloss of salary, time and effort. mentof thePCPNDTAct,1994,demonstrates son’s identity suchasgenderand caste, olation of the victim’s right to dignity under themselves at the ambulance wantstomeetthe makerwith afalse foot Failing to payfor bodilyservicesconstitutes that enhancedpunishmentsdonot secure whichconstruct privilegeand aid discrimi- Article 21 of theConstitution. This is sup- begging to see the victim. forward. This is one of the rare cases where unfree labour,whichisprohibitedby Article compliance —lawyers and judges also lack nation. On deconstructing eachfacetofthe portedbythe casesofPt.ParmanadaKatara thedying declaration is available on an au- 23 of the Constitution. The commissioning medicalexpertise. Patientsalready sue fer- victim’s identity that makes her morevul- vs Union of India (1995) and Ramji Singh v. Opposition MPshavecases diovisual platform and captures everysingle partiesonlyneedtoobtainaninsurancepol- tilityclinicsinconsumerredressalfora,which nerable as arecipient of violence, her caste Uttar Pradesh (2009) against them forviolating question and answer put to the victim by the icyinhernameformedicalcomplicationsor is preferable to criminal courts.Unusually, standsout. KimberléCrenshaw’straffic anal- pandemic laws,merely police officer.The dying declaration does not death; no amount or duration is specified. theBillrequiresallbodiesto beboundby the ogy can be superimposedhere. If the victim Q. Whywas the district magistratehimself because they led aprotest needtobecorroborated basedonAshabai v. The egg donor’s interests aresubordinated directions of central and stategovernments from Hathras stood at atraffic intersection threatening the victim’s family? Maharashtra (2013). Minor discrepancies in in aBill proposedinher name. The Bill re- in the national interest, friendlyrelations and eachofher identities were separate Video clips showthe district magistrate marchtomeetthe victim’s the declaration can be overlooked due to strictsegg donation to amarriedwoman with foreign states, publicorder,decency or roads, it is impossiblefor us to decipher pressuring the familytochangetheir state- family.AnMLA from the pain and suffering of the victim basedon withachild (at leastthree years old). Even morality —beingbroadly phrased, it under- whether shewas hitbyatruck from the road ment. He is seen threateningand intimidat- ruling partyclaims that rape Abrarv.Uttar Pradesh (2011). here, eggdonation as an altruistic act is pos- mines theirindependence. for“caste” or “gender”. On aladderofoppres- ing the family. His role and interests in does not occur if parents And then, Ireachedafork/I didn’t know sibleonlyonceawomanhasfulfilledherdu- The Bill raises severalconstitutional, sion, being female putsthe victim at the bot- speedy disposal of the victim’sbody needto whichneedlehurtmore/the one that read tiesto thepatriarchalinstitutionofmarriage. medico-legal, ethical and regulatorycon- tom—but then being Dalit shovesher down be probed underSection 201, Penal Code. teachtheir daughtersgood “DALIT” or another that read “WOMAN”/I’m Children born from ARTdonot have the cerns, affecting millions and mustbethor- further. values. Whichlessons on sureIwas notaspatheticahuman being, as I right to knowtheir parentage, whichiscru- oughlyreviewedbeforepassage. The victim’s body wascrematedbythe Q. Whywere11-dayold worthless samples good values did Bhanwari wasrenderedinmylifeand even after/I am not cial to their best interests and protected un- policehurriedly. Videosshowrelatives sent to theforensic laboratory? Devi and the Hathras victim India’s daughter/I am what no daughter in derpreviousdrafts.TheBillrequirespre-im- The writer is professor of lawand social throwing themselvesatthe ambulance Instead of takingmedical exam samples India wants to be/I am theviolenceyour plantationgenetic testingand wherethe justice, King’s College, London begging to see the victim. Opposition MPs of the rape victim within 24 hours under forget? An ex-MLAfrom the mother’s pillowhides/and thesilence into have cases againstthemfor violating pan- Section 164A,Criminal ProcedureCode,the ruling partyheld ameeting whichnolaw confides. demic laws,merelybecause theyled a samples were taken11days later. The time in support of the accused. protestmarch to meetthe victim’s family. lapse between the alleged rape’s occurrence Tulsi is aSenior Advocateand MP, An MLAfromthe ruling party claims that and the timeofcarrying outthe medical ex- Some lessons on good values RajyaSabha. Puri is an associateat LETTER TO THE EDITOR rape does notoccur if parents teachtheir amination rendersthese samples worth- seem skipped here. Tulsi’s chambers OPEN OR SHUT? IDEAS THISREFERS TO the editorial,'Back to School' (IE, October 8). Since the Centre ONLINE is mulling the reopening of schools, Justice, after Hathras school administrations should call stu- ONLYINTHE EXPRESS dentsinbatches as schools cannotoper- ateattheir full strength due to thepan- ● DIEGOSCHWARTZMAN, Widespread, dailycrime againstwomen needs moreurgent, purposeful response demic. The government should ensure UNDERDOGANDINSPIRATION: that parentswho still have notpaid SATYAMVISWANATHAN Deepak Gupta school fees should getenough time. The ground reality is that manyprivate ● schools areasking forfull fees from par- THESOFTPOWERFRONT ONCE AGAIN,the conscience of the nation 331cases were of rape/gang rape/murder. late/reviewprocedurewill also requireshort by knownpersons. In India, the position is ents. All this should be kept in check. WITHCHINA: has been stirredbythe horrific brutalisation Thesehavenot made headlinesbut arehid- circuiting. The case of the December 16 gan- made worse when the victim belongs to the Ayushi Singh, Agra SHRUTIJARGAD and murder of ayoungDalit woman in den away in the statistics. grape in Delhi2016saw repeatedopportuni- SC/STgroup, likeinthe Hathras case. Hathras. The crime has been compounded Severalpractical questions arise. Howwill ties providedtothe accusedinthe nameof It has oftenbeen suggestedthat to tackle THIS REFERS TO the editorial, 'Backto www.indianexpress.com by the follyofamidnight cremation by the the policeinvestigatesuchalarge number of natural justice. The crime took place in 2012. rape cases, acomplete overhaul of thepolice School' (IE, October 8). The SOPs issued police without the family’s permission and cases giventhat theirstrength is limited, The accusedwerehanged in 2020. machineryisnecessary. But suchgeneral forapartial reopening of schoolsfor attendance. Everynow and then, the country thereisnoseparation of the investigative Delays in dispensation of justice were statementsdonot help. We have to listout classes IX to XII aresodetailedthat it will can still be salvagedifthe Centrecan witnesses suchacts. Civil society erupts in wing with that tasked with maintenance of said to have contributed to the Hyderabad specific steps, at eachstage. be the in the best interestofthe schools shedits cussedness and end this impasse rage.There areprotestsand candle light lawand order, heavy inroads have been Police shooting down four accusedlastyear. As afirststep, we would be able to iden- nottoannounce the reopenings.The by committing to raiseresources to plug marches. Visual, print and social media made by protocol and security functions and Therewas an outpouringofpublicsupport tify the moreserious cases, wherewitnesses elaboratemanner in whichthe SOPs the GSTcompensation gap. recordthese outbursts of pain.Politicians resources aresimplynot enough. Thereisno forsuchvigilantejustice. Moresuchcases areavailable, conviction appears likely. Such have been issuedisclearly to burden SSPaul, Nadia blameeachother dependinguponwherethe examination of what is neededtoensure will happen, and will be justifiedinthe pub- cases, possibly30-40per centofthe cases, schoolestablishments, aswellasthestu- incident takesplace. Instant justice is de- proper and timelyinvestigationofrapecases. lic domain,ifwecontinue to delaymatters should be speciallyfasttracked.The min- dentsand their parents. Giventhat the FIGHT TOGETHER mandedand promised. SITsare constituted. Howwill the fast trackcourts fast track that mustbebrought to alawful end quickly. istries of home and lawand justice receive pandemic is reaching newheights,this is Fast trackcourts arepromisedtobeset up. trials? Reports suggestpoorimplementation Manycases arenot reportedinthis coun- quarterly reports.What is donetothem, an exercise in futility.The on-ine system THIS REFERS TO the report, ‘Quad meet: We then go backtonormal only to return on setting up of fast trackcourts,anomalies trybecause of various reasons —victim sham- whatreviews take place and what actions is working, and it should notbedis- EyeonChina,India seeksrespect forter- to another scene of this never-ending drama. andshortagesinbothcreation of infrastruc- ing, fear of the familyknowing, and fear of aretaken arenot known. Theyshould mon- turbed until thefestivalseason is over. ritorialintegrity’ (IE, October 7). The sec- It has become aspectacle of whichweshould tureand staffaswell as funds. This includes reprisals. Concern about lawenforcement is itor,through aspecial template, on aweekly Ravi Bhoolchand Jain, via email ond meeting of the foreign ministers of be collectively ashamed. the availabilityofforensic labs. Thesamepo- also cited as afactor.Rape is notonlyasocial basis, thecases which have been prioritised. the Quad–India, Japan, US andAustralia While individual and isolated events lice personnelwill serve these courtsaswell. stigma, the legal procedures areverylengthy, The chief ministers of states, chief justices of CENTRE MUST PAY —inTokyosaw afurther movement to- causeanuproar,weare missingthe wide- The same investigation and judicial proce- costly, time intensive.How manyhavethe highcourts, chiefsecretary,DGPolice should wardsformalisation of the platform in spread and dailynatureofthis assault and dures will apply. Specificstudies mustbe mental strength and resources to reportand be giventhe feedbacksothat theycan take THIS REFERS TO the editorial, ‘Spiritof light of growing Chinese assertiveness. the immense suffering it is causing. The done on delays in investigation and trial of followup? Cases willeithernot bereported, or steps, or issue instructions, to expeditein- mutuality’ (IE, October 7). Statefiscal While China’s economic rise has cer- promise of quickjustice is notmet.National rape cases,particularly themoreheinous if theyare,theywillnot be followedup. The vestigation/trials. The Chief Justice could policiesarecomplex mattersandcannot tainlygiven afillip to regionaleconomies, Crime Records Bureaustatistics showthatin ones. Thereisneedfor clear earmarking of charade of investigation and trial will go on, head acommittee in the statetoreviewreg- be decided through a“high command it is Beijing’s desiretorewritethe rules 2019,1,62,741 cases were pending fortrial, fast trackproceduresfor investigation and wherethe victim will oftenbethe bigger loser. ularly.This willtakesome of their time but whip”. The GSTcompensation imbroglio of engagement that is creating tensions. an increase of about 17,000 from 2017. trial—the presence of witnesses; examina- Social reform is, of course, necessary. And notonlywillastrong messagegotoall con- has exposedthe shallowrhetoric of “co- What’s neededisaneffectiveregional During the year,18,333 cases were disposed tion of police personnel; issues of fixing we have to collectivelystrengthen all the cerned, but quickdisposal would take place, operative federalism”and exacerbated counterbalance to China. of, of which5,822 resultedinconviction. The dates/adjournments/cross-examination etc. ways in whichthe position of women in so- and that will have itsown impact. the politicisation of the GSTCouncil.It Vandana, Chandigarh rate of conviction is about 27 per cent. 45,536 Since these cases will notbemany, whycan’t ciety can be improved.Inanoverwhelming caseswerepending forinvestigation. In 2017, atrial be completedinamonth? The appel- majority of the cases, the victim is attacked The writer is former chairperson, UPSC

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(Road Moradabad. category) Approx. cost of work (In Rs.): represented by itsChief Executive Officer,invites sealed bids from eligible bidders for procurement of equipment THE GAUHATI HighCourthas asked the Assam 12,21,819.30/- Earnest Money (In Rs.): Rules/conditions &details of the tender are available at website http://etender.up.nic.in. and goods for 4ITIs (Bhubaneswar,Cuttack, Puri and Berhampur) and Electrical Technology lab at the World Skill Sd/- (Rajiv Govil) governmenttosubmitanactiontaken reporton 24,400/- SI.No. 2. E-Tender No. 105- Center (WSC) being established in Bhubaneshwar,Odisha, India. Superintending Engineer steps takentoset up detention centres outside jail DHN-2020-21 Name of the work with its Moradabad Circle, PWD, Moradabad 4Bidder can submit bid for asingle or multiple lotsunder each package (wherever applicable). Evaluation will be UPID No. 155750 Dt. 07.10.2020 premises. location &completion period: conducted as per evaluation and qualificationcriteria mentioned in the bidding document. For and on behalf of Governor of UP WWW.UPGOV.NIC.IN Mail ID:- [email protected] Regardaring of Bridge No.416 (UP &DN 5. To obtain further information and inspect the Bidding Document, interested bidders may download the bidding Assam has six detention centres to hold ‘illegal Line), span (1x9.15 +1x12.2+1x9.15) documentsfrom the project website www.empmissionodisha.gov.in and www.skillodisha.gov.in The bidder foreigners’–all insidejails. As per state data, the SPECIAL BRANCH between BNF-TKN station at Km.455/28- can participate in the bidding procedure upon payment of non- refundable fee of INR 10,500/- (for each package) six centres together hold 425 detainees at present. 456/1 under SSE(Bridge)/Dhanbad in POLICE HEADQUARTER, M.P., BHOPAL as above, to be submitted along with the technical proposals for NCB packages. Following an SC order to preventcongestion, 350 DHN Division. 11 (Eleven) Months. 6. Virtual Prebid Meeting willbeheld at 3PMon19th October2020, interested. biddersmay send formal request to NO. SB/Store/2020-25(410), Bhopal, Dated 03.10.2020 “ONLINE E-TENDER NOTICE” detainees had been releasedonbail. Approx. cost of work (In Rs.): the EMail of OSDA latest by 17thOctober 5PM. Link and other details shall be sent to their respective E-Mail lD. (Third) 95,79,608.76/- Earnest Money (In Rs.): 7. For any further query,bidder should contact :Chief Executive Officer,Odisha Skill Development Authority E-Tender are invited by Assistant Inspector General of Police, Special Branch (G) M.P., Bhopal on behalf of DGP MP Bhopal In an order dated October7,Justice AMBBarua for the following item on website https://mptenders.gov.in/nicgep/app:- 1,91,600/- SI.No. 3. E-Tender No. 106- (OSDA), Niyojan Bhawan, -Sriya Square. Unit-3, Bhubaneswar,Odisha-751001, India Telephone/Fax: +91-674- stated if suitable government accommodations are DHN-2020-21 Name of the work with its S. Name of Item(s) Qty. Tender Fees (Rs.) EMD (Rs.) 2391320,Websites: www.empmissionodisha.gov.in and www.skillodisha.gov.in Emailaddress: No. Paid Online Through mptenders.gov.in notavailable,authoritiesmayrentprivate premises. location &completion period: [email protected]; [email protected] 1 Workstation 10 Nos. 1,000/- 15,000/- Theorder comes in response to abatchofpetitions Changingofrusted/corrodedand Sd/- perforatedmember of Br.No. 1. Cost of tender document (Tender Fee) is non refundable and cannot be exempted in any condition & must submit online on to detention of ‘foreigners’. FULLREPORTON Chief Executive Officer 11(1x12.20+8x18.30+1x12.20M) through website https://mptenders.gov.in/nicgep/app. www.indianexpress.com OIPR- 14027/11/0005/2021 2. Tender document can be download from the website of MP Police (www.mppolice.gov.in) between JNN-CRP station under SSE 3. Bids shall be submitted online only at MP Tenders website: https://mptenders.gov.in/nicgep/app (Bridge)/DHN in DHN-CRP section of E. 4. Tender Schedule: C. Railway,Dhanbad Division. 11 (Eleven) No. Tender Activity Date &Time Months. Approx. cost of work (In Rs.): Government of Himachal Pradesh i Submission of writtenqueries- through e-mail: [email protected] 08.10.2020 up to 1700 hrs. 1,74,39,099.83/- EarnestMoney (In RURAL DEVELOPMENT &PANCHAYTI RAJ DEPARTMENT ii Pre Bid Meeting along with written queries 12.10.2020 at 1200 hrs. E-Tender Notice OPEN TENDER Batch No: 45A/20 Rs.): 2,37,200/- SI.No. 4. E-Tender No. e-PROCUREMENT NOTICE iii Bid Submission Start Date 21.10.2020 at 1000 hrs. 107-DHN-2020-21 Name of the work dated: 06.10.2020, E-Tender Notice iv Last date of online e-Tender submission 02.11.2020 up to 1700 hrs. with its location &completion period: RE-INVITATION FOR BIDS (IFB) for supply of materials-"participation in Upgradation &interlocking of Three (03 1. The Executive Engineer (HQ) Rural Development&Panchayati Raj Department SDA v Bid will be opened on 03.11.2020 up to 1700 hrs. through" webportalofIREPS - www.ireps.gov.in offers are invited Nos.) L.C. Gates 23/C/E, 28/C/E &30/C/E ComplexBlockNO. 27 KasumptiShimla-9 (H.P.) on behalf of Governor of Himachal Pradesh vi Demonstration from 11.11.2020 at 1200 hrs. whose TVU more than 50000 in Block for supply of the following materials: Re-invites the online bids on item rate,inelectronic tendering system, in 2cover systemon Sd/- The closing time for all tenders is at section of Dhanbad Division under Asstt. A.I.G.ofPolice HPPWD form 8for the under mentioned work from the eligible and approvedcontractors/Firms 14.00 hr. SI.No. 01. Tender No: Engineer,E.C. Rly., Gujhandi. 06 (Six) Special Branch (G) M.P.Bhopal registered with HPPWD Department. G-14801/20 Tel. No. 0755-2443654 03192780 Brief Description: Cast Months. Approx. cost of work (In Rs.): iron brake shoe 35mm Quantity: 3200 23,07,192.20/- Earnest Money (In Rs.): Sr.Name of Work Estimated Earnest Cost of Time Eligible No. Cost MoneyTender Limit Class of Nos Published on/time: 22/09/20/ 46,200/- SI.No. 5. E-Tender No. 108- Form Contractor 20:53:39 Closing on: 29.10.20 Fund: DHN-2020-21 Name of the work with its Fund is available. Participants are location &completion period: Dhanbad 1. C/o BlockDevelopmentOffice 1,76,35,676/- 2,08,400/- 5000/- 24 B required to submit their offer only on- Division: Provision of boundary wall along Building at MashobraDistrict Shimla Months line through the web portal of IREPS- with GQ Track &encroachment area of (H.P.) (Civil work i.e. WS &SI) www.ireps.gov.in before the closing Division to protect Railway land from 2. Availability of Bid Document and Mode of Submission: The Bid Documentisavailable online date and time. Other details regarding encroachment fromPradhankhanta and Bid should be submittedinonline mode on website https://hptenders.gov.in. Bidder would be Consignee and detailed description of (including) to Garea Bihar (Total length stores are available in tender required to register in the website which is free of cost. Forsubmission of bids,the bidder is require 29.50 Km.) underAsstt. Engineer (1), E.C. document in tender notice on the to have Digital Signature Certificate (DSC) from one of the authorized Certifying Authorities (CA) Rly., Gomoh. 18 (Eighteen) Months. above portal. “Aspiring bidders who have not obtained the user ID and Password forparticipating in e-tendering Approx. cost of work (In Rs.): For Principal Chief Material Manager in RDD mayobtained the same from the website https://hptenders.gov.in.digital Signature is 17,99,47,537.62/- Earnest Money (In PR/720/HQ/STORE/T/20-21/28 mandatorytoparticipate in the e-tendering. Bidders already possessing the Digital Signature Rs.): 10,49,700/- SI.No. 6. E-Tender No. 109-DHN-2020-21 Name of the work issued from authorized CAs can use the same in the tender. with its location &completion period: 3. Key Dates: Gomoh: Lifting &Disposal of garbage 1. Date of online Publication 10.10.2020 from colonies, Officers rest house, Transit 2. Document Download Startand End date 10.10.2020 10:00 Hrs upto Camp, Driver and Guard running rooms, 24.10.2020 05:00 Hrs TTE rest room, Driver Training Institute, 3. Bid Submission Startand End Date 10.10.2020 10:00 Hrs upto Malavya Institute, Community Centers, 24.10.2020 05:00 Hrs Railway Hospital Gomoh, Railway Station and miscellaneous Service buildings etc. 4. Physical Submission of EMD and Cost of Tender Document 26.10.2020 11:00 A.M. by hiring of two sets of tractor at Gomoh 5. Date of Technical Bid opening, Evaluation of Technical Bid 27.10.2020 11:00 A.M. (One set of tractor with capacity of 100 cft. followedbyopening of Financial Bid. with driver,three labours and fuel daily) for 08 (eight) hours to make minimum two 4. TENDER DATIALS: The Tender Document shall be uploaded online in 2cover:- trips by each tractor in aday for 365 days (i)Cover-I shall contain scanned copiesofall “Technical Documents/Eligibility information” (one year). 12 (Twelve) Months. Approx. (ii) Cover-2shall contained“BOQ/Financial Bid”,where contractorwillquotedhis offerfor eachitem. cost of work (In Rs.): 9,46,342.80/- 5. SUBMISSION OF ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS: The bidders are required to submit (a) original Earnest Money (In Rs.): 18,900/- SI.No. demand draft towards the cost of bid document and(b) original bid security/Earnest Money 7. E-TenderNo. 110-DHN-2020-21 Deposit (EMD) in the shape of FDR duly pledged in favour of ExecutiveEngineer (HQ) Rural Name of the work with its location & Development Department Shimla-9 and other Technical Document in the O/O the Executive completion period: Provision of 3IBP in Engineer(HQ) RDDShimla-9asspecified in Keydates Sr.No. -4 on tender opening date,failing CIC (i) NVA-MMLN (Location 173/21 Km.) which the bids will be declarednon responsive. (ii) BRWD-MAZ (Location 261/32 Km.) (iii) 6. LIST OF MACHINERY, TOOL, PLANT: The bidders must have to submit /upload the list of machin- RHR-TRZ (Location 306/01 Km.) under ery/tools/equipment in the form of affidavit. Sr.DEN/1/DHN. 12 (Twelve) Months. 7. CONTRACTOR’S REGISTRATION: The bidders have to produce the enlistment of competent Approx. cost of work (In Rs.): authority in appropriate class valid at the time of tender and upload as pdf. 48,94,716.08/- Earnest Money (In Rs.): 8. GST REGOSTRATION: The bidders have to produce/upload the GST registration at the time of 97,900/- Date &Time forclosing and tender and upload as pdf. opening of e-tender : Date of closing of 9. EMPLOYEES POVIDENT FUND: The biddershavetoproduce/upload the EPF No.aspdf. e-tender at 17-00 hours on 28.10.2020, 10. PANNO.: The bidders have to produce/upload the PANNoinpdf. Date of opening of e-tender from 12:00 11. ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA: hrs. on 29.10.2020.Website particulars: The bidder must have successfully completedone similar nature of work not less than 40% of esti- http://www.ireps.gov.in. No manual mated cost during the last 5years (without liquidated damages or compensation)for jobNo. 1. tender willbeacceptedagainst e- i) Work done Certificate and Work in Hand Certificate: The bidders have to submit/upload tendering. the list of work which are completed /in hand (progress) in the proforma shown General rule Divisional Railway Manager (Engineering) No.19inSchedule “F”. These statements should be countersigned by the Engineer-in- East Central Railway,Dhanbad. charge not belowthe rank of ExecutiveEngineer or equivalent in State/Central Govt. PSU’s PR/722/DHN/ENGG/T/20-21/112 with his seal. The original/attested copies of same maybesubmitted at the time of physical submission of tender. ''IMPORTANT'' ii) Turn Over: Bidders have to submit/upload the turnoveroflast 5years duly certifiedfrom the Charted Accountant in pdf forjob No.1. Whilstcareistaken prior to iii) Affidavit: Contractors have to submit an affidavit wherein mentioned that theyhavenot more acceptance of advertising than twoworks in handinRural Development &Panchayati Raj Department. copy,itisnot possible to verify 12. BID OPENING DETAILS: The bids shall be open on 27.10.2020at11:30 Hrs in the O/O Executive its contents. 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TOPOFTHE Nigerian, SKorean WORLD Covid-19takescentrestageas candidates in race Pence,Kamalasparindebate to giveWTO its firstwoman chief ALEXANDERBURNS& Trump pulls out JONATHANMARTIN Kuwait’sSheikhMeshal of virtualdebate al-AhmadAl-Jaber NEWYORK,OCTOBER8 STEPHANIENEBEHAY GENEVA,OCTOBER8 al-Sabah Reuters with Biden, calls US VICE-PRESIDENT Mike Pence and Senator Kamala Harris it ‘waste’ of time FORMER NIGERIAN finance KUWAIT clashedoverthe Trumpadmin- ministerNgozi Okonjo-Iweala istration's handling of the coron- and South Korean trade minister Newcrown avirus pandemic on Wednesday YooMyung-hee arethe final Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and night, with Mr.Pencedefending REUTERS candidatestohead the World YooMyung-hee princetakes the White House's recordwith- WASHINGTON,OCTOBER8 Trade Organization, ensuring the oathbefore outaddressingits fundamental 25-year-old WTOwill have its failures, while Ms. Harris ac- President Donald Trumpon firstfemale leader. parliament cusedhim and President Trump Thursdayrejected plans foravir- The WTOsaid on Thursday ED of presiding over acatastrophic tual debateonOct.15with that the twowomen were the Toughtask Dubai: Kuwait's new failureinpublic-health policy. Democratic rivalJoe Biden, afor- remaining candidates fordirec- PLAIN E ahead ● crownprince took the Ms. Harris, the California mat switchintendedtoreduce tor-general afterthe field wascut EX oath of office on Democrat whoisJoseph R. Biden the risk of spreading Covid-19 in from five to two. Thursday, according to Jr.'s running mate, delivereda light of Trump’s infection, and The winner will replace THE WINNINGcandidate Kuwaiti stateTV, ascend- comprehensive denunciation of Kamala Harris, herhusband DougEmhoff, US Vice-President MikePenceand hiswifeKaren said he feels well enough to re- Brazilian RobertoAzevedo, who to head the WTOwill ing to the postafter the the Trumpadministration'spoli- Pence at the endofthe debateonWednesday. Reuters sume campaign rallies. steppeddownayear earlier than face formidable chal- country's parliament cies,rangingfromthe economy The firstdebatebetween the expected at the end of August. lenges, with rising global unanimouslyapproved and climatechangetohealth two, held lastweekbefore "Both of the women that are tensions and protection- the ruling emir's choice of careregulation and taxes. durethroughout the debate,Mr. Trumpdisclosedthat he had in the final round areremarkably ism duringaCovid-in- successor.Sheikh Meshal The vice president made FLYONPENCE’SHEADSTEALSTHESHOW Pence sought to rebut Ms. tested positive forthe novel well-qualified. This is something ducedslowdown, most Al AhmedAlJaber,the misleading or plainly false Harris's criticism by picking and coronavirus, descendedinto on whicheveryone has agreed," obviouslybetween China 80-year-old deputy head claims about WhiteHouse poli- Washington: The vice presi- Twitter,anaccount named choosing componentsofthe ad- chaos with the Republican U.S. WTOspokesman Keith Rockwell and President Donald of Kuwait's National cies on arangeofsubjects dentialdebate on Wednesday @MikePenceFlyswiftlygained ministration's responsethat he president interrupting both told reporters, making the an- Trump's U.S. administra- Guard, offeredbrief re- weighing down Mr.Trumpin had plexiglass barriers to pre- thousands of followers. could castinarelatively favorable Biden and the moderator nouncement at WTOheadquar- tion, as well as pressure marks to lawmakers and the presidential race.Mr. Pence vent the spread of COVID-19, Democratic presidential light,including Mr.Trump'sim- throughout. ters in Geneva. to drive reforms. ministers, promising to claimedthat the president had a but theycouldn't stop the candidateJoe Biden, posteda position of atravelban on China, Trumpexpressedconcern Okonjo-Iweala, 66,aformer safeguardthe country's plan to protect people with pre- night'smosttalked-about in- pictureofhimselfwith afly while talking around thefunda- that the newvirtual format an- Nigerian finance and foreign "constitution and demo- existing medical conditions truder -agiant strayhousefly swatter on Twitter,asking mental issue —that the disease nouncedbythe nonpartisan minister, is an economistand de- Amina Mohamed, Saudi royal cratic approach" as well though he does not, hailedthe that perched on Vice supporters to "Pitchin$5to has killedhundredsofthousands commission in charge of presi- velopment specialistnow serv- courtadviser Mohammad Al- as its"platform of peace "V-shapedrecovery"ofthe President MikePence's help this campaign fly."His of Americans andshatteredthe dential debates could lead to his ing as boardchairofglobal vac- Tuwaijri and British ex-interna- and humanitarian work." economyindefiance of thelat- croppedwhitehair. campaign setupawebsite, country's economy. microphone getting cut offdur- cine alliance Gavi.She hassaid tional trade ministerLiam Fox experts saySheikh estgovernmentdataand repeat- On social media,the fly, flywillvote.com, to register He credited Mr.Trumpwith ingthe encounter. the WTOshould playarole in droppedout of the race afterfail- Meshal's promotion to edly claimedthat Mr.Trump whichsat atop Pence'shead voters. Within the hour,itwas leading"thegreatestnationalmo- “I’m notgoingtowaste my helping poorer countries access ingtoget sufficient backing from crownprince entrenches would always "followthe sci- for2minutes and 3seconds, selling a"Truth over Flies" fly bilizationsinceWorldWar2"and time on avirtual debate, that’s COVID-19drugsand vaccines. the WTO's 164members. the traditional ranksof ence" on climatechangethough became the biggeststar. On swatterfor $10. PTI attemptedto minimizethediffer- notwhatdebating is all about,” Yoo, 53, South Korea's trade The WTOwill holdathird the royal family. AP he has spent his term denying encesbetweenthetwopresiden- Trumpsaid on aphone inter- minister, is pitching herselfasan and final selection roundonOct. the scientific consensus on tial ticketsgoing forwardwhere viewwith FoxBusiness. “You sit experiencedoperator on tradein 19-27, with aviewtohaving adi- global warming and dismantling Ms. Harris usedthe debateto to the disease“the greatestfail- thecoronavirus wasconcerned. behindacomputer and do ade- challenging times. rector-general in place by early environmental regulations. pursue twogoals: to reassure ureofany presidential adminis- "Whenyou look at theBiden bate-it’s ridiculous and then Kenyan sports minister November. REUTERS HONGKONG AfterMr. Trump's belligerent voters that she and Mr.Biden are tration in the history of our plan," he said, "it reads an awful theycut youoff wheneverthey Valuablestolen performance againstMr. Biden notasliberal as Republicans country” and saying Mr.Pence lotlikewhatPresidentTrumpand want.” last week,theHarris-Penceforum claim, and to carry out apersist- and Mr.Trumphad “forfeited Iand our task forcehavebeendo- Trump’s decision markedthe Maoscroll in Salt LakeCitymostlystood out ent setofattacks against the their right to re-election.” ingevery step of theway." latestwhiplash developmentin Ex-copcharged in forhow different it wasfromthat Trumpadministration. "Theyknew, and they cov- Ms. Harris rebutted Mr. the presidential race ahead of the foundcutinhalf debate. Still,Mr.Pencerepeatedly On no topic wasMs. Harris ered it up," Ms. Harris said. "The Pence'sswipes.“Clearly,ithas- November 3election. Biden leads attemptedto interruptMs.Harris moreassertive in confronting president said it wasahoax. n'tworked,” she said of the ad- in nationwide opinion polls but George Floyd’s death Hong Kong: Astolen —usuallywithoutsuccess —and Mr.Pencethanthe coronavirus: Theyminimizedthe seriousness ministration's strategy,citing theyshowatighter race in many Chinesecalligraphyscroll also talked over the moderator, She openedthe debate by call- of it." “over200,000 dead bodies” as of thebattleground states that written by Chairman Mao Susan Page of USAToday. ing the WhiteHouse's response In apattern that woulden- evidence. NYT maydecide theelection. freed on $1m bond Zedongand estimated to be worth millions of dol- larshas been foundin AMYFORLITI Hong Kong, police said on Protests against new MINNEAPOLIS,OCTOBER8 Thursday, afteritwas Derek stolenfromanart collec- THE FORMER Minneapolis police Chauvin tor's homeinSeptember. labour law turn violent officer chargedwithmurder in The 2.8 metrescroll had the death of George Floyd posted been cut in half as it had across Indonesia bailWednesdayand wasre- diersand providingequipment been deemedtoo long to leased from prison, leading andfacilities"outof anabundance display, policetoldanews Similar clashes occurredin Minnesota's governortoactivate of caution"inlightof publicsafety conference Wednesday. It NINIEKKARMINI large cities all over the country, the National Guardtohelp keep concerns. Walz said 100state waslootedonSeptember JAKARTA,OCTOBER8 includingYogyakarta,Medan, the peace in the event of protests. troopers and 75 Departmentof 10,along withstamps, Makassar,Manado and According to court docu- Natural Resources conservation coins and other pieces of PROTESTS IN manyIndonesian Bandung, the capital of West Java ments, Derek Chauvin posteda officers were also mobilizedto calligraphyworth HK$5 cities turnedviolent on Thursday province, wherepolice arrested $1 million bond and wasre- help local authorities. billion ($645 million), said as thousandsofenragedstudents 209 people during twodays of leasedfromthe state's facility in Floyd family attorneys Ben senior superintendent and workerscriticizedanew law violent protests. Oak Park Heights, wherehehad Crumpand Antonio Romanucci Tony Ho. REUTERS theysay willcripple labour rights Organisers have calledfor a been detained. Hennepin releasedastatement saying and harm the environment. three-daynational strikestart- County jail records showhewas Chauvin's release "is apainful re- GREECE Clashes between rock-throw- ing on Tuesdaydemanding that released shortlybefore11.30 am. minder"that the familyisfar ing demonstrators and riotpolice the government revoke the Floyd, aBlackman in hand- from getting justice. Ex-GoldenDawn brokeout nearJakarta's presi- legislation. cuffs,diedMay 25 afterChauvin, "The system of dueprocess lawmakerstobe dential palaceaspolice tried to The Job Creation Lawap- The aftermath of shelling at StepanakertinNagorno-Karabakh. Photolurevia Reuters who is white, pressedhis knee worked forChauvin and af- disperse the protesters, includ- proved by Parliament on againstFloyd's neck forseveral forded him his freedom while he sentenced ing workers and high school and Mondayisexpected to substan- minutes as Floyd said he could- awaitstrial. In contrast, George university students. tiallychangeIndonesia's labour n't breathe. Floyd's death was Floyd wasdenieddue process, Athens: AGreek court was PresidentJokoWidodoisvis- system and natural resources Azeris and ethnic Armenians fight as captured in widelyseenby- when his lifewas endedovera expectedThursdaytosen- iting Central Kalimantan province management. It amended79 stander video that setoff protests $20 bill. Therewas no charge,no tence the 18 former law- and wasnot in the palace. previouslawsand wasintended Russia, US and France seek ceasefire around the world. Chauvin and arrest,nohearing, no bail. Just makers of the extreme Police firedtear gasatthe to improvebureaucratic effi- three other officers were fired. execution," the attorneys wrote. right-wingGolden Dawn protesters from severalhigh ciency as partofefforts by Azerbaijan said the city of ereignty were threatened. Chauvinischargedwithsecond- It wasnot immediatelyclear party,including itsleader, schools and universities as they Widodo's administration to at- REUTERS Ganja had comeunder fire,deep Azeri Foreign Minister degree murder,third-degree whereChauvingot the moneyto aday afterthe three- triedtoapproach the palace tract moreinvestment to the YEREVAN,BAKU,GENEVA, inside itsterritory. Ethnic Jeyhun Bayramovwas duetoat- murder and manslaughter; payhis bond. member panel of judges compound, turning roads intoa country. OCTOBER8 ArmeniansatNagorno-Karabakh tend Thursday’s talks, but no di- Thomas Lane,J.Kueng andTou The Minnesota Police and deliveredalandmarkver- smoke-filledbattleground. The The demonstrators saythe insideAzerbaijansaidStepanakert rect meetings have been sched- Thao arechargedwithaidingand Peace Officers Association, dict deeming the party a protesters foughtback, hurling lawwill hurtworkers by reduc- AZERBAIJAN AND ethnic had been shelledbyAzeri forces. uledbetween Armenia and abetting both second-degree whichhas alegal defence fund, criminal organisation. rocksand bottles. ing severance pay, removing re- Armenians fought with artillery In asign of growing alarm in Azerbaijan. murder and manslaughter. did notprovideany moneyfor GoldenDawn,foundedas An angrymob burnedatraf- strictions on manual labour by and heavy guns on Thursdayas the region, the head of asix- Armenian Foreign Minister Upon news of Chauvin's re- bail, aspokeswoman said. Bob aneo-Nazi group in the ficpolice postatanintersection foreignworkers,increasing the theUS,FranceandRussiastepped countrymilitaryalliancethat is ZohrabMnatsakanyanisexpected lease, Governor TimWalzacti- Kroll, president of the 1980s, roseto prominence near the palace, while other pro- use of outsourcing, and convert- upeffortstosecureaceasefireand ledbyRussia and includes to hold separate talkswithU.S., vatedthe NationalGuardtohelp Minneapolis Police Officers during Greece's brutal testers setfires to tires and fibre- ing monthlysalaries to hourly avertawider warinthe South Armenia warnedthatthe group Frenchand Russian officials in local lawenforcement. Walz said Federation, said his union was neardecade-long financial glass road barriers. wages. AP Caucasus. could intervene if Armenian sov- MoscowonMonday. theGuardwasmobilizing100sol- notinvolved. AP crisis that beganin2009, and become thecountry's thirdlargest party.Itwas NKoreamay oftenconsidered amodel formanyextreme-right SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH JOINS COUNCIL OVERSEEING THE PRIZE show new groups in Europe and missilesat beyond. AP Prince William launches new prize aimed at ‘repairing’ planet THE NETHERLANDS weekend parade William. initiativestotackleclimate by eachdonor to fund the prize, Courtconvicts ELIANPELTIER Prince William said the change. Michael R. Bloomberg, and did notsay whether the ASSOCIATEDPRESS sixofplotting LONDON,OCTOBER8 "EarthshotPrize" wasinspired the former mayorofNew York, British royal familywould be do- SEOUL,OCTOBER8 by President John F. Kennedy's promisedtodonate$500mil- natingany of itsown moneyto jihadiattack PRINCE WILLIAM on Thursday launchin1961ofadecade-long lion lastyear to close everycoal- the award. FORMONTHS, NorthKorea has announcedthe establishment of research program, "Moonshot," firedpower plant in the United In addition to Mr. been relatively uncombative,as TheHague:TheRotterdam an environmental prizeworth to send the firstperson to the States. Attenborough, other high-pro- leader Kim Jong Un grapples DistrictCourtconvictedsix 50 million pounds, or $65 mil- moon. Prince William launchedthe file figures have also joinedthe with the coronavirus pandemic, men on Thursdayofplot- lion, that willrewardclimate It will comprise five awards prize through the Royal prize council, including naturaldisasters and the deep- ting alarge-scale jihadi at- changesolutions overthe next of £1 millioneachfor eachofthe Foundation, whichsupports Christiana Figueres, the former ening economicpain under tack on apublic event and 10 years, saying it wasaneffort next 10 years, centered on charitable initiativesengaged in United Nations climate chief,the years of tough US-ledsanctions. sentencedthem to prison to "turn the current pessimism "earthshots," or goals -fixing the by him and his wife, Catherine, actress CateBlanchett, the But ahead of the 75th found- terms ranging from 10 to surrounding environmental is- climate, cleaning the air,protect- Duchess of Cambridge.Itwill be Brazilian soccer star Dani Alves inganniversaryofhisrulingparty 17 years. However, intelli- sues intooptimism." ing and restoringnature, reviv- supportedbyanetwork of and the Colombian singer this weekend, speculationhas gence agencies tipped off Sir David Attenborough, the ing oceans, and tackling waste. donors that include the Aga Shakira. risenthatKimmayholdamassive police and an undercover naturalistbehinddozensofdoc- "Wehavetohaveadecadeof Prince William withnaturalistSir David Attenborough at KhanDevelopment Network, The prizecomesamid grow- militaryparade andunveilnewly operative wasabletoinfil- umentaries chronicling the change, adecade of repairing the the KensingtonPalace in London. AP BloombergPhilanthropies, and ing concerns over climatechange developed, powerful missiles. tratethe gang and ulti- planet's biodiversity,has joineda planetsowecan hand it on to the JackMaFoundation, among worldwide. 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I,Rao Hansraj,S/O ShriKS I,Naveen Kumar Jain S/o I, Niranjan Prasad Sharma S/o Yadav,R/OG&JU-117-D,Green Joginder Kumar Jain R/O-E- Sh. Raghuvar DayalSharma PUBLIC NOTICE GUHAGAR NAGAR PANCHAYAT, GUHAGAR My clientess Smt. Pavitri Devi wife of Sh. Ram Apartments,Pitampura,Delhi- 21/194-195,Second- R/oB-96 Gali No.2, Gazipur, Karan R/O DExt., 11, Near Laxmi Vihar, Mohan Dist -Ratnagiri Garden, Uttam Nagar, West Delhi, Delhi-110059 Classifieds 110034,have changed my name Floor,Sector-3,Rohini, Delhi declarethat my name in has disowned/ debarred his son namely Kamlesh Kumar son of Sh. Ram Karan and Smt. Sonia E-TENDER NOTICE -2020-21 to Rao Hans Raj. Delhi,have changed my minor some document mentioned as W/O Sh. Kamlesh Kumar from all her movable as Main Portal http://mahatenders.gov.in son’s name,fromHardik Nirjan Prasad. Niranjan Prasad well as immovable properties belonging to my 0040550791-1 client in Delhi and her native village at Balua GUHAGAR Nagar Panchayat Tal. Guhagar,Dist- Ratnagiri Published Chhajar to Hardik Jain,for all Sharma and Nirjan Prasad is Bahadurpur, Akbarpur, Jalalpur, Ambedkarnagar, U.P. My client also severed all her relations with Work of E-Tendering Guhagar Nagar Panchayat Street Light Pole &Mini High PERSONAL I,RAVI PRAKASH S/O.SHANKAR purposes. 0040550791-4 one person. 0040550807-1 them because of their violent and irresponsible behavior and there is danger/threat to the life of Must Arrangements For Various Area, At Guhagar,Estimate Cost- SAHNI.H.NO-E-73.MANSARAM my clientess, if any person/s deals with them in Rs. 2,12,45,230/- &further Details can be seen from the Website- I, KiranMauryaD/o Ram Adhar I Amandeep SinghF/o Harshene PARK NEARKALI MATA MANDIR I,Meva W/o Lt.Karan Singh R/o I, NISHA,D/O-AMEER any manner, they shall do so at their own risk and responsibility and my clientess willnot be http://mahatenders.gov.in. MauryaW/o Rajesh Kumar Kaur Anand, R/O15/45 B,Tilak UTTAM-NAGAR D.K.MOHAN H/no.188 Village Paprawat Post CHAND,H.NO-21, 3RD- responsible for their past and future acts. If they are involved in any criminal or civil case, my The Tender is available online from 09.10.2020 to 06.11.2020 MauryaR/o Flat No-G-1 PlotNo Nagar, New Delhi 110018 ,have Office-Najafgarh,New.Delhi - FLOOR,CHURCHLANE GARDEN,DWARKA, DELHI- clientess will also not be responsible for the same. Outward No. NPG/Office/E-Tender/636/2020-21 Date :01.10.2020 R-182,Near ColonyGateNo-04, changed my minor daughter’s 43,have changed my name to JANGPURA BHOGAL NEW Sd/- (Ramesh Thakur) 110059.changedmynameto Advocate E-Mail ID- [email protected] Pratap Vihar Sector-12, name from Harshene Kaur MewaDevi for,all purposes. DELHI-110014,changed my D/1039/2006 RAVI PRAKASH SEHNI, Off. A-139, Besment Chaudhary Complex PH NO -02359-240256 name to NISHACHAUHAN, Ghaziabad Uttar Pradesh- Anand to Harshene Kaur. permanently. 0040550777-7 0040550797-5 Madhu Vihar, I.P. Extn. Delhi-92 Sd/- Sd/- permanently. 0040550777-5 201009. have changed my name 0040550781-2 (KAVITABORKAR) (RAJESH BENDAL) and shall hereafter be Known I,Poonam Kumari,spouse of I,Kunwar Mohammad Ghizali I, Mr. Ajith Kumar Father of PUBLIC NOTICE Chief Officer President As Kiran Saini. 0070716368-1 IAmandeep SinghF/o Kian WO,Ranjit Prasad R/o-D-906 First-Floor,New It is hereby informed/ intimated to the Mr.Adwaith.A.Kumar R/o Guhagar Nagar Panchayat Guhagar Nagar Panchayat Aman Singh Anand, R/O15/45 Singh,residing at.House Friends-Colony,Delhi- public at large that my client Sh. Vishnu I, KaranNandwani,S/oJitender 20B/9,Mehala Apartment, Flat Dutt S/o Late Shri Kishan Chand, C-27, B, Tilak Nagar, New Delhi No.585/1,Sector-13,Gandhi- 110025,Have Changed My Son’s Gali No.-13, East Sagarpur,New Delhi- No-1,1st Floor, Sector-A, Pockt- 110046 and his wife Smt. Indrawati have Kumar Nandwani R/o-47- 110018,have changed my Nagar, Gujarat-382016,have Name From Ehab Mohammad King George's Medical University B&C,VasantKunj,New Delhi-70, severed all kinds of relations with his son A,Jhang-Appartment, Sector- minor son’s name from Kian changed my name,from Ghazaly To EhabMohammad namely Sh. Devinder Kataria @Divansu have changed my son’s name and his wife Smt. Mansi, as they do not U.P., Lucknow 13,Rohini,Delhi-110085,have Aman Singh Anand to Kian Poonam KumaritoPoonam Ghazali. 0040550777-1 to Mr.Adwaith Kumar. have any respect for my client and his Re E-tender Inviting Notice changed name to KaranKumar Aman Singh. 0040550781-3 Singhvide-Affidavit dated- wife and my client has debarred them Nandwani. 0040550791-3 I,Krishna Prasad S/oLate from all his movable and immovable 07.10.2020,beforePatiala- 0040550814-1 properties. If any person/s deals with Notice No.: 11/MS/TC/e-tender/2020 Dated :08-10-2020 Pooja Uppal D/oKishan Kumar Dhodha Shah R/o-Plot.No.41- House Court,New-Delhi. them or claims through them, I, GauravPapney S/oShri Prem Chopra R/oL-61Old Double 42D,KH.No.43/20, I, Mohd Wasim S/oRahisuddin he/she/they shall be doing so at Online e-bids are invited latest by 31/10/2020 under two e-bid Chand R/oC-305A, Sector-19, his/her/their own risk, costsand Storey,Lajpat Nagar-IV. 0040550784-7 Gali.No.48,Block- R/oH.No-e-128, Street No-11, consequences. system for the supply of General Medicines, Cancer Drugs, Noida,Distt. GautamBudh FloorBuyers Agreement and C,Indraprastha-ColonyVillage- Chand Bagh,North East, Delhi- Sd/- SATISH KUMAR TOMAR Nagar, UP have changed my I,Nooran Dastgir,S/o Gulam (Advocate) Surgical Consumables, DPCO Items and Implant Items for Allotment Letter have beenlost Dastgir Khan R/o-29-B,First- Burari Delhi-84,changed my 110094, have changed my name Ch.No. 511, W. Wing, staff&employees,faculty member andtheir name from GauravPapnai to of Property BPTP Unit No. A-85 minor son’s name from Harshit and shall hereafterbeknown TisHazari Courts, Delhi-54 Gaurav Papneyfor all future Floor, Vishwakarma-Park, dependent/CM/PM Fund Sponsored Patients/Asadhya S/FAmstoria, Gurgaon, Kishan Kunj,Laxmi Kumar to HarshitKumar Gond. as Wasim. 0070716375-1 purposes. Gaurav Papnai to PUBLIC NOTICE Patients/Vipann Patients and BPL Patients from Local Haryana. Refrence No. Nagar,Delhi-110092,have 0040550810-2 Gaurav Papneyboth areone I, MOHD ZAHEER R/OE-265, Gali Take notice that my client That my client BPTP/56/157879.If found changed my name to Nooran Sh. Sagar,S/o Sh. Laxmi Narayan, R/o Chemists /Firms situated within aradius of Lucknow.The and sameperson. I,Krishan Mohnani,S/o Tahal No.9, Shastripark Delhi-53, pleasecontact at above Dastgir Khan. 0040550797-1 WZ-168, 80 yards, Tilak Nagar,New Delhi details of the tender can be viewed at www.kgmu.org. Tender Ram Mohnani,R/o-165, Kailash herebyaffirm that my son has severed all hisrelations with his 0040550772-2 Address. Ph. 98712 77773 mother Smt Sushila, Wife of Shri Laxmi I,No.6936919P HavRamniwas Hills,New Delhi-110065,have name is wrongly mentioned as will be available on e-portal https://etender.up.nic.in/. 0040550834-1 Narayan, and his brother Shri Sandeep, I, Dhiraj Kumar S/oRaj Kumar My Unit OD Shakurbasti New- changed my name,from MABASSIRinhis school record Son of Shri Laxmi Naryan and her sister- (Medical Superintendent) Suman, R/oE-2/43sector -16 but his correct and actual in-law (bhabhi) Smt. Rakhi, Wife of Shri No 15457438P SEP/PTA. G Delhi,c/o56APO inform that my Krishan Mohnani to Krishan Lal Sandeep, All r/o WZ-168, 80 yards, First name is MOHD MUBASSIR for RohiniDelhi 89 have changed Madhu declarethat my brother daughter name is wrongly- Mohnani,for all purposes. Floor,Tilak Nagar,New Delhi. My said my nametoDheeraj Kumar for all purposes. 0040550584-1 client is absolute owner of the property j{kk lEink dk;kZy; GRangaswamy DOBiswrongly written as KAnshu Yadavinmy 0040550784-5 bearing no. WZ-168, 80 yards, Tilak Nagar, all purpose 0070716369-1 New Delhi. My said client has disowned enteredinmyservice Armydocuments.But correct- and disinherited the said persons from all vkxjk e.My] vkxjk Nkouh I, DevenderKumar,S/o-Dori documents as 01/05/2000 name is Anjali Yadav. I,JATIN SINGHAL,S/O-UMA LOST & FOUND his movable/immovable properties. Anybody SHANKAR SINGHAL,R/O-A-86 dealing with the said persons shall be doing bZ&fufonk lwpuk Lal,R/o-H.No.B-205,Janta- Correct DOB is 21/03/2000 0040550797-8 so at his/her own risks, consequences and LOK-VIHAR PITAM PURADELHI- costs, and my said client shall not be held Market, New-Gautam-Colony, 0040550812-1 T h e originalallotment letter of loZ lk/kkj.k dks lwfpr fd;k tkrk gS fd dk;kZy;j{kk lEinkvf/kdkjh] vkxjk I, SunnyS/o Balvir Chand R/o 110034,changedmyname to responsible for any of his acts. Narela,Delhi-40.declare House.No.87, Block-D,Sector Sd/-ALOK KUMAR PANDEY e.My vkxjkNkouh }kjk losZ la[;k 321&bZ] Xokfy;j jksM] fctyh?kj ds ikl In,my son educational VPO Mukandpur Distt. SBS JAATINN SINGHAL (Advocate) that,myname is mistakenly- Alpha-1,of M/sSai Investment documents,my name is NagarPunjab-144507,have Chamber: Chamber No. 362, vkxjkNkouh fLFkr j{kk Hkwfe ftldk{ks=Qy yxHkx9000-0 oxZ QqV gS] ij ,d entered,in my daughter”SONI 0040550802-5 Consultants Pvt Ltd.,has been Civil Wing, TisHazari written-as MD.Shameem &my changed my name to Sunny Office: R-898 New Rajinder Nagar, KUMARI”Aadhar-Card- lost somewhere. Narayan o"kZ ds fy, dkj] cl] LdwVj bR;kfn ikfdZaxdsfy, bPNqd O;fDr;ksa@QeZ vkfn }kjk Son name is MD.Shakib but Singh. 0040550810-1 I,Gauri Saini,D/o-Guru Dayal New Delhi-110060 No.848058689198) as”PAPPU Babu Varshney (Director)R/o- our,Actual names areMohd. Singh Saini,R/o-I- Hkkjr ljdkjdsdsUnzh; lkoZtfud [kjhn QjksDriksVZy (Central Public SINGH”instead of”DEVENDER I, Veenu Nagpal W/O-Mr.Gaurav 303,JagdambaTower-13,Preet Shamim &,myson nameis 508,SPS,Residency,Vaibhav PUBLIC NOTICE Procurement Portal of Govt. of India) www.eprocure.gov.in ds ek/;e ls KUMAR” 0040550797-9 JulkaR/O.S-457,Greater Vihar,Commercial Mohd Shakib. Mohd Shamim khand,Indirapuram,Ghaziabad The public at large hereby informed Kailash,Part-1,New Delhi,have Complex,Delhi-110092 that my clientsYashpal Singh Jadon bZ&fufonk (E-Tender) vkeaf=r dh tkrh gSA fufonkdh'krsZ mijksDriksVZy ij I, Babbu S/olateSh. Anandram R/o-41/13,Pocket-7, Sector- ,U.P.201014,have change my changed thereName to andSmt. Nisha Jadon W/o Yaspal R/oFlat no. F-1, plotno-30, Maa 82,Noida,G.B.Nagar. name from Gauri Saini to Gauri 0040550829-5 viyksM dj nh xbZ gSA nLrkost MkmuyksM izkjEHkdjus dk fnukad 09-10-2020 RadhikaJulkafor allfuture Singh. Both R/o X/2519, Gali No. 8, Hinglaj Nagar Lalarpura Soodafter marriage. Raghubarpura-2, Gandhi Nagar, le; 09%30 cts ls rFkk fufonkviyksM djus dh vfUrefrfFk 29-10-2020 le; Panchyawala, Jaipur, 0040550829-3 Purposes. 0040550829-4 My original Lease Hold Delhi have disowned their son 0040550800-3 Gourav Kumar and daughter in law Rajasthan-302034, have I,hitherto known as Parveen I, VINOD AGRAWAL,S/O JAGDISH Property-DocumentofFlat- 15%30 cts rd jgssxhA (T;ksfr diwj) No.13, Akriti- Jyoti Rajput and their daughter from changed my name and shall Kumar Goyal/Parveen KUMAR R/O-F-76 I,Fardeen Ahmed Majumder,S/o all their movable and immovable i=kad%& 4@1336&,@XII j{kk lEinkvf/kdkjh hereafter be knownasAayush Kumar/Parveen Goyal,S/O. INDRAPRASTHA Naeem Ahmed Mozumdar,R/o- Apartments,OkhlaCo- properties because of their bad fnukad%& 06 vDVwcj2020 vkxjke.My]vkxjk Nkouh Soni. 0070716366-1 Flat No.704Y5,Yamuna- operative Group conduct towards my clients. My Late Sh.Ram Bhagirath,R/O.27, APARTMENTS,SECTOR-14 clientsalready debar his son and his Apartment,Sector-D6,Vasant Housing-Society Limited, I, BHANI SAHAI SHARMA s/o Ist floor,Anand ROHINI DELHI-85,HAVE wife on dated 02.01.2020 now they Kunj,N.D.-110070,have changed Patparganj,Delhi-110092,have debar their Grand Daughter.My Government of India CHIRANJI LAL r/o293, Pocket E- Nagar,Inderlok,North/West CHANGED MY SON NAMAN TO Department of Atomic Energy Delhi-110035,have changed my NAMAN AGRAWAL. my name to Fardeen Ahmed lostfinder contact:Sushil clientsshall not be responsible for 21, Sector-3, Rohini, Delhi- any acts, deeds and things whatever Bhabha Atomic Research Centre name and shall hereafterbe Majumdar,permanently. Kumar BansalS/o-Bal Mukund 110085 declare that name of my 0040550784-4 done by them, if anybody dealing Technical Services Division Bansal Mobile-No.9873334405. with them shall be at their own risk. wife has been wrongly written known as Parveen Kumar 0040550791-2 North Site, Trombay,Mumbai-85 Goyal. 0040550784-8 I, Umed Sharma S/oLate Shri BHUWAN JI PATHAK ADVOCATE as RAM PYAGRI in my service 0040550797-10 Chamber No. 233, Western Wing SawalRam, R/o127/22 I,DRAKSHA,W/o Mohammad NoTICE INvITING e-TENDERS recordwith IndianNavy. The I,Vinod Kumar,S/o-Chaman TisHazari Court, Delhi- 110054 Gurunanak Colony, Nehru Park, Juned R/oHNo. 45,Block- Smt SantoshSahni &Tarun The Chief Engineer,TechnicalServices Division, Bhabha Atomic actualname of my wife is RAM Lal,R/o-C-214, Madipur,JJ Bahadurgarh Jhajjar, Haryana F,Vishwakarma-Colony,Delhi- Sahni R/o165 JagritiEnclave Research Centre, North Site, BARC, Trombay,Mumbai -400 085, on PYARI for all future purposes. Colony,New Delhi-110063,have herebydeclare thatIhave 110044,have change my name Shakarpur East Delhi-110092 PUBLIC NOTICE behalf of the President of India invites onlineitem rate tenders on two changed my namefromVinod General Public is hereby informed 0040550765-1 changed my name from Umed to GULDRAKSHA. have lost our originalproperty bid system for following work :- Kumar to Vinod Kumar Dayma that my clientsSh. Kamal Kishore Sharma to UmedSingh for all 0040550797-2 papers of property no.91 Popli S/o Sh. R. D. Popli aged 62 NIT No. BARC/TSD/161/2020-21,Name of work-Annual Maintenance I, Anjali DharW/o Amit Maini R/o for all future purposes. purposes . 0040550757-1 pleasure Garden New Lajpat years and Mrs. Neeraja Popli W/o and Minor Civil &PHWorks at BARC Hospital, Anushaktinagar; KP-42 Maurya-Enclave I,DHIRAJ NEGI/ D.S.NEGI 0040550800-2 Rai Market Delhi-110006. Sh. Kamal Kishore Popli R/o of 111 CT&CRS Building,Anushaktinagar; Kharghar Dispensary and Andheri PitampuraDelhi-110034,have I, USHA RANI W/OVINOD /DHEERAJNEGI,S/O GANGA UGF,Meera enclave, Chaukhandi, Finder contact no .9810691924 Dispensary of BARC Facility located at Mumbai. ; Estimated cost : changed my minor son’s name I,Vevak Kumar Singh,son of AGRAWAL,D/O SHYAMLAL R/O- SINGHNEGI,R/O- Tilak Nagar,New Delhi-110018, have severed all their relations with `1,14,65,000/- ; Earnest Money : `2,29,300/- ; Period of completion : Dhruv to Anirudh Maini Dhar. WO,Ranjit Prasad F-76 INDRAPRASTHA- 0040550794-1 H.NO.123,SECTOR-1, their son Mr.lshan Popli and his wife 12 months ; Last date and time of submission of bid : 21.11.2020 Singh,residing at.Hostel.No.18, APARTMENT SECTOR-14 R.K.PURAM,NEW-DELHI,HAVE Mrs. Pallavi Popli (maiden name 0040550810-3 Lost DDAMutationLetter (23:59 Hrs.). Room.No.118,AIIMS,New Delhi- ROHINI DELHI-85.HAVE CHANGED MY NAME TO DHIRAJ Pallavi Dhingra) as they have I Uma Rani D/oLate Sh. Surya against my Plot-No.574, become disobedient and disloyal to The bid forms and other details can be obtained from the Website 110029,have changedmy CHANGED MY NAME TO USHA SINGH NEGI. 0040550797-3 Bhanu W/oSh. Atul Kaul R/o Pocket-C-1, Sector-37, Rohini, my clientsfor last two months. www.tenderwizard.com/DAE or www.barc.gov.in name,from VevakKumar Singh AGRAWAL. 0040550784-1 Whosoever deals with them in any 1218, Gali Kashmiryan, Kucha to Vivek Kumar,vide-Affidavit I,DEEPIKA KANOJIYA D/O-CHOTE Delhi-110085. Finder may manner shall do so at their own risk Changes if any,inthe above scheduled date etc. will be notified only I, Tanuj S/ORajendraPrasad Pati Ram,Sita Ram Bazar, dated-07.10.2020,before LAL KANOJIYAR/O-14E/7 Contact-VidyaDevi, C-565, and responsibilities. My above clients in the website www.tenderwizard.com/DAE. Sharma R/OG-22/192, Sector-7 and their younger son Mr.Anish Popli Delhi-110006 have changedmy Patiala House Court,New- DABAULI KANPUR UTTAR Gali-No.7, Majlis Park, Adarsh Contact for assistance /clarifications 24x7 @ 9969395522 Shri Rudresh, Rohini, Delhi-110085,have PRADESH-208022.CHANGED MY shallnot be responsible for them. name to Shivani Kaul for all Delhi. 0040550784-6 Nagar, Delhi-110033 Sd/- e-mail: [email protected] changed my name and shall NAME TO DEEPIKA KANOJIA. Chief Engineer purposes. 0040550741-2 0040550766-1 DEEPAK ARORA (Advocate) I,VINOD KUMAR,VINOD hereafterbeknown as Tanuj Enrl No. D-237/1997 0040550802-4 I Siraj Ahmed S/oSh. Nasir AGGARWAL,VINOD KUMAR Sharma. 0070716379-1 Ahmed R/o176/12, Mirza AGGARWAL,S/O JAGDISH I,BIKRAM KUMAR,S/O PUBLIC NOTICE I, Surrender Kumar DograS/o Apartments, Zakir Nagar, KUMAR,R/O-F- PURSHOTTAM DASS My client Sh. Jagdish Ahuja along with his MajorSingh, changed my wife Smt. Ruby Ahuja R/o A-153, 3rd floor, Okhla, New Delhi have changed South Anarkali, gali no. 6, Krishna Nagar, 76,INDRAPRASTHA- NANDA,R/O-146D,POCKET- CAD-555 daughter’s name from Manya East Delhi, Delhi-110051, have debarred my name to S.Nasir Ahmedfor APARTMENTS SECTOR- A,MAYUR-VIHAR-II,DELHI- Manhas to Manya Dogravide /disclaimed their son namely Himanshu Ahuja Adv.No. OMFED/HRD/RECR UITT./01/2020 Date: 09.10.2020 all purposes. 0040550740-2 14,ROHINI,DELHI-85,HAVE 110091,declarethat in some of and his wife Manisha due to their Bad affidavit dated 6.10.2020 for all Behavior, Violence and harassment. VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT BY OMFED I Shweta Negi D/oSh. Bachan CHANGED MY NAME TO VINOD my records my name has been Respectively from their movable and purposes. 0040550657-1 immovable properties and have broken down OMFED, the apex Cooperative Body of Milk Producing Farmers at the State Level Singh Negi W/o Sh.Vaibhav AGRAWAL. 0040550784-3 wrongly-written as VIKRAM all their ties and relation due to bad behavior with them. According to his desires he put invites Applications from dynamic and experiencedprofessionals for the following Tyagi R/oH.No.D-27, Patel I, SumitraDevi Sharma W/o Shri KUMAR NANDAinstead of I,Surjeet Singh,S/OSarab Singh public notice that Sh. Jagdish Ahuja will not be contractual vacancies:- Umed Singh, R/o127/22 BIKRAM KUMAR due to responsible for any debts related to his son Nagar 2nd ,Near Bus Stand, R/O-2/1, 2nd-Floor Ashok GurunanakColony, Nehru Park, inadvertentmistakeand Himanshu Ahuja and his wife Manisha in any SI. No. Name of the Post No. of Post Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh- Nagar Delhi-110018,have of their actions henceforth. Bahadurgarh Jhajjar, Haryana VIKRAM KUMARNANDAand Sd/- 01 General Manager (Dairy Operation) 01 201001 have changed my name changed my nametoSurjit MOHIT BHARDWAJ (ADVOCATE) herebydeclare thatIhave BIKRAM KUMAR areboth same 02 Deputy General Manager (Dairy Operation) 01 after marriage to Shweta Tyagi Singh. 0040550791-6 ENROLMENT NO: D/2597/18 Office. 18 Radhey shyam park gali no. 1, 03 Deputy General Manager (Marketing) 01 for all purposes. changed my name from and one person. parwana road, near preet vihar, I,Tanvi Kathuria W/o Manish SumitraDevi Sharma to DELHI-110051 04 Deputy General Manager (Project) 01 0040550741-3 0040550784-10 SachdevaR/o-A-1/300A,Sector- Sumitrafor allpurposes. 05 Manager (Quality Control) 01 6,Rohini,Delhi-85,after- I,Antara AnilDiwadkar,W/o 06 Manager (Dairy Operation) 02 I Samina Gulzar W/O, Ashfaq 0040550755-1 Ahmed Bhat R/oD-103, marriage,have changed my UdayanBiswasR/o-D-598/D 07 Assistant Manager (Quality Control) 02 Parasvnath Prestige, Sector name TanviSachdeva,for all I, Shashank Mirashi S/o First-Floor Chitranjan Park The details of the Qualification, Experience, Terms of Reference and Application 93A, Noida,201304 have purposes. 0040550791-5 Balkrishna R/o.A-1905,RG Delhi-110019,Have ChangedMy Residency,Sector-120, Name To AntaraDiwadkar forms for each of these postsmay be downloadedfrom OMFED website changed my name to Samina I,Sunil Kumar Takkar S/o- www.omfed.com. Noida,Uttar Pradesh,have Biswas. 0040550777-2 Ashfaq for all purposes. Sh.Krishna Lal Takkar,R/o-B- OMFED Management reserves the right to cancel, effect changes or alteration in the changed my name to 0040550820-1 75,2nd-Floor,Vipul world,Sohna I,Anil Kumar,S/o-Chaman Lal above advertisement without assigning any reason thereof and corrigendum, if any, SHASHANK BALKRISHNA Road,Sector-48,Gurugram, R/o-C-214,Madipur,J.J. will be published in above said website. Managing Director I RishimalyaChakraborty alias MIRASHI. 0040550829-1 OIPR-06063/11/0030/2021 Haryana,have changedmy Colony,New Delhi-110063,have RishimalyaChakravarty S/o name from Sunil Kumar to Sunil I, SUNIL KUMARARORA,S/O changed my name from Anil Late Sh. Uma Shankar Kumar Takkar for,all purpose. KANYALAL ARORA,ADD-4644 Kumar to Anil Kumar Dayma Chakravartty R/oHouseNo.G- SHORA KOTHI PAHARGANJ for all future purposes. 214, Flat No. 4, Dilshad Colony, 0040550802-6 DELHI110055,changed my Delhi-110095 have changedmy 0040550800-1 I,Sharwan Kumar name to SUNIL ARORA, name to Rishimalya Sharma,S/O.NarayanDutt permanently. 0040550777-6 I,Ajay Kumar Jain S/o Chakravartyfor all purposes. Sharma R/O.Plot.no.19E,C- Mr.Omprakash Jain-H.No- I, SATISH d/oRAVIKANT HASIJA 0040550741-1 6,M.S.Block,RanajiEnc.Nangli 2415,Arawali Vihar,Sector- and w/oRAKESH KUMAR r/o S,New Delhi-110043,informthat 49,Faridabad,Haryana,Declare I Pardeep Kumar S/O, Arjun Dev Flat No-31, Parmarth in son’s School-records my dthat AjayGarghas been DawraR/o F-91,1st Floor, Apartments,D-Block,Vikas name is wrongly-mentioned as mistakenly mentioned in the MangalBazar Road, Vishnu Puri, Delhi-110018 have Sharwan Kaushik,correct- birth-certificate of my Garden, New Delhi have changed my name to SAMRITI. name is Sharwan Kumar daughter MuskanGarg.While changed my name to Pradeep Sharma. 0040550784-9 0040550773-1 my correct-name is Ajay Dawra 0040550769-1 Kumar Jain.Infuture,for all I,Shankaran Neetipalan S/o I, SHUZOOR MUJTABANAQVI, I Meenu W/o Kamaljit Singh R/o kinds of works/formats, I Tulik ShankaranUnniNair R/o- S/O-S.MOUSOOF HASAN ADD- House No-991/5, Patel Nagar, should be knownand 145F Pocket-A2 Mayur Vihar- E-9,GROUND-FLOOR, Gurgaon-Haryana-122001, recognized by thisname. 3,Delhi-110096,Have Changed NIZAMUDDIN WEST NEW have changed my name to My Name To Shankaran DELHI-110013,changed my 0040550777-9 Rajbala 0070716380-1 Neetipalan Nair. name to SYED HUZOOR I,Madhu Lodiwal D/o-Ramesh MUJTABA,permanently. I Kaushal Kusum R/o138-B, Red 0040550777-3 Kumar Lodhiwal R/o-E-328, Mig Flats,Rajouri Garden, 0040550777-4 Sector-15, Noida,UP,have I,Santosh Kumar S/oDewendra TagoreGarden, West Delhi, changed my name to Madhu Kumar Gupta R/o-206, 1st Floor, I, Rajender Singh Dagar S/oSh. Delhi-110027 have changedmy Lodhiwal. 0040550802-2 name to Alfaaz Azaad for all Sector-1,Vaishali, Charan Singh DagarR/o C-61, Ghaziabad,have changed my F/F, Arjun Nagar, Safdarjung I,Naim Ahmad Saifi,S/o purposes. 0040550835-1 name to Santosh Gupta. Enclave S.O. SouthWest Delhi- Late.MustaqAhmod Khan R/o- PUBLIC NOTICE I Harleen kaur W/o Amandeep 110029have changed my minor C-912, Jahangirpuri, Delhi- General public is hereby informed 0040550802-1 Singh, R/o15/45 B, Tilak Nagar, daughter’s name from 110033,have changed my name that my client SMT.SHEELA PUBLIC NOTICE New Delhi 110018 ,have I,SUDHA MISHRA,W/O- Tamanna to Tamanna Dagarfor DEVI W/o LATE SHRI MAHIPAL to Naeem Khan,permanently. SINGH R/o HOUSE NO. C-1261, Public at large is hereby informed that changed my name from NO.14680991X NK RAJU all future purposes. my client M/s. Malik Buildcon through 0040550797-4 SANGAM VIHAR, NEW DELHI- PUBLIC NOTICE Harleenkaur to Rimpy. 110080 has disowned/ debarred itsproprietor Mr.Aman Sahni having MISHRA,R/O- 0040550787-1 itsoffice at 5B/3, Basement Floor, her son namely ASHOK KUMAR, Public at large is hereby informed that my 0040550781-1 VILL.DONPAH,POST- I,Abhishak Kumar,son of WO Tilak Nagar,New Delhi-18 entered in clients Vidya Devi W/o Late Ram Kishan R/o DAUGHTER IN LAWRANI SUKHDEHRA,BHAWARKOL, I, Raj BasoyaW/o Ram Kishan Ranjit Prasad Singh,residing to an agreement to Sell with the I-35/8, Rani Enclave, Rani Khera, Khanjhawla, GRAND SONS SAHIL, MOHIT Delhi-110081 disowned andsevere all I Ashfaq Ahmed S/O, Late Mr Basoya,R/o-382,Joorbagh, present Seller i.e. Gurdwara Dera DIST.GHAZIPUR,PIN- at,HouseNo.585/1,Sector- AND GRAND DAUGHTER Sant Pura Trust (Regd.) in respect of relationship with their sonnamelyKabirDass A.s.bhat R/oD-103 Parasvnath Trinagar,Delhi-110035,have 13,Gandhi-Nagar,Gujarat- MUSKAAN from her all Entire Freehold property bearing No. and his wife Suman and their Grand Children 233231,UTTAR-PRADESH, Tanish, Lakshay &Hanshika anddebarred Prestige,Sector 93a, 8/5, measuring 200 sq yds., Tilak CHANGED MY NAME,FROM changed my name to RAJENDRI 382016,have changed my immovable and movable assets them from all their movable and immovable Noida,201304 have changed my BASOYA forall future by all means and severed her all Nagar,New Delhi-18. propertiesacquiredortobeacquiredbecause SUDHA DUBE TO SUDHA name,from Abhishak Kumar to of their mis-behaviour &conduct andtheir name to Ashfaq Ahmed Bhat relahons with them due to their The Present seller owned the MISHRA VIDE AFFIDAVIT.DATE- purposes. 0040550829-2 Abhishek Kumar vide-Affidavit disobedience and bad behaviour. complete property by virtue of Sale natureare beingdisobedient and they are Deed executed by Shri Chander abusing and quarrelling with my client so my dated-07.10.2020,before Anybody dealing with him will do client have broken all relations from them. Any 0040550786-1 07-10-2020,BEFORE MANDAN I, PremChand Papney S/oShri Bhan son of Shri Bakshi Charan Dass at his/ her/their own risks, costs person dealing and having relation with them LAL GUPTA(DELHI). Patiala House-Court, New- in favor of Gurdwara Dera Sant Pura I AnupriyaD/o Bal Vinod Prasad Shiv Dutt Papney R/oC-305A, and responsibilities. in any manner shall be at their own risk, cost & Delhi. 0040550777-11 Trust (Regd.) at 8/6, through consequences and my client shall not be Singh R/oHouse No-199, Bosco 0040550797-6 Sector-19, Noida,Distt. Gautam Sd/- Chairman Trustee S. Sant Puran responsible for any act and deed of the VINOD YADAV(ADVOCATE) Nagar, Road No-2, Latma Road, Budh Nagar, UP,have changed I,ANJLINA MARYJOHN,D/O Singh Ji Son of S. Gurdit Singh aforesaid. I,Rupali D/oSanjay LLM, D/1449/06 Nambardar &Chela Sant Dharam VISHAL SINGH (Advocate) Singh More, Hatia, Hatiya, my name to PremChand ANTHONY JOHN,Resident Enrl. No. D-749/2014 Dhawan,R/o.House.No.D- CH. NO. 606, Lawyers Singh Ji, duly registered vide Regd. Ranchi,Jharkhand-834003, PapnaitoPremChand Papney of,H.NO.D-138,room.no-1first- Chamber Block Saket No. 6580, Book No. I, Vol. No. 9339, 92A,Lajpat Nagar,Sahibabad, have changed my name to for all futurepurposes. Prem floor Munirka,New Delhi- CourtsComplex pages 112-115, dated 22.09.1999. Ghaziabad,Uttar Pradesh- ChandPapnai andPremChand 110067. Have changed my NEW DELHI-110017 It is hereby notified that any person or AnupriyaAnand entity,firm/ company/ Bank, HUF, ''IMPORTANT'' 201001,have changed my name Papnaybothare one and same name ANGELINA MARY Member of HUF,Trustee/ Member of Whilst care is taken prior to 0070716395-1 to MinniDhawan,for all Trust, financial institution having person. 0040550772-1 JOHN,For all futurepurposes. acceptance of advertising purposes. 0040550802-7 claim any charge, interest or lien or I Anjum D/oSh.Amir Ahmed W/o I, PREETI D/oVINOD AGRAWAL 0040550777-8 claim on thebasis of documents copy,itisnot possible to verify its contents. The Indian Sh. S. Nasir Ahmed R/o176/12, I,Rekha Rani,W/oAjayKumar r/0F-76 INDRAPRASTHA mentioned above or otherwise or MirzaApartments, Zakir I,ADITYA RAJ SINGH,S/O- objection to thereof, he/she/they may Express (P) Limited cannot be Jain-H.No-2415,Arawali APARTMENTSSEC-14 ROHINI lodge/ notify the same to the NO.14670880MH,HAVDHANANJ held responsible for such Nagar, Okhla, New Delhi have Vihar,Sector-49,Faridabad DELHI-85 HAVE CHANGED MY undersigned with documentary proof/ contents, nor for any loss or changed my name to Sumbul AY KUMAR VILL-POTHAHI court judgment within 15 days from damage incurred as aresult of Haryana declared that my NAME TO PREETI AGRAWAL. the day of publication, failing which POST-BASHUHAR,DIST- transactions withcompanies, Khan for all purposes. name Rashmi Garghas been the title deed/ Sale Deed proposed to 0040550784-2 associations or individuals mistakenly mentioned in the PATNA.STATE-BIHAR.PIN- be executed in favor of my client M/s 0040550740-1 Malik Buildcon through itsproprietor advertising in its newspapers birth-certificate of my I, Pavan Kumar S/oLala Ram R/o 804453,CHANGED MY NAME FROMADITAY RAJ SINGHTO Shri Aman Sahni or in the name of or Publications. We therefore I,Ramesh Lodiwal S/oLt.Badri daughter Muskan Garg.While Village Parsaura, Post khonda, his/her/their nominee(s) shall be recommend that readers ADITYARAJ deemed to be clear and marketable Prasad Lodhiwal R/oE-328, my correct-name is Rekha District-Hathras, UP-281307, make necessary inquiries Sector-15, Noida,UP.have SINGH,VIDE.AFFIDAVIT,DATE- without any defect, encumbrance, before sending any monies or Rani. In future,for all kinds of have changed my minor flaw and impediment. 07-10-2020,BEFORE MANDAN entering into any agreements changed my name to Ramesh works/formats, Ishould be daughter’s name from Poorvi Sd/- Puneet Singh Arora Kumar Lodhiwal. LAL GUPTA(DELHI), Advocate with advertisers or otherwise known and recognized by this Singhaged 5yearstoKiara Off. 5B/9, Tilak Nagar, acting on an advertisement in 0040550802-3 name. 0040550777-10 Singhforever. 0070716378-1 0040550797-7 New Delhi-110018. any manner whatsoever.

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retirementmusttakeajudiciouscallonwhere proachingretirement to start consolidating lakh —almostdouble.Ifyou split thesale pro- lifestyle inflation is abit higher.Soat5%infla- time youare 65.At9%CAGRitwould grow to to keep the corpus invested.Ifyourresources theirportfolio.Equityinvestmentsacrossmid- ceedsintodebtandequity,andareableto gen- tion,if youneedRs7.65lakhp.a.inthefirstyear overRs47 lakh.Itisimportantto meetafinan- arelimited,youneedtohaveinvestmentsthat andsmall-capschemesshouldbedivertedto- erate8%compoundedannualgrowthrate over of retirement, youwould needRs12.46lakh cial planner to better understand this. aresafe,liquid,generateabove-inflationgrowth, wardsindexfunds,large capfunds,andinpart 10 years, your annual return would be Rs 5.6 p.a.after 10 years of retirement. and aresufficient for20-30 years afterretire- towardsdebtschemes.Individualsinthehigh- lakh —overthree timesthe rental income. The next step would be to figureout acor- Whereshould youinvestfor an annuity ment.Theincomerequiredforbasichousehold esttax bracketshould move fixeddeposits Remember,the cost of maintaining the pusthatcanearnyouRs7lakh-8lakhp.a.At an income? expenseswillgrow everyyearwithinflation— withbanksintodebtproductsthatyieldbetter housewilleatintoyourretirementincome,and averageannuityrateof5%, youwould needat Go foramix of products. so what will be sufficient foryou at age60will interest,suchastax-freebonds,debtschemes that almost90% homes in India have no prop- leastRs1.6 croretoearnanannual interestin- Forregular income,twoschemestocon- Sandeep Singh no longer be enough when youare 70.While of mutualfundsinvestinginAAA-ratedpapers erty insurance, whichputsthe assetatrisk. comeofRs8lakh. As interestrates arefalling, siderarePradhanMantriVaya VandanaYojana debtinstrumentsare safe,equityholdsthekey of high quality firms, etc. “Real estate can’t be easilyliquidated, and atalowerannuityrateof4%,thecorpusneeded (PMVVY), and Senior Citizens Saving Scheme to growth of your corpus. Investors mustplan to redeem equity in- can’tbesold in pieces.Inequities, one can liq- to earn Rs 8lakhp.a.wouldrise to Rs 2crore. (SCSS). Theyare available to those over 60; the THECURRENTsituationof fallingfixedincome “Debtinstrumentsalonewouldnotbeable vestmentswhenthe market is at ahigh in the uidatethe required amount of units. Also, it is EPF is akey partofyourcorpus growing at investmentlimitisRs15 lakh;interestisaround returns, rising inflation, and volatile equity to fundyourretirementneedsandyouneedto near term, in order to maximise theirreturns. easierto distributefinancialassetsamongsuc- 8.5% p.a.;you can also invest in GoI bonds of- 7.5% now. PMVVY offers amonthlypayout up marketsare of specialconcernforthoseintheir keepsomepartofthecorpusinequitiessothat cessors,”Dhawansaid. fering around 7.1%, tax-free bonds offering to aroundRs9,000;SCSSgivesaquarterly pay- mid-50s,perhaps 3-5yearsfromretirement. it expandsyour corpus in the meantime. Also, Should thosewho have asecond home around 4.5%,and debtschemes of mutual out.If spousesinvestRs15 lakheachinPMVVY, Thisgroupof investorswouldliketomaximise youmay have to breakandutiliseapartofyour liquidateit? Howshould youplan forretirement? funds forgrowth.While the debtand equity the monthlyincome can be Rs 18,000.Apart their retirement corpusbyparkingfunds in corpus because interestincome maybeinsuf- If youinvestedinasecond home forrental Sayyou are55, and will retire at 60. If your portions mustadd up to between Rs 1.6crore of the retirement corpus can beusedto buy an safeliquid instrumentsthat offerhigh returns ficient to meetyourretirement needs aftera income, it is time to evaluatethe investment current monthlyhousehold expenditureisRs and Rs 2crore to fund your post-retirement annuityplan with an insurance company; a overthenextfewyears,andhighinterestyield- point. One mustbementallypreparedtodip andreturns.If youboughtforRs50lakh10 years 50,000(Rs6lakhperannum),ataninflationof monthlyexpensesinthe next 5years, you partcanbeinvestedinasystematicwithdrawal ingmonthly incomeschemespostretirement. into theprincipal,”saidVishalDhawan,founder ago(nowvaluedat Rs 70 lakh), and aregetting 5%,yourannualexpenditureinthefirstyearof mustnot forget theequity play to boostyour plan of debt mutual funds that offerbetterre- and CEO of Plan Ahead Wealth Advisors. arentalincomeof Rs15,000amonth(orRs1.8 retirement would beRs 63,814per month(Rs corpus during the retirement period. turns and provide taxarbitrage. Go fordebt Should youchoose debt instrumentsor lakhper annum), the rental yield of the prop- 7.65 lakh p.a.);at6%inflation, it will be Rs Supposeyou invest Rs 20 lakh (10-20% of schemes that invest in AAA-rated papersof equity? Shouldyou go forcapitalpreservation, i.e., erty is 3.6%. If yousellfor Rs 70 lakhand invest 66,911 permonth (Rs 8.02 lakh p.a.). overall corpus) in index fundsorlarge-cap high-qualitycompanies.Debthybridschemes TheCovid-19uncertaintyisimpactingmost focus on preventing lossinaportfolio? the proceeds in adebt instrument earning 5%, Whileannualhouseholdrequirementmay funds(atage55)foraperiodof 10 years,at10% that invest 65-90%ingovernment bonds and financial instruments, and thoseapproaching It is of utmost importance forthoseap- youwillgetanannualinterestincomeof Rs3.5 rise everyyear at thepace of annual inflation, CAGR it will grow to closetoRs52lakhbythe AAA corporatepapers areagood option.

SIMPLY PUT QUESTION &ANSWER CORONAVIRUS DASHBOARD Keralacrosses 10,000 cases in aday as surge continues How the TRP system works KERALAAND Karnataka number of peoplefound Mumbai police arelookingatalleged manipulation of Television Rating Points. Howdochannels score eachreportedmorethan positive outofthose 10,000 newcases of tested,has been increas- TRPs?Whatare the ways in whichmanipulation is possible, and howoften hasitbeen alleged in the past? coronavirus infection on ing. It wasabout 4.5%at Wednesday. Karnataka the startofSeptember, has reportedover10,000 and is above 7.5% now. of panel households across the country. cases on three earlier oc- Therehas also been a KRISHNKAUSHIK Thesourcecitedtheexampleof EnglishTV casions as well, but CORONAVIRUS small rise in the number NEWDELHI,OCTOBER8 news,whichhas asmall shareofthe national Kerala went pastthat COUNT of deathsbeing reported viewership pie at around 1.5%, whichmeans number forthe firsttime. from Kerala. Formore MUMBAI POLICE Commissioner ParamBir that foraround 45,000 panel households, Kerala has been in the midstofa than twoweeksnow,the death count SinghsaidonThursdaythatpoliceare looking around 700householdswill contribute to the major surge forthe lastthree weeks. has been over 20 everyday.Kerala still intoascam about manipulation of TRPs viewership. “What actuallyhappens is that Until the startofSeptember,the high- still has acomparatively lowcasefa- (Television Rating Points) by rigging the de- while your sample is around 700, notall of estnumber of casesithad reported in tality ratio of 0.37%, and this is declin- vicesusedbytheBroadcast AudienceResearch themarewatchingEnglishTVnews everyday. aday wasabout 2,500. In the lastthree ing because the cases arerising much Council (BARC) India, whichhas the mandate Actual watching willbearound350 homes.” weeks, the averagenumber of daily more rapidly. Thestate has so farhad to measuretelevisionaudience in India. Insuchascenario,thesourcesaid,“if youman- newcases has been nearing 7,000. 940coronavirus-related deaths. agetorig10 amongtheheavyviewinghomes, The positivity rate in Kerala, or the AMITABHSINHA What is TRP? then youcan swing the needle big time”. Insimpleterms,TRPsrepresenthowmany Whenthesampleissmaller,“manipulation people, from whichsocio-economic cate- becomes easier”. In agenrelikeEnglish news, INDIAACTIVECASES 902,425 gories,watchedwhichchannelsforhowmuch “becausefewerhomeswill have largerweigh- time during aparticular period. This couldbe tage,change inbehaviourof onehomegetsam- foranhour,aday,orevenaweek;Indiafollows plifiedatamuchlargerscalenationwide”. 1000,000 the international standardofone minute. The TRPs represent howmanypeople areviewing at which time,and servesthe main Additionally,aseachchannel tries to proj- dataisusuallymade public everyweek. currency foradvertisers in choosing channels. Express Archive ectitself as amarket leaderinaparticular seg- Aconsultationpaperabouttelevisionaudi- ment, it slices the dataintosocio-economic 947,576 encemeasurementandratingsinIndiafloated bracketsonthebasisofNCCS,age,gender, time by the Telecom RegulatoryAuthority of India HowisTRP calculated? tirecountry is watching, but essentiallywhat slots (primetime) etctofind the perfect data 902,425 (TRAI) in 2018 definedits importance as: “On BARC hasinstalled“BAR-O-meters”inover the 45,000-oddhouseholds supposed to rep- slice. This tooincreases relative errorinthe 950,000 the basis of audience measurement data,rat- 45,000empanelledhouseholds.Thesehouse- resentTVviewership of the countryhave data, because of the small sample size. ings areassignedtovarious programmes on holds areclassified into12categories under watched.Broadcasterscantarget thesehouse- television. Televisionratings in turninfluence the NewConsumer Classification System holds to fudgeactual viewership data. Howoften have allegations been made? programmesproducedfortheviewers.Better (NCCS), theso-called“newSEC”adoptedby In the 2018 consultation paper,TRAI said: Foroveradecade, questions have been LAST 10 DAYS ratingswouldpromote aprogramme while BARC in 2015,basedonthe education levelof “Oneof thebiggestchallengeshasbeentheab- raisedbypeoplefromwithintheindustry. Ina poor ratings will discourage aprogramme. the main wage earner and the ownership of sence of anyspecific lawthrough whichthe letter to theBARCchairman in July, News 900,000 Incorrectratingswillleadto productionof pro- consumerdurablesfromalistof11itemsrang- agents/ suspectsinvolvedinpanel Broadcasters Association president Rajat Sept28Oct 7 grammeswhichmay notbereallypopular ing from an electricityconnection to acar. tampering/infiltration could be penalised”.It Sharma,who owns India TV News, com- while good programmes maybeleftout.” While watchingashow, members of the notedthat BARC “has filedFIRs in various po- plainedagainsttheratingsof TV9Bharatvarsh, Note: The Oct7figure in this graphisbased on theHealthMinistry updateonOct 8 AFICCI-EYreportonIndia’smediaanden- household registertheirpresencebypressing lice stationsagainstthe agents/ suspectsin- andsaid“severalnews broadcastershave writ- tertainmentindustryforlastyearsaidthesize theirviewerIDbutton—every personin volved in panel tampering/infiltration” but its tentoBARCdrawingtheirattentionthatevery TOTAL CASES 6,835,655 of theTVindustrywasRs78,700crorelastyear, household has aseparateID—thus capturing efforts“to mitigatepanel tampering/ infiltra- week’s ratings arenot in correlation to theba- and TRPs arethe main currency foradvertis- the duration forwhichthe channel was tionhave beenhampereddueto absenceof any sicsof television”and“themanipulateddatais erstodecidewhich channelto advertiseonby watchedandby whom,andprovidingdataon legal framework”. being releasedweek afterweek without tak- calculating the cost-per-rating-point (CPRP). viewership habitsacross ageand socio-eco- inganyremedialaction”.Sharmahadsaidthat nomic groups. The panelchosen to capture Howdoespanel tampering affect TRPs? “these arecorruptpractices,which arebeing What is BARC? TRPs mustberepresentative of the country’s TRAImentioned“panelinfiltrationhasasig- donewith complete connivancewith BARC It is an industrybodyjointly ownedbyad- population,andthemethodologymustbeeco- nificantimpactwhenthepanelsizeissmaller” and the broadcaster”. vertisers, ad agencies,and broadcasting com- nomicallyviable forthe industry. and“withtheincreaseinpanelsize,infiltration Twoyearsago,theI&BMinistryhadraised panies, represented by The IndianSociety of of panelhomes becomes challenging”. concerns that BARC wasunder-reporting Advertisers, the Indian Broadcasting Howcan TRP databerigged? AseniorindustryinsidersaidBARC hasfiled viewership of Doordarshan, and floatedthe Foundation and the Advertising Agencies If broadcasters can find the households multipleFIRsinthe past“as it tracks unusual ideaof chip-basedactivitylogsthroughallset- AssociationofIndia. Though it wascreated in wheredevices areinstalled, theycan either viewershipbehaviourandtakesaction”.Inthe topboxes. The idea wasfinallyrejected. 2010,the I&BMinistrynotifiedthe Policy bribethem to watchtheirchannels, or ask ca- current case,the insider said an FIR wasfiled In 2017,the editor of one of the topfive Guidelines forTelevision Rating Agenciesin bleoperatorsormulti-systemoperatorsto en- againstemployees of Hansa Research,which English news channels had written to BARC IndiaonJanuary10,2014 andregisteredBARC suretheirchannel is available as the “landing BARC hires forcertain field jobs likegoing to about howafewhouseholds from Gujarat in July2015under these guidelines, to carry page” when the TVis switchedon. panel households. BARC hires multiple agen- were contributingheavilytoarivalchannel's out television ratings in India. ForTRPs, it does notmatter whatthe en- ciessothatnosingleagencyhastheentiremap overall viewership. LouiseGlück,Nobelwinner,forpoetrythatcelebratestheindividual

omyofwords and emotion. Her second col- what am Ifor? What am Ifor?”writesGlück in by herexaminationoffailure—inlove,famil- of belonging on show, intended to offervisi- PAROMITACHAKRABARTI lection, The HouseonMarshland,seven years Mother and Child (2001, The SevenAges). ial relationships and in lifeingeneral —her tors aglimpse intothe unique personalityof NEWDELHI,OCTOBER8 later,would establish her as apoetofreckon- In poem afterpoem, Glückreturns to laterpoemsreturntheirfocusmoreintensely eachrecipient. Oversized glassesand a ing.Since then she has written 12 collections these questions of identity and purpose, in to identity and itsmanycrises, evolvednow chunkywristwatchshowoff 1982-Literature IN Ayearthathaspitchedtheworldintodis- of poetry, including Descending Figure particular that of awoman, constricted by withinamoreelaborateframework of Greek PrizewinnerGabrielGarciaMarquez’slarger- array,itseems onlybefitting that the Nobel (1980), TheTriumph of Achilles (1985), The gender roles and societal conventionsabout andRoman mythologies. than-lifepersona;adog-eared copyofThe Prizefor Literaturehas gone to thebardof Wild Iris (1992) and The Faithfuland Virtuous NOBEL IN LITERATURE body image. Glückherself sufferedfrom AnnouncingtheNobelPrize,theSwedish Portable Chekhov is Canadianwriter Alice desolation —the American poetand essay- Night (2014). anorexia as ateenager that would take her Academyalsopaidtributetothepoet’ssearch Munro’s gentle offering (2013); Svetlana ist, LouiseGlück—“forher unmistakable po- All of these focus almostexclusively not Louise Glück, severalyears to overcomethroughpsycho- fortheuniversalinthisclassicalworld,noting Alexievich, the 2015 winner’s favouritedic- etic voice, that with austerebeauty makes onthemonumentalchaosof historicalevents “for her analytictreatment. “It beginsquietly/ in cer- how“she takesinspiration from myths and taphone thatrecordedthe stories thatwent individual existence universal.” The 77-year butontheinnerlivesofindividuals—onsep- unmistakable tain female children:/ thefear of death, taking classicalmotifs,presentinmostofherworks”. into her Voices from Chernobyl (1997), finds a old is onlythe second woman poettowin aration,loss,deathandlonelinessandtheim- poeticvoice as its form/ dedication to hunger,/ because a Ithailedher2006collectionAvernoas“amas- prideof placehere.Itremainsto beseenwhat theaward afterthe Polish writer Wislawa pact of frayed childhoods and familylives on thatwith woman’s body/ is agrave;itwillaccept/any- terly collection, avisionaryinterpretationof Glückoffersto themuseum,but,inareader’s Szymborska, who wonthe Prize in 1996. them.Whilecriticshave comparedherwork austerebeauty thing,” she writes in Dedication to Hunger themythof Persephone'sdescentintoHellin imagination, it couldwell be apageofone of Glückisalsothesecond American to win the to that of Rainer Maria Rilkeand EzraPound, makes (1980, Descending Figure). the captivity of Hades, the godofdeath.” her lesser-known poems — The Undertaking awardsince Bob Dylan in 2016. Glückherselfhas acknowledged the influ- individual This preoccupation withform is also the (1971):“Thedarknesslifts,imagine,inyourlife- ence of Puerto Rican-Americanpoet, writer, existence hallmarkofGlück’s poetry,characterising it Awards won time./ Thereyou are—cased in cleanbark you The poet and physician William Carlos Williamsand universal”. with sparseness and an intensity thatcomes Glückisnostrangertofame.Besides sev- drift/ through weaving rushes, fields flooded One of America’smostwell-knowncon- American poetGeorgeOppenonher work. only from distilling that whichcannotbe eral Guggenheim fellowships, she has won withcotton./ Youare free./ The river films with temporarypoets,Glück,professor of English TOMORROW:PEACE spared.Or, assheputsitinWildIris,“whatever/ the Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for The Wild Iris,the lilies,/ shrubs appear,shoots thicken intopalm. at Yale University,began writing in her Her poetry returns from oblivionreturns/ to find avoice.” NationalBookAwardin2014forTheTriumph And now/ all fear gives way: thelight/ looksaf- teens; her firstcollection of poetry,Firstborn Bornin1943inNewYorkCity,Glückspent Despite thebleaknessattheircore,Gluck’s of Achilles,the Bollingen Prize in 2001,and a teryou, youfeel thewaves' goodwill/ as arms (1968), waspublishedwhen she wasonly muchof herchildhoodandadolescenceintry- career.“WhydoIsuffer? WhyamIignorant?/ poems arealsoimbuedbyalyricalrhythm hostofother awards. widen overthe water; Love/the keyisturned. 25. Firstborn gainedfavourable reviews for ing to win her mother’s approval, an experi- Cellsinagreat darkness. Some machinemade that lends symmetrytothe austerity of her At theNobelMuseuminStockholm,with Extend yourself—/itisthe Nile,the sun is shin- the poet's unique style, markedbyanecon- encethatwouldproveafulcruminherpoetic us;/itisyourturnto addressit,to gobackasking/ form.If Glück’searly poemsarecharacterised eachwinner’scitation,thereisapersonalitem ing,/ everywhereyou turn is luck.”

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LAUNCHESNEW PRODUCTS AND FIT INDIAFREEDOMRUN CONDUCTEDONTHE OCCASION OF GANDHI JAYANTI BARODA KISAN PAKHWADA “BYBANKOFBARODAON07.10.2020” SOLUTIONS WITHDEACTIVATION As amarkofrespect to Mahatma Gandhi on the auspicious occasion of his151 birth anniversary, NFRailway, Construc- Bank of Baroda is observing “Baroda Kisan Pakhwada” starting from 1st October till 15th October 2020 and TECHNOLOGY(VDT) tionOrganization conducted “Fit India FreedomRun” from its HQrs to Maligaongateno.3. culminating on 16th of OctoberbyCelebration of “Baroda Kisan Diwas” whichcoincideswith“World Food Day”. Airconditioning andcommercial refrigeration major SriHSYadav,Chief Administrative Office-I, NFRailway,Construction Organization tookled from the front of the cam- Thisentire period theBank is observing as “Baroda Kisan Diwas”ateverynook&cornerofthe country.On Blue Star Limited announces the launch of awide range paign in which all the officers and alarge numberofemployees took partwith greatenthusiasm in order to maintain their 07.10.2020 the Bank have arranged aMega Credit Camps at Vill- Shilampur,KankshaGramPanchayat, ofnew products and solutions withVirus Deactivation fitness, to get freedom fromobesity,laziness, stressetc. PANAGARH, PURBABARDHAMANtomakecredit availabletofarmers by way of disbursement of agricultural Technology (VDT). Earlier,ShriYadavadministered Swachhata pledge to staff & loans besidesexhibitingvarious agricultural products,banking facilities andsetting up credit linking of Self Help Virus DeactivationTechnology (VDT) officers of HQrs and addressed the gathering where he said Groups, these are informed by Mr.Shantanu Mukherjee, Dy.General Manager and Regional Head, Burdwan Region Blue Star's new range of products and solutions with that keeping cleanliness is not the responsibility only of safai under KolkataZone.Thefunction was graced by Mr.P.K.DAS,Dy. General Manager and Dy.Zonal Head, Kolkata Virus Deactivation Technologies (VDT) has the capa- karamcharis or the government but of all the employees and Zone,Mr. Shantanu Mukherjee,DGM and bility to deactivate viruses including COVID-19 (SARS- Officers. Shri Yadav made appeal to employees, Officers Regional Head, Burdwan Region, Mr.Indranil CoV-2) with upto 99.9% efficacy, when air passes andtheirfamily to implement the vision and philosophy behind Swachch Bharat Abhiyaan launched by thePMofIndia Banerjee, Asst. General Manager, BH of throughthese systems. to abandon single used plastic and to maintain hygiene and sanitation. Speaking on the occasion he added that cleanli- Durgapur Main Branch, Mr.PrabhatGhosh, VDT willbeapartofthe Company'snew range of solu- ness and sanitation should notbeaone-time activitybut shouldbecome apartofour dailylife. Chief Manager,PSDept. BurdwanRegion,Mr. tionsspeciallydesigned for the new reality.Most of the Sashi Chaurasiya, Sr.Manager,EVB- VDTcomponents have also beendesigned to be easily FINANCEMINISTER,SMT NIRMALASITHARAMANLAUNCHES INDIAN BANK'S'MSME PRERANA', Durgapur Branch. One of the key highlights of retrofitted into existing AC systems,both central and MSME Prerana', an online BusinessMentoring Programme forMSMEs, an initiativebyIndian Bank was launched today the programme was presentation on unitary,inthe field.TheseVDT solutions will be useful for by Hon'ble Union Minister of Finance &Corporate Affairs, Nirmala Sitharaman, at the Bank's Corporate Centre in Chen- Agriculture and Priority Sector loan by Shri. all air conditioningapplications,beitathomes, ATMs, nai. ShriDebashish Panda, Secretary,Financial Services, MOF participatedbyVCinthe launch. Prabhat Ghosh. Thepresentation was showrooms, restaurants, offices,orlarge commercial MSME Prerana is afirst of its kind initiative by aBank in the countryfor the MSME sector.This is for empowering en- comprehensiveinnatureand it covered all spaces like malls, cinema theatres and airports. trepreneurs through skill developmentand capacity building workshops in the local language. The program is in collab- popular products extensively,including oration with M/s Poornatha &Co, afirmthat designs Entrepreneurial Development Programs in vernacular using online recently launchedBaroda Kisan APP (An web based interactivesessions and casestudies. Integrated Farmer Engagement Platform). UCO BANK REDUCES ITS MCLR RATES: Spread over 12 sessions, "MSME Prerana" program enables MSME entrepreneurs to acquire expertise in handling Financeand Managerial skills, capacitytohandle crises in business, understand the dynamics credit rating and risk man- AVALARA INC. agement. While the sessions on Managerial and Financialskills will be handled by M/s Poornatha &Co, the Bankingre- lated topics will be handledbyfacultyfromIndian Bank. On successfulcompletion,all participants would getaCertifi- Avalara.Inc. ,leading provider of cloud-based tax compliance automation for businesses of all sizes, today announced the UCO Bank has reduced its Marginal Cost of Funds Based cate, issued jointly by Indian Bank, Poornatha &Coand MADE (Michigan Academyfor Developing Entrepreneurs), availability of Avalara India GST e-invoicing, an end-to-end solution thathelps companies manage e-invoicing requirements and Lending Rates (MCLR) by 5basis points,across all the USA.Launching the programme, Hon'ble UnionMinister of Finance, Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman said that Indian Bank has comply with India’s e-invoicing reform. The new offering builds on Avalara’s range of technological solutions available to improve tenors,witheffectfrom October 10,2020. taken an out-of-the-box initiative in launchingMSME Prerana which will handhold the entrepreneurs through amentor- the Goods and Services Tax(GST) compliance experiencefor businesses in India by validating,storing, andmanagingin- Therevised one-yearMCLRwill be7.30%, down from ing program. Thisnovel initiative shall further inspire others in the banking sector to adopt similar measures. She appre- voices, and providing the option to automate GST returns and e-way bills. 7.35%existing. Therevised Overnight, One-month, Three-months and Six Months tenor MCLR now stands at ciated the fact thatthe amalgamation process of Allahabad Bank into IndianBank did not distractthe Bank from the care 6.70%,6.85%, 6.95% and 7.20% respectively,05basis for customers. The FinanceMinister complimented the Bank's leadershipand management forthisunique initiative. TECHNOCHEMWATER SOLUTIONS points,lower than their existing levels. TECHNOCHEM is one of the fastest growing ISO 9001-2015, MSME and FSSAI certified company for manufacturing, supply- As aresult, all MCLR linked loans will also become CEEAMPAI &AI MASTERS’ ENTRANCEEXAM SCHEDULEDON18TH OCTOBER ing, assembling &aserviceprovider of various range of watertreatment projects.Our Companyisone of the largest manufac- cheaper now. turer of water treatment projects in the pan eastern region of thecountry. We have been providingall typesofsupport&various BAJAJ FINSERVLTD Fivecolleges under JIS Group will conductthe entranceexam of CEEAMPAI 2020 and CEE AMPAI Masters’ 2020 for minority stu- requirements of Small, Medium &Largegovernment , dents through the proctored online exam on 18th October 2020 as per guidelines of the Department of Higher Education, Govt of privateand corporatehouseswith there utmost satis- Bajaj FinservLtd, India’s leading financial services West Bengal. The candidates who could notappear fortheir respectiveState JointEntrance ExaminationorJEE Mainin2020will factioninterms of quality&deliverywithinthe stipulated conglomerate, today announced the launch of its fully get another chance for pursuing Engineering &Pharmacy through these exams. The last date of applying for both the exams has time. We are serving the esteemed clients like Bengal owned subsidiaryBajaj FinservHealthLtd., (BFHL), a been decided as 14th October,4pmfor afee of Rs 200only. Fisheries, Ordinance Factory, PHED, Variouszilla health-tech solutions business, aimed at improvingthe As per the directionsissued by the Supreme Court,CEE AMPAI&CEE AMPAIMasters’ examshave beenconducted under five re- parishads, Municipal Corporations, Coal India, Hi tech health outcomes of Indian consumers through smarter, puted colleges of JIS Group namely JIS College of Engineering (Kalyani), Narula Institute of Technology (Agarpara), GuruNanak Industries,WorldVision(NGO),Indian Oil,IndianRail & connected andholisticcareplans. With this new ven- Institute of Technology (Sodepur), GuruNanak Institute of Pharmaceutical Science &Technology (Sodepur)and Dr.Sudhir various othercorporate entities. We have alarge infra- ture, the company has now forayed into the healthcare Chandra Sur Degree EngineeringCollege (DumDum) since 2014. These exams willbeconducted for admission in 11 subjects of structure to facilitate our businessoperation withlarge ecosystem, aiming to disrupt the health segment and B.Tech and B.Pharm, 8subjects of M.Tech &3subjects of M.Pharm, MBA and MCA respectively.The total number of seats avail- production unit ie. equipped withhighly advanced ma- make healthcareexperience convenient and all-inclusive able for B.Tech and B.Pharmare 722 and for M.Pharm, MBA and MCA are 117. chineryand necessarytools to execute the desired for consumers. Due to the early commencement of the State Joint Entrance Exam,students from severalstateslike Bihar,Jharkhand, Tripura,As- assignments. These machines are managed by an The new venture, BajajFinserv Health, bringstothe sam &North-East could not appearfor it.“This is one of the major reasons for conducting the exams for providing those candidates able team of professionals who gives their best to exe- market itscoreoffering-‘Aarogya Care’, an industry with afairchancetoappear,without wasting ayear, added the convener of CEE AMPAI Mr.Bidyut Majumdar.Candidates will be able cute our projects. first product, providing Preventive,Personalized,Prepaid to fill up the applicationforminbothonline or offline mode.For detailed informationand other conditions,students are re- health care packagestoconsumers. quested to visit www.ampai.in. EVENTS, ANNOUNCEMENTS,LAUNCHES,CSR INITIATIVES, APPOINTMENTS,MOVEMENTS, CELEBRATIONS

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Internationalmarket data till 1900IST ‘INDIA’SGROWTH LIKELY TO REBOUND 5.4% IN 2021-22’ COVID-19 VACCINE CANDIDATES RED-FLAGGED IN US Dr Reddy’s, Bharat 28 Indian banks WorldBankslashesFY21GDP asked if they alerted Biotech, Bio Etold watchdog at home estimate,likelytoshrink9.6% to reviseproposals Sharp cutfromearlier forecastof3.2% contraction due to lockdown impact for human trials RITUSARIN NEWDELHI,OCTOBER8 settoplungeintoits worst-ever mates forJuly-June). pantsandsiteswouldalsohave to ENSECONOMICBUREAU ED Riskof recession as the “devastatingim- Highlighting the difference in PRABHARAGHAVAN change,”saidaseniorgovernment THE FINCEN Files investiga- NEWDELHI,OCTOBER8 rising pacts” of Covid-19onthe region’s thispandemic-inducedrecession NEWDELHI,OCTOBER8 official close to the development, tion by The Indian Express PLAIN E poverty economies linger on, with re- from previousrecessions, The on condition of anonymity. ● (September 20-September INDIA’SGROSSdomesticproduct EX gional growth estimated to con- WorldBanksaidtheearlierdown- ANEXPERTcommitteesetupun- In Bharat Biotech’s case, the 26, 2020) has setoff amajor ANEXPRESS (GDP) is estimated to contract by tract by 7.7per cent in 2020, after turns were mainly duetofalling der India’s topdrug regulatory SEC said that the design of the exercise within the govern- INVESTIGATION 9.6percentin2020-21, asharpcut THE WORLD Bank said topping6percentannuallyinthe investment and exports butthis bodyhas directed Dr Reddy’s phase 3trials forCovaxin were ment to find out if Indian from the June forecastof3.2 per that the earlier downturns pastfiveyears. South Asia’s time,private consumption—tra- Laboratories(DRL),BharatBiotech satisfactory “inprinciple”, except bankswhose transactions centcontractiondueto theimpact were mainlydue to falling growthisprojectedto reboundto ditionallythe backbone of de- and BiologicalE(Bio E) to revise fortheir clarificationoncertain were red-flagged as “suspi- details. Sources said several of the national lockdown against investment and exports 4.5 per cent in 2021. Factoring in mand in SouthAsia andacorein- theirproposalsto conducthuman definitionslike“asymptomatic” cious” —bythe US regulator bankshaverepliedconfirm- theoutbreakof theCovid-19pan- but this time, private con- population growth, however, in- dicatorof economicwelfare—will trials of their Covid-19 vaccine participants. —brought these to the atten- ing that these transactions demic and the income shock ex- sumption -traditionally come-per-capitaintheregionwill declinebymorethan 10 per cent, candidates—amove thatmaysee “However, thestudyshouldbe tion of the Indianfinancial were,indeed, conducted perienced by households and the backbone of demand remain 6per cent below2019es- furtherspikingpovertyrates.Afall at leastone of thefirms revise the initiated with appropriatedose watchdog. through their local branches small urban service firms, The in South Asia and acorein- timates, indicating that the ex- in remittances is also expected to numberof volunteerstheywould identifiedfromthephase2safety The FinCEN Files, aglobal or correspondent branches WorldBanksaid in itsSouthAsia dicator of economic wel- pectedreboundwillnotoffsetthe accelerateloss of livelihoods for requirefor clinical trials of their and immunogenicity data,” said investigation ledbythe Inter- abroad. Economic Focus report released fare -will decline by more lastingeconomicdamagecaused the poorest in some countries. vaccine candidates. the SEC in the minutes, adding national Consortium of The next stage, currently on Thursday. than 10 percent, further by thepandemic, the reportsaid. “The collapse of South Asian While DRL had soughtpe- thatthe firm shouldsubmit this Investigative Journalists(ICIJ) on, sources said, will involve The Bank said India’s growth spiking povertyrates. Among other South Asian economies during Covid-19has rmissionto conductlate stagetri- datafromthe second phase of its and BuzzFeedNews, scruti- questioningthe banks is estimated to rebound 5.4 per countries,Maldives is estimated beenmorebrutalthananticipated, als of the Russian candidate, trial“forconsideration”. nizedover2,000 Suspicious whether theyhad red- centin2021-22,mainlyreflecting to recorda19.5per centcontrac- worstofall forsmall businesses SputnikV, BioEhadsubmittedan The expert panel has told Bio Activity Reports (SAR)filedto flagged thesetransactions base effectsand assuming that tion and Sri Lanka is estimatedto and informal workerswho suffer applicationtoconductearly stage Etoconduct animal challenge the topUSfinancialwatch- and, if not, asking them why. Covid-related restrictionswill be onIndianmigrantworkers)isalso clocka6.7 per cent contraction in sudden job lossesand vanishing trials forthe vaccine candidateit studies in parallel to itsphase 1/2 dog, Treasury’s Financial Officials have calculated completely lifted by 2022. likelytoexperience aprotracted calendar year 2020, it said. wages,” said Hartwig Schafer, wasdeveloping withHouston’s trials —testing that includes dos- Crimes Enforcement that the listed406 transac- “Theslowdown in India is ex- slowdown due to alimited Pakistan’s economyisestimated WorldBankVicePresidentforthe BaylorCollegeofMedicine.Bharat ingananimalandlater“challeng- Network(FinCEN), forsus- tionsinvolving Indian banks pectedto depressmanufacturing pipeline of publicsector infra- to grow 0.5 per cent in 2020-21, SouthAsia Region. Biotech,whichhasbeentestingits ing”itwiththevirusto test theef- pected moneylaundering, contain incoming remit- and exportingindustries, and the structureprojects,”thereportsaid. Bangladesh at 1.6per centand Full report on inactivatedvaccineCovaxin,isalso fectiveness of thevaccinein terrorism, drugdealing or fi- tances worth$482.18 million construction sector (whichrelies TheentireSouthAsiaregionis Bhutan at 1.8per cent (all esti- www.indianexpress.com seeking permission to move to providingimmunity.Ithasalsodi- nancialfraud. and outgoing transfers worth latestage trials. rectedBioEtosubmit“complete” Theserelated to transac- $406.27million. The Subject ExpertCom- non-clinical toxicity datafrom tions between 1999 and 2017 Among bankswhich Sensex reclaims mittee (SEC) studying these re- testing the vaccine on rabbits. worth$2.09 trillion. have the largest number of quests this week said that the “Firm should carryout ascending Officials told The Indian transactions under scrutiny ‘South Asia becomes darkersince March; 40,000-mark safetyand immunogenicity data dosesafetystudystartingwith15 Express that on publication of are: StateBank of India, HDFC in the overseas trials of SputnikV mcg dose, 25 mcg dose and 50 the FinCENFiles in India and Bank,ICICI Bank and cities impacted first, then rural areas’ after 7months are“small” andthat thereis“no mcg dose before proceeding to details of individualtransac- IndusInd Bank. dataavailableonIndiansubjects”. Phase II study,” the minutes read. tionsbeing uploadedbyICIJ, As reportedbyThe Indian Nighttime light intensity declined in overthree quarters of SouthAsia’s districts It has recommendedthat DRL re- This meansBio E’s safetytest- work begantodetermine if Express,44Indianbanksfig- between March and August, indicating economic disruption due to Covid-19 URVASHIVALECHA vise itsproposal foraphase3trial ing on humans mayinclude dif- Indian banksand their ured in multiple transactions MUMBAI,OCTOBER8 andinsteadconductphase2/3tri- ferent groups of participantsbe- branches filedSTRs listedinSARs whichbecame 22%and10%: Lower CHANGEOFOVERALLNIGHTTIMELIGHT AVERAGEDISTRICT-LEVELCHANGEOF als, according to minutes of the ing injected with different doses (Suspicious Transaction part of the global media in- averagenighttimelight ntensity INTENSITYINSOUTHASIA NIGHTTIMELIGHTINTENSITY WITH IT stocks on fire,the Sensex SEC meeting on the proposals of the vaccine to narrowdownan 10 10 Reports)withFinCEN’s coun- vestigation. acrossSouthAsiadistrictsin 5 on Thursday rose forthe sixth held on October 5. appropriatedosage whenmoving 5 0 terpartinIndia, the Financial The SARs are, in them- JulyandAugust,respectively, 0 -5 straightsession,surgingto aseven- “They have to submitarevised to the next stage. -10 Intelligence Unit (FIU). selves, notevidence of illegal- asagainstyear-agolevels -5 -15 month high. protocol now, which means the Full report on -10 -20 To begin with,adatabase ity.Theyreflectviews by -25 The benchmarkindex rallied details of the number of partici- www.indianexpress.com has been preparedbasedon watchdogs within banks, IN INDIA, nighttimelights -15 -30 303.72points(0.76 percent) to -20

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tions involving 28 Indian cers, reporting pasttransac- higherpreviousout-migration August elssinceFebruary25;itisnowjust February February Future Grouptogofor banks. tions that borehallmarks of ■ Average2017-2019 ■ 2020 ■ DifferenceSource:WorldBank 1,770points or 4.2 per centaway Initially, the banksare be- financial crime, or thatin- WHYISITIMPORTANT:Inits from itsJanuary peak.Morethan ing sentthe date and value of volved clients with high-risk SouthAsiaEconomicFocus districtsinIndiawithmore inmobilityandnighttimelights half thegainsinthelastsixsessions the transactions listedinthe profiles or past run-ins with report,theWorldBanksaidthat recordedCovid-19infectionsper have come from the rise in prices mediation over Amazon SARs and areasked to verify the law. duringthenationallockdown, capitaexperiencedlargerdeclines Compiled by ENSEconomicBureau of HDFCBank, HDFCand Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). FE notice on deal with RIL The Seattle-basede-com- BRIEFLY Outflows from PRESSTRUSTOFINDIA merce giant lastyear bought a49 Clix Capital makes Valli Arunachalam sends NEWDELHI,OCTOBER8 per cent stakeinone of Future’s Worstisbehind equity MFs unlistedfirms,FutureCouponsLtd, legal noticetoholding AMAZON.COM INChas slappeda withthe right to buy intoflagship us,saysParekh amalgamation offer slow in Sept legalnoticeonFutureGroup,alleg- FutureRetail afteraperiod be- ingthat the retailer’s Rs 24,713 tween 3and 10 years. Future co of Murugappa Group croreassetsale to Reliance Couponsownsa7.3percentstake to Lakshmi Vilas Bank ENSECONOMICBUREAU Industries violated an agreement inFutureRetail.InAugustthisyear, MUMBAI,OCTOBER8 respect to our ongoing effortsto withthee-commercegiant.Asou- Futurereachedanagreement to ENSECONOMICBUREAU settlemy father’swill,”shesaidin rcewho is advising FutureGroup sell itsretail, wholesale, logistics GEORGEMATHEW According to sources, DESPITE THE rallyinthe stock CHENNAI,OCTOBER8 astatement. Valli’s repeated re- inthismattersaiditintendstoset- andwarehousingunitstoReliance. MUMBAI,OCTOBER8 the amalgamation will market,equity mutual fund (MF) quests foraboard seat or an ami- tlethis matteramicably,either Thedealisawaitingregulatory schemes—ledby multi-capfunds VALLI ARUNACHALAM —who cable settlement,with the assis- through mediation or arbitration. approvals. The FutureGroup File THECLIXCapitalgroup,promoted needthe RBI approval —postedanoutflowfor the third has been fighting forrepresenta- tance of independentmediators, “Wehaveinitiatedstepsto en- source told PTI that Future NewDelhi:Assertingthatthe by Pramod Bhasin and Anil as equity ownership of month running in September, tion in the Murugappa Group have been ignored by the family. forceour contractual rights,”a Couponsreceivedthenoticefrom “worstisbehind us”, HDFC Chawla, has made anon-binding over five per cent will though the pace of outflowfrom holding companyAmbadi She had offeredthe 8.15 per spokesperson forAmazon said. Amazon. E-mails sent to RIL and chairmanDeepakParekh,at offerforamalgamationof Lakshmi equity schemes slowed. MFs saw InvestmentsLtd (AIL),oranami- cent staketothe otherbranches “As the matter is sub-judice, we FutureGroupdidnotsolicitanyre- the virtual conference by Vilas Bank with the former. changeinthe LVBcase outflows of Rs 52,090 crorelast cable settlement —onThursday of the familyasking them to buy can’t provide details.” sponse. Canada-India Business Whilethe Chennai-based month,withliquidfundsaccount- said she has issuedalegal notice it. Lastmonth, AIL shareholders Council, said India’s growth bank’s boardwill evaluatethe of- Finance,we aregladtoinformthat ing forabulk of the outflows. to AIL, familymembers of the comprising largely familymem- willbeinpositive region in fer, anyamalgamationortakeover the bank has receivedanindica- As per datareleased by Murugappa Group and others. bers, votedagainstaresolution to Office of the Addl. Chief Engineer Water Resources Zone, Jaipur the fourth quarter. canhappenonlywiththeconcur- tive non-binding offerfromClix Association of Mutual Funds in Valliisthedaughterof thecon- appointtheUS-basedVallianon- renceof theReserve BankofIndia. Group,” the bank said in an ex- IndiaThursday,netoutflows from glomerate’slateexecutive chair- executive directorof thecompany. Sinchai Bhawan, J.L.N. Marg, Jaipur -302017 “Further to the process of consid- changefiling. As per banking equity schemes were at Rs 734 manMVMurugappan.Following “Withthefamilyvotingunan- No.: 1108 Date: 30.09.2020 Soon,75%of INVITATION OF E-TENDER NO 8 YEAR 2020-21 eringandevaluatingtheproposed sources, the amalgamation will croreinSeptember.However, out- his death in 2017,she, her sister imouslytoreject appointment to On behalf of Governor of Rajasthan, invites e-tender from eligible contractor for civil works amalgamation with Clix Capital need the RBI approval as equity flows were lowerfromRs4,028.83 and their mother holdan8.15per theAILboard,we have seemingly under RWSLIP Scheme, estimated cost of 5works is Rs. 5847.00 Lacs. The details are pre-Covidflights available in the following websites :- ServicesPrivate Ltd, ClixFinance ownership of over 5per cent will croreand Rs 3,845.41crore in cent stakeinAIL. “Wehavede- reachedtheendof theroadforan UBN No.: WRD2021WLOB01306, WRD2021WLOB01307, WRD2021WLOB01308, NewDelhi: Airlines maybe India Private Ltd and Clix Housing changeinthe LVBcase. Augustand July,respectively. cidedtoseek legalremedies with amicablesettlement,”shesaid. FE WRD2021WLOB01309, WRD2021WLOB01310 permittedtooperateatleast 1. www.eproc.rajasthan.gov.in 2. www.dipr.rajasthan.gov.in 75%of theirpre-Covidsche- 3. www.sppp.rajasthan.gov.in duleddomesticflightssoon, Sd/- PM: India playing roleof TAMILNADU NEWSPRINT AND PAPERS LIMITED Addl. Chief Engineer Civil Aviation Minister Kagithapuram –639 136, Karur Dist. Tamil Nadu DIPR/C/7984/2020 Water Resources Zone, Jaipur Hardeep Singh Puri said. Ph :04324-277001 (10 Lines), Extn. 4402/4568 E-mail :[email protected] NOTICE INVITING BIDS pharmacy to theworld Bureau of Investment Promotion Sl. No. Material Description Due Date Bid reference: BIP/Info/876 dated 17.09.2020 Infytoacquire Supplyof11KVSlip Ring Induction Motorfor RawMill 1 23.10.2020 ENSECONOMICBUREAU Main DriveinLSFM Plant Notice Inviting Bid (Date extension for bid BlueAcorniCi Detailed Terms &Conditions, Tender Fee, EMD etc., areavailable in tender NEWDELHI,OCTOBER8 documentatour websites: www.tnpl.com /www.tenders.tn.gov.in submission) NewDelhi:Infosyssaiditwill DIPR/3772/Tender/2020 TNPL -Maker of bagasse based eco-friendly Paper The date for submission of Bids for Procurement of Services of acquiredigital analytics PRIMEMINISTERNarendraModi Knowledge Partner for Industries Department, Government of Rajasthan servicesproviderBlueAcorn onThursdaysaidthatIndia’sman- NMDC LIMITED have been extended upto 2:00 PM of 20.10.2020. Other particulars of (A Government of India Enterprises) iCiforupto$125million. PTI ufacturingsectorwas running at Bailadila Iron OreMines, Bacheli Complex,Distt.Dantewada-494 553(CG) the bid may be visited on the procurement portal(htttp:// “full steam”and thecountrywas Tele: 07857-230079/230751, Fax: 07857-231253, +91-9406006585 eproc.rajasthan.gov.in, http://sppp.raj.nic.in)ofthe state. playing the role of “pharmacy to PrimeMinisterNarendra E-mail: [email protected];[email protected] [email protected] UBN: BIP2021SLOB00007 Corporate Identity Number :L13100AP1958GO1001674 // GST Regn #22AAACN7325A1Z5 TitantoexitJV the world”. Modi addressing the Invest in DIPR/C/7980/2020 Commissioner (Inv.&NRIs) NOTICE FOR INVITING TENDER Addressing the Invest in India India event on Thursday. PTI withMontblanc Tender are invited for the following items for Bacheli Complex Post Bacheli- 494553 Dist. Dantewada (CG) as per conference in Canada via video details furnished in the Tender documents. PUNJAB STATE TRANSMISSIONCORPORATION LIMITED Mumbai:TitanCompanyLtd conferencing, Modi encouraged Description of Item Display &Download Last Date/Time for Tender EMD (in Rs.) Regd. Office: PSEB Head Office,The Mall,Patiala-147001 has decidedtoexitfromthe Canadianinvestors to invest in investmentsinmanufacturing of Tender document submission of offer Fees in Rs. Corporate Identity Number:U40109PB2010SGC033814 joint venturepartnership India, as it wasthe placetobefor and services. Open Tender Ref. No. NMDC/Bacheli/209/20-21/ET/517 Date 03.10.2020 (PI #11C203 dt. 09.06.2020) O/o Dy.CE/Communication, M:96461-18008,96461-18025, www.pstcl.org E-mail: [email protected] , [email protected] MontblancofGermany. ENS Design, Manufacture, Supply,Supervision From 03.10.2020 to upto 23.10.2020 Rs. 5,900/- 75,000/- of Erection &Commissioning of 02 Nos. 23.10.2020 upto 10.30 AM (Rupees Five (Seventy NOTICE INVITING TENDER Heavy Duty Double Deck Primary Thousand Five Tenders areinvited throughe-tenderingfor the supply of the MorganStanleyto Google musttalk to Frenchpublishers Vibrating Screen Circular/Elliptical Motion Nine Hundred) Thousand) (8’x20’) Complete with all accessories, (Non following material as per tender specificationsSTQ-8043:- about paying for their content: Court auxiliaries Mechanical &Electrical fittings Refundable) buyEatonVance as per specification given in Tender Tender Notice Description &Quantity 1.5 Ton5Star WindowACwith Stabilizer-94 Nos. required for Screening Plant 10& 11A Bengaluru: MorganStanley Paris:Googlemustopentalkswith Bacheli Complex EMD ` 58,000/- will buy investment man- publishersinFranceaboutpaying Open Tender Ref. 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PUNJAB REMOTE SENSING CENTRE HIMACHAL PRADESH WESTERN RAILWAY-RAJKOT DIVISION (A Government of Punjab Enterprise) PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT Corrigendum No. PAUCampus, Ludhiana 141004 www.prsc.gov.in E-Procurement Notice DRM/RJT/CORRIGENDUM/2020- (Advertisement No. 3/2020) INVITATION FOR BIDS (IFB) 21/03 Dated 06/10/2020. Applications are invited forthe posts of Jr.Research Fellow(GIS) and Project 1The Executive Engineer HPPWD Division, Kotla Behar Distt Kangra H.P on behalf of Governor of H.P Ref: E-Tender Notice No. DRM/RJT/ Fellow(Cadtools) on contractual basis foraperiod of six months likely to be invites the online bids on item rate,inelectronic tendering system, in 2Cover System forthe under mentioned E-TENDER/2020-21/14 dated. 28/09/2020. extended based on candidate’s performance reviewand Project worksfrom the eligible and approvedcontractors/Firmsregistered with HPPWD Department. In connection with the above subject, the Scheme/Centre’srequirements.For furtherdetails visit website www.prsc.gov.in. Sr Name of Work Estimated EMD Form Starting Deadline Eligible Time followingtender invited vide E-Tender Sd/- No Cost (RS) cost date of forsub- class of Limit Notice No. 14 dated 28/09/2020 mentioned underreference shall be 87459/Pb Director down- mission of Contractor loading bid treated as CANCELLED as under: Sr. No.:1, Tender No. :DRM-RJT-20-E-38, Date of Closing as per E-Tender Notice 1 C/O Veterinary Poly 20250846 235300 5000 4.11.2020 18.11.2020. Class- A One :27/10/2020. Corrigendum of E-tender Clinic Building at Kotla 10.00 HRS 11.00 HRS Ye ar notice has been uploadedon Behar Distt kangra (H.P) "www.ireps.gov.in" web site. (SH :- C/O Building por- 60 tion Water Supply &san- Like us: www.facebook.com/WesternRly itaryInstallation Septic Tank Including Soakpit and Rain water harvest- ing system The Bidders are advised to note other details of tender form the department website .www.hptenders,govin Executive Engineer HPPWD Division Kotla behar Distt Kangra H.P On behalf of Governor of Himachal Pradesh

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DELHI JAL BOARD: GOVT.OFN.C.T.OFDELHI OFFICE OF THE CHIEF WATER ANALYST (W&S)-I WATER WORKS WAZIRABAD, DELHI- 110054 “STOP CORONA -WEAR MASK, FOLLOW PHYSICAL DISTANCING &MAINTAIN HYGIENE” PRESS NIT No. 05/ (2020-21) NIT Name of Work Estimated Earnest Date of release of Tender in e- Last date/ Time receipt No. cost Money procurement solution of Tender through e- (Rs.) procurement solution 5 Supply of Liquid chlorine (in 900 kg Job Work 544000/- Tender Id: 27-Oct-2020 up to 12:15 cylinders) conforming to BIS 2020_DJB_195327_1 PM specifications -646-1986 with up to Publish Date Govt. of Jharkhand date amendmentsifany 07-Oct-2020 04:00 PM onward URBAN DEVELOPMENT &HOUSING NIT along with all terms &conditions is available on DJB website https://govtprocurement.delhi.gov.in DEPARTMENT GARHWANAGAR PARISHAD ISSUED BY P.R.O. (WATER) Sd/- E-Procurement Notice Advt. No. J.S.V.176/2020-21 CHIEF WATER ANALYST (W&S)-I E-Tender Reference No. :GNP/01/2020-21 Beautification of Ram BandhTalab ANNEXURE-A Name of the Work 1. under Garhwa Nagar Parishad. PRESS NOTICE TO BE ISSUED FOR PUBLICATION IN NEWSPAPERS 1,34,75,100.00 (One Crore Thirty The ExecutiveEngineer JalShakti Division Arki invites e-tender on behalf of Governor of Himachal Pradesh from 2. Estimated Cost (Rs.) Four Lakh Seventy Five Thousand approvedeligible contractor forthe following work(s) through e-tendering process:- One Hundred Rupees ) Name of Work : Providing drinking water facilities to various villages in G.P.Kashlog,Sewra Chandi, Parnoo,Sanghoi, 3. Tender Fee Rs. 10000.00 (Ten Thousand Only) Mangoo,Giana, Navgaon, Darlaghat etc. in Tehsil Arki Distt. Solan (HP)(SH:- Site development, Construction of per- colation well 2No.,C/O RCC sump well 150000 liter capacity at Node No.2,C/O Sectoral storage tank 5500 liter 4. Time of Completion 18 Months capacity at Node No.18, 20000 liter capacity at Node No.12, 18000 liter capacity at Node No.13&27, 8500 liter Date of Publication of capacity at Node No.19, 14000 liter capacity at Node No.21, 5000 liter capacity at Node No.25, 7000 liter capacity 3 5. 09.10.2020 up to 5:00 PM Nos.atNode No.28,36 &46, 95000 liter capacity at Node No.53, 8000liter capacity at Node No.7,42000 liter capac- Tender on Website ity at Node No.8,220000 liter capacity at Node No.5and RCC Storage tank 610000 liter capacity at Node No.4. Last Date/Time for receipt Providinglaying &jointing of Galvanized MSERW pipe 32mm to 150mm dia forRising Main of various classes,Laying 6. 27.10.2020 up to 5:00 PM of E-Tender on Website and jointing of Gravity main 100mm dia, Laying &jointing G.I. pipe (Light Class) of various dia in distribution system, Construction of pump house at 1st &2nd stage &Providing and installation of pumping machineryfor boosterstage 7. Date of Opening E-Tender 29.10.2020, Time: 01:00 PM from percolation well to clear water tank, 1st stage to Bagga, 2nd stage Phase-I Kangri Dhar and Phase-II BajanDhar Name &Address of office Executive Officer,Nagar Parishad (Under Deposit Work). 8. Inviting Tender Garhwa-822114 Estimated Cost: -Rs. 3,51,05,653/- Contact No of E- Earnest MoneyRs. 3,83,560/- 9. 9431349017, 9470970430 Cost of Tender document Rs. 2500/- Procurement officer Time Limit: -12Months Helpline Number of E- Schedule of tendering :- 10. 9113726492 Procurement cell 1. Site Visit From 06-10-2020 to 10-10-2020 between 11.00 AM Last Date of receipt of hard to 05.00 PM except on holidays along-with the Assistant Engineer/Concerned Junior Engineers Jal 11. copy cost of bid document 28.10.2020 Shakti Vibhag Arki Distt. Solan. &EMD. 2. BidSubmission startdate 06-10-2020 at 10.00 AM Note :1.Only e-Tender will be accepted. 2. Any change in BOQ can be seen on website http://jharkhand 3. Bid Submission end date 19-10-2020 at 05.00 PM tenders.gov.in 4. Physical submission of Earnest MoneyDeposit, Cost of Tender 20-10-2020 up-to 11.00 AM 3. Further details can be seen on website http://jharkhand form a/w Cover-1 (Eligibility information) &Cover-2 (Technical Bid) tenders.gov.in 5. Opening of Eligibility criteria &Technical Bid (Cover-I) 20-10-2020 at 11.30 AM 4. iFk fuekZ.k foHkkx ds ladYi la[;k 2146(S) fnukad 09-09-2020 ds vuqlkj 10 ¼n'k½ izfr'kr ls U;wu fufonkrkvksa ds fy, Additional Performance Security ds 6. Opening of Financial Bid (Cover-II) Shall be intimated separately. Øe esa ifjek.k foi= dh jkf'k ls The tender documentcan be downloaded from departmental website i.e. https://hptenders.gov.in w.e.f. 06-10-2020 (i) 10 ls 20%Below dh jkf'k dk 20% rFkk at 11:00 AM up to 19-10-2020 at 05:00 PM. (ii) 20% ls vf/kd Below dh jkf'k dk 30% vfrfjDr tekur dk izko/kku ykxw Executive Engineer, jgsxkA Jal Shakti Division, Arki, Executive Officer Distt. Solan (HP). PR 233981 (District)20-21#D Nagar Parishad Garhwa 3549/HP HIM SUCHANA AVAMJAN SAMPARK New Delhi WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM

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Ishowedthem the certificate, and theystarted NEWDELHI,CHANDIGARH,OCTOBER8 Kiren Rijiju announcedamassive hikein Jammuwithoutatrophy.The Some of the other Arjuna Awardwinners, clickingselfieswith that.Until Iget thetrophy, Saint-Denis: On anight whenyouth prize money: from Rs 7.5lakh to Rs 25 lakh wushustudentsinJammuandnow such as wrestler Rahul Awareand boxer the certificatewill be likeatrophy,”hesaid. and experience aligned,striker IT'SBEEN more than amonth since the coun- forthe RajivGandhi Khel Ratna Awardand inSrinagar,whereIhavecome, Lovlina Borgohain, said that theyhaven'tgot The awards arehandedoverbythe OlivierGiroudscoredtwiceonhis try's premier sports awards were presented Rs 5lakh to Rs 15 lakh forthe ArjunaAward. wereeagertoseethetrophy.Some cash or the trophy, either.“Ihaveprovided President at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. But this 100th appearance forFrance and to 74 sportspersons, coaches and institutions “The hike,along with asubstantial increase ofmyfriendswereteasingme, all the relevant details to the Ministry. But I time, due to the pandemic protocols, the teenager Eduardo Camavingacele- from across the countryinavirtual cere- in thenumber of awardwinners (fromaround am yettoreceive the moneyaswellasthe winnershad assembled at variouscentres of brated his firststart by scoring an ac- mony--withthe President joining online 30 to 74), meant that the funds earmarkedat saying‘haveyouactuallyreceived trophy,”said Aware. the Sports Authority of India (SAI) nearestto robatic goal in a7-1 thrashing of and ahugehikeinprize money. But several the startofthe financial year did notprove to theawardornot’.” Dronacharya Awardwinner and wushu their base or residence and were giventhe Ukraineinafriendly game.Giroud's winnerstold TheIndian Express theyare yet be sufficient. Since the budget allotment got KULDEEPHANDOO, coachKuldeep Handoo, and boxingcoach certificateinthe online presence of President brace movedthe Chelsea striker onto to receive the moneyorthe trophy. exceeded, we had to getthe moneyfromother ShivSingh whowon the awardinthe life- RamNathKovind. WUSHU COACH 42 international goals, one more The reasons: the last-minuteannounce- existing heads,” the official said. time category, were among the others who According to theMinistryofficial,the gov- thanMichelPlatini in France's all- ment of the hikefor alargerpoolofwinners The official also said that therewere“tech- confirmedthe delay. ernment is exploring the possibility of hold- time scorers' list, whichThierry that has leftthe Ministryscrambling forfunds, nical glitches”inthe government’s online di- Speaking to this paper,several sportsper- “It feels strangetobeaDronacharya win- ing another function at alater datefor the Henry tops with 51.The 34-year-old time takentoupdatethe winners' KYCdetails rect benefit transfer software. “This year,there sons said therehas been no communication nerwithoutatrophy. Iunderstand the prob- physical handoverofthe trophy.“Therehave Giroudgavethe worldchampions a fordirecttransfer,and asoftwareglitch. wasadirective that everyone should getthe from the government on the reasons forthe lems that have come up due to Covid, butit been severalrequests from winners to have a 2-0 lead in the 24th minutefollow- Confirmingthe delay, aSportsMinistry prize moneyfromthe online directbenefit delayorwhen theywouldget thetrophyand felt awkwardwhen Iarrived in Jammu with- ceremonyonce the pandemic subsides. They ing Camavinga's opener,with asu- official told TheIndianExpress that thecash transfer softwareofNIC (NationalInformatics prize money. outatrophy. The wushu studentsinJammu want aphoto opportunity while receiving the perb left-footedstrikefromoutside prize “should be transferredinthe coming Centre). We had to requestall winners to pro- “It should notbedelayedlikethis in the and nowinSrinagar,whereIhavecome, were trophywiththe Sports Ministerand the the boxintothe topcorner. three or four days”. vide KYCdetails...thetechnical glitches have ageofdigital payments. Thereare some ath- eager to see the trophy. Someofmyfriends President, if possible. So the trophypresen- On the morningofAugust29, before the been sortednow,” the official said. leteswho needthe moneyfor training,” said were teasing me, saying ‘haveyou actually re- tation has been put on hold,” the official said. Bhawanipore FC, MdSportingwin Border says CA Kolkata: Bhawanipore FC defeated FC Bengaluru United 2-0 in the opening Pole star should not bow matchofI-League qualifiers played behind closeddoors hereon down to BCCI Thursday, marking the resumption Poland’s Swiatek becomes youngestplayertoreachthe FrenchOpen women’s final in 19 years of sporting activity in the countryaf- teraseven-monthcoronavirus- on tour schedule forced hiatus.Inthe day's second match, fanciedMohammedan REUTERS Sporting had to work hardfor alast- PARIS,OCTOBER8 PRESSTRUSTOFINDIA gasp 1-0 win over aspirited Garhwal MELBOURNE,OCTOBER8 FC. PankajMoula and Philip Adjah POLISH TEENAGER IgaSwiatek became the scored forBhawaniporewhile full- youngestplayertoreach the FrenchOpen FORMER AUSTRALIAcaptain AllanBorder backMunmun Lugun scoredalong- women's final in 19 years when she powered says his country's cricket board mustnot bow rangegoalinthe penultimate(90+3') pastArgentine qualifier Nadia Podoroska 6- down to the BCCI on the scheduling changes minutetowin the matchfor 26-1 on Thursday. -- the SydneyTestinparticular -- regarding Mohammedan Sporting. The 19-year-oldwillonSaturday meet the upcoming marquee tour by India. Australian Open champion Sofia Kenin, who The SydneyTest, usually known as the beat twice Wimbledon winnerPetra Kvitova NewYear's Test,beginsinthe firstweekof SAIapproves 6-4 7-5, in her maiden final appearance at a Januarybut hasbeen pushedbackto shootingcamp major.World number 131Podoroska, who January7in the planned schedule. As per waslooking to become the firstqualifier to the schedule, yettoberatifiedbythe BCCI NewDelhi: TheSportsAuthority of reachafinalatamajor in either the men's or and Cricket Australia, theODIs willbefol- India (SAI) on Thursdayapproved a women's singles draw,had no answer to lowedbythree T20internationals in two-month coaching campfor the Swiatek's powerful groundstrokes and sleek Adelaide between December 4-8 and then Olympic core groupshooters from movement on court.Swiatek had broken the four-matchTestseries with the opener October 15 to December 14,amove serve27times en routetothe lastfourstage in Adelaide from December 17 instead of the that waswelcomedbythe sport's and addedfivemoretothat count before fin- traditional Brisbane. apexbody.The camp, whichwill be ishing offthe one-sidedcontestonCourt Border is notamusedbythe changein held at the Dr.Karni Singh Shooting Philippe Chatrier in 69 minutes. schedule. "I don't think it should be anego- Rangeinthe national capital, will "I'mkindof surprised,really. Ialways knew tiated scenario," Border told FoxSports News. comprise 32 shooters (18men and that if Iwould bein aGrandSlam final, it would "If it's necessarybecause of what is happen- 14 women),eight coaches, three for- be at the FrenchOpen," Swiatek said on court IgaSwiatek,19, defeated Argentine qualifier Nadia Podoroska 6-2 6-1 in theFrenchOpen semifinals on Thursday. Reuters ing globallywiththe virus then fair enough, eign coaches and twosupportstaff afterbecomingthe firstPolishwoman to reach but if it'sjustbecause they want abit of aspell at atotal cost of Rs 1.43 crore, ac- theRoland Garros finalin 81 yearsandthefirst offbetween Boxing Dayand theNew Year's cording to astatementissuedbySAI. at anymajor since Agnieszka Radwanska at Test matchthen that's rubbish. We'vebeen Wimbledon eight years ago. "I wantedto play WHYTHEROADTOFINALMIGHTNOTBESTRAIGHTFORWARDFORNADAL,DJOKOVIC doing this forhow manyyearsnow,back-to- thismatchasafirst-round match,Ididn'twant backTestmatches? It worksatreat through Coesupportsrightto to thinkof it asasemi-finalotherwise Iwould THE FRENCH Open Nadal, meanwhile, forall his that Christmas-New Year period and I takekneeatOlympics have been toostressed. Ijustwantedto beag- seems poisedfor a complaintsagainstthe conditions in wouldn't be comfortable with it moving just gressive like previousmatches.I'm feeling thirdRafaelNadal- Paris, on court, he’s liveduptohis because India want acouple moredays off." Tokyo: Dressed in abluesuitand good and likenothing hurts me." LAINED NovakDjokovic title monikerofbeing the ‘KingofClay.’ Even broadcasters SevenWestMedia,the speaking in alight drizzle, Sebastian Swiatek,the youngestplayertoreachthe clash in Paris. But at the owner of Channel 7, arecrying foul over the

EXP E● DJOKOVIC VS TSITSIPAS Coe stood at the edge of thetrack at women's final at Roland Garrossince Kim semi-final stage, the schedulethatCricket Australia has prepared. Tokyo's newNational Stadium on Clijsters in 2001,looked to impose herselfon push to the final will notbeeasy.And Head to head: Djokovic leads 3-2 Border added, "I think they'rejustplaying Thursdayand repeated his support the matchearly and jumpedtoa3-0 lead. with the waytheiropponents, Diego Tsitsipas lostthe opening twosetsof mind games. Theyconsider themselvesthe forthe right of athletestoadvocate She managed to hit through the court Schwartzman and Stefanos Tsitsipas hiscampaign in Paris, but has barely strength of worldcricket, and financiallythat forsocial or racial justice at next well, both offthe forehand and backhand, respectively,havebeen playing, an put afootwrong since. He overcame is the case so theydohaveafairsay in things. year'spostponedOlympics. Coe and painted thered claywithwinners. upsetmay justbeinthe offing. the challengeofformer WorldNo3 But if the roles were reversed, we wouldn't spokeout in direct oppositiontoRule Unable to put up muchresistance, Podoroska Djokovic beat Carreno Busta 4-6 6-2 Grigor Dimitrov, before shrugging offa have muchsay in the itinerary, it would just NADAL VS SCHWARTZMAN 50 of the Olympic Charter. "I'vebeen decided to show moreaggression and started 6-3 6-4 in the quarterfinals. AP shaky starttowin his quarterfinal be put in front of us and these arethe dates very clearthatifanathlete chooses coming forwardmoretocut down the time Head to head: Nadal leads 9-1 againstthe talented Andrey Rublev– that we'regoing to play. to take the kneeonapodium then I'm forSwiatek to hit her big shots.That helped The Spaniardhas an impressive record avenging the loss he washandedbythe "You can negotiateasmuchasyou like supportiveofthat,"Coe said, giving a her hold twoservice games but wasnot againstthe diminutive Argentine. But this time againstgood friend and US Russian in the HamburgOpen final a but theseare traditional dates that everyone boosttoBlack LivesMatter protests enough to derail Swiatek,who facedjusta Schwartzman’s sole win came justtwo Openchampion Dominic Thiem. It was daybeforethe FrenchOpen. His knows have been in the calendar forever, so and other social- and racial-justice single breakpoint in the opening set. weeksbeforethe FrenchOpen, in a an epic five-setbattle that saw opponent on Friday, the 2016 champion to startnegotiating now, it's atough one. I movements that aredeterminedto Podoroska,who earnedmorethan she had straight-setwin in thesemi-final of the Schwartzman registerafamous 7-6(1), Djokovic has justlostone setsofar. wouldn'tbebowingdowntoit-we'vegot use Tokyoasastage. in her entirecareer by reaching the semi-fi- Rome Masters. In the quarterfinal in 5-7,6-7(6), 7-6(5), 6-2 win, and move Live on Star Sports2,6.20pmonwards traditional dates, let's stickwiththem." PTI &AP nals, would have hopedfor the tide to turn Paris, he pulledoff another upset win, intohis firstGrand Slamsemi-final. SHAHIDJUDGE Border also criticised the shifting of the in the second setbut therewas no respite. Brisbane Test to the back-end. Hyderabad openers shut the door on Punjab Star TV chief Uday Shankar to quit at the end of this year It took afeatherbed Dubai pitchand a SYNOPSIS Rajasthanhope to ragged Kings XI Punjab bowling to gettheir Bairstow andWarner teeoff for partnership going. It wasarollicking start, tainment space at that time. SRH while Pooran is the lone bright end losing streak one that immediatelythrew aspanner in EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE However, Shankar’stimeatStarwillalsobe spotwiththe batfor KingsXI Rahul’s plans. Over the course of thesetwo NEWDELHI,OCTOBER8 rememberedforhisdecisions-oftendescribed Preview: RR vs DC seasons, Warnerand Bairstowhavecomple- asaudacious-thatchangedtheentiresporting RR: WWLLL; DC: WWLWW mented eachother beautifully. Despiteanef- AHIGHLYinfluential figureinworld cricket ecosystem.Underhim,Starlaunchedmultiple Strugglingto figureouttheirbesteleven, fervescent startfromWarner, therewas a and the head of India’sleading media and en- domesticsportsleaguesbutitwasthekabaddi VISHALMENON Rajasthan Royals willneedtocomeup phase when he wasstruggling with his tim- tertainment conglom- enterprisethatwentonto becomethe‘bigidea’ OCTOBER8 with some quick-fixmeasures to snap ing. Sensing that, Bairstowcut loose. The fea- eratehas decided to storythatdrewattention of global sportspro- their three-matchlosing streak when tureabout his batting on Thursdaywas the move on. Uday moters. This wasfollowedbyStar’sdeep dive ASENSATIONALopeningpartnershipbetween theytakeonaformidableDelhiCapitals nimblefootworkand the ease withwhichhe Shankar,itwas an- intocricketandtheywinningthetelecastrights JonnyBairstowand captain DavidWarner unitinanIPL matchhereonFriday. The came down the tracktospinnersand nouncedonThursday, of theworld’smostfamouscrickettournament helpedSunrisers Hyderabad to aformidable Royalswere offtoaflyingstart,winning medium-pacers alike.The Yorkshireman tar- will be stepping down –the Indian PremierLeague. Once again, the 201/6.Thentheirbowlersandfieldersclinched both their games at Sharjah but they getedthe straight boundaries and, to alarge aspresidentof TheWalt decision wasn’t astraightforward one.“Iwas acomprehensive69-runwin over Kings XI have struggledtoadjusttothe bigger extent, refrainedfromplaying across the line. DisneyCompany(Asia told IPL had plateaued,” Shankar oftensays. Punjab.However, itwasnot before ascare from grounds of Dubai and AbuDhabi, slip- Bairstow’s belligerence easedthe pres- Pacific)andchairmanof Another leap of faith whichgaveStara NicholasPooran’sonslaught.Buttworun-outs ping to three successive defeats.Now sureonWarner,who maintainedthe inten- StarandDisneyIndiaattheendof thisyear.The headstart washis keenness to ownIndian andamatch-definingspellfromtheirtalisman backtothe SharjahCricketStadium, sity by running hardbetween the wickets. official statement said that Shankar,overthe cricket’s digital space. In arecent interview to RashidKhan-whofinishedwithfiguresof 3/12 Rajasthan will take inspiration from The duo racedtotheir fifth100-run stand in nextthreemonths,willhelpto “identifyhissuc- The Indian Express,Shankar had spoken about -madeitanight to savour forthe Sunrisers. their twobig wins heretoturn things the IPL, even as Bairstowcontinuedplaying cessor to ensure asmooth transition”. this. “When we were launching Hotstar, our around againstadominant Delhi, who the role of the aggressor to anicety.Inthe in- WidelycreditedforStarTV’svirtualmonop- streaming service,amillion people told me: Pooran lone bright spot Jonny Bairstow’s knockof97(55 balls) have four out of their five matches. terim, when Warnerbrought up hisninth olyoverthe broadcastrightsofcricketgames ‘Whatare youdoing? The experience of live During Kings XI Punjab’s opening game comprised7foursand 6sixes. BCCI/IPL LiveonStarSportsNetwork,7:30pm fiftyagainstPunjab, Sunrisers’ dashing open- involving India, both at home and abroad, sportsonasmall mobile phone, this doesn’t againstDelhi Capitals, Sunil Gavaskar had ers were well on course to overtaking their Shankar hasn’t spelledout his futureplans but work.Morethan 100million watchone game said in commentarythatofall the interna- previous best stand of 185. But when Warner mentioned“mentoringanewgenerationof en- on Hotstarnow,” he had said. tional players, he wasmostexcited to see tacks. Frustratingly,hedidn’t find anysup- in the 15th over to Rashid Khan effectively departedfor a40-ball 52, theyhad notched trepreneurs”bypartnering“globalinvestorsand HavinginteractedwithShankarextensively, howNicholas Pooran wouldfarethis season. portfromthe other end. Skipper KL Rahul snuffedout KingsXI’s hopes. up ascoreof160 in 15 overs.Bairstowexited pioneers”ashislikelyendeavours.Commenting formerBCCICEORahulJohricallshimthemost It wasnot surprising to knowwhy.The and opening partner Mayank Agarwalhad in the same overfor 97 that resulted in astut- on his decision to step down, Shankar said, “As successfulmediaprofessionalof ourgeneration. Trinidadian has been quitearevelation in the done the bulk of the scoring forKings XI this Bairstow, Warner teeoff tertowards theend.LeggieRaviBishnoi and Ilookbackonthisjourney, Itakeprideinhaving “He has always been on the front foot of every Caribbean Premier League and his exploits season, but the twohad an offday. One of the mostfascinatingaspectsofthe rookie medium-pacer Arshdeep Singh took setambitiousgoals in my professional career, path-breaking media innovation,” Johri says. in the shorter formatsfor West Indies are The featureofPooran’s knockwas the IPListhe grandalliance between Warner and five wicketsbetween themasSunrisers and achieving all that we setout to do.” Likealways,evenduring the ongoing pan- well documented.However, barring a control with whichheexecuted his strokes. Bairstowfor Sunrisers.An Englishmanandan managed just41runsinthe final five overs. Known to take unpopular decisions and demic, doubtswereraisedabout the TRP IPL scarcely-believable fieldingeffortatthe From the pulls to theglides,the left-hander Australian in the same dressing room can of- BRIEF SCORES: Sunrisers Hyderabad 201/6 backinnovative ideas, Shankar’s legacy at Star couldmuster. Months before the delayedIPL, boundaryagainstRajasthan Royals, Pooran showcasedhis full repertoire, marryinggrace tenlead to discord, but their camaraderie is in 20 overs (J Bairstow97, DWarner 52; R would be about his successful ascentsonslip- Shankar had said: “It (emptystands) is nota had hardly caught the eyethis season so far. with bruteforce. The highlight wasthe man- almostsurreal. Lastyear,theywereinvolvedin Bishnoi 3/29, ASingh 2/33) bt KingsXI peryslopes. Taking over Star India in 2007,his concernatall.Idon’t buy it whenpeoplesay, But on Thursday, theelegant left-hander ner in whichhesmoked 28 runs from asin- four centuryopeningpartnerships, and ac- Punjab 132all out in 16.5 overs (N Pooran 77; firstbig splash wasAamir Khan-hostedtalk ‘oh,theexperiencewillbeincomplete’.”Forthe finallystamped his class with aknockthat gle Abdul Samad over.His 37-ball 77 was counted forcloseto60per cent of the team’s RKhan3/12, KAhmed 2/24, TNatarajan showSatyamevJayatethatstood out in the record,theopeninggameof theIPLbrokeview- had the potential of numbing oppositionat- punctuated with sevensixes. His dismissal total runs. It’s been ahit-and-miss this season. 2/24) by 69 runs crowdofsoapoperasthatdominatedtheenter- ership records.

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ABU MWESIGWA Kick Out Corona Blues THE COMMERCIAL DESK IN NEW panywithaninterest in manufacturing DELHI HAS BEENABUZZ WITH masks for Uganda.Another company oper- ACTIVITY DESPITECOVID-19. ating in theIndian Garment Manufacturing Held on 29th September,its latest activity CityofSolapur wonatender to supplya in conjunction with Indian IndustriesAssoci- specificsegmentofUgandan government ation (IIA), wasdrivenbythe outstanding agencies withcoronavirus masksassoon need to balancethe tradebetween Uganda as the virus appeared,in March 2020. and India.Over 100 participants from India In mid-September2020,the Global Cane andUgandaattended thethree hour webi- Sugar Delegation led by Dr.G.S.C Rao dis- nar which wasopened by theIIA President, cussed modalitiesfor doing business with Mr Pankaj Kumar.The conference benefited Uganda whichwould helpreducethe from acomprehensive briefing on trade is- spread of pandemic.As the beginning of its suesbyUganda’s Commissioner forexternal journey to explore such opportunitiesin trade in the Ministry of Trade,Industryand Uganda,the companysubmitted sample Co-operatives,Emmanuel Mutahunga.Re- masksknown as Med Nile FFP2 Particu- spondingtomatters raised by the IIA Se- late Respirator to the officer in charge of niorVice President ManmohanAgarwal,the CommercialDiplomacy;whoforwardedthe trade commissionerdiscussed the well Indian Prime Minister,Nerendra Modi received at Entebbe airport sametoappropriate agencies includingthe known concept of freetradezones explain- Ministry of Health. N the six countries of accreditation for the Uganda Mission based in New ing its implementationinthe Ugandan set- Delhi,COVID-19 statistics as of 7th October show that these countries carry ting. He also touched on matters of taxa- INVESTORS ASKED TO CONCENTRATE Ith bur of fif of glo infec ons the .T also unt e den one th the bal ti by virus hey acco tion, highlighting tax holidays andother ON UGANDA for 10.6 per cent of global deaths from the pandemic.Apart from the loss of the investment incentives for Uganda’sforeign In another activity featuring a-300 dele- valuable human resource in each of these countries,economic ravages un- investors. Members of the IIA learnt about gates webinar on 18th of August,and leashed by COVID-19 have wiped off billions of dollars from the gross national markets availablefor goodsproduced in jointly organized with the Confederation of products of these countries.The statistics make as grim a reading as the daily Uganda which included the ready market Indian Industry (CII) ,the Mission focused death toll of thousands of people in what was a vibrant economic region on a within the country,the East African Com- on the critical imperative of reviving Indian growth path which led to transformational change in this part ofAsia. munity market, theCommon Market for investment interest in Uganda after corona. Uganda and the countries to which the Mission is accredited have rejected the Central, Eastern and South African States Chaired by EBRajesh,Director Africa Re- bleak scene of death and desperation which COVID-19 is keen to paint all over (COMESA) and other international markets gion of the CII and by GideonBadegawa, the world.Despite the lockdown,Uganda and her partners in this part ofAsia such as the market in the United States of Sophie Birungi, CommercialOfficer, marketable quantities whichwouldhave the Executive Director of the Uganda Pri- have stood shoulder to shoulder to provide and care for each other in much the America availablethroughthe African Uganda High Commission the effectofbalancing trade between the vate Sector,the webinar sought to gain same way they did before the coronavirus outbreak. Growth OpportunityAct (AGOA). two friendly countries. Other speakers at the groundagainst many competing demands Prime Minister Narendra Modi was only a phone call away when President It wasavibrantmeetingmoderated by flag shippolicy of BuyUganda, Build forum includedthe Deputy Director,Federa- from other countries on Indian companies Museveni needed to talk to him about the COVID-19 situation in Uganda.After Ashwani Khandelwal, the Secretary of IIA. Uganda.Others on the Ugandan team in- tion of Indian Export Organization,Dhanan- and investors. Accordingly top level Ugan- that call,Uganda got an emergency kit of essential medical supplies to Winnie Lawoko-Olwe the Director of the cluded Joshua Ntambi,asenior Ministry of- jay Sharma. dantechnical officers were invited to give strengthen her fight against the global pandemic.In all the countries of accredi- SMEs,Technology andInnovations desk at ficial who highlighted Government’smove an overview of investmentopportunities in tation,officials worked despite the lockdown to address a wide range of issues the Uganda InvestmentAuthority (UIA) pro- to adopting the Indian model of SMEs and INDIAN COMPANIES BID TO PRODUCE different sectors of the economy to the au- to do with migration:organising repatriation flights for nationals stranded in vided information on UIA;the country’sone making it an importantelement in itsindus- CORONA MASKSFOR UGANDA gust membership of CII. their respective countries.This was reciprocated by Uganda which,despite the stop investmentcentre.She also elaborated trialisationdrive.One of thebridgingpeople TheGlobal Cane Sugar Limited is one of Thewebinar involved background prepa- lockdown of its space, allowed special repatriation flights to and from Uganda on Uganda’s attempts at promoting her of the Indian communityinUganda who is a the companies in India which sought col- rations which were meticulously done by for nationals similarly stranded.In Bangladesh,the Honorary Consul ensured home-based industriesinadrive towards Ugandan national, Mr SanjivPatel, called laboration with the Mission in Delhi ex- Ms Indriani Mulay,CII Deputy Director for that Ugandan nationals were fully briefed of the situation;and their personal self-reliance.Lawoko-Olwe clarified that for Indian investment in Ugandainorder to pressing interest in makingmasks for Africa Region,and ateamofdedicated offi- needs attended to during the lockdown.In Singapore the authorities dealt with this wasthe backboneofthe government’s enhance production avenues and increase Uganda.Thisbecomes thesecond com- cials at the CII Secretariat. an impostor carrying a Ugandan passport in as humane a manner as possible; deporting him to the country of origin only after his claims to Ugandan citizen- ship had been found to be false. UGANDA: thePearlofAfrica strictions on the closure of airports In Uganda as in all the countries of accreditation,the human spirit of resis- boasts of some of theworld’s most Uganda has reopened for tourism and borders. This meantabreak- tance and resilience was depicted by the efforts each country made to circum- beautiful faunaand flora. The through for the tourism sector.As vent the economic despoliation wrecked by the virus.Opening the annual Cham- country for instance has apopula- of 1st October2020, the airport ber of Indian Industry,Prime Minister Modi called for India’s industrialists to look tion of over 450 mountain goril- and borders were opentoreceive into the strengths and opportunities within the country in order to nurture self- las,whichismore than half of the tourists again.TheNationalparks reliant growth.Sri Lanka which prior to COVID-19 had a highly developed mar- world’smountain gorilla popula- are now open for tourism.Tourists, keting system for its teas, including home auction,found new ways to overcome tion!That aside, Uganda alsoregis- both local and foreign,are advised restrictions put on a physical tea auction.The country beat the virus by going dig- tered seven new gorillasbornthis to follow the Standard Operating ital in its tea auctions,setting up a virtual e-auction system. year,and this is almost four times Procedures (SoPs) which were is- On 15th July 2020,Maldives decided to open its airspace since the 27th greater than the annual record of sued by the Ministry of Health.The March lockdown,despite global concerns about the increase of coronavirus in- the world! On the same note,the measuresare; wear amask, wash fections;putting in place stiff preventive measures to protect all actors in this vi- ZiwaRhino sanctuary also regis- yourhands withclean water and tal industry.Uganda has always been keen to learn how the Maldives captured tered baby number 27, bringing soap or hand sanitizer, adhere to and sustained its miracle tourism industry. With the creation of 12 new cities in the total number of white Rhinos Tonny Kikomeko Galabuzi temperaturechecks and keep a Uganda in July,the country has been taking lessons on urban planning and eco- to 32 in thesanctuary! Theseare Finance Attache socialdistance of at least 2me- UgandaHighCommission nomic growth from Singapore;which hosted three webinars on the same matter. all incrediblenumberstothe once ters.Ontop of theseguidelines, Despite COVID-19 and its ravages,Uganda and India have continued to work listedendangered species in the Mt Rwenzori, or water rafting Palace,the Bahai Temple, pearl ofAfrica! tourists coming in should have a together in areas covering international cooperation such as International Solar world, and what asiteitwould be along RiverNile in Jinja.Tracking, Namirembe Cathedral, Lubaga TheCOVID-19 outbreak inter- negative COVID-19 test taken 72 Alliance (ISA) preparations for the 3rd ISAAssembly;to areas covering entrepre- for one to do gorillas and rhinos white rhinosand chimpanzees! A Cathedral, NamugongoMartyrs rupted tourism in Uganda but hours prior to their arrivalin neurship training and business incubation by the Indian entrepreneurship train- trackinginUganda. boat cruise on LakeVictoria, the Shrine,Owino Market (largest could notkill the country’stourism Uganda. Foreign tourist are also ing institution Lemon EntrepreneurshipTraining. The Uganda Mission in New From the game drive to view biggest lakeinAfrica.Kampala’s market in Uganda), Mulago Hos- allure. required to apply and obtain a Delhi is also working with a wide range of prospective investors who are getting treeclimbing lionsinQueen Eliza- original sevenhills,rich history pital (biggest hospital in Uganda), Six months downthe road, the tourism visa from the Ministry of their plans polished in readiness for opening of international air space. beth, to the boatcruise in Murchi- withthe oldchurches and cathe- Makerere University (one of the President of the Republicof Internal Affairs Uganda. This can son Falls to view the magnificent drals, the GadaffiMosque (2nd bestUniversities in Africa). All Uganda His Excellency Yoweri be done online. waterfalls along River Nile! Hiking largest in Africa) the Buganda these surely portray Uganda as the Kaguta Museveni, liftedthe re- (https://visas.immigration.go.ug/) South-east Asia: rich educational From the Consular Desk opportunities for Uganda Swecelebrate Uganda’s58thanniversary as an consular servicesonce they reachedout to the High independent and sovereign state, theUganda Commission. AHigh Commission New Delhi delights in, and Likethe entireworld, the High Commission is still HE sixcountries to which the New Programme offering full and partial scholar- celebrates the cordialrelationship that exists between grappling with theeffects of the coronavirus.The out- DelhiMission is accredited in this ships to Ugandan scholars. thepeople of Uganda and of India.Uganda and India’s breakofthe pandemicinIndia ushered in an unprece- Tpart of south-eastAsia provide arich Uganda-India cooperation in education is people-to-people relationshipgoes beyond the diplo- dented range of issues to the Consular Desk.TheMission fieldofeducationand skillstrainingfor long-standing; spillinginto the area private matic relations established between Uganda and In- became ahive of activity:organizing and coordinating Uganda. Education in its broadest sense in- sponsorship by universities.The web and dia in 1965. As amatter of fact, repatriation flights; providing cludes anylearning andthe Missioncould- warp of future collaboration promises to the people –to-people relation- guidance and counseling to n’t be in abetter environment from which be rich: both countries working towards shipbetween thetwo friendly hundreds of stranded Ugan- to tap this soft technology transfer than in twinning their institutions. countries is over acentury old.It dannationals and residents; itssix countries of accreditation.With Collaboration in the area of education is no wonderthat today;Uganda liaising with country head- countries such as Singaporewhich hasreal- trainingand skill acquisitionorenhance- hosts numerous business men quarters as well as Kampala ized socioeconomic transformation in one ment is not tied to the youth or government and women fromIndia andalso on matters of testingand life time; Sri Lanka selling its teas on the officials alone.Indiaand other countries of hasalargepopulationofUgan- standard operating proce- international tea exchange; Nepal hosting accreditation also offer training to Ugan- dans of Indian Origin. dures for COVID-19; counsel- millionsoftourists to Planet Earth’shighest dan security forces,including the Policeand Theconsularsectionatthe ing our own staff andmaking point: where else couldsuch fantastic op- military.Sri Lanka’soffer to train the Ugan- Mission in NewDelhi’sdedica- sure they werekept up-to- portunities rise! As for India, thehost dan Police Force,other relevant security tion to providingtimely,effi- date on COVID-19 develop- countryfor the multiple accreditation Sta- forces,onanti-terrorism is on the agenda cient, relevant and realistic as- JoanitahAmong, Consular Officer ments;visitingUgandans in tion in her capital city of New Delhi, India is for discussion;even as Uganda reaches to sistancetothe various Ugandan Uganda HighCommission places of custody; etc, etc.This adeepfountainofknowledge forUganda. Singapore for traininginareas of Marine citizens and legal residents process enriched officers with This country through its Ministry of External Balunywa BakerN. security.Makerere University in Kampala greatly playedout during the Covid -19 Globalpan- information and experiencethat they would ordinar- Affairs over the years has offered Uganda Education Attache, has acollaborativeprogramme with the demic.In commemoration of Uganda’sindependence, ilynever acquire. thousands of opportunities for students in a Uganda High Commission tourism department in Nepal in which we would therefore liketocelebrate the various consular As we celebrate the Pearl of Africa’sindependence wide range of fields of study. tourism andfilming are keyareasoffocus. assistance the HighCommissionrendereddespitethe this year,wewould love to celebrate everyone in their in- Today underthe Commonwealth scholarships offered underher flagship In- Thearea of education is therefore one brutalityofthe Covid -19 global pandemic. dividualendeavors to protect themselves and their Scheme Uganda gets 30 full-time scholar- diaTechnical Education Cooperation (ITEC) which is boundtosee ever increasing and Ugandan citizens andresidents whofound them- familiesfrom theCovid -19Virus. ships annually from the Indian Centrefor programme; short termcourses ranging stronger collaboration between Uganda selves in distress in India and our other areas of accred- One by one,they say,makes abundle.That is the Cultural Relations (ICCR) coveringunder- from one to nine months of study in awide and the countries of accreditation in this itationnamely Bangladesh,Sri Lanka,Singapore,Mal- only waywewilldefeat theCovid-19Virus. graduate,post-graduate and doctorial pro- range of fields.Arecent addition to these part of SouthAsia of which New Delhi is the dives and Nepal were accorded the much needed For God and my Country grammesofstudy. There is another setof two major programmes is the Study In India home base for the Mission.

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