y k y cm FEARLESS VIDYA BHUSHAN BOOKED MEGA WARGAME Vidya Balan says she does not have the Mumbai police register case against The UK’s largest warship HMS Queen Elizabeth and fear of losing stardom she has T-Series boss Bhushan Kumar for allegedly its strike task group to carry out mega wargame with the Indian Navy gained over the years LEISURE | P2 raping a woman TWO STATES | P8 INTERNATIONAL | P10 VOLUME 11, ISSUE 107 | www.orissapost.com BHUBANESWAR | SATURDAY, JULY 17 | 2021 12 PAGES | `5.00 Indian photojournalist killed in Afghanistan AGENCIES security forces. I met him 2 weeks ago before his departure to Kabul. New Delhi, July 16: Indian pho- Condolences to his family & tojournalist Danish Siddiqui, a Reuters.” Pulitzer Prize winner, was killed Danish Siddiqui, who worked in Afghanistan while on a for news agency Reuters, was con- reporting assignment, Afghan stantly capturing Afghan hap- Ambassador Farid Mamundzay penings in his camera, and was in- Still looking for pigeons: said Friday. forming people through his social ‘LUCKY TO BE SAFE’ SC on bail order delays In a string of tweets three days ago, the photojournalist reported how the vehicle he was AGENCIES granted bail by courts. travelling in was targeted and that he felt lucky to The Chief Justice said: be safe. “The Humvee in which I was travelling with New Delhi, July 16: The “In this age of information other special forces was also targeted by at least 3 Supreme Court Friday won- and communication tech- RPG rounds and other weapons. I was lucky to be dered why in the era of in- nology, we are still looking safe and capture the visual of one of the rockets ternet, jail authorities con- at the skies for the pigeons hitting the armour plate overhead,” Danish tinue to rely on ancient to communicate the orders.” Siddiqui had tweeted July 13. modes of communication He expressed surprise to receive bail orders. that the prison officials are A resident of Delhi, Siddiqui media posts. Two days ago, he The apex court also em- waiting for the Supreme was on a reporting assignment tweeted: “The Humvee in which phasised that it will soon Court orders to be sent by with the Afghan security forces I was travelling with other special develop a secure electronic post. “We had ordered PANGS OF MIGRATION: In this picture taken by Danish Siddiqui September 11, 2017, a Rohingya refugee woman is seen touching the shore when he was killed. forces was also targeted by at least transmission mechanism release in some matters, after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border by boat through the Bay of Bengal, in Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh REUTERS Siddiqui’s father Professor 3 RPG rounds and other weapons. for the jail authorities to and they were not released Akhtar Siddiqui told IANS: “I got I was lucky to be safe and cap- access orders, for expedi- since they (jail authorities) information about my son about ture the visual of one of the rock- tious release of prisoners. did not receive authentic one hour ago. The last time I spoke ets hitting the armour plate over- A bench of Chief Justice copy of orders. This is too to my son was two days ago, and head.” He also posted a short NV Ramana and justices L much,” he added. he was very happy at that time.” video about the action. Nageswara Rao and AS The bench, elaborating Mamundzay, tweeted, “Deeply Siddiqui was awarded the Bopanna made the obser- on the system, said: “We disturbed by the sad news of the Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for his vation during the hearing on are contemplating a system CM seeks vax for 12-18 killing of a friend, Danish Seddiqi coverage of the Rohingya issue. a suo motu case in connec- for secure orders of bail, POST NEWS NETWORK Patnaik also demanded that in Kandahar last night. The Indian He was a student of Jamia tion with the delay in re- so that such orders can be the vaccine distribution be- Drive kicks in for Journalist & winner of Pulitzer University and his father has been leasing convicts by prison sent electronically to jail Bhubaneswar, July 16: Chief tween the state government Prize was embedded with Afghan a professor at the university. authorities even after being authorities.” Minister Naveen Patnaik and private hospitals should be pregnant women Friday requested Prime in the ratio of 95:5 instead of Minister Narendra Modi to the existing 75:25. BHUBANESWAR: The state allow inoculation of children The CM made the demand government Friday in the age group of 12 to 18 before the PM after the state launched an inoculation years at the earliest due to the government’s letters to the drive for pregnant women anticipated third wave of Ministry of Health and Family and lactating mothers. The COVID-19. Welfare and the minister con- state government wants to The CM also demanded an cerned failed to yield any result. inoculate pregnant women ahead of the possible third increase in the allocation of Earlier, Health and Family wave of the pandemic in vaccines for the state to 95 per Welfare Minister NK Das had the country, State cent, and a reduction in the written several letters to his Immunisation Programme share of private hospitals to 5 counterpart in the Union gov- chief Bijay Panigrahi said. per cent, to expedite the inoc- ernment. Additional Chief Panigrahi said a special ulation drive in the state. I would like to request Secretary of the department PK feature has been added Voicing concern over a pos- that the vaccines for Mohapatra had also requested to the CoWIN portal for sible third wave and its impact the age group of 12-18 the ministry to modify the vac- the vaccination of on children, Patnaik proposed, years may be cine allocation policy. expectant mothers. “I would like to request that prioritised and rolled The state government be- the vaccines for the age group out at the earliest lieves that due to the low pres- The scarcity of vaccines of 12-18 years may be prioritised ence of private hospitals in has led to suspension of in- and rolled out at the earliest.” NAVEEN PATNAIK I CHIEF MINISTER the state, the lifting of the vac- oculation drives for several PM Modi Friday held an in- cines from the 25 per cent days in a month. teraction with CMs of Tamil quota has been less. While justifying the state’s Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Official sources said that as On the other hand, the state demand for more vaccines, Karnataka, Odisha, many as 49,076 children below government which has the in- Patnaik claimed that Odisha Maharashtra and Kerala, 14 years tested positive for frastructure for inoculating has been performing very well which accounted for 80 per COVID-19 during the first wave over three lakh people on a in vaccination. Odisha’s vac- cent of the new COVID-19 cases and the prevailing second wave single day, is facing an acute cine wastage is among the low- last week in the country. of the pandemic in Odisha. shortage of vaccines. est in the country, the CM said. IRREGULAR by MANJUL May not make profit: SEC initiates process for Paytm on $2.2bn IPO panchayat polls AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE inated by cash transactions. 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