,%% - B & C 1 & C 1 C .012.34&$# ./ . 0 1.23 /.24 ! > 542=5 =--22A') A3.44--'4 4)5)3!-% 5-)53!4%2 5!=-- !/5-) -3->2424'4! 2!5232 5!=25 4523! 5A42.?A% ) ",-+;:../ 86; D 4 11 4*'*'*5 4#% %* + P !4%4)5 fter their unsuccessful bids Ato breach the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the last few days, China has start- ed deploying more troops on * the Pangong Tso (lake) indi- cating that it was not ready for immediate disengagement. Q %%%R ) )%% The Chinese have also added muscle to their air power # + by deploying more than 150 aircraft and helicopters on their side of the LAC in Ladakh. Not willing to take any chances the '3' IAF has also deployed its front line fighter jets including the n a day of high drama wit- SU-30, MIG-29, and Jaguars at Inessed in Mumbai’s upmarket forward bases all along the Pal Hill area, the demolition 4,000 km long LAC stretching squad of the Shiv Sena-run from Ladakh in the west to Brihanmumbai Municipal to a virtual trial of destruction Arunachal Pradesh in the east. Corporation (BMC) pulled caused by a swift and elaborate This ramping up of troops down Kangana Raut’s office at demolition carried out by the by China comes days after Bandra (illegal portions) by the BMC workers at her bungalow, India, in a defensive move on time the Bombay High Court which houses the office of her August 29-30, occupied heights ordered a stay on the process, film production company, in the north bank of the lake ! # ! even as an aggrieved actress Manikarnika Films Pvt Ltd. near ‘Finger 4’. This was a ranted and raved, came up with Kangana has come under befitting reply to China, which a “..... tujhe kya lagta hai?” dare fire from various quarters for dominates the area between take place on the sidelines of 1 +;9 1 suitable action, they said. The and infrastructure develop- for Maharashtra Chief Minister controversial statements com- Finger 4 and 8. The Indian the conclave of foreign minis- )) Indian troops may also open ments with 2 kms of the LAC. Uddhav Thackeray, whom she paring Mumbai to “Pak- Army also thwarted bid by the ters of the Shanghai > 1 3/79 fire if the Chinese try to come Mandarin-speaking Indian sol- threatened to expose. Occupied Kashmir” and saying Chinese to gain a foothold on Cooperation Organisation. '=/80 ? 6 999 close to the Indian positions. diers are now part of frontline After her air journey from “it seems Mumbai is addicted the south bank of the lake. Elaborating upon the latest ) ) These rules of engagement troops on the LAC. In the past Himachal Pradesh to Mumbai to blood” and dubbing The deployment of addi- developments, sources said to fire were implemented in the few days they have repeatedly during which an angry actress Bollywood as an “Islam-dom- tional troops by the Chinese in India will retaliate if the 1 1 wake of the June 15 incident warned the Chinese soldiers on took to twitter to reiterate inated” film industry. Protests the north bank of the Pangong Chinese try to breach the when 20 Indian personnel the loudhailer, they said. “...Mumbai is PoK now erupted in Mumbai and other Tso has increased tension and Indian positions. In a swift 4 ' including the commanding As regards present troops #deathofdemocracy”, cities against the actress. Shiv may also cast a shadow on the proactive move, the Indian ? 1 % A' officer were beaten and stabbed strength, more than 5,000 to “Pakistan” and termed the civic Sena activists burnt her effigy meeting between External forces on August 29-30 night to death a bloody brawl with 7,000 Chinese troops are now employees as “Babar and his and pictures in Mumbai, Pune, Affairs Minister S Jaishankar occupied the hilltops higher the Chinese troops in the present in the Eastern Ladakh army”, Kangana arrived at her Aurangabad, Thane, Palghar, and his Chinese counterpart than the ‘Finger 4’ area on the if the Chinese cross the “red erected around all the Indian Galwan valley. Earlier, in a region and more than 50,000 all Bungalow 5, Chetak Row Nashik. On its part, the BJP too Wang Yi in Moscow on Indian side of the LAC. line, retaliation will be swift. positions and, if the Chinese try pact in the 1990s, the two over the 1,600 km long LAC in House located along Pali Hill’s has distanced from Kangana’s Thursday. Sources said India will not Defining the “red lines,” sources to breach it, the local Army sides decided not use firearms the entire region of Ladakh. Nargis Dutt Road at Bandra “anti-Mumbai” comments. The luncheon meeting will tolerate any transgression and, said barbed wires are now commander are free to take and conduct blasts for training Continued on Page 4 (west) in north-west Mumbai Continued on Page 4 *+! $ $ $ assured the top court that it ! would not proceed with the Q R! recruitment process to fill up " the vacancies on the basis of 12 )-!-! per cent Maratha reservation # $! till September 15, except for he human trials of one of departments, Public Health Tthe most promising Covid- % and Medical Education and 19 vaccine candidates, being Research. developed by the University of !4%4)5 Advocates Amit Anand Oxford, has been put on hold Tiwari and Vivek Singh, after a UK participant had an he Supreme Court for Marathas as it attacked the appearing for one of the peti- adverse reaction to it. TWednesday stayed the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) tioners, had earlier told the AstraZeneca, the biophar- implementation of the 2018 Government for not ensuring apex court that the last date for maceutical giant in tie-up with % + '& P % &(*& Maharashtra law granting that the quota held its ground admission to PG medical the university to produce the -% *&( reservation to Marathas in before the apex court. courses should be deferred. vaccine, described the pause as education and jobs but made it The Socially and The high court, in its June a “routine” one following what clear that the status of those Educationally Backward 27 last year order, had said that was “an unexplained illness”. who have availed of the bene- Classes (SEBC) Act, 2018 was 50-per cent cap on total reser- The trials had moved into and we voluntarily paused vac- &R $ '())) fits will not be disturbed. enacted to grant reservation to vations imposed by the Phase III after successful Phase cination to allow a review of A three-judge bench head- people of Maratha communi- Supreme Court could be I and II testing had raised safety data by an independent !4%4)5 4,630. The national Capital fresh coronavirus cases, includ- ed by Justice LN Rao referred ty in Maharashtra in jobs and exceeded in exceptional cir- worldwide hopes of it being committee,” said a spokesper- has increased the number of ing 3,609 fresh coronavirus to a larger constitution bench, admissions. cumstances. It had also accept- ready by early next year as son for AstraZeneca on elhi registered a record tests per day and also come out cases on Tuesday, the highest to be set up by Chief Justice of The Bombay High Court, ed Maharashtra Government’s results showed that it pro- Tuesday evening. D4,000 plus new cases on with the provision of “testing single-day spike in 76 days, as India SA Bobde, the batch of while upholding the law in June argument that the Maratha duced a positive immune “This is a routine action Wednesday as India’s death on demand”. Now no medical the city moved towards two pleas challenging the validity of last year, had held that 16 per community was socially and response. which has to happen whenev- toll crossed the 75,000 counts. prescription is required for lakh-mark with over 4,618 the law granting reservation to cent reservation was not justi- educationally backward and it The vaccine moved to er there is a potentially unex- The country recorded 89,706 testing. Despite a sharp surge deaths due to Covid-19 so far. Marathas in education and fiable and said that quota was duty-bound to take steps Phase III testing in recent plained illness in one of the tri- positive cases of coronavirus in Covid-19 cases in the India’s overall mortality jobs. should not exceed 12 per cent for its progress. weeks, involving around 30,000 als, while it is investigated, disease (Covid-19), pushing national Capital over the last rate has remained below two The apex court said that in employment and 13 per The high court had said participants in the US as well ensuring we maintain the the country’s cumulative tally fortnight, the Delhi per cent of the total cases, but status of those who have cent in admissions. though the quota was valid, its as in the UK, Brazil and South integrity of the trials. past 4.3 million-mark. Government has ruled out the the total count is increasing already taken benefits of the The apex court passed the quantum — 16 per cent — was Africa. In large trials illnesses will The country also saw 1,115 possibility of another lock- with the country recording 2018 law shall not be dis- order on a batch of pleas chal- not justifiable and it should be “As part of the ongoing happen by chance but must be deaths in the last 24 hours, down, with Health Minister around 90,000 cases for the last turbed.