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Celsius, which is an ideal tem-   ? 67 ;8? ? 87?6 =; <8= Minister Amit Shah, NSA Ajit added. “The vaccine will be avail- perature for it to be stored in  ? 6? 9;; ? 69>6 =: :87 Doval, Foreign able for healthcare workers of the population. It will be the cold storages of India. He Secretary and top and elderly people by around 2024 for everybody, if willing said the SII plans to make ! ? 66 ?:< =7?? :7 :?8 intelligence officials February 2021 and for the to take a two-dose vaccine, to about 10 crore doses per month # B 6 =< <:? 9 >976 77 86; in the wake of the general public by April,” he be vaccinated,” he said. from February. killing of four JeM said at a media event, even as SII, the world’s largest vac- In an article posted in The terrorists in Jammu he asserted that every Indian cine manufacturer by volume, Lancet, researchers at the uni- & Kashmir a day will get vaccinated, probably and the Indian Council of versity and pharmaceutical earlier. The killed by 2024. Medical Research (ICMR), the company said their vaccine "     terrorists were “It will probably take two country’s apex body for bio- had been tested on 560 partic- reportedly planning or three years for every Indian medical research, last week ipants; 240 of them were above “something big” on to get inoculated, not just had announced the completion the age of 70. The vaccine is in the anniversary of because of the supply con- of the enrolment of participants Phase II/III of production,     #   the 26/11 straints but because you need for phase 3 clinical trials of the meaning the phase that a vac- terror attack. the budget, the vaccine, logis- Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine cine candidate enters after it The fact that the tics, infrastructure, and then, candidate, Covishield, in India. has been found safe and poten-  5@!3 we are to suspend the air and PM himself people should be willing to take Talking about its price, the tially effective among a small- train services, we will have to reviewed the securi- the vaccine. So these are the SII CEO said the Central er group of participants and mid the increasing Covid- first take permission from the ty scenario following factors that lead up to being Government will be getting it can be expanded to a compar- A19 infections and deaths in Civil Aviation and Railway the Thursday’s able to vaccinate 80-90 per cent at a far cheaper price (at around atively larger group. , the Maharashtra Ministries. We can think of encounter near toll Government on Friday suspension of train and air ser- plaza in Nagrota appeared to be pushing for sus- vices between Mumbai and area of Kashmir,         pension of train and air trans- Delhi only after talking to the showed that this was port services between Mumbai officials of the two Ministries,” not just yet another and the national Capital. Kumar said. killing of terrorists      0102 3 According to official data, that the survey is aimed at With the fear of Covid-19 Meanwhile, the Ministry of by the security six districts out of the total 11 identifying and testing symp- wave gripping New Delhi Railway clarified that the forces. Sources confirmed that Four suspected Jaish-e- mid a surge in coronavirus have more than 400 Covid-19 tomatic people living in con- where the number of infections Railways has not taken any the PMO came into action Mohammad terrorists were Acases in Delhi, a door-to- containment zones - 743 tainment zones and densely and deaths has increased decision regarding the cancel- after intelligence inputs indi- killed and two policemen door survey for identifying (southwest), 705 (south), 587 packed areas. alarmingly in the recent days, lation of trains between cated that the terrorists were injured in a gunbattle in and testing people sympto- (west), 543 (southeast), 490 District officials said all the informed sources in the Mumbai and Delhi in view of planning to carry out some Nagrota on Thursday after a matic for Covid-19 in con- (central Delhi) and 445 (north- containment zones and super Maharashtra Government said the increasing infections and deadly plot on November 26. truck carrying newly infiltrat- tainment and densely packed west). The survey will be com- spreader areas are being cov- that the Uddhav Thackeray Sanjay Kumar indicated that deaths in the national Capital. In his tweets following the ed militants was intercepted, areas of the city commenced on pleted within five days and will ered through teams including dispensation was considering the State Government was con- “There have been reports meeting, Modi said, police had said. Friday with the number of cover over 57 lakh people in teachers, municipal corpora- seriously taking up the matter sidering suspension of air and in a section of the media today “Neutralising of 4 terrorists Inspector General of Police containment zones going up to containment zones, dense areas tion staff, Asha workers and with the Centre to suspend train services between about cancellation of certain belonging to Pakistan-based (IGP), Jammu, Mukesh Singh, over 4,550 in the national and identified clusters of virus civil defence volunteers. train and air services between Mumbai. trains in the Delhi Mumbai sec- terrorist organisation Jaish-e- had said after the encounter Capital, with the maximum 743 transmission, officials said. “All protocols will be fol- Mumbai and Delhi. “No decision has been tor,” the Ministry of Railways Mohammed and the presence that the terrorists had come to in southwest district and the Delhi Health Minister lowed to test all symptomatic Talking to media persons taken in this regard. We are dis- said in a tweet put out in the of large cache of weapons and execute a “big plan” which has lowest 148 in northeast district. Satyendar Jain told reporters Continued on Page 11 here, State Chief Secretary cussing the issue as of now. If evening. explosives with them indicate now been foiled. "3 %% ##   P     OP         P  %( . .       P            25 4)1 Kalam Technological management of products.              O University will organise a AKTU Vice Chancellor Prof.         he One District, One Hackathon in late November to Vinay Kumar Pathak explains $  $ 4)24!! order failure in the State. BJP    TProduct (ODOP) scheme connect students with the that the innovative idea of stu- does not indulge in violence.      of government ODOP scheme and take their dents will give products a new day after a blast in a facto- Bengal is always in news due to  0102 3 letter to Sonia demanding an     would get a fresh impetus as the suggestions. It is expected to identity. Ary at Sujapur in Malda violence. There have been sev- organisational overhaul. They  !!"# % students of technical and man- involve students from more The official said that 14 district left six people dead, the eral attacks on our leaders,” ffering an olive branch to are Anand Sharma, Shashi agement institutions would than 250 institutes. engineering colleges of the ruling TMC dared the BJP to adding if Chief Minister Odissidents, Congress pres- Tharoor, Ghulam Nabi Azad    join hands to make the local The ODOP is an ambitious state had been made nodal cen- impose President’s Rule in Mamata Banerjee thought that ident Sonia Gandhi has con- and Veerappa Moily.  P  products go global. flagship scheme of the UP tres to conduct the Hackathon. Bengal and face the conse- the Centre was weak in crack- stituted three committees, each The four leaders, after flag-      The beginning will be government and aims to mar- In this, Government quence. The two parties trad- ing the whip she was wrong. comprising former Prime ging their concerns in the con- & #  made from Aligarh where these ket products manufactured in Engineering College at ed intense fire after Union “If Didi thinks, she can do Minister Manmohan Singh, to troversial letter, refrained from #   institutes will study about locks different districts of the state will register students Minister Babul Supriyo accused anything then there are con- accommodate four senior lead- making critical remarks of the     and how to improve their qual- globally and make the entre- from institutions in adjoining the State administration of stitutional provisions which ers who had been critical of the leadership.     ity by assimilation of technol- preneurs self-reliant by pro- districts. Students of these complicity in recurring inci- can be used to remove her. It leadership. The move came Anand Sharma and     ogy. Similarly, the manage- viding employment to locals. institutes will work to promote dents of blasts all across the would be better if Mamata days after senior party leader Tharoor have been named in     ment mantra will be given to “It is through these arts that products like perfume of State and made indirect refer- maintains the essence of Kapil Sibal questioned the the committee on foreign     the Kannauj perfumers and the districts are identified but Kannauj, ghungroo of Etah ence of Article 356. democracy and the party’s decline in the wake of its affairs. Sharma had recently % Bhadohi’s carpet makers to many of these products are los- and black pottery of Azamgarh. Referring to the falling law Constitution ahead of the poor show in Bihar. contradicted Congress stand on take their products to global ing their identities,” an official The state engineering col- and order situation in the State, polls,” Supriyo said, reminding Sonia formed the commit- India’s position vis a vis the ! "#    platforms. said. leges in other districts will he said, “More than 130 BJP there were enough constitu- tee just before leaving for Goa RCEP and has argued that # $ The Micro and Small The students of the uni- also become nodal centres to workers have been killed in tional provisions to tame a to escape Delhi’s toxic air on India should have joined the  Industries Department in asso- versity-affiliated management further promote the products Bengal in the last three years. brutal Government. medical advice. Rahul Gandhi trade block. This was against   ciation with Dr APJ Abdul institutes will suggest better in and around their districts There is a complete law and Continued on Page 11 accompanied Sonia. the previous party line which   Sonia has approved the Congress leader Rahul Gandhi  ()* committees on economic articulated last year when he K affairs, foreign affairs and repeatedly made public state-        national security to discuss ments against India joining   related matters and formulate the RCEP. , the party’s position on policy Ghulam Nabi Azad and    matters, the most recent being Moily have been made mem-  KLM     India staying away from the bers of the committee on     Regional Comprehensive national security. Each of the , /  Economic Partnership. three panels consists of five     The committees have four leaders including a convener.   ,"      !   leaders who recently wrote a Continued on Page 11   (" *%

     0102 3 recorded the lowest minimum tem- perature of 11.5 degrees Celsius last elhiites woke up to cold morning year, 10.5 degrees Celsius in 2018 and Das the national Capital recorded 7.6 degrees Celsius in 2017 in the a minimum of 7.5 degrees Celsius on month of November. Friday, the lowest in the month of The all-time record for the lowest November in 14 years, according to minimum temperature in November the India Meteorological Department. is 3.9 degrees Celsius recorded on              !     "#$%&      It is Delhi’s lowest minimum tem- November 28, 1938. Mahesh Palawat, '   ( !    perature in November since November an expert at Skymet Weather, a private 29, 2006, when the city recorded a forecasting agency, said cold winds minimum of 7.3 degrees Celsius, said blowing from snow-laden western ' (# %  & %  (  ) Kuldeep Srivastava, the head of the Himalayas have led to a dip in the mer- IMD’s regional forecasting centre. cury and a similar situation will con-   # *)+ %#  # ( The city was also on the brink of tinue till Saturday. a cold wave, the first this season. For A fresh Western Disturbance is  25 4)1 under Kunda police station area after the plains, the IMD declares a cold approaching northwest India on midnight. wave when the minimum temperature November 23. It is likely to increase the n a tragic incident, at least 14 people They were returning back from the is 10 degrees Celsius or below and is minimum temperature by a few notch- Iincluding 7 children of a marriage marriage function in Nawabganj area in 4.5 notches less than normal for two es, he said. party were killed in a road accident in when the accident occurred near consecutive days. The minimum temperature this Pratapgarh on late Thursday night. Deshraj village. All the occupants of the “The criteria has been met on month, barring on November 16, has Police said here on Friday that the SUV were killed. Sources said the driver Friday. We will declare a cold wave in remained 2-3 degree Celsius below deceased were travelling in an SUV, of the SUV probably fell asleep which led Delhi if the situation persists on normal in the absence of a cloud cover, which collided with a stationary truck to the accident. Saturday,” Srivastava said. Delhi had according to IMD officials.    !" #$%#&#&

  J5"    &"D&&" *# 4 %#  25 4)1 recently issued an industrial the product competitive.” policy for reviving industrial He said that open access  N O ttar Pradesh Infrastructure activities in various parts of the could help consumers to source & #  " Uand Industrial region. “As electricity cost is electricity competitively instead  Development Minister Satish one of the major input costs for of buying expensive electricity  !22! !@! 25 4)1 Mahana, on Friday, said that manufacturing industries, the from local Discoms.  25 4)1  02) !2A0&30&)2 0 UP had emerged as one of the industries in UP must explore “It allows consumers to purious liquor claimed the most preferred investment des- all options to source competi- buy electricity directly from o make the officers Slives of four people in the )3 3!2& !"0)"20#! 0A0! tinations due to the govern- tive power available in the power generators, traders, or Taccountable and people- trans-Ganga area of Phulpur on  0 )5A/23L5)A& )"!&5&5!2 ment’s policies that focus on country,” the minister said. exchange. Consumers need to friendly, Chief Minister Yogi Friday while the condition of ease of doing business. nation. He said in the recent Mahana urged the FICCI pay certain open access charges Adityanath has directed district three was stated to be critical. )A3!/@5!0A )&53# 0 Addressing a webinar here past, the state government had and industry members for a as defined in appropriate reg- magistrates and district police According to reports, the 23L5)A 0/!30)0@/)0 on challenges in sourcing taken several initiatives to pro- joint meeting on the current ulations for using power net- chiefs to personally attend all victims had consumed the cheaper electricity for indus- mote industries in the state. open-access situation to discuss works,” Jaipuria said. calls on their CUG numbers. spurious liquor at a country tries, organised by FICCI, “The state jumped to number the prospects and open doors FICCI UP State Council “It is mandatory for DMs liquor shop in Amilahvan vil- the deaths. On their part, the ous liquor. Eight deaths have Mahana said, “Uttar Pradesh is two position, from number for industries in UP by sourc- Co-chairman Amar Tulsiyan and SPs/SSPs to attend to calls lage. locals attributed the deaths to been identified. One of the on a mission to attract invest- 12, in ease of doing business in ing cheaper electricity supply said UP was on a mission to on their CUG numbers person- Officials have rushed to the spurious liquor. deceased died of hernia while ment, which will in return India,” he said. system, which would be a win- attract investment to the state, ally. This way they will be able spot and liquor contractor As per reports, the deaths the others died of natural caus- generate employment opportu- “Post-COVID-19 lock- win situation for both the which would not only increase to connect to the masses bet- Rambabu Jaiswal has been took place in Ganga Nagri es. However the deaths are nities for the citizens.” down, industries today are fac- industry and the government. the employment rate but also ter,” the CM said in his direc- taken into custody. area and the first death was being probed and appropriate He said the Industrial ing pressure to reduce their Speaking at the event, check migration of labour to tives issued in on The local residents told reported on Wednesday. The action will be taken.” Investment & Employment operating costs and overcome FICCI UP State Council other states . Friday. the officials that people gath- autopsy reports said that one of Contradicting the police Promotion Policy-2017 of Uttar economic contraction. The Chairman Sharad Jaipuria said. “The industry welcomes A government spokesman ered at the country liquor shop the deceased suffered a heart version, families of the Pradesh was formulated with a state government is working “Industries in UP need afford- the open access and we will said that surprise calls would be as usual on Friday but after attack while another had a deceased claimed that the vic- vision to establish UP as a with industries to identify mea- able power to reduce the input submit a White Paper on the made from the CM Office on consuming the liquor they history of other ailments. tims died after consuming poi- nationally and internationally sures required to overcome cost and this power should be same to the government at the the CUG numbers of the offi- fainted one by one. The cause of the deaths was sonous liquor. competitive investment desti- these challenges and has also competitive to keep the cost of earliest,” he added. cers to cross-check their They were immediately being verified. “My husband consumed response and availability. taken to hospital where four The locals said that some of alcohol two days back and “Non-compliance with the breathed their last. The the victims had bought coun- later complained of headache. )*+$),   -    CM’s direction will invite deceased were identified as try-made liquor from a nearby His condition worsened action from the government. In Basant Lal, Shambhu Nath area and had consumed it in towards the evening and  25 4)1 Besides, the ED also filed an FIR for Lucknow against Rizvi. case they miss the calls, they Maurya, Raj Bagadur and the last few days. his limbs became numb. He money laundering against Yadav. The Allahabad case related to should call back,” he warned. Pyare Lal Bind, all residents of A local police official said, later frothed through the team of the Central Bureau of Meanwhile, the CBI took over the encroachment and illegal construction of For years now, there have Phulpur. “All the deceased were habitu- mouth as he did not get any AInvestigation (CBI) arrested former probe into alleged illegal sale, purchase and shops at Imambara Ghulam Haider in been regular complaints of Those who are in serious al drinkers but no one died treatment,” said Om Vati, wife chief engineer of Irrigation department, transfer of Waqf properties in Allahabad 2016, while the Lucknow case is about alle- DMs and SPs/SSPs either not conditions at the hospital after taking illicit liquor. We of a victim. Roop Singh Yadav, for his alleged complic- and Kanpur Nagar and booked former UP gations of land grabbing in Swaroop receiving calls on their CUG include Tara Passi, Prabhu confirmed it with a team of “If poisonous liquor had ity in the Rs 1,500-crore Gomti Riverfront Shia Waqf Board chairman Wasim Rizvi Nagar in Kanpur Nagar in 2009. numbers or the calls being Nath Patel, and Pawan Passi. doctors. Each deceased had not been selling in the area, my scam. in this regard. Earlier, UP Minority Affairs Minister attended by their followers or Meanwhile, 11 persons some disease and deteriorating husband would have been Soon after assuming power in 2017, The development came after the said that the Yogi govern- support staff. died during the past 48 hours health. Also no case of con- alive,” said another grieving the government had set Centre gave its nod to the CBI to proceed ment had received a lot of complaints In the past, even MLAs and after consuming spurious sumption of poisonous liquor wife. up a committee headed by retired High with the case on Wednesday. The CBI reg- regarding irregularities in sale and pur- MLCs have complained that liquor in Brajpuri and has come to light.” Similarly, a deceased’s kin, Court judge Justice (Retd) Alok Sinha to istered two separate cases in Lucknow on chase of Waqf properties. He said that the DMs and SPs/SSPs do not Garhmukteshwar areas of District police chief of Sarita Sharma, said: “I saw probe into the rip off. After the commit- Thursday. government would make sure that the cul- attend their calls. Hapur. Hapur, Vikrant Vir, said, “We his condition deteriorate after tee submitted its report, the Lucknow Last year, the state government had prits ended up in jail. The CM also directed the While the local police have been receiving informa- consuming liquor. There was Police registered an FIR against several referred two FIRs registered by the UP “The previous SP and BSP regimes did officers to attend their offices attributed the deaths to natur- tion from the media and locals foam in his mouth and he had engineers and contractors of the Irrigation Police against Rizvi and others in connec- not listen to the demands of senior reli- regularly rather than operating al causes, the district adminis- about deaths in the past 48 fever. By the time he got department, including Roop Singh Yadav. tion with the case. On August 8, 2016, a gious leaders and social workers which led from their camp offices (resi- tration and the Excise depart- hours. During our probe, we treatment in the hospital, he The investigation was later handed over to case was registered in Allahabad and on to huge loss of government funds,” he dences). ment officials were probing did not find evidence of spuri- died.” the CBI. March 27, 2017, a case was registered in added. + & 2 # #% 66    "# # "#      

 25 4)1 (Rs 3.82 lakh), Meerut (Rs   5.46 lakh). Vindhyachal divi- he vision of Vocal for Local sion (Rs 10 lakh), divi-  25 4)1 Twas realised this Diwali in sion (about Rs 4.17 lakh), Uttar Pradesh as the import of Chitrakoot division (Rs 3.90 lose on the heels of a hooch Chinese Lakshmi-Ganesh idols lakh), Devipatan division (Rs Ctragedy in Lucknow that and earthen lamps came to a 3.60 lakh), Basti division (Rs 3 claimed six lives, 11 persons nought, giving boost to the lakh) and Saharanpur division died during the past 48 hours rural economy. (Rs 1.21 lakh). after consuming spurious liquor A government official said Singh said that on the in Brajpuri and that sale of over Rs. 237 lakh instructions of Chief Minister Garhmukteshwar areas of worth idols of Goddess Yogi Adityanath, priority was Hapur. Lakshmi and Lord Ganesh and given to the Mati Kala While the local police other clay artefacts made by the Integrated Development attributed the deaths to natur- artisans under the Atmanirbhar Programme to make this al causes, the district adminis- Bharat Abhiyan was reported Diwali Vocal for Local. tration and the Excise depart- during this Diwali. As many as 24,000 families ment officials were probing the He said out of this, sale of associated with the pottery deaths. On their part, the locals Rs 187.35 lakh was clocked at business were allotted leases to attributed the deaths to spurious the stalls of Mati Kala Board set dig clay and 2,964 electric pot- liquor. As per reports, the deaths up at various places of the state ters’ wheels were distributed took place in Ganga Nagri area and sale of over Rs 50 lakh was among artisans under the Mati and the first death was report- registered at the Mati Kala Kala Tool Kits Distribution ed on Wednesday. The autopsy Mela-2020 at Khadi Bhawan in Scheme. reports said that one of the the state capital. Along with this, the POP deceased suffered a heart attack “Significantly, the sale of master dye was made available while another had a history of imported Chinese Lakshmi- to the clay artisans for the man- other ailments. Ganesh idols this Diwali ufacture of modern furnace, The cause of the deaths was remained almost nil and it lamp (diya) making machine, being verified. encouraged the government spray painting machine, paint- The locals said that some of to prepare a detailed action ing wheel, idols, and sculptures. the victims had bought country- plan for marketing of local The beneficiaries receiving made liquor from a nearby products in the times to come,” the tool kit were given training. area and had consumed it in the he said. UP Khadi and Village It helped hone up the local last few days. Industry Minister Sidharth skills and increase income by A local police official said, NOTICE Nath Singh said this was the two-threefold besides generat- “All the deceased were habitu- result of sustained planning to ing employment to at least al drinkers but no one died after I Anju spouse of No-15135706 promote and encourage small- 1,000 persons. taking illicit liquor. We con- P Hav (GD) Naresh Kumar time local vendors and artisans. The minister said that firmed it with a team of doctors. R/o-Vill-Dabadha, Po-Gurgaon, “It also helped in reviving arrangements had also been Each deceased had some disease Teh-Gurgaon, Dist-Gurgaon, the traditional forms of arts and made to provide financial assis- and deteriorating health. Also State-Haryana Pin-122504 local talent in a big way,” he tance to artisans. Loan worth no case of consumption of poi- have changed my date of birth added. Rs 4,068.26 lakh were sanc- sonous liquor has come to from 04.05.1984 to 20.05.1990 The Moradabad division tioned to 1,415 beneficiaries light.” vide affidavit dated 04.11.20 by topped in the sale of local through banks and 1,402 arti- District police chief of Advocate PD Tripathi before products like Lakshmi-Ganesh sans out of 2,000 had been Hapur, Vikrant Vir, said, “We Civil Court, Prayagraj, idols, earthen lamps and dec- trained so far under the Mati have been receiving information oration clay articles on the Kala Skill Development from the media and locals about occasion of Diwali, registering Training Scheme, he said. deaths in the past 48 hours. NOTICE sale of Rs 41.39 lakh. It was fol- It may be mentioned that During our probe, we did not lowed by Lucknow Division the work for setting up a terra- find evidence of spurious liquor. (Rs 13 lakh), Bareilly division cotta training and production Eight deaths have been identi-     XX To whom it may concern. It is pub- (Rs 12 lakh), Agra division (Rs facilitation centre in Lucknow fied. One of the deceased died licly announced that my registeted 10 lakh), Aligarh division (Rs at a cost of Rs 10 crore is under of hernia while the others died   J ! " #$!# %  # &'( )W+ deed mentioned in government 2.89 lakh), Prayagraj division process. The centre will provide of natural causes. However the documents as bahi no. 01, zild no. (Rs 13 lakh), Ayodhya division quality training in production deaths are being probed and 3980, page no. 343 to 368 by roll (Rs 7.36 lakh), Gorakhpur divi- and marketing of finished appropriate action will be         !"#   $    %&  '( no. 4559 has been actually missed sion (Rs 6 lakh), Jhansi division goods to the artisans under one taken.” Contradicting the police some where. Any use of above (Rs 6.46 lakh), Kanpur division roof. version, families of the deceased       ) *+  ,  -. ) !   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F' @IK) *3 5 &) )( ')! School year 2018 Unique ID no. “We will form an alliance with the SP to defeat the BJP in Vati, wife of a victim.  ' C  &* .* G, D'( ! , G *J@ . 3 O$ ' L ,  )   6705210 Index No. 1185209/030 & the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly elections. Our pri- “If poisonous liquor had not Intermediate year 2020 Unique ID no. ority will be to ally with the SP. We will also speak to other par- been selling in the area, my hus- D'( *+ 'E , !, !, )( ')! (G 4, ! , ! ( (), ')! 6705210 Index no. 2201778/015 from ties in the state,” Shivpal Yadav said in Etawah on Friday. band would have been alive,” )( ')! (HO) F' @IK) * 3 5 &) )( ')! 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There were 20 deaths percent of the tests while anti- Participants were trained to exercise. Friday. Besides, 247 patients in the state, including three in gen testing 47 percent. We are perform ‘tadasana’, ‘dha- About his own journey, recovered, taking city’s recovery Etawah, two in Prayagraj, and increasing both antigen and nurasana’, ‘bhujangasana’, Arif said he learnt a lot from figures to 64,251, while the one each in Gautambuddh RT-PCR testing in the dis- ‘pawanmuktasana’, ‘ardhamat- Lucknow which is marked by death toll stands at 954. There Nagar, Varanasi, Meerut, Ballia, trict,” the officials said, adding syandrasana’, ‘padmasana’, cynicism and irreverence, the are a total of 3,340 active cases Saharanpur, Muzaffarnagar, that the daily figures of testing ‘nadishodhan’ etc. characteristic features of the in the state capital. The fresh Bulandshahr, Pratapgarh, have also increased and the Yadav said yoga is useful for city. “I studied at Lucknow cases included 35 from Ghazipur, Kanpur Dehat & number of tests carried out on life and beneficial for holistic University between 1977 and Gomtinagar, 30 from Hapur, taking the UP toll to November 19 in Lucknow was way of life, especially in the 1980 and my subjects were Indiranagar, 27 from Alambagh, 7,500. Besides, 2,220 patients 11,000. times of pandemic. Mathematics, English and 22 from Jankipuram, 20 from recovered, taking the recovery “A review meeting was Science festival was organ- Psychology. Within a year, I lost Chowk, 18 from Talkatora, 11 figures to 4,91,131. There are held to take stock of testing and ised in front of the department interest in academics and got from Hazratganj and 10 from still 23,357 active cases in the contact tracing and it was of by Vibuti Rai from the involved in arts and cultural Hasanganj. Eight patients died state. decided to increase the contact department of Geology. Noted activities before moving to in the city and six of them Meanwhile, Lucknow has tracing to 25 persons per historian Ravi Bhatt was the National School of Drama at belonged to Lucknow while the crossed the 10-lakh mark in patient,” he said. There has chief guest on the occasion. New Delhi and then worked as other two to Ayodhya and Covid testing, followed by been a slight increase in the Vice-Chancellor AK Rai, a designer for many shows Sitapur. Kanpur which has tested only number of fresh coronavirus along with the dean of Faculty such as ‘Bharat Ek Khoj’, ‘Mirza Across the state, 2,858 per- half as many samples, accord- cases in the district of late. of Science Tripta Trivedi and Ghalib’ etc,” he said. heads of departments inaugu- He recalled teachers such as rated the programme. Rai Raj Bisaria from English recalled many well-known Department, litterateur Yogesh %   " ! !% (' ' names of the former faculty Praveen and poet Kunwar members who contributed a lot Narayan, known as institutions in the field of science. in themselves. Ravi Bhatt talked about “The assimilation of things, %  !  ) % &! ' , ( % "  % the historical development of the perspective and the ability LU and how the name of to rise above mundane to a tals. The death toll also reached vices in Gautam Buddha Badshah Bagh, the place where more layered way of thinking !   7,500 with 20 COVID-19 Nagar. LU exists now, was coined. He happened because of my inter- deaths during the past 24 “People should be con- also provided historical struc- actions with these 10-12 people ##  hours. Reports said that stantly made aware of COVID- tural details of the university. from LU. The costumes that I Lucknow reported 382 fresh 19 through public address sys- The Food and Science designed for ‘Bharat Ek Khoj’ "3 ## 6 coronavirus positive cases, tem and it should also be Technology department dis- was a result of that,” he said, Jaunpur 162, Prayagraj 101, ensured that the Integrated played quick adulteration tests adding: “Every country that he  25 4)1 Ghaziabad 255, Gautam Command and Control for food items such as honey has visited be it New Zealand, Buddha Nagar 175, Varanasi Centres works actively. The and milk products while the Australia or Singapore, people ith seven districts, most- 139 and Meerut 249 cases. CM also directed officials to engineering faculty made a ask me within five minutes, “Are Wly in the National Capital Meanwhile, Chief Minister maintain the surveillance and sanitisation tunnel and you from Lucknow? Lucknow Region, registering a spike in Yogi Adityanath directed offi- contact tracing systems effec- Lucknow Public College chhupaye nahi chhupta.” A r i f COVID-19 cases, the positiv- cials to maintain all the facili- tively. The CM also directed demonstrated the use of drone. said LU made his mind like a ity rate in the state has come ties in the Covid hospitals. He officials to be in constant com- Meanwhile, the literary fest sponge which could absorb a down, prompting the adminis- said all these hospitals should munication with the people in at Lucknow University saw stu- variety of things. tration to issue strict warning be well equipped with neces- home quarantine/isolation and dents reciting poems of great Yogesh Praveen, who was asking people to follow the sary medicines and equipment to take regular feedback of poets associated with the insti- the chief guest on the occasion, Covid guidelines in letter and and doctors should take regu- their health while ensuring tution on the second day under talked about the ambience of the Chancellor AK Rai. Both of Lucknow University alumni times while Alok Shukla twice. spirit. Additional Chief lar rounds and it should be that they had pulse oximeters centenary celebrations. Theatre university in the late 50’s and also them played basketball. and current students. Ashish Captain Ashutosh Shukla and Secretary (Health) Amit ensured that the paramedics and infrared thermometers. activist Salim Arif, who concep- about the history of . “Urdu A game was played between Singh scored seven points three Anoop also put their best foot Mohan Prasad said here on did intensive monitoring of Home quarantine facili- tualised the programme, said came up in the south, became a forward. The alumni won 32-20. Friday that the positivity rate in the patients. ties is not be given to coron- the idea was to connect the past youth in Delhi and was decorat- The second match was the state had now come down The CM, who was presid- avirus positive people of high with the present. He said at the ed as a bride in Lucknow. The inaugurated by LU’s examina- to 94.08 percent against 94.18 ing over the Unlock review risk groups and they are to be outset, he was doing a small fall of Delhi in the first war of tion controller AM Saxena. It percent on Thursday. meeting in Lok Bhawan here, kept in the Covid hospitals. journey of the poets such as Independence brought many was played between the alum- “It is because of seven dis- also asked officials to maintain The CM also stressed on Kavi Pradeep, Kailash Vajpayee, of the Urdu poets to Lucknow ni and current student. This tricts mostly in NCR where the vigil in Lucknow, Kanpur safety and cleanliness on KP Saxena, Ali Sardar Jafri, because it was patronised by the match was also won by the fresh cases have been above 100 Nagar, Meerut, Prayagraj, Chhath festival. Raghuvir Sahai, Hasan Kamal nawabs. Those poets first came alumni. Among the current per day for the past 3-4 days,” Gorakhpur, Gautam Buddha The CM also directed offi- and Manohar Shyam Joshi who to Faizabad and then Lucknow,” students, Mansi Prajapati was he said during his daily press Nagar and Ghaziabad districts. cials to organise programme have been the students of LU he added. brilliant as also Nikita and briefing. A total of 4,91,1131 Issuing directive for special focusing on the preamble of and later went on to become Pooja. In the volleyball match, COVID-19 patients have precaution in the border areas the Constitution in all the outstanding writers. “For me, it   7 7 the first two sets were won by recovered in UP, including of UP adjoining Delhi in view institutions on November 26 has been a kind of workshop Shatabdi Sports Festival the current students 25-22 and 2,220 during the past 24 hours. of the spike in COVID-19 which happens to be the because this is a tribute by the was inaugurated as a part of 26-24 while the third set by There are 23,357 active cases in cases, the CM asked the med- Constitution Day. He also contemporary students to the Lucknow University’s cente- alumni 27-25. The final and the state out of which 10,395 ical education minister to asked officials to make all great poets. There was no fun nary celebrations by former decisive match was also won by are in home isolation, 2,167 in review the health services in arrangements in time for the in me doing my play and the UP minister and ex-president of alumni by a 25–16 margin private hospitals and the rest in Ghaziabad and the health min- programmes to be organised idea was that these students LU Students Union Arvind after winning the fourth set government-run Covid hospi- ister to review the health ser- on Gopashtami. should be taken on this journey Singh Gope, along with Vice- 25–23. *7 7 (  "# & #

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Heavy force shot himself at his temple with lodged a complaint accusing was deployed in the village as the same pistol in the presence Arjun of abducting and mur- the victim and the accused of cops and locals, and died on dering his daughter, the police  25 4)1 punishment for love jihad girls have been forced to con- law is necessary to maintain belonged to different com- the spot. arrested the accused. will be five years of imprison- vert and many of them have communal harmony in soci- munities. Babrala village in the Circle Officer, Gunnaur, While being quizzed by fter neighbouring ment and the crime will be even been abandoned after the ety. Several girls are being tar- Gunnaur area Krishna Kant Saroj said, the police, Arjun said that he AMadhya Pradesh started non-bailable. Besides, there is marriage. “Under the new geted by youth of other com- As per reports, the girl was “Three years back, the accused had attempted to end his life the process to draft a law a proposal for a hefty fine on law, forceful conversion will be munities by changing name. working in a field at Babrala had eloped with a minor girl, but could not gather courage against love jihad, the Uttar the accused. The UP govern- punishable and hiding facts This has to be stopped with village of Gunnaur police sta- but no complaint was lodged to do so. Pradesh government too start- ment is likely to bring this bill about one’s identity before strictness,” Pathak said. tion area on Thursday evening, by the girl’s family. Now, he was The girl was a student of ed the process to enact a during the winter session of marriage will make the mar- Haj Minister Mohsin Raza when the accused tried to forcing a girl from another Class 9 and was in a relation- stringent law against this the state legislature in riage null and void,” the offi- also welcomed the govern- converse with her, which she community into a relationship. ship with Arjun, a student of malaise. December. However, the gov- cial said. ment decision on bringing refused. Enraged at her refusal, When she refused, he shot her Class 10. The girl’s family A top government official ernment could also promul- Law Minister Brajesh such a law. “There is certain- the youth took out a country- dead and later killed himself wanted her to continue stud- said that the Home depart- gate an ordinance before Pathak said on Friday that the ly a need for such stringent made pistol and shot at her fearing police action. Forces ies while Arjun pressed her for ment had sent a draft of the tabling the bill due to its draft of the new law would be law to check anti-social ele- causing grievous injuries. have been deployed in the vil- marriage. Their families had proposed law to the Law urgency. In the recent past, made available in public ments from trying to take While the assailant fled the lage to ensure law and order.” met in the presence of village Department for its clearance. there has been a spurt in the domain soon for getting sug- advantage of innocent girls,” scene, the injured girl was Meanwhile in another elders to resolve the issue but Under the new law, the number of cases in which gestions from people. “Such a he said. rushed to a Community incident at Sambhal, the body their efforts proved futile. /0! ( 1Q% '( ' "! '% %!" % & #    Lucknow: Vice-president of admitted and septic shock. His condi- All India Muslim Personal to the ICU tion continues to be critical,”  25 4)1 two-wheelers were recovered Gomtinagar, Mahanagar, advocate, Prem Shanker Pandey Law Board and prominent of a pri- the hospital bulletin said. from their possession. Vikasnagar, Thakurganj and of Mayanagar in Daliganj was Muslim cleric Maulana Kalbe vate hospi- “Presently he is on assisted man, identified as A native of Shrawasti, he Ghazipur police station areas. burgled some time between Sadiq’s health condition con- tal here on ventilation, vasopressor sup- AMangalesh Goswami, was presently stays near the veg- Goswami told the police that he November 18 and 19. There was tinued to remain critical on Tuesday. port and optimal antibiotic arrested on Friday on the etable market in Dubagga. He is lifted vehicles only in day time no one in the house when it was Friday, a health bulletin issued “He is coverage. In view of the Acute charges of auto-lifting. He was said to have forayed into the and parked them at isolated burgled. When Pandey came here said. suffering Renal Failure and deteriorating picked up from Dubagga area crime world last year and has places for some time before dis- back from out of station, he The 83-year-old is suffer- from severe pneumonia, kidney functions he under- under Kakori police station on stolen 16 two-wheelers. He posing them of. found the locks broken and ing from pneumonia and was Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) went dialysis,” it added. Thursday night. Three stolen would lift vehicles from Meanwhile, house of an valuables missing. 1   2  /      25 4)1 Minister Nawaz Sharif ? During which Bachao Beti Padhao’? Where is your oper-     regime were terrorists released from jail ? ation Majnu?” he asked. ttar Pradesh Congress Committee chief The BJP should stop making false accusa- Lallu reacted after the Chief Minister  25 4)1 UAjay Kumar Lallu hit back at Chief tions and instead introspect,” Lallu said in attacked the Congress on Thursday over Minister Yogi Adityanath and reminded the Lucknow on Friday. Gupkar alliance in Jammu and Kashmir. olice claimed to have arrested two BJP of coalition government with PDP in “Yogi ji should also explain when will Yogi had termed the alliance by oppo- Pmembers of a gang of thieves on Friday Jammu and Kashmir. daughters be safe in UP. The entire state is sition parties in Jammu and Kashmir as a morning. The accused were identified as “The BJP can forge an alliance with any- ashamed of heinous incidents in Etah, ‘nefarious’ design towards compromising the Sunny alias Navin Rajput (26) and one just to form their government and com- Hathras, Kanpur, Bulandshahr, Fatehpur, integrity and sovereignty of the country and Shubham Singh (22). Valuables worth Rs promise with anyone for power. Before Barabanki, Basti, and Gorakhpur. The peo- said that the Congress owed an explanation 5 lakh and Rs 72,500 in cash were recov- accusing others, the BJP should explain as ple want to know where your Mission Shakti to Indians for standing with separatists ered from their possession. They were to why the PM visit former Pakistan Prime is and what happened to the slogan of ‘Beti forces in Jammu and Kashmir. rounded up by a patrolling team in Gomti Nagar Extension. The accused are said to have several jail terms and were also booked under ) # % # '     Gangster Act. As per reports, Sunny told the police that they worked in a local gang. $  He said they would conduct recce disguised   "  ## as rag-pickers or vegetable sellers. They were arrested after being spotted in footage Lucknow (PTI): To boost tourism, the tourists, volunteers are offering their ser-  of CCTV cameras installed in localities Uttar Pradesh government has decided vices for languages ?such as English, where theft was committed in the recent to extend ambulance service under the French, Spanish, Urdu, Malaysian, Lucknow (PNS): Plans to celebrate the past. The police said their location was emergency helpline number 112 to Korean, etc.," he said. Constitution Day in a big way are afoot with traced with help of electronic surveillance tourists, including foreigners, visiting the He also said that tourist police facil- the secretariat planning to hold its and informers. state. A senior official said the 112 facil- ity is available in Lucknow, Agra, regular two-day All India presiding officers Commissioner of Police DK Thakur ity is now available in 18 languages and Mathura, Kushinagar and other districts conference on November 25 and 26 at Kevadia, announced a cash reward of Rs 20,000 for the state government has roped in volun- of the state. He said, "112-UP coordinates near the Statue of Unity in Gujarat’s Narmada the police team. teers proficient in foreign languages to with the tourist police in these cities to district. The event is to be graced by the Meanwhile, a youth, identified as cater to foreign tourists. provide assistance to tourists. Police President, Vice President, Prime Minister Rishabh Singh (19), was arrested from his "In case a tourist falls ill, ambulance Response Vehicles act as a bridge between Narendra Modi and a few other Constitutional house in Rastogi Nagar under Thakurganj assistance will be provided to them by 112 tourists and administration/district heads. On the second day of the conference, police station on Friday afternoon. A personnel," said Asim Arun, the police." Additional Chief Secretary Prime Minister Narendra Modi will read the licenced revolver, live cartridges and empty Additional Director General of 112 facil- (Home) Awanish Kumar Awasthi said preamble of the Constitution and later in the shells were also recovered. The police ity. "Many citizens are serving as volun- that 112 personnel are being trained on day he will deliver the valedictory address. booked him for celebratory firing to cele- teers to speak in foreign languages. the kind of help tourists may need in an The 80th edition of the conference would brate the birthday of his friend by firing Considering the number of foreign emergency and how to help them. be unique as it is not usual for the President shots in the air. Investigating officer and the Vice President and Prime Minister to Sanjeev Kumar said Singh went to the 2'      +  attend the event. house of Gyanendra Singh, who is resident The two-day event would conclude on of the same locality, on October 31 to cel- Lucknow (PTI): Following Prime Minister pieces like earthen lamps were sold through November 26, the day that is now celebrated ebrate latter’s birthday. Narendra Modi's "vocal for local" call, the UP Mati Kala Board, MSME minister as the Constitution Day. Besides, a man, identified as Ashok Uttar Pradesh government promoted sale said on Thursday. He It will be the fourth time that Gujarat will Singh, was arrested from Neelmatha area of clay idols of Gauri-Ganesh worth Rs said to train artisans, a terracotta training- host the event and the first at Kevadia, near under Thakurganj police station on Friday 237.67 lakh during Diwali, resulting in neg- cum-production facility centre is coming Narmada Dam close to the Statute of Unity. morning on the charges of theft. A dozen ligible purchase of Chinese products, a up in the state capital at a cost of Rs 10 The state hosted the event for the first time in gold chains and five smartphones were minister said. crore. Besides training, it will facilitate 1955, then in 1973, 1996 and 2016 at recovered from his possession. These idols and other decorative financial assistance to the needy. Gandhinagar.    !"  #$%#&#&

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      F!A!!&3 to the testing centres. He said       !22! !@! that on an average, more than midst the prevailing fear of 5,500 tests are being conduct- Acoronavirus pandemic, his is exactly what is ed daily. thousands of devotees thronged Texpected post-Diwali in On Thursday, samples of various Ganga and Varuna the corona cases. The number 6,489 suspected were collected apart from some ponds of Covid infected is continu- for testing, added Dr Bajpai. here on Friday evening to offer ously increasing. The figure is The alert has been declared ‘arghya’ to Surya Bhagwan (Sun stuck above 140. A total of 142 in Covid hospitals in view of God) at the time of sunset on new cases of corona infection the possibility of increasing the penultimate day of four-day were detected in 24 hours. At the number of infected after the Surya Shasthi festival, popular- the same time, the number of Diwali festival. Medical officers ly known as Dalla Chhath those who beat Corona has also and nodal officers of Covid Puja. Elaborate security reduced. A total of 66 people Care Centres have been told arrangements have been made became infection-free on that the number of patients at various ghats and ponds. In Thursday. One patient died increases and if they do not view of coronavirus pandemic during treatment. want to be admitted to hospi- and in response to the call of According to CMO Dr GS tals or are in a home isolation Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath Bajpai, 24 people were dis- now 18,141 people have recov- treatment. At the same time, situation, then they are admit- and others, majority of vratis charged from various Covid ered in home isolation. the total number of infected ted on the basis of symptoms preferred to observe the rituals hospitals in the district on According to the CMO, the people has reached 25,686. He and ensure treatment. at their homes. Thursday, who became infec- number of people who lost informed that testing proce- However, patients are being The devotees started tion free. At the same time, 42 their lives due to Covid has dure is being expedited. admitted to L3 SRN Hospital, thronging various ghats of people completed home isola- increased to 333 after the death Appeals are being made to L2 Beli Hospital and United Ganga and Varuna to secure tion. He further said that till of an infected person during make people aware and come Medicity only, added the CMO. space at the stairs since after- noon hours. Rush was also seen at different ghats of Ramnagar including Shastri and Balua ghats.      - .  !       The ghats like Dashaswamedh, Rajendra Tulsi witnessed gathering ious kunds and ponds. famous festivals such as Dev Prasad, Ahliyabai, Man of a good number of devotees. In view of increasing pop- Deepawali, Bharat Milap of       !22! !@! Chief Minister Keshav Prasad the morning. dead. SP Anurag Arya also Mandir, Assi, Sheetla, Scindia, Besides, rush of devotees was ularity of the festival in the Nati Imli, Rathyatra Mela, Maurya has also expressed The collision was so strong reached the spot on getting Panchganga, Nagva, also seen at Shastri and other recent decades, the administra- Nakataiya of Chetganj, Naag n a road accident, 14 baratis grief over the death of 14 peo- that the people around the vil- information. Bhainsasur, Rajghat, Narad, ghats of river Varuna. Rush of tion ha started paying attention Nathaiya at Tulsighat and some Iwere killed when the Bolero ple in a road accident in lage heard the screams of the Two brothers of Chausa Kedar, Hanuman, Ravidas and devotees was also seen at var- towards Chhath like other others. car in which they were return- Pratapgarh. He expressed his occupants and rushed to the Jirgapur village under the ing rammed into a truck after heartfelt condolences to the spot and informed the police. Kunda police station fell victim the driver lost control over bereaved family. He said that The police team, which arrived to this horrific accident. steering in Pratapgarh in the senior officers have been on the receipt of information, Srinath’s sons Dinesh and Naan wee hours on Friday. The immediately sent by the gov- took the injured to the CHC. In Bhaiya of this village were also =   ##" *>  ?>) speeding uncontrolled Bolero ernment for assistance on the this accident 14 people were returning from the same rammed into the truck parked spot. Deputy CM Keshav said killed including seven chil- Bolero. While returning, on the Lucknow-Prayagraj that all possible help will be dren. SHO, Kunda Kotwal has Dinesh had also given informa-       F!A!!&3 tification. BHU has already try so that they can better ing the National Innovation highway. Five teenagers were provided by the government. confirmed the death of 14 peo- tion about calling the family started procuring several high utilise the new facilities. An and Start up policy (NISP) of also among those who died in The government is with the ple. A chaos erupted at the members that he was reaching epartment of Science & end state-of-the-art instru- important purpose of the GOI. The Industry Meet is the accident. Pratapgarh SP family in this hour of grief. scene due to the accident. home in a short time. Who DTechnology (DST), ments under the SATHI as well meeting is also to have a direct likely to be attended by more Anurag Arya confirmed the In the wee hours on Friday, Some people were strand- knew this was his last conver- Government of India (GOI), as other programmes and these interaction with the leaders/ than 50 academicians and accident. The accident a marriage procession (barat) ed in the Bolero, who were sation with his relatives. The has sanctioned 125 crore to instruments are being housed representatives of the industry, industry representatives and occurred as the driver took a of the son of Santram Yadav evacuated with the help of a gas same happened to Pawan and the Banaras Hindu University at the newly-constructed six- MSME and start-ups to know will be inaugurated by Prof short nap while driving. On the resident of Chausa Jirgapur cutter. Kunda Kotwal SHO DP Aman, sons of Dinesh Kumar, (BHU) to establish a floor Central Discovery Centre their analytical and testing Rakesh Bhatnagar, Vice- other hand, Chief Minister village under the Kunda police Singh has confirmed the deaths who live in the same village, Sophisticated Analytical (CDC) at BHU. needs so that the planning for Chancellor, BHU. The Yogi Adityanath has expressed station went to Shekhawapur of all 14 people sitting in both died in the accident. Technical Help Institute In order to serve the the purchase of future equip- Industry, MSMEs, Start-ups, grief over the Pratapgarh acci- under the Nawabganj police Bolero. Dinesh Kumar, Pawan SP Anurag Arya spoke to (SATHI) for catering to the industry better, BHU is going ments under SATHI and other especially from Varanasi and dent. The CM Yogi Adityanath station. Late after ‘jaimal’, some Kumar, Dayaram, Aman the relatives of the deceased needs of the academia as well to conduct an online/ offline programmes can be done surrounding areas, are invited has instructed senior officers to baratis were returning in a Kumar, Ram Samuzh, Ansh, and asked to send all the bod- as industry. BHU is the only Industry Meet on November based on such identified to participate in the pro- reach the spot and provide all Bolero car. The speeding Gaurav Kumar, Nan Bhaiya, ies for postmortem. Bodies of university in the country to be 22 from 2-5 pm at the requirements, informed Prof gramme meant for them to possible assistance to the vic- Bolero rammed against the Sachin, Himanshu, Mithlesh all the 14 dead were loaded on selected for this programme Mahamana Hall of the Anil Tripathi, Coordinator make it a grand success. tims. truck parked near Deshraj Kumar, Abhimanyu, Parasnath a tractor and sent to the district and is now gearing up to ful- Seminar Complex, Institute BHU-SATHI and Director, Industry representatives inter- Uttar Pradesh Deputy Indara at around 4 o’clock in have been identified among the hospital. fill the expectations of the of Science to inform the indus- Institute of Science. ested in participating in this local industry for their require- try representatives about its This meeting is expected interaction may contact the ments by way of providing latest instrumentation capabil- to catalyse academia-industry Director, Institute of Science, testing, quality analysis and cer- ities for the benefit of indus- partnership for implement- BHU ([email protected]).          + /   %01         $   - 

      F!A!!&3 resume on May 9 last with lim-       !22! !@! Vande Bhart Express. The and 02427/28 Rewa-New verted to 24 coach blue ited employees living in BLW nine pairs speeded up include Delhi Express currently oper- coloured air braked stock in eneral Manager of Banaras premises by following the ine pairs of trains have primary maintained 02417/18 ating as special trains. 2003 and latest LHB rake GLocomotive Works (BLW) guidelines of COVID-19 on the Nbeen speeded up over Prayagraj-New Delhi special 02417/18 Prayagraj- New w.e.f. December 16, 2016 with Anjali Goyal on Friday dedicat- basis of a formula of maximum North Central Railway. train and eight pairs of impor- Delhi special, the flagship 21 coaches. Popularity of this ed the 150th electric locomo- 33 per cent strength. 02417/18 Prayagraj-New Delhi tant passing trains which will train of North Central train can be gauged from the tive “WAP-7” to the nation. At Subsequently, the first elec- special train becomes the first operate at 130 kmph for full Railway will be the first train fact that it was augmented to a brief programme, Goyal laud- tric rail engine WAP-7 of finan- 24 LHB coach train on Indian or part journey over NCR. on Indian Railways with 24 22 coaches w.e.f December ed the officers and employees cial year 2020-2021, manufac- Railways to operate at 130 Eight pairs of other trains LHB coaches operating at 18, 2016, 23 coaches from for their sincere efforts to tured in BLW Loco Test Shop Kmph. speeded up over North 130 Kmph from November May 15, 2017 and maximum achieve this achievement. BLW during lockdown, was flagged With its hallmark mobil- Central Railway are 02559/60 25, 2020 over Prayagraj 24 LHB coaches w.e.f manufactured 150 electric off on May 16 last. It was a his- ity, North Central Railway has Manduadih-New Delhi, Division. Introduced on July September 2, 2019. This locomotives in just 159 work- torical moment for all of the distinction of running more 02419/20 Lucknow-New 16,1984, Prayagraj Express achievement has been possi- ing days since lockdown with employees that the locomotive than 100 trains at 130 kmph Delhi, 09038/37 Bandra- has been providing quality ble with impeccable mainte- the sincere efforts and hard was manufactured in just one or higher speed over its three Gorakhpur, 09040/39 Bandra- journey experience and has nance of track, rolling stock, work of the employees. Goyal week with the hard-work divisions including the fastest Muzaffarpur, 02565/66 achieved many milestones in signaling and electrical assets added that during this pan- and sincere efforts of the train of India—Gatiman Dibrugarh-New Delhi, last four decades. Started with and strict operating disci- demic period, all the COVID- /2+ 3! /      %01     4 356   employees, Goyal said that the Express, and train with high- 02555/56 Gorakhpur-Hisar, 17 vacuum braked red pline over North Central 19 guidelines were followed     150th electric rail engine est average speed over IR 02553/54 Saharsa-New Delhi coloured coaches it was con- Railway. while manufacturing the loco- with 6000 horsepower capaci- motives. motives under Atam Nirbhar in BLW could not be done for ty (electric loco number-37471) The indigenous equipment Bharat Mission of the Prime 48 days during the lockdown is to be sent to Vadodara worth 1,300 crore were used Minister Narendra Modi. because of COVID-19 pan- Electric Loco Shed of Western in manufacturing of these loco- The manufacturing process demic. The work could only Railway.  & =  # ##

      !22! !@! started. fired several bullets sans per- Awadh province, Kanpur and &4$56,+ 7    Its tender will be opened mission. Their act caused dis- Goraksh province will join the ender has been issued for on November 27. comfort and brief confusion churning. According to RSS Tthe five pontoon bridges to Construction work will be among residents in the Sadar sources, meetings of the       F!A!!&3 while one from a hospital, received were 3,84,681 and the There are 2,222 green be built for the forthcoming started soon thereafter. This Bazar area. Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh increasing the number to results of 5,880 are awaited. zones with seven new ones. annual Magh Mela scheduled time, in 30 days, five bridges SP (Pratapgarh) Anurag have been affected due to eeing yet another rise in 14,463 and 2,851 respectively. Out of them, 3,66,428 were Under ongoing mass/ group to be held next January. It has will be prepared and opened Arya said that the cops had corona. Scases of COVID-19, as The total number of patients negative, while 18,253 posi- antigen tests, one out of 367 to be prepared in a month. It for devotees. He informed been instructed to ensure the The meeting of the repre- many as 125 new positive who have been recovered so far tive. The total number of tests has been detected posi- used to take two to two-and-a- that after the construction of arrest of all three persons sentatives was to be held in patients have been detected in is 17,314,leaving 684 active samples collected was tive at Shree Shiv Prasad half months to work on normal the bridge, the contractor will who were involved in the cel- March but did not happen so. the district on Friday, increas- cases. The recovery rate is 4,04,971. Earlier, a female Gupta (SSPG) Hospital, days, but now this work will also maintain it for three- ebratory firing. The meeting of province ing the total number of cases to 94.65 per cent while the mor- aged 72 from Pandeypur suc- Kabirchaura while two out of have to be completed as soon and-a-half months. He also added that police pracharak to be held in June 18,291. After a long gap the day tality rate is 1.60 per cent. cumbed to COVID-19 at Sir 230 at SSH BHU. However, all as possible by putting in extra FIRS AGAINST 3 FOR have been making efforts to also had to be postponed. In saw the cases in three figures. Chief Medical Officer Sundarlal Hospital, Banaras the 295 tests at Government labour. CELEBRATORY FIRING : obtain more details regarding view of the corona pandemic, The day also saw one more (CMO) Dr VB Singh has Hindu University (SSH BHU). Women’s Hospital, 105 at The work for Magh Mela Pratapgarh police registered the celebratory firing inci- the format of the meeting of death, increasing the toll to 293. informed that in the first With the addition of seven CHC Shivpur, 87 at Swami 2021 has lagged behind due to two separate FIRs with dent. the National Executive Board During the day, the follow-up report of the day, 88 positive new red zones, the total num- Vivekanand Government the corona pandemic. Kotwali police station under The SP also said that has also been changed. Now it negative reports included 67 patients were found out of ber of hotspots has increased Hospital, Bhelupur and 172 at Approval has been received section 307 (murder attempt), police had taken cognisance of will be at 11 places at the and out of them 66 have been 3,873 reports received. Till to 2,426 including 204 red LBS Hospital,Ramnagar have from the government but no and section 286 (negligent the videos of celebratory fir- province level instead of one recovered from home isolation, then, the total test reports zones. been found negative. work has started on the conduct concerning explo- ing that went viral on social place. ground so far. Recently, the sive substance) against three media during the festive sea- In this sequence, the Public Works Department had persons after two videos of son and registered two sepa- meeting of the office-bearers issued tenders for the roads of celebratory firing went viral rate FIRs with Kotwali police of Eastern Uttar Pradesh will the checkered plate. Now it on social media. in this connection. He added be held on November 22, 23 *## "#  "  has also been revised. In the first case, Kotwali that weapons would also be and 24 at Vashistha Vatsalya There will be 16 roads in police have registered an FIR seized. College, Gauhania. It will the fair. Its tender will be pos- under section 286 and 307 of RSS NATIONAL include Sir Sangh Chalak sible by the end of this month. IPC against one Prince Singh, EXECUTIVE BOARD Mohan Bhagwat along with  " !- ?;  After the road, tender has who is a resident of Awas MEET: The meeting of the Sir Karyavah Bhaiyya Joshi, been issued for five pontoon Vikas Colony. National Executive Board Sah Sir Karyawah and many bridges. This time the The FIR states that the (Eastern Uttar Pradesh other national office-bearers. VARANASI (PNS): ers at a lawn in Naria, Lanka in informal chat with the media- to establish personal contact to Mahavir bridge on the Ganga man had allegedly made cel- Region) of the Rashtriya Provincial level co-ordina- Enthusiast with the outstand- view of the election of teacher persons outside the house of voters and the work at ground will be built at a cost of 45 ebratory firing using his Swayamsevak Sangh will be tors, pracharak and Karyavah ing performance in the recent- and graduate constituencies, party regional president level will ensure the victory of lakh, Triveni bridge for 52 licensed pistol and rifle with- held in Gauhania from will also be there. Sir Sangh ly held assembly election in Singh exhorted them to partic- Mahesh Chandra Srivastava, the party. He exhorted party lakh, Kali bridge (55 lakh), out any permission which November 22 to 24. It will Chalak will review the works Bihar and byelection in UP and ipate in the election by under- Singh said that the moral of workers to hold meetings with Gangoli Shivala bridge ( resulted in chaos and fear also include Sir Sangh Chalak so far and guide the strategy other states, the new BJP UP standing that they are contest- party workers is high with the each voter at least thrice before 41.50 lakh) and Old GT like the atmosphere in the Mohan Bhagwat and Sir ahead. Incharge Radha Mohan Singh ing the election. It is your duty result of recently held elections the voting. One in politics bridge will be prepared at the area. The video of the firing Karyavah Bhaiya Ji Joshi. The According to sources, a on Friday said that this success to take the voters to the election and the election of teacher earns tall stature with the work cost of 43.50 lakh. had gone viral on social media Executive Board will have strategy will be chalked out to has proved that the people of booth on the polling day, he and graduate constituencies and not the post, he said, ask- The Public Works in no time. such meetings at 11 places spread wide publicity about country is with the Prime said adding, more voting per- will also yield the result in the ing the workers to hold voters’ Department has released the In the second case, across the country. the Ram temple. The efforts Minister Narendra Modi who centage will ensure the victory favour of party candidates. He convention at each district of tender of all these bridges Kotwali police registered an Important issues such as being made by the Sangh for provided houses, toilets, elec- of the party candidate with a has gone to the house of constituency. The voting per- online. Superintending FIR under similar sections the Ram temple will be dis- skill development during the tricity, gas and health security huge margin. The victory of Srivastava to take a stock of his centage will increase with Engineer MK Singh said that against two brothers, Aman cussed along with an internal corona period will also be cover to poor and deprived BJP is the victory of the trust welfare. micro management at polling the time is short this time and Singh and Guddu Singh, res- review of the work during the reviewed. Steps to be taken for people of society for the first of one and all with the devel- The state organising gener- stations and subsequently, it the bridge has to be prepared idents of Sadar Bazar alleging churning at Gauhania, about branch expansion abroad can time after the independence. opment of all, he said further. al secretary of party Sunil will ensure the victory with a before January 14. The tender that they were also involved in 20 km from the city. Office- also be discussed, sources Addressing the party work- Earlier, while having an Bansal said that this election is big margin, he added. process for the bridge has celebratory firing and had bearers of Kashi province, added.   !" #$%#&#& 6

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anpur Nagar reported 149 8PSS@TQPI9@IU  $' ()#* Thw 05910 Lalgarh- ber-09037 had left his bag in it. Kmore coronavirus positive Dibrugarh special train to run The Railway Protection Force cases on Friday evening. Chief ue to ongoing farmers’ from Lalgarh on November 21 Gorakhpur later handed it over Medical Officer Dr Anil K Dagitation in Punjab, the is being diverted via to the passenger concerned, Mishra said that 149 more cancellation and short-origi- Hanumagarh-Hisar-Bhiwani- CPRO PK Singh said. Likewise people had tested positive for nation of trains will be done as Rohtak. in the Railway Protection Force coronavirus infection between follows. The 05211 Darbhanga- UNIQUE MEDICAL outpost Aishbagh, a woman Thursday evening and Friday Amritsar special train to run IDENTITY CARDS : The offi- constable got a mobile phone evening taking the tally of from Darbhanga on November cers and employees retiring on the railway track. It was later confirmed cases to 29,582 21 will remain cancelled, Chief from the North Eastern found that the cell phone was cases. He said that 21 cases Public Relations Officer (CPRO) Railway (NER) headquarters of one of the staff members of were discharged from hospi- Pankaj Kumar Singh said. and additional units, who are Uttar Pradesh Police and was tal. He said one COVID-19 The 05212 Amritsar- yet to get their unique medical then handed over by the RPF death in the city was report- Darbhanga special train to run identity cards made should get to the person concerned. ed till Friday evening keeping from Amritsar on November registration done at the Meanwhile the Crime the death toll to 762. The 23 will remain cancelled. UMID.digitalir.in portal and Intelligence Branch (CIB), CMO said at present 1072 Likewise the 04624 Amritsar- get their unique medical iden- Varanasi, and Railway active cases were undergoing Saharsa special train to run tity card loaded. The retired Protection Force, Varanasi City, treatment. Dr Mishra said from Amritsar on November officers and employees can get members arrested two persons 5137 samples were sent for 21 will remain cancelled. The registeration done from their from a shop in Sarnath with testing in the city. 04623 Saharsa-Amritsar special mobile phone or from the Jan eight e-tickets worth 9,884 in train to run from Saharsa on Seva Kendra, CPRO PK Singh a case of touting and registered November 22, 2020 will remain said. Information regarding a case against them under .  canceled. The 05251 registration can be obtained by Section 143 of the Railway Darbhanga-Jalandhar City spe- contacting the nearest head- Act. Likewise the RPF, Pilibhit, cial train to run from quarters/divisional/unit office. arrested one person from a   Darbhanga on November 21 will At the time of registration, the shop in Khatima along with 11 remain cancelled. The 05252 retired officer and employee’s e-tickets, on which the journey       4!"5A Jalandhar City-Darbhanga spe- mobile number, photocopies of had taken place, for illegal cial train to run from Jalandhar PPO and medical card, signa- touting of tickets and registered youth was fatally knocked City on November 22 will ture or thumb impression, for a case under the Section 143 of Adown by a speeding remain cancelled. Besides the Unique Medical Identity Card the Railway Act. Besides a pas- dumper in Sajeti town under 05212 Amritsar-Darbhanga spe- passport size photo and date of senger who had left his trolley Ghatampur police station on cial train to run from Amritsar on birth certificate of all depen- bag while travelling in train No Friday afternoon. November 22 will remain can- dants will be required. 05008. It was found by Railway After the accident, the celled. The 04674 Amritsar- CASE REGISTERED: Protection Force, Bhatni, and -   -            7  '  .   passers-by brutally beat up the Jaynagar special train to run The Railway Protection Force handed over to the passenger dumper driver and handed from Amritsar on November 22 (RPF), North Eastern Railway concerned. Besides a passenger him over to the police. will be run from Ambala. (NER), makes constant efforts left his bag in train No 02534. The movement of traffic on The 04652 Amritsar- to protect passengers and pro- It was recovered from the train the road remained disrupted Jaynagar special train to run vide them better travel facilities. by the RPF personnel and !"- . 3 ;"(( for some time. from Amritsar on November In the same sequence, one handed over to the passenger According to reports, 32- 22 will be run from Delhi. person travelling in train num- concerned. year-old Vipin Chaurasia, son of Ramlal Chaurasia of Sonvarsha village in Rura 1.?# &   !"  police station area of Kanpur 4"'!' % %) % !' Dehat, along with his friend Shivam, son of Ram Kishan 8PSS@TQPI9@IU  $' ()#* Rawat village. On November 2 ONE NABBED: Abhishek       4!"5A of Karbigwa overbridge, line without the permission of Kanpur Development Chaurasia, was going to he had gone to the village in Yadav, a resident of Surdapar Mahana asked the officials to the NHAI. Authority (KDA) officials to Rampur (Sajeti) on a motor- n a sensational incident a connection with some work Raja village under the Gola ttar Pradesh’s Industrial fix his meeting with the railway Mahana also asked the allot all the 10,032 flats, cycle to distribute invitation Igang of unidentified thieves and there was no one in the police station, was arrested by UDevelopment Minister officials within the next 10 days NHAI officials to provide equipped with all facilities, cards of his sister’s marriage. sneaked into a house after house. On Thursday when he the police from Gola town on has directed to resolve the issue. underpass near Ekghara village being constructed under the Around 2 pm, as he breaking and decamped with came to know that the lock of Thursday afternoon. It is learnt officials to start vehicular He also directed the offi- during widening of the Narval Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana reached Sajeti town, a dumper jewellery worth 5 lakh and his house was broken he that a case had been registered movement on and cials to widen the railway over- road. by December 2021. coming from the opposite 10,000 in cash here. The theft returned and was stunned to against him and he was Jhakarkati railway overbridges bridge from Ghantaghar to Tat At the same time, he also Mahana took NHAI direction knocked down the took place when there was no find that the thieves had absconding for the past 15 by March next year. Mill in consultation with the directed the NHAI to repair the Project Manager Deoki motorcycle, killing Vipin on the one in the house. According to sneaked into it, stolen all the days. SHO Santosh Kumar Reviewing the develop- railway officials. Mahana asked service lane from Rama Devi to Nandan to task for wearing a spot. a report received here, on hear- precious jewellery which had Singh said that a case was filed mental works in a meeting held the officials to continue talks within a month. round-neck T-shirt and asked Shivam, who was on the ing about the burglary on been kept in the cupboards, against him 15 days ago and at the Circuit House here on with the Railways for removal Talking to media persons, him to maintain the protocol of pillion, had a narrow escape. Thursday the victim, suitcases etc. He said that on was absconding since then. Friday, Mahana also came of the railway track from Mahana said the construction the meeting. Station House Officer Tarkeshwar Mishra belonging finding the moment opportune On being tipped off by an across the problems being faced Anwarganj to Mandhana, of 25-km road from Ekghara He asked the District Raghvendra Mishra said the to Bhiti Rawat village under the the burglars had decamped informer, he was arrested on by the officials concerned in adding that he would himself village turn to GT Road via Urban Development Agency driver was taken into custody Sahajanwa police station and with a gold necklace, a pair of Thursday afternoon. A case of this matter. talk to the Railway minister in Sarsaul station, Tons, Narval, (DUDA) project officer that if and the dumper was impound- originally a resident of Rampur ‘tika’, four mangalsutras, rings, rape was registered against However, the officials this respect. Raipur, Karbigwa and Sikathia, the jobs for the sanction of pro- ed. Chaube village under the anklets etc besides 10,000 in him. The team which made the assured him that movement of On the dilapidated condi- was going on. ject and delivery of cheque The body was sent for Kaptanganj police station of cash from the spot. Station arrest comprised sub-inspec- traffic on both these ROBs tion of Jajmau bridge, Mahana He had earlier directed were all done by him, what autopsy. Kushinagar district, he was House Officer (SHO) of tors (S-Is) Digvijay Narayan would be started by March directed the officials to carry officials to install solar light in would he do? He asked him to informed by his neighbours Sahjanwa Santosh Yadav said Rai, Alok Rai, Vivek 2021. out the repairing work there. all these villages to ensure complete his remaining eight that the lock of his house was that the victim had lodged a Chaturvedi and Rajesh Yadav Chairing the meeting, For the sewer line covered proper light there. months’ service smoothly. broken. Thereafter he returned complaint and a case had been and constables Shailendra Mahana asked the officials to under the road in Safipur, the The minister asked the Mayor Pramila Pandey, 2'"-$'-5 from the village. It is learnt that registered in this connection. Singh, Bachchey Lal Yadav, soon complete the work of National Highway Authority of divisional commissioner not to Divisional Commissioner Raj Tarakeshwar Bhitti had got a He said that the accused would Santosh Yadav and Vinod side interlocking on COD fly- India (NHAI) officials were allow people to carry out their Shekhar, District Magistrate     house constructed in Bhiti be arrested soon. Sharma. over. The officials assured him directed to allow Jal Nigam to work if they failed to repair the Alok Tewari, Municipal to complete this work by the dig up the road. This directive road dug up by them. For this, Commissioner Akshay Tripathi end of this month. was issued as the Jal Nigam a committee would be set up to and Senior Superintendent of   .  

In view of the problems officials expressed their inabil- monitor the menace. Police Pritinder Singh were being faced in the construction ity to repair the choked sewer Mahana directed the present in the meeting. KANPUR (PNS): UP Metro 8PSS@TQPI9@IU  +, -#* Ashok Pandey, a resident of seized the pick-up under the Rail Corporation’s Public village Belwan under Padari Motor Vehicles Act. Relations Officer Panchanan adari police arrested a youth police station. Mishra, in an official statement Palong with a stolen motor- In another incident  # $    issued here on Friday, lashed cycle. As per the reports Chunar police arrested three %%   #  out at the media for exaggera- received here, Dheeraj accused, recovered 11 head of Kachhawaan police arrest- tion of facts. Prajapati, a resident of Gorsar cattle and seized a pick-up on ed three accused in connection He said the reason for Sarpati, had on August 18 Thursday. As per the reports, with a dowry murder case on stopping traffic and diversion lodged a first information Chunar police was busy in Thursday. As per the reports, %  3 #  of vehicular movement was report (FIR) at Padari police vehicle checking on the Ganga Raju Sonkar, a resident of for a short while and was a station regarding the theft of bridge that a pick-up vehicle Khargasipur village under minor incident which the engi- his motorcycle. The police (UP-65/GT- 2006) driver Newadhiya police station in neers had handled efficiently in was investigating the matter failed to show the documents. Jaunpur, had lodged an FIR at       4!"5A no time. He said the UP Metro when on Thursday they inter- Considering the vehicle as Kachhawan police station on Rail Corporation was com- cepted a suspect near Belwan suspicious when the cops Wednesday alleging that his sis- anpur Divisional mitted to the safety of the peo- over bridge and asked for the searched it and found 11 head ter, Jyoti (22), was killed by her KCommissioner Raj ple. It may be mentioned here documents of the motorcycle. of cattle loaded on it and one inlaws in Mahmadpur village Shekhar on Friday directed that the media had flashed a As the youth could not do so was found dead. An FIR under under Kachhawaan police sta- District Magistrate Alok Tiwari news on Thursday that during the police interrogated him relevant sections of law was tion on Tuesday night. In the to set up a committee com- the alignment of a Metro cor- during which he confessed registered. Police arrested the case six persons were named as prising officials of the district ridor pillar, a massive iron that the said motorcycle was a three accused identified as accused. Taking instant action administration and all the girder slipped and nearly stolen one and also gave details Anul Faruqui, son of Ismail, a in the matter the police team of departments concerned for crashed on the traffic moving about its owner too. The police resident of Dulhipur under Kachhawaan arrested husband monitoring all kinds of road below. The people who were then recovered the motorcycle Deen Dayal Upadhyay Nagar of the victim, Raju Sonkar, her cuttings and their repairs after eyewitness had supported the No UP63/W-6812 and started police station, Irfan, son of mother-in-law Laxmi Sonkar, completion of the work. news and given their eyewit- the process to hand it over to Sallu, and Sahil, son of and her father-in law, Lalchand He said that this would ness account, saying a major its owner and sent the accused Naseem, residents of Golghar Sonkar. The police was inves- facilitate completion of the mishap was averted. The PRO to jail. The accused was iden- near Kutcheri under Cantt tigating the matter, last reports required work in time and said the fact was that due to the tified as Ajeet Pandey, son of police station in Varanasi and received here said. without any compromise on alignment work, the route was quality. diverted and the traffic slowed He said these civil works down for a short while but with -(     should not put the people into the help of the marshals it had inconvenience. been normalised. It may be 8PSS@TQPI9@IU  +, -#* Chairing the function organised The divisional commis- mentioned here that between to mark Rani Lakshmibai’s birth sioner also expressed concern and Baghia crossing, rant Karyvahika of Rashtra Sevika annivesary, Chairman Nagar over the blatant violation of the traffic had been diverted at PSamiti Maya Pandey at a function Palika Parishad Manoj Jaiswal norms during the civil engi- many places and the route was organised in Lakshmibai Park, Avas said that we should keep our neering works being carried kept closed early in the morn- Vikas Colony, on Thursday said that nation first to make it a super out at Chabilepurwa on Friday ing, forcing diversion of the Rani Lakshmibai had sacrificed her power and the women could for Namami Gange sewage traffic on a single route caus- life for the nation. During her play a pivotal role in it. Among work and directed the chief ing traffic jams for over 30 address as the chief guest she said the those who worked hard for ensur- engineer of Jal Nigam to make 8       2( !-              9  /  minutes to an hour, especially best tribute to her would be not only ing the success of the programme adverse entries in the service       '  .   when the railway level crossings to remember her on her birth anniver- were Dr Gunjan Mishra, Dr books of the junior and assis- were closed. Ironically, the so- sary but to emulate her too. She Rekha Shukla, Dr Khushboo tant engineer and recom- concerned. system caused minimum dam- The excavated soil was called marshals who were on exhorted the women to teach a lesson Kasera, Sandhya Tiwari, Champa mended a heavy fine on the He was later apprised by age to the road and drastically piled up at the site haphazard- duty were “showpieces” and of ethics to children and fight against injustice. Devi and Vimla Sharma. contractor as well, in the next the engineers of the facts that reduced inconvenience in ly and was causing great incon- various ‘U’ turns near IPM and three days. He also issued stern the whole of Kanpur Nagar was movement of the people. venience to the people moving Woodbine School had been warning to the executive engi- divided into four zones for the The divisional commis- on roads. closed, causing great hardship '    $  neer. purpose of laying the sewage sioner rebuked the officials He directed the officials to to people travelling to their des- Shekhar said that all the system. concerned for ignoring norms ensure full and proper arrange- tinations on the highway. This QDPI@@S I@XT T@SWD8@  . /0, be pointed out here that the works of the district, including Shekhar also visited the at Chabilepurva road crossing ments of barricading with six is in fact happening everyday objective of this campaign is 34 wards along the ongoing work site in front of a where the Namami Gange feet iron sheets at the entire and people are late to their uring the Jan Andolan cam- to motivate the BLW employ- river Ganga, be accomplished hospital in Harjendra Nagar work was being carried out for length of the work site and also offices and schools as the roads Dpaign launched on the call of ees, officers along with their latest by March 31, 2021 with- where the sewage system is the past 10 days. ensure retro reflective stickers are blocked nearly every day. Prime Minister Narendra Modi family members to take out fail. being laid on the new pattern During the inspection, he for public safety. Besides, the washing and clean- and in accordance with the instruc- Covid-19 prevention mea- He then took stock of the of trench-less system and the found that no proper precau- He ordered the officials to ing of the barricade is being tions of Railway Minister Piyush sures like wearing masks, progress of the Namami Gange digging was done only in 3 x 3 tionary measures like full bar- deploy security staff at the done after 7 am when the traf- Goyal at Banaras Locomotive maintaining social distanc- sewer line works and inspect- metre pits and then the pipes ricading, retro reflective sig- work sites to help in traffic fic is thick and it causes bot- Works (BLW) the St John’s ing and take care of hand ed the important points in were pushed inside up to a dis- nages, warning boards. He also movement and avert any road tlenecks as buses are unable to Ambulance Brigade made the peo- hygiene. The slogan of this Jajmau and issued strict tance of 50-60 metres. found round-the-clock duty mishap due to the ongoing cross over and block the traf- ple aware about Covid-19 at the entrance of the campaign is ‘Jab tak dawai nahi tab tak dhilai instructions to the officials He was informed that this staff at the site absent. works. fic for long hours. administrative building and design office. It may nahi.’ (No carelessness till a medicine is found).   !" #$%#&#& 7

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Development” by Irrigation the Prime Minister Krishi he Central road making Technology IITs (including sures based on innovative The searches were con- Department, Government of Sinchayee Yojna (PMKSY) to Tagency NHAI has received IIT Roorkee, IIT Bombay, IIT technologies. ducted at the residence of five UP. The alleged irregularities encourage farmers to install “overwhelming response” from Varanasi, IIT Guwahati, IIT Other areas of study are accused persons Mohamed including non publication of micro irrigation systems- many reputed institutes includ- Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur), 26 localised solutions for removal Aslam, Abdul Latheef, NITs, diversion of funds and sprinkler and drip irrigation, ing all the IITs for the purpose NITs and 190 other reputed of congestion points and Nazarudheen Sha, Ramzan P. pooling of tenders in four the Ministry of Agriculture of adopting road and highway engineering colleges have thereby increasing the aver- and Muhammed Mansoor. major works of Gomti River has given nod for subsidised stretches to be used as a field agreed to collaborate. Out of age traffic speed; viability of These accused persons con- Front Development project loans worth 3,971.31 crore for of study for faculty, researchers which, about 200 institutes new wayside amenities for spired with the already arrest- namely Construction of implementing the projects. The Haryana, 764.13 crore for tionalised in the 2019-20 fiscal and familiarise the students of have already signed the road users based on the exist- ed accused and facilitated Diaphragm wall, maximum loan has been Gujarat, 616.13 crore for year with an objective to facil- the institute with the latest Memorandum of ing traffic pattern and user smuggling of gold through Construction of Intercepting approved for Tamil Nadu, fol- Andhra Pradesh, 276.55 crore itate States in availing sub- trends in industry and suggest Understanding (MOU). Over expectations etc. import cargo addressed to the Trunk Drain, Construction of lowed by Haryana and Gujarat. for West Bengal, 150 crore for sidised loans for expanding the relevant performance para- 300 institutes are expected to “NHAI envisions to pro- UAE Consulate General, and its Rubber Dam and preparation In a statement, the ministry Punjab and 15.63 crore for coverage of micro irrigation. meters and innovations. collaborate to adopt NH vide a world class NH network disposal, the NIA said. of Vision Documents are also said the steering committee of Uttarakhand, it said. Under the MIF, subsidised In line with its vision to stretches. to meet the Nation’s require- During searches, several being investigated in the case. MIF has approved projects for However, NABARD has loans are provided for not only provide world-class National Under this initiative, the ments by building large num- electronic items and docu- It was further alleged that loan worth 3,971.31 crore. so far released a total loan taking up special and innova- Highway (NH) network and to partner institutes will have to ber of mega highway projects ments have been seized, the the accused favoured some The interest subvented loans amount of 1,754.60 crore to tive projects but also for incen- create a bridge between tech- study improvement prospects in a cost-effective manner. agency said. contractors and executed the are being offered under Micro the States. Of this, about  tivising micro irrigation nical Institutions and Industry, in Road Safety, maintenance, Adoption of NH stretch by an So far, 21 accused persons agreements with them on the Irrigation Fund (MIF) created 659.70 crore has been released beyond the provisions available the National Highways riding comfort, removal of Institute would facilitate stake- have been arrested in the case basis of forged documents with National Bank for to Haryana, Tamil Nadu and under Pradhan Mantri Krishi Authority of India had intro- choke points, black spots and holder engagement and help to and further investigation in the without the publication of Agriculture and Rural Gujarat. About 616.13 crore Sinchayee Yojana (PDMC) to duced a unique initiative to usage of new technologies on mitigate the routine local case is continuing, it added. NIT in the newspapers. Development (NABARD) for loan has been released to encourage farmers to install associate with these reputed the adopted stretches and give problems such as traffic hin- Meanwhile, the CBI on Both the arrested accused implementing micro-irrigation Andhra Pradesh,  937.47 crore micro irrigation systems. Technical Institutes and suitable suggestions to NHAI. drance, congestion, and imme- Friday then Executive were produced before the projects. to Tamil Nadu, 21.57 crore to During the last five years Engineering colleges to adopt The institutes are also diate identification of acci- Engineer(Now Retired), Court of Special Judge, CBI Out of this, maximum loan Haryana and 179.43 crore to (2015-16 to 2019-20), an area nearby stretches of National encouraged to associate with dent-prone sites and causes Lucknow Division Sharda Cases, Lucknow and remand- of 1,357.93 crore has been Gujarat so far, it added. of 46.96 lakh ha has been cov- Highways, on voluntary basis the Consultants/NHAI during thereof,” said a NHAI official Canal, Lucknow (also holding ed to four days Police approved for Tamil Nadu, fol- This fund with a corpus of ered under Micro Irrigation under Institution Social conceptualisation, design and statement. the additional charge of then Custody. lowed by 790.94 crore for 5,000 crore was opera- through PMKSY-PDMC. 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( " $      %&  *-      0102 3  0102 3 $  6!'! ttorney General KK nfectiousness peaks early in AVenugopal Friday gave con- ICovid-19 patients and antivi- sent for initiating contempt pro- Murmu, while accepting the ral drug remdesivir is not sug- ceedings against stand-up comic appointment as External gested for patients admitted to artist Kunal Kamra for his Auditor of IPU, has expressed hospital with Covid-19, November 18 tweet, saying it was his thanks to the Executive researchers have said in two load and shedding for these tional randomised trials involv- “grossly vulgar and obnoxious” Committee and wished for a separate studies. three human coronaviruses,” ing over 7,000 patients hospi- and tended to lower the author- strong partnership in fulfilling The study published in said study lead author Muge talised for covid-19. ity of the Supreme Court. the strategic objectives of the  0102 3 infection in the country which the journal The Lancet Cevik from the University of St. After thoroughly reviewing The top law officer had last  0102 3 IPU. comprises 4.92 per cent of the Microbe, said that people Andrews in the UK. “It pro- this evidence, the WHO GDG week granted consent for initia- The CAG of India has been ndia’s Covid-19 caseload total caseload, the data stated. infected with coronavirus are vides a clear explanation for expert panel, which includes tion of contempt proceedings omptroller & Auditor the external auditor of various Ibreached the 90-lakh mark Among most-infected most likely to be highly infec- why SARS-CoV-2 spreads experts from around the world against Kamra for his earlier CGeneral of India (CAG) international organizations. on Friday with 45,882 new States, Delhi continues to tious in the first week after more efficiently than SARS- including four patients who tweets which allegedly criticised Girish Chandra Murmu, has He has earlier also been on cases, while the recoveries report highest daily new cases symptom onset and there is a CoV and MERS-CoV and is so have had covid-19, concluded the apex court, saying they were been elected as external auditor the UN Board of Auditors from surged to 84.28 lakh pushing in India (7,500) followed by need to quickly identify and much more difficult to con- that remdesivir has no mean- in “bad taste” and it was time of the Inter Parliamentary 1993 to 1999 and 2014 to 2020. the national recovery rate to Kerala (5,700) and isolate cases before the virus tain,” Cevik added. ingful effect on mortality or on people understood that attacking Union (IPU), Geneva for a Presently, he is the external 93.6 per cent, according to the Maharashtra (5,500) while spreads. In another study, WHO other important outcomes for it brazenly will attract punish- three-year term. auditor of the World Health Union Health Ministry data. other NCR cities have report- The researchers used Guideline Development Group patients, such as the need for ment. Murmu, the 14th CAG, Organization, Geneva and With 45,882 new cases, the ed 1,600 new cases. meta-analysis to assess 98 stud- (GDG) panel of international mechanical ventilation or time The consent of either the will assume the charge from Food & Agriculture country has witnessed a rise in Cases per million popula- ies on Covid-19, SARS and experts pointed out in The to clinical improvement. Attorney General or the Solicitor Supreme Audit Institution of Organization, Rome. In the active cases after 48 days. tion in India is now 6,500, MERS wherein the researchers BMJ that remdesivir has The panel acknowledged General is necessary, under sec- Switzerland.The election took recent past, he has been the The total coronavirus cases while the world average is studied all three diseases was to received worldwide attention as that the certainty of evidence tion 15 of the Contempt of place at the virtual meeting of External Auditor of World Food mounted to 90,04,365 and the 7,341. determine why Covid-19 has a potentially effective treatment is low and said the evidence did Courts Act, 1971, for initiating 284th session of the IPU which Programme, World Intellectual death toll climbed to 1,32,162 According to the ICMR, a spread more rapidly than the for severe covid-19 and is not prove that remdesivir has contempt proceedings against a is a 179 countries Property Organization, with the novel coronavirus cumulative total of 12,95,91,786 earlier diseases. increasingly used to treat no benefit; rather, there is no person. Parliamentarians body, also International Atomic Energy virus claiming 584 lives in a samples have been tested up to “This is the first systemat- patients in hospital. But its role evidence based on currently Venugopal granted the fresh having 13 Associate Members. Agency, UN World Tourism span of 24 hours in the coun- November 20 with 10,83,397 ic review and meta-analysis in clinical practice has available data that it does consent on a request made in this The IPU has permanent Organization, International try, the data updated at 8 am samples being tested on that has comprehensively remained uncertain, they said improve important patient out- regard by Prayagraj-based advo- observer status at the United Organization for Migration, showed. Thursday. India’s Covid-19 tally examined and compared viral citing data from four interna- comes. cate Anuj Singh. Kamra, in his Nations General Assembly. The International Maritime The Covid-19 case fatality had crossed the 20-lakh mark November 18 tweet, had made an result of the Election has been Organization and Organization rate has further declined to 1.46 on August 7, 30 lakh on August objectionable gesture while mak- conveyed by Martin Chungong, for Prohibition of Chemical per cent. There are 4,43,794 23 and 40 lakh on September It went past 50 lakh on September 28, 70 lakh on on October 29, said the ing a comment against the Chief Secretary-General of the IPU. Weapons. active cases of coronavirus 5. September 16, 60 lakh on October 11 and crossed 80 lakh Ministry. Justice of India. (      -       %>0 2          :;0.<=+            %:2011            0102 3 of sugar mills resulting in accu- efforts made by Government, mulation of cane price arrears the existing installed capacity of  0102 3      o boost ethanol production of farmers. molasses based distilleries has Tas part of its efforts to “Under the ethanol interest reached to 426 cr ltrs. owing of winter crops has achieve 20 per cent blending subvention scheme for In the current Ethanol Sstarted in the country, with  0102 3 courage and success while Dr with petrol, the Government molasses-based distilleries, the Supply Year 2019-20 only 168 farmers planting wheat in Vivek Lal, CEO, S-ILF said has given in-principle approval government in September 2020 crore litres of ethanol is likely about 97.27 lakh hectare so far t a time when many stu- steps will be taken to further to 185 sugar mills and stand- has opened a window for 30 to be supplied to OMCs for in this rabi season. Total area Adents are facing fund increase the opportunities for alone distilleries to avail days to invite more applications blending with petrol thereby sown to all rabi crops has crunch amid Covid-19 pan- education and livelihood sup- 12,500 crore of loans for from sugar mills/ distilleries, achieving 4.8% blending levels. increased to 265.43 lakh demic, Delhi-based port for the persons affected capacity addition of about 468 which were examined by However, in the ensuing hectare so far this season, from Sasakawa- India Leprosy by leprosy and their families. crore litre of ethanol per DFPD... “about 185 applicants Ethanol Supply Year 2020-21, 241.66 lakh hectare area during Foundation(S-ILF) gave a ray In keeping with this, the annum. Apart from promoting (85 sugar mills and 100 efforts are being made to sup- the corresponding period of of hope to 40 meritorious number of Scholarships pro- ethanol production from sug- molasses-based standalone dis- ply 325 crore ltrs of ethanol to last year. students hailing from families vided this year has been arcane, the food ministry is tilleries) are being granted in- OMCs thereby achieving 8.5% According to the agricul- afflicted with leprosy. On increased, he said. making efforts to manufac- principle approval for availing blending; and in the ethanol ture ministry, wheat has been Friday, at an event held Tehseen Zaidi, Program ture ethanol using surplus rice loan amount of 12,500 crore supply year 2021-22 ending in sown in 97.27 lakh hectare so online, it bestowed Manager, Communications & with state-owned FCI as well as for capacity addition of about November, 2022 efforts are far in the rabi season of 2020- upon them scholarships for Advocacy from S-ILf shared maize. The move is aimed at 468 crore litres per annum,” the being made to achieve 10% 21 as against 96.77 lakh hectare higher professional educa- that Nursing Scholarship boosting ethanol blending with Food Ministry said in a state- blending target which is quite in the year-ago period. Wheat pared with 6.98 lakh hectare, 52.08 lakh hectare area a year tion. (Batch X) and Holinessthe petrol, which currently stands ment. These projects would be possible in view of the con- is the main winter or rabi while pulses has been planted ago. Much of the coverage is NK Singh, Chairman, Dalai Lama- Sasakawa schol- at nearly 5 per cent. In the last completed in another 3-4 years, certed efforts made by the crop. Rice and pulses, such as in 82.59 lakh hectare as against under mustard at 52.25 lakh 15th Finance Commission, arship (Batch V) were given two years, 70 ethanol projects thus help in achieving the Government. gram, urad, moong as well as 64.57 lakh hectare area in the hectare so far. who was chief guest at the respectively to 15 and 25 were sanctioned loans of 3,600 desired blending target, it For Year 2020-21, bids of oilseeds like groundnut and said period. The ministry said the event which was organised as meritorious students from crore. added. 322 crore litres (289 crore from sunflower, are other rabi crops Coarse creals have been country received 4 per cent less part of the S-ILF’s 14th across the country for 2020. In the normal sugar season, In the past two years, loans molasses and 34 crore litre grown in this season. sown in slightly more area at rains during the winter period Foundation Day, hoped that Till date, the organisation about 320 Lakh Metric Tons of about Rs. 3600 crores have from grains) have already been As per the sowing data 22.78 lakh hectare so far in the between October 1 and these scholarships will help working for the empower- (LMT) of sugar is produced been sanctioned for 70 such received in first tender floated released by the ministry, there current season, against 21.26 November 19. However, the the students break free ment of the sector has against domestic consumption ethanol projects (molasses by OMCs and in subsequent has been no impact of COVID- lakh hectare in the year-ago Central Water Commission stigma and discrimination provided 115 Nursing schol- of 260 LMT. This 60 LMT of based distilleries) which involve tenders more quantity from 19 on progress of area coverage period. has informed that water stor- and enable them to lead a life arships and 124 His Holiness surplus sugar which remains capacity enhancement of 195 molasses and grain based dis- under rabi crops as on date. According to the ministry’s age level in 123 reservoirs of dignity. the Dalai Lama-Sasakawa unsold, blocks funds of sugar crore litres; out of these 70 pro- tilleries will come, thus Among other rabi crops, paddy data, farmers have sown stands at 93 per cent as com- On the occasion, Tarun scholarship for higher pro- mills to the tune of about Rs. jects, 31 projects have been Government will be able to has been sown in more area at oilseeds in 55.53 lakh hectare pared with the year-ago period, Das, Chairman, S-ILF said fessional education, she 19,000 crore every year there- completed adding a capacity of achieve 325 crore litre and 7.26 lakh hectare when com- area so far this season, against it added. that the scholars symbolized added. by affecting liquidity positions 102 crore litres so far. With the 8.5% blending target.   !" #$%#&#& 8 7(  '!!"7 , % D  C"   % D D  91 0 > ** . 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Very       3       66    0      framework, set up by the Seed Act, the export potential is esti- sidy. soon, many nations won’t have the New Seed policy, 1988 and mated at more than $ 5 billion  !Q;@3223) India has lacked a seed the financial resources to evade   699D 0            3    National Seed Policy in 2002, per year based on various export promotion council for a this crisis. But we can be a hub     :>A>             ,      boosted private sector participa- industry estimates. India can "0A/0!A@!&0) long time. The Government, for seed research for the world.       E                tion in a sector that had its foun- offer seeds for export to many F!A3)5&35&A/ under the trade and export pro- Our versatile climate allows us         3       S  "    dations laid by public sector seed countries with suitable sub- motion council, should institute to research and co-evolve new systems. However, much needs to tropical and tropical agro-cli- 0&3!0&%33! one with industry representa- varieties that may be suited for                       be done in terms of further matic regions in Asia, Africa, tives and ensure that seed many countries. For even one   "     ,            reforms and policy interventions. Eastern Europe and so on at !)0A&00& exports amount to 10 per cent or two varieties at the right time           3         The role of new technologies, affordable prices similar to our of total agriculture exports. can change the fate of the like molecular-marker based selec- pharma and agro-chemical )A0P")A) India has three major seed nation and bring millions of                ,        tion approaches to fast-track sectors. The following incen- hubs in the country. But given dollars into India. Hence the  S              3 4    ! breeding programmes for develop- tives can help. !/ )5A30& our vast agro-climate, we can Government needs to provide     !   ,            ! ment of new/superior plant vari- Incentive to the extent of 20 13 &53!@20 cater to demands from Africa development grants to Indian eties, needs to be further strength- per cent of the seed value that to ASEAN countries. The R&D companies so that they       S               ened as an integral part of the seed is exported must be considered &5@HA)"3 !2! Government needs to allow can track future challenges,     '     3  $         ! industry. Also biotechnological because in sectors like pharma Indian and foreign seed com- assess demand and create a seed  $5#             !   )  and molecular approaches can and garments, similar incen- A)"3 !2 panies to breed seeds for export bank for Africa, Latin America improve the quality assurance tives have been available for a purposes in special agro-zones. and ASEAN countries. The    0                     systems. An emerging area, which long time to encourage exports !#A)H 23!3 These zones may function like Government may also partner 3  3 #              utilises biotechnology and nano- in the initial stages. These A0#3)&3!&3! SEZs. They need to be equipped with African nations to out-            ,             , F technologies and can contribute incentives can be gradually with dry docks, good trans- source their seed R&D to us. significantly to productivity and brought down to 10 per cent !A3 ! 0!&0A portation, seed testing facilities This would boost innovation P*  ,                Q profitability of farmers, is seed after five years. A provision of and so on to facilitate swift here while providing lesser   /  :6        ,  3         treatment with biological inocu- 100 crore may be adequate for 05A)"0!&)) exports. A single window clear- developed nations an access to      P  Q     "            lants. This can also be promoted the next five years and 100 ance counter can be estab- cheaper research and seeds. on a large scale as part of seed- crore for the next six to 10 years. lished for fast tracking permis- (The author is Director,                 G  ,    applied technologies. Reimbursement of the cost sions. 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K34 K& #  K      ;                 '  1    ,       !             the nation by asking party chief        Sonia Gandhi to revitalise the            $   Sir — It should ease our minds party and restore its organisation-            )    that the Supreme Court is seized N     al democracy, indecisive leader-             of the blatant misuse of media 3  )F3H6=%"  ship being their top concern. freedom by some TV news chan-     =: Sonia Gandhi did a cosmetic   ,          ! nels and is keen on nudging the      rejig of the party, leaving no                 ! Government to take steps to rec-  %5   doubt who was the boss. Now,   2        tify the situation. Indeed, it F, Kapil Sibal has fired a fresh salvo. ,   3            requires urgent attention since In a newspaper interview, he has drawing a false equivalence   ?;:H9::  H questioned the “nomination cul-                between “free speech” and “hate % ture” of the party. The Congress  ,           speech” and between “virulent    KH Working Committee (CWC) is     !    3           nationalism” and “civic national- B      H packed with Gandhi loyalists. ism,” certain channels continue to   K%   H     ,  Independent-minded leaders have          3             peddle rabidly communal stuff.   3      %3 ,  no place in it. So an election to the      0                  This is devoured with relish by , , ,   #     H CWC looks far-fetched. Till men        many viewers. But then, mass        %         and women with their own mind viewership or popular consump-        ,     B ,  H   find a place in the highest deci- ,                      tion is not a good enough reason     ,        ,      ,  % sion-making body, the party will        $          ,S to allow them to present news sto-     ,    ,   H continue to find itself in a hole.              +          ! ries in adversarial terms and  ,   %    , H    Sibal wants more “dialogue” spread the poison of religious       % within the party, a tough ask. In          !              hatred. There is a fine line between ,  H 51 55 Congress, there are no discus-                      ! informing the public and polar- %   sions, only orders. After the Bihar      "             ising society. One of the media’s election results, it is clear the roles is to edify and unite people repute. Masquerading of vicious voluntary regulation of the Press. nationals.” The country now needs Congress is satisfied to be an “also  !          4          and not to divide them or cater to hate-mongers as TV anchors is a But the way some channels go more of good and ethical journal- ran.” How can a national party                      their baser instincts. curse on Indian journalism. about playing their roles justifies ism for us to be a vibrant democ- hope to capture power at the 5                    On-air bigotry is just as bad. Dissemination of falsehoods and the need for some sort of regula- racy. Centre without some of the States Loosely describing participants in post-truths cannot go on without tory oversight by, say, a judicial David Milton in its kitty? This is something the       "         $       the Tablighi Jamaat conference as debilitating the country and body or a parliamentary panel. Maruthancode Congress needs to think about. ,         1             , “intentional superspreaders”, the wrecking its foundational values. The ruling party’s double standard Ganapathi Bhat                     induction of Muslim youth into It is in this context that “regula- manifests itself in describing jour-     Akola civil services as “UPSC jihad” and tion” assumes relevance and nalists who act as their mouth-                 3         inter-faith marriages as “love becomes an urgent need. Ideally, piece as “nationalists” and inde- Sir — Three months ago, the -       *   5   jihad” brings the media into dis- a democracy should do with the pendent journalists as “anti- Congress “letter writers” shocked 33:13/?/:@A;0B/;   !" #$%#&#& 9 7(  '!!"7 "0 ' 0   4 4          #          ' ' $ $ 8 &   7       $ 0  #  8 #0 $8     E 0 2   H,  L E     L8E  ,        7  $      "     /4    +          R                    4   !      R       "                           !      0                     !                    0             !                  +                 2  !                 !             8     !         !     3'.,5!:>          !   he multiple gun attacks in Vienna are the nefar-             ious outcome of a deliberate misinterpretation          ;99999 Tof religious identity. This kind of narrative has              led to the beheading of a history teacher in France and stabbing of three innocents in Nice and so on.              ,     All these incidents are clear indicators that post-mod-   69A9   :9        ! ern terrorism is likely to haunt the world in gener-               ! al and Europe in particular. These attacks are also a                  reminder of an array of socio-political and global               ! issues which Europe has to come to terms with.           "     Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has already hint-                ed towards Huntington’s Clashes of Civilisations the-                   ory coming true. He called the recent gun attack by      an Islamist terrorist “an attack of terror driven by "              hatred of our way of life, our democracy.” This upsurge in religiously-motivated hitback attacks has           !  ! marked the beginning of the pernicious era of ter-         ,  *0        rorism. The rising tide of immigration and human          4      ! smuggling across the borders in Europe has posed       G     ! serious logistical and security challenges to France,  02) !2               *0 Germany and Britain. Undoubtedly these are defin-               ing moments for the leaders of Europe. It is high time ")"52! 0    ,          countries developed sophisticated mechanisms to & )52               ! handle the problem head on as it has already caused ))"0A!013          "      ! severe tension between various nations and com-  02!1  !           ! pounded the problem of human trafficking and 0)A 00 refugees across the globe. In certain pockets, the prob- ! 30A/0F0 game that was thrust on the world by the might lead to the oppression of the gen- organisation of public support against ter-        ?9999          lems of migration and refugees have resulted in a then “Big Powers.” The power network eral populace. Surprisingly, a proper legal rorist acts could be of immense use.      ! 0 )&) quagmire. The influx of refugees, who have fled due "0A&)!23&0A/ woven by the US and its allies in the entire definition of terrorism is yet to be found. While it is desirable to allow police and "          ,    to disturbances in Afghanistan and Uzbekistan, has West Asian region has provoked the ire of The widening gap between the various the armed forces to employ better            1 320"A)" added a new dimension to the existing problem of !&A3  the opposition forces in almost every State governments regarding evolving a com- informed judgment about local problems,              ! violence and crime in Central Asian Republics. In where the US has had an interest-based mon strategy for suppression of terrorism there is, of course, a danger that this                an era of globalisation, the world is becoming small 0 3&3)& relationship. Thus, as societies globalise needs to be viewed in the context of the attempt of the Government could dilute                 and integrated but due to its inner paradoxes, it is & )52@0 and the curtains of opacity are raised potential for threat that it holds. Even the the benefits to those deemed deserving                   , getting fragmented and turning out to be a highly 50A!40@/ through increased inter-societal interac- European convention on suppression of and, thus, any possibility of peace and     3       S    ! sectarian place. F!A3)5&!3)& tion at the international level, people in the terrorism is restricted by Article 5 and negotiation. Rapid international trans-                The recent incidents cannot be viewed in iso- )A )A)223# underdeveloped countries are holding Article 13, which refuse the extradition of portation and use of sophisticated weapons lation. History bears testimony to various such trag- 0AA)A3&& the “Big Powers” responsible for their infe- a terrorist on many grounds. In an envi- have helped the expansion of terrorist net-           "   ic events. A few years ago, the bombing of civilians rior socio-economic positions. There has ronment where terrorist violence is endem- works globally. Besides, the new suicide                "&/ )2)#3 !22/% in Oklahoma City (which left more than 200 peo- 3! !#3# always been a smooth international net- ic and the world stands hopelessly divid- squads have left the entire security appa-                 ple dead) sent shockwaves around the world. A mys- work of collaboration among the various ed on various laws, all countries should ratus shocked.       0F3A)0  0 terious gas attack at the main train station in a Tokyo &0 5A3/ terrorist groups supported by a few coun- shun their national prerogatives for deal- As religiously-motivated attacks                  subway, that killed 12 people and left nearly 5,000 tries throughout the world. For example, ing with terrorism. increase globally, the concept that one                 hospitalised, also sent dangerous signals. All such acts !""!A!5&! take Pakistan’s involvement in orchestrat- Many efforts have been made by a man’s terrorist can be another man’s free-    4    B          ! were a violent culmination of plans that were care- ")23 000) ing terrorism in Kashmir and the Japanese number of nations to control State-spon- dom fighter must be done away with. The              fully executed by terrorists. Similarly, most countries 3F0A&3/ Red Army’s collaboration with Italy’s Red sored terrorism, such as through econom- local populace should cooperate with the                  of the world, including India, Russia , Spain, the UK, ! 3F330&@/ Brigade. It is sometimes the wide cover- ic sanctions, but so far they have not law enforcement machinery even at the   "            ! US, Italy, Israel, and China, are suffering due to ter- @A3#3# age by the media which provides the ratio- reached a consensus either at the nation- cost of personal misery while prompt and rorist activities in one way or another. Although vio- )#0 0A nale for terrorism and increases the prob- al or global level. During the last two strict decisions should be undertaken by              ! lence in itself is condemnable, very rarely is a ter- lem by stimulating it. This is a classic exam- decades, increasing drug smuggling and various nations for controlling terrorists             " 0 3 !2! rorist attack a nihilistic act bereft of any deeper under- "A)0&&3)!2 ple of how astute media management can the unholy nexus between drug smugglers psychologically. In a changing environ- 5            $   currents. And the structure of violence is more often reduce the level of moral opposition to and terrorists have posed a serious prob- ment, the security apparatus and police *     , $  S   4  P    0P"0A3&0@!&0 than not located in society and social conditions, )!/0 !0& counter-terrorism. The latest has been the lem to the internal State-security networks need to diversify activities by bringing   Q       which not only create them but also nourish and rein- obnoxious nexus between the Al Qaeda, and compelled various nations to organ- together technical and professional exper- "              4 force them. Recurrence of violence is symptomatic )0P"0A30 03 the ISIS and LeT. Their deadly combina- ise themselves and wage a relentless war tise based on many decades of experience        " $      ! of a society’s body politic, torn asunder by varied !3!33# tion has laid siege to peace and security. against such a nexus. But mere implemen- in maintaining internal security. In this              ! threats and tensions. 30A!2 European nations alone have wit- tation of vigorous drug laws cannot regard, the most crucial aspect is to devel-               ! Very often, the social conditions that generate &0 5A3/ nessed more than 8,500 terrorist incidents become effective unless the judicial pro- op the capability to anticipate security               conflict and violence have external coordinates. To since 1990, representing about 29 per cent cedure is modified for ensuring speedy tri- needs. many experts dealing with the terror driven by reli- of the total global incidents. The situation als. The continuing uncertainties with This is possible by conducting spe-              ! giously-motivated thinking, it is on account of new has become vulnerable since 2016 and with regard to terrorism have encouraged var- cialised courses for monitoring security sit-                challenges the post-modern world is experiencing the increasing rise in the cases of illegal ious countries to launch psychological war- uations.Unless we attack the roots of ter-              because of the past mistakes of not calling a spade migration across the European coun- fare against terrorism. rorism, we would have only superficial          +        a spade till the spectre started creating havoc in their tries. The rise of modern terrorism with The London Economic Summit relief and terrorism would magnify in the               own backyard. To many social scientists dealing with frightening ramifications has resulted in Conference, organised by NATO States total quantum of its impact. The need of                   terrorism in a globalised world, the matrix of power a demand for strengthening the national and Japan a few years ago, proved to be the hour is international cooperation to       !       ! rests on the highly-visible, unequal structure of the law and order machinery. Of late, the pres- another landmark for the eradication of tackle the menace and forming an integrat-                international economy. Such inter-relations between sure on the police and security agencies has terrorism, which decided that unless we ed team after minutely comprehending the   "             socio-economic conditions in different parts of the been mounting. But the existing laws still attack the roots of terrorism, only super- inner dynamics of the problem.             world are becoming more and more obvious daily. pose many problems. The use of police and ficial relief could be seen but violence (The writer is a professor of political sci- At another level, the post-Cold War international paramilitary forces for combating terror- would increase in the total quantum of its ence, Visiting Professor, University of 7        8 political-economic order is still a victim of the power ism has created an apprehension that it impact. Creation of general awareness and Leuven, Belgium) -$)' ,   '   Xxus ‘„ˆ•„uut‰ ˆu ˆyu„† ‚ysyu‰v ˆq‚ „wuˆƒq††ˆ qsx“yx ‘yw„ ˆy„w‰x ˆuˆƒ„uut‰

around to agreeing to the theirs. Hence, it cannot further open Chinese soldiers lost their lives. It may went on to cover two-thirds of the pandemic. These GoMs have called Government of India’s terms. up its market for the advantage of oth- be recalled that Jaishankar even in world’s population. for a balance between supporting eco- Meanwhile, the country has main- ers. Still India has agreements with the January had said that New Delhi’s Beijing dominates the psyche of nomic performance and geopolitics tained successful economic relations ASEAN, South Korea and Japan. It is doors to RCEP were not closed. But policymakers. India is highly depen- and most have focussed on ways to with ASEAN by the means of FTAs,” negotiating deals with Australia, New in September, he said, “You cannot be dent on China for imports of lithium counter China. They call for contex- he said. The RCEP, too, has kept the Zealand and Singapore and there are a rising power without being a rising ion batteries, antibiotics, personal tualising issues like Chinese aggres- doors open for India officially, if at all treaties with Nepal and Bhutan. economy, and to do that you have to computers, colour TVs, solar cells, sion on communication tools, need it wants to join the grouping without However, there are apprehensions that build your domestic capacities.” His toys and so on. Despite the recent ini- for specialised spokespersons on 1 /!A0@!@5& having to wait for 18 months, as stip- RCEP could impact the Australia- views are not very different from that tiatives by the Centre to improve issues like China and the environment &)30"R 9 ulated for new members. As per the India-Japan network in the Indo- of the Swadeshi Jagaran Manch, domestic production in many of and many other dependencies on RCEP’s decision, India can still par- Pacific region. India and like-mind- which had been opposing most FTAs these goods, concerns remain. What Beijing. ,   eeping China out is the new ticipate as an observer. ed nations, particularly the Quad and stressing on improving the China has done is to consolidate its The obsession with China is too  ,,  trade policy of India. Its prima- India had taken the decision in countries — Australia, the US and domestic economy. economy since 1979. Thus, produc- apparent. Of late, despite all efforts,   % November 2019 to keep out of the Japan — are keen to have resilient It certainly has not been an easy tion cost is minimum and it has a New Delhi’s policy approaches are Kry approach is that anything ,     that opens the door to Chinese prod- RCEP, with the partnership being seen supply chains. Along with New decision. India would have to weigh pricing mechanism that happens to be China-centric. India may have to ucts is a “strict no-no.” So it’s no sur- as China-centric and due to the per- Zealand, South Korea and Vietnam, the gains of a bulk agreement and the lowest in any country in the local revive the planning process it gave up       prise that India is keeping out of the ception that it would boost sales of they are negotiating with each other. individual treaties. A similar concern currency. in 2014 as the NITI Aayog has not  ,  Regional Comprehensive Economic cheap Chinese products and harm the External Affairs Minister S was expressed when New Delhi chose India has to learn the technique been a proper replacement. The  %3 Partnership (RCEP) free trade agree- country’s industries. Jaishankar, while delivering the to opt out of the Belt and Road of creating a vibrant domestic system country needs to evolve a long-term ,,  ment (FTA), an initiative New Delhi India’s approach on the deal is the Ramnath Goenka Lecture in 2019, Initiative (BRI) in 2017. It was said with a market across the world. policy prescription. India has to con- was engaged in since its inception. result of unfavourable trade balances had said that India’s stance was a that India might be isolating itself. Chinese merchandise today decides sider moving out of the growth-cen-     Theoretically, it comes at a minimum that it has with several RCEP mem- “clear-eyed calculation” of the gains Now after three years, like-minded international prices. While India suc- tric approach and replace it with     %5 cost as India already has FTAs with bers, with some of which it already has and costs of entering a new arrange- democracies appreciate New Delhi for cessfully blocked imports of idols of progress. So RCEP or not, India has ,   all but three RCEP members. FTAs. The Commerce Ministry says ment. He also said that India would its prudent decision, which many now Ganesh, Lakshmi and other deities, it to have a holistic approach towards  H   Home Minister Amit Shah had that the Compound Annual Growth continue with its “act East” policy. It see as an exploitative Chinese diplo- could not succeed in lowering the the economy. It needs a wider vision     last month told RCEP member coun- Rate (CAGR) in trade with such should also be remembered that the macy. Significantly, many members prices of “Made in India” products. and approach for progress and has to tries that they would have to come countries was a mere 7.1 per cent. RCEP decision is linked to China’s are not enjoying their stay in the BRI. This cannot be considered good imbibe policies that could give it an  & around to accepting New Delhi’s India has trade deficits with 11 of the aggressive postures in the South There is the contrary view as well. It economy. Possibly for this reason, edge. India needs to reorient policies   terms. “Considering India’s growing 15 RCEP nations. This means that China Sea and on the Line of Actual says that India’s economic decline China looms large in reports submit- for a long-term approach without    ,% stature, RCEP members can’t afford while the partners have access to our Control, including the June 15 Galwan occurred even as China’s economical- ted by eight Groups of Ministers ignoring short-term needs. (  * to ignore it for long and will come market, India has not penetrated incident in which 20 Indian and many ly and strategically important BRI (GoMs) formed during the ongoing (The writer is a senior journalist)   !" #$%#&#& 10

# # #   *      %%  F     <          % 3"2  & %# %" (    ?9S   5@!3 Infratel and Indus Towers prospects of earnings improve-    announced the completion of ment. We continue to maintain  0102 3 was surprising. At a time when country but the level of increase quity indices resumed their their merger deal to create a our cautiously optimistic Mumbai:The rupee appreciat-  globally prices change by the is different in different cities Eupward trajectory on Friday mega tower company. approach about the market as ed by 11 paise to settle at over il marketing companies hour, in India it could be kept due to variable taxation struc- after a day’s pause as banking, On the other hand, underlying strength of markets one-week high of 74.16 against Mumbai:The recently con- O(OMCs) on Friday raised static for such a long period. ture pursued by the states. finance and telecom counters Reliance Industries, IndusInd remains intact,” said Binod the US dollar on Friday, sup- cluded IPL, played in UAE the retail price of petrol and Every dollar increase in The increase in petrol and saw robust demand amid Bank, Sun Pharma, ONGC, Modi, Head Strategy at ported by positive domestic amid the coronavirus pan- diesel after a break of almost price of crude results in retail diesel prices was expected as mixed global cues. Axis Bank, HUL and L&T Reliance Securities. equities and sustained foreign demic, witnessed a 23 per cent two months when auto fuel price of petrol and diesel to be global oil market had shown A recovering rupee and were the losers, skidding up to BSE telecom, consumer fund inflows.At the interbank jump in television viewership prices remained static on Covid increased by upto 40 paisa per signs of firming up after posi- unabated foreign fund inflows 3.72 per cent. During the hol- durables, power, finance, teck, forex market, the domestic at 400 billion minutes.The affected global oil market. litre. tive news on successful intro- added to the momentum, iday-shortened week, Sensex utilities, bankex and FMCG unit opened at 74.15 against the BARC, which collates data on The price of petrol has This would mean that the duction of a coronavirus vac- traders said. rose 439.25 points or 1.01 per indices rallied as much as 4.73 US dollar and touched a high television viewing, said 405 increased by 17 paisa per litre fuel prices should be up by at cine soon. Moreover, the After a choppy session, the cent, while Nifty advanced per cent, while BSE energy was of 74.09 and a low of 74.21 in million viewers watched the in the national Capital to Rs least Rs 1.20 per litre by now. demand for oil and falling 30-share BSE Sensex ended 139.10 points or 1.09 per cent. the sole sectoral laggard. the day trade. It finally settled tournament for 400 billion 81.23 from Rs 81.06 a litre on However, oil companies inventory levels in major con- 282.29 points or 0.65 per cent “Domestic equities gained Broader BSE midcap and at 74.16 against the greenback, minutes as against the 326 bil- the previous day. Similarly, have kept fuel prices static suming markets has also higher at 43,882.25. amid mixed global cues. A smallcap indices soared up to registering an increase of 11 lion viewing minutes in the retail price of diesel has been even when there was a need to firmed up crude price. Similarly, the broader NSE sharp rebound in heavyweight 1.22 per cent. Elsewhere in paise over its previous close. year-ago’s edition. The cricket increased by 22 paisa per litre revise it downwards last month. The benchmark Brent Nifty rose 87.35 points or 0.68 financials on news pertaining Asia, bourses in Shanghai, The rupee had settled at 74.27 tournament, which is general- to Rs 70.68 a litre. That saving prevented OMCs crude price is hovering over per cent to close at 12,859.05. to government may be consid- Hong Kong and Seoul ended against US dollar on Thursday. ly played during the summers While India has brought from increasing petrol and $44 a barrel for some time now Bajaj Finserv was the top ering corporate and foreign on a positive note, while Tokyo “The rupee is currently and had to be staged in the both petrol and diesel out from diesel prices by a higher mar- while the US WTI crude is also gainer in the Sensex pack, ral- bank participation in privati- was in the red. drawing a lot of support from UAE because of social dis- an earlier administrative price gin. Now that option is close to $42 a barrel. The two lying 9.13 per cent, followed by zation of select PSBs led mar- Stock exchanges in Europe equity inflows and the fact tancing restrictions domesti- regime and their retail prices exhausted and regular price have remained firm since the Titan, Bajaj Finance, Kotak ket to move higher. were trading higher in early that the dollar globally is on the cally, was seen as a big succour are revised daily based on revision could restart. beginning of the month after Bank, Bharti Airtel, Nestle “Additionally, buying deals. Brent crude futures, the backfoot,” said Sugandha for the sports, which had been global movement product With the price revision, the remaining soft in most parts of India, NTPC and HDFC Bank. momentum in mid-cap and global oil benchmark, rose 0.41 Sachdeva, VP-Metals, Energy struggling with a lack of action prices, holding the retail price retail price of the two auto fuel October at close to $40 a bar- Bharti Airtel finished 3.18 small-caps remained visible in per cent to USD 44.38 per bar- & Currency Research, Religare since the onset of the pandemic revision for almost two months has also increased across the rel or less. per cent higher after Bharti the backdrop of improved rel. Broking. PTI in March. PTI !  2"#  ($                 

  5@!3 panel also suggested the con- sector banks. amendments to the Banking consolidated supervision.      version of big non-banking The central bank made Regulations Act, 1949 The approach of the RBI n internal RBI panel has finance companies (NBFCs) the report public on Friday to deal with connected lend- regarding ownership of banks New Delhi:Despite being one government, Indian Auto LPG in a statement. Suyash Gupta, Aproposed that large cor- into banks. and has sought comments ing and exposures between by large corporate /industri- of the cleanest and most easi- Coalition said on Friday. Director General of Indian porates may be permitted to The Reserve Bank of by January 15, 2021 “before the banks and other financial al houses has, by and large, ly accessible alternative fuels, As poor air quality takes Auto LPG Coalition, under- promote banks after neces- India had constituted an taking a view in the matter”. and non-financial group enti- been a cautious one in view Auto LPG remains heavily centrestage in the capital again, scored the need to widen the sary amendments to the Internal Working Group The group has recom- ties”. of serious risks, governance under-utilised in India because the Auto LPG sector is urging policy focus beyond electric Banking Regulations Act, as (IWG) on June 12, 2020, to mended that “large corpo- It also made a case for the concerns and conflicts of of “almost penalising” policies the government to provide a vehicles and give all available well as raising the cap on pro- review extant ownership rate/industrial houses may strengthening of the super- interest that could arise when towards clean fuels and lack of level playing field in the inter- alternative fuels a level playing moters’ stake in private sec- guidelines and corporate be permitted to promote visory mechanism for large banks are owned and con- a positive messaging by the est of the environment, it said field in the market. tor banks to 26 per cent.The structure for Indian private banks only after necessary conglomerates, including trolled by them.   BSE 500 SCRIP OPEN HIgh LOW LTP CHANGE NIFTY 50 12813.40 12892.45 12730.25 12859.05 87.35 Script Open High Low LTP BAJAJ-AUTO 3036.70 3083.00 3023.80 3059.25 HINDPETRO* 213.00 215.95 211.55 213.90 MOIL 127.10 127.55 124.40 124.75 BAJAJFINSV 7843.00 8588.65 7843.00 8548.80 725.40 BAJAJFINSV 7900.00 8585.00 7850.00 8536.50 SIEMENS 1420.00 1435.40 1416.40 1423.85 GODREJAGRO 519.00 520.00 509.50 512.35 PNCINFRA 173.15 173.55 165.20 167.45 TITAN 1295.95 1371.30 1295.60 1362.05 69.60 RELIANCE 1977.80 1984.10 1894.60 1899.20 INDIAMART 4857.45 5069.00 4810.00 4997.10 CUB 191.00 193.85 180.60 182.90 JYOTHYLAB 139.90 142.05 139.00 139.40 ESCORTS 1406.55 1421.15 1374.70 1414.40 INDHOTEL 116.00 117.50 113.25 113.70 AEGISLOG 220.00 225.25 217.90 222.10 GAIL 93.90 97.95 93.00 97.60 3.95 BAJFINANCE 4565.00 4761.40 4516.60 4717.75 IDEA 9.60 10.13 9.50 10.04 PEL 1390.15 1416.25 1372.00 1394.20 BOMDYEING 68.95 70.50 67.75 68.20 NATCOPHARM 915.00 917.35 894.40 911.55 BAJFINANCE 4571.95 4762.15 4515.25 4717.00 180.45 SBIN 241.20 245.40 234.00 242.80 IOC 85.00 85.75 83.40 84.85 PAGEIND 22110.90 22320.00 21951.60 22129.65 GESHIP 247.50 251.20 245.75 247.35 BHARTIARTL 470.50 485.95 465.35 483.15 14.60 INDUSINDBK 818.40 830.00 788.80 810.05 NBCC 24.25 26.40 24.00 25.85 CUMMINSIND 501.40 518.85 501.40 510.10 VRLLOG 181.40 183.70 174.70 176.20 KOTAKBANK 1820.00 1899.00 1812.10 1882.00 55.65 INFRATEL 191.50 222.70 188.25 218.50 COFORGE 2332.90 2403.60 2319.40 2353.60 AARTIIND 1145.00 1147.30 1110.10 1121.30 NHPC 20.55 20.65 20.45 20.50 HDFCLIFE 647.35 668.55 647.35 664.70 18.65 ICICIBANK 478.65 483.25 468.30 480.20 ZEEL 188.50 188.90 183.30 185.60 VOLTAS 780.70 781.75 765.75 770.05 VAIBHAVGBL 2118.00 2142.50 2080.00 2121.85 NESTLEIND 17050.00 17500.00 16915.15 17400.00 465.85 TATAMOTORS 170.00 171.55 165.55 169.00 GMM 3811.05 3880.15 3750.00 3765.75 NAVINFLUOR 2640.00 2663.00 2565.10 2578.50 JKCEMENT 1924.95 1924.95 1897.80 1920.05 GRASIM 840.00 861.90 838.60 859.80 23.05 AXISBANK 614.20 616.00 592.10 607.70 BHARATFORG 511.00 517.65 493.20 498.05 MIDHANI 190.05 196.20 190.05 193.50 BAYERCROP 4985.00 5051.50 4982.80 5001.85 NTPC 90.25 92.10 89.90 91.85 2.05 SPICEJET 74.60 79.75 71.05 72.75 HSCL 41.80 42.65 38.70 39.45 RAMCOCEM 861.75 873.60 846.90 853.50 HUDCO 32.50 33.15 32.50 32.75 HDFCBANK 1372.65 1408.40 1365.05 1405.00 30.65 TATASTEEL 525.55 541.65 521.20 532.55 ADANITRANS 374.00 395.20 374.00 383.90 AMBER 2179.00 2215.00 2153.05 2165.45 DBL 370.65 370.65 355.00 362.90 HCLTECH 813.95 823.50 804.00 820.00 15.45 TITAN 1293.15 1370.00 1293.15 1364.95 DELTACORP 126.70 133.25 126.20 129.95 JAGRAN 37.70 43.10 37.70 41.00 MAHABANK 11.34 11.36 11.17 11.24 ITC 188.80 192.00 186.05 191.35 3.45 INFY 1105.50 1108.85 1091.20 1103.05 EXIDEIND 170.00 172.45 169.80 171.75 BOSCHLTD 11927.00 12028.65 11765.05 11910.25 GEPIL 316.00 318.30 314.70 318.30 TECHM 829.00 844.95 826.40 838.00 15.10 ITC 188.15 191.95 186.05 191.60 PNB 30.00 30.15 29.55 29.75 SHREECEM 23998.00 24000.00 23647.65 23956.70 SKFINDIA 1530.00 1578.45 1530.00 1541.45 ULTRACEMCO 4807.90 4871.95 4769.05 4862.55 84.55 HINDUNILVR 2140.00 2142.25 2101.25 2119.60 COLPAL 1507.15 1548.05 1507.15 1534.15 CENTRALBK 11.56 11.85 11.49 11.68 SYMPHONY 848.25 848.25 836.00 837.50 TATASTEEL 526.00 541.70 521.00 531.55 7.95 TCS 2655.00 2675.00 2628.25 2659.60 TVSMOTOR 475.50 481.20 469.95 478.30 DISHTV 10.42 10.50 10.21 10.26 KRBL 253.00 254.10 249.50 250.35 M&M 710.00 718.55 697.40 714.10 10.20 LT 1140.00 1160.00 1118.80 1132.15 HDFCAMC 2419.25 2440.00 2401.00 2410.25 TRENT 748.00 774.45 726.05 759.50 WABAG 188.25 190.15 185.00 187.00 SHREECEM 23827.30 24010.95 23630.30 23987.00 325.35 ADANIGREEN 1036.00 1138.00 1036.00 1135.55 SBICARD 805.00 814.00 795.40 806.85 TORNTPOWER 306.75 309.85 304.15 307.00 MINDAIND 372.00 372.00 360.15 367.85 JSWSTEEL 332.00 339.00 329.30 335.60 4.40 KOTAKBANK 1824.90 1899.00 1813.65 1889.20 PFIZER 5084.95 5120.05 5013.10 5059.35 HFCL 18.15 18.55 17.70 17.90 GPPL 93.00 94.00 92.00 92.95 WIPRO 343.80 348.50 342.05 347.00 4.40 HDFCBANK 1374.00 1408.00 1365.65 1403.85 MINDTREE 1327.70 1372.45 1326.80 1355.75 ABFRL 161.65 161.65 157.75 159.55 MOTILALOFS 611.20 621.95 606.40 611.00 EICHERMOT 2565.00 2600.00 2542.30 2583.10 31.85 BHARTIARTL 470.50 485.55 465.05 483.50 NCC 41.75 42.00 40.50 41.60 RELAXO 729.10 745.75 712.05 738.25 CENTURYPLY 202.00 204.10 195.40 199.25 BRITANNIA 3524.95 3577.75 3521.15 3555.00 43.65 MARUTI 6930.15 7017.00 6907.00 6967.10 TATAELXSI 1529.55 1551.90 1528.00 1532.65 EDELWEISS 61.30 62.80 60.00 61.30 SPARC 167.80 168.20 165.00 165.45 NMDC 95.95 96.55 92.70 93.50 WELCORP 107.80 113.90 107.80 112.90 SHRIRAMCIT 1000.00 1023.00 994.60 1003.75 DIVISLAB 3442.00 3490.00 3425.00 3472.95 37.90 HDFC 2326.00 2385.50 2326.00 2333.75 ADANIGAS 330.10 361.50 330.10 345.30 JUSTDIAL 627.50 627.50 604.75 617.55 DCAL 136.40 152.00 136.40 147.65 BAJAJCON 185.05 187.00 183.40 184.85 SBIN 241.50 245.40 233.95 242.00 2.25 GODREJIND 423.00 425.50 415.00 421.25 PNBHOUSING 382.45 385.55 372.05 382.85 TATAMTRDVR 72.90 73.70 71.10 72.65 CGCL 286.80 286.80 272.00 273.30 SHILPAMED 427.40 427.80 423.00 424.80 POWERGRID 193.50 194.00 189.10 191.50 1.70 OIL 92.10 92.45 90.90 91.20 SRTRANSFIN 919.00 949.90 904.65 934.20 GRASIM 841.00 861.85 838.95 857.85 TNPL 107.85 115.50 107.55 112.75 UFLEX 366.95 366.95 355.20 359.60 BAJAJ-AUTO 3033.00 3085.00 3022.00 3059.00 24.75 JKTYRE 82.00 82.55 80.10 81.10 AFFLE 3001.00 3148.35 3001.00 3148.35 ICICIPRULI 443.20 456.00 442.60 453.00 KTKBANK 44.95 45.35 43.90 44.25 VEDL 113.15 113.30 109.55 111.00 GULFOILLUB 798.85 807.60 780.40 793.15 TCS 2655.00 2676.00 2627.55 2657.80 20.90 ICICIGI 1307.80 1382.00 1307.80 1353.95 ABCAPITAL 80.95 82.30 80.10 81.00 DCMSHRIRAM 353.70 359.75 350.40 353.05 BEL 105.00 109.85 104.50 108.20 RVNL 19.50 19.70 19.15 19.20 INFY 1106.00 1109.00 1091.10 1104.45 7.70 CASTROLIND 119.40 124.00 119.00 123.10 ASHOKA 74.40 75.45 73.50 74.05 GILLETTE 5930.00 5930.00 5752.90 5773.30 M&M 705.00 718.00 697.35 716.00 JKLAKSHMI 348.70 349.65 339.60 341.50 UPL 416.50 422.40 406.55 419.00 2.50 ONGC 72.65 72.70 70.70 71.60 INFIBEAM 80.10 83.55 80.10 82.05 CHOLAHLDNG 493.60 494.45 474.15 484.35 APOLLOTYRE 173.40 178.15 172.30 175.35 CARERATING 430.70 440.80 420.00 432.75 HEROMOTOCO 2999.00 3018.95 2965.65 2998.00 9.50 BLISSGVS 164.55 166.75 162.70 163.25 SUPREMEIND 1555.00 1648.00 1529.35 1627.45 REDINGTON 138.50 139.95 136.50 138.00 ASHOKLEY 95.05 96.00 88.65 90.80 KAJARIACER 618.50 622.75 614.00 620.50 TATAMOTORS 170.05 171.55 165.55 168.30 0.35 CANBK 93.80 94.00 92.45 93.25 SUZLON 3.50 3.65 3.42 3.46 JBCHEPHARM 913.30 940.50 913.30 937.20 GRAPHITE 216.00 244.25 211.00 237.00 SWSOLAR 215.50 223.60 215.00 220.25 HDFC 2330.00 2386.55 2326.55 2329.00 4.40 GODREJPROP 1047.00 1083.00 1045.30 1062.50 MPHASIS 1349.85 1349.85 1305.30 1315.60 NLCINDIA 49.40 50.30 49.40 49.75 INDIGO 1691.70 1743.80 1644.55 1679.60 ASTERDM 173.65 179.90 162.00 170.30 HINDALCO 214.55 220.00 212.10 214.20 0.35 GLENMARK 484.00 486.60 478.30 481.45 PIIND 2352.10 2445.00 2352.10 2433.60 SPANDANA 752.45 760.95 720.00 731.85 MRF 76725.00 79538.30 76725.00 79105.95 STLTECH 151.50 152.10 147.20 149.15 IOC 84.75 85.75 83.40 84.70 0.00 METROPOLIS 2061.00 2143.00 2045.60 2139.05 SYNGENE 572.10 575.15 561.65 572.50 MRPL 27.80 28.25 27.75 27.80 RBLBANK 212.90 215.50 207.10 211.55 RADICO 450.00 455.00 446.00 449.30 SBILIFE 840.00 850.00 835.00 845.15 GSPL 194.00 199.80 194.00 198.25 HIMATSEIDE 118.20 119.45 116.30 117.45 ASIANPAINT 2163.35 2190.05 2160.55 2160.55 -1.15 DABUR 509.15 513.65 505.85 508.30 TATACOFFEE 103.10 103.60 102.25 102.60 AMBUJACEM 260.00 261.65 253.75 257.20 CENTURYTEX 335.00 337.00 328.35 331.05 MAHSCOOTER 3741.65 3864.10 3709.80 3824.45 MARUTI 6959.55 7020.00 6904.00 6959.00 -4.30 IBULHSGFIN 176.80 179.00 174.00 174.75 KPRMILL 798.00 811.35 790.30 807.45 PETRONET 255.00 261.90 253.50 258.95 PERSISTENT 1134.05 1160.00 1134.05 1144.70 VMART 1999.65 2024.75 1984.50 2018.15 SBILIFE 848.80 850.00 835.00 845.90 -0.85 EIDPARRY 300.85 311.95 300.85 309.20 GREAVESCOT 75.20 75.40 73.10 73.80 IRCTC 1385.00 1398.00 1362.00 1380.05 CHAMBLFERT 180.50 187.05 177.35 186.15 BRIGADE 219.60 223.00 216.70 220.95 BPCL 387.70 389.90 378.55 383.00 -0.70 GAIL 93.70 97.90 93.00 97.45 TVSSRICHAK 1554.00 1616.95 1551.55 1580.30 MANAPPURAM 164.00 164.75 159.60 161.45 NOCIL 142.20 144.80 140.30 140.70 GUJALKALI 324.90 326.00 319.00 320.35 CIPLA 742.00 748.45 732.25 740.40 -1.70 HINDALCO 215.80 220.00 212.45 215.30 ALKEM 2700.00 2715.00 2656.60 2678.55 LALPATHLAB 2169.75 2242.45 2131.90 2196.20 JSWENERGY 61.30 63.60 60.80 63.15 SUDARSCHEM 459.00 459.75 450.25 453.85 ICICIBANK 479.50 483.45 468.10 477.00 -1.75 HEG 799.40 858.90 795.80 820.70 HATHWAY 33.15 33.50 31.10 31.65 TATACONSUM 523.00 523.75 516.85 519.10 GMRINFRA 25.40 25.50 25.00 25.15 INDOCO 253.00 259.65 251.20 257.55 LT 1140.00 1161.00 1118.50 1128.60 -5.65 NESTLEIND 17006.55 17500.00 16933.90 17470.00 THERMAX 840.00 855.70 830.75 841.30 EMAMILTD 386.95 399.75 383.75 396.45 SWANENERGY 136.00 137.10 133.30 135.70 VBL 770.00 778.30 761.20 768.90 HINDUNILVR 2135.00 2142.00 2100.50 2117.95 -12.80 ASIANPAINT 2165.00 2190.00 2161.00 2163.85 JUBILANT 701.00 707.00 693.00 696.35 BAJAJHLDNG 2944.00 3026.30 2853.75 3004.20 GODFRYPHLP 910.00 947.00 910.00 928.15 ORIENTCEM 68.20 71.00 68.20 70.05 DRREDDY 4730.00 4752.30 4656.30 4677.00 -30.70 BANDHANBNK 352.45 355.45 339.00 349.95 WELSPUNIND 66.95 68.85 66.40 67.15 FEDERALBNK 58.55 59.35 56.90 58.45 SHK 125.20 129.30 121.75 122.70 CSBBANK 252.95 265.10 252.95 260.70 COALINDIA 123.30 123.50 120.15 121.25 -0.80 EIHOTEL 88.50 90.25 86.55 88.95 JINDALSTEL 237.00 244.95 231.80 236.60 NAM-INDIA 287.20 295.00 287.20 289.85 GARFIBRES 2136.50 2166.35 2110.65 2158.30 ONGC 72.45 72.70 70.70 71.65 -0.50 GRSE 196.00 203.00 194.85 199.40 MARICO 373.80 376.05 368.15 374.15 ORIENTREF 223.80 225.95 216.75 220.75 DRREDDY 4736.00 4755.70 4658.80 4670.70 JAICORPLTD 90.85 91.45 88.70 89.00 SUNPHARMA 510.00 512.50 496.00 502.45 -4.90 DCBBANK 95.15 95.85 92.05 93.40 3MINDIA 21650.00 21800.00 21415.50 21757.15 TATACHEM 359.50 367.90 350.85 356.10 GHCL 160.00 167.95 158.75 164.60 AXISBANK 615.00 616.50 592.00 604.45 -7.05 ERIS 519.90 530.00 515.00 519.40 HERITGFOOD 277.90 280.00 274.35 276.00 NAUKRI 3832.00 4057.80 3825.00 3993.80 INDIANB 63.80 63.80 61.20 63.05 INDUSINDBK 818.10 829.90 788.80 806.00 -12.00 ISEC 450.90 452.45 437.00 440.40 TASTYBIT 11285.95 11340.00 11092.30 11170.80 WIPRO 343.95 348.45 342.10 346.40 MEGH 76.75 77.20 73.55 73.85 ADANIPORTS 381.00 382.65 373.00 375.95 -5.95 CYIENT 455.35 471.20 450.65 462.55 APLAPOLLO 3304.00 3304.00 3191.30 3215.95 DLF 188.45 189.10 180.00 182.00 CARBORUNIV 334.90 354.70 334.35 351.25 RELIANCE 1975.00 1983.80 1895.00 1901.00 -72.15 RALLIS 255.05 262.50 254.40 257.95 WESTLIFE 379.00 386.95 377.90 382.00 WOCKPHARMA 330.00 393.20 329.35 393.20 RAJESHEXPO 464.85 464.85 450.25 451.20 HINDZINC 224.00 225.60 220.60 221.65 TIMKEN 1151.15 1183.00 1151.15 1175.40 HDFCLIFE 646.10 668.40 646.10 663.80 ALKYLAMINE 3325.00 3445.40 3325.00 3427.15     COROMANDEL 760.00 789.55 752.45 773.55 SJVN 22.35 22.60 22.35 22.50 FRETAIL 73.40 74.20 69.95 71.85 KPITTECH 101.85 106.50 101.85 104.15 SONATSOFTW 344.00 347.50 341.15 345.20 CAPPL 478.50 481.75 469.85 473.70 APOLLOHOSP 2325.00 2399.00 2325.00 2349.35 ADVENZYMES 339.00 343.75 333.40 335.40 UNIONBANK 25.25 25.75 25.20 25.55 LINDEINDIA 894.90 896.75 883.50 891.30 SCRIP OPEN HIgh LOW LTP CHANGE HCLTECH 815.00 823.30 804.25 819.10 PTC 53.00 53.65 52.00 53.35 KEI 362.40 375.00 362.20 373.35 CREDITACC 733.00 745.75 727.30 737.05 NIFTY NEXT 50 29638.65 29974.00 29634.60 29952.90 373.10 NTPC 90.05 92.00 90.00 91.85 LUXIND 1578.30 1598.30 1544.65 1552.55 GLAXO 1489.25 1528.00 1472.00 1522.40 SIS 385.00 386.80 372.45 375.85 INFRATEL 190.65 223.05 188.25 221.70 35.80 MUTHOOTFIN 1170.10 1190.00 1166.25 1184.00 GNFC 192.15 193.35 190.10 192.65 BSOFT 184.90 184.90 179.50 182.90 BALMLAWRIE 102.20 102.65 101.95 102.20 ADANIGREEN 1051.00 1137.65 1050.00 1137.50 54.00 SUNPHARMA 509.00 512.50 496.05 503.00 OFSS 3062.00 3067.75 3026.00 3034.15 BEML 655.50 670.45 651.85 655.85 PARAGMILK 108.85 109.50 107.10 108.00 BAJAJHLDNG 2892.00 3026.10 2853.00 3015.00 136.15 CIPLA 742.90 748.40 732.50 739.90 UJJIVANSFB 34.00 34.65 33.50 33.70 PGHL 5770.05 6124.95 5770.05 6033.15 IRCON 83.75 84.25 82.50 83.40 ICICIGI 1304.00 1383.55 1299.00 1357.00 60.55 UPL 417.00 422.30 406.80 420.65 SUNTECK 269.85 273.00 269.25 269.85 NH 366.00 392.00 359.45 367.30 EPL 256.60 269.05 256.60 264.90 NAUKRI 3834.20 4058.00 3815.10 3999.10 164.90 COALINDIA 123.00 123.50 120.10 121.45 ECLERX 699.00 722.80 699.00 713.95 RECLTD 115.90 116.10 112.40 113.60 ASTRAZEN 4449.00 4471.35 4381.85 4398.00 FINEORG 2627.80 2641.95 2555.55 2597.60 LTI 3008.65 3107.10 2991.15 3104.00 121.00 BRITANNIA 3527.70 3579.45 3526.10 3549.85 JMFINANCIL 78.10 79.60 76.55 76.90 IGL 442.50 452.90 439.55 443.70 COCHINSHIP 339.55 345.25 339.55 340.25 TTKPRESTIG 5839.60 5879.00 5770.00 5853.30 UBL 1057.85 1100.95 1051.50 1090.25 38.10 PIDILITIND 1565.00 1574.00 1556.10 1559.25 ZYDUSWELL 1842.30 1842.30 1820.00 1825.05 RAIN 114.70 118.20 113.20 114.70 FSL 75.00 76.30 73.50 75.90 GMDCLTD 46.20 46.45 45.15 45.60 ICICIPRULI 443.00 456.00 442.05 456.00 14.70 BPCL 386.00 389.65 378.45 383.35 IIFL 112.95 120.50 112.95 115.75 TV18BRDCST 30.80 31.70 29.70 30.10 GICRE 127.00 127.00 125.10 125.80 LAOPALA 215.00 217.10 212.50 213.15 GODREJCP 688.90 709.00 686.05 700.50 15.60 BATAINDIA 1507.00 1514.35 1453.20 1476.30 POWERINDIA 974.80 975.45 957.05 960.70 CADILAHC 436.00 436.00 424.00 425.45 VIPIND 345.50 348.40 335.45 339.85 GRINDWELL 585.00 586.60 574.40 580.30 MOTHERSUMI 137.00 140.00 135.60 139.50 2.75 TATAPOWER 59.30 59.85 56.70 58.10 RITES 254.90 254.90 248.30 248.55 VINATIORGA 1200.00 1220.00 1160.40 1202.15 FINCABLES 290.00 293.00 282.00 284.05 GDL 99.15 102.80 99.15 100.40 PETRONET 255.00 262.00 253.25 258.75 4.90 BIOCON 424.00 425.95 415.00 420.10 AJANTPHARM 1535.00 1547.80 1524.90 1528.90 ABB 1052.80 1135.00 1048.45 1122.00 REPCOHOME 238.00 244.20 230.35 233.20 MHRIL 187.10 187.15 182.35 182.95 MARICO 371.70 376.25 367.80 373.65 6.30 IPCALAB 2087.95 2160.00 2070.50 2142.85 EQUITAS 53.00 53.30 52.00 52.85 AVANTI 493.00 504.00 487.00 497.45 BASF 1494.00 1573.75 1494.00 1543.90 SOMANYCERA 254.90 265.30 254.90 257.60 ADANITRANS 375.70 395.40 375.00 381.90 6.20 MOTHERSUMI 137.45 139.95 135.55 139.55 BDL 312.00 313.00 306.60 307.60 THYROCARE 1017.00 1065.80 998.00 1042.40 HAWKINCOOK 5096.00 5142.00 5050.05 5097.05 AKZOINDIA 2111.90 2122.15 2101.15 2109.75 MUTHOOTFIN 1176.00 1191.45 1166.30 1185.00 15.35 BALKRISIND 1596.50 1659.50 1596.35 1613.30 ENGINERSIN 70.95 71.50 70.50 70.65 ADANIPOWER 38.35 38.80 37.85 38.00 POLYCAB 940.10 941.45 920.85 922.75 VSTIND 3535.00 3559.25 3508.30 3514.70 BERGEPAINT 640.00 647.00 639.00 645.00 8.20 ADANIENT 385.45 401.90 384.00 388.65 HONAUT 31733.00 31825.45 30707.45 30893.70 JAMNAAUTO 53.00 59.40 51.35 57.55 SOBHA 310.00 313.90 306.00 309.70 PGHH 10529.05 10600.00 10375.00 10507.75 COLPAL 1522.00 1548.00 1519.00 1534.90 18.10 ACC 1680.00 1713.90 1680.00 1687.45 IDFC 32.15 33.60 32.15 33.45 NATIONALUM 36.70 37.40 35.80 36.55 BERGEPAINT 644.80 647.20 639.00 642.95 MMTC 17.70 18.00 17.65 17.80 TATACONSUM 520.25 523.80 515.60 519.30 3.70 BHEL 29.45 29.70 28.65 29.20 RCF 45.35 46.55 45.05 45.90 DIXON 10200.00 10537.00 10068.20 10386.15 RATNAMANI 1530.00 1650.00 1530.00 1642.15 KSB 511.00 527.70 511.00 526.15 IGL 441.40 453.00 441.30 445.45 3.20 LAURUSLABS 270.00 284.00 266.10 282.65 MASFIN 1011.00 1075.00 1011.00 1064.90 TRIDENT 7.80 8.23 7.65 8.08 VGUARD 179.00 179.80 175.60 176.75 ALLCARGO 124.90 125.20 123.15 123.95 ABBOTINDIA 15298.65 15360.00 15200.00 15345.00 106.35 M&MFIN 157.00 158.65 151.70 154.60 VENKYS 1630.00 1637.85 1588.00 1603.40 CONCOR 408.30 418.10 408.30 409.95 SUNDRMFAST 502.00 528.55 502.00 512.10 NIACL 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And opportunity for breakthroughs in munity by not conceding the election fident he knows he has not won and is ers' attempts to overturn the results prop up these, you know, bogus World Health Organisation. we have to make sure that the rest resuming high-level communi- results, President-elect Joe Biden said on not going to be able to win, and we are of the 2020 presidential election and claims,” Obama, the first Black Biden was responding to a of the world and we get togeth- cation and rebuilding mutual Thursday. going to be sworn in on January 20...,” he said that they are defending American president said. question on Thursday about his er and make sure there are cer- strategic trust between the two Major news networks have declared said. Responding to another question, President Donald Trump's “bogus In the last phase of the cam- remarks during the presidential tain right lines the Chinese major countries. Biden as the winner of the November 3 Biden said he is “not concerned” that claims” of voter fraud because they paign, Obama had campaigned debates that he wanted to pun- understand,” Biden, a Democrat, A day earlier, Senator Jim presidential elections, weeks ahead of people may question the legitimacy of his are “intimidated” by it. for former vice president Biden and ish China over the way Beijing said. Risch, chairman of the Senate their formal certification by the respec- administration. Democrat Joe Biden was Kamala Harris Harris in some of has been behaving. He was asked President Trump's four years Foreign Relations Committee, tive State legislatures. “The vast majority of the American declared the winner of the the key battleground States of if that could include economic in power were the worst phase in published a majority report enti- Trump, however, has refused to con- people, they have already--all the polling November 3 presidential election, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Florida sanctions or tariffs on China, the China-US relations as the ruling tled “The United States and cede. He has filed multiple lawsuits in data has indicated all the Republicans but President Trump, a Republican, and Georgia. world's second largest economy. Communist Party of China Europe: A Concrete Agenda for several states challenging the election who worry about it is higher, but you has refused to concede defeat and The embattled Trump cam- In April, President Donald headed by President Xi Jinping Transatlantic Cooperation on results alleging that there has been mas- know, over 78 per cent of the American has filed multiple lawsuits, chal- paign has challenged vote count in Trump announced that the US struggled to deal with what China,” to advance greater col- sive voters' fraud and electoral malprac- people believe it is without question, it lenging poll results in several Pennsylvania, Michigan and would withdraw from the WHO, Chinese officials say is the most laboration between the US and tice, a charge denied by state officials and is legitimate,” he said. states. Georgia, among other states. A accusing the UN organisation for elusive and unpredictable Europe on the challenges posed news outlets. “I think most of the Republicans I “I have been troubled, like I number of their lawsuits have been failing to oversee the onset of the American leader ever since for- by China. “I think they were witnessing incred- have spoken to, including some gover- think every American, whether dismissed. coronavirus as it began to spread mer US president Richard Nixon “We must be prepared to ible irresponsibility; incredibly damaging nors, think this is debilitating. It sends a you're a Democrat, a Republican or “They've been repeatedly in China. in 1972 established ties with the work with our trusted allies and messages being sent to the rest of the horrible message about who we are as a an independent, should be trou- rejected by the courts. I'm less sur- “It's not so much about pun- Communist nation. partners to counter an increas- world about how democracy functions. country,” he added. bled, when you start having prised by Trump doing this; he has ishing China, it's about making During his tenure, Trump, ingly confrontational China that I do not know his motive, but I just think The President-elect in response to attempts to block, negate, overturn shown only a flimsy relationship to sure China understands they've a Republican, pushed aggres- attempts to undermine prosper- it is totally irresponsible,” Biden, 77, said another question did not rule out taking the people's vote when there's no the truth. I'm more troubled that got to play by the rules. It's a sim- sively on all aspects of US-China ity, security and good governance during a meeting with a bipartisan action against the General Services actual evidence that there was any- you're seeing a lot of Republican ple proposition,” Biden said dur- ties, including with his relentless in every region of the globe,” group of governors in Wilmington. Administration (GSA), the governmen- thing illegal or fraudulent taking officials go along with it, not ing a meeting with a bipartisan trade war, challenging China's Risch said. “What the president is doing now is tal department which has refused to help place,” former president Obama because they actually believe it but group of governors in his home- military hold on the disputed According to the report, the going to be another incident where he him in the transition. told MSNBC. because they're intimidated by it,” town in Wilmington, Delaware. South China Sea, its constant US and Europe increasingly will go down in history as being one of Biden also said that he has already He also criticised the conser- Obama said. He said that is one of the threats to Taiwan and branding agree that China poses signifi- the most irresponsible presidents of decided on the name of the next Treasury vative-leaning news outlets for giv- Obama said that there is a dif- reasons why his administration coronavirus as “China virus” cant political, economic, and America,” he said in response to a ques- Secretary and will make the announce- ing a platform to Trump's unsub- ference between 2008 and now in is going to rejoin the World after it emerged from Wuhan in even security challenges. PTI tion. ment around Thanksgiving. PTI stantiated claims. 2020.         2   +     7%    2='">                %&         ' '  "  H   Washington: US President-elect Joe “For example, it is one thing to Beijing: A leading Chinese vaccine maker said it has com- Biden on Thursday ruled out a say that you can have in a state that-     @-      menced phase-3 clinical trials for its Covid-19 vaccine and nationwide shutdown to fight -where the infection rate is not as is planning to recruit 29,000 volunteers across the world. Covid-19, but insisted on a national high, you can have a gymnasium Washington: A federal judge year from countries like India London: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Friday backed This is China's first phase-3 efficacy study for a mask mandate as part of the efforts open. It is another thing to say it can has granted class certification and China. his Cabinet Minister Priti Patel, despite a Cabinet Office Recombinant subunit Covid-19 vaccine candidate, Anhui to prevent the spread of the deadly be only open four hours a day with in a lawsuit challenging the The lawsuit — filed in inquiry into allegations of bullying concluding that she had Zhifei Longcom Biopharmaceutical, said in a statement on virus which has so far taken the lives X number of people. alleged pattern and practice of federal court in the Northern breached the Ministerial Code, albeit “unintentionally”. Thursday. of 2,50,000 Americans. “The church I go to, my Catholic the US Citizenship and District of California by the While ministers are usually expected to resign if they Jointly developed by the company and the Institute of “No national shutdown because Church they do not allow more Immigration Services arbi- American Immigration breach the code, it ultimately rests with the prime minister Microbiology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the every region, area and community than 40 per cent of people to come trarily denying H-1B non- Council, the American on whether to take any action on the independent Ministerial vaccine was issued a clinical research permit from the National can be different. And so there is no into the church. Those are rational immigrant employment- Immigration Lawyers Code adviser's findings. Medical Products Administration on June 19. circumstance which I can see that decisions. It is not shutting down based petitions for market Association, along with law Johnson, who has consistently supported Patel ever since The company said the research, which plans to enroll up would require a total national shut- everything; it is calibrating based on research analyst positions filed firms Van Der Hout LLP, the allegations first emerged earlier this year, declared that to 29,000 adults aged 18 and up, was launched on Wednesday down. I think that would be coun- what the threat is,” he explained. by businesses in this Joseph & Hall PC, and Kuck he still has “full confidence” in the 48-year-old Indian-ori- in Xiangtan County, central China's Hunan Province. terproductive, but there are con- Biden said he discussed the country. Baxter Immigration LLC — gin minister, who holds one of the UK's highest political offices Global trials are expected to begin in Uzbekistan late this straints in which the degree to which implementation of a national mask The H-1B visa is a non- seeks to rein in the unlawful as Home Secretary.It has, however, led to the resignation of month, followed by trials in Indonesia, Pakistan and Ecuador. businesses can be open,” he told mandate in the meeting with the gov- immigrant visa that allows US adjudication practice Alex Allan, the independent adviser on the Ministerial Code, A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told a reporters in Wilmington, Delaware, ernors. “Ten governors, Democrat companies to employ foreign the US Citizenship and as the decision seems to go against the findings of his report. media briefing on Wednesday that five Chinese vaccine can- after a meeting with a bipartisan and Republican, have imposed mask- workers in specialty occupa- Immigration “My advice is that the Home Secretary has not consis- didates are under clinical trials in countries, including the UAE, group of governors. Biden said he ing requirements and recognised tions that require theoretical Services (USCIS) uses in tently met the high standards required by the Ministerial Code Brazil, Pakistan and Peru, and phase one and phase two clin- would follow the science. the need for universal masking. or technical expertise. The determining whether a mar- of treating her civil servants with consideration and respect. ical trials of some other vaccines are accelerated. “I am not going to shut down the North, South, East and West. It is not technology companies ket research analyst job qual- Her approach on occasions has amounted to behaviour that Researchers started phase-1 and phase-2 clinical trials on economy period. I am going to shut a political statement. It is a patriotic depend on it to hire tens of ifies as a “specialty occupa- can be described as bullying in terms of the impact felt by June 23, which were randomised, double-blind and placebo- down the virus,” he asserted. duty,” he said. PTI thousands of employees each tion.” PTI individuals,” his report notes. PTI controlled. PTI -            $   A@   ',             Madrid:The Spanish govern- Friday visiting the archipelago, cumstances at home have Some 6,000 migrants are &% ?       ment is ratcheting up its whose nearest island is around arrived in the archipelago this being temporarily housed in response to the steady build-up 70 miles (110 kms) west of year, half of them in the past 30 hotels and tourist apartments  @A5&&02&   3&2!!@! people killed in one of the most dis- of migrant arrivals to the Canary Morocco. They are set to detail days. The surge has strained res- that are lying empty because of astrous air crashes in the country's Islands from Africa, including a a long-awaited plan of action on cue services, police resources, a lack of visitors as a result of the he European Union issued on Friday one of its most early four years after a Pakistan aviation history. fresh diplomatic offensive. how to ensure the islands don't and emergency workers. coronavirus pandemic. Tupbeat assessments of the state of post-Brexit trade NInternational Airlines' flight The Aircraft Accident and The ministers in charge of become Europe's next migrant Meanwhile, migrants and poten- Normally at this time of year, negotiations. crashed in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Investigation Board (AAIB) com- migration and transportation, hot spot. tial asylum seekers remain the islands are one of the most EU Commission President Ursula von der province, killing 47 people, a probe pleted its investigation into the José Luis Escrivá and José Luis Nearly 17,000 people fleeing stranded in a dock for days and popular holiday destinations in Leyen said “we've seen in the last days, better report has said that the aircraft had crash and revealed that the aircraft Ábalos respectively, were on poverty, violence or other cir- under unfit conditions. Europe. AP progress, more movement on important files.” three “technical anomalies” for had three “technical anomalies” for “This is good,” von der Leyen told reporters, in which the airline's engineers were which the airline's engineers were comments that contrast sharply with previous state- responsible, according to a media responsible, the Dawn News report- 2 ments over the talks that have dragged on with little report. ed. progress for months, despite the tight Jan. 1 deadline. The plane crashed near Havelian Head of the AAIB Air Her comment came a day after a member of the in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province Commodore Usman Ghani sub- 02 3&!A&))AH)H announced sweeping measures including Senior TMC MP Saugato Roy, how- EU negotiating team tested positive for the coronavirus, on December 7, 2016, killing all 47 mitted the report on Thursday to a a steep Rs 2,000 fine for not wearing masks, ever, would not want to attach much which led to the talks being suspended. passengers and crew on board the bench of the Sindh High Court ))A )F3&5AF0/ reservation of 80 per cent ICU beds in pri- importance to Supriyo’s statements saying She said that because legal texts had made such ATR42 aircraft of the national car- (SHC) after repeated directives by vate hospitals, doubling testing centres in “Babul Supriyo should not be given much progress, further discussions by video over the next rier. the bench in a petition filed about persons. The survey will be complet- every district and postponement of non- importance because everyone knows why days could progress too “since there is now substance Junaid Jamshed, a singer- various incidents involving ATR ed within 5 days,” said a district magistrate. critical surgeries at health facilities. he is making such statements … He is try- where you can go through line by line.” turned-preacher, was among the planes. Following a meeting between The Union Health Ministry on ing to scare the TMC workers so as to bring Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Thursday said Delhi accounted for 22.39 down their morale … but this tactic would Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, it was per cent of the fatalities reported across the not work … there are provisions for    decided that the survey in the city will be country in a span of 24 hours by record- President’s Rule following a Governor’s  @  conducted by teams of AIIMS, the Delhi ing 131 deaths on Wednesday and became report but the Supreme Court has made Government and municipal corporations, the largest contributor to the single-day it clear under what circumstances Article 6:: :::  and all the symptomatic people found in COVID-19 deaths in India. 356 can be     '  the survey would be tested and provided imposed.”  < necessary treatment.   !22&@!@52O& Congress MP Pradip Bhattacharya said Peshawar: A Hindu temple, Hindu Shahi period, he said. year-old archaeological sites Around 9,500 surveillance teams have Bengal was not perfect case for 356 while believed to have been con- The Hindu Shahis or Kabul and the traces of the Hindu     been constituted and deployed for con- @25)3")&0 CPI(M) leader Sujan Chakrabarty said by structed 1,300 years ago, has Shahis (850–1026 CE) was a Shahi period have been found ducting a door-to-door survey. Each team "A0&30O&A520 making such statements the BJP was been discovered by Pakistani Hindu dynasty that ruled the for the first time in the area. Mexico City: Mexico passed has a target to survey 50 households every helping the Trinamool. and Italian archaeological Kabul Valley (eastern Dr Luka, the head of the the 100,000 mark in COVID- day, officials added. Hours later the Trinamool Congress Incidentally, Supriyo’s statement was experts at a mountain in north- Afghanistan), Gandhara (mod- Italian archaeological mission, 19 deaths, becoming only the The national Capital has witnessed a reacted with equal venom daring the soon modified by Bengal BJP president west Pakistan's Swat ern-day Pakistan), and pre- said this was the first temple of fourth country to do so amid surge in coronavirus cases since October Centre to impose President’s Rule in the Dilip Ghosh who said the party did not district. sent-day northwestern India. the Ghandhara civilisation dis- concerns about the lingering 28, when the daily rise breached the 5,000- State. want Article 356 to be imposed in the State The discovery was made During their excavation, covered in Swat district. physical and psychological mark for the first time, and it crossed the “We dare them to impose Article 356. but at the same time “blasts like the one during an excavation at Barikot the archaeologists also found Swat district is among the scars on survivors. 8,000-mark on November 11. If they have the courage let them go ahead that shook Malda should be probed by cen- Ghundai. Announcing the dis- traces of cantonment and top 20 sites in Pakistan which José Luis Alomía Zegarra, On Wednesday, the infection tally in with their plans and see the consequence,” tral investigation agencies. covery on Thursday, Fazle watchtowers near the temple is home to every kind of Mexico's director of epidemi- Delhi rose to over 5 lakh with 7,486 fresh Bengal Minister Bratya Basu said referring Khaliq of Khyber site. tourism like natural beauty, ology, announced late cases reported, while 131 new fatalities, the to Sujapur blast. &)3!A30&)"2! !0 Pakhtunkhwa Department of The experts also found a religious tourism, cultural Thursday that Mexico had highest single-day death count till date, He said whenever there was an acci- Archaeology said that the tem- water tank near the temple site tourism and archaeological 100,104 confirmed COVID-19 took the toll to 7,943. dental blast in Bengal, the BJP floats a A0@02& ! ))!0& ple discovered is of Lord which they believe was used by sites. deaths, behind only the United In a containment zone summary as on number of theories to polarize the elec-  0393""!02& Vishnu. the for bathing before Several places of worship of States, Brazil and India. November 19, the revenue department said torate but they forget that similar accidents It was built by the Hindus worship. Khaliq said that Swat Buddhism are also situated in The milestone comes less there were 4,560 such zones in the city. do take place in Gujarat too. In June 2019 The panel on economic affairs features 1,300 years ago during the district is home to a thousand- Swat district. PTI than a week after Mexico While New Delhi and Shahdara districts there was a blast in a factory in Bharuch Manmohan Singh, P Chidambaram, topped 1 million registered have 264 and 249 containment zones that killed 4 people, he said. Mallikarjun Kharge, Digvijay Singh and coronavirus cases, though offi- respectively, there are 202 such zones in “ We did not question it as we knew Jairam Ramesh (convener). cials agree the number is prob- north Delhi. it was an accident… but they will always The committee on foreign affairs has  "!"!% $"   ::::: ably much higher because of The department said east Delhi has raise communal questions whenever there Manmohan Singh, Anand Sharma, low levels of testing. 184 Covid-19 containment zones, but is an accidental blast in Bengal,” he said. Tharoor, Saptagiri Ulaka and Salman The coverage of the back- northeast district has only 148 zones. A special task force is probing the fac- Khurshid (convener).  )  ' "!$!!% ' (' to-back milestones has raised Meanwhile, a door-to-door survey for tory blast at Sujapur that killed 6 people The third panel on national security the hackles of some govern- identifying and testing people symptomatic on Thursday. has Singh, Azad, Moily, V Vaithilingam Nairobi: The United Nations refugee agency says ing mainly “humanitarian questions” as they ment officials. for coronavirus in containment and dense- Attacking the BJP for claiming itself as and Vincent Pala (convener). Sonia had about 32,000 people have fled Ethiopia's embat- urgently seek to provide services. Mexico's pointman on the ly packed areas of the city commenced on champions of patriotism Basu said. “The earlier in August formed a few other com- tled Tigray region into neighbouring Sudan, and The refugees are arriving in a very pandemic, Assistant Health Friday. forefathers of these people were washing mittees to advice the party leadership on it is preparing to take in up to 200,000 in the remote area, and humanitarians must create a Secretary Hugo López-Gatell, The survey will be completed within the feet of the British rulers when our men critical issues related to the governance and next six months if necessary. crisis response virtually from zero even as bristled when asked about five days and will cover over 57 lakh peo- like Kshudiram Bose, Benoy, Badal Dinesh, AICC administrative functions from time Axel Bisschop, the agency's representative up to 5,000 refugees continue to arrive Mexico reaching the 100,000 ple in containment zones, dense areas and Surya Sen and others were sacrificing their to time. in Sudan, told reporters that “nobody at this every day. deaths point, criticizing the identified clusters of virus transmission, lives in freedom struggle… today cells in Sonia left Delhi with her son and for- stage can say exactly how many will come,” but No one knows when the flow might ease. media for “being alarmist,” in officials said. Andaman and Nicobar are named after mer Congress chief Rahul Gandhi who is UN officials said fighting continues between “We have not heard specifics from the fight- the same way he has criticized As many as 7,546 fresh Covid-19 cases Vinayak Damodar Savarkar the alleged in line of fire of party leaders amid calls Ethiopian government and Tigray regional ing, but what definitely is clear is that fighting those who suggest the govern- were reported on Thursday, taking the freedom fighter who gave five undertak- for review of the party’s Bihar poll loss. government forces. is ongoing and it is sporadic, you never know ment is undercounting infection tally to over 5.1 lakh while 98 ings of good conduct to the British where- Congress sources said she had been Some of the refugees are arriving with where it's going to happen,” said Hameed COVID-19 deaths or providing more fatalities pushed the toll to 8,041. as nothing in the names of the freedom advised by doctors to stay away from Delhi accounts of shelling or airplanes flying overhead, Nuru, the Sudan country representative for the contradictory and weak advice On Thursday, the AAP Government fighters like Barin Ghosh from Bengal.” to avoid pollution and stay in Goa. but Bisschop said for now authorities are ask- World Food Program. 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I nine years. When I was a kid nobody used can make something good. It’s something feel they can do so many different unimag- to think that being an actor is a real thing that I always wanted to do. I feel super lucky inable type of roles. Fortunately, I got to one could pursue. So I never thought I want- that I get what I want but I wish to achieve work with two of them — Adil Sir and ed to act and go ahead in this field. Luckily, more in life. I need to get better as an actor, Naseer Sir. In the US, it would be Al Pacino life gave me this chance and I realised that learn more about this industry and touch or Robert Ni Ro. I look up to people who I really enjoy this. have weight in their words as they have the   power to both destroy and heal. Your first film Life Of Pi became a huge &5A!G& !A! success? What was your reaction? N300225 4/ !3 You mentioned that you have worked with In terms of expectations, I didn’t know #0 043) Adil Hussain and Naseeruddin Shah. Is ,  anything. I didn’t think of expectations or there something you took away from what this is supposed to be. They put me A)20&31!@5 them?    in this environment, and I believed it so Adil sir is like my mentor. I can’t even much. They gave me so much guidance that 313& )! 30F0 explain how many things I have learnt from I didn’t think about the outcome. It was just )A03230% him. Me, my brother and him would go to    too great to be there and be doing the things Hampi, wake up around 5 am and do some I was doing. Afterwards, I knew that this 300)#0@00A slow-motion acting workshops. Those ! "# film is going to achieve something and it experiences taught me a lot about how to did! Then I realised that I have been given !&!! )A be aware, how to live in the present and how   this chance... so I started acting. 20!A)A0!@)5 to capture the moment. From Naseer sir (Naseeruddin Shah), I have definitely learnt  % You have worked in Hollywood as well as  3&35&A/ how to stay true to the character. No one Bollywood, how is the work culture dif- !)5 01 does a scene like he does. He has this habit ferent? of doing everything with perfection. I @0! F3F! If we talk about similarity, they are alike 03# &O admire that. The weight of his performance in the sense that if they need to get some- is just commendable. I was in a scene with thing done then they get it done no matter him, I just kept on listening to him because what. They try to tell stories which repre- the way he uses his voice is beyond com- sent a life that people wish to believe. new heights. parison. Hollywood as well as Bollywood have begun to rise because of all the new ways You mentioned dark comedy as a bench- What made you say yes to the film Happy to watch content. New voices are coming to mark. Films that you really love in that Death Day 2U? How was that experience? the forefront, new visions are being pro- space? The experience was lovely. It was an posed and it is happening in India as much I do have a couple... The thing is that amazing place to be in. The people were fan- as it is happening in the US. It is really excit- they aren’t really popular films. There’s this tastic to work with. What made me inter- ing to see. It says that something is chang- film called Lobster by Yorgos Lanthimos, In ested was the concept of film, which was — ing. It is great to watch this change happen- Bruges and Death at a Funeral. Bheja Fry is would you change something if you were ing. I would also say that they are different a good one too. to live the same day over and over again? too. In the US, things are far more sched- What can you learn from it? And how do uled, chances of things going wrong Your films have received a lot of critical you make yourself better at it? What can you are far less but in India, things acclaim. Do you think box office hit is take from what you have done in the past? are more ‘go with the flow’ more important than that? That idea really inspired me. Of course, I kind. Well, it is neither. For me, it is my time have watched the first part. The film was spent working with the people and the expe- really endearing. I spoke to the director Are you doing the rience that I gain. That’s the most impor- Chris Landon and did the film. kind of roles you tant thing to me. From my first film (The film premieres on November 22 at 9 pm want to do? If onwards till now, I feel really blessed to have on Sony PIX.)   -' $  "" R#     *     " 4  ;   %% ) ) % ("& !( !0   , ,!!230 !/0&    B %!" !%   ! )   )'!  !"! '! ! 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The show gave pager on Helen of Troy (tech- ; because she suffers the longest, someone who is low on self- me an opportunity to work nically of Sparta). As I grew up, ;=<; through the ten year war and confidence and constantly with some seasoned actors I learnt more about these Greek Odysseus’ ten year drive home. striving to find a sense of dig- and I definitely had an enrich- “heroes”, and the Trojan ones, The man stops at many places, nity and respect throughout ing experience.” notably Hector, adeptly played : battling monsters and giants, his journey,” Zeeshan said. For director Sachin by the handsome Eric Bana in :; sleeping with nymphs and god- “This character gave me a Pathak, the series “dwells in a the film Troy. =>< desses. Penelope’s life through chance to be someone new, dif- space, not much explored on A thousand ships isn’t about ;;?; those years, written as letters to ferent from the characters I the web and thus is novel in its these people and men. Not so her husband, is the wittiest and have played earlier. I had a lot approach.” much about Helen either, over :;=> funniest segment of the book, of fun playing him. We are “I am thankful to my cast, whom a ten year war was @P tragicomic though it is. The rest extremely excited to see how a fine mix of age and experi- fought on earth, leading to the of the book is, well, just tragic. this turns out and we are hop- ence, for delivering such stu- destruction of an entire city and about Cassandra with her If mythology is your cup of ing for the best,” he added. pendous performances and the deaths of countless people. cursed tongue, Andromache tea, pick this book. If feminism The web series shows how making filming look so easy. This book is about Hector’s with her life on the edge and is your cup of tea, pick this greed becomes instrumental in Shooting amid lockdown was mother Hecabe and Odysseus’ Iphigenia, the forever bride. It’s book. Either way, you will be left driving the characters to another rivetting experience wife Penelope, it is about about wives who die for their deeply satisfied but with more entangle in a chain of crazy and I hope the efforts come Achilles’ slave Briseis and her husbands, wives who die aching questions than you events. alive on screen,” he added. slave-time friend Chryseis. It is because of their husbands and realised could exist at the begin- Talking about the web (The show can be streamed about Oenone, Paris’ wife, who wives who kill their husbands. ning of the book. For, this is the show, actor Sushant Singh on SonyLIV.) L$39- is abandoned for Helen. It is It’s about the women left Iliad on the women. said, “I have always believed in   !" #$%#&#& ()* + ,23

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Well, the actual way to  !A!3!0& tips for having a sound sleeping known to fragment your sleep. track your sleep — the gold standard — is by  What are some of the sleep- schedule? ● Hunger and overeating both can doing a ‘polysomnography’ or in layman’s related issues and how can they A) 0& A00 Here are some points to main- cause sleep problems. Make terms, a sleep study where you attach a few wires affect our health? tain a good sleep cycle: sure that you’ve had adequate onto the head. It actually tracks your brain activ- The most common things 3& 0)0 ! ● Sleep as much as you need to amount of meal so that you ity and also monitors your eye movements, etc. which are associated with sleep dis- 3# 2/3&A5"& feel fresh and healthy during the don’t feel hungry or stuffed up We can actually see what stage of sleep you’re orders are snoring and sleep apnea. day. Don’t oversleep as it will at night. at and whether you’re getting deep or REM They are the most common but it’s )5A&200"% 0&0 lead you to another continuous ● Sleeping pills are not a good for (rapid eye movement) sleep again, which is very very important for people to under- cycle of not getting enough sleep the long run. After a point of important. stand the difference between them. !/& "0)"20 and feeling tired. One should time, your dependency on them Usually, the first question I ask my patient Snoring is a kind of noise/sound 5&5!22/&13 sleep as per body requirements. can increase, which can ultimate is, “Are you getting enough sleep?” Some peo- that comes from the upper airway expressway or on a highway, and ments and evolution, we are just sit- Try and stick to a regular sleep- increment your doses, too. ple underestimate themselves saying that they at the back of the throat. It is gen- )1! 3#F you roll down the glasses by an ting at one place and hooked on to ing and waking up time. ● Avoid consuming caffeine after just need three to four hours of sleep, post which erally managed by a set of muscles. inch, you get a certain noise. And a screen. A lot of work, which ● Fixed amount of exercise every- 4 pm. they function very well. But then, you know, over For some people, the airway is )A&) 3!203! that is because the air is passing involved physical movement earli- day can help you get better deep ● Avoid excessive alcohol. It might a period of time, that takes a toll on your body. slightly narrow and when they go )0!3#  through a small passage. It’s the er, has now shifted to staying at sleep. Not necessarily at night, make you sleep very easily and And, obviously, that clearly tells that you’re not to sleep, their body rests, their brain same with snoring. The air passes home. 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So, if a person has muscles relax, it may not be enough What are the top reasons that exponentially increased. The blue noises. Some people are light last for close to 40 minutes. Try frequent awakenings at night during a sleep peri- for them to keep the airway open ))TO lead to lack of sleep? light that radiates from the screen sleepers who can get disturbed and avoid smoking or oral od that tells us that their quality of sleep is quite for the air to pass through and that’s The biggest problem why peo- is the one that highly disrupts our with even the slightest of tobacco use in the evening or poor. Certain people tend to sleep through the when we hear their snoring sound. ple don’t get enough sleep at the sleep because it stimulates the sounds. If you have the capac- prior to bed time. night without any problems. But if they are still So the best analogy I can give moment is, unfortunately, their brain to keep one awake. 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He can pull off different properties of action, comedy, romance, the light sources, the thriller and be the best in materials used for solar everything. Really, Akshay panels are not suitable Kumar can ace any genre. He for harvesting indoor is so talented and experi- light. Now, researchers enced and one can only from Imperial College observe and learn from him London, Soochow all the time.” very friendly on set. I am involved like a close-knit University in China, and She added, “For me, it’s someone who would other- family. I cherish this a lot the University of the sheer joy of sharing screen wise go back to my hotel because we actually felt like Cambridge have detailed future”. promising for commer- space with him and getting to room and not interact too a family on the sets of a novel way in a paper The team investigat- cial applications. work at least once in my life much because I like being in Bellbottom.” published in the journal ed ‘perovskite-inspired Crucially, the with him that’s making it spe- my own space but he is On the work front, Vaani Advanced Energy materials’, which were researchers demonstrat- cial. The experience has been someone who ensured that is currently in Chandigarh Materials. “By efficient- created to circumvent ed that the power pro- lovely! He couldn’t have been we all sit together and have shooting her next with ly absorbing the light problems with materials vided by these materials kinder and wonderful than he lunches/dinners, get to know Ayushmann Khurrana titled coming from lamps called perovskites, which under indoor illumina- was. He is somebody who is each other and be very Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui. commonly found in were developed for next- tion is already sufficient homes and buildings, generation solar cells. to operate electronic cir- the materials we investi- Although perovskites are cuits. gated can turn light into cheaper to make than Professor Vincenzo electricity with an effi- traditional silicon-based Pecunia, from Soochow ciency already in the solar panels and deliver University, said: “Our range of commercial similar efficiency, per- discovery opens up a technologies,” explained ovskites contain toxic whole new direction in study co-author Dr lead substances. the search for green, Robert Hoye from the This drove the easy-to-make materials Department of Materials development of per- to sustainably power our at Imperial. He added, ovskite-inspired mate- smart devices”. “We have also already rials, which are instead Lead-free perovskite- identified several possi- based on safer elements inspired materials could ble improvements, like bismuth and anti- soon enable battery-free which would allow these mony. The team found devices for wearables, materials to surpass the that the materials are healthcare monitoring,  performance of current much more effective at smart homes, and smart Accompanied by his teenage niece, a gay literature professor reluctantly returns home to indoor photovoltaic absorbing indoor light, cities, the authors wrote. L$39- attend his father’s funeral. Directed by Alan Ball, the film releases on November 25 on technologies in the near with efficiencies that are Amazon Prime Video. 24   !" #$%#&#& A2  "  & 1"R# - ! 4 4     J  ! H  O, , ,3"2      &/0/ opening ODI against India at   5@!3 grounds as well, they play into our the Sydney Cricket Ground. hands. They are good performers, and ustralia speedster Pat Cummins said Australia is ohit Sharma’s absence from the good players,” a confident Maxwell ACummins expectedly con- well prepared to give India a Rupcoming white ball series is a big asserted. siders Virat Kohli the “big” tough fight in the series. “positive” for Australia but KL Rahul For India, key in the upcoming wicket he would target in the “It’s going to be huge. is as good a player to fill in the void, series will be Mohammed Shami’s upcoming series against India Obviously, we’re back here on feels dashing batsman Glenn Maxwell. skills as both a “new ball and old ball” and said that keeping the visit- home soil. Other than spending Rahul will be Virat Kohli’s deputy bowler. ing captain quiet would be cru- a lot of times in hotels and bub- in the white-ball leg since regular vice- “A guy like Mohammed Shami, cial to the home team’s chances. bles I feel like our preparation captain Rohit is recuperating from a whom I have played with in the recent “I think every side has that has actually been really good. hamstring injury sustained during IPL and played with him in Delhi, as one or two batters and they are “We went over to the UK IPL. well. (I) saw the skill that he has. the big wickets. Most teams and had a good tour there. Most “He (Rohit) is a class performer, “He has got good skills at the end have their captain — Joe Root of the boys here have been play- so consistent as an opening batsman (death overs) as well as with the new for England, Kane Williamson ing 14 T20 matches in the last with a couple of (three) double hun- ball. His ability to get moving on pitch- for New Zealand. You feel like few weeks and the other guys dreds. So anytime he is not in the line- es will be key to them,” said Maxwell. if you get their wickets that goes coming in will be playing up against you, it is a positive,” According to Maxwell, he along a long way in winning the shrewd cricket. So, it feels like Maxwell said. with another in-form player Marcus game,” Cummins told Fox we are all firing up and got a lot The three-match ODI series Stoinis, would be the two all-rounders Cricket. of stuff behind us,” he said. begins on November 27 followed by as well as designated finishers in the “He (Kohli) is always a big The imposing pacer said a T20I series. batting line-up. one. You commentators talk that over the last couple of years, For Maxwell, KL Rahul is as “...The way we are probably going about him non-stop, so hope- he has developed as a bowler. good a back-up as any team can wish to set our team up is myself and Marcus fully, we can keep him “I was probably a bit quick- for. Stoinis or potentially another all- quiet,” he added. er a few years ago but I “But in saying that, India have still rounder making up for the other 10 Cummins, feel like in the last cou- got back-ups, more than capable of overs (for fifth bowler), the one with- who has been ple of years I got better, playing that role. We saw KL Rahul, out our four front-line bowlers. named in both learning different tem- the performance that he put on dur- “I suppose I can contribute wher- the white and pos within the game ing the last IPL was extraordinary. ever I can with the ball. With the bat, red-ball and also when I am Whether he opens the batting or not, as it was against England, I will be try- squads as bowling. I feel I I am sure he will be just as good a play- ing to finish off games and do as well vice-cap- got a bit more er,” Maxwell added. as I can down the order,” he said. tain, is one of control on swing In Rohit’s absence, it is expected Steve Smith didn’t play the away the 11 Australian and seam,” that Mayank Agarwal will open the ODI series against England due to con- players currently Cummins said. innings along with Shikhar Dhawan cussion suffered during a net session quarantining in “Whatever as Rahul, who will keep wickets is and his presence is sure to increase Sydney after return- conditions we expected to bat middle-order. $      #  (  -    8+ (   $  P      :1%& $D  Indian team’s headache, said the ing from the UAE come up with, However Maxwell is a big fan of Victorian all-rounder. where he played for I have got a Agarwal-Rahul opening pair that did ever met. It was a pleasure to spend for them. “I suppose ODI cricket might be “To have someone like Steve Smith Knight couple of tools really well during the first phase of the change room (with them), two But Maxwell sounded out a warn- a bit different (compared T20). coming back to our side, it is going to Riders in the IPL. I can go to.” IPL. very good players, they score all-round ing for his IPL teammates that Hopefully, with our bowling attack, we be a big plus for us, a big headache for Their quaran- “Well, I would say they (Mayank- the wicket and have got very limited Australia’s bowing attack will certain- can put some pressure on them and India. Smith has always scored runs tine period will end Rahul) are the two lovely guys, I have weaknesses,” Maxwell was all praise ly put them under pressure. with bounce in the pitches and bigger against them,” he said. on the eve of the @  ( & -          *8  3    & #  #  O?:1 3H)JI   0102 3 “Bowlers have to understand it’s not the pace, it’s the swing. They should learn   5@!3 to the Australian side, the Indian &5, A1&%, n MNC cannot have two CEOs”, but are running away from art. T  ?:?? ?9 team is definitely going to face   + “A said former India skipper Kapil Dev Natarajan was my hero of IPL. Young boy ormer left-arm pacer Zaheer a stiffer competition than their on Friday, making his stance clear on the was fearless and bowling so many york- FKhan believes bowlers will previous tour Down Under,” Melbourne: Tickets for five of raging debate over whether the nation- ers,” the legendary all-rounder said refer-   5@!3 decide the fate of this summer’s the former India fast bowler said. the upcoming six limited- al cricket team should go for split cap- ring to the two Sunrisers Hyderabad pac- India-Australia contest as both “There are no favourites overs fixtures between taincy. ers. he South African edition the teams boast of some of the going into the series as both the Australia and India begin- Ever since Rohit Sharma guided Kapil feels variations are a waste if one Tof the Women’s T20 World world’s finest bowlers in their sides have quality batting and ning next week, have been Mumbai Indians to a fifth IPL title, a doesn’t know how to swing the ball. Cup was on Thursday post- squads. bowling line-up in their squad sold out in less than a day after debate on split captaincy has gathered “Keep your wrist straight, hold the ball poned by three months to With the likes of Jasprit and that is what will make the being released, Cricket momentum with several former players seam-up. Whenever the ball moves Tests February 2023 to avoid a clus- Bumrah, Mohammad Shami, upcoming tour interesting and Australia informed on Friday. suggesting that the opener be handed the matches become important. Wasim, ter a big-ticket events in 2022 Mitchell Starc and Pat exciting to watch.” The limited-overs series leadership of at least the T20 side. Botham, Willis, Hadlee. McGrath, look and manage players’ work- Cummins, to name a few, up Zaheer’s thoughts were will begin with the three ODIs “In our culture it is not going to hap- how good he was. load, ICC announced on their ranks, both India and echoed by Australian pace leg- from November 27. Limited pen that way. In one company you make “The art of swing bowling should Thursday. Australia have formidable bowl- end Glenn McGrath, who also tickets to the first ODI at the two CEOs? No. If Kohli is going to play come back. Learning the knuckle ball and The tournament was ing attacks. feels that the Virat Kohli-led side SCG, however, remain with T20s and he is good enough. Let him be all is fine. If you don’t know how to swing scheduled in November 2022 “The Australian pitches will face a tough competition approximately 1,900 public there. Even though I would like to see the ball, everything is waste,” said the great but will now be held in have always had good bounce this time around. seats left. other people coming out. But it’s difficult,” all-rounder. February 2023. and pace, so I think the area “The Indian cricket team Tickets for the four said Kapil. However, the battery of pacers that In August this year, the which will decide the ODIs, will face a much tougher matches at the Sydney Cricket “Our 80 per cent, 70 per cent of the India possesses now pleases Kapil ICC had postponed the 50 T20Is and Tests will be the Australian team now that and two at Canberra’s Manuka team across formats is same team. They immensely. over Women’s World Cup slat- bowlers and how well the Smith and Warner are back Oval went on sale to the gen- don’t like captains having different the- “I read somewhere that Lara said he ed in New Zealand from 2021 team bowls as a unit to but the Indian team is eral public on Friday morning ory. It may bring more differences (would) rather prefer face Kapil Dev but to 2022 due to the Covid-19 restrict the opponent to a equally strong and have an and by midday the only seats between the players who look up to the not Lara. Our fast bowlers are brilliant. pandemic and women’s T20 lower total on the score- aggressive mentality and up for grabs were for the first captain. ( -    (  -    # 8  $ “Look at Shami, Bumrah. As a crick- cricket is also set to make its board,” said Zaheer, determination to win ODI at the SCG. “If you have two captains, players eter, it gives me a lot of happiness to say debut in the 2022 who was part of the the series,” said It should be noted that might think he is going to be my captain “I am not happy with fast bowlers (these that today we depend on our fast bowlers. Birmingham Commonwealth 2011 World Cup McGrath, who has both SCG and Manuka Oval in Tests. I will not annoy him.” days). The first ball cannot be cross seam. Players Our bowlers are capable of taking 20 wick- Games.. winning Indian staggering 563 Test will be at 50 per cent capaci- Talking about the art of fast bowling, in IPL realised that swing is more important than ets in a match. We’ve had spinners — “The Board confirmed team. wickets. ty for the series due to restric- the 1983 World Cup-winning former pace. Sandeep (Sharma), who bowled 120 kph, Kumble, Harbhajan, but today no coun- that the ICC Women’s T20 “When “The current tions put in place amid Covid- skipper said fast bowlers opting for too was tougher because he was moving the ball,” he try would like to say ‘give them bouncy World Cup will move from its someone talks Indian team has 19 pandemic. IANS many variations saddens him. explained. wickets’.” current slot at the end of about the top got the confi- 2022 to 9-26 February 2023,” line bowlers in dence of playing ICC said in a statement. the world right in Australian con- : 3&(' ' % " (!% If not postponed, the year now, the names of ditions now and they would have “three major the players that come know how to do it as events in 2022 with the to our mind will all be they’ve been successful : 0!% )'!  )% % !% Commonwealth Games in on the pitch in this here in the last tour.” July 2022 and the ICC series,” he added. Former India bats-     India on Thursday matches have been played, ported the approach of rank- Adelaide: The six-day lockdown in “I can’t tell you exactly...I don’t Women’s T20 World Cup due Zaheer also said man Sanjay Manjrekar slipped to the second position with that estimated to rise to ing teams based on complet- South Australia to contain Covid- have a crystal ball,” Spurrier told to be held in November 2022.” that India are set to too feels the same. in the standings of the ongo- more than 85% by the end of ed matches and points earned 19 cases has improved Adelaide’s reporters. “As there are currently no face a stern test in “Australia’s Test ing World Test Championship the competition window.” as this reflects their perfor- chances of remaining the venue of “But what we are doing now is major women’s events sched- Australia this summer team will be stronger (WTC) after the ICC decided According to current reg- mance and doesn’t disadvan- the first Day/Night Test between putting us in the best position pos- uled to take place in 2023 the due to the presence of than it was on India’s pre- to rank teams “in order of per- ulations, incomplete matches tage teams that have been India and Australia from December sible to be able to have that crick- Board confirmed the switch Steve Smith and David vious tour. The experi- centage of points earned” are treated as draw but after unable to compete all of their 17 even though the situation et match,” she said with a note of for the T20 World Cup to bet- Warner. ence of Smith and from the contested matches. due deliberation, the ICC matches through no fault of remains fluid, the state’s top med- positivity. ter support player preparation India had defeated Warner will add muscle Australia (296 points from Cricket Committee, headed by their own,” ICC Chief ical officer has said. A lockdown will help get back and to continue to build the Australia 2-1 in their last to the Aussie side but I 3 series) toppled India (360 Anil Kumble, recommended Executive said. South Australia has closed its to normal life including having a momentum around the Test series Down Under in believe India’s bowling from 4 series) in the standing that the final WTC standings “We explored a whole borders after a sudden surge in cricket match of great significance. women’s game beyond 2022,” 2018-19 in the absence of attack is ready to have their after the revision with a per- should be determined on the range of options, but our Covid-19 positive cases, which “The reason we are doing what the apex body said. Warner and Smith, as both names carved in the histo- centage of 82.22 compared to basis of matches played, which Members felt strongly that we stand at an overall 551 right now. we are doing, which is pretty dras- The ICC said the decision the players were serving an ry of Indian cricket by win- the latter’s 75 per cent. was approved by the Board. should proceed as planned South Australia’s chief public tic...Is because we want to get back was taken keeping in mind the year-long ban. ning a consecutive series With the global Covid-19 “Both the Cricket with the first ever World Test health officer Nicola Spurrier, dur- to the state of having just a few workload of the players and “Now with the return of Down Under,” he said. pandemic disrupting cricket, Committee and Chief Championship Final in June ing a press conference, admitted restrictions and to be able to do also considering long term Steve Smith and David Warner “just under half of the WTC Executives Committee sup- next year.” PNS that there are no guarantees. things like have the cricket.” PTI interest of women’s cricket. 4 O  ,  A !" ? # && !   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Eric Olhats, Griezmann’s at the end of this season, Messi " *2 %   That proved to be the orced to handle yet another agent until 2016, told France will be free to negotiate with ovak Djokovic out-bat- last chance for Zverev in the Fdifficult situation regarding Football magazine last week other clubs in January.   @!@)23 Bagan as they were making Ntled Alexander Zverev to set and 17-time Grand Slam Lionel Messi, Barcelona coach that Messi has marginalized There is widespread specu- their ISL debut following their qualify for the last four at the winner Djokovic hammered a Ronald Koeman demanded Griezmann in his “regime of ter- lation he could be tempted to n their new avatar, ATK ‘marriage’ with three-time ATP Finals on Friday, staying backhand winner down the more “respect” for his disgrun- ror” at the club where the reunite with former coach Pep IMohun Bagan kicked off the defending champions ATK. on track to match Roger line to take it 6-3. tled star. Argentine supposedly “controls Guardiola at Manchester City. seventh season of the Indian The match had an interest- Federer’s record of six titles at Djokovic handed Zverev a Koeman said he under- everything.” Koeman said that while he Super League on a high, defeat- ing sub-plot as Kibu Vicuna, the end-of-season event. break point in the fourth stood why Messi was visibly When journalists asked does not feel it is his job to ing Kerala Blasters by a solitary who had guided Mohun Bagan The Serbian top seed, game of the second set after angry when journalists asked Messi for his response, he convince Messi to stay, he goal here on Friday. to their fifth I-League title last who was beaten comprehen- double-faulting but the him about the criticism direct- wearily answered: “To be is confident the 33-year- Fijian hitman Roy Krishna, season, sat in the opposite sively by Daniil Medvedev in German could not capitalise. ed at him by a former agent of honest, I’m a bit tired of old forward will prolong who was ATK’s top goal scor- dugout in KBFC jersey, while his second round-robin The 23-year-old fifth seed teammate Antoine Griezmann always being the problem for his 20-year stint at er with 15 goals last season, the most successful ISL coach match, was again below his saved two break points on his when Messi arrived in Spain on everything in this club.” Barcelona. struck the all important goal Antonio Lopez Habas was at best at London’s O2 Arena but Djokovic broke serve in the following game, Wednesday after a long flight. That set off another “I hope he will stay in after a 67 minute deadlock to the helm of ATKMB. did enough to win 6-3, 7-6 Germany’s Zverev at the first letting out a roar as he kept his “I need to defend Leo round of alarm bells at Barcelona,” Koeman give the all important three KBFC, who were the des- (7/4). time of asking in the empty nose in front. because if something happened the Camp Nou said. “I think it is points for the green-and- ignated home team, looked The five-time winner fin- stadium and raced into a 3-0 The set went to a tie- to me after a trip of 15 hours in about Messi’s unbelievable what maroon brigade. more threatening and came out ishes second in Group Tokyo lead, threatening to run away break. Zverev earned an early a plane back to Barcelona — you future. he has done for The Yellow Brigade playing with an attacking intent in the 2020 behind Medvedev and with the match — a mini-break but Djokovic go outside and there is a lot of Many are this club, but he is with a heavy defensive lineup second-half. will play third-seed Dominic repeat of the 2018 final, levelled and the pressure press asking that type of ques- concerned that the main person of 4-2-3-1 managed to thwart But KBFC were made to Thiem in the semi-finals on which Zverev won in was back on the German, tion — I would be dangerous the latest to make a deci- ATKMB throughout the first pay for it as Roy Krishna made Saturday. straight sets. who faltered to hand the and hate them as well,” Koeman unpleasant sion about his half but after the hour mark amends for his three misses in Second-seed Rafael The 33-year-old Serbian victory. said on Friday. episode is future.” they left a loose ball as the the first half with his poacher Nadal, seeking his first win at looked focused after his The O2 Arena is “We have to respect people yet another Barcelona Fijian International pounced goal to become the difference the elite eight-man event, will uncharacteristic maul- hosting the event for the like Messi more. And from reason for will visit Atlético on it with a calm and com- between the two sides. face Medvedev in the other ing by Medvedev, serv- 12th and final season what I have seen on the field and Messi to go Madrid, the league’s posed finish. That goal was enough for semi-final after finishing sec- ing himself out of trouble before the championships in training, there is no problem through with only unbeaten team, All eyes were on the 131- ATKMB to sink Kerala Blasters’ ond in Group London 2020. when he found himself trail- move to Turin. between (Messi and his plan to leave the on Saturday. year-old legacy club Mohun hearts.