cmyk cmyk cmyk Rising, Staff Reporter Assam Guwahati, : 21 August Assam RisingNewsDesk Silchar onFriday. Sushmita toldreportersin Minister ofastate," her asonlybeingtheChief people nolongerperceive Mamata didiandIbelieve, tion islookingtowards West Bengal,theentirena- year's Assembly electionin AITC chairperson. After this about howtoapproachthe from otherstatesasking parts ofNortheastandalso in Assam butfromvarious sages frompeoplenotonly been arushofcallsandmes- joined the AITC, therehas the grassroots."SinceI the foundationof AITC at she willstrivetostrengthen Congress leadersaidthat sition in Assam.The former is aneedforstrongoppo- (AITC), hassaidthatthere Congress Trinamool cently joined All India Sushmita Dev, whohasre- Former LokSabhaMP Guwahati, August 21: Assam RisingNewsDesk statement. September 10,saidapress from ?830to?1,000 Scheme willbeenhanced assistance underOrunodoi and naamghorias.Financial ?15,000 totemplepriests ment willalsoprovide lockdown. Thegovern- hit hardbyCovid-induced handymen whohavebeen ter-district busdriversand assistance of?10000toin- provide one-timefinancial ment hasalsodecidedto Guwahati city.The govern- pressed intoservicein that thesebuseswillbe 100 CNGbuses,adding to procure200electricand ernment onFridaydecided emission, the Assam gov- In abidtoreducecarbon crore 70lakh. structed atacostofRs.9 metres hasbeencon- over bridgemeasuring28 Boripara-AT Roadfoot on 30thJuly2021.The ary 2020andthejobended struction beganinFebru- crore 38lakhs.Thecon- structed atacostofRs10 metres hasbeencon- over bridgemeasuring28 Adabari-AT Roadfoot at theoccasion.The Bhattacharya werepresent Siddhartha MLA Singhal, MPQueenOja, GDD Minister Ashok during peaktraffichours. of pedestrians,specially greatly facilitatemovement that theseFOBswould tion oftheprojectsandsaid tion overtimelycomple- Sarma expressedsatisfac- public, chiefministerDr. Dedicating theFOBsto Shukreshwar Temple. Boripara-AT Roadand at Adabari-ATRoad, der SOPDFundarelocated bridges builtbyPWDun- The threefootover bridges (FOB)inGuwahati. three, modernfootover Biswa Sarmainaugurated Dr.Minister Himanta ernment in Assam, Chief days oftheBJP-ledgov- On thecompletionof100 Need forstrong IN BRIEF Financial assistance Modern foot over bridges N to templepriests opposition

Guwahati, August 21: EWS Rising, Staff Reporter Assam Raksha Bandhan.Inastate- of Assam ontheeveof his greetingstothepeople Jagdish Mukhiconveyed Assam GovernorProf. is gearinguptoimplementthe said, "Thestategovernment year.Chief MinisterSarma the endofMarchnext cess wouldbecompletedby 1, 2022.Hesaidthatthispro- tion Policy(NEP)from April implement theNewEduca- that thestategovernmentwill Himanta BiswaSarmasaid Assam ChiefMinisterDr. (CNG) vehicleswithina compressed naturalgas Guwahati withelectricand place dieselbusesin day announcedaplantore- The Assam governmentto- Rising, Staff Reporter Assam do notreadmuch,butthat would beagoodcause. We Nagaland. "We feltthat brary atanorphanagein talk aboutsettingupali- Zuyie told.Hewentonto doing itforourselves," for acauseinsteadofjust we thoughtwhynotdoit doing alotofadventures, Pauna."Since wehavebeen such asSaramati,Japfuand est mountainsinNagaland lier scaledsomeofthehigh- state. Thecouplehasear- for anorphanageinthe next monthtoraisefunds Mount EverestinNepal trek totheBaseCampof Nagaland areplanninga Verakholu Veyiefrom Thejakielie Zuyieand Rising, Staff Reporter Assam Rising, Staff Reporter Assam Diesel Buses With CNG, Assam Plans To Replace 1, 2022:Dr. HimantaBiswaSarma Education Policy(NEP)from April Everest BaseCamptoraise funds fororphanagelibrary Assam GovernorwishesonRakshaBandhan Naga couplesettotrek Electric InGuwahati

Guwahati, August 21 : 21 Guwahati, August Guwahati, August 21 : 21 Guwahati, August Guwahati, August 21 : 21 Guwahati, August Guwahati, August 21 : 21 Guwahati, August Assam willimplementtheNew Rooney's unpublishedbook... Advance copiesofSally Vol. No. VI unique one".Onthisocca- which makesoursocietya and brothers,thebond cial bondbetweensisters which celebratesthespe- Bandhan isanoccasion Prof. Mukhisaid,"Raksha ment heretoday, Governor CONTINUED PAGE 6 TO ister HimantaBiswaSarma phased manner," ChiefMin- bus operatorsinthecitya to applythatruleprivate buses forGuwahati. We aim of 200electricand100CNG has approvedthepurchase year."Thecabinet Assam IssueNo.187 a groupofcascadefrogs the newspeciesbelongsto Frog or Amolops Adicola, Cascade state.Named Adi the Adi tribein the and ithasbeennamedafter frog in Arunachal Pradesh covered anewspeciesof Natural Sciencehavedis- North CarolinaMuseumof Institute ofIndiaandthe searchers fromthe Wildlife the home."Agroupofre- would helpthechildrenin all highschoolswouldbe from April 1,2022.UnderNEP, New EducationPolicy(NEP) RNI-ASSENG/2014/58385 | GUWAHATI Kalyan Ashram todaytied Guwahati, MahilaSakhaand Sammelan Marwari Sanmilan, Marwari Mahila Bharatiya Manch, Akhil Marwari MahilaEkta Brahmakumari, membersof sion, sistersofPrajapita CONTINUED PAGE 6 TO Natural History.Dr H.Gor lished intheJournalof findings havebeenpub- dia, hasbeenquoted.The from Wildlife soon season," Abhijit Das larly duringthepost-mon- this speciesdwells,particu- Arunachal Pradeshwhere after thelandof Adi tribein in theyear2018andnamed expedition century-old Adi ered whilerevisitingthe new specieswasdiscov- flowing hillstreams."The waterfalls orcascadesin that arefoundnearsmall would upgradetheacademic ary school.Thegovernment upgraded toseniorsecond- Rising, Staff Reporter Assam Order, andDirector, Vigi- and SpecialDGP, Lawand track, saidGPSingh,IPS into thetrapbackon and bringthosecaught in the'GoldenTriangle' the drugcartelflourishing pronged strategytobreak ahead withathree- Assam Policearemoving Assam’s Youth willflywithdevelop- ment, notdrugs:IPSGPSingh tells

Guwahati, August 21 : 21 Guwahati, August Institute ofIn- 02 being partnersofdevelop- youths wouldflyhighby the NorthEaststates ers. We areconfidentthat manner withallstakehold- is workinginacoordinated 'TeamAssam. The Assam' ace ofdrugabusefrom mined toeradicatethemen- people ingeneralaredeter- in particularandcommon Bureaucrats India."Youths in anexclusiveinterviewto lance and Anti-Corruption, the worseningsituationin rent USadministrationover strongest criticsofthecur- has emergedasoneofthe dent DonaldTrump,who Former UnitedStatespresi- New Delhi those hesitanttotakeanin- dermal vaccineandwillhelp sorts, asZyCoV-D isanintra- vaccine isabreakthroughof Friday.The muchanticipated General ofIndia(DCGI)on regulator DrugController thorization (EUA)fromthe received Emergency Use Au- three-dose vaccine,ZyCoV-D, home-grown drugmaker's Gujarat's ZydusCadila.The cine isreadytorolloutfrom plasmid DNACovid-19vac- The world'sfirstneedle-free, them andasatrueIndian time andinteractedwith him 'Rakhi'.Healso thanked thesistersfortying expressing hisgratitude Bhavan. Prof.Mukhiwhile rakhi totheGovernoratRaj vertisements wouldbepub- ment processandsoonad- today launchedtheappoint- promise thestategovernment state. Whilefulfillingthis ment to1lakhyouthofthe pledge toprovideemploy- coming topowermadea "The stategovernmentafter Chief MinisterDr. Sarmasaid, "Speaking ontheoccasion, purpose withinayear. tional institutionsforthis infrastructure oftheeduca- Ahmedabad CONTINUED TO CONTINUED PAGE TO 6 Afghanistan women'steam... Khalida Popal:'The 'Ashraf Ghaniisatotalcrook,neverhad DNA CovidvaccinegetsDCGInod Zydus Cadila'sneedle-free,plasmid SNA SUNDAY full confidenceinhim':Donald Trump , August 21: , August 21: AUGUST 2021|PAGES 22, 8 spent Washington CONTINUED PAGE 6 TO he toldDrNavneet Anand, ment andnottakingdrugs," assisted theUnitedStates evacuating the Afghans who tration isalsocommittedto be leftbehind.Myadminis- wants toleavethecountrywill "No American citizenwho access totheKabulairport. Afghan citizenscouldgain Taliban sothatUS-aligned is inclosecontactwiththe Room, saidtheUnitedStates in theWhiteHouseEast addressing apressconference the finaloutcome.Biden,while tion andhecannotguarantee Afghanistan isariskyopera- cans and Afghan alliesfrom scale evacuationof Ameri- Biden onFridaysaidalarge- United StatesPresidentJoe Kabul, hasbeenfacingglo- over thecapitalcityof 15 afterthe Taliban took August on fled Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani.Ghani,who president former Afghan Taliban's takeover, hitoutat Afghanistan afterthe Cadila HealthcareLtd(Zydus Pankaj RPatel,Chairman, immunisation drive,"said supporting theworld'slargest ing offeredforhumanuseand world's firstDNAvaccinebe- innovation becomingthe ZyCoV-D, aproductofIndian historic milestonewith ICMR's Covaxin."Thisisa one afterBharatBiotech- is alsothesecondindigenous cines foradults.Thevaccine and sixthinthepackofvac- cents inthe12-18agegroup, Covid-19 vaccineforadoles- jection. ItbecomesIndia'sfirst education, 32,underthe the Directorateofelementary cants wereappointedunder of 767candidates,616appli- Kalakshetra inGuwahati.Out ment atSrimantaSankardev ates oftheeducationdepart- didates indifferentdirector- pointment lettersto767can- TET."He alsodistributedap- ment besidesconducting jobs intheeducationdepart- lished forseveralthousand Cannot promise whatfinaloutcome will bein Afghanistan, saysBiden , August 21: PRICERS.7.00 crats India.Singhsaidthat Editor inChiefofBureau- tection fromdiseaseaswell which playavitalroleinpro- of thehumanimmunesystem, the cellularandhumoralarms mune responsemediatedby CoV-2 virusandelicitsanim- spike proteinoftheSARS- administered, itproducesthe in IndiaforCOVID-19.When the largestvaccinetrialsofar 28,000 volunteers-toutedas phase-III clinicaltrialsinover analysis ofthelate-stage positive casesintheinterim cent forsymptomaticRT-PCR primary efficacyof66.6per Cadila).ZyCoV-D hasshown from statecoffers.Donald and stealing$169million and ahelicopterfullofcash fleeing Kabulwithfourcars faced againsthim,including slew ofallegationshassur- the peopleofhiscountry. A bal criticismforabandoning evacuated approximately White Housesaid,"We have In aFridaystatement,the ber inthetensofthousands. clear, butitisbelievedtonum- qualify forevacuationisnot number of Afghans who task," Bidensaid.Theexact troops onthegroundfor ghanistan. Thereare6,000 during its20-yearwarin Af- and UnionMinisterSarbananda Rising, Staff Reporter Assam Sarbananda Sonowalarrived ter andUnionMinister Former Assam ChiefMinis- Former Assam ChiefMinister Sonowal arrivedinGuwahati

Guwahati, August 21 : 21 Guwahati, August CONTINUED TO CONTINUED PAGE 6 TO Sonowal afterheassumedthe maiden visitofSarbananda Yatra. Significantly, thisisthe morning forJan Ashirwad in GuwahationSaturday going withthe Assam ery. The vaccineisstoredat less intradermalvaccinedeliv- needle-free applicatorforpain- using ThePharmaJet-a at anintervalof0-28-56-days as viralclearance.Itisgiven tion ofcredibilityfromoural country."I haveseennoques- as the Taliban tookoverthe withdrawal from Afghanistan ibility overtheconductofits allies questiontheUScred- said hehasnotseen America's President Bidenalso by leaks was possiblecontested rapid collapsein Afghanistan he wasnevertoldthatsucha US PresidentJoeBidenthat ington againafterremarksby scandal isscorching Wash- underscored the Watergate The searchingquerythat it? know andwhendidhe 14,000 WhatdidthePresident evacuated approximately Since theendofJuly, wehave 9,000 peoplesince August 14. CONTINUED PAGE 6 TO CONTINUED PAGE 6 TO thought hewasatotal that openlyandplainlyI in Ashraf Ghani"."Isaid "never hadfullconfidence Tuesday night,saidhe interview toFoxNewson Trump, whowasgivingan CONTINUED PAGE 6 TO CONTINUED PAGE 6 TO 07

cmyk cmyk cmyk 2 SUNDAY, AUGUST 22, 2021 NATIONAL-INTERNATIONAL Desperate crowds, empty flights and rage in Afghanistan at governments who failed to plan Kabul, August 21 : The football star to risk, and lose months ago, or with Kabul airport gates were a his life, clinging to the side organisers ringing path not to escape but to of a US military plane in a individual NGO workers hospital for one Afghan desperate bid to escape. asking if they would be human rights activist this The same terror drives able to support a planeload week.A relative was shot in crowds to surge to the sides of refugees arriving in a the head in the melee of of the airport, day after day, country where they people trying to leave, and despite shootings, operated.And for all the so she spent the evening beatings.As the scale of the money, and goodwill, very trudging to a market to buy government vacuum few people have managed alcohol and gauze for his became clear, a network of to get out, because of the wounds. The hospital had individuals tried to fill the logistics of getting to the run out.Every day, people gap, including international airport, and then the are shot, beaten and she said. Some have been are at risk. But they are being figures such as Hillary logistics of getting planes choked with teargas as they offered flights, and tried to pushed out of the way at the Clinton."Last week, the in.There are still just a few gather outside the concrete reach the airport, some - airport gate as the US and UK evacuation options to get thousand people a day Passengers take subway line No. 3 in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu Province barricades that shutter off including elderly and and other states fly their women's rights activists being flown out, and the last tiny sliver of disabled people - have been citizens out over the heads of out came largely from an human rights groups western-held territory in twice, to no avail.They were vulnerable Afghans."The informal network of estimate that tens, maybe Afghanistan, and the last now poised, Akbar said, in a anger was directed at the powerful, connected, some hundreds of thousands of Rain falls on peak of hopes of escaping the horrible balance of fear: governments that failed to very wealthy people, some Afghans are now at Taliban regime. At least 12 terrified of staying, and plan, and the international trying to literally charter risk.For people in Kabul Greenland ice cap for first people have died trying to terrified of the organisations that are letting private jets to evacuate there is perhaps a hope, if reach the airport this week, consequences of trying to their staff down.UN employees women thought to be a slim one, that the west from gunshots or in leave."Right now when have resorted to begging Taliban targets," said Marie might reach a deal with the time on record stampedes.While the US colleagues have flights, I friends and former colleagues Clarke, the vice-president Taliban to smooth London, August 21 : Rain the UK.The recent report widespread melting. The and UK say their have to convince them to go for help, as they say the of global programmes at evacuations. For those has fallen on the summit of from the Intergovernmental other years were 2019, 2012 evacuations are gathering to the airport. They have international institution has no Women for Women outside the capital, there Greenland's huge ice cap for Panel on Climate Change and 1995. The rain and melt pace, there seems to be little tried once, twice and they plans to evacuate most of International, which has is almost no hope at the first time on record. concluded it was on 14-16 August came at the sign of that on the ground have failed and so they them."Dear Antonio Guterres. operated in Afghanistan all.One former British Temperatures are normally "unequivocal" that carbon latest point in the year a in Kabul, where many dread going again," she I worked for the UN in for nearly two decades."It Council educator from well below freezing on the emissions from human major event has been Afghans are stuck outside said. And the journey is only Afghanistan for four years and is amazing that private another major city wrote 3,216-metre (10,551ft) peak, activities were heating the recorded.The cause of the the airport or behind getting harder, as the Taliban my inbox is full of Afghans I individuals and concerned in a message to a and the precipitation is a planet and causing impacts July and August melting checkpoints that seem consolidate control of the worked with at the UN citizens of America are colleague: "I am in a very stark sign of the climate such as melting ice and was the same - warm air impossible to pass.Still the city."Female heads of desperately pleading for my organising themselves worst situation than crisis.Scientists at the US rising sea level.In May, being pushed up over crowds are gathering in household, women help in escaping. Kindly advise together to try and protect before because now I am National Science researchers reported that a Greenland and held there. their thousands, willing to travelling alone, they are me who I should refer them to," Afghan women, because of hiding myself under the Foundation's summit significant part of the These "blocking" events risk their lives, and their getting more and more said Heather Barr, from Human this vacuum of official, ground in a deeper and station saw rain falling Greenland ice sheet was are not uncommon but seem children's lives, for fear of harassment."Inside and Rights Watch, on government-run narrow hole and there is throughout 14 August but nearing a tipping point, after to be becoming more severe, what lies ahead at home outside Kabul there is Twitter.Despite the Taliban's mechanisms for those most also lack of oxygen."I had no gauges to measure which accelerated melting according to scientists. now.Almost none are growing rage and despair at promises of general "amnesty" at risk to have safe passage can't take my wife to the fall because the would become inevitable Global sea level would rise getting out. Flights are the failures of a crippled in press conferences, Afghans out of the country.Like doctor and I can't stay precipitation was so even if global heating was by about 6 metres if all of leaving Afghanistan empty, evacuation programme that have lived with the group almost anyone who has with my kids because I unexpected. Across halted.Ted Scambos, a Greenland's ice melted, or carrying mostly foreign in its current state risks before, and heard reports of worked in the field, she was am selfish, I want to save Greenland, an estimated scientist at the National although this would take citizens. There are some leaving most of the most atrocities that trailed their moved by the scale of my life from Taliban.""All 7bn tonnes of water was Snow and Ice Data Center centuries or millennia to Afghans who manage to vulnerable Afghans advance across the country. mobilisation, but seemed day my mum is standing released from the at the University of occur. But the trillions of successfully run the behind."What's happening There has already been a furious that the initiative near to the hole and clouds.The rain fell during Colorado, which reported tonnes lost from Greenland gauntlet of Taliban is a fiasco. We should all massacre documented in the was necessary, that calling, 'Son, are you OK?' an exceptionally hot three the summit rain, told CNN: since 1994 is pushing up sea checkpoints, surging hang our heads in shame," last week, and in Kabul the governments had failed. "It and throwing bottles of days in Greenland when "What is going on is not levels and endangering the crowds and foreign military said Rachel Reid, a human Taliban are going house to really says something water to drink. Just at temperatures were 18C simply a warm decade or two world's coastal cities.Sea to make it inside the rights consultant working house, looking for people with about this moment."It also night I can came out of higher than average in in a wandering climate level has already risen by compound.But they are with Afghan links to both the government meant that countless hours hole and if we hear places. As a result, melting pattern. This is 20cm, and the IPCC said the mostly people with links to organisations."Thousands and foreigners.It is fear of this were wasted in cross- knocking on the door of was seen in most of unprecedented. We are likely range by the end of the the western military and its of Afghans who have stood record, this pattern of checking lists governments my home, then I go down Greenland, across an area crossing thresholds not century was a further 28- embassies. An expanded US up to the Taliban for years behaviour, that drove a young could have drawn up as soon as I can." about four times the size of seen in millennia, and frankly 100cm, though it could be scheme covers those who this is not going to change 200cm.Greenland's ice is worked for western media or until we adjust what we're melting faster than any time NGOs. But Britain has Advance copies of Sally Rooney's unpublished doing to the air."Greenland in the past 12,000 years, excluded many, including also had a large-scale melting scientists have estimated, contractors and those who episode in July, making 2021 with the ice loss running at worked for embassy book sold for hundreds of dollars one of just four years in the a rate of about 1m tonnes a affiliates such as the British London, August 21 : When novels have long been commerce giant eBay, on past century to see such minute in 2019. Council.This is the reality of advance reading copies collector's items. A rare proof the other hand, is far more what has unfolded in (ARCs) of Sally Rooney's copy of JK Rowling's Harry lax. In fact, multiple copies Biden confirms plan to Afghanistan this week, as new novel Beautiful World, Potter and the Philosopher's of Rooney's novel were nominate Rahm Emanuel the Taliban has returned to Where Are You were sent Stone, for example, or classics sold by one eBay seller govern the country after 20 out in May, there was a by authors such as Ernest based in the United States, as ambassador to Japan years.For Afghans who flurry of social media posts. Hemingway or John Steinbeck where the practice of A lucky selection of editors, can sell for up to £30,000. But selling on proofs for profit Washington, August 21 : Joe Biden plans to nominate have spent all that time Rahm Emanuel, a former US lawmaker who served as chief fighting within Afghan writers and influencers this high demand for ARCs of seems to be more common flaunted their copies; books that are yet to be than in the UK.The of staff to President Barack Obama and as mayor of Chicago, organisations for the values to be ambassador to Japan, the White House said in a the west claimed to promote, others bemoaned not published has only emerged increase in demand for having been granted one. recently, fuelled in part by the advance copies of books statement on Friday.White House officials lauded Emanuel's including democracy and experience and long years of public service in announcing women's rights, there is even Soon listings for proof rise of book bloggers and prepared to pay large sums recall an ARC at any time - has forced publishers to copies (which are clearly influencers."Part of the to get their hands on but this is largely unheard change the way they think the nomination.Emanuel, 61, headed the finance committee less chance of getting out. for Bill Clinton's presidential campaign in 1992 and later They have no foreign marked "not for resale") purpose of proofs is to make it."When a book appears of. And since proofs of about ARCs. "Our focus started to appear on trading people get to feel like they're on social media months big releases have only has to be: how can we make served as a senior adviser to Clinton on policy and strategy. organisations to sponsor He was Obama's chief of staff for over a year before the visas they need to flee."I sites such as eBay and in an exclusive club," said before official release, other recently become such a our books as visible as Depop. One copy, listed on Adam Howard, who works for bloggers and readers go hot commodity, possible in this new media resigning to run for election as mayor of Chicago, the third am devastated. It is failure largest US city.The White House highlighted Emanuel's upon failure," said eBay by a seller in North Scribe Publications. "But it mad for it," said Dan publishers have not landscape," said Howard. work on revitalizing Chicago, which hosted the 2012 Nato Shaharzad Akbar, who leads Carolina, sold in June for happened with the Sally Bassett, a Bristol bookseller traditionally had to police "At Scribe, we no longer summit and led the country in attracting foreign direct the Afghanistan $209.16. Even the canvas Rooney on a scale we've never and blogger who is ARC sales stringently - produce generic proofs - investment for six consecutive years. He is currently Independent Human Rights tote bag that Rooney's seen before."Posting under regularly sent galley copies and have generally been every one of them is national chair of the Advisory Council of Youth Guidance's Commission.Her publicists had been hashtags such as of forthcoming titles. "This willing to turn a blind eye specially designed to be organisation has sending out with the ARC #Galleybrag, Instagram has led to people selling to a small number of proofs eye-catching, striking and Becoming a Man (BAM) mentoring program.Emanuel said spearheaded the fight copies was fetching prices influencers show off the them though market places, being sold in charity shareable, and we invest he was honored to be tapped for the job. "The alliance against both Taliban and in the region of $80. And advanced copies of novels to with others asking people shops.Amazon does our limited budgets into between the United States and Japan is the cornerstone government abuses for two this growing market for which they were granted like myself if I would sell it police this practice, making sure that people on of peace and prosperity in a free and open Indo-Pacific," decades, and some of its staff unpublished novels is not access. Among these, to them."However, the sale however. The online social media have a good he said in a statement.The longtime Democratic politician have paid the ultimate price; just a product of Rooney- Rooney's forthcoming of ARCs is a legal grey area. retailer only permits the reason to share a book with joins a long list of ambassadors nominated by Biden who several of its activists have mania: Jonathan Franzen's Beautiful World, Where Are Advance copies are clearly sale of advance copies of their followers."Both Sally are awaiting confirmation hearings and confirmation by been killed in targeted Crossroads, which will be You is by far the most prized. marked as not for sale, and books that are out of print, Rooney's publisher Faber the US Senate.The White House has grown increasingly assassinations by the published in October, sold Given the social currency that publishers remain their and booksellers have & Faber and Jonathan frustrated about the slow pace of confirmations for nearly militants in recent years.Not earlier this month on eBay a selfie with an advance copy legal owners. This means been known to lose their Franzen's publisher 4th 300 of Biden's nominees, with many nominations being a single one had been for $124.Advance copies of the novel can carry, Howard that technically, a accounts on the site for Estate declined to held up by Senator Ted Cruz and other Republican senators evacuated from Kabul yet, of popular and classic is not surprised that people are publishing house could not following this rule. E- comment. to register frustration over various issues. BBC inquiry dismisses Rupert Murdoch complaints about documentary series London, August 21 : Rupert of coverage of Murdoch's setting up a clash between contributors were entitled to Murdoch has largely lost a financial successes in the three of the biggest forces in express, and not a basis for year-long dispute with the world of business, which UK media.The three-part inferring an editorial line on the BBC after he objected to a might have led viewers to series, entitled The Rise of part of the programme makers," documentary series that reach a different conclusion the Murdoch Dynasty, was the BBC investigation "implied he posed a threat to about the relative success of first broadcast in July 2020 concluded. However, the liberal democracy". his career.Although but the BBC's internal complaints unit did find in Murdoch's News UK business criticisms of Murdoch's editorial complaints unit has Murdoch's favour on one complained that a BBC Two impact on the media industry only just ruled on whether its aspect. They accepted that the documentary unfairly around the world are content met the public documentary went too far in suggested the Australian- common, it is rare for the 90- broadcaster's standards.It Hacked Off, or that the implying that a series of tabloid born media mogul "exercised year-old to pursue an dismissed most of News programmes substantially "sleaze" stories in the malign political influence" objection to such coverage UK's objections that the misrepresented the scandal Murdoch-owned Sun and through his ownership of through a formal complaints documentary was unfair that led to the closure of the News of the World, exposing news outlets. It said the BBC process.He now intends to because it gave too much News of the World."Some the private lives of programme was biased and take the relatively rare step weight to Murdoch's contributors did express Conservative MPs in the failed to give enough weight of rejecting the BBC's opponents, gave too much concern about the nature of run-up to the 1997 general to more positive appraisals of internal conclusions and credence to the views of Mr Murdoch's influence, but election, were related to Passengers of a flight of Lufthansa bringing evacuees from Afghanistan arrive at Murdoch's career.In particular, elevating the complaint to people associated with the it was a matter of personal Murdoch's decision to back Frankfurt International Airport, in Frankfurt News UK objected to the lack the external body Ofcom, press regulation campaign opinion, which individual Tony Blair's New Labour. STATE SUNDAY, AUGUST 22, 2021 3 Kudmali Sahitya Sabha to CM Dr. Sarma holds meeting start Certificate courses in Kurmali language with Revenue Department STAFF REPORTER present government. The Chief Minister directed People of any age who Dispur, Aug 21 : Chief Minis- Chief Minister Dr. Sarma the Revenue department to have passed Class X can ter Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma also asked the depart- draft a new Service Rule of get admission. You can today held a meeting with the ment to expedite the pro- the lot mandals for hassle- contact 9957450689 to officials of Revenue & Disas- cess of cadastral survey free execution of transfer know the details. Kudmali ter Management Department of all remaining non-ca- and postings within a stipu- language is one of the to discuss various issues for dastral villages and to lated time. Principal Secre- Dravidian language fami- streamlining the revenue ad- detail survey of lands in tary of Revenue & Disaster lies in India. The store- ministration of the State. Is- 27 districts of Assam ex- Management Department house of its own basic sues like survey of non-ca- cluding the sixth sched- Avinash Joshi, Principal words in this language is dastral villages, drafting ser- ule areas. He directed the Secretary to Chief Minister very rich. The Kudmali lan- vice rule and inter district Chief Minister asked the de- Basundhara” would be department to achieve Samir Kumar Sinha, Direc- guage is used by the transfer of lot mandals, sim- partment to complete all launched on October 2 this the goal of completely tor of Land Records and agronomy Kudmi commu- plification of partition of ejmali pending partition and muta- year, the Chief Minister said. digitizing the land Surveys etc. Gyanendra nity as well as various oc- patta and hereditary transfer tion cases in a mission mode Dr. Sarma further stressed records of the state Dev Tripathi and other se- cupations like Rajwar, of land etc. were discussed by opening a portal, organiz- on solving all such pend- within 2023. Issues of in- nior officers of the Revenue A CORRESPONDENT, Hojai, Sonitpur, Vishwanath, Goala, Kairi, Pan Tanti, Teli, during the meeting. Advocat- ing Rajah Adalat etc. within ing matters within May 10, ter-district transfer of lot & Disaster Management Orang, Aug 21: Assam Lakhimpur and Udalguri dis- Musi, Dom, Ghasi, Napit, ing for total reforms of State’s the next few months. For that, 2022, which will mark the mandals were also dis- Department were present in Kudmali Sahitya Sabha to tricts respectively. The Chief Dhuvi, Kumar, Kamhar or revenue administration, the a mission namely “Mission first anniversary of the cussed in the meeting. the meeting. soon start the Six months Secretary said that the Lahar, Tasa, Jalha etc as a Certificate Course in Kurmali kudmali sahitya sabha held cultural and exchange lan- Facebook post language, the most preva- online on Aug 18 will include guage. Ranchi University PEC expresses concern over continued in support of lent among the tribal tea com- a subject like history of tribal in Jharkhand state has pro- munity of Assam. Kudmali tea community and Tal- vided post graduate de- Talibans: Sahitya Sabha Chief Secre- Matra of madal in jhumoir partment teaching of harassment to Burmese journalists Retired teacher tary Suresh Kudmi said that song etc in the Kudmali Cer- Kurmali language since NEWS DESK only the local Burmese jour- number of scribes and other curity as the Covid-19 is arrested the course will be introduced tificate Course. He added 1980. Kudmali language is Guwahati, Aug 21: Press nalists, the junta now wants media workers arrested up also spreading across the A CORRESPONDENT in a total of 13 districts of that teaching will be arranged being taught in 6 Universi- Emblem Campaign (PEC), the to diktat the foreign media to 95 since the coup took developing country. Nagaon, Aug 21: Hojai Assam in the tribal tea com- both online and offline. Ap- ties of Jharkhand and one Switzerland based global me- outlets with a proper way of place. Military personnel Over one thousand Bur- police today arrested a re- munity areas of Tinsukia, plication form has to be filled University in West Bengal. In dia rights body, expresses describing the military re- had recently arrested out- mese nationals have lost tired teacher from Daboka Dibrugarh, Charaideo, online. The admission fee Assam, about 40 lac people serious concern over the con- gime, which grabbed the po- spoken freelance journalist their lives participating in township for uploading a Sivasagar, Jorhat, Golaghat, will be Rs 500, monthly fee from those communities tinued harassments to jour- litical power deposing Daw U Sithu Aung Myint and various protest-demon- facebook post in support East Karbi Anglong, Nagaon, Rs. 100 and exam fee Rs. 200. speak the language. nalists and other media work- Aung San Suu Kyi led Na- the foreign media contribu- strations against the mili- of Talibans. The teacher ers of Myanmar (also known tional League for Democracy tor Ma Htet Htet Khine tary regime, said the PEC has been identified as as Burma or Brahmadesh), by (NLD) government of from Yangon on August adding that more than Moulana Basir Uddin World 1st Covid Vaccine for the Burmese junta, which de- Myanmar,” said Blaise 15,” said Aung Zaw, a se- seven thousand people Laskar of ward no 10 in throned the democratically Lempen, general secretary of nior Burmese journalist, have been arrested and Daboka township, elected government in PEC. Recently, the military of- while speaking to PEC’s over five thousand indi- children approved In India sources said adding that NayPieTaw with a military ficials expressed their resent- India representative Naba viduals are either detained Daboka police forwarded Abhijit Chaliha the SARS-CoV-2 virus and ‘ZyCov-D’ vaccine of coup on 1st February 2021. ments as the media outlets Thakuria from an undis- or sentenced, whereas him to Sankar nagar Guwahati, Aug 21: In a ma- elicits an immune response, The military rulers have de- continued using the term ‘mili- closed location. He also nearly 230,000 ethnic mi- Zydus Universe is a tes- based Hojai district court jor breakthrough, Zydus which plays a vital role in tained nearly one hundred tary junta’ to describe the re- added that three women norities have been dis- timony to the innovative this afternoon and court Cadila has received ap- protection from disease as journalists, who dared to gime and they warned not to journalists were arrested in placed since the recent zeal of India’s scientists. sent him under 14 days proval for Emergency Use well as viral clearance. The question their credentials to repeat the mistake. Indicat- the month of July. Released military takeover in the In response to a tweet by judicial custody. Authorization (EUA) from plug-and-play technology CDSCO India Info, the rule the south-east Asian ing the foreign news agen- media persons described land of golden pagodas. the Drug Controller Gen- on which the plasmid DNA Prime Minister said," In- nation and over 40 of them cies, which are reporting how they were tortured in eral of India (DCGI) for platform is based can be dia is fighting Covid-19 are still behind the bars. The about Myanmar, they asked the name of interrogation Anupam Choudhury ZyCoV-D on Friday, the easily adapted to deal with with full vigour. The ap- generals, led by Min Aung the correspondents to stop during their detentions. takes charge as the New world’s first and India’s mutations in the virus, proval for world’s first Hlaing, who has recently using wrong terms and also Families of journalists un- indigenously developed such as those already oc- DNA based ‘ZyCov-D’ declared himself as the Pre- avoid spreading ‘fake der detention like Han Thar DC of Hojai District DNA based vaccine for curring," said the Ministry vaccine of Zydus Uni- mier of Myanmar, continue news’. Otherwise, the mili- Nyein, Min Nyo, Mya Covid-19 to be adminis- of Science & Technology in verse is a testimony to to target the media persons tary generals threatened to Wunn Yangon, Myo Myat tered in children and adults a statement. Speaking on with arbitrary raids, deten- take necessary actions Myat Pan, Thin Thin Aung, the innovative zeal of 12 years and above. Devel- the development, Chairman tion and arrests. In reality, against them. “Lately, two Tu Tu Tha, Than Htike India’s scientists. A mo- oped in partnership with of the Zydus Group, Pankaj they have tried to destroy more journalists were de- Aung, etc are worried the Department of Biotech- R. Patel said, “We are ex- mentous feat indeed.`` the entity of free press. “Not tained, which increases the about their safety and se- nology, Government of In- tremely happy that our ef- dia under the ‘Mission forts to put out a safe, well COVID Suraksha’ and tolerated and efficacious Public meeting held on completion implemented by BIRAC, vaccine to fight Covid-19 ZyCoV-D has been sup- has become a reality with of 100 days of Assam govt. A CORRESPONDENT, Hojai, Aug 21: Director of Infor- ported under Covid-19 Re- ZyCoV-D. To create the mation and Public Relations Department,Assam Anupam search Consortia through world’s first DNA vaccine all these properly. Stressing under the leadership of Dr. Choudhury, ACS took the charge as the new Deputy National Biopharma Mis- at such a crucial juncture on the importance of creat- Himanta Biswa Sarma, Commissioner of Hojai District on Saturday evening here. sion for Preclinical studies, and despite all the chal- ing public awareness re- Assam state would be one He was warmly welcomed here. On the other hand,Hojai Phase I and Phase II Clini- lenges, is a tribute to the garding various public wel- of the best states in India district bade farewell to its outgoing deputy commissioner cal Trials and under the Indian research scientists fare schemes of the state within a year. He also said Dr. Sadnek Singh, IAS. Notably, A farewell programme to Mission COVID Suraksha and their spirit of innova- government, he also urged that the Arunodoi scheme honour the outgoing officer was held on Saturday in for Phase III Clinical Trial. tion.” Meanwhile, Prime the media representatives to and other pension schemes the DC’s conference hall at Sankardev Nagar in Hojai. "This three dose vaccine Minister Narendra Modi extend their cooperation for for elderly people and wid- Talking to this Correspondent, New DC Choudhury which when injected pro- has said that the approval wide circulation of all ows would be able to solve appealed to the denizens of Hojai District to cooperate duces the spike protein of for world’s first DNA based schemes. "In the last 100 the major problems of the with the district administration for the overall devel- A CORRESPONDENT, Lekharu, Assistant Commis- days, the government of public. On the occasion, opment of the district. Meanwhile, after taking the NEP will be implemented Kajalgaon, Aug 21: On the sioner, Chirang, and at- Assam has done a lot of distribution of booklets charge the incoming DC started working. completion of 100 days of tended by Abhiram works by taking notable containing development Road Safety Awareness Campaign from the next year the present Assam govern- Mahanayak, Deputy Speaker measures in regard to pro- stories and interaction with Abhijit Chaliha ment to 1 lakh youth of the ment, led by Dr. Himanta of Bodoland Territorial tection of livestock, taking the media persons on the by Golaghat Transport Department Guwahati, Aug 21: The state. While fulfilling this Biswa Sarma, the Chirang Council Legislative Assem- process for engaging one issues pertaining to devel- A CORRESPONDENT, Golaghat, Aug 21: As per the Assam government will promise the state govern- district administration or- bly (BTCLA) as Chief Guest. lakh youths in government opmental activities in the directions received from Chief Minister of Assam and implement the New Educa- ment today launched the ap- ganized a public meeting In his welcome address, departments, a drug free and district were also wit- Transport Minister today District Transport Officer of tion Policy (NEP) from April pointment process and soon inviting leading citizens Narendra Kumar Shah, healthy Assam in the next nessed. Chirang Superin- Golaghat along with his team started a road safety aware- 1, 2022, chief minister advertisements would be and media persons of the Deputy Commissioner, five years, protection of chil- tendent of Police Pranjit ness campaign at Panbari Animal Corridor of Kaziranga Himanta Biswa Sarma has published for several thou- district to discuss various Chirang, congratulated the dren and women, safe repa- Bora, Additional Deputy National Park under Bokakhat Subdivision in Golaghat. said. Sarma said that this sand jobs in the education achievements made by the Government of Assam led by triation of a total of 72 chil- Commissioner and Bijni The campaign was mainly on overspeed of vehicles ply- process would be com- department besides con- state government in the Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma for dren trafficked from Chirang, Civil Sub-Divisional Officer ing through National Park and other forest areas. District pleted by the end of March ducting TET,” the chief min- last 100 days at the confer- the successful completion of providing financial assis- Dibakar Nath, other Addi- Transport Officer Golaghat Dibyajyoti Karji, Director of next year. “The state gov- ister said. He also distrib- ence hall of office of the hundred days at the power. tance to women and children, tional Deputy Commission- Kaziranga National Park, SDO (Civil) Bokakhat, DFO (East- ernment is gearing up to uted appointment letters to Krishi Vigyan Kendra, He said that during these 100 who had lost their husbands ers, Assistant Commission- ern Assam Wildlife Division), SDPO Bokakhat, NCC Ca- implement the New Educa- 767 candidates in different Chirang, Kajalgaon on Fri- days, the present state gov- and parents due to COVID- ers, Circle Officers, all heads dets of JDSG College along with several other social ac- tion Policy (NEP) from April directorates of the educa- day. The programme ernment had been able to 19 pandemic. The chief guest of departments, social lead- tivists took part in the awareness campaign. They distrib- 1, 2022. Under NEP, all high tion department in started with the National bring all round development of the programme, Deputy ing personalities and a host uted leaflets and some books on road safety and requested schools would be up- Guwahati. Sarma said that Anthem of Assam was by taking up various welfare Speaker of BTCLA Abhiram of media persons were the vehicle owners to follow the speed limit prescribed by graded to senior secondary the state government would conducted by Rakhisri schemes and implementing Mahanayake claimed that present at the meeting. National Green Tribunal in Kaziranga National Park Area. school,” chief minister continue implementing new Sarma told reporters in provisions of the policy ev- Frequent Transfer of IAS and Senior Pediatrician Announces Guwahati on Friday. He said ery year to bring about a the government would up- transformative change in the IPS Officers in Golaghat Free Treatment for Children grade the academic infra- education department in the years of my professionally A CORRESPONDENT, issued a notification which ferred and posted as Super- journey, it’s time to give some- structure of the educational next five years. Science, Golaghat, Aug 21: As soon stated SP Dr. Robin Kumar intendent of Police, institutions for this pur- Maths and English would thing more to the society, so as the Independence Day is transferred to Assam Po- Golaghat. It is to be known I have decided to provide free pose within a year. “The be taught in the English lan- celebration in Golaghat got lice Head Office. New SP from that SP Dr Robin Kumar too state government after guage and the rest of the treatments to children who over, the SP Farewell cer- Sadiya Sumit Sharma was held office as SP Golaghat lost their parents due to coming to power made a subjects in the mother emony was all set . The transferred to Golaghat as for less than 90 days. It is Covid, I will be available at pledge to provide employ- tongue, he added. Home Department of State new SP. Diganta Barah, IPS to be known that earlier Bora Children’s Clinic, R.G. Huge hand sawn timbers seized at Samaguri Secretary to the Govt. of Manavendra Pratap Singh, Baruah Road, Guwahati from Assam, Home & Political IAS t Deputy Commis- Monday to Saturday.” Dr. A CORRESPONDENT, were carried on bicycles Departments in an order sioner of Golaghat too A CORRESPONDENT made several noteworthy Bora is a popular pediatrician NAGAON, August 21: to Rangagora area from stated Dr. Robin Kumar, IPS chaired DC Golaghat for 48 Guwahati, Aug 21: Dr Gokul contributions to the medi- who is loved by his patients Based on a tip off, forest Borjuri forest in Karbi (RR-2013), Superintendent days. Everyone was sur- Bora, a renowned Pediatri- cal field in academic ar- for his humility and simple personnel from Salna forest Anglong district and of Police, Golaghat is trans- prised as then too a meet- cian of Assam, has an- ticles and research papers. lifestyle. Always willing to range led by range officer stored in hidden for traf- ferred and attached to ing was going on in DC Of- nounced free medical treat- Some notable ones include lend a helping hand, Dr. Bora Nepal Mandal seized a ficking the timbers to Assam Police Headquarters fice Golaghat when Minis- ment for children who lost his writings for Child continues to treat the weaker huge quantity of manually some unknown destina- and will report to Director ter Chandra Mohan Patwari their parents to Covid-19. Dr. Health in Medical Ency- section of society free of cost sawn timbers, estimated tions by a gang of tim- General of Police, Assam was on his visit to Golaghat Bora made the announce- clopedia (Biswakosh) in and provide them with free worth of around Rs one ber smugglers. Later, the Police Headquarters for fur- came to review Covid situ- ment to mark his 50 years of Assamese language Vol- medicine whenever possible. lakh from Rangagora area timbers were brought to ther instruction. Also in the ation and messages of his service as a Pediatrician. Dr. ume XIII (Health and medi- His presence in the medical under Samaguri PS early the range office for fur- order Sumeet Sharma, IPS transfer flashed in various Bora has selflessly contrib- cal science). On the occa- field and his uplifting actions this morning. Sources ther legal action, sources (RR-2015), Superintendent whatsapp groups in the uted to building a healthy sion he said, “ I am glad has brought laurels to this claimed that the timbers added further. of Police, Sadiya was trans- very ongoing meeting. and sound society. He has that I have completed 50 land and continues to do so. 4 SUNDAY, AUGUST 22, 2021 EDITORIAL THE ASSAM RISING VOL. NO. VI, ISSUE NO. 187 SUNDAY, AUGUST 22, 2021 Only action against corruption can solve Taliban the world's biggest problems an entire country, and that those com- corrupt officials and businessmen - any missioning the terrorism will be one or anti-corruption rhetoric from the west retribution other of the people in possession of a will be perceived as game-playing and golden palace. The reason for perpe- hot air.There is nothing more frustrat- Britain's MPs this week uttered one long howl of an- trating it will be to divert the world's ing than reading the latest sanctions guish over Afghanistan. Their immediate targets were Joe attention from golden palaces to glo- list, replete with the names of intelli- Biden and Boris Johnson, politicians who just happened bal security issues.So it is not we who gence service colonels and generals to be on the watch when Kabul's pack of cards collapsed. should feel awkward about confront- nobody has ever heard of, but meticu- But their real concern was that a collective 20-year experi- ing corrupt authoritarians with tough lously cleared of the people in whose ment in "exporting western values" to Afghanistan had questions and getting personal but, on interests these colonels act. The west fallen into chaos. MPs wanted someone other than them- the contrary, they who should know needs to free itself of a semantic selves to blame. A politician is never so angry as when that their shady dealings will invari- mindset where the label "business- proved wrong.Like their fellow representatives in Congress, ably be the main focus of discussion man" acts as an indulgence, making it MPs somehow hoped the end would be nice and tidy, with at world summits. That would be a cru- very difficult for them to figure on speeches and flags, much like Britain's exit from Hong Kong. cial step towards eliminating the root sanctions lists. Putin's oligarchs, Instead, tens of thousands of Afghans who had lived in an cause of many "big" issues.OK, but those heading "state-owned" compa- effective colony under years of Nato occupation had come what are we supposed to do? Surely nies and companies that are formally to believe the west would either never leave or somehow there isn't much that people in Wash- private but whose prosperity is linked protect them from Taliban retribution. They were swiftly xactly one year ago, I did not that interesting, ington or Berlin to Putin's group, are not businessmen disabused.In 2006 I stood at dusk on a castle wall over- die from poisoning by a chemi everyone knows " Alexei Navalny can do to combat but leaders of organised crime groups. looking Kabul with a young UN official. He had just heard E cal weapon, and it would seem where they are. At the concluding news the corruption of officials in Minsk or At present, alas, the western establish- the Kandahar road was no longer safe. "Why," he sighed, that corruption played no small part in conference everyone will have some- Caracas?True, but it is also the case ment acts like Pavlov's dog: you show "can't Afghanistan be more like Sweden?" I tried to see if my survival. Having contaminated thing to say.Now imagine a meeting that an important aspect of corruption them a colonel of the intelligence ser- he was smiling, but he was grimacing. For another 15 years, Russia's state system, corruption has with Putin on the issue of corruption. in authoritarian countries is the use it vices and they yell, "Sanction him!"; armies of western soldiers and civilians hurled stupefying also contaminated the intelligence ser- The very fact it has been raised repre- makes of the west's financial infrastruc- you show them the oligarch paying the amounts of money at the country. They created a wildly vices. When a country's senior man- sents a move to personalities. The ture - and in 90% of cases, what has colonel, and they yell, "Invite him to corrupt western dependency, where some 50,000 Afghans agement is preoccupied with protec- whole thing, from start to finish, is been stolen is stored in the west. An Davos!"Fourth, the US, UK and Ger- have links with the west that are now lethal. As for the tion rackets and extortion from busi- awkward. The richest leader in the official working for an autocrat knows many already have excellent tools for "western-trained" army, one of its trainers told me it was nesses, the quality of covert opera- world, who has fleeced his own coun- better than anyone how important it is combating foreign corruption, such as mostly for show. An occupying power could not possibly tions inevitably suffers. A group of try, is being invited to discuss how to to keep his capital well away from his the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the motivate local youths to kill their fellow countrymen who FSB agents applied the nerve agent to deal with the problem of himself. Very colleagues and boss.All it takes to get Bribery Act, and so on. Guess how might soon be ruling them. He rightly predicted: "They will my underwear just as shoddily as they tricky, very awkward.Now turn on the started is for western leaders to show many cases have been brought follow- just walk home."It is now 22 years since Tony Blair gave a incompetently dogged my footsteps news. It is precisely the fact that the determination and political will. The ing reports by our Anti-Corruption speech in Chicago lecturing the US on his doctrine of in- for three and a half years - in violation west "failed to notice" the total cor- first step is for corruption to be trans- Foundation, now categorised as an ternational intervention. He wanted the west to invade of all instructions from above - allow- ruption in Afghanistan - that western formed from a source of limitless op- extremist organisation by Putin's countries across the world not in self-defence, but to save ing civil investigating activists to ex- leaders preferred not to talk about a portunities into an onerous burden for government?That's right, none. The people everywhere from oppression. It was a reformula- pose them at every turn.To be fair, a topic they found embarrassing - which at least some of the elites surrounding sad fact is that even western law en- tion of Alfred Milner's Victorian concept of moral imperial- regime based on corruption can per- was the most crucial factor in the vic- autocrats. That will split them, and in- forcement agencies treat corrupt for- ism. British politicians on both the left and the right have form more elementary tasks to perfec- tory of the Taliban (with the support crease the voices in favour of eign officials with kid gloves. With a long been uncomfortable about the abandonment of tion. The judicial system - the first of the population). The west did not modernisation and scaling back cor- little political will on the part of the Milnerism as the acceptable face of empire. Global policing thing autocrats intent on robbing their want to discuss the plundering of the ruption - who will be strengthened and government (and pressure from public is somehow embedded in Britain's political DNA. All Blair's nation take control of - functions per- budget; it was much better to focus provided with new arguments to put opinion) that situation can be put wars of aggression were cheered on in the House of fectly on a quid pro quo basis. That is on people being stoned to death or ex- forward in elite circles.The following right.Fifth, obstructing the export of Commons.Many people have spoken this week of the "de- why, when I went back to Russia after ecution by beheading.After the implo- five steps are entirely realistic, easy to political corruption clearly deserves cline of the west", lamenting the collapse of US moral au- medical treatment, I was taken straight sion of the USSR and the end of the implement, and can make a highly ef- the establishment of an international thority. Yet these theories are beside the point. The belief from the plane to prison. There is not global ideological confrontation, it fective start to combating global body or commission. Take a look at that our moral values are somehow meaningless unless much to celebrate in that, but at least I was corruption - in its classical defini- corruption.First, the west should for- what is going on right now. By invest- they are enforced upon those who do not share them is now have time to read the memoirs of tion, "the exploitation of an official mulate and recognise a special cat- ing relatively small sums of money, the imperialist bigotry. It also leads to absurd biases. Iraq is world leaders.In those books, the position for personal gain" - that be- egory of "countries that encourage redoubtable Putin is buying up ex- now thought of as "bad interventionism", as opposed to world's leaders write terribly interest- came the universal, ideology-free ba- corruption", which will enable the tak- treme-right and extreme-left move- Afghanistan's "good" version. The virtue of the latter in- ingly about how they solved the main sis for the flourishing of a new Au- ing of uniform measures against ments throughout Europe - turning vasion led President Obama in 2009 to bless the war in problems facing humankind: wars, thoritarian International, from Russia groups of countries, rather than im- their politicians into oligarchs and Afghanistan with a "surge" of soldiers, taking the US total poverty, migration, the climate crisis, to Eritrea, Myanmar to Venezuela. And posing sanctions on particular agents of his own. Legalised bribery to 110,000, mere target practice for the Taliban.American weapons of mass destruction. These corruption has long ceased to be states.Second, the main sanction - the is flourishing, often in the form of gunboat diplomacy, initially supposed to salve the wounds are the issues on the "big agenda". The merely an internal problem of those main tax on corruption, if you will - for board memberships at state-owned of 9/11 in 2001, opened the door to fake morality and a fight against corruption, on the other countries. It is almost invariably one this group of countries should be "en- companies. A former German chancel- trillion-dollar nation-building fantasy. The catastrophic hand, rarely figures as part of what of the main causes of the global chal- forced transparency". All documenta- lor, or a former Italian prime minister, return of Taliban autonomy became its inevitable conclu- they hope will be their legacy. This is lenges that face the west.A new "hot" tion relating to contracts concluded or a former Austrian foreign minister, sion. The US - with Britain as its lackey - committed liberal not surprising; it is a "secondary war in Europe with the use of airstrikes between western companies and part- can act as background dancers for the interventionism's cardinal sin: half-heartedness. The crav- agenda" item.Amazingly enough, and artillery? That is Putin taking re- ners from countries representing cor- Russian dictator, normalising corrupt ing to intervene is always followed by a craving to with- though, corruption nearly always mer- venge on Ukraine for the anti-corrup- ruption risks should be published if practices. All contracts linking former draw. Traditional empires at least pretended they would its a mention when the world's leaders tion revolution that deposed his pro- the contracts are to the slightest de- or current western politicians with busi- never leave. As it was, Afghanistan replicated departures are describing failures - whether their tege, Viktor Yanukovych. Religious gree connected with the state, its offi- ness partners from corrupt authoritar- from India, South Africa, Hong Kong and Iraq. If you in- own or, more commonly, those of their extremists of all stripes find it easier to cials, or their relatives.You work for a ian countries should also have to be vade and conquer an alien state, you own it, but must then predecessors."We spent years, hun- conduct propaganda when their oppo- state-owned company in a country at open to public scrutiny.These are first disown it. Western rule has killed an estimated 240,000 in dreds of billions of dollars and thou- nents are driving Rolls-Royces high risk of corruption and want to buy steps, but even they will have a sig- Afghanistan since 2001, more than the Taliban ever did. It sands of human lives in Iraq [or Af- through the streets of penniless coun- a villa on the French Riviera? Fine, go nificant impact, creating elite groups has not left morality, just a mess.We must assume strate- ghanistan, you name it] - but the cor- tries. Migration crises are caused by ahead, but you should know that all within authoritarian countries for gists in Washington and London are now planning inter- rupt government of al-Maliki [or Karzai, poverty, and poverty is almost always the information about the deal will be whom campaigning to reduce levels of ventions in Taiwan and Ukraine against possible Chinese you name them] alienated the people caused by corruption."It's just as well publicly available. You want to have corruption will become a rational and Russian expansion. If you ask taxpayers to spend with its thieving, opening the path to climate change is unrelated to corrup- dealings with an official in Minsk or choice.No money, no soldiers, no billions on defence, you need something to show for it. victory to radicals armed with slogans tion!" you may ironically reflect. I in- the aunt of a Russian governor? No reconfiguration of industry or world So you pretend, as Johnson did in his bizarre conversa- about honest, fair government and vite you to say that in the face of the problem, but you will have to publish politics are needed in order to start tion with Biden this week, that "gains" were made in Af- RPGs."This leads to an obvious ques- millions of hectares of Siberian forest the entire paper trail of the transaction, taking action. Only political will - ghanistan. You accuse non-interventionists, as did the tion. Guys, if corruption is preventing that burn every year because of bar- and will no longer be able to conceal which, unfortunately, is often in short former Tory leader William Hague, of demonstrating "the us from finding solutions to the prob- baric total clearance, violating the fire the bribe you pay through that "re- supply. Public opinion and the wishes enfeeblement of the western mind". In a recent column, lems of the "big agenda", has the time regulations for forest management. I gional representative" or "local of voters are what can finally get Hague called on Britain to continue invading foreign coun- perhaps come to raise it to a priority am reluctant to make this prediction, partner".Third, combating corruption things moving. Then some day world tries when "our common humanity demands it". In doing on that agenda?It is not difficult to see but fear the next big terrorist attack will without combating corrupt individuals leaders will be able to write in their so, he sounded like Pope Urban summoning the First is the merest hypocrisy and under- memoirs that they solved many major Crusade.The concept of a global police force, so often why that has not already been done. not be just another bomb blast by reli- cited, requires some framework of global consent. When Corruption is a tricky issue to discuss gious fanatics but, for example, a mines voters' trust. Until personal problems on the "big agenda" simply the United Nations was founded, that consent was rooted at global summits. Suppose you are chemical weapon in the water supply sanctions are imposed on oligarchs, by eliminating their root cause - with- in the first chapter of its charter. discussing Syria and cyber-attacks network of a major city or a devastat- primarily those in the entourage of out troops, without billions of dollars, with Vladimir Putin. Everyone finds ing attack on the IT infrastructure of Putin - the role model for all the world's and without wasted decades. Did India rely too much on US? Taliban siege of Kabul is affecting our regional power status some of the money was left evening carrying several Afghan leaders to Ashraf Ghani has released his first video Khalilzad had signed with the Taliban. The on the runway."It may be Rawalpindi - men like former Speaker Younis on Facebook since landing in UAE, say- Taliban never kept their side of the bar- that the Russians had Qanooni, brother of the legendary com- ing he did not take cash and was forced to gain to end the violence; Khalilzad never something to do with the mander Ahmad Shah Massoud, Ahmad Zia leave to prevent bloodshed. Ghani also called their bluff, but repeatedly agreed to Tajik refusal to let Ghani's Massoud, Hazara leaders like Ustad said he was "in talks" to return to their enhanced demands.Second, the Af- plane land in Dushanbe, Mohaqiq and Karim Khalili, former foreign Afghanistan.As Indian diplomats evacu- ghans betrayed themselves. Several Af- considering the influence minister Salahuddin Rabbani and current ate out of Kabul, shutting down the em- ghan leaders in Kabul, who spoke to me they wield on that Central Speaker Rahman Rahmani - even as the bassy as they did in 1996 when the Taliban on the condition of anonymity, said that Asian nation's security Taliban walked into the presidential palace first took Afghanistan, another chapter in even as the Taliban waited at the gates of (the Russians help guard in Kabul and took pictures of themselves the Great Game in inner Asia has come to Kabul Sunday evening, their leaders in the Afghan-Tajik border sitting on Ghani's chair.Several of these men, an end.So what went wrong? How did this Doha could still have been persuaded to with their troops); besides, like Qanooni and Massoud, had once been come to pass? What does this event do to form an interim government - with former of course, their keenness India's image as a regional power? And interior minister Ali Ahmad Jalali as a com- oon after former Afghan president to ingratiate themselves with the new power " Jyoti Malhotra how does it change global politics?First, promise presidential candidate - but Ashraf Ashraf Ghani fled Kabul Sunday in Kabul. It is expected that Ghani will soon vocal about Pakistan's role in arming and the Americans betrayed Afghanistan. Ghani knocked the bottom out of the plan S evening, even as the Taliban walked wend his way to the US - he is rumoured to instigating the Taliban insurgency; they Much has been written about US President by quitting and escaping with his two key into the city - he has since reached Oman, have a Green Card.Travelling with Ghani was now seemed to be handing themselves over Joe Biden's determination to go ahead and aides.As Kabul fell to the Taliban, panic via Uzbekistan, after his escape plane was the powerful Fazel Fazly, the director of his to their former enemy for protection.And exit from the "forever war," but as US South set in. Ghani's key aides knew they were refused landing rights in Tajikistan - Rus- office and his National Security Advisor so on 15 August, as India celebrated the Asia expert Christine Fair writes, Biden marked and would be lynched by the sian embassy spokesperson Nikita Ishenko Hamdullah Mohib, who recently accused 75th anniversary of its Independence, a benefited from a "raft of experts" when he Taliban if they had decided to stay. Even in Kabul described the scene thus to Rus- the Pakistan military establishment of be- friend, ally and South Asian nation fell to served on the Obama administration as to as I write this, many are trying to make their sian news agency Sputnik:"As for the col- ing the equivalent of "Heera Mandi," a red- the hands of the Taliban. The event sent how "Pakistan, which benefitted hand- way to Istanbul or Tashkent. The media is lapse of the regime, it is most eloquently light area in Lahore, insinuating that the shock waves through the region. India was somely from U.S. emoluments, aided and being especially targeted, being told to fall characterised by the way Ghani fled from Pakistanis will sell themselves to the high- supposed to be the big power in the sub- abetted the Taliban and undermined U.S. in line, or else. Journalists are destroying Afghanistan: four cars were full of money, est bidder, in this case, the Taliban. Mohib continent, but it had lost this round to a efforts."Not only did Biden ignore the ad- papers, and stories, just in case incrimi- they tried to put part of the money into a has a British passport.But what is equally militia that has been armed, weaponised vice, he kept Zalmay Khalilzad on as spe- nating notes fall into the hands of the helicopter, but everything did not fit. And interesting is the special flight Monday and supported by Pakistan next door.Now, cial envoy and underwrote the pact that Taliban. Fear rules the city. BUSINESS SUNDAY, AUGUST 22, 2021 5 Maharashtra CarTrade Tech shares completes 92% Oil marketing companies hold list at loss, give up Rs kharif sowing 1,600 level at debut, trade operations fuel prices even as crude softens Mumbai, August 21 : at discount to IPO price Pink and American boll- hereThe base price charged prices, their marketing due to state elections," worm infestation in cot- by the OMCs to the dealer, margins could go up to analysts at Nomura had ton fields continues to and hence, the retail motor Rs 5.7 per litre on diesel said earlier.Credit Suisse be a major problem. Some fuel prices touched all-time and Rs 3.5 per litre for said in April end that "with cotton fields in high levels across the coun- petrol, from nominal lev- the state elections now Marathwada and try on July 17 and have since els prevailed in mid-July. over, we expect OMCs to Vidarbha have reported remained at roughly the same Apparently, the OMCs resume retail price increase infestation of this levels. Pump price of petrol are deferring a much- for auto fuel", adding that pest.Farmers in in Delhi was Rs 101.84 per li- awaited cut in the prices "OMCs need to increase Maharashtra have com- tre on Thursday and diesel at which they sell the fu- retail prices for diesel by Rs pleted sowing on 139.10 was sold at Rs 89.47. In some els to the dealer, to make 2.8-3 a litre and gasoline lakh hectares for the cur- other parts of the country, the up for the losses suffered petrol by Rs 5.5 a litre to rent kharif season, which prices are still higher, for ex- between late February to maintain their FY20 mar- Mumbai, August 21 : CarTrade Tech shares made a weak adds up to 92% of the to- ample at Bhopal in Madhya May, when they could gins. Petrol and diesel were debut on BSE and NSE on Friday, 20 August 2021. tal sowing operations, Mumbai, August 21 : Di- year to 'match the rise in glo- Pradesh, the petrol and die- not hike the prices in con- priced at around Rs 90 a li- CarTrade Tech shares got listed at Rs 1,599, down 1.12 according to the latest rect and second-round bal crude rates', they have sel were sold at Rs 110.2 per formity with the crude tre and Rs 80 per litre, re- per cent from the IPO of Rs 1,618 apiece. The initial public sowing report of the De- effects of the high fuel been less than responsive to litre and Rs 98.26 per litre on movements, due to the spectively at that time. The offering of CarTrade Tech was subscribed a little over 20 partment of Agriculture. prices are fuelling infla- the softening of crude oil Thursday.Global crude prices Assembly elections in subsequent hikes were times. On the listing, the market capitalisation of the com- The average area under tion in an economy strug- since mid-July.Assumptions started to come down after the four states and the UT of much higher than what was pany stood at Rs 7,333.45 crore. CarTrade Tech is backed kharif crops in the state gling to come out of the that the crude prices have yet Opec+ group, in mid-July, Puducherry." Gasoline anticipated, mainly due to by marquee investors - Warburg Pincus, Temasek, JP is 151.33 lakh hectares woods.The base price to stabilise and may start agreed to increase crude oil marketing margins (near constant rise in global Morgan, and March Capital. CarTrade Tech's key com- along with sugarcane. charged by the OMCs to swinging anytime soon is output by 0.4 million barrels zero on July 20) could crude rates from May to petitors include brands such as Cars24 (Cars24 Services Last year, the state had the dealer, and hence, the what OMCs are apparently per day for the August-De- easily normalise if the fall mid-July.At present, the Pvt Ltd), CarDekho and BikeDekho (Girnar Software Pvt completed sowing on retail motor fuel prices guided by, but a delayed re- cember period. Following the in lower crude is retained prices charged to dealers Ltd), Droom (Droom Technology Pvt Ltd), and Mahindra nearly 137.23 lakh hect- touched all-time high lev- sponse to fall in crude price announcement, crude had by the OMCs," Jefferies by OMCs are Rs 41.6 per First Choice Wheels Ltd.The three-day IPO received bids ares by August 10. Ex- els across the country on is seen as untenable, given suddenly corrected from the had said, adding that litre for petrol and Rs 42.33 for 26.31 crore shares against 1.29 crore shares on offer. cluding sugarcane, the July 17 and have since the heavy burden on retail highs of $77 per barrel to $68 "diesel marketing margins per litre for diesel. The The category reserved for qualified institutional buyers sown area was around remained at roughly the consumers on account of per barrel. Subsequently, af- (at Rs 2.9 per litre on July Centre's tax (basic excise, (QIBs) received 35.45 times subscription, while non-insti- 136.01 lakh hectares, ac- same levels.The base the hefty taxes on these ter hovering around $71-75 20) could rise sharply in surcharge, agri-infra cess tutional investors 41 times. The retail individual investors counting for nearly price charged by the products. Direct and sec- per barrel for the rest of July, case crude settles at cur- and road/infra cess) is cur- (RIIs) quota was subscribed 2.75 times.Cartrade Tech IPO, 95.80% of the total sow- OMCs to the dealer, and ond-round effects of the high the Indian basket of crude rent levels with no rently Rs 31.80 per litre for Cartrade gmp, Cartrade grey market premiumCarTrade IPO ing operations.The new hence, the retail motor fuel prices are fuelling infla- has gradually come down to change in retail selling diesel and Rs 32.90 per litre listing day strategy: Stock may surge 20% even as grey season may begin with an fuel prices touched all- tion in an economy strug- the level of $68.9 per barrel price".As crude oil prices for petrol, while Delhi state market premium falls; buy, sell, hold?Emcure Pharmaceu- opening stock of 60-70 time high levels across gling to come out of the now. The rise in crude prices have firmed up in Q1FY22, VAT is Rs 23.50 per litre on ticals IPOEmcure Pharmaceuticals files draft IPO papers lakh bales.Cotton Corpo- the country on July 17 woods.Soyameal exports in Q1FY22 was mainly sup- there were delays in retail petrol and Rs 13.14 per litre with SEBI; plans to raise over Rs 1,100 croreCarTrade ration of India may need and have since remained drop 57 pc in July amid tight ported by global demand re- price increases, leading to on diesel. In March and Tech is a multi-channel auto platform with coverage and to procure much less as at roughly the same supplies: SEAPetrol and covery and voluntary pro- the decline in average May 2020, surcharge and presence across vehicle types and value-added services prices likely to rule above levels.Though state-run Diesel Price in India, Petrol duction cuts until July-end marketing margins for cess on auto fuels were through its brands - CarWale, CarTrade, Shriram Automall, MSPThe base price oil marketing companies and Diesel Rate Today in from major oil exporting petrol. "OMCs' margins cumulatively increased by BikeWale, CarTradeExchange, Adroit Auto and AutoBiz. charged by the OMCs to (OMCs) had consistently IndiaPetrol and diesel price nations.Analysts at Jefferies were impacted due to no Rs 13 per litre on petrol and Analysts at Anand Rathi Financial Services had given the dealer, and hence, the and promptly raised retail today: Diesel rate cut again, had pointed out on July 20 retail price changes over Rs 16 per litre on diesel, subscribe rating to the IPO, considering the future pros- retail motor fuel prices prices of petrol and die- petrol unchanged; check that if OMCs retain the ben- two months between Feb- leading to record-high auto pect of the company and said that it is also placed at a touched all-time high lev- sel since early May this price in Delhi, Mumbai efit of the correction in crude ruary end and early May fuel rates. sweet spot as the first mover advantage.In the past 3 els across the country on years, Revenue and EBITDA for Car Trade haven't grown July 17 and have since meaningfully. PAT jumped this year which was only opti- remained at roughly the Cotton Corporation of India may need to procure cal as there was a tax credit, said an analyst. "When we same levels.Eye on mar- talk about peers, Cars24 took 5 years to reach the same gins: Oil marketing com- much less as prices likely to rule above MSP revenue as CarTrade Tech who took 11 years which shows panies hold fuel prices the hyper scale-up threat. It also faces competition from even as crude Mumbai, August 21 : The depleting stocks, in addition with an opening stock of 120 meeting the quality param- progress or pause in the ride-hailing services, car leasing services, other online softensAccording to the new season may begin to 10% import duty levied on lakh bales and the crop size eters of the corporation, southwest monsoon resellers, unorganized resellers, and even car manufactur- report, crops have been with an opening stock of cotton, have caused prices to was 371 lakh bales with 11 lakh the CCI chief said. "Signifi- and competition with ers who started their own subscription services," Aditya damaged in Konkan, 60-70 lakh bales.The Cot- rise to Rs 6,500-7,000/quintal bales of imports, leading to a cantly, this season along other crops. Kondawar, Founder, COO, JST Investments told . Kolhapur, Amravati, Pune ton Corporation of India at the start of the season.The total supply of 502 lakh bales. with kapas prices, cotton and Nagpur divisions. (CCI) may be required to base price charged by the The new season may begin seed prices are also ruling Yamaha Announces Exciting Due to long breaks in procure minimal amount of OMCs to the dealer, and with an opening stock of 60- high and promise good re- monsoon and subse- cotton in the 2021-22 sea- hence, the retail motor fuel 70 lakh bales."CCI will be turns to farmers. Seed quent heavy rains, there son, as kapas prices are prices touched all-time high present in the market to en- prices have gone up to Festive offers for August 2021 have been attack of vari- likely to rule above the levels across the country on sure that the farmer does not Rs 4,500-5,000 per quin- available in India, which in- ous pests and minimum support prices July 17 and have since re- sell in distress. Intervention tal as against Rs 2,500 a cludes the newly launched diseases.Soybean grow- (MSP) for a better part of mained at roughly the same may be required only during year ago," he Fascino 125 Fi Hybrid, fol- ers, especially in the season. Procurement levels.Eye on margins: Oil the peak season in December said.Meanwhile, the US lowed by the Ray ZR 125 FI, Marathwada, are con- may be required during marketing companies hold when arrivals are high and Department of Agricul- Ray ZR Street Rally 125 FI cerned about mosaic vi- the peak season when fuel prices even as crude prices may fall below MSP. The ture has forecast India's and the non-Hybrid version rus, as well as infestation prices drop below the softensSoyameal exports CCI may then be required to cotton production at 29 of the Fascino 125 Fi. The of pink and American MSP, top officials of the drop 57 pc in July amid tight intervene for a short period of million bales (480- customers who are planning bollworm.The agriculture corporation said.As supplies: SEAAlthough the 15-20 days, especially in far pound), which is un- to purchase a Yamaha department has issued against 92 lakh bales that area under coverage has gone flung rural areas where there changed from last month scooter in August will get advisories for preventive was procured in the 2020- down by 6-8%, from 133 lakh are no buyers," Agarwal and up by 2% from last an assured gift worth Rs. measures to be taken to 21 season, the CCI may not hectares last year to 125 lakh said.The procurement may not year. Area harvested is Chennai, August 21 : special offers, in lieu of the 2,999. In addition to this, tackle the pest problem. be required to procure hectares in the current sea- go above 30 lakh bales. Mean- forecast at 12.9 million Yamaha Motor India group upcoming festivities, which they also stand a chance to Soybean growers from more than 30 lakh bales for son, cotton production will while, cotton arrivals have be- hectares, down marginally of companies, one of the lead- are valid till 31st August'21. win a bumper prize as well Amravati, Latur and the new season, Pradeep still be high because of good gun in the north in a small way, from last month and last ing two-wheeler companies The offers are currently valid as additional benefits of Rs. Osmanabad districts Kumar Agarwal, CMD of rains and may touch 350-360 with 800-2,000 bales being year due to the slow in India, today announced on Yamaha's scooter range 20,000 and more. have reported the attack the CCI, told FE. Strong lakh bales. 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From Page 1 Web Portal Janani Live Covid awareness and vaccination Observed its 1st anniversary drive at Boginadi Former Assam Chief Minister A CORRESPONDENT, Golaghat, Aug 21: A popular web news portal from A CORRESPONDENT, North Lakhimpur, Aug 21: Women Development charge of Union Minister of Ports, Shipping & Waterways and also Minister of AYUSH. Golaghat named Janani Live today observed its first anniversary. On August 21 Centre (WDC), Guwahati, in collaboration with Lakhimpur District Adminis- He is also a member of the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs.Sonowal was welcomed last year Janani Live started its journey in the web media world. Within a year this tration and Seajuli Model Public Health Center, and supported by Arise Foun- by Chief Minister Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma at the LGBI airport at Borjhar.Taking to web news portal became popular among viewers for its brave, unbiased journal- dation through NEWRAN project, has organized a six-day long Covid aware- Twitter CM Sarma wrote, "On his first visit to Assam after joining the Union Cabinet, I had ism and for its way of presentation. To mark the occasion of its first anniversary ness and vaccination program from today at six villages under Boginadi De- the great honour of welcoming Sri @sarbanandsonwal at Guwahati airport. Sri Sonowal a ceremony was held today at the Conference Hall of Nambor Guest House in velopment Block in Lakhimpur district. Accordingly, the first day program will seek blessings of people as part of Jan Ashirvad Yatra. Welcomed Union Minister Sri Golaghat. In the ceremony retired professor and filmmaker Dinesh Gogoi, writer was held today at Bhabari ME School at Moridirgha village where a total 210 @Rameswar_Teli also".Sonowal was accompanied by Union Minister of State Rameswar and intellectual Hiren Gogoi, retired professor and social activist Dr. Lukumoni persons were vaccinated. In the beginning of the program, the Project Direc- Teli.The Assam unit of BJP will carry out the three-day 'Axirbaad Yatra' to welcome Union Goswami, Assistant Commissioner of Golaghat District administration Mayurakshi tor of WDC, Guwahati, Bhagyawati Bhuyan introduced the conducting team Minister Sarbananda Sonowal. The program will be held at 18 places across the State Dutta and District Information and Public Relation Officer Pompi Devi were made of the six-day long program and briefed the objectives of the program on during his Yatra from August 21 to August 23. The Yatra will proceed through the party's to sit on the dias and were felicitated. Senior journalist, environmental activist behalf of WDC Director Sr. Betsy. Two officials of WDC Chandrajit Pegu and organisation districts of Guwahati, Morigaon, Kaliabar, Nagaon, Jorhat, and Sibsagar. It and Chief Editor of Janani Live Apurba Ballav Goswami welcomed all the guests. Sanju Singh felicitated the team.They also extended gratitude on behalf of will cover 375.5 km. The Yatra will be held by strictly following the COVID-19 protocols. Special felicitations were given to Dinesh Gogoi and Hiren Gogoi from Janani WDC to everyone for the support and cooperation. "The awareness and vac- Live team for their immense contributions to the society. Senior journalists Dwipen cination campaign will continue for remaining 5 villages, namely, Bhabari, Assam will implement the New Dutta, Dipmoni Khatoniar and Diganta Bora, young journalists Siddhartha Silingbasti, Pratapgarh, Lalpani Dirghapathar and Akorabasti in the next week," secondary education directorate. 113 nominees were designated under the higher Handique, Amit Nagori, Devashish Saha, Samim Ali, Bhaskarjyoti Rajkhowa, WDC Project Director Bhagyawati Bhuyan informed. "The vaccination is education directorate and six were elected under the directorate of the state council Samarjit Sharma, Rubul Ahmed, Jayanta Phukan, Mustak Hussain, Saranga Tamuli organised especially for the poor marginalized who are temporary workers in of educational research and training.While speaking about the NEP and additional along with several other citizens and well wishers of Janani Live were present in the tea gardens, daily wage earners and migrant returnees," she further in- equipping in the state education department, the Minister said that the state govern- the ceremony. The ceremony was anchored by Papori Saikia. formed. The members of the medical team of this six-day long Covid awareness ment would continue implementing new provisions of the policy every year to bring Social media post in support of and vaccination program are Dr. Naruttam Borah, Sanjay Kumar Sah(accountant- about a transformative change in the education department in the next five years. cum-ABPM), Biju Mili, Ranjan Doley(MPN), Rina Saikia (ANM), Jayanti Science, maths and English would be taught in the English language and the rest of Taliban: one arrested Kukur(ANM) and Nawami Ganak (the ASHA worker for today's program). the subjects in the mother tongue. The programme was also addressed by Educa- A CORRESPONDENT, Hojai, Aug 21: Of the 14 people who were arrested by tion Minister Dr. Ranoj Pegu.Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that Assam Police for the objectionable post in social media relating to Taliban on Narrow Gauge Train the state government will implement the New Education Policy (NEP) from April 1, Saturday. One person namely Maulana Basiruddin Laskar, resident of Daboka 2022.Chief Minister Sarma said, "The state government is gearing up to implement under Hojai District was arrested by Daboka Police. Acting promptly a case was services resumed the New Education Policy (NEP) from April 1, 2022. Under NEP, all high schools registered under Daboka PS bearing Case No. 421/21 under Section 120(B),153A STAFF REPORTER, Guwahati, Aug 21: It has been decided to restore the would be upgraded to senior secondary school. The government would upgrade the (1)(a),153B(1)(a)(c),298, 505(1)(b)(c), 505(2) of Indian Penal Code read with Sec- academic infrastructure of the educational institutions for this purpose within a much awaited Narrow Gauge train services between New Jalpaiguri and tion 39 in The Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. Laskar was produced before Darjeeling in the World Heritage Darjeeling Himalayan Railway w.e.f. 25 th year."Speaking on the occasion, Chief Minister Dr Sarma said, "The state government Sankardevnagar Court, which sent him to 14 days Judicial Custody. after coming to power made a pledge to provide employment to 1 lakh youth of the August, 21. Tourists and passengers will now be able to enjoy the services of state. While fulfilling this promise the state government today launched the appoint- the narrow gauge trains from New Jalpaiguri to Darjeeling and Darjeeling to ment process and soon advertisements would be published for several thousand jobs Assam’s Youth will fly with New Jalpaiguri by travelling through the hills of the Himalayas having in the education department besides conducting TET."He also distributed appoint- government's mission of breaking the drug menace in its 100 days of govern- enchantic views. Narrow Gauge train number 52541 will leave from New ment letters to 767 candidates in different directorates of the education department at ment under the dynamic leadership of Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, Jalpaiguri and train number 52540 will leave from Darjeeling. Detail timings are Srimanta Sankardev Kalakshetra in Guwahati.Out of 767 candidates, 616 applicants the police are working on a three-pronged strategy - reducing the supply, being notified. There will be 17 seats in the first class and 29 seats in the were appointed under the Directorate of elementary education, 32, under the second- demand of drugs and its harm."If the cartel is strategically broken, then natu- general class for passengers. With the introduction of these services, tour- ary education directorate. 113 nominees were designated under the higher education rally the supply will fall. We are also working on cutting demand by several ism and hospitality sectors of the area are expected to get benefitted; thereby directorate and six were elected under the directorate of the state council of educa- ways and also harm reduction by taking the youths to the rehabilitation helping the local economy. Passengers will have to observe all preventive tional research and training.While speaking about the NEP and additional equipping centres," he said, adding in past 100 days the Assam police had made huge measures and guidelines related to Covid-19 during the journey. in the state education department, the Minister said that the state government would seizures worth over Rs 200 crore in the international market.Giving credit to continue implementing new provisions of the policy every year to bring about a Assam's CM Himanta Biswa Sarma for driving the campaign, Singh said he Hundred families of suspected transformative change in the education department in the next five years. had rarely seen a CM having such zeal to work hard. "The CM has tremen- nationals evicted in Nagaon dous knowledge of the state and is a hard task master. He has his goals clear," Cannot promise what final he said. It is worth mentioning that the Assam Government led by Chief A CORRESPONDENT, Nagaon, Aug 21: District Administration in associa- tion with district police administration today evicted a large crowded area, lies around the world," Biden said, adding the United States was in "close operational Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma completed its 100-day on Friday.Praising the being marked as hub of various crimes and criminals which was alloted earlier coordination with NATO" on the evacuation operation in Kabul.Meanwhile, two top Assam police for their coordinated effort, he said, "The police force that has to Nagaon Khagarijan college on Fancy road at Nagaon Madhupur in the human rights organisations called on President Biden Friday, requesting him to extend faced bullets for over 30 years is fearless and working in a team spirit with town. Some suspected nationals encroached on large areas of land, alloted to the August 31 deadline for the US troops to leave Kabul in order to help evacuate other departments."Citing the example of the dedication of Assam police, he Nagaon Khagarijan college for construction of college stadium as well as Afghans fearing Taliban reprisals. Sarah Holewinski, head of the Washington bureau said that disclosure of a Home Guard jawan, who was offered Rs 1 lakh bribe other projects by district administration and lived illegally there by constructing at Human Rights Watch, told a news conference the most at-risk Afghans would not by a bus driver, led to the seizure of a large amount of drugs. "The govern- houses for decades without any prior permission. It was being alleged for be able to get out before the deadline unless flights out of Kabul are ramped up.Shaharzad ment honoured him by absorbing him in the Assam Police and he was even over years that many of these illegal inhabitants were running illegal trade of Akbar, head of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, who is at an given CM's Award for outstanding service," Singh responded to Rajeev R, drugs, narcotics substances and also involved in various other anti-social undisclosed location, said Afghans feared being abandoned by Washington. Editor of Bureaucrats India.Singh said that about 80 per cent of nexus that worked to make Guwahati as a transit point for drugs coming from 'Golden activities in the town for over years. Significantly, police frequently arrested males as well as females on a daily basis from the area on change of various Triangle' had been broken. "Yet, lots more work has to be done. The history Zydus Cadila's needle-free criminal activities including trading of drugs and other narcotics substances. 2-8 degrees Celsius and has shown good stability at 25-degrees C for at least three of drugs business is very old and the channel that originates from Laos, East Asian countries and Myanmar passes through North Eastern states. The But on Saturday morning, the district administration along with the police months, the company said.This makes it east to transport and store for supplies to administration launched a bold eviction drive in the area and evicted all the challenge is not to curb the local menace but knocking off the national and remote locations.And while the company had started production at risk, sources say illegal residents from there, sources added. the stocks can be released into the market starting next month, i.e. September, while international cartels that work with money funded by many agencies. How- there's still no word on pricing. Cadila's MD, Sharvil Patel had recently informed ever, the best part is that all the seven North Eastern states are working in a As Taliban take charge, fear, BusinessLine that the company plans to produce about a crore doses a month by mid- coordinated manner and are strongly against it," he said.Acknowledging the August or September and five crore doses by December. "The company is investing cooperation of Central agencies, Singh, an Assam cadre IPS officer, who uncertainty grip Afghan students- in a new plant to manufacture about 10-12 crore doses annually. And it has a 20-crore earlier headed key units in SPG and was also involved in major terrorist opera- production target on the applicator used to administer this vaccine. The company had tions in Kashmir and other parts of the country while being part of NIA, said in both Kabul & Delhi invested ?500 crore till date, between trials and manufacturing," Patel had said. The that agencies like Narcotics Control Bureau and Intelligence Bureau were New Delhi, August 21 : Esmael Sakhi Zada, a 27-year-old student who se- vaccine is developed in partnership with India's Department of Biotechnology (DBT), cooperating in identifying the 'trouble spots and agencies working for them.' cured admission into the South Asian University (SAU) in Delhi this year, under its 'Mission Covid Suraksha' and implemented by Biotechnology Industry Re- "The challenge is tough here, as there is convergence of drugs and wild life hasn't stepped out of his house in Kabul for a week now. He told ThePrint search Assistance Council (BIRAC).Calling it a matter of pride for India, Renu Swarup, syndicates and extremists," said Singh."Union Home Minister Amit Shah that the Taliban are everywhere and that it has become dangerous for them to Secretary, DBT and Chairperson, BIRAC said, "The Indian Vaccine Mission Covid during his recent visit had reviewed the preparedness of all agencies in tack- even venture out. Esmael is among many Afghan students who have been Suraksha was launched under the Atmanirbhar Bharat package 3.0 being implemented ling the drug menace. Discussion was also held on backward and forward admitted into the South Asian University. Although he wants to continue his by BIRAC, (and) is aimed at developing safe and efficacious Covid-19 vaccines for linkages," he said.Applauding the support of local people, he said the mis- education, studying in a stressful environment is getting increasingly diffi- public health. This is an important milestone in our indigenous vaccine development sion of tightening the noose around the drug cartel would not have been cult for him, and he now wants to come to India to attend classes. "We are mission and positions India on the global map for novel vaccine development."The possible without the support of parents and members of civil society. "People living under a threat and are struggling for survival," he told ThePrint over vaccine has been supported by Covid-19 research consortia through National come with complaints of youth taking to drugs. Now-a-days, people are in- the phone. "Our student visas are ready but the airport has shut down and Biopharma Mission for preclinical studies, Phase I and Phase II Clinical Trials and forming us on social media channels and to police control rooms. There is we have no means to go anywhere." The Taliban has taken over the Hamid under the Mission Covid Suraksha for Phase III clinical trial.The platform because of its total cooperation from people, who have seen ruining of families and increase Karzai International Airport in Kabul and has reportedly told local residents rapid plug and play technology can be easily adapted to deal with mutations in the virus, of crime because of drugs. We won't let down the aspirations of people down flocking it with hopes of escaping, to go back home.Esmael's helplessness is such as those already occurring.ZyCoV-D becomes the sixth in the Covid-19 vaccine and assure that Assam youths will fly high by becoming partners of develop- shared by several such students stuck in Afghanistan. They are now waiting pack to be made available in the Indian market, after Covishield from Serum Institute of ment," he said.To a question on the rising police and people gap, he said the for the Indian government to start commercial flights out of the country. India (SII), Covaxin from Bharat Biotech, Sputnik from Russia's Gamaleya Institute, police's job was to maintain law and order and responding to any emergency. Another SAU student stuck in Kabul, Mohammad Shafiq Shayan, appealed Moderna's vaccine and the most recent Johnson and Johnson's one-dose vaccine. India "If the police stick to the basic job of maintaining law and order, the rest to SAARC countries to help them "out of the anarchy and chaos". "Some has set itself a steep task of vaccinating at least 90 lakh people a day and the Zydus things will fall in line," Singh said, adding the young lot of the officers of the Afghan students, including me, have received their visas. But due to the vaccine will feed into Meanwhile, Zydus also plans to seek approval for a two-dose country were bright and lots of works were being done on capacity human crisis in the Kabul airport, we don't have any way to get out of this regimen of the vaccine. DNA vaccines are a valuable form of antigen-specific immuno- building.He, however, expressed concern that the officers were hard pressed chaos and uncertainty," he told ThePrint over the phone. "We ask all those therapy, as they are safe, stable and can be easily produced, the company said. and overburdened. "On an average if one officer is handling about 250 cases who wish to help us, especially SAU authorities, to focus their efforts on of investigation, it is too much. If investigated properly, an officer can probe arranging a flight for us. If the request is made to SAARC officials, they may 'Ashraf Ghani is a total crook up to three-four cases in a month. Now, imagine the kind of pressure he or she be able to implement it with the cooperation of the Indian foreign affairs crook. He spent all his time wining and dining our senators," Trump said, adding is undergoing," he said.Singh, who is originally from Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, ministry. We are going through a failed-state situation, anarchy, chaos and gave credit to all his success to his mother and father and his supportive the senators were always in Ghani's pockets.The Republican leader accused uncertainty in the capital."The uncertainty, however, isn't confined to just family. "The seed of joining civil service was sown by my father whom I lost Ghani of getting away with murder in many, many different ways. However, he those stuck in Kabul. Afghan students already in Delhi and studying at the to cancer in 2003 and my mother passed away in 2017. My family including Delhi University have reached out to the university administration seeking didn't elaborate on what these ways were. Trump also echoed the above allega- my wife, who quit civil service to look after the family, has been tremendously tions against Ghani and said that he suspected that the former Afghan president help regarding Visa extension and jobs. "Our families are fighting death every supportive. I remember roaming in jungles for weeks and my wife waiting at single day. Although they are suffering, they don't want us to suffer," one did leave Kabul on Sunday with cash.Meanwhile, Ashraf Ghani, who is cur- doorstep awake for many days," Singh added. rently in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with his family on 'humanitarian such DU student, who did not want to be named, told ThePrint. "We want our grounds', said that he is currently in talks to come back home. Releasing a video Assam Governor wishes on Raksha visas extended to be able to get jobs and two square meals a day. We are not statement on Wednesday, Ghani said he was forced to leave Afghanistan "with asking for much."Afghan students at JNU have also reached out to their tradition shared sweets with them. Since Raksha Bandhan is a bond of Indian counterparts asking for help from their university administration. While one set of traditional clothes, a vest and the sandals", adding he also left the protection between brothers and sisters which serves as a symbol of love, these students wait for the Indian government to make their move, a spokes- country in an attempt to avoid bloodshed.The former president also dismissed trust, togetherness, Prof. Mukhi thanked the organisations for promoting this person of South Asian University told ThePrint that there is "very little" that allegations of fleeing Kabul with suitcases full of cash by calling them baseless. age-old bond of the society to make life even better and more meaningful. they can do at this point. "The MEA is our nodal agency; the situation is "Do not believe whoever tells you that your president sold you out and fled for such that they are no longer physically there so there isn't much that can be his own advantage and to save his own life," he said in the video statement. Naga couple set to trek to Everest done," the SAU spokesperson said. "As and when these developments were don Roberts Hospital in Meghalaya recently got an ATM installed in its taking place, we had asked several of our students to come to India then Assam Plans To Replace Diesel premises, 96 years after the inventor of the cash dispenser was born here.John itself. Most of our students have received their visas, so the university has told reporters on completing 100 days of his government. The BJP retained power in Adrian Shepherd-Barron, an Indian-born English man who invented the ATM, done everything on its part to help them come back to India. The situation is Assam for a second term after winning the assembly election this year."Everyone is was born in 1925 in this hospital.The hospital turns 100 next year and ATMs such that there are currently no flights coming out of Afghanistan as of contributing in the process of reduction of carbon emissions. This will be Assam's were first installed globally around 54 years ago."The teller machine was now.""Most of our research students and alumni have managed to come contribution towards the same," Mr Sarma said.The state government announced installed on 7 August after a petition was submitted to State Bank of India for back and recently six more students have come in. They are under quarantine cash relief to bus operators who have been affected by COVID-19 restrictions in the setting up an ATM on the premises before the centennial celebrations of our right now," he added. Administration members at the Delhi University too state. This includes a one-time relief of ? 10,000 each for drivers, conductors and facility next year," the hospital's Medical Superintendent Dr Roken Nongrum had a similar response.Dr Amarjiva Lochan, deputy dean of DU's foreign helpers.Some 60,000 people in the bus transport sector in Assam have been affected has been quoted as saying.Nongrum also said that an ATM in the premises students department, told ThePrint, "There were about 150 plus Afghan stu- due to ban on inter-district movement in the last three months, aimed at reducing the will help patients and staffers immensely.The Meghalaya government has dents in DU this year, about 30-40 students went back to their homeland after spread of COVID-19 in the state.The government will purchase a total of 200 electric finally handed over the Manipur Rajbari, an erstwhile home of the Manipur finishing their course on 1 July. The rest of the students whose courses are buses and 100 CNG buses, which will eventually replace ASTC's diesel-run city royal family, to the Manipur government. The property has been handed over about to get over in a month's time met with us on Thursday evening to buses.The announcement was made by Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma after several rounds of talks between successive governments of the two discuss their concerns."Among the concerns raised by the students was the in Guwahati on Friday. "Assam Government is planning to replace present city states.Situated in Shillong, the heritage property is still inhabited by descen- request for extension of their student visa. Speaking of the request, Prof buses in Guwahati with electric and CNG buses only," said Sarma. "There are dants of the erstwhile Manipur king. It will now be converted into a Manipur Lochan said, "Since this issue comes under the purview of the Ministry of plans to purchase 200 electric buses and 100 CNG buses. ASTC city buses will State Bhawan.In a tweet last week, Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh external affairs, we can only make a recommendation, which we will." The cease to operate diesel-run city buses. Our goal is to completely replace diesel-run said, "The historic Manipur Rajbari at Shillong belonged to the Maharaja of students also raised concerns regarding the safety of their families and job buses with electric and CNG buses in Guwahati by the day this government Manipur & it was here that Maharaja Bodhachandra stayed during the sign- availability. Vikas Gupta, the registrar of Delhi University, said, "Finding place- completes one year," he added. CM Sarma informed that the replacement process ing (of) the Manipur Merger Agreement to Dominion of India in Sept 1949. ments at such a short notice will be a challenging task given the pandemic- will be completed within six months to one year. Sadly, the plot no longer belonged to the Royal family of Manipur." induced uncertainty in the market. SPORTS PLUS SUNDAY, AUGUST 22, 2021 7 Wigan lose their cool as Grace Khalida Popal: 'The Afghanistan women's and Dodd inspire St Helens to team was built to fight Taliban ideology' London, August 21 : 'My female footballers, Popal is now and in the future."A emphatic derby win power is my voice but advising them to burn their Fifa spokesperson called international governments national team shirts and the situation faced by 12-2 ahead at the interval. All have real power," says remove all images and female footballers in Wigan could muster was a Khalida Popal, the former references to them being Afghanistan "very penalty from the boot of Afghanistan women's team involved in football from worrying" and said it was Harry Smith, while John captain. In the wake of the social media to attempt to monitoring it closely and Bateman was sin-binned Taliban's seizure of power avoid repercussions for would offer support where following an altercation with last Sunday Popal and her their activism through it can: "It is clear that the James Bentley, who was also former international sport.Popal says: "For so situation on the ground is shown a yellow card.But teammates and coaching long I have been fighting to moving very quickly. In this while the Saints kept their staff have called for the bring visibility to women of respect, we are in contact cool for the rest of the sporting community to join Afghanistan and to with the Afghanistan evening, Wigan picked up them in "being a voice for encourage women of Football Federation, and another two yellow cards. A the voiceless women of Afghanistan to use their other stakeholders, and will second one went to Bateman Afghanistan".They want to voices. Now I'm telling them continue to monitor the London, August 21 : There has both sets of supporters at for dissent and Willie Isa, secure "protection and to silence that voice, to not local situation and to offer been no shortage of full-time was also who was walking a support" for the hugely at- talk, to not meet people, to our support where possible unforgettable performances to significant; while the Saints disciplinary tightrope all risk athletes who have take everything down, to in the weeks and months to settle derby matches between players celebrated with a evening, eventually got the defied the Taliban's remove their identities. That come."Lindsey is fearful Wigan and St Helens in years packed away end, there sin-binning his aggressive interpretation of sharia law is very painful."It is so that international gone by. And while this was a were barely any home fans play perhaps merited. "I'm just by stepping on to a painful for me to use these governing bodies - boxing, their trainers, referees, team governments and sporting comprehensive victory for the left to hear the final disappointed with their pitch and using their voices words, telling them that the taekwondo, football, all of doctors, female federation bodies do not realise the reigning Super League hooter.They, in truth, had discipline," Adrian Lam, to advocate for the rights jersey they have earned, them - need to take officials and coaches are "at extent to which women champions, the clearest seen enough. Humiliated, Wigan's coach, said. "I love of women to play sport. their national identity, has responsibility."And who am special risk of persecution or playing sport is a form of indicator yet about the gulf in outplayed and well-beaten emotion and would promote Popal lives in Denmark after to go - I remember the day I to say that my girls are more retaliation from the Taliban action and protest."Just class between these two by a St Helens side who were that within the group but she was forced to flee her that we first wore the important than this female precisely because they were playing and participating in famous clubs at present is that, good, but certainly not great. you've got to carry some home country in 2011 in fear national jersey. I can't journalist or this activist? Get encouraged not just to be sports is a violation of really, St Helens had to be But they did more than intelligence with that. It came for her life because of her describe it - it was maybe a them all out."Claims that the athletes, but also high- sharia law," she says. nowhere near faultless to inflict enough to further strengthen back to hurt us."Playing half role in establishing the bigger feeling than winning Taliban have softened their profile icons and role models "Even one time. If the law such an embarrassing defeat their position inside Super an hour a man light would national team. She played a a World Cup would be to approach are hugely for women's rights and is strict, that means death on their great rivals.Wigan's League's top two, all the while put any side on the back foot central role in the 2018 many other countries. To be concerning to Popal, who gender equality."Female of execution. Every time inconsistency has haunted maintaining the pressure on against most teams but exposure of abuse suffered able to wear and earn that had her right to an education athletes have been our players went to the them throughout 2021 while the league leaders Catalans especially against the by women's national team national team shirt of the taken away in the 1990s, saw encouraged by the pitch there were stories Saints have lost only three ahead of the run-in to the reigning champions. They players at the hands of country after such a long her mother's right to international community of being spat on and of games in all competitions as play-offs.Such was dominated field position and Keramuudin Karim, then time and such a long fight worktaken away and her and sports federations to the stoning, or the they relentlessly kept up their Wigan's impotency in the ball for most of the president of the was the most beautiful father beaten for working use their platforms of being terrible comments. push for the treble here. But attack, one felt the derby second half, eventually Afghanistan football moment in my life. We were with the government."It's top national athletes in They've been living this one stat above all else sums was almost won by half- getting the try their federation, that forced Fifa happy and proud. We felt traumatising for my Afghanistan to promote for 20 years. If that was up this miserable performance time. Tries from Regan dominance merited when to investigate and like winners. And now I'm generation to see history women's rights - but now acceptable under a so- from the Warriors: on the night Grace and Lewis Dodd, the Mark Percival finished a subsequently ban him from having to tell girls to burn repeating itself," she says. they are more exposed and called democracy, what's they received more yellow latter following a superb wonderful flowing move office.Now, after years of their jerseys and remove "This time it comes with could be endangered for this it going to be like cards than they scored ball steal on Oliver shortly after Isa had been elevating the voices and their photos?"The former added revenge. They say profile."Female Afghan now?"Popal adds: "The points.The reception from Partington, put the visitors sin-binned. profiles of Afghanistan's head coach of the women's they follow sharia law but athletes have also been Afghanistan women's national team, former USA under their previous regime featured winning national team was built to international Kelly Lindsey, we have experienced what scholarships and doing fight against the Taliban James Vince leads from front as Brave echoes Popal in calling on type of democracy they want national interviews about and against the Taliban the world to help these for women."Human Rights topics like health and ideology, against the women and girls: "The Watch has similarly urged education for girls, all of people that took the right breeze past Rockets into Hundred final international sporting caution and said the Taliban which is now likely to be to education and the right London, August 21 : On a referring to when they talk community has asked them should be judged "on their verboten."Worden urges to social participation from cool, translucent night at The about the endless, to stand up for their rights. track record, not their current Fifa and the International women and kept women in Oval, Trent Rockets were fascinating tactical We've told them it's the right comments that they will Olympic Committee to silence, in dark houses, bowled out for 96 and nuances of the 100-ball thing to do. We have a allow women to work and wield their "huge soft unable to leave, trounced by seven wickets in format: whacking the ball responsibility as participate in power" to help protect imprisoned. The a performance that will go straight, whacking it over sportspeople to make sure society".Minky Worden, the women: "It is likely that, foundation of the team, of down as one of the most midwicket, whacking it they're safe now. They are director of global initiatives at some point, the Taliban which I was one of the ignominious in the venerable over point.When the an important part of the for the organisation, which will want to participate in founders, was a way of and storied history of the moment comes to debrief journey for all women's is working on documenting international sport in some activism for us, a way to Rockets franchise. For the this painful defeat, the equality throughout the the full range of abuses and way, whether football or stand up and send a long-suffering Rockets fans, Rockets and their coaching world - if they can do it in protection for all civilians, the Olympics, and that message to the Taliban that the agonising wait for a staff will surely conclude Afghanistan they can do it warned that female athletes could serve as a pressure the women of Afghanistan Lord's final goes on for that the game was anywhere. Sport's and their families but also point to protect women stand together." another year.For the ultimately won and lost on Brave was a sort of five balls. And in a brutal, Southern Brave, meanwhile, their ability to whack the relentless constriction: an cold-blooded display of their progress to Saturday's ball quite as far, or quite as object lesson in not getting early violence, Paul Stirling Jonnie Peacock: 'I don't need to win final at Lord's marks the often, as their opponents. whacked at the very highest safely put the game to bed emotional culmination of a Truly, this is a game of fine level. After Garton and with an innings of 31 off 19 another gold medal for my happiness' project weeks in the making. margins.Indeed, one of the Overton came the sprightly balls. It was all downhill for Following in the footsteps of subtler and often Tymal Mills with his mixture the Rockets from that point. London August 21 : Jonnie happiness. I would like to, the all-conquering, table- overlooked aspects of 100- of rib-jarring pace and Samit Patel at short fine leg Peacock has a new look for it would probably help - it topping women's team, the ball cricket is the crucial wicked floaters. Then the let the ball run between his 2021. His blond hair is no would probably help the Brave's unprecedented era of importance not just of awkward, unorthodox left- legs and away to the longer in a nice schoolboy bank more than anything Hundred success will raise whacking it, but trying to arm spin of Jake Lintott. boundary. The great Rashid short back and sides, but tied else to be honest - but yeah legitimate questions over the avoid getting whacked. Then the finely tuned craft Khan's first ball was a in an unruly topknot. He has I'm just happy competing , competitive balance of the This the Brave of Chris Jordan.The only real horrible full-toss that was a wiry beard to go with it too. training full time for a living tournament. Simply put, have accomplished to pocket of resistance came clouted to the midwicket He looks less like he's about now and getting enough to the Brave simply become too perfection with the ball, as from Tom Moores, who fence by James Vince.Vince to challenge for a third live off. I'll do whatever dominant? And is there a storming opening spell briefly threatened to shift applied the finishing consecutive sprint title at the makes me happy, but that's anyone out there who can from the left-arm quick the momentum with a touches with an unbeaten 45 Paralympics, than lead a probably less work." break their stranglehold? George Garton claimed the couple of hard, well-timed off 27 balls, victory sealed horde of Vikings on a spot Peacock adds that this Here, certainly, the Rockets early wickets of Dawid whacks. But from the with almost a third of the of light pillaging."To be fair out from sport after the Rio since I stepped off the track message is probably not had few answers to the Malan and Alex Hales, moment he was caught by innings unbowled. Their most of it is to do with Games, says that the step in 2017, life for me has been one his agents would want Brave's classic, time- swiftly followed up by that Overton on the boundary final against the Birmingham lockdown," Peacock says. "I away has given him a sense about enjoyment. I'm very to hear. That's a little honoured formula: wickets of Darcy Short caught at off Jordan, the Rockets Phoenix promises to be a wasn't planning on growing of perspective, that he has happy and content and I've reminder that his break with the new ball, clever midwicket. With Steven never remotely threatened fascinating, high- the hair again and I don't learned "just to do the realised that … I think Covid from competition allowed changes of pace in the middle Mullaney out-bowled by to get close to a whack- ammunition affair, assuming think my girlfriend ever things that make you has forced everyone to take him to become a poster and then whacking it to all Craig Overton, the Rockets proof score.Still, the the forecast rain holds off (if wanted me to do so … it's happy". It's an instinct that a different view on their life, boy for more than parts with the bat. And for all ended their Powerplay on spectacular implosion of the not, the teams would try just laziness. I've got to keep has only been reinforced by to have a different outlook. Parasport. He was the first the competition's many 31 for four, and in need of Birmingham women earlier again on Sunday). it while it's here."Any sense the pandemic."Don't get me For me that outlook is that disabled contestant on detractors, you can't argue some considerable in the day had underlined Ultimately, you feel, it will of the laid-back in Peacock's wrong, the competitor inside I'm very happy at home and Strictly Come Dancing, with the whacking. whacking to turn the game one of the truisms of the come down to who can looks might just be reflective me is coming for those that's what is important."I eliminated in week nine of Presumably this is what in their favour.Instead, format. Namely: it ain't set execute their whacks most of other changes too. The bonuses, I want more gold don't need to go and win 2017's series after a dance- analysts and pundits are what followed from the of five balls, until it's set of successfully on the day. 28-year-old, who took time medals," he says. "But ever another gold medal for my off against Debbie McGee. Tash Farrant exploits Phoenix batting to send Invincibles into Hundred final their last eight wickets falling for 28 runs precipitated Birmingham's and even after Capsey Farrant, whose acrobatic began to panic, one could in a flurry of desperate hitting, scrambled collapse."We knew if we got perished with nine balls catch to pluck out Burns's sense Oval beginning to tactics and superb fielding.Set 115 to a few wickets that we were remaining a late smash from lofted drive will surely be turn up the heat. Van win, Birmingham reached a largely into the tail," Farrant said Grace Gibbs lifted Oval to remembered as one of the Niekerk decided to bowl untroubled 66 for two off 49 balls, at afterwards. "We've bowled 114 for seven: a little below moments of the tournament. 10 balls in a row and was which point the game took a sharp tilt. really well all tournament and par but a testing little chase Now 25 and having rebuilt rewarded with the wicket Erin Burns and Amy Jones were that's paid off today."But in nonetheless.Certainly 114 her career after losing her of Marie Kelly. Farrant dismissed off successive deliveries and, reality Oval's win was very felt a little light once Jones England contract in 2019, reeled in Gwenan Davies even though the required rate was still much a collective effort, and Burns got going. The Farrant is a smarter and more with another slower ball, only around a run a ball, the lack of big- spearheaded by Marizanne dangerous Eve Jones had streetwise cricketer these before returning to mop game experience in their middle order Kapp with bat and ball and feathered a catch behind first days, back in the England up the tail.And so to an quickly became a problem. The last gilded by some terrific ball but her namesake wasted set-up and with a better idea enthralling final. The boundary of their innings came off the clutch catching by Dane no time in asserting herself, of how to influence games. Brave have been the best 66th ball, after which Oval's bowlers van Niekerk and Alice with a classy square drive to After she caught Burns the team of the tournament expertly tightened the screw.Tash Capsey off their own get off the mark and a very next ball she snared by some distance and Farrant deservedly took the player of bowling. It was Kapp and powerful pull for four over Jones with a slower ball to will start as strong London, August 21 : In front of a afternoon. But it would be just as the match award. Her four for 10 off 19 Capsey who had hewed midwicket. She stepped join Kirstie Gordon and favourites, particularly boisterous home crowd Oval accurate to point out that Birmingham balls, claimed with an irresistible mixture Oval to a defendable total in across her stumps to sweep Sammy-Jo Johnson as the with their star-studded Invincibles triumphed in the Phoenix threw this game away: from of change-ups and slower balls, was the the first place. Their the pace of Shabnim Ismail tournament's leading wicket- batting line-up: Danni eliminator of the women's Hundred, a dominant position at the halfway best bowling analysis of the tournament. partnership of 54 from 44 and, with Burns in tow, the taker.There was more to Wyatt, Smriti setting up a tantalising final against stage of their chase, they were In addition it was her inspired diving balls undid some of the pair brought up the 50 come. As the balls began to Mandhana, Stafanie Southern Brave at Lord's on Saturday bowled out for 94 to lose by 20 runs, catch at mid-off to dismiss Burns that damage of a tentative start, partnership in 35 balls.Enter run out and Birmingham Taylor, Sophia Dunkley. k k y y m

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London, August 21 : ture. But with New Zealand before and there [was] no through social medial."NZ lieved that the WA govern- in lockdown due to rising mention that this was the in- Rugby didn't even have the ment was set to allow the All Wallabies coach Dave Covid cases and the uncer- tention," Marinos said in a respect to consult RA about Blacks into the state, pro- Rennie says he's "bloody an- tainty around the schedule, statement.He felt that discus- their decision, so that's vided they arrived seven days gry" at New Zealand Rugby's NZR pulled the pin. The sions between all parties, in- hugely disappointing. I'm not before the match and com- decision not to send the All Black Ferns' two Tests cluding the Western Austra- sure shocked is the right pleted "soft" quarantine, as Blacks to Perth as relations against the Wallaroos in New lia government, had been word, because I'm not interstate AFL teams cur- between the trans-Tasman Zealand have also been positive and they were "close surprised."Rennie was par- rently do.But NZR chief ex- rivals continue to unravel. canned as well the All Blacks' to finding a solution" with a ticularly upset given the way ecutive Mark Robinson said The Rugby Championship two home Tests against meeting scheduled with the Wallabies have bent over that they were not prepared fixture was thrown into chaos South Africa.Furious RA Sanzaar later for Friday. backwards over the past 15 to send the team to Perth with by NZR's announcement on boss Andy Marinos said they Rennie, who is a New months to accommodate the so much uncertainty around Friday, which Rugby Austra- were informed by the media Zealander, was filthy at the All Blacks. That included travel and scheduling, with lia called a "unilateral of the decision despite ongo- manner in which NZR had changing fixtures last year to Queensland and even Europe decision".The All Blacks ing discussions with his New gone about the whole ensure All Blacks players mooted as possible host lo- were initially scheduled to fly Zealand opposite Mark process."Bloody angry," would not have to quarantine cations for the Rugby to Perth on Sunday in prepa- Robinson."It's incredibly dis- Rennie said in the opening during Christmas."I just feel Championship.Robinson de- ration for the third Test at appointing to be informed of salvo of his press conference there's only one of us who are fended the last-minute deci- Optus Stadium on 28 August, this decision via the media, on Friday. "It's disappointing interested in doing what's sion not to send the All Blacks My allegation against TOPS is they directly which also doubled as a despite having a conversa- how it's been communicated. best for the game," Rennie to Perth."We certainly don't Rugby Championship fix- tion with the CEO moments Our boys all found out said. "We've all made sacri- accept this has been a unilat- fices to ensure that the games eral decision," Robinson said oversee training decisions: WFI's Brij Bhushan are played for the financial in response to RA's statement. Delhi, August 21 : tume'. She could have lost a against her. But IOC ke benefit of everyone and the "We have been communicat- medal had she won. This isn't saamne jo jaleel aur beijjat good of the game."If they're ing right through the week Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, a small incident. I had to beg hona pada… how could playing the welfare card, well with Sanzaar and Rugby Aus- the president of the Wres- and plead.This you can ask she wear a different cos- our NSW guys haven't been tralia and made very clear to tling Federation of India (assistant secretary Vinod) tume? She is senior home for eight weeks already them the risks and concerns (WFI), said he wants to Tomar ji [Tomar: "We had enough to understand there with no clear end in sight ei- we had."So while we under- make an example of wres- one chief coach and common is a proper costume for ev- ther, with the likelihood that stand the emotion coming out tler Vinesh Phogat, who was freestyle coaches for both ery tournament. We have to guys won't get home until late of by the sounds of it ... we served a show-cause for al- teams."] And if you are com- look at other wrestlers too. November."NZ's attitude to are really comfortable with legedly refusing to stay with ing to the issue of Vinesh not India's wrestling isn't de- not honouring their commit- communication, the rationale the Indian team at the Tokyo having her personal physio at pendent on one wrestler. ment is really disappointing. that we've put in behind the Olympics and not wearing the Olympics, she did not tell We have to make sure no It's all about them and with- decision and very comfort- the team's official uniform the federation who her physio one makes such mistakes in out any concept of what it's able with the fact that we're for her bouts.Singh also de- was. How are we supposed to the future.READ | Vinesh doing over here."It is be- standing behind their people." manded a bigger say in the know unless she tells us?It has Phogat breaks silence, says planning for the Paris Olym- never happened that Vinesh everyone outside is treating pics while accusing the Tar- approached the federation. me like I am a dead thing… Lexi Thompson finds form at get Olympic Podium This is my allegation against One medal (lost) and ev- Scheme as well as private TOPS. They are directly over- erything is finishedBut bodies like the Olympic seeing issues like where the then, WFI too has made Gold Quest and JSW Sports athlete should go for mistakes in the past.What Women's Open with borrowed caddie for sidelining the federation. training.If it was our plan then mistake has the WFI made? Excerpts from an interview: I could have sent my whole WFI has never made a mis- bers and whether to hit it left a quick redemption tale for the "Thompson's older brother, halfway point. Hall is seeking London, August 21 : We have referred it to our team. Bajrang and Vinesh take in life. No one can or right of the pin and he has exuberant Thompson."I don't Curtis, earned PGA Tour sta- a second women's open tri- disciplinary committee, were two very senior wres- point out even one mistake been spot on."It would be in- feel like I have any point to tus just days ago via the Korn umph, three years after lifting which will call Vinesh, tlers. Their ranking was first- we have ever made.One It doesn't seem to have been triguing, in fact, if Thompson prove," Thompson said. "I Ferry Tour. "He has worked the trophy at Royal Lytham & Sonam and Divya Kakran. class going into the Olympics. example is during the much of a hardship for Paul wanted this temporary ar- feel like I've done that already extremely hard and gone St Annes. "There's a lot of golf It's easy to say 'I've made They thought a certain plan Olympic qualifier earlier Drummond to take a week off rangement to become perma- in my career. I don't think I through slumps as well," she to play but I'm happy with mistake'. But what made you was better for their future so this year. The women's from his family's car sales

k nent. The prospect has not really, honestly have to prove said. "Just the last few years where I am," said Hall after commit that mistake, and they told TOPS, who then told team reached hours before k y business in Carnoustie. been completely ruled out."I anything out here. Things like between the workouts and her 69. "I have a bit more ex- why? These are senior wres- us. About planning, the fed- their bout, had to cut weight y m Drummond, a 31-year-old m

c was prepared to get a bag for the US Open happen but I practice and working with his perience now [versus 2018] tlers. Vinesh has replied eration had held just one na- at an airport terminal, c plus-two handicap who cad- the week if needed, but I cer- played some great golf the coach, it has paid off. I think and there's a few shots here through her lawyer and said tional camp for women wres- couldn't sleep, couldn't dies at the championship links tainly never expected it to be whole week."Golf is such a he'll do so good out there and and there which I might have she did not stay with the In- tlers since April.That's a dif- eat…There was another in his spare time, finds him- Lexi Thompson," crazy, up-and-down game. he's just in a good head space. hit back then which I don't do dian team for the betterment ferent topic. Between April instance a few years ago self on the bag for Lexi Th- Drummond said. "There is no You just have to take the He's the most talented out of now. Apart from that I'm fairly of the other wrestlers so that and July, there was just one where in a qualifier for the ompson at the Women's real plan. I have a business downs and go with a positive us all and we're very proud of similar. I handle the pressure they don't get exposed to the national camp for women that Rio Olympics, a physio had Open. The spontaneous alli- here in Carnoustie just now attitude going into the next him."Thompson finds herself better. I just feel in my head, virus. Okay, maybe it was lasted for less than two to compete in a bout be- ance is working a treat thus and do a bit of caddying on one and don't let it compound. two shy of Georgia Hall at the I'm more stable." Mina for others' good. But then weeks.I don't remember ex- cause India did not have far; Thompson added a 70 to the side, so we'll just see how Harigae's 67 meant she why didn't she wear the cos- actly. Anshu (Malik) went to enough representatives. I Thursday's 69 to ease into it goes."On the greens is matched Hall's aggregate. tume? Because of that mis- some country for training af- don't have enough docu- contention on the Angus where I have probably helped Brooke Henderson lurks with take, she has to know what ter national camp, Poland I ments during this time. But coast. Drummond, in the most. If you've played here menace at four under with all I had to undergo, what think and after that either Rus- if WFI is making mistakes, branded gear, looks every bit that often, you know the Leona Maguire, Yuka Saso happened to me.After sia or Belarus. I had sent the then you should know that the tour caddie. Thompson's greens like the back of your and Yealimi Noh among those Deepak Punia's incident entire team. Vinesh was train- every other federation in regular looper, Jack Fulghum, hand. I just pass on that to join Thompson as one happened, when his coach ing in Hungary before that. I the country is making 10 was unwell amid severe heat knowledge. So I'm reading the stroke better off. Lizette Salas beat up one official, I had don't have any problem with times more mistakes.Yes, at the Olympics. It appears the greens and giving yardages, has Kim Sei-young for com- to appear before a commis- them training abroad but nei- they are needed. But what- partnership may have for- pretty much. "The broader pany at minus six.Sophia sion that had members from ther the India coach nor fed- ever programme they mally ended in any case. Th- Thompson story relates to a Popov, the defending cham- the United World Wrestling eration was taken into confi- make, chief coach and fed- ompson made contact with painful collapse at this year's pion, produced a painful and International Olympic dence. They took TOPS into eration should be taken into the Carnoustie caddie master US Women's Open. Thomp- double bogey at the 18th for a Committee. I had to ensure confidence. That Tomarji will confidence.We do not need last weekend, with son led the event after 54 three-over aggregate to trigger the team did not get de- tell you. [Tomar: He was there OGQ and JSW. They have Drummond duly recom- holes but stumbled to a clos- an early exit from Scotland. barred. I told them there has at the pre-departure camp in spoilt three wrestlers, I mended for the highest-pro- ing 75. Now 26, Thompson Popov will always have Royal never been a case where our Sonepat. Since there is no dif- won't name them. When file role of his "other" job. is yet to add to her maiden Troon. Laura Davies, who will wrestlers have flouted any ference in men's and women's the Indian government is Even the language barrier has major victory at the ANA In- turn 58 in October, produced rules and expressed regret freestyle wrestling, we had ready to spend on the ath- delivered no problems. "He spiration in 2014. Glory at a terrific performance to sail but they questioned me, common coaches for both letes, then why do we need speaks very slowly to me," Carnoustie, which over the into the closing 36 holes at 'how do you run the federa- teams and he was one of them? They can support said the Floridian Thompson weekend is likely to provide even par. Louise Duncan, the tion. Your wrestler isn't them.]I am not her enemy junior and cadet wrestlers of her Scottish assistant. "I'm a sterner test than has been the 21-year-old Scottish amateur, wearing the (official) cos- and I have nothing personal who actually need support. fully trusting him on his num- case up to now, would prove did likewise at three under.

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