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Maharashtra Assembly Cinema legend Dilip passes resolution asking Centre to remove ceiling on Kumar passes away caste-based quotas Mumbai Dilip Kumar, India's enduring film legend through the decades, died at a Mumbai hospital on Wednesday Read full story on page 2 after prolonged illness, his family and doctors treating him said. He was 98. The actor, known to generations Maharashtra government of film-goers as tragedy king' for his introduces three Bills to portrayal of the brooding, intense romantic in classics such as Mughal- counter Centre’s e-Azam and Devdas , is survived by farm laws his wife Saira Banu. Kumar, who embodied the best of India through his work and seven decades in public life, had been admitted to the Hinduja Hospital, a non-COVID-19 facility in Khar, since last Tuesday. He passed away due to Read full story on page 3 prolonged illness at 7.30 am, Dr Jalil Parkar, who had been treating Kumar, told media. leaders, the film fraternity and others Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said "With a heavy heart and profound to express their grief. Kumar's extraordinary contribution to 36 more join Modi grief, I announce the passing away of Dilip Kumar summarised in himself Indian cinema will be remembered for our beloved Dilip Saab, few minutes a history of emerging India. The generations to come. govt, 7 promoted ago. We are from God and to Him we thespian's charm transcended all Kumar, often known as the return," family friend Faisal Farooqui boundaries, and he was loved across Nehruvian hero, did his first film Jwar posted from the actor's Twitter handle the subcontinent Dilip Saab will Bhata in 1944 and his last Qila in 1998, at 8.01 am. live forever in the heart of India, the 54 years later. The five-decade career The Hindi cinema veteran, the last president said. included "Mughal-e-Azam", "Devdas", of the golden troika with Raj Kapoor The prime minister said "Naya Daur", and "Ram Aur Shyam", and Dev Anand, was admitted to Kumar would be remembered as a and later, as he graduated to character hospital last month following episodes cinematic legend. He was blessed roles, Kranti and Karma . of breathlessness. with unparalleled brilliance, due to Among the many who paid their Read full story on page 4 Kumar, born Yousuf Khan in which audiences across generations tributes to the actor, an inspiration for Peshawar on December 11, 1922, were enthralled. His passing away generations of actors to follow, was was diagnosed with bilateral pleural is a loss to our cultural world. Subhash Ghai, who worked with him I will make a strong effusion, a build-up of excess fluid Condolences to his family, friends in "Karma" (1986) and "Saudagar" comeback - Hima between the layers of the pleura outside and innumerable admirers. RIP," (1991). the lungs, and underwent a successful Modi said on Twitter. "Dilip saheb Yusuf bhai gone. My pleural aspiration procedure. He was Amitabh Bachchan, who co-starred personal loss of my most precious idol. discharged after five days only to be with him in Shakti , send an institution No words," Ghai tweeted.. admitted to the hospital again. has gone. " whenever the history of "To the world many others may Condolence messages for the Indian cinema will be written, it shall be heroes. To us actors, he was The much loved star, whose death truly always be 'before Dilip Kumar and Hero. #DilipKumar Sir has taken an epitomised the end of an era, poured after Dilip Kumar. My duas (prayer) entire era of Indian cinema away with in from all quarters with President for peace of his soul and the strength him.My thoughts and prayers are with Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister to the family to bear this loss... Deeply his family. Om Shanti," actor Akshay Read full story on page 22 Narendra Modi joining political saddened." Kumar tweeted. 2 Mumbai, Thursday 08-14 July 2021 City / Local Across State BJP workers protest against Governor Discontinues suspension of MLAs Monsoon Session Of Mumbai Maharashtra Assembly BJP workers on Tuesday staged Mumbai state. protests across the state against the Maharashtra On Monday, the suspension of the party's 12 MLAs Governor Bhagat Singh opening day of the from the Assembly, while its leaders Koshyari discontinued two-day monsoon held a "parallel session" on the the monsoon session of session witnessed high premises of the legislature to oppose the state Legislature on drama as 12 BJP MLAs the action. Tuesday. were suspended from In Pune, city BJP chief Jagdish State Legislative the Assembly for one Mulik said it was a murder of Assembly's Deputy year after the state democracy. "On the first day of the Speaker Narhari Zirwal government accused monsoon session, when BJP was read out the order of them of "misbehaving" trying to voice the concerns of OBCs prorogation of the with presiding officer and trying to get political reservation Marathas (in jobs and education) and The ruling Shiv Sena-NCP- session, which began on Bhaskar Jadhav in the for them, the Maha Vikas Aghadi OBC communities in the local body Congress coalition's legislators Monday. Speaker's chamber. (MVA) suspended our 12 MLAs. elections are restored," Bawankule objected to their use of loudspeakers. The winter session of Leader of Opposition It is a murder of democracy, this said. Security personnel then stopped BJP the Legislature will begin Devendra Fadnavis had is a Mughal rule," he said during a A similar protest was held by leaders from using loudspeakers. from December 7 in termed the allegation as demonstration. BJP workers in front of the District Twelve BJP MLAs were on Nagpur, Mr Zirwal said. false and said that Mr Workers of the Bhartiya Janta Collector's office in Latur. Monday suspended from the During the two- Jadhav's account of the Yuva Morcha (BJYM) and BJP A protest was also held at the Assembly for one year after the day session, the state incident was "one-sided". staged demonstrations in Nagpur collector's office in Aurangabad. state government accused them of Legislature passed two On Tuesday, city. Protesters, led by former energy "The BJP has exposed the present "misbehaving" with presiding officer crucial resolutions, legislators of the minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule, government on the issues of OBCs Bhaskar Jadhav in the Speaker's seeking removal of the opposition BJP held raised slogans against the MVA losing political reservation in local chamber. Supreme Court-set 50 per a ''parallel session'' government at Badkas Square and bodies and Marathas being deprived Leader of Opposition in the cent cap on caste-based outside the House in the demanded that the suspension be of quota in jobs and education," said a Assembly Devendra Fadnavis termed reservations in jobs and Legislature premises as withdrawn. local leader. The opposition party also the allegation as false and said education, and asking a mark of protest against "The BJP will keep protesting held a "parallel session" in protest of Jadhav's account of the incident was the Centre to provide the the suspension of its 12 across the state till the reservation to the action on the legislature premises. "one-sided. 2011 Census data to the MLAs.

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threeMumbai Billssuggestions to andcounter objections are—Essential session Centre's of the legislature in Nagpur (held farmunless he has a valid laws licence from the The Shiv Sena-led MVA government Commodities (Amendment), Farmers in December), he said. competent authority, Patil said. in Maharashtra on Tuesday introduced (Empowerment and Protection), Guarantee Agriculture Minister Dada Bhuse said In any dispute arising out of a three amendment Bills in the assembly Price; Agriculture Related Agreements farming agreements (between traders and transaction between a farmer and a trader, related to agriculture, co-operation, food (Maharashtra Amendment) and farmers) will be considered invalid if the parties may seek a solution by filing an and civil supplies, in a move to counter the Amendments to Central price of agri produce being offered is not application to the competent authority and new farm laws enacted by the Centre that Government more than the MSP (minimum support an appeal against the order of competent are facing stiff opposition from a section Farmer price). authority to the appellate authority, he of cultivators. If the farmer is not paid in seven days said. The Bills have provisions for higher of sale of his produce, a criminal offence For harassment of farmers punishment than MSP rate for produce in farming can be lodged against the trader and is not less than three years imprisonment agreement with traders, timely payment punishments include three year in jail and fine of not less than Rs 5 lakh or both, of dues, three-year jail term and Rs 5 lakh and Rs 5 lakh penalty, Bhuse said. he said. fine or both for harassment of farmers. Co-operation minister Food and civil supplies minister They also have provisions to give power Balasaheb Patil said under the Chhagan Bhujbal said in the Essential to the state government to regulate and central acts, there is no control Commodities Act, 1955—which has prohibit production, supply, distribution over trader in case been amended by the Centre—there is and impose stock limits on essential of a default in no provision for the state government to commodities. payment to farmer regulate or prohibit production, supply, Revenue Minister Balasaheb Thorat Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion after sale of agriculture produce. distribution, imposing stock limits under said the central farm acts were passed and Facilitation). To ensure farmers get remunerative extraordinary circumstances which may without discussion and several of their The draft Bills have been prepared by price for their agriculture produce within include famine, price rise or natural provisions encroach on rights of state a cabinet sub-committee headed by deputy time and to protect their interests, the calamity. governments. chief minister Ajit Pawar. state government has decided to amend He said the state government proposes "The state government has right Pawar said the draft Bills will be in the Centre's Farmers Produce Trade and to amend the act in its application to to make laws and we want to suggest the public domain for two months during Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Maharashtra and assume power to amendments to the central agriculture laws which all stakeholders can hold discussions Act in its application to Maharashtra, regulate and prohibit production, supply, which we feel are anti-farmer," he said. and debates on their provisions. Patil said. distribution and impose stock limits. The Bills that have been placed The Bills will be taken up for The draft bill proposes that no trader in public domain for two months for discussion and passage during the winter shall trade in any scheduled agri produce MP Sanjay Raut justifies suspension "Not Going Anywhere" of 12 Maharashtra BJP MLAs Uddhav Thackeray Trashes Mumbai not Maharashtra's culture." A day after 12 BJP MLAs were suspended Meanwhile, the BJP held protests in Talks Of Patch-Up With BJP from the Maharashtra Assembly for alleged different parts of the state, condemning the misbehaviour, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut said MVA government's action against the opposition Mumbai it is like them. Our (Shiv Sena, BJP) indiscipline could not be tolerated, even as the party's MLAs. Maharashtra Chief Minister political ways are different but the opposition party held protests in the Vidhan Several BJP legislators squatted on the stairs Uddhav Thackeray today scotched friendship will remain intact," the Bhavan complex here and other parts of the state of the Vidhan Bhavan building in Mumbai and speculation about his party's possible Shiv Sena MP and spokesperson over the action. shouted slogans against the Uddhav Thackeray- alliance with the BJP with a witty told media. Thackeray's assertion Talking to reporters here on Tuesday, Raut led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA-comprising the repartee. Asked about the matter, he came days after the BJP's Devendra said, "Never before the state legislature witnessed Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress) government. told journalists, "I am still sitting Fadnavis declared the Shiv Sena such indiscipline." The 12 MLAs against whom the action was with Ajit Pawar and Balasaheb was "never" an "enemy". Asked The opening day of the state legislature's two- taken were not seen as they are not allowed Thorat. I am not going anywhere". whether there is a possibility of the day monsoon session on Monday witnessed high to enter the legislature building during the Later, he jocularly added, "Yes, two former allies coming together, drama as 12 BJP MLAs were suspended from the suspension period. after I am done speaking with you, Mr Fadnavis said "there are no Assembly for one year after the state government The 12 suspended members are Sanjay I will be going to meet the BJP". ifs and buts in politics" and an accused them of "misbehaving" with presiding Kute, Ashish Shelar, Abhimanyu Pawar, Girish His remark appeared to put "appropriate decision" will be officer Bhaskar Jadhav in the Speaker's chamber. Mahajan, Atul Bhatkhalkar, Parag Alavani, out of court party MP Sanjay taken in view of the situation. The Leader of Opposition in the Assembly Harish Pimpale, Yogesh Sagar, Jay Kumar Raut's comparison of the BJP- statements of Sena and BJP leaders Devendra Fadnavis had termed the allegation as Rawat, Narayan Kuche, Ram Satpute and Bunty Shiv Sena relationship to Aamir -- amid tension in the ruling alliance false and said Jadhav's account of the incident Bhangdia. Khan and Kiran Rao, who recently -- have kept alive speculation about was "one-sided". On Monday, these 12 MLAs met Governor announced their divorce but said a possible rapprochement that was On Tuesday, Raut said, "Indiscipline cannot be Bhagat Singh Koshyari, seeking his intervention, their relationship had "changed". triggered by a one-on-one meeting tolerated. Breaking the Speaker's mike and using and complained against the MVA government for "We are not India-Pakistan. between Mr Thackeray and Prime abusive language against the presiding officer is "trampling upon the democracy". Look at Aamir Khan and Kiran Rao, Minister Narendra Modi. 4 Mumbai, Thursday 08-14 July 2021 National News Across State 36 more join Modi govt, 7 promoted

New Delhi the breakaway group of the LJP Pashupati Those in the know of developments Covid pandemic, perceptions, and state Prime Minister Narendra Modi today Kumar Paras. Apna Dal MP Anupriya say “talent and administrative experience elections. effected a major reshuffle and expansion of Patel, a prominent Kurmi face from UP, have been rewarded”. The Modi-Shah Sources say the PM today asked his Council, inducting seven ministers of was inducted as Minister of State. stamp is visible and a whole lot of planning the new ministers to work with better state into the Cabinet, adding 36 new faces Those inducted also include New and arithmetic has gone into the exercise, coordination with the BJP and “let their and dropping 12 senior ministers. Those Delhi MP Meenakshi Lekhi and Nainital- taking into consideration a host of issues work speak for them”. inducted today included Maharashtra Udham Singh Nagar MP Ajay Bhatt, both ranging from the challenges amid the strongman Narayan Rane, the first among ministers of state the 43 new ministers to be administered Meanwhile, those who resigned to Portfolios of newly inducted Bisheshwar Tudu: Tribal Affairs, Jal the oath of office by President Ram Nath make way for them are Cabinet ministers Ministers of State Shakti Kovind at a ceremony in the iconic Darbar Thawar Chand Gehlot (now the Karnataka Shantanu Thakur: Ports, Shipping Hall of the Rashtrapati Bhawan. Governor), Ravi Shankar Prasad, Prakash Pankaj Choudhary: Finance M Mahendrabhai: Women & Child Rane was followed by Assam ex- Javadekar, Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, Anupriya Patel: Commerce, Industry Development, Ayush CM Sarbananda Sonowal, seven-time Harsh Vardhan, DV Sadananda Gowda SPS Baghel: Law and Justice John Barla: Minority Affairs Tikamgarh (Madhya Pradesh) MP Virendra and ministers of state Santosh Kumar Rajiv Chandrashekhar: Skill L Murugan: Fisheries, Dairy, Singh, and RS MP Jyotiraditya Scindia, Gangwar, Babul Supriyo, Dhotre Sanjay Development, IT Information & Broadcasting who jumped ship from the Congress Shamrao, Rattan Lal Kataria, Pratap Shobha Karandlaje: Agriculture, Nisith Pramanik: Home, Youth Affairs, last year, taking down the Kamal Nath Chandra Sarangi and Debasree Chaudhuri. Farmers Welfare Sports government in MP. The names of Rane, With an eye on the upcoming Assembly Bhanu Verma: MSME 2 MoS (Ind charge) Sonowal and Scindia had been doing the elections and 2024 General Election, the Darshana Jardosh: Textiles rounds for long as the topmost ‘probables’ new ministers include seven from poll- Meenakshi Lekhi: Ministry of External Rao Inderjit Singh gets Statistics and in the reshuffle. bound Uttar Pradesh, four from Karnataka, Affairs, Culture Programme Implementation, Planning; Ministers of state, including Kiren and four from West Bengal. The mid-term Annapurna Devi: Education Jitendra Singh given Science and Rijiju, a prominent face from the Northeast, course correction saw several surprise A Narayanswamy: Social Justice and Technology, Earth Sciences. He retains bureaucrats RK Singh and Hardeep Puri, entries. It is a young Council with 14 Empowerment PMO, Personnel Gujarat MPs Mansukh Mandaviya and ministers below the age of 50. Kaushal Kishore: Housing, Urban Purushottam Rupala, Secunderabad With Gujarat Assembly elections less Development; Two from allies make it to Cabinet representative G Kishan Reddy, who is than a year away, the renewed Cabinet Ajay Bhatt: Defence, Tourism The 15 new Cabinet ministers include considered close to Home Minister Amit now has seven ministers from the state. BL Verma: NE Development and two from the alliance partners — national Shah, and Hamirpur MP Anurag Thakur They include Home Minister Amit Shah Cooperation president of the JD-U Ram Chandra were rewarded for their performance and and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, Ajay Kumar: Home Prasad Singh and leader of the breakaway promoted to the Cabinet rank. who represents Gujarat in the Rajya Sabha. Devusinh Chauhan: Communications group of the LJP Pashupati Kumar Paras. The other new faces in the Cabinet The average age of the Council of Bhagwant Khuba: New and Renewable included former bureaucrat and Rajya Ministers with six doctors, 13 lawyers, Energy, Chemicals, Fertilisers Rijiju, Puri, Anurag among elevated Sabha MP Ashwani Vaishnav and his seven former bureaucrats, and five Kapil Patil: Panchayati Raj Those promoted to Cabinet rank colleague in the Upper House, Bhupendra engineers is said to be 58 years. Pratima Bhoumik: Social Justice and include MoS Kiren Rijiju, prominent face Yadav. Also seen as Home Minister With as many as 27, 12 and 8 ministers Empowerment from the Northeast, and bureaucrats RK Shah’s right-hand man, Yadav is a lawyer from the OBC, SC and ST categories, Subhas Sarkar: Education Singh and Hardeep Puri. by profession and at the top in the BJP’s respectively, the Prime Minister today tried Bhagwat Karad: Finance Gujarat MPs Mansukh Mandaviya scheme of things. The 15 new Cabinet to give a new dimension to the BJP which Rajkumar Ranjan Singh: MEA, and Purushottam Rupala, Secunderabad ministers included two from the alliance is known for its upper-caste credentials Education representative G Kishan Reddy and partners — national president of the JD-U while balancing experience with freshness Bharati Pawar: Health Hamirpur MP Anurag have also been Ram Chandra Prasad Singh and leader of and talent. Across State National Mumbai, Thursday 08-14 July 2021 5

Chirag urges PM not to induct Paras in CBSE to conduct surprise inspection at union cabinet as LJP member; schools preparing results for Classes 10, 12 says will go to court otherwise

to the schools and only sudden inspection is carried out. For completing this responsibility, it is necessary that all the officials involved in this work get themselves fully accustomed to the tabulation policy of the board," he added. The board has directed that the schools may Patna in the NDA coalition. be inspected in such a Amid reports of his LJP had won six seats manner that at least each uncle Pashupati Kumar in the 2019 election as category of schools-- Paras getting a berth in the NDA member. private, government, union cabinet expansion, Though left alone, KVS (Kendriya Vidyalaya Chirag Paswan on Tuesday Chirag whom Paswas Samiti) and NVS warned Prime Minister senior had projected as (Navodaya Vidyalaya Narendra Modi against his political heir apparent Samiti) -- is covered. inducting his uncle in the claims right over the party "A point-wise report cabinet on LJP quota. founded by his father in New Delhi the aggressive second wave of the regional offices to may be prepared of each He said Paras or 2000. The Central Board of Covid -19, schools have verify the work done by school by the official somebody else siding with Chirag, who is locked of Secondary Education been tasked with tabulation the schools under their concerned. The official him can be made a minister in a tussle with the Paras- (CBSE) has directed its of results using separate jurisdiction," CBSE visiting the school will as an Independent, but not led faction, said they have regional offices to conduct alternative assessment Examination Controller also sign on documents as a member of the LJP already informed the a surprise inspection at policy announced by the Sanyam Bhardwaj said in inspected especially with which they are no Election Commission of schools preparing Class CBSE for the two classes. a letter to regional offices. rationale documents. longer associated. India that his uncle and 10 and 12 results to ensure "To ensure that "In order to have actual "A complete report Sources in the political other ousted party MPs— the assessment policy policy issued by CBSE is information of the result duly signed by officials circles here said Paras, Prince Raj (cousin), issued by it is implemented implemented effectively, work of the schools, it along with the soft copy younger brother of Dalit Chandan Singh, Veena effectively. it has been decided that may be ensured that while of the documents be sent leader Ram Vilas Paswan Devi and Mehboob Ali With the board exams schools be immediately visiting the schools, no to the board by July 12," and currently MP from Keshar- are no longer LJP being cancelled in view of visited by the officials prior intimation be given he added. Hajipur, has rushed to members. On Monday, the national capital after both the factions celebrated getting a telephone call Ram Vilas Paswan’s birth reportedly about his entry anniversary. Delhi govt launches financial assistance in the Modi cabinet. While Chirag launched “It's prerogative of the “Ashirwad Yatra” from his Prime Minister to include father’s political bastion scheme for families of Covid victims anybody in his cabinet. But, Hajipur on the occasion, New Delhi breadwinner. In such a case, being unhappy, encourage them," Kejriwal neither my uncle Pashupati Paras paid respect to the Delhi Chief Minister Arvind a responsible government, we said. Kumar Paras nor other departed leader at LJP’s Kejriwal on Tuesday launched a conceptualised this scheme," he said. "We have to ensure that we MPs, who are no longer state headquarters here. scheme and an online portal to provide "We are launching a portal provide financial assistance to such associated with the party Accusing Bihar Chief financial assistance to families who through which such people can families as soon as possible," he founded by my father, Minister Nitish Kumar of lost their loved ones to Covid and apply for financial assistance. Our added. should be inducted into breaking his party, Chirag asked officials not to find faults in representatives will also visit such The Delhi government's the union cabinet from the said, “During the Bihar their claim applications. families and get applications filled Department of Social Welfare had LJP quota. elections, even before Under the 'Mukhyamantri Covid up," he added. notified the 'Mukhyamantri Covid “If my uncle is inducted that, there was a constant Pariwar Aarthik Sahayata Yojana', Rs The chief minister said such Pariwar Aarthik Sahayata Yojana' in the union cabinet from attempt by Kumar to break 50,000 ex gratia will be given to every representatives would not reject on June 22. the LJP quota or as an our party. Kumar made family that lost a member to Covid claims of families in case any The notification stated, "The LJP member, we will go similar attempts even when and an additional Rs 2,500 per month document is missing and would only government will also consider to court,” the 38- year-old my father was hospitalised. will be given if the deceased was the facilitate the process. a single member of the affected Jamui MP told reporters. “My father had told the sole breadwinner. "I want to tell all such family to be enrolled as a civil “I have no objection if party leaders, including my Addressing a virtual press representatives not to conduct defence volunteer. Besides, the state he (Paras) is made minister uncle (Pashupati Kumar conference, Kejriwal said the "fourth scrutiny of applications. If the affirms to look after the health and as an Independent”, he said. Paras) about the same”. wave" of Covid in Delhi affected families lack any document, we education needs of the dependent Lok Janshakti Party has The actor-turned- almost every family and many people will help them obtain it. We have children as per existing policy." split with Paras enjoying politician asserted that he died. to make sure that we make this There is no income criterion to support of all the MPs will continue to fight for the "Many children were orphaned, happen. Don't find faults with apply for financial assistance under except for Chirag claming cause of the party founded many families lost their sole their documents...don't make them the scheme. to be the real LJP, a partner by his father. color

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Sonia Gandhi, other opposition leaders write to Cumulative Covid vaccine President over Stan Swamy's death 'under custody' doses administered in India New Delhi writing to you in deep anguish even a sipper to drink liquids Leaders of 10 opposition expressing our intense grief and was made available to him in parties including Congress chief outrage at the death of Father jail. The numerous appeals made cross 36 crore: Health Ministry Sonia Gandhi Tuesday wrote Stan Swamy under custody," the to shift him out of the over- to President Ram Nath Kovind opposition leaders said in their crowded Taloja jail that had seen expressing "outrage" at the joint letter. a huge rise in Covid cases went death of Father Stan Swamy "We are urging your unheeded. "His appeals for bail "under custody", and seeking immediate intervention as the and being sent home too were his intervention in holding President of India to direct your rejected. Thanks to the Bombay accountable those responsible government to act against those High Court's intervention for "foisting false cases" on the responsible for foisting false he was admitted to a private activist, his continued detention cases on him, his continued hospital when his condition and "inhuman treatment". detention in jail and inhuman started deteriorating after he was The signatories also include treatment," they said. infected with Covid. But it was NCP chief Sharad Pawar, former "They must be held too late to prevent his death in New Delhi territories have received their prime minister and JDS leader accountable. It is now incumbent custody," they also claimed in The cumulative Covid-19 first dose and 30,42,302 have H D Deve Gowda and National that all those jailed in the Bhima their letter. vaccine doses administered in the received their second dose since Conference leader Farooq Koregaon case and other detenues Dr Ian D'souza, director of country has crossed the landmark the start of the third phase of the Abdullah. under politically motivated cases, the Bandra-based private Holy of 36 crore, the Union health vaccination drive. West Bengal Chief Minister misusing draconian laws like Family Hospital, where Swamy ministry said on Tuesday. Eight states—Uttar Pradesh, Mamata Banerjee (TMC), Tamil UAPA, Sedition etc, be released was undergoing treatment, and The new phase of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Nadu CM MK Stalin (DMK) forthwith," they said. the tribal rights activist's lawyer universalisation of Covid-19 Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Gujarat, and his Jharkhand counterpart The leaders said the activist Mihir Desai on Monday informed vaccination commenced on Karnataka, and Maharashtra have Hemant Soren (JMM) have also who championed the rights and a bench of the Bombay High June 21. More than 32.40 lakh administered more than 50 lakh signed the letter, besides D Raja causes of the adivasis in far flung Court of his death following (32,40,007) vaccine doses have first doses of Covid-19 vaccine in (CPI), Sitaram Yechury (CPI-M) areas of Jharkhand was jailed last cardiac arrest been administered on Tuesday, the age group 18-44 years. and Tejashwi Yadav (RJD). October on "trumped-up" charges In a tweet, Yechury said according to the 7 pm provisional Also, Andhra Pradesh, The 84-year-old priest-activist under the draconian Unlawful on Tuesday, "Leaders of report. Assam, Chhattisgarh, Stan Swamy, arrested under Activities (Prevention) Act and major opposition parties urge The ministry said 16,00,825 Delhi, Haryana, Jharkhand, the anti-terror law Unlawful was sought to be linked with the intervention of President of vaccine doses were administered Kerala, Telangana, Himachal Activities (Prevention) Act in Bhima Koregaon case. India to hold accountable those as first dose and 1,09,913 vaccine Pradesh, Odisha, Punjab, the Elgar Parishad case, died at They have also alleged that responsible for the detention, doses given as the second dose Uttarakhand, and West Bengal a Mumbai hospital Monday in he was denied treatment for his inhuman treatment and death in the age group 18-44 years on have vaccinated over 10 lakh the middle of his fight for bail on various ailments including the of Fr Stan Swamy. Release all Tuesday. beneficiaries of the age group health grounds. debilitating Parkinson's disease. detenues detained by misusing Cumulatively, 10,45,24,240 18-44 years for the first dose of "We the undersigned leaders "Only after a nationwide UAPA/Sedition etc., on politically persons in the age group 18-44 Covid-19 vaccine, the ministry of major opposition parties are campaign was conducted that motivated charges. years across states and union said.

Over 1.66 crore unutilised Union home secretary reviews Govt creates ministry Covid vaccine doses security situation in JK of cooperation to boost available with states, New Delhi Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla on Tuesday cooperative movement private hospitals: Centre reviewed the security situation in Jammu and Kashmir, New Delhi nearly a fortnight after a drone attack on an air force The government on Tuesday created a Ministry of Cooperation New Delhi station in Jammu, officials said. A team of Jammu and to boost the Indian cooperative movement and give a fillip to More than 1.66 crore unutilised Kashmir Police, led by Director General Dilbag Singh, indigenous enterprise. Covid vaccine doses are still available briefed the home secretary about the prevailing situation India's first minister of cooperation will also be sworn in on with the states, UTs and private hospitals in the union territory and the steps taken to strengthen Wednesday once the Union Cabinet reshuffle takes place and the to be administered, the Union Health the security. Bhalla took stock of the situation in Jammu new ministers take the oath of office at the Durbar Hall in President Ministry said on Tuesday. Over 37.07 and Kashmir, an official said. He especially reviewed the House. crore vaccine doses have been provided to measures taken to foil any future attempt of drone attack. Sources said the new ministry of Cooperation will work to realise states and UTs so far through all sources The ongoing counter terror operations, radicalisation the vision of "Sahkar se Samriddhi" and will provide a separate and a further 23,80,000 doses are in the inside jails in the union territory were other issues which administrative, legal and policy framework to boost the cooperative pipeline.Of this, the total consumption figured in the meeting, the official said. In what was the movement in the country. including wastage is 35,40,60,197 first instance of Pakistan-based terrorists deploying drones "The development will aid the deeping of the cooperatives as true doses, the ministry said. The Centre is to strike vital installations, two bombs were dropped at the people based movements with benefits going down to the grassroots. committed to accelerating the pace and IAF station in Jammu in the early hours of June 27, causing The ministry will be mandated to streamline the processes for expanding the scope of Covid vaccination minor injuries to two airmen. The explosions took place the ease of doing business for cooperatives and ultimately aim throughout the country. The new phase around 1.40 am within six minutes of each other. The first to broaden and strengthen the multi state cooperatives," said top of universalisation of Covid vaccination blast ripped off the roof of a single-storey building at the government sources. commenced on June 21 technical area of the airport manned by the IAF in Satwari area on the outskirts of the city. color

Across State News Mumbai, Thursday 08-14 July 2021 7 Dalai Lama turns 86, says committed to reviving ancient Indian knowledge Dharamshala you that for the rest of my life I The Dalai Lama urged people On his 86th birthday on Tuesday, am committed to reviving ancient to practice non-violence and be the Dalai Lama said he has taken full Indian knowledge, said the Dalai compassionate towards each other. advantage of India's freedom and Lama, whose real name is Tenzin I am committed to non-violence religious harmony and is committed Gyatso. and compassion until my death. This to reviving ancient Indian knowledge. I really appreciate the Indian is my offering to my friends. All my In a virtual address from his concept of secular values, not brothers and sisters should keep these residence here, the Tibetan spiritual dependent on religion, such as two things in mind -- non-violence leader thanked people from across honesty, karuna (compassion) and and compassion... On my birthday, the globe who greeted him on his ahimsa (non-violence), he added. this is my gift, he said. birthday and said he would continue Now that it is my birthday, I want I am just one human being. to serve humanity and combat to express my deep appreciation to Many people really show they love climate change. all my friends who have really me. And many people actually love Since I became a refugee and shown love, respect and trust I can my smile. In spite of my old age, settled in India, I have taken full assure you that I am committed to my face is quite handsome. Many advantage of India's freedom and serving humanity and working to people really show me genuine religious harmony. I want to assure protect the climate, he said. friendship, he said.

Crowding at hill Mayawati claims UP Police attacked Dalits in stations scary, Azamgarh, demands action against cops Lucknow Dalit hamlet and damaged BSP supremo Mayawati the houses and looted says ICMR chief on Tuesday accused the them following which, Uttar Pradesh Police of the villagers fled, claimed committing atrocities on locals. Dalit families in Azamgarh On Monday, Congress and demanded strict action general secretary Priyanka against the guilty cops Gandhi Vadra too had and compensation for the accused the state police victims. of attacking Dalits in "It is shameful that Mayawati said in a tweet to police, there was a Azamgarh, and sought Azamgarh Police instead in Hindi. dispute between a doctor action against the accused of giving justice to the "Taking note of the and some people in Palia and adequate compensation victimised Dalits of Palia seriousness of this latest village under Raunapar for the victims. Meanwhile, village are committing incident of victimisation of Police Station area on June Superintendent of Police, atrocities on them and of Dalits by the oppressors 29 following which two Azamgarh, Sudhir Kumar causing financial losses. and the police, a delegation policemen intervened in Singh said a case has been The government should of BSP under the leadership the matter and they were registered against 11 named take immediate cognisance of former MLA Gaya allegedly attacked by the people and 135 unidentified of this incident and take Charan Dinkar will visit village pradhan and his people. He too claimed that strict action against the the village soon to meet aides. cops were attacked and culprits and compensate the victims," she said in On the same night, efforts are on to catch the New Delhi were “frightening”. He said the victims financially," another tweet. According police surrounded the accused. With daily Covid-19 there were still 73 districts cases falling to 34,703, the in 14 states, including government on Tuesday Himachal’s Kinnaur, where Gen Naravane discusses security challenges with UK Army brass flagged “frightening laxity” positivity rate was over 10 on part of the people and per cent. London and opportunities in the region”, ADG PI tweeted, sharing some said the timing and scale He advised Chief of Army Staff Gen MM Additional Directorate General of photographs of the meeting. On of the third wave would restrictions in these Naravane on Tuesday met General Public Information (ADGPI) of the Monday, Gen Naravane met UK’s depend on collective districts, some of which Sir Mark Carleton-Smith, Chief of Indian Army tweeted. Chief of Defence Staff Gen Sir behaviour. “are still in the middle General Staff of British Army, and Gen Naravane arrived here Nicholas Carter and exchanged views Reacting to pictures of of the second wave”. discussed issues of joint military on a two-day visit to the United on defence cooperation between overcrowded hill stations, The official data showed cooperation. Kingdom on July 5. “Gen Naravane the two countries. Gen Naravane shopping areas and other that 80 per cent new He also interacted with members #COAS called on General Sir Mark inspected the Guard of Honour public places, ICMR cases concentrated in of the Royal United Services Carleton-Smith, Chief of General provided by the Grenadier Guards on Director General Balram 90 districts, signalling Institute for Defence and Security Staff, #BritishArmy and discussed Horse Guards’ Parade Square as part Bhargava said the frames localised infection. Studies on the “security challenges issues of joint military cooperation,” of his welcome by the British Army. 8 Mumbai, Thursday 08-14 July 2021 National Across State TMC likely to conduct Govt has created 'mess': organisational reshuffle next week Tharoor on new IT portal New Delhi Kolkata are holding dual portfolios, Senior Congress leader Shashi The ruling TMC in West such as those of the district Tharoor on Tuesday attacked the Bengal is likely to carry out a president and state minister. Centre over the glitches in the major organisational reshuffle As per the one person, one post new Income Tax portal, alleging next week, probably before its theory, many district presidents that even after spending Rs 4,200 annual Martyrs Day rally on July are expected to be changed this crore on it, the government had 21, with the poll performance of time," a senior TMC leader "failed" to make it user-friendly various leaders and the theory of said. and created a "mess" instead. "one person, one post" to be the The TMC medical cell is also Tharoor, who is the deciding factor in the exercise, likely to witness major changes. president of the Congress' unit sources said. The TMC leadership recently comprising professionals, All The rejig is likely to take elevated MP and Chief Minister India Professionals' Congress, place at district levels with Mamata Banerjee's nephew said chartered accountants in the several district presidents, who Abhishek Banerjee as the partys unit have informed him that the are presently holding portfolios national general secretary and change of Income Tax Portal has even after spending Rs. 4,200 cr government said was aimed in the state cabinet, likely to face Kunal Ghosh as the state general been disastrous, with glitches on its renovation, the Govt has at making compliance more the axe. secretary. including longer than usual failed to attain the objective & taxpayer-friendly. "At the district level, state The Trinamool Congress logging time. created a mess instead," he said As the website continued to level, and frontal organisation, stormed back to power for the Almost all features of the new in a series of tweets. face glitches from the first day there are several vacancies as third consecutive time this May portal are non-operational, so This is a replay of the chaos of its launch, Finance Minister many had switched over to the by winning 213 of the 292 seats ITR (income tax return) filing, 15 with the GST portal, Tharoor Nirmala Sitharaman had asked BJP. And then, several leaders that had gone to the polls. CA/CB forms, data preparation added. Infosys -- the vendor who for appeals has ground to a halt, Noting that India has very developed the site -- to fix the the former Union minister said. few taxpayers per capita and a issues on priority. "Not clear why the "culture of tax evasion and black In a meeting with Infosys top Like Bofors, set up JPC for government chose to change the money", the Congress leader officials on June 15, Sitharaman income tax portal in June. Would said this must be the first time in had asked Infosys to address all Rafale deal: Digvijaya to PM have been wiser just before the history that Indian taxpayers who issues without further loss of Indore end of the Financial Year or want to pay their taxes are not time, improve their services, and Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Tuesday dared Prime the start of the next one, so that able to pay because the income redress grievances on priority Minister Narendra Modi to set up a Joint Parliamentary Committee taxpayers eligible for income-tax tax portal is not working. as it was impacting taxpayers (JPC) to probe the Rafale fighter jet deal, like the one which refund could have received help "Penalties should be imposed adversely. scrutinized the Bofors deal in the 1980s. The Rajya Sabha member in these difficult times," Tharoor and heads roll," Tharoor said. Infosys officials on their part alleged large-scale corruption in the form of payment of commission opined. His remarks come a day after had said that they were working in the Rafale deal. "France has started a probe in the Rafale case, but Hitting out at the government, the Income Tax Department to fix the technical issues and in India, where commission was paid, no inquiry is being conducted. he asked what was the need for a extended the deadline till July 15 that they have augmented the If one compares the Rafale deal with the Bofors case, the then prime new income tax portal when the for manual filing of forms related resources for execution of the minister Rajiv Gandhi had, on his own, constituted a JPC," Singh said. old portal was running smoothly to foreign remittances. project on the hardware as well "If Modi has courage, he should constitute a JPC. We have a lot of for years and why was the portal As the new I-T portal faced as the application side and that questions and will get opportunity to raise them," the Congress leader switched at peak time, when technical issues after its launch some of the issues have already added. Nobody could prove a single charge against Rajiv Gandhi in the income tax payers usually file on June 7 and users complained been identified and fixed. Bofors case, he said. The Bofors scandal related to alleged payment their returns and claim refunds. of glitches, the department had For the other remaining of kickbacks in a deal to purchase howitzer guns from the Swedish Why was no testing of the allowed manual filings of Form technical issues, Infosys had manufacturer Bofors AB. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi recently new portal done before its launch, 15CA/15CB (required for foreign assured the government that their demanded a JPC probe into alleged corruption in the fighter jet deal. Tharoor asked. remittances) with banks till June teams were working on them A French judge has been appointed to lead a "highly sensitive" judicial "The rationale for a new 30. and gave the expected timelines probe into suspected "corruption" and "favouritism" in the Rs 59,000 portal is to provide a more user- The new portal was within which the issues would crore Rafale deal with India, French investigative website Mediapart friendly, modern and seamless launched on June 7, which the be resolved. reported last week. experience to users. However, tax department as well as the

Ahmedabad due to leakage or rupture in underground pipelines may be the The district administration in Gandhinagar in Gujarat cause, and teams have been formed to find out and rectify them, Kalol in Gandhinagar on Tuesday declared Kalol town as a cholera-affected Arya said. The development comes a week after Nadiad town region after five cases were found there, officials said. An in Kheda district was declared as cholera-affected. Nadiad has order declaring the area in a 2-kilometre radius of Kalol as four confirmed cholera cases at the moment, while 50 people declared affected by the ailment was issued by Gandhinagar collector suspected to have the ailment and experiencing symptoms like Kuldeep Arya under the Epidemic Diseases Act for a period vomiting and diarrhea are admitted in local hospitals, officials of one month, they said. "Five of 38 samples tested returned said. "Efforts are on to repair ruptured pipelines, fill up open cholera-affected positive for cholera. It mainly spreads through water or food pits and spray disinfectants," said Nadiad municipality chief contamination," Arya said. Contamination of drinking water officer Pranav Parekh. Across State Mumbai, Thursday 08-14 July 2021 9 After troops exit, safety of US

KabulEmbassy in Kabul top Theconcern U.S. Embassy in Kabul shut down in 1989, when As the end to America's forever war rapidly approaches, the former Soviet Union left the country after negotiating the U.S. Embassy and other diplomatic missions in Kabul an end to its 10-year invasion of Afghanistan. The pro- are watching a worsening security situation and looking communist government collapsed three years later, at how to respond. followed by a brutal civil war carried out by most of the In the countryside, districts are falling to the Taliban in same U.S.-allied warlords who still operate in Kabul today rapid succession. America's warlord allies are re-arming another reason why fear of a new civil war resonates. their militias, which have a violent history, raising the The Taliban have issued statements saying they are specter of another civil war once the U.S. withdrawal is not looking for a military takeover of Kabul. Washington finished, expected in August. has repeatedly warned that a military move on the Afghan A U.S. Embassy spokesperson told The Associated capital would return the insurgent movement to pariah Press that security assessments are frequent these days. images resurrected of America's last days in Saigon at the status, denying it international recognition and assistance. Speaking on condition of anonymity in line with briefing end of the Vietnam war. Still, not long after President Joe Biden announced in rules, she said the embassy is currently down to 1,400 Already, long before the last U.S. and NATO troops mid-April that American troops would be gone by Sept. U.S. citizens and about 4,000 staff working inside the began packing to leave, American diplomats arriving at the 11, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani expressed concern compound the size of a small town. airport were taken to the heavily fortified U.S. Embassy by that Afghan forces might not be able to protect all the A well-fortified town, that is. Besides its own helicopter. The 4-mile road trip through Kabul's chaotic diplomatic missions in Kabul, according to an official formidable security, the embassy lies inside Kabul's Green traffic was considered too dangerous. familiar with the discussions. There were even suggestions Zone, where entire neighbourhoods have been closed off Suicide bombers struck along that road with that smaller embassies move into the U.S. compound for and giant blast walls line streets closed to outside traffic. uncomfortable frequency. their protection. Afghan security forces guard the barricades into the For many of Washington's new diplomats to The U.S. Embassy responded with an immediate district, which also houses the Presidential Palace, other Afghanistan, their view of the country and Kabul is so-called ordered lockdown, further restricting staff embassies and senior government officials. limited to what they see from the confines of the sprawling movements and new arrivals. The only route out is Kabul's Hamid Karzai embassy compound, hidden deep inside the Green Zone On April 27, the U.S. Embassy's charg d'affaires, Ross International Airport, currently protected by U.S. and and protected by 10-foot blast walls, heavily armed U.S Wilson, tweeted that non-essential U.S. personnel would Turkish troops. Before America can declare its war over, Marines, explosive-sniffing dogs and cameras at every leave. The spokesperson would not say how many people the security of the airport will have to be settled. Ankara corner. left under that order, saying only that staff numbers are is in talks with Washington, the United Nations and the An American employee of Resolute Support, the name constantly being assessed. Afghan government to decide who will protect the airport of NATO's military mission in Afghanistan, who arrived Wilson blamed the departure on increasing violence and who will foot the bill. in the country last November, had not been outside the & threat reports in Kabul. He also posted a U.S. Embassy For now, the airport is running without interruption, giant gates of the mission by June. site warning to all American citizens to leave Afghanistan except for restrictions imposed by a deadly third COVID Citing security concerns, the U.S. spokesperson said immediately on any available commercial flight. And to surge that has prompted some countries to suspend flights she couldn't reveal evacuation plans, or even if that's a part Americans planning to visit Afghanistan, the order was to Kabul. of today's conversation, but said the embassy has detailed clear: don't. In Kabul, it's common to hear speculation about when plans for every scenario to protect its staff. The Australian Embassy closed, and most other and if the U.S. Embassy will evacuate and shut down, with If there is an evacuation, it wouldn't be the first. Western embassies reduced their staff. India to be engine of growth for global economy: Jaishankar New Delhi the pandemic has brought to the fore: the External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar is salience of health, the power of digital and the confident that as India comes out of the second importance of building or rebuilding green. wave, it will be a more dynamic and friendlier The Covid may have slowed the building business destination and contribute to being an of the global economy and the promotion of engine of growth for the global economy. economic recovery, but it has not stopped Addressing the inaugural session of the first it. “This is, therefore, an occasion to reflect, Indo-Pacific business summit, the minister saw perhaps introspect on how to build green,” he international cooperation to be the key. observed. Indo-Pacific, he said, represents a return On agriculture, he said the government’s of history. “A seamless and integrated space effort to empower farmers and enable freer trade was disconnected decades ago by the strategy has been matched by a stronger commitment to of the day. Today, we are quite sensibly seeing post-harvest infrastructure. the landscape for what it really is. Indo- “Across 13 key sectors, performance-linked Pacific reflects the reality of globalisation, the initiatives promise to upscale manufacturing. emergence of multipolarity and the benefits of Bold measures have just recently been taken rebalancing,” he observed. to promote tourism. And not least, in making The minister flagged three issues that it much easier to do business,” he observed. color

10 Mumbai, Thursday 08-14 July 2021 Global View Across State In Myanmar, the military and police declare war on medics Jakarta Medics are targeted by the The clandestine clinic was military because they are not only under fire, and the medics inside highly respected but also well- were in tears. Hidden away organised, with a strong network in a Myanmar monastery, this of unions and professional safe haven had sprung up for groups. In 2015, doctors pinned those injured while protesting black ribbons to their uniforms the military's overthrow of the to protest the appointment of government. But now security military personnel to the Ministry forces had discovered its location. of Health. Their Facebook page A bullet struck a young man quickly gained thousands of in the throat as he defended followers, and the military the door, and the medical staff appointments stopped. tried frantically to stop the This time, the protest by hemorrhaging. The floor was medics started days after the slick with blood. withheld to protect her from thousands have been forcibly plastered all over state media like military ousted democratically In Myanmar, the military has retaliation, began to sweat and disappeared. The military, known Wanted posters. They are charged elected leaders, including Nobel declared war on health care and cry. She had never seen anyone as the Tatmadaw, and police have with supporting and taking part in Peace Prize laureate Aung San on doctors themselves, who were shot. returned mutilated corpses to the civil disobedience movement. Suu Kyi, from power. From early and fierce opponents of the Now she too was at risk. Two families as tools of terror. At least 157 healthcare remote towns in the northern takeover in February. Security protesters smashed the glass out Amid all the atrocities, the workers have been arrested, 32 mountains to the main city of forces are arresting, attacking and of a window so the medics could military's attacks on medics, one wounded and 12 killed since Feb. Yangon, they walked off their killing medical workers, dubbing escape. We are so sorry, the of the most revered professions in 1, according to Insecurity Insight, jobs on military-owned facilities, them enemies of the state. With nurses told their patients. Myanmar, have sparked particular which analyzes conflicts around pinning red ribbons to their medics driven underground amid One doctor stayed behind outrage. Myanmar is now one of the globe. In recent weeks, arrest clothes. a global pandemic, the country's to finish suturing the patients' the most dangerous places on warrants have increasingly been The response from the already fragile healthcare system wounds. The others jumped earth for healthcare workers, with issued for nurses. military was fierce, with security is crumbling. through the window and hid in 240 attacks this year -- nearly half Myanmar's medics and forces beating medical workers The junta is purposely a nearby apartment complex for of the 508 globally tracked by their advocates argue that these and stealing supplies. Security targeting the whole healthcare hours. Some were so terrified that the World Health Organization. assaults violate international law, forces have occupied at least system as a weapon of war, says they never returned home. That's by far the highest of any which makes it illegal to attack 51 hospitals since the takeover, one Yangon doctor on the run I cry every day from that day, country. health workers and patients or according to Insecurity Insight, for months, whose colleagues the medical student says. I cannot This is a group of folks deny them care based on their Physicians for Human Rights at an underground clinic were sleep. I cannot eat well. who are standing up for what's political affiliations. In 2016, and the Johns Hopkins Center arrested during a raid. We believe That was a terrible day. right and standing up against after similar attacks in Syria, the for Public Health and Human that treating patients, doing our The suffering caused by the decades of human rights abuses U.N. Security Council passed a Rights. humanitarian job, is a moral job military's takeover of this nation in Myanmar, says Raha Wala, resolution demanding that medics On March 28, during a strike .I didn't think that it would be of 54 million has been relentless. advocacy director of the U.S.- be granted safe passage by all in the city of Monywa, a nurse accused as a crime. Security forces have killed at least based Physicians for Human parties in a war. was fatally shot in the head, Inside the clinic that day, the 890 people, including a 6-year- Rights. The Tatmadaw is hell-bent In other country's protests, the according to AAPP. On May young man shot in the throat old girl they shot in the stomach, on using any means necessary to medics are safe. They are exempt. 8, hundreds of miles away in was fading. His sister wailed. A according to the Assistance quash their fundamental rights Here, there are no exemptions, northern Kachin state, a doctor minute later, he was dead. Association for Political and freedoms. says Dr. Nay Lin Tun, a general was arrested, tied up and also One of the clinic's medical Prisoners, which monitors arrests The military has issued arrest practitioner who has been on fatally shot in the head while students, whose name like those and deaths in Myanmar. Around warrants for 400 doctors and 180 the run since February, and now passing a military base. of several other medics has been 5,100 people are in detention and nurses, with photos of their faces provides care covertly. Kabul/Moscow Afghan security personnel fled across ordered the mobilisation of 20,000 Russia's military base in Tajikistan the frontier in response to Taliban military reservists to strengthen its is fully equipped to help secure its militant advances. Meanwhile, a surge border with Afghanistan. Russia offers border with Afghanistan, and Moscow of Taliban wins in northern Afghanistan The Afghan military exodus comes will take extra measures to protect it if has caused some countries to close as Taliban overrun most districts in needed, Interfax quoted Russian Deputy their north Afghan consulates, while northeastern Badakhshan province. military support Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko as across the border in Tajikistan reservists Many of the districts collapsed without saying on Tuesday. Tajik President are being called up to reinforce its a fight but along the province's northern Emomali Rakhmon on Monday ordered southern border, according to officials border with Tajikistan, hundreds of to secure Tajik- the mobilisation of 20,000 military and reports on Tuesday. A statement Afghan National Security and Defense reservists to bolster the border with on Monday from the Tajik government Forces crossed the border seeking Afghan border Afghanistan after more than 1,000 said President Emomali Rakhmon had safety. Across State Mumbai, Thursday 08-14 July 2021 11 WHO warns Coronavirus rising in It’s meant to serve eastern Mediterranean region Beirut includes the Gulf, North variant in 13 out of the allies, not nation: Cong Coronavirus infections African and Asian 22 countries, and limited have been on the rise in countries, has registered distribution of vaccines. New Delhi Surjewala said if the Cabinet expansion the 22 countries of the over 11 million infections It is fueling current The Congress today said the was done on the basis of performance, eastern Mediterranean and over 220,000 deaths surges in cases and deaths, Cabinet reshuffle was not an exercise then the PM should have been the first region after two months since last year. Iran has he said, urging countries to driven by performance but one meant to go for “governance failure”. The of steady decline because been the worst impacted improve their sequencing to “distribute the spoils of power Finance Minister, Home Minister and of increased international by the pandemic, followed capacity and data sharing to and adjust defectors.” The Congress’ Defence Minister too should have been travel, low protection and by Iraq. enable better understanding principal targets were its former dropped, he said. limited vaccination, World Ahmed Al-Mandhari, of the virus. leaders Narayan Rane and Jyotiraditya Jairam Ramesh said Harsh Vardhan Health Organization officials regional director of the Al-Mandhari said more Scindia. had been made a scapegoat “for failures said Wednesday. WHO, said another spike is than 500 million vaccine Party spokesperson Randeep at the highest level. The region, which likely in the summer months doses are still needed to as countries struggle to vaccinate at least 40 per keep their borders open and cent of the population of CBI should widen probe into FIR against Anil Deshmukh: HC their economies active. countries in the Eastern The court was hearing a following orders from the any names now. Who has Despite efforts to Mediterranean Region by Mumbai petition filed by Deshmukh executive. The head of inducted this inspector contain the virus, a higher the end of 2021. The Bombay High seeking quashing of the the administration is also (Waze) after 15 years? the weekly average of new We are far, far behind Court on Wednesday FIR registered by the CBI equally responsible. The court questioned. cases has been reported from reaching this goal, said it expects the CBI on April 24 against him on minister might have told to Additional Solicitor across the region compared he said, adding that to widen its investigation charges of corruption and reinstate Sachin Waze, but General Aman Lekhi, to the same time last year, misinformation about into the FIR filed against misuse of official position. can the person holding the appearing for the CBI, told he said. vaccine efficacy and former Maharashtra home The FIR was filed after key and the top post simply the court that the agency has This is because of the virus have deepened minister Anil Deshmukh, the agency carried out obey the orders without so far ascertained who the various factors, including vaccine hesitancy in the and added that the head of a preliminary inquiry performing his duties, the conspirators are. the detection of the Delta region. the administration cannot pursuant to directions from court said. claim innocence and was the HC. We expect the CBI to equally responsible. In March this year, widen its probe. We hope A division bench of days after his removal from that the CBI has now found Dhami formally takes charge Justices S S Shinde and the post of Mumbai police out who the conspirators N J Jamadar said if true commissioner, senior IPS are, Justice Shinde said. meaning has to be given officer Param Bir Singh The bench said if Waze, as Uttarakhand CM to the April 5 order of had alleged that Deshmukh who was arrested in the Dehradun to quicken the disposal of official the high court, directing had asked police officers, Antilia' bomb scare case Uttarakhand's new Chief Minister correspondences and redressal of the Central Bureau of including (now dismissed) and killing of businessman Pushkar Singh Dhami on Wednesday public grievances as people had high Investigation (CBI) to cop Sachin Waze, to collect Mansukh Hiran, was such formally assumed charge of office at the expectations from the administration. hold a preliminary inquiry Rs 100 crore each month a dangerous man then the state secretariat after performing a puja. Dhami, who took over on July 4 against the allegations of from bars and restaurants. committee that reinstated He also inspected different after replacing Tirath Singh Rawat, corruption levelled against Whoever is the head him into the police force sections at the secretariat and had a asked officials to pay special attention Deshmukh, then the role of the administration should also be included in look at the files containing official to time-bound delivery of services to of every person has to be cannot claim innocence the list of accused. correspondences. people and transparency in day-to-day looked into. by saying that he was only We are not taking He asked accompanying officials functioning of government departments.

Former Himachal CM Virbhadra Singh dies of post-Covid complications at 87 Shimla in the Congress as no other leader enjoys recovered and was discharged but had to Veteran Congress leader and six-time the kind of mass appeal and popularity be hospitalized again on April 30 after his chief minister Virbhadra Singh passed that he did. oxygen saturation levels fell. away at 3.40 am Thursday at IGMC after a A six-time chief minister, Virbhadra Eversince he remained admitted to three-month long battle with covid illness. had won nine assembly and five Lok IGMC while being treated for heart and He was 87. Sabha elections, a feat few politicians can kidney ailments. Even as he showed Virbhadra, a sitting MLA from Arki boast of. He also remained State Congress good signs of recovery, it was on June 11 in Solan district, had earlier recovered President in 1977, 1979, 1980 and 2012. that he again contracted Covid infection. from Covid twice successfully. Senior He made his entry into politics after being Notwithstanding his age and comorbidities, Medical Superintendent, IGMC Dr Janak elected to the Lok Sabha for the first time he fought the dreaded virus successfully Raj confirmed the death of Virbhadra. A in 1962. He remained Union Minister for for the second time. decision on his cremation taking place Steel and also and a Deputy Minister in wever, his condition deteriorated on in Shimla or his native place Rampur is The passing away of Virbhadra marks Indira Gandhi cabinet. June 5, as his oxygen saturation level likely to be taken by the family, later. He the end of an era where he dominated It was on April 12 after testing dipped, forcing doctors to put him on a hailed from the erstwhile royal family of the state political scenario for almost six positive for Covid that Virbhadra was ventilator, leading to his death Thursday Bushair. decades. His death has left a big vacuum shifted to Max, Mohali. Though he morning. 12 Mumbai, Thursday 08-14 July 2021 EdiTrack Across State Vaccine roadblock

The Covid-19 Vaccines Global Access Covishield-vaccinated travellers for by the WHO and/or the 11 Stringent (COVAX), an international initiative aimed unrestricted movement across the region Regulatory Authorities (SRAs), ‘when at equitable access to vaccines, making decisions on who is able to was launched in April 2020, a travel or attend events’. few months after the outbreak The WHO emergency use listing of the pandemic. Among its includes Covishield, the main co-founders is the World vaccine used in India ever since Health Organisation (WHO), the inoculation programme began the UN agency responsible for in mid-January, but it is not among public health across the globe. the vaccines authorised by EU. The COVAX has been working with decision of the WHO and the SRAs governments and manufacturers on vaccine approvals should have for the past over a year to worldwide acceptance, overriding ensure that the vaccines are the preferences of individual nations/ available worldwide to rich as blocs. The EU’s pick-and-choose well as poor countries. However, approach will not only worsen vaccine the situation on the ground is far inequity but also undermine the UN from encouraging. As per a UN body’s authority. Consequently, such report, there is a huge disparity a parochial attitude will hamper efforts between the vaccination rates of to reboot the global economy. The various countries, mainly due to WHO chief has rightly said that until supply gaps. Some nations have we end the pandemic everywhere, inoculated over 60 per cent of we will not end it anywhere. The EU, their population, while at the which includes some of the world’s other extreme are those which most affluent nations, should do have covered not even 1 per cent of their has struck a discordant note. This obstacle course correction in the best interests of citizens. has prompted COVAX to urge all regional, humankind. Even as travel and trade restrictions national and local government authorities are being eased or lifted in many parts to recognise as fully vaccinated all people // satyasya paramaṁ nidhānam // of the world, the reluctance of several who have received Covid-19 vaccines We would like to hear from you. Please share your comments on European Union (EU) nations to accept that have been deemed safe and effective [email protected]

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer CBSE exam pattern yourself any direction you choose." -Dr. Seuss A timely and welcome roadmap for students

Learning from 2020, when decisions over the conduct of Printer-Publisher & Editor In Chief the world, in general, was classes and exams. taken off guard by a raging The CBSE’s introduction Sanjay Mangesh Bhaire Allied publication Across Mumbai pandemic and strategies for of a two-term system of (Marathi & Hindi) vital events such as board marking candidates for Managing Editor exams were modified along half-yearly exams along Suchita Bhaire the way, the CBSE has, with regular internal tests is Editor creditably, fortified itself with welcome as it is designed Sreeraj N. a detailed assessment scheme to give weightage to the Legal Advisor for classes X and XII of the year-round performance of Adv. Ameet Mehta 2021-22 session. Coming at students. In fact, it’s a much- Special Correspondents the beginning of the session, needed reformatory step. The K V Raman Vinod Raghavan the board’s timely plan authorities would do well Asha Gopalan Menon should enable the students as to transition into this new Chief Designer well as school authorities to scheme of appraisal even Vikram Jadav prepare for these two crucial Covid-19 curve is going up or The other school boards beyond the pandemic. The Cartoonist exams. Catering to the various down, factoring in conditions must lay out how they would present examination process Sunil Vinekar probable scenarios that may that are conducive to offline or compute results. Last year is directed more towards Photographers emerge in view of the ongoing online modes. was marked by a punishing rote-based learning and undue Ajit Raut Bhooshan Koyande pandemic, the CBSE has This roadmap — even as guessing game, with the stress on accomplishment announced a slew of evaluation some creases are still being exam schedules swinging in one set of tests. An Contributors and Advertisements Satish Shetty methods. With the coronavirus ironed out — should save from the now-on mode to overhaul has been long due. Savita Tiwari waves looming large, but the current batches of CBSE the now-off one in response Brainstorming of a strategy J D Rodrigues without precise prediction, students from the harrowing to the unfolding surges. The that ensures a level playing Circulation Dept. alternative patterns of exams time that this dilemma boards drew flak from parents, field and checks against Dinesh Gupta Suchit Kumar Saytonday have been formulated to fit presented to their counterparts students and schools as they schools giving unfair scores to in all exigencies: whether the during the 2020-21 session. revised at the last minute their their wards is needed. Across State Opinion Mumbai, Thursday 08-14 July 2021 13 Tirath yatra ends Chinese belligerence BJP halts experiment of Xi Jinping’s warnings don’t augur picking MP as Uttarakhand CM well for world peace Chinese President Xi Jinping’s keynote of adverse international opinion, in address at the ceremony to mark the the post-Covid world. Of course, there centenary of the Communist Party of China are few takers for China’s ‘I’m not the (CPC) was peppered with stern warnings aggressor’ rant, least of all India, which has to foreign powers. Adopting a holier-than- repeatedly experienced Chinese duplicity thou attitude, he asserted that the forces and aggressive posturing. which would attempt to bully, oppress or Instead of treating the centenary as subjugate China would find themselves an opportunity for introspection and ‘on a collision course with a great wall of stock-taking, the CPC has persisted steel forged by over 1.4 billion Chinese with self-congratulatory showmanship people’ and even ‘get their heads bashed’. aimed at overwhelming the rest of the The imagery was violent, the message was loud and aggressive: mess with China IN a damage-control exercise to contain of his predecessor, his pronouncements at your own peril. Though discontent against the then Uttarakhand and his remarks — like contending that Xi did say, albeit far from Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat with women wearing ripped jeans send out a convincingly, that China had just a year to go for the Assembly elections, wrong message. When several states were always worked to ‘safeguard the BJP had sprung a surprise by picking exploring containment measures after world peace, contribute to the Lok Sabha MP from Pauri-Garhwal, a surge in Covid-19 cases indicated the global development, and Tirath Singh Rawat, as his replacement in beginning of the second wave, he insisted preserve international order’, March. Now, nearly four months into the that the Kumbh Mela in Hardwar should his speech made it amply job, he’s out as well. The prospect of his be ‘open for all’. The repercussions have clear that the Dragon was not being able to fulfil the constitutional been devastating. The fake Covid testing in no mood to tone down its requirement of becoming an MLA within scam during the pilgrimage has harmed the belligerence. The ceremony six months is being cited as the reason for government’s image. itself was a massive show of strength, with world. The all-powerful Xi Jinping, the state getting its third CM — Pushkar Three CMs in the final year of the term the CPC showcasing the PLA (People’s who holds the top three posts in China Singh Dhami — within one term. That, is a huge embarrassment for any party. For Liberation Army) Air Force’s J-20s, — President, General Secretary of however, could just be a convenient alibi the BJP, which prides itself on discipline regarded as the most advanced stealth the CPC and Chairman of the Central for the party high command to spare itself and timely management, all the more, fighter jets in the world. Military Commission — is bent on the blushes and correct the mistake of though it would like to portray its decision Xi Jinping has unequivocally spelt out ruling the country with an iron hand para-dropping an MP, who has proven to be as a quick-fix solution to retain power in the Chinese agenda: the ‘reunification’ and pursuing a hardline foreign policy. quite an unpopular one, instead of banking Uttarakhand, where elections are due early of Taiwan with the mainland; making Such tactics could usher in a dangerous on established or promising legislators. next year. What the state government has China a great, modern socialist country; era of rampant Chinese expansionism on If Tirath Rawat distinguished himself done or not done are secondary issues for and accelerating the modernisation of the military and economic fronts. The in any way during his 114-day term, it now. Stemming infighting and presenting China’s armed forces. These interlinked comity of nations needs to be more firm was in generating controversies by the a united face have become a far bigger goals indicate that China is prepared and watchful than ever to ward off any dozen, be it criticising policy decisions challenge for the ruling party. to plough its own furrow, regardless threat to the global order.

Water crisis forcing villagers in Nuh district of Haryana to water from tubewells turning out to be contaminated and unfit contemplate migration is a matter of concern. The residents, for consumption, villagers are hard-pressed to find clean drinking most of who are into farming, have to buy water from tankers water, taking recourse to the Bhakra canal. The Covid pandemic Water at exorbitant rates to meet their daily needs. While the has also deepened worries over untreated canal water being used administration has planned digging of wells and ponds to bring for drinking purposes. Depletion of groundwater has already relief, it may prove to be a case of too little, too late. Taking resulted in a revision of the date for sowing of paddy, a water- scarcity such measures in advance may prove to be more helpful in intensive crop, in Punjab and while efforts are made to supply alleviating the distress. The Mewat region of Haryana has been uninterrupted power to the rural areas to help in farming activities, affected by salinity in groundwater for long and the lingering non-functioning tubewells add to the problem. A late monsoon in of the problem points not only to developmental neglect of the north is also delaying the recharge of groundwater. Displacement the district, but also discrimination in favour of areas that are The problem should be looked at from a developmental more naturally endowed. That the crisis should take place when perspective. Areas like Nuh need proper planning to tackle water of Nuh villagers the paddy season is in full swing may only result in livelihood scarcity which impedes growth with the district lagging behind issues for the villagers. others. Supply of clean drinking water is a clear parameter on should be Water crisis has also surfaced in Sangrur district of Punjab the development index while irrigation for fields is important to that borders Haryana. Like Nuh, Sangrur is listed among the sustain agriculture, the mainstay of the economy. Not measuring prevented dark zones where there is an acute deficit of groundwater. With up on both fronts may prove detrimental. 14 Mumbai, Thursday 08-14 July 2021 Across State Dilip Kumar, The Doyen Of Bollywood In the history of Hindi film faith in Indian democracy after In most intense scene conjures industry no actor ever took the 1992 riots .He was totally up vibration s of a Tsunami intensity to such mythical aghasted with the Mumbai riots erupting. proportions or regions as Dilip of 1993 and earlier demolition In contrast to his general Kumar. In full flow Dilip Kumar of Babri Masjid. Infact by the melancholy expression in could create the impact of an late 1970’s he had become many movies, he is far more inferno or Tsunami .His acting disillusioned with the Congress. lively and radiant here. Most possessed that rare quality of It is praiseworthy that Dilip artistically portrays the inner a genius, literally sculpting a Kumar provided shelter for riot metamorphosis or spiritual new dimension to acting. No victims. I can never forget Dilip change within a person due to superstar looked as natural as Kumar’s adherence to social circumstances that turns his Dilip Kumar, as though he never causes, often being the mascot entire life around. The variance went to any acting school. Dilip of the Muslim minorities. No of his expressions reminds Kumar is arguably the strongest doubt to me he was flawed in one of an orchestra. Brilliant contender for the choice of the backing Nehruvian Socialism chemistry with Vyjayanthimala. best or most consummate Hindi instead of radical revolutionary His dialogue pleading for film actor ever. Every great Hindi Socialism .Neverthless he justice with the police inspector film superstar modelled himself exhibited considerably more towards the end is one of the on Dilip Kumar. social dignity than modern most touching ever in Hindi Dilip championed tragedy superstars. cinema. Ironic that in the in the depth of an Ocean, like BEST PERFORMANCES climax he is killed by his very no Hindi film actor ever did. OF DILIP KUMAR CHOSEN own brother who is a police Enacting tragic characters he IN MY ORDER OF MERIT inspector. Here he glorified the put the audience in a trance, as Best acting of Dilip Kumar anti-hero or crusader against though they were witnessing the in films in my chosen order of injustice in depths he never did, darkest of winter days.However merit. or in regions rarely surpassed in Dilip also had great flair for Devdas(1955)– Classic Hindi films. enacting comedy roles, creating acting exhibition enacting Daag(1952)-Mastery in the liveliness of the breaking tragedy in romance. Reminiscent tragedy .Very close to his of spring .Rarely did any artist of a manifestation of a God of performance in Devdas when display as much poignancy on tragedy with his heart touching drunk. So penetrative that the screen or express so much Still one must remember that religious superstition and expressions in a melancholy looked like a person meditating. with the literal quiver of his overall Dilip enacted a wider economic disparity but did state.Intensity of expression in Simply poetic expressions. eyes. He simply possessed acting and more challenging set of not endorse violent revolution. simply surreal realms which I Classically portrays flux of prowess of surreal regions, like roles. than anyone Possibly he Raj Kapoor to a considerably doubt any actor would surpass. frustration or despair for the a Rembrandt canvas. He could did not vary his acting style as greater extent in ‘Awara’ and In the final scene when he is major part of the movie with one day resemble the deadest of much as he could have. Still for ‘Shri 420’,portrayed the rebel drowning sorrow in love he happiness and joy in the climax. leaves or the gloomiest of winner pure art or in a total package, in society.Inspite of not being reveals godliness of very rare Shankar (played by Dilip days. On another day he could Dilip Kumar was at the very apolitical the films of Dilip penetration. .The movie projects Kumar) and his mother live a resemble the brightest summer top of the pedestal.. It must be Kumar did not project the the social reality of Bengal. life of poverty. To earn money day or a lotus blooming fully. mentioned that in some hits evils of the feudal or capitalist Based on the Novel by he makes and sells mud toys. Within a role itself he could like ‘Ganga Jumna; ‘Footpath’ system. Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay Being the lone bread winner resemble water in a pot at its’ and ‘Naya Daur’ he broke away We missed out witnessing called Devdas, the movie is the of the family, he is unable to boiling point at one point and on from the sad or mellowed trend, Dilip Kumar in portrayals of an story of childhood sweethearts, meet the needs. His debt starts the other freezing into ice. Dilip proving his versatility. opressed man striving against Devdas (Dilip Kumar) and rising higher and higher when Kumar looked so engrossed when Comparisons may be unfair injustice like Raj Kapoor in Paro (Suchitra Sen) set against he gets addicted to alcohol. He acting that it appeared as though but even if more disciplined, ‘Jagte Raho’ or Balraj Sahni in the backdrop of rural Bengal is attracted to Parvati (Nimmi), he was manifestation of energy charismatic or even intelligent, ‘Do Bigha Zamin.’ or even as during feudal times. When they who also lives a poor lifestyle of the divine. I would not rank Amitabh a spiritual crusader like Guru decide to marry, Devdas’ father along with her step-brother, It could be contested that Bacchan as the equal of Dilip Dutt in ‘Pyaasa’ Being such a disapproves the relationship Jagat Narayan, his wife and Dilip Kumar overdid tragedy in Kumar, as an actor or a human star it became habitual to cast as they belong to a very rich their daughter, Pushpa. After his day and lacked the liveliness being. I am convinced that in his him in melodramatic films. I family. He sends his son an argument with his mother, of Dev Anand, the malleability of day Dilip Kumar overshadowed would have backed Dilip Kumar packing to Calcutta for higher Shankar departs to the city, Raj Kapoor, the craft of Sanjeev contemporaries, Raj Kapoor and to act as well as any great studies. Parvati’s marriage is gives up drinking and earns a lot Kumar or Naseeruddin Shah or Dev Anand. actor in any truly progressive fixed with a wealthy zamindar, of money. He then returns home the charisma of Amitabh Bacchan It is noteworthy that in his best film, if not better. It could be a widower with children older and pays off his mortgage. With or Rajesh Khanna.Perhaps he films heroine Vyjayanthimala stated that we saw more of than his young second wife. In new confidence he proposes to expressed too much intensity co-starred with Dilip Kumar Dilip Kumar as a star than as Calcutta, Devdas drowns his marry Parvati. But he is then told and lacked detachment in and not Nargis.Nutan ,Waheeda an actor. If his potential was sorrows in alcohol and wishes to that Parvati’s marriage has been the Brechtian mould, when Rehman or Madhubala.This completely untapped he may meet Paro one last time before arranged elsewhere. Broken, performing. He could not vary speaks of her remarkable acting have overshadowed everyone he dies. He meets Chunilal he starts drinking again and his his expressions like the notes of prowess. as a pure actor. (Motilal) who introduces him to mother also dies at this stage. a musical orchestra or introduce In contrast to Raj Kapoor I recommend every fan an attractive and strong willed Now he again starts drinking element of ease or detachment the best of his films were not to read a biography of Dilip courtesan, Chandramukhi heavily and starts walking on in the manner of Sanjeev anti-hero films, being close to Kumar, narrating how he broke (Vyjayanthimala) the path of self-destruction. Kumar or Naseeruddin Shah.At projecting radical change in into acting, and the events Ganga Jumna (1961)-A The only thing which can save times Dilip Kumar became over social order but of man seeking that shaped his life. Being the truly classical portrayal of a his life is Parvati’s love. But her serious as though entrapped in justice within the system. Even son of Fruit stall owner one villager who turns into a dacoit parents are the only obstacle a storm. He could not blend in anti-hero portrayals like hardly forecasted he would symbolic of a crusader against who are in the view that drunken seriousness with humour like ‘Naya Daur,’ ‘Ganga Jumna’ he emerge as an actor. It is also injustice betrayed. One of the Shankar can never become a Raj Kapoor, or element of offers criticism to the oppressor fascinating that he received most natural displays of acting good man in life. In a dramatic detachment with the finesse but still reconciles. In the latter psychiatric help to break away of a villager ever by an actor. turns of events, Jagat Narayan of Sanjeev Kumar. Arguably the hero is even punished for from state of depression, having Dilip Kumar deploys the most agrees to marry Parvati with Sanjeev Kumar or Naseeruddin his actions.Dilip Kumar mainly been virtually habituated in subtle nuances. Rarely has an Shankar, Shankar quits alcohol Shah got more into the skin of projected Nehruvian themes projecting a melancholy state. actor been more in the thick of and the film finally finishes with character or were craftier. which challenged casteism, It is also significant how he lost the very skin of the character. a happy ending. Across State Mumbai, Thursday 08-14 July 2021 15

Naya Daur(1957)– Portrayed alone, but Rajni joins him, saying lifetimes and are reincarnated. epidemic among the starving leaving Nina devastated. Dilip a villager waging a battle against that she will always be with him, Deedar(1951)-In his time poor. With his racket in medicines, comforts her and Neena gives the infiltration of sophisticated which makes Shankar happy. unimaginable that an actor could Noshu’s conscience stirs in him him the responsibility of looking machinery in his village.He Soon, the rest of the tongawalas give such life to the character as he sees the people he loved after her father’s business and symbolised the aspirations of join them to build the road. of blind man., that too in a love agonize and die for lack of the staying in a spare room at her common farmer penetrating into Krishna joins Kundan’s side triangle. Revealed the most subtle drugs he is hoarding for peak home. Dilip tries to confide in the very skin of the character. and asks him to help to make or sensitive expressions, like prices. The climax comes in his Neena about his feelings for His confrontation with Jeevan sure that the road does not get the flutter of petals of a flower. soul when he rushes to his stricken her, but her fiance Rajan (Raj as Kundan on the issue of complete. The villagers, all Brilliant portray of unfulfilled brother’s side too late and arrives Kapoor) returns from London. technology was truly classical together, overcome difficulties love with Nargis,married to just as Bani breathes his last. Dilip is shocked that Neena and so was his leading a rally along the way and finally finish Ashok Kumar. Shocked into realization, Noshu had not mentioned that she was of farmers. It is remarkable how the building. Krishna decides to Mughal e Azam(1960)– repents, gives himself up to the already engaged and in love. he portrays the crystallization of take things up in his own hands Enacting Prince Salim Dilip police, denounces his companions Rajan and Neena eventually get rebellious spirit. Similar acting to and breaks the bridge made Kumar penetrates depths of an in crime and goes to prison. married, and Dilip finally reveals Ganga Jumna. It portrays theme by the villagers which was the ocean in love .whether happy Shakti(1982)-Pitted against the his true feelings for Neena on the of Nehruvian Socialism, like no most important path of the road. or sad. Rarely has a romantic other superstar Amitabh Bacchan, wedding day. Neena is shocked other film.of it’s era. Manju sees him doing this and dialogue or loves scenes been as in the eyes of many judges Dilip by Dilip’s revelation as she The tongawalla Shankar confronts Krishna and tells him captivating in a Hindi film. No Kumar won this round. As an thinks of him only as a good and the woodcutter Krishna are that she changed the flowers on other star could have done equal inspector he is a crusader against friend. Dilip tries to leave, but best friends in a poor village. At injustice who ends up killing stays to avoid any suspicion a train station, Shankar meets his very own son. Rarely have from Rajan. A few years pass by Rajni, who arrives there with her an actor’s eyes or expressions and Rajan and Neena now have mother and brother, and fall in portrayed such intensity against a daughter. On their daughter’s love with each other. At the same injustice or conviction, even in birthday, Dilip arrives with a time, Krishna also sees Rajni and the gravest of times. Movie proved present. Neena tries secretly to falls for her. Dilip Kumar was still a giant. tell him that she does not love Kundan from the city arrives Mashaal(1984)-As a journalist him and that he should leave, at the village and wants to he banged every nail in the wall unaware that she has said all this modernize and mechanize the tp bring criminals to the book. to Rajan. Rajan accuses Neena of business which he does so by Even in his 60’s Dilip Kumar was having an affair with Dilip and getting an electronic saw thus as poignant as ever .Brings in the Dilip decides to clear Rajan’s making several workers at the mill classical element of rawness as a misunderstanding. He confronts lose their jobs. When Shankar and crusader for justice. Rajan and tries to convince him Krishna both come to know that Directed by the enigmatic Yash he is wrong about Neena. In a fit they both love Rajni, they plan Chopra, ‘Mashaal’ focuses on of rage, Rajan hits Dilip on the on deciding on who will marry her own and not on the words justice to such classic. Vinod Kumar, an esteemed, law- head and walks out, taking his her; if Rajni offers white flowers of her brother as she loves him. Footpath (1953)-Even as abiding citizen who embroiled in daughter with him. Neena comes when she goes to the temple, she Krishna on hearing this realises an anti-hero Dilip Kumar had the dirt of corruption, turns to crime to Dilip’s aid and tells a doctor to will marry Shankar and if she his mistake and starts repairing classical shades. Brilliantly for exacting revenge. Adapted save him as he is proof that she offers yellow flowers, she will the bridge immediately with the contrasts a corrupted man in from Marathi writer Vasant has not cheated on Rajan. When marry Krishna. Manju, Shankar’s help of Manju. search or worldly belongings Kanetkar’s play ‘Ashroonchi Dilip awakens he is half mad and sister who is in love with Krishna, Finally, the race takes place at any cost to a reformed man, Zhali Phule’ (1966), the film tries to molest Neena, insisting hears the conversation and with Shankar emerging as who wishes to cut the tumours explores the theme of family, she really is in love with him. stealthily switches Rajni’s yellow the victor. Krishna comes to of injustice in the climax. Very crime, corruption and punishment. Neena shoots Dilip, killing him flowers with white flowers at congratulate Shankar and both penetrative character expression Kumar brilliantly personified his instantly, and is then imprisoned. the temple. Krishna, who sees the friends make up with each at the climax, when regretting his charisma and acting capabilities. Rajan testifies against Neena Manju switching the flowers, other furthermore Shankar and patronising injustice. With an ensemble cast, Kumar in court about her affair with thinks that Shankar has told her Rajni untie while Krishna and The story is about black- led by example. Steering back to Dilip and how she killed him to to do this and it leads Krishna Manju unite with each other. marketeering in grains and tragedies, Kumar churned out an hide her infidelity. While Neena and Shankar into a fight. The Madhumati(1958)-His acting medicines, a subject of perennial inspired performance with calibre, awaits for the judge’s verdict, saddened Shankar tells Rajni was responsible for giving the interest to everybody and of charisma and charm. Rajan tells his daughter that she that he will not looked at her if cutting edge in making this poignant importance to the poor Andaz(1949)– Dilip Kumar is not coming back and tears up he knew that his friend also lover movie an epic. Rarely have I and needy. The characters and is a total contrast to Raj Kapoor the doll that Dilip had given her her. Rajni becomes heart-broken seen an actor in such a state of drama are laid among the very in a love triangle, portraying a on her birthday. Inside the doll after hearing this tells him that bewilderment or look so puzzled. poor, the homeless ones, the tragic character. Still arguably a he finds a letter Dilip had written she can not change her feelings Dilip Kumar looked like a person pavement dwellers, whence the moral victor over Raj, in terms for Neena, saying that Rajan is for him, but he can if he wants penetrating the deepest depth to picture derives its title. One of of pure sensitivity or romantic the fortunate one who she loves and goes away. solve a mystery in a love story them, the central character, is a depth. In madness and sadness and he has realised this now. Kundan introduces a bus in with a theme of re-incarnation. poorly-paid hack journalist named he penetrated depths which have Upon reading the letter, Rajan the village thus taking away the In the climax when narrating the Noshu who lives, for lack of means, been rarely surpassed on the Hindi realises he had been wrong tongawalas’ livelihood. They ask end of the story in a house cabin, with his kindly elder brother Bani film screen. about Neena’s infidelity and him to remove it, but he refuses. his expressions remind one of and Bani’s nasty wife, Minna. Neena (Nargis) is the spoiled that Neena only loved him. The Shankar says that what he has man undeterred or unmoved, as Powerfully attracted to a pretty daughter of a rich businessman judge sentences Neena to life done is for the betterment of though his quest for exploring a young girl of the neighbourhood (Murad). One day while imprisonment and Rajan and his himself only. Kundan, however, myth has not ended. and wanting desperately to woo horseriding she loses control daughter come to see her before tells Shankar that if he can drive While driving his car on a and win her, he decides to become of her horse and is rescued she is taken away. his tonga faster than the bus then rainy night, Anand’s car (Anand a black-marketeer. The path of the by a young man named Dilip Ram Aur Shyam(1967)- he will remove the latter. Shankar enacted by Dilip Kumar)breaks transgressor is laid with roses. He (Dilip Kumar). Dilip instantly Dilip Kumar in a double role agrees to do it but the rest of the down, and he goes to seek shelter mints money, becomes a wealthy takes a liking to her and starts most surgically and artistically tongawalas tell him not to as in a nearby house. It is here that and a respected citizen, and has to frequently visit her house portrays the distinguishing the bus will be faster. Shankar he will find out about his previous everything he hankered for in his where he entertains her with features of 2 twins in a movie consents to the race and asks time birth, his true love, Madhumati, new world of luxurious ease. It his singing along with Neena’s which narrates a story of how for three months to prepare for the and how their ill-fated romance all turns to ashes in his mouth. friend Sheela (Cukoo). Nina’s a set of circumstances split race. He makes a plan to build a is going to effect his current life. His brother, who brought him father dislikes this; he tries to and then re-unite 2 brothers. road, which is six miles shorter Directed by Bimal Roy, up and who has lost his teacher’s make her realise that spending Proves his mastery of enacting than the road which leads to the ‘Madhumati’ is a paranormal job because he used the school’s so much time with Dilip is not comedy. temple. The disturbed villagers romance revolves around Dilip money to finance Noshu’s first wise, as Dilip might misconstrue Shaheed(1948)– Exuded tell Shankar that they has gone Kumar’s Anand, a modern flutter, turns him out when he their friendship as love. On the spirit of patriotism at mad with his stubbornness and man, and Vyjayanthimala’s discovers what the money was for. day of Sheela’s birthday party, a crescendo no star would do not support him with the Madhumati, a tribal woman, So do his poor but honest friends. Dilip realises he has fallen in have done in his day adding making of the road, letting him who fall in love with each other. With a hardened heart, Noshu love with Neena and tries to tell emotional touch to the role do it alone. However, due to the societal goes his own way, becoming her. However, tragedy strikes of freedom fighter. Brings Shankar starts to lose heart dissemination, they are unable to wealthier at each step. Awakening on the same day when Neena’s out aspect of the inner self of a when he starts to build the road have a relationship during their comes with the outbreak of an father dies of a heart attack, revolutionary. color

16 Mumbai, Thursday 08-14 July 2021 Across State This Is Only the Beginning: It’s About to Get Much Harder This is just the opening salvo. have more than tripled in the past in their eighties. If that still doesn’t deadly heatwave that killed thousands As the American west is gripped by forty years. It is debatable whether concern you, we will lose all the in India and Pakistan in 2015 will potentially the worst drought since we can continue to call these events world’s coral reefs at 2°C of warming, have become annual events. At 4°C, algebra was invented 1,200 years ago ‘natural’ when they are being fueled hundreds of millions of people will the 2003 heat wave that claimed the and temperature records are once again by human activity. The world is be on the move in search of food and lives of around 2,000 people each shattered on a weekly basis, we are moving into uncharted territory, and water. There will be forty-one more day in Europe will be a standard entering into unknown territory. Lytton our planet has only warmed by 1.2°C marine heatwaves than now. All the summer event. That means more than in Canada reached a staggering 49.6°C so far. The most likely scenario sees Arctic Sea ice will be gone. The 35,000 people will be killed each on Tuesday which is hotter than Las the temperature rising by at least 3°C average length of a drought will be ten and every summer by intense heat. Vegas has ever recorded. Portland by 2100, and possibly much more, months. At least 388 million people Keeping temperatures under 1.5°C, topped 46.7°C and this is higher than and possibly sooner. What will the will be exposed to water scarcity. of warming, as opposed to 3°C, will anything experienced in Houston, future look like if we continue on our Maize production will be 9% lower, save between 110 and 2,720 heat- Texas. This has been building for a current path? The current trajectory and wheat 4% lower at 2°C. The related deaths in fifteen American long time, but things are about to get we are on would see temperatures rise population will have risen to around cities. The Union of Concerned much much worse. by between 3.1°C and 3.5°C by 2100. eleven billion. Sea level will have risen Scientists are predicting that hundreds Globally, the planet experienced Try to imagine the storms, wildfires, by fifty-six cm. Flooding from sea of U.S. cities will experience a whole its second hottest year ever recorded droughts and floods that will become level rise will cost upwards of $11.7 month above 37.8°C by mid-century. in 2019, just 0.4°C cooler than 2016. normal if we allow this to happen. trillion each year at just 2°C. And the Scientists expect the extreme heat If 2019 was feeling a little inferior, If things are this bad at just 1.2°C most alarming change will be under to cause large scale relocation of 2020 arrived on the scene, full of residents as Boston becomes the new confidence, to claim the prize of Columbia, South Carolina and Chicago warmest year ever recorded on Earth. experiences the heat of Lafayette, The average temperature was 1.2°C Louisiana. The pilgrimage to Mecca above the 1859-1900 level. This was will become impossible for the two also a year in which our civilization million Muslims currently making the was brought to its knees because of trip. Wallace-Wells adds that even if the ongoing pandemic. The World we keep warming under 2°C, half the Meteorological Organization (WMO) population will be exposed to deadly says that the warmest six years on heat waves more than twenty days a record have all occurred since 2015. year. If we don’t keep warming under With the carbon already in the 2°C, that number will rise to three atmosphere, the extreme heat we are quarters. witnessing now will become the new A recent study found that we may normal. The impacts of a warming be fast approaching the threshold of planet will be felt by us all. In fact, 1.5°C. Scientists stated that there is a they already are. Storms, droughts and 40% chance that we may temporarily heatwaves have increased by a third of warming, more than 3°C will likely the ground in the Arctic region where pass this figure by 2025. Our feckless in just the past ten years. Scientists be dire for the future of our species. at least 6.6 million km² of permafrost leaders are aiming to halt warming at analyzing models in Switzerland and Also, take into account that these are will have thawed. The result of this 1.5°C by 2050 yet we may pass this the UK declared that heat events like global average temperatures. At the thawing could trigger the emissions of target twenty-five years earlier. It is that of 2018 were unprecedented prior poles and over land the temperature billions of tons of methane, and what abundantly clear that we are not on to 2010 and don‘t occur in historical could be double. For every 1°C of scientists call runaway climate change. target to stop the worst from happening simulations. warming, areas affected by heat waves “It is worse, much worse than you and that we need rapid decarbonisation As fossil fuels continue to be like 2018’s will increase by 16% and think,” is the opening line to David immediately if we are to avoid mass pumped into the atmosphere, forests are predicted to happen in two out of Wallis-Well’s seminal, but terrifying starvation and suffering. We can all are felled and oceanic ecosystems every three years if temperatures reach book, The Uninhabitable Earth. He make changes to our lives from talking destroyed, the extreme heat we have 2.7°C, and every year at 3.6°C. describes life on our planet at varying about the crises, only buying things we seen the past five years is only going to Our planet hasn’t seen temperatures degrees of warming. At 5°C, large need, leaving animals off our plates to get worse in the next decade. Anthony this hot in fifteen million years, when parts of Earth would be unliveable cycling and growing our own food. It Arguez at NOAA’s National Centers the sea level was forty meters higher for humans. At 6°C, New York would is only coordinated government action for Environmental Information in than it is today. The Arctic and be hotter than Bahrain today. At 4°C, that will be enough though, and our Asheville, North Carolina warns that: Antarctic were home to vast forests. wildfires will burn sixteen times more leaders won’t act without grassroots “After the last five years, we’ve This warming was caused by volcanic land in the American West. There will pressure. That’s where we all have a really separated ourselves from the activity in North America and the be hundreds of drowned cities. Going part to play. We cannot give up without past,” and he adds, “It looks pretty warming happened 1,000 times slower outside will be a dangerous act across a fight. The future is worth our sweat likely that we’re going to have a whole than the human caused warming we India and the Middle East at just 2°C and tears now. If it isn’t, there will be lot of top 10 years.” see today. If 2100 seems a long way of warming. Even if we meet the blood. In total, natural-disaster loss events away, children born today will be Paris goals, Wallace-Wells says the color

Across State Mumbai, Thursday 08-14 July 2021 17 Global Warming, Climate Refugees, Migrations – And Beyond: Need for national-level planning It is well established that global warming (GW) is Over the past many years, the annual monsoon river situations at all levels from local to national. Besides driving climate change (CC). Thinkers believe that in flooding in Brahmaputra, Ganga and their tributaries, and affecting individuals and societies, it will severely impact coming years, GW-CC will adversely affect societies and in several peninsular rivers, regularly dislocates normal our nation’s economy. nations on a global scale like nothing before. life. Additionally, the extreme events of very heavy GW-CC migrations aggravating already difficult-to- Important among the IPCC-predicted long-term unseasonal rains due to GW-CC has caused very serious manage internal conflicts may well lead to unmanageable effects of GW-CC, as applicable to India, are: flood disasters, forcing people to move or migrate. The law and order situations, rupture the social fabric, and (1) Rise in sea level due to polar ice-melt, leading to courses of Ganga and its major tributaries undergo shift compromise both internal and external security. coastal erosion or submergence, within their flood plains from year to year due to annual This is undoubtedly a bleak scenario, but it is realistic, (2) Melt and recession of Himalayan glaciers, leading flood flow. These shifts cause erosion-loss of land in one not pessimistic. to depleted non-monsoon river flow, area and “new” land exposed in a different area. This The future depends on what we do in the present (3) Rainfall pattern disruption, leading to desertification magnifies the vulnerability and distress of people who GW-CC induced migration has cross-border of large areas, and perforce live or work in the flood-plains, including those implications. Therefore, border security and diplomatic (4) Extreme events like severe cyclonic storms. who are “protected” by embankments. initiatives need assessment at the highest level, and The effect of these four will be on the biosphere in It is beyond dispute that almost all the coastal-erosion integration into strategic planning by the National Security general, but more specifically on human life (including and flood-affected people are from the lowest economic Council. The situations posed by GW-CC may need to be health) and livelihoods; forests, green cover and water sections, and are poor-to-very-poor. Due to loss of land war-gamed, and addressed not only as national calamities, bodies; food & water resources; property; and on social, and livelihood, they migrate to small towns and cities. but cause for overarching regional concern affecting economic and political structures. These migrants are in addition to the migrants who South Asia. Their combined effect boggles the mind. The questions have been leaving rural areas permanently because of India could provide leadership in integrating SAARC agitating thoughtful persons are: # When serious outcomes the unviability of agriculture (happening for a variety of and other regional bodies to proactively plan mitigation may commence, and # Whether the so-called tipping point reasons which have been discussed threadbare elsewhere), of massive and unprecedented migration which is likely has already been reached. and due to displacement caused by infrastructure and to follow GW-CC catastrophes. Such an initiative may India’s June 2008 National Action Plan provide India additional diplomatic on Climate Change (NAPCC) does not advantage and leverage in international go beyond simply taking cognizance of fora. The National Security Council migration of affected coastal communities. would do well to give this matter very This article focuses on migration affecting serious and immediate consideration, lives and livelihoods, as one outcome of and strategize for handling regional and GW-CC, in the Indian and South Asia domestic conflict/security situations. regional context. Beyond migration, survival A mean sea level (MSL) rise of 15- There is no evidence that indicates cm to 38-cm is expected along India’s serious consideration having been coast by 2050. However, before MSL given to strategizing now, for future rises by even 10-cm, ocean wave-action generations. The NAPCC is woefully and coastal erosion would have invaded inadequate, and does not point in the land and seriously impacted lives and right direction. Neglect of planning for livelihoods. Indeed already, gradual and the future is the real disaster which needs barely noticeable, but relentless rise in MSL to be managed. has caused coastal erosion in many places on Political leaders and opinion-makers our 7,500-km coastline, resulting in loss of need to acquire practical wisdom to land. The Sunderbans region, partly in West Bengal and industrial projects. understand that GW-CC is an existential threat to most partly in Bangladesh, is especially seriously affected, and According to a December 2020 report by Climate living species and certainly to human societies. The migrations are a reality, putting a strain on already scarce Action Network South Asia & Action Aid, an estimated threat is growing, not receding. Measures based on resources of all sorts. This will only increase in the future. 14-million people may have already migrated internally that understanding need implementation to mitigate the Similarly, rising average temperatures, water-stress due to slow-onset impacts, such as sea-level rise, water effects of GW-CC, to find an effective transition to “deep and floods will cause increased rural to urban migrations. stress, crop-yield reduction, ecosystem degradation and adaptation” necessary for species survival. India has 13 coastal cities including Mumbai on the habitat loss, and drought. Political leaders and opinion-makers may also West coast, and 8 coastal cities including Chennai on the Migrants are unwelcome in the destinations to which understand that technology cannot solve human social East coast, besides dozens of coastal towns. These will all they are forced by circumstances to migrate in search problems, and that only genuine implementation of the be affected by sea level rise combined with flood during of food, shelter and livelihood. They are considered principles of justice, liberty, equality and fraternity, are the monsoon or due to extreme-event rainfall, because urban encroachers by individuals, society and governments. The way forward. Changing or tweaking existing economic, growth blocks natural watercourses which carry rainfall resultant competition for scarce basics of land/shelter, legal and political systems will not reach beyond partisan runoff into the sea. Over time, this will lead to slowdown/ food-water, livelihood, etc., continues to cause fresh benefit. Protecting, preserving and conserving natural shutdown of different livelihood and economic activities, problems, or increases existing social tensions within resources and bio-diversity, to ensure egalitarian provision causing migration of affected people of all socio-economic and among all rural and urban societies and communities. of the basic needs of water & food security, clothing & sections for shelter and livelihood. It will not be an over-statement that migrations caused shelter, and health, education, welfare and employment, Apart from coastal urban settlements, people living in by GW-CC will dwarf past migrations. In coming years, for all. low-lying coastal rural areas and in hundreds of fishing migrations in terms of sheer numbers, whether from These matters are simultaneously urgent and villages on mainland India and its island territories, will neighbouring countries into India or refuge-seekers from important. Is any leader even capable of hearing, leave be forced to move inland, away from the coast, and get India’s coastal areas and other environmentally degraded alone listening, amid the distractions of petty politicking classed as “migrants”. areas, will lead to extremely challenging socio-economic and self-congratulatory grandstanding at public expense? 18 Mumbai, Thursday 08-14 July 2021 Beauty Across State Vardhan, Pokhriyal, Gowda quit along with several ministers ahead of Cabinet reshuffle New Delhi Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal "Nishank" and Chemicals and Fertilisers Minister D V Sadananda Gowda were among several Union ministers who resigned on Wednesday ahead of the cabinet reshuffle in the evening. Besides Vardhan, Pokhriyal and Gowda, Labour Minister Santosh Gangwar, Minister of State for Education Sanjay Dhotre, Minister of State for Women and Child Development Debasree Chaudhuri, Minister of State for Jal Shakti Rattan Lal Kataria and Minister of State for Environment Babul Supriyo also resigned. Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Thaawarchand Gehlot had resigned after he was made Governor of Karnataka on Tuesday. Health Minister Vardhan, whose handling of the COVID-19 crisis had drawn flak from the opposition parties, resigned from the Union Council of Ministers, official sources said. Vardhan, a doctor himself, had been Congress of spreading vaccine hesitancy. West Bengal's Raiganj constituency in the Modi is expected to bring in young in charge of the health ministry as well as Pokhriyal, who tested positive for 2019 general elections. faces and give representation to various the science and technology ministry as the COVID-19 on April 21, was admitted Asked whether he has resigned from social groups and regions in the reshuffle, COVID pandemic broke and then India to the All India Institute of Medical the post of Labour Minister, Gangwar sources said after ministerial probables met worked to develop vaccines. Sciences (AIIMS) here in June again after answered in the affirmative. "Yes, I have the Prime Minister at his residence. However, his various comments in the developing post-COVID complications. resigned," he told media. Those who met Modi included middle of the crisis were slammed by many He has resigned from his post citing His resignation comes weeks after the BJP's Narayan Rane, Sarbananda as insensitive and ignorant of the ground health reasons, sources said. The former Gangwar had complained to Uttar Pradesh Sonowal, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Ajay Bhatt, reality, even as he strongly defended the Uttarakhand chief minister had taken Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath about Bhupender Yadav, Shobha Karandlaje, government's handling of the situation. charge as the HRD Minister in May 2019. the situation in his Bareilly constituency, Sunita Duggal, Meenakshi Lekhi, Bharati Vardhan had also hit out at the Opposition Dhotre, who represents the Akola saying officials don't take calls and Pawar, Shantanu Thakur and Kapil Patil, for its criticism of the government on the Lok Sabha constituency in Maharashtra, government health centres send back the JD-U's R C P Singh, the LJP's Pashupati handling of the pandemic, often accusing was made the MoS for Education, patients for 'referrals' from the district Paras and the Apna Dal's Anupriya Patel. former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi of Communications and Electronics and hospital. Some ministers of state, including G politicising the pandemic crisis. Information Technology in May 2019. This will be the first reshuffle in the Kishan Reddy, Parshottam Rupala and He had also replied to former prime Chaudhuri submitted her resignation in Council of Ministers by Prime Minister Anurag Thakur, were also there, and they minister Manmohan Singh's letter to Prime the morning, one of her close aides said. Narendra Modi since he assumed charge may be elevated, the sources said. Minister Narendra Modi and accused the She was elected to the Lok Sabha from for a second term in May 2019.

Amit Shah greets newly sworn-in ministers Four militants killed in New Delhi Ministers -- the first since tweeted in Hindi with a Home Minister Amit he assumed charge for a hashtag #Govt4Growth Shah greeted all Union second term in May 2019. In a major overhaul, separate gunbattles in J&K ministers who were "Congratulations to all Prime Minister Modi Srinagar He said the search operation turned sworn-in Wednesday and the colleagues who took brought in Sarbananda Four militants were killed in two into an encounter after militants opened expressed hope they would oath as the minister. I am Sonowal, Narayan Rane separate gunbattles with security forces firing on the security forces, who do their best in taking the sure that the entire cabinet and Jyotiraditya Scindia in in Kulgam and Pulwama districts of retaliated. welfare policies of the under the leadership of @ the Cabinet while dropping Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday, Two Lashkar-e-Taiba militants have Modi government to the narendramodi ji will make as many as 12 ministers police said. been killed in the operation which was people with full devotion its best contribution in including Health Minister and dedication to realise taking the welfare policies Harsh Vardhan, IT and Security forces launched a cordon going on till last reports came in. the resolve of a self-reliant of the government to the Law Minister Ravi Shankar and search operation in Zodar area of In another operation at Puchal in India. people with full devotion Prasad and I&B Minister Kulgam district following information Pulwama district, two militants have Prime Minister and dedication and in Prakash Javadekar. about presence of militants in the area, been killed, the official said, adding that Narendra Modi effected a realising the resolve of a police official said. further details were awaited. reshuffle in his Council of self-reliant India," Shah Across State Mumbai, Thursday 08-14 July 2021 19 SC directs Centre to submit expert committee report on aircraft fumigation New Delhi a US-based neurologist Dr Jai Kumar. The Supreme Court has directed Kumar had contended that spraying the Centre to submit the report of an of pesticides on planes with chemicals expert committee which was asked to like phenothrin, an organo-phosphorus ascertain whether spraying insecticides neurotoxin, was injurious to human or fumigation to ward off mosquitoes in health as their use carries risk of aircraft was harmful for passengers. causing cancer and auto-immune A bench headed by Justice D Y diseases like lupus, Parkinson's disease Chandrachud passed the order after and memory loss. Additional Solicitor General Aishwarya He had claimed that while all other Bhati informed that as a result of the airlines have stopped spraying of outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the pesticides, this practice is prevalent in expert committee which was to submit its Indian airlines. report in pursuance of the November 29, Indigo Airlines, which has moved 2019 and February 7, 2020 orders could the apex court after NGT refused to not complete its work. accept its several pleas for fumigation "Additional Solicitor General has of aircraft, has contended that the sought two months' time to complete the airports which are most affected by exercise.The proceedings shall now be mosquito problems are -- Kolkata, listed on September 7, 2021. The Union of Patna, Lucknow, Delhi, Guwahati, India shall apprise the Court of the report welfare had told the top court that spraying best practices followed internationally. Raipur, Ahmedabad, Chennai, Jaipur, of the Expert Committee in the meantime," of disinfectants was not harmful and it was The impact of disinsection on the health Pune, Bengaluru, Dehradun and the bench, also comprising Justice M R in accordance with guidelines of World and safety of passengers and crew. Bhubaneswar. Shah, said. Health Organisation. If disinsection is necessary, the It had said due to blanket ban the The apex court, which was hearing The apex court had directed the modalities to be followed for disinfection airlines were not able to take any step pleas against the National Green Tribunal's expert committee to enquire into all and the steps which are required to be for protection and safety of passengers, ban on spraying of disinfectants and relevant aspects bearing upon the need taken to ensure that adequate safeguards particularly in the monsoon season when pesticides in aircraft, had earlier said that for disinsection of aircraft as a measure are observed to protect the health and dengue and malaria cases are on rise. it was not in favour of a blanket restriction designed to control the spread of vector safety of passengers and crew who may be It was stated that the airline has and may allow it on some routes where borne diseases. exposed to disinsection, if disinfection already received numerous complaints mosquito problem was prevalent after the The committee shall look, if is required, the apex court had said. from flyers, some of whom have even committee submits its report. any, for disinsection of aircraft. The The green tribunal had initiated filed cases against the company in the The ministry of health and family recommendations made by WHO and the proceedings on an e-mail written by consumer fora. Dilip Kumar imitated Helen's dance moves with ease: Saira Banu New Delhi to give that come-hither look, he paid his own tribute Dilip Kumar was a great mimic and used to imitate to Hindi cinema's most adorable seductress," Saira the dance moves of Helen with effortless ease, according Banu wrote. to his wife Saira Banu. "I wish I had filmed it quietly to show all of you She recalled this trait of her husband in his what a good mimic he is," she also mentioned. autobiography "The Substance And The Shadow". Banu, Dilip Kumar once also tried to depict the difficult who wrote the foreword to the book published in 2014, steps of famous Kathak star Gopi Krishna from V wanted his admirers to be acquainted, through incidents Shantaram's "Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje" (1955). and episodes, with Dilip Kumar's "innate simplicity, "To add conviction to the dance performance, Dilip straightforwardness and immeasurable goodness of Sahab would recite the necessary tabla 'bols' (words) heart". exquisitely, chanting and doing 'chakkers' (rounds) like She considered her husband, who passed away a professional dancer, his tousled mop of hair bouncing Wednesday at the age of 98, a man full of joie de in a frenzy all over his forehead and you could not miss vivre (the joy of living) and as mischievous as a child on his leg (much like me) and he would romp around his mischievous eyes darting to and fro. We rolled over prankster. absentmindedly in the house impersonating me. It was on the ground with laughter," the book by Hay House "When I stopped my work in films and took over the a sight," she reminisced. India said. Once Gopi Krishna himself was a witness management of the house, sometime after marriage, my Another hilarious and perfect copy was his grand to one such spectacle, when he visited the couple with new avatar was replicated hilariously by Dilip Sahab depiction of the dancing queen Helen's famous cabaret the renowned danseuse Sitara Devi, it said. a few times having me and my mother in splits," she item, she said. According to Saira Banu, a man like Dilip Kumar wrote. "It had to be seen to be believed! His imitation of walks rarely on this earth. "He would perch a pair of spectacles on his head, the 'Monica, O my darling' number was mind-boggling! "I started my life as an admiring fan, and fortunate a telephone diary pressed under his arms, and carry a I was amazed! What a superb duplication he did of am I to marry him and see the different aspects and dress outfit precariously for showing to the tailor in one Helenji! He seductively projected his leg out of the slit qualities of this great human being who was not like hand while keeping one half of his pyjama drawn high of a towel and with the batting of his thick eyelashes any of the people I had met and spoken to... 20 Mumbai, Thursday 08-14 July 2021 Across State Richa Chadha’s initiative KINDry Indian Army names firing range is a social media platform to in Gulmarg after Vidya Balan share stories of hope Basking in the success of her recently released Odisha who rode a bike for 300 Sherni and making the nation proud by becoming km to hand over some money the only actor from 395 new invitees to join the to a family. The sole earner of a Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, family had gone missing from the governing body behind the Oscars, Vidya a Covid facility in Cuttack and Balan has now achieved yet another feat as a Patra found about it and went military firing range in Gulmarg, Kashmir, is all the way to just hand over named after the actress. Honouring the varied money and rode back. “Imagine accomplishments of Vidya, the Indian Army has a 75-year-old man riding a named a military firing range in Gulmarg as the bike for 10 long hours to help a Vidya Balan Firing Range. family in need.” Meanwhile, Vidya along with husband and Then there is Javed Khan producer Siddharth Roy Kapur had attended the from Bhopal, who turned Gulmarg Winter Festival organised by the Indian his auto rickshaw into a free Army in February this year. On the work front, oxygen ambulance for Covid Vidya is currently gearing up for her upcoming patients. And there is Dattatraya film with Tumhari Sulu director Suresh Triveni. Sawant from Ghatkopar East in Mumbai, a part-time English teacher, who started a free auto service for those in need of an ambulance. “Helping someone is 'Superman', 'Lethal Weapon' In the troubled times, it’s not always easy, sometimes hard news that gets amplified your personal, professional – the issues, the threats, the commitments leave little time director Richard Donner dies failure of the system. What or energy to do anything. But Veteran filmmaker Richard Donner, known three Academy Awards. It won a special Academy actor Richa Chadha has these are the people who chose for directing blockbuster and classic films such as Award for its visual effects. decided to do is to be the voice to rise to the occasion and serve "Superman", "The Goonies" and "Lethal Weapon" Despite the overwhelming success of of people who showed what selflessly.” franchise, has died. He was 91. "Superman", Donner was fired from the film's humanity is. For every death Not just featuring these Donner passed away on Monday, his producer- sequel due to his disputes with producers. Richard due to the want of oxygen, there inspiring stories, KINDry wife Lauren Schuler Donner told Deadline. Lester took over, though much of Donner's work was a person who selflessly has also become the space, However, she did not reveal the cause of his death. remains in the finished film. went beyond the call of duty, to where people are sharing Donner, whose real name was In 2006, "Superman II: The extend a helping hand. their stories of kindness and Richard Donald Schwartzberg, was Richard Donner Cut" was released KINDry is a social media artistes coming together born in New York to Jewish parents on DVD the same day that Bryan initiative that aims to amplify to offer respite with their in 1931. Singer's franchise reboot “Superman the real heroes in the Covid music and art. Her partner Ali Early in his career, Donner had Returns” debuted on home video. times. “While we all were Fazal is also a part of these aspired to be an actor but found his Donner was also known for shaken by the sight of bodies initiatives to amplify kindness, calling in direction. directing the 1985 adventure floating in the Ganga and “It’s a community effort to His early work included directing comedy "The Goonies". people gasping for oxygen, we bring us all together,” says episodes of television shows such Based on a story by filmmaker also saw stories of courage, Richa. as “The Rifleman", "The Twilight Steven Spielberg and written by kindness and empathy. Those Her upcoming projects Zone", "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.", Chris Columbus, "The Goonies" people chose to act selflessly include Fukrey 3, a web show "Gilligan's Island", and "Perry Mason". was a surprise hit and achieved cult status over and help those in need. called Candy, and a film, Abhi Donner made his feature directorial debut with the years. While political news or that Toh Party Shuru Hui Hai, with "X-15" in 1961 but his big breakthrough came 15 In the 1980s, Donner also started the blockbuster of death and destruction gets Anubhav Sinha. Inside Edge 3 years later when he directed the horror movie "The action franchise "Lethal Weapon", featuring rising prominently displayed, such is due to release soon. Omen" in 1976. Hollywood stars Mel Gibson and Danny Glover. inspiring stories get buried Also on the cards is the Starring Gregory Peck, David Warner and Lee Donner directed all four of the "Lethal Weapon" somewhere in newspapers,” wedding with Ali Fazal, but Remick, the film was a major box office hit and movies in an 11-year span. The movies grossed says Richa. that seems a little far away. got nominated for two Oscars, eventually taking more than USD 900 million globally. KINDry is neither a news “At least till our families get home one. Donner and Gibson also teamed up for portal nor an NGO, but a social the second dose of vaccine,” He found further acclaim when he directed "Maverick" (1994) and "Conspiracy Theory" in media initiative to spread such she says. She is planning 1978's "Superman", starring Chrisptoher Reeve as 1997. stories of hope. a live session with Khalsa the Man of Steel along with Margot Kidder, Marlon His directing credits also include the 1988 Richa pours over Aid founder Ravi Singh Brando, Gene Hackman and Ned Beatty. Christmas movie "Scrooged", the drama "Inside newspapers to find and fete for KINDry. “Punjabis are The Warner Bros blockbuster was made on a Moves" and 1992's coming-of-age drama "Radio such superheroes. “Each day, helpful. The situation in whopping USD 55 million budget and ultimately Flyer". I get bowled over by these Punjab was way better than it grossed more than USD 300 million at the global In the wake of the news of Donner's death, amazing stories,” admits Richa. was in UP or MP. People like box office. prominent Hollywood personalities, including She mentions Madusudan Patra, Ravi Singh, Sonu Sood have The first movie tentpole based on a superhero Spielberg, Gibson and "The Goonies" star Sean a 75- year-old farmer from led from the front!” comic character, "Superman" also got nominated for Astin paid their tributes. Across State The Stage Mumbai, Thursday 08-14 July 2021 21 Karan Johar's next titled 'Rocky Aur Rani Ki Prem Kahani'; sets ensemble cast led by Ranveer, Alia Filmmaker Karan Johar on wait to be on set with them! announcement" on his "special Tuesday announced his next #RockyAurRaniKiPremKahani day." directorial, a love story titled #RRKPK @aapkadharam "Presenting - 'Rocky Aur Rani "Rocky Aur Rani Ki Prem #JayaBachchan @azmishabana Ki Prem Kahani' along with my Kahani", featuring Ranveer Singh @RanveerOfficial @aliaa08 @ dazzling supernova Alia Bhatt, and Alia Bhatt in the lead. apoorvamehta18," he wrote on directed by the genre himself, The film, which marks Johar's Twitter. kaleidoscopic visionary Karan return to feature length direction Dharmendra and Bachchan Johar," he said. after the 2016 romantic drama have previously co-starred in The two Bollywood stars had "Ae Dil Hai Mushkil", also hit 1970s films like "Guddi", previously shared screen space stars Hindi cinema veterans her debut as a lead, "Chupke for filmmaker Zoya Akhtar's Dharmendra, Jaya Bachchan and Chupke", and "Sholay". Azmi critically-acclaimed music drama Shabana Azmi. and Dharmendra have earlier "Gully Boy" in 2019. Johar took to Twitter and worked together in "Khel Khilari Bhatt will next feature in shared the announcement teaser Ka" (1977) and "Mardon Wali Ayan Mukerji's "Brahmastra", SS of the film, written by Ishita Baat" (1988). Rajamouli's "RRR" and Sanjay Moitra, Shashank Khaitan and Johar said the film is not a Leela Bhansali's "Gangubai Sumit Roy. "regular love story" that audiences Kathiawadi". "Thrilled to get behind the have witnessed in the past. She recently started working lens with my favourite people in of the Year", the new movie Dharmendra and Azmi will "Rocky and Rani are going to on "Darlings", her first film as a front of it! Presenting 'Rocky Aur will mark the first collaboration be working with Johar, while redefine your usual love stories to producer. Rani Ki Prem Kahani', headlined between the filmmaker and Singh. Bachchan had famously take you on a journey," he said. Singh is currently awaiting by none other than Ranveer Singh Johar and Singh were earlier starred in the filmmaker's 2001 Bhatt, 28, also shared the release of sports drama "83", and Alia Bhatt and written by supposed to collaborate on the blockbuster "Kabhi Khushi the announcement on her directed by Kabir Khan, and also Ishita Moitra, Shashank Khaitan historical drama "Takht", which Kabhie Gham...". Instagram and wrote, "An make a special appearance in and Sumit Roy," the 49-year-old has been reportedly shelved. "Meet the legendary stars of exceptional love story with my Rohit Shetty's "Sooryavanshi". director tweeted. "Rocky Aur Rani Ki Prem Rocky Aur Rani Ki Prem Kahani. favourite people." The actor will also star in While Johar directed Bhatt in Kahani" will be released in 2022. We are all thrilled to work with Singh, who turned 36 on "Jayeshbhai Jordaar" and her 2012 debut movie "Student This will be the first time these veteran legends and I cannot Tuesday, said it was a "special "Cirkus", directed by Shetty. Mandira Bedi remembers Dharmendra ‘in a romantic role' with Jaya, husband Raj Kaushal: Shabana in Karan Johar's upcoming film Bollywood veteran Dharmendra on Tuesday afternoon took to Rest in peace, my Raji Instagram to share information Actor Mandira Bedi has about his comeback role in Karan dedicated an emotional post for late Johar's new film, "Rocky Aur Rani husband Raj Kaushal on Twitter. Ki Prem Kahani", saying he would Kaushal, known for directing be seen once again in a romantic movies like "Pyaar Mein Kabhi avatar. Kabhi" and "Shaadi Ka Laddoo", The film stars Ranveer Singh passed away on June 30 following and Alia Bhatt, with Dharmendra, a heart attack. Jaya Bachchan and Shabana Azmi Bedi took to Twitter late in pivotal roles. Monday evening and posted a "Friends, I am delighted to picture with Kaushal in which announce my new film, a love story the director is seen smiling and deeply embedded in the roots of pointing towards the camera. "Rip family, directed by Karan Johar. my Raji," the actor captioned I'm extremely excited for this as the picture with the heartbreak you will see me again in a romantic emoticon. role! Can't wait for you all to see me Bedi and Kaushal, who got married in 1999, have two children at the movies!" wrote Dharmendra -- son Vir and daughter Tara. in an Instagram caption. Kaushal's last rites were held at Shivaji Park crematorium, Dadar Dharmendra was last seen in the where close friends from the industry including actors Ronit Roy, Punjabi film "Double Di Trouble" in Sameer Soni, Ashish Chowdhry, and "Pyaar Mein Kabhi Kabhi" actor 2014 and the Hindi film "Tell Me O Dino Morea were present. Khuda" in 2011. 22 Mumbai, Thursday 08-14 July 2021 Sports Across State I will make a strong comeback - Hima New Delhi qualification standard in my new event 100m Star Indian sprinter Hima Das on Tuesday and 200m," Hima said in a post shared on her vowed to make a strong comeback in the twitter handle. major events next year after missing the Tokyo "I would like to thank my coaches, support Olympics due to an injury. staff and my teammates for their continuous One of the most exciting talents in Indian support. But I will make a strong comeback athletics, Hima had sustained a hamstring injury and looking forward to Commonwealth while running 100m heats during the National Games 2022, Asian Games 2022 and World Inter-State Athletics Championships last month. Championship 2022." Hima burst onto the The 21-year-old was forced to pull out of the scene after winning 400m gold in the World 100m and 4x100m relay finals due to the injury. Junior Championships in Finland in 2018. She ran in the 200m final but finished fifth to miss Besides winning an individual 400m silver, out of the Tokyo Olympics. she was also a part of gold-winning women's "I will miss my first Olympics due to 4x400m relay and mixed 4x400m relay teams untimely injury when I was close to achieve the in the 2018 Asian Games

Virus outbreak forces England Huge honour to be named to select new cricket squad flagbearer at Tokyo London Olympics, says Manpreet England was forced to select a New Delhi ceremony of the 2016 Games in completely new squad on Tuesday Celebrated boxer MC Mary Rio de Janeiro. for the one-day international Kom and men’s hockey team “This is amazing, and I am series against Pakistan after skipper Manpreet Singh will be speechless. I think it’s a huge an outbreak of the coronavirus the country’s flagbearers at the honour to be named the flagbearer infected three players and four opening ceremony of the Tokyo for the opening ceremony members of staff. Olympics, the Indian Olympic alongside the incredible Mary The initially selected squad Association (IOA) announced Kom,” Manpreet was quoted as went into isolation following the today. One of India’s biggest saying in a Hockey India release. results of tests taken on Monday, medal hopes, wrestler Bajrang “I have always been inspired a day after the team’s last ODI of England’s men’s cricket, “and drafted in will need to submit Punia, will be the flagbearer at by her journey in boxing and against Sri Lanka in Bristol. I’m proud of how everyone has negative tests and complete the closing ceremony on August personally for me, this is a big The names of those who come together in order to get it “bridging protocols” before 8. The IOA has communicated moment in my career, and it is tested positive have not been done”. joining the squad in Cardiff. the decision in this regard to also a huge moment for hockey. disclosed. The remainder of the Most of those who tested That match will take place the organising committee of I thank the IOA for this great group were identified as close positive are without symptoms, in front of a 50% capacity the Tokyo Games. In a first, opportunity, and am looking contacts. the England and Wales Cricket crowd, with the second game at India will have two flagbearers forward to the responsibility The three ODIs and three Board said, but some are feeling Lord’s on Saturday representing — one male and one female at the opening ceremony in Twenty20s against Pakistan, unwell. cricket’s first 100% crowd since — at the upcoming Games to Tokyo,” he added. The Tokyo starting on Thursday with the first All players in the initial squad the pandemic began. The series ensure “gender parity”. This was Games are scheduled to open ODI in Cardiff, were still going received at least one vaccine then concludes at Edgbaston. recently informed by IOA chief on July 23 and over 100 Indian ahead and at the same venues. jab, but not everyone was fully Stokes has been pulled out Narinder Batra. “It would be a athletes would be gunning for England’s revised, hastily vaccinated. “We have been of Durham’s English County huge moment for me given that it podium finishes at the showpiece, assembled ODI squad includes mindful that the emergence of Championship match against is my last Olympics. Who knows which was postponed by a year nine new caps and will be the delta variant, along with our Warwickshire. He had been left I might even get emotionally because of the pandemic. At its captained for the first time by move away from the stringent out originally by England in a bid overwhelmed,” Mary Kom told executive board meeting last Ben Stokes and coached by Chris enforcement of bio-secure to manage his comeback from a PTI. “I am truly honoured to year, the International Olympic Silverwood, who had been due environments, could increase finger operation. get this opportunity of leading Committee had made provisions to take some time off during the the chances of an outbreak,” ECB Revised England squad: the team out during the opening for flagbearers from both genders white-ball series but has been chief executive Tom Harrison Ben Stokes (captain), Jake Ball, ceremony and I thank the sports at the opening ceremony. “...the pressed back into action. said. “We made a strategic choice Danny Briggs, Brydon Carse, ministry and IOA for naming me. IOC executive board also decided The initial squad will be back to try to adapt protocols, in order Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Lewis It would be added motivation that there should be — for the in time to play the T20 series, to support the overall wellbeing Gregory, Tom Helm, Will Jacks, for me. I promise to do my best first time ever — at least one which starts on July 16. of our players and management Dan Lawrence, Saqib Mahmood, for a medal,” the six-time world female and one male athlete in “We’re in unprecedented staff who have spent much of Dawid Malan, Craig Overton, champion added. The country’s every one of the 206 teams and territory in terms of replacing an the last 14 months living in very Matt Parkinson, David Payne, sole individual Olympics gold the IOC Refugee Olympic Team entire squad and management restricted conditions.” The Phil Salt, John Simpson, James medallist Abhinav Bindra was participating at the Games,” IOC team,” said Ashley Giles, director new 18-man squad and staff Vince. the flagbearer at the opening chief Thomas Bach had said Across State Get Set Go... Mumbai, Thursday 08-14 July 2021 23

Dubai in 1984 and the last position among bowlers India skipper time in 1995, while after returning with Mithali Raj on Tuesday New Zealand’s Debbie figures of three for 33 Mithali Raj reclaims number reclaimed the number Hockley is the only and two for 36. one spot in the women’s other female batter to Kate Cross’ haul of ODI rankings after have been No. 1 more five for 34 in the second one spot in ICC ODI rankings more than three years than 10 years apart – match of the series has following a stellar show first achieving the feat helped her reach 18th in the three-match series in 1987 and for the final position from 25th. against England. time in 1997. Nat Sciver and Sarah India lost the series Big-hitting India Glenn have both moved 1-2 but the 38-year-old opener Shafali Verma’s up one place to reach Raj hit a half-century in scores of 44 and 19 in 22nd and 43rd positions, each of the contest. the last two ODIs of respectively. She struck 72 and the series saw her gain In the Women’s 59 in the first two ODIs 49 places to reach 71st T20I Player Rankings, and then guided India position while veteran Pakistan spinner Nida to a four-wicket victory pacer Jhulan Goswami is Dar, who became the in the final match of the up four places to 53rd. first woman from her series with an unbeaten In the bowlers’ country to the milestone 75, gaining four spots list, all-rounder Deepti of a 100 T20I wickets, to reach the top of the Sharma is up one place has gained six spots ladder. She last occupied to 12th after finishing to reach 15th position the top spot in February with figures of three for after finishing with four 2018. 47 in the final match. wickets in a three-match The first time she For England, opener series against the West reached number one Lauren Winfield-Hill has Indies. position was in April advanced 14 places to For the West Indies, 2005 after scoring an 41st position with scores Shamilia Cornell has unbeaten 91 against New of 42 and 36 while moved up 14 slots to Zealand at the World Sophia Dunkley has 27th place while captain Cup in Potchefstroom soared 80 places to 76th Stafanie Taylor has and the difference of after scoring 73 not out advanced 10 places to more than 16 years at and 28. reach 42nd position after No.1 is the largest for Left-arm spinner claiming a hat-trick and any woman batter. Sophie Ecclestone finishing with four for England’s Janette continues her ascent, 17 in the last match. Brittin was number gaining four places to Fatima Sana is up 85 one for the first time reach a career-best sixth places to 94th.

Rashid Khan to captain Afghanistan in T20Is New Delhi by senior ACB leadership led by captaincy, saying that he believes he Star leg-spinner Rashid Khan ACB Chairman Farhan Yousefzai, for is more valuable as a player than as was on Tuesday appointed captain the role considering his experience, a leader. of Afghanistan's T20 team by the brilliant performance as well as In 2019, the 22-year-old was country's cricket board keeping in leadership skills with the National named captain across formats but mind the shortest format World Cup team over the years." Rashid, who is was later replaced by Asghar Afghan to be held in UAE from October 17 ranked world no 2 among bowlers in in December following Afghanistan's to November 14. T20Is, said he is honoured to serve loss to West Indies in a one-off Test Left-handed batsman Najibullah his nation. and ODI series. Zadran was appointed as the vice- "I'm a great believer that a Afghanistan has been clubbed captain of the team. captain is as good as his team. It is with England, India and South Africa "All-rounder Rashid Khan has Afghanistan that gave me the name in group B for the T20 World Cup been appointed the T20I captain RASHID KHAN & it is my duty 2021. The remaining two teams will of Team Afghanistan. Meanwhile now to serve my country & my team. be chosen from the Qualifiers. Najibullah Zadran has been appointed Thank you @ACBofficials for the The 2021 edition of the the National Team's Vice-captain for trust & believing in me. It is a dream tournament was recently shifted to the format," Afghanistan Cricket journey & my fans support will be the UAE from India due to the second Board said in a statement. key," Rashid tweeted. wave of COVID-19 pandemic. "Rashid, one of the well-known Interestingly, Rashid had global faces of the game, was selected earlier declined Afghanistan's T20I color

24 Mumbai, Thursday 08-14 July 2021 Last Page Across State Kohli retains 5th spot, Rahul

Dubaiclimbs to 6th in ICC T20I rankingsinching up from 26th to 25th. Indian skipper Virat Kohli For Sri Lanka, captain Kusal retained his fifth position while Perera is up one place to 41st wicketkeeper-batsman KL Rahul after scoring 82 runs in the gained one spot to be in sixth series, while Dhananjaya de place in the latest ICC T20I Silva has gained 10 slots to reach rankings. 74th position. In the men's T20I With 762 points, Kohli is rankings, South Africa's Quinton behind England's David Malan e Kock has advanced nine places (888 points), Australia white- to 13th after aggregating 255 ball skipper Aaron Finch (830), runs in their five-match series Pakistan captain Babar Azam against the West Indies. Aiden (828) and New Zealand opener Markram is up 23 places to 19th Devon Conway (774). position while George Linde (up Rahul, who has 743 points, 30 places to 43rd) and Lungi and Australia all-rounder Glenn Ngidi (up 25 places to 56th) are Maxwell have climbed a rung among the bowlers to gain after each to be placed sixth and in the top 10, dropped a spot the list led by New Zealand's places to 37th position after a their 3-2 win. seventh respectively. to sixth place, while Ravindra Trent Boult with Bangladesh's 'Player of the Series' effort of nine For the West Indies, Evin Rahul and Kohli are the only Jadeja remained in the ninth Mehidy Hasan Miraz in second wickets that included a haul of Lewis is up one place to ninth two Indians to feature in the top- position in the all-rounders' list. place. four for 64 in the second match, position after finishing with 178 10 among batsmen. No Indian England all-rounder Chris Woakes' previous best was while Curran's four wickets in runs. Nicholas Pooran has gained features in the top-10 among Woakes reached a career-best fourth position attained in two matches saw him advance 20 20 places to reach 87th position bowlers and all-rounders in the third position among bowlers September last year. He is also places to 68th position. while Shimron Hetmyer is up 15 latest T20I rankings. after a fine show against Sri up one place to third among all- England's 2-0 series win, places to 99th. In the ODI rankings, Kohli Lanka in the three-match ICC rounders after overtaking team- which helped them to the top All-rounder Dwayne Bravo and vice-captain Rohit Sharma Men's ricket World Cup Super mate, Ben Stokes. of the CWC Super League has moved from 95th to 44th remained in the top five, League series. Other England fast bowlers Standings also sees Test captain among bowlers after finishing occupying the second and third Woakes, who grabbed six David Willey and Tom Curran, Joe Root move up two places with 10 wickets in the series spots respectively, behind Azam. wickets in two matches, including too, have gained in the latest to 13th position with a series- while Obed McKoy has moved Indian pace ace Japrit Bumrah, a haul of four for 18 in the first men's weekly rankings update. topping aggregate of 147 runs and up 65 places to 53rd with nine the lone bowler from the country ODI, has advanced four slots in Willey has moved up 13 white-ball skipper Eoin Morgan wickets. Became a fan of cinema because of Dilip Kumar, says Manoj Kumar Mumbai "I remember the time when I went to Working with the legendary star in Remembering the impact Dilip Kumar watch Dilip Kumar sahib in 'Shabnam' "Kranti" was a "dream come true moment had on his generation of cine-goers, which was released in 1949. It is because for me", Manoj Kumar said. veteran actor Manoj Kumar on Wednesday of him that I became a fan of cinema. I fell "I would keep looking at him, observe said the screen icon inspired him to in love with his character in the film whose how he would be on sets and how he would become an actor. name was Manoj. I must be 11-year-old perform so effortlessly. Working with Manoj Kumar's love affair with cinema then but I instantly decided that if and Dilip Kumar sahib I observed that he was started when he watched Dilip Kumar's whenever I become an actor I will keep not someone who would be happy with "Shabnam" as an 11 year old. Such was my name as Manoj Kumar," he said. flattery. He only liked good and honest the magic of the screen icon's performance Years later, Manoj Kumar, star of people," he recalled. on the young Harikishan Giri Goswami several films like "Woh Kaun Thi?" "Kranti", also produced by Manoj that he decided to adopt the name of Dilip and "Purab Aur Paschim", landed an Kumar, was penned by Salim-Javed, and Kumar's character from the 1949 film as It is the end of an era. They all will not opportunity to share screen space with marked the return of Dilip Kumar to films his screen name. come back again. But their legacy will Dilip Kumar and direct him in the 1981 after a five-year hiatus. That's how Harikishan Giri Goswami remain for years to come," he told media. film "Kranti". The film also starred Shashi Kapoor, became Manoj Kumar when he joined the "Shabnam" follows the story of Shanti His joy knew no bounds when Dilip Hema Malini, Shatrughan Sinha, Parveen movies in the late '50s. (Kamini Kaushal) and Manoj (Dilip Kumar boarded the period drama in an Babi, Sarika, Prem Chopra, Madan Puri, Manoj Kumar, now 83, said it is the Kumar), refugees of the 1942 Rangoon instant, he said. Paintal and Pradeep Kumar. end of an era with the passing of his idol war, who fall in love while on the way to "We only had Dilip Kumar in mind "Kranti" was a huge blockbuster as and co-star Dilip Kumar. Bengal. While Manoj is wooed by a gypsy for 'Kranti'. When I told him the story of it had a golden jubilee run across many "Ashok Kumar, Raj Kapoor, Dev woman, a landlord is smitten by Shanti, 'Kranti', he said yes in two minutes. I was centres in India. Anand and now Dilip Kumar passed away. thus leading to misunderstandings. overjoyed."

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