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Some more flights are evacuation exercise following even after over two months of planned in the days to come to the Taliban takeover of the launch. safely bring back stranded country, Union Housing and However, after about two Indian citizens from Urban Affairs Minister days of the portal being Afghanistan. Hardeep Singh Puri on unavailable, Infosys late on A team of Indian officials Sunday cited the evacuations Sunday said emergency main- is now based in Kabul to assist from Afghanistan to back the tenance on the website has con- those Indians who want to controversial Citizenship cluded and it is now live. tain functionalities were either return home. However, the Amendment Act (CAA). The Infosys India Business, which unavailable or working slow. operations will depend on law allows citizenship to per- is the Twitter handle of Infosys Consequently, the I-T those willing to return being secuted non-Muslims who India Business unit, in a tweet department had to allow man- able to reach the airport. The reached India before 2015. on Sunday evening said: “The ual filing of remittance forms Taliban has set up checkpoints “Recent developments in emergency maintenance of the and also extend due dates for at various places in the Afghan our volatile neighbourhood @IncomeTaxIndia portal has electronic filing of forms relat- capital and roads leading to it and the way Sikhs & Hindus Taliban takeover of concluded and the portal is live. ed to intimation by pension from other provinces, sources                          are going through a harrow- Afghanistan has triggered an We regret any inconvenience funds and sovereign wealth said here on Sunday.        ! ing time are precisely why it exodus, especially of foreign- caused to taxpayers.” funds. Giving details of the oper- was necessary to enact the ers, religious and sectarian The new income tax e-fil- “Ministry of Finance has ation to fly back the lucky ones Afghan Sikhs and Hindus, said.Separately, 135 Indians, said. “India is our 2nd home. Citizenship Amendment Act,” minorities. ing portal Incometax.Gov.In, summoned Salil Parekh, MD to New Delhi and Hindon were flown from Kabul to who were earlier evacuated Even if we are Afghans and live the Minister tweeted, quoting Over the past week, hun- developed by Infosys, had a &CEO @Infosys on 23/08/2021 near the national Capital on Hindon airbase near Delhi in from Kabul to Doha in the last in that country, people often a media report on the evacu- dreds of Afghan Sikhs and bumpy start from the day of its to explain to FM as to why even Sunday, officials said the res- a C-17 Globemaster transport few days by the US and NATO call us Hindustanis. I thank ation of 168 people - which Hindus have been lining up at launch on June 7, as it contin- after 2.5 months since launch cued people included two aircraft of the IAF on Sunday. aircraft were flown back from India for extending its helping included 23 Afghan Sikhs the Kabul international air- ued to face tech glitches with of new e-filing portal, glitches Afghan Members of Another group of 87 the Qatari capital city to Delhi hand,” Khalsa told reporters and Hindus - from Kabul by port, looking for a way out of users complaining that cer- in the portal have not been Parliament. With the latest Indians and two Nepalese on a special flight, they said. atHindon airbase near Delhi. the Indian Air Force. The Afghanistan. evacuation, the number of nationals were brought back in The group of 168 people, people flown in by India from a special Air India flight from who were evacuated from Kabul since last Monday Dushanbe, a day after they Kabul, included Afghan law- -   reached 590. were evacuated to the makers Anarkali Honaryar    A total of 168 people, Tajikistan capital in an IAF C- and Narender Singh Khalsa     ! including 107 Indians and 23 130J transport aircraft, officials and their families, sources  ! #              $      )*))+ Kabul: A panicked crush of    ,       people trying to enter Kabul’s international airport killed day before the reopening of        seven Afghan civilians in the Athe Shree Mandir for peo- crowds, the British military ple from all over world, a spe- hubaneswar on Monday ith Afghanistan and said on Sunday, showing the cial centre was set up by police Bregistered 237 Covid-19 WPakistan being the only danger still posed to those on Sunday to take feedbacks positive cases; and with this, two countries in the world trying to flee the Taliban’s from devotees. Devotees can the total tally in the capital city where polio is still endemic, takeover of the country. US submit their feedbacks on increased to 1,05,512.Out of India on Sunday said as a pre- Secretary of State Antony police service at temple either the 237 new cases, 160 were ventive measure it has decid- Blinken too on Sunday manually by submitting a form local contacts and 77 from ed to give polio vaccinating to described as “incredibly or an online QR code scanning quarantine. The local con- those returning from the vio- volatile” the situation at the system. Police have set up QR tacts included 10 cases in lence-hit nation. airport and said several citizens code scanners at parking lots Patia, followed by nine in IRC Union Health Minister had died. The deaths come as and some other important Village and seven each in Mansukh Mandaviya said this a new, perceived threat from !          $  %  $ #  places where devotees can send Khandagiri and on Sunday even as he shared a the Islamic State group affili-     #        their feedbacks online, police Dumduma.The active cases photo where returnees could be ate in Afghanistan has seen US sources said. Meanwhile, police in the city stood at 3,379. seen getting jabs at the Delhi military planes do rapid, div- the US Embassy issued a new threat but described it as sig- have deployed 10 platoons of Meanwhile, one more international airport. In 2014, ing combat landings at the air- security warning telling citi- nificant. They said there have force, an Additional SP and 20 patient succumbed to the dis- India was officially declared    "#           port surrounded by Taliban zens not to travel to the Kabul been no confirmed attacks as other officers to regulate crowd ease in the city, pushing the polio-free, along with the rest fighters.Other aircraft have airport without individual yet by the militants, who have in and around the temple total death toll to 980. of the South-East Asia Region. and fIPV, as a preventive mea- ensure public health. Take a shot off flares on takeoff, an instruction from a US battled the Taliban in the past. Notably, after allowing Sevayat However, 183 persons recov- “We have decided to vac- sure against the Wild Polio look at the vaccination drive at effort to confuse possible heat- Government representative. On Sunday, the British military families and Puri citizens ear- ered from the disease in the cinate Afghanistan returnees Virus. Congratulations to the Delhi International Airport,” seeking missiles targeting the Officials declined to provide acknowledged the seven deaths lier, temple is now to reopen for last 24 hours, increasing the with free polio vaccine - OPV Health Team for their efforts to Mandaviya tweeted. planes. The changes come as more specifics about the IS of civilians in crowds in Kabul. devotees from Monday. total recoveries to 1,01,079.     %&      !    R                  %   (   !   !           fter exposing the murky     Adeals of a section of Hurriyat    leaders who were found selling # t least 2,800 trees will be Pakistan-based MBBS seats to he Jagannath Temple here, Achopped for the develop- fund terrorism in the Kashmir Twhich is closed for public ment of the proposed Rs between the Uttar Pradesh Valley, the Union Government    Nayagarh 22, Kendrapada and since April 24 due to the Covid- 242.14-crore Ayodhya airport Government and Airport is set to impose a permanent ban     Mayurbhanj 21 each, 19 situation, would reopen for in Uttar Pradesh. However, Authority of India (AAI), on both factions of the Hurriyat  Sambalpur 19, Bhadrak 18, all devotees from Monday.The the Government is making which is project proponent. Conference under the stringent Keonjhar 16, Deogarh 13, darshan timings would be from sure that nature does not pay Besides 2,800 trees, the AAI has Unlawful Activities (Prevention)   Bargarh and Sundargarh 12 7 am to 7 pm. The temple for the developmental projects identified at least 298 other Act (UAPA).   each, Ganjam 11, Dhenkanal would remain closed for pub- in Ayodhya. The plantation of obstacles, including seven cell The Hurriyat Conference 10, Rayagada four, Kalahandi lic darshan on all Saturdays and more than 7,87,00,000 trees has towers, four each electric poles was formed in 1993 with 26 : The State and Koraput three each, Sundays as a measure to con- mitted. Jagannath Ballav Math premise been stipulated under com- and sign boards, which will be groups, including some pro- on Sunday reported a Balangir and Jharsuguda two tain the spread of CovidID-19  Chewing of tobacco/ or any other designated place. pensatory afforestation as per removed during its construc- Pakistan and banned outfits decreased Covid-19 caseload of each and Gajapati, Kandhamal, and sanitise the shrine’s premis- paan and spitting inside the  Queue system would the projects. tion, said the DPR prepared by such as the Jamaat-e-Islami, the 853 in the 30 districts and the Malkangiri and Subarnapur es. The following are the guide- temple premises is prohibited. open from 7 am. Devotees will The Yogi Government’s pet the AAI. JKLF and the Dukhtaran-e- State pool. With this, the total one each. Besides, 59 positives lines for devotees: A fine of Rs 500 would be make entry through the barri- project, Ayodhya Airport, is While seeking its approval Millat (DeM) among others. The tally rose to 10,00,937. were detected from the State  It is mandatory to wear levied for each violation. cades opposite to the shoe- planned to be developed in from the Central green panel, grouping also included the Notably, the State had Pool.Meanwhile, another 66 masks inside and outside the  There is a complete ban stand situated on the north-east Faziabad city. It will be serving the project proponent has People’s Conference and the recorded 911 positives on patients succumbed to the dis- temple. on carrying polythene bags side of the temple complex. the districts of Bahraich, enlisted a range of benefits it Awami Action Committee Saturday.And again, out of the ease, surging the total death toll  Devotees should sanitise inside the temple. A fine of Rs  Devotees would have to Gonda, Sultanpur, Amethi and will bring in such as better headed by Mirwaiz Umer new cases, 100 children in the to 7,358 in the State, the Health their hands before entering 100 would be levied for each produce the final certificate for Basti in eastern Uttar Pradesh infrastructure facilities for air Farooq. age group of 0 and 18 years and Family Welfare into the temple. violation. Covid-19 vaccination (of hav- The proposed airport, to be passengers, promotion of The original separatist con- tested positive.A total of 67,834 Department said. The maxi-  They should maintain  There will be no par- ing taken two doses) or Covid- known as Maryada tourism, trade, commerce, etc., glomerate broke into two fac- samples were tested in the last mum 13 deaths each were physical distance. taking of Mahaprasad at negative certificate (RT PCR) of Purushottam Sriram Airport, and increase in regional econ- tions in 2005. The moderate 24 hours and the test positivi- reported from Cuttack and  They would not touch Ananda Bazar and temple testing done within 96 hours Ayodhya, will be spread over omy as it will boost tourism group was led by the Mirwaiz ty rate (TPR) was 1.25 per cent. Jagatsinghpur districts followed the statues or idols inside the premises. However, the devo- prior to their visit to the tem- 347.62 acres (140.67 ha) of and commercial activities in and the hard-line faction was The active cases in the State by Dhenkanal 11, Angul and temple. tees can carry Mahaprasad and ple. land, including 177.62 acres the region, besides more headed by Syed Ali Shah stood at 9,302. Out of the new Kendrapada eight each, Jajpur  It is prohibited to take partake it at their places of res-  Devotees are to bring needed for existing runway. employment opportunities for Geelani. Both factions are esti- cases, 496 were from quaran- five, Baleswar, Bhadrak and flowers/ bhoga/ deepa inside idence or any other convenient their photo ID card like About 170 acres (68.79 ha) of the locals.The State mated to have linkages with tine and 357 local contacts. three each and the temple. There will be big place. Aadhaar/ Voter ID, etc. additional land has already Government is providing extra Pakistan’s ISI-Army combine reported the Nabarangpur and Nayagarh containers placed at the  There will be a separate  They would enter the been hand over by the district land free of cost for the further as also the political parties there, day's highest 286 cases followed one each.However, another entrance, where such items queue for differently-abled temple through the administration for the pro- expansion and for construction sources in the security agencies by Cuttack with 140, Baleswar 1,078 patients recovered on can be dropped. devotees for darshan. Singhadwar. After the darshan, posed development activities. of a terminal. About two air- said.The Centre had earlier 46, Puri 35, Jajpur 33, the day increasing the total  Lighting of deepas  Parking of the vehicles the exit would be through the The pact for the development craft will be operated per day banned the Jamaat-e-Islami and Jagatsinghpur 32, Angul 29, recoveries to 9,85,302. inside the temple is not per- would be done only at the Uttaradwar. of the airport has been signed in proposed Ayodhya Airport. the JKLF under the UAPA.    !  #$% &  '( )*+ ),)-  

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Chandan derstorm and lightning is very BHUBANESWAR: The 160th Preliminary investigation managed to extract Rs. 3 crore s soon as the State likely to occur at one or two birth anniversary of poet he Economic Offences revealed that the contractor (approximately) from the con- AGovernment provides the places over districts of Gangadhar Meher was cele- TWing (EOW) of the Crime Champatiray was in search of tractor in various phased, land for the proposed electric Mayurbhanj, Keonjhar, brated here on Sunday by the Branch on Sunday arrested work order during Covid-19 towards the EMD,” the EOW loco periodical overhauling Baleswar, Bhadrak, Jajpur, Gangadhar Meher Jayanti two persons on the charge of pandemic.In May, he along said. (POH) workshop at Narla in Kendrapada, Cuttack, Committee, the Culture committing a Rs 3-crore fraud with his relative visited the Out of the Rs 3 crore, Kalahandi district, the project Jagatsinghpur, Puri, Khordha , Department and the Utkal by impersonating as accused self-styled Godman about Rs. 1.14 crore was works would begin, said Nayagarh, Ganjam, Gajapti and Sammilani. Jayanti Committee Tourism Development Bijayanandaji Maharaj at his deposited in the personal Minister of Railway Ashwini Dhenkanal from 8.30 am on advisor Narendra Kumar Corporation (OTDC) officials. residence in Cuttack. account of Chandan in Andhra Vaishnaw during his visiting to August 25 till 8.30 am on Mishra and chairman Sanjeeb The mastermind was iden- Posing himself as the Bank, Lewis Road branch in Kalahandi on Saturday. August 26. Similar weather con- Chandra Hota and others paid tified as Chandan Akash Chairman of OTDC Ltd and Bhubaneswar. Pointing out that while ditions are likely to continue their tributes to the legendary Mohanty, who was a contrac- Member of ITDC Ltd, the “All those work orders are more than 300 acres land is district and solve peoples’ prob- would be expedited. The over districts of Mayurbhanj, poet by paying floral tributes to tual Assistant Engineer in Baba also introduced found to be fake and prepared required for the project, 141 lem. As Prime Minister Modiji Minister said, “I offered my Baleswar, Bhadrak, Keonjhar, his statue at Gangadhar Meher OTDC, Bhubaneswar, while Champatiray with accused by using forged signature and acres has been provided by the belongs to a common family, prayers to the deity Maa Jajpur, Dhenkanal, Kendrapada, Marg near Kalinga Hospital the other conspirator is Chandan Akash Mohanty. seal and not issued from State Government so far, he we don’t have to learn from Manikeswari here at Cuttack, Jagatsinghpur, Square.Utkal Sammilani Bijayananda Choudhury alias Both the Baba and Chandan OTDC Ltd. It has been ascer- appealed to the citizens of others,” the Minister said point- Bhawanipatna. As the Prime Sundargarh, Angul and Mancheswar branch president Swami Bijayanandaji Maharaj, promised to provide work tained that out of the above a Kalahandi to press for the ing to the State Government. Minister has given me my Deogarh from 8.30 am of Dillip Dashsharma presided a self-proclaimed Baba, said order to Champatiray in huge amount of money has required land. While attending a meeting responsibility, I must fulfil it.” August 26 to 8.30 am of August over the function. Journalist EOW Bhubaneswar SP respect of works from OTDC been paid to accused Baba The Indian Railways had at Bhawanipatna, Vaishnaw Vaishnaw was accompa- 27. The SRC directed Collectors Pradumyna Satpathy, former Gagarin Mohanty.The duo was Ltd and instructed him to Bijayananda Choudhury by sanctioned the project in the said a rail line project from nied by Kalahandi MP Basanta to take steps to circulate warn- committee advisor Sukadeb arrested on the basis of a com- deposit money towards EMD Chandan,” the EOW said. The 2017-18 Budget with an esti- Junagarh to Ambaguda would Panda. BJP district leaders ing message among public. The Meher, vice-president plaint filed by an OTDC offi- in the personal account of investigating agency is trying to mated cost of Rs 186.37 crore. be started soon. All the pend- Debendra Mohanty, Bhabendra Collectors also is asked to mon- Brahmananda Meher, Niranjan cial. Chandan had cheated a Chandan. "During the period ascertain the involvement of “I am here to get the blessings ing projects along with expan- Panda, Badri Narayan Pattnaik, itor situation closely and take Dash, Sital Mohanty and special class contractor, from August to November, others including that of OTDC of common people. My aim is sion of railway line to Sudhir Ranjan Pattjoshi, among action as deemed necessary in Madhumadhab Jena spoke Dhanurdhara Champatiray by 2020, Chandan had handed officials in the racket. to connect the railway in the Dharmagarh from Junagarh others, were present. case of any eventuality. about poets contributions.PNS %   ##( "( #$% &  $!$!  %*   Q" R   #   #&(" !! "JSPL will participate in the !    )**+ forthcoming auction of the !  R     Iron ore mines. Irrespective of BHUBANESWAR: Inmates of treating Covid-19 patients. the auction's outcome, we are BHUBANESWAR: Even the SOS Children's Villages of They made hundreds of Rakhis   3 2  BHUBANESWAR: Jindal Steel confident that the State though Bhubaneswar India here, an independent and cards carrying words of & Power Ltd (JSPL) chairman Government would make all Municipal Corporation (BMC) and nonprofit organisation love and gratitude all by them- ewly-elected president of Naveen Jindal met Chief efforts to protect the raw mate- has launched several cleanli- working towards holistic devel- selves and chose to tie them to NUtkal Journalists’ Secretary SC Mahapatra on rial security for industrial units ness drives for preventing opment of parentless children, the doctors, nurses, and staffs Association Pramod Kumar Saturday and thanked the State in Odisha and promote value dengue, as many as 52 people women and children belonging of the AIIMS Bhubaneswar. Pattnaik was felicitated by the Government for approving the addition of the raw material tested positive for vector-borne to vulnerable families, made The children’s gesture over- Nayagarh district branches of JSPL’s proposed expansion of its within the State under its pre- disease in city in last 24 hours, the occasion of Raksha whelmed the entire AIIMS the Digital Media Association, Angul steel plant from 6 MTPA emption scheme." JSPL EVP This has surged the total num- Bandhan on Sunday a memo- team. AIIMS Bhubaneswar Print Media and Utkal to 25.2 MTPA by 2030. Jindal (corporate affairs) Bibhu ber of patients in city to 1,662, rable one for healthcare pro- Medical Superintendent Journalists’ Association on Journalists, lit the lamp. also had a meeting with Steel Prasad Mishra, vice-president according to sources. Out of fessionals in the line of duty of Sachidananda Mohanty Friday. Representatives of journalists & Mines Secretary DK Singh. in the meeting. Talking to the Ashish Pandey and president total cases, 1,153 patients have expressed his gratitude to the A meeting was held at the from Ranpur, Odgaon, Jindal said that when the plant media, Jindal appreciated the (CSR & sustainability) Prashant recovered while rest 519 are SOS Village children. SOS Pathani Samanta Auditorium Nuagaon, Nayagarh, Dasapalla is expanded, it would be the State Government’s existing Hota were also present. undergoing treatment at dif- Children’s Villages of India in the Nayagarh Sadar sub-divi- were present. Pramod Pattnaik world’s largest steel plant in a preemption policy for ensuring Presently, the JSPL is the largest ferent hospitals. Ironically, the secretary general Sumanta Kar sion. Social activist Kishan Das was presented bouquets of single location as per present raw materials to the State- investor in the State in the iron affected people are in a dilem- said, “Our children are well- and journalist Pradeep Kumar flowers on behalf of the print capacities. JSPL managing based steel industries. He laud- and steel sector with an invest- ma whether they are sick due aware of the sacrifices the doc- Rath joined as guests while media bodies. Pattnaik in his director VR Sharma, finance ed the efforts to conduct auc- ment of over ?45,000 crore. In to dengue or Covid-19 as some tors, nurses and administrators Prabhakar Shiromani, execu- speech said that there should be director NK Mishra, Manish tion of iron ore blocks in a next ten years, company would of symptoms of both diseases of hospitals make to save lives tive member of the Federation a law for adequate protection of Kharbanda and other senior transparent and expeditious increase the investment to are almost same. PNS during the pandemic.” PNS of Indian Professional working journalists. officials accompanied Jindal manner. MD Sharma said, more than ?1,00,000 crore.PNS  P" O    P  O       $  '

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. /         cementing the cracks that when ill-informed, parochial or fear and the head is held high; appear in our national life. self-centric. This is not a call for Where knowledge is free; time so much slowly that we its accomplishment is solely least in the national interest and worse’ future, however, we can We cannot afford any further to an anti-majoritarian approach Where the clear stream of rea- don’t know as to when we dependent on how we take it accepting and respecting each still get back but absolutely not carry on with this politics of but an effort to make the son has not lost its way into the have broken away from the res- ahead; and there is no other’s differences. by denial; and it is being told dominance of the stronger over majority aware of its constitu- dreary desert sand of dead olutions made during the “tryst alchemist’s formula for this. This is not to say about without having any sense of the weaker. Be it the hegemo- tional limitations and duty of habit…. Into that heaven of with destiny”. However, we got too much electoral politics, which political affinity. ny of the dominant caste, class self-restrain. freedom, my Father, let my What is more disturbing is contentment with those dreams remains thick with grime and India at 75 cannot afford or race, we have to reject such We have another five bil- country awake.” the onus-shifting and mud- that we forgot to act upon has almost been running con- this any further; it has to trudge majoritarianism. lion years for the sun to run out Having said that, what slinging among the political them, to make them true. trary to our innate democrat- the new path to the same old Majoritarianism is an of hydrogen and die; and it remains is while reimagining parties and their leaders cou- This practice has reduced ic values and political equality constitutional virtue and anathema to democracy and seems we have to live quite a brand-India, we must ask to pled with a constant quest for us to mere dreamers and not of the ‘majority’ and the morality but by learning from development because in a long time before that, which is ourselves and find answers to vilifying another for the vices doers and thinkers; our dreams ‘minority’. The inevitability of the experiences of the past. democracy impermanence of why we should stop for a while the question, “Has India for- in governance, economy and lost the necessary extension of such circumstances has been It should learn that while it the ruler is the only perma- and introspect and re-imagine gotten to redeem its pledge     society. age-appropriate action. obvious though mainly because is the right of the political nence and what is static is not brand ‘India’ as this is going to superficially, let alone sub- The irony is we have We have, therefore, pre- we have slipped into mechan- majority to rule and there is no democratic. So, there has to be determine where our future stantially?” It is because this 5 years after its indulged so much in self- sumed that we are too demo- ical constitutionalism and not denying in that but at the same a peaceful deliberation and, generations are going to stand will prove to be a ‘potential- 7Independence, India seems aggrandising that we have cratic and inclusive and that we constitutional morality thereby time it is the duty of the polit- sometimes, even hustle. and what kind of life they are propellant’ to implement our to have forgotten its own failed to notice this downward have got all this in legacy. This amounting to a haemorrhaged ical majority to respect the Democracy is a state of going to lead and live. new resolution to act upon the pledges made long before get- spiralling of Indian society and has made us so complacent that Indian state. opinions of the political minor- ‘paradoxical equilibrium’ of It is time we should be des- old resolutions made during ting freedom as it has evolved darkening of the soul of the unknowingly, we have got into In its new avatar, the ity, which has an absolute right acceptance and dissent. perately trying to come out of the quest for ‘Swaraj’. to be so much different from its nation. Our self-aggrandise- the oblivion of achievement Indian state is gradually mov- to be heard and exist with dig- Therefore, for any prudent all sorts of ‘rhetoric without a own socio-cultural legacy and ment is based on a somewhat while we are slowly losing our ing into a phase of attracting nity which is both a constitu- statesman, there is no perma- future’ and more than anything (The writer is a lawyer and has pretty-much sickened so as schizophrenic sense of achieve- plurality and diversity because allegiance tempered more with tional right and a constitutional nent majority or minority and should try to augment, democ- public policy expert and a not to hold its trait of being ment. Our colonial past and it doesn’t mean a mere politi- fear than out of affection, obviousness. each side should be truly heard ratise and invest in health, Distinguished Adjunct Professor inclusive. Such heartrending the blood-shedding and per- cal coexistence but social which will prove way more And under such circum- and action should flow from education and innovation. It is, of Law and Media Studies at departure from the pledges spiration to get rid of it gave us coherence with a sense of tol- dangerous to the future of the stances the role of civil society judicious examination of the therefore, necessary to re-imag- School of Mass Communication, those we were supposed to a ‘Constitution’ full of dreams erance that means having a nation. 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Once constructed, the %$! / Gopalpur-Nayagarh via  & (($  &'- ' ! ' & (  ' Brahmapur SP Pinak Police are tracking the GPS To divert the parcel of for- airstrip will provide better Buguda and Maa Tara Tarini ('&(%--'&!'&-&$'('#''#" Mishra said the driver of the location and CCTV footage of est land, the Government connectivity to the district      Shakti Peetha and Gunupur- ' 'O& &-%& & >  $($  /  ' ' hijacked ATM cash loading the vehicle. According to needs to identify 26.466 and will be used by the secu- Rayaguda. The forum also ('&(%- %  &''  '-$"  #& '&  -$$ - ! van was in fact the mastermind reports, the van belonging to hectares (two times of the for- rity forces for combating he Odisha Development urged upon the Railway $  %- $  0   "  & $  ' behind the loot of Rs 24 lakh cash logistics firm AGS est land) of land at a suitable Maoist activities. TForum (ODF) submitted a Minister to start the work of ' '/$($$#$$''#" &&-%& from the vehicle. Transact Technologies Ltd was place for plantation to com- At present, the State has memorandum to Railway Jeypore-Malkangiri and  %&&$  ' ' (  #= ' #& '& $&$ The driver of the van along allegedly hijacked when it was pensate for the loss of forest two operational airports at Minister Ashwani Vaishnaw Malkangiri-Nabarangpur rail- (-&=$#($' &$ )# " (&'$ with his two aides hatched the on its way to load cash in land. The State had identified Bhubaneswar and Jharsuguda. here on Thursday while he was way lines in south Odisha on &$- $#-'' '-('#& '&" conspiracy for the loot. They ATMs. the required 26.466 hectares The airstrips at Jeypore and on his way from Bhubaneswar priority basis. orchestrated the loot and the The driver who was res- of land and submitted the for- Utkela are being made ready to Koraput by Hirakhand The minister was request- ..   driver intentionally drugged cued in an unconscious state est diversion proposal to the for operation of UDAN Express for participating in ed to give special attention to ('&(%-8 '- #%(&- $ '')$')%&O himself to float a story about after the vehicle was traced by Ministry of Environment, flights. Bidding for two routes the BJP’s “Jana Ashirvad Yatra.” setup Sitalapalli Wagon @))A ('&(%-(&%$(&&#(' $'& 4 him being kidnapped, Mishra the Golanthara police had said Forests and Climate Change. has been conducted recently Forum president Rama (Ganjam) Factory and run $$ $$''-$"))1  #-0-# & said. “We came to know about that some miscreants had loot- However, the Ministry has and bids received are under Prasad Tripathy informed the daily and direct trains from # ' ' (   $'$ ' #%-':('$ the conspiracy following an ed the cash vehicle after drug- rejected the proposal as the evaluation for award, the demands include the con- Brahmapur to Mumbai, Surat, && #%(= ;; $'&#$' (&$& & interrogation of the driver and ging him. non-forest land identified for sources said. struction of a railway terminal Delhi, Puri and other cities and  && ' $&' ' $ $ $ ' %&" 1$& '' at State’s oldest railway station, to extend some of the impor- )##$(1 ')> =& & $ #= Brahmapur in order to initiate tant north-India bound trains 2= )) 1$& )##$ # > ('$ ' )) -'  and terminate long route trains terminating at Bhubaneswar &'(' #%("          here; overall development of and Puri stations up to the 130-year-old Brahmapur Brahmapur. /  / . BHUBANESWAR: Union the Minister to ensure func- fund for 100-bed hospitals at of doctor and paramedical railway station with better Apart from president (8 - ) ' #' 4#  -&$ &'$ ' : Minister of State for Labour tioning of the 100-bed hospi- Bhagatpur in Choudwar, staffs. He also wanted sug- infrastructure, pro-passenger Tripathy, vice-president Babita &'- '$%&&(&'&$''(-&:'$=(#% ' and Employment Bhupinder tal at Angul and arrangement Duburi in Jajpur and gested the Minister to direct amenities, and construction of Patra, senior members of the $O& %!= ( $ (   $ ( 2#' Yadav, who was recently on a for procurement of emergency Jharsuguda and also 30-bed ESIC Regional Director to a new station building with forum V Someshwar Rao, &%'"-$&#(-'&$ &'- '!'&#' visit to the State, has been equipment, function of patho- hospitals at Paradip, Bhadrak request the PSUs like Nalco, more platforms at Brahmapur. Laxmi Narayan Padhi, Manas &&#  ' $ (  "  $ '$ $%'#'  & ' requested by Odisha ESIC logical laboratory and medi- and Baleswar. Dhal also MCL, NTPC, HAL, IFFICO The forum requested Patra, B Shankar Patra, Pritish  ''!" ''2#'&%'=$$& -&&' $  Regional Board member cine. He also urged Yadav for demanded renovation of all and private companies to pro- Minister Vaishnav to start the Panigrahi, Guru Panda, 1 % %'"$ '$'-) 1'$$ Madan Mohan Dhal to expe- immediate starting of the pro- dispensary and hospitals whose vide CSR funds for installation work of the much awaited rail Gupteswar Sadangi, Swarajya ': -''$&& ''' $ 1 %'' dite the setting up proposed posed 150-bed super specialty infrastructures have been dam- of oxygen plant, ambulance and way projects like Brahmapur- Sahu, Saroj Patnaik, Tuna & " (   %&$' -!'  -($ ' ) '  ESI Hospitals in Angul and hospital at Jagannath Prasad in aged and take appropriate medical equipments in the Sambalpur via Phulbani, Maharana and Prakash %%'#'(-$ ''&%'$#%#'&%' Bhubaneswar. Dhal requested Bhubaneswar and also sanction action to filling of the vacancies local ESI Hospitals. PNS Gopalpur-Rayagada, Pradhan were present. &'B-'&"   - #   - / R    .  /-- "( '       "  <     Kalpataru Bata Mahapurusa       Pitha.Realising need of oxygen        during Covid, the RNA start- ) $%   nicate with the Rajnagar CHC, PNSKENDRAPADA: Amid ed unique initiative by moti- tehsil office, Block office, col- environmental pollution pos- vating locals for massive   0   lege and other Government ing a serious threat to human afforestation and preservation offices as the existing road existence, members of Rastra of forests. emanding a permanent remains dilapidated. Besides, Nirman Abhijan (RNA) on According to Matrudutta Droad from Dangamal to mishaps have become a regu- Sunday celebrated Raksha Mohanty, it took at least six Talachua, the Rajnagar Block lar affair on the road too, they Bandhan festival by planting days to prepare rakhi by mem- Congress activists led by for- told. trees and urging the locals to bers with 36-meter-long clothes mer MLA Anshuman They further said that save nature. The RNA mem- Matrudutta Mohanty tied a tury-old banyan tree at of three different colours and Mohanty staged a road block- though several times, the bers led by its founder 12-meter-long rakhi to a cen- Deypur-based Banchha using 25 meters of lace. ade near Nalitapatia Chowk repair work of the road had on Friday. been undertaken, but due to According to the agitators, substandard nature of work,   the road from Khola to the road turns unworthy to Talachua is in a deplorable use after a short period of  0   agitation in front of the condition, littered with pot- repair. !     #      P   Mahatma Gandhi statue at holes. Consequently, the They charged that due to istrict Collector Amrut Garapur Inspection Bungalow inhabitants of Dangamal, political-bureaucratic nexus     Niranjan Bishi, Balakrishnan son of the Lower Indra also alleged that an FIR lodged DRituraj on Saturday went located adjacent to the district Khamarasahi, Krushnanagar, such, lakhs of rupees are bun- Sabar, Somnath Khamari, Irrigation Project claiming that by one Chandra Sekhar Sabar to the District Headquarters Collector residence office. But Rangani, Keruapala, gled. The agitators withdrew undreds of Adivasis under Bhanuprakash Singh Majhi, the officials of R&R unit in of Goimundi village, who is an Hospital to meet Srikant as his health condition deteri- Baghamari and Talachua pan- their stir following an assur- Hthe banner of Zilla Adivasi Homsingh Majhi and other connivance with a swindler IIC in police department, has Nayak, the environmentalist orated on August 15, the police chayats under Rajnagar block ance by the administration Kalyan Sangha, Nuapada leaders spoke in the meeting. have misappropriated the assis- also not been taken seriously. who has been staging fast unto forcibly had shifted him from have been face lots of incon- that steps to construct a per- gheraoed the Khariar police Notably, in a meeting held tance sanctioned to him. They death agitation while under- the agitation place and admit- veniences. The people of manent river side and forest station on Saturday expressing last week at Bargaon village of going treatment at the hospital ted him at the DHH. seven gram panchayats are side road would be taken discontent over police inaction Khariar block, tribal people had for last six days over the pipe The environmentalist facing problems to commu- shortly. to provide justice to tribals. raised questions over police water project row. apprehends if water is going to "Adivasis are discriminated inaction and warned that they The district Collector be extracted from the against in the district. would gherao the Khariar PS. requested Nayak to withdraw Kharasrota river, then Atrocity cases filed in dif- They had questioned why his stir and come for discussion Bhitarkanika will lose its iden- ferent PSs are not being inves- police did not act on an FIR on August 24. But Nayak tity as Ramsar project, National tigated properly. Police take the lodged by Dhananjay Sabar, a demanded that Government Park and wildlife sanctuary. side of the rich and powerful," lineman of electricity depart- first stop construction work of Meanwhile, several politi- tribal leaders alleged, The trib- ment who was beaten up by the project at Barunadiha and cal leaders and freedom fight- als came to the PS in a rally some upper caste youths at send a scientific team for ers have expressed their soli- from the Samaleswari temple Thikpali village under the analysing the impact of the pro- darity with Nayak in his lone and held a meeting in front of Komna PS.They had also ject on the Bhitarkanika bio- battle against the State the PS. Western Odisha Adivasi resented over police inaction in diversity. Notably, Nayak had Government and district Kalyan Sangha president a case filed by a displaced per- earlier staged fast unto death administration. $       %

‘foreign hand behind destabil- ute to JP observed “He changed as “Mera Bag Ujad Gaya”. The a befitting tribute to BG Tilak, allegations of tapping of tele- which led freedom movement by restricting intrusion to ising of the Government’ etc. decisively the course of histo- defection based Government Gandhiji and other freedom phone of LK Advani had also is responsible for keeping the legislative arena of the World over leaders with an ry. One life transformed the however did not last long lead- fighters who suffered impris- surfaced. Similar allegation is tortuous sedition laws intact, States (b) amending election autocratic mindset adopt a destiny of hundreds of mil- ing to general election in 1980 onment under this law during surfacing now about tapping of framing NIA Act which has law to facilitate a retired Chief common stand/alibi such as lions...”However, the Janata in which Indira Gandhi came the colonial regime. The para- telephones of Ministers, every potential of manipulation Justice of India to head the ‘danger to nation’, ‘nationalism Party leaders forgot the very back to power with a resound- meters of democracy Constitutional institutions and of police power of the State, ElectionCommission (c) estab- at stake’ etc to perpetuate auto- oath they had taken at Rajghat ing victory showing how his- universally hold common scribes through Pegasus spy- cooperative law amendment lishment of Lokpal (d) amend- cratic governance in order to on March 24, 1977 in the pres- tory is inherently repetitive objectives namely civil liberty, ware which is worrisome as in 2012(97th constitution ing the anti-defection law to cover up their unrighteous ence of JP ‘to uphold the sometimes instantly, some- independent judiciary, free and such instruments are meant to amendment), mines law to prevent any type of defection governance. JP discarded inalienable rights to life and lib- times a little late leaving behind fair election etc. Prime Minister monitor terrorism not consti- curtail exclusive legislative (e) passing women reservation imposition of emergency as erty of the citizens of our enough lessons to learn. Moraji Desai while moving tutional officers/political lead- domain of States. It is respon- Bill (f) Judicial commission “Binas Kale Biparita Buddhi” republic’ as they quarreled In the later years with a the privilege motion report ers. sible for various historical headed by Chief Justice with and wrote a letter to Indira among themselves and hardly view to unite fragmented oppo- against Indira Gandhi in the Another case of repetitive omissions. Those who dig the two senior sitting Judges of the    Gandhi stating “every one of heeded to JP to resolve their sition parties, Bijubabu and RK Parliament on December 8, nature of history can be seen on hole always fall prey to it. Supreme Court, two eminent them (those arrested) is as differences. Hegde made effort that culmi- 1978 had asserted that any use of Anti-defection law Amit Saha petitioned Jurists elected by a mergency was the darkest good a patriot.” Some of the dissidents nated formation of “Janata delay to resist dictatorial enacted by Congress in 1985 Supreme Court to rescind CBI digital exercise by Supreme Echapter in free India which On the occasion of twen- leaders who were accusing Dal” in October 1988 on the designs at the right time invites which contained provisions probe against him during UPA Court and High Court Bar pushed the country’s gover- tieth anniversary of the Moraji Desai Government as a birth anniversary of Jayprakash grave consequences for the for mass defection empowering time alleging CBI was acting in Associations (g) Universalising nance into a despotic system. Emergency Noted Jurist Nani pack of ‘impotent people’ for Narayan which came to power nation. Under a republican a ruling party to maneuver; a partisan manner. When BJP health insurance covers to all After Indira Gandhi’s election A Palkhivala in an article in an not arresting Indira Gandhi left in 1989, but it also collapsed constitution, the people are little realizing that the came to power, the same CBI the citizens (h) Scrapping colo- to Parliament was set aside by English daily titled ‘Can ithap- Janata party in July 1979 and like Janata Party experiment. real sovereign while political same, one day would be cause filed case against some key nial laws like Official Secret Act the Allahabad High Court by pen again?’ had observed that formed a new political entity An articulate Judge like representatives are their its downfall. In recent past, UPA time Ministers, who are and sedition law (i) Mandating Justice JL Sinha on June 12, the danger of a re-imposition and succeeded in forming a Justice Chandrachud in the trustees to look after gover- Congress lost several States now crying foul. consultation with CMs in 1975, Emergency was imposed of emergency is greater in new Government with support later years had shown his mag- nance, not to harass them for like MP and Goa etc as its An effort for uniting oppo- appointment of Governors as just after 12 days. Over 1.5 lakh India. Quoting George of 73 MPs of Congress led by nanimity by regretting courts carrying dissent. opponent overturned the pub- sition parties at national level per suggestion of Sakaria people including national lead- Santayana he wrote that Indira Gandhi. failure to uphold civil liberty. The Saha Commission had lic mandate by engineering no doubt is the need of the Commission, etc. It is time for ers like Jayaprakash Narayan, “…..Those who cannot remem- In the language of moth- Justice NV Ramana, the present held that any attempt by ruling defections. hour. But given internal con- those who governed earlier Moraji Desai, Chandra ber the past are condemned to er of George Fernandis who Chief Justice of India in July party trying to snoop opposi- Congress forgot to adhere tradictions and mutual mis- need to own their mistakes and Shekhar, Biju Patnaik, AB repeat it.” had told the author in 2021 hearing a case on sedition tion parties or even its own to the advice of Rajendra trust, ego clash, it is not easy to promise not to repeat the faults. Vajpayee and Charan Singh The citizens of India, the Bangalore that ‘the Janata Party law (Section 124(A) IPC) in a members ‘will make democra- Prasad who in his concluding achieve opposition unity. In were imprisoned without trial. real sovereign power in the lan- leaders threw away in one historic observation reported- tic institutions a laughing address in the Constituent order to generate public good (Panda is a former Some of these leaders were guage of Pandit Nehru ended hand what God had given ly observed as to why a colonial stock’. Allegation of tapping of Assembly on the eve of adop- will there should be a robust Assembly Deputy Speaker and icons of India’s freedom move- the emergency regime in the them in two hands’ sometimes law used by foreigners to sup- telephone of ruling party lead- tion of the Constitution had commitment to the common former Member, State Planning ment. Emergency was imposed battle of ballot under the lead- in 1980 when he met her to pay press freedom fighters is still ers like Jagjivan Ram, Chandra emphasized on purity of elec- minimum programme for gov- Board, Odisha; E-mail: pan- on the “pretext that nation ership of Jay Prakash Narayan. his respects. JP described the intact after 75 years of inde- Sekhar had surfaced during tion system to strengthen ernance on issues like (a) vow [email protected]. The views was in danger” and there was Nani A Palikhivala in his trib- fall of Janata Party Government pendence. This observation is emergency. In later years the democracy. The Congress to strengthen federal structure expressed are personal)    !  #$% &  '( )*+ ),)-  0

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He Joshi applauded Singh’s Covid-19 treatment, should lived his life in such a way that tenure as the UP CM saying, not be taken to treat or prevent he fulfilled the name given by “The most important tenure of Covid-19, the US Food and his parents. He lived his entire Kalyan Singh ji was the time Drug Administration has said. life for the public welfare. He when the Ram Mandir move- In India, sold in black- made ‘’jan kalyan’’ as the mantra ment was going on. I was the market during the second of his life, and dedicated his life President of the party at that Covid -19 wave, Ivermectin is for the BJP, Bharatiya Jan Sangh time and he was the UP CM now already off the covid treat- family, for an ideology and for and when he announced that ment list. 0 0   as also law and order duties. forces deployed in Pampore, the bright future of the country,” Lauding the role of Kalyan waiting to see the realisation of ‘no matter what happens, I will The USFDA warning came Another input suggests Panthachowk, Lasjan Bridge Modi said even as he hailed him Singh in the ‘Ram their dream of a grand temple not shoot at Kar Sevaks’, it a day after the Mississippi State mixed tanzeem, led by that three-four LeT terrorists and Nowgam Area. as a “committed decision Janambhoomi movement’, of Lord Ram at Ram raised his stature and people Department of Health issued a APakistan-based terror have managed to infiltrate Recently, inputs had also maker” who had become “a senior BJP leaders LK Advani Janambhoomi,” he said. got the idea that he is a man of similar statement in response to group Lashkar-e-Tayabba, is through Kanachak (Jammu suggested that the terror name of faith (vishvaas) across and Murli Manohar Joshi said Singh, also an ex-State principles,” Joshi said. reports that an increasing num- planning to carry out multiple region) on August 13. “They groups are in the lookout to the country”. on Sunday that the late UP Governor, was ill for some “At that time, he had also ber of people in Mississippi attacks on the vehicles/convoys would try to carry out some big target temples in Jammu “For the most part of his Chief Minister’s commitment, time, and passed away at the made it clear that he will not were using the drug to prevent of security forces in Jammu by attacks but due to tight securi- region to flare up communal life, he made efforts for public drive and sincerity towards Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate allow bloodshed in the move- a Covid infection. using magnetic IEDs/sticky ty they are facing difficulties,” passions. welfare. Whatever responsibil- resolving the Ayodhya issue was Institute of Medical Sciences in ment of this temple under any Some studies last year bombs. Similar attacks were agencies warned through the The terrorists have already ity he had got, be it as an MLA, a great source of strength for his Lucknow late on Saturday. circumstances. Back then, this spurred use of the drug against earlier planned by the terror inputs. been able to carry out drone any post in the Government, or party and others and that he A ‘Lodh leader’, he was the announcement was a big deal,” Covid-19, especially in Latin groups for the Valley, accord- Reportedly, weapons have hits on the Jammu air base in as a governor, he had been a was the nation’s leader. first OBC Chief Minister of the he said. America, and Fox News has ing to intelligence inputs. already been cached in the recent past. The case is centre of inspiration for every- Advani said Singh was a State and drew considerable Defence Minister Rajnath promoted some of those stud- The likely targets are vehi- Domana, Jammu and the ter- being probed by the National one. He became a symbol of stalwart of Indian politics and support from Advani in gain- Singh, who also paid tributes to ies’ findings on air. cles moving from Rajouri to rorists are trying to extract the Investigation Agency (NIA) faith for the common public,” a grassroots leader. ing political eminence.He had the departed leader in But the National Institutes Jammu side including Jammu same. without much headway. Modi added. “I cherish my many special fallen-out with Atal Bihari Lucknow, said he lost an elder of Health said in February that town. Other possible targets are A local terrorist Shahid The shift in the terror tac- “We have lost a capable memories with him during the Vajpayee and formed his own brother. “We used to tell him most of the studies related to vehicles of security forces mov- Khurshid of the LeT and its tic to target Jammu has been leader. We should make maxi- Ram Janmabhoomi Movement. political outfit but rejoined the (Kalyan) that we are ‘’bhoot- Ivermectin and the coronavirus ing from Poonch-Surankot via affiliate The Resistance Front made by the jihadi groups as mum efforts by taking his val- His commitment, drive and party in 2004 at the latter’s poorv’’ (former) chief minister, “had incomplete information old Mughal Road to Shopian (TRF) along with foreign ter- the security grid in the Valley ues and resolutions to com- sincerity towards resolving the behest. you are ‘’abhootpoorv’’ and significant methodological including in Shopian district, rorists were noticed in Golpora is particularly difficult for the pensate for him; we should Ayodhya issue was a great For his part, Joshi said, (unprecedented) Chief limitations,” including small reads the input shared with area. “They might plan to tanzeems to penetrate amid a leave no stone unturned in ful- source of strength not only for “Kalyan Singh wasn’t the leader Minister, on which he used to sample sizes and study out- stakeholders involved in snatch weapons and cause strong security footprint, offi- filling his dreams,” the PM my party, the BJP, but for scores of a caste. He felt pain for farm- laugh. I have seen him as an come measures that were often counter-insurgency operations grenade attacks on security cials said. said. of Indians who were eagerly ers, oppressed and backward elder brother,” he maintained. unclear. Ivermectin, which is also formulated for use by people to treat parasitic worms, had been 0""          ,1 - !  (  controversially promoted as a potential Covid treatment ear- '    lier in the pandemic, but recent under their jurisdictions to studies found that the drug’s   strictly adhere to the timelines efficacy against the coronavirus and three-adjournment rule. is thin, and the F.D.A. has not he number of days it takes The rule of maximum approved the drug for Covid Tin trial and judgment of three adjournments is being treatment. commercial disputes has come actively enforced in more than In India, there has been down significantly in Delhi 50 per cent of cases of dedi- mixed response for the usage of and Mumbai, according to the cated commercial courts of the drug. Some state govern- latest data of the Law Ministry. Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and ments like Uttar Pradesh and According to the World Bengaluru. Goa had during the raging Bank’s ‘’doing business’’ report This has reduced the time infection wave advocated its for India, it used to take 1,095 taken for trial, arguments and use for Covid-19 treatment days in trial and judgment of final judgment, the depart- and as a prophylaxis (preven- commercial disputes in 2020. ment noted. tive medication). But following a push for Besides, e-committee of In June, the Union Health reforms, the number of days the Supreme Court has Ministry’s directorate general of has come down to 424 in ensured compliance with the health services (DGHS) had Delhi and 306 in Mumbai, hearing conclusion date. Order XVII, Rule 2(b) of three-adjournment rule by cre- issued revised guidelines to according to the data put the Time standards are the CPC states that no ating facility which is provid- stop the use of Ivermectin in public domain by the respected in more than 50 per adjournment will be granted at ed in “daily proceedings besides Doxycycline in Covid- Department of Justice in the cent of cases in dedicated com- the request of a party, except screen” to alert judge about the 19 treatment for asymptomatic Law Ministry. mercial courts, the depart- where the circumstances are listing of case. and mild cases. The Code of Civil ment said. beyond control. Green colour indicates that It said these drugs have not Procedure of 1908 provides Fixing of time standards The Department of Justice the case is listed on the same been found to be effective in time standards for case man- for key court events and had sent letters to the high stage for less than three times. treatment of the Covid-19. agement. streamlining of trial process courts of Delhi, Bombay, Orange colour indicates According to it, the filing have led to speeding up case Calcutta and Karnataka to that the case is listed on the of written statement should be disposal, it claimed. adhere to the three-adjourn- same stage between three and   acreage was down at 169.06 Monsoon rainfall was lower    done within 30 days of the Order XVII Rule (1) of the ment rule. six times. lakh hectare as against 171.82 eight per cent between June 1 notice served on defendant CPC provides for a maximum The four high courts have Red colour shows the case ith monsoon deficiency lakh hectare in the said period. and August 20, the ministry and the judgment should be of three adjournments during issued advisory to all the ded- is listed on the same stage for Wstill 8 percent in the However, area sown to pulses said. However, water storage   delivered within 30 days from the hearing of a suit. icated commercial courts more than six times. country, area sown to summer was marginally higher at 134.23 available in 130 reservoirs in crops like paddy was lagging lakh hectare so far this kharif the country was 96 per cent of behind by 1.55 per cent at season, from 132.03 lakh live storage in the correspond- -    Swayamsevak. He played an 1,043.87 lakh hectare so far in hectare in the year-ago period. ing period of last year, and 99 important role in strengthen- the ongoing kharif season of In cash crops, area sown to per cent storage of average in #   P     ing the BJP organization in the crop year 2021-22 (July- cotton was down at 117.04 the last 10 years, as per the Uttar Pradesh as a worker and June) as against 1060.37 lakh lakh hectare so far this kharif Central Water Commission, it leader. He worked for the hectare last year. The India season, against 127.69 lakh added.      ,2 empowerment of the weaker Meteorological Department hectare in the year-ago period. According to the ministry, sections of the society and (IMD) on Sunday said that cur- But, acreage under sugarcane “sowing is still going on” in always kept public welfare para- rent rainfall activity over plains was slightly higher at 54.63 lakh states growing kharif crops mount.” of northwest India was likely to hectare as against 53.85 lakh with “occurrence of monsoon   demise of former Governor “The Rashtriya reduce from Monday. hectare, while jute and mesta rains in many states”. A major- and former Chief Minister of Swayamsevak Sangh pays The Ministry of area was flat at 7.02 lakh ity of States have informed the xpressing its condolences Uttar Pradesh, popular public heartfelt tributes to Kalyan Agriculture on Sunday released hectare as against 7 lakh Central Government that the Eon the demise of former leader Kalyan Singh ji. He was Singh ji. We pray to the a kharif sowing data said that hectare in the said period. sowing of kharif crops, partic- Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister a grounded politician and an almighty to give strength to his area sown to paddy (the main Sowing of kharif crops in ularly paddy, urad, moong and Kalyan Singh, the Rashtriya efficient administrator. His family to bear this loss and to kharif crop) remained mar- some places continues till sesamum castor, can be con- Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) on death has caused an irrepara- place his departed soul at his ginally lower at 374.03 lakh September and harvesting tinued up to the end of August, Sunday said that his death has ble loss in public life.” feet,” they added. hectare till August 20 of this begins from October onwards. it said.   caused an irreparable loss in “He was devoted to Singh (89) passed away kharif season as against 378.07 Sowing operation is still under- Castor can be grown up to public life. Hindutva, Bhagwan Shri Ram due to sepsis and multi-organ lakh hectare in the year-ago way and planting of September 15 in Gujarat which enior BJP leader from Tamil In a joint statement, RSS and Bharatiya values. He had failure in Lucknow on Saturday period. summer (kharif) crops can be has been receiving good rains SNadu La. Ganesan was on chief Mohan Bhagwat and Joint become a people’s leader after night. A two-term Chief Similarly, area sown to continued till the end of for the last two days. Similarly, Sunday appointed as the new General Secretary Dattatreya fulfilling his national con- Minister of Uttar Pradesh, oilseeds remained slightly August, it said. sowing of kulthi and nizer and Governor of Manipur. Hosabale said, “The Rashtriya sciousness in the Shri Ram Referring to Singh’s asso- Singh had also served as the lower at 187.88 lakh hectare as Sowing of kharif crops early mustard seed can be done The post of the Governor Swayamsevak Sangh expresses Janmabhoomi movement,” ciation with the RSS, they said, Governor of Rajasthan from against 189.98 lakh hectare, begins with the onset of south- up to September in Jharkhand, had fallen vacant after the its deep condolences on the they said. “He was proud to be a Sangh 2014-2019. while that of coarse cereals west monsoon from June. it added. retirement of Najma Heptulla earlier this month. A communique from the Rashtrapati Bhavan said Ganesan will be the new   &  '  “Governor of Manipur with effect from the date he assumes charge of his office”.   al Exercise Malabar between Rear Admiral Tarun Sobti face and air operations includ- Heptulla had demitted navies of Australia, India, Japan would be embarked onboard ing Live Weapon Firing Drills, office on August 10 and on the n an effort to increase its pres- and the USA. Malabar series of INS Shivalik during the conduct Anti-Surface, Anti-Air and same day, the charge was given Ience in the Pacific region and maritime exercises commenced of Sea Phase commencing 26 Anti-Submarine Warfare Drills, to Sikkim Governor Ganga strengthen Quad alliance, in 1992 as a bilateral India-US Aug 21. Joint Manoeuvres and Tactical Prasad. Indian Navy ships have reached exercise and has grown in The latest exercise will be exercises will be conducted Puducherry Chief Minister Guam for the Malabar series of stature over the years to include for four days commencing during the exercise. N Rangasamy greeted Ganesan exercises to commence shortly. four prominent navies in the August 26. The drill will provide The conduct of these exer- on his appointment. In his The Malabar series comprises Pacific and Indian Ocean an opportunity for common cises despite Covid restrictions message to Ganesan, the CM the Quad countries including Region. minded navies to enhance inter- is a testimony of synergy said his appointment as the India, US, Japan and Australia. As part of the Exercise, operability, gain from best prac- between the participating navies Governor of Manipur was a Giving details of the forth- Vice Admiral AB Singh, Flag tices and develop a common and commitment to safer seas. ‘’proud development.’’ coming exercise, navy official Officer Commanding-in-Chief, understanding of procedures for The participating Indian Rangasamy also stated in said here on Sunday warships Eastern Naval Command will Maritime Security Operations. Ships are the latest indigenous- his message that the rich polit- INS Shivalik and Kadmatt have operational discussions It will witness high-tempo ly designed and built, multi-role ical experience and adminis- arrived at Guam, an Island with Rear Admiral Leonard C. exercises conducted between Guided Missile trative proficiency of Ganesan Territory of the USA on “Butch” Dollaga, Commander Destroyers’, Frigates, Corvettes, Stealth Frigate and Anti- would be of immense help for Saturday as part of their on- CTF-74 focussing on develop- Submarines, Helicopters and Submarine Corvette respec- Manipur to make progress. going deployment to nations in ing an action plan and coordi- Long Range Maritime Patrol tively and form part of the “I extend my greetings and South East Asia and the Pacific nated operations in the mar- Aircraft of the participating Indian Navy’s Eastern Fleet best wishes on my behalf and Ocean. The two ships are sched- itime domain. 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Bed over State party presi- titioning Bengal … the BJP had said even before Prime these regions.” ply collapse with a section Government alleged on Sunday side "in complete violation of the "The allegation of any theft dent Dilip Ghosh’s open stand wants a united and prosperous Minister Narendra Modi made When asked whether his going to the TMC and the that Mizoram officials entered joint statement issued by both by a disciplined force like Assam in favour of partitioning State.” him a central minister statement could adversely affect other going to the Left which its territory in Hailakandi and States on August 5 to maintain Police is absolutely concocted, Bengal. Ghosh had earlier made a apparently dropping a the party’s performance among had a strong following in this started constructing a bridge, in peace in the border area". baseless, malafide and devoid of Contradicting what Ghosh strong point in support of silent hint of the BJP’s ideas. the Bengali-speaking people area before 2019,” said IK a fresh escalation between the The local police team from any facts and is an attempt by said on Saturday in support of Burla an MP from Alipurduar Though Ghosh had dis- Ghosh said “even Mamata Lahiri a political analyst. two Northeastern States. Assam urged the Mizoram Mizoram administration to Union Minister John Burla’s saying “if he has said some- tanced himself from Burla’s Banerjee backed the Gorkha Attacking Ghosh for his The incident took place on security personnel to leave the divert the attention from main demand for a separate State thing … it is not unjustified views earlier saying it was the Janmukti Morcha against the “irresponsible statements” Friday when a few workers Assam land, but they refused to issue, that is illegal construction comprising the districts of because as a representative of saffron MP’s personal views, on Left Government in order to TMC MP Sukhendu Sekhar from Mizoram were trying to do so, he alleged. by Mizoram authorities on North Bengal, former State the people he has a duty Saturday he made u-turn say- earn supporters in Darjeeling Ray said, “BJP is encouraging construct a bridge at Kachurthal "In order to assert the posi- Assam soil," Upadhyay asserted. party president Rahul Sinha on towards airing the views of the ing “he has full right to make and Terrain region … even the fissiparous elements to divide in the Ramnathpur police sta- tion of Assam and to ask The Mizoram Government Sunday said “there is no ques- people of that region.” such demands.” In fact while TMC struck an alliance with Bengal after suffering a tion area, Hailakandi's Mizoram forces to retreat from said that it has filed a case tion of the BJP supporting any Burla had on more than backing Burla in North Bengal the GJM even after they were humiliating defeat in the recent Superintendent of Police Gaurav the Assam side of the bridge, a against personnel of the Assam divisive cause … we want to one occasion demanded divi- Ghosh also took into the sweep asking for a division of Bengal.” assembly election…. But the Upadhyay told PTI. party of around 200 Assam Police for allegedly "stealing" make all those who have been sion of Bengal by carving out of his argument the Incidentally BJP has a people will reject them in "The Officer In-Charge Police personnel and comman- construction materials from the making such comments aware a separate State comprising Jangalmahal areas of South stronghold in North Bengal 2024.” (OC) of Ramnathpur police dos under my leadership and bridge site, which it claimed to of what Rabindranath Tagore the districts of North Bengal. Bengal saying the leaders of and Jangalmahal sending most Another senior leader and station and his patrolling team other senior officials reached be in its territory. did on Raksha Bandhan Day … “There has been no devel- both these regions deserved to of its MPs and MLAs from minister Firhad Hakim said “if immediately reached the spot Kachurthal on Sunday morn- Mizoram's Kolasib deputy he called upon the people of opment in this part of the demand separate States because these regions. the BJP continues to do so they and stopped the construction ing," Upadhyay said. commissioner H Lalthlangliana undivided Bengal to tie rakhi State for decades … the local the “Mamata Banerjee According to sources in the will be obliterated from Bengal. work, calling it a trespass by He, however, stated that told PTI that personnel of the on each other’s hands as a mark people have their aspirations Government has done nothing party Ghosh was making such A third leader said that “Burla Mizoram as they had no author- being a responsible force, the Assam Police entered the state's of unity … how can we being which have to be fulfilled as the for them … there has been no comments to hold together is trying to play with the trib- ity to build a bridge on the Assam Police did not confront territory at Zophai near Bairabi the descendents of Tagore previous Governments have development … no big hospi- the disintegration of his party al votes of North Bengal but in Assam side," he said. and gave the respective civil town and allegedly stole some uphold such mischievous failed to perform the people of tal, no job opportunity … the in these regions. In fact Ghosh’s trying to win 4 lakh votes his Upadhyay alleged that administrations a chance to construction materials, includ- demands… this region want a separate State people have to go to other comments came almost in tan- party will lose the vote of 20 around 40-50 security person- amicably resolve the matter by ing iron rods, from the bridge “I can say with full respon- … they can settle for even a States like Odisha, Jharkhand dem with 11 local level BJP lakh Bengali-speaking nel from Mizoram reached the stopping the construction on construction site on sibility on behalf of my party Union Territory … at least we and Gujarat from these regions leaders joining the Trinamool people,” bridge site on Saturday and few the unauthorised bridge and Friday. PTI     Q#   -    !"   R Udhampur (J&K): Fahim I hope to attract the attention 0/    MP and Duraisamy, former election and 2021 assembly Nazir Shah is walking to Delhi of the Prime Minister. To meet ) DMK MLA, Radhakrishnan election Alagiri lied low at the from Srinagar, hoping that his the Prime Minister is my cher- said that the BJP would make request of his mother Dayalu around 815-km journey will get ished dream," he said, adding P Radhakrishnan, two- situation conducive for wel- Ammal and sister Selvi with the attention of Prime Minister that his previous attempts to Ctime BJP MP from coming many senior Dravidian whom he enjoys good rapport Narendra Modi and he will get meet the PM did not fructify. Coimbatore and former State party leaders to the saffron despite his anger towards an opportunity to meet Shah said that he has been fol- Chief of the party, is a person party. “We will welcome M K younger brother M K Stalin, him. lowing the prime minister on who is known for economical Alagiri if he decides to join us. the chief minister. "I am a very big fan of social media over the past four use of words. As part of the Jan There is nothing that separates “Thampi (Tamil for Prime Minister Modi," the 28- years, and his speech and Ashirwad Yatra in Kongunadu Annan (big brother as Alagiri younger brother), don’t ask year-old, who works as a part- actions have "touched my region (south west Tamil is addressed by friends) from me anything as of now. I am time electrician in Jammu and heart". Nadu), Radhakrishnan us,” said Radhakrishnan on not in active politics. Let every- Kashmir's Srinagar, said as he "At one time, when he was declared in all the meetings he Sunday which has caused a thing be over and then Ill reached Udhampur on Sunday delivering an address at a rally, addressed that the day is not far furore in Tamil Nadu politics. speak to you in detail,” Alagiri after walking over 200 km. he stopped suddenly on hear- off when Lotus blooms in the Alagiri, the Madurai based had told The Pioneer when Taking short breaks on his ing the 'azaan' (Muslim call for State. elder son of late M asked about his stance prior to journey, which started two prayer) leaving the public In addition to his prophe- Karunanidhi, the former chief the assembly election, days ago, Shah, a resident of the astonished … that gesture of cy about the blooming of Lotus, minister of Tamil Nadu who “I did not tell Annan would Shalimar area in Srinagar, our prime minister touched my Radhakrishnan gave enough was also the party chief for 49 join the BJP. What I told was believes that at the end of this heart and I became his ardent hits of the BJP emerging as an years till he breathed his last in that if he opts to join the BJP, arduous journey his dream of fan," he said. Shah said that alternative force to the DMK 2017, was expelled from the there is nothing in his way to meeting the Prime Minister over the past two and a half and the AIADMK in the State. DMK in 2014 and has been in block his decision,” said will be fulfilled. years, he has made several $-&%#'-N-&!E@& $'$A''!-&!=' & Looking towards K P political wilderness since then. Radhakrishnan who enjoys a "I am on my way to Delhi attempts to meet Prime -#=-&!=>&'=-$ Ramalingam, former DMK During the 2019 Lok Sabha special relation with Alagiri. by foot to meet him (Modi) and Minister Modi in Delhi. PTI -   *+*,- )     #  %      3 .   +// ,*%    '()

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Parliament session without any because it showed the degen- from Tamil Nadu he had spo- pandemic has been an “eye- revealed the poor condition of There were 20,556 active cases in the state while debates on issues affecting peo- eration of democratic values ken to had advocated a reser- opener” for the State our health infrastructure. I the recovery of 1,456 patients took the total recover- ple, saying he had not seen any- and was an insult to the great voir on the Cauvery river at Government prompting it to “We are completely over- ies to 28,80,889. Dakshina Kannada district, which thing like it in his 30 years as people who fought for the free- Hogenakkal on the Karnataka- revamp the health sector in the hauling infrastructure and borders Kerala, remained the number one Covid-19 a parliamentarian. dom of the country, he said. Tamil Nadu border, and not last 18 months which it could facilities of all the district hos- hotspot with 286 infections and four fatalities which After the conclusion of the Vice President M Venkaiah Mekedatu in Ramanagara dis- not do in decades. pitals. We have recruited and was the highest among all the districts on Sunday. monsoon session on August 11, Naidu had suspended four trict. "A reservoir at The Government has will continue recruiting suffi- Bengaluru urban district was the second major he met the opposition leaders TMC MPs on August 4 for the Hogenakkal would mean “learnt the lesson the hard cient doctors, including spe- Covid-19 hotspot with 267 cases and two deaths. The and asked them what they had rest of the day for creating a encompassing a large catch- way” due to the outbreak of cialists, nurses of all categories, Karnataka capital has so far reported 12,35,036 achieved as none of the issues ruckus over the Pegasus spying ment area whereas in Covid-19 and is developing the paramedics, and other sanitary infections and 15,959 deaths. affecting the people was dis- issue. Mekedatu, the catchment area sector through the creation of and assisting staff as required,” There were 7,762 active cases. Other districts too Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala reported cussed, Gowda said. Gowda said his party is small," Gowda said. infrastructure. he said. reported Covid-19 cases including 132 Udupi, 79 in 10,402 Covid-19 positive cases and 66 "I was not allowed to would launch a State-wide The former PM said only “It was this pandemic that Khandu also informed that Mysuru, 75 in Hassan, 55 in Kodagu and 50 in related deaths on Sunday, taking the total speak during the monsoon campaign after the conclusion a regional outfit like JD(S) enabled us to ‘right' the ‘wrong' the government has decided to Chikkamagaluru. According to the media bulletin, number of those affected in the State by session due to the ruckus by of the legislature session on could find a solution to these and revamp the health sector in select and develop one hospi- there were deaths in 14 districts including Bengaluru, the viral infection to 38,14,305. members of the ruling and September 24, to resolve the two river water disputes and the last one and half years that tal each in every assembly con- Dakshina Kannada, Tumakuru, Udupi, Mandya and State Health Minister Veena George opposition parties. No business water disputes in the state, not any national party. we couldn't do in decades,” the stituency with all facilities. Dharwad. Kalaburagi district recorded zero infections said 63,406 samples were tested in the last took place and the session was including that pertaining to the He said Congress leader Chief Minister said. Applauding the role of and zero fatalities. There were zero fatalities in 17 dis- 24 hours and the test positivity rate was wasted," the JD(S) leader told Krishna and Mahadayi rivers Rahul Gandhi needed to 'walk Khandu said this while Ramakrishna Mission Hospital tricts in Karnataka. The department said in its bul- 16.41 per cent. Till now, 3.02 crore sam- reporters at the party office and the Mekedatu balancing the extra mile' to hone his polit- laying the foundation stone of here in the fight against Covid- letin that 1,25,158 Covid-19 tests were conducted on ples have been tested in the state. Among here. reservoir project across the ical skills and wondered what a 200-bedded speciality unit of 19, the Chief Minister said Sunday including 92,842 RT-PCR tests and other the districts, Malappuram reported the On the unruly behaviour river Cauvery. he had achieved by taking out the Ramakrishna Hospital here. doctors, nurses, paramedics, methods. With this, Karnataka has so far performed highest number of cases today at 1,577, fol- of parliamentarians in the He said Karnataka Chief a bicycle rally recently to “Being the chief minister and all staff of the facility had 4.19 crore Covid-19 tests in the State, the department lowed by Kozhikode with 1,376 and Rajya Sabha, he said, "I am dis- Minister Basavaraj Bommai protest the hikes in fuel prices. even I was not aware of the sta- done everything possible for said. There were 1,50,127 inoculations done on Sunday Palakkad 1,133. The Minister said out of gusted with the behaviour of had spoken to NCP chief To a question on his recent tus of our health facilities, taking care of the sick and taking the total vaccination to 3.69 crore. The posi- those found infected today, 104 reached the ruling party, as well as the Sharad Pawar and other BJP meeting with Bommai, Gowda especially at the ground level. needy during the tivity rate today was 0.94 per cent while the case fatal- the state from outside, 9,674 contracted the members of the opposition... leaders in a bid to find a solu- said he assured him support on Due to the pandemic, we pandemic. ity rate was 1.85 per cent, it said. PTI disease from their contacts. PTI People danced on the table in tion to the Krishna and various issues. PTI 2   "  " 2->8#$ '       " !&#'=&&' '> ' Guwahati:A four-month-old Ganga being Mainou (Lakhsmi in local Bodo had lost her mother to surging waters language) preceding them by a year to of the Brahmaputra nearly two decades Manas, also from the CWRC. Surat:A 30-year-old doctor allegedly killed her back, but she has now found her home While Ganga gave birth to her mother and sister by injecting them with drugs on the banks of another river and is a fourth calf in the last week of July this before overdosing on sleeping pills in a bid to end healthy mother of four young ones. year, Jamuna has three calves of her her life here in Gujarat but survived, police said Orphaned by the floods in Assam's own and Mainou had also become on Sunday. famed Kaziranga National Park, Ganga mother to three calves over the years Dr Darshana Prajapati injected her mother had found a refuge on the periphery before dying of natural causes a cou- Manjulaben (59) and her sister Falguni (28) with of the Park where she was raised before ple of years back, Barman said. drugs at their house in the Katagram area on setting out to live on her own in her The Center was established by Saturday night that caused their death on Sunday natural habitat. Government of Assam, Wildlife Trust morning. She also tried to end her life by con- Ganga was the second rhino to of India (WTI) and International suming a large number of sleeping pills. She is cur- be rescued by the Center for Wildlife Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), with rently undergoing treatment at the civil hospital, Rehabilitation and Conservation the support of Government of India, a police officer said. (CWRC) in Kaziranga in 2003, along in 2002. "Both Manjulaben and Falguni died apparently with another rhino calf, Rathin Barman It is located at the periphery of the due to drug overdose while Dr Darshana is under- of Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) told Kaziranga National Park and attends going treatment at the civil hospital where the PTI. Hand-raised by the staff of the to wildlife displacements originating police recorded her statement," Assistant CWRC, the pair was translocated to mainly from the Park and adjoining Commissioner of Police (ACP), D-Division, DJ Manas National Park (MNP), about Dibru-Saikhowa National Park. Chavda told reporters. Dr Darshana told the 300 km away from their birthplace, The Center has been engaging in police that she was fed up with her life, he said. four years later where they have thrived rescue of wildlife that stray out of their "Since her mother and sister were dependent over the years. Named Ganga-Jamuna natural habitats and rhinos of KNP on her, she wanted to take their life before killing for their bonding by the frontline staff have been among such animals that herself. She said she injected them with a sleep- of MNP, they were the second lot of have found a new lease of life in its inducing drug. The exact drug injected will be rhinos sent to the Park with the first premise. 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Allen                         renowned historian of the British in 1920 later resulted in two mity with the Quran and mentions that Ahmad Rashid splinter groups: Tablighi Sharia, a vision it shared with has meticulously captured the      A$                  ( Raj (and grandson of the founder of The Pioneer daily), reported Jamaat (Preaching Party) led 4  1  Tablighi Jamaat. rise of Taliban in his book,   !          (     B   B  being the first journalist to note by Naqshbandi Sufi Maulana Ahead of Partition in ‘Taliban: The Story of the +           > 7      the appearance of the Taliban on Muhammad Ilyas followed /     1941, there were around 200 Warlords’. In Rashid’s words:              #      the Afghan scene in 1994. They the teachings of Shah 12    1 madrasas in Pakistan, rising to “The Taliban represent nobody Waliullah. The second was led 893 by l972. Of these, 354 were but themselves and recognised                  ( were unsmiling youngsters with untrimmed beards, black turbans, by Mawdudi, who promoted a  G 1 Deobandi, 144 Al-Hadith and no Islam but their own.”       #       ;  F  black waistcoats, carrying either new political agenda. For him,     267 Barelvis. By 1980, nearly The Shia Revival says that Kalashnikov automatic rifles or Islam had to present itself as a 70 per cent of the madrasas the Deobandi area of influence !!40 grenade launchers. viable political and social alter-  0   1 were controlled by Deobandis. stretches from Bangladesh to In 1879, the Deoband native to both Western capital-  311 By 2002, their number was southern Afghanistan. The madrasa assumed the additional ism and socialism. He advocat- 10,000; of this, 7,000 belonged Deobandis became associated name of Dar-ul-Uloom, or the ed a new political platform )1)1 to Deobandis. Going by this with the Afghan war in the abode of Islamic learning. English based on Islamic revival and trend, all madrasas would 1980s. Many other of South was prohibited; all students had to separation through political 1    " now be under the control of Asia’s Sunni extremists hail learn the Quran and the Hadith in action and jihad. Islam had to      Deobandis. Such is the extent from the Deobandi tradition. Arabic. This was in accordance confront non-Islam head on. of influence of the institution The Pakistan-trained Taliban with the teachings of Shah Out of the Islamic revolution /2     based in Deoband. committed atrocities on the Waliullah of Delhi. The madrasa would emerge the Islamic  0   4 Most of the Taliban are the Afghan Hazaras. The Taliban retained militant jihad as a central State purged of all accretions, products of these madrasas, declared Afghan Shias to be pillar of the faith. Officially, that is, a ‘democratic’ caliphate )012 which have become nurseries infidels and massacred at least Deoband has rejected ijtihad (the whose citizens would embrace for producing more Taliban. 2,000 of them in Mazar-e- use of independent reasoning) in Sharia willingly. In 1939,     1 The various fundamentalist Sharif and Bamiyan in 1997-98. matters of the Sharia. Around the Mawdudi moved to Lahore. ) 4/1 organisations that exist now in Others have been told to con- end of the 19th century, the teach- Two years later, he founded India and Pakistan are one vert to Sunnism or face death. ings at the madrasa were tradition- Jamiat-e-Islami (JI) in direct 1 @  A way or the other connected to (The author is a seasoned al and termed Salafi, or following opposition to JUH. As the the Deoband madrasa. The writer, an editor and analyst the forefathers based on the ideas demand for a separate Muslim Taliban in Pakistan and with publications in Hindi and of renowned jurists Hanabali and State grew in India, a number Afghanistan have acknowl- English. The views expressed Ibn Tamiyya. The ideology of Deobandis formed another edged the inspiration received are personal.) 4  "# $  ." SOUNDBITE      -'%: #  "    5  "   ! 0 $ ! Sir — The Northeast region seldom           ' &''# catches attention unless something (" &' tragic happens there. Although the %&&"&&&$( -: #&(''' region has been divided into various ('&'')%'(" ''%'%&:   6 '-%#)-'$( $'@'#A2$" States, the boundary disputes refuse to recede which can be gauged from the )-' &!&$&: "          turbulent and violent nature of events $"  #'   & !& 2*3%2( !462&$$32&$*,&4' which occurred over the last few $&$='&'('(: K>-&&&    !246#9?, months. 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Cases filed during the evening of         <              but respect their regional identities. The of the previous Afghan Government. It life of many litigant public are taken for- Centre must also closely monitor the sit- 0(''      ./     O     O    remains to be seen whether the Afghans ward by their heirs and it has become uation from slipping out of control. continue to stage protests against the a dream for the petitioners to see jus- @$!$A&                        Consensus and confidence-building Taliban after there were rounds fired at tice in their lifetime. (('% *                    ( measures must be adopted to solve the them. Against this backdrop, India A ray of hope dawns only if all the - -&=   ;       +789(03         border issues at the earliest. needs to wait and watch. 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Iran had encouraged the Later, the opening of their first overseas )1 wings to its old aspirations of Through this platform, Pakistan relations between Russia and the office in Dohain 2013 gave them defac- 1 =)  forming an Islamic Emirate. was successfulin bringing both US Taliban. Further, the ex-Taliban dis- to recognition as it was visited by diplo-   = China had initiated its OBOR and China to the same table. This sidents who joined ISIS posed a mats from different countries. The talks  /1 in2013 and stretched its econom- ensured that whatever decision common threat to both Moscow were unsuccessful and the office was shut / ) "  1 ic presence to South, Central, and would be taken would be in and Tehran. This resulted in the US, down. However, it gained the Taliban a West Asia apart from Africa. It also Pakistan's favour; and projection India, and Afghanistan being left  ) )  #    (              "diplomatic" voice for itself and the made tactical inroads in the region of its strategic utility to the US, out completely and the shift of the 1                      much-required political space.The inter- through its small arms supplies Russia, and other European pow- fulcrum towards China and its allies national community had started differ-     and supporting the undemocrat- ers would be a bonus. -- Russia, Pakistan, and Iran.   #    9 9  B   4 *  entiating between Taliban, Al-Qaida, ic and tyrannical governments As Beijing continued to influ- Taliban by this time was recognized F  DB;           9L        and ISIS, something which India had  1 2 across all these regions. 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They went to the Iranian Government allowed the Taliban 2 1")  military, and economic relations India and Afghanistan were again extent of declaring non-recognition    M      (    *    ( to open its office in Mashhad. This con- with Russia as well as Pakistan. The let down in this geo-politics. It set of the Afghan delegation. Further,                    ( vergence also led to the US-Iran nuclear   1 lucrativeness of Iran to both Russia the stage for an emerging Pakistan- Iran embraced the OBOR and the      A$    +B!     deal of 2015. The USthrough Iran 1 )31/ and China is thus well-founded. China-Russia alliance. Overtime, geostrategic landscape of South 9        (       engaged with the Taliban indirectly to N 11GE The sharp polarisations became as the fundamentalists from Syria and Central Asia completely                  fight ISIS. Iranian military commander    evident in 2016 at the sixth and Iraq moved towards changed. Expansionism had thus   +         ( Qasem Soleimani played an important 113 Heart of Asia (HoA) conference Afghanistan, Moscow and Beijing joined terrorism.          M    ( role in helping the US to fight ISIS. In a held at Amritsar. India and further enhanced their coopera- Having realized the encir- way or the other, the US "outsourced" the )11  Afghanistan,despite attempts to tion with the Taliban. This also clement, the US struck a "peace              (       ( fight, a development that was covered in  )1   highlight Pakistan's role in the downplayed the US-led Mission in deal" with the Taliban, of course,                 the Washington Post.  ) 1 terror network,were brutally Afghanistan. For these reasons, the with certain obligations on the lat-         "     ( ( The Russian interests too coincided    side-lined when Islamabad Haqqani network and its proxies ter's part such as peaceful return,    "    <       against ISIS. This motivated powers such  :2 1 received diplomatic appreciation played an important role. the safety of women and the chil-  ( <       )!    ( as Russia and China to engage the from Russia. Upon India and Afghanistan dren, etc., and obligated itself for a       <         Taliban and treat it as an important stake- Simultaneously, the Sino-Pak voicing their concerns, the talks September-2021 departure. The            <     holder. Dealing with the regional and nexus supported the armed insur- were converted to six-party talks environment became too hostile for extra-regional powers by using back gencies in Afghanistan through the in 2017 but both had little influ- the US and thus resulted in an early             +B!   ( channels was a moment of a tactical and Haqqani and Hekmatyar networks ence.The pressure of Russia, exit. In all these circumstances,   strategic victory for the Taliban.This while also offering their good Pakistan,and China made the there are no complete victories or               was also the time when the re-arming of offices to broker a deal between Afghan government talk on defeats. China readies itself to be in  $**BJ      G$7 HG  $   the Taliban was initiated by Iran and Kabul and the Taliban. Such a deal unconditional terms with the a creditor's trap in both Pakistan 7 I          #    Russia. For instance, Tehran's military aid at that particular point of time Taliban in 2018 and it was com- and Afghanistan. For India too, the           G$7  *    to the Taliban included light arms, rifle- meant initiating some sort of legit- pelled to recognize it as a political challenges are immense and India propelled grenades, and even military (The writer is an imacy for the Taliban.The Afghan party. India despite its divergences displayed its character by doing all                 "( Assistant Professor at training. Pakistan's military support to Central University of peace process was a fertile ground with Afghanistan on the issue that it could do on humanitarian          "      ( Taliban is already well established. The Punjab, Bathinda. The to sow the seeds of China-Russia- continued its humanitarian sup- grounds -- from building parlia-            G$7 #    joint resistance against ISIS thus paved the views expressed are Pakistan and Iran's cooperation. port and its developmental pro- ment to Libraries, dams and provid-        +B!   #     ( way for the Taliban. Two objectives of the personal.) The first meeting of the jects. ing scholarships to the Afghan                     Taliban were fulfilled. First, a sneak into Quadrilateral Coordination Group By this time, a Sino-Russo students. 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very crisis comes with an rating and India's global percep- expand opportunities. lence with direct support from focus on start-up incubation Modi and former President opportunity. India today tion, as per Pew Research, adds Economic growth thrives the HRD ministry and inter- and modernizing the educa- Donald Trump to get QUAD Eis at the cusp of a major strength in terms of engage- on trust, collaborationand national partnerships.We need tion system with emphasis on into action for safeguarding transformation that has the ment. We need to focus on capability. Our education sys- to create the right funding and teaching quality, research facil- economic, security interests potential to make hera global developing leadership skills tem is key to building a social support system to develop ity and technology support. and Trump's personal effort to leader. India's greatest asset is from the schooling stage. quotient and interpersonal enterprise and research. The Indians can reach their poten- rename 'Asia-Pacific' as 'Indo- human capital that has the 4"'4"'* " Our education system skills to drive collaboration, system should be friendly for tial only by showcasing the Pacific' and thereby bringing potential to make a difference revolves around the colonial innovation and change. Our growth and not marred by red ease of business in tier-2 cities India the world's most crucial to the emerging world order. and socialist era that focuses growth depends on our abil- tape. India needs to initiate a and the talent pool available geo-economic region holds More than 300 million people on creating educated labour build self-confidence and inde- ity to collaborate. Lack of national integrated education there. Each Indian state will enormous potential that will are part of the skilled domes- rather than entrepreneurs and pendent thinking. Emphasis emphasis on building social policy that encourages cross have to create the right envi- unfold in the years to come. tic workforce in the country. domainexperts. A major draw- on bookish knowledge and skills, participation in sports country cultural and social ronment for expansion of busi- Time has come for India India today has a diversified back of this ecosystem is its assessment of what children and extracurricular activities exposure for graduates and ness and the mobility of work- to position itself as a world pool of quality, ready to meet inability to help students learn donot know should be hampers the ability of young- post-graduates from different ing professionals and students. economic power beyond just the needs of an expanding from failures. The education replaced by building an under- sters to interact, get different parts of the country to get India has everything that the label of a "market" or economy. In the past decade, a system has limited flexibility standing of various subjects, insights and become more exposed to work being done by is required to take advantage "source of cheap talent". It is million Indian students have for students to pick their sub- ability to integrate and apply confident about themselves their peers in other states and of the changing world order time to embark on One pursued education at universi- ject combinations from the learnings in form of projects. through such interactions develop a strong understand- inthe post-pandemic era with Nation - One HRDInitiative ties abroad. This pool will be a available options. We need a We lack in our world and presentations. Such skills ing of cultures of different parts a changing global economic focusing on quality. great strength for India if we are (The writer is an expert on model of pedagogy that facil- view and the ability to link form the core for leadership of the country. Activities relat- and geo-political order. A very To paraphrase Swami able to engage with them and Leadership Development itates engagement, quality of macro-economics and micro and enterprise building to be ed to sports and National positive and significant devel- Vivekananda, we will be show them the emerging currently a Country teaching and creates diversity business strategy. The key successful in other profes- Cadet Corps should be includ- opment has been India receiv- remembered for what we are opportunities. In comparison to Manager for India with a of streams and effectiveness of area of deficiency is social sions as well. ed in the curriculum. ing nearly $82 billion in foreign and we have the power to Global IT firm. The views China, Indian professionals expressed are personal.) ability for application of learn- skills and the ability to build Universities need to be It is time for an India investment in 2021. Efforts by make ourselves whatever we have a better talent perception ing. The present model fails to collaborative networks to developed as centres of excel- Sovereign Wealth Fund with Prime Minister Narendra wish ourselves to be.    !  #$% &  '( )*+ ),)-  9 5&$ %%$$ 1$!   ! Q     R 2&2&1           1    21 The US Embassy issued a hotel in the capital. security warning Saturday That is the only announced he US military is consider- telling citizens not to travel to example of US forces going   Ting “creative ways” to get the airport without individual beyond the airport to get evac- Americans and others into the instruction from a US govern- uees, who often are blocked by  0   Kabul airport for evacuation ment representative. Officials chaos, violence and crowds at from Afghanistan amid a range declined to provide more airfield gates. otential Islamic State threats of security threats, Defence specifics about the IS threat but A central problem in the Pagainst Americans in Secretary Lloyd Austin said, described it as significant. evacuation operation is pro- Afghanistan are forcing the and the Pentagon on Sunday “We're gonna try our very cessing evacuees once they US military to develop new ordered six US commercial best to get everybody, every reach other countries in the ways to get evacuees to the air- airlines to help move evacuees American citizen who wants to region and in Europe. Those port in Kabul, a senior US offi- from temporary sites outside of get out, out,” Austin said in the temporary waystations, includ- cial has said, adding a new Afghanistan. interview. ing in Qatar, Bahrain and complication to the already Austin told ABC's “This “And we've got — we con- Germany, are sometimes reach- chaotic efforts to get people out Week” that as President Joe tinue to look at different ways ing capacity. of the country after its swift fall Biden's August 31 deadline for to — in creative ways — to In an attempt to alleviate to the Taliban. ending the evacuation opera- reach out and contact that, and to free up military air- The official on Saturday tion approaches, he will rec- American citizens and help craft for missions from Kabul, said small groups of Americans ommend whether to give it them get into the airfield.” the Pentagon on Sunday acti- and possibly other civilians will more time. He later said this included vated the Civil Reserve Air be given specific instructions on Tens of thousands of non-Americans who qualify Fleet. The Defense Department what to do, including move- Americans and others have for evacuation, including said 18 aircraft from six com- ment to transit points where yet to flown out of the country. Afghans who have applied for mercial airlines will be direct- .                            "      #    they can be gathered up by the The interview aired Sunday Special Immigrant Visas. ed to ferry evacuees from inter- military. The official spoke on but was taped Saturday as Austin noted that the US im waystations. The aircraft each from American condition of anonymity to dis- other US officials cited military on Thursday had used airlines will not fly into Airlines, Atlas Air, Delta Air cuss military operations. increased concerns about secu- helicopters to move 169 Afghanistan. Lines and Omni Air; two from The changes come as the rity threats at the Kabul airport Americans into the airport According to the Pentagon, Hawaiian Airlines; and four Q#  C3D$?@ ;  US Embassy issued a new secu- from militants affiliated with from the grounds of a nearby the activation involves three from United Airlines. rity warning Saturday telling the Islamic State group. citizens not to travel to the   @0R      Kabul airport without indi- ;  (  vidual instruction from a US government representative.  Washington: US President Joe Biden is scheduled to virtually meet other leaders of the G-7 coun-  11 "We must evacuate and Officials declined to provide tries on August 24 to discuss close coordination on Afghanistan policy, White House Press Secretary give sanctuary to those to more specifics about the IS  .- Jen Psaki said on Sunday. The leaders will discuss continuing our close coordination on Afghanistan ony Blair, the British prime whom we have responsibility threat but described it as sig- policy and evacuating our citizens, the brave Afghans who stood with us over the last two decades. Tminister who deployed — those Afghans who helped nificant. troops to Afghanistan 20 years us and stood by us and have a %  ago after the 9/11 attacks, says right to demand we stand by the US decision to withdraw them," he said. 8    1  0   $   !   from the country has "every Like other nations, Britain Jihadist group round the world is trying to evacuate Afghan   3<   cheering." allies as well as its own citizens  11 In a lengthy essay posted from Afghanistan, but with a         "  .  on his website late Saturday, the U.S.-imposed Aug. 31 deadline ritish Prime Minister Boris former Labour Party leader hovering into view, it's a race Moscow: The Russian ambas- BJohnson has said he will con-   2 imbroglio. diplomatic position that it has said the sudden and chaotic against time. sador in Kabul says the Taliban vene a meeting of leaders from Since the Taliban's takeover no favourites in Afghanistan, pullout that allowed the Taliban In addition to the 4,000 or have asked his embassy to con- the Group of Seven nations on s China, Pakistan mull a of Kabul on August 15, China the Pakistani government is to reclaim power risked driven not by grand strategy so U.K. citizens, the country is vey their offer of a deal to a Tuesday for “urgent talks on the Ajoint strategy to push for a and Pakistan have stepped up clearly comfortable with the undermining everything that but by politics," he added. thought to have around 5,000 remaining pro-government hold- situation in Afghanistan.” global recognition of the contacts amidst a sense of their return of the Taliban, the Hong had been achieved in Blair also accused U.S. Afghan allies, such as transla- out in northern Afghanistan. In a statement posted on Taliban regime in war-torn delight over a “humiliating Kong-based South China Afghanistan over the past two President Joe Biden of being "in tors and drivers, earmarked for Ambassador Dmitry Twitter, Johnson said it is “vital Afghanistan to further their defeat” of the US after a 20-year Morning Posted quoted some decades, including advances obedience to an imbecilic polit- a seat on a plane. The Ministry Zhirnov said on Saturday that that the international commu- interests, experts have warned war in Afghanistan despite lin- Pakistani analysts as saying. in living standards and the edu- ical slogan about ending 'the of Defense said Sunday that a senior member of the nity works together to ensure the “all-weather allies” of long- gering concerns over the return Within hours of Kabul's cation of girls. forever wars', as if our engage- nearly 4,000 people had been Taliban's political leadership safe evacuations, prevent a term losses, especially a blow- of the Taliban with all its bag- fall, Pakistan Prime Minister "The abandonment of ment in 2021 was remotely evacuated so far. has asked Russia to tell fighters humanitarian crisis and support back effect from the US which gage of the al-Qaeda and the Imran Khan said the Afghan Afghanistan and its people is comparable to our commit- Blair conceded that mis- in the Panjshir Valley that the the Afghan people to secure the may turn its ire on Beijing and Islamic State terror groups. people had “broken the shack- tragic, dangerous, unneces- ment 20 or even 10 years ago." takes were made over the past Taliban hope to reach a politi- gains of the last 20 years.” Islamabad to avenge its Afghan Contrary to its oft-stated les of slavery” to the West. sary, not in their interests and The former prime minister, two decades but added that cal agreement to settle the sit- not in ours," said Blair who whose reputation in the U.K. military interventions can be uation there. The diplomat says served as prime minister dur- took a dive from the failure to noble in intent, especially when the Taliban claim they don't ($ ing 1997-2007, a period that find the alleged weapons of challenging an extreme Islamist want bloodshed in the region. #       also saw him back the U.S.-led mass destruction that were threat. The Panjshir Valley north of +<%   war in Iraq in 2003. cited as justification for U.S. "Today we are in a mood Kabul, a stronghold of the "The world is now uncer- coalition's invasion of Iraq, which seems to regard the Northern Alliance militias that ( E        tain of where the West stands said Britain has a "moral oblig- bringing of democracy as a were allied with the US during because it is so obvious that the ation" to stay in Afghanistan utopian delusion and inter- the 2001 invasion of     decision to withdraw from until everyone who needs to be vention virtually of any sort as Afghanistan, is the only area that     Afghanistan in this way was evacuated is taken out. a fool's errand." he said. hasn't fallen to the Taliban. AP alestinian police on Sunday srael's military bombed Psaid they arrested 24 people IPalestinian militant weapons protesting the government's sites in the Gaza Strip early response to the death of a !@!   #!80 Sunday in response to a violent prominent political activist demonstration on the perime- while in the custody of ter fence that left an Israeli Palestinian security forces.  F ! $ 1 police officer critically injured, The demonstrators had the army said. planned to call for accountabil- 2 $ Saturday's violence erupt- ity in the death of Nizar Banat,  !  ed after hundreds of an outspoken critic of the Palestinians took part in a Palestinian Authority who died Kyiv: German Chancellor efforts to bring peace to east-    The report said Motegi demonstration organised by in custody on June 24 shortly Angela Merkel sat down for ern Ukraine, where fighting would meet with other Iranian Gaza's Hamas rulers to draw burning tires. At least 24 er planes hit “four weapons and after he was arrested. But police talks with Ukrainian President between Ukrainian forces and ranian President met Sunday officials, including Raisi's nom- attention to the Israeli-Egyptian Palestinians, including a 13- storage manufacturing sites” prevented Saturday's protest Volodymyr Zelenskyy after Russia-backed separatists has Iwith Japan's foreign minister inated foreign minister, blockade of the territory. year-old, were injured by Israeli belonging to Gaza's Hamas and arrested two dozen activists. traveling to Kyiv on Sunday. killed more than 14,000 people in the capital of Tehran and the Hossein Amirabdollahian and The demonstration grew gunfire, according to the Gaza rulers, and that the military Police spokesman Louay The two leaders were since 2014. two discussed de-escalation of other high-ranking officials violent after dozens of people health ministry. An Israeli deployed additional troops to Arzeigat issued a statement expected to discuss relations Germany and France have tensions in the region, during his two-day visit. approached the fortified border Border Police officer was shot the region near the border saying the demonstrators had between the countries, reforms worked to help broker a peace- Iranian news agencies report- Iran's state-run IRNA news fence and threw rocks and and critically injured. with the Palestinian enclave. not received a permit and in Ukraine and implementation ful settlement to the conflict, ed. agency reported Saturday that explosives toward Israeli sol- The army said in a state- There were no immediate “refused to sign the condi- of the 2015 peace deal designed including a since-violated 2015 The president's official Motegi's visit to Tehran is diers from behind a black ment that in response to the reports of injuries in the tions for the gathering.” It did to end the fighting with Russia- ceasefire agreement reached website, president.Ir, said that aimed at boosting bilateral smoke screen billowing from violent demonstrations, fight- airstrikes. not elaborate. backed separatist in the eastern in Minsk, Belarus. Japanese Foreign Minister relations with Iran and fur- Ukraine. “I will work until my last Toshimitsu Motegi discussed thering diplomatic efforts to Merkel's trip came two day in office so that the terri- bilateral, regional and interna- de-escalate and stabilize the ; 1 $ days after she went to Moscow torial integrity of Ukraine can tional issues with President Middle East. - !  ?   to meet with Russian President be ensured,” Merkel said. Ebrahim Raisi. During Sunday's meeting, Vladimir Putin. The chancellor It's not clear when she will The two-day visit is the Raisi welcomed efforts by Japan  is not running in Germany's step down, because Germany's first by a Japanese official since and other countries to help national election next month outgoing government will Raisi became Iran's new pres- establish peace and stability in 0!        and is nearing the end of her remain in place until a new one ident and the first since the Afghanistan and the region.  &1 almost 16-year-long leader- is formed after the election. Japanese prime minister visit- “Iran has always supported     protocols. Due to the Delta tory Covid-19 test, travellers ship of Germany. Putin asked Merkel to reaf- ed Iran in 2019. ISNA said peace and stability in $  variant, India was in category from areas falling in category After meeting Putin on firm to Ukrainian authorities Motegi is in Tehran at the offi- Afghanistan. Of course, we akistan has decided to allow C in Pakistan from May 22 till B are required to present a neg- Friday, Merkel made it clear during her Kyiv visit the impor- cial invitation of Iranian believe that Afghans should    Pfully-vaccinated Sikh pilgrims to August 12, and a special ative PCR test that must be that she hasn't given up hope tance of honoring their oblig- Foreign Minister Mohammad make their own decisions in visit Gurdwara Darbar Sahib, approval was required for peo- taken within 72 hours of the of progress on the long-stalled ations under the 2015 deal. AP Javad Zarif. Afghanistan.” atar on Sunday announced Kartarpur from next month with ple coming from the country, travel date, while visitors from QOctober 2 as its date for strict Covid-19 protocols, ahead of including Sikh pilgrims. nations in category C are the country's first election to the 482nd death anniversary of However, fully-vaccinated restricted and can travel only &1(0 )1=  vote for members of its top Sikhism founder Guru Nanak Dev persons with certificates will be under specific NCOC guide- G ; ! ,  advisory panel, known as the on September 22, media reports allowed to enter Pakistan pro- lines,” the official said. 1 $$ Shura Council. said on Sunday. vided they show Real-Time The movement of pilgrims &"  The date was announced On this occasion, three-day Polymerase Chain Reaction to Pakistan through the ; !    !++>> by royal decree, according to a rituals will be held at the shrine (RT-PCR) test reports which Kartarpur corridor has been  !  report in the state-run Qatar from September 20. Guru should not be more than 72 suspended since March 2020 Port-au-Prince: Haiti's Civil News Agency. Nanak died in Kartarpur on hours old. Apart from this, a due to the Covid-19 pandem- -      Protection Agency said Sunday The Shura Council election September 22, 1539. Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) will ic and the neighbouring coun- 4 % that the toll from this month's aims to give the country's cit- Pilgrimage to the also be conducted at airports try banned all travel from     remains of scientist Marie magnitude 7.2 earthquake has izens more say on how their Kartarpur Sahib gurdwara was and in case of a positive result, India citing the surge in cases  1)01 Curie, French philosopher grown to 2,207, with 344 peo- hereditary emirate is governed. suspended in March 2020 the individual will not be here in April this year, Union he remains of American- Voltaire, writer Victor Hugo ple still missing. Qatar's ruling emir, Sheikh because of the Covid-19 out- allowed to enter Pakistan. Minister of State for Home tefan Lofven, Sweden's Tborn singer and dancer and other French luminaries. The previous figure had Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, break. The decision to open the Besides, as per Non- Nityanand Rai told Parliament SSocial Democratic Prime Josephine Baker will be rein- The presidential palace been 2,189 on Wednesday. The has described the election as Kartarpur shrine was taken by Pharmaceutical Interventions in New Delhi on August 3. Minister since 2014, said terred at the Pantheon monu- confirmed the newspaper's agency said via Twitter that “an important step” for the the National Command and (NPIs), a maximum of 300 India signed the Kartarpur Sunday that he will step down ment in Paris, making the information. 12,268 people were injured country. Operation Centre (NCOC) on people will be permitted to corridor agreement with as head of Government and the entertainer who is a World War After her death in 1975, and nearly 53,000 houses were The election allows Qatari Saturday due to the approach- assemble at a time at the dar- Pakistan on October 24, 2019. party in November. II hero in France the first Baker was buried in Monaco, destroyed by the August 14 citizens to choose 30 members ing death anniversary of bar. According to an official of Under the pact, Indian pilgrims The unexpected announce- Black woman to get the coun- dressed in a French military quake. The new toll comes at a of the country's 45-seat Shura Sikhism founder Baba Guru the Ministry of National Health of all faiths are allowed to ment — made during his annu- try's highest honour. uniform with the medals she time when relief operations are Council, which are now all Nanak Dev on September 22. Services (NHS), Pakistan had undertake round-the-year visa- al summer speech —- came Le Parisien newspaper received for her role as part of expanding — the US-based hand-picked by the ruling elite. Dawn newspaper reported introduced three categories to free travel through the ahead of next year's general reported Sunday that French the French Resistance during aid agency Samaritan's Purse The council has no substantive that the NCOC meeting unan- deal with the coronavirus Kartarpur corridor to election and after Lofven in President Emmanuel Macron the war. Baker will be the fifth opened a field hospital legislative power but advises the imously decided to allow Sikh spread. Gurudwara Kartarpur Sahib, June became the first Swedish decided to organize a ceremo- woman to be honoured with a Saturday — but authorities are emir on new laws and pilgrims to visit Kartarpur next “Countries in category A one of the most revered shrines leader ever to lose a motion in ny on November 30 at the Paris Pantheon burial, and will also struggling with security at dis- policies. month under strict Covid-19 are exempted from the manda- of Sikhs, in Pakistan. parliament. monument, which houses the be the first artist. tribution points. AP    !  #$% &  '( )*+ ),)-  : 80 $1 #;   8;# !    ? %  $$!%    1?   ! $!   40(    native investment funds and other potential investors for iaomi is bringing in offer- he Indian Banks’ eventual value realisation, she Xings like gold loans, credit TAssociation (IBA) has had said. line cards and insurance prod-   national highways, ToT (toll- moved an application to the Last year, IBA made a pro- ucts as it looks to provide the operate-transfer) and so on,” Reserve Bank of India (RBI) posal for the creation of a bad full spectrum of financial ser- inance Minister Nirmala Pandey had said. seeking licence to set up a bank for swift resolution of vices across payment, lending FSitharaman will launch the The Union Budget 2021- 6,000-crore National Asset non-performing assets. The and insurance in India, its National Monetisation Pipeline 22, laid a lot of emphasis on Reconstruction Company Ltd approvals and fulfilling other government accepted the pro- India head Manu Jain said. (NMP) today, which will list asset monetisation as a means (NARCL) or bad bank, accord- legal formalities. posal and decided to go for an Speaking with PTI, Jain out the Government’s infra- to raise innovative and alter- ing to sources. IBA, entrusted with the asset reconstruction company said these financial services will structure assets to be sold over native financing for infra- NARCL was incorporated task of setting up a bad bank, and asset management com- be offered in partnership with the next four-years, an official structure. In her Budget last month in Mumbai follow- has put a preliminary board for pany model in this regard. organisations like Axis Bank, with respect to overall financial Head Ashish Khandelwal said. statement said. speech, Sitharaman had said ing the registration with NARCL in place. The compa- Meanwhile, state-owned IDFC Bank, Aditya Birla services as well as credit per- Another service that will be “The NMP comprises a that monetising operating pub- Registrar of Companies (RoC). ny has hired P M Nair, a Canara Bank has expressed its Finance Ltd, Stashfin, Money spective. launched in the next few weeks four-year pipeline of the lic infrastructure assets was a According to sources, the stressed assets expert from intent to be the lead sponsor of View, Early Salary and Credit He said Xiaomi is adding is gold loan, he added. Central Government’s brown- very important financing company after mobilising an State Bank of India (SBI), as the NARCL with a 12 per cent Vidya. insurance vertical to its plat- Jain said 40 per cent of the field infrastructure assets. option for new infrastructure initial capital of  100 crore and managing director. stake. He stated that Mi Credit, a form as well as expanding company’s credit product users Besides providing visibility to construction. fulfilling other legal formalities The other directors on the The proposed NARCL curated marketplace for per- lending category with the addi- are self-employed and the investors, NMP will also serve “A National Monetisation has approached the RBI seek- board are IBA Chief Executive would be 51 per cent owned by sonal loans of up to Rs 1 lakh, tion of offerings like gold loans remaining 60 per cent are as a medium-term roadmap for Pipeline of potential brownfield ing licence to undertake asset Sunil Mehta, SBI Deputy PSBs and the remaining by pri- in 2019 witnessed a lot of and credit line cards. salaried employees. the asset monetisation initiative infrastructure assets will be reconstruction business. Managing Director S S Nair vate-sector lenders. euphoria, and more than one The top executive said Mi “In 2021, we are planning of the Government,” the Niti launched. An asset monetisa- The RBI in 2017, raised the and Canara Bank’s Chief NARCL will take over lakh loans have already been Credit will now offer a higher to further diversify and provide Aayog said in a statement on tion dashboard will also be cre- capital requirement to  100 General Manager Ajit Krishnan identified bad loans of lenders. disbursed. pre-approved loan of Rs 25 lakh 20 per cent of the loans to Sunday. ated for tracking the progress crore from the earlier level of Nair. The lead bank with an offer in However, as the pandemic (against Rs 1 lakh previously) MSMEs (micro, small and Department of Investment and to provide visibility to  2 crore, keeping in mind the Finance Minister Nirmala the hand of NARCL will go for hit, its lending partners took a and tenure of up to 60 months. medium enterprises). and Public Asset Management investors,” she had said. higher amount of cash required Sitharaman in Budget 2021-22, a ‘Swiss Challenge’, wherein backseat. Besides, the company has We have launched business (DIPAM) Secretary Tuhin The government views asset to buy bad loans. announced that the high level other asset reconstruction play- “Many quarters went into started offering SME Loans loan to meet the emerging Kanta Pandey had earlier this monetisation as a strategy for RBI has its process and of provisioning by public sec- ers will be invited to better the re-thinking about the future of and credit line cards as well. needs of entrepreneurs and month said that the govern- the augmentation and mainte- procedure for granting licence tor banks of their stressed offer made by a chosen bidder Mi Credit or Mi Financial “Mi Credit, in partnership MSMEs,” he added. ment is finalising  6 lakh crore nance of infrastructure, and for such business, sources said, assets calls for measures to for finding a higher valuation Services should look like. We with Stashfin, has launched Xiaomi’s Mi Pay service, worth infrastructure assets, not just a funding mechanism. adding, it could take next few clean up bank books. of a non-performing asset on are now back to growing this Credit Line cards. which was launched in 2018, including national highways The NMP book will be weeks to obtain licence from “An Asset Reconstruction sale. particular platform. Q1 2021 “It is a unique product had touched 20 million regis- and power grid pipelines, released in the presence of the regulator. Company Limited and Asset The company will pick up versus Q4 2020, we grew 95 per that comes with a proposition tered users in a year’s time. This which would be monetised. Niti Aayog Vice Chairman RBI’s approval could come Management Company would those assets that are 100 per cent, and Q1 2021 versus Q1 of Buy Now Pay Later com- number has now crossed 50 mil- “A national monetisation Rajiv Kumar, Niti Aayog CEO either in September or October, be set up to consolidate and cent provided for by the 2020, we saw 35 per cent bined with personal loan in lion users. Talking about the plan of about  6 trillion is in Amitabh Kant, and Secretaries sources added. take over the existing stressed lenders. Banks have identified growth,” he added. order to enable the customer to insurance segment, Khandelwal the offing which will have a of relevant ministries whose Legal consultant AZB & debt,” she had said in the around 22 bad loans worth Rs Jain highlighted that the utilise the offering across chan- said Xiaomi has partnered with range of assets from pipelines assets constitute the monetisa- Partners has been engaged to Budget Speech. It will manage 89,000 crore to be transferred company is working on build- nels without any limitations,” ICICI Lombard to curate a to power grid pipelines to tion pipeline. seek various regulatory and dispose the assets to alter- to NARCL in the initial phase. ing a full spectrum platform Xiaomi India Financial Services health insurance product. <      8(2!%! 2     4  3 R$     +@A+B   ,!  #-4 -+<@   1   32;#2 ," 8:+C   looking to raise Rs 6,017 crore, 7.68 million shares. Other which will make it the second- investors such as the University   application of the findings   dding more fire to the biggest issue so far this year of Notre Dame, Mio Star, Roc    resulting in the safeguarding of Aalready-frenzied IPO mar- after the Rs 9,375-crore Capital, Sai Satish, Venkatasamy he CBIC has asked customs revenue and better enforce- he total loans and advances ket, three insurance sector Zomato issue last month. PB Jagannathan, Konark Trust, Tcommissionerates not to ment of compliances. Textended by NABARD companies are entering the Fintech is backed by Tiger Bejris Minoo Desai, and MMPL issue any circular or reports However, it has been during 2020-21 registered a primary market with initial Global and Tencent Holdings. Trust are also selling shares   5,269 million, USD 855 million which are in the nature of observed that on multiple occa- growth of 25.2 per cent year- public offerings in coming Star Health, the largest through the OFS. and USD 341 million, respec- interpretation or clarification sions, communications are on-year to reach 6 lakh crore, months to mop up over standalone private health insur- PB Fintech addresses the oreign portfolio investors tively. on matters covered under the issued which are either con- with half of it going into pro- 10,000 crore. er, is planning to raise Rs 3,000 large and highly underpene- F(FPI) have pumped in a net On the other hand, Customs Act, a move aimed at trary to an existing circular duction and investment, the These companies are — PB crore; while Medi Assist, which trated online insurance and 7,245 crore into the Indian Indonesia reported FPI inflows avoiding any possible contra- issued by the Board or delve on bank said in its annual Fintech, which runs the insur- is the largest third-party lending markets in the country capital markets in August so far of USD 156 million. diction and ensuring ease of matters covered by Section report. ance brokerage Policybazaar; administrator, is lining up a Rs through its Policybazaar and amid positive sentiments due to As per Srivastava, the doing business. 151A of the Customs Act with- The report said NABARD standalone health insurer Star 840-1,000 crore issue, accord- online lending platform an improving macroeconomic Indian equity markets offer an In an instruction to all out the approval of, or a refer- earned 34,671.2 crore income Health & Allied Insurance ing to their draft red herring Paisabazaar, the largest digital environment. attractive investment proposi- Principal Chief ence to the Board, the CBIC during 2020-21, or a 6.1 per Company; and third-party prospectus (DRHP) filed with insurance marketplace with a The gradual increase in the tion from the long-term per- Commissioners of Customs, said. cent increase over the preced- administrator Medi Assist the market watchdog. 93.4 per cent market share amount of net inflows indicates spective. With improving the Central Board of Indirect “.... In order to establish a ing year. Its profit before tax in Healthcare Service. They have While PB Fintech has filed based on the number of poli- that investors are slowly drop- macroeconomic environment Taxes and Customs (CBIC) standard practice on all matters 2020-21 was  6,081.4 crore, already filed their draft the DRHP on August 4 (a day cies sold. In the financial year ping their cautious stance and and positive outlook, FPIs are said in order to establish a of classification of goods, with against  5,234.3 crore in the prospectus with markets regu- when four companies launched 2020, 65.3 per cent of all digi- gaining higher conviction on focusing their attention on standard practice on all matters respect to levy of duty thereon year-ago period. The profit lator Sebi. their IPOs), and Star Health did tal insurance sales by volume the Indian markets, said Indian equities. of classification of goods, with and for the implementation of after tax was  4,320 crore com- Already over 40 companies so on July 28 and Medi Assist was transacted through the Himanshu Srivastava, associate However, he added that respect to levy of duty and for any other provision of the pared with 3,859.2 crore in have hit the IPO market so far on May 11. Policybazaar platform. director - manager research, short-term risks continue to the implementation of any Customs Act, 1962 or of any 2019-20. this year, raising close to Star Health, backed by bil- Its Rs 6,017.5-crore public Morningstar India. persist. other provision of the Customs other law for the time being in The National Bank for  70,000 crore. lionaire Rakesh Jhunjhunwala issue comprises a fresh issue of Rs As per depositories data, Additionally, lower chances Act, 1962, directorates/com- force... It is hereby directed that Agriculture and Rural August alone saw four list- and Westbridge Capital, is the 3,750 crore and an offer-for-sale 5,001 crore was invested in of further rate cuts on the missionerates/audit will not Directorates/Commissionerate Development (NABARD) also ings, and the fifth one (Nuvoco largest standalone private of Rs 2,267.5 crore by existing equities and 2,244 crore in back of global inflation con- issue any circular which are in s/Audit shall not issue any said its balance sheet size Vistas Corp, which raised Rs health insurer with a market selling shareholders. The OFS the debt segment by overseas tinue to add to their the nature of clarification or Circulars/ Reports/Alerts etc. reached 6.57 lakh crore as on 5,000 crore) is slated for Monday share of 15.8 per cent in the consists of sale by investor SVF investors between August 2- worries. interpretation. Which are in the nature of March 31, 2021, most of which and as many as 24 more have health insurance market in the Python II (Cayman) for Rs 1,875 20. This took the total net “With the latest Fed min- Currently, interpretation/ is on account of non-idle (earn- filed their IPO papers so far this financial year 2021. crore, and Rs 392.5 crore worth investment to 7,245 utes indicating the possibility of circulars/reports/alerts are clarification/prescription for ing) assets that, in turn, helped month, seeking to mop up over Its public offering will con- of shares by other shareholders. crore. tapering by year-end, markets issued by the directorates/ the sake of uniformity, on mat- create private and public invest- 4,000 crore. sist of a fresh issue of shares Medi Assist is the country’s Regarding other emerg- have turned a bit volatile. With commissionerates/audit to all ters covered under section ments at the ground level. Investment bankers are aggregating Rs 2,000 crore and largest third-party insurance ing markets, Shrikant the Dollar index at around the Customs zones in order to 151A of the Customs Act, “We achieved a record year- expecting more than 100 issues an offer-for-sale (OFS) of 60.1 administrator in terms of rev- Chouhan, executive vice pres- 93.57, FPIs are likely to be on promote information sharing 1962...,” the CBIC said. on-year growth of 24 per cent this year, making it the best- million shares by shareholders. enue and premium serviced. It ident, equity technical research a wait & watch mode, going on the modus operandi, find- Clarifications on all such in our total assets and similar ever for the IPOs. Safecrop Investments India operates a pan-India network at Kotak Securities, noted that forward,” said V K ings or observations detected matters would be issued by the impressive growth in loan port- PB Fintech, the parent is looking to offload 30.68 mil- comprising over 11,000 hospi- flows in South Korea, Taiwan Vijayakumar, chief investment during the investigation, audit CBIC under Section 151A of folio,” NABARD Chairman G R company of online insurance lion shares, followed by Apis tals across 722 cities and and Thailand continue to be strategist at Geojit Financial or risk analysis. the Customs Act, 1962, it Chintala said in the annual distributor Policybazaar, is Growth, which is looking to sell towns. negative to the tune of USD Services.. This has helped in uniform added. report. He noted that because of the government’s Aatmanirbhar Bharat package and hardwork- 7)89+    ( $$! # R $ @0   ing farmers, the agricultural sector recorded a growth \of 3.6   "    +>! per cent last year and is likely to /   H%+  H%%:% repeat the performance in the current financial year also.  "  : : ,2     after bottoming out around the has been stable in the current cal- etrol and diesel prices were cut by 20 paise middle of last year and rising endar year so far, and has in fact   VC deal cheque size expanded Pper litre each on Sunday - the first reduc- ndia’s holding of US Government steadily thereafter, have been on a appreciated 4.1 per cent (Dollar in 2021 across stages when tion in petrol rate in over a month, and the Isecurities surged by more than decline since May’21, while RBI has Index) and 1.8 per cent against the enture capital firms compared to 2019-20. fourth in case of diesel in less than a week. $20 billion in just three months been gradually raising its exposure INR,” he said, adding that apart Vinfused a total of $17.2 The amount put in seed Petrol price in Delhi was cut to 101.64 ended June to $ 220.2 billion amid since April’21,” he told PTI. from RBI, it is learnt that Indian billion investment into the funding was approximately a litre and diesel to 89.07 per litre, according rising foreign exchange Forex reserves of India stood commercial banks have also start- Indian startup ecosystem dur- $1.8 million compared to $1.2 to a price notification of state-run oil compa- reserves. at USD 619.365 billion in the ed deploying some of their surplus ing January-July 2021, accord- million in 2019, the report nies. Compared to June last year, week ended August 13 after touch- funds in overseas sovereign papers. ing to data released by the said. The reduction came as international oil when most of the economic activ- ing a record high of USD 621.464 In terms of US Treasury secu- Indian Private Equity and The amount invested in prices tumbled to their lowest level since May, ities were ravaged by the coron- billion in the previous reporting rities’ holding, Japan is at the top Venture Capital Association series A and B funding wit- after the US Federal Reserve signalled it was avirus pandemic, the exposure of week. followed by China with an expo- (IVCA) and Venture nessed a marginal increase set to start tapering asset purchases within India to the US Treasury securities Kulkarni noted that domestic sure of USD 1.061 trillion at the Intelligence (VI). with $6.8 million investment, months, hurting commodities and lifting the jumped by nearly $40 billion. liquidity in the Indian money end of June. This is much higher than across 110 deals till dollar. Latest data from the US markets has been ruling high, At the third spot was the the $11.1 billion and $13 bil- now. The price cut in diesel is the fourth since Treasury Department showed that and RBI has been trying to nor- United Kingdom with holding lion investments made by VCs Additionally, the growth August 18, when the reduction cycle began. All India, with holding worth $ 220.2 malise the liquidity situation worth USD 452.9 billion, followed in 2020 and 2019, respective- stage deals almost doubled this four reductions have been of 20 paise per litre billion at the end of June this year, through variable rate reverse repo by Ireland (USD 322.9 billion), ly. year — $7.5 million in 2021 each. is the 11th largest holder of these auctions. “The increasing forex Luxembourg (USD 301.8 billion), VC funding included seed whereas it was close to $4.9 On the previous three occasions when securities while Japan has the most reserves further add to the domes- Switzerland (USD 270.1 billion), to series F investments in com- million in 2020, the report diesel rates were cut, petrol prices remained exposure at little over $ 1.277 tril- tic rupee liquidity, and therefore it Brazil (USD 249 billion), Cayman panies less than 10 years old, said. unchanged.\Sunday’s cut in petrol price came lion. makes sense for RBI to drain a part Islands (USD 244.8 billion), and late stage tech investments. The average amount after 36 days of status quo in rates. Diesel rate India has been steadily hiking of the surplus liquidity by pur- Taiwan (USD 239.4 billion) and Some of the big VC deals infused in the late-stage tech change was effected after 33 days of no change. its exposure to the treasury secu- chasing forex assets. Belgium (USD 228.5 billion), as included those in Udaan, ecosystem till July in 2021 was The freeze in rate revision coincided with rities since March when it was at “Among forex sovereign assets, per the data. Lenskart, Zomato, Swiggy, $217.57 million across 38 deals, Parliament session, where the opposition par- $ 200 billion. In April, the holding the US PharmEasy, Meesho, Pine Labs, it added. ties tried to corner the government on various rose to $ 208.7 billion and then to dollar is Zeta, Cred, RazorPay, “There are tailwinds sup- issues including the hike in fuel prices. $ 215.8 billion at the end of general- HealthifyMe, Byju’s, porting exits as the ecosystem Petrol and diesel prices were last hiked on May. In February, the country’s ly the Unacademy, Eruditus, Vedantu, has started actioning IPOs and July 17. Prior to that, the petrol price was exposure stood at $ 204.4 billion, more Dunzo, Bira 91, Boat, offshore listing for Indian star- increased by Rs 11.44 a litre between May 4 and a steep decline from $ 211.6 billion pre- Mamaearth, MyGlamm, tups is under discussion, with July 17. Diesel rates had gone up by 9.14 dur- in January. The holding was at USD ferred Uniphore Software Systems, the Government of India also ing this period. The price hike during this peri- 182.7 billion at the end of June curren- Yellow.Ai, Entropik and in sync with this principally,” od pushed petrol prices above Rs 100-a-litre 2020. cy of others. IVCA President Rajat Tandon mark in more than half of the country, while Unmesh Kulkarni, Managing the RBI; “The strong deal flow is said. diesel crossed that level in at least three states. Director Senior Advisor at wealth con- expected to continue in the lat- The Indian consumption International oil rates have fallen to $66 a management major Julius Baer trary to ter half of the year with move- story is really playing out, barrel from $75 per barrel touched last month. 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They are secure in ruffled egos are pacified, views are not embroideries and silhouettes that they One thing that the pandemic has working with weavers, the latter’s sensibil- their Indian identity... but their style, as obstructed and more — all of this — with- want to highlight or emphasise upon. taught us is to reach back into our ities, too, have evolved. Affordable saris, well. Comfort has replaced fast-moving out a single hair out of place or a wrinkle wardrobes and see that there are so many in colours and motifs that you want to trends. on his perfectly-fitted suit. There is no mis- The rise of social media has changed styles, accessories and ensembles that we wear, are now available. These are tradi- People have stopped talking about the taking the fact that while the designers the way fashion is consumed as there is haven’t used in the past three or four years. tional but have been contemporarised. ‘little black dress’. Earlier, everywhere you might take their ensembles to the stage, it an emphasis on looking good, whether Since the shops were shut, during this time, went, you found women wearing different is Sunil Sethi — the chief of the Fashion it be reels or webinars... a lot of the fashion came out of their exist- You were a proponent of ‘Made in India’ versions of it. Now, they wear their style Design Council of India (FDCI) since its We were taking longer to achieve this. ing wardrobe. We shouldn’t forget the les- much before the phrase gained curren- and no one bothers. People are allowing inception in 2008 — who owns it. Not sur- There was a time when everyone said, son we are learning during this time. cy. You took brands abroad and market- others to be who they are. prisingly, Sethi is a style icon in his own ‘fashion is for the elite’. Every journalist People will have to recycle, repurpose and ed them under their own names. How Yo can see, I’ve sported a beard for a right. He sported a beard, long before it was asserted that ‘fashion is overpriced’. reuse — not just as buzzwords to get atten- did you have the foresight to do so? long time. But several people are doing that fashionable, topped off with a perfectly It’s taken the last 10 years for the tion but — to adopt these as an ideology. There was no foresight. I learnt from now. Many people, mostly men, have also curled-up mustachio that had turned sil- FDCI to bring fashion to many It’s no longer a total taboo to wear the same the West. All the buyers and internation- stopped dying their hair. You see a lot of ver just like his hair. Yes, before it became different levels where ‘afford- dress, sari or jacket a second time. More al designers that visited me, 30 years ago silver-streaked men now. Being alive is a trend during the lockdown, Sethi owns able fashion’ is what many of than one-and-a-half years back, if an actor around 1989-90, were not looking for the more important than being in trend. his greying hair with so much elan that it the designers are doing. or a celebrity repeated a dress, the fash- same products that I was. The furniture has become a part of his dynamic persona. They’re doing slow, sustain- ion police were sure to point it out. But no that we were discarding from our houses You were one of the first people who When I connect with him over a call, able fashion while also being one will talk about that now. If someone was what they wanted. They valued veg- dared to go grey? he comments — matter-of-factly — about engaged in couture. repeats, they make a statement. Yesterday, etable dyes and block printing while we That is also because I am supported by how he’s been unable to reach his office With social media, the I read that Vidya Balan doesn’t want to be were moving fast towards screen printing. my age. But, yes, I did it much earlier. even though it’s post-noon, as he has been fact that everybody wanted photoshopped... so people are now proud It was the western eye which helped me busy firefighting over the phone. He says, to look good has been high- and accept who they are. appreciate our Indian-ness. The fact that What can we look forward to in this with a laugh, “When the day ends, all of lighted a bit more. Designer- I was successful in selling to the western Couture Week? us don’t know what have we accomplished,” wear is much sought after. Fashion has been called one of the most store meant that it was the ‘Made in India’ Digital has made it possible to move before getting down to the more serious In every nook and corner of polluting industries. Has the pandemic tag which gave me my identity. from 10-12 shows to 19 of them. The best business of fashion and the forthcoming the country, you see sign- given an impetus to move towards sus- When they opened Armani Casa, thing about digital is that designers are so Indian Couture Week, which kickstarts boards that say ‘designer- tainable fashion? sometime in the 90s, for the first time, I excited about their own signature collec- today. Excerpts from the interview: wear’. And who is the design- I am doing a national competition with was invited as many of my products were tions. Two of them travelled with crews to er? Always an Indian. Blenders Pride called Showcase. Its tagline selling there. I dressed in a black Indian other parts of the country to film. Many How have the fashion weeks and the I’ve just been a part of a is ‘My Planet, My Pride’ and all the 10 bandhgala, which everyone wears every- went to five-star hotels to shoot while oth- industry changed since everything shift- jury where people from dif- young designers who have been selected where nowadays, because I wanted to stand ers have found havelis which haven’t been ed online during the pandemic? ferent parts of the country have been given six dresses each. in my Indian identity. The fact that we were used for the purpose earlier. People are try- I’m quite old school and never really have enlisted to become Contributed by 60 FDCI designers, these able to get Indian products into Armani ing to bring in an era of luxury. I am shifted to the digital world. But this one- models. I couldn’t imagine are ones which were unsold, out of fash- Casa was a feather in our caps. impressed with the effort everyone is mak- and-a-half year has taught me its benefits. people coming from Kullu, ion, not moving or had a slight defect or My entire business was dependent on ing only because of the choice of location. We realised how fashion was missing this Dharamshala, Aizawl, sample pieces. So, these young designers my Indian identity. So I always did that, During the pandemic, there was also link. This is the second digital Couture Dehradun and more. I’ve have to create a collection combining whether it was rugs, textiles, handicrafts enough time to come out with a fantas- Week. Look at the number of people we designers from Amritsar, maybe a Rajesh Pratap minimalist with or fashion. I did take pride in the ‘Made tic collection and products. Moreover, can connect with now. In this new setup, Puducherry and Jalandhar. This JJ Valaya embroidery with a cotton print in India’ brand much before anyone did. retail is opening up. I am sure what is problems of front-rows don’t exist, neither was unheard of earlier as people from Paromita Banerjee done with veg- Also, when you are exporting, unless you shown will be lapped up. For the next six is there an issue about managing crowds came from Delhi Mumbai, etable dyes, a Dhruv Kapoor denim and know what is the speciality of India, how months to a year, they will easily sell from and putting up large structures. Kolkata. People are studying silk by Samant Chauhan. The winner will can you sell it? I realised that everyone what they are going to show. The stress, now, is that the designers fashion, returning to their city be decided based on how these are looks at our craftsmen and artisans in awe. Accessories will also play an impor- were initially not used to making top-level and practising it there. utilised to create an ensemble and that’s That kind of talent is probably not there tant part in Couture Week. It will be a treat films since we were doing live shows. But It seems, with the influx of Insta it is called, ‘My Planet, My Pride’. in other countries. There was a distinct for people to watch. Moreover, if you miss technology worked for us really fast and and all, there’s competition where When big corporates are going advantage of being Indian. out on a show, you can always go back. Indian designers have adopted it. As they everyone wants to outdo themselves by ahead and doing stuff like this, then you The added advantage is that you are in command, they decided whether coming up with different reels or using know the whole world will follow suit. The Would you say that we are more con- don’t have to be turning up in your they will shoot in a farmhouse or a beach accessories. At the end of the day, the FDCI is powering this. fident in our skins, about who we are as Sunday best where paparazzi are eyeing or a haveli or a forest, or a palace, or inside beneficiary is the designer. So, it’s good compared to 30 years back? what you wear. You can attend it in the a studio as they work in coordination with that people are learning about different Sabyasachi has tied up with H&M Very, very, very much. Everybody comfort of your home and your dress. the Director of Photography. Now, they fashions and styles. I see this as a posi- recently. Are more designers moving knows that it’s important to be comfort- And you won’t even miss a show as you decide how they want to present their tive. towards affordable fashion? able in any brand that you choose to wear. can easily catch all the action on social product. 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informed opinions to participate in the fight against the pandemic by getting vaccinated is the fear of pos- sible side effects. They are quite apprehensive about these. A com- mon question arises as to why they get fever after getting vaccinated; why does a medicine meant to pro- vide relief cause fever? With no one to address their concerns, some have developed a fear of death. This absence of information regard- ing the Covid-19 vaccine has result- ed in various misunderstandings and misconceptions. Namita further adds, “I feel people are extremely scared. Last year, the sudden spread of the virus and deaths in urban areas shook them. In the second wave, the virus reached the remotest corner of the villages, killing hun- dreds. Now, there are several rumours regarding vaccination. People are not going to fully trust it until they are properly informed. The myths and superstitions among rural women, who are least educat- ed, regarding vaccination are deep- rooted.” She emphasises the urgency of ending superstitions, which is the BETWEEN SCIENCE AND SUPERSTITION biggest challenge and is influencing people’s decision-making. This has 4#'4 increased the challenges of the 8 GD0A 5#8 . $     ?     # frontline workers who often strug- gle to educate the village communi-        ty about Covid-19 and vaccines. .4# ;  Learn from the past '4<6% '44074' "07"  ew diseases are often accom- ensured that my elder daughter While underlining the impor- panied by misconceptions, received all the important vaccines. tance of effective information dissem-    ) )  )   Nsuperstitions and rhetoric. My decision has angered them, and ination, Pappu Kumar, project man- During the 1974 smallpox epidem- they keep complaining. I am, how- ager for the National Rural Livelihood       ic of India — one of the worst epi- ever, aware of what is best for my Mission in the district’s Baldirai demics of the 20th century — most child’s future. I will also get her vac- block says, “The way the second wave ast week, India and Indians of the rural areas believed it to be the cinated against the novel impacted the villages, it is important Lcelebrated the platinum jubilee wrath of a regional goddess called Coronavirus, once it’s available for to focus on the education and aware- (75 years) of the country’s ‘Sheetla Mata’. Even today, if some- infants.” ness of villagers. We need to learn Independence in various ways one is infected with smallpox, peo- Lack of proper awareness about from the past endemics. During the and with various feelings. Leaders, ple claim that the goddess is upset vaccines has also contributed to dis- polio eradication drive that started in thinkers and writers gave their with the infected person and that agreements among household mem- 1994, as the vaccinations were being variegated assessment and analy- they should worship her to get rid bers. “In my village, there is a con- administered, rumours started doing sis of the achievements and fail- of the disease. Today, when the entire tinuous conflict regarding vaccina- rounds that the polio vaccine is ures of the country during the last world is faced with the challenges tion within several households. laced with infertility hormones. A seven and a half decades. While created by the COVID-19 pandem- While half of the household mem- massive media campaign, public some had words of admiration for ic, the rumours and misconceptions bers are willing to get vaccinated, the messaging and door-to-door aware- attaining self-sufficiency con- associated with this novel virus rest are dominated by their appre- ness drives helped address the con- cerning food and for becoming a have made the fight even more dif- hensions,” informs Namita Dwivedi, cerns of villagers.” He stressed that considerable economic and tech- ficult. The situation is worse in rural an Anganwadi worker from this time the administration needs to nological power, others spoke of areas. Nandauli village in Sultanpur dis- invest double the efforts. its miserable failure in its efforts Rural regions in India are often trict. In a situation where the fami- There is a need to run special to bring down the rate of popu- disconnected in terms of informa- conceptions they believe to be true. point, resulting in a never-ending ly’s opinions are divided, it becomes awareness campaigns for the Covid- lation growth, achieving the goal tion and awareness due to inacces- disagreement. While her husband difficult for a woman to make a deci- 19 vaccines and pull villagers from the of mass-literacy and to bring sibility to the relevant information Women at the crossroads and brother-in-law work in anoth- sion based on her knowledge. She state of confusion. Until then, the tus- some economic benefits to the in a timely fashion. Women, owing Whenever Pooja Kumari, a 23- er city, she lives in the village with will be ridiculed for a long time and sle between science and superstition poor. ers to live freely. to their restricted mobility, are fur- year-old graduate from Rampur her in-laws and two small daughters. will be held responsible for every- will continue and we will not be able On this day of great national The majority of us do not ther pushed away and rely on the Babuwan village in Uttar Pradesh’s Expressing her difficulty in making thing that goes wrong in the future. to defeat Covid-19. importance, some senior-most realise the fact that all our prob- information provided by men in the Sultanpur district, tries to explain an informed decision, Pooja says, (The article has been written statesmen and freedom fighters lems have arisen from an identi- family. The ones who are literate and COVID-19 through a scientific lens, “My in-laws are orthodox and do not The bigger challenge under the Sanjoy Ghose Media gave the eye-witness account of ty crisis, i.e the deep ignorance of aware are often neglected by their her in-laws discard her information believe in the concept of immunisa- Another concern that stops vil- Award 2020) what happened on that historic our real identity which is that of families and forced to follow the mis- upholding a traditionalist view- tion. Going against their beliefs, I lagers from agreeing with the L0 $   night when stalwarts such as Dr a soul and not the body. Hence the Rajendra Prasad and Dr Radha discrimination based on the acci- Krishnan spoke at midnight and dent of birth as well as issues of he United Nations’ augmenting post-harvest stor- loss and waste in India, based Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru gave his communalism, casteism, violence TIntergovernmental Panel   @ age infrastructure including on data-driven strategies and famous ‘Tryst with Destiny’ and disgraceful attitude towards on Climate Change’s Sixth the cold-chain infrastructure. solutions and taking into speech when the whole world the tribal and the backward class- Assessment Report (SAR6) account the challenges faced slept and India awoke to freedom, es will all go away if we realised has confirmed the climate '           Talking about the find- by diverse stakeholders. “to redeem its pledge, not whol- that each one of us is a soul. There crisis this generation and the ings, Monika Agarwal, senior ly or in full measure, but very sub- would have been no massacre in ones in the future are going to  +          manager at WRI India, said, Call to action stantially”. They also spoke of the 1947 or even partitioning of the face and is unequivocal about “Significant amount of food in In accordance with the pledge taken by all the members sub-continent if people had the human influence in global    +   5  India never gets consumed findings, WRI India and of the Constituent Assembly, pre- awareness that they are souls. warming. Globally, food loss because it gets wasted during FOLU India coupled the sent at that moment, “which Also, there would be no injustice and waste contribute to 8 per '      =5'>3!4 ::4 its movement from farm to launch of the working paper comes but rarely in history”, say- of any kind or corruption of any cent of emissions. plate. The loss is much more with a round table to discuss ing loudly with one voice that they brand or gender bias if people To understand the social, than just the amount of food, the ‘Champions 12.3 strate- dedicated themselves in all humil- become soul-conscious. We must environment, and economic it is about the health of our gy of Target-Measure-Act’ ity to the service of India and her thus remember that our spiritu- impact of food loss and waste people, ecosystem - plants, which includes adopting the people to the end so that the ality and spiritual response will in India and the current state animals, soil, water, biodi- Sustainable Development country could “attain her rightful arise from our soul-consciousness of play, the World Resources versity which are all inter- Goal target 12.3 which place in the world and could make and from that would come real Institute India (WRI India) linked. We need concerted underlines halving food her willing contribution to the swa-raj i.e rule of the self or soul. undertook a systematic analy- multi-actor efforts to reduce waste and reducing losses promotion of world peace and the The day is not far when we sis of 106 published and grey food getting lost in how we while measure food loss and welfare of mankind”. Others were will see a world centred around literature, along with consul- produce, store, transport, waste to take action on the heavy with sorrow and spoke of the purity of character and values, tations with sectoral experts. process, distribute, and con- hotspots identified. The find- incalculable sacrifices made by where every being is divine and This study, supported by the sume food.” ings have resulted in the innumerable persons for achiev- would co-exist in harmony with Food and Land Use Coalition Dr O P Agarwal, CEO of emergence of the ‘Friends of ing independence, which was nature. There will be no form of (FOLU) India platform, high- WRI India pitched in, “WRI Champions 12.3’ in India, a accompanied by the great tragedy violence, be it physical, mental or lights significant gaps in India’s motivation for working group of entities from diverse and horrors of partition and the emotional. Every person will be research, policy and practice on this issue is that large sectors across the globe that barbarity and bloodshed of and by an embodiment of truth and which need to be addressed reductions in food loss and are committed to reducing thousands of people on both divine virtues. Pure love and systematically to manage food waste is a crucial element in food loss and waste. sides of the border. One thing that respect will form the basis of rela- loss and waste in India. achieving healthy diets by Dr Jayahari K M, the was admitted by all the leaders tionships. They will be complete- The new study from WRI around food waste are main- 2050. Cutting down food country co-ordinator for and common men was that the ly ignorant of evil, vices and suf- India, Food Loss and Waste in ly focused on food bank inter- waste is an opportunity to FOLU, expressed, country has not yet been able to fering. Materially, they will be liv- India: The Knowns and the ventions or managing waste reduce pressure on land, water “Considering the complexi- “wipe every tear from every eye” ing in opulence and abundance. Unknowns, provides an through composting. and air. It will also enhance ties in Indian agriculture as Bapu Gandhi had deeply Science will be used for creating important foundation to start The social, economic, the availability of food, and and management of com- aspired nor has it been able to perfect technology and comforts developing a road map for and environmental aspects of improve the incomes of farm- modity supply chains in pri- have the ‘swaraj’ he had envi- that are a necessity. People will addressing the nation’s food food loss and waste in India ers and consumers. Though vate and public sectors, sioned. All spoke with one voice enjoy perfect health, natural beau- loss and waste, like under- are largely unexplored. there are gaps in research, FOLU looks forward to cre- that the country had failed to pro- ty and a long lifespan free from standing the magnitude, iden- es than on food waste in ies are not comparable due to Gender-disaggregated there is significant informa- ating a strong action coali- vide effective social and econom- sickness and untimely death. tifying the hotspots and crit- India. Even in post-harvest different measurement met- research on food loss and tion on post-harvest losses tion under the Friends of ic justice to the backward and Everybody will be happy and ical loss points, and so on. losses, the quality aspects of rics used by them. waste is neither available nor that need to be built upon sys- Champion 12.3 partnership, poor classes, that almost half of content. There will be lightness, food loss remain neglected. The empirical research considered in improving tech- tematically.” with wider participation and the population does not feel any innocence, purity and joy in The study found that: While there is national on the extent of food waste at nology or in solutions for its Considering the obser- focus. We hope governments worthwhile benefit of every action. Don’t ever think that There is much more and sub-national research on the household, retail and ser- management. vations, the study recom- — both subnational and Independence. We tend to forget this is all but a myth. No! It’s research emphasis on the post-harvest losses, the exist- vice level is almost non-exis- The policy interven- mended developing a national — would join this that independence is not only liv- indeed a reality that’s as close as quantity of post-harvest loss- ing data across various stud- tent. The interventions tions are largely focused on roadmap for managing food action coalition.” ing freely but also allowing oth- tomorrow.           = L4 

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 11 lexander Zverev came from A  B  Atwo breaks down in the ormer England batsman third set to beat Stefanos Graham Gooch believes Tsitsipas 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (7/4) on Fthat England are way too # C  Saturday and reach the final of dependent on captain Joe Root the WTA and ATP Cincinnati to score runs. Though he is  11 sooner, but I also wanted to Masters. confident of Root continuing see something from the The German, who briefly his run-making spree, Gooch ormer skipper Michael coach,” Vaughan wrote. left the court to vomit in the final wonders if Root is feeling the FVaughan has slammed “Why was Silverwood set as he stepped up his fightback pressure just like he felt in his England head coach Chris not sending someone out in front of a full crowd, will take playing days. Silverwood for not even try- onto the pitch with a drink, a 4-0 record into Sunday’s final “We’re too reliant on the ing to stop Joe Root from his asking Root what the hell was with Andrey Rublev. one person. I have had that bouncer barrage tactic going on and getting him to The Russian fourth seed experience and that’s not a against India in the second change tactics? I know that is ended the winning run of world infuriating eight minutes as a Canada-US Masters double complaint but at certain stages Test, which badly backfired what Duncan Fletcher would No 2 and Montreal champion Zverev complained to the chair after lifting the title in Toronto of my career there was a greater leading “worst 20 minutes” have done with me had I suf- Daniil Medvedev 2-6, 6-3, 6-3. umpire, indicating he thought at the weekend, required three responsibility on having to before lunch session. fered a brain-fade on the World No 7 Rublev had Tsitsipas could use the break to separate medical timeouts dur- deliver. As a player, you can be “The nadir came in that field.” never won so much as a set in receive coaching via text. ing his loss to Rublev. in the best form of your life but hour and 20 minutes before Vaughan said England four previous losses to Tsitsipas tried to take anoth- He received treatment on you can’t deliver all the time lunch on the fifth day of the completely “blew” their Medvedev, top seed in the pres- er break after winning the sec- his left hand after he hit an on- and that expectation is not second Test, which must rank chances on that session. tigious hardcourt tournament ond set but was informed he had court camera during a rally and helpful. You need everyone to among the worst stuff I’ve “Every Test match essen- that serves as a tuneup for the used up his one break. Despite also had treatment on his right contribute,” said Gooch in an seen from an England Test tially boils down to a hand- US Open. the tension, the two traded a forearm and right thigh during interview to Daily Mail on team in years,” Vaughan ful of moments which dictate Zverev also turned a corner friendly embrace at the net a match played in oppressive 31- Sunday. wrote in a Facebook post. the outcome: the best teams this week, having never won a when the match ended. degree (C) heat. He added, “Whatever he “Plenty has been written rise to them and find a way match in six previous Cincinnati Zverev moved into his ninth Rublev re-adjusted after los- says, Joe will be feeling the pres- and said about how England to win them. editions. Masters 1000 final with 42 win- ing the opening set, hung on sure because at the moment he’s lost the plot in attempting to “This was the big Zverev got worked up at the ners including 15 aces after during his opponent’s injury 50, 60, 70 per cent of our bat- bounce out Jasprit Bumrah, moment in the second Test end of the first set when Tsitsipas nearly two and three-quarter dramas and heated discussion ting, isn’t he? Can he keep this and Joe Root was undeniably and England blew it, and — as now seems to be his habit hours. He had lost six previous with the umpire on camera form going for the rest of the let down by some of his Silverwood has to take his — left the court with his full bag matches out of eight played placement and finally got his series? Of course he can.” senior players who should share of responsibility for of gear, presumably to change against the Greek. chances in the concluding set “He’s a world-class player have intervened with him that.” clothes. His absence lasted an Medvedev, who was seeking after two and a quarter hours. and he’s performing unbeliev- ably. He can keep it going. But of course, with any performer eters works hard, trains hard, where he plays the ball late, in any sport there is going to be prepares themselves. It’s not plays straight. He’s a composed ))   ) ?)  a fallow period. It’s not possi- lack of effort but things like player, he knows his own game, ble to keep it going game after attitude, technical ability, he knows how to score runs, game after game,” concluded knowledge and concentration he’s had a bit of success at Test    must have bothered him,” Zaheer was three when India pacers looked to Gooch. all come into play, especially for level before. Just because some- quoted as saying by Cricbuzz. bowl out the England batting lineup The 68-year-old, who an opening batsman because one has had a go doesn’t mean ormer India pacer Zaheer Khan “After that, the whole Anderson in their first innings. Bumrah bowled served as the batting coach of one mistake and it’s the end of completely shot and can’t come Flavished praise on seamer Jasprit episode that unfolded, the bouncers a 10-ball over to Anderson, in which the England team between your day,” said Gooch. back.” Bumrah for his all-round show in he bowled to him and then while bat- he overstepped the line four times. 2009 and 2014, had some sym- He is supportive of Gooch finished by saying India’s win over England in the Lord’s ting, the manner in which the Apart from bowling no balls, pathy for the top order which Hameed, who made zero and that Sir Alastair Cook, who Test. Zaheer also believes the heated England pacer went after him all Bumrah also bowled a few short- is set for a rejig ahead of the nine in his comeback Test at retired from international exchange with James Anderson acted those things motivated him, and he pitched deliveries to the Lancashire Leeds Test on Wednesday. With Lord’s. “They’ve got to play him cricket in 2018, would still get as a motivation for Bumrah in the channelised that anger in the right cricketer who managed to save his Dom Sibley dropped from the for the rest of the series because into the current Test team. match. way. England must be thinking ‘we wicket. However, Mohammad Shami squad, Haseeb Hameed is in you don’t bring someone in and “He’d still play if he was avail- “If by getting angry, he can carry should have let Bumrah bowl bounc- clean bowled Anderson in the last ball line to partner with Rory Burns leave them out after one game.” able, of course he would.” himself and perform like this, I ers’ and not mess with him. The of day three and when the players at the top with Dawid Malan at Malan’s selection might The third Test between believe he should at times needle the intensity with which he bowled, was were walking back to the dressing number three on his return to have raised some eyebrows. But England and India begins at opposition. See, in the first innings, worth praising.” room, everyone witnessed Anderson the Test fold after three years. Gooch finds it to be a good Headingley from Wednesday. he had gone wicketless and being the The Bumrah-Anderson fight in having a war of words with Bumrah, “Every one of those crick- one. “He’s got a technique class bowler that he is, I am sure it the Lord’s Test happened on day as the latter kept smiling back. !+?%0 "     @,3  " . / 0   (, 

    beat West Indies 3-2 in June and Nairobi: Highly talented long jumper I could not do it),” an emotional Shaili July followed by Ireland 3-0 later Shaili Singh on Sunday missed out on said after the race. outh African skipper Temba in the month. scripting history by a mere 1cm as she set- “I am just 17, I want a Gold in next SBavuma has said that the South Africa will get the tled for a Silver in the U-20 World U20 World Championships (in Cali, upcoming 2021 men’s T20 chance to decide their combina- Athletics Championships here. Colombia). There is also Asian Games World Cup serves as a tourna- tions ahead of the World Cup The 17-year-old Indian’s personal and Commonwealth Games next year and ment of vital importance for his when they take on Sri Lanka in best effort of 6.59m was not enough for I want to do well in those events.” team and country. South Africa a three-match T20I series in a Gold as she was pipped to the post by India ended their campaign with a have never made it past the September. Sweden’s reigning European junior cham- best ever medal haul of 2 Silver and 1 semifinal stage of either the “We have a really exciting pion Maja Askag, who managed 6.60m for Bronze, though the country had won one men’s T20 or 50-over World team that we are building with the top spot on the final day of the cham- Gold each in the earlier two editions. Cups. a lot of raw talent, coupled with pionships. Shaili began brightly with a 6.34m “The 2021 ICC T20 World the experienced hands that will A protege of legendary long jumper and repeated the same distance next Cup is of vital importance to the guide and lead the youngsters. Anju Bobby George, Shaili was leading at before her best effort in the third round. Proteas and South Africa as a South Africa have been everyone in it as we go about our We have spent the greater part the end of the third round but the 18- Her next two attempts were fouls and she nation. Not only is the T20 for- drawn in a tough group 1 in the mission to reach the final and of the year preparing for this year-old Swede overtook her in the could not get past the 6.60m in her final mat a key part of Cricket South Super 12 stage alongside reign- the ultimate championship,” contest and I look forward to fourth round by a mere 1cm which jump and the youngster seemed to be dis- Africa’s strategy to introduce ing champions West Indies, affirmed Bavuma. leading our country in my first proved to be decisive in the end. traught at missing a Gold and chance to new fans to the game of crick- 2010 winners England, Australia South Africa started this world showpiece as captain,” Mariia Horielova of Ukraine took the create history. et, this tournament will also be and two more teams from the year with a 2-1 away series loss concluded Bavuma. Bronze with a best jump of 6.50m. In men’s triple jump, Donald the first of three opportunities first round. to Pakistan in February. It was South Africa start their T20 “I could have jumped farther than the Makimairaj missed the Bronze by 3cm as for us to claim our first-ever ICC “The group that we are in is followed by a 3-1 series loss to World Cup campaign against 6.59m and won the Gold. My mother had he produced his personal best of 15.82m World Cup trophy,” said Bavuma an exciting one and we’re look- the same opposition at home in Australia on October 23 in Abu told me about winning Gold and nation- but had to be content with a fourth-place to icc-cricket.com ing forward to facing off with April. But they bounced back to Dhabi. al anthem being sung in the stadium (but finish. PTI

 11 ball to Che Adams on the edge D&!  $ of the United area and his shot arry Kane made his first deflected off Fred’s out- Happearance for Tottenham stretched boot as it flashed past this season as Nuno Espirito cessive league victories. top-flight record of 27 succes- David De Gea. Santo earned a 1-0 win against sive away league games with- Last season, United recov- his former club Wolves, while GREENWOOD RESCUES out defeat. ered 15 points when losing at Mason Greenwood salvaged a At St Mary’s, Manchester Saints took a controversial half-time, coming from behind 1-1 draw for Manchester United failed to build on last lead in the 30th minute. to win on five occasions. United at Southampton on weekend’s 5-1 demolition of Bruno Fernandes felt he They staged another sec- Sunday. Leeds. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s was fouled when a barge from ond half fightback as Striker Kane came off the side needed a Mason Jack Stephens left the United Greenwood equalised in the bench in the second half at Greenwood equaliser to rescue midfielder in a heap but refer- 55th minute, firing under Molineux after the Manchester a point after Fred’s own goal. ee Craig Pawson waved play home keeper Alex McCarthy City transfer target missed the While United left the on. from 12 yards after Paul Pogba first two games following his south-coast frustrated, they Moussa Djenepo and poked the ball into the teenag- late return from his close-sea- did equal Arsenal’s English Adam Armstrong worked the er’s path. son holiday. #    Tottenham were already leading through Dele Alli’s 10th minute penalty by the time Kane arrived on the     scene. Alli was fouled by Wolves keeper Jose Sa and the mid-    1 “For us too, if there is a pass fielder picked himself up to to Leo, normally he doesn’t lose convert the spot-kick. arcelona were given a tor- the ball, and today we gave the It was Alli’s first league Brid time by Athletic Bilbao ball away too often in the first goal since March 2020 as he but escaped from their trip to half.You notice it, but that’s how returns to favour following a San Mames with a point as it is, it can’t be changed now.” long spell in exile under Nuno’s Memphis Depay’s superb late It was a difficult night for predecessor Jose Mourinho. strike secured a 1-1 draw for Barcelona’s defence in particu- Kane replaced Son Heung- the Catalans on Saturday. lar, with Gerard Pique coming min with 19 minutes left and Depay found the net with off after half an hour and Eric received a largely positive a fine left-foot half-volley 15 Garcia being sent off in stop- reception from the travelling minutes from time in the page time for bringing down Tottenham fans, who sang Basque Country for his first Inaki Williams. “Harry Kane, he’s one of our goal in La Liga since moving to Former Manchester City own” as Wolves supporters Barcelona from Lyon. defender Garcia received news mockingly chanted “He’ll be a Ronald Koeman’s side had of his grandfather’s death Manc in the morning”. impressed in their first match before the match and struggled Kane had a golden oppor- of the post-Lionel Messi era as throughout the 90 minutes, tunity to mark his return with they beat Real Sociedad 4-2 last allowing Inigo Martinez to get a goal when Steven Bergwijn weekend, but they were fortu- away from him to head in the picked him out, but his shot nate to depart with a point opener early in the second was repelled by Jose Sa. from this game and it was half. Despite Kane’s miss and impossible to avoid questions Athletic will feel they his late booking for time-wast- about the Argentine at full- should have won despite miss- ing, it was a winning return to time. ing several key players, among Wolves for Nuno, who was “I don’t like to always talk them goalkeeper Unai Simon, back for the first time since about the same thing but he is who has not featured at the leaving in the close-season the best in the world and the start of this season after help- after four years in charge. opposition might be more ing Spain reach the Euro 2020 Although Nuno was far from afraid if Messi is there,” semi-finals and then the final Tottenham’s first choice, he has Koeman admitted. of the Tokyo Olympics. made a strong start with suc-