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Al { BELARUS } PROTESTS AGAINSTLUKASHENKO India records world’s P New, redesigned Police crack down on Hindustan Times protesters, foreign highest jump in cases journalists barred from covering street This redesigned newspaper that you hold in your hands has been in the works for at least protests against the eight months, or BC, as some people have India’s Covid toll is president started referring to events of that vintage now past Mexico’s, as Related story on page 7 (Before Corona, if you must know). Even then, A the idea was not so much to redesign the the country becomes newspaper, but to use the redesign to effect a the 3rd worst affected change in the newsroom’s approach to in terms of fatalities content across platforms (print and digital). HT Correspondent This change will be dynamic and ongoing. ‘Strain on What you see today in the newspaper and the [email protected] website is, to use acliché, just the tip of the NEW DELHI: India recorded the iceberg. Over the next few months, you will world’s highestsingle-day jump LAC peaceto in coronavirus disease (Cov- continue to see changes, new features,and id-19) cases on Sunday, after the new utilities. country saw asurge of 78,761 infections in the last 24 hours, the Unionhealth ministry said, impact ties’ with experts attributing the surge the wave of new cases to increased testing on onehand Shishir Gupta and P and opening of the economy on RSukumar the other accompanied by com- Ahealth worker gears up to collect swab samples for Covid-19 in New Delhi on Sunday. SONU MEHTA/HT Clearly, if we want placency among people towards [email protected] followingCovid-appropriate nation in the world. At an aver- NEWDELHI: External affairs peace and behaviour. age, 69,558 new cases were minister SJaishankar empha- The US set the previous reported in India every day over Global Covid cases cross 25 mn sised the importanceofChina tranquillity on the record on July 17 with 77,638 the past week,placing it above adhering to agreements struck border, we need to daily cases, according to atally the seven-day daily casepeak LONDON : Global coronavi- have been more than over the years with India on how by news agency AFP. recorded in the US when the rus cases surged past 25 mil- 840,000 deaths. That has the two countries will approach adhere to those With 948 people succumbing number touched 69,330 for the lion on Sunday, with data exceeded theupper rangeof border issues and said that there (previous) to thedisease betweenSaturday week ending July 25. showing asteady growth as 290,000 to 650,000 annual will be issues if “peace and tran- and Sunday, India’s death toll The US’s trajectory was the the disease’s epicentre shifts deaths linked to influenza. quillity is put under stress”. His agreements… There also crossed Mexico’s 63,819, worst in the world in the eight again, with India taking cen- The globalpace of new comments are significant, com- will naturally be making it the third worst-af- monthssince the coronavirus tre stage from the United infections has steadiedalit- ing as they do amidst differences fected country in the world in disease surfacedinDecember States and Latin America. tle. It has taken about three on the disengagement and de-es- issues if the peace terms of fatalities. 2019. The official number of weeksfor the caseload to calation process at theLine of and tranquillity is India’s trajectory of daily Brazil,which is thecountry global Covid-19 casesisnow jump by 5million cases to 25 Actual Control between the two cases of Covid-19 on Friday with the second-highest num- at least five times the num- million. That compared with nations. put under stress. Experience the all new became the highestever ber of total cases,has around ber of severe influenza ill- the 19, 24 and 39 days it took, Jaishankar said that the rela- recorded by any country, which 300,000 more cases than India. nesses recorded annually, respectively, to add 5million tionship between the two coun- SJAISHANKAR, External means that the outbreak in the The South American nation, according to World Health casestothe 20 million, 15 tries moved forward on various affairs minister Scan the QR code country currently is worse than however, has been adding Organization data. million and 10 million other dimensions, includingthe to watchthe video. it was at the peak in the United around 30,000 fewer cases than Around the world,there marks. →P8 economic one, because of these from the two sideshas hit a States (US) –the worst-hit continued on →5 agreementsand the fact that roadblock due to Chinesereluc- both countries followed them. tancetorestore status quo ante “Clearly, if we want peace and in some keyareas. tranquillity on the border, we Speakingabout whichAmeri- ARMY JCOKILLED need to adhere to those (previ- can President will be better from Scan the QR 1dead in Portland clash Tracking ous) agreements… Therewill India’s perspective,the minister code to read IN UNPROVOKED the virus naturally be issues if the peace said: “If you look at the last four today’s and tranquillity is put under American presidents, two e-paper at FIRING BY PAK WORLD stress,” Jaishankar told Hindu- Republicans and two Democrats your stan Times in an interview. —each very different from the convenience ALONG LOC 25,291,896 848,557 India has stressed on theneed other. Yet, each raised the level CASES DEATHS to speedily resolve “outstanding of relationship with India fur- JAMMU: AJunior Commis- issues” related to the border ther… Differentsetsofpoliti- sioned Officer (JCO)ofthe INDIA standoff along the LAC amid dif- cians who disagree on many Al Indian Army was killed on Sun- 3,616,747 64,610 ferences despite several rounds things agree on India. And I day in firing by Pakistani of diplomatic and militarytalks. think that is averygood place to CASES DEATHS troops along the Line of Con- The military dialogue be.” Ghani forms AS ON 11 PM ON SUNDAY trol (LoC) in Rajouri districtof between senior commanders FULL INTERVIEW →P4 council forpeace Jammu and Kashmir, adefence deal with Taliban spokesman said. The firing from across the KABUL: Afghanistan’s border in the Nowshera sector president has appointed a was unprovoked and At minister’s house council for national rec- responded stronglybythe onciliation, whichwill Indian Army, the spokesman have final say on whether said. the government will sign He said Naib Subedar Raj- apeace deal with theTali- winder Singhwas critically ban after what are injuredinthe “unprovoked expected to be protracted ceasefire violation” by the Paki- and uncertain negotia- stan Army. Singh later suc- tions with the insurgents. cumbed to injuries,the spokes- The negotiations were man said. envisaged under aUS-Tal- Singh is survived by his wife iban peace agreement Aprotester walks past adumpsterfire in Portland. One person was shot dead late on Saturday in and two children —ason and a signed in February as the Oregon town as alarge caravan of US President Donald Trump supporters and Black Lives daughter, the spokesman said. intra-Afghan talks to Matter protesters clashed in the streets, police said. Protests have been on in Portland for 95 The sourcessaidPakistani decide the war-torn coun- days now following the death of George Floyd. >>P7 AFP troops also suffered casualties try’s future. However, in the retaliatory action by the their start has beenham- Indian Army. →P4 peredbyaseries of delays that havefrustrated Washington. Some had India can become toy hub: Modi expected the negotiations NOVAKSEEKS 18TH to begin earlierthis month. →P8 NEW DELHI: Prime Minister heritage and traditions that can SLAM, SERENA Narendra ModionSunday drive innovations in thetoy and Armydogs Migrants moved called upon startupsand entre- gaming industry. EYES HER 24TH AS offship preneurs to “team up for toys”, Modi also said that Septem- findmention US OPEN BEGINS Nurses working on contract stormed into Bihar’s health minister Mangal Pandey’s official as he noted India’s miniscule ber would be celebrated as the bungalow in Patna on Sunday with alist of demands. SANTOSH KUMAR/HT PHOTO ROME: All of the share in the global toy market of nutritionmonth and schools NEW YORK: Top-ranked Novak migrants on board ares- over ₹7 lakh croreand asserted should have not just report NEW DELHI: Apair of Djokovic will have aprime cue ship funded by British that the country has talent and cards but also nutrition cards armydogs, honoured opportunity to gain ground on street artist Banksy have ability to become ahub for the and nutrition monitorsalong with the army chief’s absent Roger Federer and been transferred to other industry. with class monitors. HTC commendation card on Rafael Nadal in chasing the all- vessels, the team behind In his monthly Mann ki Baat Independence Day, found time men’s Grand Slam singles New education policy will push the mission said after radio address, he saiditwas aspecial mentioninPM title record, while Serena Willi- their ship carrying more time for startupstobe“vocal for Scan to listen Modi’s radio address, ams will look to resume her than 200 passengers sent local toys” and also asked them Prime Minister with the PM hailing them protracted pursuit of Margaret RSSideology: Rajasthan Cong chief an urgent call for help. to develop computer games in Modi’s monthly as “bravehearts” who per- Court’s record of 24 Grand Slam radio address →P8 India andthose based on the formed their duties. HTC titles at the 2020 US Open that HT Correspondent they have now introduced inter- country,citing the nation’s rich promises to be unlike any other. views,” said Dotasara, also the But ahost of rising young [email protected] Rajasthan education minister. stars see achancefor abreak- JAIPUR: Rajasthan Congress Addressing atwo-day semi- throughwhenthe New York president Govind Singh Dotas- nar organised by the Congress { ASSAMNRC } ONE YEAR ON fortnight begins Monday in a ara allegedonSunday that the Seva Dal on the new education spectator-less Covid-19 quaran- new education policy policy, he sought greater funds tine bubble at the US National announced by the Centre will share of the Centre for educa- 1.9 mn await to file appeals against exclusion Tennis Center. push the RSS ideology and Govind Singh Dotasara tion,which is on the concurrent “It’s strange to see empty encourage privatisation. list. “Till the central govern- stands.The circumstances are Referring to the introduction Those who qualify TET will ment ensures90:10 (Centre- Utpal Parashar illegally settled in the state. The rejection slips would orders’ for each applicant.But very unusual,” Djokovic said. interviews for recruitment of have to give ademonstration or state) ratioinfundallocation Ayearon, the process is still mention the reasons for exclu- several of these are not in order “But we have to accept that, we teachers, Dotasara said, “The appearinaninterview, and for the education sector, it will [email protected] in limbo, with little headway sion of an applicant from the due to some discrepancies.All of have to deal with it andtry to Centrehas introduced inter- show their knowledge of the be difficult to implement the GUWAHATI: When the final list of made in its implementation. The NRC, whichwas updated for the these need to be checked before embrace it.” views for teachers’ selection, local language in which educa- new policy,” Dotasara said. Assam’supdated NationalRegis- 1.9 million applicants (of the firsttime in 68 years. The appli- issuing the slips,” said NRC state “I don’t dislike it and that’s but theirintentions aren’t right. tion will be imparted. Dotasara welcomed the initi- ter of Citizens (NRC) was pub- total 33 million) who were left cants can then go ahead and file coordinator Hitesh Dev Sarma. weird because Iamaplayer that Through the interviews they “Earlier, allegations were lev- ative under the new education lished on August 31, 2019, it out of the list, meant to identify appeals in the foreigners’ tribu- The process of updating the is so emotional and so,like, a only want to prepareRSS work- elledagainst possibilities of cor- policy for not deploying teach- ended four years of painstaking Indian citizens from foreigners, nals (FTs), quasi-judicial bodies 1951 list started in 2015 following crowd player,” Williams said ers. People need to be made ruption in teachers’ recruitment ers in otherduties. “The new work and was seen as the culmi- have notbeen able to file appeals that will decide the fate of those directions from the Supreme upon returning to action after aware of such things.” interviews. Hence we didn’t policy also provides for atrans- nation of afour-decade-old againsttheirexclusion because who failed to make the cut. Court, whichacted on petitions the WTA’scoronavirusshut- Under the new educationpol- hold interviews,not only for fer policy, which the state has demand for the detection and they are yet to receive the rejec- “While issuing the rejection seeking detection of illegal down. icy, interviews will become an recruitment of teachers but also already made and will soon be expulsion of foreignerswho had tion slips they need to do so. slips, we need to attach ‘speaking immigrants in the state. →P5 FULL REPORT →P10 integral partofteacher hiring. for lecturers and principals. But implemented.” RANCHI 02 MONDAY AUGUST 31,2020 My Ranchi

A Dispatch Covid-19: What you need to know today

RSukumar Morethan 10,000 buseshave remained off roads since March23, when the state government nFriday,asreported by Hindustan announced the Covid lockdown. CHANDANPAUL/HT PHOTO Times the same day, India crossed the peak seven-day average of the US in terms of daily coronavirus cases, according to both worldometers.info Oand the New York Times database. TheUSsaw itspeakseven-dayaverage in mid- Covid costset July;India saw it in late August. Aseven-day aver- age is more representative than just aday’s num- ber. It accounts for spikes, including those caused by reporting delays. For instance,for most coun- tries in the world, the skyline of daily case num- bers (represented in bars), showsadip every five days –atthe weekend. In India, even testing drops to double bus off on Sundays. Since mid to late July, the US has been on its second trough,with dailycasesdroppingoff by almost 25,000. India’s seven-day average of daily FOUR cases has at least doubled since mid-July. And SANCHIT KHANNA/HT PHOTO unlike the US,the country hasn’t seen any troughs. The progress of the pandemic in India these flare-ups). Given India’s size and popula- FOUR REASONS faresinstate has been on asteadily rising curve, definitely tion, it definitely did not make sense for India to Covid-19 cases in India are slowedbythe 68-daylockdown imposed by the wait, like countries in Europe did, for the number mounting because: federal government, but stillone thatcontinues to of casestostart declining before opening up. That l India is testing more The state government passengers in a48-seaterbus downalong with the central STEADYINCREASE inch up. And that shouldn’t surprise anyone. would have meant waiting till the end of the year than it used to,and and so on. government. India’s seven-dayaverage It shouldn’tbecause of fourreasons. One, India perhaps –something the economy could have ill- when acountry tests on Saturday allowed “Wehave decided to operate The bus operators have also of daily cases hasatleast is testing morethan it used to. At the end of June, afforded. The home ministry has issued guide- more, it is onlynatural intra-state buses to buses from September 1. Since demanded an extension of six doubled sincemid-July. the country was averaging 210,525 tests aday, lines for what it calls Unlock 4.0, the fourth stage that it finds morecases the government has allowed months in paying insurance The progressofthe according to the HT dashboard(the number is, of India’s phased reopening, and welcome as this l India is openingupand ply from September 1 busestoply with 50%passen- fee. pandemic in India has been again, aseven-day average). By the end of July, is fromthe point of view of livelihoodsand the it will seeariseindaily under Unlock 4.0 ger capacity, we have decided “Wehave heard the govern- one steadily rising curve, this numberincreasedto501,370testsaday on economy, it will result in some flare-ups. cases to realize the fare of the vacant ment will waive the road tax definitely slowedbythe average. And by the end of August (as of Satur- Three, and regular readers will recognise the l India isn’t testing seatsfrom the passengers, for six months for private 68-daylockdown imposed day),this number was 881,345 tests aday. This is refrain, Indiaisn’ttesting enough. It is only when it enough. It is only when SanjoyDey which means apassenger will buses. We demand the govern- by the federal asignificant increase (althoughIndia continues to tests adequately can infectedindividualsbeidenti- it testsadequately can have to pay fare for two seats, ment to provide same relief to government, but still one remain alaggard in terms of tests per millionpeo- fied and isolated,and people exposed to them be infected individualsbe [email protected] in abid to compensate for the school bus owners until that continuestoinch up ple compared to many other countries), and when traced. Four, the ability of acountry to keep the identifiedand isolated RANCHI: The intra-state bus losses,” said Krishna Mohan schools reopen,” Singh said. youtest more, it is only natural that you find more number of coronavirusdiseasecasesunder check l The country’s abilityto service is all set to become Singh, president of Ranchi Bus The bus operators have cases. The average positivity rate (again, aweekly onceiteasesits lockdown is directly proportional to keep cases under check dearer in Jharkhand, as bus Owners’ Association (RBOA). decidedtofollowall Covid average) has remained in the 8-12% corridor in its ability and willingness to enforcemeasures such onceiteases its operators on Sunday decided to The original fare of anon-AC guidelines issued by the Jhark- this period,moving from 8.87% in late June to as the wearingofmasks and socialdistancing (and lockdown is realize the fare of vacant seats, bus from Ranchi to Jamshed- hand government. 10.4% in late July. It was at 8.14% as of Saturday. also directly proportional to the willingness of its proportional to its whichare required to maintain purisRs180 forasingleseat. “Wewill sanitize the bus on I’ve always discounted the national positivity rate people to be disciplined about both). India, unfortu- ability to enforcesocial social distancing as per the However,now acommuter will our own cost.But, the govern- for two reasons: disparities between testing inten- nately,lags on this count –asdoother countries distancing measures Covidguidelines by the state have to pay Rs 360. ment should direct the civic sity across states; and the fact that many states including the US, but other people’s mess is other government, from the passen- Singhsaid, “Bus owners have body to sanitize the bus stands have not seen their positivity rates followthe people’s problem. gers. already faced huge business on aregular basis. Masks, ther- established pattern(as testing is increased contin- India’s peak still seems sometimeaway, which The stategovernment on losses due to the lockdown. In mal scanning and sanitization uously, arise, then along plateau, and finally a meansthe number of daily cases will continue to Saturday allowed intra-state the meantime, the price of die- would be must for everycom- fall) indicating that theyare testing nowhere close rise. While the country’s low case fatalityrate – busestoply on roads from Sep- sel, which was Rs 63 per litre, muter,” Singh said. to the numbers they should be. touted often by health administrators –isdefi- tember 1under Unlock 4.0. Fol- has risentoaround Rs 78 per He said, “Wewill only seat Two, India is opening up, and as countries open nitely cause for cheer, at the current 1.8%, it is lowing this, the statetransport litre.Besides,bus operators the as manynumber of passen- up, they will see arise in daily cases (the impor- worth noting that 80,000 cases aday, today, will department issued detailed would alsohave to spendon gers as prescribed by the gov- tant question is the efficacy with which they quell translate into 1,440 deaths, weeks from now. standard operating procedures maintenanceofthe buses since ernment. However, if the num- (SOPs) for operators. they were rusting for the last ber of passengers increases at As per the new SOPs, the five months.” the dropping point or in the department has capped passen- More than 10,000buses have middle of the journey, the bus ger capacitytonearly 50%. For remainedgrounded since driver and conductor will be instance, a52-seater bus will March23, when the state gov- responsible for and not the bus BJPMPset freefrom carry only 26 passengers, 24 ernment announced the lock- owners .” 71 inmatesof two home quarantine

CABINET MINISTER Subhash Mishra DONATES PLASMA jailstestCovid+ve [email protected] DHANBAD : The Giridihdistrict RANCHI: DrinkingWater and administration set free BJP’s Sanitation Minister Mithilesh Subhash Mishra Saturday,all the50infected infected inmates. Comprehen- UttarPradesh MP SakshiMaha- Kumar Thakur on Sunday inmates were shifted to aspe- sivearrangements have been raj from home quarantine on donated plasmaatRIMS in Ran- [email protected] cial isolationward in the jail made to shield other prisoners Sunday. chi, days after recovering from DHANBAD: As many as 71 premises on Sunday morning. from infection. Maharaj left his Shanti BJP MP Sakshi Maharaj Covid. inmates of Dumka Central Jail Ateam of doctors and para “Sincesamples were col- BhawanAshram in Giridih “Today,Idonatedmyplasma! and Koderma divisional jail medical staff has been lected on alarge scale, cases around 2pm for Dhanbad by on Monday. Ialso appeal all those who were found infected with deployed in the ward to moni- have also surfaced in ahuge roadtocatchthe Howrah-Raj- The six-time BJP MP of Unnao defeated coronavirus and are SARS-CoV-2 virus, officials said tortheirhealth condition”, he number in the jail,” said Tiwari. dhaniExpress for Delhi in the had, on Saturday, come to his healthy to come forward and on Sunday. said. Atotal of 443 positive cases evening. Giridih-based Shanti Bhawan donate plasma!” Thakur “Fifty inmates of Dumka jail Earlier, in the second week have been recorded in Dumka Giridih deputy commissioner Asharam to meet his ailing tweetedinHindi. He had tested and 21 of Koderma jail tested of August,22inmates,includ- so far, of which 250 have recov- (DC) Rahul Kumar Sinha said mother. However, the district positive for Covid last month. positive forCovidafter aspe- ing the Dumka jail superin- ered while 193 are under treat- the BJP MP was allowed to go administration put him in 14-day cial rapid antigen test drive was tendent and his family, had ment, the CS said. basedonanonexemptionappli- home quarantine in his ashram carried out on Saturday,” a tested positive. The Koderma administra- cation that said he had to attend when he was returning,asper state healthdepartmentofficial Jailer of Dumka Central Jail, tion also launched the special aStanding Committeemeeting the state government’s Covid said. AshwaniTiwari, saidatotal Covid testdriveinthe divi- of the Lok Sabha in New Delhi guidelines. Dumka civil surgeon (CS) Dr 1,287inmates are lodged in the sional jail, which resulted in on August 31. Rattledbythe alleged forceful Anant Kumar Jha said samples prison. the discovery of 21 infected Late on Saturday, Maharaj home quarantine of the MP ,BJP of 900 inmates out of the total The district administration inmates.SDO Vijay Verma, who shot off an application to the leaders and workers threatened 1,287 lodged in Dumka jail were has set up a200-bed special monitored the drive, said the Jharkhand chief secretary for to block roads if the Unnao MP collected on Saturday. “Since isolation ward inside thejail positive prisoners were shifted exemption fromthe 14-dayhome wasnot allowed to return by 12 the test results came late on premises for treatment of to an isolation ward. quarantinetoattend the meeting noon.

TMH CLAIMS 50% SUCCESSWITH PLASMA THERAPY

Debashish Sarkar [email protected]

JAMSHEDPUR: Tata Main Hospi- tal(TMH) has claimed 50% suc- cess rate in treating Covid-19 patients by plasma therapy with two such patients curedand four turning negative from being Covid positive earlier. TMH officials also claimed the recovery rate in the hospital improved to 75% from 72% a week ago. “Wehave treated nine Covid patients by plasma therapy, of whichtwo were discharged after recovering completely. Four otherCovid patients testednega- tive too. However, plasma ther- apy didn’t work on two patients, of whichone died, while the otherisstill infected. Thus, plasma therapyhas been effec- tive on 50%ofthe patients,” Dr Rajan Choudhry, Tata Steel GM said in on Saturday evening DEBASHISH SARKAR RANCHI MONDAY 03 AUGUST 31,2020 Region Attack on RJD chief’s Soren seeks students’ close aide and family

MukeshKumar Mishra PATNA DISTRICT beennamed accused,said Sahu’s BAR ASSOCIATION son Ajatshatru Sahu. [email protected] Police said that the incident opinion over NEET, JEE TREASURER took place around 11pm.“Abike- PATNA: Abike-borne manon KRISHNA DMISHRA borne man opened fired at his Saturday night allegedly opened DEMANDED house. Sahu and his family fire at former publicprosecutor ARREST OF THE escapedunhurt,” apoliceofficer Recently, the CM had 1.6 lakh people responded to state BJP spokesperson Pratul and RJD leader Ramnath Sahu said.Agitated over the incident, the CM’s question, which Shahdeo said, “This is actually { HEMANT SOREN } JHARKHAND CM house at Purani Chowk in Gopal- CRIMINALS people took to the streets and written to the Union sought choosing of any of the unprecedented.ACM is hold- ganj district. blocked Monia Chowk and three options -yes, no and don’t ing referendum on the Sahu is said to be aclose aide demanded arrest of the crimi- education minister, know. The voting ended late on Supreme Court’s earlier judg- P of RJD supermo Lalu Prasad. rity of lawyers, as in thepastfew nals. demanding Sunday night. ment. Thisisbeing conducted On the other hand, Patna dis- days, many caseshave been The situation was brought In asuccessive tweet, the CM at atime when the state has Tonight, I’m worried trictbar association treasurer reported where the advocates under control when local police postponement of the said, “Tonight, I’m worried and filed areview petitioninthe and senior advocate Krishna Deo were targeted by the criminals,” pacified the irate mob.Sadar examinations tensed as India continues to Supreme Court and the hearing and tensed as India Mishra condemned the incident he added. Sahu is entrusted with SDPO Naresh Paswan said, “The report over 75,000 Covid cases of which is pending.” and demanded arrestofthe JPYadav triple murder case police are scanning the CCTV every single day. Yet, our union Shahdeo said, “I think the continues to report criminalsinvolved in the crime. where JD (U) MLA Pappu Pan- footage of the crime. We recov- SanjoyDey education minister CM should put all his energyin “Wedemanded to pass the Advo- dey, his brother Satish Pandey ered five used cartridges from @DrRPNishank ji (Dr Ramesh carrying out the examinations over 75,000 Covid cates Protection Act for the secu- and niece Mukesh Pandey have the crime scene,” he added. [email protected] Pokhriyal Nishank) is not even smoothly and in ahealthy man- RANCHI: Jharkhand chief min- remotely concerned about ner instead of making strategy cases every ister (CM) Hemant Soren has safety and health concerns of to spoilstudents’ careers.” soughtstudents’ opinion over lakhs of students made to write The NationalTesting single day holding of NationalEligibility- #JEENEET exams in Septem- Authority, the nodal body to A FIR against 7in₹19 lakh bank scam cum-Entrance Test (NEET) and ber.” conduct the examinations and Joint Entrance Exams Recently, the CM had written the Centre are supposed to hold take the JEE-Main, while istrative officials in Ranchi said Debashish Sarkar evening, police said on Sunday. detailed accounts and relevant (JEE)-MaininSeptemberamid to the Unioneducation minis- the JEE-Main and NEET 22,000 would appear for NEET all Covidprotocols, including “An FIR has been lodged documents fromthe bank,” Raj the ongoing Covid pandemic. ter, demanding postponement between September 1and 6, examinations.The exams will mask, social distancing and [email protected] against former Chakulia branch KumarMehta, Ghatsila sub-di- In alate night tweet on Sat- of theexaminations. and on September 13, respec- be conducted in 40 centres sanitization, would be followed JAMSHEDPUR: An FIR was manager of JSCB, former coop- visional police officer(SDPO), urday, theCMsaid, “I want to When JMM general secre- tively. JEE-Main and NEET are spread acrossfivecites -Ran- strictly. lodged seven persons, including erative extension officer (Ghat- said. particularly ask and seek feed- tary SupriyoBhattacharyawas for undergraduate engineering chi, Bokaro, Dhanbad, Hazari- In view of the examinations, the manager of Chakulia branch sila circle) and five others in The SDPO said the FIR has back from all my youngengi- asked if the voting exercise on and medialaspirants, respec- bag and Jamshedpur. Ranchi the Jharkhand government has of the Jharkhand State Coopera- connection with alleged defal- been lodgedonthe basis of a neer and doctor friends. Will Twitterwould help to postpone tively. has the maximum 25 centres. also allowed operationofintra- tive Bank (JSCB), on charges of cation of public money worth written complaint filed by the students face huge difficulties if the exams, he said, “Let the From Jharkhand, more than The district administrations of state bus service, hotel and res- defalcation of Rs 18.95 lakh in Rs 18.95 lakh from the bank incumbent assistant registrar of #JEENEET exams are post- exercise end. Thereafter, we 45,000 students would appear the respective cities have begun taurants from September 1 2018atChakulia police station branch at Chakulia police sta- Cooperative Societies, Ghatsila poned?” will comment on it.” for both the examinations. preparations to conduct free under Unlock 4.0. under East Singhbhum (Jam- tion Saturday evening. We have sub-division, Vivek Kumar Till Sunday afternoon, over Reacting to the development, Around 23,000 students would and fair examinations. Admin- shedpur) district on Saturday started investigation and sought Singh.

RANCHI VARSITY Picture perfect TO STARTONLINE 2020-end new deadline CLASSES FOR2PG COURSES TODAY Subhash Mishra for Darbhanga airport [email protected] DHANBAD: The Ranchi univer- sity is all set to resume aca- Bishnu KJha demic activities from Monday by commencingonline classes [email protected] of postgraduate courses of his- DARBHANGA: Work at the Dar- tory,and archaeologyand bhanga airportislikelytobe museology science. completed by December 31, Head of historydepartment 2020, the Airport Authority of cum director Prof Kamla Gupta India (AAI) has said in reply to a on Sunday said keeping in query under the Right to Infor- mind the students’interest, it mation (RTI) query. was decided to start online The reply, furnished by Har- classes of third semester stu- ish Mathur, generalmanager, dents from Monday. AAI’s eastern region, says the There are 135 third semester functioningofDarbhanga air- students in the history PG port shall be decided after com- department and 50 third Artist Ajay Shankar Mahto makes sand art on the occasion of Karma festival on the bank of pletion of work. semester students in the Damodhar River at Chandankeyari in Bokaro on Sunday. CHANDAN PAUL ADarbhanga resident, archaeology and museology Qamar Hadi, had filed an RTI department. (right to information) applica- Prof Gupta said the proce- tion seeking information Chief minister Nitish Kumar inspects progress work at Darbhanga Airport. HT FILE dure relatedtothe commence- regarding budget allocation, ment of online classesofboth 40 BOOKED FOR deadline for work completion ted constructionworktobecar- minister NitishKumar on the subjects has been com- Constable’s wife dead, and structural detailsofthe ried out unhindered for aperiod December 24, 2018. Kumar had pleted. In this regard, an hour- FLOUTING COVID Darbhanga airport under of 20-30 days, the Darbhanga visited the airport on June 24 long demo class was organized regional air connectivity airportcould becomecapable of this year and requestedthe AAI through an applicationon hate killing suspected NORMS IN E scheme UDAN. flight operations even as to complete the work at the ear- August 28. The studentsthey CHAMPARAN The RTI reply also said the remaining work continues liest. didface any difficulties during AdityaNath Jha Naugachhiasuperintendent budget allocation for Dar- simultaneously without affect- The runway of the Dar- the online lectures, she said. of police (SP) Swapna GMesh- bhanga airport was ₹81.15 crore. ing the aircraft’s landing or bhanga airport,having atotal “The timetable for the [email protected] ram rushed to the spot. BETTIAH: PoliceonSunday reg- When contacted, AAI’s take-offs. lengthof9000 feet, is larger online classes has been shared PURNIA: Aman and awoman Police are probing the inci- istered acase against 40 people project in-charge at the Dar- Darbhanga airport,under the than that of the Patna airport. on WhatsApp “, said Prof were allegedly shot dead from dent from all angles including a for participating in aMuhar- bhanga airport, GKChandana, control of IAF, was inducted Situated alongside NH-57, the Gupta. closerange, at Abhiya village suspected case of hate killing. ram procession at avillage in said thatsofar 53-55% work had under UDAN-II in January 2018 airport will cater to the require- Besidesonline classes, the falling under Gopalpur police “The doublemurder, prima East Champarandistrict, vio- been completed. even as low cost carrier SpiceJet ment of alargenumber of north heads of both the departments station of Naugachhia policedis- facie, appears to be fallout of ille- lating prohibitory orders. He saidprogressonrunway won bid to fly on three routes -- Bihardistrictseven as the inor- will be available for problem trict of Bihar on Saturday even- gitimate relationship,” SP said. Police said agroup of people re-carpeting work was ham- Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru. dinate delay in completingthe solving, an official said. ing. She said, “No FIR has so far were spotted participating in pered due to monsoon rain and The foundation stone for infrastructure facilities has The police recovered the bod- been lodged as no one has yet the procession in Dariyarpur that twomore layers of bitumi- developmentofcivil enclave become acauseoffrustration THERE ARE 135 AND iesonSundaymorning fromthe come forward to file the com- village. “A case has been lodged nous dressing were required. and other utilities requiredfor among aspiringflyersfrom the 50 3RD SEMESTER bathroom. The deceased woman plaint.” against40people,” said SDPO The official, however, flight operations at the Dar- town, who often vent their Civil Enclave at Darbhanga has been identifiedasShilpi On the other hand, police Jyoti Prakash. HTC claimed that if weather permit- bhanga airbase was laid by chief anger on social media. airport. HT FILE STUDENTS IN THE Devi, 25, wife of the constable of sources said that according the HISTORY PG AND Border Security Force(BSF) villagers,the woman had an ARCHAEOLOGY Subodh Mandal presently posted affair with avillager and many a in Ahmadabad, Gujrat. time they were caught “red- { ELECTRICITY CHARGES } EX-BAR COUNCIL DEPARTMENTS, The deceased man has been handed.” On Saturday, theywere RESPECTIVELY identified as Rahul Kumar, 30,of caught once again and they were Bihar cinema hall owners request exemption CHAIRMAN DIES AT the same village. eliminated, the police said. 74 IN PATNA Reena Sopam “Hall owners had to pay P fixed electricity charges which Subhash Pathak [email protected] 50-YEAR-OLD Hall owners have to pay fixed electricity has been amajor financial bur- [email protected] Ranchi rly div eyes PATNA: The cinemahall own- den,”SumanKumar, owner of RAPES WOMAN IN ers and exhibitorsinthe state charges which is amajor financial burden Regent, one of the oldest cin- PATNA: Baleshwar Prasad are disappointed as the fourth ema halls in statecapital, said. Sharma (74), former chairman revenue generation PATNA,PROBE ON phase of the ‘Unlock’ has failed SUMAN KUMAR, owner of one of the oldest cinema halls in Patna Acouple of months ago, the of BiharState Bar Council,died to meet their expectations. hall owners, along with other here on Sunday. MukeshKumar Mishra Gautam Mazumdar THE INDIAN Cinema halls will continue to already going through atough fixed electricity charges till the industrialists, had requested He was reportedly suffering RAILWAYSALSO [email protected] remain closed —asper the time. time cinemahalls remain the state government to exempt from abrief illness. [email protected] guidelines issued by the Union They say, though, the halls closed. them from fixed electricity An eminent lawyer of crimi- RANCHI: Exploring business DOUBLED THE PATNA: A50-year-old man late ministry —fromSeptember 1 have remained close, they had There are nearly 200 single charges and were exempted nal &civil sides, Sharma always development initiatives, the AVERAGE SPEED OF on Saturdaynight allegedly to 30.The exhibitors feel it is to pay salaries to their employ- screen cinema halls in the from payingelectricity charges stood for providing justice to Ranchi railway division final- GOODS TRAINS raped awoman at her rented yet another blow to the sector ees and pay electricity bills of state, includinghalf adozen for April and May. the poor and needy at Patna ised adeal with local traders to house in alocality under Kadam- as most of the single screen cin- the halls. So, the owners have singlescreen halls andone The electricity department high court and Barh sub-divi- transport stone blasts, ‘bidis’, kuan police station. ema halls in the state are requested exemption from multiplex in state capital. officialcould not be contacted. sional court. He also authored locally grown vegetables and ways doubled the average The accused managedto many books and was instru- fruitstogeneraterevenue that speedofgoods trains, taking escape after committing the mental in creation of separate was hit due to the Covid-in- benefit of negligible traffic, as crime. enclosure for advocatesinthe duced lockdown. most expressand passenger Police said that the incident { SWACHH BHARATMISSION } JHARKHAND Patna high court premises. Ranchi divisional operating trains remain suspended in the occurred when the woman was Many formerjudges,lawyers manager cum business devel- pandemic. alone in the house. Her husband and eminent citizens of the cap- opment unit (BDU) head Niraj It also relaxed the lower had gone to park his e-rickshaw Avillage declared open defecation-free has no toilets ital city have condoled Sharma’s Kumar on Sunday said the divi- limit of wagons to 10 to target when it happened. “The accused death.Heissurvived by adoctor sion has inked adeal with piecemealtraffic in the pan- found that the woman was alone Vishal Sharma havetofind acover beforewe son, Vivek Vishal, and three Chandil stone crusher units to demic. and outraged at her modesty,” a can relieve,” they said. daughters. His daughter transport blasts (big stone pie- The Railways also offered 15 police officer said. [email protected] Asocial activist from Late- Supriya, an educationist, and ces) from Kunda Vihar to Ram- to 20 per cent longlead conces- Station house officer of Kad- LATEHAR: Avillage declared har, Birendra Prasad, said, son in-law Anil Kumar, post garh. The agreementisto sion to transport coal and iron amkuan police station Nishikant open defecation-free(ODF)in “This is not an isolated case. master general, Bihar, said the transport 4,000 tons of blasts ore and finished steel and said, “Thepolice received acom- Jharkhand’s Latehardistrict There are many villages in the body would be cremated at Bans every month. The blasts would announced to withdraw15per plaint from awoman in which hasnotoilets due to which the districtthat have no toilets Ghat tomorrow. be consumed by the railways cent busy season surcharge the case was registered with residents are forced to defecate despite having ODF boards. Meanwhile, chief minister itselfinthe CIC section, he said. from October 1. Kadamkuan police station. in the open, renderingthe Some villages, however, have NitishKumar condoled the TheRanchi division was also Besides, short lead conces- Theaccused hasbeenidenti- ground realitycontradictory to toilets but they are not in ausa- death of Baleshwar Prasad exploring new vistas to trans- sion (10-50%) has also been fied as Rambabu Paswan, who the claimsmade by the Swachh ble condition.” Sharma. port stone chips, building allowed to all traffic, except escaped after the incident came Bharat Mission in Latehar. Officials claimed that an materials, locally grown farm coal and iron ore. to light. He is maternal uncle of The Kutmu village, situated amount of Rs 12,000 has produces and ‘bidis’through Discount has also been the victim, the SHO said. The vic- underNamudag Panchayatof already been released to some part and parcel bookings, he offered on haulage charges and tim was sent to the PMCH for Manika block in Latehar dis- of the village residents. said. transportingfly ash and indus- medical examination. The police trict, has more than sixty Manika circle officer (CO) The division was also explor- trial salt. are investigating the matter. households and none of them The Kutmu village in Latehar district, has more than sixty Nand Kumar Ram said, “ODF ing possibilities of transporting Also, minimum composition has atoilet despite the village households and none of them has atoilet. HT PHOTO boards have been placed in all lac to different destinations. of indentedparcel trains has THE VICTIM WA S having an ODF tag, witha villages even as the construc- Lac is grown in large number been reduced to 15 parcel vans SENT TO THE PMCH board declaring so near the vil- which are free of open defeca- was embarrassing forthem to tion work of toilets is under- in Jharkhand that is used for from 20 (10for perishable lage entry point. tion, but we have no toilets and defecate in the open. way. The district administra- manufacturing paints andin items),besides searching for FOR MEDICAL Alocal, Surjmal Bhuiyan, we have to go to fieldstoattend “Particularly, in case of any tion has set September 20 as chemical industries. private freight terminals as EXAMINATION. said, “Our village is apparently to nature’s call.” emergency during day time, the the deadlinefor completing the Meanwhile, theIndianRail- well. on the list of those villages Women in the village said it situation becomes very bad. We construction work of toilets.” Baleshwar Prasad Sharma RANCHI 04 MONDAY My India AUGUST 31,2020

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ovid-19 has affectedfor- power and that too at India’s door- the legacy of the previous one when it uniquesituation. Thereisnocountry eign affairs and the world step. This rise will be reflected in vari- comes to India. And if you follow the that uses cross border terrorismin order much like it has ous ways, whether you like it or not. debates in the US now, you will find such aprolificand open way. And not everything else —external But we need to wake up to the impli- many differences between the com- justagainstIndia. We must have the affairs minister S Jais- cations of the rise of that potential petingcandidates, but India is acom- self-confidence to tell thatcountry C that this cannot be the basis for con- hankar spoke about this, global power. We need to fashion our mon point. There are many other poli- and otherpressing issues in an inter- path and look at our strategy, keeping cies in which the candidates criticise duct of relations. view with ShishirGupta and R that in mind. each other. But that is not happening Sukumar on his forthcoming book, The world order post 1945 is com- when it comes to India. Iactually QUAD is the newacronym that The India Way: Strategiesfor an ing to astate where it cannot be believe that Indiahas bipartisan, or in everyone, particularly China, is Uncertain World.That comes repaired by patchwork. We areclearly asense non-partisan, support in looking at.Can youexplain against the backdrop of an ongoing at apoint where there are fundamen- American politics. Our footprint is what QUAD means andwhere border stand-off between India and tal changes. The last time a global very wide and so is our acceptability. does it go from here? China,and continuing reluctance by power rose was in the middle of the Different sets of politicians who disa- When the world changes, you will Pakistan to actagainstthe perpetra- World War—the Soviet Union —but gree on many things agree on India. not only have new acronyms but new tors of terror. Edited excerpts: it was masked by the conflict. This And Ithinkthat is avery good place to concepts. QUAD is one of the plurilat- time, it is not only (about) the rise of a be. erals,aworking arrangement, acon- Let us start with China.Where potential global power, but reposi- vergence. The Cold War was a world does thesituation stand now in tioning of another globalpower, Pakistan has already rejected of agreements, aWestern Bloc which the context of the transgres- which was fulcrum of the world the NIA chargesheet in Pul- likethe opposing Soviet Bloc agreed sions of the People’s Liberation order. And the two are linked. You wanaattack, where boththe amongst themselves. Today, your Army(PLA) in EastLadakh? have to look at the effectiveness of the country and the perpetrator interests will coincide with others on We are engagingChina through US and itsalliances.Wehave grown from that country has been certain issues. So, theoverlaps are diplomaticand military channels. up to aconcept of unitedand cohesive named. This has happened issue basedand therefore, you would There are essentially two elements in West. But today, there are legitimate before in Pathankotattack and have convergences with different our approach. One is starting 1993 questions on that.Anexample is Iran, in 26/11. With Pakistan livingin powers. QUAD reflects the conver- and then every few years, we have had where the US andEurope arenot on absolute denial over in-house gence of participating countriesin aseriesofagreements (with China). the same page. What you have now is terrorism targetingIndia, is areas like maritime security, connec- Their import is that both sides will arepositioning or retrenching of the there anyway forward in this tivityand counterterrorism. It is part keep minimum forceonthe Line of US,riseofChina, achangingEurope relationship? of afuture world. Even though people ActualControl(LAC). But that is not and amore vigorous Russia. In all Manycountries have disputes with are attributing anovelty to this, there the case now. We have very large this, you also have middlepowers like their neighbours and it is not that is another acronymcalled RIC (Rus- numberofChinese forcesand frankly, Japan, Australia, Turkey, SaudiAra- unusual. But can you show me where sia, India and China) going on for 20 we are at aloss to know why. There bia or Indonesiatrying to look for a HT ARCHIVE in the world you have aneighbour years. BRICS is yet another one. They are also certain norms of behaviour bigger role. who openly practises cross-border too are plurilateral and issue based. that were prescribed. Clearly, if we In this changing world, the con- sis; one before, we had 9/11; and then India has stepped out to contribute — terrorism? And not justtoday, but for want peaceand tranquillityonthe cepts and doctrines of the past, which before the Soviet Union broke up. If after the Nepalearthquake; Yemen some years now and does not even China sees QUADasanalliance border, we need to adhere to those were relevant at some point, may not four such big changes happened, how civil war;wesentrelief material to bother to hide it? Aneighbour who against itselfand this has led to agreements. Second, Iaccept there are be so relevant any more. It is amulti- can we assume that the world is still Beirut after the explosion; gave medi- will not do normal trade with you people like Imran Khansaying some differences in perceptions in the polar world, with much of the G-20 the same? cal supplies to 150 countries in the even though you are offeringamost thatUSisusingIndia as afront- LAC.But thereisagain aclear under- being non-Western countries. Con- world to fight thecoronavirus pan- favoured nation status. Who will not line state in the context of cur- standingthat neither side will attempt trast this over the last 70 years with How has thepandemic demic. In this country, we feel that do normal people-to-people contact. rentLadakhstand-off? to unilaterally change the status quo. G-7,which was completely aWestern impacted foreignrelationsin doing good for the world is part of And whowill notallow connectivity Think about it: India is acivilisa- It was because of these agreements group. There has been economic, general? what the rise of India is all about. In at atime when the world is becoming tional stateofvery uniquenature. and the adherence to them that the political and military rebalancingand Ibelieve major shifts willcome in the post-corona world,weshould pro- more connected. If the fundamentals Look at our history. Because we went bilateral relationship movedforward Ihave also made acase for acultural the aftermath of the coronavirus. mote Indian technologyand talent, of international relations are not through two very difficult centuries, in other, different spheres, including rebalancing in my book. There are Countrieswere already behaving looking at aglobal workplace. working with oneparticularneigh- we particularly prize our independ- the economic one. And this must con- now more players,less or weaker more nationalistically (before it) —be bour, the question that Iask myself is ence. Some people feel that because tinue if therelationship has to grow. rules, and fewer areas of agreements. it in Brexit, American nationalism TheUSpresidential elections shouldyou or should you not be call- they did something, we will also do But therewill naturally be issues if the It is going to be avery much tougher underPresidentTrump, the China areround the corner. Is Donald ing that out. the same. India has acertain self-per- peace and tranquillity is put under world. Dream under Xi Jinping. But all Trumpbetter for India or Joe To me,the issue is not under what ceptionofitself.India has apersonal- stress. nationalisms are not the same and in Biden? mechanismorinstrument should the ity of its own. Indiahas interests of its Is thatnot arecipe forchaos? this, Indian nationalismisvery If you look at the last four Ameri- engagement take place. That is what own.India has acharacter of its own. China says that India needsto It could appear to be disorder. But unique. As opposed to somesocieties can presidents,two Republicans and haspreoccupied political andmedia It cannot be defined negatively as see the big picture. Who isn’t then disorder is order waiting to hap- who haveturned insular, in India, be two Democrats —each very different debates in our country. My point is being against somebody. Those who seeing it right, India or China? pen. Just think back over the last 40 it young or old, there is agreater from the other. Yet, each raised the that the very basis of international say all this —they are perhaps reflect- (Laughs) The answer Ican give. years. In 2020, we have coronavirus; a interest in and willingnesstodomore levelofrelationship with India fur- relations between neighbours need to ing their own history and theirown Just read my book. Iwrote it over a decade before, the global financial cri- with the world.Inthe past fiveyears, ther. Each President has developed on be addressed. This is avery, very self-worth. This is certainly not India. two-year period beforethe present set of incidents happened. It is thisvery issue that Ihave triedtoaddress in the book. What is the big picture in the Abalanceofsocietal dynamics, policymust world? Howhavethe Chinese risen and how do they see the world? How has India risen and wheredowe stand? (How the) repositioning of the tmay be hard for diplomats to cised. The challenge today is to strike nationalismisthatithas actually either of them as an event, we should terms, it signifies agreaterdetermi- United States has consequences for digest, but the Indian Street has the right balance betweensocietal been avery durable basis for organiz- see them as currents of history. nation to combat both sub-national the entire world, including India and often displayed betterinstincts dynamics and the mechanics of pol- ing societies. At various times,ithas Coming in different sizes and and supra-national challenges to it. In China. I than Lutyens’ Delhi when it icy making. Mandarinscan no longer defeated conflicting ideologies that shapes,nationalism can be assertive, policy terms, it focuses on how to No question, the rise of China is the comes to assessing opportunities and be impervious to the masses. appealed to bothlarger and narrower reactive or just expressive.The confi- maximizenationalcapabilities and most remarkable eventofour times. It risks abroad. Their geopolitical An inability to reconcile the two loyalties. Multinational empires dent categoryreflects the real and influence. is transformational. In more or less understanding may not be formal. can onlycome at the cost of political struggled with nationalist sentiment psychological outcome of shiftsinthe In India’s current situation, that the same time frame but perhaps not But they intuitively know with whom credibility, aphenomenon that we and by and large, lost out. world power hierarchy. It is repre- has aparticular relevancetosecurity. to the same degree, India has also to trade and where to travel. Their haveseen in so many other countries. But national entities that encoun- sented by the rise of nations like Overall, anationalistic foreign policy risen. The rest of the world recognises choices in emigration and education India is obviously not immune to this teredsub-national dissensions have China and India, of acontinent like outlook is likely to approach the the rise of India and also gives it were made well ahead of policy shifts paradigm shift and the changed dis- usually won. Western imperialism Asia and the consequent rebalancing worldwith more confidence and weightage. Just as China is entitled to by Indian diplomacy.Agame-chang- course reflects anewer era with its was eventually undone by nationalist of the global order. greater realism. What may be differ- its ambitionsand aspirations,sois ing event like 9/11 was seen for what it own driving forces. How to capture sentiments awakening in their Aseconddriver of greater nation- ent about India is that unlike in many India. was.The sharp popularimagery of Indian nationalism in policy terms is former colonies. alism is its very opposite: the reaction other powers, that sense of national- So how do we find an equilibrium? nationshas also captured the com- acomplex task that must simultane- Communism was the next of the in more privileged societies to this ism doesnot translate into an ‘us ver- We areboth billion-plus (population) plexity of diplomacy.Say what you ously address issues of history, iden- transnational ideologies on aglobal rebalancing. The offshoring of manu- susthe world’mentality. For reasons civilisational states who once had an will, but the Street has awell-devel- tity, interests and politics. scale. This too eventually foundered facturing and creation of extensive that derive from ourinnate plural- important place in the world. Today oped instinct, whether it is about Among the more arrogant asser- when socialism acquired national global supply chains has inevitably ism, there is atradition of reconciling again, on the ascendance. So how do Russia or America, China or Paki- tionsofanera of hubris was that of characteristics. hadanimpact on the West. Athird the nationalism with global engage- we accommodate each other? That stan. the ‘end of history’. The complacency Faith-based movementshave also category is the accumulated impact ment. Not driven by victimhood, it willingness to accommodate is at the Now,this is not to suggestthat the of this attempted to cut across national of how sharper cultural identities has the potential to serve as abridge heart of the relationship.And it is not measured deliberationsofstatecraft pronouncement is only matched divides. Being outcomes of high emo- across theworld have played on each between the established and emerg- going to be easy as we have acompli- are lessimportant than the passions by its limitationasaEurocentric tion andexceptional circumstances, other. ing orders. cated history. of society. Butitisalso afact that we analysis that disregarded what was nationalism eventually returns them The epicenter for that has been At atime when most are pursuing TheIndia Way: have entered adifferent era where happening in Asia at the same time. to business as usual. The globaliza- West Asia;and otherregionshave interests narrowly, it is to India’s ben- One can understandhistorical Strategiesfor the availability of information, tools But nevertheless, we were suppos- tion of our era represents yet another reacted to it overtime. We should efit that it takes amoreexpansive baggage with India,but China an Uncertain of technology and cultural identities edlystaring at auniversaland invin- effort at transcending an entrenched expect uneasy coexistence and shift- view of the world. By stepping for- has also had issues withthe US World drive contemporary nationalism. The cible globalized order led by the US. organizational principle of modern ing equations between globalist and ward in difficult situations, it can not and ASEAN over the South democratization of societies that However, what appeared then as per- politics. But because it rests on a nationalist forces as neither can pre- only underline its greater capabilities China Sea and Taiwan; with Publisher bring to the fore more grounded poli- manent was atransient moment of deeper technology basis and stronger vail. And the world it will produce and confidencebut alsobuild its Japan over Senkaku Islands; HarperCollins tics also contributes to this process. American unipolarity, as it was with economic interests, its tension with will be very contentious. unique brand as agenerous power. with Australia,etc. Andthattoo India (September Therefore, convolutions of policy and other powers in history before. nationalism will continue for the India is no exception to the larger This imagery fits in well with the at atimewhen the world is fac- 4, 2020) the accumulated weight of experien- Largercompetitiveness and political foreseeable future. trends that have strengthened embrace of the world that is inherent ing the coronavirus pandemic. ces sometimes struggle to meet the contestation proceeded to return the Contestation between two such nationalism. In emotional terms, in Indian thinking and reinforces its Whyopen so manyfronts? Print Length demands of society, particularly on world to amore natural diversity. powerful rationalizationsisnot nationalism obviously contributes to positioning as apowerthat can Ihave joined many dots in my book 240Pages issues where public opinion is exer- The real truth about this revival of unnatural. So, rather than visualize astronger sense of unity. In political bridge divides. to present the rise of apotential global

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PressTrustofIndia PressTrustofIndia THE FIRING IN THE PressTrust of India THE DEFENCE out of the five shortlisted enti- ties, the sources said. [email protected] [email protected] NOWSHERA [email protected] MINISTRY HAS The Indian Navyplans to SRINAGAR: Authorities in JAMMU: AJunior Commissioned SECTOR WA S NEW DELHI: India is all set to ALREADY acquire 24 new submarines, Kashmir imposed restrictions Officer(JCO) of the Army was UNPROVOKED AND launch the bidding process by SHORTLISTED TWO including six nuclear attack sub- in parts of Srinagar and Bud- killedonSunday in firing by Pak- next month for aRs55,000- marines, to bolster its underwa- gam districts on Sunday to pre- istanitroops along the Line of RESPONDED crore mega project to buildsix INDIAN SHIPYARDS ter fightingcapability. It cur- vent people from taking out Control (LoC) in Rajouridistrict STRONGLYBYTHE conventional submarines for the AND FIVE FOREIGN rentlyhas 15 conventional sub- Muharram processions to of Jammu and Kashmir, a INDIAN ARMY, THE Indian Navy to narrow the gap DEFENCE MAJORS marines and two nuclear mark the last day of the defence spokesman said. with China’s growing naval submarines. 10-day mourning period,offi- The firing from across the SPOKESMAN SAID prowess, government officials FOR THE PROJECT The Navy has been focusing cials said. border in the Nowshera sector said on Sunday. on significantly bolsteringits They said restrictions on the was unprovoked and responded town Amritsar in Punjab on The submarines will be built overall capabilities in view of movement and assembly of stronglybythe Indian Army, the Monday morning. in Indiaunder the much-talked- already shortlisted two Indian China’s growing efforts to people under Section 144of spokesman said. Army sources said Pakistani about strategic partnership shipyards and five foreign increase its military presencein the CrPc have been imposed He said Naib Subedar Raj- troops started firing soon after modelthatallowsdomestic defencemajors for the project, the Indian Ocean Region. in parts of the city and in Bud- winder Singh was critically the Indian Army noticed suspi- companies to join hands with being billed as one of biggest The Indian Ocean, considered gam. injuredinthe “unprovoked cious movementand alertedthe leading foreign defence majors “Make in India” ventures. the backyardofthe IndianNavy, In Srinagar, the officials said, ceasefire violation” by the Paki- forward posts to scuttleany infil- to produce high-end military The shortlisted Indian entities is critical to the country’s strate- the curbs have been imposed in stan army. Singh later suc- tration bid by terrorists from platforms in the country and were L&T group and state- gic interests. Lal Chowk and Zadibal areas. cumbed to injuries,the spokes- across the border. reduce import dependence. owned Mazagaon DocksLtd According to global naval Shops and other business man said. Pakistani army usuallytargets The sources said the ground- (MDL) while the select foreign analysts, Chinesenavy currently establishments in the areas “Naib Subedar Singhwas a forward posts and villages to work like specifications of the entitiesincluded ThyssenKrupp has over 50 submarines and where restrictions were in Security personnel in Srinagar on Sunday. PTI brave, highly motivated and a provide cover to infiltrators to submarines and other critical Marine Systems (Germany), about 350 ships. The total num- place, were shut, while public sincere soldier. The nation will help them cross over to the requirementsfor issuanceofthe Navantia (Spain) and Naval ber of ships and submarines is transport was off the roads, incident. day of the 10-day Muharram always remain indebtedtohim Indian side, they said. RFP (request for proposal) for Group (France). projected to go past 500 in next they said, adding however, The restrictions were mourning period,used to pass for his supreme sacrifice and the mega project, named as P-75 Initially, the defence ministry 8-10 years. few private vehicles were ply- imposed to maintainlaw and throughthese areas, but have devotion to duty,” the spokes- I, has been completedbysepa- willissue RFPstoMDL and L&T The Indian Navy is also in the ing. order in these areas in view of been banned since eruption of man said. Singh is survived by w rate teams of the defence minis- and the twofirmswill haveto process of procuring 57 carrier- The officialssaid security the tenthday of Muharram, militancy in 1990asauthorities his wife and two children--ason try and the Indian Navy. submit theirdetailed bid after bornefighter jets, 111 Naval Util- forces have been deployed in they said. maintain that the gathering has and adaughter, the spokesman For more log onto The RFP will be issued by receiving the document. Subse- ity Helicopters(NUH) and123 strength in other areas of the The traditional Muharram been used for propagating sep- said, addinghis mortal remains www.hindustantimes.com October, they added. quently, the L&T andMDL will multi-role helicopters under the valley to prevent any untoward procession,tomark the eighth aratist politics would be taken to his home The defence ministry has have to select aforeignpartner strategic partnership model. RANCHI MONDAY 05 AUGUST 31,2020 My India Images show China facilities for missiles

New facilities located near platforms such as the Boeing P-8 Poseidon surveillanceaircraft, Doklam, Naku La where @detresfa added. Indian and Chinese troops According to the graphic had clashed on May 9 posted on Twitter, one missile site is located at the tri-junction of the borders of India,Bhutan HT Correspondent and China,while the other is locatedinChinese territory [email protected] opposite Sikkim. NEW DELHI: Opensource satel- There was no immediate reac- lite imagery suggests China is tionfrom Indian officials to the developing two new air defence reported development of missile positionsthat coversensitive sites by the Chinese. stretches of the disputed border Even after the end of the in the Doklam and Sikkim sec- Doklam standoff in 2017 after tors, including an area where several rounds of negotiations, Indianand Chinesetroops there were reports that the Chi- clashed in May. Army trucks on their way to Ladakh on July 31. PTI FILE nesesidehad notfully pulled The satellite imagery, shared backits troops in the area. There by the open source intelligence greater accuracy. the two countries had clashed on have also been several reports of analyst who uses the name In agraphic posted on Twit- May 9. Four Indian and seven Chinesetroops building tren- @detresfa on Twitter, shows ter, @detresfa said the new mis- Chinese soldierswere injured in ches, fortified positionsand what appear to be two sites at sile facilities were apparently this clash, the second such infrastructure to support opera- whichthe People’sLiberation part of China’s “ongoing reported incident since the cur- tion by helicoptersand aircraft Army(PLA) is developing sur- upgradesand expansion of air rent standoff began in early May. in the area. face-to-air missile facilities. Both defence assets along its border The two surface-to-air missile Last month,Hindustan Times these sitesare near what have with India”. sites would “close the existing hadfirst reported that China had been describedas“suspected The new missile facilities are air defence gap around theear- officially stated for the first time early warningradar sites” oppo- located roughly50kmaway lier clashzones” for the Chinese, that it has aboundary dispute site Sikkim. fromDoka La (Doka pass), close @detresfa said. with Bhutan in the easternsec- Experts said the location of to the Doklam plateau that was The Indianside has been tor, adevelopment with signifi- missile air defence facilities the scene of a73-day military “noted runningregularintelli- cant implications for India as the closetoradar installations standoffbetween India and gence and reconnaissance mis- region borders Arunachal Pra- would help the Chinese side to China in 2017, and Naku La sions in this sector” during the desh, which is also claimed by pick out possible targets with (Naku pass), where troops from current standoff with various Beijing.

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COVID CASES is notahomogenousphenome- Experts underlined that the testing capacity and the number India every day recently, so the non across the states.“It is hap- way forward is for the people to of tests has resulted in an latter has been closing the gap pening in some pockets and follow Covid-19-appropriate upsurge in Tests Per Million to fast.However, India’s case fatal- among groups where there is an behaviour, which includes 30,044 as on date, it high- ity rate decreased to 1.79% on intermixingofthe susceptible wearing amask, maintaining lighted. Sunday, whichisnot only much population and asymptomatic social distancing, hand hygiene According to data shared by better thanthe global average of or mildly symptomatic cases and respiratory etiquette in a the ministry, India’s daily tests 3.4%, but also better than the US whichisleading to atransmis- sustained manner. per million stands at 545. Goa is (3.1%) and Brazil (3.2%). sion of the disease. So, efforts Meanwhile, even as the coun- conducting thehighest tests per India reported 3,566,555 have to be made to interrupt try is recording record jumps in day per million at 1,584 followed cases and 63,864 fatalities till this transmission in these pock- infections,recoveries surged by AndhraPradeshat1,391, 7pm on Tuesday.India’s Cov- ets,” Dr Panda said. past2.7 million, according to Delhi at 950, Tamil Nadu 847, id-19 cases rose from 2million LeadingvirologistShahid the health ministry data. The Assam 748, Karnataka, 740, to 3million in 16 days and 1mil- Jameel said that people are not recoveryrate is now 76.61%, Bihar 650 and Telangana 637. lion to 2million in 21 days. following advisories on wearing with 765,302active casesofthe India’sCovid-19 positivity It took110 days for Covid-19 masks, hand hygiene and social infection in the country, or rate as on date is 8.57%. States infections in the country to distancing. “This is driven by a around 21.60% of the total case- having apositivity rate less than reach 100,000 while just59days complacency that results from load, the data stated. national averageinclude Tamil more to go past the 1-million the official narrative whichonly With arecord over 1million Nadu at 8.10%, Jharkhand mark. talks of increasing recovery and tests conducted in aday for (6.19%), Bihar(5.44%),Gujarat Dr Samiran Panda, headof low death rate. The fact is that detection of Covid-19, thenum- (5.01%), MadhyaPradesh epidemiology and communica- we are producingthe largest ber of such tests performed in (4.74%), Punjab (4.69%), Uttar ble diseases at the IndianCoun- dailynumbers. We arenow the country has crossed 41.4 Pradesh (4.56%) and Rajasthan cil of MedicalResearch (ICMR), third in total infections and million, the health ministry with apositivity rate of 4.18%. said this increase in cases was going to be on the third spoton said. expected but pointed out thatit total deaths as well,” he said. The exponential jump in the (With PTI inputs)

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pandemic alert India’s current vaccine ment kits were certifiedthrough ZYCoV-D. If successful, it says it can another ecosystem. Enrolment opera- manufacture 100 million vaccines a set-up may not be tions were quickly set up nationwide. year. Bharat Biotech has begun Phase At its peak, there were some 35,000 2trials of itsindigenousvaccine The infection is spreading both in terms of enough. But the Aadhaar stations that could enrol up to 1.5 mil- developedwith Indian Councilof numbers and geography. Follow protocols experience can help lion residents aday. Thereimburse- Medical Researchand the National ment was ₹50 per successful Aadhaar Institute of Virology. It says it will generated. This public-private part- have acapacity of 200 million doses he inventorofthe polio nership is how we managed compre- per year. Biological Ehas tied up with India has along and accomplished history of immunisation. But that ovid-19 is now spreading in India at arate vaccineJonas Salk said: hensive coverage—and fast. The Johnson&Johnson.Withthe acquisi- infrastructure can’t be used because the immunisation that is now quicker than any other country so far, ever “Our biggestresponsibility result: 600 million residents got their tion of Akorn India Pvt Ltd, it expects required is very different in speed and scale to the current system HT PHOTO since the pandemic began. India is reporting is to be good ancestors”. Aadhaar in four years, and abillion in to have acapacity of one billion doses C India is approaching abig 5.5 years. Theresponse to thepan- per year. There are other firms, and history of immunisation. But that safety, efficacy, length of immunity, more cases every day than the United States T infrastructure can’t be used because dosage, etc.Assoon as the first vacci- decision; whether we will demic needs to be even faster. other vaccines too. (US) and Brazil were reporting even when the take one to twoyears or three to five India is uniquely placed to offer Sure, things remain uncertain. the immunisation thatisnow nes becomes available, there willbe outbreak there was at its peak. India is also one of years to vaccinate 1.3 billion people. vaccination for the entire Some vaccines may be required —over one billion, possibly pressure on the government to pur- Historywill judge whether we were population at speed and unsuccessful; some may two billion, vaccinations in less than chaselarge quantities andstart dis- only the three nations to have had, consistently, over good ancestors by this decision.The scale. The experience of require two doses or may two years—isverydifferent in speed tributing immediately. 1,000 deaths daily in recent days. But while cases in differencecould be thousands of lives, Aadhaarenrolment is need to be repeated after a and scale to the current system, However,inthis approach,the gov- the other two nations appear to have plateaued, millions of livelihoods, hundreds of helpful, as is the infra- few months. The capaci- whichislimited to 25 million infants ernment, and ultimately the people of bankruptcies,unsustainable public structure provided by ties may be overstated, born each year, and pregnant women. India, take on many risks. If, after a India hasn’t yet reached its peak. finances, and₹2-3lakhcrore in bad Aadhaar. Now that every- Nandan and some of that capacity The Covid-19 vaccine will have to be few months, there are unacceptable There are, however, areas where India has fared loans. one can be authenticated Nilekani will be exported. Even universal. And finally, if we load Cov- sideeffects, or the vaccine doesnot much better than others. For every million residents, In recent times, the one govern- online, either usingAad- after that, it is still reason- id-19 vaccination on the current vacci- work as well as expected, or fortui- ment initiative that has physically haar or usingmobile able to assume that India nation infrastructure, it will be over- touslyabetter,cheaper vaccine India has reported 2,600 cases, against around reachedabillion people is Aadhaar phones, be it by biomet- will have adequate vac- whelmed. It is possible that for three comesalong,then the procured 18,000 each in the US and Brazil. The same holds enrolment. In 2009, some of us were rics or OTP,itcreatesanew para- cine supplies at some stage. If any of to five years, the regular workload of stockswill becomeworthless. At this true for deaths —India has 48 deaths per million grappling with how to enrol at speed, digm. For example,wecan allowany- the vaccines fail, the capacity ear- all childhood vaccinations for infants time, the issueislikelytobepoliti- scale and quality. We realised that the time-anywhere vaccination, where a marked for the failedvaccine can be will be disrupted, endangering over cised and the usual finger-pointing, against around 500 in the other two. India’s case traditional model, where the govern- person can walk into avaccination used to manufactureasuccessful vac- 100 millionbabies.Our successin CAG auditwill start and cripplefur- fatality rate is 1.8%, which is not only much better ment procuredthousands of enrol- station nearby, have achoice to get cine of the same type. polio is commendable, but it is vital to ther efforts. than the global average of 3.4%, but also better than ment kits, would not cut it. We came authenticated with Aadhaar or phone Given what we know of India’s remember polio is an oral vaccine There is abetter way. up with adifferentmodel. The Unique number and get ashot —all in min- capacity for vaccine manufacture, it is that an untrained care worker can the US (3.1%) and Brazil (3.2%). One of the reasons Identification Authority of India utes. important that the system design for administer at the recipient’s home. (Thisisthe first of atwo-part opinion for the high number of reported cases in India now is (UIDAI) appointed registrars such as Indiaisthe vaccine capital of the vaccination roll-out is based noton The currentvaccine infrastructure piece on apossible framework for vac- the enhanced level of testing. For the second time, state governments, private and public world. Serum Institute of India is the vaccinescarcity, butvaccine ade- requiresthe governmentbuying the cine delivery in India. The second part banks, and the post office, to carry out world’s largest vaccine manufacturer, quacy. Even if we don’t start that way, vaccinesand then distributingthem. will appear on Tuesday) the country’s daily tests crossed the million-mark on enrolment. In turn, these registrars with acapacity to manufacture 1.2 bil- Indiashould reach adequacy by the Government procurement workswell Nandan Nilekani, chairman and Saturday. This is ahuge jump from June, when hired enrolment agencies from aUID- lion vaccine doses ayear. It has part- endof2021. We are not distributing a when we have stable and proven vac- co-founder of Infosys, was the first 200,000 samples were being tested aday. But while AI-approved list. The agencies bought nerships with vaccinemakers Oxford/ precious resource, we are trying to cines. However, in the Covid-19 sce- chairman of the Unique Identification UIDAI-approved enrolment kits AstraZeneca, Novavax and Coda- deliver fast and far,avaccine that nario, which is exceptionally dynamic Authority of India, which set the absolute numbers are positive, the relative directlyfromvendors of biometric genix. Zydus Cadila hasstartedPhase everyone needs. and varied, there will be alarge num- up Aadhaar proportion to population still leaves room to devices.The operators of theenrol- 2clinical trialsofits vaccine Indiahas alongand accomplished ber of vaccines available with varying The views expressed are personal improve. The US has conducted 250,000 tests per million, while Brazil has tested 67,000 per million; for India, this number is alittle over 31,000. But the biggest challenge is harder to denote in Meritocracy is amyth. { NARENDRA MODI } PRIME MINISTER numbers. While the first five months of the outbreak in India saw cases largely from urban areas, the bulk P of the latest wave of infections has been from the And that is not bad We have seen unpre- hinterland, where the health care infrastructure is much weaker. And while the lower population ompanies, globally,claim with pride the long run even if it comes with some short- cedented restraint and density may help rural areas, experts fear that there that they are meritocracies, places term cost. It’s important, therefore, to break where progression is based on per- awayfromsimplistic notions of meritocracy. simplicity in our festivals is agreater chance of cases and deaths going Cformance andnot wealth or connec- In fact, agrowing body of research in psychol- unreported since there are fewer labs, hospitals and tions. However, the more Ihave worked with ogy andneuroscience suggeststhatbelieving during Covid-19 …. People trained medical professionals. The ultimate goal for companies, the more Ifind that the reasons of in meritocracymakes people more selfish, advancement in acompany extend beyond lessself-critical and evenmore prone to acting are beingresponsible acountry (till avaccine is developed and mass terms like meritocracy. And this may not be a in discriminatory ways. This makes “meritoc- produced) is to prevent deaths. And though India bad thing. racy” not only wrong, but bad. has fared better than most nations in that aspect, it At the top, when anew chief executive offi- Let me, therefore, identify good and bad cer (CEO) is appointed, the other internal can- reasonsfor not being meritocratic in acom- A should not let its guard down. It must test, isolate didates for CEO leave or are fired. When Jack pany. Humans have many hiddenbiases. They and treat with even greater intensity, and spread the Welch selected Jeff Immelt to succeed him, often prefer people like themselves and find it network of labs, hospitals and expertise to the Bob Nardelli and Jim McNerneyleft GE. Other easytoworkwiththem.Incertain contexts, CEOs, whocome from outside,oftenbring in and up to acertainsize and geographic { STRAIGHTFORWARD } country’s rural pockets, where they will be people whom they know, with whom they spread, this enhances efficiency. These com- needed the most in coming weeks. have chemistry, and who are loyal to them. panies know how to identify people who will Shashi Shekhar Outsiders often ask senior people, who must succeed, and thesepeople areagood fit for the have been strong performers company. They may be of limited until then,toleave. Theecosys- ability in an objective sense, but temthat the CEO operates under are contextually suited. Being The disturbing story also may create requirements. aware and getting agriparound To revivethe Congress, The CEO may be expected to bal- the constraints will allow manag- ance the leadership team across ers the ability to make better from India’s prisons departments, regions, functions, Janmejaya careerchoices in these compa- gender, race, age, and length of nies. This is the good case for why leaders must return tenure of individuals. In addition, Sinha meritocraciesare not really meri- he latest (2019) data on prisons released by the the CEO may also have personal tocracies. National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) shows compulsions and preferences, One group of companies can be Tthat Dalits, tribals, and Muslims continue to be rewarding and selecting some exempted from this need, and to the grassroots managers over others who may be more capa- they are family-owned and managed busi- jailed in numbers disproportionate to their share in ble, due to their long association and loyalty nesses. The family may have created the busi- the total population of India, according to areport in with the CEO in earlierroles. While there is a ness for its family members, and, if theyare he Congress is once again in the news forsomuch from him in terms of leadership. The Indian Express.The NCRB data shows that while lot of talkofpureperformance,the factisthat, transparent about this, it is perfectlyfair for due to internal political contestation. There have been defeats, but there is hope yet. beyond apoint, it is not true. family members to run these companies. Is this the usual battle between the old When Rahul was party president, the Con- people from Scheduled Castes (SCs) accounted for But it is just not chemistry and loyalty that Tversus new leaders, or amorecon- gresslostthe 2019 polls, but remember,the The bad case for meritocracies not being 21.7% of convicts and 21% of undertrials; those from take precedence over merit in appointments. meritocracies is to do with CEO insecurity — certed attempt to changethe antiquated party still had governments in six states and Scheduled Tribes (STs) accounted for 13.6% of Companies in different jurisdictions need to where the CEO prevents the building of asec- structure of the party? The Congress is a if the organisation could have been strength- respect lawsinterms of inclusion and diver- ond line, where loyaltyisrewarded overper- national party, with alonglegacy. But person- ened, he could have revived its fortunes. Bat- convicts and 10.5% of undertrials; and Muslims, sity in recruitment and advancement based formance, where targets are poorly set and ality-based parties tend to face aproblem.As tles in ademocracyare not fought only in an 16.6% of convicts and 18.7% of undertrials. on considerations of race,gender, colour, board inertia is used to preserve the status soon as the leader shows signs of weakness, election. Real leaders have to go out to the While it is not the case that the demographic mix caste, religion and nationality. So, leaders in quo. Units far from the centre can get away the party starts to collapse. The Congress has masses, connect with them on issues which companies can, at best, do constrained opti- with toxic organisational pathologiesfor been different becausebarringabrief inter- matter, and perhaps even start amovement. in prison must be areflection of the demographic misation even to comply with the rule of the longer. In such situations, people can succeed regnum in the 1990s, the party has been The Congress was once knownfor this mode mix in society, the NCRB data underlines adeeper land they operate in. It is true some table due to plain luck or being in the right place at under the Nehru-Gandhi family. of politics. But it lost the way, with some lead- sociological truth about India —ofthe historic stakes performance is always required of the right time when the opportunity came Indira Gandhi took over afterLal Bahadur ersestablishing aform of feudalpolitics in the managers. But for real success,other factors about. In thesesituations, moderntechniques Shastri. She choseSanjay Gandhiasher heir name of the Nehru-Gandhi family. This led to marginalisation of these communities. Their oftenbecome important. The companies of anonymous 360 degrees feedback, under- after taking control of the party. She lost the the Congress losing its base, with regional socioeconomic indicators are weak; they are unable themselves, through their boards, give gui- standing the market context by the board, and electiontothe Janata Party in 1977,but Sanjay parties becoming stronger in states, and the to access opportunities for livelihoods; their danceonthe need in their personnel policies being sharp in getting to know the next level and his supporters did not lose heart. They Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) filling the vac- to create balance. They may want to balance and having succession discussions are helpful. fought on the streets. Indira Gandhi’s political uumnationally. encounters with the legal machinery are often the preferences, andevenbiases, of aCEO’s It is also helpful to create internal expecta- experience and Sanjay’s enthusiasmbrought Today, Narendra Modi and Amit Shah are brutal; and if they are implicated in cases, even in personality and beliefs.Thisisnot always a tions that CEOs don’t stay in position for more her back to power in less than three years. leaving no space for the Opposition, even ordinary crimes, they often have to battle bad thing and may even be atime horizon than eight to ten years. There should also be After Sanjay’s death in an air crash, Rajiv though there are anumberofissues which thing. It often helps prepare acompany for rotation in levels below the CEO. Gandhi entered politics. Even before he had need to be taken up, including the economic discriminatory attitudes and are unable to access Business managers should,thus,all be alert cut his teethinpolitics, IndiraGandhi was downturn, Covid-19and China. Rahul Gandhi effective legal support. The imbalance in the prisons to their context and take control of their own assassinated on October 31, 1984. He became has tried to be vocalonthese issues, but the is not because Dalits, Muslims or tribals in India destiny and not leave it with thehuman the prime minister (PM) immediately and discussion haslargely remained on social resources departments of their company. won the next general elections. But his regime media. What the Congress needed was to get violate the law more often than others —itisbecause Managers need to evaluate their true was surrounded by controversy and eventu- over itsinternal politics,gotothe streets and structural conditions in both society and the State prospects, evaluate their chemistry with their ally, he was voted out of office by the newly- raisethe issues to win people’s confidence. force acertain life on them. manager, and be alert to the corridor gossip formed Janata Dal in 1989. But the Rajiv Gan- Today, those who are expressingdissatisfac- about senior people’s movementbecause dhi-led Congress did not give up. After top- tion are as guilty as others. While there is alarger battle that must be fought to things can change very fast, and with it, the pling the Janata Dal government, even as he Sonia Gandhi has been asuccessful party change this discriminatory structure, an immediate entire context. Essentially, individualnaivety wascontestingthe election to return to president. But age and declining health are priority must be providing urgent legal help. AState- is not astrength and lamenting about being a power, he was assassinated. The Congress against her now. If the Congress is to be saved victim is not asuccess strategy. Individuals then approached Sonia Gandhi, but she did from collapsing further, RahulGandhi will run free legal aid system was introduced in 1995 with need to always assesstheirsituation and con- not want to enter politics. This led to PV Nar- have to take full command.Instead of seeking the establishment of the Legal Services Authorities text and then decide whether they have agood asimha Rao becomingPM. Soniawas forced asynergy of the “old and new”, he will have to Act. But legal experts suggest that the system has chanceofadvancement.Seniormanagers to take up the leadership of the party. Even find away to involve those who believeinthe need to go beyond the company hype about underher leadership, the Congress fought a grassroots struggles. If he does notwant to do been ineffective because of daunting procedures, low being ameritocracyand find thefirm where six-year-long struggle, but she then led the so, then the family will have to searchfor and remuneration from the State, and corruption they are the right person, at the right time, party to power in 2004 for adecade. support anew leadership. This is theonly discourage lawyers from taking up these cases. with the right profile. That is when they fly. Rahul Gandhi’s trajectory was different wayforward for the Congress. Find the firm where you are the from hismother, father and grandmother. He Ensuring access to justice must be the first step to right person, at the right time, JanmejayaSinha is chairman, BCG India had ample opportunities to learn the political Shashi Shekharisthe editor-in-chief, Hindustan correcting the imbalance in India’s prisons. with the right profile SHUTTERSTOCK The views expressed are personal game.Thisiswhy Congressmen were hoping The views expressed are personal

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‘TAMPERING’ { EY REPORT } WITH MEETING DETAILS:VISVA Q1 growth BHARATI SACKS THREE OFFICIALS of FY21 may PressTrustofIndia [email protected] KOLKATA: Three senior officials of Visva-Bharati, including be worst former officiating vice-chancel- lor Sabujkali Sen, have been dis- missed from service for alleged RajeevJayaswal shows acontinued contraction, tampering of aresolution the rate of contraction has been recorded duringthe institute’s [email protected] coming down over successive executive council (EC) meeting NEW DELHI : India’s growthin months since April 2020 when it in 2018. thefirstquarter of thecurrent was at -25%. This fell to -0.4% in The decision was taken financial year is likely to be “the the first 20 days of August,it by the council on Friday worst” among thefour quarters added.Italso pointed out that evening, based on the recom- of FY-21 because of economic foreign exchange reserves con- mendations made by aone-man disruptions caused by the Cov- tinued to rise steadily reaching committee of Justice Jyotirmoy id-19 pandemic,anErnst and $538 billion by August 7. Bhattacharya, set up for Young(EY) India’s report said, DK Srivastava, chief policy thepurpose,anECmember indicating improved economic advisor of EY India, however, said. performance from the second saidone adverse development is Before making his recom- quarter. the slowing down of bankcredit mendations, Justice Bhatta- “High frequency indicators for growthto5.8% in the fortnight charya, aformer judge of the India are giving positive signals ending July 17. Calcutta high court, had gone afterthe firsttwo months of the “Duetosubdued demand, through the findingsofanother pandemic,” the consultancy firm average credit growth fell to inquiry committee in the case, said in its latest edition of Econ- 6.4% in the first quarter of FY21 which had concluded that Sen omy Watch before the scheduled as compared to 7.1% in the fourth and two others “tampered with release of official gross domestic quarter of FY20,” he said. the recording of an EC meeting Delhi Metro services have been suspended since March 22 Covid-19 lockdown put in place to curb the spread of the disease. HT PHOTO product (GDP) data on Monday. He said the Centre’s capital held in February, 2018”. The optimismofthe reportis expendituregrew by 40.1% in the Former officiating registrar based on indicators such as the first quarter of FY-21 as com- Sougata Chattopadhyay and Purchasing Managers’ Index pared to acontraction of -27.6% ex-finance officer Samit Roy are (PMI), the Index of Industrial in the corresponding period the the other two institute officials Production(IIP), salesofpassen- previous year, indicating front- who were removedbythe coun- DelhiMetro to resume ger vehicles, power consump- loading of capital expenditure. cil, the EC member said. tion and the rise in the foreign Srivastava said it is welcome as it Sen was appointed as the offi- exchange reserve. signals investment in infrastruc- ciating vice-chancellor (VC) on “In Juneand July 2020, PMI ture” in line with the National February 2, 2018,days after Prof manufacturing was close to the Infrastructure Pipeline (NIP) Swapan Dutta retired from the benchmarklevel of 50 at 47.2 objectives. post. Her tenure, however, was and 46.0 respectively. Although In his Independence Day set to last only for afew days, as on Sept7;protocol soon IIP has continued to contract in address on August 15, Prime the EC, during its meeting on June 2020, its rate of contraction Minister Narendra Modi February 17 that year, decided to hascomedownto-16.6%from unveiled over~110 lakh crore anoint another senior official, itsMay 2020 level of -33.9%. In infrastructure projects to boost Asha Mukherjee, as the next Govt to hold talks est single-dayspike sinceJuly “The Metro is vitalfor those be on very strict implementa- June 2020,passenger vehicle the economy and create jobs. “In acting VC. 10, when 2,089 cases were DELHI POLICE AND who are working and going to tion of social distancing norms sales picked up sharply with order to rapidly modernise The former officiating VC, with metro corps recorded. their jobs. People who don’t inside the stations and in sales of 1,20,188 units as com- India, there is aneed to give a with the help of Chattopadhyay Minutes afterthe go-ahead CISF OFFICERS SAID own private vehicles don’t have trains,”asenior DMRC official pared to sales of 33,546 units in new directiontooverall infra- and Roy, allegedly “tampered across country to from the Centre,the DMRC THEY WILL to worry but riding the bus or saidonthe condition of ano- April and May 2020 considered structure development,”hesaid, with the minutes of the meet- finalise the protocols issued astatementsaying the CONTINUE TO taking cabs now is tough,” nymity. together,” it said. adding that over 7,000 projects ing” to be able to extend her protocols that need to be fol- tweeted MK Tomar. Dr. Prateek Rajyavardhan, Although power consumption under NIP have been identified. term. lowed at the station and inside HOLD MEETINGS Anothercommuter, Vinayak who specialises in community The council, during an emer- Soumya Pillai trains will be released afterspe- WITH THE METRO’S Patwardhan,tweeted, “Don’t medicine and is associated with gency meeting two days ago, [email protected] cific guidelines are issuedbythe SECURITY UNIT TO allow the Delhi Metro to run agovernment hospital in Delhi, dismissed the officials from ser- Centre. just yet. Cases are on arise and saidmanagingcrowds in an vice with immediate effect, just NEW DELHI: The Delhi Metro “Asper the latest guidelines DECIDE MEASURES more people will get infected. enclosed space, especiallyin { RAJESH TOPE } MAHA HEALTH MINISTER three days before Sen’s retire- Rail Corporation (DMRC) will issued by the MHA under TO ENSURE SOCIAL The stations are acongested undergroundstations will be a ment. resume trainoperations after a Unlock-4, the Delhi Metro will DISTANCING AT spaceand this will increase the tough task for the agencies. Termingthe EC’s decisionas hiatus of over fivemonths from be resumingits servicesfor possibility of thespread of “Wewillhave to wait P “vindictive, premeditated, September 7, with the Union public from September7 STATIONS infection...” for the final guidelines to be unfair,” Sen claimed that she home ministry (MHA) on Satur- onwards in acalibrated man- Delhi Police and Central issued by the ministry before we We are going slow with was not given time to produce dayallowing Metro services in a ner,” said Anuj Dayal, executive The MoHUA said it will issue Industrial Security Force (CISF) comment on the successorfail- the Unlock process as documents and defend herself. graded manner under the director (corporate communi- SOPs for Metro operations, after officers said they will continue ure of the trial,” Rajyavardhan All three officials were inti- Unlock 4.0 guidelines to gradu- cations), DMRC. discussions with all corpora- to hold meetings with the said. we don’t want to reach mated about the central var- ally ease restrictions imposed to Dayal added, “Further details tions. Metro’ssecurity unit to decide “Managing the crowds in sta- sity’s decision over e-mail, the curb the spread of Covid-19. on the Metro functioning and its “Metro rail operations have measures to ensure social dis- tions will still be easier, but asituation where EC member added. “Metro rail will be allowed to usage by the general public will been allowedfrom 7th Septem- tancing at stations. One such what happens inside the trains? cases outnumber operate with effect from 7th be shared once the detailed SOP ber, 2020. The SOPs already cir- meeting is scheduled for Mon- Since we have opened up the THE COUNCIL, IN AN September 2020 in agraded on Metros is issued by the culated will be discussed on 1st day. rest of the city, we had to recoveries EMERGENCY MEET, manner, by the Ministry of Mohua in the next few days.” Sep 2020 through videoconfer- DMRC officialsprivy to the openupmass transit systems at Housing and UrbanAffairs Delhi chief minister Arvind encing by Mohua with all metro arrangements beingmadefor some point, but if this is the A DISMISSED THE (Mohua)/Ministry of Railways Kejriwal welcomed the deci- companies and finalised,” min- the resumption of services right time is what we need to OFFICIALS FROM (MOR), in consultation with the sion. istry spokesperson Rajiv Jain pointed out that managing see,” he said. SERVICE, THREE MHA. In this regard, SOP will be “I am glad that metro has said. operations will be challenging. For more stories issued by Mohua,” the order beenpermitted to startits oper- While some commuters wel- “Though thefinal SOP will relating to { COVID TALLY } DAYS BEFORE SEN’S read. ations from 7Sep in aphased comed the announcement as come from the ministry, Unlock 4 RETIREMENT The announcement came on manner,” Kejriwal tweeted. “long overdue”, others ques- throughthe discussions we process, scan aday when Delhi recorded 1,954 Delhi Metro services have tioned the timing, since Covid have had over the last few this QR code Odisha crosses 100k fresh Covid-19 cases –the high- been suspended since March 22. cases have been on the rise. months, we knowthe focuswill cases; toll reaches 482 { INTERNAL ELECTIONS } PressTrustofIndia Twitter. Four deaths were regis- tered in Ganjam and one each in C’garh downpour leaves Mahanadi [email protected] Khurda, Cuttack, Jajpur, Mal- BHUBANESWAR: The COVID-19 knagiri, Nabarangpur, Puri, tally in Odisha mounted to Rayagada and Sundergarh. flooded, inundates Odisha villages 1,00,934 on Sunday with 3,014 Apoliceconstable, whowas more people testing positive for posted as the personal security thedisease, while12freshfatali- officer of Bhubaneswar (Cen- PressTrust of India said, the flood waters have sub- downpourinits upper catch- told reporters after ahigh-level ties pushed the state’s death toll tral) MLA Ananta Narayan merged many villages in Kanasa ment areas in neighbouring meeting. “Flow of water from to 482, ahealth department offi- Jena, was among those who [email protected] and Delang blocks in Puri dis- Chhattisgarh threedays ago and Chhattisgarh has now dropped. cial said. succumbed to the infection. BHUBANESWAR: Flood watersof trict causing two breaches in the flow of water into the Hirakud Inflow into the Hirakud reser- The new cases were reported Khurdadistrict recorded the the Mahanadi inundated several embankments of the Daya and reservoir, built across the river voir which had shot up to 9.5 from 29 of Odisha’s 30 districts, maximum number of new cases villages in coastal Odisha on another in the Rajua in Khurda near Sambalpur in west Odisha. lakh cusechas come down to he said. at 684, followed by Cuttack at Sunday with over 10 lakh cusec district. The repair of the Forty-six of the64sluice gates around 8lakh cusec,” theSRC Of the 3,014 freshcases, 1,868 337, Mayurbhanj at 292, Gan- flowing through theMundali breaches will be taken up imme- of the Hirakud Dam have been said. were reportedfrom various jam at 216, Balasore 138, Bar- barrage near Cuttack, officials diately afterthe flood water openedbythe authorities to dis- The floodinthe Mahanadi quarantine centres, and 1,146 garh 124, Koraput120, Puri 118, said. recedes, he said. The swollen charge excess water from the system is likely to affect coastal were detected duringcontact Rayagada 104, and Sambalpur Congress leaders during the Congress Working Committee’s Noting that an inflow of even river also flooded villages in reservoir which was receiving districts like Puri, Khurda, Cut- tracing, the official said. 102.Theremainingcases were virtual meeting, in New Delhi on Monday. ANI 7lakh cusec at Mundali usually Banki areaofCuttack district huge inflow from upstream. tack, Jagatsinghpur, Nayagarh “Regret to inform of the reported from 19 other districts. triggers flood in the Daya and and affected road communica- “Over 7.65 lakh cusecofwater andparts of Kendrapara, Chief demise of twelve Covid positive Odisha currently has 29,685 the Bhargavi, the two tributaries tion. is now being dischargedfrom Engineer of Water Resources patients while under treatment activecoronavirus cases, while Cong may set up of the Mahanadi, Special Relief Mahanadi, the biggest river in the Hirakud Dam,” SpecialRelief department Jyotirmanya Rath in hospital,” the health and fam- 70,714people have recovered Commissioner (SRC) PKJena Odisha, is in spate following Commissioner (SRC)PKJena said. ilywelfaredepartment said on from the disease so far. central poll body { HEALTHWISE }

Aurangzeb Naqshbandi created astir in the party.Ahur- riedly-called CWC meeting dis- Reinfection sparks debate on Covid-19 striking twice [email protected] cussed the timing of the letter NEW DELHI: Congress president but notits contents. Soonafter, Sonia Gandhi will soon organisational announcements on whether true reinfection can “Weare now beginning to see in immune system store recogni- “This means that if the person masksand PPEs (personalpro- announce the creation and com- by the party, includingfor parlia- Sanchita occur. Studiesshow thatfollow- cases of re-infection,but till now tion patterns of the virus for who has recovered is retested tectiveequipments), including positionofanew panel tasked to mentaryroles, saw preference Sharma ing infection with Sars-CoV2, the we have not had atrue re-infec- future reference. The neutralis- within three months of initial during critical surgeries where conduct organisationalpolls to being given to younger leaders virus that causes Covid-19, the tion where aperson was sympto- ing antibody levels maydecline infection, they may continueto miscommunication is not an pickanew chiefofthe party and perceived to be closer to former infected person produces neu- maticthe first time, andsympto- in threemonths, but new infec- have apositivetest result, even option,” said Dr Reddy. the members of the Congress partypresident Rahul Gandhi. NEW DELHI: Scientists this week tralising antibodies rapidly, but matic the second time. We only tion is instantly recognised by though they are not spreading Since the disease is alittle Working Committee(CWC), The previous CEA, headed by confirmed anew coronavirus the antibody titers (count) begin have cases of symptomaticthe the memory Bcells that leads to Covid-19,” said the latest CDC over eight months old, it’s still threepeople familiarwith the present KeralaCongress presi- reinfection in a33-year-old man to decline in about one to two firsttime, and asymptomaticthe the rapid deployment of the spe- advisory. not known how strong and long- development saidoncondition dent Mullapally Ramachandran, in Hong Kong, who had Covid-19 months after acute infection. second time.Truereinfection cific immuneresponse pre-pro- The only protection is wear- lasting protection antibodies of anonymity. was dissolved soon after the in March and was found to be But prolonged low-grade viral with apatient who is twice grammed to attack Sars-CoV2. ing masks, social distancing and provide, but testing for them is The compositionofthe new election of Rahul Gandhi as the infectedbyadifferent variant of shedding detectable by reverse symptomatic has not yet So while it may not prevent rein- hand hygiene. helping track the scale of the central election authority (CEA) party chief in December 2017. the virus after 142 days during a transcription-polymerase chain occurred,” said Dr Anurag fection, it will prevent damage to “Many people arenot using pandemic, understand the that conducts the organisational Madhusudan Mistry and Bhub- visit to Europe. reaction tests has led to people Agrawal, director, Council of Sci- the body,” said Dr KSrinath the social vaccine and are not spread of infection. polls is currentlybeing discussed aneswar Kalita, who is now in They used geneticsequencing testing positive weeks after entific and IndustrialResearch- Reddy, president, PublicHealth taking precautions,such as “The next survey in Delhi will and the Congresspresident is the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), to confirm that the second infec- recovering. Institute of Genomics and Inte- Foundation of India. maintaining social distancing tell us the quiet exposure in the expected to announce the names were its other two members. tion was caused by agenetically In the past, recovered people grative Biology. The amount of live virus in and wearingmasks. Peopletake population. The lastsero-sur- soon, one of the people, asenior At Monday’s CWC meeting, distinct virus from the one that tested positive again after afew The immune system uses the nose and throat drops signif- outmasks when they arespeak- veillance found close to 30% peo- party functionary said. Sonia Gandhi agreed to continue caused the first infectionin weeks in South Korea, China and specificity, diversity, and mem- icantlysoon after Covid-19 symp- ing, eating, or having aconversa- ple haveantibodies againstSars- “Experienced leaders will be on the post till anew president is March. some European countries rais- ory to fightinfection. The immu- toms develop, with the duration tion, whichisthe worst thing CoV2 in Delhi, though we don’t part of this election authority,” elected and an AICC session is The man, who is otherwise ing fears of re-infection, but sci- nological memory involving T of infectiousness in most people that can happen in terms of knowhow protective these anti- he added. “It (the creationofthe convened. The CWC also autho- healthy, had developed cough entists clarified that the repeat andBcells in the immune sys- not lasting more than 10 days potential exposure to infected bodies are as they are not neu- body) is also as per the require- risedher to carry outorganisa- and sputum, and was down with positive tests picked up dead tem lead to an adaptive antibody aftersymptomsbegin, and 20 droplets,” said Dr Shiv KSarin, tralising, which offer longer pro- ment under the Congress consti- tional changes. sore throat, fever and headache viruses from past infection that response that is faster, of higher days on average in people with director, Indian InstituteofLiver tection,” he said. tution.” for three days when he first did not make the person ill or affinity, and results in the secre- severeillness or those who are and Biliary Sciences, New Delhi, “Withopening up (after lock- This person’s reference to tested positive for Covid-19, but infected others. tion of non-IgM isotypes of IgG severely immunocompromised, which set up the country’s first down), cases willkeep rising. I experienced leaders is signifi- w remained asymptomatic when The genetic confirmationin that give longer lasting protec- according to the US Centers for convalescent plasma bank for have afeeling in the next survey, cant. Earlier this week,aletter he got reinfected in August, Hong Kong proved asecond tion against re-infection. Disease Control and Prevention. treatment. we may be 38% or so positive in signed by 23 Congress members, For more log on to according to the study published infection can occur, but there “So even as neutralising anti- Aperson who has recovered “There is no need to take off Delhi. The only way to protect including manysenior leaders, www.hindustantimes.com in the journal, Clinical Infectious are no reports of people develop- bodies bind to the virusto from Covid-19may have lowlev- masks while speaking. Doctors, people is to wear amask,and seeking change in theway the Diseases. ing symptoms or falling sick the immobilise it and T-cells battle els of virusintheir bodies for up nurses and healthworkersrou- wear it properly covering our party works so as to strengthen it The study reignitedthe debate second time. with it, the memory Band Tcells to three months after diagnosis. tinely communicate through nose and mouth,” he said. RANCHI 08 MONDAY AUGUST 31,2020 World

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Agencies [email protected] protesters, LONDON: Global coronavirus cases crossed 25 million on Sun- day in asurge led by record daily infections in India. The data showed steady rivals clash global growth as the epicentre shifts again, with India taking centre stage from the US and LatinAmerica. Globally, there Agencies porters have rallied in the city. were more than 840,000deaths, Videos from the scene showed considered alagging indicator [email protected] sporadic fighting,aswell as given the two-week incubation PORTLAND: One person was Trump supportersfiringpaint- period of the virus. shot dead late on Saturday in ball pellets at opponents and Amillion additional cases Portland,Oregon,asalarge car- using bear spray as counter-pro- have been detected globally avan of US President Donald testers threw things at the roughly everyfour days since Trump supporters and Black Trump caravan. mid-July. Even nations such as Lives Matter protesters clashed The Black Lives Matter dem- New Zealand and South Korea, in the streets, police said. onstrations usually target police which had largely controlled It wasn’t clear if the shooting buildings and federal buildings. their outbreaks, are battling was linked to fights that broke With chants of “One person, new infection clusters. Masks out as the caravan of about 600 one vote!” and “No justice, no will become mandatoryfrom vehicles was confronted by pro- peace!” acrowd of about 1,000 Mondayonpublic transport testers in the city’s downtown. demonstrators gathered outside and flights in New Zealand. “Portland Policeofficers aWisconsincourthouse on Sat- Police in Berlin clashed with Agraveyard for Covid-19 victims at the Pondok Ranggon cemetery in Jakarta, Indonesia. The country of nearly 270 million is among the worst-hit in Asia. AFP heard sounds of gunfire from the urday to denounce police vio- far-right activists protesting areaofSoutheast 3rd Avenue lence, aweek after an officer Germany’s virus restrictions. Visitors raised their arms, and Southwest Alder Street. shot Jacob Blake in the back and Demonstrators, some of whom clapped and lined up to get tick- ProbeonModernavaccinepatents Theyresponded and locateda left the 29-year-old Black man tried to storm the parliament ets as New York’s Metropolitan victim with agunshot wound to paralysed. The diverse group of building, held up signs saying, Museum of Art reopened its the chest ,” the Portland Police protesters also chanted “Seven “Endthe coronavirusdictator- doors to the public in afestive Agencies researchers didn’t disclose in agency awards to Moderna to talks with Japan’s Ministry of Bureau said in astatement. bullets, seven days!” —arefer- ship,” and heard aprotest atmosphere after asix-month vaccine patents where they got identifywhich patents andpend- Health, Labor and Welfare to Portland has been the site of ence to the number of times leader call for Chancellor closure. [email protected] about $25 million in grants from ing patents, if any at all, may be potentially supply the country nightly protests for more than Blakewas shot last Sunday. Angela Merkel’s government to LatinAmerica -the worst-hit WASHINGTON: Moderna Inc’s the department’s Defense associated withDarpa support.” with 40 million or more doses of three months since the police Blake’s father, JacobBlakeSr, resign. region -was still struggling with patents that were filed or Advanced ResearchProjects Moderna said it believed it its vaccine candidate against killing of GeorgeFloydinMinne- gave an impassioned call for Hong Kong embarked on the its first wave, with Covid-19 awarded are beingprobed by the Agency, or Darpa, for its vaccine complied with patent reporting Covid-19. apolis. The chaotic scene came changing asystem he described world’s biggest experiment in deaths in Brazil crossing US defence department’s technology, the newspaper said. requirements, including those It also unveiled new findings two days afterTrump invoked as fostering police brutality. voluntary testing. As of Sunday 120,000, second only to the research arm, The Financial “It appears thatall past and related to Darpa, the newspaper relating to its trial. Portland as aliberal city overrun White House spokesman Judd morning, 310,000 people signed United States. Brazil’s curve Timesreported, sayingthe com- present Darpa awards to Mod- said. The vaccine candidate, with violenceinaspeech at the Deere told reporters aboard Air up for the free virus test. The “has stabilised now, but at a pany failedtodisclose govern- erna includethe requirement to Colleen Hussey, aspokesper- mRNA-1273, would be supplied RepublicanNational Convention Force One on Saturday that two-week effort aims to reach very dangerous level: nearly ment funding as required by fed- report the role of government sonatModerna, didn’t immedi- by Moderna anddistributed in as part of his “law and order” Trump will visit Kenosha on most of its 7million residents. 1,000 deaths and 40,000 cases eral law. funding for related inventions,” ately return aphone call after JapanbyTakeda Pharmaceutical re-election campaign theme. The Tuesday. He will meet law There was some cheer on Sat- per day,” said ChristovamBar- Knowledge Ecology Interna- the FT cited Darpa spokesman regular business hours. Co Ltd ,beginning in the first caravanmarked the third Satur- enforcement officers and survey urday in New York, once among cellos, aresearcher at public tional, apatient advocacy group, Jared Adams as saying. “Further, The Cambridge, Massachu- half of 2021, if it receives regula- day in arow that Trump sup- the damage caused by protests. the world’s biggest hotspots. health institute Fiocruz. said in areport this week that Darpa is actively researching setts-based company said it’s in tory approval.

AFGHANISTAN DespairofaRiowidow { LUKASHENKOCRACKS DOWN } PRESIDENTGHANI Al FORMSCOUNCIL Statue of Canada’s 29 killed in China’s FORPEACE DEAL 1stPMtoppled in Shanxi provinceafter WITH TALIBAN anti-policemarch restaurant collapses TORONTO: Protesters in the BEIJING: Twenty-nine Associated Press city of Montreal supporting people were killed and amovement to defund the seven seriously injured [email protected] police toppled and defaced when arestaurant KABUL: Afghanistan’s president a status of Canada’s first collapsed in northern has appointed acouncil for PM, John AMacDonald. China’s Shanxi province on nationalreconciliation, which While no group has taken Saturday. The accident in will have final say on whether responsibility for the act at the two-storey structure the government willsign apeace the Place du Canada in occurred as villagers and deal with the Taliban after what Quebec province’s largest relatives gathered for a are expected to be protracted city, activists marched in birthday party. 57 people and uncertain negotiations with Montreal seeking the were pulled from the Awoman holds up the earlier flag of Belarus during aprotest the insurgents. defunding of police, and in debris, with 29 confirmed against police brutality in Minsk. REUTERS Thenegotiations were envis- support of Black and dead, while 21 suffered aged under aUS-Taliban peace indigenous people. HTC minor injuries. REUTERS agreementsigned in February as intra-Afghan talks to decide the Hezbollah says will Wildfireforces2,400 Protesters held, war-torn country’s future. How- ever, their starthas been ham- kill an Israeli soldier to evacuatein pered by aseries of delays that foreach slain fighter Spain’s Andalusia several foreign have frustrated Washington. BEIRUT: Lebanese militant BARCELONA: Officials said Some had expected the negotia- movement Hezbollah on on Sunday that around tions to begin earlier this month. Sunday threatened to kill 2,400 people have been Afghan President Ashraf an Israeli soldier for every evacuated due to awildfire scribes banned Ghani issuedadecree late on one of its fighters slain by that is out of control and Saturday establishing the its archfoe Israel, after a ravaging Spain’s southern 46-member council, led by his combatant was killed in region of Andalusia, The Agencies The best solution would be to former rival in last year’s presi- Syria in July. “The Israeli blaze broke out on repeat the vote “under the con- dential election,Abdullah needs to understand: When Thursday in the mountains [email protected] trol of OSCE,” Borrellsaid in an Abdullah, who is now in the gov- you kill one of our fighters, near Almonaster la Real MOSCOW/MINSK: Belaruspolice opinion piece published in Jour- ernment. Awoman reacts in front of the body of her husband who was shot dead near Sao Carlos slum we will kill one of your town, 120km northwest of on Sunday detained at least a nal du Dimanche. The council is separate from a during apolice operation after heavy confrontations between drug gangs in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. soldiers,” Hezbollah chief the city of Seville. It has dozen protesters in central “In the meantime,wecan’t 21-member negotiating team, The image resonated with the world media, telling the story of acity fed up with violence, where Hassan Nasrallah said in a already scorched 90 square Minsk, where demonstraters just express our worries; we which Ghani appointedin residents say shootings among criminal gangs and police crackdowns are common. REUTERS television speech. AFP kilometers. AP had gatheredinthe latest in a need to sanction those who are March and which is expected to series of anti-government pro- responsible if the EU wants to be travel to the Gulf Arab state of tests that have gripped the coun- coherent.” Qatar, where the Taliban main- try since adisputed presidential Belarus on Saturday banned tain apolitical office, for intra- { MV LOUISE MICHEL } CRISIS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN election this month. foreign journalists from cover- Afghan talks. President Alexander Lukash- ing the street protests. The for- The council will have the final enko denies oppositionaccusa- eign ministry on Saturday with- sayand will ultimately decide on Rescuing the rescuers: Mid-sea drama draws to aclose as tions that he rigged the August 9 drew the accreditation of more the points that the negotiating election to prolong his 26-year than adozen reporters working team takes up with the Taliban. rule. He says the protesters are for foreign media outlets, includ- Abdullah’s appointment to all 200 migrants moved off rescue ship funded by Banksy funded by the West, and accuses ing AFP, BBC, Reuters,Associ- head the reconciliation efforts NATO of massing forces on Bela- ated Press, The Wall Street Jour- followed apower-sharing deal rusian frontiers. nal and The New York Times. he signedinMay with Ghani to AgenceFrance-Presse received by avesselchartered by that divides Africa and Europe. online video that he had bought Hundreds of people gathered endthe politicaldeadlock after German NGO Sea Watch and Its crew said the 31-metre ship the boat to help migrants near acentral square in Minsk Meeting with Putin last year’s election -avote in [email protected] medical charity DoctorsWithout had become overcrowded and “because EU authorities deliber- on Sunday, that the police had Russian President Vladimir which Abdullah had also ROME: All of the migrants on Borders (MSF), according to unable to move, warning that atelyignoredistress calls from cordoned off earlier to prevent Putin and Lukashenko have declared himself awinner. board arescue ship funded by tweets from both organisations some of themigrantshad fuel non-Europeans”. protesters from massing near agreed to meet in Moscow in The High Council for National Britishstreet artist Banksy have and the Louise Michel’s crew. burns and had been at sea for Sea-Watch 4, whichhas a government buildings. coming weeks, the Kremlin said. Reconciliation is made up of an been transferred to other vessels, “For those most recently days. “Given thedanger of the clinic on board and is itself in The two leaders have not met array of Afghan political figures, the team behind the mission said embarked,medical assessment situation, the coastguard sent a search of ahost port, said it was Call forfreshpolls since the protests started. including current and former aftertheirship carrying more is ongoing, with theclinic full& patrol boattoLampedusa which now carrying 350 people after The US and the European Union In aphonecall on Sunday, the officials, and nine women repre- than 200 passengers sent an #MSF medics treatingpeople for took in 49 people deemed fragile, sailing forfourhourstohelp the have criticised the police repres- two menagreed they should sentatives, one of whom was urgent call for help. fuel burns, dehydration, hypo- including 32 women, 13 children Louise Michel. sion of protesters and the EU has strengthen bilateral relations named Abdullah’s deputy. An Italianpatrol vessel thermia&traumatic injuries,” and four men,”said acoastguard Its crew decided to take action pledgedtoexpand its sanctions and expand cooperation. Ghani also appointed former rushed to the stranded MV Lou- the MSF Sea Twitter account statement. “in the face of the lack of reac- againstBelarus. “It was agreedtohold ameet- President Hamid Karzai to the ise Michel in theMediterranean said of the situationonboard the The rescued migrants later tion” from the authorities, aSea EU foreign-policy chief Josep ing in Moscowincoming council but his predecessor and took in 49 of themost vul- Sea-Watch 4. saidthree people had died at sea Watch spokesman told AFP. Borrell said on Sunday said reit- weeks,”the Kremlin said in a rejected the appointment in a nerable people on Saturday, the The German-flaggedLouise before the arrival of the Louise The Louise Michel vessel’s eratedthe call for newelections statement. Putin has said the statement on Sunday,saying he coastguard said. Michelhad said it needed aid Michel. crew of 10 had already rescued overseen by the Organization for election outcomewas legitimate. declines to be part of any govern- The remaining migrants on afterhelpingaboat carrying at Banksy, who keepshis iden- 89 peoplefrom arubber boatin The MV Louise Michel migrant Security and Cooperation in and offered to send police offi- ment structure. board,around 150 people, were least one dead migrant in the sea tityasecret, explained in an distress on Thursday. rescue ship. REUTERS Europe. cers to Belarus. RANCHI MONDAY 09 AUGUST 31,2020 Business Poweredby Banks stare at dwindling asset Brokers not ready quality as moratorium ends for new guidelines Jayshree PUpadhyayand used towardsmargin payment. across brokerages, both big and Nasrin Sultana Instead, they need to be small. However, discount bro- pledged with the brokerafter kerage firms appeartobebet- The new debt recast to 6%, we are also factoring in a [email protected] client authorisationand fur- ter prepared. good number of personal loans; MUMBAI: The new norms of the ther repledged with clearing “The change in margin sys- window is only for but, then, it can be quite lower Securities and Exchange Board corporations and exchanges. tem and securities pledge-re- than what we estimate,” said of India (Sebi) on margin Clientauthorisationisbeing pledgingwill undoubtedly loans without more Rajkiran Rai G, chiefexecutive, framework may experience obtained via OTP and emails. bring disruptions in volumes of than 30 days of Union Bank of India. teething issues when it is Any shortfall in margin collec- daily trading if rolled out at this Like other banks, Union launched on 1September. At tion will also lead to apenalty time when the participants in overdue as on Mar 1 Bank also expects retail loan least 90% of the members have for clients and trading mem- this system, such as the recaststosurpassthe average not putthe entire systemtotest bers. The system is being intro- exchanges, depositories, depos- ShayanGhosh of all other buckets.Rai told as on August 26, and were not duced to prevent misuse of cli- itory participants,clearing cor- analystsonAugust 21 that the confident of going live, accord- ent securities as the regulator porations, brokers and clients, [email protected] bank expects7-8% of its ₹1.3 ing to the Association of had observed in the Karvy epi- are not sufficiently prepared MUMBAI: Bankers and borrow- lakh crore retail loan book to National Exchange Members in sode. and it has not been validated,” ers alikeare weighing their be recast. India (ANMI), which surveyed The level of unpreparedness said Deepak Jasani, head, retail options as asix-month morato- Having witnessed banks over 160 BSE membersand 280 for this big change is seen research, HDFC Securities. riumonloan repayments ends going on aloan recast spree in NSE members. Rolling out an unprepared on Monday, restarting the thelast roundofregulatory for- The BSE and the NSE, as well BSE, NSE AND BIG system will not only affect bro- recoveryprocess for an esti- bearance, the Reserve Bank has as big brokers,are scheduled to kers and investors, but also the mated 18% of their loan books. tightened the regulations this meet Sebi officials on Monday BROKERS WILL broader markets, said broker- Even as they expectasteady time. Still, experts believe that to convince the regulator to MEET OFFICIALS age firms.Clientsecurities increase in bad loans, lenders as much as half of all the postpone the implementation ON MONDAYTO worth about ₹15,000 crore are are unlikely to use coercive restructured loanscould fail of the new framework by a still lying with brokeragefirms methods that reflect poorly on and add to the existing pool of month. CONVINCE SEBI TO and need to be transferred to them amid widespread dis- Bankers consider the RBI-permitted debt restructuring period of amaximum of two years to be non-performing assets (NPAs). Under the new system, secu- POSTPONE THE the accounts of clients for the tress, preferring instead to urge ideal for retail borrowers who have lost jobs and wages amid the pandemic. PTI “Webelieve non-performing rities lying in the demat IMPLEMENTATION entire pledging process to start, retail borrowers to make ad loans from restructured loans accounts of clients cannot be an ANMI member said. hoc payments towards dues demic and the ensuing lock- of bad loans will come from as on March1,essentially would mainly depend on the that accrued during the mora- down. specialmention account meaning that over ₹5.7 lakh pace of apotential economic torium period and reduce lia- “It is not like the entire stress (SMA-2) accounts that are croreofstressed assets are out- recovery. Our base case is for a bility. will be visible on day one after overdue between 61-90 days side its ambit. While even these roughly 30-50% relapse rate in The Reserve Bank of India the moratorium ends. There and then from SMA-1with can be recast, they will turn non-performing loans from the MFs invest ₹735 cr in REITsinH1 (RBI) has permitted debt will be astaggered rise in bad repayment delays of 31-60days. non-performing and attract restructured pool, leading to restructuring by amaximumof loans, dependingontheir over- Under the Reserve Bank of higher provisions. 1.5-5% in additional non-per- PressTrustofIndia Exchange Board of India(Sebi) past one year. two years, and bankers think it due status beforethe defer- India’s guidelines, banks can “The restructuringcan be formingloans in FY22,” ana- showed. Investment by fund houses in is ideal for large numbers of ment became effective,” asen- use the new recast window anything between 5% and 6% of lysts at UBS Securities India [email protected] REITsand InvITsare rela- REITsjumpedfrom amere ₹7 retailborrowers who have lost ior banker said on condition of only for loans that do not have the book. But when Isay Pvt. Ltd said in anote on NEW DELHI: Emerging invest- tively new investment instru- crore in January 2019 to ₹71 jobs and wages amid the pan- anonymity. He said the firstset more than 30 days of overdue restructured books can be 5% August 27. ment instrumentREIT seemsto ments in the Indian context but crore in January this year and be finally catching investors’ are extremely popular in global further increased to ₹402 crore fancy, with mutual funds invest- markets. While an REIT com- in June 2020. Fund managers ing a whopping ₹735 crore in prises aportfolio of commercial infused ₹735 crore in real estate { COAI } INDUSTRYBODYCALLS FORMORE COMPETITION, CONSENSUS such units in the first six months real assets, amajor portion of investment trusts (REITs) in Jan- { SURESH NARAYANAN } of 2020, nearly three-fold jump which are already leased out, uary-June 2020 compared to CHAIRMAN, NESTLÉ INDIA from the year-ago period. InvITs comprise aportfolio of ₹249 crore in the first six However, mutual funds’ infrastructure assetssuch as months of last year. ‘Telecom revenues investment in infrastructure highways, power transmission On the other hand, Embassy P investment trusts (InvITs) assets. Office Parks REIT and Mind- dropped by 8% to ₹4,968 crore in Overall, mutual funds have space REIT are the only two Every biz is the period under review, data increased their exposure in these listed real estate investment recalibrating in may rise 14-15%’ with the Securities and investment avenues over the trust. the context of { POWER } EXCHANGE newly relevant PressTrustofIndia GAIL eyes petchem, [email protected] IEX, PXIL MAKE A consumer NEW DELHI: Telecom industry’s behaviours revenues are expected to rise renewables for growth CASE TO RESTART 14-15%inthe current financial RECTRADING A year led by some uptick in aver- PressTrustofIndia age revenue per user (Arpu), though thesubscriber base may [email protected] TO OFFSETEFFECT Al remain flat with rural growth NEW DELHI: State-owned GAIL ON VALUECHAIN offsetting SIM consolidation in IndiaLtd is eyeing expansion in Əix out of top10most-v´lued comp´nies urban locations, the Cellular petrochemicals, specialty chem- PressTrust of India Operators’ Association of India icals and renewables to supple- together ´dd over₹1l´kh cr in m´rket c´p (COAI) estimates. ment growth in its core busi- [email protected] NEW DELHI: The market valuation of six of the top 10 The newly appointed director ness of natural gas marketing NEW DELHI: Energy exchanges most-valued firms zoomed by ₹1,06,523.84 crore last general of COAI, SPKochhar and transportation, its chair- Indian Energy Exchange (IEX) week, with ICICI Bank and Kotak Mahindra Bank leading said that any duopoly situation man Manoj Jain has said. and Power Exchange India the pack. During the last week, the BSE benchmark in thecurrent three-player pri- The nation’slargest gas mar- (PXIL) have made acase for Sensex had gained 1,032.59 points or 2.68%. Of these 10 vate telcos market can “never be keter and shipper has adopteda reopening the trading of renewa- most valued companies in terms of market capitalisation agood thing” and asserted that Data consumption per user per month will move higher from revised strategic plan identify- ble energy certificate (REC), say- (m-cap), Reliance Industries Ltd, HDFC Bank, HDFC, sufficient competition among 12 GB to 15 GB by 2021, according to industry body COAI. MINT ing priority business initiatives. ing the market closure is impact- Kotak Mahindra Bank, Bharti Airtel and ICICI Bank were the operators is required for “This strategic plan will help GAIL transports over 70% of ing the entire value chain in the gainers. Meanwhile, Tata Consultancy Services, ensuringthat subscribers get and exemption of GST on license willgrow to offsetthe SIM con- us to address our challenges in all gas shipped in the country electricity marketplace. Hindustan Unilever Ltd, Infosys and ITC were in loss. good services at better prices. fee andSUC, as well as on pay- solidation in urban geographies. changing industry scenarios through its pipelines. MINT The IEX and PXIL are of the The COAI will continuetobea ment of spectrum acquired in “Data consumption per user per and provide new areas for viewthat issues related to fixing neutral body thatbelieves in auctions. month will move higher from 12 growth with geographic expan- reach new heightsincoming floor and forbearance prices of Ĭindust´n ainc to consensus building and unanim- On whether, the telecom GB to 15 GB by next year, and sion,” he said in the company’s years,” he said. REC by the Central Electricity ity of views, Kochhar said when industry is headed towards a there will be increase in Arpu latest annual report. GAILinthe annual report for Regulatory Commission (CERC) focus on next ph´se asked about past differences duopoly,Kochhar spokein this fiscal but whether that will GAIL transports over 70% of 2019-20 said it has undertaken can be settled in the Appellate of exp´nsion amongst the telecom companies, favour of competition saying, “at be significant increaseornot is all gas shipped in the country ‘Strategy 2030’ exercise to Tribunal for Electricity (APTEL). NEW DELHI: Vedanta Group who are members of the associa- the end of the day, general public somethingwewill have to see,” through its network of define itsjourney through the Last month, APTEL had post- firm Hindustan Zinc Ltd tion, on various issues. should get benefits of telecom he said. 12,426-km network of natural next decade. ponedthe trading of REC sched- (HZL) has begun adetailed “COAItries to get the pointof and that will not happen in case However, Kochhar added that gas trunk pipelines. It sells 55% “The strategy has been devel- uled on July 29 by four weeks till exercise for the next phase view of all members unani- of aduopoly. It is in the interest the association has not received of allnatural gas in the country oped with the objective of build- August 26, after hearing three of expansion and is mously and we make sure when- of the countrythat duopoly does any indication as yet from its and petrochemical plants at ing astrong business portfolio separate appeals filed by the focussed on creating a ever we project to any authority not come in and “we have more members on tariff hike.“Only Pata and Lepatkata in Assam and organisation structure Green Energy Association, the long-term sustainable Vedanta plans Hindustan whether in government or regu- competition, so better services at recently Arpu started moving that gives it a17.5% market which is not only robust enough IndianWindPower Association value for stakeholders, Zinc Ltd expansion. REUTERS latory, we do it as unanimous better prices can be offered to up. But with various other liabili- share. It has asmall portfolio of to respondtothe fast-changing and Techno Electric and Engi- according to its annual voice, we are not partisan...,” he subscribers”,hesaid. The indus- ties on telcos,profits have not yet wind and solar power genera- business scenario but also neering Company Ltd against report. To meet its “Wehave Sebi approval said. Kochharsaid thatindus- try’s revenue, Kochharsaid, will startedseeing the light of day tion capacity. unlocks growth opportunities the CERC order issued on fixing expansion goal, the but we have not yet try’s financial distress is “evi- grow at 14-15 per cent in FY21, led and companies are unlikely to be “While gaswill remainour for thelong-termgrowth of the REC floor and forbearance pri- company has listed ahost decided about the right dent” and that the COAI will con- by some improvement in Arpu. profitable with the current scale core segment, we will look for company,” it said. ces. REC trading was not done of priorities including time. After September, we tinue to push for relief including “Wealso expect the sub- of improvement in Arpu.It growth in other areas such as GAIL said it plans to bid for on August 26 consequently. ramping up underground will take acall about the reductioninspectrum usage scriber base to remain flat in this should go up by at least twice the petrochemicals, specialty chem- new pipelines put on offer by In the orderissuedonAugust mines, optimisation of IPO in consultation with charges (SUC) and license fee; fiscal, and the rural subscribers figure than it is at, now,”hesaid. icals, renewables, water,etc to the regulator. 26 afterhearing the three production costs, merchant bankers,” its appeals again, APTEL said, refocused capital managing director KPaul “Interim order, if any, shall con- investments, automation Thomas said. The tinue till the next date of hear- and digitalisation. The proposed IPO comprises a { COVID-19 } AVIATION SECTOR IN DOLDRUMS { BYTEDANCE } NEW SUITOR ADDSTOCONFUSION OVER APP’SFATE ing... List the matterfor hearing company is working fresh issue worth ₹800 on September 4and 5.” Thus, relentlessly towards crore and an offer for sale REC trading cannot be sched- realising its long-term (OFS) aggregating up to Lufthansa Weighs Triller, Centricus make joint bid uled till September 4and 5asthe business growth potential ₹176.2 crore. interim order issued on July 24 and is in advanced stages for keeping the REC market of implementing brown- ŚefundÜŘÏ,ŚuŘ´y worth $20 bn for TikTok assets closed is still enforced. field exploration More Job Cuts IEX corporate communica- programme across all its ch´rges collected tion head Shruti Bhatia said, mining leases, HZL said in since L´n1:Ï-U dept Bloomberg Reuters “The REC market should not be its integrated annual NEW DELHI: The Income closed. The accounts of buyers report for FY20. Tax(I-T) department on [email protected] [email protected] and sellers can be settled retro- Sunday asked banks to COLOGNE: Deutsche Lufthansa NEW YORK: Triller Inc. executive spectively based on the orders of ÊƏAĢ Əm´llĢin B´nk refund the charges AG is working on more belt- chairman Bobby Sarnevesht APTEL as the matter is sub collected on or after tightening measures that could said on Friday that the short- judice.” to decide on ₹976-cr January 1, 2020, on result in the elimination of video app hadmadea$20 bil- Echoingsimilarviews, atop ÏŘÖ ´fterƏept: ŅE transactions carried out another20,000 jobs, according lion offer with investment firm PXIL official said, “The market NEW DELHI: Kerala-based through electronic modes to newspaper NZZ am Sonntag. Centricus Asset Management must remainopen as closing ESAF Small Finance Bank like RuPay cards or BHIM- The scenarios, currently Ltd for the assets of rival TikTok would impact the entire value has said it will take acall UPI. The Central Board of being hammered out by the that China’s ByteDance is seek- chain.Thereisaprecedence that on ₹976-crore initial public Direct Taxes (CBDT), in a German airline’s management, ing to adivest. REC market remained open offering (IPO) after circular on “imposition of would be for September, the ByteDance and TikTok while the issue was settled at dif- September. As part of its charge on the prescribed Swiss newspaper reported on denied knowledge of the offer, ferent legal fora.” According to a commitment for going electronic modes under Sunday,citingtwo sources it raising questions over whether CERC orderinJune, the floor public by listing its stock in section 269SU of I-T didn’t identify. theproposed deal between two ByteDance denied knowledge of the offer, raising questions over price of solar and non-solar line with requisite (Income Tax) Act”, also Aspokesman forLufthansa The German airline may cut of the most popular social whether the proposed deal was apublicity stunt. REUTERS RECs has been reducedtozero guidelines, the bank had advised banks not to declined to commentwhen another 20,000 jobs due to belt media appsinthe US repre- from ₹1,000 earlier. filed draft red herring impose any charges on any contacted by Bloomberg. tightening amid Covid. REUTERS sented aseriousbid or was a of TikTok, which claims about ation by him,” Sarnevesht said. prospectus (DRHP) in future transactions carried The paper quoted aspokes- publicity stunt. 100 million monthly active ATikTok spokesman said THE ELECTRICITY January and subsequently out through these modes. man as saying there were no positions and trimming its fleet ByteDancehas been ordered usersinthe US. The Chinese Centricus and Triller had not TRIBUNAL HAD got approval from the To encourage digital new job reduction plans. of planes to bring down by US President Donald Trump firm is expected to pickabidder contactedthe company about market regulator Sebi in transactions for aless-cash Europe’s biggest airline has expenses. to divest TikTok in the United to enter into exclusivetalks an offer. POSTPONED THE the last week of March. economy, the government been hit hard by the coronavi- The costcutsunderconsid- States, amid security concerns soon. Sarnevesht said this was TRADING OF REC However, the bank could inserted anew provision, rus pandemic, which has eration at the German airline over the personaldata it han- “Wesubmitted an offer because TikTok was not TILL AUGUST 26, not go to market due to Section 269SU, in the caused asharp drop in interna- for September would be on top dles. directly to the chairman of Byte- involved in the talks, adding lockdown imposed in the Finance Act, 2019. tional travel. of the measures already pub- Microsoft Corp. and Oracle Dance through Centricus,and that Triller and Centricus were DUE TO FLOOR wake of Covid-19 outbreak. COMPILED FROM AGENCIES It already announced agoal licly announced, the NZZ am Corp. are among the US compa- have confirmation it was dealing directlywith ByteDance PRICE DISPUTES of slashing 22,000 full-time Sonntag said. nies vying to acquire the assets received and is underconsider- chairman Zhang Yiming. RANCHI 10 MONDAY AUGUST 31,2020 Sport Serena eyes 24th Slam, again Stars reject Novak’snew Williams hopes to match Court, break out of atie with Chris men’s union Evert for most US Open women’s titles AssociatedPress [email protected] AgenceFrance-Presse NEWYORK: Roger Federer, [email protected] Rafael Nadal and other members of the ATPPlayer Council spoke NEW YORK: Serena Williams’ out against aplan put forth by protracted pursuit of Margaret top-ranked NovakDjokovicand Court’s record of 24 Grand Slam Vasek Pospisil to start a titles resumesata2020 US Open men’s-only union of sorts for that promises to be unlike any tennis—bringing the sport’s poli- other. The absence of fans tics into the spotlight just before because of coronavirus concerns the U.S. Open. Also againstthe means the buzz and hubbub that proposal: the ATPmen’s tour Novak Djokovic. AFP define the US Open will be miss- and the sport’s other governing ing.Williams, whose 23 major bodies, including the WTA player is an independent con- victories are an Open-era record, women’s tour and the four tractor.“We are not calling for will have nothing but her own Grand Slam tournaments. boycotts. We are not forming skill and will to get her through They issued ajoint statement parallel tours,” Djokovic said the tough moments as she seeks Saturday saying: “It is atime for after winning the Western & arecord-breaking seventh title even greater collaboration, not Southern Open on Saturday, two on the hard courts at Flushing division.” days before play begins at the Meadows. After ameeting Saturday U.S.Open. “OfcourseIwould “I don’tdislike it and that’s night, Pospisil tweeted out apic- love to have Roger and Rafa on weird because Iamaplayerthat ture showing agroup of male board. Of course Iwould love to is so emotional and so, like,a players—wearing masksbecause have all the players on board. crowd player,” Williams said of the pandemic—standing on a But Iunderstand,” Djokovic said. upon returning to action after U.S. Open courtand wrote that “I truly understand that some the WTA’s coronavirus shut- “we are excited to announce the of them have different opinions down. “Kind of reminds me of Serena Williams will have the best chance to seal her seventh US Open. Six of the top 10 women’s players are either injured or pulled out due to Covid-19 fears. AP beginning of the the Professional and theydon’tthink the time is the junior days. There is some- Tennis Players Association.” right.” thing nostalgic about that.” Halepand Canadian Bianca The association—Djokovic Djokovic has been the presi- Playing in avirtually empty Andreescu—who stunned Willi- ‘Batonhasbeenpassed’, Kingcalls Osaka said it was not aunion, although dent, and Pospisil amember, of Ashe stadium, which seats more amsinlast year’s final—because the distinction wasn’t entirely the ATPPlayer Councilbut both than 23,000, could be another of coronavirus concernsor clear—“did not emerge to be are resigning, as is John Isner. story. “Playing in New York is injury. But Williams has looked as tennis’latest torchbearerfor change combative, to disrupt, or to Andy Murray said Saturday he going to be interesting, because vulnerable in two tournaments cause any issues within or out- wants to give thecurrent ATP the stadium is huge,” Williams sincethe WTAtour returned to Reuters “Her actions this week were a side the tennis tour. Simply to leadership—former player said. “But Idopractice in empty action, labouring through catalyst for change,” King said. unify the players, have our voi- Andrea Gaudenzi took over as stadiums, so Ihave played in lengthy matches before earlier [email protected] “She is puttingpeople first, ces heard &have an impact on CEO in January—moretimeto New York on Arthur Ashe Sta- than expected exits at Lexington NEW YORK: At the end of a being authentic, and she is lead- decisions being made that work. Murray also does not like dium when it was empty and it and the Western &Southern week when Naomi Osaka ing. Ilove what Naomi and her (affect) our lives &livelihoods,” that the PTPAwould be for male was great. Iguess Ihave to kind Open—held thisyearonthe brought the fight for racial jus- generation of athletes are doing Pospisil wrote. players only; there was talk ear- of lean on that.” same New York courts thatwill tice to sport’sfront door, it today.” The stand of Osaka, who In an email sent to players lier this year about the possibil- It has been more than three host the Open. She fell to 116th- seemed fittingthatanother eventually won her semi-final earlier in the week, Djokovic and ity of merging the ATPand WTA. years since Williams won her ranked Shelby Rogers in Lexing- great tennis pioneer Billie Jean Fridaybut had to dropout of the Pospisil they would be the initial Having agroup representing 23rd Grand Slamtitle at the2017 ton, and squandered acom- King shouldhail her quiet suc- final with ahamstring injury on co-presidents of the group, menand women would send “a Australian Open—when she was manding lead in aloss to 21st- cessor for her “compassion, Saturday,prompted huge sup- which would also be led by up to much more powerful message,” already pregnant with daughter ranked Maria SakkariofGreece strength and leadership.” port throughouttennis andfar nine trustees -all players. Murray said. Federer and Nadal Olympia. She’s come close since, in New York. King wasfar from alone in beyond. It underscored the Unlike athletes in major North joined player council representa- reaching fourmajorfinals only “I’ve got to start learning how being deeply impressed by the enormous influencethat Osaka American team sports, tennis tives Kevin Anderson, Jurgen to come up empty handed. “I’ve to win big points,”Williamssaid actions of the quietyoung nowwields, as aBlack woman players are not represented by a Melzer and Sam Querrey in definitely been stuck,” said Willi- after she was unable to serve out champion who announced she whocompetesfor Japan,where union that collectively bargains sending anote to playersraising ams,who seems to have grown astraight-sets victory against would forgo her semi-final she was born, but who spent with ownership about pay and questionsabout the proposal weary of the questions about Sakkari. “If Icould just focus on match in the Western &South- most of her formative years in other matters. Each tennis and saying they’re against it. Court’srecord if not the chase how to win that one point, that ern Open in protest at police Osaka made astatement against racial injustice by pulling out of the U.S. itself.Even if she reaches the would be better. Ihave to figure brutality and racial injustice in the Western &Southern Open semis. Later she decided to play. AP In May,she overtookher idol, milestone, she said, it would pro- that one out, likehow to start the U.S. The 76-year-old King, so Serena Williams, as the world’s vide no sort of punctuation winning those matches again.” remarkable in her own lifelong stood up and used their sport, people at the hand of police is highest-earning female athlete, mark. “I’m neversatisfied, that’s Defeats like those have seen fight for women’s equality, rec- their voicesand their actions to honestly making me sick to my according to Forbes, all the Mahmood happy to the story of my career,” Williams Williamslose the aura of invinci- ognised akindred spirit as she change humanity,”King said via stomach.” while advocating against police said. “I’ll never be satisfied until bilityshe once carried. And told Reuters how she felt the email. “The batonhas been Her semi-final withdrawal, brutalityinthe US. “I don’t Iretire, that’s jmy personality.” upstart challengers this year fiercely determined 22-year-old passedand Naomi has accepted virtually unheard of in tennis’s know what would have hap- help England bowlers Her chances of matching won’t find themselves up against was now following in an hon- it with open arms and that modern era, prompted organis- pened if Naomi Osaka wasn’t in Court, and breaking out of atie the will of thousands of pro-Will- ourable sporting tradition. shows compassion,strength ers to postpone Thursday’s the semi-finals,”former US AgenceFrance-Presse said his situation was no differ- with Chris Evert for most US iams fans. But Sakkari said that “It has been more than 50 and leadership.” matches, days after the police Open finalist Pam Shriver said. entfromthe one he often found Open women’s titles with six, for young players there was still yearssince athletes like On Twitter, Osaka had shooting of Jacob Blake, a “She’s led the way eitherwith [email protected] himself in as an in-demand all- would seem to be improved with ameasure of trepidation taking Muhammad Ali, John Carlos grasped that baton with her 29-year-old Black man in front her racquet or with her state- MANCHESTER: Former Pakistan rounder. “I’m aprofessional, I’ve abevy of top players, including on an opponentwho shaped and Tommie Smith and the declaration that “watching the of three of his childreninKeno- ments into aposition of really cricketer Azhar Mahmood has played in leagues with different world number two Simona their tennis dreams. Original 9ofwomen’stennis all continued genocide of Black sha, Wisconsin. good, modern-day leadership.” no qualms about coaching teams,” he explained. “I know Englandduring the ongoing my role.” Twenty20 series, saying he is England head coach Chris Sil- happy to “pass on my experi- verwood has handed over the ence” regardless of nationality. reins for the series to assistant Wasscared, butfirst nets session { PV SINDHU } BADMINTON ACETALKS TO FANS Mahmood,45, appeared in Graham Thorpe, aformer 164 international matches for England batsman who played Pakistan and was their bowling alongside Mahmood at Surrey. P coach under Mickey Arthur AnotherEngland connection wentbetterthanIthought:Kohli before anew regimeled by is with white-ball captain Eoin When Iamon former captain Misbah-ul-Haq Morgan—he was with Mahmood the court Ithink was installed last year after adis- when the former Pakistan inter- PressTrustofIndia appointing World Cup. national was coaching Karachi Now Mahmood, who knows in the Pakistan Super League. [email protected] about myself and many of the England coaching “Theyhave seen my ability DUBAI: India captain Virat Kohli staff from his time in county working with players,” Mah- admitted he was “pretty scared” my expectations cricket, has been brought in as a mood said. “Eoin Morgan told to hit the nets for the first time in bowling consultant by the hosts me ‘we know your skills’. They five months but said hisfirst and not what for the three-match T20 series in are areally greatbunchofpeo- training session ahead of the IPL Manchester.“Cricket has given ple, the England coaching staff, went “better than expected”. others’ me alot,” Mahmood told AFP in and this is agreat opportunity The Royal Challengers Banga- expectations atelephone interview. “Now I for me.” lore captain resumed training want to pass on my experience— With England so far maintain- after afive-month coronavirus- are. it doesn’t matter whether a ing separate redand white-ball forced hiatus. The net session playerisfrom EnglandorPaki- squads, they are without front- was alsoattended by South Afri- stan or wherever.” line bowlers such as Chris can pace legend Dale Steyn and Navdeep Saini, Ravindra Jadeja and Yuzvendra Chahal of RCB take abreak during training in Dubai. Mahmood, criticised within Woakesand Jofra Archer for the RCB team director Mike Hesson. A Pakistanfor his England role, Pakistan T20s. “(It went) much better than expected, to be honest. Iwas prettyscared.Ihadn’t picked up abat for five months, but yeah it { MONEY MATTERS } FAILED NEGOTIATIONS cameout better than Ithought, to be honest,” Kohli was quoted as saying by the franchise’s web- Neymar and Nike part ways after 15 years, site. The 31-year-old, who was RCB’s highestrun-getter last year, said staying fit during the PSG striker in talks with rival brand Puma lockdown helped him to react betterduring the net session even though he was training AgenceFrance-Presse deal with Nike was an 11-year social media,the player soon after along break. contract that was onlyset to exploded onto the international “I’ve trained quite abit during [email protected] expire in 2022, worth atotal scene, dazzling the football the lockdown, so I’m feeling RIO DE JANEIRO: Nike said Sat- $105 million. world with the skills he honed quite fit and that helps. Because urday it had parted wayswith Neymar, who is fresh off the playing five-a-side “futsal” on the body is lightand you react Neymar, ending one of its most heartbreakofnarrowly losing the meanstreetsofsuburban better,IfeellikeIhave more high-profile sponsorship deals the ChampionsLeague final to Sao Paulo. time on the ball.That’s abig adecade and ahalf after sign- Bayern Munich, holds the But his brand, already blem- plus,” he said. RCB skipper Virat Kohli during his first nets session. Rajasthan Royals players Mayank Markande ing the starstriker as a13-year- record for the most expensive ished by tax fraud allegations “Otherwise you come heavier (left) and Akash Singh at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium. TWITTER old prodigy. football transfer in history. over his murky transfer to into the season, the body isn’t “I can confirm Neymar is no PSG paid 222 million euros Barca, was badly dented last moving as much, and it starts few pacers alsotrainedand motions alittle bit. All in all, a six days, the conditions are hot, longer aNike athlete,” a to bringhim from Barcelona in year when aBrazilian woman playing on mind, but yeah,asI Kohli was pleased with the way decent start to our camp.” so Ifelt alittle heaviness. Ifeel in spokesmanfor the US sports- 2017. accused him of raping her. said it went much better than I they went about their business RCB have never won the IPL 2-4 days,bodywill acclimatise wear giant, Josh Benedek, said Nike expressed its “deep con- expected.” in the first session. though they have finished run- with it and the sharpness and in an email to AFP,without giv- Topearner cern” at the time, but stood by RCB arrived in Dubai last ners-up thrice, most recently in quickness will be back,” he said. ing details. Neymar. GETTY IMAGES Forbes magazine, which ranks the player after police closed week ahead of the 13th IPL Spinnerslookedgood 2016. Members of the Delhi Capi- Emphasising on mentalprep- Media reports said the him the world’s seventh high- the case,citing alack of evi- which is scheduled to begin on “The spinners looked pretty tals’ squad also took part in their aration, Dhawan said: “It is 28-year-old Paris Saint-Ger- ler’s agents had run into est-paid celebrity, estimates his dence. September 19. The cash-rich T20 good for day one, they pitched firstnets session on Saturday important to think positive, we main and Brazil talisman was trouble months ago. Neymar’s earnings for this year at $95.5 Neymar will still wear Nike eventwas moved out of India theballinconsistent areas for evening at the ICC Academy shouldn’t think that we arehere in talks with Nike’s German communications team did not million, including endorsement apparel on the pitch:the com- due to the rising COVID-19 cases long enough,” said Kohli,whose here. “Wegathered here after a after along time, we have to stay rival Puma. immediately respond to a deals. pany sponsors both PSG and in the country. last assignment was the two- long time, so there was alot of onestep ahead, we need to think Braziliannewssite UOL said request for comment. Neymar signed his first deal the Brazilian national team. The team hit the nets on Sat- match Test series against New energy anditwas agood start,” we are playing good cricket. Neymar and Nike had failed to Puma likewisedid notimme- with Nike as ayouthstandout The company sponsors urday after successfully ending Zealand in early March. left-handed batsman Shikhar “That will createasort of reach adeal on how much diately respond to questions at Brazilian side Santos, which many of the most iconic names its quarantine period. “Shahbaz was good, Washy Dhawan said. energy, if we think that way it money he would be paid for about reportsthe companywas sold him to Barcelona in 2013. in sports,includingMichael BesidesKohli, spin trio of Yuz- (Washington) was very good, I Dhawan said it will take afew will help us and Iamconfident renewing his contract. in talks to sign him. With hisskinny goodlooks, Jordan, LeBron James, Cristi- vendra Chahal, Washington Sun- saw Chahal bowl welltoo. The days to get back the sharpness. that we will do well in this tour- It said negotiations between Brazilian newspaper Folha tattoos,ever-changing hair- ano Ronaldo, Serena Williams, dar andShahbaz Nadeem and a seamers went through their “Wehave been here for last nament.” the company and the footbal- de Sao Paulo said Neymar’slast styles and huge following on TigerWoodsand RoryMcIlroy. RANCHI MONDAY AUGUST 31,2020 time out 11

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P Rishabh Suri At the end of the [email protected] day, one is alks about OTT platforms says being more democratic than always Shefali Shah normal theatrical release are Tquite common. One reason releases for that could be that there’s looking for that OTT no number game. And actor Shefali roles that Shefali Shah Shah agrees. “The biggest advantage of free an artiste OTT is that it is not confined to the box get you office. Right now, there are no thea- from the vagaries tres, kahaan jaakar dekhenge? Even noticed. when otherwise films used to release box-office (theatrically), its fate would lie on a of weekend. Friday, Saturday nahi chali, and are then it is gone, even if it’s agood film. collections That’s not the case with OTTs,” says the 48-year-old actor. more satisfying What also makes Shah excited A about online streaming platforms is that one is there on it for posterity. “I still get messages from people saying ‘I was too scared to watch Delhi Crime (her web show, which released in Krushna 2019), we just watched it’. Projects are going to have alife. It’s giving notjust actors, but writers, directors the lib- Abhishek: erty of creating what they want. They are not compromising, every single character is powerful in their own space,” tells us Shah. Industry ke In 2018, too, Once Again starring her opposite Neeraj Kabi, released directly on an OTT platform. “After kuchh log watching the film initially, obviously makers wanted to release it in thea- POWERFUL tres. Itold them, ‘this film can get lost bahut udd very easily. It’s asweet film, but let’s accept that there are no stars in this film. Iwould be very happy to see my rahe the, ab poster, but let’s be realistic. If you want this film to be viewed, your best shaant ho option is to go to OTT’,” she says. gaye hain

Juhi Chakraborty { DAILYHOROSCOPE } [email protected] Monday, August 31,2020 he death of Sushant Singh Rajput has been awake-up call for many in the film Dr Prem Kumar Sharma (Astrologer &Vaastu expert) can be contactedat: Tindustry, feels actor Krushna Abhishek, as Delhi: 011-47033152,40532026(Sat to Mon); Panchkula: 91-172-2562832,2572874 it has brought the focus on mental health as (TuestoThurs); Mumbai: 09716145644 (Last week of every month) well as the indiscrepancies that exist in Bolly- wood. ‘Wehave one of “This incident has proved that mental health is what is most important. Otherwise how will ARIES LIBRA you work? After Sushant’s death, people have MAR 21-APRIL 20 SEP 24-OCT 23 become very cautious, they have calmed down as well. Earlier, people used to think, ‘Main hi the largest fan Those wanting to enter apar- Your networking abilities will hoon bas duniya mein’, now they have come ticularprofession will find the make you an assetfor the orga- down to earth. Industry ke kuchh log bahut going easy. nisation. udd rahe the, ab shaant ho gaye hain,” he says. LOVE FOCUS: Romance is likely LOVE FOCUS: Achanceofmeet- The actor also points out that negativity on to give immense pleasureto ing someone you secretly love social media is another aspect that celebrities bases in India’ A some. l may materialise. find difficult to cope with. “A person will go LUCKY NUMBER: 1 LUCKY COLOUR: Maroon LUCKYNUMBER: 4 LUCKY COLOUR: Lavender mad and take adrastic step. It is better to quit social media. Ranbir Kapoor never came on social media. If you can’t handle, don’t come on NishadNeelambaran outs and NXT that it at all,” he explains. encourages more TAURUS SCORPIO [email protected] Talking about how he maintains his sanity people to join,” he APR 21-MAY20 OCT 24-NOV22 on social media, Abhishek says he uses the puntil afew yearsago, shares. medium in moderation and that is the key. “I when the heavy distortions Unlike before, WWE Some of you are likely to bag Things will get out of control only post about my work. Irarely share per- Uof The Game by Motörhead has seen afew wrestlers an appreciationonthe work on the personal front. Afamily sonal posts. If you give out all details of your played in the WWEarena, from India recently. Speak- front. Family will look up to youngster starting aprestig- life like when you went to the loo and when you the audience would rise up and ing about India as afan base you in organising an event. ious job is likely to make you brushed your teeth, tab toh log gaaliayan dena chant the song for alegend, Paul for WWE, he says, “I abso- LOVE FOCUS: Sharing and caring proud.Avacation willdoyou a shuru hi kar denge,” he says. Levesque aka Triple H, who is lutely love India. The passion T is likely today. S whale of good. Somethingwill The actor says he wonders why most celebri- the founder and executive producer the fans have is something else. LUCKY NUMBER: 22 LUCKY COLOUR: Dark Tur- keep you fromachieving yourfullpotential ties can’t follow that and not give updates of WWENXT,and the executive We’ve one of the largest fan quoise from the academic front. about every two minutes of their life. “On one vice-president of Global Talent bases in India so it is an P LOVE FOCUS: Your romanticovertures are likely hand you say that ‘Oh Iamgetting trolled’ and Strategy and Development for WWE. important market.” to get amatching response, so rejoice. then upar se aapne kaun si chaddi khareedi hai A14-time World Champion, who Triple Hand Shawn When Istarted, LUCKYNUMBER: 2 LUCKY COLOUR: Baby Pink woh raat ke 11 baje post kar rahe ho. Why are has been associated with the sport Michaels’ partnership was it was tough GEMINI you so available that people start trolling you?” for over 25 years, says that the lock- considered legendary. MAY21-JUN 21 he quips. down has “been tough” for WWE. “It Though their in-ring com- getting people hasn’t been easy on anyone and pany didn’t last long, their to take you This seems to be an excellent SAGITTARIUS we’re all coping in our own ways,” he off-court friendship is still day for those in the higher ech- NOV23-DEC21 says. special. “Shawn’s one of my seriously. elons. Levesque has closely worked with oldest friends, actually one LOVEFOCUS: Youmay crave the Things at work run smoothly NXT, which is aired on Sony Ten1,on of my best friends. We’ve known TRIPLE H, company of love. enablingyou to clear alot of his special connect with the brand, each other for over 20 years, and our Executive vice-president of G LUCKY NUMBER: 7 LUCKY COL- pendingwork.Skillful han- he says, “When Istarted, it was tough relationship has always gone beyond Global TalentStrategy and OUR: Orange dling of adelicate situationwill getting people to take you seriously. I what happens in the ring. Our per- Development, WWE helpmaintain domestic har- wanted to change that. Which is why sonal philosophy and value system is s mony. Good progress is Ihave worked hard to have the Try- the same,” he concludes. PHOTO: SHUTTERSTOCK foreseen for those undertaking ajourney. CANCER LOVE FOCUS: There’s agood chance of close JUN 22-JUL 22 encounters with aperson you secretly love, so take steps to make it last long! Achange you had been con- LUCKYNUMBER: 11 LUCKY COLOUR: Lemon templating on the work front is Rhea’s opening up is an image likely to come into effect soon. LOVE FOCUS: Thoughtsoflove may dominate your mind. CAPRICORN C LUCKY NUMBER: 11 LUCKY COL- cleaning drive, feels Shekhar DEC22-JAN21 OUR: LightPink Those seeking employment are Shreya Mukherjee Suman took to social media likely to getacall soon. Your to voice his discontent. “I must suggestionsonthe domestic [email protected] confess for amoment Iwas LEO front will be welcomed. hekhar Suman says the deceived by her performance JUL 23-AUG23 LOVE FOCUS: You’relikelytofall Sushant Singh Rajput and fell for her well-rehearsed c in love with someone who’s a Sdeath case is going all emotionality..i got swayed by It will take some doingtosee new entrant to your regular crowd. over the place. Toomany her tears and display of an ambitious project get off the LUCKYNUMBER: 6 LUCKY COLOUR: Coffee rumours and discrepancies in immaculate, manicured histri- ground to asuccessful conclu- statements have turned it into onics…,” he tweeted. sion. amaze. But what has added to The 57-year-old clarifies he LOVEFOCUS: Meetingalike- all these, is Rhea Chakraborty isn’t passing judgements. “You L minded personmay usher in a AQUARIUS talking to the media after stay- can’t call anyone acriminal budding romance. JAN22-FEB 19 ing mum for over two months. unless s/he is convicted. My LUCKY NUMBER: 4 LUCKY COLOUR: Violet Calling it a“PR stunt” the point is if Rhea hasn’t done Marketingand business devel- actor adds, “What she did is anything then what took her opment personnel will find the called cleaning up the image so long to come out? Ifeltall day quite favourable. Coming in front of ahugeaudience so heranswers were well BIRTHDAY TODAY back in shape may become that they sympathise and say rehearsed,” he adds. RichardGere: The American your priority now. Thosetrav- ‘Oh she has been demonised’, Suman continues, “It’s a a elling abroad need to be alittle actor,known forfilms such as etc. Everybody needs achance mess right now. People are American Gigolo,Pretty careful. to share their side of the story, running abusiness out of it... Woman, RunawayBride and LOVE FOCUS: Exchanging sweet nothings with so does she. But what took her Let’s just focus on understand- Chicago,turns 71 today. sweetheart will prove most satisfying. 60-70 days to come out?” ing what took Sushant’s life.” Shekhar Suman LUCKY NUMBER: 17 LUCKY NUMBER: OffWhite

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I “My struggle started PUBLICPUBLIC FIGURE’FIGURE’ ated with our films, and hence don’t force my opinion or pull when Ijoined college. demand an opinion and I’m not others down to climb up. Since then my journey totally against that. There’s a has been challenging. price you pay to be apublic fig- Does the troll army that gets But I’ve never com- MonikaRawal Kukreja ebs being under scrutiny, and Tomorrow if my kid becomes an ure. Buteither agree or agree to after your ‘befitting replies’ plained because if Sushant Singh Rajput’s death actor, I’ll be an insider. Yes, it’s a disagree with that opinion. Don’t bother you? [email protected] you love what you turning into acircus. tougher journey but I’m glad I spew hate or get angry at us for Idon’tcall those bots trolls, do, you can over- ot one who reserves her could turn the tables to alarge not having an opinion —then they’re machines. I’m talking come these challen- comments for an oppor- As the nepotism debate rages extent. It’s not like wrong and you’re forcing your opinion on us. about people who’re either mis- ges,” says Rao, tune moment, Taapsee on, can you ever call yourself unfair things don’t happen to me guided or brainwashed into hat- recalling how he NPannu has always spoken an insider? Does it even mat- someone. they now but Istill don’t see them as a Is it too much pressure when ing Maybe aren’t was clear he had to her mind. Even if she gets trolled ter now? reason that’ll make me bitter you’re expected to comment used to seeing afemaleactor “hone himself as a for her ‘befitting replies’, the actor I’ve never felt inferior calling about the industry. on every little controversy respond with sarcasm. They don’t competent artiste says she won’t stop hitting back at myself an outsider; it’s not a that erupts? realise they’re adding up to avery before coming to those who try to pull her down. At derogatory word. It’s just atag Amid all the flak, do you wish Forcing me to have an opinion good image that they’ve built for Mumbai”. “For any her candid best yet again, Pannu that’s put on you basis the family people just left Bollywood is also equivalent to asking me to me that has only benefited me. So, budding artiste, it’s talks about happily being an ‘out- you were born in, and the access alone for awhile? think the same way you think; Icall these them my closeted well- imperative to know sider’, hatred army on twitter, cel- you had to the film industry. There’s averythin line that’s wrong. If an issue makes wishers. their craft and work hard towards it,” says the actor, who turns 36 today, and completes adecade in One tweet Kavita Awaasthi Bollywood this year. Bollywood is [email protected] An outsider in the glitzy can trigger industry, with no connec- eall are fighting for tions, Rao recalls, “I didn’t an army of the right cause — not bad, it’s a know anyone; many atimes Wjustice for actor people wouldn’t even meet me. Admitting things don’t come five lakh Sushant Singh Rajput —but it But Inever letsuch things easy “at the start”, Rao feels doesn’t have to be obsessive decent place: hamper my passion. Iwas what works is “how much faith trolls, says and imbalanced, believes clear: Jeena yahan, marna you have in your craft”. “Yes, actor Hina Khan. “All that the yahan! My family, especially the doors don’t open easily Hina Khan channels talk about is John Abraham my mum was supportive,” he [especially for outsiders]. But Sushant’s death investigation. says sharing he had “weak once one foot is in the door, I’ve They need to have abalanced moments too”, but maintained no choice but to make opti- view,” shesays. Khan feels a“positive outlook”. mum use of that. So, the man- that in our country, there are Rishabh Suri “I came from amiddle class tra is: Be at it.” issues such as the Assam [email protected] background, so money wasn’t Ask about his birthday floods, rising Covid-19 cases, in free flow. At times, there was plans, and Rao says, “No spe- domestic violence and rape ollywood’s Man of Steel —John Abraham is no money for rent or food. But I cial plans. Patralekhaa (actor that need equal attention. just that, both by his looks and his mental knew that eventually things and his partner) plans to bake About the media trial of Bstrength. As someone who has made it this will work out,” he adds. acake. I’m not aparty person.” actor Rhea Chakraborty, SSR’s far, without any connections, there are quite a girlfriend, she says, “Let the few lessons one can learn from him. CBI conclude. Youmay dam- Opening up on his thoughts about Bollywood Actor age her career forever with as aplace, the actor says, “As awhole,the indus- STOP PRESS accusations.” try has been very gracious and extremely good. Brad Pitt, 56, Khan, who has ahugefan Contrary to the way people are looking at it took rumoured following on social media, today, Ithink it’s agood place, it’s not that bad.” says there’s alot of toxicity Adding that bad things happen in every line of girlfriend, model Nicole out there, and she too, has work, Abraham, 47, feels film industry is talked been atarget. about more as it’s always in the limelight. “In our Poturalski,27, to “During Bigg Boss, I industry, it’s out there in open, and we get cruci- Chateau Miraval have been through fied alot forit. Have Igot opportunities from my share of trolling. people who’ve been in the industry? Yes. Have I where he and ex-wife It was tough to been the flag-bearer for taking people from out- deal with side the industry (in films Iproduced)?Yes. You Angelina Jolie got abusive can choose to create your own path,” he says. married in 2014. comments. With acareer spanning 17 years, Abraham One tweet can describes Bollywood as ‘very democratic’. “It’s trigger an the place where Ifeelwe’re agnostic to religion. army of five There’s alot of negativity todayinthe industry, PHOTOS: ABRAHAM CARO MARIN/AP; INSTAGRAM lakh trolls to but Iwant to be the one person who people look attack a out to and say ‘hey, no, this place is decent, look celebrity,” adds To read more, at him. He’s survived and standing here talking NOTE TO READERS: Some of the coverage that appears on our pages is paid scan the code for by the concerned brands. 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PUNE MONDAY AUGUST 31, 2020 time out 03 #fromtheeditor We’re the new cool, { SONAKSHI SINHA } ACTOR Q { BOBBY DEOL } ACTOR Has anybodyreally Q counted —today there The edgy, Rishabh Suri are more outsiders At the end of the [email protected] day, one is alks about OTT platforms than so called s being more democratic than trendy, fali Shahsay normal theatrical release are insiders in the always She quite common. One reason industry who lookingfor at OTTreleases Tfor that could be that there’s City th no number game. And actor Shefali have made it roles that Shefali Shah eanartiste Shah agrees. “The biggest advantage of bringing to you the all-new us! fre OTT is that it is not confined to the box very big. get you vagaries office. Right now, there are no thea- Rajasthan fromthe tres, kahaan jaakar dekhenge? Even family is as separate in its tangs and tastes as noticed. e when otherwise films used to release it is joint. Some begin their mornings with the of box-offic (theatrically), its fate would lie on a front page, others with the last. Some hunt for weekend. Friday,Saturday nahi chali, A are then it is gone, even if it’s agood film. politics in page 3, others for page 3inpolitics. llections and A Forsome news is supplementary while for co That’s not the case with OTTs,” says others supplement is news. Presenting the all-new tisfying the 48-year-old actor. more sa What also makes Shah excited Actor TaapseePannu talks HTCity. Because Life maybe under lockdown but lifestyle never is. A about online streaming platforms is Rajkummar Rao Ever since HTCity came into existence on April 14, that one is there on it for posterity. “I about not forcing her still get messages from people saying‘I 1999, the form and shape may have evolved, the name wastoo scared to watch Delhi Crime or nameplate may have altered, but what our daily ONLINE Scan the QR opinion on anyone, (her web show, which releasedin supplement continues to bring to you is the edgiest, glitz of Bollywood and For the full 2019), we just watched it’. Projects are trendiest content in the entertainment &lifestyle space. Krushna says doors don’t and her infamous going to have alife. It’s giving notjust interview, What youhold in your hands today is the realisation scan the code actors, but writers, directors the lib- ‘befitting replies’ of our commitment to keep you informed of all that is erty of creating what they want. They new age and hip. We arebehind everything that keeps Abhishek: are not compromising, every single open easily, on Twitter you ahead –beitincampus buzz, food, Indian or world character is powerful in their own cinema, fashion and glamour. It is your trust in us as the POINTERS space,” tells us Shah. code to watch first voice and the last word that keeps us going, Industry ke In 2018, too, Once Again starring through times good or bad; and it is for you that we her opposite Neeraj Kabi,released promise to stay stylish, spirited, spunky. So open us. To directly on an OTT platform. “After open up. kuchh log butbeatit ‘THERE’S A watching thefilm initially, obviously RFUL makers wanted to release it in thea- Sonal Kalra tres. Itold them, ‘this film can get lost Managing Editor POWE Prashant Singh The crux staysright in bahut udd very easily. It’s asweet film,but let’s the video. Lifestyle accept that there are no stars in this Hollywood, the [email protected] PRICE YOU film. Iwould be very happy to see my round mid-2000s, a rahe the, ab poster, but let’s be realistic. If you young Rajkummar Rao want this film to be viewed, your best Acycled 70km at times option is to go to OTT’,” she says. (to theatre classes) while pur- PAY TO BE A shaant ho suing graduation in Delhi. PAY TO BE A your paper,there areQR He was also prepping for between ourreel and real person- me think, Imention it but Idon’t the Film and Television alities, so the audiences, expect us point fingers. Iaddress the issue, gaye hain InstituteofIndia, Pune. to live up to the image we’ve cre- not the people involved in it. I “My struggle started PUBLIC FIGURE’ ated with our films, and hence don’t force my opinion or pull { DAILYHOROSCOPE } PUBLIC FIGURE’ Juhi Chakraborty when Ijoinedcollege. demand an opinion and I’m not others down to climb up. Since then my journey totally against that. There’s a [email protected] has been challenging. price you pay to be apublicfig- Does the troll army that gets codesyou scan forthe Monday, August 31,2020 he deathofSushant Singh Rajput has But I’ve never com- Monika Rawal Kukreja ebs being under scrutiny, and Tomorrow if my kid becomes an ure. But either agree or agree to after your ‘befitting replies’ Dr Prem Kumar Sharma (Astrologer&Vaastu expert) can be contactedat: razzmatazz of fashion plained because if Sushant Singh Rajput’s death actor, I’ll be an insider. Yes, it’s a disagree with that opinion. Don’t bother you? been awake-up call for many in the film [email protected] Tindustry, feels actor Krushna Abhishek, as Delhi: 011-47033152,40532026(Sat to Mon); Panchkula: 91-172-2562832, 2572874 you love what you turning into acircus. tougher journey but I’m glad I spew hate or get angry at us for Idon’t call those bots trolls, (TuestoThurs); Mumbai: 09716145644 (Last week of everymonth) do, you can over- ot onewho reserves her could turn the tables to alarge not having an opinion —then they’re machines. I’m talking it has brought the focus on mental health as well as the indiscrepancies that exist in Bolly- come these challen- comments for an oppor- As the nepotism debate rages extent.It’s not like wrong and you’re forcingyour opinion on us. about people who’re either mis- wood. ges,” says Rao, tune moment, Taapsee on, can you ever call yourself unfair things don’t happen to me guided or brainwashed into hat- “This incident has proved that mental health recallinghow he NPannu has always spoken an insider? Does it even mat- ing someone. Maybe they aren’t now but Istill don’t see them as a Is it too much pressure when ‘Wehaveone of detailed versions of the is what is most important. Otherwise how will ARIES LIBRA was clear he had to her mind. Even if she gets trolled ter now? reason that’ll make me bitter you’re expected to comment used to seeing afemaleactor you work? After Sushant’s death, people have MAR 21-APRIL20 SEP 24-OCT 23 “hone himself as a for her ‘befitting replies’, the actor I’ve never felt inferior calling about the industry. on every little controversy respond with sarcasm. They don’t become very cautious, they have calmed down competent artiste says she won’t stop hitting back at myself an outsider; it’s not a that erupts? realise they’re adding up to avery as well. Earlier, people used to think, ‘Main hi Those wanting to enter apar- Your networking abilities will before coming to those who try to pull her down. At derogatory word. It’s just atag Amid all the flak, do you wish Forcing me to have an opinion good imagethatthey’ve built for hoon bas duniya mein’, now they have come ticular profession will find the make you an asset for the orga- Mumbai”. “For any her candid best yet again, Pannu that’s put on you basis the family people just left Bollywood is also equivalent to asking me to me that has only benefited me. So, thelargestfan down to earth. Industry ke kuchh log bahut goingeasy. nisation. budding artiste, it’s talks about happily being an ‘out- you were born in, and the access alone for awhile? think the same way you think; Icall these them my closeted well- udd rahe the, ab shaant ho gaye hain,” he says. LOVE FOCUS: Romanceislikely LOVE FOCUS: Achanceofmeet- imperative to know sider’, hatred army on twitter, cel- you had to the film industry. There’savery thin line that’s wrong. If an issue makes wishers. stories The actor also points out that negativity on to give immensepleasure to ing someone you secretly love their craft and work social media is another aspect that celebrities A some. l may materialise. and Page 3, the campus hard towards it,” says the find difficult to cope with. “A person will go LUCKY NUMBER: 1 LUCKY COLOUR: Maroon LUCKY NUMBER: 4 LUCKY COLOUR: Lavender actor, who turns 36 today, basesinIndia’ mad and take adrastic step. It is better to quit and completes adecadein One tweet Kavita Awaasthi social media. Ranbir Kapoor never came on Bollywoodthis year. Bollywood is social media. If you can’t handle, don’t come on [email protected] An outsider in the glitzy can trigger it at all,” he explains. Nishad Neelambaran wanted to changethat. TAURUS SCORPIO industry,with no connec- eall arefighting for Talking about how he maintains his sanity Which is why Ihave [email protected] APR 21-MAY20 OCT 24-NOV 22 tions, Rao recalls, “I didn’t an army of the right cause — not bad, it’s a on social media, Abhishek says he uses the worked hard to have the Try- know anyone; many atimes Wjustice for actor medium in moderation and that is the key. “I puntil afew years ago, when outs and NXT that encour- Some of you are likely to bag Things will getout of control people wouldn’t even meet me. Admitting things don’t come five lakh Sushant Singh Rajput —but it only post about my work. Irarely share per- the heavy distortions of The ages more people to join,” an appreciationonthe work on the personalfront. Afamily But Inever letsuch things easy “at the start”, Rao feels doesn’t have to be obsessive decent place: sonal posts. If you give out all details of your Game by Motörhead played he shares. front. Family will look up to youngster startingaprestig- hamper my passion. Iwas what works is “how much faith and imbalanced, believes Uin the WWEarena, the audi- Unlike before, WWEhas seen a you in organising an event. ious job is likely to make you trolls, says life like when you went to the loo and when you clear: Jeena yahan, marna you have in your craft”. “Yes, actor Hina Khan. “All that the brushed your teeth, tab toh log gaaliayan dena ence would rise up and chant the few wrestlers from India recently. LOVE FOCUS: Sharing and caring proud.Avacation will do you a yahan! My family, especially the doors don’t open easily Hina Khan channels talk about is John Abraham shuru hi kar denge,” he says. song for alegend, Paul Levesque aka Speaking about India as afan base T is likely today. S whale of good. Something will my mum was supportive,” he [especially for outsiders]. But Sushant’s death investigation. The actor says he wonders why most celebri- Triple H, who is the founder and for WWE, he says, “I absolutely love LUCKYNUMBER: 22 LUCKY COLOUR: Dark Tur- keep you from achieving your full potential buzz, and the best in says sharing he had “weak once one foot is in the door, I’ve They need to have abalanced ties can’t follow that and not give updates executive producer of WWENXT, India. The passion the fans have is quoise from the academic front. moments too”, but maintained no choice but to make opti- view,” she says. Khan feels about every two minutes of their life. “On one and the executive vice-president of something else. We’ve one of the Q LOVEFOCUS: Your romantic overtures are likely a“positive outlook”. mum use of that. So, the man- that in our country, there are Rishabh Suri hand you say that ‘Oh Iamgetting trolled’ and Global largest fan bases in India so it is an to get amatching response, so rejoice. “I came from amiddle class tra is: Be at it.” issues such as the Assam then upar se aapne kaun si chaddi khareedi hai Talent Strategy and Development for important market.” When Istarted, LUCKY NUMBER: 2 LUCKY COLOUR: Baby Pink [email protected] background, so money wasn’t Ask about his birthday floods, rising Covid-19 cases, woh raat ke 11 baje post kar rahe ho. Why are WWE. Triple Hand Shawn Michaels’ it was tough GEMINI in free flow. At times, there was plans, and Rao says, “No spe- domestic violence and rape ollywood’sMan of Steel—JohnAbraham is you so available that people start trolling you?” A14-time World Champion, who partnership was considered leg- MAY21-JUN21 no money for rent or food. But I cial plans. Patralekhaa (actor that need equal attention. just that, both by his looks and his mental he quips. has been associated with the sport endary. Though their in-ring getting people knew that eventually things and his partner) plans to bake About the media trial of Bstrength. As someone who has made it this for over 25 years, says that the lock- company didn’t last long, their to take you This seems to be an excellent SAGITTARIUS will work out,” he adds. acake. I’m not aparty person.” actor Rhea Chakraborty, SSR’s far, without any connections, there are quite a down has “been tough” for WWE. “It off-court friendship is still spe- day for those in the higherech- NOV 23-DEC21 girlfriend, she says, “Let the few lessons one can learn from him. hasn’t been easy on anyone and cial. “Shawn’s one of my oldest seriously. elons. CBI conclude. Youmay dam- Opening up on his thoughts about Bollywood we’re all coping in our own ways,” he friends, actually one of my best LOVE FOCUS: Youmay crave the Things at work run smoothly TRIPLE H, Actor ageher career forever with as aplace,the actorsays, “As awhole,the indus- says. friends. We’ve known each other for companyoflove. enablingyou to clear alot of STOP PRESS accusations.” try has been very gracious and extremely good. Levesque has closely worked with over 20 years, and our relationship Executive vice-president of G LUCKY NUMBER: 7 LUCKY COL- pending work.Skillful han- Brad Pitt, 56, Khan, who has ahugefan Contrary to the way people are looking at it NXT, which is aired on Sony Ten1,on has always gone beyond what hap- Global Talent Strategy and OUR: Orange dlingofadelicate situation will following on social media, today,Ithink it’s agood place, it’s not that bad.” his special connect with the brand, pens in the ring. Our personal philos- Development, WWE helpmaintaindomestic har- food and beauty. We took rumoured he says, “When Istarted,itwas tough ophy and value system is the same,” s mony.Goodprogressis says there’s alot of toxicity Adding that bad things happen in every line of girlfriend, modelNicole outthere, and she too, has work, Abraham, 47, feels film industry is talked getting people to take you seriously. I he concludes. PHOTO: SHUTTERSTOCK foreseenfor those undertaking ajourney. been atarget. about more as it’s always in the limelight. “In our CANCER LOVE FOCUS: There’s agoodchanceofclose Poturalski, 27, to “DuringBigg Boss, I industry, it’s out there in open, and we get cruci- JUN 22-JUL22 encounters with aperson you secretly love, so take steps to make it last long! have been through fied alot forit. Have Igot opportunities from Chateau Miraval Achange youhad been con- 11 LUCKY COLOUR: Lemon PAGE ONE my share of trolling. people who’ve been in the industry?Yes. Have I TIMEOUT LUCKY NUMBER: SOCIAL CARDS templating on thework front is where he and ex-wife It was tough to been the flag-bearer for taking people from out- likely to come into effect soon. deal with side the industry (in films Iproduced)? Yes. You Rhea’s opening up is an image Angelina Jolie got LOVEFOCUS: Thoughtsoflove abusive can choose to create your own path,” he says. maydominate your mind. CAPRICORN comments. With acareer spanning 17 years, Abraham married in 2014. C LUCKYNUMBER: 11 LUCKY COL- One tweet can describes Bollywood as ‘very democratic’. “It’s cleaningdrive, feelsShekhar DEC 22-JAN 21 OUR: Light Pink { RBALKI } FILMMAKER trigger an the place where Ifeelwe’re agnostic to religion. Those seeking employment are army of five There’s alot of negativity todayinthe industry, Find out what starshave Find quotesfromyour This is that catchywindow, Shreya Mukherjee Suman took to social media likely to get acall soon. Your PHOTOS:ABRAHAM CARO MARIN/AP; INSTAGRAM lakh trolls to but Iwant to be the one person who people look to voice his discontent. “I must suggestionsonthe domestic are fun, edgy and yes, [email protected] attack a out to and say ‘hey, no, this place is decent, look confess for amoment Iwas LEO front will be welcomed. celebrity,” adds To read more, at him. He’s survived and standing here talking NOTE TO READERS:Some of the coverage that appears on our pages is paid scan the code hekhar Sumansays the deceived by her performance JUL 23-AUG 23 LOVE FOCUS: You’re likely to fall for by the concerned brands. No sponsored content does or shall appear in the actor. to us, he’s got nothing negative to say about any- Sushant Singh Rajput and fell for her well-rehearsed c in love with someone who’sa any part of HT without it being declared as such to our valued readers. one. If John Abraham can, we can’,” he signs off. Sdeath case is going all emotionality..i got swayed by It will take some doing to see new entrant to your regular crowd. Q over the place. Toomany her tears and display of an ambitious projectget offthe LUCKY NUMBER: 6 LUCKY COLOUR: Coffee filled with your daily dose of in store. Watchout for rumours and discrepancies in immaculate, manicured histri- ground to asuccessful conclu- favouritecelebs.And statements have turned it into onics…,” he tweeted. sion. amaze. But what has added to The 57-year-old clarifies he LOVE FOCUS: Meeting alike- all these, is Rhea Chakraborty isn’t passing judgements. “You L minded personmay usher in a AQUARIUS Introducing you to the brandnew HT CITY Experience theall new talking to the media after stay- can’t call anyone acriminal budding romance. JAN22-FEB 19 Find me abetteractorthan ing mum for over two months. unless s/he is convicted. My LUCKY NUMBER: 4 LUCKY COLOUR: Violet Calling it a“PR stunt” the point is if Rhea hasn’t done Marketingand business devel- actoradds, “What she did is anything then what took her opment personnel will findthe PUNE MONDAY all the topstories of the day, AUGUST 31, 2020 03 Calvin and cuteSnoopy. tech savvy people,you time out called cleaning up the image so long to come out? Ifelt all dayquite favourable. Coming

{ BOBBY DEOL } ACTOR have our heart in the Q in front of ahuge audience so her answers were well BIRTHDAYTODAY back in shape may become We’re the new cool, Rishabh Suri At theend of the [email protected] day, oneis alks aboutOTT platforms says being more democratic than always Shefali Shah normal theatrical releaseare that they sympathise and say rehearsed,” he adds. your priority now. Those trav- Tquite common. One reason looking for OTT releases for thatcould bethatthere’s RichardGere: The American that no numbergame. Andactor Shefali Alia or Ranbir, and we’ll argue roles that ShefaliShah rtiste Shah agrees. “The biggest advantage of freeana OTT isthat it is not confined to the box get you aries office. Right now,there are no thea- ‘Oh she has been demonised’, Suman continues, “It’s a elling abroad need to be alittle from the vag tres, kahaan jaakar dekhenge? Even bringing to you the glitz when otherwise films used to release noticed. a box-office (theatrically), its fate would lie on a actor,known forfilms such as of weekend. Friday, Saturday nahi chali, ctions and are then it is gone, even if it’s agoodfilm. colle That’s not the ca se with OTTs,” says etc. Everybody needs achance mess right now. People are careful. sfying the 48-year-old actor. more sati What also makes Shah excited A about online streamingplatforms is American Gigolo,Pretty that oneis thereonitfor posterity.“I still get messages from people saying ‘I was tooscared to watchDelhi Crime ONLINE (her web show,which released in Scan the QR to sharetheir side of the story, running abusiness out of it... LOVE FOCUS: Exchanging sweet nothings with Krushna 2019), we ju st watched it’. Projects are of Bollywoodand Holly- going to havealife. It’s givingnot just Woman, Runaway Bride and actors, bu twriters,directors thelib- erty of creating wh at they want.They Abhishek: are not compromising,every single characteris powerfulin th eir own so does she. But what took her Let’s just focus on understand- sweetheart will prove most satisfying. POINTERS space,” tells us Shah. code to watch Industryke In 2018, too, Once Against arr ing heropposite Neeraj Kabi,released Chicago,turns 71 today. directlyonanOTT platform. “After which, mind you, will only kuchh log watchingthe filminitially, obviously Check out the celeb you canshareitonsocial makers wantedtorelease it in thea- 60-70 days to come out?” ing what took Sushant’s life.” Shekhar Suman LUCKY NUMBER: 17 LUCKY NUMBER: Off White The crux stays right in POWERFUL tres. Itold them,‘this film ca nget lost the video. bahut udd very easily.It’sa sweetfilm,but let’s wood, the razzmatazz of acceptthat there ar enostars in this film. Iwould be very happyto see my rahe the, ab poster, but let’s berealistic.If you want this film to be viewed,your best option is to go to OTT’,” she says. aboutthe nepotism your paper,thereare QR shaant ho gayehain

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