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VOLUME 10, ISSUE 129 | www.orissapost.com BHUBANESWAR | SUNDAY, AUGUST 9 | 2020 12 PAGES | `4.00 IRREGULAR by MANJUL Aviation Min, DGCA warned back in 2011 No, I can’t go to that area Mahanadi water wearing mask. Public might CAPTAIN RANGANATHAN, MEMBER OF CIVIL AVIATION SAFETY ADVISORY COUNCIL, recognise me! A GOVERNMENT-APPOINTED AIR SAFETY PANEL, HAD SOUNDED CAUTION THEN

AGENCIES tribunal issues SHORT TAKES WHAT IS A ‘TABLETOP New Delhi, August 8: Precious lives have been lost in the Air India Express RUNWAY’? notice to Centre GC Murmu sworn runway mishap Friday evening. The in as CAG Ministry of Civil Aviation, the Director 18 people died and 16 were POST NEWS NETWORK General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) and severely injured in Kerala the Airports Authority of India (AAI) New Delhi, August 8: New Delhi: Former Jammu and were alerted about the dan- Friday after a Boeing-737 Mahanadi Water Dispute Kashmir Lieutenant Governor gers associated with the Tribunal Saturday issued Girish Chandra Murmu was overshot a runway known runway of the a notice to the Union gov- Saturday sworn in as the new as a ‘tabletop’ in the Comptroller and Auditor Kozhikode airport in ernment in an application General of India. He took the 2011, it was revealed. KOZHIKODE aviation industry filed by Odisha seeking in- mitted in the tribunal that oath of office before President The civil aviation AIRPLANE formation related to vari- a common format was al- Ram Nath Kovind at a authorities were Tabletop runways are often ous projects being carried by ready devised by Krishna ceremony held at the alerted about the dan- MISHAP constructed by excavating the Chhattisgarh on Mahanadi and Cauvery river water Rashtrapati Bhavan here at gers associated with peaks of hills basin. dispute tribunals and that 10.30 am. Murmu’s tenure will the Kozhikode runway Such runways have steep drops A three-judge bench of can be used to summarise be up to November 20, 2024. by Captain Ranganathan, at one or both ends the tribunal headed by the information related to Murmu, a former 1985-batch Member Ops-CASAC (Civil Aviation Chairperson AM Mahanadi water. Data re- They are found in mountainous Indian Administrative Service Safety Advisory Council, a govern- Security personnel stand guard near the mangled remains of an Air India Express Khanwilkarand compris- lated to need and use of areas where flat land is scarce, (IAS) officer of the Gujarat ment-appointed air safety panel) in a flight, en route from Dubai, after it skidded off the runway while landing Friday night, ing Justices Indermeet Kaur Mahanadi basin water by cadre, succeeds Rajiv or in low-lying areas like letter dated June 17, 2011. at Karippur in Kozhikode, Saturday Kozhikode where space is at a and Ravi Ranjan asked the Odisha, Chhattisgarh and Mehrishi, who demitted the The letter was addressed jointly to state of Odisha to submit other states would be kept CAG office Friday. premium or there is fear of Naseem Zaidi, Civil Aviation Secretary cepting VOR approaches on Runway 10. accepts a landing in wet and tailwind waterlogging at ground level common format which was in common format and the and Chairman, CASAC, and Bharat The reason is the lower minimia than conditions, their concept of ALAR is devised by the Krishna and tribunal while adjudicating Bhushan of the DGCA. Runway 28,” he had said in the letter. poor,” he wrote in the letter. In May 2010, an AI flight landing Cauvery water dispute tri- the matter will assess the in- Mild magnitude “It is a dangerous situation, espe- In the letter, he referred to an in- “Calicut runway does not have the at Mangalore airport overshot bunals to summarise all the formation available in the cially in wet conditions. The Runway spection report by Arun Rao which minimum RESA on one end and no RESA the tabletop runway there and data related to Mahanadi common format. burst into flames quake hits state No. 10 should not be permitted in view was submitted to the civil aviation au- on the other. The runway strip is just water dispute. The counsel for of the lack of Runway End Safety thorities. In the letter, he blamed the AAI. half the minimum width laid down in Other examples include the The bench also asked the Chhattisgarh had earlier Bhubaneswar: A mild earthquake Areas (RESA) and the terrain beyond “There has been no effort on the part ICAO Annex 4. This fact was known to the international airport of Nepal in Central Water Commission, argued that a common for- measuring 3.8 on the Richter the end of the runway,” Ranganathan of the AAI to rectify the safety in- DGCA team that has been conducting mountainous Kathmandu IMD and Central Ground mat should be prepared by scale hit parts of Odisha’s had forewarned in what appears to be fringements that Arun Rao pointed inspections and safety assessments dur- Water Board to provide the the Central Water Ganjam and Gajapati districts Saturday, the Met centre said, both a warning and a premonition. out in 2010,” Ranganathan wrote. ing the past several years. Have they con- the AAI to make the runway condi- documents sought by state Commission. adding there were no reports of “All the flights which land on Runway The airlines have maintained that all sidered the dangers involved? Has the tions safe. We have brought up the of Odisha with respect to It is to be mentioned here any damage or casualties. 10 in tailwind conditions are endan- their pilots have completed the Approach DGCA or the airlines laid down any op- issue of the RESA during the initial Mahanadi water dispute. that Odisha and According to the centre, the gering the lives of all on board,” and Landing Accident Reduction erational restrictions or special proce- CASAC sub-group meetings. We had The tribunal posted the mat- Chhattisgarh have filed pe- earthquake struck 73 km West Ranganathan had written. (ALAR) training and the Flight dures,” Ranganathan had asked. specifically mentioned that declared dis- ter for hearing August 29. titions in the Mahanadi South-West (WSW) of Berhampur “I understand that Runway 10 ILS is Standards Directorate (FSD) appears He even alluded to the Mangalore in- tances for both runways have to be re- Significantly, senior ad- water dispute tribunal with at 7.30 a.m. “It’s centre was being used on a trial basis at Calicut. to be satisfied with the response. cident. “The Air India Express inci- duced in order to comply with the vocate Mohan Katarki, ap- respect to sharing of located near to Paribheta and Some of the crew members are even ac- “In spite of the dangers, if the crew dent in Mangalore should have alerted ICAO requirement,” he had warned. pearing for Odisha, sub- Mahanadi river water. Tandiguda locations of Gajapati district, which is near to R. Udayagiri area,” it said. 12 more in Odisha THEY RETURN Last-ditch talks Nikhil Rath completes on new aid for ‘Gaganyaan’ training succumb to COVID US economy fail Bhubaneswar: Odia IAF pilot AGENCIES Wing Commander Nikhil Rath is TOTAL COVID CASES IN THE STATE CROSS 44,000-MARK one among the four astronauts AGENCIES Washington, August 8: A last- selected for ‘Gaganyaan’, n 3 more coronavirus patients – India’s first manned mission to one each from Mayurbhanj, ditch effort by Democrats to revive space in 2022. Governor Bhubaneswar, August 8: The Khurda and Balasore – also Capitol Hill talks on vital COVID- Ganeshi Lal and two Central total number of COVID-19 cases died in the state 19 rescue money collapsed in dis- ministers Saturday in Odisha crossed the 44,000-mark appointment at week’s end. n congratulated Bolangir-born Saturday with 1,643 fresh infec- But their deaths were Washington gridlock will mean Nikhil. Rath along with three tions, while the toll climbed to 259 attributed to other ailments more hardship for millions of peo- other astronauts from India as 12 more people succumbed to ple who are losing enhanced job- have completed their training the disease, a Health Department – one each from Mayurbhanj, less benefits and further damage at Gagarin Cosmounaut official said. Khurda and Balasore – also died in for an economy pummeled by the Training Centre in Russia. The coronavirus tally in the state the state, but their deaths were at- still-raging coronavirus. now stands at 44,193, he said. tributed to other ailments, the of- President Donald Trump said Of the fresh fatalities, two each ficial said, adding that the number Friday night he was likely to issue WEATHER were reported from Ganjam, of such fatalities increased to 48. more limited executive orders re- BHUB CTK Kandhamal, Keonjhar and Khurda, Of the 259 COVID-19 deaths re- lated to COVID, perhaps in the while one each from Balasore, ported in the state so far, Ganjam, next day or so, if he cannot reach MAX 32.6° 34.2° Bargarh, Gajapati and Sundargarh the worst-hit district by the coro- a broad agreement with Congress. districts, the official added. “Regret navirus pandemic, accounted for Labourers from Uttar Pradesh carrying their belongings arrive at Anand Vihar Bus Terminal for local travel, The day’s negotiations at the TEMP MIN 25.6° 24.0° Forecast to inform the demise of 12 COVID the highest at 125, followed by during Unlock 3.0, in New Delhi, Saturday. Nearly two-thirds of migrant workers, who had left for home due to Capitol added up to only “a dis- Humidity 95% 94% positive patients while undergo- Khurda (33), Sundargarh (17), the coronavirus-induced lockdown, have either returned to cities or wish to do so in absence of skilled appointing meeting,” declared top Generally Rainfall 6.7mm Nil cloudy sky ing treatment in hospitals,” he said. Gajapati (16), Cuttack (11) and employment in villages, says a study that surveyed 4,835 households PTI PHOTO Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer, Three more coronavirus patients Rayagada (10), he said. saying the White House had re- jected an offer by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to curb Democratic demands by about USD 1 trillion. He urged the White House to Saudi Arabia says no ‘oil on loan’ to Pakistan “negotiate with Democrats and Pak had borrowed a If you (OIC) cannot convene a foreign ministers’ meet- ing a proxy war against India for last meet us in the $6.2 billion loan from convene it (meet on ing on Kashmir, Prime Minister three decades. middle. Don’t Art 370 abrogation), Imran Khan would hold it on his own Since August 2019, when India say it’s your Saudi Arabia in 2018 then I’ll be compelled to ask with his allies among the Islamic revoked special status of the Jammu way or no way.” PM Imran Khan to call a countries. and Kashmir state and brought it Treasury “If you cannot convene it, then directly under the control of the Secretary Steven Mnuchin said, meeting of the Islamic I’ll be compelled to ask Prime Central government by bifurcat- “Unfortunately, we did not make countries that are ready to AGENCIES Minister Imran Khan to call a meet- ing it into two Union Territories, the any progress today.” Republicans stand with us on the issue ing of the Islamic countries that Imran Khan government has been said Pelosi was relying on budget Islamabad/New Delhi, August of Kashmir are ready to stand with us on the seeking support of the 57-member manoeuvres to curb costs and con- 8: Saudi Arabia has halted the pro- SHAH MEHMOOD QURESHI | issue of Kashmir...,” he had threat- OIC over the issue in Pakistan’s tended she has overplayed her vision of ‘oil on loan’ for Pakistan FOREIGN MINISTER, PAKISTAN (HAD SAID) ened on Ary news channel. favour. hand. y after the Imran Khan government The OIC, the biggest bloc of One of the major reasons for Often an impasse in Washington

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ARIES Mumbai: Abhishek Bachchan has tested negative for Covid- 19 and has been discharged from hospital, the actor revealed Today even if you are on his verified Twitter and Instagram accounts Saturday af- alone, you may not really Rhea possesses feel lonely. You will ternoon. desire to listen to your inner self, so that Mumbai: Actress Rhea Chakraborty has Sushant's death. “A promise is a promise! This afternoon I tested Covid-19 you can express yourself more imagina- revealed the only two things of her late Payal Dev composes her first mon- NEGATIVE!!! I told you guys I’d beat this. tively. Ganesha says spend the evening boyfriend Sushant Singh Rajput that soon song thank you all for your prayers for me with your beloved who can listen to your she possesses. Mumbai: Singer-composer Payal Dev and my family. My eternal gratitude voice in your silence also. Rhea’s lawyer Satish Maneshinde has is set to release her first monsoon song. to the doctors and nursing staff shared a photo of a ‘gratitude list’ writ- Titled Baarish, the song is a beautiful at Nanavati hospital for all that ten by Sushant on Rhea’s notebook, journey, Payal says, adding that she is they have done. THANK YOU!” TAURUS where he has mentioned that he is grate- super excited about this. tweeted @juniorbachchan on Your business is going to ful for his life and the presence of Rhea’s On how she worked on the song, the his blue-tick Twitter handle. thrive this day, says family in his life. Tum hi aana composer shared: “I was Shortly after that Abhishek Ganesha. Your plans, pro- jections, speculations She also shared a photo the late actor’s brainstorming on a new composition, posted a picture on Instagram and gambles are likely to pay off and give sipper with Chhichhore -- the title of Kunaal Verma had beautifully penned the of the ‘care board’ that was you good dividends. You will be admired Sushant's 2019 hit -- written on it. lyrics for it. Then I made a scratch of this maintained on his and respected in the business world for “The only property of Sushant that I melody with Aditya Dev, who produced behalf at the hos- your honesty and integrity. possess. And this is his handwriting it and the label liked it too.” pital. On the lillu is showik (her brother), bebu is me, The video features popular TV board, the GEMINI sir is my dad, ma’am is my mom, couple Mohsin Khan and ‘Discharge fudge is his dog,” Rhea explained Shivangi Joshi. Payal Dev composes Plan’ col- You will think about the the names on the note. “I believe they have umn says, issues faced by other The note is undated and it done more justice to ‘Yes’. people as well as about comes a day after the the song. I hope the IANS increasing your social standing and elevat- ing your social esteem. It is an extremely Enforcement Directorate audience enjoys her first monsoon song profitable day for those in the retail busi- questioned Rhea, her this song as ness and hence make the most of it, says brother Showik, her char- much as we did Mumbai: Singer-composer Payal Dev is set to release her first mon- Ganesha. tered accountant Ritesh while making soon song. Titled Baarish, the song is a beautiful journey, Payal says, Shah and former it,” said Payal. adding that she is super excited about this. manager Shruti IANS On how she worked on the song, the Tum hi aana composer shared: CANCER Modi for over “I was brainstorming on a new composition, Kunaal Verma had Not a good day for you eight hours in beautifully penned the lyrics for it. Then I made a scratch of this in terms of fortune and connection with melody with Aditya Dev, who produced it and the label liked it too.” opportunities. You will The video features popular TV couple Mohsin Khan and Shivangi constantly find yourself the money laun- in unwanted tricky situations without dering probe, Joshi. “I believe they have done more justice to the song. I hope the any fault of yours. You, however, are in the wake audience enjoys this song as much as we did while making it,” said likely to know what to do in such situa- of Payal. IANS tions by now, for you have been in too many of those in the past.

LEO Working hard, or hardly Batch of 2020 makes it to Toronto film fest working — there is a vast difference between the two. You would be RELEASED A FEW WEEKS AGO, THIS HOUR-LONG EDUCATIONAL DOCUMENTARY WAS THE FIRST wiser to be working hard today, espe- cially if it is success that you desire, TO BE COMPLETELY WRITTEN, SHOT AND PRODUCED DURING THE LOCKDOWN says Ganesha. Remember that there is no substitute for hard work, and New Delhi: India’s most cele- continent, their graduation was un- the sooner you realise this, the better. brated educational docu-film Batch INDIA’S LONE DOCU-FILM ENTRY ceremoniously stolen by COVID-19, of 2020 will share screen space leaving many confused and disillu- VIRGO with four other Indian regional sioned by what their future could pos- feature films as a prestigious entry sibly hold for them now,” says Philip, The bulb of ideas will to the International Indian Film Co-founder of Under 25. burn bright today. A possible see-saw Festival in Toronto (IIFFT). “Our film is a brave message between your contrac- Set to be screened on the evening of unconformity for all the stu- tual obligation and current duties may of August 10 - the graduation doc- dents, educators, parents or any- baffle you. New contacts will stand you umentary is written, narrated by one across the world who has, in good stead. Blood will prove thicker, debut director Anto Philip and pro- throughout the years, succumbed to and family and friends will consolidate their place in your life. duced under the Under 25 Studios the pressure and anxiety of being banner. Released a few weeks ago, Jordindian, defined by just certificates and de- this hour-long educational docu- Raghava KK, grees. We are grateful to IIFFT who LIBRA mentary was the first to be com- Reba John, Rega will help spread our message to a pletely written, shot and produced ployers, entertainers, CEOs and Jha, Roshan Abbas and Tanmay global audience and inspire mil- Letting things build up inside you is never a during the lockdown; it gathered leaders from varied backgrounds Bhat, to address key topics that India’s lions to break free from these tra- good idea. Learn from over 100K views in less than 48 and graduation batches. batch of 2020 will find value in. These ditional shackles and cultivate a this as there is every possibility that hours. It has been heralded as the Via Batch of 2020 Philip success- included chats around “Everything new mindset for the new dawn that today might turn out to be an aggravating ‘true north’ for India’s graduating fully brought together stalwarts such you need to know about graduating in is upon us,” added Philip. and exasperating day for you. You may 2020 batch by offering a repository as Armaan Malik, Anupama Chopra, 2020”, “Lessons from other batches”, Philip has also become the feel that way due to all the amassed emo- tions and resentments, so let it all go. It of information, inspiration, and in- Bryden-Parth, Debosmita Majumder, “First-Year after graduation”, youngest director to be selected for would be a good idea to take a break sights by chosen motivators and Deepika Padukone, Dhruv “Dropping Out”, and others. “For a feature film screening at the from the routine and bring in some fresh- disruptors who are educators, em- Chitgopekar, Hrithik Roshan, many students across the Indian sub- renowned festival in 2020. ness. Recharge yourself by indulging in some fun and frolic today, says Ganesha. SUDOKU SCORPIO PEANUTS post To solve the Sudoku puzzle, each row, It is very likely that the CROSSWORD column and box must contain the numbers moment of victory is 0 to 9 and the letters A to E. often preceded by a moment of peril; but that is not where the danger ends. In the heat of victory, arrogance and overconfidence can push you away from what you aimed for. So, it is important for you to learn when to stop in victory.

SAGITTARIUS Life is bubbling within you and you shall be in a hyper-elevated state of bliss today. Your high- spirits and energy will inspire you to per- form at your best. Moreover, your inner voice will be loud and bellowing. Make the most of this superb day, says Ganesha. CALVIN AND HOBBES

CAPRICORN You will be overpowered with nostalgia and may long to get in touch with SOLUTIONS old pals. And as Ganesha says, chances are that you may take a liking to your ex-lover, while simultane- ously strengthening your social standing. All in all, the day will be a productive one.

AQUARIUS Ganesha says it's okay to cry on somebody's shoul- ders. In fact, sharing BREVITY problems lightens the CROSSWORD load, and if nothing else, your friends will think you're as human as them. You will feel much better by evening and will even

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NILAMANI SAMAL BISWANATH DAS DEBANANDA GUPTA SAHADEB BEHERA ESHWAR BISOI orn February 23, 1923, Nilamani Samal, 97, of entenarian Biswanath Das, 102, of Bhagaban ebananda Gupta, 94, of Kalami village reedom fighter Sahadeb Behera, 98, of Kantilo reedom fighter Eshwar Bisoi was born in 1921. B Balipadia under Barchana block in Jajpur had CSindhol under Balikuda block in Dunder Maneswar block in Sambalpur FChhamusahi Patna in Nayagarh district was a FThe 99-year old freedom fighter belongs to responded to the clarion call by Gandhiji and Jagatsinghpur district still remembers the district also drew the inspirations from teen when he joined the Quit India Movement. He Majhiakhanada village in Nayagarh. Bisoi along joined the Quit India Movement in 1942. Samal golden moment when India got Independence. Gandhiji and other leaders and joined the was inspired by the speeches of Gandhiji, Sardar with his father had left his village at a tender age was recently elected as the President of At this age, Das is still active and performs all freedom struggle. He had also faced arrest Ballabhbhai Patel and others. to Rangoon and joined Azad Hind Fauj (Indian Odisha Freedom Fighters’ Association. his daily chores himself. He is still able to and imprisonment when he along with his National Army) created by Netaji Subhash resolve disputes and address problems friend joined the Independence struggle. I was 19-year old when the bugle for Quit Chandra Bose. He feels proud to be part of the I was then 17-year old… I used to listen to the whenever he is approached. Das claims that he Gupta had undergone one-year jail term. India Movement blew. Gandhiji, Sardar Indian freedom movement. speeches of Gandhiji and other leaders which has never suffered from any major disease. Ballabhbhai Patel and Morarji Desai came to inspired me to join the local leaders in fight Cuttack Swarajya Ashram and delivered against the Britishers. I was arrested and I was inspired by Mahatma Gandhi to join During the Quit India Movement, I inspiring speeches. The moment they inspired I joined the Quit India Movement under the persuaded by local police to leave the protest the struggle for Independence. During that along with my friends fought for the us to join Quit India Movement, I simply guidance of Subhash Chandra Bose and still for the safety of my family. But I told them that time, I used to ride my bicycle and I used to freedom of the country. I was arrested for followed them and joined the struggle for feel proud to be a part of the movement. Let’s this is the fight for our motherland and will not cover long distances on my cycle to take part protesting against the British rule. I Independence. I still remember, before Quit remember all those who have lost their lives tolerate the British colonialism anymore. It’s in the Freedom Movement and campaigns. I was presented in a local court which India Movement, I was into hiding from the during the movement and wish every Indian to ‘do or die’ for us. I was sent to jail in Cuttack was imprisoned during Quit India Movement in sentenced me to nine months jail and British administration. I still feel the Quit India remember the sacrifices made by all who had for three years. After Independence, I started 1942 and 1943. I am happy with everything that imposed a penalty of `50. When I declined Movement on August 8 every year which joined the movement teaching at a school in Barcahana block for I’ve done in my life. Take care of your to pay the fine, they extended the jail makes me feel as a warrior 15 years health. It is the greatest gift for all term to one year

lice came to arrest some leaders. When the police arrived, people started blowing The Quit India conches and about 5,000 people armed with lathis gathered. As the 'choukidars' Movement, more than were carrying the luggage of police offi- cials to the residence of a Zamindar, two anything else, united the satyagrahis Ratnakar Biswal and Mani Bej snatched them away by saying “You can- people against British not carry the belongings of the British Government.” Over this, DSP Kunja Bihari rule. Odisha’s Mahanty was enraged and ordered open fire on the mob at Melan Ground. Official contribution to the final reports said that about 26 persons were killed and 54 persons were injured. Later phase of freedom the police unleashed a reign of terror over Eram and surrounding villages. struggle has not been The Puri district was comparatively properly documented. quiet during the movement. Sulakshana Mali Jema, wife of zamindar of Manijong, Orissa POST takes a initiated the movement by proposing to oc- cupy the police station of Nimapara. A look on how the sons of meeting was held September 16 to dis- cuss the plan at Barabati Field. Agitators the soil showed their proceeded towards the police station and pelted stones at the police force. Ucchab valour in the revolt Mallick, a dalit agitator, made efforts to break the police cordon following which against the British… the police fired upon the people leading to death of Ucchab and injury to 16 others. Hereafter, the police arrested 41 persons including Bhabani Patnaik, Gajendra Malik (son of Uchhab Mallick), Padma hen the Cripps Mission failed, Charan Samantasinghar, Pitabas Sahu Mahatma Gandhi August 8, and many others. 1942, made a call for ‘Do or Maximum cases of revolutionary ac- W Die’ in his Quit India speech FILE PHOTOS tivities were reported in Jajpur subdivi- delivered in Bombay at the Gowalia Tank sion of Cuttack district. The revolution- Maidan. On the same day, at the All-India Laxminarayan Mishra, Radhakrushna sponse was from the students of Ravenshaw province. It was primarily noted for its tribal counter, five persons were killed and 17 were ary mob at Jajpur set afire police uniforms Congress Committee (AICC) session in Biswasroy and Surendranath Dwivedy. College. On August 12, the students of population who lived in the forest and injured. Naik himself fell unconscious in twenty six places, six canal revenue Bombay, Gandhiji launched a resolution Most of them were arrested at Bombay fol- Ravenshaw College, led by Bhagirathi hilly areas and its literacy rate was the low- and lay by the side of the body of a forest offices, four post-offices, five excisable ar- for the ‘Quit India’ movement. The next lowing Gandhi's detention. When Mishra, Upendra Mohanty, Narasingha est in the province. However, Laxman guard who come to control agitators and ticles, six zamindari Kutcheries, and four day, Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and many Surendranath Dwivedy met his private sec- Tripathy, Biren Mitra, Durga Charan Naik, the 'Gandhi of Malkangiri' proved was inadvertently shot by police. PWD bungalows in August 1942. The vi- other leaders of the Indian National retary at Birla Bhavan, he was handed over Mohanty and Manmohan Mishra, or- to be a hero of Quit India movement. By The police oppression was most severe olent mob started burning various gov- Congress were arrested by the British a small piece of paper containing a mes- ganised public meetings to condemn the August 14, most of the Congress leaders in Balasore district. At the beginning of ernment offices and cut down the em- Government. Disorderly and non-violent sage by Gandhiji which read “Paralyse the arrest of Congress leaders by the of Koraput were in jail as the district the movement, some prominent Congress bankments, canals and telegraphs lines in demonstrations took place throughout administration. We are free from today, Be Government. On August 14, under lead- Congress committee was declared ille- leaders were arrested. On August 17, 1942, different areas of Jajpur. In Binjharpur, the country in the following days. your own leader. Do or Die.” These words ership of Banamali Patnaik, Ashok Das, gal. Naik mobilised the tribals to offer a mob of about 5,000 armed men invaded a violent mob attacked police persons The AICC meeting held at Bombay to ignited the spirits of the people of Odisha Biren Mitra, Bibudhendra Mishra and stiff resistance to the British. On August the police station in Bhandaripokhari when the latter were escorting some pris- pass Quit India resolution was attended to participate in the patriotic movement. Suraj Mal Saha, about 200 students entered 21, 1942, Laxman, along with 1,000 peo- village and injured a police official, oners. The mob was dispersed after police by five Odia leaders. They were Cuttack was the nerve centre for the Quit the college premises and burned records ple, gheraoed the Mathili police sta- smashed the furniture and tore records in firing. In some villages, young men formed Harekrushna Mahatab, Malati Chaudhury, India Movement in Odisha. The first re- and laboratories. Bibudhendra and Saha tion in Malkangiri. However, they the police station. However, the move- defence associations for fighting against were later arrested and were confined in were intercepted by the police and ment took a turn for the worse at the police oppressions in their areas. A mob Behrampur Central Jail. The students magistrate Mujibar Bhadrak sub divi- of 10,000 in the Jajpur town proceeded had coined a term S.N.S. (Secret Rahman gave orders to sion. On towards the police station and SDO's News Service) and notices lathi charge and open fire. September 28, August 27, 1942. The mob was dispersed and bulletins As a result of the en- 1942, people gath- by the armed force by dropping dyna- were cir- ered at an open mites on the people. culated place at Eram Laxminarayan Mishra attended the under this and resolved AICC meeting at Bombay in August 1942. banner. not to On his return, he was arrested and Zilla Socialists under pay tax. Congress committees of Sambalpur, Surendran Nath Dwidey took So, the Bargarh and Jharsuguda were declared lead and about 71 incidents of po- illegal. Anti-British demonstrations were large-scale burning, loot and held and hartals were observed. Important sabotage in various parts of freedom fighters such as Nrusingha Guru, Cuttack was reported during Dayanidhi Satapathy and Ramarakshya August. Sukla were arrested under

Koraput was a partially

k y m Defence of India Act. c excluded area and it was Women activists also not administered by laws took out rallies in and regulations of the Bargarh town. P4 SUNDAY | AUGUST 9 | 2020 | BHUBANESWAR downtown

Coming soon: 65 civil judge courts in state RAIN PAIN

k y m c POST NEWS NETWORK civil judge courts would come up at JUSTICE DELIVERY Golamunda, Thuamulrampur, Cuttack, August 8: A total of 65 new hree new courts would be set up Kariamunda and Lanjigarh in civil judge (junior division)-cum-ju- Tat Chandrapur, Muniguda and Kalahandi district. Similarly, dicial magistrate first class (JMFC) Padampur in Rayagada district Kandhamal would get new courts courts will be set up across the while Malkangiri would get new at Tumudibandh, Raikia and state. Orissa High Court special of- courts at Mathili and Chakapad in Kandhamal. ficer (admin) Basudev Acharya has Kudumuluguma. Similarly, Balasore According to the letter, new courts written to the district and sessions district is all set to get two new would come up at Balianta, judges of 23 districts to set up the courts at Oupada and Khaira while a Bolagarh, Balipatna and Chilika new courts. new court would be established at in Khurda district while Angul dis- The new civil judge courts would Gania in Nayagarh trict would get the same at Banarpal be opened at Telkoi, Hatadihi, Barbil, and Kishorenagar in Angul. Ghatagaon and Harichandanpur ew courts would come up at he western Odisha district of In addition to that, new courts Balianta, Bolagarh, Balipatna in Keonjhar district while the same N TBargarh would get new courts at will be set up at Jashipur, and Chilika in Khurda district Gaisilet, Paikamala and Bijepur would be set up at Koida, while Angul district would get the Rasagovindapur and Thakurmunda Biramitrapur, Lahunipada, Bargaon, while Jharsuguda district will have in Mayurbhanj. Cuttack district same at Banarpal and the same at Lakhanpur, Laikera Lephripara and Hemgiri in would get new courts at Nischintakoili, Kishorenagar in Angul and Kirimira Sundargarh. Dampara and Mahanga. Similarly, a new court would be Bolangir district would get its set up at Bonth in Bhadrak while trict while Malkangiri would get new Polsara while Jajpur district would lone new court at Bangomunda Koraput would get new courts at courts at Mathili and get the same at Baripal, Binjharpur while Jagatsinghpur would get the Nandapur, Narayanpatna and Kudumuluguma. Similarly, Balasore and Sukinda. same at Erasama. Nabarangpur is Boipariguda. Puri district is sched- district is all set to get two new On the other hand, the western scheduled to get two civil judge uled to get new courts at courts at Oupada and Khaira while Odisha district of Bargarh would courts at Kosagumuda and Krushnaprasad, Kakatpur, Kanasa a new court would be established at get new courts at Gaisilet, Paikamala Jharigaon. and Astarang. Gania in Nayagarh. and Bijepur while Jharsuguda dis- As per the letter, a new court Besides, three new courts would As per the letter, Ganjam district trict will have the same at would be set up at Rajkanika in be set up at Chandrapur, Muniguda is scheduled to get new courts at Lakhanpur, Laikera and Kirimira. Kendrapara while Sambalpur will OP PHOTO and Padampur in Rayagada dis- Belguntha, Jagannathprasad and The letter further said that new get a new court at Rengali. Motorists negotiating a waterlogged stretch on Rasulgarh-Bomikhal road in Bhubaneswar following heavy rain, Saturday Experts seek more tests to Heavy rain to occur in south, interior Odisha A fresh low pressure over north and adjoining west central Bay of Bengal to take shape in 24 hours contain pandemic in Cuttack POST NEWS NETWORK Met Centre director HR Biswas. heavy rain Monday. and strong monsoon current, strong As per IMD prediction, heavy to Predicting heavy rain August 11, surface wind speed reaching 40- POST NEWS NETWORK Bhubaneswar, August 8: The very heavy rainfall is very likely to the IMD has issued orange warn- 50 kmph is likely over west central India Meteorological Department occur at isolated places over ing (be prepared) for Malkangiri, Bay of Bengal, the Met depart- Cuttack, August 8: District Covid (IMD) Saturday said heavy to very Kandhamal, Kalahandi, Koraput, Nawarangpur & Nuapada ment said. The weathermen ad- observers Saurabh Garg and Susant heavy rainfall will occur in south Nawarangpur, Koraput, Gajapati, districts and yellow warning (be vised fishermen not to venture Mohapatra stressed on more and Odisha and some interior pockets Rayagada, Malkangiri, Ganjam, updated) for Kalahandi, Kandhamal, into deep sea of west central Bay more testing to contain the spread of the state from Sunday. Bolangir and Bargarh from Sunday. Bolangir, Sonepur, Boudh and of Bengal. of coronavirus pandemic in Cuttack A cyclonic circulation between 3.6 Similarly, heavy to very heavy Sambalpur districts. In view of the IMD prediction, district, a report said. km & 5.8 km above mean sea level rain will occur in Malkangiri, Some places in Bargarh, Special Relief Commissioner (SRC) Garg, principal secretary of the has been formed over northwest Koraput, Bolangir, Nawarangpur, Sambalpur, Sonepur, Angul, PK Jena has advised all Collectors state agriculture and farmers’ em- Bay of Bengal & neighbourhood. Kalahandi, Kandhamal & Nuapada Dhenkanal, Keonjhar, Deogarh, to closely monitor the situation powerment department and Under its influence, a low pressure districts with extreme heavy rain- Nawarangpur, Kalahandi, and remain prepared to meet Mohapatra, additional secretary and Abdul Akhtar, project direc- Dr Annada Prasad Pattnaik, su- area is likely to form over north fall at a few places over the dis- Kandhamal and Boudh districts water-logging or flood like situa- of general administration depart- tor, district rural development perintendent, Dr Datteswar Hota, and adjoining west central Bay of tricts of Kalahandi, Nawarangpur would witness heavy rain August 12. tion including in urban areas. ment said this at a review meet- agency (DRDA). principal of SCB Medical College and Bengal by Sunday. This system will and Koraput August 10. Rayagada, Due to likely formation of a low The Collectors are also instructed ing at the district collectorate here, The two had a discussion with po- Hospital and Dr Lalatendu Sarangi, bring heavy rainfall in the south and Nayagarh, Boudh, Gajapati and pressure area over north and ad- to ensure that fishermen follow Saturday. Collector Bhabani lice commissioner Sudhansu director, AHPGIC talked about var- interior Odisha, said Bhubaneswar Bargarh districts will also receive joining west central Bay of Bengal the advisory strictly. Shankar Chayini presided over Sarangi and later with CMC com- ious steps being taken in the hospital the meeting missioner Das and DCP Prateek to contain the Covid pandemic. The two senior officers asked Singh to take proper measures to CDMO Dr Satyabrata Chhotray PUJARI TESTS Robbers’ gang district officials to increase RTPCR check the spread of coronavirus said that 2,855 persons have been and antigen tests and activate the in Malgodown area of the city. The identified as Covid positives through COVID POSITIVE Surge in +ves due to busted in City tracking of suspected patients. The meeting decided to provide duty testing of 37,101 samples in RTPCR Bhubaneswar: BJP leader and Bargarh Bhubaneswar: The special squad of Collector also shared with others passes to labourers and staff in and 7,495 samples through antigen MP Suresh Pujari has tested positive Commissionerate Police has busted a about opening of more 100-bed the area on a rotation basis and take testing. He said testing of 900 to for Covid-19. Pujari through his twitter increased testing: BMC looters’ gang involved in several car Covid care centres in the district hav- steps to make them work separately. 1,000 samples are being conducted handle informed about contracting the lifting and robbery incidents in the city ing facilities for testing, dialysis The meeting also decided to on a daily basis which will be in- virus. “Even though I did not have any POST NEWS NETWORK and its adjoining areas. The squad and treatment. target reducing the death toll based creased in the coming days. symptoms, I got myself tested for arrested four members of the gang The two officers had a threadbare on Covid combat measures and Dr Aswni Jena, director of Covid-19 yesterday. Today Bargarh Bhubaneswar, August 8: With a including Manua, the mastermind, discussion on the present Covid medical consultation facilities at Aswini Hospital said steps are Collector informed me that I am posi- sudden surge in COVID cases in the from Pipli. According to sources, the pandemic situation in urban and SCB Medical College and Hospital being taken to install 50 more beds tive,” Pujari tweeted. The MP said he is state capital, the Bhubaneswar gang also allegedly looted a gold rural areas of the district with sen- and at Acharya Harihar Post in the Covid hospital . Rural SP B in home isolation on the advice of doc- Municipal Corporation (BMC) chain and other ornaments of ior district officials like the Collector, Graduate Institute of Cancer (AH- Jugalkishore and senior officials tors and the District Collector and his Saturday clarified that the rise in Vigilance DSP, Tanuja Mohanty, from CMC Commissioner, Ananya Das, PGIC) in Cuttack. attended the meeting. health condition is good. cases was due to increased number Chaudhary also mentioned that near her residence July 26. of testing that has risen to 30 per testing teams have gone up to 13 to cent over past 10 days. meet the increased rate of testing. Three of family The BMC until Tuesday reported However, the commissioner also 190 new cases, raising the city’s said that the civic authorities are critical in LPG blast Cyber crooks dupe lady professor tally of COVID cases to 3,763. Out facing challenges with people not Kendrapara: Three members of a fam- of these, 1,262 cases have been de- coming forward for testing. “We ily sustained critical burn injuries in POST NEWS NETWORK tomer care on the internet so that downloaded according to the in- tected over last 10 days. Moreover, have allowed most cases for home an LPG cylinder blast while their she could officially request for the structions by the accused. The ac- out of the total active cases, 207 quarantines and in critical cases we house was completely charred at Bhubaneswar, August 8: A woman refund. The victim came across as cused also told the victim that she are from slum areas and more than have immediately shifted people Dhumat village under this tehsil and associate professor of BJB a fake website https://country- had to transfer the EMI amount 37 cases are being reported from five to COVID hospitals. Thus, people district, Saturday. The injured persons Autonomous College lost `60,000 loxliving.business.site claiming to again using the new IFSC code major slums of which Kancha Sahi should not panic and come ahead were identified as Rama Chandra to cyber crooks following a failed fi- officially help customers get refund through the fresh downloaded app. has the highest 21 cases. for testing,” he requested. Nayak, 50, his wife Sasmita, 45 and nancial transaction on Google Pay, from Google Pay. None picked up the A few minutes later, the accused Addressing the media, BMC Meanwhile, speaking over the daughter Varsha, 2, in the village. the popular digital wallet platform call when she tried to make con- again called her and asked her to pay Commissioner Prem Chandra improved recovery rate, Chaudhary Their house and `50,000 which the and online payment system. The pay account. However, the amount tact with the executive mentioned `8296 once more so that the refund Chaudhary said, “Testing in the stated a 13% improvement in re- couple had saved for construction of a 57-year-old professor has lodged a could not be credited to the payee’s in the website. Later, the fraudster process could be completed. However, city has increased by 30% and this covery cases. As per the latest in- new house was completely destroyed in the fire. They were rushed to the complaint with Sahid Nagar po- bank account due to some techni- phoned her and asked her to down- she disconnected the call immedi- has helped in larger detection of the formation, the city has 2360 recov- district headquarters hospital from lice in this regard. cal glitches. Meanwhile, she also load the Google Pay app as per his ately smelling foul play. Subsequently, infection. On July 29th, only 1749 ered and 1383 active cases out of where doctors administered them ` As per her complaint, she re- found that the same amount was deb- instructions. Accordingly, the vic- she found around 60000 was with- tests were carried out which de- 3763 cases. “The recovery rate stood treatment. The incident occurred portedly transferred `8296 to the ited to her bank account. tim entered the codes and account drawn from her account in two in- tected 105 positives. However, 2285 only 50 per cent until 10 days ago, when Sasmita was preparing tea in SBI bank account of a city-based ve- Subsequently, she searched the details including a different IFSC stallments. Police have started an in- tests were done, August 7 which however, it now stands at 63.16%,” the morning. Fire personnel rushed to hicle showroom through her Google contact number of Google Pay cus- code on the new Google Pay app vestigation into the case. detected 190 cases.” the commissioner said. the spot and doused the fire. BPUT STUDENTS COMPLAIN Bamboo seed balls to keep jumbos off villages SNAGS DURING ONLINE TESTS POST NEWS NETWORK The experiment to increase bam- GAME CHANGER boo cover is taken up in July - POST NEWS NETWORK tion to students to use laptops/ Athagarh, August 8: Athagarh August .These seeds germinate and Android mobile handsets/ tablets forest division is one of the worst- fficials of the forest department the saplings grow up in four months. Bhubaneswar, August 8: A group to write online examination. hit areas due to straying of ele- Oand people bearing the brunt of The plants take six to seven months of BPUT students, who are ap- The university had also asked stu- phants into villages. Jumbos com- elephant depredation nurture hope time to fully grow up and provide pearing for their final semester dents, especially those appearing ing from Chandaka Dampada that growing bamboos will be a shoots to elephants .Prior to the examinations through the online for online examinations not feel game-changer in confining elephants Sanctuary enter villages in Athagarh implementation of the bamboo ex- mode, Saturday said they have en- let down as they will be given an- to forest limits and Khuntuni ranges of our divi- periment to arrest man-elephant countered numerous problems other chance to sit for offline ex- sion to eat standing crops causing endro calamus’ bamboo or confrontation, a massive aware- while writing the online tests. aminations as a regular student. damage to fruit-bearing trees and ‘DSalia bamboo seed balls were ness campaign had been set in mo- The hassles included automatic Deepak Kumar Sahoo, Director, vegetable plants besides rampaging prepared by community involvement tion in all the villages hit by elephant logging out during examinations, Examinations, said the students, human settlements. and were dropped to restock salia depredations for restoration of nat- non-availability of questions on who could not pass in their theory People also get killed as there bamboo to enrich elephant ural habitat of elephants. One quin- time and answers not being ac- papers for whatsoever reasons, will are several instances in the past of “Man-elephant conflict continues to their habitat and they will not stray habitats in 38 reserve forests of tal bamboo seeds which were cepted properly. The semester ex- be given another chance to re-ap- marauding elephants crushing pose trouble for Athgarh forest di- out of the forest in search of food.” Athgarh forest division brought from silviculture division amination started August 4. pear for the final year exams once them to death. Bamboo shoots are vision area from time to time. We Officials of the forest depart- at Jashipur, Baripada would be Pritam Das, one of the students, colleges are re-opened and normalcy a favoured food of jumbos. Its ger- are hopeful that bamboo cover in the ment and people bearing the brunt Salia bamboo seed balls were pre- thrown in the open patches inside said the university should imme- is restored. Earlier, the students had mination has raised hopes of curb- forest will check the conflict to a of elephant depredation nurture pared by community involvement the dense forests. Elephants love diately strengthen its infrastructure protested the examination citing ing elephants from raiding human great extent. ‘Bamboo shoots are rel- hope that growing bamboos will and were dropped to restock salia chewing bamboo shoots. Once the and install a backup support fail- prevalence of Covid-19. The online habitations in search of food. ished by elephants. We are highly be a game-changer in confining ele- bamboo to enrich elephant habi- shoots come out of the plants, the ing which it will be difficult for exams are being conducted for BTech, Interacting with Orissa POST, optimistic that it will meet the food phants to forest limits. tats in 38 reserve forests of Athgarh animals’ interference into villages students to give examinations. B Phara, BBA and BCA, MTech, M

Athagarh DFO Sasmita Lenka said, requirement of wild elephants in ‘Dendro calamus’ bamboo or forest division. will definitely come down. The university had given an op- Pharm, MBA and MCA streams.

k y m c P5 SUNDAY | AUGUST 9 | 2020 | BHUBANESWAR state

IDCO bid to develop MSME park faces hurdle Infra development projects

k y m About 37 years ago, nearly 180 acres were acquired for a paper mill in Kensiga c at throwaway prices; now land losers strongly oppose the new project hang fire amid admin apathy POST NEWS NETWORK POST NEWS NETWORK JOB PROMISES COME TO NAUGHT Bhadrak, August 8: Infrastructure Kesinga, August 8: About 37 years On promise of n As the land losers kept their development projects like food & tex- ago, efforts had been initiated to jobs, land was fingers crossed for the ambitious tile parks, a district level stadium, set up a paper mill at Kurlupada taken away for the project, the paper mill authorities sold a district jail and an indoor sta- under Kesinga block in Kalahandi paper mill. off the land to IDCO in 1994-94 without dium in Bhadrak have faltered due district, but that project could not Locals were the knowledge of the land losers to an apathetic attitude of the dis- be realized. Now efforts are being upbeat about trict administration. employment scope n IDCO later renamed the area as made to set up an MSME park at the Even as several ambitious proj- for them. In 1984, Kurlupada Industrial Estate with barbed place. This has enraged the farm- then Chief fences around the land. The farmers ects have come under red-tape, oth- ers of the area. The farmers strongly Minister Janaki were upset over this ers could not see the limelight amid opposed it and halted its work a Ballabh Pattnaik development and moved the administrative impasse even after couple of days ago. and then MLA Bhawanipatana civil court. The land acquisitions. Nearly 217 acres Initially, 217.71 acres were ac- district jail at Bhadrak town was de- According to reports, land was ac- Bhupinder Singh farmers demanded return of their land. have already been acquired for dif- quired for the construction of the cided to be shifted due lack of space quired at Kurlupada for the paper laid the foundation In 1995-96, the IDCO authorities, after ferent projects in Bhadrak district proposed Dharani Sugar Factory in to Amargadia and then again to mill project in 1983. Locals were stone of the facing legal tangle, assured the so far. Denizens have resented lack 1995 beside Dhamnagar Chhak Bahudarada area. The district ad- upbeat about employment scope project farmers to return their land of development in the district over along the national highway. However, ministration had chalked out plans for them. In 1984, then Chief the years. The government repre- over 26 years have passed since to construct a new district jail here Minister Janaki Ballabh Pattnaik Mill of Jeypore at throwaway price,” ities, after facing legal tangle, assured and an acre of Bahal land was Rs sentatives allegedly show no then and there has been no progress on 20 acres of land. and then MLA Bhupinder Singh they said. The land losers kept their the farmers to return their land. 150 60,000. In 2007-08, the IDCO leased out willpower for infrastructure de- whatsoever. Later, it was decided by The Deputy Inspector General laid the foundation stone of the fingers crossed for the ambitious farmers were told to send demand 12 acres of this land to Kesinga NAC velopment in the district. the district administration to set up (Jail) demarcated the land for the project. But the project was not ex- project for 14 years, but the project draft of Rs 500 each in favour of for a new bus stand. Kapila Majhi of Even though there was a long a food & textile park in the same purpose, but this project has made ecuted even after 37 years, local could not happen. Thereafter, the IDCO, Bhubaneswar, they added. the area had moved the High Court standing demand for development place. On the other hand, hun- no progress, it was alleged. farmers alleged. paper mill authorities sold off the “After receipt of the demand against the lease of the land. projects like medical college, agri- dreds of displaced villagers be- Bhadrak additional project offi- “The paper mill project was land to IDCO in 1994-94 without the drafts of Rs 75,000, the IDCO tried “The land was taken away from cultural university, university sta- longing to Pahimahura, cer Rajendra Kumar Panda said, shelved, but an MSME park is being knowledge of the land losers. to play delaying tactics, by asking us at throwaway price. Now the tus to Bhadrak autonomous col- Manjurigadia and Helapur areas “No decision was taken as yet about developed instead, they lamented. Then, IDCO renamed the area farmers to submit various docu- IDCO will earn in crores of rupees lege, nursing school in the district, under Bhandaripokhari block have which company would set up the- Over 3000 families of ST/SC and as Kurlupada Industrial Estate. A ments. We were harassed,” they by leasing out the land for the there has been very little progress lost their hopes for infrastructure food & textile park.” other communities live in Kurlupada signboard was put up there while pointed out. Then, farmers again MSME park, schools, industrial in this regard. development. Similarly, the ambi- Lawyer Gadadhar Bal said, “With and Nuapada villages. Farming is barbed fences were raised around moved the court in this connec- units and food parks,” the farmers A food & textile park, which was tious Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium no industries being set up in the dis- the sole source of their livelihood. the land. The farmers were upset tion. In 1995-96, the IDCO paid Rs said, adding that what they will proposed at Dhamnagar Chhak project proposed at Bhadrak town trict, poor people migrate to outside “When the land acquisition was over this development and moved 10,000 as compensation per acre of get. Alok Ranjan Bai, a JE of IDCO, under Bhandaripokhari block, has suffers the same fate. districts and cities.” “217 acres of carried out for the paper mill, 300 the Bhawanipatana civil court. The Bhata land and Rs 15,000 per acre said, “The land will be used for an faltered. Construction work of this Interdepartmental officials are en- land acquired here are unutilised families were promised jobs. 180 farmers demanded return of their of Bahal land while an acre of MSME park, schools and indus- project has failed to begin despite tangled only in discussions and of- for the past 26 years,” alleged labour acres were acquired by Seva Paper land. In 1995-96, the IDCO author- Bhatta land was valued at Rs 30,000 tries. No paper mill will come up.” land acquisition. ficial correspondences. Likewise, the union leader Samar Bal. OPD of Bhadrak DHH closed UNITED EFFORT Hirakud dam opens eighth for 48 hours as doc tests +ve gate to release floodwater

POST NEWS NETWORK Madhusudan Padhi visited Bhadrak POST NEWS NETWORK Friday to review the COVID-19 man- Bhadrak, August 8: The outdoor agement in the district. In view of Sambalpur, August 8: The Hirakud patient department (OPD) of the the cases increasing in the district, dam authorities Saturday opened district headquarters hospital he advised the district administra- another gate to release floodwater. (DHH) in Bhadrak has been closed tion to increase the number of As of now, floodwater is being re- for 48 hours from Saturday. COVID Care Centres in the district. leased through eight gates. As per According to chief district med- He also directed conduct of tests the information provided by the Bengal over next 24 hours which will ical officer Dr Santosh Kumar of footpath vendors and people com- dam authorities, the dam’s pres- trigger heavy rainfall in the upper Patra, the OPD will remain closed ing to the markets by setting up ent water level stands at 608.31 catchment areas of the River till Sunday as a doctor and his mobile testing camps at block head- feet against the maximum level of Mahanadi. The dam authorities driver tested positive for COVID-19. quarters and town areas. Notably, 630 feet. decided to open more gates in the During this period, sanitization of the district Saturday reported two The inflow and discharge of event of more water inflow into the hospital premises and contact fresh COVID-19 positive cases. With floodwater through eight gates was the dam. Notably, the dam had re- tracing will be carried out. this addition, the district’s tally has 1,48,012 cusecs and 1,20,795 cusecs portedly received less water than “However, emergency healthcare gone up to 856. Of them, 603 pa- per second respectively by 9 am the set target in July. The dam had will continue unaffected,” he added. tients have already recovered from Saturday. received 4.163 million acre feet of Notably, Principal Secretary to the disease and 245 are undergoing Another low pressure is all set water as against 5.419 million Government, Commerce and treatment. So far four patients have to form in the west-central Bay of acre feet. Transport Department-cum- died due to COVID-19 and four oth- People of Dasamanthpur in Koraput district laying a road with their own efforts after the administration failed to act Bhadrak district COVID-19 observer, ers due to reasons other than COVID. on the their long demand for a road OP PHOTO Flood havoc in farmlands

POST NEWS NETWORK Floodwater has affected Sahada area of Bhadrak block, Padmapur, No road to Nagada village in Jajpur yet Padmapur,August 8: After low Sugo, Edatala, Lunga, pressure-induced incessant rains Jagannathprasad areas of RD DEPT SAYS, A PUCCA ROAD CANNOT BE LAID UNDER PMGSY CITING POOR POPULATION IN THE VILLAGES AS PER 2001-CENSUS lashed Bhadrak district for last Basudevpur block including two days, several rivers in the dis- Guagaon, Bishnubindha, Kalasia, POST NEWS NETWORK Scheduled Tribes Welfare lage comprises Badanagada, trict including Kanchudi, Dhala Jakhipur, Pata villages. Department had sanctioned Rs 2 Majhinagada and Talanagada areas and Mantei are in spate. First flood- According to locals floodwater of Jajpur, August 8: Following the crore and the DMF had sanctioned of Chingudipal panchayat under waters of the season, meanwhile, about two to three feet high flows state government’s announcement Rs 12.81 crore for the purpose. Sukinda block in Jajpur district. inundated farmlands at several above farmlands here. As the rain to take up Nagada as an ‘ideal vil- However, Higreeva was given Notably, as per the 2001 census places in Basudevpur block here. continues, water level is unlikely lage’ after a large number of chil- contract for Rs 12.95 crore only. Nagada had a population of only 231 Local farmers had been facing a to recede within coming week. This dren died there from malnutrition Even as the kutcha road was com- persons. According to central gov- drought-like situation earlier. situation could give rise to seedlings in July 2016, it was decided to con- pleted 31 July, 2017, the road has ernment guidelines, the popula- Hundreds of acres of farmlands getting wasted, thereby badly af- struct a kutcha road on priority become dilapidated within a very tion of a village should at least be have been submerged in rainwater fecting farming activities. basis to facilitate a road link to the short span of time. around 250 in order to be included in Bhadrak district owing to flood. “It is going to be a double village. “Murram layers from the kutcha under PMGSY for the purpose of Basudevpur block has recorded whammy for us. We will be able However, the ambitious road proj- road have run down, rendering the constructing a pucca road. rainfall of 117mm during the past to manage the situation on our ect at Nagada village under Sukinda road inaccessible and unsuitable The report of RD department 24 hours. own,” a local farmer lamented. block in Jajpur district, as it seems, for local commuters. The villagers added that the entire region came may not see light of the day. Same had demanded a through e-grievance under Daitari forest range. For ob- is also the fate of infrastructure before Jajpur Rural Development vious reasons, it appears that kutcha development here. Department chief engineer for con- road is the only option available Odia doc in natnl healthcare panel A district level report of Jajpur structing a pucca road instead,” for villagers of Nagada. POST NEWS NETWORK Prasad Mahant. The health de- Rural Development Department Nagada villagers resented such ab- foundation (DMF) funds. some Nagada villagers expressed. Erstwhile Principal Secretary of partment has feted Dr Ratikant has revealed that constructing a surd statistical information which Notably, most of the villagers A complaint is pending at Health and Family Welfare Koraput,August 8: A doctor of several times for his outstand- pucca road to Nagada village is not dates back to nearly 20 years. are Juanga tribals. Construction Lokayukta alleging low quality Department Arati Ahuja had visited Korapur has been nominated as a ing contributions to raising aware- possible. The RD department said As per plans, the proposed 7.66 km- work of the kutcha road was as- road construction work that has Nagada 13 July, 2016. In sharp con- member of All India Standing ness on blood donation and blood population of the villages is very low long kutcha road connecting to signed to a contract firm named been done here. After getting e- trast to RD department’s report, Committee on tribal healthcare. collection. according to 2001 census and a Nagada village was constructed Higreeva Infrastructure 10 grievance from Nagada villagers, the Ahuja had reported to the state gov- People have con- pucca road cannot be constructed from Naliadaba area on the foothills November, 2016. The contract firm chief engineer had sought an in- ernment that the total population gratulated under the Pradhan Mantri Gram of Ashokajhar passing through was asked to carry out construction vestigation report from his subor- of Nagada village was 295. Doctor Ratikant Sadak Yojana. Badanagada, Majhinagada and work as per guidelines of the Forest dinate executive engineer Bijay Badanagada had a population of Khatua for his The department has also men- stretching up to Talanagada. Rs and Environment Department vide Kumar Maharana. 61 villagers, Majhinagada 72 and nomination to a tioned in its report that, Nagada 12.95 crore was spent on this road its letter (No.-8047/23.08.2016). Accordingly, the executive engi- Talanagada had 162 persons, her national com- village comes under forest area. project from the district mineral The Scheduled Castes and neer has reported that Nagada vil- report had said. mittee. The Central Council of the Indian Medical Association held its meeting at Kolkota where Man hacked over a decision was taken to take Odia pilot picked for Gaganyaan mission Ratikanata as a member. Another suspected sorcery Odia doctor from Keonjhar was POST NEWS NETWORK nNIKHIL, SELECTED n HE COMPLETED HIS SCHOOLING FROM KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA also nominated to this standing POST NEWS NETWORK FROM AMONG 25 IN 1998 AND 12TH FROM DELHI PUBLIC SCHOOL IN 2000. HE committee. He is doctor Mahesh Bolangir, August 8: Among 25 TEST PILOTS, WILL WAS SELECTED FOR NATIONAL DEFENCE ACADEMY (NDA) Joda, August 8: An elderly per- shortlisted test pilots, Wing UNDERGO WHILE PURSUING HIS GRADUATION AT HINDU COLLEGE. IN son was allegedly hacked to death Commander Nikhil Rath from TRAINING IN 2003, HE JOINED THE INDIAN AIR FORCE (IAF) on suspicion of practicing sor- Bolangir district has been selected RUSSIA FOR ONE cery at Jamitar village under for ISRO’S ambitious lunar mis- YEAR BEFORETHE Bamebari police limits of Keonjhar. sion – Gaganyaan. Two unmanned ISRO SET IN THE n THE AMBITIOUS GAGANYAAN PROJECT WAS SANCTIONED RS His body was buried in a forest by and one manned flight will be un- MOTION THE 10,000 CRORE AND WAS ANNOUNCED BY PRIME MINISTER three persons Thursday night. dertaken as part of the mission, a MUCH-AWAITED NARENDRA MODI DURING HIS INDEPENDENCE DAY SPEECH IN The deceased was identified as report said. SPACE MISSION 2018. A THREE-MEMBER CREW WILL BE SENT TO SPACE FOR Mansingh Munda (55) Nikhil is the son of Ashok Rath, UNDER SEVEN DAYS. THE SPACECRAFT WILL CIRCLE THE EARTH AT A According to police, three per- a renowned advocate and leader of GAGANYAAN DISTANCE OF 300-400 KM sons came to Mansingh Munda Bolangir district and Kusum Rath, late Thursday night and accom- a member of Mahila Commission. one year before the onset of the launch an Indian-crewed space- test pilots at the Institute of panied him to a nearby forest. After getting selected, Governor space mission under Gaganyaan. craft by the Indian Space Research Aerospace Medicine in Bangalore. They hacked him with an axe and Ganeshi Lal has sent him words of Nikhil completed his schooling Organisation (ISRO) by 2022. The The ambitious Gaganyaan proj- buried the body in a pit. Following praise and accolades for this rare from Kendriya Vidyalaya in 1998 first Gaganyaan flight scheduled ect was sanctioned Rs 10,000 crore

a complaint by Mansing’s son, po- honour. and 12th from Delhi Public School for 2022 will carry three astronauts, and was announced by Prime

k y m c lice started an investigation. Nikhil was selected from among in 2000. He was selected for National who will be picked from among the Minister Narendra Modi during Joda IIC Raisan Murmu and 25 test pilots. However, three other Defence Academy (NDA) while pur- test pilots in the armed forces. his Independence Day speech in Bamebari IIC Amitabh Das re- test pilots have also been selected suing his graduation at Hindu Notably, Indian Air Force had 2018. A three-member crew will be covered the body. Meanwhile, po- for the lunar mission. All the 25 College. In 2003, he joined the Indian completed the first level of select- sent to space for seven days. The lice arrested an accused while shortlisted pilots, including Nikhil, Air Force (IAF). ing astronauts for ambitious spacecraft will circle the earth at a others are absconding. will undergo training in Russia for Mission Gaganyaan aims to Gaganyaan mission from its pool of distance of 300-400 km. P6 SUNDAY | AUGUST 9 | 2020 | BHUBANESWAR power post

FOCUS GEOPOLITICS We have every one of us a role to

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k y m we alone can occupy. c THE MOTHER PAK’S CARTOGRAPHIC WAR

slamabad has launched a fresh fering a plebiscite is fraught with attack on India. Following the legal complexities and cannot over- new map released officially ride the Instrument of Accession. Mahabharata against Iby Nepal, Pakistan seeks to To illustrate, Nehru did not get engage India in a cartographic his proposal to go to UN approved war. The government supporters by the Cabinet, nor was it ratified say the new is a fresh rendition of by the Parliament. Hence it does not Covid has been lost the old one issued in 2017. The obligate India to adhere to it. only changes are in the language Second, the UN clearly suggests he Mahabharata against Covid has been lost. India has registered and emphasis. that India could keep some amount more cases this week, about three lakh, than any other nation in- The map was released August 4, of its forces necessary to main- Tcluding the United States. We are clocking over 60,000 cases a day and a day before the first anniversary tain law and order, whereas there is nothing to stop the number going to one lakh a day and higher. of the repeal of Article 370, and 35A. Pakistan had to withdraw all of The only places in India that have registered a drop are those cities where Pakistan Prime Minister Imran its army and the irregulars. the levels of infections are so widespread that half the entire city has already Khan, flanked by his Foreign Lord Mountbatten, Governor- been touched and the scope for increase is limited. Nothing is stopping the Minister Shah Muhammad General of India wrote to Maharaja spread of Covid. Qureshi released it. He said the Unless New Delhi successfully rebuffs China, Hari Singh who signed the It may interest readers to know that India is the only nation to show a con- new map represents the aspira- our discomfiture in South Asia will get worse, Instrument of Accession, that “as sistently exponential trend of growth. Our graph from the beginning of tions and opinions of all political not better. New Delhi’s China policy still soon as Kashmir soil is cleared of March to today is one that goes straight up and steeply. This is not how Dr DK Giri parties of Pakistan and the lead- the invader, people could be con- other nations have responded. Europe saw peaks in March and then Italy, Spain, ership of Kashmir. He added, it lacks teeth. The Foreign Minister continues sulted on the accession.” Pakistan UK and others have declined since then. America saw a peak in April led mostly was a historic day. They would to prevaricate and talks of no alliance had not vacated Kashmir, so there by the spread in New York, then a fall and now is seeing another rise in other IMRAN KHAN begin to campaign worldwide to se- was no question of any referen- parts of the country. cure Kashmir from India’s occu- dum. Third, a resolution that had Bangladesh saw a peak in June and has since been in decline. Pakistan was ANNOUNCED pation. The Pakistan PM empha- grandisement and backs it with as a disputed territory. Our diplo- not been implemented in over 70 clocking half the number of cases as India but peaked in June and has been sised on the political resolution cross-border terrorism. Pakistan’s macy has been found lacking. years is no longer valid. New Delhi dropping since, averaging less than 1,000 cases a day now. Sri Lanka has been THAT THE NEW of the status of Kashmir under cartographic attack is not unpre- As luck would have it, Pakistan should write to the UNSC for the in total control of the epidemic and has only 300 active cases at the moment MAP WILL BE A the UN Security Council, not a dicted and New Delhi also has re- became isolated in the world after revocation of that resolution. and a total of only 11 deaths since its first cases appeared in March. military solution. acted on predicted lines. What is the United States pulled off its So we are back to the Instrument. India is the only nation, to repeat, that has consistently been going up in PART OF THE Imran Khan announced that interesting to note is Islamabad hand. Islamabad is left with China Here, the shoe is on the other leg. terms of number of cases from the start till now. CURRICULUM IN the new map will be a part of the mirroring Nepal. Kathmandu did and Turkey to support it on Pakistan is the invader and the il- This was not the result expected when the Centre took charge of the prob- curriculum in schools and col- a new map claiming Indian terri- Kashmir. In the past, Pakistan legal occupier of Indian territory. lem on March 24 when we had 500 cases. We have 30 times more cases each SCHOOLS AND leges. This means Pakistan is tory, got it approved by their used to get more support as we Worse, it has given away parts of day today after various lockdowns from total bans on all activity to a series COLLEGES. THIS preparing the next generations to Parliament and is now sending it had to depend upon the former it to China. So China also is the il- of unlocks that nobody really understands any longer and almost nobody fol- continue to claim territories from to international bodies. Islamabad Soviet Union to veto any resolution legal occupant of part of Kashmir. lows. Even the police, initially enthusiastic MEANS India. Pakistan has also decided to wants to do the same. in the Security Council. Even in Why has India not formally claimed about stopping movement, have lost interest celebrate August 5 as You-e-Istehsal Why have India’s neighbours international politics, you have POK except in informal talks within across the country in trying to combat the PAKISTAN IS (Day of Exploitation). The Foreign raised their tempo against India? friends and adversaries. the country? The Indian Parliament plague. The question is not whether we have lost PREPARING Minister’s tone was more aggres- It is not difficult to unravel their Facts do not speak for them- passed a unanimous resolution to the Covid Mahabharata because the numbers sive, as he declared that their next strategies. Both the neighbours selves. You need supporters to pres- say the entire Kashmir belongs to are clear. The question is why. The answer is that THE NEXT destination was Srinagar and said are working at the behest of Beijing, ent the facts for you. Imran Khan India. Why has New Delhi not we never had a strategy to counter the GENERATIONS in the India-China border conflict, piggy-backing on China’s aggres- talks about United Nations Security launched a diplomatic offensive pandemic. The first lockdown was the biggest Islamabad has a view too. sion. We have written ad nauseam Council; we refer to the Shimla to claim POK? mistake we made. What Modi should have TO CONTINUE The map shows entire Jammu how New Delhi fumbled against the Agreement mandating both coun- India’s foreign policy has been told the country was that this was a highly in- and Kashmir, Ladakh, Sir Creek Chinese and emboldened our neigh- tries for a bilateral solution. What reactive, not pro-active. That is fectious disease but with a very low fatality TO CLAIM region, Junagarh, and Manavadar bours. Unless New Delhi success- is the background to Kashmir the crux of the problem. Pakistan rate. People should be extremely cautious about TERRITORIES regions of Gujarat, Siachen fully rebuffs China, our discomfi- issue? Does Pakistan have a case? talks of self-determination of not touching their face, washing their hands Aakar Patel Glaciers as parts of Pakistan. The ture in South Asia will get worse, The answer is a big No. Why is Kashmiris. What about the self-de- regularly and wearing a mask to protect others. FROM INDIA areas of Ladakh bordering China not better. New Delhi’s China pol- New Delhi not placing the facts termination of Baluchs? New They could go about their work and business Covid was a are stated to be undefined territory icy still lacks teeth. The Foreign before the international commu- Delhi can recognise Baluchistan otherwise. in deference to China. Minister continues to prevaricate; nity and calling Pakistan’s bluff ? as a separate country and open What he did instead was to send panic into struggle not of The reaction from South Block talks of no alliance, appeals to In August 1947, when India and diplomatic contact with them. the entire country. By calling it a Mahabharata brief violence, an was prompt and sharp. It said Chinese to trust India that it is Pakistan became independent from If that is too radical, open a and saying specifically that we would win it in “Pakistan’s new map is an exercise still not aligned with USA, Britain about 600 principalities Centre to deal with human rights 21 days, he took the seriousness out of the fight 18-day war like in political absurdity.” The argu- Australia, Japan, or France. were given the choice of joining violations in Baluchistan. It is against Covid. It would end after the lockdown Mahabharata, but a ment is untenable without any At any rate, we are not engag- India or Pakistan. About 500 joined time New Delhi took the fight to is what he told us, and this was wrong. This was legal validity or global credulity. ing here with our policy on China. India and 100 or so annexed to Beijing and Islamabad. There has not a short and sharp battle that would be won long one of Pakistan claims that the map is the We deal with our Pakistan policy. Pakistan. This was done through to be a serious strategy shift, not or lost over three weeks but a long one of vig- first step towards self determi- Why do we let Kashmir issue fes- an Instrument of Accession, which the outdated platitudes we get to ilance rather than extreme measures. carefulness and nation of Kashmiris. New Delhi dis- ter? How does Pakistan raise it stated that if the king along with hear from our Foreign Minister. The three-week strict lockdown was called by patience missed it as a cheap stunt; in re- time and again? Clearly, we are the largest party signed to join, INFA an Oxford University study as the harshest in ality, Islamabad uses terror as an not doing enough to silence that will be treated as final and ir- the world. The lockdown in India, along with instrument state policy. Pakistan Pakistan. Also, we allow the other revocable. Jawaharlal Nehru tak- The writer is Professor, that in Mauritius, New Zealand and South Africa, was rated 100, meaning is obsessed with territorial ag- countries to comment on Kashmir ing it to the United Nations and of- International Politics, JMI. individuals had no freedom. New Zealand peaked in March, Mauritius in April and South Africa in July. In India it made no meaningful difference to the rate of spread. Not only that, it has comprehensively gutted the economy in a way that all of us can palpably feel at the level of each individual. All of SPECTRUM VIROLOGY us are suffering in a way that we have not before in our lives. Those who are not yet, will soon do so. This is a recession, a word whose meaning none of us is familiar with. The mismanagement of the lockdown has made India pay a real price that it is still continuing to pay a full four months later. A report in the Hindu Frontline headlined ‘Surat: Silence of the looms’ said that 35 lakh migrants in the Surat Why do HIV vaccine trials keep failing area had gone back home after suffering great deprivation. There was no- body to operate the machines and even markets that were open would be shut et another seemingly prom- In fact, of the 125 (initially HIV- counterparts. That was not the mediary trial could have enabled down when one positive case was discovered. There was no plan to move for- ising HIV vaccine has failed negative) trial participants who be- case. Nonetheless, some researchers researchers to determine whether ward and things were happening by default. If the workers would return, and Y in clinical trials. According came infected with HIV (out of a total considered the results promising it was worth investing in another if demand for fabric would return, then the great manufacturing city of Surat to Anthony Fauci, the head of the of 16,402), 74 had received the placebo enough to proceed with the recent large-scale trial – at much lower cost. would try to stand again on its feet. Till that time, things would continue the National Institute of Allergy and and 51 had received the vaccine. South Africa trial, HVTN 702, which The leftover money could have way they were. This level of incompetence is not to be found in any other na- Infectious Diseases at the United That amounts to an efficacy rate tested a vaccine candidate based on been channelled toward other mit- tion that has been hit by Covid. States National Institutes of Health, of 31.2 per cent – a good starting the RV 144 candidate, but adapted igation strategies for HIV/AIDS, in- The truth is that Modi is attracted to the grand announcement. He likes which was conducting the trial, a point, but nowhere near the level re- to the HIV strain that is most promi- cluding basic research. the spotlight and the energy of the moment. Covid was a struggle not of brief vaccine is ‘essential to end the quired to tackle a public-health chal- nent in the country. After 18 months, Fauci is right: a vaccine is es- violence, an 18 day war like Mahabharata, but a long one of carefulness and global pandemic.’ But while the lenge of the magnitude of Sub- 129 of the 5,400 participants who re- sential to end the HIV epidemic in patience. Other nations knew it and their leaders communicated it in that Denis Chopera latest failure is a disappointment, Saharan Africa’s HIV epidemic. ceived the vaccine had become in- Sub-Saharan Africa and beyond. But fashion. Modi’s style has left us with 20 lakh cases and over 40,000 deaths and it should come as no surprise. A closer look at the results in- fected, compared to 123 of those it is a long-term solution, and we who knows how many more to come. The peak is nowhere in sight still. And To understand why, it is useful to dicates that they are even weaker who received the placebo. don’t yet have the knowledge to it has absolutely ruined an economy that was already tottering last year. THE FACT THAT go back to the beginning. Just over than they seem. As the former This outcome was a major blow merit highly expensive, large-scale MORE PLACEBO 12 years ago, two studies involving Harvard Medical School professor to the millions of Africans who clinical trials. Small-scale human a vaccine candidate known as MRK- Ronald Desrosiers observed in 2017, hoped that researchers were finally trials, which can be scaled up once WISDOM CORNER RECIPIENTS Ad5 were halted. The failure was the HIV-acquisition curve for the approaching a long-term solution to they have been convincingly shown CONTRACTED HIV comprehensive: the studies – STEP placebo group is nonlinear, with a the AIDS epidemic. But the results to work, are simply more appro- Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies. (which enrolled men and women in sudden increase in acquisition of the Thailand trial were never priate at this point. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE HAD NOTHING TO the Americas, the Caribbean, and among the placebo recipients within strong enough to justify such a large In the meantime, vulnerable or Australia) and Phambili (includ- the first year of the trial. – and expensive – clinical trial. infected people need other kinds of Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what DO WITH THEM ing men and women in South Africa) That ‘anomalous’ increase ac- This is not to say that trial results support, from education to treat- will be. KAHLIL GIBRAN BEING LESS – found that MRK-Ad5 failed to pro- counts for ‘most or all of the dif- have to be overwhelmingly posi- ment. As exciting as they may He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight. tect subjects against HIV infection. ference in acquisition’ compared to tive to merit further study. But, as seem, pie-in-the-sky ideas – or even SUN TZU PROTECTED THAN Worse, there was evidence that it the vaccine recipients. In other Desrosiers also emphasises, spend- ‘intelligent’ guesses – are not suf- THOSE WHO HAD may have increased the chances of words, the fact that more placebo ing hundreds of millions of dollars ficient reason to sacrifice the health acquiring HIV. recipients contracted HIV had noth- to manufacture and test products and wellbeing of people today. WORDSWORTH RECEIVED THE The next year, however, hopes ing to do with them being less pro- with little reasonable hope of ef- were again raised, as another clin- tected than those who had received ficacy is wasteful, at best. More The writer is a medical VACCINE ical trial – known as RV 144 – seemed the vaccine. Desrosiers argued, if comprehensive basic and preclin- virologist and Programme Taqwacore to show modest positive results in the vaccine did have a protective ef- ical research would enable scien- Executive Manager for the Thailand. Yet the conclusion that the fect, vaccinated individuals who tists to identify approaches with a Sub-Saharan African Network aqwacore is a recent musical genre. The name combines the Arabic vaccine worked was based on some- became infected would have lower far better chance of success. In the for TB/HIV Research Ttaqwá, which may be translated as piety or the quality of being God- @PROJECT SYNDICATE fearing, with the music term hardcore. Its inspiration is a fictional work of what dubious statistical analysis. viral loads than their unvaccinated case of RV 144, a smaller inter- Excellence. 2003 by a white American Islamic convert, Michael Muhammad Knight, which featured a fictitious Muslim punk scene in the US. This led to real-life imitations, with bands rebelling against what they see as the stultifying convention and religious dogma of Islam while maintaining their faith. It’s Road accidents Twin tragedies Raging wildfires variously seen as a backlash against hate and fundamentalism, as a protest against Islamophobia in the US (9/11 is mentioned a lot), as a way to find an Sir, Two days ago, three of a family were killed in Sir, It was a black day for Kerala as Sir, Raging wildfires in the Amazon have identity as a child of immigrants, or as a rebellion against the attitudes of a road accident at Rathia Chhaka in Jajpur district. twin tragedies struck the state Friday. become a matter of concern for envi- their parents. The genre has received public attention as the result of a etters Nowadays, road accidents have become common While a landslip buried 18 tea work- ronmentalists. Brazilian President Jair Canadian documentary, Taqwacore, and a feature film, The Taqwacores, as people are driving haphazardly and injudi- ers in Idukki, an Air India Express Bolsonaro’s critics have placed the blame screened at the Sundance Festival earlier this year. ciously. In a state like Odisha vehicular traffic is aircraft carrying 190 passengers skid- at his doorsteps for his ‘anti-environ- TOL THE EDITOR not regulated strictly. Unruly and uncivilised peo- ded off the runway in Kozhikode, ment’ policies. The pro-development Readers of Orissa POST ple violate road safety norms and park their vehicles leaving 17 people dead and scores of image of Bolsonaro has angered con- LOL are most welcome to contribute letters in unauthorised places which result in road acci- other passengers injured. One learns servationists who feel that he is not doing (200 words), articles and dents. Over-speeding and drunken driving are that torrential rains led to the enough to save the forests from man- columns (between 750-1250 the pews for words). Contributors are other reasons for road accidents. In the lockdown tragedies, and the death toll could made disasters. Species of plants and an- New Office Supplies visitors to requested to send their period, the state registered 836 road accidents ac- climb. The Boeing aircraft, carrying imals in the rainforests slow down global register.” contact numbers and full counting for 84 deaths while 722 persons suffered 189 passengers and six crew mem- climate warming. Rainforests contribute

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k y m Kashmiri village leaders moved Migrants risk tiger attacks for livelihood c market. The ongoing lockdown due At least 12 people to the Covid pandemic has crip- pled everything. We have practi- were killed in tiger cally zero income now. We have to safety after wave of attacks come back from different states, attacks in the but we also have to run our Underlining the difficulties the government faces in restoring normalcy families,” he said. At least 12 peo- Sundarbans in the ple were killed in different tiger to Kashmir, around a dozen BJP members resigned from the party attacks in the Sundarbans in the past past three months three months, of which about six this week, fearing militant attacks were migrant labourers, official INDO-ASIAN NEWS SERVICE sources said. The helplessness of the REUTERS rural folks in the Sundarbans has Kolkata, August 8: Prashanta forced them to risk their lives amid Crab Srinagar, August 8: India has Mondal of Chargheri village in the Covid-19 ourbreak. As a re- and fish are a shifted scores of village and mu- Sundarbans’ Gosaba went into the sult, they are easily falling prey lucrative catch if we can nicipality leaders, mostly from dense mangrove forests Sunday to tiger attacks. The devasta- sell them in the market. The a mangrove cover of 2,125 sq km in Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), to se- (Aug 2) to catch fish and crabs with tion caused by the Cyclone ongoing lockdown due to the India alone, and a larger portion cure locations in Kashmir after a other villagers. He was a migrant Amphan has also forced the Covid pandemic has crippled falling in Bangladesh. Considered one spate of militant attacks, police labourer working in the construc- marooned residents to de- everything. We have practically of the richest but most fragile ecosys- and two security officials said. tion sector in southern India but was pend more on forest prod- zero income now. We have come tems on earth, the Sundarbans delta, Separatists fighting Indian rule forced to return home before the ucts like honey and timber. back from different states, formed by myriad branches of the in the region have stepped up attacks Covid-19 lockdown. This apart, people also go into Ganga, has forest tracts that reach but we also have to run on lower rung politicians, many of Prashanta and his associates the forest area to catch crab 130-km inland from the coastline. whom do not have personal security went to Marichjhapi's Bantala for- and fish in the creeks in the re- our families Gopal Mondal, a migrant labourer guards, in recent weeks. est when he was attacked by a tiger. stricted areas. Lack of livelihood re- ALOK MONDAL who came back from Andaman, said: “It is a temporary arrangement,” His friends somehow managed to sources has increased incidents of “The forest is our only source of in- Kashmir Valley’s police chief Vijay save themselves, leaving the coun- poaching in the Sundarbans as peo- “We will try to come now. I used to work in a betel Kumar told Reuters. “We will devise try boat behind in a narrow creek. ple are left with only a few options. work out something to rehabilitate nut garden in Andaman and Nicobar a strategy to provide security to chances,” he said. cial status in an attempt to draw it But Prasanta failed to escape. He was “This is a real cause of concern. the villagers, especially the migrant Islands and used to send money back those who are vulnerable.” Sofi Yousuf, a BJP vice-presi- closer to the rest of the country. dragged 4 km inside the mangrove It is true that there is no livelihood. workers who had to hum back home home every month. But now I am here Two security officials, asking dent in Kashmir, said that his col- But the loss of special privileges forest by the man-eater. Later his mu- We, on behalf of the state forest de- owing to the lockdown and have and have no income as such. If we not to be named, said that around leagues were being targeted to pre- stoked anger across the region and tilated and beheaded body was re- partment, are mulling over this zero income currently,” he said. have to live, we will have to depend 500 politicians had been moved vent the party from expanding in this week authorities imposed a covered by his companions from issue. We have already decided to pro- The alluvial archipelago called on the forests only,” he said, adding since Thursday, after militants shot the Himalayan region, where in- strict lockdown on the first an- inside the core area. vide them with honey box so that the Sundarbans, formed by 56 river- that Amphan had devastated the en- dead a village council leader from surgents have waged a war against niversary of that decision. His friend Alok Mondal, who is they can collect honey easily. That ine islands, has been declared a tire region really badly. Joydeep the ruling BJP in southern Kashmir. New Delhi since the late 1980s. Underlining the difficulties the also a migrant worker, said that will churn out an option for them World Heritage site by the UNESCO Kundu, a conservationist and wildlife Many of those under protection “They want to create a fear psy- government faces in restoring nor- they had no other option but to ven- to sustain during the lockdown for its rich biodiversity and is home activist, said: "We have to remem- have been housed in hotels and chosis on the ground,” Yousuf said. malcy to Kashmir, around a dozen ture into the deadly forests of phase,” West Bengal Forest Minister to the famous Royal Bengal Tiger. ber that humans are entering into government buildings guarded by The federal government has been BJP members resigned from the Sundarbans in search of livelihood. Rajib Banerjee said. The minister Located in South 24 Parganas and the tiger territory because of liveli- paramilitary troops, one official trying to promote political activi- party this week, fearing militant “Crab and fish are a lucrative said that a meeting has also been con- North 24 Parganas districts, it is a vast hood. It is not the tiger that is sneak- said. “We don’t want to take any ties since it revoked Kashmir’s spe- attacks. catch if we can sell them in the vened to take a call on the issue. area covering 4,262 sq km, including ing inside the human habitation. ‘Weapons shortage HEIGHTENED SURVEILLANCE Bengal to digitise Covid-19 is major issue for patients’ health parameters PRESS TRUST OF INDIA parts whether or not a patient needs life support system. Every possible Kolkata, August 8: The West information will be provided on Bengal government has decided the website,” the official said. militants in J&K’ to upload the health parameters Till Friday, West Bengal had of COVID-19 patients under treat- 24,652 active COVID-19 cases. INDO-ASIAN NEWS SERVICE tants infiltrated into Jammu and ment in state-run and private hos- The state health department has Kashmir carrying nine weapons. pitals on the health department's started maintaining records of all Srinagar, August 8: Militants in “Pakistan's tactics to send weapons website, so that family members are corona patients admitted in both Jammu and Kashmir have been through this method was also foiled able to know their condition, a sen- government and private hospitals facing a shortage of weapons despite by us. Pakistan's every attempt to ior official said Saturday. and monitoring their condition Pakistan’s attempts to provide arms sneak in weapons has been foiled A mechanism is being prepared via the Critical Covid Patient to various terrorist organisations so far.” The DGP said Pakistan's at- for the purpose and it would start Management System (CCPMS) active in the Valley, Director General tempt to send weapons into Indian within two weeks, he said and launched August 1. of Police (Jammu and Kashmir) territory by using drones is a mat- claimed that no other state in the At least 96 government doctors Dilbag Singh said on completion of ter of serious concern. “We will country has such a system now. are monitoring all Covid-19 pa- one year of the abrogation of Article have to work on that aspect.” The health department's move fol- tients 24x7 under the CCPMS, the 370 in the former state. The situa- Singh said Pakistan tried to send lowed allegations that family mem- official said. “Since this team of tion is that if Pakistan manages to weapons through drones in Samba bers of coronavirus infected peo- doctors is already monitoring them, recruit militants, it is not able to pro- and Hira Nagar in Kathua district ple are not getting proper it'll be easy for us to upload the vide them with weapons, Singh as well as Jammu's Khour sector. information on their health con- health parameters of individual told IANS here. "They also tried to send weapons dition from hospitals. patients on the website. This would The DGP said that Pakistan has to Rajouri and Poonch districts “A patient's oxygen saturation make it clear who is in a critical con- failed to facilitate weapons for the but they could not succeed." A policeman clicks a photo of truck drivers as security has been enhanced ahead of Independence Day, at the entry level, pulse rate, blood sugar level, dition and who is not. There would militants despite adopting various Since the July 2016 killing of point of Jammu, Saturday. PTI PHOTO the functioning of different body be transparency,” he said. methods like the use of drones and militant leader Burhan Wani, there infiltration of militants, with each have been around 2,600 law and carrying more than three firearms. order incidents, he added. Burhan Adhir bats for classical language tag to Bengali

“Therefore, I would urge upon to consider The National Education Policy-2020 lists Sanskrit, the Bengali language in the list of classical Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Odia, languages in New Education Policy of India after delving deep into the entire gamut of qual- among others, as classical languages ification to determine the list of classical languages in the country,” he said in the let- ter on the occasion of Nobel laureate PRESS TRUST OF INDIA cluded in the classical category. Rabindranath Tagore's 79th death anniver- “What are the attributes to be enumer- sary Friday. Kolkata, August 8: Leader of the Congress ated for enlisting a language in the pantheon The new policy lists Sanskrit, Tamil, in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury has of classical? While Bengali is the fifth most Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Odia, urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to en- spoken language in the world, it has been be- among others, as classical languages. list Bengali as a classical language in the queathed upon original literally tradition,” The Union Cabinet had on July 29 ap- Centre's National Education Policy 2020. the Congress MP said. are a conglomerate of several racial ele- proved the National Education Policy, 2020, Chowdhury, in a letter to Modi, sought to Anthropological and archaeological evi- ments welded together by the Bengali lan- replacing the 34-year old National Policy on FIREARMS SMUGGLING know the attributes for a language to be in- dence suggests that Bengali-speaking people guage, he said. Education (NPE). According to Jammu and Firearms were smuggled into Kashmir DGP Dilbag Singh, Jammu and Kashmir by Pakistan Pakistan has failed to through Punjab in two or facilitate weapons for the three cases militants despite adopting 600-km highway to connect Valley’s unexplored sites various methods like the use Pakistan’s attempt to send weapons into Indian territory by of drones and infiltration of PRESS TRUST OF INDIA Machhal are located along the Line project, creation of 10,000 jobs and using drones is a matter of serious militants, with each carrying of Control in Kupwara district, opening up of 50 new degree colleges. concern for the security forces more than three firearms Srinagar, August 8: A 600 km-long Gurez is a valley surrounded by Subrahmanyam said the coron- highway will be constructed along snow-capped mountains in avirus pandemic could not hit the Citing incidents between January Wani, 22, was killed in an anti-in- the border touching all picturesque Bandipora district. agricultural and horticulture sec- to July this year, the officer said the surgency operation in Jammu and tourist spots in the Kashmir Valley, Kargil and Drass now fall under tors much. Nearly 15 lakh families security forces foiled several Kashmir July 8, 2016, leading to each of which will be ‘another the Union Territory of Ladakh. (total 75 lakh people) and about Pakistani attempts when it tried to violence in the Valley which claimed Gulmarg’, Jammu and Kashmir Gulmarg, located about 50 km four lakh government employees sneak weapons into Jammu and many lives and led to an over one Chief Secretary BVR from Srinagar, is one of the best (total 16 lakh dependents) are de- Kashmir through drones in various month long curfew. Subrahmanyam has said. tourist attractions in the country pendent on these sectors. districts bordering the LoC and Post abrogation of Article 370, the The Rs 8,000 crore road project will with its snow-clad mountains, mag- However, the sectors badly hit via Punjab by seizing caches of DGP said, there have been around connect Gulmarg with Kargil and nificent beauty and winter by COVID-19 were tourism, trans- arms. “There is a weapons short- 1,100 law and order incidents that Drass in Ladakh. game facilities. portation and other business es- age in Jammu and Kashmir. If new include 550 incidents of pasting of “We are planning to construct a The chief secretary said the tablishments. recruits are made by terrorist posters and many linked to fixing 600 km road which will touch tourist Jammu and Kashmir administra- “People of Jammu and Kashmir groups they cannot provide them of flags. Of the total 1,100 inci- attractions like Keran, Gurej and tion has also intensified construc- are more resilient when it comes weapons. The J&K Police recently dents, there were only 196 violent Machhal. The road will connect all tion of rural roads. to lockdowns, having witnessed seized one of the dumps in a narco incidents this year and none of unexplored tourist spots and pic- “Earlier, on an average 1,300 km many separatist-induced shut- terrorism case. We seized around them were serious in nature. turesque valleys and help open rural road was built in a year but downs in long years. I can say 25-30 weapons that were sent to “No civilian was killed by bullets them for the tourists,” now we are planning to build 5,000 gineers and a huge pool of English After the abrogation of Article 370, confidently that COVID-19's impact Kupwara. These weapons were post abrogation of Article 370.” Subrahmanyam told a group of vis- km rural road in a year,” he said. knowing people. The potential in a total of 2,273 infrastructure proj- on Jammu and Kashmir econ- seized along with a big haul of nar- Claiming success in the anti-mil- iting journalists. Referring to the efforts being made Jammu and Kashmir is huge. We ects worth Rs 5,979 crore, which omy will be the least among all

cotics.” Pakistan tried to send itancy operations in the last two The chief secretary said there for creation of employment op- will have to just leverage them,” had been pending for over five to 10 states and UTs,” he said.

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of the AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE cause of numerous industrial ex- day uote plosions over the decades. 700 tons of New Delhi, August 8: Almost 700 When combined with fuel oils, it tons of ammonium nitrate, the sub- creates a potent explosive widely An action plan stance that caused the mega-ex- used in the construction industry, of plosion in Lebanon, has been stuck but also in homemade bombs such 'Aatmanirbhar in an Indian port since 2015, officials as those used in the 1995 Oklahoma Madhya Pradesh' ammonium will be prepared and confirmed. City attacks. promptly At least 153 people died and more Many European Union nations implemented based than 5,000 were injured when 2,750 require ammonium nitrate to be on the suggestions received in the nitrate stuck in tons of ammonium nitrate lan- mixed with calcium carbonate to webinars organised in this regard guishing for years in Beirut’s port make a safer compound. caused a colossal blast. Industrial disasters are common SHIVRAJ SINGH CHOUHAN | Indian authorities afterwards in India. In May, styrene gas leaked MADHYA PRADESH CM Chennai port ordered a review of all potentially from a factory in southern India, hazardous materials in its ports seized after the substance was found “The seized chemical is securely killing 15 people. Mumbai Police Thirty-seven containers of the compound were and were alerted to 690 tons of am- to be explosives-grade. stored and the safety of the cargo In 1984, toxic methyl isocyanate is investigating imported from South Korea in 2015 by an Indian firm monium nitrate in Chennai in India. The local customs department and public is ensured considering leaked from a pesticide factory in the (Sushant Thirty-seven containers of the Thursday sought to allay concerns, the hazardous nature of the sub- Bhopal, killing 3,500 people – and Singh Rajput death) for use in fertilizers but were seized after the substance compound were imported from saying that the chemicals posed no stance,” a statement said. thousands more in the years af- case in a South Korea in 2015 by an Indian danger and that an auction process Ammonium nitrate is an odorless terward – in one of the worst in- professional manner. was found to be explosives-grade firm for use in fertilizers but were to sell it off was under way. crystalline salt that has been the dustrial disasters in history. How the investigation moves forward will depend on the order of the SC which will hear the matter August 11 Groom hitches a ride on ANIL DESHMUKH | ` MAHARASHTRA HOME MINISTER PM to launch 1L crore financing facility today a tractor to get hitched INDO-ASIAN NEWS SERVICE (FPOs), Self Help Groups (SHGs), Prime Minister’s Office in In the past 48 Joint Liability Groups (JLG), AGENCIES flooded some 200 villages in the THE UNION a statement said hours, Kerala New Delhi, August 8: Prime Multipurpose Cooperative Societies, area, including that of the bride’s CABINET HAS Rs 1 lakh crore will be has seen two Minister Narendra Modi will launch Patna, August 8: A groom in village. The groom’s side talked APPROVED sanctioned under the Agri-entrepreneurs, startups, and tragedies and they ` the financing facility of 1 lakh THE CENTRAL financing facility in Central or state agency or local Bihar resorted to using a tractor to the bride’s family and asked have affected the crore under the Agriculture SECTOR partnership with multiple body sponsored Public-Private to attend his wedding at the them to defer the date of the state very badly. I Infrastructure Fund Sunday and SCHEME OF lending institutions Partnership Projects. bride’s village which had been wedding but the latter didn’t got a call from the also release the sixth installment FINANCING The Pradhan Mantri Kisan submerged by floodwaters. agree. Left with no alternative, President who has conveyed his ` ` FACILITY of funds of 17,000 crore to 8.5 The Prime Minister will Samman Nidhi Yojna (PM-KISAN) The bizarre incident took place the groom eventually hired a deep condolences crore farmers under the PM-KISAN UNDER scheme, launched December 1, 2018 at Devkuli vil- tractor and rode “AGRICULTURE also release the sixth ARIF MOHAMMED KHAN | scheme. installment of funds of has provided a direct cash benefit lage under in the trolley in KERALA GOVERNOR INFRA FUND” ` Modi will take part in the event ` `17,000 crore to of over 75,000 crore to more than Mahammadpur the company of around 11 a.m. via video confer- OF 1 LAKH 9.9 crore farmers. police station in a few friends to CRORE 8.5 crore farmers encing and the occasion will be under the PM-KISAN This has enabled them to fulfil Gopalganj dis- accommodate witnessed by lakhs of farmers, co- scheme their agricultural requirements trict Thursday. the flooded roads SHORT TAKES operatives, and citizens across the and support their families. The The wedding and reach the country. Union Minister of rollout and implementation of the of Sher Ali, a bride’s home. Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, to get greater value for their pro- Agriculture Cooperation and PM-KISAN scheme has happened resident of Carried to the Body of kidnapped Narendra Singh Tomar, will also be duce, as they will be able to store Farmers Welfare (DAC&FW). A at an unparalleled pace, with funds Hamidpur vil- roof infant found present on the occasion. and sell at higher prices, reduce three per cent interest subven- being directly transferred into the lage, had been fixed with the But as he reached the venue, The Union Cabinet has approved wastage and increase processing tion and credit guarantee of up to Aadhaar authenticated benefici- daughter of Alim Miya from he was surprised to find his Silchar: The body of a five- the Central Sector Scheme of fi- and value addition. `2 crore will be provided to the aries' bank account to prevent leak- Hamidpur village in the same bride’s home was also submerged month-old baby, allegedly nancing facility under “Agriculture Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) beneficiaries to increase the via- age and increase convenience for district some time back and was in floodwater and he hesitated in kidnapped from home while Infrastructure Fund” of `1 lakh in a statement said `1 lakh crore will bility of these projects. farmers. scheduled to be solemnised coming off the trolley. his parents were asleep, was crore. The fund will catalyse the cre- be sanctioned under the financing The beneficiaries of the scheme The scheme has also been in- Thursday. Eventually, the bride’s rel- recovered from a jungle in Assam’s Cachar district, ation of post-harvest management facility in partnership with multiple will include farmers, Picture strumental in supporting farmers Just ahead of the wedding, atives carried him to the police said Saturday. The infrastructure and community lending institutions. Archiving and Communication during the COVID-19 pandemic, however, an embankment of the rooftop of the building and it ` body was dug out in the farming assets such as cold storage, Eleven of the 12 Public Sector System (PACS), Marketing through the release of nearly 22,000 mighty Gandak river which flows was then that the wedding jungle in the Rangirghat area collection centres, processing units. Banks have already signed MOUs Cooperative Societies, Farmer crore to aid the farmers during the by the side breached which could be solemnised. Friday and sent for These assets will enable farmers with the Department of Producer Organization Scheme lockdown period. postmortem to the Silchar Medical College and Hospital. The baby was Ch’garh distributes abducted on the night of CONGREGATION August 4 after the Now, Raj BJP sends over 4 lakh forest kidnappers entered the house through a window. 18-20 MLAs to Gujarat rights certificates PRESS TRUST OF INDIA Minor girl killed INDO-ASIAN NEWS SERVICE Rajasthan BJP chief Raipur, August 8: Chhattisgarh by leopard Jaipur, August 8: It is not only the Satish Poonia dubbed has become the leading state in the Dahod (Guj): A seven-year- Congress that fears poaching of the sojourn of the country with regard to distribution old girl was mauled to its MLAs by the BJP in Rajasthan, of community and individual for- death by a leopard in Dahod but also the latter which wishes party MLAs as an est rights certificates, an official district of Gujarat, a forest to keep its flock intact. Close on “excursion trip”, claimed Saturday. department official said the heels of the Congress sending At least 4,84,975 individual and Saturday. The incident took its MLAs to plush hotels, the desert while admitting that community forest rights certificates place at Kantu village in state’s Opposition party is busy they were being lured have been distributed to sched- Dhanpur tehsil Friday packing off 18-20 MLAs to BJP- uled tribes and other traditional evening, he said. The ruled Gujarat. by the Congress forest dwellers in the state so far, leopard attacked Dholki Around a dozen MLAs from the official from the public relations Samsubhai Bhuria when she Jalore, Sirohi and Udaipur divi- The BJP leader said they would department said. stepped out of the house to sions were shifted Friday night to be back by August 12, though the Chhattisgarh stood at the top wash hands before dinner, a resort in Ahmedabad whereas final date needs to be decided. They position in the country for pro- said the official of Vasiya another group of six MLAs were will offer prayers at the Somnath viding these certificates, he said. As Dungri forest range. The at the Jaipur airport at the time of temple Monday, he added. Pigeons feed on grain as others fly on a cloudy day in Jaipur, Saturday PTI PHOTO many as 2,56,997 certificates have animal dragged the child filing of this report. They were However, Poonia refused to use been distributed in Madhya Pradesh, into the forest for about about to leave for Porbandar by a the word ‘camping’ for the BJP while 1,72,116 were distributed in half a kilometre before leaving her and escaping. chartered flight. MLAs and said that this word Maharashtra, 4,43,000 in Odisha Rajasthan BJP chief Satish has been coined by the Congress 5 Indian airports have tabletop runways and 93,704 in Gujarat, he said. Poonia dubbed the sojourn of the and its MLAs in Jaisalmer are Individual and community for- party MLAs as an “excursion trip”, literally being monitored by se- PRESS TRUST OF INDIA aerodromes, including the ones about 9,000 feet which is quite est rights have been given on over 3 feared dead as while admitting that they were curity teams. through joint ventures. long, according to a senior regu- 50.16 lakh acres of forest land in car falls into canal being lured by the Congress and sen- Meanwhile, former PCC vice- New Delhi, August 8: At least five A senior Air India pilot said that latory official. the state, the official said. ior officials of the state. Hence, president Archana Sharma told airports, including at Kozhikode automation might not help in the Tabletop runways are there at So far, in individual claims, recog- Ghaziabad: Three people are they are being sent on a tour, he this news agency that “they (BJP) in Kerala where an Air India case of tabletop runways. There is some airports, both in north and nition was given to over 9.18 lakh feared dead as a car en route added. are blaming the Congress, but there Express aircraft crashed Friday, also the issue of optical illusion, south India, he added. According to acres of land and 4,41,429 forest to Chandigarh from Uttar Speaking to this news agency, is a dispute within the party. Hence, have tabletop runways. where the runway might seem to be the official, pilots are generally rights certificates were distributed, Pradesh’s Bareilly fell into a Poonia said that the ruling Congress they are taking their MLAs to Airports Authority of India (AAI) nearer whereas it would actually be told about such runways and var- he said. Similarly, recognition was canal near Ghaziabad’s is “misusing” government ma- Gujarat.” Chairman Arvind Singh said table- further away, he added. The pilot ious restrictions. given to over 40.97 lakh acres of Masuri town, an official said chinery in Rajasthan for “selfish A senior politician, who wanted top runways are there at four airports also stressed that there is not much In the Court of Inquiry report land in community claims, under Saturday. Its driver, ends”. anonymity, said that the state BJP operated by it. They are at Kozhikode, buffer zone unlike normal runways. about the plane crash at Mangalore which in 43,546 forest rights cer- identified as Pankaj, was “Many officials have visited our is feeling threatened after former Mangalore (Karnakata), Shimla There are tabletop runways in airport in May 2010, it was men- tificates were distributed, he said. saved as he managed to MLAs in the tribal belt and tried to Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje’s (Himachal Pradesh) and Pakyong different parts of the world and tioned that there were three table- In a meeting with cabinet col- come out of it and tried to influence them through immoral meeting with the party leader- (Sikkim). The Lengpui airport in only when the runway length is top airports in the country from leagues and senior officials Friday, swim out of the canal. The ways. Our MLAs were depressed ship in Delhi and her readiness to Mizoram, which is with the state gov- less, there could be issues with where scheduled flights operate Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel di- official said the incident took and tense and hence we planned an regain her foothold in Rajasthan ernment, also has a tabletop runway. landing of aircraft. In the case of at Mangalore, Kozhikode and rected officials to reconsider the place on the National excursion trip for them.” politics. State-owned AAI operates 137 Kozhikode airport, the runway is Lengpui. forest rights claims. Highway-9 Friday night around 1.30 am when the car driver lost his way and took a wrong turn. INDIA AND CHINA HOLD MAJOR GENERAL-LEVEL TALKS

Newly-wed couple PRESS TRUST OF INDIA discussions in an effort to expedite the area are referred to as Fingers. ground, the Indian Army and the forward movement in imple- found hanging the disengagement process. The formal process of disen- IAF have decided to maintain a very mentation of the disengagement New Delhi, August 8: Talks be- At the military talks, the Indian BORDER ROW gagement of troops began on July high-level of operational readiness process by Chinese military in Kanpur: A newlywed couple tween senior army commanders side has been insisting on complete 6, a day after a nearly two-hour tele- in all areas along the LAC in Ladakh, friction points like Pangong Tso, allegedly committed suicide of India and China were underway disengagement of Chinese troops phonic conversation between North Sikkim, Uttarakhand and Depsang and Gogra. in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur Saturday to take forward the dis- at the earliest and immediate restora- National Security Advisor Ajit Arunachal Pradesh till a "satisfactory" The Indian Army has already Nagar district Saturday over engagement process along the Line tion of status quo ante in all areas Doval and Chinese Foreign Minister resolution to the border row with made elaborate plans to maintain a family dispute, just over a of Actual Control (LAC) at a num- of eastern Ladakh prior to May 5 Wang Yi on ways to bring down China is arrived at, sources said. current strength of troops and month after getting ber of friction points including in when the standoff began following tensions in the area. Chief of Army Staff Gen MM weapons along the LAC during the married, police said. Jeetu Daulat Beg Oldi and Depsang in a clash between the two armies in Both sides held several rounds of Naravane has already conveyed to harsh winter months in eastern Pal (25) and his wife Archna eastern Ladakh, people familiar Pangong Tso. Major General-level talks in May and all the senior commanders of the Ladakh and all other sensitive areas Pal (22) ended their lives by with the developments said. The Chinese People’s Liberation June before the level of negotia- Army, overseeing operation of the along the LAC. y hanging themselves from a The Major General-level talks Army (PLA) has pulled back from tions was upgraded to the level of frontline formations along the LAC, It is also in the process of procur-

tree at Hania village. The are being held at a border person- Galwan Valley and certain other Corps commanders. to keep up a significantly high state ing a number of weapons, ammu-

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Someone is IMA writes to PM as 196 docs out to get Survivors yet to Rajnath Singh out of the Defence Ministry! Otherwise, why would the recover from shock Defence Mininstry succumb to Covid-19 in India of India website put out the truth AGENCIES about the Chinese aggression and THE IMA SAID that such incidents would create a occupation of Indian territory New Delhi, August 8: Disturbed demoralising effect on the healthcare community, who are P CHIDAMBARAM | by incidences of doctors not re- also at the frontline of the corona war SENIOR CONGRESS LEADER ceiving proper beds and treatments after getting infected with COVID- THE ASSOCIATION also demanded the extension of Gandhi ji's 19, the Indian Medical Association state-sponsored medical and life insurance facilities slogan of ‘do has written a letter to Prime for doctors in all sectors or die’ will Minister Narendra Modi Saturday have to be given a to draw his attention. THE DATA SHARED by the IMA revealed that 87 per new meaning on the The association said that such in- 78th anniversary of cent of the doctors who died due to COVID were above cidents would create a demoralis- 50 years of age the Quit India ing effect on the healthcare com- Movement. Fight against injustice, munity, who are also at the frontline do not be afraid of the corona war. of the rising concerns of the doctors who succumbed to the and care. They also happen to RAHUL GANDHI | “Disturbing reports have ap- safety of doctors during this pandemic are general practition- spend quality time in consulta- PRESS TRUST OF INDIA CONGRESS LEADER peared about doctors and their Covid crisis. An increasing num- ers who work in private sectors or tion and practising clinical med- BLACK BOX FOUND families not getting beds for ad- ber of doctors are getting in- independently. “It is pertinent to icine,” Asokan said. Kozhikode, August 8: Several in- KOZHIKODE: A team of the mission and also lack of drugs in fected and losing lives due to mention COVID does not differ- The data shared by the IMA re- jured passengers of the ill-fated Directorate General of Civil The YSRCP’s many cases. It is pertinent to draw COVID,” said RV Asokan, sec- entiate between the government vealed that 87 per cent of the doc- Air India Express flight from Aviation (DGCA) investigating the actions would your attention to the demoralising retary-general of IMA. and the private sector.” tors who died due to COVID were Dubai which overshot the runway crash of Air India Express aircraft only push the at the Kozhikode airport recovered state into darkness effect it will have on our healthcare Besides, the association also de- “Of all the fatalities we recorded, above 50 years of age. “A huge and crashed at the airport here its black box on Saturday, officials and destroy the community,” the letter read. manded the extension of state- many of them are general practi- chunk of them were already in are yet to get over the horror mo- said. The black box records the opportunities of The association demanded ad- sponsored medical and life in- tioners. A significant proportion vulnerable group. Yet, they did ments that took them close to conversation between the pilots future generations equate care for doctors and their surance facilities for doctors in of the population consults them for not deter from their duty to treat death. families. “We need his (PM) at- all sectors. fever and related symptoms. They everyone despite facing the risk to It was a black Friday for all as well as with the air traffic con- CHANDRABABU NAIDU | tention and indulgence because As per the IMA, 40 per cent of the remain the first point of contact their lives,” Asokan added. the 184 passengers who after a trol tower, apart from the flight FORMER ANDHRA PRADESH CM long wait managed to get tickets data. The flight commanded by veteran pilot DV Sathe and co-pilot in the repatriation flight from Akhilesh Kumar had skidded off on Dubai as part of the Centre’s J’khand Assembly Friday evening and plunged 35 feet SHORT TAKES TOTAL SHUTDOWN Vande Bharat Mission to evacu- down the table-top airport run- ate Indians stranded abroad due way, killing 18 persons. roof collapses to coronovirus pandemic. Civilian hurt in Pak PRESS TRUST OF INDIA “We did not realise what re- pilot Akhilesh Kumar were among ally happened other than the those killed in the accident. Four shelling succumbs Ranchi, August 8: Apart of the flight was shaking,” said members of the cabin crew are Jammu: A 65-year-old man ceiling of Jharkhand’s State Ramshad, who was injured as among the 172 people who es- injured in Pakistan shelling Legislative Assembly collapsed the aircraft dived into the valley caped with injuries. on the Line of Control (LoC) Friday. The mishap happened in and broke into two portions Friday The incident also saw local Friday in Jammu and the library area of the building night after landing amid rains. people joining the police and Fire Kashmir’s Poonch district, where only a handful of people Though he was injured, and Force personnel in rushing succumbed overnight, taking were present during the incident Ramshad's wife Sufaira and four- to the rescue of the victims despite the toll of civilians killed in as the building was sealed fol- year old daughter Saidasherin pouring rains and unmindful of the flare up to two, officials lowing some coronavirus cases escaped without any serious social distancing and other said Saturday. Officials said there. No one was injured. wounds. COVID-19 protocols. 65-year-old Mohammad The building was inaugurated Similar is the experience of Dr Shimna Azeer, a doctor of Sadiq of Tain Mankote in by Prime Minister Narendra Modi Ashraf, a native of east Kozhikode, a private hospital in Malappuram, Poonch district succumbed in 2019 and was built on the ex- now under treatment at the who attended to a few of the in- to critical injuries sustained penditure of `1,500 crore. Medical College Hospital here, jured brought there, said she was in Pakistan shelling. Two The chairman of library devel- who said he was yet to recover astonished at the manner in which civilians have been killed and six injured in Friday's flare up opment committee Irfan Ansari from the shock. the volunteers from the accident on the LoC. One civilian was along with congress MLAs Purnima “As soon the flight crashed, spot quickly managed to bring the killed and six others injured Niraj Singh, Akala Yadav and Rajesh the emergency door was opened affected. when Pakistan resorted to Kachhap inspected the site. Ansari and people jumped out to safety, In spite of the restrictions im- unprovoked, indiscriminate said that he wants a probe in the another survivor said. posed due to containment and targeting of defence and matter. “Neither the contractor nor Ashik, undergoing treatment the heavy downpour that lashed civilian facilities in Tangdhar the erring officer having complicity at a hospital here, said the fire since evening, the volunteers did sector of the LoC in Kupwara will be spared,” he said. force personnel reached imme- a fantastic job, forgetting all pro- district Friday. He blamed the former Raghubar diately and shifted the injured tocols of social distancing or Das government for allocating a to hospital soon. Eighteen people, wearing masks which were fully mega tender to a contractor who including pilot-in command wet during the course of rescue BSF kills suspected did not stick to his job properly and Locals bathe in Ganga river next to the deserted Howrah Bridge during the complete bi-weekly lockdown to curb Captain Deepak Sathe and Co- operations, Azeer said. delivered a poor quality building. COVID-19 spread in Kolkata, Saturday PTI PHOTO Pakistan intruder New Delhi: A suspected Pakistani infiltrator was Kerala landslide: killed Saturday by the Border Modi launches week-long Security Force (BSF) along INDIA RECORDS 61,537 NEW 24 bodies dug the International Border in drive for ‘garbage-free’ India Rajasthan’s Barmer district, officials said. The intruder out so far was seen climbing the border PRESS TRUST OF INDIA till Independence Day to re-enforce nCoV CASES, 933 DEATHS fence and a BSF patrol team the ongoing campaign on cleanli- challenged him, the officials New Delhi, August 8: Prime ness and sanitation. PRESS TRUST OF INDIA A total of 5,98,778 samples were Islands while Nagaland and Tripura said, adding that it later shot Narendra Modi Saturday launched “Imagine the situation if a tested on Friday, taking the total to have registered one fatality each. him. The incident took place a week-long garbage-free India COVID-19-like pandemic had hit New Delhi, Aug 8: With India reg- 2,33,87,171 so far, according to the Of the total 42,518 deaths, around 1 a.m. in the Bakhasar campaign in the run up to us before 2014. Due to lack of toi- istering 61,537 more cases, the coro- Indian Council of Medical Research Maharashtra has reported the max- area along the border, the Independence Day and asserted lets, could we have checked the navirus tally reached 20,88,611 (ICMR). imum at 17,092, followed by 4,690 in officials said. that the Swachh Bharat Mission has spread of the infection? Had lock- Saturday, while 14,27,005 people Of the 933 fresh deaths reported, Tamil Nadu, 4,082 in Delhi, 2,998 in been a big support in the fight down been possible when 60 per have so far recuperated from COVID- 300 are from Maharashtra, 119 from Karnataka, 2,605 in Gujarat, 1,981 against coronavirus. cent of the population was forced 19 pushing the recovery rate to Tamil Nadu, 101 from Karnataka, 89 in Uttar Pradesh, 1,954 in West INDO-ASIAN NEWS SERVICE Meth worth He also launched the Rashtriya to defecate in open,” the Prime 68.32 per cent, the Union Health from Andhra Pradesh, 63 from Uttar Bengal, 1,842 in Andhra Pradesh and ` Swachhata Kendra, an interactive Minister observed. Ministry said. Pradesh, 52 from West Bengal, 23 in 962 in Madhya Pradesh. Thiruvananthapuram, August 10.50cr seized experience centre on the Swachh He also said that the Swachh The death toll due to the dis- Delhi, 22 from Punjab and Gujarat, So far, 767 people have died of 8: As the confirmed death toll in Aizawl: Methamphetamine Bharat Mission at the Gandhi Bharat Abhiyan (clean India mis- ease rose to 42,518 with 933 fresh fa- 16 from Madhya Pradesh, 14 each COVID-19 in Rajasthan, 615 in the landslide in Kerala’s Idukki dis- tablets worth `10.50 crore Smriti and Darshan Samiti at sion) has been a big support in the talities being reported in a day, data from Uttarakhand and Telangana, Telangana, 539 in Punjab, 467 in trict climbed up to 24 with the re- were seized near the Rajghat. fight against coronavirus. updated at 8 am showed. 13 from Jammu and Kashmir, 12 from Haryana, 449 in Jammu and covery of five more bodies Saturday, Myanmar border in In his speech, Modi urged chil- The Prime Minister said the There are 6,19,088 active cases Odisha and 10 each from Rajasthan Kashmir, 369 in Bihar, 247 in the gloom deepened as the loud Mizoram’s Champhai district, dren, who attended the event, to week-long campaign is to “honour of COVID-19, comprising 29.64 per and Chhattisgarh. Odisha, 151 in Jharkhand, 132 in wails of a survivor Manjula rent officials said Friday. A follow social distancing norms and swaraj (self-rule), meaning ‘gandagi cent of the caseload. The case fatality Nine fatalities were reported Assam, 112 in Uttarakhand, 102 the air when her son's body was dug Myanmarese national was wear masks to guard against coro- Bharat choro saptah’ (garbage quit rate has further dropped to 2.04 from Haryana while six each from in Kerala. out of the debris. also arrested in the joint navirus. India week)”, and reminded that per cent. This was the 10th day in Bihar, Assam and Jharkhand, five Chhattisgarh has registered 87 On Saturday, the body of her operation by the Assam The ‘Gandagi Mukt Bharat’ drive August 8 is the anniversary of Quit a row that the COVID-19 tally in- in Kerala and Puducherry, four in deaths, Puducherry 75, Goa 70, son Dinesh was among the five Rifles and Mizoram police begins Saturday and would go on India Movement. creased by more than 50,000. Goa, three in Andaman and Nicobar Tripura 37, and Chandigarh 23. retrieved from under the debris. Thursday, they said. Total 3 As the men, who were toiling to dig lakh tablets were seized, they out the victims, were taking added. A case has been filed Dinesh’s body to a waiting vehicle, under the Narcotic Drugs and Manjula wept inconsolably. Psychotropic Substances Act, The landslide had occurred officials said. Virus rages in small towns, and so does stigma about 30 km from the popular AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE The state has recorded 100,000 by Worldometer. Angry colleagues tourist destination of Munnar cases. Its capital Lucknow is re- Apart from having one of the Anand in Meerut said that after Thursday night. Special trains for New Delhi, August 8: Sarthak porting more than 600 new infections world’s lowest rates of spending becoming infected, he submitted Area residents said at least 43 Ganesh Chaturthi Anand says his neighbours treated every day, compared to only 100- per capita on health care, part of the a list of colleagues he had come in persons were still missing. The him like a “criminal” when he was 150 just a few days ago. reason is that coronavirus suffer- contact with to his office so that search operation was continuing Mumbai: The Railways is infected by coronavirus, a common But the official number may be ers often become pariahs. they could get tested as well. “But despite inclement weather. likely to announce special experience in India’s vast hinterland a big underestimate, experts say, This is particularly true in smaller some of them were so angry,” he “I do not know why I should trains for Konkan region for where the pandemic – and stigma- with the real scale potentially hugely conurbations and in rural areas, said. live now – I have lost both my the upcoming Ganesh tization – are now raging. under-reported because of insuf- where some two-thirds of Indians “Even my seat in office has been sons. While one of them has been Chaturthi festival after "Even though I have recovered lions of migrant workers who were ficient testing, and deaths not being live and where face masks and so- changed. I want to feel normal but taken out, the other still lies under having consulted the fully, no one wants to come near left jobless by India’s sudden lock- properly recorded. Uttar Pradesh has cial distancing are rare sights. the social boycott hurts.” the debris. They were studying Maharashtra government me," Anand, a government em- down imposed in March. conducted an impressive-sounding “A new disease with relatively high Local media have reported in- in a college and had come home about the same, an official ployee, told this news agency out- “We are seeing the numbers rise 2.8 million tests, according to a sen- levels of complications and mortal- cidents of returning migrant work- due to the coronavirus pandemic. said Saturday. The Central side his home in Meerut. especially in states like Bihar and ior state official. But given its enor- ity, with accompanying directives on ers being barred from entering And now, they are gone; why Railway had written to the On Friday India’s official caseload Uttar Pradesh, and with poorer mous population of over 200 million physical distancing, inevitably leads their villages by barricades set should I live?” wailed Manjula.

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viously metropolises like New Delhi a challenge,” Kumar said. per million. In the US state of Texas, said Rajib Kumar, who heads the “Outsiders not allowed”. to share her grief with.

k y m trains to the Konkan region c through Central, Western and Mumbai were the hotspots, The poor northern state of Uttar the rate is almost 10 times higher. Centre of Social Medicine and Authorities have inadvertently Deepan, who survived the and Konkan railways, the smaller cities and rural areas are Pradesh, home to roughly as many ‘Social boycott' Community Health at Delhi’s done their bit with quarantine tragedy and is awaiting a surgery official said. The special now reporting sharp rises. people as France, Germany and Nationally, India has tested around Jawaharlal Nehru University. stickers outside the homes of in- at a hospital in Idukki district, trains may be scheduled for According to public health ex- Britain combined, has now seen 16,500 people per million, compared “There’s both the fear of the dis- fected people and putting “dan- broke down as he said that he has the 10-day festival, which pert Preeti Kumar, the probable the pandemic reach almost every dis- to 190,000 in the United States and ease as well as of isolation and ger ahead” signboards in con- lost his parents and wife who was begins August 22. reason is the return home of mil- trict, no matter how remote. 260,000 in Britain, according to a tally quarantine," Kumar said. tainment zones. over seven months pregnant. The West Coast has a STUDY INFO P10 special place in our The incubation period of COVID-19, SUNDAY | AUGUST 9 | 2020 | BHUBANESWAR relationship with the United States. which is the time after which those The Indian-American community infected with the novel coronavirus has distinguished itself and start showing the first symptoms, contributed immensely to the could be as much as eight days, economic growth in this region longer than previous estimates of TARANJIT SINGH SANDHU | four to five days, says a new study

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k y m c of the day uote WAR AGAINST VIRUS FACE COVERING Russia acting against A Mahan Beirut blast: Anger mounts Airlines Airbus USE EXPANDED A310 en route PRESS TRUST OF INDIA Biden, says US intel from Tehran to Beirut on July 23 PRESS TRUST OF INDIA The latest intelligence assessment reflects concerns not was aggressively Beirut, August 8: Police fired tear and unexpectedly gas and clashed with demonstrators London, August 8: Face coverings only about Russia but China and Iran as well, warning intercepted by two US F-15 fighter in Lebanon's capital Saturday at are now a legal requirement across that hostile foreign actors may seek to compromise jets while travelling through the start of a planned protest over most indoor settings in England internationally specified air this week's massive explosion that and Scotland from Saturday as election infrastructure, interfere with the voting process corridors in Syria's airspace devastated large parts of the capi- part of the UK government's efforts or call into question voting results tal and killed more than 150 people. to curb the spread of COVID-19. MAJID TAKHT-RAVANCHI | ASSOCIATED PRESS IRAN'S UN AMBASSADOR Thousands of people were pour- Under the new rules, face masks ing into Beirut's main square, where or some form of face covering they had set up symbolic nooses must now be worn in cinemas, Washington, August 8: US intel- I want to learn to hang politicians whose corrup- museums, places of worship and ligence officials believe that Russia about tion and negligence they blame for aquariums besides public trans- is using a variety of measures to Taiwan's Tuesday's explosion at the Port of port and shops and supermarkets, denigrate Democratic presidential incredibly effective Beirut. where it was already mandatory. candidate Joe Biden ahead of the response to the The huge blast was caused by In Scotland, the rule also covers November election and that indi- coronavirus even thousands of tons of ammonium ni- banks and beauty salons and in the viduals linked to the Kremlin are though the island trate improperly stored at the port against Lebanon's political lead- three legislators have decided to devolved administration of boosting President Donald Trump's ing Ukraine, an important US ally, did things that the US has fumbled, for more than six years, apparently ership. The country's ruling class, resign from Parliament over this Northern Ireland face coverings reelection bid, the country's coun- and opposing Russian leader such as having a unified strategy set off by a fire. It was the biggest made up mostly of former civil week's “disaster.” Sami Gemayel in all enclosed public spaces will terintelligence chief said in the Vladimir Putin. Asked about the in- and citizens willing to wear masks in Lebanon's history and caused war-era leaders, is blamed for wide- called on every “honorable” Member become compulsory from Monday. most specific warning to date about telligence assessment Friday ALEX AZAR | US HEALTH SECRETARY an estimated $10-15 billion worth of spread corruption, incompetence of Parliament to resign and work for Those who break the law on the threat of foreign interference. evening in Bedminster, New Jersey, damage, according to Beirut's gov- and mismanagement that con- the “birth of a new Lebanon.” A sen- wearing face coverings, unless ex- US officials also believe China Trump appeared to dispute the ernor. It also left hundreds of thou- tributed to Tuesday's explosion. ior Kataeb party official was killed empt on certain narrow health does not want Trump to win a sec- idea that Russia was disparaging Bangladesh sands of people homeless. The army issued a statement re- in the blast, which claimed at least and age grounds, could be fined up ond term and has accelerated its crit- Biden. “I think the last person Prime Minister The protest Saturday was the minding the protesters to act peace- 154 lives, wounded more than 5,000 to 100 pounds, with greater police icism of the White House, ex- Russia wants to see in office is Sheikh Hasina first significant demonstration fully and abstain from closing roads people and laid waste to the coun- presence in place to ensure the panding its efforts to shape public Donald Trump because nobody has written a letter since the explosion and organiz- or attacking public or private prop- try's largest port and nearby areas. rules were being followed. policy in America and to pressure has been tougher on Russia than I to US President ers planned to hold a symbolic fu- erty. Police also issued a statement Also killed were 43 Syrians, the The move comes as the gov- political figures seen as opposed to have — ever,” he said. Donald Trump to neral for the dead. As the protest got after the protests began urging peo- country's embassy in Beirut said. ernment extended localised lock- Beijing's interests. But the president seemed to extradite the killers underway however, small groups of ple to act “in a civilized way far Lebanon is home to some 1 mil- downs in northern England and The statement Friday from agree with the intelligence indi- of the country's founding father, young men began throwing stones away from violence." The protest lion Syrian refugees. The Dutch added the city of Preston in William Evanina is believed to be cating China didn't want him re- Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at security forces. came as senior officials from the foreign ministry said Saturday that Lancashire within the remit of the most pointed declaration by elected. “If Joe Biden was president, AK ABDUL MOMEN | MINISTER OF FOREIGN Near parliament, riot police fired Middle East and Europe arrived Hedwig Waltmans-Molier, the wife stricter measures, as the spread of the US intelligence community China would own our country,” he AFFAIRS OF BANGLADESH tear gas at protesters who hurled in Lebanon in a show of solidarity of the Netherlands' ambassador to the deadly coronavirus failed to linking the Kremlin to efforts to get said. Evanina's statement, three stones and tried to jump over bar- with the tiny country that is still in Lebanon, had also died of injuries show a decrease in the number Trump reelected — a sensitive sub- months before the election, comes riers that close the road leading to shock suffered after Tuesday's blast. sustained in Tuesday's blast. of cases per 100,000 people in the ject for a president who has re- amid criticism from House Speaker the legislature. The protesters later Lebanon is mired in its worst Documents that surfaced after the region. jected intelligence agency assess- Nancy Pelosi and other congres- SHORT TAKES set on fire a truck that was fortifying economic and financial crisis in blast showed that for years offi- "I chaired a meeting of the Local ments that Russia tried to help sional Democrats that the intelli- barriers on a road leading to par- decades making it difficult for many cials had been repeatedly warned Action Gold Committee, and un- him in 2016. gence community has been with- Protests held liament. The gathering at Martyrs people who had their properties that the presence of 2,750 tons of am- fortunately, the data does not yet It also connects Moscow's dis- holding from the public specific Square and outside the parliament damaged to fix them. In a show of monium nitrate at the port posed show a decrease in the transmis- approval of Biden to his role as intelligence information about the Moscow: Thousands of building and government head- anger, the president of the Christian a grave danger, but no one acted to sion of this terrible virus,” said UK vice president in shaping Obama threat of foreign interference in demonstrators gathered quarters came amid popular anger opposition Kataeb party said its remove it. Health Secretary Matt Hancock. administration policies support- American politics. again Saturday in the major Russian Far East city of Khabarovsk to denounce the THANKS TO GLOBAL WARMING arrest of the region's PERFECT CLICK 77-YR-OLD PRISON governor a month ago. Sergei Furgal was arrested on July 9 ESCAPEE ARRESTED on suspicion of involvement CANADA’S LAST INTACT ASSOCIATED PRESS in murders and taken to jail in Moscow. The estimated Denver, August 8: A man who es- 3,000 demonstrators ICE SHELF COLLAPSES protested the charges and caped from a Colorado prison want him returned to the city in 1974 was found living under for trial. Furgal, who has been PRESS TRUST OF INDIA of ridges and troughs dotted with an alias in a small town in north- removed from his post, is a blue meltwater had been larger ern New Mexico after the Denver popular figure in the region Toronto, August 8: Much of than the District of Columbia police officer he shot decades bordering China about 6,100 Canada's remaining intact ice but now is down to 41 square ago helped track him down, au- kilometers (3,800 miles) east shelf has broken apart into hulk- miles (106 square kilometers). thorities said. of Moscow. Since his arrest, ing iceberg islands thanks to a Temperatures from May to Luis Archuleta, 77, also known daily demonstrations have hot summer and global warming, early August in the region have as Larry Pusateri, was arrested been held in the city, with scientists said. been 9 degrees (5 degrees Celsius) Wednesday in Espanola, New attendance peaking on Canada's 4,000-year-old Milne warmer than the 1980 to 2010 av- Mexico, where he had been liv- weekends. Demonstrations in Ice Shelf on the northwestern erage, University of Ottawa ing under the name Ramon support of the Khabarovsk edge of Ellesmere Island had been glaciology professor Luke Copland Montoya for about 40 years, the protesters were held in at the country's last intact ice shelf said. This is on top of an Arctic FBI said in a statement. least seven other cities in until the end of July when ice an- that already had been warming Archuleta was accused in 1971 Russia. alyst Adrienne White of the much faster than the rest of globe, of shooting Denver police officer Canadian Ice Service noticed that with this region warming even Daril Cinquanta, who had pulled satellite photos showed that about faster. over Archuleta to check his ID, 8 soldiers dead 43 per cent of it had broken off. She “Without a doubt, it's climate A woman takes a selfie in a field at Hitchin Lavender farm in Ickleford, Britain REUTERS KMGH-TV reported. When said it happened around July 30 change,” Copland said, noting Cinquanta tried to check for Nairobi: A Somali police officer says at least eight or 31. the ice shelf is melting from both weapons, the two fought and soldiers are dead and more Two giant icebergs formed along hotter air above and warmer Cinquanta was shot in the stom- than 14 others wounded after with lots of smaller ones, and water below. “The Milne was ach, KMGH-TV said. a suicide bomber detonated they have already started drift- very special,” he added. “It's an HK, Chinese officials mock US A jury in 1973 convicted an explosives-laden vehicle ing away, White said. The biggest amazingly pretty location.” Ice Archuleta of assault with a at the gates of a military is nearly the size of Manhattan shelves are hundreds to thou- ASSOCIATED PRESS Hong Kong has long enjoyed civil deadly weapon. Cinquanta, who base in Somalia's capital. — 21 square miles (55 square kilo- sands of years old, thicker than liberties not seen in mainland China since retired and started his own Captain Mohamed Hussein meters) and 7 miles long (11.5 long-term sea ice, but not as big Hong Kong, August 8: Hong Kong's because it is governed under a so- private investigation company, says the toll is expected to kilometers). They are 230 to 260 and old as glaciers, Copland said. leader and China's top representa- called “one country, two systems” never stopped making phone rise. Police Colonel Ahmed feet (70 to 80 meters) thick. Canada used to have a large tive in the city took pot shots at the principle in place since it reverted calls and knocking on doors in Muse says the bomber struck “This is a huge, huge block of continuous ice shelf across the United States Saturday after the to Chinese rule in 1997. However, hopes of tracking down the 12th April Army Brigade ice,” White said. “If one of these northern coast of Ellesmere Island Trump administration sanctioned Beijing imposed a national secu- Archuleta, KUSA-TV reported. base near the newly is moving toward an oil rig, there's in the Canadian territory of them and nine other officials for rity law on Hong Kong at the end His search paid off when a tip- reopened sports stadium in nothing you can really do aside Nunavut, but it has been breaking allegedly cracking down on free- jurisdiction. Luo Huining, the di- of June, following months of anti- ster called. Warta-Nabadda district. from move your oil rig.” The 72- apart over the last decades be- dom and undermining the local au- rector of the central government's government protests last year. "I get a phone call from an in- square mile (187 square kilome- cause of man-made global warm- tonomy of the former British colony. liaison office in Hong Kong, said The new law prohibits what dividual and this person says, ter) undulating white ice shelf ing, White said. Chief Executive Carrie Lam took being included on the list shows Beijing views as secessionist, sub- 'I've thought about it, and I'm 20 killed to Facebook to say that the U.S. got that he has done what he should for versive or terrorist activities or gonna tell you where the guy is her address wrong, listing the official the city and his country. what it sees as foreign interven- who shot you,' and of course I was Ouagadougou: Gunmen address of her chief deputy in- “I don't have a penny of assets tion in Hong Kong's internal af- skeptical,” Cinquanta said. stormed a cattle market and stead. She noted that she was the abroad. Isn't it in vain to impose fairs. Police now have sweeping “Forty-six years later, and out opened fire in an eastern Burkina Faso village Friday, deputy when she applied for her U.S. 'sanctions'? Of course, I can also powers to conduct searches with- of the clear blue I get a phone call. killing at least 20 people and visa in 2016. “By the way, my entry send 100 U.S. dollars to Mr. Trump out warrants and order internet Well, this person gives me his injuring many others, a local visa to the U.S. is valid until 2026. for freezing,” he said in a state- service providers and platforms to address and his alias ... and other government official said. The Since I have no desire to visit this ment on the office's website. remove messages deemed to be in facts that meant nothing at the attack in Namoungou village country, it looks like I can take the Hong Kong Commerce Secretary violation of the legislation. time.” A federal court in Colorado is being investigated, said initiative to cancel it," Lam said. Edward Yau, who wasn't sanctioned, Critics see the law as Beijing's issued a new arrest warrant in- Saidou Sanou, the governor The sanctions, announced Friday called the sanctions “unreasonable boldest move yet to erase the di- volving the prison escape and of the eastern region, who by the U.S. Treasury Department, and barbarous” and said they would vide between Hong Kong's Western- Archuleta was arrested in the urged people to be vigilant block all property or other assets that harm U.S. interests in the city, an style system and the mainland's small town about 20 miles (32 and to closely collaborate the individuals have within U.S. Asian financial and shipping hub. authoritarian way of governing. kilometers) north of Santa Fe. with the army. Canadian dies AI plane crash: Two Indian expats lucky to miss flight Richmond (US): A 72-year-old Canadian man has died while PRESS TRUST OF INDIA Noufal Moin Vetten, an Ajman said they would follow proto- Dh500 on me.” in custody at an immigration resident working as an office boy in STROKE OF LUCK cols and pay the fines before “I was very keen to board the detention center in Virginia Dubai, August 8: One may call it a Sharjah school, was booked to sending me,“ he said. Vetten flight and be with my family. So I that was the site of the good luck, but for two Indian ex- travel on the flight and had checked was disappointed and called his called a friend who brought me the largest coronavirus outbreak pats it was God who prevented them in as per schedule. family to let them know. additional Dh500, but by then, my at a US immigration facility, at the last minute from boarding the Recounting his miraculous es- a federal official said. Kaitlyn “When I heard about the crash, baggage had been offloaded and Pote, a spokeswoman for US Air India Express plane that crashed cape, Vetten, a resident of I was saddened for all the passen- the flight's doors were closed,” said Immigration and Customs in Kerala, killing at least 18 people Malappuram, Thirunavaya, whose gers. But I'm so relieved I missed it. Parrakodan. Enforcement, said the man on board. visa was cancelled a week ago, told God has been really merciful,” said “I was feeling very sad and died Wednesday night in a According to India's Civil Aviation Gulf News: “I was handed my board- Vetten. Afsal Parrakodan, a resi- called my mother to tell her I

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k y m PAWAN GOENKA | MD, M&M than Warren Buffett and Elon Musk to name a few c of the day uote COVID THWACK Centre releases Liquidity scheme for NBFCs, HFCs: `553 cr to states for A robust ODR ecosystem in Hotel industry in state agri mechanisation India has the potential to ` facilitate access to 15 proposals get 6,399 cr sanction posts 50% fall in RevPAR justice and the ease of doing business by making dispute resolution cheaper, AGENCIES POST NEWS NETWORK Puri, Balasore and Cuttack. “Since quicker and most importantly these places are now under alert equally credible as conventional New Delhi, August 8: The Finance Bhubaneswar, August 8: In the owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, methods of dispute resolution Ministry Saturday said 15 propos- backdrop of COVID-19 outbreak, the occupancy rate is very low,” als worth `6,399 crore of stressed Odisha hotel and hospitality in- he said. AMITABH KANT | CEO, NITI AAYOG NBFCs and HFCs have been sanc- dustry is yet to overcome from the Subudhi also mentioned that in tioned under the special liquidity severe impact that seen in their Q1, the hotel sector hardly made any scheme announced as part of the business. Hotel & Restaurant revenue, as most of the quarter With B2B `20.97 lakh crore 'Aatmanirbhar Association of Odisha (HRAO) was under the spell of lockdown (de- fulfillment Bharat' package. claimed that hotel industry clared by the government to con- moving The scheme launched July 1 per- recorded around 50% fall in tain the spread of COVID-19 virus). towards just-in-time mits both primary and secondary Revenue Per Available Room According to sources, in the first PRESS TRUST OF INDIA service levels, market purchases of debt and seeks (RevPAR) in the post Q1 of cur- quarter of FY’21, the hospitality sec- proximity to ` warehouses for to address the short term liquidity rent financial year. tor incurred a loss of 800 crore; New Delhi, August 8: The Centre ` ` companies like ours helps corner issues of non-banking financial Secretary of HRAO Srinibash with hotel industry losing 100 has released 553 crore to states stores free up their space, and companies (NBFCs) and housing fi- Subudhi said, “The pandemic has crore and restaurants and bars under a scheme to promote mech- working capital nance companies (HFCs). cast a great impact to this sector. incurring a loss of `700 crore in the anisation in the agriculture sec- "The Special Liquidity Scheme At present, we have around 40% of state. tor. The Sub-Mission on SACHIN CHHABRA | FOUNDER, PEEL-WORKS (SLS) of `30,000 crore was an- nance institutions reg- a trust set up by SBI Capital Markets hotels available, from which around According to HRAO, there are Agricultural Mechanisation nounced as a part of the The istered with RBI Ltd (SBICAP). 15-20% have been occupied. This is around 2,500 hotels in the state and (SMAM) was launched in April #AatmanirbharBharat Special under the RBI The scheme is being implemented the crisis scenario and we have to around 200 GST registered restau- 2014 with an aim to have inclu- sive growth of farm mechanisation We are package with an aim to Liquidity Scheme of Act, 1934 (ex- by SLS Trust, the SPV set up by wait with bated breath till the pan- rants. On an average, this sector gen- improve the liquidity cluding those SBICAP. demic is under control.” erates around `9,000 crore of rev- to boost productivity. appealing to `30,000 crore was position of NBFCs and registered as The special liquidity scheme is The HRAO secretary said the enue per year in Odisha. In addition, "In the year 2020-21, budget of people in the announced as a part of commercial HFCs," Finance Core open for three months for making highest percentage of tourist foot- the hotels and restaurants sector `1,033 crore has been provided for segment, big brands Minister Nirmala the Aatmanirbhar Bharat Investment subscriptions by the Trust. fall is generally seen in places like contribute around 10-20% of the the scheme, out of which `553 such as BIBA, Arvind Sitharaman said package with an aim to Companies) Under the scheme, the govern- Ganjam (Chatrapur and Gopalpur), state’s GDP. crore has been released to state to come together in a tweet. improve the liquidity and any ment will provide an uncondi- governments," an official state- with the weavers and source their Sharing implemen- position of NBFCs and HFC regis- tional and irrevocable guarantee ment said. cloth directly from the weavers, tation status update of HFCs tered with the to the special securities issued by Agricultural mechanisation thereby bringing about a synergy the scheme, she said, 15 NIRMALA SITHARAMAN I National the Trust. helps in increasing production that was long absent proposals with a total sanc- FINANCE MINISTER Housing The instruments will be com- through timely farm operations SMRITI IRANI | MINISTER FOR TEXTILES tioned amount of `6,399 crore Bank mercial papers and non-convert- and cut in operations by ensur- have been cleared as on August 7 under the National ible debentures with a residual ing better management of in- while 37 more applications seek- Housing Bank Act, 1987 which is maturity of not more than three puts. Mechanisation also en- ing financing of up to `11,037 crore complying with certain specified months and rated as investment hances the productivity of SHORT TAKES are under process. conditions, are eligible to raise grade. natural resources and reduces NBFCs and HFCs came under funding from this facility. Therefore, those market partic- drudgery associated with various stress following a series of de- The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) ipants who are looking to exit their farm operations. CIL revises faults by IL&FS group firms in has provided funds for the scheme standard investments with a resid- The agriculture ministry production target September 2018. by subscribing to government-guar- ual maturity of 90 days may also ap- pointed out that paddy straw burn- Any NBFC including microfi- anteed special securities issued by proach the SLS Trust. ing is one of the major problems Kolkata: State-run Coal India in the northern region of the coun- Ltd (CIL) has revised its try causing pollution. production target to 650- With an objective of moving 660MT for the current fiscal BIZ BUZZ away farmers of this region from in the wake of the disruptions NTPC achieves the practice of crop residue burn- caused by the COVID-19 ing, the scheme of CRM (Crop pandemic, said a top Tata Motors rolls out Canada to impose tariffs Residue Management) was initi- company official. The miner ated in 2018 wherein, farmers are had earlier set a production health accessories on US imports provided machinery for in-situ target of 710MT for the 2020- over 100 BUs power New Delhi: Tata Motors Saturday said it has 21 fiscal. "COVID-19 management of crop residue launched a range of health and hygiene pandemic has affected through establishment of CHCs accessories for its customers. In line with the demand for coal. However, (Custom Hiring Centres). company’s ongoing endeavour to ensure the safety demand has started to pick Individual farmers are also generation mark of its customers at all times, these accessories are up as the industries have provided subsidy for procure- designed to provide car owners with an additional commenced operations. ment of machinery. Total funds level of safety, Tata Motors said in a statement. All “Given the situation, we are of `11,78.47 crore were provided these will be offered as genuine accessories and hopeful to end the year with will be available across the company outlets in the in the year 2018-19 & 2019-20 to 650-660MT of production,” country, it added. The products include, air purifier, Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh CIL Chairman Pramod air filter and sanitisation kits. The air purifier can and NCT. Agrawal said. be easily fitted in the cup holder slot of all Tata Toronto: Canada’s deputy prime minister has said cars. The air filter on the other hand can be that the country plans to impose 3.6 billion Canadian installed in the Nexon and the Harrier as of now. ($2.69 billion) tariffs on US imports in response to ‘WB’s logistics Sanitisation kit includes hand sanitizer, N95 masks, President Donald Trump saying the US is reinstating hand gloves, safety touch key, tissue box, mist a 10% import tax on Canadian aluminum. Deputy Zomato brings policy ready’ diffuser among others. Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said Friday the Kolkata: West Bengal Finance tariffs will match the US ones dollar-for-dollar. in ‘period leave’ Minister Amit Mitra has said Canada is considering imposing a tariff on dozens of that the state is ready with a products, including golf clubs, bicycles, logistics policy and will soon refrigerators, washing machines, tripods, sports for employees seek feedback from the equipment like bats and hockey sticks and embossed aluminum cans for beverages. Trump industry. Speaking at a POST NEWS NETWORK in Chhattisgarh (2,980 MW), NTPC REUTERS webinar organised by the Rihand (3,000 MW) and NTPC originally imposed the tariffs on aluminum imports Confederation of Indian Bhubaneswar, August 8: NTPC Vindhyachal (4,760 MW) in Uttar in 2018. He then lifted them last year on Canadian New Delhi, August 8: Indian Industry (CII), he said the Group achieved over 100 Billion Pradesh, and NTPC Talcher and Mexican metals to smooth the way for the US- food delivery company Zomato Mexico-Canada Agreement, which replaced the policy will try to integrate the Units (BUs) of cumulative gener- Kaniha in Odisha (3,000 MW) fea- said Saturday it would give fe- North American FTA. fragmented logistics sector ation in the current financial year, tured among the top ten per- male employees up to 10 days of of the state and also drive in reinforcing the group’s commit- forming thermal power plants “period leave” per year, as part of efficiency. "The policy on the ment towards excellence in oper- based on PLF performance. an effort to combat what it said was logistics sector is ready and ation across its plants. Further, two 200 MW units, Unit stigma around the issue. we will seek inputs from the NTPC Talcher Thermal in 4 & Unit 1 of NTPC Singrauli in ‘Decision in Oracle’s favour will limit consumers’ freedom’ Zomato is the most high pro- industry. The logistics sector Odisha produced 460 MW in the Uttar Pradesh commissioned way file organisation to institute the is very important since it same year and has been regis- back in January 1984 and June San Francisco: As Google and Cloud major Oracle policy in India, a country where creates huge employment look forward to the US Supreme Court hearing opportunities," Mitra said. tered among the top ten per- 1982 respectively, achieved highest menstruation is still taboo to forming thermal power plants in PLF in the country with 99.90% and October 7 into a decade-long copyright legal some. the country. 99.87% respectively from April to battle, the search engine giant has filed a “There shouldn’t be any shame As per the data published by July 2020. supplemental brief to augment its position, or stigma attached to applying for Grofers starts Central Electricity Authority With a total installed capacity saying a decision in Oracle's favour would limit a period leave,” Zomato chief ex- consumers' freedom to use technologies on a (CEA), NTPC Korba (2,600 MW) in of 62.9 GW, NTPC Group has 70 ecutive Deepinder Goyal said in an grocery sales range of devices. The supplemental brief was Chhattisgarh has emerged as the power stations comprising of 24 filed this week in a long-standing case where email to staff on Saturday. New Delhi: Softbank-backed top performing thermal power coal, 7 combined cycle Gas/liq- Oracle has blamed Google for "copyright “You should feel free to tell peo- online grocery seller Grofers plant in India with 97.42% Plant uid fuel, 1 hydro, 13 renewables infringement" where it "copied Java APIs to build ple on internal groups, or emails has announced a nine-day Load Factor (PLF) between April along with 25 subsidiary and JV the Android smartphone operating system". After that you are on your period leave sales scheme and a `50 crore to July 2020. power stations. The group has Oracle acquired Java in 2010, it sued Google for using its software interfaces. In 2018, an appeals court in the US for the day.” working capital and advance Exemplary performances were over 20 GW of capacity under con- ruled that Google violated copyright laws when it used Oracle's open-source Java software to build the Android Founded in 2008, Gurugram- payments support for registered by five other flagship struction, including 5 GW of re- platform. In a fresh blog post this week, Kent Walker who is SVP of Global Affairs at Google pitches for based Zomato is one of India’s partners’ manufacturing power plants of NTPC. NTPC Sipat newable energy projects. "interoperability" that has let software developers build on each other's work. best-known companies, with more products locally. The than 5,000 employees. company aims to sell 9 crore items produced by its Millions of women and girls in partners including 5.5 crore India still face discrimination and items that are produced health issues due to a lack of locally, Grofers said in a PSBs need to step up provisioning to restructure loans awareness surrounding men- statement. struation. INDO-ASIAN NEWS SERVICE carry contingent provisions of 125- In 2018, India’s Supreme Court According to analysts, 130 bps, HDFCB/KMB/IIB/RBL overturned a decades-long ban on Monte Carlo incurs New Delhi, August 8: Public sec- higher provisioning cost have around 60 bps. But large PSBs women of menstrual age entering tor banks (PSBs) would need to in- would deter unwarranted have contingent provisions of just the Sabarimala temple in the south- `65 cr revenue loss crease their provisioning buffer 10-15 bps. ern state of Kerala, leading to a na- factoring in the incremental pro- restructuring. But, this "Thus, we believe that some banks tionwide debate about women’s New Delhi: Clothing firm visioning requirement on restruc- would put pressure on the may have to further accelerate their rights. Monte Carlo Fashions has tured loans and potential NPAs, a provisioning buffer, factoring in incurred a revenue loss of report said. PSBs to accelerate the the incremental provisioning re- `65 crore in the April-June To discourage rampant and un- quirement on restructured loans quarter this year and is pace of increasing their viable restructuring, the RBI has and potential NPAs," Emkay said in operating at around 80% provisioning buffer capacity due to the impact of now mandated that banks will be re- its report. COVID-19 and resultant quired to make high provisions at The provision required for re-

10% on restructured retail/corpo- structured loans, however, provides

k y m lockdowns. "Following govt. c directives, we resumed our rate loans, (20% on corp. loans for would put pressure on the PSBs to "Assuming Covid-19-induced 75 bps," Emkay Global Financial for reversal of 50% of provisioning operations April 21, banks outside inter-creditor agree- accelerate the pace of increasing stressed loans at 10-15% and at least Services said in a report. on retail loans in case the borrower complying with safety and ment). their provisioning buffer or disal- 50% restructured in the worst case, This would mean certain banks pays 20% residual debt, and the security norms for COVID- According to analysts, higher low restructuring, even in genuine our rough calculations show sys- would fare better while restruc- balance 50% on payment of 19," Monte Carlo Fashions provisioning cost would deter un- case of stress due to the Covid-19 pan- temic level immediate additional pro- turing loans under stress owing to another 10% without slipping Ltd said. warranted restructuring. But, this demic. visioning cost at 10% could be 50- the pandemic. While ICICI/Axis into NPA. P12

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straight to Kevin De Bruyne, but Phil Foden — playing as a false nine TWO SIDES OF EMOTION: Raheem Sterling with Sergio Aguero injured — struck rejoices after putting Man City up front wide. as Real Madrid defender Raphael Varane But another blunder by Varane shows off his frustration, Friday in the 68th minute was again capitalised on by Jesus. Varane failed to cut out a long ball forward and then made an ineffective at- tempt to head back to Courtois. Jesus closed in quickly and dinked the ball over Courtois. Depay nullifies In his fourth season in charge of City, Pep Guardiola remains in contention to win the Champions League for the first Ronaldo efforts time since his 2011 success with Barcelona. But the newly crowned TURIN: Memphis Depay’s penalty Lyon will face Manchester City Spanish champions were elim- turned out to be the difference be- in the single-elimination quarter- inated from a Champions tween Lyon and Juventus as the for- finals in Lisbon after the English League knockout round for mers sealed quarterfinal berth on team beat Real Madrid 2-1 on the the first time under Zinedine aggregate, having an away goal ad- night to progress 4-2 on aggregate. Zidane. He led Madrid to vantage, Friday. Lyon captain Memphis Depay three consecutive titles from A Portugal international cele- would not have been able to play had 2016 to 2018, resigned after brated ecstatically at the end of the match taken place as sched- delivering the 13th title but the Champions League match be- uled because he had a serious knee returned as coach in March tween Juventus and Lyon. injury. He scored an early penalty ASSOCIATED PRESS tory against Madrid Friday after And the Frenchman was caught 2019. But it wasn’t Cristiano Ronaldo, with a cheeky chip down the mid- winning by the same score in the out in possession by Gabriel Jesus, The lack of spectators who could only trudge off the pitch dle after Houssem Aouar went Manchester, August 8: Eliminating first leg in the Spanish capital in who squared for Sterling to tap past meant the match in dejected after Juventus was elimi- down in the area under a challenge the record 13-time champion has February before the competition goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois for Manchester was not pre- nated from the competition despite from Rodrigo Bentancur. Manchester City players believing was paused due to the pandemic. his 100th City goal. ceded by the usual boo- his two goals securing a 2-1 victory Depay also conceded a penalty they can deliver the team’s first First the Brazilian set up the Real began to make their presence ing of the Champions in the rearranged second-leg match. at the end of the first half after Champions League title. It was after opener scored by Sterling in the felt and restored parity through League anthem by Lyon goalkeeper Anthony Lopes Miralem Pjanic’s free-kick hit his Gabriel Jesus struck the decider. ninth minute at an empty Etihad Karim Benzema, who headed in supporters angered raced to the end where the away fans arm. Ronaldo converted and dou- Real Madrid’s defensive mistakes Stadium. With Madrid captain powerfully from Rodrygo’s cross by UEFA pursuing should have been, jumped over the bled his tally on the hour mark by Raphael Varane were seized on by Sergio Ramos banned after being in the 28th minute. Financial Fair Play advertising hoardings and sat on when he curled a fantastic strike Raheem Sterling and Jesus to lead sent off in the Madrid leg, Raphael City went close to a second before cases against the top of the Perspex fence at the front into the top right corner. It ex- City into a quarterfinal against Lyon. Varane was without his usual cen- the break after a poor clear- Abu Dhabi-owned of the stands, kissing the badge tended his all-time record in the They clinched another 2-1 vic- tral defensive partner. ance from Courtois went club. on his shirt and pumping his fists competition to 131 goals. in the air in celebration. That was Ronaldo’s 37th goal in Gabriel Jesus Lyon had eliminated Juventus all competition for Juventus, break- and progressed to the quarterfi- ing a 95-year-old club record. nals on away goals after a 2-2 draw Ronaldo went close to scoring the Silva bids farewell to Etihad on aggregate. goal that would have seen Juventus through but headed a corner nar- AGENCIES Silva’s first European match at Spaniard spending a mo- rowly over the bar from close range. the Etihad was against Politehnica ment to himself looking out Key Juventus forward Paulo MANCHESTER: David Silva has Timisoara in Europa League qual- on the pitch, reflecting on Dybala was recovering from a thigh bid farewell to Manchester City’s ifying. 10 years on, his final game what has been a decorated injury and was on the bench. He Etihad Stadium after 10 years of there was a 2-1 win against Real spell with the club. was brought on in the second loyal service to the club, as Pep Madrid, to reach the Champions City teammate and Since the first leg, though, City half but had to be substi- Guardiola’s side capped off their League quarterfinals. England international Kyle overturned a two-season ban from tuted just 14 minutes later. star man’s goodbye with a land- His thirteen minutes were his Walker replied to the tweet European competitions after being It was Juve’s earliest mark victory over Real Madrid. final moments on the Etihad with a blue heart emoji. Silva’s cleared in an appeal case over the elimination from the The 34-year-old will leave the Stadium turf, and he went close to next move remains unknown, with source of funding from Abu Dhabi, competition since club once their Champions League capping a fairytale farewell as he recent reports suggesting the mid- including from jersey and stadium the 2015-16 season. campaign reaches its conclusion, saw a free-kick whistle just wide fielder could be on his way to Italy, backer Etihad, to comply with break- The club has, how- having won four Premier League of Thibaut Courtois’ post. with Lazio frontrunners to secure even rules. ever, struggled to titles, two FA Cups and five EFL The diminutive midfielder the services of the 34-year-old. But City’s obstruction in the case transfer its domestic Cups during his spell in helped his side see out a win that Fernando Silva, David’s father, was strongly condemned by the domination to Europe Manchester. booked City’s place in the quar- has said that his son likes the Court of Arbitration for Sport which and it hasn’t won the

Guardiola couldn’t find a start- terfinals against Lyon in Lisbon. Italian league and would enjoy led to the club being fined 10 million Cristiano Ronaldo Champions ing place for Silva in Friday night’s After the game, he was seen wav- playing in Serie A, amid rumours euros ($12 million), which was two- League mammoth Round of 16 tie with ing goodbye at the camera as he left that Lazio have offered Silva a thirds less than the original UEFA since Madrid, but the Spaniard was in- the pitch. two-year deal as well as a luxuri- punishment. 1996. volved in the second half, replacing And Silva took to Twitter with ous mansion and a private jet’ for Now City’s season can still end Raheem Sterling in the 81st minute. a poignant image showing the good measure. with the club UEFA wanted to ban picking up its biggest club prize. Silverstone GP: MOVING IND-AUS NZ, Aus accept Bottas on pole Too early to talk about it: CA BOXING DAY TEST REUTERS The ‘Sydney Morning Herald’, we will be doing everything we can Hockley said the new wave of ASSOCIATED PRESS however, reported Saturday that to play the Boxing Day test at the infections only showed that Cricket Melbourne, August 8: Cricket the Sydney Cricket Ground Trust MCG. At the moment we are plan- Australia had to be “agile and flex- Silverstone, August 8: Valtteri Australia (CA) interim Chief were considering mounting a bid to ning to have things go ahead.” ible” with their plans for not just the World Cup calls Bottas qualified in pole position Executive Nick Hockley has said it host back-to-back Tests over the Victoria, Australia’s second-most four-test, three one-day match tour Saturday ahead of Mercedes team- was still too early to determine Christmas-New Year period if the populous state, is at the centre of a by India but the entire domestic REUTERS mate Lewis Hamilton for Formula whether they would shift the Boxing COVID-19 situation in Melbourne second wave of infections in the and international schedule. One’s 70th Anniversary Grand Day test match against India from did not stabilise. country, accounting for more than “As we have seen with the win- Wellington, August 8: New Prix. Hamilton holds a 30-point Melbourne as the state of Victoria bat- “In terms of Boxing Day, it’s one two-thirds of the national tally of ter codes, we need to be agile and Zealand said Saturday it could have We could have done it in championship lead over Bottas. tled a novel coronavirus resurgence. of the most iconic events in the nearly 21,000 cases. flexible all the way through,” probably hosted the women’s 2021, but now we will look to Bottas clocked a fastest lap at the The Melbourne Cricket Ground has Australian sporting calendar, and The southeastern state, of which Hockley said. “As, when and if Cricket World Cup next year but 2022. As a government we central England circuit of one hosted a test match from December we are working full steam ahead,” Melbourne is the capital, has things change, we are doing every- supported the decision of the have reiterated our minute, 25.154 seconds, 0.063 sec- 26-30 in all but one year since 1980 and Hockley told reporters on a con- recorded 181 deaths, almost 70 per thing we can that we make sure International Cricket Council (ICC) commitment to support the onds ahead of Hamilton. Nico the game has become a staple on the ference call Saturday. cent of the Australia’s fatalities we have all the backup arrange- to postpone the event for a year. tournament Hulkenberg qualified in third. Australian sporting calendar. “As long as circumstances allow, from the pandemic. ments and can get cricket played.” Cricket Australia (CA) have also downplayed any suggestions they GRANT ROBERTSON | NZ SPORTS MINISTER were annoyed at having the host- SET FOR 2ND ESSAY ing rights of this year’s postponed have reiterated our commitment to men’s T20 World Cup pushed back support the tournament.” Buttler, Woakes counter Pakistan charge to 2022, allowing the powerful The ICC last month postponed the Indian board to retain the 2021 men’s T20 tournament but had not INDO-ASIAN NEWS SERVICE set batsmen. tournament. decided on a new date. The Indian Yasir struck again soon with the big wicket The ICC decided Friday to shift cricket board, according to media Manchester, August 8: Jos Buttler (32 bat- of Ben Stokes who was done in by the extra the women’s 50-over tournament reports, was reluctant to sacrifice ting, 31b, 5x4) and Chris Woakes’ (26 batting, bounce the former got and gloved it to the wick- until February 2022 because of un- the 2021 slot for Australia and host 26b, 4x4) counter-attacking partnership for etkeeper. The umpire initially shook his head certainty around COVID-19 and to back-to-back World Cups in 2022 England stopped the Pakistan charge in the upon which Azhar Ali took the review. The shift the men’s Twenty20 tourna- and 2023. second session on Day 4 as the first Test gears replays showed a feather of a spike on ultra ment that was due to be held this CA interim chief executive Nick up to a dramatic conclusion at Old Trafford. edge when the ball passed Stokes’ gloves. October to late 2022. Hockley, however, said his organ- While England need 110 more runs to win, Two overs later, Shaheen Afridi’s un- “This is obviously a disappointing isation had been ready to host the Pakistan need five more wickets. playable delivery that bounced off a length decision for cricket players and tournament in either 2021 or 2022, England started the second session on took Ollie Pope by surprise. It smashed into fans around the world,” New while there was no problem with 55/1 with captain Joe Root (42) and Dom his gloves and Shadab Khan took the catch Zealand Sports Minister Grant India holding onto their tourna- Sibley (36) in the middle. The pair continued running in from gully. Robertson said in a statement on ment next year. to hang around well into the second session With Pakistan in the driver’s seat, Buttler Saturday about the postponed “No, not at all annoyed,” Hockley JOS BUTTLER and their partnership was on 64 when Sibley went on the counter while Woakes also put women’s tournament. told reporters on a conference call succumbed to Yasir Shah (2/74). on his batsman’s hat. The pair managed to India leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal y “The organising committee in on Saturday. “We are very respectful. Sibley went for a hard drive across the knock off 50 runs in the remaining overs of announced his engagement with

New Zealand has been working “Postponing it to 2022 in Australia line to a ball that Yasir delivered from over the second session and thus left the match on choreographer and YouTube per-

k k y y m m c c with the government to ensure a gives us a better chance of putting the wicket, it only took an edge and flew a knife’s edge when the umpires knocked sonality Dhanashree Verma on social safe and enjoyable tournament on the event that we all originally straight to Asad Shafiq at first slip. Two overs off the bails for tea. media. “We said ‘Yes’ along with could be played. We could have planned for and were hoping for. We later, Naseem Shah successfully set up BRIEF SCORES (AT TEA): Pakistan 326 & our families #rokaceremony,” he done it in 2021, but now we will hope by 2022 that the world is back Root who also edged the delivery to first slip 169; England 219 & 167/5 (Joe Root 42, Dom Sibley wrote in his caption to the picture look to 2022. As a government we and we have got some normalcy.” and England all of a sudden lost both their 36; Yasir Shah 2/74). Match to continue. from the ceremony

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