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. 9 ‘Raths’ must be uniform and Thakur said that a Rath attractive. Yatra Committee would be imachal Chief Minister Jai Thakur said that the Rath constituted which would give HRam Thakur on Tuesday Yatra would possibly com- suggestions to make the Yatra said that the proposed Rath mence from April 15 on the attractive and informative. Yatra on the occasion of gold- auspicious occasion of The documentaries of var- en jubilee year of the statehood Himachal Day and would cover ious departments highlighting would instil sense of belong- every area of the state. All the their developmental journey ingness in the 50 years of glo- major Departments must would also be shown on the rious journey of the state actively participate in high- LED screens installed The Chief Minister said lighting achievements of their on the Rath. this while presiding over the Departments. meeting regarding the pro- The Rath Yatra would also posed ‘Swarnim Himachal highlight the achievements Rath Yatra’ here. made by the state of Himachal He said that the ‘Swarnim Pradesh during last 50 years, he Himachal Rath Yatra’ must said. ensure that the people of the The Chief Minister said the state get involved in this yatra. Rath Yatra would cover every Active participation of elected cluster of 2 to 3 panchayats representatives of Panchayati where events would be held Raj Institution and Urban Local regarding achievements of the Bodies should be ensured to state. The fous should also be make this event a mega success, laid on highlighting the policies he said. and programmes of the present He said that the design of State Government. &&; & '

54 coded sticker) on the vehicles (old and new) has been made he Chandigarh mandatory in the country. TAdministration has begun Vehicles that run on petrol the process of affixing colour or CNG carry blue-coloured coded stickers on vehicles in stickers while the ones that run the city. The colour-coded or on diesel carry orange-coloured fuel stickers are an identifica- ones. All the other types of fuel tion mark for the type of fuel vehicles will carry grey- the vehicle uses. coloured stickers. As per the directions of the These stickers carry vehi- Union Ministry of Road cle details like registration Transport and Highways, the number, registering authority, affixation of High Security a laser-branded PIN, and the Registration Plate (HSRP) and vehicle’s engine and chassis third registration mark (colour numbers.

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8%326 2 . Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), Government “to withdraw all crisis, appointment of a state rejected as unconstitutional. be the reason to victimize the 2020, while urging the Centre Constitution, he added. Lok Insaaf Party (LIP), SAD cases registered against the observer at Delhi borders, and “We talk about more fed- agitating farmers, farmworkers, to drop the proposal to enact Pointing out that the President ;%4 69 Democratic Party, BSP, CPI, farmers, farm workers, and joining the farmers at the eral powers for the states, then and others including the media the proposed new Electricity had refused to meet Punjab and CPI (M) attended the journalists, and other peaceful protest site without making a how can we do this?” asked persons, said the Resolution, (Amendment) Act, 2020. leaders following the passage of meeting. agitators, and release all those political statement, among oth- Capt Amarinder as AAP lead- calling upon the Government The resolution also lauded the Bills in the Vidhan Sabha 54 This is the second all-party detained by the police or any ers. The meeting started with ers brought up the issue of India “to take steps to ensure farmers’ leader Rakesh Tikait on the ground that he had not meeting, convened by the CM other agencies”. They demand- a two-minute silence in towards the end of the meeting. that the farmers and farm for his contribution to the received the Bills, the Chief utting across the political Capt Amarinder, over the issue ed that the missing agitators remembrance of those who “What will you do if Himachal workers participating in the struggle, and also thanked Minister told the all-party Clines, Punjab’s all political of Centre’s three agriculture should also be traced and had died during the agitation Pradesh and Haryana police agitation are not victimized in Haryana farmers for their sup- meeting that he will seek time parties, except for Bharatiya acts against which the farmers restored to their respective so far. As of date, 88 farmers come to Punjab,” quipped Cap any manner”. port to Punjab’s farmers in the again from the President. “I am Janata Party (BJP), on Tuesday have been staging a protest at families without any delay. from Punjab had reportedly Amarinder. Even as Capt The resolution also called agitation. also constantly in touch with came on a joint platform to Delhi borders for more than The representatives of all lost their lives in these protests, Amarinder remarked that upon the Centre “to make the Union Home Minister on seek immediate withdrawal of two months now. The previous political parties also appreciat- said the Chief Minister. “Your (AAP) Chief Minister in MSP a statutory right of the PUNJAB GOVT TO AGAIN the issue of the farm laws and the Centre’s three new farm meeting, held on June 24 last ed the action and position Delhi can request the Union farmers, and continue with BRING AMENDMENT the farmer protests, as sug- laws and statutory MSP (min- year, was convened when the taken by the Kisan Sangarsh ‘REDRESS GRIEVANCES OF Home Minister to provide the procurement of food grains BILLS IN ASSEMBLY gested by the Prime Minister,” imum support price). The Centre had introduced the Samiti of 40 farmers’ unions, ‘RESILIENT; FARMERS; security there…We can’t do it by the Government of India “Punjab Government will he said. demand came even as the CM farm ordinances. including 32 from Punjab. WITHDRAW FARM LAWS’ as it’s not possible constitu- through FCI and other such bring the State Amendment Capt Amarinder Singh also Besides, the parties also A rare and complete una- Taking serious note of tionally,” AAP leaders walked agencies as at present”, adding Bills to negate the draconian ‘THREAT FROM PAK announced to once again bring condemned the “sponsored nimity prevailed at the all- “substantial delay” by the out of the meeting. that “the procurement by Farm Laws again in the Vidhan COULD NOT BE UNDER- the amendment bills to negate violence in Delhi” while decid- party meeting on the need to Centre in resolving the crisis, The Chief Minister, how- arhtiyas may also continue as Sabha since the Governor has MINED’ the central farm laws in Vidhan ing that an all-party delegation sink all political differences to Punjab’s political parties urged ever, stressed the need to fight earlier”. failed to send the earlier Bills Underlining the need for Sabha as the Governor sat over will meet the Prime Minister stand unitedly with the farm- the Central Government to the battle, which was led by Noting that, as a result of to the President,” declared the early resolution of the crisis, the the earlier ones. Narendra Modi and raise the ers in their fight against the redress the grievances of farm- Punjab but had not become a the undue delay by the Central Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Chief Minister warned that While the BJP boycotted issue, along with other matters “black” farm laws, with the ers, who have shown exemplary fight of the nation, constitu- Government in resolving the during the meeting. “We will the threat from Pakistan could the all-party meeting, con- of concern on the farmers’ message that “we are all togeth- resilience in their continued tionally. Terming the agitation crisis, “not only the peaceful bring the Bills again as the not be undermined. His focus vened by the CM Capt agitation. er in this battle”. fight in the most democratic so far as “historic and unpar- agitators and their families are Constitution provides that if on security threats stemmed Amarinder to evolve a con- In addition, the all-party The meeting saw a host of manner, by immediately with- alleled”, though some miscre- suffering but several farmers Bills are passed twice by the from his awareness of the grave sensus on the farmers’ issue, the meeting also demanded an suggestions come from partic- drawing the three farm laws. ants tried to sabotage it through and farmworkers have lost Vidhan Sabha, they have to be challenges to Punjab, he added. Aam Aadmi Party staged a appropriate judicial inquiry to ipants of all parties, ranging The meeting passed a resolu- untoward incidents at the Red their lives causing irreparable sent by the Governor to the “We have to work to resolve walkout before the resolutions investigate the “laxity” and from an independent probe tion to this effect, even as AAP Fort on Republic Day, the res- damage to them and anguish President,” he said, adding that this issue before things go out were passed over its demand “complicity” of those respon- into the Red Fort violence, walked out over their demand olution meanwhile said that amongst the people of the the Governor should not have of hand,” he said, adding that for sending out Punjab Police sible for maintaining peace joint meeting with the Prime for deployment of Punjab these acts “are truly con- country”, the resolution sat over the Bills. he knew how many drones, to Delhi borders for providing and order at the Red Fort. Minister and the Union Home Police to protect the farmers demnable and need to be demanded the withdrawal of The State was empowered arms and ammunition were security to farmers. However, All parties, through a res- Minister seeking their inter- protesting at the Delhi borders, probed thoroughly”. the new Environment to amend the laws under being smuggled into the state representatives of the Congress, olution, also urged the Central vention for the resolution of the which the Chief Minister again However, these should not Protection (Amendment) Act, Article 254 (ii) of the from across the border. */ % '"! .

54 more than 80,000 personnel of Punjab Police Headquarters 7 three Akali workers injured accompanied party candidates Fazilka SSP Harjit Singh attack under the supervision of and frontline workers will be to pay homage to 1,800 police .: ' ? when the SAD and Congress to file nomination for the MC confirmed that four persons the Chief Justice of the Punjab unjab Government on vaccinated over next 10 days. personnel of different ranks, .' workers came to blows during elections. were injured, but their identi- and Haryana High court as the PTuesday launched Covid-19 As the Chief Minister Capt who laid down their lives dur- the filing of nomination papers Romana alleged that it was ty and party affiliation was heinous act seems to enjoy vaccination drive for the state Amarinder Singh launched the ing fight against terrorism. for Jalalabad municipal polls in an attack on Sukhbir Badal as being ascertained. He added State patronage,” said SAD Police personnel during which second phase of Covid-19 vac- Lauding the Punjab Police’s ! .07 Fazilka district. The last date for his SUV too was pelted with that the gunshots were fired, leader Daljit Singh Cheema. cination drive for frontline efforts, Capt said that the entire filing nominations is February stones. “Sukhbir Badal is but it is yet to be known who He said that the Chief workers in the state, the state force had worked day and 3 (Wednesday). unhurt, though attackers fired and at whom. Minister is not only helpless in ' +! Director General of Police night on the frontlines when 5 & SAD chief Sukhbir escaped opened fire at his bullet-proof Condemning the murder- front of these mafias but also (DGP) Dinkar Gupta volun- the COVID-19 was at its peak unhurt in the incident but his car and pelted stones too,” he ous attack by police-backed seems to have directed the " ##$ teered to be the first among the in Punjab and rest of the coun- !& car was damaged. said. Sources said that Sukhbir Congress goons, SAD demand- State police not to act against Punjab Police to get the jab. The try. Besides maintaining law Even as the exact sequence was sitting on the front seat of ed the Chief Minister Capt them. ! state Additional Chief Secretary and order, the Police also 54 of events was not known, Youth his State Government-provid- Amarinder Singh’s resignation Cheema also condemned (Home) Anurag Agarwal also ensured home delivery of food, Akali Dal chief Parambans ed bulletproof SUV when a citing the complete breakdown the firing done by goons led by 54 got vaccinated at the same ses- medicines, and other essentials, ays ahead the Punjab civic Singh Romana said that the mob pelted stones inside the in the law and order situation Congress legislator Raminder sion, along with the top brass of during the curfew spanning Dbody polls, violent clashes attack occurred at Jalalabad SDM office at Jalalabad. There in the State. Awla’s son on the occasion, aryana Chief Secretary the Punjab Police. over two months from March were witnessed at Jalalabad on SDM’s office where Akali Dal was no security personnel or “A high level judicial claiming that three Akali work- HVijai Vardhan on Under the second phase of 22, 2020, and later all through Tuesday between the workers president Sukhbir Badal had pilot vehicle in front of his SUV. inquiry should be held into this ers had suffered bullet injuries. Tuesday said that the State is the ongoing vaccination drive the worst phase of COVID of Shiromani Akali Dal and all set to start the second in Punjab, around 82,789 pandemic in Punjab. Congress in which attempt to phase of the Covid-19 Vaccine Punjab Police personnel are “A total of 6,153 police murder case has been regis- roll out from Wednesday after estimated to be inoculated with personnel were diagnosed pos- tered against local Congress the successful implementation COVID-19 vaccine across the itive for COVID-19 out of MLA Raminder Singh Awla, of its first phase. State. Prior to launch of the which 6,086 have successfully his son and 60 other unnamed In the second phase of vaccination drive, the Chief recovered while 15 Punjab accused. Covid-19 vaccine roll out the Minister was given the Guard Police cops are presently Besides stone-pelting at Frontline Workers will be of Honour, after which he laid COVID-19 positive and are SAD president Sukhbir Singh vaccinated and to ensure its a wreath at Punjab Police undergoing the treatment,” he Badal’s vehicle, gunshots were smooth implementation the Martyrs’ Memorial in the foyer said. also fired allegedly leaving registration of all such workers will be completed on the CoWin portal by February 7, ' 2 ! $ he added. ,-' # Vardhan said that this # $ decision was taken in the third meeting of the State Steering Committee and State !$$#$! $% Task Force Committee 54 *<2 :.4 2"2449 5= through video conferencing here in Chandigarh. In the aryana government on Tuesday further 54 meeting, Dvisional Hextended the suspension of mobile Commissioners, District Internet services till 5 pm on February 3 in f the persons from Punjab reported missing Deputy Commissioners, seven districts of the state amid a protest by Osince the Republic Day violence in the Superintendents of Police, Jail farmers against the Centre’s three farm laws. national capital, 70 are in Delhi jails, while 14 of Superintendents, District “The Haryana government has extended the remaining 19 missing had been located, the Development and Panchayat the suspension of mobile Internet services Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh said on Officers, Municipal (2G/3G/4G/CDMA/GPRS), SMS services Tuesday, adding that efforts are on to trace the Commissioners, Home Guard (only bulk SMS) and all dongle services etc remaining five. In-charge, Medical College provided on mobile networks except the voice A day after announcing a helpline number Directors and CMOs were calls in seven districts- Kaithal, Panipat, ‘112’ for citizens to make complaints to trace the present. Jind, Rohtak, Charkhi Dadri, Sonipat and missing protestors, the Chief Minister told the all- Jhajjar--till 5 pm on February 3,” an official party meeting that as per information received, five statement said here. It said the order has been persons from Punjab are still missing and all efforts +, - $!$ issued to prevent any disturbance of peace and were being made to trace them. public order in the jurisdiction of these dis- The 70-member lawyers’ team of Advocate- ' -$ tricts of Haryana and shall be in force with General Atul Nanda, deputed to help out farmers immediate effect. with free legal aid, were reaching out to those in ./0$' The Government’s move to suspend prison and those facing cases filed against them mobile Internet services in 17 districts earli- by the Delhi Police, said Capt Amarinder. !$ !! $! er and later on keeping these suspended at a The Chief Minister asserted that the State few places saw protests by farmers in the state. Government was extending all possible help to the Farmers on Tuesday blocked the national agitating farmers, camping out at Delhi’s borders 54 highway near the Khatkar toll plaza near for over two months now, and also to their fam- Narwana in Jind to protest against the curbs. ilies back home. No effort would be spared to s many as 5,394 birds have INLD leader Abhay Singh Chautala told ensure the safe return of all the farmers to their Adied due to avian influen- reporters in Jind the suspension of the mobile homes in Punjab, he added. “170 cases registered za- H5N1 in Himachal. internet services in some parts had affected against farmers during agitations in Punjab are This includes around 5,000 office work and the studies of the students. being withdrawn by the Government,” he said. migratory birds at Pong wet- land in Kangra district while more than 300 crows and other native species have died in the state due to bird flu. According to the data tabled in Parliament on Tuesday, 5394 migratory or wild birds have died in the hill state due to bird flu till January 30. 90 percent of fatalities is reported among Bar-Headed Goose species of migratory birds. The bird flu was detected at Pong Dam on January 4. In neighboring Haryana, poultry birds have died due to the bird flu while both poultry and migratory birds have died due to the infection in Punjab. As per the government’s data, 49936 poultry birds have died due to bird flu in Punjab while 88 migratory or wild birds were also reported dead due to the virus in the state. In Haryana, 2,10,000 poultry birds have died due to avian influenza, the data stated. !"#$#% " #

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%&/ tourism industry, the guide- $ 4+!#5 lines for the scheme of Market ravel restrictions imposed Development Assistance Tto control the Covid pan- (MDA) for providing financial 6 ! demic took a toll on the support to stakeholders for tourism sector with just three the promotion of domestic million foreign tourists visiting tourism have been modified India in 2020, down by whop- to enhance the scope and ovid-19 has so far ping 75 per cent from 10.93 reach of the scheme, so as to Cclaimed the lives of 162 million footfalls in the previous provide maximum benefits doctors, 107 nurses and 44 Hospital, New Delhi while the year. to the stakeholders,” Patel ASHA workers in the coun- Kerala team shall comprise of Though the Government told the House. try, Rajya Sabha was told on t a time when almost all senior official from the is yet to assess the losses in However, industry players Tuesday. AStates/Union Territories Ministry along with experts earning terms, players in the are not impressed as they The figures are based on with State are showing a declining trend from its Regional Office, sector put it around 5 trillion said that they were looking for the intimations received from Governments/Central gov- in number of cases and deaths Thiruvananthapuram and Lady or USD 65.57 billion, with the some major push in the the states till January 22, said ernment authorities con- due to Covid-19, Kerala and Hardinge Medical College, organised sector alone likely Budget on Monday, but in Minister of State for Health cerned. Maharashtra are becoming a New Delhi,” said an official to lose $25 billion. vain. Ashwini Kumar Choubey in The necessary certifica- matter of concern for the from the Ministry. To add to the agony of the Subhash Goyal, General the House in response to a tion for claims is done by a Centre by continuing to report He said that the teams sector, the Budget 2021-22 Secretary, FAITH and question on the number of healthcare Institution, orga- a large number of cases, con- shall work closely with the announced Monday had President, Confederation of healthcare staff, including nization or office where the tributing to almost 70 per cent State Health Departments, take nothing much for its devel- Tourism Professionals, said doctors, nurses and ASHA deceased was an employee active infections in the country. a stock on ground situation and opment, lamented the indus- that this was a great opportu- workers who have been of/engaged by the institution. Fearing that the duo might recommend necessary public try players. However, last year, foreign of the sector, the impact in nity for the Government to affected died due to Covid- They submit the docu- not play spoilsports to its pos- health interventions to contain Tourism Minister Prahlad tourist arrivals stood at 2.68 numerical terms can only be revive the tourism Industry 19. ments to the competent itive efforts shown in the coun- the large number of cases being Patel on Tuesday told the million and “no formal study ascertained in due course,” the and save at least 30-40 million On whether the data authority for State and UT, or try, the worried Union Health reported by these States. Rajya Sabha in a written reply has been instituted for assess- minister said. jobs which are on the verge of presented by the Indian the competent authority for Ministry has now sent high Overall, India registered that while in 2019, the num- ment of loss of revenue in Tourism sector is one of extinction out of 75 million Medical Association regard- Central Government, level teams to collaborate with 8,635 new coronavirus infec- ber of foreign tourist arrivals 2020”, Patel said. the largest industry and people who are directly and ing the number of healthcare Central Autonomous /PSU the State health authorities in tions in a day, the lowest in was 10.93 million, the number “However, several rounds accounts for 6.23% of the indirectly employed in this workers who have died due hospitals, AIIMS, INIs and instituting public health mea- eight months, while the daily stood at 10.56 million in 2018. of discussions and brain- country’s gross domestic industry. “Not just Tourism, it to Covid-19 has been taken hospitals of other central sures for Covid-19 manage- deaths fell below 100 after It was in 2017 that foreign storming sessions with indus- product (GDP) and provides is not mentioned of the ser- note of by the Ministry and ministries, as the case may ment. As on Tuesday around nine months, according tourist arrivals first time try stakeholders indicate mas- employment to 8.78% of the vices sector, which is a largest any follow up verification of be. The competent authori- Maharashtra has 44,944 active to the ministry data. The coun- crossed the 10 million-mark. sive loss of revenue, foreign population. employment generator, in this the same done, Choubey ties then forward and submit cases while Kerala has 69,456 try’s COVID-19 tally has gone There were 10.4 million exchange and jobs. In view of “With an aim to incen- Budget,” Goyal said in a state- said the process of insurance claims to the insurance com- active cases, according to the up to 1,07,66,245 and the death arrivals in that year, he said. the highly unorganised nature tivize stakeholders in the ment. disbursement has been de- pany. health ministry data updated at toll increased to 1,54,486 with centralised under the However, according to 8 am. 94 new fatalities. According to months. months. Hundred deaths were pushing the national recovery country which account for 1.52 Pradhan Mantri Garib the Indian Medical “The Central team to the Ministry, after reaching a “In another significant recorded last on May 15, 2020,” rate to 97.05 per cent, while the per cent of the total caseload, Kalyan Package (PMGKP: Association (IMA) Covid-19 Maharashtra comprises of high of 95,735 on September 10 development, the country has the ministry said. COVID-19 case fatality rate has the data stated. Insurance Scheme). data on September 16, as experts drawn from National in 2020, the daily new cases reported less than 100 daily The number of people who dropped to 1.43 per cent. A total of 1,54,486 deaths Accordingly, the verifi- many as 2,238 doctors were Center for Disease Control have dropped to 8,635 on deaths in a span of 24 hours, have recuperated from the dis- There are 1,63,353 active have been reported so far in the cation of a person affected infected with the disease and (NCDC) and Dr. RML Tuesday, the lowest in eight the lowest in eight-and-half ease surged to 1,04,48,406 coronavirus infections in the country. and died to Covid-19 vests of them 382 lost their lives. 344R !% # % $ / &0* Forums (CLAF) and appointed Project Management 3 $ $$%# n a move to provide space to Consultants (PMC) to appraise, Iurbanising population, the approve, implement, manage, facilitate illegal mining of Modi Government plans to operate, monitor and evaluate Minor Minerals in District develop eight new cities in a the projects. he Centre has Kaushambi (U.P) without fol- planned manner in the coming According to the ministry, Tentrusted to the he CBI has registered a lowing e-tendering procedure years. The 15th Finance Of the total committed invest- National Investigation Tcase against then District as mentioned in the orders Commission has recommend- ments of 2,05,018 crore as per Agency (NIA) the Magistrate, Kaushambi, dated 31.05.2012. of Uttar ed 8,000 crore performance- approved Smart Cities Plans, probe into the blast Satyendra Singh (IAS officer, Pradesh Government,” the based grants for incubation of 5,331 smart city projects with a near the Israel now retired) and others in a agency said in a statement. eight new cities in the country. cost of 1,76,059 crore have embassy in the nation- mining scam, and conducted The searches were con- The Narendra Modi 8,000 crore has been allocated urban hubs have been developed been tendered so far. The work al capital on Friday searches at nine places leading ducted at the premises of the Government has accepted the for incubation of eight new Delhi-Mumbai corridor; orders have been 1,39,969 crore evening. to recovery of documents of 44 accused at nine different places recommendation of the 15th cities. This means 1,000 crore Chennai-Bengaluru corridor and 2122 projects have been A minor IED blast took counterpart Benjamin immovable properties worth in Kaushambi and Lucknow Finance Commission, which has has been allocated for each city. and Bharatmala projects. completed worth 34,986 crore place near the Israeli Embassy Netanyahu on Monday to several crores of rupees, bank which led to recovery of var- suggested a grant of 8,000 crore The selection of cities will be As per the ministry’s data, among the 100 smart cities since in the high security Lutyen’s convey his strong condemna- account deposits and cash ious incriminating documents. for incubation of eight new done through competition and the number of towns cities have the inception of Smart City Bungalow Zone in which no tion of the terror attack and recovery of 10 lakh besides During searches at the premis- cities’ in the country. eight states to be qualified. The increased from 5,161 in 2001 to Mission. one was injured but several asserted that India will deploy gold and silver jewellery val- es of then District Magistrate, According to Durga Shankar ministry will come up with 7,935 in 2011. Of them, 53 have The 15th Finance vehicles parked nearby were all its resources to find and ued over 2.11 crore. cash amount of 10 lakh, doc- Mishra, Secretary, the Ministry detailed guidelines to this regard. a population of over 1 million Commission has allocated Rs 1.5 damaged. punish the perpetrators. The searches came after uments relating to the 44 of Housing and Urban Affairs, Mishra said that several new people. Post-Independence, sev- lakh crore in grants to urban “The investigation into Both leaders, the PMO the agency registered a case immovable properties, fixed eral cities, Chandigarh, local bodies (ULBs) in India for the blast near the Israeli said, expressed satisfaction against the retired IAS officer deposits worth 51 lakh, 36 Bhuvaneshwar, Atal Nagar, New the next five years which is a 78 embassy has been handed about the close coordination and nine private persons, res- bank accounts, in the name of Raipur, Noida, Greater Noida, percent increase over last time. over to the NIA for further between Indian and Israeli idents of Kaushambi and said public servant and his " ! New Town Kolkata, Navi “For the year 2021-22, a total probe,” an official said. security agencies in connec- Allahabad) besides other family members at Lucknow, Mumbai, have been developed as budget allocation of 54,581 Some cars were damaged tion with the blast probe. unknown officials/persons. Kanpur, Ghaziabad, New new urban hubs. crores has been provided which in the explosion that occurred The Israeli foreign min- It was alleged that during Delhi and keys of six bank # $ # The Modi Government has 50,039 crores which was allo- about 150 metres away from istry had said all its diplomats the year 2012-14, the then lockers were found. Gold and also taken up a project to devel- cated during BE 2020-21.The the embassy on the Dr APJ and embassy staff in Delhi are District Magistrate, silver jewellery worth 2.11 op 100 cities as smart city since budget provided for 2021-22 is Abdul Kalam Road in the “safe and sound”. Kaushambi (Uttar Pradesh) crore and old currency notes 6 " $#) ! 2015. All 100 cities have incor- 16.52% higher tha46,790 crores upscale diplomatic enclave. A vehicle of the Israeli had awarded 02 fresh leases with a face value of 1 lakh porated Special Purpose Vehicle during 2020-21,” the ministry Prime Minister Narendra embassy was earlier hit in a and also renewed 09 existing were also found in the lockers, (SPV), City Level Advisory said. Modi spoke to his Israeli terror attack in 2012. leases to the other accused to it added. not to declare farmers as “terrorist” without any evidence. he Supreme Court on Sharma has claimed in his TWednesday will hear a plea that there was a “planned . ! !&@A- & *7# ! % ! batch of pleas pertaining to conspiracy” to sabotage the tractor rally violence in the protest by farmers’ and they -A*=B-A*C national capital on the Republic were allegedly declared as Day, including the one which “terrorist” without any evi- $# $$%$$ P435 has sought setting up of a dence. lier order. tion and location of the fallen commission headed by a He has sought directions “There is no dispute that trees that are intended to be 0 &0 '& for 2018-19 and Central ing institutions. retired apex court judge to to prohibit propagation of he Supreme Court has per- the trees which have fallen removed,” the bench said in its Reserve Police Force’s CRPF The Bureau of Police inquire into the incident. “false allegations and actions Tmitted the Uttar Pradesh due to strong cyclone/storm of order passed last week. he Union Home Ministry Academy, Gurugram for 2019- Research and Development The tractor parade on declaring” farmers as terror- authority to remove 702 trees, April 11, 2018 and May 2, 2015 It said CEC shall thereupon Thas awarded the Indo- 20. (BPR&D) had carried out the January 26 that was to highlight ist without any evidence. which had fallen due to cyclone numbering 702 tress need to be visit the site, inspect the trees Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) The winner institution gets inspections of various police the demands of farmer unions Besides the petitions filed and storm in May 2015 and removed from various loca- and then grant or deny per- Academy, Mussoorie, the pre- 20 lakh reward each for train- training institutes of the nation to repeal three new agri laws by Tiwari and Sharma, the April 2018, from various loca- tions of the District of Agra, mission and report the same to mier officers’ training academy ing institutions for gazetted for 4 consecutive years starting dissolved into anarchy on the court would also hear some tions of Agra district which UP,” said the bench, also com- the court. of the border guarding force, as officers, non-gazetted offices from 2016 to 2020 and each streets of the national capital as other pleas related to the inci- comes under the Taj Trapezium prising Justices A S Bopanna The bench said the CEC the best Gazetted Officers training institutes and other year, there were prizes for the thousands of protesters broke dent. Zone (TTZ). and V Ramasubramanian, report shall be placed before (GOs) training institute for ranks (constables) at the best police training centres in through barriers, fought with In his petition, Tiwari has TTZ is about 10,400 sq km, while allowing the application the court along with the appli- 2016-17 under the category national and state levels. At the the country in 3 levels- the police, overturned vehicles said that farmers’ protest spread over the districts of seeking permission to remove cation made by the persons National Level (CAPFs/CPOs). zonal level, 2 lakh each is National level for CAPFs/ and hoisted a religious flag against the three new agri laws Agra, Firozabad, Mathura, these trees. who intend to remove trees. Under the category, the awarded to the training insti- CPOs, National level for States from the ramparts of the icon- is going on for over two Hathras and Etah in Uttar “As regards the general The apex court is hearing CISF, NISA, Hyderabad of the tutions of the state police in the and UTs and Zonal level in 3 ic Red Fort. months but it took a “violent Pradesh and Bharatpur district exemption from order dated the matter related to protection Central Industrial Security northern, eastern, north east- categories of each level- The petitions would be turn” during the tractor of Rajasthan. May 8, 2015 for felling and dis- and preservation of the iconic Force (CISF) for 2017-18 fol- ern, central, western and south- Gazetted Officers (GOs), Non- taken up for hearing by a parade. A bench headed by Chief posal of diseased, dry, fallen Taj Mahal at Agra and its sur- lowed by Border Security ern zones for gazetted, non- Gazetted Officers (NGOs) and bench comprising Chief “Unfortunately, the tractor Justice S A Bobde was and uprooted trees in the TTZ roundings. Force’s BSF Academy, Tekanpur gazetted and other ranks’ train- Others (Constables) training. Justice S A Bobde and Justices march took a violent turn informed by Additional area, we are of the view that if The top court has been A S Bopanna and V leaving injuries and destruc- Solicitor General Aishwarya any authority or person wish- monitoring developments in Ramasubramanian. tion of public property. This Bhati, who appeared for Uttar es to remove and dispose of dis- the area to protect the monu- ! One of the pleas filed by incident also effected the daily Pradesh, that these 702 trees eased, dry and fallen or uproot- ment, built by Mughal emper- advocate Vishal Tiwari has life of the public. The internet were either dead or uprooted in ed trees in the TTZ area, they or Shah Jahan in the memory sought setting up of a three- services were interrupted as the cyclone and the authorities shall make an application to the of his wife Mumtaz Mahal in member inquiry commission government ordered the oper- cannot remove them without central empowered committee 1631. The mausoleum is a " #$ under the chairmanship of a ators to suspend the same. In the apex court’s nod as per ear- (CEC) giving an exact descrip- UNESCO World Heritage Site. former apex court judge and the present time, the internet comprising of two retired services are very essential to ment CAA only after the crucial - of Pakistan, Bangladesh and high court judges for collect- carry out the work in differ- assembly elections in West Afghanistan, was passed by ing and recording evidence ent professions especially in $# " % $ ourteen months since the Bengal and Assam. Parliament in December 2019, and submit a report on the advocacy as the courts and Fpassage of the Citizenship “The Rules under The triggering protests in different January 26 violence to the top our Supreme Court of India is # # 2 % !" $$ (Amendment) Act, the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, parts of the country. The court in a time bound manner. functioning online,” Tiwari Government on Tuesday 2019 are under preparation. President had given his assent He has also sought direc- has said in his plea. informed the Lok Sabha that the The Committees on to the legislation on December tion to the concerned author- It said that clash between A bench of Justices R F dismissing his plea against Rules of CAA are under prepa- Subordinate Legislation, Lok 12, 2019. ity to lodge FIRs against indi- the farmers and police on the Nariman and Aniruddha illegal constructions and ration. Union Minister of State Sabha and Rajya Sabha have Under the Act, people from viduals or organisations Republic Day has caught the he Supreme Court has Bose issued notice to the permanent encroachments on for Home Nityanand Rai said granted extension of time up to these communities who had responsible for the violence attention of the entire world. Tsought the Centre’s reply Ministry of Environment and the eco-fragile floodplains. the CAA was notified on April 9 and July 9, respectively come to India till December 31, and causing dishonour of the “The matter is serious against a National Green Forests, Ministry of Jal Shakti, The plea contended that December 12, 2019, it came into to frame these rules under the 2014 due to religious persecu- National Flag on January 26. because when the protest was Tribunal order dismissing a National Mission for Clean the tribunal passed the order force with effect from January CAA,” said Rai in a written tion in the three countries will Another petition has been going on peacefully for last plea on unauthorised and Ganga, Central Water without examining the 10, 2020 and got extension reply. not be treated as illegal immi- filed by advocate Manohar Lal two months then suddenly, illegal constructions and Commission and others. detailed particulars of the from Subordinate Committees The CAA, which facilitates grants but given Indian citi- Sharma who has sought a how it turned into violent other permanent encroach- The top court was hearing violators encroaching upon of Legislation of Lok Sabha granting of Indian citizenship to zenship. After the CAA was direction to the concerned movement and led violence ments on the eco-fragile a plea filed by Patna resident the Ganga floodplains in and Rajya Sabha up to April 9 persecuted non-Muslim passed by Parliament, wide- authority as well as the media on January 26. floodplains of the Ganga in Ashok Kumar Sinha against Patna submitted by the appel- and July 9. This clearly means minorities -- Hindu, Sikh, Jain, spread protests were witnessed Patna. June 30, 2020 order of NGT lant. that the Centre wanted to imple- Buddhist, Parsi and Christian - in the country. !"#$#% $ %& 0 '40 ! 0 " ' %" %' 0 56# + Kolkata: The BJP has decided to stop anism for leaders and cadres of + mass joinings from the Trinamool other parties who want to switch *' '* 121 provision of Rs 1,000 crore for Assembly seats. Congress in West Bengal amid grow- over, he said. Chennai: The Tamil Nadu Assembly ses- resumed, he said. the development of tea gardens Back in South 24 Parganas ing resentment within the saffron The mechanism will be in place sion, a few months ahead of State elections, The vaccination programme was being n a day when BJP leader in Assam and Bengal. senior BJP leaders Mukul Roy, party over rampant inductions with- to ascertain whether they have a commenced on Tuesday with the main rolled out in phases with health workers ORajib Banerjee told a rally Banerjee also handed over Subhendu Adhikari and Rajib out scrutiny, senior leaders said on good image in the public, the state Opposition DMK arguing with Governor now being covered and in subsequent in South 24 Parganas that Union 4,000 housing certificates to Banerjee attacked the Mamata Tuesday. party leader said. Banwarilal Purohit before his customary stages, other frontline workers and the Home Minister Amit Shah had beneficiaries of a State Banerjee Government from a "Selective" inductions would be "Although the central and state address to the House, and boycotting the most vulnerable would be administered promised him about a Central Government scheme even as she massive rally saying “she has made henceforth, that too after con- leaderships would take the final call proceedings. the vaccines, he said. package should the saffron out- said “we do not promise things done nothing save dividing the sultations with the local leadership, regarding the joinings, but those who As Opposition benches went vacant Appreciating the significant role of fit come to power in Bengal, that we cannot do,” adding how people along communal and they said. wish to join also need to get a no- after Leader of Opposition MK Stalin police in tackling the pandemic and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee her Government had regional lines.” "We don't want the BJP to turn objection certificate from the local or walked out of the House with members of enforcing the lockdown, he said, "the slammed New Delhi for announced providing house in While Adhikari asked into the B-team of the TMC by district leadership of the party," he alliance parties following suit, Purohit police machinery in the state is fully geared “promising sky but delivering its last Budget and fulfilled it this Banerjee had ordered payment inducting leaders who don't have a said. Several former TMC leaders began his speech. to face all challenges, including the order- nothing.” time round. of a monthly stipend of Rs clean image. We don't want people, who are being probed for corruption He outlined the action on tackling the ly conduct of elections to the legislative The Chief Minister who “Today we are handing over 2,500 to Imams which was dis- facing allegations or are involved in have switched over to the BJP in the COVID-19 pandemic including vaccina- assembly." Assembly elections are likely in was in a three-day visit to North allotment letters. This is criminatory against the Hindus immoral or illegal activities, to join last few years. tion, cash assistance to people during lock- April or early May in Tamil Nadu. Bengal said how the BJP lead- Trinamool Congress. This is priests who were getting only Rs our party," BJP national general sec- Since the 2019 Lok Sabha elec- down, financial aid to farmers hit by recent Earlier, before the Governor could ership had promised before the the Maa, Maati, Manush 1,000. He also reminded how retary Kailash Vijayvargiya said. tions, the BJP has inducted 18 MLAs cyclones, and the economic front. start his address, Stalin tried to raise some general elections that they would (Mother, Land and People) gov- only 8,000 Hindu priests were "So henceforth, mass joinings and an MP of the Trinamool Also, Purohit urged the Centre to issues. reopen all the seven closed tea ernment,” she said taking a dig getting the allowance in com- would not take place. From now on, Congress, three MLAs each from the reject the Mekedatu project proposal of Purohit said the Central budget has gardens “but not a single one has at the BJP leadership which she parison to 55,000 Imams. the joinings would be very selective CPI(M) and the Congress, and one Karnataka and not allow Kerala to build allocated Rs 1.03 lakh crore for Tamil Nadu resumed operations. There are said “remembers tea gardens Rajib Banerjee a former and that too after scrutiny," he MLA from the CPI. Except for for- any new dam across River Periyar. and wanted the main opposition to to take so many (BJP) MPs who have only during elections. They said Bengal minister who joined the added. mer ministers Suvendu Adhikari He condemned a recent 'incident' in advantage of the session, the last of the cur- won from North Bengal, but tell that they we will reopen the tea BJP last week said that Union The decision has been taken and Rajib Banerjee, none of the which four fishermen lost their lives rent 15th assembly to debate over all issues. me what they have done for this gardens but they seem to have Home Minister had assured amid rising infighting within the MLAs have resigned from the when a Sri Lankan naval vessel deliberately A din ensued, with DMK Deputy region.... Nothing.” forgotten thispromise.” him about a central package party's Bengal unit, often snow- Assembly. collided with their boat. leader Duraimurugan and other opposi- Banerjee was speaking on Saying that though the should the saffron outfit come balling into the open, a senior state Reacting to the development, The Government continued to take tion members joining Stalin, who object- the sidelines of a mass wedding TMC could win no MP seats to power in Bengal. BJP leader said. "In many cases, the the Trinamool Congress said the proactive measures to bring back 12 fish- ed to Purohit making a mention of the event at Falakata in Jalpaiguri from the region her Both Banerjee and Adhikari district leadership is not happy with BJP's decision reflects that it has lost ermen in Lankan custody, he said. union budget allocation and wanted him district where she handed over Government was trying to help and all-India BJP vice president the mass inductions. It has led to the plot in Bengal. "The BJP nei- The vaccination drive against coron- to stick to his address. land pattas (deeds) to several tea the people of the area whereas Mukul Roy would fly off to infightings and the matter has not ther has leaders nor has a face in avirus has been rolled out smoothly in the Purohit said DMK may register its garden workers. The handing “they have several MPs in North Delhi for a core committee gone down well with the central lead- Bengal. So, it was poaching leaders State and in due course the entire popu- protest if it chose to do so, but suggested out of pattas came a day after the Bengal but have done anything.” meeting of the top party leadership," he said. from other parties," TMC spokesper- lation would be covered so that normal that its members could 'come back again' Centre declared a budgetary North Bengal accounts for 54 ership. The BJP is working on a mech- son Sougata Roy said. PTI social and economic activity can be fully to the House. PTI " $ $ $*( 3 $: . &'! 9 E F< & &!&& ; ! 0* %& shops,” said Joemon, branch man- muskmelon is cultivated. 12 ( ager of one of the super markets “Is there any law in Ernakulam. which bans the corporates from ! E 5 Kanpur: A second daughter of and police officers have been orporatisation of agriculture is Customers in Kerala get fresh dealing directly with the farmers? a man, who had set ablaze his formed to probe the man's Chere to stay and it is futile to bananas and plantain leaves culti- I am only bothered about the qual- 1%040% Mumbai: As many as 94 fresh six children and wife before set- allegations that the district stage agitations against corpo- vated in Nanchinadu region in ity of the fruits and vegetables sold bird deaths have been report- ting himself too afire in a des- administration had failed to rates engaged in the business of Kanyakumari because of these in these outlets. What I have sub-inspector heading a police post in Kanpur dis- ed in Maharashtra amid the perate bid to save a piece of his save his land, saying that it was agriculture, according to farmers super markets. Refrigerated vans, found is that they sell fresh and Atrict was on Tuesday suspended allegedly for avian influenza scare, the state land in Kanpur dehat area, died part of a graveyard. in Tamil Nadu’s Coimbatore, popularly known as reefer vans safe crops,” said Thrissur based extracting money from a differently abled woman to government said on Tuesday. of her burn injuries on Tuesday, It has been decided that the Tiruppur, Erode and Kanyakumari rush from Nagercoil to district Sudheer K Damodaran, a Left fel- search for her minor daughter, a senior police official It took the death toll of police said. revenue team would also districts. headquarters of Kerala ferrying low traveller, who had participat- said. birds in the state since January The seven-year-old daugh- inspect the under-construc- The chain of super markets with them fruits, vegetables and ed in many anti-corporate agita- Kanpur range Deputy Inspector General of Police 8 -- when alert about bird flu ter of Gulfam, 35, a resident of tion site to find out if the work owned by Reliance or M A Yousuff even plantain leaves which the cor- tions. Preetinder Singh said SI Rajpal Singh of Sanigawan was sounded -- to 20,017, the Kanpur dehat's Moosa Nagar, was going on the graveyard Ali, the expatriate Indian busi- porates procure directly from the Ramasubramaniam said the police post was suspended after it was found that he government said, adding that died of her injuries at King land, he said. nessman who is adored by the farmers. corporates started procuring fruits, had taken the money from the woman on the pretext daily mortality has been declin- George Medical University A case on charges of abet- Chief Minister of Kerala as well his Farmers like Edwin Jayaraj vegetables and agricultural com- of paying diesel bill of his vehicle. ing in the last eight days. (KGMU) in Lucknow, where ment to suicide has already comrades in the CPI(M) spot this and Stanly of Nagercoil have made modities directly from the farm- “Assistant SP (Cantonment) Nikhil Pathak has been As many as 94 dead birds her five-year-old sister too had been registered against statutory notice prominently in it big through deals they have ers as early as 2000. asked to hold an inquiry against the SI and submit his were found on Monday and died on Sunday. unknown persons, the SP said. their retail outlets, “All Fruits and made with retail giants who are “It has been going on quite report,” the DIG said, adding he would take further their samples were sent to the With Moeena's death, the "We are looking to invoke Vegetables sold in our Stores are prompt in paying them without well for the last two decades and action against the SI after receiving the report. National Institute of High death toll in the gruesome appropriate sections in the sourced directly from farmers and the interference of middle men, the farmers are a happy lot,” he The DIG told PTI that he took action against the Security Animal Diseases, incident reached two, an offi- case,” he added. not from APMC or local said M Ramasubramaniam, chief said. Corporatisation remains a SI after the woman, who walks on crutches, approached Bhopal and the Disease cial said, adding Gulfam had On Thursday, the police Mandi”. executive officer of National Agro good term at least for the farmers him on Monday and apprised him of the SI's act of forc- Investigation Section, Pune to set all his family members too had reached the site of the The customers to these high- Foundation headquartered in who sell their products to the cor- ing her to pay the diesel bill of his vehicle for acting ascertain the cause of death, an afire before puttng himself too incident and doused the flame profile retail stores range from mil- Chennai. porate groups. on her complaint about her missing 15-year-old daugh- official said. on fire on Thursday. immediately, during which lionaires to Marxists. “Thanks to “We have helped the farmers “We get the price we ask for ter. The dead birds included 63 Moeena's sister Chand Tara Head Constable these stores, we get quality fresh in identifying the market as well and we never pay any commis- The woman had alleged in her complaint to the poultry birds, 25 crows and who had suffered 10 per cent Rajendra Pandey too had suf- fruits and vegetables ferried from buyers. Some of the farmers sions to anybody,” said Sundar of police that her daughter had been kidnapped by one others including herons and burn injuries had died on fered burn injuries, the SP Coimbatore to Ernakulam on a groomed by us have graduated to Mettupalayam in Coimbatore dis- of her close relatives nearly a month ago, the DIG said. parrots. The statement, mean- Sunday, Kanpur Dehat's said. daily basis,” said Shaji Kumar, a the big league cultivating fruits and trict. The woman even alleged that she had to borrow while, also said that samples of Superintendent of Police The victims had suffered CPI(M) activist in Perumbavoor vegetables ordered by the corpo- His requirement is that more money from her relatives to pay Rs 10,000 to 15,000 dead poultry birds from Keshav Kumar Choudhary 10 to 13 per cent burn injuries whom this writer came across in rate groups,” said and more corporate entities should to the policeman, DIG Singh said. Mahape and Ghansoli in Thane said. in the incident and were first one of the super markets on Ramasubramaniam. enter the field with high speed “Taking cognisance of the matter, I ordered the district, sent on January 30, "The necessary formalities taken to a community health Tuesday morning. Ravi and Arumugham , hail- reefer vans and liaison agents SI's suspension and a departmental probe into his con- have tested positive for bird flu. are being made and a probe has centre from where they were While the CPI(M) and other ing from Thiruvallur district cul- who could help them with bank- duct,” the DIG said. So far, 72,106 poultry birds also ben ordered in this con- shifted to the district hospital Left organisations are staging tivate muskmelon which is pro- ing and insurance formalities. Earlier on Monday, the SI was removed from his from infected zones have been nection,” the SP added. and later to the KGMU, demonstrations against Ambani, cured by star hotels in Chennai. This could be the reason why post and was attached with the reserve police lines, the culled and 44,686 eggs and He said a team of revenue Lucknow. PTI Adani, ITC etc, the proprietors of Interestingly, Ravi was on the farmers in Tamil Nadu and Kerala DIG said, adding, after getting a preliminary inquiry 63,339 kg of poultry feed have these groups laugh all the way to verge of suicide having lost all his stay away from the ongoing agi- report, the SI was placed under suspension on been destroyed. To avoid the Banks on a daily basis. “The savings because of “successive” tation across the country. Tuesday. City's Superintendent of Police (East) Shiva spread of infection, carcasses unsold commodities are purchased crop failures. Not anymore. He dri- Corporatisation and corporate Ji said the differently abled woman's 15-year-old daugh- are put in a gunny sack and ) # by local shopkeepers to be sold in ves around in a Maruti Omni to farming are here to stay, ter was kidnapped by her close relative about a month buried in a ditch lined with a their standalone neighbourhood supervise the fields where Stupid. back. layer of lime. PTI $% ! * %9 %$ " Patna: The CCTV cameras now in Patna said: "Patna is way !# 8 0 play a crucial role in a criminal behind on the security front. investigation. In states like Bihar CCTV cameras are hardly $: ! " ! Itanagar: Arunachal Pradesh at 0.05 per cent and the fatali- with frequent criminal inci- installed in individual residen- did not report any fresh ty rate at 0.33 per cent, the offi- dents, the importance of CCTV tial buildings." 224 Amaravati: The cumulative COVID-19 case in the last cial said. cameras at the personal as well As a resident of Patna, he coronavirus Positive cases in two days, a senior health Altogether, 3,92,762 sam- as at the State Government level observed that keeping a low pro- n a shocking incident, an eight- Andhra Pradesh rose to department official said on ples have been tested for is seen to be minimal. file is the key here to avoid crim- IYear-old boy was singed, alleged- 8,88,004 as 104 were added Tuesday. COVID-19, including 551 on IANS visited some of the inal incidents. ly by his father with a hot spatula, afresh in 24 hours ending 9 am The total coronavirus case- Monday, the official said. streets in Patna and found that "If we install CCTV cameras for not studying, police said. on Tuesday, even as the active load in the northeastern state State Immunisation Officer maximum roads are not under in our premises, it is too obvi- The incident, which took place caseload fell below 1,200. is 16,828, State Surveillance (SIO) Dimong Padung said CCTV surveillance. Starting ous and the local criminals may onJanuary 30, came to light after a The total recoveries Officer (SSO) Lobsang Jampa 16,876 health workers have from Bailey road connecting demand extortion money from panchayat member informed the increased to 8,79,651 as 147 said.A total of 16,762 people received COVID-19 vaccine Saguna Mor in Danapur to Dak us," Singh said. police. more patients got cured. have recovered from the dis- shots so far including, 140 on Banglow Chowk located in the "The installation of CCTV The child's father,Srikumkar The overall COVID-19 toll ease so far, he said. Monday.The health depart- heart of Patna with more than cameras on government build- (31), an alcoholic, has been arrest- rose to 7,156 with two fresh Arunachal Pradesh cur- ment has been carrying out the 10 intersections, the majority of ings, multi-storey buildings, ed and remanded to custody, police fatalities, a health department rently has only 10 active inoculation drive four days a them are not under CCTV sur- electric and telecom poles could said. bulletin said. COVID-19 cases, while 56 week — Monday, Thursday, veillance. The situation was the be a good option for authorities," The boy, who has burn marks on The state now has 1,197 active Covid- the remaining 10 districts added less than people have succumbed to the Friday and Saturday. same on Ashok Rajpath, Freser he said. A police source said that his arms and legs, has been shifted 19 cases, it added. 10 each. infection so far. Seven persons reportedly road, Exhibition road and many the department, in case of crim- to a child welfare centre at Visakhapatnam reported 27, Krishna 25 Guntur and Krishna reported one The recovery rate in the developed after effects follow- others. inal incidents, is dependent on Pathanamthitta , police said. and Chittoor 17 fresh cases in a day while fresh fatality each. PTI state has touched 99.60 per ing immunisation, the SIO Subhendu Kumar Singh, a CCTV cameras installed in cent, while the positivity stands said. PTI resident of upscale Budha colony commercial outlets. IANS 9 *@ + 0 % *% *A !&=! ? 7# $% D& !C Fatehpur (UP): A 16-year-old girl 4 was allegedly raped by a man in the Banda (UP): A court here has Bengaluru: Eight people have been arrested for allegedly Khaga area here, police said on sentenced a man to 10 years sexually exploiting a 15-year-old girl over a period of five Tuesday. imprisonment for raping his months in Chikkamagaluru district, police said on An FIR has been lodged teenage cousin in 2016. Tuesday. against the 45-year-old accused Thiruvananthapuram: A Congress leader Kerala and this is no surprise for the polit- Jaipur: National Students' Union of India Additional District Session Among the accused who have been arrested by the under Indian Penal Code section from Alappuzha in Kerala is in a spot after ical workers of Kerala. Several Congress on Tuesday launched a campaign to col- Court (POCSO) Judge Pawan Sringeri police is her aunt who had pushed her into pros- 375 (rape) and the Protection of inaugurating a fund collection drive for the leaders have been doing the same always lect money from students for the con- Kumar Sharma on Monday titution, a senior police officer said. Children from Sexual Offences Ram temple in Ayodhya. The fund rais- and Congress does not have any right to struction of Ram temple in Ayodhya. also imposed a fine of Rs "We have arrested eight people including her (POCSO) Act on Monday, a police ing drive is from January 30 to February speak about secularism after doing this". The drive named “Rs 1 Ram Ke 50,000 on 26-year-old Chikkamma (Aunt), who had pushed her into prostitu- officer said. 28 and RSS workers have been actively Pillai however said that internal rival- Naam” was launched by NSUI state pres- Lakhanlal. tion.Hunt is on for nine others who had sexually exploit- The victim has been sent for meeting people from various sections of ry in the Congress is the reason for this ident Abhishek Chaudhary at Commerce The girl was raped on ed the girl," the officer said. medical examination, he said. society for raising funds. controversy and added that he had inau- College at Jawaharlal Nehru Road in August 22, 2016. She was 13 According to police, the girl started living with her aunt The girl also named her moth- Raghunathan Pillai, vice president of gurated the programme as president of the Jaipur. years old then, Public after the death of her mother three years ago. er, suspected to be in a relationship the Alappuzha District Congress Pallipuram Pattarya Samajam and that his Around 100 members of the student Prosecutor Ramsufal Singh For the past few months she was working in a stone with the man, in her complaint, the Committee had inaugurated the Ram tem- public life is open to all. wing of the Congress party collected con- said. crushing facility and came in contact with a bus driver who officer said. ple fund collection drive at Kadavil KPCC general secretary A.A. Shukoor tributions from students in the college in He said a case was regis- allegedly raped and sexually abused her. The woman has been booked Temple in Alappuzha by handing over the also defended Pillai. Shukoor said, "Pillai three sealed boxes on the first day. tered on August 25, 2016, at Later, he and his accomplices raped her, made videos under section 120B (criminal con- donation to the temple chief priest. Senior is a true believer and he had inaugurated “All colleges in the state will be cov- Girwan and Lakhanlal was and blackmailed her, police said, adding, her aunt was aware spiracy) of the IPC, he added. Congress leaders and workers have come the function as president of the Samajam ered under this 15-day campaign and the arrested three days later. of it and allowed it to happen. The officer said the girl's out against Pillai. and there is no need to rake up a contro- NSUI will hand over the amount collect- The girl's mother in her A case has been registered under various IPC sections father had died some years ago and CPM state secretary A Vijayaraghavan versy on this. Raghunathan Pillai is a high- ed during the initiative to the Ram tem- complaint had said that her on charges of trafficking, rape and connivance besides the accused used to visit her home. while speaking to IANS, said "The ly secular person and has always opposed ple authorities in Ayodhya,” daughter was raped several Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, Police said they are probing the Congress and the RSS-BJP combine have the RSS. The controversy is NSUI spokesperson Ramesh Bhati times, Singh said. PTI Immoral Trafficking Act and Child Labour Act. PTI matter. PTI always worked liked Siamese twins in unnecessary." IANS said. PTI !"#$#% #

( ( & '#!( $ % !#!( ( )* +,- ),.' ' " ( ) 0 0 ; . R < +,$-.*-,$*+( ( 5 % S O C, ( " 9 O & I 6 S O D E ! ! ' & % he message from the ( R S Union Budget 2021-22 is -+ F 0 G % ( clear — Credit, S # S Corporatisation and TDisinvestment. Rahul Gandhi ( promptly tweeted “crony capital- 3 ( ism” while the protesting farmers ( fulminated over an “empty Budget” P Q # as the share of agriculture and allied P( activities in the total Budget came down from 5.1 per cent to 4.3 per $ ) Q ) cent. The allocation fell from 1.54 P ( lakh crore to 1.48 lakh crore. Even Q # % agricultural neo-con economists 1 # 91#: ) # are finding it hard to defend Union Finance Minister (FM) 2 -,, Nirmala Sitharaman’s agenda. -;, S 3 Keeping aside the “self-promo- G@ 1# # ( tion” of the Narendra Modi . ( ( Government’s schemes — the MSP (public procurement), prop- .S O erty card, eNAM and so on — the two focus areas for the +,,, ! ! # Government seemed to be agricul- * ture infrastructure and agricultural credit. The FM stressed on the agri Budget is a public relations al leaders. Keep in mind that seen. It appears that the S D # # S need to improve rural agri infra- exercise at best as it fails to Indian farmers are already Government may sanction structure, and it will be done by address the issues of high indebt- under high debt, with the aver- these funds to private players % paying more tax! A new agri infra edness, falling incomes, soil age debt in the green revolution or FPOs to implement infra- 0 . cess will be applicable on many degradation and agronomic belts — Punjab, Haryana and structure projects. In a nutshell, items, practically making these challenges before the country. western Uttar Pradesh — rang- the tax-payers’ money may S 6 * products less competitive in the The Government also ing between 2 lakh-3 lakh again be used for private prof- 3 $ 3 global market, and the missed an opportunity to alle- per farmer. The NSSO data, its. This may also entail provid- 7 % Government will increase the viate the fears over the MSP, as read with debt-related suicides, ing big grain giants, supermar- 8 Rural Infrastructure Development it mainly reported statistics on illuminates a new “highway to ket chains or the “Indian rob- 3 ! 3 ( Fund from 30,000 crore to the support price without mak- hell” from Maharashtra to ber barons” to build super- 40,000 crore with an additional ing any budgetary allocation Punjab. Any additional credit to warehouses and corporate 1 3 3 3 ! 3 5,000 crore for the Micro for more public procurement %%4. the farmers may actually infrastructure with our money. %2 5 % Irrigation Fund with NABARD. of crops or additional guaran- 52749 increase their troubles as most The tax-payers and farmers P Q # When it comes to credit, the tees. The Government’s own of these funds will be used to should closely monitor this < +G . COVID-19 tranches on agriculture data state that the MSP is 96. 2 re-finance bad loans on the fund and ask the Government already provide loans to various given to only about six per cent Kisan Credit Card. Instead of for accountability. sectors within agriculture and the of the farmers. Without any 72%9 deracinating the problem, Modi Finally, the Budget’s FM has enhanced the agricultur- Budget empowering the Food "0. 2%4 7 has goaded the rural economy promises should be taken with al credit target to 16.5 lakh crore. Corporation of India (FCI) or %64.24"%2. towards speculation and emi- a pinch of salt as these tall $)"* What the Minister omitted in public procurement, the Modi nent crash. Given the problems claims many not be fiscally her speech was the burden of a Government is toeing the 2 9%9 of Indian agriculture, after, say, sound. The State Governments failed crop insurance scheme WTO and World Bank’s "4. 40 04 a period of five years, many had already locked horns with which was once again allocated a restructuring line: End the loans will become NPAs and the Centre over non-payment whopping 16,000 crore when MSP, price support, dismantle %428 .# foreclosures, evictions and auc- of GST funds; the Government urgent agriculture issues of water public distribution systems, 0 .: tions will come to rural India had to borrow from the RBI to and soil conversation were given end stocking limits, and so on. too. Albert Einstein said that repay the dues. only 28.3 crore. Degrading soil Aping the West, Modi too J;%64.I repeating an experiment and If Modi or Sitharaman and water pollution will be the wants to shift from negative 926 5 expecting a different result is were at all serious about agri- biggest challenges not just for the subsidies to direct bank trans- stupidity; similarly additional culture, they may have looked farmers, but for our national secu- fer for Indian farmers, but one 30."24 credit into the same system of at VP Singh’s Budget of 1990 rity. Reading the Budget’s fine print shouldn’t hold the breath wait- %4 7 %42" . debt-producing agriculture will which pumped all available can inflame any farmer as the taxing for a successful outcome. sound the death-knell for our resources (about 50 per cent) payers’ precious rupee is squan- With no Budget for loan farmers. into agriculture, not into loans dered on the Prime Minister’s pet waiver, the Government has On the matter of develop- and credit and thus profiting projects — for example, PM shrewdly passed the buck to ment funds, the Government banks and not farmers. KISAN gives as little as 17 per day State Governments. This step has given bold expense targets (The writer is the Director — for the farm household, which has will be unpopular among the but how much of it will actu- Policy and Outreach, National failed to ameliorate the agrarian farmers and may distance the ally convert into infrastructure Seed Association of India. The crisis. Many farmers allege that the BJP from its allies and region- development remains to be views expressed are personal.) %%& %'%%()$%'& SOUNDBITE #$" $" # $ #-$: * ! 7 ! ! Sir— Against the backdrop of a “once-in- ! . a-century” circumstances, it was expect- I& $ / ed of Finance Minister Nirmala !' ! # 8 % Sitharaman to be fiscally prudent with the ! ) '0 :19) Union Budget 2021-22 to provide direc- &9!: ! ' tion to India’s tottering economy and a ! !& & # 0 boost to aggregate demand and invest- & & : 'L # .1O ! ! 2863 S % S ( ment. It is heartening to see that despite KD. ! tumultuous international developments ; ! # # ! ' and unprecedented contraction unleashed ) % * S ' by the COVID-19 pandemic, she did not ! & 8# & L +,-- ) succumb to the temptation of attempting & a spend-and-stimulate exercise. Instead, & . / ! 0 &! she used the “digital Budget” to provide & !& !' calibrated fiscal and monetary support to ! & ; ! & * ( ( reset the economy and ensure that India ..1I && !#3 9!! &#9 S is well-poised to truly be the “land of & !9! ! ! # . # *FF* ' : # # 1 promise and hope”. That India has already embarked on & 9! 1611 3 ) 2 a V-shaped path of economic recovery is ! : ! 5 ! # K8 N! 2 not only a welcome acknowledgement of ! ! ! : 3 3 4 $ 5 6 ) the Government’s efforts to prepare the 9!#:&!-A*=: !; & '!! &.1: # ! # . ) 7 foundation for sustainable growth, progress and better quality of life for its &!! # Ganapathi Bhat | Akola ! ! # people, but is also a testimony to the fact & 3 4 S 8 that the prophets of doom have been # !L 9 8: 3 4 proved conclusively wrong. However, the inquiry should be conducted. eration to the health sector in the Union At a time when India is being lauded Budget 2021-22 as we are still in the ! absence of any concrete employment # S generation programme to harness India’s for developing the COVID-19 vaccines and throes of the COVID-19 pandemic. +,-; # demographic dividend and oblique refer- supplying it to other countries across the Healthcare allocation has been increased 71 ( ences to the schemes introduced in pre- globe, such incidents are a blot on its image manifold from 94,000 crore to 2.46 K. !8 vious years are unfortunate. The and a severe setback to its efforts. Ironically, lakh crore. However, it remains to be Government’s decision to sell a part of its the incident occurred on Sunday when the made clear as to how and on which items I && ; holding in the LIC and go for aggressive National Pulse Polio vaccination drive for this huge amount will be spent. : 1 ( disinvestment of the PSUs is unlikely to children aged 1-5 years was underway. The While a huge spend on healthcare is ! 53 $ elicit an enthusiastic response. officials have admitted that at Bhanbora welcome, the Government should also ! : & < * ( P ( Shreyans Jain | Delhi Primary Health Centre in Kapsikopri vil- have paid equal attention to the farmers lage, as many as a dozen children were who are agitating against the recent !# & Q 1 given two drops of sanitiser in place of agrarian reforms by the Centre. But it is &# P Q P Q / Sir — The report that 12 children were polio drops. Subsequently, one of the not that farmers have been given thatch. 3 363786723 1 ) S given hand-sanitiser drops instead of oral children complained of vomiting and There was also talk of increasing the K4 * 5 3 . ( polio vaccine at a village in Yavatmal dis- uneasiness. We need to train our health- money handed out in the PM Kisan trict of Maharashtra is more than shock- care staff and grassroots health workers. Samman Nidhi Scheme, but this did not D # * ing. The victims, all aged below five, were Awareness should also be created among happen. Currently, 11.5 crore farmers are 1S ) the people. Such incidents mock the taking advantage of this scheme. immediately admitted to a Government & L 1 1S hospital and it’s good to hear that they are whole system. However, several steps have been taken Bhagwan Thadani | Mumbai to strengthen the agriculture sector. ! / . now out of danger. However, this is a clear # 9 case of negligence by the staff and officials Abhijit Roy | Jamshedpur . and the State Government must ensure that D# ) 1 -; .7?1(-@ ) none of those who are complicit is spared. Sir — As expected, Finance Minister ! ! #-; 93731 ( RS ) S It is a serious lapse and a high-level Nirmala Sitharaman gave special consid- 123145676 K4D . !"#$#% -

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n a shocking verdict that will have far-reaching implications for child safety, the Bombay High ICourt (HC) recently ruled that there must be “skin-to-skin contact with sexual intent” for an act -/0+%,'% to be considered sexual assault. This ruling came 3 in a case where an accused had filed an appeal F@CF; --GHH 0 against a Nagpur trial court’s verdict which found 3 him guilty. According to the trial court, the ) 90): 3 * accused took a 12-year-old girl to his house in 2016, ) 0) groped her and attempted to disrobe her. This would be an open-and-shut case under Sections 7 and 8 $ ( of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012, to convict the accused. For the # ( purposes of this case, a summary of Section 7 would define “sexual assault” as a touch involving “phys- / ical contact” of the genitalia of the child with sexual intent. Section 8 says that the punishment for S 5 * 0) ( sexual assault is imprisonment for three to five years, with a fine. The trial court found the accused guilty +; 1 +; (; under Section 7 and sentenced him to three years’ %2 .2 . I ;(-, +, imprisonment in February 2020. .% -, F, # But the Bombay HC, in its ruling on January 5 . 2 2 ( - + 19, said that the victim was wearing her clothes when %0 . ; the assault took place. As she was wearing a shirt %4% 4 24. and there was no “skin-to-skin” contact, there was / 2" 30.# no “physical contact.” As a result, there was no sex- 244 2 ual assault under the POCSO Act. The accused was %..36 1 (# acquitted under the POCSO Act, but convicted for 32936 . tory interpretation into regard in the against children, which constitute POCSO is a special legislation to E a lesser offence under Section 354 of the Indian 46 1844 Sussex Peerage case, Tindal CJ “sexual intent.” punish perpetrators of child abuse. 2 Penal Code (IPC) for one year. Apparently, the HC 454.. 7: observed: “The words of the statute Resultantly, by the effect of the The order passed by the Bombay HC C, felt that “physical contact” and “skin-to-skin” con- 5 5 are in themselves precise and unam- enabling provision of the is clearly regressive, neglecting the tact are the same. On January 27, the Attorney- biguous, then nothing more can be Constitution, Article 15, which effectiveness of delivering justice General informed the Supreme Court about the "" 7.. necessary than to expound those empowers the State to make special through POCSO. The court ought to HC’s verdict. He said that the HC’s decision is like- 2" 74 5 words in their natural and ordinary provisions for children, and Article have considered that when the ele- ly to set a dangerous precedent. The Chief Justice sense. The words themselves alone 39 of the Directive Principles of the ment of mental intention, the sexu- of India on the basis of the Attorney-General’s oral 80. 4205 do, in such a case, best declare the State Policy that provides that the al intent, is clearly proved, it is statement stayed the HC’s order. The HC seems to %2 .2# intention of the lawgiver.” Similarly, State shall direct its policy towards immaterial whether the child was have ignored the very purpose of POCSO. Section 204 205 in the Pallavi Resources Ltd vs securing that children are not abused groped through the clothes or not. 8 punishes any person for acts committed with “sex- 27 Protos Engineering Company case, and their childhood and youth are Sexual offences against children are ual intent” such as touching the private parts of a 2. 4 while dealing with the interpretation protected against exploitation, the violent crimes that exploit their vul- child or any other act which involves physical con- of provisions of the West Bengal POCSO Act came into force. The nerability and cause profound harm tact, with a minimum imprisonment of three years. 9 2" Premises Tenancy Act, 1997, the Constitution further emphasises the to the victims, their families and Sadly, sexual violence against children and 9 Supreme Court held that the lan- need to provide facilities for children communities. Sentences for these ( women is alarmingly common in the world. 2: guage employed in a statute is the to develop healthily and in conditions crimes must increase. Courts must +; H According to the National Crime Records Bureau’s .J0 : . determinative factor of the legislative of freedom and dignity. impose sentences that are propor- # (NCRB) reports, one girl child is sexually abused 46%427: intent and if the language of the The primary purpose behind tional to the gravity of sexual offences ( every 15 minutes in India. Statistics of the past few . 99 4 enactment is clear, then it would not enacting POCSO is to equip or pre- against children and the degree of # $ years from the ‘Crime in India’ report suggest that 4 be proper for the courts to add any pare courts to adopt a child-centric responsibility of the offender. in 80-90 per cent of the cases, the offender is known . words thereto and evolve a legislative approach. The language adopted by Treating the offence of sexual inter- 0 9$0: # 0) to the victim. Out of the 1,48,185 crimes against chil- 542% intent not found in the statute. the courts is not what a child speaks. ference with a child as less serious $0 ( dren reported in 2019, a whopping 31.2 per cent 4205 On December 11, 1992, India Children speak not just in words but than that of sexual assault of a per- +; / * are registered under the POCSO Act. According to 2 .242 ratified the United Nations also express their fears and apprehen- son under the age of 16, is an error 1 a senior official in the Home Ministry, 26,192 cases Convention on the Rights of sions through facial expressions, of law. ) F- ) F- +,++ ( were reported under the POCSO Act that involve Children (UNCRC), which pre- gestures, noises, which the court is Due to the pandemic restrictions, -; child rape charges and 24,672 of the accused in these scribes a set of standards to be not adequately trained to understand. children are spending more time at + / ( cases were known to the survivors. undertaken by all State parties to Hence, lawmakers believed that child home and are more exposed to The State-wise data of NCRB shows that 52 secure the best interests of children abuse must be dealt with through the “known” predators. Children are - ) teachers were booked under the POCSO Act in and to prevent inducement or coer- application of the “best interests of the regarded as silent victims of human F- +,++ Himachal Pradesh in the last decade. Over the years cion of a minor to engage in any child” standard. With the best inter- rights violations against them and are 3 there has been a consistent rise in POCSO cases in unlawful sexual activity, the exploita- ests of the child at heart, the POCSO an easy prey because of their tender 2 the country. However, the conviction rate for child tive use of children in prostitution or Act calls for establishment of special age, innocence, inexperience and # rape cases has been low, at 28.2 per cent and the pen- other unlawful sexual conduct and courts for children under Section 28 physical inabilities. Sexual predators 0) ( dency of cases is at 89.6 per cent. The HC’s inter- the exploitative use of children in of the Act for fair and speedy dispos- of children must be adequately sen- pretation and application of the law is antithetical pornographic performances and al of cases. tenced as a deterrent so that other ; to the legislative intent of the POCSO Act and the The writer is advocate, material. The criminal laws before the minors are protected. Children are # Directive Principles of State Policy. Saying that the Supreme Court of India, The UNCRC views sexual enactment of POCSO neither sole- the future of our country and our C; -+; ingredient of the crime, namely groping a minor, and Partner, Dua exploitation and abuse of children as ly addressed crimes against children communities, they are also some of # 0) is not an offence under the POCSO Act in the Associates, Advocates. heinous crimes and, therefore, pro- nor were they gender neutral. The the most vulnerable members of our The views expressed are % S ( absence of skin-to-skin contact is ignoring the legal personal. pelled State parties to enact legisla- vulnerabilities, exposure of a child to society and deserve to enjoy a child- ) ( meaning of the law. Taking the principles of statu- tions to effectively address crimes repeated abuse were ignored. hood free of sexual violence. 1 (11 0 ) . * 4 # -J,,, POINTCOUNTERPOINT E ( * & /) % ( & ) %& & ' ' ' 3 * & && ) ( %0 % & /% # ( '&& % % % (& ) * L ) 0 ' L / ' 9 0 '&* !: 5 R @(! ! " !

ore than a lakh immi- highly skilled immigrants, are employment helps with other ing them their jobs. According EAD. Unfortunately, this form Verma, from SAAPRI (773) grant women on H-4 stuck in the Green Card back- things like getting a social secu- to Sakhi, two out of five South is not commonly known or 373-9750), suggests doing your Mvisas in the US finally log. Without the EAD, thou- rity number, a driver’s licence or Asian immigrant women in popular within the H-4 com- homework and knowing your have a reason to smile. Recently, sands of married Indian women opening a bank account. It may the US are survivors of domes- munity. Jeffrey Chase, former rights if you plan to move to a the Biden Administration in the US (93 per cent of even be a way out of their abu- tic violence (DV). immigration judge and the foreign country, especially by announced that it would not approved applications for H-4 sive marriages. Shilpy Abha Rai’s research at founder of the Round Table of way of marriage. In cases where revoke the H-4 Employment EAD are issued to women born Chatterjee, a senior anti-vio- Loyola University, Chicago, Former Immigration Judges, women on a H4 are facing DV Authorisation Document $-,%) ,''& in India) would be barred from lence programme advocate at shows that immigration status says, “The provision was passed and do not have EAD, all hope (EAD) programme. The H-4 working. These highly skilled Sakhi for South Asian Women, can be a risk factor. “Due to in order to be used. Domestic is not lost. They can call 911 for visa is normally issued to those individuals with good educa- (Helpline: +1 (212) 868-6741) increased dependency on the violence also remains a basis for help and reach out to the Indian who have already started the tions, jobs, and steady incomes has seen the kind of support sys- spouse there is a power differ- granting asylum. The recogni- Embassy, too. Identifying a process of seeking employ- back home in India find them- tem available to survivors who for her, especially given her ential between the husband tion of this ground in 2014 was trusted support system, espe- ment-based lawful permanent selves jobless and dependent on work. “They have a world which daughter’s health condition. and wife. Furthermore, in the the result of 20 years of legal cially if they are new to a coun- resident status. their husbands. The inability to he is not a part of,” she says. Once Sheetal started working, absence of social networks in effort. Today there are a lot of try, helps. Neha Mahajan, the co- work affects their confidence, Having colleagues, financial the household went from a sin- the US, a woman is confined to groups working on domestic Often survivors leave their founder of Skilled Immigrants self-worth and, ultimately their independence and access to gle income family to a double the home and can be a silent vic- violence-based asylum claims in homes with no cash, without In America (SIIA), is a vocal mental health. Many find them- outside help and resources income one. Access to better tim of domestic violence.” response to the Trump their documents (taken away by advocate for H-4 EAD but she selves unable to get out of allows a victim of domestic health benefits from her Often, victims choose not to Administration’s many efforts to the abuser) and even children. argues that it is a quick fix by the domestically abusive relation- abuse to seek help. employer allowed her to not file a police report against their block such grants.” Chase says So, knowing that a safety net Government and the real prob- ships because of the lack of For many immigrant fam- only cover medical costs like her spouse. The reasons range from that in January 2020, the US policy like VAWA exists offers lem is the backlog of Green financial independence. ilies, having a H-4 EAD has daughter’s speech therapy ses- conditioning, to social stigma to Court of Appeals for the Second security and independence, The writer is founder and Cards. The US has set an arbi- CEO, Sayfty, a women's Neha Gill, executive direc- reduced personal and financial sions but also her home treat- fear of losing their own immi- Circuit issued a decision that a which is crucial for survivors. trary cap of seven per cent in the rights organisation tor, Apna Ghar, a Chicago- burdens. Sheetal Koparde, an ments and dietary needs. gration status. However, under woman’s resistance to being Talking about DV is not employment-based immigra- educating and based organisation focusing on experienced human resources Unfortunately, last year the Violence Against Women raped was an expression of a encouraged within the South tion category. This means that empowering women and gender violence (24 hours cri- professional, currently resides in Sheetal’s employment came to a Act (VAWA), 1994, certain political opinion deserving of Asian community. But the only the wait time for countries like girls against gender-based sis line: +1-773-334-4663), says Boston with her husband and a halt due to delay in H-4 EAD abused non-immigrant spous- asylum protection. way we can put an end to this violence. The views India is 200 years. More than 1.2 expressed are personal. that having work authorisation daughter with special needs. renewal. The renewal process es (including those on H-4) may While each person’s situa- is by reporting it and talking million applicants, who are is key for women as having Having an EAD was a huge help for many in 2020 was slow, cost- use Form I-765V to request an tion is unique, Shobhana Johri about it. !"#$#%

7#$% # $ 2 R $ #" ! 35121 “I hope she realises that her cates and Nobel laureates compact with the devil has streamed into her lakeside day after Myanmar’s mili- boomeranged against her, and villa, demanding the hardline # ##$$ $; $ Atary pulled off a well- that she will now take the military free the elegant Yangon: Hundreds of members choreographed coup, the coun- right stand on behalf of democ- woman known as “The Lady,” Beijing: Ahead of the UNSC tribute to Myanmar’s political- of Myanmar’s Parliament were try’s civilian leader, Aung San racy.” who often wears flowers in her meet on the Myanmar coup, social stability and peace and under house arrest on Tuesday, Suu Kyi, finds herself right Suu Kyi, the daughter of hair. China, which shares close ties reconciliation in Myanmar so as confined to their government back where she was just over a independence hero and father But since her release both with the Myanmar military to avoid escalation of tensions, housing complex and guarded by decade ago — under house of the nation, spent almost 15 and return to politics, Suu and de-facto leader Aung San complication of matters,” soldiers a day after the military arrest. years under house arrest before Kyi has been heavily criticised Suu Kyi, on Tuesday said that all Chinese Foreign Ministry seized power in a coup and But this time, her standoff her release in 2010. Her tough for the political gamble actions of the international spokesman Wang Wenbin told detained senior politicians with the generals comes after stand against the junta turned she made: showing deference community should contribute a media briefing when asked including the country’s de facto she has sorely disappointed her into a symbol of peaceful to the military while ignoring to political stability, peace and about China’s stand at the leader Aung San Suu Kyi. many once-staunch supporters resistance against oppressors — and, at times, even defending reconciliation in that country. UNSC meet on the coup in One of the detained law- in the international communi- and won her the Nobel Peace atrocities — most notably The UN Security Council Myanmar. makers said he and about 400 ty by cozying up to the coun- Prize. a 2017 crackdown on on Tuesday will discuss the sit- China is one among the five others spent a sleepless night, try’s generals while in power. During her years of con- Rohingya Muslims that the uation in Myanmar after the veto-wielding members of the worried they might be taken Leaders in the West are still P $$ !% ! # #-"$ !$ ! $# $ finement, a parade of foreign United States and others have coup and look at a “range of UN Security Council that shares away, but were otherwise OK. denouncing her detention, of ! !$% " $ $!$%* ! 7 diplomats, human rights advo- labeled genocide. measures” with an idea of close relations with the military They were able to speak with course — but they no longer respecting the people’s will junta when it ruled the country one another inside the com- view her as a paragon of demo- isolation and darkness, ending expressed in the November for over two decades and later pound and communicate to the cratic leadership. 10 years of new freedoms and & ' *' * ' % * general election. with Suu Kyi after she swept into outside by phone, but were not Suu Kyi’s party won last quasi-civilian rule that the Myanmar’s military on power in 2016 after long years allowed to leave the housing November elections by a land- Obama administration held Dhaka: Rohingya refugees sending them back to Buddhist- Maung, head of the Rohingya Monday staged a coup and of incarceration. complex in Naypyitaw, the cap- slide, catching the generals by up as a beacon of nascent from Myanmar living in camps majority Myanmar. Several Youth Association in the camps detained Suu Kyi and other top During President Xi ital. He said Suu Kyi was not surprise. They immediately democracy. in Bangladesh condemned the attempts at repatriation under in Cox’s Bazar district. members of her governing Jinping’s visit to Myanmar last being held with them. cried voter fraud — an allega- The military-owned military coup in their homeland a joint agreement failed because “Any peaceful repatriation party. The announcement on year, China and Myanmar “We had to stay awake and tion the country’s election com- Myawaddy TV said the coun- and said it makes them more the Rohingya refused to go, will hugely be impacted,” he military-controlled Myawaddy signed 33 deals covering areas be alert,” the lawmaker told The mission has dismissed — and try would be under a one-year fearful to return. fearing more violence in a told The Associated Press. “It TV came after an earlier decla- such as politics, trade, invest- AP on condition of anonymity proved Monday who really state of emergency. A counterinsurgency oper- country that denies them basic will take a long time because the ration that since national sta- ment and people-to-people out of concern for his safety. He controls the country, rounding Now, it’s not clear who can ation by Myanmar’s military in rights including citizenship. political situation in Myanmar bility was in jeopardy, all gov- communications. said police were inside the com- up Suu Kyi and other top lead- lead the country out of the 2017 involving mass rape, mur- Refugees said Tuesday they is worse now.” Officials from ernment functions would be The main focus of the plex, where members of Suu Kyi’s ers under the cover of darkness, wilderness, with Suu Kyi’s rep- ders and the torching of villages are more afraid now that the Myanmar and Bangladesh met transferred to military chief agreements appeared to be on party and various smaller parties just hours before a new session utation abroad badly tar- drove more than 700,000 military is in complete control. last month to discuss ways to Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing. the implementation of the $9 were being held, and soldiers of Parliament was set to con- nished. Rohingya Muslims into neigh- “The military killed us, start the repatriations, with It was also announced that billion China Myanmar were outside it. vene. “I believe that Aung San bouring Bangladesh. raped our sisters and mothers, B’desh’s Foreign Ministry seem- the military had taken control Economic Corridor (CMEC), The coup came the morning With flights grounded and Suu Kyi has been an accomplice Bangladesh has hosted torched our villages. How is it ing more hopeful of success and of the country for one year. which provided access to China lawmakers had gathered in the communications largely cut, with the military,” said veteran them in crowded refugee possible for us to stay safe officials saying they expected to “All actions by the interna- for the first time to the Indian capital for the opening of a new Myanmar plunged back into US Diplomat, Bill Richardson. camps, and is eager to begin under their control?” said Khin begin sometime in June. AP tional community should con- Ocean. PTI parliamentary session. AP * 0 4 R -! $ ## !$ 0 8 0 ) $ ! # ! # Islamabad: Pakistan’s Supreme his family will be able to visit Pearl, the 38-year-old Taipei: A second Chinese lawyer ernment protests that began in Court on Tuesday ordered to from 8am to 5pm, officials South Asia bureau chief for who represented a Hong Kong 2019, dozens of pro-democracy shift British-born al-Qaeda said. The Wall Street Journal, was 0 pro-democracy activist was activists have been arrested or terrorist Ahmed Omar Saeed However, he will not have abducted and beheaded while stripped of his licence on detained. The Henan Judicial Sheikh, the main accused in access to a mobile phone or he was in Pakistan investigat- Tuesday as Beijing attempts to Department held a hearing on the sensational kidnapping internet. The government will ing a story in 2002 on the links Moscow: Opposition leader “They jail one man to scare crush opposition to its tighter the license revocation on Friday and murder of US journalist pay for his family’s accommo- between the country’s power- Alexei Navalny denounced a millions.” control over the territory. in Zhengzhou, the provincial Daniel Pearl in 2002, from the dation and transport. ful spy agency ISI and al- Moscow court hearing on Russia’s penitentiary ser- Ren Quanniu, who repre- years for crossing the border ille- capital, according to other death row cell to a rest house The court said that Sheikh Qaeda. Tuesday on whether he should vice alleges that Navalny vio- sented one of 12 Hong Kong gally and organising the cross- lawyers who turned up to sup- run by the government. would be under guard and not In April 2020, a two-judge be sent to prison for years, call- lated the probation conditions activists who tried to flee to ings. The two other activists are port Ren. They were not allowed A three-member bench of allowed to leave the place Sindh High Court bench coming it a vain attempt by the of his suspended sentence from Taiwan, said he had his license minors. Thousands of Hong into the hearing. the apex court headed by where he would be kept. muted the death sentence of Kremlin to scare millions of a 2014 money laundering con- revoked by the Henan Provincial Kong residents have fled the ter- Ren is the second lawyer to Justice Umar Ata Bandial However, the court again Sheikh to seven years impris- Russians into submission. viction that he has rejected as Justice Department. ritory since Beijing’s imposition have his license stripped by the ordered Sheikh, 46, to be trans- rejected the government’s onment. The court also acquit- The 44-year-old Navalny, politically motivated. It has Ten of the 12 activists caught of a tough new security law that authorities for handling the ferred to the general barracks appeal to suspend the Sindh ted his three aides who were an anti-corruption investigator asked the Simonovsky District at sea in August were sentenced some say is destroying the ter- activists’ case. Two weeks ago, for two days following which High Court’s verdict on the serving life terms in the case who is the most prominent Court to turn his 3 1/2-year by a Shenzhen court in ritory’s Western-style civil lib- judicial officials in Sichuan took he should be shifted to a gov- acquittal of the accused and — almost two decades after critic of President Vladimir suspended sentence into one December to prison terms rang- erties. Since the law was intro- away the license of Lu Siwei, ernment rest house by Friday asked it to file an appeal against they were found guilty and Putin, was arrested January 17 that he must serve in prison. ing from seven months to three duced in response to anti-gov- another lawyer on the case. AP under tight security, where the high court’s decision. jailed. PTI upon returning from Germany, Navalny emphasized that where he spent five months the European Court of Human recovering from a nerve-agent Rights has ruled that his 2014 5 poisoning that he blames on conviction was unlawful and 5 +4 # the Kremlin. Russian authori- Russia paid him compensation ties deny the charge and claim, in line with the ruling. Karachi: At least 15 people, Balochistan when the driver women, three children and despite tests by several Navalny and his lawyers 0 including five women and three lost control of the vehicle and seven men. They are yet to be European labs, that they have have argued that while he was children, were killed and 10 it overturned in the early hours identified. no proof he was poisoned. recovering in Germany from others seriously hurt in of Tuesday near Uthal town, Questions have been raised " Speaking in court, Navalny the poisoning, he couldn’t reg- Pakistan’s Balochistan province officials told The Express on whether the bus was over- attributed his arrest to Putin’s ister with Russian authorities in on Tuesday when a speeding Tribune newspaper. speeding. However, officials “fear and hatred,” saying that person as required by his pro- passenger bus overturned on The deceased were shifted are yet to confirm. Dodoma (Tanzania): Tanzania’s the Russian leader will go bation. Navalny also insisted Brasilia: President Jair the leadership of the lower the Quetta-Karachi highway, to District Headquarters Meanwhile, Samaa TV Health Ministry says it has no down to history as a “poison- that his due process rights were Bolsonaro helped elect two house, Lira said, “Neutrality according to media reports. Hospital, Uthal, while four quoted a local police officer as plans in place to accept Covid- er.” crudely violated during his allies to the top jobs in both should mark this presidency, The bus was going to grievously injured persons have saying that poor visibility due 19 vaccines, just days after the “The aim of that hearing is arrest and described his jailing houses of Brazil’s Congress, a the respect to the customs, to Karachi, the capital of Sindh been shifted to Karachi. to fog in the early morning led president of the country of 60 to scare a great number of peo- as a travesty of justice. AP success that is expected to help the minority and the majority.” province, from Panjgur area of The deceased include five to the accident. PTI million people expressed doubt ple,” Navalny said in court. him blunt a campaign by pro- Still, the Brazilian president about the vaccines without testers who have been calling published a picture of himself offering evidence. for the conservative leader to be with Lira on his social media Health Minister Dorothy impeached. channels. *$% <""" $ Gwajima told a press conference Deputy Arthur Lira of the Opponents of Bolsonaro, in the capital, Dodoma, on center-right Progressive party who is midway through a four- # Monday that “the ministry has was elected by his colleagues year term, have been staging no plans to receive vaccines for Monday to be speaker in the street demonstrations to 4 :#$$$ ! Covid-19.” Any vaccines must Chamber of Deputies, while demand his ouster over his receive ministry approval. It is Sen. Rodrigo Pacheco of the handling of the coronavirus he sailors from a South Nairobi: A trio of opposition now views the other as illegiti- not clear when any vaccines center-right Democrats party pandemic, which has caused TKorean tanker seized in the parties in Ethiopia’s embattled mate. might arrive, though Tanzania was chosen as the Senate pres- more deaths in Brazil than Persian Gulf by Iranian troops Tigray region estimates that The opposition parties say is eligible for the COVAX glob- ident. any other nation except the last month are free to leave the more than 50,000 civilians have the international community al effort aimed at delivering Any impeachment move United States. Beatriz Rey, a country on humanitarian been killed in the three-month should ensure the immediate doses to low- and middle- would have to start in the political scientist at the Center grounds, Iran’s state TV said conflict, and they urge the inter- withdrawal of fighters includ- income countries. lower house, where outgoing for Latin American & Latino Tuesday. national community to inter- ing soldiers from neighboring The health minister insist- Speaker Rodrigo Maia has been Studies at American University Foreign Ministry vene before a “humanitarian dis- Eritrea, who witnesses say are ed Tanzania is safe. During a a critic of the president though in Washington, said the two spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh aster of biblical proportion will supporting Ethiopian forces. presentation in which she and also rejecting calls for an wins reduce Bolsonaro’s risk of said a legal investigation into the become a gruesome reality.” The parties also urge an inde- others didn’t wear face masks, impeachment effort. Maia’s being impeached, although tanker and its captain would The statement posted pendent investigation into the she encouraged the public to candidate to be his successor, they don’t nullify it. continue. Iran maintains the Tuesday does not say where the conflict, dialogue, more improve hygiene practices Luiz Felipe Baleia Rossi, got 145 “Bolsonaro has won, but it tanker and its 20-member crew estimate comes from, and the humanitarian aid and media including the use of sanitizers votes in the lower house dis- is not clear whether he will get were stopped because of the ves- parties could not immediately be access to “cover what is hap- but also steam inhalation — pute while Lira got 302. unconditional support,” Rey sel’s “environmental pollution,” reached. Communication links pening.” which has been dismissed by In the Senate, Pacheco also said. “He has no coalition in a claim rejected by the vessel’s remain challenging in much of Civilians throughout Tigray, health experts elsewhere as a had the support of opposition Congress and that is why he is owner. the region, making it difficult to a region of some 6 million peo- way to kill the coronavirus. parties despite Bolsonaro’s so active in this election. But It appeared the South verify claims by any side. ple, have been dying from tar- Chief government chemist explicit support. he can still lose control if he Korean-flagged tanker’s seizure No official death toll has geted attacks, crossfire, disease Fidelice Mafumiko also sug- Neither Lira nor Pacheco has an issue with spending, if in the crucial Strait of Hormuz emerged since the fighting began and lack of resources, according gested the use of herbal medi- mentioned Bolsonaro in their his Cabinet reshuffle doesn’t was an attempt by the Islamic in early November between to witnesses. Even some of the cine to cure Covid-19, without victory speeches, and both work. The president needs Republic to increase its leverage Ethiopian and allied forces and new administrators appointed offering evidence. Tanzania’s promised to lead an indepen- the support of these center- over Seoul ahead of negotiations those of the Tigray region who by Abiy’s government have Government has been widely dent legislature. In accepting right parties.” AP over billions of dollars in Iranian dominated the government for warned that people are dying of criticised for its approach to the assets frozen in South Korean almost three decades before starvation as vast areas beyond pandemic. It has not updated its banks amid a US Pressure cam- Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed main roads and towns still can- number of coronavirus infec- paign targeting Iran. took office in 2018. Each side not be reached. AP tions — 509 — since April. AP !"#$#% "

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Replying to another ques- Budget 2021-22 and going last over 20 years and extend- 0.T ! banking sector came down Further, he said, all such tion, Thakur said Government ahead, global trends and cor- ing them today as well. & !# from a high of 10.36 lakh restructuring stressed loans borrowings from market porate earnings would guide its Although some profit-booking ' & ::!&! : crore at the end of March 2018 were withdrawn. increased by 57 per cent in Q future course, analysts said. can be expected, but we expect 9093 # !D to 8.08 lakh crore at the end Primarily, as a result of 1, 90 per cent in Q 2 and 48 per Markets roared back to stock-specific action to con- ! : ! ; ! of September 2020 due to var- transparent recognition of cent in Q 3 for completed life on Budget day (February 1) tinue,” said Rahul Sharma, he rupee gained 6 paise to ! # & ! ious initiative of the stressed assets quarters of 2020-21 as com- after falling since January 21. Head - Technical & Derivatives Tsettle at 72.96 against the & & ! Government, Minister of State as NPAs, gross NPAs of pared to 2019-20. Cheering the Budget proposals, Research, JM Financial US dollar on Tuesday track- ! # for Finance Anurag Thakur scheduled commercial banks as As per the Revised the BSE benchmark Sensex Services. ing weak American curren- informed the Rajya Sabha on per the RBI data on global Estimate (RE) in the Union zoomed 2,314.84 points or 5 Ajit Mishra, VP - cy and heavy buying in ) ' % %0) Tuesday. operations rose from 3,23,464 Budget 2021-22. per cent to close at 48,600.61 on Research, Religare Broking Ltd, domestic equities. 3..4D % ! 34% As a result of the Asset crore as on March 31, 2015 to The Government bor- Monday. This was the best said this Budget rally is expect- Analysts said the rupee 5 % ' Quality Review (AQR) and 10,36,187 crore as on March rowing for the current fiscal Budget-day gain for the mar- ed to continue. However, par- is trading in a narrow range -A-A&N2 B subsequent transparent recog- 31, 2018, he said. ending March would be kets since 1997. Continuing its ticipants should be selective in as traders remained cau- .& O# ! nition by banks, stressed Gvoernment’s streategy of 12.80 lakh crore which is 64 winning ways on Tuesday, the their approach now. Going tious ahead of the Reserve & accounts were reclassified as recognition, resolution, recap- per cent higher than the benchmark jumped 1,197.11 ahead, global cues and corpo- Bank of India (RBI) mone- # NPAs and expected losses on italisation and reforms have Budget Estimate of 7.8 lakh points or 2.46 per cent to close rate earnings would also be on tary policy scheduled on 34% 2:9#!. stressed loans not provided resulted in decline of NPAs by crore. at 49,797.72. During the day, it the radar, he added. Friday. ! # 9#D4!9 : O 09 &. & +>49 %! && ,%.0 '' %& % :9# ':O 9 &. &" B &&:95 9!: &% &! 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So we hope ‘One Nation One Ration Card’ Food Security Act, 2O13 Pget U.S. Emergency use !! appointed as Chairman of trade sector banks (PSBs) to be out that before the close of this plan, which seeks to give over (NFSA) authorization for a COVID-19 body Federation of Indian of the RBI’s prompt corrective financial year (they should be 80 crore beneficiaries under the “So far, the facility has vaccine, swung to a small prof- 9#L " 9 Chambers of Commerce and action (PCA) framework in out of PCA).” food law access to their food- been enabled in 32 states/UTs it in the fourth-quarter as it 3 :! ! ' # ! Industry - Tamil Nadu State two months as their financial He also assured addition- grains entitlement from any- covering nearly 69 crore ben- started shipping vaccines glob- & : "6--3 council for 2021. health has improved. al capital for these banks if the where in the country. eficiaries, almost 86% of NFSA ally. 5 ! !#0 : Velu, also the Chairman Indian Overseas Bank, regulator insists as the Govt has Under the National Food population of the country,” The drugmaker expects ! ' 3 and Managing Director of Central Bank of India and cushion of the remaining Security Act (NFSA) or food Minister of State for Food and roughly USD 15 billion in rev- :M4D%:% & 9 # Neuberg Diagnostics, was ear- UCO Bank are currently under amount of 20,000 crore recap- law, the Centre provides 5 kg of Consumer Affairs Danve enue this year from the vaccine, lier serving FICCI Tamil Nadu this framework which puts italisation budget for foodgrains per person per Raosaheb Dadarao said in a which won emergency clear- ' & & % ) ' State Council as its co-chair, a several restrictions on them, PSBs.”Although we believe that month to over 80 crore bene- written question to the Lok ance in mid-December from 5:5 9 4 press release said. including on lending, man- they are already meeting the ficiaries at a highly subsidised Sabha. U.S. Regulators and continues &! ! ! & “This position gives me an agement compensation and regulatory requirement of 11.5 price of Rs 2-3 per kg. Under the ONORC plan, to rack up approvals across the 4 & # 59 ! .& opportunity to work within the directors’ fees. per cent Capital to Risk Presently, out of the total given beneficiaries can lift their enti- globe. The two-dose vaccine is ! 4:& && FICCI framework in meeting “In fact, these three banks (Weighted) Assets Ratio so coverage of 81.35 crore persons tled foodgrains from any ePoS about 95 per cent effective and ! ':': its objectives of industry are also now consistently for that we will take it forward and under the NFSA, around 80 (electronic Point of sale device) is one of only a few vaccines ' # &! growth at one level and the the last two quarters... In prof- we hope that they should also crore beneficiaries are receiv- enabled Fair Price Shop (FPS) available to check the global 4 =A#,+9 & nation’s growth at another. I it and they are fulfilling by and come out from the PCA,” he ing their entitled quota of of their choice by using their pandemic. -*#A=S ! ! & look forward to engaging with large all the parameters of the said.For the current financial foodgrains through public dis- same/existing ration cards with Rising medicine sales # :-A-A8:-A-*# ! industry leaders to foster an Reserve Bank of India (RBI),” year, the Govt had allocated Rs tribution system (PDS) on biometric authentication on helped offset big increases in & & &&' ecosystem of innovation and Financial Services Secretary 20,000 crore for capital infusion monthly basis. the ePoS device at the time of spending on research and pro- !! &! & '& ! growth...,” he said on taking up Debasish Panda said. into the PSBs for meeting the “The Department in asso- lifting the foodgrains through duction as the New York com- !! ! # the new responsibility. In any case, he said, “they regulatory requirement. ciation with State/UT portability. pany manufactures hundreds of millions of doses of the COVID-19 shot and pushes #'!$(>A forward on research gauging its P2* ! effectiveness in different patient 3-2 groups, such as teens and peo- # #$$ ;>$ # # ple with compromised immune systems. assured 8 per cent return. Principles of Equity.If you have exact collections made by the According to the Budget, surplus money, you invest, but fund through voluntary he GST revenue shortfall interest on employee contri- you have to pay tax,” Pandey he PM-CARES fund, which contribution by individuals Tfaced by the states is likely butions to provident fund over told PTI. Thas been set up to provide and corporates, are not to come down with the 2.5 lakh per annum would be Less than 1 per cent of the relief during the coronavirus known but the corpus man- improved collections in the taxed from April 1, 2021. total six crore EPFO sub- pandemic, has contributed over aged by the PMO has been last few months, Finance Pandey said people with scribers actually contribute 2,200 crore for the first phase providing relief to pandemic- Secretary Ajay Bhushan Pandey less than 25 lakh annual more than Rs 2.5 lakh in the of vaccination drive, which is hit sectors. said on Tuesday. income can continue to deposit fund. looking to inoculate frontline With the Budget for the He said the Budget pro- 12 per cent into the EPF with- Pandey said the Budgeted healthcare workers, the current fiscal, which was pre- posal of taxing interest on out paying any tax. 16.67 per cent growth in tax Expenditure Secretary said on sented before the onset of the employee contributions to “There were anomalies in revenue is realistic and the Tuesday. pandemic, making no separate provident fund over 2.5 lakh the system ... There are some pre-filled income tax return Set up in March 2020, the allocation for vaccination, per annum is aimed at cor- cases which are depositing forms with details on interest more than 82 per cent of the recting anomalies and is based crores of rupee into the fund from bank and Post Office, cost of the same during on “principles of equity” and and there you are getting 8 per capital gains on listed securi- January to March is being large depositors into the cent assured tax-free return. ties and dividend income borne by the PM CARES Employee Provident Fund This is a question of equity. would be made available next Fund. (EPF) should pay tax on This is against the fiscal. !"#$#% 3

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he recent news coming in from TUS shows that healthcare sector has made the most dramatic and ".,)1 ,16 momentous reversal in employment A 0 fortunes, after the knee-jerk reaction of leading in job losses in April. Now, A . none other than the Wall Street Journal is predicting that healthcare 0 >7$5)6!)* is all poised to lead all other sectors ! ! 0.& in employment opportunities in the ow many of us wish to make maintain a healthy lifestyle, medi- US going forward. #.87 4 !' incremental changes in our tate, etc. America being one of the largest Hlife? How many of us make Once we set a goal, planning and and most advanced economies wave of IT jobs was consumed New Year resolutions every year just execution are intrinsic. A goal with- would naturally be the first in pre- eagerlyby a wave of graduate engi- to default on them within a month? out a plan is just a wish. We need to dicting such trends. But as an entre- neers who could be easily taught the How many of us want to become set milestones and celebrate short- preneur in the healthcare sector, we requirements of the new jobs. It is no better version of ourselves every term wins to keep us motivated. can clearly see that the trend in India coincidence that industry stalwarts day? Visualising is one of the most pow- would only be stronger. There are like Biocon’s Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw The reality is as we grow old, we erful technique to plan in greater several reasons contributing towards had recently opined that healthcare become complacent and stop detail and to build an association this. Firstly, the world and especial- is now all set to be India’s new IT. dreaming. We stop learning new with a goal. We can start with the ly the industry has awakened to the Many of you may still be won- things. We lack inquisitiveness and end in mind. We can visualise how undeniable fact that productivity is dering how you would fit into the become dull. We settle for things. accomplishing a goal will change our intimately connected to the health healthcare sector. You may be an The most cherished moments in life and those of people around us. and fitness of its workforce. engineer, a manager, a sales profes- life were those when one was able milestones to keep us gripped to the This will make us feel positive Secondly, health insurance and sional, a marketing expert, a pro- to tame a difficult target. These projects. The projects can be learn- about the result and increase the life insurance are all set to boom like grammer, a writer, a PR profession- moments become tales to be told ing skills to progress in career or desirability of the goal. it has never done in India, where al, a designer, or for that matter any again and again to our near and dear reuniting with an old hobby. Execution requires dedication both suffer from deep under-pene- professional, but the fact is that the ones. We are proud of these stories We can learn new tools, new and discipline to follow the plan. tration still. Both families and organ- growth in the healthcare sector can and the struggle we went through. computer language, find ways for Periodically we should revisit the isations are not going to take things accommodate you. We keep these glories close to our improving existing processes or plan, its importance too us and the lying down anymore, having seen the now it is clear that nothing can pre- The academic qualifications and Already, health-tech startups heart as we consider them as defin- keep ourselves updated with the best progress we have made. We’ll soon risks for life and savings from the vent them from booming to an career experience needed by jobs in are creating demand for specialised ing moments in our lives. The pas- in class practices in our field of see changes in our body, attitude, pandemic. This will drive growth in unprecedented scale. This is not only such health-tech startups differ sig- programmers with skills in artificial sion, energy, resolve and unwaver- operation. This will keep us abreast and our reaction to the environment. insurance, which in turn will drive because of the natural emergence of nificantly from the requirements of intelligence, big data and internet of ing belief we had in ourselves made with happenings within our field This will renew our self-confidence a lot of growth in healthcare, espe- e-commerce which eases sales and conventional roles like doctor, nurse, things, among others. Another excit- us achieve the feat. Vicariously liv- and open opportunities for us. to accomplish the goals we set. cially conventional healthcare like delivery, but due to another peculiar pharmacist, physiotherapist, lab ing arena coming up for those plan- ing these moments still gets us excit- Personal projects may or may Once we cross the finish line, we hospitalisation, surgical procedures, reason. technician and others. ning sales and marketing jobs in ed. not provide monetary benefits but will have a template in place, a pro- medicines etc. Covid-19 has exposed the chinks Clearly, there is significant health-tech startups is Work From For living a wholesome and ful- will enhance satisfaction in life and tocol to follow, a tested formula for But a much higher growth is in the armor of conventional med- momentum on both the demand Home opportunities. With e-com- filling life, we must work on projects keep our creative juices flowing. success. Now we just need to place likely to come eventually from an icine, and health-tech startups being and supply sides when it comes to merce getting smoother and social (long-term/ short-term) so that Though we might not become our next goal in the template, devise unconventional source — health innovators and disrupters will be new jobs emerging in the healthcare media getting more productive, our learning curve does not become expert in the skill but pursuing it a pragmatic plan around it using startups or more specifically health- seen to be attempting a one-up on sector. This is an ideal situation, just health-tech startups are expected to flat. These projects can be person- will bring gratification. This could imagination and execute. tech startups. Such startups were conventional medicine by focusing like how it happened in the 90s for pursue digital direct selling models. al or professional projects. 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The natural beauty to make them to the rescue as schools migrated to online education seems to be in tandem with getting redefined every day with field gives the liberty to explore the look good and feel good about learning as the new way of teaching-learn- the evolving situation across the globe. ising number of new cours- their graduation can choose vari- modern advancement of technol- food industry as determined pro- themselves. They help people in ing due to the pandemic. A combination Project-based learning: For those es being introduced in uni- ous courses mentioned below to ogy. 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There are multiple career didates can find themselves devel- ing educators to customise and person- Although 2021 will see schools The New Education Policy Fashion industry offers a multitude options in the media field such as oping a variety of skills in prac- alise learning basis the needs of each stu- opening physically, flipped classroom helps to add more skill-based of job opportunities for those who %* advertising, audio engineering, tices like hair styling, makeup, dent. methodology will come handy in impart- design subjects and the flexibility have a creative outlook to explore Culinary Art is a dynamic and anchoring, broadcasting engi- skincare and yoga. 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replacement for Ravindran join the team training. Pandya, ture in the opener, he is expect- Jadeja. who is back in the Test team ed to increase his bowling work- =) ( HP TO START TRAINING TODAY after a long hiatus, joined his col- load keeping the final of the All-rounder Hardik leagues a day late after attend- World Test Championship and Pandya’s quarantine will end on ing to a personal matter. the five-match Test series in B0=% Wednesday morning and he will While Pandya may not fea- England in mind.

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74%22 on loan until the end of the season, subject to international iverpool finally bolstered clearance. The Premier League Ltheir defensive options by champions have paid an initial signing Schalke’s Ozan Kabak £1 million ($1.37 million) loan and Preston’s Ben Davies before fee with the option to buy for the Premier League transfer £18 million at the end of the sea- window slammed shut on son. Monday. The 20-year-old arrives after Meanwhile Premier League two years in the Bundesliga, champions’ Japanese attacking where he played for Stuttgart midfielder Takumi Minamino before joining Schalke in July left for Southampton on loan 2019. He previously gained until the end of the season in one Champions League experience of the few moves between at Galatasaray and has won Premier League clubs on a quiet seven caps for Turkey. deadline day. Davies, 25, signed for an ini- The January window is tial fee believed to be £500,000 regarded as a sellers’ market and plus future add-ons. often a time for stop-gap mea- Davies made 145 appear- sures but Liverpool were forced ances for Preston, scoring two to act. goals, since his debut in 2013. The champions are missing all of their senior central defend- LOW TRANSFERS ers, with Virgil van Dijk, Joe Arsenal allowed Shkodran Gomez and Joel Matip out of Mustafi to leave, with the action. German defender signing a Fabinho, who had short-term contract at Schalke. impressed at centre-back after Gedson Fernandes ended moving from his usual midfield his disappointing spell at position, recently joined the Tottenham, with the midfielder’s injured list while captain Jordan loan from Benfica cancelled so Henderson, who usually plays in he could join Galatasaray. midfield, has been forced to Relegation-threatened West deputise at the back. Bromwich Albion agreed a deal Japanese international with Arsenal to take the versa- Minamino departed tile Ainsley Maitland-Niles on Anfield for Southampton loan until the end of this in a surprise move term. allowed to be completed Newcastle signed after the window shut Arsenal midfielder Joe because the Saints had Willock on loan for the rest of submitted the necessary the season, while Magpies’ paperwork in time. right-back DeAndre Liverpool man- Yedlin joined ager Jurgen Klopp Galatasaray in a had been suggesting permanent deal. for several weeks Fulham that a replacement landed former centre-back would be Sunderland for- a major lift for his ward Josh Maja team. on loan from Klopp got his French side wish at last as the Bordeaux. Reds brought in two Everton were defenders in the final hoping to sign hours of the transfer Bournemouth striker window. Josh King in a late Kabak joined deal. $-7 $$ -$"+ New Delhi: India’s mixed doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Ashwini Ponnappa was rewarded for its stupendous show at the recent- concluded Asia leg as it broke into the world’s top 20 in the latest BWF rankings announced on Tuesday. Thailand Open. Satwik and Ashwini, who Among others, world had become the first Indian champion P V Sindhu remained mixed doubles pair to reach the static at world number 7, while semifinals of a world tour Super Saina improved a place to world 1000 event at the Toyota number 19. Thailand Open, jumped 16 In the men’s singles, places to reach a career-best Kidambi Srikanth moved up a ranking of world number 19. spot to 13th, while Sameer In the men’s doubles, Satwik Verma jumped four places to and Chirag Shetty retained their 27th spot after his quarterfinal world number 10 spot after showing at Toyota Thailand reaching the semifinals at Toyota Open. PTI