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People will consider PM Modi’s Principal Modi as avatar of First batch of anti-aircraft Army phases out two artillery weapons Adviser P K Sinha Ram, Krishna: missile kits rolled out resigns on personal Tirath Rawat that had been in service for over 50 years grounds Agency technological expertise and Haridwar: collective demonstration of New Delhi: Pradeep Uttarakhand Chief New Delhi: Kalyani the capability to be the Agency fired. Factory Board. weapons had been Kumar Sinha, Principal Minister Tirath Singh Rafael Advanced Systems global manufacturing hub The Catapult was an Close to 100 Catapults procured and given their Adviser to Prime Minister Rawat on Monday said Private Limited (KRAS), in for defence products, Baba Chandigarh: The integration of the Soviet using the 130 mm guns weight, 7-member crew Narendra Modi, has Prime Minister Narendra collaboration with Rafael Kalyani, Chairman and Indian Army on Tuesday origin M-46 towed artillery were built on the strength and range, were no resigned from his position Modi will be considered Advanced Defense Managing Director of decommissioned two of the gun with the hull of the Vijayanta’s hull. Later, the longer relevant in today’s citing personal reasons. as an avatar of Lord Ram Systems of Israel, on Kalyani Group, added that longest-serving artillery Vijayanta tank. While the Army carried out trials on operational environment. Former Cabinet and Krishna in times to weapon systems, the Catapult was first produced the Arjun tank’s hull which They were last used in the Secretary Sinha, a retired come. 130mm M-46 Catapult in 1987, the army had reportedly proved to be Kargil conflict. IAS officer (1977 batch) While speaking at self-propelled guns and the of the Uttar Pradesh 'Netra Kumbha', organised cadre, was appointed by Hans Foundation, CM  The Catapult was an officer on special duty in Rawat said, "The way integration of the Soviet the PMO in August 2019 people started considering origin M-46 towed after then principal Lord Ram and Krishna as secretary to the PM artillery gun with the hull Nripendra Mishra gods in Dwapar and Treta of the Vijayanta tank. Yuga because of their requested to be relieved works, in the same way, Tuesday rolled out the first apart from the missile kits, While the Catapult was of his charge. Prime Minister Narendra batch of medium range the group will extend first produced in 1987, the In September 2019 Modi will be considered surface-to-air missile support in maintenance and army had started Sinha was made Principal as Lord Ram and Krishna (MRSAM) kits for the repair operations for in- procuring the M-46 from Adviser to the PM and in times to come." Indian Army and the Air service air defence missile 1986 onwards. has since continued in his "Earlier the PM of India Force under the systems. Brig Gen Pinhas post. Official sources would not get any special government’s Make-in- Yungman, Head of Air and said Sinha’s appointment India initiative. KRAS will Missile Defense Systems 160mm Tampella mortars. was concurrent to the attention in the world, but These weapon systems started procuring the M-46 successful and a The K-9 Vajra 155 mm today even the biggest deliver more than 1,000 division of Rafael, said that term of Prime Minister such missile kits to India’s the company, which had have been a part of the from 1986 onwards. requirement of 40 such self-propelled howitzer, Modi or until further leaders of the world are Regiment of Artillery for About 1,000 guns, which systems had been Dhanush 155 mm towed eager to be photographed state-run undertaking, been a reliable partner to announcement whichever Bharat Dynamics Limited the Indian armed forces for over half a century. The had a range of 27 km, had projected. artillery gun and the US was earlier. Sinha served with PM Modi," Rawat decommissioning been inducted. In 2008, The Tampella was a made M-777 155 mm ultra- added. (BDL) for further almost three decades, will as union cabinet secretary integration and production not only build products for ceremony was held at the about 180 of these guns heavy mortar weighing light howitzer are among from June 13, 2015 till P C Chacko to formal- of the missile, according to them but also trigger and Mahajan Field Firing were upgraded to 155 mm 7,300 kg that fired a recent inductions in 2019. He was previously ly join NCP, work for a statement issued here. help achieve the Ranges in north-western caliber by Israel and some projectile weighing over 40 Regiment of Artillery to Secretary, Ministry of victory of LDF candi- Stating that the venture government’s vision of Rajasthan, where the last more were similarly kg to a range of 8 km. Only replace old obsolete Power, starting July marked a step-change in exports from India. customary salvos were modified by the Ordnance a limited number of these weapons. 2013. dates in Kerala New Delhi/Kochi: Covid vaccine to foreign countries not at Former Congress leader P C Chacko, who quit the Nationwide bank strike continues party last week, on the cost of Indian citizens: Harsh Vardhan Tuesday announced that he Agency Further highlighting the dynamic process. Anyone will formally join the to impact services on day 2 pace of vaccination in the who wants to get Nationalist Congress Party country, the Minister said, vaccinated can register on Agency umbrella body of nine India Bank Officers' Organisation of Bank New Delhi: The (NCP) headed by Sharad government on Tuesday it was only yesterday that the portal and get Pawar. “I am formally unions, had given a strike Association (AIBOA) and Workers (NOBW) and call for March 15 and 16. Bank Employees National Organisation of asserted that COVID-19 30 lakh people got the inoculated.” joining the NCP today,” he New Delhi: Bank strike vaccines were not being vaccine jabs. On the When asked if people told reporters in New continued for day-two on Members of UFBU Confederation of India Bank Officers (NOBO). Tuesday, led by nine include All India Bank (BEFI). Unions on Monday said sent to foreign countries at Delhi after meeting the cost of Indian citizens CPI(M) general secretary unions of public sector nearly 10 lakh staffers banks (PSBs) in the across the country have and a “healthy balance is Sitaram Yechury. Chacko, being maintained”. who quit the Congress country, opposing the participated in the strike, government's policy to terming it a "success". Announcing this in Rajya over his differences with Sabha during the Question the party leaders in Kerala, privatise the lenders. Finance Minister Customers will be Nirmala Sitharaman in her Hour, Minister for Health said NCP is a partner of the & Family Welfare Harsh CPI (M)-led LDF in the inconvenienced to get Union Budget speech for southern state and he services such as cash 2021-22 said the Vardhan said, “Vaccines to would work for the victory withdrawals, deposits, government will privatise foreign countries are not cheque clearances, two more public sector being sent at the expense of question of when all of the above 60 years of age can of the Left candidates in entire Indian population have the facility to get the April 6 Assembly polls. remittance services. banks going forward. Indian citizens. A healthy Government transactions The government has balance is being would get vaccinated, the vaccinations at home, the related to the treasury as Employees Association Others are the Indian already privatised IDBI maintained.” Till now, 5.94 Minister said, “The criteria Minister said, “This issue PM Modi holds vir- well as business (AIBEA), All India Bank National Bank Employees Bank by selling its majority crore doses of vaccine have has been fixed according to has been flagged to us. In tual summit with transactions will also be Officers' Confederation Federation (INBEF), stake in the lender to LIC been sent to foreign the World Health hospitals, people are kept impacted. (AIBOC), National Indian National Bank in 2019 and has merged 14 countries, the Minister Organisation (WHO) and under observation for 30 Finnish counterpart United Forum of Bank Confederation of Bank Officers Congress public sector banks in the said, asserting that science other international minutes after getting Employees (NCBE), All (INBOC), National last four years. “should benefit everyone”. standards and it is a vaccinated.< New Delhi: India has Unions (UFBU), an taken care of the needs of the world along with its UK peers debate freedoms in India, minister points to close India-UK ties domestic struggle during Narcotics Control Bureau challenges Rhea the coronavirus pandemic, Agency customary, Foreign, deep and broad concerns directly with the Prime Minister Narendra Chakraborty's bail in Supreme Court Commonwealth and relationship” with the Indian government. We Modi said on Tuesday at a Agency actress and directed her to in September last year by London: Peers in Development Office world’s largest democracy, will continue to engage virtual summit with his deposit a personal bond of the NCB in connection Britain’s House of Lords (FCDO) minister Lord Zac with which the UK’s trade India on the full range of Finnish counterpart Sanna New Delhi: The Rs 1 lakh. with its probe into the held a debate on the issue Goldsmith responded on and investment partnership human rights matters and Marin. More than 58 Narcotics Control Bureau It had however rejected drugs angle related to the of “freedoms of non- behalf of the government is “thriving” and raise our concerns where million made in India (NCB) has moved the the bail plea her brother case of Rajput's death. governmental we have them as we do coronavirus vaccine doses Supreme Court challenging While granting bail to organisations, academics including at ministerial had reached about 70 the Bombay High Court Rhea Chakraborty and two and other groups in India” level,” said Lord countries in the recent order granting bail to others, the high court had and called on Prime Goldsmith. “The Prime weeks, the prime minister actress Rhea Chakraborty, directed them to deposit Minister Boris Johnson to Minister will visit India said. He also said both arrested over drugs-related their passports with the take up the issues directly shortly. That will be an India and Finland charges in actor Sushant NCB and not to leave the with his Indian counterpart opportunity to discuss a believed in a rules-based, Singh Rajput's death case. country without permission Narendra Modi during his very wide range of bilateral transparent, humanitarian A bench of Chief Justice of the special NDPS court. visit to New Delhi next and multilateral issues and democratic global Bobde and Justices AS Showik Chakraborty, who It had asked Rhea to month. The “India: directly with the Indian order and the two Bopanna and V is also an accused in the deposit a personal bond of Restrictions on Freedom” to highlight the close ties collaboration on defence government. Of course, countries have strong Ramasubramanian will case, and an alleged drug Rs 1 lakh and directed her debate in the Upper House between the UK and India and security mean the two where we have specific cooperation in areas like hear the plea on March 18. peddler Abdel Basit to visit the NCB office at of the Parliament was which allow Britain to countries a “force for good concerns, the Prime technology, innovation, On October 7, last year Parihar. 11 am on the first day of called by crossbench peer raise all issues as part of an in the world”. Minister will raise them clean energy, environment the Bombay High Court Rhea, her brother and the every month for next six Lord Richard Harries on ongoing dialogue. “Our approach has directly with the and education. had granted bail to the other accused were arrested months. Monday and, as is He pointed to a “very always been to raise any government of India. 22 of world’s 30 most polluted cities are in India: Report Bid to jumpstart Indo-US economic ties India fuel sales return to pre-COVID levels Agency from 2019 to 2020. Meerut, Agra and New Delhi: India and the US will revive one out of three Agency Corporation (IOC) IOC, he said, is bullish It said despite the Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Chairman Shrikant about fuel demand New Delhi: Twenty-two improvement, Delhi ranked Pradesh, Bhiwari in high-level trade and investment bodies that had become of the world’s 30 most as the 10th most polluted Rajasthan, Faridabad, Jind, nonfunctional during the Trump presidency. A meeting of New Delhi: India’s fuel Madhav Vaidya said. “We recovery as the economy polluted cities are in India, city and the top polluted Hisar, Fatehabad, the India-US Economic and Financial Partnership will be demand, except ATF, has are back on track.” grows. with Delhi being ranked as capital city in the world. Bandhwari, Gurugram, held later this year, it emerged after a conversation between returned to pre-COVID While petrol sales had “Let’s hope for the best the most polluted capital “India continues to Yamunanagar, Rohtak and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and US Secretary of levels and a reflating reached pre-COVID levels with the vaccine rollout,” city globally, a new report feature prominently at the Dharuhera in Haryana, and Treasury Janet Yellen on “economic issues of mutual economy will help a few months back, diesel he said. said on Tuesday. top of the most polluted Muzaffarpur in Bihar. interest”. Last held in 2019 and headed by the two Finance consumption grow in near was up 7.4 per cent year- Diesel sales in the first The report is prepared by cities ranking, with 22 of As per the report, the top Ministers, the India-US Economic and Financial future, head of the nation’s on-year in the first half of half of March rose to 2.84 most polluted city is Partnership has helped both countries coordinate positions top oil firm said on March. million tonnes while petrol Xinjiang in China followed on global debt sustainability, financial sector reforms, Tuesday. LPG sales showed demand was up 5.3 per by nine Indian cities. leveraging of capital flows and tackling money laundering Fuel sales had fallen by a cent to 1.05 million tonnes. Ghaziabad is the second and financing of terrorism. Analysts have noted the weak record 45.8 per cent in This is the first annual most polluted city in the economic pillar of Indo-US ties by pointing out that Quad April last year when a rise in petrol sales since world followed by has met a dozen times at various levels as compared to just nationwide lockdown was October. ATF sales, which Bulandshahar, Bisrakh one US-India Trade Policy Forum interaction in the last 18 imposed to check the fell by more than 80 per Jalalpur, Noida, Greater months. Sitharaman said the two leaders agreed to work spread of coronavirus cent in the aftermath of the Noida, Kanpur, Lucknow closely through common economic and strategic infections. Demand started lockdown, was down 36.5 Swiss organisation, IQAir, the top 30 most polluted and Bhiwari. collaboration in various multilateral fora, including the G- to recover with the easing growth even during the per cent in the first half of in the form of the ‘World cities globally,” the report The global cities ranking 20. Another key Indo-US two plus two the U.S.-India of lockdown restrictions, lockdown. With airlines March. Air Quality Report, 2020’, said.Besides Delhi, the 21 report is based on PM2.5 Strategic and Commercial Dialogue (S&CD) is yet to be with petrol returning to not operating all flights, India’s economy which has released other Indian cities among data from 106 countries, revived after it held its last meeting five years back. A normal growth first and ATF sales remain below returned to positive growth globally. the 30 most polluted cities which is measured by Modi government initiative to bring back balance in Indo- now diesel too is back at normal. territory in the fourth The report, however, in the world are Ghaziabad, ground-based monitoring US ties, it last met in 2016 involving then US Secretary of pre-COVID levels. “ATF may take a quarter of 2020 as its real shows that Delhi’s air Bulandshahar, Bisrakh stations, most of which is State John Kerry and Secretary of Commerce Penny “Except for ATF, we quarters time to return to GDP expanded by 0.4 per quality improved by Jalalpur, Noida, Greater operated by government Pritzker along with their counterparts Sushma Swaraj and have touched normal normal, maybe 3-4 cent year-on-year after two approximately 15 per cent Noida, Kanpur, Lucknow, agencies. Nirmala Sitharaman. demand,” Indian Oil months,” he said. quarters of contraction. NATIONAL Wednesday 17 March 2021 2 Nominated member Swapan Das Bypolls to two Lok Sabha and 14 NEWS BRIEF assembly seats on April 17: EC SAD president Sukhbir Badal New Delhi: Bypolls to year. Gupta resigns from Rajya Sabha seat two Lok Sabha seats one The Election tests positive for COVID-19 New Delhi: The Constitution says nomination. disqualified according to each in Karnataka and Commission also Andhra Pradesh and 14 announced bypolls to 14 Chandigarh: Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Trinamool Congress nominated RS member to “Either resign RS now or the Constitution’s 10th Badal said he had tested positive for COVID-19 on appears to have got the be disqualified if he joins be disqualified. No safety Schedule (Para 2 (3))”. On assembly constituencies assembly seats three in across 11 states will be held Rajasthan, two in Tuesday. better of the BJP in this any political party AFTER net,” she said after some Tuesday, after Dasgupta Badal, a former deputy chief minister of Punjab, asked case. Nominated member expiry of 6 months from BJP leaders presented sent his resignation to the on April 17, the Election Karnataka and one each in Commission announced on Gujarat, Jharkhand, people who came in touch with him in the last few days Swapan Dasgupta, who has oath. He was sworn in counterclaims to her Rajya Sabha chairman M to isolate themselves and get a COVID test done. been fielded by the BJP in April 2016, remains argument. Venkaiah Naidu, Tuesday. Madhya Pradesh, The by-election to the Maharashtra, Mizoram, “I would like to inform everyone that I have tested the upcoming West Bengal unallied. Must be On Monday, she also Moitra wrote saying: Covid positive,” he said in a tweet. “My health is fine & Assembly elections disqualified NOW for tweeted a screenshot of the “Thank you Sir- we wish as per protocol I have isolated myself. I request those resigned from Rajya Sabha joining BJP,” Moitra said list of nominated members you well for the upcoming who came in contact with me during the last few days to on Tuesday. WB polls”. TMC’s demand isolate themselves & get tested for Covid -19.” “I have resigned from for his disqualification the Rajya Sabha today to came after BJP’s Suvendu commit myself totally to Adhikari alleged flaws in Nation sees more than the fight for a better Chief Minister Mamata Bengal. I hope to file my Banerjee’s nomination 20,000 Covid cases for nomination as BJP documents in Nandigram. candidate for the A nominated member of Tirupati Lok Sabha seat in Nagaland, Odisha, sixth consecutive day Tarakeshwar Assembly the Rajya Sabha, Dasgupta Andhra Pradesh was Telangana and seat in the next few day,” is among the four MPs, necessitated following the Uttarakhand. The fifth New Delhi: India recorded 24,492 new Covid cases, Dasgupta said a day after including three sitting Lok death of sitting YSR phase of the West Bengal registering more than 20,000 cases for the sixth day in a TMC’s Lok Sabha MP Sabha MPs, the BJP has Congress party MP Balli assembly election will also row, taking the infection tally past 1.14 crore, the Union Mahua Moitra said he fielded in the high-stakes Durgaprasada Rao due to take place on the same day. health ministry said on Tuesday. could be disqualified for in a tweet on Monday. from the Rajya Sabha battle for West Bengal. COVID-19 in September The votes will be The total cases in the country rose to 1,14,09,831, filing nomination as a BJP Moitra further added that website saying “Rajya They include union last year. counted on May 2, the while the death toll increased to 1,58,856, with 131 fresh candidate under the 10th Dasgupta’s candidature Sabha website as of today Minister Supriyo from The bypoll to the same day as the results for fatalities, the ministry data updated at 8 am showed. Schedule of the will not be cancelled for (March 15) says Swapan Tollygunge and Nishit Belgaum Lok Sabha seat in elections in four states, Registering a spike in cases for the sixth day in a row, Constitution. being a nominated member Dasgupta is nominated and Pramanik and Locket Karnataka is being held Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam the total active caseload has increased to 2,23,432, “Swapan Dasgupta is of Rajya Sabha, however, not formally BJP. If he files Chatterjee from Dinhata following the death of and West Bengal, and the which now comprises 1.96 per cent of the total BJP candidate for WB he will cease to be an MP nomination as BJP and Chunchura former Union minister union territory of infections. The recovery rate has further dropped to polls. 10th Schedule of once he files his candidate, he should be respectively. Suresh Angadi in m last Puducherry. 96.65 per cent, it said. As many as 26,624 new infections were recorded in a span of 24 hours on December 20. Quad push: ISRO taking space ties with 9 SAD MLAs from Punjab booked for trying The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 1,10,27,543, while the case fatality US, Japan & Australia to a higher orbit to confront Haryana CM outside Assembly rate dropped to 1.39 per cent, the data stated. According to the Indian Council of Medical Research, Bengaluru: As Quad Jet Propulsion Laboratory spaceport in Andhra Chandigarh: The copy of the FIR. misbehaving with Khattar. 22,82,80,763 samples have been tested up to March 15, takes a leap forward, India as the joint NASA-ISRO Pradesh's Nellore district, Chandigarh Police has The SAD legislators had Haryana Assembly with 8,73,350 samples being tested on Monday. is deepening space ties SAR (NISAR) mission about 100 kms north of booked nine Shiromani confronted Khattar outside Speaker Gian Chand Gupta with the U.S., Japan and moved forward. Chennai. Akali Dal (SAD) the assembly hall on March on Monday had UP man arrested for raping Australia -- the other three NISAR is a joint NASA is providing the legislators from Punjab for 10 and had demanded that a condemned the incident member nations of the collaboration for a dual- mission's L-band SAR, a their alleged attempt to teenage girl, pressing her to group. frequency L and S-band high-rate communication gherao and confront Known as the SAR for earth observation. subsystem for science data, "Quadrilateral Security "NISAR will be the first GPS receivers, a solid-state Haryana Chief Minister change religion Dialogue", the Quad recorder and payload data Manohar Lal Khattar grouping held its first subsystem. outside the assembly here Fatehpur: A man has been arrested for allegedly virtual summit last week. ISRO is providing the last week, officials said on raping a teenaged Dalit girl and putting pressure on her The four countries plan spacecraft bus,the S-band Tuesday. to change her religion in Fatehpur district in Uttar to establish a series of radar,the launch vehicle Sharanjit Singh Dhillon Pradesh, police said on Tuesday. working groups that will and associated launch and Bikram Singh Majithia According to the police, 23-year-old Raju Ansari took focus on climate change; services for the mission, are among the SAD the 17-year-old girl to his house in the Lalauli police critical and emerging whose goal is to make legislators named in the station area on Friday night and allegedly raped her. technologies, including satellite mission to use two global measurements of the FIR. The girl was rescued from his house on Saturday working to set technology different radar frequencies causes and consequences The Chandigarh Police morning, Lalauli police station SHO Sandeep Kumar standards and norms and (L-band and S-band) to of land surface changes registered a case against the Tiwari said. jointly developing some of measure changes in our using advanced radar SAD MLAs under relevant resolution be passed in the and had informed the According to a complaint filed with the police, Ansari the critical technologies of planet's surface less than a imaging. IPC sections including 186 state assembly against the House that a group of SAD also put pressure on the girl to change her religion. the future, officials said. centimetre across", On March 11, (obstructing public servant Centre's three new farm MLAs from Punjab A case was registered against Ansari on Sunday under The Indian Space according to NASA Bengaluru-headquartered in discharge of public laws. allegedly tried to gherao relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Uttar Research Organisation (National Aeronautics and ISRO and Japan Aerospace functions), 323 Thereafter, the Haryana and attack the Haryana Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion (ISRO) last week shipped Space Administration). Exploration Agency (punishment for voluntarily assembly secretariat had chief minister outside the Act, the police officer said, adding that he was arrested the S-band Synthetic The mission is targeted (JAXA) reviewed the causing hurt) and 341 decided to lodge an FIR assembly hall last week on Monday evening from his house. Aperture Radar (SAR) to for launch in 2022 from ongoing cooperation in (punishment for wrongful against the group of Punjab when he was interacting The girl has been sent to a government hospital for U.S. space agency NASA's ISRO's Sriharikota earth observation. restraint), according to a MLAs for allegedly with the media. medical examination, the police officer added. Full-blown political slugfest over Sachin Vaze in Maharashtra Frustrated over 'poor' turnout in poll rallies, New Delhi: While the just the start of the probe case over to the Anti- rivals hatching conspiracy to kill me: Mamata country’s attention is and much more would Terrorism Squad realising Telangana HC says no to CBI Mejia: West Bengal country, he is sitting in What happened to their riveted towards high- come out in the days to the seriousness of the Chief Minister Mamata Kolkata and hatching a independence? My profile elections in West come”, senior BJP leader situation. However, even probe in lawyer couple murder Banerjee on Tuesday conspiracy to harass TMC director, security (Vivek Bengal, political Kirit Somaiya alleged that while the investigation was accused Union Home leaders. What do they Sahay) was removed (by developments in the controversial Mumbai on, the Centre sent the Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court has ruled out Minister Amit Shah of want? Do they want to kill EC) as per his Maharashtra since the cop had six businesses and NIA, creating the option of handing over the probe into the murder of hatching a conspiracy to me? Do they think that instructions," she alleged. arrest of controversial two Shiv Sena leaders “unnecessary interference the lawyer couple to the Central Bureau of Investigation harass TMC leaders ahead they will win this election Banerjee claimed that Mumbai police cop Sachin were his business partners. in the case”. Terming the (CBI) observing there is no need for a probe by the CBI of the Assembly elections by killing me? They are Shah, who came back to Vaze are no less as the state police were working on the case as per the in the state and wondered interesting. While the BJP records before it. whether the Election stepped up its offensive A petition by slain lawyer Gattu Vaman Rao’s father Commission is working against the Uddhav Gattu Kishan Rao had sought a probe by the CBI as per his instructions. Thackeray-led Maha Vikas expressing dissatisfaction over the manner in which the Claiming that Shah is Aghadi government with probe was progressing. getting "frustrated" by more allegations, the Shiv It may be recalled that in February, a lawyer couple "poor turnout" at his Sena accused it of was stabbed to death by unidentified assailants in broad rallies, Banerjee also “insulting the Maharashtra daylight in Peddapalli district. alleged that the BJP is police”. The victim before his death had named a Telangana plotting conspiracies to Aghadi partner Rashtra Samithi (TRS) leader as being responsible for kill her as her security Nationalist Congress Party the attack. director Vivek Sahay was called an “urgent” party Gattu Vaman Rao and his wife Nagamani were both removed by the Election meeting to discuss the practising lawyers at the Telangana High Court. Commission after she situation arising out of the Another BJP leader, arrest of Vaze, an accused They were waylaid on their way home and hacked to sustained injuries last arrest of Vaze in the Nitesh Rane, accused him in the death of automobile death near Kalvacherla village of Ramagiri Mandal in week in Purba wrong," she said while Kolkata on Monday night Ambani bomb scare case. and a cousin of Aaditya parts dealer Mansukh Telangana. Medinipur's Nandigram. addressing a rally here. from Guwahati and held NCP chief Sharad Pawar Thackeray of “running an Hiren, by the NIA an Taking up the matter, a Division Bench headed by Referring to the alleged Banerjee also wondered a series of meetings with also met CM Uddhav IPL extortion racket”. “insult” of the Maharashtra Chief Justice Hima Kohli observed that the court shares "attack" on her in whether the Election the BJP's state leaders, Thackeray. < The Shiv Sena hit back, Police, the Sena alleged it the petitioner’s pain but pointed out that it was directly Nandigram, Banerjee said Commission had lost its was "hatching State NCP president claiming that the BJP-led was a deliberate move. monitoring the probe. no one would stop her independence, and conspiracy as he has Jayant Patil dismissed Centre had “insulted” the According to NIA It also felt that the investigations were going on in the from taking forward her alleged that the poll panel understood after speculations of the Maharashtra Police force. spokespersons, Vaze had right direction and if the case was entrusted to the CBI, battle against the BJP. is working as per Shah's witnessing poor turnout resignation of Home A scathing article in been arrested for his “role this could lead to further delay. The Advocate General submitted a report to the court on the status of the "Amit Shah is getting instructions. at his rallies that the Minister Anil Deshmukh party mouthpiece and involvement in placing frustrated as there is a "Is Amit Shah running saffron party is still saying that “Anil 'Saamana' stated that the an explosives-laden investigations. The court was informed that the police recovered the weapons used in the murder. poor turnout at his rallies. the EC? He is giving miles away from winning Deshmukh is our Home Maharashtra Police was vehicle near Carmichael Instead of running the instructions to the EC. the Assembly elections". Minister, and he will quite capable of solving Road on February 25". continue to remain so". the case, but the NIA sent Currently suspended, Meanwhile, a day after by the central government speculations are flying former Maharashtra CM arrested Vaze. Sena leader around about what he has Devendra Fadnavis said Sanjay Raut said the state “told/spilled out ” to the that the arrest of Vaze “is government handed the NIA. UTTAR PRADESH Wednesday 17 March 2021 3

Expose Opposition "Change Brought By BJP Behind Mamata canard on farm UP BRIEFS laws: Yogi to party Biker performing stunts on Banerjee's Temple Visits": Yogi Adityanath Lucknow: Chief minis- ter Yogi Adityanath strong- Noida road arrested: Police ly backed the Centre’s new Sristi Mail reporter temples would pose a threat Gandhi also goes to temple worship of the divine moth- approaching assembly polls farm laws, saying that the to their secular credentials. during election time. And a er goddess in the Hindu tra- in West Bengal, Adityanath Noida: The Noida Police has arrested a Delhi-based farmers were being misled. man who was allegedly performing stunts on his motor- Balarampur: Uttar "A change has come... priest had to tell him to sit dition. Mr Adityanath also said, if voted to power, the He urged the party cadres cycle on a city road in violation of rules, officials said. Pradesh Chief Minister Even Mamata didi has start- in a correct posture when he criticised the Trinamool BJP will punish those to expose the “canard” His arrest on Monday evening came within hours of a Yogi Adityanath on ed visiting temples and (Rahul Gandhi) went Congress (TMC) dispensa- behind the "killing of party being spread by a “frustrat- Tuesday said his West taken to ''Chandi Path''. Isn't activists in the state". ed Opposition” on the Bengal counterpart Mamata "This is the land of issue. Banerjee has been forced to Speaking at an elec- (Swami) Vivekananda, He tasked booth level take to ''Chandi Path'' pub- Rabindranath (Tagore), cadres at all the party licly and visit temples due tion rally at Balarampur in Syama Prasad (Mookerjee) booths to tweet and retweet to the change in people's Purulia district, the star which has inspired the achievements and initia- mindset after the BJP came campaigner of the BJP entire country. But now it is tives of Prime Minister the land of TMC-promoted Narendra Modi to ensure to power at the Centre. said, a sect of people was maximum mileage and He also criticised created in the country, goons and ''tolabaaj''(extor- awareness to the various Congress leader Rahul before the BJP-led govern- tionists). pro-poor schemes. Gandhi over his visits to ment assumed power at the "I think the days of He unveiled plans to dis- temples in poll-bound Mamata didi's government tribute tablets to students of states. Centre in 2014, who are numbered. The people economically weaker sec- video surfacing on social media which purportedly Speaking at an election believed that even visiting of the state have made up tions and also referred to showed him performing the dangerous stunts on Noida rally at Balarampur in temples would pose a their mind in voting them the Abhuday free coaching Sector 62 road, they said. Purulia district, the star threat to their secular cre- out of power. Only 45 days scheme in which, he said, “The local Sector 58 Police Station officials took cog- nizance of the video that had gone viral on social media campaigner of the BJP said, dentials. are left for them," he said. 10 lakh students had joined a sect of people was created The 294 assembly seats so far. The image of the and arrested Pushpendra Singh, a resident of Krishna in the country, before the there," the UP chief minis- tion in West Bengal for not in West Bengal will go to state had undergone a sea Nagar in Delhi,” a police spokesperson said. this a change? This is new ter said. implementing various the polls in eight phases change over the last four “His KTM motorcycle on which he was performing BJP-led government the stunts has been impounded,” the spokesperson said. India. Each and every per- The ''Chandi Path'' is one schemes of the central gov- beginning on March 27 and years, he said and flagged assumed power at the the state’s jump to second The video showed Singh throwing all cautions to the Centre in 2014, who son has to go to God. of the most ancient and ernment. Urging the people the votes will be counted on spot in ease of doing busi- wind as he rode the motorcycle with a front pivot on the believed that even visiting "Congress leader Rahul complete systems of mantra to vote for the BJP in the May 2. ness rankings. city road UP Man Arrested For Raping Girl, UP Man Sentenced To Life Less Than Noida set to get warmer Forcing Her To Change Religion: Cops Sristi Mail reporter and allegedly raped her. as mercury spikes The girl was rescued 2 Months After Raping 4-Year-Old Noida: The city will witness warmer days ahead with Fatehpur: A man has from his house on Saturday morning, police official the India Meteorological Department (IMD) predicting been arrested for allegedly Sristi Mail reporter the POCSO Act, the law ensured that all witnesses pic.twitter.com/SYApMdI mercury to rise by four degrees Celsius (°C) in the next raping a teenaged Dalit girl Sandeep Kumar Tiwari dealing with sexual in the case appeared in DQ0 three days. and putting pressure on her said. Lucknow: A rape- offences against minors. court on time, according to A week ago, a court in “The mercury is set to rise and reach around 35°C in to change her religion in According to a complaint accused man in Uttar The Etawah police, in a the statement. Uttar Pradesh's Jaunpur the next three to four days. Since the region will see filed with the police, Pradesh's Etawah district statement, have said they In a tweet, Etawah district awarded capital cloudy sky over the next few days, there will not be a Ansari also put pressure on was today sentenced to life police Chief, Akash punishment to a man who sudden spike in the daytime mercury, rather the rise will the girl to change her reli- imprisonment, a mere 55 Tomar, said, "justice had raped an 11-year-old girl be gradual. The wind speed will be moderate and hover gion. days after committing the been delivered in record last year. The court also around 12 km per hour for next two days,” said Kuldeep A case was registered crime. The local police time", attributing this to imposed a fine of ? 10,000 Srivastava, head, regional weather forecasting centre, against Ansari on Sunday chief cited swift investiga- "constant supervision" and on the convict. The con- IMD. under relevant sections of tion as the chief cause for "follow up". vict, Bal Govind, had As per IMD, the minimum and maximum tempera- the Indian Penal Code and the quick disbursal of jus- This is Arun. He raped a abducted the girl and later tures for Noida on Monday were recorded at 19°C and the Uttar Pradesh 31.5°C, respectively against 18.1°C and 30.9°C a day Prohibition of Unlawful tice in this case. 4 year old girl in Jan 2021. raped her in a village in Arun Kumar was arrest- He was arrested after an Jaunpur's Madiyahu area. earlier. The average maximum and minimum tempera- Conversion of Religion tures recorded at Safdarjung observatory, considered Act, the police officer said, ed on January 19 from encounter with police An FIR was registered by within 24 hours. He has the girl's father. In a state- average for the region, were 32°C, three degrees higher Fatehpur district in Uttar adding that he was arrested Etawah, 220 kilometres than the season’s average and 16.2°C, a degree higher Pradesh, police said on on Monday evening from west of Lucknow, follow- now been sentenced to life ment, the UP government than the season’s average. Tuesday. his house. ing a shootout 24 hours imprisonment within 55 said a conviction obtained Meanwhile, the air quality of Noida, Ghaziabad and According to the police, The girl has been sent to after he raped a four-year- investigated the case and days of the incident due to within seven months was Greater Noida deteriorated on Monday. While Noida’s 23-year-old Raju Ansari a government hospital for old girl in his village. filed the charge sheet with- constant supervision/fol- due to effective follow-up air quality slipped within ‘moderate’ levels, Ghaziabad took the 17-year-old girl to medical examination, the Kumar was later charged in two weeks of the arrest. low up. Justice has been of the case by the police in and Greater Noida slipped from ‘moderate’ to ‘poor’ cat- his house on Friday night police officer added. under stringent sections of Their monitoring cell delivered in record time. the court. egory, according to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). The air quality index (AQI) of Noida on Monday was School Principal Allegedly Molests 182 against 174 a day earlier. The AQI of Greater Noida was 208 against 182 a day earlier, while Ghaziabad Goons attack staff at Dasna Class 5 Student In Uttar Pradesh recorded an AQI of 224 against 195 on Sunday. An AQI level up to 100 is considered ‘good’, between Sristi Mail reporter mother, Superintendent of 101 and 200 is ‘moderate’, between 201 and 300 is Police (SP) Sanjeev Bajpai ‘poor’, between 301 and 400 is ‘very poor’ and above toll plaza, one arrested Shahjahanpur: A girl said. 400 is considered ‘severe’. was allegedly molested by The girl, a student of ]According to the System of Air Quality and Weather Sristi Mail reporter Brezza, had altercation trace the suspects. One of nection with the incident Class 5, told her mother Forecasting and Research (SAFAR), the air quality will the principal of her school deteriorate due to dust raising winds in the next two with the toll staff about them was nabbed and oth- and police are taking up in Uttar Pradesh's that she was playing out- Ghaziabad: A group of paying up the toll and later ers will soon be identified investigation,” said Mudit side her house when days. “Surface winds are high and west south-westerly. Shahjahanpur, the police AQI is likely to stay in the moderate to lower end of poor at least 10 persons on some unidentified men and arrested. The men are Grag, project director, said today, adding, the inci- Shameem Ahmed took her Sunday night allegedly arrived on motorcycles and from nearby Masuri area,” National Highways category for next two days. An increase in dust contribu- thrashed the employees at attacked the toll staff. said Iraj Raja, superinten- Authority of India. tion is expected in the coming days. The poor AQI is Dasna toll plaza on the The complainant, Rakesh forecasted for March 18,” said a SAFAR statement on Eastern Peripheral Pathak, is one of the staff at Monday. Expressway after an argu- the Dasna toll plaza. “They ment over the payment of were 8-10 men who had No ‘good’ days during Grap peri- toll. The assailants also come on four motorcycles vandalised the toll plaza, to the toll at around 10pm od in Ghaziabad, city mostly suf- police said, adding that on Sunday. As soon as they they have arrested one of arrived, they started beat- fered ‘very poor’ AQI days the suspects. ing up the toll staff and also Police said the entire damaged the equipment Ghaziabad: During the entire period of the graded incident was captured in a and broke the window response action plan (Grap) when heightened measures CCTV camera installed glasses. They also snatched were taken up to control air pollution from October 15 to inside one of the toll cab- ?1,260 in cash from the toll March 5, Ghaziabad experienced no “good” days in the ins, and an attacker was “The men on motorcy- dent of police (rural). staff and fled before issuing period of 140 days. During the period, the city suffered seen beating up the staff cles came about 15-20 min- Police said that they threats and hurling abuses,” 33 days under the ‘severe’ category and 74 under ‘very and also throwing chairs utes after the Brezza went lodged an FIR against Pathak said in his police dent took place on Monday. away and allegedly molest- poor’ which are considered high levels in terms of air and breaking window away. There was some unidentified suspects for complaint. A case was lodged ed her. quality index (AQI), figures of the UP Pollution Control glasses. technical snag with the rioting, robbery, causing In Ghaziabad, the 135km against Shameem Ahmed As the girl shouted for Board (UPPCB) have revealed . According to police, the server at the toll, so the hurt and criminal intimida- long Eastern Peripheral under relevant sections of help, her family members As per the UPPCB figures, only one day was under the law for child abuse on came to the rescue and the ‘satisfactory’ category, 10 under ‘moderate’ and 23 incident took place at SUV could not be identi- tion at Masuri police sta- Expressway has toll plazas under the ‘poor’ AQI during the said period. around 10pm when some fied immediately. But we tion. “The toll staff filed a at Dasna and Duhai inter- the basis of the complaint man fled from the spot, the received from the child's police said. An AQI between zero and 50 is considered ‘good’, 51 men in an SUV, a Maruti have deployed teams to police complaint in con- changes. and 100 ‘satisfactory’, 101 and 200 ‘moderate’, 201 and 300 ‘poor’, 301 and 400 ‘very poor’, and 401 and 500 ‘severe’. The official figures indicate that water sprinkling on a Ghaziabad starts testing for Covid at railway station total of 4,344km of different road stretches was taken up, besides roads of nearly 3,530km were also taken up for Sristi Mail reporter as well. We will carry out The district has 286 such random testing of passen- taking up testing and sur- footfall at present is about mechanical sweeping every week. rapid antigen tests for samitisin urban areas and gers from the high inci- veillance,” the CMO said. 8,000-10,000, which was As regards the enforcement, about 13,962 inspections Ghaziabad: In view of symptomatic cases, while another 182 in rural areas dence states, we will also The Ghaziabad district is about 50,000 during pre- were taken up and notices served to 395 erring persons the surge in Covid-19 random RT-PCR tests will to keep an eye on persons take up random testing of already assigned a target lockdown period,” said a or establishments, and 148 FIRs were lodged. Besides, cases in states such as also be taken up,” said Dr having Covid-like symp- other passengers as well. of conducting 3500 rapid railway official at the penalty of ?1.97 crore was imposed against different Maharashtra, Kerala and NK Gupta, chief medical toms. We have also received antigen tests and 1700 RT- Ghaziabad station. defaulters for spreading pollution. Punjab, the district health officer.The officials said Gupta said that about 30 directions from the state PCR tests per day. The In a statement issued on department on Monday that during the past 10 officials said that the daily Monday, the Union min- started conducting of tests days, about 122 positive average of tests is about istry of health and family of passengers coming from cases were detected in the 2200 in the first fortnight welfare said that five states Man posts objectionable photos of for- such states at the district and 35 of their of March and low since of Maharashtra, Punjab, mer female ‘friend’ online, nabbed Ghaziabad railway station. 1,488 contacts were found cases declined consider- Karnataka, Gujarat and Health officials said that positive. ably during winters. Tamil Nadu continue to Noida: The police have nabbed a 22-year-old man in they will conduct both the According to the state “As a result, their con- report a surge in the daily Noida sector 39 for allegedly circulating objectionable rapid antigen tests and the Covid-19 bulletin, tacts also declined, and it new Covid cases. They photographs of a 19-year-old female friend after her RT-PCR tests for the pas- Ghaziabad on Monday also affected daily testing. cumulatively accounted family fixed up her marriage elsewhere. sengers arriving at reported seven new cases, Now, we are focussing for 78.41% of the 26,291 The suspect, identified as Suraj Mehto, was nabbed Ghaziabad from the states taking the overall tally to more on RT-PCR tests and new cases reported in the near Swarupa Gate in Noida on Sunday. He was pro- having high incidence of 26,887 which include 102 will try to achieve the past 24 hours across the duced before a magistrate and later sent to jail. He is a Covid-19 cases. deaths. At present, the dis- daily target of 1700 tests country, as per the state- resident of Bhangel in Gautam Budh Nagar of Noida. “We have deployed a trict has 105 active cases per day,” Gupta added. ment. The incident came to light on Saturday when the team that will conduct ran- while 26,692 patients According to railway “A rising trajectory of mother of the woman, who lives with her family in a dom tests for 10-15% of recovered since March last officials, there are about daily new cases is visible locality under the sector 39 police jurisdiction, filed a passengers from states like year. 175 different trains which in eight states. These are complaint. She alleged that the suspect had been harass- Kerala, Maharashtra, The officials have also stop at Ghaziabad railway Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, ing her daughter for the past two months. Punjab and Chhattisgarh. asked the members of var- station. “Before the lock- Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, “The man had approached my daughter inappropriate- The railway authorities ious ‘nigrani samitis’ to people from different officials to increase our down last year, the Delhi, Gujarat, Karnataka ly sometime back. When he found out that we fixed up have also been requested inform the district Covid states were tested during daily testing target. For Ghaziabad railway station and Haryana. Kerala has a her marriage elsewhere, he started harassing her. He cir- to provide us a list of such command and control cen- past one month and all this, we have formed five catered to about 300 trains, consistently declining culated objectionable photographs of my daughter on passengers so that they can tre about people coming in were found negative for more teams, and now we including the local EMU trend over last one month,” social media platforms. She is under a lot of stress,” the be screened at their homes from high incidence states. Covid-19. “Besides the have a total of 25 teams trains. The average daily the statement further said. woman’s mother said in her complaint. EDIT Wednesday, 17 March, 2021 4 Judiciary has great power, including power to Press Opines punish for contempt It must use it sparingly, softly Upendra Baxi sittings and heard over justices Justices Jasti discourse which endorses (1975), awarding him a jail Increasing burden of compliance on 12,700 matters” (in some of Chelameswar, Ranjan “gainfully… the sentence for six weeks and The “strong arm of the which Bhushan had Gogoi, Madan Lokur and observations of Justice incapacity to practise law law must strike a blow”. vigorously participated). Kurian Joseph lower the Wilmot… made as early as for a period of three years? taxpayer is a bad idea Better ways of With these words, in a The second tweet was “majesty of law” by in 1765.” He stressed a need Did it not then say that the judgment by Justices Arun critical of the role allegedly holding the press for “a more rapid and “right to continue to checking tax evasion must be found Mishra, B R Gavai, and played by the judiciary and conference on January 13, immediate redress” practise is subject to the law Krishna Murari, two tweets the last four chief justices in 2018, commonly called a whenever “men’s of contempt” and ask: “Can Last week, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the by senior counsel Prashant weakening democracy. The “judicial revolt”? allegiance to the law is… the legal profession be “Transparent Taxation Honouring the Honest” platform, aimed Bhushan, a veteran social court found that these Many people believe that fundamentally shaken”; practised by committing the action jurisprudence tweets undermine the the right to free speech is because justices are “the contempt of courts”? at easing the compliance burden and rewarding honest tax exponent, were found to be “dignity and authority of near-absolute, channels by which the Further, Article 129 payers, a tweet put out by MyGovIndia, a platform of the based on “distorted facts”, the institution of the accountability of justices is King’s justice is conveyed declares the Supreme Court government, proposed an increase in the list of reportable sacrosanct and even that the to the people.” to be a “court of record” and offence of criminal The country of origin of bestows upon it “all the financial transactions by individuals, apparently in a bid to contempt should be these words was then on the powers… including the widen the tax base. In a country where only a minuscule portion banished. Many others verge of becoming a world power to punish for of the population pays taxes the prime minister noted that only believe that such a power empire, and yet a leading contempt of itself.” But if should exist and be fully postcolonial court invokes the “power to punish for 1.5 crore paid taxes in a country of 130 crore efforts to widen exercised in apt cases. these in 2020. While contempt… itself” is a the tax base and curb leakages need to be encouraged. However, India-wide empirical furthering the swadeshi “constitutional power widening the list of reportable transactions, which will studies are indispensable to jurisprudence, the court which cannot be taken prove/disprove these evokes phrases from 1765 away or… abridged by dramatically increase the compliance burden of honest views; but available only on the eve of the 74th statute”, even the taxpayers, and create even more space for harassment by an are the judicial statements Indian Independence Day! constituent power or the overzealous tax administration, is not the way to do this. While about the tendency to lower However, students of the judiciary itself may not do the image of the judiciary in judicial process know that so lest the basic structure be the tweet has since been removed, it may be indicative of the and making “undoubtedly Supreme Court and the the public mind or activist the courts regard the loom offended. dissonance across various government departments on the false, malicious and CJI” and the statement assumptions of the of law as a seamless web Only judicial wisdom approach to tax administration. Proposals such as these reek of scandalous” allegations. “directly affronts the “chilling effect”. The 274th and the stern message of may determine the quantum Counsel was bound, as a majesty of law”. report of the Law criminal scandalisation of punishment. The court bureaucratic overreach, and would increase the degree of “responsible officer of the A further ground is now Commission (2018) does not worry too much normally imposes the most complexity of the tax regime, adding to both the time taken and court”, to protect “the added. Contempt recommended continuance about the sun setting on the minimal sentences such as cost of complying with it exactly the opposite of what the steps majesty of law”, not to proceedings must also of the offence, but all it British Empire and law a small fine (slashed, in the announced by the prime minister aim to achieve. As reported in indulge in an act that “tends consider the “effects upon cited was the high reform altogether Namboodiripad case by the to bring disrepute to the national honour and incidence of 586 pending abolishing the offences. apex court to Rs 50 from the this paper, the proposal that was being contemplated entailed institution of prestige in the comity of cases between July 1, 2016 The swadeshi Kerala High Court award of covering financial transactions, including, among others, hotel administration of justice.” nations”. This enhancement and June 30, 2017. jurisprudence, the court Rs 1,000), a minimal payments over Rs 20,000, life insurance premium above Rs In the first tweet, which of the chilling effect is Certainly, amidst divided says, is clear and sentence of incarceration included a photograph of worrisome as any and every public opinion, the apex compelling. Did not Chief till the rising of the court, or 50,000, and health insurance premium over Rs 20,000. Such the chief justice on a call for judicial court was right in 1974: Justice Mohammad minor prison sentence now transactions are incurred by large sections of the salaried middle motorcycle, Bhushan is accountability may be thus “Contempt action should be Hidayatullah (1970) subject to bail in the class the honest taxpayers the government seeks to reward. It is held guilty of making a indicted. Will the stock-in- substantial and mala fide convict the then chief COVID-19 situation as so knowingly “false trade predictions of judicial interference with fearless minister of Kerala for ordered suo motu by the possible that the costs of complying with such proposals are statement” about the denial outcome, an aspect of judicial action, not fair making derogatory remarks court itself. It has yet to distorting for salaried individuals while being progressive for of the citizens’ right to practising appellate law and comment or trivial on justices and overrule the decide an appeal by Yatin non-salaried taxpayers. But they would lead to an increase both access justice, which doing legal science, now reflections on the judicial decision of the Kerala High Oza, against the Gujarat obscured the fact that the constitute a criminal process and personnel.” Court? Did it not convict High Court sentence in the internal and external price paid for compliance for all court in trying times had contempt? Did the then No doubt, many ironies even the Chairperson of the depriving him of the status individuals. Further, most high value transactions today require conducted “a total of 879 incumbent four senior lurk in the judicial Bar Council of India of a “senior” counsel. an individual to disclose her permanent account number (PAN), which is linked to the Aadhaar number. Surely, in the age of big data, there are better ways of sourcing and cross-checking this data to check for evasion rather than putting the burden of India’s geopolitical interests are in close compliance on taxpayers. The dissonance between the prime minister’s talk of a tax system that is “seamless, painless and faceless”, and such proposals is too obvious to ignore. Complex alignment with moderate Arab centre laws and procedures, compounded by an inefficient and C. Raja Mohan Under Prime Minister the pieces. He is in Riyadh expansionism. On the other renamed CENTO (Central uncooperative tax department will further disincentivise Narendra Modi, the this week to smooth things hand, Imran Khan appears Treaty Organisation) once The geopolitical engagement with the Arab over. to be dreaming of a new Iraq, the only Arab member, compliance. Rather, the focus should be on building up the realignment in the Middle Gulf has become deeper. Some in Pakistan dismiss regional alliance with walked out in 1958. Turkey, capabilities of the tax department to check tax evasion. East, marked by last week’s The last six years have also the remarks as intemperate Turkey and Iran. Pakistan is Iran and Pakistan formed an agreement on the coincided with a significant and attribute it to Qureshi’s also betting that a rising economic adjunct to the normalisation of relations deterioration of Pakistan’s well-known habit of China and an assertive CENTO called the RCD between the United Arab relations with the region, grandstanding. The problem Russia will both support (Regional Cooperation for Social media platforms need to work Emirates and Israel, especially with the UAE appears deeper. It might be this new geopolitical Development). Both were intersects with the equally and Saudi Arabia. Pakistan recalled that Prime Minister formation as part of their wound up in 1979 soon after significant reorientation of has been angry with UAE’s Imran Khan was all set to own efforts to oust America Iran’s Islamic Revolution. with government but they must be the Subcontinent’s invitation to India to address attend last December’s from the Middle East. But it was not easy to kill relationship with the region. the Organisation of Islamic meeting of the Islamic The idea of such an the idea of a non-Arab As Pakistan rediscovers its Cooperation in early 2019 leaders called by the then alliance was publicly alliance. Iran, Turkey and seen to be agnostic to ideology tradition of aligning with and the reluctance of Saudi Prime Minister of Malaysia, articulated by Iran’s Pakistan gathered again to non-Arab powers, India Arabia to convene a Mahathir Mohamad and ambassador to Pakistan form the Economic With great power comes great responsibility, and social must renew its defence of meeting to condemn Indian backed by the Turkish earlier this year and found Cooperation Organisation networking giant Facebook will need shoulders broad enough Arab sovereignty. actions in Kashmir last President, Recep Tayyip much political resonance in (ECO) in 1985 and after the If India welcomed the August. Pakistan’s foreign Erdogan. Khan pulled out Islamabad. On the face of it, collapse of the Soviet to bear the burden. A week ago, after US intelligence agencies decision by Abu Dhabi and minister Shah Mehmood only at the last minute the idea runs counter to Union, they brought in the warned of foreign interference in the impending polls and Tel Aviv, Pakistan was Qureshi threatened earlier amidst reported pressure Delhi’s conventional newly independent Central President Donald Trump grumbled about rigged postal ballots, ambivalent and merely this month to convene a from Saudi Arabia. wisdom that Pakistan and Asian Republics. “noted” the move and its meeting of foreign ministers Here is the essence of the Gulf Arabs are joined at the For Turkey and Iran, the Facebook joined Alphabet and Twitter in discussions with foreign office pointed to the of Islamic nations, outside emerging contradiction hip. But the idea of a non- new non-Arab alliance federal officials about cleansing platforms of misinformation “far-reaching” (negative) of the OIC, to attack India’s between Saudi Arabia and Arab alliance, backed by backed by Russia and China which could influence the popular will. But in India, the Wall implications. On the face of Kashmir policy. As an angry the UAE on the one hand outside powers, has some is an instrument to advance it, the difference in the Saudi Arabia called back and Pakistan on the other. lineage in Pakistan’s foreign their role in the Arab world Street Journal reported, action against hate speech by at least Indian and Pakistani part of its generous recent Saudis and Emiratis see policy. Pakistan at the expense of the Saudis. four individuals or groups linked to the BJP was opposed on the statements can be explained loan to Pakistan and sharpening existential enthusiastically embraced Erdogan dreams of plea that it would harm Facebook’s business prospects. India is by the fact that Delhi has threatened to suspend the threats to their kingdoms the Baghdad Pact that the restoring the Ottoman diplomatic ties with Israel credit facility for oil from both the Sunni British stitched together domination over the Arab the platform’s biggest market. Since it cannot operate in China, and Islamabad does not. But purchases, army chief Muslim brotherhood with Iran, Iraq and Turkey in world. The Muslim India is crucial for its future prospects. Apart from Anantkumar there is a lot more to this General Qamar Javed backed by Turkey and 1955. Brotherhood is its chosen Hegde and Kapil Mishra, Telangana BJP MLA T Raja Singh was story. Bajwa rushed in to pick up Shiite Iran’s regional The Pact had to be instrument. reported internally for crossing the line and his posts were flagged as “promoting or participating in violence.” Apparently, employees policing the network suggested that action should be taken against Singh under the company’s Dangerous Individuals PolicymakingPolicymaking hashas toto taketake thethe leadlead inin and Organisations policy, under which content can be banned, but Facebook declined to invoke hate speech rules against these individuals and groups, the WSJ reported. In the communal addraddressingessing urban-ruralurban-rural disparitiesdisparities violence in Delhi in February, it has been alleged that a video Yoginder K. Alagh world. But what does a local authorities. One can’t moved to Census towns in Will it be possible to “market” mean? Most really criticise the most states. These don’t get cover the last mile in of Kapil Mishra of the BJP played a role, which Facebook took Agriculture has been the agricultural trade actually authorities because priority when it comes to reaching the small farmer down after it went viral, but which continued to spread source of strength in these takes place outside APMCs. COVID-19 is a matter of providing marketing and landless labourer? nevertheless on WhatsApp, also a Facebook property. Mark distressing times for the The facilities are abysmal. life and death. We cannot infrastructure. For There should be a Indian economy. Policy In this period, we can do quibble with their priorities. example, even now, private moratorium on announcing Zuckerberg has argued that politicians need to be heard, but he groups have focussed on much to strengthen both the Similarly, economists are has also said that Facebook must draw a line on hate speech. It the theme. IIM-A public first stage agro-processing not good on matters of must do so even-handedly, and irrespective of geography and policy alumni held a infrastructure (supply death they are trained to webinar on the issue at a chains) and the functioning analyse matters of life. I business interests. Last year, just before elections, when it global scale. of markets. was not surprised when my cracked down on fake accounts, it took down over 700 pages The monsoon has been The real bottleneck in the friends, Montek Singh that were found linked to both the Congress and the BJP. As the good. Kharif sowing is at its COVID-19 kind of Ahluwalia and Kaushik peak. Government policies pandemic is the Basu, talked of life after digital technology hailed for giving voice to all turns into an have been supportive. The “lockdown”. Markets are a Covid. The real challenge is echo-chamber in which dangerous voices, amplified by the challenge is to maximise place of trade. Trade and actually the “up to-then power they wield, carry further than others, platforms cannot be the growth impulse and transport are two sides of policies”. We have to seen to be playing favourites, anywhere. Facebook must be seen strengthen it as much as the same coin as any suggest policies for possible so that the regional economist will tell agriculture within the to be agnostic to ideology, and not succumb to the urge to reduce deceleration in the you. Lockdowns block context of the lockdown. business risk in certain locations by shifting the goalpost or economy is compensated to transport. The railways are One possibility is to allow warehouses are starved of schemes till the ones in lowering the bar. If it acts against white supremacists and the greatest extent. Markets not functioning. A lot of trucks for agriculture funds. Generally, migrants operation show progress. In and price support are a agricultural trade uses the transport under special get the short end of the Gujarat, my pain is the militant black organisations in Trump’s America, it must do so focus of policy. MSPs have railway as its mode of conditions. The same can straw. All this undermines waters of the Sardar with the equivalent of such groups in India, too. One of the been announced and market transport. The doodhwallas be designed at the the income potential of Sarovar. Water was problems seems to be that the people responsible for platform access has been and sabzi and fruit bais are government level for the agriculture. It is also feared diverted into the main canal emphasised. This is dependent on regional and railways. that the many generous in 2002, the year Prime integrity also interface with governments and have to nurture important for the Northwest local trains as much as the A great movement has funding and credit schemes Minister Narendra Modi relationships with the establishment. Stung by poll-related region. “regular” passengers in the taken place from the small being announced may face became the chief minister scandals in the US and UK, and by a recent advertisers’ boycott, In the rest of India, Nashik-Mumbai or villages to the big ones and the same bottlenecks as the of Gujarat. In the first week procurement prices are Ahmedabad-Surat-Valsad from there to small towns, ones earlier in covering the of August, around a sixth of Facebook should resolve this obvious conflict of interest, or risk largely irrelevant. India has locals. but we have not supported last mile. Maybe we can do the farmers in one minor losing brand value globally. the largest system of Trucks can be subjected this trend. More than a something in these difficult (canal) did not get their agricultural markets in the to random lockdowns by million farmers have times. share of water. FEATURES Wednesday, 17 March, 2021 5 Greatest challenge for successful rollout of new education policy is teacher training Ameeta Mulla Wattal school curriculum was by transforming stakeholders, schools are preschool, nursery, schools have always transacted. At the grass the policy is actually rolled focused on equipping themselves. Much of the struggling to meet the kindergarten, class one and grappled with the problem roots level, the quality of out. Standalone workshops “If we teach students students for the last century energy that will drive the evolving needs of students two. Learning will take of selecting subjects across education leaves much to be will not suffice. Consistent today, as we taught has been the driving force economy will be generated and their future employers. place through activities and streams. With increased desired. A large number of inter and intra school yesterday, we rob them of behind the changes in the classrooms. It is clear This policy will help the play-way method. In the flexibility across arts and in-service teachers have no training is needed. tomorrow.” These words of reflected in the National that without a skilled change the landscape of preparatory stages of humanities, their choices professional qualifications The CBSE is the John Dewey resonate Policy of Education (NEP). workforce, no community employment opportunities. classes three, four and five, have increased manifold. and are tasked with country’s most progressive across time. For decades, The policy has come at a will prosper and no industry The school curriculum experiential learning will be However, changes at this innumerable administrative board. It can start with pilot the education we received time when schools have to will thrive. Despite the best and pedagogy have been transacted across level will have to dovetail and social responsibilities, programmes to ensure was different from what we adjust to new societal efforts of educationists, reconstructed for the disciplines. In the middle- into decisions and leaving them with little the efficacy of this needed. The realisation that demands and expectations governments and other foundational years — level of classes six to eight, admission processes at the time for hands-on policy. It already has there will be an emphasis on university level, else the teaching, integrated many of subject-oriented pedagogy. NEP will be an exercise in let the concepts In the secondary stages for futility. mentioned in the Containment policy may fail to deter China classes nine to 12, The assessment NEP in its schools WRITING in the Communist Party’s theoretical journal Qiushi last Saturday, Chinese President Xi Jinping rejected innumerable aspects of pattern is a and has been suggestions that China’s Marxist political economy was outdated. He insisted that it gave primacy to markets in the flexibility for subject welcome involved in allocation of resources, but at the same time, enhanced the role of the government. Notwithstanding the important role selection, student choices, change. The writing of the private sector, he declared, “The leading role of the state-owned economy cannot be shaken.” break-out options for shift to manuals and Last week, the influential weekly, The Economist, examined the subject from its liberal point of view arguing that vocational training along customised had that Xi Jinping’s China is reinventing state capitalism and that it would be a mistake to underestimate its endeavour. with a gap year will help in models of conducted As the US-China quarrel escalates, many analysts say China with its mix of authoritarianism, technology and developing various aspects assessment will programmes and dynamism, is too big to stop. There does seem to be a general tendency to underestimate the sheer scale of the Chinese of critical thinking, compel educators launched initiatives on economy, or how it has used IP theft, R&D investments, and STEM education to create important equities in technology problem-solving, and to make competency-based industries. Squeezing Iran or North Korea through sanctions is one thing, but taking on China is quite another. decision making. pedagogical alone education, joyful and The Economist argues that China has been less harmed by the tariff war than was expected, and it has been remarkably The NEP clearly states practices more child- training. There experiential learning, art resistant to the Covid-19 pandemic. It is the only economy in the IMF’s World Economic Outlook update of June 2020 that the importance of centred and policy- are pockets of education, school quality that is likely to have a positive growth rate of 1 per cent in 2020. Everyone else is in negative territory. The US will school curriculum is makers to review excellence and expertise, assessments and a variety of be down -8 per cent, Euro area -10.2, and India -4.5. inextricable from human curricula and make them but they are few and far other innovative This has probably reinforced Xi’s belief that a strong one-party state is better able to handle the challenges of our wellbeing. For the first more skill-based. Such an between. The fundamental pedagogies times. Xi may have stopped liberalisation of the economy and enhanced party control over private firms, but he has time, 21st-century skills approach will allow pedagogical structures of The Board can train also pushed state-owned enterprises to follow market rules, thus strengthening the new hybrid state capitalism. will run like a thread students to make mistakes, how we organise education master instructors, who, in All this come at a time when China is locked in a struggle with the US on a range of issues — from trade, technology through the curriculum and take risks, be creative and have proved to be deeply turn, can train principals and human rights to the origins of the Covid-19 virus. US leaders like Mike Pompeo are leading the charge, blaming be woven across move away from rote resistant to change. This is and teachers. A scalable and the ruling Communist Party of China for a host of ills. Both countries are involved in a cycle of retaliatory actions, disciplines, crafts, practices learning. If we want our one of the reasons that led sustainable model can be pugnacious official statements and sanctions that appear to be intensifying. and teaching strategies. children to participate in to the failure and created. Transformation Providing the two countries do not get into a hot war, the real battle will really play itself out in the arena of Collaborative, innovative, PISA assessments and withdrawal of the will take place only if we technology, and the answer to the question as to whether innovation can flourish in an authoritarian China with its critical thinking, problem- succeed, we have to change continuous comprehensive collaborate and create techno-centric planned system, or the diffused decision-making and open system of democracies. solving, decision-making the way we teach and evaluation (CCE) initiative. communities of teacher Around the world, especially in countries like India, there is concern over Chinese behaviour. Many think it could will be coupled with digital evaluate because the PISA If we want the NEP to training and provide them be a result of some Covid opportunism or to distract attention from the fallout of the pandemic at home. Richard Haass, literacy and information does not test students on succeed, we have to be with real-time feedback on president of the Council on Foreign Relations, says this could well be simply that China has transitioned into a new technology. Social and their memory. It attempts to careful to disrupt their levels of readiness. era and reflects its strengths and ambitions. Trump Administration hawks, wary of a Biden victory in November, now emotional skills will be assess if students can apply established norms. Every The entire education want financial decoupling, meaning denying Chinese banks and companies access to the US dollars for financial embedded in the the knowledge they have stakeholder at the state, system will need to have an settlements. Some even call for seizing the part of the US debt that is held by China. While both the options would curriculum. Empathy, gained. These tests affirm if district, sub-district, and adaptive approach to ensure inflict severe harm on the US and the world economy as well, the Chinese are planning for the worst. They are renewing resilience, conflict countries have effective and block level has to take that our children succeed efforts to internationalise the yuan and their central bank has reported a 36.7 per cent growth of cross-border settlement resolution and relationship inclusive education ownership of the NEP. and find their place under in the currency over the past year. Several proposals are doing the rounds, ranging from pricing some exports in building are skills which systems. Principals have to be the sun, nationally and renminbi, to creating a digital yuan for cross-border transactions. offer the key to success in a The greatest challenge trained in advance. Many of globally.The entire India and the world have to decide just what do they want of China. Do they want regime change, the blocking of rapidly changing world. facing us is teacher training. them even in the urban education system will need the economic and geopolitical rise of China, or merely a halt to its unfair trade and business practices and IP theft? The educational model Teachers need to have an areas do not have the skills to have an adaptive The former would involve an all-out Cold War, while the latter would suggest a coalition of countries to systematically envisaged in NEP will understanding of the required for such changes. approach to ensure that our confront China. Having so far taken on China on its own, it is doubtful whether the US could now get a coalition for refine and re-engineer method in which this It is important to plan the children succeed and find a new containment policy on China, especially its more extreme versions. China is not about to keel over, but could classroom transactions. extremely creative mapping of resources and their place under the sun, actually emerge more resilient by being forced to adjust its economy to US pressure. Students in senior curriculum has to be skillsets of teachers before nationally and globally. Political discourse is coarsened as biggest news Yogi govt must restore law and order barons make their peace with state patronage WITH hardly a day going without a rape case making headlines in India, the sad and shameful saga plays out Derek O’Brien some where you live to traitor, is a turning point. shameful is the role of slime-spewing TV channel. The next question incessantly. This weekend, Uttar Pradesh was rattled by fight another day. A Our news television debates media barons and their The email sent a few allowed me to expand on two separate incidents of violent sexual assault on two Tyagi’s death, in the past television debate or even an are a cruel joke and television platforms. questions on the nature of this point. adolescent girls, followed by the killing of the victim in week, was a shock to all of election is not a “the end”. targeted to What are these media television debates, Spin-off brand’s one case. Two men have been arrested on the charges of us who knew him even There’s always another bring companies and television requesting that a question: Do you think there rape and strangulation to death of a 13-year-old girl in a remotely. Politicians who chapter, there’s always a channels doing? Rather spokesperson, specifically is a need for a change in the village of Lakhimpur Kheri district. The post-mortem appear on television as “next time”. than stand up for good Derek O’Brien, answer. My TV debate discourse and report has ruled out accounts of injuries to the girl’s eyes spokespersons are familiar But this journalism and take answers were sent well in environment? If yes, how? and tongue. In the other instance that pertains to Gorakhpur with each other and have at thinking editorial positions on time for the Sunday My answer: It’s not only district, a teenage girl out on a household errand to collect least a nodding principles or policies, they morning publication. about TV debates, the water from a hand pump was accosted in the fields and acquaintance. Politicians have mortgaged their In the written interview, I political discourse even in raped overnight by two men who also sadistically singed disagree on political channels to the ruling party tried to be as honest as Parliament and on many her body with cigarette butts. The two accused are behind and policy issues and the government. At possible. So one of the other platforms has changed bars. Despite the stringent provisions made in the law to which is why we times, they spin off questions and answers went a lot since two men moved ensure protection for women and children against sexual are in different smaller brands whether like this: into their bungalows in offenders and predators after the atrocious Nirbhaya rape parties but, most channels or newspapers Spin-off brand’s Delhi. No more time for case of 2012, there is no let-up in crime against women. often, there is a or editions to “balance” question: Have lives of tweaks, there needs to be an The latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data healthy mutual and play to another spokespersons really turned overall change. All points to some appalling figures. Compared to 32,559 rape respect. gallery. But the stressful with the high stakeholders have a role to cases registered in 2017, the number went up to 33,356 in After all, each of us mother brand is decibel debates How do you play but the ones who need 2018. Significantly, every fourth victim was a minor in has at some point or the completely in cahoots personally deal with the to stand up and be counted 2018 and in nearly 94 per cent cases, the victims were other defended and tried with the ruling stress How do you unwind? are the owners of these known to the offenders. Uttar Pradesh reported the third to explain a tough out establishment and a ready My answer: Glad that my media networks. They need highest cases, after Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. This situation or been in a the worst and mouthpiece for its most party has a simple way to to reflect. They need to act. is the result of multiple factors. First and foremost, it minority on a television most vituperative extreme views. beat the stress. Just stay How do they sleep at night? reflects the abject failure of our society to bring up our sons panel. emotions in participants. A few days after Rajiv away. Why should political I can call them out, but will to respect women and their agency. Exacerbating the For me, politicians from To some degree, a handful Tyagi’s passing, my party, leaders go to channels that (you) publish the names? Or situation are the poorly conducted investigations and slow another party are political has of ruling party Trinamool Congress, create noise not debate. Or edit this line out! Jain, Purie, justice system. The conviction rate for rape is only 27.2 per rivals, political opponents begun to spokespersons, cum trolls, received an email from a to outlets that are Chandra… and this is cent. As the majority of criminals get away with impunity, not my enemies. If they change. And Rajiv who make shrill Mumbai tabloid, a spin-off shamelessly biased and certainly not a complete list. it is not surprising that law remains a poor deterrent, attack me or the Trinamool Tyagi’s death, after an Aaj objectionable remarks and “liberal” brand published by agenda driven. So we avoid Most anchors are partisan especially for the well-connected and highly placed people. Congress, I don’t take it Tak debate on the statements, are surely the same, chameleonic sending spokespersons to pawns eager to toe the Though the Yogi Adityanath government came to power personally. I try and give it Bengaluru violence in working to a brief outlined media house that runs the such channels. Our motto: editorial lines marked out on the promise of ending jungle raj in UP, women are far back. There are some which he was abused and by the topmost leadership in country’s highest-selling You treat us with respect, we by their media owners, their from the promised land. The victims must get justice. arguments you win and called “Jaichand” and a that party. Even more English newspaper and a will reciprocate. employers. Last hurdle overcome with the release of final batch of 400 Taliban prisoners MK Bhadrakumar In a face-saving formula, post-settlement era, the US total troop withdrawal from Haqqani Zadran. Analysts perspectives on peace. post-war era, etc. ‘militarised’ foreign policy, Ghani called a ‘Loya Jirga’ would still keep its eye on Afghanistan. To quote him, have speculated that the The Taliban’s The Taliban staunchly says: “Democrats are THE expectations are to legitimise his turnaround the ball maintaining ‘We have entered into rotation of senior religious negotiating positions on resist a public committed to a durable and high that the long-awaited on prisoner release. The ‘substantial security agreement (with the scholars and hardened reconciliation, power- denunciation of al-Qaeda inclusive peace settlement intra-Afghan peace talks Taliban feel vindicated. In assistance’; expanding its Taliban). We will go to military commanders in sharing and which compelled the US to in Afghanistan that ensures will commence in Doha remarks to the Voice of development programmes; zero, we’ll get our forces the Taliban’s team aims to scale down expectations to that al-Qaeda isn’t allowed this week. Washington has America, the Taliban remaining committed to out of there. I think it’s May build consensus within the a call to them to prevent the to reconstitute, the Islamic literally frog-marched the spokesman sought investment plans; and of next year.’Subsequently, different wings of the Afghan territory being used State isn’t allowed to grow, Afghan government ‘flexibility’ by both sides, ‘improving regional US Defence Secretary movement, and to stage terrorist attacks on and the international headed by Ashraf Ghani to saying, ‘This conflict economic ties and Mark Esper disclosed that enhances the the US and its allies, and community can help the peace talks, cannot be solved connectivity,’ especially US troops will be reduced draw ‘red lines’ to that Afghans safeguard hard- overcoming its delaying unilaterally. If they want a through joint infrastructure to ‘a number less than effect. The UN has fought gains, especially for tactics. The US-Taliban solution, then we too are projects funded by the aid 5,000’ by November-end. highlighted the presence of women and girls.” pact, signed in Doha in looking for same, and God agencies. President Trump has terrorist groups on Afghan Hopefully, beyond the February, had chalked out willing, we will hopefully The US estimates that the a deal here: the intra- soil, but the Taliban November election cycle, that the talks would find a solution.’ forthcoming intra-Afghan Afghan talks dovetail regard them as Muslim the US will keep its eyes on commence on March 10 The US too has injected talks will be productive. with his re-election dissidents forced into the ball, given the Taliban’s and the amazing salience is an air of optimism. A Such optimism stems also campaign for November. exile. The choice for opaque negotiating style. that the pact hasn’t lost statement by Secretary of from the broadening That, in turn, becomes the the international The Taliban and Pakistan traction. State Mike Pompeo on political consensus in surest guarantee of community is to accept the would probably trade Hopefully, beyond the August 6, anticipating the Kabul lately towards the progress at Doha. Trump is Taliban’s word and suspend compromises to extract November election cycle, outcome of the Loya Jirga, Doha talks. Atriumvirate of the winner in the near term. disbelief. Clearly, the intra- their highest priorities. A the US will keep its eyes on noted that ‘The Taliban Ghani, former president Reports indicated a governance Afghan dialogue has a pattern was discernible at the ball, given the Taliban’s have also committed to Hamid Karzai and former major recasting of the remain ambiguous. formidable task ahead to the Doha negotiations. opaque negotiating style. significantly reduce chief executive officer Taliban negotiating team. Several complex issues are prepare a road map for the Therefore, Pakistan’s role Pakistan’s role has become violence and casualties Abdullah is driving the The 20-member team now involved here such as transition from armed becomes crucial. India has crucial. India has done the during the talks where the peace process on the has 13 figures drawn from authority of constitutional reforms and insurgency to ‘Islamic done the right thing by right thing by moving into parties will decide on a Afghan government side. It the Taliban’s leadership the political office political system; the governance’. The US hopes moving into the shade. The the shade. political map to end the… projects a level of unity and council. The new in Doha to speak for the Taliban’s concept of to lean on Pakistan to India-Pakistan tensions The last hurdle to the war and agree on a statesmanship unthinkable inductees include key entire organisation. ‘inclusive’ government; navigate the way forward. need not cast a shadow on talks was overcome when permanent and until very recently. figures such as Mullah Equally, it could be aimed the restructuring of Afghan But the US election in the Afghan peace process. the US arm-twisted Ghani comprehensive ceasefire. On July 30, in an Yaqoob (eldest son of at strengthening Pakistan’s security forces and November introduces new The two evergreen to release the final batch of The United States intends appearance before the US Taliban founder Mullah capacity to leverage the integration of Taliban uncertainties. The 2020 adversaries should agree around 400 Taliban to hold the Taliban to these Senate Foreign Relations Omar), Sheikh peace process. But one fighters; rights of women Democratic Platform that regional peace and prisoners who had been commitments.’ Committee, Pompeo Mohammad Qasim crucial part still remains and minorities; the which turns its back on the stability can be in their indicted for violent crimes. Pompeo added that in a divulged a timeline for the Turkman and Anas nebulous the Taliban’s Taliban’s ambitions for a US’ ‘forever wars’ and mutual interest. Wednesday, 17 March, 2021 NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL 6 China approves another COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use Kim Jong Un’s sister slams the US and South Korea North Korean leader Kim tration of trying hard to be at the top of Blinken and Taipei: China has China’s CDC, led the devel- Monday. The vaccine was approved recognise the spike protein Jong Un’s influential sister spread the smell of gunpow- Austin’s agenda. approved a new COVID-19 opment of a protein subunit It is the fifth coronavirus for use in Uzbekistan on that covers the surface of the lambasted the United States der on our land from across On Monday, Press vaccine for emergency use, vaccine that was approved vaccine approved in China March 1. cLike other vac- coronavirus vaccine, and South Korea, state the ocean.” Secretary Jen Psaki said the one that was developed by by regulators last week for and the fourth to be given cines China has developed although the difference lies media reported on Tuesday, “If it wants to sleep in White House had made the head of its Centre for emergency use, the Chinese emergency use approval. so far, it can be stored at nor- in how it tells the body to in a broadside aimed at peace for coming four efforts to communicate with Three of those given emer- mal refrigeration tempera- recognise the protein. coinciding with the arrival years, it had better refrain the North Korean govern- gency approval have since tures. There is no publicly Scientists grow a harmless from causing a stink at its ment but that the United been approved for general available information in version of the protein in cells first step,” the KCNYA States’ overtures had yet to use. All were developed by peer-reviewed scientific and then purify it, before it is reported her as saying in a yield a response. Chinese companies. journals about the clinical assembled into a vaccine and statement. The statement Kim Yo Jong lashed out at The latest vaccine was trial data showing efficacy or injected. comes a day before US Washington as top US developed jointly by Anhui safety. A spokesperson for China has been slow in Secretary of State Antony diplomatic and military rep- Zhifei Longcom the company said that the vaccinating its population of Blinken and Defense resentatives are set to visit Biopharmaceutical Co Ltd data could not be shared at 1.4 billion people, despite Secretary Lloyd Austin are Seoul. In this April 27, and the Chinese Academy of this time but that the compa- having four vaccines due to arrive in Seoul for 2018, file photo, North Sciences. The team finished ny was providing the infor- approved for general use. of top US officials in Seoul. their first talks with South Korean leader Kim Jong Un phase 1 and phase 2 clinical mation to health authorities. The latest numbers, accord- With the US and South Korean counterparts. The signs a guestbook next to trials in October and is cur- The protein subunit vac- ing to government officials Korea starting joint military pair will also visit Tokyo as his sister Kim Yo Jong, rently conducting the last cine is similar to many of the at a press briefing Monday in drills near the North Korean part of their four-day trip. right, inside the Peace Disease Control, adding a Academy of Sciences’ phase of trials in Uzbekistan, other vaccines that have Beijing, is that it has admin- border last week, Kim Yo The timing of Kim’s com- House at the border village fifth shot to its arsenal. Institute of Microbiology Pakistan and Indonesia, been approved globally in istered 64.98 million doses Jong said she was aiming to ments seems designed to of Panmunjom in Gao Fu, the head of said in a statement on according to the statement. that it trains the body to of vaccines. “warn the new US adminis- ensure that North Korea will Demilitarized Zone. Israeli experts discover 2,000- Vaccine rollout unaffected by concerns over AstraZeneca The UN health agency said made in Europe. cases of blood clots that shipments in late February through COVAX, which is its global rollout of coron- “We understand these are occurred after vaccination. and has plans to ship more led by the WHO; Gavi, a vac- year-old Dead Sea scrolls avirus vaccines remains precautionary measures,” Others include Thailand and than 200 million doses by the cine group; and the Coalition unaffected even as a growing WHO assistant director-gen- Congo. “This does not neces- end of May” nearly all of for Epidemic Preparedness Israeli archaeologists on Israel Antiquities Authority. of a biblical scroll,” the number of countries, espe- eral Mariangela Simao said. sarily mean these events are Tuesday said dozens of new The lines of Greek text on Israel Antiquities Authority cially in Europe, suspended “I would like to say this to linked to vaccination,” WHO Dead Sea Scroll fragments the fragments come from the (IAA) said in a statement. use of AstraZeneca’s vaccine countries from other regions Director-General Tedros bearing a biblical text and biblical books of Zechariah The fragments also on Monday amid concerns that are not Europe: That the Adhanom Ghebreyesus told hidden nearly 1,900 years and Nahum. include passages written in about blood clots in some vaccines (at issue) so far are a news conference. “But it is ago have been discovered in The fragments are Greek from the Book of the people who received it. from European manufactur- routine practice to investigate a desert cave. believed to have been hid- Twelve Minor Prophets, The World Health ing not vaccines that are pro- them and it shows that the The parchment fragments den during the Bar Kochba which is part of the Hebrew Organization says the vided through the COVAX surveillance system works are the first new scrolls Revolt, an armed uprising Bible. AstraZeneca vaccines for its facility.” Germany, France, and that effective controls are found in archaeological against Rome during the One fragment, from the COVAX programme, which Italy and Spain joined the in place.” excavations south of the city reign of Emperor Hadrian, book of Zechariah, reads: is shipping vaccines mostly growing list of mostly While the AstraZeneca of Jerusalem in the last 60 between 132 and 136 AD. “These are the things you to low- and middle-income European countries “starting product is just one of several years. “For the first time in are to do: Speak the truth to countries, are being produced with Denmark last week ” vaccines being deployed in them versions of the Oxford- Innovations. Another 90 The artifacts have been approximately 60 years, one another, render true and in India and South Korea that temporarily halted use of Europe, the vaccine has a AstraZeneca vaccine. countries and eight territories radiocarbon dated to the 2nd archaeological excavations perfect justice in your and the suspensions have the AstraZeneca vaccine in huge role so far in COVAX. A total of 92 countries are have agreed to pay for doses century AD, according to the have uncovered fragments gates.” been ordered over batches recent days to investigate The programme began to receive vaccines for free through the programme. Syria: US warns world powers to keep pressuring Assad Hong Kong’s tough COVID-19 rules see babies Syria is set to hold a presi- Resolution 2254 on Syria. don the Syrian people,” a mat is needed to bring “is among the most deeply isolated, families cramped in tiny spaces dential election this year, but That 2015 documents says statement from the five gov- together key nations with an internationalized conflicts of Washington urged world such elections must be super- ernments said. influence on the conflict, a generation, with many of Families in Asia’s finan- “It’s crazy,” said one Hong Kong’s government powers not to “be fooled” by vised by the UN or conduct- “Our nations commit to cial hub of Hong Kong are mother, who said she had to told Reuters late on Monday the upcoming vote. ed under a new constitution. reinvigorating the pursuit of suffering isolation and trau- abruptly stop breastfeeding that for COVID-19 cases “These elections will nei- The US called the meeting a peaceful solution which ma after strict coronavirus following separation from involving children, the pub- ther be free nor fair. They on Syria on March 15 protects the rights and future rules have led to babies her seven-month-old son lic hospital will, “under spe- will not legitimize the Assad because it coincided with the prosperity of all Syrians.” being separated from par- last week after she was cial circumstances, decide regime,” US envoy Linda anniversary of the beginning Russia’s UN envoy Vassily ents and those with new- diagnosed with COVID-19. whether or not their parents Thomas-Greenfield told the of the conflict in 2011. Nebenzia said the March borns herded into tiny quar- “I got fever last night can stay with the children in Security Council on Monday. Washington’s major 2011 unrest had been stirred antine quarters for up to 14 because I have gone from hospital”. Her comments come on the European allies also vowed up “by outside forces.” days. breastfeeding to 100% Family members living 10th anniversary of the con- solidarity with the Syrian “Their aim was to over- Hong Kong authorities pumping,” said the woman, with the case will be treated flict which started as street people following years of throw the legitimate Syrian have ordered that anyone who asked not to be identi- as close contacts and admit- protests against President “abuses, mass atrocities and authorities and reformat the testing positive for the virus fied. “So instead of dealing ted to a quarantine centre. Bashar al-Assad. grave violations of interna- country in their hands,” he must go to hospital, includ- with COVID, I’m dealing Subject to case-by-case Thomas-Greenfield also tional law.” said. ing babies, while all their with blocked sore breasts.” assessment, caretakers said the elections, which are “We, the foreign ministers UN envoy seeks new way including the United States, the issues that matter most to close contacts, even those The separation of families might be arranged by the scheduled to be held in the of France, Germany, Italy, to find peace Russia, Iran, Turkey, Arab the Syrians not even in who test negative, are sent over the virus is not com- family to accompany those summer, would not meet the the United Kingdom and the The UN special envoy for states and the EU. Syrian hands.” to makeshift quarantine mon in other developed with special needs, such as criteria laid out in the UN’s United States, will not aban- Syria said Monday a new for- Geir Pedersen said Syria camps. cities, say legal experts. infants, it said. India-sponsored computer centre at Phoenix Suicide car Trump has elevated ties with India in ways not seen bombing in north under any other US president: White House official Settlement in S Africa cleared out in robbery Afghanistan Johannesburg: South published the Indian Opinion Over weekends and school causes casualties Washington: US rebuilding the global econo- India and solidified our Modi elevated the relation- African students who relied newspaper from there. holidays, the centre provided President Donald Trump has my following COVID-19, growing partnership in ways ship to a Comprehensive on the computer training pro- The six armed suspects special computer literacy Kabul: A suicide car elevated America’s ties with diversifying global supply not seen in any other US Global Strategic Partnership. vided at low or no cost at the handcuffed a security guard classes to school children bomber struck on Monday in India and solidified the grow- chains, and ensuring the administration,” the official Prime Minister Modi was India-sponsored Mahatma before making off in the van gratis. northern Afghanistan’s ing partnership between the Indo-Pacific region remains said, noting that the president also one of the first foreign Gandhi Institute of Computer that they had arrived in with “It is sad for both the com- province of Samangan, set- two countries in ways not leaders to visit the White Education and Information 29 computers, including the munity benefitting from this ting off a large explosion fol- seen in any previous admin- House after President Trump Technology at the Phoenix 20 sponsored by the Indian service as well as for us who lowed by a gun battle istrations, the White House took office on June 26, Settlement near Durban have government. spent over half a million rand between other attackers and has said. 2017,” the official said. been left destitute after the “Thankfully nobody was donated by the Government Afghan forces, officials said. The US president will con- The senior official noted centre was cleaned out in a hurt, but it was the first rob- of India to build this facility. The officials said there tinue to build this critical the two leaders have also robbery recently. bery ever at the institute,” Sadly, the computers would were casualties but they partnership in the years to spoken side-by-side at two The centre was officially said Kidar Ramgobin, a serve little purpose to those could not provide the num- come, it asserted. major events ? “Howdy, opened in October 2017 by trustee of the Phoenix who have taken them away ber of fatalities as the fight- “President Trump has pri- Modi” in September 2019 in then Minister of State for Settlement Trust and a great- but through their vandalism, ing was still underway. A oritised US-India relation- Houston, Texas, before a External Affairs Gen (rtd) V grandson of the Mahatma. they have now deprived the provincial hospital chief, ship and worked to expand crowd of over 55,000 and K Singh, but had already “This centre provided com- community of an important Abdul Khalil Musadiq, said all facets of the partnership again at “Namaste, Trump” started operations five puter education to the com- facility,” Ramgobin said, at least 43 wounded mostly over the last three-and-a-half in February 2020 in months earlier, providing munity of Bhambhayi. adding that more than 4,000 civilians and including chil- years,” a senior administra- free and open, President has enabled India to become Ahmedabad, Gujarat, to basic computer literacy train- Students from distances also students had acquired certifi- dren were taken to hospitals tion official from the Trump will continue to build the first non-treaty ally to be address a crowd of 110,000 ing to members of the impov- travelled to this institute to cates of completion, with in the area. National Security Council of this critical partnership in the offered an armed MQ-9 people. “These gatherings erished community surround- study because of its afford- many having secured jobs Mohammad Hashim the White House told PTI on years to come,” the official Unmanned Aerial System. boosted our people-to-people ing the settlement. ability and easier access after that. Sarwari, deputy chief for the Monday. said. “During President ties and highlighted the warm The Phoenix Settlement rules, satisfying the needs of “Many of the students are provincial council, said the “Given the two countries’ “The Trump Trump’s historic visit to India personal relationship was started in 1904 by then people who have never from disadvantaged back- bomber targeted the provin- democratic foundations and Administration has elevated February 24-26, he and between the two leaders,” the young lawyer Mohandas touched a computer,” he grounds and have not had cial intelligence service their mutual interests in the US relationship with Prime Minister Narendra official said. Karamchand Gandhi. He also added. access to computers. department. No longer cowed, Belarus has message Indian held for Virus clusters erupt at US universities as semester begins crossing illegally Washington: From the to fight this off.” OSU has a A faculty committee that The University of Notre for once-mighty dictator: ‘Go away!’ into US on foot dorms at North Carolina to combination of in-person advises the administration Dame reported 58 confirmed the halls of Notre Dame, offi- and online courses, and stu- was scheduled to meet cases since students returned In an age of ascendant fraud-tainted election, few voice with a simple, insistent from Canada cials at universities around dents, staff and faculty are Monday to discuss the situa- to the South Bend, Indiana, strongman leaders, President leaders appeared stronger demand: The dictator must the US scrambled on required to wear masks tion. The head of the panel campus in early August. At Alexander Lukashenko of and more secure than go. US Border Patrol agents Monday to deal with new indoors and outdoors where warned that the school may least two off-campus parties Belarus is suddenly looking Lukashenko, a former state “At the moment, the only have apprehended an COVID-19 clusters at the social distancing isn’t possi- have to rethink its decision to over a week ago have been surprisingly weak. farm director who has ruled issue that matters to us is the Indian national who start of the fall semester, ble. Outbreaks earlier this hold classes on campus. “We identified as sources, school As protests against his rule Belarus for 26 years, backed president,” said Sergei crossed into the United some of them linked to off- summer at fraternities in knew there would be positive officials said. have grown and intensified by an expansive, brutal and Drilevsky, the leader of a States from Canada on foot campus parties and packed Washington state, California cases on our campus. But At the University of over the last week, the man unwaveringly loyal security strike committee at the over the weekend. The per- clubs. At Oklahoma State in and Mississippi provided a clusters, five or more people Tennessee at Chattanooga, known as “Europe’s last dic- apparatus. Minsk Tractor Works. Calls son, whose name was not Stillwater, where a widely glimpse of the challenges that are connected in one where some in-person class- tator” turned in desperation Now, in scenes recalling for a new election, the release released by the federal circulated video over the school officials face in keep- place, are a different story,” es began Monday, school and Monday to the once reliably the popular uprising that of protesters detained last agents, has now been weekend showed maskless ing the virus from spreading Mimi Chapman wrote to the county health officials loyal workers at a tractor fac- came out of nowhere to top- week and other demands all removed from the country, students packed into a night- on campuses where young university system’s board of announced over the weekend tory. But instead of being ple Romania’s seemingly flow from the need to a media release said on club, officials confirmed 23 people eat, live, study “and governors. that they are trying to identi- showered with their support, invincible dictator Nicolae address “the dictator’s Monday. According to US coronavirus cases at an off- party” in close quarters. “The presence of clusters fy people who may been he was shouted down with Ceausescu in 1989, the attempts to stay in power,” he Border Police, its agents at campus sorority house. The virus has been blamed should be triggering recon- exposed to COVID-19 earli- chants of “Go away! Go Belarus capital of Minsk, said. Sweetgrass Station in The university placed the for over 170,000 deaths and sideration of residential, in- er this month from members away!” long known for its cowed Belarus president coron- Montana on Saturday students living there in isola- 5.4 million confirmed infec- person learning.” of a fraternity and a sorority. Until he claimed a land- calm and order, has shed avirus, Alexander encountered a person tion and prohibited them tions in the U.S. A cluster of slide victory on Aug. 9 in a decades of fear and raised its Lukashenko, Alexander matching the description of from leaving. COVID-19 cases in a dorm Lukashenko coronavirus, an individual spotted by a “As a student, I’m frustrat- was announced Sunday by coronavirus news, coron- citizen illegally crossing the ed as hell,” said Ryan the University of North avirus latest update, indian border on foot from Coutts Novozinsky, a junior from Carolina at Chapel Hill. express Belarusian President in Alberta province of Allentown, New Jersey, and The disclosure marked the Alexander Lukashenko Canada. The agents ques- editor of the student newspa- fourth such outbreak since writes review as he his visits tioned the man and learned per. the semester began Aug. 10 the military base in the town that he was a citizen of “These are people I have at the state’s flagship public of Maryina Gorka, 60 kilo- India. The man admitted to interact with.” And, he university campus. The three meters (37 miles) southeast that he had intentionally added, “there will be profes- others were at a dorm, pri- of Minsk, Belarus, Friday, entered the US from sors they interact with, start- vate student housing and a July 24, 2020. Canada by walking around . ing today, that won’t be able fraternity house. Wednesday, 17 March, 2021 SPORTS/BUSINESS 7 For Sindhu, what will count is not who’s missing Manoj Tiwary set to carry ‘angry young man’ persona on political pitch from the draw at Birmingham - Marin, Tai Tzu Manoj Tiwary refers to call from Didi, there were presence of a national The stars have aligned women’s singles have The Spaniard still inflicted Zhongshan, surrounded by Sindhu, depending on himself in third person no two thoughts about it. selector in the dressing for PV Sindhu to win the consciously skipped a 35-minute thrashing on teddy bears big and small, where her game is these days, he also calls After all, agni kanya room, and an angry Twitter coveted All England title. Birmingham, perhaps for Sindhu in the final, but nibbling on miniature currently. Mamata Banerjee Mamata Banerjee amake post on being sidelined by Some of them did so by the first time in their given that she has the All desserts and big fruit of The Japanese turned “Banglar agni kanya” – his franchise, the one-time England title from 2015 Taipei – rejuvenating after back to go home from the Bengal’s firebrand lady. Bengal Ranji captain isn’t (beating Saina Nehwal), winning the World Tour airport when headed for The former India cricketer, known to let emotions Marin won’t sweat over the Finals. She’s received her Thailand in January, after the son of a Class IV bottle inside him. miss in an Olympic year. new racquet frames Momota tested positive for Eastern Railways Of late, he has been Chen Yufei and He recently, minus the strings. the virus. And Okuhara had employee who grew up in critical of the central Bingjiao are coming off And she tried fitting her posted her wish to return a single-room, tinned roof government and was their winter training base head through the empty soon to the courts. But the hut in Howrah, is learning among the rare cricketers in remote Lingshui. In the frame for a lark recently. All England isn’t an empty the ropes of politics – his to support former Test tropical shade of Niuling Three All England titles in box to tick, given she’s second big leap in life. call korechilen (had called opener Wasim Jaffer when mountains, China’s pre- 2017, ’18 and ’20 afford won it already. A stoic, Named Trinamool me),” he tells The Indian he faced allegations of season paradise is back of her the luxury. well-prepared Okuhara is Congress (TMC) candidate Express. communalising cricket as beyond; though it does The Japanese not the best options to run from Shibpur in Howrah Called domestic Uttarakhand head coach. boast a fancy resort named contingent, with the into in any circumstances, for the forthcoming Bengal cricket’s angry young man, “Manoj Tiwary will Badminton Hotel. The highly-anticipated return though their last World title assembly polls, the Tiwary has had a history of continue to call a spade a Chinese National Games in of defending champion final gives Sindhu the cricketer-turned-politician run-ins with rival players, spade. When everybody is staying at home. careers. April are Chen’s priority – Kento Momota, will be in edge. says he had received an umpires, Indian Premier deserting Didi, those who With the tournament Carolina Marin tore her not the All England she Birmingham. Nozomi The Koreans have offer to contest the 2019 League franchise owners were in the party for so having no bearing on calf muscle in Basel, and it won in 2019. Okuhara, who also won in chosen to stay away citing Lok Sabha elections, but and administrators. An on- long and now are running Olympic qualification, can take six weeks to Tai Tzu-Ying is on her 2016, could potentially virus risks, keeping back things didn’t work out. field spat with Gautam away, I didn’t want to take four of the top names in completely patch back. own hotel-staycation in fetch up in the finals for An Sae Young. “This time after I got the Gambhir, questioning the it lying down. Sarita Devi tests positive for Covid-19, Sreeshankar breaches With a stellar debut, the opener lives up to the takes inspiration from Dingko’s recovery Olympic qualification mark, Boxer Laishram Sarita Asian medallist. She was faith shown in him by his and coach’s families Devi, an Asian Games and included in the Athletes’ Commonwealth Games Commission of the sets new national record Two families in different recalled the moment the Dhoni. had to take the most medallist, has tested International Boxing parts of India went through coach told him, “don’t ever At the age of 7, though he important decision of their Sreeshankar broke his own long jump national record positive for Covid-19 at her Association last year. She and qualified for the Tokyo Olympics with a 8.26-metre emotional rollercoaster let your child stop playing didn’t get a game, Kishan life. “He was just a boy and hometown Imphal, and her husband have been rides when Ishan Kishan cricket, he will be big one was the youngest player to his coach and everyone said Manipur, on Monday. The shifted to the government- leap at the Federation Cup Senior National Athletics walked in to bat at the day”. be selected for the All India that if he has to play higher 38-year-old and her run Covid-19 care centre at Championships on Tuesday. biggest cricket stadium in “He (Majumdar) said School Games held in cricket, he should migrate to husband Ch. Thoiba Singh UNACCO School in West The qualifying mark for the Olympics was 8.22m. the world against England. ‘kuch bhi karna, aapke ladke Jammu. At 11, he led the Ranchi. His mother was took a test at the Imphal district. They will Sreeshankar’s previous best had been 8.20m. In Patna, Ishan’s father ka cricket band mat karna’. Patna under-16 team in the upset but after a lot of Community Health Centre, be at the centre for a National record holder Dutee Chand was beaten to Pranav Kumar Pandey We had gone there for my Wangoi, Imphal. Devi was fortnight. second place by S Dhanalakshmi, while Hima Das was tensed up. elder son’s selection but running a temperature and In June, when 1988 disqualified after a false start in a much-anticipated In Noida, Ishan’s coach Ishan impressed him the had a cold for three days. women’s 100m sprint final. The 22-year-old Uttam Majumdar most,” the father explained “I was suffering from Dhanalakshmi of Tamil Nadu took the gold by clocking flashbacked to the days over the phone from Patna. fever apart from soreness 11.39 seconds ahead of Dutee (11.58) of Odisha to when the tiny boy would Majumdar says there was in body, along with light become the fastest woman of the championships on the walk to his batting nets. some “spark” in the young cold since the last three second day of competitions at the NIS Campus. Majumdar, who had lost his Kishan, the way he walked days. Ten days ago, I had Another Tamil Nadu runner Archana Suseendran was father to cancer on March 4, and the attitude too set him gone to my brother’s home. third in 11.76. This was after Hima, who was running couldn’t control his apart from other kids of His wife had given birth to in the shorter sprint races of 100m and 200m instead emotions when Kishan similar age. a baby and I was helping of her per event 400m, was disqualified after a false dedicated the half-century Post every net session, the my brother’s family. After Asian Games champion start. to his deceased father. On coach would make Kishan we returned home, after boxer Dingko Singh had The much-anticipated final did not live up to the debut, Kishan struck a face 300 throw-downs same tournament. discussions, we decided to two-three days, I had tested positive for Covid- expectations as Hima was shown the red card, while brilliant 56 which enabled followed by 250 front-foot Majumdar says it was his send him to the symptoms. At first, I 19, Devi had helped Singh Dutee and Dhanalakshmi did not come anywhere near India to chase down 165 in and 250 back-foot shadow never-quit attitude that set neighbouring state. There thought it was muscle and his wife Babai Devi by the Olympic qualification mark of 11.15 seconds. the second T20 game. practice strokes. “He had to Kishan apart. “Many times was some fear in the mind, cramps but then we decided making arrangements for Gurindervir Singh of Punjab won the men’s 100m “He was very close to my play all shots — pull, cut, while playing the pull, he but Ishan was stubborn to go to get tested. We gave our his travel to Delhi. She was final in 10.32 seconds, while Elakkiyadasan Kannada father. He was with me from drive, every shot. My main would get hit but would to Ranchi,” the father said. samples yesterday and the also in touch with the of Tamil Nadu (10.43) and Maharashtra’s Satish the age of five-six. He is part aim was to make him a good never cry; he would sip Kishan was picked for the results came positive for family once they returned Krishnakumar (10.56) were second and third of my family. I had casually back-foot player. If Ishan some water and start again. SAIL (Steel Authority of me and my husband. My to Imphal. respectively. National record holder Amiya Kumar told him before the game had to succeed at the top, he It was those sessions which India Ltd.) team in the eight-year-old son Tomthil, Dingko is one of the first Mallick of Odisha finished seventh with a time of that if you score fifty, it will has to be good playing on are helping him now, look at district cricket tournament my cousin sister and her people Devi spoke to after 10.75. be a tribute to my father and the back-foot. There were the way he pulls to even the in Ranchi. SAIL gave him daughter have tested she tested positive. Veteran M R Poovamma, representing Karnataka, he did it,” Majumdar said. days when 100 odd people fastest bowlers in the one-room quarters which negative,” Devi told The “Dingko sir recovered took the gold in women’s 400m, winning the final race It was in 2005 that used to turn up at the ground world.” Kishan’s cricketing was shared by four other Indian Express from from Covid-19 while in 53.57 seconds. Tamil Nadu’s Subha Venkatesan Majumdar had first seen to see Ishan’s batting,” said career wouldn’t have seniors. Since Kishan didn’t Imphal. battling cancer. He talked (54.48) and Kiran Pahal of Haryana took the silver and Kishan who had come with Majumdar, who had played perhaps leapfrogged had he know cooking, his task was Devi is a three-time to me and assured me that bronze respectively. his elder brother Rajkishan. for Bihar under 22 and also remained in Patna. When to clean the dishes and store world championship everything will be fine,” Sreeshankar's 8.26-metre leap - a new long jump Kishan’s father Pandey with Mahendra Singh Kishan was 12, the family water. medallist and five-time Devi said. national record - lit up the day at the Federation Cup. Aviation Ministry to present proposal on ‘further Sensex rises over 200 points in early trade, Nifty tops 11,300 airport privatisation’ to Cabinet on Wed: Puri Domestic equity The BSE Sensex was by Reliance Industries, heavyweights led good intact after a 21-day benchmark Sensex jumped trading 210.93 points or ICICI Bank, M&M, benchmarks higher amid nationwide was lockdown The Ministry of Civil Thiruvananthapuram and airports lined up, dozens of over 200 points in early 0.55 per cent higher at Infosys, Titan, Bajaj sustained foreign fund announced by Prime Aviation will place a Guwahati were cleared for them, and the 100 new trade on Tuesday tracking 38,261.71; while NSE Nifty Finance and Bajaj Finserv. inflow. Minister. proposal for “further” operation, management airports we will build privatisation of airports and development through between now and 2030.” gains in index- was up 65.30 points or 0.58 On the other hand, Tata Largely positive cues All regulators are also before the Union Cabinet public-private partnership The AAI, which works heavyweights Reliance per cent at 11,312.40. Steel, PowerGrid, IndusInd from global markets too watching the situation on Wednesday, Minister (PPP) model in February under the Ministry of Civil Industries, ICICI Bank and ONGC was the top gainer Bank, Axis Bank and SBI supported domestic indices, closely and acting 2019. Subsequently, the Aviation, owns and Infosys amid sustained in the Sensex pack, rising were among the laggards. they said. accordingly, to ensure Airports Authority of India manages more than 100 foreign fund inflow. around 2 per cent, followed In the previous session, Bourses in Shanghai and financial soundness and (AAI) had in September airports across the country. the Sensex had settled Hong Kong were trading on smooth functioning of the 2019 recommended the In 2018, the government 173.44 points or 0.46 per a positive note, while Tokyo stock exchanges. Civil Aviation Ministry to decided to privatise the cent higher at 38,050.78, and Seoul were in the red. Now all eyes are on the privatise airports in airports in Lucknow, while the Nifty ended 68.70 Stock exchanges on Wall forthcoming economic Amritsar, Varanasi, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, points or 0.61 per cent up at Street ended with gains in package. Bhubaneswar, Indore, Mangaluru, 11,247.10. overnight session. Nirmala Sitharaman Hardeep Singh Puri said on Raipur and Trichy. Thiruvananthapuram, and Exchange data showed Global oil benchmark today announced Prime Tuesday. Puri said during a Guwahati. Adani that foreign institutional Brent crude was trading Minister Gareeb Kalyan In the first round of webinar on Tuesday: “We Enterprises had won the investors bought equities 0.37 per cent lower at USD Scheme of Rs 1.70 lakh privatisation under the are going to the Cabinet rights to run these six worth Rs 332.90 crore on a 45.20 per barrel. crore, which will take care Narendra Modi tomorrow for further airports after a competitive net basis on Monday. The government has been of the poor. The Scheme dispensation, the airports airport privatisation. We bidding process in According to traders, working hard to keep the will include cash transfers in Lucknow, Ahmedabad, have got many more February 2019. buying in index- supply chain of essential to the poor and migrants. Jaipur, Mangaluru, Asia shares sluggish after Wall Street’s tech-inspired rally Asian stocks inched up rally, while the dollar 0.52%, while most markets record high close on chairman at Great Hill some time. on Tuesday as Sino-US dropped against almost all traded in a narrow band Monday and the S&P 500 Capital said of the US rally. Bitcoin hovered near the tensions weighed on major currencies. with Chinese blue chips approached its own record The US dollar softened 13 month high it hit on optimism generated by The Trump dropping 0.25%. The level, with both indexes against most currencies Monday. Wall Street’s tech-driven administration announced after disappointing On the commodities on Monday it would further manufacturing and front, oil prices edged RNI No. : tighten restrictions on mortgage data, lower on Tuesday, but still UPENG/2008/44159. For China’s Huawei Commonwealth Bank of mostly held onto overnight Technologies Co, aimed at Australia analyst Joseph gains after OPEC+ said the Moral Vision Prakashan cracking down on its access Capurso wrote in a note. producer grouping was Pvt. Ltd. Printed & to commercially available But moves were small almost fully complying chips. ahead of Wednesday’s with output cuts. Published By Shyam MSCI’s broadest index release of the Federal Brent crude was down 6 Bihari Gupta from 529 of Asia-Pacific shares Reserve minutes, with cents, or 0.1%, at $45.31 a outside Japan gained Australian benchmark lifted by technology stocks. speculation that the Fed barrel, after gaining 1.3% D/2/718, Kalyanpur 0.19%, to sit not far short of index rose 0.12%. “We saw some strength will adopt an average on Monday. US crude was Pashchim Near Ram its pre-pandemic late E-Mini futures for the in tech again with inflation target, which down 0.2%, at $42.81 a January high. S&P 500 were flat. semiconductors driving the would seek to push barrel, having risen 2.1% in Dhram Kanta Ring Japan’s Nikkei dipped The Nasdaq surged to a boat,” Thomas Hayes, inflation above 2% for the previous session. Road, Lucknow, Printed at The Indian Express What a 38-year-old turmeric scandal says about business in India Pvt. Ltd, C-26 Amausi Prime Minister Narendra alleged turmeric forger, who tiered judicial system. efficiency the south Asian Legal and compliance Industrial Area Modi is eager to convince was arrested in 1982 and, Among cases in 25 state nation lands in the bottom 15 expenses of companies Nadarganj, Lucknow. global companies and eventually, sentenced to a high courts, roughly per cent, worse than listed in India increased to investors that India is a month in jail and a 500 rupee 173,000 have been pending Pakistan, Syria and Senegal. just over $3 billion in the Editor- Shyam Bihari business-friendly alternative ($6.70) fine. After a decade, for more than 20 years, and “It’s pretty incredible,” fiscal year ending March Gupta. to China. A top court ruling the top court reversed his roughly half of those for said Vishnu Varathan, head 2018, up 57 per cent in five this summer told another conviction; the two lower more than 30, government of economics and strategy at years, according to national Ph. 0522-2750084, story, highlighting the courts took around 14 years data showed. Mizuho Bank in Singapore. business daily Mint. Judicial 9839056553. Email: infamous judicial delays that each to render verdicts. The World Bank ranks “The complexity, the delays have also tied up threaten to stymie The lifespan of the India in the top one-third of unnecessary delays it shows some of the country’s [email protected]. businesses and scuttled turmeric case is extreme but countries for overall ease- how India lags countries like biggest corporations and All disputes are subject deals. not unique among the nearly of-doing-business, but when China in their judicial would-be massive deals: The Supreme Court ended 40 million cases pending it comes to enforcing system and just how much IHH Healthcare Bhd’s to Lucknow Jurisdiction. the 38-year saga of an across the country’s three- contracts a measure of legal further they have to go.” attempt to take over hospital ENTERTAINMENT/LIFESTYLE Wednesday, 17 March, 2021 8 Aamir Khan meets First Lady of Turkey The one and only Superstar Abhishek Bachchan reveals First Lady of Turkey to wrap up the shooting of Emine Erdogan congratulat- his latest movie Laal Singh For those of us who grew up in 45 years ago today. He had the number 10 jersey in cricket, ed Aamir Khan for address- Chaddha in different parts of the 90s, we didn’t discover played a minor role in the film which was retired with Sachin first look of Ileana D’cruz ing social issues in his films. Turkey. I look forward to Rajinikanth from Balachander that was headlined by Kamal Tendulkar, the Superstar position Aamir khan in turkey for it!” she wrote. Aamir Khan, movies. We were introduced to Haasan. Having been launched in Tamil cinema will retire with The Big Bull stars Ileana D’Cruz wrote, about the film, Abhishek laal singh chaddhaAamir 55, briefed Emine Erdogan the Superstar with rousing whis- by K Balachander, he did a slew Rajinikanth. Rajinikanth is irre- Abhishek Bachchan, Ileana “Excited to be a part of the Khan is shooting for tles and cheers in packed theaters of performance-oriented movies placeable. And that has been the D'Cruz, Nikita Dutta, world of The Big Bull: The Laal Singh Chaddha case for the last 45 years and will Soham Shah, Ram Kapoor, Man who sold dreams to in Turkey. remain that way in the years to Supriya Pathak and Saurabh India.” Here is the first look Bollywood superstar come. People who have followed Shukla. Ileana d cruz in the of Ileana D'Cruz from The Aamir Khan, who is him since his early days as an big bull disney plus Big Bull! TheBigBull a in Turkey to shoot his actor may look back in time and hotstarIleana D'cruz's The crime drama that shook the upcoming film Laal rue that he did not become the Big Bull will release on financial fabric of India will Singh Chaddha, met “actor” that he was supposed to Disney Plus Hotsar. Actor unveil soon with Disney First Lady of Turkey become. That he did not do more Abhishek Bachchan on Plus Hotstar Multiplex on Emine Erdogan. movies like Mullum Malarum Tuesday revealed the first Disney plus HSVIP! Bachchan had earlier According to the official about the social responsibil- (1978), Buvana Oru Kelvikuri look of Ileana D’Cruz from ajaydevgnI leana_Official shared, “The Big Bull isn’t website of Presidency of the ity projects he is associated (1977) and Avargal (1977). That his upcoming crime-drama s0humshah nikifying life . historical. Republic of Turkey, the first with during the meeting and he has been reduced to roles that The Big Bull. Abhishek The Big Bull, also starring It is based in Mumbai in lady received the actor at the the first lady congratulated majorly play to the gallery. That presidential residence at the him for addressing social took to Twitter and wrote, Nikita Dutta, Soham Shah, the late 1980s and early Huber Mansion in Istanbul issues in his films, as per the the industry trapped him in an “Here is the first look of Ram Kapoor, Supriya 1990s. It’s a rags to riches image that required him to repeat on Saturday, India’s 74th statement on the website. Ileana D’Cruz from The Big Pathak and Saurabh Shukla, story, a story of ambition Independence Day. First “Mr Khan stated that he as fans went berserk looking at S- during the early days of his career. his gimmicks like flipping the Bull! TheBigBull a crime is said to be inspired by the that if you work towards U-P-E-R-S-T-A-R appear in dot- However, he would soon find out cigarettes and sunglasses in every Lady Erdogan also tweeted would complete the shoot- drama that shook the finan- life and times of stockbroker your goal, you’ll definitely about the meeting on her ing of his latest film ‘Laal ted block letters with Deva’s that he had the potential, and the film. Maybe, these observations cial fabric of India will Harshad Mehta. Harshad achieve it.” now-iconic tune playing in the time was ripe to take over the are not entirely unfounded. But, verified Twitter account. “I Singh Chaddha’, which unveil soon with Disney orchestrated the Rs 5,000- Directed by Kookie had the great pleasure of couldn’t be completed in background. industry’s top position, which let’s get real. Rajinikanth Plus Hotstar Multiplex on crore 1992 securities scan- Gulati and produced by RajinikanthRajinikanth’s first was previously held by movie- would not be where he is meeting aamir_khan, the India due to COVID-19, in Disney plus HSVIP! ajay dal, which led to the expo- Ajay Devgn and Anand world-renowned Indian Turkey, and invited First film Apoorva Raagangal release god MG Ramachandran. And he today by doing movies like devgn Ileana_Official sure of many loopholes in Pandit, The Big Bull will on August 18, 1975. Superstar exceeded all the predictions by Mullum Malarum. Sure, such actor, filmmaker, and direc- Lady Erdogan to the film Rajinikanth’s debut movie creating a permanent position for films make for a respectable shumshah” Sharing the the functioning of the stock soon premiere on Disney+ tor, in Istanbul. I was happy set,” the press release further Apoorva Raagangal was released himself atop the food chain. Like filmography. poster on her Twitter handle, market and banks. Talking Hotstar VIP. to learn that Aamir decided read. Shweta Pandit The Ellen DeGeneres Show: Three pro- SP Charan on Sharon Stone criticises bids adieu to ducers exit amid workplace complaints SPB’s health: Pandit Jasraj: The Ellen DeGeneres agers, including Glavin, ference call, according to SP Balasubrahmanyam COVID-19 testing in Montana Show is facing allegations Leman and Norman, Variety, which first reported was admitted to Chennai's Will miss your of a dysfunctional work- BuzzFeed News said. The the development. She said MGM Healthcare earlier this Sharon Stone posted a and a pacemaker in the past ing guns and saying that it’s place that harbored misbe- people making the claims she found claims about the month after testing positive video on Instagram express- five months.” Stone said. Her their freedom not to have to smiling face havior including sexual mis- against them were not iden- show’s environment to be for coronavirus. SP ing frustration that there mother wasn’t tested because wear a mask,” Stone said. The conduct and racially insensi- tified. A representative for “heartbreaking,” the trade Balasubrahmanyam's condi- aren’t enough tests for front- she wasn’t symptomatic, governor’s office had not Remembering her grand- tive remarks. Ellen Leman didn’t immediately publication said, citing tion is stable as of now, his line workers and people who despite her underlying health been returning her calls and father Pandit Jasraj, Shweta degeneres show respond to a request for unidentified sources. The son and filmmaker SP Charan have had direct contact with conditions, Stone said. state health officials had been Pandit posted a video fea- controversyThe Ellen said. Singer-actor SP someone who has COVID- Stone’s sister, Kelly Stone, hanging up on her, Stone turing her memorable DeGeneres Show show Balasubrahmanyam’s condi- 19. Sharon stone bumble dat- also has lupus, “and is not complained. Stone called the moments with the leg- debuted in 2003. Three pro- tion is stable, his son and film- ing appSharon Stone called doing well,” the actor said. governor’s office last week endary classical vocalist. ducers of The Ellen maker SP Charan informed the governor’s office last “The stress, the strain, the and offered ideas to increase shweta pandit remembers DeGeneres Show have exit- fans and well-wishers via an week and offered ideas to exhaustion that’s happening testing but did not indicate a pandit jasrajShweta Pandit ed amid allegations of a dys- Instagram video on Monday. increase COVID-19 testing. in that hospital is met with the family member was hospital- remembered her grandfa- functional workplace that In the video, Charan is heard Actor Sharon Stone is criticiz- conflict around the court- ized at the time, the gover- ther Pandit Jasraj. Singer harbored misbehavior saying, “Dad is in the same ing the availability of house where people are carry- nor’s office said Monday. Shweta Pandit remembered including sexual misconduct condition as he was yesterday, COVID-19 testing in her grandfather Pandit and racially insensitive which is stable. Doctors are Montana, where her sister and Jasraj, who passed away on remarks. Executive produc- still calling it critical, but there brother-in-law are hospital- Monday due to cardiac ers Ed Glavin and Kevin are no complications, which ized with the respiratory arrest. Shweta took to Leman and co-executive they feel is a very good sign.” virus. Stone posted a video on Instagram and posted a producer Jonathan Norman After thanking everyone for Instagram Sunday expressing video featuring her memo- have “parted ways” with the their support and love, SP frustration that there aren’t rable moments with the long-running daytime series, Charan said he is positive that enough tests for front-line legendary Indian classical a spokesperson for producer his father will emerge vic- workers and people who have vocalist. “End of an era.. Warner Bros. said in a state- comment Monday. comedian and host had sent tori.ous in this battle against had direct contact with some- your blessings and love ment Monday. An internal Representatives for Glavin a memo to her staff after last the virus. “He will definitely one who has COVID-19, will make me move on company investigation of and Norman couldn’t imme- month’s BuzzFeed article, come through it,” Charan “like my mother, who’s had somehow dadu will miss claims about the show was diately be found. In state- recalling her early promise added. two heart attacks, five stents your smiling face every- prompted by a BuzzFeed ments to BuzzFeed News of ensuring a workplace time you called to see my News report in July based after the July 30 story was where “everyone would be baby girl so much pre- on 36 interviews with ex- published online, Leman treated with respect.” ciousness taken away. Love staffers, who complained denied “any kind of sexual Something changed, she With travel limited, Hollywood you eternally,” she cap- about or said they witnessed impropriety” and Norman said, “and for that, I am tioned the video. zzEnd of improper and unfair treat- said he categorically denied sorry.” Kevin Hart, Katy an era your blessings and ment. Most of the allega- the accusations. DeGeneres Perry and others defend looks to ‘game changer’ technology love will make me move on tions were tied to executive informed staff of the shake- Ellen DeGeneres amid toxic somehow dadu will miss producers and senior man- up Monday in a video con- workplace controversy. your smiling face every- Hollywood actors, film- production a “game changer” and navigating stringent Oscar winner said. hollywood time you called to see my makers and technicians that’s being embraced by social distancing require- virtual production New LED baby girl so much pre- believe virtual production can necessity during the pandem- ments, it allows filmmakers video wall technology used in ciousness taken away. Love Adipurush: Prabhas to star in Om provide a viable solution dur- ic. New LED video wall tech- on a studio lot to spread out making last year’s The Lion you eternally goodbye rip ing the pandemic, and per- nology used in making last individual scenes captured King and The Mandalorian pandit jasraj pandit jasraj Raut’s film adaptation of Indian epic haps, become a useful pro- year’s The Lion King and The virtually using a variety of series could become more sangeet martand hindustani duction technique moving Mandalorian series could techniques. Unlike a tradition- widespread as Hollywood classical music legendsn- Adipurush will release in several languages including Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, forward. Virtual production become more widespread as al “green screen,” the actor production ramps back up everdie memoriesforlife Kannada and a few foreign languages. Scheduled for a 2022 release, Adipurush will go on hollywoodThe Lion King Hollywood production ramps can see the background and during the pandemic. More On Twitter, Shweta Pandit floors in 2021. The Prabhas starrer will be produced by Bhushan Kumar's T-Series. Prabhas visual effects supervisor back up during the pandemic. cinematographers can match than half of The Mandalorian wrote, “Good bye my pre- is all set to collaborate with filmmaker Om Raut for 3D action drama, Adipurush. After teas- Robert Legato calls the video Instead of shooting on loca- perspectives and camera par- scenes were filmed with the cious dadu. So many ing his fans on Monday about a big announcement, the actor took to Instagram to share a wall and move toward virtual tion with a full cast and crew allax to look like a location technology. Emmy-winning insanely beautiful memo- poster of the Hindi-Telugu bilingual film. The tagline of the movie reads, “Celebrating the shoot. The Lion King visual visual effects specialist Sam ries you have given me but victory of good over evil.” Bankrolled by Bhushan Kumar’s T-Series, Adipurush is an adap- effects supervisor Robert Nicholson says it represents a i have no words now RIP tation of the Indian epic that revolves around the triumph of good over evil. On a closer look Legato calls the video wall “natural evolution” in the Pandit Jasraj Pandit Jasraj at the poster, we see a silhouette of Lord Ram in the centre holding a bow and arrow, and a and move toward virtual pro- Hollywood effects world, passed away at the age of picture of a fierce Lord Hanuman in the background. It also has the ten heads of Ravana on duction a “game changer” where new technologies have 90 in New Jersey. His fam- it. And as the poster reveals, “Prabhas in and as Adipurush”, it is clear that the actor will that’s being embraced by been embraced after past ily said in a statement, essay the role of Lord Ram. According to Hindu mythology, Lord Ram is also addressed as necessity during the pandem- crises including a clampdown “With profound grief, we Adi Purusha. Talking about Adipurush, Prabhas said in a statement, “Every role and every ic. “It is something that was on travel after the Sept. 11, inform that Sangeet character comes with its own challenges, but portraying a character like this comes with going to happen anyway. It 2001 terror attacks. “We start- Martand Pandit Jasraj ji tremendous responsibility and pride. I am very excited to portray this character of our epic, just would have taken longer ed taking shows like E.R, breathed his last this morn- especially the way Om has designed it. I am sure the youth of our country will shower all because there would be no Grey’s Anatomy and Walking ing at 5:15 am EST due to a their love on our film.” Adipurush Prabhas and Om Raut join hands for Adipurush. Om need for it immediately. Some Dead and saying, ‘Look, we cardiac arrest at home in Raut, who recently directed Ajay Devgn starrer Tanhaji: The Unsun Warrior, is planning to people, you know, are stuck in don’t have to be on location to New Jersey, USA.” mount Adipurush on a large scale. their ways,” the three-time actually shoot there.’ Gunjan Saxena’s coursemate Sreevidya Rajan: Angelina Jolie says The One and Only Ivan deals with heavy issues in a charming way Filmmakers have twisted facts for sake of publicity Angelina Jolie is on board ed to look into whether it was natural habitats, to these ani- as a producer and voices the being made as a movie. The mals. “They’re angry and they Janhvi Kapoor starrer IAF has objected to some for the sake of publicity.’ changing rooms for ladies in organisation of our country,” ageing elephant Stella in The actor also praised writer Mike want to really be clear about Netflix film - Gunjan portions in Netflix film She added that it was actual- the unit” and “preconceived a part of Rajan’s post read. One and Only Ivan. Angelina White for developing the what kind of treatment is Saxena: The Kargil Girl is Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil ly her and not Gunjan who notions and prejudices from Dharma productions latest Jolie said she wanted to be movie, which focuses on treat- appropriate. This represents facing trouble with the Girl. Former Indian Air was the first lady pilot to fly a few colleagues.” However, movie,” Gunjan Saxena the involved with The One and ment meted out to animals by them. Ariana (Greenblatt)’s Indian Air Force (IAF) Force pilot Sreevidya Rajan, in Kargil. Rajan took to her Sreevidya Rajan said that a Kargil girl” has attracted a Only Ivan as she liked the humans. “Disney, Mike and character represents them and which has raised objections who was posted with Gunjan Facebook account and wrote majority of male officers lot of mixed views from our "messages" in the film. everybody involved really that’s strong for them to see accepted them with respect, fellow officers and friends. Hollywood star Angelina Jolie (understood) it has its heart. today that their actions can and their flying was “never As the only other lady offi- says The One and Only Ivan, It’s not a light film, it deals make change,” she said. interrupted or cancelled for cer posted at Udhampur the upcoming Disney live with heavy issues, but it is Greenblatt plays Julia, daugh- petty reasons as wrongly along with Gunjan Saxena action film deals with “heavy charming, fun and full of life. ter of George (Ramon portrayed in the movie” and having gone through the issues” in a charming way. But it’s deceptive in the pack- Rodriguez) who is a janitor at “Gunjan and I were posted ups and downs of the jour- Jolie is on board as a producer aging,” she said. Jolie, 45, said the Big Top Mall, owned by together in two stations. ney, now I would like to put and voices the ageing elephant she wanted to be involved Bryan Cranston’s Mack. Being her coursemate and a forward my views. We are Stella in the Thea Sharrock with the project as she liked Helen Mirren, Brooklynn good friend, I believe that course mates and had under- directorial. It is an adaptation the “messages” in the film. “I Prince, Chaka Khan, Ron the filmmakers have twisted gone our training together in of the Newbery Medal-win- know this young generation is Funches, Phillipa Soo and the facts given by Gunjan AFA and HTS. Both of us ning book written by really very aware of what is Mike White also round the for the sake of publicity. She were posted to Udhampur in Katherine Applegate and illus- happening in the world to our voice cast. is a brilliant officer and a 1996 but in the movie, it was trated by Patricia Castelao. thorough professional. She shown that she was the only The film centers on a silver- had many achievements dur- lady pilot posted at the unit. back gorilla named Ivan ing her career which should Since the two of us were the (voiced by Sam Rockwell) have been portrayed to first lady pilots to be posted who lives in a cage in a shop- inspire the younger genera- to that helicopter unit, we ping mall along with an ele- tion instead of showing her were skeptical about our phant named Stella (Jolie) and as a weak and oppressed vic- acceptance in the male-dom- a stray dog called Bob (Danny and written a letter to the Saxena at the IAF base in a long post reminiscing life tim in certain scenes… The inated niche area of flying. DeVito). Jolie revealed it was Censor Board objecting to Udhampur, has said the at the IAF Udhampur base. movie is sending out a We were received with the one of her children who its "undue negative" portray- makers of Gunjan Saxena: She mentioned the trouble wrong message about the usual preconceived notions brought the “special” book to al in the biopic. Gunjan sax- The Kargil Girl ‘have twist- they faced due to “no sepa- lady officers of IAF there by and prejudices from a few her attention, reported Digital ena film janhvi kapoorThe ed the facts given by Gunjan rate toilet facilities and demeaning the prestigious colleagues. Spy. That was when she start-