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"&'(&)"* virus, the detection of so many In fact, sources in the Covid positive fliers from Ministry said efforts are already *)(&"+,"'",)(. Britain arriving here is a cause on to contact those who arrived /012#",,#"* of serious concern. in India from the UK in this The new strain is said to be period i.e. from November 25 The Ministry has mandat- this part of the spike protein Those found negative in ")"#+#)2 more transmissible and affect- to December 8. Though at a avirus on Tuesday. His sample ed RT-PCR test and isolation in may result in the virus becom- RT-PCR test at the airport ing the younger population. press conference, Dr VK Paul, has been sent to Pune to check a separate unit of an institu- ing more infectious and spread- would be advised quarantine at While their samples have Niti Aayog member, said that if it is the new strain of the tional facility if a traveller is ing more easily between peo- home and followed up, while 3 4 been sent to the National the new strain that has been virus. found positive. ple,” the Ministry warned. the passengers who are found '567 Centre for Disease Control for spreading rapidly in the UK has Seven passengers and a “The new variant of the It said that all travellers positive shall be isolated in an research, the detection suggests not been detected in India yet crew member who arrived SARS-CoV-2 virus, reported in from the UK will be required institutional isolation facility in that the mutated virus may be but the SOP clearly rings alarm here from the UK in an Air the UK, is estimated by the to declare, according to exist- a separate unit coordinated by 8 + 2 already doing the rounds in the bells. India flight tested positive for "./ .0,1 European Centre for Disease ing procedure, their travel his- the respective state health '.& 1 * country, sources in the Union Six passengers who tested coronavirus on Tuesday. Control (ECDC) to be more tory of the past 14 days and fill authorities. 0 Health Ministry said. positive on their arrival in Among the infected passengers day after it announced sus- transmissible and affecting a up the self-declaration form to They would earmark spe- ! The test results of passen- India were among the 266 who are six men and two women. Apension of flights from the younger population. be screened for Covid-19. cific facilities for such isolation ) ! 2 gers who arrived from the travelled by the Air India Flight The Air India flight from UK from December 25 to this “This variant is defined All passengers coming and treatment, it said. ! L9 % : % M United Kingdom have raised that landed in the national London had landed at year-end as a safety precaution by a set of 17 changes or muta- from the UK from December A spike gene-based RT- ! 2 serious question on safety of air Capital at 10.40 pm on Amritsar’s Sri Guru Ramdas in the wake of emergence of a tions. One of the most signifi- 21 to 23 would be subjected to PCR test should also be per- 9 ! ) passengers as to whether prop- Monday. A passenger who Jee International Airport with new variant of coronavirus, cant is an N501Y mutation in the RT-PCR test on arrival formed by an appropriate lab- 4; ' er screening is being done returned from the United 250 passengers and 22 crew the Union Health Ministry the spike protein that the virus and this has to be ensured by oratory in case of a positive before they board the plane in Kingdom via Delhi to Chennai members at 12.30 am last issued the SOP for the travellers uses to bind to the human respective State Governments, sample, the Health Ministry foreign destination. has tested positive for coron- night. coming from Britain. ACE2 receptor. Changes in the SOP stated. recommended. ( R))$ * $ # " + " " + -+# . !!" #$% ' . 0 $ % 1 & 23) % ' ! "./ .0,1 ! 2*$$- "./ .0,1 nother hope of bringing an he People’s Alliance for Aend to the stand-off TGupkar Declaration etting aside speculation between farmers and the (PAGD) under the chairman- Sabout the mode and sched- Government ended on Tuesday ship of Farooq Abdullah is ule of board examinations, after the protesting farmers headed for a clear victory in Union Education Minister on Tuesday said a decision on Kashmir Valley while the BJP, Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank on the Central Government’s offer with running an aggressive ! " " " Tuesday stated that the CBSE for fresh talks has been deferred star studded election campaign " " # # board examinations will be CBSE board exams 2021 will to Wednesday, even as they in the region, is hoping to held offline only and that no not be held in January and remained adamant on their retain majority seats in its 280 seats the election results Former BJP Minister and exams, including practicals, February. The exact exam demand to repeal the three strong bastion across Jammu of 226 seats were declared till party vice president Shakti Raj will be held before the end of schedule will be decided after farm laws. $ % & P province to wield control over late evening while counting Parihar earned a unique dis- February 2021. February 2021,” said Nishank. Besides, two other impor- # ! ( ) ( the newly elected District was still going on the rest of tinction of losing both the During a virtual interac- “I received a lot of tant developments of the day Development councils. the seats. As per the result seats at the hands of the tion with teachers from across requests from various #stu- included a statement by farm- “We all farmers have also Kulwant Singh Sandhu, farm- The PAGD had fought the tally, the PAGD won 92 seats National Conference and the country, Nishank said more dents & #teachers to postpone ers in which they said they decided to throw away all the ers’ leader. entire election on the plank of while BJP was second at 64 Congress candidates. modalities on the board exams @cbseindia29 board #exams would write to Britain MPs, towers installed by corporate The farmers protesting at restoring Statehood and the and Congress party was trail- Two other former BJP and other entrance tests like for Class 10 & 12. Keeping the urging them to press their houses such as Ambani in Ghazipur border on Tuesday special status of the erstwhile ing with 20 seats in its kitty at legislators Prof Garu Ram JEE and NEET will be worked #COVID19 pandemic in Prime Minister Boris Johnson our fields. Following the morning blocked both car- State of Jammu & Kashmir. number three slot in the over- and Sham Lal Choudhary in upon in consultation with the mind & after various consul- not to attend India’s Republic protest, the farmers union riageways of National According to the latest all tally. On its own the NC Jammu, however, managed to Home and Health Ministries. tations, we have decided that Day celebrations on January 26 have also wrote a letter to MP Highway-24 alleging some trends available on the website had won 53 seats, JKPDP 25, win their seats from RS Pura He made it clear that the board #board exams will not be and emphasised on their earli- of Britain urging to stop farmers coming from western of the Chief Electoral Officer CPI(M) 5, JKPC 6 and JKPM and Suchetgarh constituencies exams will not be cancelled. held in February,” he tweeted er decisions to boycott all prod- British Prime Minister to visit UP were blocked by authori- of Jammu & Kashmir, out of 3. respectively. “The Classes 10 and 12 later. ucts of Adani and Ambani. India on Republic Day,” said ties on way to the protest site. 4 " " )1) (*19-( in New Delhi. From a normal O P family he rose to national level 567) 0 O he Chhattisgarh Assembly and worked in different capac- " . L M Ton Tuesday paid rich trib- ities. He was a father figure for utes to Motilal Vora, veteran all across various political affil- leader of undivided Madhya iations and earned due respect. 897" "8: Pradesh on the second day of Parliamentary Affairs " R )1 the Winter Session after which Minister Ravindra Choubey, Uttar Pradesh recorded highest the House was adjourned for Home Minister Tamradhwaj "./ .0,1 loss to GDP at 1.34 per cent fol- L M the day. Sahu, Health and Family lowed by Punjab at 1.22 per cent. ! " " Vora, who was Chief Welfare Minister T.S. Singh he economic loss due to pre- “Delhi had the highest per- # ! Minister of undivided Madhya O P Deo, Dhanendra Sahu and Tmature deaths and morbid- capita economic loss due to air Pradesh twice and the Satyanarayan Sharma recalled ity from air pollution — as pollution, followed by Haryana +*,$*"- O Governor of Uttar Pradesh ! their close association with high as 1.7 million (18 per cent in 2019, with 5.4 times variation P once, passed away on Monday " him. of the total deaths) — was 2.6 across all States,” said the find- he ruling Nepal $ % in New Delhi. They said he was a school crore or 1.4 per cent of the GDP ings. TCommunist Party’s Central ! Deputy Speaker Manoj of learning on how to lead a in India in 2019, according to a However, household air pol- Committee faction led by “Now Dahal and Nepal Singh Mandavi read out the public life. He could be seen new scientific paper published in lution decreased in India result- Executive Chairman Pushpa will chair the meetings in turn " obituary reference, recalling working late at night without Lancet Planetary Health release ing in 64 per cent reduction in Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ on as stated in the party statue,” ! ! the services he rendered as depart so soon as he had recov- getting tired. on Tuesday. the death rate attributable to it Tuesday removed Prime said Rekha Sharma, a central ! ! MLA in erstwhile Madhya ered from Covid-19. Former Chief Minister Dr The economic loss per capi- from 1990 to 2019, whereas the Minister KP Sharma Oli from committee member. ! Pradesh, Chief Minister and His simplicity and social Raman Singh said he was the ta was highest in Delhi, which death rate from outdoor ambi- the post of chairman and “Oli has been expelled as L M L M Union Minister and who held nature remained with him till most popular leader among all was to the tune of $62.0. Delhi ent air pollution increased dur- decided to take disciplinary the party chair for going against various posts in the Congress. his last moment. He rose from parties. He was like a guardian was followed by neighbouring ing this period by 115 per cent. action against him, virtually the party,” Sharma was quoted Chief Minister Bhupesh the ground to hold different and a father figure for all. Haryana at $53.8, according to India has a good economic splitting the party more than as saying by the Kathmandu Baghel described Vora as posts which no other leader has Dharamjeet Singh cited the scientific paper on health and development trajectory, two years after its formation. Post. ! ‘Ajatashatru’ with indomitable ever held for such a long peri- various incidents and said his and economic impact of air which can improve further with The Central Committee Former Prime Minister "# ! dedication, diligence and loy- od. It is an irreparable loss to honesty, integrity and dedica- pollution. the reduction of air pollution, unanimously nominated senior Jhalanath Khanal and former & ' alty towards the leadership. the Congress, state and coun- tion were his assets. In Delhi, the loss due to lost the report noted adding that the leader Madhav Kumar agriculture minister ( Recalling his conversation try, Baghel said. Members observed a two- output from premature deaths economic loss due to air pollu- Nepal as the party’s second Ghanashyam Bhushal were with him on his birthday a day Leader of Opposition minute silence after which the and illness attributable to air pol- tion as a percentage of the State chairman in place of Oli. among the attendees of the ) *! before he passed away, Baghel Dharamlal Kaushik said Vora Speaker adjourned the House lution as a percentage of State GDP was higher in the northern Prachanda is the first chairman Central Committee meeting said no one thought he would was the identity of Chhattisgarh for the day. GDP was 1.06 per cent, while and central India States. of the party. of Prachanda-led faction. !" # # $%
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. (" /0 aryana on Tuesday recorded 534 fresh n view of Covid-19 pandemic, Haryana HCovid-19 cases which took the state’s tally IGovernment has decided to continue online ! ! ',*"1 *(, leading the farmers and run- ',*"1 *(, low the divide and rule policies to 258731 while 10 more fatalities pushed the classes of the students studying in classes I to ning their agenda. of the Congress party which death toll to 2842. VIII. irtually putting its foot in But, in a major goof-up, the hiromani Akali Dal (SAD) had proved costly for the According to the state’s Health Department The monthly assessment of students of these Vmouth, the saffron party farmers’ image used in the Son Tuesday urged its rank Congress and resulted in vir- bulletin, “Of the latest fatalities, two each were classes will be taken from January through released a poster with a pho- poster turned out to be of and file to support the appeal tual disintegration of the party. reported in Rewari and Jhajjar and one each from AVSAR app, said an official spokesman. tograph of a “smiling” farmer Harpreet Singh, a Masters in of the farmers’ organizations, Gurugram, Faridabad, Fatehabad, Panipat, Besides this, the State Government has on its Facebook page to publi- Software Engineering from the agitating against the three farm PUNJAB MINISTER TO SIT Ambala, Bhiwani.A maximum of 92 fresh cases decided to change the school timings of students cize its ‘MSP will stay’ stand, Indian Institute of Information acts, to observe December 23 ON HUNGER STRIKE were reported in Gurugram followed by 69 in studying in class IX to XII from 10 am to 1 pm. only to remove it later after Technology, Pune, who has as ‘Kisan Divas’ by observing a Punjab School Education Faridabad.Active cases in the state currently Sharing more information in this regard, the finding that the “smiling been staging protest at Singhu one day hunger strike in soli- Minister Vijay Inder Singla on stand at 5387 while the recovery rate is 96.82 per spokesman said that classes from IX to XII have farmer” is amongst the thou- since past two weeks. darity with them. Tuesday announced to sit on a cent, the bulletin stated. 250502 patients includ- already started. The schools will remain closed sands staging dharna at the Unaware, 36-year-old “The decision has been hunger strike on December 23, ing 662 in the last 24 hours have recovered from for the classes from I to VIII. Students of these outskirts of the national capi- Harpreet was actively partici- taken by party president on the occasion of National the virus and been discharged from hospitals in classes in government schools will be taught tal.The party’s move to attack pating in the farmers’ protest at Sukhbir Singh Badal, and he Kisaan Diwas in protest against the state.According to the bulletin, the fatality through EDUSAT and for this, the School the opposition over the farm Delhi border when his friends laws at Singhu border. They has urged all party workers to Narendra Modi-led Union rate is recorded at 1.10 percent in Haryana. The Education Department has developed an app laws boomeranged with the called him on Monday night to have made me a poster boy of participate in the mass one day Government’s “draconian” farm case-doubling rate in Haryana stood at 82 days named AVSAR. Monthly Assessment Tests will farmer, identified as Harpreet inform him about his “face” the BJP without my permis- hunger strike to send out a clear laws. and COVID positive rate was 6.06 per cent.As be started from the first week of January Singh from Hoshiarpur and being used in BJP’s pro-farm sion,” he said. message that Punjabis are one “On the occasion of many as 42.74 lakh samples have been tested till through this mobile app, the spokesman said. currently protesting at Singhu laws poster. “I oppose the farm laws against the black agri laws #KisaanDiwas, I shall be sitting date in Haryana, it added. He said that the teachers have been direct- border, threatening to send a On Tuesday, Harpreet and can never be a part of their which would destroy our future on a hunger strike in protest 56 CASES, 2 DEATHS IN CHANDIGARH ed to register every student on the AVSAR app legal notice to the saffron party released a video message to promotion. They have used my generations in case they are not against @BJP4India Govt’s The union territory of Chandigarh report- and ensure that students are using this app reg- for using his “six years old” assert his support to the farm- Sikh identity to show people repealed,” said former MP unfair farm laws, in complete ed two COVID-19 related fatalities as 56 posi- ularly. All the teachers have been directed to photograph that too “without ers’ ongoing agitation, while are happy but that’s not the Prem Singh Chandumajra solidarity with our farmers & tive cases surfaced on Tuesday. According to the attend the school every day to update the skill permission”. warning the saffron party with case. while appealing to all Punjabis arthiyas’ demands! My humble Chandigarh Health Department’s evening bul- passbook and also update the details about con- Going into background of a legal notice. They should come to to wholeheartedly support the appeal to all to stand in unity letin, the death toll reached 312 while the total tinuous comprehensive assessment work, the matter, Punjab BJP on “I don’t know how and why Singhu to know how many hunger strike call. against a tyrannical govt & its case tally was recorded at 19,184. informed the spokesman. Monday released a post on the the BJP used my picture that farmers are really happy. MSP Meanwhile, Chandumajra unjust policies!” tweeted Singla. social networking site, was clicked way back in is not the only issue, there are also visited the residence of Appealing all sections of Facebook, sharing a poster 2014…I am protesting here in collective demands. Punjab is Rajpura Arhtiya Association the society to stand in unity with hashtags — Delhi and only last night, my at Delhi’s border and we will Jatinder Lada and condemned with the farmers and against a #ModiWithFarmers and friends informed me about the return only after the laws are the Income Tax raids conduct- tyrannical government and its #MSPHaiAurRahega — to ad. I have asked them to flag repealed,” he said. ed at his premises as well as unjust policies, Singla said that show how the Government is the use of my picture by BJP in However, the state BJP those on other office bearers of the Union Government is using procuring farmers’ produce at the social media post so that it spokesperson informed The the Punjab Arhtiya Association. multipronged hypocrite tac- MSP with an assurance that it can be taken down,” said Pioneer that the matter would Addressing arthiyas (com- tics to scatter farmers and sec- would continue in future also. ‘shocked’ Harpreet. be looked into as the party’s IT mission agents) on the occa- tions associated with farmers, ',*"1 *(, opments in the State. And I him, he said that there was, The post, which says that Also an actor, Harpreet wing handles all these things. sion, including Bhunerheri but farmers’ protest is day by would not hesitate to meet the however, a case filed by ED Government agencies have lashed out on the BJP for using Notably, the farmers have president Kulwinder Singh day reaching towards its peak idiculing the Aam Aadmi Prime Minister and the Home against his son Raninder Singh bought paddy worth Rs his picture without his per- been staging protest against the Rana, Chandumajra urged and will be finished only after RParty (AAP) to refrain Minister whenever issues of which has been going on for 77,957.83 crore at MSP so far mission. “They have been Centre’s three contentious agri- them not to come under any getting their due rights. from indulging in politics of the internal security are fanned by more than a decade that too and 49 percent of the purchase shameless by using my picture culture laws, passed by the pressure of the Central Terming Income Tax raids lowest order and mud-slinging, neighbouring hostile nations,” under FEMA which at most is is from Punjab alone, also in their poster, while I’m Parliament in September this Government which wanted to on arhtiyas of Punjab as mali- Punjab Chief Minister Capt said Capt Amarinder. a civil or fiscal matter. added that some forces are mis- protesting against the farm year. browbeat them and force them cious tactics, Singla said that Amarinder Singh made it clear Ridiculing the allegations The High Court has also to withdraw support from the BJP leaders have not digesting to AAP’s national convener leveled by AAP leader as stayed all the earlier incorrect ongoing Kisan agitation. arhtiyas’ full support to their and his Delhi counterpart absolutely baseless, politically- Income Tax assessment orders While asserting that the brethren farmers, thus, in an Arvind Kejriwal that his meet- motivated, and erroneous that served on his son, he said farmer-arhtiya relationship was unlawful manner, these raids ing with the Union Home he met the Union Home adding that as a measure of rock solid, the SAD leader are being carried out on Minister Amit Shah was exclu- Minister with regard to the desperation, the IT urged the Prime Minister behest of the Union sively on one point agenda to Enforcement Directorate (ED) Department has now vindic- Narendra Modi not to follow Government to weaken the discuss issues related to nation- cases thrust upon his family, tively targeted him, along with the footsteps of the Congress farmer protest. al security being the Home Capt Amarinder lambasted his whole family and not even party and carry out vindictive “But, BJP leaders will not Minister of the border State fac- AAP for attempting to unleash left out his minor grandchil- actions which would rebound succeed in ending the genera- ing a hostile neighbour. a campaign based on lies and dren by sending them notices ',*"1 *(, Rohtak. 22 district vaccine on the central government. tions’ long relationship between “Thus it was my foremost deceit. under the Prevention of Black & ! ( stores and 659 cold chain points At the same time, he also the farmers and arhtiyas,” he responsibility to apprise the Clarifying that there was Money Act which were also aryana Government has have been identified, he added. warned the Centre not to fol- emphatically said. Union Government on devel- no case filed by the ED against being legally dealt with. Hprepared a data of 1.9 lakh ) *&+), health care workers (HCWs) " from both private and govern- ment sectors for successful implementation of COVID-19 ! 1 . vaccination drive, whenever the vaccine is made available in the country. “The state’s Health ! ( Department has completed the ! " "& groundwork and is prepared to (*"',1 on its permanent campus at students will be taught introduce COVID-19 vaccine HEC. In 2016, the Indian Sociology, Psychology, in a phased manner starting (*"',1 tinations in the State are devel- as part of retreat tourism. ndian Institute of Institute of Management Literature, Fine Arts, from HCWs. from HCWs. Moreover, the oped. In Jharkhand under the Alok Prasad said, “As part of IManagement (IIM) Ranchi (IIM), Ranchi received own- Humanities, Maths, For this, the data of more vaccination will be done at he State Government, in its Prasad scheme Deoghar is retreat tourism, the tourism is going to launch a five year ership rights for land plot Economics, Statistics and than 1.9 lakh HCWs from both fixed session sites and mapping Tbid to promote Jharkhand being developed. The second department is going to host integrated MBA course. sprawling over 60.04 acres in Political Science. Students private and government sectors of session sites are in progress, as an eco-tourism destina- scheme is the Swadesh scheme festivals/functions in February Under the course, Class XII or HEC area. also have to undergo a social have been uploaded on CoWIN he said. tion, is trying to utilise its under which rich flora and under which eco-tourism will intermediate pass students Recently, member of internship upon completion portal,” said Additional Chief As per the Government of existing infrastructure at the fauna areas of the State are be promoted.” will get entry to study in Rajya Sabha, Parimal of two years. Secretary, Health, Rajeev Arora. India (GOI) guidelines, vacci- popular forest and water bod- being developed.” The department is going to MBA course. IIM Ranchi will Nathwani inaugurated the Meanwhile, students have He said that the nation will be done on an elec- ies. As per the eco-tourism He said, “Under the improve infrastructure facili- be the second institute after first building of the Indian welcomed the decision of IIM Department has already iden- tion model with the involve- policy, the tourism depart- Swadesh scheme an eco- ties in these areas such as IIM Indore to launch such Institute of Management management to launch a five tified 1,800 vaccination ses- ment of other departments, ment would facilitate activities tourism circuit is being devel- good accommodation and courses, while other insti- Ranchi. year integrated course in sion sites and more than 5,000 said Arora. to develop biodiversity rich oped from Dimna Lake to food for tourists. Also in these tutes (IIM) offer post gradu- The building is fully air- MBA. Sherya Shree, a Class vaccinators have been mapped On the availability of cold areas of the State, promote Betla/Neterhat passing areas adventure sports will be ate MBA courses after grad- conditioned auditorium XI student at Bridgeford for the process of administering storages, he said that the state eco-tourism and also con- through Parasnath, promoted. In the connection uation. which has capacity to accom- School said, “Students from the vaccine. has sufficient cold chain space serve wetlands that shelter Massanjore dam, retreat tourism will be pro- A faculty member of IIM modate about 650 people at a the state will be benefited with Moreover, to ensure the to meet out additional require- migratory birds from other Mccluskieganj, Patratu dam moted in Massanjore dam, Ranch requesting anonymity time with all modern IT facil- the launch of five year vaccine reaches every district, ment for COVID-19 vaccine. parts of the country and the and Netarhat/Betla area. These Mccluskieganj, Patratu dam said, “IIM Ranchi from next ities of audio-video support. integrated MBA course. the Health Department has 22 Furthermore, the category wise world. areas will be developed as eco and Netarhat. academic session 2021-22 is The integrated program Now a student like engi- Vaccine Vans (insulated) for vaccination is to be done in a For the development of tourist spots.” As this festival/function going to launch a five year in management is a full five- neering and medicine can transporting vaccines across phased manner. tourists’ destinations as eco- Ecotourism means a sus- will be held during Covid pan- integrated MBA course. The year course. It will be equiv- plan their career after com- the state. All districts have been tourism spots, the State tainable form of tourism that demic period, special attention course has been designed in alent to an MBA after com- pleting XII studies.” Arora said that the Haryana instructed to create additional tourism department is work- allows the tourist to see the will be made in hygiene, clean- such a way that students after pleting it. It is noteworthy that IIM Government has meticulously dry space for storing logistics ing under two policies: first most pristine form of nature. ness and following social dis- completing the course will get There will be a total of 15 Ranchi is going to start prepared the vaccine rollout and majority of districts have Swadesh Yojana and second is Ecotourism encourages trav- tancing norms. both graduation as well as terms in this course. Every another course next year. plan and is all set to introduce already created extra space for retreat tourism, which is also elers to spend time in the lap The Covid-19 pandemic post graduate degree.” The year, three terms will be of The institute will start a busi- it. the same, he said. known as spiritual/ wellness of nature. Ecotourism as a has severely impacted the faculty member said, “The three months duration. The ness analytics course from The platform of the exist- Revealing details of the tourism. concept is quite interesting. It tourism industry across the course is divided into two course is divided into two June 2021, which will be a ing Universal Immunization infrastructure for storage, trans- Jharkhand Tourism not only allows you to get one globe covering sectors like parts. The first part is parts. two-year MBA course. program of state with enhanced portation and maintaining vac- Development Corporation step closer to nature, but also hospitality, tour operators, three years called the foun- The first part is three There are currently PhD capacity is being used for cine and logistics supply (JTDCL) General Manager, encourages conservation ini- travel agents, air, land and sea dation while the second two years called the foundation. courses in MBA, MBA HR COVID-19 vaccine, he added. chain,Arora said that one State Dr Alok Prasad said, “There tiatives. transportation industry and years will focus entirely on The second two years, accord- and Management. MBA in Divulging more details, he vaccine Store has been identi- are two centrally sponsored Apart from developing an others. management.” ing to the institute, focus Business Analytics will also be said that the COVID-19 vaccine fied in Kurukshetra, four schemes for development of eco-tourism circuit, the The department's priority The IIM Ranchi is entirely on management. added to these. introduction will span over a regional vaccine stores have tourism in Jharkhand. First is tourism department is going is to once again give pace and presently functioning from The course is a mixture of This will help the students year with multiple groups being been identified in Hisar, the Prasad scheme under to host festivals/ functions in momentum to the tourism its transit campus Soochna management and social sci- to gain a basic and practical included sequentially starting Gurugram, Kurukshetra and which religious /spiritual des- February to develop tourism industry in Jharkhand. Bhawan, while work is going ence. During the foundation, knowledge of analytics. 2 033 " 4 4 % # % " 6 %1 (*"',1 about it. The Scientists gave around IIGB developed and detailed information about forwarded by BAU, a total of 40 (*"',1 Christmas gift, now after a year, large number of farmers clean farming to the farmers so new breeds of pig called they demand a Christian min- Awere benefited from a that they can start in their 'Jharsuk' distributed among tate BJP spokesperson Pratul ister in the Cabinet," he said. Farmers' Fair organised by farm. At the same time the farmers after providing them SShahdeo today said that Pratul said that BJP says Indian Institute of Agricultural farmers also received detailed detailed information of the pig. before Christmas, Archbishop from the beginning that even Biotechnology (IIAB) in col- information about environment Other than this for proper Felix Toppo's demand from the during the election, fatwas laboration with Birsa conservation. During the fair growth and for environment Hemant Soren led government have been issued by some reli- Agricultural University (BAU) the farmers also got information compatibility they distributed to make a minister from a gious leaders to political par- on Tuesday to promote animal about various agricultural based mining mixture were also dis- Christian community exposes ties in the areas of Khunti, husbandry among rural mass- industries so that they increase tributed among the farmers so the hidden agenda of the Simdega, Ranchi, Gumla, es. their income. that they cannot face difficulty Church in a complete way. "It Latehar and Santhal Parganas. The fair was organised on The conference and fair in pig farming. is reported that some church "Large-scale religious con- the theme of 'Clean Farming' at are co-ordinated by BAU IIAB is regularly encourag- officials in Jharkhand do polit- versions take place under the Brambe under Manadar Block Scientists Ravindra Kumar and ing farmers to produce quality ical intervention while their guise of social service. Now in Ranchi District. More than Binay Kumar Singh. During the seeds so that they can increase responsibility is only to prop- the Archbishop openly moved three hundred farmers partici- event Scientist Avinash Pandey their income and at a fixed time agate their religion and do beyond his religious sphere pated in the fair and a confer- and Kishore Tribhuvan were interval the institute provides social work within the scope of and started raising political ence on Clean Farming was also also present. proper training facilities to the the Constitution. But once the issues, which is con- organised so that the framers of Under the Government of farmers so that they can pro- Archbishop calls the formation demnable," said the BJP the adjoining area could know India run Tribal Sub Plan duce quality seeds. of the Hemant Government a leader. chhattisgarh 03 RAIPUR | WEDNESDAY | DECEMBER 23, 2020
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel carries the coffin of veteran Congress leader and former chief minister of undivided Madhya Pradesh Motilal Vora on Tuesday. Thousands of people submerged in Durg to pay tribute to Vora who passed away in New Delhi on Monday, a day after celebrating his 93rd birthday. Having held one of the most important organisational posts of the Congress treasurer for two decades, Vora was appointed as the general secretary incharge of administration in 2018. Pioneer Photo Medical College admission Action against firm for not Fake certificate holders will be ousted supplying kit to test Covid STAFF REPORTER n RAIPUR They have been told to check the documents submit- STAFF REPORTER n tion of tender and action After the recommenda- omplaints of candidates ted by the candidates, mainly RAIPUR taken against the firm. tion of the High-Level Ctaking admission in marksheet of Class 12, original Singh Deo said the first Purchase Committee recom- Medical Colleges through fake domicile certificate, caste cer- ction has been initiated tender was called on April 7 mend that as there were domicile certificates have been tificate, income certificate, Aagainst the medical firm and second on April 14, errors in rates for Rapid Test received, Chhattisgarh Health EWS certificate or any other which declined to provide 2020. The committee as per and companies declining to and Family Welfare Minister attached documents. antibody based Rapid Kit the Store Purchase Rule supply the required number, T.S. Singh Deo said on After the scrutiny, an during the Covid-19 pan- Section 10 had not kept the the tenders were cancelled. Tuesday. Action will be taken affidavit will be taken from the demic, Health and Family security deposit condition in The second firm was against such candidates. students. Photocopy of the Welfare Minister T.S. Singh the tender. given a purchase order at a After verification of the domicile certificates will be Deo informed the Assembly He said the order for rate of `377.44 per unit. The certificates, the admission of sent to respective Collectors on Tuesday. purchase was given to order was given to recover such erring candidates will be for verification and Leader of Opposition National Medicos at the the difference amount from cancelled, he said in a written certification. Dharamlal Kaushik had Lowest-1 rate of `131.04 per the first firm. Thus, the pro- reply to the Assembly. If a candidate is found through a starred question test. A total of 75,000 test kit curement has been done Congress MLA who has violated law, his sought details of procure- orders were to be supplied based on the first firm rate. Satyanarayan Sharma had admission will be cancelled ment of Rapid Kit for within 15 days. But the firm Under the Epidemic sought details of the participa- and action initiated against Covid-19 testing by the replied that it would be Diseases Act, an application tion and admission of students Singh Deo said complaints Medical Colleges and the been issued letters in this him. The vacant seats will be Health Department, tender unable to supply such a large has been filed against the in Medical Colleges using fake had been filed in 2017. All the Principal of the Government regard by the Medical included in the upcoming details, security deposit amount within a short National Medicos with Civil domicile certificates. Deans of Government Dental Medical College have Education directorate. allocation. clause, reason for cancella- period. Lines police station. Chhattisgarh has Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY 1.8 mn registered C’garh's new SOP for those coming from UK operational in C'garh: Minister unemployed STAFF REPORTER n RAIPUR STAFF REPORTER n RAIPUR Khubchand Baghel Health RAIPUR: The number of mid news of a new Assistance Health Scheme was registered unemployed across he smart card scheme (National launched on January 1, 2020 and Astrain of coronavirus Health Insurance Scheme) has Chhattisgarh is 18,90,620 as discovered in the United T 1,211 hospitals have been listed on November 30, 2020, Higher been discontinued by the Central under it to provide treatment. Kingdom, the government but the Ayushman Education Minister Umesh Chhattisgarh government As the Centre has discontinued Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jant Arogya Patel told the Assembly on on Tuesday issued a fresh the smart card scheme, it is non- Tuesday. SOP (standard operating Yojana (PM-JAY) is operational in operational. Replacing it, Congress MLA Shailesh procedure) for travelers Chhattisgarh, the Assembly was Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY is oper- Pandey through a starred from the UK entering the informed on Tuesday. ational in the state. Based on it, a question sought the details state. The Chhattisgarh government ‘package’ has been fixed for the hos- has commenced the Dr Khubchand including the district-wise “People coming to pitals for earmarked diseases and numbers. Baghel Health Assistance Health Chhattisgarh from the UK treatment with the private hospitals. In his written reply, Minister Scheme, said Health and Family via airplane, train, road He said that as per the National Patel said the highest number of Welfare Minister T.S. Singh Deo in Health Authority, treatment has registered unemployed was in or other ways must a written reply. been banned in private sector district Balod (1,57,339) followed undergo RT-PCR test BJP MLA Punnulal Mohle had hospitals for certain diseases. For by Durg (1,41,554), Bilaspur while entering sought status on closure of the these diseases, free of cost treatment (1,18,589), Rajnandgaon Chhattisgarh,” a press smart card scheme, Dr Khubchand is being extended through (1,14,598), Raigarh (1,13,799) release said. Baghel Health Assistance Health government hospitals. and Janjgir-Champa (1,10,421) If they test Covid Scheme including the Ayushman Only in extreme emergency, the The lowest number is in the positive, they should be the SOP should be The release said that should be advised to stay patient’s follow up should Bharat PM-JAY through a starred treatment can be availed in private newly formed Gaurela-Pendra- kept in Covid center or followed for contact after the patient recovers in home isolation for at be ensured during this question. hospitals from the banned list of Marwahi district -- 935. quarantine centre. Also, tracing, it added. from the disease, they least 14 days. Also, duration. Singh Deo said that Dr diseases.
OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDING ENGINEER PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT, DURG CIRCLE DURG (C.G.) RERA directs action against colonizers Durg, Dated: 17.12.2020 e- Procurement Tender Notice STAFF REPORTER n promoter to perform the st RAIPUR registry of a disputed land in 1 Call the colony and transfer the Online tenders in form ‘‘A’’ percentage rate basis are invited he Chhattisgarh Real land to the customer. on behalf of Governor of Chhattisgarh dated 05-01-2020 :- TEstate Regulatory In a different case, Aftab Authority (RERA) has Siddiqui, Director Abir NIT No. Name of work P.A.C. directed the Raipur district Buildcon, promoter of real (Rs. In administration to act against estate project ‘City of lacs.) two colonizers for not Valencia’ in Nardaha Tahsil of 206/Durg(Durg)/2020 RENOVATION WORK OF Dr. KHOOB 64.50 providing amenities in their Arang, promised road, CHAND BAGHEL GOVT. COLLEGE colonies and submit a report sewerage, potable water, AT BHILAI-03,DIST-DURG. within two months. power, landscaping, divider, RERA has asked a real community centre, boundary Note- estate promoter to return the wall, main gate and guard money taken from its room since 2010-11 for 691 1-General Conditions, detailed NIT, Tender documents & customers for developing the plots. This colony too was not other information of the above construction work project, an official press 2015. electrification in the project. developed as promised. downloaded from the Eprocurement web portal or release said on Tuesday. The developer between But the promised works were RERA has directed the departmental website http://eproc.cgstate.gov.in. The Promoter of Vatsalya 2011-12 and 2014-15 not completed, the press Raipur Collector to initiate 2-NIT No. & Name of the Work should be essentially Builders Pvt. Ltd., Prafull publicized the development release said. action as per the mentioned on the envelope through the Registerd Purushottam Rao Gagde, was of road, sewer line, HTP, RERA taking note of Chhattisgarh Gram Post/Speed Post in this office. provided permission to power line distribution, complaints from customers Panchayat (Colonizers develop ‘Vatsalya Gaurav’ underground tank, tube ordered the developer to registration, terms and Superintending Engineer real estate project in Seoni well, garden, children's play return customers’ deposit. conditions) Rule 1999 and P.W.D., Durg Circle Durg (C.G.) village of Abhanpur tehsil in area, temple and The authority also asked the inform the authority. G- 85780/4 Ryp/Dtd 22.12.20 Tel. 0788-2210876 !" # # $- $ # 7 %. . 8933 " "P " !, "./ .0,1 that was originally established the growth of the country is " 6 he Central Government by Sir Dyed Ahmad Khan as above the caste and religion of Tand the World Bank on the Muhammadan Anglo- the people. Tuesday signed a $500 million Oriental College in1875. Sir Syed had also said that project to build safe and green AMU became a University religion should not be the national highway corridors in in 1920, through an Act of the reason for anyone’s back- the States of Rajasthan, Indian Legislative Council by wardness. Himachal Pradesh, Uttar elevating the Mohammedan Modi said it must be Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh. Anglo-Oriental College to the realised that politics is an The project will also enhance "./ .0,1 status of a Central University. important part of society, but the capacity of the Ministry of “The research done in there are many other issues in Road Transport and Highways articipating for the first AMU on Urdu, Arabic, and society besides politics. (MoRTH) in mainstreaming Ptime in any event of Aligarh Persian languages, research on “… for a new India, the safety and green technologies. Muslim University (AMU), Islamic literature, gives new core is that welfare must not be The Green National Prime Minister Narendra Modi energy to India’s cultural rela- seen from the prism of politics. Highways Corridors Project new standards in the con- said the project will support the on Tuesday addressed its cen- tions with the entire Islamic There are some elements who "./ .0,1 the poor with the will support MoRTH construct struction of safe motorable ministry with an in-depth tenary celebrations lauding world”, he said. may have an issue with this. Government. With digital 783 km of highways in various roads. analysis of gender-related issues AMU’s contribution in fighting In the backdrop of the They can be found in all coun- rime Minister Narendra advances, India is becoming a geographies by integrating safe The ultimate objective of in the transport sector along the coronavirus pandemic as recurring debate on the minor- tries. They will spread nega- PModi on Tuesday asserted centre of evolution and revo- and green technology designs transport infrastructure is to with help in creating jobs for “unprecedented” and saying ity character of the university, tivity. But these people will be that the biggest challenge fac- lution of global high-tech such as local and marginal provide seamless connectivity women by training women-led that the university “represents Modi praised diversity in the sidelined if we work for the ing science now, may be a vac- power,” he added. materials, industrial byprod- and reduce logistics costs, said micro enterprises and women India’s rich culture and her- university. betterment of the country cine for Covid pandemic, but Earlier, Dr. Shekhar C. ucts, and other bioengineering a government statement. collectives to implement green itage.” “People tell me that the keeping politics aside. Politics the biggest long term challenge Mande, Secretary DSIR and solutions. The project will help The Government of India technologies in the highway In his address , the Prime- AMU campus is like a city in can wait, society can wait, science faces is to attract high DG, CSIR, in his welcome reduce GHG emissions in the has launched many investment corridors. Minister pointed to religion- itself. We see a mini India (but) the country can’t wait for quality youngsters and retain address dwelt upon various construction and maintenance programs in road sector infra- “Connectivity for eco- neutral development policies of among different departments, development, the poor and them. dimensions of the IISF-2020. of highways. structure to strengthen and nomic growth and connectiv- his government saying they are dozens of hostels, thousands of disadvantaged can’t wait for “The biggest challenge fac- “More than 40 science labora- Dr C S Mohapatra, improve logistics performance. ity for sustainable develop- implemented “without dis- teachers, and professors. The development,” said Modi as he ing science now, may be a vac- tories and educational insti- Additional Secretary, This project will also support ment are two important aspects crimination”. diversity which we see here is addressed students, teachers cine for COVID pandemic. tutions are participating in Department of Economic analytics to map the freight vol- of a country’s development Modi also stressed signifi- not only the strength of this and staff of the varsity. But the biggest long term chal- organising this festival. He Affairs, Ministry of Finance ume and movement pattern on trajectory. This operation cance and power of “diversity” university but also of the entire “Country is on the path lenge science faces is to attract said, IISF-2020 will attempt 5 stated that the Government of the National Highway net- brings these two priorities and importance of retaining it. nation”, said the Prime where no citizen would be left high quality youngsters and Guinness Book of World India is committed to envi- work, identify constraints, and together in support of India’s The Prime Minister urged Minister. behind because of their reli- retain them. Records, one of which—max- ronmentally sustainable devel- provide innovative logistics growth strategy,” said Junaid people “to not look at every- “I have been told that at gion and everyone would get “What is called science imum students making the opment in its infrastructure solutions, it added. Ahmad, World Bank Country thing from a political lens”, say- least 1,000 international stu- equal opportunities so that today, becomes the technology Sun Dial simultaneously—was projects. This project will set A senior MoRTH official Director in India. ing “Campuses like AMU can dents are currently enrolled in everyone can fulfill their of tomorrow and an engineer- attempted this morning where play a key role in contributing AMU”, he added. dreams. Sabka Sath, Sabka ing solution later. For attract- 6,874 students from 189 to this approach.” The Prime Minister asked Vikas, Sabka Vishwas is the ing good talent into our science schools participated. ! : " AMU Chancellor Syedna students in the AMU to con- mantra behind it” , said the domain, the government has With the theme ‘Science 2& " Mufaddal Saifuddin and Union tribute to the nation building. Prime Minister in his outreach announced scholarships at var- for Self-Reliant India and 1 Education Minister Ramesh “ It is an onus on AMU to the AMU student commu- ious levels. But it needs a big Global Welfare’, the mega ". Pokhriyal Nishank attended students to share with the nity. out-reach from within the sci- event aims to celebrate the ; the event. Modi also released a world everything good about He said progressive edu- ence community as well,” said achievements of India’s sci- postal stamp during the func- India. They have a two-fold cation among Muslim girl stu- the Prime Minister at the inau- entific and technological # 2# tion which he addressed responsibility to contribute to dents has led to decline in the guration of the sixth edition of advancements with students "./ .0,1 through videoconferencing. nation-building and also help dropouts from 70 to 30 per- the four-day India International and innovators. It is being “AMU alumni are spread India bolster its soft power”, he cent. Science Festival (IISF) here. organized jointly by Council "./ .0,1 he National Investigation across the world and take a lot said. “Earlier, the dropout rate He said that India wants its of Scientific and Industrial TAgency (NIA) on Tuesday of pride in their alma mater. Modi lauded the stellar of Muslim girls was 70 per cent scientific community to share Research (CSIR), Department n view of Indian conducted searches at seven Their pride is justified. In 100 role played by the AMU dur- due to lack of toilets and now and grow with the best of of Science and Technology IGovernment’s directive on locations in Thrissur and years of existence, AMU has ing the ongoing pandemic cri- after launching the Swachh global talent and the (DST), Ministry of Earth the suspension of flights, Air Kozhikode districts of Kerala to crafted and polished millions of sis in the country. Bharat Mission, the dropout Government is taking steps to Sciences, Department of India on Tuesday announced a Dec ‘21,” Air India said a series track the whereabouts of a lives, giving them modern and “The contributions made rate went down to only 30 per make India the most trust- Biotechnology (DBT), Indian one-time free rescheduling of of tweets. fugitive obelonging to the scientific thinking and inspir- by the university during the cent”, he said. worthy centre for scientific Council of Medical Research tickets for passengers travelling “All penalties for one-time banned terrorist organisation ing them to do something for coronavirus pandemic were “Thirty five per cent of learning. (ICMR) in association with from the United Kingdom, rescheduling, cancellation, Jund Al Aqsa. society and the nation” , said unprecedented.They helped students in AMU today are The Prime Minister VijnanaBharati. The nodal Oman and Saudi Arabia after rerouting will be waived for The houses of Mohammed the Prime Minister. people get tested for free, built female, I congratulate AMU emphasised the importance institution for science festival the government’s decision to bookings between 22nd & 31st Faaz, Mohammed Ihthisham, “In the last 100 years, AMU isolation wards, started plasma for this feat”, said the Prime of bringing the benefits of this year is CSIR-National stop air travel in the wake of December,” it further said. Abdul Sameeh, Rayees has also worked to strengthen banks, provided hospital beds, Minister. science and technology to all. Institute of Science, Covid-19 pandemic. Air India along with British Rehiman, Nabeel Mohammed, India’s relations with many and helped society”, he said. Prime Minister also men- “Science and Technology are Technology and Development The airline also said that all Airways, Vistara, and Virgin Mohamed Shaheen and countries of the world”, said The Prime Minister quot- tioned the “end” of regressive bridging the gap of scarcity. It Studies (NISTADS), New penalties for one-time resched- Atlantic had been plying flights Mohammed Ameer were Modi in praise of the institution ed AMU’s founder saying that triple-talaq in the country. is connecting the poorest of Delhi. uling, cancellation, rerouting to and from the UK under an air searched by the agency. for will be waived for bookings bubble agreement between the The case was originally between 22 and 31 December two countries. registered suo-motu by NIA as ! " this year. However, Air India The airline has also issued RC-01/2019/NIA/KOC on said the rescheduled travel a directive to its crew members January 9, 2019 under various "./ .0,1 laws,” Tomar said after meet- Pradesh. media from the Foreign should be completed within 31 across international and domes- Sections of the Indian Penal ing the two groups. “The three laws enacted Correspondents’ Club of December this month. tic stations to remain isolated in Code relating to criminal con- fter meeting with two “I am hopeful they by the Centre are good and are South Asia, Tomar said that Air India said that passen- their allocated rooms for the spiracy and provision relating Afarmers groups from (protesting farmers’ unions) in the interest of the farming the government is still willing gers who were booked to trav- complete during of their lay- to neglect of wife, children or Uttar Pradesh and Delhi, will soon complete their inter- community,” KSS President to continue talks with protest- el on now suspended flights overs in light of the discovery of parents besides relevant Union Agriculture Minister nal discussions and come for- Ajay Pal Pradhan said after the ing unions on all contentious from the UK, Oman, and Saudi a new strain of the coronavirus Sections Unlawful Activities Narendra Singh Tomar said ward for talks. We will be able meeting. issues. Arabia can avail a one-time free (Sars-Cov-2) said to spread (Prevention) Act against six on Tuesday he is hopeful that to find a solution successful- KSS further demanded The Minister said the rescheduling for travel com- faster. accused persons Hashir protesting unions would soon ly,” the minister said. that the government should agriculture sector is the back- pleted within December 31. The directive comes right Mohammed, native of complete their internal dis- UP-based Kisan Sangarsh notify only that much land bone of the Indian economy “In view of Indian govt’s after India joined a growing list Ernakulam, Sidhikul Akbar, cussions and resume talks Samithi (KSS) and Delhi- which is required for the and the Narendra Modi gov- directive on the suspension of of countries on Monday to seal native of Malappuram, with the Government to based Indian Kisan Union development. In the ernment is focusing on dou- flights to UK, from 22nd-31st off access to people who have Muhammed Irfan, native of resolve the crisis. ferent farmers’ bodies had (IKU) are among those farmer Secunderabad industrial area, bling farmer’s income by 2022. Dec, Oman & Saudi Arabia been to the United Kingdom, Kannur, Thaha Mohammed, He met two more peas- come to tell that the laws are groups that have extended industries have developed 45 He was interacting with mem- both from 22nd-29th Dec, Air suspending all flights to and native of Shimoga district, ants’ bodies from Delhi and good and are in the interest of support to the laws in the last per cent of the land acquired bers of international media India is offering passengers from the country between Karnataka; Sultan Abdulla, Uttar Pradesh that extended farmers. They had come to three weeks. The previous and the rest is not used yet. from the Foreign booked to travel during the December 23 and December 31 native of Kozhikode district, support to the legislations. urge the Government not groups were from Haryana, Earlier, interacting with Correspondents’ Club of period one-time free reschedule in order to stop the arrival of the Kerala and Fayez Farooq, native “Representatives of dif- make any amendments to the Uttarakhand and Uttar members of international South Asia. for travel completed within 31st new strain. of Thrissur district, Kerala. ! " + ) /
" "./ .0,1 running online child sexual ly operating through his wife, being produced before the tify and detain criminals abuse racket from India, tar- who had agreed to be involved Competent Court at Srinagar, involved in sexual exploitation he Central Bureau of geting minors living in USA, in a Master - Slave relationship officials said. of minors. The CBI had recent- " 6 TInvestigation (CBI) has the CBI said. with the accused and on his It further said, “The CBI ly traced and arrested an arrested an accused, Niyaz “It was further alleged that direction, she allegedly exploit- regularly coordinates with accused, resident of District "./ .0,1 ( ( Ahmed Mir, 35, resident of the accused uploaded the ed multiple minors, recorded international law enforcement Chitrakoot (Uttar Pradesh) on (! )" Srinagar in an on-going inves- pornographic videos and these abuses and electronical- agencies to detect and investi- November 16 on the allegations here is no public interest in 0 tigation of a case related to images over the dark web for ly sent the same to him. It was gate sexual abuse of minors, of sexually abusing over 50 chil- Tdisclosing details of the !! online child sexual abuse rack- financial gains and was also also alleged that when the vic- especially over the cyber space dren in the districts of donors of political parties, the ) et. involved in direct communi- tims refused to follow his dik- and also reaffirms its commit- Chitrakoot, Banda and Central Information The agency had earlier cation with many minors in the tats, he shared these videos and ment towards promoting coop- Hamirpur (Uttar Pradesh). Commission (CIC) has held, registered a case under USA,” it said. images with their family mem- eration with US Law During searches, huge materi- rejecting a plea for making the ( Information Technology Act The wife of the accused, bers,” the agency said. dence including three laptops, Enforcement Agencies in com- al including mobile phones, details public. and provisions of Protection of Tamara Stanley, is living in Searches were conducted at five mobiles, pen drives and bating child sexual abuse in laptops, web-camera, electron- The Commission upheld Children from Sexual Offences Washington, USA, officials the premises of the accused at hand written notes among oth- cyber space.” ic storage devices, Pen Drives / the arguments of the State (POCSO) Act against the said. Srinagar which led to recovery ers. Consistent and conscious Memory Cards, several sex Bank of India that the infor- bonds shall remain confiden- accused on the allegations of “The accused was alleged- of incriminating digital evi- The arrested accused is efforts are being made to iden- toys, and emails were recovered. mation sought by Pune-based tial and will not be shared with RTI activist Vihar Durve was any authority for any purpose. personal in nature held by it in Rejecting Durve’s argu- 6 " . " % " # fiduciary capacity. ments, Information Durve had sought details Commissioner Suresh " 0 of donor and donee of electoral Chandra said, “There appears "./ .0,1 who sit on the file and do process,” it said. bonds from the books of to be no larger public interest nothing,” a bench headed by When the counsel appear- "./ .0,1 in the morning hours at isolat- accounts of State Bank of India overriding the right to priva- he Supreme Court has Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul ing for the petitioner con- ed pockets over Punjab and branches designated to sell cy of the donors and donees Tsaid it is an “irony” that said. tended that a valuable land is fter a couple of days of Haryana, Chandigarh, and Delhi these bonds, sources said. concerned.” despite its repeated observa- “The matter is further involved in the matter, the Arespite from biting cold, on December 23. Dense to very After the denial of infor- “The Commission upholds tions deprecating the practice aggravated in the present case bench said, “In our view, if it minimum temperatures are dense fog in the morning is mation by the SBI, Durve the contention of the respon- of Government authorities and even the present petition 462 days. This is one more was so, then the officers again likely to fall by 1 to 3 expected in isolated pockets approached the commission dent (SBI) that in the disclo- filing appeals before it belat- is filed with a delay of 462 case which we have catego- responsible for the manner in degrees C over Northwest and over the same region from where he argued that the SBI sure of the names of the donors edly to complete a “mere for- days and once again the rized as a ‘certificate cases’ defending this petition must Central India during the next December 24 to 26. was supposed to uphold pub- and donees of electoral mality”, no action has ever excuse is of change of counsel. filed before this court to com- be made to pay for it.” three days. The Met Office forecast lic interest and not the interest bonds from books of accounts been taken against officers We have repeatedly depre- plete a mere formality and “We are thus constrained The India Meteorological also predicted ground frost con- of political parties. may be in contravention of the who sit on file and do noth- cated such attempts of the save the skin of officers who to dismiss the petition as Department (IMD) said in its ditions for Gilgit Baltistan region He said the SBI was not in provisions contained under ing. state governments to approach have been throughout negli- barred by time and impose Tuesday bulletin that cold wave of PoK. Moderate to dense fog fiduciary capacity with any Section 8(1)(e) (fiduciary The apex court, which this court only to complete a gent in defending a litigation!” cost of Rs 15,000 on the peti- conditions are likely to set in is also predicted during the political party and hence has no capacity) and (j) (personal dismissed the plea filed by mere formality,” said the the apex court said. tioner for wastage of judicial over Punjab, Haryana, period, it said. legal duty to maximise the information) of the RTI Act,” Deputy Conservator of Forests bench, also comprising jus- The top court, while refer- time. We put it to the counsel Chandigarh, Delhi, Western “Cold wave to severe cold benefit of any public or private Chandra held. against the Bombay High tices Dinesh Maheshwari and ring to a judgement passed by that the cost would have been Uttar Pradesh on December wave conditions at isolated sector bank; there was no rela- Speaking to PTI, Durve Court’s February last year Hrishikesh Roy. the apex court in October this much greater but for the fact 22, it added. Cold wave to pockets over Punjab, Haryana, tionship of “trust” between asserted that it was an “unrea- order on grounds of delay and The top court noted in its year, said it had defined “cer- that a young counsel is severe cold wave conditions Chandigarh, Delhi and West UP them. soned order” from the CIC as imposed a cost of Rs 15,000 order that it has dealt with the tificate cases” the objective of appearing before us and we over the same region is expect- on December 23 and 24”, the Durve had asked that the it does not mention the on the petitioner for “wastage issue of Government author- which is only to put a quietus have given considerable con- ed on December 23 and 24. IMD said. Severe cold condi- information was to be dis- Election Commission, Reserve of judicial time”, observed ities approaching courts belat- to the issue by recording that cession in the costs on that Cold day conditions are tions continued unabated in closed in the interest of trans- Bank of India, Law that it has repeatedly depre- edly as if the statute of limi- nothing could be done factor alone,” the bench said. likely over some pockets of Jammu and Kashmir and parency and accountability. Ministry objections. He said it cated such a practice. tation “does not exist for because the highest court had It directed that cost be Bihar during the next three Ladakh on Tuesday, as the IMD The SBI, citing Electoral was the CIC which had “The irony is that despite them”. dismissed the appeal. recovered from the officers days and over East Uttar Pradesh another spell of rain and snow Bonds Scheme, 2018, said brought six national parties observations, no action was “The special leave petition “We have repeatedly dep- responsible for delay in filing during the next two days. between Saturday and Sunday, information about buyers of under the RTI Act. ever taken against officers has been filed after a delay of recated such practice and of plea in the apex court. Moderate to dense fog is likely December 26-27. !" # # $1
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But the relentless legal CBI was entrusted with the The trial commenced in Convent in Thiruvalla too was n a clear pointer to the fact attracted investments of about Dedicated Country Tuesday found that Sister battle by Jomon investigation. August 2019 which culminat- found dead under mysterious Ithat the investment climate INR 14,000 crore through Desks. Abhaya (19), a novice belong- Puthenpurackal, a school The CBI investigation too ed on Tuesday with the verdict conditions in a well in the con- remained unaffected in organic investments via their “This has helped consoli- ing to Pius X Convent at dropout from Abhaya’s village was not without controversies. delivered by Judge Sanal Kumar vent on May 7. There has been Maharashtra even during the advanced single window sys- date industrial growth and Kottayam, was murdered and led the CBI to investigate the Varghese P Thomas, the deputy that Fr Kottoor was guilty of demands from various organ- Covid-19 period, the total tem in the year 2020. boost investor confidence; Father Thomas Kottoor (71) cause behind the death. superintendent, who was the trespass and murder while isations for a CBI probe into industrial investments made in Speaking on the MoU sign- positioning the state to be one and Sister Sephy (57), a once The court took into investigating officer had to Sephy was found to have com- the case. “The authorities are Maharashtra during the last six ing meet, Uddhav expressed of the most favored investment glamour girl of the account the eye-witness resign from service following mitted the murder and destruc- indifferent to our demand months went up to a stagger- confidence that the state destinations of the country, Congregation, were guilty of account rendered by Raju, a department and political pres- tion of evidence. though we had submitted a ing Rs 1.12 lakh crore on intended to cross total invest- thereby flourishing the indus- the act. robber who saw the entire pro- sure to change the course of the Sr Abhaya Murder case request to Chief Minister Tuesday, as the domestic entre- ment of Rs 2 lakh crore during trial sector of the state,” a The quantum of punish- ceedings sitting atop a tree. He investigation. Though the CBI had led to the production of Pinarayi Vijayan asking for a preneurs committed an invest- 2020-21. senior state industry depart- ment would be pronounced on had entered the Convent approached the Ernakulam feature films based on the sub- CBI probe. We do not know ment of a Rs 61,000 crore “The Rs 1.12 lakh crore ment official said. Wednesday, said Judge K Sanal premises on the night of March Judicial Magistrate thrice with ject. The world is obliged to why the powers that be are through 25 Memorandums of investment commitments The senior official said Kumar who heard the year- 26-27 with the intention of rob- pleas to wind up the probe, the Jomon Puthenpurackal who indifferent to the mysterious Understanding (MoUs) across received underline the state’s that coupled with the state’s long trial which was probed by bing when he saw the two court declined to entertain the led an action council to ensure death of a nun. The last 28 15-odd sectors. positive domestic business sen- robust FDI pipeline of an addi- the CBI. While Kottoor said he priests and Sister Sephy in requests. that Abhaya gets justice. And years have seen 22 nun trainees At the third MoU signing timent which is in line with tional Rs 79,000 Crore the was innocent , Sephy broke compromising positions in the Nandakumar Nair, Dy SP, Justice has been delivered in the dead under mysterious cir- event with domestic investors vision of a self-reliant India and state was positioned to surpass down in the courtroom. dining room. CBI was appointed as the IO in 28 year old murder. cumstances in the Convents held in the presence of chief thereby Maharashtra,” the chief its previous targets and cross Rs Sister Abhaya was found Abhaya who came to the November 2008 and the probe The CBI probe led by and this is a matter of concern,” minister Uddhav Thackeray, minister said. 2 lakh crore in formal indus- dead in a well in the Convent dining room for a glass of took a new turn. Within days Nadakumar established that said Luckose Chullikkartan, the MoUs signed by the Maharashtra has been at trial investment intentions on March 27, 1992. The Kerala water saw the trio too and of Nandakumar taking over the Sephy, who was expected to be who heads Justice for Sister Maharashtra included a the forefront of FDI inflows in signed by the state. Police which probed the case Sister Sephy ordered the other case, the CBI arrested Fr the Christ’s bride eternally, had Lucy (JSL) launched to ensure diverse range of sectors that India, attracting the largest The total potential employ- wrote it off as a case of suicide. two to finish her off lest the for- Thomas Kottoor, Fr Jose undergone surgery for revir- justice for Sr Lucy who was have been very significant in share of approximately 30 per ment generation from this K T Michael, the Crime Branch mer would make life difficult Poothrikkayil and Sister Sephy ginization which is known in expelled from a congregation of the recent times – pharmaceu- of India’s cumulative Foreign effort is conservatively esti- Dy SP who investigated the for her. The priests murdered in connection with the murder common parlour as hymeno- nuns. ticals, healthcare, biotechnolo- Direct Investment (FDI) mated at 2.5 lakh gy, food processing and FMCG inflows during April people. as well as steel & 2000–2020. The state’s journey With the success at automobiles, engineering and has included an increase in FDI Tuesday’s event, the chief min- 9 ) H : oil & gas. inflow from INR 2,543 Crores ister reiterated the state’s belief Previous engagements in 2004-05 to INR 79,216 crore in industries, sector diversity, +&0+** law and order sitation --- after ticularly those against women His party colleague Samik under Magnetic Maharashtra in 2019-20 indigenous capacities, future his grand road show at Bolpur. had decreased in Bengal she Bhattacharya said it was 2.0 in June 2020 saw invest- As part of its key invest- readiness and the prowess for mid the ongoing dogfight Issuing point-by-point said adding “before pointing because of the economic reces- ment commitments of about ment promotion initiatives execution. Afor the Bengal ‘masnad’ rebuttal of what Shah said fingers at others, BJP leaders sion that the State was wit- INR 17,000 crore. This was under Magnetic Maharashtra “With this Magnetic 5 6 7 (throne) there was a small against her dispensation, should speak up against the nessing massive exodus of complemented by a second 2.0 such as Plug & Play Maharashtra 2.0 bolsters the side-splitting relief with Bengal Banerjee quoted from the Hathras rape-murder incident labour. “Abut 70 lakh people such event in November 2020 Infrastructure, the state gov- message that Maharashtra-the 2*19-( Chief Minister Mamata NCRB data to how violence in Uttar Pradesh.” from Bengal work in other where there was additional ernment has launched schemes torchbearer of India’s growth - Banerjee on Tuesday demand- including political killings come Coming back with a refu- States as construction work- investment commitment of like Maha Jobs, Maha Parwana, - is ‘Open for Business’,” ith Rajasthan crossing ing a “Gujarati treat with down during her 10-year rule. tation of what Banerjee said the ers… why the Chief Minister approximately INR 35,000 Investor First Program, Uddhav said. Wthe 3 lakh mark of cumu- Dhokhla” for rectifying his Slamming Shah for a BJP leadership maintained, the who allegedly has taken a lative Covid-19 cases on alleged misconceptions on “deliberate attempt to malign Chief Minister dwelt on every- whole lot of project for the Tuesday, Chief Minister Ashok Bengal. Bengal” she said “When the thing save the issues raised by minorities could not ensure !# . . Gehlot said that the state gov- “Amit Shah ji owes me a country’s Home Minister says Shah. MP Swapan Dasgupta that the minority workers do , & 6 % ernment has decided to make treat. I love Gujarati food, par- something, it should be backed said that the Chief Minister not have to leave Bengal for New Year celebrations sub- ticularly Dhokla,” she said, by data, facts and figures. spoke about things that were work,” he said. . dued, with a ban on gatherings before calling upon the Home Bengal is ahead of other states not asked from her. Meanwhile, a day after the " ". or fireworks in view of the sit- Minister to prove her claims on on many development indices. “She would not explain BJP leadership claimed that the uation. the State’s development list But Amit Shah ji deliberately the reason behind industrial saffron party would come to " # "" In a message on his wrong. “Prove me wrong or tried to depict a gloomy and recession in Bengal … she power with 200-plus seats in a Facebook page, Gehlot advised treat me with Dhokla,” she dismal picture of the state…” would not clarify the reasons 294-strong Assembly and that + Hathras: In Hathras case, many daughter gave her last statement that like Diwali, people of the said amid a gentle laughter. Banerjee told t he media behind the dwindling indus- the ruling party would struggle more shocking facts have come in front of Naib Tehsildar state should have the New Year Her immediate reference of reminding how Kolkata had trial output of the State” which to cross double digits Panaji: Tourists should be out in chargesheet filed by CBI. Manish Kumar of Tehsil Kol. In celebrations with their family the veiled attack on the Home twice won the “safest city” was second only to Trinamool Congress’ poll banned from eating beef in It has also revealed that the the statement, she accused members by staying inside Minister was his statement cit- appellation. Apart from being Maharashtra,” Dasgupta said strategist Prashant Kishor chal- Goa, in order to scale down the deceased had a relationship Sandeep, Ramu, Ravi and their houses, to save themselves ing how Bengal under Banerjee termed as the first boy in con- wondering why the pharma- lenged them to put their state- slaughter of nearly 200 heads of with Sandeep. Both used to talk Luvkush of this crime. from Covid-19 infection. “It is had turned into a laggard State. struction of rural roads, 100- ceutical industry of the State ments on record that they cattle, whose meat is sold in the on the phone. However, the fam- According to the charge necessary to protect oneself, Shah on Sunday raised a whole days works, implementation accounted for only 7 percent would quit their positions if coastal state every day, a Goa- ily of the girl has denied this. sheet, the CBI has disclosed the one's family and the lives of lot of issues --- from industri- of sanitation projects NCRB when it was 70 percent post their party failed to get 200 based gau-rakshak organisa- According to the charge relationship between Sandeep common people,” he wrote. al recession to plummeting data showed how crimes par- Independence. seats. tion Govansh Rakhsa Abhiyaan sheet, when the mother of the and the victim. During the demanded in a memorandum girl asked the victim to cut the investigation, the CBI came to to Chief Minister Pramod grass, she made an excuse of know that both houses were Sawant on Tuesday. fatigue and thirst on which the near to each other and both had $ <= 6 In the memorandum, the mother asked her to tie a bun- a relationship for 2.5 years. This organisation has also demand- dle of grass and then mother matter also came up before the $-$A*1 @ north-central Mumbai. ed that the Goa government moved to another farm of about CBI in questioning the villagers. The Shiv Sena, which emulate Karnataka govern- 50 meters to cut the grass. On Not only this, after scrutinizing iving a new twist to the and spokesperson Sachin lakh affordable houses under was okay for construction of heads the three-party govern- ment's new anti-cattle slaughter return, the mother did not find the CDR of the accused and his Gongoing Mumbai Metro- Sawant wanted to know from the PM Modi's Housing for All housing projects but not for the ment in Maharashtra, had lent law, the Karnataka Prevention of the daughter there and started father, it was found that from III car shed location contro- the now Opposition BJP that 2022 scheme on the land allot- metro-3 car shed. credence to the reports in a sec- Slaughter and Preservation of searching for her. She found the October 2019 to March 2020, versy, the Maharashtra without even thinking about ted for Metro Car Shed at Linking the Opposition tions of the media that in the Cattle Bill (2020), in Goa to pre- sandal of the victim nearby and there was a lot of conversation Congress on Tuesday charged the connection between Kanjurmarg. Fadnavis also BJP’s “contradictions” to its wake of the Bombay High vent slaughter of cattle in the found her daughter lying uncon- between the victim and Sandeep. that the previous Devendra Shapoorji Pallonji and the said appointed a five member “economic interests”, Sawant Court’s stay on the Mumbai future. sciously. Later, the family came to Fadnavis Government had land how did the Fadnavis committee under Additional said that the court has allowed Metro-III car shed “The picture being painted The CBI has mentioned in know about this and both accepted the proposal given by dispensation accept the pro- Chief Secretary (Finance) for the work for metro projects project at Kanjurmarg, chief outside Goa, is that Goans eat the charge sheet that after this, stopped talking. Sandeep was developer Shapoorji Pallonji on posal given by this. despite the dispute over the minister Uddhav Thackeray only beef and that if beef is not the brother and the mother very angry with this and start- June 11, 2019 for building one Shapoorji Pallonji and form a “Even as the role of anoth- land for Charkop Depot of had asked the senior officials to available, people in Goa will go reached the police station with ed suspecting the victim of why lakh affordable houses under committee of high ranking er developer Garodiya was still Metro 2 Pune Metro. explore if the car shed hungry. That is a wrong pro- the daughter. The brother gave she was not picking up his the PM Modi's Housing for All officials?”: questionable the contract with Sawant’s charge against the project could be re-located at jection. Goans only occasional- the complain there. From where phone. 2022 scheme on the disputed “What business interests Shapoorji Pallonji was can- Opposition BJP should be seen BKC. ly eat beef and maybe sometime the daughter was brought to the According to the charge land allotted for Metro Car were devised by the then BJP celled by the High Court in in the context of a fresh war of Shiv Sena spokesperson during festive occasions,” district hospital of Hathras and sheet, all the four accused, who Shed at Kanjurmarg in north- government to show so much 2016,” the state Congress words that broke out between and MP Sanjay Raut ticked off Kamlesh Bandekar, a spokesper- finally referred to JN Medical were named by the victim on east Mumbai. concern for Garodiya? Was spokesperson said. the O+pposition BJP and the the BJP – which in the wake of son for the organisation, said at College of Aligarh. On September 22, were present Seeking to “expose” a deal the Bharatiya Janata Party Questioning Fadnavis’ Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) the high court’s ruling felt vin- a press conference in Panaji. September 22, when Dr. MS around this village. Call details done by the previous Devendra working as an agent for opposition to the move to shift government on Friday over dicated over its earlier stand on Bandekar also said that Hooda, head of the Department revealed that both of them made Fadnavis government with builders?,” Sawant asked. the proposed Mumbai Metro- the latter’s proposal to shift the the Mumbai Metro-III car shed nearly 200 cattle are slaughtered of Forensic Medicine and 105 calls between 17 October developer Shapoorji Pallonji in According to Sawant, the II car shed from Goregaon to Mumbai Metro III car shed project – when he confirmed to feed the demand of 25 tons Technology of the Medical 2019 to 3 March 2020. the run-up to the October Fadnavis government had Kanjurmarg, Sawant said: “The from Kanjurmarg to a location that the reports that the plot at of beef in the state every day, College, saw the victim's condi- According to the charge 2019 State Assembly polls, accepted the proposal given by Kanjurmarg land was okay for earmarked for the proposed BKC for re-locating the adding that most of the volume tion, he asked the CMO to sheet, there was a fight between Maharashtra Pradesh Congress developer Shapoorji Pallonji on the Metro-6 project, but not for Bullet terminus at Bandra- Mumbai Metro-II was being is consumed by visiting immediately file a pre-death both families after they came to Committee general secretary June 11, 2019 for building one the Metro-3 project. The land Kurla Complex (BKC) in considered. tourists. IANS statement. At 5.40 pm, the know about their relationship. > $ -9 A:9 + O G Aligarh: 26-year-old Qasim daughter is 7 years old and his ' Khan, son of Anwar, of Jhalkari son is 4.5 years old. Qasim's *! Nagar in Jangalgarh bypass of wife worships in the house Lucknow: In a bizarre state- Dehli Gate police station area according to Hinduism. Qasim ment, the UP president of KOCHI: For the first time in the The unanimous resolutions of Aligarh district of Uttar said that no religion is wrong Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), history of Kerala, Arif were to express solidarity with Pradesh, has converted to and he came to know about Bhim Rajbhar has declared that Mohammed Khan, the the farmers’ agitation and to Hinduism and become a Hindu customs from Anita people are being misled on the Governor, denied permission to reject the Farm Bills. Karmaveer along with his wife after marriage and arose in his issue of Covid-19 and that the State Government for con- The Governor had sought and children. The daughter mind that his ancestors were drinking toddy is the best way vening on Wednesday a special clarification from the Kerala and son have also been named also Hindus. He then decided to prevent coronavirus. session of the Legislative Government about the urgency according to Hinduism. to renounce his conversion Rajbhar was addressing a Assembly. The Government and need of the special session. He was purified at the from Islam to Hinduism. This function in Ballia on Tuesday needs the approval for conven- Sources close to the Governor Arya Samaj temple. Qasim / is the voice of their conscience. when he said that toddy was ing special sessions of the said that he was not impressed Karmaveer said that this is his He then contacted social purer than even 'Ganga jal'. “If House. The Governor had or convinced with the explana- home coming. His ancestors activist Neeraj Bhardwaj and you drink toddy regularly, you already issued his permission to tion given by the Government were Hindus. However, he feels others and expressed his desire will not get coronavirus,” he said. convene the session for January and hence the decision to dis- insecure due to fear of radicals to adopt Hinduism and went to He said that toddy was an 8. miss the plea for the special ses- and demanding protection the authorities with his wife immunity booster and helped in The CPI(M) led LDF and sion. “His Excellency felt that from the administration. and children but no one took building up antibodies. “You can the Congress-led UDF had there was no need for a special 8 years ago, Qasim, a resi- it seriously. One lawyer advised check that those who drink decided to pass a resolution in session for the business men- dent of Jhalkari Nagar, had him to visit the Arya Samaj toddy on a daily basis have not the session rejecting the new tioned by the Government. The married a Hindu girl named temple. He requested an affi- been infected by virus. People in Agricultural Laws enacted by Government can adopt the res- Anita Kumari in 2012 and davit through Neeraj Bhardwaj Rajbhar community make their the Centre which has resulted in olutions in the session sched- separated from his family (par- to the Arya Samaj temple at children drink toddy from a thousands of farmers staging an uled for January 8,” said the Raj ents) after marriage. His Sasni Gate. PNS young age,” he added. IANS agitation in the national capital. Bhavan source. PNS !" # # $2 # # !) 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The year witnessed the deepening of the ( ( $ pre-pandemic inequalities and discrimination. It '& %$ also brought to the fore more disturbing concerns about women’s basic human rights. (& While the raging global health crisis instilled $( $8( =!7 a fear of contracting infections in people, for 8( (& % many women and girls, it also unleashed the 7=% =!7 ' threat of intimate partner violence (IPV) consid- 7 7= ering that they were closeted within their homes % ( for extended periods due to the lockdowns neces- ', 8( sitated by the outbreak. Over two dozen evidence- B based global research studies corroborate that ( &'2& “the pandemic has raised the profile of violence $ % S& &$ against women and children.” The home, that is *''&(1" supposed to be a safe haven, has turned into a & $.1* ( $ brewing ground for extreme brutalities, which ( ' (.9&(: prompted the UN Secretary General António .*,: -. & , % Guterres to call for a “ceasefire.” Sadly, this appeal ', ( % & &$.:1' for a ceasefire was not made for any battlefront *A-:. 1" ,. 2% = 2 but for the violence being perpetrated in homes Now, the combined onslaught of 74 per cent of men, a gender gap, that of men, there was little change, both, 52= 6&""3 2"#@@& across the world. -+ $&(. violence, financial insecurity and has been persisting for the last 25 years. during the pre and post-lockdown " "#&& ( & According to media reports, deaths due to ,*" &-A0. increased unpaid workload on women In Southern Asia, Northern Africa and period. This is not restricted to India G '7 $ 2 2 = $522=6 domestic abuse in the UK more than doubled in 1" ,. #1(: is making many of them vulnerable to Western Asia, the rate plummets to less alone, but, has become a global phe- ! % 7$ ' the first two months of the lockdown, while in /& $&",: &# greater mental and physical health than 30 per cent. nomenon. In the US, most profession- && $ & the US there was not only an increase in domes- ,. 0&'+&/" risks. “Women are now doubly prone During the pandemic, women bore al gender gaps are in fact motherhood tic violence cases but also in the severity of /,10. 1" to abortions and mental depression. the major burnt of the economic dis- gaps and many working mothers, in the %% & & injuries inflicted. In India, the number of IPV They are 1.5 times more susceptible to ruption as the sectors in which they pre- absence of guaranteed paid maternity '0( && ,. -: ,.(. complaints went up 2.5 times during the nation- /*: "& HIV infections and 2.3 times more sus- dominated like food service, retail, leave or affordable childcare, are con- % %*& %% wide lockdown. This is notwithstanding the fact ceptible to alcohol disorders,” says the entertainment and so on, have been the fronting brutally hard choices between $$*% % $ $%$ &"0F *" that as many as 150 countries have laws against 1"'(.*:. 1" World Health Organisation (WHO). hardest hit. A staggering 72 per cent a job and child care. So is the case in & &' domestic violence. However, many legal experts A CARE International study reveals women working as domestic help lost Israel, where free early childhood edu- % % 7= are of the opinion that the laws are “not always &$.:1' that “women are suffering almost three jobs, while for many women in risky cation and day care, raised women’s &$ ( on the women’s side.” 81&0."'. '*:.: times more from significant mental and stigmatised jobs, it was a “choice overall workforce participation to 74 && ' # & In some parts of the world, like Northern A- *0:& health consequences.” Another survey between unemployment and the risk of per cent, but, the pandemic disruptions % $& % Africa, Western Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, 43 1" ,. :.8.(1F by Total Brain says that “depression has infection.” reduced it to 56 per cent. 9 ' $ per cent and 35 per cent of the countries respec- &# 1"2-(1.: increased by 83 per cent in women, India, which already has one of the The UN Women expressed concern tively, are yet to pass any laws against IPV. 1"#01'. 1" compared to 36 per cent in men.” As per world’s lowest female labour force par- that “even when the pandemic subsides, 7= ( % 7= Fortunately, India does have a law against a media report “suicide rates among ticipation rates (FLPR), saw the num- women are likely to suffer from long- & % F 1"1* ,. domestic abuse since 2005. But the available data "-$A.( &# 198 young women in Japan and South bers falling even further. The Centre for term setbacks in workforce participa- $ ' seldom reflect the reality, since a large number Korea are already on the rise due to Monitoring Indian Economy’s (CMIE’s) tion and income.” , 7= & & '&$90*1": of cases remain unreported. The extended /." -9 increased stress.” In Britain, a study latest data showed a job contraction for Even though 25 years have passed % ( * ( nationwide lockdown made matters worse for found that “during the first six weeks both men (104 million ) and women since the world adopted the Beijing dec- $ $ Indian women/girls as many of them failed to 3 = 1$.: of the lockdown, suicidal tendencies (17 million). However, men regained laration, yet, gender equality is still an %%( '2 %&& reach the designated helplines, because of the -(1" ,. had gone up mostly among women and most of their lost jobs by November, elusive dream and one of the major %4 &$ wide connectivity gap. While just 46 per cent of "*1&"/1. young adults.” while, women lost 49 per cent of them. casualties of the pandemic. “Women are & ', 8( S( urban women have their own mobile phones, in 0&'+&/" Women working from home Moreover, a study indicated that “23.5 yet to become citizens in the real $ & $ the rural areas, it drops to 37 per cent. (WFH) also experience “increased lev- per cent of women employed before the sense. Though in the eyes of the law, The UN chief’s calls for a strategy to counter els of anxiety, stress and sleeplessness, lockdown, were less likely to be re- they may possess equal rights but they &($ ( the perils of the “shadow pandemic”, are yet to as often, the line between personal and employed.” In the case of small women are often treated as subjects, second ' bear fruit. So far, only 48 countries have incor- work life gets merged.” Be that as it may, entrepreneurs, “most of them (73 per class citizens or lesser mortals. There ( $ 4 porated any such measure in their COVID-19 women’s mental health issues are often cent) faced setbacks, with 21 per cent is an implicit bar, either in the garb of & ', & =S containment blueprint. While commenting on dismissed as “frivolous” or “imaginary” suffering a near wipe out and 35 per patriarchal control or societal norm,” % 7 why women continue to get the short end of the and seldom receive any medical atten- cent seeing a significant decline in busi- rues Putul Sathe, Professor, Research H = 2 = ' stick, Beulah Shekhar, Emeritus Professor, tion. A WHO survey (June to August) ness revenues….’, says a report by Bain Centre for Women’s Studies, S.N.D.T. BP Q PQ (& Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences, in 130 countries disclosed that critical & Company, a management consultan- Women’s University, Mumbai. While, & Coimbatore, says that the “present calamitous sit- mental health services in 93 per cent of cy. The CMIE’s household survey too Beulah Shekhar, says that “women’s &%' uation has made it abundantly clear that, both, the countries “got disrupted even when flagged a more disturbing impact on rights remain only a rhetoric, just ( % % the Government and the NGOs, lack prepared- there were growing demands” for help. younger women, whose FLPR went ticking the right boxes, and not a real- ness and like before, there are knee-jerk reactions In the field of gainful employment, down to 8.7 per cent from 14.3 in 2019. ity in India.” & %', to adverse developments. Decentralised and mul- too, women are being gradually pushed According to a research, women (The writer is former Director- $( % & %%' tidisciplinary disaster responses teams led by out. The UN Economic and Social with no children appear to have had the General, Doordarshan and All India &&&' women are the need of the hour. This will aid in Council’s ‘World’s Women 2020’ report, best rebound in terms of employment Radio and ex-Press Secretary, President 5 the effective implementation of gender-sensitive says that only 47 per cent of women are and women with very young children of India. The views expressed are person- 6 strategies.” part of the labour market, compared to often got a raw deal, while in the case al)
line (1850-1900). This has been fol- GHG emission curve, similar to the Even though, the global lock- high temperatures and droughts Even as environmental experts dependence on fossil fuels. Just lowed by an unusually cold winter. emergency efforts being made to flat- downs necessitated by the pandem- which caused major wildfires and attributed the freak rains to GHG focussing on these two areas on a war We know climate change as a ten the COVID-19 one. ic gave the world a breather by bring- resulted in a loss of $3 billion to the emissions and global warming, the footing will decrease GHG emissions phenomenon that denotes a gradual Currently, the ambient air pollu- ing down GHG emissions by 17 per agriculture sector. efforts to rein in the same have and reduce ambient temperatures. worsening of our environmental tion caused by ozone and fine par- cent, the resumption of economic India, too, has not been spared slipped time and again and the out- This will result in controlling climat- conditions but, this year has shown ticulate matter is major cause for activity will see the pollution levels the adverse effects of climate change. break has only made the efforts to ic extremities. that the change is rapidly transition- worry as it contributes to 3.4 million climb up soon enough. Unless we A record-breaking cold wave in safeguard the environment that Similarly, allocation of sufficient ing to a climate crisis. This means premature deaths worldwide. How take climate change and environ- December 2019 continued well into much more difficult. This is because, funds is essential to ensure that the more bad news for humanity on the many deaths in India are attributable mental degradation seriously and January and this was accompanied by given the socio-economic impact of battle against climate change is (*4)4: environmental front. to this cause needs to be worked out mend our ways, we are headed for heavy rainfall throughout northern the contagion, countries will be fought on an even keel. In order to The University of North Carolina by the Government urgently, as disaster. India. The national Capital received tempted to keep environmental con- ensure this, the diversion of precious uses supercomputers to observe the studies suggest that pollution-relat- The climate crisis being triggered the maximum rainfall in 10 years and cerns on the back-burner in a post- public money for needless projects he COVID-19 pandemic effects of climate change. While pre- ed casualties will be the highest in by the spiraling GHG emissions has this led to a sharp plunge in temper- Corona world. Shoring up their tot- must be identified and curtailed. caused unprecedented human senting its findings at the National densely populated areas. left an indelible mark on the environ- atures in Delhi, Punjab, Haryana and tering economies will be their prima- Climate change is a reality but we still Tsuffering and its socio-eco- Institute of Environment Health At the same time, measures to ment this year and has resulted in the Uttar Pradesh (UP). ry concern for a long time to come. do not have a full blown climate cri- nomic impact was felt globally. Sciences-sponsored Global reduce GHG emissions can exponen- exacerbation of extreme weather The vagaries of climate change This will lead to a Catch-22 situation sis on our hands. If we take sustain- Environmental deterioration too, Environment Health seminar in tial boost and aid global efforts to events. One of the most extreme again manifested themselves in the as the pandemic was a result of envi- able development seriously even as seems to have accelerated during this June, the experts stated that save human lives. According to the weather spells was the Atlantic hur- form of untimely rainfall in March. ronmental degradation in the first we pursue our economic recovery time, if the slew of extreme weather unchecked Greenhouse Gas (GHG) figures released by the University of ricane season that saw a record- As many as 222 out of the total 683 place. Along with the rest of the goals diligently, we can hope to events that took place this year are emissions and air pollution were North Carolina, if we are successful breaking 30 storms between June 1- meteorological districts in the coun- world, India, too, has its environmen- leave a better world for future gen- anything to go by. going to pave the way for extreme in bringing down GHG emissions, November 30. Apart from these try received excess rain. This was not tal conservation challenges cut-out. erations. Else, as we have already wit- In fact, 2020 was the third- weather events in the 21st century. approximately 5,00,000 fewer prema- storms and cyclones, heavy rainfall only detrimental for agriculture but India must forge a resilient environ- nessed, climate change can prove to warmest year on record, given that The unanimous conclusion at ture deaths can be achieved by 2030 in several parts of Asia and Africa led also adversely impacted the efforts of ment strategy for 2021 and beyond. be a runaway train. the global mean surface temperature the seminar attended by 400 experts and this number can be taken up to to immense loss of human lives, the Government to contain the Removing bottlenecks in renewable (The writer is an environmental for January-October was 1.1 to 1.2 °C from around the world was that there two million fewer premature deaths property and livelihoods. Brazil, for COVID-19 pandemic which was energy self-sufficiency must become journalist. The views expressed are higher than the pre-industrial base- was an urgent need to flatten the by 2100. instance, saw uncharacteristically spreading fast during that period. a priority along with dialing down of personal) !" # # $; 0' + )0+ Q " +R#$
0&"&" Misery was piled on trav- 7,2 > " ellers trying to leave Britain as !"#!$ ritish Prime Minister Boris around 30 nations introduced BJohnson on Monday sought bans on individuals arriving = #&!&"' !&"( to sound a note of calm saying from the UK in a bid to con- he was working “as fast as tain the new coronavirus vari- possible” to unblock trade ant of the disease which British Copenhagen, Denmark: The ! " "* $, across the Channel after France officials have said is 70 percent World Health Organization shut its borders to UK hauliers more transmissible than the 0&"&" terns, you would expect to see 10 Downing Street briefing on (WHO) in Europe said Tuesday A.(01" mimics this new mutation -- in a bid to contain a new vari- main strain. more children being infected,” Monday evening. it would convene its members we could be able to provide a ant of the coronavirus. The chaos on the roads cientists in the UK are inves- she explained. “I find that a reason for to discuss how to handle the he co-founder of BioNTech new vaccine technically with- Following conversations surrounding the key port is a Stigating the impact of a new Experts do not believe that hope and for confidence,” he outbreak of a new variant of the Tsaid Tuesday it was “high- in six weeks.” with French President stark sign of what to expect mutant variant of coronavirus, the new version is any greater said. His address came as near- novel coronavirus discovered in ly likely” that its vaccine against Sahin said the variant Emmanuel Macron over the should Britain leave the EU named VUI-202012/01, on chil- threat to children’s health and ly 1,500 lorries piled up on the the UK. the coronavirus works against detected in Britain has nine ban, which has caused chaos without a deal in 10 days. dren and whether its faster the scientist behind the world’s borders as France sealed off the Hans Kluge, WHO’s the mutated strain detected in mutations, rather than just one around the key UK port of However, Johnson said that transmission in parts of England first approved vaccine against UK amid fears of the new regional director for Europe Britain, but it could as is usually common. Dover and led to concerns of during his call with Macron the is down to the younger segment Covid-19 has said the rapid spreading variant. said in a post to Twitter that the also adapt the vaccine if nec- Nevertheless, he voiced food shortages just days before pair had “vowed” not to discuss of the population. Pfizer/BioNTech jabs will work Government ministers have organisation was closely mon- essary in six weeks. confidence that the vaccine Christmas, Johnson said supply Brexit as negotiations between The Government’s New against the strain, though fur- been working to get the block itoring the spread of the new “Scientifically, it is highly developed with Pfizer would be chains remained “strong and London and Brussels continue. and Emerging Respiratory ther investigation remains lifted, with mass testing of the variant and would in response likely that the immune efficient because it “contains robust”. Road signs near the Virus Threats Advisory Group underway. drivers being one option in “convene member states to dis- response by this vaccine also more than 1,000 amino acids, “These delays only apply to Channel port, through which (Nervtag) is monitoring the “The likelihood that our order for the flow of goods to cuss strategies for testing, can deal with the new virus and only nine of them a very small percentage of food 10,000 heavy goods vehicles data to analyse this arc of the vaccine works… is relatively resume and truckers able to get reducing transmission & com- variant,” said Ugur Sahin. have changed, so that entering the UK,” the prime pass each day, on Monday urged variant, which has led over 40 high,” said Ugur Sahin, chief back home in time for municating risks.” But if needed, “in principle means 99 percent of the protein minister told a press confer- people to go home, saying that countries, including India, to executive of the German co- Christmas. Kluge added that “limiting the beauty of the messenger is still the same”. ence, adding that he wanted to the French border was closed. suspend travel to and from the developer of the vaccine “Testing of some sort is travel to contain spread is pru- technology is that we can He said tests are being run sort out the problem “in the David King, a lorry driver UK in order to try and contain BioNTech. part of the discussions that the dent until we have better info.” directly start to engineer a on the variant, with results next few hours”. from Birmingham in the west the more infectious mutation. Speaking on ‘Bild TV’ in transport secretary is having AFP vaccine which completely expected in two weeks. France’s snap decision on of England, had been left Earlier strains of coron- Germany, Sahin said his com- with his counterpart in France Sunday, which was initially set stranded in Dover trying to avirus found it harder to infect pany would investigate the right now,” UK Home Secretary to last for 48 hours, was made in make a delivery to Belgium. children than adults, with one mutation in the coming days Priti Patel said. *!*4>?*=*2@AA * ! a bid to contain the new strain “It’s been a frustrating year explanation being that children and that he viewed the matter “Getting those tests up and of the virus, discovered in the hasn’t it, for everyone, so this have fewer of the doorways “with a degree of soberness”. running can happen pretty UK, which officials have said is just adds to it. A bad end to a called the ACE2 receptor the His message of some con- quickly, but in terms of the ; R!*4!7;* > =;!38: 70 percent more transmissible. bad year really,” he told AFP. virus uses to enter a human fidence comes as the UK details of that, that is something @ The ban caused Britain to A disused airfield will be body’s cells. reached the half a million mile- both the transport secretary (** -42#2* 2> bring forward “Operation opened later Monday to serve Professor Wendy Barclay, stone for vaccinations of the and his counterpart will be dis- Taipei: Taiwan reported its Stack”, the contingency plan as a lorry park for up to 4,000 from Nervtag and Imperial jabs, delivered to the elderly cussing,” she said. Washington: In the United US airports on Friday, Saturday first local coronavirus trans- drawn up to deal with antici- stranded drivers. College London, said the muta- and most vulnerable sections of From initial reports of the States last week, someone died and Sunday. mission on Tuesday, blaming a pated freight tailbacks on roads UK supermarket tions to the virus appeared to the country’s population. new variant being more con- from Covid-19 every 33 sec- Health officials are worried foreign pilot for ending 253 around Dover in the event of a Sainsbury’s warned that pro- be making it easier to breach “I can today announce that fined to London and southern onds. The disease claimed that a surge in infections from days of being virus-free. Health no-deal Brexit. longed disruption could lead to those doorways. over half a million people, parts of England, the govern- more than 18,000 lives in the holiday gatherings could over- authorities said a woman in her “gaps over the coming days” in “Therefore children are more than 500,000 people in ment’s Chief Scientific Adviser, seven days ended Dec. 20, up whelm hospitals, some of thirties had tested positive after ‘A bad end to a bad year’ the supply of lettuce, cauliflow- equally susceptible, perhaps, to the UK, have now received Sir Patrick Vallance, has now 6.7% from the prior week to hit which are already at capacity contact with the pilot, a New Earlier in the day, the ers, broccoli and citrus fruit. this virus as adults, and there- their first dose,” Prime Minister confirmed that it is to be found another record high, according after Thanksgiving celebra- Zealander working for a prime minister called a meet- fore given their mixing pat- Boris Johnson announced at a “everywhere”. to a Reuters analysis of state tions. And while the country Taiwan airline. Health Minister ing of the Cobra emergency Chaotic scenes and county reports. has begun to administer two Chen Shih-chung said the pilot committee to discuss the situ- The ban on all but unac- Despite pleas by health new vaccines, it may be months had failed to “truthfully ation regarding international companied freight crossing to with days to go until Britain warned the current chaotic through before the New Year officials not to travel during the before the inoculations put a declare” his contacts and activ- travel and in particular the reg- France comes as companies finally quits EU trade struc- scenes could become a famil- deadline, leading to the impo- end-year holiday season, 3.2 dent in the coronavirus out- ities to authorities once he had ular flow of freight. scramble to shift merchandise tures. Those hoping for a deal iar sight without a break- sition of new tariffs. million people were screened at break. been confirmed as a carrier. ) * 3 0 = > $ " A(-::.0: leave the single market,” Barnier said, highlighting the Washington: The Trump planes, are on the list. Wenbin said at a daily news " "P eaders and negotiators from need for speed to get a deal. administration on Monday The final list names 103 conference in Beijing on Lthe European Union and Over the past few days, published a list of Chinese and entities, 14 fewer than on the Tuesday. )")#*"+#, ((*) the United Kingdom intensi- British Prime Minister Boris Russian companies with alleged draft list seen by Reuters in Publishing the list in the &'(&)?)"))('?'(2")*.&(2 fied their struggle Tuesday to Johnson and EU Commission military ties that restrict them November. Fifty-eight are des- waning days of the Trump &2"#6 &"#,"#? ?# get a trade deal past the New President Ursula von der Leyen from buying a wide range of US ignated under China, down administration follows the "?"&&?")).(&+# Year’s Day finish line as EU have been drawn more and goods and technology. from 89, and 45 entities are tied addition of dozens of Chinese 2#*)&# (*,( nations looked at legal options more into the talks and have Reuters first reported last to Russia, up from 28. companies to another U.S. $&:'&/ to do it without formal been in contact by phone seek- month that the U.S. Commerce Secretary trade blacklist, including the European Parliament backing. ing to unblock negotiationa on Department of Commerce Wilbur Ross said on Monday country’s top chipmaker, SMIC, ussia’s foreign ministry on Nine months of talks have the last major outstanding dif- drafted a list of companies the action establishes a new and drone manufacturer SZ RTuesday summoned senior dwindled to just a few days to ference — EU fishing rights in that it linked to the Chinese or process “to assist exporters in DJI Technology Co Ltd, on diplomats from several find a compromise on how to U.K. waters. Russian military, news that screening their customers for Friday. European Union countries to continue trading with as few Up to Jan. 1, the rights were brought a rebuke from Beijing. military end users.” Tensions between the voice discontent over their obstructions and tariffs as pos- shared among all EU nations, but The final list does not The final list was published United States and China have response to the poisoning sible after Britain left the EU on with the Brexit departure, the UK include Commercial Aircraft on the Commerce Department escalated over the past year, as attack on opposition leader Jan. 31 and a transition period regains control over some of its Corporation of China website https://www.com- Trump blamed it for the coro- Alexey Navalny. runs out at the end of the year. abundant waters. Now both (COMAC), or the Hong Kong merce.gov/news/press-releas- navirus pandemic, China State news agency RIA “We are really in a crucial sides are haggling, seeking to hog subsidiaries of Colorado’s es/2020/12/commerce-depart- imposed a national security law Novosti reported that top moment and we are giving it a as much of those fishing quotas Arrow Electronics and Texas- ment — will-publish-first-mil- in Hong Kong and a dispute diplomats from Germany, final push,” said EU chief nego- as they can. If Britain insists on based TTI Inc, a Berkshire itary-end-user-list-naming on involving the South China Sea France and Sweden had arrived tiator Michel Barnier before he keeping too much for itself, it Hathaway electronics distribu- Monday and is scheduled to be has intensified. at the foreign ministry in briefed EU member states on could see itself punished with tor. Those companies were on posted for public inspection in The U.S. government also Moscow on Tuesday morning. the state of negotiations. tough seafood export tariffs and the draft list seen by Reuters. the Federal Register has grown increasingly con- Laboratories in the three “In 10 days, the UK will other measures. However, Shanghai on Tuesday. cerned about China’s “mili- EU states concluded earlier Aircraft Design and Research China urged the United tary-civil fusion,” a policy that this year that Navalny was poi- Institute, which designs States to stop what it called aims to build up its military soned with the Soviet-designed COMAC planes, and Shanghai erroneous actions and treat all might and technological devel- nerve agent Novichok, findings Aircraft Manufacturing Co, companies in an equal way, for- opment in tandem. that resulted in EU sanctions which manufactures COMAC eign ministry spokesman Wang Agencies against several Russian officials. OP
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M session’s massive selloff, as L&T. business and nations more threshold of a new era of coop- the goal of 26,000 participants According to the compa- European markets reversed Only five index con- readily join forces, thanks to the eration, in which individuals, for the Phase III clinical trials ny, the vaccine is developed and ! 6 ! losses amid expectations that stituents finished in the red -- coronavirus pandemic and only businesses and nations more of its Covid-19 vaccine manufactured at Bharat =2>" ) ! the Covid-19 vaccines will be Kotak Bank, Bajaj Finance, a global effort can help get back readily join forces," he said. ‘Covaxin’ across multiple sites Biotech’s BSL-3, biocontain- 1 R A ) ! $ effective against a new virus HDFC, RIL and IndusInd to normality from the health Stressing that such coop- in India. ment facility. 9 , strain in the UK. Bank, which slipped up to 0.94 crisis, according to Tata Sons eration is needed, Covaxin has been eval- The company has suc- ) *) IT stocks led the recovery per cent. European markets Chairman N Chandrasekaran. Chandrasekaran further said, uated in approximately 1,000 cessfully recruited 13,000 vol- * $ 9 , S1 on Dalal Street, with pharma witnessed a sharp recovery In his new year address "To distribute a vaccine to subjects in Phase I and Phase unteers for the Phase III ! R and select banking stocks also after German pharmaceutical to over 7.5 lakh employees of every country in the world will II clinical trials, with promis- clinical trials of the vaccine A ) # 9 ! ! witnessing robust demand. company BioNTech said it was the consumer products to aero- be an international operation of ing safety and immunogenici- nd the target is to have 26,000 1 ) M After gyrating 968 points confident that its coronavirus space conglomerate, unparalleled complexity. 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HCL Tech was the easily. that "offer a glimpse of the new undertaken outside the home (NIV), it added. The company had started - + economy that will emerge from can be done equally well inside "Covaxin is a highly puri- the phase III clinical trials in @6 ! S 2330, the old". "Beyond individual it. Shopping. Education. fied and inactivated 2 dose mid-November. 4 ,2 . +B >&"" 3 2" ,' " 9A5 / ,-(*.(+*&./0 A ! ) ! $ !! 3;36 !! > L 4 & ) A,*(* &F*0 % 23 he Board exams are valued as the foun- dation of a child’s future in the Indian edu- Tcation system. Every year, schools across the country put a special focus on the students of Classes X and XII so that they perform well % %* in the exam that helps decide their future course. However, the schools had to cancel face-to-face he SRM Institute of classes this year amidst the fear of Covid-19 con- TScience & Technology, will tamination. And hence, the students lost cru- be having its 16th Annual cial time. Convocation on December Nonetheless, there is no reason for students 26, 2020 (Saturday) at 10:30 to not be hopeful of achieving excellent marks am. The event will be held vir- in the examinations. To make the job easier for tually as per the protocol of students, CBSE has already slashed 30 per cent the Government of Tamil of the syllabus. Meanwhile, schools are making Nadu due to the ongoing pan- all efforts to clear doubts via online sessions. demic. Now, the students must follow certain tips to Based on the restrictions prepare in a manner that helps them score well. imposed by the State Prepare a time table, stick to it: First and Government, only rank hold- foremost, prepare your study schedule smart- ers and PhD degree awardees ly. It is important to have a timetable based on will be given their degrees in your style of study. Even without waking up at person at Dr TP Ganesan odd hours, a student can invest around eight Auditorium, Main Campus, hours of preparation each day. However, one Kattankulathur. The rest of the must not keep unrealistic goals and take breaks eligible graduands are invited after every hour or so to stay focused. It is advis- to attend through virtual able to begin studies with a difficult topic as the mode. ( mind is most fresh then. About 17,199 students )2# % Relating to study content, preference should belonging to the Faculties of " # ( "# be given to NCERT textbooks over reference Engineering and Technology, + books. Rather than jumping to other books, the Faculty of Science and focus should be on mastering prescribed text- Humanities, Medicine & Krishnamoorthy Endowment books. Also, students should prepare brief Health Science and award for the best overall notes on every topic and make it a habit to Management studies includ- outgoing student of SRM underline (or highlight) the crucial sen- ing 129 PhD scholars will be Medical College Hospital & tences/words in their textbook as this helps in receiving their degrees in var- Research Center will be better memorisation. ious disciplines. awarded to Ms. Kritika To thrash out weakness, take tests every > > As many as 244 students Wadhwa for topping among week: To become ready for the exam day, a stu- fit and mind rejuvenated. Not to forget, eight everything. It helps you thrash out all silly mis- will be awarded medals for all students in the final year dent must take up several tests of each subject hours of sleep is a must. Slashing sleep time may takes. having secured first, second and in overall duration of the so as to know the weak points and gain more have negative consequences. Mental strength and third rank in their cours- course in MBBS programme. confidence. This will weed out nervousness in is extremely essential to score well. And don’t 0 @ ! Bonus Tips es. Endowment in the name of the examination hall. Practice tests will also focus too much on competition; your goal ! Avoid deviation: It is important to switch The convocation address Tmt Lakshmi and Dr improve your time management skills. You may should be outperforming yourself. If you did A ( " off the phone and other gadgets while study- will be delivered by Chief Renganathan for the best out- also ask a friend to quiz you over the study better than the last time, you are successful. !/ * ing to avoid distraction. If possible, stop going Guest of the event Dr K Sivan, going BDS student of SRM material as explaining answers to someone else In the exam hall: Read all the questions to parties and deactivate your social media Chairman of ISRO, Bangalore Kattankulathur Dental can help you better understand and retain the properly, understand them, and prepare a plan !, > accounts in the last three months before and Secretary, Department of College and Hospital will be information. to approach the question paper. Deal with ques- ) board exams. This will save you a lot of time. Space, Government of India. awarded to K. Shyam Sharma. As this academic year is unprecedented, tions carrying more marks first. Logic suggests ! > 6 Seek guidance: Sometimes, topics require Dr TR Paarivendhar, Founder The Annual report will be students must take mock tests with masks and it is challenging to attempt big questions at the extra guidance and self-study doesn’t always Chancellor of SRM Institute of presented by Vice Chancellor shields as that is how they will be supposed to last but a student can finish short questions in ! " suffice. To bounce over this, a student must not Science & Technology and of SRMIST, Dr. Sandeep be in the exam hall. Students must acclimatise little time as well. > feel shy in reaching out to their teachers, class- Member of Parliament, Lok Sancheti. The Convocation themselves to protective gears so that they don’t Don’t spend too much time on a particu- mates, or seniors for help. Not just this, students Sabha will preside over the will be held in the presence of lose their precious time adjusting masks dur- lar question and if possible, make charts (or dia- must also take guidance regarding exam pat- convocation. SRMIST’s Pro Chancellor ing exams. grams) with answers. It creates a very good ( terns and strategy to score well. Opening your Endowment award in the (Administration) Ravi Mental and physical health: Like the old impression. Needless to mention, try to avoid !/ heart out gets you solutions and lightens your name of Tmt Pachimmal Pachamoothoo, Pro English proverb says — Sound mind rests only cuts. A clean handwriting increases the chances ! ( mind. Palanimuthu for the best out- Chancellor (Academic) Dr P in sound body. A student must eat right and of you securing better marks by many folds. $ @ ( " # going MBBS student and Tmt Sathyanarayanan and Vice exercise at least 15 minutes a day to keep body After finishing your paper, do cross-check % " Swarnam & Dr President Dr R Shivakumar. he study of Information TManagement takes the idea of information as a resource as its Q starting-point. In taking a princi- pled systematic approach to the identification, acquisition, storage, / ! ! * G retrieval, processing and use of that information, the theory and ) ! ! G ! *A,1+ :*"*(* practice of information manage- ment aims to design effective infor- ( 2&"*,*" #&:.( here’s a lot of optimism and mation environments that can worry about the future of adver- respond to managerial information ) Ttising, and there are so many needs, support decision-making varied opinions on what the world of and help in meeting organisation- ronments. This includes examining advertising will look like. Some argue al goals. their purposes, functions and that advertising will be better and In order to accomplish this processes and mediating between more valuable in the hearts and goal, information management information users, resources and minds of consumers-and, as a result, draws on a range of fields includ- systems in both organisational and more effective. The complexities of ing knowledge management, infor- networked contexts. You'll also modern day consumer journeys are mation retrieval, information sys- acquire practical experience in the empowering consumers to get what tems, and project management; use of new information and com- they want, when they want it. And search engine optimisation, user- munications technologies and increasingly that means that they don’t centred design and human-com- develop personal awareness and want to be interrupted by an ad that puter-interaction, website design skills relevant to information man- isn’t good or relevant. andprogramming; as well as busi- agement. As advertisers, it's foolish to ness intelligence, business process- The field of information man- think that consumers want to hear always be a people business. At least the words and images. ing modelling, organisational the- agement covers a wide array of job what we have to say. They are not for the foreseeable future, individ- We are at a moment where we ory, information governance and roles. As an information manage- waiting to hear from us, we have to uals will still be responsible for mak- are too focussed on vanity metrics ethics. ments (e.g. customer opinions); information as a liability. Hence the ment degree, your skills will be make ourselves heard- irrespective ing business decisions and serving lihe views, impressions and clicks. Being a generic discipline, the the emergence of platforms, datafi- need to address issues of informa- invaluable to employers from a of what stage of the journey he or she audiences and customers. They’ll But we need to figure out how far study of Information management cation and the commodification of tion governance, accountability and range of sectors, these include: is at. So we need to create content- just be using more sophisticated down the funnel these things are has wide applicability to organisa- datamore generally; and beyond this ethics; how ethical values can Information Architect; Taxonomist; that’s legitimately powerful, enter- technology to dramatically improve impacting people and creating sus- tions of all kinds including business, the opportunities/problems of wide- inform the design and use of infor- Information Managers, Officers taining or life altering. Those things the way they do it, deliver it and tainable differences in conversion government, health, transport and spread connected information pro- mation products and services, and and Assistants; Information Rights seem basic, but they’ve become measure it. and loyalty. It will not be naïve to education. cessing within an inter-dependent how not only organisations e.g. Managers/Freedom of Information much more complicated with the As long as we’re connecting to witness a growing ambition and a While information has always digital ecosystem. The last of these Governments but also societies e.g. Officers; Competitive Intelligence proliferation of platforms. other people, the human element shift to emotional connection and been prized as an asset, a number trends brings not only the value and citizens need to reflect on how their Officers and Analysts; Data No doubt we’ll have new tools will never go away. But the drive for the human element. That’s how of trends are making information benefits of information and data, information data is gathered, Protection Officers; Information and capabilities that make the more real-time personalisation brands will differentiate, that’s how management even more impor- e.g., personal data, to the fore but processed and used for what ends. Analysts; Information Governance processes of advertising easier, more means that the human element will brands will be loved and that’s how tant in the digital context. These also the risks of their processing. A degree in Information Managers; Cyber-Security measurable or more automated, but be exercised more and more on the consumers will stay loyal. In the dig- trends include the addition of data In a digital context there is also Management lays emphasis on Managers; Web Managers; and I'm also hopeful that the power of strategic level than the executional ital era- We have to give people as an asset, and the systematic pro- a contemporary concern not only developing your knowledge, skills Information Scientists. storytelling will remain at the core level. Advertising will be less about things not to escape to, but things cessing and use of data from an with the idea of information as an and experience of design, imple- =" of if. After all, increasing use of tech- crafting the individual words and they can run to and reaffirm. organisation’s internal (e.g. trans- asset, and increasing the value of mentation, management and gov- # " # nology and automation won’t change images, and more about crafting the ( " >2 action data), and external environ- information, but also the idea of ernance effective information envi- # the fact that communication will systems and algorithms that create ! . % & * 81 * "./ .0,1 the corporate Sector. Company Secretaries hough it is pandemic campus recruitment Cognizant offering 1418 annum followed by Wipro are responsible for legal administration of Ttimes, Vellore Institute process at VIT. This year, students followed by TCS hiring 419 students for its "./ .0,1 pany introduced the Great he Institute of Company Secretaries of Companies and for transferring benefit of of Technology (VIT) due to the pandemic, all (1321) and Infosys (778). Turbo hiring with a CTC Learning Academy, a free TIndia conferred the Honorary CS growth to society.” emerged as the Top the three companies have These are the highest of 6.5 lakh per year for a he Great Learning, one of learning platform with over 30 Degree onto Minister of State for Finance “Company Secretaries work assiduously Educational Institution in conducted their entire numbers offered by these higher position. Again TIndia’s leading EdTech introductory and intermediate and Corporate Affairs, Shri Anurag Singh to strengthen governance and ensure eth- India by having 7403 job process remotely. Students companies this year across these are the highest num- companies for higher and pro- level programmes in emerging Thakur in the virtual presence of Chief ical & legal compliance. Both ICSI and its offers rolled out by 382 from all the 4 campuses of all the campuses in the bers for TCS and Wipro fessional education, on digital skills, to make high- Guest of the day, Shri Om Birla, Speaker, Lok members are playing a vital role in usher- companies that conduct- VIT (Vellore, Chennai, country. The other IT ser- for this year across all the December 17, 2020, highlight- quality learning accessible to all. Sabha, on the third day of the 48th National ing transparency and integrity in the econ- ed campus recruitments at Amaravati and Bhopal) vices companies like campuses in the country. ed some trends witnessed by Close to 6.6 lakh learners have Convention of Company Secretaries, at omy for building a hi-tech tax compliant VIT. All the campus participated in the selec- Virtusa, Hexaware, Wipro and VIT broke the company during the Covid- benefitted from the Academy. Indore. society & eliminating shell companies,” he recruitments were con- tion process. CapGemini and Mindtree their own record by hav- 19 wave in 2020. The trends are The company also ICSI also virtually inaugurated its further added. ducted virtually and 4503 The results were have also recruited in big ing 419 offers from the based on the significant trac- announced key learning trends Fourth Overseas Centre at Singapore at the Delighted with conferment of the hon- students have taken mul- announced by Dr G numbers from VIT. 2021 graduating batch. tion witnessed by the compa- witnessed between March and hands of Anurag Singh Thakur on the day. orary degree, Shri Anurag Singh Thakur tiple offers. Viswanathan, Chancellor Earlier, TCS has VIT has already entered ny across all its platforms as the December 2020. The trends Addressing the audience virtually, said: “It is my utmost honour to be receiv- IT majors Cognizant, of VIT and 3517 job offers recruited 224 students for into Limca Book of demand for high-quality pro- include top programmes Speaker of the Lok Sabha Shri Om Birla said: ing the Membership of this renowned insti- Infosys and TCS have were rolled out by these its Digital Practice with a Records 10 times for high- grammes in emerging skills undertaken by learners, their “ICSI has made a significant contribution tute and join a list which has Late Shri Arun conducted their annual three companies with CTC of 7 lakh per est number of placements. spiked during the pandemic. profiles along with geogra- in ensuring ethical & fair administration in Jaitley ji as its recipients.” In March 2020, the com- phies they belong to. !" # # == 1 & ) ) + 4 #& 4 *"+1 4)* %&( :,F*$:-+,* athematics is an incredibly important concept —one that Mwe inevitably and unintention- ally use to solve everyday problems. The laws of mathematics govern everything around us, and without a good under- standing of them, one can encounter sig- nificant difficulties in life. As a subject, students have polarised views around it, while some might find it interesting and %! easy to understand, most believe they do not have the ability to solve math prob- lems. Here are five tips that will help stu- dents fall in love with math and craft the learning path that suits them best. UNDERSTANDING CONCEPT It’s important to understand that Mathematics is a conceptual subject and is deeply seeded in logic. Every single math concept can be broken down into the basic fundamentals. To be able to learn advanced mathematical processes, ith companies undergo- ers but also help you manage the about such questions beforehand. students must first get a firm grasp of the ing remote working crisis efficiently. Remember one Part of landing your dream job fundamentals of math. Having the basics " @ 2 "# %A1P Wguidelines, the technical more thing, a poised person at involves knowing the ins and outs right will ensure that students ultimate- and soft skills are becoming vital work always receives appreciation. of that particular job. When you’re A year ago, collaboration only ly save time and will significantly reduce and a math-lover, I can say with certainty perks that interviewers are looking applying to a new company, you meant teamwork. But, now the their confusion while working on more that proficiency in math is not restrict- for in an interviewee.The way you must do your detailed research meaning of collaboration has complex problems. ed to those who have the aptitude for it. present yourself in the online inter- No matter how boring or unin- about the company founders, work expanded and gone beyond team- EXPLORE ONLINE RESOURCES With regular and diligent practice, any- view will say much about your abil- teresting the meeting gets, you need 7 process and branding compo- work. The collaboration also Research has shown time and again one can get better at math. ity to work efficiently. to show enthusiasm. You must look nents. The company’s website, means sharing documents online that hard subjects like Mathematics can FOCUS ON LOGIC Once hired, along with mas- engaged and that you are a vital A / Twitter and LinkedIn pages will and editing them before the dead- be learnt very effectively online. With the The beauty of Mathematics lies in tering the technology, you must part of the conversation. It’s very help you in your research. Research line. current remote-learning scenario, stu- the logic behind its various concepts. learn to follow certain protocols. easy to get disconnected when you also entails examining your qual- dents have a great opportunity to explore While shortcuts and tricks have been Therefore, it becomes pivotal to fig- are attending an online meeting as ities that align with the job require- ! various online resources to help them ace used by students and teachers from time ure out which interview skills you there are so many windows open ment. Spend some time to figure You need to have quick logical math. Online learning can help visualise and again to simply math, these meth- may require for the particular job on your laptop along with internet out what you want and what skills reasoning and creative solutions for a math problem and help them gain con- ods actually allow students to skip con- you are applying for. Many educa- issues. Since your voice is the first ( are required for a particular posi- every demanding situation. Most ceptual understanding while solving it. ceptual thinking. Continuous use of tional brands and training institu- impression, it needs to be upbeat. tion. companies will give you a hypo- Gamified content on various online shortcuts would lead to students carry- tions are sharing free online cours- Make note of the things beforehand > thetical situation to check out your learning platforms is an effective learn- ing a big bag of tricks into an examina- es to brush up your skills which that you need to talk or share in the ! critical thinking skills. Critical ing strategy because they engage students tion and not really thinking about the again, is the need of the hour. meeting. Use the mute and chat fea- As work thrives on technolo- thinking is a personal skill and can’t and provide incentives for continued questions asked. Students must treat Following are some of the silks tures in case you’re facing any tech- gy now, it becomes crucial that you be imparted through the education practice. Students can learn key concepts every single math problem as a new chal- that will help you to land on your nical or unavoidable issue. If you’re set up a backup system for your system. through math games that keep them lenge and figure out the different ways dream job. attending an offline meeting, reach computer files. motivated. in which it can be solved. at least 15 minutes before and put However, the study shows that PRACTICE & MORE PRACTICE ASK FOR HELP your phone on silent. / one-third of the employees avoid Experts assume that there is an One of the most crucial ways to More often than not students shy When things go wrong, it keeping the backup of the docu- increased demand for future-ready ensure students do well in Mathematics away from asking for help due to the fear becomes crucial for you to stay @ / ments because it consumes a lot of employees, who can easily adjust in is for them to get hands on and active- of looking uninformed. In a traditional calm and poised. This quality It has been seen that there are / time. In your interview, you might the digital or niche skills setup like ly practice the subject as frequently as classroom setting, students find them- shows that you will be able to work many who will crib about their cur- be asked to indicate your experi- eCommerce, cybersecurity experts, possible. Solving math problems multi- selves trying to catch-up with their peers under any strenuous and pressur- rent job but don’t have the courage ence utilising the technology, data analysts, machine learning. ple times is a key learning aid because it and often do not get their doubts ing circumstances. In the time of to try out the things they would like describing how you organise and As per industry estimates jobs helps transition problem-solving skills resolved. Students must work on their COVID-19, when we are adapting to do. Courage is essential to land store files using cloud-based col- in the Accounts, Banking, Finance from the conscious to the subconscious. confidence while asking for help to to the challenges of the new nor- your dream job. There is nothing laboration tools. How do you keep and Taxation continue to grow and This method of learning will not only improve their competence. Today, with mal, a crisis is inevitable. Exhibiting wrong to have the courage of tak- track of links and tabs? Do you use HR look out for people with the help rewire the mind to understand math numerous online resources available at the calmer side of yours will not ing up the risk and following your Dropbox? Google Docs? right skills. problems but also helps students devel- their disposal, students can also embrace only impress your future employ- heart. Confluence? So, be well prepared >2# > . op an affinity for the subject. 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Kohli is coming back to + ) * $' 1 6 3 3;? 673 6;@ ;; 6 ; India for the birth of his first child in January. H : bowlers who can have some Since his first Boxing Day Before boarding his flight good Test careers. Obviously Test appearance in the Ashes back home, the star batsman Adelaide: Australian bats- That was a pretty class display they are missing Ishant (Sharma) 2010-11, the talismanic batsman met his teammates and encour- man Steve Smith on Tuesday against some good bowling on as well, which is a big loss for has smashed four centuries — aged them to give their all in the said Virat Kohli deserves a wicket that was doing a bit,” them in terms of experience.” three of them unbeaten — and remainder of the series, which credit for prioritising the birth Smith told reporters. Smith was out for one, three fifties in seven such games. the visitors trail 0-1 after the of his child over cricket as “I just fist-pumped him at deceived by a beautiful “I always remember watch- heavy defeat in the opening Test. “there would have been a lot the end (of first Test) and said Ravichandran Ashwin delivery, ing the Boxing Day Tests at Long before setting foot on of pressure” on the India ‘Mate safe travels, hope every- in the opening Test and assert- home and with the family after Australia, Rahane had been skipper to stay for the entire thing goes well with the baby, ed that he has learnt his lessons. Christmas. It’s sort of like a entrusted with the responsibil- duration of the ongoing Test and pass on my best to your “The spinners that do well dream-come-true moment in a ity of leading in the team in series. wife.’ That was about it,” Smith here generally those who get way. As a kid, I always wanted Kohli’s absence after the star had Kohli head for home on said. over the top of the ball and beat to play in a Boxing Day Test approached the BCCI for pater- Tuesday for the birth of his “I’m sure there would you with more bounce or in the match,” Smith said. nity leave. first child next month with have been a lot of pressure for air as opposed to ones that “There’s nothing like the The idea behind organising actor wife Anushka Sharma. him to stay but to stand up come around the ball. thrill and you get the shivers the pep talk was to boost the “Obviously, it’s a big loss and want to go home for for “It’s about finding a way to down your spine, and the hairs confidence of the players and for India, not having him for the birth of his first child, it’s adapt and that’s what the best on the back of your neck rise up keep them in a positive frame of the rest of the series. We just a credit for him. It’s a mile- players do around the world. I’ll when you walk out to bat on mind heading into the crucial have to look at the way he stone that he certainly would- hopefully learn something from Boxing Day with the crowd Boxing Day Test in Melbourne. played in the first innings. n’t want to miss.” PTI that, move forward and play a yelling,” added the player , who little bit better in the next game,” averages an astonishing 113.50 he explained. at MCG. On the next match, the star “I like batting at the MCG + " 6 , batsman said he gets shivers on those sort of big occasions. down the spine from the thrill I’d like to try and make the most *.0*1. age of 15.5, prompting both of batting in a Boxing Day Test. of them.” Allan Border and Sunil ormer Australia batsman Gavaskar to say that with a loose FMichael Hussey believes the technique he shouldn’t be play- Indian team management ing the pink-ball Test. " < B should support underfire open- His competitors for the er Prithvi Shaw and include him opening spot, KL Rahul and *.0*1. December 26. “It’s important to keep mov- ? in the playing XI for the second Shubman Gill haved fared bet- “Look, the other day we just ing forward, look at yourself Test starting from Saturday at ter in recent times. ustralian batting star saw some pretty incredible fast individually, what you could $.0A&-(". Eddings told ESPNcricinfo: the Melbourne Cricket Ground. “For Prithvi Shaw, find out Steve Smith has no time bowling. It is probably the best have done better.” “First of all we’ve got three great Shaw was bowled for a sec- about his character. Show that Ato think about how India I’ve seen our bowlers bowl col- Star pacer Mohammed atting mainstay Steve captains in Meg, Aaron and ond ball duck in the first innings faith in him, give him that belief might plot revenge in the second lectively for about five years I Shami’s fractured wrist has dealt BSmith’s reappointment as Tim. We’ve got some great of the first Test and had his and tell him ‘look, we’re backing Test in Melbourne this weekend think,” Smith said in a virtual a double blow to India as talis- Australia’s Test captain is far young leaders coming through. stumps rattled in the second you’. The Melbourne pitch will but he does have a word of media conference. manic skipper Virat Kohli will from certain as the sport’s gov- So it’s not just about should innings at the Adelaide Oval in suit him a lot more. It certainly advice for the visitors jolted by “The lengths they were hit- be on paternity during the last erning body in the country feels Steve take over, it’s about what’s the pink-ball match. won’t have the same pace and the first game’s battering — ting were just impeccable. three Tests. there are some “great young best overal. “I think that selectors should bounce. He’s obviously got enor- “Let it go and move on”. Sometimes that happens, you get “Not thinking too much leaders” coming through the “Steve’s a great young man show some faith in Prithvi Shaw. mous talent,” Hussey said. The Australian troika of a good ball and you nick it...You about India and how they’re system. and he was a good captain Yes, he didn’t get any runs in this “What it does is that it Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins got to let it go and move on and going to come back. For us, it’s Smith was removed from when he was there. Like any Test match but it’s one Test, sends a great message to the rest and Josh Hazlewood produced try and keep yourself in a posi- just about doing the things we captaincy due to his involve- succession there’s planning in against some quality bowling of of the team. It’s like ‘Look guys, one of the finest fast bowling tive mindset,” the 31-year-old need to do well. It’s about just ment in the 2018 ball-tamper- place. Have we sat down as a a difficult pitch to bat,” Hussey even if you have a bad Test here performances in recent times to added. executing what we need to do ing scandal, with Cricket board specifically to discuss the told ESPNcricinfo. worked his way through it and or there, we’re not going to lose dismiss India for their lowest Asked what he feels would out in the middle and doing it Australia (CA) appointing Tim next captain? No we haven’t.” Citing Joe Burns’ example, you see the character of the guy faith in you’. We know you’re Test score of 36 in the opening be the Indian mindset after to the best of our ability,” Smith Paine to the top job. Eddings said CA has given Hussey added: “Joe Burns was and he ended up scoring 50 not good players and we’ll back day-night Test at Adelaide Oval. such a huge defeat, he said: said. On Shami’s absence, Smith However, there have been vice-captaincy to various play- averaging less than seven in FC out.” you. I firmly believe that selec- Australia won by eight wick- “Again every individual is differ- said India still have some qual- speculations recently that Smith ers over the years and will go by cricket. The selectors showed Shaw had failed to get a fifty tors should stick with Shaw ets and the series will now ent, the way they take their dis- ity bowlers in Navdeep Saini and could be reinstated as skipper. the selectors’ recommendation faith in him. He got out cheap- in both the warm-up games despite not looking in great move to Melbourne for the missals, how they think about Mohammed Siraj. Asked about the board’s when the time comes to pick a ly in the first innings but he prior to the first Test, making touch in the Test match,” he Boxing Day Test starting the game after it’s finished. “I think they’re two quality view, CA chairman Earl successor to Paine. slowly got his confidence back, just 62 in four innings at an aver- added. " '*' ) O P# % /23&% / 3%$ NO HOPE OF INDIA BOUNCING BACK: M WAUGH Melbourne: 1 L M ) * $ "*91.( After two losses when batting O P " ! ) * first, Pakistan changed tactics and <5; 5 ohammad Rizwan celebrat- opted to bowl when they won the Mumbai: Former India “He (Raina) always * ! $ ) / Med his elevation to the toss, restricting New Zealand to cricketer Suresh Raina, who holds rules and laws laid *) 1 ! ! ) Pakistan Test captaincy in style on 173 for seven, with Devon was among 34 people arrest- down by governing bodies / H L" L1 New Delhi: The BCCI’s general body on Tuesday, smashing a career-best Conway top-scoring on 63. ed and released on bail by with the highest regard and * Thursday will form a new Cricket Advisory 89 to stop New Zealand claiming Faheem Ashraf was the pick Mumbai Police for violating will continue to do so in the 8 + % 1 Committee (CAC), which will pick three nation- a series sweep in the third T20 in of the Pakistan attack, taking Covid-19 social distancing future as well,” it added. L1 % G al selectors ahead of the series against England, Napier. three for 20. norms at a club here, has Thirty-four people ! ! ) O P * starting February. Pakistan reached New The strategy of chasing down regretted the “unintention- including Raina and : NG K 5 It is learnt that the committee headed by Zealand’s target of 174 with two New Zealand’s total paid off as al and unfortunate” incident. Bollywood celebrity * M Madan Lal was appointed for one meeting and balls to spare, ending on 177 after Rizwan and Hafeez forged a 72- A statement issued by Sussanne Khan were arrest- after the Board’s upcoming Annual General Iftikhar Ahmed sealed the win run partnership that laid the the former batsman’s man- ed after a raid at a posh club NEW COVID STRAIN WILL NOT RISK ENG TOUR: SLC Meeting (AGM) in Ahmedabad, a new CAC will with a six in the final over. foundation for the win. agement team said the 34- near the Mumbai airport on Colombo: '567 take over and conduct the interviews. But it was Rizwan’s 89 from Hafeez, who was stranded on year old was not aware of the Tuesday for violating social - + % . G “Madan Lal, Rudra Pratap Singh and 59 balls, with support from 41- 99 in Hamilton, made 41 from 29 local timings and protocols distancing norms. : 0 ) Sulakshana Naik were appointed for one meet- run Mohammad Hafeez, that balls including three sixes. at the time of the incident. According to the police, G ) ! O:0'P ing where Sunil Joshi and Harvinder Singh inspired the victory. Rizwan’s innings, the sixth- “Suresh was in Mumbai those arrested in the raid at : 0 ) ' )G O:0'P became selectors,” a senior BCCI source told PTI. It was a hard-fought win for highest by a Pakistan batsman in for a shoot which extended the Dragonfly Experience 2 6< ! “Since all cricket committees will be formed the tourists, who suffered heavy T20s, included a booming six that to late hours and was invit- included seven staffers of '567 ! after the AGM, the new CAC will be formed and defeats in the two opening match- bounced off the roof of a stand ed by a friend for a quick the club. ! then the interview process is expected to start es after a rocky preparation that and out of the ground, forcing the dinner post the same prior The 13 women, who * !"# $ after that,” he added. included Covid-19 quarantine explain my happiness,” he said umpires to select a replacement to him taking his flight were arrested, were allowed :0'G There are some prominent names who have in Christchurch with no training. after his man-of-the-match T20 ball. back to Delhi. He was not to leave after being served . applied for the post of selectors from three zones. The win was particularly performance. Daryl Mitchell, on as a field- aware of the local timings notices. The men were The biggest among them happens to be for- sweet for Rizwan, who was Rizwan said the T20 victory ing substitute for the injured and protocols,” said the shown as arrested and SINDHU HOPEFUL OF TRAVELLING TO THAILAND mer India pacer Ajit Agarkar, who has played named on Monday as captain for was an important morale boost- Martin Guptill, took three catch- statement. granted bail later. New Delhi: - ! '567 more than 200 internationals across formats. the first Test against New Zealand er ahead of the two-Test series es for the Black Caps and Pakistan “Once pointed out, he Police said the raid was . 9 8 Agarkar is a candidate from west zone while starting December 26 after reg- against the Black Caps. made a nervy finish to the match. (Raina) immediately com- conducted after the club : the two big names from north zone are Maninder ular skipper Babar Azam was “We want to take momentum But the solid start to the plied with the procedures remained open beyond the 2 Singh and Chetan Sharma. Former Test open- ruled out with a broken thumb. from this into the Test match, so innings ensured the middle order laid out by the authorities permissible time limit and ! -+ er Shiv Sunder Das is a prominent applicant from “I never thought I’d be made this is very important for us,” he had enough breathing space to and regrets the unfortunate violated Covid-19 : ) & the east zone. PTI the captain of Pakistan and I can’t said. steer the tourists home. and unintentional incident. norms. PNS ! 0 ! ) : ! 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Ham stay in 10th place. the Swiss Open from March 2 to 7 fol- World Tour Finals 2020 scheduled to Chelsea enjoyed a strong lowed by German Open from March start from January 27-31 and the cal- start to the season before loss- BURNLEY WIN 9-14. culation of the next world rankings CENTRE OKAYS 5 CR FOR SYNTHETIC GROUND es to Everton and Wolves “We dropped off slightly scored for Chelsea since early Earlier Burnley rediscov- The $400,000 India Open will be list will be announced on February 2. Raipur: * ' ' $ checked their progress but the and it was important tonight we November, had a golden chance ered their sharpness in front of the last of the 17 events to earn points The world body also confirmed A A G : F / victory at the London Stadium came back,” he added. to double their lead in the clos- goal to beat Wolves 2-1 and towards sealing berths for the Tokyo that the Thomas and Uber Cup % lifts them into fifth spot. West Ham had the ball in ing minutes of the first period climb out of the relegation Olympics. Finals, postponed from earlier this Champions Liverpool have the net in the seventh minute but got the ball caught under his zone. “The qualification period will be year, will now take place in Aarhus, ' ' opened up a five-point gap at after a cleverly worked free feet and Fabianski saved com- Scoring has been a extended until Week 19 with the Denmark. = the top of the table but behind kick but Declan Rice was denied fortably. headache for Sean Dyche’s men, Indian Open 2021 being the last tour- “BWF can also confirm the ! ) them, just seven points separate by the off-side flag after an David Moyes’s team made who had netted just six goals in nament in the qualification period,” TOTAL BWF Thomas & Uber Cup A , second-placed Leicester from impressive finish from a tight life uncomfortable for the home 12 top-flight games before the the BWF said in a statement. Finals 2020 postponed earlier this ! 11th-placed Wolves. angle. side after the break but did not match. “Qualification will be determined year will now take place in Aarhus in A ' $ “It was nice to see that at the Three minutes later Chelsea make the most of their regular But goals from Ashley from the Race to Tokyo Rankings Week 41 of the season and forms part A A : $ - 9 end because we had a period at were in front when Silva pow- forays forward despite the intro- Barnes and Chris Wood extend- published on 18 May 2021. BWF of a tournament cluster in Denmark 1-0 where it was tough, we dealt ered home a header from duction of forward Said ed their unbeaten league run to Council decided that this will also be alongside the DANISA Denmark ' $ ! ! with that well,” Lampard told the Mason Mount’s corner. Benrahma. four matches, lifting them to used for seedings the Tokyo Olympic Open 2021 in Odense during ! A BBC. Timo Werner, who has not They were made to pay 16th in the table. 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