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Where is the breach of *#*-#-( 6 ! .) +0- ).0! +0 00, Scindia at least in 16 Assembly initiative of PCC Chief and for- likely to be held in later half of (Regulation) Amendment Bill, their rights in it?.” % ! +. .)* +.-! -" ,,+ constituencies falling in mer Chief Minister Kamal October. 2020 in the Lok Sabha to make TMC MP Saugata Roy said, 2 ! ,+ "-, +,. (+ .() Gwalior-Chambal region. Nath, Pilot has agreed to cam- MPCC Spokesperson the law more stringent and “This law has been used for the Bypolls are scheduled in 28 paign against his old friend Bhupendra Gupta said Pilot’s make Aadhaar mandatory for last six years against those who 8# ! -, ,," , ,-*! *, )"+ constituencies of Madhya Scindia. After Pilot had defect- strength in these regions is the registration. go against the Government,” # ! !0 ()( ! ,,.(+ 0.( Pradesh. There are 16 con- ed from the Congress, it would presence of Gujjar voters and Moving the Bill on behalf and maintained that this was 9 ! !! -+" ! !0()) .(" stituencies of Scindia influence. be a new assignment for him to the former Rajasthan Deputy of Union Home Minister Amit another example of “big broth- There are 14 Ministers in Shivraj prove his loyalty to the party. Chief Minister’s ability to deliv- Shah, his junior and Minister er watching”, a charge rejected by $/ ! *, *.+ ! (0,"( !+) Singh Chouhan Cabinet, who In March this year, Scindia er punchlines. He certainly of State of Home Nityanand Rai the Minister who said “the law are not MLAs. They include 11 had walked away from the has influence in the bordering said this law did not breach the does not discriminate on the Scindia supporters. While the Congress making 22 MLAs constituencies, he added. right of any organisation if they basis of religion”. / 0 1 23 /( 4533 / # (<- BJP and Scindia have already resign from their seats, which Continued on Page 2 follow the law and do not get Continued on Page 2 ! 689/ 09 ;06 3603 New Delhi: The ICMR is actively exploring saliva-based % 1:54:;9 test for detection of Covid-19, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Sunday and asserted that no sig- ndia conducted 2.39 crore Covid-19 O nificant or drastic mutation in strains of SARS-CoV-2 tests in August, of which 1.24 crore I % 1:54:;9 rorists in Kerala and Karnataka. related to presence of Islamic $ " has been found in India till now. were done using rapid antigen kits, the The Minister refuted the State (IS) and 20 cases related During an interaction with his social media fol- Government said on Sunday. he Union Home Ministry on report and gave the statistics of to presence of Lashkar-e-Toiba $ > ! lowers, Vardhan informed them the Indian Council of Till September 18, a total of TSunday told the Lok Sabha the cases registered by the across the country were regis- ! " Medical Research (ICMR) has been conducting large- 6,17,33,533 tests were conducted across that "a United Nations report National Investigation Agency tered by the National scale sequencing of nationally representative strains of the country, Minister of State for Health which suggested presence of (NIA) in this regard. Investigation Agency (NIA) Kolkata: One of the Al Qaeda SARS-CoV-2 virus collected for several months over dif- Ashwini Choubey said in the Rajya "significant numbers" of ISIS ter- "The said report claiming and 240 people were arrested terror moles Abu Sufiyan ferent time-points. PTI Sabha. rorists in Kerala and Karnataka presence of "significant num- in this connection. "The arrested from Murshidabad are "factually not correct". bers" of ISIS terrorists in Kerala Government is aware of the had constructed a secret tun- Minister of State for Home and Karnataka, is factually not presence of the terrorist outfits nel inside his house at !"# $ G Kishan Reddy was giving a correct. The Government con- in the country including ISIS, Raninagar, National 4 90 %0 2 3 29# % $ ! ! written reply to a question on tinuously takes necessary mea- Daesh, IS Khorasan, Lashkar- Investigation Agency sources whether the Government is sures to put forth India's cor- e-Toiba, etc. The NIA has so far that busted the network said, % 1:54:;9 possible for Chirag to visit October-November. !" aware of the United Nations rect position through estab- registered and investigated 34 adding the tunnel apparently Bihar right now, said sources. The LJP is a constituent of # report titled 'The 26th report of lished mechanism in unequiv- cases related to presence of was made to store explosives. ok Janshakti Party (LJP) In a letter written to party the Bharatiya Janata party-led $ % & the Analytical Support and ocal and categorical terms at Islamic State (IS) and 20 cases Sufiyan’s kin, however, con- Lfounder and Union workers, Chirag said his party NDA. The Janata Dal United is $ Sanctions Monitoring Team various international, multi- related to presence of Lashkar- tradicted the claim saying it Minister Ram Vilas Paswan has is yet to talk with National also part of the alliance and in concerning ISIS, Al-Qaeda and lateral and bilateral for a and e-Toiba across the country was not a tunnel but a newly been admitted to ICU and is in Democratic Alliance (NDA) recent months Paswan has ' !( associated individuals and enti- also through diplomatic chan- and arrested 160 and 80 constructed sanitary tank still critical condition, said Paswan's partners over seat sharing for been critical of its leader and ties' stating that there are "sig- nels, the Minister said. accused persons respectively," not in use. son Chirag Paswan. the Bihar Assembly elections Bihar Chief Minister Nitish nificant numbers" of ISIS ter- Reddy also said 34 cases he said. Following which it is not scheduled to be held in Kumar. !"#$"%"% 4$*6! *"' ! 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Shimla: The world''s longest formally inaugurated by Prime has been received so far, we may and Leh by 46 km but will also about six months due to heavy Brig Purshothaman said gle tube bi-lane tunnel with a The Union government on high-altitude tunnel on Manali- Minister Narendra Modi in get it within a couple of days, he be beneficial for the residents of snowfall during winters, he the tunnel provides a telephone fire proof emergency egress December 25 last year named Leh national highway is fully coming weeks, said BRO Chief said, adding it is also not yet Lahaul-Spiti especially during added. facility at every 150 metre of its tunnel built into the main tun- the strategic tunnel under the ready to open in Himachal Engineer, Brigadier K P clear if it would be a virtual the winter, a state official The BRO worked relent- stretch, a fire hydrant every 60 nel itself. The historic decision Rohtang Pass in Himachal Pradesh''s Lahaul-Spiti district, Purshothaman. opening due to the corona cri- spokesperson said. lessly to overcome major geo- metre, emergency exits every to construct the strategic tunnel Pradesh after former prime a senior Border Road ''We are ready for its open- sis or a physical one. Once thrown open, the logical, terrain and weather 500 metre, turning cavern every below the Rohtang pass was minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in Organisation (BRO) official ing anytime after September 25. The Atal Tunnel built at a tunnel will provide all-weather challenges that included the 2.2 km, air quality monitors taken on June 3, 2000 when late a tribute to him on his 95th said on Sunday. PM may open it in the last week cost of about Rs 3,500 crore is connectivity to remote border most difficult stretch of the every one km, broadcasting Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the birth anniversary. The 9-km Atal tunnel built of this month or first week of the extremely significant from the areas of Himachal Pradesh''s 587-metre Seri Nalah Fault system and automatic incident prime minister. The foundation HP Chief Minister Jai Ram at an altitude of about 10,000 next month,” Brig K P defence point of view. Lahaul-Spiti and Leh-Ladakh zone. The breakthrough from detection system with CCTV stone for the access road to the Thakur visited Rohtang on feet above sea level in Lahaul Purshothaman told PTI. This will not only shorten which otherwise remain cut-off both ends was achieved on cameras every 250 metre. south portal of the tunnel was August 29 to review the progress Spiti''s Rohtang is likely to be No official confirmation the distance between Manali from the rest of the country for October 15, 2017. It is a 10.5-metre wide sin- laid on May 26, 2002. on the Atal Tunnel. PTI $%9%'7>>:>!-; 1&:' 71>F-* +()$7::>GD: " " $3$6% patients discharged from var- each in Jalna, Hingoli, Akola, ious hospitals after full recov- Yavatmal, Buldhana, Washim, aharashtra Covid-19 ery since the second week of Wardha and Gondia. In addi- ! #$ % Minfections breached 12 March this year went up to tion, one person from outside lakh mark on Sunday, as 20598 8,84,341. The recovery rate the state died in Maharashtra. more people tested positive rose to 73.17 per cent. The With 44 deaths, Mumbai’s Chandigarh: The stubble burn- according to System of Air price by various plants and 4 for the pandemic, while 455 mortality rate in the state stood Covid-19 toll rose from 8,425 ing which is likely to start later Quality and Weather state governments, its storage, more people died of at 2.7 per cent. The state health to 8,469 while the infected this month ahead of the Rabi Forecasting and Research and then using technology for $$ % 1:54:;9 Coronavirus in various parts of authorities pegged the number cases increased by 2,209 to trig- crop sowing season can exac- (SAFAR), the Ministry of Earth its conversion into organic the state. of “active cases” in the state at ger a jump of the total cases erbate the Coronavirus crisis, an Science. manure and also biogas. 27-year-old tourist guide On a day when a record 2,91,238. from 182,203 to 184,439. agricultural-cum-environment Nagpal said stubble burn- Nagpal''s SAVPL project in Aalleged that she was raped 26,408 people were discharged Of the total 455 deaths Pune district with 2,61,135 expert has cautioned. ing causes not only massive air Punjab''s Fazilka has devised inside a hotel room in New from various hospitals in the reported on Sunday, Pune infected cases continued to be “If alternate arrangements pollution but also affects the soil this technology in association Delhi. The incident occured on state after fully recovery, were discharged from various accounted for a maximum of the worst-affected city-district to stubble burning are not health, which is already in a bad with IIT and PAU, Ludhiana. Friday. Maharashtra crossed a grim hospitals on Sunday after full 76 deaths, while there were 54 in Maharashtra. The number of made, pollutants like particulate shape in Punjab. The project had purchased According to Eish Singhal, milestone of 12 lakh as the total recovery. deaths in Nagpur, 44 in deaths in Pune increased from matters and toxic gases like The practice of stubble about 10,000 MTs of paddy the Deputy Commissioner of infections – with 20,598 fresh Among those discharged Mumbai, 43 in Thane, 22 in 5188 to 5264. Carbon Monoxide and burning combined with exces- straw last year which benefitted Police (DCP), New Delhi dis- cases reported on Sunday – from the hospitals was a 106- Ratnagiri, 21 each in Dhule and Thane district remained Methane could give rise to sive use of pesticides and chem- around 500 farmers, he trict, the victim, who works as jumped from 11,88,015 to year old great-grandmother. Aurangabad, 18 in Latur, 17 in on the third spot --after Pune severe respiratory problems, ical fertilizers over the years has claimed. a tourist-cum-booking agent 12,08,642. Chief Minister Uddhav Osmanabad, 16 each in and Mumbai – with 1,70,669 which will further worsen the resulted in the decrease of sol- The plant is making 8 MTs told police that she was Similarly, with 455 more Thackeray, State Health Ahmednagar and Sangli, 14 in total cases, while the pandem- COVID 19 situation, as the uble silica, carbon and other of silica manure per day now approached by two men who deaths, the Covid-19 toll in the Minister Rajesh Tope, Tourism Satara, 13 in Nashik, 12 in ic toll rose from 4486 to 4529. Coronavirus also impacts the essential nutrients in the soil, he against a total capacity of 25 called her to the hotel on the state mounted from 32,216 to Minister Aditya Thackeray and Jalgaon and 11 deaths in Out of 58,72,241 samples respiratory tract," Sanjeev said. MTs per day, he said, adding the pretext of giving her loan at 32,671. others welcomed the discharge Kolhapur. sent to laboratories, 12,08,642 Nagpal, also an advisor to the "Silicon (Si) is one of the capacity of the project is to subsidized rates. In what came as some of the 106-year-old woman as In the lower range, there have tested positive (20.58 per Union and the Punjab govern- most prevalent soil macro-ele- process 15,000 MTs of crop "The incident took place on relief, the state witnessed a her victory over the virus as she were 9 deaths in Bhandara, 8 in cent) for COVID-19 until ments on the crop residue ments, performing an essential residue every year. Friday night. The woman was record for the third consecutive was wheeled out of Savlaram Raigad, 6 each in Solapur and Sunday. management, told PTI on function in healing plants in “Our concept is to process allegedly raped inside the hotel day, as 26,408 people --- more Hospital at Dombivali in the Beed, 5 in Amravati, 4 in Currently, 18,49,217 people Sunday. response to environmental stubble to make silica-rich room and she approached the record recoveries of 22,078 neighbouring Thane district. Palghar, 3 each in Nanded and are in home quarantine while "Last year, nearly 50,000 stress. The loss of soluble sili- manure that will improve soil police with her complaint the and 23,501 recorded on Friday With the latest number of Gadchiroli, 2 each in Parbhani 35,644 people are in institu- cases of stubble burning were ca in the soil has given rise to health and food quality there- next day. Based on her com- and Saturday respectively – recoveries, the total number of and Chandrapur and one death tional quarantine. reported in Punjab. Stubble silica deficiency in humans by improving people''s health. plaint, a case was registered at burning contributes about 18 to exposing people to a greater We want the Punjab govern- Connaught place police station 40 per cent of particulate mat- threat of COVID 19 and other ment to give a fillip to the under section 376 D (gan- the organisations do not give eign contribution should not changed since then. ter to atmosphere in northern diseases.” Nagpal said. model of ''crop residue man- grape), 323 (Punishment for $$$ details of their foreign con- distract from their purpose Congress’ Leader of the plains. It also emits large “Insufficient amounts of agement through its conversion voluntarily causing hurt) and From Page 1 tribution.” and their activities do not House Chowdhury also amounts of toxic pollutants silica in humans reduce their into manure so that it is repli- 34 (Acts done by several per- Shah who to originally Based on the Supreme affect the country’s internal raised objection against the like Methane, Carbon immune response towards cated across the state,” said sons in furtherance of common present the bill was not in the Court’s judgment on Aadhaar, security. The money should be Bill pointing to the Aadhaar Monoxide and carcinogenic viruses and pathogens," he Nagpal. intention) of Indian Penal Code house which was adjourned the minister said “we are mak- used for the same purpose for issue and said the current polycyclic aromatic hydrocar- added. Punjab alone produces “This will not only solve the against six persons including a by the speaker Om Birla for ing it mandatory for the direc- which it is donated,” the min- amendment will give unnec- bons,” said Nagpal, also the MD over 55 metric tons of crop stubble burning problem but woman," said the DCP. one-hour on request of tors of those organisations so ister said. Now there is a pro- essary power to the govern- of Sampurn Agri Ventures Pvt residues each year out of which will also help produce healthy "One of the accused, Manoj Congress leader Adhir that the government could vision to open accounts in ment. Ltd (SAVPL). over 40 per cent have been food thereby helping farmers Sharam, a resident of Malviya Ranjan Chowdhury. know their identity and State Bank of India (SBI), “The annual inflow of for- Last year''s stubble burning found surplus, he said. get better prices for quality Nagar, has been arrested in Citing former Finance address. There is no discrim- said Rai, along with arrange- eign contribution has almost in Punjab and Haryana had Nagpal said the resolution food and consumers a chance connection with the incident. Minister P. Chidambaram’s ination in the law. All religions ment that the organisation can doubled between the years contributed to 44 percent of the lies in large scale collection of to buy directly from farmers at The accused Sharma, is a con- statement which he made at a are being given equal rights to open these bank accounts 2010 and 2019, but many pollution in NCR Delhi, crop residue from farmers at a a reasonable price,” he said. PTI tractor by profession," said the time while bringing FCRA law receive foreign donations in from their place and they do recipients of foreign contri- DCP. on August 19, 2010, Rai said religious activities as per the not need to come to Delhi. bution have not utilised the The victim told police that “Mr Chidambaram had men- provisions in earlier law.” Opposing the Bill, same for the purpose for ! $$$ passed in an unconstitutional (Promotion and Facilitation) she was allured to the hotel on tioned in his statement that “The law does not dis- Congress leader Manish which they were registered or way in the Rajya Sabha. These Bill, 2020, and The Farmers the pretext of providing her there are now around 40,000 criminate in any religion. Our Tewari said the situation was granted prior permission From Page 1 bills have been opposed by the (Empowerment and loan at subsidized rates and she working organisations. My aim is to ensure that the different when the law was under the said Act,” says the In Kaithal, the farmers opposition parties also. The Protection) Agreement on was in dire need of money, a biggest problem is that half of organisations receiving for- made in 1976 but it has Bill’s statement of objects. blocked the Ambala-Hisar bills are anti-farmer as the Price Assurance and Farm senior police official said. highway near Titram Mor of agriculture sector will be left to Services Bill, 2020, was passed Police said the room where Kaithal. In Hisar, farmers the fate of corporate interests, by the upper House. she was allegedly raped was blocked the toll plaza near he alleged. The Essential booked under the name of % (&*!777 Mayyar village on the National Earlier, the Chief Minister Commodities (Amendment) two business persons. From Page 1 Highway. The Jind-Delhi road Manohar Lal Khattar had on Bill, 2020, part of the broader Further investigation is On the question as why the was blocked in Julana while in Saturday appealed for deferring farm liberalisation plan, could underway and efforts are being Government did not remove Charkhi Dadri district, Dadri the stir and invited the farmers not be taken up and the House made to nab the other accused & ' the misgivings on the MSP by Kanina road was blocked by for talks. He had asserted that was adjourned for the day. involved in the case, said police. guaranteeing it in the bill as was the farmers. the farm reforms were in the From Page 1 MPs broke the microphones there was no clarity on suggested by the RSS affiliated During the statewide interest of farmers and claimed Congress MP Ahmed on the chairman's desk; and whether the mikes were Swadeshi Jagran Manch, protest, the farmers shouted opposition was misleading "' ! *777 Narendra Singh Tomar. In Patel told media outside the were seen on camera tearing turned off on the instruction Rajanth, who was addressing a slogans against the Centre and them. Congress’ assessment, Scindia’s Parliament that the way these papers. Derek O'Brien from of the chair. press conference along with five demanded withdrawal of three Notably, elaborate security From Page 1 popularity is also on the wane bills have been passed went the TMC was caught waving Speaking outside other Union Ministers, said farm bills. On September 10 arrangements were made Incidentally, in November and its focus on painting Scindia against democratic processes the rule book at the chair, Parliament, parliamentary such had never been done in also, the BKU along with some across Haryana in view of the 2015, the Congress had won and his supporters as betrayers and amounted to killing AAP's Sanjay Singh was car- affairs minister Prahlad Joshi the Act previously but assured other farmer outfits had held a famers' protest and executive Ratlam Lok Sabha in is finding some traction. democracy. ried out by the marshals later. criticised the behavior of the that MSP and APMC protest in Kurukshetra's Pipli magistrates remained stationed MalwaNimar where Pilot had Pilot versus Scindia line-up "Twelve Opposition par- At least 12 Members of the Opposition. "The people of the (Agriculture Produce Market against the bills. along with their police coun- campaigned extensively. After his in Madhya Pradesh is likely ties have moved a no-confi- Opposition later sat in protest country have given a mandate committee) would continue Haryana BKU chief terparts at all such places where victory, Congress MP Kantilai interesting. In July this year, dence motion against Rajya in the House, after the pro- to Prime Minister Narendra for the benefit of the farmers. Gurnam Singh Chaduni while congregation of protestors were Bhuria had made a point to send when Pilot had rebelled against Sabha Deputy chairman. He ceedings were over. Modi and "this (ruckus) is an "Mai do took shabdo main talking to The Pioneer said that anticipated. Haryana Police a thank you note to Pilot. Out Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok (Harivansh) should safeguard BJP MP and national gen- insult of the people's mandate," kisano ko message dena chah- the protest will continue and a had conducted patrolling of the of the 28 assembly seats going to Gehlot, the former Maharaja of the democratic traditions but eral secretary, Bhupender he said. ta hoo ki, kisi bhi surat main nationwide farmers' protest national and state highways polls, 16 fall in Gwalior-Chambal Gwalior, firmly in the BJP, was instead, his attitude today Yadav critcised the "unruly Questions were also raised MSP aur APMC khatam nahin would be held now against the and important roads in various region, which is considered as reportedly encouraging Pilot to harmed the democratic tradi- behaviour" of the opposition about the propriety of MPs honnge", Rajnath said stressing bills passed in the Parliament. parts of the state, including Scindia’s fiefdom. There are ‘do a Scindia’ in Madhya Pradesh, tions and processes. So we members. He said the "chair is shooting videos inside the that he too was a 'kisan' and a We will hold discussions with Ambala, Kurukshetra, Sonipat, seven more seats in Malwa- i.e. to make a substantial num- have decided to move a no- competent" to take a decision House. O'Brien who tweeted a former Agriculture Minister. farmers' associations across Jind, Sirsa, Fatehabad, Hisar Nimar region where Scindia ber of Congress MLAs resign confidence motion against on what action should be video from inside Parliament, He said the Government the country to devise a strate- and Bhiwani. fancies himself as a vote influ- and bring down the Gehlot him," Patel said. taken. told mediapersons that record- has increased the MSP and gy for a nationwide protest, he The Rajya Sabha had on encer. There are reports the rul- regime. Opposition MPs protested While several MPs com- ings were made by MPs to put been successful "to a large said. Sunday passed two contentious ing BJP is lagging behind in against agriculture Bills and plained the audio system was on record the proceedings. extent" towards "doubling the Condemning the Central farm bills by voice vote as the many of these seats due to one- were demanding that bills be turned off, hampering the live He said he did not tear up the income of the farmers" and "we Government, Gurnam Singh House witnessed chaotic upmanship among Scindia, MP sent to the select committee. proceedings of the House rule book and will put out the are moving further in the said the BJP has betrayed the scenes. The Farmers' Produce BJP Chief Minister Shivraj Singh While protesting, some through the Rajya Sabha TV; proof at the right time. direction" farmers. Two farm bills were Trade and Commerce Chouhan and Union minister
the Bill to voice vote. Sabha officers but were pulled the Bills, SAD chief Sukhbir ported the Bill included BJP alleged these Bills would cause right in front of the Chair, said 777 As the first Bill got voice down. Singh Badal urged President (86), YSR Congress (6), great injustice to farmers in the that it was "sad, sad day for From Page 1 approval of the House and Both the Bills were passed Ram Nath Kovind not to give AIADMK (9) and BPF (1). country. Parliamentary democracy" and When the House reassem- motions for sending it to a by voice vote and amendments his assent to the legislations and Leaders of Shiv Sena and the The party led by Jagan alleged that despite bled, Opposition parties chant- select committee were rejected, moved by the Opposition par- return them to Parliament for BSP raised some objections Mohan Reddy announced its Opposition's demand for a ed slogans but this did not pre- at least two members tried to ties rejected. reconsideration. Badal's party but also found merit in the support for the Bill. YSRCP MP vote the Government pushed vent Harivansh from putting climb on the table of Rajya However, the Congress and had earlier pulled out Bills. Vijaysai Reddy slammed the through the legislation with a other Opposition party mem- Harsimrat Kaur Badal from the Unlike its ally SAD which Congress and said that there is heavy hand since it was out- bers sat in protest inside the Union Cabinet in protest has not supported this Bill, no reason for it to oppose numbered on the issue. Rajya Sabha even after the against the Bills. Modi's another ally JD(U) sup- agriculture-related Bills. The Rajya Sabha had to be House was adjourned for the Three regional heavy- ported the Bills with party Shiv Sena took a stand adjourned for a few minutes day after the passage of the two weights - its oldest ally, Punjab's member in Rajya Sabha Ram against the farm Bills with its after some Opposition MPs farm Bills. Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), Chandra Prasad Singh said it is leader Sanjay Raut demanding snatched papers from the Chair The House sitting ends at and the ruling BJD in Odisha for the first time that a farm- a special session to discuss desk and damaged the micro- 1 pm and Rajya Sabha cham- and Telangana's TRS which ers' policy has come after a long them. phones on his desk. Marshals ber has to be sanitised by 3 pm the BJP usually banked on to time. He said in 1991 when the The Trinamool Congress, had to be called in to control when Lok Sabha sits for a ses- get support for crucial Bills -- country saw liberalisation, it DMK, RJD, JMM, and CPI(M) the situation. sion. Both the chambers of Lok - opposed the Bills. Together missed bringing agriculture wanted the Bill to be sent to a Soon after 1 o'clock when Sabha and Rajya Sabha are the three parties send 19 MPs reforms. select committee of Rajya the Agriculture Minister was being used for each House to to the Upper House. Shiromani Akali Dal Sabha for greater scrutiny. responding to the objections allow members to follow phys- The other parties that (SAD) the oldest constituent in Deputy Chairman raised during the debate on the ical distancing norms. clearly expressed their party's the ruling National Democratic Harivansh put their demands Bills, the Deputy Chairperson As a result, the Lok Sabha stance against the Bills includ- Alliance (NDA), said that there for vote and said the motions announced an extension in had to be adjourned till 4 pm ed the Congress which has 40 can't be any talks with the have been negated by voice the time of the session. as Congress members demand- (MPs), SP (8 MPs), Trinamool Centre unless the agriculture vote. There was then slogan- Leader of Opposition ed that the House proceedings Congress (13 MPs), DMK (7 Bills are taken back. shouting as the members tried Ghulam Nabi Azad objected should not take place till Rajya MPs), AAP (3 MPs), NCP (4 AIADMK part of the NDA, to heckle the presiding officer saying that the House could Sabha galleries are cleared of MPs), RJD (5 MPs) and the opposed the Bills claiming the who was protected by House only be extended through con- the agitating members of the CPI and CPI(M) which togeth- Bills favoured the corporate marshals. sensus and the consensus Upper House. er send 6 MPs to the House. houses. The AAP too opposed TMC member Derek O among members was to Shortly after the passage of Parties that clearly sup- the farm Bills, similarly TRS Brien, who flung the rule book adjourn the House till Monday.
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They must also against Dengue, we do not four mobile phones from their reached the Rithoj village Sanjay Kumar, who arrested the clock, 10 minutes)” campaign advise their friends and rela- only have to check our houses possession which they had which was located nearby jail culprits. against vector-borne diseases. tives to take all measures to and surroundings at 10 AM for tried to throw over the prison premises. “Jisvindar told the police an Kejriwal also appealed to remain safe from Coronavirus," 10 minutes, but we also have to walls of the Bhondsi jail in Later the accused came in accused Dipu of Rewari who people to call 10 of their he added. urge our relatives/friends to do Gurugram on Saturday. a white Honda city car and they was lodged in the jail had friends, relatives to spread Taking to social media, it." The arrested accused have were arrested by the police called him to supply a phone awareness about the measures Kejriwal tweeted, "Delhi will The first edition of the been identified as Jisvindar team. into the jail. They also had to to prevent dengue in the defeat Dengue again, and for campaign was launched by alias Khanu of Bulandshahar in The police have recovered supply the mobile phone of national capital. this, today, on the third Sunday Kejriwal last year in September Uttar Pradesh, Sachin of four mobile phones wrapped in Shahzad's brother Azad, who While inspecting his own of the campaign at 10 AM, I 2019. Last year, the similar Damdama village in Gurugram a piece of cloth and have seized was also lodged in the Bhondsi residence at 10 AM on Sunday, checked my house and replaced cooperation from all people, and Shahzad of Tauru in the car which they had used to jail,” said an officer on request- Kejriwal said that the collective the stagnant clean water. You RWAs, religious and cultural Mewat. commit the crime. ing anonymity. efforts of the people will help now but it is also the season of checking their houses this year must also check your house associations, ministers and According to the police, the “The culprits used to go to “The accused are in police Delhi in defeating dengue like dengue so considering this the as well. We do not want people every Sunday and ask your 10 MLAs and public leaders and culprits were arrested on Rithoj village from where they custody for further question- last year, which saw a signifi- government relaunched the to suffer from the disease and friends/relatives to do the same. influencers had played a huge Saturday near Jail More locat- used to throw mobile phones ing. Further probe into the cant decrease in the number of campaign this year”. we have to be conscious about #10Hafte10Baje10Minute Har role in reducing the impact of ed on Sohna road after a tip-off over the jail fencing. matter is underway” he said. cases in the capital. “Last year, the citizens of both dengue and Coronavirus," Ravivar Dengue Par Vaar." dengue in the city, with only The Chief Minister said, Delhi defeated dengue due to he added. 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The force has also been made the payment through quality of this narcotics is sold them have been booked and Ied more than 9,79,000 ‘man- personnel at border areas as a put on alert at the Delhi- he Narcotics Control bitcoins and came in contact at the rate of about Rs 5,000 per apprehended while search for days’ of work generated in six precautionary measure in the Haryana border. TBureau (NCB) on Sunday with the US-based consignor gram,” the deputy director others is on. According to the states such as Bihar, Jharkhand, wake of a protest call by farm- The development comes said it has seized 2.7 kg of through the latter's Instagram added. “The accused also police, the incident of stunt bik- Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, ers in neighbouring States. after the Bharatiya Kisan curated marijuana from Delhi ID. The man admitted that he revealed that he used to get ing took place early in the morn- Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh According to Jasmeet Union's Haryana unit and arrested a Lucknow-based used to import such parcels on charas and marijuana from ing at around 8:20 am."On the till September 18 under Garib Singh, the Deputy announced that it will hold a man. The drug, ‘premium qual- regular basis for the last one- Delhi and Bengaluru-based basis of the video footage our Kalyan Rozgar Abhiyaan. Commissioner of Police statewide protest against the ity’ marijuana was concealed in and-a-half year for himself and suppliers,” said Malhotra. team identified one of the bikes Minister of Railways (DCP), East district, police Centre's farm bills on Sunday an air compressor. his friends,” said the Deputy Marijuana is derived from and the owner was identified. Piyush Goyal is monitoring the have been deployed at Delhi- during which its members will According to K P S Director. the cannabis plant. “The recent Five boys have been appre- progress made in these projects Uttar Pradesh border as a cau- block roads for three hours, Malhotra, the Deputy Director, “He used to order drugs seizures of curated marijuana hended," said a senior police offi- and work opportunities gener- tionary measure. even as Haryana Chief Minister NCB, the drug was to be col- from the USA through show that the THC content in cer. They have been booked ated for the migrant labours of Two companies of forces Manohar Lal Khattar appealed lected by C Gidwani, who was Instagram or Wickr and the these contrabands is higher and 184 MV and other sections these states under this Scheme, have been deployed by the for deferring the stir and invit- apprehended by the agency on payments were made through than the contrabands seized of MV Act in a case registered at the ministry said in a state- Delhi Police near Ashok Nagar ed them for talks. September 18. bitcoins. A total of 2.7 kg of bud earlier,” said Malhotra. Shakarpur police station. IANS ment, adding that the pay- ment of Rs 2056.97 Crores bridges,” it said. have been released to the con- “The 125 days ‘abhiyaan’ is tractors for the projects being being undertaken in mission implemented till 18 September. mode, and involves focused Around 164 Railway infra- implementation of 25 cate- structure projects are being gories of works in 116 districts, % E common areas, lift and eleva- dent of Galaxy Vega Society in executed in these six states, it each with a large concentration 1:54:;9 tors. We have set up wash Noida Extension said “ We said. of returnee migrant workers in basins at the gate for visitors to have ensured all safety mea- “Railway has appointed six states. Public works is being ith no let-up in Covid-19 wash their hands before they sures like sanitation, thermal nodal officers in each district undertaken during this cam- Wcases, various residen- enter the society. scanning of all those entering as well as in the states so that paign will have a resource tial societies across the city- “Members are being regu- the society, fugmintation of all a close coordination is estab- envelope of Rs. 50,000 crores,” NCR are not letting their larly informed of guidelines lifts, switches, common areas lished with the state govern- the ministry said. guard down. They have through the WhatsApp and susceptible areas on the ment. “Railway has identified Incidentally, the Prime stepped up the measures to groups,” said Sunita Tewatia, regular basis. The society staff number of works which are Minister Narendra Modi had ensure safety of their member President of the Maurya has been given masks and being executed under this launched a massive employ- residents, domestic help, secu- Society at IP Extension here. gloves for their safety.” scheme. The works are related ment -cum- rural public works rity staff as well as delivery While delivery boys are not According to Saurabh to construction and mainte- campaign named Garib Kalyan agents who enter the premises allowed to enter the premises, Rathore, a resident of SG nance of approach roads for Rojgar Abhiyaan to empower to deliver food or shopping members have been asked not Impression, Sector 4 level crossings, development and provide livelihood oppor- orders as the fear of virus to hold social functions and Vashundhara, “All the securi- and cleaning of silted water- tunities in areas/ villages wit- spread remains amid the grad- gathering till the situation nor- ty guards, visitors, maids and ways, trenches and drains along nessing large number of ual opening up of the economy. malises, she said. vendors have been strictly the track, construction and returnee migrant workers “These are testing times. The Union Health asked to wash their hands maintenance of approach road affected by the devastating People have started moving Ministry has already issued properly for at least 20 seconds. to railway stations, repair and COVID-19 on 20th June 2020. out. At our society, we have guidelines for the gated soci- We have asked residents to widening of existing railway The Prime Minister announced ensured all safety precautions eties enlisting steps on how to avoid sitting in groups in com- embankments, cuttings, plan- that an amount of Rs 50,000 against Coronavirus, such as maintain high standards of mon areas. The guards have tation of trees at extreme crores would be spent for build- restricted entry of visitors, personal hygiene to safeguard also been instructed to not boundary of railway land and ing durable rural infrastructure thermal check at society gate, their health. allow anyone inside the premis- protection works of existing under the Garib Kalyan Rojgar daily sanitisation of society Suchitra K Mohanty, resi- es without self-sanitising. ” embankments, cuttings and Abhiyaan. !"#$"%"% ,&**! &!!&' . .&$ $ .$ **! Q(!$,R *+# (P ( ( ) 0( !
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We expect- Bhupinder Yadav was also the passing of the farm reform cretion of the Chairman of The Minister said the legislations, which were passed favoured and worked for the ed decent reaction from senior seen whispering in Rajya Bills by Parliament as “historic” the Rajya sabha M Venkaiah opposition actions in the in Rajya Sabha amid a din, are Government. Ministers. They should have at Sabha Deputy Chairman’s ear. and said it would provide “new Naidu. upper house, which is against the interest of farmers Former Congress presi- least condemned the practice What conspiracy is happen- opportunities” to farmers to sell On the question as to described as “house of elders”, and the day will be remem- dent Rahul Gandhi, who is by Deputy Chairman,” said ing? Today’s entire episode their produce on higher prices why the Government does were very sad. Its “mere con- bered as a black day for abroad, tweeted that the farm- Congress leader KC was a conspiracy by BJP lead- and “free farmers from mid- % 1:54:;9 not remove the misgivings demnation is not enough”. “ democracy. ers grow gold from land, but Venugopal during press brief- ers. We are not going to leave dlemen”. on the Minimum Support This has deeply hurt and The party announced to the arrogance of the Modi gov- ing. He was joined by party this issue,” Venugopal said Soon after Rajya Sabha he Government on Sunday Price (MSP) by guaranteeing lowered the parliamentary move a no confidence motion ernment is making farmers leaders Adhir Ranjan addressing late event press passed the two key farm Bills Tfielded Defence Minister it in the Bill as was suggest- dignity,” he said against Rajya Sabha Deputy shed tears of blood. Chowdhury, Randeep conference. aimed at giving ‘marketing Rajnath Singh, who pitched ed by the RSS-affiliated On the question of freedom to farmers’, the Prime himself as a ‘farmer’ and show- Swadeshi Jagran Manch, opposition contemplating no- open a new window for the Agriculture Minister ‘’The irresponsible act of Shri @narendramodi,’’ he Minister assured the farmers cased his credentials as a for- Rajanth, who was addressing confidence motion against farmers, Modi said it would Narendra Singh Tomar, who opposition is unfortunate. sought to say. that Minimum support Price mer Agriculture Minister, to a press conference along with Harivansh, Rajnath said it empower farmers. had navigated the bills in both They violated the protocols, The Farmers’ Produce (MSP) and Government pro- allay the fears of the farmers five other Union Ministers, was the “prerogative of the “This agrarian reform will the houses, said the day has Chairman will take note of it Trade and Commerce curement of their produce over the farm Bills passed by said such was never done in Chairman of the RS to decide provide new opportunities for opened new vista for agricul- and take action. (Promotion and Facilitation) would continue. the Parliament. Singh said he the Act . on the issue.” farmers to sell their produce, ture community and charged The democratic system Bill, 2020 and the Farmers The Bill has been wanted to send a clear message He said the Government When asked why the which will increase their prof- opposition with “politicising” should function smoothly, we’ll (Empowerment and described by Opposition and to the farmers that the has increased the MSP and Deputy-Chairman did not its. With this, our agriculture the issue. request Chairman to take steps Protection) Agreement on even RSS-affiliated Bhartiya Minimum Support Price been successful “to a large accept the demand of a divi- sector will get the benefit of Tomar said that despite for the same,’’ said Nadda who Price Assurance and Farm Kisan Sangh as “tilted in favour (MSP) and the Agriculture extent” towards “doubling sion in the house, Union modern technology, whereas recommendations of various is also a member of the Rajya Services Bill, 2020 were of the corporates” and against Produce Market Committee the income of the farmers” Minister of state for Minority the farmers will be empow- commissions & experts, Sabha. passed in Rajya Sabha on small and marginal farmers. (APMC) would continue for and “we are moving further Affairs Mikhtar Abbas ered,” he said. Congress never did justice to Defence Minister Rajath Sunday (September 20) by The BKS had demanded their benefit. in the direction”. Naqvi responded by saying “I assure my farmer broth- farmers who found themselves Singh lauded the bill and voice vote despite stiff protest that bills must be sent to the Strongly condemning the Condemning the ruckus that the Deputy Chairman ers and sisters that the system helpless for years. He added, congratulated Agriculture by Opposition lawmakers. parliamentary standing com- behaviour of the Opposition in the RS, he said he was “ asked opposition MPs to go of MSP and Government ‘’Today, when Congress Minister for explaining all The bills were cleared amid mittee on agriculture for wider parties against Deputy deeply pained” by the misbe- back to their seats but instead procurement will remain. realised they don’t have sup- aspects of the Bills with clari- mayhem in Rajya Sabha with consultations and suitable Chairman of Rajya Sabha haviour by Opposition mem- he was encircled and were These bills are really going to port in Rajya Sabha, they ty and conviction in both the several MPs taking to the well amendments. Harivansh Narayan Singh, bers with ‘Harivashji’ who, he “slogan-shouting”. empower the farmers by giving resorted to ‘gundagardi’.’’ Houses of Parliament. of the House and Those opposing the the Defence Minister said, always practiced high Besides Rajnath and them many more options,” the BJP President J P Nadda Taking to Twitter, Rajnath, raising anti-government slo- ‘reform bills’ apprehend that described it as “very shame- values. The Minister said it Naqvi, other union ministers PM said in his tweets. said that the Government also a former agriculture min- gans. with the marketing reforms, ful”. was unprecedented in the his- included Prakash Javadekar, “I request the farmers and under the leadership of Prime ister, said, ‘’With the passing of Earlier, during a discussion government may do away with He, however, left the tory of Lok Sabha and Rajya Prahlad Joshi, Thawarchand all those associated with the Minister has “liberated the two landmark agriculture Bills on the farm bills, Shiromani the MSP and in the new con- question of no confidence Sabha for members to tear the Gehlot and Piyush agriculture sector to listen to farmers from injustice” they in Rajya Sabha today, India has Akali Dal president Sukhbir tract system leave around 87 motion proposed by the rule-book and stand on the Goyal. the speech given by the were facing for the last 70 cemented the strong founda- Singh Badal, an ally of the BJP, per cent small farmers to a Agriculture Minister, Narendra years. tion for ‘Atmanirbhar announced in Lok Sabha that lesser fate vis-à-vis the farmers cessfully pushed’ the bills in the agrarian reform bills in the Lok bills will truly free the farmers Singh Tomar, during the dis- Nadda also called the Agriculture’. This is the result his party opposes the bills. with big land hoardings. upper house after having Sabha is an important moment from middlemen and all obsta- cussion on the opposition irresponsible for of endless dedication and The lone SAD minster in The Government did not passed it in the Lok Sabha. for the country`s farmers and cles,” Modi tweeted. agricultural reform bills in the their behaviour in Rajya Sabha determination of the Govt the Modi-Government concede the demand and ‘suc- “The passing of historic the agricultural sector. These Asserting that it would Lok Sabha,” he said. while the bill was tabled. under the leadership of PM Harshimrat Kaur has resigned. 2 4 ( !
( /4 !* 0 ( ." . " 1:54:;9 on April 2 to review the progress of the recommenda- ! 067 $ ,# he Union Home Ministry tions made during his meeting # ( 5 # Thas stressed that border with the border guarding management along frontiers forces late last year, officials % 1:54:;9 % 1:54:;9 cent specificity for detecting with Nepal, Bhutan and said. % 1:54:;9 new clause has been added to the novel coronavirus,” said Myanmar should be empha- The move assumes signif- ok Sabha on Sunday debat- incorporate the District he ICMR is actively the joint statement by Tata sized as seriously as those icance as the frontiers along Led the Covid-19 scenario n a move aimed to ensure Residency Programme. Texploring saliva-based test Group and CSIR-IGIB along the borders with China Nepal, Bhutan and Myanmar across the country with the ini- Itrained health human The programme is for all for detection of COVID-19, (Institute of Genomics and and Pakistan. are considered friendly. tiator of the debate RSP MP resources across the districts, PG medical students in gov- Union Health Minister Harsh Integrative Biology which Border guarding forces Strengthening border man- NK Premachandran, ironical- postgraduate (PG) medical ernment and private medical Vardhan said on Sunday and have jointly developed the like Border Security Force agement on the alignment ly, unable to attend as he test- students, from both private and Residency Program from the colleges including those affil- asserted that no significant or test. (BSF), Indo-Tibetan Border with these countries could be ed positive on Saturday. Government medical colleges, current academic session 2020 iated to deemed universities drastic mutation in strains of CRISPR is a genome- Police (ITBP), Sashastra seen in the backdrop of either Opposition MPs high- will have to compulsorily serve and a gazette notification has and students who fail to com- SARS-CoV-2 has been found editing technology to diag- Seema Bal (SSB) and Assam China’s footprint in these lighted many lapses in the in a designated district hospi- been issued in this regard. plete the course will not be in India till now. nosing diseases. Rifles have been asked to hold countries or Beijing’s likely administration for the past six tal (100 bedded or more) for Such rotation shall take place allowed to take their final During an interaction “The Tata CRISPR test is meetings with Union Home intent to provoke them in months to tackle the pan- three months. in the 3rd or 4th or 5th semes- exams. with his social media follow- the world’s first diagnostic Secretary Defence Research order to reduce Indian influ- demic and blamed Prime Besides meeting the ter of the Postgraduate pro- District hospitals repre- ers on ‘Sunday Samvad’ plat- test to deploy a specially and Development ence in the region. Minister Narendra Modi for human resource shortage at the gram and postgraduate med- sent the backbone of the coun- form , Dr Harsh Vardhan adapted Cas9 protein to suc- Organisation (DRDO) and In the backdrop of declaring lockdown within district level, the measure ical students undergoing train- try’s secondary-level health informed them the Indian cessfully detect the virus Bharat Electronic Limited Doklam faceoff and Chinese four hours, leading to chaos would also help expose the ing shall be termed as a care providing specialty treat- Council of Medical Research causing Covid-19. This marks (BEL) to identify technologi- designs, Shah was alerted and and miseries in public and future physicians/specialists of ‘District Resident’. ment. These hospitals are clos- (ICMR) has been conducting a significant achievement for cal solutions for improved in a farsighted move sought migrant labourers fleeing back wide-ranging clinical material The Programme will be er to people and an over- large-scale sequencing of the Indian scientific com- border management. The deci- prompt strengthening of bor- to their home towns from and enables them to learn care implemented with the PG whelming source of services in nationally representative munity, moving from R&D to sion was taken by Union der guarding mechanism, offi- their work places. of such patients in ecosystems (broad specialty) batch joining rural and urban areas. strains of SARS-CoV-2 virus a high-accuracy, scalable and Home Ministry Amit Shah cials added. BJP MPs countered the with varied resources and in 2020, stated gazette notifi- The student will be draw- collected for several months reliable test in less than 100 Opposition charges and high- teams. cation, which also laid down ing full stipend/salary from over different time-points. days. The Tata CRISPR test lighted the faults in adminis- Paving way for such move, the details of the program. their medical colleges during Detailed results on muta- achieves accuracy levels of tration in the Opposition- the Board of Governors at the Following the amendment of this duration and would also be tions and evolution of the traditional RT-PCR tests, / # ruled states like Maharashtra. Medical Council of India the Post-graduate Medical getting a certificate at the end virus will be available in early with quicker turnaround Opening up the debate, (MCI) has launched a District Education Regulations, 2000, a of their training. October, he said. time, less expensive equip- Speaker Om Birla assured Meanwhile, India’s first ment, and better ease of use. # ( that he will give chance to all administration and employ- purchase critical rations to see tific” measures like lighting CRISPR Covid-19 test Moreover, CRISPR is a futur- MPs and urged them to bring ment losses during the pan- this period through. and hitting on plates from bal- ‘Feluda’ that claims to match istic technology that can also out the problems faced in demic due to non-consultative Thousands took to our bus conies. accuracy levels of tradition- be configured for detection of their constituencies. “This nature with the Opposition depots and railway stations. BJP MPs, including Kirit al RT-PCR tests, with quick- multiple other pathogens in $ # debate should be specific. parties. “The creation of a People made desperate Premjibhai Solanki, high- er turnaround time has been the future,” the statement Come with your experiences,” Government-made disaster attempts to make it back to lighted the slew of measures given nod by the Drug added. % 1:54:;9 killings. he said, opening the floor for laid the foundations for the their respective homes. implemented by the Centre to Controller General of India. Tata described it as a He said the trigger for the more than four hour long widespread distress and Businessmen and women who tackle the pandemicand “Feluda met the high- ‘Made in India’ product that akistan has been eliminat- writing the report even after debate. anguish that followed a series had travelled to other cities for accused the Opposition of quality benchmarks with 96 is “safe, reliable, affordable, Ping its Sikh population for 35 years of the Khalistani Congress MP Shashi of events that should haunt meetings were stranded by the “involving in just blame per cent sensitivity and 98 per and accessible” decades through killings, terrorists’ Air India bombing, Tharoor highlighted the lacu- each of us and has tarnished PM’s high-handed actions and games.” abductions and forced mar- the largest mass killing nas in the health administra- this Government’s moral those overseas suddenly were BJP MP Nishikant Dubey riages of young women, yet is Canada has ever seen and its tion of the country in tackling standing. left with no way to return back said Prime Minister Modi, country and improvising mea- It is unfair that you criti- funding and fueling Khalistani victims yet to see complete the pandemic and blamed the “Across the country, we to the country,” said Tharoor Home Minister Amit Shah sures on a regular basis. cizing us unnecessarily,” said terrorism and separatist move- justice delivered, was the Government for having no know about the long lines that inviting counters from BJP. and Health Minister Harsh “Everybody was united. Dubey urging the Opposition ment globally to achieve it sin- ambitious Khalistan map that data on this regard. He immediately sprung up out- Opposition MPs including Vardhan were always in touch In Hyderabad, Owaisi and MPs to consult their Chief ister plans to break up India, a he saw of the ‘Referendum charged the Government with side our kirana shops as Karti Chidambaram critcised with all opposition leaders RSS were united in the field to Ministers before leveling alle- Canadian expert, who authored 2020’ campaign. The pro- creating disasters in economy, shocked citizens queued up to Prime Minister for “unscien- and Chief Ministers across the serve people. gations. a recently released report on posed Khalistan map had the subject, has said. included several parts of Terry Milewski, who India, including some land- --*' !( wrote the September 9 report mass of Rajasthan, the entire !# ( ( “Khalistan: A Project of Indian side of Punjab, Pakistan” published by the Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Canadian think-tank and Delhi. % 1:54:;9 defence minister Wei MacDonald-Laurier Institute, “But this map, put up by >!" / Fenghe and the foreign said the Khalistani terrorist Sikhs For Justice as part of the fter dilly dallying for days, ministers of the two had sworn their allegiance to voter enlisting exercise in % 1:54:;9 in Rajya Sabha. Replying to AChina has agreed to have nations. Pakistan, which in turn has Canada, did not claim a sin- another question, the Minister another round of high level At the moment, more pledged to play the tunes of gle inch of Pakistani territo- s on September 17, at least said that disposal of biomedical military level talks with India than one lakh troops from China. ry as part of Khalistan. It A220 Covid-19 insurance waste including PPE kits worn on Monday to resolve the both the countries are He made these observa- should have included Lahore, claims are pending with the by healthcare professionals and ongoing tension at the Line of amassed at the 1,700 km tions at a webinar “Khalistani from where Maharaja Ranjit insurance companies. Of these, public became a challenge dur- Actual Control (LAC) in LAC in the Ladakh. The Terrorism and Canada” organ- Singh ran an empire, and in 212 cases, complete claim ing the ongoing Covid-19 pan- Ladakh. This meeting was China Study Group head- ised by Delhi-headquartered Nakanana Sahib, where Guru documents are to be submitted demic. agreed upon in the parleys ed by National Security think-tank Law and Society Nanak Dev Ji was born. Why by the states and eight claims Replying to another query, between External Affairs Advisor (NSA)Ajit Doval Alliance and strategic affairs are those parts of land with approved by the insurance Choubey said India has 15,403 Minister S Jaishankar and his two days back finalized the publication Defence.Capital Sikh history being left out? company are pending for the Covid-19 treatment facilities Chinese counterpart Wang Yi stand to be taken by the through video conferencing The answer is that people who nominee details, said the with 15,54,022 isolation beds, on September 10 in Moscow. Indian commander during over the weekend. are organising the movement Government in Parliament on 63,758 ICU beds and 2,32,505 The two ministers agreed for the forthcoming talks The MacDonald-Laurier for Khalistan cannot afford to Sunday. oxygen supported beds while so speedy disengagement and de- The high powered Institute report has triggered run the campaign without The Centre has, through a far, a total of 344.78 lakh N95 escalation at the border. CSG attended by the an intense global debate on Pakistan’s monetary and other number of letters, asked states masks and 141.46 lakh PPE kits The military talks comprise Defence Minister and the Khalistani terrorism, and kinds of support. They do not and Union Territories to ensure have been supplied to states, Corps Commander level talks result. The last round was held However, China did not external affairs minister besides exposing Pakistan’s major want to annoy their masters.” swift processing of insurance Union Territories and central between Lt General Harinder on August 2 and both the honour the commitment and the military top brass also hand in it. Milewski said his Milewski said he had claims under the ‘Pradhan government institutions. Singh and his Chinese coun- sides agreed to withdraw mutu- refused to withdraw troops reviewed the operational readi- report had exposed the seen the open Pakistan sup- Mantri Garib Kalyan Package’ “There is no shortage of terpart Major General Liu Lin. ally from all the friction points leading to increasing tension in ness of the armed forces in Khalistan extremists and port to the extremist to frontline health workers PPE kits and ventilators in the They have already held five and reduce additional troops the already volatile situation. In guarding the 4,000 km long Pakistan, where real Sikhs Khalistani during the August fighting COVID-19, Minister of dedicated Covid-19 facilities rounds of talks since June 6 to and weapons from the depth fact, this issue figured promi- LAC stretching from Ladakh still suffer from forcible con- 15 protests organised in front State for Health Ashwini across the country,” the minis- bring down temperatures but areas on either sides of the nently during Defence Minister in the west to Arunachal version to Islam, attack on of Indian missions in Choubey said in a written reply ter said. these parleys did not yield any LAC. Rajnath Singh talks with China Pradesh in the east. Gurudwara, abductions and Canada. !"#$"%"%
!(! ,*" " ,&! !) ( #%) R ( 8 % 27;2%% Sheikh too said that he had sources said. “very disturbing,” he said “How “personally gone into the tun- A Kolkata court granted a far distanced is DGP from !$' ,"" ! " $&*& ne of the Al Qaeda terror nel after the news became pub- transit remand for the accused reality is cause of worry. His / Omoles Abu Sufiyan arrest- lic but it did not look like a tun- who would be produced at the ‘Ostrich Stance’ is very dis- ed from Murshidabad had con- nel. It is more of a tank cham- Patiala House Court in Delhi turbing. … Problem is with # .! "%% minister K K Shylaja had fore- structed a secret tunnel inside ber than anything else.” before September 25, said those at the helm who are '9:11% <27'9 cast early this month that the his house at Raninagar, Sufiyan is one of the six Shyamal Ghosh NIA advocate. unmindful of conduct and are .! "%% 27'9 number of new patients as National Investigation Agency Qaeda terror moles arrested on Meanwhile, Bengal politically guided.” umber of Covid-19 well as death toll are certain to sources that busted the network Saturday from Murshidabad Governor Jagdeep Shankar Elsewhere, in what the rul- erumbavoor in Kerala’s Npatients in Kerala are increase manifold. said adding the tunnel appar- bordering Bangaldesh. His once again attacked the ing Trinamool Congress lead- PErnakulam district is yet to increasing gradually while Tamil Nadu has not relaxed ently made to store explosives other three cronies including Trinamool Congress ership smelt a “politics of vic- get over the shock of hearing Tamil Nadu is showing a fall in the aggressive testing it has was about 7-8 feet deep. mastermind Murshid was Government for reducing the timisation” the NIA had issued the news that an Al Qaeda ter- the number of cases. undertaken from day one. On Sufiyan’s kin however con- pocked up from Ernakulam State into a “home to illegal summons to the TMC jangal rorist has been arrested by the Sunday saw Kerala diag- Sunday, the State tested 84,338 tradicted the claim saying it district of Kerala from where he bomb-making.” mahal leader Chhatradhar National Investigation Agency nosing 4,696 new patients with persons for Covid 19 while was not a tunnel but a newly operated the network under the Attacking the State Mahato who was arrested by from a town suburb in the early Covid-19 while the number of Kerala’s figures stood at 41,630. constructed sanitary tank still instructions of one Hamza Government for the worsening the Left Government under hours of Saturday. new patients in Tamil Nadu In Kerala, not in use. currently being looked for the law and order situation he said Unlawful Activities Prevention By the time the town woke stood at 5,516. There were 46, Thiruvananthapuram regis- “They came and arrested NIA. “State has become home to ille- Act for his alleged links with up on Saturday morning, 703 active cases in Tamil Nadu coming down. tered 892 new patients on my husband without any Murshid too is from gal bomb making that has the the Maoists and was released Iyakub Biswas and Mosaraf as on Sunday while the num- The fatalities registered in Sunday while Ernakulam (537) proof… you can ask the locals Murshidabad and was directed potential to unsettle democra- from jail very recently after Hossen had been nabbed and ber of active Covid-19 patients Tamil Nadu has come down and Kozhikode (536) finished who would vouch for his hon- by his ‘handlers’ to recruit cy,” adding police were “busy in spending more than a decade taken away to the NIA’s safe in Kerala reached 39,415. since September 13. While second and third places respec- esty and straightforwardness. people for some bigger plans. carrying out political errands in incarceration. house in Kochi. Even the The day saw Kerala Tamil Nadu saw 73 persons tively. He never killed a crow NIA sources also informed and taking on the opposition. “It seems that the BJP is Kerala Police came to know Government confirming 16 succumbing to the pandemic Chennai diagnosed 996 . Insofar as the tunnel is having recovered two Kashmir Those at helm of the WB nervous about Mahato’s joining about the arrests only after the fatalities while Tamil Nadu on September 13, the number new persons on Sunday. concerned it is a new sanitary sim cards from the persons of Police cannot escape their the TMC and his influence in Al Qaeda activists were safely saw 60 patients succumbing to has come down to 60 on Coimbatore (568) and tank which was covered with a Najmul Sakib and Atiur two accountability for this alarming Jangal Mahal where the party put into the NIA custody. the pandemic. The number of Sunday (with occasional Cuddalore (297) remained tin and would be put to use other moles who were second decline in law and claims to have made some It has been widely known new patients diagnosed in minute changes). areas of concern while other soon,” Nrunnisa Biwi the wife year science students. Huge order”Alleging that the Director inroads. So they are using that Perumbavoor has become Kerala are increasing by the day Kerala Chief Minister districts showed decline in of Sufiyan said. monetary transactions were General of Police was taking an NIA,” a Trinamool leader a safe haven for Maoists on the while that of Tamil Nadu is Pinaryi Vijayan and health new cases. A neighbour Manjur made from their accounts “ostrich stance” which was said. run as well as Islamic extrem- ist elements. Former chief of Kerala Police T P Senkumar #$ % & and former director general of ) ( : police Jacob Thomas had warned the Kerala Government many times about % E%$$3 Inspector General of BSF, When asked whether any move- the influx of terrorists to Agra: India's star tourist attraction, the is additional to enter the main plat- Jammu frontier NS Jamwal ment was spotted towards the Kerala, especially to 17th-century monument of love, the form for a view of the graves of lert jawans of the Border told reporters at a BSF border Indian side to collect these packets, Perumbavoor. Taj Mahal, and the Agra Fort, are all Emperor Shah Jahan and his beloved ASecurity Force foiled a major outpost on Sunday, “The con- IG BSF said, it appears they may “The town is home to more set to reopen from Monday, after an consort Mumtaz Mahal. bid to smuggle arms, ammunition signment that comprised 62 have escaped following small than 800 plywood companies unprecedented closure of six months, Meanwhile, the health depart- and narcotics along the international packets of drugs, two pistols exchange of firing. He said, our and hundreds of quarries. due to Covid-19 pandemic. ment reported 105 new coronavirus border at Arnia in the Ranbir Singh and four magazines was being troops maintained the cordon of the Most of these units depend The Archaeological Survey of cases in the past 24 hours. The total Pura sector of Jammu frontier dur- pushed via a pipe near the area during the night and at the first on migrant workers because it India (ASI) officials have made all nec- number is now 4,706, of which 3,727 ing the intervening night of Saturday Budhwar post around 2 am on light thorough searches were con- is difficult to get local residents essary arrangement for the reopening. have recovered. The number of active and Sunday. Sunday”. ducted. for the low salaries offered by Amar Nath Gupta, caretaker of the cases is 862. So far, there have been 117 Interestingly, the trans border He said, “the BSF troops Earlier, on Friday, security forces the entrepreneurs. The migrant Taj Mahal, said: “Sanitisation at the deaths. smugglers had adopted a unique deployed at Budhwar and had arrested three Lashkar-e-Taiba workers, mostly from Bengal Eastern and the Western gates, ther- Meanwhile, the Agra University modus operandi to push a huge Bullechak posts had first (LET) terrorists at Rajouri in the and Assam are willing to work mal screening, painting of circles for late on Saturday evening announced consignment of narcotics (suspect- observed suspicious move- Jammu division after they had for as little as Rs 800 per day,” social distancing, etc., are in place. postponement of MBBS exams sched- ed heroine). According to the ment of around four Pakistani picked a consignment of arms and said S Sasidharan, entrepreneur Only 2,500 visitors will be permitted uled from Monday after 25 medicos ground reports, the smugglers had nationals near the IB past ammunition and Rs 1 lakh in cash who owns timber mills and inside the mausoleum in one shift and tested positive. tied around 60 packets, weighing midnight”. “When these peo- that was dropped by a Pakistani plywood packaging units. this will only be possible through They have been admitted to the almost one kilo each, and had ple were challenged by the BSF drone. The town shot into nation- online booking. Foreigners will need isolation ward. University officials placed a PVC pipe near the barbed On August 29, the BSF author- troops they opened fire. When our On June 20, security forces had al attention in 2016 when a to buy Rs 1,100 entrance tickets and said the new dates will be announced wire fence (to be used as a smooth ities had also detected a trans-bor- troops retaliated in self defence the shot down an arms-laden Pakistani local teenager Jisha was found domestic visitors will be able to enter after consultation with S.N. Medical channel) to push these packets der tunnel originating from Pakistan group retreated towards the Pakistan drone at Rathua in Kathua district’s murdered. “The Police arrest- paying Rs 50 per ticket. Rs 200 ticket College authorities. IANS inside the Indian territory. in the Samba sector. territory”, he added. Hiranagar sector. ed a migrant worker allegedly from Bengal. There were more such murders and the accused were migrant workers,” said +,- Sasidharan. Both Senkumar and 9 Thomas had alerted the Jammu: A day after the Central to immediately add additional eral public of Jammu that the cases have increased due to (Covid-19), out of 63990 posi- inspected the facilities at recent- Government about the dangers team conducted an on the spot 150 oxygen supported beds shortage of oxygen has been increase in number of rapid test- tive cases, 22032 are Active ly established Control Room in posed by the unprecedented 4 inspection and took compre- besides upgrading other medical taken care of and it has been ing in the Jammu Division and Positive, 40957 have recovered Government Medical College, arrival of migrant laborers. “It hensive review of the prevailing facilities in the GMC,Jammu. decided that the daily status of the Govt. is committed to pro- and 1001 have died; 232 in Jammu & reviewed its func- is difficult to distinguish the Covid-19 situation in the Union The issue of shortage of vacant beds and other steps vide best possible medical care Jammu division and 769 in tioning. Bengali workers from that of .! "%% 27'9 territory of Jammu & Kashmir, oxygen supply and patient care taken by the authorities to to the people requiring such ser- Kashmir division. The Advisor was accompa- Bangladeshi workers because the entire Government machin- facilities were flagged by the fac- improve the patients care shall vices. The Bulletin further said nied by Financial they have the same physique K Kunhalikutty MP, all ery was activated on ground zero ulty members, GMC Principal be shared with the public Meanwhile, the total death that out of 1396729 test results Commissioner, Health & and slang,” said T G Mohandas, PIndia General Secretary of and senior most bureaucrats during the high level meeting through print & electronic toll due to Covid-19 crossed available, 1332739 samples have Medical Education, Atal Dulloo, columnist. Muslim League, on Sunday accompanied by one of the with the central team of experts media. He also assured that 1000 mark in Jammu and been tested as negative till Principal, GMC Jammu, There are no official questioned the claims by Advisor to Lieutenant Governor, headed by NCDC Director, Dr asymptomatic patients being Kashmir with 14 deaths report- September 20, 2020. Managing Director, J&K records about the workers who CPI(M) leaders that there were Rajeev Rai Bhatnagar visited SK Singh. treated at home shall be pro- ed on Sunday. The total tally of Earlier, in the day advisor Medical Supplies Corporation come to Kerala in search of attempt to denigrate the Quran, Government Medical College Interacting with the media, vided with Pulse Oximeters for active positive cases also touched to Lieutenant Governor, Rajeev Ltd., Medical Superintendent, livelihood. But political inter- considered sacrosanct by hospital and personally took Advisor Rajeev Rai Bhatnagar monitoring of Oxygen 22032 cases while 1457 new pos- Rai Bhatnagar visited Govt. Govt. Medical College & vention led to the shooting believers. stock of the medical facilities on maintained that there is no Saturation besides other medical itive cases were detected on Medical College to review the Hospital, Epidemiologist, I/C down of all moves to introduce “We all know that unde- Sunday. shortage of beds in Govt. facilities. Sunday. status of medical facilities avail- Control Room, XEN an identification system to tag sirable acts have been done by Strict instructions were Medical College & its Associated He appealed to the public, According to the media able there in view of ongoing Mechanical and other Senior the migrant workers in the Ministers and the party with passed by the Advisor Bhatnagar Hospitals. He assured the gen- not to panic as the number of bulletin on novel Corona virus pandemic COVID-19. He also Officers. PNS town. active support of the Government. But the Chief Minister and other Ministers "# instead of discussing and clear- 2% %# ing the doubts expressed by the Opposition parties are trying to ./' 01 % % %; 8%9 both daughters with her. in-law has also harassed his divert the course of the allega- According to the father, his daughter. Two videos were also tions,” said Kunhalikutty while % % %; 8%9 Zinta's Kings XI Punjab team four-year-old innocent vic- four-year-old younger daughter going viral in connection with speaking to reporters at for Rs 10 lakh. After that, the Atim from iglas area has was lying in the toilet of her this incident in which the girl is % Kozhikode on Sunday. tar cricketer Rinku Singh next year, Shah Rukh Khan's been physically and sexually aunt's house. The children play- lying in a semi-nude condition Kunhalikkutty, who has Swill be playing in IPL which KKR team bid him for Rs 80 abused at her aunt’s house by a ing outside started shouting at in the toilet and worms are being % % %; 8%9 orders. Some profiteer dealers been appointed by the party to will be going to be held in Abu lakhs. 12-year-old cousin. At the same seeing her. The villagers extracted from her private part and plant operators are selling lead Muslim League in the Dhabi Dubai, wearing a jersey After this, the same team time, the aunt is accused of informed the police and child by the doctors. It is being told uring the corona period, 350 rupees oxygen cylinders for upcoming Assembly election of 35 number. Rinku said that has retained the left-handed harassing the girl by not giving helpline. On receiving the infor- that Aunty has been missing Dthe brass statue and hard- up to 1200 rupees. There is said that the situation in the his batting number in playing batsman for the same amount food, beating, and keeping her mation through the childline, from the house since the inci- ware business of Aligarh have tremendous black marketing of State was highly XI not yet finalized but he has twice again. Rinku went to locked in the room. The police, the police reached the spot and dent. suffered a major loss. Due to oxygen cylinders. Despite hav- unfortunate. “There is an got a jersey number 35. practice at the IPL camp in who came into action on the took the girl out of the toilet and SP Crime Dr. Arvind said the dwindling demand for ing information, the adminis- attempt by the ruling party to Cricketer lovers of the district Mumbai, about 20 days ago complaint received through handed over to the child that on information, the girl has hardware and statues and the trative officers are not taking create a smokescreen by are expecting a better perfor- and left for Abu Dhabi from ChildLine and sent the girl to the helpline. The girl was treated at been sent for treatment and shortage of oxygen gas has any action. spreading information that mance from Rinku who will be there itself. Rinku failed to hospital where she referred to the district hospital. Where the medical examination. The shocked the businessmen. There is a shortage of oxy- Quran was being discredited by going to play IPL fourth time. score big while playing for the Higher Center in view of her doctors referred her to the high- report has been registered on the Three plants of the city are not gen cylinders used in industri- those questioning the propriety He has been retained for the KKR. On discussing the flaws critical condition. er center seeing her condition. complaint of the father. Further refilling the gas cylinder due to al units since 24th August. of it being used as an alibi for third consecutive time in the with his Aligarh based mentor According to a person, res- On the instructions of the Child action will be taken based on the a shortage of liquid due to Oxygen gas is used in gold smuggling. The question Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) Masood UZ Zafar Amini, he ident of Sadabad area police sta- Welfare Committee, the family medical report. which 80 percent manufac- Hardware, Brass & Silver idols, is why the protocol was violat- team for Rs 80 lakhs. On told that Rinku played the off- tion, his wife died in January. has taken the girl to a private Gyanendra Mishra, turing unit of brass sculptures Statue, Fridge, AC, and other ed in importing Quran while Sunday, there is a match stump ball from very far Three months ago, her sister-in- hospital in Mathura. Director ChildLine said that he are closed, more than 1000 job works, for this the factories there are no laws which pro- between KKR and Royal enough. He has got a lot of law, a resident of Iglas area The victim's father has men- had received information about welding units are also closed of the city need 3000 cylinders hibit the same,” said Challenger Bengaluru (RCB) in practice at this point. Rinku police station, took the children tioned in the written complaint the girl from the village, in including small ones. daily. Now the supply is Kunhalikutty, former minister which Rinku can play. told that he has practiced play- with her on her son’s marriage. that the younger son of the sis- which her aunt was accused of Due to the absence of shrunken to only 10% which of Industries in Kerala. For the first time in 2017, ing close to the ball on the off- After 15 days the sister-in-law ter-in-law has done something harassing the girl and cousin for welding, the factories of wright, affects the idol and hardware BJP leader K Surendran Rinku was selected for Preity site at Mahuakheda ground. left both of her sons but kept wrong with his daughter. Sister- misbehaves. Polish, etc are also not getting business. also questioned the allegation by the CPI(M) that Quran was being used by some political /%C%;%''3>:>2%>9C%/7&>:H3%;%>>%3; parties to whip up communal hatred. “It is the CPI(M) which wants a communal division in !"#$ Kerala to fish in troubled waters. We are against the mis- use of Quran for nefarious " " $3$6% in 2014-15. now”. Others like actress extremely badly. @PMOIndia act from her, after inviting her never been monogamous. men also,I have settled my activities like gold smuggling,” Though a video message, Taapsee Pannu and filmmaker @narendramodi ji, kindly take into another room. Payal also Phantomwas full of womanisers scores my way I don’t need said Surendran. Addressing a he Bollywood-Kangana the NCW chief extended her Anubhav Sinha threw their lot action and let the country see claimed that Anurag had many #MeToo accused, I sup- #MeToo but most girls do media meeting at the capital TRanaut discourse touched support to Payal saying: “I saw with Anurag. the demon behind this creative allegedly boasted about other ported those victims before also #PayalGhosh #AnuragKashyap,” city, the BJP president said a new low on Sunday, as the the tweet yesterday that Payal After their spat over Rhea guy. I am aware that it can actresses agreeing to his simi- and librals started smear cam- she tweeted. that his party would intensify film “Queen” fame actress took Ghosh has alleged that in 2015 Chakraborty (whom the film- harm me and my security is at lar demands, and that many paigns against me,” Kangana Kangana, who has been the agitation against the up cudgels for model-turned Anurag Kashyap had sexually maker had supported her ear- risk. Pls help!,” Payal tweeted. were ready to ‘sleep with him tweeted. reckless in speaking her mind Government in days to come. actress Payal Ghosh a day after harassed her. This is a shock- lier and the actress opposed in “People who are saying just to share a frame with “As far as I know Anurag self out in recent weeks, came with “We want the Pinarayi Vijayan the latter made sexual assault ing revelation....I wrote to her the Sushant Singh Rajput death that it's for politics and that I Ranbir Kapoor’. Anurag’s ambi- admittedly has never been an utterly low-taste tweet, say- Government to go, go at the charge against Anurag that if you wish to complain, case), the second round of am misusing the situation. tious film Bombay Velvet had monogamous even when he ing: “What #PayalGhosh says earliest,” he said. Kashyap, and washed dirty you can send a detailed com- verbal battle between Anurag Imagine ( god forbid) your sis- not released then. was married to various people, many big heroes have done this He also lambasted the linen in public by targeting the plaint to me, and we will take and Kangana broke out a day ter or daughter in my position, The “Manikarnika” fame what Anurag did to Payal is a to me also, suddenly flash their Kerala Government for slash- filmmaker. action accordingly. We will after Payal – who made a debut it can even be the mother.. and jumped to Payal’s rescue and put common practice in Bullywood, genitals after locking van or ing the solatium announced to The public spat gained also write to the police....We in Bollywood in “Patel Ki then let's talk. You would go to out a series of tweets against treating struggling outsider girls room door or in a party during the victims of the August 6 currency as National stand with her till the probe is Punjabi Shaadi” (2017) after war against such men. Isn't it ? Anurag Kashyap who, she said, like sex workers comes natural- a friendly dance on the dance Munnar landslide from Rs 5 Commission for Women on, till it is presented before the acting in half a dozen south PERIOD!!,” Payal said in anoth- “Anurag self admittedly has ly to them #AnuragKashyap floor stick his tongue in your lakh to Rs one lakh. “The (NCW) chairperson Rekha court. I want to tell Payal Indian films – went to town er tweet. never been monogamous” and #PayalGhosh,” she said in anoth- mouth, take appointment for Government that is pumping Sharma threw her weight Ghosh that NCW with her.” through a tweet seeking Prime Among other things Payal “Anurag is very much capable of er tweet. work and come home but force crores to organise the daily behind Payal Ghosh and Much to Anurag’s comfort, Minister Narendra Modi’s alleged in an interview aired by doing what #PayalGhosh sug- “Bullywood is full of sexu- himself on you”. media briefing of the chief assured the latter the NCW his first ex-wife Aarti Bajaj intervention over an alleged news channel ABN Telugu that gesting”. al predators who have fake and On his part, Anurag has minister has showed that it was would look into the complaint rushed to the support of film- incident that took place in Anurag Kashyap sexually “Anurag is very much capa- dummy marriages they expect a denied Paya’s charge that he had not bothered about the lives of against Anurag Kashyap over maker who she called a “rock 2014-15. assaulted her in 2014-15 that ble of doing what #PayalGhosh new hot young girl to make ‘forced himself on (her)’ when poor tea estate workers,” alleged an alleged sexual assault inci- star” and said Payal’s was “@anuragkashyap72 has the latter did an inappropriate suggesting, he cheated on all his them happy every day, they do she met him for professional rea- Surendran. dent that allegedly took place “cheapest stunt I have seen till forced himself on me and gesture while seeking a sexual partners, self admittedly has the same to young vulnerable sons, some years ago. !"#$"%"% & 5 ,$ )$ % !56 ' < A4 / < < 4 * R! &,," # R -! 8 7 # 9)7() / ( tion, swindled him, could have ( diverted funds and in the process # ( pushed him over the edge by entrapping him in a world of debt / and drug cartels, has become a 867) (:; ( credible story that the nation is devouring hungrily. Simply 3 because legal evidence and cold facts of the actor’s death are too '()( dry to be juiced out for news cycles. Simply because a good- s women have come into looking starlet allows the mass- their own, do they realise es to project their sinful obses- 9 S that they continue to be sions, aspirations and high crimes ! objectified even in changed to her kind and claim moral 122; 9: : 5 contexts for purposes of righteousness by exclusion. So Amass consumption? And are projected Rhea’s going to jail becomes a for the wrong reasons than the right visual that is more satisfying as ( ones? That they legitimise the male gaze a portrait of instant justice. Many # ./ <22222 ) as a uniform societal response by falling film personalities have been into a trap of imaging they believe involved in the drug racket. Yet 9: : ( empowers and acknowledges them? Rhea’s arrest, for possessing just 9 Further, if they happen to be celebrities 59 grams of weed, makes a 8 ( with a fair sweep of popular culture, then seething urban sub-culture a they are prone to be more “sextualised” sensational discovery. She, too, is 9: : ( as it were as talking heads. So much so aware of the fame that the unfor- ) 6 ( that they are now being itemised for pol- tunate death of her boyfriend has := >: itics instead of the big screen, used for given her. Flashing a victory advocacy rather than reason, prized for with the prevailing political Party, an industry veteran and an mindlessly toeing what her party sign and sporting T-shirts embla- ) their appearance than their intelligence, winds, beginning with national- active parliamentarian who has propagandists would have want- zoned with “down with patri- 3 9 6 +396, made icons of causes that thousands of ism and then professing her spoken out on societal issues. ed her to do. archy” slogans, she, too, could # faceless women are struggling with and Right wing loyalties. Every citi- Rightfully, she decided to argue Kangana may get a BJP ticket emerge out of this mess as a drawing accolades and likes that may not zen, including actors, is entitled for an industry that was being vil- to contest elections in the future prime pick for advocacy of ! ./ $ be earned or deserved. And should such to his/her ideological prefer- ified over a few bad apples and but she would again not earn it women’s rights against the lynch # ( ( unevolved but rapidly recognisable ences but Kangana, who took drug abuse, generalised as a sin by her own rules but by conform- mob trial she was subjected to. 396 3 9 faces happen to represent binaries, then years to craft her own disruptive city than the enormous talent it ing to the misogynistic mindset She may or may not be a success you have a catfight that has become the brand, has been waylaid and nurtures and made to look like that sees women stars as a whiff in films going forward but, like # P Q new prime-time fix. In the end, fighting absorbed this time around. Using a villain of all societal ills when of fresh air in the dry world of Sushant, has been appropriated women make a mockery of all that fem- her troll-worthy capacities and no fact is, it supported jobs and cre- politics. She should have taken as a political tool. If the BJP is # inism has tried to achieve so far. holds barred verbal ammunition, ated opportunities. This, she lessons from the late Tamil Nadu fuelling the “justice for Sushant” What else would explain the obses- the BJP has just made her a pawn said, despite the “non-support of Chief Minister J Jayalalitha, campaign, the Congress has sive coverage of Kangana Ranaut, Rhea in its grand design, whether it is the Government.” Kangana’s whom she is portraying onscreen. taken up the “justice for Rhea” Chakraborty, Urmila Matondkar and lampooning the Nehru-Gandhis, rebuttal for the sake of one not Jayalalitha became the respected crusade. Self-appointed activists 6 867) A their ping-pong exchanges by the media taking on its arch enemy, the Shiv only lacked refinement, it undid leader she was by mastering all shouted slogans opposing the B1CD S ) or their appropriation by political par- Sena in Maharashtra, or stoking the work of several women actors rules of the political game, work- “vilification campaign” against ties of the day to amplify their respec- fires in the mysterious death of who made it possible for her to ing the ground, breaking out of the “daughter of Bengal” and held B:1(:< tive narratives? Let’s begin with Kangana Sushant Singh Rajput. And it is make her current space and be the shadows of her mentor MGR up placards that said, “We will not ./ B=> Ranaut. An actor par excellence, she has here that Kangana has faltered heard. Taking a potshot at Jaya’s and battling the authoritarianism stop till she gets justice.” Bengal 9 S lived through sordid exploitation and and given into the prevailing rant remark that actors were ungrate- that had already been estab- Congress chief Adhir Ranjan displayed a rare grit to carve her space and sentiments of the day than ful to the industry that fed them, lished by her male counterparts Chowdhury even invested her CE> and more importantly, own it. There calibrating them to her advan- Kangana retorted, “Got one thaali on equal terms. Kangana, sadly, with casteist respectability, call- S - have been many outsiders in the film tage. Undoubtedly, the Shiv Sena which included two minutes of is in danger of looking like a ing her a “Bengali Brahmin.” 1211 ( S industry, co-opted or rebels, but she was leaders are not known for their fame in item numbers and one stooge. Does she realise that for What Rhea wouldn’t appreciate, neither. Instead, she challenged a system standards when they decide to romantic scene with the hero, all her headline grabbing acts on if she walks into this trap, is that that was based on nepotism and dynas- shred somebody apart but for that too after sleeping with him. social and visual media, she is she is hated mostly by women 5 3 tic privileges and insisted on a democ- Kangana to liken Mumbai to I have taught feminism to the being used to divert attention with a patriarchal mindset over racy that would enrich the creative space. Pakistan-occupied Kashmir was film industry.” Reality check? from the nation’s more pressing tea and conversations, seen as a She even did her bit, though not the only not only politically immature but Jaya Bachchan has been a bigger problems like the pandemic mis- woman who made capital out of 5 ! S 396 one, to push the envelope, choosing flesh more hurtful to her own self than path-breaker than her because management, the Ladakh incur- what is called “easy virtue.” In this ( and blood roles that made real women the Sena. Of course, the BJP ben- she etched powerful women sions or the tanking economy? sense, both the newsmaker and # P S Q protagonists as much a revenue-earner efitted from the scream fest with- characters despite a hostile cli- That she is fuelling exactly what the news recipient are defeated, for the film industry as its male stars. out dirtying its fingers. And mate set by the movie mafia, the the ruling dispensation wants her simply because neither gets And there was a straight-forward hon- compared to the troublesome single-hero domination and a less to do, namely create a cloud of respect nor understanding. But esty and boldness about her approach Anurag Thakur and Kapil than encouraging commercial inconsequential nothingness? they certainly perpetuate a male ( that endeared her to everybody. Most of Mishra, it has found a palatable logic where strong women At the other end is starlet Rhea construct of how women are. all she appeared independently sensible public lobbyist of some repute. onscreen were considered artsy Chakraborty, who is on every- Sadly, women newsmakers ( and not just fashionably articulate. And The fact that she is from the film and NFDC material. Jaya tried to body’s search engine, not because from popular culture around ) 6 ( much before #MeToo, she called out her industry would work both ways mainstream that discourse. of her films or work but as an the globe are being chased for >;C 1;E male exploiters in the industry, not deny- for it, as an asset if she got trac- Kangana perhaps also forgot her exploitative girlfriend of late their representational rather than " # ing what she had been subjected to but tion, maybe a liability at times own sensuous numbers on actor Sushant Singh Rajput. No their authentic selves. Their was frank enough to admit that she and a salacious aberration at screen before she called actor and doubt he was a talent snuffed out activism, therefore, appears to be >=2= 1E1D +>: , spoke when she had equal power and worst if she failed. now Congress member Urmila too early, but the mysterious cir- more and more fake. And as they .F ./ respect. But it is in the process of Matondkar a “soft porn” star. cumstances of his death, his use social media to build intimate 9 F A G /H ) - She did carve out a new constituen- cleansing the drug taint from the Apart from a pervert television troubled history with drugs and partnerships with their commu- cy among the chatterati and was con- film industry that she has gone audience that sees news as enter- mental health, his Bihari identi- nities and followers, they are . # 1>E> scious enough to use it to magnify her overboard, attacking women col- tainment, this discourse did ty and his “outsider” status in the shaping a market economy of ) 4 8 4 H ) own appeal. She became a regular at leagues in the industry, unarmed nothing but perpetuate the film industry have far too many medievalism, where women are A # =22 I media summits and talks, thereby devel- with logic and defeating the very stereotype that “women are their elements to be exploited by dependable worker bees but are oping another facet outside films that women’s cause that she loves to own worst enemy.” Something politicians and their new hand- actually living in a shell believing 8 A 8 +A8, ( would lengthen her shelf life. The represent. She locked horns with that Jaya’s peer and BJP MP maiden, the broadcast media. they are the queen bees. ) ( media, in turn, used her to grab eyeballs. Jaya Bachchan, actor and Rajya Hema Malini realised as she The conspiracy theory that she (The writer is Associate Editor, As she became sure-footed, she sailed Sabha MP of the Samajwadi supported Jaya’s speech instead of might have pushed him to addic- The Pioneer) ) " , .-* ( ! /&,9 / % 5 $ 5 ' > 2 ( 3 F ? % /; ) $ * +)$*, %6 5 % 60 63 D03 % 61 500 P0 $/ 6 ! 036 2?636 # K$ D K8 > 4 K> ; K9 / - ( ( * * + * ) ** ( ,-*)+ S was issued a fine of 500 for not ) wearing a facemask while driving Sir — The Lok Sabha passed three alone in his car. During the hear- contentious agriculture Bills in the ' ing, KC Mittal, appearing for . - ongoing monsoon session amid Sharma, argued that the guide- strong protests by Opposition par- lines issued by the Delhi Disaster ties. The outcome of the proposed Management Authority merely / # )$* legislations can only be the cor- 6 stated that masks were to be worn # poratisation of the farming sector, % $ / ' in a public place or workplace, leading to commercial exploita- L%/$'M and not inside an empty vehicle. tion of agricultural lands. Sharma’s challan must be ( These reforms will re-introduce %/$' O quashed and the fined amount ( " the zamindari system in a new refunded. The advocate also insidious form. Forced to take to %/$' deserves to be compensated for the streets due to the pandemic, / $ 1 $ time wasted besides mental agony 0 )$* the farmers need more than the ). caused. $ ritual obeisance paid to them for -*-- : 7 # KV Seetharamaiah ( being the backbone of society. ? L$>/M 8 Hassan G David Milton O #12 Maruthancode O 3 ! 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This vices and medical emergencies It is high time India breaks # 3 issued a circular, thwarting any extension will be applicable till will remain unaffected. its silence as it stands to lose its exchange which facilitated the use September 30 as Mumbai is one Bhagwan Thadani territory to both Nepal and China. of cryptocurrencies. However, of the worst pandemic-affected Mumbai Devendra Khurana # )$* later on, the Supreme Court cities and the numbers of infect- Bhopal quashed the RBI’s circular. Now, Sir — Section 144 was already ed people continue to rise. It is (( $ the Government must take a call imposed in Mumbai but its re- high time for people to under- on how to regulate cryptocurren- imposition has caused panic stand the gravity of the situation Sir — Advocate Saurabh Sharma 96336 03/8 /66 G 4 9<2/4 !"#$"%"% / 5 ,$ )$ % !56 ' 0-+*)1" "*6,($& 7 )"*+7 " P C !% ! " % C , , " !, % " $ ! C E$ E C < C . E "E ! ! " )* % " $ C < ! . " %< 4' L% !% L% % C 3%: 6 . E " " !" (
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Nudging human behaviour in a desir- .- # 0 able direction without any command and control / / is what they call “libertarian paternalism.” A nudge 3 in the right direction may be as simple as the lap- >222 top warning the users to plug in the charger when # / ) the battery is about to die out, or the display screen :43'% 71%; of a car suggesting that the driver change gears when 1> 3:>%: ) the gear applied and the speed of the car mismatch. 8 D:1% 18>6C # ( These feedback mechanisms are alarms which nudge 4 &&::1 ! people to take corrective measures. %8:1' :> ) " Education, being delivered by organisations, 1';34 189: Government or private, benefits from feedback to ./ 122= ) 87D:1$:1 spearhead in the intended direction. It may be feed- 1% 71%;%14 / # back on the course, faculty or educational institute. . 1:1% 71%; It helps enhance performance and improve the deliv- 674 :>%14$:4 % ery of education service through the voluntary adop- tion of corrective measures. In higher academics, the %6739: ing in future. New ideas or results which prospect of educational institutions. While The urgency to perform well in the S / ranking of journals, again based on the feedback on 1&%>3'3: contradict some existing dominant idea there is no denying that ranking has made ranking exercise has resulted in many ( ( the quality of research work published, is an /7':>>:>%14 may not receive enough funding and institutes look at the quality of services, adopting the recommended organisation- + important mechanism to improve research and pub- O3%; C7& attention. Thus, it creates an endogenous it also introduced new practices within the al template in a hurried manner. The high- 0 , + / , lication. Feedback, when made public, increases :43'% 71 9: system which encourages a dominant idea sector. From the viewpoint of organisa- speed diffusion of the template is often ( competition among peers. Then comment works as &::46%'2&7 and is detrimental to newer, provocative tional research, ranking has offered a new facilitated by a new breed of “institution- a mechanism to remove the asymmetry of informa- ideas. template to educational institutions and al intermediaries” i.e. entities helping + G :>:%'9 tion in the market. The potential customers or ben- E731%;> > This problem is more severe for less- codified them in different categories. organisations to build capacity so as to F, eficiaries become aware of the quality of goods or er-known institutes from developing Post the ranking announcement of the adopt the new template. In recent years, 6 76% 1:46C9: services offered. Different agents or stakeholders give 13$6:7& countries. Each research article goes National Institutional Ranking Framework the ranking industry in higher education ( comments for all elements of education and through a peer-review process conduct- (NIRF), it has been observed that many has been populated by intermediaries cer- / ) / ( research. On the course and faculty, it is students ' % 71>7& ed by the journals. The editors take a deci- of the educational institutes have show- tifying institutions through their own #S who provide the feedback. It is meant to improve :>:%'9 sion on publication after taking into cased their positions on their websites to ranking exercises. Their role was primar- ) ) G the course content and delivery of the faculty. % ';:> account the reviewers’ comments. demonstrate their skills, achievements and ily limited to assessment of quality on indi- ( 8 3 / Educational institutes are given ratings by different /36; >9:4 1 Nevertheless, the reviewers’ performance desirability to stakeholders. cators. We should now expect to see more / ) K S agencies, including the Government, national and 9:$7D:% is not predictable. In a 2007 study on 306 The organisational template propagat- intermediaries who would be helping the 3 9 # () # international bodies and media about their infra- > /3;%:4 experienced reviewers, published in PLOS ed through ranking carries its own char- educational institutions to build their structure, processes and quality of education. The Medicine, researchers found that there is acteristics. For example, under the NIRF, capacity to perform well in rankings and ) ) /: 74 1%;; assessment of research journals is obtained by the 9 > 9:$77 no scientifically-established predictor of the template is assessed through five para- adopt a standardised template. $ number of citations of research articles published reviewer performance. Hence it is not pos- meters focussing on teaching, publications, The feedback mechanism should P Q O3:> 71 >975 in them over a stipulated period. In all this, the moot &%47:>9: sible to systematically improve the selec- consultancy, employability and overall per- nudge desirable behaviour, but it may be ! question is how far does the feedback mechanism tion of reviewers and implement a routine ception. Institutes are measured along counterproductive to education and 6 serve the purpose of delivery of education services &::46%'2 review rating system. these parameters to identify the “best” research when that feedback is made pub- ) in the desired direction? $:'9%1 >$>:D: Sadly, journals do take reviewer rat- ones scoring the highest marks/points lic. Then it becomes a means of increas- 12:2(:1 R S If we consider that the feedback on the course 9:/3/7>:7& ings from the editors. Furthermore, jour- across these parameters. Going forward, ing competition in a particular direction. 9 and faculty is given by the students, then it may be 4:; D:C7& nal editors may find articles with a very these institutes would become a role model Two major problems in the evaluation A - 1> ( counterproductive. The desired pattern of delivery :43'% 71 new or provocative idea or result contrary and irrespective of their individual values, mechanism in education have been iden- +) "S C2 may not be best determined by students as they are >:D ':> 19: to dominant ideas unacceptable, more so purpose and origin, all would be in a race tified. One, when feedback is taken from not competent enough to assess. Nevertheless, many when the researchers are affiliated to to adopt a codified organisational tem- those whose expertise, capability or eligi- % 3 :;;2, 4:> :4 renowned educational institutes use their feedback 4 :' 71P renowned institutes, or they themselves are plate. This would have a detrimental bility to provide an assessment is question- to evaluate faculty performance. It is even consid- well-known. Hence, the feedback process impact on institutions striving to pursue able. A difficult subject would be eventu- ered for promotions. However, there are exceptions. in research may not always encourage a niche domain. The codified organisa- ally dropped from the curriculum or a # ( % / Harvard Business School does not take student path-breaking discoveries, especially for tional template would often fail to recog- strict instructor would be penalised. Bias # ( M response on any course or faculty. When asked about developing nations. nise the unique features of educational in the assessment of a new idea or con- ( it, one tenured professor replied that “we do not take Ranking or rating of educational institutions by virtue of their values and tradictory results in research may throt- P Q S feedback from amateurs.” If they have to assess a institutions is considered as a way of giv- origin. As a result, such institutes would tle publication in journals. Second, when # 3 9 course or faculty, some experts of the area attend ing feedback on the performance of the often fall behind in the so-called perfor- assessment is based on a standard set of ) the class and appraise the course delivery. institute on certain predetermined indi- mance indicators, creating a poor impres- criteria and is made public, then it nulli- Research is an extremely complicated output cators. Over the years, ranking and sion about the quality of education fies the emergence and growth of educa- which is determined by the methodology, results and accreditation have gained strength and imparted by them. This, in turn, would tional organisations with diverse ideas and # ( overall interest on a particular topic. The citation momentum globally, including in India. have a detrimental impact on their abili- objectives. Competition brought through M 4 of the articles may depend on all these factors. The Ranking is perceived as an indicator of ty to attract resources and eventually lead the feedback system may drive all in the 9 journals in the area of social sciences and manage- quality of services offered by education- to quivering of the very existence of indi- same direction at the cost of diversity. ( ment at times may prefer publishing certain types al institutions. There seems to a be grow- viduality among organisations. (De is Associate Professor and Sarma of results. Journals may aim at increasing citation ing consensus that ranking influences the As the ranking is made public, this is Assistant Professor, Institute of Rural + S R and hence prefer the articles which deal with sub- perception of stakeholders (students, feedback mechanism ignites fierce com- Management, Anand. Views expressed S, jects that are likely to have enough research fund- recruiters and investors) about the petition among the educational institutes. here are personal) ! 9 uuutxy xqy vtu tuuquuuwuqqu utuy
atrocities that Nazism had encouraged bureaucrats and scientists, were even- from millions of Germans. But accord- that one comes across Pakistan’s vari- Indus). There was then a systematic about this?” A painful memory that and justified as an ideology. Indeed, tually allowed to integrate into the new ing to Curtis, such efforts were ham- ous segments of the intelligentsia, effort to forgo a past before 1971, by had been repressed (but never resolved) there were thousands of Germans German State and society to aid the pered by the ideological tendencies and educational and cultural products first admonishing it for failing to had returned to haunt him. He was in who had directly participated in the country’s revival. violence of the youth, many of who between 1971 and the early 1990s, on make Islam central to Pakistan’s nation- East Pakistan during the civil war as a many physical and psychological acts In the first few years after became as myopic and totalitarian in what is often referred to as the 1971 al body and then treating this past as Government employee. of violence in the name of racial supe- Germany’s defeat, Nazism was rightly their acts and beliefs as the past that “East Pakistan debacle.” In 2018, I was an almost alien occurrence, whose Conditions that lead to painful riority. But millions of Germans who demonised but, according to Curtis, the they were now raging against. By able to further this study by accessing memory had no place in the “new episodes cannot be made to go away +( were not necessarily members of the cause of its rise was never fully inves- 1977, the lid was once again placed on Washington DC’s Library of Congress, Pakistan.” by just repressing the memories of the Nazi party and its affiliates, had stood tigated. The memory of it was then it. the largest library in the world. I went There is hardly any mention of a episodes. On a collective level, these aside, choosing to ignore increasing completely repressed. German profes- It blew off again after the collapse through 177 newspapers, magazines, region that was once called East keep coming back in various shapes, n his book Blood and Rage, British evidence of their State’s violent conduct sors, teachers, politicians and parents of the Soviet Union and the subsequent journals (both English and Urdu) Pakistan in Pakistani films and TV because the conditions that led to the historian Michael Burleigh writes against those it believed were racially simply stopped talking about it, as if end of the Cold War in 1991. The unre- published in Pakistan between 1972 plays made after 1972. By the mid- pain were not treated. After watching Ithat as soon as Nazi Germany lost inferior or enemies of the “national there was never a Nazi Germany. solved, repressed fascist past, not only and 1992, plus 27 Urdu films released 1980s, its memory and the memory of Nazi atrocities, a Scottish psychiatrist, World War-II in 1945, there was a con- body.” According to both Burleigh and in Germany but in the rest of Europe during this period. After 1974, there a Pakistan before the “debacle” had Donald Ewen Cameron, theorised centrated effort by the new German The German State and govern- Curtis, an inconvenient past, when too, returned. A brutal civil war was almost no mention of the 1971 civil been successfully repressed. Even par- that if “bad memories” could be wiped Government and polity to complete- ments that replaced the fallen Nazis, repressed without being fully under- between ethnic groups in what was war in the former East Pakistan which ents wouldn’t talk about it as such. But away from a person’s mind, s/he can ly erase the country’s Nazi past. On and German society as a whole, began stood, eventually re-emerges as an once Yugoslavia, and the rise of violent had dismembered the country. Articles it was an unresolved memory that kept avoid mental illnesses and also the May 9, 1945, at 11.01 pm, the Allied to vigorously exorcise memories relat- unresolved entity. In the late 1960s, expressions of ethno-nationalism in and editorials did emerge across 1972, re-emerging, sometimes violently, in impulse to commit atrocious acts. Forces ceased their attacks on the ed to Germany’s Nazi past. The British German youth, who were born just Europe and the former Soviet states but only a handful tried to explore the the shape of ethnic riots. Dr Cameron devised a method he already destroyed Berlin and this, to documentary filmmaker, Adam Curtis, before the war or immediately after- proved that the “victory of democrat- reasons behind the “debacle.” In the mid-1990s, some journal- called “psychic driving” that used a Germans, came to be known as “Stunde in his 1995 documentary The Living wards, began to question their leaders, ic nations” during World War II did not An investigation was launched ists began to once again speak of the combination of electric shock therapy Null” or Hour Zero. Dead, demonstrates that this exorcism teachers and parents, not only about treat the conditions that trigger (The Humoodur Rahman Inquiry Humoodur Rahman Report. I was a and powerful sleep-inducing drugs on From this point in time, Germany was encouraged by the US and Britain their country’s unspoken Nazi past but fascist/nationalist hatred and chauvin- Commission) by the Government, senior reporter and saw rookie journal- mentally disturbed patients, to elimi- was to begin anew. Burleigh writes that once Germany became an ally and also about their role in it. Violence soon ism. Instead, this victory had simply but its findings were never made pub- ists having no idea what that was. nate painful memories. He was large- this also meant a collective effort by rebounded as an economic power- followed as German youth outfits placed a lid on these conditions. It lic until 29 years later. Instead, and Finally, parts of the report began to ly successful. But what resulted were “new Germany” to repress all memo- house within a decade after the war. accused their elders and State of being keeps blowing off. Dread and violence especially from 1973 onwards, the emerge from 2000 onwards. In 2003, individuals with no memories, beyond ry of anything that had to do with the Because, even though a number of for- former Nazis. This commotion did has been spewing out from this hole emphasis was put on demonising while watching a TV talk show on the basic instincts. And some regressed dramatic rise of Nazism in Germany, mer Nazis who had survived the produce some studies investigating the ever since. ethno-nationalist politics and then on report, an elderly relative of mine into a vegetative state. Not the ideally the collective euphoria that had accom- defeat were tried and executed or given reasons behind the rise of a hateful ide- As a student of history, I spent explaining what remained of the coun- exhibited a most painful expression and blissful state to be in. panied its consolidation and the many long jail sentences, many, who were ology, and the support it had received almost a decade studying the silence try as its “natural” state (along the River sighed, “what’s the use of talking (Courtesy: Dawn) !"#$"%"% 4 $ ! $! &* 4 # &** 99 ,"" R 62 78 Washington/New York: US IPO financing round in which ' Kabul: Government airstrikes frisks people to ensure they are demned the airstrikes and President Donald Trump said they can take up to a 20% in the north of Afghanistan not connected to the govern- said the Taliban had no mili- he supports a deal that will cumulative stake in the com- killed 24 civilians, including ment. The explosion set fire to tary operations in the area at allow TikTok to continue to pany. the complaint of the children, and wounded six a nearby home, trapping a the time of the airstrike. operate in the United States, The remaining 80% will be girl’s father under Section others, witnesses told The family inside, said Latif The United Nations has after threatening to ban the held by ByteDance but is not Q 365-B of the Pakistan Penal Associated Press on Sunday. Rahmani who witnessed the harshly criticised both sides in Chinese-owned app in August. clear if the ByteDance shares in R Code for kidnapping, abduct- The two witnesses con- airstrikes. the conflict for the relentless He told reporters at the TikTok Global will be distrib- ing or inducing a woman tacted by the AP said that most Speaking to the AP by killing of civilians in White House he backs the deal uted to ByteDance’s investors % >;%$%6%4 to marry, the report said, of those killed in Saturday’s phone, Rahmani said farmers Afghanistan’s protracted war. with TikTok owner ByteDance, when TikTok Global is incor- quoting Raja Fayyaz-ul-Hassan, airstrikes, which struck the vil- and villagers ran to douse the The peace talks in Qatar Oracle and Walmart to create and Apple Inc from offering porated, according to the 22-year-old Sikh girl is the sub-divisional police lage of Sayed Ramazan in fire and rescue trapped fami- are part of a US brokered deal a new company that will TikTok in their U.S. app stores. source. Amissing in Pakistan’s officer. northern Kunduz province, ly members inside when a with the Taliban that will assume TikTok’s U.S. opera- A person briefed on the U.S. investors currently Punjab province and police Police have launched a were civilians. The Khanabad second airstrike hit, killing eventually lead to US with- tions called TikTok Global. matter said the administra- own about 40% of ByteDance. have launched a case against an hunt for the missing girl, the district in the province where many of them. drawal of American troops The U.S. Treasury said in a tion had given the parties a TikTok said it was “pleased “unknown abductor”, accord- officer said. the village is located is Taliban Rahmani, who said he was from Afghanistan. statement “Oracle will be week to close the deal. that the proposal by TikTok, ing to a media report on Sub-Inspector Tahir Iqbal, controlled. working on his house at the In early July, Afghan responsible for key technology US shareholders are Oracle, and Walmart will Sunday. the spokesman for district The Afghan Defence time of the airstrike, warned national army personnel fired and security responsibilities to expected to control 53% of resolve the security concerns of The incident occurred police, also said that a case was Ministry, however, said the his neighbors against running mortars into a busy market in protect all U.S. user data. TikTok Global, a person briefed the U.S. Administration and recently in Attock district’s registered against an “unknown airstrikes killed 30 Taliban toward the burning buildings southern Helmand, killing 23 Approval of the transaction is on the matter said, while settle questions around Hassanabdal city, which is abductor” immediately after fighters, but added an investi- for fear of a second airstrike. people. The Defence Ministry subject to a closing with Oracle Chinese investors will hold TikTok’s future in the U.S.” home to the famous Gurdwara the girl’s father filed a com- gation was being held into “I yelled at people and told is still investigating the inci- and Walmart and necessary 36%. TikTok said Oracle will Panja Sahib — one of the most plaint. claims that civilians were them not to go because maybe dent. documentation and conditions Trump said the new com- become the company’s “trust- sacred sites in Sikhism. The day after she went among those killed. there would be another bomb- Also Saturday, at least six to be approved by” the pany will be “totally controlled ed technology provider, According to a report pub- missing she reportedly sent a The airstrikes come as ing, but they ran to help and rockets were fired at NATO’s Committee on Foreign by Oracle and Walmart ... All responsible for hosting all U.S. lished in Dawn newspaper, the WhatsApp message to her Taliban and government- to put out the fire,” Rahmani Resolute Support base in Investment in the United States. of the control is Oracle and user data and securing associ- girl stepped out of her house to father telling him that she had appointed negotiators are said. southern Kandahar. No casu- The Commerce Walmart.” ated computer systems to throw away trash, but never contracted a marriage of her meeting for the first time in A second witness in the alties were reported and no Department said on Saturday it Oracle said it will take a ensure U.S. national security returned. Her father runs a own will and converted to Qatar to discuss the future of area, Kalamuddin, who like one claimed responsibility. will delay by one week an 12.5% stake in TikTok Global. requirements are fully satisfied.” shop in Hassanabdal. Islam, said sub-divisional police Afghanistan and an end to many Afghans uses just one NATO said in a statement order that had been set to take TikTok said under the deal, Trump offered strong sup- The report, however, did officer Hassan. decades of war and conflict. name, said the lone Taliban that if the Taliban were behind effect late Sunday that would Oracle and Walmart will take port for the deal he said would not mention the date of the He said several police Villagers said an initial fighter living in the house the rocket fire, it could jeop- stop Alphabet Inc’s Google part in a TikTok Global pre- create 25,000 U.S. jobs. “I have incident. teams were looking for the girl airstrike targeted a house that was initially hit had been ardise the US peace deal in given the deal my blessing,” A case had been registered so that she could be produced belonging to a Taliban fighter, killed. which the Taliban have Trump said. “I approve the deal by Hassanabdal police against before a court of law and her whose home doubled as a Taliban spokesman promised not to attack US and 94' in concept.” AFP an “unknown abductor” on statement recorded. check post that stops and Zabihullah Mujahid con- NATO forces. AP ' :0 $% ! &$,( . <<)<<< O P &$9! 9 = . 8 (! ,4$%& $ *&$! $ !! New York: A federal judge has against WeChat and imposing approved a request from a similar restrictions on TikTok, Kyiv: Tens of thousands of group of WeChat users to another popular Chinese- Belarusians calling for the delay looming US govern- owned app. ! *$%%& ,% Tehran: Iran said on Sunday its authoritarian president to resign ment restrictions that could The restrictions on TikTok arch-foe the United States was marched through the capital effectively make the popular were pushed back by a week London: People in England “And so nobody underes- “isolated” after a US unilateral Sunday as the country’s wave of app nearly impossible to use. Saturday after President who refuse to self-isolate to timates just how important declaration that UN sanctions protests entered its seventh In a ruling dated Saturday, Donald Trump said he sup- stop the spread of coronavirus this is, new regulations will are back in force against the week. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler ported a proposed deal that could face fines of up to 10,000 mean you are legally obliged to Islamic republic was dismissed Hundreds of soldiers in California said the govern- would make TikTok a U.S. pounds ($13,000, 11,000 euros) do so if you have the virus or by other major powers. blocked off the center of Minsk, ment’s actions would affect Company. under tough new regulations have been asked to do so by The Trump administration deploying water cannons and users’ First Amendment rights WeChat users had argued announced Saturday to tackle NHS Test and Trace.” said the so-called “snapback” of armored personnel carriers and as an effective ban on the app the moves targeting the all-in- a surge in cases. Currently people who have the sanctions was in effect and erecting barbed wire barriers. removes their platform for one app with instant-messag- Prime Minister Boris symptoms or test positive are threatened to “impose conse- Protests also took place in sev- communication. ing, social media and other Johnson said this week that asked to self-isolate for 10 quences” on any UN member eral other cities, including Brest WeChat is a messaging- communication tools would Britain was seeing a second days. Those who live with state that fails to comply. and Grodno. focused app popular with restrict free speech. wave of Covid-19, and intro- someone who either has symp- “The United States is very, The crowd in Minsk many Chinese-speaking In the ruling, the court duced new restrictions for mil- toms or tests positive must self- very isolated in its claims,” insufficient. He also renewed statement along with non-per- included about 100,000 people, Americans that serves as a life- said that a WeChat ban “elim- lions of people across north- isolate for 14 days. Iran’s foreign ministry and even strengthened manent member Germany say- said Ales Bialiatski, head of the line to friends, family, cus- inates all meaningful access to west, northern and central The new fines will start at spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh Washington’s own sanctions. ing the US’s “purported notifi- Viasna human rights organiza- tomers and business contacts communication in the plain- England. 1,000 pounds — in line with said. “The whole world is say- The US insists it is still a cation” was “incapable of hav- tion. He said dozens of demon- in China. It’s owned by tiffs’ community,” and that an In a further measure breaking quarantine after inter- ing nothing has changed.” participant in the agreement ing any legal effect”. strators were arrested in Minsk Chinese tech giant Tencent. injunction would be in public announced late Saturday, he national travel — and rise to The sanctions in question that it walked out of, but only Russia also said the US and Grodno. A group of WeChat users interest. said that from September 28 10,000 pounds for repeat were lifted in 2015 when Iran so it can activate the snapback lacked legal authority. Protests began Aug. 9 after had made the request after the The US government had people will be legally obliged to offences and the worst breach- and six world powers -- Britain, option, which it announced “The illegitimate initiatives an election that official results U.S. Commerce Department earlier argued that it is not self-isolate if they test positive es, including businesses that China, France, Germany, Russia on August 20. and actions of the United States say gave President Alexander said Friday it would bar restricting free speech because or are told to by the National threaten self-isolating staff with and the US -- reached a land- Virtually every other by definition cannot have inter- Lukashenko a sixth term in WeChat from U.S. App stores WeChat users still “are free to Health Service (NHS) tracing redundancy, officials said. mark nuclear deal known as the Security Council member dis- national legal consequences for office; opponents and some and keep it from accessing speak on alternative platforms programme. In an incentive to get peo- Joint Comprehensive Plan of putes Washington’s ability to other countries,” said its foreign poll workers say the results essential internet services in that do not pose a national “The best way we can fight ple to comply, those on low Action. execute this legal pirouette, ministry. were manipulated. Lukashenko, the country, beginning Sunday security threat.” Specific evi- this virus is by everyone fol- incomes will be able to claim an But US President Donald and the UN body has not taken Iran brushed off the move who has repressed opposition night at 11:59 p.M. dence about WeChat posing a lowing the rules and self-iso- extra lump sum of 500 pounds Trump withdrew from the the measure any further. and called on the rest of the and independent news media The government cited national security threat was lating if they’re at risk of pass- if they are unable to work JCPOA in 2018, saying the On Sunday, two permanent world to unite against what it during 26 years in power, has national security and data-pri- also “modest,” according to ing on coronavirus,” Johnson from home during their isola- deal — negotiated by his pre- council members — France called the US’s “reckless actions”. rejected suggestions of dialogue vacy concerns in taking action Judge Beeler. AP said in a statement. tion. AFP decessor Barack Obama — was and Britain — issued a joint AFP with the protesters. AP &# # ) ( ( 4 4 % 6:; 1 small group of Afghan migrants to protest a virus housands of people lockdown at the Moria camp. Tmarched in Berlin on Thousands have slept out- Washington: Four years ago, come home quite like the replace the liberal Ginsburg Sunday demanding that the doors on a nearby roadside in the allure of conservative prospect of a lifetime appoint- with a conservative jurist, government do more to help the nights since the blazes. Supreme Court appointments ment to the nation’s highest promising on Saturday evening migrants stuck in Greece, Germany’s government helped persuade skeptical court. that he will announce his nom- many of whom have been said last week it would take in Republicans to support Donald “This can be an important inee “very soon.” Plans are in made homeless since fires rav- 1,553 migrants — 408 families Trump for president. Two years galvanizing force for President motion for a swift nomination aged the country’s largest with children — from various ago, a contentious clash over Trump,” said Leonard Leo, co- and confirmation. refugee camp. Greek islands who already Trump’s choice of Brett chairman of the conservative Lest there be any questions The crowd marched have been granted protected Kavanaugh for the court was Federalist Society who has about the political implications, through the capital to the status in Greece. The move credited with bolstering GOP advised the Trump administra- Trump is expected to make his landmark Victory Column car- came on top of a decision to gains in the Senate in an other- tion on its first two confirma- choice in a matter of days. rying signs with slogans like take in up to 150 unaccompa- wise bad midterm election. tions — for Neil Gorsuch and Those close to the president are “we have space” and “Seehofer, nied children as part of a And now, just 44 days Kavanaugh. encouraging him to announce be a Christian” — a reference European effort. before Trump’s reelection will be The emerging nomination his pick before the first presi- to Interior Minister Horst The weekend demonstra- decided, Republicans are again debate that follows the death dential debate against Seehofer. tors demanded that Germany looking to a Supreme Court Friday of Justice Ruth Bader Democratic challenger Joe A little girl held a sign say- do more, and that the govern- nomination fight to unite a Ginsburg threatens to reshuffle Biden on September 29. ing “let the people in” while a ment not block independent deeply fractured party as it voter priorities in the closing Biden said the winner of the woman waved a placard saying state or municipal efforts to faces the very real possibility of weeks of an election that had Nov. 3 election should choose “People are suffering, Fortress take in refugees themselves. losing the White House and been squarely focused on anoth- the next justice. Biden’s team is Europe looks on — and cud- About 3,000 people had control of the Senate this fall. er set of generational issues: the skeptical that the Supreme dles up to the right.” registered to take part in the GOP leaders are optimistic pandemic, economic devasta- Court clash will fundamental- More than 12,000 migrants march, but police told the dpa they can pull it off. In the tur- tion and deep civil unrest. ly change the contours of a race and refugees fled the fires, news agency the crowd num- bulent Trump era, nothing has Trump, backed by Senate Trump was trailing so close to which the Greek government bered in the “mid four-digit / ( ( # ( 4 # ) motivated the Republican Majority Leader Mitch Election Day. Indeed, five states says were deliberately set by a range.” 4 / Party’s disparate factions to McConnell, is pledging to are already voting. AP : ;4
/ Insaf (PTI) government, the Addressing the conference, Army to stay away from politics above the state. This parallel gov- oured which was the only way three-time premier launched a Sharif criticised the country’s and follow the Constitution and ernment illness is the root- to save democracy and the # scathing attack on the ruling powerful establishment for vision of the country’s father cause of our problems,” he said. country. . - party for its “failure to address allegedly supporting Khan. ‘Quaid-e-Azam’ Muhammad He asked the leaders attend- “Pakistan has been con- the basic problems of the peo- “Our struggle is not against Ali Jinnah. “It is very important ing the conference to make stantly deprived from a demo- Islamabad: Pakistan’s deposed ple”. Imran Khan. Today, our strug- that our armed forces stay away important decisions to change cratic system. When the vote is premier Nawaz Sharif on Sharif, 70, the Pakistan gle is against those who installed from our governmental system the system of the country, alleg- dishonored, the entire demo- Sunday staged a political come- Muslim League Nawaz (PML- Imran Khan and who manipu- according to our Constitution ing that the current government cratic system becomes mean- back by criticising the powerful N) supremo, has been living in lated elections (of 2018) to bring and the Quaid’s speech, and not has enforced “martial law” in the ingless. When it is decided Army and said the Opposition London since November last an inefficient man like him into interfere with the people’s choice. country. “This conference before the election process as was not against Prime Minister year after the Lahore High power and thus destroyed the We have made this country a should bring forth a concrete to who will win and who will Imran Khan but against those Court granted him permission country,” he said. joke in our own eyes and inter- plan of action for saving democ- lose, then it can be guessed who brought an “inefficient” to go abroad for four weeks for Sharif said that the foremost nationally as well,” he said. racy, a concrete policy should be how the public is betrayed man to power. treatment. priority should be to remove Sharif pointed out that for- made for solving the problem of and how the public’s mandate Addressing the All-Parties On Friday, PPP chairman “this selected government and mer prime minister Yusuf Raza a parallel state… I again urge this is stolen,” he said. He said that Conference (APC) hosted by the Zardari talked to him over this system”, adding that “if the Gilani once said that there was all-party conference to go military dictators ruled for Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) via phone and invited him to vir- change is not brought, it will “a state within a state” in beyond its traditional ways and multiple years but none of the a video link aimed at launching tually attend the Opposition-led bring irreversible loss to this Pakistan. form a plan of action,” he said. elected prime ministers had a protest movement against the All Parties Conference (APC) country.” “It is saddening that the sit- Sharif reiterated that the been allowed to complete the Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e- scheduled to be held on Sunday. He asked the powerful uation has escalated to a state vote of people should be hon- allotted five years. PTI !"#$"%"% 5 6
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Centre opposing the options Finance Anurag Thakur during the current fiscal. unconventional monetary and ious issues, have opted to bor- In the current fiscal, the which require states to borrow informed the Rajya Sabha. With the intent to ease liquidity measures to mitigate row 97,000 crore to meet the states are staring at a stagger- to meet the shortfall. However, he said, “banks financial stress caused by the negative economic fallout GST revenue shortfall in the ing 2.35 lakh crore Goods and While these states want and non-banking financial COVID-19 disruptions and of COVID-19. current fiscal, sources said on Services Tax (GST) revenue Centre to borrow to meet the institutions are required to meet the challenges of bad The policy rates have % 1:54:;9 regulations set by the govern- Sunday. shortfall. shortfall, Centre has argued maintain capital as per pru- loans, the RBI in August per- been significantly reduced and ment,” Paytm said. The states and union ter- Of this, as per Centre’s cal- that the revenue accruing from dential capital adequacy norms mitted lending institutions to around Rs 9.57 lakh crore or lobal internet giant The digital payments ritories (UTs) which have inti- culation, shortfall of about GST compensation cess goes to on an ongoing basis.” grant concession to eligible 4.7 per cent of GDP have been GGoogle’s Play store rules firm alleged that it was “arm- mated their decision to the 97,000 crore is on account of the states and the Centre can- RBI Governor borrowers for COVID-19 relat- injected since February 2020 to forced Paytm to roll back a UPI twisted” by the search engine Centre are Andhra Pradesh, GST implementation and rest not borrow on the security of Shaktikanta Das at an event in ed stress in personal, Micro enhance the credit flow in the cashback campaign which is major to comply with its biased Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, 1.38 lakh crore is due to the the tax it does not own. July had advised that banks Small and Medium Enterprises economy, he said. legal in India, digital payments app Play Store policies “that are Bihar, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, impact of COVID-19 on states’ Under the GST structure, need to raise capital on antic- (MSME) and corporate loans The RBI has taken sev- company Paytm claimed on meant to artificially create Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & revenues. taxes are levied under 5, 12, 18 ipatory basis to build up ade- by implementing individual eral developmental and regu- Sunday. Google’s market dominance.” Kashmir, Karnataka, Madhya The Centre late last month and 28 per cent slabs. On top quate capital buffers to mitigate resolution plans in respect of latory policy measures to The company in a blog Paytm in the blog said that Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, gave two options to the states of the highest tax slab, a cess is risks arising out of coronavirus eligible loans. enhance liquidity support for alleged that it was arm-twisted Google Pay has started its Tez Mizoram, Nagaland, Odisha, to borrow either 97,000 crore levied on luxury, sin and outbreak. Resolution plan would financial markets and other to take down its campaign Shots Campaign which clearly Puducherry, Sikkim, Tripura, from a special window facili- demerit goods, and the pro- “In such a situation, it has include alteration in the rate of stakeholders, ease financial while Google Pay has been says, “Score Runs to earn Uttarakhand and Uttar tated by the RBI or 2.35 lakh ceeds from the same are used become a lot more important interest, sacrifice by lending stress caused by COVID-19 running similar cricket-based assured rewards worth up to Rs Pradesh. crore from market, and has also to compensate states for any that the banks have to improve institution on the amount disruptions while strengthen- promotions. Google had 1 lakh” at the beginning of this Finance Ministry sources proposed extending the com- revenue loss. their governance, sharpen their payable to interest, waiver of ing credit discipline, improve blocked Paytm on its Play store cricket season itself. No imme- said Jharkhand, Kerala, pensation cess levied on luxu- The Attorney General for risk management skills and penal interest and conversion the flow of credit, deepen dig- following a policy update on diate comments were received Maharashtra, Delhi, Punjab, ry, demerit and sin goods India K K Venugopal had given banks have to raise capital on of accumulated interest into a ital payment systems and facil- September 18, ahead of the IPL from Google on the subject. Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, beyond 2022 to repay the bor- his legal view on the compen- an anticipatory basis instead of fresh loan with a deferred pay- itate innovations across the cricket tournament, to disallow Paytm in its blog said in the Tez Telangana, and West Bengal are rowing. sation cess issue where he has waiting for a situation to arise. ment schedule, Thakur said. financial sector by leveraging apps that support any unregu- Shots game a user can play as yet to respond to the GST The sources said few more opined that there is no obliga- Proactively, it is necessary for Replying to another ques- on technology, he said. lated gambling but restored many times as they want and Council proposal to decide states are also to intimate their tion on the Centre under the both public and private sector tion, the minister said the gov- “It has announced certain the mobile app after a few earn vouchers that they can their options. borrowing option in a day or GST laws to compensate for banks to build up adequate ernment has implemented a regulatory measures wherein, hours after it rolled back the unlock at each milestone. The states which do not two. loss of revenue. capital buffers,” Das had said. judicious mix of fiscal and in respect of all term loans campaign. Finally, they qualify for a submit their borrowing options They added that Manipur, He had opined that the The economic impact of monetary policies to mitigate (including agricultural term The homegrown financial lucky draw through which they before the due GST Council which had earlier opted to GST Council has to find ways the pandemic - due to lock- the negative impact of COVID- loans, retail and crop loans) services firm Paytm said that it get assured tickets up to Rs 1 meet on October 5, 2020 will borrow 2.35 lakh crore, later to meet any revenue shortfall down and anticipated post 19 on the economy. outstanding as on March 1, was forced to comply with lakh with any qualifying pay- have to wait till June 2022 to get changed its preference to the arising out of GST implemen- lock-down compression in eco- On May 12, 2020, the gov- 2020, all regulated lending Google’s mandate to remove ment. For different scores start- their compensation dues, sub- 97,000 crore option. tation. nomic growth - may result in ernment announced the institutions were permitted to the UPI cashback and scratch ing from 50 to all the way to ject to the condition that the The non-BJP ruled states The payment of GST com- higher non-performing assets Aatmanirbhar Package, a spe- grant a moratorium of six cards campaign to get re-listed 1000 plus they also earn GST Council extends the cess are at loggerheads with the pensation to states became an and capital erosion of banks, he cial economic and compre- months on payment of all on the Android Play Store. rewards and discounts on dif- collection period beyond 2022, Centre over the issue of fund- issue after revenue from impo- had said. hensive package of more than instalments falling due between “Offering both is legal in ferent services that they avail the sources said. ing shortfall. sition of cess started dwindling A recapitalisation plan for Rs 20 lakh crore equivalent to March 1, 2020 and August 31, India, and cashback was being via the Google Pay app, Paytm GST Council with full The chief ministers of six since August 2019. public sector and private banks 10 per cent of India’s GDP with 2020.” he said. given following all rules and said in the blog. < <=>7 9 !,6 0, ',!" #Q R <5> ( + ! *6 $4 4$% : 1:54:;9 53 /1 )*) 696 8 /D6230# (* 8 /D6230 6 /6 99 $"!')Q*P( **$%&Q 1:54:;9 foreign investors. “Issues such impact, the auto industry has s many as 432 infrastruc- 69 36 6 /1 3/ ( as retrospective applicability of been requesting the govern- Ature projects, each worth at 4/30# ' 8 /D6230 6 he Modi Government has tax laws, change in overall ment for support to sustain the least Rs 150 crore, have report- >%1&%1' >'7 serve as one of the five board Tleft no stone unturned in business sentiments, tedious industry through a viable tax 1:54:;9 ed total cost overruns of over 69 36 6 /1 - 3/ (& members of the newly-created inviting foreign investors with compliances and an era ush- structure. We remain confident 4.29 lakh crore, according to 4/30# )+ 8 /D6230 6 n a surprise move, Oracle company. claims of an improved business ered by ordinances, has made that the government will do iesel prices continued to data from the Ministry of 69 36 6 /1 () 3/ ,* Iand Walmart have come The parent company environment backed by things difficult,” Batra told everything possible to support Ddecline for the fourth con- Statistics and Programme 4/30 * 8 /D6230 6 together to save TikTok from ByteDance will own the unprecedented reforms in the IANS. industry and employment.” secutive day on Sunday on the Implementation. 69 /1 , 4/30 ;/6 the ban, forming a new com- remaining 80 per cent of past six years, but what many Several bigwigs have from According to Suman back of falling global crude According to the data, as of pany called TikTok Global TikTok. industry players face is a dif- time to time raised their con- Chowdhury, Chief Analytical prices. August 1, 2020, out of the which will be headquartered in “TikTok Global will be ferent story altogether. cerns regarding the issues faced Officer at Acuite Ratings and In the national capital, 1,670 central sector infra- pated cost of the projects. The the US. President Donald majority owned by American From high tax levies to ret- in the one of the largest con- Research, while the GST diesel was priced at 71.58 per structure projects costing 150 ‘Flash Report On Central Trump said he has given the investors, including Oracle and rospective applicability of tax- sumer markets in the world, applicable for vehicles is pegged litre, down from 71.82 on crore and above, 8 projects are Sector Projects’ noted that the deal his blessing. Walmart. TikTok Global will be ation, companies including the latest being Shekar at 28 per cent, the purchase Saturday. ahead of schedule, 212 are on number of delayed projects Trump on Saturday an independent American multinational corporations Viswanathan, Vice Chairman taxes on cars in India have been Similarly in the other met- schedule, 505 are delayed, 432 however, decreases to 418 if announced that China-based company, headquartered in the (MNC) face a number of obsta- of Toyota Kirloskar Motor, the historically high and given the ros of Mumbai, Chennai and have reported cost overrun delay is calculated on the basis ByteDance which is the parent US, with four Americans out of cles in running and expanding Indian unit of Toyota. In a fiscal compulsions, the gov- Kolkata, the fuel was sold for and 202 projects reported both of the latest schedule of com- company of TikTok has the five member Board of their businesses in India, recent interview Viswanathan ernment may not be in a posi- 78.02, 76.99 and 75.09 on time and cost overrun with pletion. Further, for 945 pro- received tentative approval for Directors,” Walmart and Oracle nonetheless they continue to said that Toyota Motor Corp tion to reduce the taxation Sunday, respectively, against respect to their original project jects neither the year of com- an agreement with the US gov- said in a joint statement. operate in the country, given will not expand further in rates in the current scenario. the previous levels of 78.27, implementation schedules. missioning nor the tentative ernment to resolve the out- Talking to reporters, the large market it offers to India due to the high tax “With regards to policies, 77.21 and 75.32 per litre. The “Total original cost of gestation period has been standing issues, which will Trump said: “I have given the them. There are a host of glob- regime in the country, adding what can possibly help the recent fall in transport fuel implementation of the 1,670 reported, it said. now include Oracle and deal my blessing. I approve the al giants including Vodafone that apart from impacting sector is the introduction of the prices comes in the wake of projects was 20,58,193.26 Out of 505 delayed pro- Walmart together investing to deal in concept”. Group, Cairn Energy and expansion plans, high levies scrappage policy to ensure softening of global oil prices as crore and their anticipated jects, 120 projects have overall acquire 20 per cent of the “It will have nothing to do Walmart which had to face reg- also impact demand and even- removal of polluting vehicles an extended run of Covid-19 completion cost is likely to be delay in the range of 1 to 12 newly-formed TikTok Global with China, it’ll be totally ulatory issues in the country. tually halt job creation. on the road and its replacement has depressed demand and 24,87,361.54 crore, which months, 118 projects have business. Oracle announced it secure, that’ll be part of the Noting that for foreign Later, in a statement, by new BS-VI models,” created a glut in the market. reflects overall cost overruns of delay in the range of 13 to 24 was chosen as TikTok’s secure deal. The security will be 100 investments to come in, it is Toyota Kirloskar Motor said Chowdhury told IANS. Prices of petrol, however, 4,29,168.28 crore (20.85 per months, 157 projects have delay cloud provider and will become per cent. They’ll be using sep- essential that appropriate that it continues to be com- According to Sridhar V, remained unchanged for the cent of original cost),” the in the range of 25 to 60 months a minority investor with a 12.5 arate clouds and a lot of very, incentives, single window clear- mitted to the Indian market and Partner with Grant Thornton second straight day at 81.14, report said. and 110 projects have delay of per cent stake. very powerful security”. All ance among other incentives operations here are an “ingter- Bharat LLP: “Some of the poli- 87.82, 84.21 and 82.67 per The expenditure incurred 61 months and above. The Walmart said it has tenta- the TikTok technology will be are provided, Sumit Batra, al part” of its global strategy. It, cies like End Of Life for vehi- litre across Delhi, Mumbai, on these projects till July 2020 average time overrun in these tively agreed to a purchase 7.5 in possession of TikTok Global, Partner at India Law Alliance, however, added: “In wake of the cles they believe could trigger Chennai and Kolkata, respec- is over 11.51 lakh crore, which 505 delayed projects is 43.49 per cent stake in TikTok and its and comply with US laws and says that India has not been slowdown that has been exag- a fresh demand across but tively. is 46.28 per cent of the antici- months. CEO Doug McMillon would privacy regulations. able to provide such comfort to gerated by the COVID-19 more so in the truck segment. *,9,(&" *, "!$ ! , % $, ")"', , 4 7 A5B 7 !( )** 8 &,, !! ! $, ! ( ; $% < % ( <6 4 1'; 4$' Q&"( $ ) &" R * &&$* ',% %, *"* # ( E ,! New Delhi: An officer of the % 27;2%% " ! 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E" Finance Anurag Singh Thakur according to the corporate the University of Roorkee (now ment departments connect and %$ ;1%43 The miner could end the said as many as 35,074 decla- affairs ministry. Minister of IIT) and Post Graduate from design efficient workflows for current year with the produc- (*(*( rations have been filed under State for Corporate Affairs IIT (Delhi). Garg has a vast Leader of the Year’ award in users in various sectors. tion of around 580 million the Direct Tax Vivad Se Anurag Singh Thakur said a experience of 27 years and has 2019 from Project The platform ‘Nambikkai of the policy include seamless tonnes of coal as against its ,*( ! Vishwas scheme till September total 320 posts of officers/staff served with distinction in var- Management Association, Inaiyam’ (Blockchain access to government services revised target of 650-660 mil- 8, 2020. “The revenue gener- have been created in the ious capacities in Indian India for the efficient comple- Backbone) would help establish ‘anywhere, anytime’. lion tonnes, they said. $ ated till date through the National Company Law Railways as well as DMRC. tion of the NOIDA-Greater a single trusted source that “It is one of the largest Analysts of brokerage firm (Direct Tax Vivad Se Vishwas) Tribunal (NCLT). PTI Garg received the ‘Project NOIDA Metro line. would be used to create an effi- blockchain roll out in the coun- Motilal Oswal projected pro- % Act is Rs 9,538 crore. This fig- cient and manipulation try,” the government said. duction of 582 million tonne C ure does not include the pay- resilient system for govern- The facility would pro- for Coal India and off-take of ments made by the taxpayers ment services, the IT depart- vide a secure, scalable and sig- 565 million tonnes in FY2021 602 million tonne but offtake who are yet to file their decla- ment said in a policy note. nature-based authentication while ICICI Securities had esti- remained at 581 million tonne,” rations under the scheme,” “The initiative will direct- for electronic data, machines mated an output of 580 million an analyst said on condition of Thakur said in a written reply ly benefit the public of Tamil and personal information. tonne and sales of 550 million anonymity. in the Rajya Sabha. Nadu,” it said. Enterprise-grade govern- tonne this year. The brokerage firms also Finance Minister Nirmala “The Nambikai Inaiyam ment to government and gov- However, the miner is projected a lower EBITDA Sitharaman had proposed the is the state’s blockchain back- ernment to citizens products hopeful of achieving a 10 per (earnings before interest, taxes, direct tax dispute resolution bone. It will be a state-of-the- and services would be imple- cent growth in 2020-21 over depreciation, and amortisa- scheme, which provides oppor- art blockchain platform that mented using this infrastruc- 602 million tonne of coal pro- tion) of 17-18 per cent for Coal tunity to taxpayers to pay out- will allow government depart- ture. duced last year, notwithstand- India in the current fiscal. standing taxes and get waiver ments, public, start-ups, private Meanwhile, the safe and ing the disruptions caused by The analysts are not opti- of interest and penalty, in her sector to connect, transact, ethical artificial intelligence the COVID-19 pandemic, a mistic on sales demand even Union Budget speech on build secure applications and policy also launched by the Coal India official said. though the miner has intro- February 1.In March, design efficient workflows Palaniswami government aims The coal behemoth had duced a new category of spot e- Parliament passed the Direct upon it”, it added. to address the challenges faced earlier set a production target auction for importers only and Tax Vivad Se Vishwas Act. The blockchain facility in the use of AI technology. of 710 million tonne for the aimed at replacing 150 million The dispute resolution scheme would be a single platform that The policy recommends -- six current fiscal. tonne of the fuel sourced from is valid till December 31, 2020. can be used for developing and dimensional framework, trans- “Coal India has to match abroad with domestic supply. Under the scheme, taxpayers deploying block chain applica- parency and audit, account- with the demand and can’t The coal procured under willing to settle disputes shall tions for all departments and ability and legal challenges, keep on producing even if it has the “special spot e-auction be allowed a complete waiver public sector enterprises with- misuse protection, digital the capacity. Demand for coal scheme 2020 for import sub- of interest and penalty if they in the state. divide and data deficit among remains subdued. stitution” will be for use with- pay the entire amount of tax in 4 ( !* 4 / # ?4/*@ ( Some of the key features others, the note said. In FY20, production was at in the country. dispute by December 31, 2020. !"#$"%"% @
eadly viruses stay beneath been ‘out there’ in nature. But it’s the surface and need just only when we disrupt the natur- Done moment of triggering al habitats of the wild animals, to emerge in the atmosphere and where they harbour such viruses, take the world by storm. One the risks of an emerging infec- would never realise when that tious disease becoming a large virus sneaks into the lives of cal- epidemic or pandemic increase. lous human beings and creates Building roads and faster rail links # 5 havoc like the novel to such areas make it more like- Coronavirus has. ly that a virus that spills over into A British researcher, author a remote farming community and medical historian Dr Mark will reach a large urban area. % . Honigsbaum feels that our glob- So we have to reduce the pres- al interconnectedness has result- sure on these natural habitats by ed in our cities becoming disease building protected zones for reservoirs and our greed for ter- wildlife and discourage farming 3/'$C ritorial conquest has brought us on the edges of rainforests. And % closer to the animal species that we have to encourage more sus- allows the virus to “jump.” tainable livestock practices and do L M 3/ Scientists and microbiologists a better job of regulating the trade L are aware of the permanence of in wild animals. A 5 such threats. However, the med- ical community’s hubris and a There have been many fixed approach to treatment advances in technology and often blind them to the unknown medicine over the last few threats that still lurk in the dark. decades and yet such viruses Mark’s book, The Pandemic pose a great threat and an 5 Century: A History of Global unprecedented damage to Contagion from the Spanish Flu humankind. Why is that? 9 to Covid-19, traces a century- The point is we cannot pre- long history of recurring pan- vent all spillover events or predict demics, with a new chapter on precisely when or where the next 7 the Coronavirus. He highlights one will happen. What we can do M how after the 1918 Spanish — and should do often — is influenza pandemic, scientists invest in local laboratories and > dreamt of preventing catastroph- diagnostic services so that we can ic outbreaks of an infectious spot unusual outbreaks early and disease. But despite research and close them down quickly. years of progress, our medical We should invest much more protocols have not been aligned in public hospitals and local com- to them, resulting in the severi- munity care centres so that when 9 ty of the current pandemic. people fall ill, they have access to Excerpts: ) the best medical care close to where they need the facilities. Your previous book, The Pandemic Century: One You had earlier said, “Our Hundred Years of Panic, understanding of infectious dis- L M Hysteria and Hubris (2019), ease and our attempt to control was re-edited to include the it through rational scientific current pandemic of COVID- 1 > means and technologies are O1 8 19. What was your approach constantly being disrupted.” $ 5 $! while comparing the pandem- What did you mean? ic to the previous ones? One of the heroes of my book : $; Early on in the pandemic, is French-born Rockefeller $ the Imperial College and other < #"-&:. 4 #9 researcher, Rene Dubos. He was disease modelling groups had a brilliant medical researcher, $ forecast that, based on the case who developed the first commer- $ fatality rate figures from China !"# 3 ical antibiotic in 1939. But he also < and in the absence of suppressive realised that the narrow focus on measures, there could be as microbial causation risked miss- 1 8$ many as 500,000 deaths from ing the wider ecological and envi- =5 COVID-19 in the UK and many ronmental picture. Indeed, by millions worldwide. These mod- chapter on COVID-19 in March, $ &#&#- .((#/ the 1970s, he was advising his col- ;$ ! els, which were based on influen- it was unclear whether the Case leagues to guard against the za, immediately brought to mind Fatality Rate (CFR) was closer to I first became interested in pandemic, telegraphic communi- Freetown and everyone started hubristic assumption that science 5 $$ $ ! the 1918-19 Spanish influenza 10 per cent or one per cent, and epidemics and pandemics in 2005 cations provoked a popular dread blaming the WHO for failing to could solve all our medical prob- pandemic, the most devastating what percentage of the popula- when I was working for The of the flu. The medical journal, appreciate the danger. lems. $ 5 ! pandemic of modern times, tion was being infected with the Observer (British Weekly) and The Lancet, went as far as Then, in 2015, while we were Instead, he believed medical 5 $ $ which I have described in the SARS-CoV-2 without developing visited Vietnam to report calling the Russian Flu “an still fighting the Ebola in West researchers should “develop an Chapter 1 of my book. the obvious symptoms. We still on the outbreak of the epidemic started by the Africa, the world was confronted alertness to the unexpected” and $ 5 ;P However, it was also obvious don’t have a definitive answer to H5N1 Bird telegraph.” with another outbreak that no one advised scientists to “avoid pride L+5 that although both flu and the those questions, though most Flu. This led However, it was the had anticipated — the Zika. This of intellect and guard against any Coronavirus are respiratory experts now seem to agree that to a PhD on 2014 Ebola virus epi- led me to reconsider the previous illusion or pretence as to the pathogens that spread as droplets about two in five people (40 per the history of demic that crystalised epidemics and pandemics and the extent and depth of what he % "E and aerosols, the Coronavirus cent) infected with the virus influenza pan- my ideas about the extent to which such blind spots knows.” %" transmits much more slowly will be asymptomatic or experi- demics. So one role of scientific were the product of particular However, today we also have than influenza and has a longer ence very mild symptoms and way or another, I knowledge in gen- laboratory technologies and another problem — growing soci- # incubation period. This suggest- that the true CFR is between 0.7 have been thinking erating compla- “ways of knowing” infectious etal hubris or complacency about ed that it would be a mistake to and one per cent. about this subject cency as well as diseases. the infectious diseases of the past. 6 model our response too closely The bigger fact unknown for 15 years. anxiety about This is what I was referring to on influenza and a better com- still is the extent to which peo- One of the threats. The key Your research has time and when I talked about the rational parison might be to look at the ple may enjoy a degree of immu- themes of my mono- moment came again tried to highlight how scientific means and technologies measures that were used against nity to SARS-Cov-2, either graph, A History of the in May 2014 such viruses just live beneath the being disrupted. We have vaccines SARS-1 in 2002-03 — test and because of previous exposure to Great Influenza when I attended a surface and are awakened due to against a host of childhood dis- trace combined with isolation a related Coronavirus, or because Pandemics: Death, Panic meeting on Ebola at human consequences and eases but because of how social > L and quarantine measures. their immune systems have some and Hysteria, 1830-1920 Chatham House and all the actions. How can we ensure a co- media spreads misinformation in-built genetic advantage. (Bloomsbury, 2020), was experts essentially said about the living and sustainable function- about vaccines, trust in science is Since the pandemic is not at the way in which the epidemio- outbreak in Southeastern Guinea, ing between humans and the declining. According to a recent a very advanced level of What was your first point of logical risk models and the media “We’ve seen this before in other environment? What's the way poll, as many as a third of research, was it challenging to reference while doing the amplify anxiety about infectious parts of Africa; there’s nothing to forward? Americans say that they would find the right facts and figures? research? How long did it take diseases. For instance, during worry about.” Three months later The Coronavirus and other refuse a vaccine for COVID-19 if Yes, when I was writing the for you to complete it? the 1889-92 Russian influenza Ebola arrived in Monrovia and viruses like Ebola have always one was offered to them. N O #.., 6 O ! '=! , ," ', % 6 S K $ M
, 8 5 % EC " %- !*%! P P # 4 The award-winning series Transparent comes to an end in raucous fashion with a two-hour musical episode. After the death of Maura, the Pfeffermans must deal with their grief — and the horror of learning that Shelly plans to stage a musi- cal play based on the family. 9 # 2&& Starring Judith Light, the musical releases on Amazon Prime Video on @L1 women’s rights, immigration, gather together in theatres,” and we know that Schreck’s September 27. ( and domestic abuse. said Schreck. next projects will embody Fifteen-year-old Schreck She added, “In light of the same intelligence and 5 # > Uttarakhand should follow the footsteps &$ ( of the leading fruit producing state of Himachal Pradesh but when it comes to formulating and implementing policies supporting farmers, the void is huge. Plans are conceptualised and implement- ed mostly without any scientific and '$" technical knowledge. According to farmers of the Mukteshwar region, who wish to stay anonymous, the government had &# ( ( launched a scheme to encourage inten- sive apple horticulture in the state. The # horticulture department was given the responsibility to identify beneficiaries # ( and implement the scheme. Although, the department was quick enough to # implement the scheme but when requests for arranging quality planting material to establish orchards were raised, the department took a backstep = &# putting the entire responsibility on farmers. They asked farmers to make # # arrangement on their own leaving them helpless. # #P In this regard, Dr Narayan Singh, an expert working on horticulture develop- ( ( # ment in Mukteshwar region, says that “Another major drawback of this scheme # is that farmers have to establish orchard on a minimum of one-acre land. This P excludes several small farmers from par- ticipating in the scheme. If the state gov- / : 4 )& ernment really wants to provide bene- $ fits to the farmers, then it will have to formulate plans keeping in mind small ? armers across several states are es to be heard while many, with no one holding farmers as well. This step will opposing the Centre’s agriculture- to listen, choose death to register their not only help in expansion of the Frelated ordinances. In Punjab, protest. scheme but has the potential of turning Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Telangana, During lockdown, farmers were the state into a horticulture-intensive protests have been staged against the among the worst affected communities. region.” Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce Preliminary findings of a survey con- With minus 23.9 per cent GDP, we (Promotion and Facilitation) Ordinance, ducted by the Public Health Foundation have officially entered a recessionary %EC78 6%9$%23$% 1 231E E the Farmers (Empowerment and of India (PHFI), Harvard T H Chan phase this year, data released by the Protection) Agreement on Price School of Public Health and the Centre National Statistical Office (NSO) shows. ecently, the horrific news of a young boy who Assurance and Farm Services Ordinance, for Sustainable Agriculture (CSA, Amid such grim situation, it is only the Runder the influence of ‘ice drug’ (methamphet- and an amendment in the Essential Hyderabad) confirms the same. The sur- agriculture sector that gives hope for amines) gouged out his own eyeballs and ate them Commodities Act, 1955, which have vey which was conducted with more future as it registered a 3.4 per cent GDP in a hospital’s emergency department shooked the been tabled as bills for discussion dur- than 1,000 agricultural households growth. There is a need to uphold this whole world. This makes us think deep as to what ing the Parliament’s Monsoon Session. across 12 Indian states show that “60 per hope by strengthening the farmers, spe- makes one get into such a temptation which is so The protesting farmers fear that these cent of those who did harvest reported cially the smaller ones. The current way fatal? ordinances will allow corporates to a yield loss, and 1/10th of them could not of formulating policies clearly misses out A recent survey by dominate the field that is largely owned harvest their crop in the past month. markets (Mandis), the impact of lock- Farmers dedicate their sweat and blood on the concerns of the farmers who face Govt of India Health and by them and the government. The More than half (56 per cent) of the farm- down has been such that farmers have to these orchards with hopes of promis- several, complicated challenges on field. Family Welfare Ministry struggle of the farmer community is only ers said that the lockdown has impact- stopped getting the right price for the ing returns. But when this produce is The good intentions of policy makers fall shows that among the boys intensifying with each passing day. ed their ability to prepare for the forth- produce. With meagre earnings, it has presented in market, they are faced by short in addressing these challenges. aged between 15-19, 28.6 Farmers are responsible for running coming sowing season.” become difficult for them to meet their several challenges — no buyers for the There is a need to listen to these per cent reported tobacco a crucial sector that contributes about 17 The hilly state of Uttarakhand is no daily expenses. The frustration among price they deserve, they are told that the unheard voices before introducing use and 15 per cent were to 18 per cent to the country’s GDP, pro- exception. Here, too, the several chal- them is evident as they have been quality isn’t good enough for the quot- changes that farmers are unable to addicted to alcohol. 5.5 vides employment to over 60 per cent of lenges that farmers have been facing for forced to take loans with no hope of ed price which pushes them to sell their understand and benefit from. The direct per cent girls under the the population and over 70 per cent of quite some time now, have only inten- future income. hard work at unfairly low prices. interest of farmers should always be kept same age group used tobac- the rural households depend on agricul- sified during the lockdown period that Ramgarh, Dhari, Mukteshwar, Government officials and local rep- at the centre of any ordinance, scheme, co while 4 per cent were ture. The recognition of the farmers — was imposed because of the pandemic. Satbunga, Dhanachuli, Nathuvakhan resentatives consider the old variety of policy or programme at all levels. It is addicted to alcohol. Isn’t it their achievements, struggles and During monsoon, different types of and may other regions of Nainital dis- apples, and traditional methods of hor- about time that farmers receive fair ben- shocking? Well, what is demands never make it to the list of gov- fruits and vegetables are produced here trict are famous for apple production. ticulture to be the main reason behind efits for contributing significantly to our even more shocking is that ernment’s priorities. Every now and then, which provide income to farmers for 8550 metric tons of apple is produced on the challenges faced by these farmers in nation’s economy. when we as a society ostracise kids instead of help- farmers have to shout at top of their voic- their yearly sustenance. In local vegetable a huge expanse of 1244.67 hectares. these areas. The popular opinion is that L!# # ing and reforming them. We need to understand that any kind of addiction usually does not happen overnight. Rather, people who become addicted to he children of India face an silos, while men, women and anthropy but also something any substance such as tobacco, alcohol, cocaine etc. Tarray of problems that # = children die of hunger on the essential to our society which is, are gradually introduced and desensitised to them haven’t seen the limelight in streets? These, in and of them- regrettably, missing from our over a period of time. They may initially enjoy the long aeons. Some of these should selves, are problems enough but schooling systems: Empathy, use of drugs in a recreational way, but it soon turns be carefully cross-examined and the mismanagement of the pan- Sympathy and Ethics. Why are into a hard habit which takes them to a dangerous dissected by our Parliament. It % 1: ; 6 17C O demic has spawned yet more. As our students not taught about route. As their consumption of drugs rises, they must be freed from its shackles demands for crops go down, the very holding line of a com- become physically dependent on it to an extent that if we are ever to hope that our U 9 / farmers’ crops are no longer munity? We have reached a stage its absence makes them sick. Most of the drugs are issues may be addressed one day. profitable and many are unable where we can no longer swear by illegal, so in order to have them continually, peo- What can we call a Parliament dom, resulting in a world filled to pay back their debts, leading textbook education and hope for ple get involved in criminal activities. Ultimately, they that shies away from question- with fake news and soothsayers. up to a widespread increase in the best. To create a massive, die a painful death with nobody besides them, ing? We need a system, which But these decisions against the number of farmer suicides. nationwide change, we require a remaining sad all along. can effectively surveil and look freedom of speech also threaten Where is the necessary parlia- change in our curriculum and the According to psychologists, most of the drug into all new decisions and plans. to cause a vast amount of dam- mentary criticism that can bring way children are taught in India. addicts are quite immature in nature and suffer from For this, we require no system age to the environment through an end to their pain? Aren’t they We require a system with a more insecure personality. They lack confidence due to other than the one we already two specific decisions: One, the citizens of this country as well, hands-on, example-based and various psychogenic problems, especially those from have in place; it only calls for it’s brand new plan to widen the just as deserving of the rights grounded approach to education. their immediate family. Another surprising fact complete and absolute freedom. roads into highways in the and privileges we enjoy today? As our world evolves, so should about such people is that most of them are aware Upon seeing news reports Himalayas, a decision which During this lockdown, mould our education systems to that substance abuse would bring them intellectu- regarding the removal of the has already led to widespread another prominent feature is tailor itself to fit the new world. al impairment and substantive, cognitive and Question and Zero Hour, I was muck dumping and damage the that of online education. I would like to be the voice memory disturbances resulting in deterioration of much concerned and decided to sensitive essence of the moun- However, not many children of those millions of children in their social and family relations. But unfortunate- write this piece. tains. In a sickening report, it has can find the means to access it. our country. We are the future of ly, their habit and dependency on these substances So the question is — why been revealed that the project The government can at least India. Respected Chairman of does not let them easily give up on its use. does this curtailment lead to so has been the root cause of an have provided small tablet Rajya Sabha and Speaker of Lok A body of research proves meditation as an much controversy? The govern- increase in landslides and putrid devices. Why is a divide between Sabha, you are holding positions effective addiction recovery technique. Researchers ment has moved to restrict clumps of waste in the sur- haves and have-nots being of great importance, which can who examined incarcerated substance abusers democratic voices and hide from rounding areas. Second, the gov- allowed to develop? Why is this easily make or break our poten- found that those who were taught how to meditate probing questions about its poli- ernment has plans in place to issue, one which matters to mil- tial future. Without the sup- had lower levels of relapse and more positive out- cies and actions. This is yet change the definition of illegal lions of children, not being porting role that our Parliament’s comes after release than those who received only another act that edges this gov- mining, opening up new loop- become uninhabitable with the hours of notice, nobody knew questioned? questionings provide, the weak- conventional recovery treatments. Hence, it would ernment closer to the brink of holes to be exploited. This increasing number of natural what hit them. People who had Recently, I have been read- ened framework will inevitably not be difficult to recognise the value of meditation centralising power. In this case, requires the questioning that is disasters. If the Parliament will come to the big cities to work, ing articles lauding the new come blazing down. I suggest you for elimination of drug habits. It will also be bene- they have tried to avoid the currently being silenced. Why is not be allowed to protect the vast now found themselves in a ter- National Education Policy but open the Parliament for children ficial to introduce this theory and practise as a sub- checks and balances that the environment the least con- biodiversity and ecosystems of rifying predicament. They were none of them talks about the for one day in a year to listen to ject in education so that the youth and children can Parliament provides. What this cern? Why is it not being given our country, then what or who, stranded in a foreign environ- content of education. Most of us our voices. We, the children can be saved from dependence on drugs at a primitive means is that it provides the gov- the importance it should? It is is left to stay the destructive ment with steadily rising bills. today aspire to be successful come out with better questions, level. ernment with an opportunity to inevitably our mismanagement nature of many of the policies Cross that with the massive lay- businessmen and philanthropists better suggestions and raise Many people may pose a question: why medi- execute a number of corrupt or of the environment that has that come flying down the tubes? offs that have been a staple of the like that of Bill Gates and Azim issues that matter to us. tation? Well, the answer is that it has been proved damning decisions, hidden from given rise to the devastating Poor decisions combined pandemic so far and they are left Premji. However, our current Parliament is a great institution that it rewires critical pathways in the brain there- the common man’s eye and the natural disasters that have come with the lack of any prior with no means to pay those bills. education system doesn’t teach to question the system. If ques- by increasing self-awareness in a person which allows Parliament’s scrutiny. However, raining down on our heads. announcement can be deadly as In an act of desperation, a 15- us how to start a business or how tions are not allowed, many him/her to focus on things that demand their atten- in this blatant attempt to blind There is yet still one more aspect we have already seen in the year-old student was forced to to run a charity. If money-mak- wrongs can happen that could tion. Remember, calming the mind for a few min- the people of this country, it is which is rarely considered. This pandemic-induced lockdown. It cycle 1,200 kilometres with her ing is vital for economic devel- destroy the future of our coun- utes may provide the distance needed to make a rea- not just the Parliament that is environment is something that has had its share of adverse ailing father, subsisting on a opment, why are we not taught try. sonable and healthy decision about whether to light subject to such actions. The we are to inherit, but in the cur- effects. When the lockdown meagre ration of biscuits. this highly important subject? (The writer is a 12-year-old a cigarette or find a meditation centre. So, all the media, too, has been blindsided rent state, it will be hard to repair came flying literally out of the What are millions of tons of This is an issue not solely student and a gold medalist at the young people, make the right choice of a healthy by the destruction of their free- it. 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It, though, did not end well for began after being invited to bat, with chologically advantageous position. /; % -* > 9 2 % ( 5CC 2- (($ -# L M9 # . ++ % 436% Priyam Garg, and Abdul Samad -! .( /; L$ and the management in the % %6349%6 this pitch. Plenty of pos- 5 irat Kohli will begin his hopes that one of them could itives but still plenty of Vquest for an elusive IPL title become the vital cog in the mid- hennai Super Kings areas for us to improve M L when perennial under-achievers dle order. Cskipper Mahendra “In the second half Royal Challengers Bangalore A team that is known for its Singh Dhoni has said there is a bit of move- $ ? take on David Warner’s low pro- depth and variation in bowling, his team’s tremendous ment till the dew sets in. M file but consistent Sunrisers Sunrisers’core unit remains “experience” proved to be If you don’t lose wickets 1 Hyderabad in their opening unchanged. Bhuvneshwar a crucial factor in its early, you have the upper IPL encounter here on Monday. Kumar will spearhead the pace five-wicket victory over hand. These are the 22 /' Both teams possess danger- department with Sandeep defending champions learnings. Rayudu had a 6 $' ous batsmen who can single- Sharma, Siddarth Kaul and Basil Mumbai Indians in the wonderful partnership % ' Thampi playing secondary roles. with Faf. Most of us are ? # handedly take the game away IPL opener. 22 # L from the opposition. Armed with presence of Ambati Rayudu and retired so luckily no Kohli has always led from once again pair up with the dan- the top T20 bowler Afghanistan Faf Du Plessis set up the injuries as well.” L$' M M' the front but he knows his gerous Jonny Bairstow. leggie Rashid Khan and No 1 all- win with a 115-run stand MI skipper Rohit L9 search for a maiden title will Sunrisers also have the bat- rounder in the format for the third wicket, Sharma was upset that remain incomplete if the team ting prowess of Kane Mohammad Nabi. while Piyush Chawla was none of his batsmen doesn’t perform in all depart- Williamson, Manish Pandey, RCB also boasts of a potent exceptional with the ball could carry on the initial M' $' ments. Mitchell Marsh and Fabian spin unit, leg-spinner Yuzvendra and was aided by likes of momentum that they L> The addition of Australian Allen. Chahal will again be the key as Sam Curran, Deepak gained. 9 limited overs captain Aaron Following a nightmarish he has been over the past sea- Chahar and Lungi Ngidi. enced players,” Dhoni Dhoni also spoke “None of our bats- Finch to the squad gives the star- 2019 season when they fin- sons with Washington Sundar, “The experience said. about what all things the men carried on for us, studded batting line up more ished last, RCB seem to have Pawan Negi, Adam Zampa and pays off, everyone talks “You need the expe- team learnt from the first like du Plessis and 4 firepower. Expectations are also much better balance but there Moeen Ali lending more about it. You get it only rienced players to guide game. Rayudu did for CSK. I 6 > high from highly rated young ability to hit late in the innings options. after you play a lot of the youngsters on and off “We may practice think we were 85 in the /; opener Devdutt Padikal. is yet to be tested. RCB have also addressed games. 300 ODIs is a the field. The young enough but when you go first 10 overs. Credit to $ On the other hand, Warner, Sunrisers’ blind spot also lies the issue of their weak death dream for anybody to players get 60-70 days on the field you need to the CSK bowlers, they whose exploits in the IPL include in the lack of depth in their bat- bowling that plagued their cam- play and when you put with the seniors in the assess the conditions and bowled well at the end to ? winning the ‘Orange Cap’ thrice ting order. The franchise has paign last season. The franchise an XI on the field, you IPL,” the veteran added give it your best. It took pull back things. L7 $ 6 and leading his side to a maid- invested in youngsters like Virat has bought South African bowl- need a good mix of at the post-match pre- time for the bowlers to Something for us to P M en title triumph in 2016, will Singh, Abhishek Sharma, ing all-rounder Chris Morris. youngsters and experi- sentation ceremony. find the right length on learn,” Rohit said. the season in the 50th minute as he ! ( " !&$! " / 9, )! ,6 * met Roberto Firmino’s cross with a "& thumping header after eluding Reece James’ slack marking. ", $,%) % $%, Mane was gifted his second 9 goal as Chelsea keeper Kepa $% 7$: > > Arrizabalaga made a hash of trying to play out from the back, allowing op seed Simona Halep ousted the Liverpool forward to intercept TSpaniard Garbine Muguruza in $% ;71471<>739%$/71 and slot into the empty net. three sets to advance to her third final It was the latest costly blunder at the Italian Open on Sunday, played ose Mourinho hailed Son and from Kepa, who was dropped twice on front of a small number of specta- JHarry Kane after the pair by Chelsea manager Frank Lampard tors for the first time. destroyed Southampton 5-2 on last season despite his status as the The Romanian - # ( / Sunday. world’s most expensive keeper. dropped her sec- Just 24 hours after Tottenham Lampard will be relieved that ond set on clay in signed Gareth Bale, Son delivered a Chelsea are reportedly close to sign- Rome before see- /4 virtuoso display that showed ing Rennes’ Senegal international ing off Muguruza Mourinho’s side already have plen- Edouard Mendy as he looks to 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 in a $% 1 ': ty of firepower. replace Kepa. battle of former Danny Ings put Southampton Thiago Alcantara made his Naples: Victor Osimhen bench to provide an elec- French Open ylian Mbappe returned to the starting ahead in the first half, but Son Liverpool debut at half-time after his proved decisive on his Serie tric shock for Gattuso’s champions before Kline-up for Paris Saint-German on equalised before the break and Andreas Christensen’s dismissal in move from Bayern Munich, but the A debut inspiring Napoli to side. Roland Garros in a Sunday and scored the opener in a 3-0 win scored three more in the second half, the champions’ 2-0 win. Spain midfielder conceded a 74th a season-opening 2-0 win Dries Mertens and week’s time. at Nice which marks another step on the road with each of his goals coming from Mane was involved in the turn- minute penalty with a foul on Timo at Parma on Sunday, the Lorenzo Insigne scored Halep — the to recovery for the French champions. Kane assists. ing point at Stamford Bridge as the Werner. first game in which fans both goals after his arrival 2018 French Open winner — will next The 21-year-old, who tested positive for Kane, who hit the back of the net first clash between Premier League Alisson Becker came to Thiago’s were allowed to return to which were set up by play Czech defending champion coronavirus on September 7, was on target twice in the first half only to have title contenders this season swung rescue as he saved Jorginho’s spot- an Italian stadium. Mexican Hirving Lozano. Karolina Pliskova, the second seed in from the penalty spot in the 38th minute. them ruled out for offside, capped Liverpool’s way. kick. Italy’s Government “Oshimen at this the final. Angel di Maria added a second just a swaggering display with his second In first half stoppage-time, After their chaotic 4-3 win over from Sunday allowed up to moment has an extra gear,” The Wimbledon champion, 28, before half-time and Marquinhos headed the goal of the season. Jordan Henderson picked out Mane’s Leeds on the opening weekend, 1,000 spectators at open- said Gattuso of the 21- has finished runner-up in her two pre- third after 66 minutes. Mbappe thought he “Son was on fire and for me run behind Christensen and the this was a return to the kind of dom- air sports events. year-old Napoli paid vious finals at the Foro Italico in 2017 had scored a fourth late on but it was ruled Harry Kane was the man of the Denmark defender responded by inant display Liverpool produced so And Rino Gattuso’s French club Lille a club and 2018. out for offside. match, what he did for the team,” rugby-tackling the Senegal star to the often en route to their first English Napoli and new Parma record 80 million euros for Ninth seed Muguruza, the 2016 It was a second successive Ligue 1 win Mourinho said. ground. Referee Paul Tierney initial- title for 30 years last season. coach Fabio Liverani’s side this summer. “He’s a seri- Roland Garros champion, fell to her for PSG who began the season still smarting ly booked Christensen, but VAR told While Chelsea have spent $258 faced off on front of a ous lad who does not for- fourth semi-final defeat in Rome, the from defeat in the Champions League final. LIVERPOOL STILL TOO GOOD him to consult the pitchside moni- million on new signings in a bid to sparse gathering at the get where he comes from, furthest she has gone in the tourna- They lost their opening two games and the At Stamford Bridge, Sadio Mane tor and he changed his decision to close the gap on the champions, Stadio Ennio Tardini. he lost his parents as a ment. second ended in a mass brawl against tormented Chelsea as the Liverpool a red card. Liverpool remain streets ahead of the After a barren first child, he is a young man World No 2 Halep extended her Marseille which led to the suspension of forward struck twice after sparking Mane grabbed his first goal of Blues at present. hour in Emilia Romagna, with the head of a 40-year- winning streak this season to 13 con- Brazilian forward Neymar. Osimhen came off the old.” AFP secutive victories.