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y k y cm NEW AVATAR BJP HOLDS PROTEST PORTUGAL FACE BELGIUM Actor Bhoomika Dash is set to catch the fans Maharashtra BJP held road blockades across the In a thrilling encounter, defending champions by surprise in her next film Mana Mora state demanding restoration of quota for OBC take on Belgium for a place in the quarterfinals at Euro 2020 Kagaja Gudi LEISURE | P2 in local governing bodies TWO STATES | P8 SPORTS | P12 VOLUME 11, ISSUE 87 | www.orissapost.com BHUBANESWAR | SUNDAY, JUNE 27 | 2021 12 PAGES + SUNDAY POST | `5.00 BLACK LIVES MATTER Cop who killed George Floyd gets 22½ yrs in prison REUTERS Washington, June 26: A judge sen- tenced former Minneapolis police of- ficer Derek Chauvin to 22½ years in prison Friday for the murder of George Floyd during an arrest in May 2020, Delta Plus variant video of which galvanised a national protest movement against racism. A jury found Chauvin, who is white, guilty April 20 of unintentional second- found in 12 states degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the PRESS TRUST OF INDIA in 12 districts and this has death of Floyd, a Black man. The ver- happened in the last three dict was widely seen as a landmark re- New Delhi, June 26: Fifty- months. It cannot be said buke of the disproportionate use of po- one cases of Delta Plus vari- that in any district, state it lice force against Black Americans. ant of the coronavirus have is showing an increasing Chauvin’s sentence was one of the been detected across 12 states trend. Till the time we don’t longest given a former police officer in the country, with correlate this we will not for using unlawful deadly force in the Maharashtra reporting the say this is a rising trend be- United States, Minnesota Attorney highest number of 22, the cause its mutations are the General Keith Ellison, whose office Centre said Friday, stressing same as Delta variant," that there are still very lim- Sujeet Singh told a media EIGHT MONTHS ON: Farmers shout slogans during a protest against three farm reform laws, and over other issues at the Golden Gate in Amritsar, Saturday. Farmers are Derek Chauvin ited cases of this mutation briefing of the health min- observing June 26 as ‘Save Agriculture, Save Democracy Day’ to mark seven months of their agitation (STORY ON P8) PTI PHOTO and it cannot be inferred istry. that it is showing an up- There was some variance ward trend. in the figures in the slides These 51 cases were de- presented at the briefing IRREGULAR by MANJUL tected from over 45,000 sam- but officials confirmed later ples sequenced so far in the that the total cases of the ` country. Delta Plus variant detected Sujeet Singh, Director of so far stand at 51 across 12 State spent 6.02cr on prosecuted the case, told reporters. the National Centre for states. Successful prosecutions of police of- Disease Control (NCDC), So the transmission po- ficers in such cases have been rare. said 22 cases of Delta Plus tential in the Delta variant “Today’s sentencing is not justice but variant have been found in can also found in the Delta it is another moment of real ac- Maharashtra, followed by Plus variant, he added. countability on the road to justice,” nine in Tamil Nadu, seven The NCDC is among the Mahanadi case: RTI Ellison said outside the courtroom, in Madhya Pradesh, three in 10 institutes involved in calling on law enforcement leaders Kerala, two each in Punjab genome sequencing of the `87.93 LAKH SPENT ON AIR TRAVELS OF OFFICIALS ALONE around the United States to see it as and Gujarat, and one case coronavirus in the country. a moment for reform. At the White each in Andhra Pradesh, Sujeet Singh said the GYAN RANJAN MOHAPATRA, OP House, US President Joe Biden, who Odisha, Rajasthan, Jammu Delta Plus variant signifies There is absolute freedom of speech. See, GOVT SPENDING ON MAHANADI TRIBUNAL one can join our party and say anything to has spoken several times with the and Kashmir, Haryana and the Delta variant with an Bhubaneswar, June 26: The Odisha PAYMENT MADE TO FUNDS RELEASED Floyd family, said the sentence seemed Karnataka. additional mutation – anybody these days! ` government spent more than 6.02 Mukul Rohtagi, SC Lawyer `1.14 crore appropriate. Both Floyd’s brother "There is very limited B.1.617.2.1. This specifically crore from the state exchequer to pay Rodney and his nephew Brandon number of cases of this mu- refers to the acquisition of ` the lawyers contesting the contentious Mohan Katarki, SC Lawyer 1.80 crore Williams criticised the sentence as a tation (Delta Plus). In India, the K417N genetic variant in FUEL PRICES ON A ROLL Mahanadi inter-state river water dis- Sri Agrawal Law Associates `41.73 lakh “slap on the wrist.” “We were served there are very limited cases the background of Variant pute in the Tribunal on behalf of the Visits of technical team `1.58 crore a life sentence,” Williams said out- (of Delta Plus). There are of Concern (VoC) Delta NEW DELHI: Global cues pushed fuel state and on government officials for Air travel of technical team `87.93 lakh (out of `1.58 crore) side the courthouse. nearly 50 cases that are found (B.1.617.2). prices to increase again across the their airfares to different places. country Saturday, adding more misery A response from the Water for the common man already grappling Resources Department to an RTI ap- state government paid `1,14,50,000 Chandra, RC Tripathy, GN with rising food prices amidst shrinking plication filed by this correspondent only for the services rendered by sen- Yoganarasingham, Ramesh Kumar income. The retail prices of both petrol revealed startling fact on the state ior advocate Rohtagi who appeared Gupta, Arun Kumar Padhi, GC Sahoo CITY FUEL PRICES funding for the case. However, four before the tribunal on behalf of the and BP Das. Interestingly, the gov- years down the line and despite in- state thrice between 2018 and 2019. ernment spent around `87.93 lakh PETROL `98.94 (+0.35) vestment of `6.02 crore, no major Similarly, `1,80, 90,000 was paid to on the air travels of these officials DIESEL `96.68 (+0.39) breakthrough has been achieved in another senior advocate Mohan V alone. and diesel rose by a sharp 35 paise per the case. In fact, the state even failed Kartaki who appeared before the tri- Odisha had been at loggerheads litre Saturday to touch new high of `98.11 to get a stay from the Tribunal on bunal for the state for ten times be- with neighbouring Chhattisgarh over and `88.65 per litre respectively in Delhi. the issue. tween 2018 and 2020. the ‘illegal’ construction of several With the rise, petrol price has reached As per information available, the Meanwhile, the Odisha govern- barrages and pick-up weirs upstream very close to hitting the century mark all state government employed 14 lawyers, ment also paid `41,73,664 to Sri of Mahanadi river and had sought the across the country extending the scope including former Attorney General Agarwal Law Associates, a New Delhi- intervention of the Supreme Court of historic high prices that had already of India and senior Supreme Court based law firm, for the services ren- in the case. made the fuel rate cross the `100 per litre lawyer Mukul Rohatgi to present dered in the case. Following the Supreme Court’s in- mark in certain cities and towns. Odisha’s side before the Tribunal. Similarly, the state government tervention, the Central government The lawyers’ panel also included also employed non-legal technical constituted Mahanadi Inter-State WEATHER noted advocates like Harish N Salve, experts to study various aspects of the River Water Disputes Tribunal to former Solicitor General of India, Mahanadi water dispute in order to settle the dispute between Odisha BHUB CTK and Mohan V Katarki. The RTI query assist the state government in prepar- and Chhattisgarh over the sharing of revealed that the state government ing its representations and spent Mahanadi waters, March 12, 2018. MAX 33.4° 34.0° paid `4,44,84,832, including taxes, to around `1.59 crore on the visits of However, the Tribunal has so far TEMP MIN 25.8° 25.0° various reputed lawyers and law these officials and experts to New failed to address the concerns raised Forecast firms of the country during the pe- Delhi and other places between 2017 by Odisha. The state government ap- Humidity 83% 80% Generally riod between March 1, 2018 and and 2021. pointed noted lawyers to present its Rainfall 2.5mm Nil cloudy sky January 31, 2021. The expert committee included side before the Tribunal but is yet The RTI reply claimed that the engineers like ME Haque, Suresh to get the desired results. MORE P3 27 new ministers tipped in Modi Cabinet SINCE PM MODI CAME BACK TO POWER IN 2019, THIS WILL BE THE FIRST SUCH RESHUFFLE-CUM-EXPANSION INDO-ASIAN NEWS SERVICE tions for the BJP next year, BJP UP Central berth from LJP, as are JDU nom- chief Swatantra Dev Singh, a cer- inations RCP Singh and Santosh Kumar. New Delhi, June 26: With the all-party tainty; Pankaj Chaudhary, MP from Karnataka may well be represented by meeting on J&K done and dusted, the Maharajganj, Varun Gandhi, and al- Rajya Sabha MP Rajeev Chandrasekhar. impending Cabinet reshuffle has once liance partner, Anupriya Patel are Gujarat BJP president CR Patil is mov- again gathered pace.