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Sawar, 645/1, Shop Pune-411 037. 19.10.2020 ForLiveBig Pune-4. Ph.no. 25531409, Chhaya Apt, Lane No 2, Kadiam Adhar no - No.4, Rasakar Campus, MUKUNDNAGAR - Birds Rs. 134/- LiveSmall 544879714632 Bibawewadi Main Road, 66014132. HappyColony, KarveRd, DEHU ROAD - Pune. Ph. No. 64004637, Naval Publicity, Birds Rs. 140/- Al- 0090276853-1 Bibawewadi, Pune-37. Vega Centre, 'D'Wing, 5th Taqdeer Broiler(Siraj Tel: 9922221261. Mundakal Enterprises, 9767428509. New name :Prachi Vipin Mr. Roji Samuel Raju, 6 Virgo Advertising & floor, Shankarsheth Shaikh)9822931357, Ganesh Advertising, Road, Swargate, Pune. NisarOld name :Prachi Unique Housing Society, Media Publication, 9767869302 Mr. VijayDeshmukh, 9423566508. Kunal ShahAffidavit 7/20 Near Telephone Vivek W. Lawand, 0090273225-1 S.no. 672/2a /2b, Ganesh MUNDHAWA - dt. 17/10/2020 Exchange Dehu Road, Shop-5, Plot-24, Complex, Shop No.3, Sahyadri Ads. & Services, Pune Broilers Traders’ 0090276874-1 Pune-1. M. 9422519264. Kakade Complex, Bibvewadi, Pune-37. Shop No. 03, S.No.32, Association Rate On FC ROAD - Nr Bhairavnath Temple, I Ex ArmyNo15127071M Ph.no. 24219660, Kalyani Residency, 19.10.2020 ForLiveBig Dhandhania Agencies, KarveNagar, Rank Havof18MED Regt 9822841930. Sriram Colony, Birds Rs. 133/- Live Mr. Ravi Dhandhania, 1st Pune-52. Nashik RecordRoom Mr. BAJIRAO ROAD - Mudhawa-Manjari Road, Tandoori Birds Rs. 140/- Floor, Srinath Plaza, KOTHRUD - Konde Dattatraya Anant Sri Ganesh Advertising, KeshavNagar, Momin Poultry (Asif DnyaneshwarPaduka Minat Advertising, DeclareThat My Son R. Nirmala, R. Ravi, Mundhawa,Pune-36. M. Momin) 26336349. Chowk, F. C. Road, 164/12 Shinde Building, Rushikesh Name as per 'Remedy', 1929, Bajirao 9881210378 0090273461-3 Pune-5. Ph.no. 25521699/ Shastri Nagar, Kothrud, Military Service Record Road, Opp. Telephone NARAYAN PETH - Bhavan, Pune-30. Ph. No. 25537933. Pune. Ph. No. 9960111193/ Ozone Advtg, Sheetal Agro Traders is Wrong. Correct Name 25232762, 9922220985. Konark Media Solution 9822110193/ 66020354. Sandip Kulkarni, 391, Today’sEx-Shop delivery is Rushikesh Dattatraya BANDGARDEN RD - Pvt Ltd., Sneha Communications, Vinya Apt, Opp Phadke for livesmall birds size Konde as per Civil record Vencobb today’s ex- Apex Advtg, Flat No.6, First Floor, Plot 39, Flat No.7, Prakashan, Narayan between1.3 to 1.5 rate at Affidavit Sr No 118/20 Dt shop delivery rate at Mapadan Firlosh, Office Prabha Tara Appt., Swapan Apartments, Peth, Pune-30. PuneRs. 140/- per Kg. 6/10/2020 Pune Rs. 109/- per kg. No 26-6-7-8, AshokaMall, Behind Hotel Vaishali, F.C. Right Bhusari Colony, Rajan Media, 7776024132, 7588532184 0090276854-2 Contact (9522) Opp. Sun &Sand Hotel, Road, Shivajinagar, Paud Road, Kothrud. Ph. Santosh Tukaram 0090274713-1 22872417, Pune (9520) Bandgarden Rd,Pune. Pune-4. Ph. No.32606012, No. 25282791/ Dhumal, 436/A, Narayan 24269414. WATERPROOFING Ph. No. 8975758860. Telefax: 2553 7013, 9422031002. Peth, Near PatryaMaruti, 0090272255-1 CHANGE OF NAME BHAWANI PETH - Mobile: 9823142410. Pradnya Communications, Pune. Ph. No. 5394262. Without Breaking Toilet, Globe Enterprises, Meera Publicity, Rohini Dnyaneshwar Orange Advtg, I Ex ArmyNo15127071M Bathroom, 5years A Pimpri Chinchwad Tanveer Rehman Shaikh, 1st floor, 10, OswalPark, Mohol, 83/165, Shastri Ashwin Karthalkar, Off Broiler Traders Rank Havof18MED Regt Gurantee, Terrace 10yrs Opp. Rachana Lodge, nagar, Near Sainath No 03, Dhruta Complex, RecordRoom Nashik Mr. 718, Bhawani Peth, Poona Association Rate on Gurantee,All Leakage College Road, Pune-1. behind Safari Hotel, Mandir, Kothrud, Pune. Nr Bhide Bridge, 19.10.2020 for Livebig Konde Dattatray Anant Work, Free Visit nr S.T.Stand, M. 9422015746. Kelkar Rd, DeclareThat My Wife M. 9890073883. birds Rs. 139/- Live Authourised Applicator BHOSARI - Shivajinagar, Shubhangi Ads., NarayanPeth, Pune. Ph. Name as per Military No. 020-25659133, Small Birds Rs. 140/- Dr.Fixit7666729911/9225 Samvad Ads., Pune-05. Ph. 9421017457. Plot No.30, Madhavbaug Service RecordisWrong 9822522130. contact- 7720828080. 534110. Near Gawli uilding, FATIMANAGAR - Co-Op. Soc., Shivtirth Rupali. Correct Name is NAVI PETH - 0090271130-18 0090271273-1 Pune Nashik Highway, Arora Enterprises, nagar, Paud Road, Rupali Dattatray Konde Vijaydeep Services, Bhosari, Pune 411039. Rajesh Arora, Office No. Kothrud, Pune-411038 A Pune Broiler Traders as per Affidavit Sr No Deepali VijaySonawane, ADVERTISEMENT CHINCHWAD - 63, Building I, Phase-III, M. 9822173930, 118/20 Dt 6/10/2020 315, Navi Peth, Gururaj Association Rate on Impex Advertising, Parmarnagar, Wanowrie, 9850965214 Apt., Shop No-C, Ground 19.10.2020 for Livebig 0090276854-1 DEPOTS Mr. Ashfaque A. Shaikh, Pune 411013. KOREGAON PARK - birds Rs.136/- Live Taurus Advertising Floor, Near Vitthal I Ex ArmyNo15127071M AUNDH- C-25, MIDC Comml. Tel/fax: 020-26860834. Small Birds Rs. 141/- GURUWAR PETH Agency, Mandir, Pune-30. Rank Havof18MED Regt Suyog Enterprises, Building No.1, Nr I.B.M.R. NIGDI- contact -869584268. T.V.S. Enterprises, Mr. Pt. J. Pillai, 398/a/1, RecordRoom Nashik Mr. C/oSandeep Book Stall, College, hinchwad, Pune- Dinesh Advertising, 0090265628-21 460, Guruwar Peth, Sant Goldfield Park, South Konde Dattatraya Anant Swajas Complex, Parihar 411019. Ph. no. 27470282/ Mr. Dinesh, 3/6 LIC Ganganath Maharaj Main Road, Pune. Tel. DeclareThat My Son Chowk, Aundhgaon, 9822792583. Colony, Sector 25, Archana Poultry farm. Road, Kachi Lane, Pune- 9860577086. Yash Name as per Pune-7. Mob. 9422011181. Mayureshwar Enterprise, Sindhunagar, Pradhikaran. Available wholesale live 411042. Ph. 020- 24456297, Prime Ad World, Military Service Record Chordia Latish Balkawade, Ph. No. 27657582. broilers 1.3-1.5kg; 2kg& Mob. 8975110325, Mrs. Rani Wilfred, A/l0/l, is Wrong. Correct Name Communications, Chaphekar Chowk, PAUD PHATA - above.Eggs at Arshad Ajit Chordia. 9421815428. MeeraNagar Society, is Yash Dattatraya Chinchwadgaon, Pune. Pari Advertising, attractiverates. Shop 17/18, Aundh Gaon, opp. GHORPADI - Koregaon Park, Pune-1. Konde as per Civil record Ph.no. 9422082164. Mr. Sunil Kalsekar, 13-14 delivery available. lane of Cosmos Bank, Kanya International, Palnet Publicity, Affidavit Sr No 118/20 Dt Raka Advertising, Gopal Park, Karanjkar 9767101013/ Aundh, Pune-7. Tel: A-18 SuchandraCorner, Flat No. 2, Ground floor, 6/10/2020 Mrs. Vimal Bafna, Raka Road, Opp. Dindayal 9552525315/ 9552525316 25886118, 9960111123. Chambers, Bombay-Pune B.T. Kawade Road, AishwaryaSoc., 0090276854-3 School, Paud Phata, 0090272941-1 Shraddha Ads, Road, Chinchwad Ghorpadi, Pune 411001. Wadgoan Sheri, Pune. Pune-38. Ph.No. Ph. 9422086762, Ph. No. 8149097475. Madina Poultry Traders, I Mustafa Shabbir Mrs.Ujwala Kotbagi, 'A' Station, Pune-19. Ph. no. 25469492/ 9422512640. wing, Vastu-sunder, Near 9921177816 KONDHWA - Pune.Paper rate on Ratlamwala declarethat 27475055/ 27472250. Kumar Classic, Pune-7. CAMP - GULTEKDI - Mak Ads, 19.10.2020 for LiveBig my mother Old name: ''IMPORTANT'' Nafisa Shabbir Tel. 9371055799. Ad India, Xebec Communications Khan Mohammaddin Birds Rs. 133/- Kg .Shop Ratlamwala New name: San Ads, Office No. 102, 1st Floor, Pvt Ltd., Ayazuddin, 76/4, kausar Whilst care is taken prior to DeliveryContact Nahid Shabbir Anurag, Plot No. 10, near Sterling Centre, Opp. Santosh Heights, Baugh Co-op, Hsg. Soc., acceptance of advertising 9763333335 RatlamwalaAffidavit Kobe Silzler Cave,Aundh- Hotel AuroraTowers, J. N. Marg, Gultekadi, Khondhwa Khurd, Pune- copy,itisnot possible to verify 0090273396-1 S. No. 20. Pune-411037. 48. Tel: 9850551497. B/2342/2020 dt. 411007. Tel: 25881302/3/4. M.G. Road, Pune-1. Ph. No. its contents. The Indian Tel: 26446856, 9766509029. Khushi Consultant, NECC suggested farm- 30/09/2020 APPA BALWANT CHOWK - 26131993, 26135659, Mo: Express (P) Limited cannot be HADAPSAR- Bashir Ismail Parker, Off gate price for 100eggs 0090276874-3 M/s V. V. Medhi, 9422083670. Plus Media, No. 14, C2, Brahma Estate, held responsible for such on 19.10.2020 in Pune Varun Medhi, 153, Hindustan Advertising contents, nor for any loss or I Prachi Vipin Nisar BudhwarPeth, Near Flat No. 22, Tulasi Ground Floor, Nibm without tray is Rs.510/- Agency, damage incurred as aresult of declarethat my son New Jogeshwari Temple, Opp. Complex, Opp. Chowk, Kondhwa Road, (Rupees Fivehundred Mr. Hiroo Surtani, 7, transactions with companies, name :Aarav Prachi Ganraj Books, Above Gitanjali Kunj, Ravidarshan, Ph. 40055020. Tenonly) Phone:NECC Near Kalyan Bank, KHADKI - associations or individuals NisarOld name :Aarav DTDC Courier, 2nd floor, Opp. Nehru Memorial 24270724, 26336377, Gadital, Hadapsar, Yash Publicity, advertising in its newspapers Kunal ShahAffidavit 7/20 Pune-2. Ph. No. Hall, Ambedkar Road, Dealer: 24332689, Pune-28. M. 9762547254. Harish B. Sharma, 264/1, or Publications. We therefore dt. 17/10/2020 9028967505, 8793647505, Pune-1. Ph. No. 26138113, 24455130, 24265787. Pooja Enterprises, Old Khadki Bajar, recommend that readers 0090276874-2 (020) 24492149. 26133510, Fax: 26131487. 0090272256-1 BIBVEWADI - Meenat Advertising, F-96, Mantri Market, Shobhargoha Khadki, make necessary inquiries My name Sukhminder Pal Hadapsar, Pune. Pune-3. M. 9822220090, Simra Trading rates for Ad Services, Mukund Saigaonkar, before sending any monies or Singh nowchanged to 827/7, Dastur Meher Mobile: 9011036125, 9595010552. 100 eggs. Selling price Amol Nalawade, entering into any agreements Sukhminder Singh Kalra Road, Camp, Pune-1. 9890635425. LOKMANYA NAGAR - Rs. 525/- Contact Sr. No.659/28, Rajiv with advertisers or otherwise As per Adhar No. 9323 Tel. 26130542. J. M. ROAD - Akshay Design, 9922117736. Gandhi Nagar, Upper Last acting on an advertisement in 1321 8720 Bus Stop, Bibvewadi, DAPODI- Fair & Fast Advertising, Mr. AkshayKulkarni, 0090273863-1 any manner whatsoever. 0090276844-1 Pune-17. Mobile Vantage Advertising & 1170/05, Kartik 28/401, Samarth Hsg.

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FINDINGS OF GOVT COMMITTEE OF EXPERTS Indiawentpastpeak inSept,Covidmayrun itscoursebyFeb:panel ‘Timelylockdown No explanation,but panel Punjab farm flattenedcurve; fires send sticking to masks, expertsindicate reasons smog signal distancing is key’ for bothhopeand caution AMITABHSINHA Therehas also been no re- to Delhi GAYA,OCTOBER18 AMITABHSINHA duction in the number of tests, ACOVID TEST GAYA,OCTOBER18 nor has the disease prevalence THE CORONAVIRUS epidemic in in the population reachedastage ANJUAGNIHOTRICHABA An entrance exam being held forrecruitment to the BSF and CISF,atHumhama near Srinagar,Sunday. Over 5,000youth India mayhavealready peaked THE REASONS forthe continu- where'herdimmunity' would JALANDHAR,OCTOBER18 across Kashmir appeared forthe test. Shuaib Masoodi and, if the usageofmasksand ous decline in coronavirus infec- have to be factored in. The use of physical distancing measures tion numbers since last face masks, and physical LATE ON Saturdayafternoon, continue at the current level, the month have notbeen distancing arefar from farmer BheeraSingh and his disease will likely“run its clear.The numbers have being universal. brother walked out to their ad- THE EDITORIAL PAGE course” by Februarynextyear,a fallen sharply–even The government- jacent fields in Jandiala Guru of Redeem your constitutional government-appointed com- though travel restric- appointed scientific Amritsar district with abox of mittee of scientists has said. tions have eased, eco- committee has notspelt matches. Sowing of the early va- HATHRASANDTHE The committee, headedby nomic and other activi- out the possible reasons riety wheat will begin in the last oath: Governor tells Mamata TRUTHMACHINE Prof MVidyasagar of IIT ties have resumedand, to alarge forthe decline in coronavirus week of October,and the broth- BY JINEE LOKANEETA Hyderabad, usedanew model to extent, normalcy has returned. CONTINUEDONPAGE4 ers had onlyalittle morethan a law, ensuredemocratic gover- Dhankhar said what hap- PAGE 8 map the trajectoryofthe epi- week to gettheir fields ready for EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE nance in the state, makepolice penedwith Madan Ghorai alias demic in the country. Itskey the rabi crop. KOLKATA,OCTOBER18 and administration politically Kalipada, of villageKanakpur in finding is that the disease seems Soon, the drygolden stubble neutral and accountable.” EastMidnapore, was"yetanother to have peaked in the middle of Learn from Onam surge on the entire15acres ownedby WESTBENGALGovernor Jagdeep The Governor’s letter came a horrifying instance of dehuman- DECISION CONTINUEDONPAGE4 the brothers wasablaze with Dhankhar has said it is “high dayafter Union Home Minister ising torture, assault and death in in Kerala: Harsh Vardhan leaping flames, and giant plumes time” Chief MinisterMamata Amit Shah said in an interview custody". "Thereisoutrageat 2020 DAILYACTIVECASES, of thickblacksmokerose high in Banerjee kept her “constitutional to CNN-News 18 that the de- suchlawlessness in the stateand IDEA EXCHANGE the air.Farmers can be fined oath”. In alettertothe CM on mand forPresident’s rule in outside, and consequent to BIHAR PEAKINGAT10.17LAKH KAUNAINSHERIFFM heavilyfor setting their fields on Sundayoverthe allegedcustodial Bengal by BJP workers was“wa- October 8police excesses, &SHAJUPHILIP CHALLENGEISTO fire,but the brothers had de- death of aBJP worker,Dhankhar jib (just)”, giventhe lawand or- Balwinder Singh is already a NEWDELHI, cidedtodoitanyway. said, “Madam Chief Minister, high der situation, while adding that posterboy forblatant human 10,17,754 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, BUILDANADULT “Wehad adelayed(kharif) time youredeem your constitu- anyaction by the Centrewould right violations in the state." OCTOBER18 VACCINATION crop due to ashortage of labour tional oath and enforce rule of be as per the Constitution. CONTINUEDONPAGE4 SYSTEM:NILEKANI 7,83,311 (because of the Covid-19lock- REITERATINGTHATpeople PAGE 13 down) at the time of sowing in should avoid large gatherings June. Nowwith just10days left during the festival season that is forsowing wheat, we can’t wait Five Naxals killed in encounter with ‘YES, ECONOMIC coming up, Union Health price forits gross negligence” in queue forastubble manage- DISTRESS... BUT NOT 26,163 MinisterDrHarsh Vardhan during the week-long festivities POLL ISSUE’ PAGE 7 ment machine,” shrugged Gadchiroli police at Dhanora tehsil 17Sept Sundaypointed to Kerala, which to markOnam in the end of Bheera. “This (burning the stub- FULL COVERAGE, VISIT had controlledthe spread of August. ble) is the onlyway.” WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM 1-May 17-Oct Covid initiallytobetagged as a During his weeklyinteraction Despiteastatewide ban on around 4pmwhen the C60 Kalwaniyafurther said, “We model statebut then “paid the CONTINUEDONPAGE4 CONTINUEDONPAGE4 VIVEKDESHPANDE commando party of Gadchiroli have recoveredfiverifles, includ- NAGPUR,OCTOBER18 police wasperforming an area ing an INSAS rifle, from the spot. domination exercise in the area. Alot of other material wasalso IN Amajor encounter with The firstround of fire came from recovered... their details arestill Gadchiroli police, five Naxals, in- the Naxals. Our men retaliated. being confirmed.” EXPERT cluding four women, were killed The exchangehappenedfor He addedthat therewas a in the Kosmi-Kisneli forest at about 45 minutes, killing at least gathering of about 40 to 50 EXPLAINS Dhanoratehsil on Sundayafter- five Naxals, four of them women. Naxals at the spot. “Theybe- Amitabh Mattoo noon, said Superintendent of The encounter didn't cause any longed to Tipagad Dalam, Police Ankit Goyal. harm to the police.” Platoon 15 and Company4ofCPI FromTheIndianExpresspanel ofspecialists,exclusiveinsight Additional SP (Operations) “Weare still searching (the (Maoist),” he said. Maneesh Kalwaniya, who led area) and therecould be more With this, the total number of the operation, told The Indian casualties on the Naxalside,” he Naxalcasualties in 18 encounters TRUMP,BIDEN, Express: “The encounter started added. this year has gone up to nine. &THEWORLD How do the candidates for Ed tech firms corner almost all the White House see the world and issues of shared global concern? Part 2ofaseries. $100 mn bracket funds post Covid EXPLAINED PAGE 10 Eruditus. According to data ZuckerbergInitiative,Sequoia PRANAVMUKUL& sourcedfromVenture Capital and other investors. SANDEEPSINGH Intelligence, one-thirdofthe $1.5 ■ Remote tutoring start-up NEWDELHI,OCTOBER18 billion raisedinthese eight in- Vedantu raised$100million in BUSINESSASUSUAL vestment rounds wasbyByju’s. 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Punjab farm have been asking farmers notto just the latestinalong warof towardsonline education in the burn it.” wordswith the stategovern- backdrop of Covid, ed-techcom- fires send smog Should the appeals succeed, ment, the ruling Trinamool ac- panies areexpected to grow fur- it would help prevent the release India went past peak in Sept: Panel cusedhim of singing the BJP ther.According to Telecom signal to Delhi of 2.2 lakh tonnes of harmful tune. RegulatoryAuthority of India burning straw, fields have been gases in the environment, and September,when the number be infected wasnearing 75 son. We have to be careful. We prompt imposition on March (TRAI) data, India had 734.19 on fire every100-200metresin would help farmers save around of active cases touched10.17 lakh. have seen that therewas a 24 has resulted in deaths be- Grocery store, million Internetusers as of Jandiala Guru, Tarsikka, Tarn Rs 5crore that theyspend on fer- lakh. This number has been “This of course is premised surge in cases in Kerala after ing around one lakh till date,” March 2020. Arecent reportby Taran, Khadur Sahib, and Ajnala tilisers suchasnitrogen, phos- declining steadilyfor the last on the assumption that peo- the Onam festival. That is a the committee said in anote. restaurant, fans: Cisco has estimated that India blocks of Punjab's Majha belt. phorus and potash, he said. month, and the committee ple would continue to take lesson we mustlearn from,” Without alockdown, the will have morethan 900million Satelliteimages from NASA have “Weare motivating farmers suggestedthat the active precautionarymeasures, at he said. number of infections would Indian shuttlers users by 2023. been showing large clusters of to sell their paddy strawtodairy cases, even if theyrise due to leasttothe same extent that The committee said that have reached140 lakh (1.4 “Two keyfactors leading to farm firesinAmritsar,Patiala, farmers who can preparefodder festivals or cold weather,were theyare currentlydoing. This their modelling exercise had crore) in June, the committee play safe in the investment in the ed-tech Tarn Taran, and Firozpur in out of it. Alarge number of unlikelytosurpass the figure is no reason to relax, or lower also shown that the lock- said. Alatelockdown, in May, Denmark bubble sector arethe availability of tech- Punjab, and Ambala in Haryana. Gujjar families areready to use reachedlastmonth. our guard, especiallywith the down, particularly itstiming would have still seen cases nology to educateand the big The Punjab Remote Sensing this as fodder,” Dr Singh added. Additionally, the commit- festival season approaching. If in the thirdweek of March, reach50lakh in June. “In justone angle from one side in a demand supplymismatchin CentreatPunjab Agricultural Some 90 per cent of pan- tee, whichwas setupbythe we followthe physical dis- had abig impact on slowing short, the lockdown flattened room outside the hall,” he says. India. The existing ratio of seats University,Ludhiana, which chayatsinLudhiana district too, MinistryofScience and tancing norms, and use face the disease, and preventing the curve,” the committee While onlythree courts were to studentswho areeager to tracks satelliteimages of stub- have passedresolutions. Over Technology afew months ago, masks, at leastinthe manner coronavirus-related deaths. said. operational in the early rounds study is notgoing to accommo- ble-burning, has recordedthe the pastthree weeks, Ludhiana has projected that by February we aredoing right now, the “Without alockdown, the Also, the committee found as matches startedlastTuesday dateall of them to colleges and mostfarm firesinfour years this has reported108 farm fires, 2021, the number of people model says that by February number of deaths in India that the labour migration that instead of Wednesday, other the onlyalternateform of mass season. Incidentsare up more while Nawanshar has reported who have been infected with we would have things under would have overwhelmedthe happenedimmediatelyafter changes became the norm in the education is online media and than three times over lastyear: 15.Several panchayats in the virus at some point in time control,” said Prof Manindra system, and would have even- the lockdown had “minimal” tournament that endedSunday. that is gaining traction,” said the 27-dayperiod between Jalandhar toohavepassedreso- would notexceed106 lakh (1 AgrawalofIIT Kanpur,who is tuallycrossed26lakh fatali- impact in terms of spreading Ashuttle dispenser pushedout Narayanan Ramaswamy, September 21 and October 17 lutions againststubble-burning. crore6lakh). As on Saturday partofthe committee. ties. Imposing the lockdown the infection. “This indicates birds from arubber pipe. The National Leader -- Education has seen 5,552 fires, compared evening, the number of peo- “The big worry, of course, in Maywould have reduced the success of quarantine chair umpiresat for2-3 matches and Skill Development, KPMG in with 1,695 in 2019,1,533in2018, No explanation, ple who have been found to is the upcoming festival sea- deaths to around 10 lakh. The strategies,” it said. in arow.Line judges were India. and 3,822 in 2017. masked.Mostsignificantly, According to those tracking Until Saturday, the Punjab but panel experts coaches -- onlyone per player- the segment, abulk of the funds Pollution Control Board(PPCB) -wereall mic-edupsoyou could raisedbyed-techcompanies had imposedanenvironmental indicate reasons Learn from Onam surge in Kerala: Harsh Vardhan hear their instructions. have gone intomarketing or in- compensation fine of Rs 25.75 for both hope Music had been ringing out organic expansion. Lastyear, lakh in 961cases, and realisedRs on social media, Harsh central team wassent to Kerala whichhad happenedinKerala gies. in the early rounds, even during Byju’s acquired US-basedlearn- 1.25 lakh from farmers. In 822 and caution Vardhan also acknowledged following the surge. during theOnamcelebrations. Opposition leader Ramesh points. In-stadia sponsor banner ing platform Osmo for$120mil- cases, a‘redentry’ had been that community transmission “Between January30and We agree with that, the Chief Chennithala said: “Kerala has flexeshad Danish product lion as apartofits plan to ex- made in land records, whichcan numbers. But twoofits mem- “is expected to occur,especially May3,Kerala reportedjust499 Ministerhad earlier stated that failedinCovid-control meas- names on displayinChinese and pand globally. This wasfollowed makeafarmer ineligible forgov- bers offeredinsightsintowhat in denselypopulated areas” cases and twodeaths; and the gatherings during Onam cele- ures. To artificiallyshowthat Korean -- with an eyeonthe by the biggestdeal in the Indian ernment subsidiesorloansfrom could be happening. but “limited to certain districts majorityofthe confirmed brations, marriages and the stateiseffectively manag- Asian market.And testing fol- sector with Byju’s acquiring on- public sector banks. “A recent case study of in alimited number of states”. cases were concentrated in protests have created compla- ing the situation, all cases are lowedatimeline. “Once before line coding platform WhiteHatJr Some 1,171cases had been AndhraPradesh and Tamil Nadu Kerala Health MinisterKK Kasaragod and Kannur dis- cency in people, whicheven- notdetected and the number we left, then as soon as we en- for$300million. Byju’s rival earmarkedfor field visitsafter publishedinthe journal Science Shailaja sought to playdown tricts. Subsequently, Covid-19 tuallyled to increase in cases. of testsisnot increased,” the teredthe hotelreception (dur- Unacademyhas also pickedup firesweredetected in satellite afew weeksago showedthat al- the Union Minister’s com- cases croppedupinother dis- The Union Ministerhad only Congress leader said. BJP state ing the tournament),” Kiran says. smaller start-ups, including images. Atotal 801cases already most70per cent of infected peo- mentson“negligence” during tricts, due to an increase in pointed that out.” chief KSurendran said the Badminton’s resumption has PrepLadder,Kreatryx, CodeChef confirmedbyphysical visitsare ple were notpassing the disease Onam, saying he had notcriti- both inter and intrastate move- Speaking to The Indian Union Minister’s statement been hardlysmooth afterthe big and Mastree. likelytoface penalties in aday to others. The virus wasspread- cisedthe statebut was“alert- ment of people because of Express lastweek,Shailaja had wasa“severe setbackfor comeback, Thomas Uber Cup, Additionally, while or two. ing onlythrough asmall setof ing other states to take steps to trade and tourism. And then said that during the lockdown, Kerala” and asked the state wasaborteddue to withdrawals. Unacademyisone of the official In Haryana, the state people who arereferredtoassu- avoid gatherings, whichhad the epic curveofKerala Kerala had flattenedthe graph government to seek the Scaling back, the Badminton partners of IPL, Byju’s wassaid Pollution Control Boardhas re- per-spreaders,” Prof Manindra happenedinKerala during the changed completely due to andthe rate wasatits lowest. Centre’s assistance. WorldFederation managed to to be in the race forthe title ported1,710 stubble-burning in- Agrawal, amember of the com- Onam celebrations”. Onam festivities across the “But with the central govern- Meanwhile, responding to keep the DenmarkOpen on sponsorship -- as of now, Byju’s cidentsuntil October 15 this mittee, told The Indian Express. However, Kerala’s stateduringthe monthsof ment opening up and allowing aquestion on West Bengal schedule, moreasatrial run sponsors the pre-matchand year,against1,072 incidentsin Thesesuper-spreaders,Prof Opposition parties described Augustand September,” Harsh trains and flights... during June Chief MinisterMamta than afull-fledged show. post-matchshows. the corresponding period last Agrawalsaid, have agreater the Centre’s remarks as a Vardhan said. to September,Kerala had 9 Bannerjee’s statement that Unlikethe IPL or the con- “Manyinvestors arecoming year. chance of getting infected dur- “chargesheet” that highlighted “Onam festival lastedbe- lakh people coming in. Then thereare instances of commu- stricting bubbles of early with aprofitmotivebut many The impact of the firesin ing the early phase of the epi- the “failure” of the Leftregime. tween August22and we had Onam and therewas nity transmission in the state, German football, badminton has others arecoming forwardto Punjab and Haryana has been demic. “So, it is possible that the Responding to aquestion September 2. During this pe- some relaxation. So we wit- Harsh Vardhan said: “...in dif- easedthe terms of consented createanimpact, i.e., to make visible as asmoky haze over super-spreaders have already on howKerala is inching to- riod, therewerehugecongre- nessedarise in cases in ferent pocketsacross various confinement atad. So one could education moreequitable,” said Delhi-NCR and poor air quality been infected,and become im- wardsthe 3-lakh markoverall gations across the statewhere August,” she had said, adding states, including West Bengal, step out and grab ameal or hop Saiju Aravind, founder of Kochi- index(AQI) numbers. According mune. And as we have seen, very while setting adailyrecordof people collected in large num- that various protests by community transmission of offtoanearbygrocerystore,if basedonline education platform to SAFAR, the MinistryofEarth fewamong the others transmit Covid cases, Harsh Vardhan bers and obviouslydid nottake Opposition parties also ledto Covid-19isexpected to occur the organisers deemeditsafe. EduBrisk,adding that his firm is Sciences' air quality monitor, the disease. This could be one said: “Afterhaving good con- adequateprecautions. Kerala, “hugegatherings”. especiallyindenselypopu- Stores in Odense neverreally supportedby“investors who farm firesaccounted for22per possible reason forwhat we are trol over the virus during the whichwas reporting an aver- However, Kerala Social lated areas. However, this isn’t crowdupmuch, but in allowing want to makeeducation afford- cent of the air pollution in the seeing right now,”hesaid. initial phase of the pandemic, ageof2,000 dailycases in the Security Mission executive di- happening across the country; spectators, afterDenmarktested able and provide quality educa- national capital on Saturday, and Super-spreaders areinfected the situation has nowwors- firstweek of September, rector Dr MohammedAsheel and community transmission this in other indoor sports like tion to people in general”. 17 per cent on Sunday. people who infect alarge num- ened. Iwould saythat other reached4,000 averagedaily postedonhis Facebook page is limited to certain districtsoc- handball, the organisers walked Ramaswamysaid the pan- While the Punjab govern- berofothers. The study that states shouldlearn alesson newcases fortnightly. Which that “politician Harsh Vardhan curring in alimited number of athin line of keeping players safe demic has takencareofinitial ment’s appeal to farmers and Agrawalreferredto, had relied from Kerala’s spurtinCovid-19 means Kerala startedadding can sayanything”. “But if he states,” Vardhan said. -- no one tested positive -- while skepticism on howonline edu- villagepanchayats has so farnot on data from over 85,000 con- cases due to negligence during 7,000-8,000dailynews cases,” speaksasthe Union Health The Centre, incidentally, still letting in fans. cation will work.Hesaid that been successful in curbing farm firmedinfections in Andhra the Onam season. Iwould also he said. Minister, he should sayonlyaf- has startedanextensive Maskshavenot beenimposed even afternormalcy returns, the fires, acting on the directions of Pradesh and Tamil Nadu until saythat all states needtobe In response, Kerala Minister terlearning things precisely. awareness campaign forthe outdoors but the rules arestrict sector will continue to grow.But district administrations, pan- August1,and nearly 6lakh of careful during the coming fes- Shailaja said she had calledthe What he said is wrong to the “Jan Andolan” launchedby about them in enclosedspaces. according to him, investment is chayatshavestarted to pass res- their contactswho were identi- tive season...This caution must Union Ministerfollowing re- core. If in doubt, ask your sci- Prime MinisterNarendraModi “Country-wise tables were primarilyintechnology -- not olutions againststubble-burn- fied and traced. It is the largest be exercisedfor the next three ports on his remarks.“He was entists in ICMR,’’ he posted. forCovid-appropriatebehav- assignedduring breakfastatthe muchishappening on infra- ing. such study so far. months at least.” answering aquestion about Asheel workswith the State iour in the backdrop of the fes- hotel,” said AjayJayaram, who structure. In Pathankot district, 325 out The study found that over Over the last24hours, the hikeinCovid cases in Social Justice Department, tive season. It has issuedade- losttofinalistAnders Antonsen In the higher education seg- of the 421villagepanchayats 60,000of the 85,000confirmed Kerala reported9,016 new Kerala. As festival seasons are whichisunder Shailaja, and is tailedSOP directing states to in the firstround. Of the four ment, too, severalmacrotrends have passedwritten resolutions infected individuals never cases, second onlyto ahead in other states, he was one of the members of acore ensurecompliance with phys- Indian men -- the women chose suchasskills becoming redun- againststubble-burning; in passedonthe infection to oth- Maharashtrawith morethan alerting other states to take team advising the Health ical distancing, sanitisation and nottotravel--Srikanth man- dant, along with high unemploy- Nawanshahr,resolutions have ers. On the other hand, avery 10,000dailycases. On Friday, a steps to avoid gatherings, Department on Covid strate- thermal screening. aged to reachthe quarterfinals ment ratesand agap in deploy- been passedby341 out of 467 small number,less than 10 per before losing to WorldNo. 2 able skills, coupledwith Covid, panchayats.The resolutions cent, accounted forover60per Chou Tien Chen. have brought anew urgency to seem to be having an impact – cent of secondaryinfections. “Look,weall have varying unable to analysebecause of lack navirus epidemic with cold his death, whichwas reported In fact, soon afterthe pan- the needfor continuous learning. in Pathankot,nofirehas been These were the super-spreaders, degrees of contact with people. of adequatedata. But this de- weather.But thereisaseasonal- on October 13. demic brokeout as early as Consultancy firm RedSeer recordedoverthe pastthree eachofwhom passedonthe in- We mayhave10-15people with cline in numbers in the lastone ityassociatedwith the spread of Earlier,onOctober 8, during February, the Indians were the pointed out that with factors weeks. fection to maybe20, 30, 40, or whom we interact on averyreg- month is notinexplicable. It can other kinds of viruses and infec- ascuffle between BJP workers firstamong athletestotravelto suchasrelaxation in regulations SarpanchDev RajofLahri even morepeople. ular basis, then another larger be explainedifwehavegood tious diseases, and basedonthat and the police at amarch by the Philippines forthe governing degrees, the online Gujjran villageofPathankot dis- Prof Agrawalpointed out setofpeople whom we might be dataand information,” she said. experience, it would notentirely party workers to the statesecre- Badminton Asian Team higher education market is ex- trict said that theypassedares- that the super-spreaders had no meeting occasionally, and an Prof Agrawalpointed out be out of place to suggestthat tariat Nabanna, the turban of Championship. pected to grow to $5 billion over olutiononOctober 12 aftercon- special quality apartfromthe even largerset with whom we that the current decline in cases the spread of coronavirus might Balwinder Singh, abodyguard “Masksare important but I the next five years, a10-fold in- vincing the villagers, because fact that theywereinteracting rarely interact. During restric- in India were similar to what increase during winter.Wehave with aleader,had come off. The have always insistedonface crease from itscurrent size. therewas no point in passing a with morepeople than most tions, we would be interacting manyEuropean countries had to be careful. Air pollution could BJP had accusedthe government shields during travel. Players can “If youhavegood school infra resolution if the farmers were others. Avegetable vendor,for mainlywith people within our experiencedafew months ago. be acause forconcern as well. of hurting religious sentiments. onlyhavewarm beveragesfrom then technology investment notinvested. example, is likelytointeract with innermostcircle. Whatever in- “Takethe case of Italy, forex- Bad air is already abig reason for In his letter,the Governor outside, if theymust. And no adds some value but in acountry Similarly,panchayats of vil- manymorepeople than the av- fections had to happen in that ample. Theretoo, the disease respiratorydiseases, and coron- said therewas growing resent- half-sleeves, the full body needs likeours wherethereare issues lages including Balsua (389 acres erageofficer-goer. small circle of contactsmight al- prevalence had notbecome so avirus can complicatematters ment among the people over the to be coveredintravel, plus sani- of teacher absenteeism and vari- under paddy), Sukhalgarh(365 “Preciselybecause of this ready have happened. Once that widespread that we could have further,” she said. "chaos" in the state. Asking tising hands everyhalf hour.If able quality,itcan lead to ahuge acres under paddy out of atotal reason, theyare also likelytoget has happened, the numbers are begun talking about herdim- Mamatatoensurethat the po- there’s no face shield, theyneed jump,” said Naushad Forbes, 430 acres of land), Bhoa (950 infected early.Ifyou take out the expected to decline. Forfresh in- munity.But the cases had de- lice and administration were to wear specs or goggles at pastCII president, and co-chair- acres under paddy out of 1,250 super-spreaders from the equa- fections to take place, people clinedverysharply. What we are Redeem your "politicallyneutral" and "ac- least,” Kiran says. man of Forbes Marshall. acres), Sultanpur (325 acres), tion,the reduction in the coron- needtostart interacting with the seeing now(in Italy) is aresur- countable", he said, "... sanitise Besides, the team hasn’t used Of the $3.29 billion received Govindsar (310 acres) Koghra avirus numbers does notlook largersets, or with complete gence, or asecond wave. But it is constitutional powercorridors of non-state ac- the common gym, while anyone by India’s education sector as (375 acres) have passedresolu- that surprising,” he said. strangers, as with co-passengers notnecessarythat everycoun- tors and ensurethat SSA(State accessing warm-up areas is foreign direct investment (FDI) tions aftertaking all farmers into Prof Gagandeep Kang, an ex- in public transport. That has just tryorregion has to go through a oath: Governor Security Advisor) and Principal masked.But Kiran is alittle sur- between April 2000-June 2020, confidence. So far, no fire inci- pertoninfectious diseases and begun to happen, and Isuspect second waveofinfections. If we tells Mamata Advisor,Internal Security,donot prisedathow fitmostshuttlers $2.12 billion wasraisedbetween dent has been observed in these professor at Christian Medical mostofthe infections that we arecareful, and tide over the boss over the statutorilystruc- still are. “Theyhavedone ade- June 2015-June 2020. The gov- villages afterthe resolutions. College, Vellore, said it wasnot see right noware aresult of next fewmonths, we can be The police have said that tured police apparatus, thereby cent job, everyone wasjustea- ernment, too, has recognisedthe BlockAgriculture unexpected to find that the dis- those kinds of interactions, hopeful of abettersituation next Ghorai, aBJP booth vice-presi- reducing the DGP and other po- gertoresume,” he says. opportunity.Inthe Budget Development Officer,Pathankot, ease wasactuallyspreading rather than in the closed month,” he said. dent, wasinjudicial custody at lice officials to abject subordina- speechfor 2020-21, Finance Dr Amrik Singh, said: “Thereare through averysmall number of groups,” Dr Kang said. Prof Kang said apartfrom acorrectional home, and notin tion and to insignificance". Ed tech firms MinisterNirmala Sitharaman around 50,000 hectares under infected people. Prof Kang, who “Everything about the trans- festivals, the approaching win- itscustody,when he died. Dhankhar also urgedIAS and had proposedsetting up of a agri and horticulturecrops in the is also amember of the commit- mission of the virus is depend- terand the resultant increase in Ghorai had been arrested from IPS officials to be "politically corner almost all “degree levelfull-fledged online district, out of whichpaddy and teethat reportedits findings on ent on the natureand length of air pollution could also be rea- Patashpur in EastMedinipur dis- neutral", saying therecould be education programme”. basmati aregrown on 27,500 Sunday, offeredanother possi- our interactions with other peo- sons forconcern. trict on September 26 in connec- consequences forbeing "in $100 mn bracket hectares, whichproduce around ble reason forthe numbers go- ple. And thereisalot that we ei- “Wedonot yetfullyunder- tion with akidnapping. The BJP breachofconduct". 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ELGAAR PARISHAD CASE Stan Swamy moves Pawarvisitsflood-hitareas,meets special court for bail farmers,sayswillseekhelpfromPM on medical grounds MANOJMORE PUNE,OCTOBER18 case againsthim, the agency EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE has also submitted that while NCPPRESIDENT Sharad Pawar MUMBAI,OCTOBER18 the committee's guidelines rec- on Sundaytoured the flood-hit ommend considering the grant areas of Osmanabad and Latur STAN SWAMY, the 83-year old of interim bail to undertrials districts. Jesuit priestand tribal rightsac- above 60 years of age, the Arriving around 10 am at tivist, arrested by the National same cannotbegranted Tuljapur in Osmanabad district in Investigation Agency (NIA) ear- mechanically. Marathwada area on ahelicopter, lier this month in the Elgaar "It is clear that the pleading Pawarwastednotime in visiting Parishad-Bhima Koregaon case, with regard to the medical con- flood-ravaged farms in ahandful approachedaspecial courtlast dition of the petitioner is of villages and interacting with week seeking interim bail on merelyaruse to obtain an or- farmers. Afterreviewing the sit- medical grounds. der of interim relief, whichis uation in the district, Pawarsaid The plea referred to the notavailable to the petitioner the heavy rain has wreakedhavoc guidelines by Maharashtragov- otherwise on the meritsofthe in the fields and the farmers ernment's high-poweredcom- case," the NIA replysaid. neededlong-term help. Old couple, son ‘attacked with mittee -appointed on the di- Swamy, who wasarrested "Farmers have been hit badly rections of the Supreme Court from Jharkhand on October 8 by the heavy rain. The damage -recommending decongestion and producedbeforethe spe- cannotbecompensated in aday. sharp weapons by men trying of jails during the Covid-19 cial courtinMumbai the next Thereisneedfor long-term help. pandemic. It also stated his sus- day, wassent to jail without the However, the stategovernment to steal petrol from vehicles’ ceptibility to the virus givenhis NIA seeking his custody forfur- has itslimitations while extend- ageand other health ther probe. ing financial assistance. We will with aprivate company. conditions. The agency has filedasup- have to approachthe central EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE According to police, when The NIA,however, opposed plementarychargesheet government forassistance," NCPchief Sharad Pawarmeets farmers in Osmanabad district on Sunday. Express PUNE,OCTOBER18 Phadtare, his parentsand the the plea on Saturday, stating againstSwamy and sevenoth- Pawartold reporters. tenantsspotted some people that thereisnomerit in Swamy ers on October 9. The Consoling farmers who lost AN ELDERLYcouple and their 29- near vehicles inside their society, seeking relief as per the com- chargesheetclaimedthat their entirestanding crop in two have causedheavy damagein compensation immediatelyto with them and aretrying to place year-old son were allegedly at- it came to light that theywere mittee's guidelines. "Accused Swamyisamember of the talukas of Tuljapur and Lohara, Maharashtra...," he said. State carry out rabi sowing. If the gov- the demand." tacked with sharp weapons by stealing petrol. Stan Swamy, under the garb of bannedorganisation Pawarsaid, "The floods have hit ministerSanjayBansode, MP ernment is going to conduct Pravin Darekar,Opposition four men allegedly stealing petrol Police said the residents the current situation on ac- CommunistParty of India farmers notonlyinOsmanabad OmrajeNimbalkar and other panchanamas of the damaged leader in StateLegislative from vehicles parkedattheir res- managed to catchtwo of them, count of the global pandemic (Maoist) and is actively in- district but in severalparts of leaders were present. farms, it will take at leastsix Council, said, "Instead of holding idential area in Bibwewadi on while the remaining twofled Covid-19, is trying to take an volvedinits activities. Maharashtrathe situation is Interacting with farmers in months... it will be difficult forus panchanamas, the stategovern- Saturdaynight. The incident took and returnedlater with sharp undue benefit of the situation... Swamy, in astatement be- similar.Iwill pursue the issue to Loharaand Omerga talukas, to survive if compensation is not ment should immediatelyex- place around 11.30 pm at weapons and attackedPhadtare in seeking bail...," it said in its fore his arrest,had said that he, gethelp forfarmers as early as Pawarsaid, "In 1993, thousands givenimmediately,"afarmer tend financial help to the farm- Purandar Niwas residential soci- with asickle-likeobject that in- replytothe bail plea. along with others, including ac- possible. In viewofthe enormity of liveswerelostinthese areas said. Severalother farmers ers. When ShivSena waswith etywhen the couple, their son flicted adeep wound on his It addedthat Swamyand 15 tivists,lawyers, student leaders of the damage, the stategovern- following an earthquake. People echoedthe view. BJP in government, Uddhav and some tenantscaught the hand. When his parentstriedin- others booked in the case have and poets,"who stand forthe ment alone will notbeable to herebattledsevereodds to re- Reactingto Pawar'sannounce- Thackeray usedtomakesimilar miscreantsinthe act, police said. tervening, theywerealso at- been chargedofserious of- rightsofadivasis, Dalitsand the shoulder the burden. We will build their lives. Iamconfident ment that he would lead adele- demands. Nowheshould act im- The three familymembers have tacked,police added. fences, including the Unlawful marginalised, and express their needhelp from the central gov- theywill overcome this situa- gation of MPs to the PM, stateBJP mediatelyrather than waiting sustainedsevereinjuries and are The miscreantsbeat up Activities (Prevention) Act, dissent to the ruling powers of ernment. Iwillleadadelegation tion," he said. chief ChandrakantPatilsaid,"First, forpanchamanas." undergoing treatment at ahos- Phadtare's mother who sus- wherethe punishment can ex- the country, arebeing of MPs to meetthe Prime Aggrievedfarmers urged letthem conduct asurvey of the In Nanded, stateminister pital, police added. tainedinjuries on the head, tend to lifeimprisonment. targeted". Ministertodiscuss the issue... him to ensuretheyget the com- damagedcaused,prepareamem- VijayWadettiwar facedprotest- An FIR wasregisteredona while the father sufferedinjuries While claiming that therewas The courtwill hear Swamy's The Prime Ministerhas already pensation as early as possible. orandum and then approachthe ing farmers who blockedhis complaint lodged by the son, on his legs causedbythe sharp adequateevidence to provethe bail application on Tuesday. expressedthe viewthat floods "WeneedatleastRs25,000 Centre. Theyhavenothing ready convoy and raisedslogans. Tushar Phadtare, who works weapons, police said. ‘If people take it lightly during festive season, asecond Low occupancy in Pune-Lonavala wave of Covid can’t be ruled out in Pimpri-Chinchwad’ local trains aworry for railways

Afterrecording over 1,000 Covid- notbefar off. If social distancing 19 positivecases almostdaily in is maintained, mask worn con- EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE Officials said on average, trains have been September,Pimpri-Chinchwad sistentlyand hands sanitised PANDEMICINNUMBERS PUNE,OCTOBER18 reporting 10 per cent occupancy,and the service is has been witnessing aconsistent frequentlybyeveryone, then I fall in positivecases this month. don't think asecond wavewill WHILE THE Central Railway proving to be financiallyunviable. The railway Compared to September,October arrive. 31 817 (CR) resumedthe Pune- administration is nowwaryofresumption of has seen amorethan 50 per cent Lonavala local train services -in Pune-Daund DEMU services foressential workers dip. In an interviewwith Manoj Thereare fears that during Number of Covid-19deaths Number of fresh alimited manner with twoUP More,PCMCAdditional Navratraand Diwali, cases will reportedinPune on Sunday. coronavirus cases reported and twoDOWNservices -after Municipal Commissioner shootup? on Sunday. the stategovernment's go- government employees and es- Pravasi Group Essential said low Santosh Patil saysthe civic ad- Yes, the fear is therebecause ahead, lowoccupancy in the sential service providers were occupancy shows that operat- ministration will wait till during festivities people meet 7,449 coaches has emergedasacause allowedtouse local trains. ing the trains foronlyessential Dussehraand Diwali beforean- eachother in large numbers. It The death toll so farin 3,14,462 of worryfor the railway admin- Since then, Pune Police re- workers is notfinanciallyviable. nouncing whether thesituation does nottakemuchtime for district. The total positive istration. Officials said that on ceived1,134 applications (until She also said that all passengers has been fully controlled or not. cases to rise. We,therefore, cases so farinthe district. average, the trains have been re- October 16)fromcitizens want- who have obtainedpasses may needcitizens' cooperation. porting 10 per cent occupancy, ing to use the service. After notwant to travel during morn- With positive cases falling con- Theyshould avoid gatherings and the service is proving to be scrutiny, 1,042applications were ing and evening hours, and tinuouslyand even going be- during Navratraand Diwali. If Santosh Patil stoppedatYCM hospital? to close one hospital, yetitis financiallyunviable. granted,while 90 were rejected. hence the occupancy mayhave low200,doyou think the theyobserveself-discipline No.But we aregiving functioning? The railway administration Railway officials said that gone down further. Covid-19situation is under whichtheyhavedone during plasma therapycautiouslyto We arelooking intothe issue is nowwaryofthe resumption while the police has startedac- "Maybethe stategovern- control? these seven-eight months, contacts. Covid patients. It has been and will take appropriateaction. of the Pune-Daund DEMU serv- cepting applications fore- ment should consider allowing As of now, yes. In July, August thereisnoreason whycases found plasma is notsuitable for ices foressential workers due passes forthe Pune-Daund everyone -and notjustessen- and September,wewitnesseda will notcontinue to fall. Now, Whyisthe death rate notgo- all patients. Certain parameters Action againstthose notwear- to this. route, considering the current tial workers -touse the serv- surge and in October it is ama- we all knowCovid-19can be ing down? The CM toohad have to be verifiedbefore ing masksishappening onlyon Officials said passenger re- situation withPune-Lonavala, ice," Shah said. "Everything has jor dip. We hope it continues like fought by taking certain strict said it should go belowone per plasma can be given. public roads and notinside sub- sponse forthe Pune-Lonavala the administration maydecide been unlockednow…Allowing this.But before announcing con- measures, so let's followthem cent. urbs, in chawls and chowks? service has been dampsince the to wait before taking adecision regular suburban services with fidentlythat the situation has and keep coronavirus at bay. Pimpri-Chinchwad's mortal- Despiteastate government- We aretaking action against dayservices resumed. "On regarding the former. precautions should be been fullycontrolled, we will ity rate has hoveredaround 1.7 appointed committee finding those found without masksat October 12,when we resumed, Harsha Shah of the Railway considered…" wait forDussehraand Diwali to What is the positivity rate in per cent. Idon't think it will go certain hospitals guilty of all public places. We have un- the cumulative occupancy for getover. Pimpri-Chinchwad? belowone per cent as positivity overbilling, PCMC refuses to dertakenstringent drivesinthis UP and DOWN services was Our cumulative positivity rate has droppedsignificantly. impose fine on them? regard.PCMC chief has also from 129," one official said. "This has Do youfear asecond wave? rate was14to15per cent early Besides, it should be remem- That's nottrue. We have time to time releasedvideos ap- nowgone up to about 160pas- CASHEWNUT PROCESSING SERVICE Youcan neversay no. this month but in the pastcou- bereddeaths areprimarilyof takenaction againstsome hos- pealing to citizens to wear mask. sengers. We arerunning 12 We are processors of RawCashewnut in Karnataka at Because of the experience ple of days,ithas fallen to 10 per elderly citizens and co-morbid pitals whichoverbilledpatients. coachrakes forthis service, with Mangaluru -City with excellent Rail, Road & worldwide and even in our cent. We usedtoconduct patientswho have twoorthree We will provide youfull de- Areyou planning to open up acapacity of 1,200." AirportConnectivity countrywhereinitiallycases around 4,000 testsevery day. underlying conditions. Also, tails... It is acontinuous process gyms from October 25? Guidelines issuedbythe dippedand then shotup, we Nowasthe cases arefalling, we those delaying treatment are and we will notspareanyone We arewaiting forstate gov- stategovernment on September We offer 2units with 125 Bag cannotpredict the Covid-19 areconducing around 2,500 also falling victims to Covid-19. found guilty. ernment directions. As soon as 30 allowedlocal trains to re- Capacity per day curve. If people take it easy and testsevery day. Forevery posi- we getdirections and SOP,we sume operations in Pune region, relax, then asecond wavemay tive person, we aretracing 10 Has plasma therapybeen The committee directed PCMC will open up gyms. but handedthe responsibility of Foryour requirements of Raw Cashewnut Processing issuing e-passes over to the po- lice. The Pune-Lonavala service Contact Heavy rain, thunder &lightning forecast over Pune: IMD wastobeoperated along the 9743443488 /9845251224 lines of Mumbai's, whereonly Email: [email protected] recordednear monsoon sea- EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE sonal rainfall of 200-400mm PUNE,OCTOBER18 within justthree days in the last week.These places include HEAVY RAIN, accompaniedby Panhala (437mm), Indapur thunder and lightning, has been (246mm), Baramati (235mm), forecastduring afternoon hours Mahabaleshwar (204mm), over Pune and other parts of Pandharpur (282mm) and Madhya Maharashtra, Konkan Paithan (80mm). and Marathwada, the India Due to these consecutive Meteorological Department weather systems, the with- (IMD) said on Sunday. drawal of southwestmonsoon Sundayremainedcloudy, remains stalledovercentral and fornearly twohours in the India formorethan tendays afternoon, parts of Pune district now. adjoining the ghatsreported As on Sunday, the monsoon heavy rain. IMD's Pashan obser- continuedtopersistwith mod- vatory recorded16mmofrain, eratetostrong intensity over while Shivajinagar reported3 Makeshifthomes on the Mutha riverside on Sunday. Ashish Kale west-central Arabian Sea. There mm between 8.30 am and 5.30 is alsoaneast-westtroughthat pm on the day. will run between east-central The IMD has forecastwide- rain is expected over mostparts Arabian Sea, he added. experiencedpostafternoon BayofBengal and north spread rain, particularly during of Maharashtra, except "The above normal temper- hours." Karnataka this week. October 19-22, associated with Vidarbha, during the next three atures recordedduring the day Lastweek had remainedex- "Including Maharashtra, afresh weather system develop- days.The system will intensify will add aheat load intothe at- ceptionallywet forthe state, mostparts of the southern ing in the BayofBengal. on October 20." mosphere, whichwill then inter- whichcausedmassive flooding peninsula -- Telangana, Andhra "A low-pressuresystemis As the system forms, there act with the moistconditions," and rivers overflowing above the Pradesh and Tamil Nadu -- will likelytoform in the BayofBengal would be moistureincursion Kashyapi said. "As aresults, cu- danger levels at manyplaces. experience isolated heavy spells on Monday,"said Anupam over the state, whichisalready mulonimbus clouds will de- Over 25 people were killedin till October 22," the weather up- Kashyapi, head, weather divi- experiencing moderatetostrong velop, triggering convective ac- Pune, Sangli and Solapur dis- dateissuedbyIMD on Sunday sion, IMD, Pune. "Isolated heavy monsoon winds from over tivity -thunder and rain tricts. Some stations have read.

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Minor siblings hacked to death: SUSHANT DEATH PROBE HC asks banks to disburse Police charge suspects with rape NCB arrests brother of Arjun crop loans, reimburse Rampal’s partner in drug case interest collected to farmers their FIR againstunnamedsus- said that no arrestshad been Adivision benchofJustices S EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE pectsafter four siblings were made. “We arestill awaiting vari- charaswasseizedfromhim,”said drug peddlers Anuj Keswani and OMKARGOKHALE VGangapurwala and Shrikant D MUMBAI,OCTOBER18 found murdered in their home ous reports,” he said. EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE an officer.Later,asearch wascar- DwayneFernandes,whohadear- MUMBAI,OCTOBER18 Kulkarni on October 9passeda in Jalgaon on Friday. Thedeceased—two girlsaged MUMBAI,OCTOBER18 riedout at his residence in lier been arrested in the case. ruling on public interestlitiga- THE POLICE have addedcharges “We have addedSection 376 12 and three years and twoboys Mumbai's Khar from where Datafromotherelectronicde- THE AURANGABADbenchof tion (PIL) filedbyRTI activistand of rape and sexual assault to of the Indian Penal Code and aged 11 and 8years —werekilled THE NARCOTICS ControlBureau Alprazolan, abannedtablet, was vices shows Demetriades wasin BombayHigh Courthas directed agriculturistKishoreTangade, sections of the Protection of with an axebyunknownpersons (NCB) has arrested a30-year-old recovered, the officer added. touchwith Sushant's domestic bankstoimmediatelydisburse filedthrough advocateSatish B Children from Sexual onThursdaynightinRavertaluka, South African national, the TheNCBsaidDemetriadesisa help Dipesh Sawant and house crop loan to the farmers eligible Talekar,who sought from banks Offences (POCSO) Acttothe hoursaftertheirparentsandolder brother of actor Arjun Rampal’s partofthe largerdrug syndicate managerSamuel Miranda. The under the Mahatma Jyotirao nottocharge interestfrom FIR afterinvestigation and in- brotherhadleftfortheirnative vil- partnerGabriellaDemetriades,in andsuppliednarcoticsto theped- twowerearrestedinthe drugs Phule Karjmukti Yojna without October 1lastyear till the actual quiries revealedsexual as- lageinMadhya Pradesh to attend adrug case lodged following ac- dlers who were in touchwith ac- case,alongwithRheaandShowik. insisting forpayment of interest benefit wasgiven to eligible sault,” said Pravin Mundhe, the funeral of afamilymember. torSushant Singh Rajput’s death torand Sushant's girlfriend Rhea However, theywererecently on thepastloan that waswaived farmers. Superintendent of Police, The family, who belongs to in June. The accused, Agisilaos Chakraborty and her brother granted bail along with Rhea. by the stategovernment from In Januarythis year,the state Jalgaon. the Bhil tribe, had movedtothe Demetriades, wasarrestedlate Showik.This is the 23rdarrest Demetriades, booked under October 1lastyear.The courtfur- had rolledout itsflagship ASpecial Investigation villagefromMadhya Pradesh SaturdayfromaresortinLonavala, made in the case, said NCB. the Narcotic Drugs and ther said if bankshavealready re- scheme —writing offarrears up Team probing the crime had eight years agoand had been said NCBofficers. According to the agency, PsychotropicSubstancesAct,was coveredthe amount towardsthe to Rs 2lakh forloans availedbe- detainedthree people, includ- staying on and cultivating their “On the basis of atip-off, we Demetriades is intomarketing of on Sundayremandedinpolice interest, the same should be im- tween April 2015 and March ingaminor,onFriday. Mundhe landlord’s banana farm. laid atrapatthe resortinwhich bags and apparel and frequently custodyfortwo days.Hewasrep- mediatelyreimbursedtofarmers. 2019.The statehad come up he wasstaying with his fiancé. visitsMumbai.Hiscalldatarecord resentedby lawyerKushalMorin The order comes as amajor with the scheme afteritnoticed He wasarrestedand 0.8 gm of shows thathewasincontactwith Killa court. relief to nearly one lakh farmers that between 2015 to 2019,a affected by the vagaries of drought-likesituation prevailed weather lastyear who arestill throughout Maharashtrawhile Appointing Governor as political agent, destabilising deprivedofthe benefit of fresh some places witnessedunsea- crop loan forthe ongoing kharif sonal rains leaving agriculturists state govt does not suit agood ruler: Sanjay Raut season. in losses.

Mumbai: ShivSena MP Sanjay ment” does notsuit agood ruler. the government’s decisions as Raut on Sundaysaid the policy Raut, in his column Rokhthok “anti-national”. of “appointing agovernor as a in Saamana,wrote that the BJP “Basically, the Delhi leader- ‘Central govt adopting path of political agent in non-BJP states does notlikethe Maha Vikas ship should keep in mind that and destabilising the govern- Aghadi government and sees all forming anon-BJP government Mahatma’s public participation’ in astate is notagainstthe IREL (India) Limited. Constitution. But, in the states munication skills, and be fluent ruledbyopposition parties, the EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE in the language. Acommunica- policy of appointing agovernor PUNE,OCTOBER18 torlikeGandhi seems to be op- asapolitical agent and destabil- positeofall this. We forget the ising the stategovernment THE WORK being done by the difference between an orator efveefJeoe met®evee/Tender noTice through the governor’s shoulder government during the pan- and acommunicator.Oratorship “IREL (India) Limited, RED” invites e-tendersfor the following works using does notsuit agood ruler,” wrote demic, itsrole in Swachh Bharat is one-way communication, E-Procurement portal of M/s MSTC Limited. Raut. Earlier this week, movement and itsappeal to peo- while the communicator is in Construction of RCC Silo Dismantling &removal of MaharashtraGovernor Bhagat ple to give up Ujjwala Yojana tune with the dialogue between Item No. 9 equipments in Attack Plant Singh Koshyari and Chief subsidy areexamples of com- the twosides." IREL/Udyogamandal IREL/Udyogamandal E-Tender (Public) No. MinisterUddhavThackeray munication basedonpublic par- Ajmerapointed out that /20-21/ ET/48 /20-21/ ET/49 were engaged in abitter warof ticipation, said Santosh Ajmera, Gandhi wasable to communi- Transaction FeetoMSTC ` 15,000/- (Excluding GST) ` 3,500/- (Excluding GST) wordsoverthe reopening of the Director,Regional Outreach cateatthe grassroots levelinall TDC to IREL ` 1,680/-(Inclusiveoftaxes) ` 1,120/-(Inclusive of taxes) places of worship in the state Bureau, MinistryofInformation situations wheredirect field EMD to IREL ` 3,88,000/- ` 70,000/- with Koshyari asking Thackeray and Broadcasting, on Sunday. communication, folk media Tender starting date &time 19/10/2020 –15.00 hrs 19/10/2020 –15.00 hrs whetherhehas“turnedsecular”. He wasspeaking on 'Gandhi: were the means of reaching out Tender closing date &time 16/11/2020 –17.00 hrs 16/11/2020 –17.00 hrs The Sena MP said that the ACommunicator' in awebathon to the people. Tender opening startdate &time 17/11/2020 –10.00 hrs 17/11/2020 –10.00 hrs Validity of tender in days 90 90 governor versus stategovern- (48-daywebinar series organ- The webathon is jointlyor- efJeJejCe kesÀ efueS JesyemeeFìosKes Fordetails, visit websites http://www.mstce ment fight wasalso going on in isedtomarkGandhi Jayanti). He ganizedbythe Regional commerce.com/eprochome/irel, https://eprocure.gov.in, http://irel.co.in. HeefjefMeä West Bengal.“Despitetheefforts said, "Wehaveillusions that a OutreachBureau(Maharashtra /Megef× kesÀJeue JesyemeeFìeW ceW nesmì keÀer peeSieer. Addendum/Corrigendum shall be of theMaharashtragovernor,the good communicator needs to and Goa Division) of the I&B hoisted in the websites only. mHeäerkeÀjCe kesÀ efueS Forclariication contact 0484 Thackeray governmentisstable,” use all media of communica- Ministryaswell as the National 2545199, [email protected] ceW mebHeke&ÀkeÀjW~ he added. ENS tion, look good, have good com- InstituteofNaturopathy, Pune. ceneHe´yebOekeÀ SJeb He´Oeeve (DeejF&[er) G.M &HEAD (RED)

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issue; anger has subsided’ ● WHO’S WHERE TODAY SUBHASHINI SHARAD YADAVWILL TEJPRATAPYADAV: BE IN BIHARIGANJ; SUSHIL MODI Aclose Nitish Kumar aide, MinisterSANJAY KUMAR JHA tells DIPANKAR GHOSE THENOTSOBIG WILL BE IN FORBESGANJ, KATIHAR, BROTHER the CM avertedabigger economic crisis, and says skill mapping will createjobs PURNEA

Chief MinisterNitish Kumar has been at So, has the anger subsided? the helm for15years. The Opposition says Yes, the anger has subsided. We neverhad thereisanti-incumbency.Doyou see it? conducted skill mapping before.So, we now BIHAR'SVOTERTURNOUT Idonot thinkso.NitishKumarhaschanged have dataofallthepeoplewhostayedinquar- the narrative of Bihar politics... He raisedex- antine centres. In places likeBettiah VOTERTURNOUT(SEATS) IHerebyDeclare pectations. Fifteen years is along time. Some (Champaran),Supaul,Purnea,Darbhanga,peo- TotalNumber people maythink that moreworkcould have ple aremaking maskswith Mithila paintings 243ofAssembly 82 3317 1 10 1 320 beendonebutwhatwe areseeingonthefield and selling them on Amazon and Flipkart.... Constituencies 22 isdifferent.If theythinkmoreshouldbedone, 38 36 theyalso believe that onlyKumar can do it. Alot of migrants, who were facing VOTERTURNOUT 40 67 60 57 economic difficulties, have now 75 57.33% (in2019) 81 80 The JD(U) leaders, including the CM, often returnedfromwheretheycame. If their 105 56.88%(in2015) compareBihar with what it wasduring earnings fell, will theystill votefor the 2014 LokSabha 2015Assembly 2019LokSabha (RJD chief) Lalu Prasad’s regime (1990- government? 56.26% (in2014) 2005). Isn’t this an admission that the last Economic distress is apan-India problem. ■ Less than 45% ■ 45-50% ■ 50-55% ■ 55-60% five years haven’t been good enough? Iwillnot saythatitdoesnot have an impact. ■ 60-65% ■ 65-70% ■ More than 70% We saythis because this wasnot afield Butlargely,the handling of Covid-19inBihar Source: Election Commission of India whereyou could come and startbatting. This wasdone well. About 22 lakh migrantswere SHREYASISINGH wasahole. What had they(then RJD govern- givenRs1,000each.Peopletrustthatwhenthe BJP candidate, Jamui ment) leftinthe CM talksabout skilling, it will happen. state? Rampant TOTALASSETS corruption, afailed With the BJP seen as propping up the LJP KEY PLAYERS `7.23 CRORE bureaucracy.The in some quarters to push the JD(U) down, Central Public THEEXPRESS areparty cadres finding it difficult to work **Contesting election forthe firsttime WorksDepartment, together on the ground? Old hand, trusted by MOVABLEASSETS whichmakesbuild- INTERVIEW Barring afew years, the BJP-JD(U) alliance ings in Delhi, used has been theresince 1996. The cadre, leaders WITH `1.57 CRORE to come hereand and workers knoweachother very well. SANJAY KUMAR both Rahul, Ahmed Patel, Assets 2015 2020 buildroads.No con- Whether it is the Prime Minister, or Amit Shah JHA tractorwouldcome, “That (Tej Pratap) has had to changeseat (Union Home Minister), or the BJP party pres- Cashinhand -1.9lakh BIHAR WATER no businessman RESOURCES MINISTER shows their (RJD) corevoteisshifting.” FB ident (J PNadda), theyhaveall said that Nitish Bankbalance -83.48lakh wasleft. Everyday Kumar will lead the election campaign. Seat is Cong choice for Bihar Stocks&bonds -34.16lakh therewas kidnap- distribution is already completedand the VIP OtherInvestment-34.3lakh ping. Youhavetosee from whereKumar pandemic hit, people thought Bihar would be (Vikassheel Insaan Party) and HAM Shaktisinh Gohil Jewellery -- started.Biharisusedtobealaughingstock...In worstaffected.Theythought the migrants (Hindustani Awam Morcha) areour allies. The acaste-basedsocietyliketheoneinBihar,ifhe would return and spread the virus in their vil- people of Biharwillgiveadecisive mandate… Other -4lakh did nothavecommitment, we would notbe lages...Thatnarrative isnotspokenof anymore. The Opposition is notserious. has his task cut TOTAL -1.57cr able to build the Bihari pride. The recovery rate in Bihar is 94%. Testing is out as party amongthehighest.Thepeoplebrokethechain What about (RJD leader) Tejashwi Yadav? IMMOVABLEASSETS But hasn’t Kumar created sub-castesand by staying in quarantine centres. He wasnot thereduring the floods or in-charge for `5.65 CRORE aloyal votebase forhimself? when therewas an illness (the acuteen- Assets 2015 2020 HeisthefirstCMinthecountrytogive50% But what about the economic distress? cephalitis syndrome outbreak in 2019)in state, but there are reservation to women in panchayats.Three Abhijit Banerjee (Nobel laureatefor eco- Muzaffarpur.When the statefaces major is- Agriland -1.15cr elections have happened. Talk to the women nomics) said if direct cash wastransferredto sues, he is neverthere. That one of the broth- manyreasons he Non-agriland -3cr mukhiyas and the zila parishads. Thereisnow people,andif theyspentthatmoney, theecon- ers(TejPratapYadav, Lalu Prasad’s elder son) maybethe man Commercial -50lakh awomen forceinpolitics. Nobody thought omywill startmoving. Kumar transferred has had to changeconstituency shows that Residential -1cr what awoman in Bihar thinksabout politics. Rs 2,000 croreintopeople’s bank accountsin even their corevoteisshifting. forthe job different forms. Old agepension of three Total -5.65cr In the early days of the pandemic, Kumar months waspaid in advance, Rs 1,000 was Is the LJP’s action bothering the JD(U)? *All of the above areinherited assets had said that migrantsshould notreturn giventoeachmigrantandmoneywasallotted Whichway arethe Paswan votes going? Illustration: Suvajit Dey LIABILITIES NIL to Bihar.Was thereanger againstthe forscholarships forgirls. Iamnot saying that Idon’t want to talk about caste.But Ithink government’s stand? theproblemwassolved.Buthewasaware that people in Bihar voteone way. Even in 2010 bearer,hehad been spotted by then prime CRIMINALCASES He neversaid, ‘Don’t come back.’Heonly onlywhen he givesthe money, the economy (Assemblypolls),we (theJD-UandBJP)fought MANOJ CG ministerRajiv Gandhi at anational No pending criminal cases said that theCentrehas made guidelines that will startmoving... Yes, thereiseconomic dis- theelectiontogetherandwon206seatsoutof NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 18 function. no movement should take place... When the tress but the entirecountryisfacing it. 243. That result is amatter of record. He wonthe Bhavnagar South Assembly SHAKTISINH Gohil mayseem an odd seat in Gujarat at the ageof30in1990, and choice as the Congress in-charge of Bihar, became the ministerofstate forhealth at LookingFor: Prashant Kishor particularly giventhe uphill battle the the ageof32under Chief Minister HASHTAG POLITICS party faces in astate whereithas been now Chimanbhai Patel. He wasthen the out of powersince 1990. However, there youngestministerinGujarat’s history. ●Now, Cong’s new poll song He promised ‘Baat Bihar Ki’, is now aretwo things that makethe 60-year-old Twoyears later though, Gohil took uniquelyplacedfor the job: the fact that he everyone by surprise by resigning over the @INCBiharreleased Bole Bihar,Badle making more noise for his silence is aveteran of manypolitical battles against demand foramedical collegefor Sarkar, attacking 15 yearsofJD(U)-BJP, NarendraModi-ledBJP in native Gujarat; Bhavnagar.The medical collegewas allo- with clips of migrant workerswalking THIS WASsupposedtobethe election where JD(U) sees Kishor’s hand in LJP chief Chirag and that he is among the fewCongress cated eventuallyand Gohil wonthe seat back home. TheCongress’sally, Prashant Kishor made his wayfromthe back Paswan’s decision to leave the NDA. leaders considered close to both Ahmed again in 1995. @RJDforIndia,also released asong, room to the frontlines. Appointed straight at Asenior JD(U) leader said Kishor had im- Pateland Rahul Gandhi. Gohil did notcontestthe 1998 election the topasJD(U) vice-president by Nitish pressedupon Chirag that this wasthe last In his over three-decade political career, and lostthe one in 2002 that marked Bhaiya Te jashwi humaar... sukh-dukh Kumar afterthe 2015 polls, election wherethe older gen- it is the firsttime Gohil will be overseeing Modi’s firstelectoral win. In the next elec- mein junta ke saath the election strategisthad eration of socialists would astate election as an AICC pointsman. His tion in 2007,hereturnedtothe Assembly seemedset foranother leap. hold sway in the state, and hand is seen in the hardbargaining by the from Bhavnagar and wasmade the Leader CONGRESS’SSONGGOT5.1K VIEWS, 434 LIKES, 314 RETWEETS IN FOUR HOURS One-and-a-half years hence he should gamble big. Congress to secure70seatsinthe of the Opposition, emerging as one of the later,Kishor is out of favour LJP spokesperson Ashraf Mahagathbandhan, ahugejumpfromthe mostvocal critics of Modi. However, Gohil —and out of sight. After Ansari dismissedthis as afig- 41 the party had contestedinBihar in 2015. lostthe 2012 Assemblyelections, and while LJP president @iChirag Paswan falling out with Nitish, he ment of imagination. Aveteran in Gujarat politics, Gohil first he eventuallyreturnedtothe Assemblyin tweeted,”Idon’t want PM to face any had startedanapolitical fo- Thereare those who say entered the national stagein2014, when aby-election from the Abdasa con- crisis because of me. He should uphold rum called“Baat BiharKi”, Kishor’s success lies in picking he wasmade aCongress spokesperson. He stituency,inthe 2017 polls toohecouldn’t coalition dharma. Even if he has to speak promising to develop lead- winning side, and that he has waselevatedasin-charge of Bihar in 2018, win. Since then, Gohil has been focusing on ership from the grass-roots. failedinredeemingpartiesthat givenadditional charge of Delhi earlier this national politics. against me to satisfy Nitish, he should.” But now, the man who were down in the dumps, like year,and made aRajya Sabha MP in June The Congress veteranhad wanted the Meanwhile,his brother-in-law and RJD built his reputation on the Congress and Samajwadi this year. Grand Alliance in Bihar to be broad-based, leader Anil Sadhu took on Chirag forhis adapting disparateparties Partyinthe 2017 UP polls. Yet Oftendescribed as AhmedPatel’s involving parties likeUpendraKushwaha’s “rip my chest,you’ll find Modi” remark. forthe digital age, has not others sayitisfar tooearly to “right-hand man”, Gohil wasthe Congress RashtriyaLok SamataParty (RLSP), Mukesh “I am ashamed of it... Yo ucan rip my even tweetedonthe Bihar polls so far. His ruleKishor out,and arewatching for2025. veteran’s poll agent in the closelyfought Sahani’s Vikassheel Insaan Party(VIP) and chest,you will find Ambedkar,Ram lasttweet wasinJuly, over the Covid scare. Asource close to Kishor deniedhewas out 2017 RajyaSabha election that Patelhad theLeft, but could notconvince RJD chief However, Patna is abuzz with reports that of the picture. “Because of Covid we haven’t won, outmanoeuvring the BJP. Tejashwi Yadavabout the utility of the VilasPaswanthere,” he tweeted. Kishor is on the move again, meeting lead- startedthe on-ground partbut digitally Baat Gohil startedhis political career in the RLSP and VIP. (RIGHT) CHIRAG PASWAN GETS HEAD, BEARD SHAVED AS PART OF ARITUAL AFTER HIS FATHER’S DEATH. PTI ers of smaller parties liketheRLSP,after try- Bihar Ki is the biggestpolitical page, with more early 1980s while still in college. In the However, he managed to bring the CPI, ing his luckwith the Mahagathbandhan. The than 20 lakh followers.” mid-1980s, as Youth Congress office- CPM and CPI (M-L) intothe fold. 11 seats for Mukesh ‘Mallah’ Sahani, why BJP is treating him as VIP

community has multiple subcastesand the votes from Khagaria. Despitethe RJD’s vote mayassociatethemselveswith adynamic DEEPTIMANTIWARY VIP has oftenclaimedacommand over al- bank behind him, Sahani had got only27% of Mallah leader,” said asource close to the BJP’s NEWDELHI,OCTOBER18 most10% of the votes. Estimates of various the votes —almostthe same as the RJD when Bihar in-charge DevendraFadnavis. political parties, however, are6-7%. it fought on itsown in 2014. Sources saythe BJP’s indulgence of the IN THE coming Bihar polls, wherethe BJP is Still, in acloselyfought election, the con- The 11 seatsare also testament to Sahani’s VIP also has to do with sending apolitical seen as positioning itself to win moreseats solidation of suchvotes can significantlyim- skills as anegotiator,evenwhile jumping ship messageand expanding itssocial base in than itsallythe JD(U), the party has leftas pactelectionsincertainseats.Nishadvotesare to ship.Beforethe2014 polls,hehadralliedthe Bihar.The BJP has traditionallybeen identi- manyas11seatsfor the Vikassheel Insaan said to be influential in Muzaffarpur,East supportofNishads behind NarendraModi. fied as an upper caste party in the state. Party(VIP). This has leftthe BJP with 110 Champaran, Madhubani, Khagaria, Vaishali However, afterthe BJP’s landslide victory, he Under Amit Shah, the party has been trying seats, againstthe JD(U)’s 115. The reason for andotherNorthBihardistricts.Inthisbelt,the had openedchannels with Nitish, onlytobe- to expand itssocial base by sharing political the BJP’s accommodation of the political voteshareofNishads is said to be over 6%. come the BJP’s “starcampaigner” justbefore space with EBCs. It also cutsintoNitish’s care- greenhorn is the votes the VIP commands. Nishad voters have traditionallyaligned the 2015 Assemblyelections. When the BJP fullyconstituted votebank of multiple non- LedbyBollywood setdecorator from with social justice parties in the post-JP lostthe polls, Sahani had driftedagain and, in Yadavbackwardclasses and his ownimage DarbhangaMukesh Sahani, the VIP came up Movementera.FormerUnionministerCaptain 2019,ayearafterfloatinghisownparty,joined of the undisputed leader of disparateEBCs, onlytwo years ago, even though Sahani has Jai Narayan Prasad Nishad, who passedaway hands with the RJD. With his demand for30 whichhas kept him in powerfor three terms. beenactive since2013.Championingthecause in 2018,represented the Muzaffarpur con- seatsintheAssemblyelectionsrejectedby the At the press conference announcing the of theNishad(Mallah)caste bouquet—Sahani stituencymultipletimesonRJDandJD(U)tick- RJD, he has found his waybacktothe BJP. seatsharingdealwiththeVIP,seniorBJPleader officiallycalls himself “Son of Mallah” —the etsbeforeswitching to the BJP.His son Ajay Deputy CM Sushil Modi with CM Nitish Kumar,atone of their four joint rallies on Sunday. “Weare looking at the VIP as asignificant Sushil Modi underlinedthis: “The BJP has al- partyclaimsconsiderableinfluenceamongthe Nishad fought and wononaBJP ticket from Modi had underlinedBJP’s “respect” forEBCs while announcing seat deal with the VIP. PTI partner.Ithas considerable influence notjust ways respected people from Extremely boatmen and fishermen communities popu- the constituency in the 2019 polls. among Mallahs but also among some other BackwardClasses...ItwastheNDAgovernment lating the riverine beltsofNorth Bihar. Still, giving 11 seatstoaparty that had lost extremelybackwardclasses. In the rural belts that came up with 20% reservation forEBCs in Thereisnorecent official datatoestimate miserablyinthe2019 pollsaspartoftheGrand Muzaffarpur,Khagaria and Madhubani —led ground. Sahani had himself losttothe LJP’s of NorthBihar,Mallahsareseenasanassertive panchayatpollsandtodayover1,600mukhias the strength of Nishad votes in Bihar.The Alliance —the VIP had then contested by the RJD mayappear ceding toomuch MehboobAli Kaisar by amargin of 2.5 lakh caste.Politicallyunrepresented communities in Bihar arefromthese classes.”

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THEINDIANEXPRESS,MONDAY,OCTOBER19,2020 WORDLY WISE Thegovernment onlygives subsidies for nitrogenous fertilisers. With the result, farmers 8 THE EDITORIAL PAGE do not applybalanced fertilisers. —MSSWA MINATHAN Hathrasand truth machine

§ FOUNDED BY § RAMNATH GOENKA Narcoanalysis would inviteapublic/media trial BECAUSETHE TRUTH INVOLVES US ALL whichmanipulates science, favours thedominant

A BEGINNING Jinee Lokaneeta Elected district development councils mustbeafirststepin

kickstarting political process in J&K —not asubstitutefor it THE BRUTAL KILLINGand alleged gangrape coanalysis, lie detectors and brain scans and since it stands in forthe voice of science and of a19-year-oldDalit woman in Hathras, made evidence as aresult of the techniques theexpertclaimed by thegovernment to HE AMENDMENTS TO theJammu&Kashmir Panchayati RajAct to facili- Uttar Pradesh, has renewedattention on inadmissible. The Courtstoppedshortof proclaim truth even as the technique is re- tate direct electionstothe second tier of local government,the district de- hownarcoanalysis remains central to polic- striking them down as inherentlyunaccept- jected by the scientific community. velopment council, areevidentlyintendedtokickstart the political process inginIndia. Widespread outrageerupted as ableunderthe right againstself-incrimina- The discussion on narco oftentends to re- in the Union Territory, infusesome guidedpolitical energy intothe post- the policeinitiallyconsidered it acase of tion (Article 20 (3)) and right to lifeand lib- inforce the legitimacy of techniques that co- T murder and later sought to denythe rape. erty (Article21) of the Indian Constitution. erce information from the bodies of the per- August5,2019environment,especially in the Valley, andpavethe wayfor The Uttar Pradesh government announced The lackofadecisive rejection of narco- sons, sometimes in conjunction with torture all those desirous of findingapoliticalfootholdin“naya”Kashmir.With the holding of on October 2its intent to use narcoanalysis analysis that medical ethics scholar Amar or through aprocess of hypnotic suggestions. Assemblyelections tiedtothe contentious delimitation exercise, and giventhat partici- on the victim’s family, theaccused and neg- Jesani calls pharmacologicaltorturehas al- These testsare by themselvescoercive and pation is uncertain with regional political parties firm on the demand forareturn to state- ligent stateofficials. Narcoanalysis is the use lowedthe spectreofthis technique to haunt oftenusedtoget confessions/information in hood and special status, election to theDDCs will be afirsttestofhow deepthe waters of adrug —sodium pentothal —onaperson different sites of policing in India, in turn the investigative process itself and, likephys- reallyrun. The Centremay calculatethat getting enoughpeople to contestthe DDC elec- to ostensiblyinduce truthwith the help of encouragingcoercedinformationorinvol- ical torture, areunreliable. Thus, eachtime tions would help weaken the Gupkar narrative,whichinits thirdreiteration lastweek, forensicpsychologists.The lackofvalidity untary confessions. narcoanalysis is mentionedinahigh-profile and reliabilityofnarcoanalysis is well known, Narcoanalysis (alongside brain scans case, it reactivatesatendency of Indian polic- following the release of PDP chairperson Mehbooba Mufti, resulted in the coming to- though rarely acknowledged. and lie detectors, that Iterm “truth ma- ing to preciselyhighlight techniques that gether of the regional parties as aPeople's Alliance.The recentlycreated Apni Party, hacked The notificationofthis desiretouse nar- chines” in my book) is represented oftenas forcethe body to betray itself.The popular out from the PDP,has been itching forarole. coanalysis despitedisavowalbythe scien- ascientific solution to policetorture. campaign to challengethe trial courtverdict Individuals in the mainstream regional parties, especiallythose overlooked fornom- tific community is notjustabout the tech- Reports of custodial violence in in the Aarushi-Hemraj case had similarly inations in previous Assemblyelections, mayalsosee the DDCs as acareer opportunity. nique itself. It is symptomatic of the Maharashtra resultedinsenior police offi- highlighted the narco resultsofHemraj’s The BJP is waiting in the wings, too. Earlier,the DDC wasfilledthrough nominations. The investigative practices of Indian policing. cers sending out amemourging the use of friends as away to strengthen their argu- Narcoanalysis functions to createapublic truth machines. The Delhi High Courthas ments, therebycontributing to the relegit- rationalebehind holding direct elections to 14 DDC constituencies in eachdistrict is that spectacle of “truth claiming” in the garb of recentlyasked the Delhi Governmentabout imising of these techniques. being chosen through ademocratic exercise might give candidatesand the DDCs ameas- science, therebyreinforcing the role that co- the lackofnarco test facilityinthe capital The Hathras case, in highlighting narco- ureofcredibility.The initial responses of the NC and PDP have predictablynot been ercedconfessions playinmedia trials and and the suspects aretaken to Ahmedabad analysis, remindsushow confessions/infor- favourable.PDP leader Naeem Akhtar,for instance, has said the move is aimedatdepoliti- the legal system. In the Hathras case, it fur- Asking the victim’sfamily to fornarcoanalysis. Recently, theAam Aadmi mation areoften apartofamedia trial, and cisation by cutting up the UT into“district assemblies”, and to reduceKashmiri political ther victimises the Dalit woman’s familyby undergonarcoanalysis in a PartyGovernment has promisedthe High techniques that enablethe bodytoforcibly aspiration to thesolving of district levelwater-electricity-road problems. publiclycontesting their version. context where Dalit victims Courtthat arrangementshavebeen made betray itself areviolative of human dignity Popularisedinthe US in the 1920-30s by to setupthisnarco facility,asifitisastate and should bedisallowed. Asking the victim’s Forthe DDC elections to achieve the Centre's manyobjectives, the entireexercise will are often disbelieved is Dr Robert House,the US criminal justice sys- of the arttechnique rather than acoercive familytoundergo narcoanalysis in acontext needtobesubstantiallydifferentfromhowthe2018 panchayatelectionswentdown.Inthat temhad abrief fascination with narcoanaly- primarily meant to contest and unreliablemedico-legalone. where Dalit victims areoften disbelievedis election,candidateswere tooashamedto admittheywerecontesting,andcouldnotappear sis. It wasrejected by theCIA afterexperi- or proclaim their narratives By mentioning the use of narcoanalysis primarilymeant to contestorproclaimtheir in publicbecausetheyfeared fortheirlives.Those who won, some of them because they mentsinthe 1950s, and it continues to make publicly as alie — on the accused,the victim’s familyand the narrativespubliclyasalie —victimising them were the only contestants in theirhalqas, did notsurface formonthsafterwards. In many rare appearances. The Indian fascination victimising them once again. police/officials, the UP Government is invit- once again. Saying that police/officials areto panchayat halqas therewerenocandidates and the elections couldnot be held. In the DDC with narcoanalysis beganinthe late1980s ingapublic/media trial whichutilises sci- besubject to thesame technique is reflective Saying that police/officials elections,theNC andPDPwillneedtoconsidertheopportunitycostsof aboycottevenasthey in Ahmedabad, appearedincomplaints to ence in itspopular constructionand will in- of adesiretorestrict thenegligencetoafew the National HumanRightsCommission evitably favour thosewho aredominant in badapples—as opposed to the recognition weigh it againstthe price of participation.Theydonot have an easy choice, but theywould are to be subjecttothe same about lie detectors being usedalongside a technique is reflective of a society.AsDalit feminists have noted, pro- of asystemic injustice,making justice in this do better to engagewiththe political process,evenastheyoppose, argue and debate. The drug in the 1990s, but gainedprominence in visionsofthe Prevention of Atrocities Act case even moreelusive. Centre,too,shouldbeawareofthelimitationsof abonsaidemocracyinJ&K.SriLankaisacauti- the 2000s. Almostall major cases involved desire to restrictthe have to be centralinthe Hathrascase onaryexample of howanelected body withnopowers excepttolay roads and repair the itsuse, including the Aarushi-Hemraj mur- negligence to afew bad against theuppercaste men involved in the The writer is Professor in Political Science & drains is notananswer to thepolitical aspirationsthat lie behindthe demand forgreater au- ders in 2008, Mumbai blastcase in 2006, apples —asopposed to the alleged gang rape and thosestate officials International Relations at Drew University. tonomy. Therestoration of statehood to J&K has to be prioritised,and Assemblyelections. Telgi scam case, and Nithari 2005-2006,with recognition of asystemic whowerenegligent in their duty.Whilea She is author of TheTruth Machines: videos oftenleaked as “truth”. media trialisalready visible,and medico- Policing, Violence and Scientific In 2010 theIndian SupremeCourtruled injustice,making justice in legal evidence of rape is already subjectto Interrogations in India (UnivofMichigan that consentwas required forthe use of nar- this case even more elusive. manipulation,mention of narco is notable Press, Orient Blackswan, 2020) TINKERING AT MARGINS

Cap on subsidisedfertiliser merelyaddresses issue of its diversion,doesn’t fixreal problem —overusebyfarmers FRUIT OF REFORM T’S OVER Adecade since aso-callednutrient-basedsubsidy(NBS)regimefor fertilisers wasinstituted.Bylinking subsidy to nutrient compositionrather than productsper se,NBS wasexpectedtowean away farmersfromapplying too Newlegal framework forcontract farming benefits farmer,consumer,investor Imuchureacontaining onlynitrogen. But the actual resultsprove otherwise. Between 2009-10and 2019-20,ureaconsumption rose from 26.7 million tonnes (mt) to 33.7 mt. While overall fertiliser consumption increasedfrom53.4 mt to 61.7 mt, Sudhir Sitapati urea’s sharewent up from belowhalf to 54.6 per cent duringthis period.The reason for the worsening fertiliser imbalanceissimple: Since April 2010,the maximum retail price SANTOSH GANAROWNStwo acres of land in the thirdweek of September,farmers could said that he’d happilygivea40 percent dis- (MRP) of urea has been raisedbyhardly11per cent, from Rs 4,830 to Rs 5,360 per tonne. Raigadh in coastalMaharashtra—home of the onlysell to thelocal mandi or agricultural mar- countand still earn Rs 3lakh. He would still The MRPs of other fertilisers —whichweredecontrolled, with the government onlygiv- Alphonso mango. Yethechooses to plant ket. The risk-mitigation methods that “con- make10times morethan he makes today. ing aper-tonne subsidy basedontheir nutrient content —havegone up from 2.5 to four cheap rice rather than lucrative mangoes. tractfarming” provide were illegal.The old But his investor,anexpert in mangocultiva- When Iasked himwhy he repliedthat he laws —enacted to protect farmers likeGanar tion withbetteraccess to markets(and times during these 10 years. Since NBS has been implemented onlyinother fertilisers,even would love to plant mangoes. Rice giveshim —ensurethat theynever makeenough doubtless better methods to shoo away mon- as urea remains under pricecontrol, farmers areusing more, notless, of the latter. justRs30,000per acrewhile mangoes would moneytoleave poverty. keys) wouldmakethe full potential of the acre The Narendra Modigovernment mustshouldermuchofthe blame forthis agronomic earn 10 times as much. But he could notaf- Ganar’s sorrowisalso the sorrowofthe —Rsfivelakh. AfterpayingGanarand ac- and environmental disaster. Thebasic MRP of urea hasn’t been revisedatall in itsnearly ford the initial investment of an “elevated consumer since the old laws did notresultin counting forareturn on investment the in- six-and-a-half years. Instead of bringing urea under NBS —whichwould push up itsMRP bund” forthe mangoes, nor survive the five- fruit being availableatalowpricefor con- vestor would still be leftwith asurplus. In a closer to Rs 10,000 pertonneatthe current per-kgsubsidy fornitrogen present in other year waiting period forthe trees to yield fruit. sumers. Quitethe opposite. competitive market, theconsumer would get He also added, withahint of schaden- Fruitsare notjustexpensive compared to cheaper mangoes. fertilisers—the Modi government has resorted to tinkeringatthe margins. Thatincludes freude, that his friends who have orchards other carbohydrates in India —A100 Kcal of This is an exampleof“contract-farming” compulsory neem-coating of all urea (from December 2015)and making fertilisersub- complain of wasting almosthalf their man- energy from fruitscosts five times that from —one that would benefit the farmer,the in- sidy payment to companies conditionalupon actual sales to farmers beingregisteredon goes since theyare notable to reachthe mar- rice —but theyare also 20 per cent moreex- vestor,and the consumer.Anacreofland point-of-sale machines with retailers afterbiometric authentication (from March 2018). ketsontime. This COVID-filled year wasthe pensive than eventhewestern world. As are- yielding Rs 30,000 starts yielding Rs 5lakh. There’s aplan next, as reportedbythis newspaper,tocap the total number of subsidised worst, as mostmangoes remainedunsold. sult, Indians eat fewerfruitsthan mostothers. But forall these years whywould either Ganar fertiliserbags that anyperson can purchase during an entirecropping season. But these Ganartold me howhesaw pot-belliedmon- BasedonaNIN-ICMR reportof2019, Iesti- orthe investorhave agreedtoa“contract” that keys,surroundedbyhalf-eaten mangoes, matethat Indians eat only32grams of fruit a wasnot legallybinding? Ganar could cheat measuresmerelyaddressthe issue of subsidisedfertilisers,especiallyurea, getting di- snoring in his friend’s orchard. His friend dayversusthe recommendedamountof 100 theinvestor anddecideto sell themangoesat verted to bulk buyers/traders or even non-agricultural users suchasplywood and animal didn’t find it necessarytoshoo them away grams. And this acutedeficiency in fruitsis full price five years later. The investor could feed makers.Theydon’t fixthe real problem—ofoveruse by farmers themselves. If urea with catapults. muchmorepronouncedamong the poor. cheat Ganar and notbuy the mangoes he fi- is heavilyunder-priced, theywill applythree bags when twoorless would suffice. The biggestproblem the poor in Indiaface This is aparticular tragedybecause fruits nallyproduces. And in ayear of mangoglut, Urea has to come under NBS. Apoliticallyfeasible waytodoitisbyhiking itsMRP to Rs is risk mitigation. Since theydonot have sav- Under the laws that provide the mostbenefit of all food classes — when forced to buy all of Ganar’s mangoes, 10,000—maybeover twoyears —and simultaneouslyreducing the NBS ratesofphospho- ings,theyare reluctanttoundertake even the governed India until the theygiveprotection and immunity through howcould the investor have stored it forthe rus,potash andsulphur to makeother fertiliserscheaperbyRs1,500-2,000per tonne. In the minimallyrisky business that youorIwould. third week of September vitamins and micronutrients. Indians arede- next year,ifmangoes were suddenlylistedun- As aconsequence, theyremainstuckina ficient in Vitamin A, zinc, Vitamin Cand iron. der the Essential Commodities Act(ECA). long run, NBS itself should be replacedbyaflat per-acrecash subsidy that could be usedto povertytrap, growing cheap rice instead of farmerscould only sell to the The lasttwo makeanaemia the number one The three agriculturebills changeall this purchase anyfertiliser.That includesvalue-addedand customisedproductscontaining not valuable mangoes. Policymakers the world local mandi or agricultural public health challengethat India faces. We by providing the legal framework forcon- justother nutrients, but delivering even nitrogen moreefficiently than urea. over have come up with avarietyof capitalin- market. Therisk-mitigation have asituationwherehorticultureissaddled tract-farming. This is the essence of the re- vestment and risk mitigation instruments— methods that ‘contract with unviability forthe farmer and unafford- form, notthe circumventing of mandis or the suchasmicro-credit loans —for the poor to ability forthe consumer. ECA. Anditwill benefit everyone —farmers, makemoneywhile protecting them against farming’ provide were illegal. Iasked Ganar, thatifsomeone offeredto industryand consumers. All exceptthe mon- Freeze Frame EPUnny risk.The tragedyofthe Indian farmer —who Theold laws —enacted to invest in amangoorchardinhis land, payhim keys who have grownfat on yearsofanti- constitute40per cent of the countryand an protectfarmerslikeGanar — what he loses in notplanting rice till the quated agricultural policies. even higher percentageofits poor —isthat ensure that they never make mangotrees gave fruit and agreedtobuy all India’s farm laws have prevented these risk- the mangoesthatgrew on histreefiveyears Thewriter is an executivedirector Hindustan mitigation instrumentsfromreaching them. enough money to leave later,how muchdiscount wouldhegivehis Unileverand is theCo-Chair of theCII Food Under the laws thatgovernedIndiauntil poverty. benefactor? Without batting an eyelid Ganar Processing Committee. Viewsare personal

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ASSAM RESTIVE AGAIN ment wasfirm on the 1971 cut-off date. by professionalsalone wasnot enough. He IT WASNOT good on the part of the All referred to the Cultural Revolutionand said Assam StudentsUnion andthe All Assam SINO-INDIAN TIES that because of “the terrible disorder it Gana Sangram Parishad to resume their ag- ASENIOR CHINESEleader says Prime caused”the Chinese economyisinmany itationasthe talkshad notcompletely bro- MinisterIndiraGandhi has “taken aresolute respectsfar more underdevelopedthan kendowncompletely on theforeign na- step to improverelationsand the Chinese India’s. tionals’ issue in Assam, Union Home leadership welcomes this”.Tan ZhenLin, MinisterGiani Zail Singh said. Speaking to vice-chairman of the Standing Committee IRAN WARMS UP TO US newsman at Madras, the Home Minister of the Chinese National People’s Congress IRANIANPRIME MINISTER Mohammad Ali said the government wasready to continue recalledthe friendlyrelations between Rajai said that adecision on the 52 American the talkswith the agitators forwhichthe India and Chinaduring thedays of hostageswas notfar offand that Iran be- datewould be announcedsoon. Drawing Jawaharlal Nehru and ruedthat the rela- lievedthat the US had already apologisedfor attention to the cut-offpoint, Zail Singh re- tions had become sour forsometime. In an supporting the deposed Shah. When asked if futed the contention that the government interviewwith the UNI, Tancalledfor more the decision would be takenbeforethe had gone backfurther from itsoriginal frequent contactsbetween Indians and American elections, he said “the moment the stand. He, however, said that thegovern- Chinese in various fields. Exchangeofvisits Majlis takesadecision”.

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rapid outburstofthe pandemicbut wasable to contain deaths very quickly. Till date, Germanyreported atotal of 2,47,000 cases Soumya Kanti Ghosh with adeath rate of 108per million cases. Germany’s total expenditureonhealth is about 11 per cent of itsGDP and this is about THERE IS Adirect linkagebetween the RBI one per cent morethanthe averagespent governor’s statement on October9and the by other countries of the European Union NobelPrize in economics that wasawarded on health.Portugal, whichhas had acoali- to Robert Wilson and Paul Milgrom on Shah Alam Khan tion left-winggovernment forthe lastfew October 12.The statement by the governor years, has containedthe pandemic well. Its that yield curvecontrol and financial mar- democratically-plannedlockdownwas ketstability arepublic goods is astark re- APLEA HAS been filedbeforethe Supreme easedoff earlier than many other European minder of the treatment of the same in Court,seekingtoremove thewords“social- countries. It had atotal of around 58,000 game theory, wheredefection among in- ist” and“secular” from the Preamble of the cases with 1,827deaths. This wasinstark dividuals/marketplayers is random, often Constitution.But despite apersistent ero- contrasttonext-door neighbourSpain, resulting in leastpayoffs.Interestingly, sionoverthe lastcouple of decades,both whichwas devastated by the virus causing Wilson and Milgrom arealso proponents principles were central to thetype of repub- 4,80,000cases and 29,194deaths. Portugal’s of game theory. It is an ironythat the ap- lic our political forefathers had imagined. total expenditureonhealth is 9.5 per cent of plication of game theoryinmacroeconom- With the embrace of neoliberal policies in itsGDP.Yet another European nation which ics in India is minimaland, thus, it is always the Nineties, socialismwas pushed aside. has done well in tackling the pandemic is amatter of great elation wheneverwecan With the ongoing pandemic,however, so- Iceland, with atotal of 2,121cases and 10 find alink. cialism has become relevant notonlyfor deaths. Interestingly,Icelanders voted fora First, alittle titbit from this year’s Nobel India but also the world. As the worldgrap- majority left-wing government in the gen- prize awardineconomics. This is, perhaps, ples to find avaccinefor COVID-19, acloser eral elections in 2017. the fourthinstance of astudent and teacher inspection of thebackwash of the pandemic Even amongthe Latin American coun- getting the awardinthe same year.The first reveals that socialistideals have turnedout tries, those who spend moreonhealth have instance wasin2004, whenFinn Kydland to be alife-saver. This needsfurther corrob- performedbetterthan those who arepru- and EdwardPrescott were chosen forthe oration and evaluation. dent in spending on people-centric pro- honour.RobertWilson,besides being the In the neoliberal world, hardlyany grammes. Argentina is aclassic example. winner of the economics Nobelthis year,has countrycan be bracketedasapurelyso- With 40,000 COVID-19cases and 8,00 three Nobel-winning PhD students—Alvin cialistnation. Countries which provide so- deaths, it has faredfar better than mostof E. Roth, Bengt Holmstrom and Paul Milgrom. cialisedmedicine arethe ones whichhave itsneighbours. The countryisruledbythe In economic parlance, public goods are evolvedthe model of whatiscalledawel- Peronists,who subscribetomoreleftist definedasnon-excludable and non-rival- CRSasikumar fare state—the closestcousin of yester- economic policies.Argentina’spopulation rous in nature, suchaslaw enforcement. year’s socialiststate. is comparable in manyrespectstoits Thereisplenty of literatureonthe use of whichoccurs when neither of the agentscan 2017-18, the spread between the overnight The COVID-19pandemic has exposed neighbouring Brazil, whichhas aright- public good in financialmarkets—if agents increase their payoff by unilaterallychang- repo rate and the 10-year G-Sec yieldhad the vulnerability of governments, health- wing government andhas been devastated cooperatewell, all players have the opportu- ingtheir actions. Thus thereare four options increasedto169 basis points in February. Till caremodelsandpoliticalideologies.Itis thus by the virus, with3.96 million cases and nity to benefit;ifagentsworkinisolation, —bothPlayer1and Player2cooperate, both that time, such alarge spread wasseenonly important to seewhichcountries have done around 1.23 lakh deaths. Venezuela, which all arelikelytosuffer. Hence, allshould have Player1and Player2defect, Player1coop- duringafinancial crisis. better in this pandemic both in terms of has been under socialistregimes forthe last acommon interestinreforms thatwill im- erates while Player2defects, and, lastly, Can we avoidsuchaproblem of defec- COVID-relatedmorbidityand mortality and twodecades, on the other hand,showed provethe system forpublic benefit. Player1defectswhile Player2cooperates. tion? The economist Elinor Ostrom had an the political ideology whichgoverns them. promising outcomes during the current Garrett Hardin’s famous essay, “The The payoff scenarios arehypothesised answer (the onlywoman apartfromEsther It is no rocket science to imagine that pandemic. It reported47,756cases with Tragedyofthe Commons,” publishedin as benefitsaccruing to Player1and Player2 Duflo to have wonaNobel in economics). those nations withgood health infrastruc- only400 deaths. Science magazine in 1968,was the earliest separately, when theyare deciding on either The onlyway groups can avoid such abreak- turewould do better during apandemic. An argument againstthis hypothesis example of this argument. The farmer who of the policy options: Cooperateordefect. down is by adhering to conditionsinthe Having saidthis, the responseand out- would be that it is difficult to comparethe addedanextracow gainedanadvantage Specifically, both of them cooperating can- form of eight coredesign principles. come parameters of the pandemic have Indian situation witheither New Zealand, over other farmers in his village, but it also notbeaNash equilibrium, as both the play- In asimilar vein, the conceptofpublic notshown suchsimple trends. Besides Germany, IcelandorevenArgentinabecause ledtoanovergrazedpasture. ers unilaterallywill always have an incen- goods can be experimentallyput to good use healthcaremanagement, it alsoinvolves our population surpasses the combined In the Indian context, letmeprovide an tive to defect because theywill getahigher in the current pandemic forasocial cause. political response and will. population of these countries. Theproblem even earlier example to illustratethe idea of payoff in suchaneventuality.Since the sit- Suppose the government were to frame a The conceptualisation and application withthe supporters of the marketeconomy public goods. One day, Emperor Akbar told uation is the same foreveryone, both the policy of incentivising well-offhouseholds of agood publichealth system,whichisan is that theylay all problems at the doorstep Birbal that he wasplanning to take abath in players will thus ultimatelydefect and re- (say, through acertificationfromthe PM) to important component of anyform of so- of population growth. Kerala, the best per- milk andthat all his ministers should coop- ceive apayoffof0.This is the Nash equilib- co-operateand supportatleastone poor cialism, appears to have had abetterout- formingIndian stateinthe currentpan- erateand getmilk to fill the bathtub. riumfor this game. But this is sub-optimal as In economic parlance,public household. Such incentivesare extremely comeduring the current pandemic. demic, is also the mostdenselypopulated. However, eachministerdecidedthat since both players getzeropayoffs because of un- importantasotherwise individual house- Capitalistsystems with privatisedhealth- Concerns of population growth have always milk wascostly, he would getthe water, coordinated behaviour.The bottomline is an goods are defined as non- holds can alwaysdefect unilaterally because carehavefared theworst,despiteagood been partofapopulistagenda in whichthe while the others getmilk.The end result outcome that the regulator will neverwant. excludable and non-rivalrous it givesthem ahigher payoff and thus both health infrastructureintermsofthe avail- population of the poor is the main concern. wasthatall theministers broughtwater. Letusnow extend this analogy to the in nature,suchaslaw could end up defecting. This is aclear exam- ability of state-of-arthealthcaretechnol- We fail to understand that the path to pop- When this experiment wasdone subse- Indian debt markets.The Bank of Japan was, ple of Jan Bhagidhari. ogy.The US is aclassic example of the latter. ulationstabilisation passesthrough the quentlywith proviso of apunishment, perhaps, the firstcentral bank to proclaim enforcement. There is plenty Similarly,wearing masksisaperfect ex- In termsofgood response to the ongo- overall socio-economicdevelopmentof the everyone cooperatedand got milk.Inasim- that the yield curveisapublic good and it is of literatureonthe use of ample of apublic good, as thereisalwaysa ing pandemic, one countrywhichstands people,andthistheCOVID-19 pandemichas ilar vein, the RBI governor communicated heartening to seethe RBIechothe same. public good in financial proviso that the personnot wearing amask out in the Australasia region is NewZealand. handsomelyrevealed. through the policy that market players In the Indian markets,itiscommon to markets —ifagents could benefit and hence, again, both defect- With around 1,757casesand alow death To conclude,aquickglanceshows that should always be competitive and notcom- find debt marketplayers behaving differ- ing and notwearingmaskscould be an rate of 4.56per millioncases, NewZealand socialismisnot an odd contraptionready to bative so as to getthe best results. Central ently. Forexample, if oneset of players act cooperate well, all players eventuality.Inthis case,we, however, need has one of the best COVID-19figures in the fallapart.Even in itsmostdeactivated, meta- bankscan onlyact to oversee the market. pro-cyclically, selling government securities have the opportunityto aharsh punishmentfor those notwearing world. The countryisatpresent governed morphosed,desultoryform, it has been a Againstthis background, it is important with the RBI’s monetary policystance, the benefit; if agents work in masks. This is aclear example of Jan Chetna. by the Labour party,which hasleft-of-cen- handy weapon in successfully fighting the to understand howthe breakdown of trust otherset of players act counter-cyclically, isolation, all are likely to Clearly,adhering to JanBhagidhariand treleanings. The totalexpenditure on health COVID-19pandemic. India’s questfor aso- across agentsinthe use of public goods of- buying government securities —sometimes Jan Chetna, as the Prime Ministerhas been as apercentageofthe GDPfor New Zealand cialistsystemmay have been waylaid but tenresults in minimal payoffs. Both agents both the players arecombative.While there suffer.The Bank of Japan espousing, requires an intelligent applica- is around 11 per cent. ForIndia, despitehav- socialist principles provide asemblance of have twooptionsbetween them —either is nothing wrong in taking twoway posi- was, perhaps, the first central tion of game theoryinpolicy making. ing “socialism” in itsPreamble, the figureis hope concerningissues pertaining to peo- cooperate or defect. Thus, we effectively tions in the market,the problemarises when bank to proclaim that the adismal one percent. ples’ health even in acountrylikeours. have four policy options, and eachofthe op- suchbuying/selling faroutstrips selling/buy- yield curve is apublic good The writer,group chief economic advisor, MostEuropean nations that have per- tions will have aparticular benefit/payoff. ing that the RBIwould prefer.Thisalsore- StateBankofIndia, is thankful to Sudipta formed well in the current pandemic are The writer is professor, Our endeavour is to find out whichpolicy sultsinayield structurenot in sync with and it is heartening to see the Sarangi and IndranilBhattacharyafor useful thorough welfarestateswith socialisttilts department of orthopaedics, optioncan resultinaNash equilibrium, macrofundamentals. Forexample, during RBI echo the same comments. Viewsare personal or leftcoalitions in power. Germanyhad a All India InstituteofMedical Sciences

Numbersdon’t lie LETTERSTOTHE EDITOR CHILDREN SUFFER IDEAS Oppositionnoisecannothidefact: UPgovernmentiscommittedto women’ssafety THIS REFERS TO the editorial,'Children in distress' (IE, October 16). The prolonged ONLINE closure of schools has addedtothe plight Sidharth Nath Singh of studentsfromeconomicallyweaker ONLYINTHE EXPRESS sections.Manyofthem might never THE SAFETYOFwomenhas been the toppri- abduction of women as compared to 2016. of theHathrasincident. later recommendedaCBI probetoensurejus- head backtoschool again. The stategov- ● ABAND-AIDFOR ority of the Uttar Pradesh government ever As compared to 2019,therehas been a In ademocratic setup, we oftencome tice. Now, since the case has been referredfor ernmentshavebeen dragging their feet ABULLETHOLE: since Yogi Adityanath assumed the office as decreaseof27.32 per cent in the incidents across debates about whatshould we expect ahigher probeand is pending in court, the yetagain as the futureofthese hapless VEERAMAHULI chief ministerin2017. The UP government, of rape. The accusedbooked under the forIndia —astable government or astrong truth will come out soon. But it is also imper- children hangs in the balance. under hissupervision,has notonlytaken ap- Protection of ChildrenfromSexual Offences Opposition. Theanswer by anypolitical ative to exposethe evil designsofsome indi- Varun Das, Zirakpur ● ANTI-FARMER,PRO- propriatesteps to protect women from all (POCSO) Acthavebeen givenharsh punish- leader is that we needboth. viduals who have avestedinterestindisturb- CORPORATE: kindsofcrimes but has also ensuredstrict ment. As manyasfiveaccused have been Yes, we do needastrong Opposition but ing lawand order in the state. CENTRE’SBURDEN VARUNVERMA punishment to theperpetratorssothat po- giventhe death penalty and 193accused certainlynot likethe current lot. Do we need Afterhaving spent manyyears in public tential criminals mend their ways.This ap- have been givenlifeimprisonment, while an Opposition whichismoreinclinedto- life, Ifind no parallel to the actsofirresponsi- THIS REFERS TO the report, ‘Centregives proachboreresultsand ensured that UP led 721havebeen awardedotherpunishments wardsrumour-mongering, has apessimistic bility that the Opposition resortedtointhe in, says will borrowtomakeupfor states’ www.indianexpress.com the wayincontrolling rape and other heinous underthe POCSO Act. approachand adestructive mindsetand divi- Hathras incident.Besides their attempt to GSTshortfall’(IE, October 16). The Centre crimes againstwomen. CM Adityanath’s “zerotolerance” to- sive thought process? No. spur communal flare-up, and caste-basedri- triedtopass the bucktothe states, in- According to the National Crime Records wardscrime is showing results. This can be What we experiencedinthe wake of the ots, the irresponsible approachshown by the fringing on itscommitment to fulfilling Bureau’s reportin2019, the rate of rape gauged from thefact that according to the Hathrasincidentwasmoreshock thanadisap- Opposition is deplorable. The deliberateat- the GSTcompensation. Economic logic FIGHT THE MOB cases in UP was2.8 per one lakh whereas in crime rate per one lakh population, the na- pointment.The manner in whichthe entire tempttocreateatotallywrong perception suggests that the Centre is best posi- 2016 and 2017 theratewas around 4.6 to tional averageis58.8, while UP’s averageis fake narrative wasbuiltto misleadthemasses about anyideology,belief or thought process tionedtoraise additional resourcesto THIS REFERS TO the article "I'm the 4.0. In 2019,UPranked26th among the to- belowthat at 55.7,with Assam being the is disappointing and unacceptable. This was, is dishonesty if notblasphemy vis-à-vis the bridgethe GSTcompensation gap. unborn baby…" (IE, October 15). I talof36statesand union territories in rape highestat166.StateslikeRajasthan, Madhya in fact, an exploitation of the emotions of mil- wisdom of thepeople of this country. SSPaul, Nadia sharethe writer's sentimentsonthe cases.This dataisavindication of the fact Pradesh,WestBengal, Maharashtraand lions of Indians. The political compulsion and As an age-olddictum says,“Falsehood is gentle, kind and touching advertise- that UP is ahead of other states in terms of Chhattisgarhalso stand above the national desperation of the Opposition can be under- invariably the child of fear in one form or PER CAPITA MESS ment by Tanishq which, unfortu- controlling rape cases. average. Further,according to “Crime in stood but an attempt to pollute thepsycheof another.” This signifies the stateofmind of nately, hadtobewithdrawn. There In the figures in “Crime in India 2018 and India 2019”report,the conviction rate for the masses wasnothingshortofacrime. the Opposition. THIS REFERS TO the editorial, ‘Bestway wasnothing objectionable in the ad- 2019”publishedbythe NCRB,UPranksfar be- crimes againstwomen wasthe highestin Agood governmentisexpected to take Apieceofadvice to the Opposition —be out’ (IE,October 16). So far, the govern- vertisement, whichpromotesunity hindseveralotherstatesintermsof registered UP with 15,579 convictions in 2019,and prompt action in cases of crime against positive and work forthe best interest of the menthasgivencatchy slogansandpunch amongstour diversity —India's cases of crimes. In other words, it is ahead of morethan 55 per cent of the cases registered women. This wasdone in the Hathras case. people, if notthe government in power. Also lines with no tangible outcomes. It is re- biggeststrength. The issue at hand is manystatesintermsof controllingcrime.The forcrimes againstwomen and minors led An FIR waslodgedpromptly and subsequent remember,among the other duties of the grettable that whileweliketobecom- moreominous and reflectsthe in- percentageofregisteredcrimes in UP is 10.92 to the sentencing of the accused, whichisa actionwas also takenand senior district offi- government, one is to insulate the people paredwithdevelopedeconomies,we are creasingly polarisedsociety that we whilethe percentageofits population in the hugedeterrent foranti-social elements. cials supervisedthe entire probe. CM from falsepropagandaand thwartthe threat laggingbehind smallnations like have become. We have to fight such countryis16.85. Apartfromthis, in 2020 (till Despitethis trackrecord,some political Adityanath has already issueddirectivesto of nefariousrumour-mongering. Bangladeshinper capitaGDP. faceless mobs and notcapitulate. September) UP has been able to bring about a parties and thosewith an alleged anti-na- act swiftly in casesrelated to women. In this Deepak Singhal, Chennai SubhabrataBasu, Mumbai 42.24per cent reduction in rape cases and tional frame of mindtriedtoinstigatecom- case, too, he immediatelyset up aSpecial The writer is Cabinetminister in the about a39per cent reduction in the cases of munal and caste-basedriots on the pretext InvestigationTeam to probethe incident and Uttar Pradeshgovernment

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Howdothe twocandidates forthe WhiteHouse see theworld and the issues of shared global concern —and howdoothercountries of the worldsee the US under Trump? Howshould the rivalrybetween China and Americainvarious spheres be understood?This is Part 2ofathree-partweeklyseries on theUSPresidential election.

guablythe biggest challengewefacefrom ON TRADE,Biden will bring greater con- SURVEY:WORLDLOOKSUPTOU.S.,NOTTRUMP another nation state.” sistency of policy and morecooperation with In sum, whether it is aRepublican admin- other countries. But the persistence of struc- istration or aDemocratic one, we arelooking turaltensionsininternational trade will pre- TRUMP’SMAJORFOREIGN POLICIES ARE UNPOPULARGLOBALLY at aperiod of profound uncertainty,econom- vent an early reversal of Trumpian unilater- %whoapprove/disapprove ofeachpolicyofUSPresidentTrump ■ Approve ■ Disapprove icallyand strategically.What, however, is re- alism. First, the relative free-trader Biden is RACE FOR vealedbymosteconomic models is that given perhaps moredeeplycommitted than USincreasingtariffsorfeesonimportedgoodsfromotherscountries 18% 68% the hugecosts of economic decoupling,itis Trumptoreversing the decline of American THE WHITE USwithdrawalfrominternationalclimatechangeagreements 14% 66% unlikelythatmostsupplychains (built on ex- industryand the working class —recall the HOUSE tremelycompetitive Chinese manufacturing Biden-Obama bailout of the American car in- BuildingawallontheborderbetweentheUSandMexico 24% 60% capacities) will beable to transitionout of the dustryduringthe great recession. Biden too AllowingfewerimmigrantsintotheUS 34% 55% mainland even within the lifeofthe next has a“Made in America” plan, although he Presidency,inany significant manner. mayrelymoreonsubsidies and preferential USwithdrawalfromtheIrannuclearweaponsagreement 29% 52% Thedangeristhatthisrivalry, this“newcold procurement than on tariffs. America First—and oftenalone —aimedat USnegotiationswithNorthKoreanleaderKimJongUnabout 41% 36% war”, is built on two“myths”: agrowing per- Second, DemocratsshareRepublican providing aquick unilateral fixtodeep and thecountry’snuclearweaponsprogramme ception that American domination is in deep concerns about the Chinese threat and the EXPERT complexproblems that needconsidered decline, and that China has arrivedasachal- perception of China's recourse to unfair trade global solutions. Note:%aremedians based on 33 countries.Don’t knowresponsesnot shown. lenger. Itispreciselythesekindsof mispercep- practices —ranging from stealthyprotection, EXPLAINS The lastfour years have,for instance, wit- tionsthathave historically statesupportand indus- nessedanAmerican unilateral withdrawal UK Netherlands Germany CzechRep. Sweden ledtomajorwarsinthein- trial espionage— which Amitabh Mattoo from the Paris climateaccord, Iran nuclear US IMAGEIS 57 46 39 50 45 ternational system. maymakethe reversal of deal,Intermediate-RangeNuclear Forces Domination or hege- THEEXPERT Trump's tariffs on China FromThe Indian Express panel Treaty,UNESCO, UN HumanRightsCouncil, GENERALLY monyherereferstothe PROFESSORAMITABH difficult unless China un- ofspecialists,exclusive insight Lithuania WorldHealth Organization (WHO), Open FAVOURABLE 70 overwhelming capacity MATTOO is one of India’s dertakessignificant re- Skies Treaty,and Trans-Pacific Partnership that wasenjoyedbythe leading specialists on for- forms. PART2 GLOBALLY, WITH Poland (TPP), and aweakening of many multilateral France 79 US through the first eign policy.Heisa Third, even with allies institutions and relationships with long- SOME EXCEPTIONS 48 decade afterthe end of Professor at the School of likethe EU,long festering In the lastfour years,PresidentDonald standing allies, including those in Europe. Ukraine the ColdWar to shapethe International Studies, disputes, suchasthe one Trumphas reviewedand, manyargue, All of this has happenedatatime when %whohaveafavourable Italy 73 international system Jawaharlal Nehru on subsidiestoAirbus irretrievablyweakenedthe the worldneeds muchgreater global robust- opinionoftheUS 62 Bulgaria through acombination of University,and Honorary and Boeing, will notbe international commitmentsofthe nessfromacalmer United States, andindeed 57 sanctions, incentives, and Professor at the Faculty of easilyresolvedwithout United States.Under thecircumstances, manymoremultilateral arrangements even softpower. Arts,University of greater mutual accept- 020406080100 should the American elections matter to (whichare backedbyWashington’slong- Spain Slovakia Hungary Greece Turkey Whilethe US maynot Melbourne. He has spent ance, if notgreater mu- the world, when the US itself seems to be term commitment) on arange of critical is- 52 54 66 54 20 enjoythe same degree of severalsemesters as tual concessions. turning inwards? sues from climatechange to arms control, to unfetteredinfluence, its Visiting Professor at the Finally, theweakening In manyways, theUSelectionsmatter trade negotiations to thefightagainstCovid- decline seems to be vastly University of NotreDame of the WTObythe Trump muchmorethan perhaps at anytimesince 19.With Joe Biden,werehetobeelected, we Israel Lebanon exaggerated —and often at SouthBend, Indiana. administration,especially WorldWar II. With just over twoweekstogo, couldsee aslowreturn of the US to itsmore 83 39 so by China’sdecision by underminingits dis- andwiththemostrancorouscampaignincon- engaged, multilateral posture, but it would makers.Remember that NEXTMONDAY,OCT26: putesettlement mecha- temporaryhistory,the electionsare gripping take afull term (and more) before we could on almostevery measur- Part3:Whytheelection nism, toohas itsroots in globalattention.We could,asaconsequenceof expect areturntostatus quoante,after the Russia able index, the US, as an matterstoIndia durable US aversion to the result, see agradual renewalofthe inscrutable ferocity of the Trumpyears. 29 economic or military or multilateraldisciplines American global imprimatur,oraspeedy era- Japan technological power, is and the perceivedover- sureofWashington’sinternational footprint. Areweonthe cusp of anew cold war, Canada 68 ahead of China,and is reachbythe WTO 51 India The “promise” of four moreyears of and could we witness astrategic 60 SouthKorea likelytoremain the leader Appellatebody. Trumpisone of the US retreating intoaniso- decoupling between China and the US? Mexico 77 until about 2050. In all these areas, lationistshell, and becoming even less en- HowwouldaTrumporaBiden 36 On the contrary, the Biden mayfind it hardto gagedinternationally. TheUScould also be- administration respond to amore Philippines weaknesses of China are rapidlyroll backTrump’s Brazil Tunisia 80 come moreprotectionist, opportunistic, and belligerent Beijing? 33 Kenya Indonesia oftenunderestimated.In measures and abandon unilateralist in theadvancement of itsnar- The Americanfinancierand advisor to 56 60 42 the erratic behaviour dis- his tactics. But he is likely rowself-interest. Notsurprisingly,Trump’s severalPresidents, BernardBaruch, coined Argentina Nigeria SouthAfrica Australia playedbyXiJinping, Read Part 1ofthis series online to favour agentler,nego- leadership invites very lowlevels of global the term “cold war” to describethe tensions 41 62 50 50 China’s mostauthoritar- https://bit.ly/31e12ir tiated routetoresolution support. The ironyisthat this would happen between the United States and SovietUnion ian leader since Mao, we thatismoreconducive to at atime when the worldneeds amoreglob- afterWorld WarII. But the present-day in- find the abandonmentof building alliances and allyengaged America. ternational system hardlymimics that pe- Deng'sprudent 24-character strategy, preserving institutions. Isolationism is notanew tendency in it- riod;eventhe most parsimonious analysis TRUMP GETS MOST NEGATIVE MARKSAMONG 5 WORLDLEADERS "Conceal your strengths, bide your time". ON CLIMATE CHANGE,acollective action self —the narrative of isolationism is partof would reveal the complexlevelsofinterde- On present evidence, Xi believesthat problemthatneedsimmediateattention,thedif- any101 course on Americanhistory;from pendence that continue to existbetween %whohaveconfidence/noconfidenceineachleadertodotherightthingregardingworldaffairs China’s time has come, and that it needs to ferences between Biden and Trumpseem stark. thefarewell address by George Washington, China and the US. But while the SovietUnion assertitself across the continent and in the BidenwantstoreturntotheParisclimateaccord in September 1976 (“It is our true policy to andthe US neverusedforce againsteach ■ Confidence ■ NoConfidence ■ Don’tknow oceans. China no longer seems sensitive to and move toward netzerocarbon emissions by steer clear of permanent alliance with any other directly, on presentevidence there is a AngelaMerkel 46 29 12 itsreputation being scarredasaWolf 2050, with the interim objective of decarbonis- portion of the foreign world.”) to the7th real possibilityofaclash between Beijingand EmmanuelMarcon 41 36 19 Warrior.The Chinese leadership is ostensi- ing the powersector by 2035. Biden also wants President Andrew Jackson (letthe worldbe, Washington in the Indo-Pacific —today, the blynot recognising deep internal weak- toinvest$2trillioningreenareas,includinginfra- but respond with overwhelming forcetoa centreofeconomic gravity as well as the cra- VladimirPutin 33 57 8 nesses as impedimentstoChina’s assertive- structure, transportation and auto industries, threat), thereisamixed legacy of quarantin- dle of primordial instincts. DonaldTrump 29 64 7 ness externally. An erraticand impetuous Xi, housing and construction practices, naturecon- ing the US from the outside world. What is clear is that American domina- XiJinping 28 43 23 facedwith an impulsive andequallyerratic servationefforts,andworkinenvironmentaljus- It wasthis strand of thinking that pre- tion is being seriouslychallenged,for thefirst Trump, could potentiallygotowar basedon tice, creating one million jobs in the process. vented Woodrow Wilson’s internationalism time since 1990, by another state, China. This Note: Lithuania is excluded from the confidence-in-Donald-Trump calculation due to a processing misperceptions. In contrast, Biden maygive Trumphas emphasisedclean waterand from sustaining itself, and America’sfailure is firmlyand finally the end of the“Endof error. Percentages for confidence in Donald Trump are medians based on 32 countries. All other negotiations and diplomatic engagement a airashis goals and earmarked$38 billion to- to join the League of Nations afterWorld War History”thesis. And China’s assertion is one good chance to arrive at apeacefuloutcome wards“clean waterinfrastructure”. The percentages are medians based on 33 countries. I. Trumphas, of course, customisedisolation- issue on whichBiden and Trumpare closer in even on issues thatseem zerosum. President has remained asceptic on climate Source for all data: Spring 2019 Global Attitudes Survey ism in his ownimage: acombination of vic- their views than is oftenrecognised. While change, and his administration wantsgreater “Trump Ratings Remain Low Around Globe, while views of US stay mostly favorable” timhood, exceptionalism and entitlement; Trumphas publicly beratedBeijing, Biden’s HowdoBiden andTrumpdifferon US production of oil and natural gas. blaming theoutsideworld forall the ills of aide Anthony Blinken hasexplicitlystated: (Pew Research Center) pressingglobal issues liketrade and the unique United States; and his slogan of “China posesagrowing challenge.It’sar- climatechange? RESEARCHASSISTANCE:POOJAARORA Why Delhi air pollution rises in Oct

burning. Over the years, the System of Air MALLICAJOSHI Quality and Weather Forecasting and NEWDELHI,OCTOBER18 Research (SAFAR) has developedasystemto calculatethe contribution of stubble burn- EVERY YEAR in October,Delhi’sair quality ing to Delhi’s pollution. starts to dip and awar of wordsbreaksout Lastyear,during peak stubbleburning in- among various governments. cidents, itscontribution rose to 40%.Overthe On October 15,when the Air Quality Index last oneweek,itslowlyrosefromaround 2% (AQI) touchedverypoor forthe firsttime this on Tuesdayto22% on Saturday,when the AQI CORONAVIRUS DASHBOARD season, UnionEnvironment MinisterPrakash waspoor.The dayair quality wasinthe very Javadekar said the contribution of stubble poor category,stubble burning’s sharewas at burning wasonly4%that day. In response, 4%,indicating thatavariety of otherfactors, Coronavirus‘molecularscissor’ Delhi ChiefMinister ArvindKejriwal asked if too, areresponsible forthe dip in quality. stubbleburning wasnot the cause, then why The stubbleburning seasonisaround 45 air pollution had risen in the city over thepast days long. Air in Delhi, however, remains pol- as atarget of Covid-19 drugs fewdays.Since then, the contribution of stub- luted till February. ble burning to Delhi’s pollution has risen to IN THE novelcoronavirus, cules, calledVIR250 and 22%onSaturday and 17%onSunday. DelhiOctober haze is theresult of manyfactors, someofthem natural. Tashi Tobgyal What arethe other big sourcesofpoor an enzyme calledSARS- VIR251, areveryefficient Air pollution in Delhi and the entireIndo- air quality in winter? CoV-2-PLprofacilitates at blocking the activity of Gangetic Plains is acomplexphenomenon, Dustand vehicularpollutionare the two infection by processing SARS-CoV-2-PLpro, yet dependent on avariety of factors. The firstis storm that originated in Iraq,Saudi Arabia getrid of paddystubble quicklyand at low biggestcauses. Cold, dryweather means dust both viral and human do notcross-react with the input of pollutants, followedbyweather and Kuwait ledtoadrastic dip in Delhi’sair cost.The practicehas becomemorewide- isprevalentintheentireregion,whichhasvery proteins. It stimulates the human enzymes with a and localconditions. quality in acouple of days. spread since 2009, when the governments fewrainy days betweenOctoberandJune.The release of proteins that similar function, re- Along with the changeinwind direction, of Punjab and Haryana passedlawsdelaying IITKanpurstudyfoundthatdustpollutioncon- the virus to needs to PAPER searcher Shaun Olsen, of What aretheseweather factors? the dip in temperatureisalso behindthe in- the sowing of paddy.The objective of this law tributes to 56% of the PM10and PM2.5 load at replicate. In the human the University of Texasat October usuallymarksthewithdrawal of creasedpollution levels. When the temper- wastoconservegroundwater by ensuring 59 tonnes/day, and that vehicular pollution body,itinhibitsmole- CLIP San Antonio, said in a the monsoon in northwestIndia. During this aturedips, it lowers the inversion height, the newsowing cycle would coincide with contributesto20% of PM2.5inwinters. cules that signal the im- statement. season,the prevalent direction of winds is whichisthe layerbeyond whichpollutants themonsoon.This, however, leftverylittle Over the years, governmentshavetaken mune system to attack NEWRESEARCH The US team also easterly.These winds, whichtravelfromover cannotdisperseintothe upperlayer of the time forfarmers to harvestpaddy,clearthe severalsteps to address pollution from vehi- the infection. In anew compared SARS-CoV-2- the BayofBengal, carry moistureand bring atmosphere. The concentration of pollutants fields and sowwheat forthe next cycle. The cles, suchasthe introduction of BS VI fuel, a study publishedinScience Advances, PLpro againstsimilarenzymes from rain to this partofthe country. Once the in the air increases when this happens. easiestway to getrid of it is to setitonfire. push forelectricvehicles, Odd-Even as an American and Polish scientists suggest coronaviruses of recentdecades,SARS- monsoon withdraws, the predominant di- Also, high-speedwinds areveryeffective Over the past11years, thepractice has emergency measure, and construction of the that drugsforfighting Covid-19bede- CoV-1 and MERS. By understanding rection of winds changes to north-westerly. at dispersing pollutants, but winters bring a thriveddespiteefforts by the Centreand state Eastern and Western Peripheral signedtoblockthis protein —SARS- similaritiesanddifferencesof theseen- During summers, too, the direction of wind dipin wind speedoverall ascomparedto sum- governments, primarilybecause alternatives Expressways.During the lockdown, this year, CoV-2’s molecular “scissor”. zymes in various coronaviruses, it may is north-westerly and storms carrying dust mers. The combination of these meteorolog- suchasthe happyseeder machine, which Delhi sawamong the cleanestair since com- US scientists solvedthe three-di- be possible to develop inhibitors that arrive from Rajasthan and sometimes ical factors makes the region prone to pollu- helps mulchthe residue, areseenasunavail- pilation of comprehensive records beganin mensional structures of SARS-CoV-2- areeffectiveagainstmultipleviruses, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Accordingtoa tion.Whenfactors suchasfarm firesand dust able, and money- andtime-consuming by 2015.Italsosaw temperaturesabove aver- PLpro. Using this knowledge,Polish the researchers said. peer-reviewedstudy conductedbyscientists storms areaddedtothealreadyhighbasepol- smaller farmers. ageinSeptember,whichmeant air remained chemists developedtwo molecules Source: University of Texas at at the NationalPhysical Laboratory, 72%of lution levels in the city,air qualitydipsfurther. A2015source-apportionment study on cleaner forlonger. that inhibit the enzyme. These mole- San Antonio Delhi’swind in winterscomes from the Delhi’sair pollution conducted by IIT-Kanpur With vehicles backonthe road, temper- northwest, and the remaining 28% comes What is the role of farm fires? foundthat 17-26%ofall particulate matter aturedipping and stubble burning starting, from the Indo-Gangetic plains.In2017, a Farm fireshavelongbeen an easy wayto in Delhi in winters is because of biomass Delhi’s air is settoget worse.

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THEINDIANEXPRESS,MONDAY,OCTOBER19,2020 11 EXPRESS NETWORK Confident Khadse will Territory row snowballs into PunjabCabinet remain with BJP: Patil violence at Mizo-Assam border authorisesCM EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE MUMBAI,OCTOBER18 mentsofAssam and Mizoram Chandrakant ABHISHEKSAHA some years ago, status quo THERE WASintense speculation Patil GUWAHATI,OCTOBER18 should be maintainedinno foranydecision on SundayoverdisgruntledBJP man’s land in the border area. leader Eknath Khadse’s decision AT LEASTfour people were in- However, people from Lailapur to cut offties with the party. his resignation to me, as Iamthe jured and severaltemporary brokethe status quoand al- Media reports and Khadse’s in- president of the party in the shops and hutswereburnt down legedly constructed some tem- onfarmlaws teraction with NCPleaders, in- state,” he told mediapersons. in aterritorydisputebetween res- poraryhuts. People from cluding Home MinisterAnil “Moreover, Iamconfident identsofborder districtsinAssam Mizoram side went and setfire Deshmukh in Jalgaon lastweek, that Eknath Khadse will notdo and Mizoram on Saturday on them,” he said. forced stateBJP president anysuchthing,” he added. evening, officials said. Theyadded In Assam, Cachar KANCHANVASDEV Chandrakant Patil to makea Khadse has been disgruntled that both states had approached Superintendent of Police BL CHANDIGARH,OCTOBER18 statement that he washopeful with the BJP afterhewas forced the Centreregarding the issue. Security personnel and officials at the site. Twitter/Zoramthanga Meena told The Indian Express, that the senior leader would not to resign as aministerin2016on Apress statement by “Thereistension right now—but AHEAD OF atwo-dayspecial leave the party. corruption charges. Mizoram Home Department said things areunder control. One Assemblysession, beginning to- “I am confident that Eknath “I have notresigned from avideo conferencewillbeheld on “I sincerelyrequesteveryone to Commissioner HLalthangliana, person has been injured on day, to discuss and counter the Khadse, who is our senior leader, BJP,” he told the media on Mondaybetween the Union maintain peace and to kindlynot three people were injured in the Assam side. Therehas been no three central farm laws,the will remain with the BJP.Anyone Sunday. He refusedtodivulgehis Home Secretaryand Chief bypass anyadministrative pro- violence. “One of them is critical casualty —but fake news is cir- Punjab CabinetSundayautho- resigning from the party sends futureplans. Secretaries of Assam and ceedings.” and is under treatment at ahospi- culating about it on social me- risedChief MinisterCapt Congress notdouble-faced: Mizoram. Assam Chief Minister tal,” Lalthangliana told The Indian dia.” Amarinder Singh to take anyleg- Punjab CM ahead of special This is the second suchdis- Sarbananda SonowalSundayap- Express. He said the violence Assam ADGP (Law&Order) islative or legal decision he may Assemblysession putebetween residentsofthe prisedthe Prime Minister's Office brokeout aftersome people from GP Singh told The Indian Express, deem fitwithout “caring forthe BJD MP accuses TV twostatesthis month. Saturday's and Union Home Ministryabout Lailapur startedpelting stones at “The issue has been takenup consequences”. violence brokeout between res- the prevailing situation at the bor- Mizoram police personnel de- with the Government of India. TheCabinetmeetingwasheld ernmentwasworkingonthisline identsofLailapur villagein der.Sonowalalso spokeoverthe ployednear the border and resi- Hopefully, it should be settled afterameeting of the Congress while trying to ensurethat the channel reporters Assam's Cachar district and resi- phone with his Mizoram coun- dentsinthe area. soon. Special DGP (Border) has LegislatureParty (CLP) in which farmersfeelthattheCongressdis- dentsoflocalities near Vairengte terpartZoramthangaand dis- “In turn, Mizoram residents been advisedtovisit the affected the MLAs unanimouslystressed pensation is on their side. Several in Mizoram's Kolasib district. cussedthe issue. He said in a mobilisedand went afterthem. area.” the needtoreject the farm laws MLAsalsosuggestedthattheleg- of harassing her On Sunday, the Mizoram statement that theremay be dif- Thereisnoclear line indicating On October 9, asimilar scuffle even if Centre“dismisses” the islation should notallowany pri- Cabinetheld an emergency ferences but that these mustbe the Assam-Mizoram border in had broken out on the border of stategovernment.Sources said vate trader to procurefarmers’ meeting over the issue. Chief settledthrough dialogue. some areas. According to an Karimganj (Assam) and Mamit the during the twomeetings, produce at ratesbelowMSP and EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE ministerZoramthangatweeted, According to Kolasib Deputy agreement between govern- (Mizoram) districts. Cabinetministers as well as the if anyone wascaught doing so, NEWDELHI,OCTOBER18 MLAs,askedAmarindernottoshy theyshouldbeimprisonedforone away fromanyconfrontationwith year and finedRs5lakh. AGAINSTTHE backdrop of BJP Chandrani BJP slams Cong Centre. In the meetings, Congress vice-presidentBaijayantJayPanda Murmu Sonia: Indian democracy passing “Amid total consensus leaders remindedAmarinder of alleging an attackonfreedom of over Tharoor among Punjab Congress MLAs the stand he took during his pre- expression afterOdisha police on the needtoreject the farm vious tenureonsharing water questionedareporterofOTV,a when the police questionedthe through its most difficult phase remarks on laws outright and notimple- with neighbouring Haryana. “It channel ownedbyhis family, BJD perpetrator of the crime OTVre- ment them in the state, Chief wasduring his previous tenure MP Chandrani Murmu has justi- porterRamesh Rath yesterday Subsequently, PresidentRamNath MinisterAmarinder Singh on that Punjab had annulledwater fied the police action. (October15),OTVandtheirown- EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE ‘Conspiracy Kovind gave his assent to the Bills. pandemic Sundaycalledfor afrontal attack sharing accords, creating history. The journalist, Ramesh Rath, ers Jagi Panda and JayPanda are NEWDELHI,OCTOBER18 hatchedto The Opposition ledbythe againstthe legislations, even as He (Amarinder) can do the same wasquestionedand his mobile tryingto save himby claimingthat defeat the Congress,alongwithmanyfarm- management he wasauthorisedbyhis coun- (with the three central farm phone seizedinconnection with this is an attackonOTV and its IN Ascathing attackonthe gov- gains of the ers’ organisations, have been vo- cil of ministers to take anyleg- laws),” said aCongress leader, acaserelatedto theallegedcircu- journalists by the government.” ernment, Congress president green cal againstthe legislation, claim- islative/legal decision he may adding that the government had lation of amorphedvideo of Panda had earlier allegedthat SoniaGandhionSundaysaidthat revolution’ ing that theywill harm the EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE deem fittoprotect the interests beenworkingontheleadgivenby Murmuwhenshewascontesting the police action wasprompted Indian democracy waspassing interests of farmers and benefit NEWDELHI,OCTOBER18 of the farmers,” said agovern- AICCpresidentSoniaGandhito all the general election. by anews reportagainstthe gov- throughits“mostdifficultphase”. corporates. The government has ment statement. party ruledstatesasking them to In avideo message, thetribal ernment. In aseries of tweets he Shewasaddressingameeting hoods of crores of farm labour- claimedthe newlawswould in- HITTINGOUT at Congress lead- Asource, privy to the develop- explorelegal provision under MP from Keonjhar said, “I am an hadstated,“Seriousallegationsby of AICC general secretaries and ers, leasehold farmers, small and crease the income of farmers. ers fortheir criticism of the gov- mentsinthe twomeetings, said, Article254(2)of theConstitution unmarriedtribal lady and the activists (with RTIaccessedavia- state-in-chargespresidedoverby marginal farmers, toiling labour- Onthegovernment’shandling ernment's handling of the pan- “Thenarrative wastofindaway to of India. The provision allows a youngestMPinIndia who has tion documents) that Odisha CM her.This wasthe firstmeeting of ers and small shopkeepers are of the pandemic, Sonia said the demic in comparison to ensurethat twotypes of mandis statelaw to prevailoveraconflict- been mentallyharassedand tor- Naveen Patnaik fakedanAugust Congress general secretaries and under attack. It is our solemn countrywas pushedintothe neighbouring countries, the rul- (private and government) should ing central lawinsome circum- tured by OTVreporters and oth- 31 helicopteraerial survey of statein-chargesthat the party duty to join hands to defeat this “abyss”by “sheerineptitude”and ing BJP on Sundayalleged that notexistinthe state. The Centre’s stances. ers who viraledamorphed, ob- floodeddistricts….Reporterwho presidentchairedafteramajoror- sinisterconspiracy,” she said. “mismanagement”. the Opposition party’s leaders laws provide forsetting up of pri- TakingadigattheSAD,theCM scene video of mine, with the brokenews…arrested…” ganisationalreshufflelastmonth. The Farmers’ Produce Trade The Congress president were demeaning the countryon vatemandis.Theministerswanted said the Congress wasnot “dou- maliciousintentto defame,harass Inanofficialstatement,Odisha Sonia said the BJP-leddis- and Commerce (Promotion and claimedthat the government international platforms. the CM to ensurethat alegislation blefaced”andhadaclearstandon and mentallytortureme.” policehave deniedtheallegations pensation has attackedthe foun- Facilitation)Bill,2020,theFarmers has simultaneously“demol- Targeting Congress leader is brought through whichPunjab theissue.Hesaidcontrarytowhat Accusing Panda of interfering and said their probeislegitimate. dation of India’s agrarian econ- (Empowerment and Protection) ished” the economy. Rahul Gandhi, BJP spokesperson refuses to allowany private man- the BJP and itsleaders had been inthepoliceinvestigation,Murmu “Police arrestedthree persons in- omybybringing in “three Agreementof PriceAssuranceand She also accusedthe govern- Sambit Patracalledhim “Rahul distobeset up in state.” claiming, Punjab wasnever con- said,“Afterthistragicincident,the cluding OTVreporterSimanchal anti-agricultureblacklaws”. Farm Services Bill, 2020 and the ment of failing to honour even its Lahori”and asked him if he Thesourceaddedthatthegov- sulted on farm legislations. police during investigation ar- Patra...SimanchalPatrahasstated “A conspiracy has been Essential Commodities Constitutional responsibilities, wanted to contestelections in rested ajunior reporterofOTV that it wasunder instructions of hatchedtodefeat the gains of the (Amendment) Bill, 2020 were re- saying the shareofGST compen- Pakistan. alongwithothers.TheOTVjunior his then boss Mr Ramesh Rath greenrevolution.Lives and liveli- centlypassedbyParliament. sation is being deniedtostates. Patraalso criticisedCongress reporternamedRamesh Rath as that he forwardedthe obscene MP Shashi Tharoor forhis re- UP govt will act against the perpetrator of the crime. But video.” marks on the handling of the pandemic, accusations of target- those who are threat to Nath refers to BJP nominee ing of Muslims in the wake of the Tablighi Jamaat gathering and No festive cheer the treatment metedout to peo- women security: CM as ‘item’, BJP complains to EC ple of the Northeastinavirtual addresstoLahoreThink Fest. at Ahmedabad aseat reserved forSCcandidates. Addressing reporters, Patra MAULSHREESETH IRAMSIDDIQUE Soon afterNath made the re- said, “WeinBJP will startcalling LUCKNOW,OCTOBER18 BHOPAL,OCTOBER18 mark, the BJP approachedthe him Rahul Lahori and hence- Yogi Election Commission, calling the forthItoo will address Rahul FACINGHEAToverincidentsof Adityanath locality known AMID THE campaigning forthe remarkaninsult to women as Gandhi as Rahul Lahori. Adebut crimes againstwomen in the bypolls to 28 Assemblyseatsin well as the SC community. rallyfor him has already been state, Uttar Pradesh Chief Madhya Pradesh, stateCongress Chief MinisterShivraj Singh done in PakistanbyTharoor.Are MinisterYogi Adityanath on tedondaughters of the village chief Kamal Nath on Sundaytrig- Chouhan calledNath’s comment yougoing to contestelection in Sundaysaid that his government within the village? This question for Ravan effigies geredafurorebyreferring to BJP on Imarti Devi an insult of a Pakistan?” will soon launchaspecial drive poses achallengetoour society, leader Imarti Devi as an “item”. daughter and sisterofthe He also alleged that the to take “legal action againstall and everyone has to acceptthis The ruling BJP has lodged a Gwalior-Chambal region. Indian National Congress would those who areathreat to challenge),” Adityanath said. VAIBHAVJHA complaint with the Election Kamal Nath at arallyin Speaking at agathering at soon become PakistanNational women’s security or those in- Appreciating the effortsofa AHMEDABAD,OCTOBER18 Commission over Nath’s remark, Gwalior district. PTI Gwalior region, he said, “Imarti Congress. “Theygiveaticket to dulging in corruption in welfare gram pradhan from Barabanki saying that it insulted the Devi has her rootsinGwalior and Jinnah’s supporter. Iwant to ask, schemes forwomen”. district who told the CM that a AT KHANWADI locality at Ramol woman leader.The Congress Chambal and belongs to a whyisitnecessary? Whywould During awebinar on women special meeting is held every in Ahmedabad, ahouse with the has, meanwhile, said Nath did item hai... kyaitemhai,” said Nath. Scheduledcaste.She has worked youcry about India in Lahore? security and empowerment, the week in her villagewheremen inscription “YaAllah, Ya notname the BJP leader. “Suresh Raje and Iwill work hardand risen from being a We have no doubt that Rahul Chief Ministersaid society needs aresensitisedabout women’s is- Mohammed” lies deserted, its Addressing agathering in together forthe development of labourer to an MLAand then a Gandhi hates India,” said Patra. to acceptthe challengeofsafety sues, Adityanath said that such gateslocked. Afew goatsare tied DabrainsupportofCongress Gwalior-Chambal region, we minister. Who gave youthe right Patra’s remarks came two of women. “Earlier,thereusedto movesshould be encouraged. to the main gate of the whitesin- candidateSuresh Raje, the for- will work forthe youth of this re- to insult aperson coming from a days afterUnion ministerand BJP beno suchincidentsastherewas He calledfor installing CCTV glestoreyhouse, while inside the mer CM said Raje is asimple gion and chalk out anew policy humble background?” Out of the MP from Begusarai Giriraj Singh abelief in the villagethat ‘gaon ki cameras and playing bhajans boundaywall, layers of dusthave man who will carry out develop- forthe farmers,” he said. 28 seatsgoing to bypolls, 16 arein accusedtheCongressof fieldinga beti, sabki beti’(adaughter of the and patriotic songs everymorn- envelopeddiscardedfurniture ment work “unlikeher…”. Imarti Devi, statecabinet the Gwalior-Chambal region. “sympathiser of Mohammad Ali villageiseveryone’s daughter). ing and evening on public ad- and an old motorcycle is gather- The house of Ali familyin “Ye unke jaise nahi hai… kya ministerfor Women and Child Congress spokesperson Jinnah” in the Bihar polls — Aajhum log kahan ja rahe hain? dress systems in the villages. ing rust. Khanwadi is locked. hai uska naam”(He is notlikeher, Development, wasone of the 22 NarendraSalujaclaimedthatNath Congress’sJalecandidateMaskoor Kyun gaon ki beti ke sathgaon mein The Education Department Usuallythis time of the year, what is her name),” Nath asked MLAs who resignedinMarch, has nottaken Imarti Devi’s name Usmani wasthe AMU students’ hi atyachar ho raha hai... yeh has been told to startapro- Khanwadi, asmall settlement the crowdwhichrespondedby bringing down the Kamal Nath- in anyofthe speeches he made. union president when the cam- prashna ek sabhya samaj ke gramme to link “shiksha”(edu- with 1,000 households, brims of Uttar Pradesh, says that he will saying BJP candidateImarti Devi’s ledgovernment in Madhya “He said ‘kyaitemhai ye’and did pus wascaught in acontroversy saamne ek challengehai aur is chu- cation) with “sanskar”(good cul- with colourful effigies of Ravan notdoany business this year. name. “You knowher better than Pradesh. She subsequently nottakeImarti Devi’s name. It is overaportraitof Jinnahatthestu- nauti ko hum sabko sweekarkarna ture) as partofthe Mission and other Hindu mythological EveryyearduringAugust,Aliwith Ido, youpeople should have joinedthe BJP and is nowaparty theBJPwhoisaddingImartiDevi’s dents’ union office whereithas hoga (Whereare we going today? Shakti campaign that was demons, often10to12feetin his twosons-Mohsin and Tohsin, warnedmebeforehand... ye kya candidatefor the bypoll in Dabra, name and insulting her,” he said. been hanging fordecades. Whyatrocitiesarebeing commit- launchedonSaturday, he said. height. The effigies arethen wifeand mother arrive at his stuffedwith fire-crackers and house in Khanwadi. Theyalso burnt on Dussehraatdifferent bring along 35-40 workers from publicvenuesinAhmedabadand their villagetoassistthem in ef- Indian, Chinese officials attend SCO yoga event other cities of Gujarat. figy-making. Neighbours, resting on their “I made calls to my clientsin charpoys undertheafternoonsun, Gujaratand some of them were ForeignCountries(CPAFFC)chair- virtual, officials said. contributionto strengtheningcul- lament that their mood has willing to give me contract this PRESSTRUSTOFINDIA man Lin Songtian, and Deputy Addressing the gathering on tural cooperation among SCO beendampenedaheadof thefes- yearbutthestategovernmentdid BEIJING,OCTOBER18 Chairman of SCOCommittee for Sunday, Misrisaid,“Indiaisanew countries. Ihavebeen greatlyim- tive season as the “Ravan waley”, notgivepermission. My family GoodNeighbourliness,Friendship member of the SCObut our asso- pressedwith the fervour with have notcome this year. hasbeenintotheprofessionof ef- SENIOROFFICIALSfromIndiaand and Cooperation Cui Li attended ciation with the countries of the whichChinese people across the “Ravan waley”, as the owners figy-makingforthreegenerations. China as well as diplomatsfrom the event. SCOFamilydates backcenturies countrypractice yoga,” he said. of this house arepopularly Mylatefathercameto Gujaratfor variouscountriesonSundaytook Diplomatsfromall the SCO and even millennia in some In his address, Norovsaid de- known, is afamilyofeffigy-mak- thefirsttimein1985.For35years, part in ayogaevent organisedby countries,includingPakistan,took cases.”HesaidIndiahasassumed spitethe pandemic affecting the ers from Agra of Uttar Pradesh we have been making effigies for the Shanghai Cooperation partinthe cultural eventswhich the Chairmanship of the SCO activities of the SCO, under the who comes to Ahmedabad every events...everyseason,we buildat Organisation (SCO), whichisalso includedademonstration of Council of Heads of Government presidencyof Russia,alot of work year forfour months during least50-60effigies.However, this settoholdkeymeetingsof thetop Chinese martial artTai Chi and this year and is hosting the meet- has been done to implement the Dussehra. The familythat has is forthe firsttime that Iwill not leaders of the eight-member cultural eventsofmember coun- ing of SCOpremiers next month. plans and priorities that were beenintothisprofessionforthree beableto visitKhanwadi,”saidAli. group. tries besides yoga. “Weare playingaconstructive identifiedfor this year.“In the ab- generations is touted as the The familyishopeful that by The SCOcomprises The SCOeventsare assuming roleinenrichingtheagendaof the sence of regular face-to-face biggesteffigy-makers in Gujarat. next year theywill be backin Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, significanceasthevirtualsummit SCOand manyinitiativespro- meetings, the Organisation’s ac- However, breaking atradition of Ahmedabad. “My twosons arein China,Tajikistan,Uzbekistan,India of the SCOHeads of the Statebe- posedbyIndiainthefieldsof eco- tivitiesquicklyadaptedtothenew 35 years,thisyear,thefamilyisnot collegeinUPand come everyyear and Pakistan. ing hostedbyRussia is scheduled SCOSecretary-General Vladimir Norov, in Beijing. PTI nomics and trade, start-ups, realities with the use of newfor- coming to Ahmedabad. to assistme. Iwould likethem to Indian Ambassador to China to be held on November 10 in health care, S&T and culturehave matsand platforms of work,im- Speakingto TheIndianExpress continue the familyprofession. Vikram Misri along with SCO whichPrime MinisterNarendra been supportedbySCO mem- portant meetings at the levelof over the phone, 45-year-old We will soon visit our Khanwadi Secretary-General Vladimir Modi and Chinese President Xi Heads of the Government being Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is bers,” Misri said. “Today’s event is Ministers and heads of keyagen- SharafatAli,thepatriarch of effigy- house.” FULLREPORTON Norov, Chinese People's Jinping is settotakepart. hostedbyIndia whichisplanned scheduledtotakepart. It is yetto yetanother indication of yoga’s cies and departmentswereheld makingfamilyfromKiraoliinAgra www.indianexpress.com Association forFriendship with It will be followedbythe SCO to be held on November 30. be decidedifthe meeting will be global appeal. It is apartofIndia's in online format,” he said.

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BRIEFLY Three die as TRACKING INDIA’S COVID CURVE Balliashootingmainaccused second wave 230 CASES: RECOVERED:65,97,209 DAYSSINCE 74,94,551 DEATHS:1,14,031 of floods hits PANDEMIC arrestedinLucknow:Police Hyderabad BEGAN TESTS: 9,42,24,190| DOUBLING RATE: 82.80** namedinthe FIR, have also been mandedstringent punishment EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE arrested basedonevidence col- forthose guilty. PRESSTRUSTOFINDIA Actorisinhospital LUCKNOW,OCTOBER18 lected during the investigation. The familyhas also de- HYDERABAD,OCTOBER18 aftertesting positive Three of the accusednamedin mandedRs50lakh in assistance THREE DAYS aftera45-year-old the FIR arestill absconding,” the and agovernment job. AFRESH spell of overnight heavy farmer wasshotdead in the ADG added. Meanwhile, BJP MLA raincausedfloodingonSundayin WESTBENGAL KEYSTATES TOTAL SURGEIN 7-DAYAVG DOUBLING presence of administrative and Earlier,DIG (Azamgarh SurendraSingh, who had backed partsof thecityandleftthreepeo- TOWATCH CASES 24HOURS GROWTH* TIME** ‘Soumitra’s police officials at avillagein Range) Subhash ChandraDubey the main accused, saying that ple dead in separaterain-related Ballia during the allotment of a had announcedarewardof Dhirendrafired in self-defence, incidentsjustdays afteritwit- ■ Maharashtra 15,86,321 10,259 0.64% 113.16 healthcondition ration shop, the Uttar Pradesh Rs 50,000on eachofthe accused said that he has been calledto nessedone of the worstdeluges ■ Karnataka 7,58,574 7,184 1.14% 63.25 Special Task Force(STF) on namedinthe FIR. Police sources Lucknowbythe BJP leadership. in recent times following un- ■ Andhra 7,79,146 3,676 0.54% 134.27 improving’ Sundaysaid theyarrestedthe said the accused—sofar,booked “I have been calledbythe party precedented downpour,police main accusedDhirendraPratap under GangsterAct —could be leadership in Lucknowand not and civic officials said. ■ Tamil Nadu 6,83,486 4,295 0.69% 104.36 Kolkata: Veteranactor Singh in Lucknow. also chargedunder the stringent summoned, as reportedbysome At leastthree people, includ- ■ Kerala 3,34,228 9,016 2.57% 28.03 SoumitraChatterjee’s According to police sources, National Security Act(NSA). news channels. Iwill hand over ing twochildren, diedinrain-re- health condition is im- Dhirendra, aclose of aide BJP However, senior police officials all documentspertaining to the lated incidentsoverthe past24 *Compounded Daily Growth Rate over last7days**Calculated over 7-daygrowth proving graduallyand the MLASurendraSingh,was ar- Main accusedDhirendra said afinal decision on invoking case, whichare with me, to (UP hours, police and civic officials CASEFATALITYRATIO POSITIVITYRATE DAILYIN,DAILYOUT octogenarian is speaking rested at the Janeshwar Mishra Pratap Singh will be NSAagainstthe accusedisyet to BJP chief) SwatantraDev Singh, said.Afive-year-oldgirldiedearly 7DAYSEARLIER: 7DAYSEARLIER: DETECTED TODAY afew words, opening his Park in the statecapital in the presented before a be taken. and brief him about the entire Sundayinawall collapse while a eyes as well as responding early hours of Sunday. magistrateinBallia. PTI The familymembers of the matter,” PTI quoted the Bairia four-year-oldboydiedafterfalling 1.54 8.12 61,871 to verbal commands, doc- With Dhirendra’s arrest,ato- Jai Prakash Pal, the deceased, MLAassaying. inapitataconstructionsitewhich NOW: NOW: RECOVERED TODAY: tors said on Sunday. The talof10people, including welcomednews of Dhirendra’s The BJP legislator,known for wasfilledwith rain waterand a 1.52 7.95 72,614 thespian’s oxygen satura- Dhirendra’s twobrothers — sented before amagistrate,” said arrest. making controversial remarks, middle-aged man waselectro- Deaths as aratio of Positives against Becoming sick vs tion has been consistent, Devendraand Narendra–have ADG (Varanasi Range) Braj “His arrest has come as are- had earlier accusedthe admin- cuted on Saturdayevening, they positive cases (in %); number tested recovering; more his organs arefunctioning been arrested in connection Bhushan said. lief to us. But Dhirendraisa‘dab- istration of actinginapartisan said even as the Metoffice fore- indicator of progress (in %); indicator of recoveries for 14 days in averting deaths the spread of disease may signal the peak normallyand all other pa- with Thursday’s incident. “Of the 10 people arrested so bang’ (strongman). We fear for manner in the case and de- cast morerain till October 21. DataasonOctober17,releasedbyUnionMinistryofHealth,ICMRandstates.Oftendailynumbers rameters arefine, they “Dhirendrawill be brought to far, five were namedinthe FIR. our security,” the brother of Jai mandedaCB-CID probe. The latestspell of rain since includedatafrompreviousdays.Assuch,trendsbasedondailynumbersareindicative,notdefinitive said. The criticallyac- Ballia wherehewill be pre- Five others, who were not Prakash Palsaid, as he de- -WITHPTIINPUTS Saturdayeveningledtolakesand claimedactor wasadmit- other waterbodies overflowing tedtothe hospital hereon with waterinundating several October 6after he tested low-lyingareas,includingpartsof positive forCovid-19. MP liquor deaths: 1cop suspended, 2shifted the city affected lastweek,here For first time in 4months, PTI and on the outskirts,theysaid. Police (CSP) Rajnesh Kashyap being sold, despitesix deaths be- contractors forthe Ujjain Atotalof 37,409familieswere no Covid death in Haryana IRAMSIDDIQUE wassuspendedonSunday. ing reportedonThursday. Municipal Corporation. The po- affected in various localities and BHOPAL,OCTOBER18 The action againstthe three “Thereweresix deaths re- lice have booked the three boot- ration kitsand blanketswerebe- willremainproactive andalerttill MAHARASHTRA police officers came afterChief portedby5:30 pm on Thursday leggers under the National ingdistributedamongthem,are- EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE thereisasolution,” he added. Sixheldfor THE LIQUOR tragedyinin MinisterShivraj Singh Chouhan but the place wasonlyraidedat Security Act. Their contract has lease from Greater Hyderabad CHANDIGARH,OCTOBER18 Meanwhile, with 952 fresh Madhya Pradesh’s Ujjain has calledahigh-levelmeeting to 3amwith adelayofabout 10 nowbeen suspended. Municipal Corporation (GHMC) cases, theinfection tallyinthe lynching‘mobile triggered ashake-up at the top look intothe deaths of at least12 hours,” said this official. Deputy Municipal said. Meanwhile, bodies of two HARYANA REPORTED no coron- stateroseto 1,50,033Sunday. NCR levelofthe district’s police people, mostofthem labourers, On Saturday, twoconstables, Commissioner Subodh Jain has people, including aseven- year- avirus-related death on Sunday, districtsGurgaon(249newcases) phonethief’ set-up. afterdrinking illicit liquor. Shaikh Anwarand Nawaz also been transferredalong with old boyand a32-year-old man, the state’s firstzeroCovid-19fa- andFaridabad(177 newcases)led While Ujjain Superintendent Asenior government official Kharakaun, were also namedas additional assistant commis- who were washedawayin tality dayinfour-and-a-half the tallyoffresh infections in the Thane: Six people were of Police (SP) Manoj Singh and said the CSP wassuspendedafter accusedinthe sale of spurious sioner KC Agnihotri. Besides, ac- Gaganpahad area hereand in months, even as itscaseload in- last24hours,evenastheremain- arrested afteranalleged Additional SP Rupesh Kumar he failedtoraid thedilapidated liquor,along with the three main tion has been takenagainsttwo Sangareddy district following creasedby952. The recovery rate ing districtsare witnessing asub- mobile thief waslynched Diwediweretransferredto building of the municipal corpo- accused—Yunus, Sikander and constables of the excise heavy rain, were found Sunday, a of patients, meanwhile, reached stantial decline in numbers. The in Bhiwandi in Thane dis- Bhopal, City Superintendent of ration from wherethe liquor was Gabbar—who worked as parking department. police official said. 92.21per cent, according to the recovery rate in Gurgaon and trict on Sunday, police health department’s dailybul- Faridabad is 89.82 per cent and said. Bhiwandi Zone II letin. 94.94per cent, respectively. DCP Rajkumar Shinde Hindu outfit worker stabbed “The Haryana health depart- According to the state’s bul- said the incident hap- Naval version of BrahMos ment is happytoannounce that letin, therewere10,042 active penedinagodown in nodeathdueto Covid-19hasbeen Covidpatientsoutof whom9,829 Parasnath Complexin over stove price row in UP reportedtoday(24-hourperiod),” were active forless than 11 days Wallpada area. “Around Additional Chief Secretary while213patientswereactive for 4am, three people Meerut:A30-year-oldmemberof Police said Jaiswal wasac- test-fired successfully (Health) RajeevArora said. longer duration. The number of sneaked intothe godown the Hindu Jagran Manch(HJM), costedbyadrunk Nafisand oth- “Earlier,itwas on June 6that no critical patientsinHaryana came and stole mobile phones affiliatedto theRSS,wasallegedly erswhile he wasreturning home death due to the virus wasre- down to 200out of whom 169 of three workers... While stabbed by alocal councillor and in Kakod at night. The accused SUSHANTKULKARNI ported. While it is heartening, yet were onoxygensupportwhile31 fleeing, one of them fell twounidentifiedothers in cornered Jaiswal near abank, PUNE,OCTOBER18 BrahMos as thereisnoroomforcomplacency patientswereonventilator from afirstfloor canopy Bulandshahr’s Kakod town on stabbed him 10 times and fled, E a‘standoff and the statehealthdepartment support. ● range weapon’ and wasbeaten by those Saturdaynightafteranaltercation said police. ANAVAL version of the BrahMos EXPLAINED present. Theyalso called over the price of agas stove. “Nafis has been arrestedwhile supersonic cruise missile was the police and together CouncillorNafishasbeenarrested the hunt is on fortwo unidenti- successfullytest-fired on Sunday CRUISE MISSILES likethe rushedhim to hospital,” whileothers areatlarge. fiedpersons. Nafisand Jaiswal re- from the Navy’s indigenously- BrahMos areatype of sys- Bainsla, 33 others booked said Shinde. The man, Thevictim,identifiedasRahul centlyhad arow over price of a built stealth destroyer INS temknown as “standoff identifiedasBharat Sai, Kumar Jaiswal,was takentoalo- gasstove whichNafis had bought Chennai, hitting atargetinthe rangeweapons”, which for Covid norms violation later succumbed to his in- cal hospital from wherehewas from the shop,” RBSingh, in Arabian Sea, said the Ministryof arefired from arangesuf- juries. ENS transferredtoaNoidahospital.His charge of Kakod police station, Defence. Lastyear,DRDO, Air Force ficient to allowthe at- condition is said to be stable. told The Indian Express. ENS The missile hit the target and BrahMos Aerospace tacker to evade defensive EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE UTTARAKHAND with pin-point accuracy after conducted twoseparate fire from the adversary. JAIPUR,OCTOBER18 8-year-old performing high-leveland ex- successful tests; one each These weapons areinthe Kirori Singh Human Dignity Mar Thoma tremelycomplexmanoeuvres, from land, air platforms. File arsenals of mostmajor ADAY afterthe Gujjar mahapan- Bainsla injuredin the MoD said in itsofficial state- militaries in the world. chayat in Bayana in Rajasthan’s Day: Pandurang church head ment on Sunday. BrahMos Aerospace was Bharatpur,the Rajasthan Police leopardattack Shastri Athavale’s It also said the BrahMos as Scientists also said test re- setupin1998with the have booked community leader district collector. Joseph Mar the “prime strikeweapon” will sultsand observations were cru- aim to build suchmissiles. Kirori SinghBainsla and 33 oth- The FIR has been lodged un- Pithoragarh: An eight- birth centenary to ensurethe warship’s “invincibil- cial inputsnot justfor calibrat- ers fornot taking prior permis- der IPC Sections 188(disobedi- year-old boywas injured Thoma dead ity” by engaging navalsurface ing the system, but also for sion from the district adminis- ence to order dulypromulgated afterhewas attackedbya be observed today Thiruvalla: JosephMar Thoma targetsatlong rangeand making advancement and upgrade. The class stealth-guidedmissile de- tration forthe large gathering by public servant), 269 (doing an leopardinside the com- NewDelhi:Followersof Swadhyay Metropolitan, the primateofthe the destroyer alethal platform. present supersonic version stroyer,the INS Chennai is de- amid the pandemic. act likelytospread the infection pound of his house in Movement will observeOctober MalankaraMar Thoma Syrian While versions of the missile could reachaspeedof2.8 times signedtocarry the BrahMos sur- TheFIR lodged at Bayana po- of anydisease dangerous to life) Pithoragarhdistrict, afor- 19 as Human Dignity Dayin Church,diedearly Sundayatapri- have been in India’s arsenal for that of sound (2.8 Mach) and hit face-to-surface missile system, lice station states that about and 270(malignant act likelyto estofficial said on Sunday. memoryofspiritual leader and vate hospital hereafter battling long, the weapon system is con- atargetatarangeofaround 450 thus giving the ship the capabil- 2,500-3,000 people had gath- spread infection of disease dan- The incident took place in socialreformerPandurangShastri cancer,church sources said. tinuouslyupgradedand updated km, and ahypersonic version of ity to strikeshore-basedand ered forthe mahapanchayat gerous to life) as well as sections Paurvillageofthe district Athavale. The 90-year old head of the with newhardwareand soft- the missile, capable of reaching a navalsurface targets. over their six demands related to of the DisasterManagement Act, lateonSaturdayevening, This year,followers of the Marthomacommunitywasunder ware systems. These upgrades speedof5Machwas being de- An amalgamation of the reservation. 2005, and Rajasthan Epidemic Forest RangeOfficer SwadhyayMovement, which treatment forpancreatic cancer necessitateperiodic tests. veloped. names of Brahmaputraand It states that the organisers Diseases Ordinance, 2020. Dinesh Joshi said. Devraj, Athavale, also known as Dadaji, and breathedhis lastaround 2.30 Scientists from the Defence Defence MinisterRajnath Moskvarivers, the BrahMos is neither took permission, nor On Saturday, the community who hails from Nepal, foundedand the Swadhyay am, hospital sources said. Research and Development Singh congratulated DRDO, designed, developedand pro- providedany undertaking or re- leaders gave an ultimatum to the waswalking in the com- Parivarorganisation will observe Prime MinisterNarendra Organisation (DRDO) said in BrahMos and the Navy forthe ducedbyBrahMos Aerospace, a questwith the District Collector. Ashok Gehlotgovernment in pound of his house when his birth centenary. Modi condoledthe death of th everysuchtestofaspecific vari- successful launch. Dr GSatheesh joint venturecompanyset up by It further states that onlyupto Rajasthan to either accede to he wasattackedbythe The social reformer was spiritual leader,saying the ant of the BrahMos, different pa- Reddy,chairperson of DRDO, DRDO and Mashinostroyenia of 100people areallowedtogather their demands, including reser- leopard. The animal fled awardedthe Ramon Magsaysay Metropolitan wasaremarkable rameters were examined. For congratulated scientists and all Russia. aftertaking permission. vation forthe community in re- afterthe boy’s family AwardforCommunityLeadership personality who served human- eachtest, additional hardware the personnel of DRDO, Various versions of the Ahead of the mahapan- cruitment, or face alarge-scale members and other vil- in 1996, the TempletonPrize for ity and worked hardtoimprove and softwaresystems were ex- BrahMos, Navy and the industry. BrahMos, including those that chayat, District Magistrate agitation beginning November lagers raisedanalarm, he Progress in Religion in 1997 and the livesofthe poor. aminedbasedoninputsfrom He said the BrahMos missile will can be firedfromland, warships, Nathmal Didel had issuedano- 1. Withdrawal of old cases said. Patrolling has been India’ssecondhighestcivilianho- The Prime Ministerhad on the user,and againstmorecom- add to the capabilities of the submarines and Sukhoi-30 tice stating that ameeting of up againstcommunity leaders and intensifiedinthe area, he nour,the Padma Vibhushan, in June27 inauguratedthe90thbirth plextargets under different at- ArmedForces in manyways. fighter jets,havealready been to 100people maybeheld while members —lodged following said. PTI 1999. The Human Dignity Day anniversarycelebrations of the mospheric conditions, they Commissionedin2016, the developedand successfully following Covid guidelines after their protests —isone the de- wasfirstcelebrated in 1990. ENS Metropolitan. PTI added. indigenously-designedKolkata- tested in the past. obtaining permission from the mands.

LOCKDOWN-HIT SCHOOLS FIND WORKAROUNDS IN TECH,BUT CHALLENGES REMAIN Classes under trees; lessons on WhatsApp, TV as schools go on in MP

vase of water. But dailyviews of the linkssent storytoberepeated.Itisbecause rigged-up DVDplayer. IRAMSIDDIQUE With 91.56 lakh government LOCKDOWN over the messaging platform do of suchprogrammes that the LokeshJatav,Commissionerof SEHORE,OCTOBER18 school studentsofClasses 1to12 notcross 6-7 lakh. tribal children arecomfortable in RashtriyaShiksha Kendra, con- shut out of classrooms by the LESSONS The numbers of those access- Hindi.” In villages likeAmbdo, cededthat nothing could replace UNDER Aneem tree in Ambdo Covid-19pandemic, the Madhya ing the lessons on TV arelower. teachershave beenencouragedto in-person education in school. villageinSehoredistrict about Pradesh government has refor- their studentsatthe villagelevel. Santosh Dhanawde, amiddle hold “mohalla” classes forstu- However, therehas been an in- 90 km from Bhopal, 25 children mattedthecurriculumforallsub- The linksare sent to the teachers school teacher in Narsullahganj dentsingroupsof 10,headedbya creasedeffortfromparentstoal- sat on abright redtarpaulin jectsintohour-long audio and at 10 am, and the teachers share blockunder whichAmbdo falls, volunteer identifiedasa lowtheir cell phones to be used sheetspread on the ground on a video clips that areshared on them with studentsontheir said manychildren do nothavea “Shikhshadoot”. The volunteers and open up their homes and recent Saturday, as 51-year-old WhatsApp, and broadcastonAll WhatsApp group. The clips for TVathome;also,powercutsare a have their owncell phones to temples to hold these mohalla primaryschool teacher Kamla India Radio (AIR) and older studentsofClasses 9-12are problem.Itisinthissituationthat showstudentsvideos and clarify classes, he said. Gaur hooked her cell phone up Doordarshan. The video links aired on Doordarshan at 10 am; the classes likethe one under the their doubts—however, one cell Manyvillagers likeDayaram to aloudspeaker –whichcrack- have been designedand curated foryounger children, thereisthe ‘Mohalla’ class under aneem tree in Sehore’s Ambdo neem have become popular.The phone among 10 children often Kalme have giventheir cell ledtolifewith ‘Ek chatur kauwe by ateam at the RajyaShiksha stategovernment's Dakshata village. Iram Siddique loudspeaker mounted on the means the screens aretoo small phonesnotonlytotheirownchil- ki kahani’. Kendra, the state’s Education Unnayanprogram on AIR. thickest branchofthe tree was and the lessons barelyaudible. dren but also to others in the From arope tiedabove the Department, and aresent in ac- But in villages likeAmbdo – paid forbythe panchayat, an ini- To solve the problem, Asaram neighbourhood. “Jis tarahse children’s heads, hung drawings cordancewithatimetable–thus, with atotal 125households of day, said the single mobile phone of the classes on TV,but could not tiative takenentirelybythe vil- Solanki, headmasteratAmbdo, bachche padh rahe hain, ummeed of thechaturkauwa–thecunning Mondays arefor math lessons, mostlyKorku and Barela tribals – at home has to be shared among find the channel. According to lagers, Dhanawde said. triedtoarrangeequipment such haikikuchhbanjayenge.(Theway crow.“These stories aremy Tuesdays forscience, and mobile phones, radio or aTVset four siblings —that tooonlyon numbersprovidedbythe state “Now”, said primaryschool as mics and portable Bluetooth thechildrenarestudyinggivesme favourite,” said nine-year-old Wednesdays forlanguages. arenot universallyaccessible. days their father does nothaveto government, 50,000 WhatsApp teacher Gaur,“the studentshave speakers.Andwhenthatseemed hope forthem),” said Kalme, Deepika Korku, busilysketching Everyteacher has been asked Fifteen-year-old Neha Mehra go out of the village, taking the groups have been created,con- begun to enjoythe sessions so tooexpensive,aninnovative alter- whose twochildren go to these the crow putting pebbles in the to createaWhatsApp group of whowantstobeanIASofficerone phone. Neha said she had heard necting about 12 lakh students. muchthat theyoften ask fora native wasfound with an old, mohalla classes everyday.

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13 THEINDIANEXPRESS,MONDAY,OCTOBER19,2020 IDEA EXCHANGE Newsmakersinthe Newsroom NANDAN NILEKANI, FORMERCHAIRMANOFTHE UNIQUE IDENTIFICATIONAUTHORITY OF INDIA (UIDAI) ‘ The challenge is we don’t have adult vaccination system... Must builditfrom scratch for Covid-19

Nilekani explains his three-phase Covid -19vaccination process, says he doesn'tsee an advertisingglobal giant likeFacebook,Google coming out of India, asserts Indian IT is mor‘ethan “back-end”, and believestechnology will become partofglobal geo-politics.The session wasmoderated by Executive Editor(National Affairs) PVaidyanathan Iyer

PVAIDYANATHAN IYER: What are up whenevertheywant... It is averypow- that Google hastoo muchpower, some of the gaps in our system that erful thing and obviouslyall the necessary Facebookhas toomuchpower. What needtobeplugged before the Covid- safeguards on privacy,security,encryp- is your opinion on this? 19 vaccine arrives? tion needtobefollowed. My viewisthat we have to use tech-

Ican speak forwhat Iamproposing. I nologytohandletechnology. And in some think the vaccination is going to be ahuge PVAIDYANATHAN IYER: The Indian IT sense what we have done in India is ex- mission. We developedthe Aadhaar en- Industryisatleastfour decades old, actlythatbycreatinganeutral ID… like rolment system to do one-and-a-half mil- but we areyet to see aFacebook or a Aadhaar or aUPI platform, whichallows lion enrolmentsaday, andittook five- Google come out of India. In fact, multiple big tech companies and banksto and-a-half years forIndiatoreachabillion someofthe big initiativessuchas participate. We have to democratise ac- people with an Aadhaarnumber.Here, we WHY Aadhaar have been backedbythe cess to identity and payments. Similarly, have to vaccinate theentire population in government. Is it with the account ag- twoyears, whichmeans we have to reach NANDAN NILEKANI because the Indian gregator approach We must divide things. ‘ 1.3billion people in twoyears, and assum- sIndia,and the privatesector is whichempowers ing that it is adual dosevaccine, that’s 2.6 risk-averse? Government funding for people with their billion vaccinations, or 1.3billion vaccina- world,await a If youlook at owndatawhether tions ayear.That’s morethan a100million Facebook and Google, the vulnerable,private it’s to getloans for Acredible Covid-19 vaccinations amonth and morethan the bulk of their rev- sector funding fortheir lending or for three million aday.So, this is ascalechal- vaccine,Nilekani has enue is advertising. healthcarerecords, lengethat is unprecedented in our history, The US is afew hun- staff, and philanthropic we have democra- and therefore, thinking through the infra- proposed amassive digital dred billion dollar ad- ‘ tiseddatafor every- structureand architectureofdoing that is vertising market. funding forthe rest body. very important. Whichiswhy Ihavebeen platform on the lines of the India is justa$10 bil- recommending that we shoulddesign a Aadhaar model to ensure lion advertising mar- PRANAV MUKUL: A system that can do 10 million vaccinations ket,ofwhichdigital lotofplayers in the aday across the length and breadth of the the administration of the advertising is about $3 billion. Youcan’t industryare trying to look at country, but all unifiedbyacommon dig- vaccine to 1.3bnIndians. build aglobal companyonthose kind of population scale problems in the ital backbone, so thatevery person gets revenues. We should look at the context. If education andhealth sectors. But the same experience and the same infor- TheInfosys co-founder and youwant to build aglobal company, you withoutadataprotection framework, mation is recorded. It is basicallybringing architectofAadhaar needadomestic market on whichyou is thereuncertaintyoverthese population scale approachthat we used build scale and then go out. Chinese com- projects? in Aadhaar to anew issue (vaccination) believes the cost of setting panies suchasAlibaba and Tencent have Laws evolve as thingshappen. If you whichis, in fact, muchmorecomplicated. look at the Aadhaar story, todaywehave up the infrastructure forthe aprivacy framework because of Aadhaar. PVAIDYANATHAN IYER: Giventhe system will be well worth it We beganAadhaar in 2009. In 2010,I stateofour public health wrotetothen prime ministerManmohan infrastructure, whichthe Singh saying we needadataprotection government has triedtorampupin and privacy law. And then multiple ver- the pastsix months because of the sions of that lawhappenedand then pandemic,will therebeaneedfor therewas theSupreme Court judg- private sector participation on alarge ment whichsaid that Indians have scale forthe vaccinationmodel that afundamental right to privacy youare proposing? but it could be constrainedin Firstofall, India has aterrificrecordin certain situations. Then the vaccination forchildren and pregnant Aadhaar lawwas tested mothers.Wehaveachild immunisation againstthat. So that’s how programme, we have doneagreat job societies evolve. with polio, but we have reallynoexperi- Ithink we areready for ence of adult vaccinationand that is the adataprotection law. And bulk of what we have to do with the Idoknowthat thereisa Covid-19vaccination. In America, forex- lawinParliament. Idon’t ample, flu vaccines areverycommon. knowits status. Ithink About half thepopulation of the US takes we needsomething like aflu vaccine everyyear.Theyhave330 that as we dependmore million people and theydoabout 165mil- on technology and data. lion fluvaccinations, andthis year theyare planning 200million flu vaccinations. SANDEEP SINGH: On Theydoitthrough offices, pharmacies or the vaccination doctors. So, theyalready have infrastruc- model that youhave turefor adult vaccination at scale. So for proposed, howdoyou them to roll out aCovid-19vaccine on top see the preparednessof of that is notsodifficult. states on that? Our challengeiswedon’t have an adult Well Iamonlysuggesting thedigital vaccination system at all. We will have to infrastructure.The states can usethat, builditfromscratch. If youload the Covid- and so can other marketplayers. So the 19 vaccination on our existing infrastruc- vaccination could be done by state ture, notonlywill it be ahugeoverload, it governments, or it can be done by will end up at apoint whereababyisnot private hospitals, corporates, getting immunisedbecause people re- philanthropists or anybody else. The sponsible forithavebeendiverted key thing is whoeverdoes it, it mustbe forCovid-19. My recommendationisthat Illustration: Suvajit Dey doneinthe same way. It’s making sure we build acompletely newvaccination thatthereisanidentical approach. channel with 200,000people whodovac- cinations. Some of the current people can digitalcertificatethe firsttime, and after CSR etc. We have to think through the ginning, and it is adual dose vaccine, that’s done this... Our niche in India has been the PVAIDYANATHAN IYER:Asadigital alsoparticipate butwewill have to invest threeweeksorwhatever is thetime dura- three models. $10per person. Thatmeans$13 billion for creation of public infrastructure, whether player,and as someone who believes in creating anew infrastructure forvacci- tion, yousend areminder by email or Thereare going to be three phases for vaccinating the whole population which it is Aadhaar,UPI, account aggregator, in democratisation of platforms for nation at scale. message forthatpersontocome and get the vaccine. The firstphase is thattherewill will be funded by thegovernment, the pri- FASTag... Theyare all great examples of pop- largerpublic good, what do youmake the vaccine, and then give them a beavaccine shortage. Iassumeit wouldbe vate sectorand philanthropy... It is notgo- ulation-scaleinfrastructure whichhave of suchplatforms being weaponised PVAIDYANATHAN IYER: So can you final certificate. in thefirsthalf of 2021. At thispointthegov- ing to be thatexpensive.Given that we are globalreplicability.But Idon’t seehow you forspreading hate? What can summarise your proposal forus? If the immunisationisgoingtobelim- ernment will rightfullysay that we will al- looking forlifetoreturn to normal, the can build an advertising global giant from governmentsand tech companiesdo

My suggestion is that we createaplat- ited,because we don’tknowhow long is locate thevaccine basedonpriority forpeo- costwill be well worthit. But it is nota India. about it? form to do eight-10million vaccinations a the immunity of these vaccines, six plewhoarevulnerable,old,healthworkers, costissue at all. The technology will costa The rootsofitgobacktothe fact daybyauthorised vaccinators. We will months or twoyears, then youalso need the police... In the second phase youwill fewhundred crores at best. ANIL SASI: TheIndian IT industryhas that the Internetcompanies did not have atraining system to train 200,000 to sendaremindertothat person at the have vaccine adequacy,whichmeans you had remarkable success since have anyconsequential liability for

peoplewho will knowhow to vaccinate, endofthat period to come backand get can start bringing in the private sector to PVAIDYANTHAN IYER:Doyou see a liberalisation, but in 30 years most what is on their platform because of explain to people the side-effects, they their vaccine refreshed. All this requires startvaccinating. And, in thethird phase, shiftinthe global delivery models companies, notjustInfosys, have Section 230ofthe Communication will knowhow to sophisticated tech- by 2022Ibelieve,wewillhaveavaccine postthe been restricted to Decency Actof1996 in the US which makepeople com- nology because surplus... And whatever we design, should pandemic? back-endIT essentially saidthat theywould notbe fortable with the things have to be bedesignedfor this kind of situation. Also, Thereare two support. Does the liable. In the US, theyare nowlooking ‘ My recommendationiswe ‘ We have to usetechnology vaccination. Only done foroverabillion what Iamproposing is avaccine-agnostic thingsthat aregoing lackofconsumer- at whether theyneedtodosomething certifiedvaccinators build acompletely new people. system, that is Iamnot anticipating which to happen. One is that to handle technology... We end interfaceput about it and bring in some kind of can participatein vaccine will work. mostcompanies are the kind of liabilitiesand perhaps we have to this. Therewillbea infrastructure with 200,000 PVAIDYANATHAN localising, which have done that in India by products that we think about aframework where networkofpublic people forvaccination at IYER: The costof PVAIDYANATHAN IYER:Has the means theyare hiring creating Aadhaar,UPI... We have on offerat people areresponsible forthe content and private vaccina- vaccination forthe government been in touchwith you local people. You the risk of being on their platforms… Thereisadelicate tion centres. So it scale. Some of thecurrent poor will have to be about taking the proposal forward? would have noticed have to democratise access takenoverby issue between free speech, censorship could be govern- ‘ borne by the Also,iflikeAadhaaryou aregiven the recentlyInfosysan- ‘ Artificial and making surethat we don’t have ment-sponsored, or peoplecan participate government. In opportunitytotakecharge of this nouncedthat they to identity andpayments Intelligence, bad stuffonthe Net. Ithink we needto it could be ahospital suchascenario, project, will youdothat? aregoing to hire machine learning have somerules. Nowwhether the or acorporateora howwill private Idid makeapresentation to aset of 12,000 morepeople and other rules that arebeingproposedare the pharmacy,itdoesn’t players linked with senior officials and theyappreciated the in the US in the next advanced systems right ones, Idon’t know. matter,but all of them use thesame ap- theproject getremuneration? ideas, and hopefullytheywill implement two-three years, on topofthe 13,000they in thefuture? plication technology.There willbeanapp Obviously, alarge partofthe popula- whatever theyfeel is fit. have hired already.Solocal hiringisgoing The IT Industrydoes very,verysophis- RAVISH TIWARI: India’s ban on several on aPCorasmartphone, andone can take tion will have to be vaccinated by the gov- Iamhappy, IaminBengaluru, Iamnot to be abig thing. Secondly, thereisgoing ticated globaltransformation work,and Chinese apps has fragmentedthe an appointment forvaccination. Iwill give ernment.Itwill be afreevaccine or cov- looking forajob actually... Thereare to be alot of offshoring happening at the it has become a$190billion dollar indus- Internet. Howdoyou see it? my name, do an Aadhaar authentication... ered by something likeanAyushman enough people who actuallyworkedwith same time. So therewill be acombination trybasedonthat work.Ithink we should With the Internetbecomingsuchan The name of the person,the name of the Bharat insurance scheme. Today, thereare me on Aadhaaringovernment, who are of moreoffshoring and local hiring. nottrivialise that. It is notjustback-end. integral partofevery society,the old vaccinator,which vaccine wasused, what 100million families,about 500million nowatSecretarylevel,and perhaps they Also, Indiahas built aB2B business. It is model where therewas oneInternetfor time, date, location, will be recorded. The peoplecovered by AyushmanBharat,so could be ropedinfor this. NIRUPAMA SUBRAMANIAN:The notaB2C business. Yes, automation and the whole worldisnow under threat. information could then be sent in real technicallyall those people could be eligi- Health ID that is goingtoberolledout Artificial Intelligence aregoingtodramat- And Ithink youwillsee moreofthis time to acloud location, and it will send ble forfreevaccine from the government. PRABHA RAGHAVAN: Forthe next year will be modelledonthe icallychange the industry, but Indian IT wherecountrieschoosetohavetheir backadigital certificatetome, saying that Butthe private companiesshould payfor infrastructurethat youare proposing, Aadhaar card, and thereare some will respond to that challenge. Even with ownrules…Weare going to seethe Ihavebeenvaccinated.Because in the theirown employees. Idon’t see whythe what sortofinvestment would be concerns about privacy.Does it AI and automation, youstill needtodoa ‘splinternet’, whereevery countryhas Covid-19vaccine system, it is notonlyim- government shouldfund that... We will required? duplicatesome of what Aadhaar is, lotofother things.You need to be con- adifferent system. This is inevitable. portant that Iamvaccinated,itisalso im- have to divide things.Governmentfund- It is notgoing to costthat much. Look, and is it necessary? stantlymorphing yourself to address new The Chinese, forexample, did notallow portant that youknowthat Iamvacci- ing forthe vulnerable and those already everymonth that we don’t come back to Ithink the proposal is to have aUnique opportunities in the global market. US companies to participateintheir nated.The digital certificatecan then be coveredbygovernmentinsurance pro- normal, the economyistaking ahit of Digital Health ID, and that is different from economy, and nowthe Americans are shown at ajob interview, airport, railway grammes, private sector funding fortheir hundredsofthousands of crores. The Aadhaar.Itisfor electronic healthrecords. SUNIL JAIN: AUSHouse panelreport retaliating… Technology has become so station, bus stand etc. If it is atwo-dose employees and associates, and perhaps biggestcostactuallywill be the vaccines The whole idea will be to have electronic hassuggestedthatbig technology criticaltonations that it is goingto vaccine, then yougenerateaprovisional philanthropic funding forthe rest from themselves. Vaccines cost$3-5 in the be- health records whichthe personcan pull companies have to be broken up — become partofglobal geo-politics.

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Presidentset to hold rallies everyday until Thursday’s debate; both candidates trytowoo early voters

EARLYBALLOTSCAST Aneighbour comforts ahome owner afterher house was FormerBritishPM JARRETTRENSHAW destroyed by shelling in Stepanakert, in the separatistregion Tony Blair OCTOBER18 25.83mn of Nagorno-Karabakh, Saturday. AP US PRESIDENTIAL rivals Donald BRITAIN Trumpand Joe Biden will court ■Thus far, 25.83 million people Armenia &Azerbaijan Blairaccused early voters on Sunday as their RACE FOR have alreadycastaballotinthe campaigns step up events ahead presidential election, according ofbreaking of their final debatethis week. THEWHITE to theUSElections Project, agree new truce, but it TrumponSunday will head shatteringrecords. quarantinerules to Nevada, abattlegroundstate HOUSE afterUStrip wheremorethan 100,000 vot- ers have already castballots,ac- the November 3presidential Gretchen Whitmer,aDemocrat, falls apart hours later FORMER BRITISH Prime cording to statedata. Trumpwill election, according to theUS severaltimes. He blastedstate MinisterTonyBlair has campaign everyday leading up Elections Project, shattering rules to stop the spread of coro- withdraw the woundedsoldiers been accusedofbreaking to Thursday’s debateinFlorida, records. Muchearly voting is due TrumpatarallyinNortonShores, Michigan, Saturday. AP navirus, calling her “dishonest,” NVARDHOVHANNISYAN from the battlefield. UKCovid-19restrictionsaf- including stops in Arizona and to safetyconcerns about the and made light of aright-wing &NAILIABAGIROVA “This step ...was categorically terfailing to self-isolatefor NorthCarolina, campaign pandemic that has killedmore plot uncoveredbythe FBI to kid- YEREVAN,BAKU,OCTOBER18 rejected by Baku,” the foreign twoweeksfollowing a spokesman TimMurtaugh said. than218,000Americans and in- thelatestfigures from his cam- still win this race, and everyindi- nap her. ministry said. Bakucalledthe two-daytrip to the US, the Biden on Sundayheads to fected 8.1million others. paign showhealso trailsin cationwehaveshows that this “Hopefullyyou’ll be sending ARMENIA AND Azerbaijan ac- statement misinformation. SundayTelegraphreported. NorthCarolina, where1.2 mil- Democratshold asignificant fundraisingastheraceintensifies. thing is going to come down to her packing pretty soon,” Trump cusedeachother on Sundayofvi- The Azeri defence ministry The newspaper said it had lion voters have cast their ballots, advantageinearly voting,largely In amemo sent to donors the wire,” she wrote. said,promptingthe crowdtoyell olatinganew humanitariancease- said: “The enemy firedatthe obtainedpicturesshowing according to statedata. Biden’s drivenbymail balloting. Of the over the weekend, Biden cam- On Saturday, Trumpcam- back “Lockherup!”severaltimes. fire in fighting over the mountain vicinity of the Jabrail city,aswell Blair,who served as PM running mate, Kamala Harris, 10.6 million mail ballots cast, 5.8 paign manager Jen O’Malley paignedinMichigan and Whitmer responded on enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, as the villages of this region... us- from 1997 to 2007,leaving will return to thecampaign trail million have been castby Dillon said the national figures Wisconsin, twobattleground Twitter to thechants. “Thisisex- hours afteritwas agreed. ing mortars and artillery”. It aLondon restaurant 10 on Monday with avisittoFlorida Democrats, according the US aremisleading because must- states he narrowly woninthe actlytherhetoricthathasputme, The truce agreedonSaturday added that the Azeri army“took days afterhis return from to markthatstate’s firstday of Election Project, run by the win states areclose. 2016 election. my family, andothergovernment cameintoforceatmidnight(2000 adequate retaliatorymeasures”. the US lastmonth. The pa- early,in-person voting. University of Florida. “Wecannotbecome compla- At Saturday’s rallyin officials’ livesindanger while we GMT) afteraweek-old Russian- The ministry said thatAzeri per said it understood that Thus far, 25.83 million peo- Trumplags in national and centbecause the very searing Muskegeon, Mich., Trumptar- trytosavethe livesofour fellow brokered ceasefirefailedtohalt militaryunitsdowned Blairappealedto Whitehall ple have already castaballotin battleground opinion polls and truth is thatDonald Trumpcan getedMichigan Governor Americans,”shewrote.REUTERS the worstfighting in theSouth Armenian Su-25 warplane, officials forspecial dispen- Caucasussincethe1990s.Atleast “whichwas attempting to inflict sation from the Covid-19 750peoplehave beenkilledsince airstrikes on the positions of the rules,buthewasnot issued fighting beganonSept. 27. Azeri armyinJabrail region.” withtheformalexemption At 1010 GMT,theAzeridefence Yerevanswiftlydeniedthat. letter he would have ministrysaid the Aghdam region, OfficialsinNagorno-Karabakh neededtoavoid a14-day adjacent Nagorno-Karabakh, was said Azeriforces hadlaunchedan isolationperiod.REUTERS under Armenianshelling.Itsaid attack on the enclave’s military overnightArmenianmilitaryunits positions and therewerecasual- openedfirefromlarge-caliber ties on both sides. weapons along the border,which Nagorno-Karabakh is a SOUTH AMERICA Armenia denied. mountain territorythat is Boliviansvote IsraeliNSA MeirBen-Shabbat Armenia said the Azeri army internationallyrecognisedas and US TreasurySecretary had firedtwice during the night partofAzerbaijan but popu- inhopeof SteveMnuchin arrive in and usedartilleryand accused lated andgovernedbyethnic politicalstability Muharraq, Bahrain. Reuters Baku of rejecting itsrequestto Armenians. REUTERS BOLIVIANS BEGAN voting on Sundayinapresiden- Israel sends tialelection manyhope UN arms embargoes on can restorestabilitytoa treaty delegation nation that wasplunged Iran expire despite intoturmoil aftera to Bahrain with fraught and eventually voidedvotelastyear, Trumpaides Washington’s objections leaving the countryinthe hands of an interim pres- ident. Frontrunners in the DANWILLIAMS NASSERKARIMI ED Bigarms election areLuis Arce, MANAMA,OCTOBER18 TEHRAN,OCTOBER18 deals who champions areturn PLAIN E ● unlikely to thesocialistand pro- AN ISRAELIdelegation accompa- FRANCE PAYS TRIBUTE TO KILLED TEACHER ADECADE-LONGUNarms em- EX indigenous policies of for- nied by the US treasurysecretary bargo on Iran that barred it from mer President Evo arrivedinBahrain on Sundayto Peoplegather at thePlace de la Republique in Paris on Sundaytopay tributetoSamuel Paty,the teacher who wasbeheaded purchasing foreign weapons like ALTHOUGH THE ban on buy- Morales, and Carlos Mesa, formalise nascent relations and on thestreets of theParissuburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine.FromParis to Lyon, Marseille and Lille large crowds gathered tanksand fighter jets expired ing weapons from abroad has acentristwho served as broadenGulf cooperation that quietly, pausingregularly to applaud, hold minutes of silence or sing the national anthem. Paty,47, waskilledoutside his Sundayasplannedunder itsnu- been lifted, Iran said it won’t president in the early Washington has promotedasan school on Fridaybyan18-year-old attacker. Prosecutors said the attackerwanted to punish the teacher forshowing his clear deal with worldpowers, go on a“buyingspree”and it 2000s. PollsshowArce anti-Iran bulwarkand potential pupilscartoons of the ProphetMohammad in acivics class on freedom of expression earlier thismonth. Reuters despiteobjections from the is unlikelythat the country ahead,but notenough to economicbonanza. United States. willimmediately agreebig avoid arunoff. REUTERS Bahrain followedthe United While insisting it plannedno arms deals with foreign pow- Arab Emirates in agreeing last “buying spree,” Iran in theory ers.CripplingUSsanctions BELARUS monthtonormalise ties with Egypt releases can purchase weapons to up- had already wreakedhavoc Thousands Israel,stunningPalestinians who Thousands defy protest ban grade military armament dating on Iran’s economybeforethe had demandedstatehoodbefore comedian after backtobeforeits 1979 Islamic Covid-19pandemic made marchinMinsk anysuchregionalrapprochement. Revolution and sell itsown lo- thingsevenworse. This will The breakthrough, overseen again in Bangkok, PM seeks talks over 2yrs in jail callyproducedgear abroad. makeitdifficult forIrantobuy TENS OF thousands of by US President DonaldTrump, is TheIslamicRepublicheralded weapons in massive,high- people marched through aforeign policy flourish ahead of Cairo: Egyptian authorities re- theendof thearmsembargo as“a profile deals. It will also find it the streetsofthe his re-election bid next month. REUTERS leasedacomedian, who was momentous dayfor the interna- difficult to sell itsown domes- Belarusian capital Minsk Forthe US allies, it is achance to BANGKOK,OCTOBER18 working forapopular satirical tel- tionalcommunity...indefianceof ticallyproducedweapons to on Sundaytodemandthe close ranksonIranmoreovertly. evisionprogramme, aftermore theUSregime’seffort.”TheTrump bolsterits economy, as many resignation of veteran The Israelidelegation,which THOUSANDS OF anti-govern- than twoyears in prison without administration, meanwhile, has countries will avoid trading President Alexander flewonanElAlIsrael Airlines ment protesters took over keyin- trial, arightslawyersaid Sunday. insisted it has re-invoked allUN withIranfor fear of US finan- Lukashenko, despitea charterflight from TelAviv, was tersections in Bangkok on At aprotestin AttorneyMokhtarMounir sanctions on Iran via aclausein cialretaliation. threat by officials to use accompaniedbyUSTreasury Sunday, defying aban on protests Bangkok on said Shady Abu Zaid wasre- thenucleardealitwithdrew from firearms againstprotest- SecretarySteve Mnuchin. forthe fourth daywith chantsof Sunday. AP leasedfromaCairopolice station in2018,aclaimignoredby therest ers. Belarus, aformer Israeli Prime Minister “down with dictatorship” and lateSaturday, but as part of his of the world. sile system and itsBastian Sovietrepublic closelyal- Benjamin Netanyahu, in public “reform the monarchy”. terms of release mustreporttoa The UN bannedIranfrom coastaldefence missilesystem, liedwith Russia, has been remarks to his cabinet, said the PrimeMinisterPrayuthChan- metrorailsysteminabid to quell givenanoverall number. police station twice aweek. buying majorforeign weapons the DIA said. Chinaalso could sell rocked by strikes and delegations would work on co- ocha, aformer juntaleader the overthreemonthsof street action. “The government wantsto His sister, Roula Abu Zaid, in 2010 amid tensions overits Iran arms. weeklystreetprotests operation agreements and“es- protesters seek to oust, is con- “Freeourfriends”,theprotest- talk to find away out together,” confirmedthe news in a nuclear programme. Iran longhas been out- since authorities an- tablishing the peace treaty”. cernedabout the spreading ers calledout as they stood in a Prayuth’s spokesman Anucha Facebook postand shared a TheUSDefence Intelligence matchedbyUS-backedGulf na- nouncedthatLukashenko, Israel and Bahrain signeda protests andthe government rain, amass of colourful ponchos Burapachaisri told Reuters. He photo of his at home. Agency predicted in 2019 that if tions likeSaudi Arabia and the who has ruledinauthori- “Declaration of Peace, wantstotalk,hisspokesmansaid. andumbrellas.Somehelduppic- did notspecifywithwhomthe Police arrested AbuZaid in the embargo ended, Iran likely United Arab Emirates, which tarian fashion since 1994, Cooperation, and Constructive Demonstrations have per- turesofdetained protestleaders. government hopedtospeak. May2018. He waschargedwith would trytopurchase Russian have purchasedbillions of dollars had securedre-election on Diplomatic and Friendly sisteddespitethearrest of dozens Thai Lawyers forHuman Rights Afterthe arrest of many of joining an outlawedgroup, aref- Su-30 fighter jets,Yak-130 of advancedAmerican August9with 80% of Relations” at aWhiteHouse cer- of protestersandtheirleaders,the said at least80protesters had the protest leaders, previously erence to the bannedMuslim trainer aircraftand T-90 tanks. weaponry.Inresponse, Tehran votes. REUTERS emonylastmonth, but thatwas useofwater cannon and shut- been arrested sinceOct.13with unknown figures have emerged Brotherhood, and disseminating Tehran also maytry to buy turnedtowarddeveloping locally notaformal treaty. REUTERS downs on muchofBangkok’s 27 still beingheld.Police have not to lead crowds. false news. AP Russia’s S-400anti-aircraftmis- made ballistic missiles. AP

THE UTAH SCHOOL SAW AT LEAST 90 CASES IN 2WEEKS SINCE OPENING,ONE OF THE WORST OUTBREAKS IN ASCHOOL IN THE US ‘Out of Control’: When schools opened in aUScoronavirus hotspot

other parentsfloodedthe board likelyanundercount,sincenotall learningfor all students. of the worst” in the countryand Canyons is also an example KATETAYLOR with messages, and the school studentsand staffwho were ex- Since then, with schools and “unacceptable”. of howthe nation’s 13,000 OCTOBER18 stayed open. Within aweek,the posedorsymptomaticgot tested. colleges open, things have only Yetdespitethe conditions at school districtsare struggling to number of cases had nearly And Corner Canyonwas not worsened, as both the county the startofthe school year, find workable policies in the ab- ON AFridayinmid-September, quadrupled. Ateacher washos- theonlyschool in the district to and Utah have become hotspots. CanyonsSchoolDistricttookonly sence of clearstandards from the SunnyWashington got atext pitalised and put on aventilator. have an outbreak.BySept28, In the twoweeksthat ended modest steps to preventthe virus federal government and many from another mother at her When the boardfinallyclosed Canyons School District, with Thursday, SaltLakeCounty had from spreading in itsbuildings. stategovernments. Theresult daughter’s high school in an afflu- the school temporarily, 77 stu- roughly33,000 students, had nearly 617cases per 100,000 The statehad mandated that has been apatchworkofpolicies ent suburb of Salt LakeCity,Utah. dentsand staffmembers, includ- temporarilyclosedthree high people. Over the lastweek,Utah studentsandstaffmemberswear varying from statetostate and Threeweeksintothe schoolyear, ing Washington’s daughter,had schools and amiddle school, had the sixth-highestrateofnew masksinschool, allowing un- oftendistrict to district. thenumber of coronavirus cases tested positive. telling about 8,000 studentsto cases per 100,000 people of any maskedsports practiceandcom- The Centers forDisease at theschool wasrising, and the “We’retalking 30 days in, and learn from home. stateand setanew staterecord petition. But with nearly 80 per Control and Prevention, which district wasconsidering shifting it went completely out of con- The storyofCanyons is an ob- forthe number of people hospi- cent of Canyons studentsopting have facedpressurefromthe to online instruction. The text trol,” Washington said. ject lesson in what can happen talisedwith the virus. forin-person school, the district WhiteHouse to avoid discourag- urgedparentstobeg theschool Her daughter’s school, Corner when schools reopen in com- Corner CanyonHigh School in Utah. NYT On Tuesday, Governor Gary seems to have made fewadjust- ing school districtsfromreopen- boardtokeep classroomsopen. CanyonHighSchool,experienced munities that arefailing to con- Herbertordered stricter restric- mentstoaccommodatesocialdis- ing, have declinedtoprovide Washington ignored the text one of the biggestcoronavirus tain the virus. In the twoweeks tions on social gatherings and tancinginclassrooms.Thedistrict specific guidance on whatdis- —she thought theschool should outbreaksataschoolinUtah,and before the district reopened, Salt levelatwhich someexpertshave twoand ahalf times higher than mask wearing in Salt Lake also did notmakecoronavirus trictsshould do when infections be taking advice from public possiblythe country, with 90 LakeCounty had roughly187 advisedagainsthigh schools the standardWashington State County and otherhard-hit coun- testing partofits reopening plan, rise in aschool or the surround- healthexperts, notparents. But cases within twoweeks—most newcases per 100,000people, a opening in person; thatlevel is uses to recommend distance ties,calling Utah’soutbreak “one leavingthosedecisionsto families. ing community. NYT

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THEINDIANEXPRESS,MONDAY,OCTOBER19,2020 MarketWatch GOLD IMPORTS DOWN 57% IN H1FY21 NewDelhi: Gold imports, whichhaveabearing on thecurrent account deficit,fell 57 per cent to $6.8 billion (around Rs 50,658 crore) during the first half of this fiscal amid aslump in demand 15 ECONOMY PTI due to the Covid-19,showeddatabythe Commerce Ministry.

POLICY WATCH AMONTH SINCE ANNOUNCEMENT, CABLE LAID IN 4,347 VILLAGES OFFICIALSCITE ‘BUDGETARY CONSTRAINTS’ JOB CREATION ‘GharTakFibre’:Slowprogress FinMin turns down Stakeholders still proposaltocut cess divided,govt starts inplantoconnectBiharvillages on crude output governmenthas budgeted in- were non-operational as of Telecommunications(DoT) said. KARUNJITSINGH flows of Rs 16,500crore from oil process to form rules AASHISHARYAN ED Lessonfor October15,whilethestatusof an- “Thefirstcasualty of anycon- NEWDELHI,OCTOBER18 cess forthe current fiscal. NEWDELHI,OCTOBER18 future other 200was unclear. struction work done by stateor Experts notedthat giventhe PLAIN E Inasmanyas13districts—in- privateagenciesisthe cablelaid IN Ablowtodomestic crude oil recovery in thepriceofBrent ● planning for labourcodes THE GOVERNMENT’S ambitious EX cluding Jehanabad, Darbhanga, underground.Sincethereisnear- producers, the FinanceMinistry crude, oil-producingcompanies ‘GharTak Fibre’ scheme —which Purnia, Kishanganj, Vaishali, Ara- zerocommunication between has rejected aproposal by the were notexpecting anyrelief on aims to connect all the villages THE LEARNINGS from the ria, Saran and Jamuni —less than various agencies of the stategov- PetroleumMinistrytoreducecess oil cess from the government. AANCHALMAGAZINE VARYING with high-speed internet—isoff implementation of the 25 per cent of the GPs connected ernment itself, mostofthese ca- ondomesticcrudeproduction,ac- An industryanalyst, who did NEWDELHI,OCTOBER18 to aslowstartinpoll-boundBihar, ‘Ghar TakFibre’ scheme in to theinternet under BharatNet bles have been damaged.Now cording to government officials. notwish to be quoted,said that VIEWPOINTS thefirststate thataimsto connect Bihar could alsobeales- phase one were operational. The since thereare no userstocom- Currently, alldomesticoilpro- ONGC had in itsanalystcall men- WITH THE government kick- allits45,945villagesbyMarch 31, son forfuture, as the main problems, an official said, plain about the snappedconnec- ducers payanoil cess of 20 per tionedthat it wasnot expecting starting the rule-framing ■Amovetowards governmentdataobtainedbyThe Centreplans to connect all were lackofpowerandrelatedeq- tions,noone ever comes to know cent on all crude oil output. anyfiscalrelief fromtheCentrein process forthe four labour higher short-term Indian Express showed. 6.5 lakh villages to high uipmentfailure,equipmenttheft, if thecableshave beendamaged,” Upstreamcompanieshadsought the current pricing scenario con- codes to enable their imple- and contractual To connect all villages by speedoptical fibreinternet and faulty or lossy leased fibre. the official said. relief on oil cess noting that low sideringthefiscalpressureonthe mentation from April 1next employment and less March 31,thestatewouldneedto over the next 1,000days. “Thereare three main prob- Under the Ghar TakFibre international crude prices had governmentdueto lowrevenues. year,amovetowards higher regulationsare being dig trenches, laycables, and pro- lems.One is that the lossy, old ca- scheme, Bihar has to provide at made it difficult forthem to even DebasishMishra, partner at short-term and contractual flaggedas some of the videconnectivitytoanaverage of blesthatwerelaid under phase leastfivefibre-to-the-home meetoperational expenses. The DeloitteIndia, notedthat the up- employmentand less regula- concernsbysome 257villagesdaily,oramonthlyav- ugh the high-speedoptical fibre. one have to be replaced. So far, (FTTH) connections per village, priceofBrentcrudefellto alow of stream oiland gassector needed tions arebeing flagged as ■ Industry,onthe erageofover7,500villages. The tender forprovidingcon- thatwork hasbeendoneinabout whilethereshouldalsobeatleast $19.33per barrel in April on the fiscal relief in the current pricing some of the main concerns. other hand, is citing However, nearly amonthafterthe nectionsand ‘lighting’ up these 4,500grampanchayatsconnec- one WiFi hotspotper village. backoflow demand due to the situation. “Toachieve thePrime On the other hand,the indus- the possibility of a schemewas inaugurated,optical villageshasnotbeenfloatedsofar tedunder phase one. Then the However, as of October 14,only Covid-19pandemic and aprice Minister’s vision of reducing im- tryisciting the possibilityofa shifttowards ease of fibrecable has been laidonlyin and is likelytobefloated onlyin problemof right-of-way inlaying 30,768 FTTH connections had warbetweenoil-producingcoun- portdependency by 10 per cent, shifttowards bigger-sizedes- doing business and a 4,347villages as of October 14,or thefirstweekof November,senior cables from panchayats or blocks beengiven,whileonly2,531WiFi tries. Theprideof Brent crude has upstream players in India would tablishmentsalongwithease churn in the at the rate of 181villages per day. governmentofficialssaid.Avillage to individual villages. The thirdis hotspots had been installedsofar since recoveredand stabilisedat needfiscalincentivetosurvive the of doingbusinessand amajor labour market “Ourpresentcapacityislaying or agrampanchayat(GP) is con- powerequipment failureand its underBharatNet phaseone. between $40-45 per barrelover pricing situation in the global churn in the labour market as down between80,000-100,000 sidered ‘lit up’ underBharatNet theft,”the official added. The BharatNet project,which thepastthree months. crude market due to Covid.” the favourable outcomes. km of optical fibreper year.To when it consistentlyhas internet Around 42 per cent of 3,660 initiallybegan as theNational “The Finance Ministryhas re- The Centrehas hiked the ex- Labour economists state curity or forsocial security or connect all thevillagesbyMarch connection and users at the end GPs reportedtobenon-opera- Optical FibreNetwork in October jectedtheproposalcitingbudget- cise duty on petrol by Rs 13 per thatthe newlabourcodes— foroccupational safety,” 31,2021, we willneedto laydown to verify the same. Of the 8,745 tional inthestatehadbeenfacing 2011,hasbeendelayedforover92 aryconstraints,” said agovern- litreandondieselby Rs16 perlitre Industrial Relations Code, AmarjeetKaur, the general at least200,000-225,000 km of GPs in Bihar, 5,889 were connec- theseproblems,thedatashowed. monthsnow. Thenew deadlineis ment officialwho did notwish to since the beginningofthe year to Code on Social Security and secretaryoftheAll-IndiaTrade optical fibre, whichisatough tedtothe state’s main internet Whileopticalfibrecablehasbeen setatAugust2021. However, on be quoted. According to the offi- shoreupflaggingrevenuesdueto Occupational Safety, Health Union Congress (AITUC) said. task,” an official said. grid under BharatNet phase one, laidto connectnearly allthe8,745 August15thisyear,thePMsaidall cial, the proposal sent by the economic slowdown causedby andWorkingConditionsCode Government officials, ho- On September 21,while inau- while the remaining 2,856 were GPs, lackofusers in these areas villagesinthe countrywould be Petroleum Ministryhad pitched the Covid-19pandemic.Central —along with the Code on wever, see fixed-term emplo- guratingthe ‘Ghar TakFibre’ connectedunder phase two. has resulted in minimal or zero connectedto theinternet overthe for2-3 different ratesofoil cess excisedutycurrentlyaccountsfor Wages, approved last year by ymentasagamechanger,and scheme,PrimeMinisterNarendra However, of all the GPs con- follow-upsonrepairandmainte- next 1,000 days,whichmeans from 10-20 per cent basedonthe 45 per cent of the the priceof theParliament,arelikelytore- statethatnocaponfixed-term Modihadsaidall45,945Biharvil- nectedunderphaseone,about60 nance work,anofficial of the thattheprojectisnowlikelytobe prevailing priceofcrude oil in the diesel and 40 per cent of the price sultinahighernumberof jobs, employmentwouldgive abo- lages would be connected thro- percentor3,591 grampanchayats Department of completedonlyby2024. international market.The union of petrol in the national Capital. though precarious and of osttoseasonal employment. lowerquality.Also, the actual “Say, forfestive season, more benefits accruingfromanex- workersareneeded,thenear- INTERVIEW WITH MD &CEO,MAX LIFE INSURANCE pectedincreaseininvestment liertheycouldn’tbefiredlater AMID COVID-19 flows due to therelaxationin on but nowthat will change. ‘Not good to say Covid has complianceandregulationcri- Seasonalemploymentwillget ‘India sees eight IPOsworth teria under the newlabour aboostanditwillmakeahuge Mostactivesectors codesareunlikelytobeimme- difference,” asenior Labour $850 mn in Septquarter’ withtwoIPOslaunched been good for life insurance ... diateandneedtobeseenover Ministryofficialsaid. ineach of at leastthe next five years. The official also told The Eight Indian companies came out with$850 million of IPOs ■ Real estate “The liberalisations provi- Indian Express that concerns in theSeptember quarter and thesecond half of theyear Hospitality dedinthelabourcodeswould about conversion of existing ■ but it has created awareness’ definitelycreateanumber of permanentjobstocontractual could be “significantly better”, an EY report said ■ Construction jobs whichare of lowquality, employmentorretrenchment ■ Technology and PREDOMINANTLYSAVINGS-ORI- 18 months. Also, therehas been a that is, of shortterm, with no willnothappenasmass-scale Numberofinitial public Rise in IPOs in the telecommunications ENTED in India, the lifeinsurance shifttowards selling morenon- employment security,and layoffsstill requiregovern- 12offerings(IPOs) 33%main markets (BSE industryhas seen asudden shift participating kind of offering probablyotherrelatedsecuri- ment permission. recorded September 2019 and NSE); from three in Q3 of focus towardsprotectionnot whichissavings-oriented—guar- tieswillalsobediluted.So,we Industryvoices statethat quarter, worth $651.98 2019 to four in Q3 2020 onlybythe industry players but anteedsavings benefit—because willwitness alabour market thegreater flexibility forhir- million also by customers. PRASHANT interest rateshavecome down. inthepost-codescenario,pre- ing and firing willresult in 4: Number of IPOs in the third TRIPATHY, MD and CEO, Max Life Lifeinsurance companies have ponderance of precarious but moreinvestmentsinsectors `6,200 crore: Worth of the quarterof2020, falling from Insurance, told SANDEEP SINGH unique advantageofleveraging rising jobs.And these jobs whichwouldbenefitblueand eight IPOs, at current nine in the year-ago period thatoverthelastsixmonths,there Prashant Tripathy the longer term interestrate. would be designed in such a grey collarworkers.“Lawafter exchange rates has been amassive riseinaware- manner to lowerthe labour lawbasicallypreventedentre- 872: Number of IPOs across ness and demand forprotection What in the long term? cost. Together,these two, ac- preneurs to look at India as a $602 million: IPO with largest globe so far this year, with: products. He said going forward, So therehas been abig jump Protectionasaneedisbecom- cording to theresearch evi- destination forinvestment. issue size in September ■ 14%rise in total number the industrywill come out with and it is leading to higher levelof ing moreand moreprevalent. dence, will notresultinpro- Overseasinvestmenthasbeen quarter, by Mindspace ■ 43% rise in proceedsat universal protection designs for protection across the industry. I Slowly, regulatoryandotherbod- ductive,benevolenteconomic comingmostlyinwhitecollar Business Park REIT $165.3 billion masses whocan’t afford expen- thinkmovingtowardsprotection ies arerealisingthat protection is outcomes,”XLRIprofessorand economy. But the minuteit sive products.Editedexcerpts: is the right direction. notonlytheneedof thetopofthe labour economistKRShyam wasforjobsforbluecollarand Even in the health insurance strata,itisthe need of everyone. Sundarsaid. grey collarworkers,alltheen- Why is it important: The EY India IPO Trends Report Q3 2020 noted that Howisthe impact of Covid on space,somestandalonehealthin- Hence, therewill be push to- Incentivesforgreatercon- trepreneurs were very scared under-performance on accountofCovid-19-wasseen in the first half of Source:EY/PTI industrynow? surance companies have seen30 wardsuniversal protection de- tractualandfixed-termempl- to invest intheIndianmarket,” 2020. IPO attraction might continue to allure investors in the primary market Things arebetterthan ex- per cent growth and that tooisa signs —simplifiedproductsthat oymentisaconcernthattrade LohitBhatia,president,Indian after successful IPO subscriptions in recent times pected.InApril and May, the in- reflectionoffear leadingtoright mayhavesame features but will unions have also flagged.“In Staffing Federation, abody of dustrywas down by around 40 decisions beingmade. It will cre- caterto segments thatcan’tafford theprivate sector,thesecodes staffing companies, said. percent,butthingshave beenim- ateaquantum shiftwithrespect expensive productdesigns.Ithink will help in replacing regular In times of economic un- proving with everypassing to wherethemarket hasbeenand lifeinsurancecompanieswillalso employmentwithfixed-term certainty,especially amid the month and forusthe numbers thereishigherlevelofacceptance slowlystartventuringintohealth. employment.Fixed-termem- pandemic, industryisofthe Strong demand for blue-collar have beenbetterthanthebroader forprotection plan. Equallyfor Thereis(a) committee whichhas ploymentmeanscontractem- viewthat businesses might industry. We have seen4percent providers likeusitwill be much been setuptoreviewthat. Even if ployment and no job security, notbeabletosurvive andthat growth as compared to 11 per easier to convincethe customer. thecommitteedoesn’t(allow)life no situation of continuity of should notbeviewedasan workers, full-time jobs on offer cent decline forprivate sector in If yousee awareness and fear insurance companies to operate job later on. Youdon’t have anti-labouroutcome.“Life be- September.Buttheoverallindus- converting intooutcomes, it is in indemnity space, Ithink they rightsofsocialsecurity,cannot comesnormalpostpandemic, demandinsegmentslikedelivery tryiscoming outofitand Iam happening. However, thelevel of willhave theridersspace.Also,be- struggle forwageincreaseor then capacities will getuseda SHUBHRATANDON Expertssay 2020 could and healthcaresegmentislikely morehopeful forthe second half. fearhassubsidedquitesignifican- cause of social security concerns, allowance increase. This wh- lotmoreand as the capacities MUMBAI,OCTOBER18 to surpass January2020 levels. As farasclaims areconcerned, tlyoverthelast coupleofmonths. immediateannuityorannuityre- ole process will lead to more aregoing to be evolving, India end with 1.4million The good news is that nearly while therewas asurge over the Even as numbers areincreasing, latedplanswillbecomeprevalent. contractemployment,casual- willfindabetterdevelopment BUSINESSACTIVITYmaynot have vacancies being filled 80percentof thejobsonofferare lastcouple of months, it not as people realised that mortality While alifeinsurance license all- isationand outsourcing. They in these newlabour codes. recoveredtopre-pandemiclevels forfull-time employment, Pravin alarming.Ialso think thatwehit ismoderateataround1.2percent, owscompaniesto operateinmul- arechangingthelimitforcon- Governmenthasprovidedfor but, at 0.5 million,openings for Agarwala, co-founder and CEO, apeak in September and so the thefearisgoingdownandGoogle tiple zones, but because of legacy tractors from 20 to 50, which greater social security bene- blue collarworkers in the July- could end with1.4 million vacan- Betterplacesaid.“The demand claims toowill settle down. searches aresubsiding. reasons etc, we have operated means, say, in afamilyoffour, fits.”MSUnnikrishnan,chair- September periodwerereason- cies being filled. Datasourced during the festiveseason stems onlyinequity and savings. Ithink eachsupplying48or49work- man, CII National Committee ablystrong.Someof thisrelatesto from Betterplace,atechnology mainlyfromthe retail sector so Fear leadstoincrease in In the pasttherehavebeen thatwillgetexpandedfurtherand ers means no workers under on Industrial Relations said. the upcoming festiveseason but platformformanagingthelifecy- some some of this is fortempo- demand. Howdoyou see SARS and Ebola, but Covid has will become muchsharper. that system willbeprotected Full report on alarge part of this demand is for cle of informal and semi-formal rary jobs. But demand forfull- Covidplaying arole in the hit the waynobody ever either forwages or forjob se- www.indianexpress.com permanentjobs. workforce,shows ninemillionin- time jobs is expected to sustain overall penetrationfor the thought. Howdoyou see this Do youthink thereshould be Expertssay it is likely 2020 terviews have been targeted.The postthe festiveseason.” FE insurance sector? will shape the industryin focus on the retirement Though it is notgoodtosay terms of innovation and aspect too? that Covid has been good forlife customer orientation? We have been lobbying for BRIEFLY insurance, but in the truestsense, Thereare shiftsthataretaking somebitof changearoundregula- Amid rising tensions with US, China it has certainlycreated farhigher place. Some aremoretactical or tion,thetaxtreatmentof annuity, levelofawareness. Historically, short-termand some long-term. we have also made requeston P-notes the industryhas been predomi- Both theregulator andministry treatment of commission with investmentfalls passes lawrestricting sensitive exports nantlysavings-oriented—almost have been very consciousand our ownregulator.Sothereare 95-96percent—butoverthelast driving things thatcater to Covid somestructuralissuesthatwe are NewDelhi: Investmentsvia six months we have seen abig needs. We launchedCovid riders workingthrough.Also,thelevelof participatorynotes(P-notes) trol law, includingthose outside growth in protection part. Last thatcango withourproductsand awareness on these productsis in the Indian capital market ASSOCIATEDPRESS of China, could face criminal year,protectionaccountedfor8.6 where customersgetapartofthe low. My sense is that therehas dropped to Rs 69,821 crore BEIJING,OCTOBER18 charges.Violationsof thelaw,such per cent of ourtotal sales, but in sum assurediftheytestpositive. been supplyside constraintstoo. at September-end. asexportingitemswithoutaper- the firstfivemonths of this year it Irdaihasbeenpushinggeneral So there areissues on all fronts— CHINAHAS passedanew lawre- mit, could result in fines of 5mil- went up to around 15 percent. and lifeInsurance companies to structural, demand and supply stricting sensitive exports to pro- lion yuan ($746,500), or up to 20 Honestly, Ithought it would take come up with Covid plans and sideandasthingsevolve,allof that DLFarmraises tect national security,allowing it times thebusiness value of the il- us 4-5 years to reachthat level. thatisgoing to remain foratleast will startgettingfixed. `2,400crore to reciprocateagainstthe US as legal transaction. tensionsmountbetweenthetwo Thenewlaw addsto thegrow- NewDelhi: DLF’s rental arm over trade and technology. ing uncertainty of Bytedance’s DCCDL has raisedRs2,400 Thelaw, whichwillapply to all deal to sell itsvideoapp TikTok to ‘High incidence of NPAs hinder croredebt from StateBank companies in China,was passed Exportcontrols under the lawwill applytocivilian, military US firm Oracle Corp. In August, of Indiato refinanceexisting SaturdaybytheNationalPeople’s and nuclear products, as well as goods, technologies and Chinaaddedtechnologiesinclud- debt and to plan expansion. Congress Standing Committee servicesrelated to national security. Reuters ingvoicerecognition,textanalysis monetary policy transmission’ and willtakeeffect on December and content recommendation to 1. Under the law, China cantake itslistofregulated exports. of the central bank said. monetary policy transmission ‘Fourbidders “reciprocal measures” toward trolleditemswillbepublished“in plier Huawei, Bytedance’sTikTok President Donald Trumphad PRESSTRUSTOFINDIA Theworkingpaper alsomade and lowers the loan growth rate,” forDHFL’ countriesorregionsthatabuseex- atimelymanner” in conjunction appandTencent’smessagingapp earlier ordered Bytedance to sell NEWDELHI,OCTOBER18 astrongcase forcapitalinjection said the working paper co-au- portcontrols and threaten itsna- with relevant departments, ac- WeChat on grounds of posing a itsUSoperations of TikTok to an in state-ownedbanks, arguing thored by Silu Muduli and NewDelhi: AdaniGroupand tional security and interests. cording to the law. nationalsecuritythreat,including Americanfirm or face ablockin HIGH INCIDENCE of non-per- that suchamove would increase HarendraBehera,Department of Piramal Enterprises are Exportcontrolsunderthelaw The newlaw allows Beijing to the datatheymay possess from the country. The newexportcon- forming assets (NPAs) in banks thecreditflowtotherealsectorin Economic and Policy Research amongthefourentitiesthat willapplytocivilian,militaryand retaliate againstthe US,whichin operating in the country. trol laws adds to China’s growing actsasamajorroadblockintrans- addition to ensuing smoother (DEPR),RBI.TheRBIsaidtheviews have placedbids forDHFL, nuclearproducts,aswellasgoods, recent monthshas triedtoblock Companies and individuals regulatorytoolkit thatallows it to missionofmonetary policy ac- transmission of monetary policy. expressedinthe paper arethose according to sources. PTI technologies and services related Chinese technology firms suchas who endanger national security take actionagainstcountriessuch tionsof theReserveBank,awork- “Presence of non-performing of authors and notofthe Reserve to national security.Alistofcon- telecommunications gear sup- by breachingthenew exportcon- as the US. ingpaperpreparedby theofficials assets in abank also weakens Bank of India.

Pune WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM 16 SPORT THEINDIANEXPRESS,MONDAY,OCTOBER19,2020 FergusonLocksout Barca, Madrid lose aheadofCLopeners Solskjaer waspleasedwith his team's response to ASSOCIATEDPRESS their 6-1 defeat by Tottenham Hotspur before the inter- BARCELONA,OCTOBER18 national break."Afterthe lastresult, that made this game SunrisersHyderabad even bigger.Then we were 1-0 down in twominutes, BARCELONAAND Real Madrid lostfor the firsttime this that made it even moreso," Solskjaer told Sky Sports. season againstmodestSpanish league opposition, in- "But we showedgreat resilience, great character to come creasing the doubtsovertheir stalledattacks ahead of back, handledthe setbackreallywell and we were led Kiwi speedsterannounces his arrivalinstupendous fashion Champions League openers and their own"clasico" by an inspirational captain. We don't want to use it as an clash. excuse, but we neededpre-season. We wanted to getto as KolkataKnight Riders prevail in Super Over Barcelona had itsfirstdefeat under Ronald Koeman this international break with morepointsthan we have, when it lost1-0 at Getafe on Saturday, right afterMadrid but nowweknowour season startedtoday, because wasbeaten 1-0 at home by recentlypromotedCadiz. we'vecome up to the speedofthe game." SYNOPSIS The star-poweredattacks of the European power- ManchesterUnited's second victoryofthe season houses appeared shackledbytheir opponents. While leftthem in 14th place with six pointsfromfour games. Fergie’s time in AbuDhabi, despite Getafe liveduptoits reputation as one of Spain's topde- Solskjaer's side next take on Paris St Germain in the David’s heroics fensive sides by shutting down Barcelona, Madrid was Lionel Messi during Barca’s defeat. AP ChampionsLeagueonTuesdaybeforeahome clash sloppyand sluggish againstaninspired Cadiz that is with Chelsea in the PremierLeague. "The boys have backinthe topflight after15seasons. come together reallywell. Theyknowwe'vegot atough SANDIPG Sevilla also lostbeforeitvisitsChelsea in the France coachDidier Deschamps said lastweek that he and difficult month ahead of us and they'relooking for- OCTOBER18 Champions League on Tuesday, leaving Atletico Madrid didn't understand whyKoeman playedGriezmann on ward to everysingle game," Solskjaer said. as the onlyone of Spain's topteams to celebrateavic- the right side instead of the middle of attack. Koeman Fernandes made amends foramissedpenalty with SELDOM HAS afastbowler ever influencedanIPL tory.Itfaces Bayern MunichonWednesday. triedmoving Griezmann intoastriker role at Getafe but alatestrikefor ManchesterUnited.Solskjaer's side got game as tellingly as KolkataKnight Riders’ Lockie Barcelona didn't have manychances, but theywere Griezmann did little to help his cause with aglaring offtothe worstpossible startwhen the ball deflected Ferguson againstSunrisers Hyderabad. As if his four good ones. Lionel Messi hit the upright in the 20th and miss. He remainedscoreless this season. offShawfor an owngoal in the second minute, astounding overs in regular time were inadequate, he Antoine Griezmann wasted agreat opportunity on the Zinedine Zidane wasataloss forhis team's perform- deliveredthe perfect Super Over to enable his side half-hourmark. Afterthat, Getafe tightenedits mark- ance againstCadiz. Ledby35-year-old striker Alvaro Dortmund dig deep, Bayern cruise to sneak in avictorythat seemeddistant before his ing and Barcelona didn't threaten again until Djene Negredo, Cadiz proved moredangerous than Madrid. Berlin: Borussia Dortmund neededsubstitutes to dig intervention. Knight Riders had no hesitation in let- Dakonam almostscored an own-goal latewhen he it out of ahole fora1-0 win againstHoffenheim, while ting Ferguson, playing his firstIPL matchofthe sea- Lockie Ferguson celebrates afterdismissing cleared across ontothe crossbar.Jaime Mataconverted Man Utd beat Newcastle 4-1 Bayern Munichhad no suchdifficulties as it romped to son. bowl the Super Over,and he killedthe contestin David Warner. BCCI/IPL apenalty kickfor Getafe in the 56th minuteafter Frenkie Reuters: Manchester United neededalonger pre- another Bundesligarout. Bayern beat Arminia Bielefeld three balls. The first, agood-length ball at pace, dis- de Jong fouledDakonam on the edge of the area while season to preparefor the Premier League campaign but 4-1 on Saturdayinwhat seemedattimes likeatraining arrayed David Warner’s stumps. The second, ashort- trying to clear aloose ball. "Weknewitwas going to be Saturday's 4-1 win over Newcastle United is asign that match, ensuring itsrecordofnot losing to apromoted of-length ball, wasmiscuedfor abrace. The third, a David’s heroics ahardmatch," Barcelona midfielder Sergio Busquets theyare firing on all cylinders again, manager Ole side since 2010 continues at leastuntil November 28, slightlyfuller off-cutter,thumpedAbdul Samad’s It might have been by sheer default that Warner said. "Wewanted to playatafasterpace, and we tried, Gunnar Solskjaer said. when Stuttgartisnexttochallenge. Both Thomas Muller middle stump. The target of three wastoo measly endedupbatting down the order —toenable the in- but once theywent ahead it became even tougher.We The RedDevils recoveredfromanearly own-goal by and Robert Lewandowski scored twice forBayern, the forKKR to mess it up. jured Williamson the freedom of Powerplayfield re- have to keep working to improve. This has juststarted." LukeShawtosecureacomfortable victorywith late latter completing his feat of scoring againsteachofthe OnlyWarner seemedcapable of spoiling strictions. Forsomeone who has battedmostofhis ca- Barcelona hosts Hungarian club Ferencvaros in the strikes from Bruno Fernandes, AaronWan-Bissaka and division's 18 teams. The Poland star's goals againstBayern Ferguson’s dreamyevening, but in the inky skies of reer at the topofthe batting order,Warner hardly Champions League on Tuesday. Marcus Rashfordafter under-fireskipper Harry Maguire forprevious club Dortmund helpedconvince the AbuDhabi, Ferguson’s name waswritten in bold. struggledinhis newrole. He nearly orchestrated acal- Griezmann's struggles continuedfor another game. levelledthe contestat1-1. Bavarian powerhouse to sign him in 2014. culatedchase, in the face of aproper fast-bowling as- Fergie’s time sault by Ferguson. It wasthe evening he appropriated In the deafening silence of the AbuDhabi's Sheikh Dhoni, guarding his wicket,running hard, keeping the ZayedStadium, Ferguson rediscoveredhis rhythm. chasealive andbringingitdownthewire.Sunrisersre- Playing his firstIPL game of the season and onlythe quired 18 from the lastover, bowled by AndreRussell. 10th in three years, the Kiwi wasalways daunted by When Warner got the strike, theyneeded16off five. the IPL massive crowds in the pre-pandemic years. Thenextthreedeliveriesthunderedto theropesintyp- “I couldn’t getoverthe noise,” he said in an interview icalWarnerfashion.Allshouldersandforearms.Butoff on the KKR websiterecently. He offers the logic too: thelasttwo,hemanagedjustthree,takingthematchto “I think it wasdifficult to measurefor aKiwi because theSuperOver.Hissidewasbeaten,butthechaseshed forthe BlackCaps, acrowd of 20,000is abig crowd.” another dimension of Warner’s batting. Bereftofacrowd, on arelatively sluggish surface, BRIEF SCORES: KKR 163/5 in 20 overs (S Gill 36, Ferguson’s searing pace washotterthan the blazing EMorgan34, NRana 29; TNatarajan 2/40) bt SRK sun. Manish Pandeywould admit. The Sunrisers bats- 163/6 in 20 overs (D Warner 47*, JBairstow36, K man thought he had sizedupthe deliveryand offered Williamson 29, LFerguson 3/15) via Super Over the likelieststroketoavert the looming danger.He triedtodig out aflat and flaming yorker,dipping and KXIP beat MI aftertwo Super Overs tailing intohis off-stump. But even before his hands Kings XI Punjab defeated Mumbai Indians after could executethe orders of his body,the ball had double Super Over on Sundy.Bothteams were tiedat blastedthe off-stump. 176/6 afterregulation 20 overs. Theycouldn’t besep- Pandeywas Ferguson’s thirdwicket of the arated again afterthe firstSuper Over before Chris evening, and he had nearly single-handedlypulled Gayleand Mayank Agarwalsealedthe deal. his team backfromthe jaws of acertain defeat. BRIEFSCORES:MumbaiIndians176/6in20overs Hyderabad were 58 in six overs, chasing 164for vic- (Q de Kock 53; MShami 2/30) losttoKXIP 176/6 in 20 tory,when he took out his national team captain Kane overs (KL Rahul 77;JBumrah 3/24) via Super Over Williamson. Next over,after apace barrage,hede- Super Over 1: KXIP 5/2; MI 5/2 ceivedPriyam Gargwith changeofpace. The side-of- Super Over 2: MI 11/1; KXIP 15/0 the-hand off-cutter barelynudged 120kmh, as the Playing tonight:CSK vs RR, 7.30pm young Indian batsman swipedatthin air. As muchashis pace and the mastery in changing Narine cleared of suspect action pace,Ferguson’saccuracyof lengthandlinestoodout. PTI adds: KKR spinnerSunil Narine wason He mostlypeddledbackoflength, angling intothe Sundaycleared by the Indian Premier League's sus- right-hander and pitching in the corridor.The IPL in pect bowling action committee afterbeing reported the deserthas been something of an oasis forfast lastweek.Narine wasreportedfor asuspect action bowlers,theout-and-out-ones,andFerguson’srisehas during his team's clash againstKings XI Punjab last furtherbolsteredthenarrative.Hismatchfigures-4.3- Saturdayand another suchinstance could have led 0-17-5 –tell avivid tale. him to being barredfrombowling in the league.

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