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Vol. 13 No. 78 RNI NO. DELENG/2008/25465 New Delhi, Monday, 2 August, 2021 [email protected] 9971359517 12 pages. 2/- Pegasus spyware row PM Modi to launch digital payment Supreme Court to hear pleas seeking solution e-RUPI on August 2 / Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch e-RUPI, a person and court-monitored probe on August 5 purpose-specific digital payment solution, on August 2. Simmi Kaur Babbar Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch a person and purpose- New Delhi. The Supreme Court will has several grave political and security specific digital payment solution, hear a batch of petitions seeking a ramifications, especially considering e-RUPI, on August 2 via video court-monitored probe into the that the devices of government conferencing. Pegasus spyware controversy on ministers, senior political figures and The e-RUPI initiative will be one of Thursday, August 5. A bench constitutional functionaries which may the programmes launched over the comprising Chief Justice N V contain sensitive information have been years to limit touchpoints between Ramana and Justice Surya Kant will targeted,” the plea added. Besides the the government and the hear three separate petitions in the plea filed by N Ram and Sasi Kumar, beneficiary and "ensure that the case. two separate petitions have been filed in benefits reach its intended In a hearing on July 30, a bench headed the apex court by advocate M L Sharma beneficiaries in a targeted and by Chief Justice N V Ramana took and John Brittas. leak-proof manner”, the Prime note of the submissions of senior What is the Pegasus spyware Minister's Office said in a lawyer Kapil Sibal, who appeared for controversy? statement. e-RUPI is a cashless the petitioners in the case. The top Several reports by an international media and contactless instrument for court agreed that the plea needed to be consortium alleged that over 300 digital payments. It acts as an e- heard in view of the large using military-grade spyware is an verified mobile phone numbers, voucher based on a QR code or its UPI platform, in collaboration with the ramifications of the alleged snooping. Several unacceptable violation of the right to privacy including of two ministers, over 40 SMS string, which is delivered to the mobile Department of Financial Services, Ministry eminent citizens, politicians and journalists which has been held to be a fundamental right journalists, three opposition leaders, activists phones of the beneficiaries. e-RUPI of Health and Family Welfare and National have accused the central agencies of snooping underArticles 14 (equality before the law), 19 and one sitting judge in India could have been connects the sponsors of the services with Health Authority. “It is expected to be a over them by using Israeli spyware Pegasus. (freedom of speech and expression) and 21 targeted for hacking through Israeli spyware the beneficiaries and service providers in a revolutionary initiative in the direction of What do PILs over Pegasus spyware say? The (protection of life and personal liberty) by the Pegasus. The Opposition has accused the digital manner without any physical ensuring a leak-proof delivery of welfare petitions filed before the Supreme Court, Supreme Court,” one of the pleas read. The central government of not being transparent interface. It also ensures that the payment to services. It can also be used for delivering including those by senior journalists N Ram plea claimed that the hack occasioned by the on the issue and demanded clarification on if the service provider is made only after the services under schemes meant for providing and Sashi Kumar, claimed the alleged Pegasus spyware constituted a criminal the spyware was used to snoop on Indians. transaction is completed. Being prepaid in drugs and nutritional support under Mother snooping represented an attempt by the offence punishable under Sections 66 The ongoing Monsoon Session of Parliament nature, it assures timely payment to the and Child welfare schemes, TB eradication central agencies to muzzle the exercise of free (computer related offences), 66B has also been affected by the row, with the service provider without the involvement of programmes, drugs and diagnostics under speech and expression of dissent in India. The (punishment for dishonestly receiving stolen Opposition accusing the NDA government of any intermediary. The one-time payment schemes like Ayushman Bharat Pradhan pleas, which were filed on July 27, seek a computer resource or communication running away from a discussion. However, IT mechanism of e-RUPI will allow users to Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana, fertilizer direction to the Centre to disclose if the device), 66E (punishment for violation of Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said the reports redeem the voucher without a card, digital subsidies, etc,” PMO stated. “Even the government or any of its agencies obtained a privacy) and 66F (punishment for claiming illegal surveillance using Pegasus payments app or internet banking access, at private sector can leverage these digital license for Pegasus spyware and used it, either cyberterrorism) of the ITAct, punishable with spyware were aimed at maligning Indian the service provider. The e-RUPI platform vouchers as part of their employee welfare directly or indirectly, to conduct surveillance imprisonment and/or fine. “The attack prima democracy. He said there was no substance in has been developed by the National and corporate social responsibility in any manner. The targeted surveillance facie constitutes an act of cyber-terrorism that the allegations. Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) on programmes,” it added. Problems started with Nehru's 1947 speech Amit Shah to lay 64% of promises made in foundation of Rs 150 crore election manifesto fulfilled: from Red Fort: MP Minister on inflation Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot Vindhyachal Corridor Bhopal. ABJP minister in Madhya was the preserve of a few industrialists. Jaipur. Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Pradesh on Saturday said the problem The inflation is down and people's Gehlot on Saturday said that 64 per cent of of inflation does not arise “in a day or incomes have increased during the BJP project in Uttar Pradesh the promises made in the 2018 assembly two”, and the economy began to go rule, the minister claimed. Congress election manifesto have been fulfilled so far. downhill with the “mistakes” of workers should rather protest in front of New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah “Despite the first and the second wave of Jawaharlal Nehru's speech from the “10 Janpath” (party president Sonia will visit Uttar Pradesh’s Mirzapur on Covid-19, the government has successfully ramparts of the Red Fort on August 15, Gandhi's residence), he quipped. Sunday (August 1) where he will lay the implemented the promises it made during the 1947. Minister for Medical Education Congress leaders in the state ridiculed foundation stone of Rs 150 crore 2018 assembly election. In the last 2.5 years, Vishvas Sarang was reacting to a Sarang's comments. MP Congress Vindhyachal Corridor Project (VCP). Shah along with complete development of the planned protest by the Congress over spokesperson KK Mishra said, “Vishwas will also inaugurate a ropeway that will cost state, every effort has been made to ease the rising prices and other issues. Sarang, an eligible minister of Shivraj's Rs 16 crore in Vindhyachal. pain of those in need,” he said. Talking to reporters in Bhopal, Sarang [Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan] The minister will be accompanied by Chief “At least 321 out of 501 goals, that is 64 per Minister Yogi Adityanath. The Vindhyachal said that “if the credit for increasing from the ramparts of the Red Fort on August circus, is blaming the country's inflation cent of promises of the public manifesto have inflation by crippling the economy after the on Nehru's speech in 1947 when he was not Corridor project is being built on the lines of been fulfilled. Along with that, 138 other 15, 1947,” the BJP leader said. The the Kashi Vishwanath Dham Corridor country's independence goes to anyone, it is Narendra Modi government, on the other even born. As a departmental [health] initiatives are under progress,” he further the Nehru family”. “Inflation does not rise minister, can you state if Nehru was also project of Varanasi. Shah is expected to said. This comes a day after the election hand, has strengthened the economy in the reach Devri airport in the afternoon after in a day or two. The foundation of the past seven years, he said. The BJP responsible for the thousands of deaths due manifesto review committee meeting was to lack of beds, oxygen and Remdesivir which he, along with the CM, will head to held in Jaipur. As the buzz around cabinet economy is not laid in a day or two. The government has launched schemes for the country's economy has deteriorated due to during the coronavirus pandemic?” Vindhyachal temple for ‘bhumi pujan’. “The expansion in Rajasthan has been gaining welfare of the poor and their participation in Union Home Minister and Chief Minister ground, political experts see it as an attempt the mistakes of the speech that [the first the economy, Sarang said, adding that Narendra Saluja, another Congress prime minister] Jawaharlal Nehru delivered spokesperson, said the BJP ministry. will land at Devri airport around 2.40 p.m. to inform the party high command about the during the Congress regime the economy From the helipad, they will go to state government's performance before final Vindhyachal temple. After offering prayers decision is made over cabinet expansion. at the temple, they will perform the rituals of Various factions in the Congress unit of Air Chief Marshal Bhadauria embarks on UAE visit `bhumi pujan`. They will then reach the Rajasthan are trying to ensure that the New Delhi. Air Chief Marshal RKS official release said the “goodwill visit” by Air Force level exchanges, as part of the Government Inter College ground to address decision of central leadership is in their a public meeting following inauguration of favour in the light of the impending cabinet Bhadauria on Saturday embarked on a the IAF Chief to the UAE will further comprehensive strategic partnership expansion and political appointments in the visit to the United Arab Emirates in strengthen bilateral defence cooperation. between the two sides,” it said, without the ropeway for Vindhya circle and laying of state. CM Ashok Gehlot is likely to drop a reflection of India's growing strategic ties It said Air Chief Marshal Bhadauria is mentioning the duration of the visit. In the foundation stone of other projects,” few ministers during the cabinet reshuffle. Divisional Commissioner Mirzapur, with the influential Gulf country. visiting the UAE on an invitation from last few years, India's ties with the UAE Yogeshwar Ram Mishra was quoted as His visit comes nearly eight months after Major General Ibrahim Nasser M Al have witnessed a major upswing. The saying by IANS. Mishra added that the BJP-led Assam govt has Chief of Army Staff Gen MM Naravane Alawi, Commander of the UAE Air Force UAE Air Force had provided mid-air project will be started immediately after the travelled to the Gulf country. In December andAir Defence (UAEAF andAD). refuelling to a number of Rafale fighter ‘bhumi pujan’ as removal of identified 92 last year, Gen Naravane paid a six-day “The IAF and UAE AF and AD have had jets on their journey from France to India. buildings surrounding the temple, has no plan to resolve visit to the UAE and Saudi Arabia in a significant professional interactions in the India is procuring 36 Rafale jets from already been done after their purchase. first-ever trip by a head of the Indian Army past few years and this visit will further France out of which 24 have already been Under the project, a 50-ft-wide Parikrama border dispute with to the two important Gulf countries. An strengthen the defence cooperation and delivered. (circumambulation) route will be created to allow the visitors to get a full view of the holy shrine, known as one of Shaktipeeths. Mizoram: APCC president The roads leading to the temple are also being widened as a part of the project. In Guwahati. The Congress party on Thursday Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren calls for addition to this, improvement of basic said that the present Bharatiya Janata Party infrastructure and introducing modern (BJP) government in Assam has no plan to facilities, including parking zones, guest resolve the border dispute with Mizoram. houses, shopping complexes, retiring rooms Assam Pradesh Congress Committee for pilgrims, will also be undertaken. (APCC) president Bhupen Borah said that CBI probe into Dhanbad judge's death Shah and Yogi will inaugurate the ropeway for two days prior to the violent Assam- thousands of pilgrims who flock Ashtabhuja Mizoram border clash, Union Home Ranchi. Jharkhand Chief Minister Chief Secretary and Director General of and Kali Khoh hills of holy Trikon of Minister Amit Shah had visited Shillong Hemant Soren on Saturday decided to Police [DGP] of Jharkhand to submit a Vindhyachal. The ropeway, which will be and discussed the inter-state border issue hand over the investigation into the hit- report in a week's time on the status of the first in east UP, will be started in two phases with chief ministers of all the north-eastern and-run death of a Dhanbad judge to the investigation on the sad demise of as the only one ropeway line connecting Kali states. Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). additional district and sessions Judge Khoh and Ashtabhuja project is in finishing “If concrete discussions about the border An official spokesman said that the Uttam Anand,” said the bench headed by state. The second line from Ashtabhuja to the dispute had taken place at the meeting in chief minister has suggested that the Chief Justice NV Ramana. The bench had terminal (parking site) is still under the presence of the Union home minister, investigation into the death of District said it was concerned with the larger construction and expected to be completed the violent clashes between the police and Sessions Court-8 judge Uttam issues such as “the nature of the incident by December end. UP tourism joint director forces of the two states would not have Anand be handed over to the primary and the steps taken by the state (Varanasi) Avinash Mishra said, "Under Rs happened. Probably, the Assam chief investigating agency. governments for the protection of judicial 16 crore ropeway project, a 199-metre first minister was just pretending then to move The 49-year-old judge was allegedly officers inside and outside the court line ropeway linking Kali Khoh and mowed down by a heavy autorickshaw premises”. Jharkhand Chief Justice Ravi Ashtabhuja and other the 102-metre second forward and solve the border row,” he said. Ranjan on Thursday said, "If it appears to The APCC president further said, “Now, while he was on a morning jog on July The Supreme Court and also the Jharkhand line, which will take visitors from 28 morning in Dhanbad. The Jharkhand High Court had expressed concerns over the the court at any point in time that the inquiry Mizoram has filed an FIR against the chief is not headed in the proper path, the case will Ashtabhuja hill to terminal (parking point), government had set up a Special matter and directed the state police to solve has been created. Being initiated on a public minister of Assam. The heads of both the Investigation Team to crack the judge's the case speedily. Lawyers in Jharkhand be handed over to the CBI." states are fighting on social media. I guess death case expeditiously.After meeting with private partnership (PPP) model, this project abstained from judicial work on Friday in Dhanbad judge death case current status will enable visitors to enjoy the beauty of the the whole meeting was just an act.” Bhupen the judge's family members on Friday, Soren response to a call from all 37 bar CCTV footage showed that the judge was Borah also questioned the credibility of the stated that the government was serious about forest area between two hills from the height associations, including 24 district bar jogging on one side of a fairly wide road at of over 260 metres." BJP-led North East Democratic Alliance the situation and assured the family that associations, 12 sub-divisional bar Randhir Verma Chowk early on Wednesday (NEDA). “Everyone was hopeful that justice will be served. "It is state associations, and one Advocates when a heavy auto-rickshaw veered towards The Union Home Minister is also expected to NEDA would take initiative to solve the government's priority to complete the Association at the Jharkhand High Court, to him, hit him from behind and fled the scene. visit former Chief Minister Kalyan Singh border dispute as all ruling parties of the investigation of this incident at a speedy protest the death of a judge and the murder of Locals took him to a nearby hospital, where who is hospitalised in Lucknow. Before region are part of NEDA and the Assam pace and provide justice to the family an advocate in the state. The Supreme Court the doctors had declared him dead on arrival. proceeding to Mirzapur, the Union Home CM Himanta Biswa Sarma is the chief of members," Soren had told the family. Friday took suo motu cognizance of the "sad Jharkhand police on Thursday arrested two Minister will also lay the foundation of the NEDA. However, now it seems the entire Death of Dhanbad judge triggers demise" of the Dhanbad judge Uttam Anand auto drivers, Lakhan Verma and his aide state`s first-of-its-kind forensic institute in meeting was staged,” he said. nationwide outrage in the “gruesome incident”. "We direct the Rahul Verma in connection with the case. Lucknow on Sunday. 2 New Delhi, Monday, 2 August, 2021 NATIONAL THE SIKH TIMES

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PDP only party resisting Centre in Jammu and Kashmir: Mehbooba Mufti Uneasy calm at Assam-Mizoram New Delhi. Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday said her Peoples Democratic Party was the only party that is resisting the Centre in Jammu and Kashmir. Talking to reporters after meeting party workers in the Pulwama district in south Kashmir, Mehbooba said border, security forces on alert the Centre is trying to break the PDP by either “offering” its leaders something or Silchar. Five days after a bloody border clash team of Assam Assembly led by Speaker using its agencies to intimidate them. “If you stop resisting, you will stop existing. If between Assam and Mizoram police, the Biswajit Daimary visited the bordering areas we have to exist, then the PDP has to stand inter-state borders of the two northeastern and strongly protested against the firing from before the Centre the way it is. PDP is the states remained quiet but tensed with Mizoram, which killed six Assam policemen only party which is resisting the moves of security personnel remaining on extra alert to besides injuring many. Daimary said: "Just as the Centre that is why they tried to break the prevent any fresh eventuality, officials said all parties in Mizoram are united in PDP by giving offers to some leaders and on Saturday. protecting the borders of Mizoram, all parties used NIA, ED like agencies to break Wearing bullet proof jackets, Cachar district in our state (Assam) must also be united. If others,” the party chief said. SP Ramandeep Kaur and Deputy the current policy and law do not allow for She said the leaders of her party were thrown Commissioner Kirti Jalli, accompanied by a settlements in the reserve forest area of the out of their secure residential quarters, their huge contingent of security forces, moved border, then there is a need to formulate new security was being taken back and even along the trouble-torn bordering areas in policies or enact laws in the interest of border cases were being registered against them. bullet proof vehicles. Due to the border protection." “Some are being kept in jails like (party's youth leader) Waheed Para,” she added. troubles, responding to the Mizoram Raijor Dal President Akhil Gogoi, who's also Mehbooba said the PDP is not a party but a government's request, the Indian Oil an arch-rival of Assam Chief Minister movement, an ideology and the BJP cannot Corporation has started supplying transport Himanta Biswa Sarma, said: "We might have break it. “PDP came into existence for the fuel to Mizoram by road through the alternate disagreements in the Assembly and peaceful resolution of Jammu and Kashmir. roads in Mamit district, avoiding the trouble differences of opinion on political issues, but We will not leave this path till Jammu and ragged Cachar-Kolasib routes. The Mizoram I strongly oppose the move by Mizoram. The Kashmir will become a bridge of peace government has also taken steps to ferry FIR registered against the Assam Chief the guise of security concern has verbally Mizoram. In this Covid pandemic situation, between India and Pakistan,” she said. various other essentials from neighbouring Minister by Mizoram police must be given instructions to all transporters in life-saving drugs are being stopped by Tripura and Manipur. Mizoram shares 95 km withdrawn." In Aizawl, the Mizoram Guwahati not to carry any goods, even Assam leading to a dire situation in our state Delhi zoo reopens after being inter-state borders with Manipur and 109 km Chemists and Druggists Association medicine, destined for Mizoram." "Even with far reaching ramifications and with Tripura. Meanwhile, cutting across (MCDA) in a letter to the state Chief private courier services have been barred consequences," MCDA President and temporarily shut during second political lines, a 10-member all-party MLA Secretary said: "The Assam government in from booking items and materials for General Secretary told the Chief Secretary. Covid wave New Delhi. The Delhi zoo was reopened to North, central India to receive intense rainfall over the public on Sunday, three and a half months after it was temporarily shut due to a Danish Siddiqui’s surge in coronavirus cases during the second wave. The facility had earlier next four days, red alert issued for Rajasthan, MP remained closed for over a year due to the body mutilated, had pandemic and bird flu and was reopened on living on the floodplains of the Yamuna in April 1. the capital as Haryana discharged more multiple bullet "The zoo opens today. Rain could not deter water into the river from the Hathnikund the spirit and enthusiasm of the people, Light to moderate rains Barrage. The weather department has especially the young ones. We are trying our issued a yellow alert in the national capital wounds, tyre marks best to make their visit worthwhile," Zoo drenched the neighbouring for Sunday and an orange alert for Monday. Director Ramesh Pandey said. The zoo will Light to moderate rain occurred at many New Delhi. The body of Danish operate in two shifts -- from 8 am to noon, states around Rajasthan even as Siddiqui, a Pulitzer Prize-winning and 1 pm to 5 pm. Visitors are required to places in Uttar Pradesh with Lakhimpur Kheri recording the highest maximum Reuters photojournalist who was buy tickets online on the zoo's website or at intense rainfall activity has killed in Afghanistan on July 16, was the entry gates using QR codes. The temperature of 35.5 degrees Celsius. administration has also introduced cycles been predicted for the next few Rainfall was recorded in Chitrakoot, badly mutilated while in the custody for its staff in a bid to minimise noise Etawah, Etah, Auraiya, Firozabad, of the Taliban, officials said this pollution due to vehicles and reduce carbon days in parts of north and Sonbhadra, Agra and Lalitpur districts. In week. An Indian national, the 38- footprint. According to Pandey, the zoo had moderate rains drenched the neighbouring Punjab and Haryana, the maximum year-old Siddiqui was killed on the recorded only 124 animal deaths, the lowest central India. states even as intense rainfall activity has been temperatures hovered close to normal limits morning of July 16, when Afghan in the last three years, while it remained predicted for the next few days in parts of with some places in both the states witnessing commandos he had accompanied to closed to the public in 2020-21. There are north and central India. rainfall. Chandigarh, the joint capital of the Spin Boldak, a border district 94 species and 1,162 animals in the zoo at Delhi received an average of 43.6 mm of rain till two states, recorded a maximum temperature recently captured by the Taliban, present. "We are moving towards having 8.30 am as the mercury reached a high of 34.4 of 35 degrees Celsius and traces of rainfall. were ambushed. Initial photographs 100 species soon," he said. The Delhi zoo is degrees Celsius. Due to heavy rains in the last Widespread rainfall was recorded in eastern from the scene showed Siddiqui’s likely to get three lions for breeding few days, a portion of a road under the IIT- parts of Rajasthan inundating roads in many body with multiple wounds but fully purposes from Gujarat under an animal places and washing out railway tracks Gudha intact. exchange programme and three tigers from Delhi flyover caved in disrupting traffic. However, in a sigh of relief, the water level in and Govindi Marwar station in Jodhpur But by that evening, when the body was Nagpur and Chennai. It got an Ostrich from New Delhi: Heavy showers in eastern Rajasthan the Yamuna river receded below the danger division. Several roads were inundated in handed over to the Red Cross and the Chhatbir zoo in Chandigarh around four wreaked havoc as roads were damaged and rail mark of 205.33 on Saturday morning, a day Jaipur, Dausa, Tonk, Sawaimadhopur, Karauli, transferred to a hospital in the months ago. No animal exchange tracks got washed out in Jodhpur division. after the Delhi administration sounded a flood Dholpur and Baran. Due to a well-marked low- southern city of Kandahar, it had been programme has been conducted since then The India Meteorological Department (IMD) badly mutilated, according to two due to the pandemic. alert and expedited efforts to evacuate people pressure area and a monsoon trough, fairly has issued a red alert for parts of Rajasthan and widespread to widespread rainfall with Indian officials and two Afghan living in the river floodplains. The water level health officials there. The New York Madhya Pradesh. Fairly widespread to was recorded at 205.01 metres at the Old isolated heavy to very heavy rainfall is likely Lalan is JD(U) top post pick as widespread rainfall with isolated heavy to very over east Madhya Pradesh on July 31-August 1 Times reviewed multiple Railway Bridge at 8 am. It was 205.44 metres photographs, some provided by heavy rain is very likely over west Uttar at 1 am and 205.20 metres at 6 am. On Friday, and over Chhattisgarh and east Uttar Pradesh Nitish tries to strike balance Pradesh between August 1 and 2. Light to Indian officials and others taken by the Delhi Police started evacuating people on July 31. Afghan health workers at the between loyalists hospital, that showed Siddiqui’s body Ignore summons to each other’s officials: Assam, Mizoram keep forces at the border, no backing down had been mutilated. One Indian Patna. JD(U)’s Munger MP and Lok Sabha official said the body had nearly a leader Rajiv Ranjan, also known as Lalan Guwahati. A day after they summoned each Sarma said he would be “very happy” to join DGPs of the two states met the Union Home dozen bullet wounds and that there Singh, was on Saturday chosen as its other’s officials over the July 26 border the probe but asked why it was not being Secretary — decided that Central Armed were tyre marks on Siddiqui’s face national president at the party’s national incident in which six Assam Police personnel handed over to a “neutral agency”. Police Forces (CAPF) will be deployed in the and chest. One of the health officials executive meeting in Delhi. He replaces R were killed in firing and clashes, Assam and “Why is the case not being handed over to a disturbed area, and the two state governments in Kandahar said the body, along with C P Singh, who offered to step down after Mizoram refused to honour the summons. Theneutral agency, especially when the place of will work out an arrangement in coordination Siddiqui’s press vest, reached the being inducted as a minister in the deadlock is adding to tensions between the two occurrence is well within the constitutional with the Ministry of Home Affairs to facilitate city’s main hospital around 8 pm on Narendra Modi government. states. territory of Assam?”. He said he had already the functioning of neutral forces within a the day he was killed. His face was From being Karpoori Thakur’s aide to Referring to the Mizoram Police FIR which conveyed it to Zoramthanga, his Mizoram “reasonable time frame”. As of Saturday, both unrecognisable, said the official, who emerging as Nitish Kumar’s man Friday, names him and six officials — it has been filed counterpart. Assam DGP Bhaskarjyoti states had their forces at the border, along with added that he could not determine Singh is a natural choice in Nitish’s attempt in Vairengte, the town in Kolasib district which Mahanta said: “We don’t recognise the the CAPF — neither ready to back down. exactly what had been done to the to strike a balance between loyalists of borders Assam’s Cachar district where Assam summons or the case registered by Mizoram According to the Assam official, when the Chief Secretaries and DGPs met Union Home body. There are conflicting reports Singh and RCP Singh. A Bhumihar leader, Police too has lodged an FIR against Mizoram Police. They simply cannot say they have about what happened on July 16, as Singh has the image of a troubleshooter officials — Assam Chief Minister Himanta jurisdiction over a land that does not belong to Ministry officials in early July — before the July 26 incident — discussions had led to the the Afghan special forces with whom and is known for his organisational skills Biswa Sarma told reporters Saturday: “It is them. This (case) does not mean anything to Siddiqui was travelling tried to retake and wide connections across party lines. childish of them (Mizoram), but the fact is that us.” Mizoram Home Minister Lalchamliana, framing of a three-point understanding. “One the place where the clashes happened belongs referring to the Assam FIR, said Mizoram was was that they will withdraw their forces from Spin Boldak. Accounts from local He has stood by Nitish Kumar since the officials, as well as Taliban members, beginning of their political career, barring to Assam. So if a case has to be registered, the not going to respect summons from Assam the posts/check gates they had built during the jurisdiction falls under Assam Police. But now Police. On the impasse, a senior Assam official Covid-19 lockdown, that no new constructions suggest that Siddiqui and the Afghan the two years after 2009 Lok Sabha unit’s commander were killed in a elections when he quit JD(U). Singh, who since cases have been registered (by both told The Sunday Express that “nothing has will be made, and the status quo will be states), I feel both governments should hand it changed at the border” though the July 28 maintained.” “However, at the last minute, the crossfire when their convoy was is said to have recently played a role in ambushed from multiple directions. splitting the LJP, also enjoys a good rapport over to the CBI or NIA.” In a Twitter post, meeting in New Delhi — Chief Secretaries and Mizo side refused. with BJP. He was one of the five petitioners in the fodder scam case that eventually led to the conviction of Lalu Prasad. He is also known for his shrewd political skills and speaks very less to the media. Once R C P Singh became Union minister, Lalan Singh India to take over as UNSC President for was the obvious choice for the party post despite another strong contender — JD(U) parliamentary board chairman and former MP Upendra Kushwaha. The Bihar CM did not want to rush through a clear projection of Kushwaha, who had just August, focus on counter-terrorism returned to the JD(U), besides the fact that his appointment could have upset R C P Singh, who has long been the number 2 in Tirumurti said in a video message on the Speaking to WION Tirumurti said: the party organisation. eve of India assuming the rotating "Tirumurti speaking from New York said, This is also the first time an upper caste has Presidency of the powerful 15-nation UN India has "provided the much-needed been appointed as the JD(U) national body. The first working day of India's balance in the deliberations within the president though upper castes, including Presidency will be Monday, August 2 council" and "Our inputs have naturally been Bhumihar, are not known as the core when Tirumurti will hold a hybrid press of great value." India's envoy to UN T. S. constituency of Nitish Kumar, whose briefing in the UN headquarters on the Tirumurti will be representing India at the politics is woven around OBC, EBC and Council's programme of work for the council. India has been president of the body Scs. Singh’s elevation is being seen as month. Tirumurti will also provide a in June 1950, September 1967, December Nitish Kumar’s bid to rebuild the party briefing for member states of the United 1972, October 1977, February 1985, October organisation in a manner it could try to win Nations which are non-members of the 1991, December 1992, August 2011, over Bhumihars, besides nursing its core Council on its work for the month, November 2012. As the president of the constituency. Singh may well be chosen to according to a schedule released by the UNSC, India will have a number of signature prepare ground for Upendra Kushwaha, UN. India's two-year tenure as a non- events including on UN peacekeeping. who has already been touring Bihar. He is permanent member of the Security Council Pakistan: Hope India will follow most likely to travel to UP soon where the began on January 1, 2021. The August international rules, norms during the party has been looking to expand its base presidency will be India's first Presidency UNSC presidency with the presence of a sizable Koeri-Kurmi during its 2021-22 tenure as a non- Ahead of India's presidency of the United population. However, the party decision New Delhi: India will take over the Presidency "It is a singular honour for us to be presiding permanent member of the Security Nations Security Council (UNSC) for a could be a stop gap arrangement before its of the UN Security Council on August 1 and over the Security Council the same month Council. India will again preside over the month from August 1, Pakistan on Saturday organisational polls next July. Kushwaha is set to host signature events in three major when we are celebrating our 75th Council in December next year, the last expressed its hope that New Delhi would has time on his hands. So does Nitish areas of maritime security, peacekeeping, Independence Day," India's Permanent month of its two-year tenure. by follow international rules and norms. Kumar. and counterterrorism during the month. Representative to the UN Ambassador T S TaboolaSponsored LinksYou May Like Foreign Office (FO) spokesperson said this New Delhi, Monday, 2 August, 2021 DELHI-NCR THE SIKH TIMES 5

India registers 41,831 new Covid-19 cases, 541 fatalities in ED to grill Raj Singh Gehlot on how J&K Bank last 24 hours New Delhi.India reported 41,831 new Covid- 19 cases on Sunday with 541 people settled amount of Rs 289 cr at Rs 128 cr succumbing to the infection in the last 24 hours, according to data shared by the Union Health Ministry. The country’s cumulative New Delhi. Raj Singh Gehlot, Chairman of diversion of the sanctioned loans. for the purpose of construction caseload declined to 4,10,952, of which total theAmbience Group of Companies who was "Whereas the documentary and development of a five-star recoveries were at 3,08,20,521 across the arrested by the Enforcement Directorate evidences collected during the hotel at CBD, Shahdara, in New country. In the last 24 hours, active cases (ED) last week and sent to ED custody for search revealed that the Delhi. increased by 2,032. seven days, will be questioned about how submissions made by Gehlot The loan amount, along with Among all the states, Kerala reported the money was routed to different companies were false and misleading," the interest totalling to the tune of Rs highest Covid-19 cases at 20,624, followed and how he made the J&K Bank settle for Rs official said. The ED official also 902 crore, has been declared as by Maharashtra with 6,959 cases, Andhra 128 crore in place of Rs 289.08 crore. pointed out that the agency will NPA, he added. Besides ED, the Pradesh with 2,058 cases, Karnataka with Gehlot was arrested by the ED on July 28 and question Gehlot to understand Ambinece Group Chairman is 1,987 cases and Tamil Nadu with 1,986 produced before a PMLA court via video how the layering and integration also being probed by the Central cases These five states accounted for 80.36 conferencing on July 30. He has been sent to of money was done to siphon the Bureau of Investigation (CBI). per cent of the daily new cases reported on ED custody by the court for seven days. An loan amount. The Punjab and Haryana High Sunday, with Kerala alone responsible for ED official related to probe said that during He said that the J&K Bank manager Court had directed the CBI to 49.3 per cent of the fresh infections. the money-laundering investigation, it was in his statement to ED had said probe the case for the alleged Maximum casualties were reported in found that Gehlot had entered into a criminal that the loan to Gehlot was illegal construction of a Maharashtra (225), followed by Kerala with conspiracy to fraudulently siphon off the released in "deviation" of rules. c o m m ercial building on 80 deaths in the last 24 hours. A total of loan amount by diverting the funds for other "Further, against the outstanding said that the agency will also confront approximately 18.98 acres of 39,258 patients recovered during the last 24 purposes, such as to settle the loan of other liability of Rs 289.28 crore, the bank Gehlot with the statements of several land in Gurugram by blatantly flouting the hours. Daily new cases once again group companies and making Fixed officials attempted to settle the account with accused. The ED had registered a money building by-laws and statutory provisions in outnumbered daily recoveries. However, the Deposits as well as diversion of materials to accused for a paltry sum of Rs 128.94 crore," laundering case on the basis of an FIR filed collusion with others. It was alleged that the recovery rate has increased to 97.36 per other projects of the Ambience Group. "An the official said. The ED will question by the Anti-Corruption Bureau, Jammu and land where the Ambience Mall was built was cent.India conducted 17,89,472 tests during amount of Rs 469 crore was found to be Gehlot as to how he made the bank to settle Kashmir Police, against officers of J&K meant for a housing project. The CBI has the previous day, according to the Health diverted to entities and individuals, the loan of Rs 289.28 crore to Rs 128.94 Bank and others in respect of loan registered a case against a private person, Ministry data. Covid-19 vaccines controlled by Gehlot and for which he is the crore and who all were the persons who sanctioned to Aman Hospitality Pvt Ltd Gehlot, Ambience Ltd and Ambience administered so far under the Nationwide authorised signatory," he said. The official benefitted from it. The official said that the (AHPL). The ED said thatAHPLhad taken a Developers and Infrastructure Pvt Ltd and Vaccination Drive surged to 47,02,98,596, said that during the course of investigation, agency sleuths will also confront Gehlot loan amount of Rs 810 crore from a unknown officials of HUDA, and unknown with 60,15,842 doses administered on Gehlot had mislead the ED and continuously with documents, including in the digital consortium of banks led by the J&K Bank. private persons on the orders of the Punjab Saturday. tried to show that he did not make any form, such as transaction details. He further The official said that the loan was sanctioned and Haryana High Court. Delhi: Water level in Yamuna rises again; over 100 families J&K: Suspected drone moved to safer areas Heavy rains lash Delhi-NCR, several areas According to the officials, over 100 families living spotted at two in the Yamuna floodplains have been moved to waterlogged; more downpour on forecast higher areas over the last few days. locations in Samba; heavy showers kept weather New Delhi. The water level in the Yamuna in ? ational weather pleasant in the national capital. Delhi increased again and was recorded at Meanwhile, visuals of rains in forces on alert 205.30 meters on Sunday morning, just forecasting agency India Delhi were shared on the social below the danger mark of 205.33 meters, as media On Saturday, Delhi rains continued to lash Delhi and upper Meteorological Department received an average of 43.6 mm Search operations were launched in catchment areas of the river, officials said. on Sunday morning of rain till 8.30 am as the Pargwal area near the International According to the officials, over 100 families mercury reached a high of 34.4 living in the Yamuna floodplains have been predicted thunderstorm degrees Celsius. Due to heavy Border (IB) late on Thursday too after moved to higher areas over the last few days. rains in the last few days, a local residents allegedly spotted a On Friday, the Delhi administration had with moderate to heavy portion of a road under the IIT- sounded a flood alert and expedited efforts to Delhi flyover caved in flying object believed to be a drone. evacuate people from vulnerable areas, as the intensity rain over Delhi disrupting traffic. river in the capital breached the danger mark and NCR.N However, in a sigh of relief, the of 205.33 metres amid heavy rains in the water level in the Yamuna river upper catchment areas. range of 0-50 is regarded as 'good', 51-100 is 'satisfactory', 101-200 is 'moderate', receded below the danger mark of 205.33 The water level was recorded at 205.30 metres 201-300 is 'poor', 301-400 is 'very poor' on Saturday morning, a day after the Delhi at the Old Railway Bridge at 9:00 am. On and 401-500 is deemed as 'severe'. "The administration sounded a flood alert and Friday, the Yamuna had breached the danger expedited efforts to evacuate people living New Delhi. Heavy rains lashed parts of Delhi overall air quality is in the satisfactory mark and swelled to 205.59 metres by 9 pm. category as forecasted. Scattered rainfall in the river floodplains. The water level was It had receded to 204.89 metres on Saturday and the National Capital Region (NCR) in recorded at 205.01 metres at the Old the early hours of Sunday. In the midst of activity in Delhi is likely in the next two evening, according to the Delhi flood control days and likely to intensify thereafter. Railway Bridge at 8 am.It was 205.44 room. With Haryana discharging more water the monsoon season, the national capital metres at 1 am and 205.20 metres at 6 am. has been receiving spells of rain. National Satisfactory to Good AQI is forecasted for into the river from the Hathnikund Barrage, next three days", informed System of Air On Friday, the Delhi Police started New Delhi. Within hours of spotting two the Delhi Police and the East Delhi district weather forecasting agency India evacuating people living on the floodplains suspected UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Meteorological Department on Sunday Quality and Weather Forecasting And administration have been evacuating people Research (SAFAR) today. of the Yamuna in the capital as Haryana Vehicles), locals in Jammu spotted another living on the floodplains of the Yamuna in the morning predicted thunderstorm with discharged more water into the river from drone-like object in the Samba area late on moderate to heavy intensity rain over Delhi Further the temperature in the national capital capital. "The flood alert remains in place. We dipped as the city reported a minimum the Hathnikund Barrage. The weather Saturday. According to the details, a local have deployed boats in different areas and and NCR. Also, Delhi reported an overall department has issued a yellow alert in the youth made a video of the object spotted with Air Quality Index (AQI) of 48. As per the temperature of 26 degrees Celcius, as per families living in vulnerable areas are being the weather department. ense cloud cover, national capital for Sunday. a blinking light. The suspected drone temporarily moved into tents and shelter government agencies, an AQI with the disappeared after three minutes. Meanwhile, homes of the city government," an official of the security forces have launched a search the Delhi Disaster Management Authority operation in the area. said. A flood alert is declared when the Earlier on Saturday, locals had spotted two Yamuna crosses the "warning mark" of Grey Line extension, Pink Line segment of more drone-like objects. The first two drone 204.50 metres. The Delhi flood control room sightings took place in the Samba district reported a discharge rate of 17,827 cusecs between 8 and 9 pm. The third UAV activity from the Hathnikund Barrage in Haryana's Delhi Metro to begin operations on August 6 was witnessed at about 9.50 pm in the Yamunanagar district at 9:00 am. Normally, Domana area of the Jammu district. Search the flow rate at the Hathnikund barrage is 352 operations were launched in the Pargwal area cusec, but the discharge is increased after The Najafgarh-Dhansa Bus The nearly one kilometre (891 metres) near the International Border (IB) late on heavy rainfall in catchment areas. It had long Najafgarh-Dhansa Bus Stand Thursday too after local residents allegedly peaked to 1.60 lakh cusecs on Tuesday, the Stand extension of Grey Line section will take the metro further spotted a flying object believed to be a drone. highest this year so far. The water discharged into the interior areas of The operation was launched in several from the barrage normally takes two-three of the Delhi Metro and a small Najafgarh.The opening of the villages of Pargwal, shortly after a local days to reach the capital. One cusec is segment of the Pink Line Trilokpuri section, about 289 metres, resident noticed a blinking light in the sky at equivalent to 28.32 litres per second. A Met between the Mayur Vihar Pocket 1 around 8.30 pm and alerted fellow villagers. Department official said "moderate to heavy" corridor at Trilokpuri will be and Trilokpuri Sanjay Lake stations, Three suspected Pakistani drones were also rains are predicted in northwest India over will fully link the entire 59 km-long sighted simultaneously over Bari-Brahmana, the next few days, which is likely to increase inaugurated on August 6. Chiladya and Gagwal areas in Samba district water levels in the rivers flowing through the Pink Line and connect important landmarks of the city, such as the around the same time on Thursday. The latest region. In 2019, the flow rate had peaked to sightings were recorded nearly a week after 8.28 lakh cusec on August 18-19, and the Anand Vihar Railway station, Anand police shot down a Pakistani drone carrying water level of the Yamuna had hit the 206.60 New Delhi. The Najafgarh-Dhansa Bus Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri and Delhi Chief Vihar ISBT, Nizamuddin Railway five-kg Improvised Explosive Device (IED) metre-mark, breaching the danger mark of Stand extension of Grey Line of the Delhi Minister Arvind Kejriwal will flag off the station, markets in South Extension, INA material in the border belt of Kanachak near 205.33 metres. In 1978, the river had swelled Metro and a small segment of the Pink Line two sections via video conferencing. and Lajpat Nagar, officials said.The Pink Jammu. There has been a spurt in drone to the all-time record water level of 207.49 corridor at Trilokpuri will be inaugurated on While the inauguration function will be held Line spans 38 stations. activities, especially after the bombing of the metres. In 2013, it had risen to 207.32 metres. August 6, the DMRC has said in a online in the morning on August 6, With the opening of these two sections, the Indian Air Force (IAF) Station in Jammu on statement. passenger services will commence on the Delhi Metro network will span 390 km with June 27, resulting in injuries to two security Union Minister for Housing and Urban same day at 3 PM on both sections. 286 stations. personnel. Uptick in economic activity but income stress, third-wave fears weigh heavy New Delhi. Multiple high-frequency indicators weighing heavy. The Nomura India Business to meet those expenses,” said Devendra Pant, Chief point to an uptick in economic and business Resumption Index (NIBRI) fell to 95.3 for the Economist, India Ratings. activity over the last two months in the wake of the week ended July 25 from the high of 96.4 in the CARE Ratings said that Gross Fixed Capital Formation — brutal second Covid wave — but with a clear previous week — at levels from before the second an indicator for investment in the economy — is expected caveat. Wary of a re-surge, states continue partial wave but 4.7 percentage points below pre- to rise only marginally to 27.5% of GDP this fiscal from movement restrictions. Result: some indicators pandemic levels. “…Mobility, railway freight 27.1% in Fy21. “It had declined to 47.3% in Q1 of FY21. that showed a significant recovery since May are revenues and GST e-way bill data suggest some There has been a pick-up to 66.6% in Q3-FY21. Typically, beginning to flatten and remain below the pre- stagnancy in July, even as the trade sector remains a level of 78-80% is required before companies start pandemic level. strong,” Nomura said in a note. investing in capital. At the aggregate level, this looks some Google Mobility Index data showed that on July 26, Domestic travel also recouped following the second time away. Therefore, capacity expansion is more likely in visits to retail establishments including wave. According to data sourced from DGCA, industries which have reached optimal utilization levels restaurants, cafes and shopping centres, were domestic air traffic rose 47% in June compared like steel or pharma. But it is unlikely to be generalised down 20% compared to a pre-Covid baseline. This with May on the back of easing of travel which is what is required to push up the gross fixed capital baseline is calculated as the median value of the restrictions and a dip in Covid cases. Around 3.11 formation rate,” it said. According to Nomura, the pace of corresponding day of the week during the five- million passengers flew in June on domestic routes vaccination and the risk of a third wave remain risks to week period between January 3 and February 5, compared with 2.12 million in May. Passenger growth. “The pace of vaccinations stagnated, with the 2020. On April 23 this year, a fortnight before the vehicle wholesales more than doubled to 2,31,633 month-to-date average in July at about 3.7 million second wave peaked, visits were down a sharper multiplex cinema theatres in malls are key drivers of units in June, compared with 1,05,617 units in the doses/day. We currently forecast a faster pace of 46%. Similarly, on July 26, visits to public transport hubs footfall in these shopping centres. E-way bill data also same month of 2020 which had witnessed massive Covid- vaccination starting in August but the recent pace suggests like bus and train stations were only 11% down from the points to an uptick. Average daily e-way bill generation related disruptions. Although industrial activity was not risks are skewed towards a delay. With pandemic cases pre-Covid baseline. Retail outlet visits could witness a improved to 19.83 lakh in the first 25 days of July from affected significantly in the second wave, there is idle plateauing at an elevated level of about 39,000 new cases further surge with movie halls reopening. Inox Leisure 18.22 lakh in June. This indicator, a proxy for inter-state industrial capacity. “The second wave caused a setback to per day?, susceptibility to a third wave remains a key said it will reopen cinema halls in several cities including and intra-state movement of goods, was at 20.2 lakh the economic recovery. But industrial activity continued growth risk,” Nomura said. This is underlined by the fact Delhi NCR, Lucknow, Jaipur, Kota, Surat, Anand, week ending July 25, compared with 20.4 lakh in the broadly as lockdowns this time were localised and that as many as 40 crore people still remain vulnerable, Bharuch, Rajkot, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Manipal, preceding week and 19.24 lakh in the first 11 days of July. implemented with Covid protocol. Things are gradually according to the latest nationwide serosurvey by the Indian Mysore, Belgavi, Raipur, Vijayawada, Dhanbad, Bhopal Yet, several experts concur that consumption levels remain falling into place, there is a mood of cautious optimism. Council of Medical Research that estimated two-thirds of and Indore. PVR, the largest cinema chain in the country, subdued due to incomes hit by the pandemic, enhanced Consumption levels are still low as households have seen the population above the age of six as having been said it will reopen its halls in select cities. Significantly, household spending on health and fears of a third wave high health expenditure and have dipped into their savings infected. New Delhi, Monday, 2 August, 2021 EDITORIAL THE SIKH TIMES 6 Meeting the Mighty snooping on the meek Pegasus scandal is an embarrassment on more than one count challenge of new Yea, I walk through the valley of the shadow of surveillance, I will fear all evil: for thou art with me; my phone and thy software they discomfort me. Well, this climate normal attempt at rephrasing Psalm 23 may not fully capture our all-pervading fear of being snooped on, but it does paint a painful picture of life lived under the magnifying lens of an invisible adversary. The Central government is in the dock over allegations of buying the Pegasus software from NSO, an Israeli company, for hundreds of crores of rupees, to deploy it against Indian citizens — politicians, bureaucrats, journalists and others. The Centre has not responded to these allegations in Parliament, but the Israeli government has raided the NSO, giving the scandal a global dimension. While the BJP government and the Opposition battle over accusations and refutations, there are questions galore that go abegging. To ask some of them, one has to assume that the government did indeed buy the Pegasus software, as alleged by the global consortium of 17 media The images of incessant rain, floods, landslides and organisations, and that it deployed this software — rockfalls going viral on social media platforms listening to, reading and watching all that was happening these days may appear straight from a movie or a on thousands of mobile devices. If the allegations are sci-fi novel on the apocalypse. Unfortunately, true, why did the government buy this software at all? All they are real climate disasters hitting different governments all across the world are listening to private parts of India, and many other countries across the conversations all the time, why then buy this particular world. Heatwaves in North America, devastating software? This seems to be another instance of a cyclones in the pre-monsoon weeks and extreme monumental goof-up, comparable in scale to the blunders rainfall events in India, massive floods in China during the first lockdown or the oxygen crisis of the the host does not even suspect an attack and that the crossing vendors with ineffective wares. The allegations, and floods in parts of Germany are all part of the second coronavirus surge. Fortunately, no lives were lost software does not leave a trace behind in the mobile in fact, point towards the failure of our national capacity same larger story — a change in the global or no one was made to walk thousands of kilometres; only device. But Pegasus did leave a trace that was to build and operate weapons-grade technology. The weather patterns. a few hundred crores of taxpayers’ money were lost and forensically analysed by the Citizen Lab of the University bright side of the Pegasus scandal is the understanding Scientific bodies like the Inter-governmental Panel some political embarrassment caused, which is of course of Toronto. If this is weapons-grade technology, then it is that we are being watched, heard and read all the time. If on Climate Change have been warning of the par for the course. a gun that backfires. Apple’s App store has already the Israelis have half-decent software, theAmericans and catastrophic impacts of global warming for Buyers of Pegasus software do it primarily for one reason: launched a new version of the application iVerify to the Chinese would definitely have foolproof versions that decades. All these warnings are not only turning deniability. The software can be deployed by third-party ‘check your device for trails of Pegasus software.’ won’t leave a trace even in the Apple phones that they into reality but also hitting us harder with each contractors, launched from third party servers — kept in Now, the second failure is a blunder of epic proportions. design and manufacture. If the Chinese have this passing year. The impact of such extreme weather Ukraine today, Serbia tomorrow and Croatia the day NSO has left the database of all those individuals against capability, nothing stops them from sharing it with their events gets exacerbated due to manmade causes after. The contractors check in and out of servers like whom the software was deployed in some unsecured strongest ally, the Pakistanis. In a country where like faulty planning and public policies. Extreme guests walking in and out of hotel rooms. This makes the server from where it has been either hacked or leaked. If everyone conducts even the most confidential business weather has become the new normal, to use a operation untraceable because it cannot be proved who the NSO itself has leaked the database — like some over WhatsApp and there are WhatsApp groups for cliché. We need to seriously ponder on how we are launched the software and from where. Even more Income Tax department official leaking the Radia tapes to officials in most government departments, snooping going to adjust our lives to this new climate valuable is the kind of snooping offered: to infect and take all and sundry — then the Pegasus scandal should go would have become pretty easy now. There are only two normal. First, recognise the intrinsic connection over a device without leaving a trace. The saleability of down as the most comical snooping attempt ever made in possibilities for those in public life. A life of Gandhian between climate change and extreme weather Pegasus-like expensive software lies in their efficiency in the history of techint. After all, this snooping deal has transparency, where one leads a life without anything to events. The public discourse on climate change remaining hidden in the infected device. All buyers, invited international ignominy on all those who bought hide while knowing full well that every bit of one’s life is often focuses on future projections of temperature allegedly our government included, fell for this claim, the software. The media organisations have only being scrutinised by a hostile entity in power. If it is not rise under different emission scenarios. This leads which has been conclusively proved wrong. So, like most mentioned this database as a ‘leaked list’ without possible to be Gandhi-like, the only option is to keep the to the wrong perception among policymakers and of the stuff the government buys, Pegasus is a dud (if the explaining whether it was leaked by NSO or someone in mobile phone out of the conversation, which might sound the general public that climate change is still a few Centre has bought it). Pegasus’s failure is twofold. the governments that used it, or whether NSO’s servers like an oxymoron, but all devices are potential targets and decades away. While projections serve a purpose, Technologically, it is inferior software that does not were hacked. hence have to be kept out. Finally, the question remains we have enough observed data that establishes perform what its makers claim it does. Any decent hacker For a government that believes in Atmanirbhar Bharat, — should governments deploy such means against their that the global temperature is rising and weather can take over a mobile device, but the challenge is in these allegations are a big blow to its competent swadeshi citizens? When the façade of deniability is torn down, patterns are fast changing. The Indian monsoon taking it over without the host knowing about the image. India claims to be a software superpower, whereas what remain exposed are big men eavesdropping on the has seen definite deviations — an overall infection. Huge amounts of money are paid to ensure that it actually might be getting fooled by glib double- meek who get crushed under their mighty boots. weakening of the monsoon circulation, longer dry spells, higher frequency and intensity of extreme rainfall and reduction in the total rainfall in the June-to-September season. Indian scientists such Rev up medical as Roxy Mathew Koll have also reported the reasons for this — the warming of the Indian Look beyond reservation, address larger issues Ocean due to carbon emissions, notably in the western Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea. Such Over the past year and a half, the Covid-19 are seeing it as a belated step aimed at achieving warming is not only affecting the monsoon pandemic has starkly highlighted the acute electoral gains, particularly in Uttar Pradesh circulation but also increasing the frequency, shortage of doctors and other medical which goes to the polls in early 2022. The intensity and duration of cyclones and causing professionals in the country. India’s doctor- primacy being finally accorded to healthcare extreme rainfall wherever local meteorological patient ratio is estimated to be 1:1,500, nowhere and medical education can be gauged from the conditions are favourable. The tropical cyclone near the WHO-prescribed benchmark of 1:1,000. fact that the UP Government is all set to open Tauktae that hit the Gujarat coast in the pre- The nationwide number and distribution of nine more medical colleges (one each in nine monsoon weeks remained active even 24 hours medical colleges are also unsatisfactory. In June districts). after its landfall, indicating the increase in the last year, PM Narendra Modi had stated that the A decent headcount, however, is only half the duration of tropical cyclones, along with bigger Union Government was working on establishing battle won. While there is no denying that intensity. We need to boost research in climate a medical college or post-graduate medical reservation is a key step towards the uplift of science to gain further insights. At the same time, institute in every district. A lot of work remains to underprivileged sections of society, the Central action to save lives and property needs to be taken be done to come close to attaining this goal. India and state governments must not lose sight of the now. This is better done by fine-tuning weather currently has 558 medical colleges (289 overarching objective — providing affordable forecasting and dovetailing forecast with government and 269 private), whereas the total quality healthcare to all citizens. Every nook and administrative and community action on the number of districts is over 740. Against this cranny of the country needs well-equipped ground. In the recent past, the precision and backdrop, the Centre’s populist decision to medical colleges that can produce good doctors. reserve 27 per cent seats for OBCs and 10 per cent accuracy of forecasts from the India Proportionately increasing the student intake seats for Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) Meteorological Department have vastly should go hand in hand with addressing in the All-India Quota scheme for undergraduate improved. In addition to regular bulletins and infrastructural shortcomings in these and postgraduate medical and dental courses institutions. And of course, ensuring the warnings, the department has begun issuing an won’t help to improve the situation on the ground. benefit around 5,000 students every year — will ‘create a affordability of medical education is another challenge ‘impact forecast’ that covers the likely outcome of The government is hopeful that the move — expected to new paradigm of social justice’, while Opposition parties that has to be taken up on priority. predictions in a given area, taking into account its Democratising higher education with ABC The Academic Bank of Credits (ABC) brings student centricity to the higher education system, and enables students to choose courses and institutions, facilitating learning from a wide range of course coordinators and institutions. For instance, a student can be enrolled for a programme in one institution and simultaneously be enrolled for courses of his choice in multiple institutions for earning credits in the physical and/or online mode.

The National Education Policy-2020 (NEP-2020) students and ensure that the learning space is alongside access and equity to improve the efficacy of is committed to creating new opportunities for available to them for anytime, anywhere, the higher education system endowed with global lifelong learning through a flexible, facilitative, any type, any amount and at any level of competencies and life skills. The responsibility of interactive and democratic educational learning. The ABC may also help integrate implementing the ABC should be entrusted to the ecosystem, replacing the prevailing restrictive, skills into a choice-based credit system by General Education Council, the fourth vertical under the demotivating and colonising one. The provision providing wide-ranging options for Higher Education Commission of India. of the innovative Academic Bank of Credits choosing courses from several institutions. The UGC, in the regulation on the ABC, makes it (ABC) in NEP-2020, besides the Through the ABC, students can plan for mandatory that the students earn 50 per cent of credits multidisciplinary graduate attributes, learning learning objectives and pursue courses to assigned to the programme from the institutions outcomes, skill-based dynamic and flexible satisfy their learning needs. Programme- enrolled for the degree/diploma/certificate. This implies curricular structure, multiple-entry-multiple-exit and course-wise graduate that credits assigned for the core courses have to be option and experiential learning pedagogies, will attributes/learning outcomes, respectively, mandatorily earned from the parent institution. This help actualise this commitment. will help students select institutions and ceiling may vary in the future upon bridging the digital It is imperative to understand how the ABC will courses of their choice for earning credits. divide for scaling up and leveraging the benefits of the work and democratise our learning system. The The ABC, thus, brings student centricity to ABC optimally. Another catch point is the seven-year ABC will digitally store academic credits earned the higher education system, and enables validity period for credit redemption. It is essential as from select institutions to award a degree/ students to choose courses and institutions, the curricular framework and course module will diploma/PG diploma/certificate upon facilitating learning from a wide range of undergo drastic changes after seven years. Regular accumulating credits essential for the completion course coordinators and institutions. For updation of the curricular framework and course of these. It will ensure a seamless mobility of learners Council (NAAC) or the top 100 institutions in the instance, a student can be enrolled for a programme in modules is a must and healthy practice for ensuring among various disciplines and institutions for earning National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) or one institution (parent institution) and simultaneously dynamism in the programme and infusing newer credits through courses/combination of courses of their institutions with a minimum score of 675 from the be enrolled for courses of her/his choice in multiple concepts and developments in the domain knowledge. choice for degree/diploma/certificate/course work. As National Board of Accreditation (NBA) for at least three institutions (sister institutions) for earning credits in the On the first anniversary of NEP on July 29, 2021, the such, the ABC will facilitate a seamless integration of programmes shall be eligible for registration in the physical and/or online mode. Thus, the ABC allows rollout of the ABC for implementation from the next the campuses and a distributed and blended learning ABC. The credits earned by the students may be verified students to choose their preferred direction and pace of academic session has paved the way for revolutionising environment by creating opportunities for students’ by the bank’s educational transcript. The transcript will learning, and multiple-entry-multiple-exit options to and democratising the higher education system. Now, it mobility amongst the institutions. The ABC will showcase specific credits earned by the students and the complete degrees through informed choices. is the responsibility of the higher education institutions perform the functions of a commercial bank, with the level of learning outcomes they have achieved in a Additionally, this ensures an enhanced integration of to help actualise the ABC to the ground realities to facility for students to hold accounts. The bank will be particular learning module, as well as for the overall institutions for conducting academic activities and leverage its optimal benefits for the learners. The very responsible for the opening, validation and closure of course/programme. These transcripts shall be facilitates lifelong learning opportunities. An added idea and concept of educational institutions is founded these accounts. It will facilitate verification, recognised by all institutions that are a part of the advantage is that the learners have the option to either and grounded on the premise of satisfying the ever- accumulation, transfer/redemption of credits and degree consortium on the ABC. learn formally and/or informally in full-time and/or evolving learning needs of the youth and empowering authentication for the academic account holders. It will The ABC may also allow non-science students, e.g. from part-time modes, and go for any credit course them with the global competencies and skills and also verify the credits required for the authentication of the arts and commerce streams, to take up courses in the (theory/practical/project etc), excepting the core enabling them to become socially and economically degrees. Higher education institutions having Grade A science stream after pursuing a bridge course. The ABC courses. Consequently, the ABC will promote the much relevant. This is the only road that will lead us to from the National Assessment and Accreditation will offer multiple-entry-multiple-exit options to the sought-after quality, flexibility and collaboration, Atmanirbhar Bharat. New Delhi, Monday, 2 August, 2021 FoodsFOODS THE SIKH TIMES 7

Food habits have played a major role even in the rise and fall of civilizations. Aryans would not have migrated to Why we must adopt these ancient India in 1500 BC had their lands in Central Asia not fallen short of pastures for their cattle. The simple 'Mediterranean' foods that dieticians are tardily recommending us today must have played a great part in the remarkable achievements of the Greeks. Food practices Even the small habits that we have grown up hearing like, "don't go out on lifestyle diseases that have become an empty stomach, do not talk while so rampant in our times. According while eating is a bad manner. eating, do not share glasses, do not to experts, sitting on the floor cross In older days, it was chomp...are much more than good legged while having food as considered a taboo to converse manners. In fact going back to some of practiced in India is typically a yogic while eating. The main reason these habits can magically impact our posture called Sukhasan which is behind it probably was the fear health. said to massage the abdominal of choking on food or hurriedly gulping it down given up. ancient shastras recommended Sitting on the floor while eating: In an muscles, boost circulation in lower Early Dinner: In ancient Rome, part of the body and increase without chewing. Nutrition eating with hands "which had to age when there dinner was called "cena" and was flexibility. So ditching the dining scientists and doctors say that be cleaned thoroughly before and were no dining the main meal of the day. It was table or couch while having food is chewing food well enables in after the meal". Eating with hands tables, taken late in the afternoon or not a bad idea! better digestion. is neither uncouth nor tacky, but is everyone sat on when the sun started going down. extremely healthy. According to E arly morning breakfast: The roots Cooking in earthen utensils: floor while Are not nutritionists asking use Ayurveda when we put food in our of having an early morning Our ancestors must have having food today to have dinner before 7 mouth through our hand, the five breakfast go long back in history. cooked food in earthenware and very few pm? The simple reason behind fingers together form a mudra (a The legendary Roman breakfast taking bite from the same pizza slice because they did not know about suffered from this healthy practice is that the yogic position) which activates called "jentaculum" was taken appears to be quite a normal practice plastic, steel and aluminium. But that earlier you have your food, the the sensory organs that keep prana immediately after the sun rise. It for many of us and rather impolite to was not the only reason for it. more time the body has to digest in balance. It also improves must have been considered refuse if a friend is offering it. But it Cooking in clay pots adds calcium, it before it goes to rest during digestion because when the hand healthy to indulge in was a taboo in ancient India and is phosphorus, iron, magnesium, sleep. This practice prevents touches the food, the brain sends nourishing food early in the still held in abeyance and considered sulphur and several other minerals to body from piling weight. Eating signals to the body releasing morning. Celebrity forbidden in a number of traditional food. Clay pots are also alkaline in late also negatively impacts digestive juices. This is probably nutritionist Rujuta Indian families. The concept of nature so they mix well with acidic sleep. the reason why food tastes better Diwekar recommends, contamination with saliva called food and balance its PH level. Eating food with hands: Even as when eaten with hands. So, chill! "Eat within 15 uchchishtam (sanskrit), "engili" Remember, deadly diseases like a number of people proudly You are not a culinary barbarian if minutes of waking (Telugu), "jutha" (in North India) is cancer do not develop in an alkaline claim that they are not able to eat you are using your hands to up, if you want to considered unholy and extremely atmosphere. unless they have a spoon, the consume food. You are wise! lose weight." unhygienic and washing hands after Not stocking up prepared meal for the Postponing or eating or putting them in the mouth is whole day: Celebrity nutritionist skipping your considered a must lest the Rujuta Diwekar in her bestseller, breakfast not food/person/thing touched would be "Don't lose your mind, lose your only makes contaminated. weight" recommends that if possible you ravenous While it has time and again been one should consume meal within four during lunch given religious connotations, it hours of preparing it, to get the time, but also should actually be looked upon as a maximum benefits. In ancient times reduces your practice of hygiene and a wise way to when there were no ready to eat and metabolism. prevent spreading of diseases. Don't frozen foods, there were fewer we live in an age of paradoxes when Food lifestyle diseases. Food starts losing at one hand we use sanitizers and contami its nourishment as soon as it is medicated hand-washes and on the prepared. So it is advisable to eat it nation other do not mind liking into fresh. While in most busy households with saliva: someone else's ice-cream with traces today the concept of preparing meals Sharing drinks of the other person's saliva? three times a day has given way to from common Not talking while eating: Most of us bulk preparation once, it is an glass, food from the same plate and have grown up hearing that talking unhealthy practice that should be 5 ways you can use mint in your kitchen this summer Hamburger Day - How burgers are eaten around the world

The hamburger is a fast-food staple throughout the world, lepinja, a kind of flatbread. but there are many versions served in restaurants globally. BURGER WITH THE LOT What differentiates them? The protein, the toppings and, Australia and New Zealand- This is pretty much the same sometimes, even the buns. This Hamburger Day , which is kind of deal as in the US, except that the toppings could tomorrow, we give you the lowdown on some burger include pineapple, sliced beets, a fried egg and bacon. versions from around the world... HAMBURGUESAS MEXICANAS RICE BURGER Mexico- This local version includes ham and cheese fried on If you think that mint was meant only East Asia- Rice is a staple in this part of the world -China, top of the burger, and local toppings like jalapenos or for garnishing, then you need to Vietnam and Japan, for instance -so substituting a regular avocado slices. upgrade your kitchen knowledge. burger bun with compressed rice is pretty popular. And HAMBURG STEAK This summer you can play around it to instead of the usual beef patty, anything from grilled pork Germany- This is where the idea for the modern hamburger create something more interesting, and beef strips to shrimp fritters are used. came from. It's a steak that's been chopped into tiny pieces unique and delicious. City's chefs CHIVITO and re-made into a patty, but is served without a bun. reveal their mint secrets on how to use Uruguay- This burger-like sandwich typically contains VADA PAV it and add an edge to the summer beef churrasco (a grilled meat preparation), mozzarella, India- This is widely considered pretty much the only platter. tomatoes, mayonnaise, olives, bacon, ham and eggs.And Serbia- This is Serbia's traditional minced meat dish and is exclusively vegetarian burger in the world. The vada pav -Chop a few fresh mint leaves and add it's usually accompanied by fries. usually made with two or more different types of protein - consists of a potato patty that's been deep-fried in chickpea to your salad with some freshly grated PLJESKAVICA such as beef, lamb, pork or veal -with onions. It's generally flour and placed in a soft bun. ginger and lemon zest. You may eaten as a main course, but can be eaten burger-style with choose to add cubes of watermelon too. The flavour of this combo is The Changing tastes of Kovai beautiful and can impart great Healthy appetiser: With the increasing number of food festivals in the and dumpling festival' and it was a hit among city, foodies in Coimbatore are on an experimental foodies. The idea is to inform people about the mode. different dishes in a particular cuisine. For It looks like for anyone who is passionate about example, through these food fests, we try to say that Healthy fish fingers food, Coimbatore is the place to be. With the rising Chinese cuisine isn't restricted to manchurian and number of food festivals in the city, foodies have all Love fish fingers? This fish fried rice. Since Coimbatore is a small city, word of the more reason to exult and explore the untried. mouth spreads fast and we ensure that we roll out finger recipe is perfect for "It's a very good sign," rejoices Chef Vijayan, from the entire family. They are the best of fare at affordable prices." a star hotel in the city. "These food festivals Though Chinese cuisine has always been a big hit simple tasty, healthy and introduce people to different cuisines and help easy to prepare. Try this among foodies in the city, Chef Vijayan informs us restaurants dish out some variety on the food that they are gradually slanting towards other healthy version of fish finger frontier." recipe shared by Akansha But were Coimbatoreans always this Jhalani - Nutritionist, experimental when it came to food? Mumbai, when your fetish "Though the pace of evolution may not be summery flare to any boring salad. for yummy fish food can't on par with the metros, there has definitely -Chop mint leaves and add them to stop. been a drastic change," says Ranjana your ice cube tray. Drop these ice Ingredients: Singhal, who runs a fine dining restaurant in cubes into your guests' drinks or blend 600 grams fish fillets the city. She explains, "The reason for this change is the increase in the number of them for a minty smoothie. 3 teaspoons red chilli powder restaurants, wide clientele and youngsters -Instead of using vinegar for sweet 2 tablespoons ginger paste who have come to the city with some and salty flavour in gravy, use dry 4 teaspoon lemon juice exposure on the food front. Those who have mint leaves. Crush them and mix them travelled outside the city or the country, 1 cup coarse rice flour Oriental cuisines. "Thai is making inroads in in half cooked gravy to add flavour. 500 ml peanut oil look for varieties in dishes. The older crowd, nevertheless, tries to play it safe, and hence we try to Coimbatore and Oriental cuisine scores big among -Fresh mint leaves boiled with sugar 2 tablespoons garlic paste people here." to make mint syrup can be used to Salt tweak dishes with some Indianness to them." Echoing her thoughts is Chef Vijayan, who says, Ranjana concludes, "It's good to see Serves: 4 3. Now mix red chilli powder, salt and rice sweeten drinks. After boiling, the mint "Coimbatoreans have travelled around and when Coimbatoreans on an experimental mode. But in flavour blends well with sugar and can Preparation time: 30 minutes flour together separately. Once the mixture the rat race to dish out different varieties of food, Cooking time: 30 minutes they return, they come with some rich experience give refreshing taste to any drink. is prepared, marinate and roll the fingers and aren't afraid to try something exclusive on the only those who continuously maintain quality and - Stir yogurt, mint, garlic, lemon juice Method: into this mixture. standard, and who bring in innovations in dishes 1. Wash and clean the fish well and cut it food front. They are getting quite experimental." J 4. Heat some pan in the oil and fry the fish William Ham, managing director of a stand-alone will survive; not the ones that get caught in the rut and cumin in a small bowl. Add salt into finger food pieces. fingers until they are golden brown and fine dining restaurant says however, that the aim of of just supplying food. When there is an abundance and pepper to taste. This yogurt mint 2. Make a nice mixture of ginger, garlic, crispy. of anything, it loses its USP value, which is why we sauce can be refrigerated and used for these food festivals is to educate people about the salt and lemon juice. Marinate the fish 5. Serve it with tomato sauce or mint wide array of dishes. "We recently had a 'momos are now looking at 'serving' food a tad differently.” a couple of days. with this mixture for 1-2 hours. chutney. New Delhi, Monday, 2 August, 2021 WORLD THE SIKH TIMES 8

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's wife announces Millions of Americans risk second pregnancy Kabul. At least three rockets struck Kandahar airport in southern Afghanistan overnight, an official told AFP on Sunday, as the Taliban pressed on with their sweeping offensive across the country. eviction as Covid-19 cases spike "Last night three rockets were fired at the airport and two of them hit the runway... Due to this all flights from the airport have Washington. Millions of Americans could Sunday, the country was braced for a only $3 billion in aid had reached been cancelled," airport chief Massoud find themselves homeless starting Sunday as heart-breaking spectacle -- families households out of the $25 billion sent to Pashtun told AFP. a nationwide ban on evictions expires, with their belongings at the curbside states and localities in early February, Pashtun said work to repair the runway was against a backdrop of surging coronavirus wondering where to go. One of those at less than three weeks after Biden took underway and expected the airport to be cases and political finger-pointing. With risk is Terriana Clark, who was living office. The Centers for Disease Control operational later on Sunday. An official at billions in government funds meant to help out of a car with her husband and two and Prevention (CDC) ordered the the civil aviation authority in Kabul renters still untapped, President Joe Biden stepchildren for much of last year, eviction moratorium in September 2020, confirmed the rocket attack. The Taliban this week urged Congress to extend the 11- before finding a teaching job and an as the world's largest economy lost over have for weeks launched withering assaults month-old moratorium, after a recent apartment in Harvey, Louisiana. Jobless 20 million jobs amid the pandemic on the outskirts of Kandahar, stirring fears Supreme Court ruling meant the White again and struggling to pay rent after a s h u t d o w n s . T h e C D C f e a r e d that the insurgents were on the verge of House could not do so. bout of illness, the 27-year-old told The homelessness would boost coronavirus capturing the provincial capital. But Republicans balked at Democratic efforts New Orleans Advocate she applied to a infections. Although more than half of to extend the eviction ban through mid- local assistance program four months those jobs were since recovered, many Kandahar's air base is vital to providing the behind," Hunt told National Public Radio logistics and air support needed to keep the October, and the House of Representatives ago, but is still waiting for help. "If it comes, families still have not caught up on missed adjourned for its summer vacation Friday it comes. If it don't, it don't," she told the this week. "If I lose this house, then they go rent payments. The Census Bureau's latest militants from overrunning Afghanistan's in the car with me. And people can think I'm a second-biggest city. The attack on the without renewing it. Several left-wing paper. "It's going to be too late for a lot of Household Pulse survey showed that of 51 Democrats spent the night outside the people. A lot of people are going to be crackpot, but I'm not giving up my family," million renters surveyed, 7.4 million were airport came as the Taliban inched closer to Hunt said. overrunning two other provincial capitals -- Capitol in protest -- calling out their outside." Up north in Michigan, Mary Hunt, behind on rent and nearly half of those said colleagues over the failure to act. "We slept who makes minimum wage driving aCOVID HOT SPOTS they risked being evicted in the next two Herat in the west and Lashkar Gah in the Unlike other pandemic-related aid that was south. The Taliban's significant territorial at the Capitol last night to ask them to come medical taxi, likewise fell behind on her rent months. Nearly 80 percent of households back and do their jobs. Today’s their last on a mobile home because she got sick withdistributed from Washington, such as that are behind on their rent as of early July gains during the final stages of the US stimulus checks, it was states, counties and military withdrawal have largely been in chance," tweeted Congresswoman Cori Covid. She was served with eviction papers, lived in Covid hot spots, according to a study Bush, who has herself experienced and frets over what she will do with her stuffcities that were responsible for building by the Jain Family Institute. "Putting people sparsely populated rural areas. But in recent programs from the ground up to dole out weeks they have brought increasing homelessness and was joined by fellow and her five cats and one dog. "How do I out on the street is probably not going to have progressives Ilhan Omar and Ayanna choose which cats to keep? It's not going to assistance earmarked for renters. The good effects on community transmission pressure on several provincial capitals and Treasury Department said that as of June, seized key border crossings. The capture of Pressley. With the clock ticking down to happen. I'm not going to leave any of them rates," the institute's. any major urban centre would take their current offensive to another level and fuel concerns that the army is incapable of resisting the Taliban's battlefield gains. The Hospital bombed in southern Afghanistan as battles rage government has repeatedly dismissed the Pakistan: Covid vaccination Taliban's steady territorial gains over the Kabul. The owner of a private hospital in was struck by the Afghan air force and that one death. The Taliban onslaught went into high summer as lacking strategic value. Afghanistan said the Afghan air force bombed person was killed. The airstrike came as the gear following the announcement in mid-April suspended after chaos at the facility on Saturday, killing one person and Taliban made a push for the southwestern city, that the last US and NATO forces would World Heritage Committee injuring three others. He said the hospital was waging fierce battles with the Afghan National withdraw from Afghanistan, ending America's biggest inoculation centre targeted because the military erroneously Security and Defence Forces. Residents longest war. The Taliban have overrun dozens closes Fuzhou session, adds 34 believed Taliban fighters were being treated reported see-saw battles in several of districts and now control roughly half of all in Karachi there. Dr Mohammad Din Narewal, the owner neighbourhoods. Narewal said doctors had 421 districts and district centres in Karachi. The vaccination process new heritage sites of the 20-bed Afghan Ariana Specialty performed two surgeries a day earlier, but as Afghanistan. They also have control of key was reportedly stopped at Karachi Hospital, told The Associated Press that fighting intensified the hospital had reduced border crossings with Tajikistan, Iran and Beijing. The 44th session of the World Expo Centre following chaos after provincial government officials informed him their staff to a minimum. Currently, two Pakistan. Even as the withdrawal of US and hundreds of people rushed to get Heritage Committee of Unesco has his hospital in Lashkar Gah was targeted based patients are still in the hospital along with NATO troops is all but done, America is wrapped in Fuzhou, capital of China's themselves inoculated against on the information from the defence ministry. several nurses and attendants for the patients. providing air support to Afghanistan's COVID-19. According to ARY Fujian province, with a total of 34 new sites “But there were no Taliban in the hospital,” said Late on Saturday, Afghan security forces beleaguered ground troops, who have been inscribed on the World Heritage List. News, scores of people including Narewal. The defence ministry did not reportedly pushed the Taliban out of the city, struggling to hold on to territory. The U.S. has students, labourers, senior citizens As the session ended on Saturday, the latest immediately respond to multiple attempts by with reports of heavy air attacks on their launched airstrikes in support of Afghan forces queued up outside the Karachi inscriptions, which include 29 cultural sites the AP to contact them. “I was told there had positions. in Herat, and in southern Kandahar province. Expo Centre on Saturday, the and five natural ones, bring the total number been a mistake because they had been given the In recent weeks the Taliban have stepped up their The withdrawal has put an increased burden on biggest vaccination centre in the of sites on Unesco's World Heritage to wrong information that Taliban were inside the pressure on several cities, including Herat in Afghanistan's air force. “All of the Afghan Air city after the provincial 1,154, reports Xinhua news agency.Among hospital,” he said, explaining that the Taliban western Afghanistan, where a United Nations Force's (AAF) aircraft platforms are overtaxed government announced to block the newly added sites is "Quanzhou: were in fact receiving treatment in another office was attacked as battles raged nearby. due to increased requests for close air support, SIM cards of unvaccinated Emporium of the World in Song-Yuan hospital in the city. Prvincial council chief One guard was killed and the United Nations is intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance citizens. China" in Fujian, which brings the number Attaullah Afghan confirmed that the hospital investigating who was responsible for his missions,” the U.S. of world heritage sites in the country to 56. A glass door of vaccination centre The Chongqing Wulipo National Nature hall number 4 was broken and a Reserve officially became part of the Hubei security guard was also injured as a Shennongjia World Heritage Site after a result of a scuffle outside the minor modification to Shennongjia's centre, said the Pakistani news boundaries during the session. The channel. The National Command Committee reviewed over 200 state of China, India miss UN deadline and Operation Centre chief day conservation reports of world heritage before yesterday announced that August 31 will be the last date for properties, and recognised three properties, workers of the hotels and namely the Great Wall of China, and Tai restaurants, employees of the train National Park and Comoe National Park, service, public transport, both in Cote d'Ivoire, as the model cases of government offices and those conservation and management, said Tian to update emissions targets working at shops and markets to get Xuejun, chair of the 44th session of the vaccinated. "After this deadline, World Heritage Committee. The previous report found countries were the un-vaccinated people will not Committee decided to remove the doing too little to meet the goal of keeping be allowed to work," he Liverpool- Maritime Mercantile City of global warming below 2 degrees Celsius announced. It is to be noted that the Britain from the world heritage list. It was > (3.6 Fahrenheit) by the end of the century According to officials, China and Sindh government yesterday the first world heritage site deleted in the compared with pre-industrial times, let imposed a lockdown till August 8 past 10 years. The Fuzhou Declaration was India have missed a UN deadline to alone the more ambitious target of as the province continues to battle adopted during the session, reiterating the capping warming at 1.5 degrees C (2.7 submit fresh plans for reducing the dangerous surge in COVID-19 principle of the Convention Concerning the degrees F). “Recent extreme heatwaves, infections. Earlier in the day, the Protection of the World Cultural and droughts and floods across the globe are a greenhouse gas emissions in time Sindh government has announced Natural Heritage, and calling for scaling up dire warning that much more needs to be to ease lockdown restrictions support to developing countries, especially for the global organisation to done, and much more quickly, to change notified yesterday, lifting the to African countries and Small Island our current pathway,” said Espinosa. incorporate their pledges in a report pillion riding ban and allowing Developing States. Tian said the session “This can only be achieved through more world's highest emissions, while India is third. sectors that are fully vaccinated to implemented Unesco's global strategy of for nations at this year's global ambitious NDCs.” Under the 2015 Paris The United States (US), which submitted its operate. Addressing a press Priority Africa, as two properties from climate accord, countries set their own new target in April, is the second-biggest conference, Spokesman for the Africa were newly inscribed on the list. climate summit. emissions reduction goals but are required to global emitter. be transparent about them and jointly raise Sindh government Murtaza Wahab UN Climate Chief Patricia Espinosa welcomed their targets over time to ensure that global said that it was owing to the Zimbabwe reopens Victoria that 110 signatories of the United Nations warming remains at agreed acceptable levels. decisions including the blocking of Berlin. China and India have missed a UN Framework Convention on Climate Change China did announce last year that it aims for its mobile SIMs taken by the Sindh Falls border to vaccinated deadline to submit fresh plans for cutting their had met the cut-off date, which was extended emissions of carbon dioxide — the main government that had led to a greenhouse gas emissions in time for the global from the end of 2020 due to the pandemic. But greenhouse gas — to peak before 2030, and to manifold increase in the tourists body to include their pledges in a report for she said it was “far from satisfactory” that only achieve carbon neutrality before 2060. The vaccination process. According to governments at this year's global climate Harare. Zimbabwe has reopened the Victoria 58 per cent had submitted their new targets in target has yet to be formally included in its the statement issued by Sindh chief summit, according to officials. The world's two time. Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Syria and 82 submission to the UN, however, meaning it minister's office, 30 more Falls land border with Zambia for fully most populous countries are among dozens that vaccinated tourists to allow the smooth other nations also failed to update their can't yet be counted toward the global effort. succumbed to the disease during failed to provide an update on their targets for nationally determined contributions (NDCs) in Earlier this month, the chair of the COP26 this period, taking the death toll to flow of visitors between the two curbing the release of planet-warming gases to neighbouring countries. The development time to include them in a report Espinosa's climate summit in Glasgow, Alok Sharma of 6,001. "30 more patients of the UN climate change agency by July 31, they office is preparing for the UN climate change Britain, met with environment ministers from COVID-19 died overnight lifting follows the successful rollout of a Covid-19 said on Saturday. China is the country with the vaccination program that has seen more conference in November. Espinosa noted that a more than 50 countries, including. the death toll. than 60 per cent of residents in the border town of Victoria Falls being inoculated, reports Xinhua news agency. Pakistan authorities finalise law to award provisional provincial status to Gilgit-Baltistan: Report Victoria Falls town is home to the mighty Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe's prime tourist destination, and one of the world's seven India maintains the Government of Pakistan or its judiciary has no locus natural wonders. The adjacent Kazungula border post with neighbouring Botswana standi on territories illegally and forcibly occupied by it. has also been opened, with the majority of Islamabad. Pakistani authorities have July, the prime minister had assigned related to the provinces and territories, the visitors being vaccinated. However, despite finalised a law to award provisional the task of preparing the law to federal sources said. They added that a set of the reopening of tourist activities in provincial status to strategically located Law Minister Barrister Farogh amendments would be introduced to give Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe remains under Gilgit-Baltistan, a media report said on Naseem. According to the sources, the the region representation in Parliament, Level 4 lockdown and other land borders Sunday. India has clearly conveyed to draft bill has been prepared after careful besides the establishment of the provincial remain closed. Earlier this week, following Pakistan that the entire union territories reading of the Constitution of Pakistan, assembly in the territory. The sources are requests from players in the tourism sector, of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, international laws, the United Nations’ confident that the constitutional amendment the cabinet resolved to reopen the two including the areas of Gilgit and resolutions especially those related to a is in accordance with the international border posts to allow tourist activities to Baltistan, are an integral part of the plebiscite on Kashmir, comparative practice of merger of territories and it will resume between the countries. Before the country by virtue of its fully legal and constitutional laws and local not adversely affect the Kashmir cause in pandemic, more than 350,000 people each irrevocable accession. legislation. The stakeholders, including any manner, the report said. The Pakistan year visited the Zimbabwean side of the governments of Gilgit-Baltistan and government and the Opposition had Victoria Falls which is shared with Zambia India maintains the Government of commission is likely to be merged with the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, had been reportedly discussed the move prior to last to witness the natural wonder. However, Pakistan or its judiciary has no locus Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP). consulted on the proposed constitutional year’s meeting of the political leadership with global travel restrictions and national standi on territories illegally and forcibly Sources in the law ministry told the amendment, the report quoted sources as with the Pakistan Army chief. According to lockdowns, tourist activities were halted for occupied by it. Dawn newspaper reported newspaper that the draft of the bill titled saying. The proposed law suggests that due an Opposition leader, Gilgit-Baltistan has the greater part of 2020. Due to its heavy that under the proposed law by the Ministry to sensitivity attached to the region, it could acquired great significance in the region due reliance on international tourists, of Law and Justice, the Supreme Appellate '26th Constitutional Amendment Bill' had be given provisional provincial status by to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor Zimbabwe's hospitality industry has been Court (SAC) of Gilgit-Baltistan may be been prepared and submitted to Prime the hardest hit, and the sector. abolished and the region's election Minister Imran Khan. In the first week of amending Article 1 of the Constitution that (CPEC) that is now a “jugular vein. New Delhi, Monday, 2 August, 2021 FOODS THE SIKH TIMES 9

fermentation imparts to a dish is also one of the major reasons why chefs are using this technique."The process adds layers of complexity to the food. For example, you can see a world of difference between milk and cheese or grape juice and wine, the latter being fermented.Fermented foods taste strong, acidic, sometimes pungent and matured. The taste profile of consumers is very evolved today.People are acquiring a taste for it," says Mumbai-based Chef Akhil Multani. A GOOD KICK IN THE GUT With people focussing more on holistic well- being, cultured food with its inherent probiotic health benefits, has caught the fancy of consumers. Says macrobiotic nutritionist Tarika Ahuja, "At any time, our gut has good and bad bacteria. Eating healthy fermented foods increases the good bacteria and helps digestion. It also improves immunity and purifies the blood, as the bacteria flushes out all the toxins." Snacking on these foods also means you don't need to pop probiotic pills, as the former contain triple the amount of bacteria. And above all, you can go back to your childhood memories by just `pickling' your tongue! FERMENTATION FESTIVALS AROUND THE WORLD Every year, to celebrate the benefits of fermented foods, world-class fermenting artisans and enthusiasts come together to set up festivals. Boston Ferments in New England, Santa Barbara Fermentation Festival You probably have fond childhood in California, Fermentation Fest in Wisconsin, memories of relishing your granny's Pickle your Ganggyeong Fermented Seafood Festival in homemade achaar and chutneys. Korea, are among the dozen festivals that were Remember the lengths you'd go to, to steal held in 2014. From holding workshops on how a palmful of murabba? Food, as they say, is to master fermentation to having a market that the best nostalgia. The world over, food sells homemade samples of cultured foods and enthusiasts and connoisseurs have realised drinks, these festivals give you a low-down on that a winning dish is one through which everything fermented people relive their memories.Thus, BOTTLE-FERMENTED COCKTAILS fermented ingredients have gone high up Bartenders and mixologists are using on a chef's list. everything from champagne yeast to koji, a Sandor Katz, fermentation revivalist and fungus used to make miso and sake, to ferment author of TheArt of Fermentation and Wild cocktail ingredients and make bottle- Fermentation, whose endorsement of Taste buds fermented drinks. fermented ingredients has played a major A tricky process, this technique involves role in its entry into gourmet restaurant The ancient art of preserving food has piqued the interest adding yeast to mixed cocktails, then bottling menus, describes these foods as `the them and letting them sit for a spell. The flavourful space between fresh and rotten'. resulting cocktails carry a unique carbonation "Though the process has been around for of foodies worldwide. As kimchis, chutneys and kombucha with a bready flavour! centuries, it is only now that it is being EAT CULTURED FOODS, BE SMART tapped for its full potential. Chefs, home go mainstream, we find out why the buzz around fermented According to a study published in the journal cooks and even supermarkets shelves are Nutrition in Clinical Practice, apart from looking beyond fermented staples like being good for the health, probiotic foods wine, cheese, bread and yogurt." Its food -the hottest culinary trend of 2019 -is getting louder. actually make you smarter! If you find popularity is on the rise also because yourself struggling with brain fog or fermenta tion increases the shelf life of mainstream ingredients in sandwiches, rolls, depression, the problem may lie in your gut. food, its flavour, causes minimum wastage, soups, salads and beverages across the globe. If you lead a stressful life and have a diet high is cost-effective and can be easily done at Even in India, where dosa, chaas, dhokla, in sugary and processed food, the beneficial home. appam and chutney are popular dishes, chefs microbiome in your gut becomes imbalanced - THE INDIAN PICTURE are experimenting with alternative fermented which cause unclear thinking and excessive Touted as the hottest food trend of 2015, foods in their menus. worrying. This can be corrected by consuming cultured foods such as the hugely popular Says nutrition consultant and food blogger foods like buttermilk , unpasteurised Korean kimchi (made from vegetables), Sangeeta Khanna, "Fine dining sauerkraut, kimchi etc. the many varieties of Indian chutney, the establishments across India have opened their How many portions should I eat? German delicacy sauerkraut (sour kitchens to traditional fermented recipes like "Eat homemade fermented food thrice a day, cabbage), Thai fish sauce nam pla, kanji (a drink prepared from the juice of black along with your meals. Include curd, pickled Jaapanese miso paste (fermented carrots), curries made from kachampuli (a vegetables and fermented drinks as soybeans), Russian kombucha (a fruit vinegar from Kerala), jau ki ghaat (a ragi accompaniments. Items made of fermented fermented drink made with tea) and its drink from Rajasthan), iromba (a spicy rice and pulses can also be consumed," says milky counterpart kefir, are some Manipuri chutney made from fresh vegetables health expert Neeraj Mehta.aa traditional dishes that have become and fish) etc." The distinct flavour that

variety. The classic Restaurant review: From New Orleans southern fried Classic chicken to mutton gulouti kebab, vinaigrette: from a Vietnamese fish delicacy to Take two tablespoons of balsamic Salad Maharashtrian Koliwada fish fingers vinegar and whisk in two teaspoons of Cafe Immigrants - the spectrum will leave you spoilt mustard.Add a pinch of kosher salt and for choices. pepper to taste. Mix half a cup of olive dressings recipe The restaurant, which started off the different demands of our I was served Koliwada fish fingers as oil and pour all over your salad! last November, is located in the customers", Badola said, adding Badola suggested. Made from Garlic vinaigrette: heart of the city's most hustling that the restaurant also has a Wi-Fi authentic Koliwada spices from Peel half a bulb of garlic and drizzle it and bustling Connaught Place facility. Maharashtra, the fish was well with olive oil on a tray. Wrap it with an central business district. I took a table beside the window marinated with the dominating taste aluminum foil and roast it in the oven The moment I entered, I was that gave a panoramic view of the being of the Koliwada masala. till it is tender. Let it cool down and drawn towards a large collection crowded Connaught Place and a Taking care of my craving for more then gently crush them. Blend it with of photographs mounted on the host of sky-scrapers. starters, I was presented with butter the vinaigrette (above mentioned) you walls beside the stairs that lead The menu appeared never-ending, pepper garlic prawn. The prawn made and add some parmesan to finish to the restaurant. with a wide range of dishes from pieces, deeply coated with butter it off. "We all are immigrants to this Ukraine to Vietnam - and crossing with a hint of black pepper, melted in world, people keep travelling all over India. Interestingly, ghee the mouth the moment I gulped Spicy honey- and the name of the restaurant is (clarified butter) cans served as them.With a heavy heart, I had to inspired from the idea of cutlery holders to give a traditional stop eating the prawn dish to make mustard: travelling," its general way for the main course. The menu Mix two teaspoons of honey with two manager, Pankaj Badola, told left me bewildered about what to teaspoons of mustard. Add two us. choose from the main course. I ended tablespoons of lime juice and a pinch The interior presents an up with the Cafe Immigrants of lemon zest and kosher salt to taste. incomplete rustic look with speciality - khichdi served with Add some olive oil and finish it off beautiful posters and bacon and Chicken A la Kiev, a with chopped thyme. If you want it to photographs - the effect Ukrainian dish made of fried chicken be spicier, you can add chili flakes or enhanced by huge stuffed with loads of butter and chopped jalapeno. chandeliers, dim lighting and garlic. The khichdi, a traditional soft music. There is also an Indian delicacy, was cooked with a Creamy Italian: 4 popular bedtime beverages open area for those who Mix a little less than half a cup of lot of spices that left a rich flavour in Chamomile Tea: Like peppermint tea, would like to dine in fresh touch.As I sat, I was welcomed mayonnaise with two tablespoons of Peppermint tea: This herbal tea has the mouth. it is also another non-milk tea that has air."There is competition no with a paan (betel leaf)-flavoured balsamic vinegar.Add two tablespoons properties that will help your body de- For dessert came the Chawanprash soothing qualities. For doubt, but we are sure that we cocktail - a drink with a strong of olive oil and sour cream. Add a clove stress, relax and smoothie - a 'hatke' preparation made best results, drink this tea will be a trendsetter in CP with taste of paan, mixed with dry red of garlic (crushed), kosher salt and eventually sleep of the Chawanprash health around 30 minutes our in-house fusion dishes," chillies and gulkand (rose petal oregano to taste and mix it all in a better. It is a great supplement and mint, along with a before your bed time. Badola asserted. jam) that left a sweet-tangy taste in blender.Add a spoon of finely chopped option to calm jittery cookie and vanilla ice-cream. Hot toddy: This The restaurant is the brainchild mouth.Next came in Laksa - a Veggies won't be disappointed as the parsley. nerves, reduce of ChefUmesh, who has been in traditional Vietnamese spicy nausea and relieve traditional alcoholic menu offers a long list of dishes like beverage involves the industry for more than a noodle soup accompanied by a matar aur khajoor ka shammi kebab, Mediterranean: anxiety. decade now, is known for his green mango chutney. Make a Mediterranean salad dressing Cocoa: The most pouring hot boiling water charmoula mushrooms in white in a little whiskey and out-of-the-box ideas and who Next, there was grilled chicken ith garlic sauce and methi cottage with half a cup of feta cheese popular bedtime has drawn up the restaurant's aam papad, an amalgamation of a (crumbled). Mix this with the classic drink in the world, adding a twist of honey, cheese with parantha to choose from lemon and cinnamon menu. sticky Indian savoury with Timings: 12 noon to 11.30 pm vinaigrette (shown above). Add this is a winter favourite because of its "For us, both quality and chicken cooked in the western chopped parsley, dried oregano and delicious taste. Even the ancient stick for flavour. It is good to prevent Meal for two: Rs.2,500 cold and flu during winter and is very quantity matter. The menu has style. However, it was the starters Location: B block, Connaught Place one diced tomato (as much as you Mayans consumed it by roasting the been drawn up keeping in mind menu that amazed me with its want). cocoa beans and adding some spice to it. delicious. New Delhi, Monday, 2 August, 2021 BUSINESS THE SIKH TIMES 10

PV sales could recover to 2019 levels, but third wave still a India’s appeal against Vodafone arbitration worry New Delhi Going by the auto sales in the award in senior court, hearing in September first six months of calendar year 2021, auto analysts forecast that the passenger vehicle (PV) segment could touch the CY19 levels New Delhi Indian government’s appeal past cases, to seek taxes from Vodafone and costs and half of the 6,000-euros cost borne by the end of this year. against a verdict of an international Cairn over alleged capital gains made by Vodafone for appointing an arbitrator on Even if that happens, it would not be right to arbitration tribunal that overturned its several years ago.Both Vodafone and Cairn the panel.Sources said the Government of say that PV sales have returned to health as demand for Rs 22,100 crore in back taxes had challenged the tax demands under India’s liability came to Rs 85 crore in legal calendar year 2019 wasn’t a great year for from Vodafone Group Plc has been bilateral investment protection treaties and cost.In the separate case of Cairn, India has the industry — PV sales in that year had transferred to a senior court in Singapore and initiated the arbitration. India lost both been asked to pay with interest the value of declined 12 per cent to 29,36,839 units, hearings are scheduled in September, arbitrations.Sources said the government shares it sold, the dividend it seized, and tax from the all-time high of 33,49,386 units in sources said.An international arbitration believes that taxation is not covered under refunds it withheld to recover part of tax CY18.Even as PV sales plummeted to court had on September 25 last year rejected investment protection treaties with various demand from the British firm. 88,045 units in May 2021 due to the Covid- tax authorities’ demand for Rs 22,100 crore countries and the law on taxation is a Cairn Energy, which gave the country its 19 second wave, the overall January-June in back taxes and penalties relating to the sovereign right of the country.While the biggest oil discovery, was in March 2015 2021 sales were 14,30,184 units, a lakh British telecom giant’s 2007 acquisition of treaties are primarily aimed at protection of company, which derives substantial value slapped with a demand for Rs 10,247 crore units below the 15,28,233 sold in January- an Indian operator.The government in investments, the tax is levied on “returns” from underlying Indian assets, such as tax on alleged capital gains it made when it in June 2019. Som Kapoor, partner, December applied in Singapore to set aside earned by entities.The 2012 law, commonly Vodaone’s transaction with Hutchison in 2006 reorganised its India business before automotive sector, EY India, said he is the award primarily on jurisdictional referred as retrospective tax law, was enacted 2007. It sought to subject a purchaser, such as listing of the local unit.Vodafone cautiously optimistic whether or not PV grounds. The proceedings have been after the Supreme Court in January that year Vodafone, to a retrospective obligation to International Holding (a Netherland sales can match CY19 levels. “The transferred to a senior court, with a hearing rejected proceedings brought by tax withhold tax.Using that law, tax authorities company) had in February 2007 bought 100 optimism stems from the fact that CY19 date set for September, two sources with authorities against Vodafone International in January 2013 slapped Vodafone with a tax per cent shares of Cayman Island-based sales were low. Also, there is some pent-up knowledge of the matter said. Holdings BV for its failure to deduct demand of Rs 14,200 crore, including company CGP Investments for USD 11.1 demand right now, especially in urban The appeal was filed in the Singapore court as withholding tax from USD 11.1 billion paid principal tax of Rs 7,990 crore and interest billion to indirectly get 67 per cent control of markets, and so matching 2019 levels may the Southeast Asian nation was the seat of to the Hutchison Telecommunications in but no penalties. In February 2016, it updated Hutchison Essar Ltd – an Indian not be difficult.”But I am also cautious arbitration.The government has similarly 2007 for buying out a its 67 per cent stake in a the tax demand to Rs 22,100 crore plus company.The tax department felt the deal because the Covid-19 second wave has hit challenged the order of a three-member wholly-owned Cayman Island incorporated interest.Vodafone challenged this tax was designed to avoid capital gain tax in closer to home, and many households tribunal at the Permanent Court of subsidiary that indirectly hld interests in demand by bringing an arbitration India and imposed a tax demand, which was Arbitration in The Hague that asked India to Vodafone India Ltd.The Finance Act 2012, proceeding under the Netherlands-India rejected by the Supreme Court in 2012. return USD 1.2 billion, plus interest and cost, which amended various provisions of the Bilateral Investment Treaty. The arbitration To stop abuse and plug the loophole of such to British oil and gas company Cairn Energy Income Tax Act 1961 with retrospective tribunal unanimously ruled in Vodafone’s indirect transfer of Indian assets, the plc.The government had used a 2012 law, effect, contained provisions intended to tax favour.As per the award, the government has government in 2012 amended the law to that gave tax authorities the power to reopen any gain on transfer of shares in a non-Indian to reimburse Vodafone 60 per cent of its legal make such transfers taxable in India.

Petrol, diesel prices : Fuel rates remain steady for Centre To Unveil Digital

ended up spending a lot of healthcare, so Payment Solution E- the willingness to spend on discretionary fifteenth consecutive day | Check latest rates here RUPI On August 2 items such as PVs is lesser this year. On top of that, people are anticipating a third wave. New Delhi There has been no change in 21.82 a litre on diesel, news agency PTI New Delhi The Centre on August 2, Instead of buying a car, they may want to the prices of petrol and diesel on August reported. He further stated that the 2021 will unveil e-RUPI, a person save cash,” he added. The PV sales forecast 1, 2021. The state-run oil marketing revenue generated by such taxes is used and purpose specific digital trend for CY21 by IHS Markit points to the companies (OMCs) have not hiked the for various developmental projects and payment solution.It is a cashless fact that in July-December 2021 PV sales rates of petrol and diesel for the fifteenth schemes of the government, such as and contactless instrument for could beat 2019 levels.Gaurav Vangaal, consecutive day. Even though the prices Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana digital payment, which will be a associate director, IHS Markit, said, of petrol and diesel have remained (PMGSY), free LPG connection QR code or SMS string-based e- “While trends indicate that H2CY21 sales unaltered for fifteen days now, they programme Pradhan Mantri Ujjawala voucher, to be delivered to mobile would be better than both in 2020 and 2019, remain at an all-time high.In the national Yojana (PMUY), Ayushman Bharat and the global semiconductor shortage could be capital, the rate of a litre of petrol is Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana a challenge to the supply side, and a retailing at Rs 101.84 while that of diesel (PMGKY).The prices of petrol and diesel possible third wave could be a risk to the is Rs 89.87. In Mumbai, petrol prices have been on the rise in the country since demand side. were unchanged at Rs 107.83 per litre May 4, 2021, after the OMCs ended an and a litre of diesel is retailing at Rs at Rs 98.67. In Rajasthan's capital Jaipur, petrol 18-day hiatus in rate revision that Services trade critical to boost 97.45. On the other hand, in Chennai, petrol is priced at Rs 109.10 per litre and diesel coincided with the assembly elections in key costs Rs 102.49 per litre and diesel can be currently costs Rs 99.38. Even in cities like states. The fuel rates vary from state to state ‘ever expanding’ Indo-US biz bought at Rs 94.39 per litre. In Kolkata, petrol Patna, Trivandrum, Bhubaneswar, petrol prices depending on the incidence of local taxes like prices remained unchanged at Rs 102.8 per litre have breached the Rs 100-litre-mark and are value-added tax (VAT) and freight ties: Goyal and diesel is priced at Rs 93.02. soaring at an all-time high.On July 25, charges.Petrol and diesel prices depend on Petrol prices saw a hike on July 17, 2021 when it Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri various factors like valuation of INR against USD, the consumption ratio of refineries and New Delhi Commerce Minister Piyush rose by 30 paise per litre in the national capital, informed the Lok Sabha that Madhya Pradesh demand for fuel in our country. The fuel prices Goyal said India and the US are “natural but diesel rates have remained static since July levies the highest sales tax or VAT on petrol in are revised by oil marketing companies like partners” and services trade will play a 15, 2021. On the other hand, the prices of crude the country, adding that Rajasthan has the Indian Oil, Bharat Petroleum and Hindustan critical role in ever expanding business ties. oil have seen a slight jump in the international highest tax on diesel. Puri in a written reply market.In Bhopal, the rate of a litre of petrol is Petroleum based on international prices in the phones of beneficiaries, an official Addressing the ‘2nd Indo-US Services stated that Madhya Pradesh levies Rs 31.55 a retailing at Rs 110.20 and diesel can be bought preceding 15 days and foreign stock exchange. statement said.Developed by Summit’, organised by Indo American litre VAT on petrol and Rajasthan charges Rs National Payments Corporation of Chamber of Commerce (IACC) on India (NPCI), the users of e-RUPI Saturday, Goyal also said that the services will be able to redeem the voucher sector holds a lot of promise in aiding without a card, digital payments India’s economic recovery in the post app or internet banking access, at Covid period. “India and the US are Dalal Street investors richer by over the service provider. working towards peace and stability across The Department of Financial the world.” Services, Ministry of Health & He added that the will play a very important Family Welfare and National role in the two countries’ ever expanding Rs 31 lakh cr this fiscal so far Health Authority have also relations. “India and the US are two natural collaborated in its development.e- partners and our relationship has stood the New Delhi Equity investors have witnessed global bull market. Except a few RUPI connects sponsors of the test of time due to shared values of equality, a wealth addition of more than Rs 31 lakh markets like Egypt and Iran, all services with the beneficiaries and liberty and democracy.” India is now crore (Rs 31,18,934.36 crore) in the first other markets are experiencing a service providers in a digital moving beyond a “low-cost service four months of the current fiscal, helped bull run. manner without any physical provider” to a “high value added partner” by an overall bullish sentiment in the "The major factors powering this rally interface. It also ensures that the and the back offices in India are evolving market.The 30-share BSE Sensex has payment to the service provider is into brain offices, Goyal said, adding “our are: huge liquidity that has been jumped 3,077.69 points or 6.21 per cent created by the leading central banks made only after the transaction is services exports are back to 97 per cent of during April-July this fiscal.Reflecting an completed. Being pre-paid in the previous year”.He also said total of the world, particularly the US upbeat sentiment in the market, the Fed, the historically low interest nature, it assures timely payment to services export from India to the world was benchmark had reached its all-time high the service provider without $17 billion in 2001-02 and it has now rates and unprecedented retail of 53,290.81 on July 16, 2021. It closed at investor participation. Of this, the involvement of any intermediary, jumped to $205 billion in FY21, registering its lifetime high of 53,158.85 on July 15. the statement further informed. a 12-fold rise. huge global liquidity factor is very Thanks to the optimistic investor sentiment, important."Analysts also said that Official sources said that e-RUPI is the market capitalisation of BSE-listed Covid-19 vaccination drive is also aimed at ensuring a leak-proof Ransomware attacks hit record companies have zoomed Rs 31,18,934.36 adding to the bullish delivery of welfare services. It can also be used for delivering services crore to reach Rs 2,35,49,748.90 crore- its In the entire 2020-21 fiscal, the market sentiment.When asked if this 300 mn in 1st half of 2021: record high level- on July 30."Money flow and market rally would continue, Vijayakumar under schemes meant for providing capitalisation of BSE-listed companies drugs and nutritional support under liquidity are the key factors behind investors' zoomed Rs 90,82,057.95 crore to Rs said, "The biggest threat to the continuation of Report bullish sentiments," said Rahul Sharma, Co the rally is the excessive valuation in the various welfare schemes of the 2,04,30,814.54 crore. The 30-share BSE Central Government.Private sector Founder, Equity99.Sharma added that markets benchmark had jumped 20,040.66 points or 68 market. At high valuations markets are SAN FRANCISCO: Ransomware attacks have performed extremely well post the sell- vulnerable to corrections."Some presently entities can also avail these digital globally surged in the first half of 2021, per cent last fiscal, braving many uncertainties vouchers as part of their employee off in 2020. The benchmarks have more than due to COVID-led disruptions. unknown factor can trigger a correction, with 304.7 million, surpassing 2020's full- doubled from the lows of March 2020.Once globally. If that does not happen, the global welfare and corporate social year total (304.6 million), says a new report. V K Vijayakumar, chief investment strategist at responsibility programmes, the rally began, volatility dropped, and the bull Geojit Financial Services said, "First, it is liquidity will keep markets resilient, or it may After posting record highs in both April and market climbed significantly," he said. even take the markets forward. sources informed further. May, cybersecurity firm SonicWall important to appreciate the fact that this is a recorded another new high of 78.4 million ransomware attacks in June 2021 alone. The ransomware showed massive year-to- date spikes in the US (185 per cent) and the GST revenue collection for July at over Rs 1.16 lakh cr UK (144 per cent).In a year driven by anxiety and uncertainty, cybercriminals NEW DELHI: The gross GST revenue have continued to accelerate attacks against 52,641 crore for the SGST. continue in the coming innocent people and vulnerable collected in the month of July 2021 was Rs The revenues for the month of months too, the Finance institutions," Bill Conner, President and 1,16,393 crore.Out of the total revenue July 2021 are 33 per cent Ministry statement said. CEO, Sonic Wall, said in a statement. collected CGST was Rs 22,197 crore, SGST higher than the GST revenues Commenting on the GST was Rs 28,541 crore, IGST was Rs 57,864 "This latest data shows that sophisticated in the same month last year. collection numbers, M.S. crore -- including Rs 27,900 crore collected threat actors are tirelessly adapting their During the month, revenues Mani, Senior Director, tactics and embracing ransomware to reap on import of goods -- and Cess was Rs 7,790 from import of goods were 36 Deloitte India said: "The financial gain and sow discord," Conner crore -- including Rs 815 crore collected on per cent higher and the sharp increase in the added.Accounting for 64 per cent of all import of goods.The GST collection for the revenues from domestic collections indicates the recorded ransomware attacks, Ryuk, returns filed during July 1-5 of Rs 4,937 transaction (including import resumption of economic Cerber and SamSam were the top three crore had also been included in the GST of services) are 32 per cent activities in June and will ransomware families in the first half of the collection for the month of June 2021 since higher than the revenues from raise expectations of year, as recorded by SonicWall Capture taxpayers were given various reliefs in the these sources during the same better collections in the Labs, the report said. form of waiver or reduction in interest on month last year.GST coming months." The top five regions most impacted by delayed return filing amid the pandemic, collection, after posting above "The improvement in GST ransomware in the first half of 2021 were said an official statement. Rs 1 lakh crore mark for eight collections both on The government has settled Rs 28,087 crore months in a row, dropped domestic transactions the US, the UK, Germany, South Africa and partial lockdown due to Covid. Brazil."With remote working still to CGST and Rs 24,100 crore to SGST from below Rs 1 lakh crore in June 2021 as the and imports, accompanied by the fact that IGST as regular settlement. The total collections during the month of June 2021 With the easing of Covid restrictions, GST major producing states have shown widespread, businesses continue to be collection for July 2021 has again crossed highly exposed to risk, and criminals are revenue of Centre and the states after predominantly related to the month of May significant increases, would indicate that Rs 1 lakh crore, which clearly indicates that acutely aware of uncertainty across the regular settlement in the month of July 2021 2021 and during May 2021, most of the the economic activities have resumed cyber landscape," Conner said. was Rs 50,284 crore for CGST and Rs states/UTs were under either complete or the economy is recovering at a faster pace. across the country," Mani added. The robust GST revenues are likely to New Delhi, Monday, 2 August, 2021 SPORTS THE SIKH TIMES 11

Tokyo Olympics: Viktor Axelsen ends Guatemalan Kevin Tokyo Olympics: Gold hopes gone but PV Sindhu eyes Cordon's dream run to reach badminton men's singles final history, India men look to end 41-year wait in hockey Tokyo Denmark great Viktor Axelsen put an end to Kevin Cordon's dream run at Tokyo New Delhi The Indian campaign at the Tokyo badminton tour earlier this year, the sport, is in the spotlight, for all the 2020 on Sunday to reach his maiden men's Games is at a knife-edge. Big names have let reigning world champion has played right reasons after a long time. From singles final at the Olympics with a go of medal opportunities. The shooting and solid badminton in Tokyo so far. finishing last in their group stage in straight-game win in the semifinals. the boxing campaign has been a big letdown A big test of mental character awaits London and sneaking out of the group Danish world No. 2 Axelsen registered a 21- but hopes of breaching the London Olympics Sindhu but she will have history up for stages before faltering to Belgium in 18, 21-11 win over his 34-year-old mark with its biggest contingent are still grabs. She might have missed an the quarter-final, India have come a opponent in just 40 minutes and will now alive, albeit hanging by a thread. opportunity to become the only 3rd long way.Manpreet's men were face the winner of the second semi-final A lot will depend on how the Super Sunday women's singles player to reach two hammered 1-7 by Australia as early as between reigning Olympic champion shapes up for India. One of the country's successive Olympics finals but the Rio the second game but the composure Chen Long of China and Indonesia's most influential and decorated athletes, PV Olympics silver medalist can become the India have shown since has been Anthony Sinisuka Ginting in the gold Sindhu will be hoping to finish on the first Indian woman to win 2 individual noteworthy. India finished 2nd in Pool medal match.Axelsen had vowed to end podium after having missed an opportunity Olympic medals. Sushil Kumar is the A only behind Australia with 4 wins in to reach her second successive badminton only Indian to have finished on the 5 matches.Coach Graham Ried is, in a Cordon's story before this match and that is way, happy that India are facing the exactly what he did to end the hopes of the final at the Games.the other hand, the podium at the Games twice. Manpreet Singh-led hockey side is on the How does Sindhu stack up against He Binjiao? that side off the court. Sindhu's defence has Great Britain who advanced to the last verge of India's India's 41-year-old wait for a Sindhu might have been comfortably looked top-notch and the star shuttler has 8 with 2 wins, as many losses and a draw in semi-final berth in men's hockey at the outclassed by Tai on Saturday but she has learnt the art of turning defence into attack. Pool B."To be honest, facing any of the four Olympics.Can Sindhu put behind Tai defeat been playing some brilliant badminton at the It's not going be easy against Bingjiao but if European teams who have come directly and gun for bronze? Games. She will need all that and a bit more Sindhu has to play 3 games for a bronze, she from the Euro Championships was always For PV Sindhu, coming back from the to beat China's He Bingjiao who headed to will have a slight edge as the Chinese star, going to be a difficult Quarter Final game, disappointment of losing the semi-final to the bronze medal match after losing a ranked World No. 9, has played two but I think it really matters on which one you World No.1 Tai Tzu Ying is important. fiercely-fought 3-game battle against her gruelling deciders -- in her win against get. But probably Great Britain are the ones Bronze medal matches are one of the compatriot Chen Yufei. Nozomi Okuhara and the defeat to Yufei. we are comfortable with and very confident toughest to play, considering how quickly Sindhu will be happy with nothing less than a with. I think if we play the way we know that He Bingjiao has dominated their head-to-head we can, then definitely victory is possible." one has to recover from the disappointment meetings with a 9-6 record on the tour but it podium finish. She deserves one for the way of having lost out on an opportunity to play was Sindhu who won their last meeting, the she has gone about her business after having Test of character for the Men in Blue for the biggest prize at the Olympics and BWF World Tour Finals title match in 2019 - had a tough time on the tour over the last 2 There is no doubt this Indian men's hockey focus on the job at hand against strong - 21-19, 21-19.Bingjiao, a southpaw, has years. team is one of the most talented to have 34-year-old who will is looking to become opposition.Sindhu has looked in top shape, often used her smashes to Sindhu's backhand Can Manpreet's men restore Indian hockey represented the country in recent times but only the second Olympic medal winner physically, at the Tokyo Olympics so far. In side to trouble her but the Indian has shown pride? stepping up at the right time has been an from his nation at the Tokyo Games. stark contrast to the Asian leg of the considerable improvement in dealing with On the other hand, hockey, India's national issue. "I don't think anybody would have guessed that Kevin would have done so well. Awesome guy and awesome story, but I'm going to do my best to end that story tomorrow," Axelsen had said and he Tokyo Olympics: Germany thump Rio gold medallist Tokyo Olympics: Australia’s delivered the expected result in the last- four clash. Emma McKeon completes sprint Tokyo Olympics: Boxer Satish Argentina 3-1 to enter men’s hockey semifinals gold doubles, wins women’s Kumar goes down fighting vs 50m freestyle gold Emma Mckeon of Australia Bakhodir Jalolov in super > powered to victory in the women's Germany beat Argentina 3-1 to enter 50m freestyle to complete her heavyweight quarterfinals semifinals sprint double with victory. >Germany ousted defending World record holder Sarah Tokyo. Indian boxing fans suffered a Sjoestroem of Sweden took silver champions Argentina and Rio 50m champion Pernille heartbreak early on Sunday as Satish > Blume of Denmark bronze. Kumar went down fighting in his Lukas Windfeder scored two goals McKeon completed a sweep of the men's super heavyweight quarterfinal for Germany 50m and 100m freestyle with an against overwhelming favourite Olympic-record time of 23.81 Bakhodir Jalolov of Uzbekistan in the seconds. McKeon has become Tokyo Olympics. just the fourth female swimmer to scored off a penalty corner for Argentina, but complete the 50-100m freestyle Satish showed a lot of heart and guts but they were not able to add to their golden double at an Olympics. was just not able to do anything about score.Officials doubled the usual two-minute Emma McKeon has claimed her the reach and height difference with between quarters to allow players to cool historic seventh swimming medal the giant in the red corner. Jalolov down from the heat at the main pitch of the Oi at the Tokyo Olympics with proved to be just too powerful and Hockey Stadium, which was sprayed with Australia’s victory in the water during the half-time break to keep play women’s 4x100 medley relay. precise for Satish.But it must be said New Delhi Germany became the first country to German side added to their advantage after fast and smooth.The win gave Germany reach the semi-finals in the men's hockey playing out another penalty corner in a The 27-year-old from Brisbane that Jalolov didn't have it as easy as revenge on Argentina after being knocked out becomes the first female everybody was expecting, he had to tournament after a thumping 3-1 win over beautiful variation which ended with Timm by them in the semi-finals of the 2016 Rio earn this victory in every sense.Satish Olympic champions Argentina the Tokyo Herzbruch deflecting a low pass from captain Olympics, when the Germans had to settle for was also fighting with a bruised eye Olympics on Sunday.Germany opened the Tobias Hauke into the goal.Windfeder scored bronze.Argentina's lineup in Tokyo still score in the 19th minute when defender Lukas another goal, again through a penalty corner, contained many of the name that brought the and was given medical clearance to Windfeder shot a penalty corner low and hard in the 48th minute, effectively securing country their first Olympic gold medal in play his quarter-final bout against at the left side of the goal, leaving Argentina Germany's spot in the semi-finals and leaving hockey in 2016: Pedro Ibarra, Agustin World No 1 Bakhodir Jalolov of goalkeeper Juan Vivaldi no chance to stop the Argentina with a painful loss.With eight Mazzilli, Matias Rey and 42-year-old goalie Uzbekistan just a few hours before the ball.Ten minutes into the second half, the minutes left to go, Maico Casella Schuth Vivaldi. bout began. Satish had sustained seven stitches after his pre- quarterfinal bout against Jamaica's Tokyo Olympics: Australia beat Netherlands in thrilling Ricardo Brown.Satish is India’s first super heavyweight (+91kg) boxer to swimmer to win seven medals at a compete in the Olympics. The 29- penalty shootout to enter men’s hockey semifinals single games. The only men to do it are Michael Phelps, Mark Spitz year-old qualified for his maiden and Matt Biondi.McKeon's career Olympics by making the semifinals of New Delhi Australia entered the haul five gold, two silver and four the Asia/Oceania Qualifiers in semifinals of the men’s hockey after Australia defeated bronze - eclipses swim greats Amman, Jordan in April 2019. beating the Netherlands in a dramatic Netherlands in a thrilling Thorpe (five gold, three silver, He made a golden comeback in 2017 at penalty shootout in hot and humid one bronze) and Leisel Jones conditions at the Tokyo Olympics. penalty shootout 3-0, after (three gold, five silver, one the Grand Prix Ustinad Labem in the Australia will face Germany in the bronze) with nine Olympic Czech Republic before pocketing a semifinals, who defeated the Rio the match had ended in a 2- medals each.McKeon then silver in the inaugural Indian Open in Olympics gold medallist Argentina by became the first female swimmer New Delhi in 2018. 3-1. The win gave Germany revenge on 2 draw in regular playing of any nationality to win seven Argentina after being knocked out by medals at a Games when she Tokyo Olympics: Satish Kumar them in the semi-finals of the 2016 Rio time. Australia will face swam the butterfly leg in the Olympics, when the Germans had to medley relay. shows his ‘Indian Army spirit,' settle for bronze. Germany in the semifinals. McKeon's victory also delivered Australia won the penalty shootout 3-0, after the into a cruel penalty shootout. Australian swimmers an eighth earns respect from opponent match had ended in a 2-2 draw in regular Charter stopped the first shot Jeroen gold medal in Tokyo, equalling clinical shot saw the Kookaburras move into the nation's best haul at an playing time.The Kookaburras had pulled Hertzberger, before Blake Govers managed to the medal matches. Bakhodir Jalolov ahead twice in the game, thanks to goals by beat Pirmin Blaak with a diving effort to give Olympic pool from the 1956 Tom Wickham, but the Netherlands managed the Kookaburras the lead.And when Robbert Officials doubled the usual two-minute breaks Melbourne Games.McKeon was New Delhi Asmall amount of blood oozed to equalise through goals by Mink van der Kemperman went wide with the Netherlands’ between quarters to allow players to cool also part of Australia's victorious out from Satish Kumar’s chin on Bakhodir Weerden and Jeroen Hertzberger. second from a reverse shot, it was Australia’s down from the heat at the main pitch of the Oi 4x100m freestyle relay and took Hockey Stadium, which was sprayed with bronze medals in the 100m Jalolov’s shoulder. It spoke about the In the shootout, Flynn Ogilvie had two late to lose.Olgilvie fired home with his second courage Satish had shown during his attempt just before the allocated eight seconds water during the half-time break to keep play butterfly, 4x200m freestyle relay opportunities for the Kookaburras, but could fast and smooth. and 4x100m mixed medley relay. quarterfinal bout against Uzbekistan’s not find the back of the net forcing the match to score.But another missed goal and Brand’s Bakhodir Jalolov. Taking the ring with multiple stitches on his forehead and chin after sustaining cuts in Tokyo Olympics: Simone Biles withdraws from floor exercise final, decision on beam 'later this week' the pre-quarters, Satish lost 0-5 but the scoreline was not reflective of his brave performance.Satish sustained two cuts B Simone Biles is suffering mental health issues, and has since the other golds she won in Rio, on vault and withdrawn for all the other competitions she floor exercise.She won a bronze in beam at during his pre-quarterfinal showdown from mental health issues at against Jamaica's Ricardo Brown. was eligible for, except the beam, which Rio, the one event she is still entered for in The 32-year-old put up a gutsy performance, the ongoing Tokyo Olympics takes place on Tuesday."Simone has Tokyo.Biles has spoken with remarkable B Biles had won gold in the withdrawn from the event final for floor and candour about her decision saying she and showed his ‘India Army spirit,’ of will make a decision later this week on needed to consider both her mental and never giving up against the reigning world 2016 Rio Olympics in floor beam," USA Gymnastics said in a statement physical well-being as she dealt with the andAsian champion Bakhodir Jalolov. exercise and placed second on Twitter."Either way, we're all behind you, "twisties" - incidents of disorientation The spunky Army boxer stood his ground, in qualifying last week Simone."There was no immediate during some of her gravity-defying occasionally managed to land a shot with B Jennifer Gadirova of Britain information on who would take her skills."It's honestly petrifying trying to do a his right hand, but Jalolov dominated the place.The 24-year-old Biles had been skill but not having your mind & body in proceedings all through.Kumar was will replace Biles in the expected to be one of the big stars at the sync," Biles wrote on Instagram on Friday, overmatched in all departments, but his finals, which are scheduled Tokyo 2020 Olympics as she gunned for six adding that while usually she only suffered spirited performance earned him the for Monday gold medals that would have made her the from the "twisties" on floor and vault, they respect of his Uzbeki opponent. Jalolov most successful woman Olympian of all- were now hitting her on everything."It's acknowledged his rival's bravery at the end time across every sport.But her quest ended never transferred to bars & beam before for of the bout. Jalolov gave Kumar a warm Tokyo Simone Biles withdrew from the floor almost before it began when Biles took a me, it strictly likes floor and vault. Go hug before the Indian boxer left the exercise event final at Tokyo 2020 on single vault in last Tuesday's team figure, the scariest two."But this time it's on ring.Before leaving for Tokyo, the Indian Sunday and will make a decision later this competition then sat down briefly and left literally every event. Which sucks... really Army boxer from Bulandshahar told week on the one remaining event she is the floor before returning to cheer on her bad."She also said it had usually taken IndiaToday.In that, he wants to serve the qualified for, USA Gymnastics said, adding team mates from the sidelines.She later around two weeks to clear up when she country in the field if the need arises. "we're all behind you, Simone." decided to not defend her Olympic all- suffered from them before but she would “Desh sabse pehle hai, desh ke liye hamesha Biles shocked the world when she withdrew around title that was won by U.S. team mate wait and see."Something you have to take tayar hu. Muaka milega tab woh bhi from the team finals on Tuesday, citing Sunisa Lee. Her decision to drop out of three literally day by day, turn by turn," she wrote. karenge (Country comes first, I am ready to more finals means she won't defend either of serve the people in any capacity if the need i)” 12 New Delhi, Monday, 2 August, 2021 FILM THE SIKH TIMES Kartik Aaryan to play lead in Ekta Kapoor's Freddy, filming to Shruti begin on August 1 HaasanHaasan takes boxing

artik Aaryan is all set to play the lead role in lessons at the upcoming film Freddy. Produced by Ekta KKapoor and Jay Shewakramani, the romantic thriller will be directed by Shashanka Ghosh of Veere Di Wedding fame. The filming of the film will begin tomorrow (August 1) Mumbai home. KARTIK AARYAN TO PLAY THE LEAD IN FREDDY KartikAaryan recently shared the first-look poster of his new film, Captain India. The actor has now been roped in for Ekta Kapoor's Freddy. Balaji Motion Pictures' official Instagram handle shared a collage of Ekta Kapoor, Kartik Aaryan, Shashanka Ghosh and Jay Shewakramani. "We would like you to welcome a new member of our family - Freddy. Excited to begin this new project! @kartikaaryan @ektarkapoor @shobha9168 @ruchikaakapoor @jayshewakramani @ghoshshashanka @nlfilms.india #BalajiMotionPictures #Freddy (sic)," read the caption.. KARTIK AARYAN DROPS FIRST-LOOK POSTER OF CAPTAIN INDIA KartikAaryan recently shared the first-look poster of his upcoming film Captain India. It is based on true events and is being directed by acclaimed filmmaker, Hansal Mehta. Kartik will be seen essaying the role of an air force officer in the film. “When a man goes beyond the call of duty. With great pride and honour, we bring to you #CaptainIndia @hansalmehta sir @rsvpmovies @bawejastudios #RonnieScrewvala #HarmanBaweja @soniyeah22 @vicky_bahri @sanchit421 @iampriyadarshee @karanvyas11 (sic),” Kartik Aaryan captioned the post. Besides hruti Haasan loves to work out and she often treats fans to photos and videos Shruti Captain India and Freddy, Kartik Aaryan will also from her album. Today (July 31), she shared a series of videos on her be seen in Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2. The film also stars SInstagram stories in which she can be seen practising boxing with her coach Kiara Advani, Tabu and Rajpal Yadav in lead roles. Irfan Khan. Instead of hitting the gym every day, she makes it a point to mix up Haasan took to her The actor also has Sajid Nadiadwala's Dhamaka different fitness activities for her workout. The videos were taken by her boyfriend and another untitled film in the pipeline. Santanu Hazarika. Instagram stories to share SHRUTI HAASAN TAKES BOXING LESSONS k Shruti Haasan has been living with her boyfriend Santanu Hazarika and pet cat Clara Anushka Shetty wishes in Mumbai. Often, she shares pics and videos of their crazy endeavours. Recently, videos of her ta ing boxing lessons she shared a video in which she could be seen dancing with Santanu. On Saturday, oH she took to her Instagram stories to share a few videos of her taking boxing lessons at her h me in Mumbai.az er mom Prafulla on her from Pro MMA fighter Irfan Khan. The videos were taken by her boyfriend Santanu Hazarika. In the videos, she can be seen landing punches as Irfan tries to boyfriend Santanu H arika block her. birthday, shares crazy selfie SHRUTI HAASAN'S UPCOMING FILMS took the videos. Shruti Haasan has been shooting for a web series, details of which will be announced in the coming days. She was last seen in Ravi Teja's Krack and Pawan Kalyan's Vakeel Saab, which hit the theatres early this year. Both films were blockbusters. As of now, Shruti is waiting for the release of her upcoming Tamil film, Laabam. Directed by SP Jananathan, the film features Vijay Sethupathi in the lead role. Meanwhile, she is also waiting to resume the shooting of Prabhas's Salaar, directed by Prashanth Neel. DishaDisha Patani Patani sets weekend party mood rolling with her stunning look in latest post

nushka Shetty took to Instagram on Disha Patani enjoys a huge fan- winged eye-liner. The actress added Saturday (July 31) to share an adorable click ZDisha following due to her acting prowess, neutral tones to her waterline and Aof her mom Prafulla Shetty to wish her on Patani dancing skills and, of course, killer finished it off with a coat of mascara. her birthday. She posted a crazy selfie and wrote a looks. The actress regularly shares her The Radhe actress kept it simple when heartfelt note for her. In her caption, Anushka channels whereabouts with fans and followers it came to her lips. She rounded off her wrote that her mom is responsible for the life that her inner on social media. Disha has now look with chain necklaces. she enjoys today. Often, Anushka takes to diva in the dropped a new photo, wherein she FANS REACT TO DISHA Instagram to give us a glimpse of her wonderful latest post looks all set to begin the weekend PATANI’S LOOK family. party. Not just us, even her fans love A slew of fans and followers showered ANUSHKA WISHES MOM PRAFULLA ON on social it. Take a look. love upon Disha Patani by dropping BIRTHDAY media. In DISHA PATANI STUNS IN HER heart emojis in the comments section. Anushka Shetty was last seen on director Hemant the LATEST POST One user wrote, “Gorgeous (sic).” Madhurkar's Nishabdham, which released directly picture, The weekend is almost here and Disha Another said, “Looking so pretty on Amazon Prime Video. The film turned out to be Patani seems all set to party. Also (sic).” DISHA PATANI’S WORK a damp squib and received negative reviews from she looks known for her love for make-up, LIFE critics and audience alike. On Saturday, Anushka all set to Disha Patani has treated fans to her On the work front, Disha has Ekta Shetty took to Instagram to share a photo with her begin the new photo looking absolutely Kapoor’s KTina. The actress will also mom Prafulla Shetty. The photo is a crazy selfie gorgeous. With her hair tied up in a be seen in Mohit Suri's Ek Villain 2. taken by the Baahubali actress. Sharing the pic, she weekend half ponytail, the actress shows off her Alongside Disha, the film also stars wrote, "You are a beautiful, strong and intelligent party and sculpted jawline. Disha Patani’s eye- Tara Sutaria, Arjun Kapoor and John lady. You gave me life, advice, support, laughs. I we love it. makeup is goal! She has added a pop Abraham. The actress was last seen in couldn’t ask for more. Have a wonderful birthday of colour with a dramatic purple Salman Khan starrer-Radhe. love you amma (sic)."