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Ie-Pune-08-10-2020.Pdf DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA JOURNALISM OF COURAGE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2020, PUNE, LATE CITY, 16 PAGES SINCE 1932 `5.00 WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM EXPRESS NETWORK CanON SHAHEENexpressBAGH PROTESTdissent ` 105 per kilo indesignatedplaces ` 133 per kilo RADIO ASTRONOMY COMMUNITY PAYS ` 165 per kilo TRIBUTE TO GOVIND SWARUP alone,rulesapexcourt ` 75 per Dozen PAGE 6 Says public spaces cannotbeoccupiedindefinitely HC grants bail to and dissent go hand in hand, but ANANTHAKRISHNANG then the demonstrations ex- Siddique Kappan (with cap), secretaryofthe Kerala Union of Working Journalists,and three NEWDELHI,OCTOBER7 pressing dissent have to be in Rhea, says not part others who were held with him were producedbeforeacourtinMathuraonWednesday. PTI designated places alone”. DISAPPROVINGOFthe manner The Shaheen Bagh protest, it in whichasit-in protestagainst said,“wasnotevenoneof protests the Citizenship (Amendment) taking place in an undesignated of drug syndicate Journalist, three others held on way Actwas organisedinthe area, but wasablockageofapub- Shaheen Bagh area of Delhi from licwaywhichcausedgrave incon- to Hathras booked under terror law December 2019 to March 2020, At the Shaheen Bagh protest venience to commuters”. OMKARGOKHALE the Supreme CourtWednesday site, Wednesday. Tashi Tobgyal It said “wecannotacceptthe MUMBAI,OCTOBER7 ruledthat public protests must plea of the applicants(who What democracy is this that areporter BUSINESSASUSUAL be “in designated areas alone” sought to intervene in the matter REJECTINGALL argumentsofthe is booked under UAPA,sayshis wife and “public ways and public Capital, said “while appreciating in defence of the protesters) that Narcotics Control Bureau(NCB) BY UNNY spaces cannotbeoccupied… the existence of the right to an indeterminable number of point by point, including the key Maant police station, the journal- and that tooindefinitely”. peaceful protestagainstalegisla- people can assemble whenever allegations that she waspartofa AMILBHATNAGAR istSiddiqueKappan, Campus The benchofJustices Sanjay tion... we have to makeitun- theychoose to protest”. “drug syndicate” and was“har- NEWDELHI,OCTOBER7 Front of India (CFI) office-bearers Kishan Kaul, Aniruddha Bose equivocallyclear that public “Wehave, thus, no hesitation bouring” actor Sushant Singh Rhea Chakraborty afterbeing Atiq-ur-Rahman and Masood and Krishna Murari, ruling on a ways and public spaces cannot in concluding that suchkind of Rajput, the BombayHigh Court granted bail, Wednesday. PTI A41-YEAR-OLD Delhi-based Ahmed, and aman identifiedas petition forremovalofprotest- be occupiedinsuchamanner occupation of public ways, Wednesdaygrantedbail to actor journalistand three others, who Alam, have been booked foran ers whose actions had ledtotraf- and that tooindefinitely.” whether at the siteinquestion Rhea Chakraborty “with strin- Courtrejected the bail pleas of were detainedbyUPPolice alleged"conspiracy behind their ficchaos in and around the The benchsaid “democracy CONTINUEDONPAGE2 gent conditions”, nearly amonth her brother Showik and alleged Mondayafternoon from atoll visit to Hathras”, wherea19- aftershe wasarrestedinadrugs drug peddler Abdel Basit Parihar plaza in Mathura, were on year-old Dalit woman wasas- case arising from Rajput's suicide in the case. The Benchalso Wednesdaybookedunder UAPA, saultedand allegedly gangraped on June 14. granted bail to Rajput’s cook the stringent anti-terrorlaw. on September 14.She diedat Chakraborty wasgranted bail Dipesh Sawant and his domes- According to the FIR filedin CONTINUEDONPAGE2 on apersonal bond of Rs 1lakh tic help Samuel Miranda on a 2months after Pilot camp alleged tapping, with sureties, while the High CONTINUEDONPAGE2 Ex-CBI chief Ashwani Kumar MAHARASHTRA FIR against aide, journalist for ‘fake news’ As stubble-burning by the CM at ahotel in Jaisalmer. found dead in Shimla home HAMZAKHAN In the midstofthe 35-day- JAIPUR,OCTOBER7 long political drama, the Pilot season begins, sharp camphad accusedthe Gehlot EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE LESS THAN twomonthsafter government of tapping phones SHIMLA,OCTOBER7 SUGAR INDUSTRY Rajasthan Chief MinisterAshok of MLAs. The police had denied spike in farm fires Gehlotand former Deputy CM the allegations. FORMER NAGALAND Governor BETS BIG ON Sachin Pilotcalledatruce aftera Sachin Pilot; Ashok Gehlot As per the FIR, lodged on and Director of CBI Ashwani Ashwani ETHANOL, EXPECTS public and bitter tussle, the state October 1, Satyapal Singh, the Kumar wasfound hanging in his Kumar DIP OF 20L TONNE IN police has filedanFIR against Duty Officer at the Police Control HARIKISHANSHARMA home in Shimla on Wednesday PRODUCTION OF Pilot’s media manager Lokendra them of spreading “misleading Room at Jaipur Police NEWDELHI,OCTOBER7 Impacton evening, police said. SWEETENER PAGE 4 Singh and AajTak's Jaipur-based and fake news”regarding tapping Commissionerate, reportedthat E Kumar's body wasfound by Kumar,70, usuallymeditated Editor Sharat Kumar,accusing of phones of MLAs sequestered CONTINUEDONPAGE2 ● Delhi'sair THE FIRSTsix days of October saw EXPLAINED his son and daughter-in-law in the attic in the evening. On five times the number of stubble- around 7.10 pm, Himachal Wednesday, his son and daugh- burning incidentsinPunjab, FARMERS IN Punjab and Pradesh DGP SanjayKundu said. ter-in-lawfound the door lead- Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh as in Haryana burn paddy Asuicide note has been ing to the attic lockedonthe in- the corresponding period of last stubble around this time found, and the familydoes not side. Theybroke open twodoors year,official datashow. before theypreparethe suspect anyfoul play, the DGP to enter the attic, and found PROUD TO PARTNER, In all, 1,091incidentsofcrop soil forthe rabi crop. said. “Wefound alucid suicide Kumar hanging from the ceiling, stubble-burning were recorded Smokefromburning crop note from the spotinwhich the DGP said. CELEBRATING THE GLORIOUS INDIAN AIR FORCE DAY in these three states between stubble contributes to air Kumar wrotethat he is ending Theycut the rope and October 1and October 6, the pollution over the his lifedue to disease and disabil- brought him down, and in- mostfor these dates since at least national capital and large ity,” Kundu told reporters. What formedpolice, who arrivedat 2016,according to datacollated parts of the Indo-Gangetic disease Kumar wasreferring to, the scene and rushedhim to by the Indian Agricultural plain everywinter. remains amatter of investiga- hospital, Kundu said. CONTINUEDONPAGE2 tion, the DGP said. CONTINUEDONPAGE2 AS CASES FALL IN PUNE PMC to extend agreement for treatment of Covid patients with only 4of11pvt hospitals hospitals, Covid CareCentres AJAYJADHAV across the city and Sassoon PUNE,OCTOBER7 Hospital. The PMC had also signedasix THEPUNEMunicipalCorporation month contract with 11 private (PMC) has decidedtoextend its hospitalsto reservebedsfortreat- current agreements—for the ment of Covid-19patientsre- treatmentof Covid-19patientsre- ferred by the civic body and pro- ferredby the civic administration vide treatment at approved —with onlyfour of the 11 private chargesfor eachmedical service. city hospitals working in tandem The agreementswith the 11 with the civic body. private hospitals,whichlapsethis The PMC had inked asix- month,hadaclauseforextension monthagreementwithall11 hos- basedonmutual understanding pitalsatthebeginningof thepan- A'Covid Warrior' artinstallation in Pune. Arul Horizon between the hospital and PMC, demic. However, demand for said Municipal Commissioner hospital bedshas decreaseddue Vikram Kumar. to declineinactive Covid-19cases. withtheremainingprivate hospi- AftertheCovid-19outbreakin “The Covid-19pandemic If thereisanincrease in demand tals will be extendedasper re- thecity, thePMChadbeguntreat- has noteasedasofnow. foroxygenbeds, the agreements quirement, sources said. mentof infectedresidentsincivic CONTINUEDONPAGE2 US House panel slams Big Te ch’s ‘monopoly’,urges breakups PAGE1 presented by the House Judiciary panies to acquirestartups. They Democratsproposedlegal ANCHOR Committee’s Democratic lead- also proposedchanging antitrust changes that could substantially ership, lawmakers said the four laws to restorecompetition. restructureFacebook,Google, companies had turnedfrom “Our investigation leavesno Amazon and Apple. Theysaid “scrappy” startups into“the doubt that thereisaclear and Congress should consider mak- CECILIAKANG& kinds of monopolies we lastsaw compelling needfor Congress ingitillegal forthe tech giantsto lmansa .A DAVIDMCCABE in the eraofoil barons and rail- and the antitrustenforcement provide preferential treatment -V tion WASHINGTON,OCTOBER7 road tycoons”. agencies to take action that re- to their ownproducts, as Google ia The lawmakers said the com- stores competition, improves in- does in search results. Av assault AUSHouse of Representatives panies had abusedtheir domi- novation and safeguards our Theysuggestedbreaking up ©D panel that spent the last15 nant positions, setting and often democracy,” Reps. Jerrold Nadler, the companies in “structural months investigating the prac- dictating prices and rules for D-NY,chairman of the Judiciary separations” and forbidding tices of the world’s largest tech- commerce, search,advertising, Committee, and David Cicilline, them from operating in similar nology companies said on social networking and publishing. D-RI, chairman of the antitrust businesses to those theywere OVER 60 YEARS.6AIRCRAFT TYPES.1NATION Tuesdaythat Amazon,
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