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TRUMP TO RESUME KL SHOULDN’T BE POLLS: BJP GIVES BOTHERED WITH WICKET- 11 SEATS TO VIP FROM ITS COVID-19 RELIEF OWN QUOTA BILL TALKS AFTER KEEPINGIN INDIAN SQUAD : ELECTIONS BRIAN LARA P-5 P-9 P-11 can become base for OVER 100 PROTESTING FARMERS DETAINED IN HARYANA defence industry: Rajnath Chandigarh, Oct 7 (IANS) Over 100 protesting farmers New Delhi, Oct 7 (IANS) cymakers to interact to ad- wide to enter into partner- were taken into custody and India can prove to be an dress common concerns ships with established In- detained from Haryana’s Sirsa excellent base for the de- and contribute to global dian companies for repair, town on Wednesday for protest- fence and aerospace indus- defence and aerospace overhaul, maintenance and ing against the contentious farm try, for provision of repair, ecosystems and position other services. laws. Swaraj India leader Yogen- overhaul, maintenance and India as a defence manu- He also talked about nu- dra Yadav was also taken into servicing facilities, Defence facturing hub,” he said. merous government reforms custody by the police. Minister Rajnath Singh said With numerous business which have been announced However, farmer organisa- on Wednesday. events and large number for ease of business. “It has tions said that they would con- The minister said that In- of participants, Aero In- been endeavour of our gov- tinue with the protests. “Why dia can also become a cen- dia will provide the intel- ernment to constantly un- have you sunk to such incivility, ade was causing inconvenience brought by the Centre to dis- tre for regional distribution lectuals and industry new dertake policy initiatives to my JJP friend?” Yadav tweeted. to the public. A day earlier, the continue the MSP regime. His and services. Addressing meeting grounds for de- attract investments in defence He told the media he has been police used water cannons to Jannayak Janta Party, which the Ambassadors’ Round veloping military industrial and aerospace industry,” he detained for joining a peaceful disperse groups of farmers as claims to be a party of farmers, Table Conference on Aero 13th edition of the bien- the private sector and pub- enterprise, the minister said. He also highlighted that sit-in protest. Nearly 100 farm- they were heading to Chautala’s is sitting on the BJP lap,” pro- India 2021 through video nial air show and aviation lic-private partnerships said. “India has one of the a new category of Buy global - ers and leaders were arrested. residence. A stand-off between tester Abhay Yadav had told the conference, Rajnath said exhibition is scheduled through joint ventures and world’s largest technically manufacture in India has been The farmers had been squat- the police and protesters had media. Dushyant should either Aero India since inception to be held from 3-7 Feb- foreign direct investment qualified manpower and further introduced in Defence ting on a road close to Jannayak continued for almost an hour withdraw his party’s support to has carved out a place for ruary 2021 in Bengaluru. have also boosted the na- we do claim to be a force to Acquisition Procedure 2020. Janata Party leader and Deputy near Chautala’s residence. Lat- the BJP government in the state itself and has become a “India has one of the larg- tional efforts in building reckon with in the field of “The new category incor- Chief Minister Dushyant Chau- er, the protesters were dispersed or clear his stand on the issue, leading international event est defence industrial eco- the domestic defence and Information Technology,” porates manufacture of the tala’s private residence, de- by the police. he had added. Hundreds of in the area of showcasing systems in Asia and we aerospace industry. “Aero he said. The minister said equipment or (Maintenance manding his resignation from “Dushyant Chautala has farmers and arhtiyas (middle- the capabilities of Indian aspire to build further on India provides an ideal that it would provide an Repair and Overall) facility for the post against the agricultural not spoken even a single word men) have been protesting dai- defence and aerospace in- our strengths,” the minis- platform for businesses, excellent opportunity for equipment, through foreign laws. The police said the protest- against the farm laws. We are ly against the three laws across dustry. Aero India 2021, the ter said. He also said that decision-makers and poli- leading companies world- company’s subsidiary. ers were detained as the block- protesting against the laws Haryana.

Govt debt grows at 30 quarter high PM Modi bringing New Delhi, Oct 7 (IANS) I&B Minister Javadekar slams positive change in lives The outstanding debt of of poor: Amit Shah non-financial sector TRP-driven journalism (NFS ) stood at Rs 322 tril- lion or 167.3 per cent of GDP New Delhi, Oct 7 (IANS) Union In- into play, he had welcomed the in 1QFY21, up from around formation & Broadcasting Minister move as he thought it would pave 153 per cent in the past few Prakash Javadekar has slammed the the way for self-regulation. But now quarters. TRP or Television Rating Point driv- those who created it are themselves According to a report by en journalism on Wednesday, urging coming and complaining about it, he Motilal Oswal Institutional cent YoY in 1QFY21 (8.9 per nations was inevitable. the media industry to “find a way” to added. Javadekar asked the audience Equities, a 9.1 per cent year cent in 4QFY20, but slow- However, the pickup restrain itself. to “remember” the kind of reportage on year growth in NFS debt est growth of 5.7 per cent in in India’s debt growth in “We believe in self-regulation and that came out in the last “2 weeks or and 0.6 per cent year on 4QFY09). Additionally, non- 1QFY21 was only marginal freedom of the media. But the media 2 months”. Javadekar said that the New Delhi, Oct 7 (IANS) Union Home year decline in annualized financial corporate (NFC) versus the previous few needs to re-think TRPs. There should media industry, at some point, will Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday nominal GDP led to a jump debt grew 3.7 per cent, the quarters, the report said. be a better way to monitor popular- TRP,” Javadekar said. He added that need to “stop, rectify or come out said that Prime Minister Narendra in NFS’ debt-to-GDP ra- second lowest to record-low NFS debt growth was the ity. Responsible journalism should when BARC, the agency that current- with a better version” of the current Modi is bringing a positive change tio in 1QFY21. Within NFS, growth levels of 1 per cent in highest in 15 years in the US not suffer due to the pressure of ly monitors television ratings, came TRP model. in the lives of millions of poor, farm- general government (Centre 4QFY20. (at 11.7 per cent), the high- ers, women and deprived sections plus states) debt grew at a “A look at long-term est in 11 years in the UK (at of society by empowering them with 30-quarter high pace of 14.3 trends suggests the coun- 10.2 per cent), the highest Rahul releases video of interaction various historic schemes and initia- per cent year on year, the try’s debt growth weakened in 24 years in Japan (at 4.6 tives. He expressed the views while report said. Moreover, non- to the single digits for the per cent), and the highest with Hathras victim's family congratulating the Prime Minister government non-financial first time in two decades in 10 quarters in China (at on the beginning of his 20th year as (NGNF4) debt grew 4.6 per in 2QFY20, and COVID-19 12.4 per cent). Since the New Delhi, Oct 7 (IANS) ras incident has put the a public representative. In a series cent YoY in 1QFY21 (against failed to change this in credit guarantee scheme Amid the UP administration in the of tweets, Shah said “October 7 is record-low growth levels 1QFY21,” the report said. in India was announced in government's allegation dock and the opposition a very important day in the history of 4 per cent in 4QFY20). Due to COVID-19 and the mid-May’20 (later v/s other of a "conspiracy" in the particularly Congress is of our country. On this day in 2001, Within the NGNF sector, related collapse in econom- major nations), NGNF debt Hathras case, Congress blaming the Chief Minister Narendra Modi was sworn in as the household debt grew at ic activity, a jump in the could grow faster in 2QFY21, leader Rahul Gandhi has for messing up the inci- Chief Minister of Gujarat, and from near-record lows of 6 per debt-to-GDP ratio across it added. released a video of his dent to save himself. Rahul that day onwards, an unstoppable conversation with the Gandhi and his sister, Con- journey dedicated to the cause of the Indian, Pak army day in Jammu and Kash- firing mortars and other victim's family during his gress General Secretary nation and public service was begun trade heavy fire on mir’s Kupwara district. De- weapons.” The spokesman visit there on Saturday. Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, which has helped us in achieving new fence Ministry spokesman, said,”Indian positions were In the purported conver- village was to ensure that lowed to see their daugh- along with three other milestones in the country’s develop- LoC in J&K’s Kupwara Colonel Rajesh Kalia said, giving befitting replies”. One sation, Rahul Gandhi is the family is safe. ter's body whose last rites party leaders, on Saturday ment every day”. The Home Minister Srinagar, Oct 7 (IANS) “Pakistan initiated the un- JCO of the army was killed in heard saying to the vic- While the victim's fam- were performed in the visited the family of the said that “Inspired by the thoughts, Pakistan used small arms provoked ceasefire violation Pakistan ceasefire violation tim's family that "don't ily complained about the wee hours. A voice could 19-year-old Hathras girl vision and charismatic personality of and mortar shelling to target along the LoC in the Keran on the LoC in Rajouri dis- be in fear and do not leave ill treatment meted out be heard that "How could who died after being alleg- PM Modi, every Indian today is work- Indian positions on the Line sector of Kupwara district trict of Jammu division on the village" and his sole by the District Magistrate we know whose body they edly gang-raped by upper- ing towards re-establishing India as a of Control (LoC) on Wednes- in the afternoon today by Tuesday. objective in coming to the and how they were not al- have burnt?" The Hath- caste men. ‘Vishwa Guru’. India’s nCoV tally crosses 67L India, Japan vouch for robust mark Recovery rate 85.02 pc and resilient cyber systems New Delhi, Oct 7 (IANS) the total recoveries so far to cent, and the deaths 1.55 per India recorded a fresh spike 57,44,693. Meanwhile, there cent. According to the Indian New Delhi/Tokyo, Oct Foreign Ministers’ Stra- of 72,049 nCoV cases during were 986 deaths due to the Council of Medical Research 7 (IANS) Recognizing tegic Dialogue with his the past 24 hours, taking the highly contagious virus since (ICMR), as many as 11,99,857 the increasing role being Japanese counterpart country’s tally past 67 lakh Tuesday, pushing the death samples were tested in the past played by digital technol- on Wednesday in Tokyo. mark, the Union Health Min- toll to 1,04,555 till date. Ac- 24 hours, taking the total cu- ogies, India and Japan on Reaffirming the mutual istry data said on Wednesday tive case-load on the country mulative samples tested since Wednesday highlighted trust and shared values, morning. Currently, the na- has decreased by 11,140 since the beginning of the pandemic the need for robust and they reviewed the prog- tion’s total case count stands Tuesday and presently India till Tuesday to 8,22,71,654. resilient digital and cyber ress made in India-Japan at 67,57,132. is home to 9,07,883 active cas- Meanwhile, Maharashtra con- systems. The two coun- Special Strategic and Also, the peninsular reg- es of the novel Coronavirus. tinues to rem ain the worst tries have finalised text of resilience in the areas of cial Intelligence (AI). Global Partnership and istered 82,203 cured or dis- In terms of percentage, affected state with maximum the cybersecurity agree- Critical Information In- External Affairs Min- discussed convergence charged cases in the same the active cases are 13.44 per case count as well as in terms ment that promotes co- frastructure, 5G, Internet ister S Jaishankar held in various areas, includ- duration which has pushed cent, recovered at 85.02 per of maximum active cases. operation in security and of Things (IoT) and Artifi- the 13th India-Japan ing maritime security. Indian Horizon 2 city Thursday, October 8, 2020 Restuarants in Delhi to open 24x7 soon New Delhi, Oct 7 (IANS) restaurants will be allowed to to permit service in open ar- relevant suggestions related Putting forward their cause Delhi Chief Minister Arvind operate at all hours subject to eas, balconies, verandahs etc. to amendments in excise of concern, the restaurateurs Kejriwal on Wednesday con- the condition that they sub- without any additional fee, regulations will be considered said that the FSSAI, a body vened a meeting with a del- mit an undertaking that they to permit additional dispens- to be included in a new policy operating under the Govern- egation of the National Res- will take care of the health and ing counters in the licensed currently under preparation, ment of India, already en- taurant Association of India security of their entire staff,” a premises without any addi- permitting the extension of sures the issuance of food and (NRAI), several ministers and government statement said. tional fee, to permit branding the operating timings of the safety hygiene licences, and top officials of various depart- The government also said within the licensed premises, restaurants on the weekends the issuance of health trade ments and directed them to that this will help the indus- to permit licences for all types till 3 am,” said the govern- licences by the local bodies remove the hassles for ease of try generate more employ- of music, including DJs, live ment statement. made the task irrelevant. doing business for the restau- ment in the national capital bands and karaoke, to abolish The Chief Minister also in- The CM also reviewed a let- rant industry in the national through increased demand. the requirement of a designat- structed that the health trade ter written by the FSSAI ad- capital. “Delhi’s restaurants are the ed all the respective depart- wal said after the meeting. ed liquor store and to allow licences, which are issued to dressing the municipal cor- “On the request of the res- pride of the national capital ments to remove unnecessary Decisions were also taken the stock to be kept anywhere the restaurants by the munic- porations to cease any further taurateurs to allow 24x7 busi- and provide employment to hassles in the smooth running in the meeting to immediately in the licensed premises. ipal corporations, should be issuing of licences and directed ness, it was agreed that the lakhs of people. I have direct- of restaurants in Delhi,” Kejri- amend archaic excise rules “It was decided that other abolished within 10 days. the officials to do the same. Delhi HC refers plea seeking fiber NGT seeks compliance report from Delhi on bio net in all courts to division bench medical waste disposal New Delhi, Oct 7 (IANS) on January 12, 2021. medical waste treatment The National Green Tribu- The International Re- facilities and directed the nal has directed the Delhi hab Foundation, repre- Central Pollution Control government to take appro- sented by advocates Ra- Board (CPCB) to take steps priate steps and submit a hul Khurana and Veena to ensure compliance of compliance report on the Bansal, have been direct- Biomedical Waste Man- enhancement of biomedi- ed to furnish a set of pa- agement Rules, 2016. cal waste treatment and pers to the Delhi Pollution The NGT had also said disposal facilities in the Control Committee, the that care should be taken national capital amid the between waste generation steps in the matter and fur- Delhi Health Secretary, in disposal of used person- coronavirus pandemic. and disposal. It asserted nish a compliance report and the Chief Secretary, al protective equipment, A bench of NGT Chair- that such unscientific dis- before the next date,” the and file an affidavit of ser- used bags, gloves, goggles New Delhi, Oct 7 (IANS) The wide lockdown hit the judiciary person Adarsh Kumar Goel posal is the source of pollu- bench, which also com- vice within one week. without the same getting Delhi High Court on Wednesday hard, deferring regular hearings was hearing an application tion and causes damage to prises Judicial Member S.P. In a separate matter in straightaway mixed with referred a petition seeking direc- and confining hearings only to ur- filed by International Re- public health. Wangdi and Expert Mem- April, the green tribunal other municipal solid tions to the concerned authorities gent cases via video conferencing. hab Foundation seeking a “Let the Delhi govern- ber Nagin Nanda, said. The had taken suo moto cog- waste, causing contami- for the installation of fiber line for The plea also sought directions to direction to bridge the gap ment take appropriate matter will now be heard nizance of the lack of bio- nation. internet in all the cell operators in the respondents to take necessary all the court complex situated in the steps on an urgent basis to instal fi- national capital to a division bench. ber cables in all court complexes in HC notice on plea challenging commercial After hearing the matter briefly, a Delhi, including chamber premises. single judge bench of the high court It sought the indulgence of the property tax on lawyers’ offices comprising Justice Navin Chawla court regarding the problem faced New Delhi, Oct 7 (IANS) A division bench of the Mohit Mathur and Secre- transferred the matter to an appro- by the judges, lawyers and litigants The Delhi High Court has High Court presided by tary Abhijat. priate division bench of the court due to poor/lack of internet con- issued notice on a peti- Chief Justice D.N. Patel The plea has sought and slated it for further hearing on nectivity. tion filed by the Delhi High and Justice Prateek Jalan quashing of the order of October 12. The majority of the lawyers are Court Bar Association (DH- sought a response from all November 29, 2018 passed The plea filed by Satyanarain facing the problem of poor/non- CBA). the respondents including by the South Delhi Munici- nicipal Corporation (DMC) that treating the legal pro- Sharma, who is a practicing advo- availability of internet in the cham- Challenging the classifi- East, South and North Del- pal Corporation relating to Act. fession as part of commer- cate and former secretary of the Ro- ber blocks situated in court com- cation of the offices of the hi Municipal Corporation self-assessment of proper- The petition filed by ad- cial activity is illegal, arbi- hini Court Bar Association (RCBA), plexes, which has resulted in grave lawyers under the commer- over the petition filed by ty tax returns of lawyers of- vocate Nikhil Mehta said trary and contrary to the said the unprecedented Covid-19 hardship for the practicing advo- cial property ambit for the DHCBA through its presi- fices under Sections 123-A that the order was illegal law. The court will next hear pandemic and the ensuing nation- cates, the plea said. assessment of property tax. dent and senior advocate and 123-B of the Delhi Mu- and arbitrary and added the matter on November 20. DCW rescues minor from being married off in Delhi’s Jamia Nagar New Delhi, Oct 7 (IANS) The marry off the girl on October ny was scheduled for October enquired about the girl, the locked up in a room. Police has registered an FIR deprived of their childhood. Delhi Commission for Women 10. The matter was escalated 5 and that would be the best family refused to share any in- The girl along with the fam- against the family members of They are being forcefully mar- has rescued a minor girl from to DCW chief Swati Maliwal time to catch the family red- formation. ily members were taken to the girl and some of them have ried off at a young age. Our southeast Delhi’s Jamia Nagar who along with member Kiran handed. The team visited the They said that the girl was Jamia Nagar police station. also been arrested. The girl team showed great proactive- who was allegedly being mar- Negi immediately constituted given address along with Delhi not a minor but they failed The girl was then taken to the is being produced before the ness in this matter and rescued ried off. A call was received on a team to take action in the Police and observed that the to produce any documents hospital for medical examina- child welfare committee. the girl in time. We have got an the Commission’s 181 helpline matter. house was properly decorated to prove it. Police team then tion and was then shifted to a Maliwal while speaking on FIR registered. I hope strong on an anonymous complaint The complainant informed and several marriage rituals searched the premises and shelter home after her state- the incident said, “Even in cit- action is taken against people that the family was planning to that the girl’s ‘Haldi’ ceremo- were ongoing. When the team found that the girl was kept ments were recorded. ies like Delhi, girls are being who get children married off.” Bhagwat’s nudge post Hathras, focus back on nomadic tribes CPCB writes to Kejriwal govt for urgent action on New Delhi, Oct 7 (IANS) As ernment is made to look anti- urged the Sangh’s office bear- the entire nation was discuss- Dalit, the focus is back on the ers and volunteers alike to fo- major polluting sources, lists out pending tasks ing the Hathras horror where a Dada Idate Commission report cus on further helping the de- Expressing concern over asked in a letter to the Delhi activities”, the CPCB said. 19-year-old was allegedly gan- which gave recommendations notified tribes. the menace of air pollution government on Tuesday to It said some tasks to graped that later resulted in for the upliftment of the tribes Cow welfare, social har- in Delhi during winters, the take early action on dumping curb air pollution in Delhi her death, over the weekend, amid speculation of giving it a mony, strengthening families central pollution watchdog of mixed municipal solid have been accomplished RSS supremo Mohan Bhagwat fresh look. were other wishes of Bhagwat has asked the Arvind waste at three dump sites but “more needs to be advocated that RSS office bear- While Bhagwat was told that in Jaipur that finds regular Kejriwal government to in Bhalswa, Ghazipur and done”. Pointing out the ers and volunteers work for to the incident, the renewed a great deal of work has been mention in his RSS lectures. take immediate action on Okhla. shortcomings in action the Denotified and Nomadic thrust of the BJP’s ideological done by the unit of But stressing on nomadics was major pollution sources like “It is observed that plans of 13 pollution Tribes (DNT). mentor on the nomadic tribes the RSS for the DNT commu- significant, almost signalling construction and demolition construction and demolition hotspots in the capital, it Though Bhagwat made no coupled with a political situ- nity in Jaipur and other parts to the government on what to activities and open garbage activities and open dumping said the updated status reference or remote suggestion ation where a BJP state gov- of Rajasthan, the RSS supremo do next. dumping. of waste/garbage continue of Wazirpur hotspot has Listing out a series of to be the major concern not been received while tasks to be accomplished in most of the areas and the target of greening and Retired Lt. Colonel held for duping ex-service men across Delhi, the Central therefore, special efforts paving in the hotspot areas Pollution Control Board are needed to curb these is not mentioned. in residential plots scam HC notice on interfaith couple’s plea against New Delhi, Oct 7 (IANS) necessary approvals taken. However, the accused directed The Economic Offences Wing The company reportedly the investors to deposit money 30-day notice period (EOW) of Delhi Police has provided allocation letter cum in SWO India Ltd (a company New Delhi, Oct 7 (IANS) filed by the couple and under Sections 6 and 7 of arrested a retired Lieutenant agreement on receipt of total of identical name),” said OP The Delhi High Court listed the matter for further the Special Marriage Act, Colonel for allegedly being the amount, but the company Mishra, Joint CP EOW. on Wednesday issued a hearing on November 27. 1954 wherein public notice key conspirator in a property neither provided the plots, The army personnel believed notice on a petition filed The petition, filed through is issued inviting objections scam in which he duped nor did they return the money. fell for the trap and deposited by an interfaith couple advocates Utkarsh Singh, mentioned in section 4 many unsuspecting Army The company in question has at least Rs 88 lakhs in 2018 challenging the procedure Mohd. Tauheed and Mohd of the SMA, 1954 to the personnel. On the basis of no land, requisite sanction after which a case of cheating of issuance of public Humaid, sought the setting marriage for next 30 days. credible information, the EOW or approval from concerned and other relevant sections notice inviting objections aside of the impugned They are praying team arrested the accused authority. was registered.“The alleged to the registration of the procedure of issuance of for declaration of said on Tuesday from one of his recipient, is also the authorised “Accused person by flashing company through its director marriage for a period of public notice for 30 days impugned procedure for residences at Dwarka. signatory of various accounts rosy picture about various ensured that he would provide 30 days under the Special inviting objections to the applying for registration of Officials said that during of the company. plot projects in different states residential plots to the army Marriage Act. marriage solemnization marriages under the Special investigations, it emerged During investigations it including the Veer Aawas personnel at Bokaro, A division bench of the and registration under the Marriage Act, 1954 as Null that the accused Rakesh Rana, surfaced that Rana induced Bokaro Project assured army on a no-profit-no-loss basis. high court presided by Special Marriage Act, 1954. and Void and ultra vires to Chairman-cum-Managing and gave false representation personnel that they are running But the accused persons did Chief Justice D. N. Patel “The petitioners, being the constitution of India as Director of SWO India was to army personnel that a an NGO in the name of SWO- not purchase the land. They did and Justice Prateek Jalan directly affected and the same are grossly illegal, the main brain behind the residential plots project was INDIA for the benefit of Army not take necessary approvals in directed the Centre and the aggrieved by the impugned arbitrary and ultra vires to offence. The accused, a retired of 20 acre land and the land personnel and is not earning this regard either,” the officer Delhi government to file its procedure for applying for the Constitution of India,” Lt Colonel and Kirti Chakra had been purchased and the any benefits from the projects. added. response over the petition registration of marriages the plea said. Indian Horizon Thursday, October 8, 2020 city 3 HC seeks CBSE, Centre, AAP govt response on plea against 2 crushed to death as truck rise in Board exam fees falls on car in Delhi New Delhi, Oct 7 (IANS) ture,” the plea read. The plea has sought court’s : The Delhi High Court on The plea further stated that direction to the Delhi govern- Wednesday issued notice it has emerged that the Delhi ment to permanently sort out over a petition against the government has not only the matter of payment of the rise in the examination fees failed to sort out the mat- fee for students in its school demanded by the Central ter as promised last year but for the Board Examination Board of Secondary Educa- this year it has declined to for Class X and Class XII with tion (CBSE) from the students meet the steep fee obligation other Respondents 1 (CBSE) of Class X and XII for registra- thereby abandoning lakhs of and 3 (Central government) tion in the Board Examina- children in class X and XII in to protect their eligibility to tions. A division bench of the its schools. take the Board Examination high court presided by Chief enhanced its examination titioner said. “This has directly hit chil- conducted by the CBSE. Justice D.N. Patel and Justice fee for Class X and Class XII “Due to inability to afford dren hailing from economi- The plea also sought the Prateek Jalan issued notice to Board examination by two the blatantly arbitrary en- cally poor sections who are court’s direction for estab- the CBSE, Delhi Government folds as compared to the hancement of fee by poor from economically weak and lishing an empowered com- and the Central government year 2017- 2018 and several stakeholders of government deprived sections of society mittee to examine and sub- New Delhi, Oct 7 (IANS) was crushed under a truck over a plea filed by an as- folds as compared to the year and aided schools under R2 studying in the government mit a report to this Hon’ble Two persons were crushed to container at T-Point, under sociation called the Parents 2014-2015. (Delhi government), it wisely and aided schools in class X Court for necessary stan- death in a road accident in the flyover opposite Lal Sai Forum for Meaningful Edu- The fee effectively trans- met the fee obligation to R1 and Class XII under R2 and dards and standards for their Delhi on Wednesday after a Market Ring Road. cation. lates to about Rs. 2400 in case for academic year 2019-2020 are consequently imperilled implementation: for fixation truck fell on a car, the police “The Container filled with The plea filed through of practical science and ad- and assured the stakeholders and if not rescued will get left of norms of fee for Board Ex- said. The two were killed when rice bags was removed from advocates P.S. Sharda and ditional subject option case that it would have the same abandoned which cannot be amination by R1 for the chil- the large truck overturned in the car with the help of cranes Kshitij Sharda the CBSE for and increases by 2400% in sorted out for future to avoid acceptable to any responsible dren studying in the schools the Lajpat Nagar area. and JCB. Ambulances, fire the year 2019-2020 arbitrarily case of sc/st students, the pe- repeat of this malady in fu- state,” the plea stated. run by the Delhi government. The deceased were brigade and crime teams identified as 35-year-oldwere also called on the spot,” told by witnesses with “incisive Ankit Malhotra, a resident of said R.P. Meena, Deputy As virtual fans cheer in Delhi assembly admits threatening knowledge” about hate speech Karkardooma, and 35-year- Commissioner of Police Facebook official with breach of privilege circulation through social me- old Ranjan Kalra, a Lajpat (DCP) Southeast Delhi. IPL, cops launch pan-India dia during the Delhi riots tar- Nagar resident. Both worked Both the injured were NEW DELHI: Delhi assem- speech and derogatory content geting the minority commu- in an event management taken out of the mangled car crackdown on betting bly on Tuesday told the Su- against minority community nity aggravated the situation. company and were on their and taken to the hospital, New Delhi, Oct 7 (IANS) police busted at least two preme Court that it had indeed during Delhi riots. It said that though the same way to the airport to board a where doctors declared them The roar you hear after every gambling networks in Goa warned a Facebook official of However, the assembly in its official had appeared before a flight to Kolkata. brought dead. boundary hit or wicket taken betting on the outcome of breach of privilege if he refused affidavit, said that the warning parliamentary committee, he “We received a call of an A case under relevant in the ongoing Indian Pre- IPL matches. On October 2, to depose before Raghav Chad- was issued as the official, Ajit refused to appear before the accident at around 3.50 a.m. section has been registered mier League (IPL) is virtual, the Goa Police Crime Branch ha-headed Peace and Harmo- Mohan, had not responded to assembly committee and re- Immediately, the police staff at the Lajpat Nagar police compensating for the crowd raided a hotel and arrested ny Committee inquiring into the earlier notice for appear- plied through another official from the Lajpat Nagar police station and search for the that has not been allowed three persons from Hyder- the social media platform’s al- ance as witness before the of Facebook to the first notice station reached the spot and driver of the truck, who fled into the stadiums as a pre- abad who were found ac- leged role in dealing with hate Committee, which had been and did not appear before it. found that a Honda city car the spot, is on. cautionary measure due to cepting bets on IPL matches the pandemic. from people across India. However, there are many The arrests came a day af- who literally shout, cheer ter the police apprehended AAP demands action against Punjab, Haryana over stubble burning and get the adrenaline rush five persons from a villa at New Delhi, Oct 7 (IANS) Aam October in Punjab, the stubble also trying and working on on every ball of the ongoing Candolim, a coastal village in Aadmi Party leader Raghav burning has increased nine- developing a parallel method T20 cricket matches. They north Goa. All those arrested Chadha on Wednesday said fold and in Haryana three-fold. to avoid stubble burning and have money at stake and are were from Rajasthan except that Punjab and Haryana are In the first week of October, CM has also launched a plan to running a dark network of one who was from . guilty of criminal negligence 606 cases of stubble burning combat the city’s air pollution. betting on IPL matches with None of those arrested be- on the matter of air pollution were reported from Punjab The air quality of the region their setup of laptops, mo- longed to Goa. In Hyderabad, and have not taken any serious and 137 cases in Haryana. We dipped to the ‘very poor’ biles and registers to main- at least 13 persons were ar- comprehensive steps to stop want to request the Supreme category on Wednesday. This tain records. rested from different parts stubble burning. Court-appointed watchdog marks the beginning of the The Indian police in of the city and more than Rs Chadha spoke about to take note of the matter and highly-polluted season that states like Hyderabad, Uttar 22 lakh in cash was seized. the Centre’s launch of the to take stern action against goes on to last for about three Pradesh, Kolkata, Goa, Delhi Seven members of a gang ambitious National Clean Air these states. The estimation is months. and the NCR has actively organising betting for the on- Plan (NCAP), and how Union where is this money? The Aam can’t come up with a suitable that nearly 35 million tonnes With stubble burning, the air launched a crackdown on going IPL matches were ap- Finance Minister Nirmala Aadmi Party wants to know plan to stop stubble burning.” of stubble will be burnt this pollution reaches a crescendo betting syndicates, arresting prehended by the Cyberabad Sitharaman had announced a why the central government “Today I want to tell you that year combining Punjab and in Delhi-NCR every winter, several men who were caught Special Operations Team of budget of Rs 4,400 crore for the has not given this money to the this year the stubble burning Haryana,” Chadha said. when pollutants combine with red-handed from small flats Balanagar zone on Sunday NCAP. Chadha said, “I want farmers. We also want to know started one month before The AAP leader said that the suspended water droplets to resorts in India. The Goa night to ask the central government why the central government October 15. In the first week of the Delhi government is in the lower atmosphere. Shaheen Bagh protest didn’t remain sole voice of women, says SC Noida airport to have one runway New Delhi, Oct 7 (IANS) statements made to the of about 75-100 women and 90 per cent domestic traffic The Supreme Court on media and to the crowd in inside the tent, as well as Wednesday held the Shaheen attendance. 200 or more outside the tent initially: Zurich airport official Bagh protest perhaps no “While the women having a connection with the One runway of the Noida at a later stage to develop the longer remained the “sole protesters had sat in protest protest. international airport will be airport further. and empowering voice of inside the tent, there was a “While the tent was built during the first phase of “As a strategic objective, women”, as the presence of huge periphery comprising occupying half of the construction and around 90 we are looking at building a various groups of protesters mainly of male protesters, carriageway, the remaining per cent of the air traffic in the platform of airports in India had possibly resulted in them volunteers and bystanders half of the carriageway had initial years will be domestic in the mid-term. So, it could acting at cross-purposes. “Thus, the Shaheen Bagh According to their first who all seemed to have a been blocked by creating only, said a top official of be that we will join hands with Citing the report of protest perhaps no longer report, the top court found stake in the continuance of facilities such as a library, Zurich Airport International a financial investor in a later interlocutors, a bench remained the sole and that the nature of demands the blockade of the road,” the a large model of India Gate on Wednesday. stage to make this platform comprising Justices Sanjay empowering voice of women, was very wide and that it bench said. and a big metallic three- Officials of the Uttar Pradesh (Noida airport) grow. At this Kishan Kaul, Aniruddha Bose who also appeared to no did look difficult to find a During the site visit dimensional map of India government and Zurich stage of the development and Krishna Murari said that longer have the ability to call middle path towards at least on March 20, before the located upon a very strong Airport International signed phase (of Noida airport), we it appeared that an absence off the protest themselves,” facilitating the opening of the lockdown to control the metal scaffolding and a concession agreement will do it ourselves,” he added. of leadership guiding the it said. The top court had blocked public way. outbreak of Covid-19 was anchored by heavy stones, on Wednesday to begin the Zurich Airport International protest and the presence of appointed two interlocutors The second report of the imposed, it was revealed making its removal very construction of the Noida currently holds 100 per cent various groups of protesters - senior advocate Sanjay interlocutors suggested that that there were about 35-40 difficult,” the top court airport in Jewar on the shareholding in the Noida had resulted in many R. Hegde and Sadhana the views reflected in private ‘takhts’ (platforms) inside observed. outskirts of Delhi. airport project. influencers who were acting Ramachandran, who is a conversations with the the tent and each had 2-3 Noting that mediation “We will obviously work with It had outbid the Delhi possibly at cross-purposes mediator trainer, to meet the protesters were somewhat women occupying the space, through interlocutors did not the local construction partners International Airport Limited with each other. protesters at the site. different from the public resulting in a rough estimate produce a solution. to build it (Noida airport) but (DIAL), Adani Enterprises we will be the main investor at and Anchorage Infrastructure the moment,” Daniel Bircher, Investments Holdings Limited Boat Club to Jantar Mantar: Delhi’s shrinking spaces for dissent Chief Executive Officer, Zurich to win the 40-year concession New Delhi, Oct 7 (IANS) rule cannot be equated with test in Delhi. many smaller protesting India Gate due to imposition Airport International (Asia) for the Noida airport. The GMR Wednesday will be remem- dissent in a self-ruled democ- One of the Capital’s oldest groups opt out of this loca- of Section 144 CrPC,” the told PTI in an interview. group-led DIAL operates the bered as a red letter day in the racy,” said the top court. spots for mid to large-level tion. Delhi Police tweeted. He said the company might Indira Gandhi International nation’s history of protests It was referring to the Sha- protests has been the iconic India Gate had been a fa- Of course Jantar Mantar get another financial investor Airport (IGIA) in Delhi. when the Supreme Court said heen Bagh blockade that Ram Lila Maidan. From Jay- vourite protest site not so has been the favourite protest it cannot accept that an inde- occupied an active road aprakash Narayan’s anti- long ago. During the Nirb- central that saw many small terminable number of people of the national capital for Indira Gandhi protests in the haya rape case protests, In- protests to bigger political the ‘complete ban’ on holding NAME CHANGE can assemble whenever they more than a month protest- 1970s to the Anna Hazare-led dia Gate was brimming with dharnas and even resound- dharna there that the NGT had MY ACTUAL name is Satish choose to protest, and cited ing against the Citizenship anti-graft campaign during public anger. But not any ing agitations like Anna Haz- imposed. Even now, a police Panchal S/O Sh. Harpal Panchal, the distinction between the Amendment Act. the UPA era, the sprawling more. Whenever any protest are sitting on a fast demand- permission is needed for holding r/o H.NO. D-40, Gali No.-3. Near manner of dissent against the While many have breathed and dusty ground saw some call is made at India Gate, ing the passage of Lokpal Bill. a dharna there. Lalita Mandir, Ashok Nagar, colonisers and the expression a sigh of relief at the apex of the most eventful agita- Section 144 is invoked, as it But in 2018, the Delhi Po- Another favoured spot for ex- Shahdara, Delhi-110093 but by of dissent in a democratic court stepping in and bring- tions in the national Capital. happened this time around lice had come up with draft pressing dissent in the capital Mistaken in my Son (Bharat system. ing a semblance of balance However, over the years, when protesters wanted to guidelines stating that only has been the Boat Club. There is Panchal) School record my name “What must be kept in between democracy and dis- getting a chance to protest in go to India Gate demanding 1,000 people can be pres- an iconic photo of former Prime wrongly mentioned as SATISH mind, however, is that the sent, some fear the Capital’s this Maidan has also become justice for the victim of the ent there at the time of stag- Minister Chaudhary Charan KUMAR. In future I will be erstwhile mode and manner protest culture may be at risk a tad tougher. The steep per Hathras gang-rape. “No gath- ing protests. This after the Singh addressing a rally at Boat known as SATISH PANCHAL for all of dissent against colonial with shrinking space for pro- day booking charge makes ering is permissible around Supreme Court had lifted Club with a sea of people. purposes. Indian Horizon 4 SOUTH Thursday, October 8, 2020 ED charge sheet in PMLA court: Crucial days ahead for Jose Mani as Swapna met CM 6 times Kerala’s ruling party beckons him Kochi, Oct 7 (IANS) The (PMLA), 2002 against PS appointment in the Space ED on Wednesday filed a Sarith, Swapna Suresh and Park on a salary of over Rs Thiruvananthapuram, Oct “All along I have been with charge sheet in a PMLA Sandeep Nair in the District 1.50 lakh per month. The 7 (IANS) The coming weeks our party chairman (Jose) and court in Ernakulam in its and Sessions Court (PMLA) Congress and the BJP lead- are going to be crucial for there is no basis in the pres- probe into the money trail in Ernakulam in the gold ership in the southern state late K.M. Mani’s son Jose ent speculation that I will in the gold smuggling case, smuggling case. All three were up in arms and de- K.Mani, as the faction of the leave Jose. We have our party triggering another slugfest accused are in judicial cus- manded the resignation of Kerala Congress (Mani) that steering committee meeting in Kerala politics after it al- tody since July. Vijayan. he leads, is awaiting its entry on Friday,” said Augustine. legedly revealed that prime The ED charge sheet “Vijayan had said he had into the ruling CPI-M led Left Meanwhile, the LDF has accused Swapna Suresh quoted Swapna as saying no clue of how she got a Democratic Front (LDF). come to a broad consensus on had met Chief Minister that she had met Vijayan on job in the Space Park, but While the nod has come the seats that should be given Pinarayi Vijayan six times. six occasions in the pres- the ED charge sheet says from the CPI-M, the ball to Jose, which is essentially The charge sheet was ence of now-suspended IAS he was aware. Vijayan then is now in the court of Jose, a pre-condition to his entry filed under the Prevention officer M Sivasankar and said his office is not a haven whose crucial steering com- into the LDF. of Money Laundering Act that the CM knew about her for such people. mittee meeting of the party is In the 2016 Assembly polls, meeting on Friday. sit as an independent bloc tions emerged within the par- the erstwhile Kerala Congress The Jose faction suffered in 2016 after breaking away ty -- one led by party veteran (Mani) -- the undivided party reports 2,995 new Covid cases a rude jolt, last month af- from the Congress-led UDF. legislator P.J. Joseph and the -- had contested 15 seats and ter one of its strong leaders, At that time, stiff opposition other by Jose K. Mani. In the they have now been offered Bhubaneswar, Oct 7 ed from Balasore district followed by Cuttack (166) a former legislator Joseph surfaced after the second Joseph’s faction, which had 13 seats. (IANS) Odisha has report- and two each from Naya- and Angul (142). Angul re- M.Puthusserry decided to biggest ally in the Left -- the three legislators, the num- With CPI-M taking the lead ed as many as 2,995 new garh, Puri and Sundergarh corded 142 cases, followed join the opposite faction led CPI -- strongly opposed it. In ber came down to two after to bring in Jose, even though Covid-19 cases and 18 districts. One death each by Balasore (121), Balan- by veteran legislator P.J. Jo- 2018, K.M. Mani returned to the death of veteran legisla- the CPI and NCP had ex- deaths in the last 24 hours, was reported from the gir (94), Bargarh (93) and seph. Jose is worried at more the UDF after a Rajya Sabha tor C.F. Thomas last month, pressed their displeasure af- informed the state Health districts of Boudh, Deog- Bhadrak (28). At present, people leaving his flock as seat was given to him. Quick while his rival faction has also ter a few of their seats, which Department on Wednes- arh, Jajpur, Kandhamal, there are 29,770 active Co- that could affect his ‘bargain- to take up the offer, he asked two. they contested, might be giv- day. Khordha, Koraput, May- vid-19 cases in the state ing power’ with the LDF. Jose to resign from the Lok Speaking to IANS, sitting en to Jose, the CPI-M is hope- The total count of urbhanj and Sambalpur. with 958 fatalities. The CPI-M has asked Jose Sabha, a year before the term legislator Roshy Augustine, ful that all such issues will be people infected with the Among the new cases, With the new cases, the to make the first move to was to end, and contest the who has been strongly rooted amicably settled. virus in the state rose 1,737 have been kept un- number of active cases in express his interest in join- Rajya Sabha seat which he with Jose, denied all rumours However, if it happens, to 2,40,998. The death der quarantine, while the state rose to 29,770. ing the LDF. A similar situa- won. that has started going around the CPI-M will have some toll due to Coronavirus 1,258 are local contacts. A total of 2,10,217 people tion had emerged when late After the death of K.M. that he is not keen to join the explaining to do, more than climbed to 958. Khordha recorded the have recovered from the K.M. Mani had decided to Mani last year, the two fac- LDF. Jose. Four deaths were report- highest 568 fresh cases virus in the state. Explosion at fuel pump Palaniswami will be AIADMK’s CM near Raj Bhawan in Odisha, candidate for 2021 Assembly polls

several injured Chennai, Oct 7 (IANS) Tamil also announced the setting up ickam. Welcoming the an- to set up a steering committee Bhubaneswar, Oct 7 (IANS) Several Police Commissioner Sudhansu Saran- Nadu’s ruling AIADMK on of a 11-member steering com- nouncement party cadres to guide the party as per earlier persons were injured after a major fire gi informed that one of the fuel storage Wednesday announced that mittee to guide the party. burst crackers and distributed agreement. broke out at a fuel station near Raj Bha- tanks exploded causing the fire to spread. Chief Minister K. Palaniswami The formation of the steer- sweets at the headquarters. All these years Palaniswa- wan in Bhubaneswar following an explo- He said the entire stretch of road be- will be the party’s chief min- ing committee was announced At the recent meeting of the mi was not agreeable for the sion on Wednesday. tween Raj Bhawan and Capital Hospital isterial candidate for the 2021 by party Joint Coordinator and Executive Committee of the steering committee and Pan- An underground CNG storage tank ex- has been cordoned off by the police to Assembly polls. Chief Minister Palaniswami. party, the issue of announc- neerselvam remained silent. ploded leading to the fire at the fuel sta- avoid any untoward situation. The much expected an- The members of the steer- ing the Chief Ministerial can- After the party’s Executive tion located barely a few hundred metres The intensity of the explosion was nouncement was made by ing committee are: Dindigul didate for the 2021 assembly Committee meeting, Deputy away from Raj Bhawan, said police. so high that it felt like an earthquake. party Coordinator and Deputy C. Sreenivasan, S.P. Velu- elections was raised. Coordinator K.P. Munusamy The blast injured many people and The nearby houses also felt the strong Chief Minister O. Panneer- mani, P. Thangamani, C.Ve. There were heated ex- told reporters that the party’s damaged many vehicles at the petrol shocks, said an eyewitness. Capital Hos- selvam at the party headquar- Shanmugam, D. Jayakumar, changes between the sup- Chief Ministerial candidate station. pital director Laxmidhar Sahoo said they ters here. R.Kamaraj, Manoj Pandian, porters of Panneerselvam and will be announced on Octo- As many as five fire tenders were have received eight injured persons for Accepting the demand of J.C.D. Prabhakar, P. Mohan, Palaniswami. ber 7 by Panneerselvam and pressed into service to douse the flames. treatment. Panneerselvam, the party has Gopalakrishnan and Man- Panneerselvam’s demand is Palaniswami.

No compromise on Mhadei issue, Goa is on Cong alleges ‘Wayside right track: CM Amenities’ project a rip have filed a contempt petition. We court vis a vis the contentious issue. off by Vijayan are strong on that and we will follow The SLP, which was filed in July last the matter in the Supreme Court. We year, also challenged the Mhadei Wa- are on the right track,” Sawant said. ter Dispute Tribunal award in 2018, The Chief Minister was speaking to which allowed to divert reporters on the sidelines of a func- 13.42 TMC water from the river basin. tion organised by a government cor- The SLP had also said that Karna- poration in Panaji. The state govern- taka was diverting more water than ment on Tuesday filed the contempt what was awarded. petition against Karnataka in the Mhadei also known as the Mandovi Panaji, Oct 7 (IANS) Goa will not bouring state for violation of apex apex court alleging that the southern river in Goa and Mahadayi in Karna- compromise on the ongoing Mha- court’s orders, Chief Minister Pramod state is illegally diverting water from taka, is considered as a lifeline in the dei river water sharing row with Kar- Sawant said on Wednesday. the Mhadei river basin via the newly northern parts of Goa. It originates in nataka and the state is on the right “There is no compromise. We are constructed Kalasa-Banduri canal, Karnataka and meets the Arabian Sea Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 7 the Public Works Department, track, especially with the filing of a strong in that regard. We have taken despite a special leave petition filed in Panaji in Goa, while briefly flowing (IANS) Leader of Opposition Ra- but it was shot down by Revenue contempt petition against the neigh- a stand. We are very much clear. We by the Goa government in the apex through Maharashtra. mesh Chennithala on Wednes- Minister E. Chandrasekheran. day alleged that the latest rip off “The decision to take over the by the Pinarayi Vijayan govern- prime land of SILK at Alappuzha “The Center must implement ment, which has just a few more is a rip off as this is a ploy where K’taka fishermen knock their adoption via standardising months left in office, is a project precious public land will finally quality of technologies available of the Overseas Keralites Invest- land in the hands of private par- across the states. We have test- ment & Holding (OKIH) which is ties. We demand the Vijayan on PM’s door for help ed BSNL’s transponder, which nothing but handing over gov- government to release the MoU has two-way data communica- ernment land to private players. signed in this Alappuzha project. Udupi, Oct 7 (IANS) Leading Federation Limited, elaborating trict co operative Fish Mar- tion directly over satellite and Chennithala told the media We wish to know who are these fishermen bodies in Karnataka on the community’s challenges, keting Federation Limited works in the deep sea. We urge that OKIH is a company formed two directors of OKIH -- O.V. have highlighted the need for said, “The lives of hundreds Mangalore said, “The incident the Prime Minister’s direct in- with 74 per cent participation Mustafa and Bajju George. Has the adoption of new technolo- and thousands of fishermen are involving four fishermen who tervention and request his gov- by private investors from the the state cabinet cleared this gies in the states fishing sector. lost at sea every year due to the went missing at Malpe recently ernment to broadly deploy the Kerala diaspora and the rest by project and the most important They have also written to unavailability of modern con- and the loss of lives from the latest technology immediately. the state government. thing is why was a similar proj- Prime Minister Narendra Modi nectivity technologies such as Suvarna Tribhuja incident last We need a solution today as any “The company’s major proj- ect that was mooted by the In- under the aegis of Indian Fish- satellite based navigation sys- year remain painfully etched delay will continue to endanger ect that has been announced is dian Oil Corporation not looked ermen for Technology Adoption tems that can connect Indian in our collective memory and the safety and security of fisher- ‘Wayside Amenities’ -- to cre- into,” asked Chennithala. (IFTA), seeking his direct inter- fishermen with mobile devices made us realise that our usual men at sea,” they added. ate wayside amenities starting Vijayan had, during a diaspora vention to spur the adoption of offering timely SoS alerts and methods of communication The adoption of next-gen- with Alappuzha, Wayanad and meeting held here, announced new technologies in the sector. harvesting predictions to ensure and warnings were not ad- eration digital and satellite Ernakulam districts. Land to that OKIH would be formed and Prominent boat owners and better catches and safety while equate to respond to tragedies communications technologies the extent of 2 to 4 acres would the Kerala diaspora could in- fishing community leaders in at sea. We urge the govern- like these. It is high time that would raise productivity of fish- be acquired to set this up. This vest in it. Among the objectives Gujarat had also written to the ment’s help for the industry to India adopts the highly-ad- ing harvests, create world-class is the first such project that of OKIH are bringing global PM recently and highlighted adopt new technologies to ad- vanced communications and competitiveness, apart from has been announced and it’s standards to Kerala in housing, similar issues. dress this great risk to our lives connectivity technologies that addressing the immediate and by taking over the land of state tourism, health, skill develop- Ganapati Mangre, Chairman and livelihoods.” are already available to ensure urgent challenge to ensure the PSU SILK near Alappuzha,” said ment, infrastructure and edu- of The North Kanara District Yashpal Suvarna, President the fishing sector benefits from safety of the state’s fishermen Chennithala. He said recently a cation through Special Purpose Co-Operative Fish Marketing South Kanara and Udupi dis- them in the longer term.” on the high seas. similar project was mooted by Vehicles. Indian Horizon Thursday, October 8, 2020 Nation 5 Haryana aims to achieve zero Honour killing: Teen strangled, mutilated burning of stubble by father & brother in UP Chandigarh, Oct 7 (IANS) Haryana Chief Secretary Vijai Vardhan on Wednesday directed all Deputy Commissioners to achieve the goal of body was recovered on Tues- brother is also involved in the to school, never informed her zero burning of stubble, besides ensuring the availability of residue day and police cracked the murder and we have booked family about her sexual en- management machinery to small and marginal farmers. case within hours. The girl both of them under IPC sec- counter. It was only when her He said those panchayats coming in the red zone will be rewarded had been missing since Sep- tions 302 (murder) and 201 baby bump started showing at the state level for performing well in crop residue management. The tember 23 but no complaint (causing disappearance of that the family came to know panchayat that gets the first, second and third position will be reward- was lodged by the family. evidence),” Se- about her pregnancy. ed with Rs 10 lakh, Rs 5 lakh and Rs 3 lakh, respectively. According to reports, the nior Superintendent of Police She did not reveal the name Presiding over a meeting with the Deputy Commissioners to pre- girl was beaten and strangled (SSP) S. Anand told reporters. of the person responsible. vent the burning of crop residues, Vardhan directed them to ensure to death. Her head was sev- “We have also questioned Police are trying to find out adequate supply of crop residue management machinery in districts, ered from the body which the mother and other rela- about the person, who could and allocate 70 per cent machinery to custom hiring centres and the Shahjahanpur (Uttar her father and elder brother was then buried near the river tives but their involvement be the rapist as she is a minor. farmers. He directed the Deputy Commissioners to send the report Pradesh), Oct 7 (IANS) Hon- and then her body was muti- bed. has not been established,” he “We are also trying to iden- of all these activities to the headquarters within three days. Every our killing was witnessed in lated for ‘bringing shame’ to “The father has confessed added. tify the person responsible for sarpanch should hold a meeting of the gram sabha and should pass of Uttar the family. to having killed his daughter During preliminary inquiry, the girl’s pregnancy as hav- a resolution not to burn stubble, he added. Additional Principal Secre- Pradesh, where a 16-year-old The father has confessed because she was pregnant. the family told police that the ing a sexual relationship with tary V. Umashankar said a system has been developed to monitor and pregnant Dalit girl was bru- and arrested but the brother People had started insulting girl was living with a relative. a minor girl is also a crime,” control the incidence of residue burning under which a short message tally attacked and killed by is on the run, police said. The him publicly. The girl’s elder The girl, who was never sent SSP Anand said. service will be sent twice a day to sarpanches, village secretaries, be- sides officials of the Agriculture and Revenue Departments if stubble is found burning within the range of 100 to 115 metres. Narrative in ‘horrific’ Hathras UP farmer killed by in

Pilibhit (Uttar Pradesh), Oct 7 (IANS) A young farmer was mauled to incident begins to change death by a tiger in Mala forest range of the Pilibhit Tiger Reserve (PTR), Hathras (Uttar Pradesh), in touch. “The victim’s family gulate her.” Rakesh Kumar, officials said on Wednesday. Sukhveer Singh, 36, resident of Piparia Oct 7 (IANS) As days roll by, has concealed this information father of accused Ram Kumar, Karam village, under Gajraula police station, was on his way home the narrative in the ‘horrific’ from us all along. The matter said that at the time of the al- near the Mala forest range on Tuesday evening when he was attacked. Hathras incident has started will have to be investigated and leged incident, his son was on The farmer’s blood-stained body was later spotted by passers-by changing and accused are we will be interrogating the girl’s duty at a local milk plant where who informed his family. The farmer’s family took the body and placed now getting increasing sup- brothers on this issue,” said a he works. “You can check CCTV it in the agricultural field, demanding a compensation of Rs 4 lakh. port from BJP leaders. The senior police officer on condi- footage and also the attendance However, the Forest Department was not convinced and said that revelation of call detail records tion of anonymity. The girl’s register to confirm his presence saw the girl lying unconscious. accused. The Hathras incident the spot where the farmer was actually attacked was about a kilometre (CDR) of victim’s family that brother admits that the number at the milk plant,” he said. I gave her water but later my took place on September 14, inside the forest. Naveen Khandelwal, Deputy Director of PTR, said the show that they had spoken belongs to him but vehemently Guddu, father of the ac- son was taken away the po- when the victim was working spot where the farmer was killed was duly verified by the forest team. 104 times in five months to the denies having spoken to any cused Sandeep said that his lice,” she said. Upper caste in a field and was allegedly “However, we have deployed the field force for installing camera main accused, Sandeep Singh, member of the accused family. son was giving water to their panchayats are now being dragged by the accused to a traps in the area to monitor the tiger’s movement. We have appealed has given a new angle the case. The victim’s family’s refusal cows when some people came held in several villages around nearby field and assaulted. to the villagers not to enter the forest area for their own safety,” he said. Police sources said that the to undergo a narco-test has and said that the girl was lying the Bulghari village where the The family has alleged she CDR proves that both the fam- also put them under the cloud unconscious. We even gave incident took place and the was gang raped and strangu- ilies were on good terms. of suspicion. Thakur Somesh them water and a few hours local Thakurs and Brahmins lated. She was admitted to a AAP MLA booked for visiting Hath- Call records show that 62 calls Singh, a local resident, said, “It later, my son was picked up are unanimously demanding hospital in Aligarh with seri- outgoing and 42 incoming calls is a case of honour killing. The by the police,” he said. Munni the release of the four accused. ous injuries on neck bones ras after testing Covid positive totalling 104 -- were made be- government has confirmedDevi, mother of another ac- The government affidavit sub- and spinal cord. She was later tween the two phone numbers. that there was no rape. Medi- cused Luvkush, said that she mitted in the Supreme Court shifted to a Delhi hospital Hathras (UP), Oct 7 (IANS) Delhi AAP MLA Kuldeep Kumar has According to the police, the call cal reports also have found that was working in a nearby field on Tuesday which rules out where she died on September been booked under the Epidemic Act, after he visited the Hathras vic- records show that the victim rape did not take place. So why when there was some com- rape, has further strengthened 29 evoking outrage through- tim’s family having tested positive for Covid. and the main accused were would some other boys stran- motion. “I went across and the campaign in favour of the out the country. Hathras Superintendent of Police Vineet Jaiswal said on Wednes- day that Kuldeep Kumar had taken to Twitter on September 29 to an- nounce that ‘due to my mild fever for the last two days, today I got Mafia don & ex- Covid-19 test done, the report of which has come out to be positive, Thanagaazi rape case: Victim’s due to which I will be at home in isolation. Whoever has met me in the last 2-3 days should also get his test done’. Six days after he tested BSP MP to contest positive for the virus, Kumar went to meet the victim’s family. On Oc- family demands death penalty tober 5, he had posted a video after meeting the family of the Hathras as Independent in victim and wrote, “I have just returned after meeting the family of the Jaipur, Oct 7 (IANS) A day after a Hathras victim. An atmosphere of fear is being created in the family. special court awarded life sentence to This is a murder of democracy and the constitution. There is no law in four persons convicted in the Thana- Malhani bypoll Yogi raj in Uttar Pradesh, jungle raj is going on!” gaazi gang-rape case and sent the fifth Jaunpur (Uttar Pradesh), Oct 7 (IANS) accused, who made the rape video go With former Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) viral on social media, to five years’ MP Dhananjay Singh preparing to con- 52 fresh corona cases in Agra rigorous imprisonment, the fam- test the by-elections on the Malhani ily members of the victim expressed (Jaunpur) Assembly seat as an Inde- takes tally to 6,054 their dissatisfaction over the verdict pendent candidate, the contest on this and demanded death penalty for the seat has become rather interesting. Agra, Oct 7 (IANS) With one more succumbing to Covid-19, the total covicts. The Samajwadi Party has fielded number of deaths in Agra now stands at 129. In the past 24 hours, 52 Speaking to the media here, the Lucky Yadav, son of late Parasnath Ya- fresh cases were reported taking the total tally to 6,054, said the health victim’s father, mother-in-law and dav, while BSP decided to play Brahmin officials. The number of active cases is 561 and 5,364 have recovered. brother-in-law said that the convicts card by putting J.P. Dubey in the fray The number of samples for testing has gone up to 2,04,350. should be hanged to death so that attention as the accused had raped Mayawati during the Lok Sabha elec- for the November 3 by-election. After the meeting of the state additional principal secretary, health, such heinous crimes are not repeated. the woman in front of her husband, tion campaign over the delay in lodg- The Bharatiya Janata Party is yet to Amit Mohan Prasad with senior district officials at the Circuit House “We will appeal in the Supreme filmed the act and made the video vi- ing an FIR in the case. Congress leader announce its candidate. on Tuesday, a series of measures were being initiated to fight Co- Court against the decision of the spe- ral on social media. Rahul Gandhi had also visited Thana- Dhananjay, meanwhile, has started vid-19. Prasad said it was important to trace the contacts and provide cial court and demand death penalty A case was registered after the video gaazi and met the family of the rape preparations to contest as an Indepen- prompt medical support to critically ill patients. Each life mattered for the convicts,” they said in unison. went viral on May 2, six days after the victim. dent candidate. and was precious for the government, he added. An analysis of data While pronouncing the verdict on crime. When the couple had earlier The four men sentenced to life are Earlier, it was said that he would be relating to deaths at the Covid hospital in the S.N. Medical College Tuesday, special court judge Brijesh gone to lodge an FIR, the police had Indraj, Ashok, Chhotalal and Hansraj. fielded by the Nishad Party and the BJP clearly indicated a fatal combination of diabetes and Covid. Patients Kumar had compared the crime to reportedly sent them back citing the The court has also imposed a fine of would support him. with uncontrolled sugar levels and high blood pressure succumbed to Drapudi’s ‘cheerharan’, saying the busy schedule of the police due to the Rs 1 lakh on them. However, the BJP did not agree to the deadly virus. Of the 610 patients admitted to the Covid hospital, heinous act has shamed humanity. Lok Sabha polls. The fifth convicted person is Muke- Dhananjay’s candidature after which 490 recovered, while 98 could not be saved as diabetes and high blood The Thanagaazi gang-rape in Ra- The Rajasthan government drew sh, who made the video viral, and has the Nishad Party also backed off. pressure complicated their conditions, doctors said. jasthan was first reported on April flak from Prime Minister Narendra been sentenced to five years’ rigorous When contacted, Dhananjay said, “I 26, 2019 and it grabbed nationwide Modi and Bahujan Samaj Party chief imprisonment. am going to contest as an Independent candidate. The preparations are in full swing.” He denied that he had sought a BJP Bihar polls: BJP gives 11 seats to VIP from its own quota ticket and said the Nishad Party had been trying to get him fielded as ruling Patna, Oct 7 (IANS) The BJP al- allocate it seats during the an- “Being a son of the most back- party candidate. located 11 seats to the Vikassheel nouncement on seat-sharing in ward class, I was back-stabbed The mafia don-turned-politician had Insaan Party (VIP) from its own Patna. by Tejashwi Yadav. Prime Minis- won 2002 Assembly elections from Rari quota on Wednesday for the He walked off in a huff, leaving ter Narendra Modi has put balm seat in Jaunpur as an Independent can- coming Bihar Assembly elec- the RJD, Congress and Left lead- on my wound. I will contest the didate and retained the seat in 2007 on tions, choosing to contest 110 ers stunned. Assembly elections under the a JD(U) ticket. seats in all. VIP chief Mukesh Sahani was expecting 25 seats leadership of Chief Minister Nit- In 2009, he ensured victory of his fa- Sahani has dubbed his alliance from the Grand Alliance and ish Kumar,” Sahani said. ther from the seat while he joined BSP with the BJP as ‘ghar wapsi’ and the Deputy CM’s post which, he “I began my political career and won parliamentary election from said his party would fight under claimed, RJD leader Tejashwi in 2015 with the BJP and was in- Jaunpur. the leadership of Nitish Kumar. Yadav had promised him. fluenced by Modi. Due to some In 2017, Dhananjay, contested as a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) BJP sources said that Sahani reasons, I switched to the Grand Nishad Party candidate but Parasnath state unit chief Sanjay Jaiswal was allocated 11 seats as a re- Alliance in search of social jus- Yadav Samajwadi Party won the seat announced the allocation of 11 ward by Union Home Minister tice. It was a mistake. It is a ‘ghar while Dhananjay ranked second. seats to the VIP led by Sahani, Amit Shah as he had openly wapsi’ for me and I express my Parasnath Yadav died in June this who dramatically left the Grand challenged Tejashwi and other gratitude to the top leadership year and the Samajwadi Party has Alliance on Saturday after the Grand Alliance leaders during of the BJP, including Modi and named his son, Lucky Yadav, as its can- Rashtriya Janata Dal failed to the press meet on Saturday. Shah,” the VIP chief said. didate on the seat. Indian Horizon 6 Edit Thursday, October 8, 2020 Another step forward by Quad Indian Horizon By Shyam Saran major issue for Japan and Australia Indo-Pacific that will demand re- caught in a cross-fire between China The foreign ministers of the Quad which already have a military alli- straints on its ambitions. and the US or between China and countries — India, Australia, Japan ance relationship of long standing India has sought to define the geo- India for that matter. Therefore, is and the US — are holding talks in with the US. It may be a bridge too graphical limits of the Indo-Pacific the Quad likely to become a more Tokyo. The earlier Quad meeting far for India. The greater the sense as stretching from the Western Pa- cohesive strategic core around had taken place on the sidelines of of threat from China the greater the cific to the eastern shores of Africa. which a broader coalition of stake- the UN General Assembly in Sep- likelihood of India pondering over Japan too subscribes to this. How- holders could gravitate? Will these tember 2019, but the Tokyo meet- such an option. India’s preference ever, both the US and Australia limit developments convince China that ing is the first stand-alone one and remains not having to make such a the Indo-Pacific from ‘Hollywood to rather than risk having to confront Thursday, October 8, 2020 hence has enhanced political sig- choice. Bollywood’. In practical terms India an expanded grouping of powerful nificance. The choice of venue is The more exclusive and overtly has implicitly accepted the narrower countries determined to foil its over- also important. Japan has a new military the Quad becomes, its at- scope by emphasising that Indo-Pa- weening ambitions, its interests may PM in Yoshihide Suga. There have tractiveness to a broader set of cific must take ASEAN centrality as a be better served by signing on to the Criminal negligence been doubts as to whether he would countries in the region and beyond principle and work through ‘ASEAN- more inclusive version of the Indo- be as supportive of the Quad as his may diminish. led institutions and processes’. This Pacific advocated by India? There Transfusion of HIV-infected predecessor Shinzo Abe had been. India’s Quad partners consider it has had the merit of bringing ASEAN are no easy answers. The Quad will With Japan playing host to the meet- as the linchpin of their Indo-Pacific on board the concept of the Indo- be determined by how the security blood is unpardonable ing, these doubts will be laid to rest. strategy aimed at ensuring a ‘free Pacific. situation evolves post-pandemic There are other reasons to believe and open Indo-Pacific’. India has During the past year we have had both in Asia and the rest of the world. that the Quad is moving towards a committed itself to the freedom of France and Germany also declare India has presented the Quad as Underscoring criminal negligence at phase of consolidation. India has navigation and overflights in the their own Indo-Pacific strategies one of the several ‘issue-based coali- now established 2+2 bilateral meet- Indo-Pacific which is less controver- and this has been welcomed by In- tions’ it is part of, each serving some all levels in the Bhai Mani Singh Civ- ings of foreign and defence minis- sial. India has promoted a more in- dia and other Quad partners. Both specific objective of its foreign policy. ters with each of its Quad partners. clusive concept of the Indo-Pacific, European countries have made it It has sought to suggest a certain par- il Hospital of Bathinda is the offence It has regular trilateral meetings using the mantra of ‘open, inclusive clear that in doing this they wish to allelism among its participation in the at the ministerial level with the US and transparent’. Sometimes the move away from an overly China- Quad, the Shanghai Cooperation Or- of a deadly nature: that of infusing and Japan and with Australia and word ‘balanced’ is added as one of centric Asian policy which they have ganisation (SCO), Russia-India-China Japan, respectively. A logical next its desirable features. This is based pursued over recent years. It is re- trilateral (RIC), Brazil-Russia-India- HIV-infected blood into unsuspecting step towards further consolidation on the Indian preference for a mari- ported that France and Germany China-South Africa (BRICS) and vari- patients. Making the transgression may well be a Quad 2+2. This could time security regime in the Indo-Pa- are working towards an EU policy ous trilaterals with friendly countries. even replace the existing trilaterals. cific which keeps the door open to on the Indo-Pacific. This would be a This parallelism is under strain as a graver is the fact that the fatal lapse This should be fairly easy to agree China. It may prove more attractive significant step in creating a broader result of the recent worsening of rela- upon but perhaps for the Tokyo to other players such as the ASEAN countervailing coalition to restrain tions between India and China in the has been repeated as the officials con- meeting it may be too soon. India countries, by putting in place a se- Chinese power projection. wake of Chinese transgressions on the has concluded bilateral security ar- ries of mutual security assurance What this analysis demonstrates LAC in eastern Ladakh. Any further cerned had failed to put a stop to it rangements with each of the Quad provisions instead of each country is the lack of clarity on how the and serious deterioration of relations countries, including on logistics seeking its security through unilat- Quad fits into a broader Indo-Pacific may raise questions about remaining the moment it was detected. It blows which will enable interoperability eral means. The Quad is a fallback strategy. The more exclusive and in the SCO, BRICS and continue with among their military forces. How- if China continues to seek unilateral overtly military the Quad becomes, the RIC forum. One hopes that this the lid off the hospital blood bank be- ever, to be a credible and effec- dominance as the means to ensure its attractiveness to a broader set of does not happen, but if it does, the tive military grouping, these bilat- Chinese security. For the present countries in the region and beyond Quad may take on a significance not ing negligent in the mandatory step of eral arrangements may need to be one does not see China opting for may diminish. None of the ASEAN envisaged so far. multi-lateralised. This may not be a a multilateral security regime in the countries, for example, wish to be IANS checking the units donated for infec-

tion before passing them on to the re- he could not carry out any business. Bengaluru’s iconic flower market hit hard “Unless schools, colleges and corpo- cipients. rates start functioning to full capac- The investigation into the charge ity, the demand for flowers will con- by pandemic, vendors await vax tinue to be sluggish.” that the Civil Hospital failed to alert Bengaluru Flower Merchants Asso- BY N B HOMBAL levels but many feel that this festival niswamy who sells loose flowers said ciation president, G. M. Devaraj said the blood donor, the recipient and the The 10-day Dasara festival which might at least help them reach a rea- that rich shopkeepers and business- that 2020 has been a very bad year for was supposed to bring a smile to sonable level of financial stability. men who used to buy truck loads of business. “City Market which thrives authorities even after learning about the faces of flower sellers and flower Most of the flower sellers say that flowers every day to decorate the dei- on customers is seeing very poor decorators of the iconic Krishna Ra- their business has fallen by almost 65 ties during the festival season, are not footfall. The current footfall is just 25 the HIV-positive status of the donor jendra Market in the heart of the city to 70 per cent compared to the pre- buying in such large quantities ever percent of what it used to be. has failed to cheer them up so far. vious year. The worst affected in this since the flower market reopened on “Unless a Covid-19 vaccine is dis- in May corroborates the systemic fail- K. R. Market (Krishna Rajendra segment are the flower decorators September 1. covered, the market is likely to re- Market), also known as City Mar- who say their business has fallen by “I used to send huge quantities main sluggish. Flower, vegetable and ure. Exemplary punishment to all — ket, is the largest wholesale market 75 per cent to 80 per cent due to the of flowers to Tirumala temple and fruit sales go hand in hand. Until dealing in various commodities in closure of marriage halls, convention Shirdi Sai Baba temple besides vari- marriages and big conventions with from top to bottom — is called for. Bengaluru. It is named after Krishna- centres, schools and colleges. ous other temples across the city, on large gatherings make a comeback, rajendra Wodeyar, a former ruler of Speaking to IANS, 45-year-old the orders of businessmen to fulfil our business will remain dull,” he For, it amounts to nothing short of Mysuru. The market is located in the flower seller Shivarayappa said that their vow to decorate such temples added. According to him it is a chain Kalasipalyam area, adjacent to the people aren’t buying flowers as much on a particular day of their choice,” link -- marriages, gatherings, reli- putting a patient’s life at risk. It con- Tipu Sultan’s Summer Palace. as they used to in the past. he said. gious functions and political func- stitutes a breach of faith of the one K.R. Market was established in “I sell garlands near temples but it A flower decorator based in the tions keep the kitchen fires burning. 1928. The location of the market is has not picked up yet, I am waiting City market, Nizmatulla Sharief, “Perishable commodities largely who comes to get healed. There are at said to have been a water tank earlier for Aayudha pooja to bring back my said “with no marriages, parties and depend on these and not home and then a battlefield in the 18th cen- business to earlier levels. I used to corporate offices functioning with based customers. For instance, a least two known unfortunate patients tury during the Anglo-Mysore Wars. sell a minimum of Rs 3000 to Rs 4500 the lowest possible number of staff, person who works from home will al- Two buildings remain from the Brit- worth of garlands but now I am not people are not even thinking of cele- ways consume less in his/her house who have been administered the in- ish era, at the front and back of the even reaching Rs 1000 to Rs 1500 per brating Dasara in a big way this time. in comparison to when he/she goes market area. day. I strongly feel that is partially be- With less money in hand, flower out for work or attends public func- fected blood: a woman in May (who A riot of colours, countless baskets cause of Adhika Masa (inauspicious decoration is the last priority for all, tions,” he explained. of flowers, haggling customers, and a month) followed by Pitrupaksha (an- hence, no big decoration orders have He added that the lockdown for was, criminally, not even informed chaotic madness which is surprising- other inauspicious fortnight), there- come as yet.” nearly five months resulted in farm- ly enjoyable, is what you will find in fore, I might not have sold flowers as The owner of Maruti Flower shop ers who used to grow flowers opting about the contaminated transfusion) this market with numerous vendors much as I used to sell last year,” he in Indiranagar H. Pradeep who had for other crops. As a result of this, lined up for business. explained. come to purchase flowers in the the quantity of flowers reaching the and now, a thalassemic child. As they In this bustling market, the flower According to him, Dasara is the wholesale market, said that his last market has fallen to just 40 per cent sellers are still sceptical about their only hope for the vendors to improve satisfactory business was in February compared to last year. battle for life with compounded prob- business reaching the pre-Covid their business. Another vendor Mu- and thereafter due to the lockdown IANS lems, the guilty must be given swift and just retribution. Overcome rancour after end of legal feuds At the same time, the case raises the Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr remain as clear as daylight. And they re- establish the trail of the crime. But de- ber 6: “This is the saddest day of my importance of educating the blood do- It is a fact of criminal psychology that main a shameful aspect of the Ram tem- molition remains a crime. life.” Advani had clearly maintained whether the crime is detected or not, ple agitation. Ironically, the BJP, which So, the sarcastic comments of critics that it was not the intention of the or- nors about the importance of ensur- punished or not, the criminal carries was at the head of the agitation and had that ‘no one demolished Babri Masjid’ ganisers of the kar seva on December the burden of the crime, which is far gathered a crowd which its leaders could and that it fell on its own show more 6, 1992, to bring down the mosque. ing that they are infection-free before heavier, like in the case of the sailor who not control in Ayodhya on December 6, anger and frustration, which is under- There are enough arguments, and killed an albatross and carried it forever 1992, had the temerity and dishonesty to standable, but which do not qualify to one can even admit plausible ones, they set out to make the noble and around his neck. It is possible to believe move a no-confidence motion against be a reasoned view. The unfolding of that Advani was just being hypocriti- that the two court verdicts — that of the the demolition. Using his rhetorical events on December 6 shows that the cal, that he was happy the mosque life-saving deed. A study published in Supreme Court last November and of flourish, Vajpayee said on December 17, demolition was plausible given the was destroyed. The critics of the then the CBI special court in Lucknow re- 1992: “I am ready to go one step ahead overwhelming crowd which turned Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao 2015 revealed that around 3 per cent cently — have ended the Ram Mandir- and ask those kar sevaks who were small into a frenzied mob. The CBI special also claim that Rao, too, was happy Babri Masjid matter, technically speak- in number to come forward and openly court did not condone the demolition in the cynical sense that the demoli- of the donors who come for blood do- ing, in favour of the Hindus, and based confess that they have demolished the because it had to fix the responsibility tion had simplified the dispute. But on these two legal verdicts, there was structure and for that they are prepared of who did it. This does not also mean beyond Machiavellian, or if you pre- nation at the PGIMER, Chandigarh, no wrongdoing of any kind on the part to face the music.” But by the time he that no one did it because the 32 ac- fer Chanakyan, calculations, there is of Hindu groups. ended his speech, Vajpayee almost jus- cused were acquitted. a need for reconciliation between the are infected with various diseases, But there are two clear acts of crime tified the demolition. But not even his Where legality ends, the moral and contending communities of Hindus including HIV, hepatitis and venereal committed by Hindu groups. The first cunning rhetoric could wipe away the psychological burden of the criminals and Muslims. The triumphalism of was trespass on the intervening night of crime. and conspirators begins. Should Ad- the Hindus must be reined in, and ailments. Significantly, the infected December 23-24, 1949, when the idols of The CBI special court, which had vani, Joshi, Bharti and the rest of the the resentment and despair of the Ram Lalla were stealthily placed inside the conducted the trial regarding the de- BJP and Vishwa Hindu Parishad lead- Muslims should be addressed and patients were notified about their sta- mosque, and the second was the daytime molition of Babri Masjid, ‘freed’ the 32 ership own moral responsibility for the removed. demolition of the mosque on December accused, including Advani, Joshi and demolition? Should they apologise to The communal leaders on both tus that clearly spelt a no to using their 6, 1992. The Supreme Court verdict de- Uma Bharti, for ‘lack of evidence’. The the Muslim community that it was a sides have made the Babri Mas- claring the site as belonging to the Hindu prosecution pressed the charge of a moral wrong and a legal crime to have jid issue a bitter dispute between blood for transfusion. The study also groups does not absolve them of the crime meticulously planned crime amount- demolished a place of worship, whatev- the two communities. The Hindu of trespass, nor does it clear them of the ing to a conspiracy. There were inher- er the dispute at stake? They should for groups can turn Ayodhya into a entailed upon the blood banks the ne- criminal act of demolition. The second ent weaknesses in a conspiracy charge their own sake and for the sake of com- tourist spot, but it will never attain verdict has only declared ‘lack of evi- because it requires to be proved that munal amity in the country. Winning the sanctity of Rama’s birthplace cessity of embarking on post-donation dence’ against the 32 accused, including there was a clear chain of events that legal battles is not the end of the story. because it was achieved through former Union ministers LK Advani, Murli led from hatching the plan to execut- There is a need for gestures of goodwill two acts of crime. There must be counselling that not only encompass- Manohar Joshi and Uma Bharti. This does ing it. Given the events preceding the to end the rancour that hangs in the air enough contrition on the part of not imply that there was no wrongdo- gathering of around 200,000 people in at the end of legal feuds. Hindu groups before they can es information on infection status but ing, or that there were no criminals who Ayodhya and to the demolition that fol- Of course, we recall Advani’s state- breathe easy and sleep well. also referral for medical care and their brought down the mosque. The crimes lowed, it would have been difficult to ment at the end of the day on Decem- IANS treatment. Readers Response and contribution Welcome Indian Horizon Thursday, October 8, 2020 OP-ED 7 Trump proved to be the worst kind of leader in a pandemic By Thomas L. Friedman dom. Lockdowns in a pandemic are not man, the founder and chairman of LRN, The most important question today an abridgement of our rights of assem- an ethics and compliance company, and is not what President Donald Trump bly or speech. Blue states aren’t more the How Institute for Society, which pro- has learnt from his bout with COVID-19. attractive to the coronavirus than red motes values-based leadership. Trump is one of those leaders who never states. Scientists are not politicians. You can see this spectrum starkly in learns and never forgets, as the saying Politicians are not scientists. Everything how people contracted the virus and goes. The most important question is is not politics. Lysol is a disinfectant for dealt with COVID-19, Seidman said. what has America learnt? cleansing counters, not your lungs. Our “First, there were those along the spec- Because the debate over Trump him- choices were never masks OR jobs but trum who were just unlucky and unfor- self is over. The verdict is in: He cast masks FOR jobs — the more your em- tunate — wrong place, wrong time when himself as Superman, but he turns out to ployees and customers wear them, the a tiny invisible pathogen was present.” have been Superspreader — not only of more your business can stay open and Second, he added, “there were front a virus but of a whole way of looking at flourish. line workers, heroes, who bravely ran the world in a pandemic that was dan- The big things Trump got wrong were toward the virus to help save others and gerously wrong for himself and our na- twofold. The first was how to lead in a were infected by it in the process. Third, tion. To re-elect him would be an act of pandemic. The quality of our leadership there were individuals who were reck- collective madness. in general is always a serious business, less and did not wear masks or stay 6 feet But while I see it that way, and maybe but in a pandemic, it becomes a matter apart, harming themselves, their family, you see it that way, will enough Trump of life and death. Leaders at every level friends and co-workers, too.” voters see it that way? That will depend — teachers, scientists, principals, presi- And finally, said Seidman, there were on Joe Biden’s ability to help them see dents, school superintendents, hospital the leaders: “There were those in posi- all the big and small things where Trump directors, CEOs, mayors, governors, me- tions of power and authority — whom has been so fundamentally mistaken. dia, parents — are all being looked to for people were trusting for life saving guid- Caution in a pandemic is not a sign direction today more than ever because ance. Some shouldered their responsi- of weakness but of wisdom. Face masks so many people feel disoriented and un- bility, knowing that in this time of crisis in a pandemic are not cultural markers, moored. more people than ever would heed their Americans must vote against him. Lives and just common-sense protection that says Morally reckless leader advice and emulate their example, if nothing other than “I’m a responsible Donald Trump proved to be the worst they behaved accordingly. Other lead- person who wants to protect myself and kind of leader in a pandemic: a morally ers, though, did not lead that way; they livelihoods depend on it my grandparent, myself and my cus- reckless leader. “When it comes to living actually encouraged people to ignore tomer, myself and my co-worker, my- in the face of uncertainty, people tend the science and let down their guard. and authority — people don’t know the world than they erode matter now self and my neighbour from an invisible to fall along a spectrum, reflecting their That is moral recklessness.” who to trust and what to believe. But more than ever — those are the lead- pathogen.” Machismo in a pandemic is attitudes toward individual freedom ver- That was Trump what is clear is that leaders who can ers we admire and whom history will not strength. Resisting mask-wearing sus responsibility and their disposition As a result, Seidman concluded, “to- put more truth into the world than remember well.” in a pandemic is not safeguarding free- toward risk-taking,” explained Dov Seid- day, we have a real crisis of leadership they muddy and put more trust into Gulf News

It is time reparations are paid for Roma slavery

final act of abolition in 1856, the 250,000 ue to perceive the process of truth-telling element in the development and growth Roma slaves who became legally free, about Roma enslavement as a threat to the of the Romanian economy; it was a critical some 7 percent of the Romanian popula- image of Romania. source of wealth for the Romanian state, tion, received no reparations for the inhu- Across the world, descendants of enslav- the Orthodox Church, and the aristocracy. mane treatment they had suffered. As also ers have been uncomfortable in accepting Let us take, for example, the case of happened on other continents, after five the truth of their forefathers as oppres- Orthodox Church property. Many of its centuries of exploitation, the abusers re- sors. Accepting the ancestors’ legacy may churches and monasteries have been built ceived monetary compensation for freeing be complicated. Thus, instead, many de- using the free, highly skilled Romani work- their Roma slaves. scendants of enslavers hurry to justify the force. For instance, the Cașin monastery October marks 635 years since the first structural inequalities and wealth gaps in Bacau was built in the 1650s by 800 Ro- written attestation of the enslavement of that the descendants of enslaved people mani slaves. Should the Orthodox Church Roma people in Romania. In October 1385, face today, through race and cultural prej- not pay back the Roma for having built Dan I, prince of Wallachia and an enslaver, udice. Cașin and other properties from scratch? gifted to the Tismana Monastery 40 Roma In the case of the Roma, the construc- The aristocracy also accumulated wealth families, among other “assets”. tion of the racecraft of “g*psy criminal- through the enslavement of Roma people. Year after year, this date has passed ity”, an idea made-up during slavery, In the village where I grew up, there was unnoticed and unacknowledged, while has constituted a central justification for still dependency and a culture of respect Romanian institutions and the Orthodox anti-Roma racism. More so, progressive for boyars (landowners), and during my Church have shown little interest in tak- politicians, bureaucrats and scholars have childhood, people were still using the term ing responsibility for Roma enslavement. long focused the public discourse on what “boieri”. In fact, my mother’s sister once They have not even issued a formal apol- they see as Roma “backwardness”. It must hinted at our past. I asked her why she ogy for the enslavement. be more comfortable for them to address never went to school when she was a child This disregard is not surprising, given Roma integration, enrolment in primary in the 1940s. She looked at me like the an- the pervasive anti-Roma racism in Roma- education, poverty, and vulnerability than swer was obvious and said: “I was working nia and elsewhere in Europe. Roma slav- to directly tackle the problem and end an- on the lands of the boyars.” ery has been denied in Romanian history ti-Roma racism. In 1906, her grandparents – my great Byh Margareta Matache types of enslavers: the Crown (and later, books, while global cultural and knowl- But the agenda of Roma integration is grandparents, Maria Nicolae and Marian Years before fast sailing ships with en- the state), the Orthodox church, and the edge production rarely mentions it. not enough for us, any more. We now de- Ghita – were still identified in their marriage slaved people from Africa made it to the nobility. By law, the enslavers owned the At a recent online event on race and rac- mand justice, reparations, and anti-racist certificate as “emancipated Romanians”, shores of North and South America, the slaves as their property or possessions, ism organised by the Romanian cultural policies. which in the language of those times, meant Roma people on the territories of modern- and slaves without a “master” would be- institute in New York City, for example, For half a millennium, our ancestors former Romani slaves. They themselves day Romania had already been forced into a come the “property” of the Crown. several attendees engaged in invalidat- were coerced into gruelling, uncompen- were not slaves, as the enslavement ended in system of chattel enslavement. My ancestors In the Romanian territories, the Indian ing the Roma enslavement and equating sated labour. And it is self-evident that the 1855, but their parents had been. The term were among them. Today, this 500-year sys- origins and skin colour of the Roma made it with the experiences of Romanian serfs. history of 500 years of economic exploita- “emancipated” remained in the books for tem of exploitation and domination of Roma it possible to distinguish them as non-Ro- Some historians have gone as far as argu- tion stripped Roma people of any prospect two to three more generations after the abo- remains utterly forgotten in Romania and in manians and non-Christians. Ethnic dis- ing that the Roma were “lucky” to have of accumulating intergenerational wealth. lition. Thus, what Romanians perceive today the global history of slavery, race and racism. tinctiveness or race was one of the original been enslaved, as this system helped them A large portion of the wealth gap in Ro- as a distant past is very much a legacy of dis- Roma people were coerced into this reasons for enslaving Roma. maintain their identity and “protected” mania stems from this little-known history possession and dishonour which still affects system of chattel enslavement beginning The institution of slavery ended in 1855 them. Apart from these dismissive voices, of economic exploitation. The forced la- many Romani families today. in the 1370s or perhaps earlier by three in Moldova and 1856 in Walachia. After the countless progressive Romanians contin- bour of Roma slaves constituted a central Gulf News Contact tracing is essential to break COVID-19 transmission

By Dr Ibrahima Soce Fall time to survive the disease because contacts. And if you took the con- introduction of new flare-ups. The At the beginning of the COVID-19 they are detected early enough to get tacts of contacts, there were millions lessons from other disease outbreaks epidemic, even before it was a pan- the right care. of people to watch and monitor. At we have dealt with show us that work demic, the World Health Organiza- Contact tracing is not an isolated a certain point, even the most re- has to be done in the community and tion (WHO) began advising countries intervention, however. It fits within nowned global experts were com- in hospitals. We need a comprehen- about testing and contact tracing. the overall context of field epidemiol- pletely discouraged, telling us we sive package of real field intervention While most countries got on board ogy. We do contact tracing knowing could not stop the outbreak because to be able to stop an outbreak. with testing, many in the developed we are already able to do an investi- it was endemic. But we never gave Some developed countries, like world were less receptive to contact gation around every single case. up. Germany, started doing contact trac- tracing. For our interventions to be suc- Despite all the challenges, health ing near the outset, and this helped Some countries believed they were cessful, we need to link a commu- workers managed to control the Ebo- them identify and monitor potential well organised enough to be able nity-based surveillance system with la outbreak. And contact tracing was cases. But many societies that do to manage any epidemic. They saw a centrally-based system in every crucial to identifying cases, finding not have a culture of responding to contact tracing – something used country. This means we cannot just contacts, and contacts of contacts, epidemics are not used to the infra- successfully to help track and contain have a national system. We need a and helping to break the chain of structure of surveillance and contact outbreaks of Ebola in West Africa and decentralised operation, to make transmission. tracing. If we look at Europe, for ex- the Democratic Republic of the Con- sure that people can analyse infor- Many health systems around the ample, before COVID-19 we cannot go, and the Plague in Madagascar – mation locally and take action to ad- world are hospital-based systems. remember the last time they had an as a mechanism only poor countries just the response on a daily basis. This means that by the time a case epidemic, apart from perhaps the use. I worked in the DRC during the reaches a hospital, it is already too seasonal flu. Even when there is no struc- people who understand the pro- They were completely wrong. world’s second-largest Ebola epi- late because the patient has contami- It is also very difficult, in some ture in place for a community to cess to interact with the commu- In its simplest form, contact trac- demic which began there in 2018. nated many other people in their countries, to mobilise the population get organised, people should be nity, with individuals, to ensure ing is about finding and testing all the The DRC is a country plagued by a community. and get individuals to do the right able to self-monitor themselves the right approach is being used people who have had “contact” with very poor healthcare system, con- For a pandemic like COVID-19, thing. It is only when people start and their contacts. There are new for that setting, to analyse the in- an infected person. And in doing this, flicts involving armed groups, politi- we need an approach accompanied seeing so many cases and then they technologies, the widespread use formation the process yields and we can more effectively track the cal violence, poverty and poor infra- by surveillance and contact tracing. start accepting that they need to wear of mobile phones and even spe- to ensure quality control. spread of a virus and help to contain structure. It was a challenging health There has to be real risk communi- masks and socially distance. cific applications in some coun- Everybody will have to go about an outbreak. intervention. cation with citizens, and capacity In not understanding the imme- tries. Even in a low-resource set- contact tracing. Because if you give The reason we need to do con- There were something like 3,000 building for communities to get lo- diate benefits of things like contact ting like the DRC, we are able to up contact tracing, it means you tact tracing is to rapidly detect the informal health facilities in the Ebo- cally organised to protect themselves tracing, most developed countries use technology that only needs give up investigation. Without con- secondary cases around an infected la-affected region. So in doing con- and protect others. While respond- did not put systems in place for it. a phone and some data to share tact tracing, we do not know exactly person. When we do that, we are able tact tracing, we had to have a satellite ing on a national level, governments Eventually, these countries tried to information. Applications them- where we are; we do not have the to stop transmission. And by finding operation with big teams, all working should also invest in preparedness start, but in some cases, they felt it selves are just tools to help us. right data; we do not have the evi- these contacts, these new infected with the community which was also in areas that are less affected or not was too late or complex. But it is nev- But we can never replace the hu- dence we need to divert the course of cases from the primary person’s con- fully involved. At some point, our affected, and not just focus on the er too late for any country to adjust man resources needed to do con- the virus. tact list, we give each of them more teams were following up to 300,000 hotspots. This will help prevent the such a tactic using the community. tact tracing. Essentially, we need Gulf News

The views expressed in these columns are the writers’ own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Indian Horizon or its management.-Editor Indian Horizon 8 International Thursday, October 8, 2020 UK announces 2 women scientists win Nobel in chemistry for gene editing new plans for Stockholm, Oct 7 (IANS) In a known as Crispr-Cas9 genetic are to fi nd out about life’s in- medical treatments,” said historic moment, two women scissors.The winners will share ner workings.This used to be Claes Gustafsson, chair of the post-Brexit scientists have been awarded the prize money of 10 million time-consuming, diffi cult and Nobel Committee for Chem- the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chem- krona ($1,110,400). sometimes impossible work. istry.Using the CRISPR/Cas9 Freeports istry for developing the tools “I wish that this will provide Using the CRISPR/Cas9 genet- genetic scissors, researchers to edit DNA, the Royal Swed- a positive message specifi cally ic scissors, it is now possible to can change the DNA of ani- ish Academy of Sciences an- for young girls who would like change the code of life over the mals, plants and microorgan- nounced on Wednesday. to follow the path of science... course of a few weeks.“There isms with extremely high pre- Professor Emmanuelle and to show them that wom- is enormous power in this ge- cision.This technology has had Charpentier and US biochem- en in science can also have netic tool, which affects us all. a revolutionary impact on the ist Jennifer Doudna are the an impact with the research It has not only revolutionised life sciences, is contributing to fi rst women to share the prize they are performing,” said basic science, but also resulted new cancer therapies and may (fi rst time without a male col- Charpentier.“This is not just lack of interest in following a worrying”.Researchers need in innovative crops and will make the dream of curing in- laborator) for their discovery for women, but we see a clear scientifi c path, which is very to modify genes in cells if they lead to ground-breaking new herited diseases come true. Trump to resume Covid-19 relief Pak oppn alliance to launch anti-govt campaign on Oct 16 London, Oct 7 (IANS) The Brit- bill talks after elections ish government on Wednesday Washington, Oct 7 ties had hoped for another Islamabad, Oct 7 (IANS) The rachi on October 18, third in announced further details for new (IANS) US President Don- round of Covid-19 relief Pakistan Democratic Move- Quetta on October 25, fourth innovative Freeports in the post- ald Trump has said he is spending to pass ahead of ment (PDM), an alliance com- in Peshawar on November 22, Brexit period. ending negotiations over a the November 3 election, prising 11 of the country’s op- fi fth in Multan on November “Next steps set out today for Covid-19 relief bill, and will but Trump’s tweet appears position parties, will formally 30 and the last one in Lahore the creation of Freeports, driving only resume talks after the to have abruptly suspended launch its anti-government on December 13. investment and creating jobs after election. that prospect. campaign with a public meet- While the alliance has ap- the end of the transition period “Immediately after I win, In his tweet, the president ing in Gujranwala on October pointed Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam- (December 31, 2020),” the Trea- we will pass a major Stim- cast blame for the talks’ 16, instead of Quetta. Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fa- sury said in a statement. ulus Bill that focuses on collapse on Pelosi, saying The PDM’s steering commit- zlur Rehman as its fi rst phase The bidding process for loca- hardworking Americans,” markets fell immediately that she was seeking $2.4tr tee at its meeting on Monday en by the steering committee President, Iqbal said that mem- tions of the Freeport in England he tweeted one day after after Trump’s announce- “to bailout poorly run, high released a schedule of six pub- were announced by its conve- bers of the steering committee will open by the end of 2020, said leaving hospital, the BBC ment.It comes as cases crime, Democrat States”. lic meetings in the four prov- ner Ahsan Iqbal of the Paki- had unanimously elected Raja the statement, adding that “the reported. rise in several parts of the He said he counter-offered inces as part of the fi rst phase stan Muslim League-Nawaz Pervez Ashraf of the Pakistan fi rst Freeports are on track to be Budget talks between country, and the outbreak $1.6tr but Pelosi “is not ne- of its movement in line with (PML-N) with leaders of other Peoples Party (PPP) as senior open by the end of 2021.” Democratic Speaker Nancy hits top Pentagon military gotiating in good faith”.“I decisions taken at the Septem- PDM component parties at a vice-president, whereas PML- The core of the new Freeports Pelosi and Treasury Secre- offi cials, White House staff am rejecting their request, ber 20 multiparty conference media briefi ng.According to N’s Shahid Khaqan Abbasi had policy is an “ambitious new tary Steven Mnuchin had and Republican senators. and looking to the future of (MPC) in Islamabad, reports Iqbal, the PDM would hold its been nominated as its secre- customs model,” said the state- been under way.US stock Lawmakers from both par- the Country,” he wrote. Dawn news.The decisions tak- second public meeting in Ka- tary general. ment, improving upon both the existing and previous customs arrangements. Tensions continue with North over killing of South citizen : Minister “They will attract investment from around the world as we em- Seoul, Oct 7 (IANS) Military call for a joint investigation the need for a joint probe, as brace new opportunities following tensions have been continuing and made threats against our the North’s explanations dif- our departure from the EU and between the two Koreas over normal search operations un- fer from Seoul’s assessment will be a key driver for economic killing of a South Korean fi sh- der way in our waters,” Wook in key parts. recovery as we build back better eries’ offi cial by North Korea, said during a parliamentary The South Korean military post-coronavirus,” said Chancellor as Pyongyang issued threats audit of the ministry. said the North is presumed to of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak. over Seoul’s search operations The communist country have incinerated the offi cial’s The government is seeking to without responding to calls for warned the South on Septem- body, but the North claimed build “at least one Freeport in a joint investigation, Seoul’s ber 27 not to intrude into its that what it set on fi re was not each nation of the UK,” added Defence Minister Suh Wook waters in the search for the his body but a fl oating mate- Sunak, referring to the four said on Wednesday. body of the offi cial. rial he used. devolved administrations includ- On September 22, the Pyongyang has long dis- As for concerns raised by a ing England, Wales, Scotland and 47-year-old fi sheries offi cial puted the Northern Limit lawmaker over the disclosure Global Covid-19 Northern Ireland.A package of tax was fatally shot by the North Line (NLL), the de facto inter- of classifi ed military informa- reliefs for business investment will Korean military while being Korean maritime boundary, tion acquired by South Korean cases top 35.7mn be introduced in the Freeports, adrift in North Korean waters, eong, Yonhap news agency turning the front-line waters and US assets regarding the in- according to the statement, with according to the South Ko- reported.“Regarding the inci- into a major flashpoint of cident, Minister Suh said that Washington, Oct 7 Science and Engineering speeding up planning processes to rean military.He went miss- dent, North Korea expressed the peninsula.Wook made US Forces Korea (USFK) Com- (IANS) The overall num- (CSSE) revealed in its lat- “accelerate development” through ing the previous day while an apology and vowed to take it clear that all responsibili- mander Gen. Robert Abrams ber of global coronavirus est update. a wide range of fresh measures, as on duty near the Yellow Sea steps to prevent recurrences, ties regarding the incident lie “voiced some concerns” about cases has topped 35.7 The US is the worst-hit per media reports. border island of Yeonpy- but it has not responded to our with North Korea, stressing the excessive exposure. million, while the deaths country with the world’s have increased to more highest number of cases than 1,048,700, accord- and deaths at 7,500,964 Will decide on Aegis Ashore alternative Trade official: China ‘great ing to the Johns Hopkins and 210,886, respec- University.As of Wednes- tively, according to the by year end: Nobuo Kishi example’ for Mexico day, the total number of CSSE.India comes in cases stood at 35,733,340 second place in terms of Tokyo, Oct 7 (IANS) Japan’s ing which the participants reaf- and the fatalities rose to cases at 6,685,082, while Defence Minister Nobuo Kishi on fi rmed their maritime security 1,048,742, the Univer- the country’s death toll Wednesday said he has told his cooperation in the Indo-Pacifi c sity’s Center for Systems soared to 103,569. US counterpart, Mark Esper that region amid China’s growing as- Tokyo is seeking to come up with sertiveness there. is a key in overcom- an alternative to the scrapped Kishi told reporters he indicat- ing the global health deployment of the US-developed ed his willingness in his talks with crisis."Believing Aegis Ashore missile interception Esper to hold a similar meeting you can tackle the system by the end of the year. involving defense chiefs from the pandemic on your Kishi spoke over the phone four major Indo-Pacifi c democ- own as a country is with Esper, with the two agree- Ashore system in Akita Prefec- racies, collectively known as the not understanding ing to work together closely to ture and Yamaguchi Prefecture ‘Quad.’“It would be very mean- Beijing, Oct 7 (IANS) Undersec- rules-based open trading system the issue," she said. push ahead with substitute for due to technical problems and ingful if the four countries could retary for foreign trade at Mexi- unfettered by unilateral restric- Since the establish- the scrapped deployment, the ballooning costs.The three alter- exchange their views in the fi eld co's Economy Ministry, Luz Ma- tions, reported Globaltimes."We ment of diplomatic The other top 15 countries Defense Ministry said. natives under consideration are of defense as well,” he said. ria de la Mora on Wednesday said are sure that we have a partner relations between with the maximum amount of Japan is examining three sea- the introduction of destroyers During his fi rst consultation that China is a "great example" to boost our economic recovery China and Mexico in cases are Brazil (4,969,141), based plans in place of the land- equipped with an interception with a foreign counterpart since for Mexico when it comes to de- and emerge from this pandemic 1972, both countries Russia (1,231,277), Colombia based system, which was aimed system, utilization of ships that taking offi ce last month, Kishi velopment, growth, innovation, as soon as possible," the offi - have maintained a (869,808), Peru (829,999), at protecting the country from belong to the private sector and also discussed with Esper re- inclusion and economic recov- cial said, adding that there are a strategic intimity in Spain (825,410), Argentina the threat posed by North Korean an offshore structure similar to gional issues including those in- ery.Participating in a virtual cer- lot of investment opportunities search for economic (824,468), Mexico (794,608), missiles, reported Japan times. those used to drill for oil.The volving the East and South China emony commemorating the 71st for both sides.De la Mora also cooperation with South Africa (683,242), France In June, the government under phone conversation came a day seas, where China is engaged in anniversary of the founding of the thanked the Chinese government common objectives (675,736), the UK (532,779), then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, after foreign ministers of the two territorial disputes with its neigh- People's Republic of China, De la for its support in Mexico's fi ght on various fronts, De Iran (479,825), Chile Kishi’s elder brother, decided to countries plus those of Australia bors, and North Korea’s military Mora said the two countries have against the Covid-19 pandemic, la Mora said. (473,306), Iraq (387,121), Ban- abort the plan to deploy the Aegis and India met in Tokyo, dur- threat, according to the ministry. common ground that promotes a saying that bilateral cooperation As an example, gladesh (371,631), and Saudi she noted that both Arabia (337,243), the CSSE countries often sup- figures showed. INDIAN ORIGIN COUPLE, SON FOUND DEAD IN UK FLAT port initiatives with- Brazil currently accounts for in the framework of the second highest number of London, Oct 7 (IANS) found when offi cers from suspect it to be a case of Inspector Simon Hard- the last month to contact the World Trade Or- fatalities at 147,494. Scotland Yard in London the Metropolitan Police murder-suicide, believing ing, who is leading the in- police so we can begin to ganization (WTO) to The countries with a death launched a probe after entered their fl at on Tues- that 42-year-old Sitham- vestigation, said.He said build a full picture of their combat unjustifi ed toll above 10,000 are Mexico three members of an In- day, as per media offi cials. paranathan fatally injured neighbours had not seen lives,” Harding said. barriers to global (82,348), the UK (42,535), Italy dian origin family were In a press statement, himself and killed his wife the family for some days, “I know I speak on be- trade."Mexico and (36,030), Peru (32,834), Spain found dead in their fl at the police said the wom- and child. perhaps since September half of all the offi cers in China have an im- (32,486), France (32,383), Iran at Golden Mile House on an’s husband, Kuha Raj An autopsy of the bod- 21.“We know the family my team that words can- portant institutional (27,419), Colombia (27,017), Clayponds Lane, Brent- Sithamparanathan was ies will be conducted on often walked their dog, a not suffi ciently sum up framework for the Argentina (21,827), Russia ford.The bodies of Poorna found with severe stab Thursday.“Although we poodle cross breed, in and the devastation that this development and (21,559), South Africa (17,103), Kaameshwari Sivaraj, 36, injuries and died at the are in the infancy of this around the local area and horrifi c incident will have strengthening of our Chile (13,070), Ecuador and her three-year-old spot soon after the offi - investigation, it appears had been dead for some I would ask anyone who on the families of those bilateral economic (11,702), Indonesia (11,374) son Kailash Kuha Raj were cers forced entry.The cops that Poorna and Kailash time,” Detective Chief saw them at any time in involved.” ties," she added. and Belgium (10,092). Indian Horizon Thursday, October 8, 2020 Business 9 UP govt, Zurich Airport International sign pact to develop Jewar airport New Delhi, Oct 7 (IANS) The cession agreement grants only in the state but also for Daniel Bircher, Chief Ex- only connect western UP re- government of Uttar Pradesh Zurich Airport International the country. The construction ecutive Officer, Zurich Airport gion with other domestic and on Wednesday signed the the licence to design, build of Noida International Airport International (Asia) said: “The international destinations, concession agreement with and operate Noida Interna- will support economic growth signing of the concession but also provide additional representatives of Zurich Air- tional Airport for a period of through job creation in the agreement marks an impor- capacity to Delhi-NCR region. port International to com- 40 years. state, while making it the tant milestone in the devel- “Together, we look forward mence the development of Noida International Airport most preferred destination opment of the Noida Interna- to building India’s leading the Noida International Air- will be developed as a Public for domestic as well as global tional Airport. When phase 1 airport which boasts of qual- port at Jewar. Private Partnership (PPP). NIA investors in the upcoming development is completed in ity, efficiency, technology and The concession agree- will operate as a fully digital years.” 2024, we will provide capacity sustainability. We are very ment was signed by Arun Vir airport, providing a safe and “We look forward to sup- for 12 m (million) passengers excited to begin work as we Singh, CEO, Noida Interna- contactless travel experience porting the Zurich Airport per year.” move ahead with a vision to tional Airport Limited (NIAL) and customised commercial International team to jump- Arun Vir Singh, Chief Exec- co-create a world-class facil- and Christoph Schnellmann, offerings for passengers, said ting a new standard for sus- partment, Government of start this mega project,which utive Officer, Noida Interna- ity,” the NIAL CEO said. Chief Executive Officer, Noida the statement, adding that it tainable aviation. Uttar Pradesh said: “Infra- will reinforce the economic tional Airport Limited (NIAL) Last November, Zurich Air- International Airport, said an will be the first net zero emis- S.P. Goyal, Additional Chief structure development will be progress of the state of Uttar noted that the upcoming port International AG (ZAIA) official statement. The con- sions airport in its class, set- Secretary, Civil Aviation De- key to economic recovery, not Pradesh,” he said. “world-class” airport will not won the contract to build and Government debt grows at 30 quarter high No change in petrol, diesel New Delhi, Oct 7 (IANS) 4QFY09). Additionally, non- However, the pickup in In- prices for 5th consecutive day The outstanding debt of In- financial corporate (NFC) dia’s debt growth in 1QFY21 dias non-financial sector debt grew 3.7 per cent, the was only marginal versus the (NFS ) stood at Rs 322 trillion second lowest to record-low previous few quarters, the or 167.3 per cent of GDP in growth levels of 1 per cent in report said. NFS debt growth 1QFY21, up from around 153 4QFY20. was the highest in 15 years in per cent in the past few quar- “A look at long-term the US (at 11.7 per cent), the ters. trends suggests the coun- highest in 11 years in the UK According to a report by try’s debt growth weakened (at 10.2 per cent), the high- Motilal Oswal Institutional to the single digits for the est in 24 years in Japan (at Equities, a 9.1 per cent year first time in two decades 4.6 per cent), and the high- on year growth in NFS debt in 2QFY20, and COVID-19 est in 10 quarters in China and 0.6 per cent year on year high pace of 14.3 per cent 4 per cent in 4QFY20). failed to change this in (at 12.4 per cent). Since the New Delhi, Oct 7 (IANS) barrel. In the last couple of ays decline in annualized nomi- year on year, the report said. Within the NGNF sec- 1QFY21,” the report said. credit guarantee scheme Diesel and petrol prices it has risen and is now around nal GDP led to a jump in NFS’ Moreover, nongov- tor, household debt grew at Due to COVID-19 and the in India was announced in remained unchanged on $ 42.5 a barrel. debt-to-GDP ratio in 1QFY21. ernment non-financial near-record lows of 6 per related collapse in economic mid-May’20 (later v/s other Wednesday with the oil Continuing coronavirus Within NFS, general gov- (NGNF4) debt grew 4.6 per cent YoY in 1QFY21 (8.9 per activity, a jump in the debt- major nations), NGNF debt marketing companies pandemic has impacted the ernment (Centre plus states) cent YoY in 1QFY21 (against cent in 4QFY20, but slow- to-GDP ratio across nations could grow faster in 2QFY21, continuing to press the pause oil demand and pushed down debt grew at a 30-quarter record-low growth levels of est growth of 5.7 per cent in was inevitable. it added. button in wake of stable global prices in the absence of any oil market. other trigger to lift the markets. This is the fifth consecutive In the national capital, DHFL administrator moves NCLT against Wadhawans in Rs 2,150-cr fraud day when both petrol and diesel continues to be priced Mumbai, Oct 7 (IANS) The crore and accrued interest stake in Pramerica Life in- diesel prices have remained at Rs 70.46 per litre. Similarly, administrator of the now- of Rs 125.27 crore, being the surance Company Limited unchanged. In fact, petrol prices of the fuel in Mumbai, bankrupt Dewan Housing amount outstanding in the (erstwhile DHFL Pramerica prices have remained steady Chennai and Kolkata, is also Finance Corporation Ltd. books of the company as on Life Insurance Limited) to for the last 15 days. stable at Rs 76.86, Rs 75.95 and (DHFL) has filed an appli- November 30, 2019, notional DHFL Investments Limited The development is in Rs 73.99 respectively. cation in the NCLT against loss in interest of Rs 58.34 and in respect of certain In- line with the movement of The price of petrol in Delhi, promoters Wadhawans, crore due to lower inter- ter-Corporate Deposits given global oil prices. Crude prices Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata Inter-Corporate Deposit en- est rate charged while giv- by the company to certain remained soft for most of the remains at Rs 81.06, Rs 87.74, tities and others for fraudu- ing ICDs and Rs 227.66 crore entities (ICD entities) before previous week and fell almost Rs 84.14 and Rs 82.59 per litre lent transactions worth Rs transferred in the form of the Mumbai bench of the Na- 10 per cent to close to $ 40 a respectively. 2,150.84 crore during the ICDs and used to repay a pro- tional Company Law Tribu- company’s stake sale in Pra- Thornton India LLP. amount from them along moter linked entity’. nal under Section 45, Section merica Life Insurance Com- On the basis of the report with the interest for the re- As per the report prepared 46, Section 49, Section 60(5) Equity indices turn green, pany Limited to DHFL Invest- filed by Grant Thornton, the maining period. by the transaction auditor, and Section 66 of the Code on ments Limited and in respect administrator has filed ap- As per the transaction au- the concerned transactions October 05, 2020 against Kap- Sensex nears 39,900 of certain Inter-Corporate plication against Kapil Wad- ditor’s report, ‘the monetary occurred during financial il Wadhawan, Dheeraj Wad- Deposits (ICD) given by the hawan, Dheeraj Wadhawan, impact of the concerned years 2016-17 to 2018-19. hawan, Aruna Wadhawan, company to certain entities. Aruna Wadhawan, Wadha- transactions covered un- “The Administrator has Wadhawan Global Capital The fraud was unearthed wan Global Capital Limited, der the application include filed an application in respect Limited, the ICD entities and in the transaction audit of the ICD entities and certain -- Rs 1,864.84 crore, includ- of agreements executed at the certain other entities,” said a the company done by Grant other entities claiming the ing principal of Rs 1,739.57 time of selling the Company’s regulatory filing. Despite new members, MPC expected to maintain old stance Mumbai, Oct 7 (IANS) De- ing of the MPC is four mem- ber policy and their thought hands of consumers would spite the addition of new bers, with each member hav- process and biases would be have helped to boost de- members with diverse aca- ing one vote. firmly established over the mand, and for the industry demic backgrounds, persis- Three members of the pan- course of time.” provided a higher flow of cap- tently high inflation will deter el are from the RBI, including Other economists and in- ital investment on the back of Mumbai, Oct 7 (IANS) The levels, we can expect a new the Reserve Bank’s MPC to the Central bank’s Governor dustry experts also cited el- lower cost. key Indian equity indices target of 12,000 during the administer a dose of lending and the rest three are exter- evated inflation levels as a Nonetheless, retail infla- turned green on Wednesday course of this month. A strong rate cut, experts opined. nal or independent mem- key determinant for a pause tion has been at an elevated after an initial subdued trade, support has been formed The expectations from the bers. The four-year terms of in policy easing. Notably, the level during July-August. with the BSE Sensex gaining around the 11,300 level.” penultimate policy review of three external members of expected move comes at a Lately, data showed that over 300 points. At 10.29 p.m., the Sensex was 2020 outcome comes as the the MPC, appointed in 2016, perspective to the monetary time when industrial output India’s August retail inflation The Sensex traded near the trading at 39,897.85, higher MPC commenced its meet on ended last month and the va- policy arena. The upcoming is at historic low due to the stood at an elevated level. 39,900 mark and the Nifty50 on 323.28 points or 0.82 per cent Wednesday. cant posts are yet to be filled policy nonetheless will be a Covid-19 pandemic. The retail or consumer the National Stock Exchange from the previous close of The original schedule of by the government. damp squib on the conven- A policy easing, if admin- price index stood at 6.69 per was trading above 11,700. 39,574.57. the penultimate meet was Nevertheless, the Cen- tional policy action front,” istered, would have theo- cent in August. It had risen to Manish Hathiramani, It opened at 39,633.19, and September 29-October 1. tre on Monday appointed said Madhavi Arora, Lead retically allowed commercial 6.73 per cent in July. technical analyst with Deen has so far touched an intra-day However, it was postponed as Ashima Goyal, Jayanth R. Economist, FX and Rates for banks to reduce their lending As per the data, retail infla- Dayal Investments said: “The high of 39,903.73 and a low of there were three vacant posts Varma and Shashanka Bhide Edelweiss Securities. rates thereby helping both tion level has reached the up- markets have opened on a flat 39,450.82 points. of external members in the as members of the MPC. “The new external mem- consumers and the industry per limit of the medium-term note. The Nifty50 was trading MPC which the government “The new MPC composition bers are likely to keep the to get cheaper finance. CPI inflation target of four per However, it is still expected at 11,722.80, higher by 60.40 had to appoint. comprises diverse academ- continuity of policy tone set Subsequently, the in- cent. The target is set within a to achieve a target of 11,750- points or 0.52 per cent from the The quorum for the meet- ics which could bring a wider by the previous MPC in Octo- creased money flow in the band of + / - two per cent. 11,800. If it can sustain those previous close. Only 33% Indian CEOs confident of growth in domestic economy New Delhi, Oct 7 (IANS) with that of CEOs globally. India are placing on their cur- trends like cost-optimisation “If anything, COVID-19 As Indian CEOs prioritise in- “The CEOs in India are also rent leadership approach and strategies, rethinking of sup- has only acted as a catalyst vestments in new technolo- less confident of their compa- purpose. ply chain strategy, enhancing to accelerate digital trans- gies to become future-ready nies’ earnings. About 19 per “Looking forward, similar ESG (environmental, social formation with companies in the pandemic times, only cent CEOs in India expect the to their global counterparts, and corporate governance) today spending more than 33 per cent are confident of earnings of their companies CEOs in India are less con- programmes and aligning what they originally planned the growth in their domestic to either remain flat or de- fident about global and do- with the new work realties for on digitisation in spite of economy and just 42 per cent cline,” revealed KPMG in In- mestic economic growth than have accelerated. uncertainty in earnings,” said are optimistic about growth dia’s ‘2020 India CEO Outlook they were at the onset of the One-third of the CEOs in Vikram Hosangady, Partner prospects of their company, a : COVID-19 Special Edition’. year. Their earnings outlook is India have confidence in the and Head, Clients and Mar- KPMG in India report said on However, CEOs in India clearly challenged,” said Arun country’s economic growth kets, KPMG in India . Wednesday. seemed to be better posi- companies’ earnings, stagnat- Nearly 79 per cent of CEOs M Kumar, Chairman and and 62 per cent CEOs altered In India, Covid-19 has led This figure was 78 per cent tioned than their global coun- ing or declining. globally have had to re-eval- CEO, KPMG in India. their own compensation, as to a dramatic shift in how and 84 per cent at the begin- terparts in terms of growth CEOs globally feel a greater uate their purpose, as com- The findings revealed that part of the broader objective business leaders are assess- ning of the year, respectively. prospects of their companies’ need to re-evaluate their pur- pared to only 37 per cent of the agenda of leaders has rad- of cost optimisation and cost ing potential risks now, com- This weakened view on the earnings with 23 per cent pose amid Covid-19, than CEOs in India, highlighting ically shifted since the begin- management to sail through pared to the pre-pandemic growth prospects is in line CEOs globally foreseeing their CEOs in India. the confidence that CEOs in ning of the year, as existing the pandemic. times. Indian Horizon 10 Business Thursday, October 8, 2020 Hopes of positive Q2 results lift markets, auto stocks rise New Delhi, Oct 7 (IANS) ces ended lower. points, or 0.66 per cent, from volumes while Vedanta fell day, HDFC twins on Tuesday Broadly positive global cues, Globally, Asian markets its previous close. 11.3 per cent with large vol- and today the heavyweight along with likelihood of a ended the day’s trade on a “After the initial gains, umes even as the delisting Reliance propelled the index stimulus package and hopes positive note as investors Nifty failed to rise materially offer by its promoters closes higher.” of healthy quarterly Q2 re- shrugged off US President post 10.30 a.m. suggesting on Oct 9.” “However, the market sults, pushed the Indian Donald Trump’s abrupt can- sector and stock rotation,” According to Ruchit Jain, breadth showed a bit diver- equity markets higher on cellation of negotiations on said Deepak Jasani, Head of Senior Analyst - Techni- gence today as the number Wednesday. a new coronavirus relief bill Retail Research at HDFC Se- cal and Derivatives, Angel of stocks declining outnum- Both the key indices, the and lower commodity prices. curities. “A negative advance Broking: “Our markets have bered the advances. The over S&P BSE Sensex and the NSE He later tweeted about his decline ratio also suggested continued with the ongo- bought momentum readings Nifty50, made healthy gains willing to pass several inde- partial profit taking by inves- ing momentum to add more on the lower time frame chart during the day’s trade session. pendent stimulus measures, tors. The next resistance for gains to the recent rally. and divergence in the broad- Buying was witnessed in including a new round of the Nifty continues to be at This week, the index heavy- er markets indicates stock auto, FMCG and IT indices, stimulus cheques. 39,878.95, higher by 304.38 The Nifty50, on the Nation- 11,782 points.” weights have led the charge specific action and thus, whereas media, realty, met- Consequently, the S&P points, or 0.77 per cent, from al Stock Exchange, traded at “Reliance Industries ended one by one wherein the IT traders should be selective in als, pharma and energy indi- BSE Banking index closed at its previous close. 11,738.85, higher by 76.45 2.2 per cent higher with large giants took the lead on Mon- stock picking.” ITC’s Savlon to become a Rs 1,000 Flipkart expands supply chain in India to meet festive demands Bengaluru, Oct 7 (IANS) celerated the expansion of ating nearly 70,000 direct crore brand E-commerce platform Flip- our supply chain across the jobs and lakhs of indirect kart said on Wednesday country, particularly small- seasonal jobs through its that it has added over 3.4 er cities, to meet growing pan-India supply chain as it million square feet space demands for e-commerce gears up for the festive sea- across its supply chain as- services,” Amitesh Jha, Se- son and the Big Billion Days sets including fulfilment nior Vice-President, Ekart sale from October 16-21. centres, mother hubs and and Marketplace, Flipkart, “During the festive sea- delivery centres through- said in a statement. son, this additional space out the country in prepa- “Also, keeping in mind and infrastructure invest- ration of the upcoming the growth of e-commerce ment will also boost local festive season and the Big brands. period. This expansion will over the next few years, this employment, particularly Billion Days sale event. Flipkart said that it has also help lakhs of sellers, expansion will enable us to for people who went back With this addition, the increased its last-mile reach MSMEs and artisans from connect millions of con- to their hometowns due New Delhi, Oct 7 (IANS) High- led to a boom in this category. Sav- total warehousing space for with more than 3,000 facili- smaller towns to connect sumers across the country to the lockdown, and cre- lighting Savlon as an example of lon and its variants are selling more Flipkart now totals to over ties across the country to with a pan-India consum- with lakhs of sellers and ar- ate opportunities for local creating value from acquisitions, in a month now than it was selling 18 million square feet in provide a fast and efficient er base through Flipkart’s tisans in a fast and efficient businesses to scale up their the ITC said on Wednesday that in a full year earlier. addition to lakhs of square e-commerce experience supply chain. manner.” operations significantly Savlon is on course to become a Rs Satpathy added, “We are hungry feet of assets from partner to consumers this festive “The pandemic has ac- Flipkart said that it is cre- with Flipkart,” Jha said. 1,000 crore brand. for value accretive acquisitions. Sameer Satpathy, CEO, ITC’s Per- Savlon is an example of creating sonal Care Products Business, said value through acquisitions. We will Housing sales doubled in July-Sep period: PropEquity Report that going by the growth trends look at opportunities where we feel New Delhi, Oct 7 (IANS) stood at 50,983 units, com- per cent and new launches tractive payment schemes optimism to the industry. in the first six months of the year, we can multiply, take the brand The Indian real estate sector pared with 24,936 units in were down by 30 per cent. to attract more custom- Being well-supplied across Savlon is set to be a Rs 1,000 crore and expand it to create value for seems to be recovering from the previous quarter. “The Indian real estate ers,” Samir Jasuja, Founder all segments of housing, brand. It will be the first Rs 1,000 all our stakeholders.” ITC’s floor a slump in demand during NCR-Delhi witnessed 295 sector is showing some and Managing Director at it caters to all categories crore brand in ITC’s personal prod- cleaner brand Nimyle, which also the nationwide lockdown per cent home sales growth recovery as many proj- PropEquity, said. of home buyers like those ucts category. Savlon was a Rs 50 was an acquisition, has crossed Rs as sales during the July-Sep- in Q3, while other cities like ects were launched in the Speaking on the National seeking affordable, pre- crore brand in turnover when it was 150 crore and is being expanded as tember quarter jumped over Bengaluru, Chennai, Hy- last quarter. With various Capital Region market, mium, or luxury homes. acquired by ITC from Johnson & a vegetable wash solution with 100 100 per cent on a quarter- derabad, Kolkata, Mumbai schemes and offers, de- Ankush Kaul, President of This remains the biggest Johnson around five years back. per cent natural ingredients. on-quarter basis across sev- Metropolitan Region, and velopers were able to clear Sales and Marketing at Am- USP of this market. On ac- Satpathy said Savlon has grown Satpathy said ITC has a complete en major cities, according to Pune clocked 86, 131, 159, significant inventory. As we bience Group, said: “The count of the upcoming fes- 3-4 times in sales over last year portfolio of health and hygiene a report by PropEquity. 89, 70, and 72 per cent re- move into the festive sea- NCR market, being one of tive months, it is likely that when it had clocked sales of Rs 250 products. He said the personal care Housing sales across spectively. son, we forecast this recov- the biggest in the country, the sector will see a further crore. The heightened hygiene and brands are high margin brands these seven cities during However, on a year-on- ery to continue with more continues to be resilient revival in terms of sales safety needs of the consumers have which are growing fast. the third quarter of 2020 year basis, sales fell by 35 offers, discounts, and at- and presents a new level of numbers.” SAP pips Oracle, Adobe in B2B digital commerce market New Delhi, Oct 7 (IANS) the company in the Leaders’ “Customers we interviewed The company’s B2B digi- commerce application in B2B and B2C business models Jordan Jewell, research man- Enterprise software major category within its latest ‘2020 rated SAP above average tal commerce product, SAP June 2019 called “SAP Up- or you use SAP for other CX ager, Digital Commerce pro- SAP has piped giants like IDC MarketScape for B2B dig- when asked whether SAP Commerce Cloud, is a B2B scale Commerce” (which was applications,” the IDC Mar- gramme at IDC. Salesforce, Oracle and Adobe ital commerce platforms’. Commerce Cloud is ‘built for and B2C digital commerce not considered in this IDC re- ketScape report mentioned. According to the IDC, SAP’s when it comes to serving the According to the IDC re- the future’. One customer platform that was originally port). “Consider SAP if you are “Selecting the right cloud context-driven services pro- B2B digital commerce market port, SAP offers a broad and commented, ‘This is where acquired by SAP with the ac- an enterprise looking for an B2B digital commerce plat- vide deep personalisation ca- globally, according to the IDC. deep portfolio of customer ex- SAP is really good. They were quisition of hybris in 2013. all-in-one digital commerce form can be extremely hard; pabilities to tailor commerce After a thorough evaluation perience applications, includ- a bit late to market here but SAP has launched a new platform that can handle there isn’t a one-size-fits-all experiences. of SAP’s strategies and capa- ing CRM, marketing, CPQ, have gotten ahead,” the re- multi-tenant SaaS and mi- complex enterprise require- vendor, and the market is There are, however, some bilities, IDC has positioned and service. port mentioned. croservices-based digital ments and can support both evolving extremely fast,” said challenges too. Amazon India partners with IRCTC for train ticket bookings Airtel, Ericsson extend ties to deploy Bengaluru, Oct 7 (IANS) category, thereby offering its Amazon India said on customers a one-stop-shop for 5G-ready radio network Wednesday that it has booking flights, bus and train New Delhi, Oct 7 (IANS) “The products manufac- partnered with Indian tickets. Bharti Airtel and Ericsson tured in India will continue Railway Catering and Tourism “We are excited to partner on Wednesday announced to benefit Indian users by Corporation (IRCTC), to with IRCTC and move another to renew their multi-year enhancing Airtel’s network provide their customers with step forward in making life contract to supply and de- capacity and enabling it to the facility to book reserved easy and convenient for our ploy 5G-ready radio and cater to the country’s fast- train tickets on Amazon. customers. Last year, we transport solutions from the growing data traffic needs,” With this new offering, Amazon app. even smoother and pay in a launched flights, and bus ticket Swedish telecommunication ready for 5G and beyond,” said Nunzio Mirtillo, Head customers will be able to check They can pre-load money single click. bookings on Amazon,” Vikas giant. said Randeep Sekhon, CTO, of Ericsson South East Asia, seat and quota availability into their Amazon Pay Balance With this launch, Amazon Bansal, Director - Amazon Pay, The ‘make in India’ 5G- Bharti Airtel. Oceania and India. across all train classes on the wallet to make this experience Pay has added another travel said in a statement. ready Ericsson radio system In July this year, Bharti The agreement builds on products will enhance the Airtel renewed another the 25-year collaboration network experience of Airtel agreement with the Swed- between Ericsson and Airtel Nearly one-third Indian workers face increased customers, the companies ish gear maker to provide in India. Airtel and Erics- said in a statement. pan-India managed network son’s long-standing technol- “We are delighted to operations. The three-year ogy and services partnership burnout at work: Microsoft deepen our partnership with deal will see Airtel launching has spanned 2G, 3G, 4G pro- New Delhi, Oct 7 (IANS) Microsoft recently Ericsson as part of our en- ‘Ericsson Operation Engine’ vision and more recently, As the work-life balance announced a series of deavour to build a network this year. live 5G trials. get blurred globally in the updates within Teams to pandemic times, India came support employee wellbeing, out top with over 41 per cent including virtual commute Direct tax refunds of over Rs 1.21 lakh cr of workers citing the lack of experience and a curated set separation between work of mindfulness and meditation issued since April and personal life negatively experiences. New Delhi, Oct 7 (IANS) “The CBDT issues refunds impacting their wellbeing, The study found that 29 The Central Board of Direct of over Rs 1,21,607 crore resulting in increased stress multifaceted impact that the Japan, India and Singapore, per cent of workers in India Taxes (CBDT) has so far to more than 35.93 lakh levels, a Microsoft study new working conditions are the study found that India had are experiencing increased issued refunds of over Rs taxpayers between April 1 revealed on Wednesday. having on employees. This is the second highest percentage burnout at work, owing to its 1.21 lakh crore to nearly 36 and October 6. Close to one third of workers helping us provide relevant of workers facing increased increase in workday span by lakh taxpayers in the current Income tax refunds of in India cited increased rates and timely solutions to all our burnout in Asia, at 29 per cent. one hour. financial year (2020-21). Rs 33,238 crore have been of burnout over the past customers and users,” said The findings showed that “While workers in Australia It has issued income tax issued in 34,09,246 cases six months, according to Samik Roy, Country Head, no commute may be hurting, saw the highest increase in refunds of over Rs 33,000 and corporate tax refunds of had earlier said that in view Microsoft’s latest ‘Work Trend Modern Work, Microsoft India. not helping, remote worker workday span in Microsoft crore in more than 34 lakh Rs 88,370 crore in 1,83,773 of the issues arising out of Index’ report. Surveying over 6,000 productivity. Teams at 45 percent, with a cases and corporate tax cases,” the Income Tax the coronavirus pandemic, “As businesses adapt to information and first-line A massive 92 per cent those medium increase in burnout, refund of more than Rs Department said in a tweet emphasis was on release of a new way of working, it is workers across eight countries surveyed said meditation can India had the longest workday 88,000 crore in over 1.83 lakh on Wednesday. all refunds in the earliest important to examine the globally including Australia, decrease work-related stress. span of surveyed markets”. cases. The Finance Ministry possible time. Sports Indian Horizon 11 Thursday, October 8, 2020

FRENCH OPEN: Abu Dhabi, Oct 7 (IANS) KL shouldn’t be bothered with wicketkeeping Rajasthan Royals captain NADAL OVERCOMES Steve Smith has been fined Rs in Indian squad : Brian Lara 12 lakh for maintaining slow SINNER TEST New Delhi, Oct 7 (IANS) stumps in the Indian team. over-rate during his side’s Legendary West Indies Pant has been in good form 57-run loss against Mumbai cricketer Brian Lara believes in the ongoing tournament, Indians in their latest Indian KL Rahul is a "great batsman" scoring 171 runs in the five Premier League (IPL) 2020 and that's why she should matches he has played so far encounter. concentrate on his batting for the Delhi Capitals. “As it was his team’s first and not bother about "Rishabh Pant a year ago, offence of the season under wicketkeeping when it comes I would say no, but I feel that the IPL’s Code of Conduct to the Indian team. he has stepped up in terms relating to minimum over- Rahul, who is currently of his responsibility as a rate offences, Mr. Smith was leading Kings XI Punjab in the batsman. fined Rs 12 lakh,” stated an Indian Premier League (IPL) it comes to that Indian Look at how he plays for IPL media release. 2020, has scored 302 runs -- squad. He's such a great Delhi Capitals, it looks like Earlier, Delhi Capitals including one hundred and batsman that I feel that he he wants that responsibility, skipper Shreyas Iyer and two half-centuries -- in five should concentrate on that he wants that onus on him to Royal Challengers Bangalore matches so far. and put in a lot of runs on score runs, build an innings captain Virat Kohli were "Well, first of all I would the board," Lara said while and get big scores," said Lara. also fined for maintaining like to say that KL Rahul speaking on Star Sports Indies captain, Rishabh Pant "If he continues that way, slow over-rates during their should not be bothered Cricket Connected show. is the number one choice to I think that he should the respective matches against with wicketkeeping when According to the former West replace MS Dhoni behind the number one," he added. SunRisers Hyderabad and Kings XI Punjab. On Tuesday evening, Royals STEVE SMITH FINED GIRO were bowled out for 136 Paris, Oct 7 (IANS) Twelve- during their chase of 194 at the FOR SLOW OVER˨ time champion Rafael Nadal D'ITALIA: Sheikh Zayed Stadium.Smith overcame a stern test against could only manage six runs RATE AGAINST Italian teenager Jannik ARNAUD and was one of four wickets MUMBAI INDIANS Sinner to enter the semi- that Jasprit Bumrah took. finals of the ongoing French DEMARE Open. PIPS PETER On Tuesday evening, India’s Chess IM Atanu Lahiri Nadal -- playing his 100th SAGAN TO match at the Roland Garros to train Guyana colts -- defeated 19-year-old WIN STAGE 4 Chennai, Oct 7 (IANS) Sinner 7-6(4), 6-4, 6-1 in a International Master (IM) match that lasted two hours in chess Atanu Lahiri will be and 49 minutes on Court Villafranca Tirrena (Italy), opened up the sprint and from the shoulders of Mondiale) and Elia Viviani training around 50 junior chess Philippe-Chatrier. Oct 7 (IANS) Frances Arnaud looked to have netted a Italian Diego Ulissi.It was a (Cofidis) completed the players -- both girls and boys “He’s a very, very young Demare picked up his maiden stage win on the Giro difficult day for Ulissi's UAE- top five as Portugal's Joao -- in Guyana for three months talent with great shots. For eleventh win of the season -- and a first victory in over 15 Team Emirates after their Almeida (Deceuninck Quick- initially. two sets it was very tough. in a fiercely contested bunch months -- only to be denied sprinter Fernando Gaviria Step) safely finished in the Lahiri has been appointed as At the end of the first set I sprint finale on the Sicialian by the in-form Demare's was distanced on the day's pack to retain the pink jersey. the Training Consultant by the was very lucky. It was very coast ahead of Slovakia's Peter superior lunge. major climb at the mid- Earlier, Almeida had Guyana Chess Federation for added.He said the Guyana difficult for me to pull him Sagan (Bora-Hansgrohe) and After a painstaking wait, point of the 140-kilometre zipped clear to take two three months starting October Chess Federation had got out of position,” said Nadal the Italian Davide Ballerini Demare's victory was stage, the Colombian failing bonus seconds in the second 2020 with an option to extend in touch with the Indian after he booked his 13th last- (Deceuninck Quick-Step) at confirmed as Sagan was to rejoin the peloton despite intermediate sprint after an the assignment in 2021. High Commission there for four place in Paris. the ongoing Giro D'Italia.In forced to settle for second a prolonged chase by his entertaining little tussle with “Initially I will be training a trainer and the matter got “In the third set I a crazy, messy conclusion to place and the maglia teammates.Italians Ballerini, Stage 3 winner Jonathan about 50 junior chess players, referred to the All India Chess improved, I was much better Stage 4 on Tuesday, Sagan ciclamino, which he took Andrea Vendrama (AG2R La Caicedo (EF Pro Cycling). a mix of girls and boys. The Federation (AICF) which in being much more aggressive. numbers may go up by another turn suggested his name. That’s the only way. I’m very, 10 or 20 players. The players are This is not the first that Lahiri very happy to be back in the NBA FINALS : LAKERS ONE GAME AWAY FROM CHAMPIONSHIPS in the age group of 7-16 years,” is training overseas chess semi-finals of Roland-Garros Orlando, Oct 7 (IANS) After his teammates before the game moved into double figures. Lahiri told IANS. players.“I have trained chess again. It’s no doubt the most facing a loss in Game 3 -- to let them know the kind of zone Nevertheless, the Heat couldn't “There are also plans players in Thailand, Mongolia, important place for me, the mostly due to an exceptional he was in. hold onto their lead as the to take chess to schools Nepal and Bhutan. The most beautiful place to play,” performance from Jimmy Butler "When I woke up from my Lakers took a two-point lead at in Guyana by training the Mongolian Chess Federation he added. -- LA Lakers' star duo LeBron nap this morning after our team the end of the first half. teachers there. That will take has made me an honorary His record now stands at James (28p, 8a, 12r) and Anthony meeting, I just felt that. I felt that As James and Davis improved some time to happen,” he member,” Lahiri said. 98 wins and just two defeats, Davis (22p, 4a, 9r) helped their vibe. I felt that pressure. their shooting from distance in 237 hours and eight minutes team take one step closer to the I felt like for me personally, this the second half, the Lakers closed on the court, just 27 sets Championships with a 102-96 was one of the biggest games of out the game comfortably. 16 elite boxers to train in Italy lost, 427 of 602 break points victory over Miami Heat in Game my career. I just wanted to relay Lakers head coach Frank Vogel saved, according to the Four of the ongoing NBA Finals. that message to my teammates," expressed that the way James and & compete in France tournament’s website. The Lakers, who lead 3-1 in the said James. Davis defended against Butler set The Spaniard will next series, are now just one win away The Lakers drew first blood the tone for the match. face Diego Schwartzman, from their record-equalling 17th when they inched ahead at 27- "That was a big part of our who beat Dominic Thiem NBA title.James, who got off to a 22 at the end of the first quarter. plan, the adjustments from last on Wednesday in a five-set slow start on Tuesday evening, However, the Heat fought back game to this game was to try to quarter-final that lasted picked up pace with 20 points in and took the lead at 33-39 in keep those guys on him as much more than five hours. the second half, had sent a text to the second quarter as Butler as possible.

Saina, Kashyap withdraw Want to prove my potential in every single from Denmark Open session, says Rajkumar Pal my potential in every single badminton session, in every single opportunity I get. We have we have pulled out of the a very strong pool of players tournament,” Kashyap, and there is a healthy New Delhi/Patiala, Oct 7 Nantes, France from October 28 husband of Saina, told internal competition to (IANS) Sixteen elite women and to 30, stated the Sports Authority IANS. Saina pulling out of make the final squad. men boxers will travel to Italy of India (SAI) in a release. the tournament means that I have received great and France for their overseas Amit Panghal, Ashish Kumar, there would be no Indian support from the senior training and participation in Satish Kumar, Simranjit Kaur, participation in the women’s players who encourage me international competition after Lovlina Borgohain and Pooja singles event, as reigning to play to my potential. the Covid-19 hiatus. Rani from among the contingent world champion PV Sindhu I look forward to build A 28-member contingent, that have earned quotas for the had pulled out in September. on this momentum,” he includes 10 male boxers and six Tokyo Olympics. The Indian squad for said.Speaking about his female boxers along with the “It is very good that we will be the Denmark Open now experience over the past support staff, will travel for a getting a feeling of competition comprises former world No.1 six months, Rajkumar feels period of 52 days from October again. I am very excited about Kidambi Srikanth, Lakshya the team management’s 15 to December 5. this. With 10 months to go Sen, Ajay Jayaram, and efforts to keep the players The teams will be training at before the Olympics, getting Shubhankar Dey. motivated through Assisi, Italy. All the four events to compete against European The Badminton World the Covid-19 induced (men’s 57 kg, men’s 81 kg, men’s opponents will be really helpful,” Federation (BWF) had earlier lockdown was extremely 91 kg, women’s 57 kg) where said Lovlina. intended the Thomas Cup important. India are yet to win a quota, will Ashish said that this is good and Uber Cup team events “With no activities at all, have boxers who will be a part of preparation as they would be New Delhi, Oct 7 (IANS) to mark the restart of the it was very difficult to feel the travelling contingent. coming up against opponents Star badminton players badminton calendar, but the motivated but the team They will be accompanied who they might face at the Saina Nehwal and Parupalli tournaments were cancelled Bengaluru, Oct 7 (IANS) League. The young lad from management, especially by eight coaches and support Olympics. Kashyap have withdrawn after several countries Attacking hockey midfielder Uttar Pradesh’s Karampur chief coach and scientific staff in the men’s team and four “It will be very helpful for from the Denmark Open. pulled out due to safety Rajkumar Pal made a dream village ensured he did not advisor ensured we were coaches and support staff in the us to play against competitors The Super 750 tournament, concerns arising out of the debut earlier this year.He disappoint.Now a regular kept occupied with online women’s team. from abroad. We were already which is expected to signal Covid pandemic. The BWF was given an opportunity by feature in the Indian core activities, English classes Thirteen boxers from at camp in Patiala and the restart of the sport’s also cancelled the Denmark chief coach Graham Reid to probable group, Rajkumar is and a regular fitness regime. the contingent will also regained our fitness, going international calendar, is Masters, which was set to show his potential against aiming to become an integral They also ensured we were participate in the ‘Alexis abroad will really help. When set to played from October start two days after the end of world champions Belgium part of the national team. not fatigued mentally,” the Vastine’ international boxing we meet new competitors, we 13 to 18 in Odense.“Yes, the Denmark Open. at the FIH Hockey Pro “My aim now is to prove midfielder said. tournament to be held in will get an idea of our level. ENTERTAINMENT IIndianndian HHorizonorizon Thursday, October 8, 2020 ̉̊

rithik Roshan who gave AAMIR KHAN hit fi lms like 'Bang WHEN HRITHIK ANANYA PANDAY instructs 'LSC' team to HBang' and 'Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara' with Katrina ROSHAN CALLED BELIEVES employ women driven Kaif shares a deep connection IN 'LESS with the actress. KATRINA KAIF A Sakha cabs for Delhi The actor once revealed that ATTITUDE, MORE he believes Katrina is a die- shoot schedule! hard 'Labourer' who works 'LABOURER'! GRATITUDE' with extreme dedication and determination. nanya Panday has Talking about the same, shared a mantra in an interview with a lead- Ashe believes in on ing portal, Roshan said "This social media. is something that I've always Ananya took to Insta- told Katrina, which she kind of gram, where she is seen takes as an insult, but which I posing on a beach with mean as an incredibly well- the sea in the backdrop. intentioned compliment. In the picture, she I regard Katrina as a maz- of those things.Those are just the looks stunning in a ca- door; she is a labourer, she is a decorations, but deep inside, she sual white and navy blue worker. She is one of the best is a worker. Having said that, she is sweatshirt. labourers and workers that I've so super talented, it becomes very "Less attitude, more ever come across. easy for her, it becomes very easy gratitude," wrote the "He further said, "I'm tell- for me when I'm working with her. actress alongside the im- ing you, deep inside Katrina is `Other B-town stars have also age, who is currently in a mazdoor; she just happens praised Katrina for her hard Goa to shoot for Shakun to be beautiful and hot and all work. Tabu is one of them who Batra's untitled fi lm. happens to be Katrina's co-star Ananya's latest release amir Khan along with cabs in Satyamev Jayate appre- of their service. He promised arrangements for the female in Fitoor, said, `Katrina is the is "Khaali Peeli". The fi lm his entire team is cur- ciating their remarkable work them that whenever he would drivers including their stay and most hard-working actress I have also stars Ishaan Khatter. Arently in Delhi shooting of providing employment op- visit Delhi, he would use their other necessities, for the entire ever met, seen and worked with. She will also be seen in a for his upcoming movie 'Laal portunities to women who service.For the past 10 years, 45 days as they will be needed Katrina will soon be seen in pan-Indian fi lm opposite Singh Chaddha'. Aamir has in- have been victims of domestic Aamir has kept his promise. throughout.It's truly inspiring Sooryavanshi with Akshay Ku- Vijay Deverakonda. structed LSC team to employ abuse and harassment.Ever Due to COVID-19 and keeping when a star like Aamir Khan mar. The fi lm was supposed to IANS women driven Sakha cabs for since then, Aamir Khan has the safety of everyone in mind, uses his elite status and power release in March but was indefi - their entire Delhi schedule. been providing them patron- he has instructed the entire to help uplift others. nitely delayed due to the corona- BIGG BOSS 14 Aamir fi rst introduced Sakha age and is an ardent supporter team to even make special Courtesy : Santa Banta virus pandemic. Courtesy : Santa Banta HOUSEMATE JASMIN BHASIN ON RRR: 5 things in the Ram Charan, Jr. NTR, Alia SS Rajamouli's RRR OPPORTUNITIES IN features Ram Charan, Bhatt, Ajay Devgn starrer to watch out for Jr NTR, Alia Bhatt, B'WOOD FOR OUTSIDERS Ajay Devgn and Olivia fter the monstrous suc- movie-buffs. Plus, the audi- cess of the Baahubali ence is looking forward to see Morris in pivotal Afranchise, director SS the fresh pair of the Rangast- roles. The period Rajamouli announced another halam actor and Alia Bhatt, drama is made on pan-India project titled RRR who will be making her Tolly- a budget of Rs. 350 (Raama Roudra Rushitam), wood debut. featuring Ram Charan and Jr. Ajay Devgn and Shriya crore and will release NTR in lead roles. Saran's cameos in Telugu, Tamil, While the film garnered im- Drishyam stars Ajay Devgn Hindi, Malayalam and mense buzz right from its an- and Shriya Saran will have Kannada languages. nouncement, after Alia Bhatt special cameos. and Ajay Devgn came on As per reports, they will be board, the expectations and seen as husband and wife in and mind-boggling action excitement for this project the period drama. Talking sequences in RRR. went to another level. about Ajay's character, Raja- Out of the world VFX SS Rajamouli's mega mouli earlier said, the actor VFX is one of the highlights creation exudes honesty and integrity of SS Rajamouli's projects as SS Rajamouli is a master sto- and that's why he is apt for envisaged in Baahubali, Eega ryteller, who knows the nerve the part. and Magadheera. With good of his audience and that's why shattered records on YouTube, Ram Charan and Jr. NTR High-octane stunts and quality VFX work, we expect he enjoys a high success ratio at we are feel that this project, combo with Alia Bhatt action sequences the filmmaker to transport the box offi ce. While the motion which is made on a budget of Watching two superstars of Well, just like Baahubali and the audience to his own poster and introduction promo Rs. 350 crore, could transcend Tollywood, Ram Charan and Magadheera, we are expect- world in RRR. of Ram Charan has already the Baahubali franchise. Jr. NTR, will be a treat for all ing some high-octane stunts Courtesy : Bollywoodlife

BHUMI PEDNEKAR : I WILL asmin Bhasin, who got calls for good auditions show "Dil Se Dil Tak", and fair when you don't give is currently seen as a and projects and I got work, her contention contradicts an equal chance to outsid- CONSTANTLY PICK PROJECTS Jhousemate in the 14th too. I think it is an industry what actress Hina Khan had ers.TV actors hardly make season of reality show Bigg where the best who is suit- said earlier."Nepotism ex- it big in Bollywood, just THAT HIT HOME FOR ME Boss, says she never felt ed for a role gets chosen. ists everywhere and it does because we don't get a fair humi Pednek- the Hindi fi lm industry has Everybody gets opportu- exist in our industry, too. If chance. At least, give us a ar is proud of been unfair to her."I have nities," Jasmin told IANS. you are a star and you want chance to prove ourselves," Bher work. She never felt it (Bollywood) Jasmin rose to fame play- to launch your kid, it's ab- Hina had said. says she searches has been unfair because I ing Teni Bhanushali in the solutely okay.But, it is not IANS for extraordinary stories, and will constantly pick projects that hit In the midst of facing criticism over his remarks on Sushant's death home for her. "I search for ex- probe, Akshay Kumar thanks his fans for this reason! traordinary stories of extraordinary n October 5th, Ak- tion in Bollywood and the step of speaking on the on- 25 million people within 24 Deshmukh, Monisha Ad- women! I think shay Kumar un- anonymous death of the going controversies wasn't hours on the social media vani, Madhu Bhojwani and that really guides Oveiled the teaser of late Sushant Singh Rajput. the right time as his fi lm platforms. The actor tweet- Nikkhil Advani. Along with my fi lm choices. his upcoming spy-thriller But it seems like his video 'Laxmmi Bomb' is all set ed, "Aapka Pyaar Sar Aank- Akshay Kumar, the fi lm Right from my fi lm, 'Bell Bottom' based did not sit well with the to release on November hon Par! Grateful for your also stars Vaani Kapoor, debut, I have on the storyline of plane hi- netizens and slammed the 9th, 2020 and he also has love and support #Bell- Lara Dutta and Huma tried to bring jacks that rocked the world actor for raising his voice released the teaser of Bell bottomTeaser have you Qureshi in pivotal roles. to life stories back in the 1980s.Although so late. Along with troll- Bottom.But ignoring ev- watched it yet?"Directed by The fi lm was announced in of powerful, recently, the actor shared ing, #BanLaxmmiBomb erything, Akshay Kumar Ranjit M Tewari, 'Bellbot- the year 2019 and is slated strong, inde- a video on social media was also started trending took to Twitter to share the tom' is being co-produced for release on April 2nd, pendent women while breaking his silence on the micro-blogging site news that the 'Bell Bottom' by Vashu Bhagnani, Jackky 2021. who have a voice positive conversa- over the drug consump- and it was stated that his teaser has been watched by Bhagnani, Deepshikha Courtesy : Santa Banta and they want to be tion about being heard by society," a woman in India. Bhumi said.She She said: "I'm proud added: "Cinema can of my body of work Rhea Chakraborty walks out of jail after 28 days spark conversations and I know I will ours after she was to her home in Santacruz drug peddler Abdul Basit and beyond the reach of own after a month in the and all my fi lms, in constantly pick proj- granted bail, Bolly- in the western suburbs. Parihar were refused bail. law. The hounding and jail.Meanwhile, Deputy their own, unique ects that hit home Hwood actress Rhea Earlier this morning, Welcoming the court witch hunt by three cen- Commissioner of Police way, have been for me. Such sub- Chakraborty on Wednes- Justice S.V. Kotwal of Bom- order, her lawyer Satish tral agencies - the CBI, Sangram Singh Nishan- about achieving jects are extremely day evening walked out bay High Court granted Maneshinde said "truth ED and NCB - of Rhea dar again warned the pa- parity."Bhumi has close to my heart be- of the Byculla Jail, having her conditional bail on a and justice have pre- should come to an end. parazzi against chasing or shown that she is cause I do feel I have spent 28 days in custody surety of Rs 1 Lakh, along vailed" and ultimately the We remain committed to obstructing any vehicles not afraid to explore a responsibility to since her arrest on Septem- with late Sushant Singh Ra- submissions on facts and Truth. Satyameva Jayate," in which persons called roles and diverse portray women dif- ber 8.In full media glare jput's staffer Dipesh Sawa- law have been accepted he added.In the evening, for investigations travel genres because ferently on screen. with tight police security, nt and his house manager by Justice Kotwal"."The Maneshinde expressed in view of safety of all the she wants to start a IANS she quickly stepped into a Samuel Miranda.However, arrest and custody of Rhea relief saying Rhea will fi - stakeholders. vehicle and was driven off her brother Showik and was totally unwarranted nally get to sleep on her IANS

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