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y k y cm PRAISE FOR DAUGHTER UK EASES TRAVEL CURBS NEERAJ’S NEW GOAL Actor Shweta Tiwari feels her daughter Palak, The UK Sunday eased travel restrictions for After winning India’s athletics gold, who is set to debut in a Hindi film, is a India by moving the country from its “red” Neeraj Chopra now wants to throw the spear over 90 metres better actor than her LEISURE | P2 to “amber” list INTERNATIONAL | P10 SPORTS | P12 VOLUME 11, ISSUE 130 | www.orissapost.com BHUBANESWAR | MONDAY, AUGUST 9 | 2021 12 PAGES | `5.00 Curtains down on Olympics 2020 ASSOCIATED PRESS Tokyo, August 8: It began with a virus and a yearlong pause. It ended with a typhoon blowing through and, still, a virus. In between: just about everything. The Tokyo Olympic has been his- toric for India, as the country secured seven medals surpassing the six medals won in London Olympics 2012. Highest rights The Tokyo Olympics, christened with “2020” but held in mid-2021 after being interrupted for a year by the coro- violations in navirus, glided to their conclusion in a Covid-emptied stadium Sunday night as an often surreal mixed bag for Japan and for the world. police stations: CJI A rollicking closing ceremony with the theme “Worlds We Share” – an opti- INDO-ASIAN NEWS SERVICE mistic but ironic notion at this human moment – featured everything from New Delhi, August 8: Chief stunt bikes to intricate light shows as Justice NV Ramana Sunday it tried to convey a “celebratory and said the threat to human liberating atmosphere” for athletes rights and bodily integrity after a tense two weeks. are the highest in police It was set to pivot to a live feed from stations and even the priv- Paris, host of the 2024 Summer Games. ileged are not spared the And with that, the strangest Olympic third-degree treatment. Games on record began closing their Justice Ramana was de- To keep police books for good. Fireworks explode during the closing ceremony in the Olympic Stadium at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Sunday, in Tokyo, Japan PTI PHOTO livering the keynote address Held in the middle of a resurging pan- at an event organised by excesses in demic, rejected by many Japanese and said he’d worried that these could “be- Olympics, held 57 years after the 1964 either end of the stadium featured While Tokyo is handing off the the National Legal Services check dissemination of plagued by months of administrative come the Olympic Games without a Games reintroduced the country to what organisers called a “fan video Summer Games baton to Paris for Authority of India (NALSA) information about the problems, these Games presented lo- soul.” But, he said Friday, “what we have the world after its World War II de- matrix,” a Zoom call-like screen of 2024, the delay has effectively crammed to launch the “vision and constitutional right to gistical and medical obstacles like no seen here is totally different.” feat, represented a planet trying to videos uploaded by spectators show- two Olympics together. The next mission statement” and the legal aid and other, offered up serious conversations At these Games, even the word “to- come together at a historical moment ing them cheering at home. In front Winter Games convenes in just six mobile app for NALSA. availability of free about mental health – and, when it gether” was fraught. Spectators were when disease and circumstance and of such formidable backdrops, ath- months in another major Asian me- The Chief Justice said: legal aid services is came to sport, delivered both triumphs kept at bay. Athletes’ perseverance politics had splintered it apart. letic excellence burst through, from tropolis – Beijing, Japan’s rival in “The threat to human rights necessary and a few surprising shortfalls. became a central story. Mental health The closing ceremony Sunday re- the Games’ first gold medal (China’s East Asia and home to a much more and bodily integrity are the NV RAMANA I CHIEF JUSTICE OF INDIA From the outset, expectations were claimed bandwidth as never before, and flected that -- and, at times, nudged the Yang Qian in the 10-meter air rifle July authoritarian government that is ex- highest in police stations. middling at best, apocalyptic at worst. athletes revealed their stories and proceedings toward a sci-fi flavour. 24) to their last (Serbia defeating pected to administer its Games in a Custodial torture and other Even Thomas Bach, president of the struggles in vulnerable, sometimes As athletes stood in the arena for Greece in men’s water polo Sunday more draconian and restrictive way, police atrocities are prob- phasised that the decisions International Olympic Committee, excruciating fashion. Japan’s fourth the final pomp, digital scoreboards at afternoon). virus or no virus. lems which still prevail in taken in these early hours our society. Going by the will later determine the recent reports even the priv- ability of the accused to de- ileged are not spared third- fend him. IRREGULAR by MANJUL Taliban seize degree treatment”. “To keep police excesses He stressed that despite in check dissemination of Kunduz, Sar-e Pul constitutional declarations information about the con- IGI Airport on alert after and guarantees, lack of ef- stitutional right to legal aid REUTERS fective legal representation and availability of free legal at the police stations is a aid services is necessary,” Kabul, August 8: Taliban fighters over- huge detriment to arrested Chief Justice Ramana ran two provincial capitals, including or detained persons. He em- pointed out. the strategic northeastern city of Kunduz and northern Sar-e Pul Sunday, ‘bomb threat’ e-mail local officials said, as the insurgents AGENCIES intensified pressure on the north and COVAXIN, COVISHIELD MIXING threatened further cities. New Delhi, August 8: Security has Taliban fighters seized key gov- been beefed up at Delhi’s Indira ernment buildings in the city of Cocktail vax better Gandhi International (IGI) Airport Kunduz, leaving government forces Sportsperson’s number is constantly after a bomb threat email was re- hanging onto control of the airport and engaged. If you wish we can send your ceived by the IGI police station, warn- their own base, a provincial Assembly congratulatory message through Pegasus! against variants: ICMR ing of a possible attack by the terrorist lawmaker said Sunday. outfit Al Qaeda. The Taliban have also taken gov- PRESS TRUST OF INDIA The email was received by the Delhi ernment buildings in the northern Police Saturday evening, which warned provincial capital of Sar-e Pul, driv- New Delhi, August 8: A Woman Maoist that a bomb could be used at the air- ing officials out of the main city to a study by ICMR involving 98 port in the next one to three days. nearby military base, Mohammad people, 18 of whom had in- surrenders However, the threat was later found to Noor Rahmani, a provincial council advertently received be ‘non-specific’ and the Bomb Threat member of Sar-e Pul province, said. Covishield as first dose and POST NEW NETWORK Assessment Committee (BTAC) has REPRESENTATIVE PHOTO A Taliban offensive has gathered Covaxin as the second in been terminated from the airport, momentum in recent days, as the in- Uttar Pradesh, showed that Phulbani, August 8: A woman Maoist after a search. with the same names of the couple and Centre (SOCC) of the airport, on in- surgents unleashed their forces across combining these two Covaxin- from Kandhamal-Kalahandi-Boudh- Sources said that the police received on the similar language of the threat. spection, found that a similar threat Afghanistan after the United States 19 vaccines elicited better Nayagarh (KKBN) division of the an email at around 5.50 pm Saturday, Immediately, police alerted the air- message had been received by the air- announced it would end its military mis- immunogenicity than two Odisha state committee laid down which mentioned “Planned bomb port and the Airport Operations Control port in March, mentioning similar sion in the country by the end of August. doses of the same vaccine. nagar, Uttar Pradesh, in- arms Sunday before the police in blast by Al Qaeda Sargana at IGI air- Centre (AOCC), with checks carried names and that the same threat, of On Friday, the insurgents captured The study also found that advertently received Kandhamal district. A senior police port stating that Karanbir Suri alias out on the airport premises. At around blowing up the airport within one to their first provincial capital in years immunisation with combi- Covishield as the first jab official informed that the woman Mohamad Jalal and Karanbir Suri’s 7.18 pm, the BTAC declared the bomb- three days was mentioned in that mail when they took control of Zaranj, on nation of Covishield and and Covaxin as the second. cadre, identified as Kanti Mallick, is wife Shaily Sharda alias Haseena are threat as ‘non-specific’. However, BTAC too. Even in March, the threat was the border with Iran in Afghanistan's Covaxin was safe and the So, including these 18 in- a resident of Gangaranga village coming to India Sunday from asked for heightened security to remain declared ‘non-specific’ by BTAC, of- southern Nimroz province. adverse effects were also dividuals who had received under Baliguda block in Kandhamal Singapore and plan to put the bomb on the premises. CISF officials said that ficials said. In recent days the Taliban have es- found to be similar when one dose of Covishield and district. She had joined the red rebels on IGI in 1-3 days.” checks by their quick-reaction teams Delhi Police has been requested to calated attacks on northern provinces, compared to the same dose second dose of Covaxin, 40 in 2018 and had been quite active till On examination of the threat mail, will continue on the premises, with look into the investigation report of which lie outside their traditional regimen.

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