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& ' ( * & ) 5 +),-,-6% (/ ''' ( , 7)8+ 437 on Sunday evening. coordination among the rele- The health teams collected vant departments for non- he COVID-19 tally crossed 15,360 samples in the district pharmaceutical interventions Tthe 32,000-mark in the under contact surveillance. (NPIs), the ministry said in a state capital on Sunday as 999 On Sunday, 6,777 more statement. more people tested positive, people tested positive across the They also facilitate a taking the number of con- state, taking the count of con- prompt referral of COVID-19 firmed cases to 32,499. firmed cases to 2,66,283. patients to the appropriate level % %' Miranda writes to Rhea “Hi A senior official at the LAUDED: Many states and of dedicated COVID facilities, Rhea, the stuff is almost over”. CMO office said that 58 peo- Union territories have designed it added. fter her father Indrajit In the next message, Jaya Saha ple tested positive in Gomti innovative measures to fight The centres coordinate AChakraborty claimed that tells Rhea: ‘Use 4 drops in tea, Nagar, 53 in Indiranagar, 42 the COVID-19 pandemic, with with the zonal units to ensure his family had been “effective- let him sip it … Give it 30-40 each in Talkatora and Aliganj, the Uttar Pradesh government a prompt testing of the symp- ly demolished” and lawyer mins to kick in’. Then, there 39 each in Alambagh and Rae setting up integrated COVID tomatic patients and contacts, Satish Maneshinde said that emerges a message in a chat Bareli road, 38 in Madiaon, 37 control and command centres intimation of the laboratory his client was being subjected to between Rhea & Jaya Saha: “I in Ashiyana, 36 in Jankipuram, in every district as well as the status, facilitation of transport “witch-hunt” and she was have asked him to coordinate 35 in Thakurganj, 32 in state headquarters with repre- and facility allocation in case of “ready” for arrest, the Narcotics with Shruti (Modi) & reach it Cantonment, 31 in Chowk, 29 sentation of all relevant depart- admission, besides a regular Control Bureau (NCB) on up”. In yet another message, each in Mahanagar, Gomti ments to address the rising follow-up of the cases in home Sunday grilled actress Rhea Rhea writes to Jaya Saha “Thank Nagar Extension and Vikas number of positive cases, the isolation. Uttar Pradesh has Chakraborty for six hours in you so much” Reply from Jaya: Nagar, 27 each in Hasanganj, Union health ministry said on also developed a Unified State connection with a drug case reg- “No problem bro, hope it helps”. Hazratganj and Saadatganj, 25 Sunday. COVID Portal: istered in connection with actor In the seventh and last in Naka, 24 in Krishnanagar These integrated COVID upcovid19tracks.in. It captures Sushant Singh Rajput’s death. accessed chat message, and 15 in Hasanganj control and command centres all information related to sur- A day after it told the city Miranda writes to Rhea: With 17 more people suc- were set up on July 18. veillance, testing and treat- court that it would have to con- ‘Should we take it from cumbing to COVID-19, the These centres are primar- ment of COVID patients, the front Showik Chakraborty with Showik’s friend? But he has just death toll in the city reached ily for ensuring an effective ministry said. her elder sister (Rhea) and the hash & bud’. late actor’s domestic help The WA chat messages ' Dipesh Sawant — who is in hint at the fact that Rhea was ./00 011.21222.. now in the agency’s custody, the allegedly procuring drugs for 3 2405 22/62. NCB began to look into the use by the actor. ! ) 21624. /46 2.241 “specific roles/ingredients of On her part, Rhea had conspiracy theory, abetments !" # $ " %& earlier denied consuming drugs 7 " 6455166004/6 and various attempts to commit and said that she was prepared (,)-,)*, 3 011046 60.0../64 offences” by questioning Rhea and Psychotropic Substances Informed agency sources gally from dealers and admin- for a drug test anytime. She, for six hours. She has been (NPDS) Act. said that the investigators ques- ister them to the late actor. however, admitted that Sushant +).+ 22 ()*+15/6 called by the NCB for ques- Rhea — whose brother tioned her about the WhatsApp It may be recalled that the used to take marijuana and +% 4./44 651052..4 tioning once again on Monday. Showik was arrested along with exchanges between Rhea and messages accessed by a few tele- despite her efforts, she could ' % 2/154 /526.6.. At Monday’s questioning, late actor’s house manager others that the Enforcement vision channels on August 25- not control him. /,)(+),+ ! 2.1 441./56. Rhea is likely to be confronted Samuel Miranda by the NCB Directorate (ED) had shared 26, Rhea talks about drugs and Rhea, who was mentally with her younger brother on Friday night — reportedly with the CBI and NCB alleging in a chat between her and prepared for her possible arrest '.).,)** 0521. 61.1402 Showik, the late actor’s admitted that she was procur- “procuring and usage” of drugs. Gaurav Arya who is allegedly a by the NCB, walked into the 8 02.6 51612 house manager Samuel ing drugs for Sushant through It was on the basis of this drug dealer, Rhea writes: “In NCB’s Zonal Office on the third 9: .262 6.142454 Miranda and Sawant. her arrested brother (Showik). WhatsApp message trail that case we speak about hard drugs, floor of the Exchange Building Showik, Samuel and She is understood to have the ED had joined the investi- I haven’t been doing too much. at Ballard Estate in south ;: .51 6//241 Sawant, who was arrested on acknowledged that she gations on August 26 into the Tried MDMA once”. In anoth- Mumbai, around 12 noon. The 7 4/420 624 12/5 Saturday night, have been knew about Samuel purchasing allegations that Sushant’s girl- er message sent to Gaurav actress was at the investigating - /152 4.11..5 booked under 20 (b) and other drugs for the actor from drug friend Rhea Chakraborty used Arya, she asks: “You have MD?”. agency’s office till 6 pm. sections of the Narcotics Drugs peddler Zaid. to procure banned drugs ille- In the first chat message, Continued on Page 4 3 /65/2 5/05544/ P

ground photographs of opera- ethnic slurs, personal insults, manpower issues, promotions, tional locations on social media obscenity, or engage in any local orders and the like as the platforms. conduct that would not be same can give an opportunity The Paramilitary personnel acceptable as a Government to the adversaries in gathering have been asked not to share servant, including gossips intelligence. personal information that scam about work and colleagues,” The men and officials have artists or identity thieves could says the guidelines issued by further been cautioned against & & % )*+*,-' use and manipulate. The per- the Central Reserve Police uploading photos in uniform or sonnel are not supposed to use Force (CRPF) along with a sep- profile picture on he CRPF has issued a photographs with identity cards arate set on guidelines on use WhatsApp/Facebook and any Tdetailed set of guidelines or clothing accessories that of smartphones in the other social sites. They are with do’s and don’ts to its per- can reveal information about Paramilitary offices across the also not supposed to upload sonnel to avoid being targeted the organisation. country. pictures with weapons on such on social media platforms by The personnel have also The personnel have been sites even in civil dress. counterintelligence operations been advised against sharing barred from sharing on The paramilitary personnel or cyber attackers from hostile classified information social media have also been advised against foreign Governments or radi- obtained through applications accepting friend requests from cal outfits inimical to India. official channels or even unclas- unknown or use official Apart from other things, otherwise on sified details and official email the personnel have been asked such social reports addresses for opening accounts not to post Government media tools. especially on social media. emblems, weapons or back- “Do not use about Continued on Page 4 ! )*+*,-' Chinese attempt to change the completed nearly 60-65 per status of the LAC. cent of the project. he International Society According to Gobind Gopal The construction of the Tfor Krishna Consciousness Das, who is looking after the temple complex began in 2018 (ISKCON) has decided not to construction of Kurukshetra’s and it will be completed in procure four marble statues of ISKCON temple, the quality of 2022. It is being built on six horses from Chinese firm for Indonesian marble is better. acres and the temple itself will O P P its under construction temple “The decision was taken not to be spread over 23,000 square P in Kurukshetra in view of anti- import marble horses from feet with three storeys and !"#$ China sentiments. The man- Chinese firms keeping in view height of 165 feet. It will have agement is negotiating with of the ongoing anti-China sen- the world’s biggest Bhagawad Indonesia for the same. timents in the country,” he said. Gita, a multimedia centre in ! "O The negotiation with a The statute of each horses which the Mahabharata will be NO % Chinese company was almost will be 34 feet tall and 41 played for devotees, a library done before the ISKCON metres long and it will cost 1 which will have all scriptures, decided to shelve the plan. crore each. The ISKCON, Govinda’s restaurant (a chain of The ISKCON is the first reli- which is constructing a massive ISKCON), 75-room guest ' gious organisation which can- Krishna temple in Kurukshetra house, art gallery, spiritual gift ( cels its order in view of the at a cost of 100 crore, has not shop, supermarket and cafe. " # "$% Q R 78-' 1971 when he was ,7-'3 ;7-*;' Sampoornanagar police sta- hardly 21. tion area. wami Kesavananda The Supreme 75-year-old former MLA Radheyshyam Gupta SBharati, pontiff of Court ruled on April Adied here on Sunday after alongwith his aides had gone to the Edneer Mutt in 24, 1973 that the “basic he fell on the ground dig the land, and as Kasaragod district of structure” of the during an altercation with soon as Mishra came to Kerala, breathed his Constitution is invio- a group of people over a know about it, he hur- last in the wee hours of Sunday. lable, and cannot be amended land dispute, police said, ried to the spot with his He was 79. The cremation was by Parliament. even as the victim’s son supporters and an held on the Mutt premises on He questioned the alleged that he was beat- altercation ensued, a the banks of River Madhu Constitutionality of certain en to death. police official said. Vahini in Kasaragod. amendments brought in by According to police, “During the altercation, The Swami’s name became the Government of Kerala Nirvendra Mishra, who was a Mishra fell on the ground. He synonymous with the under the Land Reforms Act legislator thrice, had a dispute was first rushed to the Palia Constitution of India as he had which robbed the Mutt of large with Radheyshyam Gupta and health centre and then to a clin- waged one of the longest legal tracts of land. Sameer Gupta over a peice of ic, where he was declared wars against the Centre in Continued on Page 4 land under the Continued on Page 4 !"#$%&%&

Lucknow (PNS): Suspecting a 32-year- force was deployed in the area. old alcoholic to be a thief, the local res- 01 3 Senior Superintendent of Police )$R idents lynched him in Bareilly. The Shailesh Pandey told reporters, “I have insensitivity of the public also acme to Khan, a resident of Aonla in Bareilly, was ground on Friday afternoon. Basid, it received a video in which Basid is seen the fore as instead of rescuing the vic- tied to a tree and allegedly lynched by a later turned out, was an alcoholic but not tied to a tree and locals are thrashing tim, the villagers joined the attackers and mob on suspicion of being a thief. a thief. Basid was handed over to police him. We are trying to identify the ' $ for sheer fun, they kept recording the According to the reports, some of the and the cops set him free as no one came accused using the videos of the incident. inhuman act on their mobile cameras attackers joined the crowd for the sheer forward to file a complaint against him. There were no visible injuries on the and some of them were seen taking a ‘fun’ of it and posed for selfie on their His family, on seeing his condition, took body. The post-mortem will be conduct- , 7)8+ selfie with the victim. mobile cameras while the victim, Basid him to hospital where he died of inter- ed by a panel of doctors to ascertain the Reports said that 32-year-old, Basid Khan, was being thrashed in the back- nal bleeding the next day. A heavy police cause of death.” hief Minister Yogi CAdityanath said that the cleanliness drive launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi had transformed the lives in eastern Uttar Pradesh where children used to die of encephalitis but now the death rate had come down by almost 99 per cent. “In the past, the Basti division was rattled by encephalitis. In the last 40 years, between 500 and 600 children used to die every year because of this dreaded disease. But the cleanliness drive has put a brake on this. This year, only six deaths have been reported. One can say the decline in mortality is by almost ence was that we can prevent the % % 99 per cent,” Yogi Adityanath disease or ensure quick treat- ,- '5 said while addressing a gather- ment if changes are made in the The health care in Uttar ing in Gorakhpur on Sunday. basic structure. We did that. We Pradesh will get a boost with He said after the Bharatiya strengthened PHCs (primary addition of 620 Covid beds in Janata Party came to power, a health centres) in the rural two newly constructed hospital decisive battle was launched areas and imparted special train- buildings in Lucknow and against encephalitis and with ing to doctors and paramedics Gorakhpur on Monday. better coordination among var- on treating encephalitis patients. Chief minister Yogi ious departments, coupled with Sanitation drives were carried Adityanath will inaugurate both a cleanliness drive, the govern- out across the villages and this the hospital buildings on ment was able to bring down the has shown results,” Yogi said. Monday to add the facilities for mortality rate. Talking about the role of the COVID-19 patients. After Yogi became the chief Goraksh Peeth in Gorakhpur, Additional Chief Secretary minister of UP, he took up the Yogi said that Mahant Digvijay (Home) Awanish Awasthi said cudgel to eradicate encephalitis Nath and Mahant Avaidyanath here on Sunday that on Monday from the region. When he was had sacrificed their lives for the morning, the chief minister MP from Gorakhpur, he had betterment of society. “They would inaugurate a 300-bed raised the issue of encephalitis dreamt about construction of new hospital complex at the and its menace in that region in Ram temple in Ayodhya and BRD Medical College in the Lok Sabha 18 times in the their dreams are coming true Gorakhpur. House during his tenure as MP. after 492 years,” he said. He said in the evening, the “When I became the chief “Goraksh Peeth is a religious chief minister would inaugurate minister, the first meeting I peeth but it is not only limited the 320-bed ultra modern hos- took was with the health officials to rituals. The peeth connects pital building of the King on encephalitis. Experts from people with service of mankind George’s Medical University across the country were asked to and guides the followers to do (KGMU) in Lucknow. chip in with their suggestion. their duties with devotion and Both these hospitals will The National Institute of dedication,” he said. have the latest medical facilities Virology at Pune was contacted The function was attended for the COVID-19 patients. In and was asked to set up its satel- by Mahant of Digambar Akhara the new KGMU hospital, lite centre in Gorakhpur,” Yogi Mahant Suresh Das, local law- there will be 100 exclusive ICU said. “I have seen small children makers Ravi Kishan, Kamlesh beds. die or some of them who sur- Paswan, Shiv Pratap Shukla, State Medical Education vived become mentally retard- Sheetal Pandey, Vipin Singh, Minister Suresh Kumar Khanna ed after the Japanese encephali- Rakesh Singh Baghel, Mayor will be present during both the tis attack. My personal experi- Sitaram Jaiswal and others. inaugurations. 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Lucknow (PNS): Chief Minister Yogi Gaya and Kushinagar. This will give an impetus Adityanath said that construction of an interna- to tourism,” Yogi said and added that the state gov- tional airport at Kushinagar would speed up ernment was committed to extending all help to tourism in this region which in turn would usher the companies. in development in the eastern Uttar Pradesh. The airport was given a status of internation- The chief minister along with Union al airport last month and subsequently directives Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri were issued to speed up the construction. The offi- reviewed the ongoing construction of the cers were asked to complete the construction by international airport in Kushinagar. This will September 30. be the fourth international airport in Uttar “Prime Minister Narendra Modi is striving to Pradesh. Lucknow and Varanasi already have improve air connectivity in the country and we international airports while work is in progress are thankful to the Union government for giving at Jewar. international status to the airport in Kushinagar,” “Kushinagar is the gateway of Buddhist cir- the chief minister said. cuit and we can expect tourists from far-flung Yogi also held a meeting with the local admin- areas like Sri Lanka, Thailand, Myanmar and istration. UP’s Civil Aviation Minister Nand Gopal Cambodia to come and visit the places of Gupta ‘Nandi’ was also present during the Buddhism like Sarnath, Shravasti, Lumbini, inspection. A D%C3 O

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hile releasing an e-book of Bharatiya Janata Party, WChief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that the service millions of party cadre rendered to the people during lockdown was unparalleled in the political history of the country. The e-book, titled ‘Sewa hi sangathan’, narrates the help that the BJP workers extended to the people when lockdown was imposed across the state to contain the spread of coronavirus infection. It was released by at a function held at BJP state headquarters here on Sunday. The digital book has clippings of newspapers and pictures of party workers extending help to the poor, the migrant workers and the youth by distributing food grains, clothes, footwear and cooked food among the needy. “When people were fleeing because of the pandemic, the BJP workers, without fearing for their lives, came out on the streets to help the poor and the needy. When people were marching towards their homes, the party workers were distributing food among them. This was the example of Nar Sewa, Narain Sewa,” Yogi Adityanath said. He said when history would be written about this pandemic, the contribution of BJP workers would be remembered. He said the e-book would give inspiration to the people about the work being done by the party workers. BJP state president Swatantra Dev Singh said that lockdown was an unprecedented time. He said when leaders of opposition parties were playing politics on social media, the BJP workers were extending help to the needy. “To ensure that no one slept without meal, the party distributed 4.32 crore food packets, 40.54 lakh ration kits and 90.40 lakh face masks among the people. Besides, the party distributed footwear to 47,000 people and opened relief centres at 185 places,” the BJP state chief said, adding that this was the magnitude of the relief work extended by the party workers to the masses. Senior BJP leaders, including Sunil Bansal, also addressed the people.

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Srivastava of Triveni Nagar, who is a he Health department will be alert mode and each and every had also imparted advance train- Police said they sent the body for teacher at a primary school, got a call Tstrengthening the monitoring Covid patient was being taken ing to veterinary doctors. The autopsy and investigation was underway. from some unidentified miscreant who of people coming into Lucknow care of. Singh said that the training was imparted because in The labourer, Birju Paswan (27) of introduced himself as Zahir Ansari. He from other parts of the state and doorstep screening was on and case there is a situation when one Samastipur in Bihar, was engaged in con- told Rachna that he was sending a par- country for containing the spread rapid response teams, besides falls short of doctors, these vet- struction work at the apartment. The cel to her and Rachna said she never of virus. CMO incharge MK conducting door-to-door sur- erinary doctors can be inducted. SHO said Birju fell down while work- placed any order. Zahir asked Rachna to Singh said the testing teams were veillance, were also busy contact- He said he had also trained high- ing on the fourth floor around 10:30 am send him details of her account details at bus & railway stations and air- tracing, testing and distributing er secondary and secondary edu- and was rushed to Ram Manohar Lohia so that he could cancel the order. Rachna port, the places which witness the medicines. About rural nigrani cation teachers so that if gov- Hospital where he was declared brought gave her details to the caller and after a influx of a large number of peo- samitis, he said they were look- ernment takes over any hostel for dead. Fellow labourers blamed it on the while, she got a message regarding with- ple. This system will be further ing after rural areas allotted to isolating people, these teachers lack of safety measures. drawal of cash from her bank account. strengthened. He said the teams them and those included ANMs should have basic knowledge. were checking people arriving at and ASHA workers appointed Meanwhile, head of the Lucknow through thermal scan- per thousand houses, which Dietetics department at Ram ners and Ivermectin tablets were means a population of 2,000. Manohar Lohia Hospital, also being given to them. The “They are also on high alert Poonam Tewari said they were CMO said the teams were called mode,” he added. % * " scientifically designing the diet fever help desk teams. Meanwhile, Balrampur + and menu of the patients at the The official further said that Hospital felicitated its Covid Covid hospital. the infection was spreading in the warriors, including microbiolo- in their areas of duty which of Atal Bihari Medical University “We have different sets of diet district, primarily because of gist Tehseen, staff nurse Gita, Dr many are afraid of. Their contri- AK Singh said that a task force plans to cater to the dietary people coming from outside. Vishnu and lab technician Suneel bution cannot also be cate- would be formed. It will include needs of various types of patients. “People from all 74 districts of the and BL Gupta among others. gorised under gender basis and is SGPGI director and vice-chan- We have formulated menus keep- state come for treatment and give Director Dr Rajeev Lochan said individual-based,” he said. He cellors of KGMU and Atal Bihari ing in mind their extra require- their address as that of Lucknow, they were given certificates and added that they had only felici- Medical University. The task ments along with Covid condi- and hence we have asked the hos- the programme was organised to tated a few, looking into Covid- force will be formed for coordi- tion. Apart from this, critically ill pitals to test them after taking boost their morale and they were 19 conditions and that everyone nation of the policies of state gov- Covid patients in ICU are also their Aadhaar cards so that a dif- felicitated by DG, Medical and on Covid duty would be ernment,” he added. About the given formula feeds so as to ferentiation could be made as to Health Services, DS Negi. felicitated. Covid-related works which he meet their nutritional needs,” how many of them are from out- “They have worked very hard Meanwhile, Vice-Chancellor has already accomplished, he she said. !"# $ %&!#(!) #

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$ 2 3;)) , 7)8+ for treatment. The govern- sub-standard material. On a him to initiate legal proceed- , 7)8+ fort and safety. It can be easily ment had also sanctioned a report submitted by UPRNN ings. Sources said that the accessed online by commuters,” nder the government’s budget of Rs 200 crore for the Finance Advisor BK Prabhakar, Noida-based company, ucknow Metro is all set to he added. Upolicy of zero tolerance medical college. During con- a probe was ordered under Universal Construction, got Lresume operations from According to the guidelines towards corruption, Deputy struction of the medical col- Additional Project Manager the contract for constructing Monday after lockdown. On of Union Ministry of Housing Chief Minister Keshav Prasad lege building, there were sev- Maninder Srivastava. After the medical college in Sunday, UPMRC managing and Urban Affairs, UP Metro Maurya on Sunday suspend- eral reports of use of sub-stan- Srivastava submitted his find- Bahraich. The company director Kumar Keshav show- has prepared SOPs for train ed four officials of Uttar dard material as well as cor- ings, the same were forwarded appointed Lalit Pundeer as cased to mediapersons the operations highlighting various Pradesh Rajkiya Nirman ruption. After reports of swin- to Maurya, who holds the the project manager and he facilities which they have cre- important aspects related to Nigam (UPRNN) after finding dling of Rs 14 crore by some PWD portfolio. The govern- was looking after purchase of ated for safe travel amidst the commuter safety and security. large-scale irregularities in officials came to the knowl- ment also got the matter materials and arrangement of coronavirus pandemic. “Metro will operate as ear- the construction of a medical edge of Maurya, he suspend- probed by a special audit team manpower. “Lucknow Metro is city’s lier from September 7 college in Bahraich having a ed four UPRNN officials and of the Finance Department. Project Manager Girish pride and provides the best pas- (Monday), from 6 am to 10 pm. budget of Rs 200 crore. ordered a probe against a Sources said that on the Chandra Chaturvedi claimed senger service. It is the most Sixteen trains will run at an Maurya also ordered a probe retired accountant. The basis of the joint report, that he had earlier noticed that secure form of urban transport interval of 5 minutes 30 sec- against one of the retired UPRNN is the official agency Maurya ordered suspension the Universal Company was system which not only saves onds. The trains will stop at accountants. constructing the Swashasi of Project Manager Girish using substandard material time but is also cost-effective. every station and mask is Sources said the state gov- Rajkiya Medical College in Chandra Chaturvedi, junior and was involved in corruption While people have to incur mandatory which will be pro- ernment had acquired agri- Bahraich. engineer RS Yadav, and two and had sent a report is this huge costs for maintaining vided in case any passenger for- cultural land in Bahraich to It had come to the knowl- other senior officers, HP Bhatt regard to the government. He their personal vehicles, metro gets to bring it. Arogya Setu is construct a medical college edge of the deputy chief engi- and VK Singh. said a probe was also con- journey nullifies the possibili- recommended and not manda- there to strengthen health neer that engineers and con- Accountant Pradeep ducted on his complaint but ties of bearing any maintenance ,$ - - !! tory for commuters to regularly care facilities in the area so tractors engaged in the work Agarwal was also found guilty still action was being taken costs and promises positive ! ! check and update status. In case that the local people were not had joined hands to siphon off but as he has already retired, a against him along with other and peaceful travel experience. any person doesn’t carry smart- forced to come to Lucknow the government fund by using probe has bee ordered against officers. It decreases carbon foot prints tion, social distancing, hygiene for token sanitisation ensuring phone, their names and num- in the environment and and cleanliness. full passenger safety and cash- bers will be noted down. improves air quality,” Keshav “Various rigorous steps less facility of multiple tokens Temperature of every com- said. have been undertaken to and tickets with GoSmart muter will be recorded at the * + UPMRC officials said ensure a smooth, safe, secure cards,” the official said. entry point. Commuters are Lucknow Metro is the safest, and convenient commuting “Markings for social dis- advised to avoid carrying Lucknow (PNS): A month the photograph of the school’s did not know about it. A probe asked for some pictures from most comfortable, affordable, experience to the passengers. tancing have been done on metal items in trains to facil- after an Instagram chat group biology teacher, which he used has been ordered and it is the children. However, it was hygienic and reliable mode of Total contactless travel with a alternate seats to maintain suf- itate contactless frisking. Two ‘Bois Locker Room’ came to in the group’s DP, as well as all being handled by the cyber not clear what kind of pictures Mass Rapid Transit System GoSmart card will be ensured. ficient gap between passengers gates will be functional nor- light, now a Biology WhatsApp the phone numbers,” a police crime team.” The principal of he was asking for. This comes (MRTS), as compared to other A GoSmart user enjoys a total inside train. Frequently mally at every metro station group for class 10th students of officer said. The probe has the school said, “We had a month after an Instagram means of public transport sys- contactless travel right from touched areas inside trains will with no separate gates for a private school in Baghpat has been handed over to UP received a complaint. The chat group ‘Bois Locker Room’ tem. With the ‘Adopt Metro for entering stations and boarding be sanitised regularly. All com- entry and exit. It’s mandatory been found filled with porno- Police’s cyber cell, he said. WhatsApp account was fake came to light, wherein rapes your convenience and safety’ train to exiting the premises. mon contact points will also be to sanitise hands and sanitis- graphic material. Circle Officer of Badaut and was created with a foreign were glorified and photos of mantra, Lucknow Metro is The automatic sensor of AFC sanitised regularly,” he said. er will be available at every The police said that the area, Alok Singh, said, “Some number. We have informed underage girls shared and they restarting its train operations gates detects the card from a “UPMRC has developed a gate. Metro trains and station person who created the chat vulgar pictures and videos were the police.” were objectified. The incident for people of Lucknow, they distance without tapping it. A detailed business continuity premises will be sanitised at group used an international posted on the WhatsApp group The chat screenshots had hit the headlines after a girl said. A senior official said spe- GoSmart card user comes in plan encompassing all the safe- regular intervals to ensure number to evade detection. named ‘Biology group Class 10’. shared by a few parents pur- from South Delhi shared a cial emphasis was being laid on contact only with train seats. ty measures, instructions and maximum safety of passen- “But it appears to be the The group had the display pic- portedly showed that the per- screenshot of the group chat on on contactless travel, sanitisa- We are using UV technology regulations for passenger com- gers,” he added. work of some insider as he had ture of the biology teacher, who son using the number even social media. )# 3

, 7)8+ the DCBs with the apex coop- urgent need to merge these co- offering deposit facilities. The pended the refinance facility to erative bank in their respective operative banks for sustain- DCBs, which get the refinance several DCBs following their he Uttar Pradesh govern- states. ability, since they had already from the National Agriculture failure to meet the credit recov- Tment is mulling a propos- Most of the DCBs are been running in huge losses, Bank for Rural Development ery targets. Several DCBs were al to merge all the district struggling for survival due to while the lockdown had led to (NABARD) gradually failed to restrained by the NABARD , 7)8+ did not attend calls and it dip in the river near cooperative banks (DCBs) with poor credit recovery. Amid a further deterioration of their match up to modern banking. from conducting the normal made me apprehensive,” she Thakurganj pumping station. the apex cooperative banking the ongoing process of consol- financial condition. Meanwhile, the process to banking operations like dis- private company employ- told the police. She said she The group moved to the body the ‘UP Cooperative idation in the public sector The panel’s report has rec- recapitalise and modernise bursing credit and accepting Aee was found hanging at reached the house and found middle and Nizamuddin start- Bank’. banks by the Centre, the expert ommended a composite action these co-operative banks had deposits under Banking his house in Thakurganj on Tabrez hanging. The police ed to drown. His friends tried The proposed ‘UP panel has suggested creation of plan for the post-merger capi- been underway already, with Regulations Act, 1949. Sunday. As per reports, the sent the body for autopsy start- to save him unsuccessfully and Cooperative Bank’, created after a single state controlled lender tal requirements of the co- the state earlier announcing to In 2019, the UP govern- man, identified as Tabrez Khan ed further investigation. He was later called his family. On being the merger, will comprise more in the cooperative sector in the operative banks, deposit mobil- infuse fresh capital into 16 ail- ment had raised concerns over aka Ravi (29) of Newazganj, a private company employee informed, a police team than 1,000 branches with a bal- state by merging all the DCBs isation, staff restructuring etc. ing DCBs operating in the rising non-performing was found hanging from the and is survived by wife and son. reached the scene. ance sheet of nearly Rs 35,000 with the UPCB. Over the past decades, the Faizabad, Shravasti, Allahabad, assets (NPAs) and poor loan ceiling with a dupatta tied Meanwhile, an18-year-old Sub-inspector Awanish crore, which could even grow “Our report has been sub- district co-operative banks Sitapur, Hardoi, Azamgarh, recovery of the DCBs and had around his neck. He was spot- boy drowned while his fellows Singh said the drivers pulled to more than Rs 50,000 crore in mitted to the state govern- (DCBs) with the attached state- Fatehpur, Gorakhpur, Basti, directed the Registrar of ted hanging first by his wife, were rescued when they were out Nizamuddin from the river the next five years with a mod- ment for taking the final call on wide network of primary agri- Ballia, Siddharthnagar, Deoria, Cooperative Societies to Shaima Khan of Laulai village taking a dip in the Gomti river and he was taken to KGMU erate growth rate of 8 per cent. the proposed merger,” a mem- culture cooperative societies Sultanpur, Jaunpur, Ghazipur analyse the reason for the bur- in Chinhat. in Thakurganj police station Trauma Centre where he was The Yogi Adityanath gov- ber of the panel said and added, (PACS) have been the cheapest and Bahraich districts. geoning NPAs and take imme- Shaima told the police that area on Sunday afternoon. declared brought dead. ernment, soon after coming to “The COVID-19 lockdown vehicle for the disbursement In the past, these 16 DCBs diate measures, while fixing the Tabrez had gone to drop her As per reports, six youths, Deceased’s family told the power in March 2017, had had delayed the whole process,” and recovery of agricultural had been served notices by the accountability. At the end of mother-in-law to Ghatampur identified as Dilsher (19), police that Nizamuddin did not taken up the task of revival of There is proposal to merge credit. The DCBs with the net- Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for September 2018, the coopera- (Kanpur) on Saturday and Mohammed Faizan (19), know how to swim. They sus- the DCBs and had set up an UP Cooperative Bank (UPCB), work of PACS in each district, failing to adhere to the finan- tive banks in UP had a branch returned to his house in Mohammed Niaz (16), pected that Nizamuddin was expert committee to suggest the UP Sahkari Gram Vikas Bank once provided efficient service cial and licensing norms. network of 1,589 with deposits Thakurganj the same night. She Mohammed Dilshad (17), lured into taking a dip in the measures. Several states like (UPSGVB) and 50 district co- in the rural hinterland by pro- However, the licences were and advances of Rs 16,750 said she had a talk with Tabrez Mohammed Furqan (16) and river. The police said they con- Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and operative banks (DCBs). viding timely short-terms crop given to them later. crore and Rs 13,513 crore, over the phone. “He was under Nizamuddin (18) — all of ducting a probe into the alle- Telangana have already merged He noted there was an loans to the farmers apart from The NABARD had sus- respectively. mental duress. On Sunday, he Kakori — had gone to take a gations. ,' !- . +

4 9; The number of active cases in the dis- cent. reopen schools and the historical ticularly south-bound. trict is 598. Health department officials said monuments immediately. Health activists in the city, how- , 7)8+ health centre on Friday after- ith 87 fresh Covid-19 cases in District Magistrate P.N. Singh 320 samples from 10 spots were col- Only the Taj Mahal and the ever, expressed concern over the noon from where she was Wthe past 24 hours, the total num- said the total number of samples collected on Saturday as part of the Agra Fort are presently closed. increasing complacency displayed akhimpur Kheri was rocked referred to the district hospital ber has now gone up to 3,291 in the lected for testing is now 1,30,530. The three-day Sero-survey in the dis- The DRM office has indicated by the locals who have been flock- Lby yet another mysterious where she died. Taj city. While 2,584 have recovered recovery rate is 78.52 per cent, while trict. that scores of trains would resume ing the markets without masks and death of a 14-year-old girl. The family then submitted and there have been 109 deaths so far. the sample positivity rate is 2.52 per Meanwhile, there are no plans to operations from September 12, par- violating social distancing norms. Her body was found hanging a complaint that she had been from the thatched roof of a raped by the two accused. A house on Sunday morning. video of the alleged crime had This is the fourth such incident also been made and it was reported over four weeks in the allegedly uploaded on social district. media. This led the minor to ;-*8)@*((*(!8 Chakrborty also, as there are specific roles/ingre- that the Supreme Court ordered the transfer of in the attack. Lakhimpur Kheri SP take the extreme step, said dients of conspiracy theory, abetments and var- the Sushant Singh Rajput death case to the CBI Later, Additional SP Arun Kumar Singh said, Satendra Kumar Singh, ASP Ashok Kumar Meena, SP ; 9*, ious attempts to commit offences”. on August 19. Rhea, her parents, her brother and “On a complaint of Nirvendra Kumar Mishra’s Arun Kumar Singh and Mitauli (Rural) at Saharanpur. The remand application had also given indi- others have been booked as part of this FIR son, an FIR is being registered against the CO Shitanshu Kumar rushed to As per the complaint, the “We have recorded Rhea Chakraborty’s cations about the NCB’s line of investigations, under sections 341 (wrongful restraint) 342 accused.” The body has been sent for post- the spot after receiving infor- minor had been allegedly raped statement. But, because of her late arrival when the agency stated that “the financial trail (wrongful confinement, 380 (theft), 406 (breach mortem to ascertain the cause of death and mation about the incident and under a criminal conspiracy by today, the investigation could not be complet- of all their previous transactions of drug pur- of trust),420 (cheating), 306 (abetting suicide) efforts are being made to nab the perpetrators, carried out preliminary inves- the accused, identified only as ed. So, she has been summoned tomorrow as chase has to be verified.... Further some char- and 120-B (conspiracy) of the Indian Penal he said. ADG (Lucknow Zone) SN Sabat later tigations. The officials also Nauman and Rehbar. well,” NCB’s Zonal Director, Sameer Wankhede acters are to be verified, who as per CDR analy- Code. The CBI, ED and NCB are investigating told reporters that two persons have been talked to the parents and other “They made a video of the said. sis, WhatsApp chat and preliminary interroga- the case from different angles. detained by police for questioning, and inves- family members of the girl, the crime. They told her that if she Earlier in the morning, an NCB team - com- tion are deeply entrenched in the drug traf- tigation is going on. Mishra had represented the police said. The cause of the told anyone about the incident, prising among others Wankhede and a lady offi- ficking, which is a serious threat to public safe- ;3@O((8',*'9 '*,')*( Nighasan assembly constituency, before delim- girl’s death is yet to be ascer- they would upload the video on cial had gone to fetch Rhea from her home at ty and public health”. itation, twice as an Independent in 1989 and tained. Police said the body had social media. When she refused PrimRose Apartments at Juhu-Santacruz. While seeking the custody of Showik and 9')(!A%*;@8*( 1991, and on a Samajwadi Party ticket in 1993. been sent for autopsy and the advances of the accused However the actress opted to go in her own car Samuel, the NCB had also made a startling claim He is survived by his son and three daugh- appropriate action would be later, they leaked the video. along with a Mumbai Police escort. in its remand application filed before a metro- Official logos of the department are not sup- ters. The death of the former Uttar Pradesh MLA taken after the report came. Fearing humiliation, she con- That Rhea’s family was reconciled to the pos- politan court here on Saturday that the “drug posed to be posted on social media as they are led to opposition parties asking the BJP gov- This is the second death of sumed poison,” the complaint sibility of the actress being arrested during the angle” in the Sushant death case “is highly sub- legally protected and should not appear on force ernment in the state to act tough on the mat- a girl in Neemgaon police sta- filed by the family said. course of her questioning could be evidenced stantive” and “needs to be investigated thor- personnel’s posts or social media sites. ter. tion limits since August 25. The victim did not tell the from the statements made by her father Indrajit oughly so as to uproot the drug citadel in Specific travel plans or geo-tagged photos, Lakhimpur Kheri district family about the incident fear- Chakraborty and lawyer Satish Maneshinde Mumbai especially in Bollywood”. videos or any other content should not be post- *)**;(+' was in the news recently when ing backlash, her relatives said. ahead of her joining the investigations at the Showik’s involvement emerged after the ed anywhere on the Internet. They are not even a 17-year-old Dalit girl was “Minutes before her death, I NCB. Accusing the investigating agencies of NCB Mumbai and New Delhi teams on August supposed to access social media sites from the 7*(B)))88;* found dead outside her village. requested the police to record “effectively demolishing” his family (“a middle- 28 arrested Abbas R Lakhani and Karn V Arora official computers/Internet/WiFi. She was allegedly raped and her statement since I wanted to class family”), Lt Col (retd) Indrajit said: from old Kurla and Chandivali, Powai, each with In addition, the personnel have been advised The family-run mutt belongs to the lineage murdered after she left home to record the names of those who “Congratulations India, you have arrested my possession of 46 gms of marijuana/ganja and 13 against bringing their smart phones or tablet of Sri Thotakacharya, one of the first four dis- fill a scholarship application. did this to her,” said a relative. son, I’m sure next on the line is my daughter and gms, respectively. computers (tabs) to critical areas of the office ciples of Adi Shankaracharya. Her mutilated body was found Meanwhile in Mainpuri, a I don’t know who is next thereafter. You have The two alleged drug peddlers disclosed the complexes like conference/meeting rooms or Nani Palkhivala, the legal wizard, wrote in near a dry pond, around 200 minor girl was gang-raped at effectively demolished a middle-class family. But involvement of Zaid Vilatra whose home was operations rooms as per the guidelines issued 1976: “It was held in Kesavananda Bharati’s case metres away from her village in gunpoint. Reports said that a of course, for the sake of justice, everything is raided to unearth Rs 9.50 lakh, USD-2,081, 180 recently on usage of smartphones by the para- (1973) that while Parliament has the power Neemgaon police limits. 15-year-old girl was found justified. Jai Hind.” British Pounds and UAE 15 Dirhams which they military personnel while on duty. under Art 368 to amend any part of the In another incident report- lying in an unconscious state in Simultaneously, Maneshinde caused a flut- confessed were the proceeds of sale of drugs like “Do not write anything out of anger, spite Constitution (including the chapter on funda- ed from Saharanpur, a 17- the bushes on Saturday after- ter in the media by saying that his client Rhea marijuana/ganja/bud to many people in the city. or under the influence of alcohol. Do not be a mental rights) the power cannot be so exercised year-old girl who was alleged- noon. The cops of Kurawali “is ready for arrest as this is a witch hunt and if Vilatra was arrested on September 2 and bully or discriminate against anyone online. Do as to alter or destroy the basic structure or frame- ly raped by two persons last police station shifted her to loving someone is a crime, she will face the con- remanded to custody for 7 days by the same not comment on controversial, sensitive or polit- work of the Constitution; and this ratio was reaf- week allegedly committed sui- hospital where she told them sequences of her love.” court, and during interrogation, he revealed the ical matters,” added the advisory. firmed and applied in Indira Gandhi’s case cide at her residence. that on Friday evening, she left “Being innocent, she has not approached any names of a buyer Abdel Basit Parihar, who was (1975) in which a Constitutional amendment to According to the police, the her home to give cloth for court for anticipatory bail in all the cases foist- arrested on September 3. *F,'*( ;')9 make the Prime Minister’s election to Parliament two accused had filmed the act stitching at a tailor’s shop when ed by Bihar Police now with CBI, ED and NCB,” The role of Rhea’s brother Showik unassailable in a court of law was declared void”. and had been threatening the four miscreants forcibly took Maneshinde said. Chakraborty and his purported links with ! ((,*8B*;,) Kesavananda Baharati made the apex court victim that they would upload her to a secluded place and The statements by Rhea’s father Indrajit and people nabbed by NCB are under the scanner declare that Parliament was only a creature of the video on social media if she gang-raped her at gunpoint. lawyer Maneshinde appeared like an effort on of the NCB. brought dead. No apparent injury was the Constitution. If Parliament had the power told anyone about the incident. She said that later she fainted their party to mount pressure on the NCB to go Rhea, her parents Indrajit and Sandhya detected,” Superintendent of Police (SP) Satendra to destroy the basic structure of the Constitution, The two accused have been and only regained her con- slow on the arrest of the actress. Chakraborty, her brother Showik, Sushaant’s ex- Kumar Singh said. it would cease to be a creature of the Constitution arrested, police disclosed. sciousness in the hospital. A In an application filed before a city court on manager Shruti Manager Shruti Modi and oth- However, the former MLA’s son Sanjiv and become its master, remarked Palkhivala After she consumed some case has been registered and Saturday seeking the remand of Showik and ers have been named in an FIR lodged by the alleged that dozens of people had beaten up his while explaining the judgement by the 13 poisonous substance, the girl efforts are on to nab the Samuel, the NCB had said, “He (Showik) has to actor’s father KK Singh with Rajiv Nagar police father with sticks which led to his death. judge bench which heard the case and pro- was taken to a community culprits. be confronted with Dipesh Sawant and Rhea station in Patna. It was on the basis of this FIR Sanjiv also alleged that he too was injured nounced a 7-6 verdict. !" #$%&%& 6 77 /01 # 23 ed patients are being treated at pm on Friday evening. He had people, railway officers, guards ' ,,-% Covid Care Centre pneumonia with a Covid infec- and cashiers of the Axis Bank (6 Kalindipuram, 47 in Railway tion. He also had difficulty in Civil Lines branch have also uring the last 24 hours, 356 Hospital, 26 in Unani Medical breathing. He died during tested Covid positive. Nodal Dnew patients of Covid were College, 42 in United Medicity, treatment at around 6.30 am. Officer for Corona Dr Rishi Earlier, CMO informed detected in the Prayagraj dis- 58 in Beli Hospital, Sri Sainath The death of three people Sahai gave this information. ' B;)(' that under the mass testing trict here on Saturday. With Vatsalya AMA Hospital. infected with Covid was con- He said that an auditor of campaign, 2,397 were tested this, the number of active Four people, including two firmed by Nodal Officer Dr the AG office was also includ- he district has crossed 9K- through antigen kits at differ- patients has increased to 2,894 women, died of a Covid infec- Rishi Sahai. According to Beli ed in the list of corona infect- Tmark as 141 new Covid-19 ent primary and community in the district. So far, 11,452 tion on Saturday. Three patients Superintendent Dr Sushma ed on Saturday. This includes cases have been detected on health centres (PHCs/ CHCs) infected patients have been admitted to Swaroop Rani Srivastava, a 45-year-old man a doctor from MDI Hospital, Sunday. With this, the total and urban primary health cen- identified for the deadly virus. Nehru Hospital had other seri- of Hanumanganj was brought Superintendent of CHC number of cases has reached tres (UPHCs) in the district a The increasing scope of ous illnesses with Covid infec- to the hospital in critical con- Soraon, an intern of SRN, a 9,063. Besides, the district also day ago. In the urban areas, corona testing in the district is tion. A patient succumbed at dition at around 3.15 pm on senior doctor, a junior doctor. saw four more deaths, increas- such testing was conducted at increasing the number of Beli Hospital. According to Saturday. He had a Covid test The Chief Pharmacist of Colvin ing the toll to 158. During the Chowk, Luxa and infected patients. According SRN Hospital Nodal Officer for done at KP College. When the Hospital and an MBBS student day, the follow-up negative Dashaswamedh police stations, to CMO Dr GS Bajpai, the per- Corona Dr Sujit Verma, a 65- report came positive, he was of Medical College have also reports included 290 patients. Hanuman Phatak police out- centage of those who beat the year-old woman who was advised to be admitted here in been infected, he added. Out of them, 268 patients post, Thatheri, Panchkoshi, corona has also increased referred from a private hospi- SRN Hospital. He died short- According to Nodal Officer recovered from home isolation Bansfatak, Godowlia, among the increasing number tal was admitted on September ly after reaching the hospital. Dr Sahai, a staff nurse of Beli and the total number of . ! 1 Durgakund, Chetganj and of infected. According to Dr 3. He had intestinal disease A 51-year-old man infect- Hospital along with a High patients cured at home has other markets apart from some Bajpai, 66 patients were dis- with a Covid infection. He ed with corona had arrived Court employee has been increased to 4,803 while 22 received were 1,24,909 and the zones have been converted shopping complexes. charged on Saturday from var- died during treatment at here from Kaushambi and died found to be Covid positive. recovered from the hospitals. results of 4,844 are awaited. Out into red zones again. There are Besides, he said that 13,176 ious Covid hospitals and Covid around 6 in the morning due on Saturday afternoon at SRN Branch Manager of Union With this, the total number of of these 1,15,892 were negative, 1,266 green zones including 25 ivermectin tablets were distrib- care centres. At the same time, to a ruptured bowel. Hospital. On the complaint of Bank, a constable posted at patients who have been dis- while 9,017 positive. The total new ones. uted by the Health depart- home isolation of 187 infected The 55-year-old woman, a difficulty in breathing, the Koraon police station, comput- charged from the hospitals has number of samples collected In this belt of Purvanchal ment to 1,647 people. So far, is completed. In this way, 253 resident of Mauaima, was housemates came to admit er operator of MLN Hospital, reached 2,372, while the total was 1,39,773. Earlier, four per- comprising 10 districts of three about 7.41 lakh ivermectin patients have beaten the coro- admitted to the SRN Hospital him. During treatment at superintendent of Sewait rail- number of cured patients is sons succumbed to COVID-19 divisions, 576 were found on tablets have been distributed to na in one day. for treatment of Covid infec- around 1 o’clock in the after- way station, chief commercial 7,175, leaving 1,730 active including three at SSH BHU. Saturday, increasing the total 92,721 persons in the district There were a total of 2,404 tion on August 31. He had noon Covid infected breathed officer of railway, steno of CO patients. With this, the recov- They were males aged 53, 52 number to 32,336 with the and out of them, 5.58 lakh iver- infected patients in the home severe intestinal disease with his last. Civil Lines, a clerk of labour ery rate has improved to 79.16 and 65 from Phulwariya, maximum number of 187 cases mectin tablets have been dis- isolation on Saturday. A total of high blood pressure. He died The number of paramed- commissioner office, a consta- per cent, while mortality rate to Ramnagar and Assi respec- was found in Varanasi, followed tributed by the Health depart- 421 Covid infected patients on Saturday afternoon due to ical staff along with doctors, ble posted at Phulpur police 1.70 per cent. tively and one male aged 94 by 75 in Sonbhadra, 55 in ment only to 69,825 persons. are admitted in various hospi- infection rising during treat- health workers is increasing station besides more than three Chief Medical Officer from Lahartara died at Medwin Mau, 54 in Jaunpur, 51 in On the second day, under tals. According to Nodal ment. every day due to Covid infec- hundred people have been con- (CMO) Dr VB Singh has Hospital. Ghazipur, 48 in Azamgarh, 42 'sero survey', a total of 351 sam- Officer Dr Rishi Sahai, the In the same context, a 58- tion. These health workers, firmed with Covid infection informed that by the first of the Besides, with the addition in Ballia, 35 in Chandauli, 17 ples were collected from 11 maximum 130 Covid infected year-old man, resident of who are the forefront, are most- including HDO Forestry, day at 11 am, 95 positive of 21 new red zones, the total in Mirzapur and 12 in Bhadohi. locations while 294 were taken patients are admitted to SRN Kydganj, was admitted in crit- ly vulnerable to the deadly Daraganj’s ANM and ADEE patients were detected out of number of hotspots has Jaunpur has become the third on the first day. During the first Hospital at L3 level. 88 infect- ical condition at around 7.30 virus.. Along with the common Railway. 1,284 reports received. Till increased to 1,625 including district with 4K-plus cases after two days, 645 samples were col- then, the total test reports 359 red zones. Three green Varanasi and Ballia. lected from 22 places. 5 , -") * . P / / ' ,,-%

' B;)(' he Madras Hotel near the THigh Court owned by oint Secretary, Union Atique Ahmed’s brother-in- JMinistry of Health and law Imran was demolished on Family Welfare, Vikas Sheel vis- Saturday evening. PDA officials ited Sevapuri development during investigations had block selected by NITI Aayog found that the hotel was built for a special drive to see the illegally on Nazul’s land. So it progress of National was decided that the hotel Tuberculosis Eradication would be demolished. Programme (NTEP) there on In the presence of a heavy Saturday. After the visit, he police force, the teams of reviewed the progress made in Prayagraj Development NTEP at a meeting attended by Authority (PDA), Municipal District Magistrate (DM) Corporation and Revenue Kaushal Raj Sharma, Chief Department carried out the Medical Officer (CMO) Dr demolition action. It took VB Singh, officers of Child almost a full day to demolish Development and Nutrition the firmly built Madras Hotel. department and representa- After the attachment of more tives of various organisations than a dozen properties of including Micro Save, Tata 0 1 1 Atique, the demolition action Trust, UNICEF and WHO. has stirred the gang. Vikas Sheel instructed the Teams of the Revenue officers that special attention ferred to the bank account of proper training should be Officer Dr Rakesh Kumar Department, PDA and should be paid to identify the every TB patient under the imparted to ASHA and Singh informed that 16 TB Municipal Corporation were al police stations and PAC, the till 8.30 in the evening. are identified were paniced as tuberculosis (TB) patients Nutrition Scheme. He also Anganwadi workers,’ he added. units, 83 microscopy centres formed along with the police to Zonal Officer of PDA and CO Significantly, the police to whether their property under NTEP timely during directed the officers to make all CMO informed that a total (all community, primary, locate the famous ‘benami Civil Lines Ajit Singh reached have launched an action plan would be demolished. The the proposed 10-day campaign health and wellness centres of of 106 teams have been consti- selected additional primary properties’ of the Atique the spot and after the arrival of for tightening the assets of gang members were taking to be launched in Sevapuri Sevapuri fully functional and tuted for searching for active health centers and urban pri- Ahmed gang. After the PDA ACM Prem Chandra, demoli- Atique and his gang some time information from their sources block from Monday provide training to the commu- TB patients in Sevapuri block mary health centres) and 685 team investigated the Madras tion operations started. ago. Before this, properties in the police administration. (September 7 to 17). ‘Regular nity health officers (CHOs) during the forthcoming cam- DOTS centres are working to Hotel, it was ascertained that The two-storey building worth crores have been To recall, Atique’s brother- treatment of the patients should posted at the centres for paign and in this direction, five make the district TB-free by Atique’s brother-in-law Imran, of the Madras Hotel, the newly attached in Dhumanganj, in-law Imran also lives in be ensured by the doctors and improving the quality of officers have been deployed at 2025. Besides, there are two a resident of Chakia, had built office and the shop next Khuldabad and Civil lines. The Chakia in his neighborhood. paramedical staff and their human resources and behav- district level apart from 21 nodal DRTB centres including manipulated the documents to it, were demolished by bar- DM has ordered attachment of He was booked for kidnapping data should also be uploaded iour change in the communi- supervisors. ‘These teams will 14-bed at Sir Sunderlal Hospital and built the hotel on Najul’s ricading on both sides near the six more properties of Atique. Zaid and taking him to Deoria on the concerned portal of the ty. visit the village to find TB (SSH) at Banaras Hindu land. High Court. The action contin- Soon they will also be attached. jail. Apart from this, there are Health department,’ he said, At the meeting, the DM patients and further screening University (BHU) and 20-bed When the report was sub- ued till the night. The Madras No one was aware of the many cases against Imran. directing the officers to carry instructed that all the CHOs of TB will be done if initial at Lal Bahadur Shastri Hospital, mitted to the District Hotel was divided into two police, administration and Imran has been absconding out health and nutrition relat- should upload the daily reports symptoms are found during Ramnagar. For quick identifi- Magistrate, orders were given parts. One building was three PDA’s action till morning. As since the start of action on the ed activities in the block in a on the portal in time and all the contact with the households. cation of MDR patients, three to dismantle it then and there. storeys and one was two soon as the Madras Hotel was Atique gang. The police have better way. schemes and activities of the On confirmation of TB disease, CB-NAT machines have been Police and PDA teams reached storeys. Both buildings were demolished in the evening, declared a reward of Rs 25,000 Besides, he also asked the Health department relating to the patient will be ensured installed in the district at IMS on the spot on Saturday demolished. Zonal Officer Sat this thing spread like wildfire on his head. A few days ago a officers that during treatment, malnutrition, adolescent girls free treatment for a prescribed BHU, SSPG Divisional Hospital evening. In a short time, along Shukla said that the action in the city. Among the mem- history sheet of his brother was the prescribed amount of 500 and sanitation, should be period,’ he added. and Pandit Deendayal with four JCBs, force of sever- started from 4 pm and lasted bers of the gang whose assets also opened. every month should be trans- worked in quality. ‘For this, District Tuberculosis Upadhyaya State Hospital. 6 4 #

Ghazipur. In Ballia, it was ' B;)(' recorded at 58.06 metres 3 against a red mark of 57.61 fter posing threat of flood, metres and it is expected that Athe river Ganga has start- by Monday morning, the same ed receding and during the last will come down to 57.65 ' ,,-% inner ring road in the first through inhouse efforts. As on Ventilators, exclusive x ray 24 hours, its water level has fall- metres. phase. The aim of the officers 5.09.20 total 600 formal and machine, 20 water dispensers & en fast as by Sunday morning, In this part of Purvanchal fresh proposal has been behind this is to not let the informal training programmes 1 new water cooler have been it came down to 68.07 metres. (eastern UP), generally flood is Asent to the state govern- work of the inner ring road be on sanitisation and informa- provided. Besides augmenting During the last one day, its level seen during late rainy season ment to start work on the affected due to lack of budget tion, education and communi- resources in COVID-19 ward, was declined by 56 centimetres, when huge water comes from most ambitious Inner Ring in the corona era. cation (IEC) have been organ- 7 ICU beds and 5 beds in triage indicating that the falling was Chambal and other rivers Road project of Sangam city in NHAI officials said that ised on NCR to equip our med- ward have been provided in 2.33 cms per hour as it was through Yamuna. Though the the corona era. The new initia- this will also start work on the ical professionals and other non Covid portion of Central recorded at 68.63 metres a day possibilities of flood have yet tive has started in this direction Inner Ring Road and the gov- front-line staff with requisite Hospital Prayagraj to ensure ago. However, despite the not ruled out completely, see- after the meeting of Deputy ernment will not have to bear knowledge on novel disease. unhindered medical attention downtrend, in Ballia the river ing the weather conditions in Chief Minister Keshav Prasad any additional burden. Screening of Railway employ- to non covid patients. Besides is still flowing above the red some northern parts of the Maurya with Union Road and According to officials, both ees, their family members and standard arrangements like mark and it is expected that by country, the continuation of Transport Minister Nitin the Inner Ring Road and Six other beneficiaries of Railway screening, sanitisation, social Monday afternoon, it will come declining trend would give a lot Gadkari. Lane Bridge projects are big medical services have been distancing etc. at all work- down below the danger level 2 3 1 of relief to the farmers, who are According to the new pro- budget. It is estimated to cost intensified; and as on 5.09.20 places to contain COVID-19 there. largely depending on their posal, it has been asked to start over 5000 crore on the inner more than 12800 persons have spread; Standby control room According to the report of Yamuna have started declining respectively and the same trend paddy crops this season due to construction on this project in ring road and more than 2000 been examined in 5 separate parallel to main control room the local office of Central prior to their confluence at was seen at all the places till losing of their part-time non- a phased manner, so that no crore in the construction of the clinics being run to examine has been established in the all Water Commission (CWC), Sangam (Prayagraj) at downstream Ballia including agriculture jobs due to problem could crop up over the six lane bridge. Along with the persons with fever and symp- three divisions i.e. Prayagraj, both the rivers Ganga and Phaphamau and Allahabad Mirzapur, Varanasi and COVID-19 pandemic. lack of budget. Four days ago development of green belts on toms like COVID-19. Jhansi and Agra to ensure in Delhi, Deputy CM Keshav both sides of the inner ring Augmenting COVID-19 uninterrupted train operations Prasad Maurya had discussed road, new townships will also treatment facilities both in event of suspension of main with Union Road Transport be settled. Railway COVID-19 hospitals control for sanitisation etc. and Highways Minister Nitin NCR STAFF WORKING i.e. Divisional Railway Hospital due to COVID-19. These con- 4 4 Gadkari to start important TIRELESSLY : Railway men Jhansi and Central Hospital trol rooms have been equipped projects for the Inner Ring and women of North Central Prayagraj have been upgraded with all communication and Road project and Six lane Railway are working tirelessly to Level-2 COVID-19 care control equipment to handle ' B;)(' and sports in their daily lives. proper role in the overall devel- circulating area of the railway bridge construction. to ensure uninterrupted trans- facility with requisite augmen- train operation activities. The Prime Minister Narendra opment of the country. station and culminated at sta- Subsequently, NHAI has port of goods and passengers tation of infrastructure, doctors Providing additional safeguard nder the Fit India Modi had launched the move- Apart from the railway tion premises through Mall stepped up the initiative to take across the length and breadth and other paramedical staff to passengers against this pan- UMovement, the Lucknow ment on the National Sports officers and employees, the Godown and GT Road. The this project forward. Now a of the country. Besides main- thus adding total 200 beds of demic; COVID-19 safety kit Division of Northern Railway Day on August 29, 2019. international and national level participating railway employees proposal has been sent to com- taining essential transport ser- level-2 treatment facility. In sales point at Prayagraj Jn.and (NR) on Sunday organised Fit The Fit India Freedom players who had represented were advised to adopt physical plete the inner road project in vices, NCR has also taken August-20, total 187 patients Kanpur Central stations, kiosk India Freedom Run at Varanasi Run was organised at above- India in various games includ- activities and exercises in their a phased manner. Under the series of steps for augmenting requiring attention in level-2 for mask, sanitiser etc. at Jhansi Cantt Railway Station here. It mentioned railway station with ing hockey, cricket, basketball daily life to remain healthy and new proposal, in the first phase, medical infrastructure and hospital i.e. 148 in Central and Gwalior stations and lug- may be said here, the Fit India an aim to make the railway and volleyball in past and are fit. The Run was organised fol- the Inner Ring Road has been resources to fight COVID-19 hospital Prayagraj and 39 in gage sanitisation and wrap- Movement is a nationwide ini- employees and their family presently working in this divi- lowing the guidelines of planned to merge from Rewa pandemic in an effective man- Railway hospital Jhansi have ping facility at Agra and tiative of the Ministry of Youth members healthy and fit sion of railway as employees COVID-19. Additional Road to Naini, Arail, Jhunsi ner. Moving ahead from face been admitted. Improving facil- Mathura stations have been Affairs to encourage people to through physical activities such also participated in the five Divisional Rail Manager of and Andawa in Sahaso bypass. cover and sanitiser produc- ities in COVID-19 care ward of provided under new innova- remain healthy and fit by as run and physical exercises so kilometre long run. Varanasi Ravi Prakash In this new proposal, it is said tion, NCR has already prepared Jhansi divisional hospital; 20 tion non fare revenue idea including physical activities that they could ensure their The Run began from the Chaturvedi led the Run . to start construction of a 27 km approximately 12000 coveralls ICU Fowler beds, 6 Static scheme (NINFRIS). !"#$%&%& 8 8 3%& $ %"&.&! $(% 4 9 8PSS@TQPI9@IU $' ()#* Jn. Shatabdi Special Train - Daily Special Train, 01108 Manduadih - Gwalior Bundelkhand Special s per the instructions issued by the Railway Train - daily special train, 01107 Gwalior- ' 7)3 ; ABoard, the movement of 13 pairs of special Manduwadih Bundelkhand Special Train- daily trains will be started from/via North Eastern special train, 02670 Chhapra-Chennai Special Train istrict Magistrate Alok ' 7)3 ; Railway (NER) from September 12. Coaches will - bi-weekly (Monday, Wednesday), 02669 Chennai DTiwari on Sunday set up a be attached in them like regular trains. All coach- - Chhapra Special Train - bi-weekly (Monday, three-member committee to ystery shrouds the death es in these trains will be of reserved category, Saturday). The special trains passing through NER probe into the deaths of five Mof a youth who was being CPRO PK Singh said. The special trains origi- and their frequency:- 05909 Dibrugarh - Lalgarh COVID-19 patients in quick secretly cremated by the fam- nating from NER and their frequency are as fol- Special Train - daily special train, 05910 Lalgarh succession in Kanshiram ily members in Rasoolabad lows:- 05004 Gorakhpur - Kanpur Anwarganj - Dibrugarh Special Train - daily special train, Hospital and warned the hos- police station area of Kanpur Special Train - daily special train, 05003 Kanpur 05933 Dibrugarh-Amritsar Special Train- Weekly pital management of stern Dehat on Saturday night. Anwarganj - Gorakhpur Special Train - daily spe- (Tuesday), 05934 Amritsar-Dibrugarh Special action if any violation of Covid However, the police came cial train, 02571 Gorakhpur-Delhi Humsafar Train- Weekly (Friday), 09051 Balsad- protocol or irregularity was to know about the suspicious Special Train - Four days a week (Wednesday, Muzaffarpur Shramik Special Train- Weekly detected. death of the 30-year-old youth, Friday, Saturday and Sunday), 02572 Delhi- (Saturday), 09052 Muzaffarpur-Valsad Shramik He directed the committee Anil Kumar, and took the body Gorakhpur Humsafar Special Train- Four days Special Train - Weekly (Monday), 04723 Kanpur- to submit its report within 12 into custody from the burning a week (Monday, Thursday, Saturday and Bhiwani Special Train- daily special train, 04724 hours. pyre and sent it for autopsy. Sunday), 02591 Gorakhpur-Yeshwantpur Special Bhiwani-Kanpur Special Train- daily special train, The three-member com- The police also took the Train- bi-weekly (Saturday, Monday), 02592 - 02435 Varanasi - New Delhi Vande Bharat mittee comprises Chief Medical father of the deceased youth Yesvantpur- Gorakhpur Special Train- bi-week- Special train five days a week - (Tuesday, Officer Dr Anil Mishra, ADM into custody for interrogation. ly (Monday, Thursday), 05007 Varanasi City- Wednesday, Friday, Saturday Sunday), 02436 New (Civil Supplies) Basant Agarwal According to reports, Anil Lucknow Jn. Krishak Special Train - daily spe- Delhi-Varanasi Vande Bharat Special train five and a doctor from GSVM Kumar of Dabhari village in cial train, 05008 Lucknow Jn- Varanasi City days a week- (Tuesday, Wednesday,Friday, Saturday Medical College recommend- Rasoolabad (Kanpur Dehat) Krishak Special Train - daily special train, 02003 and Sunday), 02561 Jaynagar-New Delhi Special ed by its Principal Prof RB was a truck driver and had Lucknow Jn.- New Delhi Shatabdi Special Train Train- Daily Special Train and 02562 New Delhi- Kamal. returned home after lockdown - Daily Special Train, 02004 New Delhi-Lucknow Jaynagar Special Train- daily special train. It may be mentioned that was imposed across the coun- five COVID-19 deaths on the try. Due to his addiction to same day in the same hospital liquor, he often quarrelled with .&! ( " 4 4 $ " ". % ! - * ! " 8PSS@TQPI9@IU +, -#* within short gaps led to panic the family members. On was unmarried and was living went to the house of Munnilal in the hospital. Following these Saturday night, Anil died under alone in his field. He had illic- in the evening, behaved amica- deaths, the kin of several mysterious circumstances. His he Jamalpur police on it relationship wotj a woman bly, smoked with him, after a COVID-19 patients admitted and surrounding areas and father Bhoop Narain and other TSaturday worked out the who used to come to collect minor scuffle made him uncon- in the hospital created a ruckus, 6/& # cross-checked the visit of the family members took the body blind murder case which was fodder for her cattle. Her hus- scious and and then slit his demanding that their patients RRT (rapid response team) for performing the last rites committed on August 20. SP band saw her in an objection- throat with a spade. The police be shifted to private hospitals. ' 7)3 ; and took feedback from the kin without informing anyone AK Singh that the case was com- able condition with the recovered the spade along with With so many relatives of of the COVID-19 patients. about the death. However, plicated due to lack of clear motive deceased, Munnilal, and he the blood-stained clothes of patients raising a voice of anpur Nagar reported 432 fresh cases of coronavirus infec- He also enquired about security guard Lalji informed for the murder and the investiga- decided to teach him a lesson. the deceased. The accused was protest, the district adminis- Ktion till Sunday evening. the Covid protocol and verified the police about the mysterious tion was being reviewed daily. On the exact clue a suspect was identified as Bihari Yadav, a res- tration swung into action as Chief Medical Officer Dr AK Mishra said 432 more peo- if the house possessed home death and beat incharge Sanjiv The SP patted the back of nabbed by the police from ident of Shivnathpur village senior officials of the state ple had tested positive for coronavirus infection between isolation kits comprising pulse Kumar along with a force police team for working out the Daitraveerbaba temple located under Baburi police station in administration are regularly Saturday evening and Sunday evening, taking the count of con- oximeter, digital thermometer, reached the cremation ground case and announced a cash in Bindupurva village who Chandauli. After completing visiting the city and carrying firmed cases to 17292. He said 5004 COVID-19 patients had separate toilet and enquired and took the partly burnt body reward of 10,000 for it. As per helped in solving the case. the legal formalities the police out surprise raids in an attempt been cured in the city so far, and at present 3,997 active coron- from he kin if they were regu- into custody and sent it for the police theory, the deceased The accused confessed that he sent the accused to jail. to contain the COVID-19 avirus cases were undergoing treatment. larly giving the oxygen level, autopsy. The villagers suspect deaths and the spread of coro- The CMO said 7 COVID-19 deaths were reported in the city pulse rate and temperature that Anil was killed in a scuf- navirus in the city. till Sunday evening taking the death toll to 485. He said a total readings to the RRT every day fle with his brothers following ! "&!$0 ) 120 The district magistrate vis- of 3811 samples were sent for testing sin the district. or not. He said these readings heated argument over his ited the Kanshiram Hospital had to be checked at least two addiction to liquor and there- ! #&!#!%& %" and carried out investigation. paramedical staff and scanned ernment was providing ade- or three times a day and if the fore the family members were He also interacted with the the duty records and the tim- quate funds for increasing condition of the home isolation quietly cremating him. 8PSS@TQPI9@IU $' ()#* railway crossing one, on last one year. At present on NER patients admitted in the ICU ings of doctors visiting the infrastructure and thus the patient deteriorated, the control Manduwadih-Hardattpur sec- the construction work of 51 ROBs through video chat. He patients. He sounded a word of COVID-19 deaths had to be room had to be informed afety is paramount on the tion three, in Izzatnagar two, on and 531 LHS and at various sta- enquired about the doctors’ caution, saying that five deaths checked. immediately so that the patient SIndian Railways. Keeping it Pilibhit-Shahjahanpur section tions of 86 FOBs is in progress and presence in the hospital and in the same hospital on the Meanwhile, the district could be shifted to hospital. 9 in mind on North Eastern 32 , in Brahmavart one, on after their completion safety will whether they were taking same day was certainly a cause magistrate on Sunday carried The district magistrate also Railway (NER) on manned Chhapra-Aunrihar section one, be strengthened and people will rounds of wards. of worry and action would be out a surprise checking of visited several other sur- level crossings road over bridges Chhapra-Manjhi section two, get facilities. Under the safety The district magistrate also taken if anything was found patients in home isolation in rounding areas to take feed- (ROBs) and limited height sub- on Moradabad-Ramnagar sec- work on the NER last year the grilled all the medical and amiss. Tiwari said the UP gov- areas like Shivkatra, Jagaipurwa back. ways (LHS) besides foot over tion one, on Burhwal-Sitapur work of strengthening of two ' 7)3 ; bridges (FOBs) at stations are section two, on Mau-Shahhganj major bridges on Gorakhpur- being constructed at a rapid section one and on Kanpur Kusumhi section, on four on youth was brutally beaten pace, said CPRO Pankaj Kumar Anwarganj-Kasganj-Mathura sec- Pilibhit-Shahjahanpur section, Aup and injured with the Singh. During the past one year tion two. On 13 NER stations i.e. on one on Mandhana- 4 # sword by some local goons in Allahabad construction of one Peppeganj, Nautanwa, Lucknow Brahmavart section, on one on when the latter teased his sis- road overbridge has been com- City, Varanasi City, Suremanpur, Aunrihar-Ghazipur section and ter in Nankari locality, under pleted. Similarly, the construction Taraon, Saidpur, Bisalpur, Pilibhit, on one on Ballia-Sagarpali section the Kalyanpur police station of a total of 48 limited height Hathras City, Lakhimpur, Mailani and other bridges was com- - 7 3 on Saturday morning. subways (LHS) was complet- and Gola Gokarannath the con- pleted which ensured their Police have launched raids ed, including on Kauwabagh struction of FOBs was done in the safety. to nab the assailants. Profusely ' 7)3 ; Sunday. He said on the direc- bleeding youth said when P ! !$"(!$& ,-%".Q tives of higher district admin- Naresh Singh of Nankari our immovable properties istration officials, further action Bagia, Kalyanpur, along with 8PSS@TQPI9@IU +, -#* expect from the commonman crimes earlier. Emphasising Fof Jai Bajpai, a close aide of would be initiated in the mat- sister was going to a medical to do so. He was of the view on patrolling, informer system, slain gangster Vikas Dubey, ter. store on scooty, Deepak Mati Sainik Sammelan along that the safety measures were vigil over history-sheeters, beat were seized by the district During the drive, police with accomplices intercepted Awith crime control meeting system, action against out- administration on Sunday force from Armapore, them. They began to tease his was held at Police Lines on laws, precautionary measures afternoon. Nazirabad, Colonelganj and sister and misbehaving with Saturday in the joint presence etc the SP said told the SOs to Bajpai’s wife Shweta and Fazalganj police stations was her. On protest, Deepak and of DM and the SP. DM SK Patel make them a part of their rou- mother Prasoon alleged that present. his accomplices beat up him. directed the cops to ensure the tine working in order to con- the action was in violation of Shweta said the district Thereafter, they repeat- enforcement of Covid-19 pro- trol crime. He said that the the laws of the land. administration did not ask her edly attacked at him with the tocol in view of unlock guide- retired cops and ex-servicemen It may be recalled that the for any proof about the prop- sword and caused serious lines. He made it clear that equally important during duty should be keep in close touch police had arrested Jai Bajpai erties. She said that along with injury. though several restrictions of along with it carrying it out with the police stations so that and sent him to jail on charges Jai Bajpai, she had also been fil- Hearing screams, when lockdown had been relaxed honestly. Giving tips to control they could help the police. of managing the accounts of ing income-tax return for the local residents rushed to the but the risk of Corona had not crime SP Ajay Kumar Singh The meeting was attended by all Vikas Dubey and extending past 10 years. She alleged that spot, assailants disappeared. reduced. He said that precau- directed the cops that apart ASPs, COs, SOs, all heads of financial assistance to the gang- the properties were being Police got the injured admit- tions should be taken. He from active criminals they police branch, Senior ster from time to time. sealed at the behest of a local ted to UHM Hospital. appealed to cops to take pre- should keep an eye over on those Prosecution Officer and the Thereafter, the police had start- lawyer. Shweta said her hus- SHO Kalyanpur Ajay Seth cautions themselves first then criminals who were involved in DGC, Criminal and civil. ed collecting details of Jai band was innocent and just as said raids were on to nab the Bajpai’s properties and seizing the said lawyer was his neigh- assailants. He said stern penal P%&&$ &"&!&!%%.# &! &"&!Q them. bour in Brahma Nagar, Vikas action would be initiated On the basis of police 4 . ! ! 0 ! Dubey was their neighbour in against them. 8PSS@TQPI9@IU +, -#* 100 PPE kits to the minister for report and orders of the district 8 8 Bikru (Chaubepur). Younger brother of the donating it to the administra- magistrate, an administrative She said Jai Bajpai had not injured youth said about year P Minister of State for tion to combat against the pan- team led by the Sadar tehsildar properties in Dubai, Thailand ago, Deepak had teased his UEnergy Rama Shankar demic. The club members reached Brahma Nagar around House No.107/300 which was team had removed all residents and other countries and all sister and on protest, had Singh Patel that for the better- assured the minister to provide 11:30 am on Sunday and sealed purchased by Jai Bajpai about from the premises. Then, after allegations in this regard were attacked on them with ment of nation spirit of dedi- five oxygen cylinders too on the House No.111/481 of Jai Bajpai. seven years ago. taking Shweta, her daughter baseless. She added that the accomplices. Then, police had cation in people was a good indi- requirement of the adminis- All the three tenants living in The team also sealed Kuhu and son Kanha out of loan taken for one of the hous- taken action against both the cation. Addressing a brief func- tration. The minister was the house had removed their House No.107/298 occupied by House No.111/478, the team es that were sealed was yet to parties under the sections of tion organised by Lions Club at the spirit of Lions Club under accorded warm welcome by the household articles late Saturday Jai Bajpai’s mother Prasoon sealed it. be cleared and the entire fam- disturbing law and order sit- Lions School on Saturday, the which it was observing club members and was pre- night itself. and the family of his brother, Sadar Tehsildar Atul ily had come on street due to uation. minister stressed on using Teachers’ Day by extending a sented a shawl. Among those Thereafter, the team sealed Abhay. Kumar said four properties of sudden action of the district money in the interest of society helping hand to the society in present were SL Agarwal, 18 square yard portion of Prior to putting a seal, the Jai Bajpai were sealed on administration. instead of accumulating it for the view of prevailing Corona cri- Vishwanath Agrawal, Dr NK .:+( coming generation. He praised sis. The Lions Club handed over Pandey and Suryabali Singh. # &! %" 8PSS@TQPI9@IU .*/ alpi SDM Jayendra kumar inspected Food and Civil ' 7)3 ; online teaching imparted by cy on pulses and to how to es cultivation faced several KSupplies department, Kalpi branch, on Saturday, the teachers. It may be men- work out better future strategy challenges, including farming ' 7)3 ; checked the quality wheat and rice and instructed the ver a dozen schools have tioned here that hundreds of for pulse production in India. on marginal lands, dependence marketing inspector to ensure cleanliness outside the Obeen identified for their parents of government sec- The Director of IIPR, Dr NP on monsoon, lack of irrigation, he District Legal Services godown for grains. He instructed the officials there to send failure to take online classes. ondary school students had Singh, addressing the session low input usage and, impor- TAuthority, Kanpur Nagar, a proposal to the higher The teams found that at some complained about the casual said the pulse production in tantly, no breakthrough in seed launched a virtual awareness authorities regarding the places the online classes could attitude of the teachers in con- India had remained static for technology. He said rice-wheat- camp for women from making of a boundary wall not be conducted on account of ducting regular online classes the past four years engendering rice cycle needed to be broken Bhitargaon. outside the godown. SDM weak internet signal. in sharp contrast to what was the need to find out reasons for the ecological disaster it had In the camp, held under also inspected the Kadaura The warned some schools being done in private ISC and and what efforts need to be brought about — deterioration DLSA Secretary Aishwarya CHC thereafter two clinics to improve their connectivity CBSE schools. The parents made for increase in pulse in soil health and an alarming Pratap Singh, the women and found proper social dis- 0 "4$-1 and ensure that the quality of had accused the teachers of just production. fall in the water table. He said were virtually made aware of tancing among people, avail- 0 - ! online teaching was improved. sending loads of homework in He said pulse was a crop of systematic crop rotation by their rights under the ability of sanitisers besides thermal screening. He also 566/ ! " This was stated by District the form of snapshopts, thus marginal areas, and research on cultivating pulses will deliver Domestic Violence Act, instructed all private hospitals to send patients who had symp- 4$ "3 !" Inspector of Schools Satish washing their hands of their pulses too was treated as if it multiple benefits, including 2005, especially issues like toms of cold/fever to the nearby CHC for free of cost Covid- Tiwari, while informing media responsibilities. Meanwhile, the was a marginal area of research. improvement in soil health protection order, maintenance 19 test and treat them after getting their negative report. persons about the result of the UP Madhyamik Shikshak He said there had been no through nitrogen fixing. He and also the entitlement to 5 crackdown on government Sangh alleged that the DIOS major breakthrough in pulses said in addition to this it was free legal aid under Legal "" 8PSS@TQPI9@IU +, -#* schools to find out if the online had ordered an inquiry into production for the simple rea- necessary to ensure ready mar- Services Authorities Act, 8PSS@TQPI9@IU (),+#* ()0 , classes were being taken or not. irregularities by principals who son that pulses research was ketability of the pulse crop 1987. He said several teams com- had been suspended, which always never accorded impor- through assured procurement Singh said the biggest hur- he Sadar Kotwali police raided Indira Manoranjan teenager drowned in Kalkalia river prising 66 officials were con- was wrong. tance equal to wheat and rice. mechanism. dle in the empowerment of Tforest, nabbed three accused and recovered a pistol, Aunder Adalhaat police station here. ducting enquiries after the sur- FOUNDATION DAY He said the Director General of Dr Singh said protein defi- women was ignorance and eight cartridges etc from the spot recently. Police regis- As per the reports, Molu Biyar, a resi- prise raids. He said the teams IIPR: On the occasion of ICAR, Dr Trilochan ciency in India was pervasive, lack of awareness and thus the tered a case against Raju Rajwada alias Iqbal, a resident dent of Kolna village, drowned while had been given the target to Foundation Day of the Indian Mahapatra, Deputy DG Dr PL inflicting enormous hidden objective of this camp of Sankata Devi Mohalla, Suhel alias Shibu of Hathipur fishing in Kalklia river. On getting visit 690 schools and submit Institute of Pulse Reasearch Sharma, and other top officials cost on the country. He said was to empower women by and Rajendra of Sujanpur village under Dhaurahra information, the area police reached the weekly reports of schools and held an international webinar will be participating in the pulses were the most affordable making them aware of their Kotwali and sent them to jail. CO City said that 15 serious spot, recovered the body and sent it for also monitor the standard of where it focused on new poli- webinar.He said in India, puls- vegetable protein. rights. criminal cases have been registered against Raju Rajwada. completing the legal formalities. !"#$%&%& " , # ;5 ",% ! ! mer MLAs Vinod Chaudhary, our expulsion from the media Bhoodar Narain Mishra, which speaks of the new work Nekchand Pandey, Swayam culture in the state unit,” said Prakash Goswami and Sanjeev the letter. Singh, The leaders urged the )*+*,-' daily testing average anywhere “There is an apprehension Congress high command to in the world,” the letter stated. that you are not being apprised open channels of communica- he Centre has asked all With this significant of the prevailing situation by tion with senior leaders. They TStates and Union increase in the testing facilities those in charge of state affairs. have warned that if it contin- Territories to ensure necessary and infrastructure, the need for We have been seeking an ues to turn a blind eye to the follow up of its updated advi- further refinement in the exist- appointment with you for prevailing state of affairs, the sory on Covid-19 testing strat- ing Covid-19 testing strategy to almost a year but have been Congress would hit rock bot- egy, allowing ‘testing on- make it more comprehensive denied the same. We had tom in UP which was once the demand’, to achieve a higher has been felt. appealed against our expulsion party’s stronghold. number of examinations with After due deliberations by which was illegal but even the The letter comes at a time greater flexibility and sim- national experts, the National central disciplinary committee when the party is already fac- plicity. Task Force on Covid-19 has has not found time to consid- ing its worst factional divide in The revised advisory lists formulated a reviewed and 7% )*+ er our appeal,” the letter says. Uttar Pradesh. While the senior )*+*,-' the scope for testing in con- simplified advisory ‘Strategy *,-'=, 7)8+ The signatories to the let- leaders have withdrawn from tainment zones, non-contain- for Covid-19 testing in India’. ter have alleged that there is a party activities, the younger he Centre has half-a-dozen 43& ment areas, in hospitals, and “We are sure that with the ven as the controversy total lack of communication leaders have accused the UPCC TStates and UTs reporting also for the first time provides increased levels of testing and Earound the letter to between the leaders and the leadership of promoting caste high Covid-19 caseload and for testing on-demand with enhanced testing infrastruc- Congress president Sonia party cadres. They further interests. fatality rate to strengthen con- ! && simplified modalities to be ture, this advisory would fur- Gandhi is yet to die down, pointed out that frontal organ- The leaders also accused tainment measures and scale decided by the States and ther encourage the states to another dispatch from former isations like NSUI and Youth Priyanka of believing all that is up testing to bring down pos- )*+*,-' ty, reactogenicity, tolerability Union Territories. have even higher levels of test- partymen, hailing from Uttar Congress have become defunct “fed to her” by the state lead- itivity rate below five per cent. and immunogenicity of the It also indicates the choice ing, covering a wide range of Pradesh, has come to shake the in UP. ership and that she does not This even as it has dispatched yderabad-based Bharat whole-virion inactivated of testing in order of priority persons with greater flexibili- grand old organisation. In fact, The former party members bother to meet leaders outside two-member special teams to HBiotech has received the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine for each of the settings. ty and simplification. the ex-Congressmen have further claimed that the party her coterie. Punjab and Chandigarh to top drug regulator’s clearance (BBV152) in healthy volun- A letter jointly written by “It is requested that this minced no words in urging posts are being occupied by Last month, Sonia had provide extended guidance in to move its vaccine candidate teers’.” Union Health Secretary Rajesh advisory may kindly be dis- Sonia to “rise above family pol- those who are working on a convened a Congress Working managing the Covid-19 pan- against Covid-19, Covaxin, to The Directorate General of Bhushan and ICMR Director seminated to all concerned itics” and making a veiled salary basis and are not even Committee meeting after 23 demic. the second phase of human Health Service said in a state- General Dr Balram Bhargava for necessary follow up at the attack on Priyanka Gandhi primary members of the party. senior leaders of the party As many as 35 districts in testing. The trials for the ment: “This is to inform you to chief secretaries and admin- earliest,” the letter stated. Vadra, who is the party gener- “These ‘leaders’ are not including Ghulam Nabi Azad, five states and one UT report- indigenous vaccine are expect- that the subject proposal was istrators highlighted that hav- The updated advisory on al secretary in charge of UP. familiar with the party’s ideol- Kapil Sibal including five for- ing high Covid-19 caseload ed to begin from Monday, fol- examined in consultation with ing adequate testing capacities Covid-19 testing strategy has Stating that the Congress is ogy but are tasked to give mer Chief Ministers, CWC and fatality rate. The list com- lowing ethics committee SEC (COVID-19) experts held and simplified testing protocol also allowed testing on demand passing through its ‘worst ever’ direction to the party in UP,” members, sitting MPs, and prises all 11 districts in Delhi, approvals, said sources in the through virtual meeting on are important components in for “all individuals undertaking phase in Uttar Pradesh, the- the letter states. several former Union Ministers Kolkata, Howrah, North 24 Drug Controller General of September 3, wherein the the management of Covid-19 travel to countries or Indian four-page letter, signed by “These people are the one had written to Sonia Gandhi Parganas and 24 South India (DCGI) committee recommended for pandemic in the country. states mandating a negative expelled party leaders from who are assessing the perfor- calling for sweeping changes, Parganas in West Bengal; Pune, A subject expert commit- the conduct of Phase II part of The country has so far Covid-19 test at the point of the State, calls upon Sonia to mances of those leaders who from top to bottom. Nagpur, Thane, Mumbai, tee (SEC) studying its request clinical trials with 380 partic- conducted more than 4.66 entry”. rise above family (parivaar ke stood like a rock in the Sonia had offered to quit as Mumbai Suburban, Kolhapur, to begin the phase II trial rec- ipants subject to the condition crore tests in more than 1,600 It also suggested that all the moh se upar uthe) and restore Congress during the 1977-80 chief of the party and after the Sangli, Nashik, Ahmednagar, ommended that the trial be that time for screening the par- laboratories in the country, people living in containment the democratic traditions of the crisis. Democratic norms are resolution that a new chief Raigad, Jalgaon, Solapur, conducted on 380 participants, ticipants should be revised in they said in the letter, adding zones should be tested by rapid party. being thrown to the winds will be elected at an AICC ses- Satara, Palghar, Aurangabad, stated Joint Drugs Controller 4 days.” there has been tremendous antigen tests, particularly in The letter, signed by former and senior leaders are being sion at earliest she decided to Dhule and Nanded in Dr S Eswara Reddy in a letter Each stage of a vaccine’s progress in upscaling testing cities where there has been a MP Santosh Singh, former targeted, insulted and expelled. continue as interim chief of the Maharashtra; Surat in Gujarat; to the Hyderabad-based firm clinical trial tests its safety and infrastructure both in terms of widespread transmission of minister Satyadev Tripathi, for- In fact, we were informed of grand old party. Pondicherry in Puducherry dated September 3. All partic- ability to develop an effective the number of laboratories the infection. and East Singhbhum in ipants will now have to be immune response. While the and daily testing capacity. The ICMR also stressed ) * Jharkhand. screened for four days after first phase focuses on safety in “It is a matter of great pride that no emergency procedure -P + $ In a review meeting held they are administered the vac- healthy participants, the sec- that for the last two days (including deliveries) should be +, on Saturday, they were asked to cine shots. ond phase looks at the effec- (Wednesday and Thursday), delayed for lack of tests, and ensure strict perimeter control, The letter further men- tiveness. The third phase looks the country has been testing in pregnant women should not be & -*))' ! /?' strengthen the active case tions that the Central Drugs into these aspects in a much excess of 11.5 lakh samples referred to another hospital for search focusing on comorbids Standard Control larger population that would every day which is the highest lack of testing facility. amil Nadu has encouraging %*)9, ; toms of coronavirus, we decid- and elderly population, early Organisation (CDSCO) under represent a wider demo- Tand inspiring reports from ed to remain in home quaran- identification by ramping up the Directorate General of graphic, said a senior official sures in hospitals to safeguard has reported 2140 active cases, the Covid -19 front on Sunday arnataka Labour Minister tine on doctors' advice and are testing and optional utilization Health Services, Union Health from the DCGI. healthcare workers from con- whereas its cumulative cases as the State is getting ready to KA Shivaram Hebbar on getting treatment at home," of RT-PCR testing capacity to Ministry, “has no objection for In the first phase of the tracting the infection. stand at 5502. Unlock 4 on Monday. The State Sunday said he and his wife Hebbar tweeted. break the chain of transmission conducting the trial titled ‘An Covaxin trial, around 375 par- In Punjab and Testing per million and diagnosed 5,783 new patients have tested positive for the He expressed confidence of the disease, the Health min- adaptive, seamless Phase I, ticipants were studied across Chandigarh, the two-member cumulative positivity stands at while 88 persons succumbed to coronavirus and would be that he and his wife would soon istry said on Sunday. followed by Phase II random- 12 sites. Covaxin is one of the teams which will comprise a 38054 and 11.99 per cent, the pandemic on Sunday. under treatment in their home recover. Union Health Secretary ized, double-blind, multicen- frontrunners in the race for a community medicine expert respectively. While Chennai accounted itself being asymptomatic. Prior to him, Yediyurappa, Rajesh Bhushan held the ter study to evaluate the safe- Covid-19 vaccine in India. from PGIMER, Chandigarh India’s Covid-19 tally of for 955 new patients, its neigh- Chief Minister B S forest minister Anand Singh, review meeting through video and an epidemiologist from cases mounted to 41,13,811 bouring districts of Chengalpet Yediyurappa wished the 63- Tourism Minister C T Ravi, conference with health secre- NCDC will be stationed for ten with a record 90,632 people (361), Kancheepuram (196) and year old leader a speedy recov- Health Minister Sriramulu, taries of five States and one UT district specific plans to con- ease progression, seamless hos- days to provide extended guid- being infected in a day, while Thiruvallur (246) showed a ery and prayed that he contin- Leader of Opposition and for- on the containment and man- tinue their efforts to manage pitalisation and early admis- ance in managing Covid. the death toll climbed to 70,626 reduction in the number of ued with his good works. mer Chief Minister agement of Covid-19 in 35 dis- the pandemic. sion for patients requiring In Punjab, as on Saturday, with the novel coronavirus daily cases. "Me and my wife under- Siddaramaiah and Congress tricts under their jurisdiction. The States were also medical support, especially in out of the total of 61,527 virus claiming 1,065 lives in a The districts of Coimbatore went COVID-19 test and have state chief D K Shivakumar had The district collectors and advised to effectively monitor cases of comorbid and elderly Covid-19 cases, 15,870 are span of 24 hours in the coun- (538) and Cuddalore (388) been found positive for the tested positive for COVID-19 other functionaries were home isolation cases and early population, besides following active cases. 1808 deaths have try, as per the Government remained problematic. virus. Since there are no symp- and completely recovered. advised to prepare and update hospitalisation in case of dis- effective infection control mea- been registered. Chandigarh data. &&%3 "! ! ;

)*+*,-' Bioengineering, told PTI. ed that the engineered sensor “The bio-interface inter- surface can be applied in esearchers at the Indian actions between virus surface Quartz Crystal Microbalance- RInstitute of Technology spike protein and the surface based techniques, which are 8 & )*+*,-' (IIT), Guwahati have devel- can be explored for the rapid known for label-free, rapid oped methods to detect and detection of coronavirus,” he and real-time detection with mid job losses and salary prevent the novel coronavirus said. sensitivity,” Pandey said. Acuts due to the coron- using bio-interface interac- “The interaction between “The surfaces based strate- avirus pandemic and nation- tions between the virus and the the spike protein and contact- gies not only offer an advan- wide lockdown, there is a sharp to remain high till September surface spike protein. ing surfaces constitutes the tage of rapid virus detection spike in commonly consumed end or first week of October, According to the team of key step of transmission of from swab samples but also vegetables across India. The depending on the arrival of researchers, the novel coron- coronavirus. Thus, surface allow the reuse of the same retail prices of vegetables have new crops. avirus (SARS CoV-2) is com- engineering, on one hand, shall surface over multiple cycles risen sharply across the coun- Some wholesale traders posed of inner nucleic acid facilitate a quick detection (samples),” he said. try, with major wholesale mar- said that the farmers in many which is covered with surface method and on the other hand, “The role of newly devel- kets running low on supplies states dumped perishables spike glycoprotein and the it would be a very secure oped engineered surfaces is, due to disruptions caused by during the lockdown, unable engineered surfaces can be method of protection however, to destabilise the heavy rains and short supply of to find buyers. So, tomatoes potentially applied for the against the virus, for exam- viral envelope protein through some items. are in short supply. Besides, detection as well as prevention ple when applied on PPEs,” he surface-protein interactions, From potato and tomato to transportation costs have risen of COVID-19 — the disease added. interesting method of surface “Mixed SAMs have been physical property of a molecule disintegrate, and finally, inac- brinjal, bitter gourd and cab- 5-10% because of fuel price caused by the virus. The team’s research on modifications by forming var- prepared to design the surface that is seemingly repelled from tivate the viruses,” Pandey bage, all vegetables have seen hikes by the government “So far we are using anti- surface modifications and ious self-assembled monolay- with intermediate wettability. a mass of water. said. wholesale prices go up by 40 which led to sharp increase in body-based assays and RT- analysis of the bio-interfacial ers (SAMs) on different sur- The thumb rule of increase in The research has revealed “Thus, the surface treat- percent to 90 percent compared the retail prices. PCR based methods for testing (protein-surface) interactions faces, which result in a wide the adsorbed amount of pro- that a protein adapts to differ- ments of personal protective with the last month. The retail prices of toma- during pandemic. However, have been published in reput- range of surface hydrophobic- tein with an increase in surface ent conformations depending equipment (PPE), which pos- Vegetable sellers say onion to ranged from 60-80 per kg longer assay time, cost, com- ed journals like Materials ity depending on the terminal hydrophobicity does not hold on surface properties.”Thus, sess antiviral properties and prices are likely to be increased in most parts of the country plex procedures and false pos- Science and Engineering C, functional groups with nano- true for all systems. This is the characteristics of protein prevent the contagious infec- in the retail market in the while most of green vegetables itive or negative results are a Applied Surface Science, scale smooth surfaces. The because protein adsorption is can be tuned by engineered tions of coronavirus. The sur- coming days as prices have were sold at 50-70 per kg few bottlenecks of these meth- Langmuir, J. Phys. Chem. C formation of SAMs involves a a complex process and depends surfaces for various applica- faces of PPEs can be engi- started increasing in the whole- depending on the quality and ods,” Lalit M Pandey, associate and ACS Biomaterials Science fast attachment followed by a on the hydrophobicity of both tions including biosensors, neered to achieve strong sur- sale market of Maharashtra. locations at various markets. professor, Department of and Engineering. slow reorientation step,” surfaces and proteins,” he said. implants, and drug delivery. A face-protein interactions,” he Potato, for instance, is selling According to traders, toma- Biosciences and “We have developed an Pandey said. Hydrophobicity is the recent special report suggest- said. for Rs 15 to Rs 25-30 per kg in toes were sold at 30-40 per wholesale markets in north kg last month. and central India. In West The retail prices of pota- Bengal, the state government to ranged from 30-40 per kg 96:! &4; $! <+ warned of action if retail while the same was sold at 20 traders are found selling the a kg till last month. Onion is ! "P Health ID’ under the Digital Health Data Management approve of it, while 45 per cent tuber above 27 a kg. being sold at Rs 25-30 a kg but Health Mission programme, Policy, which proposes to cre- said they were ‘okay’ with it > Potato traders in West traders warned that prices %& '&( but do not want to share sen- ate Digital Health IDs for all and 6 per cent were unsure. Bengal have blamed the recent are expected to increase in the " sitive personal data beyond Indians. Akshay Gupta, General amendment to the Essential coming days as wholesale health and medical records. “Around 8,600 responses Manager, LocalCircles said the ( ;! Search Commodities Act by the prices are increasing in It said 23 per cent respon- were received on a question on survey results will be submit- was on for Centre for a rise in prices of the Maharashtra’s wholesale onion )*+*,-' dents supported creating the how and where their digital ted to key stakeholders asso- wo persons were arrested four more tuber in retail markets as it markets. health ID, saying it could help health ID data should be stored ciated with the Digital Health There in Gujarat after persons in allows barrier-free trade of the The retail prices of brin- round 60 per cent of in faster access to healthcare. to which 57 per cent said the ID initiative, so that citizen mephedrone, a banned drug, this con- agricultural product. jal, sponge gourd (nenua) and Arespondents favoured While 18 per cent said it should data storage should only be inputs can be kept at the fore- worth 5lakh was seized from nection, he Potato prices in West bottle gourd (lauki) ranged availing ‘Digital Health ID’ to not be created as it could lead done for health information front as the government lays them, a police official said on said. Bengal are currently ruling from 40 to 60 per kg while be created under the Centre’s to personal sensitive data get- and the same be done at cen- out the blueprint of the initia- Sunday. Mephedrone, also known high at 32-33 a kg as 15-20 the same vegetables were National Digital Health ting compromised. tral level. They also said that tive. Acting on a tip-off, police as ‘meow meow’ or MD, is a percent of daily supply of the being sold at 20-30 per kg till Mission, but do not want to Around 9,000 people authorisation should be To safeguard confidential caught the two persons, iden- synthetic stimulant. commodity is being exported the third week of August. share sensitive personal data responded to the question on required for its use by any health data collected from tified as Imtiaz Malek and The two accused were to neighbouring states. Cucumber’s retail price is beyond health and medical whether Digital Health ID health facility,” the survey said. people under NDHM, the Mustafa Vana, near Sardar booked under provisions of Traders at Mandis attrib- at 40 a kg. Lady finger’s retail records, a recent survey said. should be created under the When asked about making Government has proposed a market in Surat’s Puna the Narcotic Drugs and uted to disruption in supply price ranged from 40 to 60 a The survey was conducted National Digital Health aggregate or anonymised data framework and a set of mini- locality on Saturday and recov- Psychotropic Substances chain due to heavy rainfall kg. The retail prices of by LocalCircles, a community Mission (NDHM), it said. of people available for the pur- mum standards for data pri- ered 100 gm of the drug from (NDPS) Act, the official said, and damage of horticulture Cauliflower (Gobi) and point- social media platform. The social media platform pose of research or promotion vacy protection to be followed them, he said. adding that Malek was crops due to floods in sever- ed gourd (parwal) ranged According to the survey, 59 received around 34,000 of diagnostic solutions, to across the board in compliance A two-wheeler and three arrested last year also for al states during monsoon for from 90 to 100 a kg. per cent of respondents said responses on four questions external agencies, 48 per cent with applicable laws and reg- mobile phones were also possession of the same increasing vegetable prices. Coriander’s retail price has they want to avail’Digital related to the draft National respondents said they do not ulations. seized from their possession. drug. The retail prices are expected touched 250 a kg. !"#$%&%& ' * 5 &.%&!5"( " = 9 : The whole country is suf- ) % : " that she will find support online ; ! fering due to the economic ' * ( ! " and on news media. Ranaut is inefficiency and incompetence C " hand in glove with some power - 8 8 $ S ! of the present regime which ' %$430: hungry politicians to malign the 9 ! wants to blame the pandemic " ' Sena-NCP-Congress Government , = ! for its missteps. Does the and the Mumbai Police. Shame Government want us to forget on her! ,S ! that the economy was in a politics and people have been blame the Congress for all its Ashmit Aaron shambles even before the out- lynched by cow vigilantes, the woes. At least it didn’t drive us Sir — Bollywood actor Kangana Noida break of the Coronavirus? economy of the nation has down to this extent. Ranaut’s controversial tweet, in While its votaries have been dipped to a level never seen Bhagwan Thadani which she compared Mumbai to ; focussing on mandir-masjid before. Yet, the BJP continues to Mumbai Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, 33<230>0:

:0 .0 : #+ (+ +. # ! ( 5 2 , ! E 4BF3 ! $ 8 # :$8#; " / 1 ' :/1'; ,S $8# 25B !. ! " $ 1 " :$1"; 1 " D3 + 5B " ith the dragon becoming increasingly GH " aggressive and the two-front threat becom- ! Wing a certainty, India needs to shed its his- ! toric “continentalist” mindset and transform from a military force to a military power. In order to do " $8# that, India, apart from strengthening its maritime ! power, has also to develop non-kinetic warfare capabilities in the space, cyber and electronic warfare (EW) domains. India has the technology but is keen 7 , on using it for civilian rather than military purpos- ) 8 , :)8,; es. A minor policy change will enable us to devel- * op systems purely for military use. There is an urgent / :*/; 234B )8, , 42B 4FB need to develop threat-specific responses to ward " ! off any danger to our national security from belliger- ! ent China and Pakistan. Our strategy so far relies on the offensive capa- +'!-!-* # ! bilities of the Indian Air Force (IAF) to counter the , -',A) menace posed by our adversaries. But China has *@*)*( deployed an array of Surface to Air Missiles (SAMs) in both Xinjiang and Tibet regions and is %*8')9 ! ! also providing military assistance, including prolif- '3;*9)%,* " ! eration of banned technology to Pakistan, to 8),A@88,-;A / 6 upgrade its Integrated Air Defence System (IADS). *)*A+',, " 8 At the same time China and Pakistan have collud- !!*3! ed to ensure that we remain fixated towards our land C8;=*'('B* " borders and have to spend so heavily to keep them %!!,*!-*;* secure that the much-wanted expansion of the Indian an Indian naval ship was also deployed in combined threat posed by both China and dilemma.” The best option for India in ! +-',*') Navy gets scuttled. the SCS at that time. The DF 21 Killer Pakistan but also to pose a similar threat such an eventuality is to spend on A2/AD ! 9*() This will be a big drawback in our attempts to 3;8B8!'8)( Missile has the capability of destroying a to them, both at land and sea. capability rather than investing in mar- 6 ! ! ward off any maritime threat and counter China’s moving carrier at sea. With this China dis- A2/AD capabilities have to be an inte- itime power-projecting forces with more growing interest in the Indian Ocean. The two-front +',,8)!') * played its A2/AD capabilities and sent a gration of terrestrial, air and space-based concentration on anti-access capabilities ! intimidation is certainly a measure taken by the ,8)9!-*, stern warning to both the US and India. sensors which can defeat stealth technol- because India enjoys the advantage of Chinese to keep India focussed to the threat from *'('B*%,8+!8 India, too, needs to develop A2/AD ogy, an array of long range deep penetrat- home turf viz a viz PLAN. , its land borders and remain distracted from its mar- !-*-')*(*) capabilities to prevent any future build-up ing cruise, surface-to-air and air-to-sur- For this, India’s island territories, itime ambitions, which were exhibited in the 8),A%* of Chinese forces in the Tibet region and face missiles, space weapons, satellites, namely the Lakshadweep Islands and the , $ recently-enhanced budget of the Navy and its *,'B*;*!(* neutralise any threat from Islamabad by hypersonic weapons and aerial platforms, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, will play impressive acquisition list, including aircraft carri- ')8;*;!8 grounding the Pakistan Air Force before both manned and unmanned. India has a crucial role. These territories, which ! ers, destroyers, frigates, amphibious transport ships, 8 )!*;-')O( it becomes airborne as far as our land fron- an arsenal of formidable missile systems overlook critical Indian Ocean lanes, submarines and surveillance aircraft. tiers are concerned. Along the maritime and aerial platforms; it has invested in the give India a toehold in the Arabian Sea and 9;8+')9 China is very sensitive to the vulnerabilities of *F3)('8)'( borders, the A2/AD capability will enable Russian S-400 Air Defence System, the Bay of Bengal. India has already taken its Sea Lanes of Communications (SLOCs) which us to prevent access to the PLAN and Phalcon AWACS, armed drones and steps to bolster its military presence on ! cater to 80 per cent of its trade and movement of ) restrict the freedom of movement of the other air defence systems. these strategically-positioned islands dur- :91 ; , , " oil and goods from the Middle East to the Chinese %*,,'9*;*)* Pakistan Navy. Inherent in it would be the But it still needs more to develop a for- ing the ongoing stand-off with China. ! ports. To keep the Chinese supply chain going, safe ')'(-8 , development of countermeasures needed midable A2/AD capability, particularly to These could be developed as epicentres of 91 " SLOCs are critical. Nevertheless, it is taking steps (*;'8 (,A to ensure freedom of movement and oper- dominate the Indian Ocean and keep our A2/AD capabilities to guard our mar- to mitigate its “Malacca dilemma” by building up *F3,8;*!-* ation of our air and naval forces across the PLAN at bay. For the purposes of com- itime frontiers. $ ! 91 its surface naval forces and undersea fleet, financ- 83!'8)8@ land and maritime frontiers. mand and control, the existing Strategic India’s joint warfare doctrine will need ing deep-water commercial ports in littoral and 8)B*;!')9!-* To develop the A2/AD capability, it Forces Command (SFC) should be nom- to focus on countering the adversaries’ " island nations and making diplomatic inroads with P @;8 is necessary to understand its philosophy. inated. India needs to invest more in A2/AD capabilities to ensure operational key actors across the Indian Ocean basin. Action intended to slow deployment of boosting aerospace capabilities and cyber freedom of friendly forces with minimum ! *;*(* ;'!A As part of its string of pearls policy to encircle ',89 *!8 friendly forces into a theatre or cause such warfare capabilities. The need for an aero- downgradation of our fighting capability " ! India, it is negotiating with our neighbours, name- forces to operate from distances farther space and a cyber command has become and also to include the potential of our ly Bangladesh, Myanmar and Sri Lanka. In the future, (* ;'!A from the locus of conflict than they would more pressing now. A2/AD capabilities to cause maximum $ these efforts could give China the ability to sustain ,,')* otherwise prefer is called as Anti-Access As countermeasures to the adver- attrition to the adversaries’ war fighting $ forward-deployed forces in greater numbers and @8,,8+*%A (A2). It affects the movement of adversary saries’ A2/AD capability in Tibet region potential and their exploitation. ! might tilt in its favour the maritime military balance P Q forces into a theatre. Action intended to and against our western neighbour, we With the Himalayan defences becom- , in the region. The development of Gwadar port, the impede friendly operations within areas need to invest heavily in the development ing impregnable, only a foolhardy enemy $ Karakoram highway and the use of Iranian ports where it is difficult to prevent access of of stealth, stand-off precision strike, will attempt a major/decisive battle there. " after signing the strategic treaty with Iran will, to a inimical forces is termed Area Denial Manned Unmanned Teaming (MUT), While mind games and provocations will ! great extent, mitigate Chinese problems at sea. Yet, (AD). AD affects manoeuvre within a the- Swarming technologies and development continue along the LAC, a decisive in the quest for becoming a global power, the People’s atre. The two are not mutually exclusive. of a robust Command, Control, blow to the Chinese can only be delivered ! Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) will still continue A2/AD capabilities are overlapping and Communications, Computers, at sea. to struggle for dominance of the Indian Ocean and spread across multi-domains to include Intelligence, Surveillance and In order to counter China’s growing " pose a threat to India’s claim of the most powerful both kinetic and non-kinetic systems with Reconnaissance (C4ISR ) and EW poten- expansionism and belligerence, India I " ! resident power in the region. the sole purpose of degrading the adver- tial. Meanwhile, the IAF will have to be should seriously explore the option of con- While Russia pioneered the Anti-Access Area saries’ war-fighting capabilities at land, sea, boosted with the next-generation stand- verting the QUAD from a mere security 1 Denial (A2/AD) capability to check the North air, cyber, space and EW. Emerging tech- off strike capability in the form of missiles dialogue to a security alliance followed by 9'A,8!4B Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) forces and pri- nologies representing military revolution and unmanned platforms. QUAD +. The combined GDP of QUAD $ ! marily the US during the Cold War, China in the in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Quantum As far as the Indian Ocean is con- is double that of China thus neutralising modern days has made considerable progress in Technology, Swarm Technology and cerned, India will always be constrained the growing economic muscle of the drag- ! mastering the technology and development of sys- hypersonic weapons form the backbone by resources to invest heavily in power on. The move will benefit India as far as tems to keep the US Navy away from the South of these capabilities. projection naval platforms. Due to the the Aatmanirbhar Bharat Mission is con- ! 0 China Sea (SCS) and the disputed maritime claims A potent A2/AD capability will pose nature of the threat to India’s security, the cerned. The availability of high-end tech- ! of the nine-dash line. It did not hesitate to fire its a serious threat to the ability of both our Indian Army and the IAF will remain the nology will become easier, giving a boost ! deadly hypersonic “Fleet Killer” missile in the dis- adversaries to deploy and employ forces main focus centres as far as defence expen- to domestic production and also ensure , ! puted Spratly Islands when the US was busy con- across our land and maritime boundaries. diture is concerned. But at the same time safety of supply chain lines. ducting the ten-nation RIMPAC naval exercise off India needs to develop A2/AD capabili- in order to score over China, India will (The author is a veteran political com- : ; the Hawaiian Coast in the Pacific Ocean. Incidentally, ties not only as countermeasures to the need to cash upon the Chinese “Malacca mentator, security and strategic analyst) 5= Q R !"# #$!%%!$& !"''#()#'#*$"+&(,-!+#,%!#(.!/#(,+0!+()!+0 #0#(.$%1)$(!+"&(!$0E% !"%3

(MML) and Tehreek-i-Labbaik in polls because the non-religion-based electoral politics as contrary to their democracy (1962-69), they could not major parties during 1977, the religio- per cent of the vote but this could not Pakistan (TLP). Their entry into elec- mainstream parties pragmatically co- Islamist dispositions. That’s why the devise any effective electoral tools and political parties were given space to halt the return of the PPP and the toral politics was encouraged by the opt their causes and rhetoric. demand for a Muslim-majority State send members to the first two con- develop their electoral skills and PML-N after the 2008 elections. establishment to usurp the “religious Plus, the religio-political parties Pakistan arose from a Centrist and stituent Assemblies, and the two expand constituencies. Separate elec- In the eyes of the establishment, vote” of the Centre-Right PML-N so are closely associated with one Islamic quasi-secular All India Muslim League Assemblies that came into being dur- torates were introduced to favour the mutable utility of the old religio- that Imran Khan’s Centre-Right PTI sect/sub-sect or the other. This limits (AIML). What’s more, almost all ing the Ayub Khan dictatorship. them. But the idea, on the part of the political parties has been exhausted. could benefit. None of the new religio- their appeal to voters from other major Islamist parties opposed this Yet, just before the country’s first military regime, was to manoeuvre With growing mistrust between the political parties could win many seats, denominations. Some are even under- demand on one pretext or the other. direct elections in 1970, parties such them in a manner that would help the PML-N/PPP and the establishment, / but that was never the “plan.” stood to have developed a sect of their But they could not neutralise AIML’s as JI were claiming that they would Zia dictatorship ward off challenges the latter “allowed” the growth of new Whereas the MML could not own, as the Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) was plans because, by the 1940s, it had not sweep the polls. But the opposite hap- posed by the Opposition parties. religion-based groups like the TLP and he combined vote share of reli- perform in the manner in which once accused of doing. Islamist groups only become an experienced electoral pened. From 1947 till 1972, Islamist Most of them became tools of the the MML. In an environment where gio-political parties in the 2018 some expected it to, the radical Barelvi in South Asia developing political entity, but it was able to juxtapose its parties operated from outside the establishment, without whose backing the State was at war with religious mil- Telections in Pakistan was 9.58 TLP not only succeeded in usurping interests is a 20th century phenome- “modernist” Muslim nationalism with Assemblies and had no significant they believed they could not become itancy and with the sword of the per cent, slightly lower than what it was PML-N’s Barelvi vote, but also gobbled non rooted in the Khilafat Movement rhetoric from their Islamist opponents. influence on policymaking, other effective electoral entities. In the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) in the 2013 polls and much lower than up the secular MQM’s lower-middle- of 1919-1924. When the European the- These opponents had no plan to stall than through the threat of agitations. 1990s, the PML-N continued to co-opt still hanging over the country’s head, the 11 per cent they bagged in 2002. class Barelvi votes in Karachi. This cer- ory of the State began to attract the League through electoral means. Though 18 members from three reli- religious rhetoric of the Islamist par- the idea was to quietly nurture new The 2002 tally was the highest the tainly aided PTI in challenging the Centrist and Leftist groups in South The Islamist parties remained in gio-political parties managed to enter ties. However, the self-proclaimed religious groups, not to help them win, Islamist parties have ever received in PML-N in Punjab and the MQM in Asia in the early 20th century, Islamist an electoral limbo during the first 20 the 1972 Parliament, they were no “enlightened moderate” Musharraf but to aid the pro-establishment PTI polls. In 2018, the performance of reli- Karachi. Historically, Islamist outfits in groups, too, began to be attracted by years of Pakistan but they did retain match for the mainstream electoral decided to aggressively sideline the by way of scattering PML-N’s religious gio-political parties was weak because South Asia are not built as electoral it and started to theorise the possibil- their evangelical and agitational dispo- parties. That’s why, in 1974 and then PML-N and the PPP during the 2002 votebank. The fate of the religio- there were a lot more Islamist parties parties. They emerge as evangelical ity of creating an “Islamic state.” But sition, in an attempt to influence the again in 1977, Islamist parties once polls, by creating the conditions political parties in politics is thus like- competing. Apart from the established groups or residues of movements. And most of them could not find the means ideological character of the new coun- again banked on their penchant for required for the religio-political par- ly to continue being dependent on ones, two new religio-political outfits even when they do convert into elec- or the need to devise any electoral tools try. But even during the years of indi- agitational politics to undermine a ties to win in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. their utility to the establishment. emerged: The Milli Muslim League toral outfits, they struggle to do well to achieve such a State. They often saw rect elections (1957-58) and hybrid regime. With the sidelining of some This was when these parties bagged 11 (Courtesy: Dawn) !"#$%&%& 2 2- 3= (%'B;( # 6.... )*+*,-' )*+*,-' The scheme will open on “It should be clearly visi- if the consumer has to pay any- s the coronavirus pan- December 1 and will remain %5 ble to a normally-sighted per- thing other than the cost while Ademic and the eventual n a bid to optimise its costs, open till the end of February, son reading the marketing purchasing a product or service lockdowns have brought the Ithe State Bank of India (SBI) it said, adding that applications communication once, from a for delivery of the same. multiplex industry to a grind- has planned a voluntary retire- for VRS will be accepted dur- reasonable distance and at a On those who endorse ing halt, PVR has deferred a ment scheme (VRS) under ing this period only. % reasonable speed.” advertisements, the guidelines significant portion of its capi- which about 30,190 employees As per the proposed eligi- The disclaimers used in propose that they should take tal expenditure (capex) plans are eligible. The total employ- bility criteria, a total of 11,565 )*+*,-' advertisements should be in due care to ensure that all and it will reassess them once ee strength of country’s largest officers and 18,625 staff mem- “same language” as the claim of descriptions, claims and com- the shutdown is over and its lender stood at 2.49 lakh at the bers will be eligible for the he Government has come the advertisement, the font parisons that they endorse or operations resume. end of March 2020 as com- scheme. The total net savings Tout with a comprehensive should be in the “same font” as that are made in advertise- Nitin Sood, Chief Financial pared to 2.57 lakh a year ago. for the bank would be set of draft guidelines on adver- the claim and place disclaimers ments they appear in are capa- Officer (CFO) of PVR has said According to sources, a 1,662.86 crore if 30 per cent tising under which ‘disclaimers’ on packaging in a “prominent ble of being objectively ascer- that owing to the company’s draft scheme for VRS has been of eligible employees opt for that are not easily noticeable by and visible space”. tained and are capable of sub- cost control measures, its fixed prepared and board approval is retirement under the scheme, or legible or easily under- If the claim is presented as stantiation. costs for the future will be will now be re-assessed once under its contractual arrange- awaited.The proposed scheme as per estimates based on July standable to an ordinary con- voice over (VO), then the dis- Endorsers should also take due lower than it had before. Even the shutdown is over,” the CFO ments and has suspended -’Second Innings Tap VRS- 2020 salary, it said. sumer will be treated as mis- claimer should be displayed in care to ensure that an advert after reopening, the company said. rental payments, while it con- 2020’ - is aimed at optimising “The staff member whose leading advertisements under sync with the VO, it said. “does not convey ... Express or does not expect these to return Throughout this crisis, tinues to be in discussions human resources and costs of request for retirement under the Consumer Protection Act. That apart, a disclaimer should implied representations that to their previous levels soon. according to him, the compa- with mall developers. the bank. VRS is accepted will be paid an The violation of these not attempt to hide material would be false, misleading or His message to the share- ny has focused on business “In order to manage our Besides, the draft scheme, ex-gratia amounting 50 per guidelines would face action by information with respect to deceptive if made by the trad- holders in PVR’s Annual continuity and has undertaken liquidity during the period the seen by PTI, said it will provide cent of salary for the residual the recently established Central the claim, the omission/ er or manufacturer or adver- Report said that the company measures to mitigate the risk. cinemas are shut, the manage- an option and a respectable exit period of service (up to the date Consumer Protection Authority. absence of which is likely to tiser of the relevant product or is already in discussions with its “Our strategy has been two ment has voluntarily taken a route to employees who have of superannuation), subject to The draft guidelines, on make the advertisement service.” developers for renegotiating pronged. First, we have brought cut of 50 per cent in their com- reached a level of saturation in a maximum of 18 months’ last which the Consumer Affairs deceptive or conceal its com- If an endorsement of a the rental arrangements. Sood down our fixed costs drastically pensation, while the rest of our their career, may not be at the drawn salary,” it said. Ministry has sought public mercial intent. product or service is made added that PVR’s other costs during this period of lock- employees have forsaken 20-50 peak of their performance, Other benefits like gratu- comments by September 18, are A disclaimer should not through a testimonial, the too will undergo reductions down, and second, we have per cent of their salaries. Owing have some personal issue or ity, pension, provident and applicable to companies whose attempt to correct a misleading guidelines propose that such until some normalcy is raised debt to preserve liquid- to these actions, we have been want to pursue their profes- medical benefits will be given products or services are adver- claim made in an advertise- endorsement should reflect the restored. ity on the balance sheet,” he successful in bringing a signif- sional or personal life outside to employees seeking VRS. tised as well as to advertisement ment, it added. genuine, reasonably current “We have also temporarily said. icant reduction in our month- the bank. The scheme will be A staff member retired agencies and endorsers. The draft guidelines also opinion of the endorser, and deferred a substantial portion Among the fixed costs, ly fixed costs,” Sood said. opened to all permanent offi- under the scheme will be eligi- According to the draft guide- specify that an advertisement should be based on either ade- of our planned capital expen- PVR has invoked the force He was of the view in the cers and staff who have put in ble for engagement or re- lines, a disclaimer should be should not describe a product quate information about or ditures that we were under- majeure clause for rental pay- post-covid era but the compa- 25 years of service or complet- employment in the bank after a clear, prominent enough and or service as “free”, “without experience with the product or taking, prior to the shutdown. ment and Common Area ny will be in a stronger posi- ed 55 years of age on the cut- cooling-off period of two years legible. charge” or other similar terms, service being endorsed. All major capital expenditures Maintenance (CAM) charges, tion. off date. from the date of retirement. . ?"<66 22 A> 5 ' @ ! " " # 3 ! ! ! " !! B6C "! ! ! )*+*,-' relating to employee protection, from the NRL sale shall be >61<0B asset stripping, business conti- communicated to QIPs prior to New Delhi: GCMMF, which well as bakery items using he Government will pro- nuity and lock-in of shares, submission of financial bid.” markets dairy products under dairy fats. New Delhi: The Bureau Of Tvide guidance on employ- DIPAM said, “This informa- It also asked the bidders to the Amul brand, will invest Besides, he said, GCMMF Pharma PSUs Of India report- ee protection, asset stripping tion shall be provided to the seek the opinion of legal coun- around 1,000 crore over the has forayed into edible oil and ed a 94.21 per cent increase in and business continuity in Qualified Interested Parties sel’s on application of anti- next two years to set up milk potato processing segments as its sales turnover at 146.59 Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd (QIPs) in the RFP/ SPA monooly regulations. processing plants, and anoth- part of its objective to boost crore for the quarter ended (BPCL) to potential acquirers (Request for Proposal/ Share “The successful er 500 crore on facilities for income of farmers from June 30, 2020, the Ministry of of the company only at a later Purchase Agreement).” bidder may need to file with the new products like edible oil, its Gujarat and other states. Chemicals and Fertilisers said stage of bidding, according to Rules pertaining to labour laws Competition Commission of MD R S Sodhi said. In an inter- The edible oils will be mar- on Sunday. It had posted a sales privatisation rules issued by the are said to be one of the many India (CCI) for its approval to view with PTI, Sodhi said the keted under the new brand turnover of 75.48 crore in the disinvestment department. considerations that will guide the acquisition,” it said. Also, Gujarat Cooperative Milk ‘Janmay’. It will produce corresponding first quarter of The Government is selling bids, particularly those from bondholders/ lenders consent, Marketing Federation Ltd groundnut oil, cottonseed oil, previous fiscal year, a statement its entire 52.98 per cent stake foreign firms. A potential if required, will be taken at an (GCMMF) expects 12-15 per sunflower oil, mustard oil and by the Ministry said. BPPI is in India’s second-largest fuel acquirer of BPCL may want to BPCL on the same terms, the promoter of IGL, which retails appropriate stage, it said. cent growth in revenue in cur- soybean oil.”We already have the implementing agency for retailer and third-biggest oil shed excess workforce, which is government advised the bid- CNG the national capital It was asked if holds of USD rent fiscal year from 38,550 few plants for edible oil, bakery Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya refiner. a typical legacy issue with all ders to consult their legal coun- region. BPCL holds 22.5 per 1.65 billion bonds cannot block crore during the last fiscal year and potato processing. We will Janaushadhi Pariyojana. The Preliminary expressions of public sector units, as well as sels on the issue of such offers cent stake in IGL. or pre-empt the sale of gov- despite COVID-19 pandemic, invest 400-500 crore on set- Janaushadhi Kendras remained interest or EoIs are due on strip some of the non-essential becoming mandatory for list- The government stake ernment stake. The govern- as demand for branded food ting up more plants in these functional during the lockdown September 30, which will be assets such as land and build- ed entities where BPCL may sale in BPCL would happen ment ruled out changing the products has increased. new business areas over the as part of their commitment to followed by qualified bidders ings. hold a stake. after the company’s requirement of bidder or the “We will invest around next two years,” Sodhi said. ensure uninterrupted availabil- being asked to submit financial BPCL will give the acquir- The department clarified Numaligarh refinery in Assam consortium of bidder together 1,000 crore in the next two Asked about sales during ity of essential medicines to the or price bids. er ready access to 15.33 per cent this in response to the question is hived off from the company having a net wrth of USD 10 years on setting up dairy plants the pandemic, he said sales of people, the statement said. The Department of of India’s oil refining limit and that “whether a mandatory and sold to a public sector unit. billion. across various states,” Sodhi its dairy products like milk, “Present basket of medicines Investment and Public Asset 22 per cent market share of the tender offer will be triggered by “The divestment of BPCL’s “Request for reduction of told PTI.He said the processing butter milk, paneer and ghee sold by these Kendras consists Management (DIPAM), erst- world’s fastest-growing fuel the transaction in relation to interest in Numaligarh net worth criteria cannot be capacity would increase to 420 were 15 per cent higher during of 1,250 medicines and 204 sur- while known as Department of market. Indraprastha Gas Ltd and Refineries Ltd (NRL) shall be accepted,” it said. It also did not lakh litres per day from the cur- April-August as compared with gical instruments. The target is Disinvestment, has issued clar- While the acquirer of gov- Petronet LNG Ltd”. completed before the closing of accept a proposal of shifting the rent 380 lakh litres per day. the year-ago period, driven by set to enhance it to up to 2,000 ifications on queries raised by ernment stake will have to BPCL is a promoter of the BPCL disinvestment venue of the arbitration, arising On new businesses, Sodhi rising household consumption medicines and 300 surgical potential bidders for the gov- make the mandatory open India’s largest gas import, process,” DIPAM said. in case of dispute in the pri- said the cooperative has start- of branded food products. products by the end of March ernment stake in BPCL. offer to buy 26 per cent stake Petronet with a 12.5 per cent “The decision with regard vatisation process, to a neutral ed manufacturing sweets as PTI 31, 2024...,” it added. PTI On a query on restrictions from minority shareholders of stake. 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It is to be noted that a total cut, debt service coverage vices continues to grow in the ! 5 5 initial seven days or the amount of a public sector bank, it is book would avail one-time ment, commercial real estate “This 5-6 per cent comes IT's employment potential will will relapse, an official said on win-win for both lenders and restructuring. and travel & tourism -- whose to about 40,000 crore. Major continue to be quite strong and &2 ." )P ' % Sunday. borrowers. Micro, small and medium businesses have been impact- composition of this, of about 50 will relatively keep growing in " & 5 & “At least once it has to be Explaining the rationale, enterprises (MSMEs) are ed severely due to the COVID- per cent, would be corporate pace with where we see the used in seven days, otherwise the banker said, corporates already covered under the 19 crisis will make a beeline for books,” he had said. opportunity. The relative ratio =".: the money will lapse. That is of IT to other industries is a fac- because of the technical tor of what happens in the larg- Nadella, Vani Kola, Punit they have amassed is “invalu- requirement,” a Bangalore / ((3' " : &?C er economic scenario...in the Renjen and Kiran Mazumdar able”, which positions the indi- Metro Rail Corporation foreseeable future, IT services Shaw. Tata Consultancy vidual in a very unique position Limited (BMRCL) official told will remain very attractive and Services is the country's largest compared to any new person IANS.However, after meeting ' !& " 6 ( # # a significant part of the job IT services firm and employs entering the workforce. the requirement of using at environment in India,’ over 4.4 lakh people. “If you want to think about least once in the first seven Gopinathan said in a recent Gopinathan said the a 30-40 year career, you need to days, the recharged money will ''& ! 7 @ # webinar on LinkedIn. youngsters coming into work- be constantly ready to learn,” he be saved for a period of 10 years He added that this is on force are native to many of the said. to be used anytime.”We are New Delhi:With digital trans- programmes planned for com- Mumbai: The much-awaited !& & " account of the demand for tal- technologies that are leading Gopinathan said the coming with a new mobile formation gaining momentum pletion in two to three years are festive season is unlikely to & ) ent and services, which is "only the disruption and learn about COVID-19 pandemic has app and this is the technical across industries, HCL now expected to close in a mat- bring any cheers to the travel going to explode given the the tools “by default” because allowed people to use tech- rule which has come out. After Technologies’ CEO C ter of months. industry, including the airline &' 4&2 role that technology is playing that is the environment they are nologies that already existed using, you can leave the money Vijayakumar has said that the “While momentum sec- sector, as less than 20 per cent ''( today and in future". coming into. more effectively by reducing in the card and it stays there for company is well positioned to tors such as Life Sciences and of people polled plan to travel There have been concerns “My bigger message is to the threshold of acceptability. 10 years,” he said. capture the upcoming oppor- Healthcare, Online Grocery during October-November The survey was conduct- of layoffs in the IT sector - the ones who have got more “So video conferencing In the old system, passen- tunities. Distribution, Telecom and Tech amid the pandemic, a survey ed to get citizen pulse on how which hires thousands of grad- experience, the ones with 10- did not get invented six gers were allowed to use their In his message to the continue to create strong said. The festive season in people in India are planning to uates every year - as automa- 15 years’ experience. They also months back. But our accept- smart cards within a span of 60 shareholders in the company’s demand, we are also seeing India falls between October travel in the upcoming festive tion increases. With COVID- need to embrace it rather than ability of leveraging it and the days after topping it up online. Annual Report, he said that impacted sectors like Retail, and November every year dur- season, given the current situ- 19 pandemic impacting busi- being worried about it. And openness with which we are “Consequent to introduc- future prospects for the Auto, Travel, Hospitality etc ing which festivals such as ation with Covid-19. The sur- nesses globally, there were con- they need to invest in their leveraging it has significantly tion of mobile app, this is now broad-based technology com- starting work on redefining Dussehra, Durga Puja and vey received over 25,000 cerns about hiring and job knowledge, in their contextu- gone up 10-folds, 50-folds...a revised to seven days,” he said panies like HCL are stable and customer engagement to ‘zero- Diwali are celebrated. responses from people located opportunities in the sector as al knowledge and upgrade their lot of the work content could in the standard operating pro- bright. touch’ interactions by leverag- Moreover, the majority of those in 239 districts of India, accord- companies froze and even laid skills in terms of the tool be done through remote col- cedures on restarting the Noting that a number of ing conversational AI, analyt- having travel plans said that ing to the online platform. off employees. usage,” he said. laboration like we are cur- metro.Bengaluru Metro is opportunities are playing out in ics, and digital innovations. We they do not want to make According to the Health Gopinathan, who heads He added that while the rently doing and the accept- geared up to resume its service the market, Vijayakumar said believe we are well-positioned their booking till they get clos- Ministry data, the total coro- the USD 22-billion firm, was tools used today will be differ- ability of that increasing -- in phases from Monday under that digital transformation is to capture these opportunities,” er to their travel date, accord- navirus cases mounted to recently named as a LinkedIn ent from 15 years ago, but the both inside enterprises and the new guidelines to contain being significantly accelerated Vijayakumar said. ing to the survey conducted by 41,13,811, while the death toll Influencer, joining the list of context that the people have between enterprises -- will be the pandemic. across industries and digital IANS online platform LocalCircles. climbed to 70,626. 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38;!,) creating a grave risk of causing The 39-year-old was fatal- with Vice News. them,” he said. public alarm.” ly shot after he joined pro- “We are in the midst of a Apart from the homage to olice arrested dozens of peo- “This is a riot. Police are Trump supporters who civil war between good and the victim and the groups of Pple and used tear gas against giving announcements to dis- descended on Portland, spark- evil, the good, the good is all men with assault rifles or pistols, hundreds of demonstrators in perse. People are throwing ing confrontations with Black the folks you see here,” said the atmosphere at the park in Portland late Saturday as the Molotov cocktails,” Portland Lives Matter counter-protesters. Dann, 50, who knew Danielson Vancouver, just north of western US city marked 100 Police said on Twitter. The suspect in the shoot- through Patriot Prayer, point- Portland, was almost partylike. days since Black Lives Matter The nightly protests were ing, Michael Reinoehl, 48, was ing to the families lined up near But Dann was gloomy protests erupted against racism sparked by the death of George killed in neighboring an imposing barbecue among about the run-up to the presi- and police brutality. Floyd while in police custody Washington state as police camping chairs and numerous dential election. Police quickly declared the in Minneapolis in May. tried to arrest him. American flags displayed for “The next two months are rally a “riot” after protesters Floyd’s death triggered The circumstances of the occasion. going to be terrible. There’s hurled Molotov cocktails at similar protests nationwide, Danielson’s death are still under “The evil is the liberals who going to be more violence. them, and they responded with but it is in Portland — a city of investigation but Reinoehl are letting these cities be There’s going to be more atroc- a barrage of tear gas to disperse 6,50,000 that is more than 70 appeared to acknowledge destroyed by Antifa, BLM, ities. There’s going to be more the crowd. At least one person percent white — that activists shooting him in an interview whoever you want to call name calling,” he predicted. was injured by the fire bombs, have remained on the streets police said. practically every night, Officers arrested dozens demanding racial justice and of protesters in an ensuing police accountability. 7 game of cat-and-mouse President Donald Trump through a residential district of has cast the city as being under east Portland. siege by “thugs” engaged in “It was Day 100 for Black “domestic terrorism,” though Lives Matter protests in the demonstrations have been ',+ 7** Portland since George Floyd’s peaceful for the most part. murder and they wanted to Tensions escalated again acob Blake has spoken pub- prevent us from marching,” last weekend after a man iden- Jlicly for the first time since a said 20-year-old protestor Jay, tified as a supporter of a right- Kenosha, Wisconsin, police her eyes red from the tear gas. wing group was shot and killed. officer shot him seven times in “It’s our constitutional right Earlier on Saturday, hun- the back, saying he’s in constant to be here and to express our- dreds of people gathered in a pain from the shooting, which selves.” Police said people were park near Portland in a memo- doctors fear will leave him “engaging in tumultuous and rial for Aaron “Jay” Danielson, paralyzed from the waist down. violent conduct thereby inten- a supporter of the far-right In a video posted Saturday .! ! . tionally or recklessly group Patriot Prayer. night on Twitter by his family’s lawyer, Ben Crump, Blake said from his hospital bed that, O& " %!(" “Twenty-four hours, every 24 / D &,B hours it’s pain, nothing but % "4 " pain. It hurts to breathe, it hurts "!& 6 # to sleep, it hurts to move from 3 side-to-side, it hurts to eat.” after Blake opened his own woman in May and waived his " '"2 P Blake, a 29-year-old father SUV’s driver-side door and right to a preliminary hearing. of six, also said he has staples leaned into the vehicle. The Blake appeared remotely via Tehran: Iranian President in his back and stomach. shooting was captured on video conference from his 8 Hassan Rouhani castigated “Your life, and not only just video and posted online, Milwaukee hospital bed, wear- Iran’s friends on Saturday for not your life, your legs, something sparking several nights of ing a dress shirt and tie. He ;8* supplies are running low. standing up to the United States you need to move around and protests and unrest in spoke only to respond to the The Maersk has reported and ignoring US sanctions dur- forward in life, can be taken Kenosha, a city of about judge’s questions. hree migrants stranded that tensions aboard the ship ing the coronavirus pandemic. from you like this,” Blake said, 1,00,000 between Milwaukee The state Justice Taboard a tanker for over a were growing, culminating in Iran with over 3,80,000 regis- snapping his fingers. and Chicago. Department has said a knife was month awaiting a port to dis- Sunday’s desperate jumps. tered Covid cases is one of the He added: “Stick together, Sheskey and the other recovered from Blake’s vehicle, embark jumped into the Malta, like Italy, often balks countries worst hit by the pan- make some money, make officers who were at the scene but it has not said whether he Mediterranean Sea on Sunday at taking in rescued migrants, demic in the Middle East. everything easier for our peo- were placed on administrative was holding it when officers tried in a sign of increasing despair insisting that other EU nations “Over the past months since ple out there, man, because leave pending the outcome of to arrest him. The man who on deck, the ship reported. should share the burden of car- the coronavirus arrived in our there’s so much time that’s an investigation by the made the widely seen cell- Maersk Tankers A/S said ing for people rescued in the country... no one came to our been wasted.” Wisconsin Department of phone video of the shooting, the captain and crew of its central Mediterranean. While help,” President Rouhani said in Blake, who is Black, was Justice. None of them have 22-year-old Raysean White, chemical tanker Etienne quick- such standoffs have become remarks broadcast live on state ! " " ! shot in the back by a white been charged. said he saw Blake scuffling with ly rescued the three migrants increasingly common, the television. If the US “had a bit * - . police officer on Aug. 23 after Blake, who had an out- three officers and heard them and brought them back aboard. Etienne’s plight is the longest in of humanity and brain”, he said, walking away from the officer standing arrest warrant when yell, “Drop the knife! Drop the But the company repeated its recent times and suggests that it would have offered to “lift the -8)978)9 said on its Facebook page. It and two others who were try- he was shot, pleaded not guilty knife!” before gunfire erupted. demand for a port and urgent other mercantile ships might be sanctions for a year because of said such slogans are illegal ing to arrest him. The officer, Friday to charges accusing He said he didn’t see a knife in humanitarian assistance to less willing to respond to distress the coronavirus”. bout 290 people were arrest- under a newly enacted nation- Rusten Sheskey, opened fire him of sexually assaulting a Blake’s hands. ensure that the passengers “are calls from migrants in the future. But the US “is far more Aed Sunday at protests al security law. immediately given the attention Not helping those in need heartless and evil than those against the government’s deci- Anti-government protests and care that they need.” on the sea, however, goes against things,” he added. Instead, it sion to postpone elections for erupted last year over a pro- +R - 8 The Etienne rescued a maritime standards, placing ship “imposed new sanctions and Hong Kong’s legislature, police posed extradition law and +++., group of 27 would-be refugees captains in an untenable posi- pressures on us over these past said. The elections were to have spread to include demands for on Aug. 4 at the request of tion. On Saturday, the GNV 7 months of coronavirus”. At the taken place Sunday but Chief greater democracy and criti- 3 ) Maltese authorities as the Rhapsody ferry moored off same time, “Not a single friend- Executive Carrie Lam on July 31 cism of Beijing’s efforts to ' % 8 migrants’ fishing boat sank. Lampedusa to take migrants off ly country told us that in this postponed them for one year. tighten control over the former 4 9 2 0C0! Malta, however, has refused to the small Italian island. Italian time of coronavirus and hardship Lam blamed an upsurge in British colony. The coronavirus C " let the migrants disembark officials have been hastily char- and for the sake of humanity ‘we coronavirus cases, but critics said and the tough new security law and the Etienne has been stuck tering ferries and putting other will stand up to America’” and do her government worried the have diminished the demon- Washington: Democratic vice '(,% ( in international waters 17 miles measures into place to fight business with Iran despite threats opposition would gain seats if strations this year, but smaller presidential nominee Kamala off the small European Union severe overcrowding at migrant of US retaliation, President voting went ahead on schedule. groups still take to the streets Harris said in comments woman journalist and island nation as food and water centers on Lampedusa. Rouhani said. Agencies Police said that 289 people from time to time. released Saturday that if a coro- Asocial worker has been had been arrested, mostly for The ruling Communist navirus vaccine is available shot dead allegedly by her hus- unlawful assembly. One Party’s decision to impose the before November’s election, band in Pakistan’s restive + woman was arrested in the law in May prompted com- she would not take President Balochistan province, a media ! " Kowloon district of Yau Ma Tei plaints it was violating the Donald Trump’s word on its report said on Sunday. on charges of assault and autonomy promised to the ter- safety and efficacy. The incident took place in + spreading pro-independence ritory when it was returned to Trump faces intense pres- Turbat, the headquarters of % slogans, the police department China in 1997. sure to curb the contagion Kech district, on Saturday. " that has clouded his re-election According to a police state- " prospects, sparking worries his ment, husband Mehrab Gichki KYIV (AP): Tens of thousands Police violently cracked cil and some of its top members administration could rush vac- took Shaheena Shaheen & of demonstrators marched down on demonstrators in the have been jailed. One of them, 3 cine research to fit a political Baloch’s body to a hospital in 55% & Sunday to the outskirts of the first days of the protests, arrest- Olga Kovalova, was expelled timetable. a car, but fled soon afterwards. 0:40: 7 presidential residence in the ing some 7,000 people and from the country over the “I would not trust Donald By that time, the woman had I capital of Belarus, calling for beating hundreds. Although weekend, driven to Poland by Trump and it would have to be died from bullet wounds. ( " the country's authoritarian they have scaled back, deten- police. a credible source of informa- Police visited a house in the : leader to resign as protests tions continue; Viasna report- Despite the stalemate tion that talks about the effi- PTCL Colony, Turbat, where against President Alexander ed scores of people were arrest- between Lukashenko and the cacy and the reliability of (a the shooting allegedly took % Lukashenko entered their fifth ed in Minsk and in the city of opposition, protesters say they vaccine),” Harris told CNN. “I place. Police found blood, an + week. Grodno on Sunday. are determined not to tire. * N will not take his word for it.” empty bullet shell and a bullet 3 Protests also took place in Police and army troops Some of the placards they car- A shot against the virus at the scene, the Dawn news- " major cities throughout blocked off the center of Minsk ried Sunday showed a lively that has killed over 188,000 in paper reported. Belarus, said Interior Ministry on Sunday, but demonstrators sense of humor. the US and hobbled the world’s Police quoted some sources spokeswoman Olga marched to the outskirts of the “Lukashenka, start building largest economy has become as saying that Baloch was the Chemodanova. Crowd sizes Palace of Independence, the a house near Yanukovych,” another flashpoint ahead of the wife of Gichki. ' 5 % for those protests were not president's working residence 3 read one, referring to former Bruges (AP): Bruges mayor exempt in an area spanning November 3 vote. However, a relative of the immediately reported, but Ales kilometers (2 miles) outside the Ukrainian President Viktor Dirk De fauw first realised from Greece's beaches to the This week news broke that deceased disputed this. 5<: 9 Bialiatski, head of the Viasna city center. The palace grounds Yanukovych who fled to Russia something was desperately trattorias in Rome and the the US Centers for Disease A case has been registered ; human rights organization, were blocked off by phalanxes in 2014 after months of anti- wrong with European tourism museums of Paris. Control and Prevention asked and investigation is underway, ; said the demonstration in of shield-bearing riot police government protests. when on a brisk March morn- And even now, the states to sweep away red tape a senior police official said, ) Minsk attracted more than and water cannon. “The collective farm went ing he crossed the Burg square European Commission told that could prevent a network of adding that Gichki is still " 100,000 people. “This sea of people cannot bankrupt,”said another, evoking in front of the Gothic city hall The Associated Press, bookings vaccine distribution centers absconding. The protests, unprece- be stopped by military equip- Lukashenko's former position and there was nothing but for September and October being “fully operational by He said the incident L M9 " dented in Belarus for their ment, water cannons, propa- as a collective farm director and silence. remain abnormally low," as November 1, 2020.” seemed to be a case of domes- 9 ; size and duration, began after ganda and arrests. Most his retention of largely state- There are always people. dire as 10% of capacity in Agencies tic violence. : the Aug. 9 presidential vote that Belarusians want a peaceful controlled Soviet-style econo- Always," De fauw said. That Bruges. election officials said gave change of power and we will my for Belarus, an Eastern morning? Nothing. Nobody is It dents hopes that a brief Lukashenko a sixth term in not get tired of demanding European nation of 9.5 million. on that large square" at the uptick in business in July would 2 + P. office with 80% support. this,"said Maria Kolesnikova, a Authorities also have heart of one of Europe's most be a harbinger of something # Protesters say the results were leader of the Coordination revoked the accreditation of picturesque cities, he said. more permanent. , rigged, and some have Council set up by the opposi- many Belarusian journalists Six months later, as Over the summer, though, explained to Associated Press tion to try to arrange a dialogue and deported some foreign Europe's meanest tourist sum- came fresh spikes in COVID- ,- journalists exactly how the with the 66-year-old journalists, including two mer season in history is start- 19 contamination, new restric- fraud took place in their dis- Lukashenko about a transi- Moscow-based Associated ing to draw to a close, COVID- tive measures and regional ,8)8) tricts. tion of power. Press journalists. 19 is yet to loosen its suffocat- color codes that spelled disas- 5 Lukashenko has ruled the She spoke with The AP’s Belarusian journal- ing grip on the continent. ter for local tourism when ikiLeaks founder Julian country with an iron fist since Associated Press by telephone. ists were among those told If anything the pandemic they turn red. %' The television segment and WAssange is set to fight for 1994, regularly repressing dis- Lukashenko has rejected their press credentials had might tighten it over the com- It left the European authorities accuse his freedom in a British court sent and press freedom. any discussion with the coun- been revoked. ing months, with losses piling tourism industry relying on ran has broadcast the tele- Afkari of stabbing a water sup- after a decade of legal drama, up in the tens of billions of hope more than anything else. Ivised confession of a wrestler ply company employee in the as he challenges American euros across the 27-nation It was all evident on a late facing the death penalty after a southern city of Shiraz amid authorities’ attempt to extradite European Union, and the con- summer's day in Bruges, when tweet from President Donald the unrest. him on spying charges over the ; ( ; tinent's vaunted government usually throngs of American Trump criticising the case, a Afkari’s case has drawn site’s publication of secret US support and social security and Asian tourists should have segment that resembled hun- international attention and military documents. Belgrade (AP): A social media across US President Donald ed to the White House to be system under increasing strain been mixing with Europeans dreds of other suspected revived a demand inside the Lawyers for Assange and post by the Russian foreign Trump at his Oval Office interrogated. to prop up the sector. along the cobblestone streets coerced confessions aired country that Iran, one of the the US Government are sched- ministry spokeswoman appar- table. Serbian President The upheaval so far, the below gabled houses to help over the last decade in the world’s top executioners, stop uled to face off in London ently ridiculing Serbia's presi- She posted that along with Aleksandar Vucic and other bloc's executive European boost the annual visit numbers Islamic Republic. carrying out the death penal- Monday at an extradition hear- dent after he signed a US-spon- another photo, the iconic scene Serbian officials reacted furi- Commission said, shows that to over 8 million in the city of The case of 27-year-old ty. Even imprisoned Iranian ing that was delayed by the sored agreement between from thriller Basic Instinct ously. revenue losses during the first 110,000. Navid Afkari has drawn the human rights lawyer Nasrin coronavirus pandemic. Serbia and Kosovo has trig- showing Sharon Stone being The primitivism and vul- half of 2020 for hotels, restau- The swans have it all to attention of a social media Sotoudeh, herself nearly a American prosecutors have gered a rare spat between tra- questioned by police as she sits garity she showed speaks about rants, tour operators, long dis- themselves," muttered Michiel campaign that portrays him month into a hunger strike over indicted the 49-year-old ditional allies Moscow and cross-legged in a chair. herself, but also about those tance train operators and air- Michielsens as he slowed his and his brothers as victims tar- conditions at Tehran’s Evin Australian on 18 espionage Belgrade. Zakkharova mocked Vucic who have given her the job, lines were roughly 85-90 per boat behind a bank of swans geted over participating in prison amid the coronavirus and computer misuse charges Maria Zakharova posted a in a comment on the Facebook Vucic told the pro-government cent." who gracefully obstructed a protests against Iran’s Shiite pandemic, has passed word adding up to a maximum sen- photo showing Vucic sitting post, saying that he was invit- Pink TV. No country has been quick passage on the canals. theocracy in 2018. that she supports Afkari. tence of 175 years. !"#$%&%&

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ampuriya, a small hamlet in and proper medical facilities at the Rajasthan’s southern hilly district Rampuriya PHC as per the Indian RPratapgarh, has been able to Public Health Standards. They put largely escape the Coronavirus forth request for better monitoring, onslaught. Till last month, there were 080 quality assurance and an audit by a third around 182 reported cases, out of party to ensure that the transformation which 160 had recovered while three is long-term. It also mentioned with- lives were lost. Had there been cases like R drawal of this particular PHC from the the rest of the country, the total lack of PPP mode as it was unable to deliver basic health care services in this remote better services as promised. region would have made it challenging In August 2019, the Jodhpur bench for the administration to control the sit- + D"" !95+:; .+ of Rajasthan High Court in a joint hear- uation. ing on a number of PILs filed on ‘glar- The Primary Health Centre (PHC), ing inadequacies’ in PHCs operational which is supposed to be the basic func- on PPP mode, had passed an extensive tional unit of government-funded order asking the State Government to healthcare, is practically a misnomer carry out assessments of the PHCs here, more so after the PHC started around necessary parameters for their being operated on Public-Partner functioning. Partnership (PPP) mode from 2017, In compliance of the order, the state allege villagers. In 2015, the Rajasthan carried out assessments of 75 rural Government decided to hand over 213 PHCs and 37 urban PHCs functioning of the total 2,088 PHCs to private agen- on PPP mode across the State in 2019 !"(%&&! cies to run on PPP mode under the ‘Run and submitted its report to the court. a PHC’ scheme that aimed at improv- The report revealed that out of the total ' ing the services and develop the defunct PHCs assessed, services of at least 30 and poorly functioning PHCs. operating in the rural areas and five in The ‘Run a PHC’ scheme agreement urban areas were found to be unsatis- stated that the state government would factory, including the Rampuriya PHC. provide the private agency 22 to 35 The State Government had assured the lakh depending on the bids received for court that these PHCs shall be discon- ;CA89' a five-year period. The private partner, tinued with immediate effect. on its part, is expected to employ at least The Rajasthan High Court %;-7 ; )'7 )C C' 11 members in staff, including doctor, acknowledged the State Government’s pharmacist, laboratory technicians and assurance in its final judgement given ou just have to be better each day,” remem- cleaners and an experienced Auxiliary on January 10, 2020. The court also Yber when they told you that? It’s one of the Nurse Midwife (ANM). Apart from the directed the state to continue monitor- reasons why we see competition in all walks of money, the government kept the ing the performances of the remaining life. In most cases, the competition may not also responsibility of infrastructure, build- PHCs every three months through the be what is called a cut-throat or a tough one but ing, medicines, surgical supplies and monitoring teams formed in compli- it may be what is known as a healthy competi- laboratory reagents in its own hands. ance of the August 2019 order. tion. Nevertheless, one thing common to all of This PPP model, however, has However, a reality check by a them — the underlying desire or motive to win faced criticism from health activists of Jaipur-based NGO Jan Swasthya or to defeat others. the State who argue that by doing so, the Abhiyan (JSA) found that the State From a psychological point of view, in a com- government side-stepped from its pri- Government has still not complied petitive situation, a person brings into play his mary duty of providing quality health- with the High Court’s order and all the skill, ability and talent to show that he is supe- care to its citizens. Handing over these PHCs, found “unsatisfactory” in the rior, stronger, better, more powerful, more skil- PHCs to private agencies, they believe, %* ! "! ! assessment by the government monitor- ful, more learned or “competent” than the oth- has not been a good move as the health ing team, continue to run on PPP mode. ers. They want to hear words of praise about facilities have deteriorated rather than then. Earlier, there was power-backup, Motilal, however, confirmed that themselves. Or maybe get a medallion, a citation, improving, with no accountability fixed deliveries took place, toilets were not as following the initial court order and an epithet or a high position. Amid this, one does on either of the partners. dirty, and there was water available. But survey by the government monitoring not mind if, on The arguments put forth by health after the PHC was taken over, the ser- team, a doctor now visits the their way to activists are confirmed by the villagers. vices deteriorated, staff seemed Rampuriya PHC. As rest of the finding success, “The PHC in our region caters to the untrained, the bedsheets were dirty and arrangement remains same, patients someone else need of a population of about 10,000 unhygienic. The centre had a single- have to travel to towns and cities for feels disappoint- people covering 22 villages. Ever since phase electricity connection, which better health services or any delivery. ed, depressed, the government started running this did not support the inverter in case of “This is not just a violation of the defeated or even PHC on PPP mode, we began facing emergency operation. Most of the time, High Court’s order but dereliction of humiliated. In a problems. The PHC was handed over there was no power. One bed in the its primary duty of providing basic sports match, to Chitransh Education Welfare Society male ward was always occupied by the healthcare services, especially in the too, we see how of Jaipur. There was no doctor. Only a ambulance drivers. There was no mon- tribal areas of the state. By not comply- even if the com- male nurse and an ANM (Auxiliary itoring of the PHC by the government ing with the court’s order, the govern- petitors shake Nurse Midwife) were running the cen- staff even after several complaints. ment has left people’s health on the hands at the end tre. In absence of a separate room, ante- Rampuriya is inhabited by a huge mercy of the private bodies, who have of the game or natal check-ups and minor pregnancy- per cent of tribal population with low not been able to provide efficient later, hang out related problems could not be handled. socio-economic status. Due to lapse in healthcare services. The pandemic together, the We had to take the patients about 25 km services at the PHC, they were forced cannot be an excuse as primary health- deep feeling of away to Pratapgarh city or to to opt for treatment in city that left them care assumes more significance in having lost or Peepalkhunt — the block level town to in debt. “Going to a government hos- C ! * such unprecedented times,” says having won is avail decent health services,” shared pital or healthcare centre would cost us Chayya Pachauli of JSA. always there, however minimal it may be. Motilal Meena, sarpanch of Rampuriya around 6,000 to 7,000 but at a private their abysmal services and on getting no Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in the Principal health secretary, Akhil However, this feeling of victory or defeat is pro- Panchayat. facility, the expenses were no less than response after making representations Rajasthan High Court in 2018. The Arora said, “A number of guidelines portionately less if the contest is just a friendly According to him, the services 25,000, leaving villagers in debts,” said to the Department of Health and petition requested for implementation have been issued after the High Court game or it’s a performance for fun and enjoyment prior to the partnership were not excel- Motilal. Family Welfare, the members of of better healthcare services, appoint- order, which would be enforced soon.” and without any expectation of receiving any lent but the doctor would visit the PHC Disappointed with the PHCs and Rampuriya Panchayat decided to file ment of a medical officer, sufficient staff L media attention. At that time, the players represent no one but themselves as members of inter- changeable friendly groups and the whole thing sunny-yellow daisies. Keep gaza- is just for the sake of self-development or any- nia and stocks near the front of thing but a competition. S a sunny bed, where they will not As a society, we need to understand that the be shaded or hidden by taller core objective behind competition is not just to ( plants. win for the self or the team, but it is intertwined Tall, spiky jasmine tobacco with the motive of laying the softer and nobler needs to be placed near the back sentiments of co-operation, kindness and gentle- of a bed for visual balance. Fill the ness. It is a distortion of intention or malignan- * spaces jasmine tobacco will leave cy in the desire that may, sooner or later, add an bare by day by combining it with iota of selfishness in behaviour and reduce the other tall flowers such as large level of love, kindness, generosity and gentleness delphiniums or large zinnias and and may put a limit on one’s spirit of giving, help- either evening stocks nor the nightshade family and, like asters. In the evening, white jas- ing, co-operation and sacrificing. For anything Njasmine tobacco are particu- their relatives, tomatoes, egg- mine tobacco flowers will come that is small and insignificant in the beginning larly worthy plants by day. But as plants and peppers, they demand into view as the day-bloomers has the potential of growing and becoming big. darkness falls, the petals of each a rich, warm soil in the sun. For recede into the darkness. We must not forget that even a spark is enough of these flowers unfurl to release earliest flowers, sow the seeds Plant jasmine tobacco and to burn down a huge apartment to ashes and grow a delicious, heavy scent. Jasmine indoors a few weeks before the evening stock where they can be into a massive fire. We should be careful and vig- tobacco’s petals unfold colourful last spring frost. enjoyed on summer nights. ilant because selfishness is contagious and this or pure white trumpets, the lat- Jasmine tobacco is an annu- Outside my back door, I once had habit of rivalry can spoil the charm of life and ter of which especially glow in the al, each plant forming a rosette of a small, semicircular flower bed the atmosphere around us. moonlight. The small white petals leaves at ground level and a flow- that was home to both these Some people link competition to motivation of evening stocks shine like little, ering spike a couple of feet high night-scented plants. When of performing better but they fail to understand bright stars. These two unrelated or more. New varieties have been atmospheric conditions were that this evil trait to defeat others, which may look plants make congenial compan- bred which are more compact and right, the fragrance could make harmless initially, may eventually develop feel- ions for you and each other on which bloom in daylight, hope- you delirious. I am not sure ings of revenge, enmity, jealousy, hostility or an summer nights. fully with no loss of scent. what exactly those optimal ugly attitude. Stocks represent two species, atmospheric conditions were, The seed of evil, as it grows, takes the form TWO PLANTS FOR NIGHT- one grown mostly for its showy but the typical calm summer of a huge tree with many branches of selfishness TIME FRAGRANCE flowers and the other for its noc- night seemed to fill the bill. On and feelings of downgrading others to gain ascen- Jasmine tobacco is one of a turnal aroma. The scented stock, such nights, the heavy aroma dancy for the self. It’s time that one must try to few species of nicotiana (pro- known as evening or night-scent- wiry stems with small leaves and stock or ten weeks stock is, botan- by day, consider hiding these would gather beneath the win- curtail selfishness and, in this effort, give up the nounced nee-KO-shee-ay-na), ed stock, is botanically Matthiola flowers. The wilted remains of the ically, Matthiola incana. This one Cinderellas among showier flow- dow just above the flower bed, ambition of winning by vengeance for the botanically Nicotiana alata. (Yes, bicornis. previous night’s flowers and the yields colourful, showy spikes of ers. A nice companion for stocks waiting to be wafted indoors by applause and praise for the self. Remember, the the word “nicotiana” does look Evening stock is an annual unopened buds of flowers for blossoms, also with fragrance. is gazania, which provides just the slightest breeze. only competition that should matter for us is the like “nicotine,” and smoking that blooms from July through nights to follow are not much to enough contrast to complement That flower bed is gone, but one that takes place within our self. Hence, it is tobacco is another nicotiana September. In contrast to jasmine look at by day. AT THEIR BEST AT NIGHT each plant. 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Williams vs. Sakkari n danger of her earliest exit at the U.S. Open is a rematch of their meeting won since her debut 22 years ago, Serena Williams )*+A8;7 last month by Sakkari at the Iturned things around and took over against Western & Southern Open, a hard- Sloane Stephens. ndia veteran Rohan Bopanna court tournament played at the U.S. Williams emerged from the third-round Iand his Canadian partner Open site instead of its usual home matchup between two Americans Denis Shapovalov stunned sixth in Ohio because of the pandemic. who are past champions at seeds Kevin Krawietz and "You know, Serena is Serena," Flushing Meadows - she’s won Andreas Mies in a hard-fought Sakkari said after advancing earlier six of her 23 Grand Slam sin- three-setter to advance to the Saturday by beating 19-year-old gles titles at the place - quarterfinals of the US Open American Amanda Anisimova 6-3, with a 2-6, 6-2, 6-2 victo- men’s doubles event here. 6-1. "You have to come up with some ry over 2017 titlist The unseeded Indo- great tennis. Otherwise there is no Stephens on Saturday. Canadian pair on Saturday over- chance against her." Stephens did Afterward, Williams’ came a set deficit to beat the Divij Sharan. that very thing in the early stages 3-year-old daughter, German duo 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 in a While Sumit Nagal bowed Saturday. " Olympia, wore a mask and second round encounter that out in the second round after los- She was playing patient, wait- waved at Mom while sit- lasted one hour and 47 minutes. ing in straight sets to world no. 3 for-the-right-moment tennis, creat- ting on her father's lap in Bopanna and Shapovalov will and second seed Dominic Thiem ing lengthy, complicated points that a front-row seat. On her take on Dutch-Romanian combi- of Austria, Sharan and his Serbian more often than not ended with way to the locker room, nation of Jeal-Julien Rojer and partner Nikola Cacic were Williams blinking first. Williams waved back. Horia Tecau in the quarterfinals. knocked out in the opening The end of the first set was met (!87-8, “I hope,” Williams Bopanna is the lone surviv- round of the men’s doubles event by total silence - not even the awk- said, “that she saw her ing Indian in the tournament by eighth seeds Nikola Mektic ward, manufactured soundtrack ylian Mbappé scored the winning goal as France mama fighting.” after the exit of Sumit Nagal and and Wesley Koolhof. piped in during other matches to Kearned a scrappy 1-0 win at Sweden in the Nations Williams did it, as she simulate ambient noise. League on Saturday. so often does, with her From 2-all in the second, The Paris Saint-Germain striker’s 14th internation- best-in-the-game would look over at her seeded Maria Sakkari, who Williams finally made inroads. She al goal came in the 41st minute but it could have been serve, hitting 12 aces at coach, Kamau Murray, or sipped orange juice and ate saved a break point, then broke for more comfortable for France, only for Antoine up to 122 mph as it got smack her right thigh with lunch while on her player the first time when Stephens missed Griezmann to fluff a penalty right at the end. It was really dialed in mid- her palm so loudly that it suite's balcony. Sakkari had a forehand, part of a stretch in which Griezmann’s third straight penalty miss for France. way through the sec- echoed through a nearly a vested interest: She faces Williams grabbed 12 of 15 points. Mbappé cut in from the left and, after initially being ond set, and an abili- empty Arthur Ashe Stadium. Williams for a berth in the quarter- She was on her way. And now tackled, he got the ball back off Kristoffer Olsson, feint- ty to re-calibrate her “In that first set, I don’t think she finals. Other women into the fourth she is four wins from adding to her ed, and then curled the ball inside the post. groundstrokes that made any errors, honestly. She was round: No. 16 Elise Mertens, No. 20 Grand Slam trophy count, which has “It was a tough match and we fought hard. It was- were so awry early and so playing so clean. I said, ‘I don’t want Karolina Muchova and Tsvetana been at 23 since she won the 2017 n’t easy ... it could be better in the future,” Mbappé said. superb down the stretch. to lose in straight sets,” said Pironkova, who defeated No. 18 Australian Open while pregnant. “The most important thing is the result.” “She served a lot better,” Williams, whose only career U.S. Donna Vekic 6-4, 6-1. Asked Saturday what the posi- It was an accomplished finish from Mbappé, follow- said Stephens, now 1-6 Open loss before the fourth round In men’s action, 2019 runner-up tives are about still being active on ing his glaring missed chance in the 1-0 defeat to Bayern against Williams, although came in the third against Irina Daniil Medvedev and another semi- tour as a parent, Williams said: “One Munich in the Champions League final on Aug. 23. they hadn't played each Spirlea in 1998 at age 16. finalist from a year ago, No. 6 day, your daughter can say she was France coach Didier Deschamps handed a debut to other since 2015. Williams, who turns 39 in three Matteo Berrettini moved on, as did there. Whether she remembers or 21-year-old Leipzig center half Dayot Upamecano and “Obviously she has weeks, said she told herself Saturday: No. 10 Andrey Rublev, No. 15 Felix not, we can always have pictures. But recalled Adrien Rabiot to midfield, after a long spell out one of the greatest “OK, Serena, just get a game. Get a Auger-Aliassime, No. 21 Alex de other than that, it’s just (a) minus, of the side following his refusal to be on the reserve list serves in the game. game.” There were, of course, no Minaur and Vasek Pospisil, who's like: I'm not with her, I’m not for the 2018 World Cup. It’s really difficult to fans - banned because of the coro- been in the news lately because he around her. It's hard.” Williams has Chances were scarce in the first half but veteran read.” navirus pandemic - and so the teamed up with Novak Djokovic to reached the finals at four of the past Sweden striker Marcus Berg almost broke through late Williams collected 10 of the whole thing was flush with the feel set up a new association to represent seven major tournaments, losing on, only for France goalkeeper Hugo Lloris to deny him last 12 games by lifting her level, of a practice session, rather than a players. each time. by rushing off his line. Moments later, Sweden 'keep- to be sure. But it helped that high-stakes contest on a Grand Pospisil eliminated No. 8 “We all hope she gets to it,” er Robin Olsen was picking the ball out of the net. Stephens went from playing nearly Slam stage. Roberto Bautista Agut 7-5, 2-6, 4-6, Stephens said. “If she is feeling pres- “It was difficult for us, but for them as well,” perfectly to missing more and more. There were some other players 6-3, 6-2, and next faced another five- sure, I hope she releases it and gets Deschamps said. “We could have done a bit better going Following mistakes, Stephens on hand to watch, including 15th- set winner, de Minaur, who defeat- to 24.” forward.” Still, France was in control of the second half, with Mbappé and Barcelona’s Griezmann wasting good % -%' can happen with Dre Russ,” said: “A fantastic player, he chances before Lloris punched away a late effort from --D ;* Hussey said in a news con- is probably almost the the lively Emil Forsberg. olkata Knight Riders, ference here. heartbeat of the team as Griezmann then blazed a poor penalty over the bar Kwho have a new think David Hussey said on mer champions missing out “If it benefits the team Russell scored 510 runs well. after substitute Anthony Martial was fouled. tank in place headed by Sunday. on the playoffs. and helps us win games of from 13 innings, averaging “We’ve actually got real- France hosts Croatia at Stade de France on coach Brendon McCullum, The star Jamaican, who Hussey said they are cricket, why not? If that 56.66 and also picked up 11 ly a well-balanced team... Tuesday in a repeat of the World Cup final two years are exploring the options of was adjudged the Most thinking of different combi- means Andre Russell comes wickets. Anyone can bat in any dif- ago, which France won 4-2 with Mbappé among the promoting their explosive Valuable Player last season, nations this season, which in at three and bats 60 balls, Terming Russell as the ferent position. But if it scorers. all-rounder Andre Russell at had blamed some “bad deci- includes promoting Russell he might actually make a heartbeat of the team, the benefits the team, why not, In the group’s other game, Croatia lost 4-1 at defend- number three, team mentor sions” for the two-time for- at three. double hundred. Anything former Australia cricketer why can’t he bat up the list.” ing Nations League champion Portugal. % !0.

%' things will automatically fall into place.” *)9 )*+*,-' “He (Kohli) has come between 2015 to 2019. Dhawan has so far played 34 Tests and back in much better He has worked exten- ut of reckoning for Test cricket for the scored 2,315 runs with seven centuries (8 !-3!8) asu Shanker, the man shape. He is at his best sively with Kohli, both at Opast two years, opening batsman Shikhar under his belt at an average of 40.61. Bresponsible for the fitness weight at the moment and his RCB and during his time Dhawan on Sunday said he has not given up He remains in the scheme of things in ngland’s transformation of the nation- movement patterns are pret- with the Indian team. on making a comeback to the Indian team ODIs and T20Is and is gearing up for IPL Ebowlers al team, feels India and RCB ty much in sync with his best Basu said Kohli was able and is looking at the upcoming opportuni- 2020, to be held in UAE showed discipline skipper Virat Kohli has self in the past,” former India to work on things which an ties to plot his return. from September 19. and skill to restrict returned from the long break trainer Basu, who is now the international cricketer finds The 34-year-old Dhawan last played a The experienced Australia to 157/7 an even fitter athlete after strength and conditioning it difficult to do in a packed Test against England at The Oval in Dhawan will turn out for in 20 overs in the working on “specific physical coach of Royal Challengers calendar. September 2018. Delhi Capitals and spoke second T20I here pointers” that needed atten- Bangalore, told PTI from “He had the time to be “I am not a part of the Test about the challenges being on Sunday. tion. September 19. Dubai. very specific with his meal team but that does not mean I faced by the players while Paceman Kohli was stuck in However, he ensured “He has taken this break plans and running intervals have given up all hopes of a staying in a bio-bubble Chris Jordan was Mumbai for five months due during the break that his as an opportunity to work on at home. He did not have comeback,” Dhawan told TV amid the COVID-19 pan- the pick of the to the coronavirus-enforced supreme fitness level was all the pointers which need- much of a choice during the channels during an inter- demic. bowlers for the lockdown and had his first not impacted and, in fact, it ed attention from a physical lockdown and he invested on action. "There are challenges hosts, returning proper hit in the nets only helped him skill-wise on his point. I guess his motto to life a treadmill and worked on “Whenever I got of being in the bubble, you figures of 2/40 but after his arrival in the UAE return to action even though is ‘Bear the cross and wear his endurance which is oth- an opportunity... do not meet new people, it was a team effort for the Indian Premier he was “scared" to hit the the crown’,” said the man who erwise not possible during a Like in the Ranji can't go to restaurants, we really as Jofra League, beginning nets. worked with the Indian team packed calendar. Trophy last year I can only go to the designat- Archer (1/31) and scored a century, then I made a ed areas. Mark Wood comeback into the one-day team, “But our franchise has (1/25) bowled if I get an opportunity then why looked after us, we are living like superbly to never 7 0 ; not, of course.” a family, it depends on the person let the Aussies get Dhawan stroked his way to how he sees the situation,” Dhawan the better of them. the fastest Test century by a said in a press conference. For the visitors, skipper Aaron Finch top- '!,A Ferrari's abysmal weekend contin- debutant, against Australia When asked about Delhi Capitals’ scored with a 33-ball 40, with his innings ued as Sebastian Vettel had a brake fail- in 2013, but has often strug- chances this IPL, Dhawan sounded laced with four fours and two sixes. lphaTauri driver Pierre Gasly ure on Lap 7 and he limped into the pits gled for consistency in the optimistic. Marcus Stoinis also looked good for his Aclaimed an unlikely victory at the with his right-rear brake disc in flames. five-day game. “It’s important we bond together 35 and Glenn Maxwell made 25 but all three Italian Grand Prix after a thrilling race It was the four-time champion's first In Rohit Sharma, KL and create that energy. We have a very batsmen were removed just when they which saw world champion Lewis DNF at Monza in his 14th start. Rahul, Mayank Agarwal and balanced side and confident we will looked to get going. Hamilton given a 10-second penalty His teammate Charles Leclerc had Prithvi Shaw, the Test team has take the cup.” David Warner was the first to go as he was and both Ferraris fail to finish at their made it into fourth but lost the rear of a number of options at its dis- He said Shreyas Iyer has been caught behind by Jos Buttler off Archer. home circuit on Sunday. the car under acceleration through posal for opener's role, making leading the team very well. He also said Alex Cary, promoted up the order, was It was Gasly's first-ever win in Parabolica on Lap 25 and crashed into Dhawan's case even more difficult. the inclusion of experienced India play- out in similar fashion to Wood as Steve Smith Formula One. The 24-year-old the barriers, causing the race to be red The left-handed batsman, ers Ajinkya Rahane and R Ashwin will also failed with the bat, managing just 10 as Frenchman finished 0.415 seconds flagged. though, remains optimistic. strengthen the outfit. he was run out by England captain Eoin ahead of McLaren driver Carlos Sainz By that time Hamilton’s penalty had “I will keep trying my “Shreyas led the team pretty well last Morgan. and 3.358 ahead of Racing Point's Lance a comfortable victory from pole posi- been announced. Hamilton had pitted best. The T20 World Cup is year, this time Ajinkya has come in, The Aussies were 89/5 at one stage Stroll on a surreal-looking podium. All tion but he was given the stop-go penal- immediately after the safety car had there next year, so I need to Ashwin has come in, they are quite expe- before the likes of Stoinis, Maxwell and three drivers had never won a race and ty for entering the pit lane when been deployed after Kevin Magnussen keep performing, keep myself rienced players and I am sure they are Ashton Agar (23) steadied the ship with Pat each had only one top-three finish to closed. broke down but was unaware the pit fit, make runs consistently. going to share their insights.” Cummins (13 not out) also chipping in. their name. The Mercedes driver finished sev- lane was closed as the marshals recov- “If I keep doing these, other Hamilton appeared on course for enth, 17.245 behind Gasly. ered Magnussen’s Haas.