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Pradhan high-profile visit to the nation- take oath of Chief Ministership announced the name of al Capital met Prime Minister on Wednesday. Bommai as a successor to Narendra Modi at his resi- The name of Bommai, the Yediyurappa amid loud cheers dence on Tuesday ahead of a son of former State Chief and clapping. series of meetings with top Minister SR Bommai (a Janata By picking-up Bommai, a Opposition leaders to prepare parivar leader) who had joined Sadara “Lingayat”, the BJP the strategy for a unified chal- the BJP in 2008, was proposed seemed to have satisfied the lenge to the BJP in the 2024 by Yediyurappa, the “Lingayat” caste dynamics of Karnataka, Lok Sabha polls. strongman and former Chief pre-empted influential com- On Wednesday, Mamata Minister. munity’s wrath, and agreed to will hold “chai pe charcha” , , -. $ ,, . / $ $ The new Chief Minister is Yediyurappa’s choice of the with Congress president a two-time MLC and three- CM candidate. Sonia Gandhi. Opposition leaders like NCP Om Prakash Chautala, Shiv and political strategist time MLA from Shiggaon in Yediyurappa himself This was the Bengal Chief chief Sharad Pawar, Samajwadi Sena leader Sanjay Raut, Delhi Prashant Kishor. Haveri district. belongs to the Veerashaiva- Minister’s first meeting with the Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Continued on Page 11 “It is a big responsibility in Lingayat community which is Prime Minister after the bitter the given situation. I will strive seen to be the BJP’s core sup- 0 ! , . /. $ $% Bengal election campaign. to work for the welfare of the port base in Karnataka. , .%1 ** $.23$ $ . $ Mamata told reporters poor. It will be pro-people and Continued on Page 11 after the meeting that there should be a Supreme Court- monitored enquiry into the Pegasus scandal involving Opposition leaders, two Union P Ministers and 40 journalists Congress for obstructing busi- ers’ agitation and Pegasus spy- revealed as potential targets of ness in both Houses and asked ware controversy. !" surveillance using Israeli lacards of “Big Brother is BJP MPs to “expose” the Both the Lok Sabha and Pegasus spyware that is sold PWatching” and ear-split- Opposition party. the Rajya Sabha were !! "#$ only to Governments. ting slogans were the only Both Houses of Parliament adjourned multiple times on %!! Mamata’s nephew highlight of the sixth day of the have barely transacted any Tuesday as members of the Institute of Health Informatics from more than 600 people &'()*)) Abhishek Banerjee is among Parliament session which business as they have been Opposition continued their in a statement. aged 18 and above, the findings !,- the potential targets whose ended without transacting any witnessing a repeat adjourn- vociferous protests on the “However, we found these of the study were consistent '" name has surfaced as part of a business on Tuesday even as ments on account of Congress- Pegasus snooping issue, seek- levels dropped substantially across all groups of people, # worldwide investigation by a Prime Minister Narendra Modi led vociferous protest on a ing an independent judicial over the course of two regardless of age, chronic ill- media consortium that gave tongue-lashing to the range of issues, including farm- probe into the matter. to three months,” Madhumita nesses or sex, researchers said. # #$ includes India’s The Wire. Apart from the reports by Shotri added. Based on data Continued on Page 11 # Mamata announced a judicial the Pegasus Project partners, #%&'!"./O enquiry led by former Supreme the issues of the farmers’ !,! Court judges on Monday. demand to repeal the three 1 !%% Mamata described her farm laws and petrol prices sky- ndicating that a booster dose ( meeting with the PM as a rocketing have also been raised Iis going to be the next in- 2213 “courtesy visit” and said she by Opposition members. thing after two mandatory jabs 4/ ! discussed the Covid situation, However, it was the against Covid-19, a study pub- 1 the supply of vaccines and Pegasus issue that has domi- lished in The Lancet journal has # 5"--67/ medicine to the State and also nated proceedings in both the found that the total antibody ,. a proposal to rename Bengal Houses so far. As soon as the levels start to weaken just six 78! as Bangla. Rajya Sabha and the Lok Sabha weeks after both doses of # “I should not speak what resumed their sessions, the immunisation with Pfizer and the PM said,” she told reporters Opposition members began AstraZeneca vaccines. The ")*+ ## when pressed for details. raising slogans in support of antibody levels may also be # ,#$ Apart from Sonia, Mamata ,* - ) / % $, % their demands for a probe. reduced by more than 50 per - -." is scheduled to meet top )%4& Continued on Page 11 cent over 10 weeks or 2-3 (2 months, said researchers from ,%# University College London &5' (UCL) in the UK. !!( They said if the antibody !7)**& levels carry on dropping at this - # rate, there are concerns that the !)8 protective effects of the vac- !7 !"# cines may also begin to wear # )*'&( off, particularly against new ')! variants. But how soon that 7)'# might happen cannot be pre- $ % dicted yet, they added. General of the Border Security The UCL Virus Watch ! + , ! Force (BSF), will join study also found that antibody "#"$ % der that separates Assam and he Union Ministry as the Delhi Police levels are substantially higher "# $ Mizoram, with the three Assam Tof Home Affairs Commissioner with following two doses of the %%-. & districts of Cachar, Hailakandi (MHA) on Tuesday immediate effect. Pfizer vaccine compared to two % &' and Karimganj sharing a bor- appointed Rakesh Earlier on shots of the AstraZeneca jab, years of age. der with Kolasib, Mamit and Asthana, a 1984 batch June 30, Balaji known as Covishield in India. Mandaviya said India is on Aizawl districts of Mizoram. Indian Police Service Shrivastava, 1988 Antibody levels were also much he Government is expect- course to become the largest Mizoram, earlier referred (IPS) officer of Gujarat batch IPS officer, higher in vaccinated people ays after denying any death Ted to begin vaccinating vaccine producing country as to as Lushai Hill, shares borders cadre, as the Commissioner of was appointed as the acting than in those with prior SARS- Ddue to oxygen shortage children against Covid-19 by more companies will get pro- he Assam-Mizoram border with three States of Tripura, the Delhi Police. Delhi Police Commissioner CoV-2 infection, they said. during the second wave of next month, Union Health duction licences. Trow that claimed the lives Assam and Manipur besides a The appointment of after then incumbent SN “The levels of antibody Covid-19, the Government has Minister Mansukh Mandaviya Zydus Cadila, which is of six Assam policemen on 722-km border with the neigh- Asthana to the post came just Shrivastava retired. following both doses of either written to States/Union told the BJP Parliamentary developing DNA vaccines, has Monday has its genesis in an bouring countries of days before his superannuation Asthana has served as the the AstraZeneca or Pfizer vac- Territories seeking such data, Party meeting on Tuesday. concluded its trials for the 12- 1875 Bengal Eastern Frontier Bangladesh and Myanmar. on July 31. He will have a Special Director of the Central cines were initially very high, according to Government Prime Minister Narendra Modi 18 age group, and subject to Regulation declaring 1,318 sq The India-Myanmar bor- tenure of one year. Bureau of Investigation (CBI). which is likely to be an impor- sources. was also present at the meeting. statutory provisions, the vac- km of the stretch as an inner der in Mizoram is open, and an According to a Ministry of During his stint in the CBI, he tant part of why they This data is likely to be pre- The Union Government cine may be available in the line forest reserve over which unhindered movement of peo- Home Affairs (MHA) order was engaged in an unsavoury are so protective against sented in the ongoing had expressed confidence that near future, the Centre Assam claims its jurisdiction. ple from both sides has report- issued on July 27, Asthana spat with then CBI Director severe Covid-19,” said Monsoon Session of it would soon able to vaccinate had said. Mizoram shares a 164 km edly led to a spurt in cross-bor- currently serving as Director Alok Verma. Madhumita Shrotri from UCL Parliament, they added. children between 12 and 18 Continued on Page 11 border with Assam which is the der smuggling. The Free core of the unresolved border Movement Regime between issue between the two States. India and Myanmar allows Several rounds of talks people living along the border .2 between the two States with to travel 16 km into each ' # ( ) facilitation from the Centre other’s territory without visa. since 1995 have not yielded any Amid recurring claims and result. Both sides have accused counterclaims, the region along each other of transgressing the border between the two their territories. States has largely remained * $ here was resilience on dis- At the centre of the conflict peaceful. Tplay in hockey, a tactical is the 164.6-km inter-State bor- Continued on Page 11 , mind sparkled in the boxing ring but the free fall in shoot- he BJP members on ing remained perplexing and /)0 1+-23)0,"45)6))0 TTuesday boycotted the worrying as India’s Olympic meeting of the Parliamentary campaign oscillated between $ # #/ 0 1 # Standing Committee on some celebration and a lot of ' 7% '* & $'5 Information Technology (IT) dejection on day 4 of the com- led by Congress MP Shashi petitions here on Tuesday. ).1:";5)8 Tharoor, saying that the agen- At the Asaka shooting &,"$ ;)' da of the meeting should not be range, the Indians largely mis- 8< ,; ;8'5 made public. fired and with that the hopes of $468 $ & ') The Committee is likely to medals in the 10m air pistol question top Government offi- and 10m air rifle mixed team P) * % $ $ $ %* $ P = & ) $'* ! #+#+% " * cials, including from the Home events went up in smoke. ; : & ' $" Ministry, on allegations relat- The performance so far has 5 , ) & &5 ed to phone tapping of many resurrected the ghosts But perhaps the shooters Australia, the Manpreet Singh- using Pegasus spyware on of 2016 Rio Games when sim- can take a leaf out of the men’s led side claimed a 3-0 triumph " ) ) &; Wednesday. There are 32- ilar hype and expectations had hockey team’s book and find a over Spain to inch closer to a '* ) * *) 3 $ , $ members in the committee. ended in a deflating medal-less way out of their current misery. quarterfinal berth. &" * ' * ' , 3 * Continued on Page 11 campaign. Hammered 1-7 by Continued on Page 11 !!" # $# %&'%(%) + % : & 01 & ., ration for the programme. Similarly, the state gov- o showcase the claim of ernment is working round the . + Thow double engine govern- clock for completion of ments in Delhi and Lucknow Purvanchal Expressway which had changed the face of Uttar will be inaugurated in August. ., Pradesh, Prime Minister Already, 95 per cent work of the ''./,-! Narendra Modi and several project has been completed iming to provide free med- Union ministers will now fre- and the rest will be finished by Aical aid to the underprivi- ., He said at present, the quently visit the poll-bound UP the first week of August, leged, a special campaign to number of active cases in the every month to either inaugu- or lay the foundation stone of sources disclosed and added provide Golden Health Cards ttar Pradesh reported 36 state had come down to 798 rate or lay the foundation stone development projects in the that the government has has been started for beneficia- Unew coronavirus positive out of which 508 were in of various development state,” a senior BJP leader told appointed nodal officers to ries who do not have cases on Tuesday while 73 home isolation. schemes, until the model code this reporter on Tuesday. complete these works on the Ayushman cards. patients recovered during the The COVID-19 recovery of conduct comes into force. The prime minister will be war footing. On the first day of the same period while 11 dis- rate in the state is 98.6 per Union Home Minister in Siddharthnagar to inaugu- In October, the prime min- campaign, Golden Cards tricts were declared Covid- cent. So far, more than 16.84 Amit Shah will visit the state rate nine new medical col- ister could again be in the state were provided to over 26,000 free, said Additional Chief lakh people have recovered, he capital to lay the foundation leges, his second trip to the to inaugurate two All India families of Uttar Pradesh and Secretary (Information) added. stone of Uttar Pradesh State state this month after visiting Institutes of Medical Sciences so far, such cards have been Navneet Sehgal here on In the last 24 hours, Institute for Forensic Sciences Varanasi on July 15 for unveil- (AIIMS) in Gorakhpur and issued to over 6.5 crore Tuesday. 2,25,009 Covid tests were con- which will come up in 50-acre ing projects. The dates will be Rae Bareli. The Centre will beneficiaries in the state Aligarh, Budaun, Basti, ducted. More than 8.20 lakh land in Piparsand village of announced later. It will be stress that it was the ‘double- under Ayushman Yojana. Using Bahraich, Etah, Fatehpur, people were administered vac- Sarojini Nagar tehsil in highlighted that these medical engine’ of BJP governments at this card, any beneficiary can Hamirpur, Hathras, Kasganj, cines on Monday. So far, more Lucknow on August 1. The colleges have been built under Centre and in UP that made get free treatment up to Rs 5 Mahoba and Shravasti districts than 4,52,39,000 Covid vac- institute will also have a seat of Pradhan Mantri Swasthya these AIIMS projects possible. lakh in any empanelled hospi- Last week, during a cabinet the financial burden of poor have been declared Covid-free. cines have been administered centre of excellence and pave Suraksha Yojana and with the The OPDs of AIIMS in tal. meeting, it was decided that and underprivileged families Sehgal said not a case of in UP. In this, more than 1.32 the way for research in DNA resources of the UP govern- Gorakhpur and Rae Bareli are Stressing that Antyodaya over 40 lakh Antyodaya card- but will also ensure their access infection was found in 54 dis- crore vaccine doses have been testing in the state. ment. functional. card-holder families would get holder families of Uttar to quality health care services. tricts, while patients were given in the month of July “Like the model followed Government sources con- Besides, BJP president JP relief in paying their medical Pradesh, who were deprived of If the budget of Rs 5 lakh sanc- found in single digits in 21 dis- alone. More than 3.79 crore in Bihar and West Bengal elec- firmed that the prime minister Nadda is also expected to expenses, Chief Minister Yogi Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya tioned for the Mukhyamantri tricts. He said the positivity people of the state have taken tions, the prime minister, his is likely to lay the foundation launch the party's poll cam- Adityanath said the campaign Yojana and Mukhya Mantri Jan Jan Arogya Yojana is insuffi- rate now stood at 0.01 per at least one dose of Covid vac- ministerial colleagues and stone of Asia's biggest airport paign in the second week of should be conducted with com- Arogya Yojana would be linked cient, an additional budget will cent. cine. senior BJP functionaries will be at Jewar in Gautam Buddha August and will be in Lucknow mitment and the benefit of the to Mukhyamantri Jan Arogya be allocated through a supple- visiting UP regularly ahead of Nagar between August 22 and on August 7 and 8 to hold a scheme should be provided to Yojana. mentary budget,” the chief A proposal to this effect state cabinet chaired by the the imposition of the model 25 and the district authorities series of meetings with state all eligible people. “This will not only reduce minister said. was cleared in a meeting of the chief minister earlier. code of conduct to inaugurate have been asked to start prepa- leaders. /& 6 % 7/ ! ! ( ! 67/ * % * / 2 ! *1 * ., All these districts have the presence of a ., basis of coded forms. person named Hafiz Shafiq was Lucknow(PNS): With a view to sizable Nishad community. Lucknow (PNS): Buoyed by the success of According to the informa- running this gang in Meerut. assign responsibility for the he battle of one-upmanship among In 1994, the then Chief Minister of Mission Shakti, the Uttar Pradesh govern- leuths of the Anti Terrorists tion given by the police, these "Gang members used to forthcoming assembly elec- Ttwo Nishad parties staking claim over UP, Mulayam Singh Yadav had withdrawn ment is set to launch its next phase to ensure SSquad (ATS) claimed to have human traffickers exploited the make fake United Nations High tions, Bharatiya Janata Party the legacy of bandit queen and former MP pending cases against Phoolan Devi and safety, dignity, health, education and self- busted a gang involved in victims, including women and Commissioner for Refugees national president JP Nadda Phoolan Devi has worried the Samajwadi facilitated her release from the jail. She reliance of women. human trafficking racket involv- children financially, physically cards and take a lot of money will hold meetings with BJP Party. The Nishad Party of UP and was in jail for the 1981 massacre of Chairing a high-level review meeting, ing Bangladeshis and Rohingyas and mentally. It also came to and then help people enter MPs on July 28 and 29 in New Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP) of Bihar, Thakur community members in Behmai Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that in the country. They arrested light that the human traffickers India illegally after making their Delhi. both allies of the Bharatiya Janata Party, village of Kanpur Dehat. Subsequently, there was a need to give a new direction to three members of the gang on were earning a huge amount of fake Indian IDs. These people “An important meeting has are vying with each other to establish Phoolan was elected twice to Lok Sabha Mission Shakti along with added energy Tuesday and claimed that the money from this work. were involved in criminal and been called by BJP national themselves as the sole representative of the as a SP candidate from Bhadohi con- and spirit and the departments of Health, group was involved in human The ATS investigation anti-national activities," said president JP Nadda regarding Nishad community in UP and claiming stituency in UP. However in 2001, Education, Rural Development, Panchayati trafficking, especially of women revealed that Noor Muhammad ADG (Law & Order) Prashant preparations for upcoming themselves as the sole representative of Phoolan Devi was perforated with bullets Raj, Home, Women and Child and children, to settle them in was going to Delhi by train Kumar. assembly elections, party cam- Phoolan Devi. by assailants outside her official residence Development and others should coordinate cities like Ghaziabad, Noida (Brahmaputra Mail) along with "They have also sent some paign and programmes of the “It was the Samajwadi Party that in Delhi. The assassins later said that they and prepare a detailed action plan for the and Delhi through forged doc- some Rohingya and Rohingya women abroad using organisation,” a senior leader of took cudgels on behalf of the communi- wanted to avenge the deaths of people in next phase. uments. Bangladeshi nationals when the fake documents. This is the first the party said here on Tuesday. ty in 1994 and not only ensured the release Behmai village. He also instructed officials to take According to an official probing team deboarded five time that human trafficking He said the meeting of of Phoolan Devi but got her elected to Lok Sahani's political ambition has immediate action against crime involving communiqué, the ATS sleuths persons, including two girls angle has come to the knowl- Braj, West and Kanpur regions Sabha twice. Now new claimants have become a threat to the UP-based Nishad women and girls. were getting information for and interrogated them in edge as they have sent some would be held on July 28 while emerged to stake claim on her legacy. Both Party headed by Sanjay Nishad, whose son “Despite the pandemic, many schemes some time that an internation- Ghaziabad. Besides Islam, the women to Malaysia. the next day MPs from Awadh, Nishad community- based parties would Praveen Nishad is a BJP MP from implemented in the state for needy women al gang was illegally bringing cit- other two arrested were identi- Investigation is underway," Kashi and Gorakhpur regions be exposed during the 2022 UP Assembly Khalilabad. Sanjay Nishad has been a and girls of rural and urban areas have izens of Bangladesh and fied as Rahmatullah and Prashant Kumar had earlier will hold a meeting with the elections as people know who their real Nishad politician in Uttar Pradesh for become a shield for them. Now the govern- Myanmar, especially women Safiurrehman alias Safiullah, revealed. party national president. benefactor is,” said a Samajwadi Party decades and has raised the issues of the ment has decided to launch a new phase of and children, to India to settle all hailing from Myanmar. The money was being cir- BJP state president leader in Lucknow on Tuesday. community on numerous occasions. He Mission Shakti. Schemes like Women Self- them in cities like Noida, Earlier in June also, four culated through hawala. Metals Swatantra Dev Singh, state Nishad leader and Bihar minister is now eying a berth in Yogi Adityanath’s Help Group, BC Sakhi have shown the path Ghaziabad and Delhi. members of the gang that sent like gold have also been recov- general secretary (organisa- Mukesh Sahani has said that his outfit, VIP, possible cabinet expansion. The party is of self-reliance to women. While other During investigation, it was Rohingyas to India were arrest- ered from the arrested tion) Sunil Bansal and in- will contest 165 assembly seats in the 2022 dominant in about 20 Lok Sabha con- schemes like Mukhyamantri Kanya found that the leader of this ed. Rohingyas are living illegal- Rohingya, he informed. charge Radha Mohan Singh UP elections. Eyeing the votes of Nishad stituencies and 60 Assembly segments in Sumangala Yojana, and Mukhyamantri international human trafficking ly in the country. Around 15 The ATS also arrested two will be present. (Mallah) community that constitute seven Uttar Pradesh. Samuhik Vivah Yojana have provided gang was Muhammad Noor Rohingyas have been arrested members of the Rohingya com- The source in the party per cent of UP’s electorate, Sahani has If Mukesh Sahani manages to make major support to the girl child and their alias Noorul Islam, who was ille- from Uttar Pradesh so far. munity for illegally living in said that the meeting had been decided to install Phoolan Devi's statues inroads into the Nishad votes in UP, he parents. Schemes run by the Yogi gally luring Rohingya and The gang involved in these India by forging documents convened to activate the MPs in 18 UP districts including Prayagraj, will be another option for the BJP to Adityanath government are focusing on Bangladeshi women into mar- illegal activities used to send just two days before the above before the 2022 assembly elec- Firozabad, Ballia, Sant Kabir Nagar, Banda, replace Sanjay Nishad as the saffron women’s security, education, self-reliance, riage, and men and children to them through the Myanmar- arrest. The ATS team arrested tions and their role in the elec- Ayodhya, Sultanpur, Gorakhpur, party has been under pressure from him dignity, health for the all-round develop- work in factories, the release Bangladesh border. The gang Rafiq and Amin belonging to tion campaign would be fixed Maharajganj, Auraiya, Lucknow, Unnao, in recent months. Rattled over the devel- ment of women,” a top government official stated. After bringing them to was involved in illegal docu- the Rohingya community, who and responsibility would be Meerut, Mirzapur, Sant Ravidas Nagar, opment, the Samajwadi Party has been said. India, they were settled on the ments and human trafficking. A are residents of Myanmar. assigned to them. Muzaffarnagar, Varanasi and Jaunpur. keeping a close watch on the situation. *1 6%% ! Q R & ., A case was registered against him at ., ly held by Bharatiya Janata Party, offered prayers at the Ram Bilsi police station and the victim’s body from where Savitri Katheria is the Janmabhoomi temple in Ayodhya 17-year-old girl was shot dead by her was sent for autopsy. ! M # 636 LIG -1 aking a lead over other polit- ruling party’s MLA. Shilu Dohra and commenced the party's first Afather, allegedly to save the family's Meanwhile in Lalitpur, a woman was ( %#% %%#%) ( Tical parties, the Bahujan Samaj claimed that the BJP would con- phase of campaign to woo honour, as she tried to elope with her subjected to inhuman torture by two )! !* + O - Party, on Tuesday, announced the test the 2022 assembly elections Brahmin voters. boyfriend in Budaun on Monday. miscreants after she refused to give in to # . ( / ( names of two of its candidates for with full force. He said prepara- Brahmin sammelans were also As per reports, the teenaged girl was their lascivious demands in Dhamma vil- the coming Uttar Pradesh tions were being made to field a held in Prayagraj and Ambedkar a school dropout living in Paroli village in lage on July 21. 0 1 ( Assembly elections. candidate of Yadav or Shakya Nagar. Stressing that the real Bilsi police circle on Budaun. She had been As per reports, the woman used to sell 2 3 4 * 6 Ramesh Singh Yadav will be caste from Shivpal Singh Yadav's power would come only when in a relationship with a 21-year-old neigh- vegetables to eke out a living and was clos- 6! #% 787 9: the BSP candidate from Bithoor Jaswantnagar constituency. Brahmins and Dalits in UP came bour for two years. Despite both being ing down her shop on the fateful evening ( assembly constituency in Kanpur Meanwhile. continuing its together, Mishra said, "The from the same community, their relation- when she was approached by the two lech- and Kalmesh Ambedkar from outreach programme ahead of the Brahmin community constitutes ship was opposed by her father. Even as the ers. Upon learning about their designs, she Bharthana (reserved) assembly assembly polls, BSP has now 13 per cent of the state population girl’s mother did not oppose the relation- hit them with slippers. However, they later NOTICE seat Etawah in the 2022 election. decided to host a 'Brahmin but are still marginalised because ship, she could not persuade her husband overpowered and gagged her. To avenge The name of Kalmesh Sammelan' at Vrindavan from they are not united.” to agree to the two deciding to get mar- their humiliation, the miscreants heated a Ambedkar was announced by August 1. This assumes signifi- BSP supremo Mayawati on ried. knife with a lighter and shoved it into her BSP’s Etawah district president cance as Lord Krishna is believed Tuesday also tweeted that the Forced to stay in the house for months, eyes causing serious injuries. GAYAN- Shilu Dohra on Tuesday. Kamlesh to have spent his childhood in this opposition was in fear after the the girl decided to run away with her The injured woman lay unattended till CHANDRA Ambedkar is the wife of Bhimrao holy town. Before taking part in success of Brahmin sammelan boyfriend. On Monday, around 4 am, the the morning when her sister-in-law found GAYANCHANDRA KESARI Ambedkar, chief sector incharge the event in which a lot of held by the party with the first two lovers were eloping with the objective her and informed police before rushing her GAYANCHAN- of the BSP for Kanpur division. Brahmins are expected to partic- phase starting from Ayodhya. of getting married at another place when to a hospital. The victim’s kin alleged that DRA KESARI In 2007, Kamlesh's husband ipate, BSP general secretary Satish “The favourable response and her father spotted them. He warned her the duo was infamous for their criminal Bhimrao Ambedkar was elected as Chandra Mishra will visit the success of Brahmin sammelan not to leave but when she refused to heed activities. The woman’s sister-in-law GAYANCHANDRA BSP MLA from Lakhna reserved famous Banke Bihari temple. He held by Satish Mishra on my to his instruction, the father shot her with claimed that the miscreants had tried to KESARI S/O- AMARNATH, seat, which has now been includ- claimed that both BJP and directive pointed that people had a country-made pistol from close range. sexually assault the victim three months R/O- CHAKPUREMIYAN ed in the Bharthana reserved Samajwadi Party had failed to do confidence in my party and would The victim's mother later informed the ago too but the local police did not take SARAIMUMREJ, PRAYAGRAJ seat, but he could not taste victo- anything for the development of support them in the coming police and got her husband arrested. The any action which emboldened them. ry in the subsequent assembly Vrindavan and Mathura as com- assembly election,” Mayawati assailant, a farmer by occupation, was later The police registered a case in this con- elections. The Bharthana reserved pared to BSP. asserted through her tweet on arrested and is reported to have confessed nection and are searching for the perpe- EDUCATIONAL assembly constituency is present- On July 23, Mishra had Tuesday. to killing his daughter in a fit of rage. trators. *121 3 01
., Well placed sources in other “like-minded” parties in next year would be the “last Samajwadi Party said that a bid to put up a united front opportunity” to save democra- n a move aimed at defeating Sharad Pawar and Akhilesh against the BJP in Uttar cy. Ithe ruling Bharatiya Yadav had a long consultation Pradesh. "To achieve the target of Janata Party, Sharad Pawar over the issue in Delhi after While addressing party securing 350 seats in UP, led Nationalist Congress which the two leaders decided workers in Lucknow last week, we will have to work day Party and Samajwadi Party to forge an alliance but the seat Akhilesh Yadav had said that and night," Akhilesh have decided to join hands sharing was yet to be worked the BJP was an “anti-people” Yadav had said and and contest the coming out. party which was running exhorted party workers to assembly elections in Uttar The sources said Pawar the government with “hatred” beware of BJP’s tricks and pro- Pradesh.. was also said to be in talks with and that the assembly polls paganda. ! " # $ S & !
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The ASHA workers tions are afoot for the pur- King areas which come teams for screening,” he ing out several activities to have these medicine kits and pose in the basement. Once under the Red Cross said make sure that the third they provide medicines to this ward is ready, we will ., solar energy and other facili- on the cards. Of these, 2,088 Community Health Centre He pointed out that the corona wave is kept at bay or children depending upon have a central oxygen supply ties. The state government has panchayat buildings are to be reported over 300 cases per biggest challenge is getting delayed as much as their symptoms and age. to all the wards,” he said, n a major push to the rural approved a budget of Rs 1.75 constructed under RGSA and day during the second wave people tested. “If people have possible. Their families are also told to adding that the CHC Ieconomy of Uttar Pradesh, lakh each for equipping and 22,529 under the Finance peak earlier this year. The fever and cough, they are not “We have adequate get them tested at the near- covers a population of 1.80 the Yogi Adityanath govern- furnishing village secretariats Commission and MNREGA. CHC is now gearing up to ready to get tested. The other preparations for making oxy- est facility. We have three lakh. ment announced an invest- with necessary facilities, All 24,617 under-construction deal with the third wave. challenge is that there is a gen cylinders or concentra- PHCs which have rapid Regarding vaccinations, ment package of Rs 1,000 crore including Rs 25,000 for chairs, panchayat buildings are to be CHC superintendent Dr large market in Aminabad tors available for each of the response teams for testing. he said when they started which is likely to create self- Rs 6,000 for computer tables, completed in the next three Ritesh Dwivedi said that the where it is difficult to ensure 15 beds at the CHC. We also These centres are in out, they were covering col- employment opportunities in Rs 17,000 for racks and cup- months. An amount of about areas which come them Covid-appropriate. We keep have a control room which Ganeshganj, Sadar and lectorate, commissioner the villages of the state. boards, Rs 38,000 for solar Rs 1.75 lakh each will be include Kaiserbagh, contacting the SHOs and provides logistics to all the Station Road,” Dr Dwivedi office, Jawahar Bhawan and The government will pro- panel set-up, Rs 3,000 for car- admissible for office furnishing Aminabad, Ganeshganj, ADMs asking them to help in rapid response teams at dis- said. Swasthya Bhawan. “Now, the cure material worth more than pets, Rs 6,000 for fans, Rs and computer etc. Chitwapur, Hussainganj, maintaining Covid proto- trict levels and one of the He added that their sec- vaccinations are being car- Rs 1,000 crore at the local level 60,000 for computers and Rs Meanwhile, the state gov- Sadar, Udaiganj, Lal Kuan cols. We also visit the areas wards has been provided to tor teams visit the hospitals ried out at the CHC, Urban through 58,189 gram pan- 20,000 for CCTV cameras. ernment clarified that the pur- and Khurshid Bagh apart for that purpose. Other such this control room for stor- from time to time along with PHC at Sadar and at chayats and the Panchayati The government will spend a chase of furniture and equip- from areas from KKC up to areas include Kaiserbagh veg- age,” he said. the ADM to ensure that they Chitwapur PHC. Besides, 500 Raj department has already total of Rs 1018.30 crore for the ment for village secretariats Charbagh. The hotspot areas etable market and Gola He added that they have have a Covid help desks and people are being jabbed on a issued necessary instructions 58,189 gram panchayats. As will be done by gram panchay- include Aminabad, Khurshed Bazaar in Sadar,” he said. over 1,000 medicine kits in fever & flu clinics so patients daily basis under the Sadar in this regard. These gram per Panchayati Raj depart- ats at the local level, ruling out Bagh, Purana Ganeshganj, There were multiple fac- spare for adult patients and can be screened before Gurudwara while a week- panchayats have been asked to ment officials, panchayat pooling of any kind at the Bhoosamandi, Kaiserbagh tors responsible for the through the nigrani samitis, being allowed to enter the long camp was held for conduct work from the village buildings were being con- block or district levels. The and adjoining areas, slum spread of coronavirus infec- the kits provided by the sate premises. Central Bar Association & secretariat, which will be structed in 33,577 villages of rural body will also ensure area of Sudamapuri, Ramdas tion during the second wave, government are being dis- He pointed out that there Lucknow Bar Association equipped with furniture, com- the state while construction of compliance with financial rules Haata and Nayee Basti. which included mandis and tributed among children. has been not a single Covid and another at the Silver puters, internet powered by 24,617 panchayat bhawans is during procurement. “In these areas, ASHA market areas, migration of “The medicines are being case for the past one week. Plaza in Aminabad. . * !"$%& ., because the issue lies between the service provider and the dri- % he state government will vers and is being looked into by Ttake stern action against the the National Health Mission,” he ambulance drivers for holding a pointed out. ., taken up by the National opened at the hospitals. We ., strike in the midst of a pandem- Spokesperson of ambu- Technical Advisory Group on have enough oxygen and ic, Additional Chief Secretary lance drivers union Sharad special vaccination drive Immunisation (NTAGI) and trained manpower for paedi- hief Minister Yogi Awanish Awasthi said as the stir Yadav said that in view of the Afor pregnant women will NEGVAC in a series of meet- atric care, PICUs and NICUs,” CAdityanath on Tuesday continued on Tuesday. Awasthi requirement, 15 ambulances kick off from Wednesday. ings conducted on the subject he said. He added that there is paid a visit to Sanjay Gandhi categorically stated that if health were being run in all the dis- CMO Dr Manoj Agarwal said after which the vaccination no problem as far as drug sup- Post-Graduate Institute of services were affected, action tricts. Giving a backgrounder, the drive is being carried out was recommended. ply is concerned and they are Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS) would be taken. he said that since July 23, they under the directions of As per the guidelines, getting all the medicines from to inquire about the well-being “It was not appropriate and have been holding a peaceful District Magistrate Abhishek Covid vaccine can be taken the medical corporation. of former UP CM Kalyan Singh no strikes can be held under protest for their demands but Prakash. anytime during pregnancy About the problems regarding whose condition continues to ESMA. It is an essential service when the state government did Those pregnant women and it should be taken at the the availability of drugs like be critical. where patients are impacted not pay heed to their issues, who can reach the vaccination earliest. Symptomatic preg- Remdesivir during the second A senior doctor at the directly. Ambulance drivers had $ ! * ! ! they went full-throttle across centres can take the jabs while nant women are at an wave, he said they are unlike- SGPGI said Singh, who is also also created problems when the state, bringing all the ambu- for those who are unable to do increased risk of a severe dis- ly to face any problems now. the former Governor of Covid was at its peak in the sec- lances to a halt from July 26 that due to advanced stages of ease and it might affect the Meanwhile, Lok Bandhu Rajasthan, is on life support ond wave,” he said. TVS Reddy from GVK ambulance drivers union are midnight. pregnancy, the mobile vans child as well. Hence, the vac- Hospital has opened a crèche system. “He has been on con- Awasthi said the Health EMRI service provider said instigating the 108, 102 ambu- “There are 20,000 ambu- will take them to the health cine was recommended for for its employees. Nodal tinuous dialysis. His clinical department has issued instruc- they are running the services lance drivers to go on strike to lance drivers across the state. In centres, he said. pregnant women Covid officer Dr Arun Tewari parameters are being closely tions to districts that alternative and trying to ensure maximum press demand for a salary hike,” 2017, a project of Advanced Life The nod to immunisa- The CMO further said said it is an initiative to facil- monitored by expert consul- arrangements should be made, percentage of ambulances on the he said. A senior official from Support Ambulances had been tion of pregnant women came that for the third wave, all the itate employees with little kids tants and senior faculty mem- wherever required. In the state road. “This kind of behaviour the Health department claimed started and the contract was after a lot of deliberations by resources are at their dispos- who can be taken care of. bers of CCM, Cardiology, capital, the drivers of 108 and cannot be accepted as it causes that health services were not given to GVK EMRI. Now the experts. Coronavirus infection al and the control room is “This is for the hospital Nephrology, Neurology and 102 ambulances staged a dhar- inconvenience to people,” he impacted because they had contract has been given to a new during pregnancy may impact running fine. “We have an employees who face problems Endocrinology,” he said. na at Eco Garden even as the said. He added that they had no made alternative arrangements company which is recruiting the health of a woman and her inventory of all the required in taking care of their children A number of senior BJP GVK EMRI service provider of link to the dispute which arose for ambulances across the state. new drivers. GVK has told the child. According to experts, equipment with us. We had a due to their busy schedule. We leaders have paid a visit to the the ambulances filed an FIR with a new service provider for “We have asked the DMs to ALS drivers that the tender is the advantages of vaccination long meeting with private decided to open the crèche ailing former chief Minister at against 11 union leaders ESMA the ALS ambulances. make arrangements for ambu- not with them now and 1,200 are more than the risks hospitals in this regard and where children can be taken the hospital. at Ashiyana police station. “However, leaders of the lances. We have no role to play drivers are jobless,” he said. involved. The matter was oxygen plants are also being care of,” he added. !!" # $# %&'%(%) 9* - 1 * $ # * 7 ! ., Leelawati’s house in a drunken injured in the mishap. ., ed, they were insulted. Akshay's way and policemen in large state and tried to forced her to The deceased were identi- ., no option, they started to work mother Madhu, her sister-in- numbers have been deployed in woman was killed in sell the land. fied as Urmila Devi (53) and unwillingly. Vimlesh said when 22-year-old youth ended law Kamlesh and Dharamveer the village to maintain law and ANigoha on Monday night “Sanjay is suspected to Julie (15), both of Kanta n a tragic incident, two the victims were working, the Ahis life by hanging himself Singh of the village were taken order. allegedly by her son after she have killed Leelawati as some Karaundi village of Nigoha. Ilabourers were electrocuted mixer machine came in contact at his house after his mother was into custody and dragged to the Meanwhile, police inaction refused to sell their ancestral villagers had seen him fighting The injured were identified as to death at a construction site with the uncovered wire and roughed up and their house ran- police station and a case was forced a youth to commit suicide land. Police registered a case of with her over the issue. He is Usha Devi, Ram Dulari in Para on Monday evening both Kamlesh & Ram Babu sacked by police over a brawl at also registered against Akshay. inside the office of senior super- murder and launched a man- absconding and we have Adarsh, Rishu, Saroj Kumari, after they were forced to con- suffered electric shock. They a Covid vaccination camp in Upset over the police high- intendent of police of Meerut on hunt for the accused. launched a manhunt for him. Bitana, Radha and Khushboo, tinue working despite their were rushed to KGMU Trauma Ranchhad village in Baghpat. handedness, Akshay ended his Tuesday. Reports said that The victim was identified We hope to nab him soon,” also of Kanta Karaundi village. refusal. Police registered a case Centre where both were Superintendent of Police of life by hanging himself at his Devendra Singh of Sarai Kazi as Leelawati (50) of Kalshar Nigoha inspector Nand Kishor As per reports, the devo- of causing death due to negli- declared brought dead. Baghpat, Abhishek Singh said home. After the news of his area under Medical police sta- Kheda village in the area while said. He said Sanjay’s wife tees were travelling by a gence against the contractor on After the incident, the kin that 10 police personnel from death spread, local villagers tion had taken Rs 1 lakh from the accused as Sanjay. deserted him four months back loader which rammed into Tuesday on a complaint given of the deceased staged a Binauli police station were staged a demonstration, his neighbour 10 years back and As per reports, some locals as she was thrashed by Sanjay the truck. by the kin of the victims. demonstration and held Anuj removed and attached to the demanding that a case be reg- had returned Rs 2 lakh yet he spotted the woman lying dead on a daily basis. “Villagers told The victims were identified and Sonu responsible for the Police Lines. istered against the erring police- was being harassed by the neigh- outside her house and sensed us that Sanjay is an ill-tempered as Kamlesh Maurya (30) of mishap which claimed the lives As per reports, a local men. It was only after senior bour who even threatened to foul play as a side of her saree man and he used to thrash his Thieves decamped with Naubasta locality in Kakori of the labourers. A case was Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh police officials pacified them auction his house to recover his was tied around her neck. wife. Due to his highhanded- ornaments of gold and silver and Ram Babu Rathor (28) of registered against Anuj and leader’s son, Akshay (22) that they allowed police to take money which as per him They alerted the police and a ness, she shifted to her parents’ worth several lakh from a shop Malihabad. Sonu. Gloom descended on the accompanied his 62-year-old the body for post-mortem at amounted to Rs 8 lakh. team reached the scene. house,” the inspector said. located on Kanpur road in As per reports, Kamlesh locality after the bodies reached mother Madhu to a Health around 7:30 am on Tuesday. On Devendra contacted the Leelawati had two sons Villagers said Sanjay sold Banthra on Monday night. and Ram Babu were hired by the scene. Villagers said the department facility at Ranchhad the complaint of Akshay's father, local police and senior officers (Sanjay & Sangam) and a all the ornaments of his wife to Anand Kumar Dixit of contractor Anuj Chaurasia for families of the deceased were village to get her vaccinated a case was registered against five several times but failed to get daughter (Rajrani) and her purchase liquor and it was the Alambagh said his shop, an under-construction house in facing financial crisis since against coronavirus on Monday. policemen, including police sta- any relief. Depressed with this, husband Kishan passed away reason behind the differences ‘Anand Jewellers’, is located Sun City locality in the area. Covid outbreak as both were When he urged the officials to tion in-charge Chandrakant he went to the Meerut SSP’s four years back. Her elder son between the couple. “Sanjay close to the Hanuman temple Kamlesh’s kin Vimlesh said out of jobs. give her the jab on priority con- Pandey, SSI Udham Singh office on Tuesday morning and Sanjay and her daughter are used to torture his wife forcing in the area. He said he closed both Kamlesh and Ram Babu “They left their houses to sidering her old age, an alterca- Talan, constable Ashwani, head met senior officers, including SP married. Leelawati was staying her to bring money from her the shop around 7 pm on were working at the site on bring money for their families tion ensued with the cops. A cop constable Salim and constable (Crime) and SP (Traffic) but separately from her sons due to poor parents. He later started Monday. “Around 3 am on Monday when it started rain- for purchasing food stuff. on duty allegedly slapped Murli,under Indian Penal Code they failed to get his grievance differences with them. pestering his mother to sell the Tuesday, the landlord informed ing around 5:30 pm. “Kamlesh When it started raining, they Akshay and got into a scuffle. To sections pertaining to abetment redressed. Upset with the police Locals said Sanjay is a land,” a villager said. me that the shutter of the shop and Ram Babu refused to work became apprehensive and “teach” him a lesson, the irked to suicide and other relevant inaction, he consumed sulphas liquor addict and would pick Meanwhile, two pilgrims was broken. As I reached there, as an uncovered electricity requested the contractor to let police personnel raided sections. tablets after which the police up fights with Leelawati off and going to Ayodhya were killed I found the articles lying strewn wire was lying at the site. them go. However, they had to Akshay's house and broke chairs Later, 10 policemen were shifted him to a hospital where on over his insistence to sell when a loader rammed into a across the floor. The thieves However, Anuj and his kin continue working on being and a window of the car and attached to the Police Lines with he was pronounced dead. A case their ancestral land. On stationary truck in Nigoha on made off with a huge quantity Sonu forced the victims to forced by the contractor,” a vil- also vandalised a tractor. When immediate effect. An investiga- was registered and investiga- Monday night, Sanjay reached Tuesday. Several others were of ornaments,” he said. complete the work. Left with lager said. the women of the house protest- tion into the incident is under- tions were on. 4 3 & 2 / # 3 *# 1 +160&14$ 0 ; / # / 5 * 4 # 1*0 1 To review the role and contribution of Punjab National Bank in the all-round development of the state, executive director GAIL, LIC, Narmada Valley “one for a former boss of Life Swaroop Kumar Saha visited Control(LAC)in nearly two- Fertilizer Corporation also fig- Insurance Corporation of India Lucknow on Tuesday. During hour long parleys on the side- he Pegasus snooping list ured in the Pegasus target list. and the other for a former exec- his one-day visit, he planted a ituation in Afghanistan and its lines of the SCO conclave in Tseems unending. The latest “Apart from Goyal, the utive director of the Gujarat sapling on the Staff Training Simpact on the whole region September last. Incidentally, it list to come out figures many most prominent names on the Narmada Valley Fertiliser College-1 campus under cor- and terrorism and ways to curb was the first high level meet- industrialists and their lobby- list are numbers used by Corporation also appears on porate social responsibility. its funding will figure promi- ing between leaders of India ists. It includes the now defunct SpiceJet chairman and manag- the list,” said the report. Both the divisional offices nently during Defence Minister and China after stand-offs Jet Airways owner Naresh ing director Ajay Singh and the Though the report named (East and West of Lucknow) Rajnath Singh’s three-day partic- erupted on the LAC in eastern Goyal, Spice Jet promoter Ajay Essar Group’s Prashant Ruia. both Reliance Group lobbyists were inaugurated by Saha. ipation in the Shanghai Co- Ladakh ion May last year. Singh, considered close to the The list also contains multiple Balasubramanian and Addressing the staff, he said there is a need to maintain the high- operation Organisation(SCO) Giving details of Rajnath’s logue on Afghanistan there on top BJP leadership, Essar businessmen or officials of Sethuraman, it did not name est customer service to take the bank to further heights. He held conclave starting Wednesday in schedule in Dushanbe, the July 14, External Affairs Group’s Prashant Ruia, Aircel companies who have had run- the lobbyists of Adani Group a meeting with the NPA borrowers of Lucknow zone and also Dushanbe, Tajikistan. Defence Ministry said here on Minister S Jaishankar had promoter Sivasankaran, and ins with the law over the last who were targeted. Dravidian presided over a review meeting with the Stressed Assets The annual conference of the Tuesday, the Minister will proposed a three-point way Rotomac Pens’ Vikram Kothari few years, mostly due to inves- splinter group leaders were Targeted Resolution Action (SASTRA) department to discuss Defence Ministers of the SCO address the SCO gathering on forward to restore peace in the and son Rahul Kothari, facing tigations of loan fraud. This also caught on the Pegasus enhancement of recovery. countries will also see the Wednesday. strife torn country. He also bank cases. includes Vikram Kothari of radar. “Naam Thamizhar Chinese and Pakistan Ministers Defence cooperation stressed that the solution has Mukesh Ambani and Anil Rotomac Pens (and his son Katchi’s Seeman, May 17 move- #$ / # taking part. While Rajnath had issues among the SCO mem- to be Afghan led. Ambani Group’s V. Rahul), and C. Sivasankaran, ment’s Thirumurugan Gandhi, A 5-day online faculty development programme on met his Chinese counterpart ber states will be discussed and Jaishankar also cautioned Balasubramaniam and A.N. former Aircel promoter and Thanthai Periyar Dravidar ‘Empowering the social life using artificial intelligence’ was organ- Wei Fenghe in the SCO conclave a communique is expected to that the international commu- Sethuraman and Adani Group’s maverick entrepreneur,” said Kazhagam’s K. Ramakrishnan ised by IARAI Students’ Chapter, Department of IT, BBDNIIT, last year in a bilateral meeting in be issued after the delibera- nity is against the “seizure of lobbyists’ names also figured in the Wire report. and Dravidar Kazhagam trea- in association with Artificial Intelligence Foundation Trust. In the Moscow, it was not yet con- tions. During his visit, Rajnath power by violence and force” the list. As per the report pub- Former GAIL Chairman surer Kumaresan feature in inaugural ceremony, the chief guest, Dr Ashish M Gujrathi from firmed about such a meeting this is also expected to meet his and will not “legitimise such lished by The Wire portal, the BC Tripathi, who later joined the list of potential targets of an the College of Engineering, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, said year. Tajikistan counterpart Colonel actions”. This was in an appar- top executives of PSUs like Essar Group, two numbers, NSO Group client. AI is playing a big role in daily lives and by analysing and explor- Rajnath and Fenghe had General Sherali Mirzo to dis- ent reference to the Taliban ing data, many future trends can be predicted. The guest of hon- discussed ways to ease tension at cuss bilateral issues and other surging in many districts in our was Dr V.K. Singh, director of BBDNIIT. He spoke about the the Line of Actual issues of mutual interest. Afghanistan. upcoming scenario of AI in human life. Special guest, Dr Ankit Tajikistan is chairing the As regards Rajnath’s ))(')",-'" Vidyarthi from Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, ;A OO + SCO this year and hosting address on Wednesday, explained the concept of responsible AI, which, he said, is very !> + + series of Ministerial and offi- sources said he is expected to expressed by the Union The Tamil Nadu important for privacy and security purposes. !& cial-level meetings. A few days delve into regional security ## , Government that Kerala’s ten Government’s daily bulletins ? # .9 back it hosted the foreign challenges, including terror- districts had the highest TPR in incorporate the number of RT- !#9@AB %O %% C%% %B Ministers’ meet. ism, and the ways to deal with erala on Tuesday logged 22, the country. PCR tests and antigen Tests Mohd Shaarib Ahamed, a student of Addressing the SCO dia- them. K129 new Covid-19 cases Malappuram topped the while Kerala is silent about the City Montessori School, Aliganj Campus @%@A9@@* D 6 & across the State while the pan- list of districts with highest categories of tests carried out. I, has been offered admission with a C#* #* demic claimed 156 lives during number of new Covid-19 cases The RT-PCR tests are authen- scholarship of US$ 93,000 by The City 2( 4(# ) , 8 the last 24 hours. This took the on Tuesday. While tic while the antigen tests are University of Hong Kong for pursuing E & ? death toll in the State till date Malappuram registered 4,037 not trustworthy. There were higher education there. The scholarship to 16, 326. The average Test new patients, Thrissur came many instances when samples has been offered to him for the entire &3 ((%: )) ,6 $ Positivity Rate on Tuesday was second with 2,623 patients. tested negative during antigen study period of four years. Sharib attrib- ;F 12.35 percent. Kozhikode (2,397), Ernakulam turning positive when RT-PCR uted his achievement to the motivation by his teachers and mean- 1 4#* G ) The Legislative Assembly (2352) and Palakkadu (2115) was done,” said the physician. ingful education and educational atmosphere of the school. H B # New Delhi: Union Home MInistry has called a meeting of witnessed charges and counter were the other districts with the Chief Secretaries and DGPs of Assam and Mizoram on charges between the more than 2,000 patients. I 9%7J%%:J@@%@A Wednesday in the wake of violence along their shared bor- Opposition UDF and the rul- On Tuesday, 1,79 lakhs 2 AA@J%%% der, where five Assam Police personnel were killed. ing LDF over the death toll samples were tested, according (9( 4( 2 Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla will chair the meet- released by the Government. to the release issued by the 2- # # ing to discuss the sudden escalation of violence along the Leader of the Opposition V D Department of Health. “The 9%7J%%:J@@%@A Assam-Mizoram border. The meeting of the Chief Satheeshan claimed that the number of new Covid-19 cases Secretaries and DGPs is expected to work on a peace for- Government has not included are likely to go up further in 2 AAKL%% ; M mula so that there is no repeat of the violence along the bor- more than 7,000 persons who days to come as we are waiting 0G der of the two states, a home ministry official said. died of Covid-19 in its list while for the impact of the lifting of # C N The central government is in regular touch with the Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan lock down in connection with ; 0 BO Assam and Mizoram governments and trying to calm down retorted that the Government the Id festival,” said a the situation, the officials said, adding CRPF has been does not have anything to hide. Government Physician who G & . # deployed in the violence-hit area. Five Assam Police per- “If you have any genuine griev- has been on Covid-19 treat- (# OO O * sonnel, along with a civilian, were killed and more than 50 ances and evidences, furnish it ment duty for the last one year. .* 4( O ) C# others, including a Superintendent of Police, were injured to us and we will certainly He said there were discrep- ) . # 06! when Mizoram Police opened fire on a team of Assam offi- examine the same,” said the ancies in the details submitted # O 4( cials on Monday. PNS Chief Minister while replying by the Department of Health , to an adjournment motion Kerala Government. “A com- +? + moved by the Opposition. parative study between the RTGS Tuesday’s announcement details released by Tamil Nadu +# 42* D 6 regarding the Covid-19 details and Kerala reveal that the for- came amidst the concern mer is more transparent. .&9 C#* (IFSC Code-PUNB0103500 A/C No- 1035002100001555) G # 4( + (# +? + 4 4( # . 67 ( 0G 1 ; # + .6: 0# B he rain-flood toll in Maharashtra climbed further to 209 on 0# G TTuesday, even as 43 roads in various rain-flood ravaged areas + &P of Maharashtra remained submerged in water and the number # O ( of people evacuated went up to 4,34,185. Seventeen more bod- 12 (# ies were recovered during the day, taking the total number of people killed in the rain-related mishaps to 209. ! & . Raigad accounted for a maximum of 95 deaths, while there O- ? were 45 deaths in Satara district of western Maharashtra. The #%)%!#% ( death tally in other places comprised: Ratnagiri-35, Thane-14, O- . ) Kolhapur-7, Mumbai-4, Pune-3, Sindhdurg, Wardha and Akola- O 2 each. The authorities pegged the number of injuries at 50, while eight persons were still reported missing. Though there was let . 99@A # up in the rains, as many as 19 -- 16 teams belonging to the + NN%9Q%%%B9* National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and three belonging ? NN%9 @@879 (#%)%!#% to the Indian Army – continued with their rescue and opera- ) + tions in various parts of the coastal Konkan region and western Maharashtra. Till Tuesday evening, the rescue and relief teams (# #G 42* D shifted as many 4,34,185 people in the flooded areas of the state 6 & C#* #* to safer places. As many as 1351 villages were affected by the rains - 7%: and consequent floods. Satara bore the maximum brunt of the @RJ%RJ@%@A F6! # heavy rains, as many as 420 villages were affected. While 411 vil- F lages in Kolhapur district were affected, the authorities pegged the number of villages affected in Sangli district at 104. !!" # $# %&'%(%) 5 * 46 * ) !
/ :::6: tary (Gau Raksha division) strength of Indian origin cows the third floor under the Khemchandra Sharma said was declining by every passing Dhoomanganj police station. he Vishwa Hindu Parishad Gau Mata (cows) are the cen- day and if the similar condition Radheshyam Bharatiya, a T(Gau Raksha division) in tral devotion point (Kendra continues, cows would be seen retired teacher lived with fam- an attempt to protect cows has Bindu) for Hindu community. at museums only. Speakers ily in a flat in Paras Green planned to set up Gau Raksha He also said the Indian culture stressed on the need to make Apartment, TP Nagar under / B:<::1 committees at all villages and can be protected only when we farmers self reliant and devel- the Dhoomanganj police sta- appoint gaurakshak (cow pro- protect cows, Ganga and vil- op industries in villages. tion. s expected Shankarpuri tectors). lages. Lal Mani Tiwari, regional On Tuesday morning he Ahas become the seventh Leaders said that cow He also stressed on the secretary (VHP Gau Raksha) came to the balcony of the flat mahant of Annapurna Mandir. slaughter would not be tolerat- need to protect the original said that it should be every and took a leap from there. He He has long experience of ed at any cost in the country. breed of cows ( Indian origin individual’s responsibility to fell on the ground and died working along with late VHP has also decided to cows) at a time when Indian protect cows and they should instantly owing to head injury. Mahant Rameshwarpuri as his impart training to farmers so origin cows were finding no also come forward for it. He The panic gripped residents of deputy. In a function organised that Indian origin cows should place in the society. also said that the majority of the Paras Green Apartment at the temple's premises here on be kept at every house in vil- People were more interest- Gaushala had fallen prey to informed the police, who took Tuesday, the representatives of lages. Leaders of VHP ( Gau ed in keeping jersey cows for corruption and many cows the body to hospital and then Sri Panchayati Akhara, along Raksha division) Kashi prant their economic benefits but were losing their lives. to postmortem house. with senior religious leaders of held a meeting at there was a strong need to take RETD TEACHER COM- The preliminary investiga- the city, offered ‘chadar’ to Shankaracharya ashram, care of Indian origin cows or MITS SUICIDE : A retired tion revealed that the retired Shankarpuri to mark his suc- Alopibagh on Tuesday . they would be an extinct teacher committed suicide on teacher was not enjoying good cession to the post of mahant. Senior VHP leader and species. Tuesday morning by taking a health, so he preferred to end After becoming the national organisational secre- VHP leaders said that the leap from his flat, situated on his life. mahant as per traditional rit- uals, Shankarpuri offered flo- ral tributes to Rameshwarpuri and then said that he would 91 * work hard to fulfill the dreams of Rameshwaripuri and com- plete all the pending projects. / :::6: Brahmin in Chitrakoot, the He said that 13 per cent He said that he would also police did not nab the accused. are Brahmins and 23 per cent work for the protection and he BJP, which claims to be The temple of Lord Shri Ram Scheduled Caste people in the popularisation of culture and Tfriendly to Hinduism, is in Ayodhya is being built on state. If they become one, then continue the temple's all social trying to eliminate Sanskrit the orders of the Supreme in the year 2022, the govern- service works. He said that from the country. More than Court, but the BJP is patting its ment of BSP will definitely be both temple and trust would half of Sanskrit schools have back. formed. The BSP chief had work for the society as per the been closed due to promotion The BSP leader said that placed the people of Brahmin guidance of the scholars. of model schools. This is weak- Khushi Dubey was married on society in dozens of posts Meanwhile, Deputy Chief ening Sanskrit education, June 29. She was put in jail. along with the minister. The Minister Keshav Prasad which is directly affecting Even after a year has passed, BSP general secretary also Maurya also visited the tem- Sanatan Dharma. These views the bail has not been given, it accused the central and state ple to greet the new mahant were expressed by the National is injustice. Even after this the governments of ignoring the and paid tributes to * , 0, $ $ * , % ! * 4 General Secretary of BSP, Satish people of Brahmin society are unemployed and farmers Rameshwarpuri. Chandra Mishra in a seminar silent. The BSP general secre- protesting in Delhi over the Earlier, Sri Panchayati beginning, seers sat there and senior saints. Bihari Puri Math, Mahant organised on Tuesday at the tary also told the people pre- agriculture law. He said that Akhara has decided to appoint offered tributes to The function was also Subhashpuri, president of party office in Osa. % , $ sent that ‘you are the descen- like the SP government, hooli- Shankarpuri as mahant as he Rameshwarpuri. Then the attended by Kashi Vidvat Parishad Prof The National General $ $ dants of Vishnu and ganism and terror continues in was associated with the tem- name of the new mahant was Mahamandleshwar Santosh Ram Yatna Shukla, Secretary of BSP said that Parashuram, you should think the BJP. After the formation of ple since his student life as he announced by the secretary of Das of Satua Baba Ashram, general secretary Ram people from Brahmin and People of Brahmin society are about the state. Think of the BSP government, people of got his traditional education Akhara Ravindrapuri, mahant general secretary of Akhil Narayan Dwivedi and chief Dalit society are being being killed selectively. Despite ‘Sarvjan Hitay, Sarvjan all sections will get justice, from Rishikul Brahmacharya of Akhara Haridwar Kailash Bhartiya Sant Samiti Swami priest of Kashi Vishwanath harassed all over the state. the disclosure of the killing of Sukhay’. added Mishra. Ashram, run by Annapurna Bharti, Mahant Dayalpuri of Jitendranand Saraswati, temple Shashi Bhushan Ann Kshetra Trust. In the Onkleshwar and many other Mahant Jaikishanpuri of Sant Tripathi. : & 5 5 28 %44 / :::6: encing to be held from the UP Hospital, said that before the ing in contact with someone government, the prepared- second wave, two or three else, and eat something after he fear of the third wave of ness of the hospitals is being infected were being found cleaning their hands. If they Tcoronavirus is gradually reviewed. The biggest empha- every day in January, February don’t do this, it can be very weakening, but doctors do not sis is on the availability of oxy- 2021. Then suddenly the cases difficult. agree with it. They believe that gen and its generation plant. increased in March, as if the Swarooprani Nehru the third wave is sure to come, Additional Chief Secretary storm had arrived. Even at Hospital has now become a even if it does not come in the Health Amit Mohan Prasad present, cases are getting less hospital of 1066 beds. In this, Bridge Corporation and third week of August and has asked the Health depart- that the general public will 24 hours full oxygen has been / B:<::1 directed for sending a letter to comes in the month of ment of Prayagraj district to have to be alert in Prayagraj arranged on all the beds. the corporation for making no September or October. This is be alert. It has also been said due to the increasing cases of Oxygen plant is also being t is surprising that one gov- additional effort to complete the reason why the cases of that like the second wave, infection in the states like installed in Beli Hospital. Beli Iernment department is cre- the construction work of increasing corona infection in keep the medical team ready Delhi, Maharashtra, Kerala was made a L2 Covid Hospital ating hurdle on the project of Imiliya Ghat and others with- Delhi, Maharashtra and South to deal with the sudden etc. at the time of corona infec- other department and taking a in stipulated time. He took the Indian states are increasing impact of the third wave. She said that people must tion. The Health department serious note of it, the District engineers of the corporation to the heartbeat of doctors in Dr Kiran Malik, Chief wear a mask when they come has also asked the United Magistrate Kaushal Raj Sharma task for the slow pace of the Prayagraj too. Medical Superintendent of out of the house, protect Medicine and Medical College directed the executive engineer work to construct RoB on In the daily video confer- Tej Bahadur Sapru i.e Beli themselves strictly from com- to be alert and ready. of Jal Nigam to shift valves of Phulwaria four-lane. He fixed tube-well from the road to the deadline of September 15 other place by making cham- to complete the construction ber so that the 400 m long four- works of Konia Bridge, bridge lane Shivpur-Lahartara road on Babatput-Kapsethi route / + ) could be constructed on time. and Imiliya Ghat and direct- Reviewing the projects ed for completing the con- being carried out by the Public ,0)% $* $ * ! 4 struction work of Varuna- / :::6: road widening and they are the roads. In such a situation, the plan does not have Works Department (PWD) Kalikadhar Bridge by August feeling very traumatised. road widening and beautifica- to be amended again and and Bridge Corporation at his 31. joint delegation of Civil The delegation of traders tion can be done as per require- again. camp office, here on Monday neer of Jal Nigam to shift the the delay in completing the Emphasising on drafting ALines Vyapar Mandal and apprised him that in the past, ment without damaging the The delegation was led by last, the DM came to know same to other places by mak- construction work being car- out an action plan to acquire Prayag Vyapar Mandal submit- similar demolition had been installations. Sushil Kharbanda, president, that there is valve of tube-well ing a chamber. The DM direct- ried out in Chandpur industri- land for the service lane of ted a memorandum to Alok started, so after meeting the The zonal officer said that Civil Lines Vyapar Mandal and of Jal Nigam on the road ed the superintendent of cen- al state by the PWD, the DM Ashapur flyover, the DM Kumar Pandey, Zonal Officer District Magistrate and the all the works are being done general secretary Shivshankar which is creating obstacle in tral jail in Shivpur to shift the directed the concerned directed the concerned of Prayagraj Development Vice Chairman of the under the smart city project. At Singh. Prayag Vyapar Mandal constructing the 400 m long temple which was outside the authority to complete the work authority to clear all the hur- Authority (PDA). The delega- Authority, it was suggested the same time, the delegation president Vijay Arora, Ashish four-lane Shivpur-Lahartara jail, inside the jail premises so by August 31. dles on the construction works tion suggested one-way traffic that if the electric poles and demanded to include the Arora, Inder, Harshit Agarwal, road being constructed by the that the construction of road The DM expressed annoy- by addressing all the matters in the Civil Lines area to avoid transformers are removed from office-bearers of the Vyapar Shashank Agarwal, Ritesh PWD and taking it seriously, could be completed. ance over the slow pace of the relating to land acquisition vandalism due to road widen- the roads, then the roads will Mandal, public representatives Singh, Sheikh Dabur Vakil, he asked the executive engi- Expressing annoyance over works being carried out by the within a week. ing. It was said that the traders be widened. It was also suggest- of the area and elite citizens in Sardar Inderpreet Singh, Dr. are under mental stress due to ed to make these routes one- the Smart City Subhash Yadav etc. were pre- . 8 the demolition notice given for way, as there is less traffic on Advisory Committee, so that sent in the delegation.
/ B:<::1 Scheme (NSS), Banaras Hindu getting stipend for the last two The teaching and non- .= *:% University (BHU) at NSS build- years, the state president of teaching staff of aided and ijayotsav was celebrated at ing. More than 36 units of Sangh and MLC Lal Bihari government colleges are fight- / :::6: Prayagraj on Tuesday morning Bhayharan Nath Dham, Samaj DEMOLISH BRIDGE: Local VSurya Sarovar in Banaras blood were donated in the Yadav said adding, even they ing for the restoration of the old and collected holy water from Shekher said, ‘Apart from ban- residents of Devghat and Locomotive Works (BLW) here blood donation camp which are not in position that they pension system but the govern- handful of Kanwarias were Sangam. He said that we have ning the Kanwar yatra this Damupur handed over a mem- on Monday evening, remem- was inaugurated by chief proc- could pay fee of their wards. ment is paying no heed towards Aspotted on the banks of maintained social distance year, we have strictly followed orandum to the ADM City bering the victory of the coun- tor of BHU Professor Anand The government is also not it, they blamed and demanded Ganga for taking holy water while walking to Prayagraj and social distancing and made requesting him to ensure that try in the Kargil war. On the Chaudhary. In the beginning, paying attention to their the government to restore it in from Sangam – the confluence used masks.’ wearing of masks compulsory the private bridge on occasion, hundreds of lamps programme coordinator Dr plights, he blamed and the larger interest of teachers of Ganga, Yamuna and myth- On being asked about state on the temple campus. Sasurkhaderi river is not and candles were lit by the offi- Bala Lakhendra welcomed the demanded the government to and employees. There are many ical Saraswati - here on government’s decision to can- COURT RECORDS demolished. They reached cers, employees, ex-employ- guests. As a special guest Dr open the schools and colleges posts of backward class and Tuesday. Despite the fact that cel Kanwar yatra, Manish said STATEMENT OF RN RAI: Kutchery with the Gram ees, players and children pay- Sandeep Kumar of the Blood from August 1 and also ensure Scheduled Castes which are the state government has can- that it’s a matter of faith and The MP/MLA court of Pradhan to draw the attention ing their tributes to the sacri- Bank, Institute of Medical that they could get their lying vacant in the aided and celled the Kanwar yatra this government might have taken Prayagraj on Tuesday recorded of the district magistrate fices and exemplary bravery of Sciences (IMS), Dr Dinesh stipend. government colleges, they year in view of corona pandem- right decision to protect its the statement of Ram Narayan towards this issue. The mem- the Kargil martyrs. The Kargil Singh, technical officer and The government did not blamed and demanded the ic, a group of Kanwarias people from the deadly disease. Rai, brother of the slain BJP orandum says that land mafia war lasted for 60 days which many others were also present. announce an ex-gratia for their government to make recruit- dressed in saffron attire and He, however, said that people MLA Krishnanand Rai. Mafia- has nothing to do with the saw the country’s triumph NON-AIDED COLLEGE families of non-aided teachers ment on these vacant seats at Kanwar on their shoulders, on living in villages have not turned-politician Mukhtar above bridge which is built by hoisting tri-colours at Kargil TEACHERS PROTEST: who died of COVID-19 while the earliest. They also made Tuesday afternoon arrived formed big groups of devotees Ansari, BSP MLA and mafia collecting funds from the local peak. Raising their voices against discharging their duties; he other demands and handed from Pratapgarh district to and some of them would be don of eastern Uttar Pradesh is residents. They said that the Deputy General Manager the state government for not charged and demanded that the over the memorandum regard- take holy water from Sangam arriving to fetch the holy water. facing murder charge in this FIR registered against the land (DGM) Vijay was the chief disbursing stipend to the teach- government should make ing it to the district administra- and started their journey back Another three members’ case and it is related to the mafia for constructing this guest. It was also attended by ers of non-aided colleges for the announcement of an ex-gratia tion. to Pratapgarh where they group from Kunda also arrived Gangster Act. bridge to enhance the value of Dr Sunil Kumar, Public last two years, the non-aided of Rs 50 lakh for the next kin The state president (in- would be offering Jalabhishek at Sangam to take holy water. It may be mentioned here the plots, was totally fabricat- Relations Officer (PRO) Rajesh teachers associated to the Uttar of such teachers and also gov- charge) of Sangh Sitaran Yadav, at Lord Shiva at Baba One of the group members that after the murder of BJP ed and misleading. According Kumar, Staff Council’s mem- Pradesh Madhyamik Shikshak ernment job to their one child. state vice president Omprakash Bhayharan Nath Dham in Sharad said, ‘After taking holy MLA Krishnanand Rai, to the memorandum, the vil- bers Navin Sinha, Vinod Sangh (Non-aided group) on There are no rules and Ambedkar, state organising Pratapgarh. The group mem- water from Sangam, we would Gangster Act was slapped on lagers had to cover a distance Kumar Singh, Vijender Kumar, Tuesday staged a protest at regulations for the non-aided secretaries Jain Kushwaha, bers included Manish Kumar, be heading towards Varanasi to Mukhtar Ansari and a case of about 10 kilometres to reach Pankaj Srivastava, Market Shastri Ghat, here and submit- teachers, he said and demand- Omprakash Yadav & Triloki Nath, Ashish Tiwari and offer jalabhishek at Kashi under the Gangster Act was the other village on the other Committee’s members Ramesh ted a memorandum to the dis- ed the government to draft out Parashuram Yadav, divisional others and residents of Mahoba Vishwanath temple on registered by the side of the small river Singh, Rajesh Singh, Santosh trict administration regarding rules & regulations for them. president Dr Suryanath Yadav Tiraha said, ‘We have come Monday. He added, ‘We would Mohammadabad police sta- Sasurkhaderi. They made sev- Singh of Human Rights their demands including an ex- He also demanded the govern- and district president Bhanu from Mahoba Tiraha area from cover the distance between tion of Ghazipur district. eral requests with the officials Committee, football coach gratia of Rs 50 lakh to the next ment to address the problems Shankar Tripathi mainly put Pratapgarh district to fetch Prayagraj and Varanasi during Ram Narayan Rai, brother and political leaders for con- VK Kanojia, Mritunjya of St kin of the teaching and non- of teachers of madarsas relat- their views. holy water from Sangam as we night hours and would perform of Krishnanand Rai, is an eye structing a bridge there, but John’s Brigade, Saroj of teaching staff who died of ed to their salary. The govern- TWO MORE TEST POS- would be performing jalab- jalabhishek.’ witness and the court had fixed their requests fell on the deaf Employees’ Club and many COVID-19 while discharging ment is not paying an ex-gra- ITIVE: Two were tested pos- hishek at famous Lord Shiva He said that no one object- July 27 for recording his state- ears of the system. Ultimately others. The function was con- their duties. tia of Rs 50 lakh which was itive for the novel coronavirus temple at Baba Bhayharan Nath ed to them when they were ment in this high profile mur- they collected funds for the ducted by MP Thakur, former The teaching and non- announced for the next of kin infection out of 4,642 tests Dham in Poore Torai, Katra arriving at Sangam to take der case. Krishnanand Rai was bridge and constructed the welfare inspector. teaching staffs of non-aided of the teachers of aided and conducted during the last 24 Gulab Singh (Pratapgarh).’ holy water during their journey. killed on November 29, 2005. same for their convenience. Earlier, on the occasion of colleges are currently facing government colleges who died hours taking the confirm cases Manish said, ‘I along with Meanwhile, authorities of August 3, 2021 has been Through this memoran- Kargil Vijay Diwas, a blood starvation like situation and of COVID-19, the speakers to 8,234 as per the figures a group of five devotees arrived Baba Bhayharan Nath Dham fixed for the next hearing of the dum they have requested the donation camp was organised their life has become worse blamed and demanded the released by the Health depart- to take holy water and we said that they have cancelled case when the eye witness will authorities not to demolish under the aegis of Red Ribbon than that of labourers of government to pay the same at ment in the evening on started our journey on bare the Kanwar yatra this year. be cross examined. the bridge in the name of Club of National Service MNREGA because they are not the earliest. Tuesday foot from Pratapgarh to General secretary of Baba REQUEST NOT TO action against land mafia. !!" # $# %&'%(%) 6
% ** ! $ , P 8PSS@TQPI9@IU 0, 1#( divisional commissioner Yogeshwar Ram * Mishra, District Magistrate Praveen Kumar P Minister of State for Tourism, Culture, Laxkar, Superintendent of Police Ajay Kumar UReligious Affairs and Protocol (Independent Singh, ADM(F&R) UP Singh, city magistrate charge) Neelkanth Tiwari while interacting Vinay Kumar Singh and other officials concerned. with some mediamen at Vindhyachal on THEFT CASE: Unidentified burglars tar- / :/.< geted a house situated in an area under Chilh police station on Sunday night and took away ew Municipal jewellery and cash from there. According to a NCommissioner reports received here, Uma Shankar Dubey alias Shivasharanappa GN took over Dukharan, a resident of Mahanandpur, was charge of the Kanpur Nagar sleeping on the roof along with his family mem- Nigam in an informal function bers. On Monday morning he was taken aback on Tuesday. He said the prior- on seeing his main gate closed from outside. On ity of the government was to hearing his cries his neighbours gathered there carry out development works and opened the door. The house owner was and that too at a rapid pace and shocked when he saw the boxes missing from thus his focus would be on the rooms. On getting information the police development. team reached the spot and found some empty He said his objective would boxes lying in the field. As per the house owner, be to keenly monitor all the Monday said on the lines of Mathura, Ayodhya the thieves had decamped with jewellery worth development works and ensure and Kashi Vishwanath temple Vindhyachal was around 7 lakh besides 14,000 in cash. On get- that there was no compromise to be developed and Vindhya Corridor was just ting information about the matter Circle Officer on quality. He also assured the a beginning. At Ashtabhuja guest house while (Sadar) Shailendra Tripathi visited the spot and people of Kanpur Nagar that reviewing preparations regarding the proposed directed the cops to work out the case without delay. issues related to their civic laying of foundation stone of Vindhya Corridor PROGRAMME HELD: Divisional issues would also be taken up the minister directed the officials concerned to Commissioner Yogeshwar Ram Mishra during on priority and settled at the complete the allocated works timely and make the clothes distribution programme organised earliest. a plan for overall development of the area after at an old age home located at Vindhyachal Shivasharanappa GN is an widening the roads. He said under the plan the appealed to inmates to IAS officer of the 2015 batch entire Tarikon area was to be developed in order lead a happy life and 04 % $ $ 9 and was the CDO of Deoria. to attract tourists. The minister inspected the not feel alone because The new municipal com- demolition sites, helipads at hillock as well as the entire society was missioner said he always pre- at Deori village besides the site at GIC too where with them. He direct- ferred transparency in working, a public meeting was to be held along with lay- ed the CMO to con- especially issues related to gov- ing foundation laying ceremony and works to duct health and eye 4 ernment projects, so that it be dedicated to the public. The minister inspect- check-up of all inmates. He instructed the social catered honestly to the needs of ed the site of the stage too from where the pub- welfare officer to visit shelter home regularly and the people. He said the meet- lic meeting was to be addressed and became solve the problems of inmates on priority. ing with the officials of the aware about all preparations and gave necessary During the distribution of clothes Chief Medical KNN was quite cordial and he directions. During the visit the minister was Officer (CMO) Dr PD Gupta, Social Welfare . +-5 found that the KNN had a very accompanied by MLA (City) Ratnakar Mishra, Officer Gireesh Dubey were also present. strong and hardworking team which would further the pend- / :/.< new liver cells (regenerative way are called "chronic." the number of viral hepatitis ing projects in the times to 4 3 nodules). This stage of liver Liver transplantation has cases across Uttar Pradesh come. epatitis C is a liver infec- damage is known as cirrhosis. several benefits for persons amounted to approximately He said Kanpur Nagar was 8PSS@TQPI9@IU $- ./#( themselves so that meaningful steps can be taken Htion caused by the Hepatitis C-related liver failure suffering from liver failure due 25,000 which was a cause of a very big city and it would take in the direction of achieving the set target. The Hepatitis C Virus (HCV). It is is usually a result of cirrhosis. to Hepatitis C but it is also a concern. some time for him to become nder the chairmanship of Chief Rajbhasha minutes of the last meeting held on March 30 spread through contact with There is no vaccine for sensitive process. Dr Abhimanyu Kapoor familiar with the city and its UOfficer and Principal Chief Engineer (PCE), were confirmed. Rajbhasha Officer Arshad blood from an infected person. Hepatitis C. However, the best Meanwhile, leading gas- said hepatitis referred to an problems and what could be North Eastern Railway (NER) Satish Kumar Mirza discussed the compliance status of the Most people become infected way to prevent Hepatitis C is by troenterologists from Regency inflammatory condition of the the solutions. Pandey, the second quarterly meeting of the major decisions of the minutes of the last meet- with the HCV by sharing nee- avoiding behaviors that can Care, Dr Ajmal Hasan and Dr liver commonly caused by a He said as the monsoon Headquarters Rajbhasha Implementation ing as per the standard agenda of the Railway dles or other equipment used spread the disease, especially Abhimanyu Kapoor, while viral infection, but there were had come, every effort would Committee was held on Monday through vir- Board and the suggestions of the members of to prepare and inject drugs. injecting drugs. Getting tested addressing press persons on other possible causes of hepati- be made to ensure proper civic tual medium. In it Construction Organisation the committee were sought. On the occasion the This was stated by gas- for Hepatitis C is important, World Hepatitis Day said this tis. facilities. He said he was and Mechanical Workshop’s deputy chief rajb- vote of thanks was proposed by Rajbhasha troenterologist Dr Praveen Jha because treatments can cure year the theme was ‘Hepatitis He said the other causes informed that water-logging hasha officer besides Rajbhasha liaison officers Officer Mohd Arshad Mirza. from Regency Superspeciality most people with Hepatitis C in Cannot Wait’ and thus there included autoimmune hepati- was a perennial problem of of various departments and CAMPAIGN Hospital here on Tuesday. 8 to 12 weeks. was an immediate need to cre- tis and hepatitis that occurred Kanpur and thus every effort non-departmental units were LAUNCHED: With the Addressing media persons, While many people with ate awareness among the mass- as a secondary result of med- would be made to ensure that present virtually. Addressing aim of creating awareness Dr Jha said Hepatitis C was a Hepatitis C can be treated with es towards this deadly disease. ications, drugs, toxins, and it did not happen this mon- the meeting Principal Chief among railway passengers short-term illness for some direct-acting antiviral (DAA) Dr Hasan said although alcohol. He said Hepatitis A soon. He appealed to the offi- Rajbhasha Officer Satish about protection from people but for more than half medications, some, including there were umpteen break- was caused by a virus that cials and the KNN staff to Kumar Pandey said while Covid-19 infection and its of people who become infect- those who have suffered liver throughs for the management infected liver cells and caused extend full cooperation so that working in NER he had expe- prevention a joint check- ed with the HCV, it becomes a damage from cirrhosis or of hepatitis yet more research inflammation. which could the development works could rienced that here Rajbhasha is ing campaign was con- long-term, chronic infection. developed liver cancer, may was needed to save precious affect the working of the liver be carried out smoothly in the being widely used in official ducted by the Commercial He said chronic Hepatitis C also need to have a liver trans- lives. He said medical scientists and cause other signs and city. work. He said through e- Department and Railway could lead to serious, even plant. across the world strongly rec- symptoms of Hepatitis A. He said the KNN had done office 100 per cent corre- Protection Force (RPF) life-threatening health prob- The CDC reports that out ommended a functional cure a commendable job in sanitiz- spondence should be done in personnel at Gorakhpur lems like cirrhosis and liver of 100 people infected with and added that the results He advised in simplest ing the city during the COVID- Hindi. Besides, the language railway station on Monday. cancer. Hepatitis C, more than half will from the trial of RNAi thera- terms that eating food handled 19 pandemic and said it would of the letter to be sent through e-office should For protection from Coronavirus infection and According to the US develop chronic liver disease - peutic drug VIR-2218 were by someone with the virus be continued and the objective be simple and comprehensible. Moreover, all the its prevention, announcements are made by the Center for Disease Control - specifically, hepatitis and quite encouraging examples who does not thoroughly wash would be to keep the city clean meetings, till the next order, should be done railway administration regarding wearing of and Prevention (CDC), people fibrosis -- and 5 to 25 will that a cure was possible soon- his or her hands or by drink- especially in view of the appre- through virtual medium only. Pandey said that masks by passengers, adherence to physical dis- with chronic Hepatitis C can develop cirrhosis over a peri- er or later. ing contaminated water and hended third wave. regular publication of ‘Rail Rashmi’ should be tancing besides taking care of hand hygiene. In often have no symptoms and od of 10 to 20 years. An esti- He said each year July 28 keeping in close contact with ensured. All departments should send articles order to ensure adherence to guidelines regard- do not feel sick. When symp- mated 1 to 5 out of 100 people July tried to raise awareness of an infected person were the etc. for this magazine. With the concerted efforts ing prevention of Covid infection, a checking toms appear, they often are a with chronic Hepatitis C die of viral hepatitis, an inflammation major causes of the spread. He 9 !! of all the status of Rajbhasha in this railway will campaign was conducted jointly by the sign of advanced liver disease. cirrhosis or liver cancer result- of the liver that caused severe said one common cause of be further strengthened, he added. Deputy Chief Commercial Department and RPF personnel at Chronic Hepatitis C infec- ing from the infection. liver disease and hepatocellu- spread was travel to areas Rajbhasha Officer Krishna Chandra Singh Gorakhpur station here. During it as many as 50 tion causes ongoing liver He said liver failure due to lar cancer. He said this engen- where hepatitis was rampant or while welcoming everyone in the second quar- persons on being found without face masks there inflammation that leads to Hepatitis C is one of the most dered a global need to eliminate attend child care or work in a & 3 terly meeting of the calendar year 2021 of the were fined and counselled, Chief Public Relations scarring (fibrosis). As fibrosis common reasons for liver hepatitis as a public health child care centre. He said Headquarter Rajbhasha Implementation Officer (CPRO) Pankaj Kumar Singh said. progresses, scars gradually transplantation in India. He threat by 2030. He said every 30 Hepatitis A could even cause a Committee said that as per the guidelines of the Moreover, a sum of 5,000 collected as fine was replace healthy liver tissue. said without treatment, most seconds a person was dying sudden loss of liver function, / :/.< Government of India due to Coronavirus infec- deposited in railway revenue. It may be pointed Advanced liver fibrosis leads to people who had Hepatitis C from a hepatitis related illness especially in older adults or tion it was being done through virtual means. out here that it is mandatory to wear masks in damage of the normal liver remained infected for life and and it was witnessed in the cur- people with chronic liver dis- ttar Pradesh Sarafa He further said he had taken over charge as trains as well as in station premises and there is architecture and to growth of infections that persist in this rent COVID-19 crisis. He said eases. UAssociation has expressed deputy chief rajbhasha officer recently. Singh a provision for imposition of fine for not wear- concern over the government added that all the departments should discuss ing them. Besides, a drive is also being run against move to bring silver jewellery the actual status of the use of Rajbhasha among illegal vendors and those selling water illegally. under hallmarking. It has appealed to the government 8 && % that when the gold hallmarking , $ " * work is yet unaccomplished then adding silver for hall- 8PSS@TQPI9@IU '() who belongs to Orai. She / :/.< extended by the bank. She said marking is unjustified. It has said efforts will be made to the bank would continue to also appealed to the Central istrict Magistrate improve sports facilities in he regional head of the provide the best services to the government to keep the hall- DPriyanka Niranjan inau- the district. The rally which TBank of Baroda, Kannauj, bank in the near future. marking of silver jewellery in gurated Tokyo Olympics will cover a distance of Reeta Bajpai, while inaugurat- Prominent among those abeyance till the hallmarking awareness rally on Tuesday. 3,625 km passed through ing the new premises who took part in the function work of gold is not finished. She said sports is an integral Indira Stadium, Jaiswal of the bank at Sarai-Meera were Shekhar Vaidya, Ajay The sarafa association mem- part of the society and we are Tower, Kalpi bus stand, Road on Tuesday said that Kumar, Branch Manager, SK bers said assurance had been proud that girls are bringing Patel Square, District the BoB was one of the lead- Mishra and the remaining staff given to them that the silver medals for the country. On the Hospital, Bhagat Singh ing banks of the country and of the bank. hallmarking would not be occasion She appealed to people for large-scale square, Yadav garments, Lalman Sweets, thus it was committed to pro- made mandatory immediately participation in the field of sports and praised Ghantaghar, Mahil Talab and Allahabad Bank vide the best services to its )$ 6 . ! . 7) but it would certainly be made the efforts by national shooter Deepak Pandey, in Orai city and was welcomed by people. clientele. the new products of the bank clients and appealed to them to . /* 7 $ $ * mandatory at the appropriate She then informed about and said it was meant for the avail themselves of the facility ! 9 time. Addressing the meeting of the members on Tuesday, '!$)& Uttar Pradesh Sarafa Association president Mahesh QDPI@@S I@XT T@SWD8@ * )+, everyone remained safe. A water recycling plant * . 4 Chandra Jain said the issue was has been installed for water conservation at quite complex and should not he third phase of 65th Rail Week and Award Banaras and Chhapra coaching depots of be introduced in a haste. He, TDistribution Ceremony-2020 was organised Varanasi division. Along with it automatic coach however, said that it was cer- under the chairmanship of Divisional Railway washing plants have also been installed at - ) ; tainly not justified to add silver Manager (DRM) Vijay Kumar Panjiar in Banaras and Chhapra stations for the cleanliness jewellery for hallmarking at this Premchand auditorium hall of divisional office of coaches. Under the Swachh Bharat Mission juncture and added that that on Monday with simplicity and following bio-toilets have been installed in almost all trains / :/.< startup and formed a compa- and two, we realised that there association was in touch with Coronavirus prevention guidelines. In this by Indian Railways. In Varanasi division by mak- ny, Noccarc Robotics, to man- was a requirement for medical the ministry and would cer- sequence, the DRM honoured ing provision for single- ikhil Kurele and Harshit ufacture robots to look after the technologies in the country and tainly work out an amicable 46 employees of the division by use plastic free sta- NRathore, alumni of the cleaning and maintenance of we could contribute meaning- solution to this vexed issue. He providing medals, cash prizes tions/offices major Indian Institute of Technology, solar panels. Both these alum- fully to that as we had experi- said the current moves one and certificates for their offices and stations have Kanpur, made the country ni of IIT-Kanpur had figured in ence of building complex elec- after the other were not justi- remarkable and outstanding been made plastic free. proud as the prestigious Forbes the list of Forbes Under-30 Asia tro-mechanical products,” says fied and the government service. Among the award On the occasion India Magazine has published 2020. The team’s journey to Kurele. Between April and June should give enough time to recipients were 24 employees Additional Divisional their success story in its latest successfully make the Noccarc this year, they sold 2,500 units. those in the jewellery business. of Mechanical (Carriage & Railway Manager issue. V310 ventilator in a record With the ebbing of the second He said the association was not Wagon) department and 22 of (ADRM-Infra) Praveen During the COVID-19 cri- time of 90 days has been doc- wave, the numbers have come against the rule but it was cer- Mechanical Power (O&F) Kumar, ADRM sis, they took up the challenge umented in The Ventilator down and although the com- tainly protesting against the department whose excellent and dedicated ser- (Operations) SPS Yadav, Senior Divisional of technological innovation Project, written by Srikant pany has the capacity to man- manner in which it was being vice has significantly improved the functioning Mechanical Engineer (C&W) SP Srivastava, Senior and created ventilators that Sastri and Amitabha ufacture up to 100 units a day forced upon them. of the Railways as well as the image of the divi- Divisional Mechanical Engineer (O&F) Alok are at par with any world-class Bandyopadhyay, who were the at its Pune plant, it normally It may be mentioned that sion. Congratulating them Panjiar said that for Kesharwani, Senior Divisional Personnel Officer product, but better suited to 0$ ! 0 :$; team leaders in the project makes about 40 units a day, he the Bureau of Indian Standards the last two years the movement of passenger (SDPO) Sameer Paul, Divisional Personnel Officer Indian needs and conditions, 6 ) : ; and formed the IIT-Kanpur disclosed. has imposed a hallmarking trains may have decreased due to Covid-19 but (DPO) Vivek Mishra and a limited number of divi- and are available at a fraction *9 9 Ventilator Consortium to assist The fact that Noccarc’s system for silver jewellery sold that of goods trains has increased threefold dur- sional employees were present were present. of the cost of imported variants. Noccarc Robotics. “The deci- ventilators are being installed in in India, certifying the purity of ing this period. The mechanical employees by Senior Divisional Personnel Officer Sameer Paul Their aim has been to cre- capabilities. All the spare parts sion that we made last year was some of the best hospitals in the metal. Hallmarking certifies following the Covid protocol during the Corona conducted the programme and proposed the vote ate ‘Made-in India’ products of of these portable ventilators are primarily driven by two factors. cities such as Mumbai, Pune that the piece of jewellery con- period performed their responsibilities very well of thanks as well. For the compliance of Covid-19 superior quality that meet glob- manufactured in India. Under One, our existing business and Delhi proves that they are forms to a set of standards laid due to which very few employees of Varanasi guidelines and safety of employees the 65th al standards and certifications, the Startup Innovation and became highly restricted being recognised for their capa- by the BIS the National division got infected as compared to other insti- Railway Week and the award ceremony at the divi- while keeping them affordable Incubation Centre (SIIC) at because of the lockdowns and bilities and not simply their Standards Organisation of tutions. He appealed to employees that they sional level is being organised in five phases, Public for hospitals of all sizes and IIT-Kanpur, they launched the we could not progress with it; lower price. India. should also get their families vaccinated so that Relations Officer (PRO) Ashok Kumar said. !!" # $# %&'%(%) 7 , (,, - %! 7 P P ! $ 7 $$ * !<% % 7' New Delhi: Observing that Magistrates are directed to New Delhi: Making it clear it identification of children who continue uploading the infor- will not take an “elitist view” have become orphans or lost mation on Bal Swaraj portal that no beggars be allowed on a parent either due to Covid- of National Commission for the streets, the Supreme Court 19 or otherwise does not Protection of Child Rights Tuesday asked the Centre and brook any further delay, the (NCPCR). districts in the country where Delhi Government to respond Supreme Court Tuesday Child welfare commit- over 100 cases are reported to a plea seeking vaccination directed the State tees are directed to com- verall Covid-19 cases may every day. These cases are found and rehabilitation of beggars Governments and Union available in Juvenile Justice plete the inquiry within the Ohave been showing a in a localised and limited set of and vagabonds in view of the Territories (UTs) to file status (Care and Protection of time limit specified under declining trend, but there are 22 areas of these districts.” Covid-19 pandemic. reports giving particulars Children) Act, 2015 and Act and provide assistance districts— 7 from Kerala, 5 The rate of decline of cases The apex court said beg- about the number of children rules. and rehabilitation to orphans, from Manipur, 3 in Meghalaya has however slowed down ging is a “socio-political prob- who have become orphans “The identification of the bench added. among others in the country which is a matter of concern, lem” and people are com- after March 2020. children who have lost both “All State Governments, where an increasing trend in cautioned the official. pelled to beg on the streets to to the authorities to restrain for rehabilitation, vaccina- The top court said there parents or one parent after UTs are directed to file sta- cases has been reported in the Echoing similar views, Niti eke out some elementary beggars, vagabonds and tion and providing food and is a need to ensure the March 2020 does not brook tus reports giving particulars last 4 weeks. It is a cause of con- Aayog member Dr V K Paul livelihood in the absence of homeless persons from beg- shelters to beggars and schemes meant for orphans any further delay,” the bench giving the number of chil- cern, the Union Health Ministry pointed out that vaccination is education and employment. ging at public places or traf- vagabonds amid the pan- reach the real beneficiaries said. dren who have become said as it warned the public that not a full guarantee and one A bench of Justices D Y fic junctions. demic. and not just remain on paper. The Bench also clarified orphan after March 2020. the second Covid wave is still should not take Covid for grant- Chandrachud and M R Shah The bench said it would “As the Supreme Court, A Bench comprising that its order covers all chil- The number of children pro- not over. ed. “No vaccine provides 100% told the counsel appearing for issue notices to the Centre we would not want to take an Justices L Nageswara Rao dren who became orphans duced before the child wel- “There has been a consistent guarantee against reinfection. All the petitioner that it would and the Delhi Government elitist view that no beggars and Aniruddha Bose direct- during this period due to fare committee and their decline in the weekly average in however reduce the risk of hos- not consider one part of the seeking their responses on the should be there on the ed the the District Covid or otherwise. particular who have been the COVID cases...But if we pitalisation drastically,” he said. prayer which sought direction prayer made in the petition streets,” the bench said. PTI Magistartes to issue necessary “What we are thinking is provided with benefits of the compare the rate of decline in In this connection he cited instructions to the district to take care of all children schemes by the state govern- cases, from earlier to now, its resurgence of Covid cases world- child protection officers to who have been orphaned ments,” the bench said. decrease remains the area of wide, pointing out that “it is a cases across the world, which 19 cases after 132 days, accord- while the death toll climbed to take assistance of the police, whether Covid or not It also directed the states concern. We’re in talks with matter of concern and the pan- remains the area of concern. ing to the government. 4,21,382 with 415 daily fatalities, civil society, gram panchay- Covid. We cannot restrict the to provide details regarding states in this regard,” Lav demic is not over yet.” We’ve to work on containing the The number of active cases the health ministry said. ats, anganwadi and ASHA orders passed to only payment of 2,000 mone- Agarwal, Joint Secretary, Union “If we look from a global spread of the virus with strict- in the country also fell below The active cases have workers for identification of orphans who lost both par- tary assistance given to needy Health Ministry , said at a press perspective, the pandemic is ness,” the official said. 4,00,000 after 124 days, it said. declined to 3,98,100 and now orphans. ents to COVID-19”, Justice orphans under the Integrated conference here. far from over. There’s a notice- At 29,689, India has report- Fresh cases pushed India’s over- comprise 1.27 per cent of the The apex court said this Rao said. Child Development Services He said, “There are still 62 able increase in the number of ed less than 30,000 new Covid- all Covid-19 tally to 3,14,40,951, total infections. is in addition to mechanisms The Bench said District scheme. PTI )* $?+ ="** * !0 > 2 / $ < 7$ 4(, he Government on Tuesday Ttermed as “ill-informed "&E% even Opposition parties have and misrepresenting” media he Lok Sabha on Tuesday Swritten to President Ram reports that claimed that India lakh doctors and frontline Twitnessed 10 adjournments Nath Kovind seeking his inter- will miss the end-July target of workers. amid continuous protests by vention to direct the administering 50 crore Covid he Government on “Protection to the extent of Opposition members over the Government to discuss farmers’ vaccine doses and asserted that TTuesday cited a study by 93 per cent was seen (in peo- Pegasus snooping row and issues and Pegasus phone-tap- over 51.60 crore vaccine doses the Armed Forces Medical ple who were administered the farm laws. After being farm laws. ping in Parliament. will be supplied from January College (AFMC) during the Covishield vaccine) and this adjourned nine times, the The members of Congress, The decision to knock the to July 31. second Covid-19 wave to say was during the second wave Lower House reassembled at CPI, CPI(M) and TMC were doors of Rashtrapati Bhavan “These reports are ill- that Covishield gives 93 per which was driven by the Delta 4.30 PM and Rajendra protesting over the Pegasus took place after a meeting of the SAD leader Harsimrat Parliament is not convened informed and have clearly cent protection against Covid- variant... also 98 per cent mor- Agrawal, who was in the Chair, snooping row, while the BSP, SP Opposition leaders held in the Badal, who was a Minister in only for the legislative agenda of misrepresented the facts,” the 19 and a 98 per cent mortali- tality reduction was seen,” he took up one matter of urgent and Shiromani Akali Dal were Parliament premises after the Modi government until she the Government,” Kharge said. Union Health Ministry said in ty reduction. said. public importance. raising slogans against the adjournment of Lok Sabha and resigned to protest the contro- “We have no option, but to a statement here. Addressing a press con- Reiterating the usefulness However, the Opposition Centre’s three new farm laws. Rajya Sabha. versial farm laws, said it is very continue to agitate and we have The figures of 516 million ference, NITI Aayog Member of vaccines in battling Covid- members again trooped into Earlier, Speaker Om Birla led Though the Congress was unfortunate that farmers have come here all of us together, vaccine doses might have been (Health) Dr V K Paul pre- 19, Paul said inoculation the Well shouting slogans and the members in paying tributes also present in the meeting, the died while protesting against the because what we say inside the picked up from various sented findings of the study reduces infection but it is not carrying banners. to Anerood Jugnauth, former signatories of the letter are BSP, three farm laws but the Centre house, does not reach the peo- sources which informed about which was conducted on 15 a total guarantee. Meanwhile Congress MPs president of Mauritius, and RLP, SAD, National Conference, is not even ready to discuss their ple, it is never telecast. the likely availability of the from Punjab Ravneet Singh Kenneth David Buchizya CPI, CPI(M) and NCP. Later, issues. Opposition is being blacked vaccine doses from January to Bittu and Gurjit Singh Aujala Kaunda, the first president of the Opposition leaders joined Addressing the Press con- out inside the house, so through July-end, it added. advance allocation plan and till that month is going to be sat on a dharna inside the Lok Zambia. The opposition’s senior Congress leader ference, Kharge said, govern- the media, we want to tell our “The facts are that a total they are informed about it in consumed/administered. Sabha chamber after the pro- protests started soon after the Mallikarjun Kharge for a joint ment is not interested in a people, we shall continue this of more than 516 million vac- advance. The vaccines are sup- “There would be supplies ceedings of the House were proceedings began at 11 AM. Press conference outside the meaningful discussion and fight. The government obdurate cine doses will indeed be sup- plied to the states in various in the pipeline, which should adjourned for the day. The Minister of State for Parliament. debate. as it is, we will force them, as in plied from January 2021 to schedules throughout the be available for the next few dharna was still going on when Parliamentary Affairs Arjun Congress sources said that “This Government does a democratic set up it is done to 31st July, 2021,” the ministry month. days till the next supplies of the last report came in. This Ram Meghwal said by dis- the grand old party did not not believe in its accountabili- come and debate, if the gov- said. “Therefore, availability of vaccine doses materialize in a protest indicates the rupting the proceedings, the became a signatory to the letter ty to the people of India through ernment has nothing to hide, let It added that the vaccine 516 million doses till end of a particular state/district/sub- Opposition is expected to up Opposition is not allowing the due to the presence of SAD the Parliament. This them start the debate today doses are supplied to the states particular month does not district to keep vaccination their ante in coming days on ministers to do their duty of however the both political par- Government has functioned in itself, the opposition is ready,” in accordance with the mean that every dose supplied going on,” the statement said. Pegasus snooping row and replying to questions. ties will continue to fight for the a manner, which has lowered said Anand Sharma, Deputy right of farmers in the the prestige of Indian Leader of Opposition in Rajya Parliament till justice met. Parliament and Indian democ- Sabha. 1 NCP leader Supriya Sule racy. What the opposition has DMK’ Tiruchi Shiva, SP * ! $$+ said the seven parties have writ- demanded is fair, correct, with- leader Ram Gopal Yadav, CPI ten to the President seeking his in the ambit of rules and estab- leader Binoy Vishwam, TMC 4* ! intervention to instruct the lished Parliament practice and leader Sukhendu Shekhar Roy, government to discuss the farm- conventions. When collective- RJD’s Manoj Jha and AAP ,--! $ ers’’ issues and Pegasus snoop- ly, the opposition gives a notice leader Sanjay Singh attended the adjourning the house till 12.00 ing in the Parliament. that matter has to be discussed, meet. pm. he Pegasus issue continued Similar scenes were seen Nityanand Rai informed Lok from Abdul Khaleque Tto rock the Rajya Sabha for when the house Sabha on Tuesday that “the (Congress) on the NRC, said Infantry Battalion underwent the sixth consecutive day on reassembled and despite he Union Home Ministry Committees on Subordinate nine Gazette notifications, rigorous training at different Tuesday. Sloganeering and dis- Deputy Chairman Harivansh’s Thas sought an extension Legislation, Lok Sabha and the last being on July 31, locations in India to refine playing of banners by the agi- appeal, the din continued. for the fifth time till January Rajya Sabha have been 2019, had been their drills for participation in tated Opposition and some of He cautioned that some of 9 for framing the rules of the requested to grant further published by the Office of the the joint exercise. them trooping into the well of the members in the well were Citizenship Amendment Act extension of time upto Registrar General and the Exercise INDRA-21 will the house were the order of the not wearing masks and not fol- (CAA), which was passed by 09.01.2022 to frame the rules Census Commissioner. further strengthen mutual con- day. It witnessed repeated lowing the Covid protocol. Parliament in 2019. The under the Citizenship “Several communications and conduct of counter terror oper- fidence and interoperability adjournments due to disrup- Deputy leader of the house Ministry also said that due to (Amendment) Act, 2019,” instructions have been sent to ations under the United between the Indian and tion. Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi also outbreak of Covid-19 and This is the fifth extension the State Coordinator of nderlining the time-tested Nations mandate by a joint Russian Armies and enable Rajya Sabha Chairman M objected to the members not flood situation, finalisation of sought by the government National Register of Citizens Ulong-standing defence force against international ter- sharing of best practices Venkaiah Naidu tried to restore wearing masks and said National Register of Citizens for framing of these rules. (NRC), Assam, for complying between the two countries, ror groups. between the contingents of order when the proceedings they are posing a health risk to (NRC) in Assam is delayed According to the Manual on [with] the orders of Hon’ble India and Russia will take part Giving details of the both the countries. commenced at 11.00 am. the Rajya Sabha secretariat andthe process of issuing Parliamentary Work, the rules Supreme Court with in the 12th edition of the Indo- upcoming event, officials said The exercise will be yet However, the officials. rejection slips has been post- for any legislation should regard to disposal of claims Russia Joint Military Exercise here on Tuesday, 250 person- another milestone in strength- Opposition was in no mood to He also objected to alleged poned. have been framed within six and objections, publication of (INDRA) at Volgograd city. nel from both the nations will ening security cooperation and relent and shouted slogans. derogatory slogans raised Replying to the question months of Presidential assent lists of inclusions and exclu- The 13-day exercise will start form part of the exercise. The will serve to reinforce the long- Naidu said it was “a sorry state against Prime Minister from Congress MP Gaurav or seek extension. sions in NRC, etc.,” said the on August 1, 2021. Indian Army contingent com- standing bond of friendship of affairs” before Narendra Modi. Gogoi, the MoS Home Affairs The MHA, to a query Ministry. The exercise will entail prising of a Mechanised between India and Russia. 6 $ $
the opportunity to work on COVID-19. #3 ** 7 aspects relating to heritage “It gives immense pride to he UNESCO on Tuesday conservation and restoration share with my fellow Indians hectare area has been damaged No private sector compa- Tsaid Dholavira, a in Dholavira. Our team also that #Dholavira is now the due to hydro-meteorological nies are involved as far as the Harappan-era metropolis, in worked to create tourism- 40th treasure in India to be he Government on Tuesday calamities/ hazards, he said. building of the Agristack is Gujarat, has been inscribed on friendly infrastructure there,” given @UNESCO’s World Tinformed Parliament that a The maximum damage was concerned. However, leading its World Heritage List, he further said. Heritage Inscription. Another little over 2 lakh hectare of the reported from Gujarat, followed Technology/Agri-tech/startup prompting Prime Minister Gujarat so far has three feather in India’s cap as we cropped area has been damaged by Kerala, Maharashtra, Uttar companies were identified and Narendra Modi to tweet that world heritage sites — now enter the Super-40 club so far this year due to hydro- Pradesh, Karnataka, Odisha, invited to collaborate with the he was “absolutely delighted Champaner near Pavagadh, for World Heritage Site meteorological calamities. The and Goa in the said period. The central government to develop by this news”. Rani ki Vav in Patan and the inscriptions,” Culture Minister government also informed that minister said states undertake proof of concepts (PoCs) based “Dholavira: A Harappan historic city of G Kishan Reddy said in a it is aiming to create a federat- relief measures in the wake of on small portions of data from City, in India, just inscribed Ahmedabad. tweet. ed National Farmers Database natural disasters from the State the federated Farmers’ database on the @UNESCO This session of the World “Today is a proud day for using digitised land records Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) for certain identified areas (dis- #WorldHeritage List. Heritage Committee is being India, especially for the peo- that will help to offer proactive already placed at their dispos- trict/village), he added. Congratulations!” UNESCO chaired from Fuzhou in China ple of Gujarat,” he said. “Since and personalised services to al. In a reply to another ques- tweeted. The ongoing 44th and is being held online. It 2014, India has added 10 new farmers. “As a first step in this direc- tion, Tomar said that the Centre session of the World Heritage started on July 16 and will World Heritage sites – one In a written reply to the Lok tion, the government has had approved nearly Rs 700 Committee of the dates back to the 13th centu- linkages with our past. It is a end on July 31. fourth of our total sites. This Sabha, Union Agriculture already initiated building fed- crore towards relief of farmers UNESCO has already ry. must visit, especially for those The 44th session com- shows PM @arendramodi’s Minister Narendra Singh Tomar erated farmers’ database that in flood-hit Maharashtra, even given India a new world her- “Absolutely delighted by interested in history, culture bines current work, and issues steadfast commitment in on Tuesday informed that 66.55 would serve as the core of the as Opposition members con- itage site in the form of the this news. Dholavira was an and archaeology,” Modi tweet- left outstanding since last promoting Indian culture, lakh hectare cropped area was envisaged Agristack,” Tomar tinued disrupting the lower Rudreswara/ Ramappa important urban centre and is ed. year, when the annual meet- heritage and the Indian way of damaged in 2020-21. However, said in another written reply to chamber for the fifth straight Temple in Telangana, which one of our most important “As CM of Gujarat, I had ing was postponed due to life,” Reddy tweeted. till July 27 this year, 2.024 lakh the Lok Sabha. day. !!" # $# %&'%(%) 8
.& $ .%! !2?#@% > / #@%@ 4916. 1/8 8 ! ! 3 ) / ! & ,S , ! ) :!- ()#*%%4<,1 , " > ? ( + )*'"2!/ ,!! ? , '@ , 3 , 3 # ! efore the monsoon session # of Parliament, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh " + 3S 4 , invited two former , DefenceB Ministers for a briefing. He , P Q P Q did not dirty his hands but asked (A # ! the CDS and COAS to brief them. In the UK, it would not happen. (+!3 " Politicians pass the buck to the mil- . ) 6 ! itary. Expectedly, the Army and Air Force have clashed over the trans- - B<77 , formational reforms underway. CDS Gen Rawat described the IAF P Q ,S as an extension of artillery and a combat support service. Air Chiefs ! " have been kept out of the loop dur- ing the 1965 and 1971 wars, reflect- ing mistrust of IAF which is about , ! air power required for “shaping the ! battlefield”. But boots on the O , ! ground are essential. Rewind: Gulf War I (1991) last- ( + O ! ed 44 days: 38 days of aerial bom- " , " bardment and four-day land offen- , " sive. In Bosnia (1995), air power CDS actually appeared on the Security Review), preferably an dy. The Defence Minister ought ! ! alone won the war in 17 days. horizon: His office was prepared Integrated Review, on the lines to have intervened and done a Kosovo (1999), air war was 78 days in South Block, Guard of the UK did in March this year Heseltine. " with no ground offensive. The " " " ! Honour rehearsed by Delhi followed by enunciating a The IAF’s concerns includ- Afghanistan campaign (2001) last- Area and NDTV announced National Security Strategy. The ing integrated use of air power 9 " #S ed 65 days with 11 days of ground Adm Sushil Kumar’s elevation. DPC conveniently left the think- have to be addressed, given that 0 2 " operations. The Iraq war (2003) But between the cup and the lip ing to CDS, ignoring the IAF has only 30 fighter lasted 21 days of air and land bat- , " #! was a slip. The Naresh Chandra inevitable repercussions. squadrons. Appointments of tle. In Sri Lanka, the IAF performed Task Force in 2013 revived the I recall UK Defence CDS and Combatant , " its modest role effectively. The IAF’s CDS in its less truculent avatar: Secretary Michael Heseltine Commanders of other 9 , ( + sterling performance though was Permanent Chairman Chiefs of explaining to me on the back of joint/integrated/unified com- the Balakot bombing — political- Staff Committee. But Defence an envelope at RCDS London in mands and organisations be ly and strategically a turning point, + + 5 , Minister AK Antony sat on the :, 1984 how he had rewired the made by merit and not in marking the threshold of counter- proposal. It was not until , 11.1G , CDS system for unification and Robin’s turn. The concepts of ! terrorism response. The omission Christmas Day 2019 that Modi whose implementation he air-land and tri-service battles " , in employing IAF in 1962 was part 2.0 Government issued a gazette : :< 1 ordered in the face of revolt have to be revised and updated. " of the political and military fiasco. notification appointing Rawat as from Service Chiefs. The Joint Professional Military Still, IAF insecurities arising from :B: " ,S “primus-inter-pares-CDS” — reforms were ordered top-down Education should become jointness, including rotation of tasking him to implement joint- B<, H without passing the buck. mandatory for promotion to three-star slots by merit, have to be ness by January 2023. A <4,.1 Modi had announced the flag rank. An equivalent of US addressed to achieve unification to Department of Military Affairs appointment of CDS from Red Goldwater-Nichols Act 1986 obviate IAF Chief having to ask the was also created under MoD. :1 Fort in 2019. The Government will ensure jointness to dimin- Army Chief to requisition in writ- Appointing a CDS has been an .< 4:1 :< simply issued a fiat to CDS on ish inter-service rivalry. India ing that air support was required article of faith for the BJP. jointness despite knowing oppo- was a pioneer in integration during Kargil. Two questions arise from ,6 sition to it. This lack of consen- through Joint Services Wing/ The CDS traces its history to the reform process. First, did <:: :: < sus (which all militaries have National Defence Academy/ Admiral Mountbatten when he GoI do the necessary thinking had to overcome) emerged Defence Services Staff sounded Prime Minister Nehru and research — and who did it , :<1: clumsily last month during a College/National Defence about its utility. After the 1971 war, — before issuing the gazette seminar organised by Global College. But long ago, the polit- Prime Minister Gandhi had notification? Why were the 6::.< :1/ # Counter-Terrorism Council in ical class responsible for defence informed Field Marshal Sam known historical IAF insecuri- :1 which both Rawat and Air of India stopped thinking, leav- Manekshaw he would become ties not addressed by the polit- Chief Marshal Bhadauria spoke. ing it to the military to self- CDS but nothing came of it. The ical authority? Unfortunately, .4 1 It was one of the ugliest public reform. The politician is CDS was resurrected by a 2001 the newly minted Defence /.6 ,1/: 1 spats between a service chief and required to do and say more GoM containing 100 recommen- Planning Committee under CDS, which has triggered an ill- than “giving a befitting reply”. dations, most of which were imple- NSA AK Doval merely issued a 6 informed debate. The remedi- (The writer, a retired Major mented except CDS. When an charter of work to Rawat with- :1