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OXFAMREPORT SUPPLEMENTARY CHARGESHEET Covid deepened Goswami paid inequalities:wealth, me $12,000 and education, gender Wealth surge of richest11inpandemic SINGHU Rs 40 lakh to fix could sustain NREGS for10years ECHO IN MUMBAI ratings: Dasgupta UDITMISRA Growth NEWDELHIJANUARY24 vs Farmers from various BARC ex-CEO’slawyer: Handwritten inequality parts of ANEW reportbyOxfam has arrivedinMumbai on statementhas no evidentiary value found that the Covid pandemic Sundaytoparticipate deeplyexacerbated existing in- HIGH LEVELSofinequal- in arally on Monday equalities in and around ities hurtthe economy against the newfarm MOHAMEDTHAVER& the world. and undermine social laws. Ganesh Shirsekar KRISHNKAUSHIK The report, titled‘The cohesion. Some argue REPORT, PAGE 7 MUMBAI,NEWDELHI, Inequality Virus’,has foundthat that governmental ef- JANUARY24 as the pandemic stalledthe econ- fortstoreduce inequal- omy, forcingmillionsofpoor ity mustsucceed, not THE FORMERCEO of Broadcast Indians out of jobs, the richestbil- precede, effortstoboost 1YEAR AS UNION TERRITORY Audience Research Council lionaires in India increased their growth because that will (BARC) India, Partho Dasgupta, Dasgupta’s statement wealth by 35 per cent. define howmuchthere has claimedinahandwritten againstGoswami partof “ThewealthofIndian billion- is to distribute. That will statement to MumbaiPolice that chargesheet airesincreasedby 35 percentdur- be the challenge forthe J&K:Dropinlaw&orderincidents he receivedUS$12,000 from ing the lockdown and by 90 per Budget. Republic TV Editor-in-Chief cent since 2009 to $422.9 billion Arnab Goswami fortwo separate AUDITREPORT rankingIndiasixthintheworldaf- holidays andatotal of Rs 40 lakh terUS, China, Germany, Russia lations, sinceMarch,asthe gov- butuptickinmilitantrecruitment over three years, in return for ■Favouritism and France,” states thereport. ernment announcedpossibly manipulating ratings in favour of towardschannels According to Oxfam's calcu- CONTINUEDONPAGE2 the news channel, according to J&KDGP Dilbag Singh says severalmilitant commanders Kargil ignored the supplementarychargesheet ■ Ratings were filedinthe TRP scam case. pre-decided killedinayear, ‘situation better’ on all parameters in first Ladakh The 3,600-pagesupplemen- ■ BARC officials India, China hold ninth tary chargesheet, filedby violated code dentsalso dropped5per centto tableau: chief MumbaiPoliceon January11, also round of LAC talks NAVEEDIQBAL VIOLENCERELATED 243in220 compared with255 includes aBARCforensic auditre- SRINAGAR,JANUARY24 TOMILITANCY in 2019.The fall is significant of Hill Council port, WhatsApp chatspurport- The audit reportnames sev- (BPM) point, continueduntil when compared with 2018, edly between Dasgupta and eral news channels, including KRISHNKAUSHIK evening. IN ITS FIRSTfull year as the 2019 2020* whichwitnessed417 militancy- Goswami, and statementsof59 Republic, Times Nowand Aaj NEWDELHI,JANUARY24 The latesteffortcametwo- newest Union Territoryofthe Militancy- 255 243 related incidents. BASHAARATMASOOD persons,including former council Tak, andlists instances of and-a-half months afterthe country, Jammuand Kashmir relatedincidents The number of recruitsjoin- SRINAGAR,JANUARY24 employees and cable operators. CONTINUEDONPAGE2 SENIOR MILITARYcommanders lastround of discussions be- witnessedanuptickinrecruit- Lawandorder 584 143 ing militancy in the UT has, how- from India and China meton tweenthe twosides on ment to militant ranks; the incidents ever,seen a22per cent rise to OLD FAULTLINES between Sundayfor theninth round of November 6, with around number of lawand order inci- Militantskilled 157 222 174in2020 from 143in2019. Of BuddhistLadakh and Muslim talkstodiscuss apossible solu- 50,000 troops deployed in the dents, however, dropped signif- Militant 143 174** the 174recruits, 76 militants Kargil have emergedinthe tion to the nearly nine-month region, along with additional icantly during the year. recruitment were killedand another 46 ar- Republic Daytableauofthe new border standoffineastern artillery, tanks, and air de- According to police datafor Ceasefire 605 930 rested.Just52remain active, Union TerritoryofLadakh. Ladakh. fence assets. the lastthree years, the number datawith the J&K Police shows. The firsttableau of Ladakh violation DR SHEKHAR MANDE The meeting, whichbegan It followedamemo from of lawand order incidentsinJ&K When contacted,Director will depict the Thiksey *UptoDec 30 DIRECTOR GENERAL, COUNCIL OF SCIENTIFIC around 10 am on theChinese India fortalkswhile the two plunged 75 percent to 143in **Out of which76killed, 46 arrested General, J&KPolice, Dilbag Singh, Monastery in Leh and the Indian AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH and 52 still active side of the Chushul-Moldo countries maintainedregular 2020 compared with 584in told The Indian Express that Astronomical Observatoryin PAGE 11 Border Personnel Meeting CONTINUEDONPAGE2 2019.Militancy-related inci- CONTINUEDONPAGE2 CONTINUEDONPAGE2

Sexual assault under BUSINESSASUSUAL POCSO needs skin to BY UNNY skin contact: Bombay HC Manwho pressedbreasts of child over her clothes convicted formolestation

The verdict, deliveredby VIVEKDESHPANDE Justice Pushpa VGanediwala on NAGPUR,JANUARY24 January19, setaside the ruling of alowercourt underSection 8of IN Acontroversial orderthat POCSO applicable to “sexual as- Pak Zindabad: could have implications on a sault” on children, againstcon- rangeofcases, the Nagpur bench victSatish Bandu Ragde. 11-hour police of Bombay HighCourt acquitted Saying that Section8of aman of sexual assault on the POCSO provides forstringent THE WORLD ordeal for grounds that pressing the breasts punishment of five years’ of rig- of achild over her clothes with- orous imprisonment(RI), the PRACHANDAGROUP out direct “skin to skin”physical High Courtobservedthat EXPELSOLIFROM family, friends contact does notconstitute “sex- “stricter proof and serious alle- ual assault” underthe Protection gations arerequired”. PARTYGENERAL over agame of Children from Sexual Offences The judgesaid: “As such, MEMBERSHIP PAGE 12 (POCSO) Act. CONTINUEDONPAGE2 EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE NEWDELHI,JANUARY24 At IIM Calcutta, it’s teachers versus TWOmen were detainedand questionedfor eighthours Director over her powers, their role through Saturday-Sundaynight and three women foratleast three hours Sundaymorning by culture of transparency and ac- the Delhi Police —all because RITIKACHOPRA Director countability. theywereheardsaying “Pakistan NEWDELHI,JANUARY24 Anju Seth That group isn’t small. Zindabad” as partofacycling says ‘small Lastmonth, as manyas61 game near Khan Market Metro THE FACULTYat IndianInstitute group’ upset teachers —over75% of the IIM- station lateSaturdaynight. of Management, Calcutta, is with her Calcutta’s faculty —wrotetothe Their ordeal, that startedat1 lockedinanunprecedented MinistryofEducation (MoE) am on Sunday, endedonlyby standoff withthe institute’s di- urging it to step in alleging that noon withthe police admitting rector alleging that she has cen- Director Anju Seth hasattrib- Seth’s styleoffunctioning, was that “PakistanZindabad” was tralisedpowers in her hands and uted the confrontation to "a “arbitrary, discriminatory,and, said in a “lighter vein”, and no usurpedtheir role in administra- small group of individuals" up- having averynarrowvision.” CONTINUEDONPAGE2 tion and decision-making. setwith her effortstofostera CONTINUEDONPAGE2

Afterstrides in social welfare, village hands overbaton to all-womanpanchayat

PAGE 1 waypaved by the performance ANCHOR of two-time sarpanch BhagyashreeChame, who was one of the three women elected in 2015,along with Shobha Kasle MAYURAJANWALKAR and Kalpana Sagar. ANANDWADI(LATUR), Giventhe number of JANUARY24 ‘Anandwadis’ in Nilanga, the vil- lage, located 25 km from Latur NINE YEARS after50per cent city, is more commonlyknown seatswerereserved forwomen as Gaur.Home to 635people, in Maharashtra’s gram panchay- mostlyfarmers, Gaur has in the ats, AnandwadivillageinLatur’s pastfiveyears seen improved Nilanga taluka haspickedanall- cleanliness, acampaign against woman panchayat. The six were superstitions,changeinname elected unopposedinthe pan- The members were elected unopposed. Amit Chakravarty plates of all 112homes to that of chayat polls held recently, their CONTINUEDONPAGE2

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LAC talks text of giving her aguava but in- take our owndecisions.” Vishnu million unsafeabortions) and sidehetriedtoremove hersalwar Chame,aformer member of the 2,165maternal deaths,” states the contact through the hotline and and he pressedher breasts.The J&K:Drop in law &order incidents but panchayat,says itisnotsurprising report. The pandemic also fueled othermechanismsto preventany mother filedapolice complaint thatGaurwasreceptive to change. domesticviolenceagainstwomen. untowardincident that could againstRagde,whowasconvicted Home to Marathas, Dhangars, Asof November30, 2020, casesof complicatethe situation. by the lowercourt under both OBCs and STs, Gaur has neverlet domestic violencerose by almost On Sunday, theIndian delega- POCSO and IPC sections. The con- uptick in militant recruitment caste matter,hesays.Whether 60%overthe past12months. tion wasled by Lt Gen PGK vict then movedthe High Court. weddingsorfunerals,everyfamily “While the Coronavirus was Menon, XIV Corps Commander, 2020 markedasignificant im- he said. Riyaz Naikoo and Junaid Sehrai latedactivities in 2020.The ca- in the villageparticipates. beingtoutedasagreatequaliserin whichisresponsiblefortheLACin IIM provement in the situation on Between Januaryand and Dr Saifullah of the Hizbul sualties arelowerthanthe pre- thebeginning,itlaidbarethestark eastern Ladakh,and includedan- The letter,the faculty claims, countsofterrorism, lawand December2020,asmanyas225 Mujahideen. Lashkar’s Sajad vious year.The number of J&K Inequality inequalitiesinherentinthesociety other senior militaryofficer from wassent to thegovernmentonly order and security. “If youlook militantswerekilledbysecurity Haider,BurhanKokafromAnsar police personnel killeddue to the strictestlockdown anywhere soon afterthe lockdown wasim- Delhi. Naveen Srivastava, afterexhausting all redressalav- at the pastdecade, the situa- forces operating in J&K. In 103 Ghazwat-ul-Hind and com- militant activity hasalsoseena intheworld,India’stop100billion- posed,” said Oxfam India CEO AdditionalSecretary(EastAsia)in enues internally. This is unusual tion is better on allparameters operations, 207militantswere manders of the newly-carved 24 percent decline. In 2020, as aires sawtheir fortunes increase Amitabh Behar. the MinistryofExternal Affairs, giventhatthe IIMs, in the past, since 2016.Iwould sayalot of killed in the Valleywhile 18 in The Resistance Front were also manyas61policepersonnellost by Rs 12.97trillion —enough OxfamIndia’sfindingsarepart wasalsopresent.TheChinesedel- have always been critical of gov- improvement has been made the Jammu region. amongthose killedin2020,an their lives. moneytogiveeveryoneofthe138 of the Oxfam International report egation wasled by Major General ernment interference. on lawand order and security Officials said 46 topcom- official with J&K Policesaid. Meanwhile, ceasefireviola- million poorestIndians acheque releasedontheopeningdayofthe Liu Lin, commander of the South Official sources said anyinter- as well as terrorist violence. mandersof variousmilitantout- The dataalsoshows that 36 tions acrossthe LoCshavein- forRs94,045 each. In starkcon- WorldEconomic Forum’s “Davos Xinjiang MilitaryRegion. ventionby theMinistryisunlikely, Severalmilitant commanders fits were amongthoseneu- civiliansand45securityperson- creasedbyover50per cent, trast,170,000peoplelosttheirjobs Dialogues”. “The deep divide be- at leastfor now. “We cannotstart were killed in asingle year...,” tralised in 2020.Theseinclude nel succumbed to military-re- recording930incidentsin2020. everyhour in the month of April tweentherichandpoorisproving Sexual assault interfering in an institute’s inter- 2020, the reportpointsout. as deadlyasthe virus,”said thereisnodirect physicalcontact nalaffairs,especiallywhenwe are “In fact, the increase in wealth Gabriela Bucher,Executive i.e. skin to skin with sexual intent advocating autonomyfor other rately onitsconcernsregardingthe and givenme6000dollars formy ferent team whichhandledmar- whopassedawayin2017, wasthe of the top11billionairesofIndia Director of Oxfam International. without penetration”. The bench higher education institutions Regulations and requestedthe SwedenandDenmarkfamilytrip. ket analyticsand data,” he said, village’sfirstorgandonor.Withhis duringthepandemiccouldsustain Oxfamhas arguedthe urgent observed that “theact of pressing along the lines of what has been government to hold offits notifi- Also in 2017,Goswami had per- adding that everything else was exampleprominentlydisplayedat the NREGS scheme for10years or needfor policymakers to taxthe breastcan be acriminalforce to a grantedto theIIMs,”anofficialsaid. cation. The Indian Express sent a sonallymet me at ITCParel hotel “slander”. thegrampanchayatoffice,447vil- the health ministryfor 10 years,” wealthyindividuals and richcor- woman/ girlwith the intention to Also, the crisis is seen moreas questionnaireonthesecomplaints andgivenmeRs20lakhcash...also lagershave pledgedto donatetheir accordingto Oxfam’scalculations. poratesandusethatmoneyto“in- outrageher modesty.” anegoclashasmuchasaturf war. to Seth.Inresponse,shesaid:“Our in 2018 and 2019... Goswami met ‘Pak Zindabad’ organs since. To dispelsupersti- ThereportstatesthatCovidhas vest in free quality public services “In viewofthe above discus- “Theseissues aren’t things that teamatIIMCalcuttaiscommitted me at ITChotelParel and gave me case wasmade out. tionsaboutghostsandspirits,ade- thepotentialto increaseeconomic and social protection to support sion, this Court holds that the ap- can’t be resolvedinternally,”the to upholdtherequirementsofthe Rs 10 lakhs eachtime...” Ahead of Republic Day, police sertedvillagecrematorium has inequality in almostevery coun- everyone, from cradle to grave”. pellant is acquitted under Section officialsaid.Indeed,highereduca- IIM Acttofirmlyset the Institute Dasgupta’s lawyer Arjun said, theywereon“high alert” beentransformedintoachildren’s tryatonce--thefirsttimethishas However, with the Union 8ofthe POCSO Actand convicted tionsecretaryAmitKhareislearnt on the path to global excellence Singh said: “We totallydenythis whentheyreceivedacallaround1 park. “People usedtobescared of happenedsince records began Budget round the corner,not underminoroffenceu/s354ofIPC to have metSethandKulkarniand whileatthesametimefosteringa allegation as the statement am about a “group shouting slo- thecrematoriumbutnowchildren over acenturyago. everyone is convincedofthese andsentencedhimto undergo RI,” asked them to resolve thestand- culture of transparency,accounta- would have been recordedun- gans, praising Pakistan”. come on their owntoplay,”says Sectorally, India’s large infor- policy recommendations. the judgesaid. The maximum offinternally. bility and meritocracy.These es- der duress. It does nothaveany An enquiryofficer wassent to Bhagyashree’s husband Dyanoba mal workforcewas theworst hit NRBhanumurthy, Vice- sentenceisfive yearsandthemin- Sethwasappointedasthefirst sential aspectsofthe Actmay evidentiaryvalue in the courtof the spot. “Twofamilies (one from Chame, who has authored abook asitmadeup75percentof the122 Chancellor of Dr BRAmbedkar imum one year foranoffence un- woman head of IIM-Calcuttain causedisruption anddiscomfort law.”Amember of Goswami’s Delhi, the other from Gurugram) in MarathititledNirmile Astitva millionjobslost.Informalworkers Schoolof EconomicsUniversityin der this section. November 2018.Analumnus of to asmallgroupof individualswith legal team declined to comment. alongwiththeirchildhadcometo Majhe(CreatingMyIdentity)that hadrelatively feweropportunities Bengaluru, said that thisisnot the “Evidently it is notthe case of IIM-Calcutta(1978),shehasadoc- dissimilar values and interests. The chargesheetalso includes India Gate Saturdaynight.They tells the storyofthe transforma- to work from home and suffered year to prioritise inequality. theprosecutionthattheappellant torate from theUniversity of “We arepainedbythebaseless BARC’s audit report, dated July had rented Yulu bikes theywere tion of the village. morejoblosscomparedtothefor- “Reducinginequalities is very im- removedher topand pressedher Michigan (1988). She joined stories instigated by this small 24,2020,whichstatesthatevi- racing, and theyhad namedeach NilangaMLA Sambhaji Patil malsector.The40-50millionsea- portantbutitshouldbeamedium breast,” Justice Ganediwala said. Virginia Tech in 2008 and headed groupto sullytheInstitute’srepu- dence “indicatedfavouritism other aftercountries likeIndia, Nilangekar says another villagein sonalmigrant workers, typically -termtarget.Betweengrowthand “Theactof pressingofbreastofthe itsdepartment of management tation built over decades. Despite shown to fewchannels” and “in Pakistan,JapanandAustralia.They the taluka, Dongargaon, had cho- engaged working in construction distribution,wemustget the se- childaged12 years,intheabsence from 2008 to 2013.She will com- thechallengeswe have confronted some cases, we suspect that the were cheering eachother on by sen an all-womanpanchayatbut, sites, factories etc. were particu- quencing right. We need to grow of anyspecificdetailasto whether plete her term as director at IIM in including those posedbythe ratings were pre-decided”. shoutingthesenameswhensome unlikeGaur, theymet with oppo- larly distressed, notesthe report. firstbeforewecan distribute. the topwas removedorwhether ayear.Among theissues flagged COVID crisis, we arenow operat- Forinstance, the reportmen- localsheardthemshout,‘Pakistan sition. Gram panchayatpolls are The pandemic also spiked Otherwise, we can getstuckina heinsertedhishandinsidetopand by theteachersisfacultyshortage. ingatevengreater effectiveness tionsallegedsuppressionof view- zindabad’,” said Eish Singhal, DCP notcontestedonpolitical party healthandeducationinequalities. low-incomeequilibrium,”hesaid. pressedher breast, would notfall Sourcessaidthatonlyonenewfac- andefficiencywithdevotionto the ership forTimes Nowtoboost (New Delhi and PRO). symbols but candidates areoften Overthepastyearaseducation inthedefinitionof ‘sexualassault’.” ultymemberhasbeenhiredinthe success of our talented students. Republic’s weeklyrankings, and During interrogation at the backedbyparties. In Gaur village, shiftedonline, India sawthe digi- Kargil The courtofExtraJoint lasttwo yearsdespitetheinstitute Having converted challenges into highlights apurportedconversa- TughlaqRoadpolicestation,police candidateswere chosenby thevil- taldivide worsening inequalities. Hanle, and Kargil feels ignored. Additional Sessions Judgehad losingover10 teachersonaccount opportunitiesto strengthenourre- tion between BARC’s topexecu- foundthefamilyhad“named”the lagers themselves. Ontheonehand,private providers FerozAhmadKhan,Chairman found Ragde, 39, guilty of offence of resignation, superannuation, silience, we areexcited to march tivesandaseniormarketingexec- 14-year-oldboy“Pakistan”during “Ioftencitethisvillageasanex- suchasBYJU’s(currentlyvaluedat of the LadakhAutonomous Hill of sexualassaultof the12-year-old andvoluntaryretirement.Someof intothe futurewithintegrity and utive of IndiaTodayGroup on the game. “When the boywas ample. The property cards in the $10.8billion)andUnacademy(val- DevelopmentCouncil (LAHDC) girlunder POCSO alongwith theexits,teachersallege,weredue commitmentto thepledge of ‘IIM “pre-fixing” AajTak’s ratings. slow, others, which includedhis villageare all in the name of uedat$1.45 billion)experienced Kargil, has written to Lt Governor Sections 354(assault or criminal to “harassment.” First’, blessedbythe good wishes With multipleemails and parents, shouted ‘Pakistanhaar women, theyhavestarted their exponential growth yet, on the RKMathur protesting that “cul- forcetowomanwithintentto out- “There’salot of micromanage- and support of valuedmembers messages between BARC officials gaya…peechhe rehgaya,’and flour mill, women and men work other,just3per cent of the poor- tural and religious symbols” of rage hermodesty); 363(punish- ment by the director…For in- of our facultyand extendedcom- attachedasannexures, the report when the boystarted speeding, equallyhardintheir farms,” says est20per cent of Indian house- Kargil have been ignored. ment forkidnapping); and 342 stance, the doctoral research pro- munity.” statesthatoneof thereasonsgiven theycheeredhim with ‘Pakistan Nilangekar, aBJPlegislator,adding holds had access to acomputer “Itisunfortunatetonotethata (punishment forwrongful con- gramme committee whichdeals Askedabout thefaculty’s con- by the councilfor changing Times Zindabad’,” said the officer. that,importantly, thewomenpan- and just9per cent had access to singularaspectofLadakhhasbeen finement) of the IPC. with permissions forfaculty to cerns over the newRegulations, Now’sviewership data is to cater The twomen in the group – chayat members in Gaur arenot the internet. incorporatedfordisplayontheUT Ragde had movedthe High present papers at international BoardChairmanShrikrishna for “outlier” data, whichismeant one of them is the boy’s father -- proxycandidates forthe men in In terms of healthcare, Oxfam Ladakh tableauduring Republic Court againstthe judgment conferences is almostdefunct be- Kulkarni wrote: “As apractice we to identify spikes in viewership were detainedbythe police for their families. Agovernmentoffi- foundthatsinceIndiadoesnotre- Day, therebyfailing to showcase throughhislawyerSabahatUllah. cause the director insists on hav- donotdiscussinternalmattersre- dueto thechannelbeingthe“land- eight hours, before being allowed cialalso acknowledgesthat this is portcasedatadesegregatedby so- therichanddiversereligio-cultural Public prosecutor MJKhansub- ingthefinalsaywhocanorcannot latedtoour belovedInstituteand ing page” on some distributors. to leave at around 9amSunday. whatsetsGaurapart.“Leadership cio-economicorsocialcategories, fabric of Ladakh,” Khan has writ- mitted in the High Courtthat un- attendinternationalconferences,” my Boardinthe public domain... Thepracticeof placingachan- The three women and the at the grass-root leveltakes time it is difficult to gaugethe distribu- ten. “It is felt that(the) partialvi- der Section 7ofPOCSO, “pressing said ateacher. Pleasebereassuredthatwe onthe nelonthe“landingpage”waspro- child were also takentothe police to emerge.But giving women tion of the disease amongst vari- sualrepresentationof theUTatan of breast” fell under the definition It’s also alleged that in herrole Boardare fullycommitted and hibitedby TRAI.Butthatdirection station at night but allowedtogo powerisimportant.” ous communities. But India cur- eventasprominentastheNational of sexual assault. as chairperson of the Academic alignedtothe best interestofIIM wasset aside by the Telecom home. The women, including the The goodwill earned by the rentlyhas the world’s Republic Daycelebrations alien- CitingfromPOCSO’sdefinition Council (AC), Seth indulged in se- Calcutta. The allegations listedin DisputesSettlementandAppellate child’s mother,wereagain called members meansvillagers are second-largest cumulative num- ates the people of Kargil district.” of sexual assault, the High Court lective recording of minutes and the email beloware withoutcon- Tribunal, and the matter is nowin to thepolicestationbetween8and ready to pitchinwith donations, berofCOVID-19positive casesand Khan has asked that the said, “as per the definition, the of- decisionsofthe Council. text and baseless.” Supreme Court. 9amand letgoatnoon. likefor renovation of the gram globally, thepoor,marginalised tableaubemodified: “LAHDC fenceinvolvesfollowingnecessary Members have allegedthat The audit wasconducted by Officialsof theSpecialCelland panchayat office, to supplement andvulnerablecommunitieshave Kargil wishes to requestyou to ingredients —act musthavebeen minutes of acrucial AC meeting BARC AcquisoryRiskConsulting.Theex- IntelligenceBureauwereinvolved the panchayat’s modestannual higher ratesofCOVID-19preva- kindlypassnecessarydirectionsto committedwithsexualintent,act held on September 17 and 21 last alleged manipulation as well as ecutive summaryofthe audit re- duringquestioning,said sources. budgetof aboutRs2.5lakh.Oneof lence. “The spread of diseasewas theconcernedforincorporationof mustinvolvetouchingthevagina, year did notreflect the decision “pre-fixing”of ratingsforthechan- portstatesthat“manipulationwas Singhalsaid,“Theywerecheer- the schemes the funds have swiftamong poor communities, religious/heritagesites and cul- penis,anusorbreastofthechildor that faculty feedbackon nels by BARC’s topexecutives. evidencedin2017, 18 and19across ing and said Pakistanzindabad in helpedorganise is theKanyadaan oftenlivingincrammedareaswith tural ethos of Kargil district in the makingthechildtouchthevagina, Regulations under the IIM Act The supplementary English News Genre and Telugu alighter vein.” Yojana,to ensurenoone“thinksof poor sanitation and using shared UTLadakhtabeau.”KhantoldThe penis, anus or breastofsuchper- shouldbeshared with the Board chargesheetwas filedagainst News Genre”.The reportstates theirdaughtersasaburden”.Inthe common facilities suchastoilets Indian Express that the adminis- son or anyother person or doing of Governors. Dasgupta, former BARC COO thatsixtopexecutivesofBARC,in- Latur village pastfiveyears, villagers have and waterpoints,” it states. tration did notconsult thepeople anyotheract with sexual intent The newIIM Actcame intoef- Romil Ramgarhia and Republic cluding Dasgupta,wereinvolved theirwomenoccupants,asanitary sharedexpensesforfiveweddings. Inthisregard,itfoundthatonly of Kargilbeforefinalising the whichinvolve contact without fect January31, 2018,and grants Media NetworkCEO Vikas in“manipulationof ratingsandvi- napkindispenser,inclusionof wid- Aboardattheentrancetothepan- 6per cent of the poorest 20 per tableau. “Ladakh is notonlyLeh, it penetration.” sweeping powers to all20busi- Khanchandani.Afirstchargesheet olationofthe code of ethics”be- owsinfestivities,adrive to encour- chayat declares that the village cent households had access to also includes Kargil, and thereare Justice Ganediwala observed: ness schools, including in the ap- wasfiledagainst12persons in tween 2018 and 2019. ageorgandonation, and afree doesn’t give or receive dowry. non-shared sources of improved other distinctions within Leh and “Asperthedefinitionof ‘sexualas- pointmentofdirectors, chairper- November2020.Accordingto the Whencontacted,BARCsaidin flour-grinding mill. Ayodhya Chame, 55, head of sanitation, compared to 93 per Kargil,”hesaid.“We feelsadatbe- sault’,a‘physicalcontactwithsex- sons and Boardmembers. Each second chargesheet, Dasgupta’s an email: “As thematter is asub- Having firstbecome sarpanch Gaur’s Tantamukti Samiti or dis- cent of the top20per cent house- ingignored.Thereweremanyim- ual intent without penetration’ is IIM, under the newIIM Act, has to statementwasrecordedintheof- jectof anongoinginvestigationby in 2005,Chame says she will now pute-resolution committee, says holds in India. portantreligiousandculturalsites an essential ingredient of the of- draftits Regulations, whichwill fice of the Crime Intelligence Unit the variouslaw enforcement makeway foranewsarpanch, to the panel ensures disagreements In terms of caste, just37.2per in Kargil whichcould have been fence.Thewords‘anyotheract’en- overseeandguidetheadministra- onDecember27,2020,at5.15 pm, agencies,we areconstrainedtore- be chosen from among the six areresolvedbeforetheyturn into centof SChouseholdsand25.9per displayed, buttheydidn’t consult compasseswithinitself thenature tion of the Institute. in thepresence of twowitnesses. spond to your enquiries.” members. The seventh seat, re- serious rows. “This is whywe cent of ST householdshad access anyone–noteventheelectedrep- of theactswhichare similarto the TeachersatIIM-Calcuttahave Dasgupta’sstatementreads:“I Republic said in astatement served forSTs,will be filledsoon, could elect our gram panchayat to non-sharedsanitationfacilities, resentativeslikeus.” actswhichhavebeen specifically alleged that the Regulations seek have known Arnab Goswami that “therehas been acollusion of withanother woman, she says. unopposed,” she says. compared to 65.7 per cent forthe SajadHussain,aprominentso- mentionedinthedefinitiononthe to reducethe Academic Council’s since 2004.Weusedtoworkto- corporateandpoliticalintereststo “We had aname in mind and the Ayodhya points out that hav- general population. cial and political activistofKargil, premiseof theprincipleof ejusdem remit. One of them being that the getherinTimesNow. IjoinedBARC target”Goswami. villagehad agreedtoher,but her ingwomeninleadershiprolessets The pandemic has also said the tableaureflectsthe way generis(of thesame kind). Theact Academic Council, in future, will as CEO in 2013.Arnab Goswami Times Nowdefendedthe use caste certificatewasfoundinvalid agoodrolemodelforthe younger widenedgenderdisparities. the BJP thinksabout Ladakh. should be of thesame natureor onlybeabletoelectonerepresen- launchedRepublic in 2017.Even of landing pages, stating that they by the districtadministration.” generation. As an example, she The unemployment rate “It is very unfortunatethat close to that.” tative to the Boardinstead of two before launching RepublicTVhe are “notruledasillegal” and “are One of the changes the village says, “Earlier,onlyfathers would among women rose from already Kargil has been completelyig- In this case, datingbackto as hasbeen the norm. Now, the would talk to me about plans for simplythe mostpreferred fre- takesgreat pride in is the normal- go to children’s school to discuss high15 percentbefore Covidto 18 nored...Kargilhasbeenthebattle- 2016,theconvicthadtakenthegirl Boardchairperson willselect the the launchand indirectlyhint at quency whichissold and bought isationof theconversationaround issues. Nowmothers come, and per cent. “Thisincrease in unem- groundduringtheKargilwar.They intowrongful confinement and second. The faculty alsoclaims helpinghim to getgood ratings to at aPremium by perfectlylegal menstruation, ledbyASHA children see them as having arole ploymentofwomen can result in could have showcasedany of the hadpressedherbreasts whileshe that,unlikepeerinstitutessuchas his channel. Goswami knewvery means”. It said the outlier policy worker Manisha Tangadpalle. beyond the home.” alossto India’sGDPof about8per warsymbols likeTiger Hills, wasrunning an errand forher IIM-Aand IIM-B, the formulation well that Iknowhow the TRP sys- was “abusedbycorruptBARCoffi- “Menstruationisanaturalprocess, Bhanudas Nagmode, 74,are- cent or $218 billion,” states the re- Tololing.This(tableau)reflectsthe mother. As the girldid notreturn and adoption of the proposed temworks.Healso alluded to cials to manuallyintervene and but girls hesitatetotalktotheir tired primaryschool teacher,says port. Of the women who retained binarythrough whichthe BJP foralong time,the mother went Regulations of IIM-C wasdone helpingmeout in the future.” wilfullyand deliberatelyimprove mothersaboutit,thoughtheytalk theyare happytoconcedethesuc- their jobs, as many83% were sub- looksatLadakh,”hesaid. The UT looking forher and found her in without their engagement and It states: “Iworkedwith my channel ranksfor favoured chan- to me freely. Thesanitarynapkin cessto theirwomen.“We have had jected to acut in income accord- of Ladakhwas createdafter the the upstairs room of Ragde’s consultation.The Academic team to ensuremanipulation of nels”andthatitis“contemplating dispenser we setupinthe angan- no infectious diseases in the last ingtoasurvey by the Institute of constitutional changes of August house. The room wasboltedfrom Council, theysay,was givenjust TRPratingsthatmadeRepublicTV legal action”. wadi givesthree napkins forRs5. manyyears, open drains have Social Studies Trust. 5, 2019,bywhich Jammu and the outside.She had metRagde five days to submitsuggestionson getnumber 1rating. This would India TodayGroup did notre- Soon we will install amachine for been covered, the villageis Beyondincomeandjoblosses, Kashmir’sspecialstatuswasabro- comingdownthe stairsand had thedraftandthatthefacultyfeed- have continuedfrom2017to2019. spond to queries from The Indian safedisposalofnapkins too,” cleaner,” Nagmode lists. poorer women also suffered gated, and the statewas down- asked him abouther daughter’s back on centralisationofpowers Towardsthis, in 2017 Arnab Express. Tangadpallesays. GangaChame, 29, among the healthwisebecauseofthedisrup- gradedtotwo UTs. While asepa- whereabouts. Ragde had told her in the Boardand Director wasnot Goswami had personallymet me WhileDasgupta is in jail, The SangeetaChame,whorunsthe sixnewpanchayatmembers,says tioninregularhealthservicesand rateUTwasalwaysthedemandof that he didn’t have anyidea about considered by the Boardwhile at St Regishotel, LowerParel and Indian Express reachedout to mill that grinds flour forfree, still the election marks another mile- Anganwadicentres.“Itispredicted the people of Leh, the people of whereher daughter was. passing the Regulations. givenme6000dollarscashformy Mehta,Samrat,Ramgarhia,Kumar remembers the Raksha Bandhan stone. “We came hereasdaugh- thattheclosureoffamilyplanning Kargil have voicedconcerns over The girltold her mother that Lastmonth,afterwritingtothe France and Switzerland family andBasu.OnlyKumarresponded. from twoyears ago, “in which ters-in-law, butourfamiliesnever services will result in 2.95 million alleged discrimination. Ladakh is Ragde had held her by hand and MoE againstthe instituteleader- trip...also in 2019 Arnab Goswami “Ihadremotelynothingtodowith brothersgiftedsanitarynapkinsto discouragedusfromparticipating. unintended pregnancies...1.80 Buddhistmajority, whileKargilis takenher to his house on the pre- ship, the faculty also wrotesepa- hadpersonallymet me at St Regis research or ratings as it wasadif- sisters”.Tangadpalle’sgrandfather, Theyputtheirfaithinusandletus million abortions (including1.04 Muslim majority.

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CANTONMENT BOARD DEHUROAD PUBLIC NOTICE BUSINESS I have changedinmyold name Rajkumar OBITUARY TRANSFER OF PROPERTY POULTRY Annasaheb Naragacche It is notified for the information of the general public that the following applicants/persons have given notice under section 81 to new name Rajkumar Annaso Nargaccheas (1) of the Cantonments Act, 2006 for making changes in the Assessment Register for taxation purpose only (only superstructure), per Aadhaar CardNo. as per documents submitted, Dehuroad Cantonment Board will not be liable in case of any dispute regarding title of the said 883655097602 Property.The changes do not confer any rights in the title interest on Land/Property.Further it does not amount to regularization of 0090280874-3 unauthorized construction /encroachment and/or change in purpose, if any,inthe subject Property.The Dehuroad Cantonment Board has right to take action under existing laws against unauthorized constructions/encroachment/change in purpose of usage I have changedmyname Jagadeesh Mahadev of Property and any other violations. Patil to Jagdish Sr. Date of House No./ Name of Present Name of Person(s) to be Mode of Transfer MahadeoPatil as per No. Application Property No. under Assessee as per recorded in Assessment Adhar No 978837716162 question Only Assessment Register 0090280845-2 Superstructure Register I have changedmyname 1) NIL 133-4-A &133- Mahaveer Manoj Anraj jain Regd. Transfer Deed, Index II, Maya Balkrishan KulkarnitoSadhana Recd. on 4-B, S.W.B.P. Hukumchand 7/12 extractr,Building Plan Mukund Upadhyeas per 02-01-2014 Road Barlota Copy etc. Adhar No 812591577344 2) 01-02-2018 435, Shitala Nagar Rambhau Bandu Tatyaba Rambhau Pore Regd. Gift Deed, Index II, 7/12 A Pune BroilerTraders 0090280845-3 Recd. on Pore extract, Location Plan etc. Association Rate on 25.01.2021 ForLivebig I have changedmyold 02-02-2018 birds Rs-94 Livesmall name Mauli Gulab 3) 09-05-2018 246-D-302, Flat No. Suresh Kumar Rinki Sandeep Singh Dhanda Regd. Deed of Gift, Index II, 7/12 Birds Rs-122/-Contact:- Kokne to new name as 8695842684 Mauli Gulab Kokane as 302, Vrundawan D S/o Surajbhan extract, Building Plan, Title & per Aadhaar CardNo Wing, S.W.B.P. Search Report, Notarized 0090271130-21 80327471 7968 Road Indemnity Bond, Location Plan NECC suggested farm- 0090280874-1 etc. gate price for 100eggs on 25.01.2021inPune I, No 15568590X Hav 4) 11-06-2018 221,Shitala Nagar Purushottam (Remaining Part) Regd. Release Deed, Index II, Santosh Sakharam Recd. on without tray is Rs.440 - Joseph Purushottam Mathai 7/12 extracts,Notarized (Rupees Four hundred Kharat herebydeclare 14-06-2018 Affidavits, Death Certificates Fourty only) that my daughter’s etc. Phone:NECC 24270724, name as Antaran Santosh Kharat instead 5) 12-10-2018 175-4, S.W.B.P. Rajani Anandrao Imran Dilawar Tamboli and Regd. Deef of Apartment, Index 26336377, Dealer: 24332689, 24455130, of AntaraSantosh Road Landge and Shahajahan Dilawar Tamboli II, 7/12 extract, Building Plan, 24265787. Kharat, dateofbirth as Prabhakar Location Plan etc. 24 Feb2010 Instead of 14 Anandrao Landge 0090272256-1 Feb2010 erroneously published in my service 6) 07-10-2019 78, Mamurdi Ganpat SGaikwad Sachin Balkrishna Bhondve Regd. Sale Deed, Index II, Pimpri Chinchwad Broilers Traders record. Location Plan etc. (Old H. No. 70) Association Rate On 0090280875-1 7) 12-12-2019 137-VI-BI, S.W.B.P. Anjili Moottil V TSSamuel Regd. Transfer Deed/ Sale 25.01.2021 ForLiveBig Road Verghese Deed, Index II, 7/12 extractr, Birds Rs 78 Livesmall Birds Rs 90 Al_Taqdeer (020) 24492149. Building Plan etc. Broiler(Siraj Shaikh BIBVEWADI - Opp. Nehru Memorial 8) NIL 10-B, Garden City 10-B :Kantilal Vaibhav Vilas Kurhade, 10-B :Regd. Sale Deed, Index 9822931357 ,7720080489. Ad Services, Hall, Ambedkar Road, Recd. on AND 14-B, Datta Mohanlal Priyanka Mahesh Pawar and II, 7/12 extract, Search &Title 0090279428-1 Amol Nalawade, Pune-1. Ph. No. Sr. No.659/28, Rajiv Gandhi 26138113, 26133510,Fax: 29-09-2020 Nagar Khivansara AND Rachana Vilas Kurhade Report, Notarized Indemnity Pune Broilers Traders’ Nagar,UpperLast Bus 26131487. 14-B :Vilas Bond, Location Plan etc. AND Association Rate On Stop,Bibvewadi, Pune-17. Meenat Advertising, Dashrath Kurhade 14-B :Notarized Affidavit, 25.01.2021 ForLiveBig Mobile 9420729914, Mukund Saigaonkar, 9021851460 827/7, DasturMeher Death Certificate, 7/12 extract, Birds Rs.78 Live Tandoori Birds Rs.89 Akash Advtg, Road, Camp, Pune-1. C. S. Sawar, 645/1, Shop Tel. 26130542. Location Plan etc. Momin Poultry (Asif No.4, Rasakar Campus, DAPODI- 9) 29-10-2020 246-E-203, Flat No. Madanlal BAgarwal Govardhan Madanlal Regd. Apartment Deed, Index Momin) 26336349. Bibawewadi Main Road, Vantage Advertising & 203, Vrundawan E Khandelwal and Shweta Atul II, 7/12 extract, Building Plan 0090279855-1 Bibawewadi, Pune-37.Tel: Mktg., Wing, S.W.B.P. Khandelwal Copy,Location Plan etc. 9922221261. A-17, 'C'Building, Road Sheetal Agro Traders Ganesh Advertising, 3rdFloor, Kate Today’sEx-Shop Mr.VijayDeshmukh, S.no. Residency, 10) 03-11-2020 211-1 [Flat No.1] TO Barlota Associates – Karuna Co-operativeHousing Regd. Conveyance Deed, delivery for livesmall 672/2a /2b, Ganesh Near Dapodi Railway 211-12 [Flat No. 12], Karuna Building Society Limited :- Index II, Bldg Plan Copy,7/12 birds sizebetween1.3 to Complex, Shop No.3, Station, Dapodi, 1.5 rate at PuneRs. 94/- Bibvewadi, Pune-37. Pune-411 012. Ph.no. 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INS Vikramadityaonsea. The and forget’missile developedfor No suchoffer wasmade to NCPleader from ,Shashikant Shinde,baselessclaim, says BJP EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE tableauofLCA Navy shows land- mechanisedformations of the PUNE,JANUARY24 ing, takeoffand liftoperation, Armytoengageheavily fortified waspromisedaministerialberth the BJP.Among them were three mostimportant operations enemytanks. Helina is also a MANOJMORE if the party wasre-elected to Vijaysinh Mohite-Patil and THE REPUBLICDay tableaux of required to be metbyanaircraft thirdgeneration‘fire and forget’ PUNE,JANUARY24 power. BJP leaders said they ShivendrarajeBhosale, both rep- the Defence Research and onboard acarrier ship. LCANavy missile with arange of seven neededastrong face to represent resented theNCP in western Development Organisation successfullydemonstrated land- kilometres, developed forinte- MEMBER OF Legislative Council the party in western Maharashtra Maharashtra. The BJP had also (DRDO) this year will showcase ing on a90metre runwayand grationonweaponised version and NCPleader from Satara, and thereforetheywantedme to ropedintop Congress leader the landing and take-offofthe take-offfromshort run of 145 of AdvancedLight Helicopter Shashikant Shinde, has stirreda join theparty and contestontheir Harshavardhan Patil. Navalversion of theLight metres in 2020. LCANavyis (ALH). MPATGM has arange of political storm withhis revela- ticket,” Shinde said. Another NCPleader, Combat Aircraft(LCA) Tejas on- India’s first4+Generation Ski- 2.5 km with ‘Top Attack’capabil- tion that the BJP had allegedlyof- Headdedthat he rejectedthe UdayanrajeBhosale, toohad boardaircraftcarrier and the JumpTakeOff ButArrested ities forinfantryuse. SANT is a feredtopumpRs100 crorefor offerashewas a“loyalsoldier of joinedthe BJP afterwinningthe complete familyofAnti-Tank Recovery (STOBAR) fighter air- smartStand-offAnti-Tank getting him elected from the NCP”. Shinde said, “I believe 2019 election from GuidedMissiles. craftcapableofoperatingfrom Missile being developedfor assemblyseat if he in the policies and principles of SataraasanNCP candidate. After The DRDOhas been show- an aircraftcarrier. Commander launchfromthe Mi-35helicop- switchedsides. the NCPand thereforeIwould not resigning from the NCP, Bhosale casing advanceddefence tech- Abhishek CGawande of Indian terfor AirForce anti tank opera- Shinde, however, told The have joined the BJP at anycost.” had contestedthe Lok Sabha by- nology products fortri-services Navy is the commander of the tions. ATGM forMBT Arjun is a Indian Express that he wasnot of- Shinde had unsuccessfully poll on aBJP ticket,but lost to at Rajpath on Republic Dayevery tableau.” laser guidedPrecision Munition feredmoneytojoin the BJP.“At contestedthe 2019 assembly NCP’s SrinivasPatil. year.Deliveringonits mandate Another tableaushowcases whichislaunchedfromthe 120 an event in SataraonSaturday, I election from Koregaon seat on Meanwhile,BJP’s SataraMLA of development of state-of-the- the DRDOs familyofAnti-Tank mm rifledgun of Arjun tank to had said that the BJP wasready the NCPticket.“Because Irefused ShivendrarajeBhosale on artdefencesystems, DRDO has GuidedMissile (ATGM) Systems. engageand neutralise Explosive to spend Rs 100crore to getme to join the BJP,theytargetedme Sundaymet senior NCPleader broughttwo important tableaux It displays NAG, Helicopter Reactive Armour (ERA) pro- elected to the stateassembly.I and went all out to ensuremy and Deputy ChiefMinister Ajit to theRepublicDay parade 2021. launched versionofNAG called tected armoured targets. did notsay that theyhad offered defeat,” said Shinde. He wassub- Pawar, triggering speculations at AMinistryofDefence press the Helina, Man Portable Anti This year,the LCATejas me Rs 100crore to join the Deputy Chief MinisterAjit Pawarinspectsdevelopment sequentlyelectedtothe state’s atime when the NCPhas been statement said, “The Light Tank GuidedMissile (MPATGM), model is also partofthe IAF party,” he said. work in BaramationSunday. Afterwards,hemet BJP MLA upperHouse. claiming thatseveral leaders Combat AircraftTejas has Stand-OffAnti-Tank Missile Tableauand the Ministryof “Theoffer had come before ShivendrarajeBhosale. Express When contacted,BJP state from theBJP wouldsoon join the achieved amajor technologyca- (SANT) and Laser GuidedATGM Information and Broadcasting the 2019 assemblyelections. BJP spokesperson KeshavUpadhaye party.However, Pawarsaid pabilitymilestone by landing forMain Battle Tank Arjun. The Tableaurepresenting the theme leaders contacted andurged me said, “Nosuchoffer wasmadeto Bhosale methim in connection and taking offfromthe Aircraft ATGM tableauwill be repre- of ‘Vocal forLocal’. OtherDRDO to join the party.Theyasked me if Rs 100crore wasrequired,BJP fron party wastrying to rope in Shinde. It is abaselessclaim... I with thedevelopment worksin Carrier of Indian Navy.The LCA sented by ShiladityaBhowmick, productsonshowcase areAkash to contestfromKoregaonassem- willspendittoensurehis vic- leaders from the NCPand the think he is cracking ajoke.” his area. “When we were in the Navy tableaucelebrates the suc- ayoung scientistofDRDL, Surface-to-Air Missile and Astra blyseat and promisedtospend tory,” Shinde said. Congress in abid to win the elec- Beforethe 2019 stateelec- Opposition, Iusedtomeetmin- cessful demonstrationofcarrier Hyderabad. Air-to-AirMissile on the Indian whatever moneywas required Shinde added that the offer tion. “The BJP had contacted sev- tions, severalseniorleaders from isters regarding development operations of the LCANavyfrom NAGisathirdgeneration‘fire Air ForceTableau. to getmeelected.Theysaid even hadcomeat atime when the saf- eral leaders. Iwas oneofthem. I the NCPand Congress had joined worksinmyarea,” he said.

INNUMBERS Jayant Narlikar chosen president of 94th All India Marathi Literary Meet

4 BhartiyaSahitya Mandal’s Dada Covid-19deaths EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE Gorefollowing ameeting of the reportedinPune PUNE,JANUARY24 Mandal and other associateor- district on Sunday. ganisations. Three names POPULAR MARATHI science fic- were said to have been consid- tion writer and astrophysicist ered to head the covetedliterary 9,012 Jayant Narlikar has been chosen meet, twoothers beingthat of Toll so farinthe district. as the presidentofthe 94th All authors India Marathi LiteraryMeet and Bharat Sasane. 491 (AkhilBhartiyaMarathi Sahitya Sources close to Narlikar said Sammelan), whichwillbeheld that althoughthe scientist-author Fresh Covid-19cases in Nashik between March 26 will attend the inaugural session reportedonSunday. and 28. Jayant Narlikar in Nashik and deliverthe opening Narlikar,82, who has au- remarks,hewon’t be able to re- 3,76,277 thored severalscience fiction main in Nashik forall three days books—including novels and by the stategovernment forhis due to health concerns. “Hemay The total positive cases short-story collections —ispro- work in science and literature. beinterviewedovervideo confer- so farinthe district. fessor emeritus at the Inter- His books, severalofwhich encingforthe remainingduration University Centrefor Astronomy have been translated intoother of the event...” and Astrophysics (IUCAA). languages, include Akashashi Born in Kolhapur in 1938, “I did notexpect this and it is Jadle Nate,Preshit, Vaman Parat Narlikar studiedatBanaras DIAT launches good that sciencefictionand Na Ala (The Return of Waman), HinduUniversity before going to writings about science aregain- Yakshanchi Denagi and Virus. Cambridgetostudy mathemat- firstcompany ingpopularity,” Narlikar told The HisautobiographyATaleofFour icsinthe late1950s.Hedid pio- Indian Express. Cities (Char Nagratale Majhe neering research in astronomy on campus He has been awardedthe Vishwa) receivedaSahitya and cosmology,including work Padma Vibhushan and Padma Akademi Awardin2014. on the origins of the universe, Bhushan by the Indian govern- Narlikar’s name wasan- whichincludes his work on grav- EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE ment and MaharashtraBhushan nouncedonSundaybyAkhil ity with Fred Hoyle. PUNE,JANUARY24 THE DEFENCE Instituteof REPUBLIC DAY COLOURS Father of German Bakery blast accused dies AdvancedTechnology(DIAT) has launchedthe firstcompanyon PuneCouncil Hallisdecorated with Tricolour-theme lighting ahead of Republic DayonSunday. PavanKhengre him to alifeterm, holding him have arrested alleged terror op- campus under itsInnovation and EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE guilty under Section 5(b) of the erativeslinkedto German Bakery Incubation Centre(IIC). PUNE,JANUARY24 Explosive Substances Act. blast case, did notname Baig as Thecompany mainlyworkson The High Courthad acquitted having anyroleinthe blast. development of bio-medical de- MIRZA INAYAT Baig—the father him of all terror charges, but “InayatBaig wasverypas- vices, drug delivery vehicles and ‘Maoist’ operative Kanchan Nanaware of German Bakeryblastaccused found him guilty of the charge of sionateabout the legal battle, advancedsensors and will be us- HimayatBaig, who wasfighting possession of explosives. The whichisbeforethe Supreme ing tools from nanotechnology, alegal battle to “free hisson off High Courthas acquitted him on Courtnow.Hewas confident machinelearningandartificialin- dies afterprolonged heart ailment the taint of terrorism” —diedon all five countsofdeath and four that his son will emerge taintless telligence. SundayinBeedafter suffering a countsoflifeimprisonment — at the end of it. He would tell me TheDIAT,adeemed-to-beuni- cardiac arrest.Eighty-nine-year- confirming onlyalifeterm un- that the daySupreme Courtac- versity of Defence Research and couple wasfirstarrestedin old Inayatran aJalebi shop in his der Section 5(b) of the ESA. quitted him, he will take his son DevelopmentOrganisationunder EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE January2008underUAPAinan native place Beeduntil afew Baig’s familyand manyac- on atour of Beedand tell every- theMinistryofDefencehasstarted PUNE,JANUARY24 arms recovery caseinyears ago. tivists allegethatATS had one that his son wasnot aterror- entrepreneurship and start-up Chandrapur.After getting bail in His son Mirza HimayatBaig “framedBaig as it failedtofind ist. It’s asad daythatthe SC judg- programmesthroughitsIICpolicy. KANCHAN NANAWARE alias the case, the couple went under- wasarrestedbythe Maharashtra the real perpetrators” in the case. ment did notcome till he was As an initiative,the IIC-DIAT Bhoomi (38), an alleged Maoist ground and startedoperating Anti-Terrorism Squad in Theyalso citethe fact that both alive,” said AnjumIndamdar,a hosteditsfirstcompany, ‘Navyukti operative who wasarrested under the aliasesofRajan and September 2010 in Pune claim- Delhi Police and National Pune-basedactivist, who is close Innovations Private Limited’, on along with her husband Arun Bhoomi,policesaid. ing that Baig, along with co-ac- Investigation Agency (NIA), who to the family. campus. The companyisled by Bhelkealias Rajan by the state Despiteher illness, cusedYasin Bhatkal, hadcarried Prof Sangeeta Kale from the DIAT Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) in Nanaware travelledinthe jun- out the German Bakerybomb- along with medical professionals, September 2014,passedawayat gles, looked afterfirstaid, med- ing. On April 18,2013, asessions marketexperts,andsomeinstitute Sassoon General Hospital in ication of the operativesand courtinPune had awarded alumni. The companywas for- Pune following aprolonged completedother tasksgiven to deathsentence to Baig, but in mallyinaugurated by DIATVice heartailment and relatedhealth her by thebannedMaoistoutfit. March 2016,the BombayHigh Chancellor, DrCPRamanarayanan, complications, police said. Arun Bhelkealias Rajan and Kanchan Nanaware Among her roles wasprocuring Courtset it aside and sentenced lastweek. Her lawyers had filedfor a medicinesfromtowns for Apressstatementfromthein- bail applicationonmedical CPI-Maoistcadres, police said. stitutestated, “DIAThas meticu- grounds in sessions courtin Prison since her arrest, forthe bannedCommunist Party In 2012,the ATShad arrested louslyframedIICpolicy,andispro- Pune in September lastyear, Nanaware had been suffering of India-Maoist. Angela Sontakke, secretaryof motingtheirfacultyandalumnito whichwas rejected and her bail from cardiac ailments sinceher AdvocateParth Shah,an- the ‘Golden Corridor launchtheir start-up companies pleainthe Bombay High Court collegedays.Her lawyer, other lawyer representing her, Committee’ of CPI-Maoist, in the DIATcampus. The idea is to waspending fordisposal. AdvocateRohan Nahar,told The said, “She had been admitted in along with artists of thePune- developindigenous solutions for Asenior police officer told Sunday Express, “We have come Sassoon hospital on and off basedcultural group Kabir various technologicalchallenges The SundayExpress that to know that Navaware has since September.She waslast Kala Manch, under the UAPA. within the countryand to con- Nanaware passedawayat passedawaytoday. We had ap- admitted on January16and has Investigators believe that tributetothe Government of Sassoon General Hospital pliedfor her bail on medical since been there. Following the afterSontakke’s arrest,Bhelke India’s ambitious Atmanirbhar around 4pmonSunday. At the grounds in September lastyear BombayHigh Court’s directives, and Nanaware took over the Bharat project.” time of the couple’s arrest from and had movedthe HC afterit acommittee wasformedatthe ‘GoldenCorridor Committee’, At theinauguration, Pune in 2014,the ATShad re- wasrejected by the sessions Sassoon hospital to oversee her whichaimedatrecruiting Ramanarayanan said, “Under the coveredaforgedPAN card, an court. The application waspend- treatment. She had recently youth forthe bannedparty IIC-DIATpolicy,ourendeavourwill Aadhaar card, astock of medi- ing fordisposal.” startedsuffering from lung com- from urban areas of beto establishandpromote entre- cines and other items from Daughter of aretired bank of- plicationsand multiple organis- Maharashtraand Gujarat. As preneurship and start-up centres them. ficer,Nanaware hailed from sues. Aprivate doctorhad sug- per the chargesheet filedby in thefield of futuristic technolo- The couple wasfacing Chandrapur district of gested ahearttransplant as the the ATS, Bhelkeand Nanaware gies, in addition to Defence tech- chargesunder sections of the Maharashtra. Shecameincon- onlytreatment to her worsen- had developedcontact with nology.Italso aims to engagestu- Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the tact with Bhelkeand became an ing condition. We areintouch severalyoungsters from slums dents, research scholars and Unlawful Activities Prevention active member of hisDeshbhakti with the jail authorities forthe in Mumbai and Pune and tried facultyof theInstituteintheIICac- Act(UAPA). Yuva Manch(DYM),whichwas further formalities.” to indoctrinatesome of them tivities.” Lodged in Yerawada Central later brandedbypoliceasafront Accordingtothe police, the intothe Maoistmovement. Maha-Metro celebrates4th foundation day of Pune MetroRailproject Secretary, MinistryofHousing the team. This includedinspec- car-taxiservices andpedestrian pleted. Pune Metrohas com- EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE and Urban Affairs (MoHUA)and tion of almostreadySant movement. pletedatleast 48percentofthe PUNE,JANUARY24 chairman, Maharashtra Metro Tukaram MetroStation and “Four years ago, the Pune work asof now...”apressrelease Rail Corporation, wasthe chief metroride from theretothe next Metroprojectbegan withthree stated.Mishra,DrBrijesh Dixit, THE MAHARASHTRA MetroRail guest.Thefunctionwasheldatthe threestationsunderconstruction employees. Ateam wasbuilt in MD Maha-metroand other of- Corporation celebratedthefourth Phugewadi office of PuneMetro. and visitof ongoingmulti-modal quicktime, tenders were called ficials reviewedthe progress of foundationday of thePuneMetro In atweet,Mishrasaid, “Ivis- hub at Swargate Metrostation.” and finalisedand in arecord 7 work inthe24thboardofdirec- project on Sunday. iteddifferent project sites of Pune The Swargate hub will segre- months,the actualfoundationof tors meeting held at the Durga Shankar Mishra, Metrowith MD MahaMetroand gate the Metro, PMPML, rickshaw, firstpier of the Pune Metrocom- Phugewadioffice.

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Keralagovt to refer AMIT SHAH IN ASSAM EPS says Stalin remembering TRACKING INDIA’S COVID CURVE rape case against deity because of NUMBER OF VACCINATIONS Assembly polls (JAN 24) Chandy,others to CBI 31,466 EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE progress in the cases as the gov- CHENNAI,JANURAY24 Total:15,68,656 SHAJUPHILIP ernment got adverse legal ad- THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, vice. Also, Chandy movedthe ADAY afterDMK chief MKStalin NUMBER OF ADVERSE JANUARY24 HighCourt, whichquashedthe wasseen carrying aVel, the spear EVENTS AFTER case againsthim and restrained associated with theHindu deity IMMUNIZATION MONTHS AHEAD of Assembly the media from debating con- LordMuruga,Tamil Nadu Chief polls in Kerala, the CPM-ledstate tentsofthe letter. MinisterEdappadiKPalaniswami 10 government has decidedtorec- The woman then filednew Sundayaccusedhimof deception Total:1,653 ommend to the CBI the rape complaintsagainstthe Congress and said he remembered the di- cases registeredagainst leaders and fresh cases were reg- vine symbol onlybecausepolls CASES: ACTIVECASES:184,408 Congress leader Oommen istered. Recently, she ap- were around the corner. 328 DAYSSINCE 1,06,54,533 DEATHS:153,339 Chandy and his other party col- proachedChiefMinisterPinarayi “People who usedtotalkill PANDEMIC leagues basedoncomplaintsby Vijayan, seeking aCBI probeinto Home MinisterAmitShah being presented witha‘japi’ at arallyinNalbaridistrict on Sunday. PTI about gods arenow taking Velin BEGAN TESTS: 19,17,66,871 | RECOVERIES: 1,03,16,786 awoman accusedinthe 2013 so- the cases. The womantold the their hand,” he said at arally in CASES DEATHS RECOVERIES TESTS lar scam. The solar scam during media that shedid notsee apo- Coimbatore on Sunday—adig at JAN23 the tenure of the previousgov- litical motive behind handing Stalin's atheism and DMK'sratio- 14,849 15515,948 781,752 ernment ledbyChandywas one over the cases to CBI. “Ihad com- nalistfounding principles. This STATESREPORTINGMAXIMUMCASES of the keyissues in the 2016 plainedagainst14persons, in- ‘Cong-AIUDFwillopen wasatheme he repeatedly Assemblyelections in whichthe cluding Jose KMani. Now, six touchedonduring the dayat CASES(JAN23) TOTAL UDF wasrouted andthe LDF cases in whichFIR has been reg- other roadshows and public Kerala 6,960 884,243 came to power. isteredwould be handedoverto meetingsinrural areas. Maharashtra2,6972,006,354 The woman alleged she was CBI,’’ she said. Aggresivelygoing afterhis ri- Karnataka 902 935,478 sexuallyexploited by Chandy, CPM statesecretaryA gatestoinfiltrators’ val, Palaniswami said: “Theycan AICC general secretaryKC Vijayaraghavansaid the govern- recognise Velonlyduringthe poll STATESREPORTINGMAXIMUMDEATHS Venugopal,CongressMPs Hibi ment took adecision basedon season. He wasn’table to see God DEATHS(JAN23) TOTAL Eden and Adoor Prakash and for- the complainant’sdemand fora alliance willopen all doors forin- shotbulletatAssam’s youth. or Velearlier.” Maharashtra5951,963 merministerAPAnilKumar.Then CBI probe. “The cases were ABHISHEKSAHA filtrators and allowinfiltrators to Those who aredoing ‘andolan’ During his rallies near Kerala 23 3,635 CongressleaderAPAbdullakutty, handedovertoCBI as partofen- GUWAHATI,JANUARY24 come intoAssam because thatis (protests) today, arehelping the ThiruttaniinnorthernTamilNadu Delhi 10 10,799 who later joinedthe BJP and be- suring natural justice to thecom- theirvotebank.Ifanyonecanstop Congressbycutting intothe BJP’s onSaturday, aplaceknownasone came itsnational vice-president, plainant,’’ he said. HOME MINISTER Amit Shah infiltrators, it is onlyand onlythe votes. People of Assam should of the six abodes of LordMuruga, DataasonJanuary23,releasedbyUnionMinistryofHealthandFamilyWelfare,IndianCouncilofMedical Researchandstategovernments.Oftenthenumbersreleasedeverydaycontaindatafrompreviousdays is alsoanaccused. Although the Chandy,who has been ap- Sundaysaid the Congress-AIUDF NarendraModi-ledBJP govern- identifythosewhoarehelpingthe Stalin waswelcomedbyasilver aswell.Assuch,trendsbasedondailynumbersareonlyindicativeandnotdefinitive woman had earlier complained pointed chairman of the allianceinAssam would only ment,”Shah said. He spokeon Congressindisguise—theydonot Velbyhis partymen. againstKeralaCongress(M)leader Congress election management open the gatesto“infiltrators” in howtheModigovernmenthasre- have Assam’s benefit in their At anotherplace,Palaniswami Jose KMani,who recentlyjoined and strategy committee, said, order to secureavote bank,and pealedArticle370 in Jammu & minds. Theywant to help pickedupthe Velissueagain. the LDF,nocase hasbeen regis- “The LDF came to powerafter arguedthat it wasonlythe Kashmir and startedbuildingthe Congresswin.” FULLREPORTON WAROFWORDS CONTINUES teredagainsthim. staging massive agitations NarendraModi-ledBJP govern- RamTemple in Ayodhya. “Assamese and non- www.indianexpress.com The stateHome Department againstthe UDF government on ment that can ensurea“corrup- Ajmal, the MP and perfume Assamese; Bodo and non- on Saturday issued agazetteno- the solar scam issue. What have tion-free, foreigner-free and ter- baron, leads theAIUDF,aparty Bodo…weneedtoidentify those TMC says slogans tification, saying the govern- theybeen doingfor thelastfive rorism-free” Assam. thatenjoys alarge supportbasein who arecausing these conflicts. Javadekar: People ment has decidedtorefer five years? Theydid nottakeany ac- Shah on Sundayaddressed the state’s Bengali-originMuslim Theyare notdoing it for ourde- cases, registeredin2016, 2018 tion on the complaints. LetCBI twoeventsinthe poll-bound community. TheCongressandthe velopment but to scorepolitical of differentfaiths raised to heckle and 2019,tothe CBI. probethe issue.” state—one, agovernment func- AIUDF,together with three Left points.Time has come forpeople The judicial commission Congress Chief Whip in Lok tion in Kokrajhar in Bodoland parties and aregional party,have of Assam to teachsuchpeoplea for construction whichprobed thesolar scam Sabha, Kodikunnil Suresh, said Territorial Region to commemo- announcedagrand alliance lesson,” Shah said in Kokrajhar. Mamata, BJP claims had recommendedin2017that the stategovernment’s decision rate one year of thesigning of the againsttheBJPintheforthcoming Shah’s reference underlines of Ram temple acase forsexual abuse be regis- is a “ludicrous political drama”. Bodo Accord, and the other,BJP’s polls, expected in April. Assam’slonghistoryof violentag- teredagainstChandy,Venugopal Union Ministerand BJP ‘VijaySankalp Samaroh’ in At both events, Shah spoke itations, insurgency and also, at Ayodhya bid to appease ‘30%’ and other Congress leaders. The leader VMuraleedharan said Nalbari. “Thosewhohave beenin about divides and conflicts in morerecently,the genesis of two woman, in alettertothe com- Vijayanhas senseddefeat in the powerherefor years and talk Assam.“WhentheCongressruled newparties —the Assam Jatiya iate aperson afterextendingan mission, had alleged that Assemblyelections. “Vijayan aboutAssameseculture,Iwantto Assam,theyhaveonlymadepeo- Parishad (AJP)and the Raijor Dal EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE invitation.” Chandy and others sexually has been againstthe CBI probe askthem,whathave youdonefor ple fight againstone —fromthe massive anti-CAA NEWDELHI,JANUARY24 KOLKATA,JANUARY24 Condemning the incident, abusedher and allowedher so- intoFCRA violations in the gov- Assameseculture?Youhavedone another…They followthe British protests in 2019.The twoparties TMCMPMahua Moitra said, lar firm to makeillegal gains ernment housing scheme and nothing apartfromgarnering policy of divide and rule…The areintalksabout an alliance for UNION MINISTER for THE WARofwords between the “NeverhaveIbeen prouder to be when Congress wasinpower. twin murders of Youth votes,” said Shah. Congress stainedAssam with thecomingelections. Information and Broadcasting BJP and Trinamool Congress over part of Mamatadi’s team. In an Thereafter, the CPM govern- Congress leaders by CPM “Do youwant to makeAssam blood.The bloodofAssamese InKokrajhar,Shahsaidthatthe on Sunday West Bengal Chief Minister oceanofmonkeys she stands out ment ordered registration of cadres. The sudden love forCBI freeof infiltratorsornot?Congress youth has justbled,” Shah said in decades of violence were over said that people from different MamataBanerjee’s refusalto as the lone lioness. Nation Needs criminalcases againstChandy shows the government’s dou- andBadruddinAjmalcannotpro- Nalbari. now, and the “eraofpeace” has faiths were in support of the speak at the event to markthe to Know: Howcome when Great and others,but therewas little ble-standard,’’ he said. tectAssamfrominfiltrators.Their He continued: “The Congress begun. Ramtemple at Ayodhya and 125th birth anniversaryofNetaji Lord&Protector Shri Modi was that the daythat the Babri Subhas ChandraBose afterJai Shri speakingatNetajievent none of Masjid wasdemolishedwas Ramslogans were raisedcontin- his fans hailed him with Jai Shri Electronic the daya“historic blunder” uedonSunday. Ram? Howcomethe heckle cry Identity politics, spiritual leadership: Furfura had been rectified. While Trinamoolleadershave wasonlyraisedwhen CM version of Speaking at an event at the allegedthat BJP supporters raised Mamatadi spoke?...” Delhi BJP office to felicitate the slogans to humiliateand Senior TMC leader and state voter card to be Sharif cleric’s party modelled on IUML peoplewho have donated heckle the Chief Minister, theBJP ministerFirhad Hakim said, “BJP moneyfor the constructionof has accusedBanerjee of trying to has turnedagovernment pro- launched today has inherited the spiritual lead- the temple, Javadekar said he appeasetheminority population. gramme intoajoke. Will it look LIZMATHEW ED Bidto ership of the community from wasinAyodhya on December TMC MP and Banerjee’s good If Prime MinisterNarendra NEWDELHI,JANUARY24 consolidate his father PMSPookoya 6, 1992. nephewAbhishekBanerjee on Modi comes to an eventand we PRESSTRUSTOFINDIA PLAIN Thangal, said to be the 39th de- "When foreign invaders like Sundaysaidit wasadeliberateat- E Muslimvote engage in sloganeering? This is ● NEWDELHI,JANUARY24 BEFORE HE launchedthe Indian EX scendantofProphet Babur came to India, whydid temptbyBJP nottolet theChief an insult to LordRam as well...” SecularFront (ISF), Pirzada Muhammad. Everyday,hun- theychoose Ramtemplefor Ministertospeak in the event. Hitting back, BJP national LAWMINISTER Ravi Shankar Abbas Siddiqui, the 34-year-old THE ISF,alongwith dredsvisit the family’s ancestral demolition...thereare lakhs of “Yesterday, the CM electedby general secretary Kailash PrasadwillonMonday launch the clericofFurfuraSharif in West AIMIM,willbelooking to home, Kodappanakkal Tharavad temple in the country. Because 2.5 crorepeople in the statewas Vijayvargiyasaid, “Jai Shri Ram electronic version of the voter Bengal,visited Kerala and consolidateMuslim votes in Panakkad, Malappuram, theyknewthat the soul of the humiliated... Iappeal to people to sloganisraisedtowelcome identity card, whichcan be closelymonitored the activities in the upcoming West seeking Thangal’s blessings and countryresidesinRam tem- give abefitting replytopeople guests.When thePMarrived (at downloadedonamobile phone of Indian Union Muslim League Bengal Assemblyelec- political intervention. ple…," he said. who insultNetaji SubhasChandra the event), the slogan wasraised. or apersonal computer. (IUML),led by thespiritual Pirzada of FurfuraSharif tions.The party has al- “The ISF will model identity "Thestructureofthe tem- Boseonhis birth anniversary,” The same wasdone when The e-elector photo identity leader of Muslims in Kerala. Abbas Siddiqui at the ready announcedthat it is politics with aspiritual leader- ple wasdemolished. It wasnot Abhisheksaidwhile speaking at a MamataBanerjeearrived.What cardisnon-editable digital ver- Inspiredbythe waythe political party launch. File open to tie-ups with non- shiptotransformthe society amosque, becauseitisnot a public meeting in South 24 is thereinthis slogan that sion of the elector photo identity Panakkad Thangal familywields BJPparties to keep the BJP intoapoliticallysignificant, de- mosque if thereisnoworship. Parganas district. Mamata Banerjee felt insulted?... cardand it can be savedinfacili- political and social influence in out of power. If it manages veloped, moderate, modern so- Iamadirect witness. Iusedto On Saturday, Chief Minister she has done it keeping apolitical ties suchasdigital lockerand can Kerala politics and among the cial activities of aparty.Hewas to getasignificant num- ciety.WestBengal has 30 per work in Yuva Morcha. On Banerjee,sharing adais with agenda in mind. She has doneit be printed in thePDF format, Muslimsinthe state, Siddiqui impressedbyhow the party berofseats, it mayalso cent Muslims.Ifthis support December6,1992, Iwas pres- PrimeMinisterNarendraModi at to appease30per cent [an appar- Election Commission officials tried to be part of the IUML, keeps the community moderate leverage itstally to forge base gets split intogroups, the ent in Ayodhya.Wewereinthe Victoria Memorial, refusedto ent reference to theMuslim com- said. whichhas unitsinmostofthe and away from fundamentalist an alliance with TMC. BJP will form the government same courtyardwith millions speakafter asection of the audi- munity] population,” he said. "Unionminister Ravi Shankar statesinthe country. groups,” said SabirGhaffar, the there. We want to make the of servants.Onthe second day ence raised‘Jai Shri Ram’ slogans StateBJP president Dilip Prasadwilllaunchthe e-EPIC pro- However, IUML refusedto former national president of Muslim population astrong the whole worldsaw howa when she wasabout to speak. Ghosh said, “Those who consider grammeand distributee-EPICs join hands with Siddiqui or let IUML youth wing who had tried postinIUML Saturdaytowork supportbase that preventsthe historicalblunder wasrecti- Banerjee had said, “Ifeel a Jai ShriRam aslang shouldre- and Elector Photo Identity Cards him formapoliticaloutfit that to convince the IUML leadership with ISF. BJP,” Ghaffar told TheIndian fied," he said. government programme should frain from politics... Mamata to five newvoters," aCommission could work as acoalition. to joinhands with Siddiqui. He has playedakey role in Express. BJP leaders in Delhi will have somedignity.This is agov- Banerjee deservedthis as she had statement said on Sunday. The “The cleric and his associates He addedthat Siddiqui had the formationofISF and itsdeci- The ISF will work withnot startadrive acrossthe city ernment programme, notthe sent people to jail forchanting physical cardtakes time to print had visitedKerala during the severalinteractionswith sion to contestthe West Bengal onlythe AIMIMbut anumberof starting February1to collect programme of apolitical this slogan. Of course we will do and reachthe voter,and the idea floods in 2018 aftercollecting Panakkad Sadiq Ali Shihab elections along with the other social and political outfits funds forthe construction of party… Ithank the PM and the politics over Netaji’s legacy.He is to provide faster delivery and moneyfor relief work.Theyhad Thangal, the number twoin Asaduddin Owaisi-ledAIMIM. spread across the state, he said. the temple at Ayodhya. CultureMinistryfor organising wasapolitical leader so we will easy accessibility to the docu- seen howthe Thangals, spiritual the IUML. IUML president Panakkad FULLREPORTON FULLREPORTON theprogrammeinKolkata.But 100per cent indulgeinpolitics ment, the statement said. leaders, ledthe political and so- Ghaffarresigned from his Syed Hyderali Shihab Thangal www.indianexpress.com www.indianexpress.com it doesn’tbehove youtohumil- over his name...” Mamata move to contest from Nandigramrevives her Centre gives green light to underwater streetfighter image, will help TMC: Party leaders study to determine Ram Setu origins conducted by the Council for subjectamonghistorians,archae- Sukhendu Sekhar Ray, Chief gram,” asenior TMCleadersaid. DIVYAA Scientific and Industrial Research ologists andscientists.Itispro- DIPANKARGHOSE Whip of TMC in RajyaSabha said, “Nowpeople arewaitingto NEWDELHI,JANUARY24 (CSIR) and National Instituteof posedtocarry outscientific and NEWDELHI,JANUARY24 “Nandigram is amajor sensitive see whathewill do. Will he fight Oceanography(NIO) Goa —will underwater archaeologicalstud- politicalincident of MamataBan- from Nandigram, or will he cha- THEGOVERNMENThasapproved focus on the process behind Ram iestounderstandthe natureand WESTBENGALChiefMinister erjee’slife.Shewasoneof theonly ngethe seat?The questions are anunderwaterresearch projectto Setu'sformationandalsowhether formationof theRamSetuandits MamataBanerjee’s announce- people in independent India who nowwithAdhikariandpeopleare ascertain the origins of the Ram thereare anysubmergedhabita- surrounding area.” ment to contestthe Assembly went on ahungerstrikefor 26 da- watching,” the leader added. Setu —a48-km-long chain of tionsaround the structure. The agency’sresearchvessel electionfromNandigramwillhelp ys.The Centreand the Governor Another leader said the cadre shoals between Indiaand Sri Patelsaid,“ASIhasbeenasked namedSindhu Sadhanawill be the TMC campaign by bringing appealedtoher,butshewasreluc- in these districtsare nowwaiting Lanka. forpermission by the NIOontwo deployed to collectsamplesof backher streetfighter imageand tant because of the waythe farm- and watching as opposedtojum- Talking about the aim of the counts —excavation to ascertain sediment from 35-40 metres be- by preventingtheBJPfromclaim- ers were attacked. She wasthe ping the ship. “Manyworkers fr- exploration, Union Ministerof theage of thestructure,andto ex- lowthe waterlevel. Sindhu ingapartintheNandigrammove- lone voice forthe farmers.” omanypartygo wheretheythink Statefor Tourism and Culture, plorethe surrounding area. The Sadhana is an indigenous explo- ment, according to party leaders. “Ultimately, her stance was West Bengal CM Mamata BanerjeeinNandigram. File theparty they areaffiliatedtowill Prahlad Singh Patel, said, “The permissionhas been granted.” ration vesselwhichcan stay un- TMC leaders said the decision vindicated when the people ral- win.NowtheyknowTMCisgoing worldshould gettoknowabout Also,RamSetu'sagewillbeas- derwaterfor up to 45 days. has enthusedthe cadre, specifi- liedaround her and even courts nowhere,”anotherstrategistsaid. the RamSetuthrough evidence certainedthrough the study of RamSetuhasbeenatthecen- callyinMedinipur wherethere gave judgementsinfavour of her oneclaimsthatitwashewhogave Nandigramand Medinipur. “It is WhileAdhikari has promised basedonscientificresearch.” fossilsandsedimentationtoseeif treofdebatesince2005whenthe wassome demoralisation after stancethatnolandof anyindivid- birth to themovement, it is not foolish to sayhis leaving doesnot to quit politics if Banerjeeisnot RamSetu, also known as it correlates withthe Ramayana UPAgovernment proposed the former stateministerSuvendu ual canbetaken by the govern- only farfromtruth,butalsomeans mean anything. It is apolitical defeated in Nandigram, the BJP Adam’sBridgeorNalaSetu,holds period, sources in the Ministryof Sethusamudram Shipping Canal Adhikari leftfor the BJP.The lead- ment withoutconsent. And the thatBJPistryingto exploitthesit- move that neededtobecoun- leadership has said resultsofthe religious significance because of Culturetold TheIndian Express. Project, to build ashipping canal erssaidthatafteradecadeinpow- central government ledby uation as if it wasalso partofthe tered.Evenif youlookatlocalme- 2019 LokSabha elections show the Ramayana. Keeping in viewthe upcoming to link theArabian Seawith the er,“itwasnatural”forpeopletobe- hadtoamend Nandigram movement, whichis dia surveys,after he left,theysaid TMChaslostgroundinBanerjee’s Thecentraladvisoryboardon AssemblyelectionsinTamilNadu, BayofBengal. Forthis, achannel gintoseeBanerjeeasaCMandnot thearchaicLandAcquisitionAct.” laughable.BJPwasnowhereinthe at leasttwenty seatsinand aro- home seat Bhawanipur and that archaeology,whichfunctionsun- sourcessayresearch islikelytobe- passing through the limestone afighter for “people’s rights” she Referringto Adhikari,Raysaid people’s movement,” Raysaid. undMedinipurwere goingto BJP. her decision to contestfrom der the ArchaeologicalSurvey of ginthis year itself. shoals of RamSetuwas to be oncewas,but the symbolismof “somepeople”were tryingto cla- TMC strategists admitted That has changed now. It is not Nandigram is to save face. India(ASI),hasapprovedthepro- In it's proposal note,NIO said: dredgedinthe Sethusamudram contesting from Nandigram wo- im credit forNandigram move- Adhikari’sdeparturewas seen as Suvenduversusnobody.ItisSuv- FULLREPORTON posal forthis underwaterexplo- “The historicity and the dateof sea, between Tamil Nadu andSri uld be areminder of who she is. ment.“If by defectingto BJP,some- aproblem in areas in and around endu versus MamatainNandi- www.indianexpress.com ration project. The study —tobe ‘Ramayana’ remain adebatable Lanka.

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EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE DIPANKARGHOSE OVER 6,000 farmers from across LUCKNOW,JANUARY24 NEWDELHI,JANUARY24 21 districtsinMaharashtra arrived inMumbaiSunday eveningto be- LAUNCHINGTHE three-daycel- PRIMEMINISTER NarendraModi gin theirthree-daysit-in at Azad ebrations to markthe founda- Sundaycalledonthe youth to as- Maidaninsolidaritywithprotest- tion dayofUttar Pradesh, Chief sistinthe country's Covid-19vac- ing farmers at the Delhi border. MinisterYogi Adityanath on cination programme by dis- Seniorleaderscuttingacrossparty Sundayannouncedanew pelling “lies and rumours” lines, includingNCP chief Sharad award, UP Gaurav Samman, surrounding it. Pawar, will be addressingthe whichwillrecognise “excep- Addressing cadets of theNCC gatheringonMonday. Thefarm- tional people” whose work and NSS as well as artisteswho ershavegatheredunder theban- bringslaurels to the state. will take part in theRepublic Day ner of All India Kisan Sabha’s The awardwill be givento parade, Prime MinisterModi also (AIKS) Maharashtraunit. Protestingfarmers in Maharashtrawalkdowna10-km people from severalfields, includ- calledonyoungsters to lead the Therallyispartofthecallgiven stretchofKasaraGhat on theirway to Mumbai. Express ing technology,cultureand effort foraself-reliant India. by SamyuktaKisan Morcha sports, andthe Chief Secretary Exhorting the youthtohelp in (SKM),whichisleading the Delhi will head itsselectioncommittee. the vaccination programme, he protests,tointensifytheagitation. to RajBhavantomeetthe Gover- ment all over the country,”said At the event at Awadh Shilp Gram said it wasimportant thatthe Morefarmersareexpectedto join nor and hand over amemoran- AIKSnationalpresidentDrAshok in Lucknow,the Chief Minister right information aboutvaccines PM NarendraModi andUnionMinisters Rajnath Singh, Arjun Munda, Kiren Rijiju and Renuka the gathering on Monday. dum againstthe newfarm laws. Dhawale. He said the delegation also announcedlaunchofa be spread. “Youhavetogivethe Singh withartistesparticipating in the Republic Dayparade at an ‘AtHome’ eventSunday. PTI Whilemostfarmers who AIKSleaderssaid over 50,000 alsowantedthestategovernment statewide free coaching facility correct information about the reachedMumbaiaremembersof farmers areexpected to take part to ensuretheeffective implemen- forstudentstohelpthem prepare vaccine to thepoorestofthepoor, AIKS, other organisations as well inMonday’smarch.Theagitation tation of the Forest Rights Act. forcompetitive examslikeJEE, and the common citizens. By sense of duty,” he said. knowhow these things have en- manypaths,but the destination as political parties, including the willconcludeontheRepublicDay MumbaiPolicespokesperson NEET and UPSC. Abhyudaya making the vaccinefor coron- On the Atmanirbhar Bharat tered, in one wayhavemade us is the same—Ek Bharat, Sreshtha Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) al- withaflaghoistingceremonyand DCP Chaitanya Ssaid elaborate Coaching programme will begin avirus in India, India’sscientists mission, Modi said: “We have be- slaves, mental slaves,” he said. Bharat.” He also referred to the liance, will also be apart of the apledgetomakethe struggle of arrangementshavebeen made from Basant Panchami, the day have fulfilledtheir responsibility. comeslavestoforeignproducts”. The Prime Ministersaid the Prakash ParvaofGuru TegBaha- protest.Farmerorganisationsand farmers and workers victorious. forfarmers’ rally. “In addition to goddess of learning Saraswati is Now, we mustfulfill our respon- “The firstresponsibility of goal of aself-reliant India would dur and the anniversaryofNetaji politicalpartieswillbepresenton “This march is being held to thedeploymentoflocalpolice,ex- worshipped, the CM said. sibility.Wehavetodefeat every making an Atmanirbhar Bharat be metnot onlybywords, butby Subhas ChandraBose. “The 75 asingle platform of Samyukta support and expand the historic trasupportinformof 100officers, He said that despiteplaying a instrument of lies and rumours should startwith us only. Iamnot action,particularly fromtheyouth. years of independence, the lifeof ShetkariKamgarMorcha. farmers’ struggle in Delhi forthe 500constableshasbeenprovided. leading role in the country’s cul- by the right information. We have saying that if youhavesome for- Laudingthe diversity of the Guru TegBahadur Ji, the valour of The rallywill be addressedby repeal of thethree farm laws and Apartfromthis, nine platoons of tureand tradition, the state’s to remember that our republic is eignitem yougothrow it away to- countryonthe eveofRepublic Netaji, his courage, allofthis is a PawaratAzad Maidan and in the foracentrallawtoguaranteeare- SRPF have been providedand foundation daywas notcele- strong because it is definedby our morrow.... But we do noteven Day, he said: “India mayhave very big inspiration forus.” afternoon, protesters will march munerative MSP and procure- droneswill also be used.” brated earlier because “people at the helm of affairs earlier” never thought of it. “AfterBJP came to NATIONAL GIRL CHILDDAY OBSERVED IN UTTARAKHAND power, then Governor RamNaik said moststatescelebratetheir foundation day, but notUttar Childrights panel takes cue from Nayak,makes 19-year-old CM for aday Pradesh. When Imoved the pro- posal in Cabinet, it wasaccepted Minister of Uttarakhand fora renovate dilapidated bridges DhanSinghRawat welcomed the CM foraday.The review with open hearts.” LALMANIVERMA day. The initiativewas takenby across the state. Therec- Goswami on her arrivaltothe meetings were aimedatdevel- The Chief Ministersaid the DEHRADUN, JANUARY 24 Uttarakhand State ommendations she made will Vidhan Sabha andalso at- oping administrativequality.” lawand order situation in the Commission forProtection of be forwardedtothe governm- tendedthe reviewmeeting as TheState Commissionfor statehas improved.“UP has been ON SUNDAY,when all offices ChildRightstomarkthe ent forconsideration, officials arepresentative of Chief Protection of Child Rightsin the focal point of India’s were closed in Dehradun, po- National GirlChild Day. Offi- said. MinisterRawat, who wasin 2014,along with an NGOand a Independence and has ledthe lice personnel and government cials said theytookthe cue Earlier,whenLeader of Haridwar to inspect arrange- social organisation, startedBal countryineveryfield. Forthe past officials stood outside room no. from Bollywood movie Nayak OppositioninBal Vidhan mentsfor Kumbh Mela. Vidhan Sabha to help children fewyears, it carriedanimageof 120onthe firstfloor of in whichthe protagonist, Sabha, Asif Hasan, remarked Usha Negi, chairpersonof understand governance and “Danga (riot) Pradesh and Apradh Uttarakhand Vidhan Sabha playedbyactor AnilKapoor, that therewas no engine in the the StateCommission for democratic processes. (crime) Pradesh”. However, we building where19-year old became CM foraday. “double engine” government, ProtectionofChildRights, said Studentsapplytobeselected have successfullyshunnedthat Srishti Goswami wasreview- “That wascinema…this is Goswami respondedbylisting the Chief Ministerapproved as legislators. imagebyensuring strict lawand ing the work of over adozen real.You can guess the excite- decisions the state government the idea of Goswami as CM for Afterinterviews,the com- order since 2017.UPhas become departments. ment.Iamthankful to CM has takenfor thepublic. aday to send amessage of en- mission selectsone legislator amodel forlaw and order,em- Afteradetailed presenta- (TrivendraSingh Rawat) and Goswami belongs to couraging leadershipcapabil- from eachofthe 70 constituen- ployment and investment.” tion on crime records by DIG, the Commission forproviding Daulatpur villageinHaridwar ity among girls on the occasion cies and thoseselected voteto TheChief Ministerpraisedpe- Lawand Order,Nilesh Anand me this golden opportunity,” SrishtiGoswami reviewedworkofoveradozen departments district whereher father runs of NationalGirlChild Day. electaCM, ministers and a ople of the statefor their “steely Bharney, Goswami asked him Goswami said afterher four- agroceryshop andher mother “Anil Kapoor did sucharole Leader of Opposition from resolve”duringthe pandemic. “It to ensurethe safetyofwomen hour tenure. She addedthat if is an Anganwadi worker.She in Nayak.Sowethought among themselvesfor three came as no surprisethat Uttar in publictransport and prohi- she gets achance to become Goswami asked officials to pre- Responding to thepresen- waschosen to be CM foraday Uttarakhand canpresent it in years. Meetings of Bal Vidhan Pradesh receivedaccolades from bition on the sale of drugs in a “real CM” foraday,she will vent child abuse and ensure tation on the country’s longest as she waselected Chief the form of a‘nayika’ to send a Sabha areheld on issues re- foreign countries and WHO for 500-m radius of schools. work on prioritytoaddress is- that privacy of women is main- motorable single-lane bridge, Ministerfor three years in Bal messageofgirlempowerment lated to children and the rec- commendable work done in the The student of Agriculture sues relatedtochildren. tainedafter natural disasters at DobraChanti bridgeacross Vidhan Sabha in 2018. by making achild who is al- ommendations aresent to the Covid management,” he said. Science wasthe symbolic Chief During the reviewmeeting, anyplace. Tehri lake, she asked officials to Higher Education Minister ready CM of Bal Vidhan Sabha stategovernment.

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NITISH DIMINISH Alok Tiwari Bihar order againstcriticism of government online is against MANY YEARS AGO(1997-2001), Iwas astu- wring ourhands in despair.Ifwewereasked poor,confirming the biases of general cate- governance. The Chief Ministermustscrap it dent of IIT Kanpur whichwas, and continues to name the greatest injusticeinthe world, it gory faculty members. Thereafter, it wasa to be,agreat place to learn. The experience would have been reservation —inacountry long andpainful journey downhill. Low HE BIHAR GOVERNMENT’S decision to designate“objectionable and inde- wasexhilarating forasmall-town, middle- with widespread poverty, exploitation and grades, poor job prospects, no glowing rec- cent” commentsmade online againstthe stategovernment or itsministers, class adolescentmaturing intoayoung adult. inequalityofevery conceivablesort! ommendations from professors foradmis- MLAs,MPsandofficialsascyber-crimeisonemoreexampleofelectedgover- With wonderful, brilliant learners and a The collective rage we felt had twosig- sions to the topuniversities abroad. Many nmentsabusing their powertobuy themselvesaTeflon shield againstcriti- beautiful campus, the IIT yearswereatime nificant consequences for “us”, as well as for were likelyscarredfor life—and all the while, T when Iwas living my childhood dream. It “them”. The mostsinisterresult of our anger we thought this wasjustareflection of the cism,dissentandaccountability.InNovemberlastyear,theKeralagovernm- wasaseemingly liberal place whereyou wassomething everyalert and sensitive naturalorder of things. Therehavebeen ad- ent had brought in an amendment making “threateningorabusive”posts punishable by a could watchamovie sitting on achairwhile reader would have noticedbynow: It was mirableexceptionstothe pictureIhave jail term, but withdrew it afteranuproar againstthe unconstitutional move.Bihar is now your professor wasseated on the floor,where the “othering” of the reserved categorystu- painted,but the point is that the reservedcat- sallying down the same path of undemocratic excess. Acircularissuedbythe Biharpolice’s agirlcould come andstayinmale hostels, dentsbythe general categorystudentsand egorystudentswerenot allowedtobring out economicoffencesunit,thenodalagencyforactionagainstcyber-crime,asksprincipalsecre- even duringthe night. To contextualise the the faculty,whichitself wasdrawn almost the best in them becauseofthe exclusionary tariesandsecretariesof variousdepartmentstobringinstancesof such“objectionable”posts aboveexamples,pleasebear in mind that it fullyfromthe general category. Therewere thoughtand behaviour structures that were to itsnoticesothatactioncanbetakenunderprovisionsof theITActandtheIndianPenalCode. wasstill the20th centuryand the IIT wassit- twodifferent universes between whichthere programmed intoIIT lifeinmytime there. uated in Kanpur,UP. wasalmostnoporosity of affection, empa- Twodecades have passedsince Ileftthe This gagorder suggests thatChief MinisterNitish Kumar perceivesthe freedomof Books, exams, grades, research,scholar- thy, camaraderie or shared existence. We IIT.Reservation forOBC studentshas changed speechand expression guaranteedtohis state’s citizens as minor,dispensable hazards of ships, US universities, jobs, green cards, etc. barelyspoketoeachother,and rarely were the composition of current batches. Society democracy.Itisnot.Inhis lastthree terms, Nitish Kumar’s focus on the tangiblesofde- —all good things of life—were theretobe students from the reserved categoryapart is increasingly becoming less casteistand velopment, from roads to lawand order,education of girls and empowerment of women, had. It wasgreat to be alive in suchaplace, of our charmedcircles. The compartmental- moreaccommodative of thosewho maybe had earnedhim the calling cardof“Sushashan Babu”. But by shutting down uncomfort- nothing wasamiss, or so we thought. Almost This wasalso not the isationwas water-tight, though unstatedand different from the so-calledmainstream. In able,evenangryand unruly,criticism againsthis government and itsadministrators, the nothing, if we were forced to be morepre- horizontal un-ordainedinformal terms. fact, the mainstream itself has been meta- cise.Therewas something jarring in the idyl- This wasalso notthe horizontal compart- morphosing intosomething morerepresen- JD(U) leader risksputting the enterprise of his much-touted “good governance” in peril. lic reality thatIhavejustdescribed above — compartmentalisation of mentalisation of gender-basedrest-rooms. tative of ourpopulace.Inthis context, it is Unlikeautocracies, democracies work by casting the netofexperiencesand objections anot-so-palatable sideshowinthe celebra- gender-based rest-rooms. It It wasavertical, hierarchical stratification, pertinent to note thatthe reservationfor fac- wide, by refusing to believe in the vanity projectsofone-man or one-woman or one- tion of merit and hardworkthat the IIT wasavertical, hierarchical looselyparodying the Jew-Aryanideology of ulty posts in IITsisarefreshing changeto party solutions. The free exchangeofideas and opinions, especiallyinahierarchical so- seemingly was. The IIT dream, likethe more stratification, loosely Nazi Germanyorracialsegregation of tackle the deep-seated prejudices of theold popular American dream, had aseductive apartheid South Africa. Our humanity was guardagainstreservedcategorystudents. ciety prone to capturebydominantinterests,isthe feedbackloop without whichgover- parodying the Jew-Aryan nance cannotbecome either just,equitable or effective.Itnot onlyhelpscitizens flag appeal —and the myth overwhelmedreality mutilated by suchothering and our reserved Anyattempt to resistthe broadeningofthe to createalarger-than-lifehalf-truth at best, ideology of Nazi Germanyor categorybatchmates were subject to poten- socialbase of thefaculty wouldbearetro- corruption, or the disenfranchisedtocontestdecisions that affect their lives, but also ablatant lie at worst. racial segregation of tially soul-sappingdegradation —aresult of grade step. Manythings will have improved savesthe executive from the arrogance of itsown infallibility —byleaving the door open The Mecca of merit and industriousness apartheid South Africa. Our being excluded from the mainstream of the and manyothers arelikelyalready on the forcorrection. Simplyput, free speechiscentral to good governance. Increasingly,how- had aperceivedunderclass—thosefromthe community in which one lives. Ilearnt first- road to improvement. ever,democracy is being seen as acompetitive winner-takes-all electioneeringrace, in reservedcategory—who were oftenreferred humanitywas mutilated by hand about the deleterious effect that even Ihavetriedtorecount thedepth of dark- which the electoral mandateisusedtoinsulatethe government from criticism and ac- to with demeaningepithets,whichques- suchothering and our mild and subtle exclusion can have on one’s ness from whichwehavemoved to our cur- countability.Inthis paranoid view, all potential criticism equals motivatedattackson the tionedtheirintelligence and right to beat the reserved category self-esteem and educational performance, rent reality,whichisdefinitelybetter, though state—this anxiety manifests in theway governmentsare using aslewofIPC provisions institution. Many sawthem as ablotonthe batchmates were subjectto when later in my lifeIwentontostudy at the Iamnot saying that it is perfect. Rose-tinted fair name of IIT Kanpur;impostors who had London School of Economics, whichisastory nostalgia about the pastshould notbeal- —toarrestjournalistsand comics foratweet or asloganoraFacebook postorajoke. usurpedthe domain of meritoriouskids like potentially soul-sapping foranother day. lowedtobrush suchmonstrous injustices The Bihar government’s newcircular —its imprecise framing about what constitutes us, justbecause India’s half-literatepoliticians degradation —aresult of Secondly, and moreconcretely, theywere under the carpet. That would be unjusttoour “indecent” and who makes that subjective call —isset up formisuse and harassment of had proppedthem up forvote-bank politics. being excluded from the notallowedtopartakeinthe learning envi- pastsufferers while miseducating our pres- citizens. It is an unconstitutional diktat that will expend precious administrative energy Their lowranks in theJoint EntranceExams mainstream of the ronment of IIT.Mostlyrelegated to the hu- ent generation. And it will nothelp createa did notprevent themfromgetting “better” miliatinglytitled “slowpace” programmes, better future. on policing the internetand cancelling government critics. Thatisanything but sushasan. communityinwhich Chief MinisterNitish Kumar mustwithdraw it immediately. branches of engineeringwhile we andour manywould soon become “juniors” of their helpless teachersand parentscould merely one lives. ownbatchmates. Their grades were mostly The writer is district magistrate,Kanpur CHANGING CLIMATE

Joe Biden’s decision on Paris Pact, WHO arewelcome signals of the US reversing insular tendencies of the Trumpera OPEN,ONLY ON PAPER

MONGJOE BIDEN’S firstdecisionsafter assuming office as the 46th President of the US wastorecommit his countrytothe Paris Climate Lackoftransparency on vaccine goes againstCentre’s draftscience policy Change Pact and affirm Washington’sties with the WorldHealth A Organisation (WHO).His predecessor, DonaldTrump, hadwithdrawn Priyanka Choudhary the US from the landmarkpact, calling it a “disaster” forAmerica. And, amidstthe raging COVID pandemic,hehad haltedUSfunding to the global health organisa- WHILE SCIENTISTS AND researchers have EUA, Covishield, has been developedby —ICMRfundedthe clinical trial sitefeesfor tion, accusing it of being “under the total control of China”. In awelcomedeparturefromhis been calling fortransparency in COVID-19 AstraZeneca and OxfordUniversity and is Covishieldand collaborated in thedevelop- predecessor’s “America First” approach, Biden saidonhis inauguration thaton“climateand vaccine-related research data,the Centre, manufactured in India by the Pune-based ment of Covaxin. These would, therefore, fall arangeofother issues, theUSwillengagewith the worldonceagain”. ironically, releasedthe draftversion of the Serum Institute. The Central Drugs Standards withinthe scope of thedraft STIP 2020 —so The US’s withdrawal from theWHO, scheduledtotakeeffect in July, would have drasti- Science, Technology,and Innovation Policy Control Organisation (CDSCO), the country’s all research dataonthe vaccines mustbe callyaffectedthefinancesof theglobalhealthbody—nearly 16 percentof itsbudget isfinanced (STIP)inDecember2020 basedonthe ethos drug regulatoryauthority,statesthat the made availableinthe public domain for col- of “Open Science”. overall efficacy of the vaccine, basedonstud- lectivescrutiny and peer-review. by Washington.Likewise, the secession of the world’ssecond-largest GHG emitter would Open Sciencehas emergedasaglobal ies in Brazil, South Africa and UK (23,745 par- When dataisnot openlyavailable, espe- have jeopardisedthe Paris Pact’s objective to keep temperaturerise in this century under 2 movement amidstagrowing crisis in science ticipantsaged18orabove)is70.42 per cent. cially in cases of publicly-fundedresearch degrees Celsius,compared to pre-industrial levels. Biden has notyet revealed thedetailsof that has affected India as well, and includes In India, basedonthe Phase II/IIIclinical tri- and research whichhavewiderpublic safety hisadministration’sclimateambitions,butif hiscampaignisanyindication,Americaislikely issues suchasfabricationand falsification of als on 1,600participants, this is “compara- concerns, the vaccine forinstance, notonly to recommititself to thevoluntaryemissionreductiontargetsthatconstitutetheParisPact’s data, plagiarism,unethical authorship,fail- ble with those from the overseasclinical is publictrustinscience and scientists dam- bedrock.His$2trillionclean-energyproposalenvisagesanemissions-freeelectricgridby2035 uretodisclosefunding sources andgender studies” according to theregulatorybody. aged,the self-critical and self-correcting na- andaimsto maketheUSanet zero carboneconomyby2050.Afterhiselection,Bidenrenewed disparity in research institutions. An interest- Scientists have,however, raisedtwo major ture of science is severely hampered as well. ing exampletounderstand the crisis is the concerns —thereis“limited ethnicitydata” The government’s intention to prioritise re- this pledgeand assuredthathis plan to “Build Back Greener”will have specialfocus on com- “10,000 steps aday to remain healthy” goal, in the current trials and thereisalso an ab- search andinnovationinthe fight against munities of colour, “who have suffereddisproportionatelyfromfossilfuel pollution”. whichmostofusare awareof. Howmany, sence of resultsonolder people, the ones at the COVID-19pandemic is laudable. Avac- ThenewPresident’sdecisionsonhealthandenvironmentarefirststepstowardsplugging however, knowthatthis goal is basedonbad the highestrisk,becausemosttrialpartici- cine, however, cannotcome at the costof the riftbetween the topglobal powerand the rest of the world. Theyare alsoarecognition science and thereisnoevidencefor the pants were underthe ageof55. This concern transparency,anindispensable element in thatnationalsilosare ill-equippedtodealwithalmostallthecrisesconfrontingtheplanetto- 10,000 steps figure? is especiallyrelevant in the Indian context the fight againstthe virus. While CDSCO day, whether theybemelting glaciers, warming temperatures or notoriouslyinfectious Open Sciencedraws attention to some because people above 50 years areamongst guidelines clearly mention that “adequate core values suchastransparency,accessibil- the priority groups in the vaccination drive. datashould be generated”toensuresafety pathogens. Even as severalgloballeaders, including the former US president, pandered to ity, collaboration,and “constant and contin- Also, as some researchers have pointedout, and effectiveness of anyvaccine whose de- insular tendencies,the pandemic underlinedthat thereisnoescape from the global village. uous transfer of knowledge betweenproduc- as perthe latestCDSCOGuidelines, a “bridg- velopment is expedited forunmetmedical Borders did have to besealedasanemergency response to the virus. Shortagesinvital med- ersand users of knowledge.” It’s alsoan Thedevelopment of both the ingstudy” needs to be carriedout to under- needsofthe country, this datashould also icalprovisions,drugs,personalprotectionequipmentandventilators—now vaccines—how- essential partofthe draftSTIP 2020, which vaccine candidates is part of stand immune response in the Indian pop- be made public. ever,meant that no countrycould deal with the crisisonits own. At the same, the questions states that an “all-encompassing Open public-funded research— ulation. This is, however, the “firstfull Going ahead, dataacross the different raisedofglobalisation —including those by Trumpism and itsvariants—cannotbeput off Science Framework will be built to provide ICMR funded the clinical peer-reviewedefficacy result” to be pub- stages of COVID-19vaccine research (includ- access to scientific data, information, knowl- lishedfor aCOVID-19 vaccine,soitcan ar- ingbut notlimitedto research methodology, by thechangeinthe White House. It’stoo earlytosay if Biden’s presidency augurs acourse edge,and resources to everyone” and “all data trial site fees forCovishield guablybesaidtobewithin the norms of research tools, negative results, efficacy data, correction.Buttheemphasison“humility”intheearly statementsofhisnewlyappointedcli- used in and generated from publicly funded and collaborated in the “good science”. and otherlimitations) should be madepub- matediplomat, former secretaryofstate JohnKerry,does sendpositive signals —asdothe research will be available to everyone under development of Covaxin. The secondapproved vaccine candidate, lic on ICMR’s open accessrepository,the cen- President’sinitial decisions on climateand health. FAIR (findable,accessible, interoperable and These would,therefore,fall “Covaxin”, developedbyHyderabad-based tral repositoryofthe Department of Science reusable) terms”. However, the news on the BharatBiotech in collaboration with the and Technology or other open access repos- “Emergency Use Authorisation” (EUA) to the within the scope of the draft Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) is itories identifiedbythe CSIR. This mustbe Freeze Frame EPUnny twoCOVID-19 vaccine candidates, whoseef- STIP 2020 —soall research still undergoing Phase III trials. It is widelyac- done on apriority basis to ensurethat bad sci- ficacy data is either currentlyunavailable or dataonthe vaccines must be knowledgedinthe scientific community that ence does notcompromise peoples’ health disputable in the Indian context, leads one to made available in the public these trials areimportant to understand the and the trustinscience remainsintact. wonder if thereisaninconsistency between ability of the vaccine to prevent clinical dis- policy andpractice. domain forcollective ease. The development of both thevaccine The writer is aresearcher with the The firstvaccine candidatetoreceive the scrutinyand peer-review. candidates is part of public-funded research government of Punjab

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ISLAMIC SUMMIT over apassagetoUSplanes during the Gulf KRaghunandan Reddy,formerUnion labour THE FOREIGN MINISTERS of 38 Islamic na- War. Egypt, whichhas signedapeace treaty minister, said theBJP’sGandhian socialism tions went intosession in TayefinSaudi with Israel and Afghanistan, is bannedfrom wasnothing but aform of “corporate Arabia to hear the reportofafive-member the summit. socialism”. delegation theyhad sent to Iran to persuade the countrytoattend the Islamic Summit ALL WANT SOCIALISM SATURDAY,AHOLIDAY opening on January25. The delegationdid IT’SALMOSTCERTAIN that anew political MILLIONS OF POLES defiedtheir country’s notmeetwithsuccess. The Iranian leaders, it party will take shape at theconclusion of the socialistregime and stayed homeonJanuary appears, did notwant to meetthe Iraqi three-dayAll India Democratic Socialist 24,aSaturday,topress forafive-dayweek. President, Saddam Hussein, at the summit. Convention in Bombay. The chief of the con- Production wasdowntoatrickle andthe The Iranian position appears to be that the vention, HNBahuguna, indicated that thefi- huge Hutasteel mill at Warsawand other Islamic countries should firstcondemn the nal decision will be takenonJanuary25. major factories in the Polish capital and else- Iraqi aggression againsttheircountrybefore Speakers at the convention agreedthat all where. The Baltic portofGladsk,the flash- Tehran can accepttheir mediation in the people wanted socialism and the Bharatiya pointoflastyear’sworkers’ strike,was re- Iran-Iraq conflict. Libya is also boycotting the JanataParty (BJP) “had deceivedthe people portedatastandstill with the exception of summit over adisputewith SaudiArabia by putting up itsown brand of socialism”. food shops and hospitals.

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futuregenerations. Severalofthe far-reaching changes to the structureofIndiahave, of course, been approved by the SupremeCourt butthen so wasthe Emergency, whichthe apex courtiswondering if it can declareunlaw- ful decades later.Inademocracy,you ei- RAJA MANDALA ther live with the pastyou inheritorpre- tend that it wasdifferent. The present by CRajaMohan Salman Khurshid government wantstorewritehistory and certainlyalter the path of the future. We THE UP GOVERNOR recentlyremarked seem to have made the mistake of onlyat- WHETHERITISaclevergimmickoraserious that the Opposition does precious little pol- tacking the government forthat instead of attempt to produce structural changes in the itics beyond presenting representations to engaging with citizens who supportthe organisation of global capitalism, the World her.Asalong-term politician, she must government. We needtoask them why, if Economic Forum’s initiative for “TheGreat knowwhat politics entails. When in at all, they hateus; howtheybelieve their Reset” has setoff furious conspiracy theories Opposition,thereisanimplicitobligation preferredway of lifeisbeing adverselyim- on the right and contemptuous dismissal to provide constructivecooperation and pacted by the alternative wayoflife; what from theleft. honestscrutinyofgovernmentdecisions. in the system we have inheritedprevents The Great Reset, conceptualisedbythe The governorneednot go very fartotest them from feeling that their proud Hindu founder and executivechairman of the WEF, her idea of politics as farmers, including identityiscomplete;how the Hindutva Klaus Schwab, has evolvedoverthe lastfew from western UP,are gathered on the bor- project will address our collective concerns years and is basedonthe assessment thatthe der of the national capitaltoprotestthe about food, jobs, education, healthand worldeconomyisindeep trouble. He argues farm laws.The Opposition, including the happiness. thatthe situation has been made alot worse Congress, have extendedtheir unqualified Despiteour deep differences, we can- by manyfactors, includingthe pandemic’s supporttothe movement buthavestrate- notand mustnot countenance anything devastating effectsonglobal society,the un- gicallyrefrainedfromstealing the thunder likeacivil wartothe finish.Wehavelived folding technological revolution, and the con- of the farmers. Sadly, politics hastaken a together and our destinyistolivetogether. CRSasikumar sequences of climatechange. strangeturn, so muchsothat organic The project to acquirepowerand retain it Schwab demands that “the worldmust tres of the post-War globalorder—on notgoingto reform itself. Making capital more protests likethose againstthe CAA-NRC forsome time will certainlybeservedby act jointlyand swiftlytorevampall aspects September 11,2001. responsive belongs to the realm of the state. and nowthe farm laws remain uneasy accentuating an ostensible divide--but of our societies and economies, from educa- The choice of Singaporeiscertainlyprac- The kind of policy choices that astate makes about political parties being seen sharing then what? Even apowerful militaryisun- tion to social contractsand working condi- tical; it is also symbolic. The success of East in mediating between different stakeholders the stagewith them. This model owes able to secure status quobeyondaperiod; tions. Everycountry,fromthe United States Asia, or “Greater China” if youwill, in contain- depends, in turn, on the balance of political muchtoKejriwal-IAC, wherethe hidden powerful demagogueslosetheir grip; un- to China, must participate,and everyindus- ing the pandemic standsinstark contrastto forces within societies and between them. agendafor transforming the agitation into shakeable structures likethe SovietUnion try, from oil and gastotech, must be trans- thefailures in NorthAmerica and Europe. The Second, Davosiscertainlyrighttofocus apolitical party happilyallowedtaking dis- give way; demigods arehumbled.Onlydi- formed. In short, we needa‘Great Reset’ of onlycities that can hostlarge physical events on the deepening climatecrisis. Climatescep- creetsupport from the opponentsofthe alogue and empathysurvive in the ultimate capitalism.” rightnow areinAsia, and Singaporeisar- tics have been oustedfromWashington and Congress,but without conceding them analysis. The right seesthe WEFarguments about guablythe mostconvenient. Meanwhile, the President Biden has rejoinedthe 2015 Paris space directly. It is another matter that the To return to the governorofUP: Surely restructuring the global economyasadan- much-talked-about Asia’s rise —notwith- accordonmitigating climatechange.But that enterprise helpedthe BJP and hurtthe Her Excellency accepts thatall this is about gerous attempt to impose “socialism” and dis- standing itsinternal contradictions —iswith is notenough to resolve themain political Congress. politics. To believe in this, to articulatethis, mantle the traditional society,orwhat re- us andisnow adecisive factor in reordering challenge on climatechange. It is about dis- The Congress is the onlyOpposition to educatethe electorate about this, to mains of it. The leftscoffsatthe DavosMan’s theglobaleconomy. tributing the economic and socialcosts of party that has the footprint to makeadif- stand up and be counted —itispolitics at talk on the crisis of capitalism. It pointstothe The agenda of The Great Resettouches on moving away from carbon use within and ference to theresistance to the incumbent the highestand certainlydifferent from complicityofthe Davosforum in promoting manykey issues facing the world. Three of across nations. government, although giventhe present politickingthat everyone seems to confuse policiesthat have broughtthe worldtothe them stand out. Internally, the conflictisabout manag- conditions, we understand that we will with politics. But, of course, thereisanother current impasse and question itscapacity to Firstisthe question of reforming capital- ing the differential social impact and exter- have to keep space forlike-minded dimension: Debateand discourse aredis- producesolutions. ism. Davoshas been at the forefront of call- nally, it is about reconciling the divergent Opposition parties.Itisstill early to expect missedasnon-starters and politics is no- Irrespectiveofwhat the WEF might say, ingfor “stakeholder capitalism” that looksbe- carbon policy imperativesamong the ma- aworkable two-way accommodation, ticedonlywhenthereisdisruption. Make thereisnodenying the contemporaryglobal yond the traditional corporatefocuson jor economic actors. This again leads to the giventhe regional contradictions that exist. it impossible foragovernment to work; challenges. The reigning assumptions about maximising profit forshareholders. realm of contestedpolitics —bothinternal However, ajoint effort within Parliament blockthe streetsand trains; switchoff elec- deregulation and globalisationthat signifi- The demandsfor itsreform areasold as and international. and beyond on demonetisation,GST im- tricity and water; squeeze supplyoffood cantly reducedconstraintsoncapital within capitalism itself; we also know that the dom- Thirdisthe growing difficulty of global co- plementation, the Citizenship Amendment and other supplies; disturb public peace — and across borders over the lastthree decades inant capital tends to resistchange.What is operation that Davoswants to promote.The Act, police atrocities, mixed marriages laws, these arecertainlynot publiclyadvocated arenow being challenged across the world, different thistime is the vocal supportfor the eraofgreat powerharmonythataccompa- the futureofJ&K, farm laws,incompetent by anyone in authority yetare we to believe including in the US that longchampioned principles of stakeholder capitalism from the niedthe liberalisation of the global economy handling of COVID-19, etc, is neither incon- that theyare symptoms of live politics? these ideas four decades ago. tophonchos of the global industry. In the US, at theturnofthe 1990s has yieldedplace to sistent with political ideology nor the Furthermore, ahapless police forcecon- Delhi, whichisinthe middle of an eco- progressiveshope President Joe Biden, like intense contestation. Thecontestation is not strategies of the entirespectrum of the tortspublic protestintosedition,though nomicresetofitsown,mustnot onlypay atten- PresidentsTeddy and FranklinRoosevelt,will just politicalbut increasinglyeconomicand Opposition. Letusnot forget,ifIndialives thankfully yetnot intoinsurrection -- the tion to theglobaldebate, but also recognise bring much-neededreform.Not everyone is technological. If the worldneeds universalist therewill be opportunity forthe word being usedfor thestorming of the US that the current crisis and itspolitical conse- convincedthough. solutions, getting them has become harder Opposition. Some stillborn stepswere Capitol by therednecks supporting quences will inevitablylead to arearrange- Commentaryinthe Wall Street Journal TheGreat Reset, than ever before.This, in turn, might lead to takeninthe pastmonths but time is run- President Donald Trump. But who willex- mentof theglobalorder; DavosornoDavos.If routinelydismissesstakeholder capitalism conceptualised by the “competitivemultilateralism” and the con- ning out to put up aformidable challenge plain to thehundredsofincarcerated youth structural changeisinevitable, the question is as afront for “irresponsible corporatism” that founder and executive struction of coalitions of the willing, capable to theinsensitiveand incompetent func- chargedwithUAPAand otheroffences in whatDelhicandoto maximiseIndia’spossibil- divertscash flows from productive use of cap- chairman of the WEF, Klaus to developand enforce newrules. tioning of agovernment thatclaims over- the CAA-NRCFIRsthat theirpolitics wasa itiesand limit the potential dangers. ital thatcan produce collectivegood. On the Unlikeinthe 20thcentury, India nowcan whelming popular support but in electoral crime?Understandably, thereisaredline Prime MinisterNarendraModi will be American left, critics argue capital has shown Schwab, has evolved over the and mustactively contributetothe framing of records can showless than 40 per centof between protestand sedition but advising among the manyworld leaders who will be littleconcern forthe interests of stakehold- last few yearsand is based on newrules to govern global capitalism and re- the popular vote. Thegovernmentbelieves the citizen to protestfor politics should addressing this week’s annual gathering of ers and itsinstinct forprofitmaximisation has the assessment that the shaping of international institutions. At the that itsmajority makes all differingviews come with an assurance that it will notbe the WEF. The pandemic has compelledthe onlygottenworse during the pandemic. world economyisindeep same time, it mustalso reform itsown econ- irrelevant. Laws that theylegislatecan still crushed by an impervious law. forum to move online from itstraditional The large technology companies that omyand society to makeitmoreequitable, be reversedinthe future, but changes like wintryabode in the Swiss Alps. But Davoshas were to deliverusintothe digitalutopia have trouble. He argues that the sustainable and capable of coping with rapid the newParliamentand Central Vistawill The writer is senior Congress leader and notgiven up on aphysical meeting for2021. proven to be as rapacious as the European situation has been made alot external change. It is only thosenations that impose the will of atransitorymajority on former Union minister It is scheduledtotakeplace in June in merchant kings of the early colonial eraand worsebymanyfactors, caneffectively managethe dynamic interac- Singapore. exploitative capitalists of the19th century. including the pandemic’s tion between the internal and external that This is onlythe second time that the Davos Big beneficiaries of deregulationand special will come out as winners in the Great Reset annual forum is takingplaceatanother loca- concessions around the world, the tech gi- devastating effects on global that is unfolding. tion. In 2002 January, the forumconvenedin antspay fewtaxes and actively depress society, the unfolding LETTERSTOTHE EDITOR Manhattan, to demonstratethe resilience and wagesfor working people. Theyalsohaveac- technological revolution, and The writer is director,InstituteofSouth Asian resolve of international capital againstthe quired unprecedented powertoinfluence Studies, NationalUniversity of Singaporeand spectacular terror attacksonNew York and the governments. the consequences of climate contributing editor on international affairs Washington—the financialand political cen- Realists would suggestthat capitalism is change. for The Indian Express CENTRE'SFOLLIES IDEAS THIS REFERS TO the article, 'Pause or re- peal: Government mayhavetogoback ONLINE to SC or Parliament on farm laws'(IE, January22). This is notthe firsttime the ONLYINTHE EXPRESS current government at the Centrehas Swachh lessons for Covid times ● LETCHILDRENBREATHE: underminedthe authority of constitu- tional provisions. Be it CAA-NRCorthe AJAYSINGHNAGPURE, recent farm laws,the government has NITYAKAUSHI World’slargest sanitationprogrammecanbeamodelforcautionpostthevaccine remainedblissfullyignorantof bothcon- stitutional principles and public senti- ● CLIMATE CONCERNS AkshayRout ment,while marching to itsown beat. In 2021:ASHISH CHATURVEDI, this process, the government has insid- VIJETA RATTANI iouslytarnishedthe ideals of aparlia- ACROSS EUROPE, EVEN in Rome, therewere pation. In Prime MinisterNarendraModi’s swachhagrahis remain watchful across India’s is seen as amodel forvaccinedistribution, the mentarydemocracy,envisionedbyour www.indianexpress.com poignant reports of subduedChristmas cele- words, “swachhata” wastakenup asa “collec- six-and-a-half lakh villages to makesurethat instrumentsand mechanismsofSwachh leaders and enshrinedinour brations, unavoidable, because of the fear of tive national responsibility”. As the vaccine en- the guardisnot down. The scaleofmass ac- Bharat Mission can address the needfor sus- Constitution. the unpredictablecoronavirus.Countrieshave teredthe collective imaginationofanexpec- tion and buzz creation around sanitation un- tainingCOVID-responsible behaviour —cover- ShreyaSingh, Mumbai DRAGON’SDEN fallen backonthat age-oldadage,discretion is tant population, PM Modi reminded: “Dawai der Swachh Bharat Mission was ing theface and maintaining physical distance. the better partofvalour.New Year's Evewas bhi, Kadaai Bhi ''. Though it’s currentlycon- unprecedented. Avolunteering forcelikethe swachhagrahis BIDEN’SFIRST DAY THISREFERSTO the editorial, ‘Slaying the notmuchdifferent.InIndia, cities and states strictedby avoidable vaccinehesitancy,India’s Foracountrythat prides itself on accom- or the band of young and skilledwarriors like Dragon’ (IE, January22). It is ironic that took recourse to anew setofrestrictions that vaccine programme will hopefullyusher in plishing the world's largest behaviourchange the zila Swachh Bharat prerakscould beaptfor THIS REFERS TO the editorial, 'Biden's on the one hand, the merename of afor- can’t be dismissedaskilljoy. Leaders andgov- herdimmunity at the earliest. programme, involving 600million citizens, the purpose. burden'(IE, January22). The recent as- eign-sounding fruit canstir thewaters ernmentsare having to anxiouslyremind cit- Behavioural changes requiretime. The ob- sustaining acorona-responsive behaviour Barelyhavethe firstjabs been adminis- sault on the US Capitol building is proof forGujarat Chief MinisterVijay Rupani izens about pandemic protocols. Among the servation of safesanitation practices —espe- should be less challenging, giventhat the teredinahandful of countries, amutant vari- of the fact that America is atinderbox. but the shutting down of legendary fewrescue actsofJoe Biden’sfirstday in the cially thosepertainingto toilet use, assiduously threat is muchdirect. In fact, to inculcateanew antofthe virus has made itspresence felt. The Nowthat Joe Biden is in the Oval Office, Gujarati publishers likeLokmilap go WhiteHouse wasthe restoration of the mask. cultivatedduring the Swachh Bharat years of behaviour has always been relatively easier fear of asecond or thirdsurge of thepandemic he should work to stanchthe bleeding. without anyinterventiononhis part. It is In Mumbai,civic authoritieshavefound 2014-2019 —isacase in point. The keyfind- compared to changinganage-oldhabit like lurks.Postvaccine, COVID-19 maymoderate As the US president, he can either rise to high time that the Gujarat government that the number of people revelling at wed- ings of the FifthRound of theNational Family open defecation. in termsof severity andinfectivity,butit might theoccasion by reaching out to the other introspectedandchannelleditsenergies ding receptions, pubs, restaurantsand night- HealthSurvey,2019-20 do throw up certain Thehardworkofthe last10monthsofsur- notbecompletelyeliminatedsome time soon. side,orhecoulddrive awedge deeper towardsthelinguisticandculturalcauses clubsexceededthe permissiblelimits —infact, concerns about the stateofsanitation in the veillance and testing, nottospeak of enduring The learning from the pandemic is notonlyre- between the Democratsand the that actuallymatter. manyweremaking merry without the country, particularly in itsruralparts. Itwould the painfullockdowns,and the fruitfulprecau- silience butalsohumilityinconductandbeing Republicans by perpetuating this ugly Kushal Khandhar, Mumbai mandatorymask. Morethan 10 lakh people appearthat the focus of theSwachhBharat tions of masking, distancing and regularhand awarethat the virus remainsanunpredictable partisan fight. were finedintheMaximumCityfornot using Mission on toiletaccessand useneeds to be washing will come to anaught if the com- adversary. The piece of cloth spread across the Varun Das, Zirakpur THIS REFERSTO the editorial, 'Slaying the masks. Violations were also reportedinother takenforward with double the vigour. mencement of vaccination or the slide in the face that shuts offsome of our sensoryorgans, Dragon' (IE, January22).The renaming cities and towns. So, the announcement of a Sustaining the changed behaviour requires a COVID case count areseen as an invitation to besides being functionallyefficient,issym- THIS REFERS TO the editorial, 'Biden’s of dragon fruit to “kamalam” wasunnec- night curfew wasanexpectedenforcement steady stream of campaigns, something that freedom. The year of vaccination,2021, can bolic of this willing subjugation —that has to burden' (IE,January22). The wayUSPJoe essary, to saythe least. It is high time that response. has always tested the implementers. only becomparedwithPhase II of the Swachh continue. The Clean India of Mahatma’sdream Biden reversed17executive controver- the government, in this case in Gujarat, Fines and police action areperhaps justi- Very pertinently, the Swachh Bharat Bharat Mission.Muchlikethe imperative sus- becamepossible when 130crore Indianscame sial decisions of his predecessor on Day understands that thereare moreimpor- fiedforprotecting livesand preventing the sys- Mission Phase II givesinstitutionalisedatten- tain an ODF society,the behavioural changes together and adoptednew habitsofsanitation. Onesignals his intentions to the world tant issues to focus on. The debilitating temfromcollapsing. But making the wearing tion to the sustainability of ODF (Open necessitatedby the pandemic mustbebepre- The same joint resolve is necessarynot to leta —that he is firm about mending things. conditionof the country’seconomyand of masksasustainable habit and observing DefecationFree) status, despitethe action servedwith double the efforteven though the single mask drop offthe nose. His quickdecisions will go along wayin itspeople due to the pandemic is surely physical distancingaspartofeverydaybehav- moving on to solidand liquid wastemanage- vaccine has openedupavista of hope andthe bringing changes in apositive wayfor amoremajor concern than these petty iourwould have to bepartofashared—albeit ment.While Amitabh Bachchan calledout for scale of infection is down —the latter owesin The writer,aformer Director General (Special America and the rest of the world. issues. noneto cheerful —vision till thereisadecisive “Darwaza Bandh'' —shut the door on open no small measuretothe observance of the dis- Projects), Swachh Bharat Mission, is presently SSPaul, Nadia Komal Pugalia, Silchar green signal.Ithas to be likeIndia’s Swachh defecation —inthe initial phase, the current tancing and masking prescriptions. aVisiting Professor at Central University of Bharat, asterling example of people’s partici- callisfor “Har Koi,HarRoz,Hamesha”. 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SIMPLY PUT CORONAVIRUS DASHBOARD Rhesus macaque shows Techgiants vregulators promise as model for Google andFacebook have lockedhorns with Australian govt over laws that propose to makethem pay Covid-19 vaccine studies news organisations forusing their content. The outcome of the fight will have implications forIndia as well.

Consumer Commission Chairman RodSims EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE PRANAVMUKUL&ANILSASI said in an interviewtoReuters. In France too, NEWDELHI,JANUARY24 NEWDELHI,JANUARY24 the competition watchdog FCAhad lastyear issuedstrictures to big tech companies. FCA IN INFECTIOUS diseases suchas PARLIAMENT IN Australia is debating legisla- had deemedGoogle’smove to withdraw Covid-19, animal studies help scien- tion that would requireGoogle and Facebook news snippets as “unfair and damaging to the tists predict howwell acandidate to enterintopaymentnegotiationswithmedia press sector”, and also likelytoconstitutean vaccine will work.Theyinform scien- companiesforusingtheir content,withanar- abuse of marketdominance. tists whichimmune cells triggered by biter mandated to adjudicateinthe event an the vaccine areprotective,whether and SouthwestNational Primate agreementcannotbereached. The debateinIndia the vaccine will be viable as ahuman Research Center (SNPRC) evaluated TheInternetcompanieshave pushedback Policymakers in India have so farfocused intervention, and howthe disease three nonhuman primate species — againstthe legislation —and the fightisbeing on the dominance of intermediaries suchas progressesinpeople with compro- Indian rhesus macaques, African ba- watchedaround the world, giventhe impact GoogleandFacebook,whichare positionedin misedimmune systems. boons and new-worldorigin com- the outcome could have across geographies, away thatserviceproviderscannotreachcus- The rhesus macaque, amonkey mon marmosets —and young and old includinginIndia.Thereisalsorenewedfocus tomers exceptthrough these platforms. widelyprevalent in India, is apromis- animals. on atemplatethat has been rolledout with The tussles in Australia and elsewhere ing model forvaccines againstCovid- Theyfound that the macaque and some success in SouthKorea. could have broaderimplications forthe regu- 19,according to twoin- baboon models develop Nearly four years previously, Naver, South lation of the digital economyinIndia in the dependent studies. strong signs of acutevi- Korea’s mostpopular news siteand biggest longerterm. Asubstantial discussion on the In Nature ralinfectionleading to search engine, hadthrashedout an unusual impact of intermediaryplatforms on the Microbiology,scientists pneumonia, and the modelforworkingwithKoreannews publish- Mel Silva,managing director of Google Australiaand NewZealand, appears via a health of news mediaoutlets is yettocom- have recommendeduse non-human primateim- ers —designating some 125outlets as “Naver videolink during aSenateinquiryinCanberra on Friday. AAP Imagevia AP mence in anymeaningful wayhere. of the macaque as a mune system mounts a Newsin-link partners”, and paying them for According to aFICCI-EY report on India’s model to help develop strong response and publishedstories on Naver. Another 500odd mediaandentertainmentsectorfor2020,there vaccines.The study also PAPER clears the SARS-CoV-2 news outletsare unpaid“search partners”.The last week,Google saidthat News Showcase — publicationsinFrancejusthoursbefore threat- are300millionusersof onlinenews sites,por- found thatthe baboon infection. total payout wasover$40 million in 2017. whichfeaturesstory panels that allowpartic- ening to remove itssearch functions in tals and aggregators in the country—making showedgreater disease CLIP In the Nature Whilethismaynot betheperfectmodel— ipating publisherstopackagethe storiesthat Australia.ThefightinAustraliaisevidentlycen- upapproximately46%of Internetusersand77% development, making it Communications study, news outletshavegenerallybeen unsatisfied appear within Google’s news products – has tred on howmuchcontrol these companies of smartphoneusersinIndiaattheendof 2019. apotential option for NEWRESEARCH scientists at theCalifornia with theirshare; also,therehas been contro- on boardmorethan 450 publicationsacross a wouldbeableto retainontheirpayoutprocess With 282 million unique visitors, India is evaluating anti-viral National Primate versyrecentlyoverallegationsthatNaverma- dozencountries,includingLeMonde,LeFigaro, —operational aspectssuchasdeciding the thesecondlargestonlinenews consumingna- therapeutics and co-morbidities such Research Center at theUniversity of nipulated the ranking of articlescritical of and Libération in France; El Cronista and La quantumofpaymentsfor news feed sources, tion afterChina. In India, digital advertising as diabetes. California, Davis, infected eight rhe- South Korea’s topfootball association on the Gaceta in Argentina; TAG24 and Sachsische and having to reveal changes in their algo- spends in 2019 grew 24%year-on-year to Rs And in NatureCommunications, sus macaques withSARS-CoV-2 virus latter's request—the templateremains oper- Zeitung in Germany; and Jornal do Commercio rithms. The heftyfinesproposed by Canberra 27,900crore,accordingtoEYestimates,andare scientists have reportedthat rhesus isolated from the firsthuman patient ational in anationwherenearly 85 percentof from Pernambuco in Brazil. arebeingseen as an addedproblem. expected to grow to Rs 51,340 croreby2022. macaques infected withSARS-CoV-2 treated at UC Davis. the population accesses news online. GooglehadannouncedinDecember2020 Thereisnodenying that toughaction by Globally, Facebook and Google together developedprotective immune re- The researchersfollowedimmune thatitwould“soonstartofferingpeopleaccess regulatorshas been behindthe movesby command61% of the market shareindigital sponses that might be reproduced responses in the rhesus macaques The fight in Australia to paywalledcontentinpartnershipwithselect FacebookandGoogleto launchplatformssuch ad spends, according to EdelweissResearch; with avaccine. over about twoweeks. The animals Google lastweek threatenedtoremove its news publishers”.Ithadsaiditwouldpaypar- as the proposednews taband Showcase, un- Google leads with 37%. In aseparatenote, In the NatureMicrobiology study, showedall the signs of producingan search engine from Australia.Facebooksaidit ticipatingpartnersto providelimitedaccessto likeNaver’slargely voluntaryaction in Korea. Edelweisssaiditexpecteddigitalspendsto be scientists at Texas Biomedical effective immuneresponse to aviral could blockAustralian users from posting or paywalledcontent forNewsShowcaseusers. European authorities have specifically further accelerated,led by asubstantialjump Research Institute (Texas Biomed) infection. sharing news linksifthe proposed norms on Last Thursday, Googlesaiditwillpaynews linkedpaymentsto copyright,withoutputting in online activity accentuatedbyCovid-19. royalty paymentswereput intooperation. publicationsinFrance forthe useoftheircon- aforcingdeviceinto theagreements.Australia’s Other major news aggregators in India are Representativesofthe tech majors ap- tentonline.Thetech majorandAPIG, aFrench code, on the other hand, is almostentirelyfo- Dailyhunt,theparentcompanyofwhich(VerSe INDIA ACTIVE CASES 184,408 peared at aSenatehearing in Canberra last news media group,said in ajoint statement cusedonthebargainingpowerofnews outlets Innovation)hasraisedfundingfromGoogleand Friday. Theyarguedthat the media industry that aftermonths of talks, theyhad agreedon vis-a-vis the tech majors, and has some coer- Microsoft,andtheTigerGlobal-backedInShorts. wasalready benefiting from trafficroutedto the principles on whichnews publications cive featuresaswell.Itismoreofacompetition Accordingto aJanuary2020reportbyHarvard themby thedigitalplatforms,andthatthepro- shouldbecompensatedforthedistributionof issueinAustralia,of powerequationsbetween University’s Nieman Lab, publishers were ini- 250,000 posedrules would expose them to “unman- their contentonGoogleplatforms. traditional news outlets andtechplatforms, tiallypaidbetweenRs5-6lakhmonthlyforcon- ageablelevelsof financialandoperationalrisk”. However, Google’sfirstresponseto France withthequestionof abuseof dominanceby the tenthostedonDailyhunt—buttheystartedgo- 213,027 adopting the EU copyright rules wastostop latter hanging in the balance. ing offthe platform afterterms were changed. 184,408 Firms’ response elsewhere displaying news snippets – until the French Australianregulatorshadinitiallyproposed ThereportnotedthatMalayalaManoramawas Bloomberg and some other media outlets competition regulator steppedin, in October avoluntarycodeofconduct, but have since one of the firstbig publishers to exit Dailyhunt have reported that Facebook plans to launch lastyear.Google also pulledthe plug on its steppeduppressure. Australia’s competition in2017.EvenwithouttheconversationinIndia 200,000 itsnews tabfeature (available in the US since GoogleNewsservice in Spain, whichmade regulatorhaswarnedthattheplannedlawsto reachingthepointwhere news aggregatorsare 2019)inthe UK, with likely tie-ups with The paymentstopublishers mandatory. forceGoogle and Facebook to payfor news mandated to makepaymentstopublishers, Guardian,TheEconomist,andTheIndependent. contentwere “likely justthestartofmorereg- startups suchasDailyhunt and InShorts areyet AndGoogleisrollingoutitsnews offeringplat- The coreissue ulation fordigital platforms”. to find asustainable revenue model. LAST 10 DAYS form,Google News Showcase. Paying fornews feedin itself appears to be “This bargainingcodeisajourney, if we Jan 14 Jan 23 Boththeseplatformsaimtoformalisepay- less of an issue forthe tech giants,given that see marketpowerelsewhere, we can add 150,000 ment pactswith news outlets.Inastatement Google entered theagreement to paynews them to the code,” Australian Competition and EXPERTEXPLAINS will appear tomorrow.

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INDIA TOTAL CASES WORLD TOTAL CASES Why Biden’s exercise bikeset off security chatter 10,654,533 98,861,235 minium and weighs around 60 kg.Users are still be vulnerabilities present. Because of this Source:MinistryofHealth&Family Source:JohnsHopkinsUniversity, EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE also required to pay$39 (around Rs 2,895) we arelooking to thesecurity community to Welfare,updatedat11pmonJan24 updatedat11pmonJan24 NEWDELHI,JANUARY24 per month forPeloton’s live and on-demand help us meet this toppriority throughpro- classes. grams like responsible disclosure.” IN THE weeksleading up to US PresidentJoe ApartfromBiden, revealedonhis podcast Biden’s swearing-in, cybersecurityexperts thathewas an active user of the Pelotonbike The So, will Biden’sPelotonbikebe examinedwhether his Pelotonbike—apiece and had purchasedone during the lockdown Peloton permitted in the WhiteHouse? of exercise equipment—would be permit- to stay active,the Obamas and actress Kate bikehas Cybersecurity experts have reportedly tedinsidethe WhiteHouse. Theyeventually Hudson arealso fans of the bike. Today, the manyfans said that if Biden reallywants to bring his concludedthe bikewas safe, according to company,and itsexercise bikeinparticular, in the US Pelotonbiketothe WhiteHouse, he can. But media reports from the US. have acultfollowing across the UnitedStates. it will have to be massively strippeddown by the Secret Service and National Security So, what is the Pelotonbike? Whydid it comeunder security security threat, as hackers couldpotentially Agency (NSA)first. Made by the Pelotoncompany, it is an scrutiny? access Biden and the WhiteHouse through “…really, cybersecurity experts say, If Internet-connected,stationary, indoor cy- The Pelotontabletisconnectedtothe the bike. Biden wantshis bike, he can surelyhaveit, cling bikewith cameras, microphones and Internetand comes fitted with cameras and Adisclaimer on the Pelotonsitereads: "At though it might bear little resemblance to tablets attached, so itsriderscan livestream microphones that allowriders to hear and Peloton, we consider thesecurity of our sys- the off-the-assembly-line version afterthe fitness classesand communicatewith one see eachother if they so choose. Areportby tems and the best interestofour members a Secret Serviceand the NationalSecurity another.Priced at upward of $2,500(around PopularMechanics magazine warnedthatthe toppriority.However, no matter howmuch Agency arefinishedwith it,” TheNew York Rs 1.8lakh), it is madeofcarbon steel and alu- bikecould be seen by the Secret Serviceasa effort we put intosystemsecurity,therecan Times reported. Aclothcalledrisa:partofTripuraculture,settobeanationalbrand

woven. Handloom remainsanintegral part an upper garment, the risaalsohas ahost looms at homes, usuallynot morethan one PradyotKishoreManikyaDebbarma of DEBRAJDEB of theTripuri household, even with the ad- of crucial,social andreligious utilities. or twopieces in amonth. Mostofthis artis the erstwhile royalfamily, too, has wel- AGARTALA,JANUARY24 ventof powerloom-manufacturedgarments. Adolescent Tripuri girls arefirstgiven arisa handeddownthrough generations. comedthe move to promote tribal hand- to wear in an event calledRisa Sormani, at However, many of the designs were lostwith loom products. However, withthe Tripura TRIPURA CHIEF MinisterBiplab Kumar Deb What is the government doing to age12to14. the passageoftime, and onlyafew remain. Autonomous District Council polls coming, and his government have been promoting promote the risa? The risa is usedinreligious festivals such branding indigenous clothing should notbe the traditional risa, ahandwoven cloth used Forseveral years, the risa has already as Garia Pujabytribal communities, atur- What will branding mean? relegated to political gimmicks,hesaid. by the state’s indigenous communities, as been in circulation as an honorarystole ban by men during weddings and festivals, Tripura’s ruling BJP-IPFT government asignature identity of the state. The risa is among indigenous community leaders and acummerbund over the dhoti, ahead scarf claims that due to apathyofprevious gov- What is being done to support being brandedunder the India Handloom tribal politicalleaders. ChiefMinisterDeb by young girls and boys,and amuffler dur- ernments, skilledTripuri craftsmen and weavers? Brand, Deb announcedrecently. has been sportingarisaonhis shoulders ing winters. The cloth is also usedasa weavers were notbeing able to sell their The Handloom and Handicrafts ever sincehestarted campaigning as aBJP makeshifthanger to hold an infant on the productsinternationallyand sufferedfinan- Directoratehas marketedtheirproductsin So, what is arisa? MahasamparkAbhiyan convener wayback mother’s backs.And it is presented as a cially. expo and industry fairs in Agartala, among The traditional Tripuri female attirecom- in 2015.Today,manyofhis party func- markofhonour to distinguishedrecipients. The current government aims to pro- whomafew represented Tripura in Delhi prises three parts —risa, rignai and rikutu. tionaries areseen with the risa. Risa is commoninalmostall 19 indige- mote risanationallyasTripura’s signature and Guwahati etc. Balai Goswami, chairper- Risa is ahandwoven cloth usedasafe- On Kokborok Day(whichcelebrates the nous tribal communities of Tripura. garment, besides providing uniforms to an- son of the TripuraHandloom &Handicrafts male upper garment, and also as headgear, indigenous language of that name) earlier However, eachcommunity has itsown de- ganwadi and ASHA workers. Development Corporation Ltd, said The astole,orapresent to express respect. As this month, Deb postedphotosonsocial signs. The government is also focusing on de- government is preparing ateam of weavers an upper garment, it is wrappedaround the media of himself wearing arisa and ap- signs. At atraining campofhandloom to represent Tripuraatthe National torso twice. pealedtootherstopromote tribal crafts- Howlong has the risa been partof Risa is the handwoven clothdraped weavers in Mandai villagelastyear,organ- HandloomExpoinDelhi in Februarythis Rignai is primarily worn as the lower manship. Days later,atthe plenaryofthe Tripura’s traditions? around the upperbody. isedbythe TripuraHandloom and year.The risawith temple designs is setto garmentand literallytranslates into‘to NorthEastCouncil at Shillong, Deb said his The complete Tripuri attireisclaimedto Tribal Researchand Cultural Institute Handicrafts Development Corporation,one be displayedthere. wear’. It canbeunderstood as an indigenous government is emphasising productionand have originated even before the time of the handwoven risa had the Tripurasundari As of 2018,Tripurahad 1,37,177 hand- variety of the sari of mainland India. marketing of indigenous handloom and Manikyakings, who ruledTripurafor over Temple on it, said Aparna Debbarma, an ex- loom weavers, according to the National Ritukuismainlyusedasawrap,orlike handicrafts productstofollow the Prime 500years starting from the 15th century. Today, the risa is undergoing changes ecutive of Mandai Handloom Cluster. The Handloom Census, with 60 handloom clus- a‘chunri’ or a‘pallu’ of the Indian saree. It is Minister’s “Vocal forlocal”call. Although the history is contested, Maharaj due to competition with powerloom-man- temple has been the epicentreofthe BJP- ters.Theyreceive benefits from theNational also usedtocover theheadofnewly mar- Trilochana, aka Subhrai Raja is said to have ufacturedproductsavailable at cheaper ledgovernment’s tourismpolicy;the de- Cooperative Development Corporation. riedTripuri women. Whyisthe risa important? invented nearly 250 designs of rignai during rates. sign wasprovidedbyWeavers Service However, onlyahandful of themworkex- Thesegarmentsweretraditionallyhand- Wovenincolourful designs and worn as his time forhis 250 wives. Thegarmentis madein handloomor loin CentreatAgartala. clusively on traditional tribal handloom.

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DR SHEKHARMANDE: Aglobal health earlier interviews,you said thereisa ratories of the CSIR)... We can go on citing emergency likeCovid-19 wasforeseenfor difference betweenefficacy and examples...We collaboratewitheverybody. the lastseveral years. We did notknowin effectiveness of the vaccine. Can you When the Rs 48,000 croreorder forTejas what form it would come, but for20-25 elaborate? wasplaced,mostpeoplelaudedtheDRDO. years it wasbeing predicted that the next Efficacy is calculatedinclinical trialson Nobody knew that alarge amountoftech- pandemicwasjustaroundthecorner.And, subjectsthat have receivedeither the vac- nology and the entirecontrol system of even afterthis pandemic is over,thereisa cine dose or the placebo.Neither the per- Tejas wasmade by the CSIR.Manypeople possibility that another one might still be son who is adminis- don’t knowthereisa around thecorner.So, we should be pre- tering the vaccine nor verygloriouscollabo- pared forthat. the person who is re- If we were under-reporting, ‘ ration between the In India, the firstCovid-19 casewas re- WHY ceiving it knows one-and-a-half-million CSIR, DRDO and HAL. portedonJanuary30, lastyear.Wedis- whether it is the ac- It is afault on ourpart cussedtheissueatameetingof thedirectors SHEKHAR MANDE tual vaccine or a people would have died of that information has of all the laboratoriesunder Council of placebo. At theend of notbeen distributed ScientificandIndustrialResearch (CSIR)on schief of CSIR, thestudy,whichtakes Covid-19.Isthat believable? among members of February25-26. The WorldHealth whichhas anetwork afew months, you Under-reporting is not the the public. Organisation declared thepandemic on A findoutwhogot what. ‘ March 11,almost15days later.Bythattime, of 37 of India’s Forexample, in the cause (for lownumbers) TABASSUM ourstrategywasalreadyinplaceanditwas premier researchlabs, Mande Modernatrials, about BARNAGARWALA: rolledout by mid-March.Thereweresev- 30,000 people were Thereisalotof eral aspects to the response. The firstverti- has been at the centre of govt’s givenadose of either discussion about cal wassurveillance, whichweare doing the placebo or the vaccine, and 196devel- howlow-and middle-income eventoday. Itincludessequencingdifferent Covid-19 response strategy.As opedCovid-19afterafew months.Of these, countries have lowCovid-19mortality viral strains across India, conducting air vaccination begins, his team 185hadreceivedtheplaceboand11 hadre- rates. Is the ‘hygiene hypothesis’the samplingsurveys to knowhow farthevirus ceivedtheModernavaccine.Sotheefficacy onlyreason behind it or is therealoose travelsetc.Thesecondverticalwasdiagnos- will be part of the pharmacov- was95%. link with the BCG vaccination? Or,in tics.Youwouldhave heardabout,forexam- igilance processfor next 2yrs Basedonefficacy, the regulatordecides India’s case, is therealow recording ple,the Feluda test kit thathas come from to give approvalforthevaccineto beadmin- rate of thedeaths? theCSIR’sstable...We diddryswabs,which isteredtothe general population. Now, in My personal research paper on the is- reducesthecostofRT-PCRtestsbyhalf.The sueiscomingoutinajournalcalledCurrent dryswabmethodhas also been approved Science... Thepopulationof theUnitedStates by theIndian Council of Medical Research. is roughlyone-fourthofIndia’s. The total Thethirdverticalisinterventions,where number of deathsinthe US is morethan we arelooking at both vaccinesaswell as double that of India. If youtakethe ratio of drugs.Favipiravirisalreadybeingsoldinthe people dying per million, it is ahighly market by Cipla, the process forwhichwas skewed ratio in the countrieswhichhave generated in the CSIR... We have also taken high GDP or ahigh Human Development cognizance of traditional knowledgeand Index. This is true across the world. If you some trialsare going on along withAyush lookatthe number of people dead in (Ministry). African and SoutheastAsian countries, it is The fourth aspect is medical instru- waylower than countries with high GDP ments, and therehavebeen severalinno- and HDI. Many people sayitisunder-re- vations heretoo, including the BiPAP porting,butif youare under-reporting,India ‘SwasthVayu’Ventilator.It’sforpeoplewho would have had to reportabouteight to 10 arenot critical but their oxygen levelneeds timesmoredeaths (in comparison to the to be enhanced. We have already supplied US). If we (India) were under-reporting, 1,200suchventilatorstothe Delhi govern- about one-and-a-half-million people in ment. We have launched ‘rapidlydeploy- India would have succumbed to Covid-19. able hospitals’ whichcan be setupinre- Idon’tthinkanyonebelievesthatone-and- mote locationsinabout five days andsix a-halfmillionpeople in India have died... suchhospitals arereadyinHimachal Under-reporting is notthe cause. In Africa, Pradesh now. it would have causedhavoc. In places like Thereweretwo principlesthatwe used Dharavi,itwouldhavebeen acatastrophe. while bringing about these innovations. But that has nothappened. Number one, therehas to be industry’s in- The second issue that countrieswith volvement,likeCipla’sinthe case of highHDIhave isanageingpopulation.If you Favipiravir.Thesecondimportantpointthat lookatthelifeexpectancyinsuch countries, we discussed wasthat all the components the averageage is muchhigher than coun- mustbemadeinIndia,sothatwe don’thave trieslikeours.And,we knowthat thisvirus to depend on imports.Sowith both these affectsolder people more. principles,we arenow inapositionto scale Nowlookatthedistributionof otherdis- up everything forthe benefit of society. eases.Theincidenceof communicabledis- ease liketuberculosis, malariaand cholera AMITABH SINHA:Inyour assessment, in countries whichhavehigher GDP and is the Covid-19graph in India in an HDI is muchlower. And the incidenceof irreversible decline, or is therestill a thesediseasesinlow-HDIcountriesismuch fear of asecondwave? Also, canyou higher.Onthe contrary, non-communica- tell us alittle bit about the different ble diseases such as diabetes, asthma, pso- Covid-19strains that have emerged? riasis aremuchhigher in countries with Areweoverthe pandemic in India? high HDI and lowerinlow-HDIcountries... Thereisavery guardedoptimism aboutit. Inlow-HDIcountries,thesanitationparam- Thenumberof casesisgoingdown.It’shov- eters tend to be poor... It is an established eringbetween16,000-20,000casesperday Illustration: Suvajit Dey fact that improved sanitation conditions in India, compared to about 2,20,000- have increasedthe incidence of auto-im- 2,40,000 per dayinthe US. But we are strains morevirulent than the others? newdrugs, theywill take another four-five everyday,right? In thenextthree-four the general population thereare people mune disorders in higher HDIcountries... guarded,becausethepandemicisn’tover.If The standardstrategythatall govern- years to come out. months,letusassumeyouloseabouta100 who were excludedfromclinicaltrials. Accordingto thehygienehypothesis,aswe we letour guard down, thereisevery pos- mentsaroundthe worldhaveadopted is peopleaday.Thatmeansabout3,000peo- Peoplewithcomorbidities,peoplewhoare arecontinuouslyexposedtopathogens sibility of asecond wave. So, we mustbe testing, tracking, tracing... We sequence ANURADHAMASCARENHAS: pleamonth,andabout10,000deathsinthe above theage of 70...Sonowyouwillmeas- sinceourchildhood,ourimmunesystemis very,verycareful when we saythat the strains from thosepeoplewho have ahis- Professor Rohini Godbole from the next three-fourmonths.That’s alow esti- urethings in the entirepopulation.Inthe trained... In the paper (in Current Science) number of cases have gone down. tory of travel to the UK etc. Once we know Centre forHigh Energy Physics at IISc, mate.The higher estimatecouldbe50,000 real worldscenario, the numberswill we aresayingthatwhathas savedusisthe

Compared to other moredeveloped na- that the person is UK-positive,weisolate wasawarded the OrdreNationalDu people.Now,avaccine candidatehas been changefrom95%... That is effectiveness. immunetrainingourbodyhasgot because tions,thedefiningfeatureinIndiahasbeen the person so that the virus doesn’t spread Merite, among the highest provento besafe,therehasbeennoadverse Thereisasubtle difference and it is being of continuous exposure(to pathogens) theearly lockdown. It gave us the opportu- to others. That’s the government's strat- distinctionsbestowedbyFrance. How impact in Phase 1clinicaltrials as well as in monitored postvaccination. Thereisgoing since our childhood. nity to tell people aboutthe dangers of the egy.Also, youknowabout SpiceHealth. We canweencourage morewomen to the pre-clinicaltrials in animals. In Phase2 to beveryclosemonitoringfortwo yearsas

pandemic, and to preparetohandle the aretryingtoactuallycollect samples at air- join STEM sectors? clinicaltrials,youshowthat(thevaccine)is partofthe pharmacovigilance process. AMITABH SINHA:This is probablynot pandemicaswell.We were ableto educate ports andthen reduce the number of days Thereisaleakypipelinesomewhere.Let immunogenic, that it is eliciting sufficient the lastpandemic that we willsee. In everyone that when requiredforsequenc- usacceptthatfact.At theschoollevel,there immune response in HARISH terms of our response,how is the next youstepout of the ing. That’s precisely is equal opportunity foreveryone. As we ahumanbeing.So,the DAMODARAN: pandemic going to be different? What house, don’t forget what SpiceHealth startclimbing up, unfortunately, thenum- hope is that since it is What is the total arethe thingswehavelearnedand ‘ yourmask,washyour Forthe last 20-25 yearsit will bedoing at differ- ber(of women)dropsdramatically. And,by generating an im- There is aleakypipeline… ‘ budget of theCSIR institutionalisedsothat the response hands, keep distance, wasbeing predicted that ent airportsinthe the time youcome to the job market, the mune response, the In senior leadership, andhow muchof to anysuchpandemic in the futureis and that actually country. numbers areevenlower, andatthe senior humanimmunitycan that is spent on different and qualitatively better? helped. Youdon’tsee the next pandemic was Now, areany of the leadership level, the numbers arepathetic. likelytakecareofthe number of women (in sponsored or Mostimportantishealthmonitoringin- this happening even newvariantsmore So howdoyou encourage(womentojoin virus. The criticism demand-driven frastructure...Inthiscase,theresponsewas in the mostdevel- near... And, even after virulent? It’s not STEM sectors)? First, letusacceptthat we has been that we STEM) is pathetic… One research? very rapid. As soon as the Chinese authori- opedcountries. Covid-19,there is another proven yet. What is have notdonewellonthesenumbers.Then, couldhavewaited for has to talk about it,people Till about 10 years tiesdetectedtheclusterofpneumonia-like Aboutthestrains... ‘ proven is howtrans- one has to continuouslyand proactively another four months ‘ ago, thereusedtobe cases, theyreported it to theWHO. By the Everyvirus mutates. one around the corner missibletheyare. keep talkingabouttheseissues in the pub- forPhase3clinicaltri- likememust correctit enormous delays in fourth day, theWHO team wasonthe Thereisaninterplay Whatisthe probabil- lic space, even if the truth is inconvenient. als to getover... (But) flightsinDelhi dueto ground in Wuhan to assess thesituation. betweenthehost(the ity of one personto Secondly, peoplelikeme,whohavethead- youare going to risk fog. All those delays Ontheseventhday, we knewthatitwasbe- humanbody)andthe transmit avariant to vantageofbeinginanadministrative posi- the livesof10,000- have reducedsignifi- cause of aviruscalled coronavirus... We pathogen, whichisthe virus. Now, as the another person, whichistypicallydefined tion,must trytocorrectthings...AttheCSIR 50,000people.That’sthefirstrisk.Thesec- cantly. Atransmissometer(forthedetermi- need to have arapid actionforce...And this pathogentries to establish an infection in by the R-number.And these variants(UK, we have ensured that alladvisorybodies, ond risk is that mutantsare very rapidly nation of visual range) has been installed is good in the countryrightnow... We are the host, the latter tries to getrid of the SouthAfrica)areactuallyknownto bemore committees, have agenderbalance. We emergingaroundtheworld.If youare areg- across100airportsinthecountry. Itiscalled doingreasonablywell(inourresponse)and pathogen. (Asthe virus mutates) our im- transmissible, about60to70% more... have triedtodothe sameinsenior leader- ulator,whatwouldyoudo?Wouldyousave DrishtiandwasdevelopedbyNAL(National we shouldtryto improve. Butwhat we ac- munesystemtriesto getridof it(themuta- However, it is notknown whether theyare ship positions too. It’s ahugechallenge. 50,000lives? Would youallowmutantsto Aerospace Laboratory, aconstituentofthe tuallyneedtoimprove is infrastructure in tions),unlessaverylarge numberaccumu- morelethal or not. When Ijoinedthe CSIRtwo years ago, nei- ariseorwouldyougoforavaccinewhichis CSIR). Today, Delhihas three-fiveinstalla- terms of safetylevel facilities.Weneedto lates simultaneously. The UK strain can therof our37 laboratorieshadawomandi- known to be safeand elicitsaresponse, al- tions of Drishti. have multipleBSL-4(biosafetylevel-4)facil- accumulate17mutations in itsspikepro- ANURADHA MASCARENHAS: Why rector.Today, four of our laboratories are thoughits efficacy is notwell known? We heardthe news of the government ities in the country, where we can take the tein. Avirus has millions of atoms coated don’t we have asingledrug that is fully headedbyfemale directors. It is still apa- See,therehasbeennoadverseimpactof procuring Tejas aircraft. About70% of Tejas infectious organismand assessit. We also aroundasphere,andwe actuallyseeonly 17 effective againstCovid-19sofar? theticnumber,andwe areworkingtowards taking the vaccine. Youare notbeingsub- weight is carbon fibre. Who made the car- need to look at zoonosis —manyviruses mutations...Therefore,itisbelievedthatthe Developmentof anydrugtypicallytakes takingitto17-18… jected to anykind of risk,you arenot going bonfibre?TheCSIR-NAL.TheTejaslandson jumpfromanimalto human.We mustkeep human immune system is sufficientlyca- 10-12years.So, when Covid-19came up, to developany adversereaction,thereisno navalships and to be abletoland and take samplingvirusesorparasitesinanimalsall pable of gettingrid of even the newstrain. theeasiest strategywastogofor‘repurpos- KAUNAIN SHERIFF M: About 55 lakh serious illness that youare going to de- offfromnavalships,itneedsapreciseland- the time. It is important to have asurveil- ing’.Aspartof thestrategy,drugswhichare doses of the Covid-19vaccine will be velop... Essentially, if the vaccine generates ing and take-offspot. The errorcannot be lancesystemforanimalsandpotentialdis- ESHA ROY: Whether it’s the UK variant alreadyinthemarket andare ‘generallyre- administeredpurelybasedonsafety animmuneresponseagainstthisparticular morethanhalf ametre.How do pilots do easesthat could come from manyofthem. or the SouthAfrican variant, what is garded as safe(GRAS)’... we can find adif- dataofthe Phase 1and 2trials.We virus,that’sgood.Butevenif itdoesnotelicit that? There’s something calleda‘head-up Lastly, we needtohavesupplychains theIndiangovernment doing to ferentuseforthatparticulardrug.Thereare don’thaveefficacy datafor the Bharat aresponse, youhavenot lostanything per display’ in Tejas aircraftwhichallows the andlogistics ready fordiagnostics, drugs, identifyand stop the spread in the roughlyabout3,000drugswhichare inthe Biotech vaccine.Doyou think the se. Thereisnothingadverse thatyou have pilottomakeprecise take-offand landing. essential equipment,doctors, nurses, so country? Also, what have been the market forhumanconsumption,andmust scientific principle that is being applied done to yourself. Whomade that head-up display? It is the thatifany suchcontingency arises,weare takeaways from genomesequencing be tested forCovid-19... That is how nowissustainable? CentralScientificInstrumentsOrganisation able to cater to anyremote cornerofthe done so far? Forinstance,are some Favipiravir andthe otherscame up... As for ... We arelosing hundredsofpeople KAUNAIN SHERIFF M: In one of your inChandigarh(oneof theconstituentlabo- countrywithin averyshorttime.

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TOPOFTHE As China-Taiwan tension rises, WORLD TurmoilinNepalrulingpartyas PrachandagroupexpelsPMOli US warships sailinto region REUTERS TAIPEI,JANUARY24 Prachanda-ledfaction wasplan- SHIRISHBPRADHAN ning to file ano-confidence mo- AUSaircraftcarrier group ledby KATHMANDU,JANUARY24 tion againsthim and introduce the USS TheodoreRoosevelt has an impeachment motion against enteredthe SouthChina Sea to PRIME MINISTER KPSharma Oli President BidyaDeviBhandari. promote “freedomofthe seas”, Alexandria wasexpelledfromthe primary Oli-ledCPN-UML and the US militarysaid on Sunday, Ocasio-Cortez membership of the Nepal Prachanda-led NCP(Maoist at atime when tensions be- CommunistParty by the splinter Centre) mergedinMay 2018 to tween China and Taiwan have faction ledbyPushpaKamal formtheNepalCommunistParty raisedconcern in Washington. UNITED STATES Dahal ‘Prachanda’ on Sundayfor following victoryoftheiralliance USIndo-Pacific Command Mancharged allegedanti-party activities,fur- in the 2017 general elections. said in astatement the strike ther intensifying the infighting KPSharma Oli and Pushpa Kamal Dahal‘Prachanda’ Afteravertical split in the rul- group entered the South China withthreatening within the ruling party. ing party following the dissolu- Sea on Saturday, the same day The decision wastaken at the tion of the House, both the fac- Taiwan reportedalarge incur- The USS TheodoreRoosevelt. Reuters File to‘assassinate’ Standing Committee meeting of cation, party sources said. Constitution as well as the dem- tions, one ledbyOli and another sion of Chinese bombers and Ocasio-Cortez the faction ledbyformerPrime Oli had been accusedofvio- ocraticrepublic system which ledbyPrachanda,havesubmit- fighter jets into itsair defence Ministers Prachanda and lating party statutebythe splin- has been establishedinthe tedseparate applications at the identification zone in the vicinity the rules-basedorder whichhas

ED Tensionsrise Dallas: A34-year-old MadhavKumarNepal at tergroup. countrythrough sevendecades Election Commission claiming of the Pratas Islands. daysinto allowedusall to prosper,” Texasman has been ar- Parisdanda in Koteshwor after Thereisaprovision of disci- of struggle by the people. that their faction is the genuine The US militarysaid the car- Verissimo said in the statement. Biden rested forallegedly taking Oli failedtogiveexplanation to plinary action in party's MadhavNepal,who last party and asked to provide them rier strikegroup wasinthe South PLAIN E The announcement comes ● partinthe storming of the his recent movesassought by Constitutionincase of public ac- month replacedOli as the chair- the electionsymbol of the party. ChinaSea, alarge partofwhichis EX presidency justdays afterJoe Bidenwas US Capitolthis month and party leadership, said Ganesh tivities against the party's prin- man of the party by Prachanda- However, theElection claimedbyChina,toconduct sworninasUSpresident. posting violent threats, in- Shah, asenior standing commit- ciples, programmes, policies and ledfaction, said that the Commission is yettodecide the routine operations “to ensure CHINAVIEWS democrat- Biden’s nominee forsecretaryof cludingacall to assassi- teemember of the party. legal system, factionalism and Constitution has notgiven rights matter. freedom of the seas, build part- icallyruledTaiwan as its state, Antony Blinken, told his nateDemocratic Rep. Earlier in December,the conspiracy within the party,vio- to the primeminister to dissolve In December,China sent a nerships that foster maritime se- ownterritory, andhas in Senateconfirmation hearing on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez splinter group had removed68- lationofparty decision, lack of Parliament. four-memberhigh-leveldelega- curity”. the pastfew months in- Tuesdaytherewas “no doubt” of New York.GarretMiller, year-old Oli, one of the two loyalty and trustinthe party, Nepal plunged into apoliti- tion to Nepal to preventasplit “Aftersailing through these creasedmilitaryactivity China posedthe mostsignifi- who is from the Dallas chairmen of the ruling party,as breachofconfidentiality,accord- cal crisis on December 20 after within the NCP. The team -led by waters throughout my 30-year near the island. cant challengetothe US of any suburb of Richardson, was the co-chair.MadhavNepal was ing to party sources. Oli, known forhis pro-China aVice ministerofthe Chinese career,it’s great to be in the The US, likemost nation. arrested on Fridayafter namedasthe party's second The latestpolitical develop- leanings, in asurprise move dis- CommunistParty,Guo Yezhou - South China Sea again, conduct- countries, has no formal China has repeatedly com- being namedinafive- chairman. Prachandaisthe first ment came twodays afterthe solvedParliament,amidstatus- held separatemeetings with ingroutine operations, promot- diplomatic ties with plainedabout US Navy ships get- count federal complaint. chairman of the party. NCP’s splinter faction ledamas- sle forpower withPrachanda. severaltop NCPleaders before ing freedom of the seas, and re- Taiwan, but is bound by ting close to Chinese-occupied Authorities sayhecalled The Prachanda-ledfaction on sive anti-government rally, say- His move to dissolve the275- returning home without much assuring allies and partners,” lawtoprovide the island islands in the South China Sea. forviolence in online January15sought clarification ing the “unconstitutional”disso- member Housesparkedprotests success in itsmission. Rear Adm. Doug Verissimo, com- with themeans to de- The Theodore Roosevelt is posts,including atweet from Oli alleging that he wascar- lution of the Parliament by Oli from alarge sectionofthe NCP Indiahas described Oli’s sud- manderofthe strikegroup, was fend itself. Joe Biden was being accompaniedbythe that simplyread rying out activities that go has posedserious threatstothe ledbyPrachanda,also aco-chair den decision to dissolve quoted as saying.” sworn intooffice onlyon Ticonderoga-class guided-mis- “AssassinateAOC,” aref- againstthe party’s policies. The country's hard-earnedfederal of the ruling party. Parliament and call forfresh With two-thirds of the Wednesday.His admin- sile cruiser USS Bunker Hill, and erence to Ocasio-Cortez. faction decidedtoremove Oli democratic republic system. Oli, who is the chairperson of electionsasan“internal matter” world’s trade travelling through istration says itscommit- the Arleigh Burke-class guided- AP even from the ordinarymem- Prachanda lastweek said afaction of the NCP, has said he and said thatitisfor thecountry this very important region, it is ment to Taiwan is “rock- missile destroyers USS Russell bership of the party afterhe that by dissolving the House, Oli wasforcedtodissolve theHouse to decide as per itsdemocratic vital that we maintain our pres- solid”. and USS John Finn, the US state- chosenot to furnish anyclarifi- has dealt ablowtothe afterknowing that the processes. PTI enceand continue to promote ment said. THE NETHERLANDS ‘Asia’sElChapo’ Eleven trapped miners arrestedin Biden administration to Amsterdam unveil more climate policies rescued in China after Amsterdam: Dutch police said on Saturdaytheyhad 14 days underground arrested thealleged climateenvoy,said arecent leader of asprawling REUTERS pledgebyChina,the world’s top Asian drug syndicate who WASHINGTON,JANUARY24 greenhouse gasemitter,was is listedasone of the “notgood enough.” In AUSTINRAMZY world’s most-wanted US PRESIDENT Joe Biden’s ad- September,Chinese President Xi HONGKONG,JANUARY24 fugitivesand has been ministration next week will re- Xingping setagoalfor hiscoun- compared to Mexican lease morepolicies it believesare trytobecome carbon neutral by TWOWEEKSafter an explosion drug lordJoaquin “El neededtotackle climatechange 2060, 10 years afterthe 2050 leftagroup of miners trapped Chapo” Guzman. TseChi Awoman casts her ballotinLisbon. Reuters and is urging China to toughen time frame favoredbymost 2,000 feet belowground in the Lop, aChinese-born one of itstargets on greenhouse countries, while also pledging a Chinese province of Shandong, Canadian national, was gasemissions, his topclimate moreambitious short-term goal at least11werefound alive and detainedonFridayatthe advisers said on Saturday. Joe Biden on emissions. lifted to the surface on Sunday. requestofAustralianpo- Portugal holds polls Gina McCarthy, the White As secretaryofstate under The firstrescuedminerwas lice, who ledaninvestiga- House’s national climateadviser, former President BarackObama brought to thesurface at 11.13 Rescuers carry aminer who tion thatfound his organ- amid apandemicsurge did notsay what policies would Biden, aDemocrat who took in 2015,Kerry helpedbring am Sunday,according to officials wastrappedinaminein isation dominates the $70 be released. Amemoseenby office on January20, quicklyis- China to the table at the U.N. cli- in Yantai, acity near the small China'sQixia City. AP/PTI billion-a-year Asia-Pacific Reuters on Thursdayshowed sued executive orders canceling mateconference in Paris. Now, town where themine is located. drug trade, Dutchpolice Biden will unveil asecond round the Keystone XL pipeline that the Biden administration has be- Rescue personnel applaudedas spokesman Thomas BARRYHATTON SPAINMILITARY of executive orders as soon as Jan. would importtar sands oil from gun to applydiplomatic pressure he wasbrought to the surface, eyecoverings forprotection af- Aling said. REUTERS LISBON,JANUARY24 COMMANDERSKIPS 27 that include an omnibus or- Canada and rejoining the 2015 on countries to work harder on according to videobroadcastby tersuchaprolonged period der to combatclimatechange do- Paris climateagreement. climate, said Kerry. Xinhua,the state-run news without sunlight. Some were NIGERIA PORTUGAL HELD apresidential VACCINELINE, mesticallyand elevate theissue Both of those movesreversed Tackling climatechangedid agency.The miner wasliftedinto carriedout, but others appeared election Sunday, withthe mod- FORCEDTOQUIT as anational security priority. former President Donald notmean adiminishment of an ambulance and immediately to be in better health and able to Pirateskidnap15 erateincumbent candidate “We’vealready sent signals Trump’s policies. During his four lifestyle,suchasdrivinglessornot takentoahospital. He was “ex- walk with assistance. sailorsinattack strongly favoredtoearn asecond Madrid: Spain'stop military on the things that we don’tlike years in office, Trumprolledback beingableto eatmeat,hesaid.The tremelyweak,” the Yantai city The January10blast at the five-year term as adevastating commander has been forced that we’regoing to roll back, but about 100regulations on climate Bidenadministration,mayorsand government said on an official Hushan gold mine near Yantai onTurkishship Covid-19surge grips the to resign afterheand other this week you’regoing to see us and the environment as he pur- other local leaders will have to social media account. trapped22miners. Anotesent Istanbul: Pirates off European Union nation. high-ranking officers vio- move forwardwith what’s the suedapolicyof“energy domi- persuadeAmericansthatcurbing In the afternoon, rescuers up by theminers said that 11 Nigeria’scoastkidnapped The head of stateinPortugal lated establishedprotocols vision of the future,” McCarthy nance” to maximize output and climatechange “can bethe great- continuedbringing miners to were trappedinone section, one 15 sailors from aTurkish has no legislative powers, which and receivedthe Covid-19 told avirtual meeting of the U.S. exports of oil, gasand coal. esteconomic transformation in the surface in groupsoftwo or in another and 10 were unac- containership in the Gulf lie with parliament andthe gov- vaccine ahead of time. Conference of Mayors. John Kerry, Biden’sspecial globalhistory,” Kerrysaid. three. The later groups also wore counted for. NYT of Guinea on Saturdayin ernment, but is an influential Spain's defense ministry abrazenand violent at- voice in running of the country. confirmedtoThe Associated tack that wasfarther from Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, 72, Press on Saturdaythat Russia: US comments on protests support law-breaking Ageing dams in shorethan usual. One is regarded as theclear front- MinisterMargaritaRobles sailor waskilledinthe runner amongseven candidates. had acceptedthe resigna- India, US, other raid, an Azerbaijani citi- He is an affable lawprofessor tion of Chief of StaffGen. icismSunday, aday afterprotests Departmentstatement calling other cities. Peskov,however, zen, while those kid- and former television personal- Miguel Angel Villarroya. AP ASSOCIATEDPRESS took place across the countryde- forNavalny's release. dismissedthe turnout as in- nations pose nappedare from Turkey, ity who as president has consis- MOSCOW,JANUARY24 mandingthe release of jailedop- Peskov saidthe statements significant. “Nowmanywill say according to the respec- tentlyhad an approval rating of position leader AlexeiNavalny, “indirectlyconstituteabsolute that manypeople came out for growing threat: tive governmentsand a 60 per cent or more. tionsand deaths, according to a THE SPOKESMANfor Russian Putin's mostwell-known critic. interference in our internal af- theillegal actions.No, fewpeo- crew listobtainedby To win,acandidate mustcap- tallybyJohns Hopkins President Vladimir Putinsaid the During the protests,embassy fairs” and are “directsupportfor plecameout;manypeople vote UN report Reuters.Turkish President turemorethan 50 per centofthe University,and the public health US Embassy's statementsabout spokeswoman Rebecca Ross the violation of the lawofthe forPutin,” he said. TayyipErdogan’s office vote. But aseveresurge in coron- system is under hugestrain. the nationwide protests,in said on Twitter that “the US sup- Russian Federation, supportfor Navalnywas arrested on YOSHITASINGH said on Sunday he wasor- avirus infectionscould keep the Prime MinisterAntonio whichmorethan 3,500people ports the right of all people to unauthorisedactions.” January17when he returnedto NEWYORK,JANUARY24 chestrating officials in the turnout lowand perhaps lead to Costa,inatweet, urgedpeople reportedlywerearrested, inter- peaceful protest, freedom of ex- The protests attracted thou- Russia from Germany, where “rescue of kidnapped aFebruary14runoffbetweenthe to turn out forthe ballot, saying fere in thecountry's domestic af- pression. Steps being takenby sands of people in Russia's ma- had been recovering from severe OVER Athousand large dams in ship personnel”. twotop candidates. that “unprecedented planning” fairs and encourageRussians to Russian authorities aresup- jor cities, including an estimated nerve-agent poisoning that he India will beroughly50years old REUTERS Portugal has the world's had gone intoensuring that the break the law. pressing those rights.” The em- 15,000 in Moscow, anddemon- blames on the Kremlin and that in2025andsuchagingstructures highestrates of newdailyinfec- votecan take place safely. AP DmitryPeskovmadethe crit- bassy also tweetedaState strationsoccurredinscores of Russian authorities deny. across the worldpose agrowing threat, according to aUNreport whichnotes that by 2050, most people on Earth will live down- ArabSpring exiles look back 10 yearsafter Egypt uprising stream of tens of thousands of dams built in the 20th century. The report, titled‘Ageing wa- nalists and other intellectuals “Ibegan to feel, by degree, years forwhichfigures areavail- false news.Others remain in in- terinfrastructure: An emerging SYLVIAHUI has, along with aclimateoffear, morefear and threats,” able. But it’s impossible to tell definitepretrial detentions. global risk’and compiledby LONDON,JANUARY24 hobbledany politicalopposition. Aboelgheit said. Friendswere economic migrantsfrompoliti- El-Sissi maintains Egyptis United Nations University's Dr MohamedAboelgheit jailed, his writings critical of the cal exiles. holding back Islamic extremism Canadian-basedInstitutefor THE EGYPTIANS who took to the wasamong those jailedinAssiut government drew attention,and TheyrelocatedtoBerlin, Paris so it doesn’t descend intochaos Water, Environment and Health, streetsonJanuary25, 2011,knew in 2011 afterjoining calls forre- “Iwasn’tgoingtowait untilit and London. Egyptians also have like itsneighbors. says mostofthe 58,700large what theyweredoing. They volt againstpolice brutality and happenedtome,” he added. settledinTurkey, Qatar, Sudan “Sissi wantsnot onlytoabro- dams worldwide were con- knewtheyrisked arrest and Mubarak.Releasedamid the Afterel-Sissi came to power, and even Asian countries like gate therightsofthe opposition structedbetween 1930 and 1970 worse. But as their numbers chaos, he reveledinthe atmos- Aboelgheitleftfor London, Malaysia and South Korea. and to preventany critical voice with adesign lifeof50-100years. swelledinCairo’s central Tahrir phereofpolitical freedom in the wherehe’s publishedinvestiga- Human RightsWatchesti- from being uttered,Sissi doesn’t It said at 50 years, alarge con- Square, theytastedsuccess. Arab world’s mostpopulous tive reportsonotherparts of the mated in 2019 that therewere actuallybelieve, notonlyinthe crete dam “would mostproba- Police forces backedoff,and country—protesting,working Arab world. 60,000 political prisoners in opposition, but he doesn’t be- blybegintoexpress signs of age- within days,formerPresident as ajournalistand joining acam- At his former home in Egypt, Egypt.The Committee to Protect lieve in politics,” said Khaled ing.” Ageing signs include Hosni Mubarak agreedtode- paignfor amoderatepresiden- national security agentsasked Journalists ranksEgyptthird, be- Fahmy, an Egyptian professorof increasing cases of dam failures, mands to step down. tial candidate. But it did notlast. about him. When Aboelgheit’s hind China and Turkey,indetain- modern Middle Eastern History progressively increasing costs of But eventsdidn’t turn out the Interim militaryrulers fol- Egyptians celebratethe fall of Hosni Mubarak’s regime at wife lastreturnedtovisit rela- ing journalists. at CambridgeUniversity. dam repair and maintenance, in- waymanyofthe protesters en- lowedMubarak.In2012, Cairo’s Tahrir SquareinFebruary2011. AP File tives, she wassummonedfor El-Sissimaintains Egypthas Agovernment pressofficer creasing reservoir sedimenta- visioned. Adecade later,thou- MohamedMorsi, amember of questioning about his activities. no political prisoners. The arrest did notrespond to arequestfor tion, and lossofadam's func- sands areestimated to have fled Egypt’smostpowerful Islamist The messagewas clear. of ajournalist or arightsworker comment on targeting and in- tionalityand effectiveness, abroad to escape the govern- group, the Muslim Brotherhood, military —led by then-Defense group.” Acrackdown on dissent Datafromthe WorldBank makes news roughlyevery timidating Egyptians —either The analysis includesdam ment of President Abdel Fattah waselected as thefirstcivilian Ministerel-Sissi —removed ensued, and el-Sissi wontwo showsanincrease in emigres month. Manypeople have been abroad or at home —based on decommissioning or ageing case el-Sissithatisconsidered even president in the country’s his- Morsiin2013, dissolvedparlia- terms in elections that human from Egyptsince 2011.Atotal of imprisonedonterrorism their work as journalists,ac- studies from the US, France, moreoppressive.The significant tory.But his tenureproveddivi- ment and eventuallybannedthe rightsgroups criticizedasunde- 3,444,832 leftin2017—nearly charges, forbreaking aban on tivists or academics, or forex- Canada, India, Japan, and Zambia lossofacademics, artists,jour- sive.Amid massive protests, the Brotherhood as a “terrorist mocratic. 60,000 morethan in 2013,the protestsorfor disseminating pressing political opinions. AP and Zimbabwe. PTI

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At Ultratech, volumes were up 14 Auto,for instance reporteda27 arecovery.AtShoppers’Stop,foot- THESENSEXhasseenasharprally investmentby wayofnow taking ENSECONOMICBUREAU per centy-o-yonthe backofde- STEEPFALLIN per cent y-o-y increase ebitda as fallswere down50percenty-o-y to 50,000andwhilesomearerais- careofdividend andcapital gains NEWDELHI,JANUARY24 mandfromruralandurbanhous- REVENUESFORRIL it optimizedfixed cost and spent resultinginafallinrevenuesof32 ingconcernsovervaluation,there tax. Andthirdisprivatisationand ing and government-ledinfra- less on employeecosts.Thanks per cent y-o-y althoughmanyof areothers whofeel that markets disinvestment. The government FESTIVE FERVOUR, asharp risein structure. BajajAutocashedinon partlytobettercostcontrols the restrictions had been eased. arediscounting futureearnings shouldembarkona4-5yearplan ■ Theheadline commodity prices, abase effect an 8per centy-o-yimprovement Avenue Supermarts wasableto TheITpackputonaspectacu- thereisstrongliquidity flow. forprivatisation to raiseRs10-15 numbers,for asample and stupendous performances innetaverage sellingprices.Again, expand EBITDA marginsby2bps lar showposting strong revenues RASHESHSHAH, chairman, lakh croreand shouldspend it. of 184companies from IT majors have combinedto volumes at Asian Paintsjumped y-o-y.Withexpenditurecontract- andmarginsonthebackofrobust Edelweiss Group told SANDEEP Ifeel that by the end of 2021, (excluding banksand makefor agoodQ3FY21report an astonishing33per cent y-o-y, ingmorethan thefallinrevenues spendingby clients,arampingup SINGHthatIndiaiswitnessingre- investment will start. financials) though, are card.Earningsseasonthusfarhas pushinguprevenuesby nearly 27 operating profit margins forthe of large dealsand what analysts versalof long,mediumandshort- skewed by thesteep been full of surprises with most per cent on-year on the backof sameexpanded500bpsy-o-y.To arecalling a‘budget flush’. termdowncyclesandequitymar- What arethe challenges to this 22% year-on-year fall in companies beatingStreetesti- bothpent-upandfestivedemand. besureabigjumpinotherincome Managementssound confi- kets arewitnessingthe same. opportunity? therevenues of mates. UnlikeinQ1and Q2, this Again,severallargerorganised also boostedprofits. dent theycan keep up the good Stating that India is at the same The big challenge is to have a Reliance Industries timearoundalmost allcompanies sector companies were able to Retailers were among the work giventhe big deal wins stagewhereitwasin2004,hesaid broad-basedandinclusive recov- have growntheir revenues take away business from smaller worsthit post the pandemic but, they’ve seen.Infosyshas raised the government needs to spend Rashesh Shah ery, otherwise it willnot sustain. smartly, someby pushingthrough playerswhosesupplychainswere withstoreoperationsnearingnor- FY20-21revenueguidanceto 4.5- over the next 12-18months and Therehasto beliquidityandcredit biggervolumes but manybytak- disrupted.Eventhoughtheycame banksand financials) though, are malcy,AvenueSupermarts 5per centfrom2-3 percent ear- ensurethatthegrowthisinclusive availabilityforcompaniesthatare ing price increases to pass on the offalowbase,revenuesatHavell’s skewed by the steep 22 per cent bouncedbacktopostagood in- lier;CEOSalilParikhsaidthecom- andbroad-based.Editedexcerpts: Ifind India at the samepoint. We beyondAAArated.Whiletopguys higher cost of inputs. rose aremarkable 39 per cent y-o-y fall in the revenues of crease in revenues of 10 percent panywasgainingmarketsharein had tough years between 1996 have accesstoany amountof Thankstorisingsteel prices y-o-yasthecompanygainedmar- Reliance Industries (RIL) . y-o-y with demand forgeneral agrowing pie. In aquarterin What factors justifythis big and2004,therewerescamsinthe fund,if yougodown,theliquidity globallyand apick-up in local de- ketsharefromsmaller players. Evenasrevenuesrose,compa- merchandisepickingup. whichittook wage hikes, TCSre- surge in markets? market,Asianfinancialcrisis,eco- isnotthereforthem.So,onemain mand,JSWSteelreporteda21per Theheadlinenumbers,forasam- nies continuedtocut costs and Discretionaryspends, however, portedstrong EBIT margins of Strangely, India’sturnaround nomic sanctions because of the piece will be credit growth. If it is centyear-on-yearriseinrevenues. ple of 184companies (excluding thataidedmarginexpansion.Bajaj don’tseemtohaveseenassharp 26.6 per cent. FE hasbeenverysharp.Eventhough Pokhran blast, the tech bubble between5-8 per cent there will the government did notspend burstand then therewas 9/11 at- beinequality,butwhenitis13-14 muchmoney, ithasbouncedback tack in the US and governed per cent then it is available to SECTOR WATCH verywell.Therisehasbeenallacr- changeinIndiain2004.So,we did largerpartofthe economy. ‘December quartersees Distribution of initial osswithsectorssuchasauto,steel, notsee anycapexinthoseeight The government needs to ELECTRONICS public offers (IPOs) cement,real estate amongothers years, PSU bank NPAs rose up to bring the confidence back. It has during Q4 2020 bounding back. Idid notexpect 18 per cent between 2001 and doneGSTandgoneaftertaxevad- 19 IPOsworth $1.84billion’ ■ Main markets: 10 this to happen so soon andthou- 2003 and the SARFAESI lawwas ers and now, fornext3-4 years ghtthat we were still ayear away. then brought in to handle this. therehas to be lotoftrustbuild- ■ SME (Small and Reflecting strong momentum, India witnessed 19 IPOs Therewas also NBFC crisis in ingandconfidenceboostingbeca- IT Min invites bids worth$1.84 billion in thefourthquarterof2020 and market Medium Enterprises) segment: 9 But what has changed that periodand real estate prices use Indiawill be on growth path. sentiment remains positive, according to an EY report significantly? halvedbetween 1998 and 2003. Youcan’t keep cleaning all day. Therewerethree downcycles The RBI cut repo ratesfrom8per Thirdpieceisspending.Ithink for impact study $869 million: Issue size of —long-term,mediumandshort- cent to 4per centbetween 2002 fornext12-18months,governm- largest IPO in the country term—playingoutinIndiaandall and2004, because the economy ent needs to spendand it has got during December quarter, i.e. threedowntrendsarereversingat had sloweddownconsiderably. the liberty to spend due to Covid. on multi-function by Gland Pharma the same time. The long term Even nowweare seeingsimi- downtrendstartedin2012-13and larthings.Now thereisIBCequiv- What is moreimportant: $4.09 billion: Amount raised wasonaccount of the scams, alentto SARFAESI,we hadNPA cri- monetary stimulus or fiscal? display business by 43 IPOs in 2020, which NPAs, overcapacity,taper-tant- sis, we sawreal estate crash, repo While both should continue ranks India ninth globally in rum; the medium-term down rate cutsbyRBIandnocapexover forthe next 12-18months, Ithink Italsoaimsto give someincen- terms of the number of IPOs trend wasled by IL&FS crisisand the last8-10years. So in asense, fiscal stimulus brings moreequi- AASHISHARYAN tivestocompaniesthat man- last year impacted banks, NBFCs and cor- 2021islike2004. While things table growth and so it is impor- NEWDELHI,JANUARY24 ufacturesmall electronics porates;and then therehas been changedsignificantlyforthenext tant. When RBI loosens the mon- equipment liketransistors, GLOBAL TREND: thisshort-termdowntrendonac- five years in 2004,Ithink that it etarypolicy,italways benefitsthe THE MINISTRYofElectronics diodes,thyristors,resistors,ca- Increase in global count of Covid-19. willseeasimilarchangenow and upper tier as the moneygoes to and Information Technology pacitors and nano-electronic 19%IPO volumes in Ithinkall three have played with the changeinUS, the global bank and from thereitmostly hasfloatedanexpressionof in- components suchasmicro 2020 over previous year, out and Iamveryconvincedthat trade will also pickupagain. goes to AAA ratedentities. So,RBI terest (EoI)seeking bids from electromechanical systems. i.e. at 1,363 while we did notsee capexover loosening onlyfavours the haves’ agenciesforconductinganim- LastDecember,the MeitY thelast8-10years,itwillstartnow So is this abig inflection point? and notthe have nots’. However, pact study on the business of had decidedtocomeupwith ASIA-PACIFIC PICTURE: Year-on-year rise in and people have startedthe in- Yes.Itisalsobecauseofthesize government spending actually refurbished, repaired, second apolicy aimedatpromoting Increase in volumes Year-on-year rise 29%proceeds from vestment cycle. So, all three of India’s economynow.India’s helps middle and lowerclass. So, hand or unregisteredmulti- 3D printingonanindustrial 20%last year over 45%in proceeds in global IPOs in 2020, i.e. $268 downtrendsare reversing at the progressandgrowthislike gravity, to addressinequality,fiscalstimu- function displays (MFDs). scaleand helping domestic 2019,i.e. at 822 2020, i.e. $136.2 billion billion sametimeandthatiswhatwe are youcanonly experienceitbutwill lus is moreimportant. MFDs aresmall cathode companies“overcometechni- seeing in the equity marketstoo. neverbeabletoexplain it. Iwould saythat the govern- ray tubeorliquidcrystal dis- cal and economicbarriers” so ment shouldkeepfiscal deficit playscreens usedinprinters, thattheycanbuildsupportive Why is it important: According to EY’s India IPO Trends Report: Q4 2020, Source: EY/PTI So is the market rallyjustified What do youthink the FM can concernsaway fortheshort-term. photocopiers,cameras,aircraft and ancillaryfacilities for IPO activityproved resilient to theimpact of the Covid-19pandemic last at some level? do to utilisethe opportunity in At thesame time,theymusten- or other information display worldleadersinthe technol- year, supported by low interest rates and expansionary monetary policies Market’s work is to discount the forthcoming Budget? sure that theyare able to pull it systemsandhave softbuttons ogy,suchasthe US and China. futureearnings. It discountsthe Forone year,release the fiscal backafter1-2years.In2009,they whichcan respond to user 3D printingoradditive long-term outlook whichkeeps constraint and spend moneyas were notable to pull it backand it queries. manufacturing uses com- on changing. Ialso see abig simi- that will be the real fuel to the continued till 2012,resulting in “The selected agency will puter-aideddesigning to laritybetween2004andnow and economy. Secondisto incentivise hugespikeininflation. have to furnishallthesedetails makeprototypesorworking Irdai panel recommends within 120daysofthe ap- modelsofobjectsbylaying proval of their bid. The raw downsuccessivelayersof ma- dataand the findings of the terials suchasplastic, resin, separate payments for cost of survey will be scrutinisedby thermoplastic, metal, fiberor the ministrybeforethe final ceramic. With the help of a reportisplaced in public do- software, the model to be main,” aseniorofficial said. printed is firstdevelopedbya vehicle, insurancepremium The impact study,tobe computer,which then gives conducted by the IT Ministry instructions to the3Dprinter. automotive dealerandmakesthe across 18 major statecapitals Apartfrom3Dprinting, ENSECONOMICBUREAU In June 2019,the paymentthroughasinglecheque. and 18 tier-2 andtier-3 cities, the ministryhas also floated NEWDELHI,JANUARY24 As the MISP makes payment aims to checkseveral factors anEoIto invitecompaniesthat Insurance Regulatory to theinsurance companyfrom suchastheir viability in India, can assistinrecycling and re- THOSE BUYINGanew vehicle and Development his ownaccount, “thecustomer the presence of refurbished furbishing of end-of-life mayhavetopay costofvehicle Authority of India had doesnotknowtheinsurancepre- displays in tier-2 and tier-3 lithium-ion batteriesaswell andinsurancepremiumviasepa- mium being paidasitissub- towns, theglobal innovation as printed circuit boards rate cheques,if therecommenda- setupapanel to review sumedinthe costofthe vehicle”, ecosystem, and the e-waste (PCBs).Theaimof thelithium- tions of acommittee to review the MotorInsurance the committee said. beinggenerateddueto import ionbatteryrecyclingprojectis MISP guidelines areacceptedby Service Provider It suggestedthat this lackof of MFDs.Apartfromthese,the to contain the importofraw the insurance regulator Irdai. transparencyisnotintheinterest ministryisalsolookingtoesti- materials usedfor their man- TheInsuranceRegulatoryand guidelines of the policyholders’ as the true mate theexportandimportof ufacturing of suchbatteries Development Authority of India costofinsurance isnot known to MFDs from tier-2 andtier-3 and PCBs, as well as contain (Irdai) had issuedthe Motor the customer. towns and the employment thee-waste generatedby elec- InsuranceServiceProvider(MISP) The committee has submitted its “The customer maynot be suchbusinesses generate. tronics gadgetsusing these guidelines in 2017,intending to reportwith various recommen- awareofthecoverage optionsand The impact assessmentis components. At present, the streamlinethe processand bring dationsfororderly conductof mo- discountsavailableintheprocess. apartofthe ministry’s um- Centredoesnothaveany facil- thepracticesof vehicleinsurance, torinsurance business through Thecustomeralsocannotnegoti- brella plan to develop asup- ityforprocessing,recycling,or beingsoldby automotive dealers, MISP channel. atewith the MISP to getthe best portinginnovationandmanu- refurbishing of end-of-life under the provisions of the Among the issues examined coverage at theoptimal price.” facturingecosystem around lithium-ion batteries or Insurance Act, 1938. by thepanelaretheexistingprac- Thepanelalsorecommended FOR SAMARITANS OF ROAD SAFETY mobile manufacturingunits. printed circuit boards. MISP refers to an automobile tice of collectingpremium pay- that the customer should make The Production-Linked India produced2.6 kg e- dealerappointedby theinsureror mentfromthecustomerwhileso- paymenttothe insurerdirectly From left; Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Road Transport&Highways and MSME Incentive scheme,notifiedon wastepercapitain2019,while theinsuranceintermediarytodis- licitingthemotorinsurancepolicy. whichisfacilitated by the MISP. MinisterNitin Gadkari present the National Road SafetyAward 2020 in the NGOCategoryto April 1lastyear,aimstogive it has around 312authorised tributeand/or service motorin- Thepanelsaidunderthepres- “MISP shall notcollect the insur- Simran Virk of Western India Automobile Association,duringthe inauguration of the incentivesof4-6 per cent to e-waste recyclers,asper data surance policies of vehicles sold entsystem,thereisalackoftrans- ancepremiumamountinitsown National Road SafetyMonth at Vigyan Bhawan, NewDelhi, on January18. Alsopresent at the electronics companies which fromGlobalE-WasteMonitor, through it. parency in the costofinsurance accountand then transfer the programme were MinisterofState forRoadTransport&Highways GeneralVKSingh and manufacturemobile phones. releasedinJuly2020. InJune2019,Irdaihadsetupa premium when acustomer buys same to the insurance company,” NITI AayogCEO Amitabh Kant. panel to reviewthe MISP norms. avehicleforthefirsttimefroman it said in itsreport. BRIEFLY UK Prime Minister presses How decriminalisation of offencesunder `660crorefor MadhyaPradesh Biden for new trade deal LLP Act could helpunclog judicialsystem NewDelhi: The Finance recommendedfor fornon-compliance, provisions of the LLP Act. Ministrysaid Sundayithas States would rejoin the Paris cli- pandemic under control and KARUNJITSINGH decriminalisiation? insteadof fineswhich allocated an additional Rs AAMERMADHANI mateaccordand the World pressing Congress to pass the NEWDELHI,JANUARY24 Severaloffences areimposed aftera Who benefitsfromthe 660crore to Madhya Prad- WASHINGTON,JANUARY24 Health Organization, according president’s $1.9 trillion coron- related to timelyfil- partner or the LLP is permissionfor LLPs to esh forcapital expenditure. to astatement from Downing avirus relief plan. THE COMPANY LawCommittee ings,includingannual found guilty of mis- issue NCDs? BRITISH PRIME MinisterBoris Street. JanetYellen, Biden’s Treasury (CLC), headedbythe Corporate reports andfilings on conduct by acourt. The CLChas alsorecom- Johnson made clear to United The UK regainedcontrol over secretarynominee, also sig- Affairs SecretaryRajesh Verma, changes in partner- The reportnotes mendedthat LLPs whichare cur- Reliancespins States President JoeBiden on itsnational trade policy at the nalledduring her confirmation has recommendedthat 12 of- shipstatus of the LLP, that thereisarisk of a rentlynot allowedtoissue debt offO2Cbiz Saturdaythat he’s eager to forge startofthe month following the hearing earlier this week that fencesunder the LLP Actbede- notrelatedto fraudhavebeenrec- convicted person being disqual- securities be permitted to issue anew US-UK trade deal. endofapost-Brexit transition Biden wasn’t eager to negotiate criminalisedand that LLPs be al- ommendedfordecriminalisation. ifiedorbecoming ineligible for non-convertible debentures Mumbai:MukeshAmbani’s The push foranewdeal came period. newtrade deals. “President lowedtoissueNCDsto raisefunds While none of these provi- various posts in thecaseoffines (NCDs) to facilitate raising of cap- RelianceIndustrieshascom- in abroad-ranging call between WhiteHouse press secretary Bidenhas been clear that he will withtheaimof improvingeaseof sionsrecommendedfor decrimi- imposedby courts, whichwould ital and financingoperations. The pletedspin-offofthe firm’s the twoleaders that touchedon Jen Psaki had said on Fridaythat notsign anynew free trade doing business forlimited liabil- nalisation in theCLC reportcur- notbethe case forpenalties im- move is likelytobenefitstartups oil-to-chemical (O2C) busi- the global response to the coro- the administration had no time- agreementsbeforethe US makes ity partnership (LLP) firms. rentlyhaveprison terms as a posedby an appropriateauthor- and small firmsinsectors which ness intoanewunit, the navirus pandemic as well as the line forforging anew trade deal major investmentsinAmerican possible punishment, the panel ity.The Registrar of Companies requireheavycapitalinvestment. companysaid. PTI Biden administration announc- as Biden’sattentionislargely fo- workers and our infrastructure,” Whichoffences underthe LLP has recommended that compa- would have theauthority to levy Fullreporton ing this week that the United cusedongetting the coronavirus Yellen said. 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One case of COVID-19among those in quarantine ahead of the 14 Australian Open has been reclassified,local health officialssaid on SPORT Sunday,leaving nine active cases in the group of playersand support staffisolating in Melbournehotels. AP

BRIEFLY OVER54%OFTEAM’SRUNS Maddisonstarsfor Warningsignsinneighbourhood DURINGTHE course of this series, Leicester,Abraham Joe Root went pastthe aggregate Test run tallies of GeoffreyBoycott, hattrickforChelsea Kevin Pietersen and David Gower. Ahead of seriesversusIndia, Englandskipper Joe Root scores2nd centuryinasmanyTests in Sri Lanka He is nowfourth in the listof London: TammyAbraham scoreda England’s mostprolific batsmen hattrickasChelsea beat second-tier with 8,238 runs. OnlyAlastair side Luton 3-1 to reachthe fifthround REUTERS Cook (12,472), Graham Gooch of the FA Cup on Sunday. The striker GALLE, JANUARY 24 (8,900) and Alec Stewart(8,463) took histally on the season to 11 by areabove Root. netting twice in sevenfirst-half min- JOE ROOT became the firstEngland bats- utes.Jordan Clarkprofitedfromthe man to scoreover150 in consecutive Tests ROOT SCORED 54.15 per centof struggling Kepa Arrizabalaga's latest in 16 years as he tormented Sri Lankaand England’s first-innings runs in the goalkeeping errortoreducethe deficit ledhis side to 339for nine in theirfirstin- firstTest(228 out of 421). So farin to 2-1 on thehalf-hourbefore nings at the close of playonday three of the firstinnings of the second Test, Abraham struck againinthe 74th the second and final Test in Galle. he has scored 54.86 percent of the minute. LeicesterCity'sJames However, the tired and cramping runs (186 out of 339/9). Maddison setupone goal and goton England captain wasdismissedinthe final ROOT,PLAYING his99th Test,has the scoresheet in asecond-half come- over of the dayfor 186, run out afterclip- 19 hundreds–levelwithLen backastheybeat second-tier ping the ball to shortleg Oshada Fernando. Hutton. Thereare nine Brentford3-1 away in theFACup Root's weariness sawhim struggle to get Englishmen ahead of him. fourth round on Sunday.The Foxeswill backintohis crease having pushedforward hostfellow PremierLeague side afterplaying the stroke. ROOT’S DOUBLE centuryinthe Brighton &HoveAlbion in the next England still trail by 42 runs and will firstTestagainstSri Lanka washis round.Championship side Brentford seek to wipe out the deficit with JackLeach firstton since another double took the lead in the seventh minute and James Anderson at the crease on the hundred –226 –againstNew from aset piecewhenthe ball took fourth morning,although Sri Lanka spin- Zealand in Hamilton in Nov. 2019. twodeflections before Danish centre ner Lasith Embuldeniyahas been excellent THERE HAVE been justtwo other backMadsBechSorensenstabbed with career best figures of 7-132. Root fol- 50-plus scores by England home his firstgoal in Englishfootball loweduphis 228 in the firsttesttomatch batsmen in the series so far. Root from close range. AP the feat of Marcus Trescothick, who scored has scored 415runs in the series so 194and 151 in consecutive testsagainst far, 305 morethan the second- Bangladesh in 2005. His innings wasagain highestinEngland ranks–Jonny FourPalmasplayers, built around the impressive useofthe Bairstow(110). Prezkilledincrash sweep shot, whichhehas wagedtotake the attacktothe Sri Lanka bowlers. OF HIS three dismissals in the Sao Paulo: The presidentofPalmas "It wasanamazing innings," Root's series so far, twohavebeen run- football club and four of itsplayers team mateJos Buttler told reporters. "To Joe Root plays theswitch hit en routeto186 at Galle. In the firstTestatthe same venue he scored228. Sri Lanka Cricket outswhile the thirdwas caught – were killed on Sundaywhen asmall backuphis double hundred in thefirstTest in the deep going forquick runs in plane taking them to aBraziliancup wasachallengebothphysicallyand men- firsttestbut made just three as he edged the companyofthe No.11. game crashedontake-off.The fourth tally, and it has been amasterclass in bat- EmbuldeniyatoLahiru Thirimanne at slip. tier club said president Lucas Meira, ting againstspin. "It’s agreat education for At 132for four,England were teetering, Disrespectful to India if best XI not fielded: KP IF HE had scored 14 moreruns in along with players LucasPraxedes, all of us, Notjustthe tactical and technical but Root and Buttler (55) put on afifth- the firstinnings of the second Test, Guilherme Noe, Ranule and Marcus aspects, butalso the concentrationtoap- wicketstand of 97 before the latter trieda NewDelhi: Lambasting JonnyBairstow's The 40-year-oldsaid awin against Root would have become justthe Molinari, all died. The pilot, named plyhimself forsolong. "Thereweresome reverse sweep that went straight intohis omission from the England squad for India is similar to avictoryagainstarch- second Englishman afterWalter onlyasWagner,was also killed.“The amazing shots that showthe confidence bootand bouncedtoshortleg, providing a TestsagainstIndia, former skipper Kevin rivals Australia and urgedthe selectors to Hammond to hit double hundreds plane took offand crashedatthe end and skill level. He even playedalatecut firsttestwicketfor debutant spinner Pietersen said that it will be disrespect- playbothStuartBroad and James in twosuccessive Tests. of the runwayatthe Tocantinense left-handedtoday.Everybody can learn a Ramesh Mendis. Sam Curran(13)was out ful to the hostteam if visiting team does Anderson. Aviation Association,” asmall airfield lotfromwatching Joe playspin." in the final over of the afternoon session, notput on field itsbestXIinthe marquee “Big debateonwhether ENGhave near the city of Palmas, the club said. caught at slip, before Dom Bess (32) put on series.Not onlyBairstowbut all-rounder pickedtheir best team to play India in the 55.62 “We regret to report there arenosur- Embuldeniyaonsong avital 81 with Root forthe seventh wicket. Sam Curranand pacer MarkWood have 1stTest. Winning IN India is as good a vivors.” The plane washeading to The tourists resumedthe dayon98for Bess and Mark Wood (1) were both also also been leftout of the squad. feeling as winning in Aus. It's disrespect- In Asia, Root has scored1,613 Goiania, around 800km(500miles) twohaving losttheir openers cheaplyfor caught at slip by Thirimanne off Bairstowhas been rested forthe first ful to ENGfans &also @BCCItoNOT play runs in 16 Testsatanaverage of away,where Palmasweredue to play the thirdtime in as manyinnings in the se- Embuldeniya, the firsttimeaSri Lanka twoTests as partofthe England and your best team. Bairstowhas to play! 55.62 with 4tons .Heaverages Vila Nova on Mondayinthe last16of ries. JonnyBairstownever looked settled fielderhad takenfivecatches in an innings. Wales CricketBoard's (ECB) playerman- Broad/Anderson have to play!" Pietersen 71.55 in Lanka, 53.09 in India – the Copa Verde, atournament re- and fell on 28, an inside edge onto his pad BRIEF SCORES: England 339for 9(Root 186, agement policy,whichstresses on giving tweeted. In another tweet, Pietersen said whereEnglandplaynext–and servedfor teams outside the tradi- offthe dangerous Embuldeniyalooping to Buttler 55; Embuldeniya 7-132) trail Sri adequateresttoevery English cricketer the best players wouldn't want to miss 57.40 in the UAEvs. Pakistan. tional powerhouses of southern and Fernando at short leg. Lanka 381(Mathews 110, Dickwella 92, in apackedcalendar year,whichincludes the opportunitytoplayagainstanin- However, in 2Tests in Bangladesh northeastern Brazil. REUTERS Dan Lawrence wasimpressive on his Perera 67,Chandimal 52; Anderson 6-40)by 17 Testsand the ICC T20 WorldCup. form Indian team at home. PTI he averages just24.50. debut in England’s seven-wicket win in the 42 runs. Hazard scoresas Realclosegap Reluctant wrestler Rohit crowned champion in Bajrang’scategory Barcelona: Eden Hazard scored and setupKarim Benzema forhis firstof that he wouldn’t be able to continue “He has good speed, whichishelpful in mat coach, says. twogoals as Real Madrid easedtoa4- MIHIRVASAVDA wrestling,” Rohit, 19,says. wrestling, andoverthe years, hasdeveloped Challenging Bajrangfor aplace in the na- 1victoryatAlavesinthe Spanish NOIDA,JANUARY24 Forafamilyofnine – Rohit is sixth of agoodtechnique, especiallyinlaunchingleg tional squad, though, isn’tonRohit’s mind league, ending awinless run in a sevenbrothers – the income from herding attacks,anessential element in freestyle right now. “He (Bajrang) is aworld medal- match that coachZinedine Zidane ROHIT SINGH confesses he wasn’t destined cattle wasn’t enough to run the household. wrestling,” former India coachKuldeep list; averybig wrestler.And Ihavejustwon missedafter he contracted the coron- to be awrestler.Itwas because of his “So, out of compulsion morethan anything, Singh, who recruited Rohit forthe Navy's anational title,” he says. “I’ll take one step a avirus. Hazardgrazedalongpass to brother’smisfortune, father’s wish and des- Ijoinedawrestling school,” he says. wrestling team, says. time and see wheredestinytakes me.” redirect the balltoBenzema, who peration to earnalivelihoodthat ledhim to “Iwas relievedwhen he took that deci- He became cadetnational champion be- doubledthe lead forMadrid in the an akhara. sion,” says Rohit’s father Dalel Singh. fore baggingthe junior crownand ultimately SAIseeksreportfromWFI 41st afterCasemirohad headedinthe On Sunday, Rohit wascrownednational Dalel did notimpose anydecision on his the senior title. Rohit’s win in 65kgopens up The Sports Authority of India, on Sunday, 15th-minuteopener on Saturday. champion in the 65kgcategory, oneofthe sons but wascertain of one thing – noneof an interesting race forthe future. At present, sought areportfromthe Wrestling Belgiumforward Hazardscored just toughestweight classes in India. Representing them would be cattle herders. “There’s so theweightclass is dominated by India’s top Federation of India over the violation of his thirdgoalofthe season in first-half Haryana, he staged adramaticcomebackin muchcattletheftthese days…too much freestyler Bajrang Punia, amultiple-time Covid-19protocols that took placeonthe first injurytime to build a3-0 lead at the the lastthree minutes of the final against headache,”hesays.So, on the advice of a Worldand Asian medallist. dayofthe National Championships on break.Toni Kroos had recoveredpos- Services SportsControl Board’s Shravan, eras- neighbourhood wrestler,Bholu Pehelwan, Having alreadywon aquota forthe Tokyo Saturday. SAIsaid in astatement: “We have session in midfield and setup ingaseven-point deficit to win 12-8. Rohit he introducedall his sons to wrestling. Olympics, Bajrang wasexemptedfromthe takenupthe matter with the Wrestling Hazard's run behind adisordered de- impressedthe national coachingstaff with In Haryana, the respect even ahalf-de- National Championship this weekend. He is Federation of India and impressedupon fensiveline. Joselu Matopulledone his speedand temperament, but honing cent wrestler commands is the reason many nowinMichigan (USA), preparing forthe them thatthe SOP forcompetitions hastobe backfor Alaves on thehour-mark. these qualities – andwinninganational title arelured to the sportinthe firstplace. Rohit Rohit Singh, the 65kg winner,started Games. On Sunday, college sports activity in adhered to strictly.Wehavealsosoughtare- Benzema made it abrace in the 70th – wasnever his ambition or interest. Instead, had witnessed that firsthand with his his career in dangals with acash award theAmericanstate washalted afteraCovid- portfromthe Federationonthe allegedvio- afterLuka Modric playedhim clear on as an 11-year-old,hewas just happytobein brother,but also realisedthe need formoney of Rs 50. Express 19 outbreak,but Bajrang wasable to continue lation, by Monday. Thefederation has as- the break.The French strikercut back the companyofhis elder brother,anemerg- to sustain acareer in wrestling. histraining. In Bajrang’s absence, the audi- sured complianceofprotocol.” insidethe lastdefender before firing ing wrestler, and cook roti sabzi forhim. So,hebegan to take partindangals across tion to find his successor wasunderwayin The situation on Sundaywas onlymar- in his 10th goal in the league this cam- In his free time, Rohit helpedout his fa- Haryana thathad cash rewards as lowasRs struggledtoearn moneybycompeting in Noida, whereRohit emergedontop. “Inthe ginallybetter. While no one exceptwrestlers paign. Second-placeMadrid reduced ther,acattle herder,bytaking the livestock 50. Foralmostayear,hecrisscrossedacross dangals. Iwasn’t able to beat the main guys lastfew years, Rohit has dominated this wasallowed on the field of play, therewas the gaptoleader Atletico Madridto forgrazing. “But then, one daymybrother Haryana and travelledasfar as Kolhapur in to earn enough cashprize,” he says. “In 2015, weight category acrossall age-groups. By no distancing in the stands, wherehundreds four points. REUTERS sufferedaninjury. Iwas cooking his meal and Maharashtra, wherethe prize moneywas IturnedtoOlympic-style wrestling.” winning the senior championship, he has of spectators, mostofthemwithout masks, whenIsaw his condition, it wasapparent slightlyhigher,toearnalivelihood. “But I Success on the mat came relatively easier. proven hispotential,”Kuldeep,also the Navy sat in close proximity. CONTROVERSIAL PICK Why Court receiving Australia’s highesthonourisanunpopular decision

at Melbourne Park,the venue forthe one thinglonger than the listofMargaret Courtwrote inanarticle:“(It)iswithsadness player, andaracistand ahomophobe.” SHAHIDJUDGE AustralianOpen. Nowthere’s been afresh Court’stennisachievements:it’sherlistofof- that Isee thatthis baby has seeminglybeen MUMBAI,JANUARY24 backlash afterthe news that the country’s fensive and homophobic statements.” deprivedofhis father.” What has she been doingafter retiring highesthonourwill be conferredupon her. Herunpopularstancehashadthelikesof In2017,whentheAustraliangovernment from tennis? FORSOMEONEwhoholdsaworldrecordfor greatslikeMcEnroe,MartinaNavratilova and waspoisedtolegalise same-sexmarriages, Courtwas ordainedasaPentecostal 48years and counting, one would think it’s a What have Australian government BillieJean Kingspeak up againstthe “crazy Courtgaveaninterview to 20Twenty Vision ministerin1991. Four years later,she fairdecisionby theAustraliangovernmentto officials said about the decision? aunt” (as McEnroe dubbed her) of tennis. ChristianRadio.Shetalkedabouthowtennis foundedthe Pentecostalchurch in Perth, awardMargaretCourtthe country’s highest PrimeMinisterScottMorrisonhasrefused At the Australian Open lastyear,when is“fullof lesbians”andhowtransgenderchil- calledVictoryLifeCentre. honour.Indeed,onJanuary26, the 78-year- to talk about the issue. Courtwasfelicitatedonthe50thanniversary dren were theworkof“thedevil.” old formertennis player will beawardedthe “Ican’tcommentonanawardthatisdone of herwinningthe Calendar Grand Slam(all WhenQantasAirlinestookastandto sup- Wheredoher achievementsstand Companion in the General through an independent four majors in asingleyear)in1970, the cer- portsame-sexmarriages, she declared that today? Divisionof theOrderof Australia process that hasn’t been an- emonyatRod LaverArena wasasubdued shewouldnotusetheairlineasmuchaspos- Alongwithherrecord24GrandSlamsin- (AC). But it’s adecision that has nouncedorIhavenoofficial event. At that same tournament, aftera sible. As reportedbyThe West Australian, gles titles, Courtwon 19 women’sdoubles notgone down well with many knowledge of thosethings,”he MargaretCourthas always been vocal Legends exhibition match, McEnroe and Courtdismissed the existence of racism in majorsand 21 mixed doubles crowns. She’s people. reportedlysaid. abouther anti-homosexual views. Navratilova walked in at theMargaretCourt SouthAfrica and expressedher support for among onlythree players – along with Court’s all-time record of 24 “Those announcements Arenaholding abanner saying “Evonne Apartheid. Navratilova andAmericanplayerDoris Hart Grand Slam singlestitleskeeps will be made on the appropri- Goolagong Arena,” asking forthe stadium to “Evonne (Goolagong) and Iwent in – to have achievedaGrand Slam BoxedSet herontopintermsof tennissta- ateday (AustraliaDay). It is a jorityof peopleacrossournationthatseepeo- berenamedaftertheseven-timeGrandSlam thereand playedfor theblackpeople. I (winningallfourGrandSlamsinsingles,dou- tistics,but her views relating to system that recognises ple,particularly fromtheLGBTQIcommunity, winner. have 35 culturesinmychurch and Ilove bles and mixed doubles). But she’s the only the LGBTQI (lesbians, gays,bi- Australians from right across asequalanddeservingof dignity,respectand them all,” she said. In the samereport, playertohavedoneittwice.Currently, Serena sexuals,transgenders, queers and intersex) thefullspectrumof achievementinthiscoun- safety,”hesaid. “Idon’t believe she shares What have been Court’s statements that Navratilova wasquotedsayingabout Williams, on 23 Grand Slam singlestitles, is communityhas rendered her an infamous try. So,Ican’treallyofferacommentonsome- thoseviews andIdon’tbelieve sheshouldbe have causedoutrageoverthe years? Court’s pro-Apartheid stance: “Saying that theonlyplayeranywherecloseto overtaking figureamong alarge groupoffans andfor- thing that is speculative.” honoured because of that.” Courthasbeenquitevocalaboutheranti- South Africa dealt with the ‘situation’ Court’s mark. “Please wintwo more Grand mer players. ButVictoriaStatePremierDanielAndrews homosexual views. (racial segregation) muchbetterthan any- Slams,” McEnroesaid, in amessageto Forafew years, therehavebeen calls to has hitout at the decision. WhyisCourtsounpopular? Backin2013, when2011FrenchOpen whereelse in the world, particularly the Williams, on Eurosport, “so we can leave have her name removedfromthe Margaret “Idonot supportthat.Idonot believe that AsJohnMcEnroeputitina‘Commissioner mixed doubles champion CaseyDellacqua’s US: what exactlydid she mean? “It is clear MargaretCourtandheroffensive views inthe CourtArena – the second-largest stadium shehas views that accordwith the vast ma- of Tennis’segmentforEurosport,“there’sonly partnerAmanda Judd gave birth to ason, exactlywho Courtis: an amazingtennis pastwhereshe belongs.”

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