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NEARBY Hizb chief’s As Taliban advance, India pulls two sons lose govt. jobs

out Kandahar consulate staff Peerzada Ashiq Srinagar Diplomats, ITBP personnel return to Delhi as fighting rages on in Afghanistan Two sons of Hizbul Mujahi 354 kg heroin worth deen chief Syed Salahuddin ₹2,500 crore seized Suhasini Haidar sulate in MazareSharif in — Syed Ahmed Shakeel and NEW DELHI NEW DELHI Balkh province remain Shahid Yusuf — were among In the biggestever drug As the claims by the Taliban operational. 11 J&K government em recovery by the Delhi police, about taking control of Af ployees whose services 354 kg of heroin valued at ₹2,500 crore has been seized ghan territory grow, India Evolving situation were terminated on Satur and four persons have been has decided to temporarily According to the officials, day for “antinational activi arrested. The accused have close its consulate in Kanda the personnel that returned ties”, an official source said. been identified as Hazrat Ali, har, sending an Indian Air to Delhi on Saturday would While one son was work an Afghan national; Rizwan Force flight to evacuate be transported back if the Govt. infra spending ing as a doctor at the SherI Ahmed, a resident of Delhi; about 50 diplomats and per situation improved, while Kashmir Institute of Medi Gurjot and Gurdeep Singh, sonnel of the IndoTibetan some may alternatively tra cal Sciences, the other was both residents of Punjab. Border Police (ITBP) back to vel to Kabul to continue their dropped sharply in Q1 working at the Skill Deve CITY Ī PAGE 2 Delhi, government sources consular operations from lopment Department. DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD confirmed to The Hindu. the Embassy, if required. One policeman, Rasheed Officials said the move In April last year, the go Fresh investments dip by 18% overall Shigan, who was allegedly was purely precautionary, vernment had decided to involved in militant activi and stemmed from reports War zone: Former Mujahideen taking position to support suspend operations at the Vikas Dhoot were announced during the ties, has also been terminat NEW DELHI that if the Taliban continue Afghan forces near Herat province on Saturday. * REUTERS other two consulates in Jala quarter, compared with ed from his service. to push on to the southern labad and Herat and pull out The second wave of CO 2,716 new projects worth The employees were city of Kandahar, which was “Our aim is to ensure that review of Indian missions in all personnel from there as VID19 and a steep decline ₹4,08,237 crore in the pre fired under Article 311(2)(c), their headquarters in the Indian personnel are safe, Afghanistan in the wake of well. in new investment projects vious threemonth period a law passed earlier this 1990s, the fighting with the and we felt the risk of fight the pullout of American from government agencies that had seen both private year in J&K under which no Afghan Defence and Security ing within the city could en troops continues. CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 7 dented fresh investment and public sector invest inquiry is required to be CLASSIFIEDS Ī PAGE 4 Forces (ANDSF) could get danger them,” an official told At present, the Indian Em AFGHANISTAN TO RUSH plans in the economy by ments rebounding strongly constituted against the ac MAGAZINE Ī 8 PAGES fierce. The Hindu, as a full security bassy in Kabul and the con TROOPS TO BORDER Ī PAGE 10 18% in the first quarter of for the first time since the cused. Services of four em 202122, compared with the pandemic hit India. ployees from Anantnag, previous quarter. Overall new investments three from Budgam and Despite the government’s from the Union and State go one each from Baramulla, Meghalaya raises concern over Assam cow protection Bill stated push for capital vernments fell 41.6% from Srinagar, Pulwama and spending to revive the eco nearly ₹1.67 lakh crore in Q4 Kupwara were terminated, nomy, public infrastructure of 202021 to ₹97,376 crore, officials said. We will approach Centre if it affects transit of cattle to the State, says Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma investments almost halved as per Projects Today’s sur The J&K government on compared with the January vey on project investments April 21 constituted a Spe SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Many in the Christianma tion if the Assam Cattle Pre the existing Assam Cattle vernment but also the March quarter, bringing to in India during Q1 of 2021 cial Task Force to identify Guwahati jority States of Meghalaya, servation Bill, 2021, affects Preservation Act, 1950, that Centre if the law affects tran tal outlays on new infras 22. employees, scrutinise their A Bill proposed by the Assam Mizoram and Nagaland con its people and economy. allows the slaughter of cattle sit of cattle to Meghalaya tructure plans down by New public sector irriga conduct and lodge cases government to stop the tran sume beef. While Mizoram The Bill, approved by the above 14 years of age after from other States,” Megha nearly 39% over April to tion and manufacturing pro against those involved in sportation of cattle or use and Nagaland have chosen Assam Cabinet on July 7, will approval from local veterin laya Chief Minister Conrad K. June this year. jects also fell off the cliff by cases related to threat to se the State for transit of the bo not to react, the Meghalaya be placed before the State ary officers. Sangma said. Nearly 2,200 new pro 96% and 77% respectively. curity. The task force was vine animal has raised con government said it would Assembly in the upcoming “We will raise the issue jects entailing fresh invest described as “draconian” cern among its neighbours. seek the Centre’s interven session. It seeks to replace not only with the Assam go CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 7 ments of ₹3,34,572.5 crore CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 7 by several political parties.

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Special Correspondent ed to people, including pu India Institute of Medical LUCKNOW blic servants, if they adopt Sciences; free education up The Uttar Pradesh State Law the norm by undergoing vo to the graduation level; scho Commission has prepared a luntary sterilisation. larship for higher studies in proposed draft Bill for popu The incentives include a case of a girl child and prefe lation control, under which 3% increase in the em rence to a single child in go a twochild norm will be im ployer’s contribution fund vernment jobs. plemented and promoted. under national pension; two After the law comes into additional increments dur Cash incentive force, a person with more ing the entire service; subsi A couple living below the po than two children will be de dy towards purchase of plot verty line that has only one barred from several beneﬁts Yogi Adityanath or house site or building a child and undergoes volun such as governmentspon house; rebate on charges for tary sterilisation shall be elig sored welfare schemes and gazette, the draft says. utilities such as water, elec ible for payment of a one from contesting elections to Chief Minister Yogi Adi tricity and house tax; and time ₹80,000 if the single the local authority or any bo tyanath will on July 11 launch soft loan for construction or child is a boy and ₹1 lakh if it dy of the local selfgovern the Uttar Pradesh Popula purchasing a house at nomi is a girl. ment, the draft says. Ration tion Policy 20212030 on the nal rates of interest. Explaining the reasons for card units will be limited to occasion of World Popula A public servant or com bringing out the draft Bill, four persons. tion Day. mon citizen who adopts a the Commission headed by A person contravening onechild norm will receive Justice Aditya Nath Mittal the law will also become in Sops for sterilisation additional beneﬁts such as said there were limited eco eligible to apply for State go The Commission has upload free healthcare facility and logical and economic re vernment jobs and be barred ed the proposed draft Uttar insurance coverage to the sources at hand in Uttar Pra from promotion in govern Pradesh Population (Con child till age 20; preference desh and it was necessary to ment services and any kind trol, Stabilisation and Wel to the single child in admis control and stabilise the of subsidy. fare) Bill, 2021 and invited sion in all education institu population for the promo The provisions will come suggestions till July 19. tions, including but not li tion of sustainable develop

Festival hues: Preparations in full swing at Jama Masjid ahead of I’d celebrations, in Old Delhi on Saturday. * SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA into force one year after the As per the draft, several mited to the Indian Institutes ment with more equitable CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC date of the publication of the incentives have been provid of Management and the All distribution.

BJP wins big Sikkim blossoms: State home to 27% of India’s ﬂowering plants in blocklevel Botanical Survey of India publication such activities, but it should not come at the cost of our polls in U.P. lists 4,912 naturally occurring species biodiversity,” he said. Omar Rashid Shiv Sahay Singh lead author of the publica Orchids galore LUCKNOW Kolkata tion, said. The publication details 532 The ruling BJP in Uttar Pra Sikkim, the smallest State Dr. Gogoi said the publica species of wild orchids desh on Saturday claimed with less than 1% of India’s tion provides details of 5,068 (which is more than 40% of victory in 635 out of 825 landmass, is home to 27% of taxa (including 152 cultivated all orchid species found in In block pramukh posts in the all ﬂowering plants found in taxa) belonging to 1,491 gene dia), 36 species of rhododen State even as the opposition the country, reveals a recent ra and 209 angiosperm fami dron and 20 species of oak, Samajwadi Party accused publication by the Botanical lies which are naturally oc and more than 30 species of the State government of

Survey of India (BSI). Flora of curring flowering plants, Flower power: Rhododendron aeruginosum and Hypericum reptans in Sikkim. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT highvalue medicinal plants, misusing its administrative Sikkim – A Pictorial Guide, along with geography, ecolo among other species. machinery to “forcefully released earlier this week, gy, vegetation pattern and altitudinal ecosystems, which Ashiho A. Mao, Director of to the notification titled Sik adopted tree”. Mr. Gogoi said that the capture” the posts in the lists 4,912 naturally occurring forest types of Sikkim. provide opportunity for BSI, said. kim Forest Tree (Amity & Re Mr. Bhutia, however, ex founding fathers of botany highintensity elections. flowering plants in the tiny The other authors of the herbs and trees to grow and Dr. Mao emphasised the verence) Rules, 2017 which pressed concern that certain were always interested in the Meanwhile, the voting Himalayan State. publication include Norbu thrive. “From subalpine vege need to have updated check state that “the State govern activities in the State were be flora of Sikkim. Sir Joseph and nomination for the “The total number of natu Sherpa, J.H. Franklin Benja tation to the temperate to the list of flora of every State. ment shall allow any person ing carried out without consi Dalton Hooker, one of the polls were marred by clash rally occurring flowering min, D.K. Agrawala, S.K. Rai tropical, the State has diffe Sikkim’s Minister of Forest to associate with trees stand dering their impact on the pioneers of modern botany, es and firing in some dis plants in the country is about and S.S. Dash. In the 582page rent kinds of vegetation, and and Environment Karma Lo ing on his or her private land biodiversity. “The widening conducted the first survey of tricts, including Etawah 18,004 species, and with publication, the authors have that is the reason for such a day Bhutia, who was present or on any public land by en of roads to Nathu La, which is Sikkim in 1848 and published where a senior officer was 4,912 species, the diversity of included more than 2,000 diversity of flora. The eleva at the launch of the publica tering into a Mith/Mit or Miti of strategic interest to us (bor Rhododendrons of Sikkim. In allegedly slapped while try flowering plants in Sikkim, photographs of about 1,350 tion also varies between 300 tion, said that along with un ni relationship.” The notifica dering China), and the hydel 1898, two British botanists, ing to prevent a crowd of spread over an area of 7,096 plant species from the State. metres and 8,598 metres ique geographical features, tion encouraged people to power plants in north Sikkim, Sir George King and Robert BJP supporters from sq. km, is very unique,” Rajib The State, which is a part above mean sea level, the the people of Sikkim have a adopt a tree “as if it was his or should also take into account Pantling, published their breaching the barricade. Gogoi, Scientist and Regional of the Kanchenjunga biosph apex being the top of Mt. Kan unique bond with nature and her own child in which case the environmental concerns monumental work, The Or- Head, BSI, Gangtok, and the ere landscape, has different chenjunga (8,586 metres),” trees. The Minister referred the tree shall be called an of locals. We are not against chids of Sikkim-Himalayas. DETAILS ON Ī PAGE 8 CM This PDF was originally uploaded to Brills Express Official (https://t.me/The_Hindu_Express) before anyone else. Don't forget to join backup channel @Thehindu000 A ND-NDE YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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Timings DELHI Biggestever haul: 354 kg heroin SUNDAY, JUL. 11 Up to ₹1 lakh fine for violating RISE 05:32 SET 19:22 RISE 06:23 SET 20:39 worth ₹2,500 crore recovered MONDAY, JUL. 12 RISE 05:32 SET 19:22 new noise pollution norms RISE 07:22 SET 21:22 Four persons, including a foreign national, arrested by police TUESDAY, JUL. 13 RISE 05:33 SET 19:22 Delhi Pollution Control Committee asks authorities to implement revised rules Staff Reporter a car, another 115 kg from a RISE 08:22 SET 21:59 Special Correspondent pay ₹40,000. Thereafter, the NEW DELHI different vehicle, and another New Delhi fine will be ₹1 lakh and the In the biggestever drug re 70 kg was found in a secret Residents will now have to premises will also be sealed. covery by the Delhi police, cavity in a bed at their accom pay anywhere between If noise pollution is caused 354 kg of heroin worth modation. ₹10,000 and ₹1 lakh for vio by bursting of crackers ₹2,500 crore has been seized On Rizwan’s instance, Haz lating noise pollution norms beyond a limit at a marriage and four persons, including rat Ali was arrested from Gu as the Delhi Pollution Con procession or public and reli an Afghanistan national, have The seized heroin from the rugram and 2 kg of heroin trol Committee (DPCC) has gious rally, the organisers been arrested. accused. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT along with chemicals used to asked authorities to strictly will have to pay a fine of Special Commissioner of prepare the contraband was implement revised rules. ₹10,000. If it is in a ‘silence Police (Special Cell) Neeraj volved in supplying drugs in recovered. According to the Central zone’, then the fine will be Thakur said the accused have Delhi, Punjab, Madhya Pra Talking about the modus Pollution Control Board’s re doubled. If an individual been identified as Hazrat Ali, desh and Haryana. operandi, Mr. Kushwah said vised penalties, violators will household bursts crackers in a resident of Afghanistan; During interrogation, Riz the opium is grown in Af have to pay a fine of ₹10,000 If an individual household bursts crackers in a residential a residential or commercial Rizwan Ahmed, resident of wan allegedly told the police ghanistan and then packaged for using a loudspeaker or a zone, the fine will be ₹1,000. * FILE PHOTO: SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA zone, then the fine will be Delhi; and Gurjot Singh and that he works for Isha Khan, and transported to Chabahar public address system at a ₹1,000. However, it will be Gurdeep Singh, both resi who recently left India and is port in Iran. public place without permis 62.5 KVA and 1,000 KVA; and ‘silent zones’ that include ₹3,000 in case of violation in dents of Jalandhar, Punjab. now based in Afghanistan. The consignment is then sion or during the night. The ₹10,000 for diesel generator areas that lie within 100 a ‘silence zone’. In case con Rizwan allegedly told in shipped to JNPT Jawahar Lal equipment will also be con sets up to 62.5 KVA. metres of schools, colleges, struction equipment emits Extensive network vestigators he was asked by Nehru Post Trust Mumbai. fiscated. The DPCC has is Permissible noise levels in hospitals and courts. sound beyond the permissi The police said the racket ex Isha to meet Gurpreet and Thereafter, the contraband is IN BRIEF sued directions to all DMs, residential areas is 55 decibel According to the order, in ble limit, a fine of ₹50,000 tended across several States Gurjot, who were operating a separated from legitimate ex SDMs, Delhi Police, and traf during the day time and 45 case of bursting of firecrack will be imposed, the order al as well as Afghanistan and drug racket from Faridabad. ports and sent to makeshift IIT-D felicitates alumnus fic police for strict com decibel during the night. ers beyond the prescribed li so stated. Europe. Around 100 kg of Acting on the information, factories in Madhya Pradesh for climbing Mt. Everest pliance of these rules. In commercial areas, the mit within the premises of DPCC officials said the pe chemicals used for preparing the two were arrested from a for further extraction and NEW DELHI permissible sound limit is 65 any RWA or at a marriage nalties were revised by the the contraband has also been housing society in Faridabad. processing. Locals, with the Indian Institute of Technology, Permissible levels decibel during the day and function, the organiser and CPCB in 2020 in which re seized. Deputy Commissioner of help of Afghan experts, pro Delhi, held a flag ceremony on A fine of ₹1 lakh will be issued 55 decibel during night. the owner of the premises commendations were made Police said information Police (Special Cell) Pramod cess the heroin using chemi Saturday to mark the for operating diesel genera In sensitive areas, it is 50 will have to pay ₹20,000 for that violators be made to was recently received about Singh Kushwah said a huge cals. The heroin is then deli achievement of alumnus tor sets of over 1,000 KVA ca decibel during the day and the first violation. For the se shell out more money for Rizwan’s whereabouts and he recovery of heroin was made vered across the country. Neeraj Choudhary, who scaled pacity without permission, 40 decibel at night. cond violation, the organiser flouting permitted noise pol was arrested from Ghitorni from the duo. Around 166 kg Further investigation is un Mt. Everest on May 31. ₹25,000 for DG sets between Other than this, there are and the owner will have to lution limits. on July 5. He is allegedly in of heroin was recovered from der way, said the police.

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Staff Reporter NEW DELHI Delhi University has asked stu dents who have not received a fee refund after cancellation of last year’s admissions, to apply afresh for the same. Students who have cancelled their admission after February 15 will not be eligible to seek refund, the university said. “Students who have not re ceived the UG [undergraduation] or PG [postgraduation] admission cancellation or excess fee refund are requested to mail their bank account details afresh...along with scanned copy of the cheque or passbook and fee receipt to fi[email protected] for early ac tion,” the varsity said. In the notice issued, DU also di rected students to write their form number and send the mails to the specified email address and not to other DU authorities. “You are also advised to check refund status first in the earlier notification and not send repetitive emails,” it said. Earlier, in a notice dated May 23, the university had said that re fund of the admission fees follow ing cancellation had failed due to wrong account details provided and had urged students who had withdrawn admissions to update relevant details.

Mother Dairy hikes milk price by ₹2 per litre

press trust of india new delhi Leading milk supplier Mother Dai ry has increased milk prices in Del hiNCR by ₹2 per litre with eﬀect from Sunday on rising input cost. The milk prices were last re vised in December 2019. Justifying the hike, Mother Dai ry said procurement cost of milk from dairy farmers has gone up by 810% in the last one year. Other operational costs have also risen. On July 1, Amul hiked milk pric es by ₹2 per litre across all cities.

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The Capital reported 76 Sisodia says probe exonerates govt., BJP claims ‘great wrong has been caught’ said that services on the Vihar Phase I and Mayur Vi fresh infections and one Pink Line will be restricted har Pocket1 stations. Also, Long waiting time death in the last 24 hours, Special Correspondent Mr. Gupta said there were between July 12 and 15 to Mandawali West Vinod Na Meanwhile, the DMRC said according to a health bulle New Delhi only two companies which undertake interlinking gar, East Vinod Nagar May that with social distancing tin issued by the Delhi The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) came forward with regard to work of overhead equip ur Vihar PhaseII, Trilokpu and other safety norms in government. government and the Delhi bus purchase. The Delhi go ment (OHE) on the yet to be ri and Mayur Vihar Pocket1 place, the average waiting There was a reduction of BJP locked horns on Satur vernment also decided that operational corridor bet stations will remain closed time at the busy Rajiv six active cases with 81 re day over a report by a com the companies can bid for ween Mayur Vihar Pocket 1 in the above said period.” Chowk metro station went coveries and 81,451 tests mittee constituted by Lieute bus maintenance as well. and Trilokpuri Sanjay Lake Officials added that the up to over 50 minutes for having been conducted nantGovernor Anil Baijal to “It is now evident the metro stations. first and last train timings over threeandahalf hours bringing the total tally of investigate alleged irregulari same two companies supply In a statement issued, the from the modified terminal on Saturday. COVID19 cases in Delhi to ties in the procurement of ing buses will also get the 14,35,030 with 14,09,226 re 1,000 lowfloor buses by the maintenance job which coveries and 25,012 deaths Delhi Transport Corporation would be worth ₹3,500 since the pandemic began. (DTC). The BJP has alleged irregularities in maintenance tender crore. In this way, the go One held after police bust factory There were currently 792 Deputy Chief Minister worth ₹3,500 crore. * FILE PHOTO vernment in the name of active cases in the city even Manish Sisodia said the BJP buses purchase and their as the total number of vac had lost face yet again after that a scam had taken place. are spreading hatred and maintenance has committed manufacturing duplicate bike tyres cine doses been adminis levelling allegations of cor “The investigation com lies. They are stopping the fraud worth ₹5000 crore. tered reached 88,10,952 ruption to the tune of ₹5,000 mittee of the BJPled Central good work in public interest. The ACB must be allowed to The accused used to sell them under fake brand name with 1,31,143 doses having crore against the Delhi go government has not been BJP leaders should be ash probe the case,” he said. been administered on July vernment “continuously for able to find any flaws or ir amed and they should come Leader of Opposition in Staff Reporter Neeraj Kumar approached ing of twowheeler and four 9, as per the Delhi govern the last three months”. regularities in the purchase in front of the public to apol the Delhi Assembly Ramvir NEW DELHI the police and complained wheeler tubes and his broth ment’s vaccination bulletin. Former Leader of Opposi of buses. The report of the ogise,” he added. Singh Bidhuri said the oppo Delhi Police on Saturday that a factory in Siraspur was er Sultan had a shop in tyre tion in the Delhi Assembly inquiry committee has made sition had “caught the go said that a factory manufac manufacturing duplicate market in the Capital. After Vaccine stock low and BJP Rohini MLA Vijen it clear that the government BJP demands resignation vernment in the middle of turing duplicate tyres of a twowheeler tubes of a demolition of the market, According to the govern der Gupta, who filed the led by Arvind Kejriwal in Del The BJP, however, demand doing a great wrong”. “As brand has been busted in brand. A team raided the Akram started his own ma ment, 95,341 doses admi complaint that led to the for hi is honest and the Delhi ed a probe by the AntiCor DTC has its own depots, Outer North Delhi’s Siraspur factory where a huge quanti nufacturing unit in a rented nistered were first doses mation of the committee, BJP leaders in the opposition ruption Branch (ACB) in the workshops and employees, village. The accused has ty of duplicate tyres were godown in Khera village but while 35,802 econd doses shared portions of the find are trying to malign the im alleged ₹5,000crore ‘DTC why keep an outside agency been arrested, they said. found along with packaging finally switched to the pre were administered on Wed ings on social media. He ad age of the government,” Mr. bus scam’ and also sought for maintenance? Now, even DCP (Outer North) Rajiv material and dyes. Akram sent location. nesday. The bulletin also ded that the panel’s recom Sisodia said. the resignation of Transport the committee report is say Ranjan Singh said that the was then arrested. Akram revealed that he stated that the Capital cur mendation of cancelling the “The Delhi government is Minister Kailash Gahlot and ing the tender of ₹3,500 accused has been identified Mr. Ranjan said that dur used to sell the duplicate rently had less than a days’ maintenance tender worth working day and night for the removal of the responsi crore for maintenance as Mohammed Akram (41), a ing interrogation, Akram products under a fake brand stock of vaccine doses re ₹3,500 crore and issuing a the people but instead of ble Transport Department should be issued afresh,” Mr. resident of Azad Market. told the police that he had name in DelhiNCR,” Mr. maining. fresh one in its place proved learning from it, BJP leaders officials. Bidhuri said. The police said that one been in the business of trad Ranjan said. Fake call centre busted ‘Haryana solely responsible for water crisis hovering over Delhi’ NGT directs panel to look in Rohini, 24 arrested Supply to Delhi BJP chief’s house will be cut if rightful portion of water is not released in 24 hours: AAP into tanneries They promised cheap phones to victims Special Correspondent rana government had not chief Adesh Gupta’s resi New Delhi stopped the supply of water dence would be stopped. Staff Reporter Staff Reporter tims belonged to northeast Delhi Jal Board (DJB) Vice to the Capital. “The people of Delhi have NEW DELHI NEW DELHI ern States,” Mr. Tayal said. Chairman Raghav Chadha on Earlier in the day, North decided that they can give 24 The National Green Tribu A fake call centre has been Talking about the modus Saturday alleged that the Ha East Delhi BJP MP Manoj Ti hours to BJP to restart and nal (NGT) has directed a busted and 24 people, in operandi, Mr. Tayal said the ryana government was “sole wari held a ‘water pan supply water which is their newly constituted commit cluding 15 women, have accused used to collect mo ly responsible” for the water chayat’ in north Delhi’s Mal staunch right. If this does not tee to submit a report on been arrested from Rohini, bile numbers from the Inter crisis hovering over Delhi. kaganj where, the BJP happen, we shall stop the pollution caused by the police said on Saturday. net and randomly made Haryana’s “careless and claimed, residents were fac connection of water supply slaughter houses and tan Deputy Commissioner of calls They used to tell people apathetic” behavior may ing grave water shortage for in Delhi BJP’s Chief Adesh neries in Ghaziabad. Police (Rohini) Pranav Tayal that their number had been lead to water scarcity in New the last three months. Gupta’s house,” he said. A Bench headed by NGT said the owners of the call selected for a lottery scheme Delhi Municipal Council and “The Haiderpur plant re Delhi BJP spokesperson Chairperson Justice centre, Ramkumar (34), in which they could get a VIP areas including the PM’s DJB chief Raghav Chadha said many areas across Delhi may ceived 235.16 MGD daily in Praveen Shankar Kapoor Adarsh Kumar Goel noted Shyam Kumar (35) and Go mobile phone worth ₹17,000 residence, the Supreme face water shortage soon. * FILE PHOTO: R.V. MOORTHY 2021 compared to 233 MGD said Mr. Bhardwaj’s state several shortcomings in vind (22), all residents of Sul on payment of just ₹4,500. Court, Delhi High Court and in 2020 from Haryana. Bawa ments were a “melodramatic the operation of the units, tanpuri, are in custody. In order to gain the cus major ministries. Water sup Chandrawal WTP has come “It is the legal responsibil na in 2021 received 20.99 reaction” to cover the Delhi including illegal extraction The police received infor tomers’ trust, they used the ply in parts of central, west, down from 90 MGD to 55, at ity of the Haryana govern MGD, up from 19.61 MGD in government’s “failure to pro of groundwater in overex mation on Friday regarding post office as the logistics and south Delhi will also be Wazirabad WTP from 135 to ment to provide water to Del 2020. Nangloi 43.26, up from vide proper water supply”. ploited zones. a fake call centre operating service provider. affected, he warned. 80 MGD and at Okhla WTP hi as per Supreme Court 43.10 MGD. Dwarka 51.33 “In fact the threat to cut The committee will in Sector 7, Rohini. The ac “However, instead of Mr. Chadha said the Ha from 20 to 15 MGD, he said. orders and the Memoran MGD, up from 50.51 MGD,” Mr. Gupta’s water connec have four members and cused allegedly duped peo sending mobiles, they would ryana government had The daily water produc dum of Understanding,” Mr. Mr. Khurana added. tion seems to have been co they will visit the sites ple on the pretext of offering send cheap wallets, belt and stopped water that is re tion in Delhi had come down Chadha said. AAP chief spokesperson pied by AAP from BJP’s re within a month and pre them mobiles at cheap rates soaps,” the officer said. leased into the Yamuna for from 245 MGD to 150145 Delhi BJP spokesperson Saurabh Bhardwaj said if the cent statement that if the pare a report thereafter. through a lottery scheme. Police have also raided Delhi’s needs and was pro MGD, despite the Upper Ya Harish Khurana, citing data BJPled Haryana government Delhi Jal Board fails to res The State Pollution Con “Police raided the call the warehouse where the ac viding 120 MGD less, which muna River Board having di regarding water supply re does not release Delhi’s tore proper water supply we trol Board will be the no centre and nabbed the ac cused allegedly kept the arti had decreased production of rected Haryana to provide an ceived from Haryana, ac rightful portion of water in will cut the supply to the dal agency for coordina cused. During inquiry, it was cles and found packets that water in Delhi by 100 MGD. additional 150 cusecs of wa cused Mr. Chadha of lying 24 hours, the connection of house of the Jal Board Chair tion and compliance, said revealed that most of the vic were ready to be delivered. Water production at the ter, he added. and contended that the Hay water supply to Delhi BJP man,” Mr. Kapoor said. the Bench.

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IN BRIEF Weather Watch Weapons seized in Bengaluru jail raid Rainfall, temperature & air quality in select metros yesterday

Parallel searches at homes of habitual “Three rowdies have been booked under NDPS Act offenders yield knives, machetes, drugs while 15 have been booked under Section 110 ( security Special Correspondent The police were also prob for good behaviour from Sivasankar’s suspension Bengaluru extended for third time ing the possible involvement habitual offenders) of the THIRUVANANTHAPURAM Early morning raids on Sa of prison officials who failed Criminal Procedure Code M. Sivasankar, former turday by the Bengaluru City to check the trade of (CrPC),” D. Devraj, DCP, Whi Principal Secretary to Kerala Police, including the Central narcotics. tefield said. Chief Minister Pinarayi Crime Branch (CCB), in va Another cause for con Vijayan, will remain rious parts of the city includ cern is the number of mobile Two murders suspended from service for a ing at Central Jail, Parappana phones seized despite jam These raids were conducted further period of six months. Agrahara, led to the recovery mers in place. “We are ana in the backdrop of two bra The embattled bureaucrat of weapons such as knives lysing the mobile phones zen murders in the city in had come under a cloud after and daggers, marijuana and and SIM cards to ascertain il broad daylight at public plac being embroiled in the mobile phones and SIM legal activities,” said San es over the last two weeks — politically stormy UAE cards from inmates. deep Patil, Joint Commis financier Madan and former diplomatic channel gold “The raids were carried sioner of Police (Crime). civic councillor Rekha Kadi smuggling case last year. out after we received credi Simultaenously, the city Big haul: Police recovering weapons, marijuana and mobile resh. Temperature Data: IMD, Pollution Data: CPCB, Map: INSAT/IMD (Taken at 18.00 Hrs) ble information that several police also carried out mas phones from inmates of Parappana Agrahara jail. The police have also been Forecast for Sunday: Heavy/very heavy rainfall likely at isolated Video of DKS ‘slapping’ gangsters and rowdies were sive search operations and cracking down on the sale of places over Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat, Saurashtra & Kutch, cent- party worker goes viral carrying out activities from raided residences of rowdies ries are being conducted,” sidences of 116 rowdies in drugs in the city, increasing MYSURU ral Maharashtra, Konkan & Goa, coastal Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, inside the prison,” said a and habitual offenders in the said a senior police officer. their jurisdiction and reco border checks and inspect Puducherry, Kerala and Andaman & Nicobar Islands. Thunder- Karnataka Pradesh Congress source. Several teams along city. “We have recovered a vered 2.5 kg of marijuana ing premises of private cou Committee president D.K. storm with lightning/gusty winds likely at isolated places over with dog squads carried out huge number of lethal wea Residences searched and lethal weapons such as rier firms that are often used Shivakumar found himself at Punjab, Delhi, Bihar, Telangana, Rayalaseema, Yanam and Karaikal the search and made the sei pons and rounded up several In Whitefield, the police con knives, daggers and to ship consignments of nar city rain max min city rain max min the centre of a controversy zures. habitual offenders. Enqui ducted operations on the re machetes. cotics. Agartala...... 3....33.2....27.4 Kozhikode...... 66....26.2....23.4 after a video purportedly Ahmedabad...... —....38.3....28.7 Kurnool ...... 2....32.1....25.3 showing him slapping a Aizawl...... 45....28.0....22.4 Lucknow...... —....37.5....27.6 fellow party worker walking Allahabad...... —....37.2....28.2 Madurai...... —....32.2....25.4 Bengaluru ...... 0.2....26.8....21.3 Mangaluru ...... 68.2....28.0....22.8 next to him went viral. Mr. Bhopal ...... —....32.0....25.8 Mumbai ...... —....28.8....24.5 Shivakumar, who is seen Telangana’s offer exceeded Doyen of Ayurveda Bhubaneswar...... —....34.4....25.5 Mysuru ...... —....27.7....20.6 walking surrounded by party Chandigarh ...... —....38.1....30.4 New Delhi ...... —....39.8....28.6 workers, suddenly hits one of Chennai ...... 4....33.5....24.4 Patna ...... 0.5....35.2....27.9 Coimbatore ...... 0.2....28.9....21.7 Port Blair...... 27....25.6....23.3 them jostling next to him for P.K. Warrier passes away Dehradun...... 0.6....33.3....26.2 Puducherry ...... 0.8....29.6....24.2 keeping his hand on his that of other States, says Kitex Gangtok...... 12....22.2....18.7 Pune...... —....29.6....22.4 shoulder. Goa...... 10....29.4....24.0 Raipur ...... —....33.3....26.2 He took Arya Vaidya Sala to great fame Guwahati ...... 20....32.0....26.6 Ranchi...... 14....30.0....22.5 CPI(M) panel to probe ‘No harassment Hubballi...... —....25.0....21.0 Shillong...... 0.2....23.1....17.5 ‘Bid to tarnish Kerala’s image’ Staff Reporter Hyderabad ...... 0.4....29.8....24.0 Shimla...... —....28.8....19.8 Ambalappuzha fiasco from local bodies, MALAPPURAM Imphal ...... 11....27.2....22.0 Srinagar...... —....34.2....20.8 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM Special Correspondent attentiongrabbing move to Jaipur ...... —....38.4....30.6 Thiruvananthapuram..... 109....26.6....22.2 The Communist Party of India political leaders’ Doyen of Ayurveda and ma Kochi ...... 60....25.8....23.2 Tiruchi...... —....30.3....26.0 Thiruvananthapuram shift his investment from Kohima ...... 29....26.4....17.4 Vijayawada ...... 91....31.4....25.2 (Marxist) has formed a naging trustee of Kottakkal Special Correspondent Kerala Chief Minister Kerala to Telengana, citing Kolkata ...... 0.2....33.2....28.2 Visakhapatnam ...... —....35.4....27.8 two-member party Arya Vaidya Sala P.K. War KOCHI (Rainfall data in mm; temperature in Celsius) commission to investigate the Pinarayi Vijayan has said political harassment by the rier died at Kottakkal on Sa Pollutants in the air you are breathing Yesterday “organisational limitations” The incentives offered by that there seems to be a LDF government. turday. ‘planned move’ to ‘shame Mr. Vijayan said any CITIES SO2 NO2 CO PM2.5 PM10 CODE that hobbled the Left the Telangana government The Arya Vaidya Sala had * Ahmedabad...... 12 .18 119 . 175 .151 .... In observation made at Democratic Front (LDF) exceeded the promises and brand’ Kerala as an attempt to put a stain on celebrated his 100th birth Bengaluru ...... 11 ..— .75 ... 92 ...70 ....* 4.00 p.m., Fatehabad, Assembly election campaign made by the governments of investment unfriendly Kerala's investmentfriendly day in the first week of June. Chennai ...... 5 .29 .86 ... 23 ...37 ....* Haryana recorded an Delhi ...... 9 .52 .90 . 109 .116 ....* overall air quality index in the Ambalappuzha Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Guj destination. Mr. Vijayan was image tantamount to Dr. Warrier had reco * (AQI) score of 162 Hyderabad ...... — .68 .25 ... 32 ...37 .... indicating a moderate level constituency in Alappuzha. arat and Maharashtra, the speaking against the trespass against the vered from COVID19 two Kolkata...... 10 .19 .17 ... 82 ...81 ....* of pollution. In contrast, Kitex Group said in a com backdrop of Kitex MD Sabu developmental aspirations months ago. His health had P.K. Warrier Lucknow...... 5 .42 .65 ... 69 ...94 ....* Davanagere, Karnataka Sabarimala temple to Mumbai ...... 35 .10 ...— ... 63 .103 ....* recorded a healthy AQI munication, explaining its M. Jacob’s national of the people. weakened in the last few score of 19 open on July 16 Pune...... 104 .15 .45 ... 64 ...61 ....* decision to invest ₹1,000 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD days. Vaidya Sala, he was instru Visakhapatnam .10 .59 .44 ... 53 ...85 ....* PATHANAMTHITTA crore in the Kakatiya Mega Dr. Warrier took Arya Vai mental in branching out the * * * The Ayyappa temple at Air Quality Code: Poor Moderate Good (Readings indicate average AQI) SO2: Sulphur Dioxide. Short-term exposure can harm the respiratory system, Sabarimala will be opened on Textiles Park in Telangana. promised all help, it said. P.T. Thomas, Congress dya Sala to heights of global 119yearold institution K.T. Rama Rao, the Indus The Kitex team, compris MLA, said here on Saturday fame by carefully synthesis across the world. Arya Vai making breathing difficult. It can affect visibility by reacting with other air July 16 for the five-day particles to form haze and stain culturally important objects such as statues monthly puja during the tries Minister of Telangana, ing Sabu M. Jacob, managing that he stood by his allega ing the traditional Ayurveda dya Sala has 26 branches and monuments. Malayalam month of had promised that the indus director of Kitex Garments, tions against the Kitex with modernity. By intro and more than 1,000 auth NO2: Nitrogen Dioxide. Aggravates respiratory illness, causes haze to form by trial unit would not be ha was flown to Telangana by a Group. ducing modern practices orised dealers across the reacting with other air particles, causes acid rain, pollutes coastal waters. Karkkidakam. Pilgrims will be CO: Carbon monoxide. High concentration in air reduces oxygen supply to allowed to enter the temple rassed by local bodies, polit private jet on Friday by the The MLA had alleged that and methods to Ayurveda, world. critical organs like the heart and brain. At very high levels, it can cause from July 17 morning. In view ical leadership or State Telangana government. The the dyeing, bleaching and Dr. Warrier earned respect The country honoured dizziness, confusion, unconsciousness and even death. PM2.5 & PM10: Particulate matter pollution can cause irritation of the eyes, of the COVID-19 situation, government agencies, said team is slated to return to printing units of the compa all over the world. Dr. Warrier with Padma Shri nose and throat, coughing, chest tightness and shortness of breath, reduced only 5,000 devotees will be the communication. The Te Kerala on Sunday, the com ny were polluting the Ka In 68 years of service as in 1999 and Padma Bhushan lung function, irregular heartbeat, asthma attacks, heart attacks and premature allowed darshan on a day. langana government had pany press release added. dambrayar river. managing trustee of Arya in 2010. death in people with heart or lung disease

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It added that the er backward castes were der accused was killed and accused had hidden along minals “should be the pat from July 12. letter to raise concerns over case of Kerala journalist Sid killed predominantly. two alleged ganja smugglers the highway, the duo at tern” if they attempt to The doctors have been what they termed was the dique Kappan, who was ar The letter also flagged the were injured as they “at tacked the police personnel escape from custody or try protesting against the State’s “breakdown of governance” rested while on his way to State’s handling of COVID19 tempted to escape from cus & tried to escape from the to snatch guns from the pol Sixth Pay Commission re and “blatant violation of the report on the case of gang during the second wave, in tody” in separate incidents custody. In order to prevent ice to fire at them. commendations on delink rule of law” in Uttar rape of a 19yearold Dalit which sights of “dead bodies in Assam on Saturday. CM Himanta Biswa Sarma * it, Police team resorted to State Congress chief Ri ing of NonPractising Allo Pradesh. girl in Hathras, was particu floating in the Ganga” were With the fresh casualties, control firing, in which both pun Bora has said that Mr. wance (NPA) from the basic The letter, signed by 87 larly egregious. The letter seen. at least 13 suspected insur was killed while attempting the accused were grievously Sarma’s statement has pay and reduction in the members of the Constitu highlighted the number of “The world bore witness gents and criminals have to escape from police custo injured,” the Kokrajhar dis dangerous ramifications of NPA from 25% to 20% tional Conduct Group and encounter killings from 2017 to the catastrophe that the been killed and dozens, in dy in Chirang district. trict police said in a Twitter turning Assam into a ‘police among other demands. endorsed by 236 others, in to 2020 and termed “en people of U.P. had to endure cluding rape accused and “Within 24 hrs Chirang post. state’ by making law enfor The call for strike has cluding Justice (retired) A.P. counter injuries and killings owing to the failure of the cattle smugglers, injured in Police cracked the case of On July 6, a suspected cers triggerhappy and disre been given by the Joint Go Shah, activists and academ as official hate targeting”. government to act in time. police encounters in the brutal murder of Home drug peddler from Manipur gard human rights. vernment Doctors Coordi ics, stated: “We note with “From 2017 to 2020, 124 Reports from crematoria State since the second BJP guard Eyad Ali. 3 persons ar was critically injured when Raijor Dal chief and Sibsa nation Committee. JGDCC mounting alarm that the alleged criminals were shot show that across districts, led government assumed rested & the murder wea he had allegedly tried to es gar MLA Akhil Gogoi has also convener Dr. Inderveer Gill present ruling regime in U.P. dead in 6,476 “encounters”, deaths are being massively power two months ago. pons were recovered. In an cape from police custody alleged that “open killing” by said the agitation is to the has ushered in a model of according to data compiled undercounted in Uttar Pra attempt to flee from Police near Rani in Kamrup the police is going on in the save the public healthcare governance which swerves and released by the U.P. pol desh,” it said. In BTR custody, escaping accused district. name of encounters. Assam system. “We will oppose any further and further away ice to the media. The word The group called for an The latest incidents took Abdul Khalek sustained bul The rising number of en Jatiya Parishad general se move of the government from the values of the Con “encounters” has been used end to arbitrary detentions place in Chirang and Kokraj let injuries and later suc counters in the last two cretary Jagadish Bhuyan has that is directed to destroy it. stitution and the rule of law to also include the infliction and torture as well as the har districts, both part of the cumbed to his injuries,” Chi months has whipped up a alleged that the surge in en The government is pursuing with each passing day.” of serious injuries caused, policies of institutionalisa Bodoland Territorial Region rang district police tweeted. political furore in Assam counters was a ploy to “si a policy of evasion instead of The letter stated that de for example, by shooting a tion and legitimisation of vi (BTR). A person accused of In another incident, Kok with the Opposition alleging lence” the lowerrung crimi resolving the issue of NPA.” tentions, criminal charges, person in both knees and gilantism. the murder of a homeguard rajhar district police inter that the police has turned nals to protect their bosses. People will pull down BJP govts., says Vivek Bansal BJP expels Punjab exMinister Virbhadra for 6 years for ‘antiparty’ acts Singh

The government, which has harassed farmers, is not a protector but predator: Haryana Cong. incharge Press Trust of India against the party, whereu cremated Chandigarh pon State BJP chief Ashwani Special Correspondent A procession was also ta tactics to grab power in West The Punjab BJP on Saturday Sharma, on the recommen Press Trust of India GURUGRAM ken as part of the demon Bengal. expelled former State Minis dations of a disciplinary Shimla Haryana Congress incharge stration through the city, Ms. Selja said the Con ter Anil Joshi from the party committee, expelled him Former Himachal Pradesh Vivek Bansal on Saturday which included bullock gress would become the for six years. The action from the party for six years, Chief Minister Virbhadra said the people suffering carts and mule carts along voice of the people suffering against Mr. Joshi came after the statement said. Singh was cremated with from inflation, poverty and with a large number of cy from inflation, poverty, cor he gave his reply to a show Earlier, in a twopage rep full State honours at a royal unemployment would pull cles. Attacking the Modi go ruption and unemploy cause notice issued by the ly to the showcause notice, crematorium in Jogni Bagh the Central and State go vernment for price rise, Mr. ment. “Will fight the battle BJP’s State unit for his “anti Mr. Joshi said he never near Shimla’s Rampur on vernment down, adding that Bansal alleged that the coun of the masses. The public is party” activities. spoke against the Centre’s Saturday afternoon. the government, which had try was suffering due to in looking at us. The next go According to the notice, farm laws and asked the His son Vikramaditya harassed and exploited the flation, but Prime Minister vernment will be of the peo Mr. Joshi had been making State party chief if it was in Singh performed the last peasants, was not a “protec Modi didn’t have ears to lis ple,” said Ms. Selja. statements against the discipline to talk about rites around 4.30 p.m. tor” but “predator”. ten to grievances. Referring Ms. Choudhary said the Centre, the party’s central farmers. The former Amrit A police contingent gave to the second wave of Covid, large gathering was a clear leadership and policies. Mr. sar North MLA asserted that the guard of honour and Protest against inflation Congress leaders and workers participating in a bicycle rally in Mr. Bansal said there was no indication that the govern Joshi was expelled on the di he always spoke about the gun salute to the former Mr. Bansal was addressing a Charkhi Dadri in Haryana on Saturday. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT oxygen for patients, there ment had lost the trust of rections of State unit chief party’s interests. “I neither Chief Minister. gathering of the party work were no beds in hospitals the people. “The govern Ashwani Sharma, according spoke against the Centre’s Thousands of his well ers and the public in Harya Kumari Selja and senior lead est against the rise in prices and helpless people were ment has ruined the poor, to a party statement. Mr. farm laws nor against the wishers gathered at the na’s Charkhi Dadri along er Kiran Chaudhary as part of petrol and diesel and dying on the streets, but Mr. the farmers and the work Joshi did not give up his Central leaders,” Mr. Joshi crematorium to bid adieu with State party president of Congress’ Statewide prot cooking gas. Modi’s focus was only on the ers.” stubborn attitude of going replied. to the leader. CM This PDF was originally uploaded to Brills Express Official (https://t.me/The_Hindu_Express) before anyone else. Don't forget to join backup channel @Thehindu000 A ND-NDE YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

THE HINDU DELHI SUNDAY, JULY 11, 2021 NEWS 7 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE FROM PAGE ONE Chirag taunts Paras on Cabinet Don’t reveal identity in India pulls out staff from sexual offence cases: SC Kandahar consulate berth; says will reclaim party ‘Privacy of victim should be respected’ Legal Correspondent dian Penal Code (IPC) prohi While the Ministry of Exter its claims on territory. They LJP leader hints at disillusionment with BJP, refuses to comment on HC order NEW DELHI bits the publication of the nal Affairs (MEA) had said aim to frighten the Afghan The Supreme Court has identity of rape victims or the decision to withdraw people, and through such Press Trust of India tions. After the death of my asked trial judges to take any other details which may the staff was due to the CO claims they open a gap of Patna father and the betrayal of my care to not reveal the identi reveal the identity. The bar, VID19 pandemic, security realities, into which they Lok Janshakti Party leader family members, many oth ty of victims in sexual of however, does not ostensi concerns were believed to pour fear, terror and uncer Chirag Paswan on Saturday er dear relatives have come fence cases. bly extend to court judg be the reason they have not tainties,” Mr. Mamundzay paid a backhanded compli out in my support.” The court said their priva ments. However, the apex been sent back yet. said. ment to estranged uncle In Bihar since Monday as cy should be respected. court, in the State of Karna Officials say they have The MEA declined to Pashupati Kumar Paras by part of his ‘Ashirwad Yatra’, The observation came in taka versus Puttaraja case, been particularly worried comment on the develop congratulating him on join Mr. Paswan has paid visits to an order dismissing an ap had said it would be “appro about Kandahar, with exit ments, and while it had de ing the Union Cabinet, his stepsisters and step peal made against a Chhat priate” if courts do not routes limited to the airport, nied that India had shut which, he said, was a goal mother in his native district tisgarh High Court judg name the victim in its re as the Taliban forces have down operations at its con the latter achieved by break of Khagaria, in a charm of ment in a case. The apex cords. “True it is, the res taken control of other key sulates in Mazar and Kanda ing up his own family. fensive to win over his close court noted that the Ses triction does not relate to districts close to the city. har on Thursday, it said the The beleaguered LJP lead Family support: LJP MP Chirag Paswan taking blessings from relations. The former Bolly sions Judge had mentioned printing or publication of Last Sunday, the district of situation was “evolving and er, who has suffered a set elder sister before 'Ashirwad Yatra' in Patna on Saturday. * PTI wood actor has in the past the name of the victim. judgment by High Court or Panjwai, less than an hour’s fluid”. back with the Delhi High been accused of condescen “We take exception to the Supreme Court. But keeping drive from Kandahar city, “We are carefully moni Court rejecting his petition taken over by those who, be considered himself a Hanu sion towards them. “I am not judgment of the Sessions in view the social object of fell to the Taliban fighters. toring the deteriorating se challenging the election of cause of personal ambitions, man to Mr. Modi, akin to the a legal expert. So I will not Judge where the name of preventing social victimisa “There’s an increased le curity situation in Afghanis Mr. Paras as the party leader are sitting in the lap of peo relationship between the comment much upon the victim is mentioned. It is tion or ostracism of the vic vel of violence in Kandahar tan, and its implications on in the Lok Sabha, said: “I am ple who did not deign to Lord Hanuman and Lord Delhi High Court’s order un wellestablished that in cas tim of a sexual offence for and we may possibly see the security and safety of In not going to give up my fight come out with even a tweet Ram, Mr. Paswan cryptically til a meeting with my legal es like the present one, the which Section 228A has temporary suspension of dian nationals in Afghanis to reclaim the party nur on my father’s birth anniver replied: “This is a question team in the national capital. name of the victim is not to been enacted, it would be services by a number of con tan. Our responses will be tured by my late father Ram sary recently.” you need to ask when elec But I am not going to give be mentioned in any pro appropriate that in the judg sulates including the Indian calibrated accordingly, de Vilas Paswan’s blood and The Jamui MP also hinted tions are round the corner.” up,” he asserted. ceeding. We are of the view ments, be it of this court, consulate,” Afghanistan Am pending on how the situa sweat.” at his disillusionment with Mr. Paswan opened a that all subordinate courts High Court or lower court, bassador to India Farid Ma tion evolves,” MEA spokes In an oblique reference to the BJP, which has kept silent Charm offensive front against the Bihar Chief should be careful in future the name of the victim mundzay told The Hindu on person Arindam Bagchi had Bihar Chief Minister Nitish over the crisis in the LJP des The 38yearold, who has Minister ahead of the As while dealing with such cas should not be indicated. We Saturday. said on July 8. Kumar, who he suspects of pite his unreserved adula been reaching out to the fa sembly polls last year, claim es,” a Bench led by Justice have chosen to describe her On Saturday, Afghan Pre engineering the putsch in tion of Prime Minister Na mily of his late father from ing that the people of the Ashok Bhushan said in the as ‘victim’ in the judgment,” ‘Overstated claims’ sident Ashraf Ghani lashed the LJP, Mr. Paswan said, “I rendra Modi. When asked by the first marriage, also said, State wanted a change in lea recent order. the apex court said in Putta However, both Indian and out at the Taliban, holding cannot allow the party to be reporters whether he still “I feel overwhelmed by emo dership. Section 228A of the In raja. Afghan officials warned them responsible for the against overstating the Tali growing violence, and bet ban claims of territorial ween 200600 casualties ev gains across Afghanistan at ery day, despite the fact that BJP leader’s remarks on Assam to get present, pointing out that the group’s main demand, Vietnam appoints first the ANDSF have been suc that the U.S. and NATO department cessful in pushing back the troops leave the country, Sis Ram Ola create a row Taliban onslaught at many has largely been met. of indigenous places, and the Taliban has “Taliban should be asked Gehlot demands apology from party Honorary Consul in India lost many of its fighters in whom they are fighting for? faith, says CM the past few weeks of vio Who will benefit if Afghanis Mohammed Iqbal They have created a lot of lence as well. On Friday, tan is ruined and if Afghans JAIPUR anger. Mr. Ola protected the Srinivasa Murthy to hold position in Karnataka for 3 years SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Kandahar Governor said Ta are killed? Are they fighting The purported remarks of interests of farmers in the Guwahati liban militants had been re for Afghanistan, or they BJP national spokesperson social and political fields for Special Correspondent The Assam Cabinet has de pelled by security forces want the country to be con Gaurav Bhatia on late former more than 60 years. He re NEW DELHI cided to create an indepen when they tried to attack trolled by others,” Mr. Ghani Union Minister Sis Ram Ola ceived Padma Shri in 1968 As part of Vietnam’s efforts dent department for the the city's ‘District 7’ asked during a speech in triggered a row in Rajasthan for his social service,” Mr. to deepen cooperation with preservation and promo “Taliban is exaggerating Khost. on Saturday, prompting sev Gehlot tweeted in Hindi. various States, industrialist tion of indigenous faith eral political leaders, includ A large number of Bhara N.S. Srinivasa Murthy, based and culture, Chief Minister ing Chief Minister Ashok tiya Kisan Union (BKU) acti in Bengaluru, has been ap Himanta Biswa Sarma said Gehlot, to demand an apolo vists staged a demonstration pointed Honorary Consul on Saturday. Govt. infra spending gy from the ruling party at outside the BJP State head General of Vietnam for Marking the completion the Centre. Ola, a prominent quarters here. When the BJP Karnataka. of 60 days of his BJPled go Jat leader from the Shekha workers confronted them, “He is the first Honorary vernment, Mr. Sarma said dropped sharply in Q1 wati region, died in 2013. policemen deployed at the ConsulGeneral of Vietnam the new department would In a television debate over venue controlled the situa from India and the 19th Boosting ties: N.S. Srinivasa Murthy being appointed not be tagged with other In contrast, private invest has rightly prodded govern the recent reshuffle in the tion and dispersed the prot across the world. He is the Honorary Consul-General by Vietnamese Ambassador Pham departments such as Cul ments sequentially declined ment agencies to front load Union Cabinet, Mr. Bhatia esters. BKU spokesperson third ConsulGeneral to be Sanh Chau in New Delhi on Saturday. * SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT ture, or Welfare of Plains by a mere 1.7% in the first their capital expenditure made some offensive re Ajit Kaswan said the farmers appointed globally this Tribes, and Backward quarter of this year, thanks plans,” Mr. Hegde added, marks about Ola’s induction would not tolerate humilia year,” said Vietnamese Am will be to promote trade bet (CSP) will continue to be Classes. to a significant 45% uptick in adding that the timely exe into the Manmohan Singh tion of their departed leader. bassador in India Pham ween Vietnam and South In come stronger under his “Assam has many tribes manufacturing projects cution of over 8,000 pro government in 2013 despite Pradesh Congress presi Sanh Chau, addressing a dia and in particular able guidance. with their unique customs from ₹1.17 lakh crore bet jects worth ₹153.37 lakh his old age. Mr. Bhatia him dent Govind Singh Dotasra, small gathering amid CO Karnataka. “PM Modi welcomed the and religious beliefs. We ween January and March crore listed in the National self shared a video clip of the Revenue Minister Harish VID=19 protocols. The ap fact that both countries have decided to preserve 2021 to over ₹1.70 lakh crore Infrastructure Pipeline must TV debate on his twitter ac Chaudhary and Tonk MLA pointment is for a period of Bilateral ties share a similar vision of an their culture and faith with in the quarter just conclud also be pushed. “That will count but deleted it later fol Sachin Pilot said the BJP three years. In a telephonic conversation open, inclusive, peaceful institutional support ed. not only revive the economy lowing the ruckus. leader's remarks had shown Mr. Murthy is the owner on Saturday, Prime Minister and rulesbased Indian through this new depart However, about ₹1.1 lakh but also instil confidence in Mr. Gehlot reacted sharp the party's mentality of dis and managing partner of N. Narendra Modi congratulat Ocean Region, and hence ment,” he told pressper crore of these private manu private companies to expe ly to the remarks and de regarding the contributions K. Subbiah Setty & Sons, ed Pham Minh Chinh on his the IndiaVietnam CSP can sons. He said the Cabinet facturing investments are dite their own capex plans,” manded that BJP national of tall leaders. Rashtriya which has been manufactur appointment as Prime Mi contribute to promote re has requested Finance Mi related to just four massive he pointed out. president J.P. Nadda tender Loktantrik Party chief and ing agarbattis (incense nister of Vietnam and ex gional stability, prosperity nister Ajanta Neog to allo projects, including a Public investments in an apology immediately to Nagaur MP Hanuman Beni sticks) since 1932. pressed confidence that the and development,” state cate a substantial budget to ₹60,000 crore green energy new hospitals rose by 25% the people of Rajasthan. “I wal also condemned Mr. Speaking at the event, Mr. IndiaVietnam Comprehen ment from the Ministry of the Department of Indige complex announced by Re between April and June, but condemn these remarks... Bhatia’s remarks. Murthy said his endeavour sive Strategic Partnership External Affairs said. nous Faith and Culture. liance Industries, two PVC the number of projects de units in Gujarat by Adani En clined from 85 to just 38, terprises worth ₹29,200 while investments in other crore and a ₹10,000 crore community services, includ Freedom of speech is copper smelter by Vedanta. ing water and sewage pro India hands over relics to Georgia Foreign investment pro jects fell significantly. jects slipped 95.4% from the With Reliance Industries’ under siege: Bhushan previous quarter, with just and Adani group’s mega It will create bridge of faith, says Jaishankar after returning relics of St. Ketevan 17 projects worth ₹3,450.5 projects planned in Gujarat, crore in Q1 of this year, from the western State garnered Press Trust of India “The presence of some of The state is targeting dissent, he says 34 projects worth over nearly a third of all new in Tbilisi the relics in India and Geor ₹75,000 crore in the preced vestments, over ₹1.08 lakh External Affairs Minister S. gia is a bridge of faith bet Legal Correspondent ing quarter. crore, in the quarter. Maha Jaishankar on Saturday at ween our two countries. I NEW DELHI “While the flaring up of rashtra retained its second tended the formal handing hope that in the coming Senior lawyer Prashant COVID 2.0 affected econom position for the second over ceremony of the holy years, the people of both of Bhushan said on Saturday ic activities as well as fresh quarter in a row, with relics of 17th century queen our nations will traverse that that freedom of speech is project announcements, the ₹43,559 crore of new St. Ketevan to Georgia, near bridge, of spirituality as under “total siege” in the severity was not as much as projects. ly 16 years after they were much as of friendship,” Mr. country. observed in the first quarter The April to June quarter found in Goa, describing Jaishanakar said. Referring to the death of of last year immediately af also saw electricity invest such historical objects as a The relics are believed to the 84yearold Jesuit priest Prashant Bhushan ter the national lockdown,” ments falling to nearly a “bridge of faith” between have been brought to Goa in and rights activist Father said Shashikant Hegde, di third of the preceding quar the two countries. 1627 and interred in St. Au Stan Swamy, who was jailed there is not even a prima fa- rector and CEO of Projects ter’s levels, while invest Mr. Jaishankar is on a two Revisiting history: S. Jaishankar at the handing over of the gustine Complex. in connection with the Bhi cie case,” he explained. Today. ment plans in transport ser day visit to Georgia, a stra relics of St. Ketevan to Georgia. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT At the instance of the Ar ma Koregaon case, Mr. Mr. Bhushan referred to “The fall in fresh invest vices dropped 55.1%. The tegically important country chaeological Survey of India Bhushan said “anybody per the judiciary’s performance ments was also because of a National Highways Authori situated at the intersection Cathedral. “I consider my CatholicosPatriarch of All (ASI), the CSIRCentre for ceived to be a serious threat in the past five years in pro sharp fall in announcement ty announced only 24 high of Eastern Europe and West self blessed that the purpose Georgia, and Prime Minister Cellular and Molecular Biol to the government or who tecting the rights of ordin of new projects by govern ways worth ₹17,285.74 crore ern Asia. of my first visit to Georgia is Irakli Garibashvili. ogy, Hyderabad, carried out speaks out against the go ary people. He referred to ment agencies — both Cen and just eight new railway “Today is a special day, such an auspicious one,” he St. Queen Ketevan was a DNA analysis that confirmed vernment is charged and the role of the top court in tral and State. Recognising projects worth ₹55.6 crore not only for Georgia but also said. 17th century Georgian its authenticity, the people put in jail”. politically sensitive cases this, the Finance Ministry were kicked off. for India. I have the honour Mr. Jaishankar handed ov Queen. Her relics were cited above said. Mr. Bhushan was deliver such as the Ayodhya dis to hand over the holy relics er the relics of St. Queen Ke found in 2005 at the St. Au In 2017, at the request of ing the Chinta Ravi Memo pute, Judge Loya death case, of St. Queen Ketevan to the tevan to the government and gustine Convent in Old Goa, the Georgian government, rial Lecture 2021 on the Rafale deal, BirlaSahara people of Georgia,” Mr. Jaish the people of Georgia at a ce on the basis of medieval Por India sent the relics to Geor ‘Threats to Constitution and case, the bifurcation of the Meghalaya raises ankar said at the ceremony remony in Tbilisi in the pre tuguese records, people gia for an exhibition for six Rule of Law’. He was speak State of Jammu and Kashmir at the Sameba Holy Trinity sence of Beatitude Ilia II, aware of the matter said. months. ing to a crosssection of pro and the Citizenship Amend minent persons like senior ment Act. He said that “peo concern over Assam Bill journalist Sashi Kumar, wri ple had begun to lose faith”. ters N.S. Madhavan and Paul “It is only in the last six He said the Meghalaya go the Assam legislation before Zacharia, senior advocate R. months, with the significant vernment had already dis any move. Interpol seeks joint fight against ransomware Vaigai, advocate Kaleeswa shift in public opinion, that cussed the Assam Bill with Assam Chief Minister Hi ram Raj, students and mem they (judiciary) have been cattlesupplying States such manta Biswa Sarma had said Devesh K. Pandey Interpol’s 16th annual confe capacity of the NCBs, and to of data, and maximise rapid bers of the civil society. able to retrieve and display as Bihar, Telangana and the proposed legislation NEW DELHI rence, held virtually from Ju enhance international police operational assistance to law The state incarcerates ci judicial independence,” Mr. West Bengal. would ban the movement of Senior police officers of the ly 6 to 8. cooperation against transna enforcement agencies,” In tizens who exercise their Bhushan said. “Transportation of cattle cattle to and from the State Interpol’s member countries They reviewed major in tional crime and corruption. terpol Secretary General Jür right to freely express their The media is going from these States to Megha primarily to check cattle have endorsed measures to itiatives, ranging from opera The meeting heard that gen Stock said. dissent against the govern through the “worse kind of laya should not be a pro smuggling to Bangladesh. boost the role of its National tional and investigative sup ransomware activities gener On terrorism, he said the ment under draconian sta censorship” and the govern blem. All steps will be taken Dr. Sarma also said beef Central Bureaus (NCBs), in port to expanding the I24/7 ated $350 million in 2020, global threat was at the tutes like the Unlawful Activ ment has taken a carrot from our side to ensure that should not be consumed in view of the evolving threats, secure communications net according to Chainalysis, a crossroads, with the territo ities (Prevention) Act which andstick approach, he said. supply is not hampered be areas where Hindus live and technology and the pandem work to national police and 311% increase over the pre rial defeat of the IS opening loosely defines an “unlawful “Inducements by dangling a cause of the law to be where the animal is wor ic shifting the foundations of border control agencies, vious year. “A global strategy up a new insurgency phase activity”, Mr. Bhushan said. carrot, and if the carrot passed by the Assam go shipped. Karnataka, Mad police work. In India, the said the Interpol in a state in response to the threat of in West Asia, while in other “Once charged under this does not work, the stick is vernment,” Mr. Sangma hya Pradesh and Uttar Pra CBI is the NCB for Interpol. ment. These measures are ransomware is critical — one critical theatres such as Afri law, it is very difficult to get used through harassment said, adding that his govern desh have legislations for Nearly 300 officers from aimed at optimising the per where we successfully build ca, new groups had joined bail because the trial court by agencies like CBI, ED and ment would first examine the protection of cows. 167 countries attended the formance and operational trust, see effective exchange the terrorist movement. has to be convinced that the Income Tax,” he said. CM This PDF was originally uploaded to Brills Express Official (https://t.me/The_Hindu_Express) before anyone else. 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Dalit youth beaten up Keen to empower co-ops: Shah Biden nominates Garcetti in U.P. village Delegation apprises Minister of challenges facing cooperative movement as Ambassador to India Special Correspondent Press Trust of India Mr. Shah also assured the LUCKNOW new delhi delegation that the same be His closeness to U.S. President seen as key factor in choice A 19yearold Dalit youth The Union government is de nefits and concessions given was tied to a tree and termined to make coopera to Farmer Producer Organi Sriram Lakshman ship has strong support on thrashed at a village in Kan tives and all cooperative in sations (FPOs) would be pro both sides of the aisle in pur Dehat, Uttar Pradesh, stitutions more empowered, vided to primary agriculture U.S. President Joe Biden on Washington, though it is not for befriending a woman said Union Minister Amit cooperatives in the country Friday nominated Los An without its critics, particu from another community. Shah, who met some leading for strengthening them, it geles Mayor Eric Garcetti to larly with regard to the Modi A video of the incident figures of the country’s added. the post of Ambassador to government’s record on de was widely shared on so cooperative sector on In the meeting, the Minis India. Mr. Garcetti’s nomina mocratic processes and mi cial media, following Saturday. Federation of India (NAFED) begun to meet people. ter desired that a conference tion, which had been ex nority rights. As India expe which the police arrested The meeting came three chairman Bijender Singh. In the meeting, the Minis with representatives of State pected for weeks, was an rienced its second wave of one person. Sarman days after Prime Minister Na “Today met @ncuicoop ter asked cooperatives such level cooperatives should be nounced by the White COVID19 earlier this sum Shankhwar, who sets up rendra Modi reallocated the Chairman Shri Dileep Sang as IFFCO and KRIBHCO to organised by NCUI, IFFCO House as part of a set of am mer, the U.S. government, tents for a living, was spot portfolios of his Ministers. haniji, @IFFCO_PR Chair work in the field of seed pro and other cooperatives for bassadorial nominations. Eric Garcetti the private sector and indivi ted in the past by the main Mr. Shah was given charge of man Shri B.S. Nakai ji, Ma duction using vacant land of discussing pertinent issues Mr. Garcetti, 50, who has duals contributed over $500 accused, Sanjay Kumar Pal, the newly created Ministry naging Director Shri U.S. 38,000 hectares as well as in confronting the cooperative been the Mayor of Los An d’affaires Atul Keshap, a million in assistance, ac while he was talking to his of Cooperation. Awasthiji and @nafedindia organic farming, the NCUI movement. geles since 2013, is a former South Asia hand and senior cording to U.S. government sister. Those who met the Union Chairman Dr. Bijendra said in a separate statement. The delegation apprised intelligence officer from the career diplomat. estimates. Mr. Pal, who belongs to Home Minister included Na Singhji... Under the leader the Minister of the problems Navy and is a Rhodes Scho Mr. Garcetti’s closeness to The defence and security an Other Backward Class tional Cooperative Union of ship of Modiji, we are deter ‘Strengthening co-ops’ and challenges confronting lar. He also served on the Ca Mr. Biden is seen as a key dimensions have also been (OBC) community, object India (NCUI) chairman Di mined to make cooperatives He also promised that the the cooperative movement. lifornia Board of the Human factor in his nomination. growing. While bilateral ed to this, the police said. leep Sanghani; chairman and all cooperative institu Union government was com The Union government Rights Watch, a rights advo Having someone in New Del trade has been growing, the On July 6, Mr. Shankh and managing director of In tions more empowered,” Mr. mitted to strengthening the had carved out the new Mi cacy organisation that has hi who “can call Joe” is im trading relationship has had war again went to the Pal dian Farmers Fertiliser Shah tweeted in Hindi. cooperative movement in nistry for Cooperation, frequently criticised the In portant to both New Delhi challenges, especially family house. Following Cooperative (IFFCO) B.S. Na Officials added that even the country, the benefits of which earlier was a small de dian government’s rights and Washington. around data flows, agricultu this, Mr. Pal, along with kai and U.S. Awasthi, respec though Mr. Shah had not yet which would go to the grass partment in the Ministry of record. “We are excited that Presi ral commodities and prefe two others, thrashed Mr. tively; and National Agricul assumed charge of the Minis rootslevel cooperatives, it Agriculture and Farmers Mr. Garcetti, in a state dent Biden has nominated a rential trade status for India. Shankhwar with a stick. tural Cooperative Marketing try of Cooperation, he had said. Welfare. ment, said he was honoured reputed leader who has pro The two countries have to accept the nomination ven himself on several sought to develop their rela and would “forge partner fronts,” said M.R. Rangaswa tionship via multilateral fo ships and connections that mi, a Silicon Valleybased in rums (such as the U.N. Se Three LeT will help strengthen Los An vestor, who runs a diaspora curity Council) and smaller BJP wins big in U.P. block-level polls geles’ place on the world organisation called Indias “plurilateral” groupings militants stage”. If confirmed by the pora. “It speaks volumes to such as the Quad — India, the Senate, Mr. Garcetti would the importance of the U.S. U.S., Japan and Australia. State machinery used to capture posts, says SP; clashes reported in 17 districts killed in J&K replace Kenneth Juster, a India relationship that a Plans are in the works for a Trump appointee who was close and trusted ally of Pre summit level inperson Omar Rashid Yogi Adityanath govern Special Correspondent the Ambassador till January. sident Biden may be Ameri meeting of the Quad likely to LUCKNOW ment’s politics and schemes Srinagar The Embassy in New Delhi is ca’s point person in Delhi.” be held in Washington this The ruling BJP in Uttar Pra for public welfare have been Three local LashkareTai being run by interim Chargé The IndiaU.S. relation autumn. desh on Saturday claimed reflected in the party’s mas ba (LeT) militants were victory in 635 out of 825 sive victory,” Mr. Modi said. killed in an antimilitancy block pramukh posts in the Mr. Adityanath, in turn, operation of the security State even as the opposition said the victory was a result forces in Anantnag, south Vlogger’s wife challenges govt.’s move Samajwadi Party (SP) ac of the faith of the people in Kashmir, on Saturday. cused the State government Mr. Modi’s “mantra of Sabka “All the three slain were Press Trust of India respondents (Centre), she and contribute to the pro of misusing its administra Saath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka affiliated to the LeT. One New Delhi was deprived from living motion of tourism here. tive machinery to “forcefully Vishwas”. militant, identified as Arif YouTube vlogger Karl Ed with him, thereby violating Union Home Ministry offi capture” the posts in the Celebratory mode: Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and BJP The State police said inci Hajam from Anantnag, was ward Rice’s wife has ap her fundamental right to life cials had on Friday said the highintensity elections. leader Swatantra Dev Singh celebrating in Lucknow. * PTI dents of clashes, sloganeer involved in the killing of a proached the Delhi High and dignity as guaranteed New Zealand national has Meanwhile, the voting ing and scuffles were report Territorial Army soldier on Court challenging the Cen under Article 21 of the been restricted from enter and nomination for the polls from breaching the barri on 735 seats and the Apna ed in 17 districts. June 6, 2019,” Inspector tral government’s alleged Constitution. ing India till the next year for were marred by scuffles, cade near a polling booth. Dal in 14, while on 76 seats SP president Akhilesh Ya General of Police Vijay Ku “arbitrary and unreasona The plea, which is likely violating terms and condi clashes and firing in some Chief Minister Yogi Adi the BJP had friendly fights, dav alleged that the BJP used mar said. The three mili ble” decision to blacklist to come up for hearing next tions of his visa. He was districts, including Etawah tyanath said the BJP and its Mr. Adityanath said. its power to get votes in its fa tants were trapped at Ka him and deny him visa to en week, said petitioner Man found to be doing business where an officer of the rank ally, the Apna Dal, were set Prime Minister Narendra vour, and that block pra warigam village on ter India. isha Malik and her husband, activities on a tourist visa of Superintendent of Police, to win 635 seats. Out of the Modi congratulated his party mukh candidates and kshe Saturday. The petitioner said by vir popularly known as Karl and also violating other visa City, was allegedly slapped 825 seats that went to the workers and Mr. Adityanath tra panchayat members The two others were tue of denying a visa to her Rock, were YouTube vlog conditions, they had said while trying to prevent a polls in 74 districts, the BJP for the victory. “The benefits were openly kidnapped in identified as Basit Ahmad husband, who had been “ar gers and had visited most of without specifying the crowd of BJP supporters had candidates backed by it that the public got from the the State. and Suhail Ahmad. bitrarily blacklisted” by the India to capture its beauty violations. Will hold stir Repeal Defence Services Unions to hold against price stir against rise: Congress Ordinance, Raja tells PM Ordinance ‘Legal rights of workers being denied’ Special Correspondent Special Correspondent New Delhi Special Correspondent NEW DELHI With the spiralling fuel New Delhi A joint platform of 10 Cen prices coupled with the The Defence Services Ordi tral trade unions (CTUs) on food inflation hitting hou nance, 2021 (EDSO) snatch Saturday called for nation sehold budgets, the Con es the constitutional, demo wide protests on July 23 gress is planning an exten cratic and legal rights against the Essential De sive nationwide campaign available to civilian workers fence Services Ordinance, on the issue. in the defence establish 2021, and the larger go Sources said a series of ments and needs to be with vernment effort to priva press meets would be drawn, Communist Party of tise defence production. kicked off from next week India (CPI) general secretary “The CTUs note with with a press conference by D. Raja said in a letter to D. Raja concern that, simultane former Finance Minister P. Prime Minister Narendra ously, a substantial part of Chidambaram in Delhi. Modi on Saturday. grievances are ignored by the defence related pro The EDSO provides for the employer,” Mr. Raja duction is being out Assigned cities the dismissal of employees wrote. sourced to private sector, Senior leaders have been without even an inquiry, both indigenous and fo assigned a metropolitan ci which is against the consti Protesting employees reign, permitting 100% ty each to amplify the par tutional protection given to The employees of 41 ord FDI... The Ordinance bans ty’s message. a Central government em nance factories are protest the right to strike,” it said. As per the schedule, ployee. The Ordinance also ing against the government Leader of the Opposition in provides for imprisonment decision to reorganise the the Rajya Sabha Mallikar of any union leader calling factories into seven corpo jun Kharge would speak in for a strike and any em rations. Mumbai, Gaurav Gogoi in ployee participating in a In his letter, Mr. Raja Kolkata, Shashi Tharoor in strike. asked: “The government Chennai, Anand Sharma in “You will appreciate that has already assured the fed Jaipur, Manish Tewari in employees and their trade erations in writing that none Ahmedabad, Deepender unions resort to strike ac of the ordnance factories Hooda in Hyderabad, Sa tion as a last weapon when would be closed. Does the chin Pilot in Dehradun and all other means of protest/ government still stands by Kamal Nath in Lucknow. representation on genuine this assurance?” Big OBC representation in Cabinet: Adityanath It represents India, says U.P. CM special correspondent possible by giving power to Lucknow the backwards. “If Lohia ji Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister were here today, he would Yogi Adityanath on Saturday have been full of joy to see evoked the ideals of socialist his thoughts bearing fruit,” leader Ram Manohar Lohia, said Mr. Adityanath in a se considered an icon by the ries of tweets in Hindi. Opposition Samajwadi Par The U.P. CM, whose party ty, to state the efforts made banks on the consolidation by the BJP government for of the sizeable nonYadav the Other Backward Class OBC votes, said the repre (OBC) communities. sentation and participation Mr. Adityanath said of people envisioned by Lo Prime Minister Narendra hia and B.R Ambedkar were Modi had granted constitu being realised from “ sar- tional status to the OBC kaar to samaaj” or govern Commission and provided ment to society under the big representation to OBC leadership of Mr. Modi. leadership in his Cabinet. 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Press Trust of India Press Trust of India phasised that “COVID19 Social Justice Ministry supports appeal New Delhi New Delhi management can succeed Finance Minister Nirmala The Union government has only through a whole of go Damini Nath care authorities and vaccina Sitharaman on Saturday informed the Delhi High vernment and whole of so NEW DELHI tion centres to this effect. said India would share the Court that it has asked all ciety approach”. The Union Social Justice and Ms. Agarwal, an activist CoWIN platform with oth States and Union Territories The States were nonethe Empowerment Ministry ear and wheelchair user, said er nations for free, saying (UTs) to ensure strict com less at liberty to plan addi lier this week asked the she had to go to a West Delhi that humanitarian needs pliance with the national di tional public health mea Health and Family Welfare school for the first dose with outweigh commercial rectives for COVID19 man sures based on their local Ministry to ensure that care her two caregivers. benefits. agement and take necessary situation, it said. givers of persons with dis “To my utter shock, upon On the second day of the measures under the Disaster The Union government al abilities (PwD) are vaccinat reaching the Tilak Nagar ongoing G20 Finance Mi Management Act. so submitted that a letter was ed against COVID19 at the school, the people at the nisters and Central Bank An order was also issued addressed to the Chief Secre same centre as the PwD on vaccination centre refused Governors meeting, Ms. to them to consider the im taries of all States and Admi priority basis. to vaccinate my caregivers Sitharaman shared India’s plementation of targeted nistrators of UTs, stressing The Department of Em with the excuse that they successful experience in and prompt actions for CO effective management of CO powerment of PwD were not disabled and the integrating technology VID19 management until Ju VID19 by following adviso (DEPwD) under the Ministry vaccination drive was organ with inclusive service deliv ly 31, the Union government ries issued by the Home and wrote in an office memoran ised for PwD,” she said. ery during the pandemic, has said. Health Ministries. dum on July 7 that it had re She said her caregivers the Finance Ministry said The government also stat A Vacation Bench of the ceived an email from Anjlee were finally able to get the in a series of tweets. The ed that while the opening of High Court had initiated a Agarwal, a PwD, requesting vaccine after the interven CoWIN application was key activities after a decline in Fighting the virus: The Centre’s framework has a fivefold strategy for COVID19 management public interest litigation the facility. tion of senior officials. to vaccination efforts. COVID19 cases was essen — test, track, treat, vaccinate and comply with COVIDappropriate behaviour. * A.M. FARUQUI (PIL) petition last month af “Caregivers are required “I’m a person with high “In policies for recovery tial, States and UTs must en ter it took note of certain to come in close proximity support needs. There are session, FM discussed 3 ca sure that “the whole process The Union government trictions had to be based on work for implementation of photographs sent to one of with persons with disabili other PwD who cannot raise talysts of economic recov was carefully calibrated”. submitted that national di an assessment of the ground prompt and target action” the High Court judges on ties for providing support their voice like I did or write ery: #Digitalization #Clima The statement was made rectives for COVID19 man situation, the Union govern was also shared by the Union WhatsApp by an All India In services to PwDs to enable to the authorities. We re teAction & in a status report filed by the agement included face ment added that State/UT government with the States. stitute of Medical Sciences them to perform activities of main at risk if the people as #SustainableInfrastruc Union government through masks, social distancing, not authorities should ensure The framework, the go (AIIMS) doctor showing daily living. As such, it is im sisting us are not vaccinated. ture; shared India’s suc its standing counsel, Anil So spitting in public places, that there was “continuous vernment said, had a “five scant regard for COVID19 portant to ensure vaccina And many PwD are at grea cessful experience in inte ni, in connection with the working from home, stagger focus on containment ef fold strategy for effective protocols by street vendors tion of such caregivers ter risk of severe disease if grating technology with High Court’s suo motu pro ing of work/business hours, forts” and “uniformity in im management of COVID19”, in markets. alongside persons with dis they get infected,” she said, inclusive service delivery ceedings on violation of CO screenings and frequent plementing graded — test, track, treat, vaccinate The court had observed abilities,” the DEPwD wrote. adding that an order or in during the pandemic,” a VID19 protocols in various sanitisation. restrictions/relaxations”. and adherence to COVIDap that such breaches would The Health Ministry was structions to vaccination tweet from the Ministry markets in the national Clarifying that the deci The High Court was also propriate behaviour. only hasten the third wave of asked to issue instructions to centres was the need of the said. capital. sion to impose or ease res informed that the “frame The framework also em COVID19. all Central and State health hour.

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Special Correspondent Special Correspondent Ahmedabad Kolkata With COVID19 cases de The South Bengal Frontier clining, the Gujarat govern of the BSF arrested 30 wo ment on Friday announced men from Bangladesh who that schools for Standard were illegally crossing the XII and colleges for under international border bet Keeping track: States continue to test for COVID19 as the graduate programmes will ween January to July 10. Six tourism sector opens up. * SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR be allowed to reopen with Indian nationals, whom 50% class strength from Ju they described as touts for ly 15. However, the pre allegedly trafficking these Home Secretary Bhalla sence of students will be on women into the country, a voluntary basis and those were also arrested. not attending the classes According to BSF offi sounds note of caution will not face any adverse cials, most of the women action for their absence. were lured by these traf “We have decided to re fickers on the pretext of Second wave not yet over, he says open the education institu jobs or marriage. tions from July 15 in a Subhasree Raptan of the Devesh K. Pandey certain districts of Rajas phased manner with 50% Goranbose Bram Bikash NEW DELHI than, Kerala, Maharashtra, strength initially. All CO Kendra and Tafteesh, a col Union Home Secretary Ajay Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, VID19 norms will be en lective working against Bhalla on Saturday reviewed Uttarakhand and Himachal forced by the school and trafficking, said, “There the steps taken by State go Pradesh was over 10%, colleges who reopen their are scores of cases where vernments for checking the which was a cause for classes,” a State govern In good faith: Devotees waiting to offer prayers at the Lord Jagannath temple ahead of the annual Rath Yatra in Ahmedabad. survivors of trafficking are spread of COVID19 in hill concern. ment release said. While many wore masks, social distancing was not followed. * AP rescued from States like stations and other tourist The States were asked to Also, coaching centres CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Maharashtra and Delhi, destinations. follow the fivefold strategy for Standard IX onwards but such cases are not ta The overall management of testtracktreatvaccinate will be allowed to reopen ken up for interState of the situation and the vac and COVID appropriate with COVID19 norms, in investigation.” cination status in Goa, Hi behaviour. cluding maintaining dis She said the draft of the machal Pradesh, Kerala, “Adequate health infras tances and reduced partici HC orders inquiry into ‘medical negligence’ Trafficking in Persons (Pre Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Ta tructure preparedness [es pation of students. vention, Care and Rehabili Satyasundar Barik mil Nadu, Uttarakhand and pecially in rural, periurban Meanwhile, the State go email from a person identi treatment. Subsequently, medical treatment at VIM tation) Act, 2021 Bill has BHUBANESWAR West Bengal was discussed. and tribal areas] was also vernment has also decided fied as Gyanadutta Chouhan petitioner Mr. Chouhan had SAR and that needless not defined the role of the “The Union Home Secre advised, to tackle any poten to lift the night curfew in 10 The Orissa High Court has about lack of proper medical filed nine affidavits of per deaths had occurred as a re Anti Human Trafficking tary sounded a note of cau tial future surge,” it said. out of 18 urban areas amid ordered an inquiry into al facilities at VIMSAR and in sons whose close relatives sult. Stating that these were Units. tion in view of media re Among those who attend a sharp drop in daily new leged medical negligence in sensitivity shown by doctors purportedly suffered on ac only prima facie conclusions The Ministry of Women ports showing blatant ed the meeting were NITI COVID19 cases. Currently, the treatment of patients and paramedics. count of lack of proper or and the proof of the aver and Child Development disregard of COVIDappro Aayog Member (Health) V.K. a curfew between 10 p.m. during COVID19 pandemic On the direction of the timely treatment at VIMSAR ments would require to be (WCD) has invited sugges priate behaviour,” said a go Paul, Health Secretary Ra and 6 a.m. is in force in 18 in the Veer Surendra Sai In court, the Sambalpur Dis during the pandemic. established by a proper in tions for the draft. vernment release. jesh Bhushan, Indian Coun cities and towns. From July stitute of Medical Sciences trict Collector had constitut A Division Bench compris quiry, the HC appointed Ms. Raptan suggested Mr. Bhalla said the se cil for Medical Research Di 10, the night curfew will be and Research (VIMSAR) at ed a threemember commit ing Chief Justice S. Muralid A.B.S. Naidu, a former Dis that there be fasttrack cond wave was not yet over; rector General Balram in force in only eight major Burla, a premier Staterun tee to investigate the veracity har and Justice Savitri Ratho trict Judge, as inquiry officer courts for trafficking cases and the States should en Bhargava, the Chief Secre cities — Ahmedabad, Surat, medical institute in western of the allegations. The com observed that each of the to examine the instances set and emphasis on stream sure strict adherence to the taries, DGPs and Principal Rajkot, Vadodara, Bhavna Odisha. mittee in its report said there nine affidavits revealed pri out in the nine affidavits and lining the implementation protocols. Secretaries (Health) of the gar, Jamnagar, Junagadh The Orissa HC had re was no shortage of medicine ma facie that the victims did whether there was medical of the compensation pro The case positivity rate in eight States. and Gandhinagar. ceived a complaint through and no instances of lack of not receive the requisite negligence. cess for victims.

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Press Trust of India Bishwanath Ghosh iversity. So unpleasant is the member, most employees in New Delhi Kolkata situation now that an organi VisvaBharati got less salary Uttarakhand Chief Minister Santiniketan, whose econo sation called the Association for the month of May without Pushkar Singh Dhami called my largely depends on the for Protection of Democratic explanation and when a pro on Prime Minister Narendra VisvaBharati, is witnessing — Rights on Saturday filed an fessor sought to know the Modi on Saturday and according to teachers — a FIR at the Santiniketan police reason during an online fa sought his directions on the “human crisis” with the un station against the nonpay culty meeting, he was asked possible third wave of coro iversity yet to pay its staff for ment of salaries. Local media by the VC to take charge of navirus, the proposed kan the month of June. is pointing out how retired salary disbursement. A ver wad yatra and the Char Salaries in VisvaBharati lowerrung employees are bal showdown between the Dham Yatra against the Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami with Prime Minister are always paid on the last left with no money and are two followed and the delay in backdrop of the pandemic. Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Saturday. * PTI day of every month, but the unable to buy medicines. the salary was a result of that He also sought the esta salaries for June were yet to spat, the union member said, blishment of an All India In hill State, which generates the 300 mW Lakhwar multi be released until the evening ‘Informed the PM’ adding that the VC, during stitute of Medical Sciences electricity, cannot get free purpose project from which of July 10. What is surprising Many in the campus see the another meeting of faculty in Kumaon region on the power like the consumers in six States — U.P., Delhi, Ra is that the university has not delay as a fallout of the run members held during the lines of AIIMS, Rishikesh. the national capital, Mr. jasthan, Haryana, Uttarak put out any circular explain ning feud between Vice pandemic, had openly ridi In a tweet, Mr. Dhami said Dhami said AAP leader may hand and Himachal Pradesh ing the delay. Its PRO, the on Chancellor Bidyut Chakra culed teachers “for earning he sought the blessings of have his agenda but the only — will benefit. The project ly official there authorised to barty and the VisvaBharati fat salaries while sitting at the Prime Minister. “Sought agenda for the BJP is the has all the clearances and speak to the media, did not University Faculty Associa home”. his directions on the State’s State’s development and of work on it can begin after a respond to calls for com tion (VBUFA), which has This is not the first time Solution to yesterday’s Sudoku development, the possible fering the best to people. Cabinet Committee on Eco ment. been openly critical of the that salaries have been de third wave of COVID19, According to an official nomic Affairs by the Centre “This is an unprecedented VC. The Union has, from layed. Last year too, the dis Char Dham Yatra and kan release in Dehradun, Mr. gives its goahead, he said. situation. A human crisis is time to time, written to bursement was delayed dur wad yatra. The Prime Minis Dhami said an AIIMS in Ku building up in Santiniketan, Prime Minister Narendra Mo ing February, June and July. ter assured all possible help maon will give access to the Meets Ministers considering its economy de di, the Chancellor of the un The reason given was lack of for the State’s develop people of the region to The meeting lasted one pends on VisvaBharati. Peo iversity, bringing to his atten funds but the Education Mi ment,” he tweeted. world class medical facili hour and 15 minutes. ple have EMIs and rents to tion the alleged highhanded nistry insisted that there was The PMO also tweeted ties, adding the State go Mr. Dhami also met Un pay. Think of the elderly pen functioning of the VC and no such paucity and had pictures of the meeting. vernment will give land for ion Home Minister Amit sioners — how will they sur earlier this week had also pulled up the authorities. But On Delhi Chief Minister it. Shah and Union Housing vive, that too in these difficult raised the issue of nonpay this is the longest the em Arvind Kejriwal’s comments Mr. Dhami also sought and Urban Affairs Minister times,” said a professor who ment of salaries. ployees have remained asking why the people of the speedy implementation of Hardeep Singh Puri. has spent 25 years at the un According to a union unpaid. CM This PDF was originally uploaded to Brills Express Official (https://t.me/The_Hindu_Express) before anyone else. Don't forget to join backup channel @Thehindu000 A ND-NDE YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

DELHI THE HINDU 10 WORLD SUNDAY, JULY 11, 2021 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Afghanistan to rush troops to border Haiti asks U.S., UN for troops Taliban say they have taken over an arc of territory from the Iranian border to the frontier with China as fears of instability grow Agence France-Presse With the Taliban having Kabul routed much of northern Af U.S. is sending FBI and other agents to PortauPrince Afghan authorities prepared ghanistan in recent weeks, on Saturday to try to retake a the government holds little Agence France-Presse key border crossing seized more than a constellation of Port-au-Prince by the Taliban in a sweeping provincial capitals that must Haiti has asked Washington offensive that the insurgents largely be reinforced and re and the UN for troops to se claim has helped capture a supplied by air. cure its ports, airport and vast swath of the violence other strategic sites after the wracked nation. Severe strain assassination of President Jo As U.S. troops continued The air force was under sev venel Moise opened a power their withdrawal, the Taliban ere strain even before the Ta vacuum in the crisishit Ca said its fighters had seized liban’s lightning offensive ribbean nation, an official two crossings in western Af overwhelmed the govern said Friday. ghanistan — completing an ment's northern and west The U.S. has already said arc of territory from the Ira ern positions, putting furth it will send FBI and other nian border to the frontier er pressure on the country's agents to PortauPrince, Chaos reigns: Haitians gather in front of the U.S. Embassy in with China. limited aircraft and pilots. two days after Moise was the country’s capital PortauPrince on Friday. * AP It now held 85% of the On Thursday, President shot dead in his home. country, a Taliban official Joe Biden said the U.S. mili In the wake of the slaying tact with PortauPrince, but Friday that senior FBI and said on Friday, controlling tary mission would end on “we thought that mercenar did not specify whether mil other officials would be about 250 of Afghanistan's August 31. Afghan comman ies could destroy some in itary troops would be heading to the Caribbean as nearly 400 districts — a claim dos clashed with the insur frastructure to create chaos deployed. soon as possible. impossible to independently In the ruins: A journalist films the site of a bomb explosion in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday. gents this week in a provin ... During a conversation The UN did not imme The development came as verify, and disputed by the Police say they are investigating the explosion that killed multiple people.* AP cial capital for the first time, with the U.S. secretary of diately respond to a request questions swirled about who government. with thousands of people state and the UN we made for comment. A UN diplo could have masterminded On Friday Taliban spokes turday the authorities were Taliban's gains as having lit centres, an official at one fleeing QalaiNaw in north this request,” Elections Mi matic source had earlier in the audacious assassination, man Zabihullah Mujahid told deploying fresh troops to re tle strategic value, but the hospital in Kandahar — the west Badghis province. nister Mathias Pierre told dicated that a Security Coun with most members of a hit AFP their fighters had cap take Islam Qala post, the big seizure of multiple border country's secondlargest city On Friday, the Afghan De AFP. cil resolution was needed to squad of Colombians and tured the border town of Is gest trade crossing between crossings and the taxes they and the birthplace of the Ta fence Ministry said govern The U.S. State Depart do as the Haitians had asked. Americans either dead or in lam Qala on the Iranian fron Iran and Afghanistan. “They generate will likely fill the liban — said on Saturday do ment forces had “full con ment and Pentagon both Washington had already custody, and no clear motive tier and the Torghundi will be sent there soon,” he group’ coffers with new zens of wounded had been trol” of the city, but a local confirmed receiving a re signaled its willingness to made public. crossing with Turkmenistan. said. revenue. admitted in the past 24 official said on Saturday the quest for “security and in help the Haitian investiga Amid the uncertainty, Herat Governor spokes The Afghan government In a clear sign fighting was hours, including at least 15 insurgents had attacked vestigative assistance” and tion, and White House spo three men are being touted man Jilani Farhad said on Sa has repeatedly dismissed the getting closer to major urban service members. again during the night. said officials remain in con keswoman Jen Psaki added as potential leaders. China evacuates citizens from Afghanistan 9 killed in extremist attack in Foreign Minister set to discuss Afghan situation with counterparts from Russia, India, Pakistan Somalia’s capital, 8 injured Agence France-Presse ple who were later con fety of Chinese citizens in Af reported the state media ta bears unavoidable responsi Beijing firmed to be infected with ghanistan, the Chinese go bloid Global Times. bility for the current situa China evacuated 210 nation coronavirus, despite the air vernment has reminded In recent weeks, Beijing tion in Afghanistan.” Police claim Mogadishu Police Commissioner was target als from Afghanistan as U.S. line taking “topnotch epi citizens in Afghanistan to has harshly criticised what it Chinese Foreign Minister troops stepped up their with demic prevention measures” leave the country as soon as sees as a hasty and chaotic Wang Yi is set to discuss the Associated Press ber is bigger as some of the plotted by the terrorist drawal from the wartorn na during the flight and upon possible and provided neces withdrawal by Washington. deteriorating Afghan securi Mogadishu, Somalia victims were rushed to other group alShabab has target tion, the airline that carried landing, it added. sary assistance,” its Consular “The U.S. disregards its ty situation with counter A large explosion in Soma hospitals, such as the priv ed the Mogadishu police out the emergency chartered Affairs Department said in a responsibilities and duties parts from Russia, India, Pa lia’s capital killed at least ately owned ones,” he said. commissioner,” police spo flight said. COVID patients Wednesday social media and withdraws troops from kistan and numerous Central nine people and injured The alShabab extremist kesman Sadiq Adam Ali said. A Xiamen Airlines flight The Chinese Foreign Minis post. Afghanistan hastily, dump Asian countries at a meeting eight others, a health official group claimed responsibility It was the second such departed the capital Kabul try confirmed that recent re Chinese health authorities ing the mess and war on the of the Shanghai Cooperation said Saturday. for the attack. large explosion in the city for the city of Wuhan, Hubei turnees included coronavi reported 25 new imported Afghan people and countries Organisation next week. Dr. Mohamed Nur at the A Somali police spokes this month. A blast targeting province, on July 2 carrying rus patients and called on all coronavirus cases in Hubei in the region,” Foreign Minis The evacuation flight was Medina Hospital told repor man said Mogadishu’s Police a teashop killed at least 10 Chinese citizens who had nationals to leave Afghanis province on Wednesday, 22 try spokesman Wang Wen hailed as a patriotic victory ters that the toll reflected on Commissioner, Col. Farhan people last week. been stranded in Afghanis tan, without revealing furth of which were from the Ka bin told a routine briefing by Chinese social media us ly the dead and wounded Mohamud Qaroleh, was the Last month, a suicide tan, it said in a Thursday so er specifics of the evacuation bul flight. Friday. ers, with related trending who were taken to the facili target of the attack but he bomb attack at a military cial media post. flight. The flight was organised “The U.S., as the original hashtags gaining more than ty in Mogadishu where he was safe. “A suicide car bom base in Mogadishu killed at Among them were 22 peo “In order to ensure the sa by the Chinese government, culprit of the Afghan issue, 300 million views on Weibo. works. “I am sure the num ber with heavy explosives least 15 people. Bangladesh factory owner U.S. city removes two held after fire kills 52 Confederate statues It had employed children as young as 11 They had become the focus of protests

Agence France-Presse Agence france-presse mounted on horses — as a Dhaka Charlottesville crowd watched and The owner of a factory The southern U.S. city of cheered. No clashes were where 52 people died in a Charlottesville on Saturday immediately reported. fire was arrested for murder took down two statues ho Saturday as it emerged that noring Civil War generals for Mayor’s statement children as young as 11 had the proslavery Confederacy “Taking down this statue is been working there. which had become the focus one small step closer to the Police said Abul Hashem of protests, including a goal of helping Charlottes and four of his sons were deadly 2017 rally of white ville, Virginia, and America, among eight people de supremacists. grapple with the sin of being tained over the inferno, The statues of generals willing to destroy Black peo which broke out Thursday A view of the burnt factory Robert E. Lee and Thomas ple for economic gain,” and raged for more than a in Rupganj industrial town, “Stonewall” Jackson are Charlottesville Mayor Ni day. A separate inquiry has on Saturday. * AFP among hundreds of Confed kuyah Walker, who is Afri been launched into the use erate monuments in the Un canAmerican, told repor of child labour at the food erate murder,” the police ited States now widely con ters before the monuments’ factory. chief told AFP. sidered symbols of racism, removal. Jayedul Alam, police chief Before his arrest, Mr. even if their supporters ar Tensions over the fate of for Narayanganj district Hashem had told The Daily gue they are a historical the Lee statue led to vio where the factory is located, Star newspaper the fire legacy. lence in August 2017, when a said the entrance had been “may have been a result of Workers in the Virginia ci white nationalist drove his padlocked along with multi workers’ carelessness” and ty used a crane to remove car into a crowd of demon ple other breaches of safety a discarded cigarette could the statues — which depict strators in Charlottesville, regulations. “It was a delib have sparked the carnage. ed the men in uniform killing a woman. IN BRIEF Indianorigin aeronautical Iran: ‘cyber disruption’ engineer to fly into space hits transport

She will be part of Virgin Galactic flight Agence France-Presse Press Trust of India Tehran Houston Iran’s transportation Minis Black Sea drills showcase NATO-Ukraine relations Sirisha Bandla, a 34yearold try said Saturday a “cyber ABOARD USS ROSS aeronautical engineer, is set disruption” had affected its Ukraine and NATO have to become the third Indian computer systems and conducted Black Sea drills origin woman to head to website, while its the coun involving dozens of warships space when she flies as part try’s national railway com in a twoweek show of their of Virgin Galactic’s first fully pany denied reports of be strong defense ties and crewed flight test on ing hit by a cyber attack. capability following a Sunday. The disruption started confrontation between Ms. Bandla, who was before noon (0730 GMT), Russia’s military forces and a born in Guntur, Andhra Pra taking down the body’s British destroyer off Crimea desh, and brought up in Sirisha Bandla website and links associat last month. AP Houston, Texas, will join Sir ed with it, the Ministry said Richard Branson, the com Ms. Bandla will be astro in a statement reported by Bandits kill 35 villagers pany’s billionaire founder, naut no 004 and her flight state news agency IRNA. in northwest Nigeria and five others on board Vir role will be Researcher Ex It said “technical ex KANO Armed raiders killed at least gin Galactic’s SpaceShipT perience, according to her perts” were investigating 35 people in five villages in wo Unity to make a journey profile on Virgin Galactic. the issue and will an northwest Nigeria’s Zamfara to the edge of space from She will become the third nounce when they are State, police said on Saturday, New Mexico. Indianorigin woman to fly back up, without elaborat in the latest deadly attack to “I am so incredibly ho into space after Kalpana ing further. The website hit the violencetorn region. noured to be a part of the Chawla and Sunita Williams. was still inaccessible “Thirtyfive people were amazing crew of #Unity22, Ms. Bandla started in her around 5 p.m. (1230 GMT). killed by the bandits in the and to be a part of a compa role as the Vice President of The announcement five villages,” State police ny whose mission is to make Government Affairs and Re came a day after Fars news spokesman Mohammed space available to all,” she search Operations at Virgin agency reported “unprece Shehu told AFP. AFP tweeted. Galactic in January 2021. dented chaos” at stations. CM This PDF was originally uploaded to Brills Express Official (https://t.me/The_Hindu_Express) before anyone else. Don't forget to join backup channel @Thehindu000 A ND-NDE YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

THE HINDU DELHI SUNDAY, JULY 11, 2021 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 11 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE SNAPSHOTS Can schools be reopened during the pandemic? It is more than a year since the first nationwide lockdown to contain COVID19 in India started in March 2020, when schools were closed Tarun Bhatnagar mainly due to the biological 100,000 population and the duals are in the pipeline and difference of having fewer test positivity rate – could be could greatly increase access By the end of June 2021 over ACE2 receptors and that too helpful to categorise dis to testing in school settings. 150 million children in 19 mostly in the upper respira tricts. Pragmatic thresholds Protocols for contact tracing countries were either attend tory tract. These are the re for each will need to be de of infected students or staff, ing virtual classes or had no ceptors in human cells liberated upon by public quarantine, isolation, tem Life on Enceladus? schooling at all. It has been through which the spike pro health experts. Districts with perature checks and symp A study published in the more than a year since the tein of the virus binds to the the lowest case burden as tom screening should be in journal Nature Astronomy first nationwide lockdown to cells. Although mutations in well as positivity rate would place. analysed data collected by contain the COVID19 pan spike proteins have been be the ideal places for resum Younger children seem to Cassini spacecraft from the demic in India in March 2020 identified among the virus ing inperson classes. be less likely to get sick or giant water plumes erupting when schools were closed variants such as beta and del transmit the virus than teen from Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons. The study has and online classes came in ta, it is expected that chil Safe return plan agers and adults. Modelling concluded that these data vogue. Parents, teachers, ad dren will continue to be less We need to have a safe return studies indicate that reopen imply either microbial activity ministrators, governments susceptible as long as ACE2 plan. This would entail strin ing secondary schools will or processes not involving life and children themselves receptors remain the major gent adherence to universal impact community transmis forms but which are very have raised major concerns binding sites for the virus. masking for staff and stu sion more than reopening different from those known to over this potentially lifeal It is known that 90% of in dents, hand hygiene, physi primary schools. These find occur on Earth. The study thus tering decision for the fections among children re cal distancing (more so bet ings suggest that reopening holds the tantalising schoolgoing children. main asymptomatic or mild, ween students and staff than of primary schools should possibility of evidence of The recent second wave of and although the few chil between the students them take precedence over secon microbial life on Enceladus. the pandemic has made eve dren with severe disease will selves) and adequate ventila dary schools until the com ryone all the more anxious need hospital care, only 12% tion (keeping doors and win munity prevalence becomes and apprehensive about the require intensive care unit dows open, use of fans and relatively low to allow secon safety and wellbeing of chil management. Children with no air conditioning). Out dary schools to reopen. Vac dren. This situation has not underlying health conditions door areas may be used as cination of teachers and oth only led to the loss of educa could be at higher risk for The recent second countries where schools setting – have been reported classrooms, when possible. er school staff should be tion but also their social and severe disease. With a low in <> wave of the were functional at various le from schoolbased investiga Classroom routines will have prioritised. mental wellbeing with hith cidence of 12 per 100,000 pandemic has made vels clearly show that the tions in Australia, France, to be redesigned to limit stu It would not only in erto unknown longterm children, according to the In everyone all the more rate of COVID19 transmis Germany, Ireland, Singapore dent interaction inside and fluence transmission inside consequences. dian Academy of Pediatrics, anxious and apprehensive sion among students in and the U.S. However, attack outside classrooms, such as school premises but overall the most lifethreatening schools was much lower rates of around 15% were re staggered timetables for dif high vaccination coverage about the safety and Tipping point Lessons learnt complication that can occur than in the community. ported from Israel when ferent classes, fewer classes will reduce the COVID19 The current rates of plastic Moving beyond the emotion is called multisystem inflam wellbeing of children. These include studies schools reopened in mid per day, shorter duration of burden paving the way to emissions across the globe al conundrum, let us look at matory syndrome in chil from the U.S. of more than May 2020 and were attribut classes etc. High levels of wards safer schools. may trigger effects that it may what we have learnt over this dren (MISC) but most chil gested that children had a re 90,000 students and teach ed to poor implementation testing and contact tracing As parents, educators, not be possible to reverse, past year about COVID19 dren have recovered well latively higher infection rate ers in North Carolina, and ov of mitigation measures. We within schools would be crit health officials and public ad according to a study published and its impact on children so with few deaths mostly at during the second wave of er 20,000 students and staff also need to watch out for ical after reopening of ministrators now is the time in the journal Science. As of 2016, total emission of as to make a scientific ration tributable to management is the pandemic. However, we from 17 schools in rural Wis the emergence of variants schools. to ask not if our schools plastics into water bodies was ale towards the return of sues. did not see any rise in the ov consin. Researchers in Nor and the influence on trans Children are likely to re should reopen but how and between 9 and 23 million young pupils to the class The last nationwide sero erall proportion of COVID19 way, Salt Lake City and New mission and detection of the main asymptomatic even when we can make it hap metric tonnes per year. If rooms and hallways of survey (December 2020Ja positive children in the coun York City, U.S. found attack virus in children. when infected, and hence fa pen. The intellectual, social, things continue as they are, school buildings. nuary 2021) reported that the try. rates ranging from 0.5% to The level of community cility for routine testing of emotional and mental deve this is expected to double by Children get infected with proportion of children 1017 1.7% in schools suggesting transmission in a district students once or twice every lopment of our children is at 2025. Plastic pollution, the SARSCoV2 virus but the years old with prior infection Global studies that infected students do not should be the key parameter week is a must. Although stake. together with environmental overall risk of infection re was similar to the adults at Globally and in India schools tend to spread the virus at to guide a graded approach PCR testing is the current (Dr. Tarun Bhatnagar is a triggers can lead to mains much lower than that around 25%. This indicates have never been reported as school. Very low secondary to reopening of schools. For norm, antigen tests with high senior scientist at Chennai’s exacerbation of climate of the adults. Studies suggest that children were not at a the focal point of any super attack rates – the risk of this purpose, a matrix of two sensitivity and specificity National Institute of Epide- change, ocean biodiversity that children are half as sus higher risk of infection than spreader event. Data over spread from one infected indicators – the reported and authorised for children miology, an ICMR institu- loss, the study speculates. ceptible to infection as adults the adults. It has been sug the past year from several person to others in a closed number of cases per and asymptomatic indivi tion.) Cuba develops the world’s first conjugate vaccine for COVID19

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Cowessess First Nation. * REUTERS The story so far: The death of Father Stan Swamy, a Jesuit priest and tribal rights activist, while in judicial custody, has brought to focus the law under which he was Unmarked graves and imprisoned. The stringent nature of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), which renders it diﬃcult for one held under it to obtain bail, is being seen ‘cultural genocide’ as one of the principal reasons for Fr. Swamy’s death as a prisoner in a hospital. This has raised questions about What’s the history behind the the liberty of many others, including 15 others arrested in the Elgar Parishad case and incarcerated under the same remains of children found at former law, which is also India’s main antiterrorism legislation. residential school sites in Canada? What is the origin of the UAPA? Stanly Johny The Union government was considering a stringent law against calls for secession in the mid1960s. In March The story so far: In late June, Cowessess First Nation, 1967, a peasant uprising in Naxalbari imparted a sense of an indigenous organisation, found the remains of 751 urgency. On June 17, 1966, the President had promulgated people, mainly indigenous children, at the site of a the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Ordinance “to

former residential school in Saskatchewan province in provide for the more effective prevention of unlawful People walking past a church in Mumbai where a memorial mass is being held for Father Stan Swamy on July 6. * AP Canada. This, as per Cowessess, was “the most activities of individuals and associations”. significantly substantial” discovery of graves of Its stringency created a furore in Parliament when it Under Section 43D(5) and environmental How do UAPA provisions differ from regular indigenous children to date in the country. Indigenous was tabled, leading to the government dropping it. of the Unlawful security), and provisions criminal law? groups have uncovered two more sites at former Instead, the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, to prevent the use of funds Just like other special laws dealing with narcotic drugs residential schools in recent months, both in British which was not identical to the ordinance, was passed. Activities (Prevention) for terrorist purposes, and the nowdefunct laws on terrorism, the UAPA also Columbia, taking the number of unregistered graves Act (UAPA), bail including money modifies the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) to give it found since May 29 to 1,148. Prime Minister Justin What is its scope and how has it been expanded cannot be granted to laundering. more teeth. A remand order can be for 30 days instead of Trudeau said, “Canadians today are horrified and over the years? a suspect if the court The ban on the usual 15, and the maximum period of judicial custody ashamed of how our country behaved.” Indigenous The Act provided for declaring an association or a body is of the opinion that organisations was initially before the filing of a chargesheet is extendable from the organisations have urged his government to probe the of individuals “unlawful” if they indulged in any activity there are reasonable for two years, but from usual 90 days to 180 days. This extension, however, schools and expedite measures for reconciliation. This that included acts and words, spoken or written, or any 2013, the period of depends on the Public Prosecutor filing a report on the week, Cowessess First Nation signed an agreement with sign or representation, that supported any claim to bring grounds to believe proscription has been progress in the investigation and giving reasons for Saskatchewan and the federal government reclaiming its about “the cession of a part of the territory of India”, or that the charges are extended to five years. seeking another 90 days to complete it. The law also right to look after its own children. its “secession”, or which questions or disclaims the prima facie true After the Prevention of makes it more difficult to obtain bail. country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. Terrorism Act (POTA), What’s the residential school system? Prior to the UAPA’s enactment, associations were being 2002, was repealed, the What is the controversy about its bail provisions? The residential school system was a federal government declared unlawful under the Criminal Law (Amendment) UAPA was expanded to Under Section 43D(5) of the Act, bail cannot be granted initiative aimed at forcefully assimilating indigenous Act, 1952. However, the Supreme Court held that the include what would have to a suspect if the court is of the opinion that there are children into the European way of life. Started in the 19th provision on bans was unlawful because there was no been terrorist acts in reasonable grounds to believe that the charges are prima century, there were at least 130 residential schools across judicial mechanism to scrutinise the validity of any ban. earlier laws. The 2004 amendments were also aimed at facie true. A Supreme Court judgment on this has the country. The schools were funded by the federal Therefore, the UAPA included provisions for a Tribunal giving effect to various antiterrorism resolutions of the clarified that this meant that the court considering bail government’s Department of Indian Affairs and run by which has to confirm within six months the notification United Nations Security Council. should not examine the evidence too deeply, but must go churches, mostly the Catholic Church. declaring an outfit unlawful. In 2012, there was a set of amendments, which was by the prosecution version based on broad probabilities. In 1883, Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald In its present form, the Act, after the amendments in notified from early 2013, seeking to bring the UAPA in line This means that the onus is on the accused to show that defended the system in Parliament. “When the school is 2004 and 2013, covers the declaration of associations as with various requirements of the Financial Action Task the case is false but without inviting the court to evaluate on the reserve, the child lives with its parents, who are unlawful, punishment for terrorist acts and activities, Force, an intergovernmental body, to combat money the available evidence. This is why human rights savages ... It has been strongly pressed on myself, as the acts threatening the country’s security, including its laundering and terrorism financing. In 2019, the Act was defenders feel that the provision is draconian, virtually head of the Department, that Indian children should be economic security (a term that covers fiscal and amended to empower the government to designate rendering it impossible for anyone to obtain bail until the withdrawn as much as possible from parental influence, monetary security, food, livelihood, energy ecological individuals as terrorists. completion of the trial. and the only way to do that would be to put them in central training industrial schools where they will acquire the habits and modes of thought of white men,” he said. An amendment to the Indian Act in 1894, under Prime Minister Mackenzie Bowell, made attendance at Cauvery and the row over Mekedatu project these schools compulsory for indigenous children. They were forcefully taken away from their families. Between 1883 and 1996, an estimated 150,000 indigenous children Why are Karnataka and Tamil Nadu sparring over a proposed dam in the river basin and what lies ahead? were sent to these schools. Many of them never reunited with their families. T. Ramakrishnan contended that the project will not affect the interests of Tamil Nadu farmers. Murray Sinclair, who What happened to The story so far: On July 6, Karnataka Chief Minister headed the Truth and the children? B.S. Yediyurappa said in Bengaluru that his government Why is Tamil Nadu opposed to it? In the residential would go ahead with the longpending Mekedatu dam Tamil Nadu feels that Karnataka, through the project, will Reconciliation schools, the children project in the Cauvery Basin to cater to the drinking water impound and divert flows from “uncontrolled Commission, said the were not allowed to needs of the Bengaluru Metropolitan City and catchments” to it, a component which was taken into number of deaths in the speak their language or surrounding areas. On the same day, in New Delhi, Tamil account by the Tribunal in the 2007 order while arriving residential school practise their culture. Nadu’s Water Resources Minister Durai Murugan met at the water allocation plan for the State. As per an SUDHAKARA JAIN system could be ‘well Many of them were Union Minister for Jal Shakti, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, * estimate, around 80 tmc ft of water flows annually to emotionally, physically and impressed upon him not to grant Centre’s clearance Tamil Nadu, thanks to the catchments including the area beyond 10,000’ and sexually abused. for the project. This was preceded by a July 3 letter Mr. thousand million cubic feet (tmc ft) at the cost of Tamil between Kabini dam in Karnataka and Billigundulu The Truth and Yediyurappa wrote to his Tamil Nadu counterpart M.K. Nadu. The enhanced quantum comprised 4.75 tmc ft for gauging site on the interState border, and the area Reconciliation Stalin, calling for talks on the subject. However, the latter meeting drinking water and domestic requirements of between Krishnaraja Sagar dam in Karnataka and the Commission, set up in did not explicitly react to Mr. Yediyurappa’s offer of Bengaluru and surrounding areas. gauging site. As the upper riparian State has adequate 2008, estimated that some 4,100 children attending negotiations, even as he explained why Tamil Nadu infrastructure even now to address the water needs of these schools either died or went missing. The continued to oppose the project. Mr. Stalin has called an What is Karnataka planning? Bengaluru, there is no need for the Mekedatu project, Commission said it was impossible to reach a conclusion allparty meeting in Chennai on July 12. Encouraged by the Supreme Court verdict, Karnataka, according to Tamil Nadu. The Mekedatu project also does on the exact number of deaths because of the schools’ which sees the order as an endorsement of its stand, has not find mention in the Tribunal’s final order or the burial policy and poor recordkeeping. In most cases, the What do the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal and set out to pursue the Mekedatu project. Originally Supreme Court judgment. Besides, given the unpleasant authorities did not even hand over the bodies of the the Supreme Court say? proposed as a hydropower project, the revised Mekedatu experiences that it has had with Karnataka in securing its children to their families. The Canadian government’s The Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal, in its final order on dam project has more than one purpose to serve. share of the Cauvery water over the years, Tamil Nadu is Indian Affairs policy was to “hold the schools February 2007, made allocations to all the riparian States Estimated to cost ₹9,000 crore, the project envisages the wary of the assurances of the other side. responsible for burial expenses when a student died at — Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu, apart from the construction of a reservoir of 67.16tmc ft capacity, which school”. The Commission wrote, “Parental requests to Union Territory of Puducherry. It also stipulated will come up about 4 km away from the KarnatakaTamil What happens next? have children's bodies returned home for burial were “tentative monthly deliveries during a normal year” to be Nadu border. A hydropower plant of nearly 400 MW has Tamil Nadu’s petitions against the project are pending generally refused as being too costly.” The children died made available by Karnataka to Tamil Nadu. also been proposed. with the Supreme Court. The project is yet to get mainly due to tuberculosis, malnutrition and other Aggrieved over the final order for different reasons, the The Karnataka government has argued that the environmental clearance from the Centre. A way out can illnesses caused by the inhuman conditions inside the States had appealed to the Supreme Court. In February proposed reservoir will regulate the flow to Tamil Nadu be found if the two parties agree to the idea of a joint schools. Murray Sinclair, a former judge and Senator 2018, the court, in its judgment, revised the water on a monthly basis, as stipulated by the Tribunal and the execution, operation and maintenance of the project or a who headed the Commission, said recently that the allocation and increased the share of Karnataka by 14.75 Supreme Court. This is why Mr. Yediyurappa has third party’s participation. actual number of deaths could be “well beyond 10,000”. Indigenous organisations have also claimed that the actual number is more than the official estimates. How has the Canadian government responded? Are COVID19 curbs telling on immune systems? In 2008, Prime Minister Stephen Harper issued the first formal governmentlevel apology to the indigenous community for the residential schools. The Amid a gradual easing of lockdowns, why are some countries reporting a higher number of respiratory infections? governmentappointed Truth and Reconciliation Commission gathered some 7,000 statements from Ramya Kannan patterns of these diseases may have consequences for the some exposure to the virus. If mothers are not exposed, it survivors of the schools to prepare a detailed report timing and severity of future outbreaks,” it states. leaves the baby unprotected, and if it is not very severe, uncovering the truth behind the system. It also made 94 The story so far: As countries start lifting curbs Gagandeep Kang, Professor of Microbiology, Christian children can be supported through the infection, explains recommendations for reparation and reconciliation. The imposed on societies due to the COVID19 pandemic, Medical College, Vellore, explains: “Basically, when you Dr. Kang. A monoclonal antibody is used to treat RSV. In Commission report, published in 2015, concluded that news reports have indicated higher rates of respiratory are constantly exposed to infectious agents, what you are adults, an outbreak of seasonal influenza is expected. the school system amounted to a “cultural genocide”. infections, even unseasonal diseases such as influenza doing is boosting the immune response in the human While lockdowns, as they reduce the chances of The recommendations included independent and the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). Doctors have body. If you don’t see the bugs you normally see, there is transmission, might affect other respiratory infections, is investigations into the crimes of the past and measures called this the “immunity debt” brought on by a possibility that there are unseasonal outbreaks, and it possible that there might be a rash of other infections as to protect Aboriginal rights and culture. nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) put in place to with greater severity than usual.” well, for instance, gastrointestinal (GI) infections? Ashish Mr. Trudeau had promised during the campaign that reduce the spread of the SARSCoV2 virus. Q. Sue Huang, Tim Wood and others record in Nature Bavdekar, a Punebased paediatric gastroenterologist, addressing the indigenous question would be central to Communications that New says this may be possible, although data to support it is his agenda. But indigenous groups say the federal What is ‘immunity debt’? Zealand, which has seen a not available in India. “We do not have very good data on government has been slow in its response to the The NPIs, including social distancing, use of masks, and number of RSV cases, has a this. In fact, we don’t have data on the number of cases of implementation of the Commission’s recommendations. hand hygiene, were seen as being effective in breaking wellestablished influenza RSV too, but we will know about GIrelated infections in a Several First Nations, which are using the chain of transmission of the SARSCoV2. During the circulation pattern with few months,” he says. “This is such an unusual groundpenetrating radar technology to mark human pandemic, they have been employed to do exactly that, peak incidences in the phenomenon that has occurred. But I don’t think the remains buried underground, have asked for and have succeeded at varying levels in countries, winter months. change of season will have longterm epidemiological government help in quickly uncovering graves. The depending on the level of compliance. “Remarkably, influenza effects, they will go back to the regular seasonal impact in Trudeau government had set aside 27 million Canadian However, they have had unintended consequences for virus circulation was almost a while.” dollars to search for graves, but did not release the funds other respiratory infections as well. Rachel E. Baker et al nonexistent during the until after the findings of the remains in British Columbia have highlighted the issue in a Proceedings of the 2020 winter, a 99.9% Should there be a rethink on lockdowns? were announced earlier this year. National Academy of Sciences of the United States of reduction compared with previous years,” the report Despite the huge social and economic costs, lockdowns America (PNAS) paper titled ‘The impact of COVID-19 said. They postulated that the country’s use of stringent and social distancing have shown demonstrable success Has the Catholic Church apologised? nonpharmaceutical interventions on the future dynamics lockdowns and border controls had resulted in in containing the pandemic. But how stringent should The Commission also asked the Catholic Church to issue of endemic infections’. America is among the nations substantial reduction in contact between individuals, lockdown measures be in future? an apology and take steps for reconciliation. After the seeing an increase in the number of RSV cases in the leading to the fall in the number of cases in 2020. The Nature Communications article calls for a latest discovery of graves, Pope Francis said “the sad infant population. “Nonpharmaceutical interventions reassessment of the role of NPIs and an analysis to discovery further raises awareness of the pains and (NPIs) have been employed to reduce the transmission of Is the impact only on respiratory viruses or on identify the most effective components to prevent sufferings of the past”, but stopped short of issuing an severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 other viruses as well? respiratory virus transmission and infection. This might apology. In 2018, the Canadian Conference of Catholic (SARSCoV2), yet these measures are already having RSV can be severe in very young infants, but it is yield “new and sustainable interventions that can Bishops said the Pope could not personally apologise for similar effects on other directly transmitted, endemic commonly a winter infection. Babies gain some minimise and prevent seasonal and epidemic respiratory the residential school system. diseases. Disruptions to the seasonal transmission protection from mothers, but the mother must have had viral illnesses in the future”. CM This PDF was originally uploaded to Brills Express Official (https://t.me/The_Hindu_Express) before anyone else. Don't forget to join backup channel @Thehindu000 A ND-NDE YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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THE RAJAPAKSAS Four brothers in one government

ILLUSTRATION: R. RAJESH coherent nor formidable yet. With Basil joining the govt. The pressure often emerges from within the administra as Finance Minister, tion, manifesting in frequent the Sri Lankan Cabinet clashes between different in terest groups, their loyalties, has five Rajapaksas, four and in their clamour for in brothers and one from fluence. President Gotabaya is un the next generation der considerable pressure. He must prove to his suppor ters that he is the “doer” they Meera Srinivasan backed. Whether the mili tary men — over two dozen — o track the Rajapaksa he appointed to key adminis family tree is to track trative posts, or the bureauc Tthe most important po racy, with sections reported sitions in the Sri Lankan go ly feeling sidelined, will help vernment. With the recent him accomplish the urgent appointment of Basil Raja tasks ahead of him remain to paksa, the youngest of the be seen. He has not ruled out In Focus Rajapaksa brothers, as the a second term. country’s new Minister of Fi As for Mr. Basil, his sup B At the centre of Sri nance, Sri Lanka’s first family porters see him as the coun Lanka’s has further fastened its clasp try’s leader in waiting. They Rajapaksa on power. are not perturbed by the fact brand of The Cabinet has five Raja that he is also an American politics is paksas — President Gotabaya citizen, or that he faced cor Prime Minister and former Rajapaksa (who is also De ruption allegations in the two-time fence Minister), Prime Minis past. President ter Mahinda Rajapaksa, Irri CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC A 2007 U.S. Embassy ca Mahinda gation Minister Chamal their respective bids to pow hinda to the post. However, working behind the scenes, tabaya wielding greater pow ble published by WikiLeaks Rajapaksa Rajapaksa, Basil Rajapaksa, er in future. with the Supreme Court rul While Mahinda is still building their new party, the er as Executive President, called him “Mr. Ten per B Gotabaya and PM’s son and Sports Mi At the centre of Sri Lanka’s ing that the move was illegal, their repository of Sri Lanka Podujana Peramu only enhanced by the 20th cent”, citing commissions he Rajapaksa, nister Namal Rajapaksa. The Rajapaksa brand of politics is Mr. Mahinda was forced to na (SLPP or People’s Front), Amendment passed by his allegedly took from govern who was the government has a few more, Prime Minister and former resign, in less than eight political capital, enticing willing defectors government in October ment contracts. In his back Defence Gotabaya has Secretary in holding junior ministerial twotime President Mahinda weeks after his sudden ap from the Opposition, crafting 2020. And last week, Mr. Ba ers’ view, he is the “saviour” the Mahinda posts and key positions in Rajapaksa. Though his father pointment. displaced him from its poll campaign and skilful sil, 70, took over the finance the country needs. administra- staterun institutions. They D.A. Rajapaksa was a promi A year later, the Rajapak being the sole leader ly ensuring their return to portfolio from Mr. Mahinda, Meanwhile, the youngest tion, is now remind sceptics of “family nent politician in the island’s sas did capture power with a and consolidation of power, who has, in turn, been given Rajapaksa in the Cabinet, Mr. the President bandyism”, a term common southern region, it was Mr. resounding victory in the even as Basil enjoys in both the 2019 presidential a newly created, but appa Namal, 35, and projected as and Mahinda ly used in Sri Lanka in the Mahinda who elevated the fa presidential polls. Except, it greater influence as a and 2020 parliamentary rently less powerful Econom Mr. Mahinda’s political heir, is the Prime Minister past, to refer to the Bandara mily’s profile to the national was a new Rajapaksa at the chief strategist elections. ic Policies and Planning is seen to be working hard, naike ruling clan. Together, and international arena. As forefront. A twoterm cap on If Mr. Mahinda’s former Ministry. both within the scope of his B CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC While the Rajapaksas in govern the “war victor” under Presidency, introduced by terms in power, from 2005 to Ministries — he holds a state Mahinda and Gotabaya are ment control a substantial whose leadership the LTTE the SirisenaWickremesinghe 2015, were marked by his po Economic challenges ministry too — and outside. prominent chunk of the budget and pol was decimated, he became administration, barred Mr. But minorities feared him. werful leadership, with Mr. At one level, it may seem like Tapping the social media au faces in icy. For the near 22million the camp’s reliable political Mahinda from contesting for Mr. Gotabaya is not only cre Basil [then a Presidential Ad a game of musical chairs dience that he steadily built public, Basil is people of the country, this mascot with wide appeal in the country’s highest office. dited with helping defeat the viser and Economic Develop played by members of the over the last few years, he seen to be means being steered by one the country’s Sinhala majori LTTE but is also linked to sev ment Minister] and Mr. Gota Rajapaksa clan, each with communicates regularly and the organisation powerful family. One that de ty south. ‘The doer’ eral allegations of rights vio baya [then Secretary to the their own, distinct strength clearly, drawing many young man, who rives political legitimacy Following a decade in of With a class of professionals lations during and after the Ministry of Defence] report and baggage. But read within supporters. Sporting the tra played a key from its core support base of fice, he was defeated by his and elite businessmen prop war. He is accused of having ing to him, 2019 brought out the larger context of the demark maroon shawl worn role in SinhalaBuddhist national former colleague Maithripala ping him up as a fresh face run “death squads” targeting a different dynamic among country’s economic crisis, by his father and two uncles, building their ists, with a known suspicion Sirisena, who defected to and “doer”, Mr. Gotabaya Ra dissidents, including journal the brothers. While Mr. Ma the challenge of the pandem Mr. Namal too is said to have party, SLPP of Tamil and Muslim minori form an unlikely coalition japaksa, 72, hit the campaign ists. He has denied the allega hinda is still their repository ic’s third wave, and a grow set his eyes on the country’s ties and an unmistakable with the Opposition and be trail promising “vistas of tions, but is yet to inspire of political capital, Mr. Gota ing disenchantment among top office. aversion to their rights. came President in 2015. At prosperity and splendour” confidence among minori baya displaced him from the people, including Rajapaksa Amid this apparent con For the family, this means that time, Mr. Mahinda may that found wide resonance ties as their emphatic vote position of sole leader, and voters, in the face of acute test within the family, Presi a seat at the country’s helm, have taken a step back, just among Sinhala Buddhist vo against him showed. There is Mr. Basil commanded grea economic distress is bound dent Gotabaya, speaking at a even if it must navigate briefly, only to bounce back ters. Monks supporting him little indication that Presi ter influence as a chief to test the brothers’ collec public event in March, said mounting challenges facing at the earliest opportunity. likened the former military dent Gotabaya worries about strategist. tive political mettle. the Rajapaksa siblings stand the administration — at a He saw one in October 2018, man to Adolf Hitler, and his how minorities perceive Appointed as Prime Minis Ensuring smooth gover “firmly united”, and vowed time when the country is still during Sri Lanka’s infamous brother Mr. Basil called him a him. ter after the August 2020 nance at such a time is only they would take Sri Lanka emerging out of its long civil “constitutional crisis”, when “Terminator” who would While Mr. Mahinda and general elections, the 75 one of their problems, as pol forward. Despite differences war and into a fastaggravat President Sirisena sacked end corruption. The re Mr. Gotabaya were promi yearold Mr. Mahinda was re itical pressures surface pe and fissures, the brothers ing economic crisis — and then PM Ranil Wickremes marks, obviously, were nent faces in public, Mr. Ba legated to the second spot, riodically, even if not from have indeed stood together preparing the ground for inghe and appointed Mr. Ma meant as compliments. sil, relatively less visible, was with younger brother Mr. Go the Opposition that is neither so far.

DIDI KITEX GROUP A bump in the road Business and politics

Chinese authorities are investigating the company over its use of data Alleging harassment, the Keralabased group is shifting investments out of State

Ananth Krishnan lowed passengers to choose K. A. Martin candidates in all the 19 to be driven by “verified wards of the panchayat. It hat was meant to party members” as it identi itex Group, a Kerala won 17 of the 19 council be a moment of fied which drivers were based business group seats, stunning both the Left Wpride for one of members of the Communist Kwith a market capital Democratic Front, led by China’s Internet giants Party. isation of around ₹930 crore the CPI(M), and the UDF. turned, in a matter of days, Following the Didi IPO, that makes a range of pro Since then, the group has in into an epic carcrash. On authorities have said they ducts from garments to cur creased its political pre June 30, the ridehailing app will tighten oversight on ry powder, has run into a sence in the State. Didi, which dominates the how companies can list standoff with the State go In the 2020 local bodies China market, raised $4.4 overseas. The Cyberspace vernment in recent weeks elections, Twenty20 won 18 billion in its much anticipat Administration of China, over raids at one of its facto of the 19 seats in the Kizhak ed listing on the New York which is leading the battle to ries. kambalam panchayat. It al Stock Exchange, the biggest tame tech companies citing Kitex, which also found so spread its influence to Chinese listing since Alibaba their use of personal data, is ed a political organisation neighbouring panchayats — raised a record $25 billion in now considering “a new reg that won several seats in the Mazhuvannoor, Aikaranad 2014. Didi’s IPO valued the ulation requiring companies 2015 and 2020 local body and Kunnathunad, where it company at $73 billion. with more than 1 million us elections, has alleged ha won a comfortable majority. Within a week, Didi Shanghai at the last minute. million drivers, three times ers’ data to apply for a cy rassment by government tations from other States as Mr. Sabu, looks after ex Twenty20 also tested its would have not only lost A number of investigations as many drivers as on Uber bersecurity review before agencies. well as Bangladesh. ports to the U.S. popularity in the May 2021 more than onefifth of its into tech companies then (although Uber is valued seeking listing overseas”, On Friday, Telangana In The garments company is Assembly election, though market value, but found it followed, with regulators higher). After a bruising bat the Partyrun Global Times dustries Minister K.T. Rama Raids at factory about a quarter century old. none of its candidates made self facing the threat of law taking aim at both monopo tle for the China market reported. “The government Rao, after meeting a delega He said he was “disappoint The company had com it to the Assembly. suits from angry U.S. inves listic practices and the with Uber, Didi emerged on will not allow internet giants tion from the company ed” with Kerala where it is plained of harassment from While Twenty20 ap tors as Chinese authorities, wealth of data that compa top, acquiring its rival Uber to become rulesmakers of headed by managing direc hard to run businesses. In the government in the past peared to be gaining politi days after the IPO, said they nies have accumulated. China in 2016. Uber is data collection and usage,” tor Sabu M. Jacob, an June, State agencies raided as well. One notable inci cal mileage, P.T. Thomas, of were investigating the com Didi’s story began in among its major investors the newspaper said. nounced that Kitex Group Kitex Garments factory pre dent in 2012 involved the the Congress party, accused pany over its use of data, cit 2012, when founder Cheng today, along with SoftBank, China’s tech giants have will invest ₹1,000 crore in mises 11 times. Most of the Kizhakkambalam pan the company of being main ing privacy and national se Wei launched an app in Beij Alibaba and Tencent. seen “a combined $823 bil Warangal. raids lasted three to four chayat, which served a stop ly responsible for polluting curity concerns. On July 9, ing for hailing taxis, called lion wiped from their mar On June 29, Mr. Jacob said hours. The 26yearold com memo notice on the gar the Kadambrayar, a river Chinese regulators then Didi Dache. In 2015, the Roadblocks ket value since a February the group was withdrawing pany was “being treated like ments unit following com that is a drinking water took an extraordinary step company merged with In 2018, Didi’s safety proto peak”, according to Bloom from a proposal to invest a band of thieves and scoun plaints from residents in the source for thousands of peo of banning the country’s another hailing app, Kuaidi cols became a matter of berg, coinciding with the ₹3,500 crore to build an ap drels”, he said, and pointed neighbourhood about ef ple in Kizhakkambalam and biggest ridehailing app Dache. Thus was born Didi wide debate in China. A wo raft of measures aimed at parels park and three indus out that Kerala was almost at fluent from the dyeing and neighbouring areas. A reso from registering new users, Kuaidi, later renamed Didi man using its hitcharide tightening control including trial parks (Thiruvananthap the bottom in the “ease of bleaching units flowing into lution was also passed in the as well as removing 25 of its Chuxing (or Didi, for short). service was murdered by a antitrust investigations. uram, Kochi and Palakkad) doing business” rankings in waterbodies. The then State District Development Com apps from app stores. Didi expanded beyond driver in Shenzhen, and In the last 10 years, as with a total job potential of the country. government under the Con mittee, backed by two other An uncertain fate now taxis to a range of services, three months later that year tech companies grew rapid 35,000. The proposal was Kitex Group was founded gressled United Democratic MLAs, to have a special ses awaits Didi, which has from carpools to even luxu another woman was raped ly, data regulation in partic submitted by the group at 53 years ago by M.C. Jacob, Front (UDF) negotiated a sion on pollution caused by pledged to cooperate with ry limos. Today, Didi cor and murdered by a driver in ular has become a priority Ascent Kerala (investors’ who passed away in June truce to allow operations to the company. the authorities. The rise and ners a dominant share of the Zhejiang. Both drivers were issue for President Xi Jinp conference) in January 2011, aged 78. His son Bobby continue. Then in 2013, Ki With Twenty20 securing sudden fall of Didi is the lat market in China — estimates sentenced to death, and the ing and the Party, notes San 2020. The group, based in M. Jacob heads the Anna Ki tex Group formed Kizhak political space, many have est episode of a tugofwar range from 80 to 90% — company suspended the tosh Pai, an honorary fellow Kizhakkambalam, about 25 tex group with domestic op kambalam Twenty20, a vo described the present deve between the Communist along with an expanding hitch service. at the Institute of Chinese km east of Kochi, has a erations as well as exports to luntary body using CSR lopments as a political rival Party and big tech compa global footprint in 16 coun The company promised Studies in New Delhi who string of enterprises with a West Asia and Europe. The funds with the declared aim ry between Kitex and main nies, which burst into global tries, with a presence across to tighten its safety proto studies Chinese regulatory total sales of around ₹1,700 group manufactures alumi of turning Kizhakkambalam stream parties. Others have attention in November Latin America, as well as in cols. It also rolled out a ser issues. “This is a pattern we crore. Kitex Group employs nium products, including panchayat into “the best in said corporations taking up when the IPO of Alipay, the Australia, Japan and Russia. vice the following year seen have seen, from Alipay to Di around 15,000 people, pressure cookers, curry India” by 2020. political space would be de financial payments arm of It has close to 500 million as aimed at pleasing the di. Data, for the party, is be drawn from across India. powders and school bags. In the 2015 local bodies trimental to the democratic Alibaba, was suspended in active users and around 15 Communist Party, that al coming a national treasure.” Mr. Jacob said Kitex had invi Kitex Garments, headed by elections, Twenty20 fielded values of society. CM This PDF was originally uploaded to Brills Express Official (https://t.me/The_Hindu_Express) before anyone else. 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Fuel demand INTERVIEW | RAJIV MITTAL rebounded in Services panel charts roadmap India in June ‘Water market gaining

Press Trust of India to double exports in five years New Delhi traction in India, abroad’ Fuel demand rebounded in Export promotion council seeks incentives for sector, parity with merchandise June after slumping to a Our order book gives us 3x revenue visibility: Wabag MD ninemonth low in the pre K. Bharat Kumar human skills,” said Mr. Da vious month as curbs to Chennai var. “In education services, N. Anand Tell us about your ders contributing to this or stop the spread of the pan The Services Export Promo we had some 45,000odd fo performance in Q1 of FY22? der book are O&M contracts demic were eased, helping tion Council (SEPC) is pre reign students in FY1920. Chennaibased Va Tech Wa ■ By and large, we are en of Agra and Ghaziabad un economic activity and mo paring a roadmap to achieve We could aim to double that bag Ltd., a pureplay water suring operational continui der One City, One Operator bility to pick up. doubling of services exports within 35 years.” technology multinational ty at our O&M sites, as water model, our hybrid annuity Fuel consumption rose in the next five years, said firm that offers a portfolio of and sanitation falls under es model (HAM) projects in Kol 1.5% to 16.33 million tonnes Chairman Maneck E. Davar. ‘Vital part of economy’ solutions across water and sential service. As far as engi kata and Patna, our Jeddah in June from a year earlier Separately, the SEPC has Stressing the need for policy wastewater treatment, neering, procurement and Airport 2 sewage treatment and by 8% over May 2021, urged the government to en backing, Mr. Davar said, braved the COVID19 pan construction sites are con plant in the Kingdom of Sau data from the Petroleum sure that the new foreign “The perception is that ser demic and posted doubledi cerned, we are ensuring op di Arabia and Ipswich Biel Planning and Analysis Cell trade policy, being formulat vices don't require any sup git growth last fiscal. MD Ra- erations in our construction water treatment plant in of Ministry of Petroleum ed, also includes incentives In focus: The council has tagged tourism and hospitality, port or incentives from the jiv Mittal discusses how the sites with minimal disrup Switzerland. and Natural Gas showed. for services exports by ac and medical value travel as ‘champion’ sectors. * FILE PHOTO government, which is not firm secured an order book tion. However, we are hope Petrol sales rose 5.6% cording parity to the sector correct. Services form a very of ₹9,500 crore. Excerpts. ful that our Q1 performance What is the capex for the yearonyear to 2.4 million with merchandise exports, hospitality, logistics and ties in India; if we wish to at vital part of our economy.” would be better compared current year and revenue tonnes. It was up 21% from he said. The current trade medical value travel as tract other companies to set Acknowledging that ma How did you manage to stay with the corresponding pe outlook for FY22? May’s 1.99 million tonnes. policy, whose validity was to ‘champion’ sectors meriting up such facilities for enter nufacturing faced a very afloat during the second riod last year. ■ We have always been an Diesel — the most used have ended in March 2020, additional focus. tainment technology across competitive environment wave of the pandemic? asset light organisation and fuel in India — rose 12% has been extended till Sep “Take the example of Net the country over the next globally and therefore re ■ As you would have seen How do you foresee the rest the same will be our focus from May, but was down tember this year. flix, which recently an five years, we have to under quired support, he said the last year, in spite of a very of the fiscal year 202122? going forward. 1.5% from June 2020 and The council has tagged nounced plans for a studio stand what they need — in SEPC was only seeking a ‘le strict lockdown, we closed ■ Right now, we are having Even for our HAM pro 18.8% from June 2019. areas such as tourism and with postproduction facili terms of infrastructure and vel playing field’ for services. the year on a positive note a strong order book and a jects, we have partnered with a doubledigit growth good cash position will help with financial partners who on top line and bottom line. us in speeding up execution. will be investing in debt and During this time, our engi Going forward, we foresee equity, and we will only be Kharif planting lags as Avenue Digital cards helped our neering and procurement the water market gaining investing a small portion of functions were working at traction, both in India and the total project cost. Supermarts Q1 full capacity, even while op overseas. We will be focuss As the situation over the monsoon rains taper off clients in crises: Sodexo erating from home, ensuring ing on further strengthening last two years has been un PAT rises 130% business continuity. our order book, especially certain owing to the pan Farmers have sown 10.4% less this year ‘Going fully digital ensured operations’ In recent times, there targeting the high technolo demic, we have refrained Special Correspondent have been lockdowns in In gy jobs, which is an area of from giving a guidance. We Reuters MUMBAI Lalatendu Mishra “Our solutions are trust dia in various States. Howev expertise for Wabag. are confident that Wabag NEW DELHI Avenue Supermarts Ltd., MUMBAI ed by over 11,000 clients er, we transitioned to the will continue to grow, as in Indian farmers have planted which operates under the Full digitisation has helped across public and private new normal to ensure mini What is your order book the past. 49.9 million hectares with D Mart brand, reported employee benefit solutions companies and that rein mum disruption, carrying value and how did you summer (kharif) crops, standalone profit after tax firm Sodexo BRS India to in forces our vision to design forward the lessons we manage to get it? What are some of the key down 10.4% from a year ear (PAT) for the quarter ended crease its market share, a solutions that improve eve learnt from the first wave. ■ Currently, we have an or projects the company has lier, according to the Minis June 30 more than doubled top company executive said. ryday quality of life of our At our construction sites, der book of ₹9,500 crore. implemented in Tamil Nadu? try of Agriculture & Farm to ₹115 crore, from ₹50 “Digitisation has helped clients, consumers and mer we ensured provision of all Our excellent order book ■ Kodungaiyur PowerNeu ers’ Welfare, as monsoon crore a year earlier. reimagine benefits with new chants,” the CEO asserted. basic essentials, regularly gives us a revenue visibility tral WWTP, Chennai, the rains taper off after a strong Firstquarter PAT mar clients and new consumers In calendar 2020, the sanitised accommodation of 3x. Some largescale or first waste water treatment start last month. gin was 2.3%, compared increasing our market share company had ensured com and ensured adherence to plant in India to complete Farmers typically start with 1.3% in Q1 FY21, the successfully,” said CEO An plete continuity of opera COVID safety norms for our 1,10,000 hours on a single planting summersown hectares versus 10.5 million company said in a filing. ish Sarkar. Since the time it tions. “This can be attribut workforce for continuity of gas engine; Nemmeli desali crops on June 1, when mon hectares. Total standalone revenue went fully digital in 2016, ed to the fullydigital construction with minimal nation plant, the largest soon rains usually reach In Planting of overall oil for the quarter stood at Sodexo had introduced an business model and deliv disruption. Being an essen municipal desalination plant dia. Planting then continues seeds, including soybean ₹5,032 crore, compared array of digital solutions for ery of digital cards during tial service provider, our op in India; and Koyambedu until early August. was at 11.2 million hectares, with ₹3,833 crore in the employee benefits such as the pandemic,” he said. erations and maintenance water reuse plant – recycling Planting of rice, the key down from 12.6 million same period last year. meals, fuel, telecom, learn “The business continued (O&M) sites were operating secondary treated water up summer crop, was at 11.5 hectares. On a consolidated basis, ing and development, to stay resilient due to all at full capacity to ensure safe to potable standards for in million hectares as of July 9 India has received 5% be firstquarter PAT was ₹95 health and wellness through four stakeholders, namely and clean drinking wa dustrial use in SIPCOT in versus 12.6 million hectares low average rainfall since crore, as against ₹40 crore its multibenefits pass. employees, clients, consum ter and sanitation to dustrial areas in the previous year, the mi June 1, when the fourmonth in the yearearlier period. “Digital cards and digiti ers, and merchants, going help people stay at across Oraga nistry said. rainy season began. Mon The consolidated PAT sation have helped clients fully digital and adapting ra home safely during dam, Sriperum The area planted with soon rains were 46% below margin was 1.8%, as against navigate crises in the last pidly to the changing the pandemic. budur and Irun cotton was at 8.6 million average in the week to July 7. 1.0% in Q1 FY21. one year,” Mr. Sarkar said. times,” Mr. Sarkar added. gattukottai.

IN BRIEF face on arrival in Tokyo, in time. Also, according to the International Olympics Go back: Locals make their views known as they confront Pankaj Singh. * FILE PHOTO cluding spending long hours German contingent, volun police officers in Tokyo on Saturday. * AP Former England striker Committee (IOC) President in immigration without food teer services were almost Thomas Bach stays, Press Trust of India Mariner passes away Jaipur LONDON and water. nonexistent, he said. chanting ‘no more pandemic and state of spectators from the Olympic Paul Mariner, the former Batra was informed of the Narinder Batra. * FILE PHOTO The first batch of Indian Olympics’. emergency has made her events it hosts due to rising Pacer Pankaj Singh, who England striker who played at inconveniences athletes athletes is set to depart for Awake Yoshida, 38 angry. COVID19 infections, its contributed in Rajasthan’s the World Cup in 1982 and from other countries faced with the Games’ organisers. Tokyo on July 17. yearold resident of Tokyo, governor said on Saturday, two Ranji Trophy triumphs later coached in MLS, has on landing in Tokyo by the In a statement, Batra said Meanwhile, the organis who lost her job during the Decision reversed reversing a position and briefly played for In died. He was 68. Mariner Indian Chef de Mission on it had been brought to his ing committee has assured COVID19, said holding the Meanwhile, the Fukushima announced two days earlier dia, announced his retire scored 13 goals in 35 games Friday. notice that athletes arriving delegates that all issues are Olympics under the prefecture will bar by organisers. ment from all forms of for England. AP He has raised the issue at the Narita airport had to being addressed. cricket on Saturday. The 36yearold Pankaj made the announcement Bangladesh in through a letter to the Ra Windies stun Australia Cheruiyot aces 1500m Mollema wins stage 14 jasthan Cricket Association command (RCA). DIAMOND LEAGUE the men’s 3,000m steeple Pankaj’s maiden ODI ap chase in 8:07.75 and Olym Pogacar retains yellow jersey pearance came against Sri Agence France-Presse Reuters pic champion Faith Kipye Lanka in a triseries in Zim Harare Monaco gon took the women’s TOUR DE FRANCE babwe in 2010, while his Reigning world champion 1,500m in 3:51.07. two Test outings came Chasing a victory target of Reuters 477, Zimbabwe was 140/3 Timothy Cheruiyot got In the men’s 100m, Amer against England in 2014 QUILLAN in its second innings sweet redemption after ican Ronnie Baker upset a when he took two wickets. DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD against Bangladesh at close coming up short at Kenya’s stacked field to clinch his se Dutchman Bauke Mollema DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Olympic team trials last cond backtoback Diamond won the 14th stage of the on the fourth day of their B Pankaj played two Tests month, winning the men’s League win in 9.91 seconds. Tour de France on Saturday, oneoff Test here on for India claiming as many Saturday. 1,500m in a worldleading 3 Karsten Warholm fol a 183.7km ride from Carcas wickets, while he was minutes and 28.28 seconds lowed up his worldrecord sonne to Quillan, for his se wicketless in his only ODI Unbeaten hundreds at Friday’s Diamond League performance eight days ago cond career victory in 11 ap DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD meet in Monaco. with another Diamond pearances at cycling’s most Earlier, Najmul Hossain The real thing! Obed McCoy, centre, is congratulated by Nijel Amos won the men’s League win, clinching the popular race. Shanto and Shadman Islam teammates after he claimed the last Australian wicket. * AFP 800m in 1:42.91, Ethiopia’s men’s 400m hurdles in a Austrian Patrick Konrad Mahmudullah scored unbeaten centuries Lamecha Girma clinched meet record 47.08 seconds. took second place, with Co Bauke Mollema. * AFP as Bangladesh declared its (three for 23) turned the lombia’s Sergio Higuita com retires from AUSTRALIA IN WI second innings at 284/1. match on its head as the tou ing home third, both one mi change in the general classi Batting at No. 3, Najmul Agence France-Presse rists, chasing 146, lost their nute four seconds off the fication, however, as Franc Tests averaged run a ball for a to (Gros-Islet, Saint Lucia) last six wickets for 19 runs to pace. e’s Guillaume Martin tal which included five Obed McCoy and Hayden be dismissed for 127 in 16 Slovenian Tadej Pogacar jumped from ninth to se Press Trust of India fours and six sixes. Walsh combined for seven overs. retained the overall leader’s cond after taking part in the Dhaka Shadman was more cau wickets to trigger a stunning The scores: West Indies yellow jersey at the end of a day’s breakaway. Bangladesh allrounder tious, facing 196 deliveries Australian collapse as the 145/6 in 20 overs (Lendl Sim hot day, on roads peppered Pogacar leads Martin by Mahmudullah has decided to compile his finest Test West Indies pulled off an 18 mons 27, Andre Russell 51; with short but brutal climbs. 4:04, with Colombian Rigo to stop playing Test cricket, innings that was laced with run victory in the opening Josh Hazlewood 3/12) bt Aus “I knew I had a good berto Uran in third place. a day after recording a ca tralia 127 in 16 overs (Matthew nine fours. fixture of the fivematch T20 chance to make it to the end, Sunday’s 15th stage is a reerbest score in the one Wade 33, Mitchell Marsh 51; The scores: Bangladesh International series at the Obed McCoy 4/26, Hayden 468 & 284/1 decl. (Shadman I paced myself and when I lungbusting 191.3km moun off Test against Zimbabwe Darren Sammy Stadium Walsh 3/23). Toss: Australia; Islam 115 n.o., Saif Hassan 43, saw I had a minute at the top tain trek to Andorra as the in Harare. here on Friday. MoM: McCoy; West Indies won Najmul Hossain Shanto 117 of the last climb I knew it race reaches its highest In 49 Tests, Mahmudul Seamer McCoy (four for by 18 runs to take a 10 lead in n.o.) vs Zimbabwe 276 & Strong comeback: Timothy Cheruiyot leads the pack on way was done,” said Mollema. point at the Port d’Envalira, lah has made 2,764 runs 26) and legspinner Walsh the fivematch series. 140/3 (Brendon Taylor 92). to his 1500m triumph. * AFP There was one major 2,408m above sea level. with four centuries. CM This PDF was originally uploaded to Brills Express Official (https://t.me/The_Hindu_Express) before anyone else. 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THE HINDU DELHI SUNDAY, JULY 11, 2021 SPORT 15 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Barty lives a dream, scripts history Djokovic eyes Slam No. 20, Berrettini his first A triumph will help the Serb pull level with Federer and Nadal Beats Pliskova and emulates mentor Goolagong, ending a 40year wait Associated Press I'm in the final,” he said, then be No. 7 seed Berrettini’s thrilled to be in the final,” London laughed at the thought of it first — and the first for any Djokovic said. WIMBLEDON The man standing between all. man from Italy since Adria “I was close. I had a good Novak Djokovic and a re "So it’s all a bit strange," no Panatta won the 1976 match against Roger, but I AGENCIES cordtying 20th Grand Slam continued the barrelchest French Open. just probably did not, LONDON title, Matteo Berrettini, re ed, bighitting Berrettini, It will also be the first maybe, believe enough, I Ashleigh Barty became the members being wowed by now 25. “But what’s beauti men's final at Wimbledon guess, in the victory at cer first Australian woman to Wimbledon when he played ful is that I’m much more with a woman chair umpire tain moments when the sco win the singles trophy at in the junior event as a aware of what I can do now. I — Marija Cicak. reline was close.” Wimbledon since Evonne teenager. know I can do this, because Djokovic recalled what it Selfconfidence is not an Goolagong in 1980, beating “For me, it was just ab I'm here.” That he is. felt like to play in a Slam final issue for Djokovic these Karolina Pliskova 63, 67(4), surd. I asked myself, ‘Who for the first time. He was 20 days, however. He's won his 63 on Saturday. This was her knows if one day I'll return Multiple firsts and lost to Roger Federer in past 18 sets and his last 20 second Slam overall, after and play in the main tourna On Sunday at the All England three tight sets, including matches at Wimbledon. Can French Open 2019. ment, even just in qualify Club, the No. 1seeded Djo two tiebreakers, at the 2007 the Italian end the Serb’s Inspired by Goolagong, ing? I have no idea.’ And now kovic's 30th Major final will US Open. “I was just so streak? Sunday will tell. she wore an outfit at Wimble don that was a tribute to the dress her mentor wore when she won the tournament for the first time in 1971. Fitting ly, in her victory speech, a te ary eyed Barty said, “I hope I made Evonne proud.”

She was off to a perfect The Holy Grail: Ash Barty stayed true to her top billing and won her first Wimbledon. * AP start on Saturday, collecting DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD the first 14 points and racing her strokes. But Barty wob DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD to a 30 lead, before holding bled while serving for the B 1 Barty is the first women's top seed to win Wimbledon since off a comeback from Pliskova championship at 65, send Serena Williams in 2016 and the first to win any Major since to take the set. ing consecutive forehands Halep at 2018 French Open She returned Pliskova’s long to get broken. The ensu B 4 The Aussie is the fourth junior Wimbledon champion to lift speedy serves — the ones ing tiebreaker was shaky, the senior title (2011 & 2021), joining Ann Jones (1956 & that produced a tournament which she ceded to the 1969), Hingis (1994 & 1997) and Mauresmo (1996 & 2006) high 54 aces entering Satur Czech with a double fault. day — without any trouble, In the third, though, Barty B 6 Barty is the sixth woman in the Open Era to win her first hit winners with her heavy went up an early break, and two Major titles at the French Open and Wimbledon, after topspin forehand and set up stayed the course. After a Goolagong, Evert, Graf, Muguruza and Halep others with her sliced shaky second set, she had B 6 Pliskova, who lost her second Major final, was broken six backhands. managed to get back to the times by Barty, including thrice in the first set. In the six She threw in an ace or two steadier version of herself matches before this, she had been broken only four times of her own, and actually fin and didn’t flinch even when B 35 The final was Barty's 35th Tour win this year, the most for ished with more than Plisko she had to stare down a any women's player va, 76. The key stat by the break point while serving at DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD finish probably was this: Bar 53. A missed backhand by ty won 22 of 31 points that Pliskova removed that THE RESULTS lasted nine strokes or more. threat, and Barty then deli Women: Final: 1Ashleigh Barty (Aus) bt 8Karolina Pliskova (Cze) She was at her best in the vered a 108mph ace. One last 63, 67 (4), 63. second set too even as Plisko backhand miss from Pliskova Doubles: 3Suwei Hsieh (Tpe) & Elise Mertens (Bel) bt Elena Ves va finally got the measure of gave Barty the title. nina & Veronika Kudermetova (Rus) 36, 75, 97. Who will sing the redemption song at Wembley: Italy or England? From the ‘hated one’ Azzurri look for first major title since the 2006 WC while the Three Lions are desperate to end decades of disappointment to the star of Euro Sterling has inspired England’s run

Agence France-Presse and the forward rose to the London occasion with England’s Raheem Sterling will com winner against Croatia. It plete a remarkable journey was his first goal in a major from vilified scapegoat to tournament after some England legend if the for wretched experiences in the ward inspires his side to vic international arena. tory in Sunday’s Euro 2020 His lowest ebb came at final against Italy. Euro 2016 when England Sterling has been En fans turned on him after a gland’s most influential series of lacklustre perfor Bulwark: Chiellini will look to ward off the threat posed by target man Kane.* GETTY IMAGES player during its memorable mances, culminating in the run. If England is to make humiliating exit against EURO 2020 World Cup. England has nev decline and then discovered history at Wembley this wee Iceland. er beaten Italy at a major men who could bring change kend, it needs Sterling to un On social media, Sterling Agencies tournament, although meet and quickly lead them on a leash his pace and trickery branded himself the “hated London ings between the nations path to success. on the Italians. one” during that tourna England and Italy are count have been few and far Southgate was able to When Sterling started En ment and he had to deal ing down to Sunday’s Euro between. draw on an exciting young gland’s first group game with negative stories in the 2020 final, with Gareth The Azzurri have lit up Eu generation of talent but his against Croatia, there were press about his perceived Southgate’s men seeking to ro 2020 ever since beating most significant decision was some who claimed it was a lavish lifestyle. The backlash end a 55year trophy drought Turkey 30 in the opening to change the culture around mistake to pick him instead could have ruined someone and Mancini’s side aiming to game a month ago. They are the England team. of Jack Grealish. with a more fragile personal spoil the Wembley party. on a national record 33 Like Southgate, Mancini But Southgate is a firm be ity, but Sterling’s tough up England began as one of match unbeaten run under turned to youth, but his big liever in Sterling’s “incredi bringing prepared him for several contenders to lift the coach Roberto Mancini. gest impact has been on the ble resilience and hunger” football’s slings and arrows. trophy and has taken advan The Azzurri are looking to style of football produced by tage of playing all but one of end a long wait to win the Eu the Azzurri. its matches at home. ro title. The fourtime World Italy uses a 433 forma Southgate’s men will be Cup winners have been con tion, with two playmakers in willed on by the vast majori tinental champions only midfield, usually Jorginho ty of a crowd that created a once, when it was just a four and Marco Verratti, support crackling atmosphere for En team event in 1968. ing two wingers who like to gland’s secondround match For all the differences in cut inside and full backs against Germany and the style and approach, there is a pushing forward to offer semifinal against Denmark. remarkable symmetry to the width. There has been a Standing in England’s way journeys taken by England greater emphasis on aggres is a battlehardened Italy and Italy towards the final. sive pressing and the result side which has restored the Both nations found them has been one of the most en nation’s pride after failing selves at historic low points joyable Italian teams to Pulling his weight: Sterling has repaid Southgate’s faith even to qualify for the 2018 with fans despairing at their watch in years. with matchwinning performances. * GETTY IMAGES

Anand beats Kasparov Sciver sizzles, sets up England’s victory IndiaLanka rescheduled CHESS gun badly for the Chennai Grandmaster, going down to India falls short under the DLS method in rainaffected match Press Trust of India rescheduled after Sri P.K. Ajith Kumar Anish Giri of the Nether New Delhi/Colombo Lanka's batting coach KOZHIKODE lands. But he bounced back INDIA IN ENGLAND boozled the bighitting Sha India's limitedovers series Grant Flower and data In the battle between the le with a win over JanKrzysz fali Verma for a duck. in Sri Lanka will now start analyst G.T. Niroshan gends who have 11 World tit tof Duda of Poland and then Press Trust of India Smriti and Harleen Deol on July 18, BCCI secretary tested positive on their les between them, Viswa drew with France's Maxime Northampton (17 not out) then got the tou Jay Shah said on Saturday, return from the UK tour, nathan Anand defeated VachierLagrave. England defeated India by 18 rists back on track. With rain after a COVID19 outbreak which meant extended Garry Kasparov in the Croa The standings: 12. Maxime runs via the DLS method in on the cards, the duo quickly in the home team camp quarantine for squad tia Grand Chess Tour at Za VachierLagrave (Fra) and Ian the raincurtailed first T20I stitched a 44run partner forced the postponement. members. Nepomniachtchi (Rus) 16 greb on Saturday. here on Friday. ship with Smriti hitting six The series, scheduled The schedule: ODIs: July 18, points; 3. Anish Giri (Ned) 15; 4. Their fourth round game Allrounder Nat Sciver’s boundaries, including suc to start with the three 20 and 23; T20Is: July 25, 27 in the the blitz section end JanKrzysztof Duda (Pol) 14; 5. 27ball 55, that included ODIs on July 13, had to be and 29. Viswanathan Anand 14; 67. cessive fours off Brunt. ed with Kasparov, who no eight fours and a six, and Alexander Grischuk (Rus) and But Sciver struck, getting longer is active as a player, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Aze) wicketkeeper Amy Jones' 43 rid of Smriti in the sixth over. losing on time. Anand was 12.5; 8. Anton Korobov (Ukr) off 27 balls took England to Skipper Harmanpreet Kaur's in a winning a position, 11; 9. Garry Kasparov (Rus)/ 177 for seven in 20 overs. (1) prolonged lean patch con The Gregory show gives however. Ivan Saric (Cro) 10.5; 10. Jor Sciver's fifty was England's tinued, falling to Sarah Glenn The day, though, had be den Van Foreest (Ned) 8. joint fastest in the format. in the very next over. In reply, India failed to England the series The quick loss of the skip keep up with the required per cost the Indians dear as runrate despite vicecaptain AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE due to rain, Pakistan was they were behind in DLS. Smriti Mandhana's quickfire LONDON dismissed for 195. The scores: England 177/7 in 20 29 off 17 balls. Lewis Gregory (40 & three overs (Danni Wyatt 31, Nat Sciv Hasan Ali’s fivefor went Rain came down with the er 55, Amy Jones 43, Shikha for 44) helped England beat in vain for the visitors. visitors at 54 for three in 8.4 Pakistan by 52 runs in the Pandey 3/22) bt India 54/3 in The scores: England 247 in overs, 18 runs behind En 8.4 overs (Smriti Mandhana second ODI at Lord's on Sa 45.2 overs (Phil Salt 60, James gland under the DLS meth 29). England won by 18 runs turday and take a 20 lead in Vince 56, Lewis Gregory 40, od. Chasing 178, India was off via DLS method. the threematch series. Hasan Ali 551) bt Pakistan 195 When the legends met: Anand and Kasparov tried to outwit to the worst possible start as Second T20I: July 11, Hove, 7 Airborne! Harleen Deol’s sensational catch to send back Amy Chasing the hosts’ 247, in in 41 overs (Saud Shakeel 56, each other before the Indian prevailed. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT pacer Katherine Brunt bam p.m. IST. Jones has caught the cricketing world’s attention. * REUTERS a match reduced to 47 overs Gregory 344). CM This PDF was originally uploaded to Brills Express Official (https://t.me/The_Hindu_Express) before anyone else. Don't forget to join backup channel @Thehindu000 A ND-NDE YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

DELHI THE HINDU 16 SPORT SUNDAY, JULY 11, 2021 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Women We don’t fear stronger opponents Olympic team to leave for shooters outnumber anymore, says Navneet Kaur Tokyo on July 16 men HOCKEY now. We fight until the final whistle. It’s not over until it’s The entire squad will meet in Amsterdam before boarding the flight Press Trust of India over.” New Delhi Press Trust of India BENGALURU SHOOTING They have an uniform The number of women Childhood dream testing procedure for all the participants will, for the Tokyo Olympicsbound for Navneet, who has played 79 athletes and officials arriving first time ever, exceed the ward Navneet Kaur feels the matches for the national Kamesh Srinivasan for the Games in Tokyo. total strength of their male Indian women’s hockey team, is all set to take part in NEW DELHI In fact, the testing proto counterparts in the indivi team’s mindset has changed her first Olympics. “Playing Indian shooters, training in col and the health study dual shooting events of the in the past few years and ad the Olympics is my child Croatia and Italy, are sche starts a week or two before Olympic Games. ded that the side does not hood dream and I will leave duled to leave for Tokyo on they board the flight to Because of double star panic while playing against no stone unturned to make July 16, for the Olympic Tokyo. ters, the number of regis top teams now. it wonderful.” Games. The IOC president Tho tered entries in individual “A lot has changed in the She feels heading into the The 13 rifle and pistol mas Bach who reached To women’s events exceeds mindset of our team in the matches with a clear mind shooters, training in Zagreb, kyo recently is scheduled to for the first time the num past few years, we don’t fear set will be the key. will leave with the coaches be on three days isolation, ber of expected partici stronger opponents any “This team is like a family. and a physio. which goes to show that the pants in individual men’s more,” Navneet was quoted Rani and Savita keep ex The two skeet shooters — Olympic family is being events — 239 and 208 in a Hockey India release. changing their ideas with us Mairaj Ahmad Khan and An treated on par with eve respectively. “Earlier, when we used to on how we can improve. The gad Vir Singh Bajwa, along ryone, as far as the sensitive “356 athletes represent play against the Netherlands coaches and the entire team with coach Mansher Singh — COVID19 situation is ing 100 NOC (National or Great Britain, we used to are working towards that training in Italy, will leave concerned. Olympic Committee) from panic. That’s not the case goal.” Navneet Kaur. * FILE PHOTO from Rome on the same day. The athletes and officials five continents are entered The entire shooting team have a 70page instruction to take part in the shooting will meet in Amsterdam to playbook to follow. sport competitions at the board the flight which will Every team will have a CO Tokyo 2020 Olympics,” the We want to honour Bryant: Durant take the team to Tokyo on Ju VID19 liaison officer to spec ISSF said in a statement. ly 17. ifically take care of testing The largest number of US team aiming to claim 16th gold at the Olympics The rifle and pistol shoo and medical procedures re participants is expected in ters will have coaches Suma Ready to roll: Mairaj Ahmad Khan and Angad Vir Singh Bajwa, lated to it. 10m air pistol women and BASKETBALL Shirur, Deepali Deshpande, who are training in Italy will link up with the rest in The athletes will be tested 10m air rifle women events Oleg Mikhailov, Samaresh Amsterdam before proceeding to Tokyo. * FILE PHOTO every day. — 53 and 49 respectively. In Jung, Ronak Pandit travelling The organisers have clear the men’s events, the lar Reuters with them. It is understood Both Jaspal and Mansher Even though the entire ly said to anyone with CO gest number of partici Los Angeles that accreditation proce joined the teams recently, team has been vaccinated VID19 symptoms in the 14 pants will be in the 10m air Brooklyn Nets forward Kevin dures are being worked out and had spent time in isola for the coronavirus, the or days prior to the departure rifle and 50m rifle 3 posi Durant has said the United for coaches Pavel Smirnov tion, according to the pre ganisers do not insist on the for the Games, “Don’t travel tions — 47 and 39 respec States basketball team has and Jaspal Rana. scribed protocol. same. to Tokyo”. tively. Kobe Bryant’s DNA embed ded in it and will look to ho nour the Los Angeles Lakers Bandovic great with their play during Ellyse Perry pulls out of The Hundred this year’s Tokyo Olympic to coach Games. Cites personal reasons; Joins Healy, Lanning and Haynes Bryant, a fivetime NBA Chennaiyin champion and twice Olym CRICKET disappointed that Ellyse Per vine, who had pulled out of pic gold medal winner, died ry has had to withdraw from the tournament last month. Special Correspondent last year aged 41 in a helicop the Hundred due to personal Perry’s compatriots Alys CHENNAI ter crash with his daughter Press Trust of India circumstances, but we com sa Healy, Meg Lanning and Bozidar Bandovic has been and seven others, shocking London pletely understand her deci Rachael Haynes have also appointed as the new the world of sport and send Gunning for glory: Kevin Durant dunks during training Star Australian allrounder sion and wish her all the pulled out from the Hundred coach of Chennaiyin FC on ing legions of fans into for the national basketball team in Las Vegas. * AP Ellyse Perry has pulled out of best,” Beth BarrettWild, ahead of their home series a oneyear contract ahead mourning. the inaugural season of the head of the women’s compe against India, which begins of the 202122 ISL season. Durant, who was the of us looked up to and “And we all kind of pulled Hundred citing personal tition, was quoted as saying on September 19. The 51yearold from team’s leading scorer at both watched as kids. Even when from him when he was play reasons. by ESPNcricinfo. As many as five Indian wo Montenegro will replace the 2016 Rio Games and he was alive and playing, his ing and when he was alive. The 30year old was set to men’s cricketers, including Csaba Laszlo after a disap 2012 London Games, leads a DNA was embedded in us as And now that he’s not with turn up for Birmingham A blow teen sensation Shafali Verma pointing season which saw 12member U.S. squad look players. us, we all want to honour his Phoenix in the 100ball tour Her withdrawal came as a and T20 skipper Harman it finish eighth. “I am de ing to claim their 16th gold “From afar he taught us teachings by going out there nament scheduled to get un blow for Phoenix who are al preet Kaur, have signed up lighted to join the Chennai medal at the Olympics what the game is about, and playing with that pas derway on July 21. ready without the services of with different teams for the yin family ,” said the new which begin on July 23. what work ethic is about,” sion, with that energy every

“We are obviously very New Zealand’s Sophie De Hundred. Ellyse Perry. * AFP head coach. “Kobe Bryant is the guy all Durant told reporters. single play.”

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