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THE LARGEST CIRCULATED ENGLISH DAILY IN SOUTH INDIA I FRIDAY 27 I NOVEMBER 2020 WEATHER STATE | 3 WORLD | 5 SPORT | 8 Max: 30OC Min: 24OC Commissioner of police visits Trump pardons Flynn, his India-Australia first Rainfall: 4 mm waterlogged areas in city ex-NSA who lied to FBI ODI today ASTROGUIDE Sarvari: Karthigai 12 deccanchronicle.com, facebook.com/deccannews, twitter.com/deccanchronicle, google.com/+deccanchronicle Vol. 16 No. 242 Established 1938 | 8 PAGES| `3.00 Tithi: Dwadashi/ Thrayodashi Star:Ashwini Rahukalam: 10.30 am to 12 noon Nivar-shaken TN tries Haryana cops use teargas Yamagandam: 3 pm to 4.30 pm PRAYERS to stop farmers’ march Fajar: 4.57 am to get back on feet Zohar: 12 noon SANJAY KAW AND Asar: 3.13 pm BHASKAR HARI SHARMA Maghrib: 5.39 pm 3 killed Areas marooned Power restored |DC Isha: 6.54 pm NEW DELHI, NOV. 26 DC CORRESPONDENT SUNSET TODAY 5.40 PM CHENNAI, NOV. 26 The Haryana police on SUNRISE TOMORROW 6.14 AM Thursday used water can- MOONRISE TODAY 3.44 PM Three people were nons and teargas in a bid MOONSET TOMORROW 5.10 AM killed, over 1,000 trees to stop thousands of farm- uprooted and low-lying ers from Punjab from pro- areas marooned due to ceeding towards the CORONA water-logging following national capital for their Police personnel use tear gas on farmers to disperse heavy rains across Ta- “Delhi Chalo” march them during 'Delhi Chalo' protest march against the new mil Nadu till Wednes- against the Centre’s new farm laws, at Shambhu border in Patiala District, C UNT day night. Thunder sho- farm laws. The situation Thursday. — PTI wers lashed the state, as got tense at the Shambu CASES DEATHS well as Puducherry, as inter-state border on the were especially intense in Capt. Amarinder Singh cyclonic storm Nivar national highway as places like Kundli, near entering into a war of (+40,249) (+455) made landfall in the protesting farmers threw Sonipat, and on the Delhi- words on Twitter with early hours, leading to police barricades off the Gurgaon border at Sirhaul Haryana CM Manohar Lal 93,06,946 1,35,716 inundation and uproot- bridge into the Ghaggar and Rajokri. However, Khattar, who urged him to ing of trees. river. despite the tight security “stop inciting innocent Three people, includ- It was after a two-hour measures, about 70-odd farmers”. Capt. Singh covid19india.org ing a woman, were kill- clash on the bridge that protesters, including some attacked the Haryana CM, ed in rain-related inci- farmers from Congress- trade union members, saying: “Shocked at your STATE GOVERNMENT BULLETINS managed to gather near response Manohar Lal dents such as tree and Fire and rescue services personnel evacuate those marooned in Mudichur and run Punjab managed to wall collapses in Ponn- cross the border into BJP- Jantar Mantar, in the Khattarji. It’s farmers Varadarajapuram to safer places on Thursday. — DC (+ 1,464) eri and Villupuram ne- ruled Haryana, which heart of Delhi, but were who’ve to be convinced on 11,669 ar here. In a few places, used heavy force to try detained after refusing to MSP, not me. You TN: 7,76,174 overhead electricity is likely and block them for mak- vacate the area. should’ve tried to talk to cables snapped as hea- CM, OPS supervise ing their way towards the Amid huge protests, them before their ‘Delhi WORLD CONFIRMED CASES vy trees fell over them. to receive another capital in tractors and on Union agriculture minis- Chalo’. And if you think In Chennai, citizens in spell of very heavy foot on their two-day ter Narendra Singh Tomar I’m inciting farmers, why many parts complained protest march against the appealed to the farmers to are Haryana farmers also 6,10,65,842 of disruption in rainfall as a fresh relief operations new farm laws that they suspend their agitation marching to Delhi?”. Internet services. Low- low pressure area is fear will reduce their and invited them for talks The Punjab CM said: “As DEATHS lying neighbourhoods expected to form in DC CORRESPONDENT plantations in the gusty earnings and give more on December 3. “The gov- for endangering lives dur- like those in suburban CHENNAI, NOV 26: winds, met people housed power to large retailers. ernment is committed to ing Covid-19, have you for- 14,32,995 Irumbuliyur, Mudichur the at the Devanampettai Many roads in Haryana the welfare of farmers and gotten it was the BJP-led and Urapakkam wit- from November 29, Chief Minister Edapaddi relief camps and distrib- leading to Delhi, especial- we are ready for talks. Central government that COUNTRIES, nessed flooding. the IMD said P3 K. Palaniswami and uted essentials. He also ly those in Gurgaon, were Whether it’s about mini- pushed through those AREAS WITH Reports said water Deputy Chief Minister O. paid a visit to the clogged with heavy traffic mum support price or farm laws amid the pan- CASES 218 entered several houses Panneerselvam visited Mudunagar harbor region as barricades had been put infrastructure, we are demic, uncaring about the worldometers.info in these areas. Rescue various places affected by in district up at different places to ready for a discussion,” he impact they’d have on our personnel ferried Thursday. Meanwhile, Cyclone Nivar that where the boats of fisher- prevent the protesters said. farmers? Why didn’t you cooked food to the peo- the discharge from crossed the coast past men had been kept safely from entering the nation’s The agitation saw speak out then, Manohar Estimated loss due to ple using inflatable Chembarambakkam Wednesday midnight. to prevent them from capital. The roadblocks Punjab Chief Minister Lal Khattarji?” boats and while some lake in the city was Mr Palaniswami was at being tossed away by the cyclone Nivar put at chose to shift to the reduced to about 1,500 Cuddalore district, which cyclone. `400 cr: Pondy CM homes of their rela- cusecs from the 5,000 was one of the worst- The Chief Minister had a tives, others continued cusecs on Wednesday. affected districts, enquir- chat with the local fisher- MILITANTS KILL Puducherry: The estimated loss to to stay put battling The quantum of dis- ing with the people about men, listening to their sto- Modi pushes for agriculture and other sectors due to odds. In city areas, civic charge is likely to be the damages caused by ries of woes, held discus- 2 SOLDIERS IN cyclone Nivar has been tentatively workers pumped out brought further down the cyclone at sions with officials and put at Rs 400 crore and a full stagnant water from to 500 cusecs to main- Reddichavadi Keelkumar- also personnel from the SRINAGAR assessment is being made, several locations. tain the water level in mangalam villages, National Disaster Relief ‘one poll one list’ Puducherry Chief Minister V. Airport operations, the lake at 22 feet as among other places. Force, who were stationed YUSUF JAMEEL |DC Narayanasamy said on Thursday metro rail and bus against its full level of He consoled the farmers at the district. DC CORRESPONDENT SRINAGAR, NOV. 26 after visiting localities affected by transport resumed on 24 feet, officials said. who had lost their banana P3 NEW DELHI, NOV. 26 the cyclonic storm when it made Two Army jawans were landfall in the early hours. Paddy Prime Minister Narendra killed in a sneak attack crops over an extent of 820 hectares Modi on Thursday by three car-borne mili- besides vegetables on 200 hectares, GUV HAS LINKS pitched for his oft-repeat- tants on Srinagar’s out- sugarcane on 170 hectares, 55 ed concept of “One skirts on Thursday. The hectares of banana crop and betel Court to decide on priest’s Nation, One Election”, police and witnesses said leaf cultivated on seven hectares WITH CRIMINALS, saying it was not just a the gunmen appeared at had been severely hit by the torren- matter of debate but what Aban Shah Chowk in tial rains, the chief minister said. RECALL HIM: TMC the country needed. He Constitution has many Khoshipora area and Puducherry administration would plea for sipper on Dec. 4 also suggested that the features, but one very spe- opened fire on an Army seek an interim relief of Rs 50 crores RAJIB CHOWDHURI Election Commission pre- cial feature is the impor- quick reaction team, crit- from the Centre,he told reporters. A Mumbai, Nov 26: Stan “I cannot hold a |DC pare a single voters’ list tance given to duties. ically injuring two sol- full assessment was being made by Swamy, the 83-year-old glass as my hands KOLKATA, NOV. 26 for all elections -- Lok Mahatma Gandhi was diers. Both succumbed to the departments on the total quan- tribal rights activist Sabha, Assembly and pan- very keen on this. He saw their injuries while tum of loss in farm and other sectors arrested for his alleged are unsteady due Ahead of the Assembly chayats, saying separate a close link between being evacuated to a hos- although it had been estimated ten- involvement in the Elgar to Parkinson's,” Fr elections in West lists were a “waste of rights and duties. He felt pital at the nearby tatively that the loss would be `400 Parishad case, will have Swamy had said in Bengal, the ruling resources”. once we perform our Shariefabad Army can- crore, Narayanasamy said. — PTI to wait a few more days his application. Trinamul Congress has “One nation, one elec- duties, rights will auto- tonment, officials said. for a straw and a sipper demanded governor tion isn’t just a matter of matically be safeguard- The slain soldiers were cup he needs as a NIA said it did Jagdeep Dhankhar’s debate, this is the need for ed.” identified as Sepoy COUNTER POINT Parkinson’s patient. not take the straw removal from his post India. Elections are held On the 12th anniversary Rattan Lal of 163 Responding to Dr and sipper from by President Ram Nath at different places every of the 26/11 Mumbai Territorial Army and Swamy’s request for Kovind after it accused few months. The effect it attacks, the Prime Sepoy Deshmukh of 101 these items before a spe- him during his him of having “connec- has on development work Minister paid homage to Territorial Army. They cial court here on arrest, as claimed tions with criminals of is known to all,” Mr Modi the victims, and said were attached to 2nd Thursday, the National by the activist. the BJP”. said in a virtual address India was fighting terror- Unit of Rashtriya Rifles, Investigation Agency The TMC also sought at the 80th All-India ism with a new policy and the Army’s counter- (NIA) said it did not take reply from the jail who is at Taloja Central Mr Dhankhar’s prose- Presiding Officers a new process. On insurgency unit. One the straw and sipper authorities and Jail hospital, had said in cution by the Kolkata Conference. November 26, 2008, 10 report said the assailants from Fr Swamy during adjourned the matter till his initial application police on criminal He said a single voters’ Lashkar-e-Tayyaba ter- also decamped with the his arrest, as claimed by December 4. before the court. charges over his alleged list was desirable. “Only rorists from Pakistan service rifle of one of the the activist. The NIA which arrest- Parkinson's disease is a support on Twitter to one voters’ list should be killed 166 people, includ- slain jawans. Following the Central ed Fr Swamy from his debilitating disorder of two accused -- Govind used for the Lok Sabha, ing 18 security personnel, Soon after the attack, agency's response, the residence in Ranchi on the central nervous sys- Agarwal, a chartered Vidhan Sabha and other in a 60-hour siege. the Army’s 2 RR and the special court rejected Fr October 8, had earlier tem that can cause invol- accountant, and elections. Why are we “Many people died in J&K police’s Special Swamy's application. Fr this month sought 20 untary tremors, or mus- Sudipta Roy wasting time and money that terror attack, and Operations Group Swamy then moved a days' time to respond to cular spasms, which Chowdhury, a business- on these lists?” he said. people of many nationali- launched a search opera- fresh application seek- his request for the straw makes carrying out even man -- after their Speaking on a day that ties were the victims. I tion in the area, as the ing permission to use a and sipper. routine actions like arrests in two separate marks the 71st anniver- pay my homage to all. I Army pressed a heli- straw and a sipper and “I cannot hold a glass drinking difficult. Some cases of financial sary of the adoption of the bow down to the security copter into service to winter clothes inside the as my hands are patients may face prob- offences involving sev- Constitution on personnel who lost their hunt the militants and jail. unsteady due to lems while swallowing eral crores of rupees. November 26, 1949, Mr lives in the attack,” Mr the Maruti car used to The court sought a Parkinson's,” Fr Swamy, or chewing. PTI P4 Modi said: “Our Modi said. carry out the attack.

REMEBERING 26/11 Cyclone, winter, polls could derail win against Covid: IMA MUMBAI ATTACK NOW KANIZA GARARI |DC the IMA. isfactory. Residents of rural HYDERABAD, NOV. 26 The analysis made by the areas have also been able to IMPOSSIBLE: RAJNATH association shows that over- tackle the disease better due Oxford vaccine data No scheduled intl A positive trend of decreas- all supervision in states of to their better immune Defence minister Rajnath Singh ing new Covid-19 cases is Telangana, Tamil Nadu, response and natural social comes under cloud said on Thursday that a 26/11- being observed in southern and Kerala distancing. The diseased flight this year like terror strike in India is states, which is indicative of shows that surveillance, population has been in the New York, Nov. 26: AstraZeneca Plc Mumbai, Nov. 26: India’s aviation safe- almost impossible as the nation- well-planned activities and contact tracing and age group of 30 to 50 years. and the University of Oxford are facing ty regulator Directorate-General of Civil systematic control of cases, increased testing have been This is because elderly peo- questions about their Covid-19 vaccine Aviation (DGCA) on Thursday extended al security architecture has been an analysis by Indian effective in these states. This ple have not been moving and whether regulators would quickly the suspension of scheduled internation- significantly bolstered in the last Medical Association (IMA) has helped not only control out due to which senior citi- authorise its emergency use after the al commercial passenger flights to few years, even as the country remem- has shown. The daily rise in Coronavirus cases but also zens remain under protec- pharma company acknowledged an December 31. bered the victims of the deadly Mumbai cases emerging from south bring down the number of tion. error in the vaccine dosage received by The restrictions, however, will not Indian states is approxi- active cases in these states. Dr. J. A. Jayalal, national some participants and other irregulari- apply on international all-cargo opera- terror attack on its 12th anniversary. mately just 5,000 per day. Testing has been the highest vice president-elect of IMA, ties and omissions, according to a media tions and flights specifically approved by Mr Singh asserted that the country is no However, onset of winter, in Tamil Nadu and Andhra says, "Healthcare systems report. the DGCA, an official circular said. longer a soft target for terrorists and cyclone effect, and elections Pradesh, which has helped and infrastructure in south AstraZeneca and the University of International scheduled flights, howev- India has “escalated the cost for those are three major concerns, them trace and track the India have been able to han- Oxford announced this week that their er, may be allowed on selected routes by which can lead to increase virus better. dle Covid cases and treat inexpensive, easy-to-produce coron- the competent authority on a case-to- supporting terrorism”. in active cases by December Compliance levels within them well. Remedesiver has avirus vaccine appeared effective, with case basis, the circular by the regulator end, observe experts within people have been overall sat- been used early. P4 the average efficacy of about 70 per cent. added. PTI REPORT ON PAGE 4 CITY pg DECCAN CHRONICLE | FRIDAY | 27 NOVEMBER 2020 | CHENNAI 2

SHORT TAKES Award for Emission testing centres: Petition Trade unions extend MGMGH support to nationwide strike DC CORRESPONDENT TIRUCHY, NOV. 26 dismissed with cost of `1 lakh Chennai, Nov. 26: Mem- from Tamil Nadu. Emplo- bers of various trade yees of Salem Steel Plant, The special newborn care unit of DC CORRESPONDENT Commissioner before of establishing an emis- ers will be intimated from unions in Tamil Nadu on BHEL Tiruchirappalli the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial CHENNAI, NOV. 26 operating the testing sta- sion testing center will time to time. It was seen Thursday took part in the and 20 per cent of empl- Government hospital here has tion. His grievance was have to submit an applica- from the counter affidavit nationwide strike to pro- oyees of Navratna com- been awarded the ‘best perform- Emphasizing the impor- that the State Transport tion on line through that apart from this com- test against the central pany NLC India extended ing’ unit in the state, said Dr K tance of establishing Commissioner has issued Vahan portal to the trans- pany, two other approved government's new farm support to the stir by abs- Vanita, hospital dean. She told emission testing centres to the impugned circular to port commissioner. The manufacturers have also and labour laws, among taining from work, union newsmen here on Thursday that curb the excess pollution all the registering authori- applicant will have to been duly authorized to other workers-related leaders claimed. this award was given based on levels of Motor Vehicles, ties to the effect that these enter the ‘serial number’ utilize their equipment in issues and policies. Factories of major co- the number of babies successful- the Madras high court has authorities must entertain of the emission testing the emission testing cen- The trade union mem- mpanies including MRF ly treated, and the achievement dismissed with a cost of the emission testing equipment in the applica- tres. This was a very effec- bers staged demonstra- and Ashok Leyland, loca- of saving babies weighing less `one lakh, a petition, chal- machines distributed by tion. The transport com- tive way in which the tions, holding rallies in ted on the outskirts of than 1.5 kgs and also ventilated lenging a circular of the the Manatec Electronics missioner will not be in a transport commissioner all districts barring 13, the city, remained closed babies, by the state child health State Transport Comm- Pvt.Ltd, Puducherry and position to verify whether can ensure that the equip- including Chennai which as employees resorted to nodal centre. issioner relating to iss- thereby, the State the emission testing ments utilized in the emis- faced the wrath of strike, CITU State secre- Health minister Dr C uance of certificates to the is the need of the hour. Transport Commissioner equipment was originally sion testing centres were cyclone Nivar, union tary Soundararajan said. Vijayabaskar handed over the emission testing centres. This is an exercise which was indirectly promoting manufactured by the man- duly authorized/approved sources said. The state He said employees of va- award during the national new- Justice N.Anand requires to be carried out the equipments supplied ufacturer approved by the by the concerned agencies government had also rious textile firms in Tir- born week celebrations held Venkatesh dismissed the in a war footing within by the Manatec testing agencies. However, under the Rules. The declareda holiday for the upur and those engaged recently in Chennai, she added. petition filed by time lines and the peti- Electronics company. the transport commission- transport commissioner 13 districts in view in the firecracker indus- She said, this is the third con- T.Ramachandran, which tioner has put spokes in Aggrieved by the same, he er must ensure that only by undertaking such an of'Nivar' which crossed try in Sivakasi, consider- secutive year that the unit was sought to quash the circu- the machinery and pre- has filed the present peti- such approved testing exercise does not really the eastern coast in the ed the country's cracker receiving the award. They unit lar dated March 12, 2020 vented the authorities tion, he added. equipments were used in empanel the list of manu- early hours of Thursday. hub, also took part. The had saved more than 4,500 and for a consequential from carrying on with The judge said a careful the testing stations. It was facturers of the equip- According to trade uni- Forum for IT Employees- babies every year of which over direction to the State their statutory duties and reading of the Central under these circum- ments and he only ensures on leaders, they decided Tamil Nadu unit, repre- 1,500 were from other hospitals. Transport Commissioner obligations and therefore, Motor Vehicles Rules stances, the state trans- that the equipments uti- to go ahead with the str- senting the employees of Over 1,000 babies benefitted by to entertain emission test- the petitioner is liable to shows that the transport port commissioner has lized by the emission test- ike in places which were information technology the ventilated treatment, 500 ing machines, which are be burdened with payment commissioner has been given intimation through ing cetnres were satisfy- not affected by the cycl- (IT), also extended their babies born less than 1.5 kgs in certified in accordance of exemplary costs, the given the complete respon- the impugned circular to ing the requirements of one. Those employees en- support to the strike call weight were also saved and 150 with the Motor Vehicles judge added and imposed a sibility to issue certifi- all the registering authori- the Rules. Therefore, it gaged in relief and reha- by the various trade uni- babies benefitted by surfactant Act and Rules. cost of Rs one lakh on cates in order to establish ties of Tamil Nadu that was well within the power bilitation work were exe- ons, sources said. treatment, she added. The judge said the peti- him. a testing station and to the Manatec Electronics and jurisdiction of the mpted from the stir,they Employees, who were wo- tioner apart from not hav- According to the peti- ensure that the testing sta- was one of the manufac- transport commissioner said. "Our strike is aga- rking from home, took pi- TN adds 1,464 ing the locus standi to tioner, he was in the trans- tion complies with all the turers of the emission to intimate to the register- inst the anti-labour gov- ctures of themselves ho- challenge the circular, has port industry and engaged requirements provided testing equipments and ing authorities in Tamil ernment policies and not lding the poster of FITE new Covid cases also approached this court in the goods carriage busi- under the rules. The test- who has got the necessary Nadu about such approved against the people," trade as part of expressing soli- ing stations will have to approval under the Cen- manufacturers. Chennai, Nov. 26: Tamil Nadu by making false and ness. He was in the union sources said. The darity to the agitating use only those equipments tral Rules and the testing In view of the same, the logged 1,464 new Covid-19 cases unsustainable allegations process of establishing a activists held placards workers, FITE sources manufactured by compa- centres can utilize the eq- impugned circular issued on Thursday, taking the overall against the State testing station for con- and raised slogans and said. All India Bank Em- nies or other undertak- uipment supplied by the by the transport commis- infection count to7,76,174, while Transport Commissioner ducting smoke emission termed the centre's poli- ployees' Association gen- ings which has the company, the judge added. sioner was well within his 14 more fatalities pushed the toll and thereby, the petitioner level and carbon monox- cies as "anti-people, anti- eral secretary CH Venka- approval under Rule 116 The judge said the trans- power and jurisdiction to 11,669. Recoveries continued has virtually stalled the ide level for motor vehi- worker, anti-farmer." The tachalam said bank em- and 126 of the Central port commissioner has and it does not suffer from to eclipse new infections with authorities from going cles. The testing station unions claimed that as ployees also took part in Motor Vehicles Rules. Any made it clear that such list any illegality, the judge 1,797people being discharged ahead in certifying emis- must be duly authorized many as 50,000 workers the strike and termed it a person who was desirous of approved manufactur- added. from healthcare facilities, tak- sion testing centres which by the State Transport took part in the strike 'good success'. — PTI ing the overall tally to 7,53,332, a Health department bulletin said. Active cases in the state stood at 11,173. The state has Why flower imports only been witnessing a decline in the Bank officers assn seeks pay revision number of new cases and since November 13, the daily count through Chennai airport? R. VALAYAPATHY | DC The Union finance ministry had of general manager and general manager in scale- TIRUCHY, NOV. 26 executive director. VII only. has been below 2,000. Two dis- introduced the post of chief general tricts, including the state capi- New Delhi, Nov. 26: A pl- allenged that the July 9 He said, the pay scale for With the conclusion of tal, logged cases in triple digits ea has been moved in the notification issued by the The All India Nationalised manager (scale-VIII) in public sector CGM post was fixed by the the bipartite settlement with Chennai adding 396 fresh Delhi High Court challen- Directorate General of Bank Officers’ Associa- Ministry of Finance at and signing of the ‘Joint ging a central governme- Foreign Trade (DGFT) pe- tion has appealed to the banks that have a total business of `1,03,000 — 2700/3 — note’ by the Indian Banks cases and Coimbatore 158,while `10 lakh crore or higher the rest were spread across nt notification which pre- rmitting import of flow- Union Government to ini- `1,11,100 — 2811/1 — Association with the Offi- other districts. Chennai contin- vents import of fresh flo- ers from Chennai airport tiate steps for revision of `1,13,900 along with other cers Organisations, the ued to top the list of cases with wers from all airports in only. The association has pay scale of chief general available to the press here in public sector banks that admissible allowances. By pay scale of general man- 2,13,801 infections of the more the country except Chen- contended that the deci- managers in accordance on Thursday, association have a total business of `10 the time the post was cre- agers in scale-VII has been than 7.76 lakh in the state. A nai. sion is arbitrary. The mat- to the ‘Joint Note’, at the general secretary GV Man- lakh crore or higher. ated, wage revision negoti- revised to `1,16,120, which total of 60,964 samples were test- The petition by an asso- ter was listed before a be- earliest. imaran, said the Union fi- This scale was introdu- ations of bank officers is more than the pay dra- ed on Thursday, taking the ciation representing tra- nch of Chief Justice D N In his communication to nance ministry had intro- ced to act as an administr- were already under way wn by the chief general cumulative number to ders of fresh fruits, flow- Patel and Justice Prateek Union Finance Minister, a duced the post of chief ge- ative and functional layer and negotiations were manager currently, he 1,18,02,567. — P{TI ers and vegetables has ch- Jalan on Thursday.— PTI copy of which was made neral manager (scale-VIII) between the existing levels restricted to the level of added. 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SHORT TAKES Chennai airport, Suburban train Corpn, police teams lead metro services services resume resume in Chennai DC CORRESPONDENT restoration work in city CHENNAI, NOV. 26 DC CORRESPONDENT CHENNAI, NOV. 26 DC CORRESPONDENT The flights which were CHENNAI, NOV. 26 suspended as a precau- The workmen/suburban train tionary measure in services in Chennai, suspended Following cyclone Nivar, view of cyclone Nivar in view of Nivar cyclone, the restoration work led resumed at Chennai resumed operations on by the Greater Chennai airport on Thursday. Thursday. There will be one Corporation (GCC) and Chennai metro services EMU special train every one city police teams is in full also resumed on No internet connectivity hour (up and down) from swing in the city. The tea- Thursday. Chennai Moore Market com- ms of rapid action force According to airport plex – and Arakkonam. armed with equipment hit sources, operations at Similarly, one EMU special the streets early morning the Chennai airport for hours in the city train will run every one hour itself to clear the damages resumed at around 9: 30 (up and down) from Chennai caused by Nivar. am. DC CORRESPONDENT the service provider Moore Market complex and According to the GCC, as The airport was CHENNAI, NOV. 26 throughout the day. Gummudipoondi. There will be many as 288 lamp posts co- scheduled to start oper- Another user of ACT one EMU special train for every llapsed in the heavy winds ations at 7 am, but due After cyclone Nivar made net at Thiruvanmiyur one hour (up and down) from that lashed the city. As ma- to adverse weather con- a landfall in the early said she also lost connec- Chennai Beach and ny as 246 posts were repl- ditions, two flights hours of Thursday leav- tivity on Wednesday ev- . aced. Meanwhile, 12 res- were diverted to ing a trail of destruction ening, and was struggling The Southern Railway has cue teams led by police Bengaluru and one in various parts of throughout Thursday. resumed operation of Chennai commissioner Mahesh flight was delayed for at Chennai, the internet Narayan Kumar, a Jio Egmore – Sengottai special Kumar Agarwal cleared least an hour and made connectivity went down user, said that he lost con- train on Thursday. The Chennai 102 uprooted trees in 80 po- a landing. As many as for many hours leaving nectivity for seven hours Egmore – Kollam special train lice station boundaries wi- 79 flights were can- users in a spot. on Thursday and later it is scheduled to leave on th the support of GCC st- celled on Thursday. In Ramapuram, the was reconnected. Thursday. aff. Seven cars and two au- The Chennai metro technicians with ACT Karthik, a technician A one-way special train will be tos damaged after falling People being rescued from Pattalam area in Chennai on Thursday. — DC also resumed its servic- Fibernet service provider with ACT, said their operated from Rameswaram to of trees were disposed. es on Thursday. were working since early cables were cut by Manduadih from Thursday. The teams cleared water kkam Sand, Kodamba- 267 tree uprooting cases As per the talukwise ra- “In connection with morning to repair the Tangedco workmen as stagnation in Vadapalani, kkam, Rayapettai, Puhal, were reported from 8am on infall data published by Nivar cyclone, Metro damages caused by Nivar. part of their operations. Virugambakkam, Kodam- Madhavaram, Tiruvallike- Wednesday till Thursday 8 GCC, the city received train services will start Many residents in the “’As a result, we had to TN likely to receive bakkam, Ashok Nagar, Pe- ni, Denampet, Annasatuk- am. All of them were clear- 1497.60 mm rainfall. Myla- by today (26.11.2020) area struggled without replace the cables with ravallur, Egmore, Abiram- kam, Aminthakarai, and ed by noon with the suppo- pore topped with 263.60 12.00 pm, will run with net connectivity for new ones. An army of heavy rains again apuram, Yanagavuni, Ko- Nandambakkam. A tempo- rt of local people. Kodam- mm rainfall while Sholin- holiday train services hours. workmen had been work- dungaiyur, Korukkupettai, rary control room continu- bakkom (Zone X) reported ganallur came second wi- time table with the Senthil Kumar, an ACT ing throughout the day. next week: IMD Valasaravakkam, Korattur, es to be operational. People highest number of tree fa- th 220mm followed by Am- headway of 10 mins,” net user, said that he lost Many areas have been Nungambakkam, Kilpakk- can contact on 94981-81239. lling cases, 60, followed by bathur (159), Guindy (139), the official handle of connectivity on cleared. All issues will be New Delhi, Nov. 26: Slammed am, Choolaimedu, My- The parks department of Adyar (Zone XIII) (59) and Mambalam (135.50) and the Chennai Metro Rail Wednesday evening and cleared by Friday,” he by the severe cyclonic storm lapore, Vepery, Arumba- GCC said that as many as Royapuram (Zone V) (31). Alandur (132.70 ). said on Twitter. was complaining with says. Nivar early Thursday, Tamil Nadu is likely to receive another spell of very heavy rainfall as a fresh low pressure area is Political leaders expected to form in the Bay of Bengal from November 29, the want govt to IMD said. expedite relief Chennai may have DC CORRESPONDENT rains for two days CHENNAI, NOV. 26 Several political parties DC CORRESPONDENT urged the government to CHENNAI, NOV. 27 expedite relief to the vic- tims of cyclone Nivar, The Regional Meteorological pointing out the ravages Centre said Tamil Nadu will of the cyclone, rains and continue to receive scattered floods in various places heavy to very heavy rainfall across the state, includ- with isolated extremely heavy ing Chennai. rain in , Tiruvarur, Regretting that the , Cuddalore, Che- AIADMK government nnai, Kanchipuram, Chengalp- had not learnt any les- attu, Mayiladuthurai, Ariyalur, sons despite the report Perambalur, Kalakurchi, Villu- of the Comptroller and puram, Tiruvannamalai dis- Auditor General (CAG) tricts of Tamil Nadu, Puduche- on the 2015 floods point- rry and Karaikal. Heavy rain is ing to a lot of mistakes also likely to occur at a few by the administration, places over Vellore, Ranipet, Stalin wanted the gov- Tiruvallur, Tirupattur, Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami consoles an old woman at Cuddalore Nivar Deputy Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam visiting a cyclone affected area in Chennai ernment to pay a com- Krishnagiri, Tiruchy, Salem and camp on Thursday. — DC on Thursday. — DC pensation of `5000 to Dharmapuri districts, a release each of the families affe- from RMC said. Chennai will cted by the devastation receive rains for two more days brought about by Nivar. till Friday. The skies are likely He said that he had vis- to be overcast with heavy to ited several Assembly extremely heavy rain likely to OPS holds meeting with officials on providing relief constituencies in occur at certain places on Chennai in the past two Thursday. From P1 tations, provide drinking State were safe, said appropriately, he added. were addressed immedi- The Corporation had days and distributed water and continue the Revenue Minister R.B. Cyclone Nivar brought 23 ately, while the rest were opened 200 relief camps food packets and other Mr Pannerselvam on his work till the rains stopped Udhayakumar, who spoke cm of rainfall to Chennai being looked into. He said but only 68 of them essentials to the people part visited some locali- completely and normalcy to the media at the round in 36 hours benefitting 210 all subways other than the attracted displaced people. displaced from their ties in Chennai in Vela- returned. the clock control room set water bodies and increas- one in Vyasarpadi did not While 3738 people came to homes and living in chery, Taramani and Peri- Electricity minister P. up at the Ezhilagam office ing the ground water table see inundation because the camps, most of them camps. yar Nagar, meeting people Thangamani told the complex to monitor the but the instances of water the water was pumped out had returned home after a The people affected by at relief camps and slum media that the precau- movement of the cyclone logging was less than in regularly. short stay, Prakash said. the cyclone feel that the clearance board teneme- tions taken by the depart- and coordinate relief and 2015 because the The flooding of Besides medical camps, AIADMK government nts. He held a meeting, thr- ment in disconnecting rescue operations. Corporation had set up Vyasarpadi subway was Coronavirus testing was had not learnt anything ough video conference, wi- power at places prone to He said 2,27,317 camps and cleared storm water due to the water from the also done at the camps. in the past 10 years and th officers and engineers water logging prevented were set up in all the affec- drains running to about Otteri nullah overflowing In the entire relief opera- not done anything to pr- of the Tamil Nadu Slum loss of life during the ted districts and that nor- 1000 km, Commissioner G. due to the incessant rains tions undertaken by the event waterlogging, Sta- Clearance Board and gave rains. Power had been malcy was returning to Prakash told the media at and entering the areas on Corporation all over the lin said adding that if instructions on providing restored in most of the many places affected by Ripon Building. both sides and thus filling city, 23,000 personnel at the storm water drains relief to the urban poor. places and work was on in the cyclone. There was During the time of the up the subway. Of the 387 various levels were had been cleared proper- He urged the officials to restoring it in the other indications on the formati- floods, 302 complaints trees that Nivar felled, 350 involved in providing suc- ly, water logging on Che- People being rescued in a baot clear all the water logging, places, where water log- on of another cyclone and were received, most on had been removed from cor to the people affected nnai roads could have in Vellore on Thursday. remove the piled up ging was still on, he said. the government was keen- water stagnation, he said, the roads and the rest were by the cyclone, the rains been avoided. —K. Senthil Nathan garbage, sanitise the habi- All fishermen in the ly watching it to respond adding that 135 complaints being taken away, he said. and the floods, he said. He recalled that the CAG report given in 2016 on the floods of 2015 was >>>> not tabled in the Assem- Minister for Animal bly for two years and Commissioner of police visits waterlogged areas Husbandry Udumalai was brought out only K. Radhakrishnan and after he had put pressu- DC CORRESPONDENT Tiruppur District Collector re on the government. CHENNAI, NOV. 26 K. Vijayakarthikeyan flag None of suggestions, re- off 5 new 108 ambulances commendations and ad- Cyclone Nivar wreaked havoc in for Udumalaipettai govern- vice given in the report Chennai and its suburbs with heavy ment hospital. — DC had been taken into con- rain and gusty winds damaging sideration by the gov- power and communication poles, ernment, he alleged. destroying houses and leaving thou- sands in relief shelters. City police commissioner Mahesh Kumar Aggarwal visited the water- logged areas in Mudichur, Tambaram and distributed relief materials to Timely action, concerted efforts the people living in relief camps. Due to the downpour, several streets in Guduvanchery, Maraimalai Nagar, Tambaram, Mudichur, Varadharaja- help Tamil Nadu weather Nivar puram were flooded. Chennai- Trichy national highway was completely wa- ple wading in knee-deep This time, the sluices of Ram Nagar in Velachery terlogged, disrupting traffic. Police water and being rescued Chembarambakkam where water entered and fire service personnel pitched in B. Vijayalakshmi in boats were among the reservoir were opened in homes, people were evacu- with relief work in coordination with several frightening scenes time to let out the excess ated and lodged in relief other departments in several parts of witnessed in Chennai as inflow of water as a pre- camps. Arterial roads and the city and suburbs, which were heavy rains lashed the cautionary measure. the airport remained affected due to incessant rain. Viewpoint city. Besides, several Delayed opening of the closed for several hours. areas faced a power cut reservoir was said to be By Thursday evening, with Tangedco cutting the trigger for the devas- power was restored in ven while Chennai power supply as a precau- tating 2015 Chennai floods. almost all areas and hun- and other districts tion in the wake of the Flood warnings were also dreds of uprooted trees Cops save man stuck in crumbling house Ebreathed a sigh of cyclone. issued to people living on removed from roads and relief on Thursday after However, the state gov- the banks of Adyar and parks. No major lakes or DC CORRESPONDENT ram in Otteri, led by head small opening in the col- bring Ganesh out of the cyclone Nivar made a ernment must be com- villages in Chengalpet water bodies, which were CHENNAI, NOV. 26 constable Jalaja and consta- lapsed portion. house. Within a short while, landfall on Wednesday mended for taking the and Kanchipuram dis- brimming, suffered ble Elango, found the front The police team saw a man the thatched roof of the night near Puducherry, lead, drawing up a disas- tricts due to the opening of breaches. While waterlog- The city police on Wednes- portion of an old house had sitting inside the house house collapsed, police thousands had lost their ter management action Chembarambakkam ging in several areas was day night saved the life of a collapsed due to rain. drunk. The man identified as said. sleep after their areas plan, spurring various reservoir. The Chief cleared, some locations man who was stuck inside a The team tried to find out if Ganesh, 33, a painter, had a Police took Ganesh to a were flooded. Also, there departments, especially Minister also kept a close remained marooned. A crumbling house in Chenn- anyone was present inside pet cat and didn’t want to relief camp. Police said he were others, especially in the civic body and the track of emergency meas- majority of the subways ai’s Otteri. the dilapidated house. the leave without it. The police had lost his job due to the apartments, haunted by police, to action and ures taken for the last two were unaffected. Probably, According to police sour- police officers shouted, but team, amidst the downpour, pandemic lockdown and 2015 floods, who were wor- launching precautionary days. Chennai will be free of ces, at 11:30 pm on Wednes- there was no response. started to search for the cat lived with his elderly mother, ried that water might measures. Timely action State ministers camped waterlogging only after day, police personnel from However, they informed the along with Ganesh and found who became sick recently enter their ground floor and concerted efforts miti- in districts to oversee the completion of a com- the Secretariat colony police station Inspector about the it after some time. and was admitted to a houses due to incessant gated the destructive relief operations. In prehensive and pragmatic station, who were on patrol condition of the house and With the help of some vol- government hospital in the rains. impact of cyclone Nivar places like Varadhara- stormwater drain duty near Swamy Dasarapu- reportedly entered through a unteers, the cops managed to city. Inundated streets, peo- on the capital city. japuram, Mudichur and network. NATION pg DECCAN CHRONICLE | CHENNAI | FRIDAY | 27 NOVEMBER 2020 4

SHORT TAKES Farmers are up in arms BJP FILES ‘CYCLONE, POLLS COMPLAINT MAY AFFECT WAR AGAINST ON COVID’ LALU YADAV Turn from Page 1 DC CORRESPONDENT PATNA, NOV. 26 This has had a good outcome in many patients. The second A complaint case has wave will depend on behav- been registered against iour of people and following RJD Chief Lalu Yadav at of protocols." the vigilance police sta- Owing to economic and tion in Patna. political activities, there has BJP MLA Lalan been movement of people in Paswan who had different parts of the country accused Lalu Yadav of and the world. This is a mat- making strategies to top- ter of concern as following ple the newly elected protocols of rest and quaran- NDA government in tine are not as earlier. For this Bihar filed the com- reason, there is worry that plaint on Thursday there can be a spike in under the prevention of Coronavirus cases in the corruption act. months of December and On Wednesday, BJP January. leader and former dep- Dr. Prabhu Kumar C., senior uty CM Sushil Kumar general physician says, "We Modi had released an are seeing increasing number audio clip in which Lalu of cases in north India, par- Yadav was heard talking ticularly Delhi. This is an to Lalan Paswan and indication that there will be a asking him to abstain rise in Covid-19 cases if peo- from the voting during ple do not follow safety proto- the speaker’s election. cols. SARS Cov 2 virus is Sources said that the around and it is virulent. Jharkhand administra- Preventive measures must tion has also asked the not be given up at any cost," officials to ascertain the the doctor underlined. veracity of the audio Immunity is higher among clip which was released people of south India owing to by the BJP on their food, culture and less Wednesday. polluted environment. Amid the political tur- moil in Bihar and Jharkhand over the GROOM ARRESTED issue, Lalu Yadav who is Members of various farmers organisations try to cross Shambu Border in Patiala district on Thursday during the ‘Delhi Chalo’ protest march by farmers against the new farm serving his jail term FOR LINK IN laws. Farmers faced water cannons and broke police barriers at the state’s border with Haryana and by late evening, a large group of them had reached the road toll plaza at after being sentenced in Panipat, about 100 km from Delhi. — PTI several fodder scam IIFL LOOT CASE cases has been sent back to the paying ward of AKSHAYA KUMAR Rajendra Institute of SAHOO | DC ANOTHER 26/11 Medical Sciences, BHUBANESWAR, NOV. 26 Ranchi. He was shifted to the A 30-year-old youth serving as ATTACK IS NEAR Phase III trial of India-made director’s bungalow last manager in a private gold loan month due to firm was on Thursday arrest- IMPOSSIBLE, Coronavirus. ed in the middle of his mar- “This is an attempt to riage rituals by the Crime SAYS RAJNATH stop the opposition RJD Branch in connection with ‘Covaxin’ begins at AIIMS from raising questions dacoity at the IIFL Finance PAWAN BALI |DC against the NDA. The Ltd branch office in Cuttack NEW DELHI, NOV. 25 allegation against Lalu city. Around 15,000 volunteers will receive the shot over the next few days Yadav is baseless and The arrested youth was iden- Defence minister Rajnath the NDA leaders cannot tified as Pitambar Sahoo of Singh said on Thursday DC CORRESPONDENT The first dose of 0.5 ml given the permission for (6,956), Punjab (4,653) and deaths, the ministry said. prove anything. The Nischintakoili, Cuttack. that a 26/11-like terror with agency inputs Covaxin intramuscular conducting phase 3 human Gujarat (3,892). According to the min- opposition parties in Following Pitambar’s arrest, strike in India is almost NEW DELHI, NOV. 26 injection was given to four clinical trials of the The Union health min- istry, 65 per cent of the Bihar would continue to the police seized a large quan- impossible as the nation- volunteers. They were Covaxin from the Drugs istry on Thursday said active cases are in eight expose the failures of tity of stolen gold and investi- al security architecture With 44,489 new confirmed under observation for two Controller General of 60.72 per cent of the 44,489 states and UTs which have the NDA government in gation is underway to ferret has been significantly cases in the last 24 hours, hours and will be moni- India. fresh cases registered in a contributed to the maxi- Bihar”, RJD spokesper- out more information on the bolstered in the last few India’s Covid-19 caseload tored for the next few days. According to the Union span of 24 hours have been mum daily new cases and son Chitranjan Gagan IIFL Finance loot case, said years, even as the country crossed 92 lakh, while the Dr Srivastava said, health ministry, the active contributed by six states deaths. told this newspaper. Prateek Singh, deputy com- remembered the victims number of recoveries “Covaxin is the first caseload shot up to and UTs, with Kerala lead- It said 61 per cent of the Sources, however, said missioner of police, Cuttack. of the deadly Mumbai surged to 86.42 lakh. indigenously-developed 4,44,746, an increase of ing the tally followed by total deaths are concen- that the RJD is con- Following the manager’s terror attack on its 12th The number of total anti-coronavirus vaccine 6,079 cases from Tuesday, Maharashtra, Delhi, West trated in these eight cerned as Lalu Yadav’s arrest, the bride and her fami- anniversary. Coronavirus cases rose to and on top of that, my even though it remained Bengal, Rajasthan and states/UTs. bail hearing in the fod- ly who were waiting at a hotel Mr Singh asserted that 92,22,216, while the death institute is participating below five lakh for the 15th Uttar Pradesh. The case fatality rates of der scam case is also had to pack up and cancel the the country is no longer a toll due to the disease in the trial. I am honoured consecutive day, account- It said 60.50 per cent of Punjab (3.16 per cent), scheduled on Friday. event. soft target for terrorists climbed to 1,34,699 with to be the first volunteer to ing for 4.82 per cent of the the 524 latest fatalities are Maharashtra (2.60 per According to reports, the and India has “escalated 481 new fatalities. receive the shot. I am total cases. concentrated in six states cent), West Bengal (1.75 police had obtained the custo- the cost for those support- Phase three trial of happy to be a part of such The number of people and Union territories — per cent) and Delhi (1.60 dial remand of five accused ing terrorism”. India-made Coronavirus a great cause. I am perfect- who have recovered from Delhi, Maharashtra, West per cent) are higher than INDIA, NEPAL persons in the loot case. Their Without taking the vaccine Covaxin, mean- ly fine and I’m working.” the disease surged to Bengal, Haryana, Punjab the national average of preliminary questioning name of China, Mr Singh while, began at AIIMS in As part of the trial appli- 86,42,771, pushing the and Uttar Pradesh. 1.46 per cent, the ministry revealed that more than 10 said that like Pakistan New Delhi on Thursday cation, a dose of 0.5 ml national recovery rate to Kerala leads the tally said. TO ADVANCE employees of IIFL Company there is another neigh- with Dr M.V. Padma would be given on day 0 93.72 per cent, while the with 6,491 new Covid-19 Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, had direct links with the crime boring country which Srivastava, the chief of and on day 28. Covid-19 case fatality rate cases registered in a span Rajasthan and Kerala have MUTUAL that took place on November keeps on creating trouble Neurosciences Centre at The phase three ran- stands at 1.46 per cent. of 24 hours, while a case fatality rate of 1.43 19. According to sources, the regarding the border the premier institute, and domised double-blind Of the 1,34,699 deaths Maharashtra has reported per cent, 1.02 per cent, 0.87 COOPERATION interrogation of other sus- issue. “Our government three other volunteers placebo-controlled multi- reported in the country so 6,159 new cases followed per cent and 0.37 per cent, pects was on and many more has given full freedom to receiving the first dose. centre trial would cover far due to the disease, by Delhi with 5,246 new respectively. Kathmandu, Nov. 26: are likely to be arrested. the army to oppose any Dr Srivastava was the around 28,500 subjects Maharashtra accounts for cases. Delhi has 29,169 Covid-19 India and Nepal on On the other hand, people attempt to change the line first one to receive the aged 18 years and above. 46,683, followed by Delhi with 99 deaths cases per million followed Thursday agreed to step who had deposited gold in IIFL of actual control (LAC).” shot, which would be It would be conducted in Karnataka (11,695), Tamil reported the maximum by Kerala with 16,201 up efforts to advance Company Ltd with the hope to He said that in the given to around 15,000 vol- around 25 sites across 10 Nadu (11,639), Delhi new fatalities. cases, Maharashtra with mutual cooperation dur- get more returns have become Galwan Valley, Indian sol- unteers at the medical states. The trial has alre- (8,621), West Bengal Maharashtra saw a fatali- 14,584 and Haryana with ing a “productive” meet- skeptical whether they would diers forced the Chinese institute over the next few ady started at a few sites. (8,121), Uttar Pradesh ty count of 65 followed by 7,959 cases per million ing between Foreign get their deposits back in view troops to go back. Mr days. Bharat Biotech has been (7,615), Andhra Pradesh West Bengal with 51 population. Secretary Harsh of scam and police action. Singh said India wants to Vardhan Shringla and resolve the issues with his Nepalese counter- China through dialogue. part Bharat Raj Paudyal. ‘NO AUCTION OF “But I want to assure Shringla began his everyone that under Oxford vaccine data two-day official visit to NIRAV PENTHOUSE Prime Minister Narendra TMC wants Guv sacked Nepal on Thursday. Modi's administration, He was accorded a BEFORE DEC. 14’ there will be no compro- From page 1 tiate a criminal case planned to present any comes under cloud warm welcome on his mise on India's self- against him. No sanction memorandum to maiden visit to Nepal DC CORRESPONDENT respect, sovereignty and On Thursday, is required for this." President Kovind for Mr From page 1 their results. As it came to which is happening at MUMBAI, NOV. 26 territorial integrity," he Sreerampore TMC MP He added: "The Dhankhar's removal as However, AstraZeneca has light that the vaccine's the invitation of Nepal said. Kalyan Banerjee claimed President must intervene governor, Mr Banerjee acknowledged a key mis- most promising results did Foreign Secretary Paud- The Enforcement Directorate Referring to the at Trinamul Bhavan: in the matter to see if the said: "It will be decided take in the vaccine dosage not reflect data from older yal, amid a strain in (ED) on Thursday made it Mumbai terror attack in "The governor, as a public two IPC sections were later." received by some study people, it appears difficult bilateral ties following a clear before the Bombay High which 166 people includ- servant, is creating violated by the governor Countering the TMC's participants, the New York that regulators in the US bitter border row bet- Court that it will not auction a ing 28 foreigners from 10 obstruction to the ongo- or not. If so, Mr demand, Mr Dhankhar, Times said in a report. and elsewhere will quickly ween the two countries. luxurious penthouse — nations were killed, Mr ing investigation against Dhankhar should be who is now in North This admission has added authorise the emergency “FS @harshvshringla Samudra Mahal belonging to Singh said that it forced the two accused. He is try- removed by the President Bengal, said: "My atten- to questions about use of the vaccine. had a productive meet- Nirav Modi — before the country to think to ing to indulge criminals as governor with immedi- tion has been drawn to whether the "vaccine's The NYT quoted Michele ing with @PaudyalBR December 14. permanently change its of the BJP with whom he ate effect. He is not enti- press release and a press apparently spectacular Meixell, a spokeswoman during which they took The HC was hearing a peti- ‘national security strate- has connections. The way tled to remain as gover- conference by a ruling efficacy will hold up under for AstraZeneca, as saying stock of bilateral coop- tion filed by Modi’s son Rohin gy’. “We can assure all Mr Dhankhar is giving nor. According to my party leader. To the additional testing". that the trials "were con- eration and discussed challenging ED’ s move to con- the countrymen that now threats to the Kolkata reading of the statute, extent the governor's role Along with the error, sci- ducted to the highest stan- issues of mutual inter- fiscate Samudra Mahal prop- India has strengthened police and the since the governor has or actions are concerned, entists and industry dards." est,” the Indian embassy erty. In his petition, Rohin its internal and external Bidhannagar police violated two IPC sections, the reflections are wide experts said a series of "I think that they have in Kathmandu said in a informed the court that his security cycle so much through his tweets, he is the President should not off the mark, betraying other irregularities and really damaged confi- tweet. father is nowhere concerned that it is now almost liable for prosecution allow him to continue in ignorance of elementary omissions in the manner dence in their whole “Both sides appreciat- with the said property and it impossible to execute under Sections 186 and his chair further after constitutional and legal in which AstraZeneca ini- development program," ed the progress made on belonged to a trust set up by another 26/11 attack on 189 of the Indian Penal considering all aspects." aspects and factually tially disclosed the data an analyst for the invest- the numerous bilateral him. Indian soil," he said. Code. The police must ini- Asked if the TMC has untenable.” have also eroded confi- ment bank SVB Leerink initiatives and projects. Few months back, the ED dence in the reliability of Geoffrey Porges said. PTI It was agreed to take fur- had filed an application before ther steps to advance the special Prevention of mutual cooperation,” it Money Laundering Act TI | FINDINGS The survey was conducted between June 17 and July 17 in India said in another tweet. (PMLA) court. The agency had Shringla arrived at brought to the notice of the Tribhuvan Inter-nation- court that as per provision al in Kathmandu on under Fugitive Economic Thursday morning. Offenders (FEO) Act 2018, it India has highest bribery rate in Asia: Report While interacting with can confiscate immovable and local journalists, he movable properties belonging New Delhi, Nov. 26: India The report is based upon works force citizens to cases of corruption is crit- from someone by threaten- doing well in the fight said, “I have wanted to to Nirav Modi. According to has the highest bribery the survey which was con- seek out alternate solu- ical to curbing the spread, ing to reveal evidence of against corruption, it said. come here earlier also, the ED, Modi has properties rate in Asia and the most ducted between June 17 tions to access basic serv- a majority of citizens in their sexual activity Based on fieldwork con- but because of Covid-19, worth `1,396 crore in India, number of people who use and July 17 in India with a ices through networks of India (63 per cent) think through means like mor- ducted in 17 countries, the I couldn’t do so. I am England and UAE. personal connections to sample size of 2,000. familiarity and petty cor- that if they report corrup- phed images. GCB surveyed nearly very happy to be here. I Subsequently, in June 2020 access public services, ac- “With the highest ruption, the report said. tion, they will suffer retal- In India, 89 per cent 20,000 citizens in total. was here in Kathmandu PMLA court had passed order cording to a new report by bribery rate (39 per cent) “Both national and state iation, it said. think government corrup- The report said the earlier too, though this to confiscate Modi’s proper- corruption watchdog Tra- in the region, India also governments need to In several countries tion is a big problem, 18 results showed that nearly is my first visit to Nepal ties. Petitioner Rohin’s coun- nsparency International. has the highest rate of streamline administrative including India, Malaysia, per cent offered bribes in three out of four people as a Foreign Secretary. sel Amit Sibal argued that The Global Corruption people using personal con- processes for public serv- Thailand, Sri Lanka and exchange for votes and 11 think corruption is a big We have very strong property belongs to Rohin Barometer (GCB) Asia, nections to access public ices, implement preventa- Indonesia, sexual extor- per cent experienced sex- problem in their country relationship. Our Trust and not any individual. found that nearly 50 per services (46 per cent),” the tive measures to combat tion rates are also high tortion or know someone and the survey also found endeavour will be to see He also argued that as per FEO cent of those who paid report said. bribery and nepotism, and and more must be done to who has. that nearly one in five peo- how we can take that Act, a notice must have been bribes were asked to, Bribery in public servic- invest in user-friendly prevent sextortion and About 63 per cent of sur- ple who accessed public relationship forward”. issued to Rohin if ED wants to while 32 per cent of those es continues to plague online platforms to deliver address specific gendered veyed people think the services, such as health Shringla’s visit will be auction the property and he who used personal connec- India. Slow and complicat- essential public services forms of corruption, the government is doing well care and education, paid a a continuation of the re- must be heard before the auc- tions said they would not ed bureaucratic process, quickly and effectively,” report said. in tackling corruption bribe in the preceding gular exchange of high- tion, but no notice was issue to receive the service other- unnecessary red tape and the report said. Sextortion is extorting while 73 per cent said their year. level visits between the Rohin. wise. unclear regulatory frame- Although reporting money or sexual favours anti-corruption agency is — PTI two friendly neighbour. WORLD pg DECCAN CHRONICLE | CHENNAI | FRIDAY | 27 NOVEMBER 2020 5

IN BRIEF 40 miners stuck at Trump reiterates voter fraud ‘Infodemic’ risks Zimbabwe mishap Harare: At least 40 informal jeopardising miners in Zimbabwe have been trapped underground allegations amid transition after a shaft in a disused gold mine collapsed, the Covid vaccines country’s miners’ federation said on Thursday. The inci- Calls into Pennsylvania Republican event to probe charges Paris, Nov. 26: As early dent occurred late Washington, Nov. 26: US as February, with the glob- PANDEMIC OR NOT, Wednesday in the town of President Donald Trump FACEBOOK FIGHTS al pandemic spreading Bindura, around 70 kilome- has baselessly claimed fast, the World Health tres (43 miles) north of the anew that he had won the Organisation issued a PEOPLE MUST STAY capital Harare, said election and uttered WITH ELECTION warning about an “info- Wellington Takavarasha, repeated falsehoods as he demic”, a wave of fake ACTIVE, SAYS WHO head of the Zimbabwe called into an event held DISINFORMATION news and misinformation Miners Federation. by Pennsylvania Repu- about the deadly new dis- Geneva, Nov. 25: The Takavarasha said the miners blicans to investigate San Francisco, Nov. 26: ease on social media. Coronavirus pandemic is were working inside the dis- unproven allegations of The US presidential elec- Now with hopes hanging no excuse for not getting used Ran Gold Mine when a voter fraud. “This was an tion is finished: votes cast, on Covid-19 vaccines, the enough exercise, the shaft caved in. election that we won easi- the transition — though WHO and experts are wa- World Health Organi- Six miners have since been ly. We won it by a lot,” delayed — begun. rning those same phenom- sation said on Wednesday, pulled from the rubble and Trump declared to the But on Facebook, the ena may jeopardise roll- warning that even before taken to hospital. group gathered at a hotel fight against election mis- out of immunisation pro- the crisis many were get- in Gettysburg on information continues, grammes meant to bring ting too little physical Flydubai lands 1st Wednesday. thanks to “super spread- an end to the suffering. activity. Trump, in fact, lost to ers” — accounts that dis- “The Coronavirus disease In an update of its phys- President-elect Joe Biden seminate rumours and is the first pandemic in ical activity guidelines, scheduled flight by about 1,50,000 votes in fabrications, falsely spre- history in which technolo- the UN health agency Tel Aviv: A flight operated by the state, and Pennsy- ading the idea that the gy and social media are stressed that exercise was budget airline flydubai land- lvania certified Biden as 2020 election was beset by being used on a massive vital to physical and men- ed in Tel Aviv on Thursday, the winner on Tuesday. organised, extensive fraud scale to keep people safe, tal health, while seden- the first scheduled commer- The Pennsylvania event Two women pray on their knees as they gather with other supporters of President by the Democratic Party. informed, productive and tary behaviour can have cial service between the two was the latest attempt by Donald Trump, most without masks, outside of the Wyndham Gettysburg hotel prior The US non-profit Avaaz connected,” the WHO serious repercussions. cities following the normali- Trump and his lawyer to a Pennsylvania Senate Majority Policy Committee public hearing to discuss 2020 has identified 25 pages in said. “WHO urges everyone to sation of ties between the Rudy Giuliani, a former election issues and irregularities with President Trumps lawyer Rudy Giuliani in particular, including “At the same time, the continue to stay active UAE and Israel. Israeli Prime New York City mayor, to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. — AFP those of Donald Trump Jr technology we rely on to through the Covid-19 pan- Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, try to cast doubt on the and Eric Trump — the keep connected and infor- demic,” the agency's head on hand for the arrival of the results of the democratic president’s sons — White med is enabling and am- of health promotion Rue- inaugural flight after its near- election, even as the for- House press secretary plifying an infodemic that diger Krech told ly four-hour trip, called it “a mal transition process has Kayleigh McEnany and continues to undermine reporters. “If we do not moment of history.””As-sal- begun and a growing num- Trump pardons Flynn, his combative conservative the global response and remain active, we run the aam alaikum (Peace be upon ber of Republicans are commentators Dan jeopardises measures to risk of creating another you),” he said to arriving recognising Biden as pres- Bongino, Lou Dobbs and control the pandemic.” pandemic of ill-health as passengers. “Come again and ident-elect. Rush Limbaugh, along More than 1.4 million peo- a result of sedentary again and again.” The United Similar events have been ex-NSA who lied to FBI with pro-Trump organiza- ple have died since the pa- behaviour.”There are still Arab Emirates in September scheduled in Arizona and tions such as Turning ndemic emerged in China no clear statistics on what signed a landmark US-bro- Michigan. State election Washington, Nov. 26: US an innocent man. Even the Point USA. late last year, but three impact the pandemic has kered deal to formalise rela- officials across the coun- President Donald Trump FBI agents who inter- These are sowing doubt developers are already had on physical activity, tions with Israel, the first try and international obs- has signed an executive viewed General Flynn did about the President-elect applying for approval for but lockdowns, movement such agreement by an Arab ervers have said there is order granting pardon to not think he was lying. Joe Biden's White House their vaccines to be used restrictions, gym closures state in the Gulf. no evidence of widespread his former national securi- “Multiple investigations win earlier this month — as early as December. and other measures have voter fraud, and Trump’s ty adviser Michael Flynn, have produced evidence taking their lead from the Beyond logistics, thou- clearly forced many peo- Greek oil tanker hit legal team has lost repeat- who had been charged establishing that General building’s current resi- gh, governments must ple to stay home and have edly in court, in addition with making false state- Flynn was the victim of dent, who has also taken also contend with scepti- disrupted regular activi- by blast at Saudi to making numerous ele- ments to the FBI over pos- partisan government offi- to social media to tweet cism over vaccines devel- ties and exercise rou- mentary errors. sible collusion between cials engaged in a coordi- that he will not “concede” oped with record speed at tines.’ — AFP Riyadh: An explosion rocked Wednesday’s event, the Trump campaign and nated attempt to subvert and to outline his so-far a time when social media a Greek-operated oil tanker organised by local Russia during the 2016 Michael Flynn the election of 2016,” unfounded claims that the has been both a tool for docked at Saudi Arabia’s Republicans, including presidential polls. Trump McEnany said. These indi- election was “stolen.” information and false- disinfectants inside the port of Shuqaiq on Pennsylvania state Sen. signed the executive order ed. An independent review viduals sought to prevent Unproven allegations of hood about the virus. The body to cure the virus and Wednesday, Greek officials Doug Mastriano, an out- on Wednesday. of General Flynn’s case by Trump from being elected, fraud from these accounts WHO defined an infodem- also promoted unproven said, in an attack that a spoken Trump supporter, “It is my Great Honor to the Department of Justice to block him from assum- have been “liked,” com- ic as an overabundance of treatments. Since Riyadh-led military coalition came with trappings of an announce that General — conducted by respected ing that office on his elec- mented on and shared information, both online January, AFP has pub- blamed on Yemeni rebels. official hearing — flags, a Michael T. Flynn has been career professionals — tion, remove him from more than 77 million and offline, including lished more than 2,000 The blast on the Maltese- gavel, and “witnesses”who granted a Full Pardon. supports this conclusion.” office after his inaugura- times since November 3, “deliberate attempts to fact-checking articles dis- flagged Agrari tanker follows “testified” in person and Congratulations to Gen In fact, the Department of tion, and undermine his according to a study from disseminate wrong infor- mantling false claims a string of attacks by the by phone. Among them Flynn and his wonderful Justice has firmly conclud- administration at every Avaaz. mation”. Last month, a about the Coronavirus. Iran-linked rebels on Saudi was a special guest — the family, I know you will ed that the charges against turn, she said. House And that doesn’t take study from Cornell “Without the appropri- oil infrastructure, highlighting president — who at one now have a truly fantastic Flynn should be dropped, Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a into account the Facebook University in the United ate trust and correct infor- the growing perils of a five- point had been expected to Thanksgiving!” Trump she said. “This Full Pardon statement said Trump’s accounts of the “super- States found that US mation, diagnostic tests year military campaign led attend in person, but did said in a tweet. achieves that objective, pardon of Michael Flynn, spreader” in chief, Donald President Donald Trump go unused, immunisation by the kingdom in Yemen. not after another member White House Press finally bringing to an end who twice pleaded guilty to Trump himself, nor that of has been the world’s campaigns (or campaigns The tanker was “attacked by of his legal team anno- Secretary Kayleigh McEn- the relentless, partisan lying to the FBI about his his former adviser Steve biggest driver of Covid-19 to promote effective vac- an unknown source” while it unced that he had tested any said, “The President pursuit of an innocent dealings with a foreign Bannon, which was misinformation during cines) will not meet their was preparing to depart from positive for the Coro- has pardoned General man,” she said. adversary, is an act of recently removed by the the pandemic. targets, and the virus will the Red Sea port of Shuqaiq, navirus on Wednesday Flynn because he should “General Flynn should grave corruption and network. In April, Trump mused continue to thrive,” the its Greece-based operator morning. — AP never have been prosecut- not require a pardon. He is abuse of power. — PTI — AFP on the possibility of using WHO said. — AFP TMS Tankers said, adding that no injuries were report- ed. “The Agrari was struck about one meter above the waterline and has suffered a BRITAIN FUNDS breach,” TMS Tankers said in Russia oil giant Iran swaps Australian for 3 Iranians a statement. “It has been ANTI-TERROR confirmed that the crew are Tehran, Nov. 26: Iran has turer on Middle Eastern Thursday, saying Moore- was achieved through safe and there have been no freed a British-Australian studies when she was Gilbert would soon be “diplomatic engagement” ESTABLISMENT injuries. No pollution has declares Arctic academic who had been picked up at the Tehran reunited with her family. with the Iranian govern- been reported.”An investiga- detained in the country airport as she tried to “Dr. Moore-Gilbert’s ment and was done in con- London, Nov. 26: UK Chan- tion was underway after for over two years in leave the country after release has been an sultation with Moore- cellor Rishi Sunak has anno- Saudi authorities, including exchange for three attending an academic absolute priority for the Gilbert’s family. Moore- unced to set aside millions of the coast guard, boarded the project open Iranians held abroad, conference in 2018. government since her Gilbert was one of several pounds to establish a “world- stricken vessel, it added. state TV announced. She was sent to Tehran’s detention,” Payne said in Westerners held in Iran leading” Counter Terrorism The television report on Evin prison, convicted of a statement. “The Aus- on widely criticised espi- Operations Centre (CTOC) Moscow, Nov. 26: been completed. The Wednesday was scant on spying and sentenced to 10 tralian government has onage charges that based in London. As part of a Russian oil giant Rosneft strategic plan for Russia’s detail, saying only that the years behind bars. Moore- consistently rejected the activists and UN investi- Spending Review for the next PALESTINIAN WHO on Wednesday announced mineral resources stret- three Iranians freed in the Gilbert had vehemently grounds on which the gators believe is a system- year’s budgetary plans tabled the start of operations for ches to 2035 and is bank- swap had been imprisoned denied the charges and Iranian government arr- atic effort to leverage their in Parliament on Wednesday, WAGED 103-DAY its giant Vostok oil project ing on growing global for trying to bypass sanc- maintained her inno- ested, detained and con- imprisonments for money the finance minister said he in the Arctic, part of the demand, though it does tions on Iran. Kylie cence. Australian Foreign victed Dr. Moore-Gilbert. or influence in negotia- would allocate an additional FAST FREED country’s strategic energy predict that natural gas Moore-Gilbert, 33, was a Minister Marise Payne We continue to do so.” tions with the West, which 400 mn pound to help recruit plan which has been criti- will partially replace oil Melbourne University lec- confirmed the release on Payne said the release Tehran denies. — AP 20K more police officers by 23. Nablus, Palestinian Territ- cised by environmental- and coal. ries, Nov. 26: Israel on Thu- ists. “Mineral resources will rsday released a Palestinian “It is with great pleasure remain a competitive who waged a 103-day hunger that I inform you of the advantage of Russia’s strike to protest Israeli rules start of the practical economy, and will deter- Turkish coup accused get life terms allowing his detention without implementation of the mine the place and role of charge, the Palestinian project,” Rosneft chief the country in the world,” Ankara, Nov. 26: A THE CHAOTIC attempt swiftly followed by a fierce Ankara and civilians who Prisoner’s Club said. executive Igor Sechin told it says. Turkish court jailed more was swiftly followed by a government crackdown orchestrated the coup Maher al-Akhras, arrested President Vladimir Putin Environmentalists ur- than 300 former pilots and spanning years and result- attempt from inside the over alleged membership of a at a meeting in Moscow. ged the Russian govern- other suspects for life in a fierce government crack- ing in tens of thousands of Akinci military base near militia group, was transferred He thanked Putin, with ment last year to stop mass trial stemming from down spanning years and arrests. the capital. from a Tel Aviv hospital to whom he has close rela- granting licenses to ex- a bloody 2016 coup attempt resulting in tens of thou- Turkey’s largest court- Court documents subse- Nablus’s Al-Najah University tions, for the adoption of a ploit several Arctic de- against President Recep sands of arrests. room was packed with quently obtained by AFP Hospital in the occupied West law facilitating Russian posits. The Vostok project, Tayyip Erdogan. dozens of security person- showed 337 defendants Bank, the prisoners' rights investments in the Arctic. the cornerstone of Ru- Fethullah Gulen, a US- charges. nel and the presiding handed life sentences for group said in a statement. A “The prospecting and ssia’s Arctic ambitions, based Muslim preacher A total of 251 people died judge ordered one protest- murder, violating the con- decision on releasing him to exploration work are now brings together several who was once an Erdogan and more than 2,000 were ing defendant to “Sit stitutional order and return home will follow “a underway, in accordance Rosneft activities in the ally, is accused of ordering injured in what has down!” several times attempting to assassinate medical assessment of his con- with our timetable,” Russian Far North, near the failed putsch. His turned into the defining before reading the verdict. Erdogan. dition”, Al-Najah hospital med- Sechin said, adding that the northern sea route movement has been pro- moment of Erdogan's rule He issued multiple life Sixty suspects were ical director Abdul-Karim Al- the design work for a 770- that the company intends scribed as a terrorist and contemporary sentences to 27 disgrun- given jail sentences of var- Barqawi said. kilometrer (480-mile) oil to exploit to deliver to group by Ankara, but the Turkish politics. tled air force pilots who ious lengths while 75 were Akhras, 49, was arrested near pipeline and a port had Europe and Asia. — AFP 79-year-old denies all The chaotic attempt was bombed the capital acquitted. — AFP Nablus in July and put in administrative detention, a policy that Israel uses to hold suspected militants without PUBLISHING | GIANT Bertelsmann’s rival News Corp., which owns HarperCollins, slammed the deal charge. He is suspected of links to the armed Palestinian group Islamic Jihad, labelled a terrorist group by Israel, the United States and the Penguin to buy Simon & Schuster for $2bn European Union. The father of six launched his fast to protest Berlin, Nov. 26: German and (particularly) in the PENGUIN RANDOM petition for book deals, widest variety of books to ment. “This literary a four-month detention order, media giant Bertelsmann US, its second-largest mar- House Chief Executive and lower advances. audiences,” said Suzanne leviathan would have 70% which had been due to end on said on Wednesday that its ket,” the Guetersloh, The Authors Guild, a Nossel, the CEO of PEN of the U.S. literary and November 26. Penguin Random House Germany-based company Markus Dohle said on writers’ organisation, said America. “To the extent general fiction market." Akhras, who been arrested by division is buying rival said in a statement. Wednesday that Simon & Wednesday that it opposed that efficiencies are gar- Penguin Random House Israel several times previously, Simon & Schuster in a The purchase of Simon Schuster would retain its the sale because it would nered through consolida- Chief Executive Markus ended his hunger strike after megadeal that would & Schuster would reduce editorial independence hurt competition, making tion, it is our hope that Dohle said on Wednesday Israeli authorities committed reshape the US publishing the so-called Big Five of and that individual it more difficult for they are a catalyst to that Simon & Schuster to not extending his detention industry. American publishing — imprints within Penguin authors and agents to enable greater investment would retain its editorial beyond that date. Israel’s admi- Penguin Random House, which also includes Random House and Simon negotiate with publishers. in authors, books, and out- independence and that nistrative detention policy, in- already the largest HarperCollins, Hachette & Schuster could continue It said the U.S. Department reach to readers.” individual imprints with- herited from the British man- American publisher, will Book Group and of Justice should chal- Bertelsmann’s rival in Penguin Random House date of Palestine, allows the buy the New York-based Macmillan — to four. to compete with each lenge it. News Corp., which owns and Simon & Schuster internment of prisoners with- Simon & Schuster, whose The companies said the other for book deals. The department did not HarperCollins, also could continue to compete out charge for renewable peri- authors include Stephen deal is expected to close in immediately return a slammed the deal. with each other for book ods of up to six months each King, Hillary Clinton and 2021, subject to regulatory termination fee if the deal request for comment. “Bertelsmann is not just deals. time. Israel says the procedure John Irving, from TV and approval. fails due to regulatory rea- “As an organisation of buying a book publisher, Simon & Schuster’s cur- allows authorities to hold sus- film company ViacomCBS No US publisher in mod- sons. writers it’s important to but buying market domi- rent president and chief pects and prevent attacks while for $2.17 billion in cash. ern times would approach Agents and authors often us that the publishing nance as a book behe- executive, Jonathan Karp, continuing to gather evidence, “Simon & Schuster the power of the new com- worry that a concentra- industry (thrives), and moth,” said News Corp will continue to lead the but critics and rights groups strengthens Bertels- pany. ViacomCBS said tion of power in publish- that there be multiple, Chief Executive Robert publishing house, say the system is abused. mann’s footprint globally, Bertelsmann will pay a ing could mean less com- robust outlets to bring the Thomson said in a state- Bertelsmann said. — AP EDIT DECCAN CHRONICLE| FRIDAY | 27 NOVEMBER 2020 | CHENNAI pg 6

27 NOVEMBER 2020 Ahmed’s passing leaves Subhani crisis-hit Cong in trouble lthough he had been down with Covid, the unexpected and premature death of Ahmed Patel on Wednesday leaves the Congress Party ill-pre- pared to take on the key challenge that upcoming Assembly polls in five Astates are likely to pose. Before that the party faces a major internal challenge — the holding of an election for the Congress president, for which the party’s interim chief Sonia Gandhi has already set up a central election authori- ty after 23 prominent Congress figures wrote to Mrs Gandhi in early August ask- ing for proper party elections, and in particular, the election of a new president to direct functioning on a structured basis since Rahul Gandhi had resigned as chief after the Lok Sabha election defeat in May 2019. These events may be expected to pose a particular challenge principally on account of the fact that the Congress had become more or less wholly reliant on the organisational resources and skills that the late Mr Patel brought to the table. The rest of the party structure does exist in a nominal sense, but it is based on nominations and lacks substance. Ahmed Patel, too, was a nominated member of the Congress Working Committee but he used to win CWC elections until these stopped being held. Besides, he had vast experience. LETTERS He knew his own party inside out and had viable contacts across parties, espe- cially in the non-BJP universe. He had entered Lok Sabha as far back as 1977 and NEED WATER PANEL served as parliamentary secretary to late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. Later, he Reference to the report, NGT: was made political aide to Sonia Gandhi when she became party chief more than Form agency to protect two decades ago and served in that capacity even after Rahul Gandhi formally ‘Contempt of court’: A took over as Congress president in late 2017. Mr Patel was also made the party’s water bodies. Emphasising treasurer in 2018, a position he had held earlier. the need to protect water Without exception, the late Mr Patel was the only Congress stalwart who could bodies so as to ensure avail- phone any senior non-Congress leader in any state to discuss poll alliances and adjustments or any political matter. He derived this special authority by virtue ability of water for the pre- of holding — on account of his abilities and conciliator personality — the trust of relook may be needed sent and future generations, Mrs Gandhi who herself commands great personal regard and political respect the National Green Tribunal across parties since it was under her leadership that the Congress was able to other words, one inten- deny that I am old; it’s the (NGT) has issued directives constitute and head two consecutive coalition governments at the Centre. tion was to hide judicial truth. Whether I am a fool Mrs Gandhi is in frail health and there is no Ahmed Patel now. It will be inter- corruption. The concept, or not is a matter of per- to the states and Union esting to see how much real weight the central election authority can bring to therefore, ab initio, ception of someone else … Territories to appoint a nodal bear on the internal party poll, which ought to be completed by February. Rahul Karan Thapar clashed with the need for there is no need to invoke agency to monitor and take Gandhi may be well-advised to steer clear of the process guiding the party’s inter- transparency and, of the powers of nal elections — lest that be misunderstood — even if he is not going to be a can- course, freedom of contempt.” suitable steps. But back didate. In the absence of Mrs Gandhi playing an effective role day-to-day, and As I See It speech. Some of our own judges home in Chennai, CMDA con- with Mr Patel gone, only a duly elected Congress president can carry weight with So no wonder enlight- have shown similar wis- tinues to encourage re-classi- other parties when it comes to holding viable political and electoral consulta- ened British judges have dom. In a 2008 lecture, tions in the context of Assembly polls in West Bengal, Assam, Tamil Nadu, ignored it. As far back as Justice Markandey Katju fication of water bodies to Puducherry and Kerala in the coming months. This is more the reason why the nce again con- not a particularly witty 1968, Lord Denning, had this to say: “If a per- other zones such as residen- upcoming election of the Congress chief must be a clean and fair process in tempt of court one. They are not meant Britain’s former Master son calls me a fool, tial, commercial, institutions, which the whole party is invested. is in the news. to be kind or polite. The of the Rolls, had this to whether inside court or etc with the result that our In September, intention is to lampoon say of the law of con- outside it, I for one would the human or, even, lacerate. But is tempt: “Let me say at not take action as it does precious water sources get Orights lawyer Prashant this “gross insinuation”? once that we will never not prevent me from completely depleted. It is Farewell, Diego Bhushan was tried and Do they suggest that the use this jurisdiction as a functioning, and I would high time, the NGT takes suo iego Armando Maradona was the “Golden Kid” who never really grew up. found guilty on this Supreme Court “is a means to uphold our own simply ignore the com- From the streets of Latin America to soccer riches is not too unusual a count. Now the stand-up court of the ruling party, dignity … nor will we use ment or else say that moto notice of this and Dstory except that Maradona was arguably one of the greatest players of all comedian Kunal Kamra the BJP, existing only for it to suppress those who everyone is entitled to his issues directions to the state. time with a talent so natural as to be defined as a divine gift. It was, however, faces a similar charge, the BJP’s benefit”? speak against us. We do opinion. After all, words V.S. Jayaraman, coincidental that he became associated with the “Hand of God” for the contro- this time endorsed by the Actually, to ask the ques- not fear criticism, nor do break no bones”. Chennai versial goal he scored with the “head of Diego and the hand of God” as he imp- attorney general. While tion is to answer it. And we resent it. For there is More important, ishly put it. However, it would be unfair to define him only by that accidental the Supreme Court will it’s “NO”. something far more Justice Katju was crystal goal. Such is the duality of Maradona that only minutes later he produced one of no doubt focus on what’s The two-finger gesture important at stake. It is clear about when con- CONVERSION MATTERS the finest field goals ever seen at a World Cup. been said about its is more tricky. It’s both no less than freedom of tempt could apply and Apropos report, HC upholds right to The brilliance of Maradona which came through in that coruscating run of 1986 judges, many others will more clever and ques- speech itself. It’s the right when it would not. “The choose partner, faults earlier verdict. from the Argentine half, twice feinting past pairs of defenders and beating one ask whether judges need tionable. At one level, the of every man, in test to determine whether Art. 25(1) is emphatic that ‘it gives each more before curling the football in past the England goal-keeper will remain to accept satire and criti- raised index and middle Parliament or out of it, in an act amounts to con- member of every religion to the right to etched in memory forever as the most aesthetic exhibition of the art of football. cism with good grace finger of Kamra’s left the press or over the tempt of court or not is spread or disseminate the tenets of his Even the memory of his virtually single-handed triumph for Argentina in that rather than seek the pro- hand is a V signal. broadcast, to make fair this: does it make the religion but it would not include the right World Cup final (against West Germany) might fade when compared to the pris- tection of the law of con- However, the accompa- comment, even outspo- functioning of judges to convert another because each man or tine beauty of the movement of the 5 foot 5 inch, low centre of gravity genius, the tempt and use it to punish nying message — “one of ken comment, on matters impossible or extremely woman has the same freedom of con- magical ball at his magnetic feet. their attackers. these two fingers is for of public interest … we difficult? If it does not, science guaranteed by the same provi- To say he was the most human of sport’s immortals would be an understate- Let’s start with the case CJI Arvind Bobde … ok must rely on our own then it does not amount sion in the above Art.25(1). In other ment. His flawed genius illustrated how the loss of moral compass can affect against Kumal Kamra. let me not confuse you it’s conduct itself to be its to contempt of court even words, one can hold any faith of his man. Success went on to ravage him, his addictions to cocaine and liquor and The attorney general has the middle one” — could own vindication.” if it’s harsh criticism … choice but not to be converted into women — he sired five children from four women — proving a pervasive cock- found his tweets and two- convert this into a rude In 1987, after the Spy- the only situation where I another religion either by force or allure- tail. Judging others might seem incongruous as there is no such thing as a per- finger gesture contemp- gesture. Actually, crude catcher judgment, when would have to take some ment or fraud. The moot question is how fect human being. But, as a sporting icon whose millions of fans worshipped the tuous. “This is a gross might be a better word. the Daily Mirror called action was if my function- it could be morally, legally tenable if a very ground he walked on, Maradona had a responsibility to fulfil, which his bac- insinuation against the It’s telling the Supreme Britain’s Law Lords “You ing as a judge was made Hindu boy seduces or induces one chanalian lifestyle and attitude precluded. Comparisons can be odious but one entirety of the Supreme Court where to get off. Old Fools” or, in 2016, impossible … after all, I Muslim girl who has attained marriage- must be done with Pele to illustrate what Maradona would have been if only… Court of India that … (it) But is that contempt? after the Brexit ruling, have to function if I wish able age? Will not the cited Art.21, which is not an independent and Even if it is, it’s too imma- when the Daily Mail to justify my salary.” guarantees personal liberty, contravene impartial institution … ture to take seriously. called three judges “En- I think that answers the the very Art. 25(1), which calls such con- (but) is a court of the rul- Judges —and not just emies of the People”, the questions I began with. version by seduction or inducement a ing party, the BJP, exist- because of their age — British judiciary con- While justice is impor- penal offence? It is time that such con- DECCAN CHRONICLE ing only for the BJP’s should rise above it. sciously and sensibly ig- tant, judges must not take tradictory verdicts are not pronounced benefit. All this in my This brings me to a nored the headlines and themselves too seriously. by the same court on the same issue at KAUSHIK MITTER K. SUDHAKAR opinion constitutes crim- more important and did not consider contempt Even if their amour pro- different times confusing the public. Editor Printer & Publisher prosecution. In fact, Lord pre is offended it does not R. MOHAN inal contempt of court”, wider question about the A. Seshagiri Rao, Chennai Resident Editor Mr Venugopal declared. law of contempt. Has it Templeton’s comment on mean the institution has DECCAN CHRONICLE offices are located at: If true, the attorney gen- outlived its utility? And the Spycatcher headline is been questioned or jus- Chennai: SP 3 Developed Plot, Industrial Estate, Guindy, Chennai 600032. 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Phones: (0883) 2417208, 2417618 2013. At the time the cised or satirised. And it Anantapur: Thapovan Colony, Bangalore Bye-Pass Road, Anantapur 515004. Phones: (08554) 276903, “The Supreme Court of ‘You Old Fools’ or, all his gifts he received from the Fax: 08554-276904 this country is the most country’s Law does not have to be polite almighty as a fabulous player, his Nellore: Survey No. 527/2, Burranpur Village, Venkatachalam (M), Chemudugunta Panchayat, Nellore. supreme joke of this Commission said the pur- in 2016, after the or, even, fair. health got a setback after his personal Phone: (0861) 2348581/ 82, Telefax (0861) 2348580 country”. Frankly, the pose was not just “pre- Brexit ruling, when I hope the Supreme life was on the rocks due to the usage Karimnagar: Survey No. 1341, Vavilalapally Colony, Jagityala Road, Karimnagar 505 001. 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he quest for a liberal is what parties, particularly the Randeep Surjewala’s tepid response not to defeat the BJP (of which they The durability of Mr Owaisi in Muslim was always a con- Congress, cast him as. This allega- says nothing. Why doesn’t the are incapable), but to enlarge their public life denotes the failure of all tradiction in terms. But a tion of communalism against Mr Congress make its stand clear on power base, a delusion at best, and parties to paint him in lurid, com- Tsearch for a liberal Hindu, Owaisi helps the Congress sustain Article 370? end up doing nothing for Muslims. munal colours, much as they tried. dalit, Christian or Sikh leader the delusion it’s still with the secu- Sheikh bhi khush rahey / With a population of 200 million, Such a moment did come in 2013 Saeed Naqvi would also be a bogus one. As RSS lar lineup. The Congress doesn’t Shaitaan bhi naraaz na ho (Keep or 14 per cent of the total, there are when his younger, more firebrand chief Mohan Bhagwat and Prime like the refrain: Congress and BJP, the agents of God and Satan equally 27 Muslims in a 543-strong Lok brother, Akbaruddin Owaisi, made Minister Narendra Modi, in their tweedledum and tweedledee. It happy). Sabha. The ratio in state a provocative reference to police Wide Angle Hindutva chariot, hurtle towards must be admitted, of course, that How can the Congress point fin- Assemblies is even more embar- support for violence against Hindu Rashtra say, by 2025, the there are differences between the gers at Mr Owaisi’s “pro-BJP rassing. Mr Owaisi’s argument is Muslims. “Remove the police for 15 RSS’ centenary, the very notion of a two corporate-supported parties. stand” when it reduced senior simple: seven seats in Telangana, minutes and let’s see.” The speech liberal Muslim in public life seems Former Madhya Pradesh CM leader Ghulam Nabi Azad to tears two in Maharashtra and now five in smacked of a sort of Muslim macho, out of place. What would be the Digvijay Singh may, admittedly, during the 2019 election: “Even dis- Bihar is 14 seats. Supposing causing the media to go into acceptable contours of a Muslim drink a litre’s cow urine daily, but trict committees don’t invite me to Muslims pick up an average of even convulsions. leader who is neither mute nor his drinking habits don’t come address rallies”. Ahmed Patel, one seat in 28 states and eight Union Since then, Akbaruddin was clear- abrasive? into conflict with the secularism a whose death we mourn today, was territories, the figure 36 will not ly restrained. Asaduddin, a barris- The enigma of Asaduddin Owaisi handful of Congressmen swore by kept away from the campaign in look so negligible. ter, a restrained and skilful speak- acquires new salience after his suc- earlier. Gujarat. The electoral weakness of India’s er, once a medium pacer for the Does a ‘liberal’ cess in Bihar. Speculation centres To fast forward the narrative, This is the pincer in which Mr Muslims is precisely this: though South Zone cricket team, and one on how he might fare in West there were no cow vigilantes, no Owaisi holds the Congress. He substantial in an overall sense, they who anchors his political stance Bengal, with a 30 per cent Muslim lynchings in the name of the cow, taunts the Muslims: “Congress has are scattered all over. Ironically unerringly to the Constitution, is Muslim leader population, which is the backbone no “love jihad” bar. The Congress brought you down to the level Covid-19, by linking schools, col- an uncommon phenomenon in pub- of Mamata Banerjee’s support. As can’t be blamed for such trends. The described in the 2005 Sachar leges, businesses and international lic life. For the right, left and centre, they are Mr Owaisi’s hunting charge against them is different: Committee report.” conferences, the magic of virtual Asaduddin is the exasperating ground too, will the Muslim voter extreme cowardice. When these The thrust of Mr Owaisi’s argu- reality will come into play. opponent who doesn’t deviate from have a future in be confused? If Amit Shah hadn’t shameful events happen, the ment is that Muslims have been Members of Assemblies can be in good manners, logic, the made it his life’s mission to oust or Congress, instead of going for their tricked into supporting “pseudo- instantaneous contact. Constitution and, woe of woes, is a substantially diminish “Didi” and opponents’ jugular, just shuts up — secular” parties like the Congress, The danger, of course, is that the Muslim. If he does have such quali- her TMC, Muslims may well have in case taking sides leads to a loss of and caste parties in UP, Bihar, etc. growth of a Muslim entity might ties of heart and mind, why will sen- India’s politics? risked a breach in their absolute Hindu votes. No wonder the tag of Muslims have been frightened help accelerate Hindu consolida- sible non-Muslims not turn to him support for her. But now, any bid by “BJP’s B team” has stuck on the into supporting these parties. The tion. How does one obviate that some day? Mr Owaisi to fish for a small catch, Congress. ogre that frightened them is obvi- emergency? By allowing the just to open an account in Bengal, Take Amit Shah’s latest fusillade ously the RSS-BJP. Mr Owaisi’s Muslim vote to habitually occupy The writer is a senior journalist will expose him to the slur that he’s directed at the “Gupkar gang” for argument is that these so-called sec- frayed mattresses in parties like the and commentator based in a “vote katua”, a vote divider which “international conspiracy”. ular parties seek Muslim support Congress which are in fatal decline? New Delhi FRIDAY | 27 NOVEMBER 2020 | CHENNAI pg 7 It’s a process than an event: RBI Guv LTC scheme: Vedanta Resources sounds out quick Insurance Full capital account premium bondholders on debt extension BITES BIJOU GEORGE & ing principal on those also eligible LUCA CASIRAGHI securities. convertibility far off NOV. 26 Pressures are mounting INDICATORS % New Delhi, Nov. 26: after the delisting Premium paid for Vedanta Resources Ltd flopped, given it would Sensex 44,259.74 0.98 FALAKNAAZ SYED have helped the holding Shaktikanta Das insurance policies pur- has begun sounding out Nifty 50 12,987.00 1.00 MUMBAI, NOV. 26 chased between Octo- debt holders about the company more easily S&P 500* 3,629.65 -0.16 ber 12, 2020 and March possibility of extending access cash at the unit. India will continue to 31, 2021 by central gov- maturities on some of its That's triggered warn- Dollar (`) 73.87 0.07 approach capital account ernment employees will dollar bonds to reduce ings from credit rating Pound Sterling (`) 98.72 -0.11 convertibility as “a be eligible for reim- refinancing pressures. firms about Vedanta process rather an event”, bursement under the The mining giant start- Resources' debt pile. Euro (`) 87.94 0.03 Reserve Bank of India LTC cash voucher ed approaching the Anil Agarwal Holding companies, Gold (10gm)* (`) 48,257▲17 0.03 (RBI) governor Shakti- scheme. investors to discuss pos- including Vedanta Brent crude ($/bbl)* 47.79 -0.82 kanta Das said on Issuing the third set of sible debt extensions holders, slumped as Resources, which are Thursday. FAQ, the Department of after the company's much as 7.7 cents after controlled by energy-to- IN 10-Yr bond yield 5.872 -0.014 “Capital account convert- Expenditure under the failed attempt to delist its the news. That's set for mining tycoon Anil US 10-Yr T-bill yield* 0.882 0.00 ibility will continue to be finance ministry, also India unit, Vedanta Ltd, the sharpest drop in Agarwal, face their high- approached as a process clarified that for pur- people familiar with the more than six weeks, est debt repayments in * As of 8:30 PM IST rather than an event, tak- chases of goods like matter said. according to prices com- years. ing cognizance of preva- cars, employees can The company's bonds piled by Bloomberg. A spokesman for the lent macroeconomic condi- gone a transformation tinue due to recent surge submit self-attested due in June next year, London-based Vedanta Vedanta group declined tions. A long-term vision from being a virtually in infections in advanced photocopy of bills which are among notes Resources must repay to comment. Import duty on with short- and medium- closed economy to one that economies and parts of instead of original bills under discussion with $670 million in outstand- — Bloomberg term goals is the way is globally connected and India. We need to be watch- as proof for availing the ahead,” Das said at an open to a much larger vol- ful about the sustainabili- benefit under the crude palm oil event of the Foreign ume of international ty of demand after festi- scheme. Exchange Dealers’ Asso- transactions and capital vals and a possible On October 12, the slashed to 27.5% ciation of India. flows than before. Today, reassessment of market government announced Though tremendous cap- the capital account is con- expectations surrounding the leave travel conces- The government cut the basic ital account liberalisation vertible to a great extent. the vaccine. The monetary sion cash voucher Murugappa Group takes over customs duty on crude palm oil measures have been taken Inward Foreign Direct policy guidance in October scheme under which to 27.5 per cent. The duty cut since the launch of eco- Investment (FDI) is emphasised the need to see employees can pur- would help cool off rising edi- nomic reforms in the early allowed in most sectors through temporary infla- chase any goods or serv- ble oil prices. The Central 1990s, introduction of full and outbound FDI by tion pressures and also ices with a GST rate of CG Power, restructures board Board of Indirect Taxes and capital account convert- Indian incorporated enti- maintain the accommoda- 12 per cent or above to Customs (CBIC) in a notifica- ibility is yet to be imple- ties is allowed as a multi- tive stance at least during avail of the benefit. New Delhi, Nov. 26: within 18 months, for an the 'promoter' of the CG tion said the basic customs mented in India. There is ple of their net worth. The the current financial year The expenditure Chennai-based Murug- aggregate consideration of Power and the board of duty rate on crude palm oil has partial capital account external commercial bor- and into the next financial department said pay- appa Group on Thursday Rs 150 crore. directors of CG Power has been revised to 27.5 per cent convertibility (CAC) in rowing framework has year,” added Das. ment of premium for took over scam-hit CG "Post the allotment of been reconstituted. with effect from Nov. 27 from India. CAC refers to the also been significantly lib- "After witnessing a sharp existing insurance poli- Power and Industrial securities, TII has acqui- CG Power said its entire 37.5 per cent currently. Palm oil freedom of foreign eralised to include more contraction in GDP by 23.9 cies would not be cov- Solutions, infusing Rs 700 red a controlling interest board, including non-exec- constitutes over 40 per cent of investors to purchase eligible borrowers, even as per cent in Q1:2020-21 and a ered under the LTC crore into the company in the company and holds utive chairman Ashish India's edible oil consumption. Indian financial assets maturity requirements multi-speed normalisation cash voucher scheme. and appointing directors 50.62 per cent of the paid- Guha and whole-time exec- such as shares, bonds, and have been reduced and of activity in Q2, the "However, payment of on its board. up equity share capital of utive director Sudhir that of the domestic citi- end-use restrictions have Indian economy has exhib- premium for insurance CG Power in a stock the company," it said. Mathur, have resigned. zens to purchase foreign been relaxed,” Das said. ited stronger than expected policies purchased dur- exchange filing said the TII paid Rs 5.87 crore Murugappa Group has financial assets. It pro- Referring to economic pick up in momentum of ing the period between company board at its meet- towards subscription of appointed six members on Bombay HC vides rights for firms and growth, Das raised con- recovery. The global econo- October 12, 2020, and ing on Thursday issued equity shares and 25 per the CG Power board, with residents to freely buy into cerns over demand sus- my has also witnessed a March 31, 2021, is eligi- 64.25 crore shares of Rs 2 cent upfront consideration Vellayan Subbiah, who refuses to stay overseas assets such as tainability with the close stronger than expected ble for reimbursement at a price of Rs 8.56 per for warrants. currently is the managing equity, bonds, property of the festive season and rebound in activity in Q3. under the scheme," it share aggregating to Rs TII will eventually hold a director of TII, as its chair- and acquire ownership of rise in Covid-19 infections The IMF has accordingly said. Vouchers/ bills for 550 crore to Tube Invest- 56.61 per cent stake once man. Natarajan Srini- LVB-DBS merger overseas firms besides free in India which pose down- revised its assessment for availing of the benefit ments of India Ltd (TII). all warrants are converted vasan, a director on repatriation of proceeds side risks to growth. global growth in 2020 to a under the scheme has to TII, a Murugappa Group into equity. Murugappa corporate by foreign investors. “Even as the growth out- less severe contraction be submitted on or firm, have been issued 1.52 In a separate filing, TII board, has also been “Over the last three look has improved, down- than what was assessed in before March 31. — PTI crore warrants, each car- said, effective Thursday, appointed as the new man- decades, India has under- side risks to growth con- June 2020.” rying a right exercisable TII has been classified as aging director. —PTI THERMAX PLANS Companies can classify NPS Short-term rates crash with ACQUISITIONS The Bombay High Court TO EXPAND BIZ refused to stay Lakshmi Vilas funds overflowing with cash Bank's (LVB) merger with DBS contribution as ‘biz expense’ SHWETHA SUNIL Bank India Ltd. A division SUBHADIP SIRCAR ■ 91-Day T-bill yield skew in excess liquidity NOV. 26 bench of Justices Nitin Jamdar RAVI RANJAN PRASAD contributed towards NPS Also, it is not mandatory NOV. 26 TUMBLE DOWN and reinforce the reverse Vields on treasury ■ 182-Day T-bill yield and Milind Jadhav was hearing MUMBAI, NOV. 26 on behalf of employees. for the employer to con- ■ 364 Day T-bill yield repo rate as the floor," Thermax Ltd. is seeing petitions filed by a group of bills have plunged “The employer can tribute to employees’ NPS A glut of cash chasing due to a liquidity glut ICICI Securities econo- most of its businesses promoters of LVB and India- The Pension Fund Regu- claim up to 10 per cent of account. Contributions to assets in India has caused 3.3949 6.000 mists including A. bounce back to year-ago bulls Housing Finance Ltd, a latory and Development the salary (basic and dear- NPS depend on the short-term rates to plunge. Prasanna wrote in a note. levels and is now focused 3.2599 5.000 shareholder, challenging the Authority (PFRDA) has ness allowance) con- employer’s policy on com- A three-month treasury 2.9292 "A stronger option would on options for growth. merger. "We are refusing the introduced a separate pen- tributed towards employ- pensation and retiral ben- bill was sold at a record 4.000 be to introduce the The maker of electrici- interim relief... The petitions sion model for employers ees’ NPS account as efits extended to its low yield on Wednesday, 2019 2020 3.000 Standing Deposit Facility ty-generation and pollu- shall be placed for hearing on viz. corporate entities, ‘Business Expense’ under employees. The NPS con- while the market repo at a rate slightly above tion-control equipment Dec. 14,” the court said. PSUs, etc. to adopt the Section 36(i)(iv)(a) of the tribution can be either (i) clocked a trade at 0.01 per Dec 24 Jan 29 Oct 28 reverse repo—say 3.5 per will consider mergers and National Pension System Income Tax Act, 1961,” the equal contributions by cent. Key borrowing costs Source: Bloomberg cent—so that money mar- acquisitions, technologi- (NPS) as a retirement ben- PFRDA said in a release. both employer and like the weighted inter- ket rates reset." cal arrangements and efit scheme for its employ- It is cost-effective too, as employee (say, 10 per cent bank call rate and collater- fixed income and alterna- The so-called SDF is a geographic partnerships ees. This is known as the employers extending NPS each) or (ii) unequal by alised money-market rates tives at Quantum tool that would enable the that are "small and easy to NPS-Corporate Sector as a retirement benefit employer and employee are way below the Reserve Advisors. "The RBI may central bank to take in digest," chief executive Infotech sector Model. scheme to its employees (say, 10 per cent by Bank of India's bench- have to act to suck out liq- money without offering officer Ashish Bhandari Besides other employer need not establish and employee and 14 per cent mark in recent days, indi- uidity to maintain the collateral. said in an interview on visionary benefits the NPS-CSM maintain a Trust, manage by employer) or (iii) con- cating investors such as sanctity of the reverse The State Bank of India, Thursday. provides tax benefits, the funds or undertake tribution by only employ- mutual funds are accept- repo rate." the nation's largest lender, The company had Rs since employers can claim recordkeeping activities, er or only employee, says ing returns lower than Banks have parked Rs 6.1 warned that a sustained 1,703 crore ($231 million) F.C. Kohli dead tax relief on the amount according to the PFRDA. the regulator. what RBI's deposit window lakh crore ($82.5 billion) of cash surplus may eventu- in cash, cash equivalents Faqir Chand C. would offer banks. excess cash with the cen- ally push loan rates below and short-term invest- Kohli, considered Governor Shaktikanta tral bank at the reverse similar-rated bonds, intro- ments as of September 30, the father of the IT Das has pledged to stay repo rate of 3.35 per cent, ducing policy unpre- according to data com- industry, passed accommodative well into according to the dictability. piled by Bloomberg. Its away on Thursday. 2021 as he tries to dig the Bloomberg Banking Liqui- "Such type of irrational shares have recovered Kohli, the founding BMW X5 M Competition launched at `1.95 crore economy out of an dity Index. Mutual funds pricing, because of abun- about 20 per cent from a CEO of TCS, was unprecedented technical and other such investors dant liquidity, can impact six-year low in March. 96. TCS said it was MICHAEL GONSALVES Audi RS Q8 and Porsche recession. But a liquidity don't have access to this banking sector profits and Thermax is betting on JRD Tata's insistence that had PUNE, NOV. 26 Cayenne Turbo. bloat is coming from the window, and ICICI initiate asset liability mis- technology to provide got Kohli to join the Tata Group “BMW M is driven by a central bank's interven- Securities Primary match, if the spread is solutions to problems in 1969. “He pivoted first into BMW, India’s second single-minded passion for tion in the foreign curren- Dealership suggests the more prevalent for lower- arising from urbanisa- management consultancy, and biggest luxury carmaker, creating authentic motor- cy market, as it seeks to RBI should consider rated borrowers," accord- tion, such as air and then over the next two decades, on Thursday launched its sport functionality with rein in the rupee and keep including them if it's wor- ing to Soumya Kanti water pollution. The com- into software development.” all-new BMW X5 M everyday usability. The all- exports competitive. ried about the depression Ghosh, group chief eco- pany sees coal continuing Competition SUV in India new BMW X5 M "The RBI's dollar buying of overnight yields. nomic adviser at the to be used as a fuel in priced at Rs 1.95 crore to imported by the German Competition inherits this to prevent the rupee from "A weekly or fortnightly lender. "A sure recipe for some countries and is boost sales in Asia’s third firm as a completely built- DNA,” Vikram Pawah, appreciating has driven liquidity absorption win- financial instability in the offering solutions to largest economy. up unit (CBU) and com- president at BMW Group liquidity to a large excess," dow with wider participa- future." reduce its environmental Google India FY20 The BMW X5 M is being petes with the likes of the India, said. said Arvind Chari, head of tion could address the — Bloomberg harm. — Bloomberg revenue rises 35% to `5,600 cr CUTTING | RISKS Company building assembly lines for iPad and MacBook 3 bn people live in Tech giant Google saw its India revenues grow 34.8 per cent to about Rs 5,593.8 crore in 2019- Foxconn to shift some Apple production to Vietnam from China water-scarce areas 20 over the previous financial YIMOU LEE countries such as Viet- year against Rs 4,147 crore in TAIPEI , NOV. 27 nam, Mexico and India. MEGAN DURISIN sive foods like meat and the previous fiscal, according Foxconn is building NOV. 26 dairy. to Registrar of Companies fil- Foxconn is moving some ‘India can beat China in low-cost mfg’ assembly lines for Apple’s Of the total, 1.2 billion ing shared by market intelli- iPad and MacBook assem- iPad tablet and MacBook Roughly 40 per cent of the people—a sixth of the glob- gence firm Tofler. The net prof- bly to Vietnam from China New Delhi, Nov. 26: India has the poten- "The more the indus- laptop at its plant in world's people live in farm- al population—are in areas it was higher by about 23.9 per at the request of Apple tial to surpass even China in low-cost try can sell, the more Vietnam’s northeastern ing areas facing large with severely constrained cent at Rs 586.2 crore in FY20. Inc, said a person with manufacturing if the government and jobs will be created in Bac Giang province, to water shortages, and water supplies, and the Google India's total expenses knowledge of the plan, as industry work in a cohesive manner, the economy," he noted. come online in the first scarce supplies pose an amount of freshwater rose 30.4 per cent to the US firm diversifies Maruti Suzuki India (MSIL) chairman Bhargava pointed out half of 2021, the person increasing risk to food available per person has Rs 4,455.5 crore in FY20. production to minimise R.C. Bhargava said on Thursday. that creating jobs across said. The lines will also security, the United dropped 20 per cent in the the impact of a Sino-US "India has the capability to become a sectors was important take some production Nations said. past two decades. Swathes trade war. lower cost country than China if the for the overall growth of from China, the person About 3.2 billion people of Asia and North Africa The development comes industry and the government work the economy. He, howev- said. “The move was live in agricultural areas have been most affected, Printed & Published by as the outgoing adminis- together," Bhargava said, sharing his R.C.Bhargava er, criticised states requested by Apple,” the with "high to very high" while small numbers of K Sudhakar on behalf of Deccan tration of US President views at an online event. which have reserved jobs in manufactur- person said. “It wants to water shortages and com- people in Europe and the Chronicle Holdings Limited. Printed & Donald Trump encourages He said the only objective of govern- ing for locals. "It is an anti-competitive diversify production fol- petition over resources is Americas have seen Published at Deccan Chronicle Presses US firms to shift produc- ment policies should be to increase the step.” He also said MSMEs have to be as lowing the trade war.” rising, the UN's Food & extreme restrictions. situated at SP-3 Developed Plot, tion out of China. During competitiveness of Indian industry so globally competitive as the large compa- Foxconn said, “As a mat- Agriculture Organization Agriculture accounts for Industrial Estate, Guindy, Chennai. Trump’s tenure, the that it can make things at the lowest cost nies because the supply chain deter- ter of company policy, and said in a report. Many 70 per cent of the world's Editor: T.Venkatram Reddy, RNI Reg. 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Reproduction in made-in-China electronics sensitivity, we do not com- are at risk as severe and the UN called for bet- whole or in part without written per- for higher import tariffs, using US technology to Taiwanese manufactur- war, have moved or are ment on any aspect of our droughts become more ter management to keep mission of The Editor, Financial and restricted supplies of Chinese firms it deems a ers, wary of being caught considering moving some work for any customer or common, and bigger global resources in check and Chronicle ® is prohibited. components produced national security risk. up in the tit-for-tat trade production from China to their products.” — Reuters incomes are spurring boost agricultural yields. demand for water-inten- — Bloomberg DIEGO Honours FIFA World Cup winner (1986) MARADONA FIFA World Cup Golden Ball (1986) GAMES UEFA Cup winner (1989) pg 8 DECCAN CHRONICLE | CHENNAI | FRIDAY | 27 NOVEMBER 2020 Italian champion (1987, 1990) Argentine champion (1981) DATE OF BIRTH: PLAYING CAREER Coaching career October 30, 1960 Argentinos Juniors (1976-81) INTL Spanish Super Cup (1983) Textil Mandiyu (1994) PLACE OF BIRTH: Boca Juniors (1981-82) GOALS: Spanish Cup (1983) Racing Club (1995) Buenos Aires, Argentina 34 Italian Cup (1987) Barcelona (ESP/1982-84) Position: attacking Argentina (2008-2010) DATE OF DEATH: Napoli (ITA/1984-91) midfielder/playmaker Italian Super Cup (1990) Al Wasl (UAE/2011-12) November 25, 2020 Sevilla (ESP/1992-93) INTL Top scorer in Italy (1988), Al-Fujairah (UAE/2017-18) PLACE OF DEATH: CAPS: Argentina (1979, 1980) Dorados (MEX/2018-19) Tigre, Argentina Newell’s Old Boys (1993) 91 FIFA Player of the Century (2000) Gimnasia Esgrima La Plata (2019-20) HEIGHT: 1.65m Boca Juniors (1995-97) (1977-94) Uncontrollable Argentina cries Country mourns death of favourite son Maradona Buenos Aires (Argentina), Nov. 26: Impatient fans were confronting police as thousands lined up to say goodbye to Diego A LIFE IN 10 Maradona on Thursday at the Argentine presidential mansion staging the funeral of KEY DATES one of football’s greatest stars. Fans threw bottles and metal fences at rom his birth in police near the Casa Rosada in the heart of 1960 to Argentina’s Buenos Aires. FWorld Cup triumph “It is a very sad day for all Open visitation started at 6.15 am local in 1986 and his positive Argentines and football. He time after a few hours of privacy for family drug test at the 1994 leaves us but he does not go and close friends. finals — here are 10 key because he is eternal. I am Maradona’s wooden casket was in the dates in the colourful life left with many of the nice main lobby of the presidential office, cov- of Diego Maradona. moments we shared and I ered in an Argentine flag and a No.10 shirt OCTOBER 30, 1960: want to send my condolences of the national team. Dozens of other shirts to all his family and friends.” Maradona is born in of different football teams were thrown in Lanus, to the south of — Lionel Messi, six-time by visitors who passed by in tears. Ballon d’Or winner Buenos Aires. The son of Maradona died on Wednesday of a heart Diego Maradona and attack in a house outside Buenos Aires Delma Franco, he was where he recovered from a brain operation one of seven children. on November 3. The first to bid farewell were his daugh- OCTOBER 20, 1976: ters and close family members. Then came Makes his debut in former teammates of the 1986 World Cup- Argentina’s top flight for winning squad including Oscar Ruggeri. Buenos Aires side Other Argentine footballers, such as Carlos Argentinos Juniors, just Tevez of Boca Juniors showed up too. before his 16th birthday. “Today I say goodbye to a The lines started outside the Casa Rosada He went on to win his friend and the world says only hours after Maradona’s death was con- first cap for Argentina in goodbye to an eternal firmed. Among those present were the February 1977, selected genius. One of the best ever. renowned barrabravas fans of Boca In this photo released by Argentinas by coach Cesar Luis An unparallelled magician. Juniors, one of his former clubs. Presidency, the coffin with the remains Menotti for a 5-1 win He leaves too soon, but The first fan to visit was Nahuel de Lima, of Diego Maradona lies in state inside against Hungary. His first leaves a legacy without limits using crutches to move because of a dis- the presidential palace as mourners file goal for Argentina came and a void that will never be ability. At the same time, a wave of people in a 3-1 win over Scotland filled. Rest in peace, ace. You past in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on tried to get ahead and confronted police, Thursday. —AP in Glasgow in 1979. will never be forgotten.” who used tear gas to contain them. — Cristiano Ronaldo, five- Bodyguards were stopping fans from tak- SEPTEMBER 7, 1979: time Ballon d’Or winner and ing pictures and controlling access to the Wins the World Youth Juventus forward building. Many fans were breaking down as GOA SET TO INSTALL Championship, scoring soon as they left. the third goal as Fans who walked past the casket blew MARADONA STATUE Argentina beat the Soviet kisses into the air, struck their chests with Panaji, Nov. 26: The Goa government Union 3-1 in the final in closed fists, and shouted ‘Let’s go Diego.’ will install the life-size statue of late Tokyo. Most, but not all, wore masks due to the Argentine football legend Diego JUNE 13, 1982: Covid-19 pandemic. A giant black screen in Maradona in the coastal belt of North Maradona takes part in a front of the Casa Rosada was showing his- district by early next year, a senior min- World Cup match for the toric photos of Maradona as fans go. ister said. first time as the holders Fans also gathered outside the humble Maradona’s statue is already under lose 1-0 to Belgium in the home where Maradona was born and raised making with a Maharashtra-based “RIP Legend. You will stay opening game at the tour- in the Villa Fiorito neighbourhood. They artist working on the mould, Calangute nament in Spain. in the history of football for- went to the stadium of Argentinos Juniors, MLA and state Ports Minister Michael ever. Thanks you for all the where he started as a professional foot- Lobo said. JUNE 22, 1986: pleasure you gave to the baller in 1976. They stood at the historic La Lobo had announced installation of Scores his two legendary whole world.” Bombonera stadium of his beloved Boca the statue of Maradona in 2018. “The goals against England in — Kylian Mbappe, French Juniors. More were at the headquarters of statue would be installed somewhere at the World Cup quarter- World Cup winner and Paris Gimnasia La Plata, the team he was coach- People react as they leave the presidential palace in Buenos Aires, Argentina, after pay- Candolim or Calangute to inspire the final in Mexico, the Saint-Germain forward ing. — AP ing tribute to football legend Diego Maradona’s coffin. — AFP football playing youth,” he said. “Hand of God” and then Lobo said the mould of the statue is his stunning high-speed “What Diego has done for ready. “It is an actual-size statue as tall slalom that was later football, for making all of us as late Maradona,” the minister said, named “Goal of the fall in love with this beautiful WE’VE LOST A GENIUS adding that the 350-kg statue is part of Century” by FIFA. game, is unique. It is, as he WHEN MARADONA GRIPPED KOLKATA the state government’s initiative to Argentina went on to win is, simply immense.” IN MARADONA: KOHLI Kolkata, Nov. 26: His promise to bring show glimpses of his deft left foot and encourage football culture. the trophy, beating West — Gianni Infantino, FIFA “big-time” football to India remained even crooned Spanish songs, as he sweat- Lobo said a statue of another football Germany 3-2 in the final. president Sydney, Nov. 26: “We have lost a genius unfulfilled as Diego Maradona died after ed it out with a bunch of school children legend Cristiano Ronaldo is also being and his void can never be filled,” India cheating death more than once, leaving a and bid them adieu with a promise to prepared which will be installed in JULY 8, 1990: “There are a few incredible cricket team captain Virat Kohli said on cricket-mad nation devastated in an “bring football” to India. North district of the state. — PTI Captains Argentina to a players in all of history, he is Thursday, paying rich tributes to the appropriate reflection of his immortal In December 2017, he turned up in 1-0 defeat against West one of them. For people of departed Argentine football legend Diego status. shorts, enjoyed every bit of the madden- Germany in the World our generation, the World Maradona. A lot many in the ‘City of Joy’ will recall ing attention even though the gruelling Cup final in Rome. Cup in ‘86 in Mexico was KERALA DECLARES Maradona died at the age of 60 on how a little bulky version of Maradona session literally drained him as he was JUNE 25, 1994: something which made this Wednesday at his residence in Buenos huffed and puffed during a charity foot- seen drenched in sweat, pouring water on sport better.” 2-DAY MOURNING Skippers Argentina to a Aires after suffering a cardiac arrest, two ball game here three years ago. his head. But he had no complaints and 2-1 win over Nigeria at — Pep Guardiola, weeks after being released from a hospital The Argentine legend, who was 57 when was eloquent in his three-minute Spanish Thiruvananthapuram, Nov. 26: A day Manchester City manager the World Cup in the following a brain surgery. “It’s obviously a he came here, had managed to dribble, speech. — PTI after Diego Maradona died of heart United States. After the very sad day for football, it’s very sad for attack in Buenos Aires, the Kerala gov- “I’m 53 years old and it match he tests positive sports in general because we have lost a ernment on Thursday announced a for ephedrine and is sus- feels like my entire life, he genius,” Kohli said in a message posted by two-day mourning in the state’s sports was part of it. When I was pended for 15 months. He BCCI. — PTI sector and appealed to everyone in the had already been sus- very young — maybe eight or fraternity to join as a mark of tribute. nine, 10 years old — I saw pended for 15 months for Considered the greatest footballer of cocaine use in his Napoli him for the first time and he STADIUM IN NAPLES all time alongside Brazil's Pele, the was 16 or 17. In any video, days. Maradona retired Argentine player had a great fan follow- from playing in 1997. juggling the ball, from that AFTER MARADONA ing in the football crazy southern state. moment on he was the player Announcing the mourning, state NOVEMBER 4, 2008: for me.” Naples (Italy), Nov. 26: The mayor of sports minister E. P. Jayarajan said the Becomes coach of — Jurgen Klopp, Liverpool Naples proposed that the Stadio San Paolo demise of Maradona has saddened foot- Argentina, leading them manager be renamed in honour of the city’s ball fans around the world. “In Kerala to the 2010 World Cup in beloved footballer, Diego Maradona. “Let’s also, lakhs of fans could not believe his South Africa. Eliminated “Our sport lost one of its name the San Paolo Stadium for Diego departure,” he said. in the quarterfinals by biggest idols. I lost a great Armando Maradona!!!” Mayor Luigi de “There is no cancellation of any event Germany. friend, whose talent inspired Magistris wrote on Twitter. or anything like that as part of the me from the time I was a The stadium on Wednesday was illumi- mourning announced in the sports sec- NOVEMBER 3, 2020: boy. I’m in shock that he’s nated in honour of the former Napoli tor. It is just an appeal to the general Four days after his 60th gone, but grateful that our player who died of a heart attack at age 60, public, sports buffs and those in the birthday, Maradona paths crossed in life. El Pibe, as fans gathered outside to mourn. sports fraternity to mourn the death of undergoes brain surgery your legacy is eternal. Your Maradona led Napoli to their only two the legendary footballer," a staff in the on a blood clot. magic on the pitch will never league titles in 1987 and 1990, becoming a minister's office said. NOVEMBER 25, 2020: be forgotten.” legend in the working-class city, where However, no sporting events are Dies of a heart attack at — Ronaldo, former Brazil, fans on Wednesday poured into the streets In this photo taken on December 6, 2008, Diego Maradona gestures as he attends a felic- scheduled due to Covid-19, he added. home in the Buenos Barcelona and Real Madrid after hearing of his death. — AFP itation programme at Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata. — AFP — PTI Aires. striker — AFP Live on TV Six Pak players test CRICKET Australia vs India: First ODI from India take on Oz in top ODI clash 9.10 am on Sony Six, Ten 1, HD Sydney, Nov. 26: India are in a bio-secure bubble. ago, although Smith and Jasprit Bumrah will spear- Lanka Premier League: Jaffna vs The first of three positive for Covid promising to play “hard, It has been an equally odd Warner were banned for head a dangerous pace Galle from 8 pm on Sony Six, HD ODIs, followed by aggressive” cricket when build-up for Aaron Finch’s ball-tampering. attack on expected lively Wellington, Nov. 26: Six tom check before leaving South Africa vs England: First T20 they emerge from coron- Australia, with the likes of three Twenty20s India have separate pitches, with all six white- of Pakistan’s squad tested Lahore and were tested on from 9.30 pm on Star Sports 1, HD avirus quarantine to face David Warner, Steve Smith next week, comes squads for the one-dayers ball games either at the positive for Covid-19, hosts arrival in Christchurch on Australia in a blockbuster and Pat Cummins, who after the visitors had and T20s, both led by Kohli, Sydney Cricket Ground or New Zealand Cricket said November 24. FORMULA ONE limited-over series begin- played in the Indian to endure wrangling but without Rishabh Pant, the Manuka Oval in on Thursday, throwing — PTI Bahrain Grand Prix: Practice 1 from ning in Sydney on Friday. Premier League, also an explosive batsman who Canberra. preparations for their five- 4.25 pm; Practice 2 from 8.25 pm The first of three ODIs, undergoing the mandatory over quarantine became a viral sensation Langer may pick highly- match tour into turmoil on Star Sports Select 2, HD followed by three 14 days of quarantine, requirements and an on India’s 2018-19 tour with rated young in-form all- and causing a scare in a Regd. No. Twenty20s next week, which ended Thursday. outbreak of the virus his banter behind the rounder Cameron Green, country that has largely FOOTBALL TNENG/2010/35692 comes after the visitors The lack of international in Melbourne, which stumps. who was a surprise inclu- eradicated the virus. 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