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VOLUME 11, ISSUE 129 | www.orissapost.com BHUBANESWAR | SUNDAY, AUGUST 8 | 2021 12 PAGES + SUNDAY POST | `5.00 IT FEELS UNBELIEVABLE. IT IS THE FIRST TIME INDIA HAS WON A GOLD IN ATHLETICS, SO I FEEL VERY GOOD. WE HAVE MAN WITH THE JUST ONE GOLD HERE IN OTHER SPORTS NEERAJ CHOPRA

GOLDEN Alignment of Coastal Highway finalised

POST NEWS NETWORK in this regard. Dutta also urged Panda to Bhubaneswar, August 7: consult with the Water It took more than six years Resources department of for the Odisha government the state government during and the National Highways the design phase of the Authority of India (NHAI) Coastal Highway project. ARM to finalise the alignment of Implementation of the the much-awaited Coastal highway is considered to Highway passing through be one of the top priority in- Neeraj Chopra the state. frastructure projects of the The 382-km-long highway state keeping in view its secures India’s first will pass through Tangi socio-economic impact and (NH-16), Brahmagiri, Puri, connectivity to the nearby Konark, Astarang, Naugaon, ports, he said. track and field Paradip Port, Ratanpur, The NHAI officials have Satabhaya, Dhamra, been directed to expedite medal at Basudevpur, Talapada, the work for early comple- Chandipur, Chandaneswar tion of the project. Olympics and Digha. “Now, all the bottlenecks The Works department of the project have been has informed the NHAI cleared. The project will be about its consent to the above taken up in two phases. We alignment of the project are trying to complete the Saturday. tendering process for at least The alignment has been one stretch by next March so proposed mostly as green that work can start by June,” field project avoiding forests, Panda told Orissa POST. Balukhand Wildlife In April 2015, Union Sanctuary, Bhitarkanika Road Transport Minister National Park and the tur- Nitin Gadkari had an- tle nesting grounds, so as nounced the Coastal to minimise its impact on the Highway project during 87.58 mtr environment, sources said. one of his visits to the Earlier, it was proposed state. After that the project that the Coastal Highway was delayed due to a po- would start from Gopalpur litical slugfest between the cross Satapada to Chilika BJD and the BJP. lake. Now it will start from Later, the Ministry of WRESTLER BAJRANG Tangi on NH-16 and avoid Environment, Forest and the eco-sensitive area of Climate Change refused CLINCHES BRONZE PRESS TRUST OF INDIA Just like in the qualification round Chilika lake. The alignment to accord approval to the With a gold, 2 silver, three days back, Chopra began with of the 430-km-long high- alignment of the high- CHIBA (JAPAN): He did not live up to Tokyo, August 7: Star javelin thrower 4 bronze in Tokyo, India a bang by sending the spear to a dis- way in Odisha was modified way. Originally, it was be- the sky-high expectations but Neeraj Chopra on Saturday became tance of 87.03m and then improved it to 382 km. tween Gopalpur and India’s Bajrang Punia will return only the second Indian to win an in- sees its largest Olympic to 87.58m, his best of the day which The state government has Digha. Now, the coastal from Tokyo with a bronze medal dividual gold in the Olympics, out-per- none in the field could match. His asked the NHAI to include highway will start from on Olympic debut after medal haul ever, betters forming the field by some distance to third throw was a poor 76.76m; he the NH from Brahmagiri to Tangi in Khurda district outwitting Daulet Niyazbekov tally of 6 in London 2012 in the play-off here Saturday. If immortalise himself as the first then fouled his next two attempts be- Satapada in the project. and continue till Digha in his defence let him down in the track-and-field Games medal-win- fore a final effort of 84.24m. Further, adequate cross West Bengal. semifinal against Hazi Aliev, ner for the country. hard-to-reach club of India's indi- By the time the Nordic javelin left drainage structures should A total of 150 structures Bajrang’s smart attacking The 23-year-old son of a farmer vidual gold winners in the showpiece. his right hand in his second attempt, be constructed to allow pas- will be constructed for the moves made him a 8-0 winner from Khandra village near Panipat in With this, the country surpassed the he knew that it was going the far- sage or runoff, Works project. Those would in- against Kazakhstan's Niyazbekov, Haryana produced a second round previous best haul of six medals thest among all and he raised both his Additional Secretary clude 20 major bridges, 69 to whom he had lost in the throw of 87.58m in the finals to stun achieved in the 2012 London Games. arms in jubilation, confident that the Hemanta Kumar Dutta minor bridges, four rail semifinals of the 2019 World the athletics world and end India's Apart from Chopra’s gold, India has job had been done. wrote to the Chief General overbridges, five vehicle Championship. The medal-winning 100-year wait for a track and field won to silver and four bronze medals. After the end of the event, Chopra Manager (Technical) of underpasses and two fly- performance saved 27-year-old Bajrang medal in the Olympics. Czech Republic throwers Jakub ran towards the Indian contingent NHAI Ram Prasad Panda overs, sources said. and the Indian wrestling contingent from Brimming with confidence with Vadlejch (86.67m) and Vitezslav Vesely in the stands with raised fists and embarrassment since the wrestlers had hardly any nerves on display, Chopra (85.44m) took the silver and bronze re- wrapped himself with the tri-colour entered Tokyo with high expectations. walked in like a rockstar to make the spectively. Chopra came into the final to run a short lap of honour. After medal-favourite Vinesh Phogat’s Tokyo Games India's best ever Olympic as a medal contender after topping the Season leader and pre-tournament J&J Covid vax approved shock quarterfinal exit and Bajrang’s below outing in what was the country's final qualification round on Wednesday gold favourite Johannes Vetter of par show in the first three matches, a pall of competitive outing at the ongoing with a stunning first round throw of Germany, who had thrown the spear gloom had descended on Indian wrestling for emergency use edition. 86.59m. to 90m plus distances seven times be- contingent. However, the three-time medallist at world championships rose to His was the country’s seventh medal But few would have thought that he tween April and June, was shock- the occasion with a comfortable win. and first gold in this Olympics and he would bludgeon his way to gold in ingly eliminated after the first three AGENCIES MORE P12 joined shooter Abhinav Bindra (2008 such a dominant fashion at the grand- throws as he was placed ninth with Beijing Games) in an elite and very est of the stage. a best effort of 82.52m. MORE P12 New Delhi, August 7: Johnson & Johnson’s sin- gle-dose Covid-19 vaccine has been given emergency IRREGULAR by MANJUL use approval in India, Union Rlys sets eyes on hydrogen-powered trains Health minister Mansukh Mandaviya said Saturday. He said this will further SUCCESSFUL TRIALS CAN MEAN CONVERSION OF ALL DIESEL TRAINS TO HYDROGEN boost the country’s collective fight against the novel coro- AGENCIES using this method. The trial of one rake navirus infection. Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin, is being done in Germany and the “India expands its vac- Russia’s Sputnik V, Moderna New Delhi, August 7: The Indian trial of other in Poland. cine basket! Johnson and and now Johnson & Johnson Railways has begun work on hydro- The bidding date for hydrogen fuel Johnson's single-dose Covid- (J&J). gen-powered trains. An official state- cell-based DEMU rake will start from 19 vaccine is given approval J&J earlier had sought ment said that the Indian Railways has September 21, 2021 and the closing for Emergency Use in India. approval to conduct phase- invited bids for hydrogen fuel cell- date will be October 5, 2021. A pre-bid Now India has five EUA vac- 3 clinical trial of its vaccine based technology by retrofitting on the conference will be held August 17. cines. This will further boost on approximately 600 par- Diesel Electric Multiple Unit (DEMU) The official said that after suc- our nation’s collective fight ticipants in two age groups Before Olympics they wanted me to be a in 89 km Sonipat-Jind section of cessful implementation of this pilot against #Cpvod-19," the min- – those aged 18 and below 60 cricketer. Now, I may end up as a boxer, Northern Railway. project, all the rolling stock which ister tweeted. years and those aged 60 years wrestler, hockey player or javelin thrower! Simply put, the Indian Railways will operate on diesel fuel after elec- “The US-based pharma- and above – to evaluate the wants to see whether existing diesel trification can be planned to be run ceutical company had ap- safety, reactogenicity and run trains can be retrofitted to use hy- on hydrogen fuel. plied for Emergency Use immunogenicity of the jab

WEATHER drogen instead. “The retrofitting of statement said. verted, and later 2 hybrid narrow Another Railway Ministry official Authorisation for its jab on in healthy Indian adults. y BHUB CTK diesel powered DEMU and converting Setting an even more ambitious gauge locos will be converted based on said that as a pilot project, the hy- Friday and was granted the However, July 29, the firm

it into hydrogen fuel powered train set goal, the Railways said, “After suc- hydrogen fuel cell power movement. drogen-powered passenger train would approval the same day by the withdrew its proposal.

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FORTUNE FORECAST Divya plays six characters in Cartel

Mumbai: Actress Divya Agarwal, cally different looks. From play- Anupria thrilled who is best known for Splitsvilla ing an old lady to a transgender 10 and was also seen in Ragini -- But why am I like that? That is MMS: Returns, will play a promi- the real mystery. It was exciting ARIES nent role in the show Cartel. to get into those characters, but You are in a position to Divya is playing a mysterious daunting at the same time.” affect other peoples' lives. to travel again character who is a make-up artist Cartel has been in the making Since you are very compas- by profession. She shares in detail for a really long time and several sionate and caring, people will look up to about her role and says: “I am times it becomes exhausting for you whether as a peer or a superior. Mumbai: Actress Anupria Goenka has started playing the character called the actors but Divya never gets Make good use of this excess energy to solve prickly issues. Ganesha encourages the shoot for Asur 2. The actress will step out ‘Grissy’ in this show. Interesting tired and is com- large-scale projects. of Mumbai after a long time as the project aspect about this character is that pletely excited requires the cast to shoot at different loca- no one knows her face or her about the tions. The actress is thrilled to travel once real identity. She is a make-up launch. again. artist by profession but uses Cartel TAURUS Due to the pandemic, the entire industry it as her deadly weapon. streams from was put on a stop as a precautionary meas- Grissy will bring interest- August 20 on Ganesha sees you taking a ure. Recently the shoots have resumed and ing twists and turns in the ALTBalaji. day off from your work and Ayushmann’s special immersing your self in Anupria is happy about it. show.” IANS domestic activities. A lot of time will be The actress will first go to New Delhi and She goes in detail about spent blissfully with your family folk then to Manali for the shoot. connection with Prayagraj portraying chatting away or doing this and that. “I have been enjoying this multiple The idea of getting your interiors phase of getting back to work. Mumbai: Actor Ayushmann shooting a film for the first characters: redone and give your house a new look will surely occur to you. We all had been locked Khurrana will soon head to the time in Prayagraj. “I play six down in our homes city of Prayagraj to shoot for his Coincidentally, when I was par- charac- for over a year and upcoming film Doctor G. While ticipating in Roadies, I rode ters GEMINI a half. Now that this will be his first time shoot- through this city and shot for with we have got a ing there for a film, the actor has the series.” drasti- There is a likelihood of some breather to go an emotional and nostalgic con- Ayushmann says he was household disturbance out and work, nection with the city. charmed by the beauty of cropping up today. Your family members could make a lot of I am trying to Ayushmann rode through Prayagraj during the shoot of demands from you. You may feel angry make the most of this Uttar Pradesh city when he Roadies Season 2. because of your inability to meet all their it. Thankfully there was participating in the hit “I still remember getting needs and wants. Unexpected expenses is going to be lots of teen reality TV show Roadies, mesmerised by its history, her- are also indicated. travel and I am totally which he had won in 2004. itage and architecture. looking forward to it...I’m Ayushmann says, “I have al- Prayagraj sees the confluence sure these would be great ways wanted to travel the length of three rivers - Ganga, Yamuna CANCER times as I will be back in front of and breadth of our beautiful and Saraswati - and I was Watch out for winds of the cameras, which I absolutely country and fortunately my deeply enamoured by its breath- change and ac accordingly. love the most,” says the Ashram work is taking me to incredibly taking beauty,” says Ganesha warns you of actress. IANS distinct destinations. I will be Ayushmann. IANS drowning in a strong current. Your task will be easier if you adjust to circum- stances. Fun and entertainment are today's password. In the social sector business, you will have success.

LEO TOP 5 GAME CHANGERS OF OTT ‘One small drop at a time treaming plat- fills an ocean over time'. forms came as Richa Chadha Remember this lesson, says Sa blessing when The actress is thank- Ganesha, and continue to concentrate the Covid-19 pan- ful to the OTT space for your efforts on your goal without losing demic took over the bridging the gap be- heart. There may be times when you sit world in 2020, bring- tween TV viewing au- back and think twice, but know that all it takes is a small effort and that is what ing everything to a diences and the urban shall enable you to reach the zenith. standstill. The ever- audience. expanding universe “ There was a big of the digital space gap between the TV VIRGO not just entertained viewing audience and the audience with the urban audience...so, Meticulous as you are, binge-worthy con- Pankaj Tripathi Manoj Bajpayee Ali Fazal Richa Chadha Shweta Tripathi I think the coming of hopefully you won't grudge the extra quota of domestic tent but also brought OTT has solved that responsibilities that comes your way forward many talented actors and shone ‘game changer’ as he is only doing what situation to be in and everyone should problem,” she said. today. But then, since the work is in a the spotlight on them and their craft. loves the most -- acting. compete with themselves and nobody more than satisfactory state, some added else,” said the actor. Shweta Tripathi issues on the home front won't hurt Pankaj Tripathi Manoj Bajpayee Over the years, Shweta has worked in either. Your subordinates will offer the best of their support, and you shall feel Tripathi, who can be tagged as the un- National Award-winning actor Manoj Ali Fazal the web space in several projects in- contended at the end of the day. crowned king of the digital space, gar- Bajpayee’s performances on the big Fazal’s tryst with web-stardom came cluding Mirzapur, Raat Akeli Hai, nered a big fan following after his por- screen and on the web-space cannot be in 2018 with his performance as the hot- Laakhon Main Ek and The Gone Game. trayal as the deadly gangster Kaleen questioned. He raised the bar for him- headed Govind Guddu Pandit in the “What I love about OTT is that I can bhaiyya from Mirzapur, power hungry self with his work in The Family Man Mirzapur, which revolves around a watch it anytime and anywhere at my con- LIBRA godman Guruji from Sacred Games and and The Family Man 2. The 52-year-old proverbial ruler of Mirzapur in the venience. I never think about compet- You will be very unpre- the endearing friend in his latest re- star sees competing with himself as a Purvanchal region of Uttar Pradesh. ing with myself or anybody else. I just dictable today, and your lease Mimi. Pankaj, who grabbed eyeballs ‘good thing.’ The 34-year-old actor is overwhelmed with think I want to do justice to what the di- mercurial tendencies will remain till the evening. After that, be pre- ever since he shone on the web crime “As far as people are saying that I am the love he has got over the years for his rector and writer have imagined because pared to get a pleasant surprise. Just thrillers, says he is not trying to be a competing with myself, that is a very good work in the crime thriller. this is their story,” said the actress. AGENCIES bear in mind that being prepared is always a good idea, since you never know when the perfect moment arrives. SUDOKU To solve the Sudoku puzzle, fill in the boxes in such a SCORPIO PEANUTS post manner that every row, column and 3x3 box contains Today, the sugar and spice CROSSWORD the digits 1 to 9, without repeating any. of work and home are deli- cately balanced to bring out the best in you, says Ganesha. You may spend a lot of your time brainstorming at your desk. In the evening, however, men- tal exercises will be substituted for pleas- ure and fun with friends and family.

SAGITTARIUS Time to open up that can of confetti at the workplace today. Success never smelled sweeter. But you may bleed on the purchase front, says Ganesha, as in your revelry, you may just unknowingly end up shelling an extra buck or two on ordinary items. CALVIN AND HOBBES

CAPRICORN Your intuition will get the better of you today, bagging you respect and recognition, SOLUTIONS says Ganesha. But it's not every day that you get so lucky, so try and make the most of what's on the platter, for all you know, intuitions could have a mood swing too.

AQUARIUS Today is an auspicious day, particularly for astrologers, healers, spiritual guides and

gurus, says Ganesha. One will think twice BREVITY CROSSWORD before challenging you today. Greed is not a word in your dictionary, and today, you are even more inspired to work for

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Ganesha. Do not be disheartened in the SUDOKU face of obstacles and keep soldiering on. CHECK FOR SOLUTIONS OF THE PUZZLES TOMORROW P3 COVID-19 TRACKER SUNDAY | AUGUST 8 | 2021 | BHUBANESWAR INFECTED RECOVERED DEAD World 20,26,79,891 18,21,55,787 42,95,648

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Eviction drive for HC denounces practice of heritage corridor resumes in Puri changing lawyers sans NOC Around 95% of the private as well as govt structures coming POST NEWS NETWORK Objection Certificate’. The proce- Justice Panigrahi held. dures and rules have sanctity and Significantly, the matter came to under 75-metre radius of New Delhi, August 7: The Orissa they should not be violated by the the fore after a chaotic situation pre- Srimandir have been razed High Court has strongly depre- advocates and the staff either in vailed during the hearing of a case cated the practice of changing the collusion or individually,” Justice when two lawyers appeared for a POST NEWS NETWORK lawyers without prior intimation Panigrahi said. party – M/s S Rout and Associates. to the previous advocate and made The High Court strongly deplored The present advocate of M/s S Puri, August 7: The district administration it mandatory to file a no objection and discouraged the tendency of Rout and Associates submitted to Saturday resumed eviction drive within 75- certificate (NOC) along with the advocates filing Vakalatnamas in the the court that since the matter was metre radius of Srimandir to facilitate the con- Vakalatnama in case a litigant is midst of the proceedings without the from the jail petition, he had no oc- struction of heritage-cum-security corridor seeking to change the lawyer. earlier advocate being discharged casion to get the “no objection cer- around the 12th century shrine. The eviction drive had come to a halt tem- porarily due to Covid-induced lockdowns and RULES SACROSANCT shutdowns in state. “The eviction drive had been slowed down The HC deplored and discouraged the tendency of due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The administration advocates filing Vakalatnamas in the midst of the today resumed the drive at Baseli Sahi rev- proceedings without the earlier advocate being enue village. Three private buildings in front discharged of the West Gate of Srimandir were razed dur- The matter came to the fore after a chaotic situation ing the drive,” said Puri Sub-Collector prevailed during the hearing of a case when two lawyers Bhabataran Sahu. appeared for a party – M/s S Rout and Associates The Sub-Collector revealed that around 95 per cent of the private as well as government struc- The advocate of M/s S Rout and Associates submitted to the HC that since the matter was from the jail petition, he tures coming under 75-metre radius of Srimandir had no occasion to get the NOC from the previous advocate have been razed for the heritage corridor work. “Only 5 per cent of the structures are still there inside the demarcated area. Some private in- A bench of Justice SK Panigrahi or the requisite ‘NOC’ being ob- tificate” from the previous advocate. dividuals have approached the High Court on held that the procedures and rules tained from him. “The Registry should not have various issues,” Sahu said. have sanctity and they should not “Most of the advocates do fol- accepted the Vakalatnama without The Sub-Collector thanked the locals for be violated by the advocates and low the practice of intimating ‘NOC’ from the previous advocate their cooperation and support to the adminis- staffers. the previous advocates or obtain- or without the letter of consent tration for the heritage corridor project. “The Registry officials must take ing ‘NOC’ in case of change of ad- from the concerned petitioner. It is “The administration will soon start the ren- adequate measures to ensure that vocate as desired by the litigant. very often seen that without ob- ovation of mutts located near Srimandir. in case the engaged counsel in a However, I am constrained to ex- taining the consent from the pre- Thereafter, steps will be taken to execute the her- particular case is sought to be press my strong displeasure over vious advocate, another advocate itage corridor work,” Sahu added. changed, the latest Vakalatnama some of the cases where deviation files Vakalatnama which marks a must be accompanied with a ‘No brings forth an unhealthy trend,” disturbing trend,” the bench said. Cash reward for 6 HANDLOOM DAY weavers’ societies

BHUBANESWAR: The Handlooms, Textiles and Handicrafts department Saturday celebrated the National Handloom Day at Boyan Bhawan here. Handlooms, Textiles and Handicrafts Minister Padmini Dian inaugurated the event in the presence of department commissioner-cum- secretary Shubha Sarma and Boyanika Managing Director Jyoti Praksh Das. A quality dyeing manual and packaging materials were unveiled for Boyanika. Three primary weavers’ cooperative societies received cash prize of `1 lakh each for completing 75 years’ of service. They are: Pipli Thana Weavers Cooperative Society (WCS), Balanga in Puri, and Aska WCS and Kakatpur Thana WCS, Bajapur in Ganjam. Similarly, Maa WCS of Sagarpalli in Subarnapur was given cash prize of `3 lakh for achieving highest sales turnover in the last three years. Parameswari WCS of Pipilikani in Handlooms, Textiles & Handicrafts Minister Padmini Dian flanked by departmental secretary Shubha Sarma and Subarnapur received the second prize of `2 lakh Boyanika Managing Director Jyoti Prakash Das felicitates Maa Weavers Cooperative Society of Subarnapur at the state- while Barapali Kosta WCS of Bargarh got the third level National Handloom Day celebration at Boyan Bhawan in Bhubaneswar, Saturday OP PHOTO prize of `1 lakh in this category. Narcotics trade routes mapped: NCB chief

India remains in a source points unless we know its usage, the suspect organisa- precarious position in terms where it is. Then you know about tions, funding source, and whether the drug cartels. NCB fights the it has links with naxal and ter- of drug smuggling and drug menace but it is not the only rorist groups. The routes are abuse. Drug trafficking agency. We have to work in tandem mapped. We know exactly what is with state police, intelligence happening. through Bay of Bengal has agencies, international agencies INTERVIEW emerged as a challenge and anti narcotics agencies in n NCB, Bhubaneswar has not foreign countries. It’s a tough and mobility. There is already an made any major seizure of lately. In such crucial time, challenge but NCB is prepared internal assessment that we have narcotics in the state while the Satyanarayan Pradhan, for it. to expand and reorient ourselves, STF of Crime Branch had seized and also update our technology. It 35 kg brown sugar in 2020. an Odia grown up in the n Often, the NCB is considered not is already in progress. n I think that is a misconception. The streets of Sahid Nagar in logistically equipped enough to NCB regional offices of stop the drug smuggling. What’s n Odisha, your home state, is Bhubaneswar, Gaya and Patna Bhubaneswar, is currently your take? widely known for cannabis are helping the zonal offices at heading two vital n Every organisation is a ‘work in trade. Brown sugar peddlers are Kolkata in unearthing big net- progress’. We are restructuring the active in the state and target- works which are pan India. If the institutions of the country – NCB. The government is fully ing students. What is NCB’s office is in Bhubaneswar that the Narcotics Control committed to expanding the study about Odisha? does not necessarily mean that it Bureau (NCB) and the agency and making it more robust n We have profiled all the states, will only handle seizures in given the present and future chal- not only Odisha. We have strate- Bhubaneswar. Unlike the state National Disaster Response lenges. gies and roadmaps for each of police, this is a pan-India team Force (NDRF). Kuldeep them looking at what exactly is working across the country. n Lack of manpower and poor happening inside the states. Singh of Orissa POST infrastructure are some of n Odisha has achieved a interacts with Pradhan, a the major obstacles nBay of Bengal remarkable feat by reducing ca- affecting NCB’s ef- is considered sualties during cyclones. But 1988-batch IPS officer of ficacy. How will as a major the state suffers a lot in terms Jharkhand cadre, who you work on transit route of damage to infrastructure, this? of narcotics. incurring huge economic losses. elaborates on how the NCB n The ex- Has NCB done Do you have any strategy to has mapped the trade routes pansion any study on prevent this? drive is this? n I think we have done reason- of narcotics and it’s in an planned n When we pro- ably well in saving lives. Now, we advanced stage of profiling not only for file a state, we need to work on protecting in- manpower but look for the kind frastructure, public properties the states where contrabands also for infra- of drugs being and poor housing colonies. are being traded. Excerpts… structure, for transported, the Odisha has already shared a pro- new offices, re- elements trans- posal with the Union govern- gional offices, porting the ment about resilient infra- n Recently, you have been given state-of-the-art drugs, structure, designed to survive additional charge of NCB. What technol- the cyclone. The Prime Minister will be your roadmap to curb ogy, has initiated the Coalition of drug peddling? Disaster Resilient Infrastructure n This posting is temporary. I do (CDRI) which is recognised

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AGENCIES Angul, Bhadrak, Boudh, Deogarh, Dhenkanal, Ganjam, Kendrapara, Bhubaneswar, August 7: Odisha Nayagarh and Puri. Saturday reported 1,096 new According to the health de- Covid-19 infections, pushing the partment, the list of fatalities tally to 9,85,827, while the toll does not reflect deaths that have climbed to 6,366 with 64 more fa- occurred on a particular day. It talities, a health department of- gives details of past deaths for ficial said. which the audit process has been Of the new cases, 637 were duly completed and the cause POST NEWS NETWORK Recently, the facility recorded in quarantine centres, has been identified as Covid-19. and the rest 459 were detected As many as 9,66,928 people, in- Bhubaneswar, August 7: The much- was inaugurated at during contact tracing, the offi- cluding 1,558 Friday, have recov- needed Extracorporeal Membrane AIIMS Bhubaneswar, cial added. ered from the highly infectious dis- Oxygenation (ECMO) treatment for Khurda district, of which cap- ease. The coastal state currently critically-ill Covid-19 patients is making SCBMCH the ital city Bhubaneswar is a part, has 12,480 active cases. Orissa High Court Chief Justice S Muralidhar confers degree on a student at the seventh convocation of National Law going to start at SCB Medical College second hospital with registered 389 cases followed The positivity rate stands at 5.97 University, Odisha, in Cuttack, Saturday OP PHOTO and Hospital (SCBMCH) in Cuttack by Cuttack at 92 and Balasore at while the test positivity rate (TPR) from August 15. the machines 77. Boudh and Nabarangpur at 1.64 per cent. Over 1.64 crore CBK Mohanty, Director of districts did not report any sample tests have been conducted Medical Education and Training chines and the other has three, new case. so far, including 66,770 Friday. Six transgenders held for attacking havildar (DMET), said Saturday that nine Mohanty informed. Khurda logged 27 fresh deaths, The state has thus far inocu- ECMO machines have been in- While three ECMO machines of followed by Cuttack at 17. Four fa- lated as many as 1,76,70,656 stalled at SCB and preparations the second unit will be used for the talities each were recorded in people with Covid vaccines, of POST NEWS NETWORK Digapahandi, Dipali Nayak alias at an isolated place near Barmunda are almost complete for starting treatment of Covid positive pa- Balasore and Keonjhar, three in which, 41,10,214 have received Tofan of Belaguntha, Suni Jena bus stand. He immediately tried to the facility at the hospital after the tients, the other six will be used Mayurbhanj, and one each in both the doses. Bhubaneswar, August 7: The of Kodala in Ganjam and Rahana rescue the youth and thus, earned second week of this month. for the patients with post-Covid Commissionerate police arrested Mallick alias Sujit of Kandhamal. their wrath for interfering in the Recruitment process for man- complications, he further clarified. hausted for patients whose lungs quired number of ECMO care fa- six transgenders for attacking a They reside at various slums in matter. He sustained severe in- power to operate these machines It was seen that many patients can’t provide enough oxygen to cilities, many patients in Odisha had police havildar at Barmunda area the city. juries in the attack. has been completed and the first needed the ECMO treatment after their body. It can also be used for to be airlifted to bigger cities like late Friday night. According to sources, the vic- Bharatpur police reached the batch of recruits has already been recovering from the Covid. So, the patients whose heart can’t pump Kolkata and Chennai for the treat- The accused persons were iden- tim, Dinesh Kumar Biswala of spot and arrested the accused on trained in Kolkata, he said. bigger unit will be kept for treat- enough blood to the body, and for ment. Recently, the facility was in- tified as Rini Behera alias Raju Bharatpur police station, was on his the basis of the complaint lodged The nine ECMO machines have ment of such patients, he added. those waiting for a heart or lung augurated at AIIMS Bhubaneswar, (19) of Angul, Salini Das alias way to his workplace when he spot- by the victim cop. They were sent been installed in two units. One The machine is used when all transplant. making SCBMCH the second hos- Sagar (21) of Berhampur, Lopa ted the six accused snatching purse to judicial custody by a local court of the units comprises six ma- other medical options have been ex- Due to unavailability of the re- pital with the machines. Sethy alias Papun (19) of and other belongings from a youth Saturday. Smart cards soon for BKKY beneficiaries Violence in slums up as ‘police measures fail’ State recollects Neeraj’s POST NEWS NETWORK SOME YOUTHS ARMED WITH IRON RODS, HOCKEY STICKS, SHARP-EDGED WEAPONS training in Capital city Bhubaneswar, August 7: The WENT BERSERK AT MUNDA SAHI IN PALASUNI FRIDAY LEAVING SIX INJURED Health department Friday issued PRESS TRUST OF INDIA official circular for its plan of POST NEWS NETWORK launching new Biju Swasthya Bhubaneswar, August 7: Not just Kalyan Yojana (BKKY) Smart Bhubaneswar, August 7: Slums being the sponsor of the Indian Health Cards starting August 15. in Capital city seem to have turned hockey teams which performed Under the plan, the government fertile grounds of criminal activ- stupendously in the Olympics, has decided to provide smart cards ities even as the police have failed Odisha now has another reason to all 92.5 lakh beneficiaries of the to control the degrading law and to rejoice as gold medallist javelin State Food Security scheme and order situation there. Often, youths thrower Neeraj Chopra had trained the National Food Security Scheme in these slums are found to have in- at Bhubaneswar's Kalinga Stadium in a phased manner. volved in various serious crimi- earlier this year before the sport- Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik nal activities. ing extravaganza at Tokyo. is slated to launch the programme Friday night, some 30-40 youths Congratulating Chopra, Chief for selected districts like laced with iron rods, hockey sticks, Minister Naveen Patnaik tweeted, Malkangiri, Sundargarh, Gajapati, sharp-edged weapons went berserk “A golden throw! Congratulations Bolangir and Mayurbhanj to be at Munda Sahi in Palasuni area #NeerajChopra on historic first-ever covered in the initial phases while leaving six people injured. Sources track & field #Gold medal for India rest will be covered in the next claimed that some youths at the An auto-rickshaw and a bike ransacked by in #Javelin throw at #Tokyo2020. few months. slum were playing carom when a the mob Friday night OP PHOTO The country is proud of you. With The department has planned to member of the opposite group this, you took India to its highest bring in new facilities under the new drove past on his bike at an un- The whole incident was cap- trol illegal activities in slums. The launched ‘APOSSA YOJANA’ (All- ever medal tally at the #Olympics. norms for the scheme which will reasonably higher speed Thursday. tured in the CCTVs installed at police have taken many steps to round promotion of sports in slums You will inspire generations.” come into effect from September 1, Soon, a small fight erupted at the the place. On being informed, po- rein in illegal activities in the slums and Young juveniles against nar- State Sports and Youth Affairs training at the Kalinga Stadium 2021. As per the new norms, smart spot when the youths playing carom lice reached the spot but till then during the past couple of years. cotics abuse) in 2019 to wean slum Secretary Vineel Krishna recalled here in Bhubaneswar. Now looking cards will be given to all the bene- opposed rash driving in the slum. the accused had left the spot. However, all these steps have youths away from the menace of Chopra's training at Kalinga forward to getting some competition ficiaries of NFSA/SFSA. Till the Although the issue was amicably Subsequently, police arrested 21 failed to yield any positive results. drugs and bad habits through pro- Stadium. “Golden throw! experience under the belt.” He had cards are distributed, the benefi- settled with the intervention of the persons including four minors and Various programmes launched by motion of sports. The scheme re- Congrtulations@Neeraj_chopra1! also shared a video clip of his prac- ciaries of NFSA/SFSA can use elders Thursday, the youth driving a local hotel owner on the basis of the incumbent commissioners and mains only on pen and paper. Indian Javelin Team briefly tice here. He had won gold at the 2017 their food security scheme cards to the motorcycle Friday came with his written complaints and evidence DCPs in this regard are proved to Similarly, ‘Basti Ku Chala’ move- camped at Kalinga Stadium, Asian Athletics Championships avail the benefits from September friends and started attacking resi- collected from CCTV footages. be media gimmicks. ment launched by the city police to Bhubaneswar, Odisha for Olympic held in the stadium. 1, 2021. Additionally, the depart- dents of the slum in the night. They Meanwhile, experts and locals During the tenure of former amplify its presence in the slums training,” he tweeted. Sand artist Sudarshan Pattnaik ment also has planned to add ransacked various vehicles and hinted at failure of the Commissioner of Police, Satyajit through regular visits by local cops Chopra had said in a tweet congratulated Chopra with a sand 20,80,328 beneficiaries. other properties at the slum. Commissionerate Police to con- Mohanty, the twin city police has also become a damp squib. February 13, “Had a great time sculpture on Puri beach Saturday. Declare Srimandir as world BJP gears up for Cong slams govt for panchayat polls IMD warns lightning for next week ‘ignoring’ healthcare heritage site, UNESCO urged POST NEWS NETWORK Bhubaneswar: The Congress party POST NEWS NETWORK Saturday alleged that the Biju Janata AGENCIES Anantverman Chodagangadeb of Bhubaneswar, August 7: The re- Dal (BJD) government in Odisha has Ganga dynasty in 12 century AD. Bhubaneswar, August 7: The gional office of the India ignored the health sector in the Puri, August 7: Puri Vikash The 65-metre high temple is a state leadership of BJP Saturday Meteorological Department (IMD) state. Addressing a presser here, Parishad (PVP) has approached true reflection of Kalingan art, held a meeting with its workers Saturday issued warning of light- Congress leader Ganeswar Behera the UNESCO to enlist 12th cen- sculpture, culture and is one of from across the state to prepare ning and thunderstorm for the criticised the state government for tury Srimandir in the world the four dhamas (holy places) of strategies ahead of the panchayat next week. its alleged failure to develop the Heritage list as it fulfills all the Hindu faith. Devotees from across polls in the state. The department predicted that health sector. “Health is a state requisite parameters. the globe refer to this as a place of The party has planned a massive except Monday, all other days till subject and it is the duty of the state pilgrimage with utmost respect. outreach programme at panchayat August 11 could witness thunder- government to ensure proper The presiding deity Lord levels to woo the electorate before the storms and lightning in different healthcare for the people. Around Jagannath is worshipped as Lord election dates are announced. The parts of the state. The department 2,300 posts of doctors are lying Vishnu, Narayan and Sri Krishna, local polls are slated to be held in said that thunderstorm with light- vacant in the state. The BJD has been ruling the state for more than two he said. This temple is the centre February 2022. The two-day meeting ning is anticipated in 14 districts decades but the state government of religion and spirituality for mil- was started at the BJP Headquarters Sunday. ferent districts regularly for the could go upto 35°C. has failed to set up adequate number lions of people. here which was headed by state The weather warning for Monday next few days. However, light to The department revealed in of hospitals in rural areas,” he said. Bastia also said it is a marvel in party president Samir Mohanty, said, “Thunderstorm with lightning moderate rains may be anticipated its rain report that during day The Congress leader claimed itself as its fine architecture, sculp- party leader Raghunath Mohanty, is very likely to occur at one or two during these days too but no warn- time Saturday, the maximum that the recent Economic Survey Briefing mediapersons here tures and history almost covers and party general secretary places over the districts of ing of heavy rain was issued for the rainfall was reported from talks about the establishment of Saturday, PVP president Jagannath the history of the state for cen- Prithiviraj Harichandan. Sundargarh, Keonjhar, Mayurbhanj, next one week. Balasore which saw 55 mm of more medical colleges and Bastia said a letter to the director turies. He requested the UNESCO The party has decided to boost Jharsuguda, Sambalpur, Angul, The weathermen has, mean- rainfall. It was followed by Paradip recruitment of additional doctors general of UNESCO through its to consider the proposal and en- its image in local areas by creating Balasore, Bhadrak, Dhenkanal, while, not issued any warning of which saw 47mm of rainfall. and health staffers to boost the India representative has been sent list it after verification. awareness on the development Koraput, Malkangiri, Kalahandi, heavy rain for the day while it The maximum temperature in healthcare facilities in state. “The with a request to include Sri In another letter, Bastia urged works carried out by the BJP gov- Kandhamal and Deogarh.” has forecast one or two spells of the state was reported in Boudh state government has failed to Jagannath temple in the world her- Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to ernment at the Centre and by ex- The met department said that rain or thundershower Sunday at 36°C whereas the minimum provide proper healthcare to people itage list. Bastia said the temple take up the matter at the govern- posing the alleged scams and ir- from Tuesday, lightning and thun- in the state Capital. The maxi- temperature of 19.5°C was re- during the Covid-19 pandemic,”

was established by the then King ment level. regularities of the BJD government. dershower could be seen in dif- mum temperature in the City ported from Phulbani. Behera alleged.

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POST NEWS NETWORK VICTIM OF GOVT APATHY mob attack in Baripada, August 7: Asia’s largest bull breeding centre, also famous for its livestock breeding and dairy he livestock breeding and dairy farm, located on the outskirts of Tfarm spreading over 108 acres Bhadrak; 6 held Baripada town in Mayurbhanj dis- was established at Kathapal, two kilometres from Baripada town, in trict, has been a shadow of its for- the year 1983. It has cow sheds, bio mer self thanks to the apathetic at- gas plant, water supply points, four titude of the central and the state staff quarters and agricultural government. equipment. Hybrid grass was Earlier it used to be a livestock grown in several acres breeding and dairy farm. While the rest shed and office building are he farm used to have over 150 in ruins, the machineries have Tcows of best breeds and been rusting away for want of use. produce 400 litres milk a day. And the entire compound has now However, the livestock breeding taken on a desolate appearance was stopped in 2000 and bulls from with wanton growth of creepers. best breeds of calves were reared. The fully grown-up bulls were As of now, the centre has been taken to Khapuria in Cuttack kept alive by selling grass seeds district for semen collection and grass to cattle rearers. The livestock breeding and dairy semen collection. And this project “The production of grass is huge croaching upon its land. `90lakh re- arlier, farmers would purchase POST NEWS NETWORK plaint against a brother of the farm spreading over 108 acres was too suffered the same fate, allegedly but there is no market for it. At ceived for boundary wall con- Egrass from the Baripada market sarpanch leading to registration of established at Kathapal, two kilo- due to lack of proper management. the same time, farming equipment, struction is also lying unused. itself. Now they have to visit the Bhadrak/Padmapur, August 7: a case by the police. A four-mem- metres from Baripada town, in It was discontinued in 2016. tractors, power tillers and grass Efforts are on to reclaim the en- centre to buy fodder, by spending As many as four police personnel ber police team visited the village the year 1983. It has cow sheds, The farm is presently growing cutting machines have long been croached lands,” informed sub fod- `50 on fuel, observed Ram Hansda, including a woman constable from Saturday to look into the matter and bio gas plant, water supply points, only hybrid grass. With a target lying unused. Out of five water der development officer Basant a farmer Sabarang police station in Bhadrak arrest the accused. four staff quarters and agricul- of harvesting grass seeds from 10 supply points, three are defunct,” Mohapatra. district sustained injuries in a mob As pre planned, some women tural equipment. Hybrid grass acres in kharif and from eight informed ASO Jayant Giri. Expressing concern, Thakura attack at Toranapada village of suddenly attacked the policemen was grown in the rest of the space. acres in rabi seasons, hybrid grass However, the National Dairy Soren, a farmer, said around 25 to another farmer. Goramati panchayat Saturday. with sharp weapons, leaving cops The farm used to have over 150 varieties including ‘Congo Signal’ Development Board (NDDB) had at- 30 people were engaged at the proj- Local residents urged the gov- Police have arrested six people in- injured.The family members of cows of best breeds and produce and ‘Super Nepier’ are being grown. tempted to restart the project by tak- ect when there were cattle. Now ernment and district administra- cluding five women. the accused are said to be behind 400 litres of milk a day. However, Annually, 10 quintals of seeds are ing it up for use. But, it wasn’t pos- they are in search of work. tion to take steps to revive the proj- The condition of two of the in- the incident. the livestock breeding was stopped supplied to the Director, Animal sible because the type of land “Earlier, we would purchase ect which has all the elements jured cops is stated to be serious. However, the injured cops were in 2000 and bulls from best breeds Husbandry and Veterinary Services couldn’t be altered. “Taking ad- grass from the Baripada market required for a livestock breeding and The injured police officials have rescued and rushed to a nearby of calves were reared. The fully in Cuttack. From there, these seeds vantages of the facility not being itself. Now, we have to visit the cen- dairy farm. “Once restarted, peo- been identified as ASI Nitai Charan hospital. Later, two of them were grown-up bulls were taken to are supplied to Balasore, Bhadrak taken care of and without bound- tre to buy fodder, by spending `50 ple of the district will be immensely Mohanty; constables - Smrutirekha shifted to Bhadrak district head- Khapuria in Cuttack district for and Keonjhar districts. ary wall, people have started en- on fuel,” observed Ram Hansda, benefitted,” they maintained. Bal, Prabhuranjan Nayak and quarters hospital as their condition Brajamohan Singh. deteriorated. Sources said an audio had gone As per latest reports, SDPO viral about a sarpanch asking for Sarthak Ray visited the spot and is 3 women killed in NATIONAL HANDLOOM DAY bribe to sanction housing units. probing the case. The incident triggered tension be- The police have so far arrested lightning strike tween the sarpanch’s supporters six persons including the accused and some villagers. in this connection. More are likely POST NEWS NETWORK Pandemic blow to tussar weavers A land owner had filed a com- soon, according to police. Balasore, August 7: At least three women died and five others were POST NEWS NETWORK injured when lightning struck LIVELIHOOD CRISIS them in Basta and Jaleswar area Rasulpur, August 7: Covid pan- any families have stopped of Balasore district Saturday, po- demic has dealt a blow to weavers Mweaving altogether at lice said. The incident took place in the tussar hub at Gopalpur vil- Gopalpur village in Jajpur district. when the women were engaged in lage under this block in Jajpur dis- The screeching sound of looms is paddy cultivation work, they said. trict as the state and country cel- rarely heard in the village The injured are undergoing treat- ebrate the National Handloom Day, ment in a hospital. Saturday. risis-ridden, some weavers have left for other states in Two of the deceased have been Many families have stopped C search of work, abandoning their identified as Pana Majhi (45) of weaving altogether. The screech- traditional occupation while a lot Mathani village and Chabi Kalandi ing sound of looms is rarely heard of them work as daily wagers in (32) of Brahmanamara village, a po- in this village. projects under MGNREGS lice officer said. Some of the weavers have left for Meanwhile, a person was elec- other states in search of work, wing to the lockdown and trocuted in a paddy field at abandoning their traditional oc- Oshutdown, weavers failed to Kasabajaypur village in the same cupation while a lot of them work get raw materials for their work. district after coming in contact as daily wagers in various proj- They also failed to sell clothes as with a live electric wire attached ects under Mahatma Gandhi customers stopped visiting the to a lift irrigation point, he said. National Rural Employment village. The weavers could not get new orders as clothes worth over Guarantees Scheme (MGNREGS). `1 crore were lying unsold with The National Handloom Day is the weavers’ cooperative society. SENIOR CLERK UNDER celebrated every year August 7. The clothes manufactured with Every year, weavers’ cooperative so- their automatic looms are VIGILANCE SCANNER cieties celebrate the day by or- gathering dust ganizing functions in the village. POST NEWS NETWORK In this function, skilled and tal- ented weavers are felicitated and blow to the weavers’ community. Bolangir, August 7: Vigilance of- given awards for their work. Many families have forgotten their ficials Saturday conducted simul- The celebration of National and shutdown affected the normal clothes they had stored in their traditional occupation and are taneous raids at the residences Handloom Day holds no signifi- life in the state following which houses also got damaged. doing odd jobs to earn a living. In and office of a senior clerk of cance for them as they struggle to weavers failed to get raw materials The government announced this situation, it is an irony to cel- Puintala block in Bolangir district eke out their living. The Covid re- for their work. compensations for them, but all af- ebrate the National Handloom Day on charges of accumulating as- strictions in the state have pushed They also failed to sell clothes as fected weavers did not get them. in the village, he observed. sets disproportionate to his known them to the hilt, so much so that they customers stopped visiting the vil- It affected their survival as over Ramesh Das, head of Sri Vishnu sources of income. are struggling to earn something lage. The weavers also could not get 10 weavers left for Surat, June 10, Weavers’ Cooperative Society, ad- Bolangir and Sambalpur to manage their families. new orders as clothes worth over the same year. The weavers wrote mitted that they were no more in Vigilance teams carried out The weavers alleged that the `1 crore were lying unsold with to the state handloom and textile a position to provide work to the searches at Rabindra Kumar state government, which could the weavers cooperative society. department and the state gov- weavers due to pandemic and other Mohanty’s residence at Sagarpada have otherwise come to their res- The clothes manufactured from ernment but their pleas were issues. This has deprived them of in the town, house at Dihamal vil- cue, has abandoned them. As a their automatic looms also re- never addressed. earning a livelihood. lage under Gudvela block and his result, Gopalpur village, oneof mained unsold as no one evinced The state government later an- Makardhwaj Guin, an elderly office chamber in Puintala. the tussar hubs in the state, is interest to buy those clothes. nounced Covid assistance for the weaver, blamed the apathetic atti- Gold ornaments, ATM cards, losing its sheen. As a result, the weavers lost their weavers community but many of tude of the textile department for several bank passbooks and land Sources said the government livelihood. Later, a flood in them were allegedly deprived of their problem. He alleged the state documents have been seized. imposed the lockdown and shut- Brahmani river aggravated their the benefits. government has announced bailout However, the exact value of his down all over the state following an problem as hundreds of looms Ashok Kumar Guin, manager packages for the farmers, con- moveable and immovable proper- increase in Covid-positive cases were washed away in the flood- of Maa Tarini Weavers’ Society, struction workers and MGNREGS ties was yet to be ascertained. from March, 2019. The lockdown waters. The raw materials and said the pandemic has dealt a heavy workers, but nothing for them. 12-hour Sundargarh bandh Man dies in croc attack in Brahmani

POST NEWS NETWORK crocodile suddenly emerged out of knee- for AIIMS partly affects life deep water and dragged Basant into Kendrapara, August 7: A man went the Brahmani river swiftly,” the local POST NEWS NETWORK missing since Friday afternoon after herdsman said. being dragged deep into Brahmani river “After hearing Basant’s scream, I Sundargarh, August 7: The civic water by a crocodile in Pattamundai rushed to the spot, but could not res- life was partly disrupted in area of Kendrapara district. cue him as the crocodile had already Sundargarh town Saturday as The incident took place while the wrenched him into deep water. Some Congress party observed a 12-hour man, identified as Basant Kumar local villagers also came to the spot after bandh demanding establishment of Parida of Srirampur village under I raised an alarm,” the fellow herds- second All India Institute of Medical Pattamundai block, was washing his man added. Sciences (AIIMS) here. hands in the river. On being informed, a team of fire According to a source, the com- According to an eyewitness, Parida services personnel reached the water mercial and business establish- was grazing cattle near the river and went body. Despite a frantic search carried ments remained close during the inside the water to clean himself. out till the evening, Basant’s body bandh which started at 6.00am. “I was also grazing cattle nearby could not be fished out from the water Vehicular movement in the town while he went to the river for a wash. The and he is feared dead. was also partly disrupted. A number of Congress party workers picketed in the town. The party has been demanding that recently requested the then Union UT flees police at MKCG Covid centre NTPC Medical College and Hospital Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan be converted into AIIMS, the source for Odisha’s second AIIMS in the POST NEWS NETWORK and lodged at Baliguda sub-jail. He was added. Meanwhile, traders’ and district. Congress intends to pres- admitted to the Covid-19 ward July 31 lawyers’ associations along with sev- surise the Central government to Berhampur, August 7: An undertrial after testing positive for the virus. He was eral other local outfits in accord a proposal given in this re- prisoner (UTP) allegedly fled from po- about to be discharged, when he man- Sundargarh extended their sup- gard, a local party leader said. lice custody at the Covid-19 ward of aged to escape early in the morning.

port to the bandh call. Notably, a central team had MKCG Medical College and Hospital “Three policemen were guarding the

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OVID-19 has now been mit in Rome, it seems likely that, with us for more than a at the very least, the US intelli- year and a half. It has gence inquiry will be extended Restless Nation Cstopped societies in their beyond its 90-day deadline. tracks, triggered sharp economic But reluctance to provoke China downturns, and killed more than is not the only reason why the he Modi government came into this second term with a mandate for 4.2 million people. But we still do Biden administration might hes- change. The NDA government won more seats, more votes in 2019 than not know where the deadly virus itate to follow through on its de- Tit did in 2014 and its performance was endorsed by the electorate to came from, for a simple reason: mands for transparency. US gov- the extent that it can be in a first-past-the-post system such as ours. China does not want us to know. ernment agencies, from the This mandate for implementing its ideology was acted on immediately in China first reported that a novel National Institutes of Health to 2019. The Supreme Court had invalidated triple talaq in August 2017 and de- coronavirus had emerged in USAID, funded research on coro- clared its practice unconstitutional. But the BJP decided it would need to be Wuhan weeks after its initial de- naviruses at the WIV from 2014 acted on and in July 2019 the practice, which was already declared unlaw- tection. This should not be a sur- China has by now had plenty of time to get rid to 2020, via the US-based EcoHealth ful, was now criminalised. Implementation of a uniform civil code was part prise. The ruling Communist Party of any evidence of its negligence or complicity. Alliance. of the agenda of the BJP/Jana Sangh going back to the 1950s, and the crim- of China (CPC) prefers to sup- For this, they can thank the major US news The details remain murky, and inalisation of triple talaq was a victory in this sense. press information that might cast US officials have admitted to no The following month, Article 370 was gutted in Kashmir and all its non- it in an unflattering light, and the organisations, social-media giants, and wrongdoing. But accusations that BJP politicians were jailed indefinitely. This was the second part of the emergence of COVID-19 within influential scientists (some of whom hid their the US funded so-called “gain-of- BJP’s agenda, also going back to the 1950s. Two months later, the Supreme the country’s borders undoubt- function research” – or altering the Court delivered the goods on Ayodhya and gave a judgment handing the mosque edly fits this description. In fact, conflicts of interest) who have spent most genetic make-up of pathogens to property to the Hindu party in the dispute. the Chinese authorities went so far of the pandemic likening the lab-leak enhance their virulence or infec- Within six months, Modi was able to make good ground on all three of the as to detain whistleblowers for tiousness – have yet to be defini- issues that the party had been campaigning on for decades. The following Brahma Chellaney “spreading rumours.” hypothesis to a baseless conspiracy theory tively quelled. On the contrary, month, the BJP said it would implement its manifesto promise on citizen- By the time China told the world according to a Vanity Fair inves- ship. Under the section named ‘Combating Infiltration’, the 2019 BJP man- about COVID-19, it was far too late and that it has collaborated with vising an effective pandemic re- tigation, “In one State Department ifesto reads: “There has been a huge change in the cultural and linguistic IN FAILING TO to contain the virus. Yet, the CPC the Chinese military on secret sponse in the US. So, when he pro- meeting, officials seeking to de- identity of some areas due to illegal immigration, resulting in an adverse CONDUCT A has not learned its lesson. projects since at least 2017. This in- moted the lab-leak theory, his op- mand transparency from the impact on local people’s livelihood and employment. We will expeditiously Understanding whether the coro- formation was included in a US ponents largely dismissed it as Chinese government... were ex- complete the National Register of Citizens process in these areas on prior- PROPER navirus emerged naturally in State Department report released yet another Trumpian manipu- plicitly told by colleagues not to ex- ity. In future we will implement the NRC in a phased manner in other parts INVESTIGATION wildlife or was leaked from a lab in the final days of President lation. plore the Wuhan Institute of of the country.” As the first part of this process, as described by Amit Shah is essential to forestall another Donald Trump’s administration. Even today, with Biden now re- Virology’s gain-of-function re- through his famous chronology, the BJP passed the Citizenship Amendment WHEN THE pandemic. But the CPC has been But proving that COVID-19 was garding a lab leak as one of “two search, because it would bring un- Act. This law would give asylum to non-Muslims from neighbouring states, PANDEMIC doing everything in its power to pre- leaked from the WIV – or that it likely scenarios,” many Democrats welcome attention to US govern- while the NRC would then come house to house to weed out ‘infiltrators’ and vent an independent forensic in- wasn’t – would require US intel- resist the idea. Meanwhile, con- ment funding of it.” ’termites’. BEGAN, WE MAY vestigation into the matter. ligence agencies to gain access to gressional Republicans accuse Even as circumstances conspire The BJP did not anticipate the pushback from India’s Muslims and the law, The CPC did allow one “inves- more data from the early days of Democrats of helping China to to keep the truth hidden, one ques- though passed, has still not been implemented 20 months on. The NRC, WELL HAVE LET tigation”: a “joint study” with the the Wuhan outbreak, and the CPC cover up the virus’ origins. The tion will not go away: Could it have which was a 2019 manifesto promise, has also been shelved. The Delhi THE CPC GET World Health Organisation that is not giving that up. Nor does US GOP recently released its own re- been a coincidence that the glob- pogrom of February, 2020 was the reaction to China steered. But when WHO intelligence currently have the port, which concludes that the ally disruptive pandemic origi- this failure. At this point, however, the spirit AWAY WITH Director-General Tedros Adhanom kind of spy network in China it WIV was working to modify coro- nated in the same city where China of implementing the mandate was still strong. MILLIONS OF Ghebreyesus recently proposed a would need to circumvent the of- naviruses to infect humans, and is researching ways to increase The farm ordinances came in June 2020, and second phase of studies – centered ficial blockade. (China took care that COVID-19 was accidentally the transmissivity of bat coron- the government and its allies did not anticipate DEATHS on audits of Chinese markets and of that a decade ago by identifying leaked months before China aviruses to human cells? As CIA that the laws would be resisted. Even the major laboratories, especially the Wuhan and eliminating CIA informants.) sounded the alarm. Director William Burns has ac- Punjab party in the NDA, the Shiromani Akali Institute of Virology (WIV) – China In any case, China has by now If the Biden-ordered US intel- knowledged, we may never know Dal, remained in the Cabinet when the ordi- balked. And when US President Joe had plenty of time to get rid of ligence report reaches a similar for sure. But we should have no il- nances were passed and only slipped out of Biden announced a new US intel- any evidence of its negligence or conclusion, it could push already lusions about what that means. In government when it became clear that the ligence inquiry into the origins complicity. For this, they can thank fraught Sino-American relations failing to conduct a proper inves- farmers were very angry. The space between of COVID-19, China’s leaders con- the major US news organisations, to a breaking point. This is not tigation when the pandemic began, the writing of the farm ordinances and the demned America’s “politicisation social-media giants, and influen- what the Biden administration we may well have let the CPC get laws being passed in September was occupied Aakar Patel of origins tracing.” tial scientists (some of whom hid wants, as evidenced by Deputy away with millions of deaths. by the Covid crisis and its first wave. The most Without China’s cooperation, their conflicts of interest) who Secretary of State Wendy significant aspects of this period were the na- determining COVID-19’s origins have spent most of the pandemic Sherman’s efforts, on her recent The writer is Professor of tional lockdown, the migrants’ exodus out of west The nation is will be virtually impossible. We likening the lab-leak hypothesis to visit to China, to “set terms for Strategic Studies at the and south India into the north and east, and the restless though know that the WIV has a pub- a baseless conspiracy theory. responsible management of the New Delhi-based Centre for first economic recession in four decades. The lished record of genetically engi- This stance was often politi- US-China relationship.” With Biden Policy Research and Fellow at economic crisis had in fact been building pro- this restlessness neering coronaviruses, some of cally motivated. Trump directed and Chinese President Xi Jinping the Robert Bosch Academy gressively since demonetisation but had not been has not found which were similar to SARS-CoV- far more of his attention toward also considering meeting on the in Berlin. recognised or spoken about in India. But the out- 2 (the virus that causes COVID-19), pointing fingers at China than de- sidelines of the October G20 sum- ©PROJECT SYNDICATE side world had noticed. In 2014, India’s per proper political capita GDP ($1573) of `1.17 lakh was about 50 per cent ahead of Bangladesh’s ($1118) or `83,000. expression At the end of the financial year 2020–21, Bangladesh went ahead of us at $2227 or `1.65 SPECTRUM MULTILATERALISM lakh per person per year with India at $1947 or `1.45 lakh. We will remain behind Bangladesh from here on till something changes. The judiciary helped Modi out on the farm laws and put them in cold stor- age after asking an expert committee for its views in a ‘sealed cover’ and not A big step forward for global tax justice releasing the findings. The government itself violated the farm laws by re- versing the Essential Commodities Act, but the farmers have been left on the ultilateralism has been on EU will thus continue to lead on re- tax evasion by individuals. the end of the global race to the bot- road because the government has moved on and doesn’t care about the farm the defensive in recent viving rules-based multilateralism, According to the OECD, the auto- tom in corporate tax rates, a con- laws any longer. Myears. In a global setting in order to show our citizens the con- matic exchange of tax informa- test that has produced some very On the other issues also the success has not been as clear cut as was ex- that is more multipolar than mul- crete benefits of a seemingly dry, tion between states netted 95 bil- rich winners but also billions of pected. Kashmir remains troubled and the leaders who were jailed per- tilateral, competition between states technocratic concept. lion ($112 billion) in additional tax losers who can now start regaining formed well in the local elections. The population remains sullen and resistant. seems to prevail over cooperation After all, the alternative to such revenue for G20 countries between faith in the power of rules. China was angered by the change of status of Ladakh and we have seen the nowadays. However, the recent multilateral engagement – “going 2009 and 2019, while deposits in The agreement will lead to higher consequences of that. global agreement to reform inter- it alone” – means reduced access to tax havens fell by 34 per cent. and more stable government rev- The actual target of the uniform civil code is actually polygamy and so national corporate taxation is wel- vaccines, insufficient climate action, An even bigger problem has enues at a time when all countries the victory on triple talaq did not mean that much ultimately. The judiciary come proof that multilateralism festering security crises, inade- proved more difficult. The OECD must bear the costs of battling the delivered on the temple, and also on other issues by not hearing the habeas Josep Borrell & is not dead. quately regulated globalisation, estimates that multinationals’ tax pandemic and mobilise the in- corpus pleas of Kashmiris, not hearing the CAA’s validity and not hearing But it is not healthy, either. While and increasing global inequality. No avoidance results in global rev- vestments needed to tackle the cli- the validity of the Article 370 move. The judge who asked for FIRs to be filed Paolo Gentiloni globalisation has continued dur- country, not even the biggest, can enue losses of $100-240 billion each mate crisis. And it will deliver against BJP leaders Kapil Mishra and Anurag Thakur for the Delhi riots was ing the COVID-19 pandemic – albeit succeed on its own. For all these rea- year, or 4-10 per cent of total cor- greater fairness at a time of in- transferred the same night as he passed the order. more unevenly than before and de- sons, Italy has rightly put multi- porate-tax proceeds. Moreover, the creasing inequalities between the But unfortunately the judges cannot help on the decline of the economy, FUTURE spite people’s feelings of increased lateralism atop the agenda for its current international corporate developed and the developing world. on the lack of jobs and on inflation. The price of petrol is over `100. isolation – interdependence is ever current G20 presidency. tax system was designed more than Above all, the recent tax accord The nation is restless though this restlessness has not found proper po- GENERATIONS more conflictual. Even soft power But it is not enough for the EU a century ago and is increasingly shows how multilateral action can litical expression. NDA ally Nitish Kumar is asking for a caste census which WILL NOT FORGIVE is being weaponised, with vaccines, merely to emphasise its multilat- out of sync with today’s globalised foster a more equitable form of the government has declined (India’s entitlements are still distributed on the data, and technology standards all eral credentials. Europe must and digitalised economy. globalisation. We now need similarly basis of a socio-economic census that was conducted under Manmohan US IF WE WASTE becoming instruments of politi- demonstrate that multilateral ac- The EU has long strived to mount effective international responses in Singh a decade ago). THE PANDEMIC’S cal competition. tion can deliver for all if every a global response to this challenge. other areas, from vaccine access and Abroad, the government has lost its friends Trump, Abe and Netanyahu. The world is also becoming less country invests in it. And the new But it was the constructive en- the climate crisis to data security The US leader left without being able to conclude even a trade deal with his MAIN LESSON: free. Democracy itself is under at- global tax agreement does just that. gagement of US President Joe and technology standards. friend Modi. tack, amid a pitched battle of nar- The deal, endorsed earlier in Biden’s administration over the Future generations will not for- Modi spent much of his rightly earned political capital in 2019. It is not fully THAT WE ARE IN ratives over which political and July by G20 finance ministers and past six months that enabled the re- give us if we waste the pandemic’s depleted but it is hard to escape the feeling that solving the problems of 2020 THIS TOGETHER economic system can best deliver backed by 132 countries, will es- cent breakthrough. This was a main lesson: that we are in this to- and 2021 will require something special which at the moment is not in view. for its citizens. tablish a global minimum tax rate striking and welcome sign of gether. We need wise strategies The European Union continues of at least 15 per cent for multina- America’s return to supporting a and bold tactics to deliver on a to believe in and work for a pre- tional corporations and ensure multilateral vision of the world. truly multilateral agenda for all. WISDOM CORNER dictable world of rules-based mul- that these firms pay taxes in the The 132 jurisdictions currently tilateralism, open markets, posi- countries where they generate their supporting the new corporate-tax- Josep Borrell is High Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than tive-sum outcomes, and social justice profits. This is a historic step toward ation deal represent 90 per cent of Representative of the you need. KAHLIL GIBRAN and solidarity. We remain convinced fairer globalisation and a land- global GDP. And while the agree- European Union for Foreign that today’s challenges – from fight- mark achievement of effective mul- ment will not by itself fully solve Affairs and Security Policy. Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. ing the pandemic to tackling cli- tilateralism. the issue of multinational firms’ tax Paolo Gentiloni is a former EUGENE IONESCO mate change – can be handled only In recent years, governments avoidance, it is a decisive step for- Prime Minister of Italy. through global cooperation. The have taken important steps to tackle ward. It marks the beginning of ©PROJECT SYNDICATE One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

WORDSWORTH Patriotic students Renaming Khel Ratna Welcome disengagement Opusculum Sir, The adoption of the ‘Deshbhakti Sir, One need not be critical of all the decisions of Sir, It is heartening that India and Curriculum’ framework by the Delhi the present Union government. The Prime Minister’s China have undertaken disengage- n 2009, JC McKeown of the University of Wisconsin described his book etters State Council of Educational Research and announcement that the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna ment from the Gogra area of eastern ICabinet of Roman Curiosities as an opusculum, an assessment both Training is a positive move. The cur- Award shall now be renamed after the legendary Ladakh following an agreement at appropriate and modest. An opusculum is a little work, usually a book. For riculum was unveiled in the 2021 Delhi hockey wizard Major Dhyan Chand will be wel- the 12th round of Corps Commander most of us, opusculum means nothing, which disgusted the late Anthony TOL THE EDITOR Budget with the goal of instilling a sense comed by all, except perhaps the Congress party. In talks. This is the second friction area Burgess. In one of his diatribes in old age lamenting the decline of education Readers of Orissa POST of patriotism and nationhood in every the first place, there was no justification whatso- from which disengagement was car- he challenged guests at his dinner table with idiolect, palinlogue, are most welcome to contribute letters student attending Delhi government ever in naming this highest sports award after Rajiv ried out after Pangong Tso in February desquamation, lesbic, autophagous, monophthongal, autocephalous, (200 words), articles and schools and preparing them to be re- Gandhi; he was not known to have played any great as part of the overall disengagement columns (between 750-1250 inesculent, allomorph, strabismus ... and opusculum. For the Romans, opus words). Contributors are sponsible citizens who contribute to the sport. Moreover, a plethora of airports, hospitals, in- and de-escalation along the Line of was any sort of labour, but it has come to mean an artistic work, in requested to send their nation’s development. The curriculum’s stitutions, and welfare schemes have already been Actual Control in eastern Ladakh. particular one on a large scale. We meet it most frequently in music but it contact numbers and full three main goals are patriotism, under- named after someone or the other of the Nehru- The sabre-rattling along the border has

can be used of books, paintings and other media. It appears also in magnum postal address/email ID. They may also standing one’s responsibilities and du- Gandhi family. While blindly renaming our cities, as tested the nerves of the Indian soldiers

k y m send in their valuable comments, opinion c opus, literally “great work”, the most important creation of an artist. and suggestions, preferably by email, ties, and a willingness to make sacrifices the present dispensation at the Centre and some of besides claiming lives, and the dis- Burgess would undoubtedly have known that if one were in the unlikely to: [email protected] for the country. We hope that this initia- the states have done, is certainly avoidable, nobody engagement process could pave the way situation of wanting to discuss the most significant output of several artists, tive will aid in the propagation of patri- shall have any grouse on renaming this coveted for the return of peace and tranquil- one should describe them as their magna opera. Though opera is the plural otism among students and make them sports award after one of the greatest sportsman this lity in the region. of opus it’s rarely used that way, since opera has taken on a life of its own as B-15, Rasulgarh Industrial Estate, responsible citizens. country has ever produced. NJ Ravi Chander, a singular noun for the musical genre. Bhubaneswar-751010 Amit Singh Kushwaha, SATNA (MP) Bhaskar Roy, NEW DELHI BANGALORE P7 SUNDAY | AUGUST 8 | 2021 | BHUBANESWAR state

Land hurdle grounds Rajendra SEEKING DIVINE INTERVENTION

k y m varsity’s development move c

TEETHING ISSUE

few days ago, the University AGrants Commission (UGC) has granted its recognition to the university under UGC sub-clause 2(F), 1956. To avail of UGC grants, the university is required to meet a few criteria like adequate teaching staff and land for infrastructure niversity authorities had Uearlier intimated the Collector, the secretary of the OP PHOTO higher education department and the additional secretary People resolve before village goddess to fight for closure of stone quarries and removal of stone crushing units in Harbhanga area of Boudh district, Saturday DEVELOPMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY HAS BEEN ENVISAGED, KEEPING THE NEXT to the Governor about 50 YEARS IN MIND. ENCROACHED LAND CAN BE RECLAIMED FOR USE OF THE requirement of land for UNIVERSITY, SOME LOCALS HAVE SUGGESTED the university POLAVARAM PROJECT POST NEWS NETWORK In fact, the university needs over It is said that if eviction drive is 100 acres while the institution has carried out, some land can be Bolangir, August 7: Rajendra only 49 acres under its occupation. reclaimed. University in Bolangir is one of The university authorities had Keeping the next 50 years in the oldest educational institutions earlier intimated the Collector, the mind, development of the uni- Boon for AP, bane for Malkangiri in western Odisha. However, its secretary of the higher education versity has been envisaged. development has been caught in a department and the additional sec- Encroached lands can be reclaimed POST NEWS NETWORK his under-construction stalemate due to a number of fac- retary to the Governor about re- for use of the university, some lo- Tmulti-purpose irrigation project on tors – lack of land, teachers and in- quirement of land for the university. cals pointed out. Malkangiri, August 7: A boon the Godavari river in West Godavari frastructure, a report said. As there was no progress in this Earlier, the administration re- for Andhra Pradesh, Polavaram district was started in 2004. The According to reports, a year has matter, the authorities again re- claimed 14 acres near the project will be a bane for several vil- project has a hydroelectric plant passed since Rajendra College was minded them about the land Friday. Rajendra University while only lages in Motu area in Malkangiri ith the AP government increasing upgraded into a university. Despite It was stated that the growth and six acres can be handed over to district. Wthe height of the dam, it will efforts at all level, required land is development of the university is not the university. Tehsildar Maghban This under-construction multi- submerge many areas in Chhattisgarh, not available for expansion of its feasible without the land. Bagh said a total of 66 acres in- purpose irrigation project on the Odisha and Andhra Pradesh, forcing infrastructure. The district administration has cluding 49 acres of the university Godavari river in West Godavari dis- thousands of people to lose their A few days ago, the University launched a special drive to hunt for campus have been identified. trict was started in 2004. The proj- ancestral lands and all sorts of Grants Commission (UGC) has land. Collector Chanchal Rana, “Seven acres of the university ect has a hydroelectric plant. The natural resources granted its recognition to the uni- ADM Ananta Narayan Singh is under the works department. main objective of the project is to versity under UGC sub-clause 2(F), Laguri and tehsildar Maghban This patch of land will be first generate hydroelectricity for in- flood like situations in many villages 1956. To avail of UGC grants, the Bagh are in the process of looking brought to the revenue depart- dustries and irrigating farmland. in Motu tehsil. The backwater of the university is required to meet a for the land. ment. Then, the land will be handed With the AP government in- feared that many villages of Motu, served notices on many villages project flowing in Sileru and Saberi few criteria like adequate teaching It was learnt that after first round over to the university,” said ADM creasing the height of the dam, it Pushuguda, Malavaram and on its side bordering Malkangiri dis- rivers creates floods every year. staff and land for infrastructure. of survey, the team has not been able Laguri. This land handover process will submerge many areas in Tandabai panchayats under trict to vacate the lands. When contacted, Motu tehsil- Recently, it came in a section of to find required land at one place will take at least three months, Chhattisgarh, Odisha and Andhra Kalimela block will get wiped out Meanwhile, Chhattisgarh and dar Sashank Mishra said the back- media that the 77-year old institu- inside the town. he added, saying, in such cir- Pradesh, forcing thousands of peo- of the Malkangiri district’s map. Odisha are increasingly concerned water from the project site enters tion does not have land patta in Lands inside and around the cumstances, the state government ple to lose their ancestral lands The Andhra government has al- as the central government is yet to into farm lands and villages every its name. This report created rounds Bolangir town have been under needs to provide land to the uni- and all sorts of natural resources. ready started the process to reha- take any concrete step in this regard. year, destroying acres of standing of discussions in various circles. encroachment at various places. versity through a special drive. Once the project is over, it is bilitate the affected people. It has Even now, the project creates crops and damaging houses. Ailing elephant dies Second KV proposed at despite treatment Bridge to village with pension money POST NEWS NETWORK NOBLE DEED Baliguda; land identified Keonjhar, August 7: In a show of social commitment, a 65- year old arlier, the bridge work was POST NEWS NETWORK Nine blocks like man of Hatadihi area in Keonjhar Eabandoned halfway. Gangadhar district has built a bridge across resumed its construction in March, Phulbani, August 7: While a Chakapada, Tikabali, G Salandi river by spending his `16 2018 and got it completed in Kendriya Vidyalaya is already func- Udaygiri, Raikia, lakh pension money. `2.10 lakh was August, 2019 tioning at Phulbani in Kandhamal contributed by others. district, another one is likely to Daringbadi, K Nuagaon, angadhar has been feted and POST NEWS NETWORK According to reports, Gangadhar be set up soon. Land for the school Ghonoured for his noble effort. Baliguda, Tumudibandh Rout, a retired goverment em- However, he lamented that the has been identified, a report said. and Kotagarah under Keonjhar, August 7: A 50-year- ployee, of Soso-Kanpur village has government is not extending help According to reports, Baliguda old female elephant which was carved out a name for himself in to complete the project sub-collector Subhankar Mohapatra Baliguda sub-division are sick in Sinduria forest under the district by undertaking the had got a patch of land identified Bhuyan Juanga Pidhi range in welfare initiative with his pension he bridge will pave the and submitted a map of the same too far from Phulbani Keonjhar, died Saturday despite money. Some people have nick- Tcommunication to many to the Collector. He has proposed to Kendriya Vidyalaya treatment by the forest officials. named him as ‘bridge man’ in the villages like Kanpur to Daneipur in the Collector Dr. Brunda D to send The forest department suspected locality. the region after completion of the a proposal to the government for that the animals might have died However, the bridge is lying un- approach roads, Gangadhar said setting up the second KV at from internal injury. used as the work on the approach Baliguda. The project needs ap- sub-collector has urged the dis- After post mortem, its carcass road has remained incomplete. His proval of the government. trict administration and the Chief was buried. It was earlier said that dream has not yet been realized. He government has the Biju Setu The children of state and central Minister to set up the KV at the animal was feeble due to age and has built the bridge with dimension Yojana, it is of no use for locals, he government employees in 12 blocks Baliguda. might have slipped from a hilly – 270 ft (27-ft X 10-ft). added. Locals had been demanding can get admission to the KV at The sub-collector has stated that slope in the area. Earlier, the bridge work was a bridge across the river, but their Phulbani. a majority of the population in Forest officials had spotted a abandoned halfway. He resumed appeals fell on deaf ears of the ad- There are nine blocks such as Baliguda are Kondh tribals, whose six-member elephant herd mov- its construction in March, 2018 and ministration and local leaders. Chakapada, Tikabali, G Udaygiri, livelihood depends on collection ing the range and suspected that the got it completed in August, 2019. “When I was in service, I had re- Raikia, Daringbadi, K Nuagaon, and sale of minor forest produce present condition of the animal “The only problem is that an ap- solved to build a bridge. Many peo- Baliguda, Tumudibandh and and agriculture. could be either due to sickness or proach road to the bridge has not ple laughed it off. Despite finan- Kotagarh under Baliguda sub-di- There are no public schools intra-herd fight. been completed for lack of funds. government is not extending help proach road on one side of the cial constraints, I started the bridge vision. Phulbani KV is too far from under the CBSE and ICSE in the re- “A team of forest department All that money with me has ex- to complete the project.He said his bridge while more funds are needed work after I retired. It was started the reach of thousands of students gion. As a result, people send their officials along with a veterinary doc- hausted. But help and cooperation son, wife and granddaughter have to lay the approach road on the with eight pillars,” he added. living these nine blocks. kids to Berhampur, Nayagarh and tor was doing treatment of the sick of people is not available to com- contributed as per their capacity other end. “I have not given up After the approach road is com- They are unable to get proper ed- Bhubaneswar for their studies. elephant. It could not be saved. plete the project,” he lamented. to the project. my effort for the project,” he ob- plated, the bridge will facilitate ucational facilities in KV at The sub-collector further stated Though the cause of its death is not He has been feted and hon- He was feted in New Delhi by an served. communication to many villages Phulbani, which is 80 km from that till the infrastructure of the KV known, it could be due to internal oured for his noble effort. organization with `1 lakh prize. Earlier, people waded through the like Kanpur and Daneipur in the Baliguda, it was stated. was ready, the school could run injury,” said DFO Ajit Tripathy. However, he lamented that the He has spent the money for an ap- river, risking their lives. Though the region, he added. Given the distance factor, the from the Sunapanga Urdu School.

NEED FOR BREASTFEEDING Additional programme Angul DHH approaches officer held for taking cops as minor gives birth bribe in Sambalpur POST NEWS NETWORK POST NEWS NETWORK The girl complained of Sambalpur, August 7: Vigilance Angul, August 7: Angul district stomachache Friday officials Saturday arrested an ad- headquarters hospital (DHH) au- ditional programme officer in thorities Friday approached the morning. Unaware of Sambalpur district red-handed district police for a probe after an her pregnancy, her while he was taking a bribe of alleged minor girl gave birth to a `4,000 at his office chamber. baby girl at the hospital. family members mistook The additional programme of- According to a source, the girl - it for something else and ficer has been identified as Surendra - a resident of a village under Sahu, who works at Naktideul Jarpada police limits in Angul dis- were bringing her to the block. According to a source, a rel- trict -- Friday gave birth to a baby DHH when she delivered ative of a Gaon Saathi had contacted girl in an auto-rickshaw while the baby girl in the Sahu a few days ago, requesting him being brought to the hospital. to process his file in a canal work. The girl complained of stom- auto-rickshaw Sahu had demanded a gratification achache Friday morning. Unaware of `4,000 from him for doing so. of her pregnancy, her family mem- police station. With no options left, the victim bers mistook it for something else "The girl looks like a minor. sought the intervention of the Vigilance and were bringing her to the DHH However, a police investigation is department. Accordingly, the de- when she delivered the baby girl in awaited to confirm her age," the doc- partment laid out a trap and arrested the auto-rickshaw. Both the mother tor attending to her said. Sahu while he was taking the chem- and the child were admitted to the It was learnt that the girl has ical-laced notes in his chamber.

DHH and are doing well, a doctor been kept under tight security as Sahu, however, denied taking

k y m c treating them said. she has been insisting on going bribe. “I did not ask any bribe from The DHH authorities have ver- back home. While she has not re- him. He offered me the amount, bally informed about the incident vealed anything about the father of requesting me to do the needful to to the Town police station and the her child, her family members process his file,” he said. The ac- Town police, in turn, have inti- have also not registered any re- cused official was produced in a ANMs and ASHA workers take out an awareness rally on the concluding day of World Breastfeeding Week in Sambalpur Saturday, OP PHOTO mated their counterparts at Jarpada port with the police. court Saturday, it was learnt. P8 ASSAM RAJASTHAN

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k y m No let-up in Assam Efforts on to lift ‘economic blockade’ c DUE TO THE ‘ECONOMIC BLOCKADE’ ON NATIONAL HIGHWAY-306 IN ASSAM’S CACHAR, SUPPLY OF ESSENTIAL COMMODITIES, FUELS AND MEDICINES TO MIZORAM HAS BEEN ACUTELY HIT

INDO-ASIAN NEWS SERVICE “Representatives of governments police encounters of Assam and Mizoram agree to Guwahati/Aizawl, August 7: take all necessary measures to pro- Amid the 13-day long ‘economic mote, preserve, and maintain peace 31 arrested people have been injured and 15 killed in police encounters blockade’ and with hundreds of and harmony amongst the people Mizoram bound goods laden ve- living in Assam and Mizoram, par- since the Himanta Biswa Sarma government assumed charge May 10 hicles stranded, two Assam ticularly in the border areas,” said Ministers rushed to trouble-torn a joint statement, issued after the AGENCIES Assam-Mizoram inter-state bor- August 5 meeting. ders Saturday to facilitate the re- The joint statement said that Guwahati, August 7: Unabated po- sumption of the movement of ve- both state governments also wel- lice encounters have led the hicles between the two states. comed and agreed to take forward Opposition and a section of the Due to the ‘economic blockade’ the initiatives taken by the Union civil society to accuse the Assam on National Highway-306 in Assam’s Home Ministry and the two Chief police under the second BJP gov- Cachar, supply of essential com- Ministers to remove tensions pre- ernment in the state of indulging modities, fuels and medicines to vailing around the inter-state bor- in ‘open killings’. Mizoram has been acutely hit since ders and to find lasting solutions In the latest encounter, a man ar- the bloodiest border clash and fir- to the disputes through rested with heroin, along with cash ing that left six Assam policemen discussions. and gold, was critically injured dead and 100 others including civil- Mizoram Home Minister after police personnel opened fire ians of the two states hurt July 26. Lalchamliana and Revenue at him when he allegedly tried to Officials said that Assam’s Urban Minister Lalruatkima and Home snatch a constable’s firearm dur- Development Minister Ashok ister Singhal informed him that “With the rise in the number of Secretary Vanlalngaihsaka Assam's ing an escape bid in Assam’s Singhal and Environment and all vehicles stranded on NH-306 Covid cases, we are finding it ex- Border Protection and Development Kamrup Metropolitan district Forest Minister Parimal would cross the border by Saturday tremely difficult to take care of and Agriculture Minister Atul Saturday, an officer said. Suklabaidya accompanied by the evening. “We are grateful to both the patients who are in dire need Bora and Singhal and state The incident took place when Deputy Commissioner and Hon'ble CMs of Assam and of oxygen given the limited supply Commissioner-cum-Secretary, the accused, who was nabbed Friday, Superintendent of police of Cachar Mizoram for relentlessly working due to blockade. Other basic med- Border Protection and was being taken by personnel of Rural Hospital, he said. Commission (AHRC) has taken district are “holding talks with all towards restoration of peace be- icines and necessities of Covid Development, GD Tripathi took Bharalumukh police station to With this incident, 31 arrested suo moto cognisance of the en- stakeholders” at Lailapur, the entry tween the two states,” the minister management including PPE kits part in the meeting. Matia in Azara police station area people have been injured and 15 counters and asked the state gov- point to Mizoram. tweeted. and vital drugs are still stuck at the After the Aizawl meeting, the to locate his associates, he said. killed in police encounters while ernment July 7 to institute an in- “All efforts are being made to Mizoram Health Minister R. border,” the Minister said. Assam government August 6, with- The accused tried to escape by attempting to flee custody in Assam quiry into the circumstances that resume the movement of vehicles Lalthangliana Saturday said in Assam and Mizoram held a cru- drew its advisories and other cir- snatching a constable’s carbine since the Himanta Biswa Sarma led to the casualties in police en- between the two states specially Aizawl that besides the essential cial ministerial level meeting culars to facilitate the return of after injuring him, and other po- government assumed charge counters in the last two months. the Mizoram bound goods laden commodities and transport fuels, Thursday in Aizawl where they de- the normalcy along the inter-state licemen shot at the man’s leg, in- May 10. Earlier, a New Delhi-based lawyer trucks and other vehicles,” a Cachar Mizoram has been facing severe cided to maintain peace along the borders. juring him, the officer said. The chief minister had earlier from Assam, Arif Jwadder, had district official said. crisis of vital medicines. “Covid inter-state border and welcomed Soon after the July 26 border The accused is undergoing treat- said that the police have been given filed a complaint with the National About the latest development, patients are dying for want of the deployment of neutral cen- clash and violence the Assam gov- ment at Gauhati Medical College “full operational liberty” under Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Mizoram’s Information and Public medicines. Seriously ill patients tral forces, and agreed that they ernment had asked its citizens not and Hospital, where his condition the ambit of the law to fight against the Assam Police for the se- Relations minister of state are in dire need of life-saving would not send their respective to visit Mizoram and those staying is stated to be critical, while the con- criminals. ries of encounters that have taken (Independent Charge) Lalruatkima drugs...” the Minister said in a forces and officials to the trou- in the neighbouring state to main- stable has been admitted to Azara The Assam Human Rights place under Sarma’s rule. said in Aizawl that Assam's min- video message. bled border areas. tain utmost caution. Relief for 22K Gorkhas facing ‘foreigner’ trial Air Force roped in for relief is a great relief for the families of The draft NRC list Gorkha people, especially those published in August 2019 who had been prosecuted under the excluding 19.06 lakh out of Citizenship Act. The illegal im- ops in flood-hit Rajasthan migrants tag on the members of 3.3 crore applications for the community would also be INDO-ASIAN NEWS SERVICE lack of adequate abolished.” “We are original inhabitants of New Delhi, August 7: The gov- documents for establishing Assam and Indian citizens as well,” ernment has roped in Indian Air their Indian citizenship Dewan said, demanding that the Force to carry out relief and res- D-Voter tags on Gurkhas should cue operations in flood affected also be revoked after the significant areas of Rajasthan. Torrential INDO-ASIAN NEWS SERVICE decision of the state cabinet. rains in Rajasthan have flooded The BGP had also challenged the several districts, including Kota. Guwahati, August 7: The Assam NRC after the first draft was pub- Several people were trapped in- government has decided that no lished December 31, 2017, high- side their houses in Kota -- known new cases would be registered lighting the difficulties faced by the for being a major coaching hub of against the Gorkha community people belonging to the Gorkha India for competitive examination in the state at the Foreigners community, who were unilater- preparations -- due to the deluge. Tribunals and the cases which ally tried at the FTs, carrying the Indian Air Force will be carrying have already been registered would D-Voter tag. out relief operation in Kota to save also be withdrawn, giving a big re- The Bharatiya Gorkha around 2,500 cases relating to cit- The Union Home Ministry had trapped lives. lief to at least 22,000 members of Parishangh (BGP), the apex body izenship are being heard at September 24, 2018 issued a noti- A senior government officer the community in the northeast- of the Gorkha community, greeted various FTs. fication, clarifying that Gorkhas stated that the local administra- Pradesh has flooded Gwalior - situation on the ground is worse. ern state, officials said. the decision of the BJP-led gov- The BGP leader said that about should not be tried at FTs. tion had requested for Indian Air Chambal region affecting many The situation in Shivpuri has im- An official from the state’s Home ernment and thanked the Chief 500 cases have been disposed of To update the 1951 NRC in Force to undertake coordinated villages in Gwalior, Sheopur, proved a bit. Chief Minister Shivraj Department said that the state Minister for solving the after the issuance of the notifi- Assam, the statutory notification flood relief and rescue operations Shivpuri, Datia, Guna, Ashok Singh Chouhan had said that the cabinet at its meeting chaired by 24-year-old problem. cation for the National Register of for starting the Supreme Court- to save precious lives. On receipt Nagar, and Bhind. The flooding in state has not seen such devasta- Chief Minister Himanta Biswa According to BGP’s national Citizens (NRC) began in December monitored exercise was issued in of the requisition from civil ad- many prominent rivers in the area tion in the last 70 years that the rain- Sarma Wednesday decided not to general secretary Nanda Kirati 2013. The BGP said that some peo- December 2013. The draft list was ministration, Indian Air Force submerged swathes of area and ravaged Gwalior-Chambal region prosecute people belonging to the Dewan, more than 22,000 Gorkhas ple tried by the FTs were “identi- published in August 2019, excluding swiftly mobilised its assets. washed away critical road links is facing. Further, the Indian Army Gorkha community under the in Assam have been marked fied as foreigners in ex-parte ver- 19.06 lakh out of 3.3 crore appli- In the meantime, five choppers and bridges connecting these areas. has also been mobilised to carry out Citizenship Act and to withdraw “Doubtful Voters or D-Voters” uni- dict and subsequently sent to cations for lack of adequate doc- are carrying out rescue operations The focus of the Indian Air Force relief and rescue operations in all cases pending against them at laterally by the authorities in the detention camps.” uments for establishing their in Madhya Pradesh from August 2 currently is to rescue people trapped flood affected regions in the Foreigners' Tribunals (FTs). electoral rolls since 1997 and “The Assam cabinet’s decision Indian citizenship. onwards. Heavy rain in Madhya in Guna and Ashok Nagar areas as Madhya Pradesh. 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Jaipur, August 7: Taking a cue from Punjab, Rajasthan Tourism will soon promote Border Tourism and its beautiful stretch to tourists on the same lines as Punjab has done on Wagah Border where tourists have been thronging throughout the year. Rajasthan Tourism officials have confirmed this and said that dur- ing the post pandemic period, the state wants to serve new destina- tions on platter and hence A view of the Pushkar Lake after the water level rises following monsoon rain in Pushkar, Saturday. PTI PHOTO comes this idea. Experiencing beauty of the bor- ders of Rajasthan shall be a novel experience for tourists, they added. 3-tier grievance redressal for female labourers The places where maximum tourists come for relinquishing a senior tourism officer told IANS. tourists. The fort in Ghotas in this The tourists are shown the post of AGENCIES Women Grievance Redressal initiative for micro level support their zest for border tourism are The international Indo-Pak bor- area also pulls the tourists and the Pakistan side and also the mu- Committee shall monitor all cases for such women and extend them Jaisalmer, Barmer, Bikaner and der which is at a short distance from arouses their curiosity. A railway seum. There is a facility extended Jaipur, August 7: The Rajasthan of women-related grievances being support not just legal but also Sri Ganganagar. Jaisalmer dis- the temple is a major attraction for station named Munnabad is in op- by the BSF to provide food to government is in process to bring reported at existing government other social challenges as well,” she trict has the largest area of desert visiting tourists. There is also a fort eration in Barmer which caters tourists on payment. along seven departments to es- agencies. said. She further said that the com- terrain in Rajasthan. The temple near this place known as to the movement of Indo-Pak The Hindumal Kot border out- tablish a three-tier grievance re- “Analysis of the grievances re- mittees were being constituted at of Tanot Rai in Tanot on the Indo- Kishangarh, made of bricks and passengers. post located at a distance of 18 km dressal system for women working ceived at existing district level block, district and division levels Pak international border, 125 km mortar. In close vicinity is the site The Sanchu post of the BSF that from Sri Ganganagar is quite fa- in fields, farms and work sites, of- committees suggested for need of to ensure that the women raise to the west of Jaisalmer district of Longewala, which witnessed is on the Indo-Pak international bor- mous. The outpost has been named ficials said Saturday. more focused approach for the their concern at higher level if headquarters, is the main attrac- the 1971 Indo-Pak war. The military der in Bikaner district attracts after chief dewan Hindumal of Under the system, police, labour, women employed in the unor- dissatisfied with the decision of tion for Indian tourists and devo- vehicles and tanks of the Pakistan travellers as it is surrounded by the erstwhile princely state of

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You must restore their the Indian Peninsula, particularly According to a recent study, with said. lice said Saturday. faith the northeast and east, have reg- 401 fatalities, Bihar topped the list Bihar 401 From the National Weather The three men drove a car istered a sharp increase of lighting of lightning deaths from April 1, Uttar Pradesh 238 Forecasting Centre, these forecasts through the security cordon of the JP NADDA | BJP NATIONAL PREZ over the past two decades, while the 2020 till March 31, 2021, followed by Madhya Pradesh 228 and warnings are given in mete- chief minister when he was out spike is minimal over the central Uttar Pradesh with 238 and Madhya Odisha 156 orological sub-divisional scale on evening walk near his official res- part of the country and moderate Pradesh with 228. Jharkhand 132 whereas state Meteorological idence at Shyamaprasad Mukerjee I believe that over the rest. Odisha (156), Jharkhand (132), Chhattisgarh 78 Centres issue the same to district Lane Thursday, they said. by the next The Indian Institute of Tropical Chhattisgarh (78), Maharashtra Maharashtra 68 level. Deb managed to jump aside as three years, Karnataka 54 Meteorology (IITM), Pune, an au- (68), Karnataka (54), Assam (46) In addition to that, thunder- the vehicle whisk past him, but entire country will be Assam 46 provided with tonomous research and develop- and Rajasthan (42) are the top 10 Rajasthan 42 storms and associated disastrous one of his security personnel sus- national highways ment institution under the Ministry states to witness lightning deaths weather phenomena are covered by tained minor injuries, they added. parallel to the of Earth Sciences (MoES), has es- for that duration. nowcast (forecast for next three The chief minister's security standards of the American tablished a lightning location net- A mobile app called ‘Damini’ nearby by GPS notification, in the network, located at IITM, receives hours issued every three hours) tried to intercept the car but could highways. At one point of time, we work strategically installed at 83 has been developed to monitor distance under 20 kms and 40 kms and processes the signal received in the location/district level by not, police said. The three men used to construct only 2 kilometers places in the country to detect and lightning activities in the skies. radius. from the network and identifies State Meteorological Centres. were arrested late on Thursday roads per day, whereas now we are locate lightning strikes with ut- The purpose of this app is to The app gives detailed descrip- the location of lightning strikes At present this facility is ex- from Kerchowmuhani and the ve- constructing 38 kilometers most accuracy, Union Minister of monitor all lightning activities, tion of instructions and precau- with less than 500 metre accuracy. tended to all the districts and for hicle seized, they said. roads per day State (Independent Charge) Science specifically for India and alerts tions while in the lightning prone The output from this network is about 1,084 stations across the They were produced before the NITIN GADKARI | & Technology and Minister of State the person if there are any strikes area.The central processor of this shared with India Meteorological country. court of Chief Judicial Magistrate UNION ROAD AND TRANSPORT MIN PP Paul on Friday and remanded to 14 days in jail. DALIT GIRL’S DEATH Assistant Public Prosecutor Bidyut Sutradhar said the motive Power is too of the three men, all in their mid- important a Passage of eight Bills in RS 20s, were yet to be ascertained. sector for such We demanded two days of police unilateral Rahul Gandhi’s Twitter remand for interrogation, but interferences, especially when court has remanded them to ju- ‘electricity’ as a ups productivity to 24.2 pc dicial custody till August 19. Now, subject is in the Concurrent List of handle blocked: Cong the police would interrogate them the Constitution of India and any in jail to know their motive be- legislation on a subject in such a list THE UPPER HOUSE HAS WITNESSED REPEATED DISRUPTIONS IN THE PRESS TRUST OF INDIA hind driving through the security needs serious prior consultation cordon of the chief minister, with the States LAST THREE WEEKS SINCE THE SESSION STARTED JULY 19 New Delhi, August 7: The Sutradhar told PTI. Congress Saturday claimed that MAMATA BANERJEE | WEST BENGAL CM In the past week, 68 members Twitter has temporarily suspended from 17 parties discussed the bills the account of its former chief Hoax bomb call sends before their passage. Rahul Gandhi, but later said it SHORT TAKES The parties whose members has been temporarily locked after Mumbai cops into tizzy took part in the discussions in- the microblogging platform de- Monsoon clude AIADMK, Aam Aadmi nied having suspended the ac- PRESS TRUST OF INDIA Bommai allocates Party, BJD, BJP, Congress, CPI, count and stated that it contin- Session CPI(M), DMK, JD(U), NCP, RJD, ues to be in service. Mumbai, August 7: Three per- cabinet portfolios RPI, Shiv Sena, TDP, TMC The action by Twitter came over Sources in the party claimed sons were arrested Saturday after Bangalore: Four days after 29 (Moopanar), TRS and YSRCP. a controversial post of Gandhi that Gandhi had done nothing a hoax call claiming that bombs had ministers took oath PRESS TRUST OF INDIA Due to repeated These 17 parties along with nom- with a picture of him meeting the wrong and they had the consent been planted at three railway sta- Karnataka Chief Minister disruptions, 197 Zero inated members of the Rajya Sabha family of a nine-year-old Dalit girl of the family of the girl for posting tions and actor Amitabh Bachchan's Basavaraj Bommai Saturday New Delhi, August 7: The passage account for 87 per cent of the pres- who died here following an alleged the photograph. residence in the city led to hours- allocated cabinet portfolios. of eight bills in the Rajya Sabha dur- Hour occasions and 153 ent strength of the House. sexual assault. Twitter has deemed Shri @RahulGandhi's Twitter long futile searches, an official Bommai retained DPAR, ing the third week of the Monsoon Special Mention The TMC and the SAD that are that the account violated its rules account has been temporarily sus- said. No suspicious material was Finance, and Intelligence Session has helped increased pro- insisting on a discussion on the against posting private information. pended & due process is being fol- found at any of the four locations, from Home, Cabinet Affairs, ductivity of the House to 24.2 per cent. occasions were lost Pegasus controversy and farmers' According to party sources, some lowed for its restoration, the the police spokesperson said. Bengaluru Development and This has gone up from last week during the session issues account for less than 6 per features of Gandhi’s account have Congress tweeted from its official “Our main control room re- all unallotted portfolios. BJP when the productivity was 13.70 cent of the strength of the House, been temporarily limited, and while Twitter handle. ceived the call around 9.45 pm ministers from north per cent. In the first week, the Upper officials pointed out. he could browse the social media Until then, he will stay connected Friday. The caller claimed that Karnataka were being given House of Parliament registered The Upper House has witnessed The House spent 3 hours 25 min- site and send direct messages to his with you all through his other SM bombs had been placed at the plum posts. Newly inducted high productivity of 32.20 per cent, repeated disruptions in the last utes on the passage of these bills. followers, no tweets, retweets, fol- platforms & continue to raise his Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj loyal party leaders were also according to the data with the Rajya three weeks since the session started Of the total time of 28 hours lows, fleets or likes were allowed. voice for our people & fight for their Terminus (CSMT) and Byculla and awarded creme posts. The Sabha research department. Dadar railway stations and also party gifted Araga Jnanendra July 19. Opposition members have and 30 minutes during this week, Twitter has communicated that cause. Jai Hind! the party said. with the Home Department, The overall productivity of the been creating uproar in the House one hour and 41 minutes were all the features of the account could Responding to queries about the at Amitabh Bachchan's bungalow which surprised all. House for first three weeks of the demanding a discussion on the spent on the Question Hour dur- be restored in 12 hours once the Congress’ claim, Twitter said it can in Juhu,” the official said. Teams Monsoon Session has been 22.60 Pegasus snooping row and on the ing which 17 starred questions tweet violating its rules is deleted confirm that the account has not of the Government Railway Police, per cent, a Rajya Sabha official said. farmers’ issue, among other matters. were taken up. by him, the sources said. been suspended. Railway Protection Force, Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad, dog Youth Akali Dal squads and local police personnel leader shot dead PORNOGRAPHY CASE FAITH AMID FLOODS rushed to these locations and car- ried out searches, he said. Officials Chandigarh: In a broad of the Anti Terrorism Squad and daylight murder, Youth Akali Quick Response Team were also in- Dal leader Vicky Middukhera HC dismisses Kundra’s volved in the searches, the official was shot dead here in Mohali added. After several hours, it was in Punjab Saturday. The police confirmed that the call was a hoax. didn’t rule out a strong plea challenging arrest The police traced the caller from the possibility of gang war mobile number to Shil Phata area resulting in the crime. Four armed men fired around 10 PRESS TRUST OF INDIA porn films and distributing them in neighbouring Thane. The caller bullets at the leader in Sector online through an app. The HC turned out to be a truck driver 71, killing him on the spot. Mumbai, August 7: The Bombay took note of a statement made on from the Marathwada region, the The crime was caught in a High Court Saturday dismissed oath by the investigating officer official said. Along with him, two CCTV camera. In the video, petitions filed by businessman Raj that Kundra and Thorpe began to other men, his drinking buddies, the victim was seen running Kundra and his aide Ryan Thorpe delete messages and other evidence were also held. It is suspected that away from the spot when two challenging their arrest and po- from their mobile phones when a they were drinking together when men fired at him. lice custody in a pornography case, police team went to their office. the hoax call was made. taking note of the prosecution’s The court also referred to chief A First Information Report was allegation that they had tried to public prosecutor Aruna Pai's registered at the Azad Maidan po- SIT to investigate destroy evidence. submission that the police could lice station under IPC sections The petitioners, who are now not be expected to be mute spec- 505(1) (circulating a rumor with Singh’s extortion in judicial custody, did not deserve tators while the accused de- an intent to cause alarm to pub- any relief at this point, said Justice stroyed evidence. The duo was ar- lic), 506(2) (criminal intimidation) Thane: Thane city police has AS Gadkari in the ruling. Kundra rested to ensure there was no and 182 (giving false information to formed a special investigation Hindu devotees offer prayers at the submerged Lord Bade Hanumanji temple after the water level rises of river team (SIT) to probe a case of (45), who is married to actor Shilpa further destruction of evidence, Ganga and Yamuna following monsoon rains, in Prayagraj PTI PHOTO public servant). Further investi- alleged extortion against Shetty, is accused of producing Pai had argued. gation is going on, said the official. former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh and 27 others, an official said Saturday. The case was registered against ‘Learning loss would’ve hit basic knowledge of students’ Singh and others on a complaint filed by builder PRESS TRUST OF INDIA COVID SCHOOL CLOSURE some students, particularly girls, cover the areas of concern, it said. Ketan Tanna at the Thane A PARLIAMENTARY are at risk of never returning to The panel headed by Vinay P Nagar police station last New Delhi, August 7: The learn- school. Sahasrabuddhe advocated that a week. No arrest has been PANEL STATED ing loss of more than one year due In fact long closure of schools will credible, fair and transparent sys- made in this connection yet. THAT SCHOOL to prolonged school closure in wake lead to children not returning to tem of continuous assessment of Covid-19 pandemic would nec- schools and potential for children throughout the year may be de- CLOSURES HAVE PUT essarily have weakened the foun- getting engaged in labour and early veloped and put in place even when Man dies as BT CHILDREN'S dational knowledge of students, marriage. Therefore, the immedi- normal functioning of schools re- especially in the subjects of math- ate need is to bring children back commences, so as to meet any fu- headset blasts LEARNING, ematics, sciences and languages, at to school, the report said. ture emergent scenarios. Jaipur: A 28-year-old man died NUTRITION, school level, a Parliamentary panel The committee also recom- This system should be over and when his Bluetooth has noted. mended that since the digital and above the final board examinations headphone device exploded MENTAL HEALTH, The Parliamentary Standing online mode of education is going and would aid in helping students here, police said Saturday. Committee on Education, Women, to be the new normal even after the and teachers get a correct perspec- The incident occurred in AND OVERALL Children, Youth and Sports in its pandemic subsides, efforts to tech- tive of their learning curve and Udaipuria village of Chomu DEVELOPMENT report Plans to bridge the learning nologically empower every school course correct wherever required. town in Jaipur district Friday gap caused due to school lockdown the subjects of mathematics, sci- ciety and young women who might and students across the country Guidelines for internal assess- when Rakesh Kumar Nagar AT RISK AND SOME as well as review of online and of- ences and languages at school level. have been unable to connect to any may be aggressively pursued and ment, practicals, project work, par- was preparing for a fline instructions and exams and This learning loss is a big deficit form of digital education during the additional funds allocated for the ticularly for classes 10 and 12, be for- y competitive examination at STUDENTS, plans for reopening of schools has and is likely to impair the cognitive pandemic. 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It is inhuman to in coming days As per latest do politics on to aid Taliban’ indications, the INDO-ASIAN NEWS SERVICE attempt by the the health of a HERAT Taliban to seize Taliban controls three-time premier. 218 districts, The government United Nations, August 7: urban centres Deborah Lyons, the UN Secretary- with the force while the Afghan machinery is bent KABUL government upon defaming Sharif General’s special representative of arms. The for its politics, which is earning a bad for Afghanistan, has said that the human toll controls 108 name to the country war in the country has “entered a of this strat- districts and 100 new, deadlier, and more destructive egy is ex- districts remain SHAHBAZ SHARIF | OPPOSITION LEADER, phase” in the past few weeks as tremely dis- contested PAKISTAN the Taliban is continuing its re- tressing and lentless battles against govern- the political ment forces. message is TALIBAN CONTROL Our companies In a special briefing KANDAHAR cannot grow if to the UN ZARANJ businessmen Afghanistan LASHKAR GAH GOVT CONTROL Security and managers is now at a dangerous cannot travel Council turning point and what lies CONTESTED* overseas to meet Friday, ahead for the country is a genuine clients and partners. Lyons peace negotiation or a tragically *Contested is where fighting is ongoning or strong Taliban presence MNCs (multinational corporations) said: “In intertwined set of crises: an will find it hard to invest here if the past increasingly brutal conflict combined even more SINCE JULY 28, AT LEAST 104 HOSPITALS HAVE NEARLY UNITED NATIONS: Afghanistan in the region must be dismantled weeks, deeply dis- CIVILIANS WERE KILLED AND 403 Friday accused Pakistan of assist- immediately and terrorist supply their people are not able to with an acute humanitarian situation REACHED FULL CAPACITY AND travel in and out of Singapore the war turbing.” She WOUNDED CAN NO LONGER ACCEPT ing the “Taliban war machine” chains disrupted.” in and multiplying human rights stressed that PATIENTS which has launched an all-out attack Isaczai said: “Graphic reports ONG YE KUNG | HEALTH MINISTER, SINGAPORE GROUND ENGAGEMENTS AND abuses on the Afghanistan government as the Security AIRSTRIKES ARE CAUSING MOST and videos of Taliban fighters con- DEBORAH LYONS | UN REPRESENTATIVE TALIBAN TRYING TO SEIZE Afghanistan Council must OF THE CIVILIAN HARM the US is pulling out of the country. gregating close to the Durand Line has entered a FOR AFGHANISTAN issue an un- URBAN CENTRES WITH THE Addressing a Security Council (marking the boundary between SHORT TAKES new, deadlier, and ambiguous ALL ROADS LEADING TO AND FORCE OF ARMS meeting on Afghanistan, that coun- the two countries) to enter more destructive phase. statement that at- GOING OUT OF THE CITY ARE try’s Permanent Representative Afghanistan, fundraising events, The Taliban campaign during June tacks against cities must stop now. CLOSED BY THE TALIBAN IN 24 HOURS Ghulam Isaczai said: “The Taliban transfer of dead bodies for mass 50 held in Pak for and July to capture rural areas In Kandahar, since the start of continues to enjoy a safe haven and burial, and treatment of injured has achieved significant territo- the offensive there July 9, more “Let me quickly summarise supply and logistic line extended to Taliban in Pakistan hospitals are attack on temple rial gains.” than 460 civilian casualties have that just in these three cases I am 2nd provincial their war machine from Pakistan” emerging and are widely avail- Lahore: Pakistan’s law “From this strengthened position been registered. Further to the talking of over 1000 casualties, in defiance of the Council’s 1988 able.” enforcement agencies they have begun to attack the larger west, in and around Herat, just in this last month,” she said. capital captured demand. “This is not only a naked viola- Saturday arrested over 50 cities. The provincial capitals of UNAMA has credible reports of Lyons said what is reportedly India’s Permanent Representative tion of the 1988 UN Security Council people, including the main Kandahar, Herat, and Lashkar Gah over 135 civilian casualties from happening in areas under Taliban Kabul: The Taliban Saturday TS Tirumurti, who presided over resolution with sanction regime, but suspects, allegedly involved in particular have come under sig- the onset of the Taliban control is also of great captured Sheberghan city in the meeting, said: “Those providing also leads to further erosion of in an attack on a Hindu nificant pressure.” “This is a clear offensive. concern to us. Jawzjan, the deputy governor material and financial support to trust and confidence towards es- temple in a remote town of said, the second Afghan provin- terrorist entities must be held tablishing a collaborative rela- the country’s Punjab cial capital to fall to the insurgents accountable.” tionship with Pakistan to work to province, a day after the in less than 24 hours. Speaking in his national capac- end the war in Afghanistan,” Supreme Court admonished US sends B-52 bombers to stop Taliban “The (government) forces ity, he expressed support for he added. the authorities for their and officials have retreated to the Afghanistan’s position. Without Isaczai warned of a return to failure to protect the shrine. WASHINGTON: US President airport,” Jawzjan deputy gov- naming Pakistan, he said: “For en- Afghanistan being overrun by for- They also booked 150 people Joe Biden has ordered B-52 ernor Qader Malia told AFP. during peace in Afghanistan, ter- eign fighters threatening peace in in connection with the bombers and Spectre gunships to The city is home to notori- rorist safe havens and sanctuaries the region and beyond. attack Wednesday. target Taliban terrorists in ous warlord Abdul Rashid Afghanistan who are advancing to- Dostum, who only returned to wards three key cities, Daily Mail Afghanistan this week from 6K ultras being trained to infiltrate Af Nepal’s Covid toll reported. medical treatment in Turkey. he Taliban has been trying crosses 10K mark The Cold War-era strategic The Taliban have gained vast Tto use the services of bomber first flew in the 1950’s but parts of rural Afghanistan since foreign cadres for training the Kathmandu: Nepal’s Covid-19 is still used due to its 70,000lb pay- launching a series of offensives new entrants. According to death toll has crossed the load and range of more than 8,000 in May to coincide with the intelligence sources, Arab and 10,000 since the Himalayan miles. start of the final withdrawal of Chechen trainers are involved nation registered its first virus- They are being supported by 130’s are targeting insurgents fleet of F/A-18 Super Hornets. foreign troops. in training new cadres being related fatality May 14, 2020, the AC-130 Spectre gunships which around Kandahar, Herat and The US Air Force continues to Friday, Zaranj city in Nimroz inducted as their numbers the Ministry of Health and are armed with a 25mm Gatling Lashkar Gar in Helmand Province. aid the Afghan air force’s bomb- fell to the Taliban “without a recede with casualties being Population said. According to gun, a 40mm Bofors cannon and The B-52’s are operating out of ing of Taliban targets in southern fight”, according to its deputy caused. Around 6,000 fresh the Ministry, the death toll a 105mm M102 cannon -- which Qatar, while the aircraft carrier Helmand and Kandahar provinces, governor, becoming the first terrorists based in Pakistan presently stood at 10,019. Two- can provide pinpoint accurate USS Ronald Reagan is on de- as Afghan security forces try to pre- provincial capital to be taken by are being trained by these thirds of the new deaths were foreign instructors with the aim of raising a new unit. Meanwhile, fire from the air. ployment in the Arabian Sea. The vent a Taliban takeover, the the insurgents. reported during the second infiltration of Taliban terrorists into Afghanistan from Pakistan continues. wave of the pandemic or after Reports said the B-52’s and AC- nuclear-powered warship has a report said. April/May, date from the Ministry revealed. PANDEMIC FAILURE Man injures 10 Fires rampage forests in Greece with knife, held and beaches on Evia, an island of Tokyo: Japanese police said rugged, forested mountains popu- Saturday they arrested a man lar with holidaymakers and who stabbed 10 passengers campers, after flames from a mas- on a commuter train in Tokyo sive wildfire burning for days cut hours earlier, in what off all other means of escape. People Japanese media reported to clutched babies and carried older be a random burst of violence unrelated to the ongoing adults on chairs as they boarded the Olympic Games. The 36-year- small ferries to safety. old man told police he wanted Another major blaze was burn- to kill women who appeared ing in the southern Peloponnese re- happy, and chose his targets gion of Mani, where the deputy at random, public broadcaster mayor of East Mani, Eleni NHK said. Police identified the Drakoulakou, told state broad- attacker as Yusuke Tsushima. caster ERT that 70% of her area had ASSOCIATED PRESS try's southern coast for the past 10 been destroyed. days, killing eight people. “It’s a biblical catastrophe. We’re France protests Thrakomakedones, August 7: A fire threatening the Greek talking about three-quarters of the Wildfires rampaged through mas- capital’s most important national municipality,” Drakoulakou said, enter 4th week sive swaths of Greece’s last re- park killed one volunteer fire- pleading for more support from maining forests for yet another fighter, while at least 20 people water-dropping aircraft. Thousands of people Paris: day Saturday, encroaching on more have been injured in blazes dur- The multiple fierce fires have were expected to March in inhabited areas after burning scores ing the country’s worst heat wave Paris and other French cities stretched Greece’s firefighting forces during a fourth consecutive of homes, businesses and farms. in 30 years. have been stretched to the limit. week of protests against Covid- In neighbouring Turkey, fires de- In apocalyptic scenes overnight The government appealed for PTI PHOTO 19 entrance requirements and scribed as the worst in decades have and into Saturday, ferries evacuated help through the European Union’s what opponents see as swept through stretches of the coun- 1,153 people from a seaside village emergency support system. Anti-government protesters try to control smoke from tear gas fired by riot police during a protest in Bangkok, Thailand restrictions on personal freedom. The demonstrations Saturday come two days after France’s Constitutional Council upheld most provisions of a new NASA Mars rover fails to collect rock in search of alien life law that expands the locations where health passes are Data sent to Earth by the rover after its first attempt to collect a sample and seal it in a tube indicated no rock had been gathered needed to enter. AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE the Red Planet by a robot. persevere toward a solution to en- a large family car, landed February But data sent to Earth by the sure future success.” 18 in the Jezero Crater. Israel strikes Gaza Washington, August 7: NASA’s rover after its first attempt to col- The drill hole is the first step of Scientists believe the crater con- Tel Aviv: The Israel Defense Perseverance drilled into the sur- lect a sample and seal it in a tube a sampling process that is expected tained a deep lake 3.5 billion years Forces (IDF) said Saturday that face of Mars but failed in its initial indicated no rock had been gathered. to take about 11 days, with the aim ago, where the conditions may the air force carried out strikes attempt to collect rock samples “While this is not the ‘hole-in-one’ of looking for signs of ancient mi- have been able to support extra-

that would be picked up by future we hoped for, there is always risk crobial life that may have been pre- terrestrial life.

k y m in the Gaza Strip which came in c response to continued launches missions for analysis by scientists with breaking new ground,” said served in ancient lakebed deposits. NASA plans a mission to bring of arson balloons from the on Earth. Thomas Zurbuchen, associate ad- Scientists also hope to better around 30 samples back to Earth coastal enclave into the Jewish The US space agency published ministrator for NASA’s science understand Martian geology. in the 2030’s, to be analyzed by in- state. The Israeli fighter jets images Friday of a small mound mission directorate, in a statement. The mission took off from struments that are much more so- struck a military compound and with a hole in its center next to “I’m confident we have the right Florida a little over a year ago and phisticated than those that can be rocket launching site. the rover -- the first ever dug into team working this, and we will Perseverance, which is the size of brought to Mars at present. There is an increasing TATA MOTORS DELIVERS P11 recovery firming up SUNDAY | AUGUST 8 | 2021 | BHUBANESWAR at several export destinations 35 ELECTRIC AC BUSES including the US and Europe. Tata Motors Saturday delivered 35 electric AC buses We have a tremendous local to Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport network, and it is a great (BEST) as part of an order of 340 Starbus e-buses, phase to extract potential for which are to be supplied to the undertaking. The

the benefit of our economy 35-seater buses were flagged off by Maharashtra

k y m business COLIN SHAH | CHAIRMAN, GJEPC CM Uddhav Thackeray at an event in Mumbai c of the day uote Waning traffic pushes ‘Showcase India’s manufacturing prowess abroad’ Railways to cut down Rupee is INDO-ASIAN NEWS SERVICE that given the size and potential of government's commitment to- expected to coach production the Indian economy and that of wards stable policies and consis- weaken on the New Delhi, August 7: Prime the manufacturing and services AGENCIES back of a strong US tency of those policies. dollar and rising Minister Narendra Modi Friday sectors in the country, there is He mentioned of four key factors inflation concerns. It urged Indian Missions abroad to which are required to improve ex- New Delhi, August 7: The Indian is expected to trade showcase India’s manufacturing This is the time to ports, the first factor being the re- Railways has proposed to cut down between 74.05 to 74.60 with an capabilities globally. Addressing establish a new quirement for a multi-fold growth its passenger coach production al- the Indian Missions across the globe in manufacturing. most by half over next couple of upward bias recognition regarding virtually, Modi also called for close Elimination of obstacles in terms years as it looks to get leaner with SAJAL GUPTA | HEAD, FOREX AND RATES, co-ordination among the diplomats, quality and reliability. of transportation and logistics, competition from roadways and EDELWEISS SECURITIES Commerce Ministry, Indian ex- We need to ensure that government’s support for exports, airways eating into its traffic. porters and producers in a bid to India’s high value-added and the international market for boost exports from the country. products reach each and Indian exports are the other key fac- Nifty could rise every corner of the world some more in "'India House' present in differ- tors to enhance exports from the the coming ent countries should also become NARENDRA MODI I PRIME MINISTER country, Modi added. week in the absence the representatives of India's man- Speaking of the government's sup- of any major ufacturing power. From time-to- scope to increase the share of ex- port for the growth in domestic man- negatives emerging. time you should alert and guide He was of the view that now is that India's high value-added prod- ports in the GDP. ufacturing, he said that the 'produc- However, the broader stakeholders in India, which will the time to move ahead with targets ucts reach each and every corner Talking of the government's tion-linked incentive' (PLI) schemes markets could continue to see help in improving the exports," he in terms of 'Brand India'. of the world," Modi told the diplo- decision to nullify the much con- would help not only in increasing In a meeting taken by the Railway rotational profit-taking told the diplomats while speaking "This is the time to establish a mats.Observing that exports tentious retrospective taxation the scale of Indian manufacturing, Board to finalise coach manufac-

DEEPAK JASANI | RETAIL RESEARCH HEAD, on '#LocalGoesGlobal - Make in new recognition regarding quality amount to 20 per cent of the coun- provisions, the Prime Minister but also aid in raising the standards turing programme for FY23 and HDFC SECURITIES India for the World'. and reliability. We need to ensure try's GDP, the Prime Minister said noted that the decision shows the of global quality and efficiency. FY24, it was decided that passenger coach production from four of its manufacturing facilities will be cut down by over 46 per cent in FY24. If the situation This would mean Railway's coach remains Real GDP growth of manufacturing would fall from a normal, then at a conservative India offers Cairn level of around 6,000-7,000 units to estimate we should just about 4,000 a year. In fact, the be able to close our passenger coach manufacturing first full financial 20% YoY expected has been kept at 7,551 units for year of operations with sales of next fiscal year 2022-23 that would around `8-10 crore. We are selling Energy $1bn refund fall just about 4,027 units in FY24, online as well and creating as per a letter dated July 28 shot off bandwidth to meet the target. in Q1FY22: Report by the ministry of railways to gen- People are looking for finance INDO-ASIAN NEWS SERVICE eral managers of all its four coach options AGENCIES manufacturing units. PRASHANTA KUMAR | FOUNDER AND New Delhi, August 7: India expects DIRECTOR, VOLTRO MOTORS New Delhi, August 7: India’s real to refund $1 billion to UK-based GDP is expected to grow by 20 per Cairn Energy after it moved to Goyal calls for cent on a year-on-year (YoY) basis scrap a retrospective tax law that SHORT in the first quarter of FY22, Motilal unleashed bitter fights with promi- increasing handloom TAKES Oswal Financial Services (MOFS) nent foreign investors, Financial said in a report. According to Times reported. exports to `10K cr Fuel price pause MOFS’ EcoScope report, the The lower house of parliament 'Economic Activity Index' for India's Friday approved a draft law in- PRESS TRUST OF INDIA continues: OMC real GVA grew by 11.6 per cent YoY troduced the previous day, can- New Delhi: Oil marketing in June, after growing 22.8 per cent traction of 21.2 per cent YoY in celling a 2012 policy that enabled New Delhi, August 7: Textiles companies (OMC) continued YoY in May. Q1FY21. New Delhi to tax some foreign in- Minister Piyush Goyal Saturday with the pause on fuel price "It implies EAI-GVA growth of "While private consumption vestments retrospectively. The called for increasing handloom exports revision for the 21st 22.6 per cent YoY in 1QFY22, fol- grew by 18 per cent YoY in 1QFY22, upper house is expected to approve to `10,000 crore and doubling the pro- consecutive day Saturday as a lowing a contraction of 14.4 per government revenue spending con- the law as early as next week. duction to `1.25 lakh crore in the next wait and watch policy amid cent YoY in 1QFY21. A low base tracted in real terms in the quar- New Delhi would also drop $13.5 three years with a view to promoting fluctuating global crude prices led to higher double-digit growth ter. Preliminary estimates indi- billion in outstanding claims the growth of the sector. remained. Global crude prices in the non-farm sector, while farm cate India's EAI for GVA posted against multinationals such as New Delhi would also drop battered economy. At present, handloom exports have swung in all directions in activity grew 6.6 per cent in the lower double-digit growth of 11.6 telecoms group Vodafone, phar- $13.5bn in outstanding "We want to give a message to the are worth `2,500 crore and pro- July starting with a low of $70 quarter," the report said. per cent YoY in June, after grow- maceuticals company Sanofi and investors that the country believes duction is about `60,000 crore. a barrel to quickly breaching "The estimates suggest that ing 22.8 per cent YoY in May," the brewer SABMiller, now owned claims against MNCs in the stability and certainty of "Let us today all resolve collec- to $77 a barrel, and then fall India's real GDP growth was 20 report said. by AB InBev, as part of efforts to such as telecoms group taxation," Tarun Bajaj, revenue tively on this day that we will go for below $70 a barrel to crossing per cent YoY in 1QFY22, which is Further as per the report, the data repair its damaged reputation as secretary, told journalists on Friday. a `10,000 crore target for exports of $75 a barrel later in the month. in line with our expectations," it for July indicated a recovery. "India an investment destination, the Vodafone, pharma firm "Taxation is a sovereign right and handloom products and a target asserted. Manufacturing PMI picked up report said. Sanofi and brewer can't be taken away. But we should to increase our production to `1.25 Notwithstanding the double- strongly, merchandise exports were Analysts say the legal initiative use it sparingly, judiciously." lakh crore in the next three years," SAIL Bengal units digit growth in 1QFY22, the real at a record high," it noted. would allow New Delhi to resolve SABMiller, as part of Bajaj said about $1.2 billion col- he said at the National Handloom post `876cr profit GDP growth would slow towards "Power generation grew faster, a bitter international tax battle efforts to repair its lected from companies under the Day celebrations. 5-7 per cent in the remaining quar- and there was a strong recovery in with Cairn that has grown in- soon to be scrapped tax provision He also suggested forming a Kolkata: Three units of Steel ters of FY22. e-way registrations and toll col- creasingly embarrassing for India. damaged reputation would be refunded if the companies team under the chairmanship of Authority of India (SAIL) in "The way EAI-GVA, EAI-GDP lections in July '21. It confirms The UK energy group has sought agreed to drop outstanding litiga- Sunil Sethi of Fashion Design West Bengal have together was also supported largely by a that the reopening has had an im- in recent months to seize some of quested anonymity. Prime Minister tion, including claims for interest Council of India (FDCI) consist- posted `876 crore profit low base. Although EAI-GDP grew proving effect on the Indian econ- the government's estimated $70bn Narendra Modi's government hopes and penalties. ing of weavers, trainers, equip- before interest and tax in the by a modest 3.6 per cent YoY in omy, and will sustain for a few worth of overseas assets. the resolution of the dispute can About $1 billion of this would go ment makers, marketing experts first quarter of the 2021-22 June as against 11.6 per cent YoY more months, unless India is hit by "It's a settlement offer mas- bolster its reputation among for- to Cairn and $270 million to other and other stakeholders to recom- fiscal, according to a company in May, it increased by 23 per ent the much-feared third Covid wave," querading as a law," said one for- eign companies as it seeks new groups including Vodafone, he mend ways and means to promote filing. The aggregate sales of YoY in 1QFY22 as against a con- concludes the MOFSL's report. eign business analyst, who re- investment to revive India's Covid- added, as per the report. the growth of the sector. Durgapur Steel Plant, IISCO Steel Plant and Alloy Steels Plant in the state stood at about `4,767 crore in the BIZ BUZZ quarter under review, it said. Flipkart, IIM Sambalpur agree Durgapur Steel Plant reported Faceless grievance registering `2,511 crore sales during the Pre-launch bookings three months ended June 30 scheme improved for new Amaze open this year. New Delhi: The to support small businesses Bhubaneswar: Honda Cars India Ltd (HCIL), leading Income Tax manufacturer of premium cars in India will launch POST NEWS NETWORK Flipkart executives will actively dustry experience, we aim to pro- Department has the new Honda Amaze August 18, 2021. The company participate in this programme by vide entrepreneurs best practices Trouble mounts further strengthened today commenced the pre-bookings of the new car at Bhubaneswar, August 7: Flipkart, sharing operational know-how, and deeper insight on how to lever- its Faceless Scheme all authorised Honda dealerships across the country India’s homegrown e-commerce market and consumer insights. age e-commerce for their growth. for McLeod Russel by extending with a booking amount of `21,000. Additionally, the marketplace, and Indian Institute The company will also explore op- We are hopeful that weavers, ar- Kolkata: Trouble mounts for grievance registering customers can also book the car online from the facility to taxpayers of Management (IIM), Sambalpur, portunities to enable pan-India tisans and farmers will leverage this McLeod Russel as National comfort of their homes through ‘Honda from Home’ Saturday announced a partnership market access for products cre- opportunity to showcase their skills without any physical touch points. The department has platform on HCIL website with an amount of `5,000. Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) to support and promote small busi- ated by these entrepreneurs, and high-quality traditional heritage paves way for bankruptcy now created dedicated e-mail ids for registering Honda Amaze, currently in its 2nd Generation, is nesses, artisans and weavers by MSMEs and artisans through its products to a national consumer proceedings against the tea grievances in respect of pending cases under the Honda’s largest selling model and enjoys a diverse grower after a financial Faceless Scheme. So a taxpayer may now be required customer base in India. It is a contemporary and leveraging technology, e-commerce marketplace. base and reach new heights and creditor moved an application to just mail his/her grievance related tax assessment, premium model offering ‘One Class above Sedan platform and market insights. A Mahadeo Prasad Jaiswal, recognition.” against the company claiming levy of penalty or appeals and the tax department experience’ with its Memorandum of Understanding Director, IIM Sambalpur, said, “Our Rajneesh Kumar, Chief the company has defaulted on would address the same without requiring taxpayer to bold design, (MoU) will be signed soon. partnership with Flipkart and the Corporate Affairs Officer, Flipkart `100 crore dues owed to it. be physically present for the work. "In a move aimed sophisticated and Through this partnership, IIM e-commerce industry will help Group, said, “Our team’s expertise, McLeod on Friday informed to further improve taxpayer services in alignment with spacious interiors, Sambalpur and Flipkart will lever- strengthen the spirit of entrepre- technology, learnings and insights the bourses that NCLT Delhi the Taxpayers' Charter, the Income Tax Department outstanding driving age their deep expertise and knowl- neurship by creating opportuni- serving a pan-India market will admitted the application filed has now created dedicated e-mail ids for registering performance, edge to create an operational frame- ties to leverage technology and ac- come very handy for MSMEs, ar- by Techno Electric & grievances in respect of pending cases under the advanced features, and work to support under-served celerate growth for small businesses tisans and the Indian handicraft in- Engineering Company Limited Faceless Scheme," the I-T department said on a tweet. safety technologies. communities by helping them build and artisans. By combining insti- dustry through this partnership against it under the capacity and enhance market reach. tutional learning and practical in- with IIM Sambalpur.” Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC).

Keltropn ties Companies to spend $342bn on AI solutions in 2021: IDC

up with NPOL INDO-ASIAN NEWS SERVICE fastest in the next several years. ated digital transformation and adapt at speed is an important busi- Kochi: Keltron, a public sector From 2023 onwards, AI Services strengthened the value of enterprise ness imperative," Jyoti said in a undertaking under the Kerala New Delhi, August 7: Worldwide is forecast to become the fastest AI," said Ritu Jyoti, group vice statement. government, on Saturday revenues for the artificial intelli- growing category," the report president for AI and Automation The AI Services market was es- signed a Memorandum of gence (AI) market, including soft- showed. Research at IDC. timated at $19.4 billion in 2020, rep- Understanding (MoU) with the ware, hardware and services, is In AI Server market, there were "We have now en- resenting the fastest growth rela- National Physical and estimated to grow 15.2 per cent a total of six companies that gen- Disruption tered the domain of tive to hardware and software. For Oceanographic Laboratory (year-over-year) in 2021 to $341.8 erated over $500 million each in is unsettling, but AI-augmented 2021, it is forecast to grow at 19.3 per (NPOL) here to manufacture billion, according to the 2020 - Dell, HPE, Huawei, IBM, it can also serve as a work and deci- cent. Over the next five years, it is and deliver Defence International Data Corporation Inspur, and Lenovo. Together, they sion across all expected to enjoy the best CAGR at equipment. NPOL is a catalyst for innovation (IDC). The market is forecast to held 62 per cent of overall market and transformation. 2020 the functional 21 per cent. laboratory of the Defence accelerate further in 2022 with 18.8 share. areas of a "AI has emerged as an essential was the year that Research and Development per cent growth and remain on Meanwhile, in the AI Storage business. component of the future enter-

Organisation, under the track to break the $500 billion mark market, Dell, HPE, Hitachi, Huawei, accelerated digital Responsible prise, fueling demand for services

k y m c Ministry of Defence. The MoU by 2024. Among the three technol- IBM and NetApp achieved over transformation and creation and partners to help organisations was signed here between ogy categories, AI software occu- $100 million each in 2020. Within the strengthened the value of use of AI so- clear the many hurdles standing be- Kerala State Electronics pied 88 per cent of the overall AI enterprise AI Development Corporation AI Software category, AI is the strongest with a five-year can also serve as a lutions that tween pilot projects and enterprise RITU JYOTI I GROUP VP (AI AND (Keltron) CMD N Narayana market. Applications has the lion's share at compound annual growth rate catalyst for innovation can sense, AI," said Jennifer Hamel, research AUTOMATION RESEARCH), IDC Murthy and NPOL Director "However, in terms of growth, AI nearly 50 per cent of revenues. (CAGR) of 33.2 per cent. and transformation. 2020 predict, re- manager, Analytics and Intelligent Vijayan Pillai. Hardware is estimated to grow the In terms of growth, AI Platforms "Disruption is unsettling, but it was the year that acceler- spond, and Automation Services. P12

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k k y y m m c THROWING HISTORY OFF c Javeline thrower Neeraj Chopra’s second attempt of 87.58 mtr ends India’s wait for a medal at Olympic track-and-field events as the country produces their best ever result – 7 medals – at the Games surpassing their previous best of 6 medals at 2012 London Olympics Chubby kid to Olympic champ MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS India revels in Neeraj’s n Gold at 2018 Asian Games PRESS TRUST OF INDIA make its way into school textbooks. my training,” Chopra had told this n Gold at 2018 Commonwealth Games He has been a consistent per- agency in an interview after he was n Gold at 2017 Asian Athletics Championships ‘golden moment’ New Delhi, August 7: A plump kid former since bursting into spot- made a Junior Commission Officer n Gold at 2016 World U-20 Athletics Championships took to athletics to lose weight and light with a historic gold in the jun- in the Indian Army in 2017. He is now Neeraj Chopra became the toast of the nation after ended up being India’s first track- ior World Championships in 2016 a Naib Subedar. n claiming India’s first-ever track-and-field medal at the and-field Olympic gold-medallist. with an U-20 world record of 86.48m “A medal in Tokyo Olympics is my Gold at 2016 South Sounds like a fairytale? which still stands. target, it’s the ultimate for an ath- Asian Games Olympics. Let’s see some reactions… n That’s Neeraj Chopra’s life actually, His other achievements include lete. I am still young and my best is Silver at 2016 Asian RAM NATH KOVIND: Unprecedented win by Neeraj Chopra! Your javelin gold all of 23 and a superstar, or dare one gold medals in the 2018 yet to come,” he had said then. Junior breaks barriers and creates history. You bring home first ever track and field say a messiah, that Indian athletics Commonwealth Games and the In 2013, he took part in the World Championships medal to India in your first Olympics. Your feat will inspire our youth. India is elat- had been waiting for over a century. Asian Games, besides the top finish Youth Championships in Ukraine but n *Current National ed! Heartiest congratulations! Saturday, with his javelin in hand, in the 2017 Asian Championships. returned without any medal. Next Record Holder NARENDRA MODI: History has been scripted at Tokyo! What Neeraj Chopra has Chopra was nothing short of a rock- He is also a 2018 Arjuna Awardee. year, he won a silver in the Youth (88.07m – 2021) achieved today will be remembered forever. The young Neeraj has done excep- star at Tokyo’s Olympic stadium, His infectious smile doesn’t give Olympics Qualification in Bangkok, n *Current World tionally well. He played with remarkable passion and showed unparalleled grit. which should have been full to capacity it away but Chopra has had his his first international medal. Junior Record Holder Congratulations to him for winning the Gold. to watch his genius unfold but had brush with low phases too. He un- Chopra’s first medal in a national (86.48m – 2016) ANURAG THAKUR: NEERAJ CHOPRA. India’s Golden Boy! India’s Olympic History just a handful officials and coaches derwent an arthroscopic surgery on senior championship came in July has been scripted! Your superbly soaring throw deserves a Billion Cheers! Your thanks to COVID-19 pandemic. the elbow of his right throwing 2015 during the Inter-State event in name will be etched in the history books with golden letters. He got everyone to cheer for him arm in 2019 which kept him out of Chennai with a throw of 77.33m. A KIREN RIJIJU: History has been made, Milkha Singh Ji’s wish is fulfilled as India like he always does and didn’t even action for nearly a year but he came few months later, he won gold in wins first ever Olympic medal in Athletics! A golden moment 4 (for) India as need to throw a personal best of back stronger. the National Open C’ships in Kolkata. Neeraj Chopra won Olympic Gold medal for India at Tokyo 2020. Congratulations 88.07m. The gold was sealed with the In pursuit of excellence, it was a The year 2016 was a break- Neeraj Chopra on this historic achievement! 87.58m throw, which was just his sec- roller-coaster ride for the tall, sprightly through one for Chopra. After ond of the final round. and humble athlete after being pulled crossing the 80m mark at the fag ABHINAV BINDRA: And Gold it is for Neeraj Chopra. Take a bow, young man! You have fulfilled a nation’s dream. Thank you! Also, welcome to the club – a much But many years before this mo- into the sport by senior javelin end of 2015, Chopra won the needed addition! Extremely proud. I am so delighted for you. ment of greatness, Chopra was thrower Jaiveer Choudhary from a South Asian Games in under tremendous pressure from his nearby village in 2011. Guwahati in February 2016 SAIKHOM MIRABAI CHANU: Congratulations Neeraj Chopra on winning first ever joint family of 17 to lose weight. Chopra was game to it and after with a throw of 82.23m. gold medal in Athletics for our country. Really a proud moment for our nation. He was all of 13 at that point and a few months, in search of better fa- A few months later, under SACHIN TENDULKAR: India shines brighter today because of you, Neeraj. Your had become a mischievous boy, cilities, he shifted to the Tau Devi the guidance of late javelin carried often fiddling the bee hives on vil- Lal Stadium in Panchkula. By the Australian coach Gary the tricolour lage trees and trying to pull buf- end of 2012, he had become the U- Calvert, Chopra created his- all the way faloes by their tails. 16 national champion. tory during the World Junior and made it His father Satish Kumar Chopra At this point came the financial C’ships and announced the flutter with wanted something to be done to issues as Chopra needed accomo- arrival of a truly world- the pride of every Indian. discipline the boy. So, after a lot of dation, better equipment, a kit and class javelin thrower. What a cajoling, the child finally agreed better diet to go up the next level. There is still a wall- moment for to do some running to shed the flab. It was a tough decision for the hanging in the drawing Indian sport! His uncle took him to Shivaji joint family which owns less than room of Chopra’s ances- Stadium in Panipat – around 15km 10 acres of land. But they pulled tral home which features from his village. Chopra wasn’t in- through and by 2015, Chopra had an oft-repeated motivational terested in running and almost in- joined the national camp. quote – “A single idea can stantly fell in love with javelin throw “We are farmers, nobody in the light up your life.” when he saw a few seniors prac- family has a government job and my The Chopra family’s tising at the stadium. family has been supporting me with single idea to let him He decided to try his luck and as difficulty. But it is a sort of relief now pursue javelin throw the cliched saying goes, rest is his- that I am able to support my family lit up the country in its tory, which would now probably financially besides continuing with golden glow.

INDIAN OLYMPIC MEDALLISTS (2021) INDIAN WRESTLERS MATCH BEST RESULT MEDAL ATHLETE EVENT AT OLYMPICS WITH TWO MEDALS Gold Neeraj Chopra Javelin Silver Mirabai Chanu Weightlifting Silver Ravi Dahiya Wrestling Bajrang bags bronze Bronze Team India Hockey (men) Bronze PV Sindhu Badminton Chiba: He did not live up to the to the occasion with a comfortable Bronze Lovlina Borgohain Boxing sky-high expectations but India’s win. Aware of the weight of ex- Bronze Bajrang Punia Wrestling Bajrang Punia will return from pectations he was carrying, Bajrang Tokyo with a bronze medal on knows this is not a result that would Olympic debut after outwitting give him satisfaction. Daulet Niyazbekov in the men’s “I am not happy. This is not the re- freestyle 65kg play-off here Saturday. sult I had set out to achieve. Winning If his defence let him down in the an Olympic medal is no mean achieve- semifinal against Hazi Aliev, ment but I can’t jump with joy with Bajrang’s smart attacking moves bronze,” Bajrang told PTI. made him a 8-0 winner against The Haryana grappler said the Kazakhstan’s Niyazbekov, to whom knee injury he suffered in run up he had lost in the semifinals of the to the Games did impact his per- 2019 World Championship. formance. “It did trouble me and GOLFER ADITI FINISHES HEARTBREAKING 4TH AT GAMES The medal-winning performance played on mind. But I did not have India on course for saved 27-year-old Bajrang and the the option to rest. After semifinal, Indian wrestling contingent from I had to give my all and I did that,” embarrassment since the wrestlers Bajrang added. SO NEAR YET SO FAR had entered Tokyo with high ex- With Bajrang’s medal, Indian win against England pectations. wrestlers have matched their best Tokyo: She pulled off the best per- MEDAL TALLY After medal-favourite Vinesh performance at the Olympics by formance by an Indian golfer in Rank Country G S B Total It was Root’s 21st Test hundred Phogat’s shock quarterfinal exit earning two podium finishes. Ravi the Olympics but Aditi Ashok could that saw England put up a much- and Bajrang’s below par show in the Dahiya had won an inspiring silver not clinch the eagerly-anticipated 1 China 38 31 18 87 improved batting show, scoring first three matches, a pall of gloom medal in the 57kg category. medal, signing off fourth after 2 USA 36 39 33 108 303 and secure a lead of 208 runs. had descended on the Indian At the 2012 London Games, spending a majority of the four 3 Japan 27 12 17 56 Bumrah polished the tail in a jiffy wrestling contingent. Sushil Kumar had won a silver and rounds in contention for a podium 4 ROC 20 25 23 68 with the second now ball en route However, the three-time medal- Yogeshwar Dutt returned with a finish, here Saturday. to his sixth fifer. list at World Championships rose bronze. The 23-year-old from Bangalore 5 Great Britain 20 21 22 63 On the final day, if weather per- ended two strokes off the pace with 6 Australia 17 7 22 46 mits, India will need another 157 a total of 15-under 269, which was 7 Germany 10 11 16 37 runs but in these conditions, it just one stroke below the medal 8 Netherlands 10 11 12 33 could prove to be more than a hand- bracket. In the final round, she ful with James Anderson, Broad, 9 Italy 10 10 19 39 managed a 3-under 68 Ollie Robinson and Sam Curran It was a heartbreaking end to 10 France 8 12 11 31 making the ball talk. Aditi’s campaign considering she 47 India 1 2 4 7 JASPRIT However the day belonged to started the day in sole second po- BUMRAH Root, who once again bossed the sition. But it was nonetheless a On the play-off hole (par-4 18th), Indian bowling having scored a massive improvement as she had Ko dropped a bogey, while Inami half century in the first essay. Root, finished tied 41st in the 2016 edition managed to hold on for a par in over- who came out at 46/2, never for where golf made a comeback to cast and damp conditions. PRESS TRUST OF INDIA once batted for survival. He left the Olympics after over 100 years. The other Indian in fray, Diksha that for Dom Sibley (28) during In the final round, she fired five Dagar, finished her campaign at Nottingham, August 7: Skipper their 89 run stand. birdies – on the 5th, 6th, 8th, 13th tied 50th after managing her first Joe Root (109, 172b, 14x4) led from the Whether opening the bat face and 14th holes – against two bo- sub-par round of the week, a one- front with a superb counter-attacking to use Bumrah’s pace or crunching geys on the 9th and 11th. The world under 70, which left her with an ag- hundred but Jasprit Bumrah’s (5/64) Mohammed Siraj (2/84) and number 200 Indian had her mother gregate total of 6-over 290. five-wicket haul on the fourth day Mohammed Shami’s (1/72) half- Maheshwari as her caddie. The New Zealander Ko, with her made India favourites to chase down volleys, Root was a delight to watch. Aditi kept her smile intact even with a 2-under 69 that left her 17- bronze medal, became the first a tricky target of 209 against England Shardul Thakur (2/37) did trouble

as her 25-foot birdie attempt ball slid under overall and a shot ahead of double medallist in golf since its in the first Test. him a couple of times but not con-

k k y y m m c c past the cup on the 18th and final Japan’s Mone Inami (65) and New return to the Olympic programme In the time left during the penul- sistently enough. hole. With that she knew that her Zealand’s Lydia Ko (65). in 2016. She had silver in Rio. timate hour, India scored 52/1 with BRIEF SCORES: England 183 & final chance of a shot at the medal in Inami and Ko competed in a Interestingly Aditi was one of Stuart Broad (1/18) dismissing KL 303 (Joe Root 109; Jasprit Bumrah the Olympic women’s golf had gone. play-off to decide the silver and the only three players in the field who Rahul (26) with a beauty. Rohit 5/64, Shardul Thakur 2/37); India Overnight leader and World No.1 bronze medal winners in which had all three rounds in the 60s with Sharma and Cheteshwar Pujara 278 & 52/1 (KL Rahul 26; Stuart Nelly Korda clinched the gold medal the former emerged triumphant. 67-66-68-68 for a total of 269. were unbeaten on 12 each. Broad 1/18). Match to continue.

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Model-cum-actor Sonam Dash, set to make her debut as a heroine in Odia movie ‘Mitali Apa’, prefers to take long drives alone on Sundays.

An Hour For Binge-watcher Body And Mind Often I miss my favourite movies or TV shows owing to my hectic work I practice yoga religiously to schedules. So it is on Sundays when I keep my body and mind in try to catch up on all the missed movies / sync. No matter what time I shows, thanks to a plethora of wake, I make sure to spend an streaming platforms. hour practicing yoga. Avid Gardener Food Connoisseur Being a native of Berhampur, I I love to spend time in love good and home- the company of cooked food. On plants I have working days I go grown in my for quick easy terrace meals as I am garden. I not too finicky feel that about food. flowers But on keep us holidays, I stimulated spend hours and to prepare observing my favourite them from dishes to the stage of pacify the bud to bloom foodie in me. is a great With brother feeling.

Solo Sibling Bond My elder brother, with whom I share a special Traveller bonding, is my inspiration. On most Sundays, I call him and my sister-in-law and I love to go on long talk to them for hours. drives alone as solo travelling gives me freedom. If I am Home driving with another Decorator person, he or Sundays are meant for she organising wardrobes, automatically jewellery, kitchen & pantry becomes my and laundry stuff. I love to With Sritam Das on the priority. give a new look to my room sets of Mitali Apa every Sunday. RASHMI REKHA DAS, OP WhatsApp MAN-ANIMAL BONDING LETTERS This Week Dear Sir, ‘Incredible Tales’, the unusual stories of man-animal bonding was a highly enjoyable read. Kanhu’s nurturing of 132 peacocks,Triman’s deep con- Only on Sunday POST! cern and unfailing affection for the stray canines and Debabrata’s camaraderie with the baby squirrel Send in your most interesting Whatsapp messages and memes exemplify the unusual and amazing bonds of friend- received to: [email protected] ship forged on the basis of compassion, uncondition- And we will publish the best ones al love and mutual trust. The box item on Saroj Raj THE BEST MEMES OF THIS ISSUE Choudhury,the renowned wildlife conservationist- n Life is too short. Don’t waste it reading my Whatsapp cum-environmentalist and his family’s undying status. seven-year long bonding with Khairi, the domesticat- n Always give your 100%, unless you’re donating blood. ed tigress, made it a true collector’s item. One fer- n A WORD FOR READERS Having one child makes you a parent; having two you vently hopes that your weekly supplement carries a are a referee. Sunday POST is serving a separate cover story on the exemplary contribution n Did anyone ever notice that “STUDYING” is a mixture of platter of delectable fare every STUDY and DYING? of this Padma Shri awardee and the inventor of the week, or so we hope. We want 'pugmark technology for facilitating tiger count' in readers to interact with us. Please send in your opinions, queries, preserving the wild cats of Odisha. comments and contributions to [email protected] AMIT BANERJEE, NEW DELHI B-15, Industrial Estate, Rasulgarh, Bhubaneswar – 751010, Orissa. Phone (0674) 2549982, 2549948 SUNDAY POST August 8-14 2021 COVER

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BUDDHADEV NANDI of ravages of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are almost Categories of Hibakusha: The Atomic recuperated. However, as per the recognition Bomb Survivors Relief Law has categorised hi- he conflagration of the great Second of Japan government about 1% of these unfor- bakusha according to the intensity of their World War could hardly singe Hiroshima tunates have illnesses caused by radiation. People exposure to radiation: People exposed directly and Nagasaki before the doomsdays recognised as hibakusha are granted with a to the bomb and its immediate aftermath; People August 6 and 9 in the year 1945. In certain amount of allowance per month excluding exposed within a 2 km radius who entered the Tthe morning of August 6, a B-29 airplane named those certified as suffering from bomb-related sphere of destruction within tow weeds of the Enola Gay dropped the first atom bomb called diseases having received a special medical al- explosion; People exposed to radioactive fallout Three days Little Boy over Hiroshima. August 9, another lowance. generally; and those exposed in utero, whose after dropping B-29 airplane named Bockscar dropped a nuke On the other hand, the memorials in Hiroshima mothers were pregnant and belonging to any of named Fat Man over Nagasaki. The two atomic and Nagasaki maintain lists of the names of hi- these defined caterories. the first atom bombs killed at least 80,000 people immediately bakushas who are known to have passed away Nearly two third of them have already died bomb on and several thousands more in the years that fol- since bombings. The list is updated annually on of cancer, whereas, thousands are still undergoing lowed. the anniversaries of the bombings. So far, the treatment in Red Cross hospitals. Besides, the Hiroshima, the Fortunately, Nagasaki so far has remained the names of more than 510,000 people have been parental genetic damage is another great concern last space on earth to suffer such devastation. recorded as hibakusha as of August 2020 by the to the future generation of hibakusha. Truly US released Ahead of Nagasaki Day August 9, a day memorials. Of them, 3,24,119 belong to Hiroshima speaking, they are the incarnation of human re- the second one observed across the globe to promote peace and and 185,982 to Nagasaki. silience and fortitude. create awareness about the threat of nuclear on Nagasaki weapons, Sunday POST takes a look at those that claimed who survived the worst kind of destruction ever unleashed by humans on earth. thousands of Etymology of Hibakusha: About 650,000 lives instantly survivors of atomic explosions, recognised as and several Hibakusha by the Japanese government, were destined to bear the testimony of the tragic end thousands of the World War II. The Japanese word ‘hibakusha’ more in the is a compound of three words ‘hi’ (affected), ‘baku’ (bomb) and ‘sha’ (person). Any victim of years that bombs was earlier described as hibakusha in Japanese. But the meaning of the word hibakusha followed has now been reduced only to atomic bomb sur- vivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki explosions that marked the end of the World War II.

Hibakusha Population: There were 1,36,682 hibakushas as of March 31, 2020, with an average age of nearly 84 years bearing the sole testimony of the atomic fallouts, whereas, the other signs SUNDAY POST August 8-14, 2021 COVER

QUOTES TO REMEMBER nuclear weapons, appealing to governments and peoples all over the world.” If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky...That would be like the Sadako Sasaki: Sadako Sasaki, recognised as the most splendour of the Mighty One...I am become famous Hibakusha who was exposed to nuclear radiation Death, The shatterer of worlds at the age of 2, survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER I WARTIME HEAD OF THE US’S LOS ALAMOS LABORATORY AND and later contracted leukemia. Her determination to live after nuclear radiation has been recognised as the epitome A few survivors of Nagasaki of human resilience and fortitude. Inspired by the Japanese If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I legend “If you fold 1000 paper cranes (origami cranes) would have torn up my formula in 1905. Social Discrimination & Recognition Crisis your wish will come true as a wish granted by the God,” ALBERT EINSTEIN I GERMAN-BORN THEORETICAL PHYSICIST To add plight to their hapless situation, hibakusha who Sadako attempted to fold 1,000 cranes. However, she could withstood radiation exposure not only suffered ailments manage to fold only 644 cranes before she became too 76 years since the last atomic bombing, let us but also discrimination because of the stigma labeled on restless to fold any more, and died in her sleep on the remain committed to ensuring Nagasaki is the them by the Japanese out of ignorance about the effects of morning of October 25, 1955, knowing her family will last place on Earth to suffer such devastation. radioactive contamination. In 1945, very little was known always be there. Her friends and family helped finish her ANTONIO GUTERRES I UN SECRETARY GENERAL about the effects of radioactive contamination. It was bruited dream by folding the rest of the cranes, which were buried that the radioactive exposure was like an infectious disease. with Sadako. She has left her legacy after the death. The Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the They fell victim to discrimination and were found ineligible Children’s Peace Monument, a statue based on the true for work and marriage. There was nothing more appalling story of Sadako Sasaki, is dedicated to the memory of the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who than the first silent decade the hibakusha had gone through, children who died as a result of the bombing. Students and appeal to other values than the human imagina- after the atomic explosion. As the Secretary Law was in teachers of today’s generation inspired by Sadako story, tive values which science has evolved. effect and the US withheld records, even the existence of learn to fold paper cranes. JACOB BRONOWSKI I UK BOMB STRATEGIST DURING WORLD WAR II hibakusha was brazenly denied. Unfortunately, discrimination against people as hibakusha, the survivors of ‘unforgettable fire’ still continues. It has Hiroshima and Nagasaki were atomized at a time Fight for World Peace been reincarnated after the radiological catastrophe at the when the Japanese were suing desperately for In 1956, an organization “The Japan Confederation of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex. peace. A-and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations” called Hidankyo DAVID DELLINGER I AMERICAN PACIFIST AND ACTIVIST FOR NONVIOLENT SOCIAL CHANGE was formed by hibakushas. The aims of the organisation were to pressurise the Japanese government to improve support of the victims and lobby governments for the abolition of nuclear weapons from the face of the earth. Submitting to the pressure mounted by hibakusha, the Japan Govt. passed Hibakusha Aid Law and established medical services for them in 1957. Hidankyo’s role against war aggression cannot be diminished, too. Hibaksha are considered extraordinary human being who are not phased out by despondence and despair. They have perceived through their excruciating agony and suffering that the nuclear holocaust must not be reenacted in the earth. In the annual Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) review conferences, Hidankyo members do not fail to delineate their traumatic experiences to rekindle the memories of the participating countries and remind them with the impending danger of nuclear wars. Swiss based International Peace Bureau (IPB) in its nominating letter in favor of Hidankyo for the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize wrote, “Over 70 years they have made the choice of activism, unceasingly recounting their experiences and struggles and Sadako Sasaki Painting of a survivor made by a Japanese school student working constantly for a total ban and the elimination of FACT SHEET n The bombings led to the deaths of at least 150,000-246,000 people n Initially, there were five Japanese cities on the US’s initial hit list and Nagasaki was not one of them n The bombs were detonated in the air n The bombs that fell on Hiroshima & Nagasaki were based on very different designs n The US Air Force dropped pamphlets in Japan before the bomb attacks n The effects of the bomb attack last to this day n UN adopted the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons to make sure it never happens again n The UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons holds great significance for the Hibakusha n Oleander is the official flower of Hiroshima as it was the first plant to blossom again after the atomic bomb blast Panaromic view of Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima n In Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Park, a flame burns continuously since it was lit in the year 1964 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 SUNDAY POST August 8-14, 2021 INTERVIEWS

Major awards for Not awards, Mask franchise n Special Mention Jury Award in Social and Economic Justice winning viewers Film Festival at San Francisco n International People’s Choice Award at the Quarantine heart is my priority Image Film Festival-2020 in Argentina n Best Inspirational Film Award BUREAUCRAT-CUM-FILMMAKER SWETA KUMAR DASH SAYS, I am happy that my present profession has at Istanbul Film Festival helped me realise my dream of becoming HE PREFERS TO HIGHLIGHT IN HIS FILMS ISSUES SUCH AS n Best Short Film at a filmmaker. I got into the entertainment London Shorts Film Festival CASTE SYSTEM, MIGRANT LABOURER AND PROBLEMS OF industry because of my own interest THOSE WHO STAND IN THE LAST ROW OF SOCIETY and experience as none from my family n Best Inspirational is remotely connected with filmmaking. Short Film Award and Audience Choice Award at RASHMI REKHA DAS, OP through films like other filmmakers. I am On awards and felicitations Mokkho International Film quite happy to achieve that to some extent My sole intention behind making films Festival, Pondicherry n Indian film getting international despite my professional obligation. Apart is to win the hearts of the viewers through recognition is no mean feat. Then, from making Mask and its sequel, my short social awareness, not to win awards. However, Awhat to say about someone who has film Sani, the son of river Mahanadi has also it motivates me when my efforts are recognised so far bagged as many as 13 awards at various won a State Film Award in the Best Short by the jury at festivals. international film festivals? It is quite an Film category in 2019. Besides, it also achievement for Odia filmmaker Sweta Kumar received several national and international On challenges of Dash. awards. I was also the creative director of filmmaking At a time when people avoided wearing Hindi film Delhi Bus, made on the backdrop It is certainly a chal- masks, Sweta, a senior officer of Odisha of the Nirbhaya incident. lenging task as the di- Administrative Service (OAS), took it upon rector has to maintain himself to change their mindset through On favourite subjects a balance between films. His short film Mask, released in May I prefer making short films on social issues technical and non- last year, has so far won 13 prestigious awards such as the caste system, migrant labourers technical teams. I at various film festivals across the globe while and on those who stand in the last row of also faced problems its sequel Mask 2, released in June this year, society. Besides, I make an effort to offer so- in making films too has created a buzz in festival circuits. lutions to various problems of the society. during Covid times. He has also bagged the Odisha State Film Basically I make films having a clear message Another challenge Award for his short film Sani in 2019. In a for society. for me was at the tete-a-tete with Sunday POST, the bureau- beginning of my crat-cum-filmmaker talks about his passion On striking a balance between filmmaking career as a director. and future plans. Excerpts: and bureaucracy I started making Working in government is my profession films in 2014. On the journey so far while making films is a passion for me. I am Before that, I used Hailing from Pathara village of Ganjam happy to strike a fine balance between the to write scripts and district, I left for Delhi after my graduation two. I use holidays and days-off to work on dialogues. and did my MA, MPhil and PhD in Political films as I hardly get time to explore my Science from Jawaharlal Nehru University. creativity during weekdays. As a senior officer, On future projects At present, I am posted as a Joint Secretary I often have to deal with social issues which Currently, I am work- in SC & ST Development department, help me in scripting my films. ing on two films- The Government Odisha. This is all about my Healing Touch and My profession. Speaking about my creative On childhood and tryst with films National Flag – both journey, I started watching films from a I don’t remember when I started watching based on social issues. very early age when none in my friend films. But my parents say I used to enjoy Shootings of the films have circle had an idea about cinema. Gradually, movies patiently when I was a kid. So, I been completed and they will it became a passion and I also wanted to always wanted to be a filmmaker. Though be released ahead of reach out to the viewers with my ideas I couldn’t make it my full time profession, Independence Day.

tivist reveals how she manages to do so three rescued dogs in Pune as children. A VOICE FOR many things. How do you manage so many animals and How would you describe your works with their expenses? THE VOICELESS stray animals? I cook food for them - chicken, rice and My work for stray animals is much like fish for the cats and roti for bulls and cows. There is no dearth of animal lovers in offering to the god. I would say, it is a I spend nearly Rs 30,000 a month on their Bhubaneswar but not many care for spiritual experience for me. It teaches me food. There are other expenditures also the stray animals like Triman Sehgal how to be more loving , compassionate and that include medicines, vaccination, buying does. Every night, over 70 dogs and understanding. For me, the stray animals belts and chains and utensils for People for other stray animals wait for her to are my teachers as they teach me never to Animals (PFA) activities. The expenses are get their dinners. Sehgal also feeds hate but love, never give up in life and to met from the contributions of my family cats, bulls, birds, squirrels and mon- have faith and hope. members and friends. This apart, we run gooses and takes care of their medical Gurprasad Nursery, a nursery of rare plants, needs and what’s more, she even How did it all begin? which also works for conservation of nature. offers them respectful burials after It started when I took up a few papers Besides, at Gurprasad Natural Remedies, their death. from the Philosophy department in my MSc we teach Iyengar Yoga to the enthusiasts In a quick chat with Sunday POST, anthropology syllabus on environmental phi- for good health and healing. The proceeds the prominent animal rights ac- losophy and animal psychology and adopted are spent for the welfare of animals. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 SUNDAY POST August 8-14, 2021 TINSELTOWN Saifeena loves to Rakul spreading smiles ctress Rakul Preet Singh, who has Apart from Doctor G, Rakul also has Abeen busy with her film schedules, MayDay with Ajay Devgn and Amitabh took time out to spread some smiles Bachchan. Rakul will play the role of a holiday in Ladakh and brighten up her fans’ timelines. pilot in the film currently Taking to the Gram, the actress slated for an April 29, put on her best smile while 2022 release. She will ctress Kareena Kapoor Khan and her husband reminding her fans and friends also be teaming up Aactor Saif Ali Khan love exploring new to laugh and live a little with Ajay for destinations and their favourite destination is more. Thank God that Switzerland. But did you know they also love “Laugh until your will co-star Ladakh? Bebo recently made this revelation in belly hurts and then Sidharth her brother-in-law Kunal Kemmu’s travel pictures just a little bit more,” Malhotra. from Ladakh. she wrote in her AGENCIES Actor Kunal who is currently travelling, took caption. to his Instagram handle and shared a glimpse of Rakul has been his trip from Mumbai to Ladakh. Alongside shooting for her a reel video with Mohit Chauhan’s hit song next film with Phir Se Ud Chala, he wrote, “First time Ayushmann in the land of passes so excited to be Khurrana here. It’s been a dream for so many titled Doctor G. years #ladakh #leh”. The Junglee To this, Kareena rushed to the com- Productions film that ment section and wrote, “Finallllly also stars Shefali Shah, Kunalllll…me and saifu love love love will be a college drama Ladak …miss us …”. Kunal replied to set in the backdrop of a the comment with a red heart emoji. medical institute campus. Interestingly, Ladakh seems to be a While Ayushmann will be special place for Kareena and Saif who playing the role of shot their first film together Tashan in Dr Uday Gupta, Rakul Ladakh. The two fell in love on the will be seen as Dr Fatima, film sets and the rest is history. AGENCIES a medical student. Manoj anchors Kiara on rumoured for TV series boyfriend Sidharth ith films like MS Dhoni, Kabir ctor Manoj Bajpayee is anchoring Dial 100, he got an idea about crime and WSingh, Good Newwz amongst Athree episodes of real-life crime drama thus it helped him in doing this show. several others, Kiara Advani has series Crime Patrol Satark. He says: “Crime as a genre is not just managed to impress the audience Bajpayee who has been appreciated for engaging but also eye opening. Crime with her choice of films. Having his roles in Satya, Patrol Satark has been doing that for a completed seven years in the industry, Shool, Raajneeti, while now and I was happy to associate the actress feels ‘excited’ as an actor Gangs of Wasseypur with the show as an anchor for 3 episodes. to be offered the kind of roles, she series, Aligarh and “I will be seen essaying the role of Nikhil is being offered today. Bhonsle, shares Sood, a ‘Senior Inspector at Emergency The actress is currently gearing that because Police Control Room' in ZEE5’s upcoming up for her upcoming release, of his role original movie Dial 100 which is a race- Shershaah, which is based on the life in against-time kind of a thriller. My experiences of Param Vir Chakra awardee and through Nikhil’s character helped me army captain Vikram Batra. Kiara, anchor Crime Patrol seamlessly as both who will be seen playing the role of roles require a certain sense of urgency Vikram Batra’s fiancée Dimple and a need to identify the tell-tale Cheema in the film, has collaborated signs of a criminal activity un- with her rumoured beau Sidharth folding. Malhotra for the first time in this Crime Patrol Satark airs on film. Fans of both the actors are Sony Entertainment quite excited to watch them together. Television. IANS Recently, in an exclusive interview, Kiara spoke about her equation with Sidharth as a co-star and a friend. “As a co-star, Sidharth is extremely driven and focused. He loves to prep a lot and does a lot of readings. That’s very similar to the way I like to work on a film. So, in that sense, we got along very well. As a friend, I’d say he is one of my closest friends in the industry. I think, even as a friend, he’s full of life and always fun to be around,” gushed Kiara. AGENCIES 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 SUNDAY POST August 8-14, 2021 TECHNOLOGY Apps for TRACKING EXPENSE

ent, utilities, equipment, furniture, inventory, licenses, insurance, marketing, staff – small businesses incur Wally Rall sorts of expenses. It’s essential that you keep careful track of all your spending to make sure you stay on budget, ally is a colourful app with lots of great but not every business has access to the best accounting Wexpense-tracking functionality. You can software. Fortunately, thanks to an explosion of quality money- use Wally on an iOS device, and the basic tracking apps, it's now easier to track your expenses than ever version of the app is free. Like in other ex- before. We researched dozens of popular expense tracking pense-tracking apps, you can take photos of apps to bring you our top picks for 2021. receipts directly in Wally or enter expenses by hand and categorise them accordingly. Wally also tracks your income for you and Expensify offers you projected savings for each month. With its focus on personal rather than business finance, Wally is a good fit for people who run microbusinesses or side hustles.

SAP Concur

AP Concur is the perfect business expense reporting app Sfor established (and growing) small and midsize businesses. In addition to the ability to track expenses, SAP Concur has built-in workflows for employee reimbursement, submissions vailable on Android and iOS devices, Expensify is great and approvals, invoice tracking, vendor payments, travel Afor making expense reports on the go. A must for booking, and more. The great thing about SAP Concur is frequent business travelers, Expensify allows you to take that you can build it out however you want, and it charges photos of receipts and manually log expenses. When you you accordingly (based on features and number of users). take a photo of a receipt in Expensify, the app automatically SAP Concur is also a great choice because the company offers reads the receipt and translates it into a logged expense. In a suite of products for small businesses, so you can add more addition, you can organise your expenses by categories, like functionality as you need it. The app is free and available on mileage, travel and food. Best of all, Expensify is free for in- iOS and Android for existing Concur customers. dividuals and just $5 a month for teams.

FreshBooks Mint reshBooks is a comprehensive cloud-based accounting Fprogram that starts at $7.50 a month for a single int is one of the best expense user and five clients. However, if you own a small business, Mtracker apps known for personal we recommend the $25-monthly plan. This plan allows finance tools – and a great option an unlimited number of clients and an extra staff member, for microbusinesses or side hustles. and it offers several useful project management tools. Mint is free, supports a wide range You can access FreshBooks on any iOS or Android device of banks and lenders, and helps in as well as your laptop, making it a good option for en- expense tracking, bills and credit trepreneurs who want a fully functional accounting monitoring, and budgeting. It's avail- package that also has mobile expense-tracking abilities. able on iOS and Android. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 SUNDAY POST August 8-14, 2021 GLAM SLAM

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