/!! 0 C0 ! D D D VRGR $"#(!#1')VCEBRS WWT!Pa!RT%&!$"#1$# 9('!"98)4/ 1) 1 2 3145 & -)146 7 0 ! B 1)+).)A %F%2(+%-.A-+(+4+(1 0.2(/.)+, +(-.(1?)/, @-/0%(@-1@%)+,%2 (%%?-/25 +(+A%./)/%.,%).)+%+ 14+)1/%- 2%)-.2%.012 -%).A%2- +-2%1) -5+2%@%4.%5,%% ( .!=76*99- 976 E% +%! %0 $ )?0*?*?; )/1 ! " # )+,+(-. Of these, items worth $% almost 1,30,000 crore each are he Government on Sunday anticipated for the Army and announced an import the Air Force while items worth T ! ! = # embargo on 101 items to give %.%B almost 1,40,000 crore are a major boost to the Indian )! anticipated by the Navy over % % defence industry. the same period. This move towards self- Singh said more equip- % ! ! )+,+(-. reliance will see the domestic 69;;; ment for import embargo players manufacturing 2& would be identified progres- weapons ranging from artillery sively by the Department of aking a dig, Congress guns to missiles and assault 3 $ ! ! Military Affairs in consultation Tleader and former Home rifles to name a few. ! 3% with all stakeholders. Minister P Chidambaram said They will also be expected The list also includes, the Defence Minister promised to bag orders worth over 4 wheeled Armoured Fighting a ‘bang’ on a Sunday morning lakh crores over the next seven announcement about the has been created with an out- ture the items by using their Vehicles (AFVs) with indicative and ended with a ‘whimper.’ to eight years as the Army, IAF import embargo, Defence lay of nearly 52,000 crore for own design and development import embargo date of The only importer of and Navy will be procuring Minister Rajnath Singh said domestic capital procurement capabilities or adopting the December 2021, of which the defence equipment is the world class weapon systems here it is a big step towards in the current financial year, he technologies designed and Army is expected to contract Defence Ministry. Any import developed and manufactured Atmanirbhar Bharat (self- said. He said Prime Minister developed by the Defence almost 200 at an approximate embargo is really an embargo ! "# within the country. reliance) in defence. Narendra Modi has given a call Research and Development cost of over 5,000 crore, he on oneself. What the Defence $ % The negative list or the In a series of tweets, he said for a self-reliant India based on Organisation (DRDO). said. Minister said in his historic embargo will commence from the Defence Ministry has pre- the five pillars, i.e., economy, Elaborating upon the pol- The Defence Ministry offi- Sunday announcement December this year in a grad- pared a list of 101 items for infrastructure, system, demog- icy, the Minister also said cials said the embargo on deserved only an Office Order -. / ed manner and continue till which there would be an raphy & demand and almost 260 schemes of such imports is planned to be pro- from the Minister to his 2024 as the Services are now embargo on the import beyond announced a special econom- items were contracted by the gressively implemented Secretaries! amidst negotiating deals with the timeline indicated against ic package for Self-Reliant India Tri-Services at an approximate between 2020 and 2024. Import embargo is high !! 0 foreign vendors. As defence them. The Minister also said named ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat.’ cost of 3.5 lakh crore between The aim is to apprise the sounding jargon. What it deals take relatively longer time the Defence Ministry has also Taking cue from that evo- April 2015 and August 2020. “It Indian defence industry about means is we will try to make "# !$ compared to other contracts, bifurcated the capital procure- cation, the Ministry of Defence is estimated that contracts the anticipated requirements of the same equipment (that we (1?)/, the Government has gone in ment budget for 2020-21 prepared the list, said Rajnath, worth almost 4 lakh crore will the Armed Forces so that they import today) in 2 to 4 years )+,+(-. for timeline for stopping between domestic and foreign adding it will offer a great be placed upon the domestic are better prepared to realise and stop imports thereafter!, ucknow reported 684 more imports. capital procurement routes. opportunity to the Indian industry within the next 6 to 7 the goal of indigenisation. the Congress leader said in a s India breached 2 million Lcoronavirus positive cases, Making the important A separate budget head defence industry to manufac- years,” he said. Continued on Page 10 series of tweets. ACovid-19 cases on Friday taking the tally to 12,760 on and just in three days from Sunday, even as six COVID-19 then it has added two lakh patients died in the city, pushing more cases, taking the overall the death toll to 147. !! !! count well past 22 lakh cases With 238 COVID-19 $*+ ' on Sunday death in a day patients being discharged from increased to 1,000. hospitals in the last 24 hours, ! & '() The country has started 6,531 infected persons have , recording more than 60, 000 recovered and at present 6,082 cases every day, and death toll active cases are undergoing treat- (1?)/, carrying a cash reward of are above 900 on daily basis. ment in the city. Indiranagar, *!! 50,000 in Prayagraj. The way India is adding Gomtinagar, Ashiyana, Chowk, he sleuths of Special Task The police were tipped off new cases and death, by the Thakurganj Mahanagar, %331 added. According to a police TForce (STF) gunned down about the presence of Rakesh end of this month, the country Hussainganj, and Hazratganj % ! occasion of “Balram Jayanthi”, spokesman, a BJP worker hail- a dreaded shooter, who was Pandey and his gang in could have around 3.5 million remained high containment areas a day when farmers worship rassroot workers of the ing from Budgam was shot at said to be involved in BJP Gudamba on the intervening cases and nearly 75,000 deaths. in the state capital. plough. GBharatiya Janata Party and critically injured by ter- MLA Krishnanand Rai murder night of Saturday and Sunday Aparts from Maharashtra, Meanwhile, 4,687 persons The first sanction of over (BJP) are turning out to be “sit- rorists. He was out for a morn- case, during an encounter with during a routine monitoring of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil tested positive for coronavirus ! 1,000 crore was made to over ting ducks” in Kashmir valley in ing walk when terrorists tar- him in Sarojininagar early hardened criminals and a team Nadu states such as Bihar, across the state, raising its case- 2,280 farmers under the the absence of adequate secu- geted him. morning on Sunday. was dispatched for his arrest. Uttar Pradesh, Assam, load to 1,22,609. The state wit- !$ Agriculture Infrastructure rity cover for even those who This is the third incident in The deceased was identi- When the police team Karnataka and West Bengal nessed 45 COVID-19 deaths in Fund. figure on the “hit list” of ter- the valley in the last one week. fied as Rakesh Pandey aka reached Gudamba, it surfaced have started reporting huge the last 24 hours as the toll )+,+(-. Speaking on the occasion, rorists and fearing for their lives On August 6, BJP sarpanch Hanuman Pandey of Mau. He that Rakesh and his aides had number of cases on daily basis. reached 2,069. With 2,817 per- Modi said no middlemen or , about one dozen BJP workers Sajad Ahmad Khanday was was said to be a close aide of left for some place on Kanpur With several States still not car- sons being released from hospi- n a move to direct financial commission was needed as the have so far resigned from the killed in Vessu village of mafia-turned-politician road and the team moved to rying out adequate number of tals, 72,650 COVID-19 patients Isupport and to empower the amount went straight to farm- membership of the party Qazikund block in South Mukhtar Ansari and slain that place. The team spotted an tests, the caseload could go up have recovered and 47,890 are farmers of the country, Prime ers. recently. Kashmir’s Kulgam district. On mafia Munna Bajrangi, and was Continued on Page 10 Continued on Page 10 undergoing treatment. Minister Narendra Modi on He also expressed satisfac- Four party workers from August 4, BJP Panch Arif Sunday electronically trans- tion because the objective of Budgam resigned following Ahmad was also critically ferred 17,100 crore to the the scheme was fulfilled. fresh attack on a BJP worker in wounded after terrorists fired !'() bank accounts of over 8.5 crore “17,000 crore of PM- the area on Sunday. at him in Akhran Qazigund. $!! *+ farmers as part of the PM- Kisan Samman Nidhi have It is learnt the BJP workers According to a police * ' KISAN scheme. been deposited into bank have forwarded their letters of spokesman, at about 6.30 am '' R The Prime Minister also accounts of 8.5 crore farmers resignation to SSP Budgam terrorists fired upon a BJP ! launched the agriculture infra- with a single click. No middle- and District President Budgam worker identified as Abdul structure fund with a capital of men or commission, it went BJP. Budgam BJP president Hameed Najar, son of * ,-% 1 lakh crore for agri-entre- straight to farmers. I am satis- Aga Mohsin told reporters the Mohammad Jamal. “The BJP & 4.%5%,%% Covid Care Centre (CCC). At preneurs, startups, agri-tech fied because the objective of the letters of resignations of four worker was shifted to SMHS -+))%. least ten people are feared dead players and farmer groups for scheme is being fulfilled,” PM BJP workers are in circulation hospital Srinagar for treatment major fire broke out in the in the mishap besides several post-harvest management and Modi said during the launch of on WhatsApp.