! !"#$ %&'! !"#$" ,/01+2,3.4 )'' 4 2 -3 ) #+ .%#0! 0 )3 )022 217 78 )12 2 ) ) 3 2 ) ) )102 4 5 64 (&)& *+'*+,,-. ,-- (.'&$$ 5$5 %$6#$ 6 &7 !" hospital in the State. There is no record of any such case, nor have I made any statement to this effect. The fatalities that have occurred ! were due to co-morbidities or other medical ailments,” Tope said, caus- !"! ing embarrassment to its major alliance partners Shiv Sena and the Congress which have been taking on the Narendra Modi Government ULFA leaders, AASU’s leaders, and of many countries, including French over deaths due to lack of medical ore names have tumbled out Assam’s ultra outfit leaders’ names President Emanuel Macron and the oxygen. Mfrom Pegasus snoop gate of have also cropped up in the phone Moroccan King, were also target- massive controversy has erupt- The Congress has accused those who may have been victims of tapping list along with names of ed by the Israeli spyware snooping. Aed over the Centre’s claim in the Minister of State for Health Bharati telephone tapping between 2018 and many Ambedkarites, Dalit activists, The Wire portal’s report on Rajya Sabha that no one died due Pravin Pawar of misleading 2019. As per the reports, the phone and JNU student leaders involved in Wednesday suggested that to lack of oxygen during the second Health Minister TS Singh Deo oxygen during the two waves of the Parliament by giving “false infor- numbers of six senior officials from the Anti-CAA protests. Monsanto was placed on the snoop- Covid-19 wave. While the said it’s true that no one died in the pandemic. “We have never said that mation” that there were no deaths Mahyco Monsanto Biotech (India) Meanwhile, international pub- ing list around the time the BJP-Shiv Opposition targeted the Centre, the State due to lack of oxygen as “we because of shortage of oxygen a due to lack of oxygen during the Pvt. Ltd and Monsanto India were lications like Le Monde and The Sena Government in Maharashtra Congress was left red-faced as are an oxygen-surplus State.” Covid-19 patient has died in any second wave. under surveillance in 2018. The Washington Post reported President set up a special investigation team three of the States where it has Similarly Shiv Sena (SIT) to probe companies that were stakes, towed the Centre’s line. MP Sanjay Raut said the allegedly selling or releasing unap- Chhattisgarh where the people who lost their loved proved herbicide-tolerant (HT) Congress is in full majority ones due to oxygen short- '!%! transgenic cotton, or Bt cotton, Government, Tamil Nadu and age should “take the Union seeds in the State. A few months Maharashtra where the party is part Government to court”, prior to the formation of the SIT, in of the coalition Government also while it’s coalition partner ()" October 2017, the Prime Minister’s claimed that no one died of oxygen NCP in Maharashtra rep- Office (PMO) had also set up the shortage. resented by Health Field Inspection and Scientific While former Congress chief Minister Rajesh Tope, too, cumulative death toll stands at 414,482 respond to media inquiries. It said Evaluation Committee (FISEC), Rahul Gandhi said the clarified that there was no — the world’s third-highest after the that the expose by 17 news organi- under the Department of Government’s response reflected record in the State of any he number of excess deaths in India US’ 6,09,000 fatalities and Brazil’s srael has set up a senior inter-min- sations across the world since Sunday Biotechnology, to probe the prolif- lack of sensitivity, Chhattisgarh death due to shortage of Tduring the Covid-19 pandemic 5,42,000 casualties. The report has Iisterial team to “look into” pro- was a “planned and well-orchestrat- eration of unlawful seeds, said the could be as high as 49 lakh (4.9 mil- been prepared by the Washington- liferating allegations that spyware ed media campaign led by Forbidden report. lion). A report titled ‘Three new esti- based think tank Center for Global sold by a Israeli cyber firm has been Stories and pushed by special inter- mates of India’s all-cause excess mor- Development (CGD) and is co- abused on a global scale, news est groups”. “NSO will thoroughly tality during the Covid-19 pandemic’, authored by India’s former Chief agency Reuters said on Wednesday investigate any credible proof of Q said India’s coronavirus death toll is ten Economic Adviser Arvind quoting an Israeli source. In anoth- misuse of its technologies, as we #$% times higher than the actual figure Subramanian, Abhishek Anand, from er interesting development on always had, and will shut down the reported by the Union Health Ministry. the Harvard University and Justin Wednesday, NSO, the developer of system where necessary,” a As per the Health Ministry, India’s Sandefur, from the CGD. spyware Pegasus said it will no longer spokesperson said. !! R ! *%+, mid a full-blown political battle n the backdrop of the con- Aover revelations that Opposition Itroversy over the Centre’s ''-' #$ %& ' leaders, Union Ministers, journalists, reply in the Rajya Sabha on and many others were potential Tuesday that no death had targets of snooping by Israeli com- occurred on account of oxygen pany NSO Group’s Pegasus spy- shortage in the country, the hubaneswar on Tuesday ware, a BJP on Wednesday sought to Bregistered 369 new Covid- Parliamentary defend the Government’s con- 19 positive cases. With this, the Committee clusion saying “no State sent total positives’ tally in the city headed by any data about patients dying surged to 96,791.Out of the Congress MP due to oxygen shortage.” new cases, 304 were local con- Shashi Tharoor BJP spokesperson Sambit tacts and 65 quarantine cases. will hold a Patra accused Opposition The local contacts includ- meeting on leaders, including Congress ed 30 cases in Patia, 23 in July 28 on the scion Rahul Gandhi and Delhi Nayapalli, 17 each in subject of ‘citi- Chief Minister Arvind ! Chandrasekharpur and Old zens’ data secu- Kejriwal, of doing politics on Town, 14 in Khandagiri, 10 in rity and priva- the matter, and said the States !P! Laxmisagar and nine in cy. where these parties are in Baramunda. The committee has called offi- power have claimed that no The active cases stood at cials of the Ministry of Electronics one died there due to lack of 1,611 in the city. Meanwhile, 17 and Information Technology, oxygen. more patients succumbed to Ministry of Home Affairs, and The BJP leader said the disease in the city, pushing Ministry of Communications to Opposition-ruled States the total death toll to 683. hear their views. “Evidence of the claimed in courts that there Covid-19 wave and made sim- However, 253 persons recov- representatives of the Ministry of was no death due to shortage ilar assertions in their response ered on the day, increasing the Electronics and Information of oxygen during the second to the Centre. total recoveries to 94,476. ! # % Technology, Ministry of " $R $/ ! !! coal is 14% (except the State of 00- West Bengal). In case of West 1 *0! Bengal Royalty rates are fixed in #!$ wheel, lotus and mace in the the range from Rs 7 to Rs 2.5 per $ Mayurbhanj 90, Dhenkanal 75, hands were among the designs. PNSNEW DELHI: The Union tonne. The royalty was last Kendrapada 73, Nayagarh 64, ecorated in a huge quan- There were also Padma, Sevati, Government once again made it revised on May 10, 2012. Angul 55, Sambalpur 33, Dtum of gold ornaments, Agasti, Kadamba, Kante and clear that it is not going to The Union Minister also % Keonjhar 32, Bargarh 27, apart from beautiful costumes Champa made up of gold and increase the coal royalty, for informed Acharya that there is &'( Rayagada 22, Bhadrak 19, on their bodies, Lord jewels which symbolize the which the Odisha Government no mandatory provision in the Kandhamal 18, Nabarangpur Jagannath, Lord Balabhadra flowers that the deities are has been fighting for a long peri- Act to revise the rates of royal- ) 15, Balangir 11, Ganjam 10, and Devi Subhadra displayed mostly fond of. In the past, od. Union Coal and Mines ty every three years. “The pro- ! Jharsuguda, Subarnapur and them to public sitting on their deities used to wear 208 kg of Minister Prahlad Joshi has viso of Section 9(3) of the Mines Koraput eight each, Boudh chariots during the Suna Besha 138 designs of ornaments. informed this in the Rajya Sabha and Mineral (Development and and Kalahandi seven each, ritual on Wednesday evening. However, due to security rea- on Monday in a reply to a ques- Regulation) Act, 1957, provides Deogarh six, Nuapada five and However, public was prohibit- sons, few designs with less tion raised by senior BJD MP that the Central Government Gajapati four. ed to the Lions’ Gate area to weight are used in the attire at Prasanna Acharya. may, by notification in the offi- Besides, 110 cases were view the Suna Besha due to present. For the revision of the rates cial Gazette, amend the second reported from the State pool. Covid restrictions. Earlier, the servitors carried of royalty on coal and lignite, the schedule (which specifies rates he State on Tuesday regis- Meanwhile, an all-time single- As a result, the devotees the ornaments from Ratna Centre had constituted a Study of royalty) so as to enhance or Ttered 1,927 Covid-19 pos- day high of 69 patients suc- could watch the attire live on Bhandar (Treasure trove) of Group on July 21, 2014 for the reduce the rate at which royal- itive cases reported in last 24 cumbed to the disease in the their television only.