DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA JOURNALISM OF COURAGE SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2020, JAIPUR, LATE CITY, 12 PAGES SINCE 1932 `5.00 WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM THE EDITORIAL PAGE BIDEN SAYS democracy messy MAJOR TVnetworks cut away SOME REPUBLICANS back Will not accept any NOTTHEWEST sometimes,calls forpatience from Trump, rejecthis claims Trump, others issue criticism WING shifting of LAC, can’t BY PRATAP BHANU MEHTA PAGE 6 Trumpfakesthenews,Bidentakes discount larger Covid opens conflict: Gen Rawat pharma firms theheadline—leadinPennsylvania KRISHNKAUSHIK to threats: NEWDELHI,NOVEMBER6 ON THE dayIndian and Chinese Lupin reports commandersmet in Chushul to RACE FOR tryand dial down tensions along cyber attack THE WHITE the Line of Actual Control in HOUSE Ladakh wherethe twoarmies have facedoff since May, Chief of General Bipin Rawatatthe PRABHARAGHAVAN EXPRESS Defence StaffGeneral Bipin webinar on Friday. ANI &AASHISHARYAN RawatFridaysaid India“will not NEWDELHI,NOVEMBER6 INTHEU.S. acceptany shifting” of the LAC and will continue to insiston gressions and belligerent actions AFORTNIGHT afterDrReddy’s restorationofstatusquo ante – by the Chinese”. He said alarge Laboratoriessaid it had “isolated” of troops on either side return- conflict cannotberuledout,and itsdatacentreservices afteracy- KARISHMAMEHROTRA ing to their April locations. pointed out that collusion be- berattack,Mumbai-basedLupin NEWYORKCITY,NOVEMBER6 Speaking at aseminar to tween Pakistanand China poses became the second major Indian markthe 60th anniversaryofthe an “omnipresent danger”. pharmaceutical companytobe WITH NO newdeclared state National Defence College, “In the overallsecuritycalcu- hit by asimilarattack. wins foreithercandidate, GeneralRawat attributed the lus, afull-scale conflict with Severalindustryexecutives Americans woke up on thethird tensions along the LACto“trans- CONTINUEDONPAGE2 told The Indian Express on Friday morning afterElection Daywith- that while cyber attacks arenot out aclear winner of the presi- new, at leastinthe West,they dential race. have become morecommon as However, Joe Biden took nar- Hit by suspension of rail the worldgrapples with the rowleads in Georgia and Covid-19pandemic. Indian Pennsylvania, twokey battle- services, Punjab faces pharma companies, currently ground states that President plugged intothe global supply Donald Trumphad carriedin chain forpotentialCovid-19vac- 2016,and either of whichcould power, fertilisershortage cines,havebecome morevul- deliverthe magic number of 270 nerable, the experts said.More Electoral Collegevotestothe US President Donald Trumpatthe WhiteHouse on Thursday. Reuters suchattackscould be on the way, Democratic nominee. BUSINESSASUSUAL KANCHANVASDEV, theywarned. Since Wednesday, the RAAKHIJAGGA BY UNNY Indian pharma companies Electoral count forthe candi- Carolina. Alittle before midnight wherebothcandidates were detailedrepudiations of his &AVISHEKGDASTIDAR have movedmostoftheir docu- dates has stood at 264for Biden in India on Friday, Trumpwas lockedat49.4 per centand Biden statements. CNN and FoxNews CHANDIGARH,LUDHIANA& mentation and manufacturing and 214for Trump, according to ahead in onlyNorth Carolina, ledbyfewer than2,000 votes – continuedtoshowTrump’s re- NEWDELHI,NOVEMBER6 processes datatothe digital the Associated Press.Somenews leading Biden by about 77,000 announced arecount laterthis marks live,but bluntly rejected space over the lastdecade, said organisations suchasThe New votes, or 1.4percentagepoints. month. his claims as false. HIT HARD by the suspension of the executive of an Indian vac- York Times and the major televi- Trumpneeds Pennsylvania With the writing seemingly Trumpfalselystatedthat he rail services since September 24 Farmers protestnear cine firm on condition of sion networkshave,however, re- and at leastthree from the other on the wall, the President on had wonthe election through amid protests by farmers against Amritsar on Friday. anonymity.The threatsfrom frainedfromcalling Arizona for four states to retain the presi- Thursday evening deliveredan “legal votes”, while “illegal” late the Centre's newagriculture SimranjitRana suchdigitisation were flagged Biden, leaving himwith 253 in dency.Biden has the edge be- extraordinaryspeechatapress votes were allowing the laws,Punjab Fridayslammed lastyear,whencyber security so- their counts. cause theremaining ballotsare conference at the WhiteHouse Democratsto“steal the elec- the Railways forclaiming that its lutionsfirm Kaspersky had re- Other than Arizona, four mostlyfromurbanstrongholds that wassofull of falsehoods and tion.” In continuation of claims operations continue to be protesters have vacated alltracks portedlyranked India as the other states remainedunde- and predominantlyDemocratic disinformation that three major that he has made throughout stalledbyblocks in at least22lo- and platforms, Chief Minister sixth mostvulnerable country clared on Friday: Pennsylvania, mail-in. But the contestremains television networks –CBS, NBC, this election season, Trump cations by protesters. CaptAmarinder Singh said: “The CONTINUEDONPAGE2 Georgia, Nevada, and North tight, and officials in Georgia – and ABC –cut away,and issued CONTINUEDONPAGE2 While farmers' unions said CONTINUEDONPAGE2 SC grants arrest shield to Arnab, contempt notice to Assembly officer Allows Centreto EXPRESS NETWORK be impleadedin RAJASTHAN privilege matter FIRECRACKER BAN: In Bairgacchi, home of BholaPaswan Shastri. Dipankar Ghose BJPHITS OUTAT GOVT’SMOVE EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE NEWDELHI,NOVEMBER6 FRONTLINE WORKERS Stirrings in home of THE SUPREME Courtissueda WILL HAVE VACCINE contempt notice Fridaytothe as- PRIORITY: PAUL Bihar’s first Dalit CM: sistant secretaryofthe PAGE 3 Maharashtraassemblywho, in a letter to RepublicTVeditor-in- poor want to be counted chief Arnab Goswami, had ques- ders. tionedhim forapproaching the The benchallowedthe Union topcourtagainstthe breachof of India to be impleadedinthe DIPANKARGHOSE DECISION privilegenotice and producing matter following arequestfrom BAIRGACCHI(PURNEA), before it “confidential” commu- senior advocateHarish Salve NOVEMBER6 2020 nications from the Speaker and who appeared forGoswami. It the House Privileges Committee. issuednotice to the Attorney THEY SPEAK his name withre- Stating that the “intention” of General, and also appointedsen- spect –and regret. BIHAR the assembly officer appearedto ior advocateArvind Datar as am- In 1968,for the firsttimein VOTINGENDS be to “intimidate” Goswamibe- icus curiae to assistthe courtin Bihar,aDalit became Chief TODAY cause he “approachedthis Court” the matter. Minister, though his term lasted and to “threaten him with a The benchwas hearing justthree months. No of penalty forseeking legal rem- Goswami’s petition challenging seats Bhola Paswan Shastri be- PhaseIII edy”, the benchofChief Justice of the breachofprivilegenotice to came Chief Ministeragain, twice 78 India SABobde and JusticesAS him whichfollowedamotion in -- for13daysin1969,and 7 Numberof Contesting Bopanna and V the House, accusing him of us- months in 1971 as political tur- Voters candidates Ramasubramanian directedthat ing derogatorylanguageagainst moil overtook the state. 2.35 cr 1,207 Goswami notbearrestedinthe Chief MinisterUddhav CONTINUEDONPAGE2 privilegematteruntil further or- CONTINUEDONPAGE2 To reopen schools or not? Afew take leap, someset date, others hold back PAGE1 ANCHOR ED States E keento ● moveon EXPLAIN EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE HYDERABAD,DEHRADUN, AFTER OVER six months of MUMBAI,AHMEDABAD, onlineclasses, states are BHUBANESHWAR, warming up to the idea of NOVEMBER6 reopening schools, at least forsenior students,after TO REOPEN SCHOOLS or not, putting in place strict pre- even forsenior students —Class cautionarySOPs. It maynot IX to Class XII —isthe bigques- be asmooth restart, as can tion states aregrappling with; be seenfromthe Andhraand while Maharashtra Fridaysaid it ClassXstudentsataprivate school in Noida. Express file Uttarakhand experience. wasconsidering starting physi- cal classesinschools from November 23, Odisha puton SOP forphysical classesinsenior Pradesh, reportedCovid cases ministrators. In Uttarakhand holdanearlier decision to reopen schools from November 18. among teachers and studentsaf- whereclasses forClass Xand schools afterNovember 15,and At leasttwo states, terschoolsreopened, raisingfresh Class XII re-commencedthis Gujarat said it waspreparing an Uttarakhand and Andhra concernsamongparents and ad- CONTINUEDONPAGE2 Jaipur WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM 2 THE SECOND PAGE THEINDIANEXPRESS,SATURDAY,NOVEMBER7,2020 DOWNLOADAPP WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM ■ VISUAL STORIES ■ DAILYBRIEFING ■ PODCASTS ASSAM:WOMENLEARNTODEFENDTHEMSELVES—APUNCHANDAKICKATATIME VE ■ CUSTOMIZABLE MoonDas,the23-year-oldBScstudentandblackbeltholderinTaekwondo,whosebrainchilditis,saidthat No trains to Punjab; NEWSEXPERIENCE LUSI hewaslookingforwaysandmeanstopromoteself-defenceamongwomeninAssam.“InitiallyIthoughtI WEB coulduploadvideosonaFacebookpage,”hesaid,“ButwhentheHathrascasehappened,itgaveusapush.” hopes of ‘partial disen- Indian Express EXC ★★★★★■4.6 gagement’ in Ladakh; VIDEOOFTHEDAY TECH massive protestinGoa NASHIK MAN ‘GUARDS APPLE IPHONE 12 RIVER’ALL DAY PRO REVIEW NEWEPISODEEVERYDAY All these and moreonthis episode of the ‘3 He is trying to stop The iPhone 12 forthose Things’ podcast. 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