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NEARBY
Kamala Harris to be ‘Mega labs’ to boost COVID19 testing
CSIR plans to use the virus in question is in
Biden’s running mate advanced genome
sequencing device
deed the particular corona
virus of interest.
It can also trace the evolu
tionary history of the virus
Rajasthan Congress
She is the fi rst woman of colour on a major party ticket in U.S. Jacob Koshy and track mutations more
New Delhi reliably. Unlike the RTPCR
MLAs return to Jaipur Sriram Lakshman The Council of Scientifi c and that needs primers and
JAIPUR
Industrial Research (CSIR) is probes — a key hurdle in op
Congress MLAs sequestered
U.S. Senator from California working on developing “me erationalising such tests on a
at a resort near Jaisalmer for
Kamala Harris has been ga labs” to ramp up testing mass scale early on in the
the last two weeks during the
political turmoil in Rajasthan
named running mate of pre for COVID19 as well as im pandemic — the NGS only
returned to Jaipur on sumptive Democratic presi prove the accuracy rate. needs custom reagents.
Wednesday, two days before dential nominee Joe Biden, The labs will be repurpos Meanwhile, India’s CO
the crucial Assembly session as per an announcement ing large machines, called VID19 death toll reached
beginning from August 14. from Mr. Biden on Tuesday. Next Generation Sequencing appropriate modifi cations, This is primarily because 47,148 on Wednesday, with
The MLAs were taken to a Ms. Harris, 55, is the fi rst machines (NGS), which are these machines can substan the RTPCR test identifi es the 948 new fatalities. The coun
hotel on the city’s outskirts. woman of Indian descent normally used for sequenc tially detect the presence of SARSCoV2 virus by explor try now has the fourth high
NEWS A PAGE 9 and black woman to be on ing human genomes, to se the virus even in several in ing only specifi c sections, est death toll in the world,
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD the presidential ticket of a quence 1,500 to 3,000 viral stances where the tradition whereas the genome meth surpassing the U.K.’s fi gure
major political party in the genomes at a go to detect the al RTPCR (reverse transcrip od can read a bigger chunk of 46,791.
BJP legislator alleges U.S. The move puts Ms. Har SARSCoV2 virus. tion polymerase chain of virus genome and thereby
assault by U.P. police
ris in a powerful position to Used optimally and with reaction) tests fail. provide more certainty that CONTINUED ON A PAGE 8
GHAZIABAD
lead the Democratic party in
BJP MLA from Iglas
constituency in Aligarh
the near future and with a
district, Rajkumar Sahyogi,
alleged on Wednesday that
shot at the presidency in
four to eight years. New Parliament: 3 fi rms told 3 killed as police open fi re
he was beaten up by
policemen, including the
SHO, and his clothes were
Chennai connection
Born to Shyamala Gopalan,
to sign secrecy affi davits to quell mob in Bengaluru
torn off when he went to a cancer researcher original
protest over an FIR registered ly from Chennai, and Donald Companies can submit online bids Infl ammatory post triggered violence
against a VHP worker. Harris, an economics profes
NORTH & EAST A PAGE 4 sor from Jamaica, Ms. Harris Damini Nath and Co. Ltd. and Tata Pro Staff Reporter day. Prohibitory orders have
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD has decades of public ser NEW DELHI jects Ltd. from the seven Bengaluru been put in force and the sit
vice to her name. In 2010, The Central Public Works companies that applied for Three people were killed uation is tense but under
Delhi riots probe offi cer she became California’s At tion to the White House, icy that would desegregate Department on Wednesday prequalifi cation to bid for and three more injured after control, said the police.
gets excellence medal
torney General — the fi rst dropped out of the race in schools. asked the three fi rms it has the project. The fi rms would the police opened fi re to A total of 146 people, in
NEW DELHI
black woman to hold the po December after campaign Ms. Harris said she was shortlisted for the new Par be eligible to submit their fi quell a mob that went on a cluding a few local leaders
A Delhi police offi cer, who is
heading the Delhi riots probe
sition. In 2016, she was elect funds dried up. honoured to be on Mr. Bi liament project to sign affi da nancial bids online. rampage in DJ Halli and ad of the Social Democratic
team, and an NIA offi cer ed to the U.S. Senate. den’s ticket. “Joe Biden can vits saying they would keep On Wednesday, the CPWD joining areas in east Benga Party of India, have been ar
leading the Bhima Koregaon The announcement ends Diff ering views unify the American people the drawings secret before issued a corrigendum telling luru on Tuesday night over rested.
(Maharashtra) investigation months of speculation, as Ms. Harris did not always see because he’s spent his life submitting fi nancial bids by the three fi rms to submit the an infl ammatory Facebook At least 38 policemen
are among the 121 recipients Mr. Biden worked through a eye to eye with fellow mod fi ghting for us. And as Presi September 16. If they fail to earnest money deposit of post against Islam. were injured and several
of the Union Home Minister’s list of close to a dozen poten erate Mr. Biden. In a dramat dent, he’ll build an America complete all formalities, ₹ 9.5 crore each to access the As many as 2,000 people vehicles and properties, in
Medal for Excellence in tial VicePresident candidate ic clash at a primary debate that lives up to our ideals,” they would face action un tender document. were on the streets vandalis cluding a police station,
Investigation that was choices, zeroing in on a fel last year, Ms. Harris attacked she said on Twitter. der the Offi cial Secrets Act. The cost of the project ing and setting property torched. Two media person
announced on Wednesday. low moderate. Ms. Harris, Mr. Biden for opposing man The CPWD on Monday se was revised from ₹ 889 crore afi re. The rioting was nel were also injured.
NEWS A PAGE 10
herself a former contender datory busing of children A SUPPORTER OF CRIMINAL lected Larsen and Toubro Li to ₹ 940.94 crore, according brought under control in
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD for the Democratic nomina across school districts, a pol JUSTICE REFORM A PAGE 14 mited, Shapoorji Pallonji to the corrigendum. the early hours of Wednes CONTINUED ON A PAGE 8
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IN BRIEF
‘International Elephant
In quarantine, DU student DDA ties up with CSCs to speed
Day’ celebrated at zoo
up ownership rights registration
NEW DELHI
The Delhi zoo on Wednesday
celebrated ‘International
Elephant Day’ with a special
anxious about online exams Residents of illegal colonies can register at the nearest centre
feast for the elephants, an
official said. “We also
Without a stable Net connection, she has been unable to take part in mock tests
conducted a talk for the
Shinjini Ghosh to the registration process ship rights has “picked up
<
> II just hope I'll be her quarantine on August 7. ment and university offi cials
Sidharth Ravi NEW DELHI will get widened. speed” in the last month
keepers and mahouts about
taking care of elephants. We
New Delhi able to fi x Given her situation, she but had not received a res In a bid to facilitate residents with around 200 registries
have three elephants, one of When Narola Dhar, a fi nal something by has not been able to take ponse, and wasn’t able to get of unauthorised colonies re Conveyance deeds handed out per month.
them is African and the rest year MA computer science Sunday so that I part in the mock tests that through the helpline num gister for grant of ownership So far, the DDA has seen ap “The work has really
two are Indian,” the official student at Delhi University don’t miserably fail the university held. “I just ber, she said. rights, the Delhi Develop proximately 2.9 lakh regis picked up and each step has
said. The zoo also organised booked her tickets to Shil in the OBE hope I'll be able to fi x so ment Authority (DDA) has trations with around 20,000 reasonably quickened.
an online competition for long in June, she assumed Narola Dhar
mething by Sunday so that I Pressure to vacate tied up with Common Ser completing the process. Ov There are several levels to
school students. her exams would be over be DU fi nalyear MA student don’t miserably fail in the A resident of the Northeast vice Centres (CSCs). er 1,000 conveyance deeds the registration, including
fore she returned home. OBE,” she said. Women’s Hostel, she along Senior offi cials of the ur and authorisation slips have GIS mapping, verifi cation of
Air Quality of Delhi-NCR Now, she fi nds herself in a of her notes, the only study with some other students ban body explained that also been handed out by the the same and so on. The pro
Delhi 63 Gurugram 58 28day institutional quaran material she was able to car No centre nearby had initially been granted partnering with the CSCs will landowning agency. ject is being monitored at ev
Ghaziabad 70 Faridabad 79 tine, which ends on August ry with her on WhatsApp ov Attempts to reach out to her extensions on their stay, be benefi cial to residents of The online portal for the ery level regularly. Once the
Noida 95 Greater Noida 70 17, a day before her fi rst on er a patchy connection. local Common Service here. unauthorised colonies as grant of ownership rights CSC service is rolled out we
■ Good ■ Satisfactory ■ Moderate line open book exam. “I broke down when eve Centre, which Delhi Univer However hostel adminis they will be able to walk into was launched in December are hopeful that more regis
0-50 51-100 101-200
.................................................................................................................. Without a stable Internet ryone started talking about sity had tied up with, to as tration had continued to put the nearest centres and get last year and as of February, trations will follow,” said Mr.
■ Poor ■ Very Poor ■ Severe connection, a functional the exam on our WhatsApp sist students with poor con pressure on them to vacate,
201-300 301-400 >400 registered. the DDA received around Jain. Residents of illegal colo
..................................................................................................................
Air Quality Index at 4 p.m. yesterday
laptop and a phone with a group after the High Court nections, had also been she alleged, which forced While earlier there were 2.32 lakh registrations, ac nies who have completed the
(Average of past 24 hours) | Source: CPCB clear camera, Ms. Dhar is order,” said Ms. Dhar, who futile as she couldn’t locate a her to leave. around 30 functional help cording to data. entire application process
anxious about attempting reached out to a friend to nearby centre. “I wanted to stay but the desks set up by the DDA, offi DDA ViceChancellor Anu are likely to be granted ow
Man found dead at home, her exam. At the best, she is calm her nerves, while she Ms. Dhar tried to convey situation pushed me to go,” cials said that with nearly rag Jain told The Hindu that nership rights within 180
no note recovered able to send blurred images was alone in the middle of her issues to her depart she said. 2,500 CSCs in the city, access work on granting of owner days.
NEW DELHI
A 30yearold man was found
EIA studies needed prior
to construction, says NGT
Staff Reporter ment (EIA) and carrying ca
NEW DELHI pacity studies need to be
Following a plea challenging carried out prior to the
the proposed construction construction.
of commercial complex by An NGT Bench said, “We
the Delhi Metro Rail Corpo fi nd it necessary that before
ration (DMRC) above the the proposed constructions
Bhikaji Cama metro station, are carried out, EIA and car
the National Green Tribunal rying capacity studies must
(NGT) has held that an Envi be conducted by a joint
ronment Impact Assess committee.”
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THE HINDU
THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 2020
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CITY 3
HC allows rape victim Marginal rise in patients Riots: notice to police on
Timings
DELHI
THURSDAY, AUG. 13
RISE 05:50 SET 19:02
to terminate pregnancy Pinjra Tod activist’s bail plea
admitted to hospitals
RISE 00:17 SET 14:11
FRIDAY, AUG. 14
RISE
RISE
05:51
00:58
SET 19:02
SET 15:09
‘Continuation will lead to complications’ Police told to submit report in 10 days
SATURDAY, AUG. 15 Soibam Rocky Singh the pregnancy but the same Soibam Rocky Singh
RISE 05:51 SET 19:01 New Delhi are not higher than what is City has 10,946 active COVID-19 cases, 523 containment zones New Delhi
RISE 01:45 SET 16:06 The Delhi High Court has al acceptable and expected at The Delhi High Court has is
lowed a 16yearold rape vic this stage,” it noted. Staff Reporter sued notice to the city pol
tim, who is 22weekpreg The court’s direction New Delhi ice on a plea by Pinjrra Tod
nant, to undergo came on a plea of the girl As many as 1,113 new CO activist Natasha Narwal
termination of the pregnan seeking court’s permission VID19 cases were reported seeking bail in connection
cy after a clinical psycholo to medically terminate the in Delhi in the past 24 hours, with a case related to com
gist said continuation of pregnancy as she found taking the total number of munal violence in north
pregnancy would result in about her pregnancy at an cases to 1,48,504, according east Delhi earlier this year.
“psychological complica advanced stage. to a health bulletin released Justice Vibhu Bakhru
tions”. The Medical Termination by the Delhi government on asked Delhi Police to submit
Justice Vibhu Bakhru of Pregnancy Act stipulates a Wednesday. their status report within 10
asked the girl to be admitted ceiling of 20 weeks for termi Also, 14 more deaths have days and posted the case for
to Ram Manohar Lohia Hos nation of pregnancy, beyond been reported, taking the to People queue up to collect food packets in New Delhi on further hearing on August
pital for necessary which abortion of a foetus is tal number of deaths to Wednesday. SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA
* 26. vant from discharge of his
procedures. statutorily impermissible. 4,153. Ms. Narwal has chal duty), 307 (attempt to mur
The court had on last The girl, in her plea, stat Of the total cases, 1,33,405 ity to conduct around 11,000 lenged a trial court’s order der) and 302 (murder) of the
hearing asked the Superin ed that she had not been people have recovered and RTPCR tests in a day, only that had dismissed her bail Indian Penal Code.
tendent of the hospital to keeping well for the past there are 10,946 active cases. 6,472 such tests were done in plea. She was arrested on The FIR also named rele
form a medical board to exa oneandahalf years and The number of people ad the past 24 hours. May 23, along with fellow vant sections of the Arms
mine the minor and report used to faint quite often. She mitted in hospitals has gone Of the total 18,894 tests JNU student Devangana Kal Act and the Prevention of
whether termination of the said once, when she re up by a small margin during done in the past 24 hours, ita in connection with an Damage to Public Property
pregnancy involved risk. “In gained consciousness, “one the past four days — from over 65% were rapid antigen FIR registered on February Act.
Clarification view of the report and Pankaj bhaiya”, the accused, 3,058 to 3,351— whereas the tests, which have shown a 24 over a sitin at Jaff rabad On June 14, a trial court
A report in The Hindu’s psychological assessment of was there. The plea said she number of active cases has low positivity compared to metro station against the Ci dismissed the bail pleas of
edition dated August 10 the petitioner, it does ap suspected something had gone up steadily over the RTPCR tests. tizenship (Amendment) Act. Ms. Natasha and Ms. Kalita
had carried a line stating pear that the petitioner [mi happened when she was past two days in a row from The positivity rate, which The Crime Branch has on the grounds that there
“Ram Nath Kovind is the 10,346 to 10,946. Both fi is the percentage of people lodged separate FIRs against was no merit in the applica
nor girl] is at considerable unconscious.
first Dalit President of gures had dropped consider pared to June. On June 23, who test positive, has also both Ms. Narwal and Ms. tions, that it was amply
risk of psychological compli Later on, when she start
India”. It was factually
cations if the pregnancy is ed feeling nauseous and diz ably in July. daily new cases touched al dropped from 12.2% to 5.8% Kalita in connection with clear from the chargesheet
wrong as K.R. Narayanan
continued,” the court said. zy, she was taken for medi However, the number of most 4,000 – highest so far – compared to July 1. the Delhi riots and charged that the investigation was
was India’s first Dalit
“The doctors have ex cal checkup, where she was new cases has been less than and since then it has been The number of contain them under Sections 147 still pending and that it was
President. The error is
regretted. plained that there may be found pregnant. A case has 1,500 for the past 27 consec dropping. ment zones in the city was (rioting), 353 (using crimi fi led against other accused
some risks in terminating been registered. utive days, which is less com Though Delhi has a capac 523 as on Wednesday. nal force to deter public ser persons also.
‘15% dip in students in govt. I-Day celebrations to be organised at Delhi Secretariat this year
schools a matter of concern’ Special attraction ic, General Administration ing doctors, nurses, sanita possible. The Delhi govern MCD Mayors had also been
Minister Gopal Rai an tion workers, plasma do ment has decided to cele invited. The Chief Justice of
this time will be nounced here on nors, ambulance drivers brate the Independence Delhi High Court, senior
Govt. not bothered, claims BJP chief the ‘COVID Wednesday. and the police will also be Day at the Delhi Secreta IAS and DANICS offi cers
A small function was be present at the function on riat,” Mr. Rai said. were also among the invi
Special Correspondent wise these numbers of
warriors’ of Delhi ing organised at the Players August 15 where central jail The cultural programme tees. This time, he said, the
New Delhi children would not have Special Correspondent Building with 100 dignitar offi cers will be honoured would not take place this special attraction would be
The Opposition BJP on diminished today. All New Delhi ies, including Chief Minister for their good work. year, he said, and a small the ‘COVID warriors’ of Del
Wednesday said it is con claims of giving online Independence Day celebra Arvind Kejriwal, the Cabi “Every year the Delhi go celebration would be held hi.
cerned about the decreas education to the children tions will be held at the Del net of Ministers, Members vernment celebrates the In instead. According to Mr. “One representative of
ing percentage of students also have proved to be hi Secretariat instead of the of Parliament, legislators dependence Day at the Rai, the Delhi Chief Minis the doctors, nurses, sanita
in Delhi government false by this,” he alleged. Chhatrasal Stadium this and the Delhi High Court Chhatrasal Stadium. But ter, Cabinet Ministers, all tion workers, plasma do
schools, which have seen year in accordance with so Chief Justice. among the this year due to the COVID the 70 MLAs, seven Lok nors, ambulance drivers
a dip of more than 15%. ‘Students being failed’ cial distancing norms in the main invitees, he said. 19 pandemic any such mega Sabha MPs and three Rajya and the police will be pre
Delhi BJP chief Adesh Since the Kejriwal govern wake of COVID19 pandem ‘COVID warriors’, includ celebration would not be Sabha MPs and the three sent,” he said.
Gupta said that about 14 ment came to power, ev
lakh students study in ery year, Mr. Gupta al
schools in Delhi and there leged, in order to
has been a drop of more “improve” exam results, a
than 2.5 lakh in this num large number of children
ber, but the Kejriwal go were being failed in the
vernment was “not Class IX and XI examina
concerned”. tions, so that only a small
“A majority of the chil number of children could
dren studying in 1,030 go appear in the Class X and
vernment schools in Delhi XII examinations. The de
belong to poor families. At creasing number of exa
the time of the COVID19 minees every year testi
crisis, the government, fi ed to this, he said.
which left the people of The number of students
Delhi on its own, did not appearing for Class XII ex
even care about the chil ams in Delhi government
dren,” Mr. Gupta also al schools, he said, was de
leged. creasing rapidly every
year; from 2005 to 2014,
‘Fake claims’ the number of students
“Due to such a decrease in appearing in Class XII in
this number, it becomes Delhi increased from
clear that the Kejriwal go 60,570 to 1,66,257; but in
vernment kept making 2015, after the Kejriwal go
fake claims of educational vernment came to power,
revolution in advertise the number of students
ments and it did not care appearing in Class XII re
about the children. Other duced to 1,12,826.
Journalists
attacked: no
FIR lodged
by police yet
STAFF REPORTER
NEW DELHI
A day after three journalists
were allegedly attacked by a
mob in northeast Delhi
while covering a story, Del
hi Police has not registered
any case in the incident, ac
cording to a senior police
offi cer on Wednesday.
DCP (NorthEast) Ved
Prakash Surya said that pol
ice have received com
plaints from both the sides.
An investigation has been
ordered into the incident
and based on its report, an
FIR will be registered under
appropriate sections of the
Indian Penal Code.
The opposite party had
lodged a complaint against
the journalists for asking in
citing questions that could
have disrupted peace in the
area, according to the pol
ice. One of the journalists
said they had not been con
tacted by any police offi cer.
They said they came to
know that police would fi le
a crossFIR over the inci
dent in order to put pres
sure on them.
Published by N. Ravi at Kasturi Buildings, 859 & 860, Anna Salai, Chennai-600002 and Printed by S. Ramanujam at HT Media Ltd. Plot No. 8, Udyog Vihar, Greater Noida Distt. Gautam Budh Nagar, U.P. 201306, on behalf of THG PUBLISHING PVT LTD., Chennai-600002. Editor: Suresh Nambath (Responsible for selection of news under the PRB Act).
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Six psychiatric
patients still BJP MLA alleges assault by U.P. Kapil Mishra front runner for
untraced
Syed Sajjad Ali
Agartala
police, party workers protest BJP gen. secy. post in Delhi ‘Allegations related to the Feb. riots not a stumbling block’
Six patients who fl ed with ‘Rajkumar Sahyogi was angry over FIR being registered against a VHP worker’
nine others from the Jatin Anand claim to the three general se
State’s main psychiatry Anuj Kumar ral), Aligarh told The Hindu, cretary posts in the Delhi
<
> We are looking New Delhi
hospital remained un Ghaziabad
into CCTV footage “In the said case, the FIR was Allegations related to the Fe BJP. Among the other lead
traced three days after the The Bharatiya Janata Party before arriving at registered against both the bruary riots in northeast ers being considered for the
incident. They were in MLA from Iglas (reserved) parties after the complaint Delhi against him notwith posts are Rajiv Babbar,
any conclusion.
mates of the Modern Psy constituency in Aligarh dis came from both Rohit and standing, Kapil Mishra has Harsh Malhotra, Virender
The police station
chiatry Hospital at Narsin trict, Rajkumar Sahyogi, al Saleem. A medical was done emerged as a front runner Sachdeva, Rajendra Tiwari,
garh, near MBB Airport leged on Wednesday that he has two cameras and none of them had se for one of the three general Ashok Goel Devraha, Ashish
here. was beaten up by policemen, and one of them rious injuries. Preliminary secretary posts in the reor Sood, Aditya Jha, Rekha
Fifteen patients gave the including the SHO, and his was working at the investigation reveals that the ganised State unit of the BJP. Gupta and Kamaljeet Sehra
guards a slip before dawn clothes were torn off when time of the MLA raised an objection on Party sources said Mr. wat, said sources.
on Sunday last to fl ee from he went to protest over an BJP workers protesting incident why the second FIR was Mishra, who was unsuccess
the hospital. FIR registered against a VHP outside the Gonda police Atul Sharma lodged.” fully fi elded from the Model BJP leader Kapil Mishra BJYM choices
They broke the iron grill worker at the Gonda police station on Wednesday. * Superintendent of Police (Rural) A chowkidar posted at the Town segment in the Delhi Leaders such as Impreet
of a toilet window to make station in Iglas tehseel. station told reporters that he Assembly elections earlier Sangh’s top choices for the Bakshi, Ram Khiladi Yadav,
their way out. Senior police offi cers said days ago there was a fracas alleged that the local police was present at the spot at the this year, checks all the right post,” said a senior leader. Shivam Chhabra and Vasu
Airport police station they were checking the CCTV between members of two had taken money from the time of the incident and it boxes in this regard given his “There may be allegations Rukhad are among the
was alerted after hospital footage before taking any communities in Gonda over a other party. “In the fi ght, Ro was Mr. Sahyogi who lost his popularity, Poorvanchali against him but that is all choices for the leadership of
offi cials came to know of action. minor issue and the MLA was hit was beaten up still the cool fi rst and slapped a pol background and caste. they are; his speech [prior to the party’s State youth wing,
the incident. Police tracked Scores of local BJP work angry why an FIR was regis police lodged an FIR against ice offi cer. “He is young, popular, the Delhi riots] was only re the Bharatiya Janata Yuva
down nine patients from ers assembled at the Gonda tered against his man. him. When I raised the issue, “We are looking into the and is just the kind of face garding a blocked road. His Morcha.
nearby localities within 24 police station and raised slo Earlier, Mr. Sahyogi told three offi cers, including SHO CCTV footage before arriving the party needs in the city in appointment will fulfi l the The reorganisation of the
hours of their escape, but gans against the police. The reporters that he went to the Anuj Saini, beat me up and at any conclusion. The police the runup to the civic elec BrahminPoorvanchali crite unit is currently under way
are yet to rescue the re local market was shut and police station to ask offi cers used casteist slurs against station has two cameras and tions [which are around the ria,” said another leader. and the names of its new of
maining six. Police stations police presence increased on why an FIR was registered me,” he said. one of them was working at corner]. These factors have According to party sourc fi cebearers are scheduled to
across west Tripura were Wednesday evening. against Rohit Varshney, a Responding to the allega the time of the incident,” Mr. also made him one of the es, around a hundred indivi be announced later this
put on alert. Local sources said a few VHP worker, in the case. He tions, Atul Sharma, SP (Ru Sharma said. Rashtriya Swayamsewak duals have staked their month.
Accused in Hapur child
rape case identifi ed
Police announce reward for his arrest
Special Correspondent on August 6 by a bikeborne
Ghaziabad man and was found by a
The police on Wednesday re farmer near a sugarcane fi eld
leased the photograph of the in the early hours of August 7.
alleged rapist of a sixyear The police took her to a lo
old child in a Hapur village cal hospital from where she
and also announced a re was referred to Meerut Medi
ward of ₹ 50,00 for his arrest. cal College where the doc
0 “The accused has been iden
tifi ed as Rohtas alias Dalpat.
tors confi rmed that she was
brutally raped. After a sur
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ment or advertiser or for any of the advertiser’s
products and/or services. In no event can the perintendent of Police, Ha identify the culprit through
Owner, Publisher, Printer, Editor, Director/s,
Employees of this newspaper/company be held pur, told The Hindu. the motorcycle he had bor
responsible/liable in any manner whatsoever
for any claims and/or damages for advertise- The girl was abducted rowed from his brotherin
ments in this newspaper.
from her village in Garh area law.
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Weather Watch
Rainfall, temperature & air quality in select metros yesterday
Parth is immature, Maharashtra records highest
singleday recoveries at 13,408
says Sharad Pawar State adds 12,712 COVID19 cases; 1,132 reported in Mumbai
Young leader had demanded CBI probe into actor’s death Shoumojit Banerjee
Pune
Alok Deshpande Maharashtra reported a
Mumbai spike of 12,712 new COVID19
In a rare public snubbing of cases on Wednesday, taking
a family member, Nationalist the State’s total case tally to
Congress Party (NCP) chief 5,48,313. A high fatality
Sharad Pawar on Wednes surge of 344 took the death
day termed his grandne toll to 18,650.
phew Parth Pawar, the son However, the increase in
of Deputy Chief Minister Ajit number of cases — the
Pawar, as ‘immature’ and so State’s secondhighest sin
meone whose words are not Sharad Pawar Parth Pawar gleday spike so far — was off
taken seriously. set by the highest number of Low-key: A boy breaks a dahi handi at Dadar on Wednesday.
Mr. Pawar’s public display Pawar said, “He is immature. the BJP. His rebellion could recoveries in a day, with Janmashtami celebrations across the State were muted in the
Temperature Data: IMD, Pollution Data: CPCB, Map: INSAT/IMD (Taken at 17.00 Hrs)
of anger over the young There is no value to what he not muster support within 13,408 patients being dis wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. EMMANUAL YOGINI *
IMD forecasts
heavy rain
HC reserves order on pleas Beauty products seller conned Redevelopment of cessed
against TRAI’s tariff order buildings to be expedited
in Mumbai
Sonam Saigal
of ₹ 60 lakh by cyber fraudster Alok Deshpande been delayed for various
Mumbai Raina Assainar Mumbai
Press Trust of India COVID19induced lockdown done on its new account. Af reasons,” said an offi cial
Mumbai
Mumbai The Bombay High Court on since March 22, the compa ter verifying the transaction The State Cabinet on Wed from the Housing Depart
The India Meteorological Wednesday reserved judge Nykaa, an Indian retail seller ny could not import the ma details sent by Nykaa, Omni nesday cleared the proposal ment. It has been delayed,
Department (IMD) on Wed ment on a bunch of peti of beauty, wellness, and fash terial ordered,” the complai cos confi rmed that neither to speed up the redevelop stopped or left halfway by
nesday predicted heavy tions challenging the broad ion products, has been nant in his FIR said. the email ID belonged to it ment of cessed buildings developers. The issues in
rainfall at isolated places in casting regulations and duped of ₹ 60 lakh by a cyber However, in April, Nykaa in nor the bank account. within Mumbai city through clude nonpayment of rents
Mumbai and intense show amended tariff orders is fraudster who spoofed the formed the Italybased com “After conducting an in Maharashtra Housing and of tenants, or rules and con
ers in neighbouring dis sued by Telecom Regulatory email ID of its Italian supplier. pany that the procedure to ternal enquiry, they realised Area Development Authori ditions within the noobjec
tricts for the next 24 hours. Authority of India (TRAI) in Bombay High Court A complaint was lodged by make the payment had been that they have been duped. ty (MHADA). tion certifi cate being violat
A brown alert of heavy January this year. A verdict Hemanshu Mehta, head, go initiated. The email ID of the The accused made a looka The redevelopment pro ed. However, no action has
to very heavy rainfall has is likely on August 24. tion, and Star India. vernance risk and com Italian fi rm had the domain like email ID with a diff erent jects that are being delayed been taken despite notice
been issued for Raigad, Solicitor General of India Challenging the TRAI or pliance offi cer of the compa name as omnicos.it. domain and cheated them. or not undertaken, if under from the civic body.
Nashik and Pune, an IMD Tushar Mehta, representing der, the petitions state that ny, at the N.M. Joshi Marg After a few days, Nykaa re At this stage, it is diffi cult to taken by MHADA, will have The government has now
offi cial said. TRAI, told the court that im “The restriction impinges police station on August 10. ceived an email from an ID conclude if any internal em to be completed within made arrangements to set up
Isolated places in Mum plementation of the new ta (on) the fundamental right On November 14, 2019, which had the name of the ployee from either of the three years since taking the a highpower committee to
bai are likely to receive hea riff order will be deferred till guaranteed to them under the company had ordered coordinator from Omnicos, companies is involved. With commencement certifi cate. resolve disputes between the
vy rain, while Thane, Rai August 25. He also gave an Article 19, 1 a (freedom of raw material from an Italy along with omnicos.it, fol the help of a technical team, The Cabinet decision is like owner/developer and MHA
gad and Ratnagiri will oral assurance that no coer speech and expression) and based company Omnicos for lowed by the domain of we are investigating the mat ly to benefi t at least 14,500 DA under the chairmanship
witness more intense cive action would be taken 19, 1 g (practise any profes 71,000 euros (₹ 60 lakh). On gmail. The email said that ter and trying to fi nd the ori cessed buildings. of Principle Secretary (Hous
showers for the next 24 against the broadcasters. sion or to carry on any occu March 20, this year, the ven due to the lockdown, its reg gin of the email sent,” senior Cessed buildings are ing). The State government
hours, the offi cial said. The court was hearing pation, trade or business) of dor informed the company ular bank account was facing police inspector Pandit Tho those for which the govern had formed an eightMLA
“Mumbai, western sub pleas fi led by the Indian the Indian Constitution.” On via email and on phone that issues and a new invoice was rat from N.M. Joshi Marg pol ment collects tax for a repair committee to suggest mea
urbs, parts of Thane and Broadcasting Foundation, January 1, 2020, the regula the raw material was ready being issued with a new bank ice station said. fund. These buildings were sures to speed up the redeve
Navi Mumbai received Film and Television Produc tory authority had intro and an invoice for it had account and all the payments A Nykaa spokesperson mainly built before Indepen lopment of dangerous and
more than 60 mm rainfall ers Guild of India, Zee En duced new rules that reduc been sent. The vendor also henceforth would have to be said that there was no breach dence, and the concept is li dilapidated cessed buildings.
in the last six hours at 2.30 tertainment Enterprises Li es the cost of a channel from said that as per rules, the made on that account. in customer data. “We fi led a mited to the island city and “Those too shall be consi
pm,” tweeted K.S. Hosali mited, Sony Pictures the existing ₹ 19 to ₹ 12 for the payment would have to be In May, the fi rm from Italy complaint with the police af not the suburbs. “A number dered while tabling the Bill
kar, deputy director gener Networks, Disney Board, television broadcasters to made within 30 days. enquired about the payment ter detecting fraudulent ac of redevelopment projects in the Legislature,” the offi
al of IMD Mumbai. Asianet Star Communica include it in their pack. “Due to the imposition of to which Nykaa said it was tivity targeting Nykaa.” of cessed buildings have cial said.
IISER Bhopal scientists’ study on seed germination may lead to crop improvement Aaditya to head
Padma panel in
The study was vironmental cues like light sprouting or to enforce a cally important plant varie regulator’ of the seed’s
Maharashtra
(which promotes the sprout growth arrest. Being ‘sessile’ ties that have better tole growth by controlling several
recently published ing process) and darkness. [fi xed to a place], plants have rance to stress conditions. aspects of plant develop Press Trust of India
in U.S. journals Their fi ndings were re an extraordinary sensing me The results of the study, ment, including seed dor Mumbai
cently published in two U.S. chanism to allow them assess though in its elementary mancy and germination, as The Maharashtra govern
Shoumojit Banerjee based publications: The environmental conditions phase, are vital as they well as controlling growth ment has set up a commit
Pune Plant Journal and Plant Phy- before a seed decides to come at a time when frus under adverse conditions tee headed by State Tou
A team of researchers at the siology. open up and establish as a trated farmers across Maha such as drought or salinity. rism Minister Aaditya
Indian Institute of Science young seedling. Like hu rashtra have lodged thou “Considering that surviv Thackeray to recommend
Education and Research (IIS Post-germination growth mans, plants, too, have hor sands of complaints against al in such conditions can be names of eminent perso
ER), Bhopal, has conducted Although ABA, a ubiquitous mones like ABA that modu seed companies, alleging really challenging, the ABA nalities for the Padma
a study on seed germination plant hormone, was disco late their growth and them of having provided signals the seed not to ger awards to be declared next
that could have a major im vered almost 80 years ago development,” Mr. Datta them with seeds that failed minate until there are fa year. A GR published on
pact on agriculture in the and the mechanisms under said, adding that just like hu to germinate. vourable conditions for August 11 said the Centre
long run by helping deter lying germination inhibition mans were forced to mediate Over the past two growth. If the stress comes had directed the State go
mine the optimum timing of by this protein have been the a COVID19induced lock P. Yadukrishnan (left) with Sourav Datta at IISER, Bhopal. months, more than one lakh after the germination of a vernment to recommend
seed germination and thus subject of intensive re down, plants, too mediate a *
SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
farmers in Maharashtra seed, ABA suppresses furth names for the awards that
ensure high plant yields. search, there is scant know “developmental lockdown” have lodged complaints er growth of the seedling. will be declared on January
The work carried out by ledge about the mechanisms under stressful conditions to pendence and take care of it for the successful establish against seed companies, This inhibition leads the 26, 2021.
Premachandran Yadukrish controlled by ABA for arrest ensure their survival. self as it matures into an ment of seedlings. If seeds prompting the State Agricul seedling to invest its ener Accordingly, a nine
nan, P. Valappil Rahul and ing the postgermination He said that just after adult plant. germinate in adverse envi ture department to lodge gies less in its growth and member committee head
Nevedha Ravindran under growth in response to envi sprouting, the young seed ronmental conditions, see over 75 FIRs against seed more in ‘defence mechan ed by Aaditya Thackeray
the guidance of Sourav Dat ronmental cues. This is the must take a crucial decision ‘Stress defence’ dlings ultimately risk exped companies for giving soy isms’ designed to ensure its has been constituted.
ta, associate professor at the gap that the IISER team has on whether to go ahead with “It is analogous to the baby iting precious energy in bean seeds to farmers survival,” he said. Leader of Opposition in
department of biological attempted to bridge with its the ‘seedling establishment’ steps in humans before a ‘stress defence’ rather than which failed to germinate. Mr. Yadukrishnan said the Legislative Council Pra
sciences at IISER, focused on experiments. process (the critical stage of child can stand on its own growth,” Mr. Datta said. that their research proved veen Darekar said there
the interplay between plant “All plants, depending on plant growth) or not. feet and walk. Making the Mr. Datta said understand ‘Master regulator’ that the inhibition of see were many deserving mi
hormones like abscisic acid their external environment, The ‘right decision’ taken right decision in the alloca ing the complex factors that Explaining the critical role of dling growth by ABA is much nisters in the State Cabinet
(ABA) which inhibit the make the decision to open its by the young seed ultimately tion of resources to growth modulate ABA sensitivity is ABA, Mr. Yadukrishnan said stronger in darkness as com who could have headed the
sprouting of the seed and en embryonic leaves after allows it to secure its inde or stress responses is critical vital to developing economi the protein acts as a ‘master pared to light conditions. committee.
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6 EDITORIAL DELHI
Stop the dismantling of environmental rules
The government has a social obligation to protect the environment; it must withdraw the Draft EIA 2020 Notifi cation
The pandemic should have that welldefi ned land rights to for is not a regulatory burden and the
made the government refl ect and est dwellers are benefi cial for both government must incentivise in
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rances during the lockdown with tation of the FRA, 2006, has led to es (MSME) sector must be subsi
from each other, they can fi nd a way to win Sonia Gandhi out proper public consultations. Adivasis and forestdwelling com dised to follow green norms.
The announcement of coal auc munities being harassed by the Nobody denies that India needs a
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resumptive U.S. Democratic nominee and former
tions by the Prime Minister in pre Forest Department. Their legal modern EIA framework. But it
VicePresident Joe Biden has picked Kamala Har
T
he Sanskrit words, ‘Prakriti viously declared ‘no go’ areas, sig claims to land are buried in bu must be based on best available
ris, Senator from California of Indian descent, as Rakshati Rakshita’, greet vis nals that the government is in no reaucracy. The FRA link to project scientifi c knowledge, enhanced
his vicepresidential running mate, a fi llip to his party’s itors at the Indira Paryava mood to coursecorrect. The dis approvals has been abandoned in public participation and regular
connect with AfricanAmericans, the IndianAmerican ran Bhawan, the home of the Mi astrous Draft Environmental Im practice, and the curtailment or social audits. The concept of cum
community, women and its core base of mainstream nistry of Environment, Forest and pact Assessment (EIA), 2020 Noti rum and other stakeholders, for elimination of public hearings ulative impacts of projects in a re
liberals. Ms. Harris — her late mother and cancer re Climate Change, (MoEF&CC). They fi cation, which among other threatening the livelihoods of fi sh means that civil society and inde gion or ecology — on the Ganga,
searcher Shyamala Gopalan hailed from a Chennai mean ‘nature protects, if she is provisions, gives a clean chit to ing communities and destroying pendent or concerned voices are for example, must be adopted.
based family, and Jamaican father Donald Harris, a re protected’. This ancient Indic wis polluters violating environmental coastal ecology along India’s muzzled. You cannot have ‘Nirmal Ganga’
dom inspired Indira Gandhi regulations through expost facto 7,500km long coastline. These Indira Gandhi had once said without ‘Aviral Ganga’.
tired Stanford professor — made a name for herself as a
throughout her life, as referenced approvals, will unleash unprece communities contribute more that forest development corpora
tough lawyer, politically ambitious enough to throw her in many of her letters and fi les. dented devastation on our than ₹ 50,000 crore annually to tions had become forest destruc India as a green hub
hat in the ring as a Biden challenger in the Democratic She shared a deep kinship with na environment. the Indian economy. They are se tion corporations. The veracity of Simply put, the government must
primaries. In a close parallel to former President Ba ture. She was also cognisant that verely impacted by climate change her observation is borne out by stop dismantling India’s environ
rack Obama picking his Democratic primaries rival Hil the environment cannot be pro Opaque reviews and natural disasters and are left several proposals or actions that mental regulations. An essential
lary Clinton for Secretary of State, Mr. Biden chose Ms. tected without eradicating pover It was apparent that a Narendra to fend for themselves by the go militate against the interests of for fi rst step is to withdraw the Draft
Harris from amidst a cohort of strong candidates, in ty. The origins and spread of the Modiled Bharatiya Janata Party vernment. Likewise, the National est dwellers. EIA 2020 Notifi cation. What is es
global novel coronavirus pandem government would be destructive Board for Wildlife, the Forest Advi For example, there is a proposal sential is widespread public con
cluding former NSA Susan Rice and Senator from Mas
ic and its catastrophic impact are a to India’s environment going by sory Committee and Expert Ap to overhaul the colonial Indian sultation to shape a national agen
sachusetts Elizabeth Warren. In picking Ms. Harris, Mr. warning to the entire world. The Mr. Modi’s track record in Gujarat praisal Committees are approving Forest Act, 1927 to give enhanced da that will place India at the
Biden has consolidated his position at the helm of the protection of the environment as Chief Minister. During the 2014 projects in and around protected policing and quasijudicial powers forefront of the battle against glo
Democratic Party mainstream, ensuring a convergence must go hand in hand with pro election campaign, Mr. Modi slan wildlife areas without following of the forest offi cials. It gives forest bal warming and pandemics. We
of views with his vicepresidential nominee on race re moting public health and access to dered the United Progressive Al due process. offi cials powers to use fi rearms have an incredible opportunity to
lations, policing and criminal justice reform, immigra dignifi ed livelihoods for all. liance (UPA) government and the The North Indian plains and the with unjustifi ed levels of immunity reset our economy and demon
tion, the healthcare insurance industry and education Environment Ministry for being an National Capital Region are en from prosecution. Earlier, the strate leadership to the world with
Erosion of the framework impediment to the nation’s gulfed in a debilitating smog year Compensatory Aff orestation Fund a growth strategy that transforms
policy. The timing of her selection could not be better —
India with its rich biodiversity and growth. From the very start, the after year. According to a study in Act, 2016 was passed by the go India into a green manufacturing
as an outspoken leader on racism and a woman of co widespread inequality must espe government has desperately the British journal, The Lancet, vernment in both Houses of Parlia hub. The erstwhile Planning Com
lour, the symbolism of Mr. Biden picking her will off er cially pay heed now. Our nation sought to project an image of ‘Ease 12.4 lakh deaths i.e. 12.5% of all ment, ignoring the Opposition mission’s expert group report on
hope to many, including ‘Black Lives Matter’ activists. has all too often sacrifi ced the en of Doing Business’ to the world, deaths in India in 2017, could be at which pointed out that it bypasses low carbon growth strategy and
Ms. Harris will not only bring to the Biden ticket her vironment and the rights of our mindless of consequences. It tributed to air pollution. Yet, there the FRA, 2006, and disempowers the many suggestions in the 2019
broad appeal across the Democratic spectrum, but at people while chasing the chimera formed multiple committees, di has been no concerted action to Adivasis, forest dwellers and gram Congress Manifesto can be a start
55, will help tip the overall age profi le of a potential fu of unbridled economic growth. Of luted laws and regulations across address this public health emer sabhas. ing point. In times of mass reverse
course, progress requires trade the board, and opened up vast gency. Instead of stringent mea migration, environment protec
ture Democratic White House in the right direction. Ho
off s, but there must always be tracts of forest land to a select few sures to control emissions from Promote public health tion through public works pro
wever, if her 2020 presidential campaign was indica boundaries that cannot be trans in the private sector. thermal power plants, the govern In the name of reforms, the go grammes including aff orestation
tive, she will need to up her game on critical talking gressed. But over the past six In 2014, the T.S.R. Subramanian ment extended deadlines for com vernment rolled out the red carpet and watershed development, can
points including her record as a prosecutor in her home years, the government has Committee was set up to review pliance and has made a Uturn on for crony capitalists, systematical be turned into a grassroots move
State, and on specifi cs regarding the complex question thoughtlessly — or worse, with in six major environmental laws. clean coal. ly disenfranchised the marginal ment involving youth, women,
of healthcare reform. More broadly, she and Mr. Biden tent — eroded our environmental Another committee was formed to ised and vulnerable populations, communities, gram sabhas and
will have to be prepared for an unusual campaign end protection framework. The bien amend the Coastal Regulation Attack on Adivasis and abandoned its responsibility nongovernmental organisations.
nial global Environmental Perfor Zone (CRZ), 2011 Notifi cation. The government’s greatest assault to both domestic and international Indira Gandhi was the fi rst major
game scenario, with less than three months before
mance Index report has consis Both faced immense criticism for has been reserved for the land and commitments on climate change world leader to recognise the envi
Election Day and the COVID19 pandemic slashing a tently put India at the bottom of its opacity and not consulting a wide the rights of Adivasis and other and environmental protection. ronmental crisis confronting the
swathe of economic misery. Will they be able to go rankings. We were an alarming range of stakeholders. The TSR traditional forest dwellers. The This is a completely wrong way to world in Stockholm in June 1972.
beyond the standard Democratic campaign playbook 177th out of 180 countries in 2018, Committee Report was never re historic Forest Rights Act (FRA), go about things. Can India once again rise to the
and adroitly craft a fresh approach to take on a political faring badly on virtually all indica leased, but some of its recommen 2006 was passed by the UPA go The government should recog greatest challenges of the 21st
ly weakened President Trump, who will nevertheless tors — environmental health poli dations were surreptitiously im vernment to undo centuries of in nise it has a social obligation to century?
likely come out guns blazing? Have they pondered the cy, biodiversity and habitat, air plemented. On similar lines, the justice. Our deep cultural tradi protect the environment and pro
deep lessons of Ms. Clinton’s loss to Mr. Trump in 2016 and water pollution and climate 2018 CRZ Notifi cation was rejected tions as well as experience from all mote public health. India’s envi Sonia Gandhi is the President of the
change. by the National Fishworkers Fo over the world have demonstrated ronmental protection framework Indian National Congress
and come up with robust ideas to alleviate the econom
ic pain of workingclass Americans perceived to be the
result of policies supporting globalisation and immigra
tion? Will she be able to go toetotoe with incumbent
VicePresident Mike Pence and yet avoid alienating in
More than a vaccine, it is about vaccination
dependent and undecided voters? If the two Democrat As a COVID19 vaccine is for all age groups, putting in place an innovative delivery platform in time is a must
ic leaders on the ticket learn from each other, there is a United Kingdom and India. infections requires systematic Vaccine trials document the ab
chance that they might arrive at a winning formula. Both companyowners have in screening for IgG antibody. Anti sence of serious side eff ects. Minor
vested heavily, without extramural body positives need not be vacci and inconsequential reactions are
Mayhem in Minsk research support, or advance pur
chase contract by the government.
nated (no harm if vaccinated). All
data should be saved permanently.
selflimiting fever, pain and swell
ing at the injection site. As it would
Belarus is at the crossroads after a disputed Both seem to have the best inter Areawise estimates of the num be a new vaccine, all side eff ects
T. Jacob John & M.S. Seshadri ests of fellow Indians fi rst in their bers who need vaccination on a must be documented for fi rst and
election triggered protests and violence hearts; profi t comes second. Risks priority basis are necessary. Now second doses; medical events dur
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elarus has seen dramatic political developments are a part of the game. Neither is the time for State governments ing the month following each dose
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over the past few days. First, the Election Com veryone eagerly asks: will we company has all its eggs in one to capture all such data. must be captured through phone
mission announced that longterm President get a COVID19 vaccine this basket — confi dence in their fl ag A community’s need for vacci calls, and analysed to check full sa
Alexander Lukashenko was the winner of Sunday’s year or only next year? Dur ship antigens is not absolute, both nation is twofold. All those who fety of the vaccine.
ing a pandemic, expecting vac are pursuing alternate vaccine save time when a vaccine becomes must rebuild essential activities, Phase 3 trial is usually in
election. His main rival, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, reject
cines the same year or the next, il candidates also. available. i.e. economic, educational, trade, healthy volunteers, hence effi cacy
ed the results and called for a recount. Protests broke lustrates the power of technology, Some wealthy nations made bi Policy emerges from objective transport, sociocultural and reli and safety profi le in others will not
out in the capital, Minsk, which was met with a violent human hope, media hype — all at lateral fi nancial agreements with (s) for vaccine use in individuals gious, must be protected. A more be available when a vaccine is
security crackdown. At least 2,000 people were de unprecedented frenzy. manufacturers in order to hog vac and community. Priority for indi ambitious aim is to break the novel rolled out. However, senior citi
tained and dozens injured. Then, as the country was cines. Such vaccine nationalism is vidual need is to protect those at coronavirus transmission and zens and those with comorbidi
slipping into chaos and anarchy, she fl ed to neighbour Where India stands ‘measles of the world’, borrowing high risk of death (senior citizens eradicate the disease altogether. ties must be vaccinated by/on
ing Lithuania, saying she made “a very diffi cult deci Globally, innumerable vaccine the phrase from Einstein. Global and those with medical comor With India’s notable representa priority. Some countries require
trials are progressing; in India, public good should not be hi bidities) and frontline workers tion in decisionmaking bodies of that a proportion of volunteers
sion”. But her campaign committee has said that it
two candidates have advanced jacked by wealthy nations. Gavi, who expose themselves to infec the World Health Organization, In should be the elderly and the vul
would continue to support the protests against the considerably. An inactivated coro the global vaccine alliance, creat tion while providing health care. dia is uniquely positioned to play a nerable. In India, careful docu
“election fraud”. This was the hardest fought election navirus vaccine was created by ed COVAX — a funding facility to Children may be vaccinated before crucial role in advocating global mentation of all side eff ects in all
in Belarus, a former Soviet republic, since the USSR’s Hyderabad’s Bharat Biotech. It is ensure upscaling vaccine produc schools reopen to protect them eradication of COVID19. individuals, senior citizens, those
disintegration. There has been widespread anger safe and immunogenic (stimulates tion and its access to low income and prevent infection from being with comorbidities, and children
against the government over a stagnant economy. Mr. anticoronavirus antibody) in labo countries as soon as regulatory ap carried home. Getting a plan ready must supplement trial data on vac
Lukashenko, often touted as Europe’s last dictator, had ratory animals and humans, to be provals emerge. COVAX will sup Vaccine availability will be limit We need a vaccinedelivery plat cine safety. This ‘postmarketing
reconfi rmed in a phase 2 trial; port the SII with funds to bring ed at fi rst, when we must ensure form to fulfi l all such needs. A surveillance’ must be built into the
cracked down on the Opposition even before the elec
phase 3 will assess the vaccine’s down sellingprice to $3 per dose. that those on the priority list re practical method is vaccination vaccine rollout.
tion. Ms. Tikhanovskaya entered the race after her hus safety and protective effi cacy With good news on supply side, ceive it. Those who already had camps, supervised by a medical The vaccine regulatory agency
band and a popular YouTuber, Sergei Tikhanovsky, against COVID19. what about the delivery side? In COVID19 or novel coronavirus in offi cer, staff ed by health manage should take a call on the special
who was to contest against Mr. Lukashenko, was de Pune’s Serum Institute of India dia’s Universal Immunisation Pro fection require no vaccination; but ment and local government, and question of vaccine safety during
tained and barred from contesting for allegedly inciting (SII) is testing Oxford University gramme is a vaccinedelivery plat how can we ascertain that? Past having the list of people who need pregnancy. One vaccine is an inac
unrest. Throughout the campaigning and the election, AstraZeneca’s vaccine using a Tro form for children and pregnant COVID19 or infection cannot be vaccination. Information should tivated virus and the second is a
the Opposition accused the government of intimida jan horse approach — spiking women, funded by the central go readily identifi ed unless we track be updated regularly, deleting live virus but noninfectious. Both
chimpanzee adenovirus type 5 vernment but implemented by archival information of all labora those who got infected recently. may be assumed to be safe; yet sa
tion, cracking down on journalists and activists, and
with coronavirus spike glycopro State governments. However, the tory tests and medical records. In Enumeration and registration of fety in pregnancy must be ascer
prohibiting independent observers. All these raised tein genes. When injected, adeno COVID19 vaccine is for all age formation should be made availa eligible persons can be started tained in bridge studies that must
doubts about the fairness of the election. viruses are detected and devoured groups, necessitating an innova ble to the individual and the now. Vaccination by appointments be conducted as soon as possible.
It is too early to say if Ms. Tikhanovskaya’s departure by immune system cells patrolling tive platform, prioritised on the health management system, for will ensure that vaccination is
would remove the hurdles Mr. Lukashenko faces in ex for invading microbes. The smug basis of need. which computerised data are criti without overcrowding and with T. Jacob John is retired Professor of
tending his term further. If the protests questioning the gled genes force these cells to syn cal. A nationwide database with minimum waiting time. Postinjec Clinical Virology, CMC Vellore, and Past
legitimacy of his presidency continue, at a time of grow thesise and spew out spike protein Defi ne policy for clarity unique identifi cation details alrea tion, vaccinated subjects should President, Indian Academy of Pediatrics.
that is immunogenic. This adeno The fi rst step is policy defi nition dy exists, a valuable resource to wait for halfanhour in case of im M.S. Seshadri is retired Professor of
ing economic troubles, it could substantially weaken
virus is harmless in humans. The leading to a plan of action blue identify those who need not be mediate side eff ects; emergency Medical Endocrinology, CMC Vellore,
him. The crisis has already derailed his plans for a stra SII is ready to upscale production print. The time to create them is vaccinated. drugs to tackle side eff ects should and, Medical Director, Thirumalai
tegic realignment in Eastern Europe. In recent years, after regulatory clearances in the now — it costs nothing, but will Identifying past asymptomatic be readily available. Mission Hospital, Ranipet, Tamil Nadu
Belarus, a geopolitical ally of Russia with cultural links,
has shown a willingness to work closer with the West.
His bet was to raise the strategic profi le of his lan
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fl uence in Eastern Europe between Moscow and Wash No communication gap some knowledge of the groups especially for those Sputnik V the global scientifi c online, scan the QR code
ington was hotting up. But many western countries As a nation where many local language of the area of working in the IT sector At this critical time, when community needs to come
languages are spoken, it is posting or at least training where a large migrant scientists the world over are together as one. The world bureaucrats would
have condemned the handling of the election and the
impractical to expect all in the basics of the population is employed. I working day and night to is waiting for a vaccine. defi nitely pass the test of
protests, and called for a peaceful settlement. Moscow citizens to know Hindi nor language concerned should am sure similar institutions develop the most eff ective A. Mohan, ethics, public probity, being
immediately sensed an opportunity to cement ties with should the language be be posted in nonHindi exist in Tamil Nadu, West vaccines for COVID19, it is Chennai unyielding to undue
Belarus, which is an important transit route of Russian linked to a misplaced speaking States. The CISF Bengal or Maharashtra. The diffi cult to understand why political pressure and
gas to Europe as well as a buff er between Russia and Eu enthusiasm for Hindi. Now also needs to ensure its government talks of a three some scientists seem so India’s steel frame upholding principles. There
ropean powers. Mr. Lukashenko has nowhere to turn to that the CISF is making personnel have some language formula but often very cynical when it comes While it may be true that are numerous anecdotes of
other than Moscow. He has to decide whether he wants changes after the incident customer skills. There are in practice it is two to Russia and its ‘Sputnik V’ the older batches of civil older generation civil
at Chennai airport recently many voluntary groups languages to the vaccine. Of course, all the servants would fi nd it servants calling a spade a
to extend his 26year reign at any cost or ensure the for
(Page 1, “CISF to deploy willing to teach the basics disadvantage of the local mandated vaccine diffi cult now in passing the spade. Transfers and being
mation of a legitimate government that could address personnel with ‘working of a local language, often language. Learning another protocols would have to be coveted current civil shunted to lesserknown
the country’s vital problems. If he chooses the last, he knowledge of local free of cost. There are language is always a gone through, like any services examination, posts did not deter them.
has to rein in the police, reach out to the Opposition language’ at airports”, voluntary organisations in benefi t. other nation, before the (Editorial page, “The main But is it possible now?
and off er talks to fi nd a peaceful settlement to the crisis. August 12), the force must Bengaluru teaching H.N. Ramakrishna, fi nal approvals. However, bricks to use in India’s steel C. Raghavan,
ensure that personnel with Kannada to nonKannada Bengaluru this is also the time when frame”, August 10), veteran Chennai
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How the tiger can regain its stripes Shutting the door on Huawei
Tiger conservation needs a reboot to match the scale of India’s aspirations in other domains China’s decision to weaponise trade and technology ties
might now come back to haunt it
government monopoly over tiger
management was the lack of data major diplomatic win as it might also con
transparency and rigorous, indepen vince fence sitters to make a fi nal decision.
dent tiger monitoring. For Huawei, a domino eff ect across Eu
rope might pose a serious challenge given
Bound in red tape that almost a quarter of its sales come from
K. Ullas Karanth The tiger was fully bound in red tape. the European market. France also decided
One had hoped when the National Harsh V. Pant to limit the use of Huawei’s 5G kit by issuing
Democratic Alliance (NDA) took over limited term licences. This is widely seen as a
On International Tiger Day, July 29, in 2014 and began to wind down bu de facto ban on the Chinese company
authorities proudly declared that In reaucracies in favour of new initia In a dramatic reversal of its decision in Janu though the French government has not said
dia should “celebrate” the increase tives and enterprise, that the red ary allowing Huawei to have a limited role in it in so many words. Germany too is reduc
in tigers from about 2,000 in 1970 to tape strangling the tiger would also its telecommunications network, the U.K. ing its reliance on Huawei as the mood
about 3,000 now. This is an annual be unwound. But there was no such has fi nally decided to ban the Chinese com against China has soured across Europe. Af
growth rate lower than 1% after 50 luck: within two weeks of the NDA as pany. This entails banning U.K. mobile pro ter years of kowtowing to the Chinese, the
years of incredible, sometimes he suming power, the same national viders from buying new Huawei 5G equip European Union is becoming more explicit
roic, eff orts. Clearly, India has done and international bureaucratic appa ment after the end of this year as well as than ever in challenging China. The issues
better than other tiger range coun ratuses that ran the show after 2005 removing all of Huawei’s 5G kit from their range from China’s initial mishandling of CO
tries, but at what cost and what effi Tiger cubs at the Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve near Nagpur in Maharashtra on performed a trapeze act and clasped networks by 2027. The U.K.’s Secretary of VID19 and Beijing’s disinformation cam
ciency needs deeper scrutiny. July 29, 2019. K.R. DEEPAK
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the hands of the new masters. State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, paign in Europe to the new national security
On the same day, a functionary of Therefore, the show goes on: One Oliver Dowden, put the blame on U.S. sanc law in Hong Kong. China is viewed as a “sys
the Delhibased Global Tiger Forum slow growth of the economy, exces Bihari Vajpayee promoted his capa prime example is the aforemen tions imposed on Huawei in May. “Given the temic rival” that is hell bent on challenging
admonished us not to aspire, ever, to sive reliance on forest exploitation ble and enterprising Environment tioned Global Tiger Forum, an inter uncertainty this creates around Huawei’s the extant global order with all its concomi
have more than 3,500 wild tigers. In for livelihoods and government reve Minister Suresh Prabhu, the portfo national bureaucracy snugly en supply chain, the U.K. can no longer be con tant treaties, norms and institutions. And
a country with such an expansive nues, dire poverty, and protein de lio landed in the lap of gardenvarie trenched in Delhi. It has done so in fi dent it will be able to guarantee the security Huawei is the latest fl ashpoint with indivi
land base, a robust economic foun pendency on wild meat that drove ty politicians of the Dravida Munne defi ance of its own original charter of future Huawei 5G equipment,” he said. dual countries shunning the company and
dation, and a rapidly urbanising edu massive local hunting. These chal tra Kazhagam. When one of the most and attempts by multilateral aid insti U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo the European Commission warning in a re
cated population cheering for the tig lenges were overcome and tiger re capable leaders of Project Tiger, P.K. tutions to pry it loose and park it in praised the U.K.’s decision and urged other cent report that “most Member States have
er, this dismal projection cannot be coveries occurred, but only sporadi Sen, retired, he was replaced by a bu Southeast Asia. Another case in point likeminded countries to “push back” not yet established or communicated clear
our vision. Even a backoftheenve cally in a few reserves. reaucrat who managed to game the is the National Tiger Conservation against Beijing’s actions. For its part, China plans to eff ectively address existing situa
lope calculation can show that India Around 2000, things began to system to stay on for an unprece Authority. It has bloated in size, “strongly opposed” the U.K.’s “groundless” tions of dependency on highrisk suppliers
has the potential to hold 10,000 to change. There was a decline in polit dented 13 years. swallowing up schemes totally unre ban and warned that it would “take mea and prevent future dependencies.”
15,000 wild tigers. What is lacking is ical commitment to conservation The tiger extinction in Sariska Re lated to tigers, such as the recovery sures to safeguard” the “legitimate interests”
a pragmatic plan to get to that goal. and the gradual transition of the serve caused a public outcry in 2005, of snow leopards and translocation of Chinese companies as “any decisions and Awaiting India’s response
In contrast to the above dismal fi eldoriented Forest Department to leading to the appointment of a Tiger of African cheetahs to India. actions must come at a cost”. The British go So what once looked like a battle which the
scenario, I can report what I wit one whose primary aspiration was to Task Force (TTF) by Prime Minister India needs to get out of this tiger vernment has been forthright about the de U.S. was waging on its own has suddenly
nessed in the Malenad landscape of be like the multitasking Indian Admi Manmohan Singh. Unfortunately, the circus. The role of the forest bureauc lay in 5G’s rollout as a consequence of its been joined by a number of other players.
about 25,000 sq km in Karnataka. nistrative Service. This was followed TTF turned out to be unequal to the racy should be once again restricted policy shift and the costs of its decision. At a The Indian response is being closely
Field observations over 50 years and by unnecessary and massive borrow task. Its politically correct ideologies to wildlife law enforcement. Merging time when London is looking to engage with watched. Last year, India had allowed Hua
research suggest that there were only ings from the Global Environment and muddled science resulted in a re Project Tiger with other Central major global powers in a postBrexit environ wei to participate in 5G trials which could
around 70 tigers in this landscape in FacilityWorld Bank combine to port that created a tiger management schemes for wildlife conservation ment to enhance its trade ties, this decision, not happen because of the disruptions
the early 1970s. I had feared they create new models for tiger recovery. model that benefi ted the forest bu would be a good fi rst step. Govern which is likely to alienate China, will come caused by the pandemic. Today, IndiaChina
would all be gone soon. The substan Some of us conservationists, includ reaucracy more than it did the tigers. ment monopoly over domains of tig with some serious strategic costs as well. ties have altered due to the border crisis and
tial increase of tigers that followed, ing Valmik Thapar and the late San Based on TTF recommendations, er conservation such as tiger re Chinese insensitivity to Indian concerns.
against all odds, was due to the work joy Debroy, wrote to the World Bank the United Progressive Alliance go search, monitoring, nature A domino eff ect across Europe New Delhi is toughening its posture across
of dedicated foresters and conserva to abandon the proposed ecodeve vernment began investing heavily, education, tourism and possibly The U.S.’s imposition of sanctions on Huawei domains and it looks rather unlikely that
tionists under the leadership of lopment model, but to no avail. but not very intelligently, in tiger even confl ict mitigation should be in May, which disrupted the company’s glo Huawei would get to participate in the 5G
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. There This mission drift in tiger protec conservation. Excessive funding of a erased. The vast reservoir of talent bal supply of semiconductors, altered the network rollout in India. India is signalling
are now about 400 wild tigers in Ma tion overlapped with the upsurge of few reserves while neglecting large and energy in society should be cost calculus for the U.K. The U.K. govern that it is willing to bear economic and techn
lenad. My own estimates, based on emancipatory political movements areas with greater recovery potential drawn in to engage with these di ment had to go in for another round of secur ological costs if it means limiting Chinese in
longterm research, show that the for the release of wildlife habitats for became the norm. Progress on vo verse domains, by involving private ity review which resulted in the National Se volvement in critical infrastructure. But
Malenad forests can potentially har cultivation and exploitation by loose luntary village relocation schemes enterprises, local communities, curity Council’s decision to fi nally phase off what would not be lost on Beijing is that los
bour about 1,300 cats. Clearly my ex ly defi ned “forestdwellers”. This po from within reserves slowed down NGOs and scientifi c institutions. Huawei’s involvement in the country’s 5G ing such a large market might be a devastat
perience is at odds with the current pulist movement led to the imple (except in Madhya Pradesh and Mah India’s tiger conservation needs a network. But the U.S.U.K. relationship was ing blow to Huawei as well. It is becoming in
bureaucratic projections. mentation of the Forest Rights Act of arashtra, where major initiatives reboot to match the scale of the also facing a moment of reckoning after the creasingly clear that the decision on Huawei
2006, which has turned into an funded by these States greatly country’s aspirations in other do U.K.’s January decision to allow Huawei. At a is not merely a technological or economic
Mission drift in tiger protection openended process of forest conver helped tiger recoveries). Tiger re mains — a new vision that encom time when the U.S.China relationship is en decision but a fundamentally political deci
Two legal instruments that enabled sion even within wildlife reserves. serve managers were soon attracted passes the talents and aspirations of tering a phase of Cold War 2.0, the Trump sion for most countries. China’s decision to
tiger recoveries in India were the Wil Impacts on tiger habitats have been to the massively funded ecodevelop a growing number of citizens who administration had made it clear that the weaponise trade and technology ties might
dlife Protection Act of 1972 and the severe. ment activities originally formulated want to save tigers without turning U.K.’s “special relationship” with the U.S. now come back to haunt it as other nations
Forest (Conservation) Act of 1980, At the end of the 20th century, ac by the World Bank. In reality, they the clock back on material progress. was under the scanner. Not only would their begin to pay back in the same coin.
which reinforced Project Tiger. The companying these broader social needlessly replicated the rural deve security and intelligence ties have been in je
political leadership and fi eld eff orts changes, personnel changes too lopment work already being done by K. Ullas Karanth is Director, Centre for opardy but crucial trade negotiations would Harsh V. Pant is Director, Studies at the Observer
behind this recovery had to over played a part in weakening tiger con several other agencies and NGOs. Wildlife Studies, Bengaluru. Views are have been hampered too. For the Trump ad Research Foundation and Professor of International
come very diffi cult social challenges: servation. When Prime Minister Atal Another feature of this emergent personal ministration, the U.K.’s change of stance is a Relations, King’s College London
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3 killed as police open fi re
to quell mob in Bengaluru
Violence was planned: Bengaluru police Muslim youth stand
Chief Minister B. S. Yediyu even as the police arrested
Deny SDPI charge that lack of prompt action against accused led to escalation guard at local temple
rappa held a review meeting him and shifted to an undis
on Wednesday and ordered closed location.
K.V. Aditya Bharadwaj
Bengaluru
They form a human chain to protect it
a probe by a district execu The mobs set fi re to sever With prohibitory orders in Special correspondent to pacify the crowds formed
tive magistrate into the inci al vehicles, vandalised and place and residents staying Bengaluru a human chain around the
dent. Home Minister Basav torched the DJ Halli police indoors on Wednesday While mobs went on a ram temple,” said a resident.
araj Bommai said that, station, and tried to unsuc morning, the heavy deploy page in DJ Halli and the Meanwhile, Congress
prima facie, the violence cessfully enter the police ment of police personnel neighbouring KG Halli in MLA Akhanda Srinivasa
“seems organised”. quarters in KG Halli. The and the charred remains of Bengaluru, a group of resi Murthy has appealed for
P. Naveen Kumar, a ne rioters also torched the several vehicles and struc dents from minority com peace and said there had
phew of Pulikeshi Nagar MLA’s house and Mr. Na tures reveal the story of the munity worked towards en been no incident of this na
Congress MLA R. Akhanda veen’s residence, both in Ka violence that unfolded in D.J. suring that the violence did ture in the last 25 years in
Srinivasa Murthy, had alleg val Byrasandra. Mr. Sriniva Halli, Kadugondana Halli not take a communal turn. the locality.
edly put up an infl ammato sa Murthy was not at home and Kaval Byrasandra — a A group of Muslim youth His house was set on fi re
ry post on his Facebook ac at the time. cluster of areas in east Ben formed a human when and he and his
count on Tuesday evening. The police initially galuru — on Tuesday night. chain around a temple family members were
As word spread, a crowd of lobbed tear gas shells to While a derogatory Face near Mr. Srinivasa away. The rioters car
nearly 200 persons gath control the mob, but they book post against Islam, al murthy’s house in Ka ried machetes and pe
ered outside the DJ Halli pol failed. They opened fi re legedly put up by P. Naveen val Byrasandra late trol bombs and looted
ice station demanding his around midnight. Three Kumar, nephew of local Con Tuesday night. A vi jewellery and all other
arrest. Muzammil Pasha, a men were killed and three gress MLA R. Akhanda Srini deo of this has gone vi material at home, he
local SDPI leader, lodged a others sustained bullet inju vasa Murthy, triggered the ral on social media. said. “Not even pillows were
complaint. ries. “It is sad that we had to riots, the mob, which was ov Burnt down: Police and private vehicles that were torched by a mob in Bengaluru late on “The riots of Tuesday spared in my house,” he
Simultaneously, at least open fi re to bring the situa er 2,000 strong, turned Tuesday. K. MURALI KUMAR
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night were not communal. said. “I have been living in
1,000 people gathered out tion under control,” said against the police and the But the mob was very vio that house for the past 50
side the house of Mr. Srini Bengaluru Police Commis MLA. of a role in the riots, has hours of receiving the com gathered at multiple loca lent and directionless. If it years. I was born and raised
vasa Murthy. At both sites, sioner Kamal Pant. The de The Social Democratic blamed lack of prompt ac plaint, we arrested Naveen tions simultaneously indi had attacked the temple, it in that house. Even my
the mob turned violent, de ceased have been identifi ed Party of India (SDPI), whose tion against Mr. Kumar for Kumar,” said a senior police cates that the riots were not could have descended into a brother’s house was burnt.
manding Mr. Naveen Kumar as Yasin Basha, 19, Wajid, 18, members were the complai the escalation, a charge de offi cial. organic,” a senior police offi communal riot. So some of Where do we go now?” he
be handed over to them, and Sheikh Sadique, 26. nants and also now accused nied by the police. “Within “The fact that the crowds cial said. the youths who were trying asked.
NGT distance
norm not for
Indians having any valid Kozhikode plane crash: 85 IN BRIEF
licensed
quarries: HC
visa can now fl y to the UAE discharged from hospitals
Special Correspondent
Centre lifts curbs Air India Express
KOCHI imposed for says eff orts on to 5 charred to death as bus
catches fi re in Karnataka
The Kerala High Court has pandemic retrieve baggage CHITRADURGA/BENGALURU
ruled that quarries during Five persons – three children
their valid period of licence S. Anil Radhakrishnan Press Trust of India and two women – of a family
or lease need not fulfi l the THIRUVANANTHAPURAM New Delhi were charred to death in a
distance norm of 200 With the Union government Air India Express on Wed private bus that caught fire
metres from residential lifting the pandemicin nesday said 85 passengers on NH4 near K.R. Halli Gate
and inhabited areas set by duced curbs on tourist and injured in the plane crash in in Karnataka on Wednesday.
the National Green Tribu visit visas for travel to the Kozhikode had been dis Around 4 a.m., smoke was
nal (NGT). United Arab Emirates (UAE) charged from hospitals after spotted in the engine. A
They only need to main after fi ve months, airlines A fi le photo of people stranded in the UAE arriving at the “obtaining complete fi t The Air India Express fl ight that skidded off a runway while passenger alerted the driver,
tain the distance norm of can now carry any Indian Calicut International Airport in May. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
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ness.” landing at the airport in Kozhikode on August 7. AP *
who stopped the bus and
50 metres as contemplated national holding any type of The airline said its con jumped out. Even as other
in Kerala Minor Mineral valid UAE visa to the seven “It would be for the air The Centre was under tract service provider, Ke fi cials, it added. Air India Ex The Air India Express passengers got out by
Concession Rules. emirates. lines concerned to ensure pressure to allow everyone nyon International, arrived press is a wholly owned sub fl ight from Dubai with 190 breaking windows, five
However, the court Till now, only Indian and that there is no travel restric with valid UAE visas to travel at Kozhikode on Monday sidiary of the national people on board, including a people, who were unable to
made it clear that licence UAE nationals having resi tion for Indian nationals to after the General Directorate and started the process of carrier, Air India. sixmember crew, overshot come out of the bus, died.
or lease of quarries whose dent visa, fresh job visa or enter the UAE with the par of Residency and Foreign Af “search and retrieval” of the “We will ensure that the the tabletop runway during
period has expired and student visa were allowed to ticular visa category before fairs in Dubai started issuing baggage belonging to the baggage retrieved is handed landing at the Kozhikode air Take over Mulanthuruthy
which did not follow the
church, HC tells Collector
travel on fl ights operated by issuing ticket and boarding new visit visas for Indians. crew and passengers. over to the passengers and port in heavy rain on Friday
KOCHI
distance norms set by the Air India Group and Air In pass,” the Civil Aviation Mi Relatives of NRIs were not The U.S.based company family in due course, after night. It fell into a valley and
A Division Bench of the Kerala
NGT should not be re dia Express and on char nistry said in a communica able to fl y to the seven emi was conducting its process the cleaning and sanitisation broke into pieces, killing 18 High Court on Wednesday
newed. Neither should tered fl ights to the UAE. tion. rates due to the restrictions. with the help of Air India of process,” the airline noted. people, including two pilots. ordered the Ernakulam
fresh licence or lease be District Collector to take over
granted to quarries that the Mulanthuruthy Church
Three more bodies Sexual assault victim dies in Hyderabad
did not maintain the NGT and its premises, lock them
set distance norm. and keep their keys under his
The court ordered that custody. The Bench passed
fresh or renewal applica
tions may be processed
and such applications need
recovered at Pettimudy The girl had been suff ering from an infection; her brain had a blood clot the order on an appeal filed
by the State government
against a single judge’s
not be rejected solely on Swathi Vadlamudi head. Besides, she had been gust 7, after she got seriously to the orphanage asking directive on Tuesday to take
the ground of nonfulfi l Idukki landslip toll has gone up to 55 HYDERABAD suff ering from vaginal infec ill at the home. The delay in them to take the girl back, possession of the church and
ment of the new distance A minor orphan girl, report tion for the past four months admitting the girl to hospital which the caretaker refused. hand over it to the Orthodox
norm stipulated by the A Correspondent persons are still to be ac ed to have been sexually as owing to the sexual assault, is suspected to be one of the faction vicars.
NGT. Idukki counted for. saulted by a ‘benefactor’ of without any medical atten reasons behind her tragic Repeatedly assaulted
Justice Alexander Tho Three more bodies were re For the past three days, the protection home where tion whatsoever. death. Vexed, the uncle left her at Jagan launches YSR
mas passed the directive covered from Pettimudy, the National Disaster Res she had stayed, breathed her The child, between 12 and The victim was staying at her aunt’s place, where, Cheyutha scheme
on a petition fi led by a near Munnar, on Wednes ponse Force team was fo last while undergoing treat 14 years old, did not receive the Maruthi Orphanage in upon much goading, the girl GUNTUR
quarrying fi rm from Kozhi day taking the death toll in cussing on a wide area, es ment at the Niloufer Hospital immediate medical Deeptisri Nagar, where revealed her ordeal at the Andhra Pradesh Chief
the landslip at the pecially on the banks of Minister Y.S Jagan Mohan
kode seeking to restrain here on Wednesday. help even after a case she was admitted in home. As per the FIR, she
Nayamakkad tea es the Kannimala river, Reddy launched the ‘YSR
the Central and Kerala The girl’s condition wor was registered by the 2015 after her parents’ was repeatedly sexually as
Cheyutha’ scheme on
State Pollution Control tate to 55. The bodies and many bodies sened during the last 48 police on July 31. She death. saulted by one Venugopal,
Wednesday. “Under this
Board (PCB) from taking were identifi ed as washed away in the hours, and doctors could not was examined by a As per the details who got donations for the scheme, each woman in the
any action against the peti that of Laksmansree, stream were recovered save her. doctor at the Bharosa shared by her aunt, the home. Caretaker Vijaya al age group of 4560 years,
tioner for violation of the 9, Nadiya, 11, and Su from distant places. De While the postmortem Centre the next day girl was taken home by legedly assisted him by send will get an annual financial
distance norm prescribed mathi, 50. vikulam Subcollector S. report is yet to be shared, and sent away with her aunt. one of her uncles on March ing the girl to him. assistance of ₹ 18,750, which
by the NGT. The bodies were buried Premkrishnan said there sources from the Women She was later sent to the go 21, after being informed by The prime accused Venu amounts to ₹ 75,000 in four
The petitioner chal in a mass grave at Pettimudy would be a sectorwise and Child Development De vernmentrun shelter home the home that she had had a gopal and caretakers Vijaya years,” said Mr. Jagan. Nearly
lenged the NGT order pre after autopsy at a makeshift search on Thursday as there partment said the girl’s brain in Nimboli Adda on August 3. fall and got injured. and Jayadeep were arrested 23 lakh women would be
scribing a new distance mortuary there. As per the were chances of the stream had a blood clot, probably She was admitted to the However, soon after, the only on August 7, a week af benefited by the scheme, the
norm for stone quarries. Revenue Department, 15 carrying away bodies. caused by an injury on the Niloufer Hospital only on Au uncle started making rounds ter the FIR. Chief Minister said.
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continues to the political turmoil in Rajas
than returned to Jaipur on
the latter.
Mr. Gehlot told reporters
NEW DELHI
Amid the standoff on the
be critical Wednesday, two days before
a crucial session of the As
in Jaisalmer that the resent
ment among the Congress
border with China in La
dakh, two indigenous light
sembly beginning on August MLAs, lodged in hotels for a combat helicopters (LCHs)
Special Correspondent 14. The MLAs were taken to a month, was “natural” after have been deployed at high
NEW DELHI hotel on the outskirts of the the return of dissidents to altitude in Leh at short not
Former President Pranab city, where they had stayed Homecoming: Congress legislators arriving at the Jaipur the party fold, but said he ice to support Indian Air
Mukherjee’s health condi for several days last month. airport on Wednesday. PTI * had asked them to “forgive, Force missions, Hindustan
tion continues to remain The legislators were fl own forget and move on” in the Aeronautics Ltd. said on Battle ready: The light combat helicopter deployed for
critical, the Army’s Re back to the State Capital af would go in for a fl oor test lot and dissident legislators interest of democracy and Wednesday. operations in Leh on Wednesday. ANI *
search and Referral (R&R) ter the dissident MLAs, led despite having the numbers and demanded that their for the welfare of people of “It is the lightest attack
Hospital said on by Sachin Pilot, called truce in its favour and Mr. Pilot feelings be conveyed to the the State. helicopter in the world de one such operation along ward locations in extreme
Wednesday. and came back to the party and his band of 18 rebel party’s top leadership. Sev He said all the legislators, signed and developed by with HAL test pilot Wing temperatures,” HAL stated.
“Presently, he is haemo fold. The MLAs, who were MLAs having returned to the eral MLAs said before leav including the “colleagues HAL to meet the specifi c and Commander Subash P. John The IAF and the Army
dynamically stable and on supporting Chief Minister party fold. The Business Ad ing Jaisalmer that the rebels who had left and come unique requirements of the (retd.), by taking off from a need 160 LCHs and the De
ventilator,” the hospital Ashok Gehlot, will go visory Committee, expected should not be accommodat back,” would work together Indian armed forces, refl ect highaltitude location to a fence Acquisition Council
said in a bulletin. Mr. Muk straight from the hotel to the to meet on Thursday, will de ed in the party positions and to fulfi l their commitment to ing the crucial role of HAL in forward area for a simulated (DAC) has approved an in
herjee underwent a life Assembly for attending the cide the timing of the fl oor posts. serve the State. “More than ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’,” HAL attack on a highaltitude tar itial batch of 15. The IAF has
saving surgery for a brain session. They are likely to re test. However, all the MLAs, in 100 MLAs stayed together Chief Managing Director R. get. “This was followed by a since issued the Request for
clot on Monday. On Tues turn to their respective con cluding the rebels, are likely for such a long time... If the Madhavan said in a landing at one of the most Proposal (RFP) for 15 limited
day, his health worsened stituencies after the session Gehlot’s camp upset to attend a Congress Legisla democracy is alive in the statement. treacherous helipads in the series production (LSP) heli
by evening. Mr. Mukherjee is over. The MLAs supporting Mr. ture Party (CLP) meeting to country, it is because of the Last week, Vice Chief of region. The LCH successful copters, 10 for itself and fi ve
was also found to be CO Sources in the ruling Con Gehlot were reportedly up be held here on Thursday. contribution of the Congress the Air Staff Air Marshal Har ly demonstrated its quick de for the Army, and HAL has
VID19 positive. gress said the government set over the return of Mr. Pi Mr. Gehlot and Mr. Pilot are leaders,” he said. jit Singh Arora took part in ployment prowess to for submitted its response.
Tussle for more seats in poll-bound Bihar Soldier, Hizb militant BJP workers
in J&K to get
LJP’s attacks on Nitish have widened the rift between the NDA partners ahead of election killed in Pulwama more security
Amarnath Tewary some BJP leaders say that in ween the three NDA partn State party incharge Shakti Arms, ammunition recovered: police Special Correspondent
Patna such diffi cult times, only Ya ers. The JD(U) wants to con sinh Gohil later said that a de Srinagar
With the Election Commis dav and Muslim voters will test in at least 120 seats and cision will be taken “only af Peerzada Ashiq Jammu and Kashmir ( J&K)
sion asserting that the As come out to vote. “We all the BJP not less than in 102 ter consultations with Srinagar Lieutenant Governor(LG)
sembly election in Bihar know for which party that seats, leaving only 21 for the alliance partners”. A Hizbul Mujahideen “com Manoj Sinha on Wednes
would be held on time in Oc would go,” one of them said. LJP in the total 243 seats. Former Chief Minister Jitan mander” and a soldier were day assured a better secur
toberNovember, political The LJP’s demand for the Ram Manjhiled HAM(S) has killed and two soldiers were ity cover for grassroots re
parties are now vying for deferment of elections and Better options also been demanding forma injured in two gun battles in presentatives and workers
more seats and exploring its attack on Chief Minister “Ahead of polls, parties, par tion of a coordination com the Kashmir Valley on of the BJP, in the wake of
new formations to suit their Nitish Kumar widened the ticularly smaller ones, ex mittee for the Mahagathban- Wednesday. rising attacks on them.
electoral prospects. Nitish Kumar rift between the NDA partn plore better political options dan for seat distribution, but “The ‘commander’ killed “Political workers and
Opposition parties and ers in Bihar. JD(U) leader Ra to contest more and more his demand has not been met in the encounter is Azaad panchayat representatives
the ruling National Demo east Bihar. Only the ruling Ja jeev Ranjan Singh, alias La seats,” political analyst Ajay so far. Lalhari of the Hizbul Muja were killed recently. Mea
cratic Alliance (NDA) partn nata Dal(U) has been in lan Singh, said, “He [Mr. Kumar told The Hindu. The buzz, though, is that hideen. He was involved in The slain militant was sures to protect them have
er, the Lok Janshakti Party, favour of holding the elec Paswan] is cutting the Meanwhile, State Con Mr. Manjhi may switch to the the killing of a police head involved in a constable’s already been taken, but we
have long been demanding tion. Even its ally, the BJP, branch of the tree he sits gress leader Sadanand Singh NDA, while the LJP could constable, Anoop Singh, in killing, the police said. will ensure better security
that polls be deferred due to has been mum on the issue, on.” said his party would contest come to the Mahagathband- May 2020 in Pulwama,” In arrangements in the days
the spike in COVID19 cases saying “holding elections is However, NDA sources 80 seats, triggering mur han fold. But it is still too ear spectorGeneral of Police Vi “One of the jawans suc ahead,” LG Sinha said at
and fl oods, which have inun the Election Commission’s said the reason for the rift murs among the Mahagath- ly to say anything, says Mr. jay Kumar said. cumbed to his injuries,” the the launch of Coff ee Table
dated 16 districts of north prerogative”. However, was the seatsharing bet bandhan allies. However, Kumar. Lalhari, a resident of Pul spokesman said. books highlighting deve
wama, was trapped during lopmental works carried
an operation of the security Attack in Baramulla out in the J&K in the past
INTERVIEW | CHIRAG PASWAN forces, launched “on a spec In a separate incident, mili one year, in Srinagar.
ifi c input” around 2.30 a.m. tants injured a soldier in an He said the administra
‘I have not spoken to Nitish in almost a year’ in the Kamrazipora area of
Pulwama.
“The body was retrieved
from the site of encounter.
attack in Baramulla.
An Army spokesman said
terrorists fi red at a quick
reaction team of the Army
tion stood with the victims’
families. Around six politi
cal leaders were killed by
militants in Kashmir this
He refused to answer my phone calls, did not respond to any letters, says LJP president Incriminating materials and when it was moving from year.
arms and ammunition were Baramulla towards Gulmarg Mr. Singh said his admi
Sobhana K. Nair of the State are ravaged by ha election. Since then, des process. Let me categorically also recovered,” a police on the SrinagarBaramulla nistration would ensure
fl oods. Should the limited re pite many requests, Nitishji say — the LJP has not had any spokesman said. National Highway near the J&K’s development without
In an open admission about sources be diverted for elec did not give us a berth in the meeting on the seat sharing Keeping in view the pan Trumgund Hygam crossing. any disparity. “Prime Mi
the discord in the National tions? What is the Constitu Cabinet. When I started the arrangement so far. I do not demic, the body was sent to “A soldier was injured. A nister Narendera Modi is
Democratic Alliance (NDA), tional urgency? Our ‘Bihar fi rst, Bihari fi rst’ yatra, need to discuss the number Baramulla for burial and last search operation is in pro committed to it. He told me
in Bihar, Chirag Paswan, Constitution provides the al he absolutely refused to have of seats because it had alrea rites. “The nearest family gress,” the Army spokesman that I should work for the
Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) ternative of President’s Rule. any kind of communication dy been fi nalised way back in members of the killed terro said. speedy development of
president, says he had not Remember, the elections are with me. 2014 when we joined the rist were allowed to partici Meanwhile, a Lashkare J&K. Development has ta
met or spoken to Bihar Chief not a oneday aff air. We have NDA. We fought on seven pate in the last rites at Bara Taiba militant was held in ken place, but I feel there is
Minister and Janata Dal(U) days of campaigning, public When was the last time you Lok Sabha seats and 42 As mulla,” the police Bandipora. a need to speed up the pro
leader Nitish Kumar for a meetings and so on. And on met Nitish Kumar or spoke sembly seats. I am not going spokesman said. The police identifi ed him cess at the ground level.”
year now. The State goes to
the polls in November.
the polling day itself, what if
the voters do not turn up be
to him over phone?
<
> anything
I do not have
personal
negotiate the number of
seats year after year.
The police said two Army
jawans suff ered bullet inju
as Aquib Ahmad Rather,
alias Jana, a resident of Sa
He said J&K’s Panchayati
Raj Act was stronger than
cause of the pandemic? De ■ It has been almost a year against the Chief ries in the encounter. hipora, Handwara. in other States and UTs.
Your party, in a letter to the mocracy is all about people’s now. I wanted to convey the Minister There was a buzz that the
Election Commission, had participation! feedback that I got from my Congress had approached
urged it to defer the Bihar ‘Bihar fi rst, Bihari fi rst’ yatra rious coaching institutes you and that the LJP could
Assembly election, but the You have been the biggest but he refused to answer my there are from Bihar? I have shift base to the
panel has maintained that critic of Nitish Kumar. Why phone calls. He has not spo nothing personal against the Mahagatbandhan?
the polls will be held on have you resorted to public ken to me or any leader of Chief Minister.
schedule. criticism in spite of being an my party. He did not res ■ I have my friends across
ally. Is there no space within pond to any of my letters ... I Many claim that you are party lines — that doesn’t ne
■ At the end of the day, the the NDA for you to raise had no other option but to go working as a proxy of the cessarily mean that I am join
Election Commission has to these issues? public. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ing their alliance. I am cur
take the call. The number of And these were merely to keep the JD(U) on a tight rently in the NDA. And I have
COVID19 positive cases are ■ Exactly, I do not have any suggestions, not really criti leash. And this whole façade a blind faith in the central
spiralling in the State even space or platform. For a very cism. For example, every of criticising the Nitish leadership of the BJP, espe
when the testing fi gures are short period, in 2017, the LJP child is taught to dial 100 to government is just a way of cially Prime Minister Naren
very low, an issue that Prime was a part of the Nitish Ku reach the police, but in Bihar cornering more number of dra Modi and Home Minister
Minister Narendra Modi too mar government with our it doesn’t work. Why should seats for the LJP... Amit Shah. They listen to my
fl agged in his meeting on then State president Pashu students from Bihar go to Ko concerns and I can reach
Tuesday. You can’t put the pati Nath Paras being Minis ta coaching institutes to stu ■ My party is in an alliance them whenever I need, even
lives of people in danger for ter in the State Cabinet. In dy, when in fact the teachers with the BJP but it has its if our Chief Minister does
elections. In addition, parts 2019, he fought the Lok Sab and even the heads of va own ideology and thought not.
10 NEWS DELHI
Nepal to seek
ID cards from Vaccine panel mulls early access SC to hear plea on COVID19
Indian visitors
special correspondent
Committee to decide on how COVID19 shot will be made available to Indians ‘mismanagement’ by Centre
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
NEW DELHI NEW DELHI Six exbureaucrats have sought a Commission of Inquiry
Nepal will seek identity India would leverage domes
cards from visitors from In tic vaccine manufacturing Legal Correspondent zens was a “defi nite matter
NEW DELHI
dia, Home Minister Ram capacity as well as engage of public importance and
Bahadur Thapa has said. with all international players The Supreme Court on Fri warrants appointment of an
He told a parliamentary pa for the early delivery of vac day will hear a writ petition Inquiry Commission.”
nel that Nepal will use the cines in India as well as in fi led by six former bureau
data to better deal with the low and middle income crats, represented by advo National lockdown
COVID19 situation. countries, the fi rst ever cate Prashant Bhushan, It alleged the nationwide
“Archiving is under way. meeting of the National Exp seeking a Commission of In lockdown, which was an
The government will focus ert Group on Vaccine Admi quiry to be set up into the nounced on March 24, was
on developing it in a sys nistration for COVID19 de “gross mismanagement” of “arbitrary, irrational and
tem that will make it per cided on Wednesday, the COVID19 pandemic by without due consultation
manent,” Mr. Thapa told according to a statement the government. with experts or State govern
the State Management and from the Union Health The petition has already ments.”
Good Governance Commit Ministry. been listed for hearing be “In spite of being the har
tee of Parliament. Nepal’s The meeting was chaired fore a Bench led by Justice L. shest and most restrictive
Ekantipur reported that by Dr. V.K. Paul, Member, Ni Nageswara Rao on August lockdown in the world, it has
the Minister said Kathman ti Aayog, along with Secre 14. The petition alleges failed to arrest the spread of
du will implement the tary (Ministry of Health and The petition contends mismanagement at the disease,” the plea said.
identity cards and registra Family Welfare) as coChair. that mismanagement oc multiple levels. K.V.S. GIRI
* The bureaucrats contend
tion system and will try to curred at multiple levels, ed that the government
formalise recordkeeping Available to Indians from not stocking enough the economy. failed to draw up a national
process to better manage Though there are several protective and medical The plea said about six plan and guidelines for pro
movement of people and groups on vaccine develop equipment to combat the crore people between the viding minimum standards
the pandemic. ment, this group is signifi health crisis to lack of early age of 20 and 39 years lost of relief to vulnerable sec
Prime Minister K.P. cant as it is expected to de val to a homegrown vac ism of the vaccine, including were also taken up,” the checking of incoming inter their jobs in April itself. The tions of the society under
Sharma Oli has recently liberate on how a vaccine, cine. However, details on its tracking of the vaccination statement added. national passengers to the lives of 40 million migrant the Disaster Management
blamed India for the whenever it is available, will performance in early trials process, with particular fo “India’s support to its key handling the exodus of mi workers were abruptly dis Act, 2005.
spread of COVID19 in the be practically made available are not available and Indian cus on the last mile delivery. neighbours and develop grant workers during the rupted by the national lock There was delay in ensur
country. to Indians. Though there are offi cials declined to com ment partner countries for lockdown. down. Many died in the ef ing adequate supplies of per
India and Nepal have an reports on the Punebased ment on whether there was Financial resources COVID19 vaccines was de forts to reach home, walking sonal protective equipment
open border which is de Serum Institute of India (SII) any partnership involving In “The expert group discussed liberated upon. The expert ‘Devastating eff ect’ for thousands of miles due for safety of healthcare
marcated but for Kalapani readying 100 million doses dia and Russia to either test on the fi nancial resources re group discussed that India The extensive lockdown, to lack of public transport. workers during the pandem
in Uttarakhand’s Pithora by the yearend, it is not ex or procure the vaccine. quired for procurement of will leverage domestic vac which was imposed over The petition fi led by the ic. The Centre failed to un
garh district and Susta in actly clear how many of The expert group on Wed COVID19 vaccine and va cine manufacturing capacity night, had a “devastating ef former bureaucrats, which dertake eff ective measures
the Uttar PradeshBihar re them will be available to nesday deliberated on a rious options of fi nancing and will also engage with all fect” on the jobs of ordinary include M.G. Devasahayam for containing the transmis
gion. Nepal has increased Indians. “conceptualisation and im the same. Available options international players for ear people and violated their and Amit Bhaduri, said the sion of virus even after being
deployment of armed per On Tuesday, Russia’s Pre plementation mechanism” in terms of delivery plat ly delivery of vaccines not fundamental right to live Centre’s response to the notifi ed about it by the
sonnel on the border with sident Vladimir Putin an to create a digital infrastruc forms, cold chain and asso only in India but also in low with dignity by earning their pandemic and its “delete World Health Organization
India since the Kalapani nounced that his country ture for inventory manage ciated infrastructure for roll and middle income coun livelihood. The lockdown rious impact” on the lives (WHO) in early January this
dispute intensifi ed in May. had given regulatory appro ment and delivery mechan out of COVID19 vaccination tries.” has had a crippling eff ect on and livelihoods of the citi year.
Study fi nds poor access to abortion drugs Cong. leader
dies after
Home Minister’s medal Delhi riots
probe offi cer
Severe shortage in Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Haryana and Delhi TV debate for 15 CBI offi cials gets medal
JAGRITI CHANDRA them to seek services from
NEW DELHI
unsafe providers as there are Special Correspondent Among them is Dabholkar case offi cer Special Correspondent
Overregulation of drugs to only 16,296 approved abor New Delhi New Delhi
curb genderbiased sex se tion facilities in the private Minutes after he appeared Special Correspondent A Delhi police offi cer, who
lection such as through go sector in the country, whe on a TV debate, Congress NEW DELHI is heading the February
vernment programmes like reas MA drugs can be provid party’s national spokesper Offi cers belonging to the last Delhi riots probe team,
‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ ed by an obstetrician or a gy son Rajiv Tyagi collapsed Central Bureau of Investiga and an National Investiga
has hindered access to safe, naecologist, who are and was pronounced dead tion (CBI) have bagged 15 tion Agency (NIA) offi cer
legal and costeff ective abor estimated to number about in a Noida hospital on Wed ‘Union Home Minister’s Me leading the Bhima Kore
tion, according to a survey 60,00070,000, the study nesday evening. dal for Excellence in Investi gaon (Maharashtra) investi
across six States which highlights. Mr. Tyagi was participat gation’ awards ahead of the gation are among the 121
found an “overwhelming A Lancet study on the in ing in the debate from his Independence Day celebra recipients of the Union
shortage” of abortion pills or cidence of abortion and home in Vasundhara, tions this year. Home Minister’s Medal for
medical abortion drugs. pregnancy in 2015 estimated Ghaziabad. Among the offi cials is As Excellence in Investigation
A study conducted among Short supply: As many as 79% of the surveyed chemists did that 81% of abortions annual Congress president So sistant Superintendent of that was announced
1,500 chemists in six States not stock abortion pills. GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO
*
ly are medical abortions and nia Gandhi, former party Police Subhash Ramrup The Central agency’s offi cers Wednesday.
by the Foundation for Repro nearly 90% of abortions are chief Rahul Gandhi, and Singh, who was instrumen have bagged 15 medals. Deputy Commissioner
ductive Health Services In hurdles are due to a misun rent from emergency contra sought in the fi rst trimester. the party’s general secre tal in getting the fi rearm al of Police Rajesh Deo heads
dia (FRHSI) indicated a sev derstanding that easy availa ceptive pills. The latter are tary for Uttar Pradesh Pri legedly used in the Naren Inspector Vibha Kumari the Special Investigation
ere shortage of medical bility of medical abortion taken 72 hours after unpro Cost eff ective yanka Gandhi Vadra, spoke dra Dabholkar murder case probed the sexual abuse of Team constituted to probe
abortion (MA) drugs in fi ve drugs will be misused for sex tected sex to prevent an un Moreover, MA drugs are also to Mr. Tyagi’s family over retrieved by a Norwegian minors in Bihar’s Muzaff ar the riots in northeast Del
out of the six States sur selection. But this drug is ap intended pregnancy. Abor costeff ective. The cost of phone to express their con team of deepsea divers pur shelter home. It result hi, where more than 50 pe
veyed, with abysmal stock proved for use only up to tion pills or MA drugs are fi rst trimester surgical abor dolences. “They remem from the Kharegaon Creek ed in the conviction of Bra ople were killed. Mr. Deo
ing in Madhya Pradesh nine weeks, whereas an ul abortafacients which termi tion varies from ₹ 2,000 bered Rajiv Tyagi’s contri in the Arabian sea. jesh Thakur and 11 others, was reprimanded by the
(6.5%), Punjab (1%), Tamil trasound can detect a foetus nate a pregnancy by expell 5,000 in Tier 2 and Tier 3 bution to the Congress The probe also led to who were sentenced to life Election Commission of In
Nadu (2%), Haryana (2%) only at around 1314 weeks. ing an embryo or foetus. towns and smaller nursing party and paid their hom clues to the murders of in jail. dia (EC) in February. The
and Delhi (34%). The only Moreover, these abortions Mr. Chandrashekar adds homes or clinics. In these age,” the party said in a M.M. Kalburgi, Gauri Lan Superintendent of Police offi cer was pulled up by
State that seemed to be bet are allowed under the Medi that the regulatory crack towns, the cost of abortion statement. kesh and Govind Pansare. Cephas Kalyan Pakerla, who the EC for linking an ac
ter was Assam (69.6%). cal Termination Act. The law down has resulted in abor pills plus the consultation Youth Congress Presi investigated the iMonetary cused who had opened fi re
on abortions allows termina tion services on the whole fee is in the range of dent Srinivas B.V. on Twit BJP worker’s murder Advisory (IMA) scam; Depu at Shaheen Bagh protestors
Legal barriers tion of pregnancy in the fi rst becoming inaccessible, es ₹ 7001,000. ter alleged Mr. Tyagi suf Inspector Rakesh Ranjan, ty Superintendent of Police with a political party, days
The fi ndings show that State nine weeks and in some cas pecially those during the se During COVID19, the lack fered a heart attack after who cracked the murder Mukesh Sharma, who ahead of the Delhi Assemb
wise regulatory and legal es even in the second trimes cond trimester, but there is of access to abortion servic his religion was questioned case of BJP worker Yogesh solved the rape and murder ly elections on February 8.
barriers are the key reasons ter, such as in sexual assault little ground for restricting es is likely to have worsened and he was called a “fake Gowda at Dharwad in Kar of a minor girl in Uttar Pra The NIA offi cer, Superin
why 79% of the chemists sur cases as well as due to foetal MA drugs. as not only travelling to a sur Hindu”. The Youth Con nataka, has also been con desh’s Lakhimpur Kheri; In tendent of Police Vikram
veyed refrained from stock anomalies,” V.S. Chandrash The lack of availability of gical facility is challenging, gress president also posted ferred the medal. spector Duli Chand Yadav, Khalate, is leading the
ing these drugs. As many as ekar, chief executive offi cer, MA drugs forces many wo but the cost of such a proce a video clip of a doctor who Inspector Perwez Alam who cracked the BITS Pilani probe into the Bhima Kore
54.8% of chemists also re FRHSI and Pratigya Cam men to seek a surgical abor dure may have gone up as said the Congress spokes solved the rape and murder examination paper leak gaon riots of 2018.
ported that medical abortion paign Advisory Group mem tion from a facility, reducing clinics charge for PPE (per person was given emergen of an engineering student case; and Inspector Jyotir The Ministry did not
drugs were overregulated as ber told The Hindu in a tele her choice. sonal protection equipment) cy medication for 45 mi Jaya Bharti. The person in moyee Majhi, who probed provide details of the cases
compared to other prescrip phonic interview. It will also reduce access and require a mandatory CO nutes but could not be volved in the case was sen chitfund scam cases, have for which the offi cials re
tion drugs. “The regulatory Abortion pills are diff e to safe abortion and force VID19 test. revived. tenced to death. also been awarded. ceived the medals.
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19 Fix broken safety net? Not yet (6) In chapter 16 of the Bhagavad Gita, we fi nd Lord Krishna
20 Surprisingly, argued about backing volunteers’ group! (8) talking of daivim sampath and asurim sampath, said Valaya
23 Conservative politician embracing a party (4) pet Ramachariar in a discourse. He says those in this Prakrti
25 Note about a top university’s responsibility (10) fall into two categories — those who have daivim sampath
28 Part of joint lacking drug (5) and those who have asurim sampath. The Lord defi nes the
29 The most disorganised, clumsy IIT student, for the most part (9) qualities that those in the fi rst category have. They are fear
30 Chitrangda Singh, perhaps, and others (mostly) in original cast (7) less; their minds have no trace of rajas or tamas; they know
31 According to Spooner, toilet snagged pants! (7) that the self is diff erent from the body. They perform daa
■ DOWN nam. Daanam is to give what one has legitimately earned. To
1 Frame Escher, essentially in its original condition, including some take away what belongs to another and to give it to others
smudges (7) does not constitute daanam. Those who have daivim sam
2 It’s hard to fi nd these to read, right? Korea’s resolved to restrict path have control of the mind (damah); they perform all the
Bankims and Orwells, for starters (4,5) prescribed yajnas. Svadhyayah is another trait. This means
3 A spark in the air may create this hint of odour over area (5) that they study the Vedas; they do tapas. Arjavam is a distin
4 Program lost two lakhs (4,4)
guishing trait in them — that is, there is no confl ict between
5 Communicates goodbye after the end of encounter (6)
thought, word and deed.
6 Study a couple of programming languages in the morning (4)
As they think, so they say, and do. They practise ahimsa —
7 Perhaps Geeta’s on this vehicle, see? (5)
8 Chaotic exit during an emergency ultimately leads to distress (7)
they never hurt others. They give up everything that is un
13 Left with diamonds for a portion of tea and a portion of tobacco (4) desirable. They have compassion towards all — bhuteshu
Solution to puzzle 13012 Solution to yesterday’s Sudoku daya; they are unattached to sense objects (aloluptvam).
15 Satellite of neighbour (heavenly) (4)
17 With regular coverage, nausea of news gets put away; polls They are gentle in their ways (maardavam). They are ash
■ ACROSS amed to do wrong things. They are not aff ected even if ob
overwhelmingly favour one side in such a place (1,4,4)
1 Complain at last, to neighbour, about parking space (3,4)
5 Castle with messy attic full of old cheese (7)
18 A starryeyed partner gets dumped for having a distinctive odour (8) jects that please the senses are readily available. They have
9 Do calorie exercises, keeping the temperature low in one specifi c 19 Bush said, “Hardly any Iranian leader ...” (7) tejah — the power to keep the wicked away. They have pa
way (36) 21 “... expected North’s trickery in this legitimate exchange, to begin tience (Kshama). They have the determination (dhrtih) to do
10 Axe to grind about news? Appropriate! (5) with. Name one!” (7) the right thing, even when it is dangerous to do so.
11 Insurgence of wild viruses overwhelming a billion ceaselessly (10) 22 Shot guns to get excited (2,4) Saucam is another characteristic they have. Saucam
12 Secured a job in retirement, hiding fatigue (4) 24 A new mistake, essentially, by Gussalufz, is expected (5)
means not just external purity or hygiene as we understand
14 The way a cute animal character by Milne (fi lmed by Sudhir Mishra, 26 Pointless detail in play about what a powerful attraction might cause
(5)
it. It also means keeping one’s mind pure. They do not have
initially) leads to a market area? (8)
16 A portion of bisque as yoghurt!? Nauseating (6) 27 Unused part of Python? (4) excessive pride (na atimaanitaa). These are the many quali
ties found in those who are born for a divine purpose.
CM A ND-NDE
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Punjab begins
distribution of ‘Pandemic will hit education’ Forest loss threatens hornbills
smartphones Most respondents in a survey feel it will deepen inequalities among students Study based on satellite imagery was published in forest journal
Special Correspondent Special Correspondent with 86% of respondents ac Rahul Karmakar around 29 hornbill nest
Chandigarh NEW DELHI cepting that online learning GUWAHATI
trees. From 2011 to 2019, the
The Punjab government on Three out of four Indians say will be part of the university A study based on satellite da forest cover was found to
Wednesday launched a the COVID19 pandemic will experience. ta has fl agged a high rate of have declined from 38.55
‘Smart Connect Scheme’, deepen inequalities among deforestation in a major sq.km. to 21.94 sq.km.
pegged at ₹ 92 crore, to dis primary and secondary stu Soft skills hornbill habitat in Arunachal around these trees.
tribute smartphones to stu dents, according to a survey With the pandemicexacer Pradesh. Hornbills used to be hunt
dents of Class XII in go by global education fi rm bated economic insecurities, Using fi nescale satellite ed for their casques — upper
vernment schools across Pearson. Almost 80% fear 84% of Indian respondents imagery, a trio of ecologists beak — and feathers for head
the State. the pandemic will continue made it clear that schools assessed the changes in for gear despite being cultural
Chief Minister Amarin to disrupt education until a need to focus more on pre est cover of the 1,064 sq.km. symbols of some ethnic com
der Singh launched the vaccine is found. paring students for the Papum Reserve Forest (RF) An oriental pied hornbill. munities in the northeast,
scheme by handing over The global online survey Digital divide: Children of the Bakarwal community at an world of work, not just adjoining the Pakke Tiger Re *
RITU RAJ KONWAR specifi cally the Nyishi of Aru
smartphones to six Class was conducted for Pearson openair community school in Doodpathri, J&K. NISSAR AHMAD *
examinations. serve as well as a part of As nachal Pradesh. But a 20
XII students in a symbolic in May by a market research Only 51% feel that a un sam aff ected by illegal felling Finland. “The satellite data yearold conservation pro
gesture. Simultaneous dis fi rm, with results weighted With threefourths of res vealed mixed opinions with iversity degree is essential, and ethnic confl ict. pointed to alarming defores gramme entailing the use of
tribution of phones was for age, gender, education pondents recognising a wi regard to the physical reo and 62% said that their own Papum RF is a nesting tation rates in Papum RF fi breglass beaks reduced the
done at 26 places by va and socioeconomic status dening digital divide, they pening of campuses. Alth higher education experience habitat of three species of the with annual loss rates as high threat to the birds to a large
rious Ministers and MLAs. so that proportions are re were asked what solutions ough 75% of Indian students did not prepare them for large, colourful fruiteating as 8.2 sq.km. as per estimates extent.
Captain Singh said that presentative of national de public education needs to in believe that colleges and un their careers. In fact, only hornbills: Great, Wreathed from 20132017 where forest Illegal logging, however,
when the Congress listed mographics. Over a thou vest in. About 45% felt the iversities are risking the lives 46% say that if given the and Oriental Pied. The 862 cover declined to 76% of the has however led to fewer tall
‘smartphones’ as a poll sand Indians were included. need to equip schools to of students if they reopen in choice again, they would still sq.km. Pakke reserve houses total RF area,” Mr. Sheth said. trees where the birds nest.
promise (2017 Assembly switch to online learning, the fall, 71% also believe that go to college. a fourth species, the While the protected areas
elections), it was to provide Campus reopening while 33% felt the top priori reopening them is vital for Most respondents called RufousNecked. Illegal logging such as Pakke are better
global connectivity and Primary and secondary edu ty is to increase access to the economy and society. Al for more soft skills and The study by Chintan “Our results show the loss guarded, the forests are often
empower the poor youth cation will fundamentally technology for underserved most 80% said they would be handson training in higher Sheth of the Bengaluru and degradation of critical under pressure due to agri
who could not aff ord them change because of the pan learners. less likely to travel overseas education, with more than based National Centre for Bi hornbill habitat in the biolog cultural expansion, conver
but in the present pandem demic, according to 80% of With regard to higher edu for their studies. 80% saying that while colleg ological Sciences and Aparaj ically rich forests of the In sion to plantations or log
ic situation, these phones Indian respondents. Almost cation, about twothirds of Blended learning, a hy es and universities are good ita Datta and Devathi Parash dian Eastern Himalaya,” he ging. According to the Global
had assumed a bigger im the same proportion says the respondents felt that In brid between digital and places to make professional uram of the Mysurubased added. Forest Watch 2020 report,
portance as they had be that online learning is going dian colleges and universi facetoface classes, seems to connections, workbased ex Nature Conservation Foun The ecologists assessed the State lost 1,110 sq.km. of
come a necessity for edu to become a bigger part of ties were prepared for the be the most popular option perience outweighs what is dation was published in Silva the habitat loss due to illegal primary forest from 2002
cation. schooling for young people. pandemic. The survey re for the immediate future, being taught. Fennica, a forest journal of logging within a 1 km radius 2019.
Festival fervour
CAA, EIA in Assam over Ravi’s stand
Protesters slam BJPled government Apex tribal body wants him to stay on
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT powered committee formed SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
GUWAHATI for the implementation of GUWAHATI
The All Assam Students’ Un Clause 6 of the Assam Ac Traditional tribal groups in
ion (AASU) on Wednesday cord that envisages constitu Nagaland and some extre
protested against the Citi tional, legislative and admi mist groups do not appear
zenship (Amendment) Act nistrative safeguards for the to be on the same page as
(CAA) and demanded the Assamese people. the IsakMuivah faction of
scrapping of the draft Envi Top leaders of the AASU, the National Socialist Coun
ronmental Impact Assess who are members of the pa cil of Nagaland, or NSCN
ment (EIA) 2020. nel, made the report public (IM) over Governor R.N. Ra
Members of the union to protest the “indiff erence” vi’s continuation as the in
formed human chains and of the State government in terlocutor for the ongoing
demonstrated across the processing the recommen peace talks. R.N. Ravi
State against the “antiindi dations. The recommenda The NSCN (IM) calls itself
genous people” CAA and tions include reservation of the National Socialist Coun coincided with a statement
the “environmentally disas 80100% parliamentary and cil of Nagalim. While Naga issued by the NSCN (IM) ac
trous” EIA notifi cation. Assembly seats, and govern land has a territorial limit, cusing Mr. Ravi of creating
The demonstrators also ment jobs for the Assamese Nagalim refers to all Naga hurdles in the fi nal settle
lashed out at the Bharatiya people. It also includes the inhabited areas in the ment of the Naga political is
Janata Partyled coalition introduction of the inner Northeast as well as the ad sue and justifying the de
government in Assam for line permit, a temporary joining Myanmar. mand for his removal as the
“playing with the emotions travel document for outsid The Naga Hoho, the apex interlocutor.
of the people of the State”. ers currently applicable in Team spirit: A boy trying to break the dahi handi (pot of curd) using a ladder on Janmashtami at Girgaum, Mumbai. Many body of 14 tribes and the “The peace process is in a
This was in reference to the Arunachal Pradesh, Mani organisers kept the event lowkey and avoided forming human pyramids to break the handi due to the pandemic. VIVEK BENDRE * Lotha (tribe) Hoho, on Tues state of simmering tension
recommendation of a high pur, Mizoram and Nagaland. CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC day said in separate state and reaching tipping point
ments that replacing Mr. Ra because of Mr. R.N. Ravi’s vi
vi would “delay the peace triolic attack on the Naga is
Pune factory 1 lakh loans sanctioned DGGI raids cement manufacturer process and lead to endless
negotiation while remaining
in one’s comfort zone at the
sue” that Mr. Modi had en
trusted with for “an
honourable and accepta
builds grenade
launcher
for street vendors after tax evasion is detected cost of peace and
tranquillity”.
ble” solution, the NSCN (IM)
said.
They said “this is not the
Scheme targets 50 lakh benefi ciaries time for negative campaign” ‘Armed gangs’
Special correspondent It was caught supplying large quantities without paying GST when the “voices and aspi The outfi t had taken off ence
Pune Special Correspondent rations of the Nagas have to Mr. Ravi’s use of “armed
The citybased Ammuni NEW DELHI special correspondent formal records maintained limestone had been pro grown louder each day” for gangs” and “underground
tion Factory at Khadki has The Union Housing and Ur NEW DELHI by the company. cured in excess of what was a peaceful solution to the groups” while referring to
produced an indigenous ban Aff airs Ministry on Wed The Directorate General of The enforcement arm of declared in the formal re protracted Naga political is the Naga extremist organisa
40 mm Under Barrel Gre nesday said over 5 lakh ap GST Intelligence (DGGI) con the Central Board of Indirect cords of the company from sue. The Hohos also ap tions in a letter to Chief Mi
nade Launcher (UBGL) for plications had been ducted 28 searches in Delhi, Taxes & Customs carried out January to July. pealed to Prime Minister Na nister Neiphiu Rio on June
the Border Security Force received under the PM Madhya Pradesh and Uttar the operation from August 5 During a factory search rendra Modi to 16.
(BSF) following Prime Mi Street Vendor’s AtmaNirb Pradesh after a major ce to 11 at premises linked to on August 8, after DGGI “demonstrate his magna Before the Hohos, the Na
nister Modi’s call for an ‘At har Nidhi (PM SVANidhi) ment manufacturer was the manufacturer at Maihar team was surrounded by a nimity and address one of galand Gaon Burah Federa
manirbhar Bharat’ (selfre scheme for street vendors caught allegedly supplying and Satna in Madhya Pra mob, M.P. police provided the oldest political con tion had opposed the “cam
liant India). since it started on July 2 and large quantities without pay desh, and their registered security to the team. “By fl icts” soon. paign by a section of
The fi rst consignment of 1 lakh loans had been sanc ing taxes. dealers and distributors. suppressing the procure The confl ict that began people” seeking the remo
the 40 mm UBGL, de tioned already. One company director ment of limestone, the fi rm soon after India’s Indepen val of Mr. Ravi as the inter
signed and manufactured The PM SVANidhi scheme has been arrested, while the Mismatch found appears to have manufac dence subsided when the locutor which, it said, would
by the Ammunition Facto Economic relief package provides street vendors other has not joined the in As it turned out, substantial tured the cement and clink government and the NSCN not be in the interest of the
ry at Khadki with compo The scheme, which was a working capital loans. vestigation. The missing di quantities of cement and er which have been supplied (IM) inked a ceasefi re in people.
nents sourced from Indian part of the government’s rector was earlier convicted clinker were supplied clandestinely to dealers and mid1997. Older armed The Naga National Politi
industries, has already economic relief package an The MoHUA statement in a coal block allocations clandestinely. units... in this process, as groups and factions of the cal Groups, a conglomerate
been sent to the BSF on nounced in the wake of the said the scheme was meant case by a Delhi court in 2017. Searches were also con per preliminary estimates, NSCN followed suit alth of seven armed political
Tuesday, said the Ministry COVID19 pandemic, gives to benefi t 50 lakh street ven The DGGI found that ducted in Allahabad, Kushi about ₹ 15.1 crore of GST is ough the Myanmarbased groups that rival the NSCN
of Defence in a release on street vendors working cap dors across the country res more than 12 lakh cement nagar, Agra and Kanpur. Pre suspected to have been NSCN (Khaplang) reneged (IM), have said replacing the
Wednesday. ital loans of up to ₹ 10,000 to ume work after the lock bags were short in the stocks liminary fi ndings revealed evaded during the 7month on the truce in March 2015. interlocutor would turn the
This ammunition, which be paid back in one year. down. when compared with the that over four lakh tonnes of period,” said the DGGI. The views of the Hohos “clock back to zero.”
comes in four variants, is
fi red from a launcher fi tted
under the barrel of a 5.56
mm Rifl e INSAS (INdian
Small Arms System).
Worst may be behind us: Assam Minister Patients shifted to safety after
The advantages of the
40 mm UBGL ammunition
visavis a traditional hand
grenade is that it is light
Himanta Biswa Sarma expects a clearer picture on COVID19 after August 15
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
fi re at Gujarat COVID19 hospital Clause 6 of the 1985 Assam
weight, with a range of 400 GUWAHATI Accord. “They shouldn’t
meters as compared with Assam Health Minister Hi have made the contents pu No one was injured and blaze was bought under control
only 30 meters of the hand manta Biswa Sarma on Wed blic out of impatience. They
grenade. nesday said a low COVID19 should also realise that a few Press Trust of India VID19 ward following short sualty or damage to proper
This ammunition used infection rate could indicate members of a panel cannot Bodeli circuit in the morning. The ty, it will take time to check
to be imported by the Ar the State was heading in the defi ne the Assamese people. A fi re broke out in the CO blaze was controlled imme and replace the electric wir
my and the Ministry of right direction or the worst That is the job of members of VID19 ward of a twostorey diately by the staff with the ing on the second fl oor.
Home Aff airs (MHA) units. was over. the State Assembly, not even hospital in Bodeli town of help of fi re extinguisher,” Thus, we have decided to
Thus, there was a per But a clearer picture on the Central government,” he Gujarat’s Chhotaudepur dis Chief District Health Offi cer shift the coronavirus pa
ceived need to indigenise the novel coronavirus out said. trict on Wednesday morn Mahesh Chaudhary said. tients elsewhere,” Dr.
the design and manufac break in the State would The Clause 6 committee ing, an offi cial said. “As a precaution, the staff Chaudhary said.
ture of this ammunition, emerge after August 15, he A health worker carrying out COVID19 tests in Pandu area of had defi ned “Assamese peo There was no casualty in also shifted all the 10 pa Out of the seven patients,
said the release. insisted. Guwahati in this fi le photo. RITU RAJ KONWAR * ple” as those who have been the blaze that erupted on the tients to the lower fl oor,” he two were admitted to the
“Inspired by the Prime “The COVID19 positivity living within the geographi second fl oor of Bodeli Dho added. district hospital while fi ve
Minister’s clarion call for rate in the State has re picture after August 15,” he out of whom 155 died. cal confi nes of Assam on or kalia Public Hospital, the of Later, after a health were shifted to a COVID19
an Atmanirbhar Bharat, mained under 5% despite said, adding that the CO before January 1, 1951. The fi cial said, adding that 10 CO check, three patients were care centre set up in the Po
the Ammunition Factory at many tests being conducted. VID19 death rate of 0.24% in Panel report leak defi nition of Assamese peo VID19 patients undergoing discharged as they tested ne lytechnic College in Chho
Khadki wrote a new chap So we are either going the the State had been lower The Minister also took a ple has been eluding politi treatment at the facility were gative for COVID19 while se taudepur town, the offi cial
ter on selfreliance by pro right way as far as peaking of than the national and inter swipe at the All Assam Stu cal, social, cultural and liter shifted to the lower fl oor and ven were shifted to other added.
ducing and sending the the pandemic is concerned national averages. dents’ Union for leaking the ary groups for decades some of them were later ad hospitals in Chhotaudepur On August 6, eight CO
fi rst consignment [of the or the worst is behind us,” Till Tuesday evening, confi dential report of the primarily because of the eth mitted to other hospitals. town, said Dr. Chaudhary. VID19 patients died in a fi re
40 mm UBGL] to the BSF,” Dr. Sarma told journalists . 64,406 people had tested highpowered committee on nic and linguistic diversity in “A minor fi re occurred in “While the fi re was minor in the intensive care unit of a
said the MoD’s statement. “But we will get a clearer COVID19 positive in Assam, the implementation of the State. the switchboard of the CO and did not cause any ca hospital in Ahmedabad.
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Sassy
Vimala Ramamurthy, 93, Chennai
I got married at the age of 13, so I studied up to Class
VIII. My husband was a banker. We lived in various
cities in South India as he had a transferable job. We
have three sons and three daughters.
When I was in my late 60s, my daughter suggested
that I learn art in order to ward off boredom, and
enrolled me in a postal art class where I would
receive materials through post. The course helped
me a lot and I started sketching cows and temples,
themes I was familiar with.
Four years ago my grandson GV Raman,
presented me with a book of sketches by Manohar
Devadoss, Multiple Facets of Madurai, and he
and
know it
explained to me how in spite of being visually
challenged, he had made such intricate work. He
encouraged me to try something like that and gave
me all the materials that I required.
they When I opened the book, I was spellbound by the
work. As I had spent a substantial part of my life in
Madurai, his sketches of that city caught my
attention and rekindled memories of my younger
days. Two years ago I started replicating his work, I
Meet inspiring nonagenarians What is your ‘Stay At Home’, would observe the work and recreate it. It has now
lockdown schedule? Before you become an obsession, day and night I keep working.
who have been active through languidly say ‘telly, eat and During lockdown, I completed almost four sketches,
lockdown, from helming fi lms to sleep’ and embarrass
yourselves, take a look at what
teaching music, between video these sprightly 90 somethings
calls with the grandkids are up to
hairpin bends people on horseback into someth
ing that was motorable.
“The alignment was faulty and
the gradient so steep that it had to
be relaid with 14 hairpin bends,”
says Vasanthan.
There is a also a section devoted
to Ornithology. The fi rst documen
tation ever of birds in the Nilgiris is
credited to TC Jerdon, a pioneering
The Best of Landmark
Quiz to be held online
on August 15 will feature
Get, set, go
Quizmaster
Dr Navin
Jayakumar;
A heritage gallery showcases Coonoor explains Vasanthan. Visitors can ornithologist, who observed, iden the
over the last two centuries get an idea of what the track looked tifi ed and described bird species in 30 favourite questions registration
like from a lithograph made by sketches. Jerdon was active in the card for the
Captain Stephen Ponsonsby Pea district between 1839 and 1845. from 1988 onwards fi rst edition
cocke in 1847. A watercolour by Ed “Species like the Nilgiri fl ycatcher, of the quiz
ward Lear in 1870s captures the Nilgiri laughing thrush, black and * R RAVINDRAN
new ghat road in all its glory. orange fl ycatcher and Malabar lark AND SPECIAL
The total population of Coonoor that are endemic to the Western ARRANGEMENT
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Abhishek Gulshan
Did you Binod yet? leave a comment on a random
video: ‘Binod’ with no subsequent
explanation. The video then
moves onto discuss other types of
Divya Kala Bhavani YouTubers recall the video — ‘Why comments.
the Indian comments section is Then one day, Mumbai Police
Log onto any online platform and garbage (Binod)’ (more than seven tweeted about Binod and Gautami
you cannot miss it. Binod is million views) — that, in the recalls panicking, wondering why
everywhere, from the comments channel’s signature hilarious way, the police were getting involved.
section and headlines to newly narrates the Internet’s way of “But we saw they had tweeted
crafted memes. subconsciously taking on weird something creative and fun. Then
If you are subscribed to trends. when it started trending on
YouTube channel Slayy Point, you Binod as a comment went viral, Twitter, we realised it had taken a
would already know that the which was odd for the two. After turn.” The duo admits there is no
channel’s creators Abhyudaya all, Binod took up barely 20 the start of the video, Abhyudaya way to track the analytics now.
Mohan and Gautami Kawale are seconds in the nearlynine minute admits to reading comments “It’s just gone wild,” she exclaims.
behind this Internet implosion. video, describing the nonsensical sections as a pastime and recalls So, do you Binod like the rest of
Speaking over the phone, the vitriol of YouTube comments. At seeing a commenter Binod Tharu the Internet?
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US Dollar dddddddddddddddddddd 74.83 ddddddddddddd -0.07
% CHANGE
Economic disruption to rural U.K. economy shrinks by
record 20%, in recession
Deutsche Bank
adds ₹ 2,700 cr.
economy less severe, says Birla into India arm
Gold ddddddddddddddddddddddddddd 52,946 ddddddddddddd -3.32
Brent oil ddddddddddddddddddddd 45.36 ddddddddddddd -0.31
Unemployment expected to rise
NIFTY 50 special Correspondent
PRICE CHANGE Reuters in the coming months many MUMBAI
Adani Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341.20. . . . . . . . . 6.20
Asian Paints. . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 1797.25. . . . . . . . . 7.70
UltraTech plans ₹ 1,500 cr. capex; group head sees 68% GDP growth next fi scal London more will.” Deutsche Bank announced
Axis Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451.10. . . . . . . . . 3.10 Britain’s economy shrank by The data confi rmed that a fresh capital infusion of
Bajaj Auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3023.00. . . . . . . 15.55 Special Correspondent one such champion,” he a record 20.4% in the se the world’s sixthbiggest ₹ 2,700 crore into its India
Bajaj Finserv. . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 6357.20. . . . . . -83.15 MUMBAI
Bajaj Finance . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 3418.25. . . . . . -39.15
asserted. cond quarter when the CO economy had entered a re operations to fund its
Bharti Airtel . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 547.70. . . . . . . . -3.40 The economic impact of the VID19 lockdown was tight cession, with the low point growth plans.
BPCL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421.80. . . . . . . . -7.45 lockdown to combat the Spending plans est, the most severe coming in April when out With this, the total capi
Britannia Ind . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 3809.75. . . . . . -69.80
Cipla . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 762.10. . . . . . -15.90 pandemic has been severe in India’s largest cement maker contraction reported by any put was more than 25% be tal deployed in India
Coal India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128.70. . . . . . . . -1.40 urban India, while the rural has also lined up capital ex major economy so far, with low its prepandemic level. branches has now in
Dr Reddys Lab . . . . . . . .. . . . 4518.15. . . . . . -77.75 economy appears less badly penditure of ₹ 1,500 crore for a wave of job losses set to hit creased to ₹ 18,200 crore.
Eicher Motors. . . . . . . . .. 22116.65. . . . . 674.00
GAIL (India). . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . 98.05. . . . . . . . . 0.75 hit, Aditya Birla Group chair the current fi scal. This later in 2020. Growth revival Subsequently, capital
Grasim Ind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 626.15. . . . . . . . . 1.90 man Kumar Mangalam Birla would include installing 66 The scale of the econom Growth restarted in May adequacy ratio has further
HCL Tech. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 717.10. . . . . . . 33.30 said on Wednesday. MW of waste heat recovery ic hit may also revive ques and quickened in June, strengthened to well above
HDFC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1814.20. . . . . . -12.55
HDFC Bank. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1063.70. . . . . . . . -2.95 Observing that the gra systems, adding 1.2 million tions about Prime Minister when the economy expand the minimum required.
HDFC Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608.75. . . . . . . . . 0.00 dual unlocking of the econo tonnes (MT) per annum Boris Johnson’s handling of ed by a monthly 8.7% — a re “The incremental capi
Hero MotoCorp . . . . . .. . . . 2774.00. . . . . . . 61.15
my was refl ecting in im Ramping up: UltraTech also plans to raise its consolidated brownfi eld cement capacity the pandemic, with Britain cord singlemonth increase. tal being injected into our
Hindalco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175.80. . . . . . . . -3.15
Hind Unilever . . . . . . . . .. . . . 2195.10. . . . . . -15.55 provement in some cement capacity to 118 MT, from 114.8 MT. REUTERS*
in West Bengal and Bihar, suff ering the highest death However, some analysts India franchise is a strong
ICICI Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366.85. . . . . . . . -0.50 economic indicators like undertaking work on phase toll in Europe. More than said the bounceback was validation of our confi
IndusInd Bank . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 520.65. . . . . . . . -1.35
Bharti Infratel . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 194.65. . . . . . . . . 0.35
GST collections and electric lenging year, I remain confi “Periods of turmoil have 2 of the Bara grinding unit in 50,000 U.K. deaths have unlikely to be sustained. dence in our business mo
Infosys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 954.95. . . . . . . . . 6.50 ity consumption, Mr. Birla dent that the economy will historically presented an op Uttar Pradesh and coal block been linked to the disease. Last week the Bank of En del and potential in this
Indian OilCorp . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . 85.85. . . . . . . . -1.20 told shareholders of the revert to the 68% growth portunity for industry lead development in Madhya Pra “Today’s fi gures confi rm gland forecast it would take country, and is demonstra
ITC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204.20. . . . . . . . . 1.15
JSW Steel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256.80. . . . . . . . . 3.05
group’s UltraTech Cement trajectory in the next fi scal.” ers to emerge as cham desh, Mr. Birla said. that hard times are here,” Fi until the fi nal quarter of tive of our intent to further
Kotak Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1335.10. . . . . . -29.50 Ltd. that these markers Mr. Birla said the cement pions... with unmatched UltraTech also plans to nance Minister Rishi Sunak 2021 for the economy to re deepen our presence
L&T . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 949.75. . . . . . -12.15 were, however, not yet back maker had used the lock capacity, leadership across raise its consolidated cement said. “Hundreds of thou gain its previous size, and here,” said Kaushik Shapa
M&M . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 634.95. . . . . . . . . 5.40
Maruti Suzuki . . . . . . . . .. . . . 6730.30. . . . . . . 81.10
to preCOVID19 levels. down period to strengthen markets and a robust ba capacity to 118 MT, from sands of people have alrea warned unemployment was ria, chief country offi cer,
Nestle India Ltd. . . . .. 16540.85. . . . . . -81.95 “While FY21 will be a chal its position. lance sheet, your company is 114.8 MT, Mr. Birla said. dy lost their jobs, and sadly likely to rise sharply. Deutsche Bank India.
NTPC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88.70. . . . . . . . . 0.45
ONGC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78.10. . . . . . . . -0.35
PowerGrid Corp . . . . .. . . . . . 178.05. . . . . . . . . 1.20
Reliance Ind . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 2127.60. . . . . . . . -6.20
State Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203.30. . . . . . . . . 8.25
Shree Cement . . . . . . . .. 21378.90. . . -172.70
Sun Pharma . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 532.15. . . . . . . . -8.90
‘India to face economic Sundram
Fasteners slips
Fuel demand dips 11.7% in July NMDC raises
iron ore
Tata Motors . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 125.35. . . . . . . . . 3.05
Tata Steel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414.50. . . . . . . . -1.95
TCS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2257.35. . . . . . -22.55
challenges for many years’ into the red Mini lockdowns may have reversed uptick seen in May, June prices by 11%
Tech Mahindra . . . . . . .. . . . . . 692.05. . . . . . . 17.25
Titan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1056.35. . . . . . . . -9.90
UltraTech Cement . .. . . . 3999.65. . . . . . . 30.90
Potential growth has slowed: UBS Press Trust of India
Special Correspondent New Delhi Press Trust of India
UPL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487.15. . . . . . . . . 5.25 Chennai New delhi
Wipro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276.20. . . . . . . . -3.45 Special Correspondent vee Gupta Jain, economist, Fuel demand is beginning to
Zee Entertainment . . . . . . 161.25. . . . . . . . . 1.50 Mumbai UBS Securities India Pvt. Sundram Fasteners Ltd., a fl atline after showing signs The country’s largest iron
India’s potential growth Ltd. “This implies diffi cult part of the TVS Group, has of returning to life, as con ore miner NMDC on Wed
EXCHANGE RATES may have slowed down by economic challenges for reported a standalone net sumption dipped 11.7% in Ju nesday hiked rates of the
Indicative direct rates in rupees a unit
except yen at 4 p.m. on August 12
over one percentage point many years to come.” loss of ₹ 23.48 crore for the ly, offi cial data showed. mineral by ₹ 300 to ₹ 2,950
CURRENCY TT BUY TT SELL
due to the longerthanex For example, nearterm fi rst quarter ended June Fuel consumption, a ba a tonne with immediate
US Dollar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 74.63. . . . . . . 74.95 pected disruption caused by challenges (reduced house against a net profi t of ₹ 93 rometer of economic activi eff ect.
Euro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 87.87. . . . . . . 88.28 COVID19 and a modest pol hold income and hit to cor crore in the yearearlier ty, had slumped by over 45% Iron ore is the key raw
British Pound . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 97.32. . . . . . . 97.78 icy response so far, UBS Se porate bottom lines) may in period. in April as a nationwide lock material used in steel mak
Japanese Yen (100) . .. . 69.84. . . . . . . 70.14
Chinese Yuan . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 10.75. . . . . . . 10.79 curities said in a report. fl ict longerlasting damage Revenue from opera down halted most vehicular Bumpy ride: Diesel, the most used fuel for transportation and ing. Any change in its pric
Swiss Franc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 81.72. . . . . . . 82.09 “We estimate India's po to household consumption tions plunged to ₹ 277 crore traffi c and shut industries. irrigation, fell 19.2% in July from a year earlier. K.V. SRINIVASAN
*
es has a direct impact on
Singapore Dollar . . . . . . .. . 54.34. . . . . . . 54.58
Canadian Dollar . . . . . . . . .. . 56.17. . . . . . . 56.42
tential growth to have and fi xed investment. from ₹ 945 crore. Export However, with the easing of the rates of steel.
Malaysian Ringitt . . . . . .. . 17.79. . . . . . . 17.88 slowed to 6% (from 7.1% YoY “The government could sales dropped to ₹ 135 crore restrictions, demand picked Demand fell to 15.67 mil gation, fell 19.2% to 5.52 mt In a fi ling with the BSE,
Australian Dollar . . . . . . .. . 53.27. . . . . . . 53.50 estimated in 2017) due to also face debtsustainability from ₹ 348 crore. up in May and June with a lion tonnes (mt) in July com in July, data from the Petro NMDC said it had increased
Source:Indian Bank longerthanexpected dis concerns if the depth and The company recorded monthonmonth increase pared with 17.75 mt a year leum Planning and Analysis the price of lumps or high
ruption caused by the pan the duration of the crisis positive earnings before in consumption numbers. earlier, and 3.5% lower than Cell of the Oil ministry grade iron ore by ₹ 300 to
IN BRIEF demic, balancesheet con
cerns faced by economic
worsen,” she added.
However, UBS Securities
depreciation and taxes
(EBDT) despite challenging
However, minilockdowns
imposed by States to contain
the June sales of 16.24 mt.
Consumption of diesel,
showed. Diesel usage in July
was lower than 6.3 mt con
₹ 2,950 per tonne, and that
of iron ore fi nes or inferior
agents (especially the fi nan asserts that India can still market conditions due to the spread of COVID19 which accounts for about sumption in June. grade ore by ₹ 300 to
cial sector and households) achieve 7% plus growth over stringent cost control mea seemed to have stopped this twofi fths of India’s fuel us Petrol demand fell 10.3% ₹ 2,660 a tonne. It added
and only a modest policy the next 35 years through sures. EBDT stood at ₹ 5 recovery, with fuel demand age and is the most used fuel from a year earlier to 2.26 that the new rates are eff ec
response so far,” said Tan policy changes. crore (₹ 167 crore). falling 3.5% in July over June. for transportation and irri mt, and by 0.8% from June. tive from August 12, 2020.
Aurobindo reports
23% rise in net profi t
Ashok ‘Draft of norms to check Do not cut Nonlife insurers’ premiums rise 18%
Leyland Q1 import duty
HYDERABAD
Aurobindo Pharma has
posted a consolidated net loss at ₹ 389 cr. misleading ads soon’ on tea: UPASI Special Correspondent
HYDERABAD
ers powered the growth,
presumably on the back of
general insurers reported a
decline in business, indivi
profit of ₹ 780.68 crore for
the quarter ended June 30, Consumer authority to be enforcer The gross direct premium higher demand for health dually. However, in AprilJu
Special correspondent Special Correspondent underwritten by nonlife in covers in the wake of CO ly, gross direct premium un
an increase of 22.81% from
the year earlier period’s
chennai Mini Tejaswi COIMBATORE surers, comprising general, VID19, with a close to 41% derwritten by nonlife
₹ 635.68 crore. Revenue from Commercial vehicle manu Bengaluru The United Planters’ Asso standalone private health in increase to ₹ 1,573.96 crore. insurers rose 1.62% to
operations at ₹ 5,924.78 crore facturer Ashok Leyland As a forerunner to the intro ciation of Southern India surers and specialised PSU General insurers also ₹ 56,339.82 crore.
(₹ 5444.60 crore) is an Ltd. (ALL) has reported a duction of an advertising (UPASI) has appealed to insurers, rose 18.4% to seem to have benefi tted The period was marked
increase of 8.81%, while total net loss of ₹ 389 crore for code in the country, the Mi the Union government to ₹ 17,011.39 crore in July from from the pattern clocking by lockdowns, which hit au
income at ₹ 6,040.37 crore is the fi rst quarter ended nistry of Consumer Aff airs retain import duty on tea a year earlier. growth of 12.9% to ₹ 13,862 to sales and in turn, motor
10.62% higher compared to June, against a net profi t of will soon release a draft reg at 100%. Standalone health insur crore. Many among the 25 insurance.
₹ 5,460.38 crore in the same ₹ 230 crore in the yearear ulation aimed at checking The current import duty
period of the previous fiscal. lier period, following the misleading advertisements, on tea is 100 %. However,
COVID19led lockdown. for consultation and com under the ASEAN agree
Tata Power Q1 net rises Revenue plunged to ₹ 651 ments from stakeholders, ment, import tariff for tea
10%, revenue down 17% crore against ₹ 5,684 crore. including industry watch Leena Nandan from the ASEAN countries
MUMBAI
The results included a one dog Advertising Standards is 45%, said AL. RM. Nagap
Tata Power Ltd. on
time exceptional item of Council of India, consumers on misleading ads under the pan, president of the Asso
Wednesday announced its
fi rstquarter consolidated
₹ 1.67 crore relating to dis and advertisers, said Leena Consumer Protection Act ciation, in a statement.
net profi t increased 10% to continued products of the Nandan, Secretary, Con while the Central Consumer “The tea production seg
₹ 268 crore from ₹ 243 crore LCV division. sumer Aff airs. Protection Authority will be ment for the past many
in the year earlier period. “With the pandemic hit “The regulation for mis the enforcing agency.” years now has been wit
Revenue slid 17% to ₹ 6,455 ting us, this has been one leading advertisements will The authorities, she said, nessing either stagnant or
crore, from ₹ 7,767 crore in Q1 of the most challenging be notifi ed after the due had taken up the advertising declining prices on the one
FY20. “This is mainly due to quarters for the industry,” process of consultations,” code earlier as well. Howev side and the increasing
lower power demand, delay said Vipin Sondhi, MD & she told The Hindu. The er, the law was not stringent cost of production due to
in solar EPC businesses on CEO, Ashok Leyland. draft, which will be upload enough for consumer pro high input wage cost on the
account of COVID19 and “We saw a signifi cant de ed on the Ministry’s web tection until new regulation other. Any changes in the
lower coal FOB prices,” the cline in volume, aff ecting site, will be the fi rst step to brought in legal backing for duty structure will have a
company said in a fi ling to the fi nancial performance wards this. The government action to be taken against telling eff ect on this sec
the stock exchanges. of the company adversely.” will notify the regulations misleading advertisements. tor,” he said.
Big wilful defaulters owe
₹ 37,020 crore to PNB
NEW DELHI
Winsome Diamond &
Jewellery, Gitanjali Gems and
From carats to peanuts: how a pandemic
ABG Shipyard are among the
big wilful defaulters who
together owe over ₹ 37,000
upended the global diamond industry
crore to Punjab National
Bank as of the end of Q1 of As supply chains are convulsed by COVID19, polishers switch to farming
202021. As many as 1,787
big wilful defaulters owe Reuters onecarat diamonds are ris
outstanding loans of
JOHANNESBURG/MUMBAI ing steadily and are current
₹ 37,020.27 crore at June As the coronavirus pandem ly around 12% higher than at
end, according to the list of ic upended the global dia the start of the year, in con
wilful defaulters with mond industry, shuttering trast to stilldepressed prices
outstanding of ₹ 25 lakh and mines from Lesotho to Cana for lowerquality stones of
above as of June 30, da and disrupting supply the same size, data from
uploaded on PNB’s site. pti chains, Rajen Patel swapped trading platform RapNet
diamond polishing for pea shows.
Mphasis gets U.S. patent nut farming. But only a few miners are
for AI system to use data Mr. Patel, who worked for lucky enough to have depo
BENGALURU a decade in Surat where sits of large, highquality dia
Information technology about 80% of the world’s dia monds, leaving some pro
solutions provider Mphasis monds are polished, joined ducers at risk.
Silver lining: The lone bright spot has been steady demand
announced on Wednesday the exodus of gem workers COVID19 has forced min
for large, highquality diamonds from affl uent investors. AP *
that it had recently been
leaving the city as cases of ers to cancel or delay sales,
granted a U.S. patent for its
the virus shot up. After tak demic, freezing sales and cording to fi nanciers and with major diamond shows
artifi cial intelligence system
ing up farming in his home squeezing prices. With tem sales data. “There are a lot scrapped due to health and
for tracking, managing and
analysing data from
village, he has no plans to re porary mine closures at risk more enquiries from people travel restrictions. The few
unstructured data sources. turn in the coming months. of becoming permanent, seeking to buy these luxury sales that have taken place
The patent relates to “I won’t earn as much I was diamond miners are seeking stones as a hedge,” said Chris showed rough diamond pric
optimised data aggregation earning in Surat, but I won’t ways to extract more value Del Gatto, CEO of the DelGat es down between 15% and
and analytics across physical starve and there is no fear of from their stones. to Diamond Finance Fund, 27%. “What has happened in
and digital data sources, the getting infected with corona The lone bright spot has the largest nonbank lender the second quarter, I have
company which is virus,” he said. been steady demand for to the diamond, jewellery never seen in my life,” De
headquartered in Bengaluru Demand for diamonds has large, highquality diamonds and watch industries. Beers Chief Executive Bruce
said in a statement. pti plummeted during the pan from affl uent investors, ac Prices for high quality Cleaver told Reuters.
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Yagnik will not leave for the UAE next week, ahead of the IPL
COVID-19
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players, says Rahul Dravid Rakesh Rao
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PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
this is the fourth time the two Rajasthan Royals fi elding fi rst member to be tested
Tours are coming together. PTI
MUMBAI
in the fourth set against a fi ghting
coach Dishant Yagnik has positive for COVID19 ahead Ding Liren to inch closer to
NCA chief Rahul Dravid set-up, their
Easy for Germany as tested positive for COVID19 of the IPL tournament. a place in the titleclash of
wants the expertise of form experience will not
women’s cricket restarts and will not join the rest of The pandemic has result er players to be used as the $300,000 Magnus Carl
the contingent in Mumbai ed in the BCCI rescheduling go waste, feels
DUBAI much as possible in the State sen Chess Tour Finals on
Germany posted a facile 82 ahead of their departure to the T20 league’s 2020 edi Dravid Wednesday.
Dishant Yagnik *
FILE PHOTO teams’ setup. The legen
runwin over host Austria in the United Arab Emirates for tion to UAE from September dary India batsman made up, their experience and ex On Tuesday, Hikaru Na
the first of five T20Is at the Indian Premier League’s UAE “to ensure as robust a 19 to November 10. Consi this suggestion while inte pertise will not go waste.” kamura became the fi rst fi
Seebarn Cricket Centre, 2020 edition. process as possible”. dering lack of training since racting with members of affi According to the offi cial, nalist by completing a 30
Lower Austria, as women’s While the former Rajas “Dishant is currently in March and quarantine pro NCA was planning a two
liated units during a webinar victory over Daniil Dubov
international cricket returned than wicketkeeper con his hometown Udaipur and tocols, all the eight partici organised by the BCCI. phased training resumption in the other bestoffi veset
after the T20 World Cup final fi rmed his test results has been advised to get ad pating teams are set to leave — virtual and physical. encounter. Nakamura’s 2.5
seven months ago. through a tweet, the fran mitted to hospital for his 14 for UAE between August 19 The secretaries and crick
The scores: Germany 165 for Rahul Dravid. FILE PHOTO “Virtual training will be 1.5 victory came after he
chise issued a detailed state day quarantine. Post 14 days, and 22. et operation heads of many *
Rejuvenated Bopanna raring to go
Will partner Shapovalov at the US and French Opens Ocampos is Sevilla’s hero Asia’s FIFA WC Qualifi ers
Kamesh Srinivasan
NEW DELHI
Reuters
DUISBERG (Germany) postponed to next year
chance in the 13th minute
when his hesitant penalty
After spending fi ve months Sevilla midfi elder Lucas was saved by keeper Bono.
Shakib could return from with his family, especially Ocampos headed a late goal Shakhtar Donetsk booked Press Trust of India match against Oman in Mus
ban for Sri Lanka tour with his oneyearold to snatch a 10 win over Wol a clash with Inter Milan after New Delhi cat in November last year,
DHAKA daughter Tridha, it will be verhampton Wanderers as it goals from Brazilians Junior The Indian football team which they had lost 01.
Serving a ban for not hard for Rohan Bopanna to reached the Europa League Moraes, Taison, Alan Patrick will not see any action this Though out of contention
reporting corrupt approaches, get back to the rigour of the semifi nals here on Tuesday and Dodo gave it a thumping year with the Asian qualify for a place in the next round
Bangladesh’s premier professional tennis circuit. after the English side paid 41 win over FC Basel in a ing matches for the 2022 FI of World Cup qualifi ers, In
allrounder Shakib Al Hasan is FA World Cup on Wednes
Yet, the 40yearold is happy the price for an early penal onesided lasteight clash at dia is still in the reckoning
likely to return to the national day getting postponed to
to resume, partnering Denis Toughening up: Bopanna getting ready for the big ty miss. Gelsenkirchen. for a spot in the 2023 Asian
fold for a threematch T20
Shapovalov of Canada at the assignments. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
* Ocampos rose to direct a Semifi nal lineup: Aug. 16 (Co 2021 owing to the COVID19 Cup. It was scheduled to
series in the proposed tour of
U.S. and French Opens. cross from fellow Argentine logne): Sevilla vs. Manchester pandemic. play Qatar at home on Oc
Sri Lanka later this year, with ronavirus pandemic, Bopan States. “When we travel to United; Aug. 17 (Dusseldorf):
his suspension ending on “Denis has been at the Ever Banega past goalkeeper The Asian Football Con tober 8 followed by matches
IMG Academy in the US. We na’s family would have ac Europe later from the US, Rui Patricio in the 88th mi Inter Milan v Shakhtar. federation postponed all against Afghanistan (home)
October 29. The southpaw companied him. He was there won’t be any quaran The results (quarterfi nals):
was banned for two years, will be playing the Cincinna nute of the single leg match men’s qualifi ers scheduled and Bangladesh (away) in
getting his covid19 test tine requirement for the ten Shakhtar Donetsk 4 (Moraes 2,
one year of it was suspended, ti Masters in New York be and earn the fi vetimes win in October and November November. A thirdplace fi n
done, even though there nis people”, observed Bo Taison 22, Patrick 75pen, Do
for failing to report corrupt fore the US Open, and Rome ner Sevilla a lastfour clash do 88) bt Basel 1 (Van Wolf for the 2022 World Cup and ish in the group will help In
[Masters] before the French was no travel advice for the panna, who has competed with Manchester United. the 2023 Asian Cup. India’s dia get a direct berth in the
approaches by an alleged swinkel 90+2); Wolverhamp
Indian bookie during the Open”, said Bopanna. same. There will be a test in 47 of the last 49 Majors, in Wolves forward Raul Ji last international match was third round of the qualifi ers
ton Wanderers 0 lost to Sevilla
Indian Premier League. PTI Had it not been for the co once he gets to the United cluding the last 41. menez missed the best 1 (Ocampos 88). the joint qualifying round for the 2023 Asian Cup.
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