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True teachers are those

who help us think for
❝ ourselves

n DR SARVEPALLI RADHAKRISHNAN

Inspirational, incredible

India's medal rush continues till

I last day
nspirational, incredible
and indomitable! India's
paralympians managed
to be all these and much more
in an epoch-making cam-
paign at the Tokyo Games
where an unparalleled 19
medals, including five gold,
helped them sign off 24th in
the overall tally—the highest
ever. The tally also
included eight silver
and six bronze
medals, but, most
importantly, it was a
performance during
which history was
scripted almost
every day. Even on
the last day of the
competitions, the medal rush
did not stop and Krishna Na-
gar won a gold after Noida’s
District Magistrate Suhas
Yathiraj signed off his bril-
liant run with a silver to com-
plete a remarkable bad-
minton show. The duo’s per-
formance was like icing on
the cake for the contingent
which found new heroes, cel-
ebrated some established
ones and brought para-sports
firmly into the spotlight in
India. In all, 54 came to
Tokyo and 17 of them left
with medals around their
JNU to reopen today
necks. It was an im-
proved performance,
no doubt, but calling
J awaharlal Nehru University (JNU) is set to
reopen in a phased manner, wherein Ph.D
and other students requiring laboratories are
it just improvement allowed to come to the campus from Monday.
would be an under- Initially, the campus will open with 50 per cent
statement given that capacity. Ph.D scholars are being allowed to
India’s overall come to the campus so that they can complete
Games haul was a their thesis within the stipulated deadline. Del-
mere 12 before this hi University is also planning to start campus
edition. activities in a phased manner.

Vahan Nama is hit India set

T he Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) has re-
cently been quite a hit on social media for a very different reason. It has
target of 367
opened up its 70-year-old archive in digital format, deeming it ‘Vahan
Nama’, and putting out old nostalgic photographs and authenticated infor-
mation on every single class of bus that has been used. It is a collection of
I f there was any hope of victory that England har-
boured at lunch following an inspired bowling
performance in the first session of the fourth day of
pictures of the fourth Test, it dissipated into thin air following
state trans- a 100-run seventh wicket partnership between
port (ST) Rishabh Pant and Shardul Thakur. India's innings
buses from ended at 466, with a lead of 367. They have 126 overs
early-1948 to bowl England out and take 2-1 lead. When the day
to the re- began, India were comfortably placed at 171 runs
cent times. ahead with seven wickets in hand.

Arranging for
321 phones for
poor students
T he Delhi government, on Sunday, con-
ferred the State Teachers’ Award on vice-
principal of a government school for her ex-
ly humbled at receiving this award on
Teacher’s Day. Whatever I’ve done, I’ve done as
my duty. But receiving an award is a whole dif-

Delhi ceptional contribution in helping poor stu-

dents receive online education during the
teacher’s Covid-19 pandemic. Bharti Kalra, vice-princi-
pal of Sarvodaya Vidyalaya in Rohini Sector-8,
noble collected 321 smartphones through her family
gesture and friends that enabled students to attend on-
line classes. Speaking to ANI, Kalra, “I’m tru-
ferent feeling,” she said. She recounted that
many students of her school couldn’t attend
online classes as they did not have laptops,
tablets or smartphones. “I felt so helpless at
that time. Then, one of our students lost his fa-
ther due to Covid. I couldn’t, possibly, ask him
to buy a smartphone at that time," she said.
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ONE FOR INSPIRATION DELHI POLICE IMPARTING SELF-DEFENCE TRAINING

the donkey's Brain No getting fresh with these girls

T he 'Sashakti' initia-
tive, a self-defence
programme of the Del-
the hard way when the
women duo further hit
them. Chaudhary and
hi Police, has not only her friend are among
instilled a new sense of many women who have
confidence in Aarti undergone the Delhi
Chaudhary, a home- Police's 'Sashakti' ini-
maker in Nihal Vihar tiative taken up by the
here, but also given her community policing
courage to help other women being ha- cell of Outer district. Several women
rassed on roads. Citing an instance, who have undergone the training said

I n the forest lived a lion. He

had a jackal as his partner.
They both always went to-
gether for hunting. The lion
used to kill the animals and
the jackal got his share for
helping the lion then and
there. One day, the lion fell
ill. He called the jackal and
said, “Dear friend, I’m hun-
gry. You have to help me get
some food”. The jackal went
off in search of prey. He
found a donkey at last. He
said to the donkey, “Hello,
Donkey, Sir! The king of the
forest wants to make you his
minister”. The foolish don-
key was too happy. He fol-
lowed the jackal. The lion
killed the donkey. But, before
eating, he felt thirsty. He said
to the jackal, “Take care of
the donkey. I will be back in
no time.” As soon as the lion
left, the jackal started eating
the brain of the donkey.
When the lion came back, he
found the donkey’s brain
missing. He asked the jackal.
“Where is the donkey’s
brain?” The jackal an-
swered, “If he had a brain,
would he have come here?”
Chaudhary said she once saw a group of
boys misbehaving with a woman near
her house. She along with her friend
these classes have instilled confidence
in them to fight their fears while walk-
ing on the streets. Inspector Suman,
first asked the boys to back-off but Head of Community Policing Cell of
when they didn't, she punched one of Delhi Police's Outer district, alone has
them. The boys then tried to attack the given self-defence classes to over 1,000
two women but they learnt their lesson such women and school students
Mamata from Bhowanipore Army veterans’
T rinamool Congress on Sunday an-
nounced that West Bengal Chief Min-
Ganga plan
ister Mamata Banerjee is the party's can-
didate for Bhowanipore Assembly con-
stituency by-elections which will be held
A fter walking along the banks of
the Ganga, a group of army veter-
ans on Sunday declared they will come
on September 30. Mamata was defeated
by BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari in the
Nandigram assembly constituency in the

Hijab sales soar in Af state Assembly polls held earlier this

year. The Bhowanipore seat was vacated

I n Afghanistan, sales of hijab and burqa increased after the Tal-

iban announced that only women wearing the hijab will have
access to education and work. Women started buying head and
by the West Bengal agriculture minister
Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay in May.

body coverings out of fear that the

Taliban would hunt down and
beat them up if they were seen
without hijabs or burqas. Follow- up with a Ganga Health Dashboard for
ing the announcement earlier this water quality, work to close 329 nullahs
week, the prices of these pieces of falling into the river. These are part of
clothing have increased from 900 the first five-year action plan after the
Afghanis to 1,500 Afghanis. veterans walked 5,530 km for 190 days.

AC railway station 134-yr-old police outpost

T he facilities and amenities
provided at the state-of-the-
art M Visvesvaraya Terminal in
Bengaluru will become a bench-
mark for the stations which will
be built in future all over the
country, Minister of Railways,
Communications, Electronics
and IT Ashwini Vaishnaw said on
Sunday. The terminal is the first centralised air-conditioned railway sta-
tion in the country. The station which is equipped with seven platforms, is
designed to serve one lakh passengers per day and has features like Braille
signage, ramps to access subway apart from escalators and lifts.
H imachal Pradesh Chief
Minister Jai Ram Thakur
on Sunday inaugurated the
renovated 134-year-old police
assistance room built by the
British India at the historic
Mall Road in Shimla. He said
the importance of this police
assistance room functional for
the last 134 years exists even
today. The state is doing efforts for the preservation of its heritage build-
ings. The Chief Minister urged corporate organisations to assist in devel-
opmental works under corporate social responsibilities.
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QUICK NEWS’
Panjshir is ours: Taliban
Rushdie to T he Taliban said that they
have taken control of all dis-
return to tricts in Panjshir province, a
claim that has been denied by re-
India sistance forces. Deputy head of

suhas yathIraj sCrIpts hIstory A fter having spent

years away from the
the Taliban's cultural affairs commission Ahmadullah
Wasiq said that fighting between Taliban fighters and the

sIlver MedallIst
country, British-Ameri- Resistance Front was ongoing in central Panjshi. Ah-
can author Salman madullah Wasiq said, "Mujahideen of the Islamic Emi-
Rushdie finally plans to rate has an active presence in all areas of Panjshir." All
return to India for his areas are under Mujahideen control.

also Ias offICer

G autam Buddh Nagar
(Noida) District Magis-
trate and shuttler Suhas
Yathiraj's Paralympics run
culminated with a silver
medal for India on Sunday,
with the journey also earn-
ing him a place in the annals
of Indian Administrative
Service (IAS). The 38-year-
old Suhas, who was outdone
by his 23-year-old top seed
French rival Lucas Mazur in
a thriller of a final, became
the only IAS officer to have
not only participated but also
won a medal in the Para-
Verstappen reclaims lead
lympics. "Congratulations
Suhas L Y, IAS, DM G B Na-
gar (Noida) for winning the
silver medal in men's singles
SL4 para-badminton at
Tokyo Paralympics. We and
the entire nation are proud of
you," the IAS Association
tweeted. The Indian Police
Service (IPS) Association,
too, chipped in with a con-
gratulatory message for the
Karnataka-born UP cadre
IAS officer, who has been at
the forefront of the COVID-19
pandemic management in
Gautam Buddh Nagar.
next book. The Booker
Prize winner, who was
speaking at a session of NIPAH BACK IN KERALA
the ongoing Times Lit-
fest, said his next novel
is likely to be set in India T he Nipah
virus has re-
for which he will have to turned to haunt
come back. Kerala with a 12-
year old boy on
Sunday suc-
cumbing to the
Tidy Trails infection, the
first such incident three reeled under a daily in-
in Mathura years after it wrecked hav- crease of nearly 30,000 cas-
P epsiCo India, in
partnership with
United Way Delhi, and
oc in parts of Kozhikode
and Malappuram districts
of the state. As Kerala
es of Covid-19, the deadly
Nipah virus has come as
another thorn in its side.
as part of Swachh
Bharat Mission, has
launched "Tidy Trails" -
a special initiative to
Shang-Chi nets Rs 7.5cr
sustainably manage
post-consumer plastic D irector Destin
Daniel Cret-

M ax Verstappen thrilled his home crowd by win-

ning the Netherlands Grand Prix in style Sunday
to reclaim the Formula One championship lead from
waste in Mathura-Vrin-
davan. The initiative
was flagged off on Sun-
ton's recent film
"Shang-Chi
The Legend of 10
and

Lewis Hamilton. The Red Bull dri- day and a dedicated mo- Rings" has collect-
ver's leading seventh win of the bile van has been de- ed gross total of Rs
season and 17th of his career ployed that will visit 7.50 crore in the
moved him three points ahead of more than 400 shops to first two days of theatrical release in India. The film,
the defending champion, who fin- create awareness and starring actor Simu Liu in the lead role, is Marvel's su-
ished second but softened the collect post-consumer perhero offering with Asian actors in the lead. The film
blow with a bonus point for fastest lap. A jubilant Ver- plastic waste. released in theatres on September 3.
stappen grabbed a Dutch flag and lifted it high toward
his adoring fans as they celebrated together.

Rs 15 crore for 9 penguins CM's father booked Coup in african country

T he Congress on Sunday criticised the Shiv Sena-
ruled Mumbai civic body for floating a tender at an
estimated cost of Rs 15 crore for the upkeep of seven
penguins in the By-
culla zoo in Mum-
bai for the next
three years. The
penguins had been
procured from Coex
Aquarium in Seoul,
South Korea. The
enclosure for pen-
guins is spread over
1,800 sq ft.
A fter Bhupesh Baghel's father Nand
Kumar Baghel was booked for al-
legedly passing derogatory remarks
against Brahmins, the Chhattisgarh Chief
Minister on
Sunday said
that no one is
above the law
adding that le-
gal action will
be taken in the matter. "As a son, I respect
my father, but as a Chief Minister, none of
his mistakes can be overlooked which dis-
turbs the public order," he said.
A Guinean army colonel seized con-
trol of state television Sunday and
declared that President Alpha Conde's
government had been dissolved and the
West African nation's
borders closed, an an-
nouncement that
came after hours of
heavy gunfire erupted
near the presidential palace. The dramat-
ic developments Sunday bore all the hall-
marks of a West African coup d'etat. After
seizing the airwaves, the mutinous sol-
diers vowed to restore democracy.
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Thomas, Uber CUps

Mohammedan sporting humble Iaf saina, praneeth to lead India advantage pakistan
L S
ocal favourites and the only team from the
city, Mohammedan Sporting Club downed
regimental side Indian Air Force 4-1 to kick-
tar Indian shuttlers Saina Nehwal and B
Sai Praneeth will lead the women and
men's teams in the Thomas and Uber Cup Fi-
P akistan captain Babar Azam is confident
that familiarity of playing loads of
matches in Dubai gives his team an advantage
start their Durand Cup campaign in style, at nals, scheduled in over India when
Kolkata on Sunday. Mi- Denmark from they face-off in
lan Singh broke the October 9-17. BAI their opening
deadlock for Mo- also on Sunday league games of
hammedan in the 19th named a 12-mem- the ICC World
minute before centre- ber Indian team T20 on October
back Arijeet Singh dou- for the Sudirman 24. Pakistan have
bled their lead in the 31st minute at the Salt- Cup, which is slated to take place from Sep- had very little
lake Stadium . Azharuddin Mallick added a tember 26 to October 3 in Finland. For the success against
third at the stroke of half-time to give the Thomas and Uber Cup, Olympics bronze India in ICC tournament but at the Dubai In-
Kolkata giants a three-goal cushion heading medallist Saina will be accompanied by ternational Stadium, they have played 36 T20
into the break. Malvika Bansod, Aditi Bhatt and Tasnim Mir. Internationals winning 21 of them.

'Exemplary Ahilyabai' KRISHNA GRABS GOLD

A ctress Aetashaa Sansgiri who essays the titular role of 'Rani
Ahilyabai Holkar' in the show 'Punyashlok Ahilyabai' believes that
Ahilyabai was a woman ahead of her
I ndian shuttler Krishna Nagar clinched
the gold medal at the ongoing Paralympic
Games by defeating Chu Man Kai 2-1 in the
time. According to her, Ahilyabai men's singles SH6 -final match at Yoyogi Na-
showed exemplary fortitude and deter- tional Stadium in Tokyo on Sunday. Bat-
mination when she supported a harass- tling it out on Court 1, the second-seed Indi-
ment victim and took a stand against an overwhelmed Chu Man Kai in three sets
her own people, that too at a time, when in 43 minutes. Earlier in the day, Suhas L
women were considered inferior indi- Yathiraj, the Noida District Magistrate,
viduals and unfit rulers. Punyashlok bagged the silver medal after going down
Ahilyabai' depicts Ahilya's life journey. fighting in the final of the men's singles.

Avani leads Indian contingent

N ineteen-year-old shooter Avani Lekhara, who won gold and
bronze medals at the Tokyo Paralympics, led the Indian contin-
gent by carrying the tri-colour during the Closing Ceremony of the
Games. The Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games took place between August
24 and September 5 and it featured 539 medal events across 22 sports.
A total of 54 para-athletes from India across nine sports disciplines
were featured in the Paralympic Games.The Closing Ceremony saw a
total of 11 members of the Indian contingent in attendance.

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