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English batters wilt before clinical bowling

India's first Oval win in 50 years

I
ndian bowlers delivered big ing fifties, however, Shardul came
time on the last day of the into the attack and got rid of Burns
fourth Test at the Kensington in his first over of day 5. Shardul
Oval on Monday as the genius of Thakur who was part of the Indian
mercurial Jasprit Bumrah, and all- quartet in scoring more than 50
round performance by Shardul runs in the second innings, again
Thakur in the match helped visi- dazzled as he sent back Joe Root to
tors in defeating England by 157 the pavilion. Hosts were still in the
runs to gain an unassailable lead of game until just after lunch on Day 5
2-1 in the series. This is also India's when Jasprit Bumrah produced a
first win in Oval in 50 years. With glorious spell to give India a real
the conditions good enough for bat- shot at victory. India now leads the
ting, England openers got the hosts series 2-1 and will go to Manchester
off to a decent start, with both scor- full of confidence.

Festivals can wait: Thackeray Guddi-Gudda Board Last bastion

falls to Taliban
M aharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray,
on Monday, appealed to political parties to im-
mediately stop agitations, meetings and other pro-
U nion minister for woman and child development Smri-
ti Irani, on Monday, inaugurated a ‘Digital Guddi-Gud-
da Board’ at Dharavi as part of the weeklong ‘Poshan Maah, T he Taliban said on
Monday they have
grammes to avoid 2021’ in the Dharavi slum. The seized the last province
crowding in the DGGB is located at the Integrated not in their control after
wake of a slight Child Development Services of- their blitz through
increase in the fice in the famous Mumbai slum Afghanistan last month,
number of daily and will be used for updating, apparently overrunning
Covid-19 cases in monitoring and giving visibility forces who had opposed
the state. “We can to birth statistics under the Beti their takeover. Thousands
celebrate festivals Bachao Beti Padhao initiative. of Taliban fighters
later. Let us pri- The unique innovation, devel-
oritise the lives and health of our citizens. The situa- oped by the Jalgaon district in
tion can get out of hand in view of the spike in the Maharashtra, acts as a medium
number of daily cases,” Thackeray said in a statement. for advocacy and awareness.

Thanks To German TourisT

charged into eight dis-
Skateboarding champs in remote MP village tricts of Panjshir province
overnight, according to

U nderprivileged youth of Madhya Pradesh's Panna district

have represented India in various countries including
Germany, Belgium, and China, in skateboarding and won
eigners trained the children for skateboarding," said Arun,
who won the Gold in National. He said that many children from
the village have won medals in international compettions. "I
witnesses from the area
who spoke on condition of
anonymity because they
medals despite financial barriers. Girls and and my friend went to Germany, Belgium, feared for their safety. Tal-
boys from Janwar village of the district have Paris and Barcelona for the skateboarding iban spokesman Zabihul-
been practising skateboarding for many championships. In 2018 I went to China to lah Mujahid confirmed
years at a skatepark. "A German woman represent India," Arun said. These children that the province, which is
came to visit Khajuraho established a above the age of 5, have been proving them- north of the capital, was
skatepark in 2015 in the village. Many for- selves without any government assistance. now held by their fighters.
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CCTVs to protect
ONE FOR INSPIRATION
mangroves

BeIng Helpful!
A total of 279 CCTV cameras will be installed in 106
sensitive areas in Mumbai Metropolitan Region
to prevent the encroachment of mangroves. The deci-
sion was taken at a meeting of the Mangroves and Ma-
rine Biodiversity Con-
servation Foundation
chaired by CM Ud-

A man and his wife were awakened at

3:00 am by a loud pounding on the
door. The man got up and opened the door
wife. And further continued, "Can't you re-
member about three months ago when our
vehicle broke down and those two guys
dhav Thackeray. The
plan, which entails an
expenditure of Rs 35
to a drunken stranger, standing in helped us? I think you crore, will be imple-
the pouring rain, asking for a should help him! "said mented in three phas-
push. 'Not a chance," said the wife. The man es, with Bhiwandi being covered initially, then central
the husband, "It is 3:00 in sighed, got dressed and western Mumbai, and Navi Mumbai and Thane
the morning!" He and walked out into creek flamingo sanctuary in the last phase
slammed the door the pounding rain.
and returned to He called out in the
bed. Who was rain, "Hello! Are you
that?" asked his
wife. "Just some
still there?" "Yes!"
the voice came
India-Oz naval exercise
drunk guy asking there. "Do you still need a push?" the
for a push," answered the husband.
"Did you help him?" asked the wife. "No I
husband asked. "Yes, Please," the voice
said. "Where are you? I cannot see in the
I ndian Navy Task Group comprising Indian Naval Ships
Shivalik and Kadmatt, is participating in the 4th edition of
AUSINDEX
didn't! said the husband. dark," the husband said. "Over here…in the which com-
"Well, you have a short memory" said the swing," the voice said. menced on
Monday. The
bilateral mar-

SC 'no' to deferring NEET itime exer-

cise between

T he Supreme Court, on Monday, refused to entertain a petition seeking

appropriate directions and orders to the authorities concerned for
rescheduling or deferring the NEET UG- 21.A bench of the apex court re-
Indian Navy
and Royal
Australian
fused to interfere with a petition filed seeking directions to the author- Navy (RAN)
ities concerned for rescheduling the NEET UG- 21. "We are not in- will continue
clined to pass any order. Sorry. You (the petitioner) may approach till September 10. RAN's Anzac Class Frigate, HMAS Warra-
and make your representation to the Competent Authorities munga, which participated in Exercise MALABAR along with
with your prayers and reliefs you seek," the bench said. the Indian Navy units, is also part of the exercise.

Shares, likes on FB
11L laptops for students
T amil Nadu school education minister Anbil Mahesh
Poyyamozhi, on Monday, said the government had com-
Misinfo travels 6 times faster
menced prelimi-

nary works to
grant administra-
tive sanction to
provide 11.72 lakh
laptops to school
students across the
state. The state has
distributed 45,71,675 laptops to the students since 2011-12 and
had spent an amount of Rs 6,349 crore for this.
M
isinformation received six
times as many likes, shares,
and interactions as legitimate
news articles, researchers at New York
University and France's Universite
Grenoble Alpes have found. The study
looked at posts from the Facebook
pages of more than 2,500 news publish-
ers from August 2020 to January 2021
and saw publishers with right wing in-
clinations have a much higher propen-

‘Amrullah has fled’ sity to share misleading information

than publishers in other political cate- University, who reviewed the study's

A fghanistan's former vice-president Amrullah Saleh, who

was residing at Panjshir, has fled to Tajikistan, a media
report said on Monday citing the Taliban. While the fate of
Ahmad Massoud, the resistance
leader in Panjshir Valley re-
mains unknown, the Taliban
said that Saleh had fled the
country to Tajiskistan, Al-
Jazeera reported on Monday. Earlier in the day, the Taliban
claimed to have captured Panjshir province.
gories, reports The Washington Post.
"The study helps add to the growing
body of evidence that, despite a variety
of mitigation efforts, misinformation
has found a comfortable home - and an
engaged audience - on Facebook," the
report quoted Rebekah Tromble, Direc-
tor of The Institute for Data, Democra-
cy and Politics at George Washington
findings. Back in July, US President Joe
Biden said that such social media plat-
forms like Facebook are allowing Covid
vaccine misinformation to spread and
are "killing people". Facebook first
came under the scanner of policymak-
ers around the world after allegations
of Russian interference in the 2016 US
presidential elections surfaced.
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A n Air India flight could not take off from Delhi
airport as a swarm of ants was found in the
MUMBAI | TUESDAY | SEPTEMBER 7, 2021 3
business class of the flight on Monday. The Prince Bhubaneswar's new sobriquet
of Bhutan was a passenger on this flight. Imme-

Sports capital of India

diately the crew
members in-
formed the pilots
about the swarm
of ants on board

T
oday, if someone
and later the pi- talks about sports es-
lots of the aircraft pecially hockey in In-
decided not to dia, perhaps he/she will not
take off. The Air India AI- forget to mention Odisha be-
111 flight was scheduled
for London (LHR)
Afghans to cause the eastern state of
the country has been emerg-
airport.
stay in India ing as a sports hub. In fact,
people have started calling

T he Union Home Ministry has said that no Afghan

national living in India will be asked to leave the
country without its approval.
The MHA's decision came
about a fortnight after the
Taliban's takeover of
Afghanistan and many
Afghans arriving in India
fearing retribution from that
country's new rulers. A
woman member of Afghan parliament, Rangina Kar-
gar, was deported to Istanbul despite valid papers. The
government had later apologised to Kargar.
Bhubaneswar as the sports
capital of India due the spe-
cial interest shown by the
chief minister Naveen Pat-
naik. The state had allocated
nearly Rs 100 crore for
sports in its annual budget Hockey series was organ- government that announced
for 2016-17, which was in- ised in Bhubaneswar. Later it would sponsor both the
creased to Rs 301 crore in in 2017, the final of FIH men's and women's teams
2020-21 and Rs 400 crore in Hockey World League was for a period of five year. Re-
2021-22. In 2014, conducted. In 2018, when Sa- cently, the state has an-
Bhubaneswar conducted hara backed out of sponsor- nounced to sponsors both
the Hockey Champions Tro- ing the Indian hockey the teams for another 10
phy. In 2015, the Indo-Japan teams, it was the Odisha years.

More curbs in Nagpur 100 robotic surgeries QUICK NEWS’

HuB Of SeAweedS
N agpur
Minister
Raut on Monday
Guardian
Nitin
Covid-19 tally in Nag-
pur increased by 12
The Lakshadweep administration
has launched a programme to
turn its nine inhabited islands into
a hub of seaweed cultivation,
reviewed the officials said here on Monday.
Covid-19 situation The initiative is in line with a
in the Vidarbha re- study by the CMFRI that revealed
the potential for production of
gion and said more quality seaweeds in the serene
restrictions could and pollution-free lagoons of
Lakshadweep for high-end
be put in place utilisation like pharmaceuticals,
Nagpur in the next food and nutraceuticals.
three to four days as the during the day to reach
daily infection count 4,93,072, while the
MetrO tO nOIdA AIrpOrt
had begun rising in death toll remained un- Seeking to expand Metro links
double digits. The changed at 10,119. in NCR, DMRC will conduct a
feasibility study on setting up a
high-speed corridor between
Delhi Metro's Airport Line and
Greater Noida. According to an
Stamps on LPG price hike MoU signed between Delhi
Metro Rail Corporation and the

T he Madhya Pradesh Congress used the postal de-

partment's 'My Stamp Scheme' to get two stamps
T he Bangalore unit of a
leading private health-
care group has completed 100
pital in the country. The Apol-
lo Hospitals group on Monday
said doctors at its Bangalore
Yamuna Expressway Industrial
Development Authority, DMRC
will also prepare a detailed
printed on rising LPG cylinder prices and inflation robotic cardiac surgeries, hospital had also performed a report on a high-speed corridor
between Greater Noida and
and issued them on which it claimed was a "first" complex mitral valve cardiac Noida international airport.
Monday as part of such achievement for any hos- surgery using robots.
the party's protest
against the Naren-
dra Modi govern-
Woman may head SEBI
ment. While one Rs 5
stamp had a man
carrying an LPG
I ndia may well get the first female chief of a financial regulator as two women feature among
the top candidates for the post of IRDAI Chairperson. Former telecom secretary Aruna Sun-
dararajan and the Securities and Exchange Board of In-
cylinder, the other, also of the same amount, had a dia's (SEBI) whole-time member, Madhabi Puri Buch,
caption which claimed that prices of the kitchen es- are in the race for the next Chairperson of the Insurance
sential would soon cross the Rs1,000 mark. Regulatory and Development Authority of India, highly-
placed sources told IANS.
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Para silver medallisT

Bhavina lauds robot

W hen the Covid-19 pandem-
ic derailed her prepara-
tions for the Paralympics,
got a robot through SAI TOPS
(Target Olympic Podium
Scheme) which is an advanced
Table Tennis player Bhavin- robot," she said.
aben Patel found a
perfect practice
partner in a robot
provided by the
Sports Authority of
India, an assis-
tance which she
feels, made all the
difference in her
historic silver-win-
ning show in Tokyo
And she credited
her success to the
TT Robot (Butter-
fly - Amicus Prime
for her success. "I

Changing medal's colour HRITHIK'S SCULPTED BODY

J avelin thrower Sundar Singh Gurjar
might have won a bronze medal in the re-
cently concluded Paralympics but the star
B ollywood
Hrithik Roshan,
star

who is a bonafide fit-

stagram handle and
posted a monochrome
photo of him flexing
athlete wants to convert his medal into gold ness freak and often his muscles, amid a
in the Paris Games. Sundar bagged the flaunts his sculpted workout session. He
bronze with a season-best throw of 62.58 on physique in social cheekily wrote, "Bolo
August 30 in the Tokyo Paralympics. Javelin media posts, on Mon- bollywood bicep ki
throw has hogged the limelight in India after day shared a photo jai." The post gar-
Neeraj's gold in the Olympics. And it has im- showing off his nered more than a
proved further after the show from the para- bulging biceps. lakh likes within a
athletes in the Paralympics. Hrithik took to his In- span of two hours.

sPorTs sPecTacles

rousing welcome to medallists Bumrah outclasses Kapil 39 years in a coma

T he last batch of India's triumphant Para-
lympic athletes, including shooting sen-
sation Avani Lekhara and shuttler-cum-bu-
J asprit Bumrah, on Monday, became the
fastest Indian pacer to reach 100 wickets
in the longest format of the game. Bumrah
F ormer French footballer Jean-Pierre
Adams, who had been in a coma for 39
years, has died at the age of 73 on Monday.
reaucrat Suhas Yathiraj, returned home to a achieved the feat in the ongoing fourth Test Jean-Pierre Adams was injured during a
rousing reception on Mon- against England match with
day with their supporters when he re- Chalon. Oper-
and families thronging the moved Ollie Pope ated under
airport. India returned with for 2 on the final anaesthesia at
an unprecedented 19 medals, day. With Pope's the Hospital de
including five gold, eight sil- wicket, Bumrah Lyon on March
ver and six bronze to sign off broke former In- 17, 1982, Jean-
the country's best-ever Para- dian skipper Pierre Adams
lympics campaign by finishing 24th in the Kapil Dev's fell into a
overall tally on Sunday. The last batch of In- record. Kapil Dev had taken 25 Tests to reach coma. In a state of coma for more than 39
dian para athletes were the badminton con- 100 wickets while Bumrah achieved the mile- years, Jean-Pierre Adams lived in Nimes, his
tingent, shooters and archery team. stone in his 24th game. wife Bernadette watching by his side.

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