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Days and
Nights of Churn
NEWDELHI,LATECITY
Nobel Prize-winning
OCTOBER16,2022 novelist Orhan Pamuk on
26PAGES,`7.00 the perils of speaking truth
(`8 BIHAR &RAIPUR, `12 SRINAGAR) to power in Turkey
DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM PAGES 24, 25, 26
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THE SUNDAY EXPRESS MAGAZINE

Days and
Nights of Churn
NEWDELHI,LATECITY
Nobel Prize-winning
OCTOBER16,2022 novelist Orhan Pamuk on
26PAGES,`7.00 the perils of speaking truth
(`8 BIHAR & RAIPUR, `12SRINAGAR) to power in Turkey
DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM PAGES 24, 25, 26

Punjab Land of

7
Unlimited
Opportunities

Vs
70
Bhagwant Mann
Chief Minister, Punjab

Agriculture Power
Ÿ First time ever procured Moong with MSP of Rs.7275 per quintal, Ÿ Zero bill to 49.93 lac households for 600 units free
electricity per billing cycle
area under cultivation increased from 5400 to 1,28,000 acres
Ÿ All pending bills up to 31st December, 2021 waived off
Ÿ Rs. 26 crore subsidy@Rs.1500 per acre for Direct Seeding of Rice Ÿ All such disconnected connections restored
Ÿ Sugarcane price enhanced by Rs.20 per quintal Ÿ First time ever no power cut to agri-tubewells/industry
Ÿ First time ever pending sugarcane dues of Rs. 492 crore cleared during paddy season
· Rs. 230 crore for farmers welfare & crop damage compensation Ÿ Tube-wells load enhancement fees reduced from
Rs.4750/hp to Rs.2500/hp.1,87,000 farmers benefited

Health & Education Governance reforms

Ÿ 100 Aam Aadmi clinics operational, 3,47,193 patients Ÿ 122 new services launched in Sewa Kendras
availed services Ÿ Sewa Kendras providing services on all days of week
Ÿ Sant Atar Singh Mastuana Medical College in Sangrur and Ÿ E- Learner’s License initiated for Citizens of Punjab
two new medical colleges in Hoshiarpur and Kapurthala Ÿ First ever paperless budget presented
Ÿ 13 more new Medical Colleges to be set up soon Ÿ Introduced e-stamp papers
Ÿ Mutual Land Partition portal launched
Ÿ Long pending demand of UGC pay scales for
Ÿ Registration certificate of vehicles now delivered at door step
College/University teachers fulfilled

Sports and youth welfare

Ÿ Organizing ‘Khedan Wattan Punjab Diyan’ to inspire youth
Ÿ Rs. 9.30 crore cash awards for 23 Commonwealth Games medalists
Ÿ First time ever participants also given cash prizes
Ÿ Shaheed Bhagat Singh Youth Awards reintroduced

Industry
Employment
Ÿ New Industrial & Business Development Policy-2022
Ÿ 8736 contract teachers regularized Ÿ Rs. 21000 crore new investment in Punjab, 93000 jobs to
Ÿ 28000 more contractual employees to be regularised be created
Ÿ 18543 Government jobs provided Ÿ Rs. 2600 crore Tata Steel Plant to be set up
Ÿ 2500 new recruitment in Punjab Police Ÿ India 's largest Compressed Biogas Project set up in
Sangrur to fight stubble burning
Ÿ Single-Window Hassle free investment facilitation

Good Governance, Good Intentions

Ÿ One MLA, One Pension
Ÿ Anti-corruption helpline, 212 arrests made
Ÿ First time ever direct government buses from Punjab to Delhi airport
Ÿ Rs. 1 crore Ex-gratia to martyrs' families
Ÿ Shaheed Bhagat Singh Hariawal Lehar- 1.12 crore saplings planted
Ÿ Minimum Wages of Labour and Construction Workers hiked
Ÿ Tax waived off for all vehicles carrying religious scriptures
Ÿ Mohali International Airport named after Shaheed Bhagat Singh
Ÿ Milk procurement price increased by Rs. 20/-per kg milk fat
Ÿ New milk processing plants and capacity enhancements in
Ludhiana, Ferozepur and Jalandhar

Department of Information & Public Relations, Punjab

New Delhi
 Korba District Urban Public Service
Society, Korba
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THE SUNDAY EXPRESS, OCTOBER 16, 2022
F.No./2022/77 Korba Dated. 12.10.2022 GOVERNMENT OF CHHATTISGARH,
RFP NOTICE WATER RESOURCES DEPARTMENT Paschimanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam Ltd.,
For OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDING ENGINEER IYF¹FFÊÕX¹F IYF¹FÊ´FFÕX³F Ad·F¹Fa°FF
Selection of Operators for Operation, Maintenance and Management of
SHIVNATH CIRCLE DURG (CHHATTISGARH) Victoria Park, Meerut ÕXûIY À½FFÀ±F ¹FFadÂFIYe J¯OX, ¦FdSX¹FF¶FaQ LXØFeÀF¦FPÞ
City Bus Services and Ancillary Infrastructure in Korba Urban e-PROCUREMENT TENDER NOTICE E-TENDER INVITING NOTICE 1. Short term tender is invited eegar-phe-cg@nic.in
Agglomeration in Chhattisgarh. eProcurement Portal: https://eproc.cgstate.gov.in through e-tendering for the supply of 2000 no. Three Phase d³Fd½FQF d³FSXÀ°FeIYSX¯F
CORRIGENDUM No.-02 Distribution box against tender specification no. PVVNL- EIYeIÈY°F ´FaªFe¹F³F ´Fi¯FFÕXe A³°F¦FÊ°F ÀFÃF¸F ßFZ¯Fe ¸FZÔ ´FaªFeIÈY°F EªFZÔÀFe/NZXIZYQFSXûÔ ÀFZ
In System Tender 103504/NIT No.: 04/SAC/2022-23, Rajnandgaon, Dated: MT/MM/81(s)/22-23. Earnest Money Deposit (EMD) :- Rs. d³F¸³FF³FbÀFFSX AFG³FÕXFBʳF d³Fd½FQF AF¸FadÂF°F IYe ¦FBÊ ±FeÜ dªFÀFZ A´FdSXWXF¹FÊ IYFSX¯FûÔ ÀFZ
30.06.2022 Whose G-Number is 92671/1 dated 06.07.2022 d³FSXÀ°F dIY¹FF ªFF°FF W`XÜ ¾Fe§Fi WXe ´Fb³F: d³Fd½FQF AF¸FadÂF°F IYe ªFF½FZ¦FeÜ
following amendments are made:- 59000.00 (with GST) Last Date of tender submission & Time :-
31.10.2022 at 14:00 hrs. Date of tender opening (Part-I & II) & dÀFÀMX¸F IiY¸FFaIY/ªFe IiY./dQ³FFaIY
S.No. Amendments
1 Clause 2.8.1 of Form- “B” as per government of Chhattisgarh, W.R.D. Time :- 31.10.2022 at 16:30 hrs. Note:- In case of any 98971, 98975, 98976, 98977, 98978, 98980, 99580, 99692
Order No. 4899/F-7-7-31/S-2/2001/(VI) dated 12.10.2022 ªFe-90991/dQ³FFaIY 12.05.2022 E½Fa ªFe-91186/dQ³FFaIY 14.05.2022
amendment in tender specification or date of extension, the
Note:- Detailed Amendments can be viewed on the web site same shall be uploaded on e-tender website WXÀ°FF/-
https://eproc.cgstate.gov.in. All other terms and conditions will remain be IYF¹FÊ´FFÕX³F Ad·F¹Fa°FF
unchanged. www.etender.up.nic.in and www.pvvnl.org Superintending
ÕXûIY À½FFÀ±F ¹FFadÂFIYe J¯OX,
Sd/- Engineer (MM-I) “Help line Number For Information of Theft of 95046 ¦FdSX¹FF¶FaQ (LX.¦F.)
Executive Engineer Electricity: “1800-180-3002 (Meerut), & 9412207451” Sd/-
Sd/- Water Resources Division,
Nodal Officer Superintending Engineer (MM-I) “SAVE ELECTRICITY IN
Rajnandgaon (C.G.)
Korba District Urban Public Service Society, For, Superintending Engineer Shivnath Circle, THE INTEREST OF THE NATION” ´fÂffaI : 292 dQ³ffaI : 15.10.2022
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»ff¦f°f (»ffJ 2 % A½fd²f ´faªfeIÈY°f ³ff¸f 2 Special repair work of Kasba Niwari to Goon road. 28.66 2.87 2000+ 300 + GST 18% 1 Month bZ&fufonk dh fu;r frfFk ,oa le;&
÷Y0 ¸fZÔ) ßfZ¯fe 3 Special repair work of Nizampur link road. 10.93 1.09 500+ 225 + GST 18% 1 Month 1- vkuykbu fufonk izi= miyC/k gksus dh frfFk& fnukad 17-10-2022 dks lk;a 04%30 cts ls
4 Special repair work of Sara Gavadi road. 25.71 2.57 2000+ 300 + GST 18% 1 Month
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 2- vkuykbu fufonk izi= tek djus dh izkjaHk frfFk& fnukad 17-10-2022 dks lk;a 06%00 cts ls
5 Special repair work of Village Talheta to Bhoolgarhi 5.58 0.56 500+ 225 + GST 18% 1 Month
01 Repair of Regulator Gate of 45.00 2% 60 dQ½fÀf ÷ 0 300+18% (GST) ‘¶fe’ A»fe¦fPÞ road
M.B.F. at Km. 38.00 d³f¹f¸ff³fbÀffS + ÷ 0 A±f½ff J¯O ¦fa¦ff 6 Special repair work of Modinagar Nagarpalika Border 17.03 1.70 500+ 300 + GST 18% 1 Month 3- izh fcM ehfMax fnukad 21-10-2022 dks vijkUg 03%00 cts
1000.00 ÀMZ Vf³fSe ¨ffªfÊ C©f ³fWS,
7
to Khanjarpur road
Special repair work of Modinagar Hapur road Km. 5 to 8.81 0.88 500+ 225 + GST 18% 1 Month
4- vkuykbu fufonk izi= tek djus dh vfUre frfFk fnukad 07-11-2022 dks vijkUg 12%00 cts rd
A»fe¦fPÞ Khanjarpur road
5- vkuykbu fufonk izi= rduhdh fcM [kksyus dh frfFk& fnukad 07-11-2022 dks vijkUg 03%30 cts
02 Repair of Regulator Gate of 60.45 2% 60 dQ½fÀf ÷ 0 300+18% (GST) ‘¶fe’ A»fe¦fPÞ 8 Special repair work of Kadrabad Nala Approach road 33.82 3.38 2000+ 300 + GST 18% 1 Month
M.B.F. and P.H.B.at Km. 47.00 d³f¹f¸ff³fbÀffS + ÷ 0 A±f½ff J¯O ¦fa¦ff 9 Special repair work of Bhojpur Pilakhuwa road Km. 2 19.14 1.91 500+ 300 + GST 18% 1 Month siwoZ esa fuxZr bZ&fufonk vkeU=.k lwpuk la[;k&813@dz0iz0ls0@bZ&fufonk@
1000.00 ÀMZ Vf³fSe ¨ffªfÊ C©f ³fWS, to Amrala road
vkS’kf/k&AAA@2022&23] fnukad 29-09-2022 dks mDr lhek rd la”kksf/kr le>k
A»fe¦fPÞ 10 Special repair work of Nagla Moosa to Painga road 18.75 1.88 500+ 300 + GST 18% 1 Month

03 Construction/ Reconstruction 53.46 2% 60 dQ½fÀf ÷ 0 300+18% (GST) ‘¶fe’ A»fe¦fPÞ 11

Ghaziabad
Special repair work of Modinagar Talheta Dhantala 20.60 2.06 2000+ 300 + GST 18% 1 Month
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of V.R.B. at Km. 31.000 of d³f¹f¸ff³fbÀffS + ÷ 0 A±f½ff J¯O ¦fa¦ff
Road in Km. 13, 14 ¼Mk0 izeksn dqekj flag½
Aligarh Drain 1000.00 ÀMZ Vf³fSe ¨ffªfÊ C©f ³fWS,
12 Special repair work of Village Surana Vijaypal Bhatte
to Jatav basti road
5.00 0.50 500+ 225 + GST 18% 1 Month
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A»fe¦fPÞ 13 Special repair work of Dhindhar Link Road 8.00 0.80 500+ 225 + GST 18% 1 Month UPID-180273 Date 14/10/2022 jksx fu;U=.k ,oa iz{ks=]
04 Construction/ Reconstruction 53.46 2% 60 dQ½fÀf ÷ 0 300+18% (GST) ‘¶fe’ A»fe¦fPÞ
of V.R.B. at Km. 32.690 of d³f¹f¸ff³fbÀffS + ÷ 0 A±f½ff J¯O ¦fa¦ff
14 Special repair work of Niwadi Suhana road to Ujeda
road
24.00 2.40 2000+ 300 + GST 18% 1 Month www.upgov.nic.in i'kqikyu foHkkx] m0iz0] y[kuÅA
Aligarh Drain 1000.00 ÀMZ Vf³fSe ¨ffªfÊ C©f ³fWS, 15 Special repair work of Saunda pul to Dabana road 27.00 2.70 2000+ 300 + GST 18% 1 Month

A»fe¦fPÞ 16 Special repair work of Village Surana Haji Maharaj 5.50 0.55 500+ 225 + GST 18% 1 Month

05 Renewal and Repair of Service 334.36 2% 60 dQ½fÀf ÷ 0 300+18% (GST) ‘E’ A»fe¦fPÞ 17
Bhatte to Jaharvir road
Special repair work of Shahjadpur to Sarna 16.00 1.60 500+ 300 + GST 18% 1 Month
OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE
Road of U.G.C. From Km. d³f¹f¸ff³fbÀffS + ÷ 0 A±f½ff J¯O ¦fa¦ff Shamshanghat Road KONDAGAON, (C.G.)
273.680 to 289.400 and Km. 1000.00 ÀMZ Vf³fSe ¨ffªfÊ C©f ³fWS, 18 Special repair work of Saunda Pul to Ujeda road 25.00 2.50 2000+ 300 + GST 18% 1 Month

A»fe¦fPÞ No.: SP/KGN/AC/M/2926-B Kondagaon, Dated 13-10-2022

291.400 to Km. 291.490 19 Special repair work of Dabana to Firojpur road 10.00 1.00 500+ 225 + GST 18% 1 Month

06 Renewal and Repair work of 75.42 2% 60 dQ½fÀf ÷ 0 300+18% (GST) ‘¶fe’ A»fe¦fPÞ
20
21
Special repair work of Gyaspur to Khindora road
Special repair work of Muradnagar Station to Dhendha
9.50
9.50
0.95
0.95
500+ 225 + GST 18%
500+ 225 + GST 18%
1 Month
1 Month
Tender Notice
Service Road of Anoopshahar d³f¹f¸ff³fbÀffS + ÷ 0 A±f½ff J¯O ¦fa¦ff Kanauja road On behalf of Governor of Chhattisgarh, invites sealed tenders for the following work from approved and
Branch Canal From Km. 1000.00 ÀMZ Vf³fSe ¨ffªfÊ C©f ³fWS, 22 Special repair work of Morti to Shamshanghat road 10.00 1.00 500+ 225 + GST 18% 1 Month eligible contractors of PWD P&T who are registered as manufacturer for making Concertina Coil Fencing as
193.683 to Km. 196.700 A»fe¦fPÞ 23 Special repair work of Rasoolpur Sikrod to Bapudham 10.50 1.05 500+ 225 + GST 18% 1 Month per Ministry of Defence specification No. IND/ENGG./ PRO/1245 B or CQAE/5660/1602/a its connected draw-
07 Renewal and Repair of Service 47.27 2% 60 dQ½fÀf ÷ 0 300+18% (GST) ‘¶fe’ A»fe¦fPÞ Road
ing with Ministry of Defence Controllerate of Quality Assurance (Engineering Equipments)/DGS&D/NSIC and
24 Special repair work of Kalda Rajwaha to Dinanathpur 31.00 3.10 2000+ 300 + GST 18% 1 Month
Road of Palra Dy. From Km. d³f¹f¸ff³fbÀffS + ÷ 0 A±f½ff J¯O ¦fa¦ff Poothi road have executed work of Concertina Coil Fencing for at least 50.00 Lacs. The offers will be received in the office
21.100 to Km. 23.440 1000.00 ÀMZ Vf³fSe ¨ffªfÊ C©f ³fWS, 25 Special repair work of Chitora to Factory Gate road 11.0 1.10 500+ 225 + GST 18% 1 Month of the Superintendent of Police Kondagaon up to 15.00 P.M. on Dated 03-11-2022 and will be open on dated
A»fe¦fPÞ 26 Special repair work of Banthla Dikoli road to Nithora 27.55 2.75 2000+ 300 + GST 18% 1 Month 03-11-2022 at 16.00 P.M. Tender form will be issued till date 02-11-2022 up to 17.00 PM.
08 Renewal and Repair of Service 258.48 2% 60 dQ½fÀf ÷ 0 300+18% (GST) ‘E’ A»fe¦fPÞ road
Name of work Location
Road of U.G.C. between Km. d³f¹f¸ff³fbÀffS + ÷ 0 A±f½ff J¯O ¦fa¦ff 27 Special repair work of Mandola to Mubarikpur road 17.80 1.78 500+ 300 + GST 18% 1 Month
Specification of Concertina Coil 1050 mm dia for Fencing Providing and Fixing of Fencing with
239.325 to Km. 251.525 1000.00 ÀMZ Vf³fSe ¨ffªfÊ C©f ³fWS, 28 Special repair work of Mandola Badagaon Road 15.10 1.51 500+ 300 + GST 18% 1 Month
punched tape concertina coils (PTCC) conforming to defence specification No. IND/ENGG./
A»fe¦fPÞ 29 Special repair work of Ristal Chauraha to Jawali Nahar 12.70 1.27 500+ 300 + GST 18% 1 Month
PRO/1245 B or CQAE/5660/1602/a & its connected drawing and 1050 mm din in close condition PS
Pul Road
09 Renewal and Repair of Service 110.00 2% 60 dQ½fÀf ÷ 0 300+18% (GST) ‘E’ ¶fb»f³QVfWS after streshing 10 mtr. dia should be 915 mm reinforced barbed tape (RBT) in pyramid shape i.e. 3 Anatpur
30 Special repair work of Kotwalpur to Mewala Bhatti 10.16 1.02 500+ 300 + GST 18% 1 Month
Road of Bulandshahr Dy. From d³f¹f¸ff³fbÀffS + ÷ 0 A±f½ff J¯O ¦fa¦ff road tiers two at bottom and one at top the five rows of RPT to be fixed between angle 50x50x6 mm at a
Km. 10.800 to Km. 18.915 1000.00 ÀMZ Vf³fSe ¨ffªfÊ C©f ³fWS, 31 Special repair work of Banthla Dikoli road to Sakalpura 10.30 1.03 500+ 300 + GST 18% 1 Month distance of 3.0 mt. centre to centre height 2.00 mt above ground level at different places i/c trans-
¶fb»f³QVfWS Road
portation and cost of all materials and labour etc complete.
10 Renewal and Repair of Service 167.00 2% 60 dQ½fÀf ÷ 0 300+18% (GST) ‘E’ ¶fb»f³QVfWS 32 Ghaziabad Special repair work of Teela Mode to Pipe Line to 7.57 0.78 500+ 225 + GST 18% 1 Month

Road of Bulandshahr Dy. From d³f¹f¸ff³fbÀffS + ÷ 0 A±f½ff J¯O ¦fa¦ff

Asalatpur road Note:- Cost of Tender form of each group will be 750/- Rs. (Issue of tender from this office only submitted the
Km. 25.850 to Km. 31.500 1000.00 ÀMZ Vf³fSe ¨ffªfÊ C©f ³fWS,
33 Special repair work of Kalchhina to Dabarasi Road 23.00 2.30 2000+ 300 + GST 18% 1 Month original copy of challan paid by tenderer on "0055, 800 Police miscellaneous") Length of Concertina Coil
¶fb»f³QVfWS
34 Special repair work of Teela Mode to Javali Road 24.05 2.40 2000+ 300 + GST 18% 1 Month
Fencing 400 Mtr, Approximate Cost of work 6.80 Lakh, Earnest Money in Rs. 20400.00.
35 Special repair work of Javali to Mandala road 21.80 2.18 2000+ 300 + GST 18% 1 Month
Supdt. of Police
11 Renewal and Repair of Service 47.00 2% 60 dQ½fÀf ÷ 0 300+18% (GST) ‘¶fe’ ¶fb»f³QVfWS 36 Special repair work of Chirodi to Mewala Bhatti (West 8.75 0.88 500+ 225 + GST 18% 1 Month 95034 Distt. Kondagaon
Road of Bulandshahr Dy. From d³f¹f¸ff³fbÀffS + ÷ 0 A±f½ff J¯O ¦fa¦ff Canal Tak) Road
Km. 44.900 to Km. 46.300 1000.00 ÀMZ Vf³fSe ¨ffªfÊ C©f ³fWS, 37 Special repair work of Javali to Sakalpura road 17.20 1.72 500+ 300 + GST 18% 1 Month
¶fb»f³QVfWS 38 Special repair work of Mewala Bhatti to Farukhnagar 37.50 3.75 2000+ 300 + GST 18% 1 Month
Sirora Km. 8 Road
12 Renewal and Repair of Service 63.00 2% 60 dQ½fÀf ÷ 0 300+18% (GST) ‘¶fe’ ¶fb»f³QVfWS 39 Special repair work of Nistoli Mode to Hindan Airforce 5.44 0.54 500+ 225 + GST 18% 1 Month
Road of P.U.G.C. From Km. d³f¹f¸ff³fbÀffS + ÷ 0 A±f½ff J¯O ¦fa¦ff Gate Road
220.630 to Km. 222.720 1000.00 ÀMZ Vf³fSe ¨ffªfÊ C©f ³fWS, 40 Special repair work of Chudiyala Sampark road 14.00 1.40 500+ 225 + GST 18% 1 Month
¶fb»f³QVfWS 41 Special repair work of Mirpur to Nawada road 22.65 2.27 2000+ 300 + GST 18% 1 Month
42 Special repair work of Mandola to Mirpur Hindu road 39.45 3.95 2000+ 300 + GST 18% 1 Month
13 Renewal and Repair of Service 110.00 2% 60 dQ½fÀf ÷ 0 300+18% (GST) ‘E’ ¶fb»f³QVfWS
43 Special repair work of Farukhnagar Sirora in Km. 9 to 25.40 2.54 2000+ 300 + GST 18% 1 Month
Road of P.U.G.C. From Km. d³f¹f¸ff³fbÀffS + ÷ 0 A±f½ff J¯O ¦fa¦ff Niche Ghero tak Road
222.830 to Km. 226.600 1000.00 ÀMZ Vf³fSe ¨ffªfÊ C©f ³fWS, 44 Special repair work of Pipe Line to Bhaneda Kala 11.30 1.13 500+ 225 + GST 18% 1 Month
¶fb»f³QVfWS Road
45 Special repair work of Bhojpur Pilkhuwa Road in Km. 10.40 1.04 500+ 225 + GST 18% 1 Month
14 Renewal and Repair of Service 199.00 2% 60 dQ½fÀf ÷ 0 300+18% (GST) ‘E’ ¶fb»f³QVfWS 4 to FaridnagarRoad
Road of P.U.G.C. From Km. d³f¹f¸ff³fbÀffS + ÷ 0 A±f½ff J¯O ¦fa¦ff 46 Special repair work of Duhari Abalpur road to Joa 16.00 1.60 500+ 300 + GST 18% 1 Month
232.660 to Km. 239.300 1000.00 ÀMZ Vf³fSe ¨ffªfÊ C©f ³fWS, Road

¶fb»f³QVfWS 47 Special repair work of Modinagar Kalchhina road to 19.70 1.97 500+ 300 + GST 18% 1 Month
Dausa Banjarpur road
15 Renewal and Repair of Left 193.00 2% 60 dQ½fÀf ÷ 0 300+18% (GST) ‘E’ ¶fb»f³QVfWS 48 Special repair work of Kachhina Ke Majre Rohtas Garh 12.80 1.28 500+ 225 + GST 18% 1 Month
Bank Service Road of U.G.C. d³f¹f¸ff³fbÀffS + ÷ 0 A±f½ff J¯O ¦fa¦ff Ghaziabad Sampark Road

From Km. 165.730 to Km. 1000.00 ÀMZ Vf³fSe ¨ffªfÊ C©f ³fWS, 49 Special repair work of Ishaknagar to Nahali Road 23.70 2.37 2000+ 300 + GST 18% 1 Month

172.217 ¶fb»f³QVfWS 50 Special repair work of Ishaknagar to Faridnagar road 16.80 1.68 500+ 300 + GST 18% 1 Month
51 Special repair work of Jatpura to Duhari Abalpur road 11.30 1.13 500+ 225 + GST 18% 1 Month
16 Renewal and Repair of Left 157.00 2% 60 dQ½fÀf ÷ 0 300+18% (GST) ‘E’ ¶fb»f³QVfWS
52 Special repair work of Duhari Abalpur to Rampura 11.10 1.11 500+ 225 + GST 18% 1 Month
Bank Service Road of U.G.C. d³f¹f¸ff³fbÀffS + ÷ 0 A±f½ff J¯O ¦fa¦ff road
From Km. 173.760 to Km. 1000.00 ÀMZ Vf³fSe ¨ffªfÊ C©f ³fWS, 53 Special repair work of Kunheda to Mohhamadpur road 27.60 2.76 2000+ 300 + GST 18% 1 Month
177.500 ¶fb»f³QVfWS 54 Special repair work of NH-58 to Hisali Road 23.95 2.39 2000+ 300 + GST 18% 1 Month

17 Renewal and Repair of Service 255.00 2% 60 dQ½fÀf ÷ 0 300+18% (GST) ‘E’ ¶fb»f³QVfWS 55 Special repair work of NH-58 to Shahpur Link Road 32.16 3.22 2000+ 300 + GST 18% 1 Month
Road of Right Kalda Dy. in d³f¹f¸ff³fbÀffS + ÷ 0 A±f½ff J¯O ¦fa¦ff 56 Special repair work of Nagla Ator to Pipe Line Road 28.75 2.88 2000+ 300 + GST 18% 1 Month
Between From Km. 0.000 to 1000.00 ÀMZ Vf³fSe ¨ffªfÊ C©f ³fWS, 57 Ghaziabad Special repair work of Kushliya Sampark Road 30.00 3.00 2000+ 300 + GST 18% 1 Month
Km. 20.000 ¶fb»f³QVfWS 58 Special repair work of Dabarasi to Nahal Road 17.75 1.87 500+ 300 + GST 18% 1 Month
59 Special repair work of Dasna Railway Feedar Road 23.54 2.35 2000+ 300 + GST 18% 1 Month
18 Repairing of Service Road of 53.94 2% 60 dQ½fÀf ÷ 0 300+18% (GST) ‘¶fe’ dÀfa¨ffBÊ and both side Nala
Firozabad Dy. Left Bank From d³f¹f¸ff³fbÀffS + ÷ 0 A±f½ff J¯O
Km. 21.886 to Km. 21.992 and 1000.00 ÀMZ Vf³fSe ¨ffªfÊ C©f dR Sûªff¶ffQ 3. Terms / conditions and details related to the tender can be seen in the office of Executive Engineer,
Construction Division-2 PWD, Ghaziabad, Superintending Engineer, Bulandshahar Circle, PWD,
Km.22.992 to Km. 27.724 Bulandshahar and Chief Engineer, Meerut Zone, PWD Meerut
¹fW d³fdUQf Àfc¨f³ff C0´fi0 ÀfSI fS I e UZ¶fÀffBM (http://upgovt.nic.in) °f±ff dÀfÔ¨ffBÊ dU·ff¦f I e UZ¶fÀffBM 4. The terms / conditions and details related to the tender are available on the website
(www.irrigation.up.in, http://www.idup.upgovt.in) ´fS C´f»f¶²f W`Ü http://etender.up.nic.in.
5. In PWD technical evaluation of tenders is to be done by Prahari Software URL for Prahari is
³fûM:- 1. ²fSûWS ²f³fSfdVf Af³f-»ffBʳf þ¸ff I e þf³fe Ad³fUf¹fÊ Wû¦fe þû d³fdUQf Jû»fZ þf³fZ ÀfZ °fe³f ¸ffW °fI ½f`²f Wû³fe ¨ffdW¹fZÜ http://wms.uppwd.gov.in/Prahari/
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UPID-180143 Date 13/10/2022 A²feÃf¯f Ad·f¹f³°ff Assistant Engineer UPID-180255 Dt. 14.10.2022 Executive Engineer
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 6 CLASSIFIEDS & TENDERS
Classifieds
PERSONAL
It is for general information that
I,Vivek Solanki,S/o-Vichitra
Kumar Singh,R/o.H.No.-
632,Gali.No-9,Phase-5, Shiv-
Vihar,Karawal-Nagar,Delhi-
110094,declare that my-minor
son Somansh Singh Solanki’s
Date-of-Birth has been
Wrongly-written as-22/07/2010
in his School-record.The
actual-Date-of-Birth of my-
minor son is-22/07/2008,which
may be amended accordingly.
0040636780-6
I,Ved Parkash,S/O Shri
Krishan,R/O A-1/157A,Keshav
Puram,Delhi-110035,have
Changed my name to Ved
Prakash Khemka,for all
Purposes.
0040636797-3
I,Ved Parkash, S/o Dharam
Chand,R/o H.No.99,Eight
Marla,Model Town Gurgaon
(Haryana)have changed my
name to Ved Parkash
Luthra,for all Purposes.
0040636757-3
I,Vandna and Vandana,w/o
Ashok Kaushik,R/o Near
Rishikul School,Shiv Colony,
Sonipat,have changed my
name to Vandana Kaushik,for
all purposes.
0040636780-5
I,VINEET GUPTA,R/o-4073,Kucha
Dilwali Singh,Ajmeri
Gate,Delhi-110006,have
changed my Minor daughter
name,from SRISHTI to SRISHTI
GUPTA,for all,future Purposes.
0040636758-1
I,Tejinder Kaur W/O-Arvinder
Singh Khurana R/O-J-
8/128,Third-Floor Rajouri
Garden,DELHI-110027,have
changed my name to Tejinder
Kaur Khurana
0040636780-2
I,Swati Bansal D/o Sham Sunder
Bajaj W/o Nitin Bansal,R/o-S-
430 Ground-Floor
Greater,Kailash Part-2,Delhi-
110048,have changed my name
to Swati Bajaj Bansal.
0040636758-3
I,Suryansh Goyal s/o Jai Goyaal,
R/o H.No.19, Road No.29, East
Punjabi Bagh, New Delhi-
110026 have changed my name
to Suryaansh Goyal, for all
purposes
0040636748-1
I,Shekhar S/o-Ved Parkash
Luthra,R/o H.No.99,Eight-
Marla, Model-Town Gurgaon
(Haryana),have changed my
name to Shekhar Luthra,for all
Purposes.
0040636757-2
I,Sharma Yash,S/O Davender
Kumar Sharma R/O-D-
16/175,Sector-3,Rohini,Delhi-
110085,have Changed my name
to Yash Sharma.
0040636797-2
I,SHAIK
YAQUB@S.K.YAKUB@SHAIK
YAKUB@SHAIKH SHAIKH
YAKHUB@SHEIKH YAKUB
PASHUMIYA,S/O SHEIKH
MAHEBOOB,R/O-B-358,BLOCK-
B,INDER ENCLAVE-II,PHASE-
II,KIRARI-SULEMAN
NAGAR,NEW DELHI-
110086,have changed my name
to SHEIKH YAKHUB.
0040636768-9
I,SANJEEV GUPTA,S/O-AMAR
NATH
GUPTA,R/O.HNO.33,GROUND-
FLOOR,ROADNO.43,WEST
PUNJABI-BAGH,DELHI-
110026.HAVE CHANGED MY
NAME TO SANJEEV KUMAR
GUPTA.
0040636768-3
I,Rohit kumar,S/o-Sunder
Singh,R/o-1/4094,Street no-
2,near yoga way public
School,Ram Nagar
Extn,Shahadara,Delhi-
110032,declare that Rohit
kumar and Rohit are both
names of mine & same person.
0040636797-1
I,Rajesh Kumar
Pahuja,S/O.Manohar Lal
Pahuja,R/O.286-A,Tihar-
village,Manak Vihar,New
Delhi-110018,inform that my
name wrongly-written in my-
daughter Priyanshi Pahuja’s
school-records as Manohar Lal
Pahuja,correct-name is Rajesh
Kumar Pahuja.
0040636757-10
I,Rajeev Goel,S/o Shri Samal Das
R/o H.No-260/2,Sector-
16,Vasundhara Ghaziabad,U.P-
201012,have changed my name
to Rajeev Kumar Goel.
0040636758-2
I,RAVINDER GOYAL,S/O SAT
NARAIN GOYAL RIO A-1/76,SEC-
8,ROHIND DERAL-110085,HAVE
CHANGED MY NAME RAVINDER
KUMAR GOYAL.
0040636758-9
I,Qurrat D/o-Nawabuddin,R/o-
6299 Nawab-Road,Quresh
Nagar,Sadar-Bazar Delhi-
110006,have changed my name
to Qurrat Qureshi.
0040636758-7
I,Poornima W/O Sh.Bhanu
Prakash,R/O House.no-
777,Sector-15,Vasundhra,
Ghaziabad,Uttar
Pradesh,201012,have changed
my name,from Poornima to
Poornima Sharma,for all future
purposes.
0040636797-8
I,Rishabh S/o Amit Goel R/o-D64
Kamla Nagar,1st floor, Delhi-
110007 have changed my name
to Rishabh Goel for all
purposes.
0040636663-1
I,Payal Jain D/o Ravi Gupta R/o-
E-87 Greater kailash-2,Delhi-
110048,have changed my name
to Ruchi gupta permanenty.
0040636758-4
I,Nitish Singh,S/o-Ram Naresh
Prasad Singh,R/o-Flat
no.301,Block-3, Express Garden
Apartment,Vaibhav
Khand,Indirapuram, Gzb,have
changed my name to Nitish
Kumar Singh,forever.
0040636780-3
I,Mary Sharma W/o-Daya
Shankar Sharma.R/o.Banglow
Plot.No-10 Flat.No-8Pandav
Nagar,Delhi-110092,Have
Changed My Name To Mary
Kurian. 0040636757-9
I,MOHD ARIF HUSSAIN,S/O
MOHAMMAD IQBAL
HUSAIN,R/O.J-
1607,JAHANGIRPURI,DELHI-
110033.HAVE CHANGED MY
NAME TO MOHAMMAD ARIF
HUSAIN. 0040636768-2
I,MANSOOR,S/O.MOHD YUNUS
ADD- HOUSE NO-B-
131,GALI.NO-4 ,BRIJPURI
DAYALPUR NORTH EAST DELHI-
110094,Changed my name
toMOHD MANSOOR,for
all,future Purposes.
0040636768-6
I,Kartar Singh S/o Sh. Lakhe
Ram R/o A-416, sonia nagar,B-A
Block,Loni
Dehat,Ghaziabad,UP-
201102,have changed my name
from Kartar to Kartar Singh for
all future.purposes.
0040636768-10
I,Kanchan W/O-Dalip
Kumar,R/O-32-A Guru Angad-
Nagar Ext.Laxmi-Nagar Delhi-
110092,Have Changed My
Name To Kanchan Bala,For All
Purposes.
0040636768-7
I,KULDIP SINGH PHUL,S/O
SOHAN SINGH PHUL,R/O-WZ-
37B/1,2nd-
FLOOR,GALINO.6,KRISHNA
PARK,TILAK NAGAR,DELHI-
110018.HAVE CHANGED MY
NAME TO KULDIP SINGH.
0040636757-5
I,Jaju Priyanka,D/o Sh.Jaju
Suresh,W/o Sh. Aakash Gupta
R/o Q-604,Anupam
Apartment,East Arjun-Nagar,
4-CBD, Shahadara,Delhi-110032
have changed my name to
Priyanka Gupta,for all,future
purposes. 0040636768-8
I,JAVED AKHTER S/O JAMIL
AHMED R/O A-
58,GALINO.2,JAFRABAD,NEW
SEELAMPUR,DELHI-
110053.CHANGED MY NAME TO
JAVED AKHTAR.
0040636757-6
I,Harvinder Kaur W/O-Inder Pal
Singh Bindra R/O-A-1B/101-
C,LIG-Flats Paschim-
Vihar,Delhi-110063,have
changed my name to
Harvinder Kaur Bindra.
0040636780-1
I,Feroz Trevor Robertson,S/o
Hubert Maxwell
Robertson,R/o.K-1903, Ajnara
Daffodil,Sector-
137,Noida,Gautam Buddha-
Nagar,UP.201301.HAVE
CHANGED MY NAME TO Feroz
Robertson.
0040636758-5
I,FARZAN,S/O.MOHD MANSOOR
HOUSE.NO-B-131,GALI.NO-4
,BRIJPURI DAYALPUR,NORTH-
EAST DELHI-110094,Changed
my name toMOHD FARZAN,For
all,future Purposes.
0040636768-5
I,Daleep Kumar S/O Jiwan Das
R/O-32-A Guru Angad-Nagar
Extn.,Laxmi-Nagar Delhi-
110092,Have Changed My
Name To Dalip Kumar For All
Purposes.
0040636768-4
I,Bharti Luthra,W/o Shekhar
Luthra,R/o H.No.99,Eight
Marla,Model Town
Gurgaon(Haryana).have
changed my name to Bharti,for
all Purposes.
0040636757-1
I,Bhanu Prakash Sharma,S/O-
Ram Dutt
Sharma,R/O.House.no-
777,Sector-15,
Vasundhra,Ghaziabad,Uttar
Pradesh,201012,have changed
my name,from Bhanu Prakash
Sharma to Bhanu Prakash,for
all,future purposes.
0040636797-7
I,Mohd Muslim,S/o Md
Husain,R/o B-27, Vijay-
Vihar,Phase-II,Rohini,Delhi-
110085,have changed my
name,from Md.
Mushlim/Md.Muslim to Mohd
Muslim.
0040636780-8
I,Azra Nawab/Azra Begum/Azra
Qureshi w/o-Nawabuddin R/o
6299, Nawab Road,Quresh-
Nagar,Sadar Bazar,Delhi-
110006,changed my name to
Azra.
0040636758-6
I,Ashok kumar,s/o Ranjit
Singh,R/o Near Rishikul
School,Shiv Colony,
Sonipat,have changed my
name to Ashok Kaushik,for all
purposes.
0040636780-4
I,ASHOK MITTAL,S/O Ram
PRASAD MITTAL,R/o-19/7
WEST MOTI BAGH SARAI
ROHILLA,GALI.NO-2
Delhi),HAVED CHANGED my
name to ASHOK KUMAR.
0040636758-10
I,ARCHANA
AGARWAL/ARCHANA GOEL
W/O AJAY GOEL R/O
FLATNO.39,PLOTNO.29,SWASTI
K-KUNJ APARTMENT,SECTOR-
13,ROHINI,DELHI-
110085.CHANGED MY NAME TO
ARCHNA GOEL.
0040636757-8
I,ANS S/o SHAHZAD KHAN R/o-
212,VILLAGE SARAI
ALLAWARDI, P.O PALAM
VIHAR,CARTERPURI, Gurgaon
(Haryana),have changed my
name to ANAS KHAN,for all
Purposes. 0040636757-4
I,ANKUR SACHDEVA,W/O-
HITESH SAWHNEY,R/o-TOWER,
H.PH-3,THE VILAS AKASHNEEM
MARG,DLF PHASE 2 SECTOR-
25,GURUGRAM,HARYANA-
122022,have changed my name
to ANKUR SAWHNEY,for
all,future purpose.
0040636768-1
I,AISHA W/O JAVED AKHTAR R/O
A-58,GALINO.2,JAFRABAD,NEW
SEELAMPUR,DELHI-
110053.HAVE CHANGED MY
NAME TO AISHA JAVED.
0040636757-7
I, Virendra Kumar Mittal, S/O
Bishan Swarup Agrawal R/O -
2766-B, Bharat Pur Gate Kotwali
Road, Mathura up -281001,
have changed my name to
Virendra Kumar Agrawal
0070808478-1
I, Thottuveliparampil Kurian
Joseph Joseph S/O, Kurian
Joseph R/o B 86 Raksha Vikas
Co-operative Group Housing
Scoeiety Delhi 110018 have
changed my name to Joseph
Thottuveliparampil Joseph .
0040636768-11
I, Sunil Kumar S/o Rajender
Sharma R/o -Pocket B-4, 146-
147,Sector-8, Rohini, Delhi -
110085, have changed my name
from Sunil Kumar to Sunil
Sharma for all future purposes.
0040636730-1
I, Shiva Subramanian Prashanth
S/O Venkataraman
Sivasubramanian, R/o Flat No
228, Sector 28, Noida, Gautam
Budh Nagar, Uttar Pradesh-
201303, have changed my name
and shall hereafter be Known
as Prashanth Subramanian.
0070808445-1
I, SN PHILAYO LAMKANG,
spouse of No. 4375622A Rank
Nk Name Shuwngnem Lovejoy
Lamkang serving soldier of 5
Assam Regiment, presently
residing at Village -
Leingangching, P.O - Kakching ,
PS-Chandel, Dist - Chandel ,
State - Manipur , Pin - 795103
have change my name from SN
PHILAYO LAMKANG to PHILAYO
SAREO vide affidavit dated
07/10/2022 (DD/MM/YYYY)
before the Oath Commissioner
(Judicial) Ukhrul, Manipur.
0040636762-1
I, Raju S/o Ram Ashrey,
Residence 667/5, Street. No.2,
Railway Colony, Mandawali,
Delhi-110092, have changed my
name Raju to Raj Pal for all
future purpose. 0070808496-1
I, Praveen Kusumkar R/o 134,
First Floor, Sector 15,
Faridabad, Haryana 121007
have changed my minor son’s
name from Ahaan to Ahaan
Kusumkar for all purposes.
0040636557-1
I, Mohd. Asraf S/O Mohd.
Rehman, R/O H.No. 6831, Kila
Kamdam Sharif, Nabi Karim,
Pahar Ganj, New Delhi-110055,
in my some documents my
name wrongly mentioned as
MD. ASHRAF but my correct
and actual name is MOHD.
ASRAF for all purposes.
0040635810-1
I, Ayushi D/o Gajender Kumar
R/o H.No.-2161, Sector-16,
Faridabad, Haryana-121002
have changed my name to
AYUSHI GOYAL for all future
purposes. 0070808491-1
I, Atharva Chaudhary C/O Preeti
Jakhar Chaudhary, R/o C-103,
Ground Floor, Mayfield Garden,
Near Baani Square, Sector 50,
South City-II, Gurgaon,
Haryana- 122018, have
changed my name and shall
hereafter be Known as Agrbir
Singh Jakhar.
0070808454-1
I, Aruna devi name of Spouse as
per service record D/o
Paramanand Jhoshi is legally
wedded spouse of No.-1445693
Rank Ex Spr Name Late Anand
Kishore at H.No.A-58/A, Ground
Floor, Gali.No.1, Cosmos
School,Mohan Baba Nagar,
Badarpur, New Delhi-110044, I
have declare that in my
husband service record my
name mentioned-as Aruna
Devi instead of Arun Devi and
my date-of-birth mentioned-as
21/01/1949 instead-of
25/12/1950. In future I, will be
known-as Arun Devi correct
D.O.B.-25/12/1950 for all
purposes, which may be
amended accordingly.
0070808490-1
I, Aman S/O Raj Kumar, R/o
Indergarh, Rohtak, Haryana-
124514, have changed my name
and shall hereafter be Known
as Aman Kumar
0070808451-1
I hitherto known as APOORVA
CHAUHAN D/o HARENDER
SINGH W/o TAJWINDER SINGH
R/o WZ -250/A,Main Najafgarh
Road, Hastsal Road, Uttam
Nagar, West Delhi, Delhi -
110059 have changed my name
and shall hereafter be known
as JASLEEN KAUR MATHAROO
0040636732-1
I Chhotu Ram S/o Harji Ram R/o
Meghwalon Ka Bas, Post-
Kanwliya Kalan, Tehsil-
Jaitaran, Distt-Pali, Rajasthan-
306301, have finally changed
my name to Manoj Parihar
0070808494-1
I,Nadeem Ahmad Siddique,S/o
Adil Ahmad,R/o.H.No.B-
1083,Gali.No-22,Shri Ram-
Colony,Rajiv-Nagar,Delhi-
110094,have changed my name
to Nadeem
Ahmad,permanently.
0040636780-7
I,Mohd Nawabuddin/Mohd
Nanabuddin S/o-Haji
mohddin,R/o-6299 Nawab
Road,Quresh Nagar,Sadar
Bazar,Delhi-110006,changed
my name to Nawabuddin.
0040636758-8
I Sakshi D/o Ranjit kumar R/O
Flat no 89, KG-1, Near Shankar
Chowk, Vikaspuri, New Delhi-
110018. I have Changed my
name from Sakshi to Sakshi
Kumar for all future purpose
and correct date of birth is
12/04/2000. 0040636563-2
LOST & FOUND
I, Jag Mohan Sharma , son of
Kedarnath Sharma , resident of
1078, Vivekananda Nagar has
lost the sale and lease
agreement of the house on
10th October,2022. An FIR for
the same has been lodged at
Kavinagar, Police Station,
Ghaziabad. 0040636778-1
I, Vipin Kumar Saxena S/o Gyan
Prakash Saxena R/o 238, Akash
Darshan Apartment, Mayur
Vihar-1, Delhi -110091 have lost
Original copies of above said
property documents
(Relinquishment deed 179 G/H
dated. 15.11.1979 AND Share
Certificates in transits. Finder
please inform Mob.:
9711163818. 0040636719-1
I,Kartar Singh,S/o S. Jaimal
Singh,have lost my-original
Property-Papers previous first
chain before-1959 and latest-
Sale Deed-1996 of Property
bearing.No.J-7/109, Rajouri-
Garden,New Delhi-
110027,Finder
Contact:9953333981.
0040636790-9
We Sumit Wadhwa & Madhup
Wadhwa S/O Lt. Sh. Ramesh
Wadhwa have lost their
original documents of property
no. 24/49-50, West Patel Nagar,
ND-08, Lease Deed,
Relinquishment Deed,
Sanctioned Bdg. Plan & Will of
our grand mother Smt.Sumitra
Devi.Finder plz contact
#9810094154/9811903077
0040636697-1
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mother Associate Prof. Mob.
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THE SUNDAY EXPRESS,OCTOBER 16, 2022
Public Notice
PUBLIC NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE
PUBLIC NOTICE
Public in general is hereby informed Be it known that my Clients intend to
Notice is hereby given to the general
public at large that Mr. Tajinder Singh that my clients Mr. Janki Prashad S/o purchase from Ishta Constructions Pvt.
R/o 1/2646 Street No -2 Ram Nagar, Late Jamuna Dass aged about 52 Ltd. the Entire Second Floor of Property
PUBLIC NOTICE Shahdara, East Delhi, New Delhi - years and Mrs. Raj Kumari W/o Janki No. D-5, Gulmohar Park, New Delhi,
My clients Dhanraj S/o Sh. Prabhu Nath & Prashad aged about 50 years R/o A-15 measuring 300 Sq. Yards. It is notified
110032 is the owner of One Shop on
that if any Person/Entity has or claims
Smt. Hemanta W/o Dhanraj both
Resident of House no. E-2/96, Aman
Ground Floor without roof rights, area
25.55 sq. yds. part of Property No.
Guru Ram Dass Nagar Street -03 Nr.
Durga Mandir, Laxmi Nagar Delhi -92
any rights, title, interest, lien, demand,
charge or claim therein or has any
Enclave, Prem Nagar-3, Kirari Suleman
IX/6584, Plot No. 36, Khasra No. 111, have Dis-owned their son and
Nagar, North-West Delhi-110086, severe objection, then such Person/Entity
all relations & debar their son Ram Milan Village Seelampur, situated in the daughter in law namely Abhishek should forthwith notify the undersigned
and his wife Pinki Devi from all movable & abadi of Geeta Gali, Dharam Pura,
Diwakar Urf Sonu aged about 29 yrs with valid Documentary Proof
Gandhi Nagar, Illaqa Shahdara, Delhi,
immovable properties, due to their
and Neha W/o Abhishek Diwakar aged immediately from the date of publication
misconduct, misbehavior and immoral “Said Property” by virtue of of this Notice, failing which it will be
attitude. My Clients & their family Relinquishment Deed dated about 26 years respectively from all deemed that the above captioned
members & relatives will not be their movable & immovable properties
23.07.2021 in his favour duly property is absolutely free from all sorts
responsible for their any acts in future
registered as Doc No. 5624 Book No. /assets and severed all relations of encumbrances and my Clients may
whatsoever. Anybody deal with them shall
because of their regular financial proceed further with the transaction.
do at his/her own cost and risk. I, Vol. No. 2702, Pages 142-147, SRO
Sd/- IVB, Delhi. Whereas Mrs. Devinder misconduct and misbehavior towards Sd/-
them. in future my client shall not be Sumanta De
Manoj Kumar Kaur was owner of said property, by
Advocate
(Advocate) virtue of Sale Deed dated 15.07.2011 responsible for any of their acts,
E.n. D/2114/2014 vide Doc. No. 11695 Book No. 1, Vol. A-33, Nizamuddin East
deeds, etc. New Delhi 110019
Ch. No. 917, Rohini Court Complex, No. 5589, pages 61-69, and she
Rohini, Delhi-110085 Bhawna Jakhetia (Advocate) Ph: 9818316693
expired on 03.04.2021 leaving behind
Enrl. No D/4471/2014 M:9711230627 E-mail: shumonto1@gmail.com
PUBLIC NOTICE
Sandeep Toor and Tajinder Singh as
only legals heirs. Whereas the SMC of
My client RAM PRASAD S/O UDEY Devinder Kaur is not available. Further
Aditya Birla Finance Ltd. (STSL+) is
SINGH AND DARSHNA W/O RAM
intending to create a mortgage over
PRASAD BOTH ARE R/o 118, the Said Property. In case if any
Village KAMRUDDIN N AG AR, person/ legal heir of Devinder Kaur/
NANGLOI, DELHI-41 have disowned Financial Institute/ Bank/ Authority/
& severed all their relations with Board or any other entity have any
their SON DEEPAK, DAUGHTER IN objection/ contingent or vested
interest over the Said Property, they
LAW SWATI AND GRAND DAUGHTER
may contact the undersigned within 14
YASHIKA from their all movable & days of this publication. It may be
immovable Properties. If anybody further noted that after lapse of
dealing with him/them shall be aforesaid period no claim in any
doing at his/her/their own risk cost manner shall be entertained and same
will be considered as waived or
& responsibility & my clients shall
abandoned.
not be responsible for any acts. Sd/-
Rattan Lal Gupta (Advocate) Suparna Sinha (Advocate)
906, LAWYER's CHAMBER, ROHINI COURT, DELHI-110085
D/3825/2014
Office: Gadi & Associates
PUBLIC NOTICE D-148, LGF, Saket
“My client, Smt. Shkuntla Jain W/o Lt. New Delhi-110017
Sh. Om Parkash Jain R/o C-91, +91-9873663181
Prashant Vihar, Delhi-110085, in her
full senses and with her free will, do
PUBLIC NOTICE
hereby declares that Smt. Shkuntla
PUBLIC NOTICE
Jain severs all her relations with her
General public is hereby informed that my Unit No. L-196, DLF Capital Green,
son Mr. Ashok Jain S/o Lt. Sh. Om
client Sh. Ajit Singh S/O Sh. Ishwar Singh and
Parkash Jain R/o 5818, Autumn Fall Ct Phase II, Moti Nagar, New Delhi was
Sugar Land, TX 77479, U.S.A.
Smt. Rajesh Kumari W/O Sh. Ajit Singh Both
allotted in the name of Mr. Dinesh
R/O H No. 292, Darwaj Pana, Mungesh Pur,
(Passport no. P.U.S.A. 449897077) due Delhi 110039 has disowned and debarred Kumar Swarup S/o Shri Inderraj
to her personal reasons. Therefore, my their son Mr. Ravi Rana and his wife Ms. Swarup, R/O 602, Sapphire Court,
client will not be liable for any actions/ Bhumika Rana, from all of their movable and
Essel Tower, M.G. Road, Gurugram,
omissions by above Mr. Ashok Jain in immovable properties including their self
India and abroad” earned property no. Flat No. 214 and 218, Haryana, who has expired on
Pocket 07, Sector 23 Rohini Delhi 110085 11.07.2022 leaving behind a WILL in
SURESH KUMAR SHARMA
(Advocate)
and also have severed all connections with favour of Mr. Mukand Swarup and
them and in case anybody dealing with them,
accordingly the name of Mr. Mukand
AB-128 Shalimar Bagh, will do that at his own cost and consequence
Delhi-110088 Swarup is being noted in DLF's
and my client shall not be responsible in any
manner. record in respect of the captioned
Sd/- unit. If anybody has any objection to
PUBLIC NOTICE ABHISHEK KAUSHIK
ADVOCATE
this, he or she may approach M/s
Be it known my client MUNESH W/O LATE
SH. RAMBEER SINGH RESIDENT OF
CH. No. 1328, LAWYER'S CHAMBER
BLOCK, ROHINI COURTS DELHI
DLF Ltd or the undersigned within 21
days of publication of this notice. ADMISSION
Sd/-
18-D, A BLOCK, AVANTIKA ENCLAVE,
SECTOR-2, ROHINI, DELHI-110085 has HARISH MALIK
disowned and severed all her relations (D/4123/2010) Advocate
with her son namely SACHIN and D-118 (LGF), Defence Colony,
daughter in law POONAM and debarred
New Delhi-110024
them from their all movable and
immovable properties/ assets due to their
misbehavior, unfamiliar activities,
intolerable act, misconduct and going
''IMPORTANT''
against my client. Anybody dealing with
SACHIN and POONAM in civil and
criminal matter shall be doing at Whilst care is taken prior to
his/her/their own risk, cost and acceptance of advertising
responsibility and my client and her family
shall not be liable for their any act. copy, it is not possible to verify
Naveen Khurana (Advocate)
its contents. The Indian
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Express (P) Limited cannot be
held responsible for such
PUBLIC NOTICE
contents, nor for any loss or
It is for the information of the General
Public that my client namely Ms. Madhu
W/o Lt. Jai Prakash R/o 1751, Balmiki
damage incurred as a result of
transactions with companies,
Mohalla, Tughlakabad Village, Jaitpur,
South Delhi, Delhi-44 has severed all associations or individuals
her relations with her son Jitender and advertising in its newspapers
his wife Ms. Asha. My Client also
disowned and debarred her son from all or Publications. We therefore
her movable and immovable properties. recommend that readers
Anybody dealing with them shall do so at
his/her own risk, cost and consequences
make necessary inquiries
and my client will not be responsible for before sending any monies or
any act, deed or dealing done by Sh. entering into any agreements
Jitender & his wife Ms. Asha.
Sd/- with advertisers or otherwise
Shailender Singh (Advocate) acting on an advertisement in
Ch. No. 443 Saket Court
any manner whatsoever.
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STORY
PAGE 17
DYC
Norms
From Aadhaar to
Ayodhya — the boy from
Bombay who will take
over as the 50th CJI
THE CITY
MISSING STUDENT
OF GALGOTIAS
UNIVERSITY FOUND
DEAD IN DRAIN
PAGE 10
Militants gun down 48-year-old in Valley,
TOP 3 MANUFACTURERS UPSHIFT MODELS
Post-pandemic skew: fourth Kashmiri Pandit killed in a year
Surge in premium car
sales, but lower-price
segment still down
MIHIR MISHRA
& ANIL SASI
NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 15
WHILE SUPPLY-CHAIN issues
haveimpactedvehiclemanufac-
turers across the board, the di-
vide between entry-level cars
withlowerstickerpricesandthe
premium-level segments has
widenedsharplypost-pandemic
confirming the sharp inequality
that has marked the recovery
process.
Data from the country’s top
three passenger vehicle manu-
facturers, Maruti Suzuki, Hyun-
dai Motors and Tata Motors —
these account for over 70% of all
car sales in FY 2021 — show that
all of them have made a decisive
shift up.
For market leader Maruti
Suzuki, cars costing Rs 10 lakh
and above (the premium seg-
ment),asapercentageof itstotal
portfolio of models, have grown
from just 2.5% in FY20 to 14%
during the current fiscal. For
Hyundai, that jump is from 20%
to 40%; and for Tata Motors, it’s
CONTINUED ON PAGE 8
ED to court: Letter to CM on jobs
scam found at TMC MLA premises
RAVIK BHATTACHARYA
& ATRI MITRA
KOLKATA, OCTOBER 15
A LETTER addressed to Chief
Minister Mamata Banerjee, al-
leging that a TMC Youth
Congress general secretary col-
lected Rs 7 lakh each from 44
candidatesintheteacherrecruit-
ment scam, was seized by the
Enforcement Directorate from
TMC MLA Manik Bhattacharya’s
premises in August, the central
agencyhassaidinitssubmission
Two lives in Kerala ‘human sacrifice’: One
left behind a trail of tears, other of hope
PAGE 1
ANCHOR
SHAJU PHILIP
& SANATH K PRASAD
THRISSUR, BENGALURU,
OCTOBER 15
ITWASaJunenight.Insideasoli-
tary house surrounded by wild
shrubsandtheshadowsof trees,
ahorrificscenewastakingplace.
A woman lay fastened to a cot,
her limbs tied, mouth plastered
shut. What followed next was
what no one really wants to
speak about. But at the end of it
all — the police described it as
Candidates for the Uttar Pradesh Subordinate Services Selection Commission Preliminary Eligibility Test wait to board trains
at the Kanpur Central railway station on Saturday. PTI
BASHAARAT MASOOD
SRINAGAR, OCTOBER 15
IN A fresh attack targeting
Kashmiri Pandits in the Valley,
suspected militants on Saturday
gunned down a 48-year-old
man who owned an apple or-
JUMP IN SALES chard in J&K's Shopian district,
the police said.
CarswithpricetagofRs10 The victim, identified as
lakhandaboveincompany’s Puran Krishan Bhat, was criti-
portfolio:
cally injured in the firing and
Company Pre-Covid Current
‘19-’20 ‘22-’23 rushed to a hospital where he
succumbedtobulletinjuries,the
Maruti 2.50% 14%
Suzuki police said.
“Terrorists fired upon a civil-
Hyundai 20% 40%
Tata 20% 28%
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Two INDIA SLIPS TO 107 IN
HUNGER INDEX, GOVT
tracks in SAYS BID TO TAINT
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LOW-PRICED cars are usu- THE WORLD
ally bought by first-time
users or those upgrading
from two-wheelers. This
is the segment whose in-
come has been hardest hit
by the pandemic. Car
companies have rein-
forced this by cutting op- COMMUNIST PARTY
tions at the lower end and OF CHINA BEGINS
pushing over-Rs 10 lakh MEET TODAY: XI SET
models across the board. TO GET 3RD TERM P 23
agency in the teacher recruit-
ment scam has mentioned the
Chief Minister. The ED submis-
sion to the court, made on
Monday, doesn’t mention the
dateof theletter,thenameof the
person who allegedly wrote it or
the TMCYouthCongress general
secretary who allegedly col-
ED arrested Manik lected the money.
Bhattacharya on October 11 The ED arrested Bhatta-
charya on October 11, following
which the Special Court re-
to a special CBI court. manded him in ED custody for
This is the first time that a 14 days. Bhattacharya headed
court submission by the central CONTINUED ON PAGE 8
SnifferdogsdeployedinElanthoorvillagefollowingsuspicion
thattheremaybemorevictims; (aboveright)Rosli,Padmam
extreme torture and mutilation of Rosli came to an abrupt end.
inthenameof rituals—thestory The 49-year-old from Kalady
eye
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the perils of speaking truth
to power in Turkey
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‘HC DIDN’T LOOK INTO MERITS’
SC suspends
THE GREAT
EXAM RUSH IN
HC discharge
UTTAR PRADESH
37.58 lakh have
order in Saibaba
registered for the exam for
recruitment to Group C posts,
up from 21 lakh last year.
Maoist link case
1,899 centres
across state holding exam
in four shifts — two on
Saturday, two on Sunday.
66% attendance SG opposes request for house arrest,
in first shift on Saturday,
67% in second shift. says frequent plea by ‘Urban Naxals’
UPSSSC CHAIRMAN Pravir
Kumar said Railways, state EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
road transport corporation NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 15
had been told to make Saibaba was
arrangements. A DAY after the Bombay High sentenced to
Court discharged former Delhi life term in
UniversityProfessorGNSaibaba 2017
REPORT,PAGE14 and four others in a case under
the Unlawful Activities (Preven-
tion) Act (UAPA) over alleged KEY QUESTIONS
Maoist links, the Supreme Court
RAISED BY SC
on Saturday suspended the HC
judgement till further orders. ■ After trial court has
A bench of Justices M R Shah
and Bela M Trivedi held a special
sitting on Saturday.
convicted accused, is
appellate court justified
in discharging accused
ian (minority) Shri Puran
Krishan Bhat while he was on
While Saibaba's counsel,
Senior Advocate R Basant, asked
the courtto grant house arrest in
on ground of irregular
sanction?
■ Why accused did not
way to orchard in Chowdari
Gund Shopian. He was immedi-
atelyshiftedtohospitalfortreat-
view of his medical condition,
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta,
appearing for the Maharashtra
raise issue of sanction
during trial?
ment where he succumbed.
Area cordoned off. Search in
progress,” J&K Police said in a
government, opposed the plea.
“Thisrequestforhousearrest
is coming frequently from
Citing absence of valid sanc-
tion under the UAPA and declar-
tweet about the incident. Naxals, from Urban Naxals. All ing the trial proceedings in a
Bhat's neighbours said he
wasshotoutsidehishomeinthe
these offences can be commit-
ted even when they are in house
Gadchiroli court “null and void”,
theNagpurbenchof theBombay
village, which is a few hundred arrest, with a phone,” said HC had discharged Saibaba and
metres from an Army camp. “He Mehta,andurgedthecourttore- four others on Friday — a sixth
had just come out of his house ject the plea. accused died in August this year.
when he was shot at. He was at Saibaba, who was sentenced The Maharashtra government
the gate...This is the first such to life imprisonment in 2017, is had moved the SC, challenging
killing in the village and we are Grieving relatives and neighbours of Puran Krishan Bhat in currently lodged in the Nagpur the HC order.
CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 Shopian, Jammu and Kashmir, on Saturday. Shuaib Masoodi central prison. CONTINUED ON PAGE 8
Pak dangerous,
has N-weapons
without any
cohesion: Biden
US President Biden; Pak has
summoned US Ambassador
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 15
USPRESIDENTJoeBidenhassaid
that Pakistan is “one of the most
dangerous nations in the world”
asithas“nuclearweapons with-
out any cohesion”. Rejecting his
remarks, Islamabad has sum-
moned the US Ambassador to
lodge an official demarche.
Biden made the remarks
while addressing a Democratic
Party congressional campaign
committee reception on
Thursday,whiletalkingaboutthe
geopolitical situation arising due
totheRussianinvasionofUkraine.
“Did any of you ever think
you’dhaveaRussianleader,since
the Cuban missile crisis, threat-
ening the use of tactical nuclear
weapons that would —could –
only kill three-four thousand
CONTINUED ON PAGE 8
inErnakulamwasoneof thetwo
victimsof “humansacrifice”that
tookplaceatthehomeof atradi-
tional healerinElanthoor village
of Pathanamthitta district. The
other has been identified as
Padmam, a 52-year-old from
Dharmapuri in Tamil Nadu.
Accordingtopolice,bothsold
lottery tickets and were lured to
the healer Bhagaval Singh’s
CONTINUED ON PAGE 8
New Delhi
 8 EXPRESS NETWORK
MORE THAN 40 SACKED IN LAST ONE YEAR
5 J&K govt staffers
dismissed for being SC suspends HC order on Saibaba
a ‘threat to security’
BASHAARAT MASOOD
SRINAGAR, OCTOBER 15
IN A fresh spate of termina-
tions, the Jammu and Kashmir
administration has dismissed
five employees for allegedly be-
ing a “threat to the security of
the State”. The terminated em-
ployees include a policeman
and a bank manager.
This comes two months af-
ter the termination of a profes-
sor and a scientist of Kashmir
University, a Kashmir
Administrative Service (KAS)
officer and a manager of the
J&K's Entrepreneurship
Development Institute (JKEDI).
On Saturday, the J&K ad-
ministration issued termina-
tion orders of Afaq Ahmad
Wani, manager of Baramulla
Central Co-operative Bank,
Syed Iftikhar Andrabi, a village-
level worker, Tanveer Saleem
Dar, a constable of police's aux-
iliary wing, Irshad Ahmad
Khan, an orderly in Jal Shakti
department, and Ab Momin
Peer, an assistant lineman in
Power Development
Department.
“The Lieutenant Governor is
satisfied after considering the
facts and circumstances of the
case and on the basis of the in-
formation available that the ac-
tivities of Wani... are such as to
warrant his dismissal from the
service," reads the order issued
by the General Administration
Department (GAD) on
Saturday. "And where as the
Lieutenant Governor is satisfied
under sub clause (C) of the pro-
In Gurgaon,
Khattar’s dig at
Mann on SYL
issue: Mann hai
jo maanta hi nahi
PAVNEET SINGH CHADHA
GURGAON, OCTOBER 15
A DAY after Punjab and Haryana
chief ministers failed to reach a
consensus over the Satluj
Yamuna Link (SYL) canal issue,
Haryana CM Manohar Lal
Khattar on Saturday took a jibe
at his Punjab counterpart,
Bhagwant Mann, borrowing a
Bollywood film's title.
At a felicitation organised at
Gurgaon's Nayagaon village on
Saturday, while referring to dis-
cussion on SYL issue during
Friday’s meeting, Khattar said,
“…lekin yeh toh aisa Mann hai jo
maanta hi nahi (this Mann is a
man who ishardtoplease)…the
case is already listed in the
Supreme Court…they have said
the canal will be constructed…”
On Friday, after a two-hour
meeting at Haryana Niwas in
Chandigarh, Khattar had said
that it was the “final meeting”
with Punjab on the issue, while
Mann said Punjab does not have
“a single drop of water to share”.
“For Haryana, the construc-
tionof theSYLcanalisamatterof
lifeanddeath.TheSupremeCourt
has pressed for it. The meeting
was held in a very manohar ma-
hol (pleasant atmosphere), but
Mann-sahib did not agree,”
Khattar had said on Friday.
On Saturday, Khattar said
thataccordingtosurveyfindings
compiled by an organisation,
Haryana had bagged the top po-
sition in good governance in the
country. “Dedicated efforts are
beingmadetoraisethestandard
of living of the poor by linking
them with government
schemes...,” he said.
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viso of clause (2) of Article 311
of the Constitution of India that
in the interest of the security of
the State, it is not expedient to
hold an enquiry in the case of
Wani... Accordingly, the
Lieutenant Governor hereby
dismisses Wani... from service
with immediate effect,” it
added.
Wani is a resident of
Maratgam village of north
Kashmir's Handwara.
Article 311 (2) (C) allows the
government to terminate its
employees without seeking an
explanation from them or or-
dering an inquiry into their
conduct. While around 34 gov-
ernment employees have been
terminated under the contro-
versial Article so far, the gov-
ernment hasn't shared with
them or the media the reasons
for their termination.
In a similar worded order,
the government has directed
termination of other four em-
ployees. Of the five terminated
employees, four are from north
Kashmir — three from
Handwara and one from
Sopore — while one, Tanveer
Saleem Dar, belongs to
Srinagar.
Over the last one year, the
J&K administration has termi-
nated services of more than 40
employees — five from Jammu
region and rest from the
Kashmir valley. Barring
Devinder Singh, a Deputy
Superintendent of Police who
was arrested along with top
Hizbul Mujahideen commander
Syed Naveed, all the terminated
employees are Muslims.
Militant who
killed two SYL
engineers gets
place in Central
Sikh Museum
KAMALDEEP SINGH BRAR
AMRITSAR, OCTOBER 15
THE SHIROMANI Gurdwara
Parbandhak Committee (SGPC)
on Saturday installed a portrait
of militant Balwinder Singh
Jatana at the Central Sikh
Museum on the Golden Temple
complex.
Militants led by Jatana had
killed chief engineer ML Sekhri
and superintending engineer,
Avtar Singh Aulakh, who were
supervising the construction of
the Sutlej-Yamuna Link
(SYL) canal on July 23, 1990, fol-
lowing which the work on it
was stopped by the Punjab
government.
Since then, the SYL canal has
remained a bone of contention
between Punjab and Haryana
with latter demanding that it
be constructed so that it gets
its fair share of water and
the former refusing to do so
saying it has not an extra drop
to share.
Besides Jatana’s portrait, the
SGPC also installed portraits of
Nawab Rai Bular Ahmed Bhatti,
the first follower of Guru
Nanak, and former SGPC mem-
bers Jathedar Joginder Singh
Panjrath and Harinder Singh
Ranian.
The portraits were unveiled
during a ceremony by SGPC
chief Harjinder Singh Dhami
and Granthi of Golden Temple
Giani Rajdeep Singh.
Jatana's name had hit the
headlines after a song titled
'SYL' by Sidhu Moosewala, was
released on YouTube in June a
month after the Punjabi singer
was killed.
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“Having heard learned coun-
sel for the respective parties... we
are of the opinion that this is a fit
case to exercise powers under
Section 390 CrPC and to suspend
the impugned judgment and or-
derpassedbytheHighCourt,”the
SC bench said, staying the release
ofalltheaccused.Section390CrPC
dealswiththearrestofaccusedin
appealfromacquittal.TheSCsaid
theHChadnotgoneintothemer-
its of the case, or the trial court
judgement convicting them, or
“theseriousnessandgravityofthe
offences for which the accused
were convicted”. “The HC did not
look into the merits, but found a
shortcut,” the bench said, adding
that“theoffencesareveryserious,
against the sovereignty and in-
tegrityof thecountry”.
The bench also agreed with
Mehta's submission that the HC
did not pass an acquittal order
but a discharge order, and no
finding of the trial court was re-
versed. Justice Trivedi said it is a
settled law that an acquittal or-
der cannot be passed by an ap-
pellate court without reversing
the findings of the trial court's
● ED on jobs scam
the West Bengal Board of
Primary Education for over 10
years from 2011, before he was
askedtostepdownontheorders
of the High Court on June 20.
“That the documents seized
during the course of searches
conducted at the premises of
Shri Manik Bhattacharya under
panchnama dated 22.07.2022
revealed that Shri Manik
Bhattacharya was in receipt of a
letter which was also addressed
to the Chief Minister of West
Bengal. The contents of the said
letter revealed that illegal
amounts to the tune of Rs 7 lacs
each were taken from 44 candi-
dates in lieu of offering them the
job of teachers. It was also re-
vealed that the said amounts
were collected by one General
Secretary, West Bengal Pradesh
Trinamool Youth Congress com-
mittee. Shri Manik Bhattacharya
was confronted with this docu-
ment on 27.07.2022 and also on
10.10.2022... That Shri Manik
Bhattacharyagavecontradictory
replies on both the occasions...,”
the submission read.
TMC spokesperson Kunal
Ghosh said, “We have no com-
ment to make on this so-called
letterortheEDsubmission.Until
and unless we come to know
why the ED wrote all this, we
cannot comment on this."
Bhattacharya’s counsel Anirban
Guhatbakurtasaid,"Wehavenot
seen the ED submission yet. So,
we cannot comment on that."
The ED submission also
highlighted that a company
owned by Bhattacharya’s son re-
ceived around Rs 2.64 crore
from 530 private teacher-train-
ing institutes between October
2018 and April 2019 “in the
name of services rendered”. The
company, the ED said, had en-
tered into an agreement with
the Bengal Teachers Training
Colleges Association for “upgra-
dation of their existing infra-
structure and introduction of
...courses”.
The ED said their investiga-
tion revealed that no services
wereprovidedtotheseinstitutes
nor was the money refunded.
The submission also claimed
that the names of candidates
who applied for teaching jobs,
along with their roll numbers,
were available in a CD seized
from Bhattacharya’s premises.
Out of 61 such names, 51 candi-
dates were selected.
On June 20, Justice Abhijit
Gangopadhyay had ordered
Bhattacharya’sremovalfromthe
post of president of the West
Bengal Board of Primary
Education.
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conviction order. The bench said
it “is prima facie of the opinion
that a detailed scrutiny is re-
quired so far as the impugned
judgment and order passed by
the HC is concerned” and added
thatseveralimportantquestions
of law need to be considered.
Listing these questions, the
bench said it would examine
“whether considering Section
465 CrPC... after the conclusion
of the trial and conviction of the
accusedonmerits andapprecia-
tion of evidence, the appellate
court is justified in discharging
the accused... on the ground of
irregular sanction, if any”.
Section465CrPCstatesthata
trial court order shall not be re-
versed on account of irregular-
ity in any sanction for prosecu-
tion,unless,intheopinionof that
court, it had resulted in a failure
of justice.Thecourtwilllookinto
whether “in a case where the
learned trial court has convicted
the accused on merits on appre-
ciation of the evidences on
record and thereafter having
found the accused guilty for the
offences for which they are
● Two lives in Kerala ‘human sacrifice’
housebyMuhammedShafiwho
ran an eatery in Kochi they used
to frequent. The police said Shafi
had posed as a tantrik before the
healer and his wife Laila, prom-
ising prosperity after the sacri-
fice-- allthreewere arrested last
week.
For Rosli, the end on June 8
was a full stop to a life of despair
— abandoned by her mother; a
victimof domesticviolencelater.
“My mother never had a happy
moment in her life. She was or-
phaned by her own family... It
was a chain of tragedies,’’ says
Rosli’s daughter Manju.
Padmam’sendonthatcot,on
September 26, severed a dream
midway — having settled the
loan taken for her elder son’s
marriage, she was working hard
to ensure that her second son
could marry without having to
borrow money from anyone.
“In March, she took a break
and came to stay with my elder
brother, who is a school teacher
in Arcot (Tamil Nadu). But she
decided to start working again
in June to earn for my mar-
riage,” says Selvaraj, Padmam’s
second son who works in a low-
end job at an IT company in
Chennai.
Rosliwentmissinginthefirst
week of June. Her partner,
Sajeesh, told police that she had
been living with him for the past
seven years at a rented house in
Kalady in Ernakulam. He also
said that she had gone to meet
her relatives in Kottayam.
It was on July 26 that Rosli’s
daughter Manju, who had
moved to Thrissur with her sec-
ond husband and son in March,
wenttotheKaladypolicestation
with Sajeesh and complained
that her mother was missing.
● Fourth Kashmiri Pandit killed in a year
terrified,”oneof theneighbours,
Jawahar Lal, told The Sunday
Express.
DIG Sujit Kumar told re-
portersthatinitial investigations
suggestonlyonemilitantwasin-
volved -- and that a proxy mili-
tant outfit, Kashmir Freedom
Fighters, was behind the attack.
In an unverified social media
post,thelittle-knownoutfittook
responsibility for the killing and
claimed it had “already warned
about our attacks” on Kashmiri
Pandits and migrant workers
while criticising the Centre's
Kashmir policies.
Even as the incident trig-
gered protests, political parties
in Kashmir condemned the
killing with NC leader Omar
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tried... the appellate court is jus-
tified in discharging the accused
on the ground of want of sanc-
tion and/ or irregular sanction,
more particularly when the ob-
jection with respect to no sanc-
tion was not specifically raised
by an appropriate application
during the trial, and trial was
permitted to be proceeded fur-
therandthereafterthetrialcourt
hasconvictedtheaccusedonap-
preciation of evidences...?”
Asking why the accused had
not raised the issue of sanction
duringtrial,thebenchsaiditwill
alsoconsiderthe“consequences
of not raising the dispute with
respect to sanction during the
trial and thereafter permitting
thetrialcourttoproceedfurther,
and despite the opportunities
given to the accused even at the
stage of recording, the further
statement under Section 313
CrPC when no objection to the
want of sanction at the time of
taking cognizance was taken”.
Appearing for the state,
Mehta said the accused had not
raised the ground of sanction at
the stage of trial, and had only
The police were able to crack the
case while tracking Padmam’s
trail to that remote house in
Elanthoor.
According to Manju, Rosli’s
mother Rosamma belonged to a
“well-settled”Christianfamilyin
Alappuzha. “My grandmother
became pregnant with my
mother at the age of 17, before
hermarriage.Soonafterthat,she
was married off to a person in
Idukki. My mother, a little girl
then, was left in the care of rela-
tives in Alappuzha and
Kottayam. She was abandoned
and grew up in the homes of
those relatives, looking after
their children and doing house-
hold work. She never went to
school,” says Manju.
According to her, Rosli was
marriedatthe age of 17to a farm
worker, Sunny Varghese, from
Idukki.“Shewassubjectedtodo-
mestic violence. Sunny was an
alcoholic,anddidnotcareforme
ormyelderbrotherSanju.About
20 years ago, my mother walked
out. There was no divorce, she
just took me and left. We moved
to Kochi, where she worked as a
home nurse. I stayed in various
hostels, continuing my studies,’’
says Manju, adding that Rosli
worked as a domestic help and
home nurse, shuttling from one
house to another.
Manju, meanwhile, earned a
B.Ed in Computer Science and
seven years ago joined a school
in UP as a teacher. “Rosli was
alone. At the time, I was living
near her rented home in Kalady.
That was when we became
close,” says Sajeesh, a mason.
Once, when Rosli was admitted
to hospital, Sajeesh was the by-
stander. “She had no one else...
Soon,westartedlivingtogether,”
Abdullah describing it as “repre-
hensible” and PDP's Mehbooba
Mufti accusing the BJP-led
Centre of having “failed to safe-
guard Kashmiri Pandits”.
Senior BJP leader and former
Deputy Chief Minister Kavinder
Gupta expressed concern over
the incident and said the killers
“will be eliminated very soon”.
J-KLtGovernorManojSinhaalso
condemned the attack.
Following the abrogation of
Article 370 in 2019, militants
started targeting Kashmiri
Pandits from last year with the
killing of prominent business-
man M L Bindroo who was shot
at his medical store in Srinagar
in October.
Since then, Puran Bhat is the
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donesoattheappellatestage.He
also argued that the seriousness
and gravity of the offences can-
not be overlooked.
Senior Advocate R Basant,
appearing for Saibaba, con-
tended that there was no sanc-
tion on the date of taking cog-
nizanceorframingchargeandas
such, Section 465 CrPC would
not apply, as the provision
speaks about error or irregular-
ity of sanction, not the absence
of it. The court sought to know if
the accused had raised any spe-
cific objection regarding the ab-
senceof sanctionduringthetrial.
Basant said no application was
filed but it was raised verbally at
the stage of cross-examination.
He urged the court not to sus-
pend the HC judgement and
sought to draw its attention to
Saibaba's medical condition. He
said the allegation is only of him
being the brain, being ideologi-
cally involved. Justice Shah re-
sponded that “so far as Maoist
activities are concerned, the
brain plays a significant role”.
The court will hear the case
next on December 8.
he says.
According to Manju, how-
ever, Rosli’s “troubles” did not
end there. “He (Sajeesh) would
not allow her to speak to oth-
ers, even to me over the phone.
My mother complained to lo-
cal police about his torture. But
a compromise was reached,’’
she says.
Sajeesh and Manju claim
they did not know about Rosli
selling lottery tickets -- she told
them that she was “selling
health care products at homes”.
“I was last with her for two
months thisyear... as always, she
lamented about her life. Just
months before she went miss-
ing, she told me that if she had a
father, her life would have been
different,’’ says Manju.
Over 300 km north of
Thrissur is Dharmapuri, from
where Padmam set out to work
15yearsagoforhertwosonsand
husband, a daily wage labourer
until age confined him to their
home. “My mother started
workingforasalaryof Rs150per
day,” recalls Selvaraj.
“She used to stay in a single
room at a lodge that housed mi-
grant labourers from Tamil
Nadu. Her sister Palani Amma is
also a labourer... My mother
started selling lottery tickets in
the past six months when there
was no demand for labourers,”
hesays,speakingoverthephone
from Ernakulam where he has
reached with his elder brother
Settu and aunt to collect
Padmam’s remains.
“She used to check on me
every day before going to sleep,”
says Selvaraj. Now, all he wants
is for her remains to be handed
over. “My father is waiting back
home.”
fourth Kashmiri Pandit to be
killed. On May 12 this year, mili-
tants shot Rahul Bhat inside the
revenue office where he worked
in Budgam. On August 18, mili-
tants killed Sunil Kumar and in-
juredPaitamberKumarinsidean
orchard in Chotipora village of
Shopian.
Bhat's relatives later said the
body wasbeing takentoJammu,
where his family is based. Bhat
is survived by his wife Sweety
(41)andtwochildren--adaugh-
ter studying in Class 7 and a son
in Class 5. They had moved to
MuthiGaon, a villageonthe out-
skirts of Jammu, around two
years ago during the pandemic.
(With ARUN SHARMA
in JAMMU)
New Delhi
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● Surge in premium car sales
from 20 to 28%.
Numbers from industry
lobby group Society of Indian
Automobile Manufacturers
(SIAM)forthefirsthalf of thisfis-
cal show that the sales growth is
led by sports utility vehicles
(SUVs), which constitute a big
chunk of passenger vehicles
costing over Rs 10 lakh and
above. While sales of passenger
cars,includingentry-levelhatch-
backs, duringthe first half of this
fiscal over the same period in
2018-19 have declined by 24.7%
to 880,000 cars, sales of utility
vehicles during the same period
have increased 111.6% to
982,000.
Sale of premium cars is ex-
pected to help auto companies
clock record numbers this fiscal
--thelastrecordhighyearforau-
tomobile companies was 2018-
19.
In contrast, entry-level cars,
motorcyclesandmopedsarestill
struggling to recover.
SIAM data show that the
miniandcompact-carsegments,
duringthesecondquarterof this
fiscal, have clocked a growth of
44% and 9% respectively, lower
than the peak year of 2018-19.
Whilemopedsare down51%
from the 2018-19 peak, motor-
cycles (up 110 cc engine) are
down 35%. This underlines the
continuing distress in the lower-
end of the auto segment, which
has a cascading impact on the
entry-level car market as a bulk
of consumers graduating to this
segmentarethosewhomoveup
from two-wheelers.
CRISIL Research estimates
confirm this trend: in FY22, cars
priced above Rs 10 lakh sold five
times faster than those with
sticker prices lower than Rs 10
lakh, and garnered around 38%
year-on-year growth compared
with just around 7% growth for
the latter.
Consequently, the market
share of premium cars rose 5
percentagepointstoaround30%
last fiscal, compared with
around 25% in fiscal 2021. This
30% market share is the highest
level for premium cars clocked
in the last seven years.
Multiple analysts that The
IndianExpressspoketosaidthat
this figure is likely to be higher
this year.
Behind this is a range of fac-
tors: a difference in income lev-
els of target consumers post-
pandemic; a steeper rise in the
prices of lower-end cars; dwin-
dling options in the entry-level
segmentassomemanufacturers
haveexitedit;andasurgeinnew
launches in the higher-priced
segments.
Typically, lower-priced cars
are bought by first-time users or
● Pakistan dangerous: Biden
people and be limited to make a
point,” he said, referring to
Russian President Vladimir
Putin’s threats to use nuclear
weapons.
“Did anybody think we’d be
in a situation where China is try-
ingtofigureoutitsrolerelativeto
Russia and relative to India and
relative to Pakistan? I’ve spent
more time with Xi Jinping than
any person in... any head of state
in America...in the world. I spent
over – they keep count of it – 78
hours’ worth. Of that, 68 were in
person,overthelast10years,be-
cause Barack knew that he
couldn’t be dealing with a Vice
President. And so, he assigned
me. I’ve travelled 17,000 miles
with him,” he said, while talking
about Russia’s ties with China
andChinesePresidentXiJinping.
“This is a guy who under-
standswhat he wants buthasan
enormous, enormous array of
problems. How do we handle
that?Howdowehandlethatrel-
ative to what’s going on in
Russia? And what I think is
maybe one of the most danger-
DOWNSWING
Salesinsegmentsthat
continuetostrugglepost-
pandemic:
Categories Declineinsales
over2018-19
*Mini 44%
**Compact 9%
Mopeds 51%
Motorcycles 35%
(upto110cc)
*(cars measuring 3.6 mm and
below)**(cars measuring 3.6 mm
to 4 mm)
2018-19: peak sales year for
automobile companies
Source: Auto companies/SIAM
those replacing used cars. And
with the pandemic impacting
income outlook significantly for
entry-levelcarbuyers,purchases
and upgrades have been pushed
back.
CRISIL Research estimates
that “the employee cost (wages)
of large andmediumcompanies
— a proxy for income sentiment
amongaffluentbuyersof higher-
priced cars — has increased way
more than those of small and
medium-sized companies who
typicallyaccountforalargerpro-
portion of lower-priced car buy-
ers”.
Added to that is the 15-20%
increase in the sticker price of
lower-endcarsoverthepastfour
yearsonaccountof multiplereg-
ulatory and compliance require-
ments – increased safety regula-
tions that mandate ABS,
front-row airbags, and crash test
norms, as well as the transition
to BS-VI emission norms.
Sales of best-selling low-
priced vehicles such as Maruti
Suzuki’s Alto, Swift, Celerio, and
Dzire; and Hyundai’s i10 and i20
(which cumulatively accounted
for around 56% of the lower-
priced cars sold in fiscal 2019),
have been on a decline for three
fiscals now. As a result, there
were only around 39 models of
lower-priced cars available in
FY22 versus around 54 in fiscal
2016.
SIAM is, however, hopeful of
a recovery in the rural market.
“The entry-level segment has
been impacted due to various
reasons like inflation etc... Rural
market is also hit. Hopefully, the
rural market will perform better
with good monsoons,” said
Vinod Aggarwal, president,
SIAM and the MD & CEO of VE
Commercial Vehicles.
Auto industry insiders say
that the rural market continues
to struggle with few signs of re-
covery. “Rural market is stressed
and, hence, the decline in sales
of entry-level cars,” said an auto
industry insider.
ous nations in the world:
Pakistan.Nuclearweaponswith-
out any cohesion,” he said.
Rejecting Biden's comments,
Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif
tweeted: “Pakistan is a respon-
sible nuclear state and we are
proud that our nuclear assets
have the best safeguards as per
IAEA requirements. We take
these safety measures with the
utmost seriousness. Let no one
have any doubts”.
A PTI report quoted Sharif as
saying that Biden's remarks
were “factually incorrect and
misleading”. “Over the past
decades, Pakistan has proven to
be a most responsible nuclear
state, wherein its nuclear pro-
gramme is managed through a
technically sound and foolproof
command and control system,"
the Pakistan Prime Minister's
Office quoted him as saying.
Pakistan Foreign Minister
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari also said
that Islamabad was following
global standards in “safety and
security” of its nuclear assets.
With PTI, ISLAMABAD
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THE SUNDAY EXPRESS, OCTOBER 16, 2022
DPCC REPORT
23 noise hotspots identified in Delhi
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 15
THE DELHI Pollution Control
Committee (DPCC) has identi-
fied 23 out of 31 monitored lo-
cations as noise pollution
hotspots in the national capital,
as per a report submitted to the
National Green Tribunal (NGT).
The locations on the hotspot
list include Jahangirpuri, Ashok
Vihar, Karol Bagh, Kashmere
Gate, Anand Vihar, Sonia Vihar,
Wazirpur,MandirMarg,Punjabi
Bagh,MundkaandRohini.These
are categorised based on land
use.Thenoisemonitoringstation
Man who posed as IAF officer
arrested at IGIA with fake IDs
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 15
A 40-YEAR-OLD man, who al-
legedly posed as a wing com-
mander of the Indian Air Force
(IAF) at the Bureau of Civil
Aviation Security (BCAS) office,
was Wednesday arrested from
IGI Airport, police said.
Police have seized an
Aerodrome Entry Pass (AEP),
several fake defence welfare
cards, ID cards, membership
cards of the aero club and cards
of other defence services, and
two IAF uniforms from his pos-
session, officials said Saturday.
According to police, the ac-
cused, Firoz Gandhi, went to the
BCASofficeTuesdaytorenewhis
AEP which allows airport access
to defence personnel. Officials
said though they found his pass
to be genuine, it was obtained
using fake documents.
“His application (to renew
AEP) was received and it was de-
Three men
abduct sales
tax agent,
rob him,
extort money
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 15
THREE PERSONS, including two
DelhiPoliceconstables,wereap-
prehended for allegedly abduct-
ingasalestaxagent,robbinghim
and extorting money. Sources
saidtheaccused cameina white
Brezza car, allegedly abducted
the man and harassed him for
more than four hours before re-
leasing him. Police are looking
for two other accused who are
involved in the crime, including
a constable.
The incident took place
Tuesday night when the com-
plainant was returning home
from his office at ITO. According
to the complaint, the man was
near Shahdara flyover when the
accused followed him and
stoppedhim.“Theyposedasoffi-
cersof theCrimeBranchunitand
threatenedhim.Theyforcedhim
outofhiscarandpushedhiminto
theirs. The man was beaten up
and Rs 35,000 was robbed from
hisbag.Thecomplainantalleged
he was then taken to the Delhi
Police’s Special Staff office in
Shahdara where a sub-inspector
threatenedhimanddemandeda
ransomofRs5lakh,”saidsources.
Police said the complainant
was taken to a place near his
house where the accused
pushed him to go home and get
Rs 50,000. The man was threat-
ened and released.However,the
accused again called the com-
plainantandextortedRs45,000.
The complainant later ap-
proached the SHO at GTB
Enclave and lodged a complaint.
DCP (Shahdara) R and Mr. Pankaj Mr. Pankaj Book No.-1, Volume No.-103, Page No.-
Sathiyasundaramsaid,“Wehave
registered a case of kidnapping
and extortion. Our team appre-
hended (the two constables and
a man). Both constables are
posted in Shahdara.”
Teamsarelookingforthetwo
other accused — a history
sheeter in the area and a consta-
ble posted in Delhi Police’s 6th
battalion.Seniorofficerssaidthe
roleof thesub-inspectorhasalso
surfaced. “We are probing the
SI’s role in the case. He has not
been arrested yet,” said the DCP.
atJahangirpuri,forinstance,isin
aresidentialarea,whiletheones
at Kashmere Gate and Anand
Vihar are in commercial areas,
and the station at Wazirpur is in
an industrial area. The limits
specified by noise standards in
industrial, commercial and resi-
dential areas are different.
The DPCC’s real-time noise
monitoringdataindicatesthatthe
station at Jahangirpuri in K Block
recorded noise levels well above
thenoiselimitbetween8amand
5 pm Friday. The noise limit for a
residential area in the daytime is
55 decibels. The noise level at 10
am on Friday was 70.4 decibels.
The monitoring station at
cided that the AEP application
should be routed through IAF on
CACS(CentralisedAccessControl
System)BiometricPortal.Hewas
in possession of valid AEP which
wasobtainedonfakedocuments.
RegionalDirector,BCAS,Delhi,re-
ceived a call from an IAF officer
saying his (Gandhi’s) credentials
are doubtful and appear to be
fake,”readstheFIRlodgedonthe
complaint of a BCAS officer.
PolicesaidGandhiwasasked
to appear before the BCAS office
to process his application
Wednesday. When he reached
there,hewasquestionedbysen-
ior officers. Tanu Sharma, DCP
(IGIAirport),said,“Incriminating
material was found in his pos-
session. He was apprehended
and handed over to the police
station. We interrogated him
and arrested him.”
“Itisfurtherinformedthathe
is in possession of many items of
the IAF (diaries etc.) which cre-
ates doubt in his credentials. He
appearedtobedangerousforna-
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The
hotspots
The23hotspotswereiden-
tified based on real-time
noise monitoring data as-
sessed from Jan-Dec 2021
at 31 locations in the city.
‘Hotspots’ were identified
as those locations where
noise level exceeds the
standards by 10 decibels or
more in the day and night.
Kashmere Gate, located at the
ISBT,hadhighnoiselevelsatnight
tional security as he proclaimed
himself a wing commander of
IAF,” reads the FIR.
During questioning, Gandhi
revealed he joined the NCC as an
aero-modellinginstructorin2005
and worked there for 13 years.
“He was fascinated by the Air
Force officer’s uniform and he
secretly got one made for him-
self. In 2019, he got the AEP from
BCAS using forged documents
by posing as an IAF officer. He
had initially told BCAS authori-
ties he was a retired wing com-
mander and was working as a li-
aisoning officer at Bal Bhawan.
We found 19 stamps of different
authorities, 2 IAF uniforms, 4
cards, 3 IAF diaries. His car has a
sticker of IAF and a vehicle pass
of a government agency. A case
has been registered against him
undersectionsof impersonating
a public servant, cheating and
forgery. He has been sent to po-
lice remand where he will be
questioned about the source of
forgeddocuments,”saidtheDCP.
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Kashmere Gate is on the list
time as well. The highest noise
levelof theday,around69.1deci-
bels, was recorded at noon on
Friday. The level fell only slightly
to65.6decibelsat11pmonFriday.
As per the report, the DPCC
shares data on hotspots with the
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L-G flags ‘sordid’ state of Bhalswa lake
localbodyandtrafficpolicetotake
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 15
FOLLOWINGHISvisittoBhalswa
lake in Northwest Delhi, L-G
cials toensure completerestora-
tion of the water body by
December.
Calling the lake an asset to
the capital, he said he was disil-
lusioned by the “sordid and pa-
since May 2019, said the L-G of-
fice in a statement.
The L-G has also directed the
Delhi Development Authority to
immediatelyundertakecleaning
of the banks of the lake ahead of
suitable action to control noise Vinai Kumar Saxena expressed thetic state of maintenance and the forthcoming Chhath festival
pollution. The report also stated disappointmentoveritsmainte- upkeep” of the lake by the Delhi and instructed all stakeholder
thatapanelisbeingformedtoas- nance, restorationandrejuvena- Jal Board, the designated agency agencies to start work on the
sesstheneedforfurtherstrength- tion work. He has directed offi- in charge of its rejuvenation restoration in tandem.
ening the real-time noise moni-
toringnetwork.Thecitycurrently
has 31 real-time monitoring sta-
tions — 26 by the DPCC, and five
installed by the Central Pollution
ControlBoard.Thelocalbodyhas
also been directed to procure
moresound-levelmeters,instru-
mentsthataredesignedtomeas-
uresoundlevels,accordingtothe
report.Thereportwassubmitted
after an NGT order sought an ac-
tion taken report from the Delhi
government on noise pollution.
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mentioned hereinafter, calling upon the borrower to repay the amount mentioned in the notice within 60 days
from the date of receipt of the said notice.
The Borrower having failed to repay the amount, notice is hereby given to the borrower and the public in
general that the undersigned has taken possession of the properties described herein below in exercise of
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1. Smt. Ruby Devi Smt. Ruby Equitable Mortgage of all part and parcel 10.05.2022 ` 32,30,568/-
& Rajiv Nayan Devi & Rajiv of plot and building at Khata No.27, Part 12.10.2022 (In word thirty
B/o: Doctor's
Colony
Nayan of Khesra Survey Plot No.30, Tauzi No.-
610, Thana No.114, Mauza-Ashochak, urf
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thousand five
Chakasho, Ramkrishna Nagar, District- hundred sixty
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Shiv Dayal Yadav, South-15 feet Chauda Samiti Ka Sahayak Rasta, East-Sub-plot No.6, Shri Ram Kishore
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Md. Rasid and S/o Md. of plot and house thereon property 14.10.2022 (In word eight
Chhoti Begum Rasid and admeasuring 1.19 Decimal situated at lakh twenty
W/o Md. Aziz Chhoti Mohalla Mogalpura, Choti Bazar, P.S- nine thousand
Road Md. Aziz Sub & Sadar Registry Office-Patna City,
seventy nine
only)
Municipal Survey Plot No.-1360 & 1361, Sheet No.-201, Circle No.-117, Ward No.22/28/47, Holding
No.45A, Deed No.-1573 dated 29.03.2008, Book No.-1, Volume No.-29, Page No.-362 to 373 in CD
No.-5, in favour of Md. Aziz. Boundary (As per Deed): North-Sahazadu Miyan, South-04 feet Rasta, East-
Masook Hussain, West-Abdul Hannan.
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Mr. Barun Sh Arjun admeasuring 13 Decimal situated at lakh eighty one
Kumar S/o Sh Singh, Mauza-Sultanpur, PS-Fatuha Patna, Sub thousand nine
Arjun Singh, Mrs. Sanju & Sadar Registry Office-Patna City, Thana hundred nine
Mrs. Sanju Devi W/o No.-07, Tauzi No.290 present Govt. of only)
Devi W/o Mr. Mr. Barun Bihar, Survey Plot No.-479(P), Khata No.-
Barun Kumar Kumar and 126, Deed No.-5555, Dated 08/07/2015,
Singh S/o Singh S/o 114 to 123 in CD No.-16, in favour of Mr.
Arjun Singh Arjun Singh Barun Kumar. Boundary (As per Deed):
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CBC 34106/15/0016/2223
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4. M/s Sadhna Mr. Naresh Equitable Mortgage of all part and parcel 02.08.2022 ` 21,80,702.26
Steel, Mr. Sharma, of plot and house thereon property 14.10.2022 (In word twenty
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Place : Patna Indian Bank
New Delhi
 10 THE CITY
THE SUNDAY EXPRESS, OCTOBER 16, 2022
At MCD’s largest hospital, crumbling infra,
delayed salaries and patients in distress
ANKITAUPADHYAY
NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 15
CRUMBLINGWALLS,leakingceil-
ings,mouldcoveringthecasualty,
emergencyandICUwards-these
are some of the scenes from
Hindu Rao Hospital in Malka
Ganj, the largestmedical institu-
tion under the Municipal
Corporation of Delhi. The dilapi-
dated infrastructure coupled
with a lack of cleaning staff has
left the hospital in a dire state, a
ground report on a rainy day by
The Indian Express shows.
Emergency ward, OPD
building
Right at the entrance, the
walls sport mould while small
plantsgrowoutof thecracksout-
side. Nearby, a couple of atten-
dants sleep on the dusty floor.
Rainwaterhascollectednearthe
medicine counter close to the
wheelchairrampof thebuilding,
forcingpatientstowadethrough
to reach the respective depart-
ments.
Accordingtoasecurityguard,
a portion of the ceiling had col-
lapsed a few days ago, which the
administration repaired in a
makeshift manner, but no per-
manentsolutionhasbeenfound.
Next to the repaired patch, an-
other portion of the ceiling looks
unsteady.
Prerna, a resident of Burari,
who had to come to the hospital
with her friend for her one-year-
old son's treatment, says that
chunks of paint and cement fell
onherwhileshewassittingclose
to the casualty ward. "Now we
have spread our sheets near the
washroom. The place stinks but
it's safer here."
She says thereare no lights in
the washrooms, which makes it
particularly challenging for
women. Even the men's wash-
room was in a poor state — the
flush was not working, and the
latches of the washroom doors
were broken.
While patients complain of
unhygienicconditions,theyheap
praises on doctors. "The hospital
is very dirty and poorly main-
tained but what can we do? The
doctors are nice here and it is
BRIEFLY
DUstudents
detained
duringprotest
New Delhi: A group of stu-
dent activists protesting
against the suspension of
the release of former Delhi
University teacher G N
Saibaba was detained from
the campus on Saturday.
They were later released in
the evening.
Govtlaunches
6schemesfor
SC/ST/OBC
students
New Delhi: Around six
scholarship programmes
havebeenlaunchedforstu-
dents in the 2022-2023 ac-
ademicsessionbytheDelhi
Department for Welfare of
SC/ST/OBC/ Minorities.
Underthisscheme,officials
said the government will
reimburse the tuition fees
of eligible students. The re-
imbursementwillbeforall
SC/ST/OBC category stu-
dentsinclassesuptoXIIand
who are studying in recog-
nisedpublic/privateschools
under Delhi’s state-funded
scheme.
CPtraders
seekL-G
helpwith
renovations
New Delhi: The New Delhi
Traders Association has re-
quested Delhi Lieutenant
Governor Vinai Kumar
Saxena to intervene and
help rectify the deteriorat-
ing structure of Connaught
Place. Constructed in the
early 1930s, Connaught
Place is one of Delhi’s most
iconic areas. ENS
FACILITIES AT HOSPITAL
HOSPITAL BUILT IN 1911
980
sanctioned bed strength
418
OPD bed strength
2500-3000
Daily footfall of patients
closetoourhouse,"saysSunita,a
Shahdara resident, who is at the
hospitaltocollectherbloodsam-
ple reports.
Sheaddsthatthereisnoplace
toevensitandtheyhavetostand
by the railing of the ramp. "It is
raining today and there are no
chairs. The floor is wet so where
will we sit?" says Sunita, even as
water drips from the damp ceil-
ingaboveontodozensof patients
and their families crossing the
ramp.
After the onset of the pan-
demic,thefootfallof patientshas
reduced significantly – from
4,000-5,000 earlier to 2,500-
3,000, a senior doctor said.
RANG DE KOREA
Taekwondo performance at the ‘Rang De Korea’, an event organised by Korean Cultural Centre India (KCCI) to commemorate
the 10th anniversary of establishment of the KCCI, on Saturday. Praveen Khanna
ESTABLISHED IN 1932
Hospital to VIPs, witness to India’s history — RML’s rich journey
ANKITA UPADHYAY
NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 15
BEFORE ALL India Institute of
Medical Sciences (AIIMS), it was
Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital
that would cater to VIPs - from
Harivansh Rai Bachchan to Lala
Amarnath - seeking treatment.
Established as a 54-bedded
hospitalin1932,RMLwasdevel-
oped by the British Government
and was formerly known as
Willingdon Hospital, named af-
ter Lord Willingdon, who served
as the 22nd Viceroy and
Governor General of India from
April 18, 1931 to April 18, 1936.
According to Madan
Thapliyal, writer and former di-
rector of public relations at New
Delhi Municipal Council
(NDMC), the hospital was a
smallclinicbeforeitwasrechris-
HARDLOOK
200
Resident Doctors
100
Faculty Members
100
Regular service doctors
Meanwhile,ablood-filledvial
comes rolling down the ramp
andliesonthefloorwhilepeople
cross over it. When Sunita tells a
security guard to pick it up and
send it to the official concerned,
he ignores her and walks away.
OT building
Closetotheemergencybuild-
ingistheoperationtheatrebuild-
ing where a portion of a parapet
of the first floor collapsed last
month,causingminordamageto
cars and motorbikes parked be-
low. It has not been repaired so
far,andwhatisleftof theparapet
has been brought down to pre-
vent further collapse.
tened Willingdon Hospital in
1932. "In 1932, Lord Willingdon
launched the NDMC townhall
and approved the name change
and further development of the
clinic. Until 1938, it was under
the NDMC," said Thapliyal.
While Hindu Rao and
Safdarjung Hospital catered to
the masses, the then govern-
ment needed a hospital and a
nursing home where VIPs, bu-
reaucrats, politicians and people
in important positions living in
Central Delhi could go for treat-
ment.
And so, RML becamethe first
hospital to have a nursing home
facility in the capital. Post
Independence, on January 1,
1954, the government of India
took control of the hospital from
the NDMC. In 1962, it came un-
der central health service.
The hospital is situated on
CORONAVIRUS
IN THE CAPITAL
The parapet collapse at the
hospital had sparked a war
of words between the AAP
and MCD last month. Express
In the same department, a
wallhasbeenleakingwatersince
morning. Accordingtoa security
guard, a number of people have
slipped because of it.
Aformerresidentdoctorwho
used to work at the hospital said
thesituationhasworsenedinthe
last 10 years: "The building has
beendecayingforalongtime,but
earlier we had the resources.
Now, even basic medicines and
injections are out of stock."
Thedoctor,whowishedtore-
main unidentified, says he has
learned a lot at the hospital, but
the political blame game be-
tweentheBJP-ruledMCDandthe
AAP-rungovernmentoverfunds
hasaffecteditadversely."Annual
maintenance has not happened
foryearsandofficialsblameiton
fund crunch," he says.
A resident doctor says she
faces a tough time treating pa-
tientsasevenbasicamenitieslike
sterileglovesandMonocef injec-
Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital was formerly known as
Willingdon Hospital. Archive
the crossing of Irwin Road,
Talkatora Road and Sheikh
MujiburRahmanRoad(formerly
known as Park Street Road) fac-
ing Rashtrapati Bhavan.
By 1970, the hospital had
started offering medical aid
through out-patient and in-pa-
tient departments, which in-
VACCINATIONS IN
LAST 24 HOURS
3,473
PATIENTSINHOSPITAL:
OXYGEN SUPPORT
VENTILATOR SUPPORT
tions are often out of stock. "We
either use Augmentin or else ask
patientstobuyfromoutside,"she
adds.
Another resident doctor says
they have to buy even drinking
water on their own as it is not
available on campus.
When contacted, hospital
medical superintendent Anu
Kapoor refused to comment and
asked to contact the MCD.
Speaking to The Indian
Express, a senior official from the
MCDsaidthecompetentauthor-
ity has held a meeting and that
maintenance work needs to be
done urgently.
"A budget has been allocated
for the same and the tendering
processhasstarted.Anauditwill
be done of the building and re-
pairswillbecarriedoutwherere-
quired," he added.
Another corporation official
addedthatwhiletheadministra-
tion is sincere about making im-
provements, there are no funds.
"Even after a unified MCD, there
are financial problems," he
added.
Doctors also alleged they do
not even get salaries on time.
"This is the situation at all MCD
hospitals, not just Hindu Rao,"
added a doctor.
Dr R R Gautam, president of
the municipal corporation doc-
tors' association, says that under
the given circumstances, MCD's
health services should be taken
over by the central government.
"Inmyopinion,itwillgiveafresh
leaseof lifetothesehospitals,"he
says.
The parapet collapse at the
hospital had sparked a war of
words between the AAP and the
MCD last month. AAP MLA
Durgesh Pathak had said inci-
dents of MCD buildings collaps-
ing occur on a daily basis, yet the
BJPadministrationpaidnoheed.
"TheBJPshouldfeelashamed.For
how much longer will they tin-
ker with the lives of innocent
people? People brought them to
power with hope and faith," he
said.TowhichtheMCDsaidithas
"notreceivedtimelygrants"from
the AAP-led Delhi government
for the last two years for infra-
structure maintenance of health
institutions.
cluded general wards, special
wardsandnursinghomeswitha
totalof 610beds,outof which53
were nursing home beds.
Specialist services were also
made available - medical, surgi-
cal, ENT, eye, skin, children's dis-
eases, obstetrics and gynaecol-
ogy, physiotherapy, dental,
DELHI TOTAL
CASES
20,04,787
44
5
Oct 14
Oct 15
3 Cases
Total
*Total active cases in Delhi
Missing college
student’s body found
in drain in Gr Noida
EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE
GURGAON, OCTOBER 15
A21-YEAR-OLDsecond-yearstu-
dent of Galgotias University in
Greater Noida, who went miss-
ing three days ago, was found
dead under suspicious circum-
stances on Saturday in a drain
about 750 metres from the cam-
pus.Policesaidtheyhaveinitiated
inquest proceedings and are
questioningthreeotherstudents,
who had accompanied him on
the evening he went missing.
Police said the deceased,
YashaswiRajfromBihar,waspur-
suing BSc Agriculture.
A police officer said,
“Preliminary probe has found
that the student, along with a
friend from the university, had
gone to a tavern in Dankaur
kasba…around5pmonOctober
12.Atthetavern,twootherswho
study in the same university had
joinedthem.Around7.30pm,the
student spoke to his mother on a
video call. A few minutes later,
around8pm,hisphonewentoff.”
Police said that in CCTV
footagefromthearea,thestudent
can purportedly be seen exiting
the tavern alone and hailing an
autorickshaw.“After5-6minutes,
theautodroppedhimtothesame
spot. He is then seen walking
alone. His three friends returned
to the university later that night,
butthestudentdidnot.Thethree
Justice Chandrachud’s advice
for law students: Focus on
people’s daily struggles
EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE
NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 15
SUPREMECOURTjudgeJusticeD
Y Chandrachud Saturday called
upon law students to strive to
adopt a legal approach that puts
the daily lives of people at the
centre.
“...myhopeisthatyourefrain
fromperpetuatingthetraditional
formalistic approaches to law.
Instead,youshouldstrivetoadopt
a legal approach that puts at its
centerthequotidianlivesof peo-
ple, who struggle on a daily basis
tomaketheirendsmeetandtake
care of their family. That is the
true redemption of justice”, he
said while speaking at the 9th
Convocation of National Law
University,Delhi.Alsopresenton
stage was Delhi Chief Minister
Arvind Kejriwal.
Remindingstudentsthat“we
live in a society governed by rule
of law”,JusticeChandrachudsaid
that “rule of law, if understood
and implemented properly, is a
defenceagainstoppressivestruc-
turessuchaspatriarchy,casteism,
andableism”.Headdedthat“itis
an aspirational goal, which is be-
yond you and me as individuals,
but towards which all of us have
our parts to play” and that rule of
orthopaedic, and family plan-
ning.
In 1972, the hospital had a
staff of 58 doctors, 227 nurses
and 870 administrative and
other technical staff, including
class III and IV.
According to Dr Rajiv Sood,
head of the urology department
at RML, the hospital has had ma-
jor developments since the
British era. "The area which now
has the psychi-
atry depart-
ment used to
be horse stable
in the British
era," he said.
He added
that former
Chief Minister
of Uttar Pradesh Hemwati
Nandan Bahuguna, poet
Harivansh Rai Bachchan, crick-
eter Lala Amarnath, and politi-
New Delhi
Total Vacant
HOSPITAL BEDS 8,837 8,795
ICU BEDS 2,086 2,070
Cases Recoveries Deaths
112
135
106
104
0
0
465* 19,77816 26,506
Police said that in CCTV
footage, the student
can purportedly be
seen exiting the tavern
alone and hailing an
autorickshaw
friends had left the tavern in the
spaceof 10minutesafterthestu-
dent left…,” added the police of-
ficer.
Inspector Radha Raman
Singh, SHO Dankaur police sta-
tion, said, “The body has been
sent for a post-mortem, which
willbeconductedonSunday.We
are questioning the three stu-
dents who had accompanied
him.”Inthediaryentryregistered
at the police station on October
13 morning, the student’s aunt,
AnitaKumari,aresidentof Delhi,
said that her nephew had been
staying in the university accom-
modation, and had gone to
Dankaur market with three
friends around 7.30 pm on
October12,beforehewentmiss-
ing.
Vishal Pandey, ADCP Greater
Noida,said,“Onthecomplaintof
his family, a missing persons’
complaintwasregisteredandpo-
lice parties were carrying out
raids to locate him. Today, his
body was found in a drain. The
bodydoesnothaveanyvisiblein-
CM Arvind Kejriwal, SC Justice DY Chandrachud and Delhi
HC Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma at the 9th
convocation at National Law University. Amit Mehra
law does not depend merely on
the Constitution or legislations”
but largely… upon the political
culture and habits of citizens…”
Calling the legal profession
maledominated,hesaid“women
lawyers may especially find it
challenging to work in” the “pro-
fession, which more often than
not fails to accommodate their
concerns and opinions”.
In this context, he recalled
how Justice Fathima Beevi from
Kerala, “by her sheer grit, deter-
mination, and hard-work… rose
throughtherankstobecomethe
firstfemalejudgetobeappointed
to the Supreme Court of India”.
“JusticeMFathimaBeeviwas
a pioneer in her own right who
cianRajNarainwerealsotreated
at the hospital.
In1976,whenanamechange
of several government institu-
tions was taking place, the
Willingdon hospital was con-
verted into Dr Ram Manohar
Lohia Hospital, named after the
socialist leader. Dr Lohia had, in
fact, been admitted to the hospi-
tal in 1967, before the name
change, for a prostate surgery.
Personal
physicians to
several Prime
Ministers
havealsobeen
appointed
from RML. "Dr
Krishna
Prasad
Mathur from RML was the per-
sonalphysician toIndiraGandhi,
Dr Arun Sahaye to Rajiv Gandhi
when he was the PM, Dr KPS
NOIDA
Oct 14 Oct 15
Cases N/A N/A
Tests Deaths N/A N/A
6,410
6,353
GURGAON
29 35
4,03,27,838
Deaths 1 0
jury marks. His wristwatch and
wallet are intact. The body has
beensentforapost-mortemand
a probe has been initiated.”
The student’s family alleged
that he had been murdered. The
student’s uncle, Santosh, who
was also his local guardian,
claimed, “We suspect he was
beaten up and left in the drain.
Around 7.40 pm on Wednesday,
hespoketohismotheronavideo
call.Hesaidhehadgonetoagym
and was returning to the univer-
sity and that he would call on
reaching. He appeared slightly
dizzyandwaswalkingalone.His
phonewaslaterswitchedoff…a
few days ago, he had a fight with
another student over a ragging-
related issue.”
In a complaint to the police,
the student’s family said that
Yashaswihadanaltercationwith
twostudentsatthehostel.“From
what we have enquired, some
students had hurled abuses at
him and threatened him… We
suspecttheroleofthosestudents.
Thereshouldbeaprobeintothis,”
claimed the student’s uncle. The
family named six students in the
complaint.
In a statement, Galgotias
University, said, “The university
management and the entire
Galgotiasuniversityfamilystand
by firmly with the family and
friendsforourbelovedstudentin
this extremely difficult and
painful hour.”
openedacloseddoorforwomen
in the judiciary,” he said, adding:
“Yes, the legal profession might
seem daunting and challenging,
but the barriers are not high in
front of your towering grit and
dedication.”
He also advised students “to
incorporate feminist thinking in
the way” they “deal with law”.
Meanwhile Chief Minister
Arvind Kejriwal tweeted,
“Attended the Convocation of
NationalLawUniversity,Delhi,to-
day.Iextendmybestwishestoall
of our asipiring lawyers and call
upon them to serve the down-
troddenandtakeupthecauseso-
cial justice in their professional
journey.”
Malik to Chandrashekhar," said
Dr Sood.
On June 23, 1980, when
Sanjay Gandhi'saircraftcrashed,
he was brought to RML hospital.
On July 25, 2001, Phoolan Devi
was brought there after being
shot by three masked gunmen
outside her Delhi bungalow.
Aseniorofficialworkingwith
the hospital said RML has wit-
nessedseveralchaptersinIndia's
history, including treating pa-
tients during the Parliament at-
tack. "We were the first point of
contact at the time, and a num-
ber of police personnel were
treated at the hospital," the offi-
cial said. The hospital also plays
animportantroleduringanyna-
tionalfestival,includingRepublic
Day and Independence Day,
whenparamedicalstaff anddoc-
tors from the hospital are de-
ployed at the event.

11 GOVT & POLITICS
THE SUNDAY EXPRESS, OCTOBER 16, 2022
Never saw such poor Spread PM’s message in villages, Shah
preparations for
flood control, relief:
tells NRIs from Gujarat ahead of polls
BJP MLA on UP flood
Fault lay with district admin, they
were not serious this time, he says
LALMANI VERMA
LUCKNOW, OCTOBER 15
IN AN attack on his party’s gov-
ernmentinUttarPradesh,BJPMP
from Kaiserganj Brij Bhushan
SharanSinghhassaidthatpeople
in areas affected by flooding fol-
lowingtherecentraininthestate
have been left “bhagwan bharose
(to god’s mercy)”, and that he
“never saw such poor prepara-
tionsforfloodcontrolandrelief”.
The six-time MP added that
he could not even express how
he felt, for fear of being labelled
“baaghi (rebel)”. Speaking to The
Indian Express, Singh repeated
that there was no scope for
“alochana (criticism)” any more.
Singh attacked the flood
measures while talking to medi-
apersons during a visit to the af-
fected areas in his constituency
on Thursday. A video of his re-
marks went viral Saturday.
Inthevideo,Singhsaysmeet-
ingswouldbeheldinthepaston
preparations for flood control,
but no such talks were held this
year. “The people are at god's
mercy... Maine apne jeevan mein
itnakharabintezaamnahindekha
baadh ke prati (In my life, I’ve
never seen such poor arrange-
ments for floods),” he said, talk-
ing about how people were left
waitingforwatertorecedetoget
even relief.
“Regret is that we cannot
evenexpressourfeelings,”Singh
said. “Bolna bandh hai, sunna hee
hai keval... Jan pratinidhiyon ki
zubaanbandhhai...Bologe,baaghi
kehlaoge. Sujhao doge, koi
maanega nahin (Raising one’s
voiceisnotallowed.Onecanonly
listen... People’s representatives
(From left) PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti, NC president Farooq
Abdullah and Peoples Alliance for Gupkar Declaration
spokesperson M Y Tarigami in Srinagar on Saturday. PTI
Govt manipulation
in garb of electoral
roll revision: PAGD
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
SRINAGAR, OCTOBER 15
THE PEOPLE’S Alliance for
Gupkar Declaration (PAGD), an
alliance of non-BJP mainstream
parties from Jammu and
Kashmir, on Saturday accused
the government of carrying out
“manipulation in the garb of re-
vision” of electoral rolls in the
Union Territory.
After a meeting of the coali-
tion in Srinagar, the group’s
spokesperson, senior CPI(M)
leader M Y Tarigami, said, “At
first, the CEO (chief electoral of-
ficer) made a statement (about
expected addition of up to 25
lakh voters). After a few days
theyclaimedthatthiswasincor-
rect information. Then they
sought to clarify this at an all-
party meeting.”
TarigamisaidallpartiesinJ&K
want elections in the UT and are
concerned about “manipulation
in the name of revision (of elec-
toralrolls)bytheadministration
and this government. There is a
wave of anxiety about this in
Kashmir as well as in Jammu.”
Referring to the Jammu DC's
order issued on October 12, au-
thorising tehsildars to issue cer-
tificates of residence to those re-
siding in the district for more
than a year to enable their regis-
tration as voters, and its with-
drawal a day later, he said, “One
day an order is issued (to regis-
ter new voters) and the next day
it is taken back verbally. This has
In Himachal, he
says Cong tries to
divide, BJP works
Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh
aresilent...Speakup,andyouwill
be labelled a rebel. Give some
suggestion, nobody will listen).”
Speaking to The Sunday
Express, Singh said the “fault lay
withthedistrictadministration”.
“Earlier, meetings were or-
ganised with public representa-
tives (for flood control), they
were taken into confidence and
information was shared. But the
administration was not serious
this time.”
The water level was two-feet
higher this year than the past
floods, Singh said. “But officers
sentthewrongreportstothegov-
ernment.Thearrangementsthey
claimdonotexistontheground.”
Singh gave the example of a
bridge over the Saryu river near
Ayodhyathatgotwashedaway.“I
havewritten10lettersinthepast
twoyearstotheauthoritiestotake
measures to protect that bridge.”
On why he said public repre-
sentatives could not raise their
voice,Singhsaid:“Inanygovern-
ment in the past, be it of the
Samajwadi Party, the BJP or the
Congress,criticismwastolerated
to some extent. Now, criticism is
not tolerated and is taken per-
sonally. If you raise a question
over the system, that is taken
personally, as if you are deliber-
atelyattackingthegovernment.”
also been termed a misunder-
standing.”
Tarigami urged the Election
Commission, and “those con-
cernedwith keeping democracy
alive, to read the order and un-
derstand its implications”.
Flanked by National
Conference president Dr Farooq
Abdullah and PDP chief
Mehbooba Mufti, Tarigami
added,“Wewanttoremindboth
theLieutenantGovernorandthe
Prime Minister of how we went
to Delhi on their invitation. We
also met the L-G on a separate
occasion and told him about
youths being picked up indis-
criminately (by police) and sent
to jails outside the UT. The PM
and the L-G had both said that
they will review this. Nothing
has been done on the front.”
Stating that the situation is
now so dire that jails are full not
just in J&K but also in neigh-
bouring states, Tarigami said,
“We ask the people to stay
united.” He said the PAGD's
stated position, as noted on
August 4, 2019, stays firm: “We
want a revocation of these con-
stitutional changes of August 5,
2019. If done sooner than later,
it would be better for the coun-
try. They will have to do this.”
The PAGD spokesperson also
allegedthatallcivilliberties,con-
stitutional rights and freedoms
— freedom of expression, free-
dom of press, freedom of associ-
ation, the freedom to survive, to
live — “have been suppressed
through dictatorial directives”.
AVINASH NAIR
AHMEDABAD, OCTOBER 15
UNION MINISTER for Home and
Co-operationAmitShahSaturday
appealedtoNon-ResidentIndians
from Gujarat to “become ambas-
sadorsforBJP”andgotoeveryvil-
lage to help the BJP win the up-
coming Assembly elections.
Virtually addressing the
“PravasiGujaratiParv2022”from
Himachal Pradesh, where he is
presentlycampaigning,Shahsaid,
“After1990,whenevertherewere
elections, Gujarat's people have
madetheBJPvictoriousandinthis
victory there is a huge contribu-
tion of the NRG(Non-Resident
Gujarati) brothers and sisters.
Your word in your respective vil-
lagesisofgreatimportance.Now,
once again when 2022 is seeing
an election... It is my humble ap-
pealthatyoubecometheambas-
sadors of the BJP and go to every
village of Gujarat and spread the
word of Narendrabhai (Prime
Minister Narendra Modi)”.
In the event, held in
Ahmedabad by the AAIANA
(AssociationofIndianAmericans
in North America) and TV9 me-
dia group, Shah said that Modi
brought India to fifth largest
economydisplacingEnglandand
thus "without a fuss, India has
shown the world that we have
become a bigger economy than
After Diwali, BJP
plans outreach at
areas in Gujarat
not covered by
its Gaurav Yatra
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
AHMEDABAD, OCTOBER 15
FOR AREAS of Assembly con-
stituenciesthatwon’tbecovered
by the BJP Gujarat’s ‘Gaurav
Yatra’, meetings will be held
with the page committee mem-
bers and of various wings of the
BJP in the state after Diwali as
partof the‘NewYearSammelan’,
the party announced Saturday.
Addressing a press confer-
ence, Gujarat BJP vice-president
Gordhan Zadafia said the move
is aimed at including the party's
outreach to "every class, caste
and community" in the state
ahead of the Assembly polls.
“The entire state will be cov-
ered by the yatra and for those
places not being covered--for ex-
ample the six municipal corpora-
tion areas of Ahmedabad, Rajkot,
Surat, Vadodara, Jamnagar and
Bhavnagar--meetingswillbeheld
as New Year Sammelan after
Diwaliwithpagesamitimembers.
Each Vidhan Sabha constituency
has30,000-35,000pagecommit-
teemembersandthesemembers
willbeinvitedforthesemeetings...
We will be covering every ‘mor-
cha’(wings)forpublicoutreachby
theBJPinthisNewYearSammelan
as well as clusters of five Vidhan
Sabha constituencies... so as to
cover different class, caste, com-
munitiesandnooneremains...We
hope to complete this by
November 5. So, we have sched-
uled meetings with five morchas
of Vidhan Sabha constituencies
(eachday)andthesemeetingswill
be addressed by union and state
ministers...,”saidZadafia.
Zadafia added that 20 Union
ministers are expected to join
the Gaurav Yatra in the next five
to seven days with 15 public
meetings due to be held on the
route each day.
In ‘first by any party’, BJP holds Pasmanda Muslim meet in UP today
LALMANI VERMA
LUCKNOW, OCTOBER 15
CALLING it the first such pro-
gramme for Pasmanda Muslims
by a political party in the coun-
try, the BJP's minoritywing is or-
ganising a meeting of “intellec-
tuals” of the community in
Lucknow on Sunday.
The meeting comes three
months after Prime Minister
Narendra Modi urged the party
toreachoutto“thedeprivedand
downtrodden” sections among
all communities and is seen as
an outreach to the Pasmanda
(backward class) Muslims.
Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief
Minister Brajesh Pathak will be
the chief guest at the event,
dubbed the 'Pasmanda
Union Home Minister Amit Shah at a public meeting in
Sirmaur, Himachal Pradesh, on Saturday. PTI
the country that ruled us for 150
years, with pride". He credited
ModiforaddingIndiatothelistof
countries in the world — along
withUSandIsrael—thatwereca-
pableofgiving“afittingresponse
to attacks on their country”.
“When Narendrabhai be-
came the chief minister of this
state, a large portion of people in
the country had lost trust in the
country’s democracy. Everyone
usedtowonderif themulti-party
democratic parliamentary sys-
tem could ensure the welfare of
the country. The accepted path
for development had left a large
portionof thecountryremained
underdeveloped.Everyoneused
to feel that the democratic sys-
tem is not for us. Narendrabhai
RahulGandhiwithMallikarjunKhargeandBhupeshBaghelduringtheCongress’sBharatJodo
YatrainBallari,Karnataka,onSaturday. PTI
2 days before Cong elects chief,
Kharge joins Rahul in yatra
KIRAN PARASHAR
BALLARI, OCTOBER 15
TWO DAYS before nearly 9,000
Congress delegates vote to elect
the next party chief, senior
CongressleaderfromKarnataka,
Mallikarjun Kharge, seen as the
favourite to win the election,
joined Rahul Gandhi in the
Bharat Jodo Yatra on Saturday,
his first participation in the rally.
Joining the yatra at Ballari,
Kharge walked more than 2 km.
Thestate Congress puton an im-
pressiveshow,organisingamas-
sive rally on the 38th day of the
march from Kanyakumari to
Kashmir.
Rahul and other AICC dele-
gatestaking partin theyatrawill
vote in Monday's election at a
campsite in Ballari.
Khargewasinitiallyexpected
to participate in the yatra on
October6butstayedawayonac-
count of his campaign for the
party polls, and fears that he
would be seen as being officially
backed by party chief Sonia
Buddhijeevi Sammelan', which
will also be attended by state
ministerDanishAzadAnsari,the
only Muslim minister in the BJP
state government, and a
Pasmanda.
BJP minority wing national
general secretary Sabir Ali, who
will be the main speaker, will fo-
cuson Modi's“vision". Theparty
expectsoverathousandintellec-
tuals from among Pasmanda
Muslims to attend.
Among those to be “hon-
oured” at the meeting will be
newly nominated Rajya Sabha
MP from Jammu and Kashmir,
GhulamAliKhatana,aBJPleader
fromtheGujjarMuslimcommu-
nity. An under-represented
group settled in some of the
most inhospitable areas of J&K,
it also has a significant popula-
successfully implemented the
concept of welfare state as visu-
alised by those who built the
Constitution,” Shah said.
“Today every dynastic party
islosingelectionsagainsttheBJP
one by one", said Shah and how
since 20 years the “Chief
Ministers had set an example of
how a curfew-free administra-
tion can be ensured” in Gujarat.
Targeting the Congress and
“so-called secular parties” that
ruled before BJP, for “never en-
couragingculturalheritage”,Shah
said,“ModiplacedIndia'scultural
and religious heritage before the
worldwithpride,withoutanyin-
feriority complex” and gifted a
copy of The Gita “with pride” to
world leaders who visited him.
Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.
LokSabhaMPShashiTharoor,
the other candidate in the fray,
was part of the Kerala leg of
BharatJodoYatralastmonth,be-
fore he filed nominations for the
party chief's election.
Speaking in Ballari on
Saturday, Kharge said the back-
ward Kalyana Karnataka
(Hyderabad-Karnataka) region
got special status under Article
371-J of the Constitution due to
Sonia and Rahul’s efforts. “The
Congress government gave spe-
cial status to this region.
Previously, the youth of this re-
giondidnotgetjobsbutafterthis
region got the status, they are
now getting jobs,” he claimed.
“We are holding Bharat Jodo
Yatra not for political gains but
against communal disharmony
and a failed economic system,”
Khargesaid.“TheRSSandBJPare
busy dividing the society based
on religion. We want to bring
back harmony among people.
Our fight is also against unem-
ployment, price-rise and the
failed economic system.”
Wooinga big vote base
THE BJP’S push to
wean away Pasmanda
Muslims, who form an
overwhelming 80% of
the population among
Muslims, coincides with both
Samajwadi Party and
Bahujan Samaj Party wooing
the community to add to
their heft. Earlier, politicians
have held such events to con-
solidate Pasmanda Muslim
tioninwesternUPandinAmethi
and Rae Bareli Lok Sabha con-
stituencies in central UP.
“The BJP will address the in-
tellectuals on how over 4.5 crore
for development
Shimla: TargetingtheOpposition
andhailingworkdonebytheBJP
governmentattheCentre,Union
Home Minister Amit Shah said
at an election rally in Himachal
Pradesh's Sirmaur on Saturday
that while the Congress “tried to
divide people”, PM Narendra
Modi “works only for develop-
ment”. Himachal Pradesh goes
to the polls on November 12.
“The Congress tried to divide
people,whileModiworksonlyfor
development.Thestatehascom-
pleted 50 years, and the long-
standingtrendofalternateparties
winning[Assemblyelections]has
to change. You must write on the
walls, 'ek baar Bhajpa, baar baar
Bhajpa (vote for BJP once, vote for
BJP many times)',” said Shah.
SayingthattheModigovern-
ment made the impossible pos-
sible, Shah highlighted the rev-
ocation of J&K’s special status
andtheRamTempleinAyodhya.
Shah also lauded the PM for
granting tribal status to the Hatti
community. The Hattis from the
Trans-Giri region (between Giri
and Tons rivers) have been seek-
ingreservationsince1967. ENS
Speaking during the rally,
Rahul Gandhi said: “The ideol-
ogythatRSSandBJParepromot-
ing is leading to violence in the
country. It is not nationalism but
anti-nationalism. The atrocities
against(peoplefrom)Scheduled
Castes/Scheduled Tribes in the
countryhaveincreasedby50per
cent. The objective of organising
Bharat Jodo Yatra is to unite peo-
ple who are being deceived by
BJP and RSS."
TakingontheNarendraModi
government at the Centre, the
MP from Wayanad said that be-
fore 2014, Modi expressed his
“concern”, as LPG cylinder price
had hit Rs 400. But now that the
cylinder is priced at Rs 1,050,
“why doesn't he show the same
concern to mothers and sisters
of this country,” Rahul asked.
On Saturday, the yatra com-
pleted 1,000 km, with Rahul
and other leaders walking 9
km. Rajasthan and Chattisgarh
CMs, Ashok Gehlot and
Bhupesh Baghel, respectively,
were among those who partic-
ipated in it.
votes, but these efforts
were in their personal
capacity and under the
banner of non-politi-
cal outfits. The BJP, for
the first time, is making ef-
forts at the party level to
carve out a vote bank from
Muslim population and add
them with its voters of non-
Yadav OBCs, non-Jatav Dalits
and upper castes.
people from the community
have benefited under various
government schemes rolled out
by the Centre and UP govern-
ment. This event will be a major
New Delhi
Society rejects
irrelevant laws,
else will become
burden, says PM
Says1,500archaiclawsrepealedin8yrs
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 15
WHENTRADITIONSturnintoor-
thodoxy,itbecomesaburdenon
the society, Prime Minister
NarendraModisaidonSaturday.
“Our society keeps on weed-
ing out irrelevant laws and
wrong customs. Otherwise,
whenanytraditionturnsintoor-
thodoxy, it turns out to be a bur-
den on society,” he said.
Addressing the inaugural
session of the two-day All-India
Conferenceof LawMinistersand
Law Secretaries in Gujarat, Modi
stressed that obsolete laws have
played a big role wherever it is
felt that the government has in-
terfered with the people.
“I often say that people
should not feel the absence of
government, and they should
not (even) feel the pressure of
government,” he said.
Modi said that more than
1,500 archaic laws have been re-
pealedinthelast eightyearsand
more than 32,000 compliances
have been reduced to ease legal
hurdles that obstruct the path of
innovation and ease of living. “In
this Azadi Ka Amrit Kal, new
laws shouldbemade byabolish-
inglaws thathaveenduredsince
the time of slavery,” he said.
The Prime Minister empha-
sised on finding solutions to en-
sure speedy justice. “I remem-
ber, when I was the chief
minister of Gujarat, we started
Crops damaged due
to unseasonal rain,
waiting for reports
from states: Tomar
12thinstalmentunderPM-KISANtobe
releasedduring2-dayfarmers’event
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 15
UNION AGRICULTURE Minister
Narendra Singh Tomar said on
Saturday that unseasonal rain in
several parts of the country af-
fected kharif crops and that the
Centre is waiting for reports
from states to assess the extent
of damage.
“Definitely, crops have been
damagedduetounseasonalrain.
A survey is underway, and we
are waiting for reports from the
states to assess the extent of
damage,” Tomar said at press
conference, adding that state
governments can use the State
Disaster Response Force (SDRF)
to provide support to farmers.
He also said that Prime
Minister Narendra Modi would
release Rs 16,000 crore under
the PM-KISAN scheme as the
12th instalment during the ‘PM
KisanSammanSammelan2022’
— a two-day event in New Delhi
that Modi is scheduled to inau-
gurate on Monday.
So far, the government has
platform for dialogue with the
community,” Kunwar Basit Ali,
president of UP BJP minority
wing, said.
He said Sunday's meeting
will be the first of several.
As per the break-up shared
by Ali, over 3 crore Pasmanda
Muslims in UP have got free ra-
tion, more than 1.25 lakh have
got benefits of the Ayushman
health card, 75 lakh have bene-
fited from PM-Kisan Samman
Nidhi, over 40 lakh have got free
electricity connections, 20 lakh
have got houses, etc.
Ali said: “We will deliberate
howtobringPasmandaMuslims
close to BJP ahead of the urban
local body elections and Lok
Sabha polls (in 2024). The party
will also give tickets to people
from the community in urban
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PM Narendra Modi
addresses the event via video
conferencing on Saturday. PTI
evening courts — the country's
first evening court was started
there (in Gujarat). In evening
courts, there were mostly cases
that werelessseriousintermsof
sections. People also used to
complete the judicial process by
coming to these courts after fin-
ishing work during the day.”
This, he noted, saved time
and led to speedy hearing of the
cases. “Due to evening courts,
more than 9 lakh cases have
been resolved in Gujarat in the
last (few) years,” he added.
Addressing law ministers
from different states, Modi said
ensuring clarity in law is crucial
to people accessing justice.
“No matter how good the
motive may be, if there is con-
fusion in the law itself (and)
there is a lack of clarity, then
common citizens have to bear
the brunt of it in future,” he
said. “If law is comprehensible
to the common man, it will
have a different impact.”
Agriculture
Minister
Narendra
Singh
Tomar
transferred over Rs 2 lakh crore
to “eligible farmer families” un-
der PM-KISAN. “Of this, Rs 1.6
lakh crore has been transferred
during the Covid pandemic pe-
riod,” the Agriculture Ministry
said in a statement.
With the 12th instalment,
the ministry said, the total
amount transferred to benefici-
aries is expected to cross Rs 2.16
lakh crore.
The scheme was announced
in February 2019 in the Budget.
The first instalment was for
December2018-March2019pe-
riod. The fund is transferred di-
rectly to the bank accounts of
beneficiaries.
Tomar said the PM will also
inaugurate 600 PM Kisan
SamriddhiKendras,whichcome
under the Ministry of Chemicals
and Fertilizers.
local body polls.”
Elections to the urban local
bodies are likely by the end of
this year.
The BJP minority wing in UP
has identified over 44,000
polling booths across the state
with a significant population of
PasmandaMuslims, andthe tar-
get is to speak to at least a hun-
dredbeneficiariesfromthecom-
munity in each such booth.
According to a Pasmanda
leader, many castes have been
identified as part of the Muslim
communities which are so-
cially, educationally and eco-
nomically backward compared
to the rest. These include
Ansari, Mansoori, Kasgar,
Raeen, Gujar, Ghosi, Qureshi,
Idrisi, Naik, Faqeer, Saifi, Alvi
and Salmani, among others.
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(a) General English - 10
(a) Date of Birth Block. Candidate born between 31 Dec 1999 and 30 Jun 2005 (both days inclusive) are eligible to apply. (b) General Knowledge - 10
(b) In case, a candidate clears all the stages of the Selection Procedure, then the upper age limit as on date of enrolment should be 24. Documents Required for Verification During Selection Test at Exam Centre
23 years for enrolment cycle of 2022.
(a) Character certificate signed by Gazetted Officer / Panchayat Officer / Principal of school (if studied during last 01 year only)/
5. Marital Status. Only unmarried Indian male candidates are eligible for enrolment as Agniveervayu Non-Combatant in IAF. Candidates must Principal of College (if studying/studied during last 01 year), not older than 6 month and must have the office seal of the issuing officer.
undertake not to marry until completion of their ab-initio training. A candidate may be dismissed from service if he marries during ab-initio training or is (b) Original matriculation passing certificate (required for verification of candidate’s name, father’s name and his date of birth).
found to be already married in spite of giving an undertaking regarding the same.
(c) Original matriculation marks sheet.
Note 1: Candidate discharged from the IAF for any reason are not eligible to appear in the selection test.
6. Educational Qualification
Note-2: The original passing certificates/marks sheets shall not be retained by the Selection Centre. The same shall be returned to the
Candidates should have passed Matriculation / Equivalent examination from an Education Board listed as COBSE member. candidates on completion of detailed verification.
Note - Education Boards listed in Council of Boards for School Education (COBSE) website as members, as on date of
Note-3: Internet copy of mark-sheet not acceptable.
registration shall only be considered.
7. Mandatory Medical Standards. General Medical Standards for AGNIVEERVAYU NON-COMBATANT are as follows:- 25. Physical Fitness Criteria. 1.6 Km run to be completed within 6 minutes 30 seconds. Candidates will also have to complete
10 push-ups, 10 sit-ups and 20 squats within stipulated time as per the following:-
(a) Height: Minimum acceptable height is 152.5 cms
(b) Chest: Minimum range of expansion: 5 cm Test Max Time Period Remarks
(c) Weight: Proportionate to height and age. 10 Push-ups 01 Minute Test will be conducted after 10 minutes break on completion of run
(d) Corneal Surgery (PRK/LASIK) is not acceptable. Vision requirements as applicable as per Indian Air Force standards. 10 Sit-ups 01 Minute Test will be conducted after 02 minutes break on completion of 10 Push-ups
(e) Hearing: Candidate should have normal hearing i.e. able to hear forced whisper from a distance of 6 meters with each ear
20 Squats 01 Minute Test will be conducted after 02 minutes break on completion of 10 Sit-ups
separately.
(f) Dental: Should have healthy gums, good set of teeth and minimum 14 dental points.
Note: Candidates are advised to bring their sports shoes and shorts/track pants.
(g) General Health: Candidate should be of normal anatomy without loss of any appendages. He should be free from any active or latent,
acute or chronic, medical or surgical disability or infection and skin ailments. Candidate shall be physically and mentally FIT to perform duty in any 26. Candidates shall sign a consent form prior to appearing in physical fitness test/medical test for selection in IAF. He shall appear in these
part of the world, in any climate and terrain. tests at his own risk and shall not be paid any compensation by IAF for injury/casualty if any, sustained by him during such tests. The consent
form shall be signed by parents/guardian of candidates below 18 years of age.
8. Consumption of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substance (NDPS). Consumption of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic substances banned
under the NDPS Act 1985 shall be a reject criteria for selection into the IAF and AGNIVEERVAYU NON-COMBATANT found either in possession or 27. Medical Examination. Candidates who qualify initial screening test shall be medically examined at designated place. Medical
storing or distributing or consuming such drugs and substances after enrolment shall be liable for disciplinary action including dismissal from the IAF. examination shall be conducted by Air Force Medical Team as per IAF medical standards and policy in vogue on subject issue. Medical
ZERO TOLERANCE POLICY TO ALCOHOLISM AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE IS FOLLOWED IN IAF. examination would also include Baseline Investigation of:-
9. Body Tattoo. Permanent body tattoos shall not be permitted, however, tattoos only on inner face of the fore arms (inside of elbow to the wrist), (a)
[
Blood Haemogram - Hb, TLC, DLC .
back (dorsal) part of the hand/reverse side of palm and for Tribal tattoos which are as per custom and traditions of their tribes may be considered. (b) Urine RE/ME.
However, right to decide on acceptability/unacceptability of the individual shall rest with the Selection Centre. Candidates with permanent body tattoos (c) Biochemistry :-
shall submit two photographs (close up and distant view) with details of size and type of the Tattoo, during the second phase of Selection Test. (i) Blood Sugar Fasting & PP.
(ii) Serum Cholesterol.
10. Only Sikh candidates, whose religion prohibits cutting of the hair or shaving of face, shall be permitted to grow hair and/or retain beard and (iii) Urea, Uric acid, Creatinine.
moustache. Accordingly, those Sikh candidates willing to retain the same as per laid down specification are to get their photographs with beard and (iv) LFT- Serum Bilurubin, SGOT, SGPT .
moustache. Such candidates will not be permitted to shave beard/moustache at later stage after enrolment. (d) X- Ray chest (PA view) .
(e) ECG (R).
TERMS AND CONDITIONS (f) Any other test necessary in the opinion of the Medical Officer.
11. AGNIVEERVAYU NON-COMBATANT will be enrolled in the Indian Air Force under Air Force Act 1950, for a period of four years. 28. The recruitment medical officer and the specialist doctors of Armed Forces are the final authorities on declaring a candidate fit or unfit
AGNIVEERVAYU NON-COMBATANT would form a distinct rank in the Indian Air Force, different from any other existing ranks. Indian Air Force is not during initial medical examination, appeal medical board and medical examination prior to enrolment. The candidates shall be governed by
obliged to retain AGNIVEERVAYU NON-COMBATANT beyond the engagement period of four years. Armed Forces standards which may be at variance from civil standards. There is no provision for representation or review after the declaration of
unfit by medical authority.
12. On completion of four years of service, based on organisation’s requirements and policies promulgated by the Indian Air Force,
AGNIVEERVAYU NON-COMBATANT will be offered an opportunity to apply for permanent enrolment in the Indian Air Force as NC(E). These applications Note. Candidates are advised to get tartar and stains removed from their teeth before appearing for the Medical Examination. Ears
will be considered in a centralised manner based on objective criteria including performance during their four year engagement period and up to 25% of should be free of wax. Candidates should be prepared to stay for the medical test for four to five days under their own arrangement. No
each specific batch of AGNIVEERVAYU NON-COMBATANT will be enrolled in regular cadre of IAF. AGNIVEERVAYU NON-COMBATANT will not have TA/DA shall be admissible. Candidates using corrective glasses must be in possession of prescription from ophthalmologist bearing
any right to be selected for further enrolment into the Indian Air Force. Selection of the AGNIVEERVAYU NON-COMBATANT for further stamp and registration number and it should not be more than one month old. Passing in the medical examination is not a guarantee for
enrolment, if any, shall be at the discretion of the Government. employment in Indian Air Force.
13. Employability. Agniveervayu Non-Combatant enrolled under this entry are liable to be assigned specific duty in organisational interest, at the General.
discretion of the Indian Air Force. He will be deployed on the jobs related to the following:-
29. General instructions for candidates are as follows:-
(a) Hospitality Stream. In this stream the individual will be required to undertake all activities associated with cooking, kitchen
(a) Candidates not reporting for the test on due date and time shall not be accommodated on other dates/shifts.
management, presentation of dishes and serving them, maintain sanitized and orderly environment in the kitchen, safe storage of food and other
(b) Duplicate / Incomplete / erroneously filled applications shall be rejected.
items , handling of crockery, cutlery, refrigeration etc., laying of tables / chairs and serving of food, water etc.
(c) Candidates should be prepared to stay for the entire duration of the tests under their own arrangement. No TA/DA shall
(b) Housekeeping Stream. In this stream the individual will be responsible for cleaning of floors/roads/rooms/bathroom/commodes/urinals be admissible.
etc., making of brooms, grass/ hedge cutting, ground leveling/ digging of trenches, watering of garden, washing of utensils/ clothes, filling & (d) Mobile phones / smart watches / electronic gadgets shall not be permitted in the examination hall.
carrying of water, handling of office equipment, hair cutting, shaving, head massage, ironing clothes, stitching of leather items/sole making/ repair
knowledge/uses of mochi tools, shoe polishing, cutting/stitching/alteration/darning of garments and making ribbons, badges etc. 30. COVID-19 Instructions for Candidates appearing for Selection Test.
14. Training. On being enrolled, Agniveervayu Non-Combatant will be imparted specific job training as per allotted stream based on Indian Air Force (a) Given the risk of COVID-19, candidates are advised to follow all instructions / guidelines issued by Central/State Governments
requirements. from time to time.
(b) At the entrance any candidate showing symptoms of Influenza Like Illness (ILI), will not be allowed for the test considering the
15. Leave. Grant of leave will be subject to exigencies of Indian Air Force. The following leave is applicable for Agniveervayu Non-Combatant during safety of other persons.
their engagement period:-
31. If there is any variation between English & Hindi/any other regional language versions of the advertisement, English version shall be
(a) Annual Leave. 30 days per year. taken as authentic.
(b) Sick Leave. Based on medical advice. HOW TO APPLY
16. Pay, Allowances and Allied Benefits. Agniveervayu Non-Combatant enrolled under this Scheme will be paid an Agniveer package of 32. Application as per attached format duly filled in all respect to be forwarded to any one address as indicated at Para 2 above. A
Rs. 30,000/- per month with a fixed yearly increment. In addition, Risk and Hardship allowances (as applicable in IAF), Dress and Travel allowances will be self-addressed envelope with Rs 10 stamp affixed should be forwarded along with application for dispatch of admit card for written
paid. examination.
17. Terminal Benefits - Seva Nidhi Package. Agniveervayu Non-Combatant will be given one time ‘Seva Nidhi’ package comprising their monthly
33. ENROLMENT LIST / CALL LETTER. List of candidates finally called for enrolment in AGNIVEERVAYU NON-COMBATANT
contribution along with matching contribution by the Government on completion of their engagement period, as follows:-
INTAKE 01/2022 will be published at CASB/AFRO/AFND/AFCME/AFCAO. Call letter to the finally selected candidates will be forwarded by
postal mail.

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APPLICATION FORM CONSENT CERTIFICATE BY PARENT / LEGAL GUARDIAN
(TO BE FILLED IN CAPITALS) (FOR CANDIDATES BELOW 18 YEARS OF AGE)

Registration No. _________________ Roll No. __________ Stream applied for _______________________ I, _________________________ hereby give my open consent for my son/dependent __________________________ to undergo the physical test
(To be filled by CASB/AFND/AFRO/AFCAO/AFCME) Paste one
Self-attested for selection of Agniveervayu Non-Combatant at his own risk. In case my son/dependent sustains any type of injury during the process of test, I shall
Passport size not claim any damages or treatment from the IAF.
1. (a) Name of the applicant ______________________________ (As per Matriculation Certificate)
photograph
(b) Aadhar Card No. _________________________________
(Candidate should enter Aadhar number. Candidates from J&K, Assam and Meghalaya are exempted for the same)
2. (a) Father’s Name ______________________________ (As per Matriculation Certificate) Sign of Candidate Signature of applicant’s
(b) Father’s Profession ______________________________ Parent/Legal Guardian
(c) Mother’s Name ______________________________ Date: Date:

3. Date of Birth __________________________ (As per Matriculation Certificate) Age as on date of application ____________(Years and —————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————
months) (Attach copy of Xth Pass Certificate for proof)
4. Nationality: _________________________ CONSENT CERTIFICATE BY CANDIDATE
(FOR CANDIDATES ABOVE 18 YEARS OF AGE)
5. Marital status : Married / Unmarried
6. Body Tattoo (any parts of body): _____________ (Yes / No) I, __________________________ hereby give my open consent to undergo the physical test for selection of Agniveervayu Non-Combatant at my
own risk. In case I sustain any type of injury during the process of test, I shall not claim any damage or treatment from the IAF.
7. Address for correspondence : _______________________________
_______________________________
_______________________________
Email ID ________________________ Date: Signature of Candidate
Mob No. ________________________
8. Permanent Address : _______________________________ —————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————--
_______________________________
_______________________________ CERTIFICATE BY CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER / SENIOR ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER
(OPTIONAL)
9. Educational Qualification

Board / University Certificate No. It is certified that Shri ___________________________________________________ S/O Shri _____________________________
X Stn / Unit Registration No. ______________ is working in _______________ (NPFs/Messes/Other AF Ventures) since ___________ years and
__________ months as ___________________
XII

Date : Chief Administrative Officer / Senior Administrative Officer

10. Language(s) you can read and write (a) ___________________________
(b) ___________________________ Place : Unit
11. Details of past service _____________________________________ —————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————--
12. Present Occupation : (if any) ______________________________
ADMIT CARD
13. Is your father deceased/ retired/ serving AF Person? (Airman/ NC(E)/ Civilian) If so, enclose copy of certificate from Adjt/ O I/C Civil Admin/
Discharge Certificate/ pension orders.
14. Experience, if any, in the stream applied for ______________________(Year and months) Stream applied for : ……………………………………………………
Paste a self
(Attach the copy of certificate as proof). 1. Name ………………………………………………………… attested
photograph
2. Aadhar Card No…………………………………………….
Date: Signature of applicant (Candidate should enter Aadhar number. Candidates from J&K, Assam and Meghalaya are exempted for the same)
3. Father’s Name……………………………………………….
CERTIFICATE BY APPLICANT 4. Address for correspondence (to be filled same as per column 7 of application form)
House No. ………………………………………………………………………………….
Certified that: Street/Village ………………………………………………………………………………
Post Office ……………………………………… Distt ………………………………….
(a) The information given above is true to the best of my knowledge.
State ……………………. …………. PIN Code …………………………….
(b) I am willing to be posted to anywhere in India to perform duties as per stream allotted to me. 5. Registration No. ………….……. Date and time of Written / PFT / Stream Proficiency Test …………………………………………………………

(c) I am willing/unwilling to change my stream for which I have applied for. 6. Venue of Written / PFT / Stream Proficiency Test ………………………………………………………………………………………………………...

(d) I am aware that if the certificates submitted by me are found to be fake, the necessary disciplinary action for fraudulent enrolment Unit Stamp
would be initiated against me.
Date : Signature of Presiding Officer of the BOO
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(a) Certificate of date of birth Xth pass certificate Yes / No CANDIDATES FOUND INDULGING IN ANY TYPE OF MALPRACTICES / UNFAIR MEANS DURING THE EXAMINATION SHALL BE
DEBARRED PERMANENTLY
(b) Certificate of experience Yes / No

(c) Character Certificate (Not older than six months) Yes / No THE DATA ENTERED IN APPLICATION FORM WILL BE TREATED AS FINAL AND NO CHANGES WILL BE PERMITTED LATER.
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THE SUNDAY EXPRESS, OCTOBER 16, 2022
BRIEFLY
UTTARPRADESH
Mahobamurder:
AbscondingIPS
officergivesin
Lucknow:A2014batchIPS
officer, Mani Lal Patidar,
whohadbeenevadingar-
restfornearlytwoyearsin
connectionwiththedeath
of a Mahoba-based busi-
nessmanandisalsofacing
corruption charges, sur-
rendered before a local
court in Lucknow on
Saturday. He was sus-
pended from service in
September, 2020. He
claimed he had been
“falsely implicated”. ENS
WESTBENGAL
Schooljobs
scam:EDraids
inKolkata
Kolkata: ED officers on
Saturday conducted raids
at various places across
Kolkata as part of their in-
vestigationintothealleged
teachers’ recruitment
scam. The central probe
agency also raided an of-
ficeofarelativeofarrested
TMC MLA and former
West Bengal Primary
Education chairman
ManikBhattacharyainSalt
Lake area. ENS
PUNJAB
Mobattacks
twocopsin
Kapurthala
Kapurthala: Two police
personnel were allegedly
attacked by a mob in
Punjab’s Kapurthala dis-
trict on Saturday a man
thrashed Constable
ParminderSinghforover-
taking his car. A mob of
around 20 people then
joined the man in attack-
ing the constable with
swordsandsticks.Another
constable Navdeep Singh,
who was passing by,
stopped to help his col-
league,buthewasalsoat-
tacked. PTI
ODISHA
Govttoabolish
contractual
hiringinstate
Bhubaneswar: Abolishing
contractualhiringforgov-
ernmentposts,OdishaCM
Naveen Patnaik on
Saturday announced that
over 57,000 contract em-
ployeeswillberegularised.
Thedecision,forwhichthe
state government will in-
curRs1,300croreperyear,
was taken at a Cabinet
meeting on the eve of the
CM’s 76th birthday. PTI
GUJARAT
AmulGoldmilk
pricehikedby
Rs2perlitre
Surat: The Gujarat
Cooperative Milk
Marketing Federation has
decidedtohikeAmulmilk
prices by Rs 2 per litre for
allmarkets,exceptGujarat,
official sources said
Saturday. This is the third
hike in fresh milk prices
thiscalendaryear.Thehike
in prices is, however, re-
stricted to Amul Gold and
Buffalo Milk. ENS
Is Dravidian a purely Tamil identity? In TN churn, Governor now chucks a pebble
ARUN JANARDHANAN
CHENNAI, OCTOBER 15
WITH ASSERTIVE BJP Hindu na-
tionalism on one side and the
DMK's linguistic/regional poli-
ticsontheother,thecontroversy
over the 'Dravidian' identity of
Tamil Nadu continues. A few
days ago, Governor R N Ravi,
who has done his bit to keep the
fires burning, added a new di-
mension to it, raising the ques-
tion 'Who is a Dravidian?'.
Does it only mean the people
of Tamil Nadu , or does it also in-
cludeAndhraPradesh,Telangana,
Karnataka and Kerala?
Speaking at the inaugural of a
Moving scene: UP exam candidates
choke railway stations, bus stands
ASAD REHMAN
LUCKNOW, OCTOBER 15
CHAOSPREVAILEDatrailwaysta-
tions andbus stands across Uttar
Pradesh on Friday and Saturday
as lakhs of candidates criss-
crossed different cities to reach
the centres allocated to them for
the Uttar Pradesh Preliminary
Eligibility Test (UPPET).
The examination gives can-
didates a score to apply for
'Group C' state government jobs.
Atotalof37.58lakhcandidates
had registered for the examina-
tionbeingconductedbytheUttar
Pradesh Subordinate Services
Selection Commission (UPSSSC).
Theexamwasslottedinfourshifts
– two each on Saturday and
Sunday — from 10am to 12 noon,
and3pmto5pm.Roughly,nearly
9 lakh candidates were to appear
in each shift in 1,899 centres
acrossthestate.Inthefirstshifton
Saturday, the attendance was
recorded at 66 per cent, while in
the second shift, 67 per cent can-
didates appeared, it is learnt.
Images and videos on social
media showed huge crowds in
trains and buses across the state,
with candidates struggling to
reach their centres on time.
The Indian Express spoke to
SYMPHONIC TRIBUTE TO SOLDIERS
Tri-Service Band performs during ‘Ek Shaam Desh Ke Naam’ programme organised to pay
tribute to the fallen heroes, in New Delhi on Saturday. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and
Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan attended the event. Praveen Khanna
Musical chairs in Telangana, as leaders
GYANVAPI CASE
Mosque panel moves
shift loyalties ahead of Assembly bypoll
HC, challenges order
of Varanasi dist court
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
LUCKNOW, OCTOBER 15
THECOMMITTEEofManagement
Anjuman Intezamia Masjid
VaranasihasmovedtheAllahabad
High Court and challenged last
month’sVaranasidistrictcourtor-
derunderliningthatHindugroups
arenotbarredbythe1991Placesof
Worship Act and stated that suits
seekingtherighttoworshipinside
the Gyanvapi mosque are main-
tainable.
The court was hearing civil
suits filed by five Hindu women
seeking the right to worship the
deity,MaaShringarGauri,within
the Gyanvapi mosque complex.
two-dayprogrammeon'EkBharat
Shreshtha Bharat -- Connecting
India' series on October 10, the
Tamil Nadu Governor said the
Dravidian identity had been
adoptedasapurelyTamilidentity
becauseof “politicsof division”.
With enough tension be-
tween its government and Ravi,
theDMKimmediatelyshotback,
with party leaders calling him
“an RSS man occupying space at
the Tamil Nadu Raj Bhavan”.
As much a claimant of
DravidianpoliticsastheDMK,the
AIADMK – which is riding on BJP
shouldersinthestate–sprangto
Ravi'sdefence.TheGovernorwas
right, AIADMK leaders said, and
the Dravidian concept was actu-
UPSSSC PET candidates outside Kanpur Central railway station on Friday night. PTI
severalcandidateswhoappeared
for the examination on Saturday
andthosewhoweretoappearfor
the examination on Sunday.
Deepak Yadav (22), a resident
ofGhazipurwhotooktheexamon
Saturday, said he couldn't board
severaltrainstoreachhiscentrein
Prayagraj. “I had to miss multiple
trains to Prayagraj which is more
than200kmfrommyhome.Iwas
travelling in a group of 15 candi-
dates from my village. Finally, I
somehow managed to get on the
Ganga-Kaveri Express. It was
In its September 12 order, the
court dismissed the challenge to
the civil suits by the Anjuman
IntezamiaMasjidCommittee.The
committee’s lawyer SFA Naqvi
said, “A petition has been filed in
the Allahabad HC against the
September12orderofthedistrict
judge,Varanasi.Thecourtislikely
totakeupthecaseonMonday.”
The district judge of Varanasi
said according to the plaintiffs,
even after August 15, 1947, they
were worshipping Maa Sringar
Gauri, Lord Ganesh and Lord
Hanumandailyupto1993.“Ifthis
contentionisproved,thesuitisnot
barredbySection4ofthePlacesof
Worship (Special Provisions) Act,
1991,”theordersaid.
allyageographicalconstruct,cov-
ering the five southern states.
In his address at the Raj
Bhavan, Ravi said "one must un-
derstand Bharat" to understand
the nation in totality, and re-
ferred to India's thousands of
yearsof civilisationandpride.He
blamedBritainfordividingIndia
along political lines, and said
while Dravidian originally
meant the southern states, "to-
day it's a Tamil identity".
As per historians, like all de-
bates where politics gets into
matters of fact, there is some
truth on both sides.
The origin of 'Dravidian' or
'Dravidar' can be broken down
into two aspects, spatial and lin-
packedwithcandidatesandthere
was just enough space to stand. It
wasthetoughestjourney...thisex-
amination was important,” said
Yadav, who has completed his BA
from the Veer Bahadur Singh
PurvanchalUniversity.
Manish Singh (23), who has
done his BA from Lucknow
University and a native of Mau,
saidhewasconsideringtoskipthe
exam on Sunday. “My exam is on
Sunday in Kushinagar. After see-
ing the images of overcrowded
trains and buses, I am thinking of
SREENIVAS JANYALA
HYDERABAD, OCTOBER 15
POLITICAL LOYALTIES in
Telanganaarebeingtestedasthe
bypoll in Munugode assembly
constituency nears and parties
turn on the heat. Ward, Mandal
and district-level leaders of vari-
ouspartiesareshiftingtheirsup-
port,dependingonwhotheyfeel
candominateintheconstituency.
The bypoll has been necessi-
tated after sitting Congress MLA
Komatireddy Raj Gopal Reddy
resigned on August 2. Raj Gopal
Reddy joined the BJP on August
21 and Union Home Minister
Amit Shah has nominated him
to contest the bypoll.
On Saturday, both TRS and
Congress in the Munugode con-
stituency were hit by fresh resig-
nations. Former TRS MP from
MEANWHILE,ANTI-HINDISTIRON:DMKyouthwingsecretary
UdhayanidhiStalinataprotestinChennaionSaturdayagainst
makingHindithemediumof instructionininstitutes. PTI
skipping it. There is also floodlike
situationinKushinagar,andImay
not be able to reach the centre on
time,” he said.
AniketYadav(21)of Varanasi
said he somehow reached
Prayagraj to write the exam. “I
had a ticket, but there was no
spaceeventostepontothetrain.
Then I bought a bus ticket … and
somehowreachedPrayagrajand
appeared in the exam in the
evening shift on Saturday. It was
a challenging task. I saw people
cryingbecausetheycouldn’tfind
‘CORRUPTION’ DURING PANDEMIC
Kerala Lok Ayukta issues notice
to ex-health minister, 7 others
Focuswasonsavinglives,CMawareof alldecisions: Shailaja
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM,
OCTOBER 15
THE KERALA Lok Ayukta has is-
sued a notice to former Health
Minister K K Shailaja and seven
others,includingIASofficersand
privatefirms,inconnectionwith
allegedcorruptioninpurchaseof
PPEkitsandothersurgicalequip-
mentduringCovid-19pandemic.
The anti-corruption body on
Friday issued notice based on a
complaintfiledbyCongressleader
Veena S Nair, who had arraigned
13 persons as respondents in her
complaint. Notice was not served
to five others, mainly IAS officers,
as they had entered appearance
throughcounsel.Shailajaandoth-
ersweretoldtoappearbeforethe
LokAyuktaonDecember9.
Bhongir,DrBooraNarasaiahGoud,
resigned from the party and is all
set to join the BJP. Goud was
electedTRSMPin2014butin2019
he lost to Komatireddy Venkat
Reddy of Congress, elder brother
of BJP’s Munugode candidate
KomatireddyRajGopalReddy.The
Munugode assembly segment is
partoftheBhongirparliamentary
constituency, and while BJP lead-
ersclaimeditwasabigjolttoTRS,
thelatterclaimsGoud,agastroin-
testinal surgeon who took part in
theTelanganaagitation,isaspent
force who stopped attending TRS
party activities after his loss in
2019, and was waiting to jump to
anyotherparty.
In another development on
Saturday,formerCongressleaders
from Chandur Mandal in
Munugode, PalleRavi Kumar and
hiswifeP.Kalyani--joinedtheTRS.
They were welcomed by state IT
transportation,” said Aniket.
Kritik Raj Singh, a student of
Masters in Social Work at
Lucknow University, saidhe was
dreading the journey from
LucknowtoVaranasionSaturday
night.“Iwillgototherailwaysta-
tion at night and see the situa-
tion.IhavetotravelsoIwillgoby
busortrain...Iwillgetontowhat-
ever is available,” he said.
UPSSSC Chairman Pravir
Kumar said, “From our end, we
hadsharedthemovementplanof
candidateswiththeRailwaysand
UP State Road Transport
Corporation(UPSRTC)twoweeks
ago. The UPSRTC has deployed
6,500buses.Wehadalsoaskedthe
different zonal heads of Railways
toattachextracoachesintrains.”
Asked why candidates were
not given centres in their home
districts,anofficialsaid,“Therules
of the UPSSC say candidates
should not be given centres in
their home districts. This is done
tomaintainsecrecyandfairness.”
The official said only physi-
callydisabledareallottedcentres
in their home districts. The visu-
alsonsocialmediaalsoattracted
reactions from BJP MP Varun
Gandhi and Congress general
secretaryPriyankaGandhiVadra,
slamming the government for
the alleged mismanagement.
Former
Kerala
Health
Minister
K K Shailaja
Respondingtotheallegations,
Shailaja said the decision to buy
PPEkitsatahigherratewastaken
with the knowledge of Chief
MinisterPinarayiVijayan.“Kerala
MedicalServicesCorporationLtd
(KMSCL) informed us that the
stock of PPE kits is going down. If
we don’t stock enough kits, the
lives of health workers would be
in danger. Suppliers had raised
the price from Rs 500 to Rs 1,500
perkitastherewasshortage.Ihad
thenconsultedtheCM,whosaid
weshouldbuykitsirrespectiveof
the higher price. He was of the
MinisterK.T.RamaRao,whoisone
of the in-charges in Chandur
Mandal, and is camping there.
WhileRaviKumar’swifeP.Kalyani
is a sitting Mandal Praja Parishad
(MPP)memberfromChandur,he
washopingtobenominatedasthe
Congress candidate for the
Munugode bypoll. Although Ravi
Kumar expressed his displeasure
when the Congress nominated
PalvaiSravanthiReddy,thedaugh-
ter of former MLA and ex- Rajya
Sabha MP Palvai Govardhan
Reddy,heandhiswifeattendeda
rally of Palvai Sravanthi, held at
their home turf Chandur.
Meanwhile, TRS offered the dis-
gruntled couple an opening and
they joined. While Minister K.T.
RamaRao,sonofChiefMinisterK.
Chandrashekar Rao, welcomed
themintotheparty,RaviKumar’s
brother P. Vinod is contesting on
behalf of Telangana Jana Samithi,
guistic, says a history and arche-
ologyprofessorwhohasdoneex-
tensive studies on Tamil Nadu's
ancient past, and who doesn't
want to be quoted to avoid being
drawn into the political row. The
word Dravida is not originally
TamilbutderivedfromPrakrit,the
ancientlanguageofIndiathatwas
later refined to Sanskrit, which in
turn became the language of the
upper castes and the palace.
Severalstudiesandbooks,in-
cluding Dravidian Theories by R
Swaminatha Aiyar, which talk
about the origin of the word
'Dravidar' talk about how it is a
distortion of the word 'Tamila',
after becoming gradually
‘Damila,’ Damela’ and ‘Dameda'.
New Delhi
POLLUTED WATER LIKELY CAUSE
NEET aspirant dies
of liver infection in
Kota, many unwell
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
JAIPUR, OCTOBER 15
AN 18-YEAR-OLD NEET aspirant
diagnosed with Hepatitis A died
duringtreatmentataprivatehos-
pital in Kota, an official said on
Saturday. The likely cause of
deathissuspectedtobeintakeof
contaminatedwater,saidofficials.
The district administration
said a total of 41 students had to
behospitalisedaftertheyshowed
similar symptoms.
“As per our records, 41 stu-
dents from the Allen coaching
center were diagnosed with liver
ailmentduetocontaminatedwa-
ter.Oneofthestudentsdiedwhile
sixarepresentlyadmittedinthree
privatehospitals.Theresthavere-
coveredandsenthome.Thewater
that was supplied to the institute
through private tankers was in-
fected and we found the boring,
which was the source of the
tanker, to be contaminated too,”
said Dr Jagdish Soni, Kota chief
medical and health officer.
Soni added that a student,
Vaibhav Roy, died on October 13
while he was undergoing treat-
ment at a private hospital. “Roy
was admitted to hospital on
opinion that the lives of people
aremoreimportant.After15,000
kits purchased at Rs 1,500 per kit
were supplied, the prices came
down and we cancelled the first
order for 50,000 kits,’’ she said in
Kuwait,whereshewasattending
a public programme.
After perusing into the main-
tainability of the complaint, the
LokAyuktasaid:“Wearesatisfied
that this complaint has to be ad-
mitted and an investigation
shouldbecommencedunderthe
Kerala Lok Ayukta Act without
prejudice to the right of the re-
spondentstoraiseallcontentions,
including the question of main-
tainability of the complaint, dur-
ing the course of investigation.”
Thecomplainantallegedthat
corruption and malpractices at
KMSCL caused around Rs 1,600
crorelosstothepublicexchequer.
which has been floated by
Convenor of the Telangana Joint
Action Committee (TJAC) M.
Kodandaram, who had led the
Telanganaagitation.
While the last date for with-
drawalofnominationsinOctober
17, at least 130 candidates have
filed nominations. Some of the
candidates are from BSP.
Many former students of
Osmania University, Kakatiya
University,andothereducational
institutions, who participated in
the Telangana movement, are
contesting. An official said apart
fromthethreemainparties—BJP,
TRS,andCongress—allothersare
mostly Independent candidates
who had participated in the
Telangana agitation. The ruling
TRS has fielded K. Prabhakar
Reddy, who had lost to
KomatireddyRajGopalReddyin
December 2018 assembly polls.
Incidentally, while all the ear-
liestinscriptionsfromAfghanistan
to Bangladesh to Sri Lanka and
IndiaareinPrakrit,TamilNadure-
mainsanexception--notasingle
Prakritinscriptionhasbeenfound
in the state. On the contrary,
Prakrit inscriptions from the 3rd
Century BC can be found in
Karnataka and Andhra regions.
At thesame time, the earliest
evidence of Tamil language goes
back to 600 BC, while the earli-
est evidence for Telugu and
Kannada languages is only from
the 6th Century AD.
Linguistically,thismanifestsin
the fact that many special letters
available in Tamil are not present
inotherlanguagesoroffshootsof
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October5andhediedofHepatitis
A later. In Hepatitis A, infection
reaches the brain, which can re-
sultindeath.Wehadcollected18
blood samples from the patients,
out of which 11 had Hepatitis A
and one was diagnosed with
Hepatitis E. We also collected 95
watersamplesandithasbeenes-
tablishedthatstudentsfellilldue
tocontaminatedwater,”saidSoni.
Roy was a resident of Kaithun
near Kota, who was staying at a
hosteltoprepareforNEET,saidhis
family. “On October 3, I took my
sonto see Durga puja.At thetime
hewashealthy.Laterthatnight,af-
terhereachedhishostel,hecom-
plained of a burning sensation
whilepassingurine.Thereafterhe
wasadmittedtoaprivatehospital
on October 5. Until then, he was
able to speak. But later his condi-
tiondeteriorated.OnOctober7,he
was put on a ventilator. Later his
brain stopped functioning and he
died,”saidhisfatherSunilRoy.
The administration said the
tankers that supplied water have
been stopped. “The contamina-
tion was found in water from
Balaji Nagar area. We have also
changedtheRO,”saidBrijMohan
Bairwa,Additionaldistrictmagis-
trate, Kota City.
NHRC notice
to Kerala govt,
seeks report
on ‘human
sacrifice’ case
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 15
THE NATIONAL Human Rights
Commission(NHRC)onSaturday
issued notice to the Kerala gov-
ernment over reports that two
women were killed in what has
emerged as alleged cases of hu-
man sacrifice, allegedly done on
thesuperstitiousbelief thatitwill
bring good luck and fortune.
TheCommission,whichtook
suo motu cognizance of a media
report, underlined that “the
state, being the guardian of its
citizens, is responsible for their
safety and cannot escape its lia-
bility to protect them from such
evil practices”.It has soughta re-
port within four weeks from
Kerala's Chief Secretary and
Director General of Police on the
status of investigation.
An official communication
said the NHRC had “taken suo
motucognizanceofamediareport
thattwoKeralawomen,reported
missing three months apart, be-
camethevictimsof humansacri-
ficeinabizarreritualorchestrated
by a self-styled voodoo man pro-
fessingtobringlucktoacouplefac-
ingfinancialproblem.Bothvictims
wereboundbyacommonprofes-
sionof sellinglotterytickets.”
The NHRC observed that
such incidents cannot be ex-
pected in a civilisedsociety. “The
Right to Life of both the victims
has been grossly violated,” it
added. Accordingly, the NHRC
“has issued notices to the Chief
Secretary and the DGP, Kerala,
calling for a report in the matter
within 4 weeks, including status
of the investigation of the case
andcompensation,if any,paidto
the families of the victim,” the
communication stated.
The Commission said the
missing report about one of the
victims was “filed way back” on
June 6 this year, and the other on
September 26.
Sanskrit, and correspondingly,
many letters like 'ga' present in
Sanskrit do not exist in Tamil.
The professor quoted above
says there are signs that people
lived near the Chennai region as
farbackasabout15lakhyearsago.
"They most certainly spoke a
language. There is a lot of evi-
dence that Tamil,Kannada, Tulu,
andTeluguallsplitoff fromasin-
glelanguagebefore1000BC.We
don't know when it happened,
though,” says the expert, while
warning against concluding that
KannadaandTelugucamemuch
after Tamil, as evidence regard-
ing it may have simply not been
found yet. FULLREPORTON
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THE SUNDAY EXPRESS, OCTOBER 16, 2022
India ranked 107 on hunger index;
govt says bid to taint country’s image
India trails Pak, Bangla; govt says proportion of undernourished based on opinion poll of only 3000
ESHA ROY
NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 15
INDIA HAS slipped six places and
ranked107,outof121countries,in
2022 Global Hunger Index (GHI),
releasedonSaturday,areportthat
the Centre called “misinforma-
tion”, and part of a “consistent ef-
fort’’to“taintIndia’simage”.
“Since 2000, India has made
substantial progress, but there
are still areas of concern, partic-
ularly regarding child nutrition,”
the report stated. “India’s GHI
scorehasdecreasedfromascore
of 38.8 points (in 2000) — con-
sidered alarming — to a 2022
GHI score of 29.1, considered se-
rious. India’s proportion of un-
dernourished in the population
is considered to be at medium
level, and its under-five child
mortality rate is considered low.
With a score of 29.1, the GHI
finds the level of hunger in India
“serious’’. The index says child
wasting—ortheshareofchildren
under 5 years who have low
weightfortheirheight,indicating
undernourishment — in country
is 19.3%, the highest in the world.
Reacting to the report, the
Union Ministry of Women and
Child Development stated: “A
consistenteffortisyetagainvisible
to taint India’s image as a nation
that does not fulfil the food secu-
rityandnutritionalrequirements
ofitspopulation.Misinformation
seemstobethehallmarkofannu-
allyreleasedGlobalHungerIndex.
The Global Hunger Report 2022
released by Concern Worldwide
and Welt Hunger Hilfe, NGOs
from Ireland and Germany re-
HC orders rape
case accused to
marry minor
victim, grants
him bail in UP
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
LUCKNOW, OCTOBER 15
THE ALLAHABAD High Court
granted bail to a man accused of
raping a minor girl and ordered
that he marry the girl after being
enlarged on bail within 15 days.
As per the allegations men-
tioned in the FIR, the victim (17)
was “enticed away” by the ac-
cused on the intervening night
of March22,2022andMarch23,
2022. The victim is 17 years old
and has delivered a girl child,
who is a month old. The accused
hasbeeninjailsinceApril10this
year, as per the FIR.
Without expressing any
opiniononthemeritsof thecase,
Justice Dinesh Kumar Singh
granted bail to the accused on
Monday.
The victim and her father
told the court that “they have
no objection if the accused-ap-
plicant is enlarged on bail” pro-
vided he marries girl in accor-
dance with the Hindu rites and
rituals and gets the marriage
registered.
Advocate Azmi Yusuf, who
was representing the accused,
submitted in court that the ac-
cused is ready to marry the vic-
tim.Yusuf alsotoldthecourtthat
“infact, they eloped to perform
themarriageastheywereinlove
and as soon as the accused-ap-
plicant comes out of the jail, he
will perform the marriage with
the prosecutrix and also get the
same registered”.
The accused was booked un-
der IPC sections 363 (kidnap-
ping), 366 (kidnapping, abduct-
ing or inducing woman to
compelhermarriage),376(rape)
andunderthePOCSOActatapo-
lice station in Lakhimpur Kheri
district.
The court said the accused
“will perform the marriage
within 15 days from the date of
release with the prosecutrix and
get the same registered before
the appropriate officer within a
period of one month from the
date of performing the mar-
riage”. “He will give all rights to
the prosecutrix and his child as
wife and daughter,” said the
court.
The court also directed the
accused to file “an undertaking
totheeffectthatheshallnotseek
any adjournment on the dates
fixedfor evidence when the wit-
nesses are present in court”.
“Incaseof defaultof thiscon-
dition, it shall be open for the
trial court to treat it as abuse of
liberty of bail and pass orders in
accordance with law,” said the
court.
FROMALARMINGTOSERIOUS:GHI;MISINFORMATION:GOVT
Index suffers from serious methodological issues: ministry
IN THE
NEIGHBOURHOOD
Sri Lanka 64
Nepal 81
Bangladesh 84
Pakistan 99 child stunting/wasting, and to
Afghanistan 109
GOVT HITS BACK
“Three out of four indicators
used for calculation of the
index are related to health of
children and cannot be
spectively,hasrankedIndiaat107
among 121 countries...”
Calling the report “discon-
nectedfromreality”,theministry
saiditchoosesto“deliberatelyig-
nore efforts made by the govern-
menttoensurefoodsecurity”dur-
ing the pandemic. It claimed the
Centreisrunning“largestfoodse-
curity programme in the world”.
According to the report, bar-
ring Afghanistan, India’s neigh-
bours such as Nepal, Bangladesh,
Jaishankar discusses bilateral ties, Wildlife board nod to Kedarnath ropeway project
Ukraine with Egyptian counterpart
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
CAIRO, OCTOBER 15
EXTERNAL AFFAIRS Minister S
Jaishankar on Saturday met his
Egyptian counterpart Sameh
Shoukry in Cairo and discussed
a range of issues including the
Ukraineconflict,Indo-Pacificand
exchangedviewsonboostingbi-
lateral ties and how to create a
more resilient global economy.
Jaishankar is in Egypt on a
two-day visit at the invitation of
hisEgyptiancounterpartShoukry.
“A warm and productive
meeting with FM Sameh
Shoukry of Egypt. Reflected our
deep-rooted ties as we mark 75
yearsof diplomaticrelationsthis
year,” he said in a tweet.
“As states active in shaping
global debates, discussed devel-
opments in our regions and ex-
changed views on the Ukraine
conflict and Indo-Pacific. A po-
larised world needs independ-
ent thinking and voices of rea-
son,” he said in another tweet.
Jaishankar said India and
Egypt's cooperation in multilat-
eral forums remains robust and
welcomed Egyptian participa-
tion in G20 next year and in
BRICS New Development Bank
and the Shanghai Cooperation
Organisation (SCO).
“Our political cooperation
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2015 GHI methodology
changed to include data on
standardise the values.
representative of the entire
population. The fourth and
most important indicator
estimate of Proportion of
Pakistan and Sri Lanka have got
higher ranking in GHI.
The report noted that while
child stunting has seen a “signifi-
cant decrease” — from 54.2% in
1998-1999to35.5%in2019-2021
—itisstill“consideredveryhigh”.
At 19.3%, according to latest data,
“Indiahasthehighestchildwast-
ingrateofallcountriescoveredin
GHI.Thisrateishigherthanitwas
in1998-1999,whenitwas17.1%.”
AlthoughIndia’sscorehasim-
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar pays homage to
Mahatma Gandhi at Al Horreya Park in Cairo, Saturday. PTI
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He said the two
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This change caused a
major shift in GHI scores,
and the GHI Severity Scale
was modified to reflect
this shift. In GHI reports
published since 2015,
almost all countries have
had much higher GHI
scores compared with
their scores in reports
published in 2014 and
earlier. This does not
necessarily mean their
hunger levels rose in 2015
— the higher scores merely
reflect the revision of the
methodology.”
GHI REPORT
Undernourished population
is based on an opinion poll
conducted on a very small
sample size of 3000.”
provedfrom2000(38.8)and2007
(36.3),itslippedsince2014,when
Indiascoredthelowestat28.2,and
wasrecordedat29.1thisyear.
Incidentally,theGHImethod-
ologywaschangedin2015“toin-
cludedataonchildstunting/wast-
ing,andtostandardisethevalues”,
and “since 2015, almost all coun-
tries have had much higher GHI
scores”, the report mentioned.
According to the report, child
wasting increased from 17.1% in
there have been discussions on
how to collaborate more closely
on the defence side,especially in
defence production.
The two ministers also dis-
cussed ways to increase air con-
nectivity and tourism.
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2000 to 20% in 2007; it dropped
to 15.1% in 2014 and then in-
creased to 19.3% in 2022.
Child stunting, however, has
shown a steady decline over the
pasttwodecades—from54.2%in
2000, to 47.8% in 2007, 38.7% in
2014, and 35.5% in 2022, the
biggestdroptakingplacebetween
2007 and 2014. Mortality rate for
childrenunder5yearshasalsore-
duced from 9.2% in 2000 to 3.3%
in 2022, the report shows.
Theproportionofundernour-
ishedinthecountryhas,however,
increasedsince2014,accordingto
GHI. From 18.4% in 2000 it
dropped to 17.5% in 2007 and
14.8% in 2014, to rise to 16.3% in
2022.Thereportsaid17countries
“with2022GHIscoresoflessthan
5 are not assigned individual
ranks, but rather are collectively
ranked 1-17”, as differences be-
tweentheirscoresare“minimal”.
These are: Belarus, Bosnia &
Herzegovina,Chile,China,Croatia,
Estonia, Hungary, Kuwait, Latvia,
Lithuania, North Macedonia,
Romania, Serbia, Slovakia,
Montenegro, Turkey, Uruguay.
Explaining why developed
countriesarenotpartoftheindex,
thereportnoted,“Inclusioninthe
GHI is determined based on
prevalenceofunder-nourishment
and child mortality data dating
back to 2000. Countries with val-
ues above the “very low” thresh-
old for one or both of these indi-
cators are included in GHI.
Specifically,countriesareincluded
if prevalence of undernourish-
ment was at or above 5.0 percent
and/or if the child mortality rate
wasatorabove1.0percentforany
year since 2000.”
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
DEHRADUN, OCTOBER 15
IN A bid to boost religious
tourism in Uttarakhand, the
National Board for Wildlife
(NBWL) has given its nod to the
development of a ropeway proj-
ect between Sonprayag to
Kedarnath shrine in
Rudraprayag district. This proj-
ect once completed will benefit
thousands of pilgrims who visit
theKedernath shrine everyyear.
According to the officials the
ropeway will significantly re-
duce the time taken by pilgrims
toreachtheKedarnathshrine.At
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KARNATAKA
Manwhoelopedwithgirl
held—firstarrestunder
newanti-conversionlaw
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
BENGALURU, OCTOBER 15
A YOUTH who eloped with a girl
has been arrested by the
Bengaluru police on charges of
converting her to another reli-
gion in violation of the newly in-
troduced state anti-conversion
law — the Karnataka Protection
of Right to Freedom of Religion
Act-2022.
Thecasefiled on October 8 at
theYeshwanthpurpolicestation
is the first under the newly en-
acted law that was notified by
the state government on
September 30.
Two separate cases — one of
suspected kidnapping, and an-
othe under the anti-conversion
law — have been registered
against Syed Muheen, 22, of
north Bengaluru who allegedly
eloped with his neighbour
Khushboo Yadav, 18, and con-
verted her to Islam to facilitate
their marriage.
Police arrested Muheen on
the basis of a complaint filed by
the girl's mother, Deputy
Commissioner of Police (North)
Vinayak Patil said.
MuheenandKhushboowere
neighbours in the B K Nagar area
of Yeshwanthpur and were see-
ing each other for nearly six
months. While Muheen worked
at a chicken centre in the local-
ity, Kushboo — one of four chil-
dren in the family of a painter
from UP — had dropped out of
present, pilgrims have to trek 16
kms from Gaurikund to the
shrine, which takes the whole
day, while the ropeway will en-
able them to travel from
Sonprayag to Kedarnath in just
an hour.
From May 8, when doors to
the Kedarnath Dham were
openedthisyear,over14.59 lakh
devoteeshavealreadyvisitedthe
shrine out of which over 1.3 lakh
devotees availed the helicopter
service.
Earlier this year, the
Uttarakhand government had
announced that work on the
ropeway project will start soon.
The Detailed Project Report
New Delhi
Gyanthidevi said in her com-
Family claims daughter plaint, seeking action against
converted without Muheen and others who facili-
tated the elopement. She also
following rules, which claimed that her daughter
say a report must be lacked the intelligence of other
girls and as a consequence took
given to the district the decision to run away.
commissioner The Karnataka Protection of
regarding any religious RighttoFreedomof ReligionAct-
2022 which was passed by the
conversion in advance Karnataka Legislative Assembly
school and was staying at home.
Initially, on October 6,
in December 2021 and the state
Legislative Council
September 16, 2022, was noti-
on
Khushboo's mother Gyantidevi fied on September 30 by the
Yadav filed a missing complaint state government.
for her daughter stating that she As per the law, “no person
is suspected to have eloped with shall convert or attempt to con-
Muheen. vert either directly or otherwise
On October 8, Muheen and any other person from one reli-
Khushboo appeared before the giontoanotherbyuseof misrep-
police, claiming that they had resentation, force, undue influ-
married. Gyanthidevi then filed ence, coercion, allurement or by
a second complaint under the anyfraudulentmeansorbymar-
Karnataka Protection of Right to riage, nor shall any person abet
Freedom of Religion Act-2022. or conspire for conversions”.
According to the complaint, The law says a marriage will
Khushboo was taken to a dargah have legal recognitiononly if the
near Penukonda in Andhra conversion is brought to the no-
Pradesh on October 5 and asked tice of a district magistrate 30
by Muheen to convert to Islam. days in advance or 30 days post-
After a ceremony at the dargah, conversion.
Khushboo was brought back to A jail term of three to five
BengalurubyMuheenbutnomar- years,andafineof Rs25,000,has
riagewassolemnised,shesaid. beenproposedforpeopleviolat-
“My daughter has been con- ing the law in the case of people
verted without following the from general categories, and a
rules which state that a report jail term of three to 10 years, and
must be given to the district a fine of Rs 50,000 for people
commissioner regarding any re- converting minors, women, and
ligiousconversiontofacilitatein- personsfromtheSCandSTcom-
ter-religious marriages,” munities.
(DPR) for the project has already
been prepared. The project for
the 13-kilometer-long ropeway
– which is the highest decision-
making body for clearing proj-
ects in wildlife reserves and pro-
is expected to cost around Rs
1,200 crore.
tected areas.
Given the nature of the proj-
The ropeway will be one of
the highest ropeways in the
ect, which needs to be carried
out in forest areas, environmen-
worldatanaltitudeof 11,500feet talists have been strongly op-
(3,500 m) above sea level. posed to such a move in the eco-
Under the project, around logicallyfragileregion.However,
26.43 hectares of forest land isto in its 70th standing committee
be transferred to the state gov- meeting, chaired by environ-
ernment.Theprojectwas earlier mentministerBhupenderYadav,
cleared by the State Wildlife the NBWL approved the pro-
Boardand was sentto the NBWL posal.
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MONEY LAUNDERING CASE
ED attaches Ireo Group’s
Rs 1,317-crore properties
MAHENDER SINGH
MANRAL
NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 15
THE ENFORCEMENT Directorate
(ED) has attached properties
wortharoundRs1,317crorelinked
to Ireo Group, which is alleged to
havesiphonedoffRs1,225croreof
homebuyers’ money and laun-
dered it using tax havens such as
BritishVirginIslands.
The attached properties in-
clude commercial spaces, resi-
dential premises, land and bank
accounts belonging to the com-
pany and its chairman-cum-
managingdirectorLalitGoyal,as-
sociated entities and key
managerial persons, the ED said
inastatement.Theagencyhadar-
rested Goyal from IGI Airport in
Novemberlastyearinconnection
withitsmoneylaunderingprobe.
“Investigation has revealed
that they duped the innocent
buyers by promising them to
deliver flats/plots/commercial
spaces, etc., however, they nei-
ther delivered the projects nor
returned their money.
Investigation has also revealed
that the directors of the com-
pany in connivance with others
siphoned off money collected
from buyers and did not use for
the intended purpose rather
sent money outside India,” the
ED said on Saturday.
OnJanuary14thisyear,theED
in its prosecution complaint
againstthefirmhadtoldaspecial
courtinPanchkula,Haryana,that
the customer receipts tothe tune
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vertedoutsideIndiaintheformof
redemption/purchase/transfer &
buy-back of shares/ FCDs, etc. in
violation of the FDI policy and
otherlaws.“Themodusoperandi
adopted by the group includes
routingoffundstoIndiafromvar-
ious entities based in tax havens
like British Virgin Islands,
Mauritius, recording of fictitious
expensesinthebooksofaccount,
writingoffprojectinprogress,in-
terest-free loans and advances to
sisterconcernsandroundtripping
offundsthroughshellcompanies
andcreationofassetsinIndiaand
abroad,” the ED had said.
In its statement after the
Goyal’s arrest, the ED had also
mentioned The Indian Express in-
vestigations into the Pandora
Papers,whichrevealedthatGoyal
hadmovedanestimated$77mil-
lion(Rs575croreapproximately)
intheformofinvestments,share-
holding and real estate, even as
home buyers and investors ran
frompillartopostfortheirmoney.
As per ED, it initiated the in-
vestigationbasedon30FIRsreg-
istered at police stations across
Gurgaon, Panchkula, Ludhiana,
Delhi against IREO Pvt Ltd, IREO
Fiveriver Pvt Ltd, Lalit Goyal and
others. According to revelations
made in The Indian Express’s
PandoraPapersprobe,Goyalhad
moved assets, investments, and
shareholdings, worth $77 mn to
an offshore trust structure,
whichincludedfourentitiesreg-
istered in British Virgin Islands
— much before the group got
into trouble.
Date: 6.10.2022
Sd/-
(Sandeep Chelawat)
Superintending Engineer
P.W.D. Circle Banswara
CBI chargesheet
against DHFL’s
ex-CMD, others
in loan fraud case
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 15
THE CENTRAL Bureau of
Investigation on Saturday filed a
chargesheeet against Dewan
Housing Finance Ltd (DHFL) for-
mer CMD Kapil Wadhawan, 17
other individuals, and 57 shell
companies in connection with a
Rs34,000-croreloanfraudcasein-
volvingaconsortiumof 17banks.
Initschargesheetfiledinaspe-
cial CBI court in Delhi, the agency
has named then DHFL director
Dheeraj Wadhawan and former
CEO Harshil Mehta as accused in
thecountry'sbiggestbankingloan
fraud case, officials said. CBI had
registered a case in July this year
on a complaint from Union Bank
of India, whichisthe lead bank in
the consortium. According to the
UBI complaint, since 2010, DHFL
was extended credit facilities of
over Rs 42,000 crore by the con-
sortium of which Rs 34,615 crore
remainoutstanding.Theloanwas
declared NPA in 2019.
“Aforensicauditof DHFLloan
accountsbyKPMGin2020-21re-
vealed that large amounts were
disbursed as loans & advances by
theborrowerfirmtoanumberof
inter-connectedentitiesandindi-
viduals with commonalities to
DHFL Promoter Entities, which
were used for buying
shares/debentures”theUBIcom-
plaintstated.AsperKPMGreport,
most of the transactions of such
entities/individuals were in the
nature of investments in
land/properties.
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‘Criminal’ asking for
punishment, those in
authority silent: Soren
ABHISHEK ANGAD
RANCHI, OCTOBER 15
JHARKHAND CHIEF Minister
Hemant Soren on Saturday as-
serted that his is a unique case
where“acriminaloranaccused”
is pleading for punishment,
while the constitutional author-
ities that should have pro-
nounced judgment are silent.
“Theprevalentsituationisnoless
than punishment to me. I have
beensayingthatif Icommitteda
crime, how I am allowed to hold
aconstitutionalpost,”Sorensaid
while talking to reporters in a
freewheelingconversationathis
residence on Saturday.
Soren was referring to the
threatsofhisdisqualificationasan
MLAonthebasisofthepurported
Election Commission advisory to
JharkhandGovernorRameshBais
onAugust25inanoffice-of-profit
case involving a stone-mining
lease.However,theGovernorhas-
n't made the advisory public.
The CM said: “Have you ever
heardof anexampleinthecoun-
try in which a criminal or an ac-
cused is pleading for punish-
ment or to know about its
quantum?Ihavebeenappealing
to His Excellency (the Governor)
to announce the verdict.”
“Mein chhati peet peet kar bol
raha hoon mujhe saja do, mujhe
saja do (Iam pounding mychest,
askingforpunishment),”hesaid.
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JharkhandChief Minister
Soren criticisedtheCentrefor
misusingcentral agencies. ANI
“Our representatives met
him (Governor), I met the
Governor. We even applied
throughRTItoknowthedetails,”
Soren whose JMM-led coalition
government will be completing
three years in December said.
He also attacked the BJP-led
Centre, alleging that it has been
misusing agencies, such as ED
besides constitutional authori-
ties to create disturbance in
states ruled by non-BJP parties.
TotheCBI’sinquiryreportsub-
mitted to the Lokpal in which the
agencyhasallegedthatheandhis
family didn't disclose all proper-
tiesintheaffidavittotheEC,Soren
said:“Thereisamentalityamong
people...always trying that
Adivasis, Dalits, and people from
Backward Classes never progress
inlife.Theyentangleusandwere-
main entangled. The same has
been done against our Guruji
(ShibuSoren)andnotagainstme...
most Adivasis are not capable of
fighting back but that doesn't
meanthereisnonewhocanfight.”
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WITH THE one-month manda-
tory quarantine period for the
eight cheetahs brought from
Namibia on September 17 about
to come to an end, preparations
at Kuno-Palpur Nation Park in
MadhyaPradeshareinfullswing
for the shifting of the cheetahs
from their quarantine enclosure
to a larger enclosure.
According to forest officials,
the eight cheetahs — five female
and three male — have adapted
well to their surrounding over
the past one month. A senior of-
ficialatthenationalparksaidthe
behaviour of the cheetahs were
carefully observed over the past
week when it rained continu-
ously in the region. The official
said it was a relief to see that the
cheetahs seemed to settle well
and enjoy the rain.
Officials and members of the
task force constituted by the
National Tiger Conservation
Authority(NTCA)areworkingon
modalities, such as the method
bywhichthecheetahsshouldbe
moved to their larger enclosure,
and whether they should all be
moved at the same time.
According to J S Chauhan, the
chief wildlife warden, the date of
moving the cheetahs will be de-
cided based on the reports of the
Namibian experts who are in
Kuno,aswellasthereportsbyfield
officersandveterinarydoctors.
The cheetahs were flown in
from Namibia as a part of a
transcontinentalcheetahreloca-
tion programme. They were re-
leased is Kuno-Palpur National
Park in Madhya Pradesh's
Sheopur district by Prime
Minister Narendra Modi on
September 17.
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THE SUNDAY EXPRESS, OCTOBER 16, 2022
Gangster who fled
from Uttarakhand
held in Moradabad
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
LUCKNOW, OCTOBER 15
TWO DAYS after failing to ar-
rest him in a raid at a local BJP
leader’s residence
Udhamsingh Nagar district of
Uttarakhand during which the
latter’s wife died in cross-fir-
ing, the Moradabad police on
Saturday arrested a gangster,
Jaffar, after an alleged
shootout at the Pakwarha po-
lice station area. Police said
Jaffar, 40, who hails from
Kakar Kheda village in
Moradabad, was carrying a re-
ward of Rs 1 lakh on his head.
Police said a trap was laid at
the Kalsa Road crossing in
Pakwarhaarea,basedonatip-off.
Police were conducting a vehicle
checking drive when they spot-
tedamanonamotorcycle.When
the police intercepted him, he
triedtoflee.Whenthepolicetried
to chase the man, he opened fire.
The police "fired in retalia-
tion" and he suffered a bullet in-
jury on his left leg. A police con-
AIMIM UP chief among three
booked for hurting sentiments
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
LUCKNOW, OCTOBER 15
SAMBHAL POLICE have filed an
FIR against All India Majlis-e-
Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM)
state president Shaukat Ali for
allegedly making objectionable
remarks against Hindu religion,
its priests and women at a
party meeting held in the dis-
trict on Friday.
Ali was booked along with
two other party workers —
AIMIM’s Sambhal district pres-
ident Asad Abdullah and one
Sd/- Additional Chief Engineer
Drainage Circle, Bhubaneswar
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stable was also injured in the in-
cident. Jaffar and the constable
were rushed to a hospital for
treatment. Both are in stable
condition, police said.
“Police are yet to question
in Jaffar in detail,” said Shalabh
Mathur, DIG, Saharanpur Range.
The reward for information
that led to Jaffar’s arrest was in-
creased from Rs 50,000 to Rs 1
lakh on Thursday, a day after six
UP policemen were injured
while they were on his trail to
Uttarakhand. Two of them suf-
fered bullet injuries in the al-
leged "crossfire" between
Jaffar’s aides at Udham Singh
Nagar and the UP police.
The wife of a local BJP leader
was also killed in Wednesday’s
firing after ‘local residents’ in
the Bharatpur of Udham Singh
Nagar, Uttarakhand, allegedly
attacked the UP Police team.
Jaffar was taking shelter in a
house in the area.
Jaffar was wanted in a case of
illegal sand mining lodged at
Uttar Pradesh’s Thakurdwara
station in September.
Chaudhary Musheer Khan, who
is the owner of the house where
the meeting was held.
Thecasehasbeenfiledonthe
complaint of a local, Archit
Agarwal, at Sambhal police sta-
tion under IPC sections 153-A
(promotingenmitybetweentwo
groups), 295-A (deliberate and
malicious acts, intended to out-
ragereligiousfeelingsof anyclass
by insulting its religion or reli-
giousbeliefs)and188(disobedi-
ence to order duly promulgated
by public servant). No one has
been arrested in the case.
Sambhal SP Chakresh Mishra
said police took cognizance of a
videodoingroundsonsocialme-
dia in which Shaukat Ali during a
privatefunctionmadeastatement
“whichcoulddisturbthecommu-
nal harmony”. A complaint was
lodgedbyalocal,headded.
According to police, on
Friday Asad Abdullah organised
a meeting of AIMIM workers to
discuss forthcoming nagar pa-
lika elections. Police said the
complainant alleged that Ali
gave an objectionable speech
against Hindu religion, saints,
monks, priests and women,
which hurt the community's
sentiments. The complainant
handed over a video of Ali’s
speech to the police.
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THE SUNDAY EXPRESS, OCTOBER 16, 2022
THE SUNDAY PROFILE
DYC Norms
From Aadhaar to Ayodhya, from right to privacy as “intrinsic to human
dignity” to reading down section 377 of the IPC, Justice D Y Chandrachud’s
judgments have been keenly watched for the weight of his words.
Ananathakrishnan G & Omkar Gokhale on the boy from Bombay who is
now set to take over as the 50th CJI
O
N OCTOBER 16, 2019, when
then Chief Justice of India
Ranjan Gogoi read out the
unanimous verdict in the
Ayodhya case, something
that aroused as much curiosity as the judg-
ment by the five-judge Constitution bench
of the Supreme Court was its authorship. In
adeparturefromconvention,thejudgment
didnotcarrytheauthor’sname.Butasmys-
tery diggers put their heads together, some
vitalcluesemerged:thelanguageandstruc-
ture of the 929-page document, broken
down into chapters, bore the mark of D Y
Chandrachud. Almost all his judgments,
they pointed out, be it Aadhaar, right to pri-
vacy or Sabarimala, followed that pattern.
Justice Chandrachud’s judgments,
whether dissenting or concurring, have
aroused similar interest — from his historic
dissentintheAadhaarcase,whenhesaidthat
aperson’smultipleidentitiescan’tbereduced
to a 12-digit number; the soaring rhetoric of
theBhimaKoregaoncase,whenhewasagain
thesoledissentingvoiceashesaid“dissentis
a symbol of a vibrant democracy”; to the
Hadiyacase,whenheheldthataperson’sright
tochooseareligionandmarrywasanintrin-
sic part of her meaningful existence. If the
Aadhaar,righttoprivacyandBhimaKoregaon
cases saw him being hailed as a liberal and
progressive voice in the apex court, his stand
intheAyodhyacaseandArnabGoswamicase
sawhimbeingcheeredontheotherside.
WithDhananjayaYashwantChandrachud
set to take over as the 50th Chief Justice of
India,it’sthisabilitytonotbeslottedinanide-
ological bracket — and to keep his critics and
backers guessing — that will make his two-
year term one of the most keenly watched
stintsbyanytopjudgeintheSupremeCourt.
An alumnus of Delhi’s University St.
Stephen’sCollegeandFacultyofLaw,andlater
Harvard University, where he did his LL.M in
1983, followed by a doctorate in juridical sci-
NUMBER PLATE
FOOD INFLATION
8.60%
ALL-INDIARATEof inflationbased
ontheConsumerFoodPriceIndex
(CFPI)inSeptember2022,overthe
samemonthlastyear.
InSeptember2021,thefoodinflation
stoodat
0.68%
INFACT,foodinflationishigherthan
overallretailinflation,whichwas
recordedat
7.41% in September, this year
CFPI INCLUDES various sub-groups
including cereals and products, meat
and fish, egg, milk and products, oils
and fats, fruits, vegetables, pulses and
products, sugar and confectionery
and spices
8.53% 8.65% The rate of food
The rate of food
inflation for inflation in
rural areas in urban areas in
September, up September
from 0.69% a 2022, up from
year ago 0.67% in
September last
year
HARIKISHAN SHARMA
ences in 1986, Chandrachud practised as an
advocate in the Bombay High Court and
Supreme Court. He also served as Additional
Solicitor General of India from 1998 to 2000,
untilhewasappointedadditionaljudgeofthe
BombayHighCourtonMarch29,2000.After
servingasBombayHCjudgeforover13years,
he was elevated as Chief Justice of the
AllahabadHighCourtonOctober31,2013,and
laterappointedajudgeoftheSupremeCourt
onMay13,2016.
The Chandrachuds, who hailed from
Pune — his grandfather Vishnu B
Chandrachud served as the diwan of the
princely state of Sawantwadi (in present-
day Sindhudurg district of Maharashtra) —
later moved to then Bombay.
As a young boy growing up in Bombay,
Chandrachud was surrounded by music —
while his father, the late former CJI Y V
Chandrachud, is a trained classical musician,
his mother sang for All India Radio.
Chandrachud is known to have been an avid
fanof hismotherPrabha’smusicteacher,the
renowned Kishori Amonkar, who was a reg-
ular visitor to their house. Family sources say
anautographtheyoungChandrachudsought
fromAmonkarread:“Musicmusicallyleadsto
silence” — a message that is known to have
leftalastinginfluenceonhim.
At the age of 12, Chandrachud moved to
Delhi to join his father when the latter was
appointedthe13thChief Justiceof India.The
movetotheTughlaqRoadbungalowmeant
the boy now had new friends, among them
K M Joseph, who lived a few feet away from
the Chandrachuds. The friend, with whom
he played football and cricket, the son of
then Supreme Court judge Justice K K
Mathew, is now Justice Joseph, part of the
SC’s top decision-making body, the col-
legium, along with Chandrachud.
Chandrachud would soon go back to
Mumbai,acitythatshapedhislegalandjudi-
cial career. Justice Chandrachud has in the
A village grapples with the loss of Netaji
Itwasinthesandpitsof SaifaithatMulayamlearnthisfirstmanoeuvre,onethatheperfectedashemadehiswaytothetopof UPpolitics.
Overtheyears,asthepitsgavewaytowrestling rings,somethingsremainedunchanged—Saifai’sdeepconnectionwithMulayam
LALMANI VERMA
SAIFAI (ETAWAH)
IT’S A nippy morning in Saifai. The air is som-
bre and still. It has barely been a day since
Samajwadi Party founder and Uttar
Pradesh’s former chief minister Mulayam
Singh Yadav, fondly called ‘Netaji’, was cre-
mated with full state honours in the village.
ButatMajorDhyanChandSportsCollege,
11-year-olds Himanshu Yadav and Prince
Yadavareexcited.Thetwobuddingwrestlers
are going to learn ‘Charkha Daav’, a new
move.
As they take their positions in the middle
of a 144-square-metre wrestling mat in the
indoor stadium, coach Kamlesh Kumar
Yadav tells them about the technique made
famous by Mulayam.
“Mantri ji Mulayam Singh ji ka ek daav,
charkha daav, bahut famous thaa. Aaj uski
practise karte hain (Mulayam Singh Yadav’s
charkhadaavwasverypopular.Wewillprac-
tise the move today),” Kamlesh says.
Hethenhelpstheboyslearnthemanoeu-
vres while other students watch carefully.
After three rounds, Himanshu and Prince
seem to be picking up.
“It takes one to three minutes to finish a
charkha daav. Due to time constraints, this
moveisnowdoneonlyindangalsin ruralar-
eas and not at state- and national-level tour-
naments,” Kamlesh says.
Like in wrestling, Mulayam would later
perfect that movein politicstoo, catchinghis
politicalrivalsanddetractorsoff guard.Butas
he wrestled his way to the top of Uttar
Pradeshpolitics,thesonof Saifaineverforgot
his home village.
He would give back generously, building
sports colleges and stadiums across Saifai,
and helping his nondescript village find a
place on the wrestling map of UP.
Saifai’sturnaroundbegan after Mulayam
becamethechief ministerforthefirsttimein
1989.Hegotanational-levelsportscomplex,
theMasterChandgiramSportsStadium,built
in the village — the first of its kind in the area
with a hockey pitch, multipurpose halls and
a swimming pool .
Coach Kamlesh says that while wrestlers
practised at the 17-acre stadium from 1995
to 2014, they later shifted to Major Dhyan
Chand Sports College, a residential sports
academy built in 2014 by the Samajwadi
Party government led by Mulayam’s son,
Akhilesh Yadav.
Spread over 70 acres and equipped with
pastspokenoftheBombayHighCourtasbe-
ingnotonlyhisparentcourt,butastherepos-
itory of some of his “most treasured mo-
ments”.HiscontemporariesintheHighCourt
sharemanyofthesememories—fromthat
of ‘Senior Advocate Chandrachud’ who
would turn up in court in his trademark
green Ambassador car, to later, ‘Justice
Chandrachud’ whose judgments,
written in lucid prose, drew atten-
tion and applause.
It was this close association
with the court that led Justice
Chandrachud to co-edit A
Heritage of Judging: The Bombay
HighCourtThroughOneHundred
andFiftyYears,abookpublished
by the Maharashtra Judicial
Academy in August 2012.
As a judge in the Bombay High
Court, Justice Chandrachud is known
to have rarely lost his composure as he
handled some of the most difficult cases.
Talking of Justice Chandrachud’s “com-
mitment”, one of the lawyers who has
worked with him, said the judge was in
courtafewdaysafteradeathof aclosefam-
ily member. “Moreover, he interacted with
juniors just the way heinteracted withsen-
iorlawyers.Youwillnotfindajuniorlawyer
who will tell you that Justice Chandrachud
screamed at him or her,” the lawyer said.
A senior advocate who has been practis-
ing in the Bombay High Court for over four
decades said, “He told us that if you really
wantagoodhearing,thencomeeverydayat
9am(twohoursbeforecourtworkinghours).
He once concluded a hearing in a company
lawmatterbytakingupearlymorninghear-
ings for seven days. His commitment to the
profession was unparalleled. No judgment
was kept pending for a long time.”
Inaspeechatthe2019KTDesaiMemorial
Lecture organised by the Bombay Bar
Association, one of the oldest associations of
state-of-the-art facilities, the college offers
sports training in wrestling, cricket, football,
hockey,athletics,badminton,swimmingand
kabaddi. There are 55 students, all boys, cur-
rently enrolled in Classes 6 to 12 for the
wrestling course.
Himanshu and Prince are both from
Azamgarh. While the nearest sports college
is in Gorakhpur, 105 km from Azamgarh,
they chose the one in Saifai, 490 km away,
for the facilities it offers. Their classes started
in July this year.
Himanshu, who dreams of winning
medals for his country, says h is father, a
farmerandawrestlerinAzamgarhwhotook
part in dangals,motivatedhim to pick up the
sport.Princesayshewasinspiredbyhiselder
brother, who got a job in the Indian Army af-
ter practising wrestling in Meerut.
Eleven-year-old Shivanand Yadav, who
hails from Gorakhpur district, says he took
admission at the college because he wanted
lawyerspractisingintheBombayHighCourt,
senior advocate Milind Sathe had spoken
about Justice Chandrachud as being one of
thefinestwritersofjudgments.Narratinghis
experience of appearing in a matter related
to the Environment Impact Assessment of a
power project, Sathe said, “We lost the mat-
terintheBombayHighCourtanditwastaken
to the Supreme Court. The appeal came up
beforeJusticeAftabAlam.Sometimeafterthe
arguments were heard, Justice Aftab Alam
said, ‘We have no heart to interfere into such
a poetically well-written judgment on envi-
A LETTER FROM
SAIFAI, ETAWAH
UTTARPRADESH
DELHI
Saifai
UTTAR
PRADESH
ronmental issues’. And so, the Special Leave
Petition (SLP) was dismissed.”
Talking of Chandrachud as an “erudite
scholar” and an “ambidextrous person”,
Sathe went on to say, “During his years in
the Bombay HC, when we argued the case
before him, he would take down notes...
Thereafter, as he dictated the judgment in
open court, it would seem like we have ar-
gued the case in an extremely good man-
ner. But that, of course, was because of his
erudition, not our arguments,” Sathe said.
Now, with Justice Chandrachud set to
to live away from home so that he could fo-
cus on wrestling. “If I had taken admission
near Gorakhpur, my parents would have
calledmehome everyweekendaswellason
holidays. That would have affected my prac-
tice. With Saifai being far from Gorakhpur,
they don’t ask me to travel frequently,” says
Shivanand, adding that he plans to go home
for Diwali this year, the first time after en-
rolling at the college.
If he excels in wrestling, Shivanand
says, he might get a government job
through the sports quota. “Medal marenge
to naukri milega (I can get a job if I win
medals),” says Shivanand, whose father is
a sanitation worker in the Gorakhpur mu-
nicipal corporation.
Himanshu, Prince, Shivanand and many
otherstudentsof thesportscollegewerepart
of Mulayam’sfuneralprocessiononTuesday.
“Students paid tributes to Netaji because
‘ wrestler himself, he always encouraged
New Delhi
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take over as CJI on November 9, once the
government approves his name, how this
“erudition” reflects in the apex court and its
handling of the collegium-government re-
lationship —histwo-yeartenure willsee14
judges retiring from the top court — will be
keenly watched. Also awaiting the court’s
attention area plethora of constitutionalis-
sues — from the question of freebies by po-
litical parties to the challenge to the Places
of Worship Act,1991, from WhatsApp’spri-
vacypolicytoreviewsintheSabarimalaand
hijab cases.
Students at the Major Dhyan Chand
Sports College in Saifai; pradhan
Ramphal Valmiki (above) says he and
Mulayam practised together at
Saifai’s akhadas
young wrestlers. He had a major contribu-
tion in developing facilities for wrestlers in
Saifai,” Kamlesh says.
Though the wrestling bouts moved to
the sports college after it came up in 2014,
the stadium that Mulayam built would
host an annual dangal to mark the SP vet-
eran’s birthday on November 22 — an
event for which he would unfailingly travel
to Saifai. Last year, too, Mulayam’s brother
and Jaswantnagar MLA Shivpal Singh
Yadav had organised a dangal at the sta-
dium but with his health failing, Mulayam
could not attend it.
Villagers say Mulayam practised in sev-
eral wrestling pits, including one under a
neem tree, now part of villager Radhey
Shyam’sfields.Overtheyears,asSaifaigotits
stadium and the sports college, this akhada
and the others fell into disuse.
Ramphal Valmiki, 72, Saifai village prad-
han and a childhood friend of Mulayam’s,
says, “He (Mulayam) had a group of 14-15
friends in the village. I used to be part of this
group. We would build akharas in the fields
with our hands and practise wrestling every
day. But Mulayam stopped wrestling after
becoming an MLA in 1967.”
Valmiki, who holds a BA (Honours) de-
gree in English and a post graduate degree in
Hindi from Kolkata University, says that
Mulayamusedwrestlingasasocialvehicleto
end caste differences and untouchability.
“I am a Dalit, so initially I would hesitate
because Iwasafraidof upper-castewrestlers
from. But Netaji got me to practise with the
YadavsaswellasotherOBCsandupper-caste
wrestlers. He got me to get rid of that fear.”
18 OPINION
Across
THEAISLE
PCHIDAMBARAM
Website:pchidambaram.in
Twitter @Pchidambaram_IN
While the Prime Minister
was celebrating the Hindu
faith in Ujjain, the Home
Minister was quietly pushing
the Hindi language... If I were
an Assamese or Malayali, I
would feel that I am a half-
citizen. If I were also a
Muslim or Christian, I would
feel that I am a non-citizen
Why Mohan Bhagwat’s
words ring hollow
Dalitality
SURAJYENGDE
Twitter@Surajyengde
“VARNA AND JAATI should be discarded.
Our ancestors have made mistakes, and
there should be no problem in accepting
those mistakes,” said RSS Chief Dr Mohan
Bhagwat last week in Nagpur. It is not the
first time that Dr. Bhagwat has made such
pronouncements.
In 2012, at an Idea Exchange session
with Loksatta, Dr Bhagwat fielded ques-
tionsoncasteandrepresentationof Dalits
and women in the RSS. He was locked in
the guise of being a benign nationalist fa-
ther figure, who doesn’t discriminate, yet
referred to Dalits as “these classes”.
During the Idea Exchange, Bhagwat
said the RSS does not endorse caste and
believes in a casteless society. “Any sys-
tem should evolve with time. We com-
pletely disagree with applying the struc-
ture that was in operation a thousand
years ago”. He merited a point further,
“thereasoncasteisnotgoingawaydespite
so many people trying is because it is in
the minds of people. We do not get into
the debate of whether varna was useful
in the past or not. We want a society that
is equal and free of exploitation”. He also
explained the progressive logic of social
reservation as opposed to economic. "We
tellpeoplethattherewasagroupwhoen-
joyedbenefitsfor2,000years,whenthere
was no reservation this group was enjoy-
ing benefits perpetually".
Bhagwat addressed the question of
casteandvarnatohisfellow,thread-bear-
ing, ritual-believing Hindus who exercise
caste in everyday life and offer it as a sa-
cred value endowed by their ancestors.
Unfortunately, these motley pro-
nouncementsarewoefullyovershadowed
by inept inaction by the RSS in the face of
casteismandcasteviolenceinthecountry.
FormerRSSchiefBalasahebDeorashadex-
pressed similar sentiments four decades
ago, and the report card is miserable.
What does it mean to get rid of caste?
It is to destroy all the structures that im-
pede equality and equal opportunity. It is
to make way for those who have been op-
pressed. It is to have a pang of moral guilt
On the
LOOSE
LEHERKALA
leherkala@gmail.com
WHENTHEworldisreelingfromtheeffects
ofwarinUkraineamidafreshcrisisunfold-
inginIran,nottomentionthebrutalwinter
awaiting Europeans, to elicit interest in a
jadedindustrylikefashionrequirescreative
framing. The recently concluded Paris
Fashion Week, weighed down by this sea-
son of looming disaster, got a welcome di-
versionaftermodelsfortheSpanishluxury
label Balenciaga emerged on the ramp
clutching their latest handbags — which
were carbon copies of large Lay’s potato
chips packets (complete with white zips).
Sold in red, yellow, green and blue colours,
rather, all the flavours of the legendary
snack, it’s anybody’s guess how many will
Will Hindi and Hindu own India?
ON OCTOBER 11, 2022 Mr Narendra
ModiwasinUjjaintoinauguratethenew
900-metre corridor at the Mahakal tem-
ple in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh.
A VIRTUOSO
PERFORMANCE
Mr Modi is a devout Hindu. Most
Indians are devout Hindus. Most others
who are not Hindus are equally devout
to another faith. When he went to the
Mahakaleshwar temple, Mr Modi of-
fered prayers and performed the rituals,
and every minute of that was dutifully
telecast live by all the channels that I
surfed. At the sanctorum, he was draped
in a golden angavastram and a saffron
scarf. He had sandalwood paste on his
forehead and a big tilak. When he ad-
dressed the gathering (I suppose nearly
all Hindus), it was obvious that he had
prepared well. He recalled the ancient
cities and their great temples located all
over the country. He quoted from
Sanskrit scriptures. He spoke at length
on the significance of Shiv bhakti. It was
not clear if he had memorized his lines
or he had a tele-promoter before him
(hiddenfromtheTVcamera).Whichever
it be, it was a virtuoso performance.
Itwasnota routine inauguralspeech.
It was what is called a pravachan, a spir-
itualdiscoursebya Hindupreachertoan
all-Hindu audience that loved every
word. Mr Modi said that India was on a
spiritual journey and “we are restoring
the spiritual glory of India”. He con-
about the wrongs whose result has paved
generously for the comforts of those on
the top. That allowing for diversity with-
out insult and injury is substantiated by
redistributing the nation’s wealth and re-
sources and having equality in assets. It is
to create opportunities for everyone to
grow equally as per one’s ability and in-
volve them in the national life by making
them taxpayers.
Where does this occasional outburst
come from? It is in the intra-Brahmin ri-
valryandconflicts.Thebroadergroupings
are Chitpavan, Deshsasta, Karhade,
Devrukhe, and Saraswat. Each caste clan
claims to be superior than the other. The
coastal Brahmins see the Deshastha
Brahmins as inferior for hobnobbing with
Muslims in the Deccan plateau. The
Deshastha hit back at Chitpavans.
This is a debate about purity, which is
a dominant sign of caste status. Intra-
Brahmintensionisanunresolvedconflict,
where Brahmins from central India and
Andhra desh have formulated a new the-
ory of nationalism in which they occupy
a position denied to them by the titans of
Brahmin ritual elites.
The RSS has to finally come to terms
with the might of the Dalit prowess
guided under the fortitude and rebellious
history of Ambedkar, Buddha, and other
non-Brahminicalancestors.TheDalitsare
not a naïve species easily taken for a ride.
They work to bring back the rule of their
forbearers.Whilethecountervailingforce
keepscommittingatrocities,theirdreams
of becoming rulers are restricted.
Given that the RSS has not actively
tried to abolish caste from society, the hi-
erarchical varna structure is still sancti-
fied by its cadres. The sworn Hindus do
not challenge the atrocities against Dalits.
When cases such as Hathras happen, the
honesty of Dr. Bhagwat’s words rings hol-
low.Theyaremerelya sidetalkbytheRSS
trying to shadow BJP and reiterate that
they’re still the ones who call the shots.
The BJP has lately played the social
representation card better, trumping the
RSS’s hold on these issues. This is em-
blematic in their recommendation of
Presidents Kovind and Murmu. The RSS is
often the caretaker of anything social for
theRight.However,theyseemtobelosing
ground on some matters to the Modi-
Shah duo. It is indeed a virtue signalling
fest of the Hindu ideology.
SurajYengde,authorofCasteMatters,
curatesthefortnightly‘Dalitality’column
A handbag of chips, anyone?
be willing to fork out approximately 1,800
dollars(Rs1.48lakh)tocastadesignerchip
over the shoulder. The Lay’s Bag hits
Balenciaga stores in the summer of 2023.
This is not the first time that popular
fast foods have been immortalised in
fancy minaudieres; Judith Lieber’s crystal
encrusted evening bags come in quirky
shapes like the McDonald’s Big Mac, cup
cakes and glittering French fries. Chanel
has made a whimsical statement by con-
verting a milk carton into a trendy cross-
body. The Lay’s Bag may be deciphered as
a clever, populist move since it points to
themundanejoysinallourlives;likeCoca
Cola, chips are a common factor for hu-
manity at large — as an accessory, their
conceptual power breaks down the artifi-
cial barriers between social hierarchies
and classes. To paraphrase Andy Warhol,
cluded his speech with the ‘Jai Jai
Mahakal’chantseveraltimesandtheau-
diencerepeatedthechantwithgreatfer-
vour. The message was clear. The India
in Mr Modi’s pages of history was a
Hindu India and the India of Mr Modi’s
dreams will be a Hindu India.
PICTURE IMPERFECT
Everything seemed picture perfect.
The only discordant reminder was that
Mr Narendra Modi is not a private indi-
vidual but the Hon’ble Prime Minister
of India — a nation that is made up of
Hindus (79.8 per cent), Muslims (14.2),
Christians (2.3), Sikhs (1.7) and Others
(2.0) — and he is obliged by the
Constitution of India to act and speak
for all the people of India. The India of
the last 2,000 years was built, and the
India of our dreams will be built, by
every Indian regardless of his/her faith.
That is why the Constitution stressed
‘equality’ and the Constitution was
amended to explicitly stress ‘secular-
ism’ that was always implicit in a
Republican document.
I am happy that the Prime Minister
was at the inaugural in Ujjain, but I
would like to see the Prime Minister at
the renovation/consecration of a
Mosque or a Church. I am happy that
the Prime Minister spoke eloquently
about the spiritual journey of the
Hindus, but I would like the Prime
Minister to celebrate the spiritual jour-
ney of Muslims, Christians and others
too. I am happy that the Prime
life &
WORK
NEERJACHOWDHURY
neerja_chowdhury@yahoo.com
“Ek parinda bhi par nahin mar sakta
Ayodhya maen (I will not allow a bird to
flap its wings in Ayodhya)”— the line fa-
mously delivered by Mulayam Singh
Yadav in 1990 that was to make him the
presiding deity of M-Y (Muslim-Yadav)
politics in Uttar Pradesh for a quarter of a
century after that.
The then chief minister of UP was re-
spondingtotheBJP-backedVishwaHindu
Parishad’s call to kar sevaks to gather in
AyodhyaonOctober30,1990andstartthe
construction of a Ram temple there.
When frenzied kar sevaks tried to
breakintotheBabriMasjidonOctober30,
Mulayamorderedapolicefiringtorepulse
them — something P V Narasimha Rao
couldnottodoonDecember6,1992,lead-
ing to the demolition of the Babri Masjid.
The firing did not immediately earn
Mulayam Singh Yadav the goodwill of the
Muslimcommunity. It triggered off anger
amongsttheHindusinUP,andledtocom-
munal clashes in the state. There was cur-
few in as many as 20 districts and 48 died
in Bijnore alone. Mulayam Singh lost the
1991 election that followed and the BJP
came to power in UP with as many as 221
seats and Kalyan Singh as the CM.
Itwasafterthedemolitionof the Babri
Masjid in 1992 that the Muslims realised
the import of what “Netaji” had done for
them in 1990. He became the darling of
the community and came back to power
in the 1993 elections. Such was the faith
the Muslims reposed in him that they
used to frequently say that had “Netaji”
been in power in Lucknow, he would not
have let the mosque be demolished.
Mulayam Singh’s “parindey” remark
came at a time when BJP leader L K
Advani’s Somnath-to-Ayodhya rath yatra
had been cut short by Lalu Prasad in
Samastipur, Bihar, on October 23, 1990.
The BJP had withdrawn its support to the
National Front government and then
prime minister V P Singh’s ministry was
teetering on the brink, setting off the
countdown to the elections. Despite
Advani’sarrestinBihar,thekarsevakscon-
tinuedtomaketheirwaytoAyodhyafrom
all corners of UP, on foot and even swim-
ming across the Sarayu river.
TheBJPsawtheRamtempleasanemo-
tiveissuethatcouldarouseHinduopinion
in its favour in the elections. The party hit
out at Mulayam over the firing on “Ram
bhakts”, took out an “asthi kalash” yatra of
style is anything you can get away with
and indeed, the quotidian can be fashion-
able. It’s why embellished sneakers are
selling for thousands of dollars. Just be-
cause they’re functional footwear doesn’t
mean they can’t also be works of art.
On the other hand, is Balenciaga (sub-
versively) poking fun at the pretensions of
the wealthy who pride themselves on re-
finement? Hell, some people will buy any-
thing,aslongasthepriceishighenough.It’s
true,onlythosewithmoneytoburnwillca-
sually flaunt a chips packet for a handbag,
since it goes so totally against the grain of
what’sconsideredconventionallybeautiful.
Whether we know it or not, our tastes are
influenced by benchmarks, like the
painstakinglyembroideredbutentirelyfor-
gettablehalf-nakedgownsfloodingredcar-
petsoverdecades.So,aninstinctivereaction
Minister quoted from Hindu scriptures,
but I would like the Prime Minister to
quote, on occasion, a stirring passage
from the Bible or a solemn verse from
the Koran or a soulful hymn from the
Guru Granth Sahib.
PROVOKING A
CONFLICT
While the Prime Minister was cele-
brating the Hindu faith, the Home
Minister was quietly pushing the Hindi
language. The Home Minister is the ex-
officio Chair of the Committee on
Official Language. Its 11th Report was
presented to the President on
September 9, 2022 and kept under
wraps — until The Print broke the story
about its contents. The contents will cer-
tainly cause reverberations in the non-
Hindi speaking states of India.
Look at the main recommenda-
tions as reported by The Print:
■ Hindi will be the compulsory
medium of instruction in Kendriya
Vidyalayas, IITs, IIMs and central univer-
sities. Question: will Hindi be the
medium of instruction in KVs, IITs, IIMs
and central universities located in non-
Hindispeakingstatesaswell?Will Hindi
be the sole medium of instruction or an
alternative medium of instruction?
■Hindi will replace English as the
language of examinations for govern-
mentrecruitment.Question: willthose
who do not know Hindi be barred from
How Oct 1990 shaped
Mulayam’s M-Y politics
When kar sevaks tried to break into the Babri Masjid, Mulayam ordered police to
fire — something P V Narasimha Rao didn’t on December 6, 1992. Archive
the remains of the “martyred” kar sevaks,
and held a memorial meeting for them at
Delhi’sBoatClubinApril1991—ontheeve
of the national elections that year.
Though 28 people died in the firing —
BJP stalwart Atal Bihari Vajpayee put the
figure at 56 — the situation could have
been worse if not for the precautionary
measures Mulayam had put in place.
Hours before the proposed “kar seva” on
October 30, the government arrested
1,50,000 kar sevaks in UP.
For all his differences with then prime
minister V P Singh, Mulayam moved in
step with the Home Ministry at the
Centre. Naresh Chandra, an outstanding
bureaucrat whose services were uitilised
by several prime ministers for his tough
and out-of-the-box approach, was the
Home Secretary. Raj Bhargava was the
Chief Secretary. “Ihad90,000peoplecon-
fined in cantonments,” Naresh Chandra
once told me. “Dozens of culverts along
the bus routes that would have brought
these people were blown in UP. Trains
were cancelled at will.” Chandra had del-
egated the power of the Home Secretary
to Raj Bhargava, who was in the hot seat.
The Railway Board Chairman was told
that if the Chief Secretary gave the order
that a train had to be cancelled, he had to
comply. The effort was to keep the kar se-
to the chip bag is a sneer; really, this? The
world is so out of ideas, the humble fry has
become haute couture. Anyone remotely
self aware can’t help nurturing a sneaking
suspicionthatthey’rebeingplayed—falling,
hopelessly, for what a top brand insists is
cool,whenit’ssoobviouslyridiculous.
If something’s good enough for the
Kardashians,it’sgoodenoughformoi,orso
the thinkinggoes. Groupthink, the psycho-
logicalphenomenonwhenlargenumbersof
people (irrationally) ignore hard facts be-
causethey’retooscaredtobetheonlyones
dissenting,insidiouslydrivesdecisionmak-
ing.HarkbacktoHansChristianAnderson’s
cautionarytaleTheEmperor’sNewClothes.
Two canny weavers make the fantastical
promise to the king that their finely spun,
magicaloutfitofnothingnessisinvisibleonly
tothestupidestpeoplewithinthekingdom.
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writing the examinations for govern-
ment recruitment?
■Explanations will be sought from
government officers who deliberately
don’t work in Hindi. Question: will an
officer whose language is Bengali or
Odiya or Tamil be compelled to learn
Hindi and do his official work in Hindi?
■English as a medium of instruction
will be retained only where it is ab-
solutely necessary and will be gradu-
ally replaced by Hindi. Question: will
the parent and the student no longer
have the right to choose the language in
which the student will study and be
taught?
■Knowledge of Hindi will be en-
sured for selection of employees in the
government. Question: will a non-Hindi
speaking person be refused a govern-
ment job on the ground thathe/she does
not know Hindi?
■50percentof thegovernment’sad-
vertisement budget should be allocated
to Hindi advertisements. Question: if
the remaining 50 per cent is allocated to
advertisements in all other languages
(including English), will it not hasten the
witheringawayof thenon-Hindimedia?
■Thepropagationof Hindishouldbe
made a constitutional obligation of all
stategovernments.Question:will astate
government that refused to propagate
Hindi be dismissed?
If I were an Assamese or Malayali, I
would feel that I am a half-citizen. If I
were also a Muslim or Christian, I would
feel that I am a non-citizen.
vaks out of Ayodhya, so that it did not be-
come an inflammable situation. CM
Mulayam Singh cooperated totally with
theCentreanddidnotinterfereintheplan
the Home Ministry had put in place.
A tough stand on Ayodhya suited
Mulayam Singh politically. He had been a
beneficiaryof Mandalpolitics,andhenow
wanted to augment and consolidate his
OBC base. It seemed good politics to get
Muslims—19-20%of thepopulationinUP
— on his side, along with his own Yadav
community, who made up around 10%.
The M-Y combine began to crack in
2014whenNarendraModicametopower.
A section of the Yadavs, who were getting
Hinduised, swerved towards the BJP. Yogi
Adityanath’s decision to accord a state fu-
neral to Mulayam showed that the BJP
continuestoeyetheYadavcommunityfor
support. Mulayam had himself spoken in
favour of Modi in the 2019 elections.
Mulayam leaves a rich legacy for his
sonAkhileshYadavandfortheSamajwadi
Party he built. But he also leaves them a
challenge—tofashionanewconstituency
that goes beyond the M-Y platform that
he forged in 1990 and a way to counter
Modi’sheadycocktailof Hindutva,nation-
alism,socialwelfarism,strongleadership,
andco-optionof OBCsandthemostback-
ward among them.
The Emperor, fearful of being outed as the
foolhealwayssecretlysuspectedhewas,pa-
radesaroundnaked,butnoneofhissubjects
pointouthisstrippedbodyeither,anxiousit
suggeststhey’rehalfwitsaswell.Appliedto
fashion,weworrywelackthediscernment
toidentifybeauty—makingitsomucheas-
ier to be manipulated by social media and
AI, that slimily push celebrity endorsed ex-
pensiveproductsourway.
Sohowisonetothinkof thosepushing
creativeboundariesandstretchingthelim-
itsoforiginality?Writethemoffasshrewd
racketeers trying to make a quick buck off
shock value? Or, consider the possibility
thatbeyondformaldressingandthefasci-
nation for precious jewels, it’s possible to
lookatordinaryobjects,liketheubiquitous
chipspacket,anduseitentirelydifferently.
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New Delhi
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TAVLEENSINGH
Twitter@tavleen_singh
Religion
must be
debated
IN THE atmosphere of ugly Islamophobia
thatthevotariesof Hindutvahavecreated,
I feel guilty about bringing up hijab once
more in this column. I feel obliged to do
this for two reasons. The obvious one is
the judgment from the Supreme Court
last week that was split between one
judge asserting that the important thing
was for Muslim girls to get an education,
whether they did it veiled or not. And his
colleague taking the view that if a college
has rules about uniforms, then students
are obliged to accept these rules or go to
another college. The hijab question will
now be dealt with by a bigger bench.
Mysecondreasonforcontinuingtoas-
sert my disapproval of hijab is, I believe,
morerelevantanditworriesmethatithas
been discussedsolittle in this volatile dis-
course. I believe that the rules and prac-
tices of all religions must be debated time
and time again. I do not share the view
that there are some rules that are sacro-
sanct. They cannot be because, as with
politics,whendiscussionof rulesandreg-
ulations is prohibited inevitably begins
the start of a journey towards totalitari-
anism. Islam has always considered itself
above discourse because of the belief that
the Quran was written by Allah and sent
down to us mortals through his last mes-
senger. This ban on debate is probably the
reason why there are almost no demo-
cratic Islamic countries.
India is, mercifully, not an Islamic
country. Nor is it a theocracy despite ef-
forts by Hindutva fanatics to Islamize the
Sanatan Dharma. Luckily, this program
has not had much success because the
idea is totally stupid. The unique magnif-
icence of the Indicreligions isthat they al-
low every individual to choose his idea of
faith. And not be controlled by sacrosanct
rulesandpracticesordainedbyaProphet.
May all our gods intervene to ensure that
Hindutvafanaticsfailintheirlunaticcam-
paign, even though we live in a worrying
time when every other Hindu seems to
alwaysbeoffendedonbehalf of somegod
or goddess.
All religions have bad practices which
become worse when priests start inter-
preting the rules for believers.
Unsurprisingly, bearded maulvis have
leapt into the hijab debate and put for-
ward the argument that if girls do not go
about with their hair and faces covered, it
will lead to men becoming licentious. In
which case, it should be the fundamental
duty of these religious teachers to teach
men to behave better. Right? Why should
the solution be to impose upon women
the veils of restraint and repression?
Thedebateonhijabhasbecomesode-
railed that supporters of hijab say that it is
just the same as Sikh boys going to school
in turbans. It is not. Sikh boys wear tur-
banstokeeptheirunshornlocksincontrol
notbecausetheyaretoldthatwomenwill
become excited and lecherous if they
wander about turbanless. When a little
Muslim girl is told to veil herself, it is be-
cause she is taught to believe that men
will get sexually aroused by the sight of
her hair and face. If this is true, then it is
men who need to learn how to avert their
eyes when they see a woman.
Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia, when
speaking up for the hijab, said, ‘If she
wantstowearhijab, eveninsideherclass-
room, she cannot be stopped…it may be
the only way her conservative family will
permit her to go to school, and in those
cases, her hijab is her ticket to education.’
This makes clear that she has no choice
but to accept the rules ordained by her
‘conservative’family.Why?Whyshould a
bad religious idea be accepted at all?
Thosewhohavestudiedthe growthof
radical Islam have found that the real rea-
son why jihadist violence has become so
prevalent is because the jihadists usually
have the support of supposedly moder-
ate, conservative Muslims. This is what is
happening in India. About the only thing
thateveryoneagreesoninthisdivisivehi-
jab debate is that more and more women
and girls are to be seen in schools and on
college campuses who wear the hijab.
They need to ask why this has only hap-
pened in the past twenty years or so. My
own amateur calculations reveal that af-
ter 9/11, Muslim communities every-
wherebegantofeelthattheirreligionwas
being attacked under the guise of the
global war on terrorism. In India, I have
met many Muslims who believe that the
CIA organized the 9/11 attacks to find a
reason to attack Muslims.
In these Hindutva times, it is easy to
understand why Muslims feel that their
identityandreligionareunderattack.The
hate speeches by BJP leaders and the bile
vomited out on social media turns my
stomach. I just wish it was bulldozers and
despicable calls for boycotting Muslim
businesses that would bring more
Muslims into the street in protest. By
choosing hijab as the main issue to fight
back against radical Hindutva, they have
walked into a trap by proving what the
worst kind of Hindus say these days.
Muslim men keep their own women
locked up and veiled while pursuing
Hindu women through ‘love jihad’. It is a
stupididea,butitisgainingneedlesscred-
ibility because of this insistence in mak-
ing hijab into the main Islamic issue.
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BANK WATCH WITH THE ONSET OF FESTIVE SEASON

FINANCIAL INFORMATION

American Express to
Banks launch offers to attract customers,
resume sharing card
holders’ financial
boost credit growth amid rate cycle uptrend
lendersarealsoofferingdiscounts new home loans as well as agement(AUM)inthehomeloan tional, regional and hyperlocal debit cards, internet banking,

information with NeSL HITESH VYAS

ENSECONOMICBUREAU
MUMBAI, OCTOBER 15
AMERICAN EXPRESS has
written to its card holders
saying that it will report fi-
nancial information related
to their cards to National E-
Governance Services Ltd
(NeSL) starting next month,
a move that has irked card
holders as they fear it may
put their privacy at risk.
This is the second time
this year that the company
has informed card holders
that their data will be shared
with NeSL. In April 2022,
AmericanExpresshadissued
a similar communication,
but the drive was put on the
back burner after many card
holders voiced concerns on
data privacy.
Reason for move
“In compliance with the ex-
tantregulatoryguidelines on
submissionof financialinfor-
mation to Information
Utilities (IU), we
wish to notify that
we will commence
reporting your card
information to
National E-
Governance
Services Limited
(NeSL) effective November
2022 onwards,” American
Express wrote in the email.
Card holders will receive
an email notification from
NeSL on a monthly basis to
review and verify the infor-
mation that American
Expresswillsubmitonanon-
going basis and they will
havetoregisteratNeSL’spor-
tal to authenticate or dispute
the information within a
stipulated timeline, accord-
ing to the communication.
An email sent to
American Express did not
elicitanimmediateresponse.
In the frequently asked
question (FAQ) section on its
website, American Express
has mentioned that as per
the Reserve Bank of India’s
(RBI)December 2017 regula-
tion, it is mandatory for all
banks to report financial in-
formation of card holders to
NeSL.
RBI regulation
RBI’s December 19, 2017 reg-
At Rs 10,605.8 crore,
In April 2022, Amex
had issued a similar
communication, but
the drive was put on
the back burner
after many card
holders voiced
concerns on data
privacy
ulation says, “A financial
creditor shall submit finan-
cial information and infor-
mation relating to assets in
relation to which any secu-
rityinteresthasbeencreated,
to an information utility (IU)
in such form and manner as
may be specified by regula-
tions.”
NeSL was registered as
the first IU by the Insolvency
and Bankruptcy Board of
India(IBBI)onSeptember25,
2017. The primary role of
NeSL is to serve as a reposi-
tory of legal evi-
dence holding in-
formation
pertaining to any
debt/claim, as sub-
mitted by the fi-
nancial or opera-
tional creditor and
verifiedandauthenticatedby
parties to the debt.
American Express, in the
FAQ, said it will only be re-
porting existing debt infor-
mation as available in its sys-
tems of records to NeSL in
order to be in compliance
with the regulatory require-
ment and was not seeking
any additional information
from card holders.
Moreover, American
Express card holders said
they were never informed
about this regulation when
the credit card was initially
issued to them.
Legal experts believe that
sharingpersonalfinancialin-
formation related to card
holders spending with any
entity, including a govern-
ment-registered one, is a
breach of their privacy.
Customers have now be-
come more cautious on how
their data is being used and
arewaryof sharingtheirsen-
sitive personal information
to any entity.
MUMBAI, OCTOBER 15
WITH THE onset of the festive
season,multiplepublicsectorand
privatesectorlendershaverolled
out new offers and discounts to
attractcustomersatatimewhen
interest rates are rising in the fi-
nancial system. These offers are
aimed at helping banks to boost
their credit growth. Bank credit
grew at 16.4 per cent to Rs 126.3
lakh crore in the fortnight ended
September 23, 2022.
Banks such as State Bank of
India, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank,
Punjab National Banks are offer-
ing discounted interest rates and
have waived off processing fees
on home and car loans. Some
Kirloskar siblings question corporate
governance of Kirloskar Brothers Ltd
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 15
KIRLOSKAR SIBLINGS Rahul and
AtulonSaturdayraisedquestions
overthecorporategovernanceof
Kirloskar Brothers Ltd, led by
their warring brother Sanjay,
having been cleared of insider
trading charges labelled against
them.
In a virtual press conference,
KirloskarPneumaticCoLtdexec-
utive chairman Rahul Kirloskar
and Kirloskar Oil Engines Ltd ex-
ecutive chairman Atul Kirloskar
said the Securities Appellate
Tribunal (SAT) has set aside the
insider trading order passed
against them by SEBI in October
2020.
As per the SAT order, Rahul
said,“...therewasnoinsidertrad-
ing by us when we had sold the
shares of the Kirloskar Brothers
BRIEFLY
L&Tnetprofitup
New Delhi: IT company
LarsenandToubroInfotech
on Saturday posted an
about 23 per cent increase
in its consolidated net
profit at Rs 679.8 crore for
the quarter ended
September 2022. PTI
SEZdatadelay
New Delhi: Delay in collec-
tion of data from some spe-
cial economic zones (SEZs)
and ports is the major rea-
sonfora starkcontrastinthe
preliminaryandfinalexport
growth rate numbers re-
and cash backs on shopping us-
ing internet banking, mobile
banking, credit and debit cards.
Thiscomesatatimewhenthe
equated monthly installments
(EMIs) have been on an upward
climb with the Reserve Bank of
India (RBI) resorting to a series of
rate hikes to rein in inflation. The
reporate,therateatwhichtheRBI
lends money to banks to meet
their short term funding needs,
has been hiked by 190 basis
points since May this year.
The country's largest lender
StateBankofIndiaisofferingcon-
cessionsof upto0.25percenton
home loans, 0.15 per cent on top
up loans, and 0.30 per cent on
loans against property. The bank
saidtheinterestrateforbuyersof
Ltd (KBL) to Kirloskar Industries
Ltd back in 2010. Consequently,
theSATorderexoneratesusfrom
thechargesof insidertradingand
fraudulent trade practices lev-
elled against us by SEBI." He fur-
thersaidtheSATorderalsostated
thattheSEBIorderwaspassedon
the basis of complaints filed by
KBL, which had also filed an ap-
pealbeforetheSATfor"enhance-
ment of penalties and disgorge-
ment of amounts" against them.
The appeal has been set aside by
SATonthegroundthatKBLisnot
an aggrieved party by the deci-
sion of SEBI.
“It is evident from the order
thatitwasKBLaloneonthebasis
of which the investigation had
started against us... It is also evi-
dent that KBL was not satisfied
with the penalty levied by SEBI
andinfactfiledanappealagainst
thatpenaltybeingnotsufficient,”
Rahul added.
IMF asks countries to
preserve foreign reserves
amidst appreciating dollar
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
WASHINGTON, OCTOBER 15
THE IMF has urged countries to
preserve vital foreign reserves to
deal with potentially worse out-
flows and turmoil in the future,
amidstappreciationoftheUSdol-
lar and depreciation of other ma-
jorcurrencies,includingtheIndian
rupee.
In a blog post by the First
Deputy Managing Director of the
takeoverswillnowstartat8.4per
centandtop-uploansforfurnish-
ings, renovation or home
makeoverwillbeginfrom8.8per
cent. Besides, the lender has
waived off processing fees on
home loans up to January 31,
2023
“As we enter the festive sea-
son after a long period of muted
celebrationsduetoCovidrestric-
tions, our offers this festive sea-
son are aimed to provide much-
needed support for prospective
home buyers as they embark on
their journey for home owner-
ship,” said Alok Kumar
Choudhary, managing director
(retail banking and operations),
SBI.
SBI said its asset under man-
SAThascometoaconclusion
that KBL was not an aggrieved
party,andthereforehadnolocus
to file these proceedings, he
added.“Itisthereforeevidentthat
KBL is participating in trying to
facilitate Sanjay Kirloskar in his
disputes against us by initiating
complaints and takingaction for
which it doesn't even have locus
in the first place and in the
process mis-utilising share-
holder resources of a publicly
listed company and misusing
regulatory machinery,” Rahul
said.
Being a listed company, KBL
should justify the rationale and
basis on which it has been
“spending huge amounts aggre-
gating to approximately Rs 274
crore towards payment of pro-
fessionallegalexpensesandcon-
sultancy charges” ever since the
dispute arose in 2016, he as-
serted.
tentially worse outflows and tur-
moil in the future. Those that are
able should reinstate swap lines
with advanced-economy central
banks,”theysaidinablogpost.
Countries with sound eco-
nomicpoliciesinneedofaddress-
ing moderate vulnerabilities
should proactively avail them-
selves of the International
Monetary Fund's precautionary
lines to meet future liquidity
needs.Those with large foreign-
currencydebtsshouldreducefor-
segment has surpassed Rs 6 lakh
crore.
Mortgage lender HDFC Ltd is
giving a festive offer on home
loans at 8.4 per cent. Its home
loan rates, before this offer, were
between 8.6 per cent and 9 per
cent, depending on the loan
amount and credit score of the
borrower. Under the special fes-
tiveoffer,thehomefinancierisof-
feringjustonerateof 8.4percent
to borrowers with a credit score
of 750 and above, irrespective of
the loan amount.
Last month, private sector
lender HDFC Bank announced
festive offers across accounts,
loans,cardsandequatedmonthly
installments. The offers will be
availableacrossonline,offline,na-
Windfall taxes on
crude, export of
diesel up, ATF
levy reintroduced
ENS ECONOMIC BUREAU
NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 15
THEGOVERNMENTonSaturday
raisedthewindfalltaxondomes-
tically-produced crude oil to Rs
11,000fromRs8,000/tonne,and
the levy on export of diesel to Rs
12fromRs5perlitre,citingarise
in global crude prices in the last
fortnight. The revised taxes will
be effective from Sunday. It also
reintroducedalevyof Rs3.5/litre
on export of jet fuel, at the sev-
enth fortnightly review of the
one-off taxes on oil companies.
Thetaxeswereintroducedon
July1,asthegovernmentfeltthat
the elevated crude prices were
allowing oil companies to make
windfall profits, and that the ex-
chequermustgetashareof such
gains. FE
FM urges World Bank to avoid
unidimensional view of subsidies
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
WASHINGTON, OCTOBER 15
FINANCE MINISTER Nirmala
SitharamanhasurgedtheWorld
Bank to avoid a “unidimen-
sional”viewof thesubsidiespro-
vided by the Indian government
and asserted that it is important
to differentiate between “dis-
tortive subsidies” and “targeted
support” to vulnerable house-
holds.
Speaking at an intervention
of the World Bank Development
merchantscoveringawiderange
of categories including electron-
ics,jewellery,travel,homedecor,
consumer finance and cardless
EMI. Earlier this month, Punjab
National Bank, in a tweet, said it
apparels, grocery, personal and has fully waived off processing
business loans and commercial and documentation fees on car
vehicles. and home loans.
The bank is offering personal As part of its festive offer,
loans up to Rs 40 lakh in 10 sec- state-run Union Bank of India is
onds at an interest rate starting providing home loans starting at
from 10.50 per cent. Customers 8.25 per cent and car loans at 8.4
can also avail collateral free busi- per cent. It has also waived off
ness loan with 50 per cent off on processing fees on car and home
processing fee. It has waived off loans. The offer will be available
processingfeeongoldloansby50 to customers till November 11,
per cent. 2022, as per the information
ICICI Bank has also launched mentionedonthebank'swebsite.
afestivebonanzawhereinitisof- The lender is also offering dis-
feringawiderangeofoffersforits counts to customers for transac-
customers.Thecustomerscanget tions done on Bookmyshow,
discounts and cashbacks upto Rs MakeMyTrip, Zomato, Swiggy
25,000byusingthebank’scredit/ and Goibibo.
60% drop in NHAI projects
The NHAI awarded only 777 km of road projects in the
first half of this fiscal — a three-fiscal low and a 60%
drop compared with last year, a CRISIL report said.
Slackenedpaceofexecutionand thaninthesameperiodlastfiscal.
highlyinflatedpricesofkeyinput
materialshaveactedasmajor Ofthe777kmawardedinthefirst
impedimentstoawarding halfofthisfiscal,hybridannuity
momentum. model(HAM)projectscornereda
healthy51%share,while
NHAIhasalreadyfloatedtenders engineering,procurementand
forapproximately2,200kmsofar construction(EPC)accountedfor
thisfiscal—asmuchas36%more therest.
Awarding for the full fiscal is still likely to moderate on-year
and CRISIL expects 4,800-5,200 km of awards this fiscal,
lower than the 6,306 km awarded last fiscal. Source: CRISIL
proving India's performance on
several key parameters of SDG,
she said.
During her intervention, she
told the Development
Committee members thatwhile
thequestforenergyandfoodse-
curitynecessitatesnonexclusion
of fossil fuels from our energy
mix, India has setupitsfirstpure
hydrogen producing plant as
Nirmala Sitharaman attends well as its first 2G bioethanol re-
the Development finery this year.
Committee Meeting of the Going forward, she sug-
World Bank-IMF, in
Washington DC. PTI
gested three clear opportuni-
ties for the World Bank

HDFC Bank Sept quarter

leased by the Centre for IMF Gita Gopinath and the global eign-exchangemismatchesbyus- Committee’s meeting on Friday, Group.
September, a senior official lending body’s Chief Economist ing capital-flow management or Sitharaman said that subsidies First, promoting behaviour
said on Saturday. PTI Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, they macroprudentialpolicies,inaddi- havemade a definitivecontribu- Sitharaman said. change to increase energy effi-

net profit jumps 20.1% D-Martnetprofit

ENS ECONOMIC BUREAU
MUMBAI, OCTOBER 15
PRIVATE-SECTOR lender HDFC
Bank Saturday reported a 20.1
per cent jump in its standalone
net profit at Rs 10,605.8 crore in
the second quarter ended
September 2022 as against Rs
8,834.3 crore in the year-ago
quarter.
On a consolidated basis, its
netprofitstoodatRs11,125crore,
up 22.3 per cent, from Rs
9,096.19croreinthesameperiod
of the previous fiscal.
In the half year ended
September 2022, the lender’s
standalone net profit jumped by
19.5 per cent to Rs 19,801.8 crore
compared toRs16,563.9crorein
the corresponding period of the
previous fiscal.
During the September quar-
ter, net interest income (NII),
which is the difference between
the interest earned and interest
expended, grew by 18.9 per cent
to Rs 21,021.2 crore from Rs
17,684.4croreinthesameperiod
of last year.
Grossnon-performingassets
(GNPAs)showedslightimprove-
mentat1.23percentof grossad-
vances from 1.35 per cent in
September2021.NetNPAsstood
at0.33percentfrom0.4percent.
In the reporting quarter, pro-
visions and contingencies were
Rs 3,240.1 crore as against Rs
3,924.7croreinSeptember2021.
Its total capital adequacy ra-
tio (CAR) was at 18 per cent in
the second quarter as against a
regulatory requirement of 11.7
per cent. Tier 1 CAR stood at 17.1
percentandcommonequitytier
1 capital ratio was at 16.3 per
cent. The lender raised addi-
tional tier 1 bonds of Rs 3,000
crore in the quarter.
Totaladvancesgrew23.4per
cent to Rs 1,479,873 crore.
Domestic retail loans grew by
21.4 per cent, commercial and
rural banking loans grew by 31.3
percentandcorporateandother
wholesale loans grew by 27 per
cent. Total deposits showed a
healthyincreaseof 19percentat
Rs 1,673,408 crore in the quarter.
CASA (current account savings
account) deposits grew by 15.4
per cent with savings account
deposits at Rs 529,745 crore and
current account deposits at Rs
229,951 crore.
HDFC Ltd-HDFC
Bank merger
The National Company Law
Tribunal (NCLT) has directed
HDFC Bank and HDFC Limited to
convene meetings of their equity
shareholders on November 25,
2022 for considering the pro-
posed merger of the two entities.
The stockexchanges,theReserve
BankofIndiaandtheCompetition
CommissionofIndiahavealready
givenin-principleapprovalforthe
amalgamation.
New Delhi: D-Mart retail
chain owner Avenue
Supermarts on Saturday re-
porteda64.13percentrisein
itsconsolidatednetprofit in
theSeptemberquarter. PTI
Supply info on
time, don’t seek
adjournments:
Goyal to IPR
applicants
New Delhi: Commerce and in-
dustry minister Piyush Goyal on
Saturday asked applicants of in-
tellectual property rights to sug-
gest their lawyers to submit all
the information on time and not
create unnecessary hurdles in
granting IPRs.
Intellectual property rights
(IPRs) are exclusive legal rights
providedunderalawtoacreator
or inventor of a unique product
to protect that invention for a
specified period of time. These
rights include patents, trade-
marks and geographical indica-
tions (GIs).
"Please ask your lawyers not
to seek adjournments. We are
shortly going to change that rule
tomakeitonerousforthosewho
are asking for adjournments re-
peatedly," Goyal said. PTI
saidthatinsuchafragileenviron-
ment, it is prudent to enhance re-
silience.Althoughemergingmar-
tion to debt management opera-
tions to smooth repayment pro-
files,theywrote.
tion in improving India’s per-
formance on several key param-
eters of Sustainable
As an illustration, she said
that by providing free LPG con-
nections under the Pradhan
ciencyand toreduce food losses.
ProgrammesliketheLifestylefor
the Environment launched by
ket central banks have stockpiled Notablythedollarisatitshigh- Development Goals (SDG). Mantri Ujjwala Yojna over the IndiaontheWorldEnvironment
dollarreservesinrecentyears,re- estlevelsince2000,havingappre- “We urge the Bank to avoid a last six years, the Indian Day this June, in which World
flectinglessons learned from ear- ciated22percentagainsttheyen, unidimensional view of subsi- Government has ensured that Bank President David Malpass
liercrises,thesebuffersarelimited 13percentagainsttheEuroand6 dies. It is important to differen- accesstocleancookingmethods delivereda“wonderfulkeynote”
andshouldbeusedprudently. percentagainstemergingmarket tiate between distortive subsi- has achieved near saturation for address, can mainstream re-
“Countriesmustpreservevital currencies since the start of this dies and targeted support to the women in India. This has made sponsible consumption behav-
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U-17WWC:Mexico
shockSpain2-1
BRIEFLY
Champs of Asia
Navi Mumbai/Margao: Mexico shocked
defending champions Spain 2-1 in a
India romp to 7th women’s continental title with easy win over Sri Lanka
Group C of the FIFA U-17 Women's
World Cup. Maribel Flores (47) and
MontserratSaldivar(85)foundtheback
of the net for Mexico while Judit Pujols
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
OCTOBER 15
(74)scoredforSpain.Tanzaniarecorded
a 2-1 victory over France in a Group D IT WAS a no-contest as India thrashed Sri
matchtokeeptheirprospectsofadvanc- Lanka by eight wickets to clinch the
ing beyond the group stage alive. In the women's Asia Cup at Sylhet in Bangladesh
day's first Group C match, Colombia got on Saturday, winning the title for the sev-
thebetterof China2-0tomakethenext enth time in eight editions.
stageoftheage-groupshowpiece.Japan The Lankans were never in the game
blanked Canada 4-0 in their Group D and limped to 65 for nine in their 20 overs,
game with goals from Mao Kubota (9th a score that was overhauled in only 8.3
minute), Uno Shiragaki (37), Momoko overs. Seamer Renuka Singh did most of the
Tanikawa (52) and Mio Takaoka (90+2). early damage, returning figures of 3/5.
Opener Smriti Mandhana then raced to a
MumbaibeatOdisha 25-ball 51 in the small chase.
Sri Lanka, who prevailed over Pakistan
forfirstwinofseason by one run in an exciting semi-final, were
playing their first tournament final in 14
Mumbai: Mumbai City FC notched up years and seemed to be affected by nerves
a 2-0 win over Odisha FC in a tightly on the big occasion. Opting to bat on a slow
contested affair in the Indian Super pitch that offered turn, their batting left a
League here on Saturday. A Shubam lot to be desired.
Sarangi own goal and a 94th-minute After reaching the Commonwealth
Bipin Singh strike were enough to se- Games final in Birmingham, the compre-
cure all three points for the Islanders. hensive win showed progression in the
Five minutes into the second half, the Indian team's development, and all-
deadlock was broken courtesy an own rounder Deepti Sharma said the team was
goal. Lallianzuala unleashed a shot on ready to take the next big step.
targetafteraquick exchangewithGreg “If we work like this as a bowling and
Stewart. Amrinder Singh saved the ef- batting unit, the World Cup is also not very
fort with his foot but the ball hit de- far. This will be the mindset whenever we
fender Shubham Sarangi and rolled next play a final. Definitely, this Asia Cup
into the goal. triumph will help a lot, the winning mo-
mentum gives you confidence for the up-
SilverforToppo,Arjun coming series,” Deepti added.
The next Women's T20 World Cup will
inAsianAthletics be held in South Africa in four months' time.
India had one eye on it while playing the
New Delhi: Teenager Sabita Toppo of Asia Cup. They tested players in different
Odisha won the silver medal in the girls roles, though that approach contributed to
100m hurdles clocking 14.17 seconds in their only loss in the tournament, against
theAsianYouthAthleticsChampionship Pakistan in the league stage.
at Kuwait City. In the boys javelin, Arjun That, and the upcoming Women's IPL,
wonsilverwithathrowof70.98mwhile announced by the BCCI a couple of days ago,
Himanshu Mishra took bronze with could give an added fillip to the women's
67.67m. Sabita's silver comes following game in the country. India have shown that
the gold that she won in 100m hurdles if they play anywhere close to their poten-
at the National Youth (U-18) Athletics tial, other teams in Asia can't come close to
meet in Bhopal. them at the moment. At the world level,
they have started beating England fre-
Paulrajrewritespole quently and only the all-conquering
Australian side seems a cut above them.
vaultnationalrecord The islanders never got going on
Saturday and were reduced to 9/4 and then
Bengaluru: Tamil Nadu's Rosy Meena 16/5, thanks to Renuka's probing spell and
Paulraj shattered the national record some questionable running between the
for women's pole vault for the second wickets.
time in 15 days when she cleared After that spinner Rajeshwari Gayakwad
4.21m to win the gold medal at the (2/16) and Sneh Rana (2/13) got into the act,
National Open athletics champi- not giving the Lankans any respite.
onships here on Saturday.
PRESSTRUSTOFINDIA Kaur backs bowling, fielding
India skipper Harmanpreet Kaur lauded
Indian women celebrate after their victory over Sri Lanka. BCCI/Asian Cricket Council
We read the wicket really well
and set the field according to it.
We weren't looking at the
scorecard. We were targeting
every five overs. We were looking
to work in sets. And once we won
each and every set, I knew that
we were in front ”
HARMANPREET KAUR
INDIA CAPTAIN
India's bowlers and fielders.
“I think we should give credit to our
bowlers for the way they bowled. And also
not to forget our fielders, who did well to
keep the batters under pressure by helping
the bowlers. We read the wicket really well
and set the field according to it,” she said.
“We weren't looking at the scorecard. We
were targeting every five overs. We were
looking to work in sets. And once we won
each and every set, I knew that we were in
front.”
The Indian fielding resulted in the
runout of Sri Lankan captain Chamari
Athapaththu in the third over following a
mix-up with Anushka Sanjeewani, who too
got run out six balls later.
Soon, Lanka were 32/8 and in danger of
being bowled out for under 50, but Inoka
Ranaweera prevented that ignominy by
top-scoring with an unbeaten 18.
India lost Shafali Verma and Jemimah
Rodrigues during the run chase, but
Harmanpreet was at the crease when the
winning runs were scored. Smriti did the
bulk of the scoring, hitting three sixes and
six boundaries, and sealed the deal with a
maximum off Oshadi Ranasinghe.
The Lankans would have entered the fi-
nal with hopes of making it a close contest,
but their batting let them down badly.
"Yes, it's a tough day as a team. Not a
good batting display as a team. I am really
upset,” Athapaththu said after the thrash-
ing. “The plus points are the tough situa-
tions that we came through. The batting has
to improve and bowling is fine. There are a
couple of youngsters and hope they do well
and play in the future and do well. The T20
World Cup is next year and I hope we take
the positives and come out stronger.”
As far as India is concerned, Renuka's
continued development is good news after
the legendary Jhulan Goswami called it a
day after the recent tour of England.
Renuka, who is still a relative newcomer at
the international level, has shown that she
is ready to take the mantle.
On the batting front, Shafali's return to
form and Jemima's return from injury are
also good signs for India.
BRIEF SCORES: Sri Lanka 65/9 in 20
overs (Ranaweera 18*; Renuka Singh 3/5)
lost to India 71/2 in 8.3 overs (Smriti
Mandhana 51*; Inoka Ranaweera 1/17) by 8
wickets
16-year-old Narwal makes
air pistol Worlds final, but
misses out on Oly quota
SHASHANK NAIR
OCTOBER 15
INDIA’S YOUNG contender Shiva Narwal
blew a golden opportunity to win a 2024
Paris Olympics quota at the World
Championships on Saturday at the Egypt
Olympic International centre. The 16-year-
old junior World Champion (team event), in
his first appearance at the Worlds, faltered
in the men’s 10m air pistol final to bow out
in the eighth spot.
It was commendable to sneakinto thefi-
nals with 7 consecutive shots of 10 in quali-
fication, and the teen, not quite 17 still, was
the youngest amongst the 8 men. That form
would sadly fizzle out in the final which
boasted a strong pack.
In a final that had three Chinese shoot-
ers in Liu Jinyoa, Zhang Yifan and Zhang
Bowen and two Ukrainians in Pavlo
Korostylov and Viktor Bankin, five countries
became eligible for four quotas. This meant
that if Narwal could beat the Korean or
Pakistani shooter early in thefinal, he would
have taken the quota.
He started off his first series with a 10.2
and a 10.4 – but then produced two horror
shots for 9.2 and 9.4 points. He ended his
first series on a 10.1 to finish with a total of
49.1. Narwal’s second series was margin-
ally better with four shots above 10 (10.3,
10,4 and two 10.0) but it was a 9.2 shot yet
again that derailed his second series.
Fortunately, at the time for Narwal, Bowen
had a worse series than him, shooting 47.3
to drop to eighth.
At this point, Narwal was still in with a
chance to win the quota spot. But his spotty
shooting reared its head again in the third
and final series.
This time the erratic short chart read 9.7,
8.9,9.9, 10.2and9.9 again.Ina series thatre-
quiredhimtoshoot10.2+shotsconsistently,
the Indian shooter never managed to get his
groupings on point and bowed out of the
competition in last spot.
Earlier during qualification, Narwal had
started brilliantly, with his opening series
scoring reaching 99. But the second series
was where his 95 brought him lower down
thepeckingorder.Hefollowedthosetwose-
ries with a 97 and a 96.
Crucially it was the final two series’
where Narwal just about managed to make
his place in the final. He finished both with
98 points but it was some back-to-the-wall
shooting in the last series that truly got him
over the line.
With the qualification cut-off at 582,
Narwal went on a run, firing 10 after 10. By
theendof theseries,theHaryana-nativehad
seven consecutive 10s to finish his qualifica-
25m pistol: Esha
wins junior title
New Delhi: Esha Singh won the title in
the junior women’s 25m pistol event
in the ISSF World Championships in
Cairo. Esha shot a score of 581 in the
qualification round to qualify for the
final at fourth place.
The Indian youngster then
claimed the second spot with a score
of 11 in the second ranking round to
advance to the medal ranking round.
In the medal ranking round, Esha
scored a total of 29 points to claim the
gold medal while China’s Sixuam
Cheng won the silver medal with a
score of 25 points. ENS
tion. One of those 10s are slightly off the
mark, and Narwal might have faced the
same fate as his teammate Naveen, who
missed out on the final by a solitary position
after inner 10s ruined his chances.
The young shooter was not able to recre-
atehisfinalqualificationseriesheroicsinthe
eight-man shootout and missed out on the
quota. India’s other shooters in the event –
finished 9th (Naveen with a score of 582)
and 19th (Vijayweer Sidhu with a score of
579).
Udhayveer's double gold sees
India consolidate second place
PTIadds:Indiapickedupthreemoregold
medals to go with two bronze, including a
double gold by Udhayveer Sidhu, to consol-
idatetheir second position in the ISSF World
Championship in Cairo on Saturday.
Udhayveer won both the junior men's
25mandstandardpistoltitlesasIndiaended
the day with four gold and three bronze
medals to lie behind China who have eight
gold and a total of 16 medals.
India has also picked up one Paris 2024
Olympics quota place after Rudrankksh
Balasaheb Patil stunned a high-quality field
on Friday to become the 10 air rifle men's
world champion.
Udhayveer shota combinedscoreof 580
after the precision and rapid fire rounds in
the junior men's sports pistol, to emerge on
top of the 23-strong field.
Italian Matteo Mastrovalerio was a point
behind in second while China's Liu Yangpan
won bronze with 577. In the standard pistol,
he shot 568 across three stages to leave be-
hind Yangpan, who this time settled for sil-
ver with 567.
India's Sameer also shot 567 but had to
settle for bronze on countback.

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SUNDAY CROSSWORD 2395
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Dealer:SouthVulnerable:North/South

QUICK CLUES
ARIES (Mar 21 - Apr 20) LIBRA (Sep 24 - Oct 23)
Venus is now wafting From the planetary
WEST ACROSS
1. Disastrous (12) its way through all of point of view your
♠ 10953 WEST NORTH EAST SOUTH 10. Unit of magnetic intensity the various pleasant week is divided
and prosperous into neat little
❤A 1H (7)
regions of your chart. That's compartments. Get trim and fit,
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15. Identified, distinguished, knew
developing your relationship skills, in the calms your passions. That then change tack after that.
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(10) doesn’t mean you won’t be Devote your time to love,
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tentionformoretricksifyourpartnerhastheaceorjack.Someplayershate
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the jack in dummy. Not to worry. You will get a lot more good results than 28. Exiled Soviet novelist (12) months will be the result of planning. pace of events will should really take
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3. In spite of the fact (8)
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causeheplayedthetwoattrickone. IfEasthadtwoclubs,hewouldplayhigh- 5. Excessive or undue
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andthatwillresultindownone.
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(5) 28. Have a concerted bash to raise (5)
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Dealer:SouthVulnerable:North/South CRYPTIC CLUES
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THE SUNDAY EXPRESS, OCTOBER 16, 2022
BIG
QUESTION
AUSTRALIA
DOES SMITH STILL
DESERVE A SPOT IN
THE PLAYING XI
Steve Smith’s strike rate is 120.51
this year and was 97.18 in 2021.
THE EMERGENCE of an exciting new tal-
ent is generally good news for selectors
andteammanagement.Butthewisemen
of Australia have been caught in a pickle
by the rapid, and giant, strides made by
CameronGreen.Thebig-builtall-rounder,
whoisnotintheAussiesquadfortheT20
World Cup, made people sit up and take
notice after excelling at the top of the or-
der,wherehehadnotbattedatallthrough
his still-nascent career.
There are other pressing issues facing
the selectors – namely Steve Smith's util-
ity in the T20 format, the fitness or oth-
erwise of Marcus Stoinis and Mitchell
Marsh, both of whom played big roles in
Australia's title run last year, where to fit
Tim David's attacking talents, and will
skipper Aaron Finch open the batting.
It's Smith, a proven performer in the
other two formats, who seems most vul-
nerable if the selectors ignore emotion.
His strength is knocking the ball around
into gaps and finding the odd boundary
whentheothersaroundhimcanclearthe
rope almost at will.
If everyoneisfitandavailable,onecan
seeAustraliagoingwiththesamebatting
line-up – order flexible – with the only
change being David in Smith's place.
The former skipper's only case for re-
tention could be the bigger Australian
groundsandtheprobabilityof earlywick-
ets lost, when his skills and more conser-
vativestyleof battingmaycomeinhandy.
But teams these days usually keep on at-
tacking throughout the innings, even if
they lose a few batsmen along the way.
Smith'srecentannualstrikeratesinT20Is
have been 97.18 in 2021 (4 innings) and
120.51 in 2022 thus far (9 innings), much
lower than the norm for the rest of the
Australian batting order.
In contrast, David, who admittedly
has just started playing for Australia, has
astrikerateof 165.95oversevenmatches.
It can be argued that if Green was in-
cluded in the squad, Smith would most
likely be on the outside looking in. With
the fitness of the seam-bowling all-
rounders still not certain, and Finch
searching for his best form after retiring
fromODIs,therearemorequestionsthan
answers.
TUSHAR BHADURI
Hope Suryakumar becomes
the X-factor: Sharma
Suryakumar Yadav is India’s
in-form batsman.
TEAMINDIAcaptainRohitSharmaspoke
about the form of of Suryakumar Yadav,
and said he hopes the middle-order bat-
ter can give his side the edge in Australia.
“Surya is in good form. I hope he contin-
ues to bat in that way, high on confi-
dence,” he told reporters on Friday. “He
is a confident player. He plays fearlessly,
he uses his skill set efficiently. I hope he
becomes the x-factor.”
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Jos Buttler has a great wrist-snap; Hardik Pandya has quick hands and feet; Glenn Maxwell’s ‘hands above front elbow’ when lifting bat gives him a great launch pad.
Liam Livingstone
HIS MINDSET is to try to hit every ball for a
six.Hehasnofearof failure.Heneedsrhythm
and tempo, and timing. He gets his rhythm
from his hands and when he gets it right, the
whole kinetic chain stays together. That
groundforceswetalkedabout.Whenhegets
it wrong, which is what is more important
basically, his back leg basically collapses,
which means he doesn’t use his back leg.
Whenyouarehitting,youwantyourback
heelstobeaboveyourtoe,thenyouarecreat-
ingpower,creatingangles.Butifyourbackleg
collapses,thepowerdoesn’tflowproperly.He
has got great hand-eye coordination and is
backing his hands. If you commit to the shot,
youareputtingyourwholebodyintotheshot.
He has talked about hitting his longest sixes
againstspinnerswhenheinitiallyfeelshehas
been done in by the flight and still goes
through it.
What does it mean? The commitment
takesoverandthewholebodyflowsintoand
the energy flows better. Even if he doesn't
quitegethere,hecandragitforasix;hishands
do the work in the end. But his best comes
whenhisbacklegispositionedwellandkick-
starts the hips into the action.
Jos Buttler
HE IS arguably the best T20 batter of all time.
He has the greatest wrist-snap out there. At
the start of the innings he can be quite con-
ventional, stay side-on, see the swing and
pace,and once hehasgot his eyein,heopens
up a touch. He can access every part of the
ground, he has the same swing (as Liam) but
he can hit different planes, depending on
length and line. He can open up the off side
andof coursehecangolegsideandhehasall
those scoops.
You have lots of energy stored in your
wrist. His wrist-snap is the best out there.
And he doesn’t try to hit under the ball but
almost undercut it slightly so that the ball
gets more air-time, stays longer and clears
the field. With slightly under-cutting, you
get a lot of backspin on the ball which basi-
cally takes the ball out of the field. It’s a thing
in baseball. You don’t get too under the ball
and only get elevation, but hit it at an angle
The 35-year-old said that fast bowler
Jasprit Bumrah has been one of the most
crucialplayersforIndiaintherecentpast,
and his presence will be missed at the
WorldCup,buthehadtobeleftoutof the
team in order to safeguard his career.
Rohit spoke at large about how India
has been trying to develop its bench
strength over the past few years in order
to deal with situations like this. All-
rounder Ravindra Jadeja will also be
missing from the squad due to injury.
“You can’t do anythingabout injuries.
We talked to specialists to do everything
we can to make him play the World Cup.
But his career is more important. He is
27-28, we can’t take risks. He has a lot of
cricket left in him. We will miss him
(Bumrah),” he said. “Injuries are part of
the game. Nothing much can be done
about it.”
When asked what he and Pakistan
captain Babar Azam talk about, Sharma
said, “We all talk about our families and
all. We talk about life, what new car did
you buy. That’s all we talk about.” ENS
Icc T20 World Cup 2022
GREATEST HITS
Power-hitting coach Julian Wood explains to Sriram Veera the nuts
and bolts of clearing the boundaries through the methods of top practitioners
WHITE-BALl bat-
ting is hand-eye co-
ordination with
power and skill.
When you bat, you
lead with your
head. When you
hit, you lead with your hip more. It’s
about generating power ground-up,
from the hip to the hands. Cricket has
been traditionally too hand-reliant.
That has to change. Power comes
that gains more airtime and travels longer.
Buttler has a pure bat swing and it looks so
effortless. It's a bit like a slice, but from a dif-
ferent angle of course. You don’t want to un-
dercut too much; it’s a scientific art.
Glenn Maxwell
HE HAS this ability to separate his hands
from the body. He has strong massive fore-
arms on him. And he commits to every shot.
Tome,hehastokeepitsimple.,Don’ttamper
too much. He seems very instinctive and
needstogowithitratherthantinkeraround.
By separating the hands from the body I
mean this: When he lifts his bat up, he has a
great set-up. His hands go behind him, his
hands are above his front elbow which gives
youagreatlaunch-pad.It’slikegolf,youdon’t
hit 400 yards just by getting the club down;
there is a hand-hip separation and Maxwell
[SKIPPER TALK]
Australia captain Aaron Finch clicks a selfie with his counterparts. PTI
We all talk about our families and all. We talk about life,
what new car did you buy. That’s all we talk about.
ROHIT SHARMA
ON WHAT HE AND PAKISTAN SKIPPER BABAR AZAM TALK ABOUT
MY PHILOSOPHY
from the torso and hips. A kinetic
chain of energy happens when you
hit the ball explosively: it comes up
from your back leg to your hip, to your
back, goes to your shoulder, elbow,
and finally to your wrists. What I try to
do is to join the dots up. You need to
separate your hands from your body.
You need to do that separation to im-
prove explosiveness. You see that in
baseball, the back leg goes back,
hands are separated from the body so
does that pretty well.
Hardik Pandya
VERY QUICK hands. Very quick movements -
feet too to get into great positions. He knows
what he likes to do. And what he does well is,
if theballisn’tthereforthepositionhehasset
himself up for - say on the off-stump guard,
opened-upstanceandintheorylookingtohit
tothelegside-heisstillingreatpositiontohit
it somewhere else. We have often seen the
bowlers try bowling wider, away from him,
and he smashes it to the point boundary. The
best ones are the proper batters; like Pandya,
likeButtler.Theyhavegreatawarenessabout
their batting and it helps massively. Hardik
has such quick hands, see some of the cuts or
theleg-sidedrags;heslashesthemalmost.He
swoops down well on the outside-off york-
ers; he is seriously quick.
As another edition of the T20 World Cup knocks
on, The Indian Express tracks the trends of the
T20 milieu and traces the conditions that could
influence the tournament.
to say, and then an explosion kicks in.
You have lots of energy stored up in
your wrists. For players who don’t do
it naturally, I try to create it by their
natural movements. Using wrists is
the last part of the kinetic chain of
events. How to get that final snap. I
would like to see how all these hitters
go about their job in Australia where
the playing services are a bit bigger.
They have to be aggressively smart.
JULIANWOOD
Anotherinterestingthingyounoticeabout
Pandya, and this is true of many of these big
hitters like Buttler, is that these guys hit
straightbutdon’tplaystraight. Theyplaywith
aslightangleof thebat,whichgivesmoreop-
tions. Hit straight, but don’t play straight.
Italsohelpsinunder-cuttingtheball.You
can only undercut if you are at a slight angle.
When you play straight, up and downward
swing of the bat in line, as you might have
seenintheoldendays,theballcangostraight
up or get more elevation than needed. You
can see it still with the more conservative-
or-conventional oriented batsmen.They can
punchtheballbutwhentheygobeyondthat,
andarelookingforaerialelevation,thattech-
nique fails.
David Miller
HE GETS into good positions and stays there.
Williamson unfussed
about no favourites tag
Melbourne: The lack of favourites tag does-
n't bother New Zealand captain Kane
Williamson,whosaysthey"don'treallyhave
achoiceinwhatpeoplecall"thelastedition's
runner-up team heading into the T20 World
Cup. "We don't really have a choice in what
people call us, but for us we came here and
try and focus on the cricket that we want to
play and address what's in front of us,"
Williamson said at the captains' press con-
ference here on Saturday. "We had a pretty
memorable World Cup a few months back
and played these guys in the final.” PTI
Opening in T20 comes
with risk: Finch
Melbourne:Out-of-form Australian skipper
Aaron Finch says he has been working on
makingsometechnicalchangesaheadof the
T20WorldCup.Finch,whoretiredfromOne-
Day Internationals recently, has been endur-
ing a rough patch for over a year. In the three
T20Is against England at home, he managed
just 25 runs. "I think T20 cricket as an open-
ing batter, that comes with some risk and re-
ward at times when you're trying to be ag-
gressiveandgettheteamoff toaquickstart,"
Finch said. PTI
New Delhi
WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM
Asinyoudon’tseehimgooutof shape,when
he is hitting well. He doesn’t get too close to
the ball. He can play straight but he can also
manoeuvre the ball to other areas pretty
dominantly.
No unnecessary grasping or lunging at
the ball. More self-confidence these days I
notice waiting for the ball. He is strong and
has quick hands; so he can do that. He is a
proper batsman who gets access to the ball.
It looks like he has worked out his game.
Rovman Powell
HE IS strong, built like a heavyweight boxer.
He gets into positions very early and has that
hands-hip separation.
He has skills for scientific hitting but he is
more of a power hitter. Not as skilful as some
of othersinthelistbutseemstohavetheball-
sensetogoforhisbrutalswings.Hisroleinthe
team is also different to the others in the list -
not as much rides on him as yet as he is still
growingandheislettinghimself haveabitof
fun, if you like. Once the bowlers start prob-
ing and analysing, then these batsmen tend
to go more scientific with their hitting. But
right now, he is punching them like a boxer.
So strong.
Marcus Stoinis and Tim David
STOINIS is a big strong boy,more power than
skill (scientific skill that is) but that doesn’t
mean he doesn’t think about his hitting art.
You can see him, feet close together, slightly
crouching, the body like a catapult when he
springs and uncoils for the big hit. So there
is that thought and style; but again with his
role, with the other hitters in the team, he
has been free to come and do his thing. The
timingof themovementisthekeyandwhen
he gets it right, he connects well.
Tim David is another batsman I am look-
ing forward to in the world cup. A batsman
who has almost raised through franchise
cricket. A stand-and-deliver kind of a guy,
with good clean bat swing.
Tall, long levers, and a simple bat swing.
Ihaven’tseenmuchof TristanStubbs;healso
looks good. If you ask me about a team of
batters of power players then I have to pick
England. All the way down.
Ganguly to contest
CAB elections
Mumbai: After being denied the op-
portunity to be the BCCI president for
a second term, former India captain
Sourav Ganguly has thrown his hat in
the ring for the Cricket Association of
Bengal polls. In a text message to The
Indian Express, Ganguly confirmed
that he would be contesting for the
post of CAB president. CAB polls are
scheduled to be
held on October
31.
Ganguly wanted
to continue as
BCCIpresidentbut
was offered the
post of Indian
Premier League chairman, which he
declined. The BCCI had also made it
clearthatitwouldnotbacktheformer
India captain for the post of ICC chair-
man. If elected during the CAB elec-
tions,itwillbeGanguly'ssecondterm
asCABpresident.Hewasthepresident
from 2015 to 2019 before moving to
theBCCI.Gangulyseemstohavehada
changeofmindnowthatheiscontest-
ing for the post of CAB president.
Earlier this week at a bank's promo-
tionalevent, Ganguly hadsaidthathe
would ‘go for bigger things in future.’
DEVENDRA PANDEY

23 THE WORLD
THE SUNDAY EXPRESS, OCTOBER 16, 2022
TOPOFTHE
WORLD
Captain Harpreet
Chandi. PTI
UK
Indian-origin
womansetfor
newrecordtrek
toAntarctica
London: A 33-year-old
British Sikh Army officer
and physiotherapist, who
completedatrekkingchal-
lenge to become the first
Indian-origin woman to
set the record of a solo un-
supported trek to the
SouthPole,is all setfor her
secondchallenge,thistime
for the Antarctic. Captain
Harpreet Chandi returned
from the South Pole in
January, which she saw as
the first phase ahead of
the over 1,000-mile solo
and unaided trek to
Antarctica. Chandi will be
pulling a sledge with all
her kit and battling below
freezing temperatures on
hernewadventurestarting
towards the end of this
month.“Myaimistocom-
plete a solo and unsup-
ported crossing of
Antarctica,”saysChandi. PTI
INDONESIA
Coughsyrup
materiallinked
toGambia
deaths banned
Jakarta: Indonesia on
Saturdaybannedingredi-
ents linked to the deaths
of 70 children in Gambia
from cough syrups in the
Southeast Asian country
as it investigates acute
kidney damage that has
killed over 20 children in
the capital Jakarta this
year. Food and drug regu-
lator BPOM also said it
was investigating the
possibility that the ingre-
dients, diethylene glycol
and ethylene glycol, had
contaminated other ma-
terials that are used as
solvents. REUTERS
TURKEY
Govtallows
jailtermsfor
‘fakenews’
Istanbul: Turkey’s
Parliament has passed
sweeping new legislation
intendedtostampoutdis-
information, allowing the
governmenttojailjournal-
istsandsocialmediausers
for up to three years for
spreading information
deemedtobefalseormis-
leading. The final piece of
the legislation, which also
requiressocialmediacom-
panies to hand over the
personal details of users
suspected of spreading
“fakenews,”wasapproved
on Thursday with votes
from President Recep
Tayyip Erdogan’s govern-
ing party and allies, who
control a parliamentary
majority. Erdogan had ar-
gued it was necessary to
fight disinformation and
calledsocialmediaathreat
to democracy. NYT
NEPAL
Nepal-India
literaryfestival
kicksoff
Kathmandu: The annual
Kalinga Literary Festival,
organisedforthefirsttime
in Nepal, kicked off on
Saturday with over 200
notedwritersandcultural
figures from India and
Nepal participating. The
2022 edition of the two-
day festival with the
theme ‘India & Nepal:
JourneyofCivilisationsand
SearchfortheSoul’wasin-
augurated by VC of Nepal
Academy Jagman Gurung,
litterateurTulasiDiwasand
IndianpoetAshokVajpayee,
amongothers. PTI
Key meet today, China expected to grant
Xi five more years with no major changes
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BEIJING, OCTOBER 15
CHINAONSundayopensatwice-
a-decade party conference at
whichleaderXiJinpingisexpected
to receive a third five-year term
thatbreakswithrecentprecedent
and establishes himself as ar-
guablythemostpowerfulChinese
politiciansinceMaoZedong.
Xi is expected to issue a
lengthy address at the opening
session, but little change is fore-
seen in his formula of strict one-
party rule, intolerance of criti-
cism and a hard-line approach
towardCovid-19,includingquar-
antines and travel bans even as
other countries have opened up.
As with most Chinese politi-
cal events, little information has
been released beforehand and
the Congress’ outcome will only
be announced after several days
of closed-door sessions. How
much has been decided in ad-
vanceandhowmuchisstilltobe
hashedoutinface-to-facemeet-
ings also remain unknown.
But Sun offered few details
aboutwhatif anychangeswould
be enacted to the party’s charter
at the meeting, which is ex-
pected to last about a week. The
Resolution
in US House:
Pak Army role
in Bangladesh
‘genocide’
LALIT K JHA
WASHINGTON, OCTOBER 15
TWO INFLUENTIAL American
lawmakers have introduced a
resolution in the House of
Representatives that urges the
US President to recognise the
atrocities committed against
ethnic Bengalis and Hindus by
the Pakistani Armed forces in
1971 as a genocide.
Indian-American Congress-
man Ro Khanna
CongressmanSeveChabotintro-
and
duced the resolution in the US
House of Representatives on
Friday, which among other
things, calls on the government
of Pakistan to offer apologies to
the people of Bangladesh for its
role in such a genocide.
“We must not let the years
erase the memory of the millions
whoweremassacred.Recognising
thegenocidestrengthensthehis-
toricalrecord,educatesourfellow
Americans,andletswould-beper-
petrators know such crimes will
not be tolerated,” Chabot, a
Republican member,tweeted.
Khanna, a Democrat and the
US Representative from
California's 17th Congressional
district, tweeted that he along
with Chabot introduced the first
resolution commemorating the
1971 Bengali Genocide in which
millions of ethnic Bengalis and
Hindus were killed or displaced.
The resolution has been wel-
comed by the Bangladeshi com-
munity.SaleemRezaNoor,whose
family was murdered by armed
Islamists,expressedreliefafter51
yearsof despair.“Ourgenocideis
finallygettingrecognition,”Noor
said.Heexpressedsatisfactionas
bothRepublicansandDemocrats
joined forces to introduce a his-
toric resolution that has the po-
tential to reshape the geopolitics
of South Asia, Central Asia, and
the Indo-Pacific. PTI
THEY HELPED STEAL MY EMAILS WITH KEY SOURCES: SOLOMON
Ex-WSJ reporter says US law firm used Indian hackers to sabotage career
RAPHAEL SATTER
WASHINGTON, OCTOBER 15
A FORMER Wall Street Journal re-
porterisaccusingamajorUSlaw
firm of having used mercenary
hackers to oust him from his job
and ruin his reputation.
In a lawsuit filed late Friday,
Jay Solomon, the Journal’s for-
merchief foreigncorrespondent,
saidPhiladelphia-basedDechert
LLP worked with hackers from
India to steal emails between
him and one of his key sources,
Iranian American aviation exec-
utive Farhad Azima.
Congress is the 20th in the his-
tory of the century-old party,
which boasts some 96 million
members, over 2,000 of whom
will attend the Beijing meetings.
The changes will “incorpo-
rate the major theoretical views
and strategic thinking” con-
cluded in the five years since the
last congress, said Sun, a deputy
head of the Chinese Communist
Party’s Propaganda Department
who is not known outside party
circles. The amendment or
amendmentswill“meetnewre-
quirements for advancing the
party’s development and work
in thefaceof new circumstances
and new tasks,” Sun said.
Xi has left little room for fur-
ther political aggrandisement,
having placed himself thor-
oughly in charge of domestic af-
fairs, foreign policy, the military,
theeconomyandmostotherkey
mattersoverseenbypartywork-
ing groups that he leads.
TheCongresscomesasChina’s
economy is facing major head-
windsamidanear-collapseinthe
real estate sector and the toll on
retailandmanufacturingimposed
by Covid curbs that upped the
regime’salreadyintensemonitor-
ingofthepopulationandsuppres-
sion of free speech.
41 KILLED IN TURKEY COAL MINE EXPLOSION
Funerals for miners killed in a coal mine explosion in northern Turkey began on Saturday as officials raised the toll to at least
41 people. Desperate relatives waited all night outside the mine in Amasra, where 110 miners were working on Friday. AP
RUSSIAN MISSILE HITS POWER SITE NEAR KYIV
Ukraine mobilisation should
end in two weeks, says Putin
AGENCIES
ASTANA, OCTOBER 15
RUSSIASHOULDbefinishedcall-
ing up reservists in two weeks,
President Vladimir Putin said on
Friday, promising an end to a di-
visive mobilisation that has seen
hundreds of thousands of men
summoned to fight in Ukraine
and huge numbers flee the
country.
Putin also said Russia had no
plans“fornow”formoremassive
airstrikeslikethoseitcarriedout
this week, in which it fired more
than 100 long range missiles at
targets across Ukraine. He said
222,000 out of an expected
300,000 reservists had already
been mobilised. “This work is
coming to an end,” he said at the
Solomon said the messages,
which showed Azima floating
theideaof thetwoof themgoing
into business together, were put
into a dossier and circulated in a
successful effort to get him fired.
The lawsuit, filed in federal
court in Washington, said
Dechert “wrongfully disclosed
this dossier first to Solomon’s
employer,theWall Street Journal,
at its Washington DC bureau,
and then to other media outlets
in an attempt to malign and dis-
credit him.” It said the campaign
“effectively caused Solomon to
beblackballedbythejournalistic
and publishing community.”
PARTY CONGRESS: WHAT TO EXPECT
The Communist Party Congress is expected to produce
a new set of leaders handpicked by President Xi
WHATISATSTAKEATTHE
MEETING
■ Nosignificantchangestothe
politicaloreconomicsystemare
E
expected
E X P L A I NE D
REPRESENTATION
ATCONGRESS
Asmanyas2,296
representativeswere
‘elected’toCongress
■ Allcandidatesare vettedand
noopencampaigningisallowed
■ Ofthose,771aredescribedas
frontlinepartymembers
Peaceful resolution first choice: China on Taiwan
Beijing: China will strive with
“utmost efforts” for the peaceful
reunification of Taiwan and the
use of force would be the last re-
sort under “compelling circum-
stances”, the ruling Communist
Party said on Saturday, toning
down its rhetoric ahead of the
key Congress.
SAUDIARABIAGRANTS
$400MNAIDTOKYIV
SAUDI ARABIA will pro-
vide $400 million in hu-
manitarian aid to Ukraine,
Saudi state news agency
SPA said, adding that
CrownPrinceMohammed
bin Salman made a call to
President Volodymyr
Zelenskyy on Friday. MbS
expressed the kingdom’s
readiness to continue ef-
forts of mediation and
support everything that
contributes to de-escala-
tion, SPA added. REUTERS
end of a summit in Kazakhstan.
“I think that in about two weeks
Former WSJ reporter Jay
Solomon in Maryland, US.
Reuters
■ ThepartyandtheCongress’s
makeupremaindominatedby
menfromHanethnicgroup
■ Womenandminoritygroups
accountfor27%and
11.5%of
representatives,
respectively
■ Thenew
● leadership
willbe
unveiledatits
closingsession
Xi Jinping
Speaking at a press confer-
ence, spokesman for the 20th
NationalCongressof theCPCSun
Yeli stressed that promoting na-
tional reunification by peaceful
means serves best for the
Chinese nation as a whole, in-
cluding the compatriots in
Taiwan, and works well for the
allthemobilisationactivitieswill
be finished."
Ukrainian President
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in his
nightly address, again said
Ukraine'sforces wouldretake all
of its territory. “They still have
the possibility to terrorise our
cities and all Europeans, black-
mailing the world. But they have
nochanceof succeedingandwill
have none because Ukraine is
moving forward."
Meanwhile, amissile strike
damaged a key energy facility in
Kyiv, the country’s grid operator
said Saturday . Kyiv region Gov.
Oleksiy Kuleba said the strike on
theunidentifiedfacilitydidnotkill
or wound anyone. Electricity
transmission company
Ukrenergosaidrepaircrewswere
working to restore electricity .
Dechertdidnotreturnames-
sage seeking comment. Azima -
who filed his own lawsuit
against Dechert on Thursday in
New York - did not immediately
return a message.
Solomon’s suit is the latest in
a series of legal actions that fol-
lows Reuters’ reporting about
hired hackers operating out of
India.InJune,Reutersreportedon
the activities of several hack-for-
hire shops, including Delhi area-
companies BellTroX and
CyberRoot, that were involved in
adecade-longseriesofespionage
campaigns targeting thousands
of people, including over 1,000
SOUTH KOREA WORLD EXPO
BTS HOLDS FREE CONCERT TO HELP COUNTRY
K-pop boy band BTS reunited on Saturday for a concert in Busan in support of South
Korea’s bid to host the World Expo 2030 in the southern port city. The free concert —
‘BTS <Yet To Come> in BUSAN’ —drew an audience of 52,000 people to a stadium, as
per Yonhap News Agency.
FOREIGNPOLICYCONCERNS
China’smoreassertiveforeign
policyhaspromptedabacklash
frommanycountries
■ Chineseforceshaveclashed
withIndiantroopsalongthe
border
■ China’s refusaltocriticise
theUkrainewarhasraised
tensionswiththeWest
■ China’sthreattoinvade
Taiwanhasdrawnflak
XI HAS shownnosignofa
changeinforeignpolicy
direction,despiterising
discontentinthecountry
long-termstabilityanddevelop-
mentof China.“Nationalreunifi-
cation by peaceful means is the
"first choice in resolving the
Taiwan question," said Sun.
"Peaceful reunification and
'one country, two systems' are
ourbasicprinciplesforresolving
theTaiwanquestion,"hesaid. PTI
Poland fixes
pipeline leak
Warsaw, Berlin: The Polish oper-
ator of an oil pipeline running to
GermanysaidonSaturday ithas
fixed the damage that caused a
leak earlier this week and that
the flow of crude oil from Russia
has been restored. The state-run
operator,PERN,saidbothlinesof
the Druzhba pipeline were op-
erating normally, transporting
oil. It said the cause of the leak is
being investigated.
Sweden, meanwhile, has re-
jected plans to set up a formal
joint investigation team with
Denmark and Germany to look
into the recent ruptures of the
Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines, a
Swedish prosecutor said. Mats
Ljungqvist, the prosecutor in-
volved in the probe, said, “This is
because there is information in
our investigation that is subject
to confidentiality directly linked
to national security”. AGENCIES
lawyersat108differentlawfirms.
Atthetime,Reutersreportedthat
peoplewhohadbecomehacking
targets while involved in at least
sevendifferentlawsuitshadeach
launchedtheirowninquiriesinto
the cyberespionage campaign.
That number has since grown.
Azima, Solomon’s former
source,isamongthosewhohave
gone to court over the alleged
hacking. His lawyers, like
Solomon’s, allege that Dechert
worked with BellTroX,
CyberRoot and a slew of private
investigators to steal his emails
and publish them to the web.
BellTroX and CyberRoot are
New Delhi
Mistakes were
made, tax raise
coming:NewUK
FinanceMinister
Public spending budgets likely to
be squeezed further: Jeremy Hunt
SYLVIA HUI
LONDON OCTOBER 15
BRITAIN’S NEW Treasury chief
on Saturday acknowledgedmis-
takes made by his predecessor
and suggested that he may re-
verse much of Conservative
Prime Minister Liz Truss’ tax-
cuttingplans tobringstabilityto
the country after weeks of eco-
nomic and political turbulence.
Jeremy Hunt, who was
broughtinFridaytoreplaceKwasi
Kwarteng as Treasury chief and
restore order in Truss’ adminis-
tration,warnedof “difficultdeci-
sions” to come. He said taxes
could rise and public spending
budgetswouldlikelybesqueezed
further in the coming months.
Hunt said Truss recognises
her mistakes and he is going to
put them right. Hunt is expected
to meet with Treasury officials
later and with Truss on Sunday.
“It was wrong to cut the top
rate of tax for the very highest
earners at a time where we’re
going to have to be asking for
sacrifices from everyone to get
through a very difficult period,”
Hunt told the BBC Saturday.
“Anditwaswrongtoflyblind
and to announce those plans
without reassuring people with
the discipline of the Office for
Budget Responsibility that we
actually can afford to pay for
them,” he added. “We have to
show the world we have a plan
that adds up financially.”
UK police charge activists
after soup thrown at
Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflower’
REUTERS
LONDON, OCTOBER 15
TWO WOMEN have been
charged with criminal damage
after climate change protesters
threw soup over Vincent Van
Gogh’s painting “Sunflowers” at
London's National Gallery,
British police said on Saturday.
AvideopostedbytheJustStop
Oil campaign group, which has
been holding protests for the last
two weeks in London, showed
two of its activists on Friday
Activists of ‘Just Stop Oil’ after throwing soup at a van Gogh’s
painting ‘Sunflowers’ at the National Gallery in London. Reuters
not parties to the suit and could
not immediately be reached.
Executives at both firms have
previously denied wrongdoing.
Solomon and Azima allege
that Dechert undertook the
hack-and-leak operation in the
interest of its client, Sheikh Saud
bin Saqr al-Qasimi, ruler of the
Middle Eastern emirate of Ras Al
Khaimah. Reuters has reported
that lawyers for Ras Al
Khaimah’s investment agency –
RAKIA – used the emails to help
win a fraud lawsuit filed against
Azima in London in 2016.
Azima, who denies RAKIA’s
fraud allegations, is trying to
WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM
We have to show the world
we have a plan that adds up
financially, Hunt said. AP
Hunt also indicated that
taxes could rise and warned “it’s
going to be difficult,” though he
declined to give details about
how he plans to balance the
books ahead of a full fiscal state-
ment expected on October 31.
“Spending will not rise by as
muchaspeoplewouldlikeandall
governmentdepartmentsarego-
ing to have to find more efficien-
cies than they were planning to.
Andsometaxeswillnotbecutas
quickly as people want,” he said.
Hunt, who twice ran in the
Conservative Party’s leadership
contests, is an experienced law-
maker who previously served in
top government posts including
as foreign secretary. His com-
mentsSaturdaysuggestedhemay
dismantlemuchof theeconomic
pledgesthatTrusscampaignedfor
andtriedtoimplementduringher
first weeks in office. AP
throwing tins of Heinz tomato
soupoverthepainting,oneoffive
versions on display in museums
and galleries around the world.
The gallery said the incident had
caused minor damage to frame,
but the painting was unharmed.
It later went back on display.
Police said two women, aged
21 and 20, would appear later at
Westminster Magistrates’ Court
chargedwith“criminaldamageto
the frame. Another activist will
also appear in court accused of
damaging the sign outside the
NewScotlandYardheadquarters.
have the judgment thrown out.
Solomon says he never took
Azima up on his proposal or ben-
efited financially from their rela-
tionship.Inafirst-personaccount
of the scandal published in the
Columbia Journalism Review in
2018, the ex-journalist said he
neverpushedbackonAzima’stalk
ofbusinessopportunitiesbecause
he was trying to humour a man
whohadbeencrucialtohisreport-
ing on the Middle East. Solomon
acknowledged“mistakesinman-
agingmysourcerelationshipwith
Azima” but said he had been the
target of an “incredibly effective”
informationoperation. REUTERS
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SPOTLIGHT ARTS etc
Home to Barrister Basu Had We But Known
Filmmaker Rima Das’s latest Assamese feature,
Four women and their valiant efforts to preserve
Tora’s Husband, deals with the way the pandemic
a 200-year-old north Kolkata mansion
impacted lives in small towns

DAYS AND
NIGHTS OF
CHURN
migrants — Muslim, Asian, North African,
Afghan — who want to go to Europe. They
are happy that Erdogan is giving this service
and they do not care about Turkish democ-
racy. I’m critical of that,” he says.
As a writer, Pamuk is not unfamiliar with
Nobel Prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk the perils of speaking up. In February 2005,
a little over a year before he won the Nobel

on the perils of speaking truth to power in
Turkey, writing his oracular pandemic novel
through COVID-19 and the book’s rather
unexpected India connection
Paromita Chakrabarti
Prizefor Literature, inan interviewto a Swiss
magazine, he had spoken of the Armenian
genocide by the Ottoman government be-
tween 1915 and 1917 (during World War I),
that goes unacknowledged in his country,
and of contemporary clashes between the
Turkish government and the Kurds. Pamuk
was accused of insulting “Turkishness”, a
criminal offence in the country, and put on
trial. The charges were later dropped but he
has since lived with a constant barrage of
affinity for the genre. “I never, for example, death threats and relentless criticism from
enjoyed Agatha Christie. But I am a great ad- nationalisthardliners,thathavenecessitated

T
mirer of Patricia Highsmith. She had depth, a life hemmed in by security arrangements
HE YELLOW journal that he she invented Dostoevskian thrillers. There and bodyguards. The next year, in October
holds close to the computer is also, though I wouldn’t call him a mystery 2006, the Swedish Academy acknowledged
screen has an illustration of a writer, John le Carré, who was very good,” his outspokenness in the Nobel citation:
sandstonefort,sketchedinde- he says. Pamuk,“inthequestforthemelancholicsoul
tail. Below it, in a neat hand in Despite his indifference to the genre, of his native city has discovered new sym-
Turkish, Orhan Pamuk has what it allows Pamuk is an insight into the bolsfortheclashandinterlacingof cultures.”
writtenabouthisvisittoAmberFortinJaipur insecuritiesof abodypolitic.Over700pages, In Turkey, Pamuk continues to be a po-
in 2011. He had been speaking of art and in- Pamuk traces the panic and the denial, the larising figure. On its release last year in the
fluences and how it had once been the voca- mounting deaths, the enforcement of strin- country, Nights of Plague drew another
tion he had dreamt of, when Turkey’s fore- gent quarantine measures, the economic charge of fuelling animosity through a pur-
mostculturalambassadortotheworldstops losses, the clash of cultures and the shifting ported insult to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the
midwaytoriflethroughhisdeskandpickout sands of political aspirations. “In the end, my founder of modern Turkey. After it was ini-
thediary.Forover15years,hehasmaintained novel is notonly aboutplaguesor the forma- tiallydropped,anappealbythecomplainant
illustrated journals, detailing his travels and tion of nation states out of the ashes of em- has led to the reopening of the investigation.
artistic impressions of places and events. pire, it is also about the creation of national But,Pamuk’sfaithinthepowerof freespeech
Some of these have just been published as secular myths that hold the people together remains undeterred. “I don’t think human-
MemoriesofDistantMountains,anartbookin after the empire falls, after the emperor van- ity’s desire for free speech is fading away.
TurkishandFrench.TheentryonAmberFort ishes,” he says. Sure, there may be right-wing governments
is part of the book, but it also has resonance The plague pandemic had been hover- who are winning elections but what about
with his newest novel, Nights of Plague ing at the edge of his literary arc for four the fact that (Donald) Trump lost? What
(Penguin Hamish Hamilton, Rs 799), that re- decades. In his 1983 novel, Silent House, a about the fact that (Emmanuel) Macron
leases in India this week. It was, the writer history professor searches for traces of won? Erdogan is going to lose the elections,
says, the impression that guided his imagi- plague in archives. In The White Castle (1985), all the Turkish polls are saying that. Maybe I
nation of the pink-stone descriptions of plague in am an optimist, maybe I’m naive, but I don’t
● ● ●
Arkaz Castle on the fic- 17th-century Istanbul subscribe to the idea that all free speech is
tional Ottoman island of linger in the background. dying. Look at Iranian women bravely going
Mingheria, a “pearl of the The plague In the beginning, he had out in the streets, dying for their body, for
Eastern Mediterranean been interested in the theirfreedom.Iamnotpessimisticaboutthe
Sea”, between Istanbul pandemic had been metaphysics of it — future of humanity at all. The deeper senti-
and Alexandria, and the “What happens if death ments of people are more important than
site of action in his novel. hovering at the edge arrives before its time. It governments.Nogovernmentstaysforever,”
It’s 9 am in New York, was a philosophical inter- he says.
where Pamuk, 70, Nobel of Pamuk’s literary est in death and the indi- He hasn’t had a chance to speak to fellow
laureate and author of
criticallyacclaimedworks
arc for four decades, viduality it brought. (The
differences between) East
writer Salman Rushdie since the attack on
the latter in New York in August, but in his
such as My Name Is Red
(1998), Snow (2002),
sine the time of and West, individuality,
these subjects always in-
defenceof RushdieinanarticleinTheAtlantic
last month, Pamuk wrote, “Whenever a
Istanbul:Memoriesandthe
City (2005), The Museum
his 1983 novel, terested me. But I was a
young author then and
writer comes under physical attack, every-
onestartstalkingaboutrespondingtowords
of Innocence (2008) and A Silent House didn’t want to go into that with words, to books with more books. But
Strangeness in my Mind debate,” he says. does this old adage make sense? Those who
(2014) is speaking from ● ● ● Pamuk finally began are pulling the trigger or wielding the knife
over Zoom, and where he work on Nights of Plague tend to have read very few books in their life.
is the Robert Yik-Fong Tam Professor of the in 2016,slowly teasingout a storyfrom years Hadtheyreadmorebooks,orbeeninthepo-
Humanities at Columbia University’s School of research. His plans of focussing on the re- sition to write one themselves, would they
of theArts.Intherenewedbustleof everyday sponses a pandemic provoked — fatalism in have turned to this kind of violence? ...What
life, it is easy to forget the horrors of COVID- some, stoic pragmatism in others — had led we need to do is use our privilege of free
19,butpandemicshavebeenalong-standing him to examine it through the prism of that speech to acknowledge the role of class and
interestwithhim.Evennow,hesays,holding otherbinarythathasbeenhislife’swork:the AYMANOGHANNA/THENEWYORKTIMES cultural differences in society — the sense of
up a copy of Richard S Ross III’s Contagion in dichotomybetweentheEastandtheWest.“I BRIDGE ACROSS THE BOSPHOROUS being second- or third-class citizens, of feel-
Prussia, 1831: The Cholera Epidemic and the toldmyself,Orhan,youhavebeenthinkingof (Above) A file photo of Orhan Pamuk in Istanbul; (right) the covers of the English translations of his novels, Snow and Nights of Plague ing invisible, unrepresented, unimportant,
Threat of the Polish Uprising (2015), he has writing a plague novel for 40 years. likeonecountsfornothing—whichcandrive
been reading up about the many ways they (President Recep Tayyip) Erdogan’s govern- peopletowardextremism... If wehope tosee
have altered the political and social scaffold- ment in Turkey is getting increasingly au- theprincipleof freedomof expression thrive
ing of nations. “Humanity, more or less, be- thoritarian. Why don’t you write an allegor- had been prepared to be buried next to her hoped that the worst would be behind him thehighstreetinIstanbul,tothebiggestbook in society, the courage of writers like Salman
haves the same in pandemics. First there is ical,historicalplaguenovelonthelastdecade mother and her husband. And then doctors by the time the book was published, but in store there. I found a tower made out of Rushdie will not suffice; we must also be
denial.Denialmakesthenumbersgoup.This of the Ottoman Empire as it decayed, disin- in white coatscame and tookher body away. March 2021, when it came out in Turkey, copies of my new book on display and, sadly, brave enough to think about the sources of
leadstoconspiracytheories,nationalism,go- tegrated and fell apart?” he says. It made me afraid. I realised that I’ve been Istanbul was under lockdown. “There was a not a single person to buy them,” he says, the furious hatred they are subjected to.”
inginward,blamingthegovernmentorother Yet, no amount of research could prepare working on this plague novel for over three day I particularly remember, when the with a laugh. Itisanovelist’sjob,Pamuksays,toberep-
ethnicities. Sometimes, it leads to new gov- him for the emotional cost of COVID-19, years and there was something missing that Turkish government had locked the rest of When Snow released soon after 9/11, the resentative of the dichotomy that creates
ernments being formed. Other times, the when it arrived in March 2020. A beloved I had learned from life — fear,” he says. the city down and allowed people over 65 to novel’s interplay between the forces of fun- faultlines,withoutfearorfavour.“Loftyideas
government is involved but it becomes au- aunt who lived two lanes away from his As the pandemic raged on, Pamuk, who take walks outside. So, I went out into a city damentalism and secularism established it aside, if you can speak for both sides, if you
thoritarian. So, you see, the subject of plague apartment, was among the first victims of claims to not have much of a social life, of 18 million that was empty of all but eld- as Pamuk’s most emphatic political state- can express them through human stories,
is always related to politics,” he says. the pandemic in Turkey. “She was 94. She poured his anxieties into writing. He had erly people,makingmy way down to Istiklal, ment. The writer says Nights of Plague shares that’s what matters,” he says.
Part historical, part murder mystery, it is the same tenor, set to a larger canvas. The Now that Nights of Plague is out in the
the slow disintegration of an empire and the clashbetweensecularismandpolitical Islam world,Pamukhasmovedontohisnextproj-
origin story of a nation state that lies at the in Turkey that he explores in his work, his in- ect — a novel set in 1942,involving agroup of
heart of Nights of Plague. Set in 1901, against terpretation of the civilisational differences card players. In between, a series of lectures
an Ottoman Empire on the wane, the gos- between the East and the West have often on how to write a novel at Collège de France
samer charm of Mingheria, home to a mixed landed him in trouble, but Pamuk has never in Paris awaits. He also hopes to find a home
community of Greeks and Turks, begins to shied away from articulating his opinion. In for Memories of Distant Mountains in other
frayunderafataloutbreakof bubonicplague. contemporary Turkey, governed by an languages. It’s been a lifetime steeped in sto-
Anxious to avoid the economic blockades Islamist-nationalist coalition, voices of ries for him. “My assistant reminded me the
from European powers, Sultan Abdul Hamid protestrearupatacost.“Iam,perhaps,partly other day that I have been writing for 48
sends the empire’s best-known quarantine protected by my fame although I’m also try- years. Yet my desire is the same: To wake up
specialist, the royal chemist, to the island. ing to resist as much as I can. But in my heart, and start the day and write that book. I can-
When he is found murdered, the Sultan’s I’m not a political person. I don’t spend my not think of anything more attractive or joy-
niece and former political prisoner, Princess time thinkingabout resisting Erdogan all the ful than writing. I am fascinated by all that it
Pakize, and her doctor husband Nuri Bey are time. But there are many brave journalists brings — the interviews, the lectures, the
dispatched on a dual mission — to contain who end up in jail for their opinions. There travel. There was a time, in my early 30s
the damage and to solve the murder of the is no free speech in Turkey. It is horrible that when I was writing and writing and the
public-health official. the government puts anyone who criticises phone was not ringing. Now, it doesn’t stop
The framework of the mystery or the themintojail.I’mangry,partlywiththeWest ringing and I love it. I have learnt so much
thriller novel has been one that Pamuk has COURTESY: ORHANPAMUK also, that they are not criticising the Turkish from writing — about both art and craft, and
dabbled with on a few occasions, including AN ARTIST’S CANVAS government enough, (that) they are only about life. If you give me another 50 years, I
in My Name Is Red, but he has no special (From left) An entry from Pamuk’s journal on his time in Goa in 2010; a sketch of Amber Fort in Jaipur served as an inspiration in Nights of Plague busy(withthefact)thatTurkeyholdstheim- would want the same life,” he says.

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DOWN IN A House for the Basus

JUNGLELAND Premankur Biswas
In Kolkata, what it takes to preserve a 200-year-old mansion

RanjitLal
B
ARRISTER BABUR Bari houses
many memories but it refuses to
be another Kolkata memory. It
Ranjit Lal is an author, stands at a part of the city that
environmentalist and seems to be waiting for
bird watcher Instagram to happen to it: beautifully-pro-
portioned, slatted-windowed houses juxta-
posed against newly-constructed tiles and
tinted glass monstrosities, sleepy grocery
(mudikhana) stores that are fighting a losing

Canids Out battle against two-minute delivery apps.

Stories that can be summed up in an
Instagram reel with an Ali Sethi song. Or
maybe not.

Of Control Four women, 79-year-old Dr Nandita

There are as many battles raging to
save strays as there are to muzzle
them. But can they run free?
Basu, her daughter, Krishnakali, Moitrei, the
young caretaker, Jhorna, the cook, are safe-
guarding not only a beautiful house in the
heart of Kolkata, but also preserving a way
of life.
Almost 200 years ago, in 1855, when
businessman Chandi Basu, Nandita’s great-
great father-in-law, decided to build a house

O
UT IN the wild, where they run free, the
canids — be they the painted dogs (wild dogs)
of Africa, dholes (red dogs) of India, or the
wolves of North America, Eurasia and India
together — form the most fearsome of predatory ani-
mals. The hunting success rate of African wild dogs is
around 67 per cent (though dragonflies beat them hol-
low with around a 97 per cent success rate) far surpass-
ing that of the big cats. They work in teams, with each
team member being assigned a particular role and they
gun for the weak, very young and vulnerable. They’ve
been persecuted to the edge of extinction since time im-
memorial because they scare us no end and take down
our livestock — sheep, goats and cattle. Once a pack goes
into hunting mode, whether because they are hungry or
have pups to feed, there is no looking back and very little
hope for the victim.
In cities, towns, villages and hamlets across India,
packs of feral dogs run free and have spread fear and
anger among us: people have avoided going into parks
and gardens where they roam — especially with children
and the elderly. Because there’s no telling what can hap-
pen if a pack’s hunting instincts are triggered. To add to
this is the rabies bogey: and yes, rabies is not a disease
you would wish on your worst enemy. So, in many
places, the war cry has gone up: get rid of the dogs. Well,
one can only hope that a similar cry goes up against the
gangs of young louts who loaf about in these parks, leer-
ing at girls and interfering in young romances.
Battling for the “strays” are battalions of dog lovers,
many, who, in the face of fierce and sometimes violent
opposition, will continue to feed these dogs every day
and take care of them, including getting them neutered
and vaccinated.
So what’s to be done about our best friends who run
amuck? At the moment, I would avoid entering a park
where there’s a large pack of feral stray dogs, roaming
around — dogs that I am unfamiliar with — and who are
unfamiliar with me. I would also avoid getting into a lift
in Beleghata, this bustling north Kolkata
neighbourhood was little more than wilder-
ness. But Basu, who was in process of corpo-
ratising the fisheries business in India,
needed to settle near what is now called the
East Kolkata Wetlands, a complex network
of natural and man-made wetlands at the
eastern fringes of the city. That’s where his
business was. “Even when I came to this
house as a daughter-in-law in 1965, our fish-
ery business was booming. It was during the
CPM era in the ’70s that the business slowly
closed down,” says Nandita.
The house itself lives up to its name.
Barrister Babur Bari (Residence of the
Barrister) is a stately and compact structure
that is deceptively large. Half-a-century ago,
Barrister Basu, Nandita’s father-in-law, prac-
tised from a cavernous office on the ground
floor of the house. His fame led to the nam-
ing of the house.
The entrance leads to a modest
thakurdalan (courtyard) with pillars and ve-
randahs reflecting influences of European
architecture. An alcove leads to another,
more private, courtyard. The red oxide floor-
ing and the restrained sensibilities of the
outer courtyard makes way for cobbled
BIDISHACHATTTERJEE PHOTOS:SHASHIGHOSH
floors and turquoise blue of the inner
courtyard. It’s a definite shift in mood into silence, the Basu women organised a STAYING closetoclosingadealanumberof timeswith The pandemic that has taken away so
and sensibilities. small puja at the house, ensuring that the POWER promoters. But I have backed out at the last much from so many has, however, gifted
This quirky house was known for organ- century-old tradition is not broken. Nandita, momenteverytime.Iwillgointodepression Nanditaasteelyresolvetosavethe200-year-
(Clockwise from top)
isingoneofKolkata’smostfamousDurgaPuja who presides over the sprawling house with if the house is razed,” says Krishnakali. oldhouseshecallshome.“Thepasttwoyears
in the late 1800s. “I have heard Netaji Subhas almost stoic resolve, says that the 200-year- A view of Barrister Even 24-year-old Moitrei Das, who has weredifficult,butIdecidedthatIwon’tletthe
ChandraBosewasaregularvisitorhere,”says old building is held together by the “deter- Babur Bari in been employed by Krishnakali as a caretaker, housefallpreytothegreedofpromotersnow,”
Nandita.ThespecialityoftheBasufamilypuja mination” of the women. “I have only my Beleghata, Kolkata, echoesthesentiment.“Ihavegrownupinthis she says.
was that it was organised by the womenfolk daughter, Jhorna (the cook) and Moitrei (the where Durga Puja locality. We all spent pujas at Barrister Babur Slowly, doors opened. “I opened an
of thefamily.“Unlikeothersuchfamilypujas, caretaker) to fall back on. Ever since my hus- was organised by the Bari. I bring my daughter here to play. This Instagram page and a friend suggested that
where men of the family play an important band passed away in 2017, we have been houseismorethanjustabuildingforus,”says maybe we can rent out the house for film
womenfolk of the
roleinorganisingit,oursismostlyawoman’s hounded by promoters. They want to raze Moitrei.Butmaintainingahouselikethistakes shoots,” says Krishnakali. A web series shoot
affair,” says Krishnakali Basu, Nandita’s only the house down,” says Nandita. family since the money. “We have used up all our savings. led to a film shoot and now Barrister Babur
daughter, who is settled in Gurugram now. Jhorna, 62, who has been working with 1800s; a room in the Everyotherday,thereissomeexpenditureor Bari has a healthy number of bookings.
According to familylore, during the com- the Basus for around two decades, feels the house; Nandita the other. The ceiling has a leak that needs to Butwillthatbeenoughtosavethehouse?
munal riots of 1946-1947, many Muslims of houseisan“institution”inthelocality.“Every Basu, the owner befixed,thewallsneedrepainting.Thisislike “We are trying to talk to experts and see if we
the area sought shelter in the house during singlefamilyinthisareahassomeemotional (left) with Jhorna, a white elephant,” says Krishnakali. The two can get heritage status. I am also ready to col-
pujas, using Hindu names, a decision taken connectionwiththishouse.Theyhavemem- the cook yearsofthepandemichaveaddedtothewoes laboratewithpeoplewhowouldwanttocon-
by the women of the house. “My mother, ories connected to it,” she says. of the Basu women. “Recently, the other old vertthisplaceintoahomestay.Wealso need
who is a renowned paediatrician of the area, The fact that the co-owners of the house, house next to ours was razed. The owners todiscusswithintheextendedfamilythepos-
embodies that strength,” says Krishnakali. the family of Nandita’s husband’s brother, couldn’tjustmaintainit.Peopledon’thaveany sibilityof makingthehousecommerciallyvi-
That’sprobablywhyevenduringthepan- are not very keen on keeping the house, money and promoters are taking advantage able and we are working towards that. This
demic, when the whole city was stunned doesn’t make things easy. “We have been of that,” says Krishnakali. house wants to survive,” says Krishnakali.

More
and ceiling mouldings and to complete
columns and corbels. The paper, called
RANJITLAL
chewed paper in French, was pulped,
NOT A WALK IN THE PARK mashed and pounded and then put into

Than Just
Once a pack goes into hunting mode, moulds, it was almost made to be like clay.
because they are hungry or have pups to feed, there is little These moulds would then be painted white
or gilded, as one would with wood. They
hope for the victim
were used instead of lime or gypsum plaster

with a dog (and owner) who I am unfamiliar with, for
the simple reason that the small enclosed space height-
ens the dog’s guarding instincts (the elevator is now his
or her “territory” with his or her owner who needs to be
protected from strangers.) My own dog, Wag, used to
behave in the same manner if anyone approached the
car when he was in it.
Dog people and dog owners too, must own up to
most of the responsibility for the behaviour of their pets
and wards. But like parents protecting a hideously
spoiled brat, most will try and defend the indefensible.
Frankly, if your pooch has taken a chunk out of a child’s
leg in a lift without any provocation — well, you are
squarely to blame and you cannot fault the child for hav-
ing a juicy-looking leg! Your dog may have thought it
was doing its duty (protecting you, itself and what it
now thinks is its territory) — but it’s up to you to instruct
it that it is “off duty” and can stand down. This is going to
be tough, if even at home, it is the little Chihuahua that
wears the pants in the family and not you. And so, natu-
rally, the call goes out: leash all dogs, muzzle them, tie
them up and ban them from parks.
Of course, all this can be avoided if owners (I will not
call them “parents”) undergo mandatory training along
with their wards. You get a German shepherd pup and it
must mandatorily attend training school, preferably for
German-shepherd pups as must you, (and you can cele-
brate graduation together) before you are both given li-
cences (passing out certificates). I think Germany has
some kind of scheme of this kind.
Dog parks have come up in some cities in India,
where the dogs can run free: but I would think this is the
place where you have to ensure that “pack mentality”
(like “mob mentality”) doesn’t take over. As many know,
a well brought-up, well-socialised dog can make a bet-
ter, more sensitive companion (they can read moods
now) than a human equivalent , but one thing they will
never be able to do is to pick up after themselves. So,
that’s on you!
Civil wars are raging over the doggie issue in many
RWAs all over the country, but, frankly, I’m now more
worried about that other lawless hoodlum that is run-
ning amuck in our cities: the Rhesus macaque.
Paper
While papier-mâché is
popular for its objet d’art,
a book documents its
architectural heft
Shiny Varghese
SRINAGAR-BASED Mohammed Yousuf Lone
was in Class IX when he won the first prize
for a painting of a rice field. Later, this talent
would win the arts graduate a government-
sponsored training at Sir JJ School of Art,
Mumbai. Lone returned to join School of
Designs, a Kashmir handicrafts initiative
from the ’50s, as assistant designer. It’s here
that he was inspired by head craftsman Ali
Mohd Banka, who practised papier-mâché.
Lonesoonfoundhimself veeringtowardsthe
technique in his spare time, working on
miniatures, Mughal figures and flowers.
Today, the 90-year-old national-award win-
ner is the teacher who taught his own fam-
ily and many otherstopreserve the art of pa-
pier-mâché in Kashmir.
Most of us are familiar with this ancient
craft, made from pulped paper and resin
binders — we have often seen it on small ob-
jectssuchasvases,boxes,traysorornaments.
However, its majesty lies in the way it has
adorned walls, ceilings, brackets and pillars.
A recent book by the Indian National Trust
for Art and Cultural Heritage (Intach), Papier
Mache as Building Craft of Kashmir, is an in-
sightful documentation, and the latest addi-
tion to their 2014 initiative of documenting
building crafts across India. These include
Punjab & Haryana: Building With Bricks
(2020) and Saurashtra: Lime Plaster, Wood
Carving, Roofing Techniques and Flooring
(2018) This book on papier-mâché is the
fourth in the series and has been researched
and written by former journalist Bharati
Bhargava.
Vandana Bindu Manchanda, head, her-
itage craft & community division, Intach,
says, “While old buildings are appreciated,
the craft of making them has been lost.
Historic buildings haven’t been made by en-
gineers, they have been made by craftspeo-
ple,whohavehadthescientificandaesthetic
knowledge to make them. These can’t be
replicated today by any technology or archi-
tect.Forinstance,wecan’tmakepalaceswith
their large durbar halls, or forts with their
traditional underground cooling systems
anymore, these were made with centuries-
oldecological knowledge.The beautification
of these structures, too, was also done for a
purpose. We hope that the series will help
architects, builders, students and govern-
ments, at the state and national level, to say
‘let’s look back to move forward’.”
While much of the book relies on infor-
moulding, primarily for decoration.
The book documents that “many papier-
mâché karigars came from Persia to Srinagar
in the middle of the 19th century”, and the
artformdoneinSrinagaratthetimewassim-
ilar to what was done in Persia. “Earlier, the
patrons of the technique were princes and
the elite, who had this ornamentation done
in their private mansions. Shawl merchants
funded this work in Sufi shrines, as well.
Currently, many of the clients are from the
upper and middle classes, who are getting
this work done in their homes and offices. In
addition, religious trusts are also financing
thisinnewshrinesandprivateorganisations
in their establishments,” says Bhargava.
The Shah Abbas Hotel is a case in point,
which is said to be the first private hotel in
Srinagarthatusedpapier-mâchéasanarchi-
PHOTOS INTACH-HERITAGECRAFT&COMMUNITYDIVISION
tectural element in its building. The photo-
LIFE IN mationfromIntach’sencyclopaedicvolumes graphs of the suites, the lobby, and the furni-
COLOUR on old papier-mâché buildings, many of the ture are resplendent with floral motifs.
new buildings in the book find their way Though the floods of 2014 swamped the
(Above) The ornate
from friends and through karigars, who have lobbyandtheentiregroundfloor,theseworks
central hall of the worked on these projects. of art remained intact.
Peer Dastgeer Sahib’s Bhargava has also refer- Meanwhile, in an older
Khanqah-cum- enced paintings from building, the Khanqah-e-
mosque in Old Kashmir and visited kari- Moula, which had to be re-
Srinagar; a gars’ homes to observe how newed after the 2012 fire,
theyworkedandlived.They the interiors were restored,
katamband ceiling in
have, in many ways, been with original katamband
a home near Nageen the guides in presenting ceilings and papier-mâché
Lake by Muzzafar how the craft has evolved surfaces.Over 12 public and
Hussain Sheikh, in architecture. private projects have been
a karigar There are details about documented in the book,
patterns in papier-mâché, which includes Shalimar
which were derived from Bagh's royal pavilions, the
two types of Kashmiri regal pavilion at Nishat
shawls — the badam (pais- Bagh, Gurdwara Maharaj
ley) and the chand-dar Gunj, besides numerous
(moon). The valley’s flowers, too, have been residences. It affirms what the poet Ghani
showcased in motifs, using intricate combi- Kashmiri said: “Kashmir’s beauty sparkles
nations. When one sees the detailing in each through its fairness”. Lastly, contact details
of the patterns, it is remarkable to remem- of the karigars and their experiences round
ber how papier-mâché was once used in up the book to make it a perfect document
Europe as an alternative to plaster, for wall on architectural papier-mâché.

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Alaka Sahani
T
HE LATEST film by Rima Das,
Tora’s Husband, marks her re-
turn to familiar settings — her
neighbourhood in Assam’s
Chhaygaon — under unfamiliar
circumstances. Restless after being isolated
in Mumbai during the first lockdown, when
Das returned home in 2020, she spent about
a month keenly observing how the lives
around her had changed. The humdrum of
everyday life was replaced with uncertainty
and uneasiness in this small town. Though
Das initially started writing it as a family
drama, the feature film eventually became
aninsightfulnarrativeaboutadaptingtonew
realitiesaslivelihoodswerelostandrelation-
ships turned sour.
Over the years, Das has established her-
self as a talented filmmaker, who deftly han-
dles different responsibilities such as direc-
tions, writing, cinematography and editing.
Heretoo,sherepeatsthatfeat.However,with
her fourth feature film, Das thematically
breaks away from her previous two outings
— widely-acclaimed Village Rockstars (2017)
and Bulbul Can Sing (2018) — that had ado-
lescent and teenageprotagonists. “This time,
I wanted to deal with adult characters, to
have a protagonistwho is exposed to a larger
world and has tackled bigger concerns,” says
the National Award-winning director, ex-
plaining why she has opted for a different
vibe for her newest work, even though the
world of her movies remains the same.
Even though the narrative of Tora’s
Husband wasprimarilyinspiredbytrialsand
tribulations faced by small-town residents
Remembering and
Forgetting
Personal narratives by survivors have slowly begun
to reveal the effects of Partition, including its
psychiatric consequences
Leela Mukherjee-Sze
IN THE summer of 1947, when Chandana
Dutta was 16 years old, she fled Dhaka. She
packed one sari, a few books, and a sewing
machine. She left to join her mother and sis-
ters in Kolkata, 200 miles away, leaving be-
hind her father, a proud professor at the
Universityof Dhaka,whoinsistedonstaying.
Religious tensions between Hindus and
Muslims had been simmering in Dhaka and
Kolkata for years, culminating in the bloody
violenceunleashedin1946-’47.WhenDutta
first arrived at the airport in Dhaka, she de-
scribed seeing “black tar” on the grass out-
side, which she came to
find out were, in fact, the
dirt-covered bodies of mi-
grants, who were camping
outsidetheairportdesper-
ate for a ticket out of the
country. In a miraculous
gesture of generosity that
changed her life, one of the
migrants, out of pity, of-
fered her an extra ticket to
reach Kolkata.
Iamthegranddaughter
of a Partition migrant. In
1946, my great-grand-
mother, a widow, moved
her family of four sons, including my grand-
father, from Barisal to Kolkata. From the roof
of hisone-roomtenement,hewitnessedthe
extraordinary violence that erupted in the
streetsof Kolkata.Yet,heneverspokedirectly
of the psychic effects of his displacement. I
am also part of the Indian diaspora: My fa-
ther moved to the United States in 1989, and
I was born in Boston in 2005. By the time
Partition entered my consciousness as a
writer,mygrandfatherhadpassedaway.Ihad
Shadow Town
Filmmaker Rima Das’s latest Assamese feature,
Tora’s Husband, captures how the pandemic impacted
lives in a small town
during the pandemic, Das worked on find-
ing an emotional core and developing the
characters’ fictional journey. Amid loss and
lockdown, the protagonist Jaan tries to stay
positive and support others. But it’s tough to
fight the effects of a sluggish economy. He
ends up juggling his underperforming busi-
ness and strained personal relationships.
“There were several improvisations and
tweakscarriedoutinthescriptasthefilming
progressed,”saysDas.Someof thesechanges
were necessitated by the unpredictable na-
ture of the pandemic. Other changes were
made keeping the cast, which mainly com-
prised non-actors as is the case with all of
Das’s movies, in mind.
Leading the cast is Abhijit Das as the sen-
sitive and hassled Jaan. He also happens to
be the writer-director’s brother. “I had ear-
lier shot something with him that didn’t
work out. This time, however, he was perfect
for the role of a small-town restaurateur
struggling to keep his business afloat as well
as take care of his family,” says the director-
writer. The casting choice, which also
norecordof hisdisplacement,oritsmanifold
effects, on him, my father, my paternal fam-
ily or on my own identity.
Despite the scale of this forced migra-
tion, it is only recently that micro-histories
and personal narratives provided by sur-
vivors have begun to reveal the psychiatric
effects of this mass displacement. Although
largely neglected by historians and text-
books initially, these experiences and disor-
ders have already found their voices in “col-
loquial” sources, such as literature, films and
oral histories.
I sat down with Dutta in New York City in
early November 2021 for what hadintended
to be a short interview. We ended up speak-
ing for over an hour. Dutta
wasanimated,andeagerto
tell her stories in detail and
at length. Four months
later, I got to know that
Dutta, who was 89 years
old, had passed away.
In her history of
Partition, The Great
Partition (Yale University
Press, 2008), historian
Yasmin Khan briefly sug-
gests that many Partition
survivorscanbelabelledas
having either a “desire to
forget” or a “desire to re-
member” their experience in the migration.
A new “psychiatric history” of Partition is
emergingthathelpsusunderstandthismon-
umentalmigrationnotjust in terms of broad
political movements, but also through the
personal and psychological testimonies and
micro-histories of those who experienced it,
such as Dutta’s.
“The desire to remember” enables a sur-
vivor’s trauma to be recognised and vali-
dated. This process of remembering is
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PLAYING A TOUGH HAND
(Top) A still From Tora’s Husband; Rima Das
MEMORY transformative: stories become vessels of
KEEPERS healing. In its pathologic form, though, it
can become obsessive and all-consuming,
(Above) Chandana
manifesting itself as psychiatric disorders
Dutta and her such as depression, post-traumatic stress
husband Ajit Kumar disorder (PTSD), and anxiety. Conversely,
Dutta at their the “desire to forget” arises from shame and
wedding in 1956; stigma, where denying one’s traumas be-
Chandana Dutta, at comes a coping mechanism. Forced forget-
fulness can kindle psychological repression
85, in Brazil with her
that drives narcissism, dissociation, psy-
son, Projjal, in 2017 chosis or addiction.
Dutta’s memories — her “desire to re-
member” — offered an intimate testimony
of suffering, replete with classic symptoms
of clinical depression, including loneliness,
anhedonia, anxiety and social avoidance. As
she remembered her childhood and adoles-
cence, her voice broke down, softened in
tone, and she was almost in tears. She told
me in a quiet voice, “I still could hear my fa-
ther sing a small tune... and I could still hear
his voice, and then I struggled.”
Dutta’s depression was exacerbated by
her relationship with her non-migrant
peers, who coined a cruel nickname for her:
includedseverallocal people,workedoutlo-
gistically, too.
Through her unique method of groom-
ing and nurturing local talents, Das has pre-
viouslydrawnoutcompellingperformances
from the casts of Village Rockstars and Bulbul
CanSing,especiallyfromthoseessayingtheir
lead characters Dhunu (Bhanita Das) and
Bulbul (Arnali Das), respectively. Such con-
vincing performances result from working
closely with the actors over a period of time.
During the early days of Tora’s Husband’s
shoot, Purbanchali Das, who plays the role of
Jaan’s daughter Manu, enacted the scenes as
compared to Bhuman Bhargav Das, who
plays her brother. However, as the filming
progressed she started losing interest while
Bhumanstarteddoingbetter.ThatmadeDas
expand his scenes.
Afterthefestivalrounds,thenexttaskbe-
foreDasistoreleasethefilmintheatres.“We
visualised the film to be watchedin theatres,
not laptops. Watching a film in theatres
evokesacommunityfeelingandthat’ssome-
thing we all cherish,” says the independent
filmmaker, who calls Tora’s Husband her
most challenging film. She has one regret:
Not having a proper production design and
lighting team. “This film needed better art
direction. Sincewehad financial constraints,
we could not afford a bigger team,” she says.
Das, who is already working on another
project, wants to take a break once her cur-
rent assignments are wrapped up. She then
intends to approach her future projects with
a fresh mind and perspective. “I wish to re-
discover things,” says Das, who has made re-
markable contributions to Indian independ-
ent filmmaking with her ingenuity and
refreshing storytelling.
“SPGR” — or “specific gravity” — to signify
the mental heaviness (gravity) in which she
was always shrouded. Her depression finally
abated when she married and started her
own family in 1962, but she remembered
her early years in Kolkata and Delhi as be-
ing among her most difficult.
Although remembering her childhood in
DhakaexacerbatedDutta’sdepression,itwas
also an act of healing. Not all survivors are as
eager as Dutta to share, or remember, their
traumas. In contrast to those who suffered
fromdepressionandanxiety,therewereoth-
ers whose “desire to forget” became mani-
fest in cognitive dissociative disorders, psy-
chosisandaddiction.Perhaps,themostvivid
example of the “desire to forget” can be
found in the work of the great Urdu writer
Sadaat Hassan Manto, who migrated to
Lahore, Pakistan, from pre-Partition India.
Here, he fell into a deep depression, which
progressedintorestlessness,followedbydis-
association, addiction, and frank psychosis.
Manto’s addiction spiralled further into
a dissociative disorder characterised by the
physical and mental “out of body” experi-
ence. As his biographers relate: “His drink-
ing escalated. Signs of madness began to ap-
pear. He hallucinated, saw ghostly faces and
talkednonsensically.”Unabletoreconcilethe
rifts caused by Partition, Manto died in 1955
from alcoholism and likely hepatic failure.
This desire to forget on an individual level
also has a larger collective corollary. Indian
society, and the government, as a whole be-
came a tacit participant in a form of collec-
tive denial and cognitive dissociation.
Partition remains an uneasy part of India’s
past because fully assimilating its trauma
would inevitably mean complicating a cher-
ished notion that anchors national identity:
Indian independence. After decades of de-
nial about the toll of mass displacement and
violence, the memories of history have be-
gun to let themselves out. Some of these oral
histories are now being collected by histo-
rians and analysed by scholars and writers.
As the granddaughter of a Partition sur-
vivor grappling with the intergenerational
effects of this monumental event, a national
project to document the oral (and psychi-
atric) histories of the slowly dwindling co-
hort of Partition survivors would yield a
wealth of scholarship and reconciliation. We
would remember so as not to forget.
LeelaMukherjee-SzeisaGradeXIIhighschool
SenioratTheDaltonHighSchoolinNewYorkCity
New Delhi
OCTOBER 16, 2022
A Song for
All Lovers
Playback singer Antara Nandy on
her debut in Ponniyin Selvan 1 and
being told that she didn’t have it
in her to be a musician
Suanshu Khurana
F
OR THE last two-and-a-half years, Antara Nandy,
22, has been visiting composer AR Rahman’s mu-
sic studios in Chennai’s Kodambakkam to record
scratches for the Oscar winner.
Despite their derogatory implication — scratches are
recordings that are scratched and replaced — they are sig-
nificant in the film-music business. At any given time,
about 10 or more scratches are recorded by as many
singers before one of them is actually used in a film. “I did-
n’t mind it though. Singing scratches allows me to learn a
lot – the process of recording, diction for so many lan-
guages, how to modulate one’s voice and match it with
the actor on screen, etc. Besides, these are Rahman sir’s
scratches, so I knew I could learn a lot,” says Pune-based
Nandy, on a telephone call from Chennai.
What Nandy did not anticipate was that one of these
scratches for Rahman would make it to Mani Ratnam’s
Ponniyin Selvan 1 (PS1), that released on September 30.
The song, Alaikadal, reminiscent of Tamil film music from
the ’50s, appears as Doobi Doobi in Hindi in PS1. Nandy’s
gentle voice has an old-fashioned charm, but is a power-
house at the same time. It soars comfortably amid the
abundant crests and troughs in one of the finest pieces on
the album.
Since its release, Alaikadal has become a talking point
on social media. The brief from Mani Ratnam and
Rahman was to sing it like “ripples of the ocean”. “The
song was for Poonghzhali (Aishwarya Lekshmi), the boat-
woman who is in love with a prince, who is unattainable.
So, it required joy and pain in the same breath through the
song. Any song takes about two to two-and-a-half hours, I
recorded this piece in 40 minutes. So, I was sure that this
was a scratch and not an actual recording,” says Nandy,
who was nervous after she was told of its selection and re-
quested a re-recording. Rahman did not agree. “However,
he asked me to record it in four other languages,” says
Nandy, who is hoping that the song will be her introduc-
tion for other music directors.
Born to engineer parents in Assam’s Shivpur, Nandy’s
access to music was limited to what she heard on the ra-
dio and television. Once, her aunt spotted a two-and-a-
half-year-old Nandy carry a tune well and told her mother
to enrol her in training. The Nandys took the decision to
shift base to Kolkata two years later. At four, Nandy found
herself under the tutelage of Ustad Rashid Khan, training
for a classical career. She studied under him for about five
ANTARANANDY
MUSIC TO OUR EARS
Antara Nandy
years before enrolling in the children’s reality show –
Saregamapa L’il Champs. “Guruji was unhappy that I was
going to use my training to sing in reality shows, but I
reached the finals,” says Nandy.
The appearance did open doors for her. At 12, Nandy
was singing the title songs of Bengali reality shows. It was
during one of these recordings that a Bengali composer
told her not to pursue a career in music. “He said that my
voice was not sweet enough and didn’t come close to
Shreya Ghoshal’s. He told me, ‘I hope you are good at aca-
demics, because you may not make it as a musician,” says
Nandy, who idolises Ghoshal. After that meeting, Nandy
tried every unhealthy way to make her voice sound
“sweeter”. “I was singing constantly in falsetto or in a
hoarse voice, copying how other artistes sounded. I was
not learning from a guru, just listening to different kinds of
music but my voice was not working. Eventually, I lost it,”
says Nandy, who could not sing for more than a year.
Treatment, too, did not yield much help and Nandy
slipped into depression. “Singing is all I know. It felt horri-
ble when I could not even hum along to the radio,” says
Nandy, who stumbled upon voice training courses in
Rahman’s music school, KM Conservatory, and enrolled
herself as a last resort. “The teachers there spent hours
with me, trying to get me to sing again. They made me do
a bunch of vocal exercises, told me that I need not sound
like somebody else to be accepted, that I needed to sound
like me,” says Nandy.
When Nandy returned home in 2020, she spent an
evening singing Lata Mangeshkar songs. “It was over-
whelming to be able to sing again,” she says. By then, of-
fers for her had run dry, so Nandy began to record
“Balcony concerts” on YouTube and Instagram with her
younger sister, also a singer. “It was Bihu and we were
missing Assam. So, both of us sang in a home video. That
did well online and we found some confidence,” says
Nandy. Soon, their rendition of the Marathi lavani,
Reshmachya reghani, had Shiv Sena leader Uddhav
Thackeray praise their performance on social media. “He
said two Marathi girls were singing the piece. We weren’t.
But the diction and pronunciation, which we’d worked
on, was spot on,” says Nandy. Compliments poured in
from others, too, ghazal singer Bhupinder Singh and com-
poser duo Salim-Sulaiman, among others. “It turned out
to be a great way to showcase our work,” says Nandy, who
recently recorded a piece with Salim-Sulaiman. Despite
Alaikadal’s currency in the market, Nandy is yet to get
more offers. “I am continuing with the scratches for now.”