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CBI files FIR over rape,
Manipur assault video
Neeraj Chauhan
letters@hindustantimes.com
NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau
of Investigation (CBI) has taken
over the probe into the May 4
sexual violence incident in Mani-
pur, where three women were
stripped and paraded naked, and
one was raped, people familiar
with the development said on
Saturday.
In an affidavit submitted in
the Supreme Court on July 27,
the Centre said that the case has
been transferred to the CBI, and
that the trial should be shifted
outside the state and completed
within six months of filing the
charge sheet. The federal
agency’s special investigation
team (SIT) is already probing six
other cases related to violence
and loot of weapons from the
armories in the ethnic violence-
hit state since June 10.
The CBI took over the case
documents from the Manipur
Police late on Friday and re-reg-
istered the first information
report (FIR) against “unidenti-
fied persons” under sections
related to abduction, gang-rape
and murder, officials familiar
with the matter said.
According to procedure, CBI
usually re-registers cases taken
up based on references from the
Centre and state governments
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DMK MP Kanimozhi Karunanidhi, TMC MP Sushmita Dev, and Congress MP Adhir Ranjan
Chowdhury with other INDIA MPs in Bishnupur on Saturday.
Oppn delegation reaches Manipur to
express solidarity; ‘tourism’, says BJP
Utpal Parashar
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GUWAHATI: A delegation of 21
lawmakers from the newly
formed opposition bloc, Indian
National Developmental Inclu-
sive Alliance (INDIA), on Satur-
day embarked on a two-day visit
to ethnic strife-torn Manipur
and visited relief camps housing
displaced people to take stock of
the situation.
At least 150 people have been
killed and nearly 50,000 dis-
placed in Manipur since May 3,
when ethnic violence erupted in
the northeastern state between
numerically dominant Meitei
community — which forms 53%
of the state population and
mostly inhabit Imphal Valley —
and tribal Kukis, who live prima-
rily in the hill districts.
“Both the Centre and state
government should wake up
from their stupor regarding the
situation in Manipur. People
have lost trust in the govern-
ment,” said Congress MP Adhir
PTI
Ranjan Chowdhury, who is part
of the delegation. “We are with
all the people of the state and
want peace and normalcy to be
restored.”
BJP leader and Union minister
Anurag Thakur hit out at the
MPs, saying that the “leaders
who have gone to Manipur are
political tourists”, and asked if
the same delegation will visit
TMC-ruled West Bengal and
Rajasthan, ruled by the Congress,
where, he said, “atrocities against
women are happening”. →P9
LAWMAKERS ASK
U.S. GOVT TO CUT
WAIT TIMES FOR
GREEN CARDS
WASHINGTON: A bipartisan
group of 56 US lawmakers, led
by Congressmen Raja Krishna-
moorthi (Democrat rep from
Illinois) and Larry Bucshon
(Republican rep from Indiana),
on Friday urged the Biden
administration to take executive
action for Green Card appli-
cants from India to reduce the
195-year-long wait period which
has left them in a constant state
of limbo.
In a letter to secretary of state
Antony Blinken and depart-
ment of homeland security sec-
retary Alejandro Mayorkas, the
Congressman urged the
administration to mark all dates
for the filing of employment-
based visa applications as “cur-
rent,” which would allow
employment-based applications
to be filed regardless of appli-
cants’ country-based priority
date. →P11
BE IT DEFICIT OR
EXCESS RAINFALL,
FARMERS NEED
NOT WORRY: YOGI
LUCKNOW: Amid a ‘drought-like
situation’ in various parts of
Uttar Pradesh because of the
monsoon having suddenly taken
a long break, chief minister Yogi
Adityanath on Saturday directed
the irrigation and the energy
departments to be alert and
ready to deal with the situation
as it unfolds in the
days to come.
He also sought to
reassure farmers
that the govern-
ment stood with
them at
every step.
→P6
NEP has ended slave
mindset, says Modi
Fareeha Iftikhar
letters@hindustantimes.com
NEW DELHI: The push for using
mother tongue in education
under the National Education
Policy (2020) has initiated a
“new form of justice” in the
country, which will help create
a new generation that is free
from “mentality of slavery”,
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
said on Saturday.
Inaugurating the Akhil Bhar-
tiya Shiksha Samagam at the
newly-inaugurated Bharat
Mandapam in Delhi, the PM
said the world is looking at
India as a “nursery of new pos-
sibilities”.
“Education in the mother
tongue is initiating a new form
of justice for the students in
India. It is a very significant
step towards social justice,” he
OVERALL RAINS
7% IN EXCESS BUT
INDO-GANGETIC
PLAINS DEFICIENT
HT Correspondent
letters@hindustantimes.com
NEW DELHI: Rainfall over the
rice fields of north Indian plains
and parts of the northeast has
been hugely deficient this mon-
soon season, although precipi-
tation is 7% over the average in
the country in its entirety,
according to India Meteorologi-
cal Department data.
There is 49% rain deficiency
each over Jharkhand and Bihar,
39% over the Indo-Gangetic
plain and 35% over eastern
Uttar Pradesh. There is also 32%
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Sunday, July 30, 2023
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union education minister
Dharmendra Pradhan in New Delhi on Saturday.
said as he emphasised that
judging students on the basis of
language instead of capabilities
was the “biggest injustice”.
U.P. GETS LION’S
SHARE, AMU EX-VC
APPOINTED BJP
VICE-PRESIDENT
Manish Chandra Pandey
manish.pandey@htlive.com
LUCKNOW: Exactly a year since
PM Narendra Modi signalled the
BJP’s growing focus on Pas-
manda (backward) Muslims at
the party’s Hyderabad meet in
July 2022, former AMU VC Pro-
fessor Tariq Mansoor, a Pas-
manda himself, entered the
BJP’s main body as national vice-
president on Saturday. The BJP’s
new team has eight members
from U.P. in the main body, two
more than the last team declared
on September 26, 2020. →P6
BJP revamps national team →P7
LUCKNOW/METRO
HT PHOTO
Developed nations of the
world have an edge because of
their local languages, the PM
continued on →14
INDIA’S TIGER
COUNT TOPS 3,600,
MADHYA PRADESH
LEADS AT 785
Neeraj Santoshi and
Shruti Tomar
letters@hindustantimes.com
DEHRADUN/BHOPAL: India is
home to 75% of the world’s tiger
population with an estimated
3,682 of the big cats in the wild,
according to an updated analy-
sis of the 2022 tiger census
released on Saturday, which
found the number to be signifi-
cantly higher than the 3,167 fig-
ure projected in April.
The April data was part of a
preliminary report released by
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See also pages →P2, P7
BISCUITS
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SUNDAY
JULY 30, 2023

Heri-Taj city’s reputation takes a beating, again
Assault on a tourist inside a shop
brings back memories of the 2017
attack on Swiss couple; such cases
wash away our good work, lament
stakeholders in tourism sector
Hemendra Chaturvedi
hemendra.chaturvedi@htlive.com
July 16, 2023 A viral video pur-
portedly showed a tourist scurrying
for cover inside a petha shop on
Fatehabad road in Agra, saving
himself from baton-wielding goons.
The tourist left the city without
lodging a formal complaint. But the
Tajganj police took note of the inci-
dent, after which five of the eight
named accused were arrested.
Oct 22, 2017, a Swiss couple –
Quentin Jeremy Clerc and his girl-
friend Marie Droz (both 24) – was
chased by a group of local boys, and
hit with sticks and stones. While
Clerc suffered skull fracture and
nerve damage, Droz was left nurs-
ing a number of broken bones. All
five accused, including three juve-
niles, were arrested.
AGRA : Almost six years after the
attack on the Swiss couple, memo-
ries of the horrific incident came
back to haunt Agra recently when
an unidentified tourist, probably
from Delhi, was chased and
assaulted by 8 to 10 baton-wielding
goons after his car touched one of
them. But at the receiving end was
the reputation of the city of Taj as
a tourist destination.
On July 11, a rickshaw puller,
few shopkeepers and a handloom
centre owner were booked for
allegedly duping tourists from
SUCH INCIDENTS COME AS A
SHOCKER TO A CITY WHERE
MORE THAN 33 LAKH TOURISTS
VISITED THE TAJ MAHAL IN 2021-
2022, GENERATING REVENUE OF
₹25.61 CRORE IN A YEAR, WHICH
WAS THE HIGHEST AMONGST
ALL ASI-PROTECTED SITES IN
INDIA, SAY EXPERTS
Ajmer who came to visit the Taj
Mahal. The family was asked to
pay a higher price for a fake brand
of ‘petha’. The rickshaw puller had
taken the tourists to a shop
claimed to be a government
owned one, but it was not so, and
they were made to pay higher than
the actual price, said in-charge of
tourist police station Reena
Chaudhary. A case was registered
at the Tourist Police Station under
IPC sections 420, 504 and 506.
On January 29, three persons
were booked for allegedly fleecing
a Swiss woman visiting the Taj
Mahal. The trio — an emporium
owner, a salesman and a guide —
were charged under Section 420
(cheating) of the IPC by the tourist
police in Agra.
Complainant Isa Bell, a Swiss
woman in her thirties, was taken
to the Taj Mahal by a guide Furqan
Ali, who then took her to a nearby
emporium where she was asked to
pay Rs 80,000 for a chessboard, a
box and other items. After bar-
gaining, the combined price of all
the items was reduced to Rs
37,500. The woman found out at a
different store that the products
she bought were available for Rs
4,900. She then complained to the
cops who got her a refund.
Such incidents come as a
shocker to a city where more than
33 lakh tourists visited the Taj
Mahal in 2021-2022, generating
revenue of Rs 25.61 crore in a year,
which was the highest amongst all
ASI-protected sites in India, say
experts in tourism and hospitality
sector.
“The city of Taj has a blemish on
its crown due to such incidents,
which are against the spirit of ‘Ati-
thi Devo Bhava’. Just as the fame
of the Monument of Love (Taj
Mahal) travels far and wide, the
notoriety of goons targeting tour-
ists also travels fast, said Deepak
Dan, president of Tourist Guides
Welfare Association in Agra.
“The incident on July 16 caused
damage to Agra’s image as a tour-
ist destination. Despite the victim
avoiding to approach the cops and
the police swinging into action on
its own, much of the good work
done by stakeholders in the tour-
ism sector gets washed away by
such incidents,” he said.
My Lucknow
An overview of Taj Mahal amid Tajganj locality .
“Many cases of tourists being
cheated by touts go unreported as
the victims are under pressure
because of their time-bound
schedule. They rarely reach out to
the police despite the Tourism
Police Thana functional in Agra,”
opined Dan.
ACP (Taj security) Areeb
Ahmed admitted that not many
tourists approached the police due
to their packed schedule and time
constraint.
“Only eight similar cases were
registered at the tourist police sta-
tion in 2022. But in 2023, nine
cases have already been regis-
tered, including two by foreign
tourists,” he informed.
“We have registered a case
against an unauthorized guide
who accompanied a minister from
Vietnam to Taj Mahal,” he said.
“A case of extortion was regis-
tered against two drivers of a
travel agency in Delhi who misled
two Japanese tourists and brought
them to Agra. Now, we have intro-
duced a facility wherein complain-
ants can record their statement
through video calls,” said the ACP.
FATEHPUR SIKRI AWAITS
SOLUTION
Fatehpur Sikri, located 40 km
from Agra, saw the attack on the
Swiss couple in 2017. Within a
week of this incident, chief minis-
ter Yogi Adityanath visited the city
and ordered for weeding out the
‘tout menace’ from Agra.
However a year later, the same
Fatehpur Sikri witnessed an inci-
dent where touts allegedly pelted
cops with stones. Three policemen
were injured, and in retaliation,
they arrested eight touts. Two
cases were registered at Fatehpur
Sikri police station.
However, this Unesco listed
world heritage site is yet to be free
of ‘tout menace’. Time and again,
complaints related to tourists
being overcharged by lapkas
(touts) in the name of offering
‘chadar’ at Sheikh Salim Chisti
Dargah have surfaced.
THE ‘DABBA’ TRADE
The term was first used in the
early 1990s. It originated from the
act of catching a tourist once he or
she landed in the city of the Taj.
Well educated, these touts mas-
tered the art of interacting with
the tourists and winning their con-
fidence.
They focused on foreign tourists
coming alone and sold goods to
them, promising big cuts, a prac-
tice termed in local parlance as
‘dabba’ trade, said Sandeep Arora,
HT FILE PHOTO
president of the Agra Tourism
Development Federation.
Initially, there were only a hun-
dred of them, found mainly near
the railway station, Agra Fort and
Taj Mahal. They allegedly had
links with local shopkeepers.
“First, they befriended the visi-
tor. The target was then taken to a
pre-decided shop, where a packed
item was given to him/her for
handing it over to a fictitious per-
son residing in the tourist’s coun-
try. The visitor was given a lucra-
tive offer of paying less for the
product. In turn, the tourist was
told to charge extra while handing
it over to the prospective client
abroad. The target usually fell for
the bait of easy money and took
the item. But when the tourist
reached his destination and
couldn’t find the receiver, he was
left with no option but to use the
product, which was mostly of an
inferior quality,” he explained.
DANDA BINDI RACKET
Soon, a large number of com-
plaints poured in from different
embassies, giving the tourism
industry in Agra and its adjoining
areas a bad name. What followed
was action, bringing an end to the
illegal practice. But the lapkas
didn’t stop here. They changed
with time and moved over to a
new system dubbed ‘Danda Bindi’
once the credit cards came into
use, said Arora.
Under the Danda Bindi system,
the lapkas got involved in cloning
credit cards and withdrawing
cash. Besides, they ran an ‘insur-
ance racket’ in connivance with
hospitals near the Taj.
Tourists falling sick were taken
to pre-decided hospitals by the lap-
kas. In turn, they got cuts from the
insurance money of the visitors.
“In some cases, it was alleged that
lapkas used to infect food items
deliberately. In other cases, some
foreign tourists were found to be
part of the racket after being
offered a share in the money
made. This brought quite a bad
name to the tourism industry. Visi-
tors coming to Agra were advised
not to have food here,” said Arora.
The menace gradually spread to
nearby tourist spots like Fatehpur
Sikri, about 40 km from Agra, said
Arora. Now, even roadside hawk-
ers and canvassers for hotels and
restaurants were viewed as lapkas,
he added.
LEGAL LIMITATIONS
Most of the time, these touts/local
goons, when nabbed, face prevent-
ive action under Section 151 or
107/116 of Criminal Procedure
Code, which involves issuance of
challan, but no provision of being
sent behind bars, say experts.
“The term ‘lapka’ is misleading,
but prevalent in Agra. ‘Lapkagiri’
or practices undertaken by these
lapkas have no mention in law
books and thus they are booked
under preventive action while
being charged under Section 151 or
107/116 of the Criminal Procedure
Code,” stated Areeb Ahmed, ACP
for Taj security in Agra.
“Those found cheating tourists
or physically attacking them are
booked under sections for fraud,
cheating, voluntarily causing hurt
and sent to jail,” he claimed.
Ahmed informed that action
had been taken against 278 lapkas
operating around monuments
between November 2022 and July
2023, and the number was signifi-
cantly higher as compared to the
past.
“Apart from Tourism Police Sta-
tion, Taj Security Police Station is
functional at the Western Gate of
Taj Mahal. Those booked more
than twice are booked under
Goonda Act,” he added.
“We also act against those oper-
ating through fake Aadhaar card
or found working as fake guide.
Lost mobile phones of tourists are
put on surveillance and the recov-
ered ones are handed back to
them. Those separated from fami-
lies visiting monuments are
re-united by police,” said Ahmed.
“We have a strategy to counter
the issue of ‘lapka’ in Agra. About
30 children involved in this while
working as hawkers or selling
shoe covers to tourists are being
educated by the police. Fourteen
women found to be alone and
operating near Taj are attached to
a self-help group and trained to
behave well with tourists,” he
added.
CITIZEN CONCERN
From time to time, various initia-
tives have been launched to check
tout menace. Director of Hindu-
stan Institute of Management and
Computer Studies, Naveen Gupta,
initiated the campaign - ‘Lapka to
Apka’ (LTA) - to make these touts
“friends of tourists”.
“Responding to a representa-
tion, former union culture minis-
ter Mahesh Sharma had promised
to bring a law to make the lapkas’
illegal acts a non-bailable offence.
The same is being awaited,” said
Rajiv Tiwari, chairman of the Fed-
eration of Travel Association.
“Those once booked should be
identified. A record has to be
maintained. Hawkers should not
be tagged as lapkas but restrained
within yellow lines drawn near
monuments. Touching tourists or
gathering around them collec-
tively should be made punishable,”
said Tiwari.
Braj Mandal Heritage Conserva-
tion Society secretary Brij Khan-
delwal said: “Despite having about
200 ASI protected sites, Agra lacks
proper public transport system
with Metro yet to start. We need to
minimise the need of middle men.
Tourists should get a well-defined
support system of information,
public transport, security, leaving
no space for these lapkas.”

U.P. records 18% rise in tiger count UPPCL TO START

since 2018; Dudhwa ranked 4th
The increase is 88.07%
since 2006 when there
were 109 tigers in Uttar
Pradesh
Gaurav Saigal
gaurav.saigal@htlive.com
LUCKNOW: The Dudhwa Tiger
Reserve (DTR) has been ranked
number four among tiger
reserves in the country as Uttar
Pradesh recorded a rise of
18.49% in the total tiger popula-
tion in four years, according to
the state level data shared under
“Status of Tigers” in India report
on Saturday.
Uttar Pradesh’s tiger count
went up from 173 in the 2018
census to 205 in 2022. The rise
is almost double (88.07%) since
2006, when there were 109
tigers in the state.
“DTR came at number four in
country with 135 tigers. The
tiger population in Uttar Pra-
desh shows an increase of 18%
compared to the 2018 census.
U.P’s share in the Shivalik
range, which comprises Bihar,
Uttarakhand and U,P, is 205 out
of total 819 tigers reported in the
Census in the Shivalik Range,”
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said Mamata Sanjeev Dubey,
head of the forest force Uttar
Pradesh and the principal chief
conservator of forests.
DTR registered a growth in
the tiger population from 82 in
2018 to 135 in 2022 in the
reserve area. The growth was
from 107 in 2018 to 153 in 2022
in the area around the Dudhwa
Tiger Reserve.
Bihar, which is also in the
Shivalik Range, reported 54
Tigers in 2022 as compared to 31
in 2018. Uttarakhand that had
reported 442 Tigers in 2018
recorded 560 in 2022, according
to the report.
The fifth cycle of the tiger
census for India was released in
April, giving details of the vari-
ous landscapes and its tiger
population.
The tiger count was 819 in the
Shivalik hills and Gangetic
plains landscape that includes
Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Uttar-
akhand
In the Shivalik hills and
Gangetic plains landscape, the
count went up from 646 in 2018
to 819 (camera trapped tigers)
by 2022, a rise of 173.
The state count for tigers was
not part of the stats released for
landscape.
The other areas with photo-
captured tigers in the census
included the Central Indian
Highland and the Eastern Ghats
landscape that have eight states.
This area recorded the presence
of 1439 tigers in 2022 compared
to 1033 in 2018.
The Western Ghats landscape
spanning parts of four states
recorded 1087 tigers in 2022 as
compared to 981 tigers in 2018.
The Northeastern Hills and the
Brahmaputra landscape
recorded 236 tigers compared
to 219 in 2018. And the Sunder-
bans landscape recorded 101
tigers.
Accolade for Pilibhit
tiger reserve
The Pilibhit tiger reserve has
got the CA TS (Conservation
Assured Tiger Standards) certif-
icate, which is a worldwide
accreditation standard for the
conservation of tigers. It com-
prises several elements that
assure the successful restora-
tion of the tiger population
within a protected natural spot.
The certificate was given by
Union minister for state for
environment, forest and climate
change Ashwini Chaubey at a
function in New Delhi.
SPL DRIVE TO
CONNECT WITH
CONSUMERS
HT Correspondent
lkoreportersdesk@hindustantimes.com
LUCKNOW : Uttar Pradesh
Power Corporation Limited
(UPPCL) will launch a one-week
statewide drive between July 31
and August 6, contacting con-
sumers and people’s represent-
atives, to strengthen the power
supply system and quick dis-
posal of consumer complaints.
Energy minister Arvind
TIGER COUNT IN UP Kumar Sharma directed offi-
Year Tiger cials in this regard in a meeting
in the Shakti Bhawan here on
2006 109 Saturday, asking officials to
2010 118 obtain feedback and sugges-
2014 117 tions from MPs, MLAs, and
other people’s representatives
2018 173
and act upon the same.
2022 205 “The minister in the meeting
said that all the superintending
SHIVALIK HILLS AND engineers (SE) in districts will
GANGETIC PLAINS meet the representatives in
LANDSCAPE their areas and take their feed-
back and suggestions concern-
Year Population ing power supply,” a govern-
2006 297 ment spokesperson said.
The minister said the SEs
2010 353 would also invite MLAs, MPs,
2014 485 mayors, corporations, etc to
their office or the circuit office
2018 646 once during the campaign. The
2022 819 minister suggested that the help
of these representatives should
be taken to encourage consum-
ers to pay their bills.
Meanwhile, an official
present in the meeting said that
the minister repeatedly tried to
suggest that engineers were not
able to give their best perform-
ance because of an atmosphere
of fear in the department.
“The minister insinuated that
since earlier Uttar Pradesh
Power Corporation Limited
chairman M Devraj, who was
transferred on Friday, was too
tough and punished (corrupt)
personnel every now and then,
they remained in constant fear
because of which, they were not
able to deliver,” the official said.
The minister, it is believed,
had differences with Devraj
over some issues, including the
way the latter handled the
power strike in February and
did not agree to rollback penal
action taken against strikers
and their leaders.
“The minister had been indi-
rectly targeting the former
chairman for months by repeat-
edly saying in meetings that
UPPCL officials were acting as
‘Dhritarashtra’ (turning a blind
eye) even as corruption pre-
vailed in the department,” said
another official.
‘Over 99% power complaints received
via helpline number resolved’
HT Correspondent
lkoreportersdesk@hindustantimes.com
LUCKNOW: As many as 99.78%
of power supply related com-
plaints received through toll-
free helpline 1912 (operated by
UPPCL) in the last five-and-a-
half-years have been resolved,
said a government spokesman
here on Saturday.
“The toll-free number was
launched in 2017 to provide a
one-stop solution to electricity
consumers. It is important to
note that between April 12, 2017,
and July 12, 2023, all DISCOMs
received a total of 1,50,14,597
complaints, of which
1,49,82,965 have been resolved
and only 31,362 are pending.
Thus, 99.78 percent of com-
plaints have been resolved in
the last six years,” he said.
As per the figures, a total of
58,64,061 complaints have been
registered this year until July 12
from all over the state of which
58,35,249 have been resolved.
The overall resolution rate dur-
ing the period of 2022 to 2023
stands at an impressive 99.50%.
A total of 67.32 lakh com-
plaints were registered with
Madhyanchal Vidyut Vitran
Regulation allowing retail sale of
biodiesel in Uttar Pradesh finalised
Brajendra K Parashar
bkparashar@hindustantimes.com
LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh is
ready with the rules paving the
way for regulated retail sale of
biodiesel for blending petro-die-
sel in the state with the New and
Renewable Energy Develop-
ment Agency (NEDA) to act as
the licensing body for the pur-
pose, officials dealing with the
issue said.
“We have finalised the first-
ever regulations for production,
storage and retail sale of biodie-
sel in the state and the same will
be put before the Cabinet very
soon for approval,” NEDA
director Anupam Shukla said.
“The NEDA will be the regula-
tory body having the powers to
issue licence for retail sale of
the renewable fuel and carrying
out quality checks,” he added.
The regulations, according to
Shukla, had been prepared after
the NEDA invited public com-
ments and suggestions to the
draft guidelines for production,
Nigam Limited during the last
six years of which 67,18,397
have been resolved and only
14,398 are still pending. “Thus,
the resolution rate for com-
plaints in Madhyanchal Discom
stands at an impressive 99.78
percent,” the spokesman said.
In the last six years, 23.48
lakh complaints have been
received in Dakshinanchal of
which 23.44 lakh have been
resolved. Similarly, 21.91 lakh
complaints were received in
Purvanchal, of which 21.83 lakh
have been resolved. In Pashchi-
manchal, out of 37.15 lakh com-
plaints, 37.11 lakh have been
resolved and in the KESCO,
25,623 complaints have been
resolved out of 25,776 received.
Whereas in the last one year,
10.50 lakh complaints out of
10.54 lakh have been settled in
Dakshinanchal, 25.61 lakh com-
plaints out of 25.74 lakh in Mad-
hyanchal, 8.59 lakh out of 8.76
lakh in Purvanchal and 13.38
lakh out of 13.41 lakh in Paschi-
manchal DISCOM. KESCO
received 25,776 complaints of
which 25,645 have been
resolved.
‘We face three or more
storage, distribution and sale of
biodiesel in the state after the
government issued the Bioen-
ergy Policy-2022 in October last.
Biodiesel is an eco-friendly
alternative diesel fuel prepared
from domestic renewable sour-
ces like vegetable oils (both edi-
ble and non-edible) and animal
fats. It can be used alone or
blended with conventional pet-
ro-diesel in diesel-driven vehi-
cles. At present, the retail sale of
biodiesel directly to consumers
is not permitted in U.P. though
no additional permission or
licence is required for produc-
tion and storage of such fuel in
the state. Some states already
provide for retail sale of biodie-
sel direct to consumers.
Prior to the central govern-
ment’s notification of April 30,
2019, the producers could sell
biodiesel only to oil companies
as per the formula fixed by the
government and they were not
allowed to sell it directly to any
organisation like railways or
any other transporter or indi-
power outages
everyday’
According to a recent survey
conducted by LocalCircles, a
social media platform, 55% of
the respondents in Uttar Pra-
desh indicated that they have
been facing three or more
power outages every day in July
when the power demand has
dramatically surged.
The survey received over
8,000 responses from citizens
located in 51 districts of U.P. A
total 70% respondents were
men while 30% respondents
were women.
“The power sector in the state
is facing a financial crisis due to
continuing losses which could
be one of the reasons why the
infrastructure is not able to
handle rising demand, resulting
in frequent outages,” the survey
said.
Of the 4,206 Uttar Pradesh
residents who responded to this
query, 77% indicated that they
have been facing power outages
daily this month; 55% of them
indicated that they have been
facing 3 or more power outages.
The data shows only 13% of
respondents stated that “never
or very rarely the power goes”.
vidual. After the Centre’s notifi-
cation, many states permitted
direct sale of biodiesel, but U.P.
is yet to give any such permis-
sion and come out with a regu-
latory framework for the same.
“The regulations will permit
registered organisations to sell
biodiesel to retail consumers
like railways, truckers and indi-
viduals or bulk consumers like
petrol pumps etc provided the
storage capacity in the case of
retail and wholesale distribu-
tion must not be less than the
limit prescribed in the rules,”
Shukla said. He further said
there would be permission for
blending of biodiesel up to 10%
in the petro-diesel.
Under the regulations await-
ing the Cabinet nod, the public
sector oil companies would
have the mandate to conduct
quality checks of biodiesel with
the NEDA to have the power to
annul the registration/licence of
the agency concerned if biodie-
sel sold by it to consumers is
found to be spurious.
 LUCKNOW
SUNDAY
JULY 30, 2023
{ MOHARRAM ACROSS THE STATE }
Processions peaceful; two die of electrocution
Across Uttar Pradesh,
Moharram processions
were peaceful barring a
few stray incidents of
clashes and accidents
HT Correspondent
letters@htlive.com
LUCKNOW/VARANASI: Two per-
sons, including a minor boy,
were killed and over 40 others
injured during a Moharram
procession when a Tazia caught
fire after coming in contact with
a high-tension wire, in Amroha
district on Saturday, said senior
police officials.
Across Uttar Pradesh, mean-
while, the Moharram proces-
sions were peaceful barring a
few stray incidents of clashes
and accidents reported from
Varanasi and Lucknow, they
added.
Uttar Pradesh police special
director general (Special
DG)-Law and Order Prashant
Kumar said despite the state
reporting a few stray incidents
of deaths, which included
one due to drowning (in
Moradabad), people getting
injured due to tazia processions
getting in the range of high-
tension wires and minor
clashes, the day remained
peaceful, and no major law-
and-order issues were
reported.
Around 14,100 Tazia proces-
sions were taken out in the pres-
ence of police and district
administration officials across
the state.
In Amroha, over a thousand
people were taking part in the
procession with the 25-feet-tall
tazia, a replica of the tomb of
Imam Hussain, that caught fire
at Patai Khalsa village in the
Didauli area of the district. The
procession was heading to the
Karbala in the nearby Nili Kheri
village.
District superintendent of
police (SP) Aditya Langeh said
the two people who died were
identified as Shane Mohammad
(40) and Owaish (10) even as
over 40 others were injured in
the mishap. The injured were
Devout taking out a procession in the Old City area of Lucknow
on Saturday
hospitalised at the local com-
munity health centre and the
district hospital.
In Moradabad, a 13-year-old
boy, identified as Mohd Azeem,
drowned after slipping into a
six-ft-deep rainwater-filled pit
that was previously dug for the
Tazia burial. A local told media
persons that the incident took
place when the Moharram pro-
DEEPAK GUPTA/HT
cession had reached the Karbala
at Jafarpur village under Main-
anther police station limits at
around 12.30 pm.
Two other minors, who had
also accidentally fallen into the
pit, were rescued. Azeem, how-
ever, died while being taken to a
hospital.
Similarly, a youngster was
severely injured when a tazia
My Lucknow
Nine held in Maharajganj
GORAKHPUR: Nine persons
were arrested for tearing
posters of government
schemes that had pictures of
chief minister Yogi Aditya-
nath and local MLAs, in
Maharajganj’s Barahara
Baraipa village, assistant
superintendent of police
(ASP) Atishi Kumar Singh
said. Meanwhile, sub-divi-
sional magistrate (Sadar)
Dinesh Mishra camped in
caught fire after coming in the
range of a high-tension wire,
between Purania and Daliganj
Crossing of Lucknow, said dep-
uty commissioner of police
(Lucknow-North) SM Qasim
Abidi.
3 hurt in stone-pelting in
Varanasi
Three persons suffered minor
injuries after two groups of the
community pelted stones at
the village to ensure peace-
ful observance of the Mohar-
ram procession. In Kushina-
gar, some members of the
community strongly
objected to the choosing of a
new route for the Moharram
procession. Meanwhile, Gor-
akhpur alone saw around
900 processions despite
rains the previous night, to
mark the occasion, the offi-
cials said. HTC
each other during a tazia pro-
cession in the Jaitpura area of
Varanasi, local police said. RAF
was deployed after which peace
was restored in the area.
Deputy police chief of Kashi
Zone Ramsevak Gautam’s office
said normalcy had been
restored in the area, and that
the three persons who suffered
minor injuries had been dis-
charged after their treatment at
a hospital.
‘Free protected structures
of encroachments’
LUCKNOW: A meeting of the
committee constituted to
ensure removal of illegal con-
structions in and around pro-
tected monuments in the state
capital was held in the office of
the commissioner on Saturday.
Divisional commissioner
Roshan Jacob directed officials
to remove encroachments from
the protected monuments.
The officials apprised the
Jacob that in the first phase,
encroachments by 50 families
living in five centrally protected
monuments namely Bara
Imambara, Saadat Ali and
Mushirzadi Tomb, Sher Dar-
03
waza or Neil’s Gate, Qaiserbagh
Gate and Kaiser Pasand ceme-
tery were removed.They said 19
encroachments in and around
the centrally protected monu-
ment Bara Imambara and six
encroachments in Asafi Masjid
located in Hussainabad area
were yet to be removed.
The divisional commissioner
instructed the concerned offi-
cials to jointly survey the heri-
tage area and identify illegal
encroachments. She instructed
the concerned office bearers of
the Trust to remove illegal
encroachments from the heri-
tage zone. HTC

STF arrests woman from Lko BRIEF SPELL OF

in ₹100-crore fraud case
HT Correspondent
letters@htlive.com
LUCKNOW: The UP Special Task
Force (STF) arrested a woman
director of a bike taxi company
operating from Lucknow, alleg-
edly involved in over a ₹100
crore fraud with thousands of
investors, on Saturday.
Senior STF officials said the
woman director, identified as
Neelam Verma, a resident of
Lucknow’s Para area, was
arrested from behind RK mar-
riage lawns in Bahadurkheda
locality, under the Manaknagar
police station limits of Lucknow
at around 10.45 am on Saturday
morning.
Sharing a press note with the
media, a senior STF official said
she was wanted in 23 criminal
cases registered with Lucknow’s
Vibhuti Khand and Hazratganj
police stations in the matter
since 2019. He said that along
with key accused Abhay Kush-
waha – lodged in Lucknow jail
in the same matter – Rajesh
Pandey, Nikhil Kushwaha,
Azam Siddiqui and Shakeel
Ahmad Khan, she was the
director of the firm.
The official said that during
interrogation, the woman
revealed that Abhay Kushwaha
first floated a real estate firm in
2013 and then he floated a bike
taxi company ‘Hello Ride’ and
opened its office on the eighth
floor of Cyber Heights building.
The STF officials claimed that
Kushwaha and his accomplices
lured investors to pay for a
motorcycle that was supposed
to be used as a two-wheeler taxi.
“In exchange, the investors
were promised a massive return
on their investment. Each inves-
tor was asked to pay ₹ 61,000 for
one bike. They promised a
monthly return of 9,582 for 12
months,” explained the officials.
They said that customers
who invested in one bike were
promised a total return of over
₹1,14,984 lakh in one year on
investing just ₹61,000 and the
investors were free to invest in
multiple bikes.
The officials said nearly 150
employees in seven teams were
employed with this firm and the
head of each team was given
15% commission on deposits
made every month. “They all
deposited over ₹100 crore
through this Ponzi scheme and
vanished with the hard-earned
money of investors after closing
their office,” he said.
RAIN BRINGS
RELIEF TO CITY
HT Correspondent
letters@htlive.com
LUCKNOW : A brief spell of
heavy rain brought relief
for Lucknowites, but
increased humidity on
Saturday evening. The maxi-
mum relative humidity
recorded was 92% and mini-
mum 65%.
According to the meteorolog-
ical department, a generally
cloudy sky with a few spells of
rain are likely on Sunday.
Meanwhile the temperature
forecast for the next 24 hours is
a maximum of 35 degrees Cel-
sius and a minimum very likely
to be around 27 degrees Celsius,
respectively.
In the state, cloudy skies and
rain are predicted along with
gusts of wind, at a few places in
West and East UP.

{ PM E-VIDYA }

U.P. GOVERNMENT
LAUNCHES 5 DTH
CHANNELS FOR
SCHOOLCHILDREN
HT Correspondent
letters@htlive.com

LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh

government has launched five
direct-to-home (DTH) television
channels to enhance children’s
learning experience at home.
The initiative is a part of the
Centre’s PM e-Vidya pro-
gramme.
These channels will broad-
cast subject-wise and class-wise
educational videos for students
from classes 1 to 12. Addition-
ally, videos on pre-primary edu-
cation and others made spe-
cially for the differently abled
children will be broadcast.
The channels, which were
made available free of charge on
DD Free Dish and Dish TV start-
ing Saturday, bring supplemen-
tary education to children’s
homes in their own languages.
It may be noted that the PM
e-Vidya programme was
launched on May 17, 2020. One
of its components was the
launch of DTH TV channels
under the One Class-One Chan-
nel initiative.
Pawan Sachan, the director
of the State Council of Educa-
tional Research and Training
(SCERT), has informed the Dis-
trict Institute for Education and
Training (DIET) principals, dis-
trict school inspectors, and dis-
trict basic education officers
about the inauguration of PM
e-Vidya DTH channels.
While new videos on differ-
ent subjects will be broadcast
daily, their repeat telecast will
run throughout the day, officials
added
Under the PM e-Vidya pro-
gram, the details of the 5 DTH
TV channels allocated to the
state are as follows:

Channels and
their numbers
l No. 173: Preparatory
Stage students of
anganwadis/pre-
school, Classes 1 & 2
l No. 174: Foundational
Stage for Classes 3, 4 &
5
l No. 175: For classes 6, 7
&8
l No. 176: Stage-1 for
classes 9 & 10
l No. 177: Stage-2 for
classes 11 & 12

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 04 Uttar Pradesh
Ayodhya’s Janmabhoomi Path set to open for public today
HT Correspondent
letters@hindustantimes.com
LUCKNOW: The 850-metre-long
Janmabhoomi Path in Ayodhya,
one of the three road projects
launched by the Uttar Pradesh
government to ensure better
connectivity to the upcoming
Ram Temple, will be opened to
public from Sunday, officials
familiar with the matter said.
Starting from Birla Mandir,
the Path leads to the Ram Jan-
mabhoomi via Sugreev Qila and
is adorned by sweetmeat shops
on both sides of the road. While
around 650 metres of the road is
outside the Ram Janmabhoomi
campus, the remaining 200
metres is inside it.
“The Janmabhoomi Path will
be opened for devotees from Sun-
day,” said Sri Ram Janmabhoomi
Teerth Kshetra Trust general sec-
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Janmabhoomi Path is among the three road projects underway
in Ayodhya.
retary Champat Rai, who will
inaugurate the road and lead the
first batch of devotees to the Ram
temple on this pathway.
Janmabhoomi Path is among
the three road projects underway
in Ayodhya.
The 13-km Ram Path from
Naya Ghat to Sahadatganj is the
PTI
longest while 570-metre-long
Bhakti Path is the shortest.
“The Janmabhoomi Path is the
first pathway to be opened for
devotees. Around half of the
13-km Ram Path will be com-
pleted by the end of this year.
Bhakti Path will also be completed
by year-end,” an official of the dis-
trict administration said.
Along with the construction
of a grand Ram temple, which is
to be opened in January 2024,
Ayodhya is bracing for a major
transformation.
The enormity of the ongoing
development in the erstwhile tem-
ple town that wants to become a
pre-eminent city on the Hindu pil-
grimage circuit — one estimated to
cost ₹32,000 crore approx — is evi-
dent as one enters Ayodhya from
the Naya Ghat crossing, which is
now called the Lata Mangeshkar
crossing, where around 900
labourers are working around-the-
clock to complete a ₹1,000-crore
project for widening three roads.
The Yogi Adityanath govern-
ment has also approved widen-
ing of the Panch Kosi, which
passes through Ayodhya city and
14-Kosi Parikrama Marg that
covers the outskirts of the city.
Ram temple work gives push to local economy
HT Correspondent
letters@hindustantimes.com
LUCKNOW: In a sign that the
under-construction Ram tem-
ple is propelling the local econ-
omy in Ayodhya, shops in the
vicinity of Ram Janmabhoomi
are much in demand and being
rented out on a daily basis and
the hotel industry is also keen
to invest in projects in the tem-
ple town.
For instance, the daily rent
for shops on the Janmabhoomi
Path ranges from Rs 1500 to Rs
1800 and is said to be the high-
est in the temple town, accord-
ing to traders.
“Shops in the entire area in
the vicinity of Ram Janma-
bhoomi are much in demand.
Ram Mandir is yet to be opened
for devotees, but the rent of
shops has skyrocketed in this
region,” said a local trader.
“Demand for shops at Jan-
mabhoomi Path in Ayodhya is
the highest. Here shops are
being rented out for Rs 1500 to
Rs 1800 per day,” said a trader
leader, who owns a prominent
hotel in Ayodhya. Charging
rent on a daily basis is a new
trend in Ayodhya.
The consecration ceremony
of the Ram Lalla idol to be
installed at the temple is likely
to be held in January 2024.
“At present, four shops have
been rented out on a daily
rental basis on Janmabhoomi
Path. After construction of the
other two roads (Ram Path and
Bhakti Path) is over, more
shops will be rented out daily,”
he added.
“After Ram Mandir is
opened for devotees, the daily
rent of shops on this stretch
will also increase,” said
another trader.
Currently, the shops rented
out on a daily basis are small
eateries and food joints.
“Only eateries will be able to
manage a daily rent of Rs 1500
to Rs 2000,” said a trader who
owns a shop near Hanuman
Garhi, another area witnessing
a surge in demand for shops.
Hoteliers turn to
Ayodhya
After construction work of
Ram Mandir began in Ayodhya
NBW issued against
Meerut BJP leader in
sexual abuse case
HT Correspondent
letters@htlive.com
MEERUT : A special court under
the Protection of Children from
Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act,
2012, issued a non-bailable war-
rant (NBW) against BJP leader
Arvind Gupta Marwari on Fri-
day (July 28) in a case of alleged
sexual abuse of a 17-year-old girl
in Meerut, police said on Satur-
day.
Senior superintendent of
police (SSP) Rohit Singh Sajwan
said all possible places were
being raided for Arvind Gupta
Marwari’s arrest. Station house
officer (SHO), Daurala, Sanjay
Sharma said the name of Mar-
wari was included in the case
following an investigation.
“The court has directed to
produce him before it by August
8. The proceeding for confisca-
tion of properties will be started
thereafter,” the SHO added.
While Arvind Gupta Marwari
is BJP Mahanagar (metropoli-
tan) unit general secretary in
Meerut, Sanjeev Jain Sikka has a
minister of state rank in Uttar
Pradesh. They are maternal
cousins. Senior lawyer Ramesh
Chand Gupta, the alleged king-
pin of the scandal who has
already been arrested in connec-
Uday Pratap, 12 others
put under house arrest
HT Correspondent
allahabad.htdesk@hindustantimes.com
PRAYAGRAJ : Kunda MLA
Raghuraj Pratap Singh aka Raja
Bhaiyya’s father and erstwhile
king of Bhadri state of Pratap-
garh, Raja Uday Pratap Singh,
90, and 12 others were put under
house arrest on 10th day of
Moharram in Pratapgarh on Sat-
urday. Police force was deployed
at Bhadri Kothi, the sprawling
home of Uday Pratap, since Fri-
day night to stop Uday Pratap
from organising a Bhandara or a
community meal at Sheikhpur
Ashiq village in Kunda.
Besides Uday Pratap, his sup-
porters Jitendra Singh, Anand-
pal, Ramashankar Mishra,
Bhawani, Ravi Singh, Hanuman
Pandey, Kesri Nandan, Jamuna
Maurya, Nirbhay Singh, Gaya
Prasad, Mohanlal and Jugnu
were also restricted from going
out of their houses from Friday
evening to Saturday night, police
officials said.
Uday Pratap Singh expressed
resentment over his house arrest
through a tweet. He criticised
the state government and
alleged that the move reeked of
back-stabbing the Hindus.
“ Some nine years ago a
divided Hindus at least got
together enough to elect a what
they thought was a Hindu party
and what that party did was to
stab Hindus in the back and
appease their arch enemies,”
Uday Pratap said in his tweet.
Heavy force has also been
A
l
CS meets Indian
Kung Fu contingent
LUCKNOW : Chief secretary
Durga Shanker Mishra on
Saturday met members of
the Indian contingent of
Kung Fu that will
participate at the two-day
third International Word
Cup at Taipei in Taiwan,
starting from August 5.As
many as nine players in this
contingent are from Uttar
Pradesh.
DDU varsity expels
18 students
GORAKHPUR : DDU
Gorakhpur University
authorities expelled 18
students and imposed ban
on the entry of six others on
LUCKNOW
SUNDAY
JULY 30, 2023
on August 5, 2020, temple town
became a favourite destination
for the hotel industry.
Out of Rs 1,100 crore invest-
ment proposals received at the
district-level investors’ summit
in Ayodhya on January 25 this
year, around Rs 800 crore is for
the hotel industry.
The Oberoi Group, consid-
ered pioneers in the hospitality
industry, will invest Rs 45 crore
in Ayodhya. The group has
planned a hotel in Ayodhya.
A Jaipur-based group has
proposed to invest Rs 150 crore
to set up a five-star hotel near
the river Saryu in Ayodhya.
The SR Group of companies
has proposed to invest Rs 60
crore in the hospitality sector
in the temple town.
tion with the case, is the mater-
nal uncle of Marwari and Sikka.
As per the police, the 17-year-
old girl, working in the office of
advocate Ramesh Chand Gupta,
had alleged that she was sexually
abused by the trio. Sharma said
since the girl had also accused
Sanjeev Sikka of sexually abus-
ing her, investigation against
him was underway and action
would be initiated based on the
findings of the probe.
Giving details of the case, the
police said two videos surfaced
purportedly showing advocate
Gupta abusing two different
girls. After the videos surfaced,
the 17-year-old girl went missing
and a missing person case was
lodged by her brother on May 27.
She was recovered safely on
June 15.
When she was presented
before a court on June 16, she
levelled charges of sexual abuse
against advocate Gupta, the BJP
leader and Sikka in her state-
ment recorded under section 164
of the Code of Criminal Proce-
dure (CrPC), the police said.
Meanwhile, BJP Mahanagar
unit president Mukesh Singhal
said he had sent his recommen-
dation for the expulsion of both
the leaders, to the BJP state unit.
WITH AGENCY INPUTS
Police outside the Bhadri
Kothi to enforce the house
arrest in Pratapgarh on
Saturday HT PHOTO
deployed on the route of the
Moharram procession at Sheikh-
pur Ashiq village where Uday
Pratap has been trying to hold a
Bhandara for the last few years.
A simian had died in an acci-
dent near Hanuman Temple at
Shekhupur Ashiq village on 10th
day of Moharram in 2005. Some
residents of the village started
reciting Hanuman Chalisa on
10th day of Muharram for the
dead monkey.
In 2014, Uday Pratap orga-
nised a Bhandara at the temple
which is on the way to Karbala
where Muharram processions
were taken out.
In 2015, there was tension
among members of two commu-
nities on the 10th day of Mohar-
ram when Bhandara was orga-
nised while Muharram proces-
sions were being taken out.
Tension again prevailed in
2016 following which Pratap-
garh administration put a
restriction on organising a Bhan-
dara. Since then, Uday Pratap is
being put under house arrest on
10th day of Moharram each year.
the campus of the
university, on Saturday.
The action follows a week
after the V-C office was
vandalised and the V-C and
registrar were thrashed on
July 21.
3 eunuchs held for
making man drink
urine
KASGANJ : Five people,
including three eunuchs,
were arrested on Saturday
for allegedly shaving a
man’s head and making
him drink their urine in
Kasganj, a police officer
said. The action came after
a purported video of the
incident, which took place
in Sahavar on July 26, went
viral on the internet. HTC
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{ BJP’S NATIONAL TEAM }
U.P. gets lion’s share, AMU ex-VC
appointed party vice-president
Manish Chandra Pandey
manish.pandey@htlive.com
LUCKNOW: Exactly a year since
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
signalled the BJP’s growing
focus on Pasmanda (backward)
Muslims at the party’s Hydera-
bad meet in July 2022, former
Aligarh Muslim University
(AMU) vice chancellor Professor
Tariq Mansoor, a Pasmanda
himself, entered the BJP’s main
body as national vice- president
on Saturday.
The BJP’s new team has eight
members from Uttar Pradesh in
the main body, two more than
the last team declared on Sep-
tember 26, 2020, showcasing the
party’s focus on the state ahead
of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls,
which are less then a year away.
Mansoor, 66, a general sur-
geon from AMU, is among the
eight leaders from Uttar Pradesh
who have found a place in BJP
chief JP Nadda’s 38-member
team. The domination of U.P. in
the national body with 21% rep-
resentation reflects a mix of
leaders with either caste appeal
or organisational expertise or
both, party leaders said.
Four leaders have been
retained. They are: Arun Singh
(upper caste Thakur and Rajya
Sabha MP from U.P, national
general secretary), Rekha Verma
(Lok Sabha MP, Kurmi, OBC,
vice-president), Shiv Prakash,
named joint general secretary
(organisation) from Lucknow
and Rajesh Agarwal (represent-
ing trader community, trea-
surer).
Former state BJP chief Laxmi-
kant Bajpai, elected a Rajya
Sabha MP in May 2022 is the
new Brahmin face from U.P. as
Deputy CM Brajesh Pathak and BJP chief Bhupendra Chaudhary
during the function in Lucknow on Saturday.
BJP documentary to
market dev in Lko, UP
HT Correspondent
letters@htlive.com
LUCKNOW: CDs containing video
films showcasing achievements
of BJP government over nine
years as well as those of the min-
istry of defence were released by
senior BJP leaders, including UP
BJP chief Bhupendra Chaud-
hary, on Saturday.
In the presence of other BJP
leaders, including deputy CM
Brajesh Pathak, Union minister
of state Kaushal Kishore, BJP MP
Ramapati Ram Tripathi, BJP
MLC Mukesh Sharma and pro-
gramme coordinator and BJP
leader Neeraj Singh, these films
were screened at a function at
the CMS, LDA auditorium.
“It is a matter of pride for us
that issues on our agenda and
the commitments we made to
Participants of the training
programme. HT
Training prog held
LUCKNOW : A one-day skill
development training
programme was organised by
Amity Food and Agriculture
Foundation, Amity University
Lucknow campus, for the
knowledge of crops related to
horticulture. The training
was organised by Dr Shalini
Singh Vishen, director of
Amity Food and Agriculture
Foundation, Amity University
and team, to help gardeners
in increasing income with
training.
Pre-marriage blood
test should be
adopted: Doc
LUCKNOW : A blood test
before marriage should be
adopted as a common
practice as it can tell if any
one or both carry any genetic
disorder which may affect the
life of the child born to them
in future, said Dr AK Dwivedi,
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another national vice- president.
Bajpai is from west U.P. The pre-
vious BJP committee had Harish
Dwivedi, a Brahmin MP from
east UP. Radha Mohan Das Agar-
wal, a Rajya Sabha MP from east
UP and a popular doctor-politi-
cian, is the second general secre-
tary from Uttar Pradesh. The
previous BJP body had one gen-
eral secretary from the state.
Radha Mohan Das Agarwal had
vacated his traditional Gorakh-
pur (city) seat for chief minister
Yogi Adityanath, a five-term Lok
Sabha MP, to enable him to con-
test his first assembly poll in
2022 and ever since his graph
within the party has gone up.
Surendra Nagar, a Rajya
Sabha MP and a Gurjar OBC
from west UP, previously with
the Samajwadi Party, is a new
entrant into the BJP national
team. Along with Jats, Gurjars
are a key OBC caste in west UP.
The BJP is also set to name dis-
trict party chiefs across the state,
with many likely to be replaced.
“Very soon some key joinings
from other parties are likely to
happen and then there is this
expected rejig/expansion of the
Yogi (ministry) 2.0 ahead of the
Monsoon session of the state
assembly from August 7. All
these strategic developments
will now start unfolding,” a BJP
HT PHOTO
the people were all fulfilled by
our government. From old com-
mitments like Ram Temple,
scrapping Article 370 to setting
newer and bigger goals of
becoming a top ranked global
economy, cracking down on
crime and corruption, we have
been fulfilling commitments. We
have also gone to the people
with our report card,” the UP
BJP chief said.
Deputy CM Brajesh Pathak
said the party cadre would take
the CDs that detailed the BJP’s
achievements, to the masses.
Programme coordinator Neeraj
Singh said under PM Modi’s
leadership, the Centre’s as well
defence minister Rajnath Singh’s
push had led to development
projects worth Rs 40,000 crore
being initiated in Lucknow,
Singh’s LS constituency. HTC
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member of the scientific
advisory board, union
ministry of Ayush in a press
conference. He said that the
man and woman should get
their blood test done to screen
for sickle cell anaemia that
causes serious complications.
‘Hand hygiene should
be part of life’
LUCKNOW : Hand hygiene
should be part of life just as
we eat or do our daily work,
said Dr Vaibhav Khanna, a
renowned microvascular
surgeon addressing the
Savlon Swasth India Mission
event on Tuesday. “I think the
most important aspect to
build a habit is through
making the process engaging
and interesting to evoke
interest in hygiene,” said Dr
Khanna.
‘AI to influence fashion
& design industry
soon’
LUCKNOW: An expert from
Milan, Italy, gave tips to
students about the basics of
fashion and design in a
workshop organised in
Lucknow. Questions such as
the scope of work, growth,
sustainability were answered
leader explained.
Meanwhile, Uttar Pradesh
BJP general secretary (organisa-
tion) Dharampal Singh was in
Rae Bareli to attend a meeting of
party “vistaraks” (people tasked
with spreading the reach of
party and its policies).
Rae Bareli, the Lok Sabha con-
stituency of Congress chief Sonia
Gandhi, is among the 14 parlia-
mentary seats that the BJP,
despite wresting the adjacent
Amethi, had failed to win in U.P.
in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
“We intend to win all 80 Lok
Sabha seats in U.P. so that Prime
Minister Narendra Modi gets to
lead the country again for a
record third consecutive stint
and the new team reveals this
focus,” UP BJP vice-president
Vijay Bahadur Pathak said.
RMD Agarwal welcomes
new responsibility
GORAKHPUR: Rajya Sabha
member Radha Mohan Das
Agarwal, who was nominated
among the new national general
secretaries of the BJP, on Satur-
day said he felt happy at being
given the new responsibility. He
thanked BJP national president
JP Nadda and other leaders for
reposing confidence in him.
Hundreds of his supporters
gathered at his residence in Gor-
akhpur to congratulate him.
Talking to reporters, Agarwal
termed himself a party worker
and said the new responsibility
was part of expansion of his
duties. The four-time former
MLA is currently the party in-
charge for Lakshwadeep and
co-incharge for Karnataka.
He said the BJP was deter-
mined to win 350 seats in the
2024 Lok Sabha elections.
In bid to wrest Kannauj from BJP, Akhilesh Shivpal to hold meetings,
to take out ‘Vikas-Rozgar’ yatra on Aug 16 mobilise SP cadre
HT Correspondent
letters@htlive.com
LUCKNOW : Amid the buzz that
Samajwadi Party (SP) president
Akhilesh Yadav will jump into
the Lok Sabha 2024 poll fray
from Kannauj, the district unit of
the party is busy preparing for
his longest roadshow ever in the
constituency.
Significantly, it was Kannauj --
known as the perfume capital of
India -- from where the SP chief
and former U.P. chief minister
Akhilesh began his political
career in 2000 by winning the
Lok Sabha by-polls.
The roadshow titled ‘Samaj-
wadi Vikas-Rozgaar Yatra’ -- a
bid to highlight that the ruling
BJP “undid all development and
employment creation efforts
done” in Kannauj and the rest of
the state by the previous Samaj-
wadi Party government -- will
cover several stretches (about 40
km in all) from the cow milk
plant to Mandi on August 16.
“We are working with the
mindset that he (Akhilesh) will
contest the polls from Kannauj.
There is no official announce-
ment yet but he dropped
emphatic hints more than once
that he will contest from here,”
said Salim Khan, Kannauj dis-
trict president of the SP.
Kannauj is the only district
(other than the hometown Eta-
Workshop underway. HT
by the expert Saumya Gupta
from Istituto Marangoni
Milan, said a press statement.
While interacting with the
students Gupta said that
technical knowledge was
emerging as an important
aspect in the field of fashion
and design. We are sure that
the fashion and design
industry will also come under
AI influence soon.
Registration
suspended at RMLIMS
LUCKNOW: Several patients
who came to the emergency
department of RMLIMS had
to face problems as the
registration services
remained suspended for
about an hour due to
technical issue. Issuing of
medicines and diagnostic
tests got delayed. The OPD
was closed for the day. “The
maintenance staff rectified
the glitch immediately,” said
a senior official. HTC
Tariq’s elevation likely
to aid BJP’s Pasmanda
Muslim outreach
Manish Chandra Pandey
manish.pandey@htlive.com
LUCKNOW: The ‘double promo-
tion’ of former Aligarh Muslim
University (AMU) vice chancel-
lor Professor Tariq Mansoor,
among the three doctors in the
BJP national team from Uttar
Pradesh, in a space of three
months isn’t without reason.
He was nominated as a mem-
ber of the Uttar Pradesh legisla-
tive council (MLC) in April.
And his appointment as BJP
national vice-president on Sat-
urday came just a day after the
extended law commission
deadline for submitting sugges-
tions on the Uniform Civil Code
(UCC) expired on Friday. The
commission has got about 75
lakh (7.5 million) responses on
UCC, say officials.
As the party gets ready for a
series of discussions to forge a
consensus on the contentious
code, educated Muslims like
Mansoor are going to come in
handy in aiding the process of
consultations among the com-
munity, BJP leaders said.
“More important, the out-
reach through educated com-
munity members could also
help in thwarting opposition
bid to incite the masses against
the BJP by making selective
disclosures,” a BJP leader said.
The BJP leaders said that
through Mansoor, the party
plans to increase engagement
Akhilesh Yadav HT FILE
wah) that Akhilesh has visited so
frequently since the 2022 U.P.
assembly polls. “He visited Kan-
nauj more than half a dozen
times since then,” added Khan.
The seriousness of the yatra in
the SP could be gauged from the
fact that Akhilesh has sum-
moned Salim Khan and a few
other top office-bearers of the
Kannauj unit to the party’s state
headquarters in Lucknow on
Sunday to have a meeting with
him to discuss the organisation
and arrangments for the yatra.
Kannauj was considered the
bastion of the Samajwadi Party
till the BJP won it in 2019, defeat-
ing Akhilesh’s wife and present
Mainpuri MP, Dimple Yadav.
The SP won seven elections in a
row from this LS constituency
(including two by-polls) from
1998 till 2019. Dimple, who was
the joint candidate of the SP-BSP
2019 LS poll coalition, lost the
seat to BJP’s Subrat Pathak by a
thin margin of 19,000 votes.
Just like Akhilesh, Dimple too
Parents must learn to
spot warning signals
in children: Experts
LUCKNOW: If a child is having
trouble in breathing and lips and
tongue are turning blue, it
means there is urgent need for
medical attention, said Dr Shal-
ini Tripathi of the department of
paediatrics at the King George’s
Medical University at the two-
day “Training of Trainers” pro-
gramme on ‘Oxygen therapy for
the management of hypoxemic
conditions among children
under 5 years.’
“The hands and feet also turn
blue among children less than
two-months in age but that’s
usually due to cold, which is not
as serious as lips and tongue
turning blue,” she said.
“Child becoming lethargic and
not taking milk is also a warning
sign,” she added.
The event was organised by
the directorate general of health
and during which Dr Renu Sriv-
astava Verma, director general,
medical and health and other
officials were present.
“In fact, parents, including the
mother and father, should learn
Uttar Pradesh
with educated Muslims, Pas-
mandas (backward class Mus-
lims) in particular, to woo the
influential minority vote bank.
Since the 2022 U.P. assembly
poll win, the BJP has been
working on elevating Pas-
manda Muslims to key posts.
That is the reason why Danish
Azad Ansari, a Pasmanda, was
made the minister of state for
minority welfare and waqf
department, the only Muslim
face in the Yogi 2.0 ministry.
Other key positions were also
bagged by Pasmanda Muslims.
For instance, Ashfaq Saifi
became chairman of the UP
Minority Commission. Iftikhar
Javed was made chairman of
the UP Board of Madrasa Edu-
cation.
The BJP fielded several Mus-
lims, mostly Pasmandas, in the
Uttar Pradesh urban local body
polls held in May this year.
Nearly 100 of them won from
different wards of the state.
“All of this has helped raise
the voice and visibility of the
poorest of the poor, the most
backward among Muslims who
comprise nearly 85% of the
community and yet have so far
watched the ‘Ashraafs’ or elite,
upper caste among Muslims,
set the public political narra-
tive. This needed to change and
that’s what is now happening,”
said Javed Malik, a BJP leader
who heads the Akhil Bhartiya
Pasmanda Muslim Manch.
Viral video of farmer: Akhilesh
calls for ‘Saand Raksha Police’
LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party
(SP) national president Akh-
ilesh Yadav, who rarely
misses a chance to attack the
BJP government in the state
over stray cattle menace,
took a swipe at the govern-
ment on Saturday , saying
that a special police force
was needed in the state to
protect people from bovines.
Akhilesh made the statement
over an incident reported
from Ballia in which a
farmer reportedly stayed up
a tree for two hours to save
himself from a charging bull.
This was the second back-
to-back attack by Akhilesh, in
as many days, over bull
attack incidents. In a tweet
on Friday, Akhilesh had held
the state government respon-
began her political career in
Kannauj when she won the 2012
Lok Sabha by-polls on the seat.
The couple held the seat five
times in a row -- Akhilesh won it
three times (2000, 2004, 2009)
and Dimple (2012 and 2014).
Now, Akhilesh wants to wrest
the bastion . “The seat is dear to
Akhilesh ji not only because he
about warning signs so that they
are able to realise situations that
need prompt medical attention.
Any paediatrician or even a
para-medical staff trained in
paediatric care can explain such
warning signs,” said Dr Amita
Shukla, senior gynaecologist, SC
Trivedi Memorial Hospital.
Dr Surya Kant, professor and
head of the department of respi-
ratory medicine, who was the
training coordinator, said this
programme was designed specif-
ically for doctors and nurses of
newborn care units for sick and
maternal and child health
wards. “Hypoxemic conditions
or low levels of oxygen in body
pose a significant threat to the
health of young children and U.P.
faces unique challenges in pro-
viding adequate healthcare ser-
vices,” he said. A session by Dr
Ankit Kumar focused on CPAP
therapy, and infection preven-
tion measures during oxygen
therapy, providing a comprehen-
sive understanding of managing
hypoxemic conditions. HTC
‘Deficit or excess rainfall,
farmers need not worry’
HT Correspondent
letters@hindustantimes.com
LUCKNOW: Amid a ‘drought-like
situation’ in various parts of
Uttar Pradesh because of the
monsoon having suddenly taken
a long break, chief minister Yogi
Adityanath on Saturday directed
the irrigation and the energy
departments to be alert and
ready to deal with the situation
as it unfolds in the days to come.
He also sought to reassure
farmers that the government
stood with them at every step.
The chief minister was hold-
ing a high-level meeting with
ministers and the top officials of
the departments concerned here
to review efforts being made in
view of deficit rain in many dis-
tricts.
“Be it excess or deficit rain,
farmers need not worry. The
government stands with them at
every step,” he said and directed
officials to ensure water necessa-
rily reached canal tails.
He asked UP Power Corpora-
tion Ltd (UPPCL) officials to see
to it that farmers got enough
power for irrigation.
Stating that it was the govern-
ment’s priority to provide irriga-
tion water to the fields, he asked
officials to canalise rivers for this
purpose and also provide patrol-
ling of canals.
The chief minister further told
officials to get a survey done to
make an accurate assessment of
the deficit rain impact on farm-
ers who, he said, should also be
encouraged for sowing alterna-
tive crops requiring less water.
He said farmers owning private
farmers should be encouraged
for rainwater harvesting too.
The chief minister directed
officials to keep a watch on the
situation and forward a fort-
nightly report to the Centre for
necessary action.
Earlier, officials told the chief
sible for the death of a retired
teacher and serious injuries
to a woman in a bull attack in
Gorakhpur. Following the
second incident, Akhilesh
tweeted in Hindi: “Aaj Ka
‘Saand Samachar (Today’s
bull news)’: To save his life
from the bull, the farmer
stayed up the tree for two
hours.” In the same tweet, he
said, “Today’s ‘Saand Vichar
(Bull thought)’: Now, a
‘Saand Raksha Police’ should
also be formed in Uttar Pra-
desh.” In a video of the inci-
dent, a farmer is seen
perched on a tree to escape a
bull. The video of the inci-
dent that took place in Ballia
has been going viral on social
media platforms for the past
three days. HTC
won his first elections from here
but also because Kannauj’s first
MP was Ram Manohar Lohia (an
SP icon) who went to Parliament
in 1967, winning it as Samyukta
Socialist Party candidate. Then
Netaji won it in 1999. So, Akh-
ilesh Ji considers it a legacy of
Lohia and Mulayam,” said a sen-
ior SP leader in Lucknow.
WOMAN, TWO
DAUGHTERS HANG
SELVES IN ETAH
ETAH : A 35-year-old woman
allegedly hanged herself in her
house here on Saturday, seeing
which her two teenage daugh-
ters followed suit, police said.
The trio allegedly died by suicide
following a family dispute over
the youngest daughter’s relation-
ship with a man, Etah senior
superintendent of police Rajesh
Kumar Singh said.
The incident took place in a
village in Nidhauli Kala area
here, Singh said. According to a
preliminary investigation, the
woman’s youngest daughter was
in a relationship with a man
from the same village. He died by
suicide on July 24. After her
partner’s death, the girl too alleg-
edly tried ending her life but her
mother and sisters intervened,
the SSP said. When the girl’s
father, who works in Ghaziabad,
was informed about the incident,
he scolded his wife and two
daughters over the phone, the
SSP said. Disturbed over the
entire episode, the woman took
the extreme step following
which her two daughters also
died by suicide, he added. The
head of family was yet to arrive
and bodies had been sent for
post-mortem. The matter was
being probed, they added. PTI
{ YOGI ADITYANATH } CHIEF MINISTER, U.P.
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See to it that farmers get
enough power for irrigation.
Canalise rivers for this
purpose and provide
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patrolling of canals
Integrate similar depts
for ease of work: Yogi
LUCKNOW: Chief minister Yogi
Adityanath on Saturday said
reorganisation of departments
should be considered and the
departments having a similar
nature should be integrated for
the ease of work and better use
of the talent of personnel.
“Currently, the secretariat
administration is managing 93
departments,” he said while
reviewing the secretariat
administration department.
“A helpdesk should be set
up in the secretariat buildings
for the common man to get
information regarding his
case, to give any complaint let-
ter or for any other assistance.
This helpdesk should be out-
side the main premises so that
there is no inconvenience in
the movement of the common
man,” he added.
He laid stress on clean, safe
minister that 281.2 mm rain had
been received in the state so far
and this was 84.3% of the nor-
mal. Agriculture minister Surya
Pratap Sahi said in the meeting
that deficit rain had not
impacted sowing. He said
{ LS POLLS } THREE-DAY EAST U.P. TOUR
HT Correspondent
letters@htlive.com
VARANASI : In the wake of the
2024 Lok Sabha polls, Samaj-
wadi Party’s general secretary
Shivpal Singh Yadav will hold a
large meeting with his party
workers in Azamgarh on July
31. The meeting is part of his
itinerary during the three-day
trip to eastern U.P. The three-
day tour, starting from Jaunpur
on July 30, is aimed at motivat-
ing the SP cadre ahead of the
polls.
On Sunday, Shivpal would
hold a meeting with the party
workers in Jaunpur, said SP
leader Vivek Ranjan Yadav.
Before the meeting, Shivpal
would pay tribute to PPS officer
Sudhakar Yadav, who died of
cardiac arrest a week ago. Yadav
was posted as an additional
commandant in PAC at Fateh-
pur and was visiting his home
in Jaunpur. Shivpal will stay
overnight in Jaunpur and meet
the party workers, especially
grassroot workers, said Yadav.
Later, on July 31, the SP gen-
eral secretary will reach Azam-
garh.
Here, he would hold a meet-
ing with all 10 MLAs of SP, sen-
ior leader Hawaldar Yadav,
Durga Yadav, and Hariprasad
Dubey, among others.
Sharing further details, SP
Doc: Homeopathy is
an effective treatment
option for Hepatitis C
HT Correspondent
letters@htlive.com
LUCKNOW : Homeopathy can
help patients of Hepatitis C and
B, said Dr Girish Gupta, an emi-
nent homeopathy practitioner
in the state capital on Saturday.
Dr Gupta conducted research
on the role of homeopathy in
patients of Hepatitis C and B
Experts educate students at PGI
LUCKNOW : The department
of hepatology at SGPGIMS
here organised a course for
postgraduates and practition-
ers on viral hepatitis to mark
the World Hepatitis Day on
Saturday. The course
included extensive lectures on
viral hepatitis, including Hep-
atitis A to E. In his address,
director, SGPGIMS, Dr RK
Dhiman stressed on the need
for screening of viral hepatitis
and early treatment. He asked
for proper vaccination to save
people from Hepatitis. Dr
LUCKNOW
SUNDAY
JULY 30, 2023
and efficient administration in
the secretariat and disposal of
complaints in a transparent,
timely and fair manner to
inspire other departments of
the state to make better efforts.
Yogi said the e-office system
should be implemented effec-
tively in the secretariat
Services have been simpli-
fied with initiatives like Jan-
sunwai Portal-IGRS, Chief
Minister’s Relief Fund Portal,
e-Cabinet, e-Office and Proto-
col Portal, he added.
“Ensure that every
employee attends the office on
time and leaves the office only
after the stipulated time, there
should be no delay in appoint-
ment to the vacant posts of
Secretariat Service. Send req-
uisition without delay for
appointment to vacant posts,”
he said to the officials . HTC
86.07% of the paddy had already
been planted.
A senior official present in the
meeting told HT that field
reports on the districts affected
due to scanty rain were being
collected.
Shivpal Yadav HT FILE
district unit senior leader Dubey
said, “Shivpal Yadav will hold a
meeting with the party workers
on July 31. All 10 MLAs of the
party, senior leaders and party
leaders from developmental
blocks will attend the meeting.
District unit leaders have com-
pleted the preparations for the
crucial meeting aimed at
reviewing preparations for the
Lok Sabha elections.” On Friday,
a meeting of SP leaders, includ-
ing party MLAs was held to dis-
cuss the poll preparations in
Azamgarh, which has two Lok
Sabha seats -- Azamgarh and
Lalganj. “After the meeting with
Shivpal Ji, there will be new
enthusiasm among the SP work-
ers and we will start preparing
wholeheartedly for the elec-
tions,” said Dubey.
On August 1, Shivpal will visit
Ballia, Mau, and Ghazipur. On
way, he would call on the party
workers. Several short meetings
will be conducted on the day.
and his research “Role of home-
opathy in patients of chronic
Hepatitis C” was published in
the journal Advancement in
Homeopathic Research.
The hepatitis infection dama-
ges the liver and can be fatal
too.
Homeopathy is a good and
effective option for the treat-
ment of such patients.
Rakesh Agarwal, director,
JIPMER, Puducherry, also
spoke at the event. Dr Amit
Goel, head, hepatology
department at PGI, stressed
on vaccination strategies and
diagnostic modalities.
Dr Ajay Mishra and Dr Sur-
ender Singh, faculty depart-
ment of hepatology, also edu-
cated the students. Many
noted gastroenterologists,
including Dr Sumit Rungta,
Dr Ajay Kumar Patwa, Dr
Shirish Bhatnagar from Luc-
know too joined session. HTC
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SUNDAY
JULY 30, 2023
After 24% surge, India is now
home to 75% of tigers in world
Chetan Chauhan and
Neeraj Santoshi
letters@hindustantimes.com
NEW DELHI/DEHRADUN: India
recorded a 23.5% increase in tiger
population between 2018 and
2022, taking the number of big cats
in the wild to 3,682, more than the
initially estimated 3,167 and
accounting for 75% of the tigers in
the world. In April, Prime Minister
Narendra Modi had released an
interim estimation of 3,167 tigers.
India had 2,197 tigers in 2018, up
from 1,411 tigers in 2006.
The increase shows the success
of the country’s 20-year-old sci-
ence-based tiger conservation pro-
gramme, experts said. Around
80% of the tigers (2,885) now
reside in eight of the 18 tiger states,
including Madhya Pradesh, Kar-
nataka, Uttarakhand, Maharash-
tra, Tamil Nadu and Assam. MP
has the highest tiger population of
785, followed by 563 in Karnataka
and 444 in Maharashtra.
The central Indian and Western
Ghats landscapes have contrib-
uted 2,526 tigers to the total num-
ber, making them the most dense
tiger regions in the world, accord-
ing to state-wise estimation
reported on Saturday.
On the individual score, Cor-
bett National Park in Uttarakhand
and Kaziranga National Park in
Assam continue to be most
densely populated tiger reserves,
with 260 and 104 tiger, respec-
tively, with Bandhavgarh in Mad-
hya Pradesh and Bandipur in Kar-
nataka in close pursuit.
Globally, the number of tigers
increased from 3,890 in 2016 to
5,575 in 2023, with India and
Nepal doubling the numbers, said
a statement from the Global Tiger
Forum on Saturday. The
GTF counts vary slightly for the
overall global figure, due to which
India’s share according to this total
does not amount to the share
released by the government.
Rajesh Gopal, GTF secretary
general and former member sec-
retary of National Tiger Conserva-
tion Authority, attributed the
increase in tiger population in
India and range countries to the
philosophy of Project Tiger aimed
at protecting the feline in “core-
critical” parts of tiger habitats.
“The protection of tiger in core-
critical parts has been compli-
mented equally by multi-stake-
holder peripheral management of
buffer and beyond to address
interference problem with NTCA
feedback taken positively for pro-
jects in and around tiger habitats.
This has worked well,” he said.
In a paradigm shift on consider-
ing projects in and around tiger
habitats, the government takes
inputs from NTCA and tries to
include the NTCA recommenda-
tions in the final approval condi-
tions for projects. In some cases on
the basis of NTCA recommenda-
tion, projects have either been
altered or not allowed in and
around tiger habitats, most of
which are mineral- rich areas.
The rise in tiger numbers, espe-
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My India
Eye on 2024 polls, BJP
revamps national team
Smriti Kak Ramachandran
letters@hindustantimes.com
WITH AN EYE ON
POLLS IN
CHHATTISGARH,
post.
Rajya Sabha MPs Kamakhya
Prasad Tasa (Assam) and Suren-
dra Nagar (UP) have been
NEW DELHI: Effecting an organi- appointed as national secretar-
THE BJP HAD
Decoding the key tiger report
sational rejig ahead of assembly ies.
polls in five states later this year INCLUDED SAROJ There could be some more
and the 2024 general elections, PANDEY, WHO WAS changes announced soon since
The upper limit of the tiger population is now estimated to be 3,925 and the average number is 3,682 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) some of the states have not been
president JP Nadda on Saturday
DROPPED AS represented, said the first leader
Big cat announced a new national team, NATIONAL GENERAL cited earlier. “The team is always
numbers in
2,967 3,682 members of which have been SECRETARY IN 2020, a healthy mix of regional leaders
2018 2022 picked to balance regional aspi- and caste groups. Of late, there
the country rations, and in line with the
AND FORMER STATE has been a complaint that the
party’s social engineering strat- MINISTER, LATA so-called upper castes are mov-
States with highest tiger numbers egy of giving a prominent role to USENDI, AS ing away from the BJP, but with
leaders from various castes. the inclusion of Pandey, Agarwal
2018 2022
From the poll-bound Telan-
NATIONAL VICE- and Bajpai, the party has
Madhya Pradesh 526 gana, former state unit chief PRESIDENTS. addressed that concern as well,”
785
Bandi Sanjay has been included he said.
Karnataka 524 as national general secretary, general secretary, organisation, Among those who have been
563 along with Uttar Pradesh law- Rekha Verma and Laxmikant dropped from the reconstituted
Uttarakhand 442 maker Radha Mohan Agarwal. Bajpai, both MPs from Uttar Pra- team after Nadda was given a
560 Bandi, a firebrand leader at the desh, and Tariq Mansoor, mem- year’s extension in January
Maharashtra 312 forefront of taking on the Bharat ber of the Uttar Pradesh legisla- include former West Bengal BJP
444 Rashtra Samithi government in tive council, have also been unit president Dilip Ghosh and
Tamil Nadu 264 the state, on several occasions included in the team of national Gujarat Lok Sabha MP Bhartiben
306 courted controversies with his vice-presidents. Shyal from the posts of national
comments, which did not sit well Former chief ministers of vice-presidents, and Sunil Deo-
States with lowest tiger numbers with the central leadership. A Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, Vas- dhar, who was co-incharge of
2018 2022 Jharkhand 3 1 section of leaders in the state unit undhara Raje and Raman Singh, Andhra Pradesh; and Lok Sabha
Nagaland 0 0 Goa 3 5 had complained to the central respectively, were retained in the MPs Vinod Sonkar and Harish
Mizoram 0 0 Arunachal 29 9
leadership to replace Bandi list of national vice-presidents. Dwivedi as national secretaries.
ahead of the polls scheduled for The team of 13 vice-presidents Those retained in the list of
Reserves with highest later in the year. Earlier this also has former Jharkhand chief national secretaries are Pankaja
tiger population 1 Uttrakhand month, he was replaced by union mionister Raghubar Das, Bijay- Munde and Vijaya Rahatkar
Jim Corbett, 231 5 minister G Kishen Reddy. ant Panda, DK Aruna and M (Maharashtra); Satya Kumar
1 Three general secretaries Chuba Aao. (Andhra Pradesh); Arvind
Uttarakhand 260 Uttar
Bandipur, 126 Pradesh
7 Assam dropped from the list are D Pur- Menon (Delhi); OP Dhruve
2 andeswari, Dilip Saikia and CT Minority outreach (Madhya Pradesh); Anupam
Karnataka 150
Nagarhole, 127 Ravi. The inclusion of former Aligarh Hazra (West Bengal); Alka Gur-
3 Karnataka Madhya 8 4 While Purandeswari was Muslim University vice-chancel- jar (Rajasthan); Asha Lakra
141
Pradesh appointed as state president of lor Mansoor, and Anil Antony, (Jharkhand); Rituraj Sinha
Bandhavgarh, 104 9
4 MP 135 Andhra Pradesh to help shore son of former Congress minister (Bihar); and Narendra Singh
West
Dudhwa, 82
I N D I A Bengal up the party’s fortunes in the AK Antony, as national secretar- Raina (Punjab).
5 Uttar Pradesh state, Ravi is expected to find a ies is being seen as the party’s Among those who have been
135
slot in the Karnataka unit. Con- effort to burnish its credentials dropped from the reconstituted
6 Mudumalai, 103 sidered as a protégé of BL San- as an inclusive party. team after Nadda was given a
Tamil Nadu 114
thosh, national general secretary “There has been a lot of criti- year’s extension in January
7 Kaziranga, 104 karnataka (organisation), Ravi was accused cism that the party does not have include former Bengal BJP unit
Assam 104
Kanha, 88 3 Reserves of stoking controversies with his Muslims and other minorities in president Dilip Ghosh and Guj-
8 Reserves with 2 Dampa, Mizoram, Kamlang, Arunachal comments about wearing the its national team, as legislators arat Lok Sabha MP Bhartiben
MP 105 highest tiger
6 Tamil with no Pradesh, Kawal, Telangana, Satkosia, Odisha, hijab and love jihad conspiracy or MPs. The BJP is an inclusive Shyal from the posts of national
Nadu
9 Sunderban,
West Bengal
88
100
population tigers Sahyadri, Maharashtra theory, and was chided by the party. vice-presidents, and Sunil Deo-
high command when he spoke The PM has explicitly said we dhar, who was co-incharge of
about BJP strongman BS Yedi- must expand our outreach Andhra Pradesh; and Lok
cially in states like Uttarakhand,
Madhya Pradesh and Maharash-
tra reflects good health of the tiger
khand, 73 tigers were found out-
side the two reserves — Corbett
and Rajaji National Park — of the
Odisha looks to conduct yurappa’s son BY Vijayendra’s
candidature ahead of the state
polls.
towards the communities with-
out any expectation of support
during elections,” a second
Sabha MPs Vinod Sonkar and
Harish Dwivedi as national sec-
retaries.
habitats, fruition of incentivised
scheme for relocation of villagers
from core areas and compara-
total 560. That was not the case in
Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar,
Telangana and Chhattisgarh,
own tiger census in Oct The team of eight national
general secretaries includes
Arun Singh, Kailash Vijayvar-
leader said.
While Mansoor is seen as the
face of the party’s outreach
Those retained as national
secretaries are Pankaja Munde
and Vijaya Rahatkar (Maharash-
tively less poaching activities, where either the tigers’ numbers Debabrata Mohanty and camera traps. “The depart- giya, Dushyant Kumar Gautam, towards the Pasmanda Muslims, tra); Satya Kumar (Andhra Pra-
unlike in areas like northeastern have declined or have not ment will adopt two methods Tarun Chugh, Vinod Tawde, particularly in UP, with Antony’s desh); Arvind Menon (Delhi); OP
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states, where the tiger population increased substantially. for the tiger census; one is the Sunil Bansal, Bandi Sanjay inclusion the party is hoping to Dhruve (Madhya Pradesh); Anu-
has not risen like the rest of the In Rajasthan, which is famous BHUBANESWAR: The Odisha line-transact and the other one Kumar, Radhamohan Agarwal. woo the Christian community in pam Hazra (West Bengal); Alka
country, said YV Jhala, former for Ranthambore and Sariska government is planning to hold is the camera trap,” said Popli. Santhosh continues to remain a Kerala. The party had earlier Gurjar (Rajasthan); Asha Lakra
dean of Wildlife Institute of India tiger reserves, the big cats outside its own census of tigers in Octo- In transect analysis, the tigers national general secretary (orga- deputed P Abdullakutty, a Mus- (Jharkhand); Rituraj Sinha
(WII). “Overall, northern states the reserves were not found to be ber this year, after the All India will be counted on the basis of nisation) and Shiv Prakash con- lim from Kerala as vice-presi- (Bihar); and Narendra Singh
have shown good progress, but many. “The number of tigers out- Tiger Estimation 2022 report footprints and scratch marks, an tinues to be joint general secre- dent; he continues to hold the Raina (Punjab).
many southern states like Andhra side the reserve is an indicator of released on Saturday revealed official said. The state now has tary (organisation).
Pradesh and Telangana have the health of the corridors. For that the number of big cats in the around 800 cameras and efforts
shown declining trends, which is instance, the green connectivity state have dropped from 28 in are on to procure more. Eye on polls
worrying,” Jhala said. between Kanha and Pench tiger 2018 to 20 in 2022. The govern- The Satkosia tiger reserve, With an eye on polls in Chhattis-
The reason for the increase in reserves is good and therefore the ment is also planning an ele- where the country’s first inter- garh, the BJP had included Saroj
tiger population in Madhya Pra- entire landscape has seen a good phant census in May next year. state tiger translocation exercise Pandey, who was dropped as
desh and Maharashtra was an rise in tiger population,” said The tiger count in Odisha was attempted in 2018 with national general secretary in
increase in the area surveyed in Andheria. The reserves, where stood at 28 as per the census con- transfer of a tiger and tigress 2020, and former state minister,
2022 compared to 2018, but that is the tiger number has improved, ducted jointly by the National from Madhya Pradesh but failed, Lata Usendi, as national vice-
not a bad thing, said Anish Andhe- have minimised human conflict Tiger Conservation Authority reported no presence of tigers. presidents.
ria, chief executive officer of Wild- by shifting villages out the (NTCA) and Wildlife Institute of The report, however, had a sil- “Both these women leaders
life Conservation Trust. reserve. Jhala said the centre India in 2014 and in 2018 as well. ver lining for Odisha as Simlipal have their ear to the ground and
In MP, 137 of the 785 tigers were pays ₹ 15 lakh as an incentive to a In 2006, the figure was 45 in Tiger Reserve reported an have been long time karyakartas
found outside the six reserves. In family for relocation. “India is the 2006 and 32 in 2010, showing a increase in tiger numbers from (workers). Their inclusion is an
Maharashtra, of the 444 tigers, at only country in the world with downward curve in the tiger eight to 16. indication that the party has
least 80 were found to be outside such a scheme. This has lessened population in the state. “The genetically unique and stepped up efforts to reinvigorate
the six notified tiger habitats. In human intervention and man-ti- Chief wildlife warden SK small population of tigers in Sim- state unit to put up a fight
Karnataka, 136 of the 563 tigers ger conflicts,” said Jhala, who is Popli said the tiger census exer- ilipal is also of high conservation against the Congress,” a state
were found outside the five tiger credited with introducing the cise will begin in October this priority in the landscape,” the leader said.
reserves. Similarly, in Uttara- modern tiger estimation method. year through transect analysis report said. Saudan Singh, who was joint
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Sowing picks pace but east
battles drought concerns
Zia Haq
letters@hindustantimes.com
NEW DELHI: The area sown
under most kharif crops, bar-
ring pulses, has nearly
expanded to last year’s levels
after being disrupted by torren-
tial rains during most of July.
However, an uneven monsoon
has nearly caused droughts in
parts of eastern Uttar Pradesh,
Bihar and Jharkhand, stoking
concerns.
Farmers have sown 23.75
million hectares under paddy,
the main summer staple, as on
Saturday, up nearly 2% over last
year in the corresponding
period, official data showed.
Last year, the June-Septem-
ber rainy season had been
scanty in the same states of the
Indo-Gangetic plains,
hammering paddy crops and
leading to a 2% fall in the output
of West Bengal, the largest pro-
ducer.
Currently, the monsoon is 7%
surplus, but was 84% below
normal in eastern Uttar Pradesh
in the week ended July 26,
according to IMD. In Gangetic
West Bengal, a paddy belt, rains
have been 57% deficient.
Jharkhand, another major
rice grower, has seen a 68% sub-
par monsoon in the week ended
July 26, the data showed. The
weather bureau has forecast a
dry spell in August, which could
be worrisome for these states.
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million hectares of paddy.
The total area under all
kharif crops stands at 83 million
hectares (MH) compared to 83.1
MH in the same period last
year.
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year. The area under pigeon pea
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“Crops in areas with excess
rain will do well even if mon-
soon takes an extended pause in
August, but there will be pock-
ets of distress in UP, Bihar,
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Trend shows dip in rains
in 5 states: Centre to LS
Soumya Pillai
letters@hindustantimes.com
NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh,
Bihar, West Bengal, Meghalaya
and Nagaland have been seeing
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soon rainfall over the past 30
years, earth sciences minister
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been observed in the country in
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increase in the extreme events
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CLIMATE CHANGE
DUE TO GLOBAL
WARMING HAS LED
TO TEMPORAL,
SPATIAL DIVERSITY
IN WEATHER
EVENTS LIKE
HEAVY RAINFALL
observed over various other
parts of the globe,” Rijiju
said.
While some states are seeing
a trend of reduced rainfall,
there are others, Saurashtra
and Kutch, south-eastern
Rajasthan, northern Tamil
Nadu, northern Andhra Pra-
desh and adjoining areas of
south-western Odisha,
many parts of Chhattisgarh,
south-western Madhya Pra-
desh, West Bengal, Manipur,
Mizoram, Konkan, Goa
and Uttarakhand have seen an
increase in the frequency of
heavy rainfall days.
The weather bureau is
closely analysing this
trend of changing rainfall pat-
terns across the country,
director general M Mohapatra
said.
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Navy abandons colonial practice,
personnel to stop carrying batons
Rahul Singh
rahul.singh@hindustantimes.com
NEW DELHI: In the latest step
towards shedding colonial prac-
tices, the Indian Navy has decided
that its personnel will no longer
carry ceremonial batons, officials
aware of the matter said on Satur-
day. Senior officers in command
roles, commanding officers of
warships, naval bases and other
establishments, and provost per-
sonnel responsible for policing,
vigilance and enforcement of dis-
cipline thus far carried batons.
The navy said the symbolism of
power portrayed by holding such
batons is a colonial legacy.
“With the passage of time,
carrying of batons by naval per-
sonnel has gradually become a
norm,” a naval headquarters let-
ter dated July 28 said. “The sym-
bolism of power or authority
portrayed through holding the
baton is a colonial legacy that is
out of place in a transformed
navy of the Amrit Kaal.”
Amrit Kaal refers to the 25
years leading to India’s Independ-
ence centenary in 2047.
The carrying of batons has
been discontinued with immedi-
ate effect. From now onwards,
the baton will find a place only in
offices. “A ceremonial baton may
be placed appropriately in the
office of the head of the organisa-
tion of every unit. A ceremonial
handing over of the baton may be
undertaken within the office, as a
part of Change of Command
only,” the letter added.
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letters@hindustantimes.com
BHOPAL: A joint team of local
administration and police in
Satna district of Madhya Pradesh
on Saturday demolished the
houses of two men arrested for
raping and brutalising an 11-year-
old girl in Maihar, officials said.
The minor survivor, who
underwent a surgery at Rewa
Medical College on Friday even-
ing, continued to be in critical
condition, with doctors saying
the accused gangraped her, bit
her and inserted wood in her pri-
ANI
vate parts.“The whole body of
conference were the first indica- the girl turned blue and red due
tion that colonial practices in the to bite marks and the physical
armed forces were on their way assault,” said one of the doctors
out. treating the survivor, requesting
He had then underlined the anonymity.Dean of medical col-
importance of enhancing indigeni- lege Manoj Indelkar said, “The
sation in the national security sys- girl is under monitoring at the
tem, not just in sourcing equip- intensive care unit after signs of
ment and weapons but also in doc- infection in her intestine and
trines, procedures and customs. uterus were seen. She is recover-
In his Independence Day ing slowly and is now con-
speech last year, Modi spoke of the scious.” Additional director gen-
“panch pran” or five pledges for eral (ADG) of police, Rewa, KP
India to become a developed coun- Venkateshwar said, “An air
try by its 100th year of Independ- ambulance is on standby to air-
ence — one of those resolutions lift her to Delhi, if required.”
was to uproot all signs of colonial On Saturday morning, a joint
slavery from mindset and habits. team of police and district
The defence ministry has also administration demolished the
begun a drive to rename British- illegally constructed houses of
era cantonments as military sta- both the accused — Ravi Chaud-
tions. Yol in Himachal Pradesh hary (31) and Atul Bhadholiya
was the first cantonment to shed (30) — in the temple town of
the colonial tag and be renamed as Maihar in Satna district, said
a military station in April 2023. Venkateshwar.
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Oppn team begins visit

UNDER MODI, COUNTRY MAKING HUGE STRIDES IN SPACE TECH: SHAH
Press Trust of India of the book “Dr APJ Abdul actions.” new direction. Shah said,
Kalam, Memories Never Die,” Kalam made India self-reliant “Under Prime Minister Modi’s
letters@hindustantimes.com
here, Shah hailed Kalam for his on guided missiles. He success- leadership opportunities in
RAMESWARAM (TN): Under yeoman services to the nation fully launched the Agni and space science for our students,

to Manipur, targets govt

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s
leadership the nation is making
giant strides in space technology,
a vision nurtured by iconic sci-
entist and late President APJ
Abdul Kalam, Union home min-
Utpal Parashar ister Amit Shah said on Satur-
day.Addressing the launch event
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including in the field of India’s
space technology.
“When a poor person reaches
the peak of democracy, then he
dedicates democracy for the wel-
fare of the poor. Dr Abdul Kalam
and PM Modi have demon-
strated this through their
Prithvi missiles and tested
atomic bombs successfully in
1998 at Pokhran. Kalam’s name
would be written in golden let-
ters for giving DRDO (Defence
Research and Development
Organisation) and ISRO (Indian
Space Research Organisation) a
youth and their startups are
open. APJ Abdul Kalam’s dream
of achievements in space science
will be accomplished by PM
Modi’s innovations and new ini-
tiatives. And I believe that India
will lead the entire world in the
field of space science.”

GUWAHATI: A delegation of 21
lawmakers from the newly
formed opposition bloc, Indian
National Developmental Inclu- - 221002
sive Alliance (INDIA), on Satur-
day embarked on a two-day visit Ph. : 0542-2506577
to ethnic strife-torn Manipur
and visited relief camps housing Circle Sastra Ofce : S 20/56-D, The Mall, Cantt Varanasi-221002 Recovery Department Tel: 0542-2506577, Email : cs8331@pnb.co.in
displaced people to take stock of Sale Notice for sale of Immovable properties
the situation. E-auction sale notice for sale of immovable assets under the securitisation and reconstruction of nancial assets and enforcement of security interest
At least 150 people have been act, 2002 read with provision to rule 8 (6) of the security interest (enforcerment) rules, 2002. Notice is hereby given to the public in general and in
killed and nearly 50,000 dis- particular to the borrower (s) and guarantor (S) that that below described immovable property mortgaged/charged to the secured creditor, the
placed in Manipur since May 3, constructive/physical/ symbolic possession of which has been taken by the authorised ofcer of the bank/ secured creditor, will be sold on "AS IS
when ethnic violence erupted in WHERE IS", "AS IS WHAT IS" and "WHATEVER THERE IS" on the date as mentioned in the table herein below, for recovery of its dues due to the Bank/
the northeastern state between secured Creditor from the respective borrower (s) and guarantor (s). The reserve price and the earnest money deposit will be as mentioned in the table
numerically dominant Meitei below against the respective properties.
community — which forms 53% SCHEDULE OF THE SECURED ASSETS
of the state population and An INDIA alliance delegation at a relief camp in Imphal East district on Saturday PTI Name of the (A) O/s Amount as on (A) Reserve Price Details of the
mostly inhabit Imphal Valley — Branch (B) Date of 13(2) in Lacs encumberances
Sr. (B) EMD Date/Time
Description of properties
and tribal Kukis, who live prima- No. (C) Date of 13(4) of E-Auction known to the
(D) Nature of Possession (C)Last date of Deposit of EMD
‘Show-off, political tourism’:
rily in the hill districts. Name of the secured
Account (Physical/Symbolic) (D)Bid increase Amount creditors
Soon after arriving at the
Imphal airport around noon, the EM of Immovable property House No. D-35/237, (A) Rs.42,86,892.60/-
1. PNB- IMA (A) Rs. 44.20 Lac 22-08-2023 NA
opposition delegation left for stuated at Mohalla - Jangambari, Pargana- Dehat

Churachandpur, where they
visited two relief camps housing
Kukis who had fled the Imphal
Valley after clashes broke out.
“Both the Centre and state
government should wake up
from their stupor regarding the
Manipur situation. People have
lost trust in the government,”
said Congress MP Adhir Ranjan
Chowdhury, who is part of the
delegation. “We are with all peo-
ple of the state and want peace
and normalcy to be restored.”
Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi,
also part of the delegation, when
asked about the BJP’s allegations
of politicisation of the Manipur
issue, said: “We would have been
very happy to be a part of an all-
party delegation led by the prime
minister. But he is completely
missing from the scene. He has
not uttered a single word about
Manipur in Parliament.”
The delegation also met rep-
resentatives from Indigenous
Tribal Leaders Forum, an
umbrella group of Kukis in Chu-
rachandpur, who submitted a
memorandum asking the MPs to
highlight their demands. “We
implore you to help us survive
this onslaught by supporting our
demand for a separate adminis-
tration from Manipur and to
urge the central government to
introduce President rule imme-
diately in Manipur to end the
violence,” the ITLF said.
The delegation is expected to
visit Imphal on Sunday. A meet-
ing of the visiting delegation
with Governor Anusuiya Uikey
is also scheduled on Sunday.
DIVIDED ‘I.N.D.I.A’
SET TO LOSE
BJP attacks Oppn delegation
Agencies
letters@hindustantimes.com
New DELHI : As a team of the
Opposition bloc INDIA reached
Manipur on Saturday to meet
the victims of ethnic violence at
relief camps, the Bharatiya Jan-
ata Party (BJP) dismissed the
visit as a “show-off” and an
attempt at “political tourism”.
A 21-member delegation, from
at least 20 political parties,
arrived in Imphal early on Satur-
day as part of a two-day visit to
help resolve the ethnic conflict
that has roiled the northeastern
state since May 3. The leaders
said the purpose of their visit
was to “represent the demands
of the people”. The delegation
will visit both the valley and hill
areas, and also call on Manipur
governor Anusuiya Uikey on
Sunday.
Hours before the delegation
reached Manipur, Union infor-
mation and broadcasting minis-
ter Anurag Thakur alleged that
the visit was a “mere show-off”.
“This visit is just an eyewash.
The Opposition alliance never
‘Pained by inhumane incidents’:
LS Speaker Birla calls for peace
NEW DELHI : Lok Sabha
Speaker Om Birla on Satur-
day called for peace in Mani-
pur, saying the incidents the
state witnessed since the out-
break of violence on May 3
are “painful”.
Only peace can bring pros-
perity in the state and the
region, he said after inaugu-
rating the 20th annual con-
ference of the Common-
wealth Parliamentary Asso-
spoke up when Manipur burned
under previous governments,”
Thakur told ANI in West Bengal.
He also hit out at Congress
Lok Sabha MP Adhir Ranjan
Chowdhury, who is part of the
delegation visiting Manipur, and
asked if Chowdhury was willing
to take the fellow Opposition
leaders to a similar visit to Ben-
gal, where panchayat poll vio-
lence earlier this month has left
at least 29 dead.
Building & int. and other Time
Amanat, P.O. - Bengali Tola, Tehsil- Sadar, District - charges w.e.f. 11:00 AM to
(369500) (B) Rs. 4.42 Lac
Varanasi, Area- 830 sq.ft. i.e 77.14 sq.mtr, as per 01.04.2021, less 04:00 PM
deed No. 5481 dated 30.12.1974 registered at
M/S recovery, if any. (C)19.08.2023
BANARAS Chief Sub Registrar Ofce- Varanasi at Book No. (B) 17.09.2021
FURNISHING 1, Vol. No. - 4679, pages 65 to 71, (Owner - Mr. (C)05.03.2022 (D) Rs.0.10 Lac
CORNER Ramsurat Tiwari s/o Late Devnath Tiwari & Mr.
Arvind Tiwari & Mr. Sanjay Tiwari both s/o Mr. (D) Symbolic
ciation (CPA), India Region, Ramsurat Tiwari).
organised at the Meghalaya Boundary (as per deed): East- Road, West-
assembly complex. House NO. D-35/238, North- House No. D 35/236,
“I have been pained by South- Lane.
whatever inhumane inci- 2. EM of Residential Land and Building situated at (A) Rs. 23,44,623.00/- (A) Rs. 39.10 Lac 01-09-2023
PNB- IMA NA
dents have happened in the H.No. B-26/270 and B-26/270A, Mohalla Nawab & int. and other charges
recent past. We are all hurt Building Time
(369500) Ganj, Ward- Bhelupur, Pargana Dehat Amanat, w.e.f. 03.08.2021, less (B) Rs. 3.91 Lac 11:00 AM to
by them. The whole society,
Sadar, District.- Varanasi. Area 839.71 sq.ft. i.e. recovery, if any. 04:00 PM
states and the entire country
Mohammad 78.04 sq.mtr. As per sale deed no. 7578 dated (C)29.08.2023
should tread the path of (B) 01.09.2021
peace. We should all make Rehan 23.11.2019 Registered at Sub Registrar Ofce- II.
Varanasi video book No.- I, volume No. 10636 at (C)09.06.2022 (D) Rs. 0.10 Lac
efforts for the restoration of
peace,” Birla said. HTC pages 383 to 446 in the name of Mr. Mohammad (D) Symbolic
Rehan s/o Lt. Mustak Ahmad.
“Once they return from Mani- Boundary (as per deed) East: House of Jamuna
pur, I will request Adhir Ranjan Maharaj, West: House of Laxmina at present
Chowdhury to bring them to owner Sri Ratan Chand Bajaj, North: House of
West Bengal as well. I want to Puttul Sharma, South: Link Pitch Road.
ask him if he supports the atroci-
3. PNB- EM of Land and Building situated at Arazi No.-77, (A) Rs. 17,78,196.60/- 01-09-2023
ties on women in West Bengal,” (A) Rs. 17.85 Lac NA
Thakur said. Robertsganj Mauza- Musahi, Pargana-Barhar, Tahsil- & int. and other charges Time
He added whether the INDIA (199810) Robertsganj, District: Sonebhadra, Area 5487.60 w.e.f. 01.12.2022, less 11:00 AM to
(B) Rs. 1.79 Lac
bloc will also visit Rajasthan sq.ft. or 510 sq.mtr. as per sale deed No. 1289 recovery, if any. 04:00 PM
where “crimes against women Santosh Dhar dated 06.02.2019 registered at Sub Registrar- (C)29.08.2023
are taking place” and submit Robertsganj Sadar, Sonbhadra at Book No.1, Vol. (B) 12.01.2023
Dwivedi
reports on West Bengal and No. 5785, pages 377 to 408, Owner - Mr. (C)24.03.2023 (D) Rs. 0.10 Lac
Rajasthan.anipur visit..” Santosh Dhar Dwivedi s/o Mr. Khusiyal Dhar
Dwivedi (D) Symbolic
Boundary (as per deed): East- Land of Jitendra
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North- Road (Chhawara), South- Land of Jitendra
Chanchal.
4. PNB- EM of residential Land and Building situated at (A) Rs. 21,47,592.00/- (A) Rs. 17.00 Lac 01-09-2023 NA
Robertsganj Arazi No.-55Kh Mi. Mauza: Mamua, Pargana- & int. and other charges Time
(199810) Ba r h a r, Te hs il - Robe r t sgan j, Dis trict : w.e.f. 01.04.2021, less (B) Rs. 1.70 Lac 11:00 AM to
Sonebhadra, Area 374.35 sq.mtr. i.e. 4028. sq.ft. recovery, if any. 04:00 PM
S.K. as per sale deed no. 11122 dated 03.11.2018 (C)29.08.2023
(B) 09.08.2021
Construction registered at Sub Registrar- Sadar Sonebhadra at
Book No.1, Vol.No. 5690, pages 53 to 78 (C)24.03.2023 (D) Rs. 0.10 Lac
(Owner- Mr. Sushil Kumar s/o Mr. Gangaram).
Boundary (as per deed): East - Land of
(D) Symbolic

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INDIA IN 2024:
NAQVI
PRAYAGRAJ: Coming down hard
on Congress–led ‘I.N.D.I.A’ (or
the Indian National Develop-
mental Inclusive Alliance) that
currently comprises 26 Opposi-
tion parties, senior Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP) leader and
former cabinet minister Mukh-
tar Abbas Naqvi on Saturday
said that state of ‘I.N.D.I.A’ is like
that of a plane whose pilots are
‘anadi (clumsy) and passengers
are ‘Khiladi’ (players). He said
that such a plane either has an
emergency landing or it simply
crashes.
“INDIA has more than 25
pilots and more than 35 players
and so, we can guess its fate very
well,” he said. Speaking to media
persons at his ancestral Bhadari
village in Pratappur develop-
ment block of Prayagraj, Naqvi
said ‘I.N.D.I.A’ has done the work
of dividing India into pieces by
putting a dot after every letter in
its name. He was visiting his
native village for Moharram.
“This time, the election is
going to be between the ‘divided
India’ and ‘united India’. The
coalition I.N.D.I.A will get
trapped in the maze of its clever-
ness. Prime Minister Narendra
Modi’s sheer work has upset the
Mathematics of the Opposition.
They can neither compete with
Modi alone nor together can
they defeat Modi. No matter
what the opposition does, it will
not be successful at all,” claimed
the former minister.
When asked about Congress
leader Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat
Jodo Yatra’, Naqvi said that it is
nothing but ‘political tourism’
that he enjoys from time to time
and “during which he crosses
the heights of hypocrisy”. Naqvi
said that the condition of the
opposition today is like a loom
san any yarn or cotton. “Naren-
dra Modi got 283 seats in 2014,
around 350 in 2019, and in 2024,
the opposition will get 440 volts
of electric shock. The Opposition
will have to bear the brunt of
mistakes made in 2023 in 2024.
This time ‘I.N.D.I.A’ versus India
fight is going to happen in which
India will win and I.N.D.I.A will
lose,” he asserted.
North - Land of Seller, South - Land of Prabhawati
Devi w/o Ram Lakhan.
5. PNB- 1. EM of land Arazi No. 120,99,101,102 Ka and (A) Rs. 51,61,458.65/- Property - 1
Robertsganj 109 Cha, measuring Area 0.3945 Hec., situated & int. and other charges (A) Rs. 18.70 Lac
22-08-2023
Time
NA
(041300) at Village - ParasiDubey, Pargana- Badhar, Tehsil- w.e.f. 01.04.2021, less 11:00 AM to
Robertsganj, District- Sonebhadra, vide Sale deed recovery, if any. (B) Rs. 1.87 Lac 04:00 PM
Kisan Sewa No. 180, registered on 15.01.2008 in Sub
(B) 21.08.2019 (C)19.08.2023
Kendra Registrar Ofce- Sonebhadra, at book No. 1, Vol.
No. - 2382, pages 107 to 128 (Owner - Mrs. (C)15.11.2019 (D) Rs. 0.10 Lac
Gulabi Devi w/o Mr. Kripa Shankar Dubey).
(D) Symbolic
Boundary (as per deed) : East - Land of Buyer,
West - Chawra, North - Land of Janardan, South -
Chak Road.
2. EM of land Arazi No. 126,99,101 measuring Property - 2
Area of 0.22775 Hec., situated at Mauja - (A) Rs. 23.80 Lac
ParasiDubey, Pargana- Badhar, Tehsil-
Robertsganj, District - Sonebhadra, vide Sale (B) Rs. 2.38 Lac
Deed No. 3298 dated 27.07.2006 registered at
the ofce of Sub-Registrar - Sonebhadra, on Book (C)19.08.2023
No.1, Vol No. 2096, Pages 311 to 326 (Owner-
Mrs. Gulabi Debi w/o Mr. Kripa Shankar (D) Rs. 0.10 Lac
Dwivedi).
Boundary (as per deed): East - Land of
Kamlakant etc., West - Land of seller, North - Land
of MewaLal, South - Kaccha Chakmarg 1 Latha.
3. EM of land Arazi No. 126,99,101,102 Ka and Property - 3
109Cha, measuring Area 0.280 Hect., situated at
Mauza - Parasi Dubey, Pargana- Badhar, Tehsil- (A) Rs. 23.80 Lac
Robertsganj, District - Sonebhadra, vide Sale
deed No. 3044 dated 09.07.2007 registered at (B) Rs. 2.38 Lac
the ofce of Sub-registrar - Sonebhadra on Book
(C)19.08.2023
No.1, Vol. No. 2282, pages 1 to 22 (Owner- Mrs.
Gulabi Devi w/o Mr. Kripa Shankar Dubey).
Boundary (as per sale deed) : East - Land of (D) Rs. 0.10 Lac
Kamalkant etc, West : Chak Road, North : Land of
Mewalal , South : Lath.
6. IMA EM of land and building of Arazi No. 492 situated (A) Rs. 25,77,262.50/- (A) Rs. 106.25 Lac 22-08-2023 NA
Building at Mauza - Bharlai, Pargana - Shivpur, Ward - & int. and other charges Time
Varanasi Shivpur, Tehsil and District Varanasi, Area 2655 w.e.f. 20.04.2022, less (B) Rs. 10.63 Lac 11:00 AM to
369500 sq.ft. i.e. 246.74 sq.mtr wide Sale Deed No. 587 recovery, if any. 04:00 PM
Virus Fitness dt 16.02.2008 registered at book no - 1, Vol. No. - (C)19.08.2023
3177, pages 301 to 330 at the ofce of sub - (B) 20.05.2022
Club
registrar- IV District - Varanasi. (Owner - Mrs. (C)25.08.2022 (D) Rs. 0.10 Lac
Meera Devi Chaurasiya w/o Mr. Subhash
Chandra Chaurasiya). (D) Symbolic
Boundary (as per deed) : East - Land of Rajdev,
West - Kachha Rasta 10ft, North - Land of Dr.
Sharma, South - Land of Dr. O.P. Singh.
Note: The above mentioned Arazi No. 492 was
corrected as 492/649 vide correction deed no.
3887 date. 07.10.2008 at book no. 1, vol. - 3429,
pages 133 to 142, registered at sub registrar
ofce IV Varanasi.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS: The sale shall be Subject to the Terms & Conditions prescribed in the Security Interest Enforcement) Rules 2002 and to
the following further conditions : 1. The properties are being sold on "AS IS WHERE IS BASIS" and "AS IS WHAT IS BASIS" and "WHATEVER
THERE BASS" 2. The Particulars of secured assets specied in the schedule herein above have been stated to the best of the information of the
Authorised Ofcer, but the Authorised Ofcer shall not be answerable for any error, misstatement or omission in this proclaimation. 3. The Sale will
be done by the undersigned through e-auction platform provided at the website https://www.mstcecommerece.com on date Time as mentioned
above. 4. For detailed term and conditions of the sale. please refer www.ibapi.in, www.tenders.gov.in, www.mstcecommerce.com.,
https://eprocure.gov.in/epublish/app or contact Shree Rajiv Ranjan - Chief manager, the authorised ofcer (Phone No. 9771497976)
HTC Date : 30.07.2023 Place : Varanasi Authorised Ofcer, Punjab National Bank

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Reflections
{ CHANAKYA }

India’s economy can scale

new highs. Here’s a plan
India can become the world’s
third-largest economy within
the next few years. To achieve
true prosperity for all, India
must keep its GDP growth
high, generate mass
employment, overhaul
both these questions is an unqualified no.
But it is worth engaging with them in detail.
When India became independent 75
years ago, it was ravaged by the scars of Par-
tition, with a very small industrial base of its
own. When rains played truant, even food
security became a challenge, and the nation
had to resort to what is infamously remem-
bered as the ship-to-mouth existence, a ref-
erence to the excessive dependence on over-
seas grain exports.
opulence is much bigger than the entire
populations of some developed countries,
and there is no evidence to suggest that even
people at the bottom of the pyramid are
worse off than they were before the reforms.
The mismatch between rightful aspirations,
and the distribution of the fruits of growth,
has manifested itself in increasing political
pressure to use our fiscal resources to pro-
vide relief to people. The swirling contro-
versy around the so-called culture of free- India will need to generate mass employment that guarantees a base minimum income. RAJ K RAJ/HT ARCHIVE

education, focus on
environmental sustainability,
and safeguard its social fabric
The journey from economic precarity to
becoming a global economic power while
keeping its democratic core intact — the two
years of Emergency notwithstanding — is a
unique achievement, and the result of the
collective endeavours of the Indian people.
bies — which its backers term as legitimate
welfare measures — is nothing but a reflec-
tion of this tension.
But to stay on this course of growth and
prosperity will need more work and deter-
mination. Here are five things that India
Second, generate mass employment that
guarantees a base minimum income. There
is more than enough data to show that
income levels for most Indians are far from
adequate to guarantee a decent living.
might mutate into a demographic liability
within the next couple of decades.
Fourth, make sure that our pursuit of
economic prosperity does not breach the
non-negotiable boundaries of environmen-
dence to suggest that climate extremes will
exact large economic costs. More sustaina-
ble attitudes will need to be engendered
across the board, from governments and
private firms to individuals and relatively

A
t an event in the Capital this
week, Prime Minister (PM)
Narendra Modi promised that
India will become the world’s
third largest economy if he gets
a third term (2024-2029). Cha-
nakya believes that this goal is eminently
achievable. The International Monetary
Fund’s World Economic Outlook database
shows that India will overtake both Japan
and Germany, currently the third and
fourth largest economies respectively, in
2026-27 to become the third largest econ-
omy in the world, behind only the United
States and China.
But two larger questions linger. Is the
PM’s statement just a political reiteration of
the inevitable? And, should becoming the
third largest economy make us complacent
on the economic front? The short answer to
Of course, there have been ups and downs,
and course corrections in this economic
march. The biggest milestone in this path
came in 1991, when the government for-
mally launched a raft of economic reforms
that unleashed animal spirits in the econ-
omy. The growth surge we see today would
not have been possible without that leap of
faith.
Has this journey been smooth? Far from
it. The fruits of economic growth, especially
after 1991, have increasingly accrued to a
small share of the population. The biggest
reason for this is the absence of a manufac-
turing revolution in India. Its share in the
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is, by and
large, still at the pre-reform level, hovering
around 15%-16%.
Lest there be confusion, it needs to be
said upfront that even this small island of
must do to make sure that our economic
future remains perceptibly better than our
present.
First, maintain a high GDP growth rate,
especially in the next two to three decades.
While a GDP growth rate in the ballpark of
6% is enough to keep India the fastest-grow-
ing economy in the world, it is not enough
to give a boost to our per-capita GDP, a sta-
tistic that matters the most in improving liv-
ing standards.
This is where Modi’s statement about
India becoming the third largest economy
matters. It is important that the political
class also invests in the political optics of
growth, and not just banks on welfare. This
is a crucial and onerous task. There are
many democracies, including in our neigh-
bourhood, that have slipped in balancing
economy and politics.
While the biggest challenge on this front is
in agriculture, which still employs 40% of
the workforce, even new-age sectors such as
the gig economy have their own pitfalls in
terms of security of income and labour con-
ditions. This will need a hands on policy
approach.
Third, effect an overhaul of the education
system to ensure that it directly feeds into
employability. While the country has done
an impressive job in terms of increasing
school and higher-education enrolment, an
overwhelming share of our educated young
labour force is still fixated on securing even
low-paying government jobs. The demand-
supply mismatch is only going to become
worse in the future. While the New Educa-
tion Policy has recognised the problem,
things need to move at a faster pace. Unless
this is done, our demographic dividend
tal sustainability. There are two aspects to
this problem. The first is the question of the
climate crisis and reducing emissions,
which will require a global consensus in
terms of committing resources and finan-
ces.
New Delhi must continue its efforts to
push the global agenda towards a just but
adequate path for reducing carbon emis-
sions. To be sure, this is not a given at the
moment. The second issue is about resisting
the temptation to sideline concerns around
environmental protection — biodiversity
and fragile ecosystems — to maximise eco-
nomic gains from building infrastructure or
industries.
Not only will such an approach inflict
irreversible ecological damage, thereby
depriving our future generations of these
ecosystems, but there is also a trove of evi-
poor economic actors such as farmers, so
that environmentally damaging practices
can be eschewed.
And, finally, be careful that economic
prowess doesn’t inure the country to the
importance of protecting our social cohe-
sion.
India is a country of great religious, lin-
guistic, regional and demographic diversity.
Political competition might sometimes gen-
erate a strong reason to pit an identity
against another for short-term gain. But pol-
iticians and the people must remember that
social conflict beyond a threshold can derail
an economy and investor confidence.
For a country such as India, becoming an
economic giant and a model of democratic
prosperity is within grasp. Our policymak-
ers and people must do all they can to fulfil
this new tryst with destiny.

IMAGINE WHAT WOULD

EV adoption guidelines
{ SUNDAY SENTIMENTS } Jogendra Nath Mandal, who came to
Ambedkar’s aid. Mandal sacrificed his
seat and with help from “one or two inde-
HAVE HAPPENED IF
Karan Thapar AMBEDKAR HADN’T
pendent SC MLAs and one or perhaps two
Anglo-Indian votes”, Ambedkar got
elected from Bengal.
MADE IT? WHAT SORT OF
CONSTITUTION MIGHT must be more practical
The intriguing twists In July 1947 he was in trouble again.
After the British Parliament passed the
Act of Indian Independence, the Constitu-
WE HAVE ENDED UP
WITH? THE MOTHER OF he electrification of cabs and bikes and subsidies is key.

of Ambedkar’s career
ent Assembly was divided into two, one
for India, one for Pakistan. Consequently,
many members from Bengal lost their
membership of the Constituent Assembly
of India. Ambedkar was one.
DEMOCRACY WOULD
HAVE LOST THE FATHER
OF ITS CONSTITUTION.
T for transportation is undoubtedly Fourth, the performance of EVs remains
desirable for reducing pollution. As inferior to their ICE counterparts. An auto
the world grapples with the climate or bike taxi driver would normally drive
crisis, the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) roughly 100 kilometres a day. However,
holds immense potential, but must be tem- most current EVs have a sub-100 kilometre
o we really know our heroes? We I’ve gleaned this from Ashok Lahiri’s Once again, fortuitous good fortune pered by ground realities. The range. Lack of easy access for

D place them on pedestals and

revere them. We talk about them
frequently and eloquently. We
even quote from them. But that’s different
to knowing them. It’s certainly not the
same as understanding them. A book I’ve
recently read has revealed aspects of BR
Ambedkar I was unaware of. These are
not contested facts. Many could even be
well-known. But they’re not part of the
popular image of the man.
For instance, did you know he wasn’t
really a champion of Independence?
From 1942 until 1946, he was a member of
the Viceroy’s Executive Council, effec-
tively as minister of labour. Earlier, in
1931, this is what he said, “The depressed
classes (as the scheduled castes at the
time were called) are not anxious, they
are not clamorous, they have not started
any movement for claiming that there
shall be an immediate transfer of power
from the British to the Indian people.”
India in Search of Glory. He writes,
“Ambedkar’s role in the freedom struggle
has been the most controversial aspect of
his otherwise brilliant career.” I have to
admit, that took me by surprise. However,
it’s not the only incredible revelation
Lahiri’s book contains. Ambedkar, it
seems, almost never made it to the Con-
stituent Assembly. In the 1945-46 elec-
tions his party, the All India Scheduled
Caste Federation (SCF), won only two of
the 151 reserved seats. As a result, Ambed-
kar “could not be elected to (the Constitu-
ent Assembly) from the Provincial
Assembly of Bombay, as the SCF had won
only one seat.”
Worse, no one was willing to help. In
fact, Sardar Patel proclaimed “...apart
from the doors even the windows of the
Constituent Assembly are closed for Dr
Ambedkar”, adding “let us see how he
enters the Constituent Assembly”.
It was a Muslim League legislator,
came to his rescue. MR Jayakar resigned
his seat, following disagreements with the
Congress, thus creating a vacancy. This
time India’s leading politicians were will-
ing to help.
One of them was Rajendra Prasad, the
chairman of the Constituent Assembly.
He wrote to BG Kher, then prime minister
of Bombay. “Apart from any other consid-
eration we have found Dr Ambedkar’s
work both in the Constituent Assembly
and the various committees to which he
was appointed to be of such an order as to
require that we should not be deprived of
his services. As you know, he was elected
from Bengal and after the division of the
province he has ceased to be a member of
the Constituent Assembly commencing
from the 14th July 1947 and it is therefore
necessary that he should be elected
immediately.”
Even Patel changed his attitude. Lahiri
says he played a role in persuading Kher
as well as dissuading GV Mavalankar,
“who was otherwise slated to fill in the
vacancy caused by Jayakar”.
So, it was a close-run thing. Imagine
Capital recently completed the
feedback process for the fifth draft
of the aggregator guidelines. The
draft, however, seems to have sev-
eral kinks that need to be
charging on-the-go, and the time
taken to charge a battery, make
the proposition impractical. Delhi
government identifies charging
stations at 1,919 locations, 232 bat-
what would have happened if Ambedkar smoothed out. Dhanendra tery-swapping stations, and 2,452
hadn’t made it? What sort of Constitution First, there is a yawning gap charging points. However, many
might we have ended up with? The between electrification targets, Kumar of these charging stations are non-
mother of democracy, as we call ourselves and current adoption rates. EVs functional, some are in locations
today, would have lost the father of its constitute a mere 0.16% of all vehi- that will require a significant
Constitution. cles in Delhi. As per NASSCOM, the market detour for drivers, and still others are
Let me end by raising a question that share of EVs in the two-wheeler, passenger packed during peak hours, leading to long
may have occurred to you as well. So three-wheeler, and four-wheeler segments delays. It is critical to prioritise growth, and
incredible are the facts I’ve related, was stands at 0.74%, 30.3% and 0.16% respec- strengthening of charging infrastructure
there a hand guiding Ambedkar and, per- tively. If we extrapolate the number of four- for the draft targets to be met.
haps, India itself? It seems someone or wheelers in the ridesharing space across A successful and speedy transition to EVs
something was determined to ensure platforms such as Ola and Uber, each aggre- in Delhi requires a comprehensive and
Ambedkar was part of the Constituent gator would need approximately well-sequenced approach with collabora-
Assembly. The question is who or what? 8,000-9,000 EV cars to meet the first year tion among various stakeholders. To
target. The total EV sales in 2022, according achieve this, it is essential to re-evaluate
Karan Thapar is the author of Devil’s Advo- to the government’s Vahan portal, was and align the targets outlined in the draft
cate: The Untold Story. 5,642 — of which only 2,515 were cab regis- guidelines with the ground reality of the EV
The views expressed are personal trations. The draft target will require sales ecosystem. The targets set for electrification
to more than double, and all new vehicles to in the ridesharing space should be in
be attached with aggregators. accordance with the availability of EVs and
Second, the suggestions for bike taxis the corresponding charging infrastructure.

The life and times of

seem impractical. Data says 24% of all bike If we push aggressive electrification targets
taxis in India operate in Delhi, totalling without charging infrastructure, it will neg-
nearly a million rides per week. The draft atively impact tens of thousands of drivers,
guidelines differentiate between a bike taxi throwing many out of business, and hurt

Inder Kumar Gujral carrying goods, and those carrying passen- consumer mobility. A phased approach
gers, and put an unrealistic target of 100% may be more practical, prioritising infra-
EVs for the latter. Unfortunately, none of structure development, promoting cost-ef-
the two-wheeler EV makers can support fective EV models, and catering to the spe-
estiny is unpredictable, and it can helped in my posting to Delhi. Soon, there- such an expansion in EV bike taxi opera- cific requirements of different transporta-

D smile or frown on anyone in the after, NN Vohra, a highly-respected

best and worst of circumstances. bureaucrat and principal secretary to the
During my diplomatic career, I PM, called with the same request. The PM
had the opportunity of working closely then spoke to me himself, and I accepted
with IK Gujral, who was the external the assignment.
tion. Moreover, drivers often use the same tion segments. It would also be important to
bike for goods and passengers, making the foster collaboration among authorities,
differentiation impractical. aggregators and manufacturers. That could
Third, the cost differential between EVs engender a greener and more sustainable
and their internal combustion engine (ICE) future for Delhi’s transportation landscape.
affairs minister (EAM) in 1996 and became Even his enemies would agree that IK counterparts remains steep. Industry data
the Prime Minister (PM) on April was a thorough gentleman. says two-wheeler, three-wheeler, and four- Dhanendra Kumar is former transport secre-
21, 1997. Always urbane, well-dressed, wheeler EVs are roughly 25%, 40%, and 60% tary, founding chairman of CCI and India’s exec-
I don’t think IK, as he was soft-spoken, erudite and cultured, more expensive than their ICE counter- utive director at World Bank. He is currently
known, ever thought he would he was the quintessential Pun- parts. To make EVs economically viable, chairman of Competition Advisory Services.
become PM. His son, Naresh Guj- jabi, having arrived in India as a bridging the cost gap through incentives The views expressed are personal
ral, a former member of the Rajya refugee from Pakistan. His accent Even his enemies would agree that Gujral was a thorough gentleman. HT ARCHIVE
Sabha (RS), and a good friend,
told me that his father retired to
bed on that life-changing night
Pavan K
Varma
could not escape his Punjabi
roots. I remember a speech I
wrote for him for the Asia Society
mind of his own. When Emergency was
declared in 1975, he was the minister for
him to a studio in Noida. Normally, a PM
would have said no. But IK agreed and
{ SUNDAY LETTERS }
A
l
when Harkishan Singh Surjeet, in New York. He complimented information and broadcasting. However, asked me to accompany him. We drove to
leader of the Communist Party of me for it but put a noticeable he was not willing to be Sanjay Gandhi’s Safdarjung airport where a chopper took
India (Marxist), and the chanakya of the Punjabi twist in the delivery. As I watched doormat. Indira Gandhi then shunted him us to Noida. Since it was technically a visit Majoritarianism Honouring the civil rights movement
precarious United Front (UF) government, with some dismay, Raghunath, normally out as ambassador to Moscow, where he by the PM to Uttar Pradesh, a senior cabi- will hurt India
called to say that IK was the coalition’s undemonstrative, came to me and whis- did an excellent job. net minister received him. After the inter- This is with reference to Frank Islam’s ‘Indian
choice for PM, following HD Deve Gowda’s pered: “Remember, a PM’s speech is meant He could also be a tough negotiator. I view, we flew back to Safdarjung. The This is with reference to Americans must back affirmative action’ (July 23). It is
resignation. to be read, not heard.” remember, in particular, a brilliantly argu- whole operation took hardly an hour. Avinash Paliwal’s time for Indian Americans to repay their debts to the
I joined IK as his speech writer and aide. IK had been arrested during the Quit mentative discussion he had (to which P His tenure lasted till March 1998 — less ‘Manipur’s implosion will civil right movement in the United States.
Before that, I was on leave in Delhi as my India Movement in 1942 but was never a Chidambaram was a witness) with then US than a year. He died on November 30, 2012, hurt the India story’ (July
mother was unwell. However, the govern- mass leader. He won only one Lok Sabha secretary of state, Madeleine Albright, just four days short of his 93rd birthday. 23). Majoritarianism may Manohar Yadav
ment had reneged on its promise to post (LS) election from Jalandhar in 1989, but where she was completely outclassed. He His wife, Sheila Gujral, an accomplished help in electoral gains
me from Moscow to Delhi. I used this was a three-term member of the RS. In will be remembered too for the Gujral Doc- poet and writer, had died a year earlier. but social fabric will A failure of police and politics in Manipur
break to write The Great Indian Middle 1991, he contested the LS elections, trine, where as a matter of strategy, he irreparably get torn. Its This is with reference to Karan Thapar’s ‘Troubling
Class. One day, in July 1997, when I was improbably enough, from Patna. The story gave priority to improving relations with Pavan K Varma is author, diplomat, and former time to introspect and questions on a wrenching video’ (July 23). Recent events
about to finish the book, I got a call from goes that Lalu Prasad Yadav backed his our neighbours, although his alleged deci- Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha). step back and change the in Manipur are a stark reminder of the regrettable
the then newly appointed foreign secre- candidacy by saying that Gujral stood for sion to wind up our counter-intelligence Just Like That is a weekly column where Varma narrative. failure of institutions of police and politics.
tary, K Raghunath, under whom I had Gujjar, a backward class community. IK network in Pakistan has been rightly criti- shares nuggets from the world of history,
worked. He said that the PM wanted my won that election, but it was later counter- cised. culture, literature, and personal reminiscences DRM Sridhar Deepak Bist
services. I listened but remained non-com- manded for irregularities. IK loved to interact with the media. with HT Premium readers.
mittal because Gujral as EAM had not Yet, he was an astute politician with a Once, noted journalist Vir Sanghvi invited The views expressed are personal Write to us at: letters@hindustantimes.com

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Cut Green Card backlog
for Indians, Biden urged
Press Trust of India
letters@hindustantimes.com
WASHINGTON: A group of US law-
makers has urged the Biden
administration to take executive
action to make priority dates cur-
rent for Green Card applicants
from India to reduce the 195-year-
long wait period which has left
them in a state of limbo.
Led by Congressmen Raja
Krishnamoorthi and Larry Buc-
shon, the bipartisan group of 56
lawmakers sent a letter to secre-
tary of state Antony Blinken and
department of homeland security
secretary Alejandro Mayorkas
requesting the administration take
executive action to provide relief to
high-skilled employment-based
visa holders.
In their letter, the US lawmak-
ers also appealed to the adminis-
tration to mark all dates for filing
of employment-based visa applica-
tions in the Bureau of Consular
Affairs’ published Employment-
Based Visa Bulletin as “current”.
A Green Card, known officially
as a Permanent Resident Card, is a
document issued to immigrants to
the US as evidence that the bearer
Gujarat to be our first choice for
investment, says Foxconn chief
HT Correspondent
letters@hindustantimes.com
AHMEDABAD: Taiwan’s Fox-
conn is committed to building a
semiconductor factory in India,
chairman Young Liu told Guj-
arat chief minister Bhupendra
Patel on Saturday. Gujarat will
always be the first choice for its
investment, Liu said during a
meeting with Patel, according
to an official statement.
Liu, who is in the state to
attend the three-day Semicon
India 2023 event in Gandhina-
gar inaugurated by Prime Min-
ister Narendra Modi on July 28,
spoke about benefits and other
incentives of Gujarat’s semicon-
ductor policy 2022-27, the state-
ment said. “Under the guidance
of Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri
Narendra Modi, Gujarat is
ready to become the semicon-
ductor hub of the nation,” Patel
told Liu.
Gujarat announced its semi-
conductor policy in July last
year, making it the first Indian
state to introduce it to attract
investments. The policy aligns
with the Centre’s vision of a self-
reliant India in the sector. Guj-
arat State Electronics Mission
has been set up to assist and
attract global investors.
A joint venture between
Vedanta and Foxconn to estab-
lish a $19.5 billion chip making
project in Gujarat’s Dholera was
aborted earlier this month
after Foxconn withdrew from
the project. Vedanta Group has
said it remains committed to
building India’s first semicon-
ductor and display fabs in
UNION MINISTRY
OFFICIALS AMONG
FOUR ARRESTED IN
BRIBERY CASE: CBI
NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau
of Investigation arrested four
people, including three officials
from the ministry of corporate
affairs (MOCA) and a private
person, on charges of bribery
and recovered ₹59.8 lakh cash,
the agency said on Saturday.
According to a release, CBI
arrested a joint director, senior
technical assistant, both posted
in the office of DG (corporate
affairs), New Delhi, another joint
director of MOCA posted as an
official liquidator, Corporate
Bhawan, Chennai, and an associ-
ate of a Mumbai-based private
company in a case of bribery
worth ₹3 lakh.
A case was registered on Fri-
day against the four accused, the
private company, other uniden-
tified public servants and private
persons. It was alleged that the
public servants were indulging
in corrupt and illegal activities
and in pursuance of the said con-
spiracy, were taking bribe from
the private person for showing
favour in the files of the com-
pany pertaining to the investiga-
tion being made by the ministry
of corporate affairs for adopting
illegal and unethical business
activities, the release said.AGENCY
GOVT. OF RAJASTHAN
OFFICE OF DISTRICT COLLECTOR, BANSWARA
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camps are invited from interested bidders upto 03.08.2023 11.30 AM. Other
particulars of the bid may be visited on website http://eproc.rajasthan.gov.in &
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Joe Biden
has been granted the privilege of
residing permanently.
The current situation surround-
ing 7% country cap on employ-
ment-based Green Card allocation
is causing severe repercussions,
particularly for countries such as
India, where the backlog has
reached 195 years, said Founda-
tion for India and Indian Diaspora
Studies (FIIDS USA) in a separate
appeal to US President Joe Biden.
This backlog disproportionately
affects Indian tech professionals,
who constitute a significant por-
tion of the highly skilled STEM tal-
ent and US-educated graduates,
playing a crucial role in maintain-
ing the United States’ competitive
edge in the technology industries,
it said. STEM stands for Science,
Technology, Engineering and
Young Liu
Dholera.
Foxconn has indicated its
intention to explore other ave-
nues to participate in India’s
semiconductor production
efforts. The company plans to
apply for incentives under
India’s semiconductor produc-
tion plan, highlighting its con-
tinued interest in contributing o
the semiconductor manufactur-
ing sector in the country.
Foxconn and Vedanta are
interested in setting up their
projects in the state independ-
ently, a state government offi-
cial said, seeking to remain
unnamed.
During Modi’s recent visit to
the US, President Joe Biden
announced the establishment of
a state-of-the-art semiconduc-
tor assembly, testing, marking
and packaging facility by
Micron Technology in India. On
June 28, the US chipmaker
inked a pact with the Gujarat
government to set up a semi-
conductor manufacturing facil-
ity at Sanand at an investment
of $2.75 billion (Rs 22,500
DATED: 28.07.2023
Sd/-
DISTRICT COLLECTOR
BANSWARA
Mathematics (STEM) subjects.
However, the backlog has cre-
ated a significant barrier, hinder-
ing these talented individuals from
contributing meaningfully to the
country’s growth and innovation,
FIIDS observed.
This year, FIIDS has made
efforts in addressing the concerns
of the immigrant Indian commu-
nity, in particular those related to
Green Card and H-1B visas. “We
started efforts to get relief to
Indian H-1Bs who are stuck in
Green Card processing. We
launched a change petition, we are
approaching representatives,
other organisations and influen-
cers. We are reaching out to the
bureau of consular services in the
state department as well as USCIS
in the DHS to take administrative
action to make the priority dates
current for green card applicants,”
Khanderao Kand from FIIDS said.
H-1B visa is a non-immigrant
visa that allows US companies to
employ foreign workers in special-
ity occupations that require
expertise. Technology companies
depend on it to hire tens of thou-
sands of employees each year
from countries like India.
crore).
During his speech at the
inaugural session on July 28,
Foxconn’s Liu expressed
confidence in India’s potential
and pledged Taiwan’s commit-
ment to be a trusted and relia-
ble partner in the semiconduc-
tor industry.
He highlighted the buffalo
spirit of the Taiwan semicon-
ductor industry, which is the
ability to work hard without
complaining.
The same spirit can be
applied in India, he said.
Office of the Superintending Engineer PWD Circle Jhunjhunu
E-mail: sejjn.pwd@rajasthan.gov.in
No. 921
SHORT TERM NOTICE INVITING BID
Bids for 02 Nos. work of Road/Building work (NIT 09/2023-24 dated
19.07.2023) in Jhunjhunu Distt. are invited from interested bidder from
dated 21.07.2023 to 31.07.2023 upto 04.00 PM. Other particulars of the bid
may be visited on the procurement portal (http://eproc.rajasthan.gov.in,
http://sppp.raj.nic.in) of the state; and pwd.rajasthan.gov.in department
website. The approximate value of the procurement is Rs. 696.97 lacs.
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IN MANIPUR:
BIOMETRIC
CAPTURE OF
ILLEGAL MYANMAR
IMMIGRANTS
STARTS
HT Correspondent
letters@hindustantimes.com
IMPHAL: The Manipur govern-
ment on Saturday resumed its
campaign for biometric cap-
ture of all illegal Myanmar
immigrants in the ethnic strife-
torn northeastern border state
following the Centre’s directive,
a senior official said.
“On instructions of the min-
istry of home affairs, Govern-
ment of India, to complete the
campaign for biometric cap-
ture of illegal Myanmar immi-
grants in the state of Manipur
by September 2023, the govern-
ment of Manipur has resumed
its campaign for biometric cap-
ture of all illegal immigrants in
the state from today (July 29),”
joint secretary (home) Peter
Salam, who is the state’s nodal
officer, said in a press release.
Manipur shares a 398-kilo-
metre-long international bor-
der with Myanmar.
A team of officials from the
National Crime Records
Bureau (NCRB) deputed by the
Ministry of Home Affairs for
training and handholding of
Manipur officials, assisted the
state government officials in
the biometric capture exercise
at the foreigners’ detention
centre in Sajiwa of Imphal East
district on Saturday, the release
said.
“The campaign will continue
in all districts until biometric
data of all illegal Myanmar
immigrants in the state are suc-
cessfully captured,” the nodal
officer said in the release. “The
same is targeted for completion
by September 2023.”
On July 28, the state nodal
officer urged all the superin-
tendents of police of districts to
immediately commence the
campaign for biometric cap-
ture of illegal Myanmar immi-
gration in the state for timely
completion by September 2023.
Date: 19.07.2023
Sd/-
Superintending Engineer
PWD Circle Jhunjhunu
My India 11
INDIA’S TIGER COUNT
Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Reserve in Uttarakhand reported
the highest population of 260
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OVERALL RAINS 7% IN
rain deficiency over Nagaland,
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where more rainfall is over cen-
tral and western India as
The new report is based on fur-
ther analysis of the same data.
Among the country’s 53
reserves, Corbett, in Uttara-
tigers, followed by Bandipur (150)
and Nagarhole (141) in Karnataka,
Bandhavgarh (135) in Madhya
Pradesh and Dudhwa (135) in
Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura
since June 1, Met department
data show.
Last year, July recorded the
opposed to the Indo-Gangetic
plains,” said Mahesh Palawat,
vice-president of climate and
meteorology at Skymet Weather
khand had the highest number Uttar Pradesh. Kaziranga highest rainfall after 2005, with Services, a private forecaster.
at 260, while Madhya Pradesh’s National Park, a world heritage 17% excess rain. Highest July The Monsoon’s pattern is
forests continued to account for site known for its rhinos, rain was recorded in 1988, with changing, mainly because
the largest population for any recorded 104 tigers, and Sunder- 34.3% excess rain, followed by weather systems are moving in
state at 785, the All India Tiger bans, spread across West Bengal 25.1% excess rain in 1994 and a westerly direction instead of
Estimation, 2022 report’s full and Bangladesh, has 100 of the 18.9% excess rain in 2005. But northwesterly, Palawat said.
version stated. iconic big cats. eastern and northeastern India “But in the next one week, the
“Heartening news! Under PM The report was released in had recorded the lowest July deficiency over the Indo-Gang-
Shri @narendramodi ji’s vision- Dehradun by junior Union envi- rain in 2022 in 122 years. etic plains can be recovered as
ary leadership, we now have a ronment minister Ashwini This year, too, the same there is a cyclonic circulation
thriving tiger population with Kumar Choubey along with region is recording rain defi- over Gangetic West Bengal and
lower and upper limit of Uttarakhand chief minister ciency, but meteorologists are the monsoon trough is expected
3,167-3,925 (average 3,682). Pushkar Singh Dhami. hopeful that the shortfall can be to move northward,” he added.
Congratulations to the state for- “In 2018, Madhya Pradesh had made up in the next week or so, There is 7% excess rain over
est departments, Wildlife Insti- 526 tigers, only two more than owing to a cyclonic circulation the country, with 34% excess
tute of India, Communities, Civil Karnataka. The remarkable over Gangetic West Bengal. But over northwestern India; 15%
Society Institutions and thing in the census is that 563 rainfall is gradually expected to excess over central India; 8%
@ntca_india for their extraordi- tigers were found in six tiger reduce over the country in the excess over peninsular India;
nary efforts!,” wrote Bhupender reserves, while 222 tigers were first week of August, they said. and 25% deficiency over eastern
Yadav, the Union minister for found outside the protected Heavy to very heavy rainfall and northeastern India. The
environment, forest and climate areas. We took care of the tigers is likely to continue over east- Met department’s extended
change in tweets on Saturday. and kept track of every one of ern, northeastern and east- cen- range forecast shows rainfall
The new numbers reflect them,” said JS Chauhan, former tral India in the next 4-5 days, would reduce significantly from
commendable success of tiger chief wildlife warden in Madhya the weather office said on Sat- August 4-17 and further decline
conservation efforts, which Pradesh.“The population of urday. Heavy to very heavy rain- up to August 24.“We can expect
began in 1973 when Project tigers has increased by 49% in fall is likely to continue over a gradual reduction in rainfall
Tiger was launched. In between, Madhya Pradesh, which is the northwestern India and activity. Over the next one week,
the numbers had dwindled to highest in India, despite record- decrease by August 1 and rainfall will be concentrated
shocking lows — 1,411 in 2006 ing the highest tiger mortality. increase marginally on August over eastern India, but not too
and 1,706 in 2010 — before From 2012 to 2022, 278 tiger 2-3. There is likely to be a high,” Palawat said.
efforts were stepped up. deaths have been reported from decrease in rainfall over penin- “The latest extended range
“It is a matter of pride that MP. We also shifted more than sular India from August 3. forecast from a couple of lead-
tiger numbers are increasing, 300 villages to create space for A low-pressure area has ing climate prediction centres
but increasing numbers also tigers,” he added. formed over northern Odisha suggest monsoon is entering
bring many challenges,” said “We created awareness and adjoining West Bengal into weak phase during first
AG Ansari, an Uttarakhand- among villagers and that’s why coasts. The associated cyclonic week of August and then a clas-
based wildlife activist. “As new
generation of tigers in search of
new territories come into con-
MP has fewer instances of
human-animal conflicts. We
increased compensation against
circulation is over Gangetic
West Bengal. The monsoon
trough is passing through Sri
sic break condition during the
second week. There is a sugges-
tion that it may extend into the
flict with humans, one can’t
deny the chances of a surge in
tiger-human conflicts,” Ansari
the loss of cattle. We maintained
transparency in recording
deaths as well. Our increase in
Ganganagar, Rohtak, Lucknow,
Gaya and Ranchi. The western
end of the monsoon trough is
third week, but could have
uncertainties,” M Rajeevan,
former secretary of the earth
said. “We as stakeholders have the proportion also reflects the lying along its normal position, sciences ministry, had said on
to accept this challenge and birth of new cubs every year. while the eastern end is lying Wednesday.
have to learn the art of living Every year in MP, around 150 south of its usual position. “This break is very much
with the tigers to sustain this tiger cubs are born,” he added. There is a cyclonic circula- inevitable after a long active
positive trend.” “It is a matter of great pleas- tion over Punjab and adjoining monsoon spell. The El Niño
India has been conducting ure that as a result of the cooper- northern Pakistan. There is also influence could be more seen
DNA-based tiger estimations ation of the people of our state a feeble western disturbance, on the Indian monsoon. We
since 2006 every four years, and and the untiring efforts of the which is impacting western need not still panic but closely
has seen a steady rise of popula- forest department that the num- Himalayas. monitor the situation,” he had
tion across the reserves in the ber of tigers in our state has “Last year also we had seen a said.Following an active phase,
country. MP remained at the top increased from 526 to 785 in drought- like situation over which called caused floods,
of the list with 785 tigers, an four years,” said Madhya Pra- parts of eastern and northeast- extreme rain, mudslides, land-
increase from 526 in 2018, fol- desh chief minister Shivraj ern India, mainly along the slides, and damage to infra-
lowed by Karnataka (563), Uttar- Singh Chouhan. Dhami praised Indo-Gangetic plains. A similar structure, there is likely to be a
akhand (560) and Maharashtra the Corbett Tiger Reserve but situation is seen this time as gradual lull in rainfall in
(444). Among the country’s 53 said that there will need to be well. In fact, in the past 7-8 August, weather models have
tiger preserves, Corbett Tiger more vigil. years, we are seeing this pattern indicated.
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No.- ACE/Actt. /2023/923 Dated: 14.07.2023
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Bids for the works mentioned below are invited from interested bidders upto dated 03.08.2023
till 06.00 PM
S. No. Name of Work
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canal for transferring water from Mahi to Jakham Dam and PHED WTP at village
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No good tale unfolds on just one platform, today. A game becomes a
TV series; a film sparks a podcast. The term for it is transmedia
storytelling. And while the phenomenon is ancient – the
Mahabharata, after all, has leapt across platforms for millennia – it is
only now that the markets are moving in. Could today’s deliberate
search for tangents change how such sagas are framed to begin with?
K Narayanan
narayan.krishnaswami@gmail.com
I
n December, the prestigious film
magazine Sight and Sound asked
director SS Rajamouli to list the
10 greatest films of all time,
according to him. Rajamouli’s
list was controversial, ignoring
art cinema for the unabashedly
popular. It featured films such as
the Indiana Jones film Raiders of the Lost
Ark, and Kung Fu Panda. He had one Indian
film on his list, Kadiri Venkata Reddy’s 1957
Telugu classic Mayabazar.
Mayabazar is the telling of an episode of
the Mahabharata, but it’s not an episode
that is found in standard tellings of the epic.
It is based on the Sasirekha Parinayam, a
folktale popular in Andhra Pradesh and Tel-
angana. In it, Sasirekha, the daughter of Bal-
arama, falls in love with Arjuna’s son Abhi-
manyu. Balarama wants Sasirekha to marry
Duryodhana’s son Lakshmana Kumara.
Sasirekha and Abhimanyu finally get
together, after the intervention of two
Cupids, the deity Krishna and Abhimanyu’s
cousin, the demon Ghatotkacha.
The story of Sasirekha has been re-
enacted in Kuchipudi performances over
time, been a staple of roving shadow-puppet
performers and Yakshagana dance theatre
groups. It is a prime example of transmedia
storytelling.
The term “transmedia storytelling” was
coined by Henry Jenkins, an American
media scholar and professor of communica-
tion, journalism and cinematic art at the
University of Southern California. He first
used the term in his book Convergence Cul-
ture: Where Old and New Media Collide.
Jenkins defines it as “represent(ing) a
process where integral elements of a fiction
get dispersed systematically across multiple
delivery channels for the purpose of creat-
ing a unified and coordinated entertain-
ment experience. Ideally, each medium
makes its own unique contribution to the
unfolding of the story.”
Jenkins points out that transmedia story-
telling has been around as long as storytel-
ling itself (see more on this, in the interview
alongside). What has changed today is the
deliberate deployment of transmedia strate-
gies to build longevity.
One reason for the growing importance
of transmedia storytelling, says Rosemary
Lokhorst, CEO of Badass Studios, could be
that “people’s attention spans have changed
and we need to work harder to keep them
interested.” Badass Studios creates content
at the intersection of virtual reality, gaming,
sports and esports. Lokhorst is a tech entre-
preneur, videogame writer and author.
Technology has changed people’s atten-
tion spans, but it has also created an incred-
ible number of platforms on which to keep
audiences engaged. There are podcasts dis-
cussing films and TV series; livestreamed
gameplay sessions; an explosion of interest
in popular culture, with a generation that
grew up watching Star Wars and Indiana
Jones and reading about Marvel and DC
superheroes. Whole extended universes are
fleshed out by tie-in novels, games, car-
toons, podcasts and comics.
The Matrix is also a game and an ani-
mated series. Quentin Tarantino is offering
updates on the fictional actors in Once
Upon a Time… in Hollywood, via his pod-
cast. In a recent death notice, he announced
that one of the protagonists had died.
Game of Thrones, The Lord of the Rings
and The Last of Us have extended their run-
times, as it were, by teasing out new threads
on a range of platforms (games, books, pod-
casts, spin-off TV series, and more). These
new threads unfold over decades.
This extended life of fictional characters
isn’t new, of course. Frankenstein and Drac-
ula, Sherlock Holmes and James Bond have
all experienced incredible longevity as a
result of transmedia storytelling. But while
the older properties extended their lifetimes
more or less organically, these days, the lon-
gevity is built in.
key aspect of transmedia storytelling,
A Jenkins says, is the importance of
world-making. Each media form brings its
own characteristics to the story world; its
own characters and locations and lore.
On Wookieepedia, the online Star Wars
encyclopaedia launched in 2005, you can
find yourself on the planet Manaan, home to
the Glumbrig eel and the amphibious Selk-
ath species; or you can read about Jorus
C’baoth, a Jedi Master from the planet Bor-
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TALE, MANY
LIVES
THE MATRIX
has expanded beyond
the films, through an
anthology of animated
shorts, as well as comics
and videogames,
over 24 years.
tras, betrayed by his friend Senator Palpat-
ine.
Look up Lilith, the main antagonist in the
game Diablo IV, on Fandom.com (set up in
2004 by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales),
and you can soon be lost in stories about the
world of Sanctuary, the overgod Anu and
his battle with the goddess Tathamet — sto-
ries that add depth and weight to what
began as a hack-and-slash game.
As storytelling expanded across media,
the level of interaction with the audience
has grown. As Lokhorst puts it: “The people
formerly known as the audience… these
people expect more.”
The concept of authorship itself has
changed, she adds. “I think that authorship
starts with an idea. That can, but does not
have to, come from one person. I believe TITANIC
that no one person can be proficient in all encompasses a film, multiple documentaries
types of storytelling, so naturally, more sto- and a book, across 26 years.
rytellers will become involved in a project
when it gets complex. You may need visual THE LAST OF US
art, which impacts the story; or you change began as a videogame 10
the type of screen it is shown on, from page years ago, and is
to mobile, which has implications and now also a TV
opportunities.” series, and a
And then the audience steps in and podcast.
makes choices, and the story changes again.
Audience-choice driven storytelling can
likely be traced back to oral histories per-
formed before crowds. What elements of
ancient lore were determined by audience
reaction? It’s something we can never know,
but if the bawdiness of Shakespeare is any
indication, playing to the gallery is centu-
ries if not millennia old.
Even Arthur Conan Doyle gave in to
his audience, and resurrected his
detective in The Return of Sherlock
Holmes (1905) after intending to end
the series by throwing him of a cliff,
in The Final Problem (1893).
More recently, the interactive Net-
flix film Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
(2018) offered millions of possible plot
changes, based on the combination of
choices each viewer made with their
remote, leading to five possible endings.
This is a key way in which transmedia story-
telling differs from adaptation. The goal of
transmedia as he views it, Jenkins says, is to HT IMAGING:
extend authorship to as many others as pos- PUNEET KUMAR
sible.
This is also where fan fiction comes in. “I
think the goal of each franchise is to get big
enough and popular enough that people THE MAHABHARAT
believe in the storyworld and can make Few epics in history have had
their own stories within it,” says Hailey Aus- this kind of longevity and
tin, a lecturer in visual media and culture at wide scale of influence. In a
Scotland’s Abertay University. “Increas- remarkable example of
ingly, fans feel like they have more control transmedia storytelling, this
over characters, and if they don’t like some- saga from thousands of
thing the writers have done, they are vocal years ago has morphed from
and can write their own version.” oral tradition to poetry, TV
Austin points out that this involvement shows, novels, films, comic
“can get tricky”. “By extending ownership, books, plays. Elements
franchises open themselves up to some resurface in ways we don’t
more toxic sides of fandom,” she says. always recognise, inspiring
Racist Star Wars fans, for instance, were movies such as Baahubali
enraged by the major role played by a and quests in videogames.
woman of colour, Kelly Marie Tran, in The
Last Jedi (2017). Some of these fans
mounted a campaign so hateful and vicious
on Instagram that Tran felt compelled to
leave the platform. { Q&A } HENRY JENKINS, MEDIA SCHOLAR
Extreme opposition like this can shape a
story. Gaming studio BioWare, for instance,
added a patch to the videogame Mass Effect
3, to offer upset fans a more acceptable end-
Inside the multi-
ing to the trilogy. Warner Bros eventually
released Zack Snyder’s Justice League
(2021), after fans insisted they wanted to see
story building
it (the studio had had a falling out with the
filmmaker and switched directors for the K Narayanan
official version).
Today’s fans have turned into consumers, enry Jenkins, 65, coined the term
insisting that creative works give them what
they want. Marketers are looking at ways
they can use this too. Christopher Nolan
used alternate reality to promote The Dark
Knight (2008), with a Why So Serious? mar-
H “transmedia storytelling”, in his
2006 book, Convergence Culture:
Where Old and New Media Col-
lide. The media scholar — and professor of
communication, journalism and cinematic
keting campaign that let 11 million users art, among other things, at the University of comparing notes with each other via online formances — perhaps dances? — of the hunt Glimpses of the
around the world live as citizens in the vir- Southern California — traces the phenome- discussion groups, and collaborating to being depicted. future: A still
tual world of Gotham City. non, in its current, intensified form, to the ensure that everyone who invests time and More recent scholarship suggests that from the fan-
“These new story types — from immer- turn of the century and the Matrix. effort will come away with a richer entertain- these paintings were often created in acous- produced short
sive to augmented to mixed — bring a lot of The first Matrix film was released in 1999, ment experience.” tic hotspots in the caves, suggesting that per- film titled Lord
new opportunities for brands to reach and by 2003, amid the sequels, there were How far back does this kind of approach formances built around them were accompa- of the Rings by
young audiences who are not looking at comic book tie-ins, an animated series called go? What’s next for storytellers, and for us, nied by sound; perhaps verbal narration, Wes Anderson.
printed ads or billboards,” says Lokhorst. The Animatrix, and a range of videogames. watching and creating in the audience? depending on the state of language develop- Made with the
“An example of that is what is happening in
fashion, where brands launch online collec-
In his book, Jenkins (above) defines
transmedia storytelling as a sort of hunter-
Excerpts from an interview. ment at the time; perhaps people imitating
animal noises. Really, what has shifted over
help of AI tools,
it was released
tions. Not for you, but for your avatar. I bet gatherer model. It is “a new aesthetic that… In a sense, is all storytelling transme- time are the media deployed, and the ways in as a ‘trailer’,
Dior had never thought they would create a places new demands on consumers and dia storytelling? Would an ancient which stories are consumed. went viral, and
virtual designer handbag.” depends on the active participation of knowl- oral narrative that later became a has had 4
How long, then, until a new story is more edge communities,” he says, adding that it is book, a play and a movie, qualify? How has digital distribution shaped million views
an extension of a marketing campaign than “the art of world making. To fully experience Yes… as far back as we can go, stories have transmedia storytelling? in less than two
a standalone offering in itself? That’s a hard any fictional world, consumers must assume been told across multiple mediums. I would A key point of transmedia is that story months.
question to answer, and a hard one to have the role of hunters and gatherers, chasing cite the example of cave paintings, which material is dispersed, spread out across the
to answer. down bits of the story across media channels, archaeologists believe were mirrored in per- media landscape, yet often accessible via
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digital networks. Here’s where the idea of
modern culture as grounded in hunting and
gathering comes in.
We search for meaningful material, which
allow us to dig deeper into real and fictional
worlds. We are, like someone at a cocktail
party, always looking over our shoulder for
something more interesting. We share infor-
mation with each other as cultural currency.
And our acts of circulation increase the pri-
ority given to a particular bit of media.
We are not simply audiences that pay
attention. We are publics that direct atten-
tion towards things we think matter.
You wrote on your blog, in 2009, that
this was shifting “the underlying logic
of commercial entertainment”…
Yes… each new experiment teaches us
something new. Certain stories, for instance,
have been absorbed into different genres
across the cultural hierarchy.
I am struck by how many of the primary
examples in my 2006 book — Survivor, Idol,
Harry Potter, The Matrix — still have cultural
pertinence more than 15 years later. This is
not accident. Their deployment of transme-
dia strategies, their embrace of active audi-
ence engagement, are part of what has
allowed them to endure over time.
They became so deeply embedded in our
culture that they simply do not disappear.
Savvy media producers have found ways to
keep them relevant and meaningful to a
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encompasses films, live-action series,
animated TV shows, comic books,
videogames, and an online encyclo-
paedia called Wookieepedia, across a
still-evolving timeline of 46 years.
THE MARVEL UNIVERSE
consists of comic books, films, TV series
and videogames, with the first of these
dating to 1939. In addition, a vibrant
world of fan fiction takes stories in
new directions.
committed segment of the market.
I am often asked which new franchises I
would add to the book and, clearly, Marvel is
what has driven development in transmedia
a Right now, what interests me most is
over the past decade, and is apt to remain a
force, at least as long as Disney has a virtual
monopoly over the popular imagination.
Another example that particularly inter-
ests me right now is the way Quentin Taran-
tino has been expanding Once Upon a Time... SCAN the
in Hollywood (2019) across multiple media, QR code for
most recently through a mock death notice HT podcasts
and a retrospective of the film’s fictional pro- by Sunetra
tagonist’s work, via his podcast. Choudhury,
Samarth Goyal
Where would you say the lines is, and more
between adaptation and transmedia
storytelling?
This is a question we have struggled with.
The first impulse was to say that adaptation
was not enough to make something transme-
dia, because adaptation depends on the faith-
ful reproduction of an existing text, whereas
transmedia storytelling depends on expan-
sion and extension. But the more you look at
adaptation across media, the more it is clear
that it always adds some new information as
it absorbs new media properties. As a conse-
quence, the distinction between adaptation
and extension is a matter of degree and not a
fundamental difference in kind.
How do you see the future of storytel-
ling changing?
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{ HEAR & NOW } THE PODCAST
Companion
pods pitch in
Anesha George
anesha.george@hindustantimes.com
ess, from The Last of Us, is clearly
T hiding immense pain. She’s all
sharp edges and indifference. Then
she stays back in a house full of
the man-eating Cordyceps, to buy Joel
(Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) time
to escape.
She is gone from the series (2023-) in the
second episode; viewers never know her
story. But listeners do.
A day after that episode aired, showrun-
ners Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann
revealed her backstory, which was written
but never shot, on the official The Last of Us
podcast. Tess was once married, with a son.
She was forced to kill her infected husband,
but couldn’t bring herself to kill her child.
She locked him in a basement, and fled.
The Last of Us is based on a survival hor-
ror videogame co-created by Mazin and
Druckmann. Their podcast takes the series
forward. It expands on the fictional land-
scape in ways that the show, with its limited
canvas, cannot.
In the world of transmedia storytelling,
this is why the podcast has become key.
It’s where Quentin Tarantino has
expanded the world of his 2019 film about
films, Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood.
Over the past four years, on Video Archives,
he and Roger Avary, his collaborator on Pulp
Fiction, have talked about the fictional pro-
jects and lives of that film’s protagonists,
Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Cliff
Booth (Brad Pitt).
This May, Tarantino announced on the
podcast that Dalton had died; a subsequent
episode was designed as a memorial / retro-
spective of his work.
Elsewhere, the Chernobyl podcast, which
builds on the 2019 HBO mini-series, reported
more than 10 million plays across platforms,
by the end of that year.
And the official Succession podcast,
launched in 2020 (the show ran from 2018 to
2023), is now a case study of the prime use of
this medium. American journalist Kara
Swisher took over from British-American
journalist Roger Bennett in 2021. Her show,
which concluded in May, analysed what the
popularity of Succession — a series about the
dysfunctional family of an obscenely wealthy
media mogul — said about our attitudes to
family dynamics, the media, capitalism and
the “1% of the 1%”.
A good companion podcast serves, then,
as a spin-off that unfolds in real time. This
isn’t a phenomenon restricted to the worlds
of fiction. If anything, news lends itself even
more powerfully to the immediacy of stories
about what’s happening just out of view.
What did escaping a war zone entail, for
Indian students in Ukraine? How exactly did
a specific team of cops track down a specific
pair of killers?
At HT Smartcast, the podcasting arm of
HT Media (which also owns the Hindustan
Times), over 240 shows across six languages
and 20 genres (business, culture, govern-
ment, true crime and more) cater to millions
of listeners, dissecting stories of the day, add-
ing layers of humanity and empathy to sto-
ries from the front pages.
“It feels a lot like the radio revolution, in
terms of reach and access. Podcasts are
affordable and inclusive, allowing people to
shift between mediums with ease,” says
Deepti Ahuja, head of content and produc-
tion at HT Smartcast.
First Voice, Last Word, the weekly show by
Sunetra Choudhury, national political editor
at Hindustan Times, delves into the dramatic
personalities and strategic moves of politi-
cians, the history of padyatras as a form of
political expression, the dynamics of political
families, in a narrative documentary style.
On Metronome, music journalist Samarth
Goyal interviews independent artists,
explores the stories and symbolism behind
trending tracks.
As Ahuja puts it: “Once you start looking
for creative ways to say more about a story,
the story unravels in the most exciting ways.”
visual generative AI. I believe it has the
potential to democratise visual storytelling
but it also has the potential to seriously dis-
rupt the industry.
Consider the widespread interest in some-
thing like “Lord of the Rings by Wes Ander-
son”, a fan-produced short film crafted as a
“trailer”, that has acquired nearly 4 million
views in under two months. Created by Curi-
ous Refuge, using AI filmmaking tools
(though the frames are largely still), its com-
edy comes from our recognition of both the
source material and its reworking.
Many people are now experiencing what
it is like to communicate how they see the
world in ways that an artist or designer
might. This is going to be experienced as a
new power. Is this merely a mechanical art-
form? In the early 20th century, people called
photography a mechanical art that allowed
little room for human expression. We now
know otherwise.
Photography expanded our creative
resources, and these new AI tools are doing
the same, changing who gets to create art as
well as the processes by which art is created.
Professional artists feel threatened that
they are going to be displaced, but it is
already clear that some have more skill at
creating AI images than others, so these new
tools are simply altering the range of resour-
ces available to artists, both professional and
(for now) amateur.
culture
Reading the room: Subtitles
are unlocking new features
The text at the bottom of the screen is freeing up filmmakers, who can now darken the
frame, make the music louder, blend in dialects, knowing the viewer can read to keep up
Challenges Natasha Rego
remain. Some
subtitles from natasha.rego@htlive.com
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of Stranger entacles squelching
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tions of from Season 4 of
sounds. On Stranger Things).
the other You can laugh at them, revel in them, or
hand, imagine turn them off, but same-language subtitles
deciphering are altering not just the viewing experience
this line from but the storytelling one too.
the Irish hit The audience is often reading as they
series Derry watch. How is this a good thing? Let us
Girls, without count the ways.
the text Perhaps the most significant thing same-
to help. language subtitling has done is allow film-
makers to alter the soundscape. Characters
can now mumble or whisper, lapse into a
dialect or another language, mutter to
themselves during an explosive event, or
mouth iconic lines amid soaring music.
Enunciation was crucial before the same-
language subtitle. Music was modulated
around speech. The most dramatic
moments in cinematic sound — think of the
shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho
(1960) — had to be devoid of words.
Add subtitles and the field breaks wide
open. Dialects can be embraced. Unfamiliar
accents take centrestage (imagine trying to
watch the series Derry Girls without the text
to help).
Reality can be restored. People can be
snide, soft, sotto voce.
In the mini-series White House Plumbers
(2023; based on the illegal Watergate wire-
tap operation), the opening scene features
muttering and Spanish. Viewers needn’t
worry they’ve missed anything. The subti-
tles more or less confirm that it’s frustrated
muttering in Spanish (as an inept burglar
attempts to pick a lock).
In Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer
(2023), as the Trinity nuclear test unfolds in
P “tense music intensifies” are not ideal
I find subtitles oddly liberating. I
enjoy them as a kind of anticipated
entity that’s a subset of the broader
film that one is making.
SHAUNAK SEN, director, All That Breathes
{ ALWAYS AT THE MOVIES }
Anupama Chopra
Returning
champions
It is marvellous to see Hindi films dominate
the box office again. Blockbusters are good
news. But could smart, small films land too?
s Bollywood back? Judging by Ormax
I Media’s India Box Office Report for the
first half of this year, it would certainly
seem so.
Cumulative box office earnings for the
months from January through June in India
stand at Rs 4,868 crore, the report says,
which is 15% less than the same period last
year. But Hindi cinema’s share is 37%, up
from 33% in this period in 2022.
An increase of four percentage points
might seem like a slim margin to celebrate,
but last year, 32% of those Hindi box-office
earnings came from dubbed South films
Pathaan such as RRR, KGF: Chapter 2 and Kantara.
(below) has This year, Pathaan is the top-grossing film
swept the box across India, accounting for 13% of total col-
office, but lections. The other Hindi films in the top 10
streaming so far include Adipurush, The Kerala Story,
platforms are Tu Jhoothi Main Makkaar and Kisi Ka Bhai
still doing a Kisi Ki Jaan. All films made in Hindi.
better job of More potential blockbusters are coming.
nourishing There’s Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani
good writers, (directed by Karan Johar; starring Ranveer
as gems Singh and Alia Bhatt), due out this weekend.
like Kohrra Jawan (directed by Atlee; starring Shah Rukh
(below Khan) in September. Tiger 3 (directed by
right) show. Maneesh Sharma; starring Salman Khan and
13
the New Mexico desert, the lead character
(Cillian Murphy) looks through a window
and whispers. One would never get the cru-
cial lines, in their realistic awe-struck tone,
without the text at the bottom of the screen.
“Filmmakers are conscious of the fact
that people of all backgrounds will be read-
ing as they watch,” says Nasreen Munni
Kabir, a producer and director who also
serves as a subtitler and has worked, in this
capacity, on more than 800 films, including
Shah Rukh Khan’s Pathaan (2023) and Pon-
niyin Selvan: 1 and 2 (2022-23).
Documentary filmmaker Shaunak Sen of
the Oscar-nominated documentary All That
Breathes (2022), considers the text so vital
to his storytelling that he subtitles all his
own work.
“It gives a filmmaker greater confidence
to know that quick chatter and pacy dia-
logue, which would otherwise be lost on the
viewer, is being conveyed,” he says. Along
with the colour palette, textures of sound
and lens magnification, “one smaller
weapon in your arsenal, is the subtitle,” he
says, adding, “I find subtitles oddly liberat-
ing. I enjoy them as a kind of anticipated
entity that’s a subset of the broader film that
one is making. It helps me hone in on the
particularities in the situated, cultural
details of the story, while knowing that
there will be a universally accessible regis-
ter because of the subtitles.”
The text builds a deeper relationship with
the audience. The screen may go black for
effect; the notes for music tell us we’re still
in the story. A hazy figure may lumber into
view; we know we can focus on watching
until the text tells us it’s time to listen too.
Additionally, subtitles free the viewer to
watch in the settings most easily available to
them. They can watch-listen-read during a
noisy commute, or in a crowded room; on
headphones or despite indifferent audio.
The struggles that remain include work-
ing out how to put sounds into words, and
avoid, for instance, unintentional hilarity in
a tense scene. “Wet footsteps squelch” and
accompaniments to a scenario filled with
suspense and fear.
These oddities have become a kind of
idiom in themselves. As the focus on subti-
tles as a key element and aid in storytelling
grows, perhaps they will cease, and those
already out there will live on as curiosities.
We’ll certainly never forget “Tentacles
squelching wetly”.
Katrina Kaif) in November. Dunki (directed
by Rajkumar Hirani; starring Shah Rukh
Khan and Taapsee Pannu) in December.
There is reason to hope that the box office
will cross the coveted Rs 10,000 crore mark,
with Hindi cinema grabbing the lion’s share.
This is indeed cause for celebration. I am
a lover of the theatrical experience and of
Hindi films, and it is thrilling to see viewers
thronging halls again, for Hindi hits made in
Hindi. As a Hollywood studio executive said
to me earlier this year, if the pandemic
couldn’t kill the movies, then nothing will.
But there are still lessons to learn. When I
compare the artistry and storytelling of
Hindi content on streaming platforms and
Hindi content in cinemas, there is little doubt
that streaming is far ahead.
Take Trial by Fire, co-written and co-di-
rected by Prashant Nair; School of Lies,
directed by Avinash Arun; Kohrra, directed
by Randeep Jha; Farzi directed by Raj Nidim-
oru and Krishna DK; Scoop directed by Han-
sal Mehta; Dahaad directed by Reema Kagti
and Ruchika Oberoi; and Konkona Sen
Sharma’s short in Lust Stories 2. Each of
these narratives offers complex characters,
and a layered and gripping story.
From the non-linear screenplay of Trial by
Fire to the atmospheric cinematography of
School of Lies, the craft is impeccable. As are
the performances. Is there anything in thea-
tres so far that has matched the searing
intensity of Rajshri Deshpande as a grieving
mother in Trial by Fire, or Suvinder Vicky as
the scarred police officer in Kohrra, or Manoj
Bajpayee, heartbreaking in both Gulmohar
and Sirf Ek Bandaa Kaafi Hai?
Pathaan delivered that crazy movie high
that only a movie on the big screen can. One
of my favourite scenes of the year is the end-
credits sequence in which Shah Rukh and
Salman, only marginally pretending to be
Pathaan and Tiger, decide they will continue
to do what they do because
“desh ka sawaal hai (we’re
doing it for the country)”.
But these superstar-driven
event films cannot carry thea-
tres through the year. We also
need smart, small films to land.
In the end, success will boil
down to writers and how each
format nourishes them. Right
now, it looks like streaming is
doing a better job. I hope Hindi
cinema, as it gets back on its
feet, takes its cue.
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Niger loses aid as western
countries condemn coup
Agencies
letters@hindustantimes.com
NIAMEY: The European Union
has cut off financial support to
Niger and the United States has
threatened to do the same after
military leaders this week
announced they had overthrown
the democratically elected presi-
dent, Mohamed Bazoum.
Niger is one of the poorest
countries in the world, receiving
close to $2 billion a year in offi-
cial development assistance,
according to the World Bank.
It is also a key security partner
of Western countries such as
France and the United States,
which use it as a base for their
efforts to contain an Islamist
insurgency in West and Central
Africa’s Sahel region. Previously
seen the most stable country
among several unstable neigh-
bours, Niger is the world’s sev-
enth-biggest producer of ura-
nium.
Niger’s foreign allies so far
have refused to recognise the
new military government led by
General Abdourahamane Tiani,
previously head of the presiden-
tial guard, who officers declared
head of state on Friday.
Bazoum has not been heard
from since early Thursday when
he was confined within the presi-
dential palace, although the
European Union, France and
others say they still recognise
him as the legitimate president.
US Secretary of State Anthony
Blinken, who is in Australia as
part of a Pacific tour, said on Sat-
urday that the continued security
and economic arrangements that
Niger has with the US hinged on
the release of Bazoum and “the
immediate restoration of the
democratic order in Niger.”
“In addition to the immediate
cessation of budget support, all
cooperation actions in the
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on Friday. AP
CBI PROBE IN MANIPUR
and, if any new charges are to be
added, they are included while
filing a charge sheet.
“We will soon take the cus-
tody of accused persons arrested
by Manipur police and interro-
gate them, besides recording the
statements of the victims, their
families, and witnesses,” said an
officer, who didn’t want to be
named.
The video of a mob parading
and assaulting three women after
stripping them two months ago
in Manipur surfaced on July 19,
almost three months after the
incident, fanning fresh tension in
the state and a nationwide outcry.
According to the first infor-
mation report (FIR) filed in the
case, one of the three women of a
family was gang raped while a
mob of 800-1,000 men killed her
brother and father on May 4 in
Thoubal district of Manipur.
The family of five had fled to a
forest to escape the armed mob
that entered their village and
vandalised houses. Police later
rescued the family. The mob sur-
rounded the family and took
them from police custody,
according to the FIR. They first
killed a 56-year-old man on the
spot, and then assaulted the
three women, the FIR added.
Amid uproar, the Centre on
Thursday filed an affidavit in the
Supreme Court stating that the
case has been transferred to CBI.
“The central government consid-
ers the offences like the present
one to be too heinous which
deserve to be taken not only with
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domain of security are sus-
pended indefinitely with imme-
diate effect,” EU foreign policy
chief Josep Borrell said in a state-
ment.
Niger is a key partner of the
European Union in helping curb
the flow of irregular migrants
from sub-Saharan Africa. The EU
also has a small number of
troops in Niger for a military
training mission.
The EU allocated 503 million
euros ($554 million) from its
budget to improve governance,
education and sustainable
growth in Niger over 2021-2024,
according to its website.
The United States has two mil-
itary bases in Niger with some
1,100 soldiers, and also provides
hundreds of millions of dollars to
the country in security and devel-
opment aid.
The United Nations said the
coup has not affected its deliver-
ies of humanitarian aid.
It is unclear how much sup-
port the military junta has
among Niger’s population. Some
crowds came out in support of
Bazoum on Wednesday, but the
following day coup supporters
also took to the streets.
After an emergency meeting
on Friday, the African Union’s
Peace and Security Council
issued a statement demanding
the military return to their bar-
racks and restore constitutional
order within 15 days. It did not
say what would happen after
that.
The military group that con-
ducted the coup, calling itself the
National Council for the Safe-
guarding of the Country, said its
members remained committed
to engaging with the interna-
tional and national community.
Bazoum was elected two years
ago in Niger’s first peaceful, dem-
ocratic transfer of power since
independence from France.
Agencies
letters@hindustantimes.com
SAN FRANCISCO: The city of San
Francisco has opened a com-
plaint and launched an investi-
gation into a giant “X” sign that
was installed Friday on top of
the downtown building formerly
known as Twitter headquarters
as owner Elon Musk continues
his rebrand of the social media
platform.
City officials say replacing let-
ters or symbols on buildings, or
erecting a sign on top of one,
requires a permit for design and
safety reasons.
The X appeared after San
Francisco police stopped work-
ers on Monday from removing
the brand’s iconic bird and logo
from the side of the building,
saying they hadn’t taped off the
the seriousness it deserves but
justice should be seen to be done
so that it has a deterrent effect
throughout the nation with
respect to crimes against
women,” the affidavit filed by
Union home secretary Ajay
Kumar Bhalla said.
The Manipur police have, so
far, arrested seven people in the
sexual assault case, including
some of those seen in the viral
video, while the hunt is on for
others, said a senior police officer,
who didn’t wish to be named.
Since May 3, Manipur has
been gripped by ethnic clashes —
primarily between the Kukis,
who mostly reside in the hill dis-
tricts, and Meiteis, the dominant
community in Imphal Valley.
At least 150 people have died
and over 50,000 have been dis-
placed. Clashes first broke out on
May 3 in Churachandpur town
after Kuki groups called for pro-
tests against a proposed tweak to
the state’s reservation matrix,
granting Scheduled Tribe (ST)
status to the Meitei community.
The state has recorded 5,101
cases of arson and registered
6,065 FIRs related to various
incidents of violence.
NEP
said, citing the example of most
European nations that use their
native languages.
“Although India has an array
of established languages, they
were presented as a sign of
backwardness, and those who
could not speak English were
neglected and their talents
Who is Niger's new leader?
General Abdourahamane Tiani, the commander of Niger's
presidential guard, was appointed head of state on
Friday by a governing council set up by
military forces that ousted President
Mohammed Bazoum.
The 62-year-old decorated general and
former military attache at Niger's embassy
in Germany has led the elite presidential
guard unit since 2011.
He was the first officer on site when a
French UTA flight crashed near Bilma in
northern Niger in 1989, killing all
170 people on board,
following a suitcase
bomb explosion. He was
decorated for having
secured the crash site.
On Thursday, a coup was carried out by the presidential guard, which usually protects the
president.Supporters ransacked and set fire to the ruling party headquarters in the capital
after the army command declared its backing for the takeover.
sidewalk to keep pedestrians
safe if anything fell.
Any replacement letters or
symbols would require a permit
to ensure “consistency with the
historic nature of the building”
and to make sure additions are
safely attached to the sign, Pat-
rick Hannan, spokesperson for
the Department of Building
Inspection said earlier this week.
Erecting a sign on top of a
building also requires a permit,
Hannan said Friday.
“Planning review and
approval is also necessary for
the installation of this sign. The
city is opening a complaint and
initiating an investigation,” he
said in an email.
Musk unveiled a new “X” logo
to replace Twitter’s famous blue
bird as he remakes the social
media platform he bought for
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were not recognised. As a
result, the children of the rural
areas remained most affected,”
Modi said. But the country has
now begun to shun this belief,
he said. “The country has now
begun to shun this belief with
the advent of the National Edu-
cational Policy…Even at the UN,
I speak in Indian language,” he
said. Under the new policy,
even subjects like social science
and engineering will be taught
in Indian languages, he said.
“When the students are con-
fident in a language, their skills
and talent will emerge without
any restrictions,” he said after
releasing education and skill
curriculum books translated
into 12 Indian languages at the
event held to mark the third
anniversary of the introduction
of NEP 2020. The new policy
advocates imparting education
in regional Indian languages at
both the school and higher
education levels. At the event,
the PM announced that new
books for about 130 subjects
will soon be launched for
classes 3 to 12 in 22 different
languages.
“National Educational Policy
will give due respect and credit
to every language in the coun-
try,” the PM said, adding that it
will “shut shops” of those who
try to “politicise language for
their selfish interests”.
In the next 25 years of Amrit
Kaal, the PM said, the country
needs an energetic new genera-
tion that is free from “mentality
of slavery”, and eager to skill
World
$44 billion last year. The X
started appearing at the top of
the desktop version of Twitter
on Monday.
Twitter had 229 million
monthly active users in May
2022, according to a statement
made before Musk’s purchase of
the firm in October. Musk
posted in November that X had
259.4 million daily active users.
Musk, who is also CEO of
Tesla, has long been fascinated
with the letter X and had already
renamed Twitter’s corporate
name to X Corp. after he bought
it in October.
One of his children is called
“X.” The child’s actual name is a
collection of letters and symbols.
On Friday afternoon, a
worker on a lift machine made
adjustments to the sign and then
left.
itself according to the needs of
the 21st Century. “NEP will
play a big role in this,” he said.
Emphasising that among the
various parameters of quality
education, India’s big effort is
for “equality”, the PM said,
“Priority of NEP is that every
youth of India should get the
same education and the same
opportunity for education…
And this is not limited to open-
ing schools. Equality should be
extended to resources along
with education. It means that
every child should get options
as per choice and capacity. No
child is deprived of education
due to place, class, region.”
“In the age of 5G, these mod-
ern schools will be a medium
of modern education,” he said.
Citing the example of Ekla-
vya Schools, where internet
facilities in villages have
helped students receive educa-
tion through modes like DIK-
SHA, SWAYAM and Swayam-
prabha, the PM said, “Now, in
India, the gap of resources
needed for education is being
covered rapidly.” At the event,
Modi also released the first
installment of ₹630 crore for
the upgradation of 6,207 exist-
ing schools under the Pradhan
Mantri Schools for Rising
India (PM-SHRI). On steps
taken to integrate vocational
education with general educa-
tion under the NEP 2020, the
Prime Minister cited Atal Tin-
kering Labs where over 7.5
million students are learning
about science and innovation.
Why did he plan
the coup?
On state television on
Friday, Tiani said soldiers
had seized power because
of worsening security in
the country, and that
they "cannot continue
with the same approaches
proposed so far, as it risks
witnessing the gradual and
inevitable disappearance
of our nation".
NINE WOUNDED IN
RUSSIAN MISSILE
STRIKE IN DNIPRO
KYIV, UKRAINE: A Russian mis-
sile struck an apartment block
in the central Ukrainian city of
Dnipro on Friday, Kyiv officials
said, injuring at least nine peo-
ple including two children.
“Dnipro. Another terrorist
attack,” said Sergiy Kruk, head
of the Ukrainian State Emer-
gency Service, on Telegram.
“Currently, we know of 9
injured, including two chil-
dren. Work continues.”
Videos posted on social
media showed smoke billowing
from the top floors of a residen-
tial building that had been
badly damaged.
On Saturday, Zelensky said
he was visiting “advanced posi-
tions” of Ukraine’s special for-
ces near the hotspot of Bakh-
mut as Kyiv ramps up its coun-
ter-offensive. AGENCIES
“Science is simplifying itself
for everyone. It is these young
scientists that will shape the
future of the country by lead-
ing significant projects and
turn India into a research hub
of the world,” he said.
“Any reform requires cour-
age, and the presence of cour-
age leads to the birth of new
possibilities,” the Prime Minis-
ter said.The world is now view-
ing Indian education system
with renewed respect along-
side industry and start-up eco-
systems, the PM said.
“Many countries are urging
us to open IIT campuses in
their own countries... Many
global universities are willing
to open their campuses in
India due to the positive
changes coming in the educa-
tion ecosystem. Two Austra-
lian universities are about to
open their campuses in Guj-
arat’s GIFT City,” he said.
On July 6, the government
announced that the first inter-
national campus of the Indian
Institute of Technology will be
s e t u p i n Ta n z a n i a ; a n
announcement which was
soon followed by a similar one
on the second campus being
set up in Abu Dhabi, on July
10. Appealing to teachers and
parents to prepare students for
confident curiosity and flights
of imagination, the PM said,
“We have to keep an eye on the
future and think with a futuris-
tic mindset. We have to free
the children from the pressure
of books.”
US announces $345mn
arms package for Taiwan
Associated Press
letters@hindustantimes.com
WASHINGTON: The US on Fri-
day announced $345 million in
military aid for Taiwan, in what
is the Biden administration’s
first major package drawing on
America’s own stockpiles to
help Taiwan counter China.
The White House’s
announcement said the pack-
age would include defence,
education and training for the
Taiwanese. Washington will
send man-portable air defense
systems, or MANPADS, intelli-
gence and surveillance capabil-
ities, firearms and missiles,
according to two US officials
who spoke on the condition of
anonymity to discuss sensitive
matters ahead of the announce-
ment.
US lawmakers have been
pressuring the Pentagon and
White House to speed weapons
to Taiwan. The goals are to help
it counter China and to deter
China from considering attack-
ing, by providing Taipei enough
weaponry that it would make
the price of invasion too high.
While Chinese diplomats
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Beijing on red alert
for torrential rain
Agence France-Presse
letters@hindustantimes.com
BEIJING: China’s weather service
on Saturday issued a red alert
for torrential rain in the capital
Beijing and surrounding provin-
ces, as Typhoon Doksuri swept
inland bringing hazardous
weather conditions to many
parts of the country.
Doksuri smashed into south-
ern Fujian province on Friday
morning with gusts of up to 175
kilometres per hour, and China’s
meteorological service said Sat-
urday its “influence” was now
being felt in the country’s north.
China has been experiencing
extreme weather conditions and
posting record temperatures
this summer, events that scien-
tists say are being exacerbated
by climate change.
Experts have warned Satur-
Flooding in Fuzhou after Typhoon Doksuri made landfall and
brought heavy rainfall, in Fujian province, China on Friday. REUTERS
CHENNAI BLOGGER
ARRESTED AFTER
QUESTIONING THE
ROLE OF JUDICIARY
CHENNAI: Chennai-based pub-
lisher and blogger Badri
Seshadri was arrested on Satur-
day for his alleged comments
on judiciary while discussing
Manipur violence in an inter-
view.
The arrest was made early in
the morning by the Perambalur
district police following a com-
plaint from a lawyer Kaviarasu,
a resident of Kunnam, who
alleged that he was disturbed
by Seshadri’s comments on the
judiciary made during an inter-
view to a YouTube channel on
July 22.
The police has filed cases
under IPC sections 153 (provo-
cation with intent to cause
riot), 153 A (1) (a) (promote
enmity between groups
through words), 505 (1) (b)
(causing fear and alarm in pub-
lic) against him.
Condemning the arrest, BJP
state chief K Annamalai
accused the ruling DMK of
resorting to arrests as it was
unable to handle opinions
expressed by the common
man.
“Is it the responsibility of
the police to carry out the vin-
dictive agenda of the ruling
DMK,” Annamalai asked on
Twitter. PTI
protested the move, Taiwan’s
trade office in Washington said
the US decision to pull arms
and other materiel from its
stores provided “an important
tool to support Taiwan’s self-
defense.”
In a statement, it pledged to
work with the United States to
maintain “peace, stability and
the status quo across the Tai-
wan Strait.”
Taiwan’s ministry of
national defence also expressed
its appreciation in a statement
Saturday morning that thanked
“the US for its firm commit-
ment to Taiwan’s security.”
The package is in addition to
nearly $19 billion in military
sales of F-16s and other major
weapons systems that the US
has approved for Taiwan.
Delivery of those weapons has
been hampered by supply
chain issues that started during
the Covid-19 pandemic and
have been exacerbated by the
global defence industrial base
pressures created by Russia’s
invasion of Ukraine.
The difference is that this aid
is part of a presidential author-
ity approved by Congress last
day’s downpour could prompt
even worse flooding than in July
2012, when 79 people died and
tens of thousands were evacu-
ated, according to local media.
It is the first time since 2011
that such a heavy rainfall warn-
ing has been issued, local media
said.
The red alert will be in force
from 8pm local time, and covers
an area of several hundred mil-
lion inhabitants, including the
metropolis of Tianjin, and the
provinces of Hebei and Shand-
ong.
Several of Beijing’s parks,
lakes and riverside roads have
been closed out of precaution,
the municipal authorities
announced on Saturday.
Heavy showers were reported
in the capital on Saturday after-
noon and are expected to last
through Tuesday.
{ TAMIL NADU }
8 die in firecracker
unit blaze
Fire service personnel at a site where a blast occurred at a
firecracker factory at Periyapettai in Krishnagiri on Saturday. ANI
KRISHNAGIRI (TN): Eight people
were killed in an explosion at a
firecracker unit in Krishnagiri dis-
trict, Tamil Nadu on Saturday,
according to police. Krishnagiri
superintendant of police Saroj
Kumar Thakore said that blast
took place inside the firecracker
factory owned by one Ravi in the
Pazhayapettai area.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
condoled the loss of lives in the
accident and announced an
ex-gratia of ₹2 lakh each to the kin
of the deceased from the Prime
Minister’s National Relief Fund.
“Deeply saddened by the tragic
mishap at a cracker factory in
Krishnagiri, Tamil Nadu, resulting
in the loss of precious lives. My
thoughts and prayers are with the
families of the victims during this
LUCKNOW
SUNDAY
JULY 30, 2023
year to draw weapons from
current US military stockpiles
— so Taiwan will not have to
wait for military production
and sales. This gets weapons
delivered faster than providing
funding for new weapons.
The Pentagon has used a
similar authority to get billions
of dollars worth of munitions
to Ukraine.
Taiwan split from China in
1949 amid civil war. Chinese
President Xi Jinping maintains
China’s right to take over the
now self-ruled island, by force
if necessary.
China has accused the US of
turning Taiwan into a “powder
keg” through the billions of
dollars in weapons sales it has
pledged.
The US maintains a “One
China” policy under which it
does not recognise Taiwan’s as
an independent country and
has no formal diplomatic rela-
tions with the island in defer-
ence to Beijing.
However, US law requires a
credible defence for Taiwan
and for the US to treat all
threats to the island as matters
of “grave concern.”
CLASHES IN DHAKA
OVER CALLS BY
OPPOSITION FOR
PM TO RESIGN
Associated Press
letters@hindustantimes.com
DHAKA: Police in Bangladesh’s
capital on Saturday clashed
with supporters of the country’s
main opposition party, which
said scores of its activists were
injured during anti-government
protests in parts of the city.
The Bangladesh Nationalist
Party headed by former prime
minister Khaleda Zia demanded
the resignation of Prime Minis-
ter Sheikh Hasina and the trans-
fer of power to a non-party care-
taker government until the next
general election, which is
expected to be held by early Jan-
uary.
Zia’s party and its allies
accuse Hasina of vote rigging in
2018 and the party has been pro-
testing over who should oversee
the next general election.
On Saturday, hundreds of
activists of Zia’s party attempted
to block several entry points to
Dhaka, the capital, while police
fired tear gas and charged with
batons to disperse them. The
opposition activists retaliated
by throwing pieces of brick and
attacked police vehicles with
sticks, police said.
On Friday, Zia’s party
announced the sit-in protest at
all the entrances of Dhaka and
supporters of the ruling Awami
League party also took to the
streets.
Faruk Hossain, a spokesman
of the Dhaka Metropolitan
Police, said officers arrested at
least 90 opposition activists
during the five-hour protest in
parts of the city and 20 police
were injured in clashes with the
protesters.
extremely difficult time,” the PMO
said in a tweet.
“May the injured recover soon.
An ex-gratia of ₹ 2 lakh from
PMNRF would be given to the next
of kin of each deceased. The
injured would be given ₹50,000,”
the tweet said. Union HM Amit
Shah, who is on a visit to Tamil
Nadu, too, condoled the death of
eight people.Condoling the loss of
lives in the incident, chief minister
M K Stalin announced solatium to
the kin of the deceased and the
injured.
“I have ordered the officials to
provide ₹3 lakh each to the kin of
those who died, ₹1lakh each to the
seriously injured, and ₹50,000
each to the injured from the chief
minister’s Public Relief Fund,” Sta-
lin said. PTI
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JULY 30, 2023
Ishan Kishan on his way to a run-a-ball 55 on Saturday.
India struggle as
changes continue
Aditya Chaturvedi
aditya.chaturvedi@hindustantimes.com
MUMBAI: India lost as many as
five wickets chasing 115 in the
first One-Day International
(ODI) against West Indies. In the
second ODI, the visitors were
bowled out for 181. While Rohit
Sharma and Virat Kohli decided
to bat down the order in the
opener, they were rested alto-
gether for the second ODI. Har-
dik Pandya stood in as captain
for Sharma in the second ODI in
Bridgetown on Saturday as India
continued to experiment. With
Kohli missing from the playing
XI, Sanju Samson and Axar Patel
were brought in on Saturday.
“It’s just that a few questions
have to be answered,” said Pan-
dya at the toss. “Rohit and Virat
have been playing constant
cricket, so they thought they
would rest in this game and be
fresh for the third ODI. So yeah,
they’re just resting and making
sure that opportunities are given
to the other guys.”
India received an impressive
opening stand in the second ODI
before things went downhill.
Ishan Kishan scored his second
successive half-century of the
series. Shubman Gill, back as
opener, scored a 49-ball 34.
Having enjoyed a 90-run
opening partnership, India
seemed on course for a solid
total but they ended up losing
five wickets for 23 runs. Gill and
Kishan fell in quick succession
before Patel was promoted to
No. 4. But the left-hander was
sent packing for one run, with
Pandya and Samson following
him to the pavilion soon after.
Ravindra Jadeja and Surya-
kumar Yadav put on a much-
needed 33-run stand for the
sixth wicket but they were dis-
missed in a span of five balls,
leaving India tottering at 148/7
after 32.1 overs. Five of these
A Chinese world title, with Indian help
Susan Ninan
sportsdesk@hindustantimes.com
entala Harikrishna,
P hands behind his back,
politely posing for the
camera in a white
Shanghai team jacket at the
Women’s World Chess Champi-
onship venue during Game 2
earlier this month was a much
grander reveal than it looked. At
least for Indian chess followers.
It was a surprise disclosure that
the Indian Grandmaster was
part of the newly crowned Chi-
nese women’s world champion
Ju Wenjun’s team for the match.
Harikrishna’s association
with Ju, perhaps not widely
known, goes back a long way.
They were Shanghai teammates
in the Chinese chess league for
the first time in 2008, finishing
as champions.
The 37-year-old has turned
out for the side a few more
times since. It was Ni Hua, his
former Shanghai teammate and
Ju’s trainer for previous
matches, who got in touch with
him, asking if he’d be up to
work as a second. Hua’s current
role as head of the Chinese
national team put him in an
awkward spot in an all-Chinese
title match between the defend-
ing champion and challenger
Lei Tingjie.
“I have occasionally assisted
a few players for tournaments,”
says Harikrishna, ranked 32 in
the world. “But a World Cham-
pionship match is nothing like
that.”
The magnitude and nature of
the match — preparing to face
one opponent over 12 classical
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seven wickets saw batters get-
ting caught in the outfield.
Even if India go on to win the
series, against a team that has
missed out on qualifying for the
upcoming ODI World Cup, it was
hardly a promising position to
be in. Including the ongoing
series, and if they make it to the
Asia Cup final, India have 12
ODIs ahead of the World Cup.
But as things stand, there seems
to be a familiar air of confusion
and a lot of work left to do.
Before the start of this series,
regular skipper Sharma had spo-
ken about how India want to
prepare for the World Cup.
“If we feel a certain player
could be a part of our World Cup
squad, we will try and give him a
chance in this series,” he had
said. “The ones who are playing
regularly could also get injured,
so we need to get the other guys
ready. We need to focus on the
entire squad, because injuries
can happen at any time.”
He added: “Even before last
year’s T20 World Cup, we had
given chances to the newer play-
ers to see how they play their
roles in the team. We’ll look to
do the same this time and make
a decision after the 10-12 ODIs.”
It’s worth remembering that
India didn’t really have a suc-
cessful campaign at the 2022
T20 World Cup Sharma was
referring to.
With premier pacers missing
the series, and with not much
time left for the World Cup,
would it have been more pru-
dent for India to aim for stabil-
ity? Don’t certainties like
Sharma and Kohli need game-
time in their positions too?
Pandya was right when he
said at the toss that some ques-
tions need to be answered. Per-
haps another question can be
added to the list: Till when can
India afford to keep chopping
and changing this way to get all
the answers they need?
games — can be a lot more
exacting for seconds. Hari-
krishna jumped right in and
joined Ju’s team — alongside
Chinese GM Wei Yi — sometime
around April, less than four
months before the match. They
had remote sessions and met
only days ahead of the match in
Shanghai.
“It was a team of three intro-
verts. Neither of us is express-
ive. Working together though
was a lot more fun than it
sounds,” he laughs. “I was per-
haps the most talkative person
in the group if you can imag-
ine.”
Ju and Harikrishna have a
common strength in endgame
understanding. Defending a
tricky endgame was what saw
Ju through in the topsy-turvy
final classical encounter, for her
fourth World Championship
win. “We weren’t sure which
way it would go, so Wei and I
began preparing for the tie-
breaks during the final game.”
Thankfully, Ju managed to
deftly marshal her pieces, purg-
ing Black’s d-pawn and steering
her d-pawn up the board for the
team to celebrate over a hot pot
dinner and call it a night.
After a gruelling couple of
weeks, Harikrishna is back
home in the quiet village of Vys-
oky Ujezd, around 26 km from
Prague. The soft-spoken, polite-
to-a-fault GM from Andhra Pra-
desh, who learned chess from
his maternal grandfather in
Prathipadu, near Guntur, has a
“love for trying new things”.
Lately, he has taken to play-
ing beach volleyball and even
joined a chess-boxing session
Clueless Aussies wilt under
England’s batting onslaught
The hosts make it
their day with an
impressive display,
but Australia weren’t
at their tactical best
Ashish Magotra
ashish.magotra@hindustantimes.com
NEW DELHI: As Joe Root and
Jonny Bairstow were in the mid-
dle of putting together another
blistering partnership for
England on Day 3 of the fifth and
final Ashes Test at The Oval, the
television screen suddenly
flashed images of former Aussie
pacer Glenn McGrath and
former Aussie skipper Ricky
Ponting having a conversation.
It immediately made one
wonder if the Aussie teams led
by Ponting or one in which
McGrath, Jason Gillespie and
Shane Warne made up the bowl-
ing attack, would have allowed
England to just hammer away.
At close of play, England were
389/9, a lead of 377 runs. Joe
Root’s 91 was the top-score as
the hosts took control, and they
will now be eyeing a win that
will allow them to level the
series up at 2-2.
The home side started the day
12 runs behind but they wiped
that deficit off with little fuss and
a lot of flair. The openers, Ben
Duckett and Zak Crawley, put on
79 off 104 balls. Then, Crawley
and Ben Stokes (batting at No.3)
strung together 61 off 57 balls.
Stokes and Joe Root put on 73 off
79. Root and Harry Brook 9 (8).
Root and Bairstow added 110 of
148 balls. It was the kind of bat-
ting card we would see in an old-
school ODI. And you get it. At
one level, you get it. England’s
‘Bazball’ strategy means they
want to go hard at the bowling.
And they have the right batters
to do that as well. But does Aus-
tralia have to play along?
Would McGrath have allowed
the batters to just keep going
after him or would he have taken
a step back and tried to figure
how he could make things diffi-
cult for them? Would Warne
have tried to go around the
wicket and pack the leg-side
field?
This isn’t being defensive.
This is simply being smart. The
great Aussie teams would mind
giving a session to the opposi-
tion. Sometimes, you do get out-
played. Sometimes, you lose a
Test or even a series. The point,
though, is the tactical lethargy
that has been on display.
In commentary, Ponting kept
advocating a fifth-stump line to
Crawley (73 off 76). Australia
didn’t bowl that for the longest
time and when they did, they
finally got him. It wasn’t just
guess work from Ponting though
Pentala Harikrishna (right) was part of the newly crowned
women’s world champion Ju Wenjun’s team for the match.
P in the larger context of things,
I have occasionally assisted a few players
for tournaments. But a World
Championship match is nothing like that.
PENTALA HARIKRISHNA, Indian Grandmaster
on a lark, training with chess-
boxing champion Marcel Valen-
tin. “I’ve always liked boxing. I
was curious to see how it com-
bines with chess. I found it
pretty interesting. People tend
to associate boxing purely with
physical strength but there’s a
lot of strategy and presence of
mind involved.”
Before the tide of teen Indian
Super GMs arrived, Harikrishna
Sport
England's run rates in Ashes England’s scoring
Run Rate First innings
TEST 1ST 2ND
Total 393/8 325
5.03 4.25 4.51 5.49
(Overs 78) (76.2)
4.11 4.01 5.08
(66.2) (81.3)
Total 273 327
for that is the line that has dis-
missed the England opener most
times in the summer. So, why
not do that more?
Australia did nothing out of
the ordinary. They had started
the series off by employing a
short-ball strategy but that is
nowhere in sight. The runs were
being scored on both sides of the
wicket. It almost felt that Austra-
lia’s strategy was to wait for
England’s batters to make a mis-
take. And, at the highest level,
that often isn’t good enough.
Australia’s inability to create
pressure (either by taking wick-
ets or keeping the runs down)
meant England’s batters never
had to try anything different.
HT
snapped at Viswanathan
Anand’s heels briefly. Gukesh D
stands on the cusp of surpassing
Anand as India’s No 1 GM, but
Harikrishna was the first to do
so in the live ratings, in March
2016. Anand’s fourth-round loss
to Sergei Karjakin at the Candi-
dates that year saw Harikrishna
zoom ahead in the live ratings.
He recalls feeling conflicted.
It didn’t make enough sense
Second innings
3RD 4TH
237 592
5.17
(52.3) (107.4) (54.4)
DID
NOT 4.86*
(50)
BAT
254/7 - 289/9
*Innings in progress
There wasn’t much swing in the
first session but it did get better
in the second. However, the runs
kept flowing and the visitors
were backed into a corner — one
from where they could easily
lose the Test.
This isn’t just about what
McGrath and Warne would have
done though. In November 2008,
India were taking Australia on in
the final Test of the series at Nag-
pur. At the end of Day 2, Austra-
lia were 189/2 (49 overs). So
come Day 3, India decided to do
things differently. They
employed 8-1 fields, bowled wide
off the off-stump, frustrated the
batters and Australia only man-
aged to score 166 runs in 86.4
Harikrishna’s
chess feats
Age: 37
FIDE rating: 2708
Peak rating: 2770
(December 2016)
Current ranking: No. 32
Highest ranking: No. 9
(November 2016)
l Became Grandmaster in
2001. Was the youngest
GM from India at the
time of attaining the title
l Passed a FIDE rating of
2700 in February 2013 for
the first time
l Won gold in the mixed
team event at the 2006
Asian Games in Doha.
Won bronze in the men’s
team event at the 2010
Asian Games
he says.
Gukesh will overtake
Anand: Harikrishna
“At the time, I can’t say I didn’t
care for it (becoming India No.
1) but my bigger hope was
Anand faring well at the Candi-
dates. It’s a big deal to be in the
Candidates and try to qualify for
the match. Me going ahead in
the ratings then didn’t seem all
that important.”
Anand regained his position
as the top Indian with a draw
against Hikaru Nakamura in the
following round, after being dis-
placed for a day.
“I’m pretty certain Gukesh
will overtake Anand. I think he’s
a lot stronger than his ratings
rates since 2013
5TH
Run Rate
283 4
3.2
3.07
3
2.7
(80)
2
2013 ‘14 ‘15
overs before being bowled out.
In this series, Australia have
often tried to fight fire with fire.
But that isn’t the only way to go
about this. India’s plan in Nag-
pur was defensive but the entire
point was to frustrate the bat-
ters. By keeping the runs to a
minimum, they didn’t allow the
game to get away from them. If
you have five days, you might as
well make full use of them.
India won the Test by 172
runs. It only showed that the tar-
get of any bowling side is to
make the opposition uncomfort-
able and there are plenty of ways
to do that. Australia, in that
aspect at least, have appeared to
be clueless. This was the same
suggest.”
Ranked world No. 9 seven
years ago, Harikrishna touched
a peak of 2770 Elo and has made
his peace with not making it
bigger or beyond.
“For sure, I could have maybe
done a few things differently.
But I don’t want to look back
and wonder about them. Today
I’m still an active player but
there are no rating goals. I just
want to enjoy my chess and get
better at it.”
While he agrees that working
extensively with engines in the
role can lower one’s “sense of
danger” towards positions, he
doesn’t believe the job itself is
indicative of putting one’s
career on the back burner.
“In this era, any analysis you
do can be extrapolated to bene-
fit your own game. I did pretty
well in the French league and
the Prague Masters while work-
ing with Ju. The experience has
helped keep my chess in shape
and for sure I want to do this
again (be a second) if there are
offers in the future.”
He has a bunch of tourna-
ments ahead, including the
Asian Games in September.
Harikrishna’s life today in a
central Bohemian outpost
inhabited by less than 2000 peo-
ple revolves around his wife,
former Serbian chess player
Nadezda Stojanovic, and their
two-year-old daughter Maya.
When he’s not playing chess,
coaching, or goofing around
with his toddler, Harikrishna
could well be spiking in a sand-
pit, landing right-handed jabs in
the ring, and surprising himself
with his next move.
England opener
Zak Crawley
slammed 73 off
76 balls in their
second innings at
The Oval in
London. Reuters
4.62
3.88
3.11 3.19
3.1 3.18
2.67
2.76
Stats: CricViz
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wicket where Australia had
struggled to get their run-rate
going on Day 2. But as the lead
kept growing, the response from
Cummins and Co kept getting
flatter. They still ran in hard but
the sense of purpose seemed to
have gone missing.
A few quick wickets at the end
of the day lessened the damage
but Australia have left their bat-
ters with a lot of work to do in
the second innings. The urn will
stay with the Aussies but as
things stand, they won’t quite
feel like they’ve won it.
Brief scores: England 283 and
389/9 (J Root 91, J Bairstow 78, Z
Crawley 73; M Starc 4/94).
Australia 295 at stumps on Day 3.
Nepal’s Tribhuvan Army FC will take part in the Durand Cup.
Durand: IAF flies in
Nepal’s army team
HTC & Agencies
sportsdesk@hindustantimes.com
NEW DELHI: In a mark of the
close cooperation between India
and Nepal, the Indian Air Force
flew down the Tribhuvan Army
Football Club team to Guwahati
on Saturday to take part in the
132nd Durand Cup tournament,
which starts on Thursday.
The squad was flown by an
IAF plane from their base to
Guwahati, from where it will
travel to Kokrajhar town where
the Group E teams will play in
the newly built Sports Authority
of India (SAI) stadium. Tribhu-
van Army, Chennaiyin FC,
Hyderabad FC and Delhi FC are
in Group E.
The Nepal army team is led by
Nawayug Shrestha, who has 43
caps for the national team, scor-
ing eight goals. They will open
their campaign against Delhi FC,
the newly promoted I-League
side, on August 9.
“It is a great honour for us to
participate in this prestigious
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Stuart Broad. REUTERS
BROAD TO WALK
AWAY FROM
CRICKET AT THE
END OF ASHES
HTC and Agencies
sportsdesk@hindustantimes.com
LONDON: England pace bowler
Stuart Broad said on Saturday
he would retire from all cricket
following the conclusion of the
ongoing fifth Ashes Test against
Australia at The Oval in Lon-
don.
The 37-year-old seamer, the
fifth most successful bowler in
Test history with 602 wickets in
167 Tests, told Sky Sports after
stumps on the third day:
“Tomorrow (Sunday) or Mon-
day will be my last game of
cricket.
“It has been a wonderful ride
and a huge privilege to wear the
Nottinghamshire and England
badge as much as I have.”
Broad is also the second most
successful pacer in Test cricket,
behind only his long-time team-
mate James Anderson who has
690 wickets in 183 Tests.
Love affair with Aussies
“I decided at 8.30pm last night.
I told Stokesy last night and the
changing room this morning. It
just felt like the right time. I
didn’t want friends and team-
mates to see things that may
come out. I prefer just to say it
and give it a good crack in the
Australia innings. I have been
thinking about it for a couple of
weeks. England vs Australia has
always been the pinnacle for
me. I have loved the battles that
have come my way and the
team’s way.
“I have a love affair with
Ashes cricket. I think I wanted
my last bat and bowl to be in
Ashes cricket,” he said.
Broad is the only pacer from
the England side to have played
all five Tests in this series,
which is a glowing indication of
his consistency and durability.
He has been England’s high-
est wicket-taker in the series
with 20 scalps at an average of
28.15.
Broad’s move comes as a bit
of a surprise given how well he
has bowled in recent games. It’s
Anderson instead around
whom there has been mounting
pressure to call it a day.
Broad has taken the most
wickets for England in Tests
against Australia, surpassing
Ian Botham.
ANI
tournament and we look for-
ward to give our best,” Nepal
army team captain Shrestha said
in a release.
The Durand Cup, Asia’s oldest
club football tournament, will
feature 24 teams this edition.
After a gap of 27 years, teams
from outside India will partici-
pate in the competition staged by
the armed forces with support
from the All India Football Fed-
eration.
Bangladesh Army is the other
outside team, which is placed in
Group A with East Bengal,
Mohun Bagan Super Giant and
Punjab FC. The Indian Army,
Indian Air Force and Indian
Navy will be the teams repre-
senting the country’s three servi-
ces in the tournament organised
by the Indian armed forces. The
matches will be played across
four venues with Kolkata, Guwa-
hati and Shillong the others,
besides Kokrajhar. Mohun
Bagan face Bangladesh Army in
the opening game in Kolkata on
August 3.
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Actor Swastika
Mukherjee, who
plays a gritty police
officer whose
daughter goes
missing in her next,
talks about
preparation for her
parts and censorship
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‘LET CHARACTERS
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n her recent web outing, Nikhoj,
I actor Swastika Mukherjee’s
character is torn between being a
distraught mother and a senior
police officer as her daughter goes
missing. The show sees Mukherjee in
yet another strong character. Ask her
about her process behind picking such
parts, and she says, “I always try to do
something I have not done before.
That is how you see me playing a cop
for the first time.”
The 42-year-old adds, “The role is
especially challenging because I’m
playing a single mother. I had to
maintain a balance between being a
mother and a cop. I kept asking my
director if my mother part was
becoming overwhelming. As mothers,
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e used to be a production
H engineer and then did
theatre for years before
facing the camera. Actor
Shrikant Yadav, in his showbiz
career, has done a number of
Marathi films, including Killa and
Ek Hazarachi Note (both 2014)
and Valu (2008). He was also part
of the Hindi film Jalsa (2022), web
shows The Family Man and Inside
Edge 3. “Now, I am happy to get
roles that get me noticed and are
interesting,” he tells us.
In his latest project, the
anthology film Lust Stories 2, he
starred alongside Amruta
Subhash, whose husband, director-
writer Sandesh Kulkarni, suggested
his name for the part. Talking about
his experience, he says, “Hindi
projects have a wider reach as they are
watched all over India. I have worked a
lot in Marathi projects, but since [doing]
web films and shows, especially in Hindi,
I have got responses from all over India. As
for Lust Stories 2, it was a good change as
often, I get a cop’s role because makers say
it suits my personality. I have known
Amruta for years and even worked with her
in projects. I was glad to be a part of the film
as it was quite interesting.”
Yadav goes on to mention that there was a
lot of comfort on set, even during intimate
scenes. “I suggested to Koko (director
Konkana Sensharma) that Amruta and I
should talk in Marathi when were are
together, to add authenticity. In fact, I didn’t
know that Tillotama Shome (co-actor) was
such a popular actor. I was in awe of her.
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women tend to think more with our
hearts; our mother mode is always on.”
Mukherjee, known for playing
conflicted and complicated characters
in projects such as Paatal Lok and the
web film Qala (2022), says she has
never had to sweat much about
preparation since her focus has been
only on performance. “I’ve completed
23 years in the industry. At the
beginning of my career, when I was 21
years old, I played a mother to a 10-
year-old. My focus has always been
performance. I played a 60-year-old at
the age of 31. I have experimented with
everything,” she elaborates.
In Nikhoj, Mukherjee’s character is
seen uttering the F-word, among other
cuss words. With the conversation
around language and the depiction of
intimacy on streaming increasingly
gaining steam, what are Mukherjee’s
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it could be anything, even a
lovemaking scene between two adults.
You can show it the way it is supposed
to be. The F-word really helped me
control my anger in the scenes. I told
my director, ‘Either I use this word or
you let me slap someone’. He said he
would let me beat up people in the
second season,” quips the Detective
Byomkesh Bakshy! (2015) actor.
The show also saw Mukherjee
reunite with her Chokher Bali (2003)
co-star, actor Tota Roy Choudhury.
About working with him, she says,
“He has evolved as an actor, as it
should be, but he looks the same. His
physique is the same; it’s so
annoying.”
Indian-
British model
Neelam Gill is not actor
Leonardo DiCaprio’s “new
flame”, but is in a “committed
relationship” with his friend. “The
reason we have been pictured in
the same vicinity is because I
have been there with my
partner,” she said in her
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Soumya Vajpayee
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these performing on stage. Ask
about his greatest learnings and he
says, “I’ve realised you’ve to always
keep your head bowed down to the
universe. I’ve also realised that I can
never take credit for anything I have
achieved. It’s only my good fortune
that I’ve enjoyed a glorious career
for the last 45 years.”
When he started out as a
musician, did he think he’d become
an established artiste with a
Brad Pitt and Ines de Ramon
are very into each other: Report
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Brad Pitt and Ines de Ramon
not dating
ingers Camila Cabello Inter Miami football game
not seeing one another.
The Puerto Rican singer (30)
last week where Alejandro
and Cabello were spotted
with Sean “Diddy” Combs
and the Bam Bam hitmaker
(26) made headlines on
and DJ Khaled.
The romance rumours
Friday after a report claimed came on the heels of
they were dating. Alejandro’s split from
Now, a source has Spanish singer Rosalía and
dismissed the claims, reports Cabello’s recent split from
People. The insider shared singer Shawn Mendes,
that the romance rumours whom she dated on-and-off
are “100% not true”. for a bit.
“They just happened to be Alejandro and Rosalia
at two of the same events. called off their engagement
They barely even spent time just four months after the
together at either event,” the proposal. They were
source adds, referencing the together for three years.
P
I definitely feel
I am 50. Not
biologically,
but spiritually.
I am truly
enjoying
growing older.
SONU NIGAM, Singer
National Film Award and Padma undermining the younger lot. Every
Shri to his credit? “God has given decade has had its ups and downs. I
me much more than I imagined or feel being regressive hampers one’s
envisaged,” says Nigam, adding, “I growth,” says the singer, who
came to Mumbai to become a
singer. But, little did I know there
would come a time when they’d be
rang in his 50th birthday in the
presence of his family and friends.
Usually, most people have a
selling my posters all over India!” birthday ritual they look forward to
With decades of experience, every year. Ask if he has one and the
Nigam has seen the Indian music singer shares, “When we were kids,
industry evolve — from the ups and we never had the affluence to make
downs in the independent music
space to the changing sound of film
music. Is there a phase that stands
out for him? “I have seen a lot of
transitions in music and the
business of music, but I don’t
believe in glorifying a particular
birthdays a grand affair like a lot of
other kids. The only ritual was to sit
with my parents and sisters and
listen to snippets from the
memories from our childhood.”
time or group of artistes or
More on →p 04
ctor Brad Pitt and jewellery designer
A Ines de Ramon reportedly enjoyed a
romantic summer together. An
insider close to de Ramon, 32, has revealed to
PEOPLE that the relationship is still “going
very strong”.
“The two have been spending a lot of time
together this summer, as they truly enjoy each
other’s company and are very into each other.
It’s apparent to anyone who sees them
together,” added the insider.
A source close to Pitt, 59, also told PEOPLE
that he spent the summer in Europe, where he
was filming a Formula One racing movie until
the SAG-AFTRA strike forced the production
to go on hold.
“He still keeps a residence at Chateau
Miraval and has been spending a lot of time
there and elsewhere in Europe. Ines has been
flying in to see him,” shares the source.
Pitt dated models Emily Ratajkowski and
Nicole Poturalski in the years following his
split from actor Angelina Jolie in 2016.
Meanwhile, de Ramon and her ex-husband,
Vampire Diaries star Paul Wesley,
separated in May 2022 after three years of
marriage.
Pitt and de Ramon were first seen together
at a Los Angeles concert in November last
year. She reportedly met the actor through a
mutual friend.
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JULY 30, 2023

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ARIES MAR 21-APR 20
Love: The Fool Mood: Two of Coins
Career: Devil
You may find things falling into place
in your favour throughout the week.
With excellent time management
skills, you can effectively juggle work
commitments. Trust, communication
may help overcome challenges in
your romatic relationships. Some can
enjoy satisfying road trips and
explore new destinations.
Lara Dutta Lucky Number: 15 Lucky Colour:
Bhupathi Blue
CANCER JUN 22-JUL 22
Love: Two of Coins Mood: The
Chariot Career: The Magician
The week offers a mix of
opportunities. By incorporating
strategic planning, you can navigate
professional challenges and progress.
Creating shared goals can strengthen
family bonds. Those longing to meet
a romantic partner can get lucky this
week. Students may get the full
support of mentors and guides.
Katrina Kaif Lucky Number: 22 Lucky Colour:
Green
LIBRA SEP 24-OCT 23
Love: The Hierophant Mood: Seven
of Cups Career: King of Wands
This week presents a range of
opportunities for you to explore and
grow. While your profession may be
challenging, it is an opportunity to
grow and learn. New investment
options like mutual funds or
dividend stocks can offer potential
rewards. Singles may be set up on
exciting dates by family and friends.
Parineeti Lucky Number: 11 Lucky Colour:
Chopra Pink
CAPRICORN DEC 22-JAN 21
Love: Two of Swords Mood: Eight of
Wands Career: The Sun
Welcome the week with positivity.
Seize the opportunity to enhance
financial stability with good
budgeting practices. Utilise project
management skills to excel in your
career. You may feel energetic by
incorporating yoga into your routine.
Practising forgiveness can help
foster understanding on love front.
Deepika Lucky Number: 1 Lucky Colour:
Padukone Yellow

TAURUS APR 21-MAY 20
Love: King of Coins Mood: Five of
Cups Career: Page of Wands
This week holds promising
opportunities for Taurus individuals.
Cultivating an entrepreneurial
mindset may lead to success in your
career. Consider exploring stock
market analysis to make informed
investment decisions. Navigating
complicated family dynamics with
tact can enhance harmony at home.
Madhuri Dixit Lucky Number: 17 Lucky Colour:
Nene Grey
LEO JUL 23-AUG 23
Love: The Moon Mood: Two of
Wands Career: Hanged Man
This week brings hearty
developments across various aspects
of life. In romance, expect a lovely
surprise from spouse or partner.
Finances may remain in good shape
with prudent management.
Exploring social media marketing
may prove profitable on the work
front. Focus on holistic well-being.
Sara Ali Khan Lucky Number: 1 Lucky Colour:
Brown
SCORPIO OCT 24-NOV 22
Love: Four of Swords Mood: The
Empress Career: Page of Cups
This week holds promising
opportunities for growth and
fulfilment. You continue to excel in
your profession with a strong focus
on targets. Exploring conservative
investment options may help you
progress towards financial goals.
Some can set goals for future home
improvement projects.
Aishwarya Rai Lucky Number: 7 Lucky Colour:
Bachchan Golden
AQUARIUS JAN 22-FEB 19
Love: Five of Swords Mood: Ace of
Wands Career: The Star
You may find fulfilment in various
aspects of life. Family bonds may
strengthen with some wise counsel
of elders and grandparents. Good
financial management practices,
such as frugal living, can improve
economic well-being. Cultivate
emotional intelligence in love to
resolve disputes.
Shruti Haasan Lucky Number: 7 Lucky Colour:
Peach

GEMINI MAY 21-JUN 21 VIRGO AUG 24-SEP 23 SAGITTARIUS NOV 23-DEC 21 PISCES FEB 20-MAR 20
Love: Five of Cups Mood: The Tower Love: Five of Cups Mood: Judgment Love: The High Priestess Mood: Ace Love: The World Mood: The Lovers
JULY 30, LEO Career: Three of Swords Career: Seven of Coins of Swords Career: The Tower Career: The Chariot

Sonu Sood
This week brings a mix of positive
aspects. Excellent health may allow
you to engage in various activities.
Expect good financial outcomes.
Nurturing emotional intelligence to
deepen the connection with your
partner will be important. Your
expertise in software development
can open new opportunities.
Sonam Kapoor Lucky Number: 4 Lucky Colour:
Ahuja Purple
This week promises positive
developments in several areas of life.
Health may remain excellent thanks
to regular cardio. Professionally, you
excel in teamwork, showcasing your
expertise and dedication. Romance is
stable, nurture it with compassion.
Embrace the week with enthusiasm,
make the most of opportunities.
Neha Dhupia Lucky Number: 5 Lucky Colour:
Orange
This week holds exciting possibilities.
Take charge of finances by practising
effective budgeting techniques.
Singles may get a proposal from a
known connection. Your profession
may be in an intermediate phase, but
seize opportunities to enhance
leadership skills. Some find solace in
mindful moments on a pilgrimage.
Esha Gupta Lucky Number: 18 Lucky Colour:
Red
Pisceans can expect a favourable
turn of events. The week brings
opportunities for entrepreneurship.
Some can harness intuitive skills and
creativity to create wealth. Engage
in self-reflection to gain insights. In
academics, set clear goals to achieve
success. Embracing vulnerability can
deepen the romantic connection.
Alia Bhatt Lucky Number: 15 Lucky Colour:
Cream

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ARIES LEO SAGITTARIUS

MAR 21-APR 20 JUL 23-AUG 23 NOV 23-DEC 21

A L
A new situation proves
beneficial on the career
front. A persistent health
problem disappears.
Investing in property is indicated for
some, which may prove a financial
boon later. Plans for a vacation to
someplace exotic fructify.
LOVE FOCUS: This is the best day for
romance, so make the most of it!
LUCKY NUMBER: 1 LUCKY COLOUR: Blue
No point in arguing with
someone who just won’t
listen to logic. At work,
you may be kept busy even
beyond office hours. An outing will
help in calming your mind and
releasing tension.
LOVE FOCUS: Spending time with the
one you like is indicated today.
LUCKY NUMBER: 1 LUCKY COLOUR:
White
s
A promotion will not only
give you important
responsibilities, but perks
too! You can be praised
today at work for a job well done. An
overseas vacation is on the cards.
LOVE FOCUS: Your love life proceeds
smoothly as you complement each
other.
LUCKY NUMBER: 3 LUCKY COLOUR:
Purple

TAURUS VIRGO CAPRICORN

APR 21-MAY 20 AUG 24-SEP 23 DEC 22-JAN 21

T I
You may have to do the
balancing act in a man-
management situation.
Socially, this seems to be
an excellent day. You may have to be
a bit more aware of what is
happening around you at work.
LOVE FOCUS: There’s a strong
possibility of finding a suitable mate.
Some more effort will help
achieve what you’re after.
Suitable accommodation
can be expected by those
hunting for one. A brief journey with
family will prove most entertaining.
LOVE FOCUS: Someone you like may
give positive indications, ushering in
romance!
c
You manage to continue
your workout schedule.
Earning good money is
foretold in a venture you
are starting. Recognition on the work
front is in store for some. A family
trip overseas is on the cards for some.
LOVE FOCUS: An outing with lover is
on the cards and will prove most

Is phubbing hampering your LUCKY NUMBER: 5 LUCKY COLOUR:

Green
LUCKY NUMBER: 18 LUCKY COLOUR:
Brown
enjoyable.
LUCKY NUMBER: 9 LUCKY COLOUR: Red

GEMINI LIBRA AQUARIUS

bond? Here’s how to unplug MAY 21-JUN 21 SEP 24-OCT 23 JAN 22-FEB 19

G l
Academically, you are
likely to shine bright and
pale the competition. Your
Parmita Uniyal ideas on work front may
a
You find things moving in A healthy bank balance
a very positive way on the will give you added
financial front. Day is confidence. At work,
favourable to start a new positive developments can

hoosing to bury
This practice can play havoc on your partner’s prove an asset for the organisation
and help make you indispensable.
project at work.
LOVE FOCUS: Love is in the air, so
keep you upbeat. A property deal is
likely to be sealed.

C yourself in your phone

instead of connecting
with a dear one is no
less than a punishment for
the latter. This habit of
mental health and impact long-term relationships.
An expert tells us how to address and sort the issue
LOVE FOCUS: Someone up there loves
you, so rejoice!
LUCKY NUMBER: 4 LUCKY COLOUR:
Dark Grey
expect to get totally surprised by the
one you love today!
LUCKY NUMBER: 7 LUCKY COLOUR:
Peach
LOVE FOCUS: Romantic ideas you have
been getting of late will have to wait!
LUCKY NUMBER: 22 LUCKY COLOUR:
Peach

staying glued to your

smartphone even as a partner
or a friend is sitting next to
‘CAN RUIN LONG-TERM
RELATIONSHIPS’
can cause feelings of
isolation, lowered relevance
ADDRESS THE PROBLEM
“With a combination of
CANCER SCORPIO PISCES
JUN 22-JUL 22 OCT 24-NOV 22 FEB 20-MAR 20
you, waiting to get your “Phubbing can harm your and a lack of intimacy. awareness, empathy, setting

attention, called phubbing, is
doing more damage to
relationships in the
technology-driven world.
According to a study by a pair
of psychologists at Niğde
Ömer Halisdemir University,
married couples who
regularly engage in phone
snubbing (phubbing) have
lower marriage satisfaction
than couples who do not.
Expert helps us decode the
phenomenon and provide tips
to steer clear of it in a
marriage or relationship.
WHAT IS PHUBBING?
It is the practise of ignoring a
companion in favour of a
mobile phone. An Australian
advertising firm introduced
the word phubbing in 2012 to
define the rising practice of
people neglecting those in
front of them and favouring
the phones in their hands.
When two people sitting
next to each other are glued
to their phones and ignore
each other’s presence, it’s
called double phubbing.
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own as well as your loved
ones’ mental health, even if it
may not seem like a major
concern [immediately]. This
act can make the other person
feel rejected. It hurts more
when the other person is your
spouse or a partner,” says
psychotherapist Dr Chandni
Tugnait, who goes on to
explain how the practice can
impact a marriage.
l Reduced marital
satisfaction
According to research,
phubbing consistently
results in decreased levels of
marital satisfaction in
relationships.
l Regular conflict
The practice frequently
causes disagreements
between partners regarding
excessive phone use. This
tension may be due to the
perception that the phone
takes precedence over the
relationship.
l Emotional distance
Phubbing prevents partners
from feeling emotionally
connected to one another. It
l Escapism
It can be a way of escaping
from marital stress or even
day-to-day responsibilities.
l Feeling of rejection
Phubbing can pose a threat
to a relationship’s basic
psychological requirements,
including self-esteem, a
sense of purpose, control
and belonging.
HELP YOUR PARTNER
PUT A PAUSE
l Talk to them about it.
Choose a comfortable space
and express how you feel
about this particular habit.
l Let your partner understand
the impact of their habits on
the relationship.
l Suggest other alternatives
that you both could enjoy
without your phones, like
going for walks, playing
games or going on a fun
date.
l Set certain boundaries so
that your partner does not
fall back into old habits.
UNDERSTAND AND
boundaries and consciously
changing behavioural
patterns, the issue can be
addressed,” says Dr Tugnait,
adding, “The first thing to do
is be self-aware of times you
are phubbing. Phubbing can
even become an addictive
habit. In such cases, reach out
to a mental health
professional.”
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C S P
You may have to go the Taking a different You may keep the ball
extra mile in achieving approach to solving a rolling on the social front.
something significant. problem is a step in the A vacation is on the cards
You need to chart the right direction. You are and may take you to
future course of action on the career likely to enjoy a happening social life. someplace exotic. A much-awaited
front. Spending time at home with Setting out on a vacation appears to cheque is received. Love bestowed by
partner will give immense joy. be a distinct possibility. family keeps you feeling nice within.
LOVE FOCUS: Efforts get reciprocated LOVE FOCUS: Your romantic LOVE FOCUS: Romantic endeavours
fully by the person of your dreams. endeavours are likely to bear fruit. are likely to bring favourable results.
LUCKY NUMBER: 18 LUCKY COLOUR: LUCKY NUMBER: 11 LUCKY COLOUR: LUCKY NUMBER: 8 LUCKY COLOUR:
Yellow Saffron Magenta
a’s
Passport power: What does Indi ellers?
number of countries passport
improved ranking mean for trav holders can visit visa-free or
with a visa-on-arrival. The
claimed the top spot, while of accessing international improved ranking of the Indian
Sneha Chakraborty India witnessed a notable rise in investment and business passport provides holders
sneha.chakraborty@hindustantimes.com
its ranking, jumping five places opportunities. By the same access to 57 destinations
to the 80th spot. token, countries with more without a visa. Travellers from
assport power is crucial in open borders encourage greater India enjoy visa-free entry and
P determining a country’s
ability to facilitate hassle-
free international travel for its
WHAT IS PASSPORT
POWER?
The term refers to the strength
economic activity and tourism,
resulting in increased
entrepreneurship, innovation
visas on arrival in countries
such as Indonesia, Thailand and
Rwanda. But, India’s passport
citizens. The Henley Passport and flexibility of a nation’s and investment, ultimately power is still limited due to the
Index, a widely recognised passport in enabling its citizens driving economic growth.” high visa requirements imposed
ranking system, evaluates to travel internationally sans a by several countries. Citizens of
passports from around the visa. Dr Juerg Steffen, CEO of RANKING METHOD India need visas to enter 177
world based on the number of Henley & Partners, says: The Henley Passport Index destinations, including China,
visa-free destinations they grant “Powerful passports enhance assesses the travel freedom of Japan, Russia, the United States
access to. Recently, Singapore
our economic mobility in terms passports by analysing the and the EU.
 LUCKNOW
SUNDAY
JULY 30, 2023
I CALL LUCKNOW
THE PARIS OF
INDIA, SAYS
PUSHPENDRA
Taj Mahal 1989
director talks
about his love
for hometown
Deep Saxena
deep.saxena@htlive.com
t is now 32 years that
I writer-filmmaker
Pushpendra Nath Misra
left Lucknow for work. Yet,
the filmmaker says he has been
“carrying Lucknow” with him
everywhere he goes and keeps
finding ways to reconnect with
his city.
His debut OTT series Taj
Mahal 1989 (2020) was shot in
Lucknow and his upcoming
series is also set here.
“There is a special
rootedness about Lucknow
that travels everywhere. That’s
the reason so many projects
are being shot here. I call
Lucknow the Paris of India.
That’s because in Paris, you
can shoot a period film and just
by changing a bit, you can lend
a touch of modernity to the
same subject. Lucknow shares
a similar legacy as it carries
both old-world charm and
modernity too,” he says on his
visit to Hindustan Times office.
“We have been shooting in
Lucknow since 2007, when
hardly any film shootings took
place here. But we knew its
potential which is now being
tapped. I have also directed a
short film and some TV
commercials here. Some of
those like the RBI one and
about private life insurance
‘Gabbar Singh’ became very
popular,” the filmmaker says.
Ghoomketu (2020) is a UP
heartland story and we wanted
to shoot here but logistically
we shot it near Varanasi,” tells
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Taylor Swift
wears her
iconic red lip
SOFT NUDES
Use soft nude lipsticks to create a
natural and carefree appearance
à la the 1990s. This classic look
emphasises natural characteristics
and oozes carefree charm. Consider
neutral hues like creamy beige, soft
mauves and dusty rose, which go with
every skin tone and are appropriate for
any event or attire.
KOREAN CORALS
If you like subdued colours and
stay away from strong or
provocative hues, coral tones are
ideal. The perfect choice for
Korean lips, these lovely hues
strike the perfect mix between
bold and bare. For a gentle, “just-
bitten” appearance, start by blending
a brilliant colour into the inner portion
of the lips.
BOLD LIPS
The return of red and berry hues is
great for creating a seductive yet
sophisticated appearance. These lip
colours are ideal if you want to try
daring and dramatic makeup. Red
lips, whether they are traditional
crimson or vivid scarlet, have come
to represent sexiness and glamour.
Whether you’re sporting a little black
dress or a power suit, a red lip will
instantly enhances your appearance.
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the director.
“The richness of this city got
embedded in me during my
formative years. Ismein
tehzeeb hai, nafasat hai aur
dabang sheher bhi hai! I joined
the National Institute of Design
(NID) in 1991 but I have been
carrying my city with me. Mere
ghar aur office bhi ek mini-
Lucknow hi hai. My company
partner and production
designer Sonali Bhatia, who is
also from this city, says there
are many worlds of stories that
exist in Lucknow,” he says.
Recalling how he shot in
Lucknow even during the
pandemic, he says: “Those
were very tough days (March-
April 2021) and so many of us
tested positive. We shot Choona
in Lucknow, but we have not
given the city a name. It could
be anywhere!”
Misra has also completed a
series Mr Saxena with Jimmy
How to
master the
lipstick
trends like
a pro
Shakira
has on a
glossy
pale pink
lipstick
Son
Ye-jin’s
coral lip is
refreshing
Rihanna
sports a
bold
plum lip
colour
lifestyle 03
Lucknowites get tips on
health hacks
T
he Ficci Flo Lucknow
Chapter organised an
event on ‘Hacking
Health’ for its members with
You can also add lemon
juice to it if you want.
This juice contains
high amounts of
celebrity nutritionist Pooja antioxidants which
Makhija on Saturday. are better suited for
She said post skin, hair and
. ► Pooja pregnancy, weight can be digestion. Apart
Makhija maintained with the help from this, one
▼
.
of a great diet. “You can
never lose weight
must drink at
least 3 litres of
Tanya
Sahani
without eating. If you
do not follow the
water daily,” she
added.
right diet, your “Deepika
health will be
affected. Especially
Padukone looks
so beautiful, fit
Preeti, Anju Narain and Nidhi Agarwal
after pregnancy, a
good diet is
and healthy
because her
required so that you belly is always
can get energy,” full,” she added.
Pooja said at the Chapter’s
event. chairperson
She urged all to
drink vegetable juice
and gave out the recipe
for the same.
“The way to make
Swati Verma
welcomed the
guest. Tanya
Sahni chaired
the event that was
vegetable juice is to select conducted by
any three vegetables from Swati Mohan.
Shruti, your kitchen and blend HTC
Neha them with water. After a
Singh while, filter the water out. . ► Swati Verma Mitali and Vandita & Simu Ghai
#instastyle
Birthdays are special when
celebrated with family and
friends. Karan Kundrra and his
girlfriend Tejasswi Prakash
sandwiched Kubbra Sait on her
birthday in a friend hug. Mrunal
Thakur wished her Sita Ramam
co-star, “the super grounded,
super humble, super talented,
superstar” Dulquer Salmaan on
his big day.
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Shergill. Pushpendra ▲ Dulquer
.
“We shot it in Bhopal, and it Nath Misra Salmaan and
is a story of a cricket coach, and (inset) Mrunal
first love (passion) and second with Sonali Thakur
innings! We have two OTT Bhatia at
series and two feature films on Hindustan
the story board which we want Times office.
to make for the theatre. The
current scenario of cinema is . ◄ Tejasswi
little depressing, but I hope Prakash,
films audience come to theatre Kubbra Sait
for interesting stories and for and Karan
having intelligent Kundrra
entertainment.”
Akanksha Agnihotri
ipsticks are one of the most popular
L and iconic cosmetic products. Bold
or glossy, it can be your best friend
with just one swipe you are ready to
take on the world. As National Lipstick
Day (July 29) has just gone by, Hitesh
Dewett, training and artistry manager
at Swiss Beauty shares some tips to
ace the lipstick trends that are
popping on social media.
GLOSSY LIPS
Glossy lips are back in style and make
the lips look youthful. Your image and
mood can immediately improve with
glossy lips.
FLAWLESS APPLICATION
Having sharp edges are essential for a
smooth lipstick application. Use a little
concealer on an angled brush to tidy
up the lip edges after application.
NO LIPSTICK ON YOUR TEETH
Lipstick stains on the teeth are the
worst. Try this hack the next time you
apply lipstick: Put your index finger into
your mouth and make an “O” shape with
your lips. Gently round your finger with
your lips. Any lipstick that may have
gotten on the inside of your lips will be
eliminated by doing this.
HOW TO GET FULLER LIPS
Prepare the lips for smooth application
by gently exfoliating and moisturising
them. Prime the lips with concealer to
make it last long. Apply lip liner at the
cupid’s bow and the centre of the
bottom lip to create the appearance of
bigger lips. Choose lighter hues like
nudes or pale pinks to make your lips
appear larger.
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SUNDAY
JULY 30, 2023

SONU NIGAM’S
FANTASTIC SONU
NIGAM’S
1998 SONG
TU KAB YEH

FIFTY!
JANEGI
EARNED CULT
STATUS

2007: His son, Nevaan Nigam, was

Compiled by: Soumya Vajpayee 1973-1983 born on July 25.
1973: Born in Faridabad (Haryana) to 2007: Re-released his album Rafi Ki
Agam Kumar Nigam and Shobha Yaadein in late singer Mohammed
Nigam. Rafi’s memory as a six-disc collection
1977: First stage show at the age of of 100 songs, titled Kal Aaj Aur Kal.
four. Sang Kya Hua Tera Wada (Hum 2008: Released a Punjabi single,
Kisise Kum Naheen; 1977). Punjabi Please, and Rafi Resurrected,
1980: Marked his Bollywood debut a two-disc collection of Rafi songs
as a child artiste and shot for Ustadi with music by the Birmingham
Ustad Se (1982; played actor Mithun Symphony Orchestra.
Chakraborty’s childhood character) 2011: Collaborated with singer
and Pyaara Dushman (1980; played Britney Spears on a remix of her
actor Vinod Mehra’s childhood SONU STARTED HOSTING song I Wanna Go.
character). SA RE GA MA IN 1995 AND 2011: After the death of Michael
1983: Had three film releases HOSTED FOR FIVE YEARS Jackson (MJ) in 2009, he composed a
Taqdeer (actor Shatrughan Sinha’s song, This Is It, with MJ’s brother,
childhood), Betaab (actor Sunny singer Jermaine Jackson, as a tribute
Deol’s childhood) and Humse Hai to the late legend.
Zamana (Mithun Chakraborty’s 2012: Collaborated with
childhood). DJ Avicii on his song
Indian Levels.
2012-2015: After his hit
song Abhi Mujh Mein
1984-1993 Kahin (Agneepath; 2011),
HIS FIRST PHOTO SHOOT 1991: Started his career as a singer many of his songs were
IN MUMBAI’S JUHU with the song Hum To Chhaila Ban redubbed in other singers’
GARDEN AT THE AGE OF 6 Gaye for the TV show Talash. voices by music companies
1992: Released his first album, Rafi because of his fight for
Ki Yaadein. singers’ royalties.
1993: Marked his debut in 2013: Debuted as a
Bollywood with O Aasman Wale composer with Sooper Se
from Aaja Meri Jaan (1993). Ooper.
As the musician 2013: He was ranked the No 1
artiste on the US Billboard
RECEIV
turns 50 today, 1994-2003 FROM FEOD THE PADMA Uncharted charts for two
RAM NA RMER PRESIDSHRI consecutive months.
here are 1995: Started hosting the
reality show Sa Re Ga Ma.
TH KOVIN E T
D LASTN
YEAR
some of the 1997: His award-winning patriotic
song Sandese Aate Hai from Border 2014-2023
greatest 2002: GOT
and Yeh Dil Deewana from Pardes
became chartbusters.
1999: His pop albums Deewana
and Mausam were released and the
2014: Was nominated with
musician Bickram Ghosh in Oscars
MARRIED TO
highlights MADHURIMA
1998: His first pop hit Tu Kab Yeh
Janegi from the album Kismat was
song Bijuriya became a smashing hit.
2001-2004: Had hit Bollywood
2014 long list in the Best Original
Score Category for Jal (2013).
MISHRA ON
of his FEBRUARY 15.
released. releases, including Suraj Hua
Maddham (Kabhi Khushi Kabhie
2017: Collaborated with DJ KSHMR
for a single, Underwater.
journey Gham; 2001), Tanhayee (Dil Chahta
Hai; 2001), Saathiya (Saathiya; 2002),
2017: Former cricketer Sachin
Tendulkar collaborated with him for
SONU NIGAM Kal Ho Naa Ho (Kal Ho Naa Ho; 2003) his debut single, Sachin’s Cricket Wali
WON A and Main Hoon Na (Main Hoon Na; Beat.
NATIONAL 2004). 2020: Launched his own music label,
FILM AWARD I Believe Music.
DAYA PRASA D NIGAM FOR THE 2022: Was honoured with the
ENER A TIO NS:
AR NIGA (F
M ATHER), SONG KAL Padma Shri.
THE FOUR G AG AM K UM ) 2004-2013
(GRANDFATH
ER), NIGAM (SON HO NAA HO 2023: Sang the title song of
AND NEVAAN
SONU NIGAM
2004: Won his first National Film Shehzada and Sang Ro Lain De in
Award for the song Kal Ho Naa Ho. Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani

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